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15 TO 25 CM OF SNOW EXPECTED TO FALL IN MOST AREAS BY THIS MORNING

CITY COUNCIL VOTES TO CLEAR RESIDENTIAL STREETS

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Monday’s blizzard forced Red Deer city council to declare all-out war on big snow that has made residential streets near impassable starting today.

Council voted unanimously on Monday to depart from its policy to conduct the major snow plow blitz in neighbourhoods because of the safety and accessibility concerns on Red Deer streets and neighbourhoods. Typically a residential plow takes 45 days.

The plows will clear snow in residential areas and industrial/commercial areas within five to seven days.

Earlier in the day, the city activated its Emergency Operations Centre allowing the city to co-ordinate its efforts across departments to collaborate on a strategy dealing with the snow clearing. The group was meeting late into Monday evening.

“We’ve been hearing from the public that residential clearing has been becoming an issue for them particularly with this last snowfall,” said Mayor Tara Veer. “It became very clear, residential areas in many areas were becoming impassable and that poses a safety concern for our citizens.”

During the debate councillors raised concerns over the inconvenience snow clearing will cause for residents because of the windrows.

But in weighing inconvenience against safety, council decidedly chose safety.

Councillors expressed the frustration that they have heard from residents. They said this will give relief in those residential areas.

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Thanks for your patience The extreme weather of the last two days has crippled the Advocate’s delivery efforts.

As the snow abates and streets are cleared, we hope to have our carriers back on their routes in full force.

In the meantime, our staff is doing the best it can to bring your newspapers to you as quickly as possible.

We thank you for your patience.

Digging out Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

ABOVE: Jordana Delainey, 10, and her brother Sebastian, 13, dig out the path to their front door in Clearview Monday after school.

RIGHT: City of Red Deer Parks employee Carrie Vivier uses a gas blower to remove snow from the sidewalk outside the downtown library Monday afternoon.

BOTTOM RIGHT: Murray Young, right helps his neighbor Hoang Huynh dig his daughter’s car out of the snow in front of Huynh’s house in Eastview Estates Monday morning.

WOLF CREEK PUBLIC SCHOOLS CLOSED

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Blizzard-like conditions have led to a slew of school and event cancellations around Central Alberta and the City of Red Deer activated its emergency operations centre.

The move allows the city to centrally co-ordinate its response to the snow storm by pulling together departments to determine what measures to take.

Snow plowing crews were tackling arterial roads, bus routes and streets considered impassable to emergency vehicles Monday. Residents were encouraged to stay home if they don’t need to travel.

Storm conditions led to Wolf Creek public school closures today, as no buses will be running in the district that includes Blackfalds, Lacombe and Ponoka.

“Student safety is a primary concern for Wolf Creek, and given the weather and road conditions, this decision has been made ahead of time to allow for families to plan accordingly,” stated a release issued by superintendent Larry Jacobs.

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Fall budget update points to more deficit woes

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF

RED DEER PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Red Deer Public Schools is hoping it can get itself out of a deficit situation by 2014-15 after having to dip into its reserves to balance the budget for 2012-13 and with another deficit projected for this year.

The division moved towards balance in 2012-13, with the final deficit of $1.29 million representing half of the 2011-12 shortfall.

With the fall budget update for 2013-14 showing the gap between revenues and expenses widening in the wrong direction, another year of being in the red looks likely.

“Basically the reason for the deficit is we wanted to not cut operations any more than we had to try to maintain the status quo. The fact is we’re not getting enough money from the government to keep up with

that status quo,” said school board chair Bev Manning. The fall update suggests there was an overestimation in high school enrolments in the spring and thus there will be lower-than-expected government funding coming to the division. Meanwhile, staffing levels are higher than had been projected.

The deficit for the current fiscal year is projected at just over $1 million, up from the estimate of $500,000 in the spring.

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PLOW: Windrows expected to be smaller than normal

BLIZZARD: Red Deer public schools remain open Red Deer public schools will remain open today, but yellow school buses will not be running (al-

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Reminding people to take the stormy weather in stride, a positive message was etched into the snow clinging to the back of a City of Red Deer bus Monday. though city transit buses will be working as usual to get middle schools and high school students to class).

The Red Deer public school district is advising parents of elementary school students and others who rely on yellow school buses to make alternative transportation arrangements for their kids.

Red Deer Catholic School Division buses, both rural and city routes, will not be running today.

Other Central Alberta parents should check the websites of their school districts for up-to-date busing and school closure information.

Red Deer College students had their afternoon and evening classes were cancelled on Monday to help ensure the safety of students, faculty and staff.

Decisions about whether RDC classes will go ahead on today were still up in the air. Updates will be posted on RDC’s website: www.rdc.ab.ca, Facebook page: www.facebook.com/Red Deer College and Twitter site: www.twitter.com/Red Deer College.

Olds College also cancelled all of its classes at noon. Classes were expected to resume today.

The winds are expected to ease up today, but as far as temperatures go, the worst is yet to come.

A low pressure system is expected to descend from the Arctic that will make Central Albertans remember what cold weather really feels like. The best Environment Canada meteorologist John McIntyre can say about this week’s forecast is that things will look “Christmas pretty” for a while.

Up to 25 cm of snow fell on the city on Monday.

Monday’s blizzard conditions are expected to dissipate overnight, with wind speeds dropping today.

“Instead of blowing snow, there will be drifting snow,” predicted McIntyre.

While today’s low of -18C and high of -15C should hold for Wednesday, McIntyre said Thursday’s temperatures are expected to be -32C/-24C. And Friday’s are predicted to be -31C/-16C.

Numbers are unofficial.

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REGIONAL OUTLOOK Calgary: today, snow.

High -15. Low -20.

Olds, Sundre: today, snow. High -14. Low -22.

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Lethbridge: today, blizzard. High -15.

Low -20.

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High -14. Low -19.

Rocky, Nordegg: today, chance of flurries. Grande Prairie: toHigh -15. Low -21. day, chance of flurries.

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Banff: today, chance of flurries. High -13.

Fort McMurray: toLow -23. day, chance of flurries.

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Relief will not come by the weekend, when the highs are anticipated to be about -15C. McIntyre doesn’t see any opportunity for mild Pacific air to flow through the province until mid next week.

“A big column of high arctic air is descending, and it will stay for days and days.”

While no major traffic accidents were reported in the Red Deer area on Monday, blowing snow and poor visibility led to some flight cancellations and delays at the Red Deer Airport.

Airport manager R.J. Steenstra said pilots have difficulty landing in snow storm conditions, so flights are having to be rebooked across the province, including at airports in Edmonton, Calgary and Grand Prairie. He advises anyone flying to contact their carrier for updated flight information.

The Alberta Ombudsman and investigators opted to reschedule meetings that were planned for Red Deer on Tuesday and Lacombe on Wednesday. The ombudsman now plans to travel through this area sometime in the New Year.

The meetings allow Albertans to discuss how they may have been treated unfairly by an Alberta government department, agency, board, commission, designated professional organization, or the patient concerns resolution process of Alberta Health Services.

Anyone with questions or concerns can call the ombudsman’s toll-free number 1-888-455-2756.

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“This program is based on accessibility and the ability of people to get around,” said Greg Sikora, manager of the Public Works Department. “Unfortunately there are some trade offs. Trading off that quick response with the need for (single and dual) windrows to be placed.”

However, the windrows are expected to be smaller than the typical windrows because the plows are not scraping down to pavement and the plows will be moving swiftly through the neighbourhoods.

The change in schedule will not affect the collector roadway/transit routes (Priority 4) campaign that is currently underway. Sikora said the crews will continue to work around the clock to plow and control icy conditions on the city streets. If need be, the plows will head back into the residential areas following the campaign.

Paul Goranson, the city’s director of the Developmental Services Division, told council when things are done quickly, the quality of service will be sacrificed. Goranson said if they did what the policy entailed, it would take much longer to do.

Signs will be posted in neighbourhood entrances to notify residents that plows are in the area.

The city followed a similar directive in 1996 in early November when a similar amount of snowfall fell in a short period of time.

Council heard there is $238,181 remaining in its $3.4 million snow and ice control budget for 2013.

The blitz comes with a $175,000 price tag.

Goranson said the city is not in danger of tapping out its snow budget for the year.

Councillors Tanya Handley and Ken Johnston successfully brought forward a motion that calls for administration to review the city’s snow and ice control policy to address extreme snowfall in conjunction with the operating budget debate in January.

Last year, city council adopted its current policy in 2012 and decided at the time to review it on annual basis.

Council discussed the motion slightly indicating there is definite need to address extreme snowfall events. A separate motion to create a snowfall reserve fund was also put on the table.

“There was back-to-back extreme weather conditions that .. became apparent to us that the existing policy did not have what I call a reaction point for extraordinary events,” said Johnston. “This concerned us greatly. That’s why we did it. Sometimes policy is good but when Mother Nature decides to set her own agenda, we have to be sensitive to that.”

In other council news: ● The last hurdle was cleared to expand Safe Harbour’s mat program. Council voted unanimously in support of a land use bylaw amendment that allows the addition of six spaces to the site at 5246-53rd Avenue.

Kath Hoffman, executive director of the Safe Harbour Society, spoke in support of the addition at the public hearing that drew no naysayers. Hoffman said they typically turn away 80 people a month at the shelter. She said there are no additional costs to adding the space and there will be no expansion to the building.

Councillors echoed the importance of the program in the community. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Alberta government ruled in contempt over brochure ADVERTISING MLA PAY FREEZE EDMONTON — Alberta’s Progressive Conservative government has been found in contempt of the legislature.

Speaker Gene Zwozdesky (zwahz-DESS’-kee) has ruled that a brochure mailed out by the PC party breached parliamentary privilege.

He found that the brochure advertised a decision had been made on freezing MLA pay, when it hadn’t yet.

The speaker ordered an apol-

ogy and deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk complied Monday afternoon in the legislature.

But Opposition parties argue that an apology isn’t enough.

NDP Leader Brian Mason said he will ask the Speaker on Tuesday to consider allowing the matter to be referred to a special disciplinary committee.

Mason said the brochure was “clearly partisan advertising,” but added he was surprised by the Speaker’s actions.

“I’ve never seen a point of privilege be successful against the government in the past. I’ve

been here now 13 years, and it’s the first time in my experience,” Mason said.

Wildrose Finance critic Rob Anderson said the Tories need to do more than apologize.

“Actions speak louder than words. They need to have the PC party pay back the tax payer for this gross use of tax dollars.”

While the Tories have not confirmed the total cost of the brochure, the Wildrose claims a similar one sent out by the Tories earlier this year cost $350,000 to mail out.

Case of neglected senior probed

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta’s health minister says his department will investigate further the case of a 73-year-old senior who was left with untreated bed sores for so long that her flesh blackened and decayed.

Violet MacDonald has since died.

“The system has failed this res-

ident and we will do our best to find out why,” Fred Horne told the legislature during question period Monday.

“This sort of situation is unacceptable in this province in any circumstance. I have asked Alberta Health Services’ on-site team to monitor operations at this facility until my questions are answered.”

MacDonald was a resident for years at Calgary’s McKenzie Towne Care Centre.

Her daughter, Cassie Liska, with the assistance of the opposition Wildrose party, held a news conference earlier Monday.

Liska told reporters that care home staff misled her on the severity of the bed sores on her mother, who suffered from dementia.

In February, MacDonald was left in a soiled diaper for two days, infecting the bed sores and causing severe blood poisoning.

Crash claims woman, 2 kids hurt

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS FERNIE, B.C. — A Coaldale, Alta., woman has died while a father and three children are recovering from a crash that sent the family’s minivan tumbling into the Elk River in southeastern British Columbia.

Elk Valley RCMP say the crash occurred at about 2:30 p.m. Sun-

day, eight kilometres west of Fernie, as the family of five was travelling back to Alberta on Highway 3 in slushy conditions.

The white Chevrolet minivan veered out of control on a straight stretch of highway and plunged upside down into the frigid water.

A man and woman in a passing car managed to pull all five people from the van and other witnesses performed CPR on the

woman, but she could not be revived and was pronounced dead at the Fernie hospital.

Two of the children are also severely injured and have been flown to Alberta Children’s Hospital for treatment, while the father, remaining child and the male rescuer were treated for hypothermia and other minor injuries.

An investigation of the crash is underway.

Bowden inmate dies in hospital

BY ADVOCATE STAFF A Bowden Institution inmate serving a sentence for second-degree murder has died in hospital.

The Correction Service of Canada said in a news release late Monday afternoon that Barry Bryan Schacker, 65, died in Innisfail’s hospital on Sunday.

No other information was provided on the events leading up his death and a prison spokesperson could not be reached for further comment.

“As in all cases involving the death of an inmate, the police and the coroner have been notified, and the Correctional Service of Canada will review the circumstances of the incident,” says a release from Rita Wehrle, assistant warden management services

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BUDGET: Still in a lucrative position While the division still has approximately $6 million in its operating reserves, Manning said a balanced budget in 2014-15 is a must.

“We’re still in a lucrative position, but we have put a little bit of a hole in that reserve. We are looking at trying to balance the budget for next year but we’ll have to make some critical and crucial decisions in that area to see where we can make come cost savings, hopefully protecting the classroom as much as we can,” she said.

At its Nov. 27 meeting, the board also was presented with a class size report for the 21 schools in the division. The report showed class sizes generally trending upwards, with totals for the lower grades failing to meet provincial targets.

While a new school is set to open in Timberlands next year, Manning said Red Deer could use one or two additional public elementary schools. The division will be putting in a request for two modular classrooms for West Park Elementary School for

at the medium-security prison.

Schacker’s next of kin have been notified.

Schacker, then 58, received an automatic life sentence when he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on March 22, 2007.

The Thorhild, Alta. farmer received an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 10 years for beating his wife to death with a crowbar.

According to media reports at the time of his sentencing, Schacker became upset with his wife when she brought her daughter and 14-year-old granddaughter to his acreage home to stay with them in May 2005.

Schacker took a crowbar from his garage and returned to the home, where he repeatedly smashed his 55-year-old wife over the head.

She later died in hospital.

2014, but acknowledges that if the province expects it to fund some of the transportation and installation costs, the jurisdiction will be unable to cover the costs and will have to pull its request.

Manning said the board strives to keep classes small, but she said there are more important factors that make up good classrooms.

“A lot of what goes into a good classroom is the makeup of the classroom and how manageable those students are in that classroom. We try to make sure that the teachers have lots of support and kids are getting the best that they possibly can.

“We believe that the key to a good education is having good teachers in front of kids,” she said.

West Park Elementary has the highest class sizes (20.1 students) for core subjects for Kindergarten to Grade 3; class sizes this year rose by an average of nearly seven students to 28 per class in Grades 4-6 at Fairview School. West Park also has the fullest Grades 7-9 classrooms, with averages of 28 students, while an average of 27.5 students fill each classroom at Hunting Hills High School. mfish@reddeeradvocate. com

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BY BOB WEBER THE CANADIAN PRESS An Alberta aboriginal band that has been fighting for a reserve for decades has filed an injunction against a Calgary energy company to stop it from drilling on lands they seek to claim.

The lawsuit, filed by the Lubicon First Nation against PennWest Exploration (TSX:PWT), seeks to stop all fracking activity on lands around Haig Lake.

“We’re trying to get an injunction to have them vacate the premises and cease all activities there,” said their lawyer James O’Reilly from Montreal.

“That area is the very area that was one of the reserves to be set aside for the Lubicons. That’s a very sacred place and a very, very traditional place.”

Last week, the First Nation set up a blockade to keep PennWest workers off an access road leading to a drill site, which was still in place Monday.

That blockade was not supported by the Lubicon Band, a separate group that has elected its own chief and council and is recognized by the federal government.

In its lawsuit, the First Nation argues that the Alberta government can’t grant mineral rights on land the Lubicon never surrendered to it.

The band and the federal and provincial governments have been trying to work out a land claim since the 1980s, coming closest in 1988 af— JAMES O’REILLY ter a proposed settlement with traditional chief Bernard Ominayak and championed by then-premier Don Getty. That deal fell apart in 1995 over disputes about the size of the band.

However, the province continued to issue energy leases in the area, including those areas around Haig Lake.

That early exploration was accompanied by discussions between PennWest and Ominayak’s group, said O’Reilly.

He said that consultation stopped after last February’s election of Billy Joe Laboucan as chief of the federally-recognized Lubicon Band.

“At least (before) there were some meaningful and significant discussions,” said O’Reilly. “PennWest cut all that off, supposedly, when they were told (to) by Indian Affairs.”

PennWest officials have said provincial regulations require them to deal with federally recognized bands.

The company has not yet entered a statement of defence on Monday’s lawsuit and declined to comment on a matter before the courts.

It’s the second lawsuit the Lubicon First Nation has filed in recent months.

O’Reilly described the recent filing as a “sequel” to first.

Last June, the First Nation sued the federal government for a reserve.

The statement of claim calls for the band to be given title to up to 246 square kilometres of land, including natural resources and hunting, fishing and trapping rights.

It wants all existing oil and natural gas leases and permits granted by Alberta to companies to be declared null and void and $700 million in compensation for resources already taken off their land.

The band also wants Ottawa to declare that the federal government breached the honour of the Crown by failing to negotiate with the Lubicon in good faith over the years and to admit that it deliberately promoted dissent within the band.

Statements of claim contain allegations that have not been proven in court.

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Was that Grey Friday?

Canadians get so much American content on TV and their personal portable entertainment devices that it’s possible to think there’s not a lot of cultural differences between our countries.

We also do so much of our import and export business with the U.S. that our economic behaviours should not differ that much, either.

But we’ve been hearing that story for decades, and GREG our cultural NEIMAN and economic borders remain intact. The Canadian experience with the irrational phenomenon of Black Friday may just be the proof of it.

This year is a bit of an odd duck, as far as Christmas shopping goes. The season officially kicks off with Black Friday, which coincides with American Thanksgiving, which this year also coincides with Hanukah. Both also coincide with a season containing six

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fewer shopping days before Christmas.

Calendar buffs tell us such a triple confluence will not happen again until long after humanity is wiped out by an asteroid.

Even then, surviving species will probably still line up overnight outside whatever large retail outlets remain standing in what used to be the U.S. And, as I heard one commentator remark, while still digesting the feast they ate to give thanks for all the stuff they already have.

But not in Canada. We’re smarter than that.

Depending on whose website you can trust, Christmas shopping can account for as much as 30 per cent of total U.S. retail sales, and 40 per cent of American retail profits.

That includes the deep discounts purportedly offered on Black Friday, and Cyber Week to follow.

Statistics Canada puts that figure at just 10 per cent of total retail sales for us, which is only 1.5 per cent above the monthly average. (To allow that percentage, January, February and March are significantly below average.)

Yes, Christmas shopping is indeed significant to our retail economy — it is the basis of the Christmas season as we have come to live it. But Black Friday will probably never catch on here

the way it has south of the border.

Why not? Three reasons.

First, the Black Friday frenzy of violent shopping is already burning out in the U.S. Early reports show sales are down about three per cent from last year, and represent the first drop since the Great Recession.

Analysts point to a 17 per cent oneyear surge in online shopping as a reason. All those electronic devices that shoppers got in previous sales are actually being used for their intended purpose: online commerce.

Second, despite the hysteria around the event in America, consumers are waking up to a realization the discounts, however deep, are less than they believed.

Consider clothing and fashion (which my friends remark that I seldom do).

Even at 40 or 50 per cent off a designer sweater, you’re still paying $40 or $50 — for a sweater that consumers can reasonably suspect cost less than $5 to produce.

It makes you wonder who was ever dumb enough to pay full price.

Which plants the seed of the demise of Black Friday. Certainly, retailers offer loss-leader discounts on some items, but when the whole store is discounted all day (or longer) and they

still make money, you have to wonder what’s up about the rest of the year.

This leads to consumer cynicism, which leads to greater use of our first point: online searches for discounts year-round.

A third consideration is our more Canadian retailing tradition: the Boxing Day sale.

With the steady rise of gift cards as Christmas presents, Boxing Day sales are a far more logical follow-up. We get our Christmas presents twice: once under the tree in a nice envelope, and once again as a bonus discount on an item on Boxing Day (or Boxing Week nowadays).

And it’s always just what we wanted for Christmas, because we pick it up ourselves.

The retail association spokespeople quoted on the articles I saw tell us the industry cannot support both Black Friday and Boxing Day. It is more rational to delay gratification (while doubling it) on Boxing Day. That is why I believe Black Friday will remain grey in Canada.

Merry Christmas, and happy shopping to all.

Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate editor. Follow his blog at readersadvocate. blogspot.ca or email greg.neiman.blog@ gmail.com.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Sidewalks are for people, not vehicles To the intellectual midget(s) who seem incapable to taking the turn on Selkirk Boulevard in Sunnybrook without driving on the sidewalk, here’s a tip — not only is driving on the sidewalk illegal and a danger to pedestrians, it’s a remarkably stupid thing to do.

Contrary to what you seem to think, the sidewalks are cleared for pedestrian safety and not your driving convenience.

If you should ever ‘accidentally’ take out a pedestrian on that corner you will be responsible — think about that the next time you’re tempted to take a short cut.

Brian McLoughlin Red Deer

A pedal-to-the-metal guy THE LATE 240 GORDIE BONIN WAS ALWAYS FAST, AND GREAT, COMPANY The sudden passing of Red Deer’s own 240 Gordie Bonin was a big loss to the car guy community in our area and all over the world, for that matter.

I wrote a piece in the Advocate about Gordie a few years ago, after I was introduced to him by some of the local car guys.

I was well aware of 240 from a fan’s point of view because he was a local guy who competed on the biggest stage in drag racing against the top National Hot Rod Association drivers, including legends like Don “the Snake” Prudhomme.

JIM Drag racing at this level is SUTHERLAND reserved for the best drivers in the world and 240 ran with the big dogs every year during the height of his career.

Gordie got into the Alberta track scene early in his career but he was ready for the big leagues by 1972 and he hit the ground running very hard in the NHRA Funny Car class that year.

The nickname “240” was earned when he broke through the 240 mph barrier on the quarter-mile track; a feat first accomplished by Prudhomme but, as Gordie pointed out, 240 rhymes with Gordie and it became his handle.

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Gordie set the then-current world Funny Car speed record of 245.49 mph at the 1979 World Nationals and further cemented his ownership of the 240 moniker with that milestone speed mark. At the time I thought: “Wow this guy’s from Red Deer and he is a world class driver.”

So I was really happy to actually meet 240 Gordie Bonin right here in his home town of Red Deer back in September 2009.

Gordie may have been born in Prince Albert, Sask., but he moved here as a kid and his heart was always in Red Deer. He had begun to split his time between his home in the States and back here in Red Deer to spend time with his parents and later his widowed mother after the death of his father Joe in 2007.

I wanted to talk to Gordie about his career so I met him with his mother Marie two years ago at a local diner for lunch. I was amazed at how much information Gordie had about the details of his race career. For a minute, I thought he should change his name to Google Search Gordie because I was hardpressed to write fast enough to keep up with him as he relayed his race history to me.

That was kind of fitting because 240 Gordie never ran his life at a slow idle; he was a pedal-to-themetal guy all the way in his life. He had lived a fascinating life in the fast lane as an NHRA Funny Car driver and enjoyed every minute of his adventures along the way.

I ran into 240 at car events many times after my

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initial introduction to him, but I also discovered another side of Gordie when he was introduced to a young car guy named Aidan Fitzgerald. Aidan had muscular dystrophy and was confined to a hospital bed when 240 met him. The two of them became good friends and Gordie arranged for Aidan to attend a major drag race event at Castrol Raceway a few months before Aidan passed away at the young age of 20 on Oct. 31, 2011.

What I learned about Gordie after he met Aidan was how much he cared about people and would do whatever he could to help them.

He never wanted any credit for this element of his life, in fact he seemed to prefer to keep his people side quiet, but it was obvious to me that Gordie wore his heart on his sleeve when it came to others.

I last talked to Gordie about a month and a half ago when he called to tell me about his future plans to get back into the race game as part of a nostalgia promotion. I was always impressed with the amount of enthusiasm Gordie had for everything he did in life and he was very excited to talk about his game plan.

Unfortunately, the next chapter in 240 Gordie Bonin’s life will never be written, but the man had already written a very thick book of incredible life experiences, all of them in the fast lane where he really loved the view.

Car people all over the world will miss him.

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Leader’s holiday message questioned as being either an insult or bad humour read one comment on Twitter.

“I wonder at what point in the video did WINNIPEG — ManiBrian Pallister start to toba’s Opposition leader think he probably should has offered his holiday have kept his mouth wishes to groups of peoshut,” read another. ple including “infidel Others characterized atheists,” leaving online the message as a clumsy commentators divided attempt at humour and as to whether the phrase pointed out that Palliswas insulting or an awkter’s use of the word is ward attempt at humour. backed by some dictionBrian Pallister gave aries, which define infian impromptu holiday del as someone who eimessage last week to a ther does not believe in citizen journalist armed a particular religion or with a video camera. In holds no religious belief. the recording, which has File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS The head of the Huthousands of views on YouTube, Pallister of- Manitoba Opposition Leader Brian Pallister at the manists, Atheists and fers seasonal greeting to Legislature in Winnipeg, Tuesday, November 12, Agnostics of Manitoba said Pallister’s words Christians, Jews and oth2013. Pallister has offered his holiday wishes to were equal parts clumsy ers.

“All you infidel athe- groups of people including — infidel atheists — and offensive, especially ists out there, I want to leaving opinion divided as to whether the phrase given the way the term infidel is used in other wish you the very best was insulting or an awkward attempt at humour. parts of the world. also,” the Progressive “Being a non-believer Conservative leader says or an infidel from the loon the video.

“I don’t know what you celebrate during the holi- cal dominant religion can be almost dangerous to day season. I myself celebrate the birth of Christ, one’s life,” Donna Harris said.

Pallister didn’t directly apologize Monday. but it’s your choice, and I respect your choice. If you He asked for forgiveness while at the same time wish to celebrate nothing and just get together with defending his use of the word infidel. friends, that’s good too.”

“I used a word that means what it means,” PallisNew Democrat and Liberal party faithful were among the first to spread word of the video on social ter told reporters.

“I’d just ask people in Manitoba, I hope, to forgive media. The video was viewed thousands of times over the weekend, spawning a wide range of reac- me at this time of year if they think I stepped on their toes, but I didn’t. tion.

“I sincerely just meant to include everyone in my “Merry Christmas to you, from one infidel atheist to a bigoted ‘Christian.’ Judge not lest ye be judged,” best wishes.”

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Nova Scotia Liberal breaks down in discussing photo of blackface character a smiling Stroink sitting on the lap of Zwarte Piet, or “Black Pete,” a Dutch character who has been at the centre of debate in the Netherlands.

“Giving some love to Zwarte Piet and Sinterklass (sic) thank you to the Dutch Community for putting this event on,” Stroink tweeted.

A traditional song refers to the character as a “servant” to the elderly St. Nicholas, but in recent years those references have largely been replaced with the idea that he is black from chimney soot as he scrambles down to deliver toys and sweets for children who leave their shoes out overnight.

Stroink was on the verge of tears as he discussed how difficult it has been to deal with the reaction to the photo and why he got into politics.

“It’s been incredibly hard,” he said. “I didn’t sign up for this. I did this because I wanted to better Nova Scotia.”

Stroink said he met with Tony Ince, a black member of the legislature and the minister of African Nova Scotian affairs, to discuss the tradition and he wants to be part of a discussion to determine its future.

“I don’t know what that character is going to

THE CANADIAN PRESS A Nova Scotia politician fought back tears Monday as he discussed a photo showing him sitting on the lap of a blackface Christmas character, telling the province’s African community he’s sorry for any offence and wants to be part of a conversation about whether Zwarte Piet has a place in the Dutch community’s holiday celebrations.

Liberal member Joachim Stroink tweeted the picture of himself and his wife at a Dutch Christmas event Sunday in Halifax, which he said he has attended for several years to mark the start of the holiday season. After receiving some criticism, he deleted the photo from his Twitter account and apologized Monday for any offence he caused.

“I do acknowledge that that whole blackface culture, there is no place for that in Nova Scotia, nor in our (Dutch) culture as well,” he said.

“There was no malicious intent whatsoever.

This is a Dutch tradition that I grew up with and never ever in my deepest heart, ever thought that this would be portrayed in this manner.”

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look like in the future,” Stroink added. “I don’t know if he’s part of it or not here in Nova Scotia.”

Ince said while he was disappointed the incident happened, the fallout provides an opportunity to talk about the issues surrounding certain cultural traditions and how they might affect others.

“I think in order for us to move forward we have to look at traditions overall,” said Ince. “Traditions aren’t static. Traditions can be changed.”

The photo, screen grabs of which were making the rounds on social media, generated instant condemnation on Twitter, with many saying Stroink should have recognized the sensitivity around the image despite its cultural significance in the Dutch community.

“It is, frankly, astonishing that a politician would not know about black face, regardless of Sinterklaas tradition,” one person wrote.

“Traditions are also a great way to spread racist sentiment,” said another.

Kyley Harris, the director of communications for Premier Stephen McNeil, said the image showed a “great error in judgment, giv-

en his role as an elected representative” and should not have been posted.

Harris said an official in the party retweeted the photo after seeing a small version of it on a Blackberry without fully understanding what it was.

Werner van der Velden, one of the organizers of Sunday’s event, said no one thought twice about including the character in the annual celebration.

“It’s something that’s been going on forever, basically,” he said.

He said this year will likely be Black Pete’s last in Halifax and he believes others will soon stop using the character as well.

“I think in the next few years there will be no such thing as a Black Pete anymore,” van der Velden said. “People see it as politically incorrect.”

Suspended senator lands new gig as reporter

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Patrick Brazeau once so loathed the media that he angrily lashed out on Twitter against a journalist who reported on his poor Senate attendance record.

But it seems losing a steady paycheque after getting booted from the upper chamber has done wonders for the disgraced senator’s opinion of the fourth estate.

Despite having no prior journalism experience, Brazeau — who is also facing charges of assault and sexual assault stemming from an incident in February — has found work as a freelance reporter for the Halifax edition of Frank Magazine.

Brazeau openly solicited work on Twitter after he and fellow former Conservative caucus members Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin were suspended by the Senate in early Patrick Brazeau November over their questionable expense claims.

Frank, the satire and gossip magazine — not to be confused with the entirely distinct Ottawa version of the same name — announced its newest hire Monday.

“Listen, here’s the deal: Frank Magazine exists, to paraphrase a famous quote, to comfort the afflicted, and be a pain (in) the arse to the comfortable,” managing editor Andrew Douglas wrote on the magazine’s website.

“And who could possibly be a bigger pain in the arse to, I dunno, just throwin’ out some names here, senators (Marjory) LeBreton, (David) Tkachuk and (Carolyn) Stewart Olsen than their former colleague, Patrick Brazeau? Can’t you just picture it?”

Those three Conservative senators — LeBreton was the former government Senate leader and Tkachuk and Stewart Olsen were members of the internal economy committee — are central figures in the Senate expenses scandal. Brazeau has accused the trio of conspiring to get him kicked out.

It’s a safe bet that few applications for membership with the parliamentary press gallery in Ottawa have ever generated as much media interest as Brazeau’s, which he delivered in person on Monday.

Brazeau, sporting a new close-cropped haircut, was immediately greeted by a crush of reporters and cameras when he arrived at the downtown Ottawa building that houses the press gallery’s office.

Some managed to squeeze in alongside him as he got on the building’s only working elevator. Others sprinted up the stairs, only to discover that Brazeau had disembarked at the wrong floor.

He did eventually make it to the office, where even more journalists were waiting for him to fill out the application. When he was done, however, Brazeau had little to say about his journalistic plans.

“Well, we’ll see. I mean, obviously a lot of my focus will be on the so-called Senate scandal,” Brazeau said. “I’ll be tackling that as soon as possible.”

It will now fall to the press gallery’s board of directors to decide whether or not to accredit Brazeau.

If it does, he will be granted a pass that allows him to roam freely through some of the corridors of the parliamentary precinct.

Press gallery president Daniel Thibeault said Brazeau’s application is a first for the institution.

“There’s so many unknowns in there that I wouldn’t dare speculate which way the board’s going to lean,” Thibeault said, noting that freelance members usually need assignment letters from two publications.

“It’s a former senator who still holds the title of senator. Even though he’s not in the (upper) chamber anymore, he still has a title. He’s asking as a freelancer on behalf of only one publication. So all of that together makes it difficult for me to even guess which way this application could go.”

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Canadian Navy says secrets of patrol ships not compromised

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The commander of the Royal Canadian Navy says he’s been assured the secrets of the military’s planned Arctic patrol ships have not fallen into the wrong hands, and the yard at the centre of the latest spy case is taking appropriate precautions with top-secret information.

The vote of confidence from ViceAdmiral Mark Norman, in an interview with The Canadian Press, comes as questions linger about precisely what data Qing Quentin Huang, 53, might have been offering to the government of China.

“I have the assurance, in this case from Irving, that the information they have provided, they are safeguarding in accordance with the rules and regulations of the government of Canada,” Norman said. “Situations like this should legitimately cause us to reflect on processes and procedures.”

But Norman said he’s satisfied the contractors in question “are committed to protecting that information and the sensitivity of the information we’re sharing with them.”

Both Lloyd’s Registry Canada, Huang’s employer, and Irving Shipbuilding Inc., the prime contractor on the patrol ships, say the suspect had neither security clearance nor access to classified information. Security services moved swiftly to arrest him over the weekend, apparently before any information was handed over.

It stands in contrast to the handling

of the case of former sub-lieutenant Jeffery Delisle, the ex-navy intelligence officer, who sold a trove of secrets to the Russians.

He was under surveillance by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service for months before the RCMP was called in to build a criminal case. During that time Delisle passed information to his handlers.

Much has been learned from the earlier spy scandal, said Norman said.

“The results of the Delisle case were significant and widespread in terms of their impact on not only procedures and practices and rules and regulations, but in terms of what I would describe as a culture and behaviour related to security,” he said. “There is a significantly heightened awareness.

There is a significantly increased focus on security behaviour.”

National Defence instituted a sweeping security review and new restrictions, including the locking down of highly sensitive work stations where intelligence from Canada’s allies in the so-called “Five Eyes” community is available.

Defence experts have said the increasing use of independent contractors for design, construction and maintenance of highly complex military equipment poses a new, potential emerging security concern.

In the case of shipbuilding, many of the functions used to be performed in-house, but the absence of new programs over the last decade has meant much of the expertise has either been cut or lost.

Opposition says PMO was sitting on senators’ emails

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Opposition parties aren’t buying the Harper government’s explanation for the sudden discovery of a cache of emails that could shed more light on the Senate expenses scandal and attempted cover-up.

The Privy Council Office, the bureaucracy that supports the Prime Minister’s Office, is taking the blame for mistakenly telling the RCMP that emails belonging to former PMO legal counsel Benjamin Perrin were deleted when he left the government’s employ last March.

But New Democrats and Liberals suspect the PMO was sitting on the emails and is now throwing bureaucrats under the bus.

And they’re questioning whether anyone can trust that Perrin’s emails haven’t been tampered with to remove damaging information.

“What we’re talking about is the operating protocol of the Prime Minister’s Office, which is to deny until they get caught and then change their story,” NDP Leader Tom Mulcair said in the Commons.

“How can Canadians be assured of the integrity of any of this evidence when the Conservative government has been withholding it for three months?”

Liberal House leader Dominic LeBlanc suggested the emails have surfaced now only because the RCMP has dug deep enough that Prime Minister

Stephen Harper “has no other choice but to confess the truth.”

“It looks a bit like the Rob Ford crisis management strategy,” LeBlanc said, referring to the Toronto mayor’s abrupt confession that he smoked crack cocaine after months of vehement denials.

Harper was not in the Commons on Monday.

Pierre Poilievre, minister responsible for democratic reform, fielded the opposition questions by repeatedly citing passages from a PCO letter to the RCMP, released late Sunday.

The letter, from Isabelle Mondou, assistant secretary to the cabinet, says that it twice advised the PMO in September that, following standard practice, Perrin’s emails were deleted when he left the government’s employ last March to teach law at the University of British Columbia.

However, when asked again last week by PMO about Perrin’s emails, PCO discovered on Friday that they had, in fact, been preserved due to his involvement in an unrelated legal matter.

In Sunday’s letter, Mondou apologized for the error and promised to hand them over immediately.

Previously disclosed emails obtained from other PM staffers and filed in court by the RCMP, have shown Perrin was intimately involved in negotiating a deal to get Sen. Mike Duffy to repay his disallowed living expenses.

Perrin has engaged legal counsel and has declined all comment.

Bullying.

That’s not the Alberta way.

Premier Alison Redford

Stop Bill 46 In 1977, Premier Peter Lougheed promised that in all future contract negotiations, provincial employees would have the right to binding arbitration in lieu of the right to strike.

Today, Premier Alison Redford is ramming through Bill 46, which goes back on that promise and takes the right to arbitration away from 22,000 front-line government employees.

Redford’s Bill 46 gives government the power to freeze wages, with no independent arbitrator determining what is fair and justified. That’s not negotiating, that’s bullying.

And bullying is not the Alberta way.

The Alberta way has always been to keep your promises and respect the rights of others.

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RBC Wealth Management becomes latest tenant at Stantec Executive Place

Low-cost carrier Jetlines looking at Red Deer

BY ADVOCATE STAFF It’s taken some time, but Red Deer’s most prominent office building is filling up.

RBC Wealth Management is preparing to take over the third floor of the 12-storey Stantec Executive Place at 4900 50th St. Claire Holland, director of global external communication with the financial institution, confirmed on Monday that RBC Wealth Management will move its operations there from Parkland Square at 4901 48th St., effective Dec. 9.

Thirty staff are affected, she said, including 17 RBC Dominion Securities investment advisers.

Holland said the move is required due to business growth.

RBC Wealth Management provides services in such areas as investment management, trust and estate planning, private banking and asset management.

Nova Chemicals Corp. already occupies the fourth, fifth and sixth floors of Stantec Executive Place. Stantec Inc. has half of the seventh floor and all of the levels above that, and has committed to lease the remainder of the seventh floor.

Rileys, a Calgarybased company that provides document and print services to corporate customers, is currently on the seventh floor but will relocate to space on the ground level, said Jose Muyot, the building’s manager.

The Business Development Bank of Canada is leasing about 2,000 square feet of the second

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RBC Wealth Management is moving into the Stantec Executive Place building at the corner of Ross Street and 49th Avenue in Red Deer. floor, with another corporate tenant likely to take a similar amount in the new year, said Muyot.

That would leave ap-

proximately 2,000 square feet on the second floor and 4,500 square feet — divided into three retail spaces — on the ground floor.

Stantec Executive Place was developed by Beca International Ltd. and Clark Builders.

It was completed in 2010.

Servus prepares to share $47.6 million under profit-sharing program

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Servus Credit Union members will share in $47.6 million this year, the Edmonton-based financial institution announced on Monday.

The money is being distributed under Servus’s profit sharing program, which pays cash to members — as well as a dividend on common shares and investment shares — based on the volume of banking they do.

Commercial and agricultural members receive a cash rebate on

their service charges.

Wade Bendfeld, Servus’s public relations manager, said the money owed to each member under the program is being deposited into their accounts now. This process is expected to be completed by Dec. 8, he said.

Last year, the profit sharing program resulted in $45.8 million being dispersed to members. Servus currently has nearly 390,000 members, with these banking at more than 100 locations in 62 Alberta communities.

Financial results for Servus’s 2013 fiscal year, which ended Oct. 31, are not expected to be an-

nounced until early next year. But at the end of the credit union’s third quarter, it reported that income was up 11.6 per cent over the same period in 2012.

Garth Warner, Servus’s president and CEO, hinted in Monday’s release that the final quarter was also profitable.

“We finished very strong in 2013 and we are in a good position to thank our members for their business with a little more in their accounts.”

Servus’s annual general meeting is scheduled for March 12 in Lloydminster.

Former Harper appointee calls Canada rogue state on environment

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — A former Harper government appointee used a keynote speech at a Washington event Monday to trample Canadian authorities’ message on oil pipelines while describing the country as an environmental “rogue state.”

Mark Jaccard became one of the first people nominated by the Conservatives to the environmental file when he was named in 2006 to the federal government’s now-defunct National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy.

Seven years later, the environmental economist delivered a lengthy rebuke of Canada’s climatechange performance at Monday’s event while the Obama administration grapples with whether to approve the Alberta-U.S. pipeline.

Jaccard, an adviser to different governments and a professor at B.C.’s Simon Fraser University, said he doesn’t want the oilsands shut down — he just doesn’t want them to grow.

“On climate, Canada is a rogue state,” Jaccard said.

“It’s accelerating the global tragedy ... The U.S. government should reject Keystone XL and explain to the Canadian government that it hopes to join with

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Canada (on a global climate plan).”

That message stands in sharp contrast to that of the Canadian government, which has spent millions to publicize the benefits to both countries of developing the oilsands.

Jaccard was the headline speaker at a summit tied to a well-connected Democratic donor, the socalled “green billionaire” Tom Steyer, and attended by a number of U.S. media outlets.

Jaccard has become an increasingly bitter critic of the federal government.

He was even arrested last year after joining a blockade on a train carrying U.S. coal from B.C. His disenchantment with the Conservative government reached a boil after the 2011 election, Jaccard said in an interview after his speech.

He said he tried to work with the government — not only at the Round Table, but as an adviser to then-environment minister Rona Ambrose.

But after the Conservatives won a majority in 2011, the rhetoric hardened, the Round Table vanished and it became clear they had no interest in tackling climate change, Jaccard said.

“In 2011, the gloves came off.”

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Red Deer Airport has been identified as a possible service centre for an “ultra-low-cost” air carrier that’s seeking to start up in Western Canada.

Vancouver-based Canada Jetlines Ltd. is soliciting investors to finance its plans for a deep-discount passenger air service.

Its business model involves selling tickets for 25 to 40 per cent less than competitors like Air Canada and WestJet, with its revenues supplemented by additional charges for things like luggage and carry-on baggage, food and beverages, roomier seats and seating in prime locations on planes.

The company has indicated it wants to target under-served Canadian markets, with Red Deer listed among the cities of interest.

“I’ve met with them and I’ve presented to them,” said RJ Steenstra, CEO of the Red Deer Airport Authority.

“They have our market information.”

He feels Central Alberta meets the definition of an under-served market, and pointed out that the low operating costs at the Red Deer Airport should appeal to Canada Jetlines.

“We’re certainly very optimistic that Red Deer has the potential to bring in an airline such as this because the market is so intriguing and underserved.”

But, Steenstra stressed, it’s very early in the process and there’s no guarantee Canada Jetlines will ever get off the ground. Plus, he added, the Airbus A319 jets that the company plans to operate require a 6,000-foot runway — about 500 feet more than the Red Deer Airport has now.

“That would be the one stumbling block, potentially, with this.”

However, Steenstra said he’s encouraged that the local airport is at least in the Canada Jetlines conversation.

“I’m pleased to see the mention.”

Canada Jetlines has said it hopes to commence operations next summer with two aircraft, and then grow its fleet to 16 within 2 ½ years.

It expects to eventually expand into the primary air markets.

The Red Deer Airport is currently served by Air Canada, which flies to Calgary three times a day.

Northwestern Air also flies from Red Deer to Kelowna six days a week, with four of those flights continuing on to Abbotsford; and from Red Deer to Fort McMurray four days a week.

Steenstra said Air Canada, which began flying out of Red Deer three months ago, is happy with its passenger counts.

“Overall I think we’re very pleased in terms of the numbers and where they’re continuing to grow, and the adoption that the market is taking to this service.

“That bodes well for the future.”

Meanwhile, added Steenstra, Northwestern Air is planning to station a third aircraft at the Red Deer Airport, with the possibility of two more next year.

“They really view Red Deer as a key component of their airline’s growth.”

Northwestern Air offers charter service out of the airport, as well as scheduled passenger service. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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High Arctic Energy names Michael Maguire as V-P international High Arctic Energy Services Inc. (TSX: HWO) has named Michael Maguire its vice-president, international.

The Red Deer-based company said in a release that Maguire will be based in Australia and responsible for the day-to-day management of High Arctic’s operations in Papua New Guinea.

It added that Maguire has nearly 20 years of oil field experience, the last seven with a large Australian oilfield service company.

High Arctic provides specialized oilfield equipment and services. It operates throughout Western Canada, as well as in Papua New Guinea.

Feds pledge to Grain Growers The federal government has pledged $100,000 to the Grain Growers of Canada.

Red Deer MP Earl Dreeshen made the announcement on behalf of Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz in Calgary on Monday. The funding comes under the Growing Forward 2 AgriMarketing Program, and is expected to help develop export markets for Canadian wheat.

“This investment will allow the industry to strengthen wheat exports and develop new and emerging markets for our wheat,” said Gary Stanford, vice-president of the Grain Growers of Canada and a director with the Alberta Wheat Commission.

“New marketing changes mean that farmers have an opportunity to sell many classes of wheat to the world and there are a number of new marketing opportunities on the horizon for Canadian wheat.”

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 96.52 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 48.97 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.77 BlackBerry Ltd. . . . . . . . . . 6.80 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.79 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.11 Cdn. National Railway . . 61.48 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 166.56 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 35.90 Capital Power Corp . . . . 20.79 Cervus Equipment Corp 24.00 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . 39.9/8 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 43.78 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 24.81 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.08 General Motors Co. . . . . 39.11 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 18.16 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.64 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 47.47 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 70.62 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 37.39 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 14.00 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 47.39 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 99.79 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.77 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.36 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 43.82 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 16.78 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 13010 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.88 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 63.12 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.11 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 28.14 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 16.54 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.90 First Quantum Minerals . 17.25 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 22.74 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 7.41 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.83 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 33.71 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.39 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed higher Monday as the latest manufacturing data pointed to continued recovery in the American economy even though U.S. Thanksgiving holiday sales were mixed.

The S&P/TSX composite index climbed 24.17 points to 13,419.57, while the Canadian dollar hovered near levels not seen since June 2010.

The loonie closed down 0.18 of a cent at 93.98 cents U.S. Wall Street indexes were lower, as the Dow Jones industrials pulled back 77.64 points to 16,008.77, the Nasdaq dipped 14.63 points to 4,045.26 and the S&P 500 index fell 4.91 points to 1,800.90.

The Institute for Supply Management reported that factories increased production and hiring amid a large number of new orders last month. Its index of manufacturing activity rose in November to 57.3 from 56.4 in October and was the highest since April 2011. A reading above 50 indicates growth.

Meanwhile, economic news from China was also positive, with the HSBC purchasing managers’ index for November coming in at 50.8. Although the reading was down slightly from 50.9 in October, it was still the second-highest level in eight months and an improvement from a preliminary reading of 50.4 released earlier last month. Typically, numbers above 50 indicate an expansion.

Investors in the U.S. returned after a lacklustre Friday session, which was shortened due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

A survey with 4,500 shoppers conducted for the National Retail Federation found that total spending over four-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend was expected to fall for the first time since 2006. But figures for Cyber Monday forecast that 131 million people were going to shop online, up about two per cent from last year.

The consensus is that the U.S. central bank will not begin to taper until the new year. But positive payroll figures, new home sales and the final revision to third quarter GDP, may have the potential to change the Fed’s mind.

In corporate news, Talisman Energy Inc. (TSX:TLM) says two representatives of activist investor Carl Icahn will join its board.

One of Icahn’s representatives will sit on the board committee searching for a successor to Hal Kvisle, who plans to step down as Talisman’s president and chief executive next year. Icahn revealed through regulatory documents in October that he had acquired about six per cent of Talisman’s stock and has since increased his holdings to about seven per cent.

Last month, Talisman announced it would sell 75 per cent of its assets in northeastern B.C.’s Montney formation to Progress Energy Canada Ltd., a subsidiary of Malaysia’s Petronas, for $1.5 billion. Shares rose 4.18 per cent or 52 cents to $12.95.

The Toronto Stock Exchange saw gold, materials and metals and mining all decline. The gold sector was the leading decliner, dropping 4.93 per cent as February bullion fell $28.50 to US$1,221.90 an ounce.

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Teck Resources . . . . . . . 25.44 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 28.76 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 86.20 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 56.25 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.41 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 53.76 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 34.84 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 19.93 Canyon Services Group. 11.15 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 31.22 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.830 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 20.33 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 3.06 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 93.52 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 52.01 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.78 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 30.28 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 45.29 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . . NA Penn West Energy . . . . . . 9.16 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.420 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 9.85 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.93 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 12.99 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 12.22 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 9.69 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 58.80 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 47.53 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 65.35 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.38 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 34.60 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.15 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 32.78 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 54.44 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 69.00 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.72 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 92.65 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.85 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 70.44 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 37.33 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96.86 largest gold companies, Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX), fell more than six per cent, or $1.07 to $16.54 following reports that founder Peter Munk plans to soon step aside as co-chairman.

The company refused to comment Monday, except to say it will provide an update later this week.

Other commodities were mixed as the January crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange climbed $1.10 to US$93.82 a barrel as the sector saw an uptick of 0.62 per cent. The metals and mining sector on the TSX fell 1.90 per cent as March copper dropped two cents to US$3.18 a pound.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close Monday Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,419.57 up 24.17 points TSX Venture Exchange — 922.49 down 12.40 points TSX 60 — 774.37 up 2.51 points Dow — 16,008.77 down 77.64 points S&P 500 — 1,800.90 down 4.91 points Nasdaq — 4,045.26 down 14.63 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 93.98 cents US, down 0.18 of a cent Pound — C$1.7397, up 0.28 of a cent Euro — C$1.4407, down 0.17 of a cent Euro — US$1.3539, down 0.43 of a cent Oil futures: US$93.82 per barrel, up $1.10 (January contract) Gold futures: US$1,221.90 per oz., down $28.50 (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.515 per oz., down 11.7 cents $691.71 per kg., down $3.76 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Monday at 922.49, down 12.40 points. The volume at 4:17 p.m. ET was 148.70 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Jan. ’14 $3.30 lower $487.30; March ’14 $2.80 lower $497.20; May ’14 $1.80 lower $505.70; July ’14 $1.40 lower $512.00; Nov. ’14 unchanged $518.20; Jan ’15 unchanged $521.20; March ’15 $0.10 higher $522.10; May ’15 $0.10 higher $522.50; July ’15 $0.10 higher $519.70; Nov ’15 $0.10 higher $515.00; Jan. ’16 $0.10 higher $515.90.

Barley (Western): Dec ’13 unchanged $152.00; March ’14 unchanged $154.00; May ’14 unchanged $155.00; July ’14 unchanged $155.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $155.00; Dec. ’14 unchanged $155.00; March ’15 unchanged $155.00; May ’15 unchanged $155.00; July ’15 unchanged $155.00.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 582,640 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 582,640.

Canadian dollar closes near 2-year low, pressured by falling gold prices

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The Canadian dollar closed near a two-year low Monday as it felt the impact of lower prices for key commodities, particularly gold and crude oil.

The loonie was down 0.18 of a cent at 93.98 cents US, just shy of its close of 93.93 cents US on June 30, 2010.

Jennifer Dowty, an associate portfolio manager with CIBC Global Asset Management, said the dollar is feeling pressure as a result of dropping commodity prices.

February bullion fell $28.50 to US$1,221.90 an ounce, while March copper fell two cents to US$3.18 a pound.

Dowty forecasts this weakness will likely continue.

“The U.S. economy is steadily recovering and gold, being a safe haven, is not a place that investors need to be right now,” she said. “You’re seeing pressure on gold.”

Crude prices saw an uptick Monday after having lost ground over the past week due to concerns over rising supplies. The January crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange climbed $1.10 to US$93.82 a barrel

BlackBerry to focus on services to business users

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TORONTO — BlackBerry’s interim chief executive said Monday reports of the death of the company “are greatly exaggerated.”

Former Sybase CEO John Chen said in a letter to customers that BlackBerry is returning to its roots, refocusing on delivering devices and services to business users.

Chen was brought in as the interim chief executive and executive chair after talks to sell the company collapsed last month.

He said in the letter that the company is aware that “BlackBerry is not for everyone.”

Blackberry quickly lost dominance as the leading smartphone maker after the 2007 launch of Apple’s touchscreen iPhone.

Chen notes that competitors are circling but that BlackBerry is

“very much alive, thank you.”

Chen said BlackBerry has substantial cash and said he’ll refocus the company on four areas, including the handset business.

Chen put more emphasis on BlackBerry’s mobile device management business, which allows IT departments to manage different devices connected to their corporate networks.

He also emphasized BlackBerry’s popular BlackBerry Messenger application. And he mentioned embedded QNX software systems, which are used in-vehicle infotainment systems and industrial machines.

BGC analyst Colin Gillis said a letter meant to reassure customers is needed.

The much-hyped BlackBerry 10 system, its latest phones, flopped.

The company disclosed in September that it would book nearly a billion dollars in losses related to

STORY FROM PAGE A7 New rules for prepaid credit cards JACCARD: THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Ottawa is moving ahead with new regulations on so-called prepaid credit cards, but not in time for the holiday shopping season.

The federal government will bring in an array of regulations governing prepaid cards, including an end to expiry dates and a prohibition on charging maintenance fees for the first year.

The cards, often given as gift, will also need to clearly display all fees and conditions associated with their use on their exterior packaging.

However, government sources say the effective date for the new regulations won’t be until May. The new rules build on a proposed regulations suggested by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty last fall.

The announcement is expected to be made today by junior finance minister Kevin Sorenson and by Maxime Bernier, the minister of state for small business.

The Harper government has made protection of the consumer a key plank of its agenda leading up to the 2015 election campaign.

In last month’s throne speech, the government said it would take steps to reduce cellphone roaming charges, force cable companies to unbundle TV packages and seek ways to reduce the retail price gap between merchants in Canada and the United States.

An official said the prepaid card industry is rife with hidden and confusing fees that effectively drain them of their worth over time.

Also derides Liberals for approach on climate

In his career as an author, academic, and adviser to different governments since the Mulroney era, Jaccard also criticized the Liberals for a climate approach he still derides as a “labels-on-fridges-and-Rick-Mercerads” strategy to encourage behaviour changes.

More drastic policies are in order, he told his audience: greenhouse-gas emissions need to drop 50 to 75 per cent by 2050 to limit temperature growth to a 2C target — an impossible task with a growing oilpatch, Jaccard said.

The event, and the choice of location, were designed to arm-twist the Obama administration as it faces its Keystone dilemma.

Last June in Georgetown, President Barack Obama delivered a speech in June saying Keystone would not be approved if it significantly increases greenhouse-gas emissions.

The title of Monday’s event was, “Can Keystone Pass The President’s Climate Test?”

One speaker after another suggested that, no, Keystone cannot be approved without a significant increase in carbon pollution as a result.

In the hallways, the many Obama supporters speculated about when the long-awaited decision might finally come down. And some suggested they’ve become increasingly hopeful the project will be blocked, given Obama’s choice of words.

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unsold phones and the company announced last month it was no longer for sale.

“They are being targeted pretty heavily. Their customers are up for grabs,” Gillis said.

Focusing on business users is probably the only move Blackberry has left, Gillis said.

The decline of the BlackBerry has come shockingly fast.

The BlackBerry, pioneered in 1999, changed the culture by allowing on-the-go business people to access wireless email. Then came a new generation of competing smartphones, and suddenly the BlackBerry looked ancient.

Apple debuted the iPhone in 2007 and showed that phones can handle much more than email and phone calls.

In the years since, BlackBerry been hammered by competition from the iPhone as well as Android-based rivals.

Granholm even allowed herself to daydream about what an eventual presidential rejection might sound like.

A decision is expected in early 2014.

“I think he could deliver a speech that could give him a legacy he would be proud of,” Granholm, the event moderator, said from the stage.

Earlier, Steyer described Keystone as a logical investment for the oil industry that would drive up the value of Canadian oil and ramp up development — which is precisely why he believes it shouldn’t be allowed to proceed. “(Keystone) is a literal and a figurative line in the sands,” Steyer said.

“Keystone is the economic key to unlocking the tarsands and, as such, it fails the president’s test.”

The other side of the Keystone debate was not represented at the event. TransCanada boss Russ Girling (TSX:TRP) and Gary Doer, Canada’s ambassador to the U.S., both declined to attend.

The federal government later issued a lengthy statement condemning the characterization as a “rogue state.”

Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said that, whether or not Keystone goes ahead, the Canadian oil industry will represent a minuscule fraction of global emissions.

His statement also noted that 62 per cent of Canada’s electricity is generated from renewable sources — first in the G8, compared with 12 per cent in the U.S. Canada has taken action to shut down coal plants, the largest source of greenhouse gases in the world, he added.

While the Obama administration has taken steps to impose emissions restrictions and is believed to be planning more, coal remains an important source of energy in the U.S. TransCanada, for its part, derided Monday’s event as a sham.

It said the project had been reviewed for five years by nearly two dozen state and federal agencies and that the “professional opponents” of Keystone are obscuring the central question: “about where America wants to get a source of oil from that it clearly needs.”

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Train going too fast before curve NTSB SAYS CAUSE OF FATAL NYC TRAIN DERAILMENT STILL UNCLEAR YONKERS, N.Y. — A commuter train that derailed over the weekend, killing four passengers, was hurtling at 82 mph as it entered a 30 mph curve, a federal investigator said Monday. But whether the wreck was the result of human error or brake trouble was still unclear, he said.

Asked why the train was going so fast, National Transportation Safety Board member Earl Weener said: “That’s the question we need to answer.�

Weener said the information on the locomotive’s speed was preliminary and extracted from the Metro-North train’s two data recorders, taken from the wreckage after the Sunday morning accident in the Bronx.

He also said investigators had begun interviewing the crew members, but he would not disclose what the engineer had told them.

Weener said the throttle went to idle six seconds before the derailed train came to a complete stop — “very late in the game� for a train going that fast“ — and the brakes were fully engaged five seconds before the train stopped.

He said investigators were also examining the engineer’s cellphone — apparently to determine whether he was operating the train while distracted.

Asked whether the tragedy was the result of human error or faulty brakes, Weener said: “The answer is, at this point in time, we can’t tell.�

As investigators mined the data recorders for information, workers righted the fallen cars along the curve, a bend so sharp that the speed limit during the approach drops from 70 mph to 30 mph.

The wreck came two years before the federal government’s deadline for Metro-North and other railroads to install automatic-slowdown technology designed to prevent catastrophic accidents. But with the cause of Sunday’s wreck unknown, it was not clear whether the technology would have made a difference.

The engineer, William Rockefeller, was injured and “is totally traumatized by everything that has happened,� said Anthony Bottalico, executive director of the rail employees union. He said Rockefeller, 46, was co-operating fully with investigators. “He’s a sincere human being with an impeccable record that I know of.

He’s diligent and competent,� Bottalico said. Rockefeller has been an engineer for about 11 years and a MetroNorth employee for about 20, he said.

The NTSB has been urging railroads for decades to install technology that can stop wrecks caused by excessive speed or other problems.

Congress in 2008 required dozens of railroads, including Metro-North, to install the “positive train control� systems by 2015.

But the systems are expensive and complicated and cannot prevent an accident if there is a brake failure.

Railroads are trying to push back the deadline a few years.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs Metro-North, awarded $428 million in contracts in September to develop the system for Metro-North and its sister Long Island Rail Road. But the MTA has asked for an extension on the deadline to 2018, saying it faces technological and other hurdles in installing such a system across more than 1,000 rail cars and 1,200 miles of track.

While the train’s seven cars and locomotive were gradually returned to their tracks Monday, the 26,000 weekday riders on the railroad’s affected Hudson Line faced a complicated commute.

Many used shuttle buses and cars to get to work. But no major delays were reported during the early rush hour, railroad spokesman Aaron Donovan said.

Marketing worker Leanne Bloom normally takes the Hudson Line to work but drove to a stop on another line instead. She was surprised to find the train nearly empty. “I was expecting long lines� at the station, she said. “But I made it very easily.�

On Sunday, the train was about half full, with about 150 people aboard, when it ran off the rails around 7:20 a.m. while rounding a bend where the Harlem and Hudson rivers meet. The lead car landed inches from the water.

In addition to the four people killed, more than 60 were injured.

Many victims had been released from hospitals by Monday afternoon.

Seven were still in an intensive-care unit at St. Barnabas Hospital, some with spinal injuries, emergency department director Dr. David Listman said. And two patients were reported in critical condition at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

The injured included five police officers who were heading to work, according to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and a 14-year-old boy who was taking a weekend ride with his father on the same train the youngster usually takes to school.

The train’s assistant conductor, Maria Herbert, suffered an eye injury and a broken collarbone, Bottalico said.

Syria warns that without help, efforts to destroy chemical weapons will fail THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Syria’s deputy foreign minister warned Monday that efforts to rid his country of chemical weapons could fail if the international community does not contribute money and equipment.

Faisal Mekdad told reporters at a meeting of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons his country needs armoured vehicles and other resources to move chemicals out of Syria for destruction. “Without these resources it will be difficult if not impossible for Syria and for all OPCW to implement the decisions,� he said.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Kimoon also said in a letter to the Security Council that the mission needs an “unprecedented effort� by the world.

The OPCW is aiming to destroy Syria’s entire chemical weapons program by mid-2014. It is the first time the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization has attempted such a disarmament effort in the midst of a civil war.

Syria only joined the organization late this year to ward off possible airstrikes by Washington, which blamed President Bashar Assad’s regime for an Aug. 21 sarin attack on a Damascus suburb. Assad denies responsibility.

Dutch diplomat Sigrid Kaag told the meeting that key pieces of the complex puzzle that makes up the international plan to eliminate

Syria’s chemical weapons program are in place.

Norway and Denmark have offered merchant ships to help transport chemicals and the United States will provide a ship on which the most toxic chemicals can be destroyed at sea.

Some three dozen private companies also have expressed an interest in destroying less toxic chemicals, which make up the bulk of the 1,300 metric tons of weapons and chemicals declared

by Damascus. But the key challenge to the ambitious timeline remains Syria’s ongoing civil war. “Given the complexity of the mission and the unpredictable operating environment, many factors remain outside the control of the joint mission,� Ban said.

Kaag, who leads the joint United NationsOPCW mission in Syria, said the highway linking Damascus and Homs was closed recently as she visited the port of Latakia in a helicopter. The highway, which has been the scene of a monthslong government offensive against rebels, is an artery to coastal ports. “To get the material to port, it is necessary that roads are open and are safe and secure to use,�

Kaag said.

Mekdad expressed optimism that Damascus could win the fight. “We hope shortly we’ll be in control of the entire road,� he said. “These terrorists do not respect borders, or highways or United Nations or OPCW so we have to be very careful that’s

why we are asking for all these requirements to ensure a successful conclusion of the entire process.�

While Syrian forces bear primary responsibility for security for the chemical disarmament mission, Kaag said she was reaching out to all sides — including rebel groups — in the conflict that is in its third year.

In his letter, which included a progress report on the mission, Ban said Syrian authorities, “are being encouraged to consider alternative options to ensure the safety and security of inland transportation for the chemical material.�

He said that as of Nov. 25, a trust fund set up by the OPCW to fund the mission held 10.8 million euros ($14.6 million) and the U.N. trust found a further $2 million from the U.S. and pledges of 250,000 euros ($338,000) each from Denmark and Luxembourg. Other nations have made “voluntary in-kind contributions.�

They can include flights, the use of bases and equipment.

Packaging materials that will be used when toxic chemicals are transported have already started to arrive in Lebanon and the mission has organized a course to train Syrian personnel in preparing the chemicals to be moved out of the country by sea.

According to Ban’s letter, Syria amended its initial declaration to the OPCW to increase the total amount of declared munitions to approximately 1,260 items.

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Cranes salvage the last car from a train derailment in the Bronx section of New York, Monday. Federal authorities began righting the cars Monday morning as they started an exhaustive investigation into what caused a Metro-North commuter train rounding a riverside curve to derail, killing four people and injuring more than 60 others.

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TUESDAY, DEC. 3, 2013

Camels test positive for MERS FROM QATARI FARM WHERE TWO MEN FELL ILL

Aboriginal seniors face more challenges staying healthy

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS First Nations, Metis and Inuit of advancing years often have poorer health than their non-aboriginal counterparts but don’t receive the same level of health-care services as other Canadian seniors, a report says.

The Health Council of Canada report, released Thursday, says the health of aboriginal seniors can be compromised by poverty, inadequate housing and poor diet, especially for those living in remote areas where nutritious foods may be prohibitively expensive.

Chronic conditions such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease are more prevalent among aboriginal Canadians, compared with the general population, and those disorders can worsen with age.

“The challenge with First Nations, Metis or Inuit is that many of those seniors have lived in poverty throughout their lifespan,” said Dr. Catherine Cook, vice-president of population and aboriginal health for the Winnipeg Health Region and a councillor with the Health Council.

“So the challenges will have compounded in that,” said Cook, who is Metis.

“For example, if you’ve been eating a diet that is low-cost but high in carbohydrates, you may have acquired some of the illnesses that are chronic in nature, so you may be further down that spectrum of illness.”

Many older aboriginal Canadians also carry the scars of rampant societal racism and the trauma of being torn from their families to live in residential schools, where abuse, neglect and substandard health care were pervasive within the system.

The report says those experiences have resulted in lingering mental health issues for some elders, such as depression or even post-traumatic stress disorder.

But accessing health care can be physically, emotionally and financially challenging for many aboriginal seniors, who may have to travel to urban centres for services that are unavailable in remote or isolated communities.

A lack of access to primary physicians and specialists can lead to worsening health problems, said Wenda Watteyne, director of Metis Nation of Ontario’s health and wellness program.

“Oftentimes, complications related to chronic diseases aren’t being diagnosed, treated or screened, so oftentimes those diseases reach a point of urgency and people are being treated in emergency wards once it reaches a crisis point,” Watteyne said from Ottawa, referring to such complications as kidney failure from diabetes.

The Health Council says difficulties obtaining care are exacerbated by confusion over which level of government is responsible for which services and for which aboriginal groups.

For instance, First Nations and Inuit are covered by federal non-insured health benefits, but the Metis are ineligible for that program. The exclusion of First Nations from some provincial programs available to all other provincial residents is also contentious.

“You have a health-care (system) that has completely fragmented service for indigenous people,” said Cook, associate dean of First Nations, Metis and Inuit health at the University of Manitoba.

Like many other aboriginal Canadians, Metis often have limited incomes, said Watteyne. “But what is distinct is the Metis’ inability to access those noninsured health benefits. So that creates even greater pressures on limited incomes that are there.

“So just the ability to pay for expensive prescriptions, the ability to even cover the cost of transportation to see doctors and specialists (are difficult) because that’s not covered either.”

While the report details the barriers many aboriginal seniors face in accessing health care, it also lists examples of programs begun across the country to provide culturally appropriate services for these “respected and honoured” elder members of indigenous communities.

Metis Nation Ontario has developed 18 community support programs across the province that help seniors access care, said Watteyne. For example, volunteer drivers will transport seniors in northwestern Ontario to Winnipeg for cancer and other specialized care.

Soon-to-be 80 Jean Chretien ready to hit the ski hills KITE-BOARDED IN NORTH CAROLINA LAST SPRING

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Even with his 80th birthday fast approaching, former prime minister Jean Chretien isn’t slowing down — in fact, he can’t wait to get back on the ski slopes.

In a brief chat with The Canadian Press on Friday, Chretien described his health as “first class.”

“I’m still walking a lot and I will be skiing when the ski hills

open,” he said while being interviewed about the death of former senator Jean-Louis Roux, a prominent member of Quebec’s theatre community.

Last May, Chretien was pictured doing some kite-boarding in North Carolina. Video of the event was posted to YouTube.

Chretien joined the law firm of Heenan Blakie in January 2004 after stepping down as prime minister in December 2003.

He still goes to work every day, usually in Ottawa but also in Mon-

treal and elsewhere.

Chretien, who was born in Shawinigan, Que., on Jan. 11, 1934, added he’d rather be busy than doing nothing.

“My father used to say: ‘Move or get rusty’ — so I’m moving,” he said.

Chretien underwent emergency surgery in 2010 to remove a pool of blood that was putting pressure on his brain. He was at risk of a stroke or lasting brain injuries if the condition had not been treated quickly.

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Camels rest, during a weekly camel market in Birqash, Egypt. Health officials say they have found a mysterious respiratory virus in a herd of camels in Qatar linked to two human cases of the disease. In a statement, the World Health Organization said Qatari and Dutch scientists found three camels infected with MERS, a respiratory virus related to SARS, in a herd of 14 animals. Two men who both had contact with the camels later fell ill with MERS; both survived.

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Health officials in Qatar have announced they have found the MERS coronavirus in three camels from a farm where two people also contracted the virus.

While scientists are still trying to isolate the full virus from samples taken from the camels, the multiple fragments of RNA recovered are conclusive that the virus is MERS, Marion Koopmans, a Dutch virologist who is leading the laboratory work on the investigation, said in an interview.

“We have definitive proof that it’s MERS coronavirus,” Koopmans said in an interview from the Netherlands on Thursday.

The viral fragments were isolated from nose swabs taken from the camels, Koopmans said.

But finding infected camels and infected people on the same farm does not prove that the former transmitted the virus to the latter, she said.

It is theoretically possible that the camels contracted the virus from the people — two men, both of whom survived their brush with MERS. Or some other animal or animals on the farm may have played a role in the transmission dynamic.

“How they (the camels) got it and what the relationship (to humans) is, that still remains open, I think,” said Koopmans, who is chief of virology for the National Institute of Public Health for the Netherlands.

She praised the Qatari investigators, saying the work done on the farm was thorough and carefully done, with lots of information and specimens gathered.

Scientists in the Netherlands — who were asked to help — are still testing samples from other animals, and sifting through the information the Qataris gathered. There are only a few laboratories in the world that are equipped to do this type of work.

Koopmans cautioned against jumping to conclusions at this point.

“We have to put everything together carefully and then see what it tells us,” she said. “It’s still very much an ongoing investigation, so I think we need to really piece the information together.”

To date the World Health Organization has confirmed 160 infections with the new virus, which is from the same family as the SARS coronavirus. All of the infections either occurred in, or have links back to six countries in the Middle East: Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Kuwait.

In the 14 months since the world learned there was a new coronavirus spreading on the Arabian

Peninsula, suspicion has often focused on camels.

That’s because from time to time there have been reports that an infected person owned camels or attended camel races. But the WHO says many of the people who have contracted this virus reported no contact with the beasts.

The working hypothesis is the virus originated in bats, as SARS likely did before it. But people typically don’t have a lot of contact with bats, and scientists have assumed some animal or animals is playing a bridging role, transmitting MERS to people.

Koopmans and colleagues uncovered a big clue earlier this year, finding antibodies to MERS or a similar virus in camels from Oman and the Canary Islands. A later study found them in camels in Egypt as well.

But antibodies signal prior exposure to a pathogen. To confirm that camels play a role in this story, science needs evidence of current infection — which is what the Qatar team is reporting.

Earlier this month the deputy minister of health for Saudi Arabia, Dr. Ziad Memish, also reported a similar finding from a single camel in that country.

Memish said at the time that work was underway to compare the genetic sequences of viral material taken from the camel and the man who owned him, who had also contracted the virus.

Memish has not responded to repeated requests for information on how that work is progressing.

Koopmans said the findings will answer some questions but raises others.

“This is our first clue which further fills out the whole story,” agreed Bart Haagmans, a Dutch virologist who is involved in the laboratory side of this investigation.

“But there’s more work to do, especially on routes of transmission.”

Haagmans, who is with Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, said the team believes the findings are solid. They used three different tests, and found multiple fragments of viral RNA. As well, he said, the camels have developed antibodies to MERS. What remains to be discovered — the key question the WHO would like to see answered — is how people are becoming infected with this virus. It is also critical to find out how much of a role animal-toperson spread is playing at this point and how much transmission is person to person.

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FOOD COOKING

on a budget I had ordered one of ScratchDC’s twinetied “bundles” — a $28 box that contained all of the pre-measured, prechopped and pre-marinated ingredients needed to make awaze beef tibs with kik alicha — and prepared the meal at home the next day. Despite a couple of hiccups, the bundle produced an astonishingly authentic Ethiopian dinner.

Then I re-created the meal twice, with items bought at the grocery store: first using as many convenience foods (chopped onions in a container, diced tomatoes in a can, etc.) as I could find, and then using, with the exception of pre-ground spices, whole ingredients.

Most important, I tried to buy ingredients that matched the organic and locally sourced ones that ScratchDC favors.

Then I made the same dinner on the cheap. I went shopping for the same ingredients, this time at Snider’s Super Foods, a reliable supermarket in Silver Spring, Md., that sells affordable meats and produce. Unlike Whole Foods, however, Snider’s does not carry bulk spices, which forced me to buy (ugh) little plastic containers of spices and, once again, try to calculate the percentage of each one I used in the recipe.

For the record, I spent $53.38 at Snider’s for ingredients, and that did not include the green split peas or the injera, which the store does not sell.

Those last two items ran to $1.45 and $6, respectively (before calculating the percentage used in the recipe). All told, the ingredients totaled $60.83.

Not cheap, but not what it actually costs to prepare this dinner, either.

Once I performed the calculations, the amount spent on the actual ingredients used in the recipe totaled roughly $18.91, a good $9 cheaper than the ScratchDC kit. The price would have been even (slightly) lower had I been able to buy bulk spices.

The biggest price break came, as expected, with the meat. I originally shelled out $13 for grassfed, hormone-free sirloin at Whole Foods; this time around, I paid $6.71 for the store-brand boneless sirloin. I realized price savings on butter, onions and tomatoes, too. But as with my first preparations story, I did not try to figure in transportation costs. Nor the emotional fatigue of going from store to store to find the necessary ingredients.

For this preparation, the price savings was clear. But what about the time involved in making it? Or, more important, the taste?

Apart from travel time (which always chews up more minutes than you expect), the meal required more than two hours to prepare, mostly due to the green split-pea stew. I didn’t soak the dried peas long enough to cut down the cooking time. But the meal’s flavor compared favorably to the one prepared from the ScratchDC box, though the meat was a tad chewier.

How to account for that similarity in quality? I think it has to do with the nature of Ethiopian cooking, which is arguably less ingredient-driven than, say, Italian cooking. Sure, Ethiopians have told me that they avoid doro wat in America because the chicken here is inferior to that in their home country, and that if you don’t have high-quality beef, you shouldn’t even bother eating tere sega. Those entrees notwithstanding, Ethiopian cuisine relies heavily on stews and sautes, spice- and butter-rich dishes that can prove satisfying even with inferior proteins and conventionally grown produce shipped from God knows where.

The bottom line: Nine times out of 10, I’d select the ScratchDC preparation over the cheapo variation (for obvious reasons: convenience, better ingredients, slightly improved flavor, eco-friendliness), but if I wanted to save a few bucks, I wouldn’t feel cheated with my cut-rate version.

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TUESDAY, DEC. 3, 2013

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The ScratchDC dinner requires no grocery shopping and few kitchen skills.

BY TIM CARMAN ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

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ot so long ago, if you wanted to prepare dinner, you had no choice but to find a recipe, shop for groceries, measure out the ingredients, chop the vegetables, marinate the meat and invest as much time as necessary to put a meal on the table. Then U.S. food companies slowly convinced a generation or two that such toil was beneath them.

Various movements of recent vintage have helped us reclaim the kitchen, but they have not solved all of the problems.

Namely, work-obsessed Americans rarely seem to have time to cook, and when they do, many loathe the waste.

Leave it to American business to come to our rescue, again. McCormick, for one, manufactures tiny containers of pre-measured spices that you incorporate into a recipe supplied in the same convenient package. Grocery stores have jumped into this market, too, packing their shelves and coolers with pre-cut vegetables, pre-sliced mushrooms and pre-washed greens.

Then there’s ScratchDC. Ryan Hansan launched the company last year to supply Washingtonians with meals ready to cook.

That’s right: ready to cook, not ready to eat.

When you order a kit (or “bundle,” as the company calls it), ScratchDC will deliver, at your designated time, a box of ingredients that are pre-measured, pre-chopped, premarinated, pre-everything. A recipe tucked into the twine-tied box explains every step necessary, in chatty and non-technical terms, to transform the ingredients into the finished meal.

ScratchDC doesn’t just streamline the process of preparing dinner, from recipe hunting to shopping to chopping; it does so with an approach that appeases contemporary eaters who value high-quality ingredients with a small carbon footprint. Those boxes often come stuffed with products sourced from local farms or spices bought from organic producers.

“When l launched the company, it was really a classic or cliche example of someone solving a problem in their life,” says Hansan, 27, who notes that he loathed buying a bunch of parsley when he needed only a few leaves. “We set up [shop] to see if there’s a way of working more efficiently.”

By all signs — well, all signs according to Yelp — ScratchDC has created a monster.

The company has a perfect five-star rating based on 40 reviews, and that piqued my curiosity. I wanted not only to test-drive a bundle, to determine whether that perfect score was hype or reality, but also to compare ScratchDC’s approach with real scratch cooking.

And just for fun, I also wanted to compare the bundle and the scratch meal with a dinner prepared using as many prechopped and pre-ground ingredients as I could find at the supermarket — and also see how cheaply the meal could be made.

The goal was to analyze each dinner option by cost, time and taste — that final measure admittedly arbitrary — and see whether I could pick a clear winner.

The trick was to find a ScratchDC meal online that would accommodate all the approaches. I settled on an Ethiopian dinner, awaze beef tibs with kik alicha. The bundle costs $28, serves two (with leftovers) and claims a 30-minute cook time.

And the meal would have been done in a half-hour, had it not been for the split peas, which required nearly twice that time to reach their desired state. My meal was ready in about 55 minutes, which generated no panic whatsoever for me, a mere recipe tester with nary a waiting mouth to feed.

Apart from that issue, the ScratchDC dinner was surprisingly delicious. I say surprisingly because neither Hansan nor anyone else on his seven-member team has

formal culinary training, let alone experience with Ethiopian cooking. Regardless, I found the flavors and spicing faithful to the cuisine, though I’d suggest cooking the split peas longer for an even creamier texture.

(I should note that the bundle generates waste in the form of tiny plastic ingredient containers, paper and that cardboard box.

But Hansan says the plastic is cornstarchbased and biodegradable, and the rest is created from recycled materials.)

For the convenience-food version of the meal (I guess you can still call them convenience foods if you buy them at Whole Foods and cook them yourself), I purchased a container of chopped onions, a can of diced tomatoes, a can of sliced jalapenos, a jar of chopped garlic and various preground spices from the bulk section to better gauge the costs. The ingredients totaled about $31, with a scant few leftovers: an extra cucumber, a teaspoon or so of preground spices. Preparation and cooking time ran about 1 hour, 40 minutes, give or take a phone call or e-mail during which I might have forgotten to turn off the stopwatch.

The resulting meal was every bit as tasty as the ScratchDC bundle, with the benefit of fresh injera, but it required nearly twice the kitchen time. What’s more, the meal demanded extra time and money: I had to invest an unknown amount of gasoline and part of an evening to buy ingredients.

The scratch dinner was the real backbreaker. I ground as many spices as I could (including cloves, nutmeg, allspice and cardamom). I peeled and grated fresh ginger.

I chopped, sliced or diced all the vegetables. I presoaked the split green peas for an hour. All told, I spent a solid two hours on this version, and that’s with the kik alicha cooking in record time because of the water bath. The cost? About $29, or roughly the same price as the ScratchDC bundle, again without shopping and transportation costs figured in.

The from-scratch Ethiopian meal, however, was superior. The freshly ground spices, the cardamom in particular, invigorated the beef tibs with a bracing, almost acidic brightness, elevating the entire dish. It was tangible proof that convenience foods, even in their most elegant and well-packaged forms, can strip away layers of flavor and aroma, leaving us with a slightly compromised product. Even if we don’t know it.

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Awaze Beef Tibs With Kik Alicha. This dish will fill your house with wonderful aromas.

RECIPE

AWAZE BEEF TIBS WITH KIK ALICHA MAKES: 2 to 3 servings You’ll have some of the berbere spice rub left over; it can be stored in an airtight container for up to 1 month. The split peas need to be soaked for 1 hour. The seasoned beef needs to be refrigerated for 1 hour before it’s cooked.

1/2 cup dried green split peas 3 1/2 cups water 2 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 cup chopped white onion 1 tablespoon peeled, minced garlic 2 teaspoons peeled, grated ginger root 1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1 tablespoon chili powder 1/2 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper 1 tablespoon sweet paprika 1 tablespoon kosher salt 1 teaspoon ground coriander 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom 1 teaspoon ground fenugreek 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 14 ounces boneless angus sirloin 2 1/2 tablespoons berbere rub 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 4 pieces 1 large white onion, chopped 1 large tomato, cut into large dice Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper 1/4 cup sliced jalapeno pepper 2 large rounds fresh injera, for serving Tomato slices or wedges, for serving Cucumber slices, for serving FOR THE KIK ALICHA: Place the split peas in a bowl and cover with 1 cup of the water. Soak for 1 hour.

Meanwhile, make the berbere rub: Combine the chili powder, cayenne pepper, paprika, salt, coriander, ground ginger, cardamom, fenugreek, nutmeg, allspice, cloves and black pepper in a small cup. The yield is a generous 1/4 cup.

FOR THE BEEF TIBS: Cut the meat into 1-inch cubes, placing them in a bowl as you work.

Sprinkle 1 1/2 tablespoons of the rub over them and toss to coat evenly. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour.

Once the split peas have absorbed all or most of the water, heat the oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add the onion and garlic, stirring to coat. Cook for 4 to 6 minutes, then stir in the soaked split peas, grated ginger, turmeric, salt and pepper. Add 1 1/2 cups of the water; once it has been incorporated, increase the heat to medium-high and bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to medium-low. Cook, uncovered, for about 50 minutes, adding the remaining cup of water in increments during the last 20 to 30 minutes or so of cooking. The peas should be quite soft and close to disintegrating. If they’re done before the meat is done, keep warm on the lowest setting.

Meanwhile, melt half of the butter in a medium skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and tomato, stirring to coat. Add the seasoned beef; cook for about 5 minutes, then add the remaining tablespoon of rub, stirring to create a bit of clingy sauce. Cook the meat for a few more minutes; taste, and add salt and pepper as needed.

Stir in the remaining butter and the jalapeno slices (to taste).

When ready to assemble, tear one of the injera rounds into quarters and place one quarter on each plate. Tear the remaining injera into palm-size pieces, to be used for scooping up the beef tibs and kik alicha. Divide those components among the plates, creating mounds on top of the injera.

Garnish with the tomato and cucumber, plus any remaining jalapeno slices, if desired. Place several injera pieces on the plate; serve warm.

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Visual arts students’ work to be featured OTHER ART, MUSIC PLANNED FOR FRIDAY

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Directors Joel Coen, left, Ethan Coen, pose after being awarded the medals of Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres (Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters) during a ceremony at the Culture Ministry in Paris on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013.

The Coen brothers’ world KEEPING MATURITY AT BAY

NEW YORK — “If you’re trying to assign the trait of maturity to us, frankly, it won’t wash.”

A conversation with the filmmaking brothers Ethan and Joel Coen has only just gotten started when Ethan, quite gleefully, puts a stop to any discussion of growth, evolution or development.

Now in their late 50s, the Coens have a host of awards, including best picture for their tense, bone-dry Cormac McCarthy adaptation No Country for Old Men.” Their last film, the much Oscar-nominated Charles Portis adaptation True Grit, was an unexpected box-office hit, earning $250 million worldwide.

Somewhat shockingly, they are — to use the much sought-after label in their O Brother, Where Art Thou? — bona fide.

Their latest, the folk music tale “Inside Llewyn Davis,” continues the trend of awardsseason releases with more realism than, say, the screwball of The Hudsucker Proxy or the surrealism of The Big Lebowski.

The Coens don’t dismiss the trend. They just predict its imminent expiration date.

“If you’re trying to make a developmental statement about us,” Ethan explains, “it might not ...”

“It might not stand the test of the next movie,” says Joel, finishing the sentence. They chuckle with tickled delight, like boys who are getting away with something, at the thought of their next opus. (More on that later.)

For now, there’s “Inside Llewyn Davis,” the latest zag in a career full of wholly unpredictable hopscotching through noir (Blood Simple, Miller’s Crossing), farce (Burn After Reading, The Ladykillers) and less categorical quandaries (A Serious Man).

Tracking the Coens is, famously, a fool’s game.

What leads them down Los Angeles bowling alleys?

Or into a ’50s-era bar-

ber shop?

Aided by the Dave Van Ronk memoir “The Mayor of MacDougal Street,” they arrived at specifically 1960-61 Greenwich Village for Inside Llewyn Davis because it exists on the cusp of history, ahead of Bob Dylan’s arrival.

Oscar Isaac stars as the title character, a folk guitar player and singer whose beautiful playing is contrasted by his foul-mouthed, cynical downtown life, which he spends hopping from couch to couch, gig to gig.

The Coens, with T Bone Burnett, fill the film with full performances of less famous songs from the era, all but one of which was filmed live (rather than to playback).

On a recent fall afternoon, the Coens granted an interview with The Associated Press at their Tribeca office, a narrow three-story apartment with editors working on the bottom floor on a concert documentary of the movie’s music, to air on Showtime on Dec. 13.

To accommodate a reporter, Ethan lugged a chair up to the small top-floor perch where the brothers brainstorm and script.

From here their movies are born, generated from the pingponging between their similarly imaginative, comic minds.

“We were just sitting around the office talking about nothing, as we do, and (Joel) said, ‘OK, supposing it begins in an alley behind Gerde’s Folk City and somebody beats the (expletive) out of Dave Van Ronk?”’ says Ethan, while Joel laughs.

“That’s the beginning of what movie?”

They start most films in this unusually specific way.

Miller’s Crossing began with a hat floating away into the woods.

Burn After Reading started when they pronounced that they would never, ever open a film “CIA Headquarters: Langley, Virginia.”

But the sheer antithesis of the idea became its greatest attraction: They peopled their version of a hyper-techno spy thriller with the most emphatically human characters.

Some openings don’t immediately lead anywhere.

They had the start of O Brother — “three dopes chained together” — but didn’t know where it went for three or four

years. Fargo got stuck midway: “For a year and a half, I would open up the drawer and it would say: ‘Interior: Shep’s apartment. Carl is screwing the escort,” Joel recalls.

Often, their genre hopping is predicated more on books than movies. Miller’s Crossing was an attempt to do Dashiell Hammett, says Ethan.

The Man Who Wasn’t There was self-consciously James M. Cain.

Big Lebowski was their version of Raymond Chandler.

They were extremely faithful to the texts the two times they’ve adapted books (True Grit and No Country).

Both novels appealed partly because, Joel says they’re “not anything like what we’ve done.”

Though their movies usually revel in the absurdity of life’s predicaments, Ethan promises this film has answers: “It’s not like our piddly A Serious Man.” Chimes Joel: “That was a cop-out. We just totally chickened out on that one.”

“We hadn’t grown up,” says Ethan. “In that respect, OK, we have matured. We’re ready to answer the big questions now.”

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Auditions will be held on Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 9 and 10, at CAT Studios, in the same building as Red Deer’s Memorial Centre.

Male and female actors of various ages are needed. Those auditioning should come in with a basic understanding of the story and an idea of which role they would like to try out for.

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Some mind-blowing art by Red Deer College visual arts students will be part of this month’s First Fridays gallery exhibits.

Overwhelming (Im)Possibilities is a show by second-year visual arts students at the City Centre Stage gallery.

The group exhibit at 4922 49th St. is on Friday night only.

A reception will be held from 7 p.m.

The Northern Terrain Painters, comprised of Larry Reese, Susan Woolgar, Jeri Lynn Ing and Judy Sutter, will exhibit mostly landscape paintings at Gallery IS at 5123 48th St. to the end of the month. An opening reception will be held from noon to 8:30 p.m. on Friday.

The Kiwanis Gallery at the Red Deer Public Library is showing a juried exhibition of diverse works by members of the Red Deer Arts Council.

The show runs from Wednesday to Dec. 29. An opening reception will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Friday.

Artist Amber-Jane Grove, who studied at RDC, is showing unconventional drawings in the exhibit 900: Drawing With the Brain.

Grove has created art with her hands, feet, mouth and various other body parts. The show in the gallery on the second floor of the Sunworks store will run to Dec. 28. A reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday.

Life, Up Close, works by Lydia Christensen are displayed at The Hub on Ross. The show runs to Dec. 31. A reception will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. on Friday.

Those coming to see the art might want to stay for a charitable Christmas concert benefitting the Red Deer food bank from 7 p.m. at The Hub. The lineup of performers includes Back Porch Swing, Paul Rumbolt, The June Bugs and the Steve Fisher Band.

Tickets are $15, plus a non-perishable food item, at the door.

A show of nature art by various artists is on at the Marjorie Wood Gallery in the Kerry Wood Nature Centre. It goes to Dec. 31. A reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday.

Art by Emily Thomson will be showing at Cafe Pichilingue, and works by Harvey Brink will be exhibited in the Velvet Olive Lounge, both to the end of the month.

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HELP MAKE THE HOLIDAY MIRACLE FOR CANADIAN BLOOD SERVICES Canadian Blood Services is asking everyone possible to donate blood this holiday season during its Holiday Miracle campaign.

The blood donor event runs from now until Jan. 4, when many regular blood donors are away or busy. The service says the blood coursing through your veins is a miracle of life that can save the life of an accident victim or treat those needing blood products. For instance, eight blood donations are required to treat one leukemia patient for one week. The Red Deer donor clinic is located at No. 5 5020 68th St., just one block west of Gaetz Avenue. To make an appointment call 1-888-2-DONATE (1-888236-283) or go online at www.blood.ca.

SERVICE OF COMFORT ON MONDAY A quiet service of worship and reflection will take place at Gaetz Memorial United Church on Monday at 7 p.m. The Service of Comfort is a time to acknowledge that Christmas is not always a happy season for everyone and there are those experiencing grief, sadness, illness and other kinds of discomfort. All members of the public are invited. Bring a friend who is hurting. The church is located at 4758 Ross St.

FIDDLINGLY YOURS Musicians Blaine Lutwick and Laurie Maetche will jointly present Fiddlingly Yours at Century Theatre in Innisfail on Saturday.

Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. concert, hosted by the Central Alberta Presenters Society, are $20 in advance by calling 403-877-1783 or 403-2276660, or are available at the door.

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Aravind Ganesh moved to Canada in 2005, graduated from Notre Dame High School in 2007, convocated with a Doctor of Medicine degree in 2012, and will be a Rhodes Scholar in 2014.

The 23-year-old interviewed for the prestigious scholarship on Friday and Saturday and found out on Sunday morning that he had been selected as one of Aravind Ganesh 83 students — including 11 Canadians — to receive the pre-eminent graduate student award in the world, granting two years of paid-for study at Oxford University. “(I was) absolutely ecstatic,” said Ganesh, “It always takes a couple of seconds to sink in, because there is a part of you that’s second guessing what they just told you. To me, it was really a great honour.

“It’s something that’s been on the back of my mind as something that would be useful to do for our city but also for our country.

It’s a real honour to be able to try to represent Canada at Oxford and try to partici-

pate in that exchange of knowledge.”

Ganesh grew up in Kerala, India before coming to Canada with his family, living in Mississauga for a short time before coming to Red Deer in 2005. During his few years attending high school in the city, he helped found Youth Voice, a group that worked with the city to develop anti-bullying guidelines to include in a community standards bylaw.

He volunteered as a student at the Red Deer Regional Hospital, and aside from maintaining a 99 per cent average throughout high school, he started a club that connected exchange students and immigrants with Canadian students and organized the school’s first cultural diversity week.

“It was an absolutely amazing three years that I spent going to high school in Red Deer. It’s a short period of time but really transformative ... The fact of the matter is I’ve never felt so wholeheartedly accepted, and I’ve never felt so wholeheartedly promoted as I did when I was in Red Deer,” said Ganesh.

He cited Greg Hall, Dan Flanagan, and Kathy Puto as some of those supportive influences from his high school career, and Darci Shaves with the hospital and Linda Healing with the city as Red Deerians who empowered him by supporting his efforts.

After high school he went to the University of Calgary where he graduated last

year with degrees in biological sciences and medicine. Now doing his residency in neurology, Ganesh intends to study public health at Oxford, with the goal of researching strategies to prevent strokes and improve care for those who have suffered them.

He also said he thinks learning about Britain’s National Health Service will enlighten him to how the Canadian health system can be improved.

And he has designs on improving the patient-physician interaction by creating a smartphone-based app that would allow patients to get more useful knowledge out of each visit by allowing diagnoses to be made quicker, thus allowing more time to be spent going through a treatment plan using infographics and other visual information.

Over 1,000 Canadians have been named Rhodes Scholars since the scholarships were first offered in 1903.

Former Governor-General Roland Michener, born in Lacombe, received the honour in 1919.

Other alumni of the program include former NHL president Clarence Campbell, Premiers Allan Blakeney, Bob Rae and Danny Williams, and former Prime Minister John Turner. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

ICE COMES TO RIVER

An open section of the Red Deer River flows through the city near the Kerry Wood Nature Centre. Despite recent cold temperatures the river still has a few open sections and ice on the river is not safe in many areas for travel.

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Library included in Sylvan budget talks

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Sylvan Lake’s library expansion will be part of town council’s budget discussions early next year.

Red Deer’s Berry Architecture and Associates has been hired to design the revamp, which will see the library expand into space left by the departing archives.

The archives are moving into a space in the newly completed

Municipal Government Building.

About 900 square feet will be added and used to create a much-needed public meeting space.

Existing meeting rooms will be turned into additional space for books.

The changes, which will see major renovations to the inside to better serve the public, will buy some time until a new library is built.

Work was expected to cost around $400,000.

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BRIEFS Drug and weapons trial The trial for a woman facing several drug and weapons charges will go ahead late next year.

Summer Brook Kreiser, 30, of Sylvan Lake faces charges of possession of drugs for trafficking, possession of the proceeds of crime and possession of a weapon as a result of an Oct. 23, 2012, traffic stop in Red Deer.

Defence Counsel Will Willms appeared before Justice Ken Stevens in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Monday to arrange the trial.

In March of this year, Kreiser entered a not guilty plea to the charges and elected to be tried by a Court of Queen’s Bench judge alone. A preliminary inquiry into the proceedings took place on Nov. 4.

Kreiser’s trial is scheduled for Dec. 15 to 17, 2014, in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench, with a pre-trial conference to take place on Nov. 4, 2014.

Impaired drivers targeted Mounties across the country are joining together in a national impaired driving enforcement campaign, just in time for national safe driving week.

Safe driving week runs from Dec. 1 to 7 and on Saturday, RCMP detachments and officers across the country will conduct a co-ordinated impaired driving enforcement initiative. According to a press release. officers will be out and visible, looking for people driving under the influence.

“We chose National Safe Driving Week to begin this campaign as part of a longterm organizational priority,” said Bob Paulson, commissioner of the RCMP. “Each year, thousands of Canadians are injured or killed by impaired drivers and

Tenders for the project were opened on Thursday but the results were not available on Monday.

Sylvan Lake’s 2012 Feasibility Study for a Community Complex said the existing library was undersized and recommended a new one be built as part of the first phase for a new community hub.

However, a household survey ranked the project eighth out of 10 facilities that needed upgrading in the next three to five years.

we chose this week to step up enforcement efforts to take alcohol and drug impaired drivers off the road, but we won’t stop here.” Over the coming months, the RCMP will also increase enforcement and awareness efforts in all detachments to stop impaired drivers.

“Impaired driving is an entirely preventable cause of death and injuries that devastates families and communities,” said Paulson. “A small decision can have consequences, please make the right choice before you get behind the wheel. Everyone has the right to come home safe.”

Hit and run trial set for 2015 A Red Deer man charged in connection with a fatal hit and run in the city on Oct. 6, 2012, will stand trial early in 2015.

Brent Robert Cameron, 25, pleaded not guilty to charges related to the Oct. 6, 2012, incident. The body of Paul Gabriel Bertin, 18, who had recently moved to Red Deer, was found on the Taylor Bridge at 2 a.m. that morning.

Cameron has been charged with mischief and leaving the scene of a collision. A preliminary inquiry was held on Oct. 29 and the trial has been set for Jan. 13 to 16, 2015.

Sex assault sentencing set Sentencing for a 39-year-old Red Deer man convicted of sexually assaulting his stepdaughter will come just before Christmas.

The man, whose name is withheld because of a court-ordered publication ban protecting the identity of the victim, was found guilty of two incidents that took place in August 2011 when the victim was 13-years-old. On Nov. 8 , Justice Keith Yamauchi found him guilty.

Appearing before Justice Ron Stevens in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Monday, defence counsel Kevin Sproule asked that the matter be set for Dec. 20. He said there would amendments to the judgment and sentencing arguments.

Stevens agreed to a Dec. 20 sentencing in

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Given the library ranking, “it was recommended by administration that the library could comfortably operate out of the existing location for the foreseeable future with an expansion to occupy the entire building when the archives relocated to the Municipal Government Building,” says a recent report to council from Ron Lebsack, director of community services. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

Small Acts posters coming The City of Red Deer’s Small Acts campaign is getting new legs as more posters are in the works.

The campaign is about drawing awareness to the importance of “the little things” through posters and advertisements.

It was established in February 2012 by the Red Deer and District Family and Community Support Services Board.

The new ads, slated to be unveiled by January, will look at diverse communities, youth and seniors.

Previously, the ads targeted families.

It focused on doing things like connecting with neighbours, volunteering and becoming involved with your children’s schools, said Linda Boyd, resource and capacity development supervisor of social planning with the city.

“Those things make a difference and ripple though the community. ... It’s about creating a sense of belonging.”

The campaign was picked up by Alberta Health Services this year and it is now developing its own program, said Boyd.

Fun Run and Elf Walk Saturday Runners are set to lace up their shoes, or elf boots, and dress up in their Christmas costumes to raise funds for vulnerable children and families living in poverty.

The annual Salvation Army Santa Shuffle Fun Run and Elf Walk in Red Deer is Saturday.

The event aims to raise more than $5,000 for people in need.

The deadline for online registration is midnight Wednesday.

The cost is $30 for adults and $20 for youths. Group rates exist for families and corporations.

The five-km run or one-km walk starts at 10 a.m. at the Rotary Recreation Park, at 4501 47th Ave in Red Deer.

For more information and to register, visit www.santashuffle.ca.

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Protest leader vows to escalate offensive THAILAND

SAYS HE WILL TAKE OVER POLICE HEADQUARTERS, OTHER GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGKOK, Thailand — A firebrand opposition leader vowed Monday to escalate his campaign to topple Thailand’s government, and ordered his followers to storm Bangkok’s police headquarters after they fought all day with riot police protecting heavily barricaded key buildings.

Earlier Monday, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said she is willing to do anything it takes to end the violent protests but made it clear she cannot accept the opposition’s demand to hand power to an unelected council. Yingluck was elected with an overwhelming majority in 2011, and many observers see the protesters’ demand as unreasonable if not outlandish.

“Right now we don’t see any way to resolve the problem under the constitution,” she said in the brief 12-minute news conference televised live.

Yingluck’s comments highlighted the unusual political deadlock Thailand finds itself in with no clear solution in sight. The standoff intensified as protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban gave a defiant speech late Monday to thousands of cheering supporters at a government complex they seized last week when the anti-government demonstrations started.

The protests have renewed fears of prolonged instability in Southeast Asia’s second-biggest economy and come just ahead of the peak holiday tourist season.

Even if Yingluck dissolves parliament and calls fresh elections, Suthep said, he will “continue the fight ... because they can always come back to suck the blood of people, steal from people, disrespect the constitution and make us their slaves.”

“If people are happy with elections and go home, I will remain here alone,” he said.

Earlier Monday, protesters commandeered garbage trucks and bulldozers, and tried to ram concrete barriers at the Government House and other key offices. Police repelled them by firing tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets, as protesters shot back explosives from homemade rocket launchers.

At least three people were killed and more than 200 injured in the past three days of violence, which capped a week of massive street rallies that drew crowds of more than 100,000 at their peak. A Bang-

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Anti-government protesters pull rope to remove police barricade near the Government House in Bangkok, Monday. Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said she is willing to do anything it takes to end violent protests against her government and restore peace, but cannot accept the opposition’s “unconstitutional” demand to hand power to an unelected council. kok hospital confirmed that two of the people they treated Monday had suffered gunshot wounds, but it is not clear who shot them. The police say they have not used live rounds.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is “concerned” about the situation in Thailand and urges all sides to exercise “utmost restraint,” his spokesman, Martin Nesirky, said.

In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the U.S. was also encouraging restraint and political dialogue. She told reporters that violence and seizure of public or private property “are not acceptable means of resolving political differences.”

The European Union said it was saddened by the violent escalation of previously peaceful demonstrations, and very concerned over occupation of public offices and intimidation of media. “We believe that

the response of the Thai authorities has so far been restrained and proportionate,” EU heads of mission in Thailand said in a statement.

The protesters, who are mostly middle-class Bangkok supporters of the opposition Democrat Party, accuse Yingluck of being a proxy for her brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. He was deposed in a 2006 military coup but remains central to Thailand’s political crisis, and is a focal point for the protester’s hatred.

The protesters say their goal is to uproot the political machine of Thaksin, who is accused of widespread corruption and abuse of power.

“Come and join the people to get rid of the Thaksin regime and we can work together to change Thailand into a pure and democratic country,” said Suthep who has projected his fight as a non-violent campaign for democracy.

Powers for military raise concern over rewrite of constitution EGYPT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO, Egypt — Extensive amendments of the constitution adopted under Egypt’s ousted Islamist president give the military more privileges, enshrining its place as the nation’s most powerful institution and the source of real power, while removing parts that liberals feared set the stage for the creation of an Islamic state.

The new draft constitution is a key first step in implementing a political transition laid down by the military after it removed Mohammed Morsi from power. A 50 member panel declared the draft finished Monday, paving the way for a nationwide referendum within 30 days to ratify the document.

The military-backed government has heralded the draft charter as a step toward democracy — seeking to prove the credentials of the post-Morsi system amid protests by Islamists furious over the coup against the country’s first freely elected president.

The amended document enshrines personal and political rights in stronger language than past constitutions.

But rights experts express fears that the political power carved out for the military could leave those rights irrelevant.

One key clause states that for the

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A five-story building under construction collapsed Monday night in the Sao Paulo suburb of Guarulhos, although there were no immediate reports of casualties.

The collapse happened after most workers had left for the day, but it wasn’t known if anyone was still on the site when the accident occurred.

Firefighters and other emergency personnel with flashlights climbed over the pile of rubble to check for possible casualties.

The collapse came just five days after two construction workers were killed when a crane fell at a Sao Paulo stadium that is slated to host the opening game of next year’s World Cup. The accident sparked questions about Brazil’s readiness to host the soccer tournament.

on the panel, Mohammed Ibrahim Mansour of the al-Nour Party, said the document struck a good balance between the teachings of Islam and civil freedoms.

His support comes despite the removal of several provisions that ultraconservative Islamists had introduced into the Morsi-era charter, worrying liberals who feared they could be a prelude toward stricter implementation of Islamic law, or Shariah.

The new version retains Article 2, which says the “principles” of Shariah are the basis for legislation, a phrase that has been in all Egyptian constitutions since the 1970s. But it removes a Morsi-era provision that gave a more precise definition for “principles” that could have been used to legislate stricter Islamic law.

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likely campaign against the new charter because of the power it gives the military.

The constitutional panel, appointed by the government and dominated by liberals, worked mainly behind closed doors. On Monday, with their work completed, the members praised the 67-page draft.

“It is now the right of every Egyptian to declare that this is their constitution,” said Bishop Bola, the representative of the Coptic Orthodox Church on the panel. “I believe this is a constitution for a civic, modern and democratic state in 90 per cent of its articles. It’s a leap in Egypt’s life and I hope people vote for it in large numbers,” said leftist politician and panel member Hussein Abdel-Razik.

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next two presidential terms, the armed forces will enjoy the exclusive right of naming the defence minister, an arrangement that gives the military autonomy above any civilian oversight and leaves the power of the president uncertain. The charter does not say how the post will be filled following that eight-year transitional period.

“This just paves the way for a bigger role for the army in becoming the main power broker,” said Hossam elHamalawy, a leading member of the Revolutionary Socialists movement, a key player in the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak, who ruled the country for 29 years.

The run-up to the referendum is likely to be contentious. Egypt’s new leadership is pushing for the revised charter to win by a greater margin than the 2012 one, which was the country’s first post-Mubarak constitution and was largely drafted by Morsi’s Islamist allies.

That document won a December 2012 referendum with about 64 per cent of the vote, but with a low turnout of little more than 30 per cent. A bigger margin and stronger turnout now could be touted as a show of the legitimacy of the post-coup system.

Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood and its followers, however, reject the new government and the entire transition process, demanding Morsi’s return — and they are likely to push ahead with protests to try to derail the new document. Some secular activists will also

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Busy schedule makes special days hard As I drove my son to school, the other children, but in all truthfultension in the Dodge Minivan was ness the experience in general is tangible. Lars was in a foul mood a mind-numbing one. because I was not able to find a There I am getting drooled all babysitter for his sister, making over by some snot-nosed kid that me unable to attend his ‘Spaghetti isn’t even mine, many of them and Meatballs’ party at playschool have little to no manners and I that day. What kind of a party is mustn’t lie when I tell you nursery a spaghetti and meatballs bash rhymes just are not my forte. I anyway? simply feel like I could As much as I apolbe doing something ogized, the boy was more productive with still dropped off at my time. the school function in With that said, I oba stinking mood and viously still attend my unwilling to smile. As son’s special days at I looked around and school where he is alsaw the other moms lowed to have a parent taking off their jackets in class for the day, and getting ready to and the Christmas conhunker down for a day cert is always good for of fun-filled meatball a fun-loving time. But constructing, my heart this occasion, this parbroke a little for Lars’ ty, the weird Spaghetti LINDSAY parental absence. And and Meatball merriBROWN I wondered how many ment that I still don’t other moments there ME PLUS THREE quite understand the would be when I would premise of, just didn’t have to see his disapseem like one of those pointed face wander must go to things. off into the abyss of his classroomSo I will admit that maybe, posunhappy and dejected. sibly, I didn’t look as hard as I As Sophie and I made our could have for the sitter in quesway to the grocery store to pick tion. up some last minute items for And thus the self-shaming bethe kids’ birthday party, my mind gins! continued to reel. The guilt of the Sophie and I enter the store, noodle and meat party was taking she is none the wiser to my plight, over and I began to wonder if I and takes off gingerly to retrieve a had really tried my hardest to get basket for our goods. that babysitter I was in need of.

I watch her run in her little todIf you are a parent, it is no se- dler way and it makes me think cret that these school parties, or of Lars when he was that age. I special days, or really any occa- didn’t have these same problems sion when you must visit the class- back then. room for an extended period of We continue on as I bite back time, is no picnic. the gasping groans of lament that I love being able to see the are desperately trying to escape crafts my son has created and my lungs. I hear a little boy maybe watch him as he plays with the a few years older than Lars asking

his mother for a treat, which she lovingly gives in to.

The shame is growing.

As I wander down the produce aisle I now incredulously spot a little guy that looks like Lars in front of me. He his holding his mommy’s hand with an adoring grip.

Oh perfect, now I have begun bawling while perched between the cabbage and romaine lettuce.

And all I can wonder about is how my little fellow is doing at his party, all alone with no mom by his side.

The patrons of the store are now starting to take note of the crazy crying woman who seems to be stuck in the veggie section with nowhere to go. My mind knew I had to get out of there, but my body would just not co-operate.

Upon seeing the store’s employees begin to approach, I scoop Sophie up under the arm, leaving my basket where it lay and hit the ol’ dusty trail…trailing a shadow of embarrassing and salty tears behind me.

The rest of the day felt as though it took forever. And finally when I was able to pick up my boy from his classroom he was happy and contented, having had a wonderful party with his teachers and schoolmates. Although this put my mind at ease, I silently vowed that regardless of how painful it may be to sit through a few hours of pre-school, never again will I cop out on a class function to simply benefit myself.

Because in the end, any amount of nursery rhymes are better than weeping in a grocery store over earned guilt.

Lindsay Brown is a Sylvan Lake mother of two and freelance columnist.

Christmas should be about the spiritual, not the material Question: How can we en- You can fix a meal, rake leaves, joy Christmas when we have to clean out gutters or give a “serspend so much money on pres- vice coupon book” that they can ents? We’re stressed over our fi- redeem whenever they want to. nances all year, but it ● Focus on the spirigets worse during the tual, not material. Find holidays. fun and creative ways Jim: I understand to counteract the comyour frustration. This mercialism of Christis a common complaint mas, and find creative and real challenge for ways to emphasize the many families. spiritual significance With Black Friday ofof the day. ficially in the rearview ● Build memories. mirror, hopefully these Spend meaningful time timely tips from my together during the friend, financial guru weeks leading up to Ron Blue, will still be Christmas.

JIM helpful in making this In the process, DALY Christmas more enjoyyou’ll be doing more able and less financialthan stockpiling family ly stressful: memories — you’ll be ● Don’t spend more building a legacy for than you have. When generations to come. cash is short, it’s temptQuestion: How do I ing to put it on the credit card and deal with my mother-in-law’s fadefer payment until next year. voritism? Just recently, when I inBut January always shows up, and vited her to spend Christmas with with it months of financial pain our family, she said she “would if you don’t shop wisely and exer- have to let me know” after finding cise restraint. out what was going on with her ● Give something of lasting daughter’s family. She’s always value. Who hasn’t bought the given preference to my husband’s “perfect” gift for a child, only to sister and her family, and I don’t find it tossed aside by the end of know what to do.

Christmas Day? Discuss this with Dr. Greg Smalley, Vice Presiyour kids, reinforce a long-range dent, Family Ministries: I can emperspective, and explain that you pathize with your dilemma. want them to have gifts they’ll enIt’s quite possible your motherjoy for a long time. in-law’s behavior won’t change, ● Do something meaningful but that doesn’t mean you always for someone else. Make a family have to dance to her tune. project of doing a good deed for a Sometime soon, it’s important neighbor, a shut-in or a relative. that your husband have a chat

FOCUS ON FAMILY

with his mom and dad. Simple honesty requires that they know how the two of you have been feeling.

This may be tough for him, especially if he’s not comfortable confronting his parents. But it’s largely his responsibility to respectfully take this up with them.

Meanwhile, you need to set some firm boundaries with his folks. When discussing future holiday plans, the two of you should say something like this: “Mom, we’d really love to spend Thanksgiving with you this year. We need to have our plans in place and confirmed by the first of September, so can you let us know by then?”

If she can’t commit because she doesn’t know what her daughter will be doing, calmly say, “Just let us know by the first of September, or we’ll need to make other plans.”

Then stick to your guns. If she doesn’t respond by the deadline, go ahead and arrange something else. It’s critical that you remain unavailable and that you not back down if she acts hurt or upset.

Tell her you’re sorry and that you’d love to get together with her soon. It shouldn’t take her long to get the message.

If she leaves your family hanging at holiday time, she’ll simply lose out on seeing you and your kids.

Catch up with Jim Daly at www. jimdalyblog.com or at www.facebook.com/DalyFocus.

Anger often caused by unfulfilled expectations Temper Your Temper “When anger rises, think of the consequences.”

— Confucius, ancient Chinese philosopher “Sure you don’t mind?” asked Jerry. “I could have taken a cab.”

“No problem, man,” replied his buddy, Kevin.

“It’s my pleasure.”

Jerry’s car was in the shop and he needed a ride downtown to pick it up. It had snowed heavily overnight and the streets were yet unplowed. Traffic was backed up – moving slowly – and intersections were jammed. Jerry noted a number of vehicles waiting to enter the street from a nearby service road. Kevin stopped and motioned for a woman in an SUV to pull into the line. Jerry thought it was a nice gesture.

Without any acknowledgement, the woman pulled into the traffic ahead of Kevin’s vehicle.

“You’re welcome,” said Kevin, obviously annoyed.

Kevin’s demeanor had changed and he clenched his teeth.

“You do someone a good turn,” he said, “and they can’t even say thank-you.” With that, Kevin hammered on the horn. Jerry could see the startled woman looking back through her rear view mirror. “Yeah, I’m honking at you, you ungrateful (expletive).

“Easy, my friend,” said Jerry feeling a little embarrassed.

“I have zero tolerance for people with no manners,” said Kevin.

Someone fails to repay a kind gesture in turn and we feel angry. Someone spurns our affections and we feel angry. Someone cuts in line at the grocery store and we feel angry.

Someone informs us that a younger rival (with less experience) has snagged the job we had our heart set upon and we feel angry. From where does all this anger arise and what do all of these emotionally charged situations have in common?

Anger is often caused by MURRAY unfulfilled expectations.

FUHRER In the above examples, the unfulfilled expectations might be that someone should say (or wave) thank-you when we offer a kind gesture, that love and affection should always be returned, that all people should exercise good manners or that age and experience should trump all other qualifications. We are frustrated by not getting what we wanted or what we expected.

Examine your underlying expectations. You have different standards (or value judgments) than others and perhaps you expect others to embrace those same standards. You may even be right but your standards or expectations belong only to you. People are all different and one root of anger is not accepting people (or events) as they are.

Sometimes (as with Jerry and Kevin) an outburst is simply embarrassing or uncomfortable. Other times, anger can be destructive. Untold relationships, countless careers and lives have been brought down by harsh words and thoughtless actions.

We often choose anger because it feels stronger than sadness, disappointment or hurt. It provides us with an illusion of control. Anger – when directed at a specific target – give us a reason to vent our frustration. We feel momentarily justified in our emotional outburst. We may even believe that a burst of anger will lessen our frustration. Or we may think an outburst will remove a barrier stopping us from meeting an objective.

Anger is a natural emotion and everybody feels it. It becomes an issue when expressed inappropriately. Anger can have a devastating effect on the self-esteem of anyone unfortunate enough to be the target of an outburst. The guilt and depression that often follows an angry outburst can be equally damaging to the irate individual.

Admittedly, anger can be used constructively at times.

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Tips to avoid legal pitfalls at office holiday parties ’Tis the season of the office holiday party, a time when the combination of awkward mingling with coworkers plus alcohol creates a social minefield.

But, experts say, one faux pas can easily turn bad behaviour into a legal mess.

As the Christmas/holiday/end-of-year party season kicks off, employment law experts offer some tips on how both employers and employees can avoid liability while still partaking in some holiday cheer.

Don’t offer alcohol Having an alcohol-free event is the best way to minimize risk for employers, though it isn’t always a popular solution, says employment lawyer Inna Koldorf.

Court records are filled with examples of people sexually harassing co-workers and making inappropriate or racist comments at parties. Alcohol is often involved.

Then there is perhaps the biggest concern any time alcohol is served, that an employee will drive home drunk after the party and hurt or even kill someone.

A 2006 decision from the Supreme Court of Canada found that social party hosts were not liable in that situation, Koldorf says.

But she warns that could be different for hosts who are employers.

“They do have an obligation to keep employees safe while they’re at work and there is more of a relationship of supervision and control than between a host and a guest,” she says.

Hold your party off-site If a holiday party is held at a licensed restaurant, for example, the restaurant would be considered the provider of alcohol and therefore would assume more of the responsibility for cutting someone off when they’ve had too much to drink, says employment lawyer Daniel Iny. But some liability could still exist for the employer, he says.

“I would think an employer still has some obligation to take steps if an employer knows an employee...is visibly intoxicated, for example, and not in a position to drive home, the employer can’t turn a blind eye,” he says.

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Jennifer Lawrence, left, and Bradley Cooper practise their dance routine in the film Silver Linings Playbook. While dance does have natural therapeutic qualities, dance therapy is different: it deploys movement for a vast number of specific purposes.

Dance/movement therapy enjoying growth spurt BUT SOME SAY MORE RESEARCH NEEDED

BY ADRIAN LEE THE CANADIAN PRESS Ever since Kelly Marie was young, she loved to dance. At four, she was learning ballet and jazz dance; by 13, she was dancing competitively.

“It became an integral part of me and it’s something that I couldn’t imagine living without,” said Marie, 24.

“Dance was always an outlet. For me, being able to go to dance every night as a teenager helped me work through a lot of stuff that I didn’t really understand.”

She pursued her love for the art form through her studies, attending York University for a bachelor’s degree in dance.

But when she came across dance therapy in her fourth year, while looking to simply fulfil a thesis project, even she didn’t foresee dance being involved in helping her deal with some mental health issues that had begun to creep in.

“I didn’t come into (dance therapy) for necessarily specific therapy reasons, at first.

But like anyone, they came up,” she said.

At the outset, Marie had no idea what she was getting into. Little wonder, since within Canada, dance/movement therapy, or DMT, remains a niche practice in the realm of psychotherapy. The plot of Sil-

ver Linings Playbook it is not: premised around the integration of the body and mind, the practice believes that the health of one means the health of the other.

While dance does have natural therapeutic qualities, dance therapy is different: it deploys movement for a vast number of specific purposes.

Sometimes, after an improvised dance while thinking of a particular element of a trauma, clients unpack the reasons behind a particular movement with their therapists; other times, it’s used to try to better access the mind among patients with Alzheimer’s.

“It’s just like what’s happening in the education system: every child does not have the same learning style or learning needs,” said Megan English, a Toronto-based private practitioner.

“So if we think of psychotherapy as a learning process, which I think it is, it’s a process of change which involves learning, then that must carry true for people engaging in therapy. There isn’t a one-sizefits-all solution.”

Practitioners say DMT is enjoying something of a growth spurt in Canada.

There are now 19 registered dance therapists in Canada, a number that is still small but has grown from 14 in three years.

English says she’s receiving more requests than ever to be

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ANGER: Work on what is causing it It can give us energy we need to fight back against injustice. However, for most situations it merely clouds our judgment and creates additional stress.

Prolonged or frequent resentment has been shown to be a significant contributor to cardiovascular disease and intestinal disorders.

If your temper is getting the best of you, work on what’s causing it. When we’re stressed or tired, have consumed alcohol or stimulants like caffeine, our tolerance levels are drastically reduced and a series of minor irritations can amp us up until we erupt.

When you feel the pressure build, try these strategies to keep your cool.

Breathe! When we lose our temper, the wash of chemicals can actually impede our higher brain functions. Remember to take deep, full and prolonged inhalations.

Call for a time out. Become aware of your tipping point. If possible, remove yourself from the situation and continue the discussion when calmer minds prevail.

Shut up and listen. A lot of anger is about miscommunication. When we truly listen to the other person, we can often find effective ways to resolve the situation.

Don’t take it personally. When angry, we tend to see our view as fact and take it as a personal affront should someone disagree with us. Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Perhaps some issues simply shouldn’t be discussed with certain people.

Here are some long-term solutions to help cool a hot head.

Be self-aware. Pull back before your brain shuts down. Learning to recognize when you’re being

a clinical supervisor for students, a necessary condition to complete a degree.

And in Montreal, Les Grands Ballets recently announced a new National Centre for Dance Therapy, which will undergo three first-oftheir-kind pilot projects over the next few years to provide much-needed quantitative research, as well as provide the country’s first homegrown graduate-level dance therapy training program.

Mary Moncrieff, a dance/ movement therapist at Ottawa’s Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre, recently went to a conference in New York and said she couldn’t remember the last time she saw so many young people attend.

She credits the resurgence to a change in how society as a whole looks at the body.

“People are looking at trauma, people are looking at physical health, at awareness of the body, and there’s a lot more readiness from the population to attend to the body and their life in general,” she said.

“And on top of that, dance itself appears to have risen in profile. You can take it in a tacky way, like with shows like So You Think You Can Dance, or how Ellen (DeGeneres) dances, or with Zumba, but the fact is, people are allowing themselves to dance.”

The growth that the 60-yearold Moncrieff has seen, while

slight, is particularly remarkable because of the odds stacked against dance therapy: a lack of awareness, a paucity of evidence-based research, and the lack of a coherent body to train and represent Canadian therapists.

“I think it should be in every hospital and be an everyday program, and it’s not,” said Andreah Barker, 36, who works in dance/movement therapy at Toronto’s Baycrest Centre.

Barker, who wrote a research thesis on the history of dance therapy, said it was first conceived in the 1940s in the United States to treat non-verbal war veterans, a tradition that explains why the practice is more common there.

Most Canadian DMT therapists take their cues from the best practices and ethics of the American Dance Therapy Association, she said; there is no such regulatory body for Canadian therapists.

(A Canadian association was founded in 2011, but a spokesperson said that the creation of a regulatory body is still “in the works.”)

While it did gain some ground in Canada during the 1970s, according to Barker, it faded in large part because the country lacked a developmental pipeline: until the Grands Ballets program was announced, those interested in pursuing dance therapy had to go to places like the U.S.

drawn into anger allows you to put the brakes on it.

Identify your triggers. Check your expectations and ask yourself, “What is it that I expect from others?” Are your expectations appropriate, realistic or even reasonable?

Address the root cause. When you get angry, there are usually other feelings underlying the explosion – maybe fear, guilt, anxiety, hurt, regret, inadequacy or sadness.

Gandhi had this maxim on his wall at Sevagram: When you are in the right, you can afford to keep your temper. When you are in the wrong, you can’t afford to lose it.

When we’re angry, thoughts of consequence diminish. People who habitually choose anger over happiness often lead sad, disappointing and unfulfilling lives. Don’t be one of those people. Remember, every moment of anger is one less moment of happiness.

“Never tell me the sky’s the limit when (I know) there are footprints on the moon.”

– Author Unknown Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His new book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca

PARTIES: Have a plan Don’t provide open access to alcohol If the party is in the office, or somewhere outside a licensed establishment, hire someone to serve alcohol, Koldorf says. “(It) typically causes employees to drink a little less and if those individuals are trained then they can actually flag individuals who are intoxicated and who have had too much to drink and they can actually stop serving them,” she says.

Hold a lunch or breakfast party At Iny’s firm the holiday party every year is a lunch from 12 to 4. Common sense dictates that daytime parties discourage heavy drinking or pre-

and England because there were no homegrown master’s degree or diploma-granting programs.

“I think it’s important to have a Canadian standard of practice,” said Barker.

“I think our system is very different from the American system, and I think that people who practise here should train here rather than follow an American way of doing things.”

There are also questions as to whether mainstream psychologists see dance therapy as a viable complement to more traditional therapy techniques.

Dr. Martin Antony, a professor of psychology at Ryerson University, says there is a lack of evidence-based research that dance therapy really works, beyond dance’s natural therapeutic qualities.

Christian Senechal, director of Les Grands Ballets’ National Centre for Dance Therapy, agrees research is needed for credibility and funding.

“We need quantitative research to have some proof, and we are trying to build our research around that,” he said.

“All the projects we have now, we are trying to create quantitative data.”

English said dance therapy is up against techniques that have been around longer, and that collecting data about something so organic has proven tricky.

drinking.

Some employers hold active events such as skiing parties or rock climbing parties, says Koldorf.

“Don’t serve any alcohol during the active part of the party,” she says. “It sounds like something that anyone should think about, but some people don’t.”

Have a plan for employees who have had too much to drink “Offer either somewhere to stay for the evening or transportation to and from the event so people don’t feel compelled to get back in their car after the event and drive themselves home,” Koldorf says.

She recommends employers offer taxi chits and/or book a few hotel rooms nearby in case people need to spend the night.

Invite spouses or families Aside from excessive drinking, the most common problem scenario that likely arises from office holiday parties is sexual harassment, says Iny, though he concedes the two are not mutually exclusive.

“I think it’s kind of well settled that the incidents of sexual harassment claims are dramatically diminished at holiday parties and the like when spouses are included,” he says.

Employees are still bound by workplace policies, even at afterhours parties “I don’t think a holiday party gives an employee carte blanche to do or say things that would never be tolerated in the workplace, nor does it give an employer the same right,” says Iny. “If it’s an employment event...an employee can be disciplined in my view for conduct that occurs at a holiday party.”

Koldorf says the best bet is to conduct yourself as if you were at work.

“It’s not like they’re watching their every move, but management is watching their behaviour,” Koldorf says. “There have been incidents in the past where employees have done some outrageous things that did not comply with the employers’ policies or the workplace policies and they were disciplined.”

SPORTS

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Junior selection camp set SUTTER BRINGS SMALLEST EVER ROSTER FOR CHOOSING WORLD JUNIOR HOCKEY TEAM

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO, Ontario — The biggest challenge in coaching any national hockey team, says Brent Sutter, is forming an identity quickly.

“What you’re about as a team, how you’re going to play, the accountability has to fall into it right off the bat,” Sutter said. “That always is the case when you’re bringing in players from across the nation to become one.”

And so Sutter said the fact Hockey Canada has named its smallest roster ever — just 25 players — to its national junior selection camp is a “huge advantage.” It allows him to coach and instill that identity from the get-go, he said, rather than spend time evaluating players.

“You can run proper practices, you can just get things implemented and get going more with your team,” said Sutter, head coach of Canada’s world junior team.

“It’s a change, it’s certainly different than in the

past where it’s been mid-30s or over, the amount of players that have been invited. But you know what?

It’s good. It wouldn’t have been done this way if there wasn’t a real clear direction of path.”

Minnesota Wild defenceman Mathew Dumba was the lone NHL player named Monday to a roster that Sutter called a “moving target.” He’s holding out hope that more NHL teams will release players before the deadline, such as Calgary Flames centre Sean Monahan, who’s out with a fractured left foot.

Countries must submit their rosters on Christmas Day, 12 hours before the tournament in Malmo, Sweden, begins. “(The Flames) will make the decision that’s right for their organization and for (Monahan). And if they feel its right for them to keep him, they’ll keep him, and if they feel it’s right for him to come to world juniors and have this experience for the first time, and go through this experience. . . almost every player who’s gone through this experience, it has enhanced or helped them at some point in their career,” Sutter said.

Two goaltenders — Zachary Fucale and Jake Paterson — plus eight defenceman and 15 forwards have been invited to the selection camp which opens Dec. 12 in Toronto.

This national junior team shoulders perhaps more pressure than any team before, since last year marked the first time in 15 years the Canadians didn’t bring home a medal. Canada hasn’t won world junior gold since 2009.

“There’s no question the pressure is out there all the time, just the way it is in our country, with any major hockey event,” Sutter said. “But we’re not concerned about a gold medal right now, our concentration here is focusing on Day 1 when the kids get in. There’s a process you have to go through to get to where we want to get to, but that can’t be a focal point. The focal point is take care of the day to day things and get better each and every day and give ourselves the best chance we can.”

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Seahawks send the Saints marching

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Seahawks 34 Saints 7 SEATTLE — The rest of the top NFC teams better get ready to visit the Pacific Northwest in January. After Monday night’s rout, the road through the NFC playoffs is almost certain to go through Seattle.

Russell Wilson threw for 310 yards and three touchdowns, and the Seattle Seahawks became the first team to clinch a spot in the NFC playoffs with a 34-7 victory over the New Orleans Saints on Monday night.

More important than just clinching a spot in the post-season, the Seahawks (11-1) moved two games ahead on the rest of the NFC in the race for homefield advantage and hold the tiebreakers over New Orleans (9-3) and Carolina (9-3), the two closest pursuers.

Wilson was outstanding, picking apart the Saints’ defence. He threw touchdown passes of 2 yards to Zach Miller and 4 yards to Doug Baldwin in the first half as Seattle built a 27-7 lead. Wilson added a pinball 8-yard TD pass to Derrick Coleman in the third quarter.

“Attention to details is where it’s at,” Wilson said. “We had a great balanced attack. We made some huge plays.”

Michael Bennett had a 22-yard fumble return for a touchdown in the first quarter to give Seattle a 10-0 lead and the Saints never threatened. It was a dominating performance by the Seahawks, making up for a lacklustre effort the last time they were given a national television spotlight and were taken to the final yard and final play

by St. Louis.

Not this time. The most anticipated game in the NFC this season was a laugher.

Wilson completed 22 of 30 passes and finished with a quarterback rating of 139.6. He has 22 regular-season wins in his first two seasons, tied for the most ever by a second-year QB. Drew Brees and the Saints were stymied the entire night as he lost for the first time on Monday night after nine

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Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch (24) pushes off New Orleans Saints’ Rafael Bush, left, in the first half of an NFL game Monday, in Seattle. straight wins, and continued the belief New Orleans can’t win outdoors late in the season. New Orleans didn’t crack 100 yards of total offence into midway through the third quarter. Jimmy Graham was nearly invisible outside of his franchise-record 12th TD catch of the season in the second quarter that pulled the Saints to 17-7.

Brees finished 23 of 38 for 147 yards.

Graham had three catches for 42 yards.

Darren Sproles led New Orleans with seven catches, many of those check

downs. The seven points were tied for the fewest scored by the Saints since Sean Payton became coach in 2006 and the 188 total yards were the fewest in his coaching tenure.

“Lot of things to look at,” Payton said. “Lot of things we didn’t do well.”

The Saints went three-and-out on their first possession and that was just the start of their struggles. On their next possession, Brees was hit from behind by Cliff Avril and fumbled into the arms of Bennett, who returned it

for the touchdown.

Brees was unable to take advantage of Seattle’s depleted secondary.

The Seahawks were without Brandon Browner (injury) and Walter Thurmond (suspension) but Byron Maxwell and Jeremy Lane played well in their places. The Saints couldn’t find way to exploit the backups and the pressure from Seattle’s defensive line had Brees rushing his throws much of the night.

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Sweeting beats Jones to take sole possession of first place

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Skip Heather Nedohin throws with second Jessica Mair (L) and lead Laine Peters during during their women’s draw 3 against Chelsea Carey at the 2013 Roar Of The Rings championship in Winnipeg, Monday.

WINNIPEG — And then there was one.

Val Sweeting, the 26-year-old skip from Vegreville knocked off four-time Scotties winner Jennifer Jones on Monday night to claim sole possession of first place at the Canadian Olympic curling trials.

But she says her young squad isn’t going to drop that underdog moniker just yet.

“We still like to think we are,” said Sweeting, who curls out of Edmonton with third Joanne Courtney, 24, second Dana Ferguson, 26, and lead Rachelle Pidherny, 27.

“Yeah we’re 3-0 but there’s lots of week left and we don’t have a playoff spot or anything like that yet.”

Sweeting was down three early but evened things up in six and stole seven points en route to a convincing 9-6 win over Jones.

Jones, who entered the game in a tie for first with Sweeting, now sits in second at 2-1 along with fellow Winnipeg skip Chelsea Carey, who knocked off Ottawa’s Rachel Homan 9-8.

“We just missed a couple of bad shots and lost control of the game,” said Jones, who is trying to claim the one prize that has eluded her team, the right to represent Canada at the Olympics.

“We battled back and won one today, this morning and kind of let one slip away tonight but we’ll come beck sharper tomorrow.”

In the morning, Jones needed an extra end to finish off Middaugh.

Homan and the rest of the women’s field sit at 1-2.

Saskatoon’s Stefanie Lawton picked up her first win 8-6 over Renee Sonnenberg of Grande Prairie, Alta., and Edmonton’s Heather Nedohin also picked up her first win 6-3 over Sherry Middaugh of Coldwater, Ont. Jones took an early 3-0 lead against Sweeting but got in trouble in the fourth end and then was heavy on a draw letting Sweeting to steal a crushing four in the seventh end.

On the men’s side, Jeff Stoughton made a great

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shot to tie their game but it wasn’t enough as Kevin Martin extended his winning streak to two games.

That puts Stoughton in a must-win situation for the rest of the tournament.

“Wasn’t that something... you’re just never safe,” Martin said of Stoughton’s shot, minutes after the Edmonton skip’s single in the 10th made it 6-5.

“We had to make it a tough double and of course he made an incredible double and made it a close game.”

Brad Jacobs and John Morris also stayed undefeated. Morris, Martin’s former third, is curling with B.C.’s Jim Cotter and he beat Calgary’s Kevin Koe 6-4 and Jacobs, out of Sault Ste Marie, Ont., downed Winnipeg’s Mike McEwan 7-5.

Glenn Howard, out of Coldwater, also beat fellow Ontario skip John Epping of Toronto 9-5, which left both at 1-1.

The almost 6,000 at the MTS Centre had lots to cheer about as Stoughton made a difficult double off one of Martin’s stones to score three in the ninth.

He missed another, perhaps even more difficult, multiple takeout in the sixth that could have given him four but he had to settle for one.

Stoughton knows he has no more room left to lose another game, with all agreeing a record of 5-2 is probably a must to make the playoffs.

“I would think so. It’s not where we wanted to be after two games,” he said.

“We’ve played worse and won.”

He has already said this will be the last time he tries to win a spot on the Olympic team.

“There’s five games left . . We’re not out of this by any means.”

Martin agreed that losing more than two looks like elimination.

“Five and two is safe, four and three I don’t think ever has been.”

Jacobs was enjoying the moment as well.

“It’s a seven-game round robin so every win is huge. You feel great to be at 2-0. You wouldn’t want to be 0-2,” he said.

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Five inducted to U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame DOUG WEIGHT, BILL GUERIN, PETER KARMANOS, RON MASON AND CINDY CURLEY ADDED

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — Doug Weight recalled his father putting him on skates at the age of 2 because he could barely walk due to a childhood condition that relegated him to wearing braces on his legs.

“He started putting me on the ice to strengthen them at the suggestion from a doctor,” he said.

Weight said it wasn’t a pretty sight at the rink in St. Clair Shores, Mich.

“I looked like Forrest Gump,” he joked.

Four decades later, Weight was inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame.

The Stanley Cup champion, threetime Olympian and four-time NHL AllStar was inducted Monday night at the Motor City Casino — in the city where he grew up.

“It’s ironic,” the Detroiter said.

“Pretty special.”

Weight was honoured along with former teammate Bill Guerin, a twotime Stanley Cup champion, three-time Olympian and four-time All-Star.

“It’s very special, three different NHL teams and nine teams in all,” Weight said about the number of times he teamed up with Guerin. “It’s a pretty incredible run together.

“It’s icing on the cake to go in with Billy.”

Weight and Guerin’s wives and children have become friends over the years, going on vacations together and sharing holidays as families.

“It couldn’t have worked out any better,” Guerin said.

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From left, Cindy Curley, Peter Karmanos Jr., Bill Guerin, Doug Weight, and Ron Mason stand with their plaques before being inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in Detroit, Monday.

Carolina Hurricanes owner Peter Karmanos, former college coach Ron Mason and Cindy Curley, one of the pioneers in women’s hockey, also were inducted.

USA Today Hockey Writer Kevin Allen was also given the Lester Patrick Trophy for outstanding service to hockey in the U.S. at the event.

Weight and Guerin began their friendship before they were in the NHL and grew closer while playing together for the Edmonton Oilers, St. Louis Blues and New York Islanders.

They also teamed up to play for their

country on more than once occasion, including the 2002 Winter Olympics when they helped the Americans take the silver medal.

Weight, who won a Stanley Cup in 2006 with the Carolina Hurricanes, had 278 career goals and 1,033 points from the 1991-92 season through the 2010-11 season. He is an assistant coach for the New York Islanders.

Guerin hoisted Cups in 1995 with the New Jersey Devils and in 2009 with the Pittsburgh Penguins.

The native of Massachusetts had 429 and 856 points in his career that start-

ed during the same season as Weight and ended one year earlier. Guerin is a player development coach for the Penguins.

Karmanos fell in love hockey when his children began playing the sport, but laments that a lot of kids can’t afford to play the game. He said ice cost about $40 an hour when his children were growing up and now costs $300 for the same period of time. Sticks and skates, he said, also are much more expensive.

“One of the things that holds us back as a sport is it costs too much,” Karmanos said.

“We’re pricing a lot of people out of the game.”

Mason led Michigan State and Lake Superior State to national titles and also coached at Bowling Green. He also was an athletic director for the Spartans.

“This isn’t something you dream about,” he said.

“If you’ve put a lot of years in, like I did, as a player and a coach and of course AD, it’s nice to be rewarded at the end of it.”

Curley had a record 23 points in the International Ice Hockey Federation’s first world championship for women in 1990.

“The women’s game is way behind the men’s game and it hasn’t been around as long,” she said. “We are all, as women, patient for the opportunities that the guys have had. The fact that the Hall is considering women is exciting to me. I know there’s so many great players that deserve to be in here that will be. I’m just honoured that they considered me.”

Big moves overshadow RDC volleyball teams remain perfect after weekend play day where 43 players become free agents

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — On a night usually dominated by news of players let loose, the Washington Nationals and Oakland Athletics filled pitching needs with trades.

Washington obtained right-hander Doug Fister from Detroit for infielder Steve Lombardozzi and left-handers Robbie Ray and Ian Krol on Monday.

Oakland acquired closer Jim Johnson from Baltimore for infielder Jemile Weeks and a player to be named.

Fister was 14-9 with a 3.67 ERA last season for the AL Central champions, who last month traded slugging first baseman Prince Fielder to Texas for second baseman Ian Kinsler.

“It gives us some flexibility for some other things we want to do,” Tigers general manager Dave Dombrowski said, insisting the trade wasn’t made to free money for a long-term deal for AL Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer, who can leave after next season.

Fister joins a talented Nationals rotation that already includes Stephen Strasburg, Jordan Zimmermann and Gio Gonzalez.

Oakland, which also closed in on a $22 million, two-year contract with left-hander Scott Kazmir, is revamping after losing to the Tigers in the AL division series.

The 30-year-old Johnson led the majors with 51 saves in 2012 and tied for the big league lead last season with 50. The two-time AL West champion A’s found their closer to replace AllStar Grant Balfour, who became a free agent after the season.

Meanwhile, 43 players became free agents at midnight EST when their teams failed to offer 2014 contracts.

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CAMP: Youngest The camp will be one of the youngest junior groups ever assembled — Erie Otters forward Connor McDavid, at 16, is the youngest player invited.

But Sutter isn’t too concerned, saying Canada has some phenomenal young players, and he believes he has a good mix.

“It gives us a little bit of everything at every position, it gives us some older guys, a bit of experience, it gives us speed, it gives us size, it gives us skill, and now its how we mesh together to give us our best team,” he said. “I’m not too worried about ages, because it is what it is, you can’t dwell on it or worried about it. To be honest, I’m excited about the group we have here.”

Sutter downplayed McDavid’s potential role on the roster, saying: “He’s one of 15 forwards and again we still don’t know what will happen at the NHL level.

“Lets see how it unfolds, he’s a young player, he’s 16 years of age, let’s see how it works itself out, and see if there’s a role there. I’m not going to go into who for sure is on the team and who isn’t, that still has to work itself out to some degree.”

Edmonton Oil Kings defenceman Griffin Reinhart was named to the roster, despite the fact he still has three games remaining on a suspension from last year’s world junior tournament.

Reinhart didn’t play in Canada’s 6-5 loss to Russia in last year’s bronze-

Clubs often use the so-called tender deadline as leverage to force agreements with players they won’t go to arbitration with. Among the players let loose were Toronto catcher J.P. Arencibia, Boston right-hander Andrew Bailey and outfielder Ryan Kalish, Mets right-hander Jeremy Hefner and Kansas City infielder Chris Getz.

With an excess of catching after reaching an agreement to sign Brian McCann, the New York Yankees traded Chris Stewart to Pittsburgh for a player to be named, and Stewart agreed to a $1 million, one-year deal with the Pirates. The Yankees also finalized a $5 million, two-year contract with shortstop Brendan Ryan, who became their starter in September when Derek Jeter went back on the disabled list.

Kazmir was closing in on a deal with Oakland. The move is pending a physical, a person said, speaking of anonymity because the team hadn’t finalized the contract. The 29-year-old lefthander went 10-9 with a 4.04 ERA in 29 starts and 158 innings last season for Cleveland and becomes part of a rotation that includes Sonny Gray and A.J. Griffin. The Athletics probably won’t pursue a new deal for 40-year-old Bartolo Colon, an 18-game winner.

Utilityman Willie Bloomquist agreed to return to Seattle pending a physical expected to take place later this week, a deal baseball official with knowledge of the deal said, also speaking on condition of anonymity because the deal wasn’t final. Bloomquist spent his first seven big league seasons with Seattle and the past three with Arizona. He hit .317 for the Diamondbacks this year but had just 139 at-bats.

Catcher Dioner Navarro agreed to an $8 million, two-year contract with Toronto that pays $3 million next year and $5 million in 2015. The 29-year-old batted .300 with a career-high 13 homers and 34 RBIs in 89 games for the Chicago Cubs last season. medal game, as he served the first of his four-game suspension for hitting American Vince Trocheck in the head with his stick in the semifinals.

“We’ll weather through it for the first three games of the tournament and then go from there with Griffin,” Sutter said. “You’ve got to think players who played in the tournament last year, their experience is huge. You need their experience, and he’s got experience. Just his past history with the program, players that have played before, it’s tough not to have them because it’s a unique tournament, and you’ve got to have experience.”

Canada opens versus Germany on Boxing Day. The tournament runs through Jan. 4.

HAWKS: Disciplined “We try to make it about us playing disciplined, sound football. Everybody do their assignment and we should be good,” Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman said. “And that’s what we did tonight.”

Seattle used the bye week to add wrinkles to its offence. Wilson was a threat not only passing but running with the zone read again becoming an addition to the playbook. Wilson carried five times in the first half, three of those designed keepers.

But it was his passing that stole the show. Wilson was 14 of 19 in the first half for 226 yards and a rating of 148.1.

It was the second time in three games Wilson threw for at least 200 yards in the first half.

He found Miller open for a 60-yard

the remainder of the season. Kings head coach Aaron Schulha wasn’t all that pleased with his team’s performance.

“We were still without (setter) Sam Brisbane, out with an ankle injury, but overall we weren’t as sharpe as we need to be,” he said.

Keaton Reid set for the second straight day for the Kings with Tim Finnigan leading the way with 13 kills, nine digs, two stuff blocks and an ace. Braden O’Toole added eight kills while Chris Jones had five kills and eight digs, Chris Osborn five kills and two blocks, and Reid and

away by the experience.

Sheets gave Nelson an autographed jersey to thank him for his good turn.

“As a die-hard Rider fan, he’s, you know, one of the most famous people that I could ever try and meet,” Nelson said.

CFL

BRIEFS Grey Cup MVP gives Riders fan ride of his life

Eskimos sign Bowman

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — A Saskatchewan student has a smile as wide as a football field after he got to spend two hours with CFL Grey Cup MVP Kory Sheets The Saskatchewan Roughrider running back tweeted that he was stranded in Saskatoon and needed a lift to Regina. He had caught a flight south to Connecticut for Thanksgiving and arrived back in Saskatoon, but then realized he hadn’t lined up a ride back to Regina.

Mack Nelson replied that he was heading that way and offered to pick him up. Nelson says he was blown catch-and-run to convert a third-and-1 early in the second quarter, then capped the drive with a 2-yard touchdown pass to Miller and a 17-0 lead.

Wilson later hit Doug Baldwin for 52 yards. Seattle had seven pass completions of 12 or more yards in the first half. The Seahawks finished with 315 first-half yards, the most allowed by the Saints in a first half since 2005 against Minnesota.

Wilson’s night was so good, his passes that should have been incompletions ended up becoming touchdowns.

Facing second-and-goal from the Saints 8, Wilson threw a pass intended for reserve tight end Kellen Davis. The

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Bowman was activated off the ninegame injured list in Week 11. In nine games, he recorded 44 catches for 697 yards and five touchdowns.

In Week 18, against the B.C. Lions, he caught six passes for 199 yards and two touchdowns — the third highest single-game yards total of his career and his second highest as an Eskimo.

Bowman missed all but two games in 2012 with a knee injury.

In six season with Saskatchewan, Winnipeg and Edmonton, Bowman has 3,969 career yards and 21 touchdowns. ball deflected to Coleman for a score.

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Meanwhile, the Queens setter Bronwyn Hawkes was their player of the game.

“She did an excellent job of distributing the ball and we played well as a team,” said head coach Talbot Walton.

Brooke Sutter finished with 12 kills and 16 digs while Amber Adolf had 11 kills and 13 digs.

Megan Schmidt had seven kills and Alex Donaghy six kills, four digs and two blocks and libero Maddi Quinn 14 digs.

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LLOYDMINSTER — The RDC volleyball teams put the finishing touches on a perfect first half of the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference season during the weekend.

The Kings, ranked No. 1 in Canada, ran their record to 8-0 with a 2624, 25-20, 25-20 victory over the Lakeland Rustlers while the Queens, ranked fourth in Canada, are 10-0 with a 25-12, 2523, 25-16 victory over the Rustlers.

The Kings, who are 240 in sets, had two games cancelled against Lethbridge, when the Kodiaks were suspended for

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Swift Current 31 17 11 0 3 109 91 Prince Albert 28 17 9 2 0 101 91 Regina 28 15 12 1 0 90 97 Brandon 29 14 13 2 0 104 111 Saskatoon 30 10 17 1 2 98 127 Moose Jaw 31 8 18 3 2 79 116 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Medicine Hat 28 17 8 3 0 103 77 Edmonton 27 17 9 0 1 98 67 Calgary 26 15 7 1 3 82 76 Kootenay 29 15 12 2 0 89 86 Red Deer 28 13 13 0 2 80 85 Lethbridge 29 3 22 2 2 70 139

Pt 37 36 31 30 23 21 Pt 37 35 34 32 28 10

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 24 19 3 0 2 96 58 40 Victoria 30 18 11 0 1 80 71 37 Vancouver 29 12 11 4 2 94 104 30 Prince George 31 11 16 1 3 90 123 26 Kamloops 28 6 18 2 2 69 108 16 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Everett 28 20 4 4 0 94 69 44 Portland 28 20 5 2 1 140 91 43 Spokane 29 17 10 0 2 107 87 36 Seattle 29 16 9 1 3 106 106 36 Tri-City 30 15 12 1 2 81 80 33 d-division leader; x-clinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns Sunday’s results Calgary 4 Medicine Hat 1 Portland 6 Saskatoon 5 Edmonton 3 Lethbridge 2 Seattle 5 Spokane 1 Tuesday’s games Red Deer at Calgary, 7 p.m.

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

Kootenay at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Vancouver at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Lethbridge at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Regina at Brandon, 6 p.m.

Prince Albert at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Saskatoon at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Red Deer Rebels Scoring G 12 10 12 4 6 6 3 5 4 3 4 3 1 0 0 3 1

A 18 16 8 14 11 9 9 6 6 7 3 3 3 4 4 0 2

Pts 30 26 20 18 17 15 12 11 10 10 7 6 4 4 4 3 3

PIM 17 13 7 6 23 17 30 30 28 19 0 16 14 58 38 8 11

+/7 0 1 6 0 -2 -13 2 -5 1 5 0 -2 -1 9 0 6

Burman Bartosak

23 25 2 16 6 20 24

1 0 1 1 0 0 0

2 2 0 0 0 0 0

MP 300 1387

GA 14 67

SO 0 1

3 2 1 1 0 0 0

4 68 0 7 0 27 2

GAA 2.80 2.90

-2 -6 1 -6 0 0 0

Sv% .915 .918

Western Hockey League Leaders CALGARY — Western Hockey League statistics (through Dec. 2): SCORING G A Pt Holmberg, Spo 30 34 64 Petan, Por 19 41 60 Bjorkstrand, Por 23 28 51 Winquist, Evt 21 29 50 Reinhart, Ktn 16 30 46 Scherbak, Sktn 17 25 42 Draisaitl, PA 15 27 42 Aviani, Spo 22 18 40 Descheneau, Ktn 19 20 39 Leier, Por 19 19 38 Black, SC 15 23 38 Burns, Sktn 14 24 38

2. Winnipeg, Setoguchi 7 (Jokinen, Thorburn) 8:16 3. Winnipeg, Albert 1 (Byfuglien) 10:00 4. N.Y. Rangers, Callahan 7 (Richards, Pouliot) 15:50 Penalties — Kreider NYR (holding) 3:37.

Third Period 5. Winnipeg, Jokinen 5 (Thorburn, Setoguchi) 12:42 6. Winnipeg, Jokinen 6 (Frolik, Trouba) 18:06 7. Winnipeg, Wheeler 6 (Trouba, Little) 19:09 (en) Penalties — Stuart Wpg (cross-checking) 7:11.

Shots on goal by Winnipeg 6 13 11 — 30 N.Y. Rangers 11 15 11 — 37 Goal — Winnipeg: Pavelec (W,10-10-3); NY Rangers: Talbot (L,6-2-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Winnipeg: 0-2; N.Y. Rangers: 0-2.

loss.

Sunday’s Games Edmonton 3, Dallas 2, SO Vancouver 3, Carolina 2 Detroit 4, Ottawa 2 Monday’s Games Winnipeg 5, N.Y. Rangers 2 Montreal 3, New Jersey 2 Philadelphia 0, Minnesota, 2 St. Louis at Los Angeles, late Tuesday’s Games San Jose at Toronto, 5 p.m.

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

Carolina at Washington, 5 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Dallas at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Montreal at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Detroit, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Monday’s summaries

GOALTENDING (Minimum 540 minutes played) W L OT GAA Jarry, Edm 16 7 1 1.98 Vollrath, Vic 5 2 1 2.08 Lotz, Evt 15 3 1 2.12 Cooke, Kel 14 1 2 2.14 Polivka, Vic 13 9 0 2.40 National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Boston 27 18 7 2 38 Montreal 28 16 9 3 35 Detroit 28 14 7 7 35 Tampa Bay 26 16 9 1 33 Toronto 27 14 10 3 31 Ottawa 27 10 13 4 24 Florida 27 7 15 5 19 Buffalo 28 6 20 2 14 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Pittsburgh 28 18 9 1 37 Washington 27 14 11 2 30 N.Y. Rangers 28 14 14 0 28 New Jersey 28 11 12 5 27 Philadelphia 27 12 13 2 26 Carolina 27 10 12 5 25 Columbus 27 10 14 3 23 N.Y. Islanders 27 8 15 4 20

SO 3 0 3 2 4

GF GA 75 55 76 59 78 73 76 66 75 73 78 90 59 91 48 85 GF GA 86 64 82 78 62 71 61 67 57 65 57 78 67 80 72 93

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 28 20 4 4 44 102 76 St. Louis 25 18 4 3 39 89 57 Colorado 25 19 6 0 38 76 52 Minnesota 29 16 8 5 37 70 67 Winnipeg 29 13 12 4 30 78 82 Nashville 27 13 11 3 29 62 75 Dallas 25 12 9 4 28 70 73 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 26 18 3 5 41 92 60 Anaheim 29 18 7 4 40 91 77 Los Angeles 27 16 7 4 36 70 58 Phoenix 26 15 7 4 34 85 84 Vancouver 29 14 10 5 33 77 77 Calgary 26 9 13 4 22 70 93 Edmonton 28 9 17 2 20 73 95 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime

Wild 2, Flyers 0 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Simmonds Pha (holding) 19:26.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Rosehill Pha, Rupp Minn (fighting) 3:30, Giroux Pha (delay of game) 6:58.

Third Period 1. Minnesota, Pominville 14 (Koivu) 3:52 2. Minnesota, Coyle 3 (Spurgeon, Scandella) 4:49 Penalties — Coyle Minn (slashing) 7:48, Koivu Minn (tripping) 13:08.

Shots on goal Philadelphia 4 6 11 — 21 Minnesota 9 6 6 — 21 Goal — Philadelphia: Emery (L,3-5-0); Minnesota: Harding (W,14-4-3).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Philadelphia: 0-2; Minnesota: 0-2.

G 21 20 16 15 14 14 14 13 13 13

Assists Name Team Evgeni Malkin Pittsburgh Joe Thornton San Jose Sidney Crosby Pittsburgh Duncan Keith Chicago Henrik Sedin Vancouver Erik Karlsson Ottawa Nicklas Backstrom Washington P.K. Subban Montreal John Tavares NY Islanders Henrik Zetterberg Detroit

A 28 25 23 23 21 20 19 19 19 19

Jets 5, Rangers 2 First Period 1. N.Y. Rangers, Zuccarello 4 (McDonagh) 2:49 Penalties — D.Brassard NYR (tripping) 11:21, Peluso Wpg, Falk NYR (fighting) 16:46, Wheeler Wpg (slashing) 18:45.

Second Period

Canadian World Junior Team Selection Camp Roster CALGARY — List of players announced Monday by Hockey Canada invited to the Canadian world junior team selection camp, from Dec. 12-15 at the MasterCard Centre for Hockey Excellence in Toronto (with hometown and current CHL team): Goaltenders Zachary Fucale, Rosemere, Que., Halifax (QMJHL); Jake Paterson, Mississauga, Ont., Saginaw (OHL).

Defencemen Chris Bigras, Woodland Beach, Ont., Owen Sound (OHL); Mathew Dumba, Calgary, Minnesota Wild (NHL); Aaron Ekblad, Belle River, Ont., Barrie (OHL); Josh Morrissey, Calgary, Prince Albert (WHL); Adam Pelech, Toronto, Erie (OHL); Derrick Pouliot, Weyburn, Sask., Portland (WHL); Griffin Reinhart, West Vancouver, B.C., Edmonton (WHL); Damon Severson, Melville, Sask., Kelowna (WHL).

Forwards Josh Anderson, Burlington, Ont., London (OHL); Jonathan Drouin, Huberdeau, Que., Halifax (QMJHL); Frederik Gauthier, Mascouche, Que., Rimouski (QMJHL); Felix Girard, Levis, Que., Baie-Comeau (QMJHL); Bo Horvat, Rodney, Ont., London (OHL); Charles Hudon, Boisbriand, Que., Chicoutimi (QMJHL); Scott Laughton, Oakville, Ont., Oshawa (OHL); Curtis Lazar, Vernon, B.C., Edmonton (WHL); Taylor Leier, Saskatoon, Portland (WHL); Anthony Mantha, Longueuil, Que., Val-d’Or (QMJHL).

Connor McDavid, Newmarket, Ont., Erie (OHL); Nic Petan, Delta, B.C., Portland (WHL); Sam Reinhart, West Vancouver, B.C., Kootenay (WHL); Kerby Rychel, Tecumseh, Ont., Windsor (OHL); Hunter Shinkaruk, Calgary, Medicine Hat (WHL).

Green Bay Minnesota

Canadiens 3, Devils 2 First Period 1. New Jersey, Bernier 3 (Volchenkov, Henrique) 11:13 Penalties — Bournival Mtl (hooking) 18:14.

Second Period 2. Montreal, Bourque 6 (Desharnais, Subban) 8:49 3. Montreal, Pacioretty 10 (Markov, Desharnais) 16:49 (pp) Penalties — Ryder NJ (holding) 2:04, Eller Mtl (high-sticking) 9:22, Zubrus NJ (interference) 15:49.

Third Period 4. New Jersey, Ryder 6 (Fayne, Gelinas) 4:42 5. Montreal, Galchenyuk 7 (Emelin, Bourque) 9:34 Penalties — Emelin Mtl (delay of game) 13:51.

Shots on goal New Jersey 11 11 8 — 30 Montreal 5 4 8 — 17 Goal — New Jersey: Brodeur (L,7-7-2); Montreal: Price (W,12-8-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) — New Jersey: 0-3; Montreal: 1-2.

Football NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 9 3 0 .750 322 Miami 6 6 0 .500 252 N.Y. Jets 5 7 0 .417 189 Buffalo 4 8 0 .333 267 South W L T Pct PF Indianapolis 8 4 0 .667 285 Tennessee 5 7 0 .417 264 Jacksonville 3 9 0 .250 174 Houston 2 10 0 .167 230 North W L T Pct PF Cincinnati 8 4 0 .667 292 Baltimore 6 6 0 .500 249 Pittsburgh 5 7 0 .417 263 Cleveland 4 8 0 .333 231 West W L T Pct PF

PA 261 248 310 307 PA 274 267 352 323 PA 216 235 278 297 PA

Denver Kansas City San Diego Oakland

10 9 5 4

2 3 7 8

0 0 0 0

.833 .750 .417 .333

464 298 279 237

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Dallas 7 5 0 .583 329 Philadelphia 7 5 0 .583 300 N.Y. Giants 5 7 0 .417 237 Washington 3 9 0 .250 269 South W L T Pct PF New Orleans 9 3 0 .750 312 Carolina 9 3 0 .750 285 Tampa Bay 3 9 0 .250 217 Atlanta 3 9 0 .250 261 North W L T Pct PF Detroit 7 5 0 .583 326 Chicago 6 6 0 .500 323

317 214 277 300

PA 303 281 297 362 PA 230 157 285 340 PA 287 332

5 3

6 8

W Seattle 11 San Francisco 8 Arizona 7 St. Louis 5

L 1 4 5 7

1 1 West T 0 0 0 0

.458 .292

294 289

305 366

Monday’s Game New Orleans 7, Seattle 34

Pct .920 .667 .583 .417

PF 340 297 275 279

PA 186 197 247 278

Thursday, Dec. 5 Houston at Jacksonville, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 8 Atlanta at Green Bay, 11 a.m.

Minnesota at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

Kansas City at Washington, 11 a.m.

Buffalo at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.

Miami at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m.

Detroit at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Indianapolis at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Cleveland at New England, 11 a.m.

Oakland at N.Y. Jets, 11 a.m.

Tennessee at Denver, 2:05 p.m.

Seattle at San Francisco, 2:25 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at San Diego, 2:25 p.m.

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

Carolina at New Orleans, 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 9 Dallas at Chicago, 6:40 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Minnesota 23, Chicago 20, OT New England 34, Houston 31 Indianapolis 22, Tennessee 14 Jacksonville 32, Cleveland 28 Carolina 27, Tampa Bay 6 Philadelphia 24, Arizona 21 Miami 23, N.Y. Jets 3 San Francisco 23, St. Louis 13 Atlanta 34, Buffalo 31, OT Cincinnati 17, San Diego 10 Denver 35, Kansas City 28 N.Y. Giants 24, Washington 17

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 6 10 .375 — Boston 7 12 .368 1/2 Philadelphia 6 12 .333 1 Brooklyn 5 12 .294 1 New York 3 13 .188 3 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 14 3 .824 — Washington 9 9 .500 5 Atlanta 9 10 .474 6 Charlotte 8 10 .444 6 Orlando 6 11 .353 8 Central Division W L Pct GB Indiana 16 1 .941 — Chicago 7 9 .438 8 Detroit 7 10 .412 9

Cleveland Milwaukee

1/2

1/2 1/2

1/2

5 3

12 .294 13 .188

11 12

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 15 3 .833 — Houston 13 6 .684 2 Dallas 10 8 .556 5 New Orleans 9 8 .529 5 Memphis 8 8 .500 6 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Portland 14 3 .824 — Oklahoma City 12 3 .800 1 Denver 10 6 .625 3 Minnesota 9 10 .474 6 Utah 4 15 .211 11 Pacific Division W L Pct GB L.A. Clippers 12 6 .667 —

1/2

1/2 1/2

1/2

Curling

10 9 9 4

8 8 9 11

.556 .529 .500 .267

2 2 3 6

1/2 1/2

Sunday’s Games Denver 112, Toronto 98 Indiana 105, L.A. Clippers 100 Detroit 115, Philadelphia 100 Golden State 115, Sacramento 113 Miami 99, Charlotte 98 Oklahoma City 113, Minnesota 103 New Orleans 103, New York 99 Portland 114, L.A. Lakers 108

Tuesday’s Games Orlando at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Denver at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Detroit at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

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

Wednesday’s Games Denver at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Houston, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Dallas at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Indiana at Utah,7 p.m.

San Antonio vs. Minnesota at Mexico City, Mexico, 7:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Portland, 8 p.m.

Monday’s Games Washington 98, Orlando 80 New Orleans 131, Chicago 128,3OT San Antonio 102, Atlanta 100 Utah 109, Houston 103 Indiana at Portland, late

Thursday

● College basketball: SAIT at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● Men’s basketball: Dream Team vs.

Monstars, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs.

Orangemen, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Friday

● Heritage junior B hockey: Ponoka at Stettler, 7:30 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Airdrie at Sylvan Lake, 8:15 p.m; Cranbrook at Lacombe, 8:30 p.m. ● Chinook senior hockey: Bentley at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday

● Peewee AA hockey: Cranbrook at Red Deer Parkland, 12:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Wheatland at Lacombe, 8:15 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Rangers at Red Deer Northstar, 2 p.m., Arena; Spruce Grove at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 4:45 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Badlands at Red Deer Ramada, 4:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Medicine Hat at Sylvan Lake, 8:15 p.m. ● WHL: Portland at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Exhibition hockey: Bentley Generals vs. RDC Kings, 7:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Midget AA hockey: Cranbrook at Red Deer Elks, 7:30 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Medicine Hat at Three Hills, 8 p.m.

Sunday

● Peewee AA hockey: Cranbrook at Red Deer TBS, 10:30 a.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Northstars at Red Deer Black, noon, Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Badlands at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2:15 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie at Ponoka, 2:30 p.m. ● Midget AAA hockey: St. Albert at Red Deer, 3:30 p.m., Arena. ● Men’s basketball: Grandview Allstars vs. Rusty Chuckers, The Secret Runs vs.

Monstars, Gord Scott Nissan vs. Woodys RV, 4:15 p.m.; Orangemen vs. Carstar, Wells Furniture vs. Dream Team, Alken Basin Drillers vs. Triple A Batteries, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber. ● Midget AA hockey: Okotoks at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 5:30 p.m., Arena.

MEN’S BASKETBALL Murray Cunningham scored 19 points and Cameron Kusiek added 15 as Carstar beat Rusty Chuckers 68-41 in a Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball League game Sunday. Danny Krause had 13 points and Ben Cripps had 7 for the Rusty Chuckers.

In other action, Jeff Diep had 18 points to lead Sheraton Red Deer to a 62-56 win over Triple A Batteries. James Johanson added 14 points for Sheraton while Andre Touchette had 20 points and Brian Smiith added 10 in a losing cause for Triple A.

Transactions

Roar of the Rings standings WINNIPEG — Results and standings following Monday’s late draw at the Roar of the Rings, a tournament to determine the Canadian representatives for the 2014 Socchi Winter Olympics, and held Dec. 1-8 at the MTS Centre (all times Eastern): MEN Round Robin Skip Martin Jacobs Morris Howard Epping McEwen Stoughton Koe

Golden State Phoenix L.A. Lakers Sacramento

Wednesday

● WHL: Prince Albert at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● AJHL: Camrose at Olds, 7:30 p.m.

NHL Leaders Through games of Sunday, December 1, 2013 Goals Name Team GP Alex Ovechkin Washington 25 Alexander Steen St. Louis 25 Patrick Kane Chicago 28 Corey Perry Anaheim 29 Phil Kessel Toronto 27 Chris Kunitz Pittsburgh 28 Steven Stamkos Tampa Bay 17 Sidney Crosby Pittsburgh 28 Ryan Getzlaf Anaheim 26 Tomas Hertl San Jose 26 GP 28 26 28 28 29 27 27 27 27 28

Today

● WHL: Red Deer at Calgary, 7 p.m. (The Drive). ● Heritage junior B hockey: Ponoka at Blackfalds, 7:30 p.m. ● Men’s basketball: Vikings vs. Wells Furniture, The Secret Runs vs. Triple Threat, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

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Sunday’s results First Draw Kevin Martin 5 Mike McEwen 3 John Epping 9 Kevin Koe 8 John Morris 8 Glenn Howard 6 Brad Jacobs 7 Jeff Stoughton 4 Monday’s results Second Draw Glenn Howard 9 John Epping 5 Brad Jacobs 7 Mike McEwen 5 Kevin Martin 6 Jeff Stoughton 5 John Morris 6 Kevin Koe 4 Tuesday’s games Third Draw, 7:30 a.m.

Jeff Stoughton vs. John Epping; Kevin Martin vs.

Kevin Koe; Brad Jacobs vs. Glenn Howard; Mike McEwen vs. John Morris.

Fourth Draw, 5:30 p.m.

Kevin Koe vs. Brad Jacobs; John Morris vs. Jeff Stoughton; John Epping vs. Mike McEwen; Glenn Howard vs. Kevin Martin.

Wednesday’s games Fifth Draw, 12:30 p.m.

Brad Jacobs vs. John Morris; Glenn Howard vs Mike McEwen; Kevin Koe vs. Jeff Stoughton; Kevin Martin vs. John Epping.

Monday’s Sports Transactions WOMEN Round Robin Skip Sweeting Jones Carey Homan Nedohin Middaugh Lawton Sonnenberg

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Sunday’s results First Draw Jennifer Jones 10 Chelsea Carey 2 Sherry Middaugh 5 Stefanie Lawton 3 Renee Sonnenberg 8 Heather Nedohin 6 Val Sweeting 10 Rachel Homan 3 Monday’s results Second Draw Chelsea Carey 8 Heather Nedohin 5 (extra end) Rachel Homan 8 Renee Sonnenberg 2 Jennifer Jones 9 Sherry Middaugh 7 (extra end) Val Sweeting 8 Stefanie Lawton 6 Third Draw Chelsea Carey 9 Rachel Homan 8 Stefanie Lawton 8 Renee Sonnenberg 6 Heather Nedohin 6 Sherry Middaugh 3 Val Sweeting 9 Jennifer Jones 6 Tuesday’s games Fourth Draw, 12:30 p.m.

Heather Nedohin vs. Val Sweeting; Sherry Middaugh vs. Rachel Homan; Renee Sonnenberg vs.

Jennifer Jones; Stefanie Lawton vs. Chelsea Carey.

Wednesday’s games Fifth Draw, 7:30 a.m.

Renee Sonnenberg vs. Chelsea Carey; Jennifer Jones vs. Stefanie Lawton; Rachel Homan vs.

Heather Nedohin; Sherry Middaugh vs. Val Sweeting.

Sixth Draw, 5:30 p.m.

Jennifer Jones vs. Rachel Homan; Val Sweeting vs.

Chelsea Carey; Sherry Middaugh vs. Renee Sonnenberg; Heather Nedohin vs. Stefanie Lawton.

BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Declined to offer 2014 contracts to RHP Andrew Bailey and OF Ryan Kalish.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with C Tyler Flowers on a oneyear contract. Declined to offer a 2014 contract to RHP Dylan Axelrod.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Declined to offer 2014 contracts to OF Matt Carson, RHP Tyler Cloyd and C Lou Marson. Agreed to terms with RHP Frank Herrmann and RHP Blake Wood on one-year contracts.

DETROIT TIGERS — Acquired LHP Robbie Ray, LHP Ian Krol and INF Steve Lombardozzi from Washington for RHP Doug Fister. Agreed to terms with INF/OF Don Kelly on a one-year contract.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Declined to offer a 2014 contract to INF Chris Getz.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Traded C Chris Stewart to Pittsburgh for a player to be named. Agreed to terms with INF Brendan Ryan on a two-year contract.

Declined to offer 2014 contracts to INFs David Adams and Jayson Nix and RHP Matt Daley.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Agreed to terms with RHP Fernando Rodriguez on a one-year contract.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Agreed to terms with C Jose Molina on a two-year contract. Declined to offer 2014 contracts to OF Sam Fuld and LHP Wesley Wright.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Agreed to terms with C Dioner Navarro on a twoyear contract. Declined to offer a 2014 contract to C J.P. Arencibia.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Named Mike Harkey pitching coach and Mel Stottlemyre Jr. bullpen coach.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms with OF Mike Baxter, C Drew Butera and LHP Scott Elbert on one-year contracts.

NEW YORK METS — Declined to offer 2014 contracts to RHP Scott Atchison, RHP Jeremy Hefner, SS Omar Quintanilla, 3B Justin Turner and OF Jordany Valdespin.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Designated C Michael McKenry for assignment.

American Association WINNIPEG GOLDEYES — Signed C Matthew Albaugh and

RHP David Hatt.

FOOTBALL Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Signed SB Adarius Bowman to a two-year contract extension.

HOCKEY National Hockey League DALLAS STARS — Placed D Aaron Rome on injured reserve, retroactive to Nov. 24. Recalled F Travis Morin from Texas (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS — Reassigned D Richard Nedomlel from Grand Rapids (AHL) to Toledo (ECHL).

OTTAWA SENATORS — Reassigned D Mark Borowiecki and F Derek Grant to Binghamton (AHL). Recalled F Mike Hoffman from Binghamton.

PHOENIX COYOTES — Assigned D Rostislav Klesla to Portland (AHL).

American Hockey League LAKE ERIE MONSTERS — Recalled F Vincent Arseneau and D Lee Moffie from Denver (CHL).

OKLAHOMA CITY BARONS — Recalled G Ty Rimmer from Quad City (CHL).

Red Deer Rebels vs

Prince Albert Raiders Wednesday, December 4 7:00 pm

Red Deer Rebels

Truck Decks, Welding Skids, Headache Rack & Rocket Launchers and lots more.

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Ovens up to 37’ Long

Bowling Special Olympics Mixed: Matt Mundorf 253 high single; Mundorf 467 high triple.

Thursday Mixed: Bonnie Clermont 285 high single; Clermont 736 high triple.

Monday Scratch League: Alliey Kutynec 313 high single; Shelby Chrest 1040 high triple.

Sunday Fun League: Shelby Chrest 289 high single; Chrest 798 high triple.

Youth Bowling of Canada (YBC) Bumpers: Rogan Clark 106 Bowlasaurus: Jennika Wudkevich 92 Pee Wees: Ashlyn Makarenko 153; Makarenko 240 two games.

Saturday, December 7 7:00 pm

Over 250 stocked colors

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Heritage Lanes High scores Nov.25 - Dec.1 Monday-Club 55+: Bob Barmby 268 high single; Claude Gagne 649 high triple.

Monday Mixed: Marcel Serre 294 high single; Serre 666 high triple.

Tuesday Mixed: Ashley Ehret 287 high single; Harvey Von Hollen 811 high triple.

Wednesday-Club 55+: Tom Murphy 246 high single; Don Knowler 637 high triple.

Thursday Morning Ladies: Glenda Regnier 217 high single; Regnier 606 high triple.

Thursday Afternoon

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Obituaries

LESLIE Thomas Bruce (Tom) Feb. 12, 1935 - Nov. 29, 2013 At the age of 78, Tom passed away at the Red Deer Hospice.

Tom will be missed greatly by his daughter Dorothy of Sidney, BC and his son John (Rhonda), grandsons, Nathan and Christopher and great grandchildren, Austin, Braedon, and Chloe all of Red Deer; also his brother Bill and sister, Marion; brother in law George Shields (Joey) and the many nieces and nephews. Tom was predeceased by his wife Marion (Shields), his father Edward and his mother Dorothy (Morrison), his brother Kenneth and sister Margaret. Tom was an entrepreneur and did many things from operating Leslie’s Grocery and Drive In on Grande Prairies west side with his mother Dorothy to a Mens Clothing store in Vernon, BC. He sold Chevrolets in Grande Prairie and then in Hythe at his own dealership “Tom Leslie Chev Olds”. After the dealership closed Tom tried his hand at Real Estate with George Isberg and crew, then in 1982 he partnered with George Shields and they bought an existing Rental company in Dawson Creek, BC to create Rentco Equipment BC Ltd. Tom retired in 2001 to travel and checked out many destinations both far and near. He later moved to Red Deer to watch the grandkids and great-grandkids grow up. One of Tom’s favorite things to do was a weekend breakfast with the family at ABC Family Restaurant in Red Deer. Toms many friends in Grande Prairie, Dawson Creek and Red Deer will remember Toms wonderful sense of humour and his loving life attitude. Tom was active in his community and will be remembered by the many community clubs he enjoyed like Kinsmen, Shrine, Masons, and Gyro. A celebration of Tom Leslie’s life will be held in Red Deer at the ABC Family Restaurant meeting room on Saturday, December 7th, 2013.

Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm. Please come and share your stories of Tom with others whose paths he crossed. The family will also be meeting in Grande Prairie for his family and friends in the Peace Country at a later date. Tom’s family would like to express their appreciation to Dr. Boake (retired) and Dr. Philpott for their excellent care; also to all the staff at the Pines Lodge, Michener Extendicare, Unit 32 RDRH (Palliative Care) and Red Deer Hospice. In lieu of flowers Tom asked that donations be made to a charity of your choice. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of Maryann Hansen, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

Telephone 403.340.4040.

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Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013

SCHMIDT Robert James 1964 - 2013 Robert James Schmidt of Red Deer, Alberta passed away at home on Thursday, November 28, 2013 at the age of 48 years. Bob will be lovingly remembered by his m o t h e r, J o y c e S c h m i d t ; daughter, Sarah Schmidt; brother, Rick (Linda) Schmidt and sister, Brenda (Joe) Goertzen, as well as many extended family and friends.

Bob was predeceased by his father, Ralph. A Service of Remembrance will be held at Victory Christian Fellowship, 9 8 O b e r l i n Av e n u e , R e d D e e r, o n W e d n e s d a y, December 4, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com

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PERIOPARTNERS Dr. Patrick Pierce/ Dr. Janel Yu Require

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who is extremely well organized, energetic & self motivated. 4 days/wk.

No evenings or weekends.

Send resume ASAP to reddeer@periopartners.com or bring by in person, we would love to meet you.

4619 48 Ave, Red Deer.

F/T Live-in nanny for 8 month old infant in Red deer. $10.11/hr 42.5/week minus R/B. Call Michael Is holding it’s Annual (403)396-4480 Christmas Open House & Sales Sat. Dec. 7, from LIVE IN CAREGIVER / 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

COMPANION for 49 yr old COME AND VISIT SANTA memory challenged 10- NOON. Farm Work female. Excellent living 2 miles E on 39th Street conditions. 403-346-3179 from 30th Ave., F/T FEED TRUCK LIVE IN caregiver required Red Deer.

OPERATOR for large for elderly lady living in her expanding feed lot in Sundre. home in Red Deer.

FREE FLU SHOTS own Fax resume to Duties include help with Highland Green Value 403-638-3908 Drug Mart 6315 Horn St. m e a l p r e p a r a t i o n - l i g h t or call 403-556-9588 housekeeping and caring or email: for lady with some mobility feedlot@hotmail.ca issues. Previous nursing experience an asset. A Lost separate residential suite is available. Contact Clare Janitorial LOST: Set of car keys with at command start hey on **POSITION FILLED** ARAMARK at (Dow Saturday, November 30th, P/T F. caregiver wanted Prentiss Plant) about somewhere around the for F quad. Must be reliable 20-25 minutes out of Red Galaxy theatre or the and have own vehicle.

Deer needs hardworking, Kinsmen Dream Home.

403-505-7846 reliable, honest person If found, please call w/drivers license, to work 403-507-5189 40/hrs. per week w/some weekends, daytime hrs.

Clerical $14/hr. Fax resume Personals w/ref’s to 403-885-7006 BOOKKEEPING CLERK Attn: Val Black req;d for Go Tire Inc. in ALCOHOLICS Classifieds...costs so little Red Deer. Email resume ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 to: mabel@mygotire.com Saves you so much!

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Births BABY BIRCHAM! Proud big brother Nathan (5) along with his parents Ervin Bircham and Melyssa Robertson, grandparents Jennifer and Stan Bircham and Kevin and Leaha Marek are pleased to announce the safe and swift arrival of Carson Jacob Bircham. Carson was born at his home in Blackfalds, Alberta on November 27 2013, weighing 8 lbs 12oz and 21 inches tall. A very heartfelt thank you to our primary midwives Lisa Lycklama, Jennifer Bindon, Winifred Angus, and assisting midwife Kimberly Brown all of Prairie Midwives and also to our doula and special friend Jessica Bartolf for all the love, care and knowledge through pregnancy and birth.

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F/T ASSISTANT RDA II needed for busy general dental office in Red Deer.

Must be a self-motivated team player with good communication skills.

Please send resume with cover letter to: (888) 815-9839 or email to: carol@rddc.ca

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FREE BREAKFAST 10:30-11:45 AM & FREE SUPPER 5:00-6:15 PM

RED DEER BINGO CENTRE 4946-53 Ave. 347-4504 (Just West of Superstore)

Over 2,000,000 hours St. John Ambulance volunteers provide Canadians with more than 2 million hours of community service each year.

$2500 Bonus Every 100 days

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Night Foremen, 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

1ST RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., a growing Production Testing company, based out of Sylvan Lake, is currently accepting resumes for the following positions:

* Experienced Production Testing * Day Supervisors * Night Operators * Experienced Production Testing Assistants If you are a team player interested in the oil and gas industry, please submit your resume, current driver’s abstract and current safety certificates to the following: Fax 403-887-4750 mbell@1strateenergy.ca

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Afternoon & Evening Bingo 7 Days a Week Oilfield

CLASS 1 DRIVERS. & Pressure truck operators.

Small company, good money, paid benefits.

Looking for responsible, safe drivers and operators.

Phone 403-391-8004 for details. haulinacid.com DARK Star Production Testing Ltd. is currently seeking experienced supervisors and assistants with clean criminal record and passport for immediate work in South Texas.

Competitive wages.

Rotation shift work Pre-employment drug screening All applicants must have valid tickets including H2S first aid & fit test. Must also have valid driver’s licence.

All applicants must have strong professional work ethic.

Limited positions available.

Darkstar will provide work visa.

Submit Resume, passport, criminal record check and current tickets to ken@darkstarproduction. com Applicants missing any of the above criteria will not be considered.

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Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors & Operators Must have valid applicable tickets Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com

PROVIDENCE Trucking Inc Is now hiring experienced

Picker Operator Bed Truck Operator Winch truck Operators All candidates must be able to pass a pre-employment drug screen. We offer exceptional wages and benefits for exceptional people. Fax resume and abstract to 403-314-2340 or email to safety@ providencetrucking.ca

Q TEST INSPECTION LTD.

Now has immediate openings for CGSB Level II RT’s and CEDO’s for our winter pipeline projects. Top wages and comprehensive benefit package available.

Subcontractors also welcome.

Email resumes to: qtestltd@telus.net or Phone 403-887-5630.

SERVICE RIG

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking exp’d FLOORHANDS Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule.

Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: hr@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

Professionals

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A growing, well established ASME fabrication facility Is hiring for the position of

Mechanical Designer / Drafter Skilled & adept in pressure vessel & piping design.

Candidate can demonstrate proficiency with AutoCAD/ AutoCAD Inventor, compress & has proven record of successful projects.

Strong computer skills & technical aptitude is req’d.

We offer above industry wages & comprehensive benefit package.

Please email resumes to careers@fusionpro.ca or fax 403-347-7867

Restaurant/ Hotel

Recently winning the 2013 Business of the Year award, Bilton Welding and Manufacturing Ltd. designs, engineers and manufactures custom energy equipment. Since 1992, Bilton has worked with engineering firms and oil and natural gas producers around the globe to develop their own equipment standards for size, capacity and any number of technical specifications. We operate seven manufacturing facilities in Innisfail, Alberta and have recently expanded our facilities into Calgary Alberta.

Announcements

Oilfield

JAGARE ENERGY PRODUCTION TESTING now hiring Day Supervisors, Night Operators, and Helpers. Must have valid Class 5 drivers license. RSP’s and benefits pkg. incentives. Email resumes to: jagare2@gmail.com

Please specify position when replying to this ad.

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We would like to thank all those candidates who apply, however only qualified personnel will be contacted.

Funeral Directors & Services

4820-45 Street Red Deer, AB

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CALKINS CONSULTING o/a Tim Hortons Food Service Manager 5 positions, F/T & P/ T, $9.95 - $18/hr. depending on exp. and availability.

Permanent shift work, weekends, days, nights and evening shifts. 3-5 yrs. exp., completion of secondary school. Start date ASAP. Apply in person 6620 Orr Drive. Fax: 403-782-9685 Call 403-848-2356 POST-TIME LOUNGE is now accepting resumes P/T Kitchen help, Evenings & weekends Apply w/resume 3731 50 TH AVE. No phone calls please.

RAMADA INN & SUITES REQUIRES ROOM ATTENDANTS. Exp. preferred.

Only serious inquiries apply.

Rate $13.50/hr.

Drop off resume at: 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer or fax 403-342-4433

We employ over 175 people and provide ample opportunities to employees to achieve their career goals. We provide hands-on training and an opportunity to work on some of the most interesting projects and applications in the energy sector.

We are currently seeking a professional;

QUALITY CONTROL INSPECTOR Essential Job Functions • Perform visual inspection on all assemblies at various checkpoints in the production process • Ensure conformity of production with drawings • Viewing and interpret x-ray film & NDE reports • Ensure proper welding procedures are adhered to • Track Weld ID’s for compliance with Sec 8 • Witness weld tests and record results • Witness hydro tests of Spooling/Bridles/Vessels • Required ABSA Reports. Ex.( U1,U1A,AB-24,AB-81,AB-83) The incumbent must possess the following; • Minimum 3 year’s experience inspecting piping packages, pressure vessels, tanks and skids • The ability to read and understand codes and customer specifications, with this understanding be able to properly apply it to the tasks at hand.

• Perform in a high paced working environment We offer competitive wage and benefits packages. Only applicants chosen for an interview will be contacted.

Please forward your resume:

via fax to: (403)

227-7796 or e-mail to: hr@bilton.ca

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The Tap House Pub & Grill req’s full and part time cooks. Apply with resume at 1927 Gaetz Avenue between 2-5 pm.

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THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for F/T Exp’d LINE COOKS at all stations.

MUST HAVE: • 2-3 yrs. post secondary education.

• 2-5 yrs. training • 2-5 yrs. on-the-job exp.

• Provide references The hourly rate will be $13.10 per hour.

Mail to: 2079 50 AVE. Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 or Call 403-347-1414 or Fax to: 403-347-1161 VIC 8888 LTD. needs F/T cook, 40 hrs. a week, $13.50/hr. Must be willing to relocate. Drop resume to 3731 50 TH AVE. or email: sampang17@gmail.com

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ELEMENTS is looking for 5 retail sales reps. selling season gift packages and personal care products in Parkland Mall, 4747 67 St. Red Deer. $12.10 hr. + bonus & comm. FT. No exp. req`d. Please email elementsreddeer@gmail.com FLURRIES SHEEPSKIN is looking for 5 SALES REPS, selling shoes & apparel, at our Parkland Mall. 4747 67 St. Red Deer. $12.10/hr. + bonus & comm. F/T Position. No exp. req’d. Email Flurriesrd@gmail.com SCOTTYS ESSO in Red Deer seeking food counter attendants. FT, PT & Weekends. $10-11/hr.

Training provided. Apply in person to 5 Reichley Street or by email to scottys.esso@shaw.ca.”

SOAP Stories is seeking 5 F/T Beauty Treatment O/P, selling soap & bath products $14.55/hr. + bonus & comm. Beauty cert. req’d. Location Parkland Mall - 4747 67th St. Red Deer. email premierjobrdbto@ gmail.com StoreSmart Self-Storage seeking P/T Customer Service Associate for 16-24 hrs/wk. For job description and how to apply, go to www.StoreSmart.ca/jobs.

No phone calls please.

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Sales & Distributors

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SOAP Stories is seeking 5 retail sales reps. Selling soap & bath products. $12.10 hr + bonus & commission. Ft No exp. req`d.

Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Red Deer. email resume to premierjobrd@gmail.com Wholistix Wellness Shoppe! perm P/T store clerk,15-20 hrs/wk, $14/hr email: denise.wholistix@ gmail.com

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Trades

PACIFIC NORTHERN GAS LTD.

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life

QUALIFICATIONS: Grade 12 or equivalent education Valid driver’s license, class 1 or class 3 with air Minimum of three years experience in the installation of plastic and/or steel natural gas piping distribution systems.

PE fusion Distribution line locating (underground) Backhoe, bobcat, excavator and plow experience Directional drilling experience asset.

CLEARVIEW ARE Clark Cres., Crawford St. & Castle Cres. $141/mo.

ALSO Cole Street $61/mo.

ALSO Cameron Cres. & Conners Cres. $146/mo.

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Instrument Hands

req’d. for work in Central Alberta. Oilfield exp. an asset. Please forward your resume to jobs@ nexsourcepower.com or fax 403-887-4945

JOURNEYMAN or 4th Yr. Apprentice Plumber/Gas Fitter req’d for small shop in Westaskiwin area.

Competitive wages & health plan.

Submit resumes to: wph@xplornet.ca or fax to: 780-312-2889 or call 780-387-6087

United Tank Inspections Inc. is currently looking for a Full-Time Heavy Duty Mechanic for our Stettler, AB shop. You will be doing repairs, overhauls, maintenance, service, and CVIP’s on Heavy Trucks & Trailers. We offer competitive wages, group health benefits and group RSP. Please call 403-7424747 or email jobs@ unitedtank.ca

Tar-ific Construction has a F/T position avail. for a H.D. Mechanic Apprentice. We offer competitive wages, combined with a deluxe benefit pckg. Drop resume at 7809 48 Ave. or fax to 403-340-1246 email tarific@telusplanet.net

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This position is within the bargaining unit (IBEW) with a current hourly rate of $35.69.

Pacific Northern Gas offers a comprehensive defined benefit pension and benefits package in addition to work/life balance and opportunities for career growth. Email resumes in confidence to the Human Resources Department; careers@png.ca Precast Concrete Plant in Blackfalds, AB, is looking for new team members to join an enthusiastic and growing company.

Concrete finisher

needed to perform detailed and quality finishing as well as other related tasks, minimum 5 years experience. All applicants must be flexible for hours and dedicated due to a demanding production schedule. Own transportation to work is needed.

Wage will be based on experience, attitude and willingness to commit to long term employment.

Please fax resume to 403 885 5516 or email to k.kooiker@ eaglebuilders.ca Thank you to all applicants but only those selected for an interview will be notified.

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Recently winning the 2013 Business of the Year award, Bilton Welding and Manufacturing Ltd. designs, engineers and manufactures custom energy equipment. Since 1992, Bilton has worked with engineering firms and oil and natural gas producers around the globe to develop their own equipment standards for size, capacity and any number of technical specifications. We operate seven manufacturing facilities in Innisfail, Alberta and have recently expanded our facilities into Calgary Alberta.

We employ over 175 people and provide ample opportunities to employees to achieve their career goals. We provide handson training and an opportunity to work on some of the most interesting projects and applications in the energy sector.

If you would like to be a part of our growing and dynamic team of professionals in your field, we are currently seeking both -

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a subsidiary of AltaGas Ltd., owns and operates natural gas transmission and distribution systems.

Utilityman II is responsible for the installation and maintenance of customer gas utility services. The position is located in our Dawson Creek, BC office.

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DEERPARK AREA Donlevy Ave. & Danielle Dr. area. $185/mo MICHENER AREA East of 40th Ave., 51 St., 50A St., Michener Cres., Green, etc. to Michener Ave. & Blvd. $282/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA Rowell Cl. & Ritson Cl. $87/mo.

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* SANDBLASTER * POWDER COATER *GENERAL LABORER

WE OFFER: * Full Time hours * Great benefit program after 3 mos. * Most weekends off * Competitive Wages

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

in Normandeau

Hardworking need only apply. Bring resume to: Metal Strip & Coatings 4617 63rd Street Mon-Fri 8-5.

No Phone Calls Please.

Niven St. & Newton Cres.

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info

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ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer, by 6:30 a.m. 6 days/wk (Reliable vehicle needed) DEER PARK AREA Dempsey St. & Drummond. Ave. Area 70 Papers $375/mo.

West half of Robinson Cres, Rich Cl., & Ryan Cl. Area. $84/mo.

TIMBERLANDS AREA Turner Cres., Timothy Dr., Towers Cl., Tobin Gt. $113/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306

ROSEDALE AREA Ramage Cres., Root Cl., 100 to 800 Ramage Cl., and Ralston Cres. area $359/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more information

FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE & EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

860

ANDERS AREA Anders St. / Armstrong Close

BUSY Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers and/or Lease Operators.

We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and comm.abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net

Addinnell Close / Allan St. Allsop Ave. / Allsop Close Adamson Ave. / Arthur Close

Inglewood Ave. LANCASTER AREA

WESTPARK AREA Delivery is 4 times per week, no collecting.

Perfect for anyone looking to make some extra $.

DISPATCHERS req’d.

Day/Night. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential. Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

Lord Close

Packages come ready for delivery.

No collecting.

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Truckers/ Drivers

860

Owner Operators & Company Drivers

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

Pidherney’s requires experienced local:

Class 1 Drivers

DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person.

6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841

McIntosh Ave.

Vista Village

SUNNYBROOK AREA Somerset Close Springfield Ave. Savoy Cres. / Sydney Close Sherwood Cres.

880

AFFORDABLE

In the towns of:

Birch, Spruce, Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

LOGS

Household Appliances

To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN

Household Furnishings

Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307

SOURCE ADULT VIDEO requires mature P/T help PHONE bench solid oak 3 pm-11 pm. weekends $175 403-314-2026 Fax resume to: 403-346-9099 or drop off to: WANTED 3301-Gaetz Avenue Antiques, furniture and estates.

342-2514 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Stereos TV's, VCRs

Buying or Selling your home?

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ACCOUNTING Payroll Administrator Computerized Accounting Computerized Payroll Accounting and more!

Financial Assistance available to qualified applicants.

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Call Today (403) 347-6676 2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

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21” SNOWBLOWER. Electric start. Single stage. $150 obo. 403-347-6987 CHRISTMAS tree 2’, prelit/decorated in box $10; box of hangers, wooden/plastic/metal $10; household items, box full inclds. lamp, coffee maker, place mats and more, all $20 403-314-9603

LOVESEAT, pink & white stripes, ideal for bedroom, exc. cond. $150.; 3 wool accent matching carpets, clean will sell separately, $50. for all 3.

403-352-8811 POTTERY, soup set with urn & ladle, 4 bowls, casserole dish & salad bowl w/4 plates, like new. $150. set of 12 suitcases, like new $25. for both; glass canister, gal. size with silver cover $10.

403-352-8811 TABLE, round 40” wooden, w/4 legs, 4 matching chairs, light color, exc. cond. $160.; 5’x7’ wool carpet, light green with matching oval, exc. cond. $40. 403-352-8811

NOW HIRING AT ALL LOCATIONS

Pets & Supplies

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DOG KENNEL, 2’ long, 17” wide. $50 obo.

403-314-0804

...Join our Team!

Cats

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4 FRIENDLY MALE ORANGE KITTENS. Litter trained. Desperately need loving homes. FREE. 403-782-3130

Scan to see Current Openings

CATS TO GIVE AWAY 1 M., 1 F. both spayed/ neutered. M. is white with black spots, loves people, F. is white with gold spots.

Hopefully to separate homes. 403-886-4885 333018L31

WORLDWIDE KNOWLEDGE - LOCAL SOLUTIONS

TWIN GAMING CONSOLE w/14 Super Nintendo Games & 7 NES games, $200. 403-782-3847

H.D. BATTERY CHARGER Works good. On wheels.

SOLD & Compressor, single cylinder, works good. $60 obo. 403-314-0804

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www.trican.ca

PS2 w/10 games, $60 firm.

Game Cube w/Mario game, $60 firm.

PS1 w/5 games, $45 obo.

403-782-3847

DIE cast models, cars, truck, and motorcycles, fairies, dragons and biker gifts. #14 6350-67 St. east end of Cash Casino

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

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CROKINOLE board 26” across metal frame w/checkers $25; 2 wine racks, chrome plated, holds 12 bottles, $10/ea, 2 table centers made of pine cones/candles $8/ea, med. size roaster, blue enamel $6; 2 deer antlers on shields $60/ea; 25 legal size file holders all for $10 403-314-2026

YOUR CAREER IN

WINTER START

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

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4 KITCHEN CHAIRS - brown metal w/padded seats. $80.

TV STAND 27” wide $25.

403-346-2070

Vanson Close / Visser St.

GED PREPARATION Jan. 14 or Feb. 10 STARTS

1710

ELECTRIC heater (Comfort Zone) oak cabinet, portable, remote and thermostat control, child and pet safe $150 403-314-2026

Valentine Cres.

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

1660

Homestead Firewood

SWAMPERS F/T needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company.

Heavy lifting involved (driver’s helper) position.

SORTERS for recycling also required.

Reliability essential. Own transportation required.

Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.ca

Contact Quitcy at 403-314-4316

Employment Training

Firewood

For afternoon delivery once per week

VANIER AREA

Academic Express

Valid First Aid and H2S tickets an asset

Oilfield

MORRISROE AREA

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• Top wages paid based on experience • Flexible work schedule • Possible career advancement opportunities • Based out of Blackfalds & Rocky Mountain House, AB

Fax resume to Human Resources 403-845-5370 Or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com

in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref.

403-586-4558

F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres.

Red Deer.

For work in the Red Deer/Rocky Mountain House area, as well as some out of town locations. Priority will be given to those candidates with Truck and Wagon experience.

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Looking for reliable newspaper carrier for 1 day per week delivery of the Central Alberta Life in the town of

Logan Close

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

CUSTOMER SERVICE A locally owned industrial supply company is looking for an energetic person for inside sales. E-mail resume to mark@ aesreddeer.com

We offer competitive starting Wages and benefits packages including Health, RRSP and Tool Allowance programs.

Lund Close

CLASSIFICATIONS

Heavy

Upper Fairview & Highland Green

Law Close / Lewis Close

Central AB based trucking company requires

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sup for RD and area. Req: & Art fluent in written and oral english, 2-3 years exp in a ANTIQUE PIANO STOOL. supervisory role,clean driving Has swivelling/rotating seat. record, criminal record check, In excellent condition.† job physically demanding. $185 (firm).

Benefits after 3 mos. $19/hr Call (403) 342-7908.

Fax resume 403-342-1897 mail to #4, 4608-62 St. EquipmentRedDeer, AB. T4N 6T3

Currently seeking RELIABLE newspaper carriers for morning delivery (By 6:30 a.m.)

Monday - Saturday in:

for full-time permanent shop positions

Lamont Close

P/T OPPORTUNITY Afternoons, No early mornings, No late nights No Sundays, Apply in person at: Bay #1, 2319 Taylor Drive (directly behind Nutters)

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INGLEWOOD AREA Inglis Cres.

THE TASTY BAKERY

1500-1990 Currently seeking reliable newspaper JANITORIAL Co seeking a carrier for the f/t com/window cleaning Antiques

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

CARRIERS NEEDED

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laborer position

at our company. Must be physically fit as this labourer position requires constant heavy lifting and involves fast paced, on the job training. Applicant must be able to travel and must have reliable transportation to and from work as well as a valid class 5 driver’s license. All meals and hotel expenses are paid when out of town. Successful applicant must provide an up to date drivers abstract. Construction experience an asset. Full benefits provided. Starting wages based on experience. Fax resumes to 403 885 5516 , must flag attn: Craig or e-mail to c.haan@eaglebuilders.ca.

Please reply by email: qmacaulay @reddeeradvocate.com or phone Quitcy at 403-314-4316

73 Papers $439/mo.

880

Eagle Builders in Blackfalds, AB is looking for hard working, motivated individual to fill a full-time precast concrete erecting

GRANDVIEW AREA

ALSO

JOURNEYMAN AND B PRESSURE WELDERS

Please fax resume to 403-227-7796, email to hr@bilton.ca

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Restaurant/ Hotel

Collectors' Items

1870

TRAIN SET 7 FEET LONG $50. 403-346-2070

B10 RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013

Fisherman dies after shark attack near Maui

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HONOLULU — A kayak fisherman died Monday off Maui after a shark bit his dangling foot, officials said.

Maui County Ocean Safety officials received a report that a shark had attacked a man fishing in a kayak between Maui and Molokini, a small island less than three miles (4.8 kilometres) off the southwest coast of Maui that is popular for diving and snorkeling.

The victim was fishing with artificial lures to attract baitfish, a news release from the state Department of Land and Natural Resources said.

His fishing partner tied a tourniquet on the man and sought help from a nearby charter tour boat. The boat took them to shore, and the man was then taken to a hospital, the state said. It’s unclear when he was pronounced dead.

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Power failure darkens Venezuelan capital CARACAS, Venezuela — A power outage briefly darkened Venezuela’s capital and several other parts of the country Monday night in what President Nicolas Maduro suggested might have been an act of sabotage against his socialist government.

The blackout took place shortly after Maduro addressed the nation about his plan to reduce inflation battering the automotive industry. Within minutes, people in downtown Caracas could be heard banging on pots in an act of protest.

Maduro, deprived of the airwaves, then took to the Internet to tell his followers that he and his aides were monitoring the “strange blackout that occurred in the same place as the last act of sabotage.”

“I ask the people to stay alert,” he wrote in a message posted on Twitter.

Maduro in recent days had warned that his opponents might try to sabotage the nation’s electrical grid to gain advantage in nationwide elections for mayors taking place Sunday. The late President Hugo Chavez used to levy the same charge, without presenting specific evidence, as blackouts became more frequent in recent years.

Power started coming back on in

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3 FLR, 3 Bdrm house w/3 bath, new paint & carpets & deck at 7316-59 Ave. Avail. to over 40 tenants.

No pets. Off street parking for 3 vehicles. Rent $1500, D.D. $1500. 403-341-4627

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

2140

Horses

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

N. END 3 bdrm. duplex, 1 up/2 down, 2 full baths 1 up, 1 down, 5 appls, blinds, in floor heating in bsmt, n/s, no pets $1600. avail. immed. Shane/Mellanie 403- 346-4585 to view Tired of Standing?

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3 bdrm, 3 bath, att. garage, fenced yard, pet negotiable, personal & credit ref’s req’d, Rent/DD req’d $1400. Avail. Jan 1.

403-346-2511, 392-5803

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Houses/ Duplexes

3 BDRM. Duplex in Penhold.

Reno’d. Tenants pay utils. $1050/mo. No pets.

403-342-0407 or 505-1252 GRANDVIEW 2 BDRM, main flr of house. Very clean.

Reno’d, brand new bath rm. appealing yard, 5 appls, $980 rent & 2/3 utils., Avail. now. 403-598-1733

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The man’s identity and the kind of shark involved were not immediately available.

Though the attack happened far from shore, the state advised the public to stay out of the water a mile (1.6 kilometres) north and a mile (1.6 kilometres) south of Makena State Recreation Area in southwest Maui.

There have been eight shark attacks near Maui this year and 13 statewide. On Friday, a woman suffered nonfatal injuries in a Maui attack.

“We are not sure why these bites are occurring more frequently than normal, especially around Maui,” said department Chairman William Aila Jr. “That’s why we are conducting a two-year study of shark behaviour around Maui that may give us better insights.”

Over the last 20 years, Hawaii has averaged about four unprovoked shark incidents per year, the state said.

In August, a German tourist died a week after los-

Caracas within 10 minutes, and Electricity Minister Jesse Chacon later told state television that electricity had been restored to most of the city but was still out in several regions of the country. The blackout originated in central Venezuela, the same place where a power failure in September knocked out electricity to 70 per cent of the country, he said.

Although Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves, it has been plagued by power outages in recent years. Generally the areas most affected are outside the capital, where the infrastructure is less developed and farther away from the national and international media spotlight.

Hong Kong reports first case of bird flu since virus emerged in China HONG KONG — Hong Kong has reported its first case of the H7N9 bird flu strain, in a possible sign the virus is spreading beyond mainland China since it first emerged there earlier this year.

A 36-year-old Indonesian maid is in hospital in critical condition, the southern Chinese financial hub’s Health Secretary Ko Wing-man said late Monday.

The maid had a history of travelling across the border to the mainland city of Shenzhen to buy, slaughter and eat chickens, Ko said.

H7N9 was first identified April. It has sickened 139 people and killed 45 in China and Taiwan.

Manufactured Homes

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Suites

3060

Newly Reno’d Mobile FREE Shaw Cable + more $950/month Terrie 403-340-0225

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

CLEARVIEW

2 bdrm. 4-Plex, 4 appls. Rent $1075. incl. sewer, water and garbage. D.D. $650. Avail.

Jan. 1, 403-304-5337

GLENDALE

3 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $1075. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail. Dec 15/Jan. 1 403-304-5337

Suites

3060

NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 5 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955 PENHOLD 1 bdrm., incl. heat/water. $695 avail. Jan. 1, or sooner. 403-348-6594

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

Roommates

3080

1 BDRM partly furn. apt above Wies Western Wear Wanted downtown. Quiet person H O U S E , Av a i l . i m m e d . preferred. $750/mo, $600. + dd 403-505-4777 $750 d.d. 403-347-3149

2 BDRM LACOMBE CONDO Gr flr, 45+ bldg, 5 appl, bsmt storage, No smoking, AVAIL. IMMED. large 2 no pets. 1000/mo. Avail bdrm. in clean quiet adult immed. 780-484-0236 building, near downtown 3 BDRM, 1 1/2 bath town- Co-Op, rent & s.d. $800 no house in well kept condominium pets, 403-348-7445 complex at #9, 15 Stanton St. GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm.

5 appls & fenced yard.

Tenants must be over 40 apartments, avail. immed, w/references & quiet living. rent $875 403-596-6000 Avail. Nov. 1st for $1300/mo.

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. $1300 D.D. 403-341-4627 SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, 1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets Sorry no pets.

403-755-9852 www.greatapartments.ca

MORRISROE MANOR

LOOKING for F. roommate 55 yrs. or younger. Red Deer. after 1 pm. 403-986-1903

Rooms For Rent

3090

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

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

ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or flooring, and roof snow removal?

Call James 403-341-0617

1100

GREYSTONE Handyman Services. Reasonable rates. Ron, 403-396-6089

Contractors

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

Escorts

1165

LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Flooring

1180

WILL install floor & wall tile 403-335-6076 / 352-7812

Massage Therapy

1280

Executive Touch Massage (newly reno’d) (FOR MEN)STUDIO 5003A-50 st. Downtown 9 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 403-348-5650

Massage Therapy

1280

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its BEST! 403-986-6686 Come in and see why we are the talk of the town. www.viimassage.biz

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1290

FANTASY

Ironman Scrap Metal Recovery picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles & industrial. Serving

International ladies

Central AB. 403-318-4346

MASSAGE

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

Painters/ Decorators

4900 sq. ft. bay, heated, (2)O/H.14’ doors, windows, room for mezzanine. 403-318-4848 edmakrd@telus.net Start your career!

See Help Wanted SMALL / LARGE SPACES -Free standing - fenced yards For all your needs.

400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615

3190

Mobile Lot

MOBILE HOME PAD, in Red Deer Close to Gaetz, 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Terrie 403-340-0225 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

1310

PRO-PAINTING & REPAIRS 403-304-0379

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELP FOR SENIORS: in home or facility - family business est. 1999 - bondable staff, great rates, gift certs avail for Christmas - HELPING HANDS Home Support Services Ltd. 403-346-7777 helpinghandshomesupport.com

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Snow Removal

1380

YOUR SNOW’S GOTTA GO. It away I’ll blow.

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403-598-3857 Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Yard Care

Commercial Property

4110

42,000 sq ft Office/ Residential Building, Red Deer, AB Built in 2011. 21 separately titled units consisting of 16 executive condos and 4 commercial suites, Zero Tenant Vacancy, 10 year triple net leases in place, expiring 2021. Assumable mortgage.

Price - $8,400,000.00 Accepting Offers Christine@ andersonbuildersgroup. com

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RESIDENTIAL SNOW CLEARING. Affordable monthly contracts.

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cilitating travel into Syria for Australian citizens to fight on the front line,” Drennan said.

The 39-year-old suspected ringleader and a 23-year-old suspected recruit are to appear in Sydney courts Tuesday charged under the Crimes (Foreign Incursions and Recruitment) Act. The act outlaws Australian residents or citizens travelling overseas to fight or recruiting others to fight.

It carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence.

New South Wales state Deputy Police Commissioner Catherine Burn said the network had already sent six Australians to Syria to fight.

Biologists test use of toxic mice to kill tree snakes Federal biologists are taking another step toward finding a way to kill invasive brown tree snakes on Guam.

Pacific Daily News reported crews Monday dropped mice filled with mild toxins onto a pair of test sites on Andersen Air force Base.

The mice are packed with 80 milligrams of acetaminophen, which is enough to kill a snake but not a cat unless the feline eats 15 of the mice.

Dogs and pigs would have to eat far more to be affected.

The snakes were accidentally introduced to the island about 60 years ago.

They’ve caused millions in damages to by creating outages in the Guam Power Authority’s electrical grid.

Tiny radios implanted into the mice help track the eradication program’s success.

Cars

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Realtors & Services

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Cars

2004 MAZDA 6 Sport, loaded, hwy. kms., new clutch, brakes, rotors, fuel pump, drive belt etc. Like new. $8000. 587-877-0122 1999 PONTIAC Bonneyville 4 dr., saftied. 403-352-6995

SUV's

2004 GMC Canyon, 2.8 L, 4 cylinder, 103,000 KM. New tires, brakes, rotors & command start. $7000.

Dale 587-876-0623 (Red Deer)

5040

2000 FORD F150 4x4 reg. cab, l/b, beautiful shape $6500 403-343-6777

Tires, Parts Acces.

2008 GMC Acadia SLE AWD, 8 passenger, 90485 kms, $19,888. 348-8788 Sport & Import

Cars

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2006 CADILLAC Escalade AWD, lthr., $15,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

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MASON MARTIN HOMES Custom new homes planning service.

Kyle, 403-588-2550

MUST SELL

New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

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www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 346-7273

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NEW CONDO

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

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Manufactured Homes

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By Owner.

Terrie 403-340-0225 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

5200

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

5030

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5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

2009 RANGER XLT 4x4, 70,000 kms., $15,900. trades cons. 403-598-0682

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FREE removal of scrap vehicles. Will pay cash for some. 403-304-7585

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Condos/ Townhouses

Auto Wreckers

Trucks

5180

BRAND NEW HITCH - 3 ft.

Fits Chevy. $180 obo.

403-314-0804

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2008 CHEV Cobalt LT 2 dr, exc. cond, remote, 2 sets of tires, 147,000 kms, $6950 403-783-4873 2001 HYUNDAI Accent 2 dr. red, 403-348-2999 2000 Chrysler Neon, 2L, 4 dr., 5 spd. Clean. 403-318-3040

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5000-5300

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CANBERRA, Australia — The alleged Sydney ringleader of a criminal network that sends Australians to fight in Syria has been arrested, police said Tuesday.

Police estimate that about 100 Australian residents and citizens have travelled to Syria to fight in contravention of Australian law, some taking up arms with terrorist-linked militias.

Two Sydney men became the first suspects to be arrested by a fourmonth-old joint federal and state police counter-terrorism investigation into Australian citizens attempting to travel to Syrian to fight in the civil war, Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Peter Drennan said.

“We will allege that one of the men is responsible for organizing travel, arranging overseas contacts and fa-

FURNISHED Bdrm. $500 incl. utils. 403-342-4604

CLASSIFICATIONS

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Police arrest alleged Sydney ringleader of network sending fighters to Syria

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It appears to have stalled since Chinese authorities cracked down on live animal markets following the initial outbreak. But scientists fear the virus will re-emerge in the winter, when influenza is most active.

Ko said the semiautonomous Chinese city’s government would step up its flu pandemic preparedness plan.

Infectious diseases are a particular concern in Hong Kong, where the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or Sars, killed about 299 people. Nearly 500 more deaths were reported in other countries.

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Before Lutteropp’s death, the last shark attack fatality in Hawaii was in 2004, when a tiger shark bit Willis McInnis’ leg while he was surfing in Maui.

Isaac Brumaghim knows firsthand the dangers of kayak fishing, which he said is growing in popularity.

He was fishing off Oahu’s west coast in April when a camera mounted on his kayak captured footage of a nine-foot (2.7-meter) shark jumping up and chomping on the tuna he was reeling in.

Sharks are “an absolute danger, every single day,” he said. “You have to respect the fact they can bite you at any time.”

He said bait in the water can easily attract the animal.

“Just a little bit of blood, a little meat in the water, that’s all you need,” he said. “It’s like dogs out there.”

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President Barack Obama waves after carrying out the Thanksgiving tradition of saving a turkey from the dinner table with a “presidential pardon,” at the White House in Washington. After the pardoning, Popcorn travels to George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens where he will be on display for visitors during “Christmas at Mount Vernon.”

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama spared two turkeys from the brine and the oven Wednesday, fulfilling the annual tradition of a presidential pardon for a couple of lucky birds ahead of Thanksgiving Day. Obama pardoned Popcorn, who shared the stage with the president on the North Portico of the White House on a cold, drizzly day.

An alternate turkey, named Caramel, also received a pardon, though it did not have the benefit of a face-to-beak meeting with the president.

“The office of the presidency, the most powerful position in the world, brings with it many awesome and solemn responsibilities,” Obama began. “This is not one of them.

The two turkeys, 38-pound gobblers hatched the same day on a farm in Badger, Minn., were each up for top billing as the national Thanksgiving turkey. After an online White House crowdsourcing election, Popcorn won.

The event is usually an opportunity for droll commentary by the president and the kind of inside detail that the White House rarely shares with reporters.

Popcorn, the White House said, likes to feed on corn and strut to Beyonce’s “Halo,” while Caramel prefers soybean meal and Lady Gaga.

Good to know.

Popcorn’s victory, Obama said, proves “that

Dear Annie: My husband and I are in our early 80s. We have four children. “John” and “Susan” are from my first marriage.

They were very young when my first husband died and I remarried. I then had “Jane” and “Alice.”

On my most recent birthday, Jane took my husband and me to our favorite restaurant. Jane also invited Alice, who lives in a rental on our property. (Susan lives in another state.) Alice posted on Facebook what a nice dinner we had. The next morning, Susan called Alice at 4 a.m., screaming, “Why didn’t you invite John?” She then proceeded to call me and scream. I was shocked.

I sent her an email later and asked why she was so upset. I love John, but he has made a mess of his life. He is a bully and has had confrontations with everyone in the family. We recently found out that John molested Alice when she was 5 years old. Alice is cordial when she is forced to be around him, but John has never admitted or apologized for his actions.

My older kids are not terribly reliable. We named Jane executor of our estate because Susan is a heavy pot smoker and quicktempered, and John cannot be trusted. It breaks my heart, but that’s the way it is.

Susan hasn’t spoken to me in months.

I now believe she and John have always been jealous of my younger daughters.

Even though my husband raised them all, Susan has said hurtful things about him.

She also says I “never wanted” her. This is completely untrue.

I pine for Susan every day, but I refuse to phone her because of the awful things she says to me. My husband says we only have a few years left and we should enjoy them. What do you think? - Heartbroken Dear Heartbroken: It is not unusual for children, even grown ones, to harbor reMITCHELL sentments and jealousies against younger & SUGAR siblings, particularly when those siblings are from a different marriage. While your older kids could have benefited from family counseling at the time, there’s not much you can do about that now. We suggest you send Susan a letter or an email, simply saying that you love her and always will, that you are sorry for the rift, and that you hope someday her anger will pass.

Meanwhile, please have Alice contact RAINN (rainn.org) at 1-800-656-HOPE. Being cordial to her molester may be harder on her than you think.

Dear Annie: I was taught that “RSVP” stands for “please respond.” But these days, huge organizations (often charities) send mass-mailed invitations to hundreds of people, some of whom have little connection to the group and may live so far away that it would be extraordinary if they attended.

I always write a note sending my regrets, because this has been ingrained in me. But I also worry that the functionary who receives my note wonders, “Who is this anachronism living in the past century?” Do the charities really expect the non-attendees to RSVP that they will not be there, or do they merely seek a head count? - Don’t Want To Be Old-Fashioned Dear Don’t: They want a head count, but an RSVP saying “no” is equally appropriate. And we are certain they appreciate (and marvel at) an actual handwritten response by someone who is well-mannered enough to send one. Bless your heart.

Dear Annie: Please tell “Polly Positive” that she and her husband should attend a cancer support group. After my husband was diagnosed with cancer, we joined two cancer support groups.

We get a lot of information from the survivors and are able to give advice to the newly diagnosed. I can’t stress strongly enough how important support groups are. - Big Cancer Support Group Advocate 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.

even a turkey with a funny name can find a place in politics.”

As for Caramel, “he’s sticking around and he’s already busy raising money for his next campaign,” the president said.

The turkeys will be on display at George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens through Jan. 6.

Presidents have spared turkeys off and on as far back as the Lincoln era, according to the White House. The first official pardon was granted by President George H.W. Bush.

House Speaker John Boehner, meanwhile, was taking a different tack. His Twitter account was drawing attention to a CNN article on his special recipe. “Nice to see the Boehner turkey brine get attention,” he tweeted.

Later Wednesday, Obama, wife Michelle, daughters Malia and Sasha, and mother-in-law Marian Robinson volunteered at a local charity — the Capitol Area Food Bank — distributing bags of sweet potatoes, onions, carrots, apples and small white boxes of the presidential M&Ms. Obama said the family also planned to deliver a couple of turkeys to the food bank — these, not spared.

“Tomorrow, as we gather with our own friends and family,” Obama said on a serious note, “we’ll count ourselves lucky that there’s more to be thankful for than we can ever say and more to be hopeful for than we can ever imagine.”

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If You are longing for that today is your birthday, this inner peace and harmony, is a year of new beginnings. but chores oblige you to Your personal intents and meet your deadlines. Todesires are well defined. day, if possible, avoid taking important You know who you are and you wish to express it in more obvious ways. A decisions based on your shared financchance encounter will swipe you off es or making risky investments.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Today you your feet. Your heart will pump with could make great use of your usual tact fervent desires!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You and diplomacy in order to avoid any

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potential arguments with anyone. You could come in more frequent contact with someone close sibling such as your brother, a sister or even with a neighbour.

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 have to travel for a work related matter.

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You might be perceived as too opinionated today.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your mood might change due to your partner’s financial situation.

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