Red Deer Advocate, December 05, 2012

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Drug house shut down INGLEWOOD ‘FINALLY, SOMETHING IS GETTING DONE. THERE’S BEEN A LOT OF SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY.’

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Al Jacobs of Riteway Fencing Inc. in Red Deer works to fence in a drug house at 51 Ibbotson Close in Red Deer on Tuesday. BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Inglewood residents are breathing a sigh of relief after police shut down a drug house that caused neighbours to feel unsafe in their own homes. Safer Communities and Neighbour-

hoods (SCAN) closed the house at 51 Ibbotson Close in Red Deer on Tuesday, after two investigations and numerous complaints over four years. “There has been constant criminal activity, drug use, drug abuse, drug trafficking,” said Billy Kerr, manager of SCAN South, a division of Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams.

“There were numerous people coming from the address from all times of the day and night bringing undesirable people into the community.” SCAN was granted a one-year Community Safety Order on Nov. 16 to board up the house and install a fence around the property and evict all tenants for 90 days.

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The owner, who is known to police, does not face any charges related to the order. He will be allowed back into the house in March. Police did not name him. “Hopefully when he returns in March his activities will stop and the residents can live here without fear,” said Kerr. Police will continue to monitor the community. The Safer Communities and Neighbourhood Act, enacted in 2007, allows residents to report suspicious behaviour anonymously. Elisa Covert, a mother of two young children, has watched the constant comings and goings of “sketchy” looking people for the five years she has lived in the neighourbood. “Finally something is getting done,” said Covert. “There’s been a lot of suspicious activity. I don’t even feel safe having (my two children) ride their bikes around this close. In the summer time that’s where they want to be.” Jayme McKay, who also has two children under the age of five, lives directly across from the house. Her husband works out of town and she was frightened for her family’s safety. McKay said she is relieved the only action she will see outside her window will be children playing. “There was a lot of traffic.” said McKay. “Police have been monitoring our close ever since the (2009) murder. There’s tons of police.”

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Penhold residents flirt with Housing going tax free for reality show project PINE LAKE

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

Penhold is one of a final few Canadian cities that may soon be put under the microscope for a social experiment courtesy of reality television. The tentatively titled Axe the Tax asks residents of a town to live without the services provided by what they pay in taxes. They would instead be given the money they would have been taxed and would then have to spend it on what they need. “In it’s most simple form it is, what would you have if you had no more taxes,” said Nicole Lawson, Force Four entertainment director of development. “What would it look like if you didn’t have taxes and you had to provide for yourself.” When participants needed to use a municipal service, such as a road or sewer, they would be penalized from the money they have, in lieu of paying taxes. Lawson and two of her colleagues were in Penhold at the regional multiplex yesterday discussing the potential reality TV show with residents. Penhold Mayor Dennis Cooper was positive about the show’s message of showing people exactly how their municipal tax dollars are spent. “If we work towards improving and getting people to understand where

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Tara-Lee Novak, left, a development producer with Force Four Entertainment speaks with Penhold resident Joelle Klinck at the Penhold Multiplex Tuesday night. A television team was in Penhold to see if there is enough interest in the town to produce reality TV show in Penhold. the tax dollars all goes,” said Cooper. “Everything from conserving water to well if you drive on the roads you pay a penalty. You forget the roads and the streets are all things the town supplies.” Penhold is one of a handful of mu-

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nicipalities being considered for the show, Lacombe is another. “We’re looking forward to it, we’re open,” said Cooper.

A proposed 380-lot housing development on Pine Lake has been rejected by Red Deer County council. Mayor Jim Wood said on Tuesday he’s not opposed to development around the lake but the project was just too big and would have a negative effect on the Pine Lake community. “I think we need to be very mindful of what density and what size of development we’re going to have,” said Wood, shortly before council unanimously voted against an area structure plan necessary for the project to go ahead. Coun. Dave Hoar also had problems with the scale of the development. “It is my belief that 300 or 400 houses on 100 or so acres will definitely change the character of the community,” said Hoar. He encouraged the group of landowners behind the project to consider a smaller project with fewer homes and more land preserved in its natural state.

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Period actors are shown in costume in this undated handout photo of celebrations at the Festival du Voyageur in Winnipeg. The coming weeks are a time of hibernation for many Canadians. As temperatures plummet, it’s only natural to want to huddle indoors near the warm glow of a fireplace or big-screen television and wait for the depth of winter to pass. But for many people, it’s a time of celebration. It’s also a chance to show Old Man Winter that we Canadians can still, even if just for a few hours, face winter head-on as the early settlers did with an axe, a tent and some hearty food and drink.

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HOUSE: Murder occurred nearby in April 2009 Brandon Neil Prevey, 29, was murdered while sitting in a parked vehicle near the entrance of the close in April 2009. Christopher Martin Fleig, 28, was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years for the first-degree murder of Prevey in May 2012. McKay said the close is filled with children who played in the backyards because of the shady activity at 51 Ibbotson. She hopes this summer children will be free to play throughout the close. Other residents, however, who did not want their names used, were a little worried about what happens when the owner returns in March. They fear retaliation against the neighbours who complained. This was the second drug house closed down in Red Deer since 2007. SCAN is currently investigating five other houses in Red Deer. SCAN is a team funded by the provincial government to tackle serious and organized crime. Albertans who suspect a property in their neighbourhood is being used for illegal activity should contact SCAN toll-free at 1-866-960-SCAN (7226) or online at www.scan.alberta.ca. All complaints are confidential. Residents are reminded never to investigate suspected problem properties on their own. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

SHOW: Could start filming in the summer What Cooper sees as a potential message from the show being that by getting involved people can improve their community. “There will always be the single issues where people don’t like this or that, but if there is an issue, we can all bond together and work for a common goal,” said Cooper. Though the scope of the project is still in progress, Lawson said it will depend on what they can work out. Producers said it could be one street, one neighbourhood or may even be the whole town.

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“We never know what the outcome is,” said Lawson. “What the hopeful outcome is, in these kind of socially transformative documentary series is something is learned, something is gained and people have a bigger perspective of how their town is run and how their money is spent.” Lawson said they will have to decide where they will shoot a short five minute demo in the next few weeks, which would then be shot early in the New Year. At the earliest the producers said they hope to be shooting the series, wherever it ends up taking place, in the summer. Producers anticipate the series will take three to eight weeks to shoot. They also said it will be on a major Canadian network, but could not specify which one.

‘WE NEVER KNOW WHAT THE OUTCOME IS. WHAT THE HOPEFUL OUTCOME IS, IN THESE KIND OF SOCIALLY TRANSFORMATIVE DOCUMENTARY SERIES IS SOMETHING IS LEARNED, SOMETHING IS GAINED AND PEOPLE HAVE A BIGGER PERSPECTIVE OF HOW THEIR TOWN IS RUN AND HOW THEIR MONEY IS SPENT.’ — NICOLE LAWSON FORCE FOUR ENTERTAINMENT DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

Any money leftover at the end of the social experiment/reality television show is turned over to those involved who can spend it as they chose. “I think it’s maybe one of those things that on the onset doesn’t sound exciting, but it affect us all,” said Lawson. “We all talk about it, we all complain about it. It affects every part of our life.” Though Lawson would not name the other municipalities being considered, she did say they are in B.C., Alberta and Ontario. Community members should show their support for the idea by joining a Facebook page the company has created, called the Penhold Project, or by calling or emailing the company. The producers will be in Lacombe at the Memorial Centre’s County Room tonight at 7 p.m. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

PROJECT: Too large “I think there is room for some development. Is there room for a development of this intensity? In my mind, it gives me lots of difficulty.” The developers’ proposed 110 cottage, 95 singlefamily, 92 multi-family and 83 mixed-use lots on 126 acres at the south end of the lake. Amenities would have included a manufactured pond with its own beach, a lakeside trail with viewpoints and a boat launch for non-motorized craft. Coun. Philip Massier called the proposal a “little over-intensification” and noted development heightens the risk of pollution problems. About half a dozen residents urged council to turn down the project, citing the impact on the lake, natural areas and the community by introducing so many homes to the area. “Once the damage is done, (the lake) can’t be returned to a pre-development state,” lake resident Don Nielsen told council. More residents also means more boats, which will increase safety risks on a lake already seeing too much traffic on many summer weekends. Nielsen said after the meeting that many residents around the lake will be pleased with council’s decision. The project would have plunked a population twice the size of Delburne’s on the south end of the lake, he said. “It’s too much.” Area farmer David Pope told council he was not opposed to development but wondered how many other projects would follow if this one was approved. “Where does it ever end?” Randy Gibson, a consultant for the development group, said after the meeting the densities proposed in the development were taken straight from the county’s Pine Lake Area Concept Plan, which was approved earlier this year and acts as a guide for future development around the lake. “We’re not looking for more density,” said Gibson, a principal with RGA Designs of Bragg Creek. The developers have spent six years on the project and done much work ensuring the environment was protected through setbacks and the creation of reserves to protect wildlife habitats. Those behind the project also stressed to council they were not building a gated resort, but a community that would lure young families to the area and provide an economic boost. Coun. Penny Archibald was absent on Tuesday. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Key witness takes stand ALBERTA POLITICIANS WANTED ACCESS TO FIXERS: FORMER HEALTH BOSS TESTIFIES BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The former chief executive of Alberta’s health superboard says he took flak from provincial politicians for not having “fix-it” people in place to help some people get preferential access to care. But when Stephen Duckett was asked to name names Tuesday, he could come up with only one. “A number of MLAs, but amongst others that I recall was Raj Sherman,” Duckett told the public inquiry looking into queue jumping in Alberta. An emergency room doctor by trade and a former parliamentary assistant health minister in the government, Sherman has been a central defender of Alberta’s health care. He was bounced from the Tories for his criticism of the system and went on to become Liberal leader. As leader of the Grits, he was one of the most prominent politicians calling for the inquiry.

Lawyer Michele Hollins pressed Duckett for more. There were some rural members of the legislature, Duckett said, but Sherman was the only name he could recall. “I can’t remember the names of them, sorry,” Duckett said. Requests for an interview with Sherman were denied through the party. His staff said he would address the allegations when he testifies himself Duckett is a key witness at the inquiry, which was called by Premier Alison Redford last February before the provincial election in the face of criticism from the opposition. An Australian who was recruited by the province, Duckett took over as CEO of Alberta Health Services — the delivery arm of health care in the province — in March 2009. But his tenure was tumultuous. Wait lists were long and there was controversy around steps taken to corral a ballooning deficit. He left the job in the

fall of 2010 when he refused to talk to reporters following an emergency board meeting, saying he was busy eating a cookie. Duckett testified Tuesday via video from Australia, a box of cookies clearly displayed on a desk behind him. He said preferential treatment for prominent patients was an accepted practice before the creation of the superboard, when care was delivered by a network of smaller health regions, each with their own “fix-it people” at their helms. But Duckett said he never asked for specific examples of queue-jumping when he took over Alberta Health Services because he wasn’t interested in dredging up the past. Instead, he said he wanted to make sure that queue jumping was stopped. “It didn’t seem to me to be productive to do a witch hunt to find out who had done this in the past,” Duckett told the inquiry.

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF

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Lacombe experienced a decline in break-ins and drug offences, but car prowling and fraud cases rose from 2007 to 2011, according to statistics released by Lacombe Police Service on Tuesday. Calls for service in 2011 amounted to 4,998 — a 24 per cent climb in calls since 2007. Crimes against persons numbered 149 in 2011 as opposed to 145 in 2007. Break-ins totalled 30 in 2011 while in 2007, the number came in at 71. The thefts of motor vehicles came in at 24 in 2011, while in 2007 the number was 28. Theft over $5,000 totalled four cases in 2011 and in 2007 it was two. Other Criminal Code cases came in at 139 in 2011 while in 2007 the figure was 271. Drug offences totalled 50 in 2011 while in 2007, the number was 59. Theft under $5,000 offences totalled 228 cases in 2011 while in 2007 the number was 158. Fewer prisoners were landing in cells as well — 276 in 2011 from 332 in 2007. Police Chief Gary Leslie attributes the lower prisoner numbers to his department’s focus on community-based policing, which makes the officers more citizen-focused. They have more of a high-profile presence in local neighbourhoods, Leslie added. “We can also attribute the overall decrease in crime in Lacombe to an active traffic enforcement policy in recent years,” said Leslie. “It helps to deter criminal elements from targeting our city.” Lacombe Police Service entered into a traffic pilot project in July with the support of the Lacombe Police Commission. The program involved using a community peace officer in a traffic enforcement role working from the Lacombe Police office. The program provided the police department with the flexibility of a trained peace officer to address a specific task, while freeing up officers to perform other duties. The four-month project concluded at the end of October and was found to have a significant impact on traffic, especially in addressing poor driving habits, said Leslie. The City of Lacombe has since made the community peace officer position in traffic a permanent one. Lacombe is also stepping up efforts to stamp out car prowling. A public awareness campaign, Hide It, lock it, or lose it, is underway. The police department’s survey of residents in 2011 found that they were most concerned about crimes against persons, then scams and traffic. With regards to crimes against persons, the police service has a member on the provincial police advisory committee dealing with domestic violence. The police service also works with local news media on educating people about

scams, but residents still regularly report them and many of these scams originate outside the province and Canada. Lacombe Police Service has 15 officers, nearly five staff employees and one community peace officer. It was established in 1900 and is one of the oldest police forces in Alberta. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

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Redford’s grievous lapse The Speaker of the Alberta legislature refuses to censure Premier Alison Redford. The people of Alberta should not be so reticent. Redford has shown a grievous lapse of judgment in her role in delivery of a multimillion-dollar contract to her ex-husband’s law firm. Even if she was not responsible for the final decision on awarding the contract, the impression is cast in stone, and it is damning. Quite simply, the whole mess smells. While still minister of Justice, Redford should have removed herself the moment she knew Robert Hawkes’ law firm was among the contenders for the contract. As the criticism in the house has multiplied, Redford has shown a remarkable penchant for ducking and dodging responsibility for digging the hole she has placed her government in. As the opposition, led by the Wildrose Party, ramped up the questions for Redford in the legislature last week, the premier became more and more incensed by the accusations. She steadfastly refused to acknowl-

OURVIEW JOHN STEWART edge that she signed off on the choice of her ex-husband’s firm to lead Alberta’s legal campaign against Big Tobacco. Never mind that Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith had copies of the documents in her hand. Redford was also outraged when her standing as a lawyer was questioned, turning the question on its head and suggesting that Wildrose MLA Rob Anderson was maligning all of the province’s lawyers (he is a lawyer himself). It didn’t answer the question he posed to her in any way. And she spent a great deal of time letting her ministers answer questions directed at her. In the end, opposition members asked Speaker Gene Zwozdesky to find Redford in contempt. On Monday, Zwozdesky said that the opposition had failed to prove that Redford made deliberately false statements to the house about the affair. Zwozdesky all but admitted he was

parsing phrases in his ruling, rather than getting to the heart of the issue. “Certainly, the chair admits this is getting into a case of semantics,” the Speaker said. “Whether the premier’s statements were misleading is entirely subjective and depends greatly on the exact nature of the words used.” And so Zwozdesky, a longtime Conservative cabinet minister before becoming Speaker, casually pushed aside a significant issue of leadership and ethics. It will not be so easy for Albertans to forget, particularly if the opposition, led by Wildrose members, continues to do its job well: prodding the government when it makes errors, looking for lapses in judgment and insisting that the Conservatives toe the fiscal line. Ultimately, though, is not about party ideology. It is about due process, respect for the public, and respect for the fundamentals of democratic decision making. And it is about common sense, or lack thereof, and the resounding sense of entitlement that continues to domi-

nate the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta. Zwozdesky could do nothing other than make the decision he did. To sanction the premier would have been to attack the foundation of the party that the Speaker has served so faithfully as an MLA for almost 20 years. And holding Redford in contempt would have set in motion a series of events that would have, at best, created four years of chaos in this province and for the Conservatives. At worst, it would have meant the end of Redford’s brief run as premier. The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta’s latest electronic fundraising email talks about a party “refreshed under the leadership of our Leader and Premier of Alberta, Alison Redford.” If this is a party refreshed, Albertans should start considering the alternatives. And Redford would do well to reflect on why Albertans would consider other choices now, when they didn’t last April at the ballot box. John Stewart is the Advocate’s managing editor.

Balancing fact and innuendo There’s a balance, an ongoing conversation between people who report the news, and the people who read and receive it. When I started in this business about 40 years ago, exchanges on issues occurred at the speed of Canada Post and the interval of publication. In some ways, it still does. I appreciate the long-term rejoinders in monthly publications like The Walrus or weekly newsmagazines. Even the more rapid give-and-take that occurs in your local daily gives some time for thought, while histories that develop in conversations — all duly recorded — can be illuminating. But in this electronic age, GREG instant reactions to events NEIMAN as they are revealed become part of the events themselves. Even when the story is years old. Just ask the Alberta premier. When old political skeletons are revealed, their new life is not in the revelation, but in how people react. There is no evidence of direct plotting by Alison Redford to do unethical party fundraising, or to unethically direct lucrative contracts to firms with whom she has personal ties. But news that unethical donations have been made in the past, or that personal ties exist, gives stories about these things a decidedly hot glow. Or consider the mayors of certain Quebec cities, where years-old revelations of shady payments for construction contracts are coming to light. The story is one thing, the instant online reactions are a story

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unto themselves. The reaction to the news in fact becomes bigger than the news itself, because the conversations affect how many people over a wide area make decisions. These decisions have consequences far beyond the outcomes of the original events. Here’s a good recent example. An investigation by CBC reporters discovered that two years ago, CN Rail formed a “mystery train” that shuttled back and forth between Sarnia and Port Huron, Mich. The train, loaded with about $25 million worth of biodiesel, went back and forth across the border (a trip of about three km) numerous times, clearing customs both ways, without ever being unloaded. The shipping bill paid to CN was about $2.6 million. The practice seemed common enough for CN administrators to feel confident sending emails ordering staff to ensure these trips went fast and smooth. Move the train, do the paperwork, move the train back, repeat as quickly as possible. The American companies listed as customers were HeroBX and Northern Biodiesel. CBC says CN records show the Canadian company that arranged the deal is Bioversal Trading Inc. Bioversal is being investigated by the Canada Border Services Agency on allegations it made false statements to avoid shipping duties in Romania and Italy. That’s pretty well all we really know about this. But the replies to the story say a whole lot more. People — whose identities are not revealed — claim (in the online discussion that follows the CBC story on its website) that they have worked in the transportation industry. Shady stuff like this happens all the time, they say. Fuel is trucked from Alberta to Montana, unloaded, and then reloaded and trucked back. Somebody

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gets a tax-paid incentive to do so. Often, we are told, barges shuttle product back and forth, either to keep inventory in transit (and off the books), or to collect export incentives — both ways. The shippers are apparently told to shut up and drive. Which they do, because their companies have contracts to ship stuff around, not ask difficult questions. Well, as you can imagine, difficult questions are now being asked everywhere. What’s the real purpose of government incentives to make green fuels? Is anyone monitoring where the product is actually going and whether the tax incentives are achieving anything? How much phantom product is just running around on gravy trains and on truck fleets for the purposes of collecting export incentives, with no benefit to taxpayers? All on the basis of allegations from people who don’t even give us their names. As far as the news goes, we just don’t know the facts yet. But in the comment section, it’s a hurricane of malfeasance by corporations and governments on both sides of the Canada/U.S. border. How do you think this will affect decisions the next time a government committee suggests it might be a good idea to use tax money to subsidize any kind of export program? We need to make decisions based on facts, not nameless allegations. More corporate and government secrecy will not solve this discrepancy. Just ask the premier of Alberta, or the mayors of Mascouche and Laval in Quebec, or top bureaucrats in Montreal. Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate editor. Follow his blog at readersadvocate.blogspot.ca or email greg.neiman.blog@gmail.com.

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Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012

Too little response from city on critical issues I continue to have discussions about a ward system for city council or finding a way to make city council more responsible to the voters. I have contacted City Hall twice on this issue and out of eight councilors and the mayor, I only received responses from Chris Stephan and Dianne Wyntjes. The following is my recap that I sent to the city: Imagine you fall ill and need medical attention and you need to start contacting doctors and hope one will respond. That is City Hall. Bike lanes, snow clearing, monster houses, low water pressure, cameras, electronic voting and the list goes on but the thing they are most likely to have in common is the lack of a response. Our representatives just need to look at how many calls they never returned, emails and letters not answered to know the reason behind the discontent. Councillors have full-time jobs but why did they undertake the position and why are they getting paid? Perhaps if they were given a ward or a collection of neighbourhoods, their enquiries would decrease? Who decides which enquiry should be answered? I have lived here for three decades, I have volunteered at City Hall for 12 years, I have contacted city representatives probably less than five times in 30 years and yet I seldom got a response and I do not think I am a nuisance. A petition, I am told, would require 10,000 signatures (more than most councillors received in the last election) in 60 days so that is not going to happen, but I think that you know there is a problem. Garfield Marks Red Deer

choose their own hours of operation; ● Individual pharmacies within pharmacy chain stores have the advantage of luring customers with weekly flyers, an option not feasible for all independent operators. All of these are competitive inducements used to try to improve a pharmacy’s appeal to customers; yet the college proposes to step in and prevent only those inducements that offer a “reward, loyalty program point, discount or coupon.” I believe this is unwarranted interference in the marketplace. If you are going to control some of these inducements, then you must act fairly and control them all (which, of course, is impossible). Otherwise you are giving those unaffected by your tight definition an unfair advantage — just the opposite of leveling the playing field, in my opinion. The suggestion on your website that the offending pharmacist spends more time explaining the points system than he/she does in educating the client about the drug prescribed is completely unfounded in my experience, and on the few occasions when I ordered a refill too soon, I was immediately advised by the pharmacy that the request was premature and could not yet be processed — so much for the allegation that the Air Miles inducement causes people to buy/seek or consume more drugs than they otherwise would. Negating another false argument, I want to add that I have consulted my Safeway pharmacist about medical issues such as the shingles vaccination and the interaction of certain drugs one with the other, and my request for information was always dealt with promptly and professionally to my full satisfaction. For these reasons, I sincerely request that the college reject this proposal in its deliberations. Donna Stinson Red Deer

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Pharmacy change proposals fail to reflect reality An open letter to the Alberta College of Pharmacists, in reference to your proposal to ban pharmacists from offering customer ‘inducements’ which the College of Pharmacists defines, narrowly, as “any reward, loyalty program point, discount or coupon given.” As a pharmacist’s daughter and a senior who now takes quite a few prescribed medications, I want to voice my concerns about the college’s proposal to try to regulate these shopper ‘inducements.’ I think this proposal is ill-conceived and unfair. You are trying to ban Safeway from giving Air Miles with pharmaceutical purchases, for example, yet your tight definition of inducements allows for the following situations, which are every bit as much customer incentives as that which Safeway offers, to wit: ● Individual pharmacies will still be allowed to offer free delivery of their goods, a competitive inducement if ever there was one; ● Co-op pharmacies are not affected in their practice of including drug purchases in calculating the amount spent by an member to determine the amount of that member’s yearly dividend; ● Individual pharmacies will still be able to elect whether to open on holidays and for how long; ● Some pharmacies offer free parking, which is not an option for all pharmacies; ● Individual pharmacies can still

Re: Dumb and Dumber letter by Chris Stephan (Red Deer Advocate, Nov. 19): Chris Stephan describes the comments of John Stewart and Greg Neiman, among other things, as a socialist agenda. This is grossly misleading. In the defence of working people, who are the only creators of wealth, it is the task of socialists to make honest criticisms of present society, including past and present leaders. Unlike Coun. Stephan, socialists would not presume to put words in the mouths of others, it is always a good thing to let people speak for themselves. It is not a question of this or that tax but of freeing the productive forces from the straitjacket of the profit-dominated society that is failing so badly. The agenda of socialism is the transformation of the present chaos into a planned, democratic system organized and controlled by the majority instead of the present one per cent who own the wealth and by extension control society. In so doing, we can build a society that will provide plenty for all — no need for food banks or a lack of affordable housing. We need a fully inclusive socialist society with free education, health care, full employment and a generous retirement. It is most certainly a dumb system that can provide none of this. Keith Norman Wyatt Innisfail NDP

Why can’t city shovel snow for seniors who are unable? Less than one year ago, my wife and I moved from a warm European country to Red Deer and bought a house close to our young grandchildren. We had visited Red Deer before and knew what the winters would be like, but what we did not know were the rules and regulations relating to residential snow clearing set by the city. Unfortunately, due to my wife and myself both having various disabilities, we were instructed by our doctors that we were not to do any snow clearing. Doctors’ letters were sent to the appropriate government department and we were then informed by the agency that we could hire someone to clear snow from the driveway and pavement (sidewalk) adjacent to our house and be reimbursed by the government. Unfortunately, in the area we live there are no high school students we could ask to carry out this service for us and advertising in both the local press and Kijiji for someone in the area brought no success. We found out very quickly after purchasing a home that the taxes appeared to be on the high side in Red Deer compared with what other members of our family living in other parts of the country paid for similar property types and had noticed that the city appeared to have large numbers of employees clearing snow in various areas and even scraping snow off bus stop seats with shovels but still leaving sections of ice on the seats. I thought that due to our circumstances that the city could help us. I went to City Hall and asked if it was possible Check out our new look! for someone to clear the your entree snow on From 3pm until 8pm our behalf. This Monday to Thursday We were Red Deer - Gasoline Alley given a

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Taylor Drive changes require a full public airing Re: Taylor Drive and Alexander Way changes, plus the future changes that will affect Ross Street to allow a pedestrian access on Ross Street and Taylor Drive. These plans need to be shown to people through a public open house, plus in the paper media. This will give the people the oppor-

tunity to voice concerns. Access is important to the future of Riverlands. A large amount of people don’t access the Internet to check the City of Red Deer website so after the bike lane fiasco of this summer, it is important to be up front with everyone. Thousands of cars per day travel the Taylor Drive and it is incumbent upon city administration to inform the people, with visual aids, of what will be taking place. Please give everyone the opportunity to voice their concerns. Shirley Hocken Red Deer

No room left in Canada for British monarchy It is time for Canada to abolish the monarchy! Canadian patriotism is at an alltime high. Even Quebec separatism is at an all-time low, somewhere around 28 percent. A poll released this month shows support for ditching the monarchy at about 66 per cent, which shows the Harper government is going in the wrong direction. I too was a staunch supporter for the monarchy for quite awhile, although seeing the outpouring of Canadian pride only leaves me to accept we are only Canadians, we are not British or American or French — there is only the Canadian family. Given this, I feel it is time we Canadians demand our government push for a referendum on abolishing the monarchy all together. What system of government we want after I would leave for debate, but would hope Canadians would not take the American style Republican system. John Bourassa Red Deer

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It seems that the noise bylaw is doing nothing to curb this problem, and it would be nice to see something in the works so the majority of people can rest easy at night. We are surround by hordes of motor vehicles bur-ping out huge amounts of noise all day and night long. From motorcycles, cars and trucks of all sizes with no mufflers that are suppose to restrict these levels. This situation has gone on for long enough, and I’m sure the time has come to get a handle on this. These vehicles get pulled over by the police, but they seem to let them drive away with no idea that their exhaust systems are not up to the motor vehicle code. These big trucks roll through the weigh scales three to seven times a day, and many of them have punched out mufflers or none at all. It seems that no one is watching this evolve before our very eyes, and the new year is soon rolling in for more of this same noise problems. More people are going this route with their own vehicles as well. Motorcycles, cars and diesel pickup trucks line the streets in every town across the province, belching out noise way beyond an acceptable limit. Without some sort of measurable system in place, this blatant disrespect to fellow citizens will surely continue. The time has come for this province to nip this show in the “butt” with automatic vehicle suspensions. If the exhaust system is not stock, or has been tampered with, or does not fit the mould of the North America noise emission, your unit gets a free ride to a compound unit it gets fix to meet these standards. If only more people would speak up, then I can’t see why the authorities would turn a blind eye on this issue. The time has come to bring this to the table, or we all might have a tougher time sleeping if it goes unchecked. Don Parsons Lacombe

definite ‘No’ to this request and were told that they do not help residential taxpayers with any assistance whatsoever. I find this very disturbing and wonder what would happen if a person slipped and fell on snow or ice due to the fact that this actually occurred on city property and not on the homeowner’s property. I understand that if a householder does not clear snow from the city sidewalk in front of their home, they would be fined by the city. But who would be liable if someone slipped and fell injuring themselves on this city property? If this unfortunately happened to a person in front of my property and I was sued, I would certainly have to take the city to court as in my humble opinion they are the ones responsible. It would be greatly appreciated if perhaps the head of the snow clearing department of the City of Red Deer would respond. He could explain why a small portion of our tax dollars cannot go towards assisting older people who are disabled and in their late 70s, instead perhaps of driving around in trucks partially scraping bus stop seats and I say partially because afterwards walking over to the same seat still find deposits of ice adhered to them. James Taylor Red Deer

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Flag survives Quebec legislature vote BY THE CANADIAN PRESS QUEBEC, Que. — The Maple Leaf has survived a symbolic vote in the Quebec legislature, with the Parti Quebecois being defeated in an effort Tuesday to remove the flag from the building. The vote marked a milestone for the province’s national assembly: the Canadian flag has never before remained on official display in the building when the proindependence PQ has held office. Members of the sovereigntist party erupted in jeers and sarcastic cheers as their motion to remove the flag went down to defeat. The target of their heckling was the province’s newest political party. The Coalition Avenir Quebec is led by a staunch former Pequiste, Francois Legault, but the new party has always positioned itself as neutral on the independence question. Now the PQ says that the flag

vote has illustrated, once and for all, how that neutrality is a sham. It says the Coalition’s sympathies have become clear. The motion sponsor said there are now two pro-Canada parties in the legislature, the Liberals and Coalition, and independenceminded voters will have to think twice before backing either of them. “I saw them stand up, one by one, and I hope that voters in their often-nationalist and often-sovereigntist ridings saw them stand up and support an ultra-federalist position,� Yves-Francois Blanchet said of the Coalition members. “It is a sombre and mildly shameful action.� Blanchet called it an affront to tradition, to protocol, to dignity, and to the notion that Quebec’s parliament “belongs only to us.� He described the vote as a step backward. In fact, it was a bittersweet day for Blanchet: he also happened to have been named the province’s environment minister earlier Tuesday. His motion demanded that the

flag be removed during parliamentary work in the old upper chamber, the only place in the legislature where the Maple Leaf is on official display. Although the so-called Red Room lost its original function decades ago when the Senate-like chamber was abolished, it is still regularly used by legislative committees and at formal events like cabinet swearing-in ceremonies. The motion was defeated 6533. The Liberals and Coalition outnumbered the PQ and the leftwing, pro-independence Quebec solidaire. The flag has never stood in the legislature in either of the previous two eras that the PQ held office — and the issue had not generated comparable controversy in the past. But this time the PQ’s intentions prompted a backlash, with the party receiving criticism in social media and the news media. The party has never governed with a minority before and, in this case, it was forced to seek the consent of other parties to remove the flag.

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Canada’s humanitarian aid to Palestinians to be maintained BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Harper government pledged Tuesday night to preserve hundreds of millions of dollars in Canadian humanitarian aid to the Palestinians. The issue was vigorously discussed during a 90-minute meeting in Ottawa involving Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, International Co-operation Minister Julian Fantino and four envoys who were called home for talks. Canada strongly opposed the Palestinians’ successful effort last week to win elevated status at the UN, so Baird recalled senior diplomats from Israel, the West Bank and the UN missions in New York and Geneva to discuss a response. After it initially appeared that Ottawa was reviewing its aid pledge, Baird’s spokesman told The Canadian Press Tuesday night that Canada’s five-year, $300-million commitment to the Palestinians would be maintained when it expires at the end of the current fiscal year in March. “The current $300 million commitment will be followed through on,� Rick Roth said in an email. “CIDA will evaluate the program in the Palestinian Authority for the outcomes achieved with taxpayers’ dollars, as they do with all programs� he added. “Future commitments by CIDA for programming in the Palestinian Authority will be dependent on their ability to achieve meaningful results for those most in need and the commitment of leaders in the Palestinian Authority to

prioritize the basic needs of the people.� Along with the U.S. and Israel, Canada was one of only nine countries to vote against the Palestinian motion at the 193-country General Assembly. Canada has since offered only the mildest, muted criticism of the Israeli response, which was to announce new settlements on Palestinian land and the withholding of $100 million in tax rebates and other funds it collects for Palestinians. All of Canada’s major Western allies have taken a strong stand against the Israeli response, including the U.S., which broke from its earlier UN support to harshly criticize the settlement announcement. In his response Tuesday night, Roth clarified an earlier statement that said Fantino would review what happens next. “Our $300 million over five years in support of security and humanitarian aid is important,� Roth said in a statement detailing the meeting earlier on Tuesday. “We intend to, by and large, see these projects through. The relevant minister will, as a matter of course, as they do on all matters, review the path forward once the projects have been successfully completed.� The money goes toward strengthening the Palestinian justice system, private sector economic development, and health and education assistance. Roth said the diplomats and the two ministers had “a healthy exchange on where we are and where we want to go.� Opposition MPs said they

were reassured that the government was not planning to retaliate against the Palestinians for its success at the UN. “What we were hearing before from the Conservatives was before the vote at the UN, that if this went forward there would be ramifications by cutting aid and sending the representatives packing,� said NDP foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar. “So hopefully there’s been enough pressure on the Conservatives that they’ve changed their mind. I would be very supportive of them going even further and increasing aid, if anything.� Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae said he was reassured by the decision, but he criticized Baird for not speaking out against the new Israeli settlement plan. “I’m not sure we needed to go to all the trouble of recalling all the four ambassadors to come to that very simple conclusion,� said Rae. “I think the issue of the day now is what is the position of Mr. Baird with respect to the decision of the government of Israel to go ahead with the construction of 3,000 new homes on the West Bank,� he added. “This clearly represents a problem. It is not within the policy framework that Canada has had since 1967 under Mr. Mulroney, under every Liberal and Conservative government since that time.� Roth’s earlier statement on the meeting reiterated the government’s stance on the Palestinian recognition issue. “Unilateral action on either side is unhelpful,� he said.

Restaurant looks into accusation bartender kicked out homeless man THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A homeless man says being thrown out of a Calgary restaurant because of his appearance was “degrading,� but adds he was encouraged by the kindness of strangers during the incident. Ryan Gartner, a patron at Original Joe’s in the city’s trendy Kensington district, said he and friends were out for dinner when they saw the homeless man at the next table, eating a meal that a Good Samaritan had bought for him. “We said hi to him, got his name ... offered to help him out, if we could buy him a meal or anything like that,� said Gartner. “He was a quiet dude, friendly, he wasn’t harming anybody.� But Gartner said once they asked the man, named Shawn, to join them, a bartender stepped in and told him to get out of the restaurant. “This homeless gentlemen asked if he was being asked to leave because he was homeless. To which the bartender replied, ‘Yes, you’re dirty and you stink and you look offensive to

people.’ � Jordan Prescesky, vice-president of Original Joe’s, said the worker has been suspended until the restaurant can review the complaint. Shawn spoke out Tuesday about the incident. “It was degrading ... made me feel like a piece of dirt,� he said. “I didn’t want to cause a scene, so I left. “I mean, I am living in the bush, I’m down on my luck, you know? I could use some help.� He wanted to thank Gartner for his compassion, saying the simple

gesture made him feel worthy. “Gartner was really nice, reached in his pocket pulled everything out, all his money in his pocket.� Prescesky said in a statement that Shawn is known to staff at the restaurant. “He often comes in to exchange coins for paper money which we happily do for him,� Prescesky said. “On this occasion, the guest enjoyed a meal and beverage; however, shortly after, our bartender indicated he became disruptive with

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Vancouver tops in the country for quality of life BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Vancouver is tops in Canada for quality of life with its moderate climate contributing to its high ranking, says an annual survey. The West Coast city also has retained its fifth-place spot globally in the 2012 Mercer Quality of Living survey. Overall, Vienna retains the top spot as the city with the world’s best quality of living, also keeping its first place ranking, said the survey released on Tuesday. Baghdad was last out 221 cities. The survey said Canada offers some of the best quality of living in the world with Ottawa ranking 14th, Toronto 15th, Montreal 23rd and Calgary 32nd. “One of the things that Vancouver has going for it that the other cities do not is climate,” said Mercer Canada’s Eleana Rodriguez. “All four of the other Canadian cities that are on the ranking don’t have the kind of climate that Vancouver has, so obviously that’s a factor to consider.” Canada has five cities ranked in the top 35 cities in the world, she said, adding that Calgary ad-

vanced one ranking and Montreal dropped by one ranking. “We score quite high,” said Rodriguez, market business leader for Mercer Canada in Toronto. Consulting firm Mercer looked at 39 factors such as a city’s political and social environment and its economic and socio-cultural environment, areas in which Canada scored quite well. The firm also looked at medical and health access, education and access to schools, public transportation, recreation, availability of housing and consumer goods, as well as climate. “Vienna scores high on a number of those areas,” Rodriguez said. The survey also found that Zurich and the New Zealand city of Auckland were ranked second and third with Munich taking fourth spot. The annual survey helps multinational companies and organizations compensate employees when they’re placed on assignments. In the United States, the top three cities were Honolulu, ranked 28th with the highest quality of living, followed by San Francisco in 29th place and Boston at

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35th. Rodriguez said there was little change this year in the rankings for North American cities. This year, Mercer included a separate ranking for city infrastructure, including access to clean water, electricity telephone, mail, public transport, traffic, and access to an international airport. Singapore ranks highest for infrastructure with Haiti’s Port-auPrince the lowest. Globally, the cities with the lowest quality of living are: Khartoum, Sudan; N’Djamena, Chad; Port-au Prince, Haiti; and Bangui in the Central African Republic. “Generally speaking, those cities at the bottom of the ranking are there because of various issues, political and economic in particular, and in some cases socio-cultural issues like political freedom and treatment of women.” Rodriguez said it’s not surprising that Baghdad came last. The Iraqi capital is often hit by car bombings and political strife. “If I think about risk to life and limb I’d sooner see myself going to Haiti than to Baghdad.”

QUEBEC — Premier Pauline Marois has defended the decision to give two lucrative jobs to former Parti Quebecois leader Andre Boisclair, calling him a talented and competent man. Boisclair, whose two-year tenure as PQ leader ended in 2007 shortly after he led the party to one of its worst electoral performances, was appointed Quebec’s delegate-general to New York in early November. But what angered some politicians on Tuesday was confirmation that Boisclair has also been named assistant deputy minister in the International Relations Department. That appointment, endorsed in a Nov. 28 cabinet decree, allows Boisclair to remain in the civil service on a permanent basis. The 46-year-old will be guaranteed an annual salary of $170,000 and will then be able to start taking his full pension at the age of 55. International Relations Minister Jean-Francois Lisee acknowledged it is the first time a Quebec government representative outside the province has double-dipped in such a way. Marois said Boisclair is extremely competent and has overseen thousands of civil servants in his various cabinet portfolios. “He almost became premier of Quebec, he could have been premier of Quebec,” said Marois, who was defeated by Boisclair for the PQ leadership in 2005. “He got more than one million votes in the 2007 election and then he completed his postgraduate studies in the United States. This is a man who has strong interpersonal skills and a lot of talent.” Boisclair’s PQ finished a disappointing third in the that election behind the minority Liberals and the now-defunct Action democratique du Quebec. Lisee said Boisclair’s second appointment should have been made public at the same time as the New York job. “I don’t think there was any intent to camouflage it because it was going to come out at some point,” Lisee said. ”But from a communications point of view, it would have been better to do it the same day.” Boisclair sought permanent status in the civil service because his New York appointment meant he had to renounce his consultancy work, Lisee noted. ”He asked us if it was possible to have some security. And in this case, given the quality of his candidacy, we thought it was worth it.” However, Quebec solidaire denounced the appointment, calling it favouritism. ”At a time when the Quebec government is asking the middle class and even poor people to tighten their belts, we are asking Mr. Boisclair to give up the dual functions,” said Francoise David, one of the left-wing party’s two members in the national assembly. ”Frankly, we find it indecent.” Elected at age 23 in 1989, Boisclair admitted in 2005 to personally using cocaine while serving as a member of the legislature between 1996 and 2003. He served as a cabinet minister between 1998 and 2003, holding the immigration, social solidarity and environment portfolios.

Soldier acquitted of manslaughter in accident BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A Canadian reservist has been found not guilty of manslaughter in an Afghanistan training accident that killed one soldier and injured four others more than two years ago. A military jury at a court martial in Calgary also acquitted Maj. Darryl Watts of breach of duty. But the five jurors, all senior officers in the Canadian Forces, convicted him of unlawfully causing bodily harm and negligent performance of military duty. Watts, who stood at attention while the verdict was being read, shared a long embrace with his wife once the court had adjourned. The courtroom at the Mewata Armoury where the trial was held, was jammed with military personnel. The maximum sentence for unlawfully causing bodily harm is

imprisonment of up to 10 years. Negligent performance of duty can bring dismissal with disgrace from the Canadian Forces. Cpl. Josh Baker died when a Claymore anti-personnel mine loaded with 700 steel balls peppered the platoon on a practice range near Kandahar city in February 2010. The prosecution had argued that Watts, who was the platoon commander, turned a blind eye to safety standards and abdicated his duty as a leader when he handed over responsibility to his second-in-command, Warrant Officer Paul Ravensdale, who was an expert on the weapon. “Every case sets a precedent to some extent and what this case does do ... is say if you have your subordinates run a range, you remain accountable the way they run the range,” said military prosecutor Maj. Tony Tamburro.

“In my opinion, if commanders weren’t responsible for the way ranges were done, that would cause people not to join the Forces.” Defence lawyer Balfour Der had argued that Watts had no training on the C19, so handed over responsibility for safety to Ravensdale. The lawyer choked back tears as he spoke to reporters after the decision Tuesday. “I’m disappointed but I’m just so glad the manslaughter charge and the other two explosive charges are gone,” he said. Der said his client was relieved that the jury’s verdict was over. “But he’s deeply disappointed in being convicted of anything. The whole thing’s really tough on him and his family. He feels very guilty about the loss of Cpl. Baker, one of his men, and Major Watts is such a good soldier.”

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Central bank stays the course BOC SAYS ECONOMIC WEAKNESS TEMPORARY BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada is holding fast to its view that the economy is poised for a comeback and that interest rates will need to rise at some point in the future. The central bank offered no surprises in its Tuesday morning interest rate announcement, keeping the policy setting rate at one per cent for the 18th consecutive announcement date. And despite what it acknowledges as weaker than expected conditions, bank governor Mark Carney kept in place his future guidance that in all likelihood rates are more likely to rise in the future than fall, or even stay the same.

“Although underlying momentum appears slightly softer than previously anticipated, the pace of economic growth is expected to pick up through 2013,” the bank said in its policy statement. “Over time, some modest withdrawal of monetary stimulus will likely be required, consistent with achieving a two per cent inflation target.” The dollar gained strength after the announcement. It was up 0.19 of a cent to 100.7 cents U.S. — slightly higher than just prior to the central bank’s announcement. The message is that despite the third quarter’s disappointing 0.6 per cent growth rate, and likely another sub-par performance during the current fourth quarter, Carney and his policy panel believe the trouble is temporary.

The weakness is partly blamed on temporary shutdowns in the oil patch and continued uncertainty over “fiscal cliff” negotiations in the U.S. Bank of Montreal economist Doug Porter said Carney may be proved correct, but that he would need to radically refashion his outlook if talks in the U.S. capital break down. Policy-makers calculate that the shock from a series of tax hikes and spending cuts automatically set to kick in January — more like a slope because the effects would not come all at once — could be enough to tip both the U.S. and Canada back into recession.

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Public sector sick days cost up to $3.5B A new report suggests public sector employees in Canada take nearly five more sick, disability and personal days per year than Canadians working in the private sector. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business says those extra days cost up to $3.5 billion per year, noting some public sector workers can bank unused sick days, then take a lumpsum payment or use the days to retire early. The CFIB says federal government employees take the most time off, averaging 15.2 sick, disability and personal days per year compared to 12.9 days in the overall public sector and 8.2 days in the private sector.

Germany, France disagree over ECB BRUSSELS, Belgium — Germany and France were divided over of the powers a new European banking supervisor should have to better deal with financial crises, leaving European Union finance ministers deadlocked with a year-end deadline. The 27 finance ministers are trying to agree on the setup of the new supervisory body, which will be headed by the European Central Bank and will hold wide-ranging authority over banks. They will try again in a special meeting next week on the eve of a Dec 13-14 summit of EU leaders in Brussels. The EU has been working toward setting up a “banking union” — a unified playbook for all the region’s banks. The single bank supervisor is a vital part of this plan and is needed to be up and running before other measures can be introduced: a European-wide depositors’ insurance; a single method for winding down bankrupt banks; and allowing the European bailout fund to directly help banks in trouble, instead of lending money only to governments.

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ments in the M.D. of Willowcreek, Cypress County, Westlock County and Vermilion River County, with the fifth trailer to be used across the province by the Alberta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Funded through Growing Forward — a program involving the federal, provincial and territorial governments that pursues agricultural initiatives — the livestock handling trailers were inspired by similar units already stationed in Red Deer County and Ponoka. Red Deer County developed the first four years ago, earning the county an Innovation Award from Alberta Farm Animal Care. Ponoka’s trailer went into service a year ago, and provided the blueprint for the newest trailers.

Central Alberta: Access Prosperity has terminated the contract of its manager. Gary Slipp’s involvement with the economic development organization ended last Wednesday, confirmed Curtis Herzberg, Red Deer County’s manager. Herzberg declined to elaborate on the reasons for the move, explaining that he couldn’t comment on a personnel matter. “The decision was a unanimous board decision that it was important to go in a different direction as to how we were going to complete this for the remainder of the project,” he said. Central Alberta: Access Prosperity is a partnership involving Red Deer Regional Economic Development and Central Alberta Economic Partnership, with the former organization an alliance of the City of Red Deer, Red Deer County, the Red Deer Chamber of Commerce and Red Deer College. Its mandate is to support local businesses, attract investment from international businesses, and promote business-to-business relationships that benefit the region. A former employee with Calgary Economic Development, Slipp assumed his position as manager six months ago. He replaced Cyril Cooper, who had managed Central Alberta: Access Prosperity while serving as Red Deer’s economic development officer, before resigning from the city. Herzberg said Central Alberta: Access Prosperity’s work has not been jeopardized by the loss of its manager. “We’ve got a couple of different options in terms of how we resource this,” he said. A new manager might be hired, or staff from one of the partners could step in to fill the void, Herzberg said.

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Customers Connie Mueller, left, and her daughter Reagan talk with jewelry maker Annmarie Middleton at the General Store.

Three Hills ‘incubator’ allows businesses to test market THREE HILLS GENERAL STORE ALLOWS VENDORS TO OFFER GOODS BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR With more than half of new businesses failing within three years, entrepreneurs walk a difficult path. But that path has become smoother in Three Hills, where a business incubator helps them test the market and their products before committing to expensive retail space. Operating since last December, the Three Hills General Store is located at 519 Main St. — the building previously occupied by the town’s Home Hardware store. About a dozen vendors display their products there, from jewelry

to clothing. “If you’ve got some kind of an idea that you want to maybe run a business in Three Hills or some other community around here, we can rent you some space, you can see how things go, and maybe in the next year or in six months you can rent a building of your own,” said Al Campbell, a town councillor and chair of the Three Hills Economic Growth Committee. That committee includes representation from the town and the business community, but the town owns the building and hired Three Hills General Store’s manager — Jacquie Buchanan. “She’s done a fantastic job of marketing and managing the Gen-

eral Store,” said Campbell. He acknowledged that after a busy December 2011, traffic at the store slowed in the new year. “But after summer came it just started increasing, and every month there’s more and more people coming in, more local people coming in, and lots of people coming in for the first time.” In addition to local and out-oftown businesses, the Three Hills General Store has attracted representation from Arts Alive in Kneehill. “They’ve always got some type of a display in here,” said Campbell.

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Emergency livestock trailer fleet set up BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR They’re a badly needed resource that hopefully will never be needed. A fleet of five livestock emergency handling equipment trailers went on display in Ponoka on Friday. Designed for deployment in the event of an incident involving farm animals — such as a cattle liner collision — the trailers contain equipment like panelling for temporary pens, feed, shavings for traction, halters, paddles, pitchforks, shovels and emergency lighting. Heini Hehli They’ll be stationed at fire depart-

Aim for the maximum ‘monetary effort’

PATRICK O’MEARA

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This week’s article is inspired by an excellent question from Notre Dame High School’s Career and Life Management class. They asked, “Which is better, investing in an RRSP or TFSA or outside of a registered account?” It depends! First, let us understand a concept that Mr. Money knows all too well: tax-efficient investing. Tax-efficient investing is the idea that investment income

should be taxed at your lowest possible marginal rate, ensuring that your investments are exerting the maximum “monetary effort.” From my friend (and yours too) Mr. Money’s point of view, this begins by participating in his employer’s pension plan. Any contributions made to the plan are deductible against employment income. In addition, his employer matches his contributions to some pre-

determined maximum. For example, a $1,000 contribution could potentially be matched to a maximum of $1,000. The result is that with little effort Mr. Money’s investment doubled, and we have not even begun to consider investment income and other benefits that employer pensions offer, such as cost-of-living adjusted pension payments.

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EFFICIENCY: Investing efficiently Maximizing contributions to employer-sponsored pensions is just one way that Mr. Money ensures he’s investing efficiently. He also tries to maximize registered retirement savings plan (RRSP) and tax free savings account (TFSA) contributions. However, in doing so he has to make a choice about which investments he will put into his RRSP and TFSA accounts, and which he will keep outside of these accounts. Remember, RRSPs and TFSAs are not investments in themselves. They are accounts which are registered with Canada Revenue Agency, ensuring investors get the benefits of using these types of accounts. Mr. Money’s job is choosing which investments he deposits into these accounts. Interest income is of course fully taxable, so from Mr. Money’s point of view, depositing interest bearing investments into an RRSP or TFSA ensures no tax impact on interest income. Think of it this way: by the Rule of 72, an interestbearing investment that earns six per cent before taxes will double in value in 12 years. Assuming a tax rate of 30 per cent, an after-tax return of 4.2 per cent requires an additional five years to double in value. So an interest-bearing deposit into a TFSA or RRSP ensures that the interest income is accruing to you and not the tax collector. Mr. Money prefers to invest in dividend-paying stocks and growth stocks outside of his registered plans so that he can claim the tax benefits on these forms of income. For example, dividend income earned outside of an RRSP or TFSA carries a lower effective tax rate, given that investors can claim the dividend tax credit. Claiming this tax credit means that $1,000 in dividends, paid to an investor with a 30 per cent tax rate, results in a total tax bill of $207, compared to a $300 tax bill if this income was paid out as interest. Capital gains income, earned outside of an RRSP or TFSA, are taxed at an investor’s marginal tax rate, but what Mr. Money really likes about capital gains is that only 50 per cent of gains are taxed. So only $500 of a $1,000 capital gain would be taxed, leaving the investor with more money to reinvest. In other words, a pre-tax capital gain of $1,000, on an original $10,000 investment, would be equal to an after-tax yield of 8.5 per cent, assuming a 30 per cent tax rate. If this income was paid as interest income, the total tax bill would be $300, resulting in a seven per cent after-tax return. In other words, you would need almost two additional years to double your investment by the Rule of 72. Sound investment choices are not just about which investments to buy but where your investments will “live.” Tax-free and tax-deferred savings vehicles, such as TFSAs and RRSPs, are excellent places to deposit interest-bearing investments, whereas dividend and capital gains income do not necessarily need sheltering from taxation. As our friend Mr. Money puts it, your investment portfolio is like your home. It needs to be properly insulated to protect against a loss of heat. In a similar way, your investment returns need to be insulated against the impact of taxes. Easy Money is written by Patrick O’Meara, an instructor at Red Deer College’s Donald School of Business. He can be contacted at Patrick.O’Meara@rdc.ab.ca.

BANK: Hedging bets “I think the bank is hedging their bets on the expected upturn of the Canadian economy,” Porter explained. “We could have the Republicans and Democrats holding hands and singing Kumbaya and the markets would have a tremendous rally and the economy could come flying out of the gate in 2013. The opposite is that we get a bit of a train wreck.” Retaining the bias for higher rates — even as the economy stumbles — also serves Carney’s purpose of reminding consumers not to count on super-low rates indefinitely. While the bank still sees most of the risks to Canada’s economy coming from abroad — Europe and the U.S. in particular — Carney has also highlighted the country’s overheated real estate sector and high household debt as challenges.

CP Rail to eliminate quarter of workforce BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canadian Pacific (TSX:CP) says it will eliminate about a quarter of its workforce by 2016 and expects to cut about 1,700 of those jobs by year-end as the struggling railroad works to bring down its operating costs. The Calgary-based company said Tuesday the reductions will be achieved through job cuts, attrition and reducing contractors as part of its restructuring plan. It expects about one-third of the 4,500 targeted to be eliminated by the end of the year. In total, the reductions will amount to the elimination of about a quarter of some 19,500 employees and contractors operating in six provinces and 13 U.S. states. “We do not want to lose good people. When you’ve got talent, you protect it,” CEO Hunter Harrison said at the company’s annual investor conference, his first since taking the helm of the storied railway 160 days ago. “We’ve said to people this: If you’re willing to be cross-trained in another discipline, if you’re mobile as far as being able to move, we’ve got work for you and hopefully they will be able to take advantage of that.” The railway is “fortunate” to have a high attrition rate of eight to nine per cent, given its older workforce. Over the course of his four-year plan, Harrison said there’s potential for 5,700 people to leave the organization and not be replaced. The cuts are part of a plan to increase annual revenue growth between four and seven per cent from 2012 levels as well as reduce its full-year operating ratio — a closely watched measure of how much revenue is required to run the business — to the mid-60s range by 2016. Harrison said reaching that target is “doable.” “Every day at work, I gain more confidence. In fact I reach over sometimes and start to change the number and they take the pencil out of my hand,” he said. The strategic moves are the latest for the railway since a new board of directors installed Harrison as its chief executive officer in the summer following a bitter proxy fight with the company’s largest shareholder.

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The livestock emergency handling equipment trailers, and some of their contents, on display in Ponoka. In a bit of a surprise, he said Tuesday he is not as yet convinced the recent cooling in housing activity in Canada, along with a slowdown in credit accumulation, represent a fundamental shift, indicating he remains concerned about the downside risk of keeping rates low for a very long time. A Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants survey conducted earlier this year found almost half of respondents worrying about affording to make mortgage payments should rates rise significantly. On Monday, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said he was pleased housing was moderating and that Canadians were starting to pay off debt, a shift in the credit and mortgage market he attributed in part to his decision to tighten borrowing rules in July. Carney said, however: “It is too early ... to determine whether the moderation in housing activity and credit will be sustained.” While the central bank appears to be waiting for the cooling trend to take hold, Scotiabank economist Derek Holt expects Carney will have all the evidence he needs by spring or summer, when the housing correction “starts as a steep plunge in new condo sales.” That presents him another problem, however. “As housing leads the downsides, I think the consumer picture may not lead growth as much as the BoC seems to be hoping,” he said. Otherwise, not much has changed in the past month or so, the bank says. Europe is still in recession, the U.S. is recovering but at a gradual pace and Chinese growth appears to be stabilizing. If there is good news for Canada in all this, it’s that commodity prices have remained elevated, which helps the country’s terms of trade. The bank’s policy rate has remained anchored at one per cent since September of 2010, the longest stretch of interest rate stability since the 1950s.

TRAILERS: Designed around Ponoka model “All these five trailers were kind of designed according to the one in Ponoka,” confirmed Heini Hehli, a Rimbey-area dairy producer and the chair of Alberta Farm Animal Care. He stressed the importance of having this type of resource, especially when animals are loose around traffic. “In an emergency, what we need to do is contain cattle,” said Hehli, adding that the trailers are equipped to deal with livestock ranging from horses to poultry. “It’s amazing what’s in there.” Ponoka fire Chief Ted Dillon said preparation is important for his area, given the large volumes of livestock that moves to auction there and is used at the Ponoka Stampede. But transportation mishaps aren’t the only situations requiring an emergency response, pointed out Hehli. He listed fires and floods as among the other dangers. “We had a barn crash a year and a half ago on the farm here, and basically what we needed was panels to confine the animals.” He hopes the five trailers will be just a start, with other jurisdictions already requesting their own units. “We know there’s a want for another five trailers from different (fire) departments.” The Alberta Farmed Animal Health and Welfare Strategy Steering Committee, which represents various industry groups and was a driving force behind the livestock handling trailer initiative, wants to document the use and effectiveness of the units. That would help build the case for more, said He-

hli, who admits to being torn in this regard. “We want those trailers to be used to show what they can do — and yet we don’t want any accidents.” Dillon said his department’s trailer, which is pulled behind emergency vehicles, has yet to be pressed into service. “I look at it like insurance,” he said. “It’s there if you need it.” He added that the unit remains a work in progress, with additions and improvements being implemented on an ongoing basis. “It’s a project that’s never complete. We’ve added a couple new pieces of equipment: a metal-cutting Skil saw and some shears this year.” Meanwhile, a related training course has also been developed for emergency services personnel and others who might have to handle livestock in a crisis situation. It will be delivered by Lakeland College at its Emergency Training Centre at Vermilion. Hehli said priority will initially be given to the firefighters and others who work with the first trailers. “The knowledge is the biggest thing,” he said of the training. “Livestock in distress will usually behave different than under normal circumstances. To know the difference is huge.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

STORE: Sales growing A couple of Hutterite colonies from the area also participated during the summer, he added. Campbell isn’t aware of any General Store exhibitors that have graduated to their own premises. But sales grow every month, and last week the project earned Three Hills the Entrepreneurial Community of the Year Award from Central Alberta Economic Partnership — a regional economic development alliance consisting of 42 municipal and First Nation members, as well as 15 associate members. Business incubators aren’t new to Central Alberta. One has operated in Delburne for a number of years and Alix is developing another. The Three Hills General Store had been open from Wednesday to Saturday each week, but recently added Tuesday to accommodate seasonal demands. Its Christmas hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday to Thursday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday; and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday. Campbell expects the store to remain on a fiveday schedule, and said it’s possible Monday will be added in the near future. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

GROUP: Decision expected soon A decision should be made within days, he said. “Time is of the essence. We want to move forward quickly.” Government funding for Central Alberta: Access Prosperity is due to expire next year, but Herzberg believes the project will still achieve its objectives. “The members of the board had that uppermost in their minds when they were making the decision we’ve had to make. We’re very confident we can deliver on this project and continue to succeed with this.” Slipp said he did not want to comment at this time. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Oil and gas lobbying dominates in Ottawa, dwarfs other industries: study BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Heavy lobbying by the oil and gas industry has far outstripped any other interest group seeking to influence the Harper government over the last four years, according to a new study that examined the lobbyist registry. The left-leaning Polaris Institute contends that the more than 2,700 meetings between oil and gas lobbyists and federal office holders since 2008 have helped turn Canada into a “petro state.” Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been promoting Canada as an emerging “energy super power” since coming to office in 2006. And in the last 18 months, pipeline politics have become an Ottawa preoccupation as major public policy debates erupted in both Canada and the United States over the proposed TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline to the Gulf Coast and Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline to Kitimat, B.C. Research by the Polaris Institute suggests that industry lobbying efforts have been gaining steam in lock step. Using the federal lobbyist registry to track meetings, the study shows that since 2008 oil and gas interests dwarfed contact by other major industry groups, including the mining industry, car makers and the forestry industry. The 734 contacts by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association almost

doubled the 412 communications by two major mining associations, and almost tripled the 245 contacts by the major forest industry groups. Two groups representing auto manufacturers had 157 recorded contacts over the same four-year period. A spokesman for Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver made no apologies for meeting with industry lobbyists. “The minister considers it appropriate to meet with a variety of groups, including those from industry, to keep himself informed on issues related to his ministerial responsibilities,” Chris McCluskey said in an email. Those lobbying efforts redoubled last year. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) had 190 contacts with government officials in 2011, up from 86 in 2010. “This rapid increase in officially recorded lobbying by CAPP coincides with a major public relations push in print, television and online advertising designed to counter increasing opposition to the tar sands,” says the Polaris report. In addition to industry advertising, this fall the Conservative government also launched a major television ad campaign, with a budget of $9 million, to pitch Canadians on “responsible resource development.” Since achieving a majority in the May 2011 election, the Conservative government has been rewriting or repealing laws governing environmental assessments, navigable waterways and other

measures it says are an impediment to major resource developments. The Polaris study contends oil industry lobbyists are behind the policy changes. “The amount of face time the oil industry gets in Ottawa in personal meetings and other correspondence greatly exceeds the time afforded other major industries in Canada,” Daniel CayleyDaoust, one of the report’s authors, said in a release. “No one doubts the hold the oil industry has on this current government, but it is important Canadians are aware that such a high rate of lobbying to federal ministers has strong policy implications.” The study claims environmental groups have been all but shut out by the Conservative government, judging by lobbyist registry contacts. That’s not true, said McCluskey, who noted his minister met last week with a coalition of environmental groups representing five different organizations. He said the Polaris study is based solely on meetings that are reported to the commissioner of lobbying. “While industry associations report their meetings to the commissioner, in many cases environmental groups do not,” said the government spokesman. “The minister will continue to assess invitations to meet environmental groups and the natural resources industry — which directly employs 800,000 Canadians and indirectly employs 800,000 more.”

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 99.99 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 76.60 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.22 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.33 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.39 Cdn. National Railway . . 88.96 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . . 93.00 Cdn. Satellite . . . . . . . . . . 6.30 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 67.71 Capital Power Corp . . . . 22.18 Cervus Equipment Corp 18.36 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 29.30 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 39.77 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 22.60 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.89 General Motors Co. . . . . 25.41 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 17.80 Research in Motion. . . . . 11.50 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 37.48 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 37.98 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 64.35 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 14.64 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 45.53 Consumer Brick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.34 Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 65.74 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.62 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 33.40 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 10.96 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.27 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.87 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 45.37 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.12 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 19.36 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 33.94 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.26 First Quantum Minerals . 20.38 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 37.85 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.58 Inmet Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . 67.68 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 9.81 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 38.72 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.02 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 33.25

Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 24.61 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 31.40 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 42.25 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.85 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 43.12 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 27.43 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.12 Canyon Services Group. . 9.94 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 33.22 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.670 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 21.17 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.00 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 87.19 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 33.06 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.78 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 28.00 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 42.31 IROC Services . . . . . . . . . 2.40 Nexen Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.17 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 5.04 Penn West Energy . . . . . 10.74 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . 1.61 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 7.38 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 32.26 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.09 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 12.45 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 6.80 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 50.88

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed lower Tuesday as falling oil and gold prices punished resource stocks and traders awaited the next development in the U.S. fiscal standoff between Republicans and Democrats. The S&P/TSX composite index fell 32.56 points to 12,137.18 while the TSX Venture Exchange shed 15.25 points to 1,192.75. The Canadian dollar was up 0.17 of a cent to 100.68 cents US after the Bank of Canada announced it is leaving its key interest rate unchanged at one per cent, a reflection of economic weakness across the globe. Traders also took in quarterly and annual earnings from the Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) that beat estimates. BMO had a fourth-quarter profit of $1.08-billion, up 41 per cent from a year ago. The bank’s adjusted earnings amounted to $1.65 per share, beating estimates by 22 cents a share. The quarter brought Bank of Montreal’s total net income for the 2012 financial year to $4.19 billion, up 35 per cent from last year and its shares added 34 cents to $59.63. U.S. indexes were lower with the Dow Jones industrials down 13.82 points to 12,951.78, the Nasdaq was 5.51 points lower to 2,996.69 while the S&P 500 index lost 2.41 points to 1,407.05. Market attention has focused almost exclusively on heading off the automatic big spending cuts and significant tax increases that are to be imposed at the beginning of 2013. The worry is that the combination would dramatically slow the U.S. economy and likely push it over a “fiscal cliff” and back into recession. Traders were unimpressed with a late day development Monday that saw Republicans put forward a proposal calling for raising the eligibility age for Medicare, lowering cost-of-living hikes for Social Security benefits and bringing in $800 billion in higher tax revenue. The plan relies more on politically-sensitive spending cuts and would raise half the $1.6 trillion in revenue proposed by President Barack Obama over the coming decade. But it would keep the Bush-era tax cuts, including those for wealthier earners. Obama has said tax hikes for the very wealthy are a must. The energy sector led decliners, down 1.12 per cent as worries about economic weakness stemming from a worrisome U.S. manufacturing report released Monday sent oil prices lower with the January crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange down 59 cents to US$88.50 a barrel and the energy sector was down 0.54 per cent. Imperial Oil (TSX:IMO) was down 52 cents to C$42.31. Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (TSX:CNQ) fell 76 cents to $27.43 after it said it has set a 2013 capital budget of $6.9 billion, which is about $500 million more than the Calgarybased energy company’s capital spending this year. The biggest increase is at CNQ’s Horizon oilsands mining project, which will see its budget rise to $2.55 billion next year from $1.68 billion in 2012. The tech sector fell 0.69 per cent as CGI Group (TSX:GIB.A) lost 35 cents to $22.97. Celestica Inc. (TSX:CLS) rose 11 cents to $7.35. The Toronto-based global manufacturing services company says it expects to pay US$7.80 per share to buy back about 22.4 million shares, or about 12 per cent of its outstanding stock. The buyback price was determined by a bidding process known as a modified Dutch auction. The base metals group was off 0.22 per cent while March copper prices gave up a two-cent climb to close unchanged at US$3.66 a pound. The metal had earlier benefited for a second day on a strong Chinese manufacturing report. China, the world’s second-biggest economy, is the largest consumer of the metal. Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX:TRQ) moved 19 cents lower to $7.16. Telecoms were also weak as Telus Corp. (TSX:T) fell 46 cents to $64.35. The gold sector was flat as bullion for February closed at a one-month

low below the psychologically important US$1,700 mark, losing $25.30 to US$1,695.80 an ounce. Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) was ahead 56 cents to $37.85 while Iamgold (TSX:IMG) faded 18 cents to $11.44. Among stocks making big moves, shares in pipeline company ShawCor Ltd. (TSX: SCL.A) tumbled 14 per cent to $39.47, a day after it announced a strategic review revealed that an acceptable buyout offer is “highly unlikely” in the current market. However, it added that it will continue to review and consider a range of strategic alternatives, but said it could give no assurance any particular transaction would take place. In New York, Darden Restaurants fell 9.58 per cent to US$47.40 after the owner of the Olive Garden, Red Lobster and LongHorn Steakhouse restaurant chains revised its earnings outlook for fiscal 2013. Separately, analysts at Credit Suisse said that restaurant goers would “quickly lose their appetite,” if the U.S. went over the “cliff,” because the job cuts that would likely follow would curb discretionary spending. Meanwhile, talks between the 27 European Union finance ministers got under way in Brussels. They hope to agree on the set-up of a new supervisory body, which will be headed by the European Central Bank and will hold wide-ranging authority over banks. But Germany and France, the continent’s two largest economic powers, disagree on how many banks the ECB should be allowed to oversee, when it should start, and what its final powers should be.

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Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 59.63 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 55.77 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.36 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.00 Carefusion . . . . . . . . . . . 27.69 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 23.30 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 39.84 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 64.00 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 12.76 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 77.66 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.81 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 58.44 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 27.11 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.65

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close Tuesday:. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,137.18 down 32.56 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,192.75 down 15.25 points TSX 60 — 696.84 down 1.31 points Dow — 12,951.78 down 13.82 points S&P 500 — 1,407.05 down 2.41 points Nasdaq — 2,996.69 down 5.51 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 100.68 cents US, up 0.17 of a cent Pound — C$1.5992, down 0.14 of a cent Euro — C$1.3006, up 0.20 of a cent Euro — US$1.3095, up 0.42 of a cent Oil futures: US$88.50 per barrel, down 59 cents (January contract) Gold futures: US$1,695.80 per oz., down $25.30 (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $34.116 oz., down 71.9 cents $1,096.83 kg, down $23.12 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Tuesday at 1,192.75, down 15.25 points. The volume was at 4:20 p.m. ET is 157.53 million shares. ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Jan ’13 $2.10 lower $589.80; March ’13 $2.30 lower $589.20; May ’13 $2.50 lower $588.30; July ’13 $2.70 lower $584.70; Nov. ’13 $2.70 lower $538.40; Jan. ’14 $1.80 lower $540.60; March ’14 $1.80 lower $540.90; May ’14 $1.80 lower $540.90; July ’14 $1.80 lower $540.90; Nov. ’14 $1.80 lower $540.90; Jan ’15 $1.80 lower $540.90. Barley (Western): Dec. ’12 unchanged $245.00; March ’13 unchanged $248.00; May ’13 unchanged $249.00; July ’13 unchanged $249.50; Oct. ’13 unchanged $249.50; Dec ’13 unchanged $249.50; March ’14 unchanged $249.50; May ’14 unchanged $249.50; July ’14 unchanged $249.50; Oct. ’14 unchanged $249.50; Dec. ’14 unchanged $249.50. Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 238,940 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 238,940.

Prime rate this week: 3.0% (Unchanged)

Bank of Canada rate: 1.0% (Unchanged)

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This chart is compiled by the Advocate each week with figures supplied by financial institutions operating locally. Term deposit rates are for $5,000 balances, while guaranteed investment certificates are for $1,000 balances. Figures are subject to change without notice.

U.S. envoy to Canada seeks to soothe concerns about ‘fiscal cliff’ BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — The U.S. envoy to Canada sought to ease concerns within the Canadian business community on Tuesday by downplaying the scale of the so-called “fiscal cliff.” In a speech to a Canadian audience, David Jacobson said the media have been focused on the dramatic imagery of a clifflike plunge when, in reality, he pre- David dicted the poten- Jacobson tial impact would actually be far gentler, in the short term. “It’s probably more like a fiscal slide,” the U.S. ambassador told the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations. “Taxes will go up, spending will go down, but it doesn’t all happen on Jan. 1.” The fiscal cliff is a combination of deep spending cuts, federally mandated in 2010, and the expiration of the Bush tax cuts which would kick in barring a deal by the end of the year. The U.S. Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the

looming threat of those $7-trillion measures could reduce the country’s overall GDP by 0.5 per cent, in the latter half of this year alone. It says the impact would be even greater in 2013. Jacobson noted that even if Congress cannot reach an agreement by the New Year’s deadline, the impact of the resulting tax increases and spending cuts wouldn’t be felt immediately. He said the effect would be felt gradually over the following months, spread out over the course of the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30. While Jacobson downplayed the potential scope of the economic damage if Congress can’t reach deal, he conceded that the failure would “definitely be playing with fire.” He also acknowledged that, since the election, it’s understandable that Canadians would be watching the U.S. for signs of economic hiccups. The value of Canadian exports to the U.S. is pegged at 20 per cent of this country’s total economy. “This is the thing that is the most-important implication of the election for Canada: Can we get our economic house in order? Can we do well and therefore can you do well?” Jacobson said.

“It doesn’t mean you can’t do well without us, but it’s sure a lot easier when the American economy is booming for the Canadian economy.” Last month’s U.S. election produced a similar composition in Congress and the White House to the one that existed over the two previous years, as the American political system was plagued by partisan deadlock. Both President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress have now laid out some specifics of their vision for a fiscal settlement, but the plans are vastly different and leave politicians far from agreement with a deadline less than a month away. A key point of contention is whether to allow the Bush-era tax cuts expire for higher-income earners — which the Democrats are insisting on and the Republicans are refusing. Jacobson said he hopes Congress will be able to address some of its differences by the deadline, but he indicated that if it doesn’t happen there’s always a chance they can be ironed over a few days or even a week. That is, he said, as long as people aren’t screaming at each other.

BMO Bank of Montreal sets sights on U.S. expansion after year of overhaul THE CANADIAN PRESS The Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) has set it sights on growing its U.S. business, it said Tuesday after spending more than a year overhauling and revamping the operations. BMO chief executive Bill Downe said the bank is launching a massive advertising blitz now that the integration of Milwaukee-based Marshall and Ilsley Corp. is complete. “This month we’re blanketing our U.S. footprint with some of the strongest advertising and promotions the bank has ever developed, online, outdoor, broadcast and in-branch,” Downe said on a conference call with analysts. “A significant value in our U.S. business has been realized and 100 per cent of our efforts are now back on our first priority, being in the market with confidence, growing our customer base and building the bank and its earnings as a consequence.” BMO doubled down on its U.S. operations when it acquired Marshall and Ilsley last year for US$4.1 billion in a bid to give it the scale and reach needed to compete south of the border. The work at BMO Harris Bank, its banner in the U.S., included a rebranding and refreshing of more than 600 bank branches and the upgrading of more than 1,300 bank machines. The push in the U.S.

came as BMO reported a fourth-quarter profit of $1.08 billion on Tuesday as its capital markets business more than doubled its earnings compared with a year ago. On a per share basis for the quarter ended Oct. 31, BMO reported a profit of $1.59 per share, up from $768 million or $1.11 per share. BMO’s revenue in the fourth quarter from all business segments totalled $4.18 billion, up from $3.82 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011. The bank’s adjusted earnings amounted to $1.65 per share compared with expectations of $1.43 per share on an adjusted basis for the fourth quarter, according to estimates compiled by Thomson Reuters. The quarterly revenue estimate had been $3.8 billion.

The increase came as the bank said the Canadian housing market appeared to be slowing in most markets. “We continue to see growth in residential mortgage market share, and believe the changes to Canada’s mortgage market announced earlier this year, which are aligned with BMO’s risk practices and ongoing efforts to encourage Canadians to borrow smartly, are having the desired moderating effect on housing prices in most markets,” Downe said. He noted that a “concerted focus on efficiency was reflected in a reduction of 700 full-time employees.” BMO Capital Markets helped drive the quarter as the division earned $293 million, up from $143 million a year ago. Personal and com-

mercial banking in Canada earned $439 million, about the same as a year ago, while the U.S. division earned $130 million, down from $155 million. Downe said the bank completed the conversion of its core banking platform in the U.S. during the quarter. “Over the past two years, with the acquisition of Marshall & Ilsley Corp., we have fundamentally transformed the bank, changed its growth trajectory, and enhanced long-term value for shareholders. “BMO Harris Bank has strong deposit market share positions in our core Midwest markets, and our U.S. footprint has doubled in size.” The bank’s private client group earned $166 million for the quarter, up from $137 million.

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Heat stunned by Wizards NBA ELITE LOSE TO LEAGUE’S WORST TEAM DESPITE TRIPLE-DOUBLE BY JAMES BRIAN URLACHER

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAST GAME WITH BEARS? Linebacker Brian Urlacher acknowledges he could miss the rest of the regular season because of a hamstring injury, meaning he might have played his last game with the Chicago Bears. In an interview Tuesday with FOX Chicago, Urlacher says doctors tell him he could be out “two to four weeks, three, could be four.” The Chicago Tribune reported earlier in the day that he was expected to miss three games and possibly the rest of the regular season because of the right hamstring strain. Urlacher came up lame on the secondto-last snap Sunday in an overtime loss to Seattle. Urlacher’s contract is expiring, meaning he might not suit up for them again.

Wednesday

● WHL: Red Deer at Regina, 6 p.m. (The Drive)

Thursday

● Bantam AA hockey: Sylvan Lake at Lacombe, 7 p.m. ● Men’s basketball: Vikings vs. Carpet Doctor, Grandview Allstars vs. Investors Group, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber. ● AJHL: Bonnyville at Olds, 7:30 p.m.

Friday

● Senior high basketball: Notre Dame Cougar Classic girls tournament. ● Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at Sylvan Lake, 6 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m. (The Drive) ● AJHL: Okotoks at Olds, 7:30 p.m. ● Midget AAA hockey: Edmonton Canadians at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Stettler, 8 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer Pro Stitch, 8:30 p.m., Kin City A. ● Martial arts: Pure Fighting Championship, 8:30 p.m., Westerner Prairie Pavillion.

Saturday

● Senior high basketball: Notre Dame Cougar Classic girls tournament. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Bruins at Red Deer Northstar, 11:30 a.m., Arena. ● Peewee AA hockey: Badlands at Red Deer Parkland, 12:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Taber at Sylvan Lake, 3 p.m. ● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Bisons at Red Deer Black, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Major bantam female hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Kin City B. ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Blue at Red Deer Pro Stitch, 4:45 p.m., Arena; Lethbridge at Sylvan Lake, 8:15 p.m. ● Bantam AA hockey: Taber at Red Deer Ramada, 5:30 p.m., Kin City A; Medicine Hat at Sylvan Lake, 5:30 p.m.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Miami Heat forward LeBron James goes to the basket against Washington Wizards forward Trevor Ariza during an NBA basketball game, Tuesday, in Washington.

Wizards 105 heat 101 WASHINGTON — His feet soaking in a tub of ice, his eyes scanning a box score, LeBron James chuckled a bit at the notion that his Miami Heat might learn something from a surprising setback against the Washington Wizards. “Nah, man, there’s not no lesson. This ain’t a lesson for us. We just lost,” James explained. “We’ve seen and been through everything, so we don’t need a loss to be like, ‘Oh, let’s catch ourselves.’ It happens.” Not too many people figured this outcome would happen, though, a message Wizards coach Randy Wittman delivered to his players before their worst-in-the-NBA team went out and beat the Heat 105-101 on Tuesday night behind Jordan Crawford’s 22 points — and despite James’ triple-double of 26 points, 13 rebounds and 11 assists. Perhaps inspired by the courtside presence of Washington Redskins rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III, who exchanged a handshake with Cowboys fan James after the final buzzer, the Wizards doubled their victory total this season. The Wizards improved to 2-13, earning their second win in the past three games after starting a franchise-worst 0-12. “I’m so happy for those guys,” said Wittman, who called this perhaps the most satisfying victory of his coaching career. He said he told his team beforehand: “The only people that think you have a chance tonight are the people here in this room. ... We need to have a statement game.” And, Wittman continued, “I said, ‘I’ve seen it a number of times, guys.’ ... (People say), ‘They ain’t got a chance to win this game.’ And that’s what people were saying. We all listen. Could hear it on the street and all that. These guys, it bothers them.” The reigning NBA champion Heat’s six-game winning streak ended, and they fell to 12-4. “You move on,” said Dwyane

Wade, who scored 24 for Miami. “You learn from it, but you don’t become a good team by holding onto certain losses — or certain wins.” The Wizards don’t beat many teams, but they beat the Heat: This made it three consecutive victories for Washington over Miami, including two last season in April. “It’s a big momentum win for us, obviously,” Washington point guard Shaun Livingston said. The Heat were the ones rushing shots on occasion and they made only 8 of 28 attempts on 3-pointers. The Wizards, surprisingly, were the ones being patient, making the extra pass, finding the teammate with an open look — and finishing with 31 assists on 38 baskets. With a crowd of 17,761 — not, incidentally, a sellout — standing and screaming down the stretch, relishing that rare chance to witness a compelling game, Kevin Seraphin contributed 16 points and 10 rebounds for the hosts, Crawford made three free throws in the final 11 seconds, and James missed a potentially tying 3-pointer with 3.9 to go. After trailing by as many as 12, Miami tied the game at 88 on Bosh’s reverse layup with 6 minutes, 50 seconds left. But Crawford’s 15-footer put Washington ahead 99-95 with a little more than 2 ½ minutes remaining. With 18 seconds left, James wasted a chance to give the Heat the lead, clanking a 3-point attempt. Crawford’s free throw then made it 102-99, and he slapped his palms together vociferously. James made a shot in the lane to pull within 102101, and Crawford added two free throws for a 104-101 edge with 6.9 seconds on the clock. James then missed his last shot, another 3. Nene got the rebound, and tacked on a free throw. Unlike the James-Wade-Bosh Heat, the Wizards are mostly a collection of castoffs and high draft picks who never lived up to their billing — or have yet to, anyway. Their best player, 2010 No. 1 overall pick John Wall, has yet to participate in a practice this season because of a left knee cap injury.

Rockets rally for victory over Lakers OVERCOME 13-POINT DEFICIT WITH 10 MINUTES LEFT TO GO TO .500 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rockets 107 Lakers 105 HOUSTON — Toney Douglas had a seasonhigh 22 points and Greg Smith added a careerbest 21 to help the Houston Rockets overcome a tough outing by James Harden and rally for a 107-105 win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night. The Lakers had a 13-point lead with less than 10 minutes to go. But Houston used two big runs, including a 9-2 spurt capped by a 3-pointer from Douglas to take its first lead of the game — 100-99 — with about 2 ½ minutes left. Dwight Howard made three free throws after that, but a bucket by Smith and four free throws by Houston put the Rockets back on top 106-102. Kobe Bryant hit a 3-pointer with 13.3 seconds left to cut the lead to one. Bryant fouled Douglas and he made one of two

free throws with 8.8 seconds left. The Lakers had a last chance, but Bryant missed a 3-point attempt before Metta World Peace missed a layup to give Houston the win. Harden finished with 15 points, but entered the fourth quarter with just eight points after shooting 2 of 18 through the first three quarters. Bryant led the Lakers with 39 points and Howard had 16 points and 12 rebounds. Los Angeles led by 13 before Houston used a 14-4 spurt to close the gap to 94-91 with five minutes left. The Lakers had six turnovers and missed five shots in that span. Bryant finally got Los Angeles going again with a free throw and a bucket to make it 97-91. The win is Houston’s fifth in the last six games and drops the Lakers to 3-5 under new coach Mike D’Antoni. The Lakers were playing without forward Pau Gasol, who sat out because of tendinitis in both knees. Antawn Jam-

ison started in his place and had 15 points and nine rebounds. A 9-0 run by the Rockets, which included five points from Carlos Delfino, got them within 75-68 with about four minutes left in the third quarter. The Lakers led 83-73 entering the fourth quarter after Bryant hit a fadeaway jumper as the quarter ended. The Rockets scored six straight points to get within seven points with 10 minutes left in the third quarter. The Lakers answered with a 7-2 run to push the lead to 67-55 with about eight minutes left in the quarter. Houston cut the lead to six points with a 3-pointer by Delfino early in the second quarter before the Lakers used a 10-3 run to extend their lead to 46-33 about five minutes before halftime. That run was capped by a dunk by Howard followed by a 3-pointer from Jamison. The Lakers led 58-45 at halftime.

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Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant shoots against Houston Rockets’ Marcus Morris in the first half of an NBA basketball game, Tuesday, in Houston.

NHL owners and players meet well into evening BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NEW YORK — Finally, some optimism. A marathon day of collective bargaining meetings between NHL owners and players wrapped up with a sight not previously seen during the 12-week lockout — deputy commissioner Bill Daly and NHLPA special counsel Steve Fehr standing beside one another at a podium talking about the progress made during negotiations. “In some ways I’d say it might be the best day we’ve had, which isn’t too overly optimistic of a picture — there’s still a lot of work to do and a lot to be done,” Fehr said after the sides broke just before midnight on Tuesday. “We will be back at it tomorrow morning.” The league and union were expected to return to the bargaining table around 9 a.m. on Wednesday, a couple hours before the start of a board of governors meeting. Daly said that event would go ahead as planned. With commissioner Gary Bettman and

NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr excusing themselves from the bargaining table, players and owners engaged in a stirring round of negotiations. Different variations of the group shuffled between rooms at a midtown Manhattan hotel as whispers of optimism circulated. Penguins captain Sidney Crosby was among the 18 players who sat across from six team owners, which included Pittsburgh’s Ron Burkle, and those two were said to be strong voices in the room, according to sources. Even though Bettman and Donald Fehr stayed out of the official sessions, they were present at the hotel and held private sessions with their constituents. It was hoped that an altered dynamic at the bargaining table might break the stalemate in talks. Bettman tabled the idea last week after the sides spent two unsuccessful days with U.S. federal mediators. Four of the owners in attendance were taking part in their first bargaining session — Burkle, Winnipeg’s Mark Chipman,

Toronto’s Larry Tanenbaum and Tampa’s Jeff Vinik — and were accompanied by Boston’s Jeremy Jacobs and Calgary’s Murray Edwards, both part of the NHL’s negotiating committee. The players in attendance represented a cross-section of the NHLPA’s membership. Stars like Crosby, Jonathan Toews, Ryan Miller and Brad Richards joined the likes of Ron Hainsey, Mathieu Darche and Kevin Westgarth, who have been heavily involved throughout. “I appreciate the efforts of the players in particular — we had 18 players in there today and six of owners,” said Daly. “I think everybody is working hard, I think everybody wants to get a deal done, I think that’s encouraging. We look forward to hopefully making more progress tomorrow.” There appeared to be a heightened sense of urgency around negotiations with the league’s board of governors scheduled to gather Wednesday and more cancellations expected by the end of the week. Money still remains the biggest issue for the sides to bridge.

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SEASON OPENER Lindsay Thurber Raider Cara Vandervlis, left, and Wetaskiwin Sabre Robyn Herbert fight for the ball during senior girls high school basketball at Lindsay Thurber on Tuesday. Amy Whitesell, Mikayla Morneault and Emma Newton each drained 11 points for the Raiders, who opened their regular season schedule with a 58-51 victory. Later, Tanner Rehn dropped in 20 points and Spencer Klassen added 15 for the senior boys Raiders in a 60-58 loss to Wetaskiwin. Meanwhile, the Hunting Hills Lightning senior girls downed the host Lacombe Rams 60-44 as Abbey Busch dropped in 13 points and Hanna Delemont and Rachel Kuz each scored 11. Kirsten Ramsay led the Rams with 24 points. Elsewhere, the host Ponoka senior girls Broncs downed the Notre Dame Cougars 58-54 in overtime, getting 14 points from Kendra Joyes, 12 from Paige Bonnett and 10 from Kendyl Stretch. Notre Dame prevailed 82-55 in the senior boys contest as Mike Maulin scored 21 points and Deng Amet contributed 14. Kenton Rodney had 14 points and Chandler McLaren added 11 for Ponoka. Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Back to a dark future Don Fehr may yet win this thing. And he surely lot of progress, and creates scenes like Chris Camdidn’t take the job to lose. poli screaming insults at Craig Leipold. What that will look like, precisely what would Give Fehr credit. In a take-back scenario, he constitute an NHLPA victory over the NHL in this didn’t have a lot of cards to play. All he could really current labour spat, is unclear. How to win a give- do was find a way to make the players believe this back negotiation has always been the fundamental was about their manhood, about standing up to the conundrum facing the union. owners, about making amends for turning What we do know, and the latest manion one another in the last lockout. festation of it was vividly demonstrated To have any cards to play in this negothis weekend in the fussing over the detiation, Fehr needed to rally the players tails of direct talks between owners and around the concept that despite the fact players, is that the presence of Fehr has salaries had increased substantially since both galvanized the players while at the the last lockout, the 2005 CBA was their same time league-union relations have Treaty of Versailles. been set back at least 20 years. This required some finesse. Fehr, rathAre the players more united than ever? er than working on a new deal, talked Roman Hamrlik aside, it seems so, alfrom the start about the massive givethough with at least another six weeks of backs of that CBA, and the vital need not negotiating ahead before the 2012-13 seato capitulate again. son is finished for good, the mettle of both He needed to make this negotiation DAMIEN sides has yet to be tested to the max. about the past, not the future. But if the NHLPA is united, it is united The best way to achieve that goal was COX not by a common goal or an objective, but to unite the players behind a secondary by a total and complete distrust of owneridea, the idea that the owners were and ship and league executive bordering on are lying to them at every turn, that they hatred. won’t bargain fairly, that the players are And in that, we’re really back to where we were giving and giving more and more not getting anything circa 1990 when Alan Eagleson and John Ziegler in return, that Bettman and Jacobs and the rest of had an oh-so-cozy relationship and players were just them are trying to take food off the table of today’s starting to understand how they’d been had for the player and the player of the future. previous two decades. It doesn’t have to be true to work. Then, at least, the players could honestly see how The owners and Bettman seemed caught unawares Eagleson and his many hats had compromised their this would be the strategy. Indeed, if there has been position on a variety of fronts including pensions, a great miscalculation in this process, it was in the salaries, expansion, mergers, international hockey first offer of the owners to the players. Instead of and benefits in general. being seen as simply an opening move in a long neIt was the last time that you could seriously make gotiation, Fehr and Co. made sure it was viewed as an argument that NHL players were an exploited an attack on players, as a declaration of all-out war. group. Then Bob Goodenow took over and the great You could even go back before that, to the realignevening process began. By 2004, players were getting ment proposal of last season, killed by the union 73 cents of every dollar that went in the NHL’s till. basically because Fehr convinced the players they Fast forward to 2012. NHL players have never hadn’t been consulted properly and the league was been as rich as they are now, or were, under the pre- trying something untoward, something shifty. vious collective bargaining agreement. During Gary These events fueled the distrust and united the Bettman’s reign as NHL commissioner, their salaries players, and Jimmy Devellano’s ill-timed and offenhave increased more than five-fold. sive words were just gasoline on the fire. If the playFor that, Bettman is almost universally hated by ers were unsure of themselves before, they weren’t the players. any more. There was a little of this back in 2004-05. We reWhat this means is that even relatively simple nemember Chris Chelios’ unkind/threatening words. gotiating tasks have become thorny nightmares. TryBut the proliferation of social media since then has ing to organize direct player-owner talks as will take given us access to the inner workings of the minds place on Tuesday became a debate over which ownof more players, and unless they are being untruth- ers should be there because surely Jacobs shouldn’t ful, to a man they appear to distrust and despise the be. NHL commissioner as a “cancer” and an “idiot” and The champion of the players has become New generally in a way that is reminiscent of the way in York Rangers boss Jim Dolan, and not because which the Eagleson-Ziegler tandem was despised Dolan is seen to be a sharp hockey man. History when it became clear what they’d been up to. tells us Dolan and Bettman don’t get along, so to the Interestingly, however, it hasn’t stopped there, players, that means Dolan must be the only sensible with a massive hate-on for Bettman. member of the NHL lodge, and therefore the only In recent weeks, Boston Bruins owner Jeremy owner likely to see reason. Jacobs has become the focal point of the union’s Hey, if Dolan could be included in the talks and spite. Before, it was Bettman accused of restraining the talks led to a resolution, it might even be an imthe majority of good-willed owners and using vot- petus to get rid of Bettman. ing rules to keep a minority in charge. Now, Jacobs But Dolan won’t be at the table. Instead, the NHL has joined the commish in the minds of the players, will send Larry Tanenbaum (Toronto), Murray Edostensibly as the hardest of the hard-line owners, a wards (Calgary), Mark Chipman (Winnipeg), Jeff individual who cannot be reasoned with because of Vinik (Tampa Bay) and Ron Burkle (Pittsburgh). Oh his unbridled greed and disrespect for the hockey yes, and Jacobs, and his inclusion is likely to be inunion. terpreted as a red flag to the ever wary players. At least that’s what the brethren believe. Forget This deal will get done eventually. Perhaps not in the $34 million Jacobs lavished on Tyler Seguin for time to save this season. Next season might also be no particular reason just before the lockout began, impacted. But eventually, there will be a new CBA. about as anti-Bettman a move as an owner could But how will the distrust created by this standoff, make. layered on top of unprecedented public cynicism Don’t confuse the effort to create PA unity by in- over the entire mess, ever be reduced? troducing facts. Its hard to see at this point how, or when, the The union line is that Jacobs hates players, and league and union might have a relationship based on wants to take the game back to the Ziegler days. This mutual respect and common goals as was supposed is what the players seem to now believe, or what to be the case after the last lockout but turned out to their propagandists are trying to convince them of. be a mirage. Again, there are echoes of years past in this. 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McIlroy named PGA Tour player of the year BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LA QUINTA, Calif. — Rory McIlroy sure didn’t feel like the PGA Tour player of the year when he arrived at Kiawah Island for the final major of the year. He had missed three cuts, had not contended in a major and had only one win. The last two months changed everything. McIlroy was announced Tuesday as player of the year, and while the tour does not disclose the vote of its players, this was the equivalent of a tap-in. McIlroy wound up with four wins, including his eight-shot victory in the PGA Championship, and made a clean sweep of the biggest awards by winning the money title and having the lowest adjusted scoring average. “It’s just a great way to end what has been a great year, my best season so far,” McIlroy said. The 23-year-old from Northern Ireland became the youngest player to win PGA Tour player of the year since Tiger Woods at age 21 in 1997. He also was the third European to win in the last five years, joining Padraig Harrington on Ireland in 2008 and Luke Donald of England last year. John Huh, who earned his card through Q-school, was voted PGA Tour rookie of the year in another race that was easy to predict. Huh won an opposite-field event in Mexico, but perhaps his greater achievement was becoming the only rookie to make it to the Tour Championship, a measure of good play all year. That gets Huh into the Masters next year for the first time. He beat out Jonas Blixt and Charlie Beljan, who won in the Fall Series, Greenbrier winner Ted Potter Jr. and Bud Cauley, the only rookie who didn’t win this year. Also on the ballot for player of the year were Tiger Woods with three wins, Jason Dufner and his two wins in the spring, Masters champion Bubba Watson and Brandt Snedeker, whose second win this year at the Tour Championship allowed him to capture the FedEx Cup. None compared with McIlroy, who pulled away from every over the final two months of the season. After his eight-shot win at Kiawah, he won the Deutsche Bank Championship after a duel with Louis Oosthuizen, and then won the next playoff event in the BMW Championship at Crooked Stick against a leaderboard that included Phil Mickelson, Lee Westwood, Adam Scott, Dustin Johnson and Woods. McIlroy’s other win came earlier in the year, when he held off Woods to win the Honda Classic and go to No. 1 in the world for the first time. McIlroy went to No. 1 three more times during an inconsistent summer until he established himself as the best in golf at the PGA Championship. “I think everyone knows that my game wasn’t where I wanted it to be through the start of the summer and leading up to the PGA,” McIlroy said on a conference call. He tied for fifth at Firestone the week before the final major to gain a little more confidence, though he said his expectations were lower than usual for a major considering his summer doldrums. He turned a two-shot deficit into an eight-shot win with a 67-66 weekend at Kiawah, and off he went. “I didn’t want to let this opportunity pass me because it was a great opportunity to win my second major,” McIlroy said. “And from that I gained a lot of confidence, knowing that I could win my second major. And I went on from there.” PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem, who introduced McIlroy, was as impressed with his behaviour off the course as his skill level inside the ropes. “He has handled himself in terrific fashion,” Finchem said. “He has been very direct with the media and entertaining to the fans inside and outside the ropes. He is at a very young age already making a very solid contribution to what is the most important asset of the PGA Tour, and that is the image of its players. For that, I thank him.”

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Prince Albert 31 20 9 0 2 110 92 Swift Current 30 12 13 3 2 88 85 Moose Jaw 30 11 12 3 4 77 94 Saskatoon 27 13 13 0 1 80 97 Regina 30 11 15 2 2 83 106 Brandon 30 10 16 2 2 82 122 Central Division GP W LOTLSOL Calgary 28 19 6 1 2 Edmonton 28 18 5 2 3 Red Deer 30 17 11 1 1 Lethbridge 32 14 14 1 3 Medicine Hat 31 13 16 2 0 Kootenay 27 8 18 1 0

Wednesday’s games Red Deer at Regina, 7 p.m. Spokane at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m. Edmonton at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Swift Current at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Vancouver at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Pt 42 29 29 27 26 24

GF GA 92 77 94 67 82 85 97 96 100 102 67 96

Thursday’s game Seattle at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m. Friday’s games Spokane at Brandon, 7:30 p.m. Red Deer at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m. Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Medicine Hat at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Prince Albert at Kootenay, 7 p.m. Prince George at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Tri-City at Portland, 8 p.m. Swift Current at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m. Seattle at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Pt 41 41 36 32 28 17

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Kamloops 31 21 7 1 2 111 78 Kelowna 28 17 9 1 1 111 69 Victoria 28 15 12 0 1 83 91 Prince George 27 9 14 1 3 74 100 Vancouver 27 7 20 0 0 73 112

Saturday, Dec. 8 Red Deer at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Spokane at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m. Regina at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m. Edmonton at Calgary, 7 p.m. Kootenay at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Prince Albert at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m. Vancouver at Everett, 8:05 p.m. Prince George at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Portland at Seattle, 8:05 p.m. Swift Current at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Pt 45 36 31 22 14

U.S. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Portland 27 22 4 1 0 125 56 45 Spokane 28 20 7 1 0 117 82 41 Tri-City 29 17 10 1 1 90 78 36 Seattle 28 14 13 1 0 90 104 29 Everett 31 11 18 0 2 76 113 24 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. Tuesday’s results Calgary 6 Kootenay 1 Spokane 7 Prince Albert 4 Swift Current at Kamloops, Late Everett at Portland, Late Moose Jaw at Prince George, Late

Tuesday summaries Chiefs 7, Raiders 4 First Period 1. Prince Albert, Gardiner 4 (Winther, McNeill) 16:10 (pp) 2. Spokane, Aviani 13 (Gal, Kichton) 17:27 (pp) Penalties — Valcourt Spo (interference) 7:50, Danyluk PA (tripping) 10:41, Proft Spo, Knutsen PA (fighting) 14:00, McIntosh Spo (roughing) 15:22, Braid PA (tripping) 17:21. Second Period 3. Spokane, Aviani 14 (Gal, Fiddler) 4:49 4. Spokane, Fiddler 22 (Gow, Kichton) 10:37 5. Spokane, Aviani 15 (Stewart, Fiddler) 12:56

6. Prince Albert, Daae 1 (Danyluk, Gardiner) 15:05 Penalties — Stewart Spo (tripping) 10:42, Gow Spo (cross-checking) 20:00. Third Period 7. Prince Albert, Conroy 11 (Bardaro, McVeigh) 0:44 (pp) 8. Prince Albert, Conroy 12 (Bardaro, Lange) 7:26 9. Spokane, Valcourt 10 (Aviani, Gow) 16:57 10. Spokane, Stewart 7 (Chartier) 17:35 11. Spokane, Chartier 4 19:48 (sh-en) Penalty — Kichton Spo (tripping) 18:08. Shots on goal Spokane 7 13 8 — 28 Prince Albert 9 7 12 — 28 Goal — Spokane: Williams (W,16-6-0); Prince Albert: Siemens (L,19-8-2). Power plays (goals-chances) — Spokane: 1-2; Prince Albert: 2-5. Attendance — 2,337 at Prince Albert, Sask.

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB New York 12 4 .750 — Brooklyn 11 6 .647 1 Philadelphia 10 8 .556 3 Boston 9 8 .529 3 Toronto 4 14 .222 9

Hitmen 6, Ice 1 First Period 1. Kootenay, O’Connor 5 (McPhee, Cable) 9:16 2. Calgary, Padakin 8 (Macek, Brassart) 9:27 3. Calgary, Rask 2 (Roach, Macek) 10:27 (pp) 4. Calgary, Chase 6 (Hurley, Clayton) 11:18 Penalties — Roach Cal (interference) 3:21, Martin Ktn (high-sticking) 10:05, Samoridny Cal (delay of game) 13:26. Second Period 5. Calgary, Samoridny 5 (Sylvester, Rask) 3:50 6. Calgary, Macek 12 (Brassart) 9:41 Penalties — Helgesen Cal (slashing) 11:14, Henry Cal (hooking) 13:33. Third Period 7. Calgary, Chase 7 (Rask, Sylvester) 10:31 Penalties — Humphries Cal (cross-checking) 14:56, McPhee Ktn (slashing) 18:14, Benoit Ktn (cross-checking) 18:55. Shots on goal Calgary 12 15 14 — 41 Kootenay 8 16 7 — 31 Goal — Calgary: Shields (W,3-2-1); Kootenay: Skapski (L,8-11-0). Power plays (goals-chances) — Calgary: 1-3; Kootenay: 0-5. Attendance — 2,101 at Cranbrook, B.C.

Milwaukee Indiana Chicago Detroit Cleveland

NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF y-New England 9 3 0 .750 430 N.Y. Jets 5 7 0 .417 228 Buffalo 5 7 0 .417 277 Miami 5 7 0 .417 227

PA 260 296 337 249

x-Houston Indianapolis Tennessee Jacksonville

South W L 11 1 8 4 4 8 2 10

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .917 .667 .333 .167

PF 351 265 248 206

PA 221 306 359 342

Baltimore Pittsburgh Cincinnati Cleveland

W 9 7 7 4

North L 3 5 5 8

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .750 .583 .583 .333

PF 303 254 302 229

PA 242 230 260 265

W 9 4 3 2

West L 3 8 9 10

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .750 .333 .250 .167

PF 349 258 235 188

PA 244 257 376 322

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF N.Y. Giants 7 5 0 .583 321 Washington 6 6 0 .500 312 Dallas 6 6 0 .500 280 Philadelphia 3 9 0 .250 217

PA 243 301 295 320

y-Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans Carolina

W 11 6 5 3

South L 1 6 7 9

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .917 .500 .417 .250

PF 317 333 321 235

PA 229 285 327 292

Green Bay Chicago Minnesota Detroit

W 8 8 6 4

North L 4 4 6 8

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .667 .500 .333

PF 296 294 262 300

PA 259 198 272 315

T 1 0 1 0

Pct .708 .583 .458 .333

PF 289 242 221 186

PA 171 202 267 234

West W L San Francisco 8 3 Seattle 7 5 St. Louis 5 6 Arizona 4 8 x — Clinched playoff berth. y — Clinched division title.

Central Division W L Pct 8 8 .500 9 9 .500 8 8 .500 6 13 .316 4 14 .222

GB — — — 3 5

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 13 3 .813 — San Antonio 14 4 .778 — Houston 9 8 .529 4 Dallas 8 9 .471 5 New Orleans 5 11 .313 8

Oklahoma City Denver Minnesota Utah Portland

Northwest Division W L Pct GB 15 4 .789 — 9 9 .500 5 8 8 .500 5 9 10 .474 6 8 10 .444 6

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Week 13 Monday’s result Washington 17 N.Y. Giants 16 Sunday’s results Seattle 23 Chicago 17 (OT) Green Bay 23 Minnesota 14 St. Louis 16 San Francisco 13 (OT)

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Kansas City 27 Carolina 21 Houston 24 Tennessee 10 N.Y. Jets 7 Arizona 6 Indianapolis 35 Detroit 33 Buffalo 34 Jacksonville 18 New England 23 Miami 16 Denver 31 Tampa Bay 23 Cleveland 20 Oakland 17 Cincinnati 20 San Diego 13 Pittsburgh 23 Baltimore 20 Dallas 38 Philadelphia 33 Thursday’s result Atlanta 23 New Orleans 13 Week 14 Thursday, Dec. 6 Denver at Oakland, 6:20 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9 Chicago at Minnesota, 11 a.m. Baltimore at Washington, 11 a.m. Kansas City at Cleveland, 11 a.m. San Diego at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m. Tennessee at Indianapolis, 11 a.m. N.Y. Jets at Jacksonville, 11 a.m. Atlanta at Carolina, 11 a.m. Philadelphia at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m. St. Louis at Buffalo, 11 a.m. Dallas at Cincinnati, 11 a.m. Miami at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m. Arizona at Seattle, 2:25 p.m. New Orleans at N.Y. Giants, 2:25 p.m. Detroit at Green Bay, 6:20 p.m. Monday, Dec. 10 Houston at New England, 6:30 p.m. NFL Odds (Favourites in capital letters; odds supplied by SBGGLOBAL.com; NL-No Line) Spread O/U Thursday DENVER at Oakland 10.5 48 Sunday Philadelphia at TAMPA BAY 7 46 Dallas at CINCINNATI 3 45.5 St. Louis at BUFFALO 3 42.5 ATLANTA at Carolina 3 47 CHICAGO at Minnesota 2.5 39.5 Kansas City at CLEVELAND 5.5 37.5 Baltimore at WASHINGTON 1 47 Tennessee at INDIANAPOLIS 5 48 NY JETS at Jacksonville 2.5 38.5 Miami at SAN FRANCISCO 10.5 39 Arizona at SEATTLE 10.5 34.5 New Orleans at NY GIANTS 5 53.5 Detroit at GREEN BAY 6.5 51.5 San Diego at Pittsburgh NL NL Monday Houston at NEW ENGLAND 3.5 51.5

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NFL Team Rankings AFC Offence Defence Total RushPass Total Rush Pass 8 11 8 12 10 10 7 1 14 11 15 6 6 6 6 4 7 5 13 13 11 10 8 11 4 10 3 2 4 3

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3 9 16 7 8 13 6 15 1 5 14

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NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Offence Defence Total RushPass Total Rush Pass ARI 32 31 27 7 24 3 ATL 9 28 4 18 21 15 BAL 19 23 15 25 23 22 BUF 17 4 26 24 30 13 CAR 18 16 16 14 25 8 CHI 30 10 31 5 10 7 CIN 15 13T 13 8 11 11 CLE 27 25 20 23 17 23 DAL 8 30 2 11 18 10 DEN 5 22 7 3 7 6 DET 2 21 1 19 20 18 GBY 16 20 11 15 16 17 HOU 4 6 10 6 2 19 IND 3 18 5 21 22 20 JAC 31 32 24 31 31 28 KAN 21 5 29 16 26 9 MIA 28 17 23 20 8 27 MIN 22 3 32 13 15 14 NOR 6 27 3 32 32 30 NWE 1 8 6 26 9 29 NYG 10 15 9 22 13 24 NYJ 29 12 28 10 29 4 OAK 13 29 8 28 28 25 PHL 12 9 17 17 19 16 PIT 20 24 14 1 5 1 SEA 24 7 30 4 12 5

MINOR HOCKEY The Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs earned silver medals in the Sherwood Park peewee A female hockey tournament, falling 3-2 in a shootout to the Richmond, B.C., Ravens in the final. Avery Lajeunesse and Jade Bussard scored for the Chiefs, while Mandi Fitzsimons was in goal. The Chiefs opened the tournament with a 6-1 round-robin victory over the Calgary Avengers, getting two goals from Taryn Hunt and singles from Bussard, Brooklyn Park, Shae DeMale and Kaylee Sawchuk and strong goaltending from Chantelle Sandquist. From there, Sutter Fund blanked the Edmonton Rebels 3-0 and fell 3-2 to Richmond. Fitzsimons posted the shutout against the Rebels, with Shaelynne Bilodeau scoring twice

and Sawchuk also connecting. DeMale and Sawchuk scored in the round-robin loss to the Ravens. The Chiefs advanced to the quarter-finals and promptly knocked off the Saskatoon Hurricanes 5-1, thanks to goals from Rylee Cassidy, DeMale, Bilodeau, Lajeunesse and Gracyn Hollman, and Fitzimons’ netminding. In semifinal play, Bussard and Bilodeau each netted two goals and Park scored once in a 5-2 victory over the Sherwood Park Force. Sandquist was the winning goaltender. Midget A+ Brodie Case scored twice for the Red Deer King’s Energy Chiefs in a 7-5 weekend loss to Innisfail. Jacob Bottomley, Teagan Colonna and Colton Levie also tallied in a losing cause.

Grizzlys rally comes up short against Bandits OLDS — Cam Maclise and Patrick Lee scored in a shootout to give the Brooks Bandits a 4-3 win over the Olds Grizzlys in AJHL action Tuesday. Brandon Clowes and Matthew Marcinew failed to score for the hosts against Brooks netminder Michael Fredrick before 380 fans at the Sportsplex. Brooks, which improved to 28-1-0, got two regulation-time goals from Maclise, whose second at 18:13 of the third period gave the visitors

a 3-1 cushion. But Jordan Lajimodiere replied for the Grizzlys at 19:18 and Marcinew, with his second of the evening, connected at 19:59 to force a scoreless overtime. Mark Reners also tallied for the Bandits, who led 2-0 after one period and 2-1 after 40 minutes. Frederick stopped 23 shots, while Ethan Jemieff made 32 saves for Olds. The Grizzlys host the Bonnyville Pontiacs and Okotoks Oilers Thursday and Friday.

U.S. names their junior hockey selection camp roster BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The world junior championship will be Seth Jones’ time to shine. There are three returning players and eight NHL firstround draft picks on the preliminary roster for the U.S. national junior team, but the one who draws the most attention is the young defenceman for the Portland Winterhawks who may go first overall in the 2013 NHL draft. Jones, a smooth six-footfour rearguard, was among

27 players named to the U.S. squad’s training camp Dec. 1618 in Tarrytown, N.Y., at the New York Rangers training base. The way coach Phil Housley talks about him, it seems like a lock that Jones will be on the 23-man roster for the world junior championship that begins Dec. 26 in Ufa, Russia. ”He’s a special player,” Housley said Tuesday on a conference call. ”He’s built for today’s game. ”He’s big, strong, he skates well and his first pass out of

the zone is crisp. His skating has improved and he’ll be able to jump into the play offensively. He’s the full package.” The final roster will be announced after a camp Dec. 1923 in Helsinki. Jones and forward Ryan Hartman of the Plymouth Whalers are the only two draft eligible players on a roster Housley said will be built on speed for the internationalsize ice surface in Ufa, and grit for the grind of a tournament that begins with four games in five days.

Pacific Division W L Pct 11 6 .647 10 7 .588 8 10 .444 7 12 .368 4 12 .250

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BASEBALL BOSTON RED SOX—Agreed to terms with RHP Anthony Carter on a minor league contract. HOUSTON ASTROS—Acquired RHP Alex White and RHP Alex Gillingham from Colorado for RHP Wilton Lopez and a player to be named or cash considerations. TAMPA BAY RAYS—Named Jamie Nelson coach. TEXAS RANGERS—Agreed to terms with RHP Joakim Soria on a two-year contract. BASKETBALL CLEVELAND CAVALIERS—Recalled F Kevin Jones from Canton (NBADL). National League NEW YORK METS—Agreed to terms with 3B David Wright on an eight-year contract. FOOTBALL NFL—Suspended Washington CB Cedric Griffin four games for violating the NFL’s policy on performance enhancing substances. ARIZONA CARDINALS—Released TE Todd Heap. Signed TE Kory Sperry. CAROLINA PANTHERS—Placed DE Antwan Applewhite and S Sherrod Martin on injured reserve. Released OL Jeremy Bridges. Signed RB Armond Smith and OL Thomas Austin from the practice squad and G Dominic Alford and CB Kendrick Burney to the practice squad. Signed DE Mario Addison from Washington’s practice squad. CHICAGO BEARS—Signed LB Dom DeCicco to a two-year contract and RB Harvey Unga to the practice squad. Waived/injured LB Patrick Trahan. Released QB Matt Blanchard from the practice squad. CINCINNATI BENGALS—Placed WR Mohamed Sanu on injured reserve. Signed RB Daniel Herron from the practice squad and WR Vidal Hazelton to the practice squad. DETROIT LIONS—Placed WR Titus Young and WR Ryan Broyles on injured reserve. Released S Erik Coleman. Signed WR Kris Durham from the practice squad and WR Troy Burrell to the practice squad. Signed S Tyrell Johnson.

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BRIEFS Brown honoured Former Red Deer Golf and Country Club head superintendent Wayne Brown was honoured with the Distinguished Service award during the recent Alberta Golf Superintendents Association property managers conference. Brown was a founding member of the Alberta Superintendents Association and a past winner of the Canadian Association Superintendent of the Year award. He was the head superintendent at the RDG&CC for 38 years prior to retiring in September.

Razz scoop up another gold The Red Deer Communications Group Razz are making a habit of winning gold. The under-12 A ringette squad took top honours in a tournament for the second weekend in succession, defeating the host Snipe 7-0 in the final of the Lacombe Icebreaker event. The Razz opened with a 4-3 loss to the Snipe — the team’s first setback of the season — then rebounded to post 5-0, 8-0 and 6-2 wins over the St. Albert Elite, Calgary Bowview Predators and Cochrane Rockies to set up the rematch wth their Lacombe rivals.

Johnson earns pair of medals Bailey Johnson of the Red Deer Nordic Ski Club earned a pair of medals in Alberta Cup weekend races at Canmore. Johnston stuck gold in the under-13 girls two-kilometre skate techique race Saturday and settled for silver in the classic technique competition Sunday. Red Deer teammate Anna Zimmerman picked up a bronze medal in Sunday’s under-15 girls four km classic technique event after finishing sixth in the skate technique race Saturday. The Alberta Cup event also attracted competitors from British Columbia, Ontario and

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS—Released FB Dominique Jones. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS—Released LB Clint Session and TE Maurice Stovall. Signed FB Will Ta’ofu’ou to the practice squad. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS—Re-signed Donte’ Stallworth. Placed WR Julian Edelman on injured reserve. Released OL Mitch Petrus. Signed OL Tommie Draheim and OL Colin Miller to the practice squad. SAN DIEGO CHARGERS—Placed WR Seyi Ajirotutu and C David Molk on injured reserve. Signed C Colin Baxter and G-T Stephen Schilling. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS—Placed G James Carpenter on the reserve/non-football illness list. Waived/injured WR Braylon Edwards. Signed G Rishaw Johnson from the practice squad. TENNESSEE TITANS—Signed OL Kyle DeVan and T Daniel Baldridge. Signed G Chris Scott to the practice squad. Placed T David Stewart and S Robert Johnson on injured reserve. Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS—Released G Devin Tyler. MONTREAL ALOUETTES—Signed FB Patrick Lavoie to a three-year contract. HOCKEY HAMILTON BULLDOGS—Assigned F Alain Berger and D Joe Stejskal to Wheeling (ECHL). MANCHESTER MONARCHS—Signed G Peter Mannino to a one-year contract. Released D Vincent LoVerde. SPRINGFIELD FALCONS—Assigned D Patrick Cullity to Idaho (ECHL). Central Hockey League TULSA OILERS—Waived F Jake Trask. Signed D Jeff Buvinow. LACROSSE COLORADO MAMMOTH—Traded F Derek Hopcroft to Buffalo for a conditional 2014 sixthround draft pick. WASHINGTON STEALTH—Signed F Athan Iannucci to a one-year contract. COLLEGE AUBURN—Named Gus Malzahn football coach.

Quebec. Other Red Deer Nordic top10 results: Gavin Rittamer, fourth and fourth, under-13 boys 2 km skate and classic; Amelia Espey, sixth and eighth, under-17 girls 5 km skate and classic; Claire Espey, seventh, under-15 girls 4 km classic.

Teskey leads Investors past Fatboys Ray Teskey netted 20 points to lead Investors Group past the Fatboys 81-65 in Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association action. Jeremy Roberge added 16 points for the winners, who got an additional 14 from Shane Austin. Travis Struss poured in 32 points for the Fatboys, while James Grobe contributed 10. In another contest, Cody Pratte drained 28 points and Brock Phillips added 19 as Carpet Doctor buried Sylvan Lake 89-36. Toufic Hamdan had 15 points for the winners, while Brandon Murphy scored 12 and Kyle Turnbull chipped in with 10 for Sylvan Lake. Meanwhile, Clint Unsworth scored 19 points to help the Rusty Chuckers post a 73-52 win over Circle T Services, which got a team-leading 10 from Matt Cargail.

Spartans comes away with win over Funk Carla Lachman netted 33 points for the Spartans in a 5643 win over the Funk in Red Deer Women’s Basketball Association play. Shalene Rascher scored 10 points for the losers. In other action: ● The Collins Barrow Storm got 10 points from Cali Payne in a 45-23 victory over the Rampage, who were led by Heidi Gehbrink’s five points. ● Sarah Bowvey scored 29 points as Vertically Challenged edged Triple Threat 56-55. Jessi Charchuk had 13 points in a losing cause. ● The Big Ballers, with Alanna Hoeksema and Aimee Sandham each netting eights points, defeated The Bank 3935. Mallory Jones scored 10 for The Bank. ● Hoosier Daddy got a 14-point outing from Tanille Cameron and downed the Shooting Stars 56-24. Ilana Zackowski and Katie McIver each scored eight for the losing side.

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Report says lockout pain and gain for businesses BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The NHL lockout is forcing some merchants near hockey arenas into the penalty box but giving power plays to others further afield as fans spend their money at alternative eating and drinking holes, says a report issued Tuesday. The report by credit and debit card processor Moneris found that overall spending at venues near arenas in Winnipeg, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and Calgary has decreased more than 11 per cent from a year ago on a game day. Drinking establishments are being hit the hardest with business falling nearly 35 per cent. Restaurants are taking a nearly 11 per cent hit, followed by fast-food outlets which are down almost seven per cent compared to a game day in 2011. Edmonton fast food outlets are facing the largest impact with business falling 27 per cent. Spending near Montreal’s Bell Centre is down more than 21 per cent, followed by a 17 per cent drop in business near Toronto’s Air Canada Centre. Merchants away from arenas, however, have been benefiting from the 11-week labour dispute, with spending up 5.4 per cent from a game day in 2011. “While overall spending at establishments near hockey arenas is down, it would appear that Canadians are simply choosing to stick closer to home,” said president and CEO Jim Baumgartner. Spending in bars further afield is up nearly 19 per cent while fast food business grew 11.5 per cent and was up nearly five per cent in restaurants, in line with overall spending increases in the third quarter. Moneris surveyed the game day spending of about 750 of its customers in the hockey host cities. “The ones that were affected very heavily are the ones that are in the same two postal codes as the arenas,” vice-president Malcolm Flowler said in an

las Porter has estimated that a cancelled NHL season would trim just 0.1 per cent from the gross domestic product as people spend their hockey money elsewhere. A University of Montreal professor specializing in sports business said the lockout is having a painful impact on workers and businesses near arenas, but the broader financial impact is minimal. “The net loss, if there’s a loss, it’s very small. People make a big fuss about it but certainly this impact is quite small in the aggregate,” Michel Poitevin said in an interview. “Of course we can find some losers from the lockout, (but) it’s harder to find the winners because it’s a lot more diffused, people can spend it anywhere, but I don’t think overall there’s a big impact of this.” The lockout is also hurting lotteries that offer sports betting and provincial governments that earn millions of dollars in lottery profits. Loto-Quebec says it is losing about $500,000 a week in revenues without its top selling sport, while the Quebec government is out a quarter of that amount, or more than $1.4 million since the conflict started. The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. said its sports revenues have been cut by 12 per cent. Hockey betting generated $72 million, or more than 26 per cent of the $270 million wagered on sports lotteries last fiscal year. The Ontario government receives about 25 to 28 per cent of revenues. During the 2004 lockout, Ontario lost $25 million in sports betting revenues while Quebec’s revenues dropped by $17 million from $46 million. “While we acknowledge that there’s been some impact on our business, we appreciate the fact that it’s probably been a greater impact on a lot of either businesses and individuals that really rely on the sport and the industry for their livelihood,” said Ontario Lottery and Gaming spokesman Don Pister.

‘THE ONES THAT WERE AFFECTED VERY HEAVILY ARE THE ONES THAT ARE IN THE SAME POSTAL CODES AS THE ARENAS.’ — MALCOLM FLOWLER MONERIS VICE-PRESIDENT ABOUT A REPORT THE COMPANY DID ON BUSINESSES AFFECTED BY THE NHL LOCKOUT

interview. Molson Coors Brewing Co. (TSX:TPX.B) and owners of the La Cage aux Sports chain (TSX:SPS.A) have both recently noted that the labour dispute has reduced revenues. As a league sponsor, Molson Coors said it will seek financial redress from the NHL once the dispute is resolved. The Montreal Canadiens won’t discuss the financial impact of the lockout but vice-president Donald Beauchamp noted that all 100 employees, including president Geoff Molson, have taken a 20 per cent pay cut by working four days a week. Some 1,000 parttime employees who normally work during home games now only work during other events at the arena. The Moneris report only tracked food and drink spending, but the lockout is hurting hockey merchandise vendors and parking lot owners near arenas as well. La Capsule sportive, which sells licensed NHL clothing in Quebec, has been in creditor protection since Oct. 19 as its debts grew in part due to the lockout. The chain hopes to survive by closing 60 per cent of its 13 stores. BMO Nesbitt Burns deputy chief economist Doug-

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Women’s soccer camp building towards 2015 PREACHING PATIENCE AS PROGRAM LOOKING TO DEVELOP YOUNG PLAYERS FOR WHEN CANADA HOSTS WOMEN’S WORLD CUP BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant gets past Philadelphia Eagles strong safety Nate Allen to score a touchdown during an NFL football game, Sunday, in Arlington, Texas.

Dez Bryant on verge of breakout year BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IRVING, Texas — Dallas coach Jason Garrett implores Dez Bryant to run “north and south” with the ball. The Cowboys receiver is listening and his career sure seems headed a lot more north than south these days. Bryant’s first catch Sunday at Cincinnati (7-5) could get the Dallas receiver to 1,000 yards for the first time as a pro. The past four games, he scored in each one and had the same career high in yards twice. On the go-ahead touchdown last weekend against Philadelphia, Garrett called for Bryant to get the ball on a screen pass 6 yards from the end zone. The only way in was “north and south,” and Bryant ran through a defender at the goal line, just inside the pylon. “Dez is growing before our eyes,” Garrett said after the 38-33 victory. That score was actually the second time Bryant heeded his coach’s words against the Eagles. The first wasn’t planned, though. Tony Romo scrambled to his right and turned back to see Bryant wide open across the field. Bryant did a little weaving on that 23-yard score, but mostly headed in the direction Garrett prefers and beat two defenders to the goal line. “Tony, he believes in me and I want that to increase more,” said Bryant, who has 978 yards and eight touchdowns and a career-high 145 yards in consecutive games against Cleveland and Washington. “It’s all about focus and not losing composure. If he calls a play and I do what I’m supposed to do, it makes a difference.” One other play might have been more important than Bryant’s two touchdowns. Dallas trailed Philadelphia 27-24 midway through the fourth quarter and was facing third-and-2, which usually

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Canada’s women’s soccer team might have won bronze at the London Olympics, but coach John Herdman said there will likely be some unfavourable results ahead. With an eye on the 2015 World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympics, Herdman is pleading patience with fans as he brings some new, young talent into the team. “The team will have to take a step back to move forward again,” Herdman said on a conference call. “We’re going to have to dampen down the expectations of the public knowing there’s a bigger picture.” Herdman announced his 27-player roster for an upcoming camp that features a mix of returning players and youth players who are getting their first call-up to a senior women’s camp. Star striker Christine Sinclair headlines the 12 players from the London Olympic squad who will attend the Dec. 12-20 camp in the Vancouver area. Herdman said 60 per cent of his team from London will be over the age of 30 by 2015 when Canada hosts the World Cup, and it’s crucial to start investing in the young players coming up, even if it costs the team temporarily on the score sheet. “We’re going to have to expose a lot of young players, very young players, to the international game, and give them caps and playing minutes, which means we may not be able to get the results that you’d want,” Herdman said. “But in the long term it will help us be in a much stronger position in 2015 and 2016.” The coach who was hired after Canada’s disastrous last-place finish at the 2011 World Cup said there’s a big gap in the women’s soccer system in this country. Few players on Canada’s youth teams are moving onto the senior women’s side. “If I go with a team that’s 30-plus into that women’s World Cup and Olympic Games, all I’m going to do is compound the problem,” he said. “I’m going to have to take a real helicopter

view and make sure that we pave a pathway, so the next coach in 2019 and 2020 isn’t in the same situation as I’m in now.” Of the nine young players attending the camp, five were part of this year’s under-20 program — Sabrina D’Angelo of Welland, Ont., Adriana Leon of Maple, Ont., Christabel Oduro of Brampton, Ont., Jenna Richardson of Vancouver, and Shelina Zadorsky of London, Ont. Four played for Canada at the U-17 World Cup this year in Azerbaijan — Kadeisha Buchanan of Mississauga, Ont., Summer Clarke of Richmond, B.C., Ashley Lawrence of Caledon, Ont., and Nichelle Prince of Ajax, Ont. Herdman said veterans such as Sinclair and Rhian Wilkinson will play key roles in developing Canada’s young talent. “Those players are absolutely crucial, I think they do realize that they’re important now to help leave a legacy,” Herdman said. “Some of the senior players may recognize they may not be in the squad in 2015 or ’16, but I imagine some of them are prepared to hang around to make sure that they solidify the team’s foundation.” Herdman used Sinclair as an example. The team captain will miss the Four Nations tournament next month in China while serving a four-game suspension for an incident after the Canada-U.S. semifinal at the Olympics. “She’s banned for the games, but she’s on the phone desperate to be there, she wants to be in that environment, she wants to be able to support from a leadership perspective the culture that’s been created with new players,” Herdman said. “It speaks reams for her, but it gives you an insight into the mindset of our players that they know they know that they have an important role of transitioning our new fledgling team through.” The Canadian Soccer Association announced plans Tuesday to present the Sinclair, a native of Burnaby, B.C., with a plaque commemorating her national-record 23 international goals this year.

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ABORIGINAL GIFT FAIR Want to pick up something different for Christmas? Spirit Seekers Christmas Gift Fair runs on Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. at Red Deer Native Friendship Centre at 4808 51st Ave. Aboriginal art, local and international art, jewelry, craft and food items will be on hand. Hot sandwiches, pop and hot chocolate will be served by donation. Proceeds support youth activities for Red Deer’s aboriginal youth. Call 403-340-0020 or email at youth@rdnfs.com for information.

No big surprises coming BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer County Mayor Jim Wood says ratepayers shouldn’t expect any big surprises coming out of this year’s budget. While tax rate increases have yet to be determined, Wood said the county is not expecting to see average increases above the inflation rate, which is hovering around the one per cent mark. “That just keeps us maintaining the same level of service,” said Wood. “We actually have a very conservative budget.” Council will set tax rates next year after property assessment figures become available in February. The draft operating budget given first reading on Tuesday is just over $39 million, up from $37.6 million last year. The proposed capital budget is $26.3 million, down from $42.3 million in 2012. The county is anticipating adding only one new staff position this year to its complement of 79 employees. A facilities maintenance position will be

RED DEER COUNTY BUDGET ‘THAT (ONE PER CENT AVERAGE INCREASE) JUST KEEPS US MAINTAINING THE SAME LEVEL OF SERVICE. WE ACTUALLY HAVE A VERY CONSERVATIVE BUDGET.’ — RED DEER COUNTY MAYOR JIM WOOD

added to oversee the municipality’s aging facilities. Heather Gray, the county’s director of corporate services, said the position is expected to save the county money in the long run because the municipality is increasingly relying on outside contractors for maintenance. The capital budget is down sharply from this year, largely because a number of road projects that were not completed in 2011 were pushed to 2012. As always, the biggest chunk of capital expenditures will go towards maintaining the county’s road network with $15.5 million earmarked for road projects.

“I think we’re on track to make sure our infrastructure is in very good shape in our municipality,” said Wood. Another $6 million has been set aside to build a roundabout at a notorious bottleneck at Leva Avenue southeast of Costco in Gasoline Alley. The county has also committed $585,000 to purchase a new fire truck and bush truck for Bowden. Council will not take a final vote on the budget until Dec. 18 to give the public an opportunity to comment on the county’s spending plans. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Make your own Christmas gifts and cards during the Red Deer Public Library’s Christmas Crafternoon on Saturday. Children aged seven and up are invited to take part in the event from 1 to 4 p.m. at the downtown branch’s children’s services department. Participants can also enjoy classic Christmas cartoons while working on their crafts.

MAN TAKEN TO HOSPITAL AFTER BEING HIT BY LARGE PIECE OF ICE INSIDE TANK BY ADVOCATE STAFF

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CORRECTIONS ● A story that ran in Saturday’s Advocate about allegations of misconduct against an RCMP officer wrongly stated that he worked for Red Deer City RCMP detachment when the complaints were made. Sgt. Steve Black was working in the former Red Deer Rural RCMP building on 55th Street for the Red Deer Major Crimes Unit, which is under the control of RCMP K-Division. ● An item on C1 in Tuesday’s Advocate had some incorrect information. The cost to attend the fourth annual benefit concert at the Hub on Friday at 7 p.m. is $15 per person and a non-perishable food item. The host is Persons Who Celebrate Their Abilities. All monies and food will go to Loaves and Fishes to stock their pantry. Doors open at 6 p.m. Cash only.

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A Red Deer County emergency responder passes Tankmaster Rentals workers at the scene where a man was injured in Petrolia Park on Tuesday.

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Man sentenced to five-year term A Red Deer man who pleaded guilty to participating in a home invasion earlier this year and other charges was sentenced to five years in prison. Rodney David Irvine, 42, pleaded guilty to break and enter of a dwelling house on Tuesday in Red Deer provincial court. Court heard that on May 4, Irvine broke into a Red Deer residence while the occupant was calling 911 for help. He also pleaded guilty to possession of a restricted firearm, possession of stolen property, carrying a concealed weapon, possession of a weapon while prohibited, and failure to comply with conditions. Those charges were laid after Irvine failed to stop for Red Deer RCMP on May 9, 2011.

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With the ice now thick enough to support machinery, City of Red Deer Recreation Parks and Culture employee Riley Boutiere takes the sweeper out onto Bower Ponds to clear snow. The Parks Department hopes to have Bower Ponds open for skating by the weekend. The serviced rinks in the city are now flooded and open for skating while the rinks serviced on a weekly basis are not yet ready.

St. Andrew’s Day, Scotch provide big boost to United Way goal A little Scotch went a long way towards United Way Central Alberta reaching 77 per cent of its fundraising goal. The campaign has $1,536,057, thanks to generous supporters. This includes $10,000 raised in just three hours during United Way’s second annual St. Andrew’s Day Celebration held on Monday. Bison skewers were offered, and bagpipers announced presenters during this sold-out Scotch tasting event.

“Not only are people coming for a great cause, but they are able to share their passion and knowledge of Scotch, not to mention a few laughs and some very memorable moments,” said Buck Buchanan, 2012 volunteer campaign co-chair. The event also gave United Way campaign organizers a chance to talk about the Leadership Matching Challenge, which matches any new or increased gifts of $1,000 or more. John Knoch, campaign co-chair,

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said this was the last big community event for the United Way campaign season. “For the next three weeks, we will focus on bringing in the remainder of the campaign goal,” said Knoch. “We hope anyone that has not yet made their pledge, will do so right now. We need everyone’s help to hit the target this year.” The United Way campaign will provide consistent dollars to more than 30 programs and services throughout Central Alberta.

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Hear and sing the sounds of the season during the Kiwanis Christmas Carol Festival on Sunday. The 50th annual event starts at 2 p.m. at Gaetz Memorial United Church. Admission is free, but donations to the Red Deer Food Bank and Red Deer Christmas Bureau are appreciated. Between performances, the audience is asked to take part in carols. More information is available by calling 403340-1109.

An Alberta Occupational Health and Safety investigation is underway after a large piece of ice fell on a worker at a business in Gasoline Alley on Tuesday. Red Deer Emergency Services and Red Deer County crews were out to Tankmaster Rentals on the east side of Gasoline Alley at about noon. Company vice-president Mike Morton said that the man was taken to hospital. The ice was in the tank and it fell off where the man was working.

“We were doing our cleaning,” said Morton. Occupational Health and Safety spokesman Brookes Merritt said an 18-year-old man was working inside a 400-barrel tank that had been laid on its side and he was steaming the tank to remove ice buildup. That’s when a large piece of ice fell on the worker, Merritt said. The worker suffered injuries to his pelvis and was transferred to Calgary Foothills Medical Centre, said Merritt. Occupational Health and Safety investigators can issue stop work or stop-use orders, but this has not taken place, said Merritt.

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BRIEFS Alberta Health expenses online Months after an expense scandal led to the resignation of an Alberta Health Services board member and the firing of its chief financial officer, the AHS has announced it will post executive and board member expenses on its website. Starting on Monday the information is now be available on the www.albertahealthservices.ca website in the Wait Times and Reporting section. The expense information will be posted monthly and will include the expense reports for members of the AHS board, the president and chief executive officer, direct reports to the CEO and several other senior positions. As well, expenses for senior staff members at the senior vice-president level and above, as well as zone medical directors, chief medical officers, the ethics and compliance officer, the chief audit executive and the chief of staff will be posted. On Monday, expense claim information for October 2012 was posted and November expense claim information will be posted by Dec. 14. Thereafter, monthly expense report posts will occur by the 10th business day of each month. This builds on other adjustments AHS has made to its travel, hospitality and hosting policy. According to a release, the new policy strengthens the requirements for what is permissible for reimbursement as a travel, meal and hospitality expense. It includes the public disclosure of approved expense reports submitted by executive staff members and the board.

RDC nabs marketing, PR wards Red Deer College received four Medallion Awards at the recent National Council for Marketing and Public Relations District 7 Conference. The award honours excellence among marketing and public relations professionals at community and technical colleges. RDC received gold in the promotional video category for RDC’s Big Reveal; gold in the viewbook category for RDC Viewbook 2012-13; gold in the brochure four-colour category for its Performing Arts Play! brochure; and bronze in the class schedule category for its Continuing Education Visual and Performing Arts Booklet. District 7 includes members from Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Yukon, Alaska, Idaho, Montana, and Washington.

Olds College centennial starts Olds College begins its centennial celebrations by launching a history book and coffee brand on Friday. Founded in 1913 as the Olds College School of Agriculture and Home Economics, the college marks 100 years of service with the book Seeding Success by Saskatchewan historian Barry Potyondi. Proceeds from the book’s sale benefit the Centennial Entrepreneurial Legacy Fund. The Centennial Coffee Project not only offers a

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Jaykob Oickle, 5, and his cousin Kairi Helset, 6, check out the display of almost 200 creches on exhibit at The Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints in Kentwood on Monday evening. The seventh annual exhibit of creches from the private collections of members of the church is open to the public for three days this week. Tuesday, Dec. 4 and Wednesday, Dec. 5 from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and also a viewing from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Along with the exhibit there is also live entertainment and refreshments. The church will also hold its annual outdoor nativity pageant later this month. On December 17, 18 and 19 a live cast including animals will play out the birth of Christ story. Three shows each night begin at 7 p.m. 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. each night. See related video at www.reddeeradvocate.com blend unique to Olds College, proceeds will help the Dominican Republic Scholarship Fund, an effort to produce better coffee and farm revenues plus help children complete high school. The event goes from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the college’s Learning Resources Centre.

er Centre, at 51A Street and 38th Avenue. All other city recreation facilities will remain open during this time. For more information on the Recreation Centre, call 403-309-8411 or visit www.reddeer.ca/rpc.

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Rec Centre maintenance coming Red Deer’s Recreation Centre will be closed for almost a month as regular scheduled maintenance gets underway. From Monday until Jan. 2, the Rec Centre at 4501 47A Ave. will be closed for its annual maintenance. The centre’s administration office will maintain regular hours of operation and cashiers will be open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. from Monday to Friday for registrations and inquiries. The shutdown allows staff the opportunity to conduct a thorough inspection and maintenance on all equipment and technical systems of the entire facility. Scheduled drop-in activities will resume on Jan. 2. During the shutdown, users are reminded that their passes also provide them access to the Michen-

The Jaws of Life were needed to remove two passengers following a two-vehicle crash on Gaetz Avenue on Monday evening. At about 7:20 p.m., Red Deer RCMP responded to a collision at Gaetz Avenue and 71st Street. Police say one of the vehicles was southbound on Gaetz Avenue when it was struck by another vehicle that was turning west onto 71st Street from the northbound lane. Two backseat passengers had to be extracted from the westbound vehicle by emergency crews. All four occupants of the west-turning vehicle were taken to Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre and treated for serious, but non-life-threatening injuries. The driver of the west-turning vehicle has been charged with making an unsafe left turn.

120 families sign up for Salvation Army ‘adoption’ BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF With less than two weeks to go, 120 families have signed up for the Salvation Army’s adopt-a-family program. Red Deer Salvation Army Major Larry Bridger said initially they received numerous applications for the program, but the flurry has since subsided.

“We have a steady flow of applications,” said Bridger. “I know quite often there is a rush of applications in the last week, so we’re still anticipating that is going to happen.” Last year, the Salvation Army had 187 families in the program, which is aimed at ensuring all families have a Merry Christmas. Although he didn’t know how many sponsors had come on board yet, he

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INVASION: Turned to crime to support drug habit When the vehicle finally stopped, the occupants fled. Inside the vehicle, police found a bag containing a loaded sawed-off shot gun. Other charges relating to both incidents were withdrawn by the Crown. Both Crown prosecutor Tony Bell and defence lawyer Brad Mulder recommended the five-year prison sentence, with no eligibility for parole for two-and-a-half years. Check out our new look! Mulder told the court his client got involved in drugs and turned to a your entree life of crime to support From 3pm until 8pm This Monday to Thursday his drug habit. Red Deer - Gasoline Alley He said Irvine didn’t

did say that part of the program was coming along well. “I know we have been getting people sending in donations or taking on the responsibility,” said Bridger. “That’s coming very well at this point in time.” The typical budget to sponsor a family through the program is about $100 per person. Bridger said they’d like to have people apply as soon as they can so the Salvation Army can do the leg work to

know the gun was in the bag, but was aware of the violent criminal history of one of the people riding in the vehicle. The man whose house was invaded was also a drug dealer, Mulder said.

make sure everyone has a good Christmas. The deadline of Dec. 14 exists so the people at the Salvation Army have enough time to get everything in order. People interested in becoming a sponsor or who would like to register as an adopt-a-family can call the Red Deer Salvation Army at 403-3462251. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Judge Bert Skinner reduced Irvine’s sentence by 214 days for the time he spent in Red Deer Remand. Alexander Talbot, 20, who was also charged in the home invasion, remains in custody and returns to court on Jan. 15.

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Checking rules cut hockey injuries NEUROSURGEON WANTS AGGRESSIVE CHECKING BANNED AT ALL LEVELS OF MINOR HOCKEY BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Rules that restrict bodychecking can significantly reduce hockey injuries, suggests a study led by a Toronto neurosurgeon, who wants aggressive checking banned at all levels of minor hockey to make the game safer for young players. Dr. Michael Cusimano of St. Michael’s Hospital and his research team reviewed 18 studies that evaluated interventions aimed at reducing aggression-related injuries; 13 of them looked at mandatory rule changes in minor hockey in Canada and the U.S. Eleven of those studies found rule changes resulted in one to six fewer penalties per game, while cutting the number of injuries three- to 12-fold. “We know that rules automatically say what’s appropriate within a culture,” Cusimano said. “If we have rules and

they’re enforced, then we see changes.” Brain injuries like concussions often result from aggressive bodychecking and account for 15 per cent of all injuries to players aged nine to 16, says the study published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. On some teams, a single season can see up to one-quarter of players sustain a concussion, a traumatic brain injury that typically results from a blow to the head. Symptoms include headache, confusion, memory loss, dizziness and nausea or vomiting. Depending on the severity of the concussion, symptoms can last for days, weeks or months. Concentration and the ability to remember may be impaired; the person can be irritable, depressed and experience marked personality changes; sensitivity to light and noise, along with disturbed sleep, are also common.

With repeated concussions, the brain can be permanently damaged. “Given that brain injuries are so common and that they can have permanent effects, we need to introduce measures that we know have been shown to work to reduce the numbers of children and youth suffering these injuries in sport,” Cusimano said. Educational programs and behaviour modification interventions also have a part to play in curbing aggressive actions that can lead to injuries, but studies suggest they are not as effective as rule changes that dole out punishments for infractions. “Rule changes essentially alter the culture of a sport and clearly define acceptable behaviour for players, coaches, parents and officials,” Cusimano said. But rules aimed at preventing injuries also need punitive teeth behind them to make them stick, he said. “If there were financial

implications, whether (teams or leagues) losing insurance coverage or lawsuits or whatever mechanism there is, then I think things would start to change.” While the issue is “constantly reviewed,” Hockey Canada has no plans to change current checking rules, said Paul Carson, vice-president of hockey development. The national body permits bodychecking at the Peewee level, which includes players aged 11 and 12, but provinces can choose to tighten those rules, he said. Quebec, for example, has raised the age when bodychecking is allowed to 13- and 14-year-old bantam players. “I tend to think bodychecking as a skill is different than bodychecking as a tactic, which then becomes that aggressive play,” Carson said this week from Calgary. Last season, the organization instituted a rule of zero tolerance for head contact, with double-minor penalties

for an intentional contact with a player’s head, even a glove in the face to push an opponent away, he said. “I’ve seen the way players have adjusted to that rule, so a rule emphasis and rule change can have that kind of influence,” Carson said. “But it also comes with education and an understanding that we have the ability to modify behaviours if all stakeholders play their roles — referees, coaches, players, parents — they all have a role to play here. “I’m not sure if you just change the rule without the education, without good initiatives to modify behaviour, that you’d get much further along,” Carson said. The Toronto Non-Contact (TNC) Hockey League was begun four years ago by a group of parents concerned about injuries being suffered by their children in contact hockey leagues.

Want protection against colds and flu this winter? STOP TOUCHING YOUR FACE! ble that frequent handwashing reduces the risk of acquiring colds and the flu. “I love that word plausible. It covers up a whole lot of lack of good evidence.” And she says the idea of telling people about self-inoculation makes sense, because there are times when people simply cannot wash their hands, such as during a commute on public transit. The author of a book on hygiene says public health messages about handwashing and selfinoculation should be synergistic. “I don’t think it’s an either-or thing,” says Dr. Bonnie Henry, author of Soap and Water and Common Sense. Henry is the medical director of communicable disease prevention and control services at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control. She says it can be difficult to get people to think about self-inoculation. “It doesn’t resonate so much when you say ’Don’t do something’ that people aren’t really conscious of doing in many cases,” she says. “Making them aware of it is important. But I think it’s inevitable that you’re going to touch your face and you really need to make sure that you clean your hands regularly because that’s what’s going to protect you at the end of the day.” “I always say ’It’s not having bugs on your hands that’s the issue. It’s when you go to eat

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A model poses with latex gloves. Studies show that if you kept your fingers out of your mouth, nose and eyes, you’d lower your risk of self-inoculating. your sandwich or rub your eye. That’s when you’re going to get sick from it.’ So I think the two messages have to go together.” Alonso says it’s important to keep the issue in context. He doesn’t want to turn people into hypochondriacs.

While people can selfinoculate, it isn’t going to happen every time a person puts a finger into their mouth or rubs the bottom of their nose. That said, when there is a disease outbreak, such as a flu pandemic, having people aware of the role they can play in trig-

gering their own infections could be helpful in slowing spread, he says. “I do think it’s important to make people aware that we touch our face way more than we realize, and that that’s how we can sometimes transmit things,” Henry agrees.

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Cursing your sick colleague for the infection you can feel settling into your chest? You might want to aim the finger of blame closer to home. It’s entirely possible you may have infected yourself with whatever respiratory bug has latched onto your lungs. The same can be said about the some of the stomach-wrenching gastrointestinal ailments people occasionally get. That’s because with a number of infections, people sometimes selfinoculate. They take germs they picked up on their hands when they were hanging onto bus poles or shaking a hand someone recently sneezed into and they deliver the bugs to places where those bugs can go from harmless to disease causing. In a nutshell, they stick germ-coated fingers into their mouths, they rub their eyes, they are even known to poke a finger into a nostril. And voila! Bug on skin becomes bug on mucus membrane — a much more porous surface and an easier route to a warm and welcoming place for the bug to migrate towards. Handwashing and alcohol gels can slough those germs off your fingers. And that’s why public health officials repeat the handwashing mantra relentlessly, particularly during cold and flu season. But a group of researchers suggests there’s a part of the prevention equation that public health folks don’t stress often enough: If you kept your fingers out of your mouth-nose-eyes, you’d lower your risk of self-inoculating. “People touch their faces, touch their mouths, pick their noses and all of that. And in those behaviours they can bring these viruses that are on their hands to the muscosa ... where they can really infect us,” says Wladimir Alonso, an infectious diseases researcher at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s Fogarty International Center. Alonso and some colleagues wrote a letter to the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases recently to make the point. They had done a small study where they observed 249 randomly selected individuals in public spaces in Florianopolis, Brazil and on the Washington, D.C., subway system. The individuals they observed touched com-

mon surfaces and their mouth and nose area at a rate of 3.3 and 3.6 touches respectively an hour. Their point? Handwashing alone can’t keep up with the infection potential of self-inoculation events. Or as they put it, “...the opportunities for hand re-contamination in public settings occurs at a much higher rate than any viable hand washing frequency.” They suggest public health campaigns should also teach people about how they infect themselves by touching their mucus membranes, so they become more aware of the role these behaviours could play in acquiring infection. Dr. Jody Lanard likes the suggestion. A risk communications expert based in Princeton, N.J., Lanard monitors public health messaging about influenza closely, and says officials often overstate the benefits of handwashing. That’s not to say Lanard doesn’t believe in handwashing. She is in fact a big fan of the practice. But she’d prefer it if authorities stuck to the science — and says there isn’t that much evidence handwashing cuts down on flu transmission. (That doesn’t mean it doesn’t, just that there aren’t a lot of studies showing that it does. Studies aimed at answering this kind of question can be devilishly hard to do.) Lanard thinks public health messaging should suggest that it’s plausi-

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Every spring, Ponoka photographer D. Murray Mackay tries to locate migrating swans in Central Alberta so he can check for birds bearing collars. Here is P862 among her avian friends. She was collared as an adult tundra at King Salmon, Alaska, on July 23, 2009. Mackay photographed her south of Eckville on April 1, 2010. “Many swans die of lead poisoning as they dine deep in lakes that were heavily hunted with lead shot so having this one travel so far and to still be alive is a neat thing to see,” said Mackay.

HOROSCOPE Wednesday, Dec. 5 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Nick Stahl, 33; Margaret Cho, 44; Patricia Kaas, 46 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Mercury, our spokesperson planet is in a difficult relationship with the planet that governs transformation and control, Pluto. When these two planets are in disagreement with each other, our minds tend to question and second-guess every piece of information. Let’s give our probing minds some rest, unless we need to do some serious investigative work. ASTRO HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is DOYNA your birthday, you will learn a great deal about what constitutes your sense of security and well-being while at the same time, you will work towards your practical daily needs. In order to achieve balance and prosperity in the upcoming year, you will have to set realistic patterns in your lifestyle and face your obligations with a matter-of-the-fact attitude. ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you focus entirely on your tasks at hand, you can produce more than you have envisioned. Your concentration powers are strong right now which enable you to accomplish much on the professional. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You can accomplish an incredible amount of work today as you harness much stamina to bring forward any progress you wish to advance. You believe in yourself and you are confident of your abilities. You are ready to assertively pursue an education or a skill of some kind. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A project completed thoroughly and diligently can feel quite therapeutically. Your energies are best utilized if you work privately and away from the public eye. Your superiors don’t seem to understand you fully. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Feelings of uncertainty and confusion can cause you a bit of stress today. You feel trapped today as if not knowing which direction to head to. Your vitality levels are running low. Pick up a good book to read or study a specific topic of your own interest. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’re feeling challenged

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Dear Annie: I am perplexed as to what to do. I’m positive that my wife was a victim of incest, but I don’t know how to broach the subject or how to help her. Her sister manifests similar problems that I’ve heard are caused by rape by one’s father. But I don’t have any hard evidence, only a hunch. What can I do? How do you open such a discussion? — G. Dear G.: Signs of incest do not distinguish between abuse by one’s father as opposed to one’s uncle, brother, stepparent or other trusted relative or friend. Signs can include flashbacks, nightmares, memMITCHELL ory issues, anxiety disorders, & SUGAR self-mutilation, an inability to form relationships, sexual dysfunction, eating disorders, and drug or alcohol abuse, among others. We don’t know what specifically makes you believe your wife and her sister have been victims of incest, but please contact RAINN (rainn.org) at 1-800-656-HOPE for additional information and assistance. Dear Annie: I am 55 and the oldest of three siblings. We had a close, happy family until my father died unexpectedly six years ago. After the funeral, I saw my mother sitting with my sister, “Nina,” and her insurance agent, having everything changed to Nina’s name. It used to be in mine. My mother is of completely sound mind. Since Dad passed, however, she has allowed Nina to control her life. My sister handles all of her finances and won’t discuss them with my brother or me. Although Mom and I used to go places together, she now won’t get in my car for any reason, not even to attend church. Nina’s family has my mother buffaloed into thinking they are the only ones who care about her. My brother and I feel like outcasts. Unlike Nina, we are quite successful and don’t need anything from Mom. I love my mother, Annie, but she pushes me away. This morning, I went to have tea with her, as I do every day, and she was whispering into the phone to Nina with her hand over her mouth so I wouldn’t overhear. I try to remain a good daughter, but my feelings are so hurt. I know Nina would love it if I stopped visiting. Why would a parent choose a favorite like this? — Used To Be Her Daughter Dear Used To Be: While you say your mother is of “sound mind,” you could be wrong. The sudden death of her husband could have sent her into a tailspin of depression, anxiety and confusion. Your sister exploited this, but Mom may have been so grateful that Nina took over that she submitted totally and now fears alienating her in any way. When you visit Mom for morning tea, please talk to her about this. Don’t mention Nina, which will turn it into a competition and force Mom to defend your sister. Simply tell her you love her and worry that she is pushing you away. Ask how to improve your relationship so it doesn’t disintegrate. Dear Annie: “Mike’s” letter explaining how important interaction is with a terminal cancer patient made me weep for all the times I did nothing. Thank you so much for printing it. Caregivers of those patients should be urged to use hospice as soon as the inevitable is made known. I lost my husband to cancer 12 years ago. I thought I should do everything myself for as long as I could, but now I know that hospice would have made it so much easier for him, as well as for me. Hospice staff know exactly what to do and when to do it. Sorry to say, there were times when I did not. — Moving Forward Now 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.

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WiL coming to The Vat Singer/songwriter WiL plans to share his lesser known side with a Red Deer audience on Thursday. The Calgary native, now based on Vancouver Island, says there are really two sides to his music career. Fans will be familiar with his material as a singer/songwriter — WiL’s fourth album released in 2011 was Heart of Mine. Listeners will be less familiar with WiL’s work for television and film. But he has composed a lot of commercial jingles as well as inspirational flag-wavers, such as Ride for the Calgary Stampede’s 100th anniversary, or the five tunes that accompany Travel Alberta’s Remember to Breathe ad campaign. The three-minute flagship video featuring his song Roam won the Diamond Award as best entry in an international film and media competition in Berlin. “I wanted to put together a collection of songs that I think best reflect what I do and where I am at in my musical career,” said WiL of his newest CD, which will contain some commercial demos, as well as brand-new songs in a stripped down format. He performs at The Vat. For more information, please call 403-346-5636.

Tree House raising funds Of all good causes to donate to this Christmas, Tree House Youth Theatre wants you to remember one that challenges young people and keeps them positively engaged. The non-profit youth theatre group is turning 25 years old in 2013. To stay sustainable and “happily in the green,” Tree House is looking for 25 benefactors to donate $25 a month for 12 months. Anyone who joins this sponsor club will receive a 2013 calendar and two tickets to the group’s opening night gala in the spring. All donations of $20 or more will also receive a tax receipt. For more information, call 403-9860631. Tree House Youth Theatre was

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The Fab Fourever to perform It’s Twist and Shout time again for fans of the Beatles. The Fab Fourever, billed as Canada’s No. 1 Beatles Tribute Band, performs live on Saturday at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre. The band promises to transport audience members back to the groovy 1960s, when the Beatles made their spectacular pop music trajectory from the Cavern Club in Liverpool to The Ed Sullivan Show and New York City’s Shea Stadium. It was a time when the Beatles laid the musical soundtrack for a generation with such tunes as All You Need is Love, Yesterday, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and Hey Jude. This “complete Beatles experience” will be delivered by four musicians who are confident enough to step into the giant shoes of the iconic band members. Rhythm guitarist Kevin Davey performs as John Lennon, bassist Jody Tennant is Paul McCartney, Jean-Luc Perron is lead guitarist George Harrison, and Paul Kaszonyias is drummer Ringo Starr. The cast is described as being “full of that witty humour and undeniable charisma” that creates a passionate on-stage energy that’s rarely seen in bands. The tribute group will perform all the memorable hits, from when the Fab Four first invaded America, right through to their final albums, Abbey Road and Let It Be. Fans of the Beatles are invited to “let their hair down” and enjoy The Fab Fourever. Tickets to the 8 p.m. show are $41.85 from the Black Knight Ticket Centre.

Canada’s cross-border cop smash Flashpoint is about to go out with a bang with an explosive two-part finale sending the elite team of Toronto officers racing to stop a serial bomber from taking the entire city hostage. Flashpoint star Enrico Colantoni said it’s a thrilling end to the made-in-Canada procedural, which airs Part 1 of a tense finale on Thursday. Part 2 airs Dec. 13. Expectations are big for the conclusion, with Colantoni admitting that even he wondered how writers could adequately wrap up one of the country’s top cop shows. Its nail-biting life-or-death crises have been a weekly tradition for five seasons. “The expectation was always: How are they going to close it? “How are they going to end it? And when you’re used to doing a show that’s operating at nine (out of 10) and 10 out of 10, you wonder what they will do. And they did (it),” Colantoni said from the set last June, where hallways were filled with “for sale” items including discarded wardrobe and a mishmash of props. “For the first time my character really has to go outside of his comfort zone.... There’s no room for peace in these last two episodes, there’s no room for calm, there’s no room for stepping back. There’s only being ahead of the situation and really living in the solution of it and (thinking) ‘How are we going do this?’ Because it’s so outrageous and so crazy.” The two-part finale begins with the team discovering a sophisticated bomb hidden amid the computer servers of a 911 communications centre. From there, they learn more explosives have been stashed in other public buildings and that a deranged bomber is intent on inflicting widespread carnage. In order to contain the threat, Team 1 joins forces with firefighters, paramedics and the military, resulting in a high-octane tribute to all emergency responders,

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FRANCIS Melva Melva passed away suddenly at home on December 2, 2012 at the age of 77. There will be a Celebration of Life i n h e r h o n o r o n F r i d a y, December 7, 2012 at 1:00 pm at the Church of Christ in Davenport, 68 Donlevy Ave. Red Deer.

BOWNESS Don (Donald) Arthur Bowness of Rimbey passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Friday, November 30, 2012 at the age of 67 years. Don was born in Olds, AB., and raised in the James River area until moving to Alhambra. Later moved to the Didsbury/Olds area where he met Sharon (Brinson), his wife and love of his life, to pursue a career in the drilling industry for 17 years, which built up his true passion of owning his own farm. In their later years they enjoyed traveling to Scotland to discover Don’s heritage, as well as Alaska, Panama and sunny Yuma, AZ. Don also enjoyed working for Allen B. Olson’s Auction Service in Rimbey. His memory will be cherished by his beloved wife, Sharon, two daughters, Connie (Larry) of Gull Lake, Lori (Randy) of Sherwood Park and 4 cherished grandchildren, Nicole, Aaron, Sara and Megan. He will also be remembered by his very special mother-in-law, Eileen Brinson of Rimbey, brotherin-law, Wayne Brinson (Linda) and family of Rimbey; as well as numerous family, friends and neighbours. The family would like to thank the Red Deer and Rocky Dialysis Units, Unit 31 Staff at the Red Deer Hospital and an extra special thank you to the Red Deer College Student Nurses. A celebration of Don’s life will take place at a later date. If friends desire, and in lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Rocky Mountain House Hospital Dialysis Unit or the Red Deer Hospital Dialysis Unit (labeled for “patient comforts”) or STARS Air Ambulance. Arrangements and cremation were provided by Parkland Funeral Home, Red Deer. Condolences may be forwarded to the family at www.parklandfuneralhome.com

PEARN Winifred (Winnie) Jane Sept. 14, 1922 - Nov. 30, 2012 Winnie, 90, of Surrey, BC, formerly of Red Deer, AB, passed away peacefully on November 30, 2012 at McKenny Creek Hospice, Maple Ridge, BC. Winnie was born on September 14, 1922 in Bladworth, SK. While working in the Didsbury AB area, she met and then married Harold Davidson in 1940. Together, they had three children. Harold passed away in February 1959. Winnie then moved to Red D e e r, A B a n d i n 1 9 6 5 , married Arthur Pearn. He predeceased her in 1977 in Regina, SK. Winnie returned t o R e d D e e r, w h e r e s h e spent many years working in the Red Deer Hospital. She was an active member of the Ladies Auxiliary at the Royal Canadian Legion until her move to Surrey in 2009. Winnie had an adventurous spirit, loved to travel and went on many wonderful trips. She will be lovingly remembered by her children: Lenora Larsen (Vic), Warren Davidson (Gret), Beverly Mutschke (Gordon), grandchildren; Victoria, Crystal, Annamarie, Tanya, Teresa and Kerri; along with twelve great grandchildren. A small gathering will be held in Surrey to celebrate Winnie’s life. A memorial tea will be held in Red Deer at the Legion sometime in the spring of 2013. Date, time, and location will be announced.

GROH Margot Anna 1933 - 2012 On Saturday, December 1, 2012, Margot Anna Groh passed away with family by her side at the Lacombe Care Centre at the age of 79 years. Margot was born in Dudenhofen, Germany on April 14, 1933. In 1968 she moved with her husband and four children to Ontario, Canada to pursue a new life. She went on to have two more children. In 1982 life changed and Margot came to Red Deer with her younger children to start a new life. Mom got a job with Red Deer Regional Hospital, where she worked until her retirement. She was a kind and loving woman who didn’t have the easiest life, but always made the best of everything and we loved her dearly for it. Margot is survived by her children and their families; Gabriele (Robert) Cameron, Chris, Adam and Lindsay (predec e a s e d ) o f R e d D e e r, Reinhold (Sue) Groh, Brian, Jason, Mike and Tracy of Ontario, Andrea (Daryl) Jarvis, Corey and Jared of Red Deer, Marika Solmes (Fred Doughty), Joshua and Jessica of Ontario, Susi Groh, Cole and Eric of Red Deer, Christina Groh (predeceased), Dustin and Amanda of British Columbia as well as fourteen great grandchildren. She is also survived by her sister; Brigitte (Heinz) of Germany and sister-in-law; Roswitha of Germany, as well as nieces and nephews both in Canada and Germany. Margot was predeceased by her parents and brothers Heinz and Ewald all of Germany. A celebration of mom’s life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home on Friday, December 7, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. Interment to take place at Alto Reste Cemetery, Hwy 11 East, Red D e e r, A l b e r t a . I n l i e u o f flowers donations may be made directly to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, #202, 5913 - 50 Avenue, Red D e e r, A l b e r t a , T 4 N 4 C 4 . Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Joelle Valliere, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040

LYTLE Lawrence Deane Lawrence Deane Lytle of Red Deer, Alberta passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre with his wife, children and grandchildren by his side, on Saturday, December 1, 2012 at the age of 86 years. Deane will be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by all of us. Deane is survived by his wife, Nina and their children together, grandchildren and great g r a n d c h i l d r e n ; Ti m ( L i l ) , Marylin, children, Jerrod (Meagan), great grandchildren; Raquel, Halli and Judy (Dan), child, Michelle, Gayle (Don), children; Kimberly, Tyson and Byron(Brenda), children; Madison, Spenser, Cassidy, CJ Lacy and Brenda (Stu), children; Chelsea and Brayden. Deane was also survived by many nieces, nephews and cousins. He will be greatly missed by sisters; Adele(Art) and Faye, brother-in-law, Burton and sister-in-law, Edith. Deane was predeceased by his first wife, Helen, granddaughter, Shannon, daughter, Wendy, two brothers, one sister and one sister-in-law. A Memorial Service in celebration of Deane’s life will be held at First Christian Reformed Church (16 McVicar, Red Deer) on Friday, December 7, 2012 at 2 p.m. Cremation took place at the Eventide Funeral Chapels. Deane’s cremated remains will be interred at a later date. Please no flowers by Dad’s request. A donation in L a w r e n c e D e a n e Ly t l e ’ s honor may be made directly to the Alberta Cancer Foundation, c/o Tom Baker Cancer Centre, 1331-29 Street NW, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 4N2, Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre Foundation P.O. Box 5030, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 9Z9, or to a charity of your choice. Many thanks and hugs to all of Unit 21 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital for what they did for Dad. Condolences for the late Lawrence Deane Lytle may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to Craig Kanngiesser EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45th Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222.

HECHT BILL (ROY WILLIAM) Bill Hecht of Lacombe, Alberta passed away peacefully on November 30th, 2012 at the age of 79 years at the Lacombe Hospital. Bill was born on February 26, 1933 at the family farm in the Sargent District. Bill attended Sargent School and went to Red Deer Composite High School. He then worked as a Carpenter in Calgary for five years moving up to a superintendent

position. During this time he met his wife Sheila, they were married on August 16th, 1958. Bill and Sheila moved back to the Sargent District and farmed until 1992 when they retired from farming and stayed on the farm until 2011 when they moved into Lacombe. Bill enjoyed his farming years. In retirement he travelled and worked in his shop and yard with many projects over the years including training colts, building wagons, refurbishing his tractor and his garden. He looked forward to yearly trips out to the west country and spending time with family, especially his grandchildren. Bill is survived by his best friend and beloved wife Sheila (nee Martin) of 54 years. He will be deeply missed by his children Ken, Barb (Robert), Roy, Don (Irene) and six grandchildren Cody, Kaycee Tanya, Kara, Karis and Logan. He is also survived by two sisters Mae Duffy and Velva Lakeman and two brothers Stan and Gerald and many nieces and nephews. He is predeceased by his parents Roy and Crystal and two sisters Shirley Hecht and Gail Short and one brother Roger. A Memorial Service celebrating

Bill’s life was held on Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. at St. Andrew’s United Church, 5226-51 Ave, Lacombe, AB. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Alzheimer’s Society or the Canadian Cancer Society. 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 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

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MONAGHAN SARAH “TERESA” MONAGHAN Beloved wife of the late Eiver Monaghan, went to be with her Lord on Sunday, December 2nd, 2012 at the age of 86 years. Teresa is survived by her family: Frank (Jane Emma, Bronagh), Anthony (Karen - Liam, Aidan, Claire), Sean (Stacey - Emily, Niall, Conor), Elizabeth, and Patrick (Tara - Kieran, Grace). She is also survived by two sisters, Adelaide (Jack) Whitehead and May (Albert) McIntosh, and one brother, Hugh McCarthy, as well as their respective families. Teresa was predeceased by her loving husband, Eiver, her first son, Joseph, and her parents, Thomas and Madeline McCarthy. Her parents had immigrated to Canada from County Limerick, Ireland. Prayer services will be held at Our Lady Of The Assumption Roman Catholic Church 2405-12th Avenue South, Lethbridge on Friday, December 7, 2012 at 7:00 pm. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at Our Lady Of The Assumption Roman Catholic Church 2405-12th Avenue South, Lethbridge on Saturday, December 8, 2012 at 1:00 pm with Father Kevin Tumback, celebrant. Interment to follow in the Mount Calvary Section, Mountain View Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial tributes for Teresa may be made to any of the following charities: Father Clair Watrin, L’Arche Association of Lethbridge, or Chalice Christian Childcare International. Honoured to serve the family, CORNERSTONE FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORIUM 2800 Mayor Magrath Drive S. Lethbridge, AB.T1K 7B1. Phone (403) 381-7777 E-mail: care@cornerstonefh.ca FOREMAN Linda Jean Linda Jean Foreman (Rinn) passed away suddenly on Friday, November 30, 2012 at the age of 62 years. Born on February 8, 1950 in Gilbert Plains, Manitoba, she was baptized in the United Church, along with Reid Foreman, who would become her high school sweetheart and then her husband in 1968. She and her husband had two children, Melody and Kelly. Eventually, the family left Gilbert Plains and headed west to Red Deer, Alberta in 1973, and finally to Sylvan Lake in 1978, where they built their home and created a life for their family. Linda was predeceased by her father Maurice Rinn, her father-in-law, John Foreman, mother-in-law Viola Foreman, and brother-in-law David Morran. She is survived by her loving husband of 44 years, Reid Foreman, daughters, Melody (Jason Krusky) of Lethbridge, Kelly White, granddaughter Hope (Patrick Callan), grandson Brett, and their father Darrell, all of Sylvan Lake, her mother Hazel Rinn, brother Clifford (Donna), all of Gilbert Plains, Manitoba, sister Edith (Mervin Robak), of Roblin Manitoba, and sister Lorna Morran, of Grandview, Manitoba, sister-inlaw, Jane (Wayne Slone), of Roblin Manitoba, sister-in-law Diana Rinn, of Gilbert Plains, and Allan Rasmussen (Marlene), of Dauphin, Manitoba, numerous nieces and nephews, and her many friends and co-workers. A Celebration Of Linda’s Life will be held at the Chapel Of The Sylvan Lake Funeral Home, Sylvan Lake on Friday, December 7, 2012 at 2:00 P.M. Cremation entrusted to the Rocky Mountain Crematorium. Condolences may be forwarded to www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.ca SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements. 403-887-2151

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KISH Stephen John 1957 - 2012 Stephen John Kish passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Saturday, December 1, 2012 at the age of 55 years. A Service of Remembrance in honor of Steve will be held at Parkland Funeral Home on Thursday, December 6, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Joelle Valliere, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040

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VERNON L. BURROWS July 11, 1929 - December 5, 2001 Gone is the face we loved so dear, Silent is the voice we loved to hear Too far away for sight or speech, But not too far for thought to reach, Sweet to remember him who was here. Who, gone away, is just as dear. ~Lovingly Remembered And Sadly Missed By Wife, Josie; And Children, Dianna (Bill), Judy (Henry), Cindy (Terry), Theresa (Dave), Michelle (Laverne), Greg (Michelle), Patti (Axel) And Families

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HERBERT R.W. (Dick) Herbert passed away Friday evening Nov. 23, 2012 in the Three Hills Hospital at the age of 93 with his son Ray and niece Nell at his side, at the age of 93. Dick was born April 4, 1919 at Pine Lake. He took his schooling in Delburne and Sunrise. In 1941 he joined the King’s Own Rifles. After his discharge from the army Dick worked as a ranch hand in the Lumbreck area. In 1948, he purchased the Sam Carson land in the Lousana area where he resided until his passing. Dick and his wife Annie raised two sons; David and Ray. Dick was an avid horseman and raised, broke and sold many quarter horses. Through the years he also raised Hereford, Simmental and Black Angus cattle. Dick loved checking cows, healing calves, branding, team roping, and anything to do with horses. He was able to enjoy these activities until his passing. Dick was predeceased by his parents Reg and Gertrude, his loving wife Annie in 1974, son David in 2007 and sister Annabel in 2008. He leaves to mourn; son Ray of Lousana; daughterin-law Susan of Kelowna; granddaughter Bonnie (Derek) Gratz of Kelowna and their children Brock and Reid, three grandsons; Christopher (Amy) Herbert of Fiswan and children Richard and Elizabeth; Mitchell (Kara) Herbert and children Paige, Josh and Nicholas; and Lonnie Herbert of Wetaskiwin, three sisters; Peggy Yewell of Kelowna, Betty Peters of Red Deer and Dorothy (Tom) Leech of Red D e e r, n u m e r o u s f a m i l y, nieces, nephews and many good friends. Memorial services will be held on Friday, December 7, 2012 at 2:00p.m. from the Delburne Community Center, Delburne Alberta. Memorial donations may be made to the Delburne Drop-In Center. Condolences may be forwarded to kneehillfuneralservices @hotmail.com KNEEHILL FUNERAL SERVICES LTD. Trochu, entrusted with arrangements. 1-403-442-2123.

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CCCSI is hiring sanitation workers for the afternoon and evening shifts. Get paid weekly, $14.22/hr. Call 403-348-8440 or fax 403-348-8463

Medical

790

F/T / P/T Pharmacy Technicians. Apply w/ resume to: Highland Green Value Drug Mart, Red Deer MEDICAL Office Assistant with Health Unit Coordinator Instructor required. Must have 3 years industry experience as either a LPN or Unit Clerk and related diploma. This is a part time position for 3 hours per day Monday to Friday. Submit resumes to resumes@ academyoflearning.ab.ca

Oilfield

800

52

FREE FLU SHOTS

Lost

60

near City Hall. If found please return to Council Chambers. STUD EARRING, light blue Topaz, silver backing. Lost Fri. Nov. 30 at Bower Mall. If found please call 403-342-4097

Busy Oilfield Company looking for an experienced winch truck class 1 driver to operate a newer Peterbilt truck and new trailer to haul equipment between the Fox Creek/Edson area and Innisfail, Alberta. Offering very competitive wages and bonus structure. Please email resume: orion@orionrentals.ca

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jobs

LOST MAGIC WAND

CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

Caregivers/ Aides

710

NEED live in caregiver for 2 yr old, call 403-346-4458

850

820

JOURNEYMAN PLUMBER Red Deer Public Schools

LOCAL Oilfield Company seeking experienced Wireline Tool Salesman. Vehicle mileage paid as well as commissions and benefits. Please forward resume to: btopcanada @hotmail.com or fax 403-340-8581 Attn: Manager

PRODUCTION TESTING PERSONNEL REQ’D

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

Join Our Fast Growing Team!!

(Must be able to Provide own work truck)

FIELD OPERATORS Valid 1st Aid, H2S, Drivers License required!! Please contact Murray McGeachy or Jamie Rempel by Fax: (403) 340-0886 or email mmcgeachy@ cathedralenergyservices.com jrempel@ cathedralenergyservices.com website: www. cathedralenergyservices. com

Must have tickets and equipment experience. 403-348-1521 or 403-391-1695

TO LIST YOUR WEBSITE CALL 403-309-3300

BALLOON RIDES www.air-ristocrat.com Gary 403-302-7167

BUILDERS

HEALTH & FITNESS www.antlerhillelkranch.com Peak Performance VA 227-2449

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.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES www.workopolis.com Red Deer Advocate - Job Search

IRIS is expanding and we are looking for an outgoing, energetic Optician in our Red Deer location. We will also consider training applicants as opticians provided they possess sales experience and can demonstrate enthusiasm and passion for what they do in their work and community. Also greet customers, book appointments & various other tasks. Drop resume off to: Kayla Macaulay, Manager IRIS is Canada’s largest eyecare provider with over 165 locations across the country. IRIS features the finest fashion frames, lenses from the world’s leading manufacturer’s and laser vision correction. Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

PET ADOPTION

www.reddeerspca.com Many Pets to Choose From

ASPEN RIDGE & INGLEWOOD

www.homesreddeer.com Help-U-Sell Real Estate5483

www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 403-346-7273 www.albertanewhomes.com Stevenson Homes. Experience the Dream.

www.lonsdalegreen.com Lonsdale Green Apartments

COOKS and SERVERS NEEDED

SHOPPING

Full and Part Time

CLUBS & GROUPS www.writers-ink.net Club for writers - meets weekly

Restaurant/ Hotel

RENTALS www.homefinders.ca Phone 403-340-3333

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.

Red Deer Public Schools Please see:

www.rdpsd.ab.ca Employment Opportunities - Caretaking and Maintenance Staff for complete posting.

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com Accounting

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Contractors

1100

Escorts

1165

EDEN

ASPEN RIDGE & INGLEWOOD

Handyman Services

1200

F & J Renovations. We do it all. Good rates and references available so call John at 403-307-3001 jbringleson@shaw.ca GREYSTONE Handyman Services. Reasonable rates. Ron, 403-396-6089

Massage Therapy

1280

Painters/ Decorators

1310

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 Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

BRIAN’S DRYWALL Framing, drywall, taping, Gentle Touch Massage textured & t-bar ceilings, 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980 4919 50 St. New rear entry, lots of parking 403-341-4445 Printing DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your HOT STONE, Body “Printing Press numbering reno needs. 403-506-4301 Balancing. 403-352-8269 machines brand LEIBENJNM CONSTRUCTION LINDA’S CHINESE MASGER OR ATLANTIC Home Improvements, SAGE Grand Opening #3 ( Convex or straight) From Demolition to finish! 4820-47 Ave. 403-986-1550 reverse or forward suitable 30 yrs. Exp. Free Est. for GTO or large press for MASSAGE ABOVE ALL 403-505-3409 sale. $275.00 each, or if WALK-INS WELCOME you purchase all 8, it will RMD RENOVATIONS 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 be $250 each. Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc. TRADITIONAL CHINESE 2 GTO PERFORATION Call Roger 403-348-1060 MASSAGE, new girls, ARMS with wheels $300 SIDING, Soffit, Fascia 4606 48 Ave. Open 7 FOR BOTH .call Prefering non- combustible a.m.- 9 p.m. 7 days a wk. 403-346-4263 fibre cement, canexel & Phone 403-986-1691 ( pictures can be viewed smart board, Call Dean @ on kijiji ID436440237) 302-9210. Misc. Classifieds Services Your place to SELL Your place to BUY BEAUTIFUL college girl ROXY 403-848-2300

820

SENIOR LIVING In concert with your life

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

1335

587-877-7399 10am-midnight EROTICAS PLAYMATES Girls of all ages www.eroticasplaymates.net 403-598-3049 LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

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SENIOR LIVING In concert with your life

REAL ESTATE

JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIAN

services

OPTICIAN

Send resume to Attention: Linda Robinson gmar@symphonyseniorliving.com or drop off in person at: 3100 - 22nd Street

www.greathealth.org Cancer Diabetes DIET 350-9168

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DOOR SECURITY

810

LPNs and CARE MANAGERS NEEDED

www.dontforgetyourvitamins.net The greatest vitamins in the world

- Caretaking and Maintenance Staff for complete posting.

X-Static is now accepting applications for Experienced P/T door security Apply in person, after 3 pm

HIRING * Gas station Manager * $25/hr, full time 1 person * The day to day operations of filling station and convenience store, managi n g s t a ff , w o r k i n g w i t h vendors and monitoring Buying or Selling sales. your home? Check out Homes for Sale * Completion of University ( Economics). Over 1 yr in Classifieds business experience. Leeoh Holdings Inc. o/a Rimbey Gas & Splash. Box 659 4630 50 Ave. Professionals Rimbey, AB T0C 2J0 cookplus@naver.com Phone 403-843-2360

www.fantahomes.com 403-343-1083 or 403-588-9788 www.masonmartinhomes.com Mason Martin Homes 403-342-4544 www.truelinehomes.com True Line Homes 403-341-5933 www.jaradcharles.com BUILDER M.L.S

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

DAD’S PIZZA

PART/FULL TIME COOK Apply at East 40th Pub. 3811 40th Ave.

Has openings for

790

Medical

www.liveyourlifebetter.com Lose weight naturally with Z-Trim

TREELINE WELL SERVICES

QUALIFIED DAY AND NIGHT SUPERVISORS

Snow Cat Operators

www.centralalbertahomebuilders.com Central AB Home Builders 403-346-5321 www.reddeer.cmha.ab.ca Canadian Mental Health Assoc. www.realcamping.ca LOVE camping and outdoors? www.diabetes.ca Canadian Diabetes Assoc. www.mycommunityinformation.com /cawos/index.html www.reddeerchamber.com Chamber of Commerce 403-347-4491

850

Trades

850

Your application will be kept strictly confidential.

ASSOCIATIONS

820

830

RETIREMENT & SAVINGS PLAN BENEFITS

64

54

Restaurant/ Hotel

274920L3-8

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Oil & Gas Well Testing Supervisors, Night Foremen, Exp’d/inexp’d Junior Day/Night Operators. Must have H2S, First Aid, valid driver’s license. Pre-employment Drug screening Competitive Wages. Benefit Package Please submit resume with references to: apply@wespro.ca or by fax to (403) 783-8004 Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted

A RED DEER BASED Pressure Testing Company req’s. Operators for testing BOP’s throughout AB. Bingos Only those with Drilling rig exp. need apply. Fax RED DEER BINGO Centre resume & driver’s abstract to: 403-341-6213 or email 4946-53 Ave. (West of mikeoapt@gmail.com Superstore). Precall 12:00 Only those selected for & 6:00. Check TV Today!!!! interview will be contacted.

Highland Green Value Drug Mart 6315 Horn St.

810

CARPET COLOUR CENTRE is currently looking for a Lacombe based trans2 TILE INSTALLERS. p o r t a t i o n c o m p a n y, i s Applicant must have ability looking for a full-time to lay out tiles, be familiar administrative professional. COLTER PRODUCTION LOOKING for a few good with setting materials and TESTING SERVICES INC products. This is a F/T Key responsibilities for this Apples! Hiring part time position with a wage of position include: and full time kitchen line Join Our Fast Growing $25/hr. Providence * Providing administrative cooks... great flexibility, Team and Secure Your Submit resume att`n: support to Management weekends a must! Trucking Inc Future with our Optimum Apply in person between Andrew @ Carpet Colour Is now hiring experienced: * Maintenance of IFTA Benefit Package reporting program 2 pm and 5 pm and ask for Centre 1100, 5001 - 19 St. & RRSP’s!! Picker Operator Red Deer, AB T4R 3R1 or * Responding to staff Angie or Amy. Bed Truck Operator inquiries email : awiebe@ Production Testing Winch truck operators * Data carpetcolourcentre. com THE RANCH HOUSE entry & maintaining Personnel: All candidates must be requires an exp’d P/T document files Clark’s Plumbing & able to pass a pre-employ- * Reception including evening line cook. Day & Night Heating ment drug screen. We Call David 403-358-4100 answering telephones, Supervisors offer exceptional wages is now hiring for interview/appointment and greeting visitors & Field Operators and benefits for exception- *Maintaining supplies and or fax resume Camp Shifts al people. Fax resume and office equipment 403-358-4116 to start immediately for the • Qualified Day & Night abstract to 403-314-2340 * Open, sort and distribute following position: Supervisors or email to safety@ correspondence (including - (Must be able to provide providencetrucking.ca fax and email) Journeyman Plumbers own work truck.) • Field Operators Journeyman Gas The successful candidate - Valid First Aid, H2S, Fitters will have: driver’s license required! Starting wage of $36/hr, * Strong organizational THE RUSTY PELICAN is 10% Vacation/Holiday Pay skills Please see your website now accepting resumes for and benefits. * Proficiency in using SERVICE RIG @ www.colterenergy.ca a well experienced Please fax resumes to Microsoft Word, Excel, Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd or contact us at F/T SERVER 780-623-7451or email to and Outlook is seeking an exp’d 1-877-926-5837 Apply within: 2079-50 sales@cpandh.ca * Excellent oral and written FLOORHAND and Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. communication skills DERRICK HAND. Locally Your application will be ESTABLISHED well known Fax 403-347-1161 Phone * High degree of based, home every night! kept strictly confidential calls WILL NOT be accepted. company looking for exp’d. professionalism Qualified applicants must steel stud/drywall person * The ability to work You can sell your guitar have all necessary valid to work F/T hourly. independently or as part for a song... tickets for the position Sales & Please fax resume to or put it in CLASSIFIEDS of a team being applied for. 403-782-0610 email: Distributors and we’ll sell it for you! Bearspaw offers a ben@tpil.ca QUALIFICATIONS: very competitive salary EXP. LINE LOCATOR, High school diploma and 3 and benefits package EXP’’D drywall tradesmen F/T H2S PSTS, 1st aid req’d. years of related experience along with a steady & laborers req’d, immed retail sales position, Min. 3 yrs. exp. Resume by in an office environment. work schedule. Phone 403-348-8640 downtown, experience fax 403-227-1398 or email A diploma in Office Admin- preferred but not necesPlease submit resumes: info@accutechcanada.ca Celebrate your life Attn: Human Resources istration will be considered sary. Apply Wei’s Western with a Classified an asset. Equivalencies Emai: hr@ Wear 5115 Gaetz Ave ANNOUNCEMENT will be considered. bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Fax resume to: EXPERIENCED Mail to: Suite 5309, Trades Human Resources Landcore Technologies 333-96 Ave. NE Technician or 403-782-1044 or Email: Inc. located in Ponoka is Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 Apprentice careers@bamssinc.com currently seeking ESTABLISHED well known required for GM energetic, motivated team company looking for perdealership in Drumheller players for the following manent f/t hourly tapers Medical benefits, good F/T Accountant positions: working conditions. req’d to start immed. Mon- and p/t piece work tapers. Drillers and Driller Please fax resume to Must have clean driving Fri. The successful candi403-782-0610 email: record. Please fax Assistants with a date will oversee the ben@tpil.ca or email resume to Class 1 driver’s accounting for several service manager. small companies and license. DRYWALL helper req’d. Email: should have a minimum Exp. an asset. Must have bob.thomas@ TANKMASTER RENTALS of 5 years experience. own transportation. Apprentice or westerngmdrumheller.com requires CLASS 1 BED Knowledge of Simply 403-341-7619 Fax: 403-823-7237 Journeyman TRUCK and TANK TRUCK Accounting is an asset. Operators for Central Mechanics Please e-mail resumes to Alberta. Competitive jdrummond@microage.cc Pile Drive Operators wages and benefits. Pile Drive Assistants m.morton@tankmaster.ca Something for Everyone Trades Everyday in Classifieds Field Supervisor or fax 403-340-8818 All candidates must be TREELINE able to pass a Restaurant/ pre-employment drug test. WELL SERVICES Safety tickets are an asset Hotel Has Opening for all but we are willing to train positions! the right candidate. Immediately. All applicants We offer exceptional pay, must have current H2S, excellent benefit package Class 5 with Q Endorseand a positive work Invites applicants for: ment, First Aid environment. We offer competitive Please email resumes to wages & excellent beneinfo@landcore.ca or fax fits. Please include 2 work CHINESE FOOD 403-783-2011. reference names and Restaurant requires The right candidates will numbers DISHWASHER, & be contacted for an Please fax resume to : WAITER/WAITRESS interview. 403-264-6725 Please see: Drop resume off in person Please no phone calls. Or email to: to Red Star Restaurant tannis@treelinewell.com Classifieds 3731 50 Ave. Red Deer No phone calls please. Your place to SELL Phone 403-309-5566 Your place to BUY Employment Opportunities

274292K29-L5

Coming Events

Professionals

BAMSS Contracting Inc.,

Handyman Services 274291K29-L5

50-70

800

274919L3-8

$2500 Bonus Every 100 days

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650

CLASSIFICATIONS

Oilfield

www.rdpsd.ab.ca

Personals

WHAT’S HAPPENING

800

Oilfield

1200

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

Seniors’ Services

1372

ATT’N: SENIORS Are you looking for help on small reno’s or jobs, such as, new bathroom sink, toilets or safety bars in bath tubs. Call James 403- 341-0617 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles and industrial. Serving central Alberta. 403-318-4346

HELPING HANDS For Seniors. Cleaning, BUSY B’S HANDYMAN cooking, companionship SERVICES LTD. in home or in facility. Res/Comm.Reno’s, repair Call 403-346-7777 and more. Give us a buzz Better For Cheaper with a YARD maintenance, snow @ 403-598-3857 Low Price Guarantee. Free quotes. WCB, insured. shovelling, 403-318-7625 helpinghandshomesupport.com

RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012 D3

880

Misc. Help

EXPERIENCED repair ACADEMIC Express person req’d for local truck Adult Education and company. Work involves Training all aspects of heavy truck and trailer repair and disWinter 2013 manteling. Must be physically fit. HD Mechan- • C o m m u n i t y S u p p o r t ic or equivelant experience Worker program We offer competitive • GED classes evening wages, benefits weekends and days off. Fax resume to 1-855-784-2330 or call 403-340-1930 1-877-787-2501 www.academicexpress.ca

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

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. Requires

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!

JOURNEYMAN or 3rd Yr. Apprentice Plumber/Gas Fitter

req’d for small shop in Westaskiwin area. Competitive wages & health plan. Submit resumes to: willplmb@xplornet.com or fax to: 780-312-2889 or call 780-387-6087 LARGE commercial . project, drywall, , steel stud, t-bar, taping , long term work. Benefits, 403-588-4614, 588-4615

SERVICEMAN POSITION

Mechanically inclined or heavy duty equipment apprentice Year round employment Clean driver’s abstract Fax resume to (403) 885 5137 Email resume to office@ccal.com

ADULT & Youth Carrier Needed For Delivery of Flyers, Express & Sunday Life in GLENDALE Gunn St. & Goodacre Close JOHNSTONE CROSSING Jennings Crsc & Joa Ave. ALSO Jack & Jenner Crsc. ALSO KENTWOOD Kirkland & Kidd Close ALSO Kilburn & Krause Crsc RIVERSIDE MEADOWS 59 & 60 St. ********** Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION

MOUNTVIEW WEST LAKE

Carpenters Helpers, and Labourers.

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

Requires Full Time

Competitive Wages & Benefits. Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate 6 days per week in

Misc. Help

880

CIRCULATION 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) As part of our customer service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to delivery newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers. A delivery vehicle is provided. Hours of shifts are Monday through Friday 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. or longer, and/or afternoon shifts Monday to Friday 2 p.m. - 6 p.m.. Saturday and Sunday, 7 a.m.-11 a.m. or longer Submit resume, indicating “Service Runner Position”, along with your drivers abstract immediately to: careers@ reddeeradvocate.com or mail to: Human Resources 2950 Bremner Avenue Red Deer, AB. T4N 5G3 or fax to: 403-341-4772 We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only selected candidates will be contacted. DISPATCHER req’d. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential. Good communication, skills both verbal and written. Must have effective time management skills and able to multi task in a fast paced environment. Experience preferred, but will train suitable applicant. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

F/T Assistant Manager req’d for busy convenience store. Please apply in person with resume to Express 24 EASTVIEW. 140 Erickson Drive GREENHOUSE Workers wanted at Meadowbrook Greenhouses, Penhold 14 F/T seasonal positions. Training provided. Start Feb. 2013. $9.75/ hr, 44 hrs./ 5 days per week, 4 month period. Fax resume 403-886-2252 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

APPRENTICE MECHANIC

Send resume to m.morton@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

Truckers/ Drivers

860

BUSY CENTRAL AB company req’s exp’d. Class 1 drivers to pull decks. Assigned truck, exc. wages and benefits pkg. Paid extras. Family orientated. Resume and abstract fax to 403-784-2330 or call 1-877-787-2501 Mon,. - Fri,. 8 a m to 6 pm Looking for a new pet? Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

CLASS 1 driver with oilfield experience, local runs. 403-373-3285 or fax resume and copies of all valid tickets to 403-986-2819

ALSO SOUTH HILL 83 Advocate $435/mo. $5229/YR. 1 Hr. per day.

CARRIERS REQUIRED to deliver the Central AB. Life in the towns of Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

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 Start your career! See Help Wanted F/T. Class 1 drivers to haul NGL butane Super B’s, must be over 25 yrs., EMAIL: dreaddriving@gmail.com LOOKING for Dispatcher/ Dock worker. Must have Class 1. Contact Darrel at 403-341-2340 for appt.

Misc. Help

880

Tired of Standing? Find something to sit on in Classifieds

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for Afternoon delivery in Bowden & Innisfail Please contact QUITCY

X-Static is now accepting applications for Experienced P/T door security Apply in person, after 3 pm

Misc. Help

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for In Town of Trochu Morning Delivery 1 hour per day 6 days per week No collection No Sundays The Town of Olds No collecting! Packages come ready for delivery! Also for the afternoon in Town of Penhold! 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 RETAIL STORE SUPERVISOR C-store Gas Cwash Apply ABA Investments Inc oa Heritage Esso,FT $14.38/ hr Supervise, train staff, prep schedule, sales reports, merchandising, inventory mgt, HS grad, computer literate, 2 yrs exp. Mail Resume 6020 67St Red Deer, AB T4R2K4.

Employment Training

900

BROWN EGGS AND LAMB now has free range pork : gourmet hams and sausage. Great selection of warm woolies. Phone 403-782-4095

1660

Firewood

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

Spruce, Pine, Birch Spilt, Dry. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 FIREWOOD 347-7211 bluegrassnursery.com FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275 SPLIT Dry Firewood. Delivery avail (403)845-8989

1710

Household Appliances

1 8 C U . F T. , K e n m o r e fridge, glass shelves, fully loaded, like new, $200, 403-307-4223 after 6 p.m. APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances 403-342-1042 STOVE, black, Frigidaire, self clean oven $200 403-342-6945

Household Furnishings

1720

JOIN THE YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM TODAY!

2 SETS OF IKEA nesting tables, $40 per set or $70/pair. Call 403-346-1735

This project is funded by the Government of Canada’s Youth Employment Strategy.

BED ALL NEW,

ENGLISH Mastiff puppies for sale. Certified, first shots, microchipped. CKC. All colours available. May be viewed on our website at www. doublepjsenglishmastiffs. net call 403-652-3429 pcrowder02@gmail.com $2500.00 well worth it. 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

1900

Travel Packages

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone. Make your travel plans now.

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

2140

Horses

Manufactured Homes

3040

Newly Reno’d Mobile FREE Shaw Cable + more $899/month Sharon 403-550-8777

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

HORSES WANTED: broke, un-broke, or unwanted. 403-783-0303 WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly. 403-651-5912

Lots For Sale

4160

FULLY SERVICED res & duplex lots in Lacombe. Builders terms or owner will J.V. with investors or subtrades who wish to become home builders. Great returns. Call 403-588-8820

ORIOLE PARK

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3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $975 rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage. avail. Jan. 1.. Call 403-304-5337

wheels

3060

CLASSIFICATIONS

Suites

5000-5300

1 & 2 BDRM. APTS. Clean, quiet bldg. Call 318-0901.

Cars

YOU LOOKING?

2 bdrm. suites. Heat/water/parking incl., adults only. NO PETS. Call 403-342-2899

A Great Location

Adult Bldg. bachelor unit. Heat/Water/parking incl’d Call 403-342-2899 GLENDALE 2 bdrm. $825, D.D. $825, 1 BDRM., $740, N/S, no pets, no partiers, avail immed.. 1-403-200-8175 LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

5030

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OPPOSITE HOSPITAL

Large 2 bdrm. apt., balcony No pets. $775. avail. Jan. 1. 403-346-5885

SUNNYBROOK

2 bdrm. apt. Water & heat incld, clean and quiet, great location, no pets. 403-346-6686 SYLVAN LAKE 2 bdrm. bsmt. suite, private entrance, shared laundry, avail. Jan. 1, $700/mo., $700 s.d., ref’s req’d., 403-224-3819

216751

Trucks

5050

Wanted Tenant Large 1 bdrm. adult suite. Heat/water/parking incl’d. Call 403-342-2899

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Conflicting accounts of U.S. drone capture BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TEHRAN, Iran — Iran claimed Tuesday it had captured a U.S. drone after it entered Iranian airspace over the Persian Gulf— even showing an image of a purportedly downed craft on state TV — but the U.S. Navy said all its unmanned aircraft in the region were “fully accounted for.” The conflicting accounts still leave the possibility that the drone claimed by Iran, a Boeing-designed ScanEagle, could have been plucked from the sea in the past and unveiled for maximum effect following escalating tensions over U.S. surveillance missions in the Gulf. Other countries in the region — such as the United Arab Emirates — also have ScanEagle drones in their fleets. Cmdr. Jason Salata, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet in Bahrain, said ScanEagles operated by the Navy “have been lost into the water” over the years, but there is no “record of that occurring most recently.” The Iranian announcement did not

give details on the time or location of the claimed drone capture. It’s certain, however, to be portrayed by Tehran as another bold challenge to U.S. reconnaissance efforts in the region. Last month, the Pentagon said a drone came under Iranian fire in the Gulf but was not harmed. A year ago, Iran managed to bring down an unmanned CIA spy drone possibly coming from Afghanistan. Iran also has recently alleged repeated airspace violations by U.S. drones, which Washington denies. “The U.S. Navy has fully accounted for all unmanned air vehicles operating in the Middle East region,” said Salata. “Our operations in the Gulf are confined to internationally recognized waters and airspace.” Iran claimed it captured the drone after it entered Iranian airspace. A report on state TV quoted the navy chief of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Ali Fadavi, as saying the Iranian forces caught the “intruding” drone, which had apparently taken off from a U.S. aircraft carrier. “The U.S. drone, which was con-

ducting a reconnaissance flight and gathering data over the Persian Gulf in the past few days, was captured by the Guard’s navy air defence unit as soon as it entered Iranian airspace,” Fadavi said. “Such drones usually take off from large warships.” Al-Alam, the Iranian state TV’s Arabic-language channel, showed two Guard commanders examining what appeared to be an intact ScanEagle drone. It was not immediately clear if that was the same drone Iran claimed to have captured. In the footage, the two men then point to a huge map of the Persian Gulf in the background, showing the drone’s alleged path of entry into Iranian airspace. “We shall trample on the U.S,” was printed over the map in Farsi and English next to the Guard’s emblem. If true, the seizure of the drone would be the third reported incident involving Iran and U.S. drones in the past two years. Last month, Iran claimed that a U.S. drone had violated its airspace. Pentagon said the unmanned aircraft came

under fire — at least twice but was not hit — and that the Predator was over international waters. The Nov. 1 shooting in the Gulf was unprecedented, and further escalated tensions between the United States and Iran, which is under international sanctions over its suspect nuclear program. Tehran denies it’s pursuing a nuclear weapon and insists its program is for peaceful purposes only. In late 2011, Iran claimed it brought down a CIA spy drone after it entered Iranian airspace from its eastern borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan. The RQ-170 Sentinel drone, which is equipped with stealth technology, was captured almost intact. Tehran later said it recovered data from the topsecret drone. In the case of the Sentinel, after initially saying only that a drone had been lost near the Afghan-Iran border, American officials eventually confirmed it had been monitoring Iran’s military and nuclear facilities. Washington asked for it back but Iran refused, and instead released photos of Iranian officials studying the aircraft.

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Powerful typhoon kills 33 in southern Philippine village MANILA, Philippines — At least 33 villagers and soldiers drowned in a southern Philippine town Tuesday when torrents of water dumped by a powerful typhoon rampaged down a mountain, engulfing emergency shelters and washing away an army truck, officials said. The deaths raised the toll from the storm to at least 40. Gov. Arturo Uy said rain from Typhoon Bopha accumulated atop a mountain and then burst down on Andap village in New Bataan town in hard-hit Compostela Valley province. Uy said the victims included villagers who had fled from their homes to a school and village hall, which were then swamped by the flash flood. An army truck carrying soldiers and villagers also was washed away. The confirmed death toll in the town could rise further because several other bodies could not immediately be retrieved from floodwaters strewn with huge logs and debris, Uy said. Army troops and police were not

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Egyptian protesters chant anti-Muslim Brotherhood slogans during a rally in front of the presidential palace, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday. Egyptian riot police beefed up security around the presidential palace Tuesday ahead of a massive rally planned by activists protesting the Islamist leader’s assumption of nearly unrestricted powers and a draft constitution hurriedly adopted by his allies. ple” They chanted. Morsi, who narrowly won the presidency in a June election, appeared to be in no mood for compromise. A statement by his office said the Egyptian leader met on Tuesday with his deputy, prime minister and several top Cabinet members to discuss preparations for the referendum. The statement appeared also to suggest that it is business as usual at the presidential palace despite the planned rally. A large turnout would signal sustained momentum for the opposition, which brought out at least 200,000 protesters to Cairo’s Tahrir Square a week ago and a comparable number on Friday, demanding that Morsi’s decrees be rescinded. Hundreds of protesters also have camped out in Tahrir, birthplace of last year’s uprising, for close to two weeks.

The Islamists responded by sending hundreds of thousands of supporters into Cairo’s twin city of Giza on Saturday and across much of the country. Thousands also imposed a siege on Egypt’s highest court, the Supreme constitutional Court. The court had been widely expected Sunday to declare the constitutional assembly that passed the draft charter on Friday to be illegitimate and to disband parliament’s upper house, the Shura Council. Instead, the judges went on strike after they found their building under siege by protesters. The opposition has yet to say whether it intends to focus its energy on rallying support for a boycott of the Dec. 15 vote or defeating the draft with a “no” vote. “We haven’t made any decisions yet, but I’m leaning against a boycott and

toward voting ’no’,” said Hossam alHamalawy of the Socialist Revolutionaries, a key group behind last year’s uprising. “We want a (new) constituent assembly that represents the people and we keep up the pressure on Morsi.” The strikes were part of a planned campaign of civil disobedience that could bring in other industries. Already Tuesday, at least eight influential dailies, a mix of opposition party mouthpieces and independent publications, suspended publication for a day to protest against what many journalists see as the restrictions on freedom of expression in the draft constitution. The country’s privately owned TV networks planned their own protest Wednesday, when they will blacken their screens all day.

able to reach the town because access roads were blocked by landslides and fallen trees, he said.

Fire in clothing factory in southern China kills 14 BEIJING — A fire in a clothing factory apparently caused by arson killed 14 people in southern China on Tuesday, officials and state media said. The 14 were killed and one other person was seriously injured in the fire, which broke out at 3:30 p.m. in Shantou city in Guangdong province and was put out in half an hour, the provincial emergency department said on its microblog. The Nanfang Daily said 84 firefighters battled the blaze. The Southern Metropolis Daily said in an online report that the victims were all women aged 18-20. It said the cause of the fire was arson, according to an initial police and fire investigation. A photo accompanying its report showed a four-story building, lined with windows on each floor, its front completely blackened. The fire had not spread to an adjacent building. Senior provincial officials set up a team to investigate the cause of the fire and step up safety measures to avoid similar fatal fires, Guangdong’s emergency department said.

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Prices effective Wednesday, December 5 to Sunday, December 9, 2012 IN THIS AREA ONLY

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We reserve the right to limit quantities. While stock lasts. Prices subject to change. No rainchecks, no substitutions.

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