Red Deer Advocate, November 20, 2012

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Expense scandal ensnares premier’s sister

TUESDAY, NOV. 20, 2012

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LYNN REDFORD EXPENSED PUBLIC FOR TORY PARTY EVENTS: DOCUMENTS

BY DEAN BENNETT THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Documents show the sister of Alberta Premier Alison Redford used her position as a health board executive to attend and hold Progressive Conservative party events on the taxpayers’ dime.

There was money for liquor, travel, hotels, flowers and bug repellent.

Wildrose party Leader Danielle Smith, while releasing the documents Monday, said a bigger investigation is needed since Lynn Redford and those who signed off on those expenses remain executives with Alberta’s health superboard.

“We’ve got the same people in positions today who exercised this lack of judgment, and they need to be called to account,” Smith told a news conference at the legislature.

Smith said the case bridges the two scandals of health officials abusing their expense accounts — such as former Edmonton health region chief financial officer Allaudin Merali — with public institutions delivering government grant and operating money to the PC party.

“This connects with the broader story of repeated instances of illegal activity in giving donations to a partisan political party from taxpayer dollars,” said Smith. “We want to know how widespread that problem is.”

Premier Redford, appearing on CTV’s political program Power Play, pointed out that the accusations go back to a time when Ralph Klein was premier and she wasn’t even an elected MLA yet.

She suggested the criticism consists of a few “excited allegations” that will be clarified in the next few days.

“I have confidence in my sister,” she said.

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WHITE RIBBON CAMPAIGN

Men urged to take a stand against domestic violence

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Dylan Tersigni, 3, of Red Deer gets a big hug from the jolly man in red at the Bower Place Shopping Centre. Dylan and his mother, Janlyn, were in the shopping centre on Monday afternoon and decided to get in a visit with Santa. The jolly old elf is available for hugs and hearing wishes Monday to Saturday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m and 3:30 to 7 p.m. and on Sundays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Provincial government unveils new anti-smoking strategy

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Men in Central Alberta can help stop violence against women by joining Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter’s White Ribbon campaign.

The campaign kickoff will be held at Breakfast with the Guys on Nov. 28. at the Red Deer Golf and Country Club, with guest speaker American Jackson Katz, who is recognized in the field of domestic violence and engaging men and boys to end the violence against women.

“We’re hoping men who care about this, that men who have daughters, sisters, mothers and wives will come out and say it’s time to step up to the plate and take a stand,” said CAWES executive director Ian Wheeliker on Monday about the breakfast sponsored

by CAWES and SafeTracks GPS Solutions.

Tickets are $100 each and are on sale on the CAWES website — www.cawes.com.

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PLEASE RECYCLE

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Banning the sale of cigarettes to children and protecting children from secondhand smoke in cars form the core of a new provincial anti-smoking campaign.

Health Minister Fred Horne introduced a threeyear strategy to reduce tobacco use Monday.

Horne says the province will also bring in legislation to restrict the sale of flavoured tobacco and expand school-based stop-smoking programs.

All three pieces of legislation will be presented in the legislature next spring, making good an election promise by Premier Alison Redford.

The government will also consider tobacco tax increases and further restrictions on smoking in public areas.

Funding is to come from the Alberta Health Services budget.

There will be an extra $500,000 for a social media campaign on the dangers of smoking.

The province estimates smoking rates in Alberta have fallen from 25 per cent in 2001 to 19 per cent in

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Creating Tobacco-Free Futures: Alberta’s Strategy to Prevent and Reduce Tobacco Use, 2012-2022, will focus on the following priorities over the next three years: ● legislation restricting the sale of flavoured tobacco; ● legislation to prohibit tobacco sales to minors; ● legislation to protect children from secondhand smoke in vehicles; ● more social marketing around tobacco use harms; ● more tobacco cessation training for health professionals; and ● expanded workplace, school-based and community tobacco-cessation programs.

The government will also consider over the next 10 years including point-of-sale health warning signage, tobacco tax increases, further restrictions on smoking in public areas including parks and expanding the availability of tobacco cessation products and resources.

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It has been two months since the House of Commons rejected a controversial abortionrelated motion, but Conservative MPs are using a tried and true parliamentary tool to keep the issue alive. A5

Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers traded fire and tough cease-fire proposals Monday, and threatened to escalate their border conflict if diplomacy fails. No deal appeared near. D4

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BRIEF RCMP hunting assault suspects Red Deer City RCMP are seeking two suspects alleged to have broken into a home and shot a man inside with a BB gun.

Red Deer City RCMP allege that the man was home in Oriole Park at about 1 a.m. on Saturday when two men, both known to him, started banging on his back door, said Cpl. Sarah Knelsen in a statement issued on Monday.

The man fled out the front door of his house and ran to a neighbouring house for help.

He went into the house when he saw that the two men were coming after him, said Knelsen. Police allege that the suspects went in after him and shot him numerous times with a BB gun. The two suspects then fled the scene while the neighbours, who are not known to him, called 911.

Police are seeking public assistance in locating two suspects: Miguel MacPherson and Jade Slofstra, both 23, and residents of Red Deer.

MacPherson is described as Caucasian, 1.83 metres (six feet) tall and weighing about 68 kg (150 pounds) with black hair and brown eyes.

Slofstra is Caucasian, 1.9 metres (six feet, four inches), 72 kg (161 pounds), with brown hair and eyes.

Both men are charged with break and enter, aggravated assault, using an imitation firearm to commit an offence, possessing a weapon dangerous to the public and failing to comply with an undertaking or recognizance.

Anyone who has information that may assist police in locating the two men is asked to call the Red Deer City RCMP at 403-343-5575.

To remain anonymous, submit information online to www.tipsubmit.com or call Crime Stoppers, 1-800222-8477.

Tundra swan travelled far before death A tundra swan that died last week was part of an Alaskan study on migration habits.

Carol Kelly, executive director of the Medicine River Wildlife Centre, said the swan died Wednesday, shortly after arriving at the rehabilitation centre.

It was very weak after being found near Pine Lake.

Dave Prescott, senior species-at-risk biologist with Alberta Fish and Wildlife in Red Deer, said

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EXPENSES: Cover a period from 2005 to 2008 The Wildrose and the NDP kept up the attack during question period, which prompted a sharp reply from deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk.

“While the government has been focusing on delivering good health care in this province, while this government has been focusing on working with agriculture during a time of disaster (meat recall crisis) not too long ago, these bottom feeders have only been pouring through receipts and hoping to find something scandalous,” Lukaszuk told the house as shouts erupted on both sides.

The Wildrose party obtained the documents under freedom of information rules. The papers pertain to Lynn Redford’s spending while she was government relations adviser to the now-defunct Calgary Health Region from 2005 to 2008.

The Calgary region and all other regions were folded into one giant superboard in 2009. Lynn Redford is currently the vice-president in charge of special projects for the Alberta Health Services, or AHS, superboard.

The documents show $3,448 worth of party spending by her. Public institutions are forbidden from spending money on partisan political activities.

The expenses included $220 for two nights in a hotel for a Tory convention in 2005.

There was $894 in mileage and parking to attend PC fundraisers, barbecues and a golf tournament.

In 2007, Lynn Redford claimed more than $500 to put on a barbecue for Tory MLAs, including almost $400 for liquor, other drinks and bug repellent. She also billed taxpayers for $141 to sign up and attend the Alberta Liberal party general meeting in 2005.

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Hunting Hills Lightning Grade 9 volleyball players Kyle James, left, and Cody Pratt hoist their teammate Parker Booth on their shoulders as the team enters the school gymnasium on Monday. The Spirit Day celebration recognized athletics, clubs, academics and the fine arts. the swan had a band on it, so he was asked to check where its origins were.

He learned through a website that tundra swans, which are not an endangered species, were marked in western and northern Alaska in the summers of 2006 to 2010. A total of 1,873 birds were banded during that period.

The birds received coded neck bands as part of an effort to learn more about the timing of migration and movements of swans relative to breeding areas.

Neck bands have a four-digit code that begins with a letter. Codes are read from bottom to top.

Another $135 was spent sending flowers to MLAs and ministers.

NDP Leader Brian Mason noted that Premier Redford became justice minister in 2008 and may have had access to this information. If so, he said, the public needs to know why she didn’t act on it.

“We need to know from the premier what she knew and when she knew it,” said Mason.

“This goes to the very heart of the confidence that Albertans can have in her leadership.”

The documents show that some expenses were approved by Patti Grier, now chief of staff and corporate secretary for AHS. The superboard works under the umbrella of the Alberta Health Department, carrying out day-to-day operations.

AHS spokesman Kerry Williamson, in a written release, said Lynn Redford was filing expenses when rules were fuzzy.

“The policies and practices of the former health regions were not well defined and were open to interpretation,” said Williamson. “Ms. (Lynn) Redford and the Calgary Health Region were meeting the expectations and norms at that time.

“That is not the case at AHS. The policies and practices have been clarified and formalized in written policy.”

Health Minister Fred Horne echoed those remarks.

“I’m not going to make any comment on past health regions,” Horne said Monday.

“We have very strict policy today in Alberta Health Services with respect to these sort of donations that complies with provincial law.

“I’m very, very comfortable that today this sort of situation is not going to be a concern.”

The Merali case is one of many money controversies that have buffeted the PCs. Merali agreed to step down as chief financial officer on Aug. 1 just hours before a television story aired detailing his lavish spending while chief financial officer for the now-defunct Edmonton-area health region. Merali ran up $346,000 on expensive meals, butlers and to have his Mercedes-Benz fixed.

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“It’s not just for men. The idea is to engage men in the issue and work shoulder to shoulder with women to end violence against women and children.”

Wheeliker said Alberta has not focused very much on the White Ribbon campaign developed by men after the 1989 murder of 14 women at the Polytechnique Institute in Montreal.

Last year, 506 women and children used the Red Deer emergency shelter. This year as of the end of October, 437 women and children have used the shelter and the number is projected to climb to about 520 by the end of the year.

He said the biggest trend that front line agencies have seen this year is the increasing complexity of domestic violence cases with more risk issues, more child custody issues and even more defensive violence by the victim.

“Women who know it’s escalating towards a violent episode will actually instigate the violence in some way or another. It gives them some predictability in the relationship. Rather than walk around on egg shells like you’re walking through a minefield, the victim actually initiates the violence to get it going and get it over with.

“They know the cycle. After the violent episode, things tend to get a little better for a short period of time.”

November is Family Violence Prevention Month in Alberta and on Friday CAWES is also hosting What a Girl Wants, its fifth annual ladies breakfast and fashion show at Bower Place Shopping Centre, from 7 to 9:30 a.m.

A four-hour workshop, featuring Katz, will be held on Nov. 28 Red Deer Golf and Country Club after Breakfast with the Guys. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Prescott received an email from Alaska Science Center in Anchorage showing that the bird was banded as an adult male on July 18, 2010, near King Salmon on the northern Alaska Peninsula.

It was previously observed in the Sacramento Valley of California in November and December 2010.

Prescott said that the story of this bird should get people thinking about the bands they may see on birds.

“It might get people looking closer, and if the birds have bands, we’ll trace the information,” he said.

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Ottawa rejects ban on generic drug SAYS PROVINCES CAN CONTROL ABUSE OF OXYCODONE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal government is refusing to interfere in the drug approval process to halt the highly addictive generic form of OxyContin, saying the provinces have the wherewithal to do a lot more.

Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq wrote her provincial counterparts on Monday to reject their plea to delay or deny approval of the knockoff opioid painkiller — a move that immediately provoked an outcry from Ontario, as well as some health experts.

Federal laws don’t allow regulators to simply ban a drug just because some people abuse the medication, Aglukkaq told a news conference. “The law does not permit approval to be withheld on the basis of misuse,� she said, asking the public to also consider the needs of patients with chronic pain.

Her refusal to get involved in the process opens the door for generic oxycodone to win approval in Canada after the

patent for the brand-name OxyContin expires on Nov. 25.

That’s despite a unanimous request from provincial health ministers to at least delay approval until regulators can examine how oxycodone is abused, and repeated demands from Ontario to completely ban the drug. “I am profoundly disappointed in minister Aglukkaq’s decision to ignore the threat to public safety posed by generic OxyContin and to allow it to enter the Canadian market,�

Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews said in a statement.

While national figures are hard to come by, Matthews said OxyContin has led to a five-fold increase in oxycodone-related deaths. She said the social costs of allowing generic oxycodone would be about $500 million a year in Ontario alone.

Small communities and First Nations in particular have been wrestling for the past few years with widespread addictions related to oxy, which is trafficked on a secondary market. In some

northern Ontario reserves, more than half the adult population is addicted to prescription drugs.

Alvin Fiddler, deputy grand chief of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, called the decision another unwelcome blow to aboriginal communities that are already suffering. “With OxyContin clones on the market, it just means more drugs flow to the north,� said Fiddler, whose group represents some 49 First Nation communities in northern Ontario. “While we appreciate the minister’s distinction between science and politics, NAN First Nations are experiencing extreme levels of addiction and require extreme solutions.�

Last year, the drug’s producer, Purdue Pharma, replaced OxyContin with a different version called OxyNeo, which some say is harder to crush and snort or inject.

Ottawa should not allow the easily-abused format back in, Matthews said. “National problems require

a national solution. Provincial and territorial health ministers unanimously asked for federal help, but have once again been told that it’s a provincial problem.�

Matthews had asked that federal regulators take into account broader public health and safety issues as they decide whether to approve the generic painkiller.

But the provinces already have several ways to prevent oxycodone and other opiates from being abused, Aglukkaq said.

Provinces have jurisdiction over doctors, pharmacists and the prescription system, she said. And if provincial authorities bring forward proof that doctors and pharmacists are enabling abuse, Health Canada can take action under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, she added.

In her letter and remarks, Aglukkaq zeroed in on claims from Matthews that “streets would be flooded� with the generic form of the drug if it is approved. “With respect, that could

Sask. to sell Crown that handles land, personal property registry

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The Opposition NDP said Premier Brad Wall is on record in 2007 as saying he would not sell off the Crowns.

New Democrat Cathy Sproule said the sale of ISC was not mentioned in the provincial election campaign last year or in the throne speech last month.

She also said ISC is highly profitable and the sale throws away that profit. “The details that we heard today still leave a lot of questions for us,� said Sproule. “You know what happens if this company turns out like Facebook where the initial share offering is a complete wipeout. “Those are kind of things that we don’t know what’s going to happen once it actually goes up for sale.�

The Saskatchewan government has accused

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the NDP of being hypocritical over the ISC sale.

The government has released a memo from 2004 that shows the former NDP government wanted ISC removed from a list of protected Crowns.

Crown corporations are highly-prized by many in Saskatchewan, including a group called Save Our Saskatchewan Crowns.

During the 2003 provincial election campaign, former Saskatchewan Party leader Elwin Hermanson mused about privatizing SaskTel — something that was widely cited as one of the major factors in his party’s defeat.

Pilot of Alberta plane crash identified

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LA CRETE — CTV Edmonton reports the pilot who died in a plane crash in northern Alberta has been identified.

An operations manager at a La Crete contracting company confirmed Monday that Ernie Driedger, 52, died after his plane crashed Saturday evening.

Driedger was from La Crete, and the part owner of Forest Trotter Contracting Ltd. An operations manager at the company described the father of six as an experienced pilot, with years of flying experience.

His Turbo Prop PA-46-500TP crashed a few kilometres northeast of the La Crete airport.

Officials say there was poor visibility due to cloud cover and heavy fog at the time of the crash.

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REGINA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Saskatchewan government is selling the Crown corporation that handles land and personal property registries, but the Opposition NDP says the move breaks a promise.

The government introduced legislation Monday that will allow it to sell 60 per cent of Information Services Corp.

Don McMorris, minister responsible for ISC, said a sale is the best way for the company to grow beyond Saskatchewan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has got a great product to put on display and hopefully sell throughout the world,â&#x20AC;?

McMorris said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has, again, serviced the people of Saskatchewan very well, but we realize that the growth potential here in Saskatchewan is not nearly as great as if we allow it to sell its products and services around the world.â&#x20AC;?

ISC was formed as a Crown corporation in 2000 and has about 300 employees, who are expected to keep their jobs.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s responsible for the administration of land titles, vital statistics, survey, personal property and corporate registries.

However, vital statistics, including births, marriages and deaths, will be transferred to the government and are not part of the sale.

McMorris said there have been success stories with such sales in the past, pointing to Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (TSX:POT) and Cameco â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which both started as Crown corporations.

Of the 60 per cent of shares that will be for sale, five per cent can be bought by employees, 45 per cent by Saskatchewan citizens and 50 per cent by outside investors.

No one person or group of investors will be allowed to buy more than 15 per cent of the shares sold.

The government said the shares are expected to raise between $90 and $120 million, which McMorris said will be used to build infrastructure,

such as roads.

The legislation says the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head office must stay in Saskatchewan. The province will also keep 40 per cent of ISC. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a discussion around balance,â&#x20AC;? said McMorris. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Having the government in a position to benefit from the potential growth, which we think is there, but not hindering the possibility of sales because it is too much owned by government.â&#x20AC;?

The 40 per cent figure is not enshrined in the legislation, meaning more of the company could be sold down the road.

Although, McMorris said there is no immediate plan to change the amount. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to see how the company runs and how successful this is into the future,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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only occur if the provinces and territories, and the medical professions they regulate, let it happen,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Plus, banning just one drug wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t solve the problem of prescription drug abuse, she warned. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Banning a generic version of one drug would do little to solve the actual problem,â&#x20AC;?

Aglukkaq said her letter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are almost 100 authorized drugs in Canada that are in the very same class of drugs as OxyContin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Banning all these drugs because they have the potential to be addictive would help dry up the drug supply for addicts, but would lead to pain and suffering for patients who desperately need them.â&#x20AC;?

Federal opposition critics accused the minister of abandoning responsibility for prescription drug abuse. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a serious epidemic (in some First Nations). Why will she not listen to the health ministers of this country?â&#x20AC;? said Liberal aboriginal affairs critic Carolyn Bennett. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She needs to figure out a way.â&#x20AC;?

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Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012

Look at police plan first DOING ANOTHER REVIEW OF THE RCMP NOW IS JUST A WASTE OF MONEY AND TIME It’s always a good idea to carefully consider all aspects of the City of Red Deer’s operating budget.

But just how often should major changes to the way the city offers services be reconsidered, especially when it cost thousands of dollars to review?

The cost to run the city is big. The current MARY-ANN $272-million opBARR erating budget for 2012 is testimony to that.

And as we head into the new year, and the 2013 budget discussions, taxpayers will likely see both a higher operating budget and increased taxes.

So when we talk about $150,000 as a budget item, it’s just chump change, right?

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That’s the amount the city spent on consultants to prepare the Crime Prevention and Policing Review, which was presented last year to city council.

The report stated that it was less costly for the city to retain the services of the RCMP than if it were to move to a municipal police force.

In a 7-2 vote in October 2011, city council decided to maintain the status quo with the RCMP. The cost to start up a municipal force was estimated at between $7 million and $10 million. In addition, citizens favoured the RCMP. Councillor Paul Harris was one of the seven members who voted to see the RCMP continue to serve Red Deer.

That was then.

Now Harris isn’t so sure.

At the last meeting of council he gave notice of a motion calling for another review of the current policing service delivery model to “verify that the model is appropriate, cost effective, and represents the best service for tax dollars available.”

“I am having second thoughts,” Harris told the Advocate, in part because

the process of establishing service delivery standards has been too slow for the councillor.

Those standards would help the council determine whether its getting a good bang for its buck.

This, coupled with an indication from local top cop Supt. Warren Dosko that he will be asking for a significant increase to the 2013 policing budget, has Harris worried.

But it is unreasonable that council should even consider another policing review just a year after it already made this big decision. It costs money to review, yes.

But what message does it send every time we are faced with the idea of increased policing costs to review what police force we should have? Such decisions are big ones.

Maybe the Harris motion is just posturing and politicking as council moves toward operating budget discussions.

The RCMP and Emergency Services budgets combined eat up about 30 per cent of the city’s operating budget, split almost evenly.

It’s right for Harris to be concerned

that the RCMP is looking for an increase in funding, which in fact could translate into a tax increase.

But rather than looking for another too-soon policing review, Harris would do better by talking with other members of council about his concerns, listening to the pitch the RCMP will make in budget discussions, listening to his constituents, and then voting accordingly.

For his part, Dosko is offering perhaps a realistic approach to increasing policing costs.

He suggests looking at innovative ways to deal with the non-violent crimes so RCMP resources “aren’t being gobbled up by non-violent crime when they need to be put in the violent crime world.”

The best way to approach policing costs is not to look at who is providing the service, but rather where to focus the RCMP resources we have.

Mary-Ann Barr is the Advocate’s assistant city editor. She can be reached by phone at 403-314-4332 or email at barr@ reddeeradvocate.com.

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Less name calling, more honest debate Re: Nov. 17, 2012, letter titled ‘Socialist Dumb and Dumber should just leave Alberta’ In a letter to the editor by Chris Stephan in the Red Deer Advocate of Nov. 17, he criticizes the paper’s editorial writers for being less than complimentary about actions by Ralph Klein and Stockwell Day. He uses the term of “socialist agenda” as a putdown when reasonable argument and discussion can not be brought forward.

This method may explain and reinforce opinion of Coun. Stephan’s prevailing negative voting record on city council as being the anti-socialist “economic watchdog.”

In my view, a better way to do that would be by engaging in healthy debate rather than name calling and inviting fellow citizens to move somewhere else.

We have lately been exposed to this negative type of rhetoric and “socialist” name calling by some neighbours to south.

It was unsuccessful there and it will not be successful here.

Finally, this is in praise of the editorial staff of the Red Deer Advocate (they do not need any defence)! As a small city newspaper in a province with continuous one-party rule, they have ably commented on municipal, provincial and federal politics, often providing balance and thoughtful alternate opinion.

It is a role that Mr. Stephan sees for himself in Red Deer city council.

It is an honourable role for him and the Advocate editors, only if everyone refrains from name calling and inviting people with different opinion to move somewhere else.

Sam Denhaan Red Deer

Round them up and re-educate them?

Re: Socialist Dumb and Dumber should just leave Alberta, Saturday, Nov. 17, letters to the editor So one of our city councillors, Chris Stephan, is upset about some mild editorial criticism of former premier Ralph Klein and former local MLA Stockwell Day. Because of these criticisms and what Stephan perceives to be the editorialist’s “obvious socialist agenda,” Coun. Stephan invites them to move somewhere else.

Yes, let’s get rid of or deport anyone who doesn’t agree with our own ideology, however misplaced it might be!

What is next, Mr. Stephan? Should we have all citizens who disagree with you or who voted Liberal or NDP sew large red Ss on their clothing to identify them as socialists?

Should we then round them all up and put them in camps to re-educate them on the magical and wondrous ways of the “force,” free-market forces that is?

Yes, let’s teach them to have the same kind of blind, uncritical faith in deregulated markets and privatization that led to the Great Depression and Financial Disaster of 2008.

Let’s help these darn socialists to learn to worship men like Klein and Day, men who by their words and deeds often reinforced stereotypes held by many Canadians of Albertans as knee-jerk reactionaries.

Let’s make all these misguided socialists bow down to these men who demonstrated magical thinking on many issues as well as often demonstrating a willingness to ignore modern liberal democratic principles.

I am disappointed that Coun. Stephan’s letter demonstrated such a level of intolerance for what really are quite moderate views (at least in most of the free world).

Unfortunately, the tone of the letter makes it seem that Coun. Stephan is keen on helping citizens of Red Deer and Alberta to move in the same direction as his two heroes sometimes tried to move us: backwards.

Mike Falkenberg Red Deer

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Just another pre-election war?

Let’s be fair: there does seem to be some sort of pattern here, but it is not very consistent. Five times in Israel since 1980, a rightwing government has called an election without launching a complementary military operation.

The right lost two of those elections outright (1992, 1999), more or less tied GWYNNE two others DYER (1984, 1988) and won only one of them decisively (2006).

On the other hand, critics of Israel point out, three times since 1980 right-wing Israeli governments have combined an election campaign with a major military operation against some Arab or Palestinian target. And this combination, it has been argued, yields decisive electoral success for the right.

Menachem Begin’s government won the 1981 election three weeks after carrying out a dramatic attack on the Osirak research nuclear reactor that France had sold to Iraq. In the view of most outside observers, the reactor, which was closely supervised both by the French and by the International Atomic Energy Agency, was not suited to the large-scale produc-

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tion of enriched uranium and posed no threat to Israel, but the attack was popular in Israel.

Ehud Olmert’s coalition launched the “Cast Lead” onslaught against the Gaza Strip in December 2008 and January 2009. The three-week campaign of massive bombardments and some ground incursions left 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead.

The election was held a month later, and Binyamin Netanyahu emerged as the leader of a new right-wing coalition.

So here we go again, perhaps?

Netanyahu is still the prime minister, and the next elections are in January. What better way to ensure success than to go and bash the Palestinians again? A week later, with 86 Palestinians and three Israelis dead, his reelection is assured: Israelis overwhelmingly support the current military operation.

That’s the case that is made against Israel. Does it hold water?

Well, actually, no, it doesn’t.

Begin’s attack on the Osirak reactor in 1981 may well have been an electoral stunt, although he was clearly paranoid about the possibility of a nuclear weapon in Arab hands.

But Ehud Olmert, although undoubtedly a man of the right, was not leading a right-wing government in 2008. He was the leader of a new centrist party, Kadima, that had been formed by defectors from both the right-wing Likud Party and left-wing Labour.

Moreover, Olmert had already resigned in mid-2008 over a corruption scandal, and was merely

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acting as interim prime minister by the time the “Cast Lead” operation was launched in December of that year. If it was an electoral ploy despite all that, it didn’t work. It was the right that actually won the election in early 2009, and formed a government led by the Likud Party’s Binyamin Netanyahu.

It is equally hard to believe that Netanyahu is seeking electoral gain by attacking Gaza this month.

Every opinion poll in Israel for months past has been saying that he is going to win the January election hands down. For him, all the risk of Operation Pillar of Defence is on the downside: a major loss of Israeli lives in the campaign, while unlikely, could only work against him.

So why is this happening now?

Historians traditionally split into two camps: those who see purpose and planning and plots behind every event, and those who think most events are just the random interaction of conflicting strategies, imperfect information and human frailty. This latter approach is known in the historical trade as the “cock-up theory of history,” and it is very attractive as an explanation for the current situation.

So how did this idiocy happen?

Another cock-up, of course.

But since the mini-war doesn’t really serve the purposes of any major player, it will probably be shut down again fairly soon.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — It’s been two months since the House of Commons rejected a controversial abortion-related motion, but Conservative MPs are using a tried and true parliamentary tool to keep the issue alive.

Petitions on abortion have been filed at least 20 times by Conservative MPs — Lawrence MacAulay of the Liberals has also presented one — since the Commons voted down a controversial backbench motion to study the definition of human being in the Criminal Code.

Following question period, MPs have the option to table petitions from their constituents on almost any issue.

Many of the petitions go much further than Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth’s motion, which called on the government to strike a committee to study the issue of when a child is considered a child.

On Sept. 27, the day after Woodworth’s motion was voted down, Alberta MP Leon Benoit presented a petition that asked Parliament to “enact abortion legislation that restricts abortion to the greatest extent possible.”

Benoit said Monday he’s proud to speak up for those in the pro-life community.

“It makes a real difference to them knowing that somebody is standing up for them in the House of Commons, letting their position be known,” he said.

“It has some impact, but minimal, but it’s one of many tools that you use. For me, I use a variety of tools to try to promote change to that legislation in that area.”

Many of the other petitions have asked MPs to amend the Criminal Code to reflect that life begins before the moment of complete birth.

MPs sometimes stand and table several petitions at once — earlier this month, Alberta MP LaVar Payne presented nine of them, all in support of Woodworth’s motion.

“I think every time citizens speak there’s an impact, and I think it’s necessary that we continue to discuss — it’s part of our democratic traditions that we have a respectful dialogue,” said Woodworth.

“Most Canadians are part of a consensus in support of those democratic ideals and they want Parliament to be part of that consensus too.”

The House of Commons manual of procedure and practice states that MPs are not bound to present any petition, nor does presenting a petition signify an endorsement.

Still, MacAulay is the only non-Conservative to table an anti-abortion petition since the Woodworth motion was voted on. MacAulay voted in favour of the motion.

On that day, 15 Conservative and two Liberal MPs presented petitions in favour of the motion and eight NDP MPs presented petitions against.

Woodworth’s motion was defeated by a vote of 20391, with 10 cabinet ministers voting in favour.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said unequivocally that his government will not reopen the abortion debate. But there is also a strong Conservative tradition to allow MPs to vote the way they want on issues of conscience, as well as on private member’s business.

NDP status of women critic Niki Ashton equates the group of MPs pushing for curbs to abortion rights with the Tea Party faction of the Republican party in the United States.

“Do petitions change legislation? No, but are they a sign of work that’s happening on the ground? Yes,” Ashton said.

“Is it in line with worrying trends we’re seeing from the Harper government on a woman’s right to choose? I would say, absolutely.”

Lighten our regulatory burden in new digital realm, CBC urges

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The CBC is asking the federal broadcast regulator for more flexibility as it grapples with the swiftly unfolding digital universe.

The strict regulatory shackles of the past don’t work in today’s fast-moving industry, CBC president Hubert Lacroix told a Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission hearing Monday.

“We are pleased to make serious regulatory commitments, but we want them to make sense in the current — and in the future — environment,” Lacroix said as the commission began reviewing the public broadcaster’s licence renewal application.

The CBC wants to avoid having to return to the commission “every time we need to change what we are doing in order to serve Canadians properly,” Lacroix told a panel of commissioners.

For instance, young people are shunning television sets for computers, a shift that has prompted the CBC to move its children’s programming online.

Critics, however, say allowing CBC additional slack will mean less distinctive content and more commercials, making the public

broadcaster indistinguishable from its private-sector competitors.

Lacroix said the CBC aims to provide Canadians with programming that helps shape a shared national consciousness and identity, citing coverage of the Olympics, historical documentaries and homegrown drama.

The broadcaster is seeking fiveyear licence renewals for its various television and radio services.

As the two-week commission hearing got underway, Lacroix said much had changed since the CBC’s last substantive renewal application 13 years ago.

The digital revolution has transformed the way the CBC and other broadcasters deliver news, music and entertainment programming.

At the same time, the CBC is struggling to absorb a three-year, $115-million cut to its budget of more than $1 billion. The public broadcaster is also dealing with other financial pressures and faces the possible loss of lucrative television rights for NHL games.

Lacroix said audience tastes and habits change rapidly and it makes no sense for the CBC to pledge commitments — airing a certain number of hours of programming in a particular genre,

for instance — when it’s not financially sustainable.

“The financial challenges we face are daunting,” he said.

“But we will meet them. And we will balance our budgets. So, we cannot and will not make commitments that we know we may not be able to fulfil.

“What we can do is make very serious commitments with respect to key objectives. But we need flexibility. And that is what we have proposed.”

CRTC chairman Jean-Pierre Blais questioned the wisdom of loosening the CBC’s regulatory obligations, saying firm commitments may be “the nature of the beast” in terms of meeting the expectations of Canadians.

The CBC proposes to devote 75 per cent of the broadcasting day and 80 per cent of prime time to Canadian programming on its English-language TV network.

That would represent a dip from the current 80-per-cent Canadian content level during the broadcasting day.

In addition, the corporation has requested permission to introduce ads to secondary radio services CBC Radio 2 and Espace musique to make up for funding losses — a contentious proposal that generated much discussion Monday.

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The mayors of Toronto and Calgary — the two teams’ respective hometowns — are also getting in on the action.

Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi has proposed a friendly wager that would see the losing city’s mayor donating his weight in food to the winning city’s food bank.

The loser would also have to wear the winning team’s jersey for a council meeting.

Nenshi issued the challenge to Toronto Mayor Rob Ford on Twitter. Hours later, Ford tweeted his acceptance, adding the Calgary mayor would “look great in Argo blue!”

Ford said he was aware he had more money to lose because he weighed more than Nenshi.

He estimates his weight at around 320 pounds and Nenshi’s at 240 pounds.

“It’s a friendly wager.

So we’ll see what happens,” said Ford.

The 100th Grey Cup is being held in Toronto on Sunday at the Rogers Centre, the Argos’ home field.

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Second McGuinty passes on Liberal leadership race

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — First Dalton, now David McGuinty is taking a pass on running for the federal Liberal leadership.

Like his brother, retiring Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, the Ottawa MP said Monday he’s decided he won’t take the plunge.

David McGuinty told The Canadian Press he’s concluded he can best serve the party in other ways.

“I’ve reflected long and hard on what is the best way for me to help rebuild the party, what is the best way for me to help hold down the fort, do what I call a lot of the ground work, a lot of the nuts and bolts work,” he said in an interview.

“And I think I am best placed at this time to do what I’m doing, which is to really build the party from the ground up, riding by riding, issue by issue, in the committees, on the floor of the House of Commons.

“I just think there’s so much heavy lifting to be done that, from my perspective, this is for me the best way to serve.”

McGuinty said his decision has nothing to do with the widespread perception that Montreal MP Justin Trudeau, eldest son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, has already locked up the contest, which only officially began last week and culminates April 14.

“I don’t place a lot of stock in prohibitive favourites,” he said, pointing out that brother Dalton vaulted from fourth place to win the Ontario Liberal leadership in 1996.

The premier announced last month that he will retire as soon as a successor is chosen in January.

Under pressure from a well-organized draft campaign, he briefly toyed with the notion of running for the federal leadership but eventually ruled that out.

David McGuinty said his brother’s brief flirtation with the federal leadership had no bearing on his own decision.

“Could be worse. There’s ten of us,” he quipped, referring to his many siblings.

RCMP called over leaked memo about embassy security

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal government is asking police to investigate the leak of an internal memo that warns of a lack of security at Canada’s embassy in Moscow.

The Canadian Press reported on the weekend about an internal memo to Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird that described the embassy compound as vulnerable to terrorist attack and the prying eyes of foreign spies.

“We take the release of this kind of information extremely seriously, and we are considering calling in the RCMP,” Diane Ablonczy, Canada’s minister of state of Foreign Affairs, said during question period Monday.

“We will not engage in public or partisan discussions that could place the arrangements we make for our men and women in the public service at risk, and we will continue to do what is right and needful in this situation.”

The memo, to Baird from a senior bureaucrat, warned that Canada’s embassy in the Russian capital offers “almost no protection” against a terrorist attack.

It details why diplomats won’t be moving to a more secure facility until January 2016 instead of last July as planned. The delay has added nearly $30 million to the cost of the project, since Foreign Affairs received approval in 2008 to move the embassy to a more suitable building.

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An electric pole stands in the middle of a road in Johnville, Que. on Monday. The ministry of Transport fixed a dangerous curve in the road issue this summer, but Quebec’s public utility apparently failed to coordinate its timetable with the roadwork.

Road got moved, pole wasn’t

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Alleged corruption-fuelled cost overruns aren’t the only menace upon Quebec’s road network these days.

Officials say they are dealing with the puzzling appearance of a utility pole — smack in the middle of a provincial highway east of Montreal.

The pole, which pokes out over Highway 251 in a village near Sherbrooke, Que., was featured in a local newspaper story Monday.

“We were only informed this morning (about the problem),” said Transport Quebec spokesman Gilles Bourque.

“It’s deplorable and completely unacceptable.”

So how did such an improbable obstacle wind up protruding from a highway, anyway?

According to various local media, area residents said the pole has been there for two months.

Provincial transport authorities downplayed the danger, calling it a briefer phenomenon.

They said the roadway had been moved to avoid a dangerous curve.

In recent weeks, they said, the new stretch was under construction and there were crews and signallers there to warn those motorists approaching the danger zone. The road was only paved last week, they said.

Authorities promised to have the pole removed by the end of the month. But there was still some finger-pointing, among the actors involved in the project, about why it had taken so long.

Hydro-Quebec, which is responsible for maintaining the utility line, said it received word too late — only about three weeks ago — about the project.

Transport Quebec said its contractor didn’t deserve any blame.

Bourque said there were communication problems between the provincial transport authority and the telephone and power utilities that share the line.

Bourque said proper signs and temporary traffic lights were being installed to ensure the safety

of that portion of the road, where the maximum speed is 50 kilometres per hour. The pole has not caused any harm, so far.

Quebec provincial police said there had been no reports of accidents at the site.

Highway 251 is a 38-kilometre stretch of provincial highway that runs north-south in the Eastern Townships region. The pole is in Johnville, a small village along the route.

Hydro-Quebec said a new pole was being installed and said the electrical and telephone wires should be moved by the end of the week. Spokeswoman Ginette Cantin said Hydro-Quebec had been waiting for instructions on an exact location where the poll should be moved, but only received word on Oct. 30.

“It’s not a usual situation,” Cantin said. “Normally the road work should not have been done before the lines were moved.”

Transport Quebec said it will conduct a review to determine what’s taken so long to remove the obstacle.

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Playing with popcorn TRY THESE TAKES ON AN OLD FAVOURITE The smell of popcorn wafting in the air can easily transport one back to childhood sleepovers, family fun nights or going to the movie theatres. For me, popcorn conjures images of how the making of popcorn has evolved in my life.

My first memory of popcorn was in India, where it was not a family affair to pop kernels at home. Instead it was done out on the streets. During the early evening, a vendor would come by the neighborhood with his hand pulled cart holding a portable stove with wok full of sand.

Back then the draw for us kids was not just the smell and the anticipation MADHU of eating the kernels but BADONI actually watching the vendor make the popcorn. He would take the popcorn and add it to the hot sand and rhythmically mix until the kernels magically turned them into white fluffs. I am not sure if it was the variety of corn used or the method, but this popcorn was sweet and earthy tasting. It was so good that no topping was needed.

When we came to Canada, my mom began making popcorn on the stove in pot .She would add a bit oil and then add the kernel. Although, I loved the “kling” “kling” noise the popcorn made when they hit the lid, the traditional flavour of the kernel that we grew up wasn’t the same. No matter how little oil my mom used we could always taste it on the kernel.

It didn’t take us long to acquire the taste of popcorn generously doused with butter and liberally sprinkled with salt. After tasting movie popcorn, it was unanimous between my siblings and me that greasy fingers indicated scrumptious popcorn. We always tried to replicate the flavour at home.

Then came the “magical” popcorn . . . Jiffy Pop! We gathered around the stove as the aluminum on top untwisted and ballooned up with popcorn. The popcorn was dripping with butter and seemed perfect. With three siblings, however, it seemed that there was never enough.

The air popper was never popular in our house; although you could make a large batch at once but the butter had to be added separately.

For lazy teenagers, cleaning the machine and washing the butter dish and the popcorn bowl seemed too labour intensive!

The microwave bag was the answer to our household perfect popcorn dilemma; popcorn could be made in 2 ½ minutes with butter and salt already added with no dishes to wash afterward!

Unfortunately this is the popcorn that was served during any sleepovers, family movie nights or when the urge to snack sneaked up on us.

As a parent, seeking more natural and healthy ingredients to feed my kids, I again changed my method for making popcorn. I now use my microwavable popcorn bowl, add high quality popcorn, and simply microwave until the popping noise stops. Then I spray with olive oil or sparingly top with butter and salt.

As a foodie, I view the popcorn as a “fun, versatile” food that is like a blank canvas that can easily take on other flavours. With my need to tweak, add and seek out new flavours, I have discovered that there are variations that can add a little extra personality to popcorn.

A little garlic or onion salt, a touch of dry salad dressing, a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese can easily perk up popcorn. For a sweet variation, don’t just stop with caramel popcorn take it one step further and drizzle with melted chocolate.

With so many varieties of spices available, you can also add some regional flavours. By adding seasonings that you use to make Pad Thai, curries, and taco, you can easily have your palate

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Another great thing about popcorn is that crushed up it can be used as a filler or a coating.

It’s also a good substitute in some recipes like muffins and breads making it ideal for people who can’t have wheat gluten.

Here are my favourite and fun ways to enjoy popcorn.

Edible Popcorn Party Bowl Yield: 1 bowl 10 cups popped popcorn 1 1/3 cups sugar 1 cup water 1/3 cup light corn syrup ½ teaspoon vinegar ¼ teaspoon salt 10 drops food color, optional Spray the inside of a large, stainless steel bowl with cooking spray and the outside of a second large, stainless steel bowl; set aside. These two bowls will be used to form popcorn bowl at end of cooking time. (Note: if one bowl is smaller than the other, spray the outside of the smaller bowl.)

Spray a third large bowl with cooking spray and place popped popcorn inside; set aside. Stir sugar, water, corn syrup, vinegar and salt together in a medium sauce pan. Bring mixture to a boil, cover, and boil for 3 minutes to allow steam to wash down sides of pan. Remove lid and attach candy thermometer to pan. Allow mixture to boil, without stirring, until mixture reaches 290F. Stir in food color, if desired. Working quickly, pour syrup over popcorn and toss with a large spoon until popcorn is thoroughly coated.

Pour popcorn mixture into first prepared bowl and use a spoon to push mixture evenly up onto sides of bowl. Firmly press second prepared bowl onto popcorn to form popcorn bowl. Allow popcorn bowl to cool completely between stainless steel bowls. To serve, tip popcorn bowl out and place on platter. Fill with popcorn to serve.

sprayed with non-stick spray. Bake 30 minutes, stirring twice during baking time. Stir mixture a few times as it cools on baking sheet. Store in an airtight container.

Pad Thai Popcorn 10 cups popped popcorn 1 cup chopped dry-roasted, salted peanuts or cashews ½ cup packed brown sugar ¼ cup vegetable oil ¼ cup corn syrup 2 teaspoons lime juice 1 ½ tablespoons fish sauce 1 tablespoon sambal oelek (Thai chile paste) or plain hot sauce 1 tablespoon grated lime zest ¼ teaspoon baking soda ¼ cup chopped cilantro Preheat oven to 250F (120C). Line baking sheet with foil brushed with oil. Mix together popcorn and chopped peanuts. Combine brown sugar, vegetable oil, and corn syrup in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add lime juice and fish sauce.

Bring to a boil and cook, stirring occasionally, until thick, about five minutes. Remove from heat and quickly stir in sambal oelek, lime zest, and baking soda. Pour over popcorn, stirring to coat.

Transfer popcorn to the prepared baking sheet.

Bake in the preheated oven, tossing every 10 to 15 minutes, until browned and sticky, about 45 minutes. Allow to cool and become crispy. Toss with cilantro before serving.

Cheesy Popcorn Bread

Coconut Curry Cashew Popcorn 10 cups popped popcorn 2 cups cashews ½ cup flaked coconut ½ cup (1 stick) butter ½ cup sugar ¼ cup honey 1 tablespoon mild curry powder ½ teaspoon baking soda Preheat oven to 300F. Place popcorn, cashews and coconut in a large bowl; set aside.

Heat butter, sugar and honey in a medium saucepan. Stir mixture over medium heat until it begins to boil. Boil two minutes without stirring.

Remove from heat and stir in curry powder and baking soda (mixture will foam). Pour syrup over popcorn mixture in bowl and stir until evenly coated. Pour mixture onto a large, rimmed baking sheet or roasting pan lined with foil and

4 cups popped popcorn 1 cup yellow corn meal 2 tablespoons sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon salt 1 egg 1 cup 2% milk ¼ cup vegetable oil 1 cup shredded jack or cheddar cheese 1 (4 ounce) can mild, diced green chilies, drained, optional Preheat oven to 400F. Spray an 8-inch square baking pan with cooking spray; set aside.

Process the popcorn in a blender or food processor until finely ground.Pour ground popcorn into a large bowl and stir in corn meal, sugar, baking powder and salt until blended. Beat egg, milk and vegetable oil together in a small bowl and stir into popcorn mixture just until blended.

Scatter cheese and chilies, if desired, over batter and stir just until evenly distributed.

Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 25 minutes or until lightly browned at edges and tester comes out clean. Cut into squares to serve.

Madhu Badoni is a Red Deer-based freelance food writer. She can be reached at madhubadoni@gmail. com or on Twitter @madhubadoni. Watch for Madhu’s Masala-Mix blog on www.reddeeradvocate.com.

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Building Useless information: foundations try to ‘calm down’ Foundations “A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man.”

– Sai Baba, Indian guru, yogi and fakir

EXTREME ESTEEM

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The two most useless words in What he wants to hear from his the entire English language have parent is some version of, “Here, to be ‘calm down.’ let me hold you while we walk Have these words ever had the away.” desired effect on anyCalm down doesn’t one since the concepmake any sense when tion of time? you’re two years old No they have not. and terrified.

In fact, tell a person to It doesn’t make a lot calm down and quite of sense when you’re the opposite range of fifty and ticked off neiemotions occur. ther.

It’s like duct taping Bring the words into a zebra steak to your an argument with your forehead in hopes of spouse and watch the keeping the lions off fur fly. you.

Without fail those It only makes mattwo harmless seeming SHANNON ters worse. No one ever words will ricochet off MCKINNON shakes your hand afyour loved ones temper ter being told to calm and come hurtling back down and says: to you in the form of, “Thank you. You’re “Calm down! Don’t tell absolutely right. I me to calm down!” needed to hear that.

The emphasis on “me” when we “There. Look at me now. I’m say “Don’t tell me to calm down” completely Zen.” implies that we would very much And yet we can’t seem to resist like to say calm down in return, the use of it. but will not tolerate being on the Who hasn’t been in a line up receiving end. at a retail store and witnessed an Calm down is something you enraged customer spewing insults might say early on in a relationon some poor hapless employee, ship, but rarely do you go there only to have Hapless Employee twice. say, “Calm down.”

And in case you’re wondering, A collective gasp goes through in the early years I was the one the lineup and you just know with the fiery red haired temper what’s coming next...and it isn’t while Darcy was the one most likecalm. ly to regret saying, “Calm down.”

It’s the opposite of calm. It’s the So why do we say it? calm before the storm.

And why do we hate to hear it?

Parents try the same words on Even telling a person to shut up their children with surprising reg- is less inflammatory than saying ularity despite its negative out- calm down. come.

How can that be?

There’s frightened little Sam I think telling a person to calm being hauled along a road of giant down implies – usually correctly candy canes towards a bearded — that you are in control of your stranger where he is torn from his emotions while they ... er, are not. parent’s arms, deposited into a They realize they’ve just made stranger’s (a really strange strang- an ass of themselves and now ever’s) red velvet lap and told to, eryone else sees it too.

“Calm down.”

They either have to mask the

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situation by getting even more righteous and indignant, or surrender to a less than flattering image of themselves.

If the two most useless words are calm down, the two most difficult words to say in reply are I’m sorry.

But if you have the strength to go there, instead of looking like an idiot you regain respect.

Sometimes it is even advisable to substitute the words ‘I’m sorry’ for ‘calm down,’ even though you might think it’s the angry person who needs to apologize.

A lovely yet overlooked truth of the human condition is that peace is as contagious as violence. In every communication we have the opportunity to incite goodwill or start a brawl.

At our core we all want the same thing; to be loved, to be respected and to be heard.

For such an intelligent species we have some pretty strange ways of communicating those needs.

Back in the days of VHS and video stores movie rentals came with a sticker that read “Be kind, rewind.”

It was meant as a reminder to rewind the videos before returning them to the store but they’re also wise words to live by; a sort of go-to mantra for when we start to lose our temper.

Even if less than wise words have already left our lips we can still press pause, be kind and rewind.

Depending on the circumstance we could say, “I’m sorry.”

We could say, “What can I do to make this right?” We could say, “I understand your frustration.” But whatever you do, don’t say, “Calm down.”

Shannon McKinnon is a humour columnist from Northern BC. You can catch up on past columns by visiting www.shannonmckinnon.com

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“Get ready to start swinging!”

“OK,” I yelled back and raised the maul over my shoulder.

I was helping my aunt and uncle pour the foundation for their new home — with the help of a few neighbours, of course. This was back before the time of giant concrete pumping units with their large booms.

Though we were able to pour much of the concrete into the forms directly from the chute on the cement truck, a great deal of it still had to be transported by wheelbarrows on wobbly planks.

We shoveled, tamped, banged and generally coerced that concrete into place over the course of one hot afternoon.

MURRAY I swung the maul until my FUHRER shoulders ached. Pounding the forms ensured the concrete dropped, flowed and settled evenly throughout.

For a house to be secure, safe and stable, it must be built upon a solid, level and well-considered foundation. Our lives are no different.

An important element of self-esteem building is self-awareness.

Your life, as it appears now, is the result of the foundation that supports it. If you’re not enjoying the life you want, then look at the foundation carefully.

As an example, let’s say you’re feeling beaten down by life and in a state of depression.

You’ve bought into a victim mentality where everyone is against you and everything happens to you. Ask yourself what foundation (in this case, what thoughts and beliefs) you would need in place to support such a dismal, disempowering outlook.

Without a doubt, you would need a foundation comprised of themes such as being worthless, helpless, powerless, or out of control. If you look — as objectively as you can — at the current state of your life (if it’s not the life you’d prefer) you’ll find at play any number of disempowering ways of thinking and being.

The same structural relationship holds true for the individual with healthy self-esteem and a grounded sense of self.

What foundation must this individual have in place in order to sustain a positive state of being?

The empowered individual, living a happy and successful life, must feel good enough, capable, strong, empowered and worthy — the architect of his or her own destiny.

By looking at our life and then seriously pondering what beliefs would be necessary to maintain the state of mind or being we now experience, we can gain some powerful insights into our thinking and likely discover that much of it is happening without our conscious awareness.

An empowered life is built upon the foundation of solid core values. Core values are traits or qualities that represent our highest priorities, deeply held beliefs and fundamental driving forces.

Core values are also called guiding principles because they form a solid core of who we believe we are or want to become moving forward. Core values will differ from person to person and are the result of culture, upbringing, personal experiences and interpretations.

Here are five (of many) character traits or core values that seem to define the empowered individual – five essential elements that form the foundation for a purposeful life.

The first is discipline: a willingness to persevere, to take the necessary steps that will move us in the direction of accomplishing our goals and honouring our ambitions. It is recognizing that it is our hard work and ours alone that will get us where we want to be in life.

The second is integrity: being true to our word and following through on our promises. Integrity could be summed up by saying that our words and our actions match. Integrity is being and staying the person we claim to be – maintaining an honest reflection of our true self.

The third is respect: seeing, accepting and honouring the importance of self and the value of others as a whole. Respect is measured by how we treat others and how we treat ourselves, and it is ensuring that we act in accordance to how we expect others to treat us in return.

The fourth is responsibility: taking full ownership of our actions, decisions and the consequences of such. It is being accountable for our choices – personally and those we make on behalf of people we represent. It is a willingness to step up – especially when it’s painful or uncomfortable to do so – and own our actions, reactions, words and treatment of others.

The fifth is faith: this can certainly be a spiritual faith and, even more so, a deep and abiding faith in our own ability and value as human beings. When we have faith in ourselves, we see our worth and we recognize that we are on a journey of evolution, becoming better people.

When we build our life upon a firm foundation and live our values every day, we can enjoy today and every day and go to bed each night with a clear conscience and no regrets.

After all the banging, shoveling and lifting had been finished we let the foundation cure for a few days. When we removed the forms, the basement was perfect: solid, true and strong.

Miyamoto Musashi, the Japanese swordsman and samurai, once declared, “Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective.

With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you.”

A solid foundation built upon strong core values assures a substantial and enjoyable life. Reflect upon your life today and investigate the foundation upon which you’re building it.

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Gratitude not always easy to express

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“Hungry Girl” Lisa Lillien never set out to become a controverisal food maven, telling people how to eat their cake and keep their weight down, too. Lillien was just another L.A. “Hungry Girl,” a 30-something woman who would diet off that extra 20 pounds and then put the weight back on. That was until the former studio publicist started coming up with low-cal recipes for some of those favoured foods and emailing them around to friends. Ten years later, Lillien sits atop a Hungry Girl empire.

Foodie who needed to lose a few pounds became Hungry Girl LOS ANGELES — She never set out to become the maven of guilt-free, funfood dieting, the go-to girl for people who want to have their cake — and cheeseburgers and chili fries — and eat them, too, without getting fat.

No, 10 years ago, Lisa Lillien says, she was just another 30-something L.A. “Hungry Girl.” Someone who needed to drop 15 or 20 pounds and would do so periodically by following an all-liquid diet or a onemeal-a-day diet or whatever other weight-loss regimen was in vogue.

Afterward, she’d return to her beloved jam-slathered bagels and french fries and gain it all back.

“Then one day I just woke up and I said, ‘You know what? That’s not the way to tackle a weight problem,”’ says the trim but not skinny Lillien who, presides over a multimillion-dollar empire of Hungry Girl cookbooks, low-calorie recipes, specialty products and TV shows, all of them geared to letting people eat the junk food they love and not get fat.

The trick is discovering why you’re eating too many calories, says Lillien, as she dashes from a couch at Hungry Girl headquarters to the kitchen, to help an assistant whip up baked potato skins stuffed with cheese and bacon.

In her case and, she believes, most everybody else’s, too many people are unwilling to give up comfort foods like pizza, spaghetti, cookies and cake in the name of better health.

Neither is Lillien, who likes to joke there was a time when she’d climb over a table to steal a companion’s french fries.

These days she just remakes them — and a thousand other foods.

Her baked potato skins, for example, are really made out of zucchini stuffed with low-calorie cheese and bacon flavouring.

She bakes her chilicheese fries and uses butternut squash, not potatoes.

They clock in at 268 calories, about a quarter the amount in traditional fries.

Recipes for those and other feel-good foods like lasagna, pizza and spongecake have placed Lillien atop a brand that has grown phenomenally in the eight years since the former TV executive came up with the name (it just popped into her head one day) and blasted a daily email to 75 people.

Today, 1.2 million subscribers get a mix of recipes, advice and ads for food companies like Star Kist and General Mills, whose products she endorses.

Lillien, who started the business at home, now oversees a staff of 12 at a sprawling office in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley.

To some extent, the headquarters more closely resembles a huge teenage girl’s room with a kitchen thrown in.

Pillows and cushions scattered about are decorated with pictures of Tootsie

Rolls, Sweet Tarts and other candies. Cans of soup, packages of nuts, bowls of chips and other ingredients are stacked here and there.

On one wall a silk-screen depicts a can of Campbell’s Soup, with Dino the dinosaur from The Flintstones TV show, on the label.

It’s here that Lillien and her staff experiment, madscientist-like, she says, with thousands of recipes.

The result is Italian, Mexican, Chinese and even unique Hungry Girl food, the latter including all kinds of egg-white concoctions that can be microwaved in a mug.

That came about because even before she began counting calories she was often too lazy to pull out a skillet and fry anything.

The recipes she whips up can be found on her Food Network and Cooking Channel TV shows and in her seven books, which have sold more than 2.5 million copies, according to her publisher, St. Martin’s Press.

Her latest, Hungry Girl to the Max: The Ultimate Guilt-Free Cookbook, debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list for paperback advice books last month.

Although food bloggers sometimes snipe about her recipes being as low in nutritional value as they are in calories, Matthew Shear, St. Martin’s executive vice-president, says she “speaks to an audience that loves to eat and is looking for a way to eat the things they love at a fraction of the calories.”

That audience, he adds, includes himself.

He professes to be a big fan of her Lord of the Onion Rings recipe (155 calories) and her various mug cake desserts (you microwave them in a mug).

Dawn Jackson Blatner, a registered dietitian who has published her own cookbooks, calls Lillien’s recipes low-calorie junk food.

But, Blatner quickly adds, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

“Two out of three people in this country are overweight.

Do they need fewer calories? Is her whole enterprise teaching ways to achieve that?

Yes,” says Blatner from her Chicago office.

For people who won’t give up pizza and cheeseburgers, the Hungry Girl diet might not be a bad alternative.

Even Blatner says she’s sampled some of Lillien’s recipes, although she stays away from ones that use processed food

products, preferring fresh fruit and vegetables.

“The spaghetti squash and butternut squash, the fun things she does with apples, I get most excited about those,” she said.

Lillien believes her lack of credentials as a dietitian or a nutritionist actually gives her more credibility with her audience, which realizes she’s one of them, just another foodie who doesn’t want to sacrifice taste for trimness.

“If I’m helping people turn boxes around and turn cans around and read labels and understand what it means and learn how to maintain a healthier weight, then I’m doing good work,” she says.

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Question: I really struggle to your son’s behavior. have a positive outlook and alYou didn’t go into detail, but is ways seem to dwell on the nega- it possible he has the same probtive aspects of life. Is there some- lem with disruptive behavior at thing I can do to help home that he does at me be more positive school? about things?

If so, it’s possible Jim: Does it sound that he’s picking up a trite and perhaps clipattern at home of othched to suggest that ers giving in to his deyou “count your blessmands and allowing ings” whenever you’re him to have his way feeling negative? when he resists your Perhaps, but in all authority. honesty, that’s a good Once he’s at school, approach. he finds himself in a In a few days, you’ll situation where this likely be sitting down mode of operation no JIM with family or friends longer works for him to have Thanksgiving —where he’s expected DALY dinner. to obey adults and folIf you’re like many low the rules. folks, you’ll spend Kids used to having some of that time refew limits at home usuflecting on the blessally don’t like having ings you’ve been given and ex- limits set on their behavior elsepressing gratitude for the good where. things in life.

On the other hand, if your son We would suggest that a strong is well-behaved at home, it’s posantidote to negativity would be to sible you’ve been too strict with adopt an attitude of thanksgiving him. His compliance at home may throughout the year. simply be for the sake of avoiding Don’t save it all for just one harsh punishment. day!

Under this scenario, your son Of course, there may be specif- may not have internalized the ic events or relationships in your character traits you’ve been atlife that are contributing to your tempting to teach. negative feelings. We certainly Once outside the home, in a wouldn’t suggest that you sweep less rigid environment, he may be those under the rug. “letting loose” and misbehaving It’s also possible that persis- in ways he couldn’t at home. tent, pervasive feelings of negaThere are other possibilities tivity could be related to clinical and factors to consider: the negadepression or some other physi- tive influence of a classmate, posological issue. sible attention deficit hyperactivIf you feel that might be the ity disorder (ADHD), and so on. case, we’d encourage you to con- You alone are in a position to defide in a friend, a pastor or even a cide which of these hypothetical professional counselor. situations applies.

Visit focusonthefamily.com to But as a first step, we’d encourspeak with one of our staff coun- age you to take the time to careselors and to get a referral to a fully self-examine your parenting counselor in your area. practices.

Question: My child is constantly Whatever your style, it’s imporgetting in trouble for talking in tant to provide a healthy balance class and generally being unruly. between love and limits.

How can I help him understand Are you affirming and rewardthat the talking is excessive and ing your child for good behavior, that it is important to be self-con- as well as punishing him for negatrolled? tive behavior?

Jim: This question is tailorAre you helping him to develop made for Focus on the Family’s compassion and understanding executive director of Parenting for others rather than simply adand Youth, Leon Wirth! hering to a strict set of rules and Leon: It’s rare for a child who regulations? A thoughtful assessis compliant and well-behaved at ment of your parenting approach home to become defiant and un- may do wonders. cooperative in other settings.

Catch up with Jim Daly at www.

There may be a number of fac- jimdalyblog.com or at www.facetors and issues contributing to book.com/DalyFocus.

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49ers get big win over Bears KAEPERNICK THROWS TWO TD’S IN FIRST NFL START, ALDEN SMITH GETS FIVE SACKS FOR 49ERS CHARLES INGLIS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

INGLIS TRADED TO BLAZERS Charles Inglis, who was handed his walking papers by Red Deer Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter last week, is back in the Western Hockey League. Sutter traded Inglis to the Kamloops Blazers on Monday in exchange for a conditional fifth-round selection in the 2015 bantam draft. Inglis came to the Rebels in a trade with the Prince George Cougars last December and scored 21 goals and collected 40 points in 57 games until being released. The 20-yearold was the Rebels’ leading scorer with 11 goals and three assists when he was sent home to await a trade. In explaining the decision, Sutter stated: “At this point in time he leads our team in goals and points, so the fact we’re sending him home kind of speaks for itself. What more can you say?

His time here has run out.” Kamloops is the fourth WHL team for Inglis, who started in Saskatoon and ran afoul of the Blades organization before being traded to Prince George.

Tuesday

● WHL: Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

(The Drive). ● Men’s basketball: Monstars vs. Wells Furniture, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs. Sylvan Lake, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Blackfalds, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday

● College women’s hockey: Grant MacEwan at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Pro Stitch at Lacombe, 7 p.m. ● Men’s basketball: Triple Threat vs.

Vikings, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs. Dream Team, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Friday

● College volleyball: NAIT at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● WHL: Lethbridge at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Centrium.

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Chicago Bears running back Matt Forte is tackled by San Francisco 49ers defensive tackle Justin Smith, linebacker Patrick Willis, rear, and linebacker NaVorro Bowman during the third quarter of an NFL football game in San Francisco, Monday.

49ers 32 Bears 7 SAN FRANCISCO — Strongarmed fill-in Colin Kaepernick made all the right throws, looking every bit a capable NFL No. 1 quarterback.

Kaepernick passed for 243 yards and two touchdowns in his first career start in place of the injured Alex Smith, and the San Francisco 49ers whipped the Chicago Bears 32-7 on Monday night in a highly touted NFC showdown that hardly lived up to the hype.

“It’s everything I could’ve ever wished for,” Kaepernick said.

“It feels great just to be out there.”

Kaepernick threw touchdown passes to Vernon Davis and Michael Crabtree, and Kendall Hunter ran for a 14-yard score as San Francisco (7-2-1) jumped out to a big lead by scoring on each of its first four possessions — with Aldon Smith wreaking havoc on the other side of the ball with 5 ½ sacks.

Jason Campbell, the other quarterback in this matchup of backups for division leaders, threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to Brandon Marshall in the third quarter but was sacked five times and threw two interceptions in his first start since October 2011 for Oakland.

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Selig gives thumbs-up to Jays trade MASSIVE DEAL BETWEEN BLUE JAYS AND MARLINS BECOMES OFFICIAL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — It took longer than Blue Jays fans probably would have liked, but Toronto’s mammoth 12-player trade with the Miami Marlins is finally a done deal.

Baseball commissioner Bud Selig said Monday he would not stand in the way of the trade that sees Toronto acquire all-star shortstop Jose Reyes, pitchers Mark Buehrle and Josh Johnson, catcher John Buck and infielder/outfielder Emilio Bonifacio from Miami for seven players.

“It is my conclusion that this transaction, involving established major leaguers and highly regarded young players and prospects, represents the exercise of plausible baseball judgment on the part of both clubs, does not violate any express rule of Major League Baseball and does not otherwise warrant the exercise of any of my powers to prevent its completion,” Selig said it a statement. “It is, of course, up to the clubs involved to make the case to their respective fans that this transaction makes sense and enhances the competitive position of each, now or in the future.”

Miami gets infielders Yunel Escobar and Adeiny Hechavarria, pitchers Henderson Alvarez, Anthony DeSclafani and Justin Nicolino, catcher Jeff Mathis and outfielder Jake Marisnick in the deal agreed to last week. The Marlins also are sending cash to Toronto as part of their payroll purge.

Later Monday, Toronto signed free agent left-fielder Melky Cabrera. The 28-year-old was leading the National League in hitting at .346 for the San Francisco Giants when he was suspended Aug. 15 for a positive testosterone text.

Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos said after Toronto’s disappointing campaign in 2012 — one that the club go 73-89 and finish fourth in the American League East — that he wanted to improve the team’s starting pitching.

He did so in dramatic fashion, pulling off one of the biggest deals in franchise history that changes the look of the team and immediately puts the Blue Jays in the conversation for the American League East crown.

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This photo shows Miami Marlins players, from left, pitcher Mark Buehrle, shortstop Jose Reyes, and pitcher Josh Johnson. The Miami Marlins have finalized their big salary dumping trade that sends Reyes to the Toronto Blue Jays with pitchers Buehrle and Johnson, catcher John Buck and outfielder Emilio Bonifacio for seven relatively low-priced players.

But with the deal will come increased expectations. Toronto, which has not made the playoffs since the second of back-toback World Series victories in 1993, acquired combined guaranteed salaries of US$163.75 million through 2018 in the deal, including $96 million due Reyes.

Anthopoulos was expected to address the media at Rogers Centre on Tuesday morning.

Johnson and Buehrle will immediately improve a starting rotation that already includes Brandon Morrow and Ricky Romero.

Reyes, who should bat leadoff, is a major upgrade over Escobar at shortstop, Boni-

facio could fill a hole at second base and Buck, a former Blue Jay, gives the team veteran experience behind the plate.

Despite the huge monetary investment, Toronto didn’t have to give up much off the current roster.

Escobar’s days with the Blue Jays were already numbered after he wrote an antigay slur in Spanish on his eyeblack late in the season. Mathis was a decent backup, while the jury is still out on Alvarez and prospects Hechavarria, DeSclafani, Nicolino and Marisnick.

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WANTS UNION TO PUT ALL OF ITS DESIRES FOR NEXT AGREEMENT TOGETHER IN ONE OFFER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NEW YORK — The NHL is looking to see everything put in writing.

With frustration building and the lockout dragging, the league met with the NHL Players’ Association on Monday night and requested that the union put all of its desires for the next collective bargaining agreement together into one complete offer.

“It’s our position that we’ve made a couple comprehensive proposals in a row,” said deputy commissioner Bill Daly. “We’d like to know where they are on all of the issues. We asked that they put together a comprehensive proposal for us to consider.”

The sides have been unable

to agree on proposed changes to player contract rights and how to share revenue, and will also need to sort out how they pay for the damage of a lockout.

While they’ve exchanged ideas verbally in recent weeks, the league doesn’t feel as though it has a complete picture of where the players stand.

Donald Fehr, the NHLPA’s executive director, said he would take the league’s request into consideration and make contact again on Tuesday morning. He think “it’s more likely than not” the sides will then meet for a second straight day.

However, it remains to be seen whether the union is ready to table a full proposal.

“I don’t really know what to expect,” said Daly. “We asked,

I certainly hope it’s something they’ll consider. I think that’s something they’re deliberating on.”

The sides have struggled to find a way forward in negotiations. Fehr and commissioner Gary Bettman discussed the possibility of taking a break from talks last week, but Fehr thought it would be best if the sides continued to meet.

After initiating Monday’s session, the union didn’t arrive with a new offer. Instead, Fehr was hoping to engage the league in a discussion on core economics and player contract issues.

“We could have taken a couple weeks off, I suppose,” he said. “It’s hard for me to see how you make an agreement if you aren’t talking and so you

talk. Sometimes it doesn’t lead anywhere, perhaps very often it doesn’t lead anywhere, but if you aren’t talking it’s 100 per cent sure it doesn’t lead anywhere.”

It was the first time they sat down together since Nov. 11, when talks broke off after the fifth formal session in six days.

With the labour dispute dragging on, players continued to take public shots at the NHL’s leadership. In an interview on TSN Radio 1050 on Monday afternoon, Florida Panthers forward Kris Versteeg invoked strong language while suggesting Bettman and deputy commissioner Bill Daly should be fired.

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GF 72 75 80 65 89 51

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF Kamloops 25 19 5 0 1 100 Kelowna 22 12 8 1 1 81 Victoria 22 11 11 0 0 62 Prince George 22 7 11 1 3 60 Vancouver 22 7 15 0 0 68

GA 70 94 72 75 77 75 GA 66 56 73 78 84 65

GA 64 56 75 84 97

Pt 32 23 23 22 22 21

Monday’s games No Games Scheduled.

Tuesday’s games Swift Current at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Regina at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Saskatoon at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Pt 31 30 28 26 23 15

Wednesday’s games Lethbridge at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Regina at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Prince Albert at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Portland, 8 p.m.

Kootenay at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Everett at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday’s results Brandon 5 Lethbridge 3 Calgary 4 Swift Current 2

Ness Bellerive Hamilton Elson Dumba Millette Bleackley Fleury Gaudet McCoy Stockl Maxwell Johnson Underwood Dieno Thiel

Red Deer Rebels Scoring GP G A Pts PIM 25 7 8 15 11 23 5 10 15 17 25 1 14 15 13 18 7 7 14 29 23 5 8 13 31 25 5 4 9 14 25 3 6 9 12 25 2 7 9 6 22 2 6 8 23 20 1 5 6 24 18 1 4 5 8 25 1 4 5 8 9 2 2 4 9 23 1 3 4 41 2 2 1 3 2 14 2 0 2 10

+/-1 -3 -1 5 -5 -9 -7 0 5 1 -1 -7 3 -1 3 -5

1 1 0 0 0 0 0

1 0 1 1 0 0 0

2 1 1 1 0 0 0

30 0 2 2 26 2 11

3 -2 -1 — -6 — -7

Bartosak Pouliot

Goaltenders MP GA SO GAA Svs Sv% 1061 47 0 2.66 578 .925 451 28 0 3.73 228 .891

Bentley Fort Sask Innisfail Sylvan Lake Stony Plain

Chinook League W L TOTL GF 5 1 0 0 37 5 2 0 0 33 4 2 0 1 24 2 4 0 0 24 0 6 0 0 17

Thursday’s games No Games Scheduled.

Pt 39 26 22 18 14

U.S. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Portland 22 17 4 1 0 101 49 35 Tri-City 24 15 7 1 1 75 60 32 Spokane 22 15 7 0 0 85 63 30 Seattle 22 10 11 1 0 67 81 21 Everett 25 9 14 0 2 61 90 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.

21 15 6 0 13 20 23

Marshall, FS Auchenberg, SP Neiszner, Bent Middleton, SP Forslund, FS Kordyban, FS Schneider, Bent Cartier, Innisfail Woolger, FS Zalasky, FS

Scoring GP G 5 6 6 3 6 6 6 5 7 3 3 5 6 1 5 5 7 5 7 2

A 5 7 3 4 6 3 7 2 2 5

GA 14 25 28 35 33

Pts 10 10 9 4 0

Pts PIM 11 4 10 8 9 0 9 4 9 24 8 2 8 2 7 2 7 0 7 6

Goaltending (Minimum 120 minutes played) MP GA SO GAA Sv% Yonkman, Bent 217 7 0 1.94 .931 Lafontaine, Inn 145 7 0 2.88 .926 Grenier, F Sask 300 17 0 3.40 .910 Kipling, Inn 180 11 0 3.67 .896 Watt, F Sask 123 8 0 3.90 .884

Cleveland West

Sunday, Nov. 11 Division Semifinals East Division Toronto 42, Edmonton 26 West Division Calgary 36, Saskatchewan 30

Sunday, Nov. 25 Grey Cup At Toronto Toronto vs. Calgary, 4 p.m.

NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 7 3 0 .700 358 N.Y. Jets 4 6 0 .400 202 Buffalo 4 6 0 .400 230 Miami 4 6 0 .400 187

PA 225 241 299 205

Houston Indianapolis Tennessee Jacksonville

W 9 6 4 1

South L T 1 0 4 0 6 0 9 0

Pct .900 .600 .400 .100

Baltimore Pittsburgh Cincinnati

W 8 6 5

North L T 2 0 4 0 5 0

Pct PF PA .800 267 206 .600 217 190 .500 248 237

PF 293 210 219 164

PA 180 260 311 289

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0 .200 189 234

L 3 6 7 9

T 0 0 0 0

PF 301 232 208 152

PA 212 221 322 284

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF N.Y. Giants 6 4 0 .600 267 Dallas 5 5 0 .500 211 Washington 4 6 0 .400 257 Philadelphia 3 7 0 .300 162

PA 216 224 254 252

Denver San Diego Oakland Kansas City

Sunday, Nov. 18 Division Finals East Division Toronto 27, Montreal 20 West Division Calgary 34, B.C. 29

2 W 7 4 3 1

Pct .700 .400 .300 .100

Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans Carolina

W 9 6 5 2

South L T 1 0 4 0 5 0 8 0

Pct .900 .600 .500 .200

PF 270 287 287 184

PA 193 230 273 243

Chicago Green Bay Minnesota Detroit

W 7 7 6 4

North L T 3 0 3 0 4 0 6 0

Pct .700 .700 .600 .400

PF 249 263 238 236

PA 165 207 221 246

San Francisco Seattle Arizona St. Louis

W 7 6 4 3

West L 2 4 6 6

Pct .750 .600 .400 .350

PF 245 198 163 174

PA 134 161 196 237

T 1 0 0 1

Week 11 Byes: Minnesota, N.Y. Giants, Seattle, Tennessee Thursday’s result Buffalo 19 Miami 14

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NFL: Fierce pressure He faced fierce pressure all night, on the field for the Bears (7-3) as starter Jay Cutler recovers from a concussion suffered eight days earlier — just like Smith.

After Kaepernick’s stellar night on the big stage, there’s certain to be chatter of a quarterback controversy for the NFC West-leading Niners.

Aldon Smith took over the NFL sacks lead with 15, passing Denver’s Von Miller with 13, with the second-best total in franchise history behind Fred Dean’s six-sack day on Nov. 13, 1983, against New Orleans. Tarell Brown and Dashon Goldson each had an interception for San Francisco’s stingy defence, which shut down Campbell, Matt Forte and Co. three years after the teams last met in a 10-6 49ers home win.

“We were playing our defence, stopping the run and then stopping the pass,” Aldon Smith said. “I was just playing my game and getting after it.”

Kaepernick, Aldon Smith and Hunter sure made general manager Trent Baalke look good for his selections from the 2011 draft class.

And reigning NFL Coach of the Year Jim Harbaugh earned a key victory four days after his own health issue. The 48-year-old Harbaugh underwent a minor procedure for an irregular heartbeat Thursday.

The 49ers added a safety in the fourth quarter after a replay review. With 9:24 left, former San Francisco offensive lineman Chilo Rachal was called for intentional grounding out of the end zone, but Harbaugh challenged and the review showed Rachal’s knee was down in the end zone before the ball left.

“It definitely wasn’t our best effort, by no means,” Campbell said.

The soft-spoken, stone-faced Kaepernick went 16 for 23 with a 133.1 passer rating. He completed 12 of his first 14 passes with a 57-yard strike to Kyle Williams that set up Davis’ 3-yard TD on the next play — and he already had amassed 126 yards passing by the end of the first quarter.

The 49ers led 17-0 on Hunter’s early TD run in the second, quickly topping the 14.8 points the Bears were allowing per game.

Kaepernick threw for 184 yards in the first half alone — an impressive outing for the second-year pro selected in the second round out of Nevada.

TRADE: Not only move The trade is not the only move Anthopolous made last week. The Blue Jays reportedly signed all-star game MVP Melky Cabrera, who is returning from a drug suspension. Sources say Cabrera and the club have reached an agreement on a two-year contract worth $16 million, pending a physical.

Anthopolous still has more work to do, including the hiring of a new manager after John Farrell jumped ship to the Boston Red Sox in October.

Despite the major jump in payroll, the trade with the Marlins doesn’t come without risk.

Reyes, a career .291 hitter with 259 doubles, 111 triples, 92 home runs and 480 RBIs in 1,210 games, is an injury concern, especially on the turf at Rogers Centre.

The 29-year-old switch-hitter batted .287 for

Miami Charlotte Atlanta Orlando Washington

Milwaukee Chicago Indiana Cleveland Detroit

Southeast Division W L Pct 8 3 .727 5 4 .556 5 4 .556 3 7 .300 0 9 .000

GB — 2 2 4 1/2 7

Central Division W L Pct 6 3 .667 5 5 .500 5 7 .417 2 8 .200 2 9 .182

GB — 1 1/2 2 1/2 4 1/2 5

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 8 2 .800 — San Antonio 8 3 .727 1/2 Dallas 6 6 .500 3 New Orleans 3 5 .375 4 Houston 4 7 .364 4 1/2

Oklahoma City Minnesota

Northwest Division W L Pct 8 3 .727 5 4 .556

GB — 2

Sunday’s results Dallas 23 Cleveland 20 (OT) N.Y. Jets 27 St. Louis 13 Houston 43 Jacksonville 37 (OT) Cincinnati 28 Kansas City 6 Washington 31 Philadelphia 6 Green Bay 24 Detroit 20 Atlanta 23 Arizona 19 Tampa Bay 27 Carolina 21 (OT) New Orleans 38 Oakland 17 Denver 30 San Diego 23 New England 59 Indianapolis 24 Baltimore 13 at Pittsburgh 10 Monday’s game Chicago 7 at San Francisco 32 Week 12 Thursday, Nov. 22 Houston at Detroit, 10:30 a.m.

Washington at Dallas, 2:15 p.m.

New England at N.Y. Jets, 6:20 p.m.

Utah Portland Denver

L.A. Clippers Golden State L.A. Lakers Phoenix Sacramento

Monday, Nov. 26 Carolina at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m.

the Marlins last season with 37 doubles, 12 triples, 11 home runs, 57 RBIs and 40 stolen bases last season, a year removed from winning the National League batting title.

Johnson, a free agent after 2013, is owed $13.75 million next season, while Buehrle has $52 million remaining on a deal that expires in 2015.

The 28-year-old Johnson was 8-14 last season with a 3.81 earned-run average in 31 starts for Miami. The two-time all-star recorded 165 strikeouts with 65 walks in 191 1/3 innings. A six-foot-seven right-hander, Johnson led the National League with a 2.30 ERA in 2010.

Buehrle was 13-13 in 2012 with a 3.74 ERA in his first season with the Marlins. The 33-yearold left-hander tossed 202 1-3 innings in 31 starts, marking the 12th consecutive season he pitched at least 200 innings. The four-time allstar spent the first 12 years of his career with the Chicago White Sox before joining Miami last season.

Buck appeared in 106 games for the Marlins in 2012, batting .192 with 12 home runs and 41 RBIs. The 33-year-old veteran catcher returns to Toronto, where he was an American League all-star in 2010.

Bonifacio, 27, batted .258 last season in 64 games, with 30 stolen bases and 30 runs scored.

He can play all three outfield positions, as well as second base, third base and shortstop.

The 28-year-old Cabrera was leading the National League in hitting at .346 for the San Francisco Giants when he was suspended Aug. 15 for a positive testosterone text. The Giants didn’t put Cabrera on their post-season roster on their way to winning the World Series.

The net amount coming off the Marlins’ books in the deal is $154 million, which does not account for the cash involved in the trade.

NHL: Cut out cancers

Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Named Matt Haas national crosschecker.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to terms with OF Matt Carson and OF Cedric Hunter on minor league contracts.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Designated RHP Joel Carreno for assignment.

National League CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with RHP Shawn Camp on a one-year contract.

MIAMI MARLINS — Traded SS Jose Reyes, LHP Mark Buehrle, RHP Josh Johnson, C John Buck and OF Emilio Bonifacio and cash to Toronto for INF Yunel Escobar, INF Adeiny Hechavarria, RHP Henderson Alvarez, RHP Anthony DeSclafani, LHP Justin Nicolino, C Jeff Mathis and OF Jake Marisnick. Agreed to terms with OF Juan Pierre on a one-year contract.

American Association SIOUX FALLS PHEASANTS — Released RHP Barry Fowler, RHP Dustin Gober and RHP Mark A. Michael.

FOOTBALL NFL — Suspended Baltimore S Ed Reed one game for repeated violations of the rule prohibiting hits to the head and neck area of defenceless players. Suspended Atlanta OL Joe Hawley four games for violating NFL rules against performanceenhancing substances.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed G Joe Gibbs to the practice squad. Released G Justin Cheadle from the practice squad.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Activated G Justin

Pacific Division W L Pct 8 2 .800 6 5 .545 5 5 .500 4 7 .364 2 8 .200

GB — 2 1/2 3 4 1/2 6

Anderson from the physically-unable-to-perform list.

Signed CB Marshay Green to the practice squad.

Waived TE Kyle Miller.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed WR Kamar Aiken to the practice squad.

HOCKEY DETROIT RED WINGS — Reassigned D Gleason Fournier from Grand Rapids (AHL) to Toledo (ECHL).

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Rockford D Shawn Lalonde three games, Oklahoma City LW Antti Tyrvainen two games and Milwaukee LW Gabriel Bourque two game for their actions in recent games.

SOCCER COLUMBUS CREW — Declined contract options on M Cole Grossman, F Olman Vargas and D Nemanja Vukovic.

NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION — Waived F Blake Brettschneider, D Flo Lechner, M Alec Purdie and M Michael Roach. Signed M Kalifa Cisse.

NEW YORK RED BULLS — Declined contract options on F Jose Angulo, F Jhonny Arteaga, F Corey Hertzog, M Jan Gunnar Solli, M Teemu Tainio, D Jonathan Borrajo, D Stephen Keel, D Tyler Ruthven, G Bill Gaudette and G Jeremy Vuolo.

PHILADELPHIA UNION — Declined contract options on M Gabriel Gomez, D Porfirio Lopez and F Krystian Witkowski.

PORTLAND TIMBERS — Waived M Freddie Braun, M Charles Renken and D Ian Hogg.

SPORTING KANSAS CITY — Waived M Julio Cesar, D Cyprian Hedrick, D Neven Markovic and M Konrad Warzycha.

WINTER WARFARE 7 Red Deer’s Todd Gleeson defeated Brian Trubl of Pheonix, Ariz., in the main event of the Winter Warfare #7 kickboxing/Muay Thai competition on Saturday at the Westerner Agricentre.

Gleeson, a member of Cheney’s Zen Karate and Kickboxing studio, won the 200-pound match by unanimous decision.

In the semi main event, Cheney’s studio member Stephanie Schmale was a unanimous winner over Davin Boesiger of Phoenix in a 135-pound women’s clash.

Other results: ● Scott McKenzie of Calgary def. Chris Yalbir of Calgary by second-round TKO; 175 pounds. ● Jason Diep of Red Deer Black Dragon def. by Mark Kinsley of Saskatoon by unanimous decision; 135 pounds. ● Joel Pabuaya of Calgary def. Cyril Padllia of Red Deer Cheney by unanimous decision; 125 pounds. ● Max Carruthers of Calgary def. Dubee Vongsenekeo of Phoenix by unanimous decision; 125 pounds. ● Elizabeth Hart of Winnipeg def. Lacey Noel of Red Deer Cheney’s by unanimous decision; 135 pounds. ● Chris Cooknell of Sher-

wood Park def. Braedon Rice of Red Deer Seven Stars Praying Mantis by majority decision; 165 pounds. ● Patrick Vallido of Red Deer Cheney’s def. Kurt Spirwaza of Saskatoon by split decision; 160 pounds. ● Chris Sturge of Saskatoon def. Mohamed Shaw of Calgary by majority decision; 154 pounds. ● Owen Burroughs of Calgary def. Derek Clermont of Red Deer Cheney’s by split decision; 155 pounds. ● Zack Darling of Calgary vs. Joe Stephenson, Winnipeg; draw, 145 pounds. ● Ryan Souster of Saskatoon vs. Andre Brule of Sherwood Park; draw, 160 pounds.

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Thursday Mixed High Single: Jeff Hemstreet 260. High Triple: Anthony Streit 628.

Monday Scratch League High Single: Nancy Gervais 361. High Quad: Gervais 1,179.

Youth Bowling of Canada (YBC) Bumpers High Single: Dyson Seifried 103.

Bowlasaurus High Single: Ashlynn Makarenko 83.

Peewees High Single: Kedrixx Streit 132. High Double: Streit 264.

Bantams High Single: Kennedy Chrest 215. High Triple: Chrest 501.

Juniors High Single: Jonathan Goulet 258. High Triple: Cody Pratt 636.

Seniors High Single: Nicole Philpot 350. High Triple: Philpot 818.

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Monday’s Games Charlotte 102, Milwaukee 98 Indiana 96, Washington 89 Atlanta 81, Orlando 72 Denver 97, Memphis 92 Golden State 105, Dallas 101, OT L.A. Clippers 92, San Antonio 87 Utah 102, Houston 91 Tuesday’s Games Toronto at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

New York at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Brooklyn at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Philadelphia at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

New Orleans at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Orlando, 7 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Oklahoma City, 7:30 p.m.

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

Washington at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Miami, 7:30 p.m.

Chicago at Houston, 8 p.m.

Denver at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

New York at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Portland at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Brooklyn at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

“You’ve got to look for the cancers and you’ve got to cut out the cancers,” Versteeg told the radio station. “I think when you look at Bill Daly and Gary Bettman they’ve been looting this game for far too long.”

On Friday, Detroit Red Wings defenceman Ian White told reporters that he thinks Bettman is an “idiot.”

Daly believes those kind of sentiments are only natural at this stage in the process.

“I don’t think either Gary or I take those personally,” he said. “(We) understand there’s a lot of frustration in this process. I’m frustrated in terms of being where we are and not playing hockey.

“I think that’s just human nature.”

Players missed their third paycheques last week and all regular-season games have been wiped off the schedule through Nov. 30. Further cancellations are expected Truck Decks, Welding Skids, Headache to come off the schedule this Rack & Rocket Launchers and lots more. week.

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Sunday, Nov. 25 Denver at Kansas City, 11 a.m.

Minnesota at Chicago, 11 a.m.

Oakland at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

Buffalo at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

Tennessee at Jacksonville, 11 a.m.

Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.

Seattle at Miami, 11 a.m.

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

St. Louis at Arizona, 2:25 p.m.

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

Green Bay at N.Y. Giants, 6:20 p.m.

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Monday Mixed High Single: Lonnie Staples 277. High Triple: Staples 709.

Tuesday Mixed High Single: Brandon Debler 325. High Triple: Andre Grenier 768.

Wednesday-Club 55 plus High Single: Don Knowler 266. High Triple: Knowler 715.

Wednesday Mixed High Single: Darren Funk 303. High Triple: Rollie Gervais 814.

Thursday Morning Ladies High Single: Joan Crawford 233. High Triple: Chris Palm 563.

Thursday Afternoon Special Olympics Mixed High Single: Brenda Schewaljie 263. High Double: Schewaljie 424.

Football Canadian Football League Playoffs

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB New York 7 1 .875 — Brooklyn 6 2 .750 1 Philadelphia 6 4 .600 2 Boston 6 5 .545 2 1/2 Toronto 3 7 .300 5

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Central Division GP W LOTLSOL Calgary 22 14 5 1 2 Edmonton 22 13 5 2 2 Lethbridge 25 13 10 1 1 Red Deer 25 12 11 1 1 Medicine Hat 25 11 13 1 0 Kootenay 20 7 12 1 0

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division GP W LOTLSOL GF Prince Albert 24 15 7 0 2 75 Brandon 24 10 11 2 1 75 Swift Current 25 9 11 3 2 70 Moose Jaw 23 8 9 3 3 62 Regina 24 10 12 1 1 67 Saskatoon 21 10 10 0 1 64

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Stampeders looking for another fast start GREY CUP

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A fast start helped propel the Stampeders to the Grey Cup game, and Calgary will hope to duplicate that feat in Sunday’s championship.

Led by quarterback Kevin Glenn, the Stamps are looking to employ the same strategy against the Toronto Argonauts that helped them to a 35-29 victory over the B.C. Lions in the CFL West Division final.

“With Toronto and it being their home, they’re going to have a lot of fans,” Glenn said on Monday as the Stamps met with the media in Calgary for the final time before heading to Toronto on Tuesday. “It’s big when you go into somebody else’s house in order to come out with a fast start.”

That’s exactly what happened on Sunday when Glenn tossed a 68-yard touchdown pass to Marquay McDaniel just 59 seconds into the game.

“That momentum with the fast start helped propel us throughout the whole game,” said Glenn, who completed 15-of-25 passes for 303 yards and three touchdowns.

“Kevin and Marquay and really the whole offence did an excellent job of picking up the blitz,” said Calgary head coach and general manager John Hufnagel. “Obviously there was a mistake on the other side of the football and we were able to take advantage of it.”

Hufnagel would like to see his team strike early against the Argos again on Sunday, while adding that

Argonauts have shown resilience in run to Grey Cup

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Scott Milanovich’s gameplan for Sunday’s Grey Cup remains a work in progress, but it won’t involve the Toronto Argonauts following the same dangerous path that they took to get to the CFL title game.

The Argos have had to rally from early 10-0 deficits twice in the playoffs in order to take their place as the home team against the Calgary Stampeders in the 100th Grey Cup game at Rogers Centre. As a result of its resiliency, Toronto finds itself in its first CFL title game since winning the league championship in 2004.

“We would love to get started fast,” Milanovich said Monday. “Nobody enjoys falling behind, but fortunately if we do fall behind we’ll be OK.” Edmonton surged to a 10-0 advantage over Toronto in the East Division semifinal Nov. 11 at Rogers Centre, outrushing the home team 99-0 through the first quarter. But the Argos countered with two turnovers that set up 14 points in a playoff-record 31-point second to take control of the contest en route to a 42-26 victory.

On Sunday at Olympic Stadium, Toronto fell behind early 10-0 in the first quarter and had three first-half turnovers — a fumble and twice on downs in short yardage situations, including once at the Montreal goal line. Again, the Argos’ defence delivered, forcing three turnovers (two interceptions, fumble recovery) while the offence scored two TDs in the third to erase a 17-10 half-time deficit to advance to the Grey Cup with a 27-20 victory before more than 50,000 spectators.

Milanovich said being able to twice rally for the win in the playoff attests to the Argos’ resiliency.

“It speaks to their belief and faith in their teammates,” he said. “It’s one of the last things we said when we left the locker-room, when things get tough today you just have to find strength in your teammates and they’ll pull you through it.

“Pretty much that’s what happened.”

In both playoff contests, the Argos’ mirrored the calm demeanour of their starting quarterback Ricky Ray. The 10-year veteran, twice a Grey Cup champion over his first nine seasons with Edmonton, finished 28-of-37 passing for 399 yards and a TD to lead Toronto to the win over Montreal.

The previous week, Ray led Toronto to its first win in three games this season with Edmonton, the team that dealt Ray to the Argos in the blockbuster trade in December 2011 that saw quarterback Steven Jyles, Canadian kicker Grant Shaw and a 2012 first-round draft pick go to the Eskimos.

“Ricky just does not get rattled,” Milanovich said.

“He keeps getting up and shaking himself off and planting his feet and delivering the football. He certainly gives me a lot of confidence. I’m sure he gives his teammates confidence to.”

But offensively, Ray had plenty of help in Montreal.

Receiver Chad Owens had 11 catches for a team playoff-record 207 yards while running back Chad Kackert added 139 yards rushing and a TD on 13 carries. Owens finished the regular season as the league’s receiving leader (94 catches for 1,328 yards, six TDs) while also amassing a CFL-record 3,863 allpurpose yards. He has been named a finalist for the league’s outstanding player award with Calgary running back Jon Cornish.

Having the Argos in the Grey Cup is certainly a boost to the Toronto organizing committee, but would also appear to put the weight of big expectations squarely on the team’s shoulders. But Milanovich said the players and coaches are well aware of what’s at stake and that their job isn’t finished.

Milanovich might be preparing for his first Grey Cup as a CFL head coach, but he was a part of two winning teams while an assistant with the Montreal Alouettes. And his staff has plenty of Grey Cup experience.

Argos defensive co-ordinator Chris Jones — who previously held the same position with Calgary and Montreal — is preparing to coach in his sixth Grey Cup game while quarterback coach Jason Maas, special-teams coach Mike O’Shea and secondary coach Orlondo Steinauer all won championship rings during their respective playing careers.

“The guys can feel the magnitude of their participation in this game and how important it is to the city and our organization,” Milanovich said. “How much of that they’ll take as pressure, I don’t know but I didn’t feel like the weight of having the Grey Cup in Toronto was a factor for our guys during the season . . . but our guys have been professional and pretty under control most of the season and all they have to do is do it for one more week.

“It’s important for me to win it. The thing we’ve talked about all season and through the playoffs is just because you win one game or just because you get to the Grey Cup it’s not time to relax. I’ll relax Sunday night at about midnight.”

Milanovich said his players will have a curfew to adhere to this week but hasn’t decided what that time will be yet.

building on any momentum is equally important.

“It’s always nice to get off to a fast start, but I don’t think it’s the most important thing,” he said.

“It’s making sure that what’s important is being able to finish the game. Getting off to that type of start doesn’t hurt your chances.”

McDaniel would like nothing more than for the Stamps to continue their aggressive style when they go up against the Argos.

“We want to come out and get a fast start, execute early, put some points on the board, not play from behind, play with the lead and I think that will be big,” he said.

McDaniel, who finished up last season on Calgary’s practice roster after being released by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, said he was in shock after the victory over the Lions.

“I’ve never won a playoff game in college, high school or here,” said McDaniel, who finished with three catches for 103 yards. “This is my first year getting out of the first round. To get to the championship game of the 100th Grey Cup, it’s pretty big, especially from being on the practice squad last year. I was definitely in shock after the game. I had to take it all in.”

The Stamps lost both games they played against the Argos in the regular season — 39-36 in Toronto on July 7 and 22-14 in Calgary on Aug. 14. Despite that fact, McDaniel has confidence that the Stamps can prevail on Sunday.

“We’re a totally different team now,” he said.

“We’re just going to go look at the film. Their defence is good. They don’t give up too many big plays, so we’ve just got to go out there and execute and we’ll be fine.”

LOCAL

Wranglers win big

BRIEFS Peterman rink wins Elks spiel Red Deer’s Jocelyn Peterman captured the women’s title at the annual Elks junior bonspiel at the Red Deer Curling Centre Sunday.

Peterman, along with Brittany Tran, Rebecca Konschuh and Kristine Anderson, downed Sara Guenette of Edmonton 7-3 in the final after defeating Kayla Ramstad of Red Deer 6-2 in the quarter-finals and Dacey Brown of Airdrie 6-4 in the semifinals.

Peterman was 3-1 in pool play.

Red Deer’s Karynn Flory was also 3-1 and lost 9-3 to Guenette in the quarter-finals.

Kate Eisenhower and Marla Sheerer, both of whom play at the Red deer Centre, failed to make the playoffs.

Jordan Stienke of Dawson Creek won the men’s title with a 5-1 decision over Dylan Vavrek of Grande Prairie.

Red Deer’s Shane Parcels, along with Ty Parcels, Caleb Boorse and Mackenzie Duffin, were 3-1 in their pool before losing 7-2 to Vavrek in the quarterfinals.

Overall there were 18 men’s teams and 10 women’s squads in the bonspiel.

MINOR HOCKEY Midget AA The Red Deer Elks split a pair of league games during the weekend losing 6-1 to Wheatland and defeating Okotoks 7-2.

Matthew Krusky scored against Wheatland with Brady Jewan making 23 saves in goal.

Jaye Sutherland and Connor Einhorn scored twice each against Okotoks with Tyler Chavez Leech. Mathew Thiessen and James Gaume adding single markers. Nicholas Galenzoski made 28 saves.

Glenn said he’s looking forward to the challenge of taking on the Argos in front of a capacity crowd.

“I think it’s going to be an evenly matched game,” Glenn said. “They’re a great team out there. They’ve got a good pressure defence and their offence is putting up points. We’re just going to have to come out and take the same approach that we did last week and that’s being aggressive and let it all out — let it all loose and win the game.

“We’ve got one more task at hand and that’s to bring the Grey Cup back to Calgary.”

To do that, the Stamps will have to beat the Argos at Rogers Centre, which is something they haven’t accomplished since Aug. 28, 2009.

“This is a unique opportunity,” said running back Jon Cornish, who’s up for the league’s outstanding player award along with receiver/kick returner Chad Owens of the Argos. “We need to overcome whatever has been haunting us in the Rogers Centre and what better time than the Grey Cup.” Quincy Butler, who led the Calgary with nine tackles against B.C., said the reason that the Stamps have had success is because of the way the players have come together as a team.

“We’re just a team that wants to win,” he said.

“We love playing as a group. We play with passion.

We live and thrive for this.”

Fellow defensive back Keon Raymond added that the Stamps are up for the challenge that awaits them in Toronto.

“We’re going to have our hands full, but it’s the Grey Cup,” he said. “I wouldn’t have it any other way.

“I know they want to get us, but I think we want it just a little bit more.”

Stephen Pietsch and Jared Kambeitz each scored twice Sunday as the Blackfalds Wranglers rolled to a 10-3 Heritage Junior B Hockey League victory over the visiting Medicine Hat Cubs.

Also scoring for the Wranglers were Dylan Wiedmer, Chance Abbott, Trent Hermary, Jared Williams, Dalen Kolybaba and Josh Wilson.

Blackfalds, which took six of 11 minor penalties, fired 55 shots at Cubs netminder Cole Schafer.

Thomas Isaman made 22 saves for the Wranglers.

Elsewhere, the Stettler Lightning were blanked 3-0 by the host Banff Academy Bears. Coleman Waddell made 28 saves for Stettler, outshot 31-24.

Renegades get one medal at indoor kickoff The Red Deer Renegades managed only one medal in the 11th annual Red Deer City Soccer girls’ indoor kickoff tournament at the Collicutt Centre during the weekend.

The Renegades, who were a U16 squad, took second in the U18 tier II division, back of the Calgary Blizzard Avalanche.

Carstar gets win Carstar got 28 points from Taylor Armstrong and 18 from Na-

Peewee AA The Red Deer TBS Chiefs tied the Red Deer Parkland Transmission Chiefs 2-2 Friday and dropped a 6-5 decision to the Foothills Bison Saturday.

Josh Tarzwell and Ty Herle scored against Parkland with Bretton Park making 23 saves. Ben LeBlanc and Levi Amundson connected for Parkland with Eric Johnson making 20 saves.

Eric Moore had two goals for the Chiefs against the Bison with single goals added

by Xakary Hansen, Ryan Krawiec and Kaiden Kanderka. Elijah Chauvet made 42 saves.

than Dixon in downing the Rusty Chuckers 96-61 in Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association play Sunday.

Jonathan Laybolt had 20 points and Kevin Buwalda 10 for the Chuckers.

Amazons edge Eagles The Central Alberta Amazons edged the Lethbridge Jr. Eagles 2-1 in Alberta Female Junior A Hockey League play in Penhold Saturday.

Cassidy Holt and Charissa Kadar scored for the Amazons in the third period and netminder Emily Olsen made the lead stand up with some solid play late, finishing with 15 saves.

The Amazons are at home for a pair of games next weekend, hosting the Fort Saskatchewan Fury Saturday at 5:20 p.m. and leagueleading Banff Sunday at 11:30 a.m.

Both games are in Penhold.

Farwell won gold at Bronze Gloves championship Cole Farwell of the Red Deer Boxing Club won gold at the Alberta Bronze Gloves championship in Lac La Biche during the weekend.

Farwell improved his overall record to 5-0 by stopping his opponent early in the first round to take top honours in the 63-kilogram junior C category.

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The 11-year veteran will miss Sunday’s game against San Diego.

Reed is suspended for three violations of the player safety rules in the past three seasons.

The latest came in Sunday night’s 13-10 victory over Pittsburgh when he was penalized for unnecessary roughness in the third quarter for a hit to the head of receiver Emmanuel Sanders.

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Millions spent on ring road PRINCESS BALL FOR CF Little girls are invited to spend an enchanted afternoon fit for a princess while raising money for cystic fibrosis at the same time. Tickets go on sale on Friday at Parkland Mall for the second annual Princess Ball, which will run on Feb. 16, 2013. The ball features an enchanted ballroom, princesses, snacks, face painting, a craft table, a candy bar, wishing well and dancing. Girls are encouraged to dress their very best. For the adults, there’s a silent auction and elegant appetizer-style snacks.

Proceeds from this year’s event will go to the Central Alberta chapter of Cystic Fibrosis Canada. The event is scheduled from 1 to 5 p.m. on Feb. 16 at the Sheraton Red Deer Hotel. Tickets are $40 per person. For more information, call 403-347-5075 or go to Facebook and search The Princess Ball.

ABOUT $80 MILLION OF BUDGETED $120 MILLION FOR EARLY PHASE SPENT, PROJECT WILL TAKE ABOUT 30 YEARS TO COMPLETE

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Construction crews continue to work on the estimated $120-million first phase of Red Deer’s ring road.

When completed in 30 years, the eventual six-lane expressway will align Hwy 11A, Northland Drive, 20th Avenue and McKenzie Road.

The estimated final price tag for the completed roadway with interchanges is roughly $500 million.

Ken Haslop, Red Deer City’s major projects engineer, said crews are still working on the grading and the utilities portion of the North Highway Connector Project on

Northland Drive between Gaetz Avenue and 30th Avenue.

This summer, the crews graded on both sides of the Red Deer River, which included building the large bridge embankment for the future bridge across the Red Deer River.

“We did a lot of major utility work on both sides of the river as well,” said Haslop.

“On the east side, we installed a new storm treatment pond for the greater East Hill area and also a storm trunk line running down the escarpment to tie into the new pond.

“On the west side of the river, we also did a lot of grading work and cut some

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Homemade baking and local crafts are on hand. Lunch is available.

For more information, call Teri Ormberg at Wooddale Ladies Club at 403-843-6497.

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Wrestlers wrangle donations for food bank FOCUS SHIFTING TO STUFF-A-BUS

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

PHOTO ID CLINIC Those who may need photo identification can get it free at a clinic today. The Central Alberta Community Legal Clinic is offering the chance to get free affidavits of identification.

The card does not replace governmentissued identification, but will help people without photo ID access basic services.

The clinic goes from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the clinic’s offices at No. 301 5008 Ross St. An appointment is required by calling 403-314-9129 or toll free at 1-877-3149129.

fills in the area all the way up to Gaetz Avenue.”

The crews finished three of four contracts on the phase, including grading on the west and east sides of Red Deer River, and major sanitary trunk extensions on the west side of the river, on Riverside Drive.

Starting shortly, the crews will begin installing the greater East Hill sanitary trunk system and the regional sanitary line, the fourth contract.

This will take more than a year to complete. Installing the sanitary line and trunk system will not interfere with traffic or travel.

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Brieanne Ofstie of Deermart Equipment works to complete a tree in her company’s display at the Festival of Trees located at Westerner Park on Monday. Volunteers are working ahead of schedule this year preparing for the annual fundraising festivities that bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation.

The Festival of Trees kicks off Wednesday with the Preview Dinner and Auction. Thursday features a seniors appreciation afternoon. On Friday the Taste of Red Deer and the Festival of Wines takes centre stage. On Saturday there is Mistletoe Magic and on Sunday it’s Breakfast with Santa. The Festival of Trees is open to the public daily Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Wind farm company initiated crackdown RCMP TARGET WORKERS FOR ROWDY BEHAVIOUR Rowdy wind farm workers in Stettler apparently got the message loud and clear — behave.

The local RCMP went public last month with their irritation at the behaviour of some of the construction workers in the area to work on the Halkirk wind farm project.

On one weekend alone, 11 people were charged — 10 of them from wind project work crews — for various alcohol-fueled infractions.

Workers travelling to and from the wind farm site were also racking up numerous speeding tickets.

RCMP Sgt. Duncan Babchuk said he

had planned to contact the company to raise his concerns, but the company beat him to the punch.

“They actually came to me,” he said.

Companies involved in the project read the riot act to their workers and the situation improved dramatically, he said.

The workers will soon be moving on as construction is winding down by the end of the month.

About 260 workers were involved in the $357-million project to build 83 giant wind turbines between Halkirk and Castor.

With the help of the Red Deer Food Bank, pro wrestlers pinned hunger for a three-count.

And food bank organizers say they aren’t done yet.

By working the concessions at the event on Nov. 1, about $500 was raised for the local food bank. Fred Scaife, Red Deer Food Bank executive director, said he hadn’t seen a wrestling card before but it sure was entertaining.

“It was fantastic,” said Scaife. “It’s probably one of the more unique event we’ve been involved in. In general it was a lot of fun.”

The event went so well Scaife said the partnership will continue when the wrestling promotion returns in the New Year.

“The reality is it’s entertainment,” said Scaife.

“It is very entertaining and these guys are strong, they’re picking each other up and they’re all 250 pounds. It was a ton of fun, the organizers and the wrestlers were fantastic. We look forward to doing it again.”

Now that the wrestling food-raiser has wrapped up, the focus for the food bank now shifts to their busiest weekend of the year.

From Nov. 29 to Dec. 1, the food bank has its annual stuff-a-bus campaign, which last year raised about $13,000 worth of food. At Parkland Mall, the food bank will accept donations in the hopes of packing a bus to the gills.

“Us and the Red Deer Christmas Bureau will be collecting money, food and toys,” said Scaife.

That weekend, Dec. 1 and 2, the food bank will be at the Westerner Bazaar looking for donations. That same weekend is the annual charity checkstop.

“Over the years we’ve kind of gotten used to it, because invariably they all fall on the same day,” said Scaife. “ We look forward to that weekend, we just thrive on flying all over the place. It’s challenging and just a ton of fun.”

Through the month of December, the food bank has two more events on tap, hoping to fill shelves and, ultimately, the bellies of hungry Central Albertans.

Tom Jackson joins the Huron Carol to perform a show they’ve done for 20-plus years. Scaife said it is a real treat to have them stop by Red Deer.

“We’ve had the privilege of having Tom perform for us twice before,” said Scaife. “To have him back here again is going to be a lot of fun.”

They will be performing at the Memorial Centre, 4214 58th St. in Red Deer, on Dec. 17. Tickets can be purchased through the Black Knight Inn, www.blackknightinn.ca.

The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train will be full steam ahead to Red Deer, more specifically the CPR site at 6867 Edgar Industrial Dr., on Dec. 12 at 9:45 a.m.

When the train rolls into town, there will be a box car stage for Doc Walker, Miss Emily and Brothers Dube to perform and generate donations to the food bank.

All food and funds donated at the Holiday Train event stay in the community. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Man admits to touching, pornography charges

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Sentencing will be held late in January for a man who has admitted to repeated incidents of fondling and viewing pornography with small children.

The victims were his stepson’s son and daughter, as well as one of the boy’s friends.

The 49-year-old man, who cannot be named to protect the children’s identities, was charged on Oct. 19, 2011, with 13 offences, including six counts of sexual assault, one count of inviting sexual touching and six counts of inviting sexual interference with children under 14.

Represented by Red Deer lawyer Walter

Kubanek, the man pleaded guilty in Red Deer provincial court on Monday morning to the sexual touching and sexual interference charges.

Crown prosecutor Jason Snider subsequently withdrew the sexual assault charges.

In reading the statement of facts, Snider described incidents that occurred between March 2006 and September 2011 and in a variety of locations, including the family room at the Collicutt Centre in Red Deer as well as at one home in the city and another home in another Alberta city.

Red Deer RCMP investigated reports in 2010 of the man molesting one of the boys, but had not been able to find enough evidence at the time to collaborate the complaint, said Snider.

Police became involved again while investigating additional complaints that arose after the father learned that his daughter had been watching pornography.

Police interviewed the girl during the previous investigation, but she did not tell them what had happened to her “because she didn’t want to split up the family,” said Snider.

Seated beside his lawyer, the accused trembled visibly as the charges were read while members of his family watched from the back rows of the courtroom.

Sentencing has been adjourned to Jan. 29 to give time for a psychiatric assessment to determine his mental state at the time of the incidents. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Sylvan Spirit of Christmas The spirit of Christmas arrives in Sylvan Lake on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1.

The community’s first Spirit of Sylvan Yuletide Festival will kick off with a 7 p.m. Santa Claus Parade through the downtown, followed by fireworks over the lake around 8:15 p.m.

The Sylvan Multiplex is open from 4:30 to 10 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday. It will have a winter wonderland with decorated trees, a kids zone with crafts, a gingerbread house making contest, skating with mascots, raffle and live entertainment.

The annual Christmas Farmers’ Market will have 50 vendors.

There will also be two sittings of Breakfast With Santa on Saturday.

Proceeds will be used for the town’s urgent care efforts.

More information is available by calling Graham Parson at 403-887-2575.

Jewelry stolen A “significant” amount of jewelry was stolen during a recent break-in at Sears in Red Deer.

Sometime overnight on Nov. 9, the Bower Place Shopping Centre store was broken into and a “significant” amount of jewelry stolen, said RCMP Cpl. Sarah Knelsen. The theft was discovered early the next morning.

No suspects are in custody and the investigation is ongoing, said Knelsen.

Woman denied bail Bail has been denied a Sundre woman accused of ordering her dogs to attack another woman who was visiting her home.

Rita Phillip, 57, is charged with aggravated assault in connection with an alleged dog attack in the early hours of Saturday, Aug. 18.

Sundre RCMP report that they arrived at the mobile home to find two aggressive dogs barricaded in one room and a severely injured woman in another.

One of the dogs was shot at the scene when it escaped the room. The other was caught and placed in quarantine.

In Didsbury provincial court on Monday, Phillip pleaded not guilty to the charge and asked for a trial by Court of Queen’s Bench judge and jury.

She remains in custody pending a preliminary inquiry set for Feb. 6, 2013. Such hearings are normally ordered to test the strength of the Crown’s case and determine whether the case should proceed to trial.

If a trial is ordered, it will be scheduled at a later date.

Man stabbed A man suffered non-life-threatening injuries after being stabbed outside XStatic strip club on Friday.

RCMP responded to a 1:38 a.m. complaint of a fight to find the man had been stabbed in the chest. He was taken to hospital and released.

RCMP are still seeking suspects as they investigate.

X-Static is located at 4605 50th Ave. in Red Deer.

Snoozing suspects caught A pair of suspects caught napping have some serious charges to answer in Red Deer.

Red Deer City RCMP have laid 22 charges against a man and woman from Calgary, alleging that the pair raised suspicion when they were seen sleeping in a downtown parking lot.

Police were called on Friday to complaints of a suspicious vehicle in a parking lot at 4733 54th St. Investigators allege that the back window of the black pickup truck had been smashed out, that the licence

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St. Francis of Assisi Middle School students create pledge markers to be pinned to the school’s Bullying Pledge board Friday afternoon. All this week students at the school have been recognizing Bullying Awareness Week and were given the chance as individual students to put an end to bullying by pledging to stand up against bullies. plate had been stolen from another vehicle the previous day and that the truck itself had also been reported stolen. Arrested at the scene were Kelsey Pitton, 20, and Caleb Costello, 25.

They are jointly charged with 19 counts of possession of stolen property of a value under $5,000, plus theft under $5,000 and theft over $5,000.

Pitton was released and ordered to appear in Red Deer provincial court on Monday morning. Costello was held in custody pending his first court appearance, set for Tuesday.

Anyone with further information that may assist the police in their ongoing investigation is asked to call the Red Deer City RCMP at 403-343-5575.

To remain anonymous, submit information online to www.tipsubmit.com or call Crime Stoppers, 1-800-222-8477.

Healthy eating The MEND program to teach children and their families to eat healthy foods and be active will begin new sessions in January in Red Deer and Penhold.

MEND — mind, exercise, nutrition, do it! — is a joint effort of Family Services of Central Alberta and Alberta Health Services. It’s a free 10-week community program to help reduce the rate of childhood obesity.

Families learn about healthy eating and mealtime routines, nutrition labels, portion control, setting goals to encourage healthy habits as a family, building self-esteem and active play.

MEND will run for the first time in Penhold, for ages two to four, starting on Jan. 18, and will be held again in Red Deer, for ages two to four, on Jan. 17.

A Red Deer session for ages seven to 13 will also run in January. The start date has not yet been announced.

Space is limited to between 10 and 15 families, depending on the number of children in each family.

Families can learn more at www.albertahealthservices.ca/MEND.asp.

MEND was developed in the United Kingdom in 2004.

Stolen goods found The discovery of several quads, a snowmobile and a minivan on a farm near Bowden has led to the arrest of a Bowden man.

A resident living on a Bowden area farm reported to Olds RCMP that two

quads and a snowmobile had been stolen overnight on Thursday.

RCMP then conducted a search warrant on Friday on a farm in the Bowden area, where the property was found. Also seized were another quad reported stolen from the Bowden area on Oct. 4, plus a minivan reported stolen from the Markerville area on Oct. 21. Police also recovered a stolen licence plate.

Tyler Wayne James Ratledge, 26, of Bowden, was charged with five counts of possession of stolen property over $5,000, one count of possession of stolen property under $5,000, three counts of failing to comply with a recognizance, and one count of being in possession of a firearm while prohibited from doing so. Police say that Ratledge also had numerous outstanding arrest warrants that had been issued by several police agencies, including Olds, Didsbury and Innisfail RCMP, along with Calgary Police Service.

Ratledge was remanded in custody and was scheduled to appear in Calgary provincial court today.

Ag society gets funds Crossroads Agricultural Society has received $31,789 in federal funding to upgrade its main pavilion at Crossroads Agriculture Park in Pine Lake.

Red Deer MP Earl Dreeshen made the announcement on behalf of Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification Lynne Yelich last week.

The money from the Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund will be used to install a new heating system to improve energy efficiency and roof renovations to extend the life of the building.

Western Economic Diversification Canada is allocating $46.2 million over two years through the cost-share program to support repairs and improvements to existing community infrastructure accessible to the public.

All projects are to be completed by March 31, 2014.

Fracking discussion Hydraulic fracturing and water use will be discussed at the next West Central Stakeholders Group meeting on Wednesday.

The event begins at

6 p.m. at the Lou Soppit Community Centre. Presentations start at 6:30 p.m. and will be made by local landowners, followed by representatives from the Energy Resources Conservation Board, Environment and Sustainable Resource Development and Canadian Society for Unconventional Resources.

A panel including a geologist will then discuss using high-pressure water or other fluids to break up geological formations to extract oil and gas.

The 10-year-old West Central Stakeholders Group has members from the public, industry, government and regulatory agencies who try to ensure a principled, balanced and sustained approach to resource development.

More information is available by calling Krista Waters at 403-846-9583 or online at www.westcentral.synergyalberta.ca.

Parolee arrested Police have arrested a parolee wanted for breaching conditions of his release.

Last week, Red Deer City RCMP sought public assistance locating Garnet Lawrence Benn, wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for being unlawfully at large. The request was publicized in Red Deer because Benn is believed to have connections here.

Cpl. Sarah Knelsen, media resources officer for the Red Deer City RCMP, said Benn was located and arrested near Breton on Sunday.

Olds budget talk Olds residents will get an opportunity to provide their thoughts on the town’s preliminary budget at a Dec. 3 open house.

The session will run 7 to 9 p.m. at Olds council chambers at 4512 46th St. Council is expected to take a look at the operating and capital budgets at its Nov. 26 meeting. They will be received for information to allow for public review and will come back to council for a vote on Dec. 10.

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About $80 million of the budgeted $120 million for Phase 1A has been spent.

This first phase got underway in April 2011 and is expected to be completed by the end of 2013.

This phase included major earth moving, building a wildlife crossing and existing utility relocations and landscaping.

“Basically at that point the project will be sitting idle for a few years until 2016, when construction will resume again on the surfaces works, which is basically the pavement, the curb and gutter and the bridge construction across the Red Deer River,” said Haslop.

“For sediment reasons because of the large fills in the bridge abutment, it is recommended by our experts that the fills are able to settle for 12 to 18 months.

“Then the second reason is financial to allow the funding to catch up

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Haslop said the project is on schedule and within budget.

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IMF eyes elevating loonie OTTAWA — The highflying Canadian loonie may soon be joining the elite club of global reserve currencies.

The International Monetary Fund signalled in a new report it is considering asking foreign countries to report their holdings of Canadian and Australian dollars separately, which would technically make them global reserve currencies. It would be the first addition to the list of five reserve currencies — the U.S. greenback, the Japanese yen, the euro, the British sterling and Swiss franc — since 1999. Previously the two were lumped together in the “other currencies” category.

The rise of the loonie in the past decade has also been blamed for the continued deterioration of Canada’s manufacturing sector.

BCE reworks Astral deal MONTREAL — BCE Inc. expects that its new proposal to buy Astral Media will address the federal regulator’s concern about the telecom giant dominating the television market.

Bell’s chief regulatory officer Mirko Bibic wouldn’t comment Monday on the possible sale of any radio or TV assets owned by Montreal’s Astral to make the deal work. But Bibic said the new $3.38-billion proposal to buy Astral (TSX:ACM.A) will address the CRTC’s concern about market dominance. “The proposal that we filed today will address the issue of viewing shares from the CRTC’s perspective,” Bibic said from Ottawa. However, the companies said they cannot give specifics about the new application until the CRTC makes it public, which it is expected to do in early 2013.

Astral has 25 specialty TV services, including The Movie Network, Family Channel and Disney XD, and 84 radio stations.

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A concrete decision PRECISION PRECAST LTD. PLANS TO BUILD A $15-MILLION PLANT IN PONOKA COUNTY

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Tom Kentz says his company’s inability to keep pace with demand is costing it millions of dollars in sales. So it’s moving aggressively to plug the leak.

Precision Precast Ltd., which currently operates in Lacombe as Precision Projects Ltd., plans to build a $15-million plant in Ponoka County.

It’s struck a deal to buy 52 acres north of Wolf Creek Golf Resort and has applied to county council to have the parcel rezoned to rural industrial from agricultural.

If all goes according to plan, said Kentz, work on the new plant will begin next month and it will be operational by spring — helping to fill a market void when it comes to precast and hollow-core concrete products.

“We’ll have one of the largest

hollow-core machines in Western Canada,” he said, adding that the facility is expected to serve an area extending from Manitoba to British Columbia.

Precision currently produces precast concrete products at Lacombe, but not nearly enough to keep pace with demand.

“We turn away probably $15 million a year, which is crazy,” said Kentz, who owns the private company with partners Harold Jahn, Fred Belt and Del Grovet. “That’s why we took the leap to go bigger into the precast side.”

Although precast concrete has been used for decades, it’s growing in popularity because its cost has remained constant relative to other building materials. Insulated concrete also has a very high R-value — even qualifying for LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification, added

Kentz, and precast concrete buildings can be constructed quickly.

“Most buildings will take six to nine months (using traditional materials); in most cases precast is done in three months, all complete.”

In addition to commercial and industrial buildings, precast concrete has become common in residential buildings.

“We’ve got about 2,500 homes to produce out of precast already,” said Kentz of the residential market.

Precision’s existing operations will move to the new Ponoka site, which Kentz said is centrally located and has good access to transportation routes.

Ponoka County has been very good to deal with, he added.

County council is scheduled to vote on the rezoning application next Tuesday.

Charlie Cutforth, the coun-

ty’s chief administrative officer, said Precision’s project is appealing because it would help spread the municipality’s economic base beyond agriculture and energy.

“Diversity is critical. We’ve seen what happens when the oil business goes south for a while.”

Cutforth said there’s been a great deal of interest in the Hwy 2 corridor for industrial and commercial development “We have inquiries on a fairly regular basis from various businesses.”

As for Precision, Kentz and his partners are already looking farther afield, with plans to build another plant at Campbell River, B.C. Others could follow.

“We’ll be expanding to every province in Western Canada,” said Kentz. hrichards@reddeeradvocate. com

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Harper warns of new woes

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper says if President Barack Obama and U.S. lawmakers can’t find a solution to the looming fiscal cliff it could spark other unforeseen economic woes.

Harper told a Canada-United States business forum in Ottawa on Monday that he hopes “reasonable people” can come to a solution now that the election south of the border is over.

“To the extent I hear some people talking about a bungee cord, I think that kind of talk is foolish,” Harper said.

“If you go over a cliff, you can’t be sure what will happen next. Like we saw with the collapse of Lehman Brothers, how a single major event can trigger a series of events that’s very hard to pull back from.”

The fiscal cliff refers to the combination of imminent spending cuts and tax increases due to take effect Jan. 1 that could push the fragile U.S. economy back into recession, dragging Canada’s along with it.

Harper also lauded American entrepreneurship, saying it would be the driving force that would one day allow the world’s largest economy to overcome its current economic problems.

But not, he added, without some govern-

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Prime Minster of Canada Stephen Harper takes part in a question and answer session at the Canadian American Business Council in Ottawa on Monday. ment support.

“This is still at its heart, the most entrepreneurial, dynamic, developed economy in the world,” Harper said.

“My sense is that if it could be given any kind of stability, not just for the next two months, but for the next few years that the energy of the business community in the United States is just looking for the opportunity to get growth going again.”

Harper said he doesn’t think the U.S. economy can reach the heights of a decade ago, but it can improve over the situation of the last few years of the economic downturn.

WestJet CEO says regional airline will spur demand

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — WestJet’s new regional service will spur passenger demand by offering fares at up to half the amount charged on those routes by monopoly operators such as Air Canada, chief executive Gregg Saretsky said Monday.

“Vive la competition (long live competition),” the head of the Calgary-based airline (TSX:WJA) told the Canadian Club in Montreal.

“WestJet Encore is out to liberate Canadians from the high cost of air travel in smaller communities as well as those not yet served by our jet aircraft and we think that Canadians are ready for that,” he said of the service set to launch next year.

He said representatives from small towns, including Quebec’s Saguenay, Sherbrooke and Bagotville, asked WestJet to launch service in their communities because the airline has a history of driving down fares when it comes to town.

Saretsky said since the lowcost carrier was founded 16 years ago, it has a history of causing fares to drop by about 50 per cent in the markets it

has added.

“I would expect that as WestJet Encore gets airborne we will continue to do the same in the smaller Canadian communities and up to 50 per cent would be something that would be reasonable.”

Shunning the moniker “price war”, Saretsky said “more rational pricing” will create new demand by encouraging people to take more air trips each year. He pointed out that the number of passengers from Comox on Vancouver Island surged to 121,000 per year from 5,000 when WestJet launched service.

“This isn’t about carrying the same number of people at half the price. It’s about growing the market by 100, 200, 300 per cent and allowing Canadians access to more affordable airfares,” he said.

WestJet will announce the regional service’s schedule in January. It will initially service either eastern or western routes starting in the second half of 2013, followed nine months later by the other half of the country. It expects to add up to 45 Bombardier (TSX:BBD.B) Q400 turboprops over five years.

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Harper’s optimism was reflected in the North American stock markets, which rallied Monday amid hope that divided U.S. politicians can come together and agree on a budget deal.

Concerns began to ease Friday after Obama met with congressional leaders. Republicans and Democrats emerged striking a noticeably more conciliatory tone.

“I am confident we can get our fiscal situation dealt with,” Obama added Sunday.

Added Harper: “I know most of these people. They should be able to come to some kind of agreement of what to do about Jan. 1.”

Mortgage brokers say new rules hitting too hard

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada’s mortgage brokers say recent changes to federal rules have taken too big a bite out of an already cooling housing market and they suggest policymakers should address the needs of their industry.

The Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals says a survey of 2,000 consumers in October, conducted on CAAMP’s behalf, suggests that first-time buyers have been hard hit by the tighter mortgage rules.

“We worry that this is having a dampening effect on what was an already cooling market and we hope policy-makers will give some thought to addressing the needs of this key sector of the market,” association president and CEO Jim Murphy said in a statement.

CAAMP chief economist Will Dunning said the smaller number of first time buyers has already affected the resale market.

“The housing resale numbers behave like a canary in the mine for us,” Dunning said. “My concern is that a policy-induced housing market downturn creates unnecessary risk that directly affects not just housing but job creation and the economy as a whole.”

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has said the new rules were intended to deal with overpriced real-estate in certain cities and

certain types of housing. He has said the tighter mortgage rules reduce the risk of buyers taking on too much debt.

Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney has also warned that Canadian personal debt levels have reached record high levels, posing a risk to the economy if consumers can’t afford to carry their debt once interest rates rise.

CAAMP is the national organization representing Canada’s mortgage industry. With over 12,250 mortgage professionals representing over 1,700 companies Among findings of the association’s semi-annual report: — Since the most recent round of mortgage tightening in July, housing resale activity in the August-October period is down eight per cent compared with a year earlier.

— About 17 per cent of high ratio mortgages funded in 2010 cannot be funded today, including 11 per cent of prospective high ratio homebuyers who can’t qualify under the new 25-year amortization rule.

Flaherty has reduced the maximum amortization for Canadian mortgages several times in recent years.

Most recently, the maximum was cut from 30 years. Previous reforms included reductions in the maximum amortization period to 35 years from 40 and then to 30 years from 35.

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COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Monday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 101.01 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 73.99 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.01 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.13 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.29 Cdn. National Railway . . 85.20 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . . 92.46 Cdn. Satellite . . . . . . . . . . 4.90 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 65.75 Capital Power Corp . . . . 21.56 Cervus Equipment Corp 18.85 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 28.78 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 38.63 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 22.86 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.00 General Motors Co. . . . . 24.93 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 17.56 Research in Motion. . . . . . 9.59 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 41.64 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 37.39 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 63.87 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 15.04 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 45.52 Consumer Brick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.31 Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 66.90 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.25 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 33.46 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 10.94 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.22

Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.95 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 46.20 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.02 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 18.58 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 34.19 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.14 First Quantum Minerals . 21.36 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 40.61 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.12 Inmet Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . 53.54 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 9.59 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 37.87 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.80 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 32.13 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 23.75 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 28.40 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 41.62 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.38 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 42.30 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 27.52 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.99 Canyon Services Group. . 9.87 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 32.99 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.680 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 21.06 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.00 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 87.67 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 31.71 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.15

Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 27.04 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.80 IROC Services . . . . . . . . . 2.45 Nexen Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.32 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 5.16 Penn West Energy . . . . . 10.65 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . 1.89 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 7.33 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 32.59 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.30 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 11.39 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 6.87 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 49.66

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — North American stock markets were in rally mode Monday as traders felt that cool heads will prevail and American politicians can come together to agree on a budget deal by the end of next month.

Without such a deal, the U.S. risks going over a so-called fiscal cliff and into recession as the economy would suffer a severe shock from a combination of automatic spending cuts and the expiration of Bush-era tax cuts.

The S&P/TSX composite index jumped 162.68 points to 12,040.4, while the TSX Venture Exchange gained 14.62 points to 1,249.96.

The Canadian dollar closed up 0.44 of a cent to cents US. U.S. indexes surged with the Dow Jones industrials running up 207.65 points to 12,795.96, the Nasdaq climbed 62.94 points to 2,916.07 and the S&P 500 index was ahead 27.01 points to 1,386.89.

Fiscal cliff concerns started to ease Friday afternoon following a meeting between congressional leaders and U.S. President Barack Obama, with both Republicans and Democrats striking a more conciliatory stance.

While there is still room for plenty of disappointment in resolving this potential crisis, markets were on the lookout for anything positive out of the negotiations.

Markets finished positive on Friday but prior to that, the TSX had tumbled 3.9 per cent since the election Nov. 6 as a U.S. economic shock would impact economies around the world. A sudden slowing of economic growth would be bad news for a resource heavy market like Toronto, since a lessening of demand for oil and metals would put pressure on mining and energy stocks.

Meanwhile, the Dow industrial average has fallen five per cent as investors worry about higher dividend, capital gains and payroll taxes.

On the TSX, the telecom sector was in focus after BCE Inc. (TSX:BCE) and Astral Media Inc. (TSX:ACM.A) said they are submitting a new acquisition proposal to the CRTC, saying they’ve found ways to address the regulator’s concerns over the level of ownership concentration

in some markets. The CRTC recently rejected the original $3.4-billion proposal for Bell Canada’s parent to buy the Montreal-based radio, television and media company. BCE shares gained two cents to $42.01 while Astral shares climbed $1.38 or 3.1 per cent to $45.78.

The tech sector was the leading gainer, up 2.23 per cent as Open Text (TSX:OTC) rose $1.82 to $55.17 while Research In Motion Ltd. (TSX:RIM) climbed 36 cents to $9.59.

The gold sector climbed about two per cent while December bullion gained $19.70 to US$1,734.40 an ounce. Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) was ahead 89 cents to C$40.61 while Centerra Gold (TSX:CG) climbed 46 cents to $9.54.

The energy sector was right behind, up 1.77 per cent as oil prices gained ground for a second day on worries that oil supplies could be disrupted if the Israel-Hamas conflict engulfs countries elsewhere in the Middle East, a huge producer of crude.

January oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange was up $2.36 to US$89.28 a barrel. Cenovus Energy (TSX:CVE) improved by 60 cents to C$32.99 while Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) gained $1.05 to $32.59.

The appetite for added risk extended to metals and December copper was eight cents higher to US$3.53 a pound, taking the base metals sector up 1.11 per cent.

Taseko Mines (TSX:TKO) added 10 cents to C$2.81 while First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) rose 38 cents to $21.36.

All TSX sectors were higher with financials ahead 1.08 per cent.

Royal Bank (TSX:RY) was 91 cents higher to $56.53 while Manulife Financial (TSX:MFC) was up 17 cents to $12.10.

The industrials group was up 1.76 per cent while Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX:CP) gained $2.26 to $92.46.

points S&P 500 — 1,386.89 up 27.01 points Nasdaq — 2,916.07 up 62.94 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 100.34 cents US, up 0.44 of a cent Pound — C$1.5851, down 0.53 of a cent Euro — C$1.2766, up 0.16 of a cent Euro — US$1.2810, up 0.73 of a cent Oil futures: US$89.28 per barrel, up $2.36 (Jan. ’13 contract) Gold futures: US$1,734.40 per oz., up $19.70 cents (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $34.238 per oz., up 48.8 cents $1,100.75 per kg., up $15.69

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close of Monday.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,040.40 up 162.68 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,249.96 up 14.62 points TSX 60 — 688.14 up 8.65 points Dow — 12,795.96 up 207.65

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 57.99 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 53.40 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.79 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.58 Carefusion . . . . . . . . . . . 24.24 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 23.16 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 40.34 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 62.89 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 12.10 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 75.18 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.39 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 56.53 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 26.24 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.57

TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Monday at 1,249.96, up 14.62 points. The volume was at 4:20 p.m. ET is 149.33 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Jan ’13 $4.30 higher $580.00; March ’13 $4.10 higher $577.40; May ’13 $4.60 higher $576.20; July ’13 $4.60 higher $572.90; Nov. ’13 $2.50 higher $527.00; Jan. ’14 $2.50 higher $529.70; March ’14 $2.50 higher $530.00; May ’14 $2.50 higher $530.00; July ’14 $2.50 higher $530.00; Nov. ’14 $2.50 higher $530.00; Jan ’15 $2.50 higher $530.00.

Barley (Western): Dec. ’12 unchanged $250.00; March ’13 unchanged $253.00; May ’13 unchanged $254.00; July ’13 unchanged $254.50; Oct. ’13 unchanged $254.50; Dec ’13 unchanged $254.50; March ’14 unchanged $254.50; May ’14 unchanged $254.50; July ’14 unchanged $254.50; Oct. ’14 unchanged $254.50; Dec. ’14 unchanged $254.50.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 270,400 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 270,400.

While Air Canada (TSX:AC.B) may reduce its cost base, Saretsky doubts it will ever get as low as non-unionized WestJet and also match its corporate culture.

“So all things being equal, if our fares are the same, I still believe that consumers will prefer to fly WestJet because of the type of experience that our culture enables,” he said.

Air Canada recently vowed to respond to lower fares promised by WestJet when it launches its new regional service next year.

After 16 years of success, including 30 consecutive quarters of profits, Saretsky said he’s conscious about being very careful as WestJet morphs its business model by adding premium economy seats and a new regional service.

That’s why it set up WestJet Encore as a wholly-owned subsidiary that will fly Q400s and allow the mainline carrier to fly one type of jet.

The new carrier will eventually employ about 1,800 workers, while sales and marketing will be handled by the parent company.

Saretsky said he toured Bombardier’s facility and saw the assembly of the flight test vehicle for its new CSeries aircraft.

He called it an impressive airplane but wouldn’t say if it could eventually find a home in WestJet’s fleet of Boeing 737s.

During the lunchtime speech, Saretsky also railed against federal taxes and fees that have driven 4.6 million Canadians to fly out of U.S. airports near the border.

He said airport improvement fees could be reduced if the government allocated some of those proceeds to Canadian airports instead of using that money for its general revenues.

Canada’s aviation policy over the last 20 years has lost its way as the airline industry has been taxed like sin products such as alcohol, beer and cigarettes, he said.

“As a result we don’t utilize and harness aviation as an engine of economic growth...Instead, we’ve turned airlines into glorified tax collectors.”

The head of the Aeroports de Montreal said he’s been preaching the same tune for more than a decade.

“I guess people are just insensitive to it ... and they just don’t take it seriously. Quite frankly, I’m at a bit of a loss,” James Cherry said in an interview.

On the Toronto Stock Exchange, WestJet’s shares closed up 28 cents to $18.58 in Monday trading.

Lowe’s still eyeing Canadian acquisition in wake of failed Rona bid

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NEW YORK — Lowe’s says it’s still considering an acquisition to expand its presence in Canada, but it isn’t naming a specific target company.

The U.S. home improvement retailer had attempted to acquire Quebec-based Rona through a $1.8-billion deal but retreated in September in the face of staunch opposition from Rona’s board and Quebec politicians.

With Rona’s longtime chief executive stepping down recently and its second-largest shareholder calling for a new board, there’s speculation that Lowe’s could renew its bid for Canada’s largest home-improvement chain.

Lowe’s CEO Robert Niblock wouldn’t talk about Rona specifically during a Monday conference call to discuss the company’s third-quarter earnings.

But Niblock says while he’s pleased with the performance of the 32 Lowe’s stores in Canada, “we need more scale.” He said opening additional Lowe’s stores and looking at other formats are part of the mix, but “we’ll also continue to look at acquisitions as a potential way for expansion.”

“We’re going to evaluate all our options,” Niblock said.

Lowe’s Cos. reported before markets opened Monday that its third-quarter net income surged 76 per cent, helped by lower costs and higher revenue, as efforts to revamp its merchandise and prices appeared to be gaining traction.

Its adjusted earnings without charges and its revenue both beat Wall Street forecasts. Its shares were up about six per cent in afternoon trading on Monday afternoon.

Lowe’s has been retooling its pricing strategy, and last summer returned to offering permanent low prices on many items across the store, instead of offering fleeting discounts.

But the changes have been slow to catch on, and last quarter Lowe’s said it could take until the middle of next year to reap the benefits of the strategy.

“We are keenly focused on improving our core business,” Niblock said Monday. “Our level of execution is improving and we delivered solid results in the third quarter.”

Lowe’s quarterly report, the first issued by the company since it backed away from trying to acquire Rona, is the latest indication that the companies are benefiting from the beginning of a rebound in the U.S. housing market.

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Canada must step up energy game: Prentice

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Canada needs new customers because it is selling its oil at 35 per cent less than the going global rate, he said.

“That makes us a price-taker, not a pricemaker.”

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BRIEFS Don Cherry impersonator Those in National Hockey League withdrawal might want to check out the Don Cherry impersonator at the Red Deer Legion.

The mock Cherry will be spouting off at 8 p.m.

Friday, along with special guest Corry Harding.

Only advance tickets will be sold. They are available from the Legion at 2810 Bremner Ave. for $20 (Legion members pay $15).

For more information, call 403-342-0035.

Blue Suede Revue The Blue Suede Revue will pay tribute to high energy hits from the 1950s and ’60s in a Red Deer stage show this week.

Songs by Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers and Roy Orbison will be performed by tribute artists in this fundraising event for the Canadian Volunteer Fire Services Association.

The show is on at 8 p.m. on Thursday at the Quality Inn Ballroom.

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Book signing The author of an inspirational book series about guardian angels will be signing copies in Costco south of Red Deer this week.

Henry Ripplinger, the Saskatchewan-based author of the six-book series The Angelic Letters, will be at Costco from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and Wednesday.

He described The Angelic Letters as an epic love story between a couple who put their trust in angels. It begins in the 1950s and ends in the present day.

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in the series have sold more than 40,000 copies.

The first two volumes, Pewter Angels and Another Angel of Love, also won awards for religious fiction.

Paintings of the imaginary Paintings of imaginary places will be displayed this month at the Harris-Warke Gallery in downtown Red Deer.

Artist Galia Kwetny combines recognizable landscape features with dramatic colour and gesture for her large works in the Connecting Places exhibit.

Kwetny was born in the former Soviet Union and taught art in

while singing Two Black Cadillacs.

She talked about singing competition shows backstage.

“These people that go on these shows are so talented, you know? And I would love to see if so many of the other artists that are out there today would go back and try out for these shows, because they might get their behinds kicked by some of the contestants,” she said.

Luke Bryan won favourite country male artist and Lady Antebellum favourite country group.

American Music Awards nominees were selected based on sales and airplay, and fans chose the winners by voting online.

At this award show, even the stars were fans: Pink said on the red carpet that she’d like to collaborate with Lauryn Hill.

Cyndi Lauper said her musical playIsrael before arriving in Canada in 2002. She is a graduate of the University of Alberta and Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

Connecting Places will have an opening reception on Friday, Dec. 7, from 6 to 8 p.m. as part of Red Deer’s First Fridays gallery openings. It runs to Dec. 29.

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“What makes the American Music Awards special is the fans choose the winning artists,” said Chester Bennington of Linkin Park, who won favourite alternative rock artist and performed Burn It Down, as Brandy sang along and Gwen Stefani, Usher and Phillip Phillips bobbed their heads.

David Guetta won the show’s firstever electronic dance music award.

Non-televised awards went to Katy Perry for pop/rock female artist, Beyonce for soul/R&B female artist, Adele for adult contemporary artist and Shakira for Latin artist.

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Justin Bieber may be Canadian, but he was the all-American boy at Sunday night’s American Music Awards.

The pop singer dominated the awards show, winning three trophies, including artist of the year. His mom joined him onstage as he collected the award, beating out Rihanna, Maroon 5, Katy Perry and Drake.

“I wanted to thank you for always believing in me,” Bieber said, looking to his mom.

The 18-year-old also won the honour in 2010.

He said it’s “hard growing up with everyone watching me” and asked that people continue to believe in him.

But the teenager who brought his mom as a date also got in some grinding with Nicki Minaj — who shared the stage with him and took home two awards — and a kiss on the neck from presenter Jenny McCarthy.

“Wow. I feel violated right now,” he said, laughing.

“I did grab his butt,” McCarthy said backstage.

“I couldn’t help it. He was just so delicious. So little. I wanted to tear his head off and eat it.”

Another collaboration was the night’s most colorful performance: Korean rapper PSY and MC Hammer.

Hammer joined the buzzed-about pop star for his viral hit Gangnam Style.

PSY rocked traditional Hammer pants as they danced to his jam and to Hammer’s Too Legit to Quit.

Minaj, who wore three different wigs and four outfits throughout the night, repeated her AMAs wins from last year, picking up trophies for favourite rap/hip-hop artist and album for Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded.

She was in an all-white get-up, including fur coat and pink hair when she performed her new song Freedom.

The scene was ghostly and snowy, as a choir — also in white — joined her onstage.

One background singer stole the performance, belting semi-high notes as Minaj looked on.

Usher kicked off the three-hour show with green laser lights beaming onstage as he performed a medley of songs, including Numb, Climax and Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop, which featured a smoky floor and a number of backup dancers, as Usher jammed in all black, with the exception of his red shoes.

He won favourite soul/R&B male artist.

His protege Bieber won favourite pop/rock male artist in the first award handed out and gave a shout-out to those who didn’t think he would last on the music scene.

“I want to say this is for all the haters who thought I was just here for one

or two years. I feel like I’m going to be here for a very long time,” he said.

He also won favourite pop/rock album for his platinum-selling third album, Believe.

He gave a stripped down, acoustic performance of As Long As You Love Me, then transitioned to the danceheavy Beauty and a Beat, where Minaj joined him onstage, grinding with the teen for a few seconds.

Swift won her fifth consecutive award for favourite country female artist.

“This is unreal. I want to thank the fans. You guys are the ones who voted on this,” she said.

Swift gave a masquerade-themed performance of the pop song I Knew You Were Trouble.

She sang onstage in a light dress while dancers wore mostly black. But then she changed into a red corset and black skirt, matching their dark mood.

She even danced and sang on the floor as lights flickered throughout the performance.

Dick Clark, who created the AMAs, was remembered by Ryan Seacrest and an upbeat performance by Stevie Wonder.

“What a producer he was,” said Seacrest, as Wonder sang his hits, including My Cherie Amour.

Carly Rae Jepsen, who performed early in the night, won favourite new artist.

“I am floored. Wow,” she said, thanking Bieber and his manager, Scooter Braun.

Party girl Ke$ha was glammed up on the red carpet, rocking long, flowy blond hair and a light pink dress.

She switched to her normal attire when she performed her hit single Die Young.

It was tribal, with shirtless dancers in skin-tight pants, silver hair and skeleton-painted faces, who also played the drums.

Ke$ha was pants-less, rocking kneehigh boots and rolling on the floor as she finished up the song.

Minaj and Christina Aguilera were blond bombshells, too: Minaj’s hair was busy and full of volume and she sported a neon strapless gown to accept her first award.

Aguilera wore a blond bob in a purple dress that matched her eyeshadow.

Aguilera performed a medley of material from her new album and joined Pitbull onstage.

Kelly Clarkson also hit the stage, making a nod to her American Idol roots with a number on her dress and three judges looking on as she sang Miss Independent.

Then she went into Since U Been Gone, Stronger and Catch My Breath.

Fellow Idol winner Carrie Underwood won favourite country album and performed, hitting the right notes

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Body piercing worries father Dear Annie: I work in a large part with it. Either way, they will organization and know my col- leave you alone. leagues quite well. Though I enjoy Dear Annie: I would appreciate working with them, a number of an objective viewpoint regarding them recently have begun borrow- my (just) 16-year-old daughter’s ing cash from me. These are usu- request to have her belly button ally requests for small pierced. amounts to cover the cost “Olivia” is an of lunch or coffee, but honor student and over time, they add up. all-around wonderNot a single one of them ful daughter. But I has ever voluntarily ream having trouble paid me. When I ask, the being objective person inevitably looks about the piercing. I surprised, smacks his or am opposed on sevher forehead and says, eral levels.

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I’ve advised her that Even if my colleagues her shape is likely aren’t doing this intentionally, I to “fill out” in the next several can’t help thinking that in some years. way, I’m encouraging irresponsiHer twin sister, her mom and I ble behavior. enjoy reading your column every Is there a professionally appro- morning at breakfast. priate way of saying no the next Am I being overly concerned? – time I’m asked for cash? – Califor- Worried Papa nia Casey Dear Worried: Your concerns Dear California: You have ap- are perfectly valid, but Olivia parently been tagged as an “easy could present a counterargument mark” in your office. It’s perfectly to each. The pain is something she OK to say pleasantly and politely, is apparently willing to tolerate, “I’m so sorry, but I can’t loan you the “waste of money” is a matter the cash today.” You don’t have of opinion, and the risk of infecto give a reason. If you say it of- tion (or worse) is lessened if the ten enough, they will assume you piercing is done by a reputable don’t carry that much money any professional under hygienic cirlonger or that you aren’t willing to cumstances. As for her shape, her

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The better reason, Dad, is that you object. You are still her father and can say no if this makes you uncomfortable. She always has the option of piercing her navel at a later date. We think you and your wife should have an honest discussion with Olivia about this and see whether you can reach an agreement.

Dear Annie: “Thwarted” was right on the money. Women my age are definitely in a “trapped” situation. We did everything the good girls were supposed to do.

But men are looking for someone in their 20s who will take care of their every dream. Their trophy wives will inherit the bulk of the assets that women like “Thwarted” enabled their husbands to acquire -- everything from education to taking care of them and their mothers.

It sounds lovely and glib to say just go out there and volunteer, get involved in activities and churches, and hopefully meet other women who are in the same place. But what about the men?

The majority are looking for a nurse and a purse once their libidos and bodies start to wane. – 62 Married to a 75-Year-Old with No Reciprocity in Sight Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

self changing your mind, your thoughts and your daily course quite often today. Your agenda is unstable. Your moods swing and your chaotic work environment is mainly the cause of such concern. When it comes to imTuesday, Nov. 20 portant decisions: take a rain check.

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: CANCER (June 21-July 22): You find Joel McHale, 41; Angelica Bridges, 42; Bo yourself in a very amorous mood today.

Derek, 56; Feelings of comfort and ease THOUGHT OF THE DAY: bring the right amount of harVenus, the planet of worldly mony within your home. There achievement and popularity is in is a general vibe of wellness that a bewildered position right now. predominates within your houseWe might tend to be rather conhold. This is a beneficial time to fused and construct unrealistic redecorate your home. ideas in terms of what we feel LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The and love. We might encounter requirements of your personal some discordance in these matlife will be in discordance with ters today. The Moon in Pisces your partner’s needs. Their fitoday will remind us to be more nancial situation is too obtuse. humble and forgiving towards This imbalance will give you each other. some unwanted strain. For now, ASTRO HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today you prefer to keep your emotions DOYNA is your birthday, the year ahead private. you will find yourself experiencVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): ing private sentiments. Also, it Relating to others and communiwill bring along with it an emocation, in general, doesn’t come tionally fulfilling relationship that you will want too easy for you these days. Your ruler, Merto keep equally on the hidden side. You will cury, is in backwards motion these days: your find yourself spending more time closer to messages are more than usually misunderyour home, your roots and your parents. stood or judged too fast. Don’t be too hard on ARIES (March 21-April 19): This is a yourself either. great day to let out any emotional surcharges LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You accept that have been weighing on you lately. You the chaotic parts of your life as is. You recogare able to cope with this baggage of emo- nize that organized schedules and a planned tions pretty well and you are able to figure out routine are not the best components these the root of its problem. Once this burden is days. Chores are not clear at home, but do released, you will be able to move forward. whatever you can for now as long as it keeps TAURUS (April 20-May 20): During this you busy. time, you tend to be more tolerant and forgivSCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This is a ing towards your friends or co-workers. You great day for any artistic endeavors. Creative value warm feelings and a good company. and decorative urges are gracefully released Arts of any kind are highly prosperous. An right now. There’s no doubt that you are inencounter with a possible soul-mate is also a clined to express it somehow. Your imaginabig possibility! tion is tremendously high.

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Diabetes rates increase in some Southern states THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The nation’s diabetes problem is getting worse, and the biggest jump over 15 years was in Oklahoma, according to a new federal report issued Thursday.

The diabetes rate in Oklahoma more than tripled, and Kentucky, Georgia and Alabama also saw dramatic increases since 1995, the study showed.

The South’s growing weight problem is the main explanation, said Linda Geiss, lead author of the report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study.

“The rise in diabetes has really gone hand in hand with the rise in obesity,” she said.

Bolstering the numbers is the fact that more people with diabetes are living longer because better treatments are available.

The disease exploded in the United States in the last 50 years, with the vast majority from obesityrelated Type 2 diabetes.

In 1958, fewer than 1 in 100 Americans had been diagnosed with diabetes. In 2010, it was about 1 in 14.

Most of the increase has happened since 1990.

Diabetes is a disease in which the body has trouble processing sugar; it’s the nation’s seventh leading cause of death.

Complications include poor circulation, heart and kidney problems and nerve damage.

The new study is the CDC’s first in more than a decade to look at how the nationwide boom has played out in different states.

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are uncertain of a close relationship. You feel almost alone or left out somehow. This emptiness is compensated by the support and encouragement you are receiving from your friends. Deep down inside you know that they got your back.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Today you would like to catch up with your pals and share some good old stories. Pick up the phone and reach out. Your conversations might not be important, but sure enough, they will bring you some feelings of goodness.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your need to acquire certain possessions are not that re-

alistic at this time. Postpone any urges to buy anything expensive or, especially, anything electronic. Keep your receipts and ensure the store has a satisfactory return policy.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): During this phase you are in a dreamy state of mind. You are more sensitive and delicate to your immediate surroundings. Others might find you quite moody or hard to pin down. Evade yourself into some readings, movies or poetry.

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HOCKENHULL William (Bill) Hockenhull of Blackfalds passed away on November 16, 2012 at the age of 82 years. Bill grew up in the Chigwell area and went to school at Turville, completing his schooling in Lacombe. Upon completion of school, Bill helped farm until he was 25 years old.

After spending one year in the air force, Bill went north to Spirit River to homestead.

He farmed and worked in Northern Canada until 1980 and moved back to Central Alberta working in security.

Bill earned his pilot’s license and enjoyed retirement. He spent his time flying his own plane, hunting and many family gatherings. Bill is survived by one sister Gwen Duffy of Lacombe, and one s i s t e r i n l a w, I s a b e l l e Hockenhull, of Ponoka, plus numerous nieces, nephews and relatives. Funeral service will be held Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. at Wilson’s Funeral Chapel, 6120 Hwy 2A Lacombe. If desired, memorial contributions may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone: 403.782.3366, 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

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MARTENS Ruth Madeline After 88 years in this world and a full life of serving the Lord and ongoing adventures with Jesus, Ruth Martens was ushered into heaven on November 14th, 2012. Her husband of 67 years , Edgar, and their family, Joy (Ron) L a z e n b y, J e r r y ( S u s i e deceased) Martens, Jeanette (deceased) (Steve) Sundberg, and JoAnne (Tedd) Epp and their families invite all friends, and acquaintances, to a celebration of the gift of God that Ruth was to all of us.

The memorial service will be held at 1:00 pm on Thursday Nov 22, at Balmoral Bible Chapel, corner of Rutherford Drive and Highway 11, Red Deer, AB. Memorial contributions can be directed to the Gideons International, 501 Imperial Road North, Guelph, ON, N1H 7A2. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM, of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

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STANKIEVECH George James 1927-2012 It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of George James Stankievech of Trochu, Alberta on Wednesday, November 14, 2012. George was born in Huxley and lived all of his life in the County of Kneehill. He will be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by Verna, his wife of 40 years along with his children and grandchildren: Glen and Clare Stankievech (Jordan), Clint and Deb Stankievech (Chase), Debbie and Norm Silberstein, Andrew and Nicole Stankievech (Gavin), and Terrie and Darcey Steeves (Brady, Cassidy, Jacey). He is survived by his dear sister Victoria Lammle, brother Aaron (Margaret) Stankievech, and sister-in-law Lorena Stankievech as well as numerous nieces, nephews, and their families. George was predeceased by parents Andrew and Antonia (Zingle) Stankievech, first wife Gerda, daughter Jeannette, and siblings Percy, Stanley, John, Wa l t e r, L e o , a n d R u t h .

George was an extraordinary and well respected man. His life-long passions were farming, ranching and his family. He was a true gentleman who shared his strength, compassion, wisdom a n d guidance with his family and friends. He was always willing to help anyone in need. Funeral services will be held at 2 pm Wednesday, N o v e m b e r 2 1 a t Tr o c h u Community Hall. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Parkinson Society of Canada or St. Paul’s United Church.

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RED DEER BINGO Centre 4946-53 Ave. (West of Superstore). Precall 12:00 & 6:00. Check TV Today!!!!

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Caregivers/ Aides

710

MATURE, reliable, P/T LIVE-OUT Nanny for Professional Family in Anders w/ 6 yr. old girl and 4 yr. old boy.

Responsibilities: transporting children to school /activities; light housekeeping; preparation of some meals. A vehicle is a Must. Mon., Wed., & Fri. 8 - 5:30. Competitive wages & gas allowance monthly.

Please email ref’s & resume to: ttaylor16@hotmail.com Call 403-348-6433 P/T F. caregiver wanted for F quad. Must have own vehicle. 403-348-5456 or 505-7846

LAS VEGAS STYLE

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Check Us Out Progressive Pots @ www.reddeerbingocentre.ca OUR SPONSORS FOR THE WEEK: Tues. Nov. 20 Aft: Red Deer Senior Citizen’s Downtown House Eve: Red Deer Ski Club & Sylvan Lake Swim Club Wed. Nov. 21 Aft: Sylvan Lake Lions Club Eve: German Canadian Club Thurs. Nov. 22 Aft: Red Deer Elks Lodge Eve: Canadian Institute for the Blind Fri. Nov. 23 Aft: R.D.R.H. Voluntary Association Eve: Circle of Red Deer Seniors Society Sat. Nov. 24 Aft: Country Pride Dance Club Eve: Red Deer Citizen’s on Patrol Sun. Nov. 25 Aft: Red Deer Marlin Swim Club Eve: Sylvan Lake Swim Club & C.A. Slo-Pitch Assoc.

Mon. Nov. 26 Aft: R.D.R.H. Voluntary Association Eve: Olds Winter Swim Club

RED DEER BINGO CENTRE 4946-53 Ave. 347-4504 (Just West of Superstore) Check Us Out @ www.reddeerbingocentre.ca

Afternoon & Evening Bingo 7 Days a Week

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Sales & Distributors

Snow Cat Operators Landcore Technologies Inc. located in Ponoka is currently seeking energetic, motivated team players for the following positions:

Drillers and Driller Assistants with a Class 1 driver’s license.

Must have tickets and equipment experience.

403-348-1521 or 403-391-1695

METALSMITHS Bower Mall is looking for

Assistant Manager, and 1st. Key WINCH TRUCK Driver starting wage 14/hr.

Seeking driver for F/T posiplus monthly bonus, and tion. Higher than average industry wages. Benefits after 3 mo., Pre-employment drug screening.

Resume & abstract: dispatch@downtons.com Fax: 403-782-0913

TANKMASTER RENTALS

810

Q-TEST INSPECTION LTD.

s now accepting applications for CGSB Level II’s and CEDOS Work to start immediately & run through to spring break. Sub-contractors also needed. Phone 403-887-5630 or email qtestltd@telus.net

SERVICE RIG

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking an exp’d FLOORHAND and DERRICK HAND. Locally

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

TEAM Snubbing now hiring operators and helpers. Email: janderson@ teamsnubbing.com Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

TREELINE WELL SERVICES

Has Opening for all positions!

Immediately. All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement, First Aid We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits. Please include 2 work reference names and numbers Please fax resume to : 403-264-6725 Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please.

TREELINE WELL SERVICES Has openings for

Boiler Hands.

Immediately. All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement, First Aid We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits. Please include 2 work reference names and numbers Please fax resume to : 403-264-6725 Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please.

based, home every night!

Qualified applicants must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule.

Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Emai: hr@ bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

Oilfield

WE are looking for Rig Managers, Drillers, Derrick and Floor hands for the Red Deer area.

Please contact Steve Tiffin at stiffin@galleonrigs.com or (403) 358-3350 fax (403) 358-3326 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

health benefits. Also accepting for Full Time (40 hrs. a week) $12-$13 Part Time (20-30 hrs. a week) Apply in person or e-mail careers@metalsmiths.ca

Start your career!

requires CLASS 1 BED Apprentice or See Help Wanted TRUCK and TANK TRUCK Journeyman Operators for Central Mechanics Alberta. Competitive wages and benefits.

Pile Drive Operators Professionals m.morton@tankmaster.ca Pile Drive Assistants or fax 403-340-8818 Field Supervisor ASSISTANT REQUIRED All candidates must be able to pass a pre-employment drug test.

Safety tickets are an asset but we are willing to train the right candidate.

We offer exceptional pay, excellent benefit package and a positive work environment.

Please email resumes to info@landcore.ca or fax 403-783-2011.

The right candidates will be contacted for an interview.

Please no phone calls.

LOCAL SERVICE CO. REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475 LOCAL Testing company has equipment for longterm winter rental. Various sized P-Tanks Flare Stacks and Offices trailers.

All units are skid mounted Individual pricing available.

Call Sam@ 403 391-1693

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FOR MONTESSORI PRESCHOOL To start January 2013.

Must have Level 2 or 3 Early Childhood Certification.

Please fax applications to 403-342-0599

Restaurant/ Hotel

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Trades

850

AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE TECHNICIANS

(Volkswagen Master Technician Required)

820

Two full time, permanent positions in Red Deer, AB From $29.75/hr to $33.00/hr

RAMADA INN & SUITES req’s.

ROOM ATTENDANTS. Exp. preferred. Also BREAKFAST ROOM ATTENDANTS, early morning shifts, flexibility req’d. Only serious inquiries apply.

Rate $13.50/hr.

Drop off resume at: 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer or fax 403-342-4433

Vehicle maintenance, service, replace, fix, adjust systems and components, steering, brakes, suspension, transmission, electronics, electrical, engines and accessories.

Apply in person with resume and Volkswagen certification to: Dave @

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Gary Moe Volkswagen

The Olds Golf Club is searching for a

Hwy 2, West Side Gasoline Alley

Food & Beverage Manager

403.342.2923

for the 2013 season. Salary and job structure are negotiable. The Olds GC is one of the fastest growing clubs in Central Alberta and offers a very competitive salary and flexible working conditions to the successful candidate.

Call Wade Bearchell at 1- 800-310-9297 or email wade@airenet.com.

AFTERNOON SHIFT

CNC Operators DAYSHIFT

CNC Operators DAYSHIFT

QC Person THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for a well experienced F/T SERVER • Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

Sales & Distributors

830

SALES PERSON req’d P/T and F/T . Drop resume off at 5211 50 Ave. No phone calls please.

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Nexus Engineering is Currently looking for C.N.C OPERATORS. DUTIES INCLUDE, Set up of Mazak C.N.C lathe and running production runs, min. 3 years experience.

Also currently hiring a dayshift QC PERSON, Must be able to read measuring devices and blueprints for inspection of machined parts.

Trades

850

ESTABLISHED well known company looking for permanent f/t hourly tapers and p/t piece work tapers.

Please fax resume to 403-782-0610 email: ben@tpil.ca

Exp’d Residential Framer Req’d. or 3rd. or 4th yr Apprentice.

F/T employment, top wages and benefits, biwkly pay, Own transportation req’d. Call 357-6985 after 6 p.m. or email dani_richert@yahoo .com

First Choice Collision Seeking Journeyman or 2nd /3rd year apprentices.

Positions for body, prep and refinishing technicians needed for our car and light truck division. Top wages, bonus programs and benefit package. Fax resumes to (403) 343-2160; e-mail choice2@telusplanet.net or drop off in person @ #5, 7493, 49th Avenue Crescent, Red Deer.

800

Future Ag Inc. Attn: Paula Box 140 Rimbey, AB T0C 2J0 Fax (403) 843-2790 Email paulam@futureag.ca FUTURE AG, a progressive Case IH Equipment Dealer in Stettler is now accepting applications for a Parts Manager or Lead Counter Parts person. Live the life style of Central Alberta and be home at night. Work for one of the few family owned dealerships where we care about our employees and customers.

Successful candidate will be a team player with strong social skills.

Counter and Management experience an asset.

Computer literacy and knowledge of DIS Parts program a definite asset but not mandatory.

Every person can make a difference in the world.

CENTRAL AB contractor requires safety officer to help implement & maintain safety programs. Reply to Box 1019, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., R. D., AB T4R 1M9

Amperage Energy In is an emerging and growing oil & gas service company with mobile onsite water recycling solutions and fixed plant operations. We are committed to conducting our operations safely, in a socially and environmentally responsible manner.

Amperage Energy Inc is currently seeking highly motivated

Field Based Equipment Operators & Supervisors

Trades

Duties and responsibilities include the following: • Operating mobile/semi-permanent equipment in a field operations setting • Onsite tracking of fluid volumes cleaned • Minor repairs to equipment as needed

If you are looking for a rewarding career with a successful and growing organization, then forward your resume to: Future Ag Inc. Attn: Human Resources Box 489 Red Deer, AB T4N 5G1 Fax 403-342-0396 or email to karinw@futureag.ca Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Trades

850

GEMINI is Hiring for Ponoka Fabrication Shop JOURNEYMAN MILLWRIGHT Mechanical experience Experience in welding manufacturing Plant maintenance Experience in maintenance of Overhead Cranes Please send resumes to Hmorrow@geminicorp.ca Local company looking for experienced residential and commercial service technician with current Alberta gas/plumbing ticket.

Benefit package after 3 months, wages based on experience. Email: info@serviceplumbing.ca or fax to (403) 342-2025 LOCAL Drywall company seeking Steel Stud Framers and Drywallers.

403-588-4614, 588-4615

MICRON INDUSTRIES is a licensed inspection facility specializing in cryogenic tank repairs and is currently seeking a HD Mechanic, min 2nd yr apprentice. Trailer experience preferred. Weekdays 7:00-4:30. No eves or wknd work. Exc. working conditions. Benefits after 3 months. Fax resume to 403-346-2072 or email patty.micron@telus.net

Shipper / Receiver

AES INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES LTD. looking for an energetic/ enthusiastic individual for our receiving department.

Fax resume to 403-342-0233 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

WORK FOR THE EMPLOYER OF CHOICE IN THE SECURITY INDUSTRY! Securitas Canada is looking for new team members with the drive for success, deliver outstanding customer service and the ability to grow and develop.

Police services are more interested in candidates who have previous security / law enforcement experience.

Securitas is the place to work at if you are interested in working for the top employer in the security industry, developing yourself as a security specialist, taking benefit from our training and education as well as developing your own career plan. Would you like to make the society safer? Come join us at Securitas.

No Experience required.

We will train you!!

No uniform costs!!

Excellent Wages and Benefits!!

Working with teams of Professionals!!

Position located in Red Deer/Blackfalds (Please apply to the Edmonton Area) **YOU MUST APPLY AT WWW. SECURITASJOBS.CA OR YOUR APPLICATION WILL NOT BE RECEIVED** - Integrity - Vigilance Helpfulness Securitas Canada celebrates diversity and we welcome and encourage applications from the four designated groups; namely women, aboriginal people, visible minorities and persons with disabilities.

Truckers/ Drivers

860

CLASS 1 DRIVER Must have super B exp., all oilfield tickets, hauling NGL, & clean abstract.

Fax 403-347-2940 Attn: Bill

EXPERIENCED

Vacuum & Water Truck operators req’d. to start immed.

CLASS 1 or 3 WITH Q All oilfield safety tickets req’d. Clean drivers abstract. Must comply with drug and alcohol policy.

References Req’d.

Exc. salary & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-742-5376 hartwell@telus.net F/T. Class 1 drivers to haul NGL butane Super B’s, must be over 25 yrs., EMAIL: dreaddriving@gmail.com

TANKMASTER RENTALS req’s FULL TIME

APPRENTICE MECHANIC

Service Plumbers

Better than competitive wages & benefits package.

Ref’s req’d.

Please fax resume to: 403-342-7894 Attn: Brad or call 403-343-6100

850

McMullen’s Refrigeration & Heating is a well established business in FUTURE AG in Rimbey is Red Deer. We are a now accepting applications growing business looking for an Agricultural for great people to add to Technician / Heavy Duty our professional team.

Mechanic with Ag Customer service skills are experience. Live the life required. These are the style of Central Alberta and positions currently be home at night. Work for available and training will one of the few family be provided, along with owned dealerships where excellent wages and we care about our embenefit packages: ployees and customers.

-Journeyman/Apprentice Refr. Technician We offer: -Refrigeration Sales and Service Manager • Competitive Wages -Plumber/Boiler • Annual work boot Technician/Apprentice reimbursement -Sheet Metal Estimator • RRSP Plan and Sales • Benefit Package -Sheet Metal Journeyman/ • Sick Days Apprentice • Tuition reimbursement Please phone John @ program for apprentices 403-342-1155 or email • Monthly Bonus john.hirney@ mcmullens.ca.

If you are looking for a You can sell your guitar rewarding career with a for a song... successful and growing organization, then forward or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you! your resume to:

We offer competitive wages, benefits and a RRSP plan.

Please forward resumes to resume@ We offer: nexusengineering.ca • Competitive Wages ARROW PLUMBING • A n n u a l W o r k b o o t reimbursement SERVICES LTD. • RRSP Plan • Benefits Package WANTED EXPERIENCED Days 3rd yr. - Journeyman •• Sick Monthly Bonus

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Trades

Send resume to m.morton@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Truckers/ Drivers

LOCAL ACID Transport company looking for exp’d’ F/T Class 1 truck driver & pressure truck operator.

Top wages and exc. benefit pkg.

Fax resume and driver’s abstract to 403-346-3766 WANTED Class 1 drivers with propane, butane, LPG mix in Central AB. Must have all tickets Fax resume to 403-887-6110 or Call Dennis at 403-588-5836

Truckers/ Drivers

860

RONCO OILFIELD HAULING, Sylvan Lake based rig movers/heavy haulers seeking Swampers, mechanics, picker operators, bed truck drivers and winch tractor drivers. Top wages and benefits, Phone 887-4873., email rigmovers2012@ gmail.com Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Business Opportunities

870

TIRED OF working for an idiot? Earn big money.

Have free time.

1-250-764-4404

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ADULT & Youth Carrier Needed For Delivery of Flyers, Express & Sunday Life in JOHNSTONE PARK Jacobs Close James, Johns St. & Jewell St. ORIOLE PK WEST Orr Dr. & Osler Cr ALSO Oberg, Orchid, Oscar Cr & Overand Place RIVERSIDE MEADOWS 59 & 60 St. ********** Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

860

850 DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

The successful candidate should possess the following skills and attributes: • Oil & Gas operating background • Mechanical & technical aptitude • Clean/current 5 year driver abstract • All Oil & Gas industry safety tickets • Education and experience in water treatment, or pumping services is ideal, but not required • Class 1 drivers license an asset • Experience and understanding of MS Word, Excel, and Outlook an asset

Email resume to nicole@amperageenergy.com or by fax to 403-932-4276 with a current/clean 5 year drivers abstract & safety tickets.

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Pidherney’s is growing and requires experienced Class 1 drivers to work out of our NEW Blackfalds facility:

Welding and Manufacturing Ltd.

designs, engineers and manufactures custom oilfield equipment for international clients.

We operate seven manufacturing facilities in Innisfail, Alberta and employ over 175 people.

With your long-term interests in mind, we provide you with ample opportunities to achieve your career goals.

If you would like to be a part of our growing and dynamic team of professionals in your field, we are currently seeking:

End Dump Drivers Truck and Wagon Drivers Super B Drivers Lowbed Drivers

HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC JOURNEYMAN

This is a full-time permanent shop position with competitive starting Wages and benefits packages including Health, RRSP and Tool Allowance programs.

Please Fax resume to 403-227-7796, or Email to hr@bilton.ca

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Extensive experience with the maintenance and repair of mobile equipment such as forklift, genie lift, overhead cranes etc. a definite asset.

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Red Deer Mini Job Fair Wednesday, November 21 9:00 a.m. – Noon Alberta Works Centre 2nd Floor, First Red Deer Place 4911 – 51 Street

Successful candidate must be: • Customer service oriented.

• Energetic and physically fit.

• Able to work flexible hours and Saturdays We Offer: • Possibility for advancement.

• Ongoing professional training.

• Competitive remuneration.

• Excellent medical and dental benefits.

Fax resume in confidence to:

More Information: Call 403-340-5353 Come for refreshments, bring your updated resume, and speak with employers

Participating Employers: r CBI Home Health r Cameron Driver Education r Canadian Blood Services r Central Alberta Refugee Effort r Central Alberta Tile One r Diversified Staffing r Ensign Energy r Investors Group r McLevin Industries 272053K22

403.309.3860

www.southsidereddeer.com

Fax resume to Human Resources 403-845-5370 Or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com

for a job?

Journeyman Technician

2804 Gaetz Ave., Red Deer

Top wages paid based on experience Assigned units Scheduled days off Valid safety tickets an asset

Looking

REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY

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r Pizza Hut r Securitas r Sun Life r TMS Wireless r The Place to Mortgage r United Parcel Service r Westridge Cabinets

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012 D3

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED

CARRIERS NEEDED

For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in

For delivery of Red Deer Advocate by 6:30 a.m.

Mon. through Fri. & 8:00. .am. on Saturday in

FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

LANCASTER AREA 77 papers $412/mo.

Ainsworth Crsc.

Asmundsen Ave. Archibald Crsc.

Arnold Close/ Amlee Close

DEER PARK Dempsey St. area $45/mo.

ALSO Duston St. Donnelly Crsc., area Densmore Crs. Dale Close $270/mo.

LANCASTER 1/2 of Lampard Crsc $65/mo.

ALSO Lenon Close, Lacey Close, Landry Bend area $76/mo.

ALSO Logan Close Lee St. & Lawrence Crsc. area $158/mo.

MICHENER West of 40th Ave. North of Ross St. area $245.00/mo.

Good for adult w/a small car .

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in MOUNTVIEW WEST LAKE Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate 6 days per week in MOUNTVIEW 83 Advocate $435/mo. $5229/yr 1-1/2 hrs. per day ALSO SOUTH HILL 83 Advocate $435/mo. $5229/YR. 1 Hr. per day.

BOWER AREA

DEER PARK Dempsey St. area 79 papers $423/mo.

ALSO Davison Dr. area 101 papers $541/mo.

Barrett Dr. Bettenson St. Best Crsc./ Berry Ave. NGLEWOOD Ingram Close

ALSO Clearview Ridge Timberlands area 59 papers $376/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info

LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Drive Lindsay Ave. Langford Cres.

Law Close/ Lewis Close

BRAD’S PALLETS, looking for workers. 403-350-4671

SUNNYBROOK AREA

CARPET COLOUR CENTRE is currently seeking a warehouse person.

Responsibilities include: shipping/receiving, forklift operation, and inventory control. Please submit resume attn: Rick Wiebe #1100 5001-19 St. Red Deer, AB T4R 3R1 Phone 1-403-343-7711 or fax 403-342-0220

Sherwood Cres.

VANIER AREA Viscount Dr./ Violet Place Victor Close Vold Close

CIRCULATION

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info

Service Runner (Part Time)

Do You: - Want extra income - Possess a clean, valid drivers license - Have a friendly attitude - Enjoy customer service - Want part-time work (12 to 22 hours per week)

********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300

CUSTOMER SERVICE As part of our customer service team, you will be A locally owned industrial dispatched in response to supply company is looking service concerns to deliv- for an energetic person for inside sales. E-mail ery newspapers and flyers resume to mark@ to customers or carriers. A aesreddeer.com delivery vehicle is provided.

DISPATCHER req’d.

Hours of shifts are Monday Knowledge of Red Deer through Friday 5 a.m. to and area is essential.

9 a.m. or longer, and/or Good communication, afternoon shifts Monday to skills both verbal and writFriday 2 p.m. - 6 p.m.. ten. Must have effective Saturday and Sunday, 7 time management skills a.m.-11 a.m. or longer and able to multi task in a fast paced environment.

Submit resume, indicating Experience preferred, but “Service Runner Position”, will train suitable applicant. along with your drivers Send resume by fax to abstract immediately to: 403-346-0295 careers@ reddeeradvocate.com DOOR SECURITY or mail to: X-Static is now accepting Human Resources applications for P/T 2950 Bremner Avenue Experienced Door Personnel Red Deer, AB. T4N 5G3 Apply in person, after 3 pm or fax to: 403-341-4772 We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only selected candidates will be contacted.

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for Afternoon delivery in Bowden & Innisfail.

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Community Support Worker

CARRIERS REQUIRED to deliver the Central AB. Life Within the towns of Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

Accepting registrations for 6 mo. Community Support Worker Program. Incld’s GED, Career Planning & Work Experience.

Funding may be avail. which incl. tuition, living allowance, and books.

403-340-1930 Academic Express Adult Education & Training www.academicexpress.ca

Call Rick at 403-314-4303

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ROSEDALE AREA 72 papers $386/mo.

ANDERS AREA

Please contact QUITCY

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com

Employment Training

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SUBWAY All Red Deer Locations Hiring Immediately

IS looking to fill the following positions in the: HINTON AND FOX CREEK LOCATION * Oilfield Construction Supervisors * Oilfield Construction Lead Hands * Stainless and Carbon Welders * B-Pressure Welders * Pipefitters * Experienced Pipeline Equipment Operators * Experienced oilfield labourers * Industrial Painters * 7-30 tonne Picker Truck Operator with Class 1 H2S Alive ( Enform), St. John (Red Cross) standard first aid) & in-house drug and alcohol tests are required.

Please submit resume to hr@alstaroc.com or Fax to 780-865-5829 Quote job #66962 on resume LABOURER/OPERATIONS ASSISTANT - Tracking, Filing, Data Entry, Management Skills & experience, Proficient with Word, Excel.

Excellent verbal & written communication skills Loading, unloading materials up to 100 lbs.

Available day, evening, weekends and on call.

Own Transportation. Email: custbulk@xplornet.com or Fax 403-340-2250

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Career Planning

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Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

1550

Building Supplies

Also afternoon delivery in Town of Springbrook 1 day per wk.

No collecting!!

Please contact QUITCY

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com

60% OFF brand new patio door. Gentek patio door energy saving sealed unit foot and key locks. $850 Call 403-340-2777

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Children's Items

DELUXE NURSERY SET Jungle Animals in browns & greens. Includes fitted sheet, comforter, bed ruffle, balance curtains, musical mobile (Braun’s Lullaby) & lamp. $150.

403-746-2456

1590

Clothing

PHONE BOOKS

Earn extra money for Xmas by delivering the new Yellow Pages Phones books into Red Deer, Sylvan Lake, & Innisfail. Must have own vehicle. This is door to door delivery. Can start immediately, no selling involved, part time.

Call 1-800-661-1910 SOURCE ADULT VIDEO requires mature P/T help 7 am-3 pm. weekends Fax resume to: 403-346-9099 or drop off to: 3301-Gaetz Avenue Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

THE Society of Filipino Workers in Alberta is looking for temporary workers who for some reason lost their jobs to help them find new employers and help them process their work permit free of charge.

There is an opening in Red Deer to work as a cook in a Restaurant & Pub this coming Jan. 2013. For more info: Please call: Shan at 1-780-933-6518 or email at: gmesa_18@live.ca

DRESS, blue suede leather, size 12 with matching purse. $45. Red suede leather jacket & skirt, size 12; $65; black leather pants, size 12, $55; black suede leather dress, size 12, $45. 587-272-0937

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EquipmentHeavy

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

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Farmers' Market

BROWN EGGS AND LAMB now has free range pork : gourmet hams and sausage. Phone 403-782-4095

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Firewood

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

Spruce, Pine, Birch Spilt, Dry. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

900

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275

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*NEW!* Asian Relaxation Massage Downtown RD 587-377-1298 Open Mon.Fri. daily 11am - 6 pm.

Furnishings

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3/4” BOXSPRING & MATTRESS TO GIVE AWAY. 403-347-5316 ELEGANT OAK HALL TABLE 53 x 17.5 with mirror 36 x 22 for $100. †Glass door insert, 22 x 66 mint.

403-342-1980 MOVING - MUST SELL White storage unit with 5 shelves, on castors; $40; white clothes unit with upper shelf and clothes bar, $40’ 4 stacking chairs, metal frame with wooden seats and backs, $10 ea.; work bench, solid wood, very sturdy with lower shelf, $60.

403-314-2026 OLDER wooden tv stand for large tv $75 obo 403-782-3031

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

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6’ NORTHERN FIR CHRISTMAS TREE & STAND. Very good cond. $35. 403-346-4926

FISH TANK

60 gal. tank & black stand, all accessories as well as a full stock of South African Cichilds (including babies), 3 cat fish & one large plecostomos.

New Fluval 405 filter, canopy with lights, & heater all replaced within the last year.

Great Christmas Present!!

Cost for everything if buying new would be over $1400. Asking $500.

403-346-7778 MOVING - MUST SELL or 403-506-7117 ONE box of Christmas colored lights & 4 stringers, also 1 mini light set, All for $5; All metal 6 cu. ft. wheel barrow w/rubber tire, $50; Cats Craftsman 45 litre shop vac, w/all attachments. 2 P.B., F, Manx kittens, 6 N e e d s n e w f i l t e r, $ 1 5 ; wks., Calico, $50 each obo tailgate protector & cargo 403-340-3338 organizer (new) for Ford 5 FREE KITTENS,3 black, Ranger club cab, both for $20; 4 garage sale sign 2 grey,Blue Russian Tuxeh o l d e r s , w o o d w / m e t a l do X, very cute, ready for spikes for easy set up; $2. good home/farm/acreage, good mousers, ea.; 10 litre gas can, $6; litter trained special made Ice fishing 403-886-4852 pick, $35; large spider 403-588-6505 plant, needs repotting, $7; large rubber plant, $8; 1 BEAUTIFUL affectionate pair men’s toe rubbers, young F. cat, needs loving size 8, 1 pair men’s zipper home. To give away rubbers, size 8, both for $5 403-782-3130 5 large box of men’s and SIAMESE ladies clothing, size med.

ALSO BELANISE to large, coats, jackets, (3) KITTENS FOR SALE socks, etc. $5. per box. $60 each obo.

403-314-2026 403-887-3649 PASTRY cooler, stainless steel, 4’l, 23”w, 31”h, 2 shelves, runs but not cool- Dogs ing $50 403-728-3485

1830

1840

LABRA DOODLE PUPS F 1 $700; F1 B $900 2 YR health Guaranteed. awesome bloodlines, ready now until Christmas Hold with deposit.

Ph. 403-919-1370 306-792-2113 www.furfettishfarm.ca

SINGER sewing machine, portable, Ingenuity 7436 model. Asking $150. obo.

SOLD

★

A Star Makes Your Ad A Winner!

CAPE COD glasses, water goblet, wine glasses, desert dishes, new, all in boxes, $100/set, call 403-343-1112

1860

Sporting Goods

CALL:

309-3300 To Place Your Ad In The Red Deer Advocate Now!

FIREPLACE, woodburning Drolet Eldorado, incld’s all pipes. Brand new, never used. $1100. obo.

403-274-6825 (Calgary) or cell 403-850-3831

CCM SPORTS EQUIPMENT BAG, $10.

403-347-5316 TREADMILL, Weslo WCTL model #35090. $200.

Exc. cond. SOLD

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CLUBS & GROUPS www.writers-ink.net Club for writers - meets weekly

REAL ESTATE RENTALS www.homefinders.ca Phone 403-340-3333

SHOPPING www.fhtmca.com/derekwiens Online Mega Mall 403-597-1854

VACATIONS www.radkeoutfitting.com AB Horseback Vacations 403-340-3971

COMPUTER REPAIR

WEB DESIGN

www.albertacomputerhygiene.com

affordablewebsitesolution.ca

AB, Computer Hygiene Ltd. 896-7523

Design/hosting/email $65/mo.

wegotservices CLASSIFICATIONS

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

1000-1430

requires:

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

HEAVY DUTY TIRE TECHNICIAN

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

270636K9-27

We are looking for a full-time permanent tire technician for our Rocky Mountain House location.

Accounting

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

• Competitive industry wages • Fully equipped modern facility Fax resume to Human Resources: 272178K21

403-845-5370 Or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com

1810

Pets & Supplies

1710

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

Also for the afternoon in Town of Penhold!

1760

Misc. for Sale

DIEFENBACHIA plant $5; asparagus plant $5; large spider plant $18; Company’s Coming 6 bks $3 each, Chicken Soup for Food Counter Attendants the soul 5 at 3 each, Are you looking for a career Household Flower frog $4. opportunity with excellent Appliances Large square tupperware benefits, a mature working container $4; 4 cup electric environment and opportunity APPLS. reconditioned lrg. coffee pot $4; hand turned to advance? If so, Subway selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. juicer $8; Old wooden crib has a position for you! board 3 collar track, $5. warr. Riverside Appliances Please apply online @ Old oval fruit bowl, $25.

403-342-1042 mysubwaycareer.com or Call 403-346-2231 B.B.Q. Patio Chef Drop resume off in person complete with propane at 180, 6900 Taylor Drive MANUALS, hardcover tank and cover, like new, Or email to books (8) for older vehicles used once. $100. careers@rdsubway.com from 1962 - 1973. All 403-314-2026 or Call us at 403-342-0203 Chev, GMC, Pontiac & Buick etc. $25. ea. obo.

403-783-2653, 783-0074 Household

Auctions NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for The Town of Olds No collecting!

Packages come ready for delivery!

1700

Health & Beauty

19166TFD28

880

Misc.

Help

Misc.

Help

880

Cleaning

1070

ALL-CLEAN

Exp’d, reliable, reasonable rates. Jane 403-755-7292

Contractors

1100

BRIAN’S DRYWALL Framing, drywall, taping, textured & t-bar ceilings, 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980

COUNTERTOPS

Wes Wiebe 403-302-1648

is expanding its facility to double production.

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts:

RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

- Concrete Finishers - Carpenters/Woodworkers

SIDING, Soffit, Fascia Prefering non- combustible fibre cement, canexel & smart board, Call Dean @ 302-9210.

Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at www. eaglebuilders.ca. Applicants are able to apply online or fax resumes to Human Resources 403-885-5516 or e-mail: k.kooiker@eaglebuilders.ca.

272825K19-L30

Top Wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included.

Escorts

1165

*LEXUS* 403-392-0891 INDEPENDENT

Escorts

1165

BEAUTIFUL college girl ROXY 403-848-2300 EROTICAS PLAYMATES Girls of all ages www.eroticasplaymates.net 403-598-3049 LEXI, Blonde, Babe, 27. No Agency Fees 403-396-8884 Sinfully Sweet Seductive Beauties. 403-550-0732 mydiamondgirls.org

Fireplaces

1175

TIM LLOYD. WETT certified.

Inspections, installs, chimney sweeps & service 403-340-0513

Handyman Services

1200

GREYSTONE Handyman Services. Reasonable rates. Ron, 403-396-6089

Massage Therapy

1280

* NEW * Executive Touch.

Relaxation massage for men. 5003A - Ross St. Mon-Fri 11am-6pm 348-5650 CHINESE MASSAGE new owner, free parking, 4606 48 Ave. Open 7 a.m.9 p.m. 7 days a wk.

Phone 403-986-1691

Massage Therapy

1280

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

VII MASSAGE

Feeling overwhelmed?

Hard work day? Come in and let us pamper you.

Pampering at its best. #7 7464 Gaetz Ave.(rear entrance if necessary) www.viimassage.biz In/Out Calls to Hotels 403-986-6686

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666 CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res. Locally owned.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca FREE removal of all kinds of unwanted scrap metal.

No household appliances 403-396-8629

IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles and industrial.

Serving central Alberta.

403-318-4346

Moving & Storage

1300

BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315

Painters/ Decorators

1310

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

PAINTING BY DAVE Interior, Exterior, New Construction. Comm/Indust.

2 Journeyman w/over 50 yrs exp. %15 discount for seniors. Free estimates.

All work guaranteed.

403-307-4798

Seniors’ Services

1372

ATT’N: SENIORS Are you looking for help on small reno’s or jobs, such as, new bathroom sink, toilets or trimming small trees. Call James 403- 341-0617

HELPING HANDS For Seniors. Cleaning, cooking, companionship in home or in facility.

Call 403-346-7777 Gentle Touch Massage Better For Cheaper with a 4919 50 St. New rear entry, YARD maintenance, snow Low Price Guarantee. lots of parking 403-341-4445 shovelling, 403-318-7625 helpinghandshomesupport.com

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1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

3060

Suites

2 & 3 bdrm. suites.

Heat/water/parking incl., Large suites with yards Some with washer/dryer Call 403-342-2899

2000-2290

LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

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FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

AVAIL. Jan. 1, main flr, updated Westpark home, 4 bdrms, 1 1/2 baths, dbl. heated garage, bonus rm., w/ fireplace, fridge, stove, shared laundry. 1 yr. lease, no pets, n/s. $1550 rent /d.d ph. or text 403-391-2292

QUIET LOCATION

Large 1 bdrm. adults only.

Heat/water/parking incl.

Call 403-342-2899

3030

3 BDRM. townhouse/ condo, 5 appls., 2 blocks from Collicutt Centre. $1200/mo. + utils, incl. condo fees. 403-346-4868

Kirsch Cl. 2 Bdrm.

Townhouse. Sm. Pet. Deck, 5 appls. NOW $1295 + UTIL. Hearthstone 403-314-0099

KITSON CLOSE

newer exec. 3 bdrm. bi-level townhouse 1447 sq. ft. 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, lg. balcony, fenced in rear, front/rear parking, no dogs, rent $1395 SD $1000. n/s Avail.

Dec. 1 403-304-7576 / 347-7545

Kyte/Kelloway Cres.

Lovely 3 level exec.

3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, concrete patio, blinds, front/rear parking, no dogs, n/s, rent $1395 SD $1000 Avail. Dec. 1.

403-304-7576 or 347-7545 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

Riverside Meadows

Avail Dec 15, 3 bdrm, 1.5 bath townhouse, newly paint, 4 appl, $1150 + util, $1100 SD, N/P, N/S, PM 294 - 11, 5943 60A St Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca

Manufactured Homes

3040

Newly Reno’d Mobile FREE Shaw Cable + more $899/month Sharon 403-550-8777

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

ACROSS from park, 3 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $975/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. Dec. 1, 403-304-5337

Manufactured Homes

Roommates Wanted

3080

NEWER split level on a quiet street in Sylvan Lake.

Accommodations in exchange for housekeeping. Female only. Call 403-864-4435.

Rooms For Rent

3090

1 BDRM. bsmt, shared kitchen, prefer employed or student. Avail. Nov. 30.

403-342-7789, 358-0081

3120

1400 TO 2240 SQ. FT.† 4C, 6842 Gaetz Ave N Phone Gordon 403-350-7619

Burnt Lake Industrial #310, Burnt Park Way. 12,960 sq. ft. on 2 acres 30 ft. ceilings, 4 - 5 ton cranes. 600v power.

Phone Gordon 403-350-7619

Warehouse Space

3140

Mobile Lot

3190

4090

Lots For Sale

2009 F250 HD 4x4 XLT Super crew, loaded, command start, great shape inside & out $10,900. 403-348-9746

MOBILE HOME PAD, in Red Deer Close to Gaetz, 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Sharon 403-550-8777

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homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Houses For Sale

4020

BY OWNER 1300 sq. ft.

1/2 duplex located in The Fountains gated community bordering on Red Deer Golf & Country Club, 2 bdrms. + den, 2 1/2 baths, bsmt. finished w/approx.

900 sq. ft. living space + storage room, recent reno w/hardwood flooring, granite kitchen counter tops, 5 appls, 2 car garage, one of the best locations in Red Deer. 403-506-9491 FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

2008 FORD F-350 LARIAT FULLY SERVICED 4x4, turbo diesel, htd. lthr., res & duplex lots in Lacombe. sunroof, nav., $35,888, Builders terms or owner 348-8788 Sport & Import will J.V. with investors or subtrades who wish to become home builders. Great returns. Call 403-588-8820

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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS

5030

Cars

2004 DODGE 1/2 ton quad cab 4x4. New tires. Great cond. $7000. 403-506-9632

2007 PONTIAC G6 SE sedan. Lady driven ,loaded. 103,000 km. $7300. 403-348-9746 2001 DODGE Ram 1500.

Q/cab. loaded 403-596-6995

Vans Buses 2007 LINCOLN MARK LT 4x4, lthr., nav., $26,888 348- 8788 Sport & Import

1993 FORD Ranger, paint like new, 4x4, s/b, V6 auto., $3500. obo.

403-347-5500

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1999 POLARIS RANGER 6X6 one owner, low hours, 3500 warn winch, $7888 348-8788 Sport & Import

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

5200

A1 RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal. We travel. AMVIC approved. 403-396-7519 REMOVAL of unwanted cars, may pay cash for complete cars. 304-7585 216751

SUV's

5040

WANTED FREE REMOVAL of unwanted cars and trucks, also wanted to buy lead batteries, call 403-396-8629

Misc.

Automotive

5240

THE Last Ride Auto Undertakers Deceased vehicle removal service 403-343-6377

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Classified. It’s the easy-to-access, information-packed marketplace visited regularly — by all kinds of consumers.

400/month lot Rent incl. Cable

$

Sharon (403) 550-8777 264155J1-K30

Renter’s Special

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Classified. It’s the resource you can count on to sell a myriad of merchandise items because our columns compel qualified buyers to call.

FREE Cable 2 & 3 bedroom

modular/mobile homes

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Starting at

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5150

Buy it.

20,000with Intro

Sharon (403) 550-8777

5070

2008 HONDA Odyssey, 107,000 kms., $18,900.

403-341-4995

ATV's

2008 TOYOTA Highlander, Limited edit. in exc. cond., 1 owner, no pets, n/s, V6, a.t., 4WD, nav. system, JBL sound system, back up camera, sunroiof, keyless entry, trailer hitch, running boards, $19,900 to view call or text 403-340-9110

A MUST SEE!

849

2007 GMC Sierra SLE 1500 4x4 airbags with compressor, $19888 3488788 Sport & Import

5000-5300

NEW HOMES! 403.342.4544 MasonMartinHomes.com

www.lansdowne.ca

2008 GMC Sierra 2500 4x4, 39000 kms $23888 348-8788 Sport & Import

4160

LACOMBE new park, animal friendly. Your mobile or ours. 2 or 3 bdrm.

Excellent 1st time home buyers. 403-588-8820

with Laminate Flooring, new carpet, newly painted

$

by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MUST SELL

By Owner $7,000.

Sharon 403-550-8777

4860 SQ. FT. dock level warehouse. Dock levelers on all overhead doors #130, 4770 Riverside Drive Phone Gordon 403-350-7619

Newly Renovated Mobile Home Only

Manufactured Homes

Truce presented in Egypt but threats of escalation if talk fail israel-gaza

7 ACRES, all utilities, road, $353,000. Near Red Deer, 403-227-5132

3130

Industrial

3040

$

4050

2010 DODGE Power Wagon 2500 SLT 4x4, winch $26,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

You Looking?

Large 1 bdrm. adult suite.

Heat/water/parking incl’d.

Call 403-342-2899

Stores/

Condos/ Townhouses

Acreages

2 bdrm., balcony. 3 appl., No pets. Only $995 + Elect.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099

Main Flr. Hewson Ave. Commercial

UPPER Duplex. 3 bdrm, 2 bath. 5 appls. & central Vac. Johnstone Crossing.

403-346-4314

IMMAC. retirement home in quiet neighborhood, no stairs, walk-in shower, 5 appls. 2 bdrm., murphy bed, sprinkler system, a/c, sunroom, r.v. parking stall in back yard. $275,000.

403-346-7920 for appt. to view

Riverside Apts.

GLENDALE CLEAN, quiet, responsible, Avail Dec 1, 3 bdrm, 1 Furn. $525. 403-346-7546 bath 1/2 duplex, 5 appl, fenced backyard, $1025 + PINES Area, furnished.

100% pwr, 55% gas, 50% 2 ref’s req’d, incld’s cable, water, $975 SD, N/S, No fridge, microwave n/s, no pets, PM 257 - 51A drinking, drugs or pets, Gibson Cl - Sim Mgmt & parties. $500. rent, Realty 403-340-0065 ext $200. d.d. 403-357-8097 412 www.simproperties.ca 3 bdrm. 2 bath, No pets.

NOW $1475 incl UTIL. Hearthstone 403-314-0099

5050

YOU Looking?

AGRICULTURAL

2140

Trucks

Clean, quiet bldg.

Call 318-0901.

Balcony. No pets, 5 appl.

NOW $1295 incl UTIL. Hearthstone 403-314-0099

Horses

4020

1 & 2 BDRM. APTS.

2 Bdrm. Apt. Lawford

CLASSIFICATIONS

Houses For Sale

CALL 309-3300

Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers traded fire and tough cease-fire proposals Monday, and threatened to escalate their border conflict if diplomacy fails. No deal appeared near.

An Israeli airstrike targeting a Gaza media centre killed a senior militant and engulfed the building in flames. The Israeli military said the Islamic Jihad were using space there as a command centre.

Gaza fighters fired 95 rockets at southern Israeli cities, nearly onethird of them intercepted by an Israeli missile shield.

A total of 38 Palestinians were killed Monday. Two more Palestinians were killed in airstrikes past midnight, bringing the death toll since the start of Israel’s offensive to 111, including 56 civilians. Some 840 people have been wounded, including 225 children, Gaza heath officials said. Three Israeli civilians have been killed and dozens have been wounded.

Over the weekend, civilian casualties in Gaza rose sharply after Israel began targeting the homes of what it said were suspected militants.

Two such strikes late Monday killed five people — a father and his 4-year-old twin sons in northern Gaza and two people in the south, medics said.

Jamal Daloo, who lost his wife, a son, four grandchildren and five other members of his family in an attack Sunday, sat in quiet mourning Monday next to the ruins of his home, his face streaked with tears.

“The international public opinion witnessed the facts,” he said, speaking as his 16-year-old daughter, Yara, was still missing under the rubble being cleared away by bulldozers. “This does not require my words.”

The Israeli military says Gaza militants fire rockets from residential areas. Late Monday it released footage it said showed was a miliant weapons depot hidden in a Gaza neighbourhood.

Egypt, the traditional mediator between Israel and the Arab world, was at the centre of a flurry of diplomatic activity Monday. Egyptian intelligence officials met separately in Cairo with an Israeli envoy and with Khaled Mashaal, the top Hamas leader in exile.

Hamas wants Israel to halt all attacks on Gaza and lift tight restrictions on trade and movement in and out of the territory that have been in place since Hamas seized Gaza by force in 2007. Israel demands an end to rocket fire from Gaza and a halt to weapons smuggling into Gaza through tunnels under the border with Egypt.

With positions far apart on a comprehensive deal, some close to the negotiations suggested Egypt is first seeking a halt to fighting before other conditions are discussed. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks are in a sensitive stage.

Mashaal told reporters that Hamas would only agree to a cease-fire if its demands are met. “We don’t accept Israeli conditions because it is the aggressor,” he said. “We want a cease-fire along with meeting our demands.”

Mashaal also suggested that Israel’s threat of invading Gaza was simply a ploy. He said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is waving the threat of a ground offensive and asking the world to pressure Egypt, Turkey and Qatar, so they pressure Hamas.”

“He wants to negotiate with us under fire to impose his conditions, pretending he is acting from a position of strength,” Mashaal said.

Israeli leaders have repeatedly threatened to widen the offensive, saying an invasion is an option. Israel has amassed troops on the Gaza border and begun calling up thousands of reservists.

Still, an Israeli official emphasized

that Israel hopes to find a diplomatic solution.

“We prefer the diplomatic solution if it’s possible. If we see it’s not going to bear fruit, we can escalate,” he said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the diplomatic efforts under way. He added that Israel wants international guarantees that Hamas will not rearm or use Egypt’s Sinai region, which abuts Gaza, for militant activity.

As part of global efforts to end the Gaza fighting, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon arrived in Cairo on Monday and was to meet with Israeli President Shimon Peres on Tuesday.

The U.N. Security Council held closed-door consultations at the request of Russia, and Ambassador Vitaly Churkin later accused one country of foot-dragging, implying it was the U.S. Germany’s foreign minister was also headed to the region for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. On Tuesday, Turkey’s foreign minister and a delegation of Arab League foreign ministers were to visit Gaza.

Hamas, an offshoot of the regionwide Muslim Brotherhood, is negotiating from a stronger position than four years ago, when Israel launched a three-week war on the militants in Gaza. At that time, Hamas was internationally isolated; now, the Muslim Brotherhood is in power in Egypt and Tunisia, and Hamas is also getting political support from Qatar and Turkey.

President Barack Obama and other Western leaders have blamed Hamas for the latest outbreak of fighting, saying Israel has a right to defend itself against rocket attacks. However, they have also warned Israel against sending ground troops into Gaza, a move that would likely lead to a sharp increase in the Gaza death toll.

Over the years, Israeli governments have struggled to come up with an effective policy toward Hamas, which is deeply rooted in Gaza, a densely populated territory of 1.6 million.

Neither Israel’s economic blockade of the territory nor bruising military strikes have cowed the Islamists, weakened their grip on Gaza or their ability to fire rockets at the Jewish state.

Instead, the two sides have observed informal cease-fires over the years, interrupted by flare-ups of violence.

Hamas has fired more than 1,000 rockets at Israel since the start of the latest offensive on Wednesday, kicked off by Israel’s assassination of the Hamas military chief.

Of the 95 rockets fired Monday, 29 of them intercepted by Israel’s U.S.financed Iron Dome anti-missile battery, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. Rockets landed in open areas of the southern cities of Beersheba, Ashdod and Ashkelon, and caused damage in a number of areas, including an empty school building in Ashkelon.

In Gaza, an Israeli airstrike on a high-rise building in Gaza City killed Ramez Harb, a senior figure in Islamic Jihad’s military wing, the Al Quds Brigades, the group said. Israel said the target was a command centre for the group. A number of foreign and local news organizations have offices in the building, which was also struck on Sunday. A passer-by, a carpenter from Gaza’s tiny Christian community, was also killed, medics said.

And in central Gaza, four militants were killed in two separate strikes.

In the air raid past midnight, Israeli aircraft struck the Islamic National Bank used to pay Hamas employees.

In the West Bank, Palestinian stone throwers protesting against Israel’s Gaza campaign clashed with Israeli soldiers in several locations Monday.

In the city of Hebron, a 22-year-old man was killed by army fire and three other protesters were injured, doctors said. The army said soldiers opened fire after a masked man approached them and failed to stop.

Worker killed, one missing in U.S. offshore rig fire THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS — The condition of a Filipino worker seriously burned in an oil platform fire off Louisiana’s coast was upgraded to “good” Monday, while one co-worker was in serious condition and two others remained critical.

One worker, identified by the embassy of the Philippines as 42-year-old Elroy Corporal, was killed in the accident. Another is missing.

He was identified on the website of Philippines-based DNR Offshore Crewing Services as Jerome Malgapo.

Fifty-year-old Wil-

berto Ilagan, one of four burn victims taken to Baton Rouge General Medical Center after the accident was the patient whose condition was upgraded to good on Monday. He had earlier been listed as “fair.”

Three others were being treated with Ilagan at Baton Rouge General Medical Center. At a news conference in Baton Rouge, doctors said two remained in critical condition; another was in serious condition.

Their identities were not released.

The federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement is investigating the accident and said it had personnel on the platform Monday.

The National Chemical Safety Board, a government agency that investigates industrial chemical accidents, said it had not decided whether to launch an investigation, but it has sent a list of questions to Black Elk about evidence and possible witnesses. And it has requested documents relating to safety plans and permits in force at the time of the accident, including welding plans.

Gulf Isle Shipyard, Inc., a company that was performing maintenance services on the platform, said in statements Sunday and Monday that a welding torch was not being used at the time of the fire.

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LUANN Nov. 20 1995 — Brian Mulroney files $50-million lawsuit against the federal Department of Justice and the RCMP. The suit claims his reputation is hurt by letter sent by investigating police to Swiss banking authorities alleging a kickback in the sale of 34 Airbus jets to Air Canada in 1988.

1942 — Opening of 2,450-km long Alcan

Military Hwy, or Alaska Hwy; from Dawson Creek, B.C. to Fairbanks, Alaska. The road was built to supply Pacific Northwest and Alaska in case of Japanese invasion.

1946 — Imperial Oil starts drilling Leduc No. 1, southeast of Edmonton. The well starts producing on Feb. 14, 1947. By late 1947, there are 30 oil wells operating at the Leduc field, pumping over 3,500 barrels a day.

1945 — Canadian lawyers attend war crimes trial of 20 top-ranking Nazis.

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D6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012

LOS ANGELES — There is no room for a 60-year-old Nativity display in Santa Monica’s showcase park after a federal judge ruled Monday against churches who had sued to keep the tradition alive when atheists stole the show with their own anti-God messages.

U.S. District Judge Audrey B. Collins rejected a motion from the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes Committee to allow the religious display this Christmas while their lawsuit plays out against the city.

Collins said the city was within its constitutional right to eliminate the exemption that had allowed the Nativity at the oceanfront Palisades Park because the change affected all comers — from Christians to Jews to atheists — and provided other avenues for public religious speech.

The coalition of churches that had put on the life-sized, 14-booth Nativity display for decades argued the city banned it rather than referee a religious dispute that began three years ago when atheists first set up their antiGod message alongside the Christmas diorama.

The judge, however, said Santa Monica proved that it banned the displays not to squash religious speech but because they were becoming a drain on city resources, destroying the turf and obstructing ocean views. Churches can set up unattended displays at 12 other parks in the city with a permit and can leaflet, carol and otherwise present the Christmas story in Palisades Park when it is open, she said.

“I think all of the evidence that is admissible about the esthetic impacts and administrative burden shows that this was a very reasonable alternative for the city to go this way — and it had nothing to do with content,” she said during a hearing in federal court in Los Angeles.

William Becker, the attorney for the Christian group, said he expects the case will be dismissed at a hearing on Dec. 3 based on Monday’s proceedings and plans to appeal.

“The atheists won and they will always win unless we get courts to understand how the game is played and this is a game that was played very successfully and they knew it,” Becker said, comparing the city to Pontius Pilate, the Roman official who authorized Jesus’ crucifixion.

The trouble in Santa Monica began in 2009, when atheist Damon Vix applied for and was granted a booth in Palisades Park alongside the story of Jesus Christ’s birth.

Vix hung a simple sign that quoted Thomas Jefferson: “Religions are all alike -- founded on fables and mythologies.” The other side read “Happy Solstice.” He repeated the display the following year but then upped the stakes significantly.

In 2011, Vix recruited 10 others to inundate the city with applications for tongue-in-cheek displays such as a homage to the “Pastafarian religion,” which would include an artistic representation of the great Flying Spaghetti Monster.

The secular coalition won 18 of 21 spaces. Two others went to the traditional Christmas displays and one to a Hanukkah display.

The atheists used half their spaces, displaying signs such as one that showed pictures of Poseidon, Jesus, Santa Claus and the devil and said: “37 million Americans know myths when they see them. What myths do you see?”

Most of the signs were vandalized and in the ensuing uproar, the city

effectively ended a tradition that began in 1953 and earned Santa Monica one of its nicknames, the City of the Christmas Story.

“The birth of Jesus Christ is the linchpin of Western civilization, our calendar derives from it, but now somehow it’s just not right to have a classic depiction of this event in a Nativity scene in a city park,” said Hunter Jameson, head of the Nativity committee.

In court Monday, Deputy City Attorney Yibin Shen said the ban had been under consideration for years and was ultimately motivated by the cost to the city after the number of applicants spiked in recent years.

The department in charge of running the lottery for booth spaces doubled its staff and spent 245 hours annually running the system and reviewing applications, he said.

“This is a 20-year decision in the making,” he said.

For his part, Vix said he was pleased with Monday’s ruling, but was also saddened by the anger being directed against atheists since he hung his first anti-God sign in 2009.

“So many people don’t understand atheists,” he said.

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s defence minister says the country’s armed forces will not

fective Monday night.

Pinzon said in a brief statement to reporters in Bogota that Colombia’s military has the “constitutional duty to pursue all criminals who have violated the Constitution and would be pursued for all the crimes they have committed over so many years.”

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