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‘Our people have lost a father’ — JACOB ZUMA PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA

CITY FIELDS HUNDREDS OF CALLS

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Almost halfway there.

After Day 3 of the City of Red Deer’s snowplowing blitz, 100 km of roadways have been plowed, just short of the halfway point, city spokeswoman Julia Harvie-Shemko said Thursday.

A small army of equipment has been out on city streets including 16 graders, 16 dump trucks, 13 sanders, 10 skid steers, eight loaders and six tractors among other pieces of heavy equipment.

In the office, staff have been fielding about 500 calls a day and responding to 50 to 60 emails. Hot topics are road and lane plowing schedules and windrows.

Thursday night the city turned its attention to industrial areas and will be back on residential roads beginning at 8 a.m. this morning.

The city is trying to keep windrow heights to less than 40 cm, but in some areas where drifting has occurred they may get higher.

Unfortunately, windrows can’t be cleared from in front of driveways if the city is going to stay on a schedule that will see the entire city plowed in less than a week.

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Former South African President Nelson Mandela, 87, is in a jovial mood at the Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg, where he met with the winner and runner-up of the local “Idols� competition, on Dec. 7, 2005. South Africa’s president announced on Thursday that Mandela had died. He was 95.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Nelson Mandela was a master of forgiveness.

South Africa’s first black president spent nearly a third of his life as a prisoner of apartheid, yet he sought to win over its defeated guardians in a relatively peaceful transition of power that inspired the world.

As head of state, the former boxer, lawyer and inmate lunched with the prosecutor who argued successfully for his incarceration. He sang the apartheid-era Afrikaans anthem at his inauguration and travelled hundreds of miles to have tea with the widow of the prime minister in power at the time he was sent to prison.

MANDELA ‘DEEPLY ATTACHED’ TO CANADA A10 SOUTH AFRICANS CELEBRATE MANDELA’S LEGACY A11 MANDELA WAS A REVERED FIGURE IN SPORTS B7 It was this generosity of spirit that made Mandela, who died Thursday at the age of 95, a global symbol of sacrifice and reconciliation in a world often jarred by conflict and division.

Mandela’s stature as a fighter against apartheid — the system of white racist rule he called evil — and a seeker of peace with his enemies was on a par with that of other men he admired: American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. and Indian independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, both of whom were assassinated

while actively engaged in their callings.

Mandela’s death deprived the world of one of one of the great figures of modern history and set the stage for days of mourning and reflection about a colossus of the 20th century who projected astonishing grace, resolve and good humour.

Dressed in black, South African President Jacob Zuma made the announcement on television. He said Mandela died “peacefully,� surrounded by family, at around 8:50 p.m. “We’ve lost our greatest son. Our nation has lost its greatest son. Our people have lost a father,� Zuma said. “Although we knew that this day would come, nothing can diminish our sense of a profound and enduring loss.�

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Alberta to offer HPV vaccine to boys

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF

Today’s snow plowing targets are: � Riverside Meadows � Fairview � Oriole Park � Oriole Park West � Mountview (for completion) � Morrisroe � Deer Park Estates � Devonshire Crews are also working on Priority 4 roads (bus routes and streets next to schools) in Inglewood, Vanier Woods and Anders. Residents should watch for No Parking signs on those routes.

Untended vehicles will be towed.

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Alberta was the last province in Canada to make HPV vaccines available to girls; it will be the second in the country to offer the cancer-preventing vaccine to boys.

Health Minister Fred Horne announced Thursday that boys in Grade 5 will be able to get the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for free in their schools starting next school year. The vaccine has been available to Grade 5 and Grade 9 girls in the province since 2008.

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ted infection that can cause a number of cancers, the most common being cervical cancer in women. To a lesser extent it can cause anal and penile cancers in men, and recent provincial data shows that almost all head and neck cancers in men under 40 are HPV-related.

The vaccine’s delivery in schools has attracted opposition in Alberta, particularly among religion-based school jurisdictions based on concerns about vaccine delivery leading to promiscuity. Other safety concerns have been raised, but the province’s chief medical officer of health said the “jury is in� on the vaccine’s value. “We have lots of studies and it’s been used in other places enough that

we know it’s a very safe and it’s very effective. For the 70 per cent of the cervical cancers that are caused by the two strains, the vaccine is almost 100 per cent effective at preventing that,� said Dr. James Talbot. “There aren’t many things that parents can do for their children that guarantee that they’re going to have a lower risk of cancer, and this is one of them, so we would really like them to make sure that their children are immunized. We’ve done everything we can . . . to make it as easy as possible for them to make the healthy choice,� he added.

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VACCINE: Voluntary About 61 per cent of girls in Alberta have received the shots since the program began. Talbot said the expectation is that numbers will be similar for boys — the expectation is that 47,500 boys will receive the vaccination next fall.

Like other school-based immunization programs, HPV vaccination will be voluntary and parental consent will be required.

Because the virus can be transmitted back and forth between the sexes, Talbot said boys being immunized will help to reduce cervical cancer rates for girls. As well, he said, studies from jurisdictions in the U.S. and Australia have shown that when the vaccine is offered to boys, the uptake among girls improves.

“Boys getting immunized helps convince more parents of girls that they should get their girls immu-

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Canadian entertainer Tom Jackson welcomes the audience to the Huron Carole performance at the Memorial Centre in Red Deer Thursday. Jackson along with performers Shannon Gaye, Beverly Mahood, George Canyon and Britt and Carly McKillip of One More Girls joined Jackson and the band on stage for the evening performance in support of the Red Deer Food Bank Society. Since 1987 Jackson has been bringing together like-minded artists from around the country to help Canada’s needy. nized,” said Talbot.

As part of the vaccination program, there will be a four-year “catch-up” period that will see delivery to Grade 9 boys as well. All students in Grade 8 and below this year will have the opportunity to get the vaccine in school starting next September.

According to research, the male vaccination program is expected to prevent 440 cases of head and neck cancers over a 50-year period, representing $13.4 million in cost savings to the health care system. The program is expected to cost less than $8 million annually, plus costs to administer the shots.

P.E.I. was the first province in Canada to announce it would vaccinate boys against HPV. The National Advisory Committee on Immunization made the recommendation two years ago and a national association of obstetricians and gynecologists urged health ministers to immunize boys earlier this year.

Talbot said early studies on the efficacy of the vaccine show girls’ antibody levels remain high five years after immunization, which he said suggests it will remain effective over a longer period. Longerterm studies are not yet available.

In October, Red Deer Catholic Regional School Division opted to allow HPV vaccines to be administered in its schools starting in 2014 after years of opposition. Both the Catholic and public school divisions in Red Deer will allow the program for boys starting next year.

The vaccine is most effective if administered prior to a person becoming sexually active. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

MANDELA: Near-mythical status at home and abroad At times, Mandela embraced his iconic status, appearing before a rapturous crowd in London’s Wembley Stadium soon after his 1990 release from prison. Sometimes, he sought to downplay it, uneasy about the perils of being put on a pedestal. In an unpublished manuscript, written while in prison, Mandela acknowledged that leaders of the anti-apartheid movement dominated the spotlight but said they were “only part of the story,” and every activist was “like a brick which makes up our organization.”

He pondered the cost to his family of his dedication to the fight against the racist system of government that jailed him for 27 years and refused him permission to attend the funeral of his mother and

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70% chance of flurries. Low -23.

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Olds, Sundre: today, sun and cloud. High -24. Low -36.

Rocky, Nordegg: today, clearing. High -25. Low -38.

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of a son who was killed in a car crash. In court, he described himself as “the loneliest man” during his mid-1990s divorce from Winnie Mandela. As president, he could not forge lasting solutions to poverty, unemployment and other social ills that still plague today’s South Africa, which has struggled to live up to its rosy depiction as the “Rainbow Nation.”

He secured near-mythical status in his country and beyond. Last year, the South African central bank released new bank notes showing his face, a robust, smiling image of a man who was meticulous about his appearance and routinely exercised while in prison.

South Africa erected statues of him and named buildings and other places after him. He shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with F.W. de Klerk, the country’s last white president. He was the subject of books, films and songs and a magnet for celebrities.

In 2010, Mandela waved to the crowd at the Soccer City stadium at the closing ceremony of the World Cup, whose staging in South Africa allowed the country, and the continent, to shine internationally. It was the last public appearance for the former president and prisoner, who smiled broadly and was bundled up against the cold.

One of the most memorable of his gestures toward racial harmony was the day in 1995 when he strode onto the field before the Rugby World Cup final in Johannesburg, and then again after the game, when he congratulated the home team for its victory over a tough New Zealand team. Mandela was wearing South African colours and the overwhelmingly white crowd of 63,000 was on its feet, chanting “Nelson!

Nelson! Nelson!”

It was typical of Mandela to march headlong into a bastion of white Afrikanerdom — in this case the temple of South African rugby — and make its followers feel they belonged in the new South Africa.

The moment was portrayed in Invictus, Clint Eastwood’s movie telling the story of South Africa’s transformation through the prism of sport.

It was a moment half a century in the making. In the 1950s, Mandela sought universal rights through peaceful means but was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 for leading a campaign of sabotage against the government. The speech he gave during that trial outlined his vision and resolve.

“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people,” Mandela said.

“I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

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Residents are asked not to dump snow from driveways and sidewalks into the street.

Fortunately for local residents all of this shovelling hasn’t taken too heavy a health toll.

Alberta Health spokesperson Heather Kipling said Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre’s emergency department is not reporting anything out of the ordinary related to the cold or snow shovelling demands.

Dr. Ifeoma Achebe, medical officer of health for the Central Region, said those tackling windrows or other snow piles should take care, especially those with circulatory or heart problems. Those with a history of problems should talk to their doctors before reaching for a shovel.

“If you’re not physically fit, don’t even start.”

For others, pacing is important. Take a breather every few minutes. “If you’re having chest pain or back pain, stop it there,” said Achebe.

While snow shovelling technique should be ingrained in most of us by now, it might bear repeating: don’t twist when tossing shovelfuls and don’t overload shovels.

Given the cold snap, residents should be aware of the dangers of frostbite. Numb or waxy-looking skin are danger signs, and blistering can also occur. Treat with warm, not hot, water. Forget the myth about rubbing snow on affected areas.

Above all, dress for the weather. Lots of layers and keep dry.

Seniors looking for some shovelling help can contact the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre.

But be patient, there is a waiting list because of the number of calls in the last few days.

“The workers we have here are booked solid,” said Loretta Gillingham, outreach co-ordinator of the home maintenance program, adding 70 snow clearing jobs were arranged in two days this week. The focus is on sidewalks and driveways, not windrows.

Snow shovellers are screened by the Golden Circle and more helpers would be welcomed. Shovellers are paid at least $15 per hour for the work. Call Gillingham at 403-343-6074.

But she encourages Red Deerians to help out neighbours who could use a hand.

“Help your neighbours. In our population, there’s a lot of aging people here.”

Proof that every cloud has a silver lining, even snow clouds can be found at Canyon Ski Resort.

“We’re not complaining about it at all,” said coowner Robyn Martel.

The recent string of snowfalls has created perfect conditions at the popular resort. It’s so good, the double chair lift will be open this weekend, about three weeks earlier than usual. Every other run at the 75-acre resort will also be open.

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“It’s going to be completely ungroomed and untouched,” said Martel, of the Waskasoo, North Bowl runs and Nordic jumps.

“We’re pretty stoked about it.”

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Labour relations poisoned: union group

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The head of the Alberta Federation of Labour says the province has poisoned labour relations with the passage of two controversial bills.

Gil McGowan says his labour group urged its members to vote for Premier Alison Redford in the 2012 election, but won’t do it again.

“The coalition that elected Alison Redford less than two years ago is dead,” McGowan told a news conference Thursday.

“In the waning days of the last election campaign, thousands of public sector workers swung their support behind Alison Redford in an effort to keep the Wildrose party from power.

“Many of the unions affiliated with our federation were among those who took the bait when Redford reassured us that she was a Progressive Conservative with an emphasis on progressive. But we will not be fooled again.”

The Alberta Federation of Labour is an umbrella organization that speaks for 145,000 unionized workers across Alberta.

McGowan’s comments came a day after Redford’s government used its majority and its right to invoke a limit on debate to pass two bills less than a week after they were introduced without warning in the legislature.

Bill 46 strips away the right of binding arbitration for Alberta’s largest public-sector union, the 22,000-member Alberta Union of Provincial Employees. The bill also imposes a four-year contract with frozen wages in the first two years, followed by one per cent hikes in each of the following two.

The bill returns the right of arbitration after this contract is settled and stipulates the imposed deal only kicks in if both sides can’t reach an agreement

by Jan. 31.

Redford has urged AUPE president Guy Smith to come back to the bargaining table. She said the process went off the rails after the union filed for arbitration and Smith walked away from negotiations.

Smith had warned the AUPE would not negotiate if the bill passed.

Provincial law prevents the AUPE from striking, so former Tory premier Peter Lougheed gave the union the right to binding arbitration in 1977.

Redford suggested to reporters this week she does not feel bound by that commitment. She said despite Alberta’s roaring economy, funding infrastructure and services is straining the bottom line, making it imperative the government hold the line on salaries.

The second of the controversial laws, Bill 45, introduces steep six-figure fines on unions that engage in illegal strikes or even speak publicly about such a walkout.

The government said this is in response to a wildcat walkout of prison guards and other security staff in April, which forced the province to scramble to keep prisons safe and courthouses operating.

McGowan said both bills violate Charter freedoms of speech and association and will be challenged in court.

The Alberta Federation of Labour launched a TV-ad campaign Thursday denouncing the Tories’ actions and labelling them the dictionary definition of “bully.”

Elisabeth Ballermann of the Health Sciences Association of Alberta said she expects her union will

lose its right to arbitration when negotiations begin on a new contract with the province next year. The HSAA has 25,000 members. About 22,000 of them are employed by the province, working as paramedics and other medical support staff.

“We’re now left with the question of, ’What is the point of actually trying to negotiate?”’ said Ballermann. “Why would we expect anything different?”

Ballermann said the bill on illegal strikes is so broad and so vague, it runs counter to other legislated rights, such as the right of paramedics to refuse to work in unsafe situations.

She said if two or more paramedics refuse work for those reasons, the union could face crippling fines overnight.

“This is incredibly demoralizing.”

But government house leader Dave Hancock said there is no plan to introduce legislation around bargaining for other unions.

He said there will be safeguards in place in the legislation to ensure that only deliberate provocations or illegal strike actions are punished rather than random musings or threats.

And he said he can’t be concerned about the labour federation’s threat to work against the Progressive Conservative party in the 2016 election.

“We don’t govern for elections. We govern for Albertans to try do the right things for the right reasons,” said Hancock.

He said he expects the bill governing the AUPE wage deal to be proclaimed as law before Christmas. The bill dealing with illegal strikes will not proclaimed until mid-2014 at the earliest, he said, as regulations underlying the principles of the bill must still be written.

Oilsands area largely intact, but effects growing, says report

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A report by an environmental monitoring agency has found the variety of plants and animals in the oilsands area is largely healthy.

But the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, an agency funded by industry and government, has found that animals that prefer old-growth forests, such as marten, are deserting the region in favour of those such as coyotes, which are found everywhere.

In general, the institute found that about 94 per cent of the oilsands area still has the same birds, plants, bugs and animals that it did before development.

But some effects are becoming apparent.

About half the bird species surveyed that depend

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Family says woman died at Calgary seniors home from infected bed sores CALGARY — Another family says a loved one has died of a blood infection from untreated bed sores at a Calgary seniors home.

Wyonne Somers, who was 75, was a resident at McKenzie Town Care Centre and died a month ago.

It’s the same place where 73-year-old Violet MacDonald lived before she died in October from blood poisoning caused by untreated bed sores.

Dean Somers says his mother developed a severe urinary infection and leg sores because her diaper was not changed frequently enough.

Revera, the owner of the owner of McKenzie Town Care Centre and 14 other seniors homes in Alberta, apologized “for failing to meet their expectations.”

CEO Jeffrey C. Lozon says geriatric expert Dr. Paul Katz has been hired to investigate the care center to identify any problems and have them quickly fixed.

on old-growth forest are less abundant over the region than they would normally be.

As well, nearly one-third of the sites in the study showed invasive plant species.

The report also found the region is increasingly threaded through with disturbances such as lease roads and seismic lines.

Many animals refuse to come near those areas.

Less than half of the region is more than 200 metres away from some sign of human activity. Only five per cent of it is more than two kilometres away.

How this human activity is affecting the forest appears to be accelerating.

From 2007 to 2010, the last year studies in the report, the amount of impacted land increased by .7 per cent, 1.3 per cent, and 3.8 per cent.

It also said that land reclamation is not keeping “When you sit in soiled diapers and your footwear, shoes, socks are so badly stained that the laundry can no longer get them cleaned, you know there’s a problem,” said Somers.

Tiffany Gibbons, whose grandmother lives in McKenzie Care Centre, said the centre is understaffed.

“There are 20 patients per unit and there is one nurse and there are two nurses aides, so that’s a lot of people they’re trying to look after,” she said.

Alberta Health Minister Fred Horne said the government has sent an onsite monitoring team to the care centres.

“We’re also doing what’s called a care audit, which is an audit by health care professionals where they look at the treatment plans for residents — looking in particular how wound care is handled,” said Horne.

pace with development.

The report steers clear of making predictions or forecasts, so it doesn’t consider that the current level of development is about one-fifth what’s planned for the oilsands.

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Waste and more waste SENATE EXPENSE SCANDALS JUST A DROP IN THE BUCKET

BY CHARLES LAMMAM AND HUGH MACINTYRE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Allegations of expense scandals in the Senate have shocked many Canadians and rightfully so.

Although unsettling, such antics are not an isolated case; they are part of a larger institutional problem with government.

A systemic problem quickly emerges as one flips through the catalogue of reports from the Office of the Auditor General of Canada, an independent federal body charged with reporting to Parliament on the performance of various government programs and initiatives.

Our recent study reviewed auditor general reports from 1988 to 2013 and found 614 cases of federal government failure ranging from expense scandals to wasteful spending, misrepresentation, incompetence, and other program failures. We peg a conservative cost estimate of these failures at between $158 billion and $197 billion. That dwarfs the now infamous $90,000 cheque and totals up to nearly onethird of the federal government’s debt in 2012-13.

While the Senate scandal has received much media attention, we came across multiple auditor general reports that uncovered government officials abusing their privilege to claim expenses. In one report, the auditor general found an RCMP employee using a government credit card to pay for a gym membership and a Border Services employee using a government credit card to pay for home expenses like electricity.

In a separate report, the auditor general found Foreign Affairs officials inappropriately receiving housing benefits for hospitality expenses. One official received over $32,000 in benefits even though the property was not used for hospitality over a fouryear period.

In yet another report, a former correctional investigator received improper and questionable payments totaling $325,000 over six years, including claims for $7,000 worth of personal trips and $5,000 for entertaining friends and relatives.

As frustrating as these expense scandals are, they pale in comparison to the misuse of taxpayer money that takes place on a larger scale.

A prime example is a $125-million project to modernize a major Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker.

Not only did the project end up costing $74 million more than planned but the auditor general concluded the entire modernization was a “major capital expenditure not based on a demonstrated need.”

In another example, the Department of National Defence took eight years to develop a $174-million satellite communications system but later determined that the system already in place was both sufficient and cheaper to operate.

Perhaps more shocking than such cases of unnecessary spending is when the government loses track of taxpayer money altogether. Although hard to believe, the auditor general revealed earlier this year that the government does not know where $3.1

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Care taken in Michener closure I am writing to bring some clarity to the closure of the large residential facilities on the north and south sites of the property at Michener Services.

As many of your readers know, the smaller group homes located in the neighbourhood on the southern edge of the Michener site, as well as those located elsewhere in Red Deer, will remain open.

The decision to close the large buildings and transition Michener Services to a group-home-only model was not taken lightly. I know that Michener is a place many have called home for a very long time, and there are emotional ties that go back for decades for some of the individuals who live there.

That’s why we are taking a very careful, sensitive approach to transition planning for every individual who will be leaving Michener. A transition team is working directly with individuals and their families to help them plan their moves.

First, they discuss where they might want to live.

They have options all across Alberta, as we fund service providers in more than 150 communities. This has given some families an opportunity to live closer together. In September, an individual moved from Michener to Edmonton to be closer to family.

Once the individual and their family have chosen a community, they can then begin looking at the options available in that community. They would meet with service providers, visit homes and talk to staff.

After they choose a home, staff members from the new home visit the individual at Michener, so they can get to know and learn more about him or her as a person, including likes and dislikes, the meaning of gestures if he or she is non-verbal, preferred activities, etc.

After the move, POD Central will monitor the new services to ensure everything is going smoothly.

It is important to note that Michener staff are available before, during, and after the move to help.

POD Central remains just a phone call away if the new service provider is experiencing any difficulty, or if the family or guardian has any concerns.

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billion intended for enhancing security and preventing terrorism had been allocated.

And then there are the problems with the government’s management of sensitive taxpayer information. In 2007, the auditor general found that 6.4 million Social Insurance Numbers (SINs) had no supporting documentation and 2.9 million more SINs existed for Canadians over the age of 20 than actual people in that age group. These discrepancies have raised important concerns about potential misuse and fraud in the over $140-billion government programs that rely on the SIN system.

There is no simple solution to the problems identified by the auditor general; government failure is an institutional problem because politicians, bureaucrats and special interest groups are often rewarded for behaving in ways that work against the public interest.

But some helpful steps can be taken.

First, we can scale back the activities the government is involved in to focus only on those where it

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I know that Michener is a place many have called home for a very long time, and there are emotional ties that go back for decades for some of the individuals who live there.

— Frank Oberle Alberta Associate Minister of Services for Persons with Disabilities So far, the first two individuals to move are doing very well.

At least four more moves are planned by the end of the year.

I respect that some families are not ready to begin this process. It is a change, and change can be difficult.

At this time, we’re working with the families who are ready to do so, and we continue to provide as much information as we can to all families. Of the approximately 120 people who will be leaving Michener, 69 have completed transition plans and 32 more plans are in progress.

Although our timeline was to close the large buildings on the Michener grounds by the spring of 2014, I have always said that nobody will move until

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Second, to improve the delivery of those activities, government can rely more on harnessing the strengths of the private sector through outright privatization, public-private partnerships, and the outsourcing of publicly-financed goods and services.

Finally, we can expand the resources and authority of the auditor general, giving it the ability to require mandatory audit compliance.

When viewed in the context of overall government failure, the alleged Senate expense scandal is a drop in the bucket.

The fact is the list of government failures in Canada is long and growing.

Without reforming what government does and how it goes about doing it, we’ll soon be reading about the next boondoggle.

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As the minister responsible for Services for Persons with Disabilities, I need to ensure our programs reflect modern best practices. Alberta is one of the last provinces in Canada to operate a residential facility like Michener, and in Alberta today, there are many excellent disability service providers in communities throughout the province.

I remain confident that this is the right thing to do both for the people we support now, and those we will be supporting in the future.

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BRIEFS B.C. Mountie gets two years probation for shooting man at traffic stop

DUNCAN, B.C. — A Vancouver Island Mountie found guilty of aggravated assault after shooting a man during a traffic stop has been sentenced to two years probation.

Nanaimo RCMP Const. David Pompeo will also have to serve 240 hours of community service within the next 18 months.

In a ruling Thursday, B.C. provincial court Judge Josiah Wood said the officer appeared to be a responsible member of the RCMP but he showed poor judgment when he shot William Gillespie in September 2009.

While Wood said the matter was of serious concern both to the public and the court, there were circumstances that separated the officer’s case from a general aggravated assault case.

Wood also noted that a more severe sentence, such as jail time or a firearms prohibition, would have caused Pompeo to lose his job.

Acidifying Arctic Ocean threatens food web in the North: research

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Scientists huddled in a sea ice camp on the Arctic Ocean have produced new evidence that climate change could be threatening the food web in the far North.

The researchers found that shrimp-like creatures eaten by everything from fish to whales are likely to react poorly to increasingly acidic water caused by high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

“There were certainly possibilities for these animals to be affected,” said Ceri Lewis of the University of Exeter, lead author of a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “They’re one of the key components of the Arctic food web.”

Lewis and her colleagues spent months at a time on the sea ice off Ellef Ringnes Island, which is west of Ellesmere Island and just south of the magnetic North Pole.

They were studying the effect of pH levels on different types of the tiny crustaceans called copepods. They found some stayed at one depth, while others moved up and down, which exposed them to different pH levels.

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The levels are a measure of acidity or alkalinity. The lower the pH, the more acidic a substance.

They took samples of copepods and exposed them to sea water in which the acidity had been increased to levels expected in about 100 years.

“We’re putting animals in a time machine and transporting them 100 years into the future,” said Lewis.

The copepods who stayed at one depth didn’t do well at all.

“They were really suffering,” Lewis said.

Even the ones who swam up and down and were accustomed to different pH levels were noticeably harmed. Their young,

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Health Minister Deb Matthews says the province will be rolling out a “physician peer-review program” in all facilities where diagnostic imaging services are provided.

Her spokeswoman says a team of doctors will review random samples of diagnostic images that have already been assessed by a radiologist.

The move comes after two Toronto-area hospitals discovered that there were possible errors in the reading of more than 3,500 mammograms and CT scans.

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One patient — who has since died — said she had been given a clean bill of health after a CT scan, only to find out later than she had cancer at the time.

it seems, don’t move around and aren’t as adaptable.

“We did see mortalities,” said Lewis.

“They were quite sensitive.”

Lewis cautioned that her experiment amounted to “shock treatment” for the copepods. In real life, the tiny creatures will have a century to get used to a more acidic environment. But, she said, 100 years isn’t very long.

“In terms of evolutionary adaptation, that’s not very much.”

And the stakes are high.

The Arctic Ocean is acidifying faster than any other on Earth and all oceans are gradually losing pH. Copepods are one of the foundations of the marine ecosystem.

It’s been two years since Lewis folded away her tent, rolled up her sleeping bag and left the Ellef Ringnes ice camp, so memories of the hardships are gradually fading.

“It hurt my fingers a lot on the days where I worked with sea water at -40, but you forget that quickly and you just remember how beautiful it was,” she said. “It was a really tough two months doing the work, but you forget that bit and just remember all the amazing moments.”

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Soldier with PTSD no longer facing discharge

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Master Cpl. Kristian Wolowidnyk is no longer facing an imminent discharge from the Canadian Forces because of his post-traumatic stress disorder.

The former combat engineer and Afghan war veteran, who survived a recent suicide attempt, was told this week that he now qualifies to remain in the military as part of a prolonged release process for injured soldiers.

The change of Wolowidnyk’s classification means that upon his eventual release, he will have reached the 10-year service mark and will qualify for a fully indexed military pension.

For Wolowidnyk and his wife, Michele, the news eliminated a major source of stress. But more than that, they say it validated his psychological injuries.

“They’ve recognized his injury, I think is a lot of it,” Michele Wolowidnyk said in an interview Thursday.

“Not just that his release is not pending anymore, but that they’ve recognized this is a very serious injury for him and now he’s going to get the proper treatment going forward.”

Until Wednesday morning, it appeared Wolowidnyk — father to a twoyear-old child — would be discharged, even though he was desperate to stay in the Forces and re-qualify for another military trade.

He tried to kill himself on Nov. 21 — two days after being told he was being discharged.

He spent a week in the mentalhealth wing of the civilian Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton before being released to his family.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS QUEBEC — Past remarks promoting diversity in Quebec’s schools have come back to annoy Premier Pauline Marois as her government tries to pass legislation forbidding the display of overt religious symbols in the public service.

But the premier says there’s no contradiction between what she says now and what she said then.

Opposition Liberals raised a 1998 policy on school integration that was signed by Marois when she was the provincial education minister.

In it, she encourages the “visibility” of religious diversity “by school personnel.”

She goes on to note in the 40-page document, which was co-signed by then-immigration minister Andre Boisclair, that the province’s “common values” include “openness to diversity in ethnocultural, linguistic and religious matters.”

“The credibility of the discussion over the openness of ethnocultural and religious diversity is supported in good part by the visibility of this diversity among school staff,” the document says.

The document also states that “the mere wearing of the hijab cannot be prohibited in Quebec schools” because it does not break any laws.

Under the values charter, religious headwear such as hijabs would be banned in schools.

The charter, which still has to be passed by the provincial legislature, would ban public sector employees from wearing obvious religious objects or clothing.

The Liberals contend that the stand by the current Parti Quebecois government is in complete contradiction to Marois’ position in 1998.

Marois told the legislature on Thursday there’s no contradiction in her remarks, pointing out the 1998 policy has no references to overt religious symbols such as those that would be banned in the values charter.

The government says soldiers and their families trying to cope with PTSD can call a confidential toll-free referral service at 1-800-268-7708.

But another veteran, Mike Cole from Trenton, Ont., said soldiers are telling him that when they call, they get put on hold, or are simply told to go to the hospital.

MacEachern is a former corporal who quit the military last summer after being ordered not to repeat a 2012 fundraising walk in aid of injured soldiers.

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“I think this experience has been good for him and cathartic because there are a lot of other people out there who are undoubtedly going through the same thing and hopefully him speaking out about it lets them know that they’re not alone and that they can look for some help, talk to their friends,” Michele Wolowidnyk said.

The escalating struggle of soldiers like Wolowidnyk has been resonating across Canada after a number of apparent suicides within the military in recent days.

Veterans advocates say the four apparent suicides since last week may only hint at the magnitude of the problem. For every death by suicide, they warn, as many as 12 others may have sought the same fate.

On Thursday, former soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder pleaded with the federal government to provide more support to veterans suffering from the illness.

A visibly distraught Kate MacEachern told an Ottawa news conference the heart-wrenching story of how she nearly took her own life a little over a year ago after learning that she might be forced out of uniform.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Allegations that Rob Ford offered purported gang members money and a car in exchange for a video are an “outright lie,” the Toronto mayor said Thursday amid new questions about why police did not arrest him.

Speaking on an American radio station, the scandal-plagued mayor quickly tried to change the topic when asked about the latest claims against him.

“You can talk to my lawyers about it,” Ford told “The Sports Junkies,” a morning show on WJFK-FM based in Washington, D.C. “I’m here to talk football, guys. So if you want to talk football, talk football; but if you want to talk about other things, then unfortunately I’m going to have to let you go.”

The latest allegations, which have not been proven in court, are contained in wiretap summaries put together as part of a guns and gangs investigation that were in a police document released Wednesday.

The intercepts reveal men talking with familiarity about the mayor, and suggest they had supplied him with drugs and plotted to blackmail him with photographs of him doing narcotics, police said.

Ford said nothing on arrival at city hall Thursday but Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly, who has taken on many of the mayor’s responsibilities, said the latest allegations would not affect city business.

Kelly did call allegations that Ford was consorting with drug traffickers and gang members troubling.

“The one that’s bothered me the most is the possibility of criminality being involved in one way or the other with the mayor’s office,” he said.

Some city councillors called on investigators to explain why they did not arrest the mayor, but police have consistently said they didn’t have sufficient evidence to do so.

Investigators have asked to interview Ford, but he has refused on the advice of his lawyer, Dennis Morris, who called the latest allegations baseless.

“It has no benefit,” Morris said. “What you could do is create charges that presently have no foundation.”

If Ford made a statement favourable to himself, it would be called self-serving and inadmissible in court, while an ambiguous statement could be twisted and used against him, Morris said. Any statement against his interests could be used in court to convict him.

“So why would you even want to do that?” Morris said.

According to the latest documents, Ford’s name emerged on the wiretaps about two months before the U.S. website Gawker and the Toronto Star first reported in May that drug dealers were shopping around a video that showed the mayor smoking what appeared to be crack cocaine.

In a conversation investigators said they recorded on March 27, police said one man quoted Ford as saying, “I’ll give you 5,000 and a car” for a video.

Mohamed Siad, who police believe was trying to sell the “crack video,” said he wanted to meet with him and ask for “150,” which police said meant $150,000, the document says.

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Liberals try new tack to explore PMO interference in Duffy audit

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Liberal senators tried a new tactic Thursday to get to the bottom of allegations that the Prime Minister’s Office interfered in an independent audit of Mike Duffy’s expenses.

James Cowan, Liberal leader in the Senate, asked Senate Speaker Noel Kinsella to rule that the interference, on its face, constitutes a breach of senators’ privileges.

Kinsella reserved judgment.

If Kinsella determines there was a breach of privilege, the matter would be referred to a Senate committee for further study.

That could give Liberals another opportunity to try to call two key witnesses alleged to have been involved in the audit interference: Conservative Sen. Irving Gerstein and Deloitte managing partner Michael Runia.

Two previous Liberal attempts to get Runia to testify at the Senate’s internal economy committee were defeated by the Conservatives, who hold a majority in the upper house.

And Gerstein ruled out of order Wednesday a Liberal attempt to have him step aside as chairman of the Senate banking committee until he’s cleared by the RCMP or agrees to testify at internal economy about his role in the matter.

Cowan said he was forced to raise a question of privilege on the matter because “all other reasonable avenues of re-

dress have been blocked.”

According to witness statements and emails obtained by the RCMP and filed in court, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, enlisted Gerstein’s help in concocting a deal in which Duffy would repay $90,000 in questionable living expense claims.

Duffy agreed to the deal on condition that he would be reimbursed the full amount, that a Senate report on his conduct would not be critical of him and that there would be no question about his eligibility to sit as a senator from Prince Edward Island, although he lived primarily in Ottawa.

Gerstein, who heads the Conservative party’s fundraising arm, initially agreed that the party would reimburse Duffy — when the tab was thought to be $32,000 — but balked when it became clear it was more than $90,000. Wright eventually reimbursed Duffy out of his own pocket.

At Wright’s behest, Gerstein also talked to Runia, who audits the Conservative party’s books, to ensure the audit would make no finding as to whether Duffy’s primary residence was in Ottawa or P.E.I. — which it did not.

“Why should the chief of staff to the prime minister be sending emails discussing the desired outcome of an independent audit ordered by the Senate? If this is not evidence of interference, I don’t know what would be,” Cowan told the Senate.

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Wynne said late Thursday.

The Liberal premier has repeatedly expressed frustration with what she termed a lack of engagement by a federal Conservative government that has strongly supported resource developments elsewhere in Canada — particularly Alberta’s oilsands.

But with a mineral-rich area in remote northwestern Ontario known as the Ring of Fire facing its own infrastructure challenges, the Ontario government has been trying to force a commitment from the feds. “This is a project of national interest in the same way that there have been projects in Alberta and Newfoundland and Labrador that are projects of national interest,� Wynne told reporters just prior to her meeting with the prime minister. “We’re looking for engagement.�

Relations weren’t helped when Wynne delivered a letter to Harper on Nov. 6 that listed up to $2.25 billion in transportation and industrial infrastructure needed in the remote region some 500 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay. “We expect your government to come to the table with matching funds,� the premier’s letter flatly asserted.

Greg Rickford, the northern Ontario Conservative MP Harper has tagged with shepherding the Ring of Fire, complained Thursday that Wynne’s letter was the first the federal government had heard of a proposed development corporation to build infrastructure. “I’m confident that today’s meeting will reflect a willingness to be more collaborative,� Rickford said before the tete-a-tete.

A couple of hours later, Wynne suggested progress. “Definitely, we have each other’s ear on this,� she said of the prime minister. “He and I agree that this is a very important proj-

ect. He and I also agree that infrastructure is critical, and infrastructure that will be directly associated with the development of the Ring of Fire but also infrastructure that will serve the needs of First Nations and other communities in the north.�

Much of the difficulty has been over debate about whether a dedicated resource railway into the wilderness is the best option or a road that would also help connect a number of isolated First Nations communities in the Ring of Fire.

Ensuring a power grid to serve both industry and those communities is also part of the costly equation.

Wynne described it as “a huge and shared responsibility to work — all of us — government to government to government,� including the province, the feds and First Nations.

Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver recently revealed his department alone will spend about $40 million this fiscal year advertising the federal government’s “Responsible Resource Development� policy at home and abroad.

The overt focus of the taxpayer-funded ad campaign is Canada’s oil and gas and pipeline industries, a priority for the Harper government.

To that end, the prime minister appointed a special representative for “West Coast Energy Infrastructure,� and Doug Eyford’s report was delivered Thursday morning in Vancouver.

Eyford wrote in the report that Alberta and British Columbia “perceive the federal system as comparatively leaden or indifferent and are working together, without Canada, on matters within federal jurisdiction.�

And he struck a broader note on Ottawa’s role in assisting resource projects across the country. “It is critical for Canada to become more involved and demonstrate leadership in its relations with Aboriginal groups, industry, and provincial governments,� says the report.

The development corporation the Ontario government has pitched is designed to bring all the stakeholders in the Ring of Fire together to address critical needs in getting the project off the ground.

Last month, a huge player in the Ring of Fire, U.S.-based Cliffs Natural Resources, announced it was indefinitely postponing its proposed $3.3-billion chromite operation due to lack of agreement on transportation corridors.

Macklem to step down from Bank of Canada after losing out on top post

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada is losing its second in command and according to analysts, one of its brightest minds.

Senior deputy governor Tiff Macklem has announced he will step down on May 1 — about four years before his term expires — to become the new dean at the respected Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

The move was not a surprise after Macklem was passed over for the top job in June when Finance Minister Jim Flaherty chose Stephen Poloz, then head of Export Development Canada, to succeed the outgoing governor, Mark Carney.

Macklem had been widely expected to win the job and appeared to have been particularly groomed to succeed Carney, having spent some time at the Finance Department as associate deputy and pointman for the G20.

But as he did with the previous bank vacancy, Flaherty chose to go outside the institution’s ranks for the new governor and cited Poloz’s private sector experience as a key reason. By contrast, Macklem has spent all his career either at the central bank or Finance.

Still, Macklem was regarded by analysts as a top class economist and innovative thinker. “Tiff was perhaps the most forceful voice from the bank on Canada’s productivity challenge, and was one of the first to open the debate on soft business spending, and thus cash hoarding,� noted Bank of

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Still, Porter said the departure is not a surprise.

Macklem is the third senior deputy governor in a row to leave the central bank early after being passed over.

In a statement in the Bank of Canada’s announcement, Macklem makes no mention of his thwarted ambition. “I will miss the bank a great deal,� he is quoted as saying. “I am extremely proud of the work we have done to promote the economic and financial well-being of Canadians, and I am confident that the bank’s first-rate research and policy formulation will continue to protect and strengthen Canada’s economy.�

In an interview with The Canadian Press last month, Poloz called Macklem a friend — he was responsible for recruiting Macklem for the bank in 1984 — and said they remained comfortable working with each other. “We’ve stayed friends,� he said. “I’m not going to deny initially there was a sense of, ’Oh, this has happened.’ We work well together and I know Tiff is someone I can rely on with 100 per cent confidence, and I still think of him as my friend.�

Officials at the bank said Macklem was not available for an interview Thursday.

Of his upcoming duties, Macklem said the “new role will allow me to bring together my public policy and research experience to support students and to promote the world-leading thinking that takes place at Rotman.�

Both teens are charged with distributing child pornography, while one of the teens also faces a charge of making child pornography.

They cannot be named because they were under the age of 18 at the time of the alleged offences and both are charged under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Parsons was taken off life-support following a suicide attempt last April that her family says was prompted by relentless bullying.

They say the 17-year-old girl was tormented after a photograph of her allegedly being sexually assaulted in November 2011 was spread around her school.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Nelson Mandela is being remembered in Canada for his wisdom and fearless fight against racism.

As it turned out, Canada also occupied a special place in Mandela’s heart.

Mandela never forgot the help he received from Canada — and from former prime minister Brian Mulroney — in his epic fight for freedom, said Stephen Lewis, Canada’s former United Nations ambassador under Mulroney.

“It’s fair to say that Mandela was deeply attached to Canada,” recalled Lewis, who visited Mandela and his wife, Graca Machel, numerous times between 2001 and 2009 in South Africa.

All Mandela ever wanted to talk about was Canada, and Mulroney, said Lewis.

One of a half-dozen honorary Canadian citizens, the man known affectionately as “Madiba” died Thursday at age 95.

“He had a tremendous affection and regard for our former prime minister who did do a really major job in the work to overthrow apartheid and have Mandela released,” Lewis said. “And Mandela never forgot that. He always saw in Canada an ally that he trusted and, in a way, loved.”

Mulroney, who broke ranks with other leaders in the 1980s to lead the fight against the apartheid regime that included strict economic sanctions, said with Mandela’s passing “a precious light has gone out in the world,” but that his spirit would live forever.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the world had lost one of its great moral leaders and statesmen.

“He demonstrated that the only path forward for the nation was to reject the appeal of bitterness,” said Harper, who described Mandela’s forbearance as “legendary.”

Mulroney called him one of the giants of our time.

“Let us remember though, that nothing can extinguish the flame of freedom he lit in South Africa. Nothing will dim the power of his message of tolerance, of integrity, and statesmanship,” Mulroney said in a statement.

“That his legacy will continue to nourish the spirit of everyone who struggles for justice and freedom anywhere. That the dream of Nelson Mandela will never die.”

Mandela’s spirit melted away partisan bickering in the House of Commons on Thursday night as members of all parties united in silence to honour his memory.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair called Mandela an intelligent man who cared for his people.

“He was a source of inspiration for all — from the most humble and impoverished to the world’s most powerful,” Mulcair said in a statement.

“The light that he brought to the

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South African President Nelson Mandela smiles after receiving an honourary Investiture into the Order of Canada at a ceremony in Ottawa.

It was the first time a foreign Head of State had received the award. world will continue to shine long after him.”

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau added that Mandela offered hope and inspiration to millions.

“Truly a citizen of the world, Nelson Mandela’s contribution to world freedom is simply unparalleled, and he will forever occupy a place in the hearts, minds and imaginations of people across the globe.”

As a lawyer before entering politics, Alberta Premier Alison Redford worked with Mandela in the early 1990s as they rebuilt South Africa’s legal system and lay the groundwork for the first all-race elections that led to Mandela becoming president.

“He listened to people and he didn’t always react immediately. He absorbed a lot of information and he understood that the best perspective you could get from people was from people that lived an experience,” she said.

“It wasn’t always from experts and it was always from people who were partisan and involved in politics. It was talking to people who were having life experiences and learning from those experiences how to do things better.”

Reaction to Mandela’s death from all corners of Canada streamed onto social media.

On Twitter, former Liberal leader Bob Rae called Mandela a truly great man who was simple and direct.

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“Your respect for diversity within your own society and your tolerant and civilized manner of dealing with the challenges of difference and diversity had always been our inspiration.”

— Nov. 19, 2001 as he became an honorary citizen of Canada

“We were shown that those in exile will come back one day, those working underground in the country will emerge and that those who are in jail will return. It was partly because of your support. Our victory has become your victory.” — Sept.

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“Although many of us were incarcerated and for many years were deprived of any real contact with the outside world, we still could hear your voice demanding our release. Your support . . . sustained us — gave us hope and encouragement even in the darkest days.” — June 19, 1990 during his first address to parliament

Here are what some of the country’s political leaders have said about him:

“Today I stand before you as the elected representative of the South African people to thank you once again for helping us end our oppression, for assisting us through our transition and now for your partnership in the building of a better life for all South Africans.” — Sept. 24, 1998 during his second address to parliament “You have made me feel like a young man again with my batteries recharged.

“Mr. Mandela, you can count on Canada in the months and years ahead, as you have in the past, as you build a country in which the democratic hopes and dreams of all South Africans can be realized, whatever their colour or whatever their creed.”

— Then-prime minister Brian Mulroney on the day of Mandela’s first visit to Canada.

“Today we celebrate the magnificent achievement of democracy. The inauguration of President Mandela is a triumph of negotiation over violence, of tolerance over hatred.” — Then-prime minister Jean Chretien on May 10, 1994, the day Mandela became head of state in South Africa

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — As the news of Nelson Mandela’s death spread across South Africa, residents of the black township of Soweto gathered in the streets near the house where he once lived, singing and dancing to mourn his death and celebrate his colossal life.

The people of South Africa reacted Friday with deep sadness at the loss of a man considered by many to be the father of the nation, while mourners said it was also a time to celebrate the achievements of the anti-apartheid leader who emerged from prison to become South Africa’s first black president.

President Jacob Zuma, dressed in black, announced the news of Mandela’s death Thursday night on television, saying the 95-year-old known affectionately by his clan name “Madiba” had died “peacefully” at around 8:50 p.m. while in the company of his family.

“He is now resting. He is now at peace,” Zuma said. “Our nation has lost its greatest son. Our people have lost a father.”

The president said all national flags would be lowered to half-mast from Friday until after a state funeral. Many South Africans, having missed the news after going to bed, would awaken to a country without its spiritual and moral leader.

“First sleep in a Mandela-less world,” South African journalist Brendan Boyle tweeted. “We’re on our own now.”

In the black of night, several hundred people milled around outside Mandela’s home in the leafy Houghton neighbourhood of Johannesburg. The mood was lively rather than sombre. Some sang and swayed. A man blew on a vuvuzela, the plastic horn widely used at World Cup soccer games in South Africa in 2010. Another marched toward the house and shouted: “Nelson!” People photographed a makeshift shrine of candles, a national flag and bouquets of flowers. A framed portrait of a smiling Mandela was propped against a tree with the caption: “Rest in peace, Madiba.”

Mandela had been receiving medical care in the home in past months, where he had been in critical condition.

Some residents of Soweto gathered in front of Nelson Mandela’s old home in the early hours of the morning to mark his death.

About 40 people formed a circle in the middle of Vilakazi Street and sang songs from the anti-apartheid struggle. Some people were draped in South African flags and the green, yellow and black colours of Mandela’s party, the African National Congress.

“We have not seen Mandela in the place where he is, in the place where he is kept,” they sang, a lyric that anti-apartheid protesters had sung during Man-

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Giant photographs of former South African President Nelson Mandela are displayed at the Nelson Mandela Legacy Exhibition at the Civic Centre in Cape Town, South Africa, on June 27, 2013. dela’s long incarceration.

“We are celebrating his life and all that he did for us,” said Terry Mokoena, 47, who had taped the words “Rest In Peace” on his Mandela T-shirt. “I am happy that he is now at peace. He has done so much for us, it would be greedy for us to say that he should do more. Mandela united us — black, white, colored and Indian — he taught us togetherness.”

In front of Mandela’s old Soweto home, now a tourist attraction, two men made a shrine of flowers and candles.

“He came here to Soweto as a lawyer and he led us. When he came out of jail in 1994, after 27 years, he did not come out a bitter man and encourage us to fight. No, he came out with a message of peace,” said Mbulelo Radebe, 37.

At Nelson Mandela Square in the upscale Sandton neighbourhood of Johannesburg, six people stood at the foot of a six-yard (meter) bronze statue of Mandela, paying homage to the leader. The six were two whites, two blacks and two of Indian descent, representing South Africa’s “rainbow nation” that Mandela had fought and sacrificed for.

“For 23 years, I walked a path with this man since

he was released,” said Sonja Pocock, a white 46-yearold pharmaceutical sales representative. “I’m from the old regime. He’s like my grandfather. He is my grandfather.”

The blonde sales executive burst into tears.

Krezaan Schoeman, a 38-year-old Afrikaner colleague of Pocock’s, spoke as her friend went to arrange some red flowers she had laid at the statue’s feet. It was past midnight and the square, ringed by restaurants with Christmas lights arrayed on fake trees casting a silvery glow, was mostly empty.

“I admired him. He stood for something, for freedom and equality,” Schoeman said. “Even if some say he was a terrorist, he stood for his beliefs. Everybody’s got a right to life. It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor, black or white. That’s what he stood for.

And for forgiveness.”

Standing nearby with a friend, Valentino More, a black 24-year-old student, said he had heard of Mandela’s death on Twitter, then had rushed home to see Zuma make the announcement. He then came to Mandela Square, needing to pay tribute.

“It came as a shock,” More said. “It’s a big day, actually, because our father just passed.”

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Stastny. “Those last two goals are on us. We can’t quit on our goaltender like that. He has been our best player all year.

Hanging him out to dry like that is unacceptable.”

Head coach Patrick Roy wasn’t as upset after the game as could have been expected from such a lopsided score.

“I’m not disappointed at all,” he said. “(The Oilers) played well and scored power-play goals, they scored on the rush. We knew before the game that it’s a team that it would be very dangerous to exchange chances with. If they go on the rush, it’s their game and we played into it. We need to learn from it.

“They scored three goals in the last four minutes or so.

It was a closer game than the score showed I think.”

The Oilers started the scoring before the game was four minutes old as Philip Larsen sent a long breakaway pass up ice that Hall was able to catch up to before sliding the puck through Varlamov’s pads.

Colorado had a chance to pull even four minutes later on a five-on-three power play, but Oilers goalie Devan Dubnyk stoned Matt Duchene on a glorious opportunity at the side of the net to preserve the lead.

Avalanche defenceman Jan Hejda had to be helped off the ice with eight minutes to play in the first period after losing an edge and going heavily feet first into the boards.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Oilers 8 Avalanche 2 EDMONTON — It would be difficult to find a team much harder to figure out than the Edmonton Oilers.

Taylor Hall scored a hat trick and added an assist as the Oilers bounced back from a stinker of a loss with a surprising 8-2 victory over the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday.

“It’s always a fun night when you get a hat trick, but for us to win in the fashion that we did gives us some confidence,” said Hall, who recorded his fourth career hat trick. “This homestand could prove to be big for us.

“I haven’t been in this league long, but I’ve been in it enough to know that anything can happen on any night against any team. You have to be ready for the opportunity.

You just have to come out and play your game. Sometimes you’re going to get eight and some nights you’re going to get zero. And tonight was a great night.”

Ales Hemsky, David Perron, Mark Arcobello, Jordan Eberle and Sam Gagner also scored for the Oilers (10-182) who replaced a quarter of their lineup for the game after a 6-2 loss to the Phoenix Coyotes on Tuesday.

The Oilers improved to just 4-9-0 at home, but have won six of their last nine overall.

“I don’t know if you see a score like that coming, but I

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Colorado Avalanche’s Nathan MacKinnon is stopped by Edmonton Oilers goalie Devan Dubnyk during first-period NHL action in Edmonton, on Thursday. think every morning you come into a game you’re optimistic,” said Oilers head coach Dallas Eakins. “Over the last few weeks our group has taken a step in mental toughness and something in that degree. I didn’t see a win of that score coming though, I definite-

ly thought we’d be in a tight game.”

Nick Holden and P.A. Parenteau responded for the Avalanche (19-7-0) who had won two in a row and five of their last six coming into the game.

Colorado goalie Semyon Varlamov allowed eight goals

on 28 shots, however three of those came in the final five minutes with the game clearly out of reach.

“What happened in the last five minutes, we have to look at each other and play for our goaltender there,” said Avalanche assistant captain Paul

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Kings win big, Queens bounced by SAIT

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Kings 113 Trojans 47 The RDC Kings were determined to get back on the highway to success and the SAIT Trojans were the unfortunate victims who just happened to be in the way.

The Kings, coming off last Saturday’s 120-114 home-court loss — their first of the season — to the Medicine Hat Rattlers, ran over the visiting Trojans 113-47 in an Alberta Colleges Men’s Basketball League mismatch Thursday.

The RDC Queens were 75-41 losers to SAIT in the earlier women’s game.

The Kings go into the Christmas break with a league-best 10-1 record.

SAIT fell to 2-9.

“We had to get a little of our mojo back after the loss last weekend,” said RDC coach Clayton Pottinger. “I was glad the guys responded and came out and played pretty well.

“SAIT was missing three of their key personnel tonight. They had a bit of a depleted lineup and I think that was reflected in the score.”

Lloyd Strickland paced the Kings with 26 points, while Aushanti Hogan

scored 22 and Clay Crellin netted 17 points and had a team-high eight rebounds.

Four other RDC players hit for double figures, as Matt Johnson, Mari Peoples and Jacob Cusumano each scored 12 points and Brian Prenosio added 10.

Johnson also had seven boards.

Colten Murray led the visitors with 17 points.

Pottinger is satisfied with the Kings’ sizzling first half of the season, but not overjoyed.

“It’s easy to become complacent.

You look at it and see we’re 10-1 and everything is going great,” said the coach. “If someone had said to me in August that you guys are going to be 10-1 going into the Christmas break, I would have said ‘hey, that’s great’.

“But I would honestly deep down would want our 10-1 to be a little bit better with a little more execution and with us making a little more progress.

It sounds silly but I would prefer to be 7-3 and have made a lot more progress than be 10-1. You start believing you’re doing things right when actually you still have a lot of work to do.”

The Kings return to action Jan. 10 against visiting Grande Prairie.

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Red Deer College Queen Mozanga Ekwalanga breaks past SAIT Trojan Gianna Craig at Red Deer College Thursday.

Jacobs stays perfect to earn berth in curling trials final ROAR OF THE RINGS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — Brad Jacobs was the first to admit how poorly his team played. He’s also one win away from a trip to the Winter Games.

The reigning Canadian champion remained undefeated at 6-0 with a 5-4 victory Thursday night over veteran Kevin Martin, clinching a spot in Sunday’s final of the Canadian Olympic curling trials.

“Even though we were, in all honesty, pretty bad that game, we were able to pull it out and I think that’s huge,” Jacobs said.

“And I think even though we were sloppy, we were still confident. But it was really nice to be in a game like that where we had to grind and score two to win.”

Martin came out of the battle of the best with a 5-1 record that earned the veteran from Edmonton a berth into Saturday afternoon’s semifinal.

The other semifinalist won’t be determined until the men finish their seven-game Roar of the Rings round robin with a morning draw Friday at the MTS Centre.

With Martin leading 4-3, Jacobs blanked the eighth and ninth ends to keep the hammer in the 10th.

Both rinks had a pair of rocks inside the four-foot, with a Jacobs’ stone almost dead centre in the button.

Martin then put up a guard, forcing the 28-year-old from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., to do a run-back takeout and score two points.

Martin, who won gold at the 2010 Olympics and silver in 2002, is looking for a fourth trip to the Games.

The 47-year-old was leading Jacobs 3-1 after four ends, but Jacobs scored two in the sixth to tie it up.

Martin looked like he was going to taken advantage of Jacobs’ misses in the seventh end and score

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Martin agreed it was a sloppy game by both sides.

“But Brad made a good one in his last one,” he said.

A duel between the Winnipeg rinks skipped by Jeff Stoughton and Mike McEwen ended with McEwen defeating the veteran 9-6.

Stoughton, who dropped to 2-4, was given a standing ovation. McEwen sits at 3-3.

Before competing in his fifth trials, Stoughton said it’ll be his last attempt to go to the Olympics.

McEwen jumped to a 5-1 lead after the third end when he scored four against the two-time world champion, but Stoughton stole two in the fifth to close the gap 5-4.

McEwen stretched the lead to 9-5 after a draw for three in the eighth end.

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THE ICE REBELS FUTURE Colby Entz slipped through the 2013 WHL bantam draft but didn’t go unnoticed by the Red Deer Rebels, who listed the 15-yearold goaltender following his impressive showing at the team’s training camp in August. Entz was reassigned to the Moose Jaw Generals and has flourished at the midget AAA level. The native of Churchbridge, Sask., has appeared in eight games with the 2014 Telus Cup host Generals and has posted a 4-1-1 record to go with a 2.21 goals-against average — fifth best in the Saskatchewan Midget AAA League — and glowing .928 save percentage.

Entz, a member of Team Saskatchewan in the Western Canada U16 Challenge Cup in October at Calgary, could be with the Rebels as early as next season. Based on numbers, at least, he might have more upside than two other Red Deer prospects playing at the midget AAA level — Generals starter Grant Naherniak (7-5-1, 3.09, .894) and Rylan Toth of the Battleford Stars (4-2-1, 3.64, .889). Both Naherniak and Toth are 17.

TOP STOPPER Coleman Vollrath of the Victoria Royals leads all WHL netminders in the categories of goals-against average (1.88) and save percentage (.942). The 18-year-old from Calgary has appeared in 12 games this season and recorded a 6-2-0-1 record.

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It’s all mental for Volek REBELS’ FORWARD IS SEEING BETTER RESULTS THIS SEASON BECAUSE OF BETTER ATTENTION TO THE MENTAL PART OF THE GAME

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR The difference between the Dominik Volek of this season and last is more mental than physical, according to the Red Deer Rebels forward.

“I think my head is a little more in the game,” Volek said Thursday.

“I’m trying to prepare better for the games, focus on myself. The biggest change is in my head, not (with) my hockey skills.”

The 19-year-old from Praha, Czech Republic, has sniped a team-leading 14 goals in 30 games this season after scoring nine in 32 outings in 2012-13. He’s also third among Rebels scorers with 23 points.

Perhaps it’s a sign of things to come that a healthy chunk of Volek’s offensive production has come over the past six weeks.

“I have a little bit slow start in the beginning, but now it’s going for me and I’m really happy about myself,” he said.

“But we have to work better as a team and get some wins and push for the playoffs.

“But with myself, I can be better, but points and goals are coming now so I just need to work on my game.”

Rebels associate coach Jeff Truitt looks at Volek and sees a player who in his third WHL season — he was a rookie with the Regina Pats in 2011-12 and joined the Rebels out of Europe last December — has become accustomed to the North American style, changed his approach in the opposition’s end of the ice and taken advantage of his scoring chances.

“I always think that

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Rebels forward David Volek has seen an increase in goals and points this season and is crediting the increased production to more focus on the mental part of the game. for a European forward coming over here, the biggest challenges are obviously the straightline game and the defensive zone coverage, which is always emphasized here,” said Truitt.

“The good thing about Dom is he’s been very opportunistic. When he gets these chances in the offensive zone he’s starting to bury them in a lot of different ways. He makes some really nice plays off the rush and he’s also been fortunate in that he’s had a couple of long shots that have gone in. But he’s also shooting more than what he did last year.

“He was more of a playmaker, whereas now

he’s making plays and finishing plays off, which is nice to see.”

Volek’s scoring prowess hasn’t gone unnoticed by the powers that be in his home country.

He’ll attend the Czech Republic national junior team selection camp next week and hopes to be playing in the World Junior Championship later this month.

“They’re going to cut two forwards so I hope it’s not going to be me,” he said. “I’m going to try everything to make the team. I’m going to try to bring there what I learn here. We are in a pool with Canada and the U.S., so I think that’s going to help me because

I’m here for three years now and I know the style type of hockey.

“Brent (Rebels GM/ head coach Sutter) is coaching Team Canada, so it’s going to be nice to play against them.”

Volek has talked to Rebels netminder and fellow Czech Patrik Bartosak about the world junior experience. Bartosak played for his country in the 2013 WJC in Russia.

“He talked to me a bit.

The (Czech Republic) coach is the same as last year, so he just tell me what he’s about,” said Volek. “But he’s a goalie so it is a little bit different.

“I’m excited to go to

the camp and fight for the team. It’s an honour for me.”

Volek leaves for the Czech Republic Wednesday and — assuming he plays in the WJC — will rejoin the Rebels Jan. 8 for a game in Regina.

For now, he’s enjoying his role as a goal scorer and just enjoying the game in general.

“I’m having fun right now, just trying to enjoy this,” he said. “This may be my last year here so I’m just trying to enjoy it and do everything my best. What’s going to happen next year, I don’t know. I’m just having fun right now.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Topping chooses education over hockey

WHO’S DEPENDABLE Portland Winterhawks defenceman Garrett Haar is the league’s top plus/minus player at plus-26. The 20-year-old native of Huntington Beach, Calif., joined the ‘Hawks this season after playing the past two years at Western Michigan University. The sixfoot, 208-pound rearguard has contributed four goals and 21 points in 29 games for the defending WHL champions.

THEY SAID IT “He’s two steps ahead of everyone on the ice. He gets the puck delivered to places that nobody else would see.

What he knows isn’t taught.

That’s in his blood, that’s in his DNA.” — Kootenay Ice head coach Ryan McGill, to Steve Ewen of the Vancouver Province, in reference to Ice star forward Sam Reinhart, the son of former (Atlanta, Calgary, Vancouver) NHL defenceman Paul Reinhart and a good bet to go first overall in the 2014 NHL entry draft.

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RED DEER NATIVE LEAVES HURRICANES TO GET START ON POST SECONDARY EDUCATION If not for the hirGREG ing of a new coachMEACHEM ing staff in Lethbridge during the off season, Joel Topping’s career with the Hurricanes might have been over after one year.

Instead, his time in Lethbridge ended earlier this week when the Red Deer native left the club and returned home with the intention of attending Red Deer College and pursuing a degree in education.

“It’s been kind of a tough last couple of weeks, but I’m happy to be home now and we’ll see how everything goes,” Topping said Thursday.

The former midget AAA Red Deer Optimist Chiefs standout defenceman was ready to pack it in as a WHL player following his rookie season in which the ‘Canes posted just 28 wins and missed the playoffs. Then the club hired a new bench staff headed by former NHL rearguard Drake Berehowsky.

“I had nothing against the other coaches, but I was ready for a fresh start,” said Topping. “If there weren’t new coaches there I don’t think I would have gone back to Lethbridge. I think I would have started school in September.

“So this is something that’s been on my mind for four months or so.”

If last season was disappointing for Topping and the ‘Canes, this season has been a travesty. Lethbridge sits dead last in the 22-team league with a ghastly 3-23-2-2 slate, a statistic that perhaps made it a little easier for Topping to walk away.

“It was definitely hard but I don’t want

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to say that it made my decision. But at the same time I’d be lying to myself if I said that it wasn’t a bit of a factor,” he stated.

“It wasn’t really fun. When you lose pretty much every night it’s hard.”

And if you can’t have fun playing hockey ...

“Then what are you doing? For most guys in the league, that’s the highest level of hockey they’ll ever play,” said Topping.

“I just kind of had to look in the mirror and kind of tell myself, ‘you know what, you’re not really good enough to make a career out of this. I can go home and get my school underway, so why not?’”

Topping’s plan is to Joel Topping begin his RDC studies in January and perhaps, just perhaps, suit up with the hockey Kings in the event that the Hurricanes release his rights.

“I do want to play hockey again, but I haven’t made any commitments in that regard,” he said. “Lethbridge is going to cooperate as far as I know. Really, if they want to hold me on a list, they can, but the understanding that I got was they were going to cooperate if I did want to play back here.

“I’ve had a few people come calling. I’m just going to give it a while and let everything settle down and focus on getting admitted into RDC and getting my classes,

and then we’ll see. If I do play, I’m leaning towards playing for the Kings. I can tell you that much. They’re kind of the frontrunners right now, but nothing has been decided.”

A number of AJHL clubs would undoubtedly be interested in adding a puck-moving defenceman with WHL experience. The Olds Grizzlys, with a roster including seven Red Deer players— most of them friends of Topping — would likely be one such team.

“I know a bunch of Red Deer players on that team and they’ve texted me saying their coach wants me there,” said Topping.

“Even the (junior B) Red Deer Vipers have called and want me to come out to practice. I’ve had a lot of buddies telling me to come wherever they’re playing. It’s kind of funny.”

But the RDC Kings, as he noted, are his preference.

“At the end of day I didn’t quit junior hockey to go somewhere else and play junior hockey,” said Topping. “If I wanted to continue playing in the league I would have walked into the office and demanded a trade. I wouldn’t have just said I want to go to school. If I was to go play junior somewhere else that would kind of defeat the purpose of my whole decision.

That wouldn’t look too good on my part.”

Topping is the fourth player to leave the ‘Canes this season. The others — forwards Jaimen Yakubowski and Sam McKechnie and defenceman Ryan Pilon— demanded a trade.

“I didn’t want to be another one of them,” said Topping. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Jags hold off Texans to win third straight Jaguars 27 Texans 20 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars have gone from the worst team in the NFL to the hottest team in the AFC. And they’re enjoying it.

Chad Henne threw two touchdown passes, Jordan Todman scored on some trickery and the Jaguars held on to beat the Houston Texans 27-20 on Thursday night.

The Jaguars (4-9) won their third straight — their fourth victory in five games since a bye — and continued to show signs of progress under firstyear coach Gus Bradley. They have the longest winning streak in the AFC. “Four out of five, yeah, you’re feeling good,” Henne said.

Jacksonville also won at home for the first time since Nov. 25, 2012, against Tennessee.

“Our guys just really believe,” Bradley said. “The biggest challenge is to keep doing what we’re doing. We’re a young team that’s learning how to do this.”

Houston (2-11) extended its franchise-record losing streak to 11 games, a stunning stretch of futility that could lead the franchise to fire coach Gary Kubiak.

“It’s been a gut-wrenching experience,” said Kubiak, whose team has lost eight games by seven points or less.

“We’ve been in so many close games.”

Kubiak and the Texans looked as if they would end the streak after a quarterback change, but Geno Hayes intercepted Matt Schaub’s pass with 2:08 remaining to seal Jacksonville’s first series sweep since 2009.

Schaub came off the bench and carved up Jacksonville’s secondary in the second half.

He replaced starter Case Keenum late in the third

quarter and led the team to a touchdown and a field goal in his first two possessions.

The Texans were in the red zone again, but failed to convert a fourth-down play with 3:37 remaining. Jacksonville picked up a huge first down that flipped the field — not surprising that it came on a penalty — but punted.

Hayes picked off Schaub’s next pass, a floater over the middle.

The Jaguars milked the clock from there, and Josh Scobee’s 39-yard field goal provided some insurance. The Texans had one final chance — they needed to go 77 yards in 20 seconds and without a timeout — but Schaub was sacked to end the game.

Jacksonville players ran on the field to celebrate.

“For what they’ve gone through and to stick to it and have some results go their way, it’s pretty cool,” Bradley said. “Our team continues to show that they’re sticking to it, believing and making plays at critical times.”

Schaub completed 17 of 29 passes for 198 yards, with a touchdown and an interception. Andre Johnson caught 13 passes for 154 yards.

Still, the Texans walked off the field with an all-too-familiar feeling.

Turnovers were a problem again for Kubiak’s team. Penalties were an even bigger problem. Houston was flagged 14 times for a team-record 177 yards — many of them extending drives.

“They were huge penalties,” Kubiak said. “That’s on me. It’s ridiculous. It’s inexcusable. It can’t happen.”

Jacksonville’s opponents might want to start expecting trick plays.

Offensive co-ordinator Jedd Fisch dialed up a double pass that led to a score and a 2410 lead in the third quarter.

Henne threw behind the line of scrimmage to receiver Ace Sanders, who then heaved a

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OILERS: Tremendous amount of skill Edmonton made it 3-0 with power-play goals just 15 seconds apart with just over two minutes remaining in the opening frame.

Hall got his second of the night and ninth of the season with 2:18 remaining on a five-on-three advantage, unleashing a bullet of a one-timer from the right face-off dot.

The Oilers then took advantage of the remaining time on the power play as Ryan Smyth sent a pass to hit Hemsky in full flight and he undressed Varlamov with a deke before scoring on the backhand.

Colorado got a goal back four minutes into the second period as a Holden point shot caromed off a couple of Oilers players before ending up in the Edmonton net.

The Avalanche made it 3-2 midway through the second period. Parenteau was able to swoop in and pick up the rebound of a big Dubnyk glove save on a point-blank shot by Gabriel Landeskog and hook it into a wide-open net.

The Oilers went back up by two goals with eight minutes left in the middle period as Perron went in on a 2-on-1 before electing to shoot it himself. It was Perron’s third goal in the last two games and teamleading 12th of the season.

Edmonton restored it’s three-goal lead with 11 minutes left in the third period as a pass ticked off of defenceman Nate Guenin before Arcobello kicked it up to his stick and beat Varlamov.

The Oilers made it 6-2 with just under five minutes left as Smyth showed good patience on a 2-on-1 before hitting Eberle for his 10th of the year. It was Smyth’s third assist of the game.

Edmonton added insult to injury with a pair of late goals.

With a minute-and-a-half left, Gagner intercepted a pass and then took a nice return feed from Hall before sniping the puck past Varlamov’s glove.

Hall then got the hat trick with just 11 seconds left as he tipped a Ryan Nugent-Hopkins shot on net and then followed it up to put home his own rebound.

“There is tremendous amount of skill here and we have to utilize it on a daily basis,” Smyth said. “We can’t just sporadically use it. If we get consistent at it, we’re going to be successful.”

The Avs play the second of a three-game Western Canada trip on Friday in Calgary. Edmonton next plays host to the Flames on Saturday.

RDC: Lots to learn “We have lots of things to learn in the second half.

We have a lot of tough games coming up,” said Pottinger. “We’ll take some rest over Christmas, regroup and come back in January.”

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Jacksonville Jaguars tight end Marcedes Lewis pulls in a one-yard touchdown reception in front of Houston Texans cornerback Kareem Jackson during the first quarter of an NFL game Thursday, in Jacksonville, Fla. deep ball across the field to running back Todman.

No defender was near Todman as he camped under Sanders’ throw. Rookie D.J. Swearinger pushed Todman just as he hauled in the 21-yard TD reception.

It was the second consecutive week a non-quarterback threw a TD pass for Jacksonville. Maurice Jones-Drew tossed an 8-yard score to college teammate Marcedes Lewis in a 32-28 win at Cleveland last week.

Sanders and Jones-Drew now have as many TD passes this season as benched Jaguars starter Blaine Gabbert.

Henne completed 12 of 27 passes for 117 yards. He hooked up with Lewis for a 1-yard scoring strike in the

first quarter and found Cecil Shorts III for a 6-yarder in the second.

The Jaguars took the opening kickoff and drove 80 yards for the team’s fourth openingdrive touchdown in its last five games.

Houston punted on its first three possessions, creating more momentum for the home team.

Henne’s second TD pass gave Jacksonville its largest lead (14 points) of the season. Henne hit Shorts out of bounds on a second-down play, but went right back to his leading receiver on the next snap. Shorts beat Johnathan Joseph on a quick out.

Jones-Drew carried 14 times for a season-high 103 yards. He left the game late in the fourth

Trojans 75 Queens 41 Considering the Queens were a point ahead of the Trojans heading into the women’s game, Thursday’s final score seemed out of whack.

RDC head coach Michael Woollard suggested his team got what it deserved.

“I just don’t think we came to play today,” said Woollard, whose squad trailed just 29-20 at halftime.

“We have to be happy with our first half, but we can’t be satisfied and we looked like a team that was satisfied today.

“I don’t have an explanation. We didn’t defend, we were slow to the ball. Every time the ball moves we have to move and we were ball-watching a lot. We made a bit of a run and then we made some mental errors that hurt us.”

The Queens were minus the services of six-foottwo post Jessica Foley and when two other players got into foul trouble the home side was in tough.

“That made us a little smaller than we’d like to be and took us out of some of our stuff, but no excuses,” said Woollard.

Mozanga Ekwalanga led all RDC players with 12 points. She also finished with eight rebounds, while Desirae Paterson contributed nine points and seven boards.

The Trojans got 14 points from Sara Astorga, 11 from each of Florence Oloya and Kendell Kuntz and a 10-point outing from Kaitie Beard.

Both clubs head into the Christmas break with a 5-6 record.

“We had a good first half of the year and right now we just have to settle down, have a good break and come back ready to play in January,” said Woollard.

The Queens host Grande Prairie Jan. 10. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

ROAR: Played their best “It’s whoever played their best this week,” Stoughton said.

“We didn’t play our best and we got what we got, which is not enough wins to get in the playoffs.”

Winless Kevin Koe of Calgary drew to the button to claim his first victory of the competition with a 7-6 decision over veteran Glenn Howard of Coldwater, Ont. (2-4).

John Morris, who curls out of Kelowna, B.C., improved to 4-2 with a 7-6 win over John Epping of Toronto (1-5).

“Not the textbook when you’re up 5-2 that you’d want to play it, but that’s how we roll,” Morris said.

with a hamstring injury, but said he would be fine.

The Jaguars are enjoying a modest turnaround after starting the season 0-8. Two victories came against Houston, including a 13-6 punt-fest 11 days ago.

“It’s been amazing,” JonesDrew said. “Gus has done a great job.”

The Texans managed a season-low 218 yards in that one, prompting some players to apologies to the city. Johnson called it the “lowest point” of his 11-year career.

What will they say now?

Another loss surely will increase the possibility of changes in Houston, which improved its chances of landing the No. 1 pick in the 2014 NFL draft.

“Sometimes it’s not pretty, but we get the job done and we’re excited to live on till tomorrow.”

Morris plays Martin on Friday, with the other matchups between Stoughton and Howard, McEwen and Koe and Epping against Jacobs.

On the women’s side, Rachel Homan avoided playing a tiebreaker and grabbed a spot in the semifinals.

The reigning Canadian champion defeated Stefanie Lawton of Saskatoon 6-5 in the final game of their seven-game round robin to finish 4-3, but Winnipeg’s Chelsea Carey and Ontario’s Sherry Middaugh also sported the same mark.

Homan got bumped to the semi, though, because her Ottawa rink fared better than Carey and Middaugh’s teams on rankings based on draws to the button before games throughout the week.

“It wasn’t important,” Homan said of avoiding a tiebreaker.

“It’s nice to be able to get second place and go into the semi. Either way we had a chance and that’s all we needed.”

Carey and Middaugh will play their tiebreaker Friday afternoon, with the winner taking on Homan later that night. Homan, 24, had no preference on which team they’d prefer taking on.

“We’ve played them both a million times and it’s going to be a good game either way and hopefully we can win it in 10 (ends),” Homan said.

Winnipeg veteran skip Jennifer Jones already earned a bye into Saturday night’s final and will watch her competitors battle it out.

Jones, 39, defeated Edmonton’s Heather Nedohin 6-5 to finish her round robin at 6-1, while Nedohin ended with a 3-4 mark.

Homan almost had to play in a tiebreaker, but Edmonton’s Val Sweeting lost 9-8 in an extra end to Renee Sonnenberg of Grande Prairie, Alta., and fell to 3-4. Sonnenberg finished 1-6.

Carey had a chance to grab second place outright, but she lost 7-6 to Middaugh.

“If they’d told us at the start of the week we’d have a tiebreaker, we’d take it,” Carey, 29, said.

Middaugh, 47, who’s competing in her fourth trials, was leading 5-3 after six ends and stole another point in the seventh.

She also saw room for improvement after the win.

“The first seven ends were fun and then I turned off my brain in my last shot in eight and then the collar got a little tight after that so I can’t lie,” Middaugh said.

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Swift Current 32 18 11 0 3 113 92 Prince Albert 29 17 10 2 0 104 97 Brandon 30 15 13 2 0 109 115 Regina 29 15 13 1 0 94 102 Saskatoon 32 10 19 1 2 100 132 Moose Jaw 31 8 18 3 2 79 116

Pt 39 36 32 31 23 21

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA 28 17 8 3 0 103 77 27 16 7 1 3 87 78 27 17 9 0 1 98 67 31 15 14 2 0 91 92 30 14 14 0 2 88 93 30 3 23 2 2 71 143

Pt 37 36 35 32 30 10

Medicine Hat Calgary Edmonton Kootenay Red Deer Lethbridge

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Kelowna 25 20 3 0 2 100 61 Victoria 31 19 11 0 1 83 71 Vancouver 31 13 11 5 2 100 110 Prince George 31 11 16 1 3 90 123 Kamloops 28 6 18 2 2 69 108

Pt 42 39 33 26 16

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Portland 29 21 5 2 1 146 94 45 Everett 29 20 5 4 0 97 75 44 Spokane 30 18 10 0 2 109 88 38 Seattle 29 16 9 1 3 106 106 36 Tri-City 31 16 12 1 2 84 81 35 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 Friday’s games Regina at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Swift Current at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Portland at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Tri-City at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Everett at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Vancouver at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Seattle at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Saturday’s games Brandon at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Regina at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Portland at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Everett at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Tri-City at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Kootenay at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Vancouver at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Spokane at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday, December 8 Portland at Calgary, 4 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Edmonton, 4 p.m.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Montreal 30 18 9 3 39 Boston 28 18 8 2 38 Tampa Bay 28 17 10 1 35 Detroit 29 14 8 7 35 Toronto 29 15 11 3 33 Ottawa 29 11 14 4 26 Florida 29 8 16 5 21 Buffalo 29 6 21 2 14 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Pittsburgh 30 20 9 1 41 Washington 28 14 12 2 30 N.Y. Rangers29 15 14 0 30 Carolina 29 12 12 5 29 Philadelphia 28 13 13 2 28 New Jersey 29 11 12 6 28 Columbus 28 11 14 3 25 N.Y. Islanders29 8 16 5 21

GF 82 76 79 81 80 83 66 49

GA 63 57 68 79 79 95 97 88

GF GA 94 67 83 82 65 72 66 81 63 68 64 71 68 80 75 101

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF Chicago 30 20 6 4 44 108 St. Louis 27 19 5 3 41 96 Minnesota 30 17 8 5 39 74 Colorado 26 19 7 0 38 78 Dallas 27 13 9 5 31 76 Winnipeg 30 13 13 4 30 80 Nashville 29 13 13 3 29 65

GA 84 61 70 60 79 87 83

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 28 19 4 5 43 97 67 Anaheim 30 18 7 5 41 93 80 Los Angeles 29 18 7 4 40 76 62 Phoenix 28 16 8 4 36 92 90 Vancouver 30 15 10 5 35 80 78 Calgary 27 10 13 4 24 74 94 Edmonton 30 10 18 2 22 83 103 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Wednesday’s Games Montreal 4, New Jersey 3, SO Philadelphia 6, Detroit 3 Calgary 4, Phoenix 1

Shots on goal N.Y. Islanders 6 8 9 — 23 St. Louis 6 14 6 — 26 Goal — N.Y. Islanders: Nilsson (L,0-1-2); St. Louis: Halak (W,15-4-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) — N.Y. Islanders: 1-3; St. Louis: 3-6.

Thursday’s Games N.Y. Rangers 3, Buffalo 1 Toronto 3, Dallas 2, OT Pittsburgh 5, San Jose 1 Montreal 2, Boston 1 Tampa Bay 3, Ottawa 1 Florida 5, Winnipeg 2 St. Louis 5, N.Y. Islanders 1 Carolina 5, Nashville 2 Minnesota 4, Chicago 3 Edmonton 8, Colorado 2

Hurricanes 5, Predators 2 First Period 1. Carolina, Faulk 2, 0:23 Penalties — Josi Nash (cross-checking) 6:41, Gerbe Car (tripping) 8:18, Stalberg Nash (high-sticking) 13:04, Peters Car (delay of game) 16:09.

Second Period 2. Nashville, Fisher 7 (Bartley, Jones) 0:50 3. Nashville, Stalberg 3 (Spaling) 2:41 4. Carolina, Skinner 7 (R.Murphy, Ruutu) 6:11 5. Carolina, Nash 2 (Dwyer, Hainsey) 11:51 6. Carolina, Skinner 8 (E.Staal, Faulk) 19:08 (pp) Penalties — Hainsey Car (interference) 9:44, Stalberg Nash (high-sticking) 17:19.

Third Period 7. Carolina, Skinner 9 (Faulk, Sekera) 17:53 (en) Penalties — Bourque Nash (tripping) 9:39, Fisher Nas (tripping) 10:12, E.Staal Car, Hornqvist Nash (roughing) 13:12, Gerbe Car (slashing) 18:50.

Shots on goal Carolina 4 9 10 — 23 Nashville 7 8 7 — 22 Goal (shots-saves) — Carolina: Peters (W,6-7-1); Nashville: Mazanec (L,5-6-1)(13-9), Hutton (0:00 third, 9-9).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Carolina: 1-5; Nashville: 0-4.

Friday’s Games Detroit at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

San Jose at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Anaheim at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Colorado at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Philadelphia at Dallas, noon Pittsburgh at Boston, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Florida at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Nashville at Washington, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at N.Y. Rangers, 5:30 p.m.

Anaheim at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s summaries Oilers 8, Avalanche 2 First Period 1. Edmonton, Hall 8 (Larsen) 3:44 2. Edmonton, Hall 9 (J.Schultz, Eberle) 17:42 (pp) 3. Edmonton, Hemsky 6 (Smyth, Arcobello) 17:57 (pp) Penalties — Jones Edm (holding) 6:02, Potter Edm (delay of game) 6:48, Parenteau Col (slashing) 15:51, Cliche Col (broken stick) 16:10, Perron Edm (delay of game) 18:39.

Second Period 4. Colorado, Holden 2 (Duchene) 4:20 5. Colorado, Parenteau 8 (Landeskog, Johnson) 9:28 6. Edmonton, Perron 12, 12:06.

Penalties — McGinn Col (interference) 7:07, Parenteau Col (hooking), Hall Edm (diving) 10:15, Holden Col (tripping) 12:38, Benoit Col (slashing) 14:15.

Third Period 7. Edmonton, Arcobello 3 (Hemsky, Smyth) 8:55 8. Edmonton, Eberle 10 (Smyth, Perron) 15:19 9. Edmonton, Gagner 3 (Hall) 18:30 10. Edmonton, Hall 10 (Nugent-Hopkins, Potter) 19:49 (pp) Penalties — Bordeleau Col (charging, fighting), Gazdic Edm (unsportsmanlike conduct, fighting) 2:34, Hemsky Edm (roughing) 5:38, Parenteau Col (high-sticking) 6:29, Perron Edm (holding the stick) 13:02, Marincin Edm (holding the stick) 16:32, MacKinnon Col (high-sticking) 18:18.

Shots on goal Colorado 10 13 12 — 35 Edmonton 8 9 11 — 28 Goal — Colorado: Varlamov (L,13-7-0); Edmonton: Dubnyk (W,8-12-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Colorado: 0-6; Edmonton: 3-7.

Wild 4, Blackhawks 3 First Period 1. Minnesota, Cooke 5 (Mitchell, Haula) 4:23 Penalties — None.

Second Period 2. Minnesota, Parise 12 (Heatley, Pominville) 16:59 (pp) 3. Chicago, Morin 1 (Nordstrom, Kane) 19:43 Penalties — Keith Chi (interference) 0:11, Suter Minn (hooking) 11:54, Sharp Chi (hooking) 16:18.

Third Period 4. Chicago, Saad 8, 0:43 5. Chicago, Hossa 12 (Versteeg, Leddy) 6:35 (pp) 6. Minnesota, Brodin 5 (Spurgeon, Fontaine) 14:21 (pp) 7. Minnesota, Scandella 1 (Spurgeon, Coyle) 18:12 Penalties — Niederreiter Minn (holding) 5:12, Seabrook Chi (hooking) 13:50.

Shots on goal 8 4 — 19 Chicago 7 Minnesota 8 8 7 — 23 Goal — Chicago: Crawford (L,17-6-3); Minnesota: Harding (W,15-4-3).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Chicago: 1-2; Minnesota: 2-3.

Blues 5, Islanders 1 First Period 1. St. Louis, Bouwmeester 2 (Sobotka, Cole) 11:47 (pp) Penalties — Berglund StL (hooking) 3:32, MacDonald NYI (hooking) 4:09, Morrow StL (slashing) 6:44, Vanek NYI (interference) 9:48, MacDonald NYI, Steen StL (holding) 16:00.

Second Period 2. N.Y. Islanders, MacDonald 3 (Nielsen, Okposo) 5:19 (pp) 3. St. Louis, Roy 7 (Oshie, Shattenkirk) 7:02 (pp) 4. St. Louis, Backes 13 (Steen, Shattenkirk) 9:33 (pp) 5. St. Louis, Paajarvi 2 (Berglund, Bouwmeester) 14:59 Penalties — Roy StL (tripping) 3:54, Martin NYI (interference) 6:20, Carkner NYI (instigating, fighting, misconduct), Stewart StL (fighting) 9:02, Martin NYI (cross-checking), Sobotka StL (interference) 17:54.

Third Period 6. St. Louis, Morrow 5 (Roy, Oshie) 13:19 Penalties — Ness NYI (holding) 13:59, MacDonald NYI (roughing) 17:31.

Canadiens 2, Bruins 1 First Period 1. Boston, Campbell 2 (Lucic, Seidenberg) 17:35 Penalties — Pacioretty Mtl (boarding) 4:28, Bartkowski Bos (interference) 6:45, Desharnais Mtl (tripping) 10:25, Soderberg Bos (high-sticking) 14:43.

Second Period 2. Montreal, Plekanec 10 (Gorges, Gionta) 9:16 3. Montreal, Pacioretty 11 (Diaz, Gallagher) 17:42 Penalties — Hamilton Bos (tripping) 1:26, Thornton Bos, Prust Mtl (fighting) 10:18, Kelly Bos (hooking) 12:23.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Boston 10 7 16 — 33 Montreal 3 18 6 — 27 Goal — Boston: Rask (L,14-7-2); Montreal: Price (W,13-8-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Boston: 0-2; Montreal: 0-4.

Panthers 5, Jets 2 First Period 1. Winnipeg, Ladd 8 (Little, Wheeler) 5:27 2. Florida, Gudbranson 2 (Fleischmann, Goc) 14:02 Penalties — None.

Second Period 3. Florida, Olsen 1 (Upshall, Gudbranson) 3:31 4. Florida, Fleischmann 4 (Weaver, Kulikov) 17:59 Penalties — None.

Third Period 5. Florida, Bjugstad 4 (Upshall, Gilbert) 5:37 6. Winnipeg, Jokinen 7 (Setoguchi) 12:45 7. Florida, Hayes 2 (Olsen) 17:16 Penalties — Enstrom Wpg (holding) 3:29, Setoguchi Wpg (slashing) 9:19, Gilbert Fla (hooking) 10:37.

Shots on goal Winnipeg 12 11 6 — 29 Florida 9 10 7 — 26 Goal — Winnipeg: Pavelec (L,10-11-3); Florida: Thomas (W,7-10-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Winnipeg: 0-1; Florida: 0-2.

Lightning 3, Senators 1 First Period 1. Tampa Bay, St. Louis 11 (Palat, Carle) 16:45 Penalties — Smith Ott (holding the stick) 9:06, Kucherov TB (hooking) 12:21, Barberio TB (hooking) 17:45.

Second Period 2. Ottawa, Wiercioch 1 (Turris) 6:11 (pp) 3. Tampa Bay, St. Louis 12 (Palat, Johnson) 13:19 Penalties — Aulie TB (interference) 5:46, Sustr TB (high-sticking) 7:28, Condra Ott (goaltender interference) 8:33, Neil Ott (hooking) 15:02, Crombeen TB (hooking) 17:23.

Third Period 4. Tampa Bay, Filppula 10, 10:56 Penalties — Spezza Ott (holding) 1:47.

Shots on goal Ottawa 8 18 8 — 34 Tampa Bay 5 7 10 — 22 Goal — Ottawa: Lehner (L,4-6-2); Tampa Bay: Bishop (W,15-5-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Ottawa: 1-5; Tampa Bay: 0-4.

Maple Leafs 3, Stars 2 (OT) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Ja.Benn Dal, Phaneuf Tor (roughing) 11:11, Franson Tor (high-sticking) 13:12.

Second Period 1. Toronto, Kadri 8 (van Riemsdyk, Kessel) 0:58 Penalties — Kadri Tor (interference) 6:36, Fiddler Dal (holding) 11:25.

Third Period 2. Dallas, Cole 4 (Horcoff, Nichushkin) 1:52 3. Toronto, Kadri 9 (Franson, Kessel) 6:58 (pp) 4. Dallas, Horcoff 3 (Connauton, Gonchar) 17:14 (pp) Penalties — Goligoski Dal (cross-checking) 6:18, Fraser Tor (hooking) 7:51, McClement Tor (tripping)

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Kansas City San Diego Oakland PA 261 248 310 307

Indianapolis Tennessee Jacksonville Houston

W 8 5 4 2

South L T 4 0 7 0 9 0 11 0

Pct .667 .417 .308 .154

PF 285 264 201 250

PA 274 267 372 350

Cincinnati Baltimore Pittsburgh Cleveland

W 8 6 5 4

North L T 4 0 6 0 7 0 8 0

Pct .667 .500 .417 .333

PF 292 249 263 231

PA 216 235 278 297

W 10

West L T 2 0

Pct .833

PF 464

PA 317

Denver

9 5 4

3 7 8

0 0 0

.750 .417 .333

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Dallas 7 5 0 .583 Philadelphia 7 5 0 .583 N.Y. Giants 5 7 0 .417 Washington 3 9 0 .250

298 279 237

PF 329 300 237 269

214 277 300

PA 303 281 297 362

New Orleans Carolina Tampa Bay Atlanta

W 9 9 3 3

South L T 3 0 3 0 9 0 9 0

Pct .750 .750 .250 .250

PF 312 285 217 261

PA 230 157 285 340

Detroit Chicago Green Bay Minnesota

W 7 6 5 3

North L T 5 0 6 0 6 1 8 1

Pct .583 .500 .458 .292

PF 326 323 294 289

PA 287 332 305 366

W x-Seattle 11 San Francisco 8 Arizona 7 St. Louis 5 x-clinched playoff spot

West L T 1 0 4 0 5 0 7 0

Pct .917 .667 .583 .417

PF 340 297 275 279

PA 186 197 247 278

Thursday’s Game Jacksonville 27, Houston 20 Sunday’s Games 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.

No Scoring.

Penalties — McCarthy SJ (hooking) 5:58.

Second Period 1. Pittsburgh, Dupuis 4 (Orpik, Crosby) 0:27 2. Pittsburgh, Megna 3 (Despres) 2:34 3. Pittsburgh, Kunitz 15 (Crosby, Neal) 5:27 4. Pittsburgh, Kunitz 16 (Neal, Crosby) 7:30 (pp) 5. San Jose, Hertl 14 (Thornton, Burns) 9:27 Penalties — Niskanen Pgh (interference) 2:46, McCarthy SJ (tripping) 7:16, Neal Pgh (interference) 9:54.

Third Period 6. Pittsburgh, Letang 6 (Maatta, Vitale) 3:30 Penalties — Niskanen Pgh (holding) 5:16.

Shots on goal San Jose 7 24 14 — 45 Pittsburgh 12 15 3 — 30 Goal (shots-saves) — San Jose: Niemi (L,16-4-5) (27-23), Stalock (0:00 third, 3-2); Pittsburgh: Fleury (W,16-7-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — San Jose: 0-3; Pittsburgh: 1-2.

Referees — Wes McCauley, Greg Kimmerly.

Linesmen — Bryan Pancich, Anthony Sericolo.

Attendance — 18,522 (18,387) at Pittsburgh.

Rangers 3, Sabres 1 First Period 1. N.Y. Rangers, Nash 5 (Stepan, McDonagh) 17:47 Penalties — Hagelin NYR (interference) 6:02.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Pysyk Buf (tripping) 4:34, Pouliot NYR (tripping) 19:56.

Third Period 2. N.Y. Rangers, Richards 8 (Brassard, Zuccarello) 8:29 (pp) 3. N.Y. Rangers, Zuccarello 5 (Richards, McDonagh) 14:47 4. Buffalo, Ennis 5 (Girgensons) 17:54 Penalties — Hodgson Buf (tripping) 7:11.

Shots on goal N.Y. Rangers 9 12 10 — 31 Buffalo 7 7 14 — 28 Goal — N.Y. Rangers: Lundqvist (W,9-11-0); Buffalo: R.Miller (L,5-16-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — N.Y. Rangers: 1-2; Buffalo: 0-2.

Spruce Grove Fort McMurray Lloydminster Whitecourt Grand Prairie Bonnyville Sherwood Park Drayton Valley

AJHL North Division GP W L 32 26 5 29 25 2 32 16 13 33 16 15 33 15 16 33 13 17 32 14 17 31 10 18

South Division GP W L Brooks 32 20 8 Drumheller 31 17 10 Okotoks 30 16 9 Canmore 31 16 13 Olds 33 13 14 Camrose 33 13 14 Calgary Mustangs 31 14 14 Calgary Canucks 30 9 20

T 1 2 3 2 2 3 1 3

GF 130 123 102 120 95 92 96 77

GA 72 50 95 120 112 115 116 111

Wednesday’s results Fifth Draw Glenn Howard 6 Mike McEwen 5 Brad Jacobs 8 John Morris 6

Kevin Martin 9 John Epping 5 Jeff Stoughton 10 Kevin Koe 6

Final Brad Jacobs vs. Semifinal winner, 1 p.m.

Thursday’s results Sixth Draw Kevin Koe 7 Glenn Howard 6 John Morris 7 John Epping 6 Brad Jacobs 5 Kevin Martin 4 Mike McEwen 9 Jeff Stoughton 6

WOMEN Round Robin Skip W L x-Jones 6 1 x-Homan 4 3 t-Middaugh 4 3 t-Carey 4 3 Nedohin 3 4 Sweeting 3 4 Lawton 2 5 Sonnenberg 2 5 x — Clinched playoff berth; t — Will play tiebreaker.

Friday’s games Seventh Draw, 7:30 a.m.

John Morris vs. Kevin Martin; Jeff Stoughton vs.

Glenn Howard; Mike McEwen vs. Kevin Koe; John Epping vs. Brad Jacobs End of Round Robin

Wednesday’s results Fifth Draw Chelsea Carey 6 Renee Sonnenberg 4 Rachel Homan 5 Heather Nedohin 3 Jennifer Jones 8 Stefanie Lawton 3 Sherry Middaugh 7 Val Sweeting 6 Sixth Draw

PLAYOFFS Friday’s games Tiebreakers (if necessary), 12:30 p.m.

Saturday’s game Semifinal, 12:30 p.m.

Sunday’s game

Wednesday’s results Spruce Grove 6 Bonnyville 1 Olds 3 Camrose 2 Thursday’s games Sherwood Park 5, Whitecourt 3 Friday’s games Okotoks at Brooks, 7 p.m.

Calgary Mustangs at Camrose, 7 p.m.

Fort McMurray at Calgary Canucks, 7 p.m.

Canmore at Olds, 7:30 p.m.

Drayton Valley at Lloydminster, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday’s games Fort McMurray at Canmore, 7 p.m.

Calgary Mustangs at Calgary Canucks, 7 p.m.

Olds at Drumheller, 7 p.m.

Brooks at Okotoks, 7 p.m.

Camrose at Spruce Grove, 7 p.m.

Whitecourt at Grand Prairie, 7:30 p.m.

Drayton Valley at Lloydminster, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, December 8 Fort McMurray at Drumheller, 2 p.m.

Bonnyville at Sherwood Park, 2:15 p.m.

Whitecourt at Grand Prairie, 2:30 p.m.

Tuesday, December 10 Calgary Canucks at Canmore, 7 p.m.

Drumheller at Okotoks, 7 p.m.

Lloydminster at Bonnyville, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, December 11 Drayton Valley at Sherwood Park, 7 p.m.

Camrose at Calgary Mustangs, 7:30 p.m.

Spruce Grove at Lloydminster, 7:30 p.m.

Monday’s Game Dallas at Chicago, 6:40 p.m.

NFL Odds (Odds supplied by BETONLINE.ag; favourites in capital letters) Spread O/U Sunday Oakland at NY JETS 2.5 40.5 Indianapolis at CINCINNATI 5.5 44 Atlanta at Green Bay OFF OFF Detroit at PHILADELPHIA 2.5 54 Miami at PITTSBURGH 3 41 Cleveland at NEW ENGLAND 11.5 44.5 KANSAS CITY at Washington 3.5 45 Minnesota at BALTIMORE 7 43 Buffalo at TAMPA BAY 2.5 43 Tennessee at DENVER 11 49 St. Louis at ARIZONA 6 41.5 NY Giants at SAN DIEGO 3 47.5 Seattle at SAN FRANCISCO 2.5 42 Carolina at NEW ORLEANS 3.5 45.5 Monday DALLAS at Chicago 1.5 49.5

Chelsea Carey 6 Val Sweeting 4 Jennifer Jones 7 Rachel Homan 6 Sherry Middaugh 7 Renee Sonnenberg 6 Heather Nedohin 6 Stefanie Lawton 4 Thursday’s results Seventh Draw Rachel Homan 6 Stefanie Lawton 5 Jennifer Jones 6 Heather Nedohin 5 Sherry Middaugh 7 Chelsea Carey 6 Renee Sonnenberg 9 Val Sweeting 8 (extra end) End of Round Robin PLAYOFFS Friday’s game Tiebreaker Sherry Middaugh vs. Chelsea Carey, 12:30 p.m.

Semifinal Rachel Homan vs. Middaugh-Carey winner, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday’s game Final Jennifer Jones vs. Semifinal winner, 5:30 p.m.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Boston 8 12 .400 — Philadelphia 7 12 .368 1/2 Toronto 6 11 .353 1/2 Brooklyn 5 14 .263 2 1/2 New York 4 13 .235 2 1/2

Miami Washington Atlanta Charlotte Orlando

Indiana Detroit

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GB — 4 1/2 4 1/2 6 7 1/2 GB — 8

Chicago Cleveland Milwaukee

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9 12 15

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 15 3 .833 — Houston 13 7 .650 3 Dallas 12 8 .600 4 New Orleans 9 9 .500 6 Memphis 9 9 .500 6 Northwest Division W L Pct Portland 16 3 .842 Oklahoma City 13 4 .765 Denver 11 7 .611 Minnesota 9 10 .474 Utah 4 16 .200 Pacific Division

GB — 2 4 1/2 7 12 1/2

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

W 13 11 10 9 4

L 7 8 9 9 12

Pct .650 .579 .526 .500 .250

Wednesday’s Games Cleveland 98, Denver 88 Atlanta 107, L.A. Clippers 97 Phoenix 97, Houston 88 Detroit 105, Milwaukee 98 Dallas 100, New Orleans 97 Indiana 95, Utah 86 San Antonio at Minnesota, ppd.

Portland 111, Oklahoma City 104 Thursday’s Games New York 113, Brooklyn 83 L.A. Clippers 101, Memphis 81 Chicago 107, Miami 87

GB — 1 1/2 2 1/2 3 7

Pt 53 52 35 34 32 29 29 23

T GF GA Pt 4 102 75 44 4 110 105 38 5 87 84 37 2 85 97 34 6 92 112 32 6 84 89 32 3 96 111 31 1 82 109 19

Curling Roar of the Rings WINNIPEG — Results and standings following Thursday’s draws at the Roar of the Rings, a tournament to determine the Canadian representatives for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, and held Dec. 1-8 at the MTS Centre: MEN Round Robin Skip W L x-Jacobs 6 0 x-Martin 5 1 Morris 4 2 McEwen 3 3 Stoughton 2 4 Howard 2 4 Epping 1 5 Koe 1 5 x — Clinched playoff berth.

● 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.

Penguins 5, Sharks 1 First Period

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

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Overtime 5. Toronto, T.Smith 4 (Gardiner, Phaneuf) 4:18 Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Dallas 15 12 17 6 — 50 Toronto 7 8 7 2 — 24 Goal — Dallas: Lehtonen (OT,11-5-5); Toronto: Bernier (W,9-7-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Dallas: 1-4; Toronto: 1-2.

Friday’s Games Milwaukee at Washington, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Denver at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Orlando at New York, 5:30 p.m.

Golden State at Houston, 6 p.m.

Oklahoma City at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Utah at Portland, 8 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Denver at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.

Detroit at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Miami at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Golden State at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Brooklyn at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m.

Indiana at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Utah, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Portland, 8 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. ● Exhibition hockey: Bentley Generals vs. RDC Kings, 5 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● WHL: Portland at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● 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.

Golf RSA Nedbank Golf Challenge Thursday At Gary Player Country Club Sun City, South Africa Purse: $6.5 million Yardage: 7,831; Par: 72 First Round Play suspended by lightning SCORETHROUGH Luke Donald -5 11 Thomas Bjorn -3 6 Jamie Donaldson -3 12 Martin Kaymer -2 6 Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano -1 7 Henrik Stenson -1 7 Darren Fichardt -1 11 Sergio Garcia -1 9 Peter Uihlein -1 7 Brendon de Jonge -1 8 Charl Schwartzel -1 8 Louis Oosthuizen E 10 Matteo Manassero E 12 Victor Dubuisson E 8 Thongchai Jaidee E 9 Richard Sterne E 9 Francesco Molinari E 12 Northwestern Mutual World Challenge Thursday At Sherwood Country Club Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Purse: $3.5 million Yardage: 7,023; Par 72 First Round Zach Johnson 35-32 — Matt Kuchar 35-33 — Hunter Mahan 35-35 — Bubba Watson 35-35 — Tiger Woods 36-35 — Graeme McDowell 35-37 — Jim Furyk 38-34 — Rory McIlroy 37-36 — Bill Haas 36-37 — Webb Simpson 36-37 — Lee Westwood 38-36 — Dustin Johnson 39-35 — Jason Dufner 38-36 — Steve Stricker 35-40 — Keegan Bradley 37-38 — Ian Poulter 38-38 — Jason Day 39-37 — Jordan Spieth 40-37 —

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Omega Dubai Ladies Masters Thursday At Emirates Golf Course (Majlis Course) Dubai, United Arab Emirates Purse: $679,000 Yardage: 6,425; Par: 72 Second Round Stacy Lewis, United States 70-65 Pernilla Lindberg, Sweden 67-69 Carlota Ciganda, Spain 67-70 Pornanong Phatlum, Thailand 68-70 Diana Luna, Italy 73-68 Vikki Laing, Scotland 71-70 Laura Davies, England 70-71 Caroline Masson, Germany 69-72 Sarah Kemp, Australia 70-72 Valentine Derrey, France 70-72 Charley Hull, England 70-72 Also Beth Allen, United States 71-72 Cindy Lacrosse, United States 73-70 Shanshan Feng, China 76-67 Maria Hjorth, Sweden 72-71 Sophie Gustafson, Sweden 73-72 Katie Burnett, United States 73-74 Missed cut Amelia Lewis, United States 75-76 Hannah Jun, United States 77-75 Mallory Fraiche, United States 80-76

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Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Recalled LW Emerson Etem and C Dave Steckel from Norfolk (AHL).

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS - Activated F Derek MacKenzie from injured reserve.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Reassigned D Joe Piskula to Milwaukee (AHL).

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled D Patrick Wey from Hershey (AHL) and D Michal Cajkovsky and Brett Flemming from Reading (ECHL).

Reassigned Cajkovsky, Flemming and D Tyson Strachan to Hershey.

American Hockey League HAMILTON BULLDOGS — Recalled F Ben Duffy from Wheeling (ECHL). Signed F Scott Zurevinski to a 25-game professional tryout agreement.

MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS — Reassigned D Teddy Ruth to Cincinnati (ECHL).

ECHL FLORIDA EVERBLADES — Agreed to terms with F Joe Caveney.

GWINNETT GLADIATORS — Signed F David Laliberte.

FOOTBALL National Football League DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed RB George Winn and TE Jameson Konz to the practice squad.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Re-signed WR Austin Collie.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed TE Visanthe Shiancoe.

Canadian Football League CFL — Announced the resignation of director of officiating Tom Higgins.

SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS — Signed WRs Chris Getzlaf and Rob Bagg and OL Brendon LaBatte and Dominic Picard to contract extensions.

TORONTO ARGONAUTS — Named Tim Burke defensive co-ordinator.

BASEBALL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME — Announced the retirement of senior vice-president Bill Haase, effective at the end of the year.

MLB PLAYERS ASSOCIATION — Named Dave Winfield special assistant to the executive director.

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Sedin hopes for open-air affair NHL HERITAGE CLASSIC

HOPES ROOF IS OPEN AT B.C. PLACE FOR MATCHUP AGAINST SENATORS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Daniel Sedin did not hesitate when asked whether he would like to see the B.C. Place Stadium roof open or closed for the NHL’s Heritage Classic next March.

“Open, for sure,” said Sedin after a news conference in which he and a couple of other Vancouver Canucks helped launch the marketing drive for the March 2 regular-season game against the Ottawa Senators.

The news conference coincided with the launch of ticket sales for the game, which were brisk. The regular-season game will give NHLers a rare chance to play a game in a stadium with a retractable roof.

Weather permitting, the event will be an open-air affair, but the league has already indicated it has contingency plans in case of rain.

Just before the news conference ended, Sedin, defenceman Kevin Bieksa and centre Ryan Kesler did something that NHL players rarely do as, with the aid of a ramp, they attempted to shoot pucks through the uprights used during B.C. Lions football games.

They also attempted to score into a standard, empty hockey net from many yards away as it rested on the stadium’s artificial turf with the gridiron goalposts in the background.

Before making the quirky shots from different distances, the Canucks got nostalgic as they looked forward to playing an NHL game before a crowd as large as 55,000 in a facility with a retractable roof for the first time. Discussion of the game evoked memories of when they played on outdoor rinks in Canada, the U.S. and Sweden.

“I played outdoors for the first five years growing up,” said Sedin, who played shinny as well as league games outdoors in his hometown of Ornskoldsvik, Sweden. “The outdoor rink was really cold. a A lot of memories, and I’m sure they’re going to come back in a special way.”

The Ottawa-Vancouver clash is one of six outdoor games being staged by the NHL this season. The news conference offered no deals on what efforts will be made to ensure that the ice is of high quality during conditions that could much warmer than other outdoor NHL contests that have involved frigid temperatures as well as rain for which Vancouver is famous.

But Sedin said he is confident that conditions will be safe, and predicted the noise level will be comparable to those at CFL games.

“I’ve been to a few B.C. Lions games and it can get loud,” said Sedin. “I hope it’s going to be the same when we play. Hopefully, it’s a soldout game.”

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and B.C. Place, sponsor Tim Hortons, NHL, NHL Players Association and CBC representatives expressed hope that the game will showcase the city and grow the game on the West Coast.

Bieksa said he and his Canucks teammates are looking forward to playing in the stadium after being excluded from other outdoor NHL contests.

“Most of us grew up learning how to skate outdoors,” said Bieksa. “It’s ironic that we come back and we’ll be playing outdoors. We’ve been watching these games for a few years now and chomping at the

bit, hoping we could get into one. a We’re all pretty excited. It’ll be an interesting experience.”

He fondly recalled playing many games outdoors while growing up in the small town of Grimsby, Ont. “They were intense,” he said. “There was no time limit, full contact, a couple fights, and you went home when you were too cold.”

He said it will be different playing in Vancouver’s potentially warmer climate, but the game will still provide an interesting experience.

He also hopes its shines a spotlight on B.C.’s hockey history.

Ironically, Vancouver hosted the first-ever indoor pro game, in the early 1900s, before a crowd of about 10,000 at Denman Arena, which later burned down.

The province was also home to such hockey legends as Fred (Cyclone) Taylor, who led the Vancouver Millionaires to the Stanley Cup in 1915, and the brothers Frank and Lester Patrick, who introduced novelties, such as the forward pass and backup goaltender, that are now taken for granted.

“One thing I haven’t really mentioned (during the news conference) is, we’re celebrating the heritage of hockey in B.C.,” said Bieksa. “Our province doesn’t really get as much credit as Ontario and Quebec, but there’s a lot of history here. The temperature is a little bit milder, so not a lot of kids grow up skating outdoors and stuff, but there’ve been some good teams here over the years. There’s a lot of people that love this game in B.C., and we’re going to celebrate that on March 2nd.”

Looking forward to playing before an anticipated crowd of more than 50,000, he predicted the city will “put on a good show.” But Bieksa and Canucks general manager Mike Gillis, stressing the tightness of the Western Conference, said the game will be more than just a spectacle as Vancouver attempts to secure a playoff spot in the stretch drive of the season.

“We have a job to do,” said Bieksa.

Habs edge Bruins to stay unbeaten in nine games NHL ROUNDUP

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Jonathan Bernier makes a save on Dallas Stars centre Jamie Benn during third period NHL action in Toronto on Thursday. scored for Nashville, which completed a four-game homestand 0-3-1.

MAPLE LEAFS 3, STARS 2, OT TORONTO (AP) — Trevor Smith scored at 4:18 of overtime to help Toronto end a five-game skid.

The Maple Leafs won for the first time since Nov. 23 despite being outshot for the 10th consecutive game, this time 50-24.

Nazem Kadri scored twice for the Leafs in his return from a one-game absence to attend his grandfather’s funeral. It looked as if his second goal would stand.

But Toronto’s best penalty-killer Jay McClement took a tripping penalty late in the third and Shawn Horcoff scored when he tipped Kevin Connauton’s shot past Jonathan Bernier at 17:14 to tie it a 2-2.

Bernier finished with 48 saves.

LIGHTNING 3, SENATORS 1 TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Martin St. Louis scored two goals, Ben Bishop won his 15th game this season, and Tampa Bay beat Ottawa.

Valtteri Filppula also scored for the Lightning, who were coming off consecutive shutout losses to Columbus (1-0) and Pittsburgh (3-0). Ondrej Palat had two assists.

Ottawa got a goal from Patrick Wiercioch.

St. Louis beat goalie Robin Lehner from just outside the crease to give Tampa Bay a 2-1 advantage 13:19 into the second. The Lightning captain tied Jason Arnott for 91st place on the NHL points list with 938.

Filppula’s goal from the left circle made it 3-1 at 10:56 of the third.

BLUES 5, ISLANDERS 1 ST. LOUIS (AP) — Derek Roy and David Backes scored power-play goals 2:31 apart in the second period to lead St. Louis over struggling New York.

St. Louis won for the sixth time in eight games. The Islanders have lost eight straight overall (0-6-2) and eight in a row on the road.

Jay Bouwmeester, Magnus Paajarvi and Brenden Morrow also scored for the Blues, who improved to 12-1-2 at home and tied Boston (12-3-2) for the most home wins in the NHL. Jaroslav Halak made 22 saves and upped his record to 15-4-2.

Andrew MacDonald scored for the Islanders, who are 2-11-2 in their last 15 games.

St. Louis was 3 for 6 on the power play after managing one goal in its previous 10 chances.

PANTHERS 5, JETS 2 SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Dylan Olsen

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Jimmy Hayes, Nick Bjugstad, Tomas Fleischmann and Erik Gudbranson also scored for the Panthers. Tim Thomas stopped 29 shots and Scottie Upshall had two assists. Olsen also added

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CANADIENS 2 BRUINS 1 MONTREAL — Max Pacioretty scored his ninth goal in the last nine games and the surging Montreal Canadiens stretched their unbeaten run to nine with a 2-1 victory over the Boston Bruins on Thursday night.

Tomas Plekanec also scored for Montreal (18-9-3), which jumped a point ahead of Boston (18-8-2) into first place in the Atlantic Division — although the Bruins have two games in hand. The Canadiens are 8-0-1 in their last nine.

Gregory Campbell scored for Boston, which is 6-2-1 in its past nine.

The first meeting of the season between these bitter rivals had the Bell Centre at top volume to start, but the building got quiet when Boston defenceman Johnny Boychuk was wheeled off the ice on a stretcher 4:28 into the game.

Boychuk was injured on a hit by Pacioretty, who got 2 minutes for boarding. Boychuk was able to move all his limbs as he was taken to the hospital, the Bruins said. After the game, coach Claude Julien said Boychuk was released from the hospital and would return to Boston with the team.

Canadiens goalie Carey Price made 32 saves and was especially sharp in the final 20 minutes.

PENGUINS 5, SHARKS 1 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Chris Kunitz scored twice during a four-goal second period and Pittsburgh beat San Jose for its fifth straight victory.

Pascal Dupuis, Jayson Megna and Kris Letang also scored for the Penguins, who snapped San Jose’s sixgame winning streak in a showdown between Stanley Cup contenders. Sidney Crosby added three assists in his 500th career game to push his point total to an NHL-leading 42.

Marc-Andre Fleury made 44 saves for the Penguins against the league’s highest-scoring team. Pittsburgh played without star Evgeni Malkin, scratched after sustaining a lowerbody injury during the morning skate.

Tomas Hertl got his 14th goal for San Jose. Antti Niemi made 23 saves but was pulled after two periods, and the Sharks lost in regulation for only the fourth time this season.

RANGERS 3, SABRES 1 BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Henrik Lundqvist made 27 saves to lead New York over Buffalo.

Rick Nash, Brad Richards and Mats Zuccarello scored for New York, which bounced back from a 5-2 loss to Winnipeg on Monday.

Tyler Ennis scored and Ryan Miller made 28 saves in a loss that drops the Sabres to 3-12-1 at the First Niagara Center.

Lundqvist, playing his first game since signing a seven-year, $59.5 million contract, was hardly troubled through 40 minutes, but was outstanding in the third period.

WILD 4, BLACKHAWKS 3 ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Marco Scandella’s slap shot with 1:48 left, the defenceman’s first goal this season, lifted Minnesota over Chicago.

Jonas Brodin scored on a power play with 5:39 remaining to tie the game for the Wild, who raised their home record to 12-3-2 and handed the Blackhawks their first loss in their past seven road games.

With Charlie Coyle partially screening Corey Crawford at the edge of the crease, Brodin wound up and sent the puck ricocheting off Blackhawks defenceman Johnny Oduya and past the goalie’s outstretched glove.

Crawford made 19 saves.

HURRICANES 5, PREDATORS 2 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jeff Skinner had a hat trick to lead Carolina to a victory over Nashville.

Skinner has five goals in his past two games.

Justin Faulk and Riley Nash also scored for Carolina, winners of its past two.

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Olympic camp snub motivates Benn DALLAS STARS’ FORWARD’S PLAY THIS SEASON HAS PUT HIM BACK ON RADAR FOR TEAM CANADA

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Jamie Benn can’t always get what he wants.

Over the summer Benn wanted to be invited to Team Canada’s Olympic orientation camp and named captain of the Dallas Stars. Hockey Canada didn’t put him on the list but Benn did become the NHL’s third-youngest captain.

Funny thing is, those parallel events have combined to make Benn something of a force this season and a legitimate candidate to represent Canada in Sochi. That spark started with being snubbed from camp.

“He really is playing like a possessed player,” Stars coach and Team Canada assistant Lindy Ruff said Thursday. “He’s done some great things for our team.

“He’s led our team in a lot of categories. There’s been nights where we needed big plays and big goals, there’s been nights where we needed physical play and he’s really supplied almost everything.”

Benn has seven goals and 18 assists in his first 26 games, second only to Chris Kunitz of the Pittsburgh Penguins among Canadian-born left-wingers. The 24-year-old was a centre earlier in his career with the Stars, but the off-season acquisition of Tyler Seguin from the Boston Bruins allowed Benn to move back to his more natural position.

“I’m comfortable in both spots, but it’s pretty nice going back to left wing,” Benn said. “It’s where I played almost my whole life.

“Obviously to have Tyler in the middle at his regular position, we’re feeding off each other pretty well.”

That move could also help Benn make Team Canada, which is stacked at centre with Sidney Crosby, Jonathan Toews, John Tavares, Eric Staal and many others.

“I mean it was going to be tough to beat out Crosby, I think, at centre,” Benn said, smiling. “I guess I’ll go back to left wing.

“I think there’s a lot of great centres in this league that are going to have to play different positions on that team. I guess it’s a little bit of an advantage to play your normal position on wing.”

Benn also has the advantage of being coached by a member of Mike Babcock’s Olympic staff. Ruff “sees the good and the bad and what goes on during the year,” Benn said, while the

rest of Canada’s management staff has remained hands-off.

But Benn has been in the spotlight since he said he wanted to shove it in Team Canada’s face for not making him one of the 47 players invited to Calgary for camp. Babcock said back in August he wanted players who weren’t invited to get the message.

“I read or hear, ’Oh this guy feels snubbed.’ So what? Do something about it,” Babcock said. “The great thing about life is you get to control what happens to you the majority of the time. Do something about it if you’re not here.”

Benn has. He conceded being “a little disappointed” over the summer but hasn’t shied away from calling it a source of motivation.

“Whenever you can have a chance to represent your country in anything it’s obviously pretty special,” he said. “I’m just obviously focusing on the Stars and what I have to do to help this team win, but I definitely want to make them have a hard decision in choosing the team this year.”

It’s a hard decision because there are so many players in Benn’s spot on the borderline between Sochi and a two-week vacation while the Olympics are going on.

“You’ve got to let your playing do your speaking in these situations, and I think he’s gone into some tough buildings and played pretty well for us,” Ruff said.

“I think any player that’s in that bubble category, all they can do is put numbers up and play well.”

Even then, it’s up to Ruff, the rest of the coaching staff and management group to sift through a list of potential Olympic candidates that’s “still pretty long.”

“We’ve had dialogue in recent weeks and we’re keeping an eye on all those players that are in that same category, the same category that Jamie’s in,” Ruff said.

As he goes around the NHL, Ruff has no choice but to think about his dual role of coaching the Stars and scouting for Team Canada. He “definitely” notices opposing players who are in the mix and that’s not easy to juggle along with his regular duties.

“It’s tough to do your job and worry about the other responsibility at the same time,” Ruff said. “But I think the guys that are in there understand where we’re at and between the four or five coaches we have, we’re just trying to give honest opinions on what we

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Detroit Red Wings defenceman Brian Lashoff, left, and Dallas Stars left wing Jamie Benn battle for the puck in the first period of an NHL game in Detroit, Nov. 7, 2013. Benn has been using his snub from Team Canada’s summer Olympic camp snub as motivation this season and it has worked. He leads the Stars in most statistical categories and is second in the NHL in points for a left-winger. see when we scout players and when we play against them or the guys that play for us.”

Ruff didn’t know much about Benn until this season. He had spent 16 seasons as coach of the Buffalo Sabres and didn’t get many chances to watch Benn, who has been in the Western Conference with the Stars.

What Benn has shown is versatility on the ice, including an ability to take faceoffs and play centre in a pinch, and more maturity in his leadership

off the ice in his first season wearing the ’C’ on his chest.

Benn credited his teammates and former Stars captain Brenden Morrow for helping him evolve. But he hasn’t changed his personality since accepting more responsibility.

“I’m not much of a big talker, I’m not going to rah-rah the guys before a game, but there are times where I have to step up and talk,” Benn said. “I’m just having fun with the challenge and the experience.”

Ottawa hires Stamps Yankees flashing cash co-ordinator Campbell early in free agency as head coach MCCANN, ELLSBURY SIGNINGS THE CANADIAN PRESS The Ottawa Redblacks have found their man.

According to a CFL source requesting anonymity, the Redblacks have chosen Calgary Stampeders defensive co-ordinator Rick Campbell as their first head coach. They’re expected to make it official this morning at a news conference.

Ottawa is scheduled to return to the CFL in 2014.

Campbell is a 15-year CFL coaching veteran but the Ottawa appointment would be his first as a head coach. Campbell is the third CFL head coach to be hired this off-season behind Edmonton’s Chris Jones and Winnipeg’s Mike O’Shea.

All three are firsttime CFL head coaches.

Campbell is the son of legendary Edmonton Eskimos head coach and executive Hugh Campbell and has spent the last two years as Calgary’s defensive co-ordinator.

This past season, Calgary recorded a CFL-best 63 sacks en route to posting a league-best 14-4 record. But the Stampeders lost 35-13 to eventual

Grey Cup-champion Saskatchewan in the West Division final.

Campbell had been mentioned as a leading candidate for Edmonton’s head-coaching job, which went to Jones.

Campbell succeeded Jones as Calgary’s defensive co-ordinator in 2012 when Jones left to join the Toronto Argonauts.

Also reportedly considered for the Ottawa job were former CFL head coaches Paul LaPolice, Greg Marshall, Doug Berry, Marcel Bellefeuille and Danny Maciocia.

This past season, Calgary boasted two of the CFL’s top pass rushers in Charleston Hughes (league-high 18 sacks) and Cordarro Law (third with 14). Hughes was both a West Division and CFL all-star in 2013.

Hughes and Law also anchored a defence that forced a league-high 11 turnovers on downs and was second in fewest points allowed (22.9 per game).

In its first year under Campbell’s guidance, Calgary’s defence was second in sacks (43) and third in points allowed (23.9 per game).

Campbell joined the Stampeders’ staff in 2010 as their running backs

coach. That year Calgary boasted the league’s top ground attack with 2,618 rushing yards.

In 2011, Campbell was Edmonton’s assistant head coach and specialteams co-ordinator. He has spent the bulk of his CFL coaching career — 11 years in fact — with Edmonton, having served as an assistant head coach, special-teams co-ordinator, secondary coach and defensive coordinator during that time.

Campbell won Grey Cups with the Eskimos in 2003 and ’05.

Campbell also served as a special-teams coordinator and defensive backs coach with Winnipeg in ’09.

Prior to coming to the CFL, Campbell was secondary and specialteams coach at the University of Oregon as a graduate assistant from ’96-’98.

Now with a head coach in tow, the Redblacks can look ahead to the CFL expansion draft Dec. 16. Ottawa will select 24 players (eight imports, 16 Canadians) over three rounds.

The Redblacks will take eight imports in the first round before selecting eight Canadians in each of the final two.

SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — Receivers Chris Getzlaf and Rob Bagg and offensive linemen Brendon LaBatte and Dominic Picard all signed contract extensions to remain with the Grey Cup-champion Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Getzlaf, Bagg and Picard are under contract to the CFL club through the 2015 season while LaBatte’s deal covers the 2016 campaign.

Getzlaf, 30, a Regina native, has played his entire seven-year CFL career with the Riders. Getzlaf had 63 catches for 1,045 yards and seven TDs

during the regular season before adding three receptions for 78 yards in being named the top Canadian in Saskatchewan’s 45-23 Grey Cup win over Hamilton.

Bagg, 28, of Kingston, Ont., completed his sixth season with Saskatchewan, registering 34 catches for 430 yards and four TDs. Bagg enters the 2014 campaign with 168 career receptions for 2,365 yards and 12 touchdowns.

LaBatte, of Weyburn, Sask., was the CFL’s top lineman this year as well as a league all-star. The former University of Regina star was selected in the first round, sixth overall, by Winnipeg in the 2008 CFL draft.

COULD BE JUST THE START MLB

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Brian McCann arrived at Yankee Stadium on Nov. 19 and was greeted on the field by CC Sabathia and the pitcher’s kids.

McCann toured the opulent clubhouse, then went to a hotel room arranged by the team at the $695-and-up Mandarin Oriental overlooking Central Park. McCann merely had to take an elevator downstairs for a dinner with manager Joe Girardi and three other team executives at Porter House New York, a sleek steak restaurant in the Time Warner Center, filled with cherry wood floors and leather seating.

Four days later, he had a deal for an $85 million, five-year contract, the start of a new spending spree by the Yankees that also includes a pending $153 million, seven-year agreement with outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury.

“When the Yankees call you and then you go through the process that I went through, you leave blown away,” McCann said Thursday during a news conference at his new home ballpark.

“There’s a reason that they’re the New York Yankees. You walk in here, everything’s bigger. They put attention to detail with everything. They make you feel the way that you want to feel.”

“It was,” he added, “a perfect fit.”

While the Yankees are adding players, they appear less likely to re-sign Robinson Cano. New York believes it may be outbid by the Seattle Mariners for the All-Star second baseman, who at first sought a 10-year deal for more than $300 million.

“We’re still talking, but obviously we’re a decent distance apart,” Yankees managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner said.

General manager Brian Cashman met last month with Jay Z, going to the

office of the rap mogul who is one of Cano’s agents.

“Our club has negotiated very hard with Robinson Cano and has made fair offers to Robinson Cano,” Girardi said.

Himself a former Yankees catcher, Girardi was excited about upgrading with McCann, a seven-time All-Star who joins a lineage that includes Bill Dickey, Yogi Berra, Elston Howard, Thurman Munson and Jorge Posada.

“We think we have the next great Yankee catcher here with us,” Girardi said.

Cashman went further, calling McCann “a potential Hall of Famer.”

New York was 16th in the major leagues with 650 runs this year, its lowest ranking since 1991, according to STATS. McCann and Ellsbury, who hope to benefit from Yankee Stadium’s short porch in right field, appear to be just the start of an upgrade. Ellsbury and Brett Gardner should help form a superior defensive outfield.

“These guys are going to cover a lot of ground,” Girardi said. “They both can put a lot of pressure on a pitcher when they’re on the basepaths, and their ability to go from first to third or first to home on a number of base hits.”

Assuming Ellsbury’s deal gets finalized, New York’s luxury tax payroll will be about $138 million — starting to approach the roughly $177 million for salaries under next year’s $189 million tax threshold. The Yankees hope to get under the threshold — but that appears unlikely unless Alex Rodriguez is suspended for most or all of next season — eliminating his $25 million salary.

“I think we can do it, but it’s not going to come at the expense of fielding a good team,” Steinbrenner said. “Right now we’re still under it. Right now, we’ve still got a decent amount of money to spend, quite frankly. And we’re going to. We’re going to put it back into the team the way we always do.”

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL The Lindsay Thurber Raiders girls basketball team opened the Percy Page tournament in Edmonton with a solid win.

Emma Newton led the Raider girls with 12 points in a 73-53 win over Stracona Christian. Nat-

alie Holmes added 11 points in the victory.

The boys basketball team did not fair as well as their counterparts falling 73-56 to Strathcona Christian. Tanner Rein had 17 points and Cam Black added nine

points in the loss.

Both teams play this afternoon with the girls opponent to be determined and the boys meeting Queen Elizabeth from Edmonton at 12:15 p.m.

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Mandela was a revered figure in sports HE TRULY LOVED ATHLETIC CONTESTS, WITH THEIR CELEBRATION OF HUMANITY AND HOW THEY UNITE TEAMMATES, FANS AND COUNTRIES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — He emerged into bright winter sunshine, stepped onto the lush field and pulled on a cap. His longsleeve green rugby jersey was untucked and buttoned right up to the top, a style all his own. On the back, a gold No. 6, big and bold.

Within seconds, the chants went up from the fans packed into Ellis Park stadium in the heart of Johannesburg: “Nelson! Nelson! Nelson!”

Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president, was wearing the colours of the Springboks and 65,000 white rugby supporters were joyously shouting his name.

It was 1995. The Rugby World Cup final, rugby’s biggest game. And yet it was much more. It was nation-defining for South Africa, a transcendent moment in the transformation from apartheid to multi-racial democracy.

The day spawned books and a blockbuster Clint Eastwood movie. It still speaks — nearly 20 years later — to what sport is capable of achieving.

With his cap and a team jersey, Mandela showed an incisive understanding of the role sport plays in millions of lives.

Mandela died Thursday at the age of 95.

“Sport has the power to change the world,” Mandela said in a speech five years after that match. “It has the power to inspire, it has the power to unite people in a way that little else does.”

A statesman, Mandela didn’t just have brushes with sports, occasional appearances timed only for political gain. He embraced them wholeheartedly — rugby, football, cricket, boxing, track and field, among others. And, by many accounts, he truly loved

athletic contests, with their celebration of humanity and how they unite teammates, fans and countries in triumph and, sometimes, in despair. At one time in his youth, Mandela cut an impressive figure as an amateur boxer.

On June 24, 1995, Mandela and South Africa were triumphant. And he may just have saved a country by pulling on that green and gold jersey with a prancing antelope on the left breast. The Springboks were dear to the hearts of South Africa’s white Afrikaners and loathed by the nation’s black majority. By donning their emblem, Mandela reconciled a nation fractured and badly damaged by racism and hatred.

“Not in my wildest dreams did I think that Nelson Mandela would pitch up at the final wearing a Springbok on his heart,” South Africa’s captain on that day, Francois Pienaar, said in a television interview some time later. “When he walked into our changing room to say good luck to us, he turned around and my number was on his back. It was just an amazing feeling.”

Mandela also could leave millionaire sportsmen like David Beckham and Tiger Woods star-struck.

“Allow me to introduce myself to you,” Mandela joked to then-England soccer captain Beckham when they met in 2003. Only there was no doubting who wanted to meet whom.

A young Woods came out of his audience with Mandela proudly clutching a copy of the president’s autobiography.

Beckham, sitting — almost shyly — on the arm of Mandela’s chair, said his meeting was “an amazing honour,” even if Mandela wasn’t sure what to make of the superstar’s hairstyle of the moment — dreadlocks.

“I’m too old to express an

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In this May 15, 2004 file photo, former South African President Nelson Mandela lifts the World Cup trophy in Zurich, Switzerland, after FIFA’s executive committee announced that South Africa would host the 2010 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament. Mandela was pivotal in helping the country win the right to host the tournament. opinion on the latest developments for young people,” Mandela said with a laugh.

In fact, Mandela, who came out of prison at 71 after decades of isolation, never lost touch. It was part of what made him an inspiration for sport and sportsmen and women. While he was incarcerated, South Africa was thrown out of the Olympics for over 30 years and only allowed back in after he was released.

Now, Mandela, known affectionately to South Africans by his clan name Madiba, was wearing the No. 6 jersey of Pienaar — the Afrikaans rug-

by player with whom he had struck up a close friendship.

The relationship was portrayed by Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon in the film “Invictus” and took rugby and the story of the ’95 World Cup to millions unfamiliar with South Africa’s game.

The underdog South Africans won that day, beating New Zealand — the top team in the world — in extra time of a nerve-racking final.

“We underestimated how proud it would make South Africa,” Pienaar said, recalling the tournament and telling of how Mandela would phone

him up regularly to check on the team.

“It would be Madiba, wanting to chat to me, to find out what’s happening. Is the team focused? Are they OK? Are the guys cool?”

He also was pivotal in helping South Africa eventually win the right to host the 2010 World Cup, the first in Africa and perhaps the biggest test of South Africa’s progress, of its coming of age, just 16 years into its young democracy. South Africa came through it with high praise, sweeping aside the doubters — as Mandela said his country would.

Many across sporting world paying tribute to Mandela Nelson Mandela’s death has left world football in deep mourning, FIFA President Sepp Blatter said Thursday, while new IOC head Thomas Bach paid tribute to the dearly loved anti-apartheid icon as a man who understood the unifying power of sport like few others.

Mandela died earlier Thursday at the age of 95.

Blatter said in a statement that “Nelson Mandela will stay in our hearts forever,” and ordered that the 209 flags of the world football body’s member countries at FIFA headquarters in Switzerland be lowered and flown at half-mast.

“It is in deep mourning that I pay my respects to an extraordinary person, probably one of the greatest humanists of our time and a dear friend of mine: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela,” Blatter said. “The memories of his remarkable fight against oppression, his incredible charisma and his positive values will live on in us and with us.”

International Olympic Committee President Bach said Mandela was “a true statesman.”

“A remarkable man who understood that sport could build bridges, break down walls, and reveal our common humanity,” Bach said.

Undoubtedly one of the greatest political leaders of any era, the reaction from many of the world’s biggest sporting organizations were clear testimony to the enormous affinity Mandela had for sport — and to sport’s great love for the Nobel Prize winner.

Boxing great Muhammad Ali, an inspirational figure himself, said Man-

dela inspired others to “reach for what appeared to be impossible.”

“What I will remember most about Mr. Mandela is that he was a man whose heart, soul and spirit could not be contained or restrained by racial and economic injustices, metal bars or the burden of hate and revenge,” Ali said in his statement released by the Ali Center. “He taught us forgiveness on a grand scale.”

More a follower of boxing and running in his youth, Mandela became a famous fan of nearly every sport — including many the South African wouldn’t have been too familiar with.

“Nelson Mandela was one of the most powerful and inspirational leaders in the world and a great friend of the NBA,” NBA Commissioner David Stern said. “Our thoughts and hopes are with the Mandela family and the people of South Africa, and while we mourn his passing, we know that his legacy and quest for equality will endure.”

Mandela’s appearance at the 1995 Rugby World Cup final in a green and gold South African team jersey to unite his previously fractured country is considered one of world sport’s defining moments, and a part of South African legend.

International Rugby Board President Bernard Lapasset, who spent time with Mandela during the tournament, said the former president changed the sport — once a symbol of white apartheid — completely in his country by his actions during that event.

“I was honoured to be with him during the historic days of Rugby World Cup 1995 and saw his incredible impact on his nation and his people,”

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Lapasset said. “His wisdom, intelligence and sheer presence was a wonder to behold.”

The South African Rugby Union, perhaps the sporting body closest to Mandela after his famous gesture at a rugby game nearly two decades ago, said it shared in South Africa’s overwhelming sadness at Mandela’s passing.

“It was our privilege to have lived in this country during his lifetime,” SARU President Oregan Hoskins said.

Toward the end of his life, Mandela was still instrumental in helping South Africa win its bid to host the 2010 football World Cup — after an initial fail-

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Zach Johnson already is looking ahead to next year, and one of his priorities is to score better on the par 5s. He got started on that Thursday in the World Challenge.

Johnson birdied four of the five par 5s on a chilly afternoon at Sherwood Country Club, sending him to a 5-under 67 and a one-shot lead over Matt Kuchar. They were among only five players in the elite 18-man field who broke par.

One of them was tournament host Tiger Woods, who had a new driver in the bag and missed only two fairways.

The problem was his putter. Woods opened his round by missing a short par putt, and he finished it by missing a 4-foot birdie putt on the 18th. He wound up with a 71.

Kuchar played with Woods — they were partners at the Presidents Cup — and hit his approach into 2 feet for birdie on the final hole.

Hunter Mahan and Bubba Watson were at 70. They are among seven players who have yet to win a tournament anywhere in the world this year, even though all 18 players in the World Challenge are in the top 30 in the world ranking.

The tournament counts toward the ranking, though everything else about it is unofficial.

For some players, it’s a time to shake off some rust and test new equipment. For others, it’s the end of a long year.

Johnson had his annual “summit” with his team of coaches at the start of the week. They go over the year, crunch statistics and lay out goals for where to improve in 2014. One of the areas was par-5 scoring.

“A highlight that we’re looking into next year is trying to play those holes

a little bit better,” Johnson said. “I don’t know what I did that today. I hit it close. I had good shots in there with the proper spin, nothing more than that. But you’ve got to take advantage of them. You’ve got five of them. The thing is ... one errant shot, you’re staring a 6 right in the face, if not more.

There’s a lot of penal areas.”

There was plenty of punishment for some players in the field.

Steve Stricker was among those under par until a bogey-bogey-double bogey finish put him at 75.

Jordan Spieth, coming off a sensational rookie season and playing for the first time since the HSBC Champions in Shanghai a month ago, had a 77 and was last in the field. Jason Day, who won the individual and team title at the World Cup two weeks ago at Royal Melbourne, had a 76.

Rory McIlroy, with girlfriend Caroline Wozniacki following him, was hopeful of building momentum from his first win of the year last week in the Australian Open. He missed a few short putts, found the water on the par3 15th and had a 73. He played with defending champion Graeme McDowell, who had a 72.

McDowell saw a note that his last eight rounds at Sherwood were in the 60s. That streak ended Thursday, though for good reason.

“The course hasn’t been this tough in a couple years,” McDowell said.

“The scoring reflects that. The greens are much firmer. The speed of them caught me by surprise a little bit today.

My speed was a little clumsy, and it showed today on the greens.”

This is the final year the tournament is being played at Sherwood. It moves to Isleworth just outside Orlando, Fla., next year.

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SUN CITY, South Africa — Luke Donald’s fast start in the Nedbank Golf Challenge was halted by lightning Thursday, leaving the former top-ranked Englishman ahead by two shots at 5 under through 11 holes.

No one was able to play more than 12 holes because of lightning and a thunderstorm. Donald began the 30-man invitational with a birdie and an eagle and was 5 under when the day’s second interruption for lightning forced players off for good. He was two ahead of Jamie Donaldson and Thomas Bjorn.

“I feel good over the ball right now and I am playing with confidence,” Donald said, coming off a win in Japan two weeks ago.

Wales’ Donaldson played 12 holes, while Denmark’s Bjorn was 3 under with three birdies in his six holes. Brendon de Jonge was due to join those two on 3 under and two off the lead after spinning a wedge back into the hole from 110 yards for an eagle three on No. 9 right as the weather hooter sounded.

His score wasn’t yet officially registered as his playing partners hadn’t completed the hole.

Playing for the first time since ending last season with the FedEx Cup and European money list title, Henrik Stenson was 1 under after seven and tied for fifth.

Boosted by his victory at the Dunlop Phoenix, Donald’s quick start at Sun City came off sweetly struck iron shots into the greens at his opening two holes. He also picked up back-to-back birdies at the end of his opening nine.

“Lovely start,” he said. “It doesn’t get much better than three-three around here. Birdie, eagle and all of a sudden you are three under par through two holes.”

Defending champion Martin Kaymer is in the mix at 2 under, while Charl Schwartzel led the South African challenge as one of seven players tied at 1 under par.

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Keeping the Olympic dream alive CANADA’S LARISA YURKIW HAS NAVIGATED A FINANCIAL AND LOGISTICAL MAZE JUST TO GET TO THE START HUT OF THE WORLD CUP RACE IN LAKE LOUISE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LAKE LOUISE — As the host country, Canada could have as many as six women competing in the Lake Louise World Cup downhill races.

But there is just one and Larisa Yurkiw navigated a financial and logistical maze just to get to the start hut.

The 25-year-old from Owen Sound, Ont., will race in downhills Friday and Saturday even though she was dropped from the Canadian ski team after last season.

As Canada’s lone female downhiller, Alpine Canada provides her with some raceday support, but Yurkiw was responsible for getting herself ready to race at Lake Louise.

Not ready to give up on her dream of competing at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Yurkiw raised the $150,000 she says it cost to pay for summer camps to Europe, training and coaching expenses, as well as her travel costs to World Cup races.

“I raised a ton of money and found some incredible sponsors to be able to do that,” Yurkiw said. “This is an alleggs-in-one-basket year.”

Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany posted the fastest time in Thursday’s final training run. Yurkiw was 24th.

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Vonn skipped training, but intends to race Friday. It will be the reigning Olympic champion’s first race since tearing ligaments in her knee and breaking a bone in her leg at February’s world championship.

Yurkiw earned her first World Cup top-10 result in 2009 and was a talented prospect behind Canadian team veterans Emily Brydon, Britt Janyk and Kelly VanderBeek.

But Yurkiw crashed during training in Val-d’Isere, France, on Dec. 16, 2009, and tore multiple ligaments in her left knee that required reconstructive surgery.

Not only was Yurkiw unable to race in the 2010 Winter Olympics, she couldn’t compete on the World Cup circuit for two years. In the meantime, the retirements of Brydon, Janyk and VanderBeek left Canada thin in women’s downhill.

Yurkiw was a one-woman Canadian team upon her return to the World Cup last season. She had a single top-30 result. Yurkiw finished 23rd in super-G and 28th in downhill at the world championship.

Those results didn’t meet Alpine Canada’s standards to continue funding her. The organization shifted its money to the men’s downhill team and slalom racers Marie-Michele Gagnon of Lac-Etchemin, Que.,

Lindsey Vonn skips training, but intends to race downhill LAKE LOUISE — American Lindsey Vonn will make her long-awaited World Cup skiing debut Friday.

The reigning Olympic women’s downhill champion hasn’t competed since tearing ligaments in her right knee and breaking a bone in her leg at the world championships in February. She skipped Thursday’s training run but the American ski star said via Twitter she intended to make her return to racing here.

“I’ve decided to take today as a ”rest day“ but I will be racing tomorrow,” Vonn said. “I can’t wait for my first race.”

Downhill races are scheduled for Friday and Saturday followed by Sunday’s super-G. Germany’s Maria Hoefl-Riesch was the fastest in training Thursday with a time of one minute 56.52 seconds. Norway’s Lotte Smiseth Sejersted was second, followed by Austrian Anna Fenninger.

Larisa Yurkiw of Owen Sound, Ont., is the lone Canadian in the downhill and was 23rd.

Vonn has won a record 14 World Cup races at Lake Louise, which has earned the nick-

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Larisa Yurkiw skis during the first women’s downhill training run at Lake Louise, Wednesday. and Erin Mielzynski of Brampton, Ont. Alpine Canada considers those skiers the most likely to win medals in Sochi.

“I had a door wide open to leave the sport,” Yurkiw said.

“I knew there was something that itched. It didn’t feel quite complete.”

She moved to Toronto in the spring to pound the corporate pavement and search out sponsors.

To cut costs, she stayed with the family of a former Canadian teammate.

Without the support of national team staff, it was Yurkiw answering e-mails from Eu-

name “Lake Lindsey” because of her dominance. She swept all three races the last two years.

But the 29-year-old arrived at the Alberta resort with questions surrounding her knee.

She partially tore one of the surgicallyreconstructed ligaments while training in Copper Mountain, Colo., two weeks ago. Vonn didn’t compete in the first downhill of the season last weekend in Beaver Creek, Colo.

Vonn was 22nd in the first training run Wednesday.

“You know if your body is ready or not and I know that mine is ready,” she said in a statement posted on the U.S. Ski Federation website. “Normally this is the first downhill of the year, so for me this feels like a normal beginning of the season. It feels pretty awesome.

“My goal (Wednesday) was to ski solid and to ski my race line and I did that. I knew that if I could accomplish all those things in one run, then I don’t need a second run. It’s the smart choice for me to not ski today in order to prepare for (Friday).”

Vonn is a four-time overall World Cup champion. She needs three more World Cup wins to match the record of 62 held by Annemarie Moser-Proell.

rope in the middle of the night to arrange the details of her summer camps there.

“April was a scary month,” she recalled. “I thought ’I’m going to start this, but there may be a day when I have to close up shop.’

“I went at each day like that. ’If tomorrow is the day I can’t go to a camp or book another flight, at least I know I can move on and be brilliant in my next chapter.’ It just kept rolling.”

Alpine Canada’s primary criteria to be nominated to the 2014 Olympic team is a pair of top-12 results or one top-five in World Cup races.

At last week’s season-opening downhill in Beaver Creek, Colo., Yurkiw missed a gate in the women’s downhill and was disqualified. She bounced back by finishing 15th in the super-G the next day.

“It felt like a win in a lot of ways,” Yurkiw said.

Canada currently has just one women’s downhill berth for World Cups after Lake Louise. Alpine Canada wants to reserve it for Gagnon.

The organization wants Gagnon racing downhills in January to prepare her for the Olympic combined event — a slalom and a downhill — in Sochi. Gagnon isn’t racing the Lake Louise downhills, but will join Yurkiw for Sunday’s super-G. Hugues Ansermoz oversees the Canadian women’s World Cup teams.

He said the arrangement Alpine Canada struck with Yurkiw when she was dropped from the national team was she could race for Canada in

Beaver Creek and Lake Louise.

In order for her to continue racing World Cups in Europe, she needs top-20 results. Yurkiw’s super-G result in Beaver Creek means she can race that discipline in St. Moritz, France, next week.

Yurkiw can also qualify a second World Cup downhill berth for Canada if she finishes in the top 30 Friday or Saturday.

“She can help herself and help the team,” Ansermoz said. “It’s very important for us and for Larisa to get a spot here, so we don’t have that problem in January.”

If Yurkiw gets a top 30, but doesn’t get into the top 20, Ansermoz said racing downhills in Europe is up for discussion.

Having to go it alone has felt liberating for Yurkiw in some ways. It forces to her concentrate each day on what she must do to extend her career.

She hasn’t had much time to obsess about Sochi.

“I put so much pressure on myself other years and it never worked, so I’m really happy to be enjoying myself this year,” Yurkiw explained.

“I worked hard for something I believe in and now is my chance. I’m just going to go hard after great skiing and good results and hope that’s enough.”

“If I don’t get chosen because they have other Canadians who are more worthy, I can’t say anything at that point.”

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NAKISKA — The Canadian ski cross team’s goal is to win two Olympic medals at the Sochi Games in February.

Considering the depth of the squad, that might be a rather conservative number.

The national team is loaded with experienced veterans and rising stars. Anchored by Chris Del Bosco, Brady Leman, Kelsey Serwa and Marielle Thompson, the Canadians enter the season-opening Audi FIS Ski Cross World Cup armed with confidence and podium familiarity.

“This weekend I believe we’re fully capable of multiple medals,” said assistant coach Willy Raine.

“Every World Cup event we go to, we should have somebody on the podium.”

Raine has reason to be optimistic, considering the stacked resumes of the team members.

Thompson, from Whistler, B.C., won a Crystal Globe last year as overall World Cup champion and took the silver at the 2013 world championship. Serwa, the 2011 world champion from Kelowna, B.C., underwent left knee surgery earlier this year but has recovered and feels ready heading into the season.

Del Bosco, a Montreal resident, won a world title in 2011 and has 18 World Cup career podiums. Leman was ranked No. 2 in the world last year and is also a podium threat with veteran Dave Duncan of London, Ont. “The bar is set high for us,” Raine said.

“We expect it and we’re willing to work hard to (get) the results.”

Canada has won the Nations’ Cup as the No. 1 team on the World Cup circuit in four of the last five years. The squad is looking to build on that momentum when competition begins Friday at the Nakiska Ski Area outside of Calgary.

In ski cross, four skiers race each other down a course of jumps and bumps. Ashleigh McIvor, who retired last year, helped put the sport on the map by winning gold when ski cross made its Olympic debut at the 2010 Vancouver Games.

The Canadian women’s side is rounded out by Georgia Simmerling of West Vancouver, B.C., and Calgary’s Danielle Sundquist.

Tristan Tafel of Canmore, Alta., Louis-Pierre Helie of Berthierville, Que., and Mathieu

Leduc of Comox, B.C., are the other men’s skiers.

“We push each other,” Del Bosco said.

“We’re always trying to one-up each other.

It’s a really good environment. It’s going to be a really good year this year.”

Over 120 athletes will be on the slopes this week as they compete for over $80,000 in prize money and the chance to qualify for nomination to their respective Olympic teams.

The qualification criteria for the Canadian team is complicated because ski cross athletes must compete against counterparts in other freestyle disciplines in order to lock up spots for Sochi.

Thompson is the only Canadian to have pre-qualified through method-A criteria, meaning she needs just one top-12 result this season to be all but guaranteed a spot. The Sochi roster is expected to be officially unveiled in mid-January, a few weeks before the Games.

The Nakiska course was put together by Jeff Ihaksi, who also built the ski cross track at the 2010 Olympics.

It takes about 90 seconds for racers to go from top to bottom, a time that will likely be the longest on the World Cup circuit this season.

The course was adjusted after the event’s inaugural edition last year. It’s an average of 15 metres wider and has bigger features and a huge jump near the finish.

Race organizers moved the women’s qualification schedule to Thursday afternoon due to the frigid temperatures that were expected Friday morning. Ophelie David of France had the fastest time of one minute 35 seconds on the Mighty Peace course, nearly a half-second ahead of Switzerland’s Fanny Smith.

Simmerling was third in 1:36.17 as all four Canadians made the 32-skier cut. Thompson was seventh in 1:37.19, Serwa was 11th in 1:37.45 and Sundquist was 16th in 1:38.29.

It was sunny but cold Thursday with a temperature of -23 C at qualification time. There was a chance of light snow Friday with a high of -26 C expected in the afternoon.

Smith won the women’s race here last year while David was second. Switzerland’s Armin Niederer took the men’s title.

The men’s qualification round is set for Friday afternoon and the men’s and women’s finals will be held later in the day. A second competition will be held Saturday.

WINNIPEG — Reigning Canadian curling champion Rachel Homan got two bits of good news on Thursday.

The Ottawa skip advanced to Friday’s semifinal at the Canadian Olympic curling trials, and then she learned the federal government had approved funding of more than $2.5 million for the Canadian Curling Association in 2013-14.

“It’s hard to make it as an amateur athlete because there’s not much money involved and it’s not like the pros,” said the 24-year-old.

“A lot of times we have to take off work to try and fully train and commit to making it to the Olympics and trying to get Canada gold, so it’s nice to have that support in being able to try to get to your dreams and achieve that podium status.”

CCA chief executive officer Greg Stremlaw said the government’s investment through Sport Canada is similar to the previ-

ous year’s funding.

“It not only enables the Canadian Curling Association to grow the sport at the grassroots level, but helps our nation establish and maintain consistent podium results and the excellence that is synonymous with Canadian curling,” Stremlaw said.

“We sincerely appreciate all that the government of Canada does for sport.”

Stremlaw said the money is used for programs involving able-bodied athletes and those with a disability. Funds are allocated for coaching and salaries, national team programs and coaching and officials development.

An Athlete Assistance program funded by the government gave $633,000 to 67 carded curlers in 2012-13 to help with their living and training expenses.

The amount will be similar in 2013-14, Stremlaw said.

Homan and her teammates are carded athletes.

The winner of the trials earns a trip to next year’s Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.

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Since returning to the Olympics in 1998, two curling events have been contested at each games — the men’s and women’s competitions. The World Curling Federation made a tentative bid in 2005 to include mixed doubles on the Olympic program for the 2010 Vancouver Games, but it was rejected because the discipline hadn’t spread globally. However, WCF president Kate Caithness said “mixed doubles is part of our sport that has taken off around the world,” with the governing body spending the last eight years developing the spread to meet the technical requirements for Olympic admission. The application will be made after next year’s Sochi Games and decision will be reached by the IOC in 2015. If it is accepted, mixed doubles would be a 16-team competition.

“It would allow other countries who wouldn’t perhaps have the chance of going to the Olympics with a full men’s team and full women’s team to take part in the Olympics,” Caithness said.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COSTA DO SAUIPE, Brazil — COSTA DO SAUIPE, Brazil (AP) — Thirty two teams and a world of possibilities.

The 31 countries that qualified for the 2014 World Cup and host nation Brazil will cross fingers and toes and hope for the luck of the draw on Friday when their names are plucked from bowls one by one in a globally televised extravaganza to determine where, when and, most importantly, who they will play in Brazil next June at football’s showcase tournament.

Will Brazil be paired in a tough opening group of opponents who could sink its campaign for a sixth World Cup victory, souring the tournament that, all told, is costing the nation nearly $11 billion?

Who will triumph if four-time world player of the year Lionel Messi is drawn against Cristiano Ronaldo, his nemesis in the most intense individual rivalry in football? There will be frissons of excitement if the draw groups Messi’s Argentina and Ronaldo’s Portugal together.

Could defending champion Spain be drawn to play its opening game against the Netherlands? That repeat of the illtempered 2010 final would also cause sharp intakes of breath.

With the world title at stake and because of football’s rich and deep sporting, historical and political rivalries, the transparent bowls holding the teams’ names are bound to cough up mouthwatering match-ups.

Around the world, eyes will be trained on 1998 World Cup winner Zinedine Zidane and other former stars from the eight nations that have won the trophy as they pluck out balls containing slips of paper bearing the teams’ names. Even in the 177 footballplaying nations and territories that didn’t qualify for the month-long tournament, fans will hope for encounters worthy of the sport’s showcase.

Bosnia-Herzegovina will get its first taste of the nervous excitement of a World Cup draw, having qualified as an independent nation two decades after its war that killed more than 100,000 people. Other nations are old hands: Seven have qualified for each of the last seven World Cups — Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Italy, South Korea, Spain and the United States.

Although it likes to consider itself the fun-loving soul of football, Brazil will field a team next year that so far is yet to wow with its play like some of its great squads of the past, with jewels including Pele. Brazilian fans, like those from all the strongest nations, will pray their team isn’t drawn in the toughest group, which is sure to be dubbed the “Group of Death,” a label of questionable taste that football is

fond of.

The 90-minute draw ceremony, televised live to more than 190 countries, will shift into higher gear Brazil’s efforts to use the tournament as a window on the world. Keen to show that it has more to offer than sandy beaches, samba and soccer, the world’s seventhlargest economy has built and renovated 12 stadiums and poured billions more into other public works.

Such expenditure in a country with millions living in third-world poverty has sparked vigorous debate about the value of sporting mega-events, especially with Olympic host Rio de Janeiro also spending heavily to prepare for the summer games of 2016. Protesters who poured into Brazil’s streets during the Confederations Cup warm-up tournament in June listed World Cup spending among their grievances.

Some 1,300 guests and 2,000 journalists were converging on the Brazilian Atlantic beach resort of Costa do Sauipe for the draw. Aside from Uruguay’s Oscar Tabarez and Miguel Herrera of Mexico, all the team coaches were expected, anxious to find out not only who their opponents will be but where in the world’s fifth-largest country they will play.

Depending on how they are drawn, some teams will travel considerably further than others in the country that is more than 4,000 kilometres from tip to toe and across. Some will have to play in the heat and humidity of the

Amazon basin, with Manaus in the heart of the jungle considered perhaps the most potentially physically taxing venue for players, especially those from more moderate climes. None of the previous seven World Cups held in the Americas, starting with the first edition in Uruguay in 1930, were won by a European team.

FIFA executives agreed Thursday that all 32 teams will get at least $8 million in prize money, with $35 million for the champion.

The draw procedure itself is fairly straightforward. It should take around 35 minutes to divide the 32 teams into eight groups — labelled from A to H — of four teams each. The basic principle of pulling names from hats has been used by governing body FIFA for decades, although the draw has become increasingly showbiz since it was first televised in 1966.

FIFA and Brazilian authorities say they spent some $11 million organizing this draw. That included erecting a tent the size of an aircraft hangar for the draw, with nearly 50 kilometres of cabling, 36 tons of lighting and 9,000 square meters of floor space — making it larger than nearly all of the world’s cathedrals.

Husband and wife team Fernanda Lima and Rodrigo Hilbert, both presenters on Brazilian television, will emcee the show. Samba singer Alcione, Sao Paulo rapper Emicida and others are providing the entertainment.

Canadian TUF team revealed that faces off against Australia TORONTO, Ontario — Veterans Kajan (Ragin’) Johnson, Nordine Taleb and Luke Harris lead the Canadian cast unveiled Thursday for “The Ultimate Fighter Nations: Canada vs. Australia.”

Filming for the reality TV show, slated to debut Jan. 15, is under way north of Montreal.

TUF Nations pits four Canadian welterweights and four middleweights under coach Patrick (The Predator) Cote against Australian coach Kyle Noke’s eight-man team.

The last man standing earns a contract to fight in the UFC, although traditionally more than a few others also move on.

The 29-year-old Johnson (19-10-1) is 7-2-1 in his last 10 fights, winning two of his last three most recently in the Maximum Fighting Championship. A welterweight from Burns Lake, B.C., he trains out of the famed Tristar Gym in Montreal.

The 32-year-old Taleb (8-2) also calls Tristar home.

The Montreal middleweight is coming off a loss to Marius Zaromskis but won his two previous Bellator fights before that.

In August, Taleb took part in open tryouts in Indianapolis for Season 19 of “The Ultimate Fighter.”

“I’m very analytical ... And I’m a striker,” he said at the time when asked to describe his fighting style.

“So I’m here to kick ass.”

Unbeaten Montreal welterweight Olivier AubinMercier (4-0) trains at H20 MMA and Tristar.

A former member of the national team judo, he switched to MMA after seeing a GSP fight on TV while trying to learn English.

He has been training at H20 MMA for close to five years although he also spars at Tristar.

“He’s one of the top guys in Canada now,” said Richard Ho, Aubin-Mercier’s head coach at H20 MMA. The other Canadian welterweights are Matthew Desroches (4-0), of Fredericton and Chad Laprise (70) of London, Ont. Laprise also has a Tristar connection although he is affiliated with Team Tompkins as well.

Harris, a 36-year-old middleweight from St. Albert, Alta., with great submission skills, is another MFC veteran, winning two of three fights in the Edmonton-based promotion.

The remaining middleweights are Toronto’s Elias Theodorou (8-0) and Sheldon Westcott (8-1) of St. Albert. Westcott has not lost since his pro debut in August 2007.

The Canada vs. Australia season follows on the heels of “The Ultimate Fighter: The Smashes,” which aired last fall as a U.K. vs. Australia spinoff of the original series. There have also been two all-Brazilian versions of the show.

Cote (20-8) and Noke (20-6-1) will fight in April after the series has aired. Cote, a former middleweight title contender not campaigning as a welterweight, appeared on Season 4 of “The Ultimate Fighter,” which featured veterans attempting a comeback.

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Chan finishes second in short program after record performance by Hanzu at Grand Prix Final FUKUOKA, Japan — Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan beat three-time world champion Patrick Chan of Canada with a record score to lead the short program at the Grand Prix Final on Thursday.

Skating to “Parisian Walkways,” Hanyu opened with a quad toeloop and hit all his other jumps to the delight of a sellout crowd at Marine Messe. His 99.84 points surpassed the previous high of 98.52 by Chan at the Trophee Bompard last month.

“I was surprised when I saw the score,” Hanyu said. “All my jumps were very good. I lost a bit of con-

centration near the end and need to improve that but now I have to focus on the free skate.”

Chan hit his opening quad toeloop, triple toe-loop combination but touched the ice on the landing of his triple axel and doubled a planned triple lutz to finish with 87.47.

“I’m not super happy with how I skated,” Chan said. “When you achieve close to perfection like I did in Paris it’s hard to do it again.

Tomorrow is a new day and the long program is where it’s won and where it’s lost so we’ll see.”

Nobunari Oda, a late substitute for injured Japanese compatriot Daisuke Takahashi, finished third with 80.94.

Mao Asada led after the women’s short program with 72.36 points despite under-rotating her opening triple axel.

“The judges saw it as underrotated but I personally felt good about it,” Asada said. “So I won’t be worried about it going into the long program.”

Adelina Sotnikova, one of four Russian skaters in the field, was second with 68.38 followed by Ashley Wagner of the United States who had 68.14.

The GP Final is the first and only event where most of the world’s top skaters will meet before the Sochi Olympics. The men’s free skate and the ice dance short program are scheduled for today.

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FRONT POTLUCK EVENT Learn about holiday celebrations around the world at the Festivals of Light intercultural potluck celebration, to be held on Dec. 14 at the Golden Circle in Red Deer. There will be speakers, dancing and singing. Eid, Diwali, Hanukkah and the Chinese New Year will be among the topics explored. There will be refreshments available at the event, but attendees are asked to bring food from their culture to share as well.

All are welcome. The event runs from 5 to 7 p.m., and is being co-hosted

by C.A.R.E. and the Golden Circle. For more information, contact Jan at 403-346-8818 or jan. underwood@care2centre. ca.

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PC OPEN HOUSE Red Deer’s two Progressive Conservative MLAs are welcoming the Christmas spirit with an open house later this month. Red Deer North’s Mary Anne Jablonski and Red Deer South’s Call Dallas invite all constituents for some refreshments, holiday cheer and conversation on Dec. 17 from 3 to 6 p.m. at the City Centre Stage, at 4922 49th St. in downtown Red Deer. People who would like to attend are asked to RSVP by Dec. 12 to either Brenda Johnson with the Red Deer South riding at 403-340-3565 or email reddeer.south@ assembly.ab.ca or Rashelle Dubrule with the Red Deer North riding at 403-3422263 or by email reddeer. noth@assembly.ab.ca.

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City of Red Deer parking co-ordinator Fred Dieno sits among some of the toys dropped off at City Hall Thursday as part of the City’s Toys for Tickets campaign. Toys will be accepted in lieu payment for parking tickets up until 2:30 pm on Friday December 13. The toys must be new, unwrapped, in their original packaging and accompanied with a receipt to be a valid payment. All toys will be donated the Red Deer Christmas Bureau.

Last chance to pay for tickets with toys Today is the last day to pay your parking ticket with a toy as part of Red Deer’s Toys for Tickets program.

Motorists who received parking tickets between Nov. 1 and Dec. 6 can donate a toy in lieu of paying their ticket.

All toys will be donated to

the 2013 Red Deer Christmas Bureau.

Toy donations will be accepted today from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on the first floor of City Hall.

All toys must be new, unwrapped and in their original packaging.

The early payment rate will remain in effect when the ticket is paid for with a toy.

However, the value of the toy must equal or exceed the amount owed on the parking ticket.

A receipt for the toy must be presented at the time of pay-

ment.

The difference must be paid if the toy’s value is lower than the ticket price.

For more information, contact the city’s Inspections and Licensing Department at 403342-8185.

SPCA battles budget shortfalls

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BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer and District SPCA is working hard to say goodbye to deficit budgets starting this month by trying to raise $100,000 before the new year from public and corporate donors.

The SPCA’s 2012-13 budget, which ended Sept. 30, ran a $78,000 deficit.

To cover the shortfall, the SPCA had to use up its savings.

“We’re not making operating budget at all, so in a way it is a crisis. The need is growing from the community, but the support we’re receiving in terms of donations isn’t enough to support the operating budget,” said Tara Hellewell, SPCA executive director, on Thursday.

“We don’t want to live month-tomonth, paycheque-to-paycheque anymore. The community is depending on us. We’re a very vital service to them.”

The organization intends to boost fundraising by 30 per cent to increase its 2013-14 operational budget by $200,000 to $1.2 million.

work on their fundraising goal.

“I’m hopeful we’ll be able to tip the scales from a deficit position to at least that break-even point,” Hellewell said.

She said December is always the strongest fundraising month for the SPCA. Last December, $80,000 was raised — the most ever.

About 60 per cent of the 2013 Kinsmen Dream home tickets have been sold, inching closer to the Red Deer Kinsmen Club’s goal of a sellout.

They have sold 8,469 out of the 14,115 tickets available, said Leonard Sisco, Kinsmen Dream Home Lottery chair.

The dream home has not sold out of lottery tickets since 1999 and only sold 70 per cent of tickets last year, so the team is “pretty pumped” by this year’s sales, Sisco said.

Tickets for a chance to win the $890,000 house built by Larkaun Homes cost one for $100 or three for $250. They can be purchased at the dream home — 220 Vancouver Cres. in Red Deer’s Vanier Woods neighbourhood — on Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m.

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The Red Deer and District SPCA executive Director Tara Hellewell holds Lucie, who staff lovingly call their grumpy cat. The Red Deer SPCA is in need of about $100,000 as soon as possible.

It hopes to raise a total of $500,000 in donations.

She said there’s been a 30 per cent increase in the number of animals coming to the shelter, as well as a 30 per cent increase in adoptions, so care costs have increased.

About 500 pets were adopted last year.

A full-time fund development co-ordinator was recently hired to

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Lincoln Community Hall Society is hosting its annual Christmas Concert on Dec. 13, followed by an Open Stage Night on Dec. 14. Both events will be held at 7:30 p.m. and admission is by donation. People who want to participate in the Christmas event should call Merrigold at 403-7826313 or Kathy at 403-7824194. To participate or want more information on the Open Stage, call Laura Siebenga at 403-782-4095.

Lincoln Community Hall is located on Hwy 792 northeast of the Village of Gull Lake.

C2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Dec. 6, 2013 tion order. He was released from a correctional facility less than 36 hours prior to the incident.

The second man, of no fixed address, is charged with three counts of break and enter, one count of theft under $5,000, mischief to property and two counts of breach of probation order.

The two men will be in Didsbury court on Monday.

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Scott Hebert, 33, Thomas Larkin, 34, Logan Mitchell, 18, and Gregory Roberts, 26, were charged by Red Deer and Sylvan Lake RCMP investigating information that a man had been kidnapped in Red Deer on March 4 and escaped the following day.

Mitchell pleaded guilty in October to a reduced set of charges for his role in the incident and was sentenced to 18 months, minus seven months of credit for the time he had served in custody awaiting his hearing.

The remaining three, who are all still in custody, have pleaded not guilty to charges including extortion, kidnapping, assault with a weapon, robbery and possession of stolen property worth more than $5,000.

They are scheduled to stand trial from March 9 to 20, 2015.

Freed inmates arrested, face charges Two men recently released from jail are facing charges that include break and enter after allegedly trying to steal propane bottles from holiday trailers in Olds on Wednesday.

Olds RCMP received a complaint around 12:15 a.m. on Wednesday of two suspicious men on 61st Avenue in the town.

Police followed the footprints in the snow to a hole cut in a chainlink fence of a local business’s compound.

The accused were found walking around the compound and arrested without incident.

Both were recently released from a provincial correctional facility.

One man, of no fixed address, is charged with three counts of break and enter, one count of theft under $5,000, one count of mischief to property and one count of breach of proba-

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Volunteer honoured for dedication to cats Stacy Worobetz of Whisker Rescue is receiving a Heroic Heart Pet Service Award from Global Pet Foods for her dedication to cats in Red Deer.

Worobetz was one of four volunteers selected from over 1,000 nominations to receive the annual award this year for their outstanding care and compassion.

Other 2013 award recipients come from New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec.

Worobetz is the founding executive director of Whisker Rescue. Since its inception in 2008, Whisker Rescue has placed 800 cats into homes.

Whisker Rescue is a non-profit organization striving to provide basic needs such as food, shelter, medical attention and adoption opportunities to stray, homeless and surrendered cats.

Worobetz will be presented with her award on Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Global Pet Foods Red Deer, unit 43, 6320 50th Ave. She will also receive 12 large bags of Hill’s Ideal Balance pet food and a cheque for $1,000 to help cover the cost of veterinary bills.

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Checkstop planned near Innisfail The Central Alberta District Integrated Traffic Unit will be conducting a checkstop in Innisfail near Hwy 2A this weekend.

Innisfail RCMP Traffic Services and Alberta Sheriffs will be stopping vehicles from 7 p.m. on Saturday to 3 a.m. on Sunday.

The checkstop coincides with the National Impaired Driving Enforcement Campaign launched by the RCMP in support of National Safe Driving Week Dec. 1 to 7.

With the whole rink to themselves, Tammy Sutter of Red Deer supports her friend’s daughter Lylee Granger, 4, of Beaumont as they skate around the rink at the Collicutt Centre rink Tuesday afternoon.

Along with the pools, athletic fields, fieldhouse, running track and fitness facility the Collicutt Centre also has drop-in public skating at various times of day throughout the week.

Statistics compiled by Alberta Transportation indicate that from 2008 to 2013, 471 people were killed and 7,397 people were injured in collisions involving at least one driver who had consumed alcohol prior to a crash in the province.

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SPCA: Good local support Luckily, Red Deerians are eager to help pets in need, she said.

“We have 500 active volunteers. The only other organization in the city that has that many volunteers or more is the hospital.”

The SPCA is overcapacity with about 140 animals: about 45 dogs and the rest cats.

“With snow coming so early this year we’ve had non-stop people coming with injured animals, and cats especially. This cold snap is not good for the cat community at all.”

For more information, visit www.reddeerspca. com. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Tubs & Toys

Red Deer Christmas Bureau EMCO would like to welcome the community of Red Deer to our TUBS & TOYS charity event.

Donations of new and unwrapped toys, cash and cheques are being accepted. All proceeds will be donated to the Red Deer Christmas Bureau.

Come help celebrate the holidays LIVE with 100.7 The River, Mayor Veer and the staff at EMCO for a worthy cause.

Christmas treats and door prizes from 9am until 5pm.

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A bitumen refinery backed by the Alberta government that is being built northeast of Edmonton can still turn a tidy profit despite a major cost overrun and delay, the chairman of North West Upgrading Inc. said Thursday.

Ian MacGregor said he was surprised and disappointed when he learned the pricetag of the Sturgeon Refinery had ballooned to $8.5 billion — a 50 per cent increase from its most recent estimate.

But MacGregor said converting oilsands bitumen into ultra low sulphur diesel can rake in $45-per-barrel margins these days — way up from just $6 in 2010.

A lot of that is a function of pipeline bottlenecks preventing that bitumen from getting to the most lucrative markets and depressing the price of the raw product.

“To date, the margins have never been stronger,” MacGregor said.

“I don’t think anybody thinks that we’re going to solve the transportation bottlenecks facing Western Canada anytime soon.”

The Sturgeon Upgrader is a partnership between North West and oil giant Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (TSX:CNQ) to build a 50,000-barrel-per-day refinery.

Three quarters of its feedstock comes from the Alberta government, which collects some of its oilsands royalties in bitumen rather than cash as part of a program to boost the province’s refining and upgrading sector. The rest comes from Canadian Natural.

Canadian Natural and Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission, a Crown corporation, are reworking the project’s processing agreements to allow for more financial flexibility.

Alberta Energy Minister Ken Hughes says the government stands behind the project.

“The strategic reasons that led us into this partnership are as valid today as they were when the Government of Alberta committed to it three years ago,” he said

in an emailed statement.

“The project remains a good deal for taxpayers. With the persistent discount on bitumen — the bitumen bubble — and equally persistent high prices for transportation fuels, we continue to expect a better return for Albertans’ barrels of bitumen through this enterprise than if we simply took the royalties in cash.”

University of Alberta economist Andrew Leach said a lot of blanks remain unfilled he’d like to see the province provide some hard numbers to support its view that the project is viable in the long term.

“For the Alberta government to end up ahead on this commitment, what does the bitumendiesel spread have to be over the life of this project? Juts a simple, break-even calculation — I don’t think we’ve seen that,” said Leach.

chase 50/50 tickets separately, without purchasing a dream home ticket, and vice versa, Sisco said.

He “highly anticipates” the 50/50 draw will sell out before Christmas.

Ticket lines close at 5 p.m. on Dec. 31. Both draws will take place later that evening. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

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All proceeds stay within the community as the lottery is run completely by volunteers and the Kinsmen.

The money goes to agencies such as the Red Deer Food Bank, Family Services of Central Alberta and the Central Alberta Emergency Women’s Shelter among many others.

Dream home tickets can also be purchased at various Servus Credit Union locations, as well as at Sproule’s Mountview IDA on 43rd Avenue in Red Deer, or by calling 403-356-3900 or online at www. reddeerkinsmen.com.

The Kinsmen recently passed a motion to donate $20,000 towards updating the Kinsmen Teen Room at the Children’s Healing Centre in the Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Centre.

There is also a 50/50 draw, new this year, with a minimum payout of $30,000 and maximum of $75,000.

Sisco said the 50/50 lottery is progressing well also, with $127,375 “in the bank on our way to a sellout of $150,000.”

The proceeds from the 50/50 draw will go to the renovation project at Camp Alexo with the Youth and Volunteer Centre.

The 50/50 tickets are one for $10, five for $25 and 16 for $50.

The public can pur-

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First Nations expect trust on energy

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The federal government must build trust with First Nations communities and address issues outside of billiondollar projects if they hope to forge ahead with energy developments, says a report from Ottawa’s special envoy dispatched to help resolve an impasse over major oil and gas developments in the West.

Doug Eyford was appointed in March, in the midst of tense federal review hearings for Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline through British Columbia. With a federal review panel report expected within the coming weeks — if not days — the report released Thursday was blunt.

“There has not been a constructive dialogue about energy projects,” Eyford wrote.

The report highlighted the economic opportunities and hurdles for aboriginal communities in energy development in oil and gas.

Most aboriginal leaders understand

the value and opportunities presented by energy development, the report said, but they want that development to be environmentally sustainable and to acknowledge aboriginal rights.

The report makes four overarching recommendations: build trust, foster inclusion, advance reconciliation and take action.

“We are all presented with a choice: to maintain the status quo or embrace the opportunities and potential offered by a different path,” the report said.

Government should engage and consult with First Nations outside of project-specific reviews, which in the case of Northern Gateway became very adversarial, Eyford said.

“It goes without saying that if governments expect to engage with First Nations communities on matters in their areas of interest, for instance LNG plants or natural gas pipelines, they have to be prepared to address the interests of First Nations communities,” he said. “Those conversations can’t be had in isolation.”

Eyford says the report is a “useful

starting point,” though just what is will change is unclear.

Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver thanked Eyford for his work on the report but did not commit to any of the recommendations. The report, which was handed over to the government last Thursday, will need to be reviewed in depth, he said.

“Our commitment to the environment is clear. So, too, is our obligation to create opportunity and prosperity for First Nations,” Oliver said, He reiterated the economic importance of such developments to the entire country but the report is likely too little, too late for Northern Gateway.

Minutes later, a coalition of First Nations opponents of the pipeline announced new allies.

The Yinka Dene Alliance said its Save the Fraser declaration against the project now has more than 130 First Nations and the alliance announced support from Unifor, the largest private sector union in Canada, the B.C. Teachers’s Federation, the mayor and council of Fort St. James, B.C., and

the David Suzuki Foundation, among others.

“One of the greatest challenges we are faced with the today is the challenge of responsible resource development,” Fort St. James Mayor Rob MacDougall said in a video statement from the sunny shore of Stewart Lake in northern B.C. “We believe we are on the cusp of great change in the resource economy of British Columbia, and that we have a duty to ensure that these developments do not pose irreversible threats to the land, our ways of life and the natural world that so graciously supports us.”

There are at least 600 major resource projects worth an estimated $650 billion planned in Western Canada over the next decade.

Kinder Morgan is expected to formally file an application this month for a $4-billion expansion of its existing Trans Mountain pipeline through the B.C. and Premier Christy Clark is touting a trillion-dollar liquefied natural gas industry.

Commercial development reaps $6.4M in permits

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Commercial development in south Red Deer and industrial development in Queens Industrial Park accounted for $6.4 million in development permits issued by the City of Red Deer last month.

November’s industrial permit values were almost $4.3 million, an increase of almost $2 million over November 2012. Six industrial permits were issued compared to five last year in November.

Development for Scott Builders in the Queens Industrial Park valued at $3.5 million was a factor in the increase.

Boston Pizza South renovations valued at $675,000 and renovations at Tim Hortons on 22nd Street valued at $500,000 were issued, bringing November’s monthly tally for commercial development to $2.1 million.

The city issued 15 permits compared to 13 in November 2012.

Residential permits for November 2013 remain strong with 102 permits issued compared to 103 for November 2012.

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Koralta Construction is well into a project at 8 Conway Street in Clearview Market Square where they are building a two storey commercial Building valued at $2.7 Million ing the city’s annual forecast of $220 million by $7 million. Compared to the same time last year, total permit values are about $29 million lower.

Howard Thompson, manager of the city’s Inspections and Licensing Department, said, however, that 2012 saw one very large permit issued for almost $54 million, for a public project to expand the City of Red Deer’s wastewater treatment plant.

“Considering this one extraordinary permit from last year, new development is actually slightly ahead in 2013 over 2012,” he said.

Over the past two months, October commercial permit values increased with revenues of $6.3 million, compared to last year’s values of $1.1 million.

Contributing to the increase is a two-storey commercial building by Kor-Alta Construction Ltd., valued at $2.7 million in Clearview Market.

The number of residential permits has also risen from last year with over $11 million in permit values this October compared to $6.7 million in October 2012.

SolarCity to offer Tesla car batteries to businesses FOR BACKUP POWER; TESTS RESIDENTIAL PLAN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The solar panel installer SolarCity is beginning to address one of solar power’s big drawbacks: The sun doesn’t always shine.

The solution: big battery packs that will provide backup power while lowering electric bills. The supplier: electric car maker Tesla Motors, whose CEO Elon Musk is also the chairman of SolarCity.

“Our goal is to be an energy provider, to provide all energy services,” said SolarCity CEO Lyndon Rive.

The batteries will be offered first to commercial customers because of the way many commercial electric bills are calculated.

SolarCity is also conducting a pilot program in California for homeowners, but because residential bills are calculated differently — and the batteries are so expensive — it could be years before batteries make financial sense for homes.

“We know this is a long-term problem, so we are investing in it now,” Rive said.

SolarCity shares rose $1.72, or 3.3 per cent, to close at $53.89 in trading Thursday.

For power-hungry businesses battery backup can make financial sense even now.

Many businesses are charged not just for the amount of electricity they use over a certain period, but also for

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the level of electricity they need from the grid at any one time. Think of a car owner paying for gasoline to run the engine, but also for the amount of horsepower needed when the car is loaded with people and climbing a steep hill.

Often, those horsepower charges, known in the electric industry as “demand charges” ratchet up quickly.

SolarCity’s solar panels can lower those demand peaks when the sun is shining. SolarCity’s battery packs will make sure those peaks stay low when the sun is not shining or the customer needs a little extra juice. The company says the battery systems will lower demand charges by 20 per cent.

A secondary benefit: If power goes out, the battery will be able to run critical systems for several hours — or for several days if it is sunny enough for the battery to recharge with solar electricity during the day.

For traditional electric utilities already struggling with weak electricity sales, this represents yet another threat. Efficiency programs and more advanced appliances are already helping customers lower their energy use, and solar panels and other power sources are helping customers generate their own power. Now commercial customers may have a way to reduce demand charges, too.

Other companies offer similar programs to businesses, whether they have solar or not, like Stem, based in Millbrae, Calif. The company this week

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A woman walks to a Tesla Motors Model S electric sedan during a demonstration Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, at Crissy Field in San Francisco. Tesla Motors, the California-based maker of the Model S electric sedan, has completed the West Coast Supercharger route enabling Tesla owners to travel free between San Diego and Vancouver, BC. With stations along U.S. Highway 101 and Interstate 5, the coast’s most prominent cities and roads are now connected by Superchargers. announced an investment from General Electric and the Spanish renewable energy company Iberdrola.

The batteries offered by SolarCity are the same lithium-ion ones that power Tesla’s electric vehicles, reconfigured for stationary use. SolarCity’s chairman is Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla Motors. Musk is a cousin of the founders of SolarCity, CEO Lyndon Rive and chief technology officer Peter Rive.

Two Tesla vehicles have caught fire in recent weeks after road debris punctured battery packs. The Tesla batteries for solar backup will be enclosed in steel cases — and they won’t be travelling down littered highways at 65 miles per hour. “The battery is extremely safe,” Rive said.

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SolarCity won’t charge customers for the battery, but will instead offer it as a service for a monthly fee. They will be offered first in markets with high demand charges, such as parts of California, Massachusetts and Connecticut.

A home battery pack would cost in the range of $25,000 — about as much as the solar panel system itself. And because homeowners don’t pay demand charges there isn’t an economic way — yet — for the battery to recoup that cost. That could change if battery prices fall sharply, but they have remained stubbornly high despite years of research and development.

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 98.77 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.40 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.40 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 43.89 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 16.77 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed lower Thursday, pressured by the financial sector as the latest batch of bank earnings disappointed, giving traders an excuse to take some more profits from a sector that has delivered solid returns all year.

The S&P/TSX composite index fell 104.52 points to 13,200.4 with extra selling pressure coming from mining stocks amid falling commodity prices.

The Canadian dollar erased early losses to rise a third of a cent to 93.98 cents US. Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSX:TD) shares fell $1.35 to $94.40 after it reported a quarterly profit of $1.622 billion, up from $1.597 billion a year ago. On an adjusted basis, TD earned $1.90 per share, up from $1.83 a year ago but nine cents less than analysts had expected.

The bank also raised its dividend by a penny to 86 cents a share and announced a two-for-one stock split.

Most of TD’s major units showed increases but net income from wholesale banking fell by 61 per cent to $122 million from a year earlier.

Meanwhile, Royal Bank of Canada (TSX:RY) had $2.119 billion of quarterly net income, up 11 per cent from last year. Adjusted diluted earnings per share was $1.42, four cents higher than analysts had forecast. But its shares fell 83 cents to $68.17 as Barclays analyst John Aiken pointed to both the wealth management and retail banking divisions as performing weaker than he expected.

RBC also announced that president and chief executive Gordon Nixon will retire next summer.

CIBC (TSX:CM) shares dropped $1.23 to $88.82 as it reported a profit of $836 million in net income in its latest quarter, down from $852 million a year ago. After adjusting for one-time items, earnings were $2.22 per share, seven cents ahead of estimates and up 8.8 per cent from a year ago.

Analysts pointed out that despite the pressure on the bank stocks Thursday, the financial sector was still up about 18 per cent year to date.

U.S. indexes were lower as concerns about what the Federal Reserve will do with a key stimulus measure grew in the wake of more positive economic data.

The Dow Jones industrials lost 68.26 points to 15,821.51 amid further positive news on the U.S. jobs

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The U.S. Labor Department reported that applications for jobless benefits, which are a proxy for layoffs, dropped 23,000 last week to 296,000.

The Nasdaq declined 4.84 points to 4,033.16 and the S&P 500 index was down 7.78 points to 1,785.03.

Expectations for job creation in the government employment report moved higher after payroll firm ADP reported Wednesday that the private sector added 215,000 jobs last month. Prior to that report, markets had expected job creation of about 183,000.

But while a stronger report would be welcomed as another sign of an improving economy, it would also raise concerns the Federal Reserve is getting close to cutting back on its US$85 billion of monthly bond purchases, a program that has kept long term rates low and supported a strong stock market rally this year.

On the TSX, the financial sector was down about 0.66 per cent but still ahead about 18 per cent year to date.

Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) shares fell 38 cents to $63.32 ahead of its earnings report coming out on Friday.

But the gold sector was the biggest percentage decliner, falling almost three per cent. December bullion declined $15.30 to US$1,231.90 as the precious metal appeared less attractive on rising speculation the Fed will move sooner than thought to taper asset purchases. Goldcorp (TSX:G) fell 79 cents to C$22.14 and Kinross Gold (TSX:K) faded eight cents to $4.85.

Base metals were also lower as March copper declined two cents to US$3.23 a pound. The base metals sector fell per cent and HudBay Minerals gave back 14 cents to $7.70.

The energy sector declined 0.32 per cent while the January crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange gained 18 cents to US$97.38 a barrel. Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) gave back 84 cents to $36.27.

A major mover on the TSX was Precision Drilling. Its stock fell 93 cents or 9.06 per cent to $9.33 on huge volume of 74.1 million shares.

Most of the volume came from a block trade of 56 million shares by Alberta Investment Management Company.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close oThursday.

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BRIEFS TD Bank Q4 profit rises to $1.62 billion TORONTO — Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSX:TD) chief executive Ed Clark said challenges in its insurance and wholesale business this year led to underwhelming results, as earnings climbed a meagre one per cent.

The bank capped the fourth quarter with a profit of $1.62 billion, or $1.68 per common share compared with a profit of $1.6 billion or $1.66 per share a year ago.

Analysts were looking for $1.99 per share of adjusted earnings, which was nine cents higher than the $1.90 a share the bank delivered, according to data compiled by Thomson Reuters.

But it was the entire year that fell short of Clark’s expectations.

TD Bank’s full-year adjusted profits were $7.16 billion compared to $7.08 billion in 2012.

Total revenue increased to $27.26 billion from $25.55 billion.

CIBC logs $836M profit in Q4 TORONTO, Ontario — Executives at CIBC (TSX:CM) say they’re cautiously optimistic about what next year holds for the bank amid uncertainty about the direction of Canada’s housing market and interest rates.

“Our outlook for 2014 is one of cautious optimism,” chief executive Gerry McCaughey told analysts on a conference call Thursday as the bank reported a fourth-quarter profit of $836 million.

“The forecast for an improving economic and business environment is encouraging, somewhat offsetting an expected moderation in consumer lending volumes as well as a cooling of the Canadian housing market.”

McCaughey’s outlook came as the bank wrapped up its financial year year with a tepid four per cent growth over 2012, and a fourth quarter that was characterized by numerous small-

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Sask. premier lambastes PotashCorp for job cuts SAYS WORKERS SACRIFICED FOR SHAREHOLDERS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — Premier Brad Wall has sent a letter to Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (TSX:POT) executives blasting them for cutting jobs while preserving the dividend paid to shareholders.

The Saskatoon-based company said Tuesday that it is laying off 1,045 people to reduce its workforce by about 18 per cent, with the biggest hits in its home province of Saskatchewan.

Wall is upset because PotashCorp CEO Bill Doyle said the fertilizer company’s dividend is “sacrosanct” and won’t be touched.

“This can only mean that the interests of shareholders were protected while the interests of employees here in Saskatchewan and elsewhere were sacrificed,” Wall wrote in the letter dated Dec. 4.

About 440 people will lose their jobs in Saskatchewan. Most of those positions are at PotashCorp’s Lanigan division, where one of two mills is to suspend production by the end of the year, and at its Cory division where production will be reduced. Cuts will also be made at the Saskatoon headquarters.

About 130 people in New Brunswick also will be out of a job. The rest of the cuts are to occur outside Canada, including more than 435 in the United States.

PotashCorp says the decision stems from soft demand for potash and phosphates, two major types of crop fertil-

izer. Wall said tough times shouldn’t be shouldered by workers alone.

“For the company to make that announcement that they made and then for Mr. Doyle to indicate that the dividend policy is unchanged and ’sacrosanct,’ that causes me great concern,” the premier said Thursday.

In the letter to PotashCorp chairman Dallas Howe, Wall asks the company to revisit its dividend policy and Tuesday’s decision “with a view to considering whether the number of layoffs could be mitigated.”

“Mr. Doyle has his shareholders. I have mine and they’re the people of the province, who ... own the potash in the first place.”

Potash is mined and used primarily as an ingredient in fertilizer. Saskatchewan is the largest producer in the world, accounting for approximately 30 per cent of total production. The province has almost half of the globe’s potash reserves.

Wall has been one of PotashCorp’s biggest defenders. In 2010, he helped lead opposition to a takeover attempt

by BHP Billiton. Wall vehemently opposed the deal on the grounds that Saskatchewan could lose billions in revenue from taxes and royalties. The premier painted the proposed takeover as anti-Canadian and said the country’s strategic interests would be at risk if the province sold most of its potash industry to an international company.

Ottawa ultimately rejected the takeover after concluding it failed to benefit Canada.

TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Thursday at 914.78, down 4.77 points. The volume at 4:17 p.m. ET was 196.73 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Jan. ’14 $0.60 higher $481.00; March ’14 $0.60 higher $491.10; May ’14 $0.80 higher $500.70; July ’14 $0.50 higher $507.80; Nov. ’14 $0.50 lower $518.60; Jan ’15 $0.30 lower $522.80; March ’15 $0.80 lower $524.40; May ’15 $0.30 lower $526.10; July ’15 $0.90 lower $522.70; Nov ’15 $0.90 lower $518.90; Jan. ’16 $0.90 lower $518.90.

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.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 805,960 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 805,960.

er expenses. Included were charges for a rejig of its banking operations in the Caribbean and the marketing of its new credit card.

CIBC said net income fell two per cent to $836 million, a decrease from $852 million in the same period last year. On a per share basis the results improved to $2.05 from $2.02 a year ago.

The bank delivered adjusted earnings per share of $2.22, which was seven cents higher than analysts expected according to a survey by Thomson Reuters.

Overall revenue held steady at $3.2 billion from $3.16 billion a year earlier.

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Housing market shows renewed strength: BMO TORONTO, Ontario — Even though the housing market is showing renewed strength overall, there are underlying differences in valuations and outlooks among Canada’s four major cities, according to a new report by the Bank of Montreal.

The study by BMO Economics found Calgary has the strongest major housing market thanks in part to a move west by immigrants and young Canadians, drawn by better job prospects, faster wage growth and healthier housing affordability than Vancouver and Toronto.

“Strong economic and population growth will encourage an upward trend in Calgary’s house prices, though higher borrowing costs will moderate the gains,” said Sal Guatieri, senior economist with the Bank of Montreal.

In the three months to October, Calgary home sales have run 23 per cent above year-ago levels, nearly twice the national rate, although some slowing is likely in November. The report also found Vancouver, ofte n seen as the market most at risk of a correction, was returning to balance, although prices remained largely unaffordable.

“Affordability is still a challenge, with benchmark prices topping eighttimes family income,” the report said.

“For young buyers, condos will remain an affordable option, as prices have fallen slightly in the past year and are little changed from six years ago.”

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Collection of short stories a downer Hellgoing: Stories

By Lynn Coady $19.95 House of Anansi Press I once saw a bumper sticker that said, “Where am I going and why am I in this handbasket?”

I remembered that message as I was reading these stories. Of course Lynn Coady can write, she just won the Giller Prize, but in these nine short stories there are several people who are on their way to a dead end. We can only PEGGY hope their destinations turn FREEMAN out to be better than imagined.

The first story in the collection is entitled Wireless. Jane is a reporter, but mostly Jane is a drinker. She goes to “the Rock” to do a piece on icebergs; and because she has met this man Ned from there. The two share an interest in drinking. “Oh it is horse---- that drunkards don’t have real conversations, don’t connect with others on any kind of significant level.” And so it goes.

Hellgoing, the second story, tells us that in spite of your age or success in life, the things your family says to you will hurt the most. Those families are still connected because the women, (the moms) kept everyone in touch. No thanks for that.

There is a story here about Catherine, a young

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anorexic patient. The girl has a God obsession and plans to be “empty” and pure. She is 14 and if she continues to starve herself, she will die. In the next room, Sylvia, is an old woman dying of lung cancer and wanting a cigarette. Sister Anita visits them both but has little sympathy for either. There is love in Sylvia’s room and none in the room of Catherine.

The interesting thing about these stories (and the others in the collection) is that they became intriguing as I read them. Coady is a keen observer and a convincing writer. There are characters here, however, who I would not miss not knowing.

Body Condom shows us the life of a couple, who (she says) “have decided to love each other.” They have spent a long time together as a couple, but when it comes to the meeting of families, we find the devil is in the details. Kim and Hart are both entertainers, he doesn’t drink, a point in his favour, but he is a junkie of a different sort. Can this marriage last or even begin?

The last story, Mr. Hope, makes a good case for home schooling.

With a title like Hellgoing, it should not be a surprise that these people have no use for religion. Sara the writer, on her way to a writers’ retreat held in a monastery, sees the large crucifix on the grounds and says, “I forgot about the God thing ... the crucifix up there.” She believes the labyrinth on the grounds is pagan. Her brother who is religious doesn’t have a firm grip on reality, so that proves something I guess.

Coady can certainly write a story but this collection is a downer.

Peggy Freeman is a local freelance books reviewer.

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.

Now, Premier Alison Redford has rammed 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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C6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Dec. 6, 2013

Best overlooked books of 2013

BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Swans and Klons, by Nora Olsen Nora Olsen’s novel “Swans and Klons� is billed as lesbian YA, but it has less in common with adventure stories like “Harry Potter� or “The Hunger Games� than it does with the high-concept science fiction of folks like Ursula K. Le Guin or Philip K. Dick. Set in a world where men are rendered childlike by a genetic plague and women reproduce through cloning, the book is a meditation on the nature of difference between genders, classes and cultures. A lesbian novel that makes an impassioned plea for the humanity of men and a comingof-age story that embraces as a moral touchstone the treatment of those who never grow up, this is a subtle, intelligent and beautiful book, whatever your age, gender, sexuality or difference.

Earth Sound Earth Signal,

by Douglas Kahn Thomas Watson, Alexander Graham Bell’s assistant, tuned into otherworldly radio sounds at night, long before radio was invented. Watson was hearing “natural radio,� the sounds of the Earth, pinging through telephone lines. In this intriguing book, Douglas Kahn, the sound scholar and author of “Noise Water Meat,� traces how the Earth’s energies permeated the arts.

Earthquakes, outer space and atomic explosions all figure in to Kahn’s wideranging story. He discusses 20th-century art and music — from the cosmic light art of James Turrell to the brainwave compositions of Alvin Lucier — reading the works through a broader narrative of electromagnetic energies.

Men We Reaped, by Jesmyn Ward I keep waiting for the discussion to explode on this book, a memoir from National Book Award winner (for “Salvage the Bones�)

Jesmyn Ward.

It’s a beautiful treatment of the young black men from Ward’s hometown in Mississippi who were “reaped� by poverty and hopelessness of the rural South. That is a sort of person that literature doesn’t address often enough, let alone address with the beautifully ambivalent lyricism that Ward does. I can’t help feeling it’d be a better world if books like this provided the sparks for public discussion that, say, Jonathan Franzen’s latest musings on social media could.

Wealth and Power,

by Orville Schell and John Delury

2013 has been a tumultuous year for Chinese politics, what with the blockbuster trial of ousted Party chief Bo Xilai and breakthrough reforms proffered by the country’s new president, Xi Jinping. For outsiders, it is one thing to read the headlines and quite another to comprehend their significance. Orville Schell and John Delury’s informative and insightful analysis of Chinese struggle for social and economic progress is a must-read for anyone with an interest in the world’s fastest rising superpower because it contextualizes the country’s changes within a larger historical continuum and explains the pragmatic precept by which the most recent crop of Chinese leaders live: “If a wise ruler masters wealth and power, he can have whatever he desires.�

Six-Gun Snow White,

by Catherynne M. Valente A smart and elegantly written tall tale, “SixGun Snow White� follows in the tradition of Angela Carter to deliver not only a thrilling Western retelling of the ubiquitous fairy tale, but an exploration of womanhood displaced. Like so many fairy tales, this is a story of abuse and survival, in which finding a prince isn’t the end game: In this world of silver barons, gunslingers and wronged women, rebuilding a life on one’s own terms, in new territory, is the quest. Fans of Valente’s popular books for middle grade readers will find denser prose and more violent fare in these pages, as the author strips the classic story down to its raw, wounded heart.

Fra Keeler,

by Azardeen Van der Vliet Oloomi A disorienting look at monomania, this slim, chilling novel explores an anonymous narrator’s investigation into the death of the titular Fra Keeler, an obsession that quickly turns everything outside his own body into a portent of death and disturbance. Oloomi enters so fully and sympathetically into the mad logic of her narrator that scenic detail, chronology, cause and effect, and even such mundane props as cactus, mailman and ringing phone are bent, doubled, or subsumed by the paranoid geometries of meaning he draws. “Not like a light bulb, I thought, this cactus ‌ It is a green mass of death, I thought.â€? Reality, as in Alain RobbeGrillet’s “La Jalousie,â€? can only enter the novel slantwise, in streaks. Subtly menacing, but not without humor, the novel derives momentum and tension from the space between its clear, intel-

ligent language and the absolute unreliability of its narrator.

Curious Subjects: Women and the Trials of Realism, by Hilary Schor The joke about overlooked academic books is that they might actually all be overlooked. It’s a shame too. For while readers might rightly circumvent esoteric and problematic texts in avoiding academic publications, they also miss out on what can often be rich, creative and profoundly relevant scholarship as well. USC Literature professor Hilary Schor’s newest book “Curious Subjects: Women and the Trials of Realism� came out in January and it is a dazzling, funny and overwhelmingly insightful exploration on a fundamental theme — that of female curiosity — which pervades realist fiction as well as life more generally. Schor examines Charles Dickens and George Eliot alongside the more unlikely Marquis de Sade, and while reading how carefully Schor follows her curious subjects through their plots, you will find yourself too growing as a reader: a more generous and curious one. The end of her opening paragraph exemplifies the clarity and fun in Schor’s prose: “The princess walked on roads and rode in automobiles and went wherever she pleased and did whatever she liked, and in all the land there was only one law, and it was ‘Thou shalt not be curious.’ “ Intrigued yet? You’ll want to keep reading, I promise.

The Next Time You See Me,

by Holly Goddard Jones A serious and thoughtful first novel from a bright young author with a real sense for small-town life. Jones pays close attention to her characters: A shy high-schooler with a secret; a forgotten factory worker glimpsing his first chance at affection in a long time; a schoolteacher in search of her missing, hard-drinking sister. But Jones is also unafraid of a juicy, enjoyable plot, and the result is a heartfelt mystery that’s as sad as it is nerve-wracking.

An Honest Ghost, by Rick Whitaker Whitaker ends the first chapter of this remarkable book with a line from Christopher Priest: “This is my own story, told in different voices.� An apt introduction given that the author constructs his hypnotic autobiographical novel entirely of quotations drawn from more than 500 volumes, all in his personal library. Indeed, though Ghost is a story with characters and plot, it’s also the memoir of an impenitent bibliophile, his visions of unexpected fatherhood and domestic life ineluctably bound up in well-worn bindings. But you don’t necessarily need to throw

yourself into the literary rabbit-hole mismarked as an appendix of sources to appreciate this book: After all, every writer hosts voices in her head — Whitaker is just being honest about the many haunting his.

The Crossley ID Guide: Britain and Ireland, by Richard Crossley and Dominic Couzens I’ve never been to the U.K. and, frankly, it’s not high on my list of places to go birding. But thanks to Crossley’s innovative system of presenting species on a background of their favorite habitats, I feel I know the countryside pretty well. Grouse stomp along on foggy moors, bullfinches flit in shady gardens, gulls squat among pasty beachgoers on holiday — it fills in the landscapes left out in “Monty Python’s Flying Circus� and “The Office.� I’ve not only learned the birdlife of the U.K. and Ireland, I’ve taken a vacation there — without having to eat any of the food.

Parasite, by Mira Grant W o u l d you allow a 2-pound parasite to be implanted in your body?

What if it ended a deadly allergy? Or controlled your diabetes without insulin? Or provided free birth control? In Grant’s near future, millions of people have decided their innate disgust for parasites should be set aside for the countless benefits of the Intestinal Bodyguard, a genetically manipulated worm capable of curing countless human afflictions with seemingly no side effects. Sally Mitchell owes her life to such an implant after a terrible accident; her miraculous recovery brings her into the gaze of the powerful pharmaceutical company SymboGen, which manufactures the worms. Don’t worry about figuring out the “plot twist� very early on (it’s served up on a silver platter); the goal here is not a gotcha ending but a window into the evolution of our limited narrator’s understanding of the grotesque implications of these medical advances. In a year where debates over the uses and abuses of health care has loomed large, Grant, despite a few stumbles, delivers a claustrophobic, squirm-inducing tale that manages not to get bogged down in polemics. Also, zombies.

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3507/2013 (System Wide Intelligent Transit Technology)

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3512/2013 (Transmission Line / Power Line relocation 80-L) 3489/A-2013** (53 Ave North of Riverlands Sanitary Trunk)

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John sweeps and vacuums and does the I found out it was held in August, and I yard work, which is a godsend because I was never invited because I am not on Fahave had shoulder issues that make these cebook. When did social media get so big things difficult for me. that people can’t pick up a phone or write But lately, John has been pushing all of a letter? — Curious my buttons. He throws the towel over the Dear Curious: Social media sites began shower door even though there is a nearspringing up as early as the mid-1990s. by towel rack. I know it’s a small thing, Facebook was founded in 2004, and MITCHELL but it’s a daily nuisance, and he knows it there are now more than a billion users. & SUGAR bugs me.

Like it or not, people are more apt to use He also does not squeegee the showsuch a site for mass invitations rather er after he uses it, and I’m the one who than pick up a phone and make dozens of cleans it. And he leaves the toilet seat up individual calls.

— but only when the toilet is dirty, which is his way Our readers have let us know that when you of telling me it’s time to clean it. He leaves dishes haven’t heard about an upcoming reunion, you in the sink instead of loading the dishwasher, even should contact others and find out whether you are though I’ve asked him to at least leave them on the out of the loop. counter. When they are piled in the sink, I have no Dear Annie: I’d like to respond to “Too Good of room to prepare dinner. a Cook,” whose grown children often visited for the I know these are tiny things, but they add up, es- weekend but never offered to help cook or contribpecially when I’m working all day while he is watch- ute to the growing grocery bills. ing TV. When he’s upset with me, he gives me the My mother had many siblings who visited from out silent treatment, and often it takes me days to figure of state. Her rule was, “You are guests for one day. out why.

After that you are living here.” So everyone helped I know John is depressed because of his retire- out with the dishes, cooking, cutting grass, doing ment, but he is well situated, doesn’t have to pay any wash and whatever. — J.F. bills and gets home-cooked meals every day. I love Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and him dearly, but I am going nuts walking on eggshells. Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers colWhat am I doing wrong? — Massachusetts umn. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ Dear Massachusetts: Nothing. You did not live comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators with John before his retirement and don’t really Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. know whether he was always like this.

His age may also be a factor in that he might be less energetic and capable than he was a year ago.

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Study says parental anxiety over vaccine reactions highest with first-born children

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — First-born children are more likely to be taken to hospital when they have reactions to childhood vaccinations than their younger brothers and sisters, a new study shows.

The difference in hospital visits post-vaccinations was greatest in the first two sets of shots babies get, at two months and four months.

In fact, first-born children were 70 per cent more likely to be taken to hospital in the days after getting their four-month shots than were their younger siblings, the researchers reported.

The study, by Ontario researchers, can’t say for sure what is behind the higher rates of hospital visits after first-born children are vaccinated. But the authors suggest the anxiety of first-time parents could well be playing a role.

“That’s potentially one part of it,” acknowledged Dr. Joanne Langley, a pediatric infectious diseases specialist at Dalhousie University in Halifax who was not part of this study.

“First-time parents aren’t as experienced. And as they gain experience, they become better and better able to read their child.”

The study, which is published in the journal PLoS One, was written by scientists from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and Public Health Ontario, the province’s public health agency.

The authors said there is also a possibility that a biological effect could be contributing to the higher rates of post-vaccination hospital visits for firstborns. First children may have different responses to vaccines than younger siblings as a manifestation of the so-called hygiene hypothesis, they suggested.

A number of studies have reported that children who have older siblings are less likely to develop asthma and allergies. It’s thought that may be because their immune systems are exposed to a wider range of challenges sooner because of their birth order.

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Site Exception for 3702 – 50 Avenue Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/N -2013 City Council is considering amending the Land Use Bylaw to add a site exception to permit specific commercial uses to operate within the existing structure of the building located at 3702 – 50 Avenue while maintaining the current R2 Residential (Medium Density) zoning. The commercial uses being considered for the site are: 1. Commercial services related to the care and appearance of the body such as a massage business, beauty shop, barber shop, or tanning salon 2. Commercial services related to a financial or insurance services outlet, real estate agency, travel agency 3. Law Office, or 4. Health and Medical Services – a development used for services related to the physical or mental health of individuals on an out-patient basis. Services may be preventative, diagnostic, treatment, therapeutic, rehabilitative in nature or may consist of treatment of counseling. Uses may include but are not limited to medical clinics, dental clinics, optometrists, chiropractic and psychiatric or medical counseling services.

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Development Officer Approvals On December 3, 2013, the Development Of½cer issued approval for the following applications: Permitted Use Waskasoo 1. Beta Surveys Ltd. – a 1.25 metre relaxation to the minimum front yard setback to the existing deck, located at 5712 45 Avenue.

Discretionary Use Queens Business Park 2. S & S Directional Boring – the installation of an above ground methanol tank and an above ground used oil tank, to be located at 158 Queens Drive.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on December 20, 2013. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403342-8399.

Proposed Amendment to Land Use Bylaw 3357/2006

Municipal Planning Commission Decisions On November 27, 2013 the Municipal Planning Commission issued the following decisions for development permit applications: Discretionary Use Approvals: Vanier Woods True-Line Contracting Ltd. - Site development for the discretionary use of an 18 unit multi-attached development with a rear yard setback of 5.50 metres, a 2.0 metre relaxation, and a rear deck setback of 3.67 metres, a 0.83 metre relaxation, to be located at 129 Viscount Drive.

Change District from: R2 to R2 (f) (ix) Residential (Medium Density) District

Affected District: R2 - Residential (Medium Density) District

Proposed Amendment Map: 13 / 2013 Bylaw: 3357 / N-2013 Date: Oct. 31, 2013

The proposed bylaw may be inspected at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular office hours or for more details, contact City of Red Deer Planning Services at 403-406-8700.

City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaw at the Public Hearing on Monday, December 16, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor at City Hall. If you want your letter included in the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services by Friday, December 6, 2013. You may also submit your letter at the Public Hearing, or you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Council’s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

Clearview Ridge Neoteric Architecture – Site development for the discretionary use for a 69 unit multi attached development with a maximum height of 3 storeys, a one storey relaxation; a minimum site area of 11,565m2, a 2,300m2 relaxation; and a minimum frontage of 4.88 metres, a 1.22 metre relaxation, to be located at 298 Carrington Drive.

Permitted Use Approvals Queens Industrial Detail Design Studio Ltd. – Site development for a 1570m2 industrial building, to be located at 83 Queens Drive.

You may appeal discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on December 6, 2013. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403342-8132.

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Friday, Dec. 6 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Jude Apatow, 46; Tom Hulce, 60; Janine Turner, 51 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: There is an abundance of positivity in the sky today! This will turn our attention to group activities that are engaging and stimulating.

Awareness on humanitarian and activist movements will incite us to work together rather than solo.

We’ll feel more united while working towards a common goal. This ASTRO energy will manifest itself in quite a loving manner showing us the path DOYNA which leads us to a more peaceful group effort.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, you will come into contact with a variety of individual this year. You will also increase your number of connections of people in a leadership role or who hold a certain degree of power. Your confidence will skyrocket!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Something you have been working hard on is finally showing you great success. You have come a long way to get where you are now and you welcome this reward with much joy. You’ll have quite a few reasons to celebrate.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You will be predisposed towards maintaining a good, healthy image. You know that deep down inside, you have a quiet confidence suggesting that your standing in life is at a favourable position at this point. Expect an increased flow of money.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your desire for freedom and your positive outlook on life are quite strong now. Your emotional needs are inflated by a strong longing to liberate yourself in some way. You are feeling quite optimistic.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Today, you are in a contradictory mood. On one side, you are feeling held back by obligations towards your children, and, on the other side, you are quite contentious and emotionally fulfilled. As long as you know how to manage the two, you will have a balanced disposition.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You are tired of feeling tired or confused. Today, you crave spending some quality time with the ones that increase your sense of well-being. You are likely to leave everything strenuous behind and join a couple of good friends and sing a happier tune.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Those routine tasks can give you an almost sense of pride and well-being. It’s as if you’re so optimistic about carrying out those chores that they don’t seem boring anymore. You’re infused with a jovial surge of energy and you can successfully complete those tedious tasks.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Today’s energy is pulling you towards more fun activities. You derive much excitement through activities with your children as well. They seem to bring you joy and fulfilment. If you are dating, this can be an easy time to express your feelings quite naturally.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A great need to be surrounded with familiar things will present itself. You are more likely to spend time at home or with your parents. If you are feeling kind of ignored today, don’t let unreciprocated feelings affect your mood today.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Try to avoid any confrontations with a friend today. You feel somehow abandoned or that your emotional needs are not in tune with what you truly desire. Remember, this is just a temporary feeling that you will very soon forget. A beautiful surprise will change your disposition.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You are going through a material inventory and you are trying to figure out what you have and what you need to acquire. You feel more emotionally secure once you know which provisions are necessary for your own security.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): This is a time when you crave to break out of old habits and change into something new. You thrive on anything that will stimulate your desires.

Feeling emotionally independent and free is exactly what you need right now.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Inner harmony helps you tolerate more than you would normally do. Also, these days you are in amorous moods and you feel that an existing or a potential love can attain higher levels of intimacy.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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LUANN Dec. 6 1992 — Ralph Klein wins the leadership of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party.

1989 — Marc Lepine, armed with a Sturm Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifle, knives and bandoliers of ammunitions, kills 14 women engineering students in a classroom at the École Polytechnique, Université de Mon-

tréal. He wounds 13 others, shouting “You’re all a bunch of feminists,” then turns the gun on himself.

1917 — Downtown Halifax is blown to pieces as a French munitions freighter, the Mont Blanc, coming through the Narrows carrying 2,300 tons of picric acid, 200 tons of TNT, 35 tons of high octane gasoline, and 10 tons of gun cotton, collides with the Belgium steamship Imo, outbound to New York City, at 8:45 am. The blast kills 2,000 and injures more than 8,000, leaving 10,000 homeless, and doing $50 million in damage.

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This artist’s rendering provided by Madrid Scientific Films shows Sima de los Huesos hominins, who are estimated to have lived approximately 400,000 years ago during the Middle Pleistocene. relationship to Denisovans, who lived in Siberia and apparently elsewhere in Asia, far from the Spanish cave. Scientists are uncertain of how to explain that, Meyer said.

The picture should get clearer if scientists can recover the other kind of DNA, found in the nucleus, from the Spanish bones, he said.

Nucleus DNA would give more comprehensive information about evolutionary relationships between species, perhaps telling a story much different from the mitochondrial DNA evidence, Meyer said.

Nucleus DNA is harder to recover, but Meyer said he’s optimistic that some small fraction might be retrievable.

He also noted that the cave has acted as “the perfect fridge” to preserve the DNA for eons, and said it will be hard to find comparable situations else-

where.

Experts in ancient DNA called the new paper exciting because it showed scientists can recover older DNA than many had thought outside the deep freeze of permafrost areas.

Much of human evolution happened in warmer places.

“We had been operating for a while under the assumption that the oldest DNA we’re going to get is about 100,000 years,” said Disotell.

Now, “we might take a shot at some older samples that we just never would have bothered with in the past.”

In warm places like Africa, where DNA does not preserve well, even getting genetic material that is just tens of thousands of years old would be an advance, said David Reich of Harvard Medical School.

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NEW YORK — Scientists have reached farther back than ever into the ancestry of humans to recover and analyze DNA, using a bone found in Spain that’s estimated to be 400,000 years old.

So far, the achievement has provided more questions than answers about our ancient forerunners.

The feat surpasses the previous age record of about 100,000 years for genetic material recovered from members of the human evolutionary line. Older DNA has been mapped from animals.

Experts said the work shows that new techniques for working with ancient DNA may lead to more discoveries about human origins.

Results were presented online Wednesday in the journal Nature by Matthias Meyer and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, with co-authors in Spain and China.

They retrieved the DNA from a thighbone found in a cave in northern Spain.

It is among thousands of fossils from at least 28 individuals to be recovered from a chamber called the “Pit of the Bones.”

The remains are typically classified as Homo heidelbergensis, but not everybody agrees.

The age of the bones has been hard to determine.

A rough estimate from analyzing the DNA is around 400,000 years, which supports what Meyer said is the current view of the anthropologists excavating the site.

Todd Disotell, an anthropology professor at New York University, said geological techniques suggest the remains are older than 300,000 years but it’s not clear by how much.

By comparison, modern humans arose only about 200,000 years ago.

The researchers mapped almost the complete collection of so-called mitochondrial DNA. While the DNA most people know about is found in the nucleus of a cell, mitochondrial DNA lies outside the nucleus. It is passed only from mother to child.

Researchers used the DNA to construct possible evolutionary family trees that include the Spanish individuals and two groups that showed up much later: Neanderthals and an evolutionary cousin of Neanderthals called Denisovans.

They assumed the DNA would show similarities to Neanderthal DNA, since the Spanish fossils have anatomical features reminiscent of Neanderthals.

But surprisingly, the DNA instead showed a closer

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Stars abound in punny panto FAMILY-ORIENTED PLAY WRITTEN AND DIRECTED

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BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

The Queen, Stephen Harper and stripper-turnedactor Channing Tatum all make appearances in Cinderella Dances with the Stars.

OK, they won’t personally appear in the Central Alberta Theatre production. But they will be represented by local commuWhat: CAT presents nity actors in the Christthe Christmas “panto” mas show that opens on Cinderella Dances With Friday, Dec. 13, at Red the Stars, written by AlDeer’s Memorial Centre. bert Azzara The family oriented When: 7 p.m., Dec. “panto” is locally written 13 to 21 (matinees at and directed by city resi1 p.m. on Dec. 14, 15, dent Albert Azzara in the 21, and at 12:45 p.m.

English pantomime tradion Dec. 18) tion. This means male acWhere: Red Deer’s tors will play over-the-top Memorial Centre female “Dame” roles, in Tickets: $25.45 ($20.45 the style of Monty Python. each for a family of Local dignitaries — infour) from the Black cluding Mayor Tara Veer Knight Ticket Centre and former mayor Morris Flewwelling — will make some cameo appearances.

The audience will be encouraged to cheer for heroes and hiss and boo at villains — and puns will be made on everything.

And I mean everything.

For instance, Cinderella Mozzerella, who will be played by Red Deer singer Olivia Smith, lives in Lowland Brown (a play on Highland Green).

The villainess is called Natasha of Bullwinkle, after the East European vixen from the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon. Her multiple-personality-disordered compatriot Boris’s real name is Rudolf of Nureyev — and the ballet associations go on to include Queen Isadora of Duncan (who boogies to music from the band Queen).

The Prince Charming dancing character is called Prince Channing of Tatum. And the prime minister is called Stephen Harmonica.

There will be some senator jokes and maybe even some Rob Ford references (providing Azzara can find a family friendly way of presenting them).

“There will be lots of jokes that adults will get and lots of sight gags for the children,” he promised — including Cinderella drawing on her inner Miss Piggy to karate chop the bad guys.

In case you’re wondering, yes, there is a plot line buried under all the songs, jokes and puns, and it goes something like this: Prince Channing is in danger of losing his crown unless he marries a dancing princess by age 25 — and his biological clock is a-ticking.

A kingdom-wide dance competition is planned to attract gals who know how to cha-cha and have ambitions of marrying the prince.

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Olivia Smith as Cinderella cozies up to Putter the Panto Horse, who is played by Gianna Lal in the head end and Hunter Ghesquiere in the tail end.

Deluxe box sets weighty in both heft and price

BY MARK BEECH ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES What do Daft Punk, Bob Dylan, the Clash, Herbie Hancock and the Beach Boys have in common?

They are all contenders in the annual battle to see whose box set can outweigh the other.

As holiday shoppers increasingly focus on individual song downloads, and obituaries are written for the album and CD formats, these sets — with luxury packaging and prices to match — may be the real saviors of the record industry, as well as offering great gift ideas.

Some of these boxes need extra shelf support or careful budgeting. The good news is that the best aren’t always the most expensive, and they all still offer enough listening for well into the New Year.

Because many of these sets are limited editions, prices are moving and it pays to shop around.

Sometime close to Christmas there will be vinyl box sets of the complete oeuvre for the German band Can and Scotland’s the Jesus and Mary Chain. There will be some rare tracks on both, though price tags, yet to be confirmed, may surpass $500.

The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records is a six-LP box set put together by musician Jack White. The collection covers the 1920s black-music label whose roster featured Jelly Roll Morton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ma Rainey and Louis Armstrong.

The 800-track digital set was first issued through White’s Third Man Records at $400, though prices are now soaring to $480 on other sites. That’s a lot, though the document often rises above the historical to be really entertaining. This music was feared lost.

Now we are hearing it again after decades.

The New York Art Quartet was a free jazz group, endlessly praised though not much heard. It only released a couple of LPs. Now Call It Art 1964-65 radically expands the output over five discs in a handsome birchwood case with a clothbound book.

This has a serious price, $340 or more, and best left for true avant- garde fans.

Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories” set is $275.

For this you get one of the best albums of 2013, otherwise available for about $9, in a beautifully presented box with a lot of hardly essential extras. Perhaps the best item is a record presenting the highlights from a three-hour monologue by producer Giorgio Moroder, later spliced down to form the nine-minute Giorgio by Moroder. Apart from that, the souvenir has vinyl albums, a hardcover photo book, art prints, USB drives and celluloid film strips.

For slightly less outrageous prices, there are many box sets that collect the majority of an artist’s work. At about $180, the Clash’s Sound System is in a class of its own.

The 12 discs cover the band’s studio LPs (with the exception of the dispensable breakup disc) all remastered with demos, non-album singles, rarities, B-sides and a DVD. The music shows why the Clash was Britain’s best punk band above, say, the Sex Pistols. The exceptional packaging, looking like an old

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Made in California by the Beach Boys. The box set, originally planned for the band’s 50th anniversary, contains some of its best-known songs, some in unfamiliar forms, alongside rare takes. boombox, is also stuffed with amusing if unnecessary extras such as fanzines, dog tags, badges, stickers and a poster.

The Sun Rock Box 1954-59 is $165 and gives an excellent overview of rock recorded at the Memphis record label best known for Elvis Presley. (There are other sets covering Sun’s blues and country work.)

This eight-CD, 10-hour set makes a convincing case for Sun’s backup bands and many of the label’s less successful acts such as Patsy Halcomb, who cut I Wanta Rock.

There’s more from musicians who have produced excellent music, while not being in the very first rank of stars.

British singer-songwriter John Martyn’s The Island

Years is $250. Martyn died in 2009: it appears de rigueur to couple his name with the adjective “underrated.” Solid Air from 1973 is by no means the only gem, though 18 discs will be too much for many.

For about $212, There’s a Dream I’ve Been Saving covers part of the long career of Lee Hazlewood — though it doesn’t cover his best work with Duane Eddy and Nancy Sinatra.

Also for $212, Herbie Hancock’s keyboard work is showcased on Columbia Album Collection, 34 CDs spanning 1972-1988 and featuring a range of styles from Miles Davis jazz to funk and electronic disco.

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Amber-Jane Grove’s exhibit entitled 900: Drawing with the Brain is on display at the Harris-Warke Gallery at Sunworks, 4924 Ross St. in Red Deer. There will be a reception with the artist during First Friday today from 6 to 8 p.m. Other galleries in the city will also be hosting events today.

EXHIBITS RED DEER GALLERIES ● Life, Up Close — Artworks by Lydia Christensen will be open for viewing at The Hub on Ross for the month of Dec. Phone 403-340-4869. ● Works of Emily Thomson will be on display at Café Pichilingue until Dec. 31. ● Red Deer Arts Council Visual Arts Members Juried Exhibition Group Show is on exhibit at Kiwanis Gallery at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch until Dec. 29. ● Last Call: A Collection of Previously Featured Artists Group Show will be presented at Marjorie Wood Gallery at Kerry Wood Nature Centre until Dec. 31. ● Works of Harvey Brink is at Velvet Olive Lounge until Dec. 31. ● 900: Drawing with the Brain by Edmonton artist Amber-Jane Grove is open at Harris-Warke Gallery until Dec. 31. Grove is a graduate of Red Deer College Visual Arts Program and BFA graduate of University of Lethbridge.

The series of drawings are a 900 day project which involve drawing with hands, feet, mouth, and so on, and reveals a multitude of imagery that would otherwise not be utilized. See harriswarke.com ● Red Deer Arts Council Visual Arts Members Juried Exhibition will be featured at the Kiwanis Gallery at the Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch from Dec. 4 to 29.

This exhibit expresses the quality of works of the artists in the RDAC membership from emerging to professional, and includes Red Deer and beyond. ● Expedition Arctic: 1913-1918 is a traveling exhibit from Canadian Museum of Civilization in collaboration with the Canadian Museum of Nature and features over 250 outstanding artifacts, including many on display for the first time, now open at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery until Feb. 17. Phone 403-309-8405. ● Private Moments by Arto Djerdjerian will be on display at Corridor Community Galley, Recreation Centre, lower level until Dec. 13.

● The Northern Terrain Painters — New Work from Jeri Lynn Ing, Susan Woolgar, Judy Sutter and Larry Reese is now at Gallery IS which will be open Nov. and Dec. from noon to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday. Phone 403-341-0340. ● Steps Through Time is a look back on the evolution of select sports footwear now on at Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. Explore the progression and evolution of various equipment, glimpse the history and the modifications, that make sports equipment, to make it faster, safer and more comfortable. See www.ashfm.ca, or phone 403-341-8614. ● The Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum celebrates Red Deer Centennial with the opening of the exhibit Red Deer Sport History. Take a look at over 100 years Sports History and discover the impact that sport had on Red Deer and its citizens. For more information contact Debbie at debbie@ashfm.ca or visit www.ashfm.ca or call 403-3418614.

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was placed on a psychiatric hold after starting a fire in a driveway in her hometown of Thousand Oaks, Calif. Her mother, Lynn Bynes, was granted a temporary conservatorship over the actress, but the case was dismissed because Amanda Bynes’ care was being overseen by a mental health court.

Arminak wrote in a statement to People magazine that Amanda Bynes’ treatment will continue and she is considering returning to school to study fashion design.

The actress starred in the Nickelodeon show All That and her own variety series.

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Amanda Bynes has left inpatient treatment, is back with parents LOS ANGELES — A lawyer for Amanda Bynes says the actress has left an inpatient mental health treatment facility and is back with her parents.

Attorney Tamar Arminak on Thursday confirmed the 27-year-old actress’s release after several months of treatment.

Bynes has been in treatment since July, when she

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NEW YORK — Mob City, TNT’s six-episode drama from The Walking Dead’s ousted showrunner Frank Darabont, opens with a massive gunfight over Prohibition alcohol in New York in 1925. The shooters are historical figures — Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky — introduced by a voice-over from the series’ main character, a seen-it-all detective named Joe Teague.

Teague, played with a hardboiled rasp by Walking Dead’s Jon Bernthal, explains that good guys and bad guys only wear white hats and black hats in the movies, and, as the show cuts to 1947 Los Angeles, asserts that we “live in a world of grey hats.”

Between the ultra-violence, the gangsters, and the cliché about grey — just recently used on Low Winter Sun — it would have been almost impossible for Mob City, which premieres this week, to have made a worse first impression on me. We all have our tastes and our biases: give me a British drawing room drama and I barely care if I’ve seen that upstairsdownstairs romance before. Give me another selfserious, bloody, gangster piece and I wish for a pair of cement boots.

But, to bust out a cliché of my own, first impressions can be deceiving: Mob City is not just a rehash of mobster tropes, it’s an almost exuberant rifling of noir staples. (The show is based on a book called L.A. Noir; it covers exactly the same period as the recent film Gangster Squad.) There are shout-outs to James Cagney and The Untouchables, but it’s with respect to noir that Mob City really becomes a quote machine.

The first episode kicks off the series’ plot when Teague is asked to help a comedian (Simon Pegg) blackmail the Mob with salacious photo negatives — the bait in the infamously convoluted Big Sleep. A mark in an Italian restaurant has a nose bandaged up just like Jake Gittes. The femme fatale (Alexa Davalos) speaks with the sort of placeless, slightly British, trans-Atlantic accent of the studio era. There are notes written inside of matchbooks and secrets hiding in train depot lockers and neon hotel signs flashing through windows. And then there’s Teague himself, who has Bernthal doing a spiritual impression of Bogey at his most long-suffering. How has it been nearly 50 years since Philip Marlowe or Sam Spade had a TV show?

Mob City has all the hallmarks of exhausted antihero television (mostly, in Teague, it has the exhausted anti-hero), but it’s surprising how much fresher those gambits feel when wedded to noir. Noir, like its no-nonsense detectives, is innately opposed to exactly the sort of pretension and self-seriousness that has made recent gangster dramas like Low Winter Sun and Ray Donovan so insufferable. For starters, noir can be notoriously lax about plot. Raymond Chandler famously couldn’t keep The Big Sleep’s story straight, and that — at least in a pre-nitpickingInternet age — hardly mattered. I’m not suggesting that Mob City’s plot won’t add up, but in its first two episodes it is pretty damn elliptical. It’s the mood, not the plot, that really counts. This hyper-stylization — the heady rhythm of the fast-flying dialogue, the pre-ordained double cross, the cynicism — keeps the overwrought and overearnest in check. At the end of Teague’s opening speech about black hats and white hats, he deadpans, “In real life it’s different. In real life the bad guys often wear flashy shoes,” a note of jocularity the Sam Spades of the world — but not your everyday anti-hero — are ontologically mandated to inject into the proceedings.

I don’t want to give the impression that Mob City is a great noir. It’s just adequate, but adequate noir can really enliven an otherwise tedious gangster story. Bernthal’s Bogey impersonation tamps down all of his charisma. But noir has been so unexploited by current television that a noir pastiche is less tiresome than a gangster one. Better a reboot of Philip Marlowe than yet another retread of Tony Soprano.

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STAGE: Crowd expected to do more than just sit Meanwhile, poor Cinderella would like a crack at becoming Prince Channing’s bride, only she’s at the mercy of her mean stepmother and two stepsisters after her father gets kidnapped.

They don’t want her to attend the dance-off. And neither does Prince Channing’s evil cousin Boris — who actually doesn’t want any eligible bachelorettes to attend.

Boris stands to inherit the crown if Prince Channing doesn’t fulfil his marital obligations, so he schemes to derail the whole dancing/dating competition.

Audience members will be left wondering: will it go ahead? Or more to the point: will poor Cinderella have a hope of entering and winning the dance-off and getting the final rose — even with the help of her unionized Fairy Godmother?

Azzara said audience members will have to watch the musical saga to find out.

The crowd will be expected to do more than just sit there and watch the action unfold — they will have to help Cinderella get her man.

Azzara noted that Cinderella never did learn to tell time, so kids in the audience will have to observe the large grandfather clock on stage and tell her how many minutes she has until it chimes at midnight.

While Cinderella Dances With the Stars involves a cast of 20-plus actors aged from 11 years to their mid-80s, and Azzara has double cast some roles, he said rehearsals have gone swimmingly.

“It’s been a lot of fun.”

The good thing about directing a play that he also wrote is “I have licence to change whatever I want — it’s my script!” added the retired school drama teacher who started acting in Christmas pantomimes in his native Lethbridge. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) has in recent weeks, among other things, read the real nightly news on North Dakota’s KX News, interviewed Peyton Manning for SportsCenter, shot 70 commercials for Dodge Durango, and announced the Olympic curling trials for TSN in Canada. worked in news vouched for the essential truth in Anchorman: “She’s said, ‘I’m telling you, I know it’s a crazy movie. But it’s the most accurate thing I’ve ever seen. That’s exactly the way news stations were.’”

The idea for Anchorman, the 2004 comedy that has become arguably the most-quoted movie of the past decade, came from a documentary Ferrell saw about Jessica Savitch, a broadcast journalist for PBS’s Frontline and NBC Nightly News. Mort Crim, Savitch’s co-anchor, “was being open and honest about the fact that he was a real chauvinist,” said Ferrell. “The thing that struck me was, here he was doing this interview” — switching to Burgundy’s tone again — “but he still kept his effective newscaster voice.”

“I just started imitating him,” said Ferrell. “And I thought, wouldn’t it be fun to see a character . . . to see this newsperson who never let that down?”

In Anchorman 2, Ron is confronted with even more opportunities to be blissfully ignorant: one scene takes him to dinner with the family of his black female boss (who he happens to be sleeping with), where his racist behavior gets him punched in the face but somehow doesn’t alienate him from the audience. “Ron’s not doing it maliciously,” said Ferrell. “He’s showing, ‘Oh, I thought this was the way you were supposed to communicate with black people.’

“He can kind of get away with a lot because you can tell there’s a sweetness to the character,” he said. “He’s not a malicious person. And he ultimately will admit when he’s wrong. It may take a while. He just wants to be liked. That’s all.”

Ferrell and Anchorman director and co-writer Adam McKay have a nearly two- decade creative

partnership (they both joined Saturday Night Live in 1995) that has remained nearly unchanged in its logistics. “We kind of sit in our office and just start spitballing ideas, from the most linear thought to the most outrageous. . . . In the first one, I said to Adam, ‘Should Ron play jazz flute?’ And he’s like, ‘Yes! He absolutely should.’ “ After flirting with a bunch of other ideas — “What if Ron and the news team are selected to colonize the moon? What if Ron somehow gets involved with Manuel Noriega and gets caught up in that conflict in Panama?” — Ferrell and McKay decided to set Anchorman 2 in 1980, at the dawn of 24-hour news.

“At that time, CNN just needed bodies,” said Ferrell.

“They had to have people on around the clock. You could conceivably find a guy like Ron on at two in the morning. And that’s perfect: to thrust these guys onto that stage, there’s a lot of comedic possibility.”

There is no catchphrase brainstorming session, no way of predicting which quotes will worm their way into the lexicon. “Anyone who says they can, they’re lying,” said Ferrell. “We’ve been asked that: ‘Do you sit and think of catchphrases?’ It’s so hard not to be facetious. ‘Yup, we’ve got a computer program! Yeah, we just run the numbers.’ “ When the interminable press tour finally ends, Ferrell says he thinks he’ll miss Ron Burgundy. He’s not planning on a third Anchorman movie, he said, and “it’ll be a little sad” to leave this character behind. Starting a new movie from scratch is harder than it used to be, even though Ferrell is more famous than he’s ever been.

“Everything’s just really kind of scrutinized on a super hyper level.”

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He’s not embarrassed when he’s dancing in tight, white pants on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, or when he’s ice skating in a rhinestone-spangled bodysuit, or when he’s cross-dressing as Attorney General Janet Reno. He’s not even embarrassed to be completely naked, although he’s planning to cut back on the streaking scenes.

“It did get mentioned a lot,” Ferrell said. “‘Do you take your shirt off in every movie? You like to get naked all the time.’ So that is now viewed with a little more diligence. If I don’t have to do it for a scene, there’s no need to. Because,” he deadpans, “I want to save those moments.”

Ferrell stopped by the Newseum on Tuesday night on his all-consuming, kind-of-meta press tour for Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. He’s clocked far more hours as fictional newsman Ron Burgundy offscreen than he has in both Anchorman movies combined. Ron Burgundy has in recent weeks, among other things, read the real nightly news on North Dakota’s KX News, interviewed Peyton Manning for SportsCenter, shot 70 commercials for Dodge Durango, and announced the Olympic curling trials for TSN in Canada.

Neither Ferrell nor Burgundy knows a whole lot about curling, to be honest. But ignorance has never stopped Burgundy before.

“They gave me a glossary of facts and terms, and I kind of just threw it away,” said Ferrell. “I dove into it as if I was Ron. Because if Ron Burgundy got a call to come announce the National Canadian Finals of Curling, he would say” — Ferrell steps into his Burgundy voice — “Of course! Thank you so much! This is an honour. I’ll see you Tuesday.’ Click. ‘What is curling?’”

Ferrell is amused by all the positive feedback the media tour has been getting. AdWeek gushed that the push is “unlike anything done before” and is “changing the way movies are marketed.”

“I keep laughing at it, because this really is an aberration,” he said. “You’re not going to see Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow going on The Tonight Show. It’s a character that lends itself perfectly to this, but I don’t think I can think of any other characters from past movies I’ve done [who could do this] . . . I know I’m setting myself up for the next movie I do. Another studio will be like, ‘Oh, you’ll do all this crazy stuff, right?’ No, that was a one-off.”

If you didn’t already know Ferrell was capable of great acts of ridiculousness, you’d never guess it from his demeanor. It’s the end of a long day of press, and Ferrell’s still got that for-camera makeup on, his blue eyes glow-in-the-dark bright against a face caked with peachy powder. He speaks in the soft, gentle voice of someone trying not to wake the kids. His outfit — a polka-dot necktie knotted over a checked shirt, tucked into a tweed vest, topped off with a brown jacket — is about as far as one could get from Burgundy’s loud, polyester wardrobe, much of which is on display at the Newseum.

The most surreal part of the whole exhibit, said Ferrell, is to see “that we were so accurate.” Ferrell remembers the first film initially “kind of got poohpoohed by the news world,” which dismissed the comedy as goofy fiction. And it is a little jarring to see the advertisement for the Anchorman 2 exhibit in the Newseum lobby sandwiched between posters for the JFK assassination exhibit and 1963: Civil Rights at 50.

While introducing Ferrell for a Q&A session, Newseum chief executive James Duff stated his hope that Anchorman will “draw more visitors in” to see the “more serious” exhibits on display.

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A new face FIRST FULL FACE TRANSPLANTS THRIVE THANKS TO NEW BLOOD VESSEL NETWORKS, MEDICAL IMAGING SHOWS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — America’s first full face transplant patients are growing into their new appearances — literally.

Medical imaging shows new blood vessel networks have formed, connecting transplanted skin with the patients’ facial tissue, a finding that may help improve future face transplant surgeries, doctors announced Wednesday.

Dallas Wiens, the first U.S. man to get a full face transplant, is a remarkable example of that success. The 28-year-old Fort Worth man attended Wednesday’s annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America with his new wife and golden retriever guide dog. Despite still visible facial scars from the March 2011 surgery, he looks and sounds like a recovered man.

“My entire life is a miracle,” Wiens said at a news conference.

His face was burned off in a 2008 painting accident at his church. He was on a cherry-picker lift when his head hit a high voltage wire.

After surgery, Wiens lived for two years with no facial features and just a two-inch slit for a mouth, until his transplant at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Imaging studies on Wiens and two other full face transplants done at Brigham in 2011 show that a network of new blood vessels had formed just a year after the operations.

A fourth full face transplant was performed at Brigham earlier this year.

The same thing typically happens with other transplants and it helps ensure their success by boosting blood flow to the donor tissue. But Brigham doctors say this is the first time it has happened with full face transplants.

The finding could eventually shorten the operating time for future face transplants, Brigham radiologist Dr.

Frank Rybicki said. The operations can take up to 30 hours and include attaching spaghetti-thin arteries in the patients’ existing tissue to the donor face, but the findings suggest attaching only two facial or neck arteries instead of several is sufficient, he said.

Dr. Samir Mardini, a Mayo Clinic expert in reconstructive transplant surgery, said blood vessel reorganization occurs with other types of tissue transplants — doctors call it “neovascularization” and it helps ensure the tissue’s survival by improving blood flow.

“It’s interesting that they’ve shown it” with face transplants, but it’s not a surprise, Mardini said.

Face transplants, using cadaver donors, are still experimental. Fewer than 30 have been done since the first in 2005, said Dr. Branko Bojovich, a surgeon involved in a 2012 face transplant at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

He called the Boston team’s findings “very reassuring” for surgeons and for future patients.

“We’re assuming that these patients will hopefully go on to live productive and long lives,” Bojovich said.

Wiens’ life before the accident was troubled, and he says he misses nothing about it except possibly his eyesight.

“I’ve learned more about other people and myself, being blind,” he said.

He met his wife, Jamie Nash, in a support group for burn patients, and they were married in March at the same church where Wiens’ accident occurred. That was a symbolic choice, Wiens said.

“The most life-changing experience I had happened at that church. I felt like the beginning of my new life should happen there,” he said.

Nash, 30, had suffered severe burns in a 2010 car crash in which she lost control of her car while texting.

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America’s first full face transplant patient Dallas Wiens receives a kiss from his guide dog Charlie after a news conference at McCormick Place in Chicago this week. Despite still visible facial scars from the March 2011 surgery, Wiens looks and sounds like a recovered man. daughter and her two children. Nash helps him “see” and he helps her do things that are difficult because of her scarred, stiff arms.

Together, they work with a foundation Nash set up to advocate against texting and driving, visiting schools to bring the message to teens. Wiens says the work helps make his new life

fulfilling.

“Our life is incredible,” Nash said Wednesday. “We are so much in love.”

Added Wiens, “There is life after tragedy.”

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Triplets, bigger multiple births increasingly are due to fertility drugs, not IVF, study finds Triplets-and-more increasingly are the result of drugs given to women to make them produce eggs — not from using multiple embryos from IVF, or lab-dish fertilization, new research shows.

More than one-third of twins and three-quarters of triplets and higher multiple births in the U.S. are due to fertility treatments of all types, researchers from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Brown University report in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine.

Multiple births raise medical risks and hospital bills for moms and babies.

Guidelines urging the use of fewer embryos were strengthened following the

2009 “Octomom” case, in which a California woman had octuplets after her doctor transferred 12 embryos made from an IVF treatment.

But most cases of infertility are treated not with IVF but simpler measures such as drugs to make the ovaries produce eggs. The first step often is a pill, Clomid, to spur hormones that aid conception.

If that doesn’t work, more powerful drugs can be given in shots, but those bring a much higher risk of multiple eggs being released.

Doctors are supposed to use ultrasound and blood tests to monitor how many eggs are being produced and advise couples against trying to conceive that month if there are too many, to minimize the risk of multiple births.

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During the same period, the estimated proportion of triplet and bigger multiple births from non-IVF treatments such as fertility drugs increased from 36 per cent to 45 per cent.

Dr. Fady Sharara of the Virginia Center for Reproductive Medicine in Reston, Va., and an OB/GYN at George Washington University, said he urges couples to avoid multiple births, and to use one embryo at a time if they are doing IVF. “There are medical, social, emotional and financial reasons to avoid having twins” or larger multiple births, he said.

Online: Study: http://bit.ly/1berIPE CDC info: http://www.cdc.gov/Reproductivehealth/Infertility/

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The ongoing outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome — MERS — is still cause for concern, but to date it does not constitute a public health emergency, a panel of experts which advises the World Health Organization concluded Wednesday.

But in its fourth meeting on Middle East respiratory syndrome, the so-called emergency committee reiterated earlier calls for improved surveillance for the virus, bolstered laboratory capacity in vulnerable countries and timely sharing of information on cases.

The committee also stressed the need for a range of scientific studies, many of which scientists involved in MERS research wish had already been conducted.

They pushed for an international case control study, a kind of research project that is typically done in the earliest stages of an outbreak. People who have contracted an illness — in this case MERS — are compared to similar people who have not to help investigators zero in on how people are becoming infected.

The committee also called for studies that look for MERS antibodies in the blood of a range of people in affected countries in an attempt to see how many infections have gone unnoticed. A recent mathematical study estimated that for every case of MERS spotted there may be between five and 10 cases undetected because surveillance systems are mainly designed to detect severely ill cases.

Many MERS researchers and the WHO itself have been pleading for months to have the most badly hit country, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, conduct these types of studies. It remains unclear whether the kingdom has done or is doing this work, and if it has not, why not.

“Obviously it’s never too late to do these studies... but again it begs the question why they weren’t done six or seven months ago,” said Michael Osterholm, an infectious diseases specialist who has been following the MERS outbreak closely.

or done well, and couples eager for a baby may disregard the advice.

“It’s very easy to demonize this dumb doctor who didn’t do the right thing. That may not always be the case,” said Dr. Nanette Santoro, obstetrics chief at the University of Colorado in Denver. “Frustrated people who don’t get pregnant after a couple cycles will think more is better. It’s the American way.”

The new study examined trends over several decades and finds that the rate of triplet and higher-order births peaked in 1998 and has been declining since then.

From 1998 to 2011, the estimated proportion of twin births due to IVF increased from 10 per cent to 17 per cent, while the proportion of tripletsand-more declined.

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Changes to chemical makeup of toiletries pushed An environmental group has ranked Canada’s five largest cosmetics companies based on potentially harmful ingredients in their products.

The report from Toronto-based Environmental Defence says the big five all have issues with chemicals that could be harmful to human health, but some are doing better than others.

And it says public pressure is beginning to exert influence on the ingredients companies use in everything from shampoo and moisturizers to toothpaste and deodorant.

Citing publicly available information and using a basket of five common products, Environmental Defence looked for what it called the “toxic 10” — 10 chemicals that have faced international scrutiny for their proven or potential health hazards.

The study ranked Proctor and Gamble best among Canada’s big five cosmetics companies, followed by Johnson and Johnson, and Unilever.

Estee Lauder and L’Oreal rounded out fourth and fifth place, respectively, principally because they did not publicly post policies on eliminating toxins such as triclosan and phthalates from their products.

“The good news is that some companies are listening to the growing concerns from their customers about the risks of these chemicals,” Maggie MacDonald of Environmental Defence said in a release.

“Others need to take the old saying to heart

— the customer is always right — and act to remove harmful chemicals.”

Procter and Gamble announced in September that it would eliminate triclosan, a commonly used anti-bacterial agent, and phthalates from its personal-care products in 2014.

Johnson and Johnson committed in 2012 to remove triclosan, phthalates, formaldehydes and parabens from its adult toiletries and cosmetics.

Walmart Stores, meanwhile, announced this fall that it would be working toward reduc-

currently reviewing the safety of triclosan, with a report expected imminently.

Concerns have been raised that the widespread use of triclosan may be triggering hormonal changes, or causing anti-microbial resistance that could lead to super bugs.

Phthalates are a family of chemicals commonly used as plasticizers, used to help make plastics flexible.

They also help make soaps, cleansers and perfume adhere to skin and are commonly found in synthetic fragrances.

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A model’s make-up is applied backstage at a fashion show. An environmental group has ranked Canada’s five largest cosmetics companies based on potentially harmful ingredients in their products.

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MERS: 163 confirmed infections “I’ve had so many discussions ... with colleagues around the world and the one thing we keep coming back to over and over again is the issue of: Why is the kingdom not doing this work?”

Saudi Arabia’s deputy minister of health, Dr. Ziad Memish, is a member of the emergency committee and he took part in Wednesday meetings. Also on the conference call were health representatives from several other countries which have recently reported MERS cases: Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Spain.

Spain reported the only known cases of infection in people who travelled to Saudi Arabia to take part in the Hajj, the international pilgrimage that draws several million Muslims to Mecca each year. Two residents of Spain, both women, became sick while in Saudi Arabia, but travelled home before seeking care.

They are currently still listed as probable MERS cases while additional testing is being done. To date there have been 163 confirmed MERS infections, 72 of which have been fatal.

The emergency committee also stressed the need for greater emphasis on infection control in hospitals in affected countries.

A study published in early November reported that at least 60 secondary cases of MERS — where the virus was transmitted from an infected person to a contact — have occurred in health-care settings.

Those secondary cases have included healthcare workers, other patients and visitors.

Dr. Theresa Tam, head of the Public Health Agency of Canada’s health security infrastructure branch, is vice-chair of the emergency committee.

ing chemicals starting in January, and promises a public report in two years on how it has fared.

Health Canada and Environment Canada proposed in 2012 that industry should voluntarily cut the amount of triclosan it uses, particularly in personal-care products that tend to get rinsed away into lakes and rivers.

A Health Canada study found triclosan is harmful to the environment, but safe for humans.

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JOHNSON Jeanette (Jan) Ileene Nov. 11, 1932- Ponoka, AB Nov. 30, 2013 - Calgary, AB Jeanette (Jan) Johnson, a kind, pleasant and lovable lady always ready with a smile or a laugh and a better friend you would not wish for.

Jeanette was born to Signa and Stanley Seagrave in Ponoka, AB on November 11, 1932 and lived her life until November 30, 2013 at 81 years of age. Jan spent her working years on Maternity Wards at the General Hospital and Royal Alex in Edmonton and the Holy Cross and Rocky View Hospital in Calgary. Free from pain at last but Jan’s presence with her loving nature will be sadly missed by her husband, family, many friends and relatives. Left to grieve the loss of Jeanette is her husband of fifty-seven years, Karl W Johnson, daughter Hope C Johnson (Mike), son Robin S Johnson (Kathy), granddaughter Nadia M J Johnson, brother Harvey Seagrave (Geneva), sister Isabell Hughes and numerous nieces and nephews. Jeanette was predeceased by her son Jason, parents, brothers Clarence and Irving, sisters Florence, Frances, and M a r j o r y. W i t h r e s p e c t t o Jeanette’s wishes there will not be a formal service.

Forward condolences through www.mcinnisandholloway.com In lieu of flowers, if friends so desire, memorial donations may be made to a charity of their choice. A special thanks to Robin, Kathy, Hope and Mike for their unwavering diligence to Jeanette’s needs in her time of illness.

In living memory of Jeanette Johnson, a tree will be planted at Fish Creek Provincial Park by McINNIS & HOLLOWAY FUNERAL HOMES, Fish Creek Chapel, 14441 BANNISTER ROAD S.E. Telephone: (403) 256-9575.

MOORE William A. “Bill” Moore of Red Deer passed away s u d d e n l y o n S a t u r d a y, November 30, 2013 at the age of 63 years. He will loving remembered by his wife Bonnie, his son Jeremy M o o r e o f R e d D e e r, h i s daughter Patty Hollman of Pine Lake area; his four grandchildren and his sister Aline Smith of Victoria, B.C. A celebration of Bill’s Life will be held at the Parkland Funeral Home, on Sunday, December 8, 2013 between 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

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KNIGHT 1930-2013 Edwin passed away on S a t u r d a y, N o v e m b e r 3 0 , 2013 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre after a courageous battle with ill health. Edwin will be sadly missed by his family and many friends. He is survived by his loving wife of 64 years, Barbara; his brother Glen (Helen) Knight; nephews Dwayne (Cindy) and Darren Knight; his brother-in-law, Ken (Carole) Johnston; nieces and nephews Brenda ( Wr a y ) , J a c k i e ( M a r c e l ) , Tracy (Curt), Kevin (Kerry); h i s s i s t e r - i n - l a w, M a x i n e Johnston and nieces, Dale ( K e l ) , S h e r r y a n d Tr u d y.

Edwin was predeceased by his parents, Evelyn and Ted Knight; his in-laws, Alice and Osborne Johnston; his brotherin-law, Keith Johnston; his nephew Kelly Johnston and his niece Brandy Johnston.

Edwin was raised in the Tees Alberta area by Evelyn and Ted Knight. He and his family moved to the Penhold area in 1941. Edwin met and married the love of his life Barbara Johnston on November 26, 1949. He and Barb farmed in the Penhold area for 40 years. Edwin was known as an excellent farmer and loved his John Deer Equipment.

Edwin enjoyed his life to the fullest enjoying river boating, RV’ing, snowmobiling and motorcycling. He and Barb wintered in Yuma, Arizona where they enjoyed the companionship of many friends. A Life celebration will be held at a later date.

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.

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MARKS Carolynn Pearl Marks passed away peacefully in her home on November 30, 2013. Carolynn was born on October 18, 1962 in Toronto, Ontario. She is predeceased by her mother Saundra Kinvig (Edgeworth) and her g r a n d m o t h e r, M a r y E l v a Hicks. Carolynn will be lovingly remembered by her twin sister Catherine, father Ralph and wife Rita, brother Jamie and wife Deborah, sister Laura Hamerton and husband Keith, brother Steven and wife Elorie, brother Richard, as well as many nieces, nephews, extended family and many close friends. Carolynn was a spiritual and deeply compassionate person, filled with happiness and a smile for those she encountered. The love and support she gave to those she held close, serves as testament to her beautiful soul. She will be dearly missed and forever in our hearts. A Memorial Service and reception will be held at the First Baptist Church, 4310 - 39 Street in Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, December 6, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. In keeping with Carolynn’s compassion and generosity of spirit, the family has requested that memorial donations may be made to the First Baptist Church, additional information can be requested at (403) 346 4281.

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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.

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GREEN TERRY CHAMBERS Dr. DAVID R. A. HARDY Gordon Richard May 2, 1939 - Dec. 6, 2013 D.C., B. Ed. Sept. 14, 1923 - Nov. 30, 2013 David Hardy received the Gordon passed away at the S o m a n y t h i n g s h a v e Doctorate of Chiropractic Red Deer Regional Hospital changed since God called degree, cum laude, from Life surrounded by family and you away. So many things to University at Marrietta, GA friends. Gordon was born at share with you, if you were on September 27, 2013. As Calgary, AB but was raised in here today. well as Honors, he received Lousana. He was the second If we could have just one an award for Tutoring. He wish, one wish that would of four children born to has passed both American Gladys and Ted Green. As a come true, we would wish and Canadian Board Exams. boy he loved living in the w i t h a l l o u r h e a r t s f o r D r. D a v e i s p r e s e n t l y i n small community of Lousana yesterday and you.

Atlanta working and completing but enjoyed every opportunity We cannot bring back the s t u d i e s i n F u n c t i o n a l he had to visit with family in last 10 years, your hand we Neurology and Mild Traumatic the Midnapore area outside cannot touch but God has Brain Injuries. We’re proud of of Calgary. As a youngster in given us wonderful memories you and wish you all the best Lousana, Gordon enjoyed of one we love so much. in all you do!! wholesome community fun Mum, Dad, ~Until we meet again, which was an everyday part Marisa, Stephan & Lisa Wife Aurea, daughters of that era. Gordon married Koren, Kareena, Shannon, Gladys Lee in 1949 and Aurea and their families. together they worked on their farm east of Lousana for over 50 years during which time Celebrations they had three daughters.

LINDA BENNETT Gordon was passionate Dec. 25, 1950 - Dec. 6, 2012 SURPRISE Birthday Party about many aspects of for JOHN MCLEOD It’s been one year. agriculture but was especially Sunday Dec. 15, You are so far, delighted every spring when Lacombe Memorial Yet you seem so near. the first shoots of grain Centre 2 - 5 pm poked their head through the Missed by your family 5214 50 Ave, Lacombe soil. He loved caring for the Please drop in for coffee many species of birds that and cake and to wish John were native to the area by Funeral Directors a Happy 65th Birthday. maintaining blue bird trails, & Services No gifts please! building hand crafted bird houses and putting out endless bags of seeds for them to eat. He and Gladys retired to the town of Lousana Engagements in 2000. Gordon is survived www.parklandfuneralhome.com by daughters, Verna and Carol; grandchildren, Greg (Betty), Te r e s a ( J e r e m y ) , Tr e v o r (Lacey), Emmy, Julie (Curt), Ti m ( J i l l ) , M a t t , B r i a n n a (Jan-Willem), Pam (Chris), Taylor Dr. ˜ Red Deer Jill (Trevor), Alix (Roy), Carly (Dustin), Dusty, Cassandra “ONLY locally owned & (Steve) and Ryan; greatoperated Funeral Home grandchildren, Wes, Mae, in Red Deer” Lillian, Sophie, Mikala, Davin, Madison, Mia, Kylie, Abby, Central Alberta Family Funeral Services Ltd. Chloe, Emma, Rhett, Callum, 48596F28-L27 Taydean, Brielle, Olin, Landon and Henley; sisters, Dorothy McWhan, Lois (Harold) Craig and life-long friends and many extended family members. He is predeceased Funeral Home RICHTER - NAND by his wife Gladys, daughter The families of Cameron & Crematorium Karen, brother Herbert, Richter and Amanda Nand parents Ted and Gladys; are pleased to announce sons-in-law Wes Jones and 6150–67 Street their engagement and Rod MacLeod; brother-in-law, Red Deer, AB upcoming wedding in 2014.

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2ND WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH

FREE BREAKFAST 10:30-11:45 AM & FREE SUPPER 5:00-6:15 PM

Afternoon & Evening Bingo 7 Days a Week Oilfield

Direct Resumes / Applications to C.A.R.S. #101 - 5589 47 Street.

Red Deer, AB T4N 1S1 Fax 346-8015 Email: markw@carsrd.org

5 P.M.

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

LAS VEGAS STYLE

CENTRAL ALBERTA

RESIDENCE SOCIETY must have all necessary valid tickets for the position RESIDENTIAL being applied for.

SUPERVISOR Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary QUALIFICATIONS: and benefits package • Disability & Community along with a steady Studies Diploma or related work schedule. post-secondary diploma Please submit resumes: preferred, with a min. of Attn: Human Resources two yrs experience Email: providing community hr@bearspawpet.com support services for Fax: (403) 258-3197 or individuals with Mail to: Suite 5309, developmental disabilities.

333-96 Ave. NE • A combination of education, Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 training & experience may be considered.

• Prior supervisory experience.

Professionals • Strong background in a variety of intervention strategies, disabling conditions, & challenging / ritualistic behaviours.

• Strong communication, organizational, interpersonal & leadership Johnston Ming Manning skills, contributing to LLP requires a full time your effectiveness working as part of a Accounting multidisciplinary team.

Technician Applicants will have DUTIES: completed the Business • Will work directly on Administration Diploma site & be responsible Program and will have for the overall daily experience with data entry organization, operation with a focus in Accounting. & monitoring of support The duties include, but services provided. are not limited to; daily • Ensuring effective & bank deposit run, consistent supports across processing of checks, all team members. accounts payable, preparation of reports HOURS / COMPENSATION: and filing. Interested • 40 hours/week, shiftwork candidates can forward & weekends may be their resume to: required.

Attention: Human Resources SALARY RANGE: 3rd Floor, 4943 50 Street $3,063.27 - $3,991.92 Red Deer, AB, T4N 1Y1 per month (pending education Fax: 403-342-9173 and experience) Email: hr@jmmlawrd.ca

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Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking exp’d FLOORHANDS

Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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$2500 Bonus Every 100 days

Oilfield

800

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

www.trican.ca

NOW HIRING AT ALL LOCATIONS

The Tap House Pub & Grill req’s full and part time cooks. Apply with resume at 1927 Gaetz Avenue between 2-5 pm.

...Join our Team!

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 Start your career!

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D8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Dec. 6, 2013

PACIFIC NORTHERN GAS LTD.

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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850

Journeyman HE (off road) Mechanic needed for Red Deer shop

Truckers/ Drivers

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

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Academic Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

WINTER START GED PREPARATION Jan. 14 or Feb. 10 STARTS Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

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Central Alberta LIFE & Red Deer ADVOCATE CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300 CALL NOW TO FIND OUT MORE

Exp’d RV Technicians

MUST HAVE PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH MOTORHOMES! As an active member of the Allan Dale team, you will be required to: • examine, troubleshoot and diagnose units needing repair and maintenance • install, repair and maintain interior and exterior components on various RV makes & models • perform pre-delivery inspections • install trailer and RV accessories • read and follow instructions on repair orders to ensure quality control • install trailer and fifth wheel hitches The successful candidate should possess the following: • mechanical, electrical and electronics aptitude • troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities • good communication and organizational skills • good physical condition as some lifting is required • one to two years related experience and/or training • Journeyman RV Technician certification would be considered a definite asset As a valued member of the Allan Dale team, we offer you: • full time, year round employment • premium pay for your experience ($35-$40/hr) plus bonus plan • group employee benefits • flexible schedule • opportunity to grow and advance within an excellent company If you are interested in becoming part of a successful team, please forward your resume to: Suzette Binnie Allan Dale Trailers & RVs 3 Queens Drive Red Deer, Alberta T4P 0K1 Fax: 403.346.3116 Email: suzette@ allandale.com

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Competitive plus renumeration

RED DEER, AB Minimum Investment: Approximately $150,000 unencumbered

We Provide:

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer, by 6:30 a.m. 6 days/wk

Scott Amberson Director of Franchising 1-800-927-0366 samberson@smittys.ca

(Reliable vehicle needed)

SMITTY’S™ CANADA LIMITED 600 – 501 18th Ave SW Calgary, AB T2S 0C7 www.smittys.ca

DEER PARK AREA

Canada’s Largest Family Restaurant Chain serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner to Canadians coast to coast since 1960

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73 Papers $439/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA Ramage Cres., Root Cl., 100 to 800 Ramage Cl., and Ralston Cres. area $359/mo.

WE NEED YOU! A&W Blackfalds is Now Hiring.

If you are self motivated, love dealing with the public, take pride in your work, and love a challenge!

Are you a leader? Do you like to make a difference?

We are a fast growing business throughout Alberta and Saskatchewan in need of persons wanting to advance themselves.

Apply today to: Blackfalds A&W 6001 Parkwood Road, Blackfalds Alberta Call/Email Sheri or Kim to arrange an interview @ 403.885.2515 a&wblackfalds@telus.net Or Stop by and talk to us.

Owner Operators & Company Drivers

Anders St. / Armstrong Close

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.

Addinnell Close / Allan St. Allsop Ave. / Allsop Close Adamson Ave. / Arthur Close INGLEWOOD AREA Inglis Cres.

Inglewood Ave.

EASY! The easy way to find a 333359L6

Valid First Aid and H2S tickets an asset

buyer for items you want to sell is with a Red Deer Advocate want ad. Phone 309-3300.

LANCASTER AREA Law Close / Lewis Close Logan Close Lord Close

850

Lamont Close Lund Close

APPLY NOW

MORRISROE AREA Vista Village

For a chance to work at a GM Auto Dealership.

Located in a growing small city environment.

Lacombe has all the amenities of the City and the small town lifestyle.

SUNNYBROOK AREA

We are looking for a

Somerset Close Springfield Ave. Savoy Cres. / Sydney Close Sherwood Cres.

VANIER AREA

JANITORIAL Co seeking a f/t com/window cleaning sup for RD and area. Req: fluent in written and oral english, 2-3 years exp in a supervisory role,clean driving record, criminal record check, job physically demanding.

Benefits after 3 mos. $19/hr Fax resume 403-342-1897 mail to #4, 4608-62 St. RedDeer, AB. T4N 6T3

West half of Robinson Cres, Rich Cl., & Ryan Cl. Area. $84/mo.

Looking for reliable newspaper carrier for 1 day per week delivery of the Central Alberta Life in the town of

TIMBERLANDS AREA Turner Cres., Timothy Dr., Towers Cl., Tobin Gt. $113/mo.

INNISFAIL

Call Jamie 403-314-4306

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life

To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN

Upper Fairview

Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307 Siding Helpers Needed Call 403-588-3210

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

SOURCE ADULT VIDEO requires mature P/T help 3 pm-11 pm. weekends Fax resume to: 403-346-9099 or drop off to: 3301-Gaetz Avenue

Currently seeking reliable newspaper carrier for the BOWER AREA

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WESTPARK AREA

Mustang Acres

Delivery is 4 times per week, no collecting.

Gray Dr. & Galbraith St.

Perfect for anyone looking to make some extra $.

Please reply by email: qmacaulay @reddeeradvocate.com or phone Quitcy at 403-314-4316

Oriole Park

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

Oak St. & Overdown Dr. ALSO Ogden Ave. & Oakley Cl. Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

CUSTOMER SERVICE A locally owned industrial supply company is looking for an energetic person for inside sales. E-mail resume to mark@ aesreddeer.com Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Employment Training

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

Currently seeking RELIABLE newspaper carriers for morning delivery (By 6:30 a.m.)

Monday - Saturday in:

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Nordegg Cres.

ALSO Nolan, Norwest & Newlands

Packages come ready for delivery.

No collecting.

Contact Quitcy at 403-314-4316

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

THE TASTY BAKERY P/T OPPORTUNITY Afternoons, No early mornings, No late nights No Sundays, Apply in person at: Bay #1, 2319 Taylor Drive (directly behind Nutters)

Employment Training

900

SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

For afternoon delivery once per week In the towns of:

(across from Totem)

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

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Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

900

EquipmentHeavy

McIntosh Ave.

AUTOMOTIVE TECH

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

YOUR CAREER IN

TECHNOLOGY Web Designer Network Administrator Help Desk Support Analyst PC Support Specialist and more!

Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce & Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

Financial Assistance available to qualified applicants.

LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

Valentine Cres.

Vanson Close / Visser St.

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

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• With good communication skills and work ethics • Great benefits & hours • Production bonus • Training provided • Full Time/Long Term We need you at this Award winning GM Dealership Apply to: Bert Rumsey, Service Manager Email: bert.rumsey@telus.net

ROSEDALE AREA Rowell Cl. & Ritson Cl. $87/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more information

ALL positions are available!

Fantastic Wages!

ANDERS AREA

MICHENER AREA East of 40th Ave., 51 St., 50A St., Michener Cres., Green, etc. to Michener Ave. & Blvd. $282/mo.

Dempsey St. & Drummond. Ave. Area 70 Papers $375/mo.

GRANDVIEW AREA

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DEERPARK AREA Donlevy Ave. & Danielle Dr. area. $185/mo

EXP’D parts person for small engine and quad dealership. F/T position.

Must be able to work Sat’s. and overtime hrs. may be req’d in summer months.

Please apply in person at 5717-40 Ave. Wetaskiwin or email: wetaskiwinrad@ xplornet.com

ALSO

For more information, contact:

Central AB based trucking company requires

in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref.

403-586-4558

• Top wages paid based on experience • Flexible work schedule • Possible career advancement opportunities • Based out of Blackfalds & Rocky Mountain House, AB

CLEARVIEW ARE Clark Cres., Crawford St. & Castle Cres. $141/mo.

ALSO Cole Street $61/mo.

ALSO Cameron Cres. & Conners Cres. $146/mo.

We require a process driven person for this position.

Hardworking need only apply. Bring resume to: Metal Strip & Coatings 4617 63rd Street Mon-Fri 8-5.

No Phone Calls Please.

Site Selection & Design Lease Negotiations Construction Administration Training & Operations Support Menu Development Marketing

FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE & EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

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.

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Great Benefits

WE OFFER: * Full Time hours * Great benefit program after 3 mos. * Most weekends off * Competitive Wages

(SINGLE OR AREA FRANCHISE)

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.

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

* SANDBLASTER * POWDER COATER *GENERAL LABORER

FOR APPROVED LOCATION IN

CARRIERS NEEDED

Pidherney’s requires experienced local:

Trades

Required Immediately

Normandeau

Class 1 Drivers

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life

SERVICE ADVISOR

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Eagle Builders in Blackfalds, AB is looking for hard working, motivated individual to fill a full-time precast concrete erecting

Gary Moe Volkswagen

joelnichols@ garymoe.com

FRANCHISE AVAILABLE!

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Please send resume to:

870

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

Fax resume to Human Resources 403-845-5370 Or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com

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WE R HIRING!

Allan Dale Trailers & RVs is GROWING fast and we are seeking

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

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resumes@GCSenergy.ca or 780-888-2100

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

Truckers/ Drivers

See full details at www.GCSenergy.ca

Email or fax resume to:

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Tar-ific Construction

SCOTTYS ESSO in Red Deer seeking food counter attendants. FT, PT & Weekends. $10-11/hr.

Training provided. Apply in QUALIFICATIONS: person to 5 Reichley Street • Grade 12 or equivalent or by email to education scottys.esso@shaw.ca.”

• Valid driver’s license, class 1 or class 3 with air SOAP Stories is seeking 5 F/T Beauty Treatment O/P, • M i n i m u m o f t h r e e years experience in the selling soap & bath installation of plastic products $14.55/hr. + and/or steel natural bonus & comm. Beauty gas piping distribution cert. req’d. Location systems.

Parkland Mall - 4747 67th • PE fusion St. Red Deer. email • Distribution line locating premierjobrdbto@ (underground) gmail.com • Backhoe, bobcat, SOAP Stories is seeking 5 excavator and plow retail sales reps. Selling experience soap & bath products. • Directional drilling $12.10 hr + bonus & comexperience asset. mission. Ft No exp. req`d.

Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. This position is within the Red Deer. email resume to bargaining unit (IBEW) premierjobrd@gmail.com with a current hourly rate of $35.69.

StoreSmart Self-Storage seeking P/T Customer Ser- Pacific Northern Gas offers vice Associate for 16-24 a comprehensive defined hrs/wk. For job description benefit pension and benefits and how to apply, go to package in addition to www.StoreSmart.ca/jobs. w o r k / l i f e b a l a n c e a n d No phone calls please. opportunities for career growth. Email resumes in Wholistix Wellness confidence to the Shoppe! perm P/T store Human Resources clerk,15-20 hrs/wk, $14/hr Department; email: denise.wholistix@ careers@png.ca gmail.com Precast Concrete Plant in Blackfalds, AB, is looking for new team members to Trades join an enthusiastic and growing company.

Experienced Siders Concrete finisher Needed Call 403-588-3210 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 JOURNEYMAN schedule. Own transportaElectricians tion to work is needed. and Wage will be based on Instrument Hands experience, attitude and req’d. for work in Central willingness to commit to Alberta. Oilfield exp. an long term employment. asset. Please forward Please fax resume to your resume to jobs@ 403 885 5516 or email to nexsourcepower.com k.kooiker@ or fax 403-887-4945 eaglebuilders.ca Thank you to all JOURNEYMAN or applicants but only those selected for an interview 4th Yr. Apprentice will be notified.

Plumber/Gas Fitter req’d for small shop in Westaskiwin area.

TELL it all! Tell it well! Make Competitive wages & your ads sell for you by giving health plan. full description of goods or Submit resumes to: ser vices offered. Include wph@xplornet.ca prices and terms. Phone 309or fax to: 780-312-2889 3300 for a friendly ad taker. or call 780-387-6087

Trades

Trades

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Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

Call Today (403) 347-6676 2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

Household Appliances 317694I3-L30

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

Trades

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Sales & Distributors

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ELECTRIC heater oak cabinet portable, remote, thermostat control $150 403-314-2026

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Dec. 6, 2013 D9

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Dogs

PHONE bench solid oak $175 403-314-2026

2 BDRM. MAIN FLOOR of House. 403-872-2472

WANTED

3 BDRM. Duplex in Penhold.

Reno’d. Tenants pay utils. $1050/mo. No pets.

403-342-0407 or 505-1252

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

1760

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21” SNOWBLOWER. Electric start. Single stage. $150 obo. 403-347-6987 5 shelf wall unit 81”h x 50”w, adjustable shelves $70; 15 saw horses 36”w x 27”h $8/ea, chrome plated 12 bottle wine rack $10 403-314-2026 CHARLES RUSELL Prints, (4) nicely framed.

403-347-2038 for appt.

EXTRA FLUFFY & extremely cute! Teacup Babydoll Morkies (very tiny).

Call 587-987-3422 or email wendyschedel@gmail.com

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

DIE cast models, cars, truck, and motorcycles, fairies, dragons and biker gifts. #14 6350-67 St. east end of Cash Casino LOUIS L’Amour pocket books 95 cents ea. or all 28 for $16 403-342-7460 LOVESEAT, with arm covers, exc. cond. $125; Kanon 920 copier machine w/metal stand, exc. cond. $75 403-352-8811 POTTERY, soup set with urn & ladle, 4 bowls, casserole dish & salad bowl w/4 plates, like new. $125, Danby microwave oven 900 watts, $30; 2 matching suitcases, like new $25. for both; 403-352-8811 WOODEN slider rocker chair and ottoman, good cond, $95; 3 wool accent matching carpets, clean, will sell seperatly $50 for all 3. 403-352-8811

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3 FRIENDLY MALE ORANGE KITTENS. Litter trained. Desperately need loving homes. FREE. 403-782-3130

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Horses

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Grain, Feed Hay

2190

SMALL SQUARE HAY and straw 403-340-3061

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FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

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 4 BDRM. house, 2 full baths, near schools and bus route, avail. Jan. 1, 2014, $1450 rent, DD $1100 no pets, 403-343-6229 304-3979.

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 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

ROSEDALE

3 bdrm, 3 bath, att. garage, fenced yard, pet negotiable, personal & credit ref’s req’d, Rent/DD req’d $1400. Avail. Jan 1.

RENTED

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

2 BDRM LACOMBE CONDO Gr flr, 45+ bldg, 5 appl, bsmt storage, No smoking, no pets. 1000/mo. Avail immed. 780-484-0236 3 BDRM, 1 1/2 bath townhouse in well kept condominium complex at #9, 15 Stanton St. 5 appls & fenced yard.

Tenants must be over 40 w/references & quiet living.

Avail. Nov. 1st for $1300/mo. $1300 D.D. 403-341-4627

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Rent Spot

METCALF AVE. 3 bdrm., 4 appl., a/c, central vac.

Near No. 9 bus stop, school, shopping centre, 2 parking stalls, no pets, N/S, $1200 Immed. 403-318-8881 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

PET FRIENDLY HOME

By Kin Kanyon

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 403-896-8552

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403-396-9554

PET FRIENDLY HOME

By Kin Kanyon

RENO’D Apartments In Downtown!

2 bdrms & 2 Bath townhouse, unfin. bsmt w/laundry.

Only small pre-approved pet! $1250& GAS, POWER, WATER Avail. JAN. 1st.

Fresh & bright 2 bdrm, 1 bath.

Balcony. 2 appls, Laundry facilities. FAMILY FRIENDLY. NO PETS, Avail NOW. From $950 & POWER. Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403-396-9554

RARE 4 BDRM TOWNHOUSE

Bright 4 bdrms, 2.5 baths, finished bsmt w/large family room &laundry. The right place for your family!

No pets, N/S $1550 & UTIL; SD $1550; Avail JAN 1st!

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403-396-9554 TOWNHOUSE in Penhold.

New 3 bdrm., 2 bath, 6 appls., built in vac., balcony, fenced yard. Ref’s. Avail. Jan. 1st. $1400/mo./d.d. 403-227-1198

Manufactured Homes

3040

Newly Reno’d Mobile FREE Shaw Cable + more $950/month Terrie 403-340-0225

3050

GREAT place for the budget minded.

4-Plex in Oriole Park

Worth every penny. 3 bdrms, 1.5 baths, 4 appls. In-suite laundry. This is a ‘Must See’! $1025& Gas & Elect.

Avail JAN 1st. No pets. N/S. Hearthstone 403-314-0099 403-896-8552

Suites

3060

1 BDRM. recent reno’s incl. utils, quite neighborhood. avail immed. Mike @ RENTED GLENDALE 2 bdrm. $825, D.D. $825, N/S, no pets, no partiers, avail immed.

403-346-1458 GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 PENHOLD 1 bdrm., incl. heat/water, 4 appls. $725 avail. Jan. 1, 403-348-6594

Vans Buses

4010

SMALL / LARGE SPACES -Free standing - fenced yards For all your needs.

400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615

Storage Space

3160

SHOP and Office for sale or lease. 4300 sq. ft. on 7.5 Acres in Blackfalds.

Call 403-350-8431

Mobile Lot

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

Houses For Sale

4020

2 SPEC HOMES Ready for your colours.

Can be shown at any time.

10 & 98 MacKenzie Cres.

Lacombe. 403-588-8820 BRAND NEW 1340 sq. ft. bungalow, 2 bdrm., den, dbl. att. garage. $384,900.

Call Glen 403-588-2231

CLIVE -Won’t Last!

RISER HOMES

3 Bdrm., 2 bath 1200 sq.ft. bi-level on 62x140 lot. $250,000. Incl. legal fees, GST, appls., front sod & tree.

Lloyd 403-391-9294 FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

3190

Contractors

1100

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

Handyman Services

1200

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

1280

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

Executive Touch Massage (newly reno’d) (FOR MEN)STUDIO 5003A-50 st. Downtown 9 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 403-348-5650

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

FANTASY

Contact: Diane Charlebois; Jackie Ellice; Daniella Eggink Calgary and Area Child and Family Services Authority Phone: (403) 297-2978 333164L6

5070

Y You can start your own Business with this unique B 2 25 pass. van, Diesel V8, aauto, 76,400 kms

MASSAGE International ladies

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445 LOOKING FOR F/T Registered Massage Therapist in busy salon & spa in Drumheller. LONG waiting list of clients.

Please call 403-823-6161 or email boldefexx@ hotmail.com Attn: Cindy

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

Snow Removal

1380

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. SNOW REMOVAL Pampering at its Phone Caleb 403-896-5604 BEST! 403-986-6686 YOUR SNOW’S GOTTA GO. Come in and see It away I’ll blow. why we are the talk Call me, I’ll show.

403-598-3857 of the town. www.viimassage.biz

Misc.

Services

1290

Yard Care

1430

RESIDENTIAL SNOW CLEARING. Affordable monthly contracts.

403-352-4034 Ironman Scrap Metal Recovery picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles & industrial. Serving

YOUR old don’t wants could become someone else’s treasure. Sell it fast with an Advocate Want Ad. Phone Central AB. 403-318-4346 309-3300.

Only

56,000

1315

1372

Call Today This Special will be sold soon!

1-877-399-1762 1824-49 Ave. www.hondareddeer.ca Public Notices

5030

2001 HYUNDAI Accent 2 dr. red, 403-348-2999

2008 GMC Acadia SLE AWD, 8 passenger, 90485 kms, $19,888. 348-8788 Sport & Import

2006 CADILLAC Escalade AWD, lthr., $15,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

Trucks

6010

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS LOCAL MAILROOM AND DELIVERY SERVICES SERVICE ALBERTA

Service Alberta, Mail & Logistics Services is requesting proposals from firms to provide local mailroom and delivery services for provincial government offices in one or more of the following locations:

2008 FORD F-250 XL 4X4, 6.4L, 92754 kms., $26888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

2006 GMC C4500 4X4, loaded, conversion, new duramax installed from GM, 170,000 kms., $39,888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

Lisa Kapphahn, Contracting Manager 14th floor, Commerce Place 10155-102 Street NW Edmonton, AB T5J 4G8 Phone: 780-427-2917 email: lisa.kapphahn@gov.ab.ca

5200

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

5240

Misc.

Automotive

1999 PONTIAC Bonneyville 4 dr., saftied. 403-352-6995

FREE removal of scrap vehicles. Will pay cash for some. 403-304-7585

309-3300

Public Notice #6000

Public Notices ..................6010 Special Features ..............6050

YOU can sell it fast with a person-to-person want ad in the Red Deer Advocate Classifieds. Phone 309-3300

Welcome H ome!

Celebrating the birth of your child?

Share your happy news with family & friends with a special announcement in the Red Deer Advocate Classifieds “Announcement” section.

309-3300 CLASSIFIEDS

For further information, contact the contracting manager:

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

• Calgary • Fort McMurray • Grand Prairie • Lethbridge • Medicine Hat • Peace River • Red Deer Request for Proposal packages, delivery schedules, specifications and contract terms and conditions may be obtained by searching for opportunity reference number AB-2013-05189 at www.purchasingconnection.ca

5050

2000 Chrysler Neon, 2L, 4 dr., 5 spd. Clean. 403-318-3040

CLASSIFIEDS

25 Passenger Van/Bus

PSYCHIC HEALER Send first name ONLY and nature of illness to Box 1070, c/o RED DEER ADVOCATE, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9. Gratuities will not be accepted.

Seniors’ Services

Cars

ALL WHEEL DRIVE

Take notice that on the 26th, 27th, 28th, and 29th days of May 2014 at 9:30 a.m., at Calgary Family Court, Courtroom #1206, 601 - 5th Street SW, Calgary, Alberta, a Trial will take place. A Director, under the Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act will make an application for: Permanent Guardianship Order; of your children born on October 4, 2005, October 17, 2007, and January 12, 2009. If you wish to speak to this matter in court, you MUST appear in court on this date. You do have the right to be represented by a lawyer. If you do not attend in person or by a lawyer, an Order may be made in your absence and the Judge may make a different Order than the one being applied for by the Director. You will be bound by any Order, the Judge makes. You do have the right to appeal the Order within 30 days from the date the Order is made.

5040

5000-5300

2008 CHEV Cobalt LT 2 dr, exc. cond, remote start, 2 sets of tires, 147,000 kms, $6950 403-783-4873

$

SUV's

CLASSIFICATIONS

Take notice that on the 28th day of March 2014 at 9:30 a.m., at Calgary Family Court, Courtroom #1208, 601 - 5th Street SW, Calgary, Alberta, a Pre-Trial Conference will take place.

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

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

RIVERSIDE INDUSTRIAL heated warehouse & office space. 5,280 sq. ft.

Available immediately.

403-588-4081

2007 530 XI BMW. Original Owner, 143,000 km. Exc. Cond.

Regularly Maintained, Fully Loaded!

Call 403-350-4323

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

1010

4120

Take notice that on the 10th day of March 2014 at 9:30 a.m., at Calgary Family Court, Courtroom #821, 601 - 5th Street SW, Calgary, Alberta, a Judicial Dispute Resolution will take place.

2008 FORD F-550

Accounting

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

Industrial Property

Locally owned and family operated

Auto Wreckers

Notice of Hearing For Permanent Guardianship Order To Ryan Klein

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

at www.garymoe.com

4110

6010

services Personal Services

Commercial Property

www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 346-7273

wegot

1280

MUST SELL

By Owner.

Terrie 403-340-0225

wheels

New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

403-588-2550

Business Opportunity!

Massage Therapy

4090

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Custom new homes planning service.

Kyle, 403-588-2550

MUST SELL

Public Notices

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4040

Manufactured Homes

MASON MARTIN HOMES

MOBILE HOME PAD, in Red Deer Close to Gaetz, 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Terrie 403-340-0225 PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

5030

NEW CONDO

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

3140

Cars

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

THE NORDIC

Warehouse Space

4 bdrms. 3.5 baths, front att. garage. 2 storey.

Indoor/outdoor fireplace, hardwood, tile, house-wide deck & many more upgrades.

Please phone Lloyd at 403-391-9294 for all the details. $442,500 incl. legal fees, appls., GST, front sod & tree.

Condos/ Townhouses

Fresh & bright 2bdrm, 1 bath. Balcony. 2 appls, Laundry facilities.

FAMILY FRIENDLY. NO PETS, Avail NOW. From $950 & POWER. Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403-396-9554

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

Massage Therapy

4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4020

RISER HOMES BLACKFALDS

CLASSIFICATIONS

MOUNTVIEW, bsmt. suite, 1 bdrm. + den, full bath, 4 appls., great location. $975. incld’s utils. & cable.

403-350-0913

GLENDALE

Worth every penny. 3 bdrms, 1.5 baths, 4 appls. In-suite laundry. This is a ‘Must See’! $1025& Gas & Elect.

Avail JAN 1st. No pets. N/S.

homes

MORRISROE MANOR

3090

3 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $1075. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail. Dec 15/Jan. 1 403-304-5337

Bright 4 bdrms, 2.5 baths, finished bsmt w/large family room &laundry. The right place for your family!

No pets. N/S. $1550 & UTIL; SD $1550; Avail JAN 1st!

Houses For Sale

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2 bdrms & 2 Baths Rooms townhouse, unfin. bsmt w/laundry. Only small For Rent pre-approved pet! $1250 & GAS, POWER, WATER Room, Avail. immed. $600.

Avail. JAN. 1st. + dd 403-505-4777 Hearthstone 403-314-0099 403-896-8552

2 bdrm. 4-Plex, 4 appls. Rent $1075. incl. sewer, water and garbage. D.D. $650. Avail.

Jan. 1, 403-304-5337

RARE 4 BDRM TOWNHOUSE

3060

Suites

RENO’D Apartments In Downtown!

CLEARVIEW

CALL CLASSIFIEDS 403-314-4397 TO ADVERTISE HERE

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 403-896-8552

3030

BEAUTIFUL Comfortable 3 bdrm. townhouse in Oriole Park. Super location for access to all major arteries without being bothered by noise.

Att. garage, 1-1/2 bath, 5 appls., #23 6300 Orr Dr. N/S, avail. Jan. 1. $1425/mo.

Hearthstone Property Management 403-896-8552 or 403-396-9554

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

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Great place for the budget minded.

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Condos/ Townhouses

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1720

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