Red Deer Advocate, January 09, 2013

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RCMP seeks more officers FOUR OFFICERS AND TWO MUNICIPAL SUPPORT STAFF IN 2013 BUDGET REQUEST

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO

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ADVOCATE STAFF Boosting police staffing is part of the city’s efforts to increase safety in the community.

Hiring four RCMP officers and two municipal support staff is part of the plan, council heard on the second day of operating budget deliberations on Tuesday.

Greg Scott, the Community Services director, told council a key focus in this year’s work plan is safety in the community. The division covering recreation, parks and culture, social plan-

ning, police and transit has the second largest budget at $87.3 million within the city’s $284-million draft operating budget.

RCMP Insp. Warren Dosko said the new officers translate to one additional officer on the street per shift.

Dosko is currently working with KDivision and city staff to develop the services standards model that is expected to be before council in March.

“I think that will make these budget conversations a little bit easier,” said Dosko. “We’ll have this document to fall back onto to say these are our stan-

County wants river study

dards. These are our ratios.”

In October, the City of Red Deer released crime statistics for the period between 2006 and 2011, as well as staffing levels at the detachment. The numbers showed the number of Criminal Code files per member at Red Deer City RCMP was nearly 150, compared with 99 as the provincial average. As well, the numbers showed how many Criminal Code files each Mountie has per 1,000 residents. The detachment number is 202 per 1,000 residents, compared with the Alberta average of 139 files per 1,000 residents.

In March, the new Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT),

focusing on organized crime in the region, is expected to be fully operational.

Scott added in the coming year, the community will be called on to work corroboratively with the city to develop a crime prevention model for community.

“It will not be led necessarily by the city forces but community owned, community empowered,” said Scott. “We will probably look around our community to enhance the whole crime prevention area.”

The city will also release quarterly crime statistics starting this year. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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TO ASSESS FLOOD RISK

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Mountain View County wants the province to update its flood assessment of the Red Deer River so decisions can be made on how best to ward against a future disaster.

Municipal officials met last month with Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development staff and emphasized the need to take another look at the river, which hasn’t been assessed for many years.

“A lot of information was based on a study done prior to the 2005 flood,” said Reeve Bruce Beattie.

“Obviously, with the major flood that happened that year it changed significantly the course and the direction of the river. So we’re looking for a more updated study to get a better handle on what we can anticipate in terms of the river’s flow.”

The request is in, but so far there has been no word from the province on if it plans to fund and undertake the assessment this year.

Beattie said provincial officials recognize that the flood risk is a significant issue to the community.

Alberta Environment spokesperson Carrie Sancartier said the province is “committed to further discussion with the county to ensure proper and appropriate flood management including flood hazard mapping.”

More discussions will be needed before a decision on a new river review is made.

Beattie said getting a handle on flood risk is critical before the municipality can determine what further steps should be taken to guard against the river overflowing its banks.

Last June, about 300 residents southwest of Sundre were given evacuation notices when the river once again topped its banks, flooding some low-lying areas and cutting off access roads to housing.

Mountain View County decided in October to spend about $250,000 constructing a berm to hold back the river, which flowed into a new channel over the summer.

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Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Braving the cool temperatures in a skirt and sleeveless top, Justine Lattery leads her classmates Carson Waines and Julia Densmore up a hill outside Mattie McCullough Elementary School in Red Deer on Tuesday. The grade five students from Derk Untershultz and Kim Jewan’s class spent some time Tuesday afternoon working on their skiing skills with cross country ski instructor Bob Vanderwater in the school yard.

City fined $50K for PCB leak in 2010

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN AND PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF The City of Red Deer has been fined $50,000 after pleading guilty to releasing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at a power transformer substation in 2010.

Transformer oil from a contaminated storage tank leaked into the soil between May and October of that year.

PCBs are no longer legal in Canada because they persist in the environment as well as in humans and animals and are believed to cause cancer, said Crown prosecutor Moira Váne during sentencing in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday.

The oil had been stored at Substation 3 after upgrades were performed to meet federal environment regulations, Váne said in presenting the agreed statement of facts to Judge Gordon Deck.

Oil had been used to insulate the transformers, with PCBs as an additive to enhance the insulating properties,

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She also asked that the city tighten up its protocols for handling PCBs, including updating its training programs and ensuring that all employees who may handle the materials have completed the training program by the end of February, 2014.

The recommended fine of $50,000 is to go into a federal fund, where it will be held for distribution to environmental enhancement and protection projects within the City of Red Deer, said Váne.

Any money still in the fund after five years can be diverted to similar projects elsewhere in Alberta, she said, noting that the money comes from city taxpayers and should therefore be used in their benefit.

Deck agreed with the recommended sentence, stating that the city must be encouraged to share its story with other municipalities in the province.

“The article concerned should be circulated so all municipalities are well aware of what happened,” he said.

she said.

Contaminated oil was removed from the transformers on May 17, 2010, and placed in a group of 25 208-litre drums that were stored on the site at 3907 55th St. A chain link fence was the only security from trespassers and the drums were placed in the open on a thin layer of gravel with no provisions to contain leaks, said Váne.

On Oct. 21, 2010, a city worker noticed a small “nick” in one of the drums and that it was nearly empty. It is believed about 160 litres of contaminated oil leaked out.

Environment Canada was notified four days later and announced the charges nearly two years later.

All 25 drums were taken to Swan Hills for disposal. Contaminated soil was also removed from the site.

Váne asked that the city’s sentence include a fine and an order that it fully disclose details of the incident through an article to be submitted to the Red Deer Advocate for publication and that it share its experience with other municipalities.

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In this photo provided by the New South Wales Rural Fire Service a wildfire near Deans Gap, Australia, crosses the Princes Highway Tuesday. Firefighters are battling scores of wildfires in southeastern Australia as authorities evacuate national parks and warned that hot, dry and windy conditions were combining to raise the threat to its highest alert level.

Utility rates set to rise in March

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF

BUDGET 2013

Red Deer utility users can expect their water, wastewater, garbage, recycling and power rates to increase this year.

City of Red Deer Development Services director Paul Goranson said that utility rates will be going up once again in March if council gives approval to a new utility bylaw.

Electric Light and Power rates are slated to jump an average of 6.5 per cent, the majority of the costs being driven by provincial transmission costs. The increase is on the distribution tariff that the city collects through its rates, Goranson said Tuesday during council’s city budget meeting.

Wastewater rates may rise an average 3.1 per cent.

Water rates may increase an average 5.9 per cent.

Landfill tipping fees may rise 3.2 per cent ($2 per tonne increase) while garbage and yard waste collec-

tion may go up 1.3 per cent for residential and 5.2 per cent for multi-family and commercial users. Recycling collection is expected to rise by 2.7 per cent for residential and 6.3 per cent for multi-family users.

The rate increases come back for a bylaw change after the municipal operating budget is approved.

Goranson’s draft budget of $151.4 million revealed no major changes or cutbacks.

“It’s mainly a hold-the-line budget,” he said after presenting the budget to council.

Environmental Services will develop water conservation standards for city municipal buildings, as well as look at greening the city fleet.

It will also continue to do upgrades of the water treatment plant, as well as help implement the Waste Management Master Plan. Public Works will be monitoring the new Snow and Ice Control Policy

implemented last year.

Goranson also spoke about the city’s two substantial contracts with Alberta Health Services — one is for dispatch of ambulances in the region. For dispatch, the city is expecting a revenue of just over $700,000 for providing dispatch and expenses of just over $400,000.

“It’s basically a short-term contract so we’ve budgeted again for this year that it would continue,” said Goranson.

The city also has a contract to provide ambulance services itself in the amount of five ambulances, 365-days a year.

That contract expires in April, so the city is in the midst of renegotiating that contract for five years with options to extend after that.

Emergency Services is requesting $45,000 since the city can no longer buy medication for use on ambulances through Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

Planning department expects more permit requests, downtown projects

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF The City of Red Deer’s Planning Department is expecting to be busy with more building permits while it also works on more downtown initiatives.

Planning staff presented its draft operating budget to city council on Tuesday.

Kim Fowler, director of Planning Services, said some service levels need to increase in Inspections and Licensing to deal with rising permit requests.

“Luckily, we’re seeing a recovery from the recession and an increase in building permit and planning applications,” said Fowler.

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under-utilized or in some cases contaminated,” said Fowler.

Coun. Frank Wong said he was pleased that city planners would begin working on a North of Hwy 11A Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan.

He was told it would start in June and would be finished in early 2014.

“We’ll be doing the work with Engineering Services as part of the whole North Highway Connector project,” said Fowler, referring to the major ring road project slated to take several decades.

“With residential growth rates, we need to go into the northeast sector.”

out in the Canadian Environmental Protection Act,” Goranson said in a news release issued immediately afterward.

“We already proactively implemented many of the requirements of today’s order,” he said. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

back up the need for more work, the province isn’t likely to consider spending more money.

The province has come up with anti-flooding cash previously.

In 2011, the Alberta government announced $2.4 million in funding to build eight riprap-reinforced rock spurs into the river at Sundre to redirect the water and reduce bank erosion. That project was finished last spring.

Meanwhile, a local group is collecting letters of support and seeking a meeting with Premier Alison Redford to press their case for more money to be spent on anti-flooding measures. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Paul Goranson, director of Development Services for the City of Red Deer, was among the city staff seated in the gallery for the hearing.

“Since the incident, we have reviewed our spill reporting and safety requirements to ensure our procedures and standards meet or exceed those set

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“Basically, we’re going back to some service levels pre-2008.”

Fowler was also seeking a project manager for 12 to 14 months, to be funded from the city’s land bank and not from property taxes.

This position would help move the Riverlands development forward.

Riverlands is considered to be Red Deer’s preeminent project and will create the future identity of the city and its downtown.

The financial impact of the new position is just over $76,000 in 2013, a little over $83,000 in 2014 and nearly $12,000 in 2015.

“It’s a really great opportunity in the west end of downtown to redevelop land that’s been vacated or

Council has considered — but made no decision — on extending the berms at a cost of $1.5 million.

Funding would be needed from the province or raised through a local improvement tax.

Beattie said until more study has been done to

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Metis and non-status Indians declared ‘Indians’

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Thanks to a single court decision, the federal government’s responsibilities for Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples have suddenly become a whole lot bigger.

After more than 13 years of legal wrangling, the Federal Court ruled on Tuesday that Metis and non-status Indians are indeed “Indians” under a section of the Constitution Act, and fall under federal jurisdiction.

The decision adds to the mounting pressure on Stephen Harper to rethink the way Ottawa deals with native populations, who are among the most impoverished in Canada.

The ruling helps to clarify the relationship between Ottawa and the hundreds of thousands of aboriginal peo-

ple in Canada who are not affiliated with specific reserves and have essentially no access to First Nations programs, services and rights. The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples estimates their ranks at more than 600,000.

“This is huge and it ends the denial of aboriginal birthrights that has existed for far too long among off-reserve Metis and non-status Indians,” said Betty Ann Lavallee, national chief of the congress.

“Today is a very emotional day for me and a very hopeful day for all off-reserve aboriginal peoples.”

In his decision, Federal Court Judge Michael Phelan rejected the federal government’s attempts to maintain a narrow definition of who can be considered Indian.

He waded through centuries of aboriginal history to

look at definitions of who has been considered Indian in the past, and how they were treated — by native communities and by various levels of government.

The case for Canada’s nonstatus Indians was more clearcut than the case for Metis, but on balance, historical evidence weighs in favour of the Metis too, he wrote.

“The recognition of Metis and non-status Indian as Indians under section 91(24) should accord a further level of respect and reconciliation by removing the constitutional uncertainty surrounding these groups,” Phelan writes.

Estimates of precisely how many Metis and non-status Indians there are in Canada vary widely, but demographers say both populations are growing rapidly.

Statistics Canada report-

ed some 400,000 Metis in the 2006 census; specific ethnic data from the 2011 census isn’t due for release until next year.

While the decision does not go so far as to declare that the federal government has a fiduciary responsibility to the group, it says such duties would flow automatically now that their standing has been clarified.

“There is no dispute that the Crown has a fiduciary relationship with aboriginal people both historically and pursuant to section 35 (of the Constitution),” Phelan writes.

However, he adds: “That duty is not an open-ended undefined obligation but must be focused on a specific interest.”

Legal experts expect the federal government to appeal the decision, partly because

its implications are major — and complicated.

Indeed, negotiations should start Friday when Harper meets with First Nations leaders on treaty and aboriginal rights, said Lavallee, who also argued she should be included in those talks because of the new status accorded by Tuesday’s decision.

The federal government had little to say Tuesday, but hinted it would be considering an appeal.

“We are reviewing the court’s decision to determine the next steps,” said Jan O’Driscoll, spokesman for Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan.

“Our government continues to work in partnership with all aboriginals across Canada to address shared priorities such as education, economic development and jobs.”

Alberta plant at centre of E. coli outbreak received six warnings from CFIA

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BROOKS — Management at the XL Foods plant in Brooks, Alta., was warned several times about problems in the plant before an E. coli outbreak that caused one of the biggest meat recalls in Canadian history.

Documents obtained under the Access to Information Act show that Canadian Food Inspection Agency staff issued six warnings about conditions in the plant between January

and September 2012.

They detailed problems spotted by inspectors and required XL Foods to take action to correct the issues.

The plant was involved in a massive beef recall in September, where more than 1,800 items were pulled from shelves in Canada and the United States due to E. coli contamination.

Several people became sick after eating the contaminated beef.

Some of the problems identified in the documents in-

clude improper sanitization of equipment, condensation dripping onto carcasses, flaking paint and rust on walls and beams, and plastic containers overflowing with unsanitary water.

“That stuff shouldn’t exist if you’ve got people that are trained and know what they’re doing,” said Bob Jackson, a former CFIA meat inspector who is currently with the Public Service Alliance of Canada.

“In my mind, when I look at a stack of reports like that,

it tells me that the company is not living up to its end of the bargain.”

However, the CFIA said in a plant the age and size of XL, it was not an unusual number of warnings.

“It is typically very normal to have around that many ... in six months or eight months of their production,” said Dr. Harpreet Kochhar, CFIA’s executive director of western operations.

All of the problems indicated in the reports were solved by plant staff to the satisfac-

tion of CFIA inspectors before the first cases of E. coli were found in beef produced at the XL Foods plant in September 2012.

JBS Canada, a subsidiary of a Brazilian-based agri-food giant, took over management of XL Foods in October after the E. coli outbreak.

It has received clearance from the provincial government to formally purchase the company.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Albertans will have to wait a little longer to hear about the safety of a labyrinth of oil and natural gas pipelines that criss-cross the province.

A technical review of the pipeline network was handed to Alberta Energy last month and is now being analyzed by the Energy Resources Conservation Board.

Alberta Energy spokesman Mike Deising said the board is to

finish its work by March 31, and then the public will be asked to comment on the report later in the year.

“Pipelines really are a critical lifeline for the provincial economy so we need Albertans to feel confident that pipelines are the safest method to transport oil,” he said Tuesday.

Deising said the government hasn’t yet decided how it will consult with the public, or whether the process will include public meetings or hearings.

The government called for the review last summer following three pipeline spills, including a leak that polluted part of the pristine Red Deer River.

The Energy Resources Conservation Board then hired Group 10 Engineering Ltd. of Calgary to conduct the technical review.

Alberta has more than 400,000 kilometres of provincially regulated oil and natural gas pipelines, many of them up to 40 or 50 years old.

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PLANNING: Wants to bring back Ross Street patio Planning Services also wants to bring back the Ross Street Patio project in the centre of downtown, where lanes were shut down along one block to accommodate a number of patio tables. The total cost of downtown initiatives is $105,000 — $60,000 of which will be funded from the downtown reserve.

Some of the money will be used to program public spaces including Veterans’ Park and the downtown farmers’ market.

Staff has also recommended that the Ambassadors program, involving red-hatted employees walking around downtown and providing any information to visitors and others, be put on hold after being around for several years. It may be brought back if there’s greater focus to link tourism with the downtown.

Fowler said they may come back in the summer with an additional money request to extend the patio program through the winter.

City manager Craig Curtis said the Ross Patio project received mixed reviews last fall.

As well, Inspections and Licensing will restore some service levels in animal control.

“We reduced the enforcement in the parks area so we had some complaints from the public,” said Fowler.

The financial impact over a three-year period is just over $108,000. This will provide for one additional officer to improve the contractor’s ability to meet performance standards for response times; resume patrol of the parks system; focus on licence renewals; and provide better officer coverage and safety for dealing with aggressive dogs.

Staff is also suggesting that a three-per-cent increase be given this year to the Red Deer Regional Airport Authority to help with its operations. The total impact would be $190,550.

As well, the city is recommending a three-per-cent increase to Tourism Red Deer to the tune of $6,649.

In total, the Planning Services division budget for 2013 is $11 million. The City Manager’s Office also presented its draft budget to city council. Its 2013 budget is proposed at $4.5 million.

Some of the requests within this division include spending $25,000 on holding a celebration around the City of Red Deer centennial of March 25. It is also seeking $11,000 for having a 24/7 communications phone line to deal with issues after hours.

Human Resources are also seeking $35,000 for leadership development to prepare and equip staff who would take on leadership responsibilities. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

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Punishment must fit the crime A compelling series on drunk driv- 2 at the time of the March 4 head-on ing published in the Advocate over the crash. past few weeks has given readers rare Although his alcohol consumption insight into the devastating aftermath was a matter of court record, he was of stupid decisions. in fact found guilty of four counts of The survivors of victims opened criminal negligence causing death and their hearts in interviews one count of criminal negand talked of lingering ligence causing injury. The nightmares as they try to drunk driving charges were cope with the loss of loved withdrawn as part of negoones killed by a drunk drivtiations between the Crown er. and defence lawyers. SteAnd families of victims vens pleaded guilty to the often remain bitter about criminal negligence chargthe sentences that courts es. have imposed on impaired Did his sentence reflect drivers. The punishment, society’s abhorrence with they say, doesn’t match the his crime? crimes.

Red Deer Crown proseHas the justice system cutor Anders Quist said the RICK let us down by being too leaccused didn’t intend to kill ZEMANEK nient? anybody (surely no drunk Some legal authorities driver ever does). “Mr. Stesay that the courts have bevens is not a murderer, but gun to respond to public he did kill four human beoutcry for tougher sentences. ings and horribly injured a fifth,” he But a study by the University of Al- said. berta says otherwise, concluding that Quist and Stevens’ lawyer Ian Savthe courts are still far too lenient. age agreed on the sentence, saying six And a study by the federal Justice De- and a half years would satisfy the pubpartment says that drunk drivers still lic and deter others from making simiaren’t getting the message. lar decisions. Savage called his client’s On Friday in Red Deer court, actions “a terrible mistake.” a drunk driver with a blood/alcohol Was Stevens’ state of mind any difreading of .27 — more than three times ferent than a person who, in a drunken the .08 legal limit — was jailed for six rage, uses bad judgment at a party and and a half years for killing four people. stabs another person he doesn’t mean Tyler James Stevens, 30, was driving to kill, yet is still charged with mannorth in the southbound lanes on Hwy slaughter?

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The lack of intention to kill in a drunk driving case should be considered no different than a drunken stabbing. The argument for manslaughter seems compelling.

In the Criminal Code of Canada, sentences for impaired driving causing death appear to be tough, calling for a maximum sentence of life in prison for some infractions.

In practise, however, a study by the University of Alberta law department says “the sentencing for these terrible offences is lenient.”

The report says lower courts are hog-tied by “precedent law,” ultimately established by the Supreme Court of Canada, which has the final say in sentencing guidelines.

In 1989, a Manitoba judge sentenced an impaired driver, who killed three passengers, to life. Despite the offender having 40 speeding, impaired and dangerous driving convictions on his record, the top court agreed to a reduced sentence of six years.

While deterrence is the chief concern in sentencing, drunk drivers continue to snub the law, says a study by the federal Justice Department. It examined 3,300 offenders, of which 57 per cent offended again at least once within five years. And the severity of the sentence had no impact, the study said.

“There was no evidence to suggest that the imposition of a fine or imprisonment had any effect on the likelihood of whether an offender would re-

offend or not,” the study concluded.

If harsher sentences do not serve as a deterrent, as the Justice Department suggests, then it’s the lawmakers’ duties to consider protection of the public as paramount and impose tougher sentences. The longer that these killer drivers are kept off the roads, the safer the public will be.

The longest term a driver was given in Alberta’s history for drunk driving causing death was 20 years and six months.

On the day Raymond Yellowknee got out of jail, Jan. 20, 2006, he stole a truck and led RCMP on a high-speed chase in the Slave Lake area before crashing head on into a vehicle driven by a mother. She and her three young daughters all died.

Yellowknee was classified as a longterm offender and was sentenced in June 2008. He killed himself a year later.

But his sentence remains an exception.

There seems little doubt that harsher sentences aren’t a deterrent, and that the penalties imposed should at least keep offenders out of circulation as long as possible.

The punishment must meet the crime; the survivors of drunk drivers’ victims have made that clear.

But that means the courts must take a tougher stand, starting with the Supreme Court of Canada.

Rick Zemanek is a former Advocate editor.

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Life with pro hockey back may be a bit of a gamble I’m sooo elated that the NHL and The Wildrose Party might have a its players association have come to a winner with its idea of promoting a tentative agreement, so they can get to Keno lottery game, with the bulk of the work on a season of exciting pro hock- profits from the first five years of operey again. I can hardly wait ation going toward funding to rush out and buy tickets . . shortfalls for new arenas . to the official Alberta Keno for both the Edmonton Oilpro hockey lottery game. ers and Calgary Flames.

Or not.

But a number of asBeing a retired person sumptions have to pan out, on a limited income, I might before we can be assured be able to afford a pair of NHL hockey can survive in tickets to perhaps one NHL this province — and that game a year, or one overplayers with multi-millionsized jersey that would look dollar contracts can have ridiculous two days after the the designated benefits player named on the back pension package they so was traded to a team in a desperately need.

GREG city that never sees snow.

First, the government NEIMAN Or I could spend the same needs to accept that the dough and have two days Wildrose proposal has merwith my wife cross-country it. skiing in the mountains. No All that’s required there contest. The mountains win. is goodwill, and an insider’s agreement But I still like to consider myself with the numbers. a fan of the Oilers, much in the same As the proposal has been presented, way I like to consider myself a social rolling out the Keno game into sports drinker. bars and lottery kiosks shouldn’t be You know, a personal indulgence too difficult or expensive. that’s not considered unacceptable beAfter that, an increase in consumer haviour. spending of $196 million on lotteries So I might be persuaded to attend would need to be realized, and susa sports bar once a year, hoist a brew, tained for at least five years. have a burger, watch a game with If you believe that NHL hockey has friends — and put five bucks or so into a long-term future in Alberta without a Keno game, hoping to recover my in- requiring provincial tax subsidies for vestment. the infrastructure needed to host the

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teams (beyond what the cities themselves are willing to spend), you need to believe in all of the above.

For true fans, that shouldn’t be difficult. But for the rest of us?

Credit needs to be given in this space to Jason Gregor, TV host, playby-play announcer and curator of the Oilersnation web site.

His work saved commentators (like me) the time needed to dig up the relevant numbers, to get a perspective on the potential of a Keno lottery for Alberta.

Check his site, and read the comments on his interview with Wildrose leader Danielle Smith; both are illuminating.

We already knew that Albertans spend way more than the national average on lotteries. Per capita, lottery spending is highest in the three prairie provinces, making gaming a major revenue source for our respective governments.

Profits on the $737 we spend on gambling per year go toward a host of nonprofit societies province-wide, as well as into general government revenues.

Neither pot can afford a decrease right now.

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Without that money, fundraising would become a lot more desperate around here.

So if a Keno game were instituted and actually made the $196 million a year projected, it’s asking a lot of Alberta’s gamblers, not to let that figure be a decrease in other lottery profits.

Or a whole lot more people with bad personal problems might eventually become homeless.

Here’s how the Keno money is proposed to be divided. Of total sales, $137 million is paid in prizes. Five million goes to admin (a low figure, in my estimation).

Another $5 million is divided between the Oilers and Flames foundation charities (it’s hard not to be jealous of that). And $20 million a year for five years goes to the teams to subsidize new arenas.

After five years?

Danielle Smith suggests profits might go to municipalities for recreation infrastructure. But I can’t see CFL teams, soccer teams, pro lacrosse or baseball teams failing to reasonably ask for a slice of the pie.

For true believers, anything can be made to look possible. The question is: how much are casual fans like me (and there are lots of us, I think) prepared to believe?

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Turn bus station into true terminal

I was at Bower Ponds for the Red Deer centennial celebration and I have to say the fireworks were great, even though they were supposed to start at 8 but didn’t start until 8:50 p.m.

But this city needs some help with the organizing of events at Bower Ponds.

The parking was terrible. I had to park up in Fairview, then when walking to Bower the first path down to the ponds was blocked off with a sign that read fireworks in progress; the time was 6:20 p.m.

My five-year-old and I had to walk all the way around to get in the main entrance. How dumb is that?

Why wasn’t the parking to the golf course opened up for this?

The glow sticks are a great idea but to let people have free rein on taking as many as they like off the trees is a bad idea.

I saw one lady with about 15 of them attached to the wheels of her baby carriage.

Some people just don’t get it that it is for everyone.

The one fire pit was so jam-packed there was no way of getting near it.

There should have been eight or 10 fire barrels around the west side of the pond and also more picnic tables along the edge for putting on skates.

Also, there should have been a couple of hot chocolate/cake stands, as the line was very long and wasn’t worth the wait.

Don’t get me wrong; it’s great that the city puts on these events.

It’s just that the planning fell a little short.

James Lennie Red Deer

I wish to thank the City of Red Deer for the upgrade of much of 32nd Street.

Emboldened by city’s common sense and efficiency, may I suggest that if we are to encourage public transit use, Red Deer could use its Sorensen Station to accommodate Greyhound and Red Arrow Bus Lines? Of course, they will pay for the use.

It will really help travellers to use city buses to catch buses going out of town and then arriving passengers to catch city buses to return home in seamless connectivity, instead of having to be driven to the private stations for out of town trips.

Besides, Red Arrow does not even have a station and uses the former Holiday Inn on 67th Street parking lot to carry on its business. I wrote to Red Arrow three years ago and they are still chewing the fat.

This is Red Arrow’s third or fourth “station.”

Greyhound has a very smelly and tacky looking station and I have family who do not feel safe at night behind the station where buses arrive and depart from. Besides, groups of smokers light up within the prohibited zone, too. Late at night, there is nobody to manage the station.

Red Deer needs a central bus station like those in many countries where bus travel is widely used. We can cut car use to get to the different stations twice for each passenger departing or arriving. Read ecofriendly and conservation.

Additionally, could the city please remove the silly new lanes in front of Eastview Middle School?

The new lanes restrict lanes and almost no bikes use the bike lanes. I have found alternate routes but they make for longer drives. This winter, the southbound lane reserved for bikes became a car lane, and I can’t blame drivers.

Finally, another pitch for the 22nd Street extension west to Molly Banister Drive. It can be done.

From what I can see, it is no longer a wildlife corridor after the housing development west of the Living Stones Church. If necessary, a gentle overpass type can help animals move freely.

I know the 32nd Street stretch over Waskasoo Creek at Kin Canyon is a barrier and danger to wildlife, but nobody seems to be concerned. I have seen deer struck, killed, and left to be ground up by traffic on that stretch. Also, deer are seen struggling up the slope to the street only to dodge traffic contending with impatient drivers.

Nanda Sologar Red Deer

Teachers are real heroes The news of another mass murder occurring in a school just before Christmas once again frustrated, angered, and mostly saddened me.

I was a cop for many years and I am so thankful nothing like that ever happened on my watch. But as a community policeman, I was always quick to remind the public that the society we have is the society we deserve.

I resolved this year to be part of the solution to school shootings, and other mass murders such as the one on the Queen Elizabeth Hwy last Christmas.

After 9/11, North Americans celebrated firefighters like never before. Always an admired profession, firefighters found themselves special guests and VIPS at just about every kind of social event you could imagine. Our military has been adored since we first put boots on the ground in the Middle East.

Canadian soldiers particularly did the heavy lifting for most of 10 years. Yellow ribbons, and expressions of thank you came from all over the country. And rightfully so!

I am suggesting there is another group of professionals who deserve the same homage. Teachers has shown us in every instance of school violence that they love our children, and will risk their own lives to protect them. In every instance of extreme school violence, teachers have remained calm and carried out lockdown plans. They have often as not saved many students’ lives, and in too many cases, have made the extreme sacrifice.

Soldiers, firefighters and cops all know what they are signing on for. Teachers are not signing on for the same thing. Yet, they become the front line all too often. And they do so willingly. They deserve to be held in the same high esteem as soldiers and firefighters. They deserve to be admired for their bravery.

I have two children who are teachers. I spent a lot of time with them this Christmas break, and I was thankful that such horrific incidents are very rare in our country, because I know what they would do if they were amid such an unthinkable act of cowardice. For the next month or so, when I meet a teacher, I intend to look them in the eye, shake their hand, and say “Thank you for what you do, and for your bravery.”

I would encourage all citizens of Alberta to do the same. Especially cops, firefighters and soldiers. It would mean a lot coming from them.

Ian McLean Sylvan Lake

Calkins’ record abysmal It’s a new year and the fiscal Conservatives are at it again.

EI and CPP premiums are set to rise this year by $51.50 and $49.50 a month respectively for taxpayers earning around $47,000 to $51,000 a year. That’s $100 a month and $1,200 a year that Blaine Calkins, through his support of the Conservative Party’s fiscal policies, will take away from your household budget.

In fact, by the time Calkins runs for re-election in 2015, you very well could have paid over $3,500 in extra taxes. That’s, of course, in addition to increases in the federal fees associated with passports and postage and the now infamous Conservative flip-flop on income trust taxation.

So where is the money going? Well it’s not going to the Canada Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to increase oversight and prevent another XL Foods crisis, which left numerous Canadians severely ill and destroyed the value of local farmers’ cattle. In fact, Calkins voted to cut millions in funding to the CFIA in June 2012.

The money is not going to Canadian veterans who have shown the ultimate courage and bravery by willing to sacrifice everything for their country. In fact, Calkins shamefully voted for a budget that cut veterans’ funding by $15.9 million and $36.3 million in the 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 fiscal years respectively.

And the money is not going to dramatically pay down our record deficits. In fact, Calkins has voted year after year to plunge Canada deeper and deeper into debt. In fact, Calkins has voted for budgets that between 2008 and 2012 have plunged our nation an estimated $126.2 billion deeper in the hole. Canada now owes creditors an estimated $17,282 for every man, woman and child.

However, there’s one thing that hasn’t been dramatically cut: the salaries of Conservative members of Parliament. Members of Parliament have long collected a base salary of over $155,000 a year, which has remained largely unreformed. (I emphasis “base” because the perks only begin there.)

If Calkins is serious about balancing the books, he should introduce a private member’s bill this coming parliamentary session and propose cutting MP pay by $80,000 a year (which would still leave MPs with salaries well above that of many teachers and nurses). This bill would leave the Conservative government with enough money to reverse the shameful cuts to veterans.

After all, the men and women who fought for this country and risked their lives deserve a hell of lot more in compensation than “toe-the-party-line” members of Parliament in Ottawa.

Kyle Morrow Ponoka

Towing policy needs re-examination I would like to start my letter by saying Merry Christmas to the City of Red Deer Public Works Department, which is directly responsible for stealing my Christmas cheer.

I am a senior citizen living in a subsidized seniors housing complex.

This complex does not supply adequate parking for its residents, who are told to park their vehicles on the public streets.

Residents are placed on a parking space waiting list and may wait for up to two years before getting a designated parking space.

If I were renting from any reputable entity within the city, I would be immediately entitled to a parking space, as I am handicapped and have a place card prominently displayed in the windshield of my vehicle.

However, I am forced to park on a public street, and there are no designated handicap parking spaces anywhere near my residence.

On the afternoon of Dec. 17, I parked my vehicle, as per usual, on the street near where I live.

The time was 1 p.m. and there were no snow removal signs on that street at that time.

On Dec. 18 at 1:30 p.m., I discovered that the city had towed my vehicle for snow removal.

Of course, I called the city regarding recovery of my vehicle, expecting to learn that it was being held in a secure storage facility.

However, I was told that my vehicle had been towed two blocks away and dropped off on a public street in front of an apartment building.

I was able, after much searching of the neighbourhood, to recover my vehicle.

The kind, compassionate City Public Works Department had left a parking ticket for the sum of $155 on the windshield.

Some people may say, “So what?” It’s only money.

But to a low income senior, it’s a heavy hit.

I realize I have no alternative but to pay the fine and I will certainly present the receipt to higher authority requesting re-investment, although I doubt that anyone really cares.

I do, however, feel that at the very least the management of this housing unit should make some reasonable effort to inform residents of snow removal times.

Also, the city should give more than 12 hours’ notice so everyone has time to be informed.

Again, I would like to wish those fine compassionate city administration officials a very Merry Christmas.

I just hope that as they celebrated the recent festive season, they paused for just a moment to consider that not everybody is so privileged, no thanks to their hard-hearted policies.

Victor Jensen Red Deer

City traffic lights a mess Is it just me, or has anyone else out there noticed the absolute cruel way with which our city lights have been timed?

I am one of those fortunate ones who lives on one end of the city and works on the complete opposite end ... nearly as far apart as you can get; and man, I got to say the worst part of any given day is by far that drive back and forth.

I am absolutely convinced that the city lights are visited nightly by an evil drunken leprechaun to ensure that they remain perfectly out of synch with each other. You can hope against hope that you might get through more than one at a time, but unless you’re in the downtown core, the chances of success are pretty low.

As you sit at your red light, staring at the next light that is still green the whole time you sit there — and then your light turns green and you’re away, only to watch that next light a block away turn yellow when your about halfway there and then red in perfect time for your arrival. There you will then sit, staring at the next light a block away that is still green the whole time you sit there and this process starts to seem really familiar as you make your way across the city one block at a time.

This is not a secondary street without much for traffic; this is any main thoroughfare in the city — Gaetz Avenue, Taylor Drive, 40th Avenue, 30th Avenue, 32nd Street, 67th Street.

Weekends are particularly bad. When your light turns green, but you can’t sometimes go because the entire block in front of you is backed up right to your intersection and so there everybody momentarily sits.

Years ago, drivers were so frustrated by this phenomenon that many started cutting through the Pines to circumvent four or five lights on Gaetz Avenue.

The city’s answer to this was to block these routes with barricades to stop the practice.

This alleviated the symptoms but did nothing to correct the problem of intense driver frustration due to the timing of the lights being completed by an apparent mad man.

The problem seems to compound itself with the Engineering Department’s apparent obsession with making sure every intersection in the city has a traffic light and not one single one of these will ever be timed to the next, even when they are only 50 or 60 yards apart.

If they are timed this way to slow down traffic flow and reduce the occurrence of speeding, perhaps they would consider re-timing the lights a little bit ... just tweaking them so that you can sometimes get through say ... two, before catching a red; and then getting the city’s prized photo radar cash cow out there to catch the impulsive ones who want to take advantage of two or three green lights in a row by speeding through them.

It’s just a thought, but if that is the reason the lights are timed in such an evil fashion, perhaps the lure of photo radar revenue will be enough to persuade the city to take a look at the issue and if its not that ... then what?

Because I know my car’s gas consumption would likely improve around 20 per cent if I didn’t have to stop and wait for about two minutes at every single light, or almost every single block, depending what street you are on.

Duke Hanson Red Deer

Heartache in Connecticut As a mother, a teacher and a human being, my heart swells and overflows with the heartache from the shooting in Connecticut. The painful and tragic events reminded me of something I wrote in February 2006. It was a response to movie about a school shooting, think Columbine. It’s both applicable to today’s shooting and at the same time a completely different topic. Either way, I’ve included it.

Tragedies so i just watched “elephant”. and people ask why do kids kill other kids they’re just kids. and I ask, why doesn’t it happen more often what holds them back? they have less inhibitions less fear of death kids can be so cruel, so mean, so heartless life is harder they have less ability to cope and I ask, why do adults kill other adults shouldn’t the increased maturity level of responsibility ability to cope give them more alternatives, better problem-solving skills? and the tragedy of children killing children perhaps starts with the tragedy of adults killing adults and the tragedy of not knowing our own children perhaps starts with being too concerned with our own hardships.

I think when something like this happens everybody asks ‘Why?’ it just floats around — subconsciously for many but painfully loud for others. It was that question that prompted the previous thoughts from more than six years ago. Sometimes I think the answer to that question is so far beyond our reach, so far above us, that we’ll never really know. Sometimes the answer is so close to home it reverberates in our heart and mind, and we know all too well. And usually, I think it’s a bit of both.

One day, the person that did this was just a little baby boy. Maybe he was much like my little girl.

Active, cautious, determined. Maybe he loved to be held and didn’t like pears. His mom probably held him and wondered what his future held for him. She perhaps dreamed he’d marry a nice girl and she’d have little grandbabies. Maybe she hoped he’d be doctor or follow in the footsteps of his father.

And while I realize that she also was a victim of these events, I think her heartbreak might be equally great today.

I don’t really know. I do know that somewhere between then and now something dark took hold in his soul and that it culminated in these events. At the risk of sounding sympathetic towards a truly horrific deed, I hurt for his soul as well. Because I think that we all have dark places in our soul. I think that sometimes we indulge those dark places even when we know we shouldn’t. And while my dark places might not steal life from children in such a dramatic and heart-wrenching way, I think most dark places are life-stealing by nature. I think most dark places feed death rather than life. And in such a way, I think that we are all culpable for the evil that circulates in the world today.

So today I hold my little girl extra tight. I take time to hold space for all the families whose lives are changed forever. Who will face the future with a hole that will never be filled. I pray for peace beyond understanding. For strength for today. For tomorrow.

For the day after tomorrow. For the day when the world has moved on but the pain is deafening.

I pray that God will protect the precious life of my baby. Of those close to me. That he’ll hold them in his hands. And I pray for mercy and grace and forgiveness. For the dark places in my soul. For the moments I willingly indulge them. And pour out my gratitude for the blood that was shed to wash those places clean.

Vanessa Wester Red Deer

On Friday, January 4, it was incorrectly stated in the Red Deer Advocate that Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten RegistraƟon for the 2013-2014 school year would begin on Monday, January 7. In fact, registraƟon for these programs in Red Deer and Rocky Mountain House begins on Wednesday, January 16.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have cause you. For informaƟon on Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten registraƟon in our Catholic schools, please visit our website at www.rdcrd.ab.ca.

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Soft landing expected BANKERS SAY REAL ESTATE MARKET REMAINS ‘RELATIVELY SOLID’ DESPITE SLOWDOWN

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada’s real estate market remains “relatively solid” and should experience a “soft landing” despite the current slowdown and fears of overbuilding in the condominium segment, the country’s leading bankers said Tuesday.

Speaking to a RBC banking conference in Toronto, the country’s top bankers said they don’t expect a dramatic downturn like the one in the United States about five years ago.

The bursting of the U.S. housing bubble is considered a major cause of the credit crunch that swept Wall Street and then the global economy in the fall of 2008, after interest rates on sub-prime mortgages rose

and defaults soared.

By contrast, sub-prime mortgages have been less common in Canada and real estate prices have trended upward for the most part — except for a few months during the 2008-9 recession and in some economically disadvantaged areas.

“Our expectation is that the overall real estate market in Canada is still relatively solid,” Royal Bank (TSX:RY) CEO Gord Nixon said Tuesday.

Despite reports that suggest Canadian housing is in crisis, he said the pullback is limited to a couple of markets, notably Vancouver.

“We have seen a slowdown in sales and we’ve certainly seen a slowdown in mortgage demand but price levels are relatively stable,” he said, adding that

other than debt to disposable income, most indicators are in line with historic standards.

“So our expectation is we’ve got this sort of soft landing scenario on the real estate side.”

The head of Canada’s largest bank said he expects RBC’s consumer lending growth will slow to mid single digits but it should see a nearly double-digit increase in commercial loans.

Other banks are also seeing softening demand for consumer lending, with National Bank (TSX:NA) forecasting a 15 per cent reduction in the growth of retail lending this year in Quebec and a 30 per cent drop in Ontario.

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That’s according to Mark Scholz, who is president and CEO of the industry association. Scholz said about 44 per cent of the group’s 830 rigs were active in 2012, and this year it’s looking like about 40 per cent by the end of this year. He said it’s been difficult to raise money to invest in oil and gas wells, which results in less capital for new wells. Scholz also said a lack of pipeline infrastructure to access international markets and the continuing labour shortage will also affect how drillers do this year.

Accountants worried OTTAWA — A new survey suggests the country’s senior chartered accountants have mixed feelings about Mark Carney’s surprise decision to leave for the Bank of England.

The survey of accountants holding senior positions in some of Canada’s top companies shows a vast majority, about nine in 10, believe the appointment reflects well on Canada and the country’s financial system. But 28 per cent also expressed concern that the early departure of the Bank of Canada governor will hurt the stability of the Canada economy.

The accountants appear to have approved of the job Carney has done since taking over, with 92 per cent saying they would like to stay the course after his departure on June 1.

When he announced his intentions to leave in November, Carney said he was confident the Bank of Canada would handle the transition without impacting the economy.

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Dr. Stephan Kruger, left, and Dr. Josias Badenhorst open their new medical clinic offices in the Clearview Market Square today.

City’s newest medical clinic to open in Clearview Market

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Red Deer’s newest medical clinic was scheduled to open in Clearview Market Square this morning.

Clearview Medical & Walk-In Clinic is located at No. 125, 47 Clearview Market Way. Its medical staff currently consists of Drs. Josias Badenhorst and Stephan Kruger, who previously practised at Easthill Walk-In & Medical Clinic and MediCross Clinic respectively.

Badenhorst said a third physi-

Alberta recognizes farms, ranches The province of Alberta continues to recognize farms and ranches that have operated for 100 years or more.

Initiated in 1992, the Alberta Century Farm and Ranch Award honours families who have continuously owned and actively operated the same land for at least 100 years. About 1,400 bronze plaques have been issued to date.

Applicants are required to demonstrate the family relationship between them and the farm founder, and prove the date of homestead or establishment. The current size of the homestead or land base should be at least 160 acres.

Homestead documents can be searched at the Provincial Archives of Alberta in Edmonton, either directly by an applicant or by archived staff for a charge.

cian, Dr. Johannes Conradie, who currently works in Kelowna, B.C., is scheduled to join in March.

“We actually have space for four doctors.”

Clearview Medical & Walk-In Clinic will offer family medicine, with Badenhorst also doing some maternity work. All three doctors will have hospital privileges, he said.

The clinic is accepting new patients.

Badenhorst thinks Clearview Market Square, where a variety of businesses are already operating and others are preparing to open, is a good location for a medical

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BRIEFS The archives can be contacted at 780-427-1750.

For additional information, contact the Alberta Century Farm & Ranch Award Program at 780-422-0492.

Clearview Meadows gets a Shoppers Red Deer will welcome its third Shoppers Drug Mart later this month.

The full-service, 14,000-square-foot retail drug store is expected to open in Clearview Market Square in just over two weeks. A grand opening celebration is scheduled to follow on Jan. 26.

The store, which will be

clinic. In addition to attracting a large volume of consumer traffic, it’s located in the midst of several new residential areas not currently served by doctors’ offices.

He added that Shopper Drug Mart, which is slated to open at Clearview Market Square in a few weeks, should complement the new clinic.

“I think it’s the place to be.”

Clearview Medical & Walk-In Clinic’s hours are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

owned by pharmacist Roger Loor, will carry over-the-counter medications, natural remedies, vitamins and supplements.

It will also stock health and beauty products, food items like milk, eggs and bread, and will have a Canada Post outlet.

Located at 7 Clearview Market Way, the Clearview Market Square Shoppers Drug Mart will be open seven days a week, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. It’s expected to employ 30 people.

Shoppers Drug Mart Corp. licenses retail drug stores under the name Shoppers Drug Mart, and Pharmaprix in Quebec.

There are 1,237 of these stores across Canada, including one in Bower Place Shopping Centre and another at Village Mall.

Shoppers Drug Mart Corp. also licenses or owns 57 Shoppers Simply Pharmacy and Pharmaprix Simplement Santé medical clinic pharmacies, and owns 63 Shoppers Home Health Care stores and other healthrelated businesses.

BRUSSELS, Belgium — Record unemployment and fraying social welfare systems in southern Europe risk creating a new divide in the continent, the EU warned Tuesday, when figures showed joblessness across the 17 EU countries that use the euro hit a new high.

Eurozone unemployment rose to 11.8 per cent in November, the highest since the euro currency was founded in 1999, according to the statistical agency Eurostat.

The rate was up from 11.7 per cent in October and 10.6 per cent a year earlier.

In the wider 27-nation European Union, the world’s largest economic bloc with 500 million people, unemployment broke the 26 million mark for the first time.

But the trend is not uniform. Unemployment is increasing mainly in those countries, mostly in southern Europe, where market concerns over excessive public debt have pushed governments to make the toughest savings, pushing the economies into recession.

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New CFO for High Arctic High Arctic Energy Services Inc. (TSX: HWO) has appointed Ken Olson as its chief financial officer. The Red Deer-based company said in a release that Olson is a chartered accountant with more than 20 years of finance and management experience, most recently as vicepresident, corporate finance with an international oilfield services company.

High Arctic announced on Oct. 1 that its then CFO, Robert Morin, was leaving his position and that Dennis Sykora, the company’s executive vicepresident and general counsel, would serve as acting CFO. High Arctic also recently appointed Shannon Matthyssen as its corporate controller and corporate secretary. It said Matthyssen is a chartered accountant with extensive oil and gas experience.

Discipline helps to make a ‘winner’ JOHN MACKENZIE

ACTION COACH

It’s been a long fall, but the hockey strike is finally over. Just about everyone has an opinion, and there’s plenty of ongoing discussion about the actual outcome.

Regardless of whether you’re a fan or not, most of us recognize that the players are professional athletes. Dedication to their sport means adhering to strict training routines that enable them to play at optimum levels of competition.

Whether it’s sports, business or life, focused discipline helps to make a “winner.”

For many, self-discipline sounds tedious and restrictive. However, statistics prove that the most successful people are those that establish well-thought-out, written goals, and follow a disciplined system to achieve them.

Time management is self-management, and self-management re-

quires discipline.

Self-discipline is not a natural state for the majority of us. But truthfully, we all have the ability to consciously manage the decisions and actions we undertake every day.

Being successful is hard work, so begin by creating an uncluttered environment.

Please see ORGANIZE on Page C2

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‘Significant’ home market growth forecast for Alberta

FIXING SANDY DAMAGE

ROYAL LEPAGE FORECASTS ‘BRIEF, MILD DIP’ IN SALES FOR FIRST HALF OF YEAR

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

STORIES FROM PAGE B1

ORGANIZE: Build a system It is easier to perform tasks when everything is where you need it and easy to find.

If you can’t accomplish this on your own, hire a professional that specializes in office organization to help build a system that works for you.

There is a big difference between being busy and being productive. A disciplined approach to managing small activities will result in increase productivity and measurable outcomes.

The first step is to set aside uninterrupted time.

Dedicate 15 minutes each day to tasks and activities that promote personal and business growth. Schedule your routine activities several weeks in advance. Prioritize each day’s tasks the evening before.

Using this simple system will help to maximize personal productivity by at least 20 per cent.

As human beings we prefer to do the things we like, or the things that are the easiest to do. Many business tasks are routine but necessary. We procrastinate when we have activities that stretch our comfort zone.

Best practices show that accomplishing the most challenging thing first — that task that hangs over your head — alleviates your stress and boosts energy and increases momentum.

According to Brian Tracy, every minute spent in planning saves as many as 10 minutes in execution.

In other words, 10 to 12 minutes daily planning can save you two hours of wasted time and effort throughout the day. Make a habit of tackling the tasks that have the most impact, first.

A variety of organizing systems are available to help manage personal and business activities. Whether a smart phone, diary, calendar or even daily planning sheet, these tools are useless unless you have the discipline to use them effectively.

Although technology has improved efficiency, it has also created unique issues. It’s so easy to be distracted.

Most interruptions are not urgent, or even very important.

There is that constant urge to look and respond, which can add up to minutes and even hours of your business day.

Most business owners are very busy, but are they busy doing the right things?

Are you performing in your role, and is your time spent taking you closer to your goals?

Everyone in the company, including the owner, must have a job description. An organizational structure with key roles and areas of responsibility is crucial.

Don’t interfere or take on another’s responsibilities unless circumstances require the owner/manager level to be involved.

Delegate to staff that have the appropriate skills.

Commit to build in and practise these simple techniques over the next 30 days.

You have invested in your role, your company, your business. Mastering your time is the foundation for achieving your goals in every aspect of your life — self-discipline is the price.

ActionCoach is written by John MacKenzie of ActionCoach, which helps small- to medium-sized businesses and other organizations. He can be contacted at johnmackenzie@actioncoach.com or by phone at 403-340-0880.

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James Ferchland looks around his house, which was severely damaged by Superstorm Sandy, in the Broad Channel section of Queens, New York. Many home and business owners flooded out by Hurricane Sandy could get insurance payouts soon through congressional action on a $9.7 billion bill to replenish the National Flood Insurance Program. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which runs the program, had warned that it will run out of money this week if Congress didn’t give it additional borrowing authority to pay out claims.

HOUSING: Decline could have broader impact on economy Nixon said Royal has relatively small exposure to the condominium market at $1.2 billion of a $700-billion balance sheet and has requirements that protect it from troubled lenders.

“We’re not overly concerned with respect to condo itself because our relative exposures are quite small — on a relative basis, the smallest of the Canadian banks,” he said.

However, Nixon noted that a significant decline in the overall real estate market would have broader impact across the economy, which would hurt the banking industry.

Gerry McCaughey of CIBC (TSX:CM) said the bank hasn’t seen credit problems in condo construction but a slowdown could be a fairly significant economic event.

“Pure math says that a soft landing, if it means you go back historic levels of activity, that we’re going to have some softness in our economy,” McCaughey said. “... That softness doesn’t necessarily come out in mortgage defaults, it comes out in employment softness and consequential unsecured consumer lending softness.”

Potentially offsetting the impact of the residential construction slowdown is new energy related infrastructure spending in Canada over the next five to seven years, McCaughey said, pointing to the Lower Churchill hydro power development and oil pipelines.

Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) CEO Bill Downe told the conference that BMO deliberately limited its exposure to the Canadian condo construction market at $700 million after watching some of the problems surface in the United States in 2007 and 2008.

The bank is active in the U.S. mortgage lending market in the Midwest through its Harris Bank subsidiary.

He doesn’t expect Canadian homeowner debt to keep growing at previous levels, which will avoid an “outright collapse in the market.”

“In fact, house prices may just stagnate. Condominium prices may just stagnate for a couple of years. And that’s the definition of a soft landing,” Downe said.

Downe predicted the overall U.S. housing market will show considerable strength this spring, stimulating commercial loans.

After a strong fourth quarter, Downe is anticipating that the American economy will be much stronger this year, which will put upward pressure on interest rates in both the U.S. and Canada.

“I think the U.S. economy is going to perform much better in 2013 than people are anticipating,” he said.

Scotiabank CEO Rick Waugh said he also foresees a soft landing for the Canadian condo market, which poses the greatest risk.

He watches 90-day delinquencies very carefully for signs of deterioration.

“It’s elevated above 2007 levels but only a bit...it probably will come up a little bit but at levels that are well within our risk appetite,” Waugh said.

The Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) CEO denounced suggestions that Ottawa could privatize Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., which he described as an integral part of the Canadian housing system that helped to ensure the country survived the housing crisis unlike a similar U.S. entity.

“It ain’t broke, it worked, it met the biggest stress test in our lifetime. Why fool around with it? It’s not a Fannie Mae.” Ed Clark, president and CEO of TD

Bank (TSX:TD), said he remains pessimistic about Europe’s ability to turn its problems around.

Meanwhile, he said Canada’s long period of growth that surpassed the U.S. is over, assuming politicians don’t make decisions to reduce short-term expansion.

“I’m more positive on the United States than I am on Canada in growth numbers,” Clark said.

EU: Crisis dould create rift States have raised taxes and slashed spending — including by cutting wages and pensions, measures that hit the labour force in the pocket and reduce demand in the economy.

Laszlo Andor, the EU’s Employment Commissioner, warned the uneven impact of the crisis could create a rift.

“A new divide is emerging between countries that seem trapped in a downward spiral of falling output, fast rising unemployment and eroding disposable incomes and those that have so far shown good or at least some resilience,” said a statement from Andor’s office.

Last year “has been another very bad year for Europe in terms of unemployment and the deteriorating social situation,” said Andor. “It is unlikely that Europe will see much socio-economic improvement in 2013.”

The single biggest increase in unemployment over the past year took place in Greece, where joblessness soared to 26 per cent in September, up 7.1 percentage points over September 2011’s 18.9 per cent.

The highest overall rate in the EU was in Spain, where 26.6 per cent of the workforce was jobless in November, up 3.6 percentage points over last year.

By contrast, Austria posted the lowest unemployment rate in the EU, at 4.5 per cent. The rate in Luxembourg was 5.1 per cent, and the rate in Germany was 5.4 per cent.

Beyond Europe, unemployment in the U.S. has been edging down this year and was at 7.8 per cent as of November. In Japan it was only 4.1 per

cent.

“It is clear that the economic implosion of several (EU) member states continues at a troubling pace,” said Graeme Leach, chief economist at the London-based Institute of Directors.

He said the stark statistics were “compounded by the political and human impact of terrifying levels of youth unemployment in Spain, Greece and Italy.”

The problem of joblessness is made worse by the fact that southern EU nations are increasingly chipping away at their social safety system to make do.

“Most national welfare systems have lost much of their ability to protect household incomes against the effects of the crisis,” said Andor.

The figures illustrate the daunting tasks confronting the European Union.

While the threat of a collapse of the eurozone due to too much government debt may have receded, the national economies — many of which are in recession — will struggle to recover as long as joblessness continues to rise, creating poverty and fueling social discontent.

Beyond savings cuts, governments have also made reforms — particularly of labour practices and education — to promote employment. But they take time, both to enact and to feed through an economy.

As unemployment across the eurozone continues to rise, many analysts are concerned whether the political will to continue to cut budgets can be sustained.

“We expect the unemployment rate at the eurozone level to continue to rise from 11.8 per cent in the latest figures to 12.5 per cent by early 2014, as eurozone businesses and households remain wary, and governments continue to cut back,” said Tom Rogers of Ernst & Young Eurozone Forecast.

One bright spot in Tuesday’s EU statistical releases were new figures showing economic sentiment in the eurozone had improved in December.

The so-called economic sentiment indicator rose by 1.3 points to 87 as confidence improved among consumers and almost all business sectors.

Analysts said it was likely a result of improvements in financial markets, but warned that with unemployment still high, a recovery in the economy was months away.

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The latest Royal LePage report on Canadian realestate shows average housing prices were up between two and four per cent in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared with the same time last year.

However, the same survey shows average prices for the three main categories of housing were down from the third quarter of 2012 — a period that included new mortgage rules that have discouraged many first-time buyers.

The quarterly market update by the Torontobased real estate marketing firm forecasts a brief, mild dip in sales volume in the first half of this year but not a major downturn.

Royal LePage says lower sales and a flattening of home prices in Vancouver and Toronto — Canada’s two largest and most-expensive real-estate markets — will have a significant impact and drag down the national averages this year.

It says some markets, particularly in Alberta and Saskatchewan where the resource-oriented economies have been vibrant, are poised for significant growth in 2013.

It says average prices for Canadian residential real-estate will rise a further one per cent by the end of 2013, as some owners opt to delay selling their property until conditions improve.

“Our sturdy domestic economy and encouraging employment trends have emboldened sellers, and some have opted to let market conditions adjust before listing,” said Phil Soper, Royal LePage’s president and chief executive.

“Simply put, fewer home owners listed their properties in the second half of the year, which kept inventory levels lower, and supported home values.”

The Royal LePage quarterly House Price Survey looks at three categories of housing — detached bungalows, standard two-storey and standard condominiums — in 16 local markets and calculates national averages.

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MARKETS COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Tuesday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 10.81 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 80.74 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.58 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.86 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.10 Cdn. National Railway . . 90.84 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 107.37 Cdn. Satellite . . . . . . . . . . 6.05 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 71.90 Capital Power Corp . . . . 23.24 Cervus Equipment Corp 19.61 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 33.10 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 43.26 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 25.52 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.18 General Motors Co. . . . . 29.37 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 19.47 Research in Motion. . . . . 11.78 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 41.14 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 41.49 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 64.40 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 15.50 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 47.25 Consumer Brick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.34 Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 67.56 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.70 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 40.70 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 11.73 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.53 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.45 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 48.30 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.59 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 20.32 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 33.14 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.55 First Quantum Minerals . 21.54 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 35.81 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 11.40 Inmet Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . 72.25 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 9.39 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 41.38 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.91 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 36.20

Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 23.30 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 29.97 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 42.36 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.34 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 45.90 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 29.34 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.31 Canyon Services Group. 11.42 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 33.52 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.670 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 19.55 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.22 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 88.48 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 36.19 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.18 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 29.70 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.23 IROC Services . . . . . . . . . 2.39 Nexen Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.60 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 5.00 Penn West Energy . . . . . 10.85 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . 1.40 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.67 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 33.14 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.76 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 13.42 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 7.36 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 52.10

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed little changed Tuesday as traders hoped for a favourable forecast from Alcoa Inc. when the resource giant kicked off the fourthquarter corporate earnings season after the close.

The S&P/TSX composite index edged up 5.26 points to 12,504.81 while the TSX Venture Exchange rose 1.49 points to 1,225.38.

The Canadian dollar was down 0.1 of a cent to 101.35 cents US. U.S. markets were lower as the Dow Jones industrials declined 55.44 points to 13,328.85, the Nasdaq was down seven points to 3,091.81 and the S&P index slipped 4.74 points to 1,457.15.

Alcoa (NYSE:AA) met profit expectations, turning in earnings per share of six cents. Revenue came in at US$5.9 billion, handily beating expectations of $5.6 billion.

The aluminum company has struggled against a backdrop of tepid economic growth around the globe, which has resulted in aluminum prices falling 15 per cent from a year ago.

But Alcoa said it expects global aluminum demand growth of seven per cent in 2013 and its shares were ahead 1.5 per cent in after hours trading. Alcoa stock had closed unchanged at US$9.10 in New York.

Alcoa traditionally starts the run of U.S. quarterly earnings. The company is viewed as a bellwether for the overall economy as its products are used in everything from cars to aircraft and appliances.

It’s also viewed as a good indication of where the overall resource sector is at, an important consideration for a market like the TSX that is heavily weighted in favour of commodity-based companies.

A major weight on the New York market was aircraft maker Boeing. Its stock was down 2.63 per cent on top of a two per cent tumble Monday after a 787 Dreamliner operated by Japan Airlines Co. caught fire on the ground at Boston’s Logan International Airport. And on Tuesday, another 787 was forced to turn back to the terminal with a fuel leak.

The metals and mining sector led decliners on the TSX, down 1.17 per cent as the March copper contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange lost a penny to US$3.67 a pound.

Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) shed 95 cents to C$36.20 while First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) was off 17 cents at $21.54.

Oil prices erased early gains ahead of the release of data expected to show a rise of 1.5 million barrels in crude oil stocks and 2.6 million barrels in gasoline stocks last week, according to a survey of analysts by Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos. The American Petroleum Institute was releasing its report on oil stocks later Tuesday.

The February crude contract dipped four cents to US$93.15 a barrel.

The energy sector stepped back 0.4 per cent and Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) lost 44 cents to C$29.34.

The TSX was well off the worst levels of the session as gold snapped a three-day losing streak with the February bullion contract up $15.90 to US$1,662.20 an ounce. Kinross Gold (TSX:K) was up 20 cents to C$9.39.

Gold prices have suffered in recent days because of uncertainty about whether the U.S. Federal Reserve might end its stimulus program of bond buying in the second half of 2013. Minutes from the Fed’s latest policy meeting showed a split over how long to continue the purchases amid concerns that they could destabilize the economy.

The bond buying, known as quantitative easing, has supported bullion prices because of worries the

program would drive inflation higher.

Gold is seen as a hedge against inflation.

Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) shares were ahead $1.12 to C$35.81 after it announced Monday after the close that it is raising its monthly dividend by 11 per cent to five cents per share.

Elsewhere in the gold sector, African Barrick Gold PLC stock plunged about 20 per cent on the London stock exchange after Canadian parent Barrick Gold Corp. (TSX:ABX) announced that talks about a potential sale to China National Gold have broken off without a deal. The Toronto-based Barrick Gold owns about three-quarters of the ABG shares outstanding and Barrick Gold shares faded 43 cents to C$33.14.

Information technology stocks provided the most lift as CGI Group (TSX:GIB.A) rose $1.03 to $23.80.

In economic news, traders took in data showing that the chronic government debt crisis in Europe has pushed unemployment to record highs in the 17-country eurozone.

The jobless rate hit 11.8 per cent in December, up from 11.7 per cent the previous month.

INTEREST RATES THIS WEEK Prime rate this week: 3.0% (Unchanged)

Bank of Canada rate: 1.0% (Unchanged)

Savings/ Loans

Mortgages 1 yr

2 yr

3 yr

4 yr

5 yr

7 yr

Advance Mortgage

2.64

2.69 2.75 2.94 2.94

3.69

AEI Wealth Management

2.39

2.6

4.2

DLC Regional Mort. Group 2.65

2.79

2.9

2.95

2.69 2.75 2.89 2.98

2.65

GIC

Var.

Cons.

Loan

3.0

4.0

1.65 0.95 1.05 1.55 2.35

5.5

0.4

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90 day

1 yr

5 yr

2.98 3.69

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Term Deposits

2.69 2.75 2.89 2.94

1.25 1.35 1.65 2.4

2.65

GICDirect.com

2.1 2.65

Mortgage Architects

2.74

2.69 2.89 2.99 2.94

3.69

2.5

Mortgage Centre

2.74

2.69 2.75 2.99 2.94

3.69 2.65

National Bank Financial

1.5

2.4

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.

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Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 61.87 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 57.77 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.95 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 29.28 Carefusion . . . . . . . . . . . 29.24 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 24.80 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 41.70 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 65.30 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 14.39 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 77.30 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.42 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 60.59 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 27.55 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.64

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close Tuesday: Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,504.81 up 5.26 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,225.38 up 1.49 points TSX 60 — 716.30 up 0.57 of a point Dow — 13,328.85 down 55.44 points S&P 500 — 1,457.15 down 4.74 points Nasdaq — 3,091.81 down 7 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 101.35 cents US, down 0.10 of a cent Pound — C$1.5839, down 0.45 of a cent Euro — C$1.2906, down 0.18 of a cent Euro — US$1.3080, down 0.31 of a cent Oil futures: US$93.15 per barrel, down four cents (February contract) Gold futures: US$1,662.20 per oz., up $15.90 (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $31.069 oz., up 35.3 cents $998.87 kg., up $11.35 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Tuesday at 1,225.38, up 1.49 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 145.3 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Jan ’13 $1.20 higher $610.80; March ’13 $1.20 higher $589.50; May ’13 $0.30 higher $580.20; July ’13 $0.30 higher $575.60; Nov. ’13 $0.10 lower $537.10; Jan. ’14 $0.40 higher $537.70; March ’14 $0.40 higher $537.70; May ’14 $0.40 higher $535.60; July ’14 $0.40 higher $532.70; Nov. ’14 $0.40 higher $534.70; Jan ’15 $0.40 higher $534.70.

Barley (Western): March ’13 unchanged $247.00; May ’13 unchanged $248.00; July ’13 unchanged $248.50; Oct. ’13 unchanged $248.50; Dec ’13 unchanged $248.50; March ’14 unchanged $248.50; May ’14 unchanged $248.50; July ’14 unchanged $248.50; Oct. ’14 unchanged $248.50; Dec. ’14 unchanged $248.50; March ’15 unchanged $248.50.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 265,000 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 265,000.

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Payton Tyrell, left, demonstrates on a transparent 3D TV at the Hisense booth at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Tuesday.

Deloitte survey finds U.S., Canadian CFOs increasingly gloomy about economy

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS A new survey suggests chief financial officers at many large North American companies are growing increasingly gloomy about the economy.

The survey released by profession services firm Deloitte Canada found that optimism among CFOs appeared to be at its lowest level of the year in the fourth quarter.

And, if anything, the quarterly Deloitte CFO Signals Survey found the decline in optimism most pronounced in Canada.

It said net optimism among Canadian CFOs — the difference between the percentage of CFOs expressing rising and falling optimism — fell from plus 47 in the third quarter of 2012 to minus six in the fourth.

A the same time, the net optimism of U.S. CFOs taking part in the survey fell from an already pessimistic minus 16 in the third quarter to minus 21 in the latest survey.

The CFO Signals Survey tracks the thinking and actions of chief financial officers at a number of North American companies averaging more than $5 billion in an-

TORONTO — Scotiabank’s patience is apparently wearing thin over delays

by Chinese authorities in approving a planned $719-million investment in a bank in a fast-growing region of China.

Canada’s most international bank (TSX:BNS) wants to acquire just under 20 per cent of the Bank of Guangzhou, the maximum stake allowed under Chinese law.

However, it has been waiting more than a year for Chinese approval and CEO Rick Waugh says it won’t wait forever to close the deal.

per cent last quarter and 7.4 per cent in the first quarter of 2012.

At the same time, U.S. CFOs raised their estimates for the first quarter to 4.8 per cent from 4.3 per cent.

“Canadian companies appear to be increasingly concerned about a negative impact on their operations caused by ongoing economic problems in the United States and Europe,” said Trevor Nakka, coleader of Deloitte Canada’s CFO program.

“This is leading many of them to take steps to preserve cash and protect revenues from existing markets rather than investing and expanding.”

“Unlike in previous quarters, when companies had relatively high expectations for hiring and capital expenditures, we now see them pulling back on investments as they await greater certainty about what is going to happen in the United States and Europe” said Dick Cooper, co-leader of Deloitte Canada’s CFO program.

“It’s no surprise that a lack of clarity on fiscal policy is one of the top challenges facing North American businesses,” Cooper added.

US consumer borrowing up to record $2.77T THE ASSOCIATED PRESS U.S. consumers took on more debt in November to buy cars and attend school, but stayed cautious with their credit cards.

The Federal Reserve said Tuesday that consumers increased their borrowing in November by $16 billion from October to a seasonally adjusted record of $2.77 trillion.

Scotiabank won’t wait forever for China

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

nual revenue.

Seventy-seven per cent of the 86 CFO respondents were from companies with more than $1 billion in annual revenues and three-quarters were from publicly traded companies. Seventeen of the CFOs were Canadian, representing 20 per cent of the total surveyed.

As a result of the decline in optimism, the survey said companies in both countries have lowered growth expectations for capital investment, research and development and marketing and advertising spending.

They also don’t expect much growth in domestic hiring, said Deloitte Canada, the Canadian arm of the international tax and financial consultancy.

Despite the drop in net optimism, however, there was an improvement in expectations for earnings growth in both countries, Deliotte said.

But while U.S. CFOs also raised their sales growth expectations, Canadian CFOs dropped theirs to the lowest level in more than a year.

Canadian CFOs have lowered their estimates for sales gains to 5.5 per cent this quarter from 6.5

Waugh, speaking at a conference in Toronto, described the proposed investment as a very intriguing opportunity that the bank has been focused on for a year, and for which it raised the required capital.

However, he says there are a “world of opportunities” for the bank and that it will find another place for the investment if it has to.

In 2011, Scotiabank announced it had been chosen as the winning bidder to acquire a 19.99 per cent of the Bank of Guangzhou, a closely held Chinese bank that is primarily govern-

Borrowing that covers autos and student loans increased $15.2 billion.

A category that measures credit card debt rose just $817 million.

The sharp difference in the borrowing gains illustrates a broader trend that began during the Great Recession.

Four years ago, Americans carried $1.03 trillion in credit card debt, an all-time high. In November, that figure was 16.5 per cent lower.

At the same time, student loan debt has increased dramatically.

The category that includes auto and student loans is 22.8 per cent higher than in July 2008.

D I L B E R T

The November increase also reflected further gains in auto sales, which grew 13.4 per cent in 2012 to top 14 million units for the first time in five years.

The need to replace vehicles destroyed by Superstorm Sandy may have also contributed to the gain.

Analysts expect the trends in borrowing to stay the same this year.

They predict small increases in credit card debt and stronger gains in auto and student loans.

Peter Newland, an economist at Barclays Research, said that modest growth and a slight

easing in credit standards helped boost credit card borrowing slightly last year.

The Federal Reserve’s borrowing report covers auto loans, student loans and credit cards. It excludes mortgages, home equity loans and other loans tied to real estate.

The economy has been showing signs of improvement.

Consumers boosted their spending in November, helped by lower gas prices and solid job growth that carried over into December.

Employers added 155,000 jobs in December and 161,000 in November.

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Wild start to PGA season ADAM LAROCHE

NATS RESIGN LAROCHE The wait for Adam LaRoche to make up his mind had played out long enough. It was time to decide if he would take the Washington Nationals’ offer or move on. The slugging first baseman decided to stay with the Nationals on Tuesday, agreeing to a $24 million, two-year deal with a mutual option for a third year. He wanted a full three-year contract, but Washington was never going to offer one. LaRoche’s return completes the final piece of an expected starting lineup for the defending NL East champions and renders Michael Morse expendable. Morse played outfield last year but would have moved to first base if LaRoche had not re-signed.

Today

● JV basketball: Lacombe at Lindsay Thurber, Ponoka at Notre Dame, Stettler at Camrose, Rocky Mountain House at Wetaskiwin; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● WHL: Red Deer at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

(The Drive).

Thursday

● Senior high basketball: Innisfail at Notre Dame, Sylvan Lake at Lacombe; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● College women’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena. ● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer TBS at Lacombe, 7:15 p.m.

Friday

● College basketball: Lethbridge at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● Peewee AA hockey: Innisfail at Sylvan Lake, 6 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

(The Drive). ● AJHL: Calgary Mustangs at Olds, 7:30 p.m. ● Major bantam female hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Kin City B. ● Midget AA hockey: Okotoks at Red Deer Pro Stitch, 7:45 p.m., Arena.

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DUSTIN JOHNSON SURVIVES A FEW WILD SHOTS TO WIN TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS AFTER WILD WEEK AT THE PGA’S OPENING EVENT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KAPALUA, Hawaii — Dustin Johnson disappeared into a small valley of bushes and high grass as he searched for another errant tee shot, this one costing him a double bogey and making the final round of the Tournament of Champions far more exciting than he needed it to be.

Undaunted by his mistakes or the thought of blowing a big lead, he blasted driver on the next hole despite the potential for more trouble.

This one was pure, rolling back off the front of the green. Johnson chipped in from 50 feet for eagle and he was on his way.

Such a wild sequence — double bogey-eagle — is par for the course for this big-hitting American.

And it was only appropriate that this weird, windy start to the PGA Tour season would end Tuesday with such a wild ride. Johnson had a five-shot lead after seven holes. His lead was down to one shot with five holes to play. He wound up closing with a 5-under 68 for a four-shot victory

over defending champion Steve Stricker.

“It was nowhere near ho-hum,” Johnson said.

Nothing was.

The winners-only tournament didn’t start until the fourth day because of gusts that topped 40 mph, forcing officials to shorten it to 54 holes.

Once it finally got under way, it was over in 29 hours. Perhaps it was only fitting that a tournament delayed by a powerful wind was won by a guy who overpowered the Plantation Course at Kapalua.

“It definitely got close out there today,” Johnson said.

“Sometimes I hit a couple of bad drives, but I was always able to bounce back and do what I needed to do to stay out front.”

He never felt truly in command until the final two holes, which are downhill. Paulina Gretzky, the daughter of hockey great Wayne Gretzky, was spotted with Johnson all week and watched from the gallery as he finished without drama at 16-under 203.

Johnson won for the sixth straight season since leaving college at Coastal Carolina, the lon-

gest streak since Tiger Woods won in 14 straight years. Only Phil Mickelson (nine) has a longer active streak of most consecutive years with a PGA Tour win.

“It looks like very little fear in him,” Stricker said. “Because he’ll hit one a little crooked, but he’ll pull out that driver again and try it again.

And he pulled it off, especially at 14. That was the deciding shot and chip for the tournament.

Expect a lot of good things as he continues his career.”

And don’t expect it to ever be dull.

Johnson has all the tools for greatness, though his decisionmaking remains open to criticism. Instead of hitting an iron off the 13th tee — it’s tough to get it close to the pin even with a short iron — he went with driver and invited all sorts of trouble. Remember, this is the guy who lost a threeshot lead in the final round of the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach by rushing through wild shots in a round of 82. He lost a shot at another major by not realizing he was in a bunker on the last hole at Whistling Straits.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Dustin Johnson hoists the trophy over his head after winning the Tournament of Champions PGA Tour golf tournament, Tuesday, in Kapalua, Hawaii. Johnson closed with a 5-under 68 for a four-shot victory.

Training camps could open Sunday

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NEW YORK — Let the season begin.

NHL training camps are expected to open Sunday after the ratification process for the new collective bargaining agreement is completed, according to deputy commissioner Bill Daly.

The league and NHLPA spent Tuesday continuing to hammer out a memorandum of understanding that will ultimately be voted on by their constituents. The owners will cast ballots in person at a Board of Governors meeting Wednesday afternoon in New York while the players are expected to vote electronically on Thursday and Friday.

If all of that goes off without a hitch, the agreement would then be signed by the parties.

“It’s being worked on,” Daly said Tuesday in an email. “We don’t need it signed until the ratification process is done, which looks like Saturday.”

The league is targeting a 48-game season beginning Jan. 19, leaving very little time for everyone involved with the sport to get organized. The schedule isn’t expected to be released until after the Board of Governors ratifies the agreement.

The deal was hammered out

early Sunday morning after a marathon 16-hour negotiating session.

Almost immediately, players began travelling back to the cities where their teams play in anticipation of a season unlike anything most have ever seen.

A typical training camp runs for about three weeks and can include as many as eight exhibition games per team. This one will have teams on the ice for just five days before opening the regular season.

“We’ve got to be prepared,” Lightning star Steven Stamkos said Tuesday in Tampa. “It’s going to be a different year, it’s a sprint. There’s no room for taking a couple games off here, especially early on. You’ve got to get off to a good start and I’m excited to get an opportunity to do that.”

That echoed the enthusiasm heard around the continent.

More than 200 players signed with European teams during the lockout while many others, including Edmonton Oilers forward Taylor Hall, spent time in the American Hockey League.

Most found that nothing quite matches the NHL environment and expressed hope that fans wouldn’t be reluctant to embrace the sport after the labour dispute.

“We’re here playing and we

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Edmonton Oilers Nick Schultz, left, and Nikolai Khabibulin make their way to the ice for the Oilers informal skate in Edmonton, on Tuesday. hope the fans still love us and support us like they used to,” Hall told reporters in Edmonton. “They’re the reason we love to play here.”

The NHL played a 48-game season following the 1994-95 lockout and that allowed for a balanced intraconference schedule for what was then a 26-team league.

It’s going to be a little more

complicated this time around.

The NHL is planning to have teams play three games against the 10 opponents within the same conference but outside their division.

They will then have an unbalanced schedule against division rivals, with five games against two teams and four against the two others, according to a source.

Kings lose Lolik but add pair of talented players The RDC Kings knew heading into the sive shooting guard for the last three years.

Alberta Colleges Men’s Basketball League “My last year at Douglas (College in New season there was a good chance Sam Lolik Westminster) I tried to get him and last wouldn’t be around come the second half. year here,” he said. “He’s a talented swing Because of family commitments, the man who reminds me some of Eric Bakker .

Kings lost the six-foot-eight Lolik, who was . . he can do it all.” second on the team in scoring (13.2 pointsPeoples-Wong, who played two years per-game) and rebounds (8.1 in the States, showed some of rpg). his scoring ability last weekend However, they appear to have when the Kings downed Lakefilled the void nicely with the adland College 89-65 in a practice dition of six-foot-seven Damaine scrimmage at RDC. Nelson and six-foot-two guard “We didn’t keep stats, but Mari Peoples-Wong, both from he had around 25 points,” said Ajax, Ont. Pottinger, who knows both new Nelson spent the last two seaplayers will take some pressure sons with Keyano College in Fort off star forward Robert Pierce, McMurray were he averaged who is averaging 19.7 points and over 11 points per game and 13.2 rebounds per game. He’s eight rebounds per start. second in the country in re“We faced him last year in the bounds.

DANNY playoffs and he impressed me “The two new guys certainly RODE with his rebounding,” said Kings add depth to the lineup, which head coach Clayton Pottinger. only helps Robert,” said Pot“He’s strong defensively and tinger, who would have liked to plays with a lot of energy. When have seen Lolik stick around, we got the opportunity to add him to the but understood his leaving. roster we jumped at it.”

“Because of his family, I understand,” he Nelson didn’t play the first half of the said. season, spending some time in Red Deer But with Lolik gone the Kings will revert working out with the Kings. The same for back to a high-tempo style of play, which Peoples-Wong, who was on hand prior to Pottinger likes to play. the start of the season but couldn’t get into “We’ll get back to our style a bit more, the trades program he wanted. high-paced basketball.”

“He was on the waiting list, but when he Outside of Lolik the Kings didn’t come didn’t get in he went back to work and got close to losing any of the roster because in the second semester,” explained Potting- of academic standings. In fact Pottinger er, who has been trying to add the impres- couldn’t be happier with the marks.

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“We had six guys with a 3.0 grade point average and above,” he said. “That’s something with the program. We want guys who are top competitors and athletes, who couple that with academics. They go hand in hand and you see that in the rankings.”

The Kings, who sport a 9-1 record, are ranked No. 2 in Canada back of Langara College of Vancouver.

The Kings return to league action this weekend as they entertain Lethbridge College Kodiaks Friday and Saturday. The women tip off at 6 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m.

Saturday with the men to follow.

The Kodiaks are ranked 13th in the nation.

“They had several games during the break and should be sharp while we had a couple of practices and one scrimmage,” said Pottinger. “We have to use this week’s practices to make sure we’re in top form.”

Both the RDC Queens and Lethbridge women are both sitting at 0-10. ● The hockey Queens return to action for the second half of the season with a home-and-home series against the SAIT Trojans — Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Arena and Friday at SAIT. The Queens are second in the league, one point back of NAIT and seven ahead of SAIT. ● The volleyball squads are on the road at Grande Prairie where they play Friday and Saturday.

The Kings went into the Christmas break ranked No. 1 in Canada and have slipped to second with the Queens ranked seventh. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

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Basketball

GF GA 147 108 149 96 125 133 138 132 142 148 103 136

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Kelowna 41 29 10 1 1 176 102 Kamloops 42 28 10 2 2 155 113 Victoria 38 20 15 1 2 115 122 Prince George 39 12 22 1 4 101 145 Vancouver 42 11 31 0 0 113 174

Pt 51 43 41 40 35 32 Pt 60 59 50 46 41 33

Pt 60 60 43 29 22

U.S. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Portland 39 33 5 1 0 177 85 67 Spokane 39 25 13 1 0 154 119 51 Tri-City 40 22 15 1 2 122 114 47 Seattle 40 16 21 2 1 121 156 35 Everett 42 16 24 0 2 103 148 34 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 7 Brandon 2 Kootenay 2 Edmonton 1 Medicine Hat 4 Vancouver 0 Prince George at Portland, Late Spokane at Seattle, Late Wednesday’s games Calgary at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Regina at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Red Deer at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Tri-City at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Prince George at Portland, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Seattle at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Thursday’s games No Games Scheduled.

Tuesday summaries Tigers 4, Giants 0 First Period 1. Medicine Hat, Penner 1 (Koules, Sanford) 1:21 Penalty — McVeigh MH (tripping) 6:46.

Second Period 2. Medicine Hat, Cox 12 (Bredo) 18:16 Penalties — Geertsen Vcr (cross-checking) 10:13, McVeigh MH (slashing) 11:27, Kulak Vcr, Broadhead MH (roughing) 17:32.

Third Period 3. Medicine Hat, Doty 8 (Pearce) 4:42 4. Medicine Hat, Broadhead 2 (Penner, Shinkaruk) 16:56 (pp) Penalties — Franson Vcr (cross-checking) 6:42, Pearce MH (closing hand on puck) 8:05, Atwal Vcr, Labelle MH (fighting) 12:22, Sieben Vcr (tripping) 16:15, Valk MH (inter. on goaltender) 18:28.

Shots on goal Vancouver 16 9 6 — 31 Medicine Hat 12 13 9 — 34 Goal — Vancouver: Lee (L,6-12-0); Medicine Hat: Lanigan (W,14-8-2).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Vancouver: 0-4; Medicine Hat: 1-3.

Attendance — 4,006 at Medicine Hat, Alta.

Ice 2, Oil Kings 1 First Period 1. Edmonton, Foster 19 (Sautner, Legault), 6:55.

Penalty — Leach Ktn (high-sticking) 15:46.

Second Period 2. Kootenay, Descheneau 8 (Reinhart, Benoit) 18:06 Penalties — Dirk Ktn (highsticking) 1:14, Shmoorkoff Edm (hooking) 9:11, Moroz Edm (interference) 19:55.

Third Period 3. Kootenay, Leach 3 (Dirk), 1:12 (PP).

Penalty — Mayo Edm (delay of game), 0:36.

Shots on goal Edmonton 11 6 16 — 33 Kootenay 6 15 11 — 32 Goal — Edmonton: Brossoit (L,17-7-3); Kootenay: Skapski (W,15-16-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Edmonton: 0-2; Kootenay: 1-3.

Attendance — 2,110 at Cranbrook, B.C.

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB New York 23 11 .676 — Brooklyn 20 15 .571 3 1/2 Boston 17 17 .500 6 Philadelphia 15 21 .417 9 Toronto 12 22 .353 11

Hitmen 7, Wheat Kings 2 First Period 1. Calgary, Macek 21 (Brassart, Sylvester) 0:09 2. Calgary, Chase 12 (Hurley, Zgraggen) 4:14 3. Brandon, Maguire 3 (Cooper, Palmer) 16:06 4. Calgary, Jones 15 (Clayton) 19:06 Penalties — None.

Second Period 5. Brandon, Nejezchleb 9 (Ferland, Hawryluk) 16:46 6. Calgary, Humphries 3 (Macek, Brassart) 17:28 Penalty — Yaworski Bdn (hooking) 13:13.

Third Period 7. Calgary, Padakin 14 (Chase, Roach) 0:42 8. Calgary, Brassart 14, 18:58 (en) 9. Calgary, Samoridny 7, 19:50 (en) Penalties — Hurley Cal (inter. on goaltender) 18:04, Padakin Cal (tripping) 18:21.

Shots on goal Calgary 13 10 7 — 30 Brandon 10 8 11 — 29 Goal — Calgary: Driedger (W,22-7-3); Brandon: Boes (L,9-19-2).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Calgary: 0-1; Brandon 0-2.

Attendance — 3,315 at Brandon, Man.

Bentley Innisfail Fort Sask Syl Lake St Plain

Chinook Hockey League W L T OTL GF GA 11 1 0 0 72 23 8 3 0 1 44 43 7 6 0 0 52 48 3 9 0 0 42 70 1 10 0 0 28 54

Miami Atlanta Orlando Charlotte Washington

G 9 10 11 7 8 5 7 3 10 5 5 5 2 1

A 10 8 6 8 6 9 6 10 2 7 7 7 10 11

HOUSTON — Sure the Los Angeles Lakers are short-handed. But a team with Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash and Metta World Peace should still play better than this.

James Harden scored 31 points and Chandler Parsons added 20 to help the Houston Rockets pick up their fifth straight win with a 125-112 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night Houston trailed by as many as 14 in the first half, but used a pair of runs in the third quarter to go on top and build a big lead.

World Peace had a season-high 24 points for the Lakers, who were playing without their top three big men: Dwight Howard, Pau Gasol and Jordan Hill — who are all out with injuries.

Bryant added 20 points for the Lakers and Nash had 16 points and 10 assists to become only the fifth player to surpass 10,000 career assists, joining John Stockton, Jason Kidd, Marc Jackson and Magic Johnson.

Pts 22 17 14 6 2

PGA-Hyundai Tournament of Champions KAPALUA, Hawaii — Scores and earnings Tuesday from the final round of the US$5.7-millionPGA-Hyundai Tournament of Champions, at the 7,452-yard, par-73 Kapalua Resort (Plantation Course): Dustin Johnson, $1,140,000 69-66-68 — 203 Steve Stricker, $665,000 71-67-69 — 207 Brandt Snedeker, $432,000 70-70-69 — 209 Bubba Watson, $304,000 70-69-71 — 210 Keegan Bradley, $304,000 71-69-70 — 210 Rickie Fowler, $212,500 70-74-67 — 211 Tommy Gainey, $212,500 72-69-70 — 211 Carl Pettersson, $190,000 70-72-70 — 212 Ian Poulter, $175,000 71-74-69 — 214 Matt Kuchar, $175,000 74-71-69 — 214 Mark Wilson, $155,000 69-76-70 — 215 Webb Simpson, $155,000 72-72-71 — 215

Goaltenders (Minimum 180 minutes played) MP GA SO GAA Sv% Yonkman, Bent 364 11 0 1.81 .934 Grenier, FS 386 23 0 3.57 .900 Kipling, Inn 300 18 0 3.60 .899 Watt, FS 204 13 0 3.80 .880 Stebner, Inn 249 16 0 3.86 .871

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BRIEFS Midget AA Chiefs split weekend games The Red Deer Pro Stitch Chiefs split pair of games in weekend midget AA hockey action.

Mike Pruss fired three goals, while Allen Pruss scored once and added three assists in the Chiefs’ 7-5 victory over the visiting Calgary Northwest Bruins.

Teagan Kooman, Brett Hoppus and Jordy Potter also scored for Pro Stich, while Cole Sears made 32 saves.

Potter, Hoppus and Allen Pruss, who also picked up two helpers, tallied in a 5-3 loss to the host Calgary Canucks. Rylan Bardick stopped 24 shots for the Chiefs.

Wotherspoon joining Canada long track team Red Deer native Danielle Wotherspoon has been named to Team Canada’s women’s long track speed skating team to compete at the World Cup sprint meet in Calgary

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Monday’s Games Washington 101, Oklahoma City 99 Boston 102, New York 96 Chicago 118, Cleveland 92 New Orleans 95, San Antonio 88 Utah 100, Dallas 94 Portland 125, Orlando 119, OT Memphis 113, Sacramento 81 Tuesday’s Games Brooklyn 109, Philadelphia 89 Indiana 87, Miami 77 Houston 125, L.A. Lakers 112 Minnesota 108, Atlanta 103 Milwaukee 108, Phoenix 99 Wednesday’s Games Atlanta at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Utah at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Phoenix at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Houston at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at San Antonio, 6 p.m.

Orlando at Denver, 7 p.m.

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

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

Thursday’s Games New York at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Miami at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

J.J. Henry, $120,400 Johnson Wagner, $120,400 Scott Stallings, $120,400 Scott Piercy, $120,400 Nick Watney, $120,400 Jonas Blixt, $87,600 Ben Curtis, $87,600 John Huh, $87,600 Zach Johnson, $87,600 Jason Dufner, $87,600 Charlie Beljan, $73,000 Bill Haas, $73,000 Marc Leishman, $73,000 Hunter Mahan, $67,000 Ted Potter, Jr., $67,000 Ryan Moore, $63,000 George McNeill, $63,000 Kyle Stanley, $61,000

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BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA—Fined Dallas owner Mark Cuban $50,000 for publicly criticizing the officiating.

DALLAS MAVERICKS—Signed G Mike James to a 10-day contract.

MILWAUKEE BUCKS—Announced Scott Skiles is out as coach by mutual agreement. Promoted assistant coach Jim Boylan to interim head coach.

Armstrong,l TE Colin Cochart and LS Charley Hughlett to reserve/future contracts.

DETROIT LIONS—Signed WR Terrence Toliver, TE Nathan Overbay and G Justin Boren to reserve/ future contracts.

GREEN BAY PACKERS—Signed C Garth Gerhart to the practice squad. Released OL Shea Allard from the practice squad.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS—Named David Caldwell general manager.

MIAMI DOLPHINS—Signed CB Dion Turner to a reserve/future contract.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS—Signed WR Andre Holmes to the practice squad.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS—Signed T Aderious Simmons to a reserve/future contract.

NEW YORK GIANTS—Signed G Bryant Browning, G Chris DeGeare and DB David Caldwell to reserve/future contracts.

NEW YORK JETS—Fired offensive co-ordinator Tony Sparano.

OAKLAND RAIDERS—Signed DB Brandon Underwood to a reserve/future contract.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS—Signed DE Phillip Merling, TE Deangelo Peterson, FB Eric Kettani, NT Chigbo Anunoby, DT Dominique Hamilton and DB Korey Lindsey to reserve/future contracts.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS—Named Steve Keim general manager. Signed WR Stephen Williams and WR Gerell Robinson to reserve/future contracts.

BALTIMORE RAVENS—ReleasedLB Sergio Kindle from the practice squad. Reinstated CB Asa Jackson.

CAROLINA PANTHERS—Signed WR Jared Green and T Ray Dominguez to reserve/future contracts. Fired running back coach John Settle, wide receivers coach Fred Graves and linebackers coach Warren Belin.

CHICAGO BEARS—Signed LB Patrick Trahan to a reserve/future contract.

CINCINNATI BENGALS—Signed WR Justin Hilton, LS Bryce Davis, QB Zac Robinson, T Dan Knapp, OL DeQuin Evans and LB J.K. Schaffer to reserve/future contracts.

DALLAS COWBOYS—Signed WR Anthony

HOCKEY National Hockey League BOSTON BRUINS—Reassigned F Jared Knight from South Carolina (ECHL) to Providence (AHL).

ST. LOUIS BLUES—Reassigned F Cody Beach and D Brett Ponich from Evansville (ECHL) to Peoria (AHL) and F Jay Barriball from Bloomington (CHL) to Peoria.

American Hockey League AHL—Suspended Charlotte F Brett Sutter one game.

CONNECTICUT WHALE—Called up F Andrew Yogan from Greenville (ECHL).

HAMILTON BULLDOGS—Signed F Joey Tenute to a professional tryout contract.

TORONTO MARLIES—Recalled F Andrew Crescenzi and F Jamie Devane from San Francisco (ECHL) and G Mark Owuya from Las Vegas (ECHL). Signed D Ryan Grimshaw to a professional tryout contract.

Tuesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS—Agreed to terms with LHP Scott Kazmir, RHP Jerry Gil and LHP Edward Paredes on minor league contracts.

National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS—Agreed to terms with LHP J.P. Howell on a one-year contract.

NEW YORK METS—Named Mark Fine senior director, marketing.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Agreed to terms with 1B Adam LaRoche on a two-year contract.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS—Sold the contract of INF Nick Giarraputo to the Chicago White Sox.

In the round-robin the Razz defeated the Spruce Grove Galaxy, the Snipe and the Sherwood Park Slam.

Hunting Hills lose to Camrose Hunting Hills senior girls basketball team had a rough night as they fell to Camrose 63-32, Tuesday.

Camrose was led by Jesalyn Clarkson who scored 25 points in the win. Madeline Klootwyk was Hunting Hills top scorer with nine points.

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The Red Deer State Farm Insurance Resistance captured gold in the U14A division of the 29th annual Red Deer Friends on Ice ringette tournament during the weekend.

The Resistance downed the South Calgary Tenaz 11-4 in the final.

Earlier they beat the Calgary Northwest Titanium 18-4, the Edmonton Agility 14-2 and the Tenaz 7-3.

Meanwhile, the Red Deer Communications Group Razz dropped a 7-5 decision to the Lacombe Snipe in the final of the U12A division.

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Both teams will be hoping to keep that success rolling as they head to Edmonton for the Bev Facey Community High School senior basketball tournament on Friday and Saturday.

and the world sprint championship in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Wotherspoon, who was third in the 500-metres at the Canadian sprint championships, will only compete in the 500m along with Shannon Rempel of Winnipeg.

Canadian champion, and 2011 world sprint champion, Christine Nesbitt of London, Ont., will compete in both the 500 and 1,000m events along with Calgary’s Anastasia Bucsis and Kaylin Irvine. Brittany Schussler of Winnipeg and Kali Christ of Regina will compete in the 1,000m events.

The Calgary World Cup goes Jan. 19-20 with the world championships Jan. 26-27.

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Nash said he tweaked his back in the game, but that he was OK. “It’s really hard to enjoy it right now,” Nash said of the assists.

“I don’t want to discredit it, or not appreciate the company I share in this milestone, but right now it’s the farthest thing from my mind. We’re just trying to find a way to win one game.”

The Lakers, who lost their fourth straight to fall to 15-19, are in 11th place in the Western Conference.

“I thought we had the better team,” World Peace said. “We definitely had the better team, but every night we have the better team and it’s just not translating to wins.”

The Rockets have rallied from double-digit deficits for their last three wins. As usual, they did it on Tuesday night behind the strong play of Harden, who has scored at least 25 points in 13 straight games.

Howard has a torn labrum in his right shoulder, Gasol has a concussion and Hill a right hip injury. All three are out indefinitely.

Morneault’s 14 points. Claire Aspenses had 20 points for Stettler.

The Thurber senior boys team got an 80-36 win with Spencer Klassen scoring 20 points for Thurber.

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Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 26 8 .765 Portland 19 15 .559 Denver 20 16 .556 Minnesota 16 15 .516 Utah 18 18 .500

Pts PIM 19 8 18 2 17 20 15 4 14 0 14 14 13 10 13 2 12 23 12 2 12 8 12 20 12 10 12 10

Thurber teams get wins over Stettler Both Lindsay Thurber senior high basketball teams scored big wins against Stettler on Wednesday.

The Senior girls team won 77-44 behind Amy Whitesell’s 15 points and Mikayla

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 27 10 .730 — Memphis 22 10 .688 2 1/2 Houston 21 14 .600 5 Dallas 13 22 .371 13 New Orleans 9 25 .265 16 1/2

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Friday’s games Brandon at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Regina, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Red Deer at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.

Lethbridge at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Kamloops at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Spokane at Portland, 8 p.m.

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

Victoria at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

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Jays introduce new ace Dickey

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Last month, the Toronto Blue Jays had a 72-hour window to work out a new deal with R.A. Dickey to close out a trade with the New York Mets for the veteran right-hander.

General manager Alex Anthopoulos pitched his vision of what the Blue Jays would be now and in the future. Dickey immediately liked what he heard.

“I was all in right then,” Dickey said. “I think this can be a special few years for this city, for the country and all the players here.”

Dickey agreed to a two-year contract extension worth US$25 million with a club option for 2016. He will be an anchor in a much-improved starting rotation that will likely include Josh Johnson, Mark Buehrle and incumbents Brandon Morrow and Ricky Romero.

Dickey was all smiles Tuesday afternoon as he was formally introduced by the team at a packed news conference at Rogers Centre. For the next 40 minutes, he eloquently weighed in on the peaks and valleys of the journey that brought him to this point.

The 38-year-old knuckleballer touched on highs like winning the 2012 National League Cy Young Award. He also discussed the challenge of baring his soul in an autobiography where he divulged he was twice the victim of sexual abuse while growing up.

With Dickey, there are no cliches, no bling and no attitude.

The friendly Nashville native sat attentively at the dais with his fingers intertwined, offering informative and thoughtful answers to a range of questions.

“For the longest time I kind of fought who I was and I’m thankful that I’ve been able to live through that into a period where I enjoy embracing who I feel like I am,” Dickey said. “That’s taken a lot of encouragement and a lot of hard work.

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Pitcher R.A. Dickey shakes hands with Toronto Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos before a news conference in Toronto on Tuesday as the Toronto Blue Jays introduce the newest addition to their roster.

“What you see is what you get. The hope is that none of it is ever manufactured.”

Dickey broke into the majors with the Texas Rangers in 2001 and bounced between triple-A and the major leagues for years. He settled in with the Mets in 2010 and posted impressive numbers over three straight seasons, capped by his 20-6 effort last year to go with a sparkling 2.73 earned-run average.

It took him years to make the conversion from regular pitcher to fulltime knuckleballer. Dickey recalled throwing his first “really good knuckleball” in the big leagues in 2005 with the Rangers against Raul Ibanez.

“It didn’t rotate a smidgen and he swung, his helmet fell off and he went down to his back knee and I remember thinking, ’This is kind of fun you know,”’ Dickey said with a smile. “Of course the next pitch I think was hit

over the fence.

“But the point being that was the first kind of glimpse.”

He developed true consistency with the slow-moving, fluttering pitch in late 2009 and it became a true weapon for him with the Mets in 2010. Dickey’s eyes lit up when he talked about using different speeds and making slight changes to his knuckleball in the future.

“That’s what’s so fun about the pitch, is that I still have more to learn,” he said. “I’m still hungry and passionate about my craft.”

Dickey originally hoped to sign a contract extension with New York but the two sides could not reach an agreement. After the trade, he thanked the Mets and their fans in a letter published in the New York Daily News.

Josh Thole and Mike Nickeas also joined the Blue Jays in the deal with John Buck, Wuilmer Becerra and highly-touted prospects Travis d’Arnaud and Noah Syndergaard going to the Mets. It was a price Anthopoulos was willing to pay.

“Guys like this don’t come around very often,” he said.

Toronto hasn’t made the playoffs in almost two decades. The Blue Jays are coming off a 73-89 season but Anthopoulos has dramatically reshaped the roster this off-season.

Dickey said it will be fun to call himself a Canadian for six months of the year and is looking forward to playing on a team that will be expected to contend in the American League East.

He has made a few visits to Rogers Centre over his career and said he would often think about the stadium’s history when he entered the park, including Joe Carter’s memorable World Series-winning home run in 1993.

“It was always a place that offered good pedigree and it had a legacy,” he said. “I think one of the hopes is that we’re going to get back to that place.”

IIHF hoping to keep NHLers in the Olympics

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NEW YORK — If NHL players are to continue participating in the Olympics, it’s going to involve a delicate political dance.

The issue was not resolved as part of the tentative collective bargaining agreement reached by the NHL and NHL Players’ Association early Sunday morning and will now need to be hammered out between those parties and two others with strong ties to Rene Fasel — the International Ice Hockey Federation, of which Fasel is president, and the International Olympic Committee, of which he is an influential member.

It’s been clear for some time the NHL is seeking to receive more of a direct benefit for closing its doors every four years in February and handing over its most important assets. The tension was evident when NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and Fasel held a joint press conference at the 2010 Vancouver Games and Bettman lamented being nothing more than an “invited guest” at the Olympics with no say in how the event was run.

Fasel has stepped lightly around the issue ever since and acknowledged to The Canadian Press on Tuesday that he’s prepared to start addressing some of the NHL’s concerns soon.

“Once the CBA is ratified and there has been some cooling-down period, we will sit together with the IOC, the NHL and NHLPA to find solutions how to make sure that Sochi 2014 becomes the fifth consecutive best-on-best Olympic event,” said Fasel.

“As I have always pointed (out) whenever asked questions about NHL players’ participation, our doors are always open and I am confident that we will find ways — like we did in Nagano, Salt Lake

City, Turin and Vancouver — to stage this event on the biggest sporting stage there is.”

The NHL is expected to continue making a big international push over the course of its new CBA, as evidenced by an article devoted to that topic in the document.

Not only does it include a clause saying every team in the league has to make at least one international trip before the deal expires in 2022, but there is also a section covering “new international business ventures.”

That is the only place where Olympic participation is mentioned, which is unusual since the Games have not been a money-making venture for the league. Essentially, the NHL has provided the players while the IOC reaped the financial benefits.

Now the NHL is looking to get a little more out of that relationship.

According to sources, the changes it is expected to seek range from smaller issues such as access to tickets, hotels and better hospitality for team owners to larger things like sponsor recognition and a loosening of the IOC’s notoriously strict guidelines on images, video and media.

This is where it could get tricky for Fasel, who heads up the IOC’s winter sports committee and is rumoured to be interested in running for that organization’s presidency later in the year. He would obviously love to see the NHLers return, but at what cost? And if the IOC was to loosen some of its rules for the NHL, what kind of trickle-down effect might that have for pro tennis and basketball players?

Another highly interested party in the process is Hockey Canada president Bob Nicholson, who recently became a vice-president with the IIHF. He’s also expected to be included in meetings regarding the future of NHLers and the Olympics, which could

start at some point in the next few weeks.

“This is so important for all of us — Hockey Canada, the IIHF, the NHL — to grow our brands and more importantly to grow hockey,” said Nicholson.

With the start of the Sochi Games less than 13 months away, there isn’t much time for all of the interested stakeholders to strike a deal. The discussions will get underway quickly.

Interestingly, this is an issue where the NHL and NHLPA form a united front. Donald Fehr, the union’s executive director, believes strongly in trying to grow the sport internationally and knows a number of his players are interested in continuing to be part of the Olympics.

Bettman will be under some pressure from NBC, which holds both the NHL and Olympic national TV rights in the U.S. There is also the strong possibility high-profile Russian players would bolt the NHL if it attempted to keep them from playing in an Olympics on home soil. So the NHL is open to continued participation in the Games, but at what cost?

Back at that memorable press conference with Bettman and Fasel in Vancouver — which the NHL was unable to show on the NHL Network, for example — the commissioner offered a quick retort when Fasel suggested his primary interest in the Olympics was business.

“I will respectfully disagree with my good friend,” said Bettman. “This costs us money, this disrupts our season, we don’t make any money off of it. We are here because we believe it’s good for the game. ...

“We have turned over for two weeks control of the most important assets in our game — and that’s our players. Nobody should underestimate for a second the fact that we do that, and the players want us to do that, because we think this is important for the game.”

RGIII to have right Pacers’ defence holds off Heat Grizzlys suffer knee surgery another loss in Brooks

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WASHINGTON — Robert Griffin III is having surgery Wednesday on a torn ligament in his right knee — and to see if there’s a second ligament that also needs to be repaired.

Baylor coach Art Briles confirmed to USA Today and The Associated Press on Tuesday night that the Washington Redskins rookie has a torn lateral collateral ligament. He said the surgery also will determine whether Griffin has damaged the ACL in that knee.

A person close to Griffin, speaking on condition of anonymity because the Redskins have not made an announcement, also confirmed the details surrounding Griffin’s injury to the AP. A torn LCL requires a rehabilitation period of several months, possibly extending into training camp and the start of next season. A torn ACL is a more severe injury, typically requiring nine to 12 months of recovery, although Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson make a remarkable return this season some eight months after tearing an ACL — and nearly broke the NFL’s single-season rushing record.

Griffin tore his ACL in the same knee while playing for Baylor in the third game of the 2009 season and missed the rest of the year. He was injured on the opening drive against Northwestern State but kept playing until halftime.

Griffin came back to win the Heisman Trophy two years later, and Briles predicted a similar recovery this time.

Griffin sprained the LCL last month against the Baltimore Ravens and missed one game. He returned wearing a bulky black brace for subsequent games and reinjured the knee at least twice in Sunday’s playoff loss to the Seattle Seahawks, prompting a national debate over whether coach Mike Shanahan endangered his franchise player’s career by not taking him out sooner.

The Redskins said an MRI taken after the game was inconclusive, so Griffin flew to Florida on Tuesday for a more detailed examination conducted by orthopedist James Andrews. Andrews will perform the surgery Wednesday.

Pacers 88 Heat 77 INDIANAPOLIS — Paul George made no attempt to downplay the importance of his matchup with LeBron James.

“It’s a chance to for me to see where I’m at, going against one of the best, if not, the best in the league,” George said. “Another challenge to myself to go at LeBron. I definitely wanted to battle him.”

George rose to the occasion with 29 points and 11 rebounds, and the Pacers held Miami to a season-low point total in an 87-77 win over the Heat on Tuesday night. George has moved from shooting guard to small forward and has become a primary scoring option with Danny Granger, Indiana’s leading scorer last season, out all season because of a left knee injury.

Indiana’s 22-year-old forward has earned James’ respect for the way he has handled his new responsibilities.

“I see him playing with a lot of confidence and a lot of opportunities,” James said. “The simple fact that Danny Granger is hurt has created this opportunity for him to show what he can do. He’s doing everything. He was a good player last year, but we weren’t able to see it because he wasn’t a featured player.”

David West added 14 points and 11 rebounds, and Lance Stephenson chipped in with 13 points for the Pacers (21-14), who have won 11 of their last 14 games.

Dwyane Wade scored 30 points and James had 22 points and 10 rebounds for Miami (23-10), which still has the best record in the Eastern Conference.

It was the first time the teams had met since Miami beat the Pacers in six games in the conference semifinals last year.

The Pacers outrebounded the Heat 55-36 to help make up for 36 per cent shooting.

“That was a big emphasis tonight,” George said. “Miami is a team that, for as good as they are, they struggle with rebounding. We knew that coming in.

We knew that we had to get the boards.

And we’re bigger. We’re a big team.”

George had gone 8 for 29 in his previous two games, but he broke out of his slump by making 12 of 27 shots against Miami.

Miami entered the game leading the NBA in field goal percentage, while Indiana led the league in field goal percentage defence. The matchup resulted in the Heat scoring only 35 points in the second half, their lowest-scoring half of the season.

“Offensively, we did not have a very fluid game on that side of the court,” Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said. “I’ll have to take care of that tomorrow.”

Indiana led 38-28 in the second quarter before the Heat rallied late in the half. Wade hit a 3-pointer to cut Indiana’s lead to 38-37, and a putback

by James gave the Heat the lead. The teams were tied at 42 at halftime. Wade scored 23 points in the first half, including 16 in the second quarter.

The Heat found their offensive flow in the early minutes of the second half.

A 3-pointer by Mario Chalmers gave the Heat a 51-44 lead and caused the Pacers to call a timeout, but Indiana rallied. Stephenson found West in the corner for a 3-pointer, then Stephenson made a 3-pointer to give the Pacers a 55-53 lead.

George made consecutive 3-pointers to make it 67-57 at the end of the quarter. The Pacers made 5 of 8 from 3-point range in the period. Miami scored just 15 points on 7-for-18 shooting in the third and Wade went scoreless.

George opened the fourth with a jumper over James to expand Indiana’s lead to 12, and Ian Mahinmi’s putback bumped it to 14. Another 3 by George made it 77-60 with about 8 minutes to go, and the Pacers remained comfortably ahead the rest of the way.

AJHL BROOKS — Anthony Paskaruk scored twice as the Brooks Bandits skinned the Olds Grizzlys 6-0 in an Alberta Junior Hockey League game Tuesday.

Also scoring for the powerhouse Bandits, who improved to 37-1-1, were Patrick Lee, Mark Reners, Nick Newman and RJ Reed.

Brooks led 1-0 after one period and 3-0 after 40 minutes.

Michael Fredrick stopped 17 shots for the shutout. Ethan Jemieff, who came in at the start of the third period, and starter Jake Tamagi combined to make 32 saves for Olds.

The Grizzlys, who suffered their 12th straight loss and sit seventh in the eight-team South Division with a 15-27-3 record, host the Calgary Mustangs Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Sportsplex.

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HEARTS OF HARMONY A women’s a cappella singing group invites new members to join its ranks. Hearts of Harmony welcomes women interested in four-part harmony while enjoying the camaraderie of others.

The group is a chapter of Sweet Adelines International. Heaerts of Harmony rehearses Monday nights from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at Davenport Church of Christ at 68 Donlevy Ave. More information is available at www. heartsofharmony.ca or by calling director Sheryl Brook, 403-742-4218.

FLOWER FOCUS Icelandic flora is the subject of a Red Deer Garden Club presentation on Jan. 17. The wildflowers of Iceland, the country’s geography and animals will be covered at the club’s next meeting. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre. More information is available online at www. reddeergardenclub.ca/ Meetings.php.

Towns’ bus service stalls LACOMBE, BLACKFALDS WAITING FOR TRANSPORT GRANTS

BY RANDY FIEDLER ADVOCATE STAFF Bus service between Lacombe and Blackfalds is stalled.

The communities can’t launch a planned service to Red Deer until the province calls for new public transit application grants.

“We’ve been taking the time to get everything in line, but this is all very much contingent on the province,” said Guy Lapointe, City of Lacombe’s community economic development manager.

A joint submission for the $1-million regional transit system awaits a second call for provincial funds from the Green Transit Incentives Program (GreenTRIP) which awards one-time capital funding to expand public transportation. The municipalities want two- thirds of the funds, about $750,000, to help buy two 39-seat buses and run them between Lacombe, Blackfalds and Red Deer.

The two municipalities would pay remaining capital costs of $175,000 each and once running, each municipality would

split costs, estimated at $150,000 to $175,000 annually. The City of Red Deer Transit Department would hire drivers and maintain and house the buses.

Since the provincial $2-billion GreenTRIP program was announced in 2010, a dozen grants have been made including $12 million for 40 new Red Deer Transit lowfloor buses.

“They’ve always said there’ll be a second intake and we haven’t heard it yet,” said Lapointe.

Alberta Transportation spokesman John Lear said there’s no word on when new applications will be accepted.

“It’s up to the minister to determine when the second call will come.”

Both Lear and Lapointe said few firstround applications were received for GreenTRIP’s $400 million allocated to rural communities outside Edmonton and Calgary, which each received $800 million.

Even if provincial funding comes soon, it will still be 2014 before the service starts.

“The procurement process would take about a year,” said Lapointe, referring to buying the two $450,000 buses and building

the seven to eight stops in each community.

That timeline didn’t stop Blackfalds from budgeting $166,000 in operating funds and $31,000 in capital funds this year.

“We wanted to be prepared for it,” said Blackfalds mayor Melodie Stol.

“We just hope the province will come through and support us.”

Stol said while it’s important for commuters to get to Red Deer Transit’s downtown Sorensen Station, it’s equally so for workers getting to Blackfalds.

“A lot of people would use it and we’ve been working with Cord Worley Parsons, our largest employer, to design routes to best accommodate their employees.”

Lacombe mayor Steve Christie has said he hopes workers from Agriculture Financial Services Corporation, Lacombe’s largest employer, who live in Red Deer would use the service.

Lapointe said schedules would benefit Lacombe residents wanting to get around town, not just to and from Red Deer.

“Canadian University College students could access town better.” rfiedler@reddeeradvocate.com

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Justice film fest coming FILMS RAISE QUESTIONS AND SHINE LIGHT ON INJUSTICE

ROBBIE BURNS Central Albertans have three opportunities to celebrate the birth of Robbie Burns over the next month, all thanks to Royal Canadian Legion branches. Red Deer Branch 35 hosts its supper on Jan. 19 with cocktails at 6 p.m., followed by dinner and highland dancing.

Tickets are $30 each and available at the Legion or by calling 403-342-0035. Sylvan Lake Branch 212 hosts its event on Jan. 23 with the haggis piped in at 6:15 p.m., followed by a roast beef dinner and Scottish country dancing. Tickets are $25 each, must be purchased by Jan. 19 by calling 403-8872601. Innisfail Branch 104 hosts its supper on Feb. 1, starting at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 each and available from the Legion, the Innisfail Pipe Band or St. Andrews Presbyterian Church or by calling 403-728-3086. Robbie Burns was born on Jan. 25, 1759, and is Scotland’s best known and loved poet.

CORRECTION An incorrect date for an upcoming public hearing on proposed changes regarding tree farms to Lacombe County’s Municipal Development Plan appeared in a Dec. 15 Advocate article. The hearing takes place at 9:15 a.m. on Thursday at Lacombe County council chambers.

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Each domain will decide on a speaker who will meet with each other, as well as the speakers from the Women’s counsel, elders counsel and youth counsel, as well as a male and female representative.

This leadership circle is where the consensus decisionmaking process takes place.

These speakers will work with each other to discuss decision making.

Films that raise questions and shine a light on injustice will be the focus of a three-day festival in Red Deer.

The fifth annual Justice Film Festival, organized by the Hearts of Women group, showcases social problems around the world and even here at home. After each movie a speaker is brought in to lead discussions.

“It increases awareness of a number of social justice issues,” said Karen Horsley, a member of the Hearts of Women.

“People begin to talk about it amongst their family and friends and before you know it a lot of times that can actually initiate action or get people to feel like they want to do something.”

The Red Deer Justice Film Festival is a satellite of the Marda Loop Film Festival out of Calgary. “We put a lot of time into our selection process,” said Horsely. “We try to make sure we cover a wide variety of topics and that some are local and some are international.”

The festival runs from Jan. 17 to 19 at the Red Deer College Margaret Parsons Theatre. On Jan. 17, the films are shown from 6 to 9:30 p.m., on Jan. 18 they are shown from 6 to 9:15 p.m. and on Jan. 19 they are shown from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. with 10 films being shown in all.

With films ranging in topics from universal health care to debt to prosecuting international war criminals, Horsley said it is tough to single a few films out. But she said the opener, on Jan. 17 at 6 p.m. is one that is interesting, War in the Mind, as it deals with post-traumatic stress disorder.

“It’s certainly an issue I think people are reluctant to talk about,” said Horsley. “We have a renowned speaker coming, Marvin Westwood, and he’s featured in the film. We’re very excited to have him come to lead the post film discussion.”

Westood is a professor in the counselling psychology program at the University of British Columbia and associate member of that university’s faculty of medicine. He is responsible for the development and evaluation of UBC’s veterans transition program.

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Heritage Ranch wrangler Joanne Nicole gets quarter horses Blaze and Connor ready to pull the Limo Carriage for a ride at the ranch on Tuesday. Heritage Ranch is offering their Winter Night Lights rides through the park at the Ranch through the winter with a special emphasis on Valentines Day when they will add 5,000 more lights to the trail around the ranch. To book a Winter Night Lights tour contact the ranch at 403-3474977 or go on-line to www.heritageranch.ca

Society seeking input into urban aboriginal issues CONFERENCE TO HELP GUILD GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF In an effort to develop a governance structure, the Urban Aboriginal Voices Society is holding a conference looking for input from a wide cross-section of Red Deer’s aboriginal community.

“It’s a consultation with the aboriginal community,” said Phyllis Redcalf, urban aboriginal voices interim leadership committee co-ordinator.

“We’re trying to establish the domain groups and the speaker from each domain group and our objectives.”

The society aims to meet regularly with different levels of government to create dialogue, action and funding for issues affecting urban

‘WE’RE TRYING TO ESTABLISH THE DOMAIN GROUPS AND THE SPEAKER FROM EACH DOMAIN GROUP AND OUR OBJECTIVES.’ — PHYLLIS REDCALF

aboriginals.

Aboriginal people throughout the community are invited to the event, Jan. 26 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to discuss the development of the society’s governance structure and the goals and objectives of each domain within it.

The governance structure has domains as groups representing housing, education, health, employment, youth and family, justice and community healing centre.

Preliminary hearing starts in murder, dumping of body The preliminary hearing opened on Tuesday for a man accused of murdering a young woman and then dumping her body near Innisfail.

Dana Jane Turner was 31 when she was reported missing from her home in Fort Saskatchewan in August 2011. Her remains were found in a rural area near Innisfail on Oct. 9 of that year.

Mark Damien Lindsay, 25, was arrested last March, accused of killing Turner, dumping her body and interfering with police investigators.

Lindsay, who remains in custody, plead-

ed not guilty on May 8 to charges of seconddegree murder, interfering with remains and obstructing police. He asked to be tried by a Court of Queen’s Bench judge and jury, with a preliminary hearing to be held before proceeding to trial.

Turner’s mother, Wendy Yurko, was among the people who sat in the gallery for the first day of the Red Deer provincial court hearing, which is scheduled for five days over the next three weeks and ending on Feb. 1.

Lindsay was seated behind glass in the prisoner’s box, fidgeting and frequently

squirming or rocking back and forth in his chair during testimony.

A number of witnesses have been scheduled to testify during Lindsay’s hearing, which is being held before Judge Bert Skinner.

Mark Damien Lindsay is the adopted son of John Lindsay, former chief of the Edmonton Police Service.

Preliminary hearings are used to determine whether charges are to proceed to trial.

There is a publication ban on all evidence brought forward during the hearing.

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BRIEFS Sex assault suspect hunted Red Deer City RCMP have released a sketch of a suspect wanted for an alleged sexual assault earlier this month.

The suspect is described as a Caucasian man in his mid 20s with light brown hair and wearing blue jeans and a black winter coat. The assault took place at about 5:15 a.m. on New Year’s Day in downtown Red Deer.

Sexual RCMP also released assault a photo of an elephantsuspect shaped marijuana pipe the man dropped at the scene.

Members of the public with any information are asked to contact RCMP at (403) 343-5575 or through Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online at www.tipsubmit.com.

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Blackfalds market shifts Changes are coming to the Blackfalds Farmer’s Market.

Weekly markets will be held on Thursdays instead of Mondays when they resume this spring.

They’ll also be held outdoors at the Multiplex rather than indoors, and run from 3 to 7 p.m.

Market manager Tristina Branconnier said the changes were made after customer and vendor surveys indicated Mondays weren’t good days and the market needed to be open later to accommodate the post-work crowd.

She’s also seeking vendors, including those selling fresh baked goods, local produce, B.C. fruit and ready-to-eat foods from a cart.

In addition to the weekly event from mid-May through late September, holiday markets are also held in October, November and December.

61 fraud charges for man A Red Deer man now faces 61 charges of fraud under $5,000.

Crown prosecutors allege that as many as 2,000 people may have given donations to Phillip Wiggins, 37, in the belief that the money was going to the Canadian Cancer Society.

Arrested on Dec. 22, Wiggins was brought in from the Red Deer Remand Centre for court on Tuesday, represented by Red Deer lawyer Walter Kubanek.

Each of the 61 charges laid so far represents one of the people affected in the alleged fraud, Crown prosecutor Murray McPherson told Judge Gordon Deck.

McPherson said there will likely be more charges laid and that investigators are still trying to work out details.

Wiggins did not enter a plea on Tuesday and is expected back in court today to address the status of his bail.

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FILM: Present hope Another film, The Fourth World, features Hearts of Women member Alma Funk leading the post film discussion. “She has just retired and is now working part time for International Needs Canada,� said Horsely. “Immediately following the festival she is off to Kenya and continuing the work. We feel really fortunate to have someone in our group who is able to speak to one of the films and is really passionate about it.�

Funk worked as a community nursing instructor at Red Deer College for 20 years before her retirement and the film she will lead the discussion on afterwards will be shown on Jan. 19 at 6:30 p.m.

While the films focus on highlighting issues, the hope is people react and want to do something about it. “They often present some unsettling issues,� said Horsley. “But I think there is also a lot of hope that is portrayed in a lot of the films.�

While the festival is free to attend, the organization asks for donations on entry and relies on sponsors to run the event, now in its fifth year.

Members of the Lindsay Thurber jazz choir Take Note rehears at the school in preparation for their concert this Friday at the Red Deer College Arts Centre. The evening of vocal music in a variety of styles from jazz, world, rock and pop will feature songs from the Beatles to Latin jazz. Special guest 6 Minute Warning from Edmonton will also perform at the concert which goes at 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. on the mainstage at the Arts Centre. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased through any Choir or Band student at LTCHS, or by phoning Kala (403) 302-0508.

Tickets will also be available at the door.

Arraignment adjourned Arraignment has been adjourned for one more month for a Bashaw mother accused of trying to kill her husband and children.

The 42-year-old woman, whose name is withheld to protect the identities of her children, was charged with attempted murder and arson after a fire just before Christmas 2010.

In Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Monday, Crown prosecutor Anders Quist said his office would like to further investigate the woman’s mental health to determine whether she can be held criminally responsible for the actions she is alleged to have taken.

Defence counsel Brian Beresh is to return to court with his client on Feb. 4.

Diverse housing pushed The Town of Sundre has rolled out a tax incentive to encourage housing diversity.

Starting this year, those who spend money on property improvements for rental or multiple-family units are eligible for a break on their municipal taxes.

Under the new policy, property owners will get a reduction on the tax levy applied to the improvements for up to two years.

Town chief administrative officer Dean Pickering said the policy is aimed at boosting the number of rental All donated funds go to next year’s festival.

Horsley said that while the films are aimed to raise awareness, people can do a part to change by acting locally while thinking globally. “I think it is important that people realize action could be something very simple like volunteering at the food bank, sponsoring a child or, if you want to take on a bigger role, volunteering with an NGO (nongovernmental organization,� said Horsley. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

FORT MACLEOD — Residents of a southern Alberta community say they are concerned over the unexpected closure of one of two health clinics.

The Fort Macleod Family Medical Clinic shut down Friday and employees say it will remain so indefinitely.

The circumstances surrounding the closure are unclear, but Dr. Steven Beekman says there aren’t enough doctors in town.

Beekman is now one of only two physicians practising in Fort Macleod.

He expects to see an increase of people in the hospital’s emergency department as a result of the clinic closing.

Alberta Health Services says it is working to recruit more doctors, but for now the community will need to

entered into a prize draw for a gift basket.

Team champions and leads are invited to attend a Breakfast of Champions Jan. 21 at 7:30 a.m. at the Red Deer Lodge. RSVP required.

Prize draws will be held for those who make it to a certain place on time as well as recognition and prizes for the adult male and female showing the most improvement each month. Everyone who completes the trek will also be entered into a draw.

Bear spray case to trial

Travel to the Hawaiian islands without leaving Red Deer starting Jan. 11th.

The Red Deer Primary Care Network’s Hawaiian Islands Trek welcomes team and individual registrations for its annual three-month winter activity.

Register a team by calling 403-3439100 and talking to Jeff or Bonnie.

Once you’ve named your team name and team champion or lead, recruit a minimum of five friends and co-workers to join the team.

Then go online to www.reddeerpcn. com and click on the TREK link to register team members and log steps around the Hawaiian islands.

Those registered by Friday will be

A man accused of hitting two people with bear spray during a bank robbery in Red Deer will go to trial in March.

Dustin Aaron Clark, 35, pleaded not guilty in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Monday to charges arising from an incident in which police allege that a disguised man armed with bear spray entered the TD Canada Trust branch in the Village Mall and demanded cash.

Represented by defence counsel Norman Clair, Clark is to be tried in Red Deer Court of Queen’s bench on charges including armed robbery, assault with a weapon, wearing a disguise to commit a criminal offence, theft under $5,000 for a pair of prescription glasses and mischief in relation to a broken windscreen.

Clark remains in custody pending a bail hearing, to be heard at a later date.

His trial is set for judge alone on March 19 through 21.

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ABORIGINAL: Ideas Redcalf said an important part to this for the society is consensus building on ideas. “It’s the way we hope it will work,� said Redcalf. “That is how they make decisions within the group.�

Redcalf said the different domains would work to benefit aboriginals in Central Alberta in their various needs such as housing, education, employment opportunities or health. “To be able to voice our community priorities and the things that are important to aboriginal people in our community,� said Redcalf.

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units and multi-family properties in the town.

An apartment building is under construction and some other projects are in the works, but adding a better housing mix is needed. “There’s a need for rental space in the community,� Pickering said, adding starter homes are also in short supply.

Housing in town runs from older homes at a reasonable price or new homes at a price too high for many seniors or families just starting out. “We don’t have that much in the middle,� he said.

It is also hoped the incentive will help boost housing density.

Similar incentives have proven effective in other communities, he said.

rely on outside help. “Currently there are not adequate numbers of family physicians for us to recruit, so we are actively recruiting a few from small rural communities as well as Lethbridge and Medicine Hat,� said AHS spokesman Vanessa Maclean. “It was not of the desire of the physicians that worked there to close (the clinic),� Beekman said. “They were forced to do so by events that were beyond their control.�

Consequences will be many, he suggested. “A lot of people have needs that can only be met by a doctor that ... sees them on a regular basis. Many have chronic illnesses. Many have prescriptions that need regular refilling, so that is going to increase our workload significantly if we can’t find doctors.�

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Last Alberta First Nations bands to take federal Alberta government to court over budget bills drive-in TWO BANDS FILED COURT DOCUMENTS SEEKING REVIEW OF OMNIBUS LEGISLATION screen taken down of Canada.”

First Nations frustration has manifested itself across Canada in the form of the Idle No More protest movement, which seeks to push back against the Conservatives for threatening their treaty rights as set out in the Constitution.

The protests, ranging from temporary rail blockades and border closures to shoppingmall flash mobs, have drawn inspiration from Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence and her efforts to secure a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Spence — who has been on a liquid diet since Dec. 11 — is camped out on an island in the Ottawa River, where she has kept a low profile since a scathing audit was released earlier this week showing a lack of documentation for tens of millions of dollars in spending on her remote northern Ontario reserve.

Harper agreed last week to meet Friday with aboriginal leaders. Spence had also been requesting a meeting with Gov. Gen. David Johnston, but Rideau Hall said Tuesday that Johnston would not be there.

Harper acknowledged the

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THE CANADIAN PRESS REDCLIFF — The screen from the last remaining drive-in theatre in Alberta has been taken down.

The old Gemini Drive-in near Redcliff near Medicine Hat closed in 2005.

Owner Greg Niwa was trying to find someone who would move the screen from his property but keep it in the area, but there were no takers.

He says it probably came down to people not knowing what to do with such a big piece.

The screen is bound for Wetaskiwin, where a buyer plans to make use of it near the Edmonton International Raceway.

Niwa’s company is building a 1,400-square-metre office and shop.

OTTAWA — Another day, another set of new aboriginal challenges for the Harper government.

Two First Nations from Alberta filed court documents Tuesday seeking a judicial review of controversial Conservative omnibus budget legislation that makes significant changes to environmental protection and assessment.

The Federal Court challenge from the Mikisew Cree and Frog Lake First Nations came amid a politically charged atmosphere in Ottawa, where a showdown is brewing between the government and the country’s aggrieved Aboriginal Peoples.

The bands want the Federal Court to review parts of Bill C-38 and Bill C-45, focusing particularly on changes to the Fisheries Act and the Navigable Waters Protection Act. “They can’t ram bills down our throats and expect us to roll over and accept it,” Mikisew Chief Steve Courtoreille told a news conference.

“This is going to affect our future, affect the future of all

challenges facing many First Nations communities, but he said they also represent great opportunities.

“I know that in many aboriginal communities ... the challenges are very great, but the potential is very great as well,” Harper said.

“We do have, for the first time in our history, economic development on a large scale occurring near where many aboriginal people live. We have a shortage of labour and lots of opportunity, and we want to make sure that those opportunities are available for aboriginal people and prosperity is available for them as we move forward.”

The government will continue to push forward with “legislation and other means,” he added.

That’s precisely the problem, said Courtoreille: it’s the federal government’s job to protect aboriginal land, but its budget implementation bills suggest Ottawa has no intention of living up to that responsibility. Instead, the government is off-loading environmental oversight to the provinces, which will not allow concerns from First Nations

communities to be adequately addressed, he added.

Mike Winterburn, a spokesman for Transport Minister Denis Lebel, defended the government’s approach.

“The government examines the constitutionality of all legislation before it is introduced,” Winterburn said in an email. “Mayors and city councils across the country asked for these changes and have been overwhelmingly supportive.”

The court challenge, indeed, appeared to be the lesser of the government’s two First Nations headaches Tuesday.

In a long-awaited written decision, the Federal Court declared Metis and non-status Indians to indeed be “Indians” under a section of the Constitution Act, which places them under federal jurisdiction.

The decision places added pressure on Harper to rethink the way in which Ottawa deals with the more than 600,000 aboriginal people who are not affiliated with specific reserves and have no access to First Nations programs, services and rights.

The government is expected to appeal the ruling.

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Daniel Day-Lewis, center, as Abraham Lincoln, in a scene from the film, ‘Lincoln.’ Day-Lewis, who plays the 16th president in Steven Spielberg’s epic film biography ‘Lincoln’, settled on a higher, softer voice, saying it’s more true to descriptions of how the man actually spoke.

Spielberg, Affleck, Bigelow, Hooper, Lee nab Directors Guild nominations

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Steven Spielberg has extended his domination at the Directors Guild of America Awards, earning a nomination Tuesday for his Civil War epic Lincoln to pad the record he already held to 11 film nominations from the guild.

Also nominated were past winners Kathryn Bigelow for her Osama bin Laden thriller Zero Dark Thirty; Tom Hooper for his musical Les Miserables; and Ang Lee for his lost-at-sea story Life of Pi. Rounding out the Directors Guild lineup is first-time nominee Ben Affleck for his Iran hostagecrisis tale Argo.

“The privilege of making Lincoln, combined with this absolutely tremendous recognition from my peers, is humbling,” Spielberg said in a statement.

“I thank everyone for including me on this short list of extremely unique and gifted filmmakers.”

The Directors Guild field is one of Hollywood’s most-accurate forecasts for who will be in the running at the Academy Awards, whose nominations come out Thursday.

The winner at the Directors Guild almost always goes on to win the directing prize at the Oscars, too.

Only six times in the 64-year history of the guild awards has the winner there failed to follow up with an Oscar.

Besides the record number of feature-film nominations, Spielberg also has won the Directors Guild prize a record three times, for The Color Purple, Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan, along with directing Oscars for the latter two.

He received the guild’s lifetime-achievement award in 2000.

Bigelow became the first woman ever to win the guild honour and the directing Oscar three years ago for The Hurt Locker.

Hooper won the same prizes a

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Alan Arkin, left, and actor-director Ben Affleck on the set of ‘Argo.’

Affleck was nominated Tuesday for a Directors Guild of America award for the film. year later for The King’s Speech, while Lee is a two-time guild winner for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain, the latter also earning him the directing Oscar.

Affleck, who also stars in Argo, follows such actors-turned-filmmakers as Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner and Mel Gibson to earn a Directors Guild nomination.

Overlooked by the guild were past nominees Quentin Tarantino for his slave-revenge tale Django Unchained and David O. Russell for his oddball romance Silver Linings Playbook.

The film that receives the Directing Guild prize typically also goes on to win the best-picture Oscar, a prize Spielberg has earned only once, for Schindler’s List.

No clear front-runner has emerged yet for the Feb. 24 Os-

cars, with Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty and Les Miserables all considered strong prospects to take home Hollywood’s highest honour.

Sunday’s Golden Globes will help sort out the Oscar picture, as will the various guild prizes that will be handed out in late January and February on the run-up to the Academy Awards.

Winners for the 65th annual Directors Guild awards will be announced at a Hollywood dinner Feb. 2, with Kelsey Grammer as host for the second year in a row.

Milos Forman, a two-time Directors Guild winner for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus, will receive the group’s lifetime-achievement award.

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NEW YORK — Cougar Town makes its move from ABC to TBS on Tuesday, premiering its fourth season, and Busy Philipps couldn’t be happier.

The 33-year-old actress recalled in a recent interview how the cast was assured by creator and executive producer Bill Lawrence that the comedy wouldn’t be cancelled, but he couldn’t elaborate.

Some of her co-stars were taping TV pilots for other possible jobs, Philipps said.

“But I’m at ICM, which handled the deal with Cougar Town, and TBS, and (co-star and Lawrence’s wife) Christa Miller is also with them.

Both our agents were like, ‘No, you’re not gonna do any pilots.’ So that was a little suspicious.

They knew something we didn’t know.”

Lawrence has a history of keeping his critically acclaimed — but maybe not ratings-magnet — shows alive.

His comedy Scrubs aired for seven seasons on NBC before switching to ABC. With Cougar Town now on cable, Philipps said the writers are able to push the envelope a little more.

“There was one joke in particular by another character that Standards and Practices wouldn’t let us air when we were on network and I was so bummed when it was cut from the script and it made it into the show this year, so I was really excited about that.”

Still, she cautioned, Cougar Town is on a basic cable station.

“It’s not HBO. I’m not having True Blood-type sex scenes.”

Philipps said she enjoys showcasing her comedic chops.

“I was always a very quirky kid. I remember very early like fourth or fifth grade doing pratfalls to make my friends laugh, like falling on the ground on the playground and doing like bits and characters,” she said.

On Cougar Town, Philipps plays Laurie Keller, a real estate assistant to Courteney Cox’s Jules, who has infiltrated her group of friends.

She’s fun-loving, ditzy and has a history of one-

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Cougar Town actress Busy Philipps. night stands.

Philipps said she does “nerd out” by challenging herself to make each of Laurie’s outrageous stories or comments sound different from the one before.

The actress, who is expecting her second child, said the pregnancy has made her forgetful.

“I had a major case of pregnancy brain and had accidentally stolen my friend’s car keys and put them in my purse and left my cellphone at her house, and I was explaining to my husband in the kitchen that I needed him to go back and get my stuff, and my daughter (4-year-old Birdie), we didn’t even know she was listening, said, ‘Mama, I think that baby in your tummy is makin’ ya crazy.’ Perfectly sums it up!” she said.

Online: http://www.tbs.com/ shows/cougar-town/ Alicia Rancilio covers entertainment for The Associated Press. Follow her online at http://www.twitter.com/aliciar

Elvis Presley’s birthday remembered MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Elvis Presley fans from as far as Japan and Brazil gathered Tuesday in Memphis to sing Happy Birthday to the late rock ’n’ roll icon on the day he would have turned 78.

Hundreds of Elvis devotees watched as 13-yearold Isabella Scott cut a birthday cake on the lawn at Graceland, the singer’s longtime Memphis home.

Scott, of Bonifay, Fla., heads an Internet-based Elvis fan club with more than 2,000 members.

The mayors of Memphis and Shelby County also read a proclamation of Elvis Presley Day during the ceremony, which was attended by fans from Brazil, England, France, Japan, Spain and the U.S. Presley was born in Tupelo, Miss., on Jan. 8, 1935,

and moved to Memphis with his parents at age 13. He was 42 when he died Aug. 16, 1977.

Presley recorded his first song That’s All Right at Sun Studio in Memphis in 1954 and made the West Tennessee city his primary home until his death.

“Like coffee and cream, grits and gravy, peanut butter and bananas ... Memphis and Elvis is a combination that was just meant to be,” Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. told the crowd.

Fans have been celebrating since Saturday, when The Memphis Symphony Orchestra presented a concert commemorating the 40th anniversary of Elvis’ landmark “Aloha from Hawaii” show.

A new exhibit about Presley’s movies and concerts in Hawaii opened Tuesday at the Graceland tourist attraction, which is across the street from the mansion.

Documentary on Edmonton’s sex trade workers now on National Film Board of Canada site

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — An unflinching feature documentary on Edmonton’s sex trade workers is now available on the National Film Board of Canada’s website.

Who Cares, by Gemini Awardwinning filmmaker Rosie Dransfeld, can be purchased via Download to Own and Video on Demand at NFB.ca.

Told in cinema verite-style, the

film profiles several prostitutes facing addiction and violence in the neighbourhood where Dransfeld lives.

Cameras also capture the sex trade workers as they gather at a local pub to discuss their lives and dreams.

Anchoring the film is footage of an officer working for an RCMP Project Kare task force, which collects DNA samples from prostitutes and probes the unsolved

murders of women.

Who Cares, produced for the NFB by Bonnie Thompson, had its world premiere at Hot Docs in Toronto. It has since screened in Vancouver, Winnipeg and Edmonton.

On the NFB site, the film is priced at $2.95 for Video on Demand, $9.95 for regular download and $14.95 for HD download.

Online: nfb.ca/whocares

Jan, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19 & 31 Feb. 1 & 2 In the Nickle Studio at CAT Studios, Memorial Centre For this season, and down the hall from the Nickle Studio, Central Alberta Theatre has turned our member’s lounge into the ambient, BREAK-A-LEG BAR, where you can sit prior to the show and at intermission, and enjoy a cocktail or a coffee, or whatever you choose! We hope this new space will help make your evening at CAT an even more memorable one!

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Mom should be setting sensible boundaries Dear Annie: I am a 56-year-old male dating a womHowever, this is also a time when Mom should be an with a 13-year-old son. We plan to marry in the setting sensible boundaries and gently discouraging near future. too much intimacy.

The boy has no relationship with his father and is Some boys can confuse their love for Mom with very fond of me, as I am of him. The problem is that their developing sexual feelings. Please approach he’s a mama’s boy. I think he is jealous of me. this carefully. Suggest that the two of you talk to He competes for his mother’s attention the boy’s pediatrician about appropriate and goes so far as to crawl into bed with behavior, and make sure your girlfriend us in the morning in order to snuggle with understands that her son’s long-term best her. When we sit on the sofa, he joins us interests must take precedence. and places his mother’s arm around his For information and assistance, we sugneck as if to say, “Hey, what about me?” gest the National Stepfamily Resource I’ve tried to ignore this behavior, but it Center at stepfamilies.info. is starting to wear on me.

Dear Annie: I married a wonderful widMy girlfriend sees nothing wrong with ower nine months ago. We are both in our it, saying they have always been close and 60s, and he treats me like a queen. it’s always been just the two of them. But “Vern’s” previous marriage of 34 years I think this isn’t quite right. I want her was a great one. When we married, he had son to grow up a bit. lots of photos of his late wife. He thoughtI raised three children and never exfully removed them, but what upsets me is MITCHELL perienced this type of thing with my kids. that he put a lot of them, including their & SUGAR I feel she needs to do something to curb wedding picture, in his home office where this behavior. he spends 40 hours a week. Worse, the Am I being insecure or territorial or centerpiece of his bookshelves is the urn something? I love my girlfriend and don’t with her ashes. want this to be an issue, but I have no idea what to I told Vern I thought this was a little odd, but he do. Any suggestions? — Don’t Want a Contest said it would be disrespectful to put her ashes in a Dear Contest: Many boys at 13 are still children, closet. What do you think? — Second Wife and the cuddling with Mommy is not indicative of an Dear Wife: Vern was thoughtful enough to remove aberration. these photos from your presence, and his office is his

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both walk in opposite directions. An open conversation can be more helpful to you than an argument that goes nowhere.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your digesWednesday, January 9 tive system may suffer at this point. Worries CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: or emotional disturbances might affect you Kate Middleton, 31; Sean Paul, 40; J.K. Sim- such that you could experience stomach upmons, 58 sets. Take it easy for now and THOUGHT OF THE DAY: learn to breathe at a slower pace This is a rather quiet day, which despite ongoing work concerns. holds less celestial action in the LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Any cosmos. physically demanding activities With the recent entry of Veshould be exercised cautiously nus in Capricorn for the next as you might be prone to accifew weeks, our attention will dents or injuries. You might not turn mainly towards trustworthy, see eye-to-eye with your loved meaningful kind of love. The one. You feel as if they are being Moon in Sagittarius will add a too demanding and, or, might be touch of excitement to everyasking for too much. thing we do while encouraging VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): us to be honest and candid with You are longing for that inner ASTRO each other. peace and harmony, but chores DOYNA HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today oblige you to meet your deadis your birthday, your desire for lines. Today, if possible, avoid exploration and connection to taking important decisions based different realms of your psyche on your shared finances or makwill bring you to new levels of your subcon- ing risky investments. scious. In the year ahead, you will go through LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Today you a lot of self-questioning and you will want to could make great use of your usual tact and understand the deeper meaning of your life. diplomacy in order to avoid any potential arDaily life demands may press hard on you guments with anyone; be it with your siblings, and weight you down. Once you find that bal- your brother or sister or even with a neighance between your responsibilities and your bour. Extra caution should be applied on the inner amity, you will have learnt a great deal of your genuine self.

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own private space. And we can understand why he wouldn’t want to stick the urn in a closet.

You can gently encourage Vern to scatter his late wife’s ashes somewhere that has significance for him or ask whether he’d like to bury them. But if he is resistant, we suggest you leave this alone.

Neither the photos nor the ashes are in your shared space. You have no reason to be jealous.

Dear Annie: “Frustrated in Michigan” said she sent her college-aged nieces very generous checks and didn’t get a thank-you note.

She then called the mother of one of the recipients to see whether it had been lost. The check was then cashed, but still no thank-you note.

In a situation like this, I wonder whether the giver is begging for attention. The gift was unsolicited. It almost seems as if the nieces are saying, “No, thanks, I’d rather do this myself.”

I have been the recipient of unasked-for gifts, and they almost always come with strings attached. — No Strings for Me Dear Strings: If a gift comes with unwanted strings, it need only be returned -- along with a note of thanks. But not to send any acknowledgement at all is extremely inconsiderate.

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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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There might be some domestic upsets which should not be taken too seriously. Life may throw us a rock once in a while, but it’s not a tragedy if it’s a passing one. Intuitively, let yourself be guided towards the right path.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Keep your objectivity and stay focused. You are prone to mood swings and to fluctuating dispositions. Don’t let depression weaken your spirits. The survival tip of the day will be to remain calm and patient and simply, let the day roll by.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You have enough stamina to release your physical energy today. Instead of using it against

yourself, opt for healthier solutions such as going to the gym and do your best to have an efficient workout.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It matters a lot to you now to have some accordance with your peers. Yet, the day proves to be completely different. Not everyone is on the same page as you are and this might cause you some unwanted pressure.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You are contemplating about your career objectives and aspirations, yet you find some disagreements which seem to pull you back from advancing. You may also, possibly, travel for work.

Astro Doyna — Internationally Syndicated Astrologer/Columnist.

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Floyd Van Slyke died January 6, 2013 at the age of 86 years. Floyd was born in Heisler, Alberta on July 15, 1926 to John and Ruth Van Slyke. He moved with his family to the Blindman Valley in 1944, finishing his Grade 12 in Red Deer. In 1949, he married Laura Schmidt, and they farmed and raised their family in the Poplar Ridge area. Floyd remained involved in the farm for the remainder of his life, even after moving into Red Deer in the early ‘80s. Floyd’s life was enriched by interests and activities connected to the farm and beyond, notably involvement in Co-ops, provincial, national and international egg marketing organizations, the National Farmers’ Union, support for Canadian public health care, the Council of Canadians, and in these last years, writing his poetry.

Each journey brought more treasured people into his life.

Through the Collegeside Gardens community of staff and residents, Floyd enjoyed more wonderful friendships. Floyd is survived by his son Larry, daughter, Wendy (Buzz), grandson, Carver (Alyssa) and great-grandson, Ethan; wife, Ilene of Calgary and her family; brothers, Orville (Betty), and Roger (Martha); and Jean, his very special friend, companion and supporter in this last year. Floyd will also be remembered by nieces, nephews, cousins, and an extensive circle of family and friends. Floyd was predeceased by his wife, Laura in 1980, his brother, Gilbert (Gib) in 2001 and many other family and friends who were important in his life. The family is deeply grateful for the care Floyd received at Maple Cottage in his last couple of weeks. He was shown kindness and compassion, was cared for with respect for his dignity.

They honoured his gentle nature and enjoyed his sense of humour. The staff at Red Deer Hospital Units 22 and 32 are also sincerely appreciated for the care they provided.

Floyd’s life will be remembered and celebrated at the Black Knight Inn (2929 50th Avenue, Red Deer) on Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 2 p.m. For those who choose to make memorial donations, Floyd requested the following options: Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta, #202, 5913- 50 Ave. Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 4C4, Canadian Diabetes Association, 6-5015 48th St. Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 1S9, and Canadian Cancer Society, 4730A Ross St., Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 1X2.

He will be missed.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

Arrangements entrusted to Rebekah Sealock EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222

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MEDINSKY Mr. William “Bill” Medinsky of Botha, Alberta passed away on December 29, 2012 at the Rosehaven Bethany Care Centre in Camrose, Alberta at the age of 88 years. Bill was born at Botha, Alberta on June 2, 1924 to Anna and William Medinsky. He was raised in the Gadsby/Botha area and attended the Little Knife School, he later lived in Red Deer for many years where he owned his own trailer repair business before returning in the ‘80’s to the family farm to join his brother Jack. Bill is survived by his son Kelvin (Shelley) and grandsons Steve (Mary) and Mike, son Mark and grandson Coren; cousin and lifetime friend Julius (DeLores) Duris.

Bill was predeceased by his mother and father; sister Julia and brother Jack. Family and friends are invited to a time of remembrance on Friday, January 11, 2013 from 2:00 P.M. ~ 4:00 P.M. in the Botha Senior Centre, Botha, Alberta. Donations in memory of Mr. Bill Medinsky may be made to the Alzheimer Society c/o Stettler Funeral Home & Crematorium, Box 1780, Stettler, Alberta T0C 2L0, 403-742-3422.

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GOODWIN Anita Jan. 1, 1934 - Jan. 5, 2013

KENNEDY James (Jim) Nov. 21, 1959 - Jan. 5, 2013

FIDLER Thomas Alexander 1935 - 2013

Anita was ushered into the presence of her Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ on January 5, 2013 after a courageous battle with cancer.

Widowed at a young age with six children, Anita was faced with the daunting challenge of nurturing six lives on her own. Through love, perseverance, integrity and discipline, she fulfilled this, her greatest accomplishment. Strong faith

It is with deep sadness that our family announces the passing of James Kennedy of Red Deer, Alberta. He passed away peacefully in the great care of the Red Deer Hospice Society at the age of 53 years. Jim was born in Vulcan, Alberta. Jim is lovingly remembered by his wife, Sandy and sons; Tyler and Brandon. Jim was predeceased by his parents; David and Pearl Kennedy, grandparents; David and Lenora Kennedy and grandparents; Louis and Alma Cropley, and several extended family members. Jim experienced a variety of occupations throughout his life including; working in a lumber yard, roofing, oilfield hand, contractors helper before he settled into working for Totem Building Supplies for the last 25 years of his life. Jim was one of the fortunate people on earth who truly loved his job. He loved sports, particularly hockey, football and boxing.

Jim was a big part of the Red Deer boxing club and loved every minute of it. Other things he enjoyed were camping, fishing and traveling.

We have many special memories of family trips. He was compassionate, caring and felt it was an honor and a duty to help people whenever he could and will be remembered for that, as well as his warm smile, infectious laugh and wonderful sense of humour. Jim loved music and good friends gathered all around him. Jim’s family feels that he wasn’t just a good man, but the best man we have ever known and we will love him forever.

Fly with the Angels Honey.

A Memorial Service will be held at the Eventide Funeral Chapel (4820-45 Street, Red Deer) on Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 2 pm. In lieu of flowers memorial tributes in Jim’s honor may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice Society (99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta T4R 3S6) or any cancer Charity of your choice.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to Craig Kanngiesser EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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Tom Fidler passed away at Agapé Hospice after a brief illness on Friday January 4, 2013 at the age of 77 years.

He will be lovingly remembered by his only daughter, Cheryl (Harry) Achkhanian, two grandchildren, Quinn and Miyah; and many more family and friends. He was predeceased by his wife, Ivie, his parents, three brothers; Wayne, Kenny and Lyle, one sister, Arlene and one greatniece, Megan. A Funeral Service will be held at St. Luke’s Anglican Church, 4929 - 54th Street, Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 11:30 a.m. If friends so desire, donations in Tom’s honour may be made directly to The Salvation Army Agapé Hospice, 1302 - 8 th Avenue N.W., Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1B8. The family would like to thank Dr. LaBrie and the staff on Unit 46 at the Tom Baker Center, and the wonderful nurses and nurses assistants at Agapé Hospice, especially Sandra and Susan; your help and kind words during my dad’s final moments will always be remembered and cherished. Condolences may be sent or viewed at

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rods along the way. “Thanks Mom, for making us the family we are today” - Marv (Betty Anne), Dave (Kirsty), Brian (Candy), Barb (Elwin), Roger (Josh), Janice (Dave). The special lights in Grandma Goodies’ heart will miss her wisdom and unconditional love - Devon (Mike), Jason (Kendra), Evan, Brad, Josh (Kim), Jill, Jesse, Luke, J e n n e s s a , L a n e y, A l e x i s (Marcus), Charis, and the little guys Matthew and Oliver.

Anita was passionate about her interests and created many beautiful and unique treasures but none so beautiful as the loyal and loving friendships that gathered in her wake. Her world travels enriched her life, and her work in Zambia was the highlight of a life of volunteerism and support of anyone in need. Anita is survived by her siblings; Lillias, Carol, Clinton, Lorraine, and her chosen sisters; Bea Goodwin and Betty Sanguin. Many nieces and nephews will miss “Auntie Nita” and her pranks. She was predeceased by her only true love, John, her parents, grandson Brodie, and sister, Jean. A celebration of life will be held on Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 2:30 p.m. at Davenport Church of Christ, 68 Donlevy Ave, Red Deer. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Ave, Red Deer, AB. T4R 3S6 or online at: www.reddeerhospice.com.

Special thanks to the Angels that work at this wonderful facility.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting: www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to Rebekah Sealock Eventide Funeral Chapel 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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When other friends forsake you, To mother you will return, For all her loving kindness, She asks nothing in return.

As we look upon her picture, Sweet memories we recall, Of a face so full of sunshine, And a smile for one and all.

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Duties include greeting and screening visitors and answering and referring inbound telephone calls.

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DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: This position is accountable for creating a professional first time impression while managing and monitoring the office common area.

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GREYWOLF ENERGY SERVICES LTD. is now hiring experienced Well Testing Operators, Night Supervisors, and Day Supervisors.

We are one of the largest testing companies in North America.

We pay top wages, have an excellent benefits package, and an RRSP (Registered Retirement Savings Plan) program.

Candidates must have H2S, First Aid training, and the ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening. A valid class five driver’s licence with a clean driver’s abstract is an asset.

Southern Alberta residents, submit resumes to: Email: jliesemer@ greywolfsystems.ca Fax: 1-866-211-0338 Northern Alberta residents, submit resumes to: Email: mstoddard@ greywolfsystems.ca Fax: 780-539-0946 INSTREAM INTEGRITY INC. is a pipeline integrity company currently looking for an indivdual to join our team. Applicant must be at least 21 years of age with a clean driving record. Also must be willing to travel.

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The successful applicant will have a NCSO designation and will have: * Actual hands on oilfield construction experience. * Good computer skills. * Extensive travel is required. * Excellent people skills. * H2S Alive and First Aid. * Certified D&A tester, an asset. * Drivers License, with clean Abstract. * Must relocate to Hinton.

Please submit resume to hr@alstaroc.com or fax to 780- 865- 5829 Please quote job # 67950. on your resume.

JAGARE ENERGY PRODUCTION TESTING now hiring Day Supervisors, Medical Night Operators, and Helpers. RSP’s and F/T MEDICAL SECREbenefits pkg. incentives.

TARY/CLERICAL STAFF Email resumes to: req’d for busy clinic. jagare2@gmail.com or Exc. salary w/benefits. mikeg@jagareenergy.com The successful candidate JOURNEYMAN must be able to work well with others. Experience MECHANICS NEEDED! DRAYTON VALLEY & n e c e s s a r y. A p p l y w i t h CAMP POSITIONS IN resume and ref’s to: NORTHERN ALBERTA Box 1028, c/o R. D. Competitive wages, Advocate, 2950 Bremner benefits starting your first Ave., Red Deer, T4R 1M9 day of employment, bonuses, RRSP and TFSA matching programs.

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Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475 NEW Red Deer Based busy & growing oilfield trucking company looking for exp. winch truck drivers. Successful candidates will receive top wages & benefits.

Valid Class 1 licence is necessary & oilfield tickets is an asset. Must be able to pass a pre-employment drug & alcohol screen test.

Please forward all resumes to danacg@shaw.ca

PRESSURE TRUCK / HOT OILERS $2500 Bonus Every 100 days

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. Only those with Drilling rig exp. need apply. Fax resume & driver’s abstract to: 403-341-6213 or email mikeoapt@gmail.com Only those selected for interview will be contacted.

DRIVER WANTED

Local delivery of parts and shipping. Must be 25 yrs. + Class 5 license.

Fax resume & drivers abstract to 403-309-4466

800

PRODUCTION TESTING PERSONNEL REQ’D RETIREMENT & SAVINGS PLAN BENEFITS

We are a growing company searching for experienced hot oiler operators / pressure truck operators/drivers in our Central Alberta location.

Field experience is an asset, but we will provide new employees with hands on training in the field.

Minimum requirements include a clean driver’s abstract and Class 3Q drivers license. Email or fax an application along with an abstract to: Email: dshannon@ 1strateenergy.ca Fax: 403-887-4750 Successful applicants will be contacted for an interview - please do not call the office Safety tickets and Standard first aid and H2S are required.

Oilfield

800

WE are looking for Rig Managers, Drillers, Derrick and Floor hands for the Red Deer area.

Please contact Steve Tiffin at stiffin@galleonrigs.com or (403) 358-3350 fax (403) 358-3326

810

Join Our Fast Professionals Growing F/T POSITION REQ’D Team!! for small accounting firm.

QUALIFIED DAY AND NIGHT SUPERVISORS

(Must be able to Provide own work truck)

FIELD OPERATORS Valid 1st Aid, H2S, Drivers License required!!

Duty include business administration, bookkeeping, corporate & personal tax prep.

Exp. & education an asset.

Email resume to: reddeerca@gmail.com

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

Please contact Murray McGeachy or Jamie Rempel by Fax: (403) 340-0886 or email mmcgeachy@ cathedralenergyservices.com jrempel@ cathedralenergyservices.com website: www. cathedralenergyservices. com Your application will be kept strictly confidential.

PROVIDENCE Trucking Inc

Is now hiring experienced:

“NO SAFETY COPS WANTED” We want to build a safety culture, NOT enforce one.

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

Oilfield

LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Experienced F/T Servers.

Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please

Sales & Distributors

830

1693338 ALBERTA LTD o/a Xtreme Pinook Hiring Salespersons Store at Parkland Mall Red Deer, AB. Good English and communication skills, customer service oriented. F/T, Perm, Shifts, Weekends Salary - $14.00 hourly E-mail: Reachiesales@gmail.com

NOMADS Clothing Store in Picker Operator Bed Truck Operator Sylvan Lake is looking for & F/T SALES PEOWinch truck operators P/T PLE. days, eves and All candidates must be

850

F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS - Good hours, home every night, $4000-$6000/mo.

Contractor must have truck or van. Tools, supplies & ladders required. Training provided, no experience needed. Apply to: satjobs@shaw.ca

First Choice Collision Seeking Journeyman or 2nd /3rd year apprentices.

Positions for body, prep and refinishing technicians needed for our car and light truck division. Top wages, bonus programs and benefit package. Fax resumes to (403) 343-2160; e-mail choice2@telusplanet.net or drop off in person @ #5, 7493, 49th Avenue Crescent, Red Deer.

FURIX Energy Inc. is looking for an

Experienced Coater

for internal coatings.† $30-40/hour dependent upon experience.† Please fax (403)348-8109 or email laurie@furixenergy.com

FURIX Energy Inc. is looking for an

Experienced Sandblaster.

$20-25/hour dependent upon experience. Please fax (403)348-8109 or email laurie@furixenergy.com

Trades

850

STAIR MANUFACTURER Req’s F/T workers to build stairs in Red Deer shop.

MUST HAVE basic carpentry skills. Salary based on skill level. Benefits avail. Apply in person at 100, 7491 Edgar Industrial Bend. email: earl707@telus.net. and/or fax 403-347-7913

Welder/Fabricator

Req’d Westwinn /KingFisherBoats in Vernon, BC ($17 - $26/hr)

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. Requires

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

860

CLASS 1 or 3 Drivers needed Please fax or email your driver’s advstract, references and resume to: Mike.castilloux@ lafarge-na.com 403 347 8060(fax)

5+ years fabrication/ welding in manufacturing, • Self-motivated team player, • Excellent mechanical aptitude, • Demonstrated problem solving.

• Journeyman welder considered an asset.

Apply recruiting@ kingfisherboats.com All applications are reviewed however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Misc.

Help

WESTAR MASONRY is currently looking for SKILLED MASONRY LABORERS Contact Conrad at 403-340-1145, Fax: 403-342-6670 or email: westar_masonry@yahoo.ca Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

Truckers/ Drivers

860

EXPERIENCED

Vacuum & Water Truck operators req’d. to start immed.

CLASS 1 or 3 WITH Q All oilfield safety tickets req’d. Clean drivers abstract. Must comply with drug and alcohol policy.

References Req’d.

Exc. salary & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-742-5376 hartwell@telus.net RONCO OILFIELD HAULING Sylvan Lake based Rig Movers/Heavy Haulers seeking pilot car driver and Swampers.Top wages and benefits. email: tom@roncooilfield.ca fax: 403-887-4892

Misc.

Help

880

ACADEMIC Express Adult Education and Training

EASTVIEW 100 ADVOCATE $525/MO. $6300/YR 2 HRS./DAY GRANDVIEW 75 Advocate $393/month $4716/yr.

1-1/2 hrs. per day WESTLAKE 75 Advocate $393/month $4716/yr.

1-1/2 hrs. /day Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Red Deer Advocate by 6:30 a.m.

Mon. through Fri. & 8:00. .am. on Saturday in LANCASTER AREA 77 papers $412/mo.

Winter

• APPLIANCE DELIVERY DRIVER •

Community Support Worker program GED classes evening and days

Family owned & operated, Trail Appliances continues Spring to grow and due to this, we are looking to expand our • Women in the Trades delivery department. Trail 403-340-1930 offers excellent training and a competitive compen- www.academicexpress.ca sation and benefit plan.

We are currently looking for an experienced Delivery Driver to work out of our ADULT & YOUTH Red Deer Warehouse.

CARRIERS

880

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

•

GLASS INSTALLER

required in Sylvan Lake, AB. Only experienced need apply.

Salary depending on exp., full benefit package.

Must have driver’s license.

Call 403-588-6451 or fax resume to: 403-887-4433.

Truckers/ Drivers

ROSEDALE AREA 72 papers $386/mo.

DEER PARK Dempsey St. area 79 papers $423/mo.

ALSO Davison Dr. area 101 papers $541/mo.

Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca wknds avail. able to pass a pre-employor (403)341-6722 Contact Steph or Mark , NEEDED The ideal candidate will: ment drug screen. We NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! * be able to maneuver . 403-887-3119 offer exceptional wages for delivery of merchandise in excess and benefits for exceptionINDUSTRIAL sandblaster Flyers of 100 lbs al people. Fax resume and Fax resume 403-340-3800 ALSO Red Deer Express * possess exceptional abstract to 403-314-2340 Trades Clearview Ridge customer service skills & Red Deer or email to safety@ Timberlands area * enjoy working within a providencetrucking.ca Life Sunday in 1ST or 2ND year. diverse team 59 papers ELECTRICAL APPRENTICE * hold a valid driver’s $376/mo.

Fax resume 403-347-5745 GRANDVIEW license and a clear Is accepting applications drivers abstract Call Jamie MORRISROE AG Parts Person Wanted for a MOUNTVIEW F/T position in a small JOURNEYMAN HEAVY 403-314-4306 Launch your career with a town atmosphere DUTY MECHANIC WEST LAKE well known and respected for more info Looking for someone based out of the red deer company. Become a part WEST PARK positive and motivated to location. Successful I PREFER mature F for Road Train Oilfield o f t h e s u c c e s s f u l Tr a i l join our team candidate will be cleaning, appointments, team by applying in person Transport Ltd Experience is an asset Call Karen responsible for the shopping, to assist senior to: Colin Parsons in peris looking for journeyman wmtn@inbox.com maintenance of ready mix son at #6 4622 61 Street in for more info M, cash paid daily, ref’s picker operator.Top wages/ Fax# 403-442-3829 concrete trucks and 403-342-6545 the Riverside Industrial 403-314-4317 benefits. Safety tickets req’d.

Trochu Motors ltd. equipment for our central District, Red Deer. Security Fax or drop off resume 302 Main St. Trochu, AB Alberta operations checks will be conducted 403-346-6128 No phone calls.

403-442-3866 including Red Deer, Truckers/ on successful candidates.

Lacombe, Ponoka and Start your career!

Classifieds...costs so little Drivers Olds. Knowledge of See Help Wanted Saves you so much! hydraulics and welding is an asset. We offer competitive wages, excellent benefits and training opportunities.

Pre-employment screenSERVICE RIG APPLY NOW ing is mandatory. Please Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd fax resume to is seeking an exp’d NOW HIRING 403-346-6721 or e-mail to LEASE and FLOORHAND G.M. tech or ASEP. cliebrecht@ Locally based, home every With good communications lehighcement.com night! Qualified applicants B&R ECKEL’S skill and work ethics must have all necessary PARTSOURCE TRANSPORT to work with award winning valid tickets for the position Req’s P/T delivery driver G.M. dealership in LOCAL FREIGHT being applied for. to work 3 days per wk Lacombe Alberta.

COMPANY Bearspaw offers a within the city.

Good hrs & bonus. for Is Looking For: very competitive salary Please apply at 6722 50th production.( $35.00/hr +) CLASS 1 DRIVER and benefits package Ave or fax 403 309 0354 Transmission and CITY P & D, along with a steady or email: electrical an asset.

Some out of town trips. work schedule. ps791@cantire.ca Training provided .

Monday to Friday.

Please submit resumes: Apply to confidential PLEASE FAX RESUME Attn: Human Resources QUALIFIED email: TO: 403-347-6110 Northwest Tank Lines seeks an experienced Email: tmorris@ bert.rumsey@telus.net ELECTRICIANS bearspawpet.com Company Tank Truck Driver BUSY CENTRAL AB NEEDED Fax: (403) 258-3197 or CLARK BUILDERS company req’s exp’d. Class We haul Natural Gas Liquids, Molten Sulphur and Mail to: Suite 5309, requires LABOURERS & 1 drivers to pull decks.

True Power Electric Assigned truck, exc. wages other dangerous goods.

333-96 Ave. NE CARPENTERS Requires Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 for projects in the Red and benefits pkg. Paid Residential exp. only Deer area. extras. Family orientated.

The ideal candidate will be experienced, motivated, Competitive wages Snow Cat Operators Must have commercial Resume and abstract fax and have an uncompromising commitment to safety. & benefits.

Must have tickets and construction experience. to 403-784-2330 or call Fax resume to: equipment experience.

Contact us at: 1-877-787-2501 403-314-5599 403-348-1521 or SEEKING: 3-5 Years’ experience in tank truck driving 1-877-416-6815 Mon,. - Fri,. 8 a m to 6 pm 403-391-1695 email:careers@ or a related field. B-Train Experience is a must.

CLASS 1 driver with fluid SHUNDA clarkbuilders.com TEAM Snubbing now hauling experience, local fax: 1-888-403-3051 Email your resume and a recent abstract to CONSTRUCTION hiring operators and helpruns. 403-373-3285 or fax Requires Full Time careers@nwtl.ca, or fax them to (403) 250-7801. ers. Email: janderson@ CURRENTLY SEEKING resume and copies of all Carpenters & teamsnubbing.com Heavy Duty valid tickets to Carpenter helpers.

EDMONTON – RED DEER – INNISFAIL – RMH 403-986-2819 Mechanic TREELINE Competitive Wages CVIP license a must WELL SERVICES & Benefits. Fax resumes & .Manufacturing and Misc.

Has Opening for all ref’s to: 403-343-1248 Hydraulic system experience positions!

Help or email to: an asset. Good hours, Immediately. All applicants competitive wage & benefit admin@shunda.ca must have current H2S, package. Fax resume to: SPARTEK Class 5 with Q Endorse403-309-3360. ment, First Aid SYSTEMS INC We offer competitive ELECTRICAL - Q2 In Sylvan Lake, AB is wages & excellent beneElectrical Contractors Ltd seeking quailified fits. Please include 2 work is accepting individuals for DRIVEN TO EXCEL reference names and applications for Electrical numbers FROM START TO FINISH Apprentices, * QC INSPECTOR Please fax resume to : Beginner to 4th Year. * TECH ILLUSTRATOR 403-264-6725 Please fax resume to * MECH ENGINEER We are a growing construction company that requires an Or email to: 403-343-7952, or email to * ELEC. ENGINEER tannis@treelinewell.com admin@q2electric.com. * MACHINIST No phone calls please.

EXP’D framer req’d.

For complete job Own vehicle a must. descriptions, please 403-350-5103 refer to our website at EXPERIENCED furnace www.sparteksystems.com s e r v i c e & r e p l a c e m e n t Applicants please forward We are a busy and resume to: keri.lee@ persons required. progressive snubbing / Top wages in the industry/ sparteksystems.com live well service company good benefit plan. Prefer- or fax to 403-887-4050 for our office in Rocky Mountain House. with an awesome 15 day ence to ticketed personnel Please state which position on and 6 day off shift & experience in residential you are applying for in your rotation and we are rapidly installations. cover letter.

Pidherney’s offers competitive wages and benefits. expanding. We need Call Brad @ 403-588-8399 Operator Assistants (entry or email: Please e-mail resumes to: Misc. level position) and experiBrad@ComfortecHeating. enced operators. We offer Help com excellent wages, a great benefits package and an EXPERIENCED repair awesome working person req’d for local truck environment with many company. Work involves advancement opportuall aspects of heavy truck nities. Class 1 or 3 driver’s and trailer repair and dislicense and all oilfield manteling. Must be tickets are preferred, but physically fit. HD Mechanwe will train the right ic or equivelant experience individuals for our entry We offer competitive level positions. THIS IS A wages, benefits weekends LABOUR INTENSIVE off. Fax resume to POSITION Fax resumes 1-855-784-2330 or call to: 403-347-3075, attn- Judy.

1-877-787-2501

850

860

TANK TRUCK DRIVER

GREAT WAGES, EXCELLENT BENEFITS,

$1000.00 SIGNING BONUS, $1000.00 ANNUAL SAFETY BONUSES, $1000.00 REFERRAL BONUSES.

880

EXPERIENCED PARTS PERSON

880

Trades

850

hr@pidherneys.com

is expanding its facility to double production.

We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts:

- Concrete Finishers - Carpenters/Woodworkers

ELECTRICIANS PRODUCTION TESTING SUPERVISORS & OPERATORS Day & Night Must have tickets.

Top paid wages.

Based out of Devon, AB. Email resume to: kathy@dragonsbreathpt.ca

Trades

280408A7-20

This is a F/T position supporting our Q.C. Dept.

Responsibilities include preparing and formatting technical manuals, forms, spreadsheets, regulatory documents and various other administrative tasks, such as meeting minutes.

Candidates must have an Office Technology Certificate or equivalent formal training, be proficient with MS Word, Excel and Outlook, and be very organized with a strong attention to detail.

Previous experience in a similar environment is a definite asset. Please visit our career postings at www.crimtech.com for more information, and submit your resume to cslhr@crimtech.com

800

280023A11

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

Oilfield

Accepting applications for local Red Deer work.

Journeyman, Apprentices and Foremans Apply by Fax

403-346-0550

Top Wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included.

Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at www. eaglebuilders.ca. Applicants are able to apply online or fax resumes to Human Resources 403-885-5516 or e-mail: k.kooiker@eaglebuilders.ca.

279425A2-31

720

280668A9-15

Clerical

RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 D3

880

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

EARN EXTRA CASH!!!

The Red Deer Advocate is looking for friendly and outgoing telephone sales people to join our team.

Work 4 days per week 4:00 - 8 :00 p.m Great earning potential for the right person.

If this is for you please drop off your resume at: The Red Deer Advocate 2950 Bremner Avenue Red Deer or email to: d.sibbet@ reddeeradvocate.com or rholt@ reddeeradvocate .com

920

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Auctions

1530

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

Clothing

1590 1630

Market

1650

BROWN EGGS AND LAMB now has free range pork : gourmet hams and sausage. Great selection You can sell your guitar of warm woolies. for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS Phone 403-782-4095 and we’ll sell it for you!

FREE range naturally raised turkey, gov’t.

HERITAGE LANES inspected, skinless, BOWLING boneless turkey breast Requires F/T mature $5.99/lb, turkey breast career oriented help. steaks $5.99/lb, ground Must be avail. eves and turkey $5.99/lb, w k n d s . P l e a s e s e n d drumsticks avail. $10/pkg. resume to: Germane Market Gardens, htglanes@telus.net or Gail 403-843-6864 apply in person Join The Fastest Growing Mobile Tire Service Company!!

6+ Full-Time Labourers Req’d Immed. For Fast Paced, Progressive Assembly Line Operations.

Carpentry,Wood-Working, & Electrical Skills Would Be An Asset.

2 Full-Time Administrative Assistants Req’d Immed.

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Experience Would Be An Asset.

Please Reply With Your Resume To: tamara@gotire.com

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for 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

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

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com

1760

rentals

Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

Spruce, Pine, Birch Spilt, Dry. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 BIRCH or Pine 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

Household Appliances

1710

APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances 403-342-1042 KENMORE - Heavy duty dual action topload washer.

Needs belt. Kenmore heavy duty dryer. All in good shape. White. $150 for both. 403-347-2374 PORTABLE elec. heater (110v) w/remote, LED display (temp/timer) safe for children $200 403-314-2026

Household Furnishings

1720

SOLID oak gossip bench w/glass door book storage $175; 5 metal frame stacking chairs $25 403-314-2026

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for Sale

1760

10-12 HOUSE plants $10-$40 403-342-4572 18” CREE native shield $40; 18” Blackfoot shield $40; 403-347-7405 ELECTRIC CAR, CHILD’S $100. obo 403-341-3668

Misc.

Help

880

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

w/Square D forward and reverse control, breaker box and reset switch, 11’ of 220 wire, $200.

403-728-3375 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Condos/ Townhouses

wegot

RED DEER WORKS ELECTRICAL panel 10x28

Central Alberta’s Largest THOUSAND $$$ worth of Car Lot in Classifieds brand new clothing size 4, sell for $200, call 403-343-1540 FIXER’S FURNITURE REFINISHING req’s clean cut reliable person to do Equipmentstripping & prepping.

Heavy Apply in person to Bay 2, 4705 60th Street, TRAILERS for sale or rent Red Deer.

Job site, office, well site or 8:00-5:00, Mon-Thurs. storage. Skidded or Celebrate your life wheeled. Call 347-7721. with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT Farmers' Looking for a place to live?

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Misc. for Sale

KITSON CLOSE

newer exec. 3 bdrm. bi-level townhouse 1447 sq. ft. 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, lg. balcony, fenced in rear, front/rear parking, no dogs, rent $1395 SD $1000. n/s Avail. immed.

403-304-7576 / 347-7545

CLASSIFICATIONS FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

3010

Acreages/ Farms

3030

FUR and porcupine quills, 3” high x16’ asking $150, EXECUTIVE BUNGALOW 403-347-7405 ON ACREAGE IN RED DEER. 4 bdrms, 2 bath, SATELLITE 1/2 TON chain rent $2000 + DD avail. hoist, like new $40; Bayco Mar. 1, 403-346-5885 3/4 “ gas nozzle with 14’ hose, $50, call 403-728-3375 Houses/

3020

Kyte/Kelloway Cres.

Lovely 3 level exec.

3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, concrete patio, blinds, front/rear parking, no dogs, n/s, rent $1395 SD $1000 Avail. Immed.

403-304-7576 or 347-7545 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

SUITES FOR RENT THREE HILLS Affordable housing for low income, single adults of any age, F/S, water/sewer included. $400/mo, $400 DD.Further information & applications available at www.studiosalberta.com or by calling 1-888-963-5698

3090

Rooms

Businesses For Sale

4140

HEAVY DUTY REPAIR SHOP located by Sylvan Lake. Well established, turn-key operation with exc. customer base.

Facility licence for CVIP. 2000 sq. ft. bay leased.

Would like to make a quick sale. 403-887-5114

4160

Lots For Sale

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

Out Of Town Property

4170

160 ACRES Hwy. 53 RR40 8 miles west of Rimbey, pavement to land, 85% trees, asking $300,000 250-494-7877

5040

SUV's

2000 TOYOTA 4 RUNNER 197,000 kms., $7300. obo 403-597-5972

5050

Trucks

2011 GMC SIERRA 1500 SLT 4X4, sunroof, htd. lthr., 61,557 kms $33,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

3150

1810

3190

1830

3030

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homes

1860

4020

1900

3040

4090

Newly Renovated Mobile Home

Farm Equipment

Sharon (403) 340-0225

HEAVY DUTY TOW STRAPS. 403-323-7702

www.lansdowne.ca

modular/mobile homes

2180

WANTED - PASTURE LAND TO RENT OR LEASE. Required for 2 Load Pastures to 1000 Head Pastures. Area: Alberta & Saskatchewan.

Term: May to September, 2013. Please contact Ed 403-546-2278 Ext 3.

MORTGAGES AVAIL.on all types of real estate including raw land and acreages. Bruised credit and self employed welcome. Fast approvals Ron Lewis 403-819-2436

wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

5030

A1 RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal. We travel. AMVIC 2000 OLDS INTRIGUE approved. 403-396-7519 green, 4 dr. $2000 obo REMOVAL of unwanted 403-347-5306 cars, may pay cash for 1999 Ford Taurus, $500, complete cars. 304-7585 245,000 Km, V6, runs WANTED FREE REMOVAL good, new snow tires, of unwanted cars and 403-346-1471 trucks, also wanted to buy lead batteries, call 403-396-8629

BUILDERS

www.lansdowne.ca

has relocated to

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279139

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Contractors

1010

1100

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1165

EDEN

PET ADOPTION

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PM rules out prospect of military mission in Mali

Feds release Tamiflu from stockpile

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper ruled out sending Canadian troops to fight Islamist insurgents in Mali, essentially rejecting an impassioned request Tuesday by the head of the African Union for NATO to join the battle.

Harper said Canada will not join the fight alongside African Union forces in Mali against an alQaida-linked group that controls the northern part of the country.

“The government of Canada is not considering a direct Canadian military mission,” said Harper, standing next to the visiting head of the African Union, Thomas Boni Yayi.

Boni Yayi, also the president of Benin, called on NATO to do what it has already attempted in Afghanistan — fight the spread of terrorism.

“We need to react for the simple reason (that) not only does this issue go well beyond the scope of Africa, but also we must focus on the fact that the scourge of terrorism is an issue for the entire international community,” Boni Yayi said after a private meeting in Harper’s Parliament Hill office.

“We would like to call upon the contribution of other countries. If the prime minister leads the way, all I can do is express how grateful I am. I think that NATO should add its forces to our efforts so this could be a global mission.”

Though the two leaders radiated a camaraderie, they clearly disagreed on the meaning of a pre-Christmas resolution by the United Nations Security Council on the deteriorating situation in

THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Prime Minister Stephen Harper(right)and the President of the Republic of Benin Thomas Boni Yayi shake hands after holding a joint news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa Tuesday. the landlocked West African country, which appeared to be a stable democracy less than a year ago.

The Dec. 20 resolution urges member states to provide such things as military training, equipment, intelligence and logistics to reduce the threat in Mali.

“Not long before Christmas, the Security Council approved the concept of an African security force to deal with the Malian situation,” Harper said.

“We are providing humanitarian aid to this region, which is important and we are consulting with, and working with, and will continue diplomatically with our allies in the west and obviously our friends in Africa on ways that we can be of assistance.”

But Boni Yayi said the resolu-

tion represented a call to countries outside the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States, or ECOWAS. “The prime minister also talked about the UN Security Council resolution,” said Boni Yayi.

Boni Yayi said he wants to see NATO play a direct role in Mali alongside an African-led force authorized by the UN last month.

Harper agreed with Boni Yayi’s assessment that the insurgents in Mali pose a threat to the entire world.

“Obviously, we are very concerned about the situation. The development of essentially an entire terrorist region in the middle of Africa is a grave concern to everybody in the international community.”

Paul Watson resigns as head of Sea Shepherd over court order

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The head of an anti-whaling organization whose aggressive animal rights activism has repeatedly sparked international controversy has resigned his post in order to stay on the right side of U.S. law.

Paul Watson, who holds dual Canadian and U.S. citizenship, issued a statement saying he was stepping down from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in order to comply with an injunction handed down by a Seattle court last month.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the organization to stay at least 457 metres away from Japanese whaling vessels off Antarctica.

Watson’s statement of res-

ignation said he was personally named in the injunction, which was meant to prevent the vocal activists from carrying on with their annual efforts to stall the whale hunting season.

His decision to step down, he said, came from a desire to maintain a clean record.

“I myself have never been convicted of a felony crime,” Watson said in the statement. “And for this reason, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in the United States and myself as a U.S. citizen must comply with the order by the 9th Circuit court of the United States.”

Watson said he was resigning from all positions he held with Sea Shepherd’s U.S. and Australian chapters and as captain of

one of the group’s vessels.

Watson said the anti-whaling campaign will continue under the leadership of former Australian senator Bob Brown, adding he himself will participate only as an observer under the terms of the injunction.

Whalers with Japan’s Institute of Cetacean Research sued Sea Shepherd last year to prevent the protesters from interfering with their annual hunt, but the judge refused to grant the request.

The whalers appealed, and a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit late Monday ordered Sea Shepherd not to attack or approach any of the Japanese vessels until it can rule.

Japan’s whaling fleet kills up to 1,000 whales a year.

The federal government is drawing on the national stockpile of the flu drug Tamiflu to relieve a shortage in the country.

The move comes as many locations across Canada report they are in the throes of an active flu season.

Dr. Barbara Raymond, director of pandemic preparedness for the Public Health Agency of Canada, said the move followed discussions between the agency and the drug’s manufacturer, Roche Canada.

Higher-than-expected demand for the drug left the company suspecting it might not be able to fill its orders, so the Public Health Agency agreed to release some of its Tamiflu stock, Raymond said.

“That really unexpected increase in demand — far above other influenza seasons — has really depleted the usual stocks which in any other season would have been more than sufficient,” she said in an interview

from Ottawa.

“Given that we are still in the midst of influenza season and given that we certainly do not want to have any kind of supply disruption at this point in time, the Public Health Agency Canada ... has elected to work with Roche to ensure that there will be no supply disruption.”

The stockpiled supplies will be released to Roche, which in turn will distribute the drug to where it is needed across the country.

The company will replenish the national stockpile when it gets a new shipment, likely next month.

Raymond said the amount of stockpiled drug to be released to Roche hasn’t yet been finalized.

But she said the government is confident that taking this move will not jeopardize Canada’s pandemic preparedness position.

Raymond said the flu season so far has been brisk, with many hospital and long-term care facility outbreaks reported.

Settlement reached in military pension clawback dispute THE CANADIAN PRESS A Halifax veteran who launched a class-action lawsuit against Ottawa over the clawback of military pensions says a settlement has been reached.

Dennis Manuge says the settlement is expected to be made public Wednesday following a teleconference call between lawyers representing veterans and Ottawa.

The class-action lawsuit was filed in March 2007 on behalf of Manuge and 4,500 other disabled veterans whose longterm disability benefits were reduced by the amount of the monthly Veterans Affairs dis-

ability pensions they received.

Last May, the Federal Court ruled that Ottawa should stop that practice and weeks later, the federal government said it would not appeal that decision.

The government appointed Stephen Toope, the president of the University of British Columbia, to negotiate a settlement with Manuge’s legal team.

The Federal Court will have to approve any agreement, and a twoday hearing for that is scheduled to begin in Halifax on Feb. 14.

Government estimates have suggested the settlement could run to $600 million.

Veterans Affairs declares 2013 year of Korean war veteran OTTAWA — Veterans Affairs Minister Steven Blaney is marking the 60th anniversary of the ceasefire in the Korean War by declaring 2013 the year of the Korean war veteran.

The 1,558 Canadian casualties in the three-year conflict included 516 people who died.

Blaney says in a statement he can think of no better way to honour the more than 26,000 Canadians who came to the aid of South Koreans during the war.

Blaney made the declaration today at the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum near Ottawa.

He was joined by Tory Senator Yo-

nah Martin as well as representatives from the Royal Canadian Legion, the Korean Veterans Association of Canada and Korean veterans.

Martin moved to Vancouver from South Korea with her family in 1972.

John Bishop, the national president of the Korean Veterans Association of Canada, calls the Korean War Canada’s third bloodiest conflict.

The conflict began in June 1950 when the forces of North Korea crossed into the Republic of Korea.

The fighting ended in July 1953 with the signing of the Korean Armistice agreement.

Blaney has also launched “Land of the Morning Calm,” an interactive website that features Korean war history and archival footage.

Military ombudsman appeals to defence chief over home-equity losses

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s military ombudsman is appealing to the new defence chief to intervene on behalf of Armed Forces families who’ve been forced to swallow large home-equity losses after being transferred.

Pierre Daigle has written to Gen. Tom Lawson, saying his office has received “numerous complaints” about the home-equity assistance program.

The Canadian Press reported last week at least 146 military families faced financial hardship between 2007 and 2010 after being rejected for full compensation of losses when they were required to sell their homes in depressed markets.

The ombudsman looked at more recent data and concluded something

must be done about the differing interpretations of federal policy when it comes to compensating soldiers for a mandatory transfer.

It is a growing problem that is eating into morale, Daigle said Tuesday.

“Money talks,” the ombudsman said.

“When you sign on the dotted line for unlimited liability, you prepare to give your life to serve your country, you don’t expect to be fighting a bureaucracy and administrative processes like that. It is not right.”

The National Defence policy on relocation, written 20 years ago and largely unrevised since 1999, is outdated and the subject of complaints at every base Daigle has visited.

Since the 1990s, the military has encouraged members of the Forces to live off base, buy property and build equity for their retirement.

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Operations Manager Day Supervisors Night Supervisors Assistants • • • •

Competitive Salaries & Bonuses Accommodations Provided Subsistence Pay Comprehensive Benefits Package

APPLY NOW! resumes@vencorproduction.com Attention: Ron Green or Greg Tipper Fax to: 780-778-6998 403-237-9013

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D6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013

EASY L O O H C S O T BACK SOLUTIONS! Õ

FREE

Spend $175 and receive 2 Rubbermaid 68 L totes

.88

Hunts snack pack puddings selected varieties, 4X99 g 640409

LIMIT 2 AFTER LIMIT

1.87

.88

LIMIT 12

234534

AFTER LIMIT

1.87

Õ Spend $175 or more before applicable taxes at any Real Canadian Superstore location and receive 2 free Rubbermaid 68 L totes. Excludes purchase of tobacco, alcohol products, prescriptions, gift cards, phone cards, lottery tickets, all third party operations (post office, gas bars, dry cleaners, etc.) and any other products which are provincially regulated. The retail value of up to $18.94 will be deducted from the total amount of your purchase before sales taxes are applied. Limit one coupon per family and/or customer account. No cash value.

No copies. Coupon must be presented to the cashier at time of purchase. Valid from Friday, January 4th until closing Thursday, January 10th, 2013. Cannot be combined with any other coupons or promotional offers. No substitutions, refunds or exchanges on free item.

536306

ea

2

no name® sliced side bacon assorted varieties, 500 g 473049

892016

1

494410 / 916362

3

fresh honey tangerines product of USA 713790

.98

ea

/lb 2.16 /kg

in-store

LIMIT 5 AFTER LIMIT

3.47

3

98

405173

97

802720

98

baked fresh

sliced, pre-packaged, 175 g

selected varieties, 525-720 g

ea

ea

Maple Leaf Natural Selections deli meat

General Mills Cheerios

SeaQuest pollock fillet ®

frozen, 1 kg bag

3

product of Canada, Canada extra fancy grade

99

4

ea

194680

98

5 LB BAG

selected varieties, frozen, 370-400 g

98

9

ea

Farmer’s Market™ Fuji or Red Delicious apples

Pillsbury Pizza Pops or Minis

10000 03050

4

SunRype 100% pure apple juice 1L

$18.94 value

3

ea

AFTER LIMIT

6.77 Listerine classic 1L 351845

3

48

CLUB PACK® Bakeshop bread white or 100% whole wheat, unsliced, 4 X 450 g

pkg of 4’s

225184

98

LIMIT 4

ea

ea

LIMIT 6 AFTER LIMIT

5.99

Tylenol Rapid Release gel caps 20’s or Children’s Tylenol Meltaways, grape punch, 24’s 651561 / 897049

2

00

ea

LIMIT 12 AFTER LIMIT

6.99

also save 15% on no name® 10 pack disposable duster refills, $7.22 after savings

1 kg 212555

4

98

ea

LIMIT 4 AFTER LIMIT

8.87

fuel up at our gas bar and earn

73.5 ¢

or

no name® 3 pk stainless steel spiral scrubbers 253984

4

2/

00 OR

2.49 EACH

no name disposable duster kit ®

273751

3

65

15% after savings

ea

Prices are in effect until Thursday, January 10, 2013 or while stock lasts.

per litre* in

Superbucks S value when you pay with

¢

in Superbucks® value using any per other purchase litre* method!

Quantities and/or selection of items may be limited and may not be available in all stores. NO RAINCHECKS OR SUBSTITUTIONS on clearance items or where quantities are advertised as limited. Advertised pricing and product selection (flavour, colour, patterns, style) may vary by store location. We reserve the right to limit quantities to reasonable family requirements. We are not obligated to sell items based on errors or misprints in typography or photography. Coupons must be presented and redeemed at time of purchase.

Applicable taxes, deposits, or environmental surcharges are extra. No sales to retail outlets. Some items may have “plus deposit and environmental charge” where applicable. ®/TM The trademarks, service marks and logos displayed in this newspaper ad are trademarks of Loblaws Inc. and others. All rights reserved. © 2013 Loblaws Inc. Customer Relations: 1-866-999-9890.

Guaranteed Lowest Prices *Applies only to our major supermarket competitors’ print advertisements (i.e. flyer, newspaper). We will match the competitor’s advertised price only during the effective date of the competitor’s print advertisement. Our major supermarket competitors are determined solely by us and are based on a number of factors which can change from time to time. Identical items are defined as same brand, item type (in the case of produce, meat and bakery), size and attributes and carried at this store location. We will not match competitors’ “multi-buys” (eg. 2 for $4), “spend x get x”, “Free”, “clearance”, discounts obtained through loyalty programs, or offers related to our third party operations (post office, gas bars, dry cleaners etc.). We reserve the right to cancel or change the terms of this promise at any time.

We Match Prices! *Look for the symbol in store. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES (note that our major supermarket competitors may not). Due to the fact that product is ordered prior to the time of our Ad Match checks, quantities may be limited. We match select items in our major supermarket competitors’ flyers throughout the week. Major supermarket competitors are determined solely by us based on a number of factors which can vary by store location. We match identical items (defined as same brand, size, and attributes) and for fresh produce, meat and bakery, we match a comparable item (as determined solely by us).

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