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ADVOCATE REPORTER LANA MICHELIN WAS FOUR IN 1967, WHEN HER FAMILY ARRIVED IN CANADA FROM THE FORMER YYUGOSLAVIA. UGOSLAVIA. SSHE HE BBELIEVES ELIEVES IIT’S T’S A GGOOD OOD TTIME IME TTOO TTAKE AKE SSTOCK TOCK OOFF W WHAT HAT VVALUES ALUES CCANADIANS ANADIANS CCARRY ARRY FFORWARD. ORWARD. was a four-year-old politicall re reffugee.

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With child refugees dying on sea crosscro ross ss-ings and in the back of smuggler-abaner-a er -aba banndoned vehicles, most everyone is wondering onde on deri ring ng what can be done about the relentless les esss tide tide of refugees from Syria and other African Afr fric ican an countries.

Euro Eu rope pe The stream of migrants into Europe seems unstoppable. Many world leaders der erss ar are e omic om ical ally ly feeling helpless, saying it’s economically oa acc ccep eptt unsustainable for their countries to accept these people.

But is it really?

My thoughts turn back to 1967 when hen CanCan C an-ada opened its doors wider to refugees ees — iinncluding my family.

My dad was raised in an anti-Communist mmu muni nist st household in the former Yugoslavia. ia.. Wi ia With th his career prospects stymied by hiss refusal refu re fusa sall to join the Communist Party led by Josip Jos J osip ip Broz Tito, my father grew desperate te when when my mom became pregnant again. youn unge gerr There was already me and my yo younger brother to care for. Another mouth tto o feed feed would impoverish us.

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CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: Lana Michelin with her dad and siblings at the Saskatoon fair shortly after arriving in Canada; Lana Michelin with her younger brother in Vrsac, before coming to Canada as refugees; Lana Michelin with her family after arriving in Saskatoon.

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Oil and gas companies strut stuff at expo The oil and gas industry is strutting its stuff at the 2015 Oil & Gas Expo, a free event at Westerner Park.

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High River hopes to rid storm ponds of invasive goldfish HIGH RIVER — There’s something fishy about the storm water ponds in a town in southern Alberta.

The town of High river says anywhere between 35 and 100 domestic goldfish have been spotted in the forebays of the storm pond system of Highwood Lake.

It’s asking people who can’t care for their fish anymore to contact pet shops or veterinarians.

Senior fish biologist Craig Mushens, who’s working with the town to fix the problem, says the fish are an invasive species.

The goldfish are also known as Prussian carp, and Mushens says they out-compete native species for food and habitat and spread diseases, as well as spread from one body of water to another.

Edmonton police kill cougar after big cat sighted roaming in neighbourhood Edmonton police killed a cougar Friday morning in a residential neighbourhood after wildlife officers failed to hit the big cat with a tranquilizer dart.

Staff-Sgt. Steve Jones said an officer shot the cougar in a backyard after it became spooked and started moving toward a fence.

WHEN I THINK OF WHAT HELPED MY FAMILY MEMBERS TRANSITION TO BECOMING CANADIANS, IT WASN’T THIS COUNTRY’S WELFARE STATE. IT WAS THAT WE WERE ALLOWED TO STRIVE FOR SUCCESS THROUGH DECENT JOB OPPORTUNITIES AND AN ACCESSIBLE, AFFORDABLE EDUCATION SYSTEM.

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Then two things happened that changed our lives: Canada decided to mark Expo ’67 in Montreal by raising its quota of refugees and immigrants; and Belgium decided to waive visa requirements to allow more Eastern Europeans to visit the World’s Fair hosted that year by Brussels.

These opportunities were seen as godsends by my parents. They secretly sold our house in Vrsac and put into motion an escape plan that soon devolved into a nail-biting thriller.

First my father, then my mother, had to nose around Belgrade to find the ticket office of Belgium’s Sabena Airlines. Someone ratted them out to the police and an officer arrived at our house, demanding to see our passports.

Fortunately my mom still had our documents with her when she strode up to the second floor of a tourist-only hotel in Belgrade to obtain our airline tickets — just as the woman was locking up the office.

Sympathetic to my mother’s plight, the clerk agreed to reopen the door and issue four tickets.

It was like winning a lottery, my mom recalled many years later.

My parents told me the Yugoslav government would never have allowed all four members of our family to exit the country at once. Children left behind ensured that a parent would return from abroad.

When my mom and dad, toddler brother and fouryear-old self boarded the Sabena airlines flight, all the money left over from our house sale had to be smuggled out under the wrapper of a large chocolate bar. It was illegal to take money out of the country.

Once in Brussels, my parents chose to seek asylum in Canada. Their reasons were many, but safety and freedom topped the list. My mother always said she wanted to live in a land that didn’t have mandatory military service when my brother turned 18.

The kindly female Canadian Embassy worker saw a young couple with little children who couldn’t go back to where they came from, and desperately needed a new place to stake their future.

Whatever my parents told her convinced her we were worth gambling on. And we are forever grateful to have been accepted into Canada.

Our airplane landed in November 1967 on what resembled frozen tundra, but was actually Saskatoon.

After sunny Serbia and elegant Brussels, the wind-whipped, snow-covered Canadian Prairies could not look less hospitable. My mom was seven-months pregnant with my sister Alex at the time.

My dad had $20 left in his pocket.

They were just glad to be here.

Things were tough at first. Nothing was familiar — even Canadian butter had a strange, foreign taste.

But my parents marvelled at the embarrassment of choice of produce in Canadian grocery stores and the friendliness of the people.

Mom and dad, then in their early 30s, didn’t speak English, but managed to connect with some kind and helpful Canadians, several of whom became lifelong friends. We first settled as tenants in a house owned

by Chinese immigrants.

My father, who had taught agriculture at a community college in Vrsac, near the Hungarian and Roma-

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Lana Michelin with her dad in Vrsac before fleeing Yugoslavia. nian borders, was content to take his first Canadian job offer — as meat cutter in the kitchen of the Bessborough Hotel.

Within months, he discovered why Canada is considered a land of opportunity.

My dad landed a career-defining job at the University of Saskatchewan, working under Milton Bell (who was later made an Officer of the Order of Canada) on a team that developed canola as a major crop and product that was fit for human consumption. It was an experience that put him in good stead to later become a federal government food inspector in Winnipeg and Victoria.

Dad paid for his own night courses to learn English; there were no government-funded courses at the time. He always pursued self-improvement, rarely being without his well-thumbed English/Serbo-Croat dictionary.

“How do you pronounce ‘the’?” he would ask, tripping up on the ‘th’ sound.

“Not ‘da,’ ‘thhhhe!’” we would reply in exasperation.

Mom’s English was never overly fluent and she couldn’t pursue employment with her forestry degree on the Prairies. But she worked for many years as a lab researcher at the University of Manitoba and later became a real estate agent before passing away in 2010.

My two youngest sisters were born in Canada. The rest of us became Canadian citizens as soon as we could, which was then five years after arriving.

Mom and Dad eventually built and sold a series of homes, ran a successful bed-and-breakfast operation, and raised four kids who continue to contribute to Canada’s economy.

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of their willingness to do what was necessary to give us a better life.

After surviving the embarrassment of being different than our classmates (including having a non-English-speaking grandma, who, after arriving in 1972, would greet our friends with a kiss on their foreheads), we kids grew up OK in this new land.

My siblings become a doctor, a social worker and a massage therapist.

Unlike a commonly held misconception about refugees, none of my parents, me, my brother or sisters ever applied for a government welfare cheque.

In fact, my now 82-year-old father was so hard-working that when he retired as Vancouver Island’s only poultry, egg, and fruit and vegetable inspector, he liked to point out that they had to hire multiple people to replace him.

When I think of what helped my family members transition to becoming Canadians, it wasn’t this country’s welfare state.

It was that we were allowed to strive for success through decent job opportunities and an accessible, affordable education system.

My university-educated parents wouldn’t have been as happy or productive if they were denied the chance to use some of their skills and knowledge in their new home.

Knowing this, perhaps we should do better at recognizing the training and skills that other refugees are bringing to Canada. There’s no reason that a foreign-trained doctor, for instance, should spend years flipping pizzas because he can’t get timely retesting opportunities.

Canada doesn’t have a perfect historic record of helping all those who clambered for our shores. But it seemed like this country was trying to make up for past sins, like failing to help Jewish boat people during the Second World War, by having more generous resettlement policies of late.

That’s why it’s so disturbing to discover that Canadian refugee quotas were cut significantly over the last few years by the federal government.

Perhaps it’s a good time to take stock of what values we want to carry forward. Hopefully tolerance, generosity and compassion will be among them.

Just as my refugee family has added new strands to the fabric of this society (my parents have eight Canadian-born grandchildren), Canada has been very good to us.

We were extended boundless possibilities, as well as civil liberties. Canadian police thankfully don’t show up to seize our passports, question our politics or our travel plans.

As someone who was born in a land without democracy, free speech, or a free press, it’s never been lost on me how lucky I am to work as a journalist in a country that has all of the above.

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“The decision to shoot the animal was made in consideration of public safety and the safety of the officers in the area,” Jones said Friday.

“We would have much preferred to have had the animal sedated but unfortunately the way the situation unfolded we weren’t able to do that.”

People who live in the neighbourhood called police about a cougar roaming the area.

One man said he went out of his house for a cigarette and heard a hissing sound.

Then he saw the big cat.

“That cougar came up, walked right beside me, and we sort of scared each other,” Robert Stebbings said. “He ran underneath the bush there.”

Stebbings said he went inside and called 911.

Jones said there were reports of a cougar in a nearby industrial area on Thursday.

Wildlife officials say there has been an increase in cougar sightings in Alberta and B.C. in recent years as the animals search for food in developed areas.

Last September wildlife officers killed a cougar in southeast Calgary near a hospital.

The Alberta government has estimated there are more than 2,000 cougars roaming the province.

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Releasing live fish into Alberta water bodies is illegal and the fines can be as high as $100,000.

“It is extremely costly and difficult to try and manage, contain and destroy them once they have become established,” Mushens said on the town’s website.

High River, in partnership with a contractor, is working with the provincial invasive species specialist and has screened off the forebays to stop the goldfish from getting into larger ponds or the Highwood River.

In June, Alberta Environment and Parks announced a campaign asking people to stop flushing live fish down the toilet.

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Concert puts Lacombe on the map

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Ryan Langlois, front man of The Boom Chucka Boys kicks off the outdoor party as part of the One Horse Town festivities in Lacombe on Friday night. The city won the Coors Banquet One Horse Town contest, which brought a free outdoor country concert to the community, with Tim Hicks and The Road Hammers headlining. Thousands of people turned out to the event, with all but roughly 300 being from the Lacombe and Lacombe county areas.

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Oland’s secretary faces crossexamination at murder trial

EDMONTON — The Alberta government says it’s boosting spending for family and community support programs by $10 million.

Family and Community Support Services include support groups, youth mentors, home support and outreach services for seniors.

About $7.5 million of the extra money will be distributed to all participating municipalities and Metis settlements.

The government says the remaining $2.5 million will be distributed to communities that have experienced substantial population growth.

The announcement brings the total spending for the programs to $86 million.

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Richard Oland had a good relationship with his son, the businessman’s secretary told Dennis Oland’s murder trial Friday, and she never heard him complain about the money his son owed.

Under cross-examination, Maureen Adamson told the Court of Queen’s Bench in Saint John, N.B., that Richard Oland was happy to see his son the last time she saw him alive on July 6, 2011.

Adamson says the pair was chatting about family history as she wrapped up for the day.

Defence attorney Gary Miller asked her about a newspaper article she read after Richard Oland’s death that said the two men did not get along.

Adamson said she was surprised by the report, saying she had known them both for about 30 years and had never seen them argue.

“I had never seen that in all the time I worked for Mr. Oland,” she said.

Oland, 46, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the death of his 69-year-old father, a well-known

Nearly 1,500 cowboy-hatted music fans gathered in historic downtown Lacombe on Friday night for a country concert that will be seen across the nation.

As cheers went up for The Road Hammers, Tim Hicks and The Boom Chucka Boys, the first-ever Coors One Horse Town concert was getting filmed for a documentary to air on County Music TeleviLANA sion on Nov. 6.

MICHELIN It should put Lacombe on the ENTERTAINMENT map, said local resident Cheryl Babiak, who was among the lucky area residents to get into the outdoor concert, held in a cordoned-off block next to the flatiron building.

All free tickets were snapped up in under half an hour, so “I’m thrilled to death!” added Babiak.

Keith and Phyllis Cameron, of Clive, were arguably the most elated, as they were first through the gate after lining up at 4:15 p.m. for the 7 p.m. show. “I came first at 2:15, but no one else was here,” confessed Phyllis, who wanted to get next to the stage. “You don’t want any whipper-snappers in front of you.”

Lacombe resident Amanda Smith believes the “awesome” event will make people across Canada “realize what we are.” And according to Mayor Steve Christie, the City of Lacombe was one proud community on Friday night.

“Thanks for not making me a liar when I brag about Lacombe spirit!” said Christie, to more cheers.

The mayor thanked the crowd for helping Lacombe win the free concert, beating out over 1,700 submissions from other Canadian centres of less than 50,000 people. In the end, it became a show-down between Lacombe and Shelburne, Ont. and the Alberta city, with its historic downtown and connection to famous county singer and local resident Gord Bamford, was victorious. In part it was also because of on-line votes.

Many Lacombe residents voted every day — even several times a day

from their mobile devices. “I was like, we’ve got to beat Shelburne, and it happened,” said Corwyn Zsigrai, who feels the concert — a hot local conversational topic for the last month — brought the community together. “I’m glad to be part of it.”

When The Boom Chucka Boys from Sylvan Lake and Red Deer cranked up the music for the opening set, fans began leaving the beer kiosk and food tent to watch the show.

Guy Lapointe, the City of Lacombe’s community economic development officer, called it “a one-time opportunity.”

Besides the exposure and community spirit generated, the concert gave Lacombe an economic boost, he said.

Up to 300 tickets were made available to people outside the area, who travelled to the small city. “And the production crew was also here all week, spending money on accommodation, food, even some equipment and signage,” added Lapointe, who was excited to attend.

Officers from the Lacombe Police Service assisted at the event, and City of Lacombe workers helped cordon off the block.

“The town was incredible to work with,” said Nicole Wolff, marketing manager of Coors Banquet beer. “Everyone was on board from the beginning.”

She had mostly worried about the weather, but it turned out warm and sunny. “It doesn’t get much more perfect than this!”

The contest was held to market a beer made in the small town of Golden, Colo. “We wanted to celebrate small-town pride by bringing in some big name acts that people in a small town wouldn’t normally get to see,” added Toronto-based Wolff, who hopes the One Horse Town concert becomes a regular event.

In an advance interview, Ontario country singer Tim Hicks had promised a lively show that gets fans singing along to hits, including Stronger Beer.

“I’ll be doing that song every night for the rest of my life,” Hicks said, laughing.

Outdoor concerts have a great vibe, he added. “People in Lacombe are very excited, and this is going to be a whole lot of fun.”

Even some residents without concert tickets came by the barricades to soak up music and atmosphere. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

a part of the Alberta Centennial Railway Museum, which has a few train cars on-site already.

Beiseker Mayor Ray Courtman says the south end of the building has collapsed but the fire department managed to save the north end.

someone says it’s as cold as Winnipeg, you may have to ask them to be more specific.

Winnipeg, Manitoba? Or Winnipeg, Mars?

A team of NASA scientists who are working with the Curiosity rover as it scans the red planet have named a small patch of rock “Winnipeg.”

“It’s been looking for water, essentially, evidence of past life and things like that. So Winnipeg is one of those spots along that scientific journey,” Scott Young, an astronomer with the Manitoba Museum, said Friday.

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Historic train station, part of museum, damaged by fire BEISEKER — A piece of southern Alberta’s history has been damaged by fire.

Crews were called in early Friday morning to the old Bassano train station in Beiseker.

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Harper on defensive ‘OLD STOCK’ COMMENT, NIQAB CASE CAUSE HEADACHES

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OTTAWA — Stephen Harper found himself on the defensive Friday, dogged by a controversial phrase from the leaders’ debate and his government’s efforts to prevent a Muslim woman from taking the citizenship oath while wearing a niqab.

The Conservative leader said during Thursday’s economic debate that “new and existing and oldstock Canadians” agree with his policy on refugee health care.

The Liberal and NDP leaders slammed the use of the term “old stock” as divisive Friday and Harper was asked to clarify what he meant.

His position on refugee health care is “supported

by Canadians, who themselves are immigrants and also supported by the rest of us, by Canadians who have been the descendants of immigrants for one or more generations,” Harper said.

The government sought to scrap a program that covered health-care costs for people awaiting decisions on refugee claims, sharply curtailing coverage and allocating it based on where the claimants were

from. Some items — such as medications — were no longer covered at all.

The Federal Court ruled the changes put people’s lives at risk and declared the system unconstitutional, ordering the government to implement a new, charter-compliant system.

The revised program expanded health coverage available to refugee claimants, most notably extending it specifically to children and pregnant women.

But it still classifies how much coverage people will receive based on what kind of refugee claim they are making and where the claim is in the process.

“We were talking specifically about immigrant health care and I was making the point because it had been alleged that the government had removed health-care services for immigrants,” Harper said Friday about his debate comment.

“That is simply not true. What the government has done is we have removed special health-care programs for those refugee claimants who have failed and are clearly bogus.”

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said the old-stock comment shows Harper uses “the politics of division.”

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair said “we’re all Canadians” and he doesn’t like dividing people into categories.

The Conservatives undertook another battle on Friday, promising to seek a stay of a Federal Court of Appeal decision to allow a Muslim woman to wear a niqab at a citizenship ceremony.

Zunera Ishaq successfully challenged a rule banning the wearing of face veils at citizenship ceremonies, but if the stay is granted, she is unlikely to have the opportunity to become a citizen before the Oct. 19 vote.

“Look, when someone joins the Canadian family there are times in our open, tolerant, pluralistic society that as part of our interactions with each other we reveal our identity through revealing our face,” Harper said.

“When you join the Canadian family in a public citizenship ceremony it is essential that that is a time when you reveal yourselves to Canadians and that is something widely supported by Canadians.”

Both the NDP and Liberals said they would drop the appeal if elected.

Khadr’s bail conditions eased by judge

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — An Edmonton judge is easing bail restrictions and allowing former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr to travel to Toronto to visit his grandparents — but he may not be able to fly.

Lawyer Nathan Whitling said he is trying to determine whether Khadr is on WHAT KHADR Canada’s no-fly list.

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The Toronto-born Khadr, now 29, was 15 when he was captured following a firefight in Afghanistan in 2002, and became the youngest prisoner and lone Westerner at the time to be held in Guantanamo.

He pleaded guilty in 2010 to several war crimes.

Khadr later said he only pleaded guilty to get out of the notorious prison.

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Actress Pamela Anderson, left, and photographer Emma Dunlavey prepare to sign copies of their book ‘Raw’ in Vancouver, B.C., on Friday.

Actress gives Harper cold shoulder when it comes to climate change

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Canadian actress Pamela Anderson prompted laughs from starry-eyed fans when she quipped she would never vote for Conservative Leader Stephen Harper.

But she quickly switched to a serious tone and said citizens should keep climate change top of mind when they go to the polls on Oct. 19, calling it “the most important issue to anybody in the whole world.”

“Harper doesn’t have a good track record with that (issue),” she said on Friday to explain her opinion.

“I think it’s our decade’s most important issue to deal with and putting the environment ahead of the economy, I know, is a difficult choice.”

When asked on the campaign trail earlier this

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Ryan Hampton was also found guilty Friday of six counts of breaching a court order for contacting his ex-wife.

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His lawyer, Jason Tarnow, told court that the couple was headed for a divorce and she downloaded the images in a bid to frame her husband.

“He will maintain his innocence (until) the day he dies,” Tarnow said outside court after the verdict was announced. “Obviously, the judge felt differently, and that’s unfortunate.”

Hampton has been in custody for seven months.

Justice Barry Davies said that with 1.5-times credit for time already served, Hampton’s sentence amounts to 10.5 months and would end Saturday.

“What is important is rehabilitation for the future,” Davies said. “He will never be a police officer again. He has lost his career and he has lost his family. In my view, he has received the punishment he deserves.”

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The Conservative’s policy sets a target of reducing carbon emissions by 30 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030, which Harper has said goes farther than any government in Canadian history.

The former “Baywatch” star and model from Ladysmith, B.C., was in Vancouver to release her new book of poetry and photographs called Raw. The 48-year-old, who calls herself a “small-town Canadian girl,” used the appearance to weigh in on the election, the environment, marijuana legalization and British Columbia’s wolf cull.

Anderson can’t actually vote in Canada because she has lived abroad for more than five years. The rule dates back to the 1993 Canada Elections Act. Anderson is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States.

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Funeral to be held Monday for Nova Scotia police officer killed off-duty HALIFAX — A funeral service will be held Monday for a Truro, N.S., police officer whose body was found in a wooded area near a Halifax bridge earlier this week.

The service for 36-yearold Catherine Campbell will be held at 2 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church in her hometown of Stellarton, N.S. Campbell was reported missing Monday when she failed to show up for work.

Halifax police recovered her body early Wednesday.

Twenty-seven-year-old Christopher Calvin Garnier is charged with second-degree CATHERINE murder in Campbell’s death.

CAMPBELL He is also charged with indecently interfering with a dead body.

Dad, stepmom who beat, burned little girl over 3 days, killing her, sentenced CALGARY — A father and stepmother who beat, burned, punched and dragged a little girl by the hair over three days, killing her, are going to jail for a long time.

Spencer Jordan and Marie Magoon were sentenced Friday to life in prison with no chance of parole for at least 17 years for the death of six-yearold Meika Jordan in November 2011.

Justice Rosemary Nanton said words cannot describe the terrible things the couple did to the little girl.

The couple was originally charged with firstdegree murder but were found guilty of seconddegree murder in June after a five-week trial.

Court heard that Meika died in hospital of blunt force trauma.

During an undercover police investigation, Magoon and Jordan each admitted to abusing the child.

Jordan and Magoon told EMS that the girl had fallen down the stairs.

Kyla and Brian Woodhouse, Meika’s mother and stepfather, said their victim impact statements were the final steps in a difficult emotional process that lasted years.

“It’s impossible to describe,” said Brian. “We spent months and months drawing up draft after draft and throwing them out and rewording, rewriting.

“How do you ever put into words what kind of impact that has?”

“It’s kind of bittersweet, I guess,” said Kyla.

“These past few years we’ve always had that next date to look forward to and babysitters to plan and now it’s just kind of, ‘What do we do with ourselves?’.”

Kyla Woodhouse said the apologies her daughter’s killers issued during Friday’s proceedings came far too late.

“That’s something that should have happened four years ago. I mean, when it comes right down to it, I think it was decent of them to at least offer that to us, kind of a little bit of closure for us on our end.”

“In no way do we accept it as an apology. That’s nothing you can apologize for.”

Former Olympics boss Furlong wins defamation case filed by journalist VANCOUVER — A journalist’s articles about former Vancouver Olympics boss John Furlong were an attack on his reputation, a judge has ruled in a scathing decision tossing her defamation lawsuit.

Laura Robinson reported allegations by eight First Nations people that Furlong abused them more than 40 years ago without verifying their stories or ensuring they weren’t contaminating each others’ memories, the judge found.

“Ms. Robinson’s publications concerning Mr. Furlong cannot be fairly characterized as the reporting of other persons’ allegations against him,” B.C. Supreme Court Justice Catherine Wedge wrote in a decision released Friday.

“Rather, the publications constitute an attack by Ms. Robinson on Mr. Furlong’s character, conduct and credibility.”

Robinson had accused Furlong of publicly portraying her as unethical, heartless and cruel in an attempt to discredit her 2012 article published in the Georgia Straight.

She obtained sworn affidavits from eight people claiming to be former students of a northern B.C. school where Furlong was a gym teacher in 1969 and 1970. They alleged he beat them and taunted them with racial slurs.

But in a 97-page decision, the judge found numerous flaws in Robinson’s reporting.

Ottawa to ask for stay on niqab appeal decision

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Conservatives are seeking to throw up another roadblock to a Muslim woman’s quest to be able to vote in October.

The government announced Friday it will seek a stay of a Federal Court of Appeal decision this week that would have allowed Zunera Ishaq to wear a niqab while swearing the oath of citizenship.

Current regulations ban wearing of face veils at citizenship ceremonies, but Ishaq challenged the rule, won in Federal Court and again this week, when a three-judge appeal panel upheld that decision in a quick ruling from the bench.

In response, the federal government said it would seek leave to appeal the case to the Supreme Court of Canada. On Friday it said it would ask that the appeal court ruling be put on hold while the issue goes to the Supreme Court.

“The reason why now is because we had a court ruling that we’re responding to expeditiously,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday at a campaign event in Calgary.

“Look, when someone joins the Canadian family, there are times in our open, tolerant, pluralistic society that as part of our interactions with each other we reveal our identity through revealing our face.

When you join the Canadian family in a public citizenship ceremony it is essential that that is a time when you reveal yourselves to Canadians and that is something widely supported by Canadians.”

The stay could be granted by either the appeal court or the top court. One of Ishaq’s lawyers said Friday they intend to ask the government which it will be and how soon, as they will fight the request.

“We want to argue the stay as soon as possible, so if the court denies the stay, my client can still get her citizenship and vote,” Lorne Waldman said in an interview.

If the stay is granted, Ishaq is unlikely to have the opportunity to become a citizen before the Oct. 19 vote. The government has until mid-November to file the leave application to the Supreme Court and the justices could take as long as three months to consider it.

Both the Liberals and the NDP said they’d let the matter drop if they form government.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair noted that the courts have set the blame squarely on the current government’s shoulders for imposing an unlawful rule.

“We will respect the courts,” he told reporters in Regina.

“In the same way courts guarantee the freedom of expression and freedom of the press, the courts are there to guarantee the freedom of religion.”

Giving Ishaq the chance to vote was what prompted the swift ruling from the appeal court on Tuesday.

“We believe that it is in the interests of justice that we not delay in issuing our decision through the examination of an unnecessary issue so as to hopefully leave open the possibility for the respondent to obtain citizenship in time to vote in the upcoming

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Zunera Ishaq (centre) leaves the Federal Court of Appeal after it overturned a ban on the wearing niqabs at citizenship ceremonies, in Ottawa. federal election,” Justice Mary Gleason wrote in the decision.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said the move smacked of a deliberate attempt by the government to deny someone a vote that would likely be cast against them.

“That is completely irresponsible,” he told reporters in Montreal Friday.

“Canada defends the rights of minorities, we respect people’s rights. That’s what we will always do.

This government quite frankly is demonstrating time and time again its lack of respect for people’s rights and freedoms.”

In order for Ishaq to obtain citizenship, the Citizenship and Immigration Department must formally invite her to a ceremony. Several are scheduled in Ontario between now and Oct. 19.

The Conservatives have also said that if re-elected, they would, in their first 100 days, re-introduce and adopt legislation banning face coverings during citizenship oaths. A bill to do that was introduced in the waning days of the last Parliament.

The niqab ban was inspired in part by Quebec’s experience with the so-called charter of values, a document introduced by the Parti Quebecois government which banned the display of overtly religious symbols by people in the public sector.

While the charter was extensively criticized and partly blamed for the defeat of the PQ government in 2014, the issue of the niqab still resonates in the province, where the Conservatives hope to increase their seat count.

That’s likely why it was left to Denis Lebel, a Conservative candidate in Quebec, to announce the plans to seek a stay, rather than Justice Minister Peter MacKay, who is not running for re-election.

Winnipeg mayor hopes summit on fighting racism will produce tangible results

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — A two-day conference cannot put an end to racism in Winnipeg and may not undo the accusation that it is the most racist city in Canada, Mayor Brian Bowman said Friday.

But it is a starting point to help make the city a more inclusive place, he said in his closing remarks.

“This is a long-haul journey that we’re on here.

I think that’s been really impressed upon me,” he said.

“One of the big takeaways for me is a reaffirmation of how much people give a damn. You’re all here. You’ve been sitting here all day … that really does embolden us to continue down the path we’re on.”

Bowman organized the Mayor’s National Summit on Racial Inclusion after Maclean’s magazine labelled Winnipeg the most racist city in Canada in a cover story earlier this year.

The meeting, held inside the Canadian Museum

For Human Rights and featuring speakers from mostly local non-profit groups, heard from people who have experienced racism.

An indigenous panellist — movie producer Lisa Meeches — said her young son was called a “stupid Indian” by classmates. A Muslim woman in the audience said people look at her like she is an alien because of her hijab. There were stories of discrimination on the job.

A common theme among those in the audience was that attitudes among non-aboriginals must change and relationships must be rebuilt.

“We’ve been ‘civilized’ to death,” Darcy Linklater said.

“To me, true reconciliation is to take back what we lost, what was taken away from us, including our land, our language, our culture, our spiritual sovereignty, our economic sovereignty.”

The Maclean’s article touched a nerve in the city when it was published.

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Yes, I’ve got monkeys in my pants News item: (Portland, Ore., September 2015) Man piddles on plane I’m sure everyone and their dog and their cat has heard of this news story by now. Ewww, right?

But just for fun, let us review the facts, shall we? It seems that one Jeff Rubin, 27 years old, after sleeping most of the flight from Anchorage, Alaska, stood up and HARLEY “began urinatHAY ing through the crack between HAY’S DAZE the seats in front of him.”

And yes, there happened to be passengers sitting in those seats.

Runny Rubin then apparently fell over in mid-stream, as it were, “spraying passengers, seats and luggage.”

The Peeing Perpetrator spent five hours in jail, where he piddled through the bars onto a guard. OK, so I made that last part up, but he really was put in jail.

But the best part, if there is a best part? Guess what our Jetstream Jeff is charged with? I love it: “criminal mischief and offensive littering.” I guess mischief and littering is better than illegal watering or misdemeanor bladder control.

Thing is, the major airlines, whose motto I have mentioned several times is “We’re not happy until you’re not happy” shouldn’t be too surprised when things get out of gland (sorry) on their flights. They now charge you and for choosing a seat, bringing a suitcase and having a cardboard sandwich.

They have made the seats smaller and thinner, added more rows so that they can cram in more paying human sardines and seemingly gone out of their way to make flying a miserable experience.

So of course, it’s only a matter of time until the airlines begin charging passengers every time they need to use the bathroom. Or, inevitably, airlines will do away with bathrooms altogether. That way they can add more paying seats. And you know what that means – more rampant piddling on planes.

Have a wonderful trip in the friendly skies, but bring your own Depends!

News item: (Bangkok, Thailand, September 2015) Woman’s colon caught In a related air travel story involving illegal gross bodily functions, this past weekend a Chinese woman was arrested on suspicion of smuggling.

When she was summarily X-rayed and a “diamond-shaped object” was detected in her large intestine, she decided to confess to stealing and swallowing some jewelry.

Assuming this wasn’t because she was just “really really hungry,” author-

ities ordered a colonoscopy and since most airports don’t currently have portable colonoscopes installed at the security scanner (but they no doubt will sooner or later) the Woman with the Diamond Colon was taken to a facility whereupon, and I quote: “after nature and laxatives failed to get it out” a doctor and I quote: “wielding a colonoscope and the medical equivalent of pliers pulled a six-carat gemstone from the large intestine. …”

The gemstone turned out to be a diamond worth 10 million baht ($278,000), which coincidentally was the same price as her first-class airline ticket from Bangkok to America.

Various articles in a number of news sources go on to note that swallowing contraband for the purpose of smuggling is certainly not uncommon.

And it can be unbelievably extreme, which is a trait criminal morons seem to possess in spades. Take the case in 2012 where a 25-year-old South African male swallowed 220 polished diamonds and attempted to smuggle

them out of the country. The jewels, worth an estimated $2.3 million, were discovered by a routine body scan at the airport. It seems to me that the operative word in this story, at least for the colon-stuffed smuggler, is that the diamonds were “polished.” Otherwise, I doubt he would have even made it to the airport without serious leakage. Being virtually indestructible and pointy, unpolished diamonds certainly wouldn’t be a colon’s best friend.

News item: (Los Angeles, 2002.) Monkeys in my pants And finally, any discussion of idiotic air travel behaviour would be incomplete without the classic story from 2002. You may even remember the time that a man arriving in L.A. from Thailand was arrested for illegally transporting endangered species.

You may remember it on account of he had monkeys in his underwear. Underwear that he was wearing at the time.

The downfall of Mr. Monkey Shorts started when customs agents opened the man’s suitcase and “a bird of par-

adise flew out.” Further inspection found three more birds and 50 rare orchids in the bag. When asked if he was bringing anything else illegal into the country, the man said, “Yes, I’ve got monkeys in my pants.”

Turns out there were a tiny pair of pygmy monkeys that he had been carrying in his underpants. I for one am surprised authorities didn’t notice that the man kept jumping out of his seat and doing the Monkey Pants Dance up and down the aisles.

Ultimately, the monkeys went to the Los Angeles Zoo, and the man went to jail for 57 days.

The good news? At least the Monkey Man didn’t try to swallow the pair of pygmy simians to smuggle them. That would just be crazy.

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

The human migration in autumn While driving on Taylor Drive south the other day, I noticed a phenomenon that happens every year at this time.

Some call it a harbinger of the season to come, while most others call it a pre-migration event, which it in fact is in both cases.

What we witnessed was huge flocks of various kinds of birds flying in seemingly endless to and CHRIS fro, directionSALOMONS less circles, STREET TALES but like I mentioned, in large groups. Geese, crows, magpies and several other species had assembled in preparation for their mass migration south for the winter.

The same happens with people, who also sometimes will congregate to head south for the winter months; we call them snowbirds.

Downtown, we experience almost the same happening. You see, for the last two weeks and for a couple of weeks to come, before really cold weather sets in, there is and will be a

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marked increase in the number of people on the street and coming for meals.

A lot of them are new faces who we have not seen before, and they come in all shapes, sizes and ages.

They arrive with their lives on their backs and their life’s baggage on their shoulders. Some are very quiet and very respectful, while others are more boisterous, in attempts to present a tough face to those around them.

Because of Red Deer’s unique location (between Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver and points east), the ebb and flow of these nomads seems to culminate here for a month or so, increasing the street populations by about 25 per cent.

This year is no different — the increase putting an even greater strain on all of the available resources.

Some call this the Fall Movement, but for obvious reasons, I tend to call it Human Migration because of its similarities to the migration of the animal world.

Then in a couple of weeks or so, our numbers will decline as these folks move to points with larger facilities like Edmonton and Calgary and points east, or they will travel to Vancouver where the weather usually is more street livable.

Often, people will ask whether the economic climate has increased homeless numbers in Red Deer. We can on-

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ly guess until the migration period is over, but I believe that there is an increase. With 35,000-plus people laid off from the oil industry, there is or soon will be much larger numbers of people vying for the services provided.

One young couple, who several weeks ago moved to Edmonton to look for work and accommodations, moved back to Red Deer.

I asked them why, they stated that all of the services there were completely full and that there was just nothing for them there at all. So maybe the economy is going to be a factor after all.

While all this is going on, Red Deer is still trying to find a facility before winter where these people can go during the day. Contrary to the manipulative opinion of some, finding a facility (whether on the north or south side of the river) does not encourage more people to stay in Red Deer.

Up to this point, we have always had these services (like Berachah’s Place and Winter’s Inn) without an increase in the homeless population.

The only increase has been as a result of general population growth.

We find that the large majority of our clients are from the Central Alberta area. So any fears that a more permanent day use building will increase the population using it is debunked.

By providing a day use building

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,we have to look at the positives to be gained . A facility with showers and laundry services will greatly reduce the spread of disease, which uncleanness promotes. With a warm place to spend a few hours, they will not cause overuse of places like the library and or other public or private places.

If we plan the facility well, we can use it as a resource centre where people who want to volunteer can assist folks who just need encouragement to keep looking for self-worth or work, or even just useful busyness.

In a month or so (for sure before snow flies), the migration period will be over and we will return to the numbers more consistent with our population.

Rather than continually trying to find ways to rid ourselves of this population, we should be like a wise man who made a statement something like this: “If you keep your enemies where you can always watch them, they will never surprise you and can eventually cease to be your enemies.”

Not that these folks are our enemies but the philosophy behind the statement seems to fit. Winston Churchill probably never thought his words would be used in an exercise like this.

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Promises don’t align with challenges In many respects, our election is like Christmas.

Each political party is handing out ‘presents’ — a tax cut, low-cost day care, bigger tax savings for education, and so forth. Each party leader behaves like a Santa Claus.

Apparently we DAVID are supposed CRANE to vote for the party that hands INSIGHT out the biggest and best ‘presents’ by the end of the campaign.

But there is nothing strategic about this. There’s no clear sense that the ‘presents’ align with meeting Canada’s biggest challenges. In fact, none of the political parties has spelled out how it will address the biggest longer-term challenges facing Canada.

The biggest economic challenge is how to build a an innovative, knowledge-based economy, with good jobs and a higher rate of productivity growth. Without this we’ll lack public resources to support education, research, infrastructure, health care and an aging society.

Canada is under-investing in science and innovation and if we con-

tinue to invest less than our competitors we will be unable to create the wealth and good jobs that we need for a successful and sustainable society.

If we are to succeed, then we need a high level of public investment including next-generation mission-oriented strategies, for example in low-carbon energy, green technologies, smart infrastructure that works with industry and universities for industries and jobs of the future.

This means seeing the role of government in innovation strategy not as simply correcting for market failures but for a more active public sector role in creating markets and opportunities in future technologies — and where the public and private sectors work together to shape growth for the longer term.

As Mariana Mazzucato has explained in her important book, The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Private vs. Public Sector Myths without sustained public sector investment, there would not have been the spectacular development of information and communications technologies that we see today. Every key piece of technology in today’s iPhone, for example, is based on publicly-funded research.

As she argues, “fundamental transformations are needed to change the economic policy discourse from a narrow one, focused on deficits and spending, to a broader one, on directionality and strategic investments”

and “on how to redirect the economy towards sustainable long-term growth and the type of government investments that are needed to achieve this.”

One reason the big challenges are largely absent from the election campaign is that over the past three decades successive governments have eliminated the public institutions that provided much of the public knowledge and understanding that raised important issues and provided the public with the strategic analysis for informed public debate. We don’t have a shared knowledge base.

In the 1960s, Canada created the Economic Council of Canada and the Science Council to study key longer-term issues facing the country and to publish reports containing analysis and recommendations. But the Mulroney government abolished both these important bodies.

The Mulroney government did create the National Advisory Board on Science and Technology and it published a series of important public reports.

But the Chretien government abolished this body and replaced it with the Advisory Council on Science and Technology and restricted its role to secret advice to the government.

The Mulroney government had also created the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy.

However, the Harper government abolished this body and also abolished the

Advisory Council on Science and Technology, replacing it with the Science, Technology and Innovation Council.

It too focuses on secret advice to the government.

Today, just two institution remain — the Council of Canadian Academies, created by the Martin government publishes reports on subjects the government or other bodies asks it to conduct, and Policy Horizons Canada, a federal government body that conducts literature scans on a small number of subjects.

But at a time when there is a growing and urgent need to better-informed public analysis, discussion and action, the public institutions we need are no longer there.

This does not by any means fully explain the failure of out political parties to address the big issues facing Canada.

But it does mean that there is much less public analysis available to help Canadians — including our political parties — understand the most important challenges we face.

Instead, we have political leaders doling out ‘presents.’ But these are not a substitute for fundamental strategies to help make Canada a more successful society over the next five to 10 years.

Economist David Crane is a syndicated Toronto Star columnist. He can be reached at crane@interlog.com.

Greece: All passion has been spent “We understood the responsibility to stay alive over choosing suicide,” said Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, defending his decision to end his rebellion against the European Union’s tough terms for bailing out the Greek economy.

He needed to defend it, since he finally gave in to even harsher terms.

GWYNNE Sometimes defiDYER ance at all costs is a mistake.

INSIGHT If Tsipras really knew he was going to lose his David-and-Goliath struggle with the EU eventually, shouldn’t he have settled earlier for better terms?

If he didn’t realize that, what was he doing in the prime minister’s office?

So now the firebrand who turned Greek politics upside down is a bit of a zombie.

Back in mid-August, when Tsipras called the snap election that will be held this Sunday, he was still basking in the after-glow of the defiant ‘No’ that Greek voters gave to austerity in his July referendum, and the opinion polls gave his Syriza party 42 per cent support. At least Tsipras had stood up to the wicked Germans and their rich allies in the EU, even if it meant that the banks closed for three weeks and the economy went into a nosedive.

But a lot of Greeks are having sober second thoughts. Tsipras’s quixotic battle with the EU killed what was starting to look like a modest outbreak of growth in the Greek economy, and analysts are now predicting a further decline of up to four per cent in Greek GDP this year. Unemployment is still at 25 percent (50 percent for young people). Was it all worth it?

Maybe not, and that thought may even have occurred to Alexis Tsipras by now. He was certainly very subdued in his television debate with Vangelis Meimarakis, leader of the New Democracy Party, last Sunday, and well he might be.

In the past six weeks, Tsipras’s own Syriza party has split, with 25 of its members of parliament forming a new Popular Unity party. They condemn him for accepting austerity and want Greece to quit the euro instead.

They have taken a lot of Syriza’s former voters with them, so Syriza and the centre-right New Democracy party are now neck-and-neck in the polls, with less than one percentage point between them.

That one percentage point matters a lot, since in Greek elections the party that wins the most seats is then given another 50 seats as a bonus. But even if Syriza is that party, it will still be very hard to form a new government after

Sunday’s election.

During the last debate, Tsipras rejected Vangelis Meimarakis’s call for a broad coalition, saying that it would be “unnatural” for his party and New Democracy to be in government together. It’s hard to see what would be unnatural about it, considering the deal Tsipras signed with the EU, but he is still in denial about what he has done.

Tsipras, like many, maybe most Greeks, wants to have his cake and eat it too. He wants to keep the euro, because he calculates that Greece would have to leave the European Union if it went back to its old currency, the drachma. That is not technically inevitable, but most Greeks reckon it is very likely, and they desperately want to stay in the EU. But neither Tsipras nor Greek voters want to live with perpetual austerity, which is probably the price of staying in the euro. Countries like Greece, that have run up huge foreign debts,

usually deal with the problem by devaluing their currency, but there is no way for Greece to devalue the euro.

There is one way out of this dilemma, of course: get your creditors to give you “debt relief.” If they would agree to cut the amount Greece owes by half, it could probably service the remainder of its debt and still grow its economy. In fact, that’s exactly what Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) told the eurozone finance ministers last month.

“I remain firmly of the view that Greece’s debt has become unsustainable,” she said. (It’s now heading for 200 percent of GDP.) So she called on the European Union to make “concrete commitments…to provide significant debt relief, well beyond what has been considered so far.”

The rich eurozone countries don’t want to do that, because other highly indebted members of the EU would

then demand the same relief. If they refuse to do it for Greece, however, the IMF will not take part in the 86-billion-euro bail-out of the Greek government and banks.

If the IMF won’t play, several EU parliaments (notably the German) may not ratify the deal, whose final details must be settled next month. But a solution will probably be found in the end, most likely by giving Greece a very long grace period, say 30 years, during which it only has to pay the interest, not the principal, on a large part of its debt.

But it’s increasingly unlikely that Alexis Tsipras will be the Greek prime minister who negotiates that deal – even though you could argue that it was really his defiance and brinkmanship that forced Greece’s creditors to consider such a deal at all.

Gwynne Dyer is a freelance Canadian journalist living in London.

The reality of education spending in Canada

BY DEANI NEVEN VAN PELT AND JASON CLEMENS SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE As parents settle back into school year routines, it’s inevitable that questions regarding education spending and the performance of our schools will return to the forefront. This is particularly true in provinces like Ontario and Alberta that are struggling with precarious public finances.

And despite claims to the contrary, spending on public school education in Canada has not been cut and has in fact increased markedly over the last decade even though student enrolment has declined. The problems observed in our public schools simply cannot be explained by a lack of resources.

Consider that the provinces in total spent $60.7 billion on education in public schools in 2012-13, the most recent year of available comprehensive data. This is $19.1 billion more

than was spent 10 years earlier – an increase of 45.9 per cent. When examined individually, every single province increased education spending over the last 10 years without exception.

This substantial increase occurred despite a 4.9 per cent decline in student enrolment in public schools over that same period. The increase in education spending in public schools is actually 53.4 per cent after accounting for the decline in student enrolment.

In other words, more money was spent on fewer students.

As is the norm in service-oriented sectors of our economy, the bulk of spending in education is on compensation. Almost three-quarters (73.5 per cent) of all education spending in public schools is consumed by compensation, which includes salaries, benefits and pensions. Indeed, 72.2 per cent of the entire $19.1 billion increase in education spending was allocated to

increased compensation costs for both teaching and non-teaching staff in public schools.

Of note is the larger and larger share of compensation costs consumed by pensions. Most Canadians are generally aware of the premium pensions enjoyed by government-sector employees compared to those in the private sector. Teachers and non-teaching staff in public schools are no different in terms of enjoying a generous pension. Pension costs increased by 89 per cent, rising from $2.1 billion to $4.0 billion in annual spending between 200304 and 2012-13. Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta experienced particularly pronounced increases in pension costs – increases above 100 per cent over the decade in all three provinces. Greater diligence in managing these costs through reform will be needed sooner rather than later as pension costs continue to crowd-out other education spending.

Spending on renovations and the building of new facilities is another area of increasing costs, which is surprising given the decline in student enrolment. Specifically, spending on new schools and renovations of existing facilities doubled from $2.4 billion annually in 2003-04 to $4.8 billion in 201213. This marked increased occurred at the same time that student enrolment in public schools declined by almost 5 per cent.

This is not to say that there are not problems in our public schools. The notion, however, that the challenges facing public schools arise from a lack of resources is not supported by this evidence of increased education spending.

Deani Neven Van Pelt is the director of the Barbara Mitchell Centre for Improvement in Education and Jason Clemens is Executive VP of the Fraser Institute.

This column was supplied by Troy Media (troymedia.com).

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Europe bickers over fate of migrants

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ZAGREB, Croatia — Thousands of migrants were trapped Friday in a vicious tug-of-war as bickering European governments shut border crossings, blocked bridges and erected new barbed-wire fences in a bid to stem the wave of humanity fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East and Africa.

Asylum-seekers who fled westward after being beaten back by tear gas and water cannon on the Hungarian-Serbian border just days earlier found themselves being returned to Serbia, where their ordeal began, after Croatia declared it could not handle the influx.

The EU’s failure to find a unified response to the crisis left this tiny Balkan nation, one of the poorest in the European Union, squeezed between the blockades thrown up by Hungary and Slovenia and the unending flood of people flowing north from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

With more than 17,089 migrants arriving in just three days, Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic declared that his nation of 4.2 million could no longer cope and the asylum-seekers could not stay.

“What else can we do?” Milanovic said at a news conference. “You are welcome in Croatia and you can pass through Croatia. But go on. Not because we don’t like you, but because this is not your final destination.”

“Croatia has shown it has a heart,” he said. “We also need to show we have a brain.”

Across eastern Europe, barriers to the migrants’ passage were thrown up as nations tried to shift the burden of handling the influx onto their neighbours, leaving asylum-seekers ever more desperate and confused.

Croatia declared itself overwhelmed and began busing migrants to Hungary and closing its border crossings with Serbia. Slovenia halted rail service to Croatia and was sending migrants back there, while Hungary began building yet another razor-wire border fence, this time on its border with Croatia.

Caught in the middle of this high-stakes game of hot potato were the masses of miserable men, women and children who have found their way to the wealthier European nations they wish to settle in blocked at every turn.

“We are seeing the result of haphazard policies,” said Maurizio Albahari, a social anthropologist at the University of Notre Dame and author of “Crimes of Peace: Mediterranean Migrations at the World’s Deadliest Border.”

“The situation is largely due to the lack of a co-ordinated approach toward the reception of these displaced persons.”

Most migrants don’t want to stay in Croatia — only one woman with children has requested asylum, the country’s foreign minister said. Instead, they are trying to reach Western European countries like Germany that have said they are welcome.

While Croatia is happy to let people pass through, Hungary and Slovenia say allowing the migrants to cross their borders would violate European Union rules.

Croatia is part of the EU but not a party to the Schengen treaty, which allows people to travel freely between 26 European countries without showing their passports. Slovenia and Hungary are treaty members and say they are protecting Europe’s borders.

Events in the Balkans have underscored the failures of the EU’s common asylum policy, which calls

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Refugees stand behind a fence blocking the crossing from Croatia to Slovenia at the border checkpoint in Obretzje, Slovenia, early Saturday. Thousands of migrants were trapped Friday in a vicious tug-of-war as bickering European governments shut border crossings, blocked bridges and erected new barbed-wire fences in a bid to stem the wave of humanity fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East and Africa. for a “joint approach to guarantee high standards of protection for refugees.”

Though the EU says “asylum must not be a lottery,” scenes from Croatia on Friday showed it isn’t working out that way.

“The emergency is being actively reproduced by the refusal to acknowledge the reality on the ground.

Migrants and refugees have a goal in mind — to reach Germany, France, the Netherlands, Britain, Sweden and so forth,” Albahari said.

“Many have gone through political violence, exploitation by smugglers, and the peril of crossing the Mediterranean. Fences are not only proving futile: They are actively contributing to exasperation and to needless, additional suffering for families and vulnerable persons.”

The finger-pointing among leaders has become vicious. Croatia and Hungary bickered into the night, with Croatia saying the two countries had agreed to create a corri-

dor for the migrants and the Hungarian Foreign Ministry calling that a “pure lie.”

Hungary’s foreign minister, Peter Szijjarto, called the Croatian prime minister’s handing of the migrant crisis “pathetic.”

“Hypocrisy rules in Europe today. No one is saying honestly how big a challenge this is,” Szijjarto told the MTI news agency. “This will not end soon.”

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Cuba’s national capital building bears a strong resemblance to the United States’ capital building.

TOUR CUBA’S CENTURIES OLD STREETS IN A CLASSIC CONVERTIBLE OR SIT AND HAVE A DRINK WITH THE GHOST OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY On a bar stool in the corner of the baseball, the black market and how El Flordita Bar & Restaurant in Old the collapse of the Soviet Union affectHavana is a bronze ghost of Ernest ed the economy of Cuba. “Before 1991, Hemmingway — a tourist attraction we traded sugar for oil with the Soviet that draws many visitors into the bar Union,” explained Fernando. “With for a picture and an overpriced drink. the dissolution of the Soviet Union, During his lifetime, the famous writ- many of the cane sugar factories er was known to spend many hours closed and unemployment reached an sipping daiquiris and visiting with the all-time high. Those were tough times. bartenders. Some say El Flordita was Tourism has since become the biggest his favourite bar and it hasn’t changed industry in Cuba.” much since 1960 when he was last Our only stop on the way into Hathere. Truth be told, nothing in Cuba vana was at the Bridge of Bacunayhas changed all that much. agua, the highest bridge in Cuba and Wander around Havana’s one of the seven wonders airy courtyards and cobbleof Cuban civil engineerstone streets and you’ll feel ing, according to Fernando. like you’ve slipped into a There’s a restaurant and time warp where crumbling an observation deck and architecture whispers of a I listened to a salsa band vibrant pre-revolution past. performing on the outdoor It was a time when celebrideck while my husband ties like Ava Gardner, Betty photographed the bridge.

Grable and Ernest HemingIn Havana, our driver way frequented the capital dropped us off near the Plaand gangsters ran casinos za de San Francisco Asís, in the Hotel Nacional de a square that was once the Cuba. Even the cars are the busiest commercial district DEBBIE same. Havana’s streets are in Havana. The next few OLSEN a rolling museum of 1940s hours were spent walking TRAVEL and 50s Chevrolet, Hudson, to the key areas of the old Nash, Plymouth and Ford city. automobiles — fully reFernando explained that stored and operating as taxis. There the square is named for the monasaren’t many original parts under the tery that sits next to it. In the 1700’s hoods of these classics, but Cuban me- the monastery tower was the highest chanics have kept them running with point in Havana. Today the building ingenuity and make-shift style. serves as a concert hall. One of the Despite 50 years of crumbling ne- architectural beauties of the square in glect, Havana is beautiful and no trip the domed Lonja del Comercio buildto Cuba would be complete without a ing, which served as Cuba’s first comtour of this capital city. Our Varade- modities market in 1909 and toro beach resort offered a group bus day provides office tour of the capital, but we opted in- space for foreign stead for a private tour in a 1955 Chevy companies.

Bel Air with a driver named Leonel We foland a guide named Fernando Horta. l o w e d We found a listing for FerTours on F e r TripAdvisor and decided to take a n a n d o chance.

The drive from Varadero to Havana is almost two hours and as we drove Fernando told us about the history and culture of Cuba. We talked about C u b a n cars,

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Our guide Fernando and our driver Leonel pose in front of our beautiful 1955 Chevrolet BelAir touring car. A private tour is the best way to see Old Havana. through the streets of old Havana stopping occasionally to look at a particularly historic or interesting site. Not far from the square, he led us inside the Hotel Los Frailes (Friar’s Hotel), which is named for the nearby monastery and basilica. The rooms are positioned around a central courtyard and all the staff members dress as Franciscan friars. An interesting design feature of the hotel is that the original aljibe has been glassed in so you can see the water below. Fernando explained that every colonial mansion in Old Havana had a central limestone cistern for the collection of rain water.

Our next stop was the Old Square, or Plaza Vieja. The square was built in 1559 and has had many names and uses over its long history. In colonial times, it was the residential neighbourhood of the wealthy Creole population of Havana. The square was the site of executions, processions, bullfights and fiestas and the wealthiest citizens watched the goings on from their balconies. In the eighteenth century it became a popular market area that served as Havana’s commercial hub. When you walk around the square today, you’ll still see women in colourful creole costumes selling flowers to tourists from their wicker baskets.

It’s a short walk between each of Havana’s main squares and our walking tour took us through them all and inside some of the city’s most historic buildings. There’s so much history in Old Havana, that entire books have been devoted to it. We visited some of Hemmingway’s favourite haunts including the El Flordita Bar, browsed the second hand books in the Plaza de Arms and finished up near Parque Central where we had the chance to see a uniquely Cuban phenomenon known as Havana’s “hot corner.” This particular place is where locals go t o

photo by Greg Olsen/special to the advocate

This figure sits on the top of the tower of the Castle Real Fuerza in Old Havana. It was inspired by the story of Doña Isabel of Bobadilla, who was married to Hernando de Soto, the General Captain of Cuba. She spent her days in the tower watching the seas for her husband who never returned. “talk” about baseball, Cuba’s national obsession. As the name suggests, the animated conversations often get quite heated and nose-to-nose shouting matches are commonplace — though they never come to blows. Fernando explained that the point is less about resolving differences and more about being heard — a rarity in a country where free speech has its limits.

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This bronze statue of Hemingway reminded me of Red Deer’s bronze ghosts. It sits in the very spot Hemingway used to frequently occupy at El Flordita Bar.

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Marvelling at mountain gorillas TOURISTS ARE GETTING AN UP CLOSE LOOK AT THE RESURGENCE OF RWANDA’S GORILLA POPULATION

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Rwanda — Deep in Rwanda’s steepsloped forest, the mountain gorillas look both endearing and intimidating.

A tourist might feel conflicting impulses to shy away and reach for a hug (the latter is not advised) when a gorilla brushes past on a path. The way a gorilla snoozes, scratches a leg or casts an inquiring glance — it all seems familiar, and yet wild.

“You can’t tell what they’re thinking,” said John Scott, a retired chemical engineer from Britain’s Worcester area who trekked to the high-altitude habitat to see the creatures with close genetic links to humans.

This sense of kinship helps explain why increasing numbers of tourists are heading to Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park, fueling an industry seen as key to the welfare of the critically endangered subspecies as well as the national economy. Those visitors can also be a threat because gorillas are vulnerable to human diseases and so reduced in numbers that a veterinary team called Gorilla Doctors cares for sick and injured apes.

The mountain gorilla population dropped sharply in the last century because of poaching, illness and human encroachment, although the numbers are now rising. These days, an estimated 900 mountain gorillas live in Rwanda and neighbouring Congo and Uganda.

In Rwanda, conservation is big business. Eighty individual permits to see the gorillas for one hour are available daily for a maximum price of $750 each, and 20 per cent of permit revenue goes to schools, clinics and other local community projects, the park website says.

More than 20,000 people visited Rwanda’s gorillas in 2014, nearly three times as many as in 2003, according to government figures. Many came from the United States, Britain, Australia, Germany and Canada. Last week, people in hiking gear sipped coffee and milled around at the park headquarters before breaking into groups of eight, the limit for tourist parties visiting separate gorilla families in the dense undergrowth.

“How’s the pace? Are you feeling the mountains yet or not?” guide Ferdinand Ndamiyabo asked his group, including an Associated Press team, during a hike up a volcano that is home to a family of gorillas called Amahoro, which means “peace” in the Rwandan language. It took close to two hours of walking to reach the gorillas, a relatively gentle climb in mild weather through tangled vines, sting-

ing nettles and other lush vegetation.

Ndamiyabo earlier laid out rules for the encounter: Don’t point, speak softly, don’t cough or sneeze in the animals’ direction and stay a minimum of 23 feet (7 metres) away. If a gorilla approaches, crouch down, don’t make eye contact and make a low sound similar to that of clearing the throat, which gorillas use to express friendliness.

What awaited in a clearing were drowsy gorillas, including two young ones that idly grappled and another that groomed Gahinga, an adult male silverback that dominates the Amahoro. Gahinga eventually rolled off his back and rested his great head on an arm, watching the camera-toting arrivals. He made a low sound.

“The silverback is saying, ‘No problem, my friends, take as many pictures as you want,”’ Ndamiyabo declared.

Dr. Jean Bosco Noheli, a Gorilla Doctors veterinarian who accompanied the tourists, noted a wrist wound on Karisimbi, a female gorilla named after the highest volcano in the border-spanning Virunga mountain range where gorillas live.

He described the injury as superficial and said there was no need for doctors to intervene, a complex process that would require darting the gorilla with a tranquilizer and likely fending off other gorillas before treatment on the spot.

Another member of the group is Kajoriti, a male who lost a hand to a poacher’s snare.

American researcher Dian Fossey, who won the confidence of gorillas by imitating their noises, moving on her knuckles and chewing on vegetation, brought international attention to the primates’ plight. Fossey, whose book “Gorillas in the Mist” inspired a movie starring Sigourney Weaver, was murdered at her Rwandan research camp in 1985 and is buried at a mountain gravesite.

Rwanda descended into bloody cha-

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HAVANA: The beaches in Cuba are beautiful, but there is beauty beyond the beaches

day of exploring Havana and I felt myself nodding off in the back seat of the BelAir on the drive back to Varadero.

The beaches in Cuba are beautiful, but there is beauty beyond the beach. This crumbling city trapped in time has a seductive appeal and an indefatigable energy that make ita must-see for any visitor to Cuba.

Photos by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TOP: Tourists Sarah and John Scott from England take a step back as a male silverback mountain gorilla from the family of mountain gorillas unexpectedly steps out from the bush to cross their path in the dense forest on the slopes of Mount Bisoke volcano in Volcanoes National Park, northern Rwanda. Deep in Rwanda’s steep-sloped forest, increasing numbers of tourists are heading to see the mountain gorillas, a subspecies whose total population is an estimated 900 and who also live in neighbouring Uganda and Congo, fueling an industry seen as key to the welfare of the critically endangered species, as well as Rwanda’s economy.

ABOVE: Members of a family of mountain gorillas named Amahoro, which means “peace” in the Rwandan language, take a rest in the dense forest on the slopes of Mount Bisoke volcano in Volcanoes National Park, northern Rwanda. os during its 1994 genocide, and tourism only returned to Volcanoes National Park at the end of the decade.

Since then, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Hollywood actors are among those who visited Rwanda’s mountain gorillas, whose home is a two-hour drive from Kigali, the capital.

The group led by guide Ndamiyabo followed the gorillas after their

morning nap. At times, gorillas fell in behind the startled tourists, almost bumping into them as they advanced.

Sarah Scott, a nurse and wife of tourist John Scott, said the close encounter was awe-inspiring.

The gorillas seemed so human — whether “grooming or passing wind” — but also huge and powerful, she said, adding: “One swipe of the hand and that’s it.”

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Cruising in Royal Caribbean’s newest mega-ship Waiting in line for our first time on the cruise ship’s bumper-car ride, I paused to look at a photo in my phone.

The man behind me poked me in the ribs, saying, “You got to keep the queue moving.�

Grouch.

Cruisers sometimes get testy on a big ship, and Royal Caribbean’s Anthem of the Seas — full capacity: 4,905 passengers — is among the biggest.

There was a fabulous range of things to do on our August voyage from Britain to Spain and the Mediterranean, and a daunting number of shipmates wanting to do them. Even before we set sail, we worried: Would we have to fight crowds not just for rides and entertainment, but also for deck chairs, bar seats and other cruise staples?

In other words, would this mega-ship be too mega?

The challenges began soon after we signed up for the 14-night cruise. The first task was to reserve dinner times and seats for the three featured stage shows ahead of boarding. How hard could that be? After all, we were picking meal and theater seats some 11 weeks in advance Oh, the naivetĂŠ.

It’s not just that Anthem is big. It’s that the ship, like its sister Quantum of the Seas, has scuttled the main dining room, replacing it with 18 varied eating sites. Those thousands of passengers were all circling for dinner reservations, making sure their meals wouldn’t overlap with their stage shows, spa appointments, onboard surfing lessons or simulated skydiving.

So we had to schedule some choices via the Royal Caribbean website. We eschewed the “dynamic dining classic� plan, in which guests pick early (5:45 p.m.) or late (8:30 p.m.) seatings and rotate, along with their tablemates and waiters, through four restaurants. This plan is “complimentary,� meaning the meals are included in the cost of our passage.

Instead, lured by the promise of eating where and when we wish, we chose “dynamic dining choice.� (So did most of our shipmates.) However, like world peace, dynamic dining choice turned out to be a noble but not easily achievable concept.

Eighteen eating venues, 14 days. If on Tuesday we aren’t departing Gibraltar until late in the evening, would I be able to make early evening plans onshore and still dine before 8:30 p.m.? On Thursday, a sea day, if we want to see the “We Will Rock You� show, where do we have to eat and by what time must we be done? It felt like those high school math questions about the proverbial two trains traveling from different cities at different speeds. I created a spreadsheet using Royal Caribbean’s online scheduling tool.

Once we eliminated the pizzeria, patisserie, coffee shop, hot dog stand, sandwich-to-go place and the big buffet at Windjammer, our dinner options boiled down to the four “complimentary� dinner venues plus seven “specialty� restaurants that would cost extra.

How much extra? The site was far from clear. Instead of listing per-person or per-item charges, the site designates cost with a range of dollar signs.

Wonderland, the ship’s foray into molecular cuisine, was “$$$.� With no idea how much cash this translated to and having sampled other such kitch-

ens, we passed.

We booked Jamie’s Italian, despite being described inscrutably as “0 to $$$.� (Later this was downgraded to “$$.� Once at sea, we learned our meal would cost $30.) Chops Grille, the steakhouse, was listed as “$$.� Customer service told us it was $39. So beware. The ship’s definition of $$ may clash with yours.

After many hours, we completed our pre-sailing grid. Our verdict: This is way too much work for a vacation.

Here’s the irony: Once aboard we almost always dined when we wanted. It turns out that each venue saves some tables for walk-ins. And we had to change our table times often to take advantage of the activities that Royal Caribbean did not post prior to sailing: the non-reserved stage shows at 9 or 10:45 p.m., the hypnotist at 8:45 or 10:45 p.m., the singer at 7 or 9 p.m.

Compounding our food frustration was the so-so quality of the meals that were included in our fare. The only reliably good dinners on Anthem required extra cash, a situation common to other non-luxury cruise lines. The pasta and lamb chops were tasty at Jamie’s. The steaks, delicious at Chops.

Windjammer, the complimentary buffet, served ample and reasonably good fare. When my husband decried the lack of iced tea and tuna fish at lunch, the solicitous staff prepared both for him. But I wanted a sit-down dinner, one where I wouldn’t have to race a little old lady to a four-top.

It would be nicer if the food also differed substantially. Even though the venues switch menus every four days, the new bills of fare replace just a few appetizers and entrees, many of which we had already encountered.

That duck that was served succulently Ă l’orange in Grande reappeared the next day in Silk, dried out and shellacked in hoisin sauce. Silk’s chicken tikka masala tasted much like the version served at lunch in Windjammer. As we heard one cruiser sum it up: “It doesn’t matter where you go, it’s all the same.â€?

As on all ships and, especially on mega-ships, there were seat-savers.

The pool attendants told me that some passengers come out as early as 5:30 a.m. on sea days to place towels on deck chairs, and all outdoor and indoor solarium seats would be claimed by 7:30. I took their word for it because I slept in. I used the lounge chairs on my quiet cabin balcony.

Because we had pre-booked “Spectra’s Cabaret,� we arrived only 15 minutes prior to showtime. Not a good idea. Doors had opened 45 minutes before and by then a line trailed down the hallway. We ended up balancing on bar stools in the last row.

Another mega-ship malaise is tendering — that is, taking a motorboat ashore when the ship is moored away from a dock. Fortunately, it happened just once on our itinerary, at Villefranche. Even though we had purposely waited to get in line until after the morning rush, we had to wait 45 minutes to board a tender. And with no staff monitoring the port’s taxi stop, some of our fellow passengers pushed and cursed as they cut the line to get a cab.

So that’s the bad news.

The good news: Size has its pluses, and Anthem does many things well. It takes a grande dame to accommodate activities that require space and special equipment. After all, we’re not just talking about scheduling another trivia session in the piano bar.

SeaPlex, a two-level indoor multipurpose center, offered bumper cars, roller skating, soccer, basketball and trapeze. In surrounding nooks, passengers could battle it out on Xbox, foosball and oth-

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Royal Caribbean’s mega-ship the Anthem of the Seas. er games. Outdoors, passengers could rock-climb, surf at the FlowRider, get a panoramic ocean view from the North Star observation pod, and fly in the Ripcord by iFly skydiving simulator — a 23-foot glass tower that was a sort of vertical wind tunnel, where you rode 100 mph upward air currents. It was a cruise favorite, and its staff literally climbed the walls.

Royal Caribbean also offers quality children’s programs. Kids and teens enjoyed designated sessions at SeaPlex and at the other activities. It’s an Instagram and Facebook moment when your grade-schooler (or spouse) glides on a trapeze or scampers to the top of the rock wall.

Adults got to play, too. Chasing my husband in bumper cars brought back the nostalgia of beach boardwalks when my sister and I smashed each other in much-less-padded vehicles.

Although we waited an hour for that first bumper session, subsequent rides required only a reasonable 15-minute wait.

When I canceled a skydiving slot, the Ripcord by iFly staff told me I could easily rebook, even though the

skydiving simulator was popular.

Anthem doesn’t skimp on entertainment. Headliners belted out songs; a violin virtuoso delivered vigorous Mozart and pop tunes; a comedian elicited guffaws; the ship’s staff chorus line sang and danced to rock music; and the hypnotist got laughs by turning guests into goofy minions. (My travel companions thought the hypnotists’ volunteers were plants, but I thought they were real passengers.)

So, is the mega-ship too mega? It depends on what you want.

Those accustomed to fine dining without extra fees and little hassle when booking meals and activities should not board.

But if you like a variety of entertainment and can put up with the frustrating pre-planning and so-so food, or can shell out for better fare; and if you want to sample surfing, rock climbing, skydiving and ramming each other in bumper cars — especially good choices with children, teens and 20-somethings along — then run up the gangway.

Stapen is a former USA Today travel editor.

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Strong start leads Rebels past Oil Kings WHL PRESEASON

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Rebels 5 Oil Kings 3 The Red Deer Rebels were all spit and vinegar for the first two periods of Friday’s Western Hockey League preseason game at the Centrium.

As for the third period … not so much.

The Rebels controlled the opening 40 minutes, jumping out to a four-goal lead while enjoying a 25-15 advantage in shots en route to a 5-3 win.

The visitors, however, outshot their hosts 14-3 in the final frame while getting unanswered goals from defencemen Anatolii Elizarov and Aaron Irving.

“It’s just a matter of staying with it for 60 (minutes),” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter, who still has eight players away at NHL training camps and dressed 16 skaters Friday.

“We were playing with a short bench and yet I just thought we dropped our guard a bit in the third.

We let them dictate the third period, plus we started taking penalties and that’s what we did against Spokane (in a 5-3 exhibition loss in the Tri-City Americans tournament) last weekend too.”

As Sutter pointed out, the third-period lapse was the lone negative in the game viewed by close to 3,000 fans.

“There were some good signs and we got some quality efforts from a lot of guys,” he said.

“I don’t know if we ran out of gas because a lot of guys are playing a lot of minutes just because of (the shortage of) bodies, but it’s exhibition and it will continue to sort itself out.”

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Brandon Hagel of the Red Deer Rebels attempts to put a puck past Edmonton Oil Kings goaltender Alec Dillon while fending off Oil Kings defenceman Will Warm during WHL preseason action at the Enmax Centrium on Friday night.

The line of Jeff de Wit and wingers Austin Pratt and Grayson Pawlenchuk was a consistent force through the first two periods, accounting for three goals and seven points.

“We had a few good practices together this week and we had a good weekend in Tri-City playing together,” said de Wit, who notched a short-handed penalty shot goal in the second pe-

riod and assisted on a pair of goals from Pratt.

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CFL

Stampeders remain unbeaten at home

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Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Marcus Stroman works against the Boston Red Sox during first inning AL baseball action in Toronto on Friday.

Stroman shines at Jays take down Red Sox

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Blue Jays 6 Red Sox 1 TORONTO — Marcus Stroman’s remarkable comeback is becoming, well, more remarkable.

The 24-year-old right-hander, in his first 2015 home start after reconstructive knee surgery, held Boston in check for seven innings Friday as the Toronto Blue Jays opened up their final regular-season homestand with a 6-1 win over the Red Sox. Stroman threw 96 pitches, 69 for strikes, giving up one run on six hits with three strikeouts and one walk.

“What an outing,” said Toronto manager John Gibbons. “For a guy who had no spring training, coming off the big injury that everyone knows about. It’s really pretty remarkable.

“But Stro’s different. To be honest, I don’t think there’s many guys that can pull that off really. Most guys probably would have been done for the year.

But he was motivated to come back.

He’s a great competitor and he’s got great stuff.”

Toronto (85-62) is now a season-high 23 games over .500. It’s the most games over .500 since the final day of the ‘93 season when the Jays (95-67) were 28 games over.

In winning its third straight, Toronto is now 32-10 since Aug. 2 while outscoring the opposition 256-144.

With the Mets beating the Yankees 5-1, Toronto moved 4.5 games ahead of the Yankees atop the American League East.

After recovering from surgery in March, Stroman returned Sept. 12 to beat the Yankees in New York — where he gave up three earned runs and four hits in five innings.

Stroman is a walking, talking bundle of energy with five pitches and oodles of confidence on the mound.

“It’s just exciting to be out there with the guys, the brothers — just feed off their energy and go out there and compete,” he said.

The sellout crowd of 47,126 at the Rogers Centre, whose roof opened mid-game, showered Stroman with applause from the moment he left the bullpen prior to the game.

“I had the chills from that point on,” he said “So special,” he added. “It’s crazy, man. Just the love Toronto has for me.

It’s incredible.”

He walked out to “Miss Me” by Drake, which includes the line “Gone for surgery but now I’m back again.”

While Stroman (2-0) handcuffed the Boston batters most of the evening, he got help from his fielders and the Jays bats.

Toronto recorded two timely double plays and Russell Martin nailed a Boston runner trying to steal a base.

Josh Donaldson, Ryan Goins and Justin Smoak also made sparking fielding plays behind Stroman.

Boston (69-77) was not as stylish with the glove and paid for its mistakes Smoak drove in two runs to go over 50 for the season. The Jays now have six players with 10-plus homers and 50-plus RBIs this season, the most since a team-record eight did it in 2010.

Toronto scored at least six runs for the 66th time this season to lead the majors. The Jays have won 26 straight when scoring five or more runs.

Stroman started with an eight-pitch strikeout of Mookie Betts, needing just six more pitches to retire the side. He limited Boston to a walk in the second, two-out single in the third and single

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in the fourth.

Things got more complicated in the fifth with three Boston singles and a wild pitch but Stroman — riding a 4-0 lead — escaped at the cost of just one run.

Stroman faced the minimum in the sixth and seventh innings. Liam Hendriks and Aaron Sanchez followed.

“You have to give Stroman a little bit of credit,” said interim Boston manager Torey Lovullo. “He came in, he was very, very effective. He was aggressive with several pitches and he kept a very offensive team in check.”

Donaldson added to his highlight reel in the third when he reached high in the air to snag a broken-bat shot from Josh Rutledge.

Goins acrobatically snagged a hard lineout in the sixth, with Smoak doing the same in the ninth.

“You can point to a lot of areas, reasons we’ve played better since the trades were made. But our defence has got to be a huge reason too,” said Gibbons.

“You face less hitters, you bail the pitcher out of innings,” he added.

“That’s huge.”

Toronto’s Edwin Encarnacion had his club-record 44-game streak of getting on base snapped. Getting on via an error wasn’t enough to keep it going.

Boston starter Rick Porcello (813) lasted six innings, giving up five earned runs on eight hits. The six-footfive right-hander is 1-5 lifetime at the Rogers Centre.

Friday marked the beginning of a nine-game home stretch that features series against division rivals in Boston, the Yankees and Tampa Bay. The Jays then wrap up the regular season with a series in Baltimore.

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Stampeders 35 Lions 23 CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders stayed unbeaten at home this season with a 35-23 win over the visiting B.C. Lions on Friday.

The Stampeders improved to 9-3 atop the CFL’s West Division and to 7-0 at McMahon Stadium with the victory. The Lions dropped to 4-7 with a second loss in a row.

Jeff Fuller and Tony Harrison had touchdown catches for Calgary. Running back Jon Cornish scored on a 16-yard carry and backup quarterback Bryant Moniz also scored on a oneyard plunge.

Kicker Rene Paredes was good on all three of his field-goal attempts, while Lions counterpart Richie Leone was 2-for-3.

B.C.’s Chris Rainey scored touchdowns on punt and kickoff returns of 103 yards each. Running back Andrew Harris added a two-point convert.

Cornish had 12 carries for 41 yards, including his touchdown, in his first game back since breaking his right thumb July 24. Stampeder receiver Eric Rogers passed the 1,000-yard mark on the season with 115 in the game.

John Beck’s second CFL start was over in the second quarter when he was steamrolled by Calgary defensive end Freddie Bishop III. Beck was replaced by third-stringer Jonathon Jennings. The Saginaw Valley State product completed 15 of 26 pass attempts for 251 yards in relief.

Jennings was intercepted three times and twice in the end zone by Calgary’s Keon Raymond.

Calgary starter Bo Levi Mitchell was 21-for-34 in passing for 268 yards and a pair of touchdown throws.

A Jennings fumble recovered by Micah Johnson midway through the fourth quarter gave Calgary the ball on B.C.’s 19-yard line. Cornish’s rumble to the end zone extended the Stampeder lead to 34-21.

Moniz scored on a quarterback sneak and Paredes added a one-point convert for a 28-21 cushion at 5:18.

Rainey’s 103-yard punt return for a major and Andrew Harris’s two-yard dash for a two-point convert tied the game at 21 at 1:53 of the fourth quarter.

Paredes’ 42-yard field goal at 5:52 of the third extended the league’s longest current field-goal streak to 18 in a row.

The hosts led 18-6 at halftime, but the Lions opened the third quarter scoring on Rainey’s 103-yard kickoff return.

Leone kicked a 25-yard field goal with no time remaining in the half.

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Baseball

Today ● Peewee football: Red Deer Steelers at Red Deer Hornets, 11 a.m., Great Chief Park. ● College soccer: Lakeland at RDC, women at 2 p.m., men at 4 p.m. ● Bantam football: Lindsay Thurber Raiders at Sylvan Lake Lakers, 3 p.m. ● WHL preseason: Medicine Hat Tigers at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Stettler Recreation Centre. ● Heritage junior B preseason hockey: Blackfalds Wranglers at Red Deer Vipers, 8 p.m., Red Deer Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Banff Bears at Ponoka Stampeders, 8 p.m.

Toronto New York Baltimore T. Bay Boston K. City Minnesota Cleveland Chicago Detroit Texas Houston Los Angeles Seattle Oakland

American League East Division W L 85 62 80 66 72 75 71 76 69 77 Central Division W L 86 61 75 71 73 73 69 77 68 78 West Division W L 79 68 77 71 74 72 72 76 64 84

Pct GB .578 — .548 4.5 .490 13 .483 14 .473 15.5 Pct .585 .514 .500 .473 .466

GB — 10.5 12.5 16.5 17.5

Pct GB .537 — .520 2.5 .507 4.5 .486 7.5 .432 15.5

Sunday

Today’s Games N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 10-8) at N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 8-6), 11:05 a.m.

L.A. Angels (Heaney 6-3) at Minnesota (Gibson 1010), 11:101 a.m., 1st game Boston (Miley 11-10) at Toronto (Dickey 10-11), 2:07 p.m.

Baltimore (W.Chen 9-7) at Tampa Bay (E.Ramirez 10-5), 4:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Volquez 13-8) at Detroit (Boyd 1-5), 5:08 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Rodon 7-6) at Cleveland (Carrasco 13-10), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Richards 13-11) at Minnesota (Pelfrey 6-9), 5:10 p.m., 2nd game Oakland (S.Gray 13-7) at Houston (Kazmir 7-10), 5:10 p.m.

Seattle (Nuno 1-2) at Texas (Hamels 3-1), 8:05 p.m.

Hockey 2015 Western Hockey League Pre-eason Schedule Wednesday’s result Prince Albert 5 Regina 2 Thursday’s game Lethbridge at Kootenay, late Friday’s games Portland 7, Everett 4 Brandon 4, Moose Jaw 2 Calgary 5, Lethbridge 4 Prince Albert 4, Regina 1 Red Deer 5, Edmonton 3 Saskatoon 7, Swift Current 1 Vancouver 4, Kelowna 4 Tri-City 3, Spokane 2 Victoria 4, Seattle 1 Today’s Games Tri-City at Spokane, 3 p.m.

Kootenay at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Kamloops at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Vancouver at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

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Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 11:10 a.m.

L.A. Angels at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m.

Oakland at Houston, 12:10 p.m.

Seattle at Texas, 1:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets, 6:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games Chicago White Sox at Detroit, 11:08 a.m., 1st game Baltimore at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Detroit, 5:08 p.m., 2nd game Tampa Bay at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Houston, 6:10 p.m.

New York Washington Miami Atlanta Philadelphia St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago Cincinnati Milwaukee

Friday’s Games Toronto 6, Boston 1 Detroit 5, Kansas City 4, 12 innings Tampa Bay 8, Baltimore 6 Cleveland 12, Chicago White Sox 1 N.Y. Mets 5, N.Y. Yankees 1 Seattle 3, Texas 1 Oakland 4, Houston 3 L.A. Angels at Minnesota, ppd., rain

● AJHL: Calgary Mustangs at Olds Grizzlys, 2 p.m. ● Heritage junior B preseason hockey: Vegreville Rangers at Stettler Lightning, 3 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Boston at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Kansas City at Detroit, 11:08 a.m.

Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 11:10 a.m.

Los Angeles San Francisco Arizona San Diego Colorado

National League East Division W L Pct 84 63 .571 76 71 .517 64 84 .432 58 90 .392 56 92 .378 Central Division W L Pct 92 55 .626 87 59 .596 86 61 .585 62 84 .425 62 85 .422 West Division W L Pct 84 61 .579 77 69 .527 69 77 .473 69 79 .466 62 85 .422

GB — 8 20.5 26.5 28.5 GB — 4.5 6 29.5 30 GB — 7.5 15.5 16.5 23

Friday’s Games Chicago Cubs 8, St. Louis 3 Washington 5, Miami 4, 10 innings N.Y. Mets 5, N.Y. Yankees 1 Atlanta 2, Philadelphia 1 Cincinnati 5, Milwaukee 3 Colorado 7, San Diego 4 Pittsburgh at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

Arizona at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

Today’s Games N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 10-8) at N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 8-6), 11:05 a.m.

St. Louis (Wacha 16-5) at Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 5-4), 11:05 a.m.

Arizona (Corbin 5-4) at San Francisco (Leake 10-8), 2:05 p.m.

Miami (Nicolino 3-3) at Washington (Zimmermann 12-8), 2:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (Jos.Smith 0-2) at Milwaukee (Jungmann 9-6), 5:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Eickhoff 1-3) at Atlanta (Weber 0-1), 5:10 p.m.

San Diego (Erlin 0-0) at Colorado (Flande 3-3), 6:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Liriano 10-7) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 14-6), 7:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Miami at Washington, 11:35 a.m.

Philadelphia at Atlanta, 11:35 a.m.

Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 12:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

Arizona at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at L.A. Dodgers, 2:10 p.m.

San Diego at Colorado, 2:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets, 6:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games Baltimore at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Colorado, 6:40 p.m.

Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

FRIDAY’S LINESCORES AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston 000 010 000—1 8 1 Toronto 001 302 00x—6 9 0 Porcello, M.Barnes (7), Hembree (8) and Swihart Stroman, Hendriks (8), Aa.Sanchez (9) and Ru.Martin. W—Stroman 2-0. L—Porcello 8-13.

K. City 000 010 002 001—4 8 1 Detroit 100 000 020 002—5 13 0 (12 innings) Cueto, W.Davis (8), K.Herrera (9), Madson (10), Hochevar (11), G.Holland (12) and S.Perez, Butera Verlander, A.Wilson (9), N.Feliz (10), VerHagen (12) and J.McCann. W—VerHagen 2-0. L—G.Holland 3-2. HRs—Kansas City, S.Perez (20).

Baltimore 030 002 001—6 5 0 T. Bay 020 060 00x—8 13 0 T.Wilson, Roe (5), McFarland (6), Givens (6), Drake (8) and Joseph Smyly, B.Gomes (6), Geltz (8), Boxberger (9) and Arencibia. W—Smyly 3-2. L—T. Wilson 2-2. Sv—Boxberger (35). HRs—Baltimore, J.Hardy (8), Pearce 2 (13). Tampa Bay, T.Beckham (9).

Chicago 000 010 000— 1 5 2 Cleveland 006 000 15x—12 13 1 Sale, D.Webb (8), Da.Jennings (8) and Flowers Co.Anderson, McAllister (7), R.Webb (9) and R.Perez. W—Co.Anderson 5-3. L—Sale 12-10. HRs— Chicago, Me.Cabrera (11). Cleveland, C.Santana (16), Lindor (10).

Seattle 030 000 000—3 10 1 Texas 000 010 000—1 6 0 Paxton, Farquhar (5), Kensing (7), Elias (7), Ca.Smith (8), Wilhelmsen (9) and Baron, Sucre Gallardo, Faulkner (6), Scheppers (8), Diekman (8) and B.Wilson. W—Farquhar 1-4. L—Gallardo 12-11.

Sv—Wilhelmsen (12).

Oakland 000 200 020—4 10 0 Houston 111 000 000—3 5 0 Doubront, Pomeranz (7), Dull (8) and Blair Fiers, W.Harris (7), Neshek (8), J.Fields (8) and J.Castro. W—Pomeranz 5-5. L—Neshek 3-6. Sv—Dull (1). HRs—Oakland, Reddick (19), Valencia 2 (16).

Houston, Carter (19).

INTERLEAGUE New York (A) 100 000 000—1 9 0 New York (N) 010 001 21x—5 8 0 Tanaka, Shreve (7), Pinder (8), Pazos (8), A.Bailey (8) and J.Murphy Matz, Robles (7), A.Reed (8), Familia (9) and T.d’Arnaud. W—Matz 4-0. L—Tanaka 12-7. HRs—New York (N), Duda (22), Dan.Murphy (12), Uribe (14).

NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 020 010 000—3 5 0 Chicago 300 023 00x—8 10 1 Lynn, Lyons (4), Maness (5), Choate (6), Cishek (6), Socolovich (6), Belisle (7), Tuivailala (7) and T.Cruz Haren, Rosscup (5), Tom.Hunter (5), Grimm (6), Strop (7), Rodney (8), Ne.Ramirez (9) and M.Montero. W—Tom.Hunter 2-0. L—Maness 4-2. HRs—Chicago, St.Castro 2 (10).

Miami 200 000 011 0—4 9 0 Wash. 010 001 020 1—5 9 2 (10 innings) Fernandez, Narveson (6), Urena (8), Lazo (8), Ellington (10) and Realmuto Scherzer, Rivero (8), Treinen (8), Papelbon (9), Thornton (10), Janssen (10) and Lobaton. W—Janssen 2-5. L—Ellington 1-1. HRs—Miami, Yelich (7). Washington, C.Robinson (8).

Phila.

010 000 000—1 7 0 Atlanta 100 100 00x—2 7 1 Morgan, Hinojosa (7) and Rupp W.Perez, Cunniff (6), McKirahan (6), Moylan (7), Marksberry (8), Vizcaino (9) and Bethancourt. W—W.Perez 6-6. L— Morgan 5-7. Sv—Vizcaino (5). HRs—Philadelphia, Rupp (9).

Football GP 11 10 11 10

CFL East Division W L T 8 3 0 6 4 0 6 5 0 4 6 0

PF 392 224 277 207

PA 221 259 322 196

Pt 16 12 12 8

GP Calgary 12 Edmonton 11 B.C. 11 Winnipeg 11 Saskatchewan11

West Division W L T 9 3 0 7 4 0 4 7 0 4 7 0 1 10 0

PF 287 272 222 209 262

PA 224 197 281 317 335

Pt 18 14 8 8 2

Hamilton Ottawa Toronto Montreal

2015 NHL PRE-SEASON SCHEDULE Sunday’s Games Boston vs. New Jersey (at Providence, R.I.), 5 p.m.

Florida at Nashville (split-squad doubleheader), 2:30 and 6 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 21 New Jersey at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Washington, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia (ss) at N.Y. Islanders (ss), 5 p.m.

Philadelphia (ss) vs. N.Y. Islanders (ss) (at Allentown, Pa.), 5 p.m.

Ottawa (ss) at Toronto (ss), 5:30 p.m.

Toronto (ss) at Ottawa (ss), 5:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Calgary (ss) at Edmonton (ss), 7 p.m.

Edmonton (ss) at Calgary (ss), 7 p.m.

Arizona vs. Los Angeles (at Bakersfield, Calif.), 8 p.m.

San Jose vs. Vancouver (at Victoria), 8:30 p.m.

WEEK 13 Bye: Toronto Friday’s Game Calgary 35, B.C. 23 Today’s Game Edmonton at Hamilton, 2 p.m.

Ottawa at Saskatchewan, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s Game Winnipeg at Montreal, 11 a.m.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Stampeders 35, Lions 23 First Quarter Cgy — FG Paredes 37 4:28 Cgy — FG Paredes 39 12:09 Second Quarter B.C. — FG Leone 18 4:22

Tuesday, Sept. 22 Washington at Boston, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

St. Louis (ss) at Columbus (ss), 5 p.m.

Toronto at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Nashville at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.

Dallas at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Columbus (ss) at St. Louis (ss), 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Anaheim at Colorado, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Arizona at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Cgy — TD Fuller 38 pass from Mitchell (convert failed) 5:49 Cgy — TD Harrison 8 pass from Mitchell (convert failed) 11:00 B.C. — FG Leone 25 15:00 Third Quarter B.C. — TD Rainey 103 kickoff return (Leone convert) 0:17 Cgy — FG Paredes 42 5:52 Fourth Quarter B.C. — TD Rainey 103 punt return (two-point convert: Harris 3 run) 1:53 Cgy — TD Moniz 1 run (Paredes convert) 5:18 Cgy — TD Cornish 16 run (Paredes convert) 8:17 B.C. — Safety Maver concedes 13:38 B.C. 0 6 7 10 — 23 Calgary 6 12 3 14 — 35 Attendance — 31,586 at Calgary.

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF N.Y. Jets 1 0 0 1.000 31 Buffalo 1 0 0 1.000 27 New England 1 0 0 1.000 28 Miami 1 0 0 1.000 17

Tennessee Jacksonville Indianapolis Houston

W 1 0 0 0

South L T 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0

Pct 1.000 .000 .000 .000

PF 42 9 14 20

PA 10 14 21 10 PA 14 20 27 27

Minnesota Chicago

Cincinnati Baltimore Pittsburgh Cleveland

W 1 0 0 0

North L T 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0

Pct 1.000 .000 .000 .000

PF 33 13 21 10

PA 13 19 28 31

Denver SanDiego KansasCity Oakland

W 2 1 1 0

West L 0 0 1 1

Pct 1.000 1.000 .500 .000

PF 50 33 51 13

PA 37 28 51 33

PF 27 10 24 26

PA 26 17 26 27

PF 26 20 14 19

PA 24 9 42 31

T 0 0 0 0

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Dallas 1 0 0 1.000 Washington 0 1 0 .000 Philadelphia 0 1 0 .000 N.Y. Giants 0 1 0 .000 South L T 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0

Atlanta Carolina Tampa Bay New Orleans

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GreenBay Detroit

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0 0

.000 .000

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20 31

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T 0 0 0 0

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PA 31 19 3 34

Thursday’s Game Denver 31, Kansas City 24 Sunday’s Games Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 1 p.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

Arizona at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Houston at Carolina, 1 p.m.

San Francisco at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

New England at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

San Diego at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Atlanta at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.

St. Louis at Washington, 1 p.m.

Baltimore at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

Miami at Jacksonville, 4:05 p.m.

Dallas at Philadelphia, 4:25 p.m.

Seattle at Green Bay, 8:30 p.m.

Monday’s Game N.Y. Jets at Indianapolis, 8:30 p.m.

Pct 1.000 .000

PF 31 28

PA 23 33

Thursday, Sep. 24 Washington at N.Y. Giants, 8:25 p.m.

Transactions BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Reduced the suspension of Cincinnati 1B Joey Votto from two games to one.

American League HOUSTON ASTROS — Reinstated C Jason Castro from the 15-day DL. National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Reinstated INF Howie Kendrick from the 15-day DL. FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Fined Atlanta S William Moore $23,152

Wednesday, Sept. 23 Ottawa at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Winnipeg at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 24 N.Y. Rangers at Boston, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Washington at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Dallas at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Colorado, 7 p.m.

and Dallas DL Jeremy Mincey, Cleveland RB Isaiah Crowell and Cincinnati DE Carlos Dunlap $8,681 for their actions during last week’s games.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Placed CB D’Joun Smith on injured reserve-designated for return.

Released G Robert Myers from the practice squad.

Signed CB Eric Patterson from the practice squad and G David Arkin and CB Brandon Dixon to the practice squad.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released WR Nathan Palmer from the practice squad. Re-signed DL Jimmy Staten to the practice squad.

HOCKEY

National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Signed D Stefan Elliott to a one-year, two-way contract.

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Suspended Toronto FC D Ahmed Kantari one game for violent conduct that endangered the safety of an opponent. Fined New England M Lee Nguyen an undisclosed amount for simulation.

COLLEGE ECAC — Announced the formation of a Division II wrestling league to begin competition for the 201516 season, with members Newberry, Limestone,

Emmanuel, Belmont Abbey, King (Tenn.), Coker and UNC-Pembroke.

AUSTIN PEAY — Announced RB Otis Gerron has left the football team for medical reasons.

CHATTANOOGA — Named Clare Hosack assistant softball coach.

LIMESTONE — Named Brett Worsham assistant strength and conditioning coach.

NJIT — Promoted Lenny Kaplan to assistant vice-president/director of athletics.

RUTGERS — Named Marc Zolchonock director of men’s lacrosse operations.

David Lingmerth Matt Jones Jimmy Walker Robert Streb Ian Poulter Phil Mickelson Fabian Gomez James Hahn Sean O’Hair Gary Woodland Zac Blair Billy Horschel Brooks Koepka Russell Henley Jason Bohn Russell Knox Daniel Summerhays Kevin Kisner Charley Hoffman William McGirt Troy Merritt Pat Perez Shawn Stefani David Hearn Chris Kirk Sangmoon Bae Ben Martin Jerry Kelly Rory Sabbatini Webb Simpson Brandt Snedeker Bryce Moulder

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Fabrizio Zanotti Nicolas Colsaerts Rikard Karlberg David Lipsky Martin Kaymer Bernd Wiesberger Andrea Perrino Craig Lee Peter Lawrie Danny Willett Miguel Angel Jimenez Matthew Nixon Wade Ormsby Daniel Brooks Mikko Korhonen Jaco Van Zyl a-Stefano Mazzoli Mikael Lundberg

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OPEN D’ITALIA At Golf Club Milano Monza, Italy Purse: $1.7 million Yardage: 7,158 Par: 72 Second Round a-amateur Jens Fahrbring Lucas Bjerregaard Pedro Oriol Romain Wattel

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Golf BMW CHAMPIONSHIP Friday At Conway Farms Golf Club Lake Forest, Ill. Purse: $8.25 million Yardage: 7,198 Par: 71 Second Round Jason Day 61-63—124 Daniel Berger 65-64—129 Brendon Todd 66-63—129 Kevin Na 65-66—131 Jordan Spieth 65-66—131 Justin Thomas 65-67—132 George McNeill 67-65—132 Scott Piercy 67-65—132 Harris English 65-68—133 Rory McIlroy 68-65—133 Dustin Johnson 71-62—133 Ryan Palmer 67-67—134 Henrik Stenson 71-63—134 Brendon de Jonge 67-67—134 Matt Kuchar 67-67—134 Justin Rose 70-64—134 Nick Watney 68-66—134 Keegan Bradley 68-66—134 Ryan Moore 68-67—135 Hideki Matsuyama 72-63—135 Bubba Watson 65-70—135 Sergio Garcia 70-65—135 Brian Harman 66-69—135 Bill Haas 68-67—135 J.B. Holmes 70-65—135 Rickie Fowler 69-66—135 Brendan Steele 68-67—135 Kevin Chappell 66-69—135 Tony Finau 72-64—136 Steven Bowditch 70-66—136 Paul Casey 67-69—136 Hunter Mahan 68-68—136 Cameron Tringale 72-64—136 Patrick Reed 68-69—137 Louis Oosthuizen 71-66—137 Zach Johnson 68-69—137 Danny Lee 67-70—137

Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF New England 29 13 9 7 43 New York 27 13 8 6 47 D.C. 29 13 10 6 36 Columbus 29 12 9 8 47 Toronto 28 11 13 4 46 Montreal 26 9 11 6 35 Orlando 29 8 13 8 36 New York City 29 8 14 7 41 Philadelphia 29 8 15 6 36 Chicago 28 7 15 6 36

GA 38 32 35 48 49 38 51 48 47 45

Pt 46 45 45 44 37 33 32 31 30 27

Western Conference GP W L T GF 28 15 10 3 40 27 14 8 5 40 29 13 8 8 49 29 13 13 3 35 27 11 8 8 41 28 11 9 8 29 29 11 11 7 35 28 9 11 8 36 28 9 11 8 32 28 8 10 10 26

GA 28 31 33 32 38 32 33 37 41 30

Pt 48 47 47 42 41 41 40 35 35 34

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Wednesday’s results New York City 2 Toronto 0 New England 2 New York 1 San Jose 1 Montreal 1 Friday’s games Dallas at Kansas City, 5 p.m.

Saturday’s games Colorado at Toronto, noon San Jose at New York City, 5 p.m.

Columbus at D.C., 5 p.m.

Seattle at Vancouver, 5 p.m.

New England at Montreal, 6 p.m.

Orlando at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Salt Lake, 7:30 p.m.

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Stewart Cink Tommy Fleetwood Francesco Molinari Wes Homan Alexander Levy Padraig Harrington Darren Clarke

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Soren Kjeldsen Peter Uihlein Daniel Woltman John Hahn

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Sunday’s games New York at Portland, 3 p.m.

Houston at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

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B6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015

Kings hungry for success

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

VOLLEYBALL

The 2014-15 season was more than a little disappointing for the RDC Kings volleyball squad.

Not only did they lose in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference final to the Augustana Vikings, but they finished fifth at the nationals.

Looking back on it, Kings head coach Aaron Schulha feels last year’s frustration may benefit this year’s edition of the Kings.

“Being a couple of points short in both the conference and nationals makes for a hungry group,” said Schulha, who has 10 returnees to go with five newcomers, including three with post-secondary experience.

“We have a strong core back … a different group than last year, when we had more turnover. It’s nice to have the bulk of the team back.”

The biggest loss is All-Canadian Tim Finnigan, but four starters do return, including outstanding setter Luke Brisbane, middle Adam Turlejski, right side Nic Dubinsky and power hitter Regan Fathers. Both Dubinsky and Fathers joined the team at Christmas last season.

Brisbane, Turlejski and Fathers are all from Australia and returned this season in top condition.

“Those three have been good for us,” said Schulha. “I’m excited to work with them again. As for Regan he worked hard during the summer and I’m excited to see where he’s at now and excited to be able to work with him for a full season.

“In fact I’m thrilled to work with the four starters we have back. That’s a good core to build off of and we appear to be stronger in other areas as well.”

Middle blocker will be especially solid with Turlejski battling fifth-year Tommy Lyon of Lethbridge, who comes in from Mount Royal University, and Ty Moorman of Penticton, who played with Brandon University.

Cole Vriend and Daimyn Biletsky also return in the middle while Ben Hankins of Red Deer, who played at Koinonia Christian School, is one of the two true rookies on the roster. The other is libero Michael Sumner of Ardrossan. The final addition is setter and Hunting Hills grad Ryan Beatson, who played two years at Medicine Hat College.

Vriend has been battling a shoulder injury while Biletsky could look at moving to the outside.

“Daimyn is one of the quickest players I’ve coached,” said Schulha. “He’s been working on the outside and is

looking good. As for Cole he was one of our best blockers last year and we’re hoping his shoulder won’t be an issue.”

There will be a battle for the two starting middle blocker positions, but that’s fine with Schulha.

“We have three guys in Adam, Ty and Tommy who could play for any team in the country,” he said. “It will be a battle to see who starts, but that’s good. We have the depth in case of injuries and it gives guys a chance to rest when they need it.”

Also returning is power hitter Tanner Rehn, Brian Grenier and Kashtin De Souza and outside hitter Grady Mawer.

Rehn is looking for a more consistent season after struggling with injuries last season.

“He would take two steps forward and then have a concussion, then another two steps forward and his knee acted up, but so far he’s looking good as is Kashtin and the libero.”

De Souza is a versatile player, who can play power, but is also exceptional in the back row.

“He is a good passer and strong on defence and is open in terms of where he plays. He wants the best for the team.”

Schulha has a general idea on his starting lineup this season, but nothing is set in stone.

Bentley Generals defeat Kings in exhibition play

SOLHEIM CUP

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

U.S. Lexi Thompson has hit a drive in the four-ball match on Day 1 of the Golf Solheim Cup in St. Leon-Rot, Germany, Friday. Europe leads US 4-2 in Solheim Cup, though opening-day play was suspended by darkness.

LOCAL

to wait until the test event in April to do so,” said Stephan Duchesne, high performance director for Trampoline Gymnastics.

BRIEFS

Kodiaks slip past Grizzlys

Soehn brothers headed to world championships Kyle and Keegan Soehn of the Red Deer Thunder Country Trampoline and Gymnastics Club will represent Canada in the world trampoline gymnastics championships Nov. 26-29 in Denmark. Their father, Ken Soehn, is another member of the Canadian contingent and will serve as a coach.

The Soehn brothers will compete in the men’s individual event and will team up to compete in the men’s synchronized trampoline event.

“I’m confident that we have all the current elements in our team to qualify two women for the Olympics in trampoline for the fourth time in a row and we are hoping to qualify one man at these championships without having

Kodiaks 5 Grizzlys 3 CAMROSE — Cole McBride scored a pair of late goals Friday to give the Camrose Kodiaks a 5-3 Alberta Junior Hockey League win over the Olds Grizzlys.

The Kodiaks led 1-0 after one period and 3-1 after 40 minutes on goals from Nelson Gadoury, Slater Strong and Tanner Younghans before 1,109 fans at the Encana Arena. But Cole Plotnikoff replied for the Grizzlys late in the second period and pulled the visitors to within one with another marker at 9:51 of the final frame. Grizzlys rookie forward Chase Olsen tied the game three minutes later, setting the stage for McBride’s late heroics. Winning netminder Brodan Salmond stopped 24 shots, while Kurtis Chapman made 41 saves for Olds. The Grizzlys host the Calgary Mustangs Sunday at 2 p.m.

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REBELS: Praise

Alec Dillon was beaten on four of 17 shots and Patrick Dea, who came on midway through the contest, blocked 10 of 11.

The Rebels play their final preseason contest tonight, taking on the Medicine Hat Tigers at Stettler. Game time is 7 p.m.

The Rebels will focus on turning in a solid 60-minute effort.

“I think our team just lost focus tonight,” said de Wit. “We came in after two periods and we were a little high on ourselves, but that’s something we can work on.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

“We had a rough game against Spokane last weekend but today was awesome. We were gelling and getting in on the forecheck and that’s what you need, along with a strong work ethic.”

Sutter had words of praise for the trio and was also impressed with newcomer Brandon Hagel. The 17-year-old forward signed with the Rebels Thursday after opening the season with the Whitecourt Wolverines of the Alberta Junior League.

“For this being his first game of major junior hockey, he was real good here tonight,” said the Rebels bench boss.

“There are little things in his game that we have to help him with, but you can he has a tremendous amount of skill and he plays the game the right way.

“For the most part, our effort was there tonight.

We just have to stay with it and continue to get better.”

Reese Johnson and Josh Mahura, on a power-play blast from the point, also tallied for the Rebels, who led 3-0 after 20 minutes. Tyler Robertson notched Edmonton’s first goal after Red Deer had built a 4-0 lead.

GREAT Rylan Toth turned aside 26 shots in the Rebels net. Oil Kings starter

“It’s a long season and we have six or seven months to figure out the lineup we’ll have at the end of the year. It will be interesting to watch some of those battles.”

The Kings will see their first action Thursday at 8:30 p.m. when they face the RDC Alumni in the opening game of the ACAC South Challenge tournament at RDC. SAIT, Medicine Hat and Briercrest are the other teams from the ACAC South Division with Augustana from the North. Vancouver Island University and the College of the Rockies will represent the PacWest.

The tournament was called the ACAC vs. PacWest the last two years, but changed this season when two of the PacWest teams dropping out.

RDC will also play VIU Friday at 8 p.m., College of the Rockies on Sept. 26 at noon and Augustana at 8 p.m.

The Alumni meets SAIT at 6 p.m. on Friday and on Saturday takes on Briercrest at 10 a.m. and Medicine Hat at 6 p.m.

The Kings will travel to Calgary to face the Mount Royal University Cougars Oct. 7. Their regular season begins Oct. 16 and 17 at home against Medicine Hat. Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog.

Generals 4 Kings 1 Bentley Generals head coach Ryan Tobler was more than a little pleased with what he saw from his squad in their annual meeting with the RDC Kings at the Arena Friday.

On the other hand Kings head coach Trevor Keeper was pleased with what he saw as well, despite dropping a 4-1 decision to the senior AAA squad.

The Generals were playing their first exhibition game of the season while the Kings were in their fourth.

“I liked what I saw considering we’ve only had three skates so far,” said Tobler. “I didn’t like the fact we gave them 50 shots, but credit to them, they’re quick and kept coming at us.”

The game was a spirited affair with even a third-period fight between Bentley’s Josh Smith and Kings rookie rearguard Dylan Baer.

“I was surprised at how spirited it was, but it’s turning out to be a good rivalry,” said Tobler.

“Of the three games we’ve played against them in the last three years this was the most spirited,” Keeper said. “They’re a good club and I like the way we competed and kept coming at them. I was proud of the guys. We got 50 shots on a very good senior hockey team and I liked the way we stuck up for each other. We didn’t back down and despite playing a team with main-

NEW YORK ISLANDERS

Islanders sign defenceman Marek Zidlicky to 1-year contract NEW YORK — The New York Islanders signed defenceman Marek Zidlicky to a one-year contract Friday.

Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

The 38-year-old Zidlicky had seven

CALGARY: Rocked He was also good from 18 yards early in the second quarter.

When Bishop rocked Beck and knocked the football loose for Junior Turner, the Stampeder defensive lineman raced the ball back to the eightyard line where he was brought down

by Lions receiver Shawn Gore.

Mitchell threw to Harrison in the end zone on the next play for an 18-3 lead at the 11-minute mark.

Beck left the game completing nine of 16 passes for 82 yards. Lions’ No. 1 quarterback Travis Lulay is on the six-

ly ex-pros we weren’t intimidated.”

The Generals have between 12 to 14 players returning from last year’s Allan Cup silver medalists and 10 newcomers, mainly with professional experience. One such player is ex-WHL netminder Thomas Heemskerk.

“He was outstanding considering he took a year off and has had only three skates,” said Tobler.

Brett Robertson, Kyle Bailey, Colten Hayes and Alex MacLeod connected against RDC goaltender Kraymer Barnstable as they led 2-0 and 4-0 by periods. Mike Statchuk scored for the Kings in the third period.

Barnstable finished with 36 saves.

Keeper was pleased to see the Kings continuing to grow as a team.

“If we keep improving a little bit at a time and we’ll get to be where we want to be,” he said.

The Kings face Innisfail Eagles today at SAIT while the Generals meet the SAIT Trojans. The Eagles downed the Trojans 6-4 Friday.

The Kings open their regular season next Friday in Penhold against the Concordia Thunder.

The Generals compete in the Innisfail tournament Oct. 2-3 before opening their season.

Danny Rode is a retired advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog. goals and 27 assists in an NHL-high 84 regulart-season games last season for New Jersey and Detroit.

He was scoreless in six playoff games with the Red Wings.

Zidlicky has 85 goals and 316 assists in 783 regular-season games in 11 seasons with Nashville, Minnesota, New Jersey and Detroit.

He has a goal and 13 assists in 44 playoff games.

Zidlicky has represented the Czech Republic in three Olympics and six world championships. game injured list with a sprained knee suffered Sept. 3.

Mitchell launched a 38-yard touchdown pass to Fuller in double coverage at 5:49 of the second quarter for a 12-3 lead. The Stampeder quarterback was long on his two-point convert pass attempt to Marquay McDaniel.

The Lions got the ball on Calgary’s 38-yard line late in the opening quarter thanks to Adam Bighill’s recovery of a fumble by Stamps returner Nathan Slaughter. But the Lions didn’t convert the turnover into points as Leone missed a 42-yard field-goal attempt.

Paredes kicked field goals from 37 and 39 yards on Calgary’s first two drives of the game.

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 19, 2015

Won’t back down OIL AND GAS COMPANIES STRUT THEIR STUFF AT EXPO DESPITE DOWNTURN

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff

Attendees of the 2015 Oil and Gas Expo took in a number of demonstrations for big rig equipment Friday afternoon, including Quickthree Solutions Inc. demonstrating the Quickstand 180 Proppant Silo. The expo, which is free to the public, will be open 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. Saturday at Westerner Park.

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF The oil and gas industry is strutting its stuff at the 2015 Oil & Gas Expo.

Organizer Dwayne McArthur said some companies may not have had the budget for marketing to set up a booth at the expo because of sluggish oil prices and economic downturn — but many do.

“Companies that are at the expo are dedicated, long-time Alberta companies. They know it’s a dip.

They know they need to market through this dip and gain customers and gain strengths,” said McArthur on Friday.

If those dedicated companies didn’t make it to the expo, it’s likely they just didn’t have the equipment or people to spare because they were so busy, he said.

“There are companies that haven’t even changed the amount of money they make in a month or in a year because they just market harder and they work harder. And there are companies that are not here and they have literally put their tail between their legs and decided that it’s a downturn and they’re going to slow right down. And that’s exactly what’s

happened to them.”

He said it’s easy to tell the difference between a stronger and a weaker company.

“The companies that have been through this before, every time they go through a dip, they get stronger and stronger because when the market comes back they’re already working. They already have contracts and they just keep getting stronger.”

It’s the first Red Deer expo since 2013. McArthur said they are held every second year because companies say an annual expo would be too often.

More than 300 exhibitors — from safety to environment to trucking to drilling and production — are at the three-day expo that started Thursday at Westerner Park.

Rise Above Safety, specializing in mobile hearing tests, brought its mobile testing trailer to the expo.

“For me, I travel right to sites. It helps in the remote areas so then they’re not sending everybody into town to get it done,” said Chantal Van Brabant, president of Rise Above Safety.

She said her father has a hearing aid so the importance of proper hearing protection and testing hits home for her.

“He was on a farm and used chain saws and cut lots of wood. Chain saws run at 110 decibels, so if he

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Molson Coors shares close at all-time high

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Molson Coors’ shares closed at an all-time high Friday on increased investor hope that the brewer will gain control of MillerCoors, its joint venture with SABMiller in the United States.

The Montreal and Denver-based brewer’s (NYSE:TAP) shares closed at US$84.38, up 2.15 per cent in trading on the New York Stock Exchange after hitting US$84.52 earlier in the session.

Investors were responding to reports that SABMiller’s largest shareholder — cigarette maker Altria which owns a 27 per cent stake in the world’s second-largest brewer — is open to considering a takeover proposal from Anheuser-Busch InBev, the maker of Budweiser, Corona and Labatt’s, that could be worth around US$90 billion.

A successful takeover would immediately allow Molson Coors to increase its stake in MillerCoors to 50 per cent from 42 per cent, according to terms of its 2008 joint venture deal.

Industry analysts expect U.S. anti-trust regulators would also require the world’s top two brewers to sell SABMiller’s stake in MillerCoors. Molson Coors has the right to a first and last offer to purchase the remaining 50 per cent interest.

Getting control of MillerCoors would allow Molson Coors to gain more cost savings in the U.S. while continuing to sell Miller’s portfolio of brands along with their own, said Brittany Weissman of Edward Jones.

“They’ve saved some money but not as much as they could if it were one entity,” she said in an interview.

Weissman said there’s still lot’s of uncertainty

wasn’t wearing anything, at 110 it takes just about 10 minutes before you get damage. If you’re doing that every weekend, it’s going to affect your hearing.

“If you’re working in a plant, if you’re working a well pad, or anything like that with the oil field, you should be wearing ear protection if it’s noisy.”

The expo runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today, it’s final day. Admission is free.

“We are the very first oil show to ever run on Saturday. We decided we’d go ahead and try it,” said McArthur.

He said exhibitors in 2013 said more people would come from communities like Rocky Mountain House, Stettler, Nisku, Olds, Ponoka and Calgary if the expo ran on Saturday. This time when exhibitors are surveyed, they will find out if Saturday is the right choice.

A wide variety of visitors are expected out to the expo. As of Friday, attendance was comparable to the 2013 expo, he said.

“We are Albertans, and oil and gas is our main bread and butter. We believe the more they know about the entire industry, the more beneficial it is to Alberta and the whole oil and gas industry. We are open to anyone.”

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Newly-filled and sealed cans of Miller Lite beer move along on a conveyor belt, at the MillerCoors Brewery, in Golden, Colo. about whether SABMiller will accept a takeover deal. It tried unsuccessfully to team up with Heineken to fend off previous acquisition efforts. Its two largest shareholders together control 41 per cent of the company, making a deal unlikely if they oppose.

And then anti-trust concerns are expected from the U.S. and China.

She said Molson Coors share would drop back to the high $60s or low $70s if a deal is scuttled.

Molson Coors chairman Geoff Molson said the brewer isn’t ready to comment on a merger of its larger rivals or whether the company would try to buy SABMiller’s 58 per cent stake in Miller Coors.

“We haven’t done the analysis on the situation because it is fresh news so we are going to wait to make a comment until after we’ve had a chance to talk about it,” he said in an interview Thursday.

House sales continue to slump in Central Alberta as the economy falters.

August house sales were down 16.2 per cent from the same month a year ago. There were 428 sales, down from 510, according to Multiple Listing Service statistics provided by Central Alberta Realtors Association on Friday.

Central Alberta fared slightly better than the province as a whole, which saw a 19.2 per cent month-over-month decline in house sales.

While the drop in this region is significant, it is measured against August 2014, which set a record for the month. Over a longer term, the sales fall in fiveand 10-year averages, says the association.

Not surprisingly, Central Alberta sales values also dropped significantly, falling 18.3 per cent to $137.1 million compared with a year ago. The association notes that was still the third best August on record.

Housing inventories have been on the rise as sales fall. There is a seven-month supply, up from 5.8 months a year ago. Inventories are measured by how long it would take to sell all of the available homes at the current sales rate.

Sales numbers are similar when all types of property, including farm and commercial are included.

There were 451 sales last month, down 15.5 per cent from August 2014. Values dropped to $151.2 million — down 16 per cent — over the same period.

Annual inflation steady as food prices rise, gas prices drop

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

STATSCAN REPORT

OTTAWA — Lower costs at the pump in August weren’t enough to offset a broad rise in consumer prices including higher prices for restaurant fare, according to the latest inflation report from Statistics Canada.

The federal agency said on Friday that Canada’s annual inflation rate held steady at 1.3 per cent in August, unchanged from July.

Food prices were the biggest contributor to inflation last month, rising 3.4 per cent, followed by household operations, which includes telecom services such as cable and Internet as well as home furnishings.

Restaurant prices increased 2.8 per cent over last year, and prices for store-bought food increased four per cent — but there was some relief for meat-eaters,

as the price of beef declined for the second straight month.

StatCan’s household operations, furnishings and equipment index increased 2.5 per cent in the 12 months to August.

Yet growth actually fell from July, when the index rose by 3.3 per cent, and the agency chalked up the difference to lower prices for telephone services.

Seven of the eight components of the consumer price index posted gains, with transportation the only laggard as gas prices fell by 12.6 per cent in the 12 months to August.

The transportation sector fell by 2.6 per cent overall as gasoline continued its slide that began late last year, and prices for new passenger vehicles increased less in August than in July.

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Inflation has been closely watched for signs of flagging consumer spending following the contraction in Canada’s GDP in the first half of the year that raised talk of a recession.

RBC senior economist Nathan Janzen said the first-half recession didn’t spill over into the job market, so household incomes have held up despite the downturn.

Combined with cheaper gas, that means the purchasing power of the average Canadian has actually gone up, he said.

“It’s not surprising that households are still spending and as a result you’re still seeing enough consumer demand to prevent a lot of downward pressure on inflation outside of the energy sector,” he said.

The Bank of Canada’s core index, which excludes some of the most volatile items, was up 2.1 per cent from a year ago.

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

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 131.66 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.35 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.27 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.92 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.74 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.83 Cdn. National Railway . . 74.71 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 193.82 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.21 Capital Power Corp . . . . 19.81 Cervus Equipment Corp 13.51 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 43.31 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 51.11 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 21.30 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.61 General Motors Co. . . . . 30.51 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 23.31 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.03 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 37.95 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 30.23 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.62 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.12 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 43.98 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 121.61 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.17 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.70 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 69.00 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — North American markets closed solidly in the red after the U.S. Federal Reserve’s decision Thursday to keep its key interest rate unchanged reignited concerns about lagging global economic growth.

The S&P/TSX composite index lost 140.26 points to close at 13,646.90, while the loonie rose 0.25 of a U.S. cent to 75.66 cents US. The metals and mining sector of the TSX was the lead decliner, losing nearly five per cent, while energy stocks slipped more than two per cent. The telecom sector was the biggest gainer on the TSX, climbing 1.2 per cent.

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 290.16 points at 16,384.58, the broader S&P 500 index declined 32.17 points to 1,958.03, and the Nasdaq gave back 66.72 points to 4,827.23.

“I think we’re seeing a little bit of digestion of what happened yesterday playing into the markets today with respect to the Fed interest rate decision,” said Gareth Watson, vice-president of investment management and research at Richardson GMP Ltd. The U.S. central bank said Thursday it would keep its benchmark overnight interest rate at between zero and 0.25 per cent, citing weakness in the global economy, low inflation and unsettled stock markets.

The rate has remained unchanged since the global financial crisis of 2008.

The central bank said the overnight lending rate won’t budge until there is improvement in the labour market and inflation appears to be headed back to the Fed’s target of two per cent.

In the Fed’s last reading, inflation was up just 1.2 per cent.

Watson said investors were looking for a rate hike, even though it would make the cost

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 22.65 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.87 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.34 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 24.10 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . . 8.93 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.62 First Quantum Minerals . . 6.95 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 17.85 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 6.47 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.42 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.00 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 32.26 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.940 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 8.12 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 18.33 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 19.78 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 53.47 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.66 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 23.14 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 26.95 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 6.46 Canyon Services Group. . 5.14 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 20.39 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1800 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 9.558 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.720 of borrowing pricier and could weigh on stocks.

“I think the market would have liked to have seen an interest rate increase in the sense it would have basically put a lot of weight behind the conviction that the U.S. economy was doing well enough to support an interest rate increase,” Watson said.

“Yes, equity markets have loved zero interest rates for years and years, and equity valuations have been up because of that, but I think we’re starting to get to a point where people are saying, ‘Okay, let’s get on with it.”’

Watson said investors are likely trying to evaluate how much the central bank was motivated by domestic concerns rather than global ones.

“There are some people questioning what the motives behind the Fed were — if it should be a concern about the overall U.S. economy,” he said.

“And if that’s the case, in a way Canadians need to be a little bit concerned because we follow their economy so closely, so maybe there’s a bit of sympathy pullback because people are just questioning the overall outlook for the U.S. in general.”

On the commodity markets, the December gold contract rose $20.80 to US$1,137.80 an ounce, the October crude contract was down $2.22 at US$44.68 a barrel and the October contract for natural gas was down 4.7 cents at US$2.605.

The December copper contract slipped 6.6 cents to $2.386 a pound.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Friday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,646.90, down 140.26 points Dow — 16,384.58, down 290.16 points S&P 500 — 1,958.03, down

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Forbes study finds athlete incomes on rise The highest-paid athletes today are far wealthier than they were 20 years ago, and fewer Americans rank among the top earners, according to a study from Forbes.

The 40 top-paid athletes this year made over $1.3 billion, dwarfing the $490 million ($776 million adjusted for inflation) accrued by the 1995 list. Floyd Mayweather ($300 million) topped the list with nearly seven-times the income of 1995 leader Michael Jordan ($43.9 million).

In 1995, the list included just eight non-Americans. This year, the list features 21 international athletes, including four in the top five.

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 72.68 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 37.38 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.61 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 21.21 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 42.05 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 1.48 Penn West Energy . . . . . 0.710 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.25 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 34.05 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.50 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.82 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 42.31 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2250 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 70.21 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 58.10 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.03 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 23.54 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 32.41 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 36.34 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 94.08 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.42 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 42.99 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.32 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 72.41 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 41.55 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.66

32.17 points Nasdaq — 4,827.23, down 66.72 points Currencies: Cdn — 75.66 cents US, down 0.25 of a cent Pound — C$2.0519, down 0.27 of a cent Euro — C$1.4911, down 1.55 cents Euro — US$1.1282, down 1.54 cents Oil futures: US$44.68 per barrel, down $2.22 (October contract) Gold futures: US$1,137.80 per oz., up $20.80 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.611 oz., up 8.8 cents $662.64 kg., up $2.83 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov ‘15 $5.50 lower $464.80 Jan. ‘16 $5.10 lower $470.10 March ‘16 $4.50 lower $472.80 May ‘16 $4.50 lower $473.20 July ‘16 $4.30 lower $473.30 Nov. ‘16 $0.40 higher $458.00 Jan. ‘17 $0.40 higher $459.20 March ‘17 $0.40 higher $460.90 May ‘17 $0.40 higher $460.90 July ‘17 $0.40 higher $460.90 Nov. ‘17 $0.40 higher $460.90.

Barley (Western): Oct. ‘15 unchanged $184.00 Dec. ‘15 unchanged $184.00 March ‘16 unchanged $186.00 May ‘16 unchanged $187.00 July ‘16 unchanged $187.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $187.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $187.00 March ‘17 unchanged $187.00 May ‘17 unchanged $187.00 July ‘17 unchanged $187.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $187.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 379,260 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 379,260.

Blackburn’s Chris Sutton ($800,000) was the highest-paid soccer player in 1995 and fell outside the Top 40. This year, the list includes eight soccer players, including Cristiano Ronaldo ($79.6 million) and Lionel Messi ($73.8 million). The study linked the rise in soccer salaries to a 1995 European court ruling that allowed players with expired contracts to change teams without a transfer fee.

Ontario takes next step to sell Hydro One TORONTO — Ontario’s Liberal government has taken the next step towards selling Hydro One, filing a prospectus for an initial public offering in the huge electricity transmission utility.

A preliminary prospectus was filed with the Ontario Securities Commission and its counterparts across the country, which provides a detailed overview of Hydro One, including its operations, its outlook and its $22.6 bil-

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Alongside the movies, the red carpets and the press conferences at the Toronto International Film Festival there are the gifting lounges — suites where celebrities sample an array of products and take a few home for themselves, such as this gift bag seen in Toronto.

Canadian businesses hope for marketing boost from gifting suites TIFF

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Alongside the movies, the red carpets and the press conferences at the Toronto International Film Festival there are the gifting lounges — suites where celebrities sample an array of products and take a few home for themselves.

The exercise, showering the rich and famous with treats, may seem unnecessary to some, but for the Canadian businesses at the lounges, the venues can be a marketing bonanza.

“It’s an opportunity for me to be able to showcase my brand on a global stage,” said Lisa Mattam, founder of Toronto-based skin care line Sahajan, whose products only hit the market two weeks ago.

“It provides the opportunity to have celebrities interact with and hopefully fall in love with your brand.”

Mattam, whose participation in the Tastemakers Lounge is her first such experience, said a celebrity leaving with a gift bag containing her products may translate into a shout-out on social media, which can make “a significant difference.”

The company’s Facebook page now features snapshots of Tom Hardy, “Property Brothers” stars Drew Scott and Jonathan Scott, and “Corner Gas” star Tara Spencer-Nairn posing alongside Mattam’s booth.

The impact a celebrity can have on a product’s image can’t be underlion in total assets.

The government hopes to raise $9 billion from a sale of 60 per cent of Hydro One, which owns the province’s transmission grid and also serves as a local electricity distributor for 1.4 million customers, mostly in rural and northern Ontario.

Premier Kathleen Wynne says the Liberals need money from the sale to help fund a 10-year, $130-billion program for public transit and infrastructure, although she promises to use $5 billion of the revenue to pay down hydro debt.

Both Ontario’s opposition parties oppose the privatization of Hydro One and warn it will send already high electricity rates even higher and turn a public utility into a private enterprise.

The eight independent officers of the Ontario legislature — including the auditor general and ombudsman — banded together to condemn the Hydro One sale, warning it will shield the company from public scrutiny.

Wynne claims by holding on to 40 per cent of Hydro One and limiting other buyers to a maximum of 10 per

stated, added Nick Sutcliffe, whose Caledon, Ont., company brews a cider called Pommies.

“We’re a relatively young company, we don’t have the backing of millions of dollars, we’re family-owned” he said. “If we got the exposure of let’s say Ethan Hawke that likes our cider, it would be a game changer.”

Those who put together the lounges emphasize that the venues are about far more than “swag” for the stars.

“You really have to understand the platform that you have at your availability here,” said Leesa Butler, co-founder of the Tastemakers Lounge, presented by Rock-it Promotions.

“All eyes are on Toronto at this time.

Here’s an opportunity to really leverage the awareness.”

The lounges are also looking to ensure they give celebrities a boost, said Natasha Koifman, president of NKPR, which puts on the IT Lounge, a venue which attracted the likes of Natalie Portman and Naomi Watts so far this year.

“We want to genuinely connect the brand with the celebrity, but also we want them to love it, we want them to have a good time,” she said, adding that at times, a lounge experience could lead to an enduring relationship between a star and a product. Actress Abigail Spencer fell in love with a product from British Columbia-based Saje Natural Wellness and went on to list it amongst her favourite things in a magazine.

“It’s the kind of publicity you really can’t buy.” cent, the province will retain control of the company and its board.

Fiat Chrysler car production moves to Mexico DETROIT — Hourly pay, profit sharing and performance bonuses will rise, but car production will move to lower-cost Mexico and be replaced by trucks and SUVs under a new contract between Fiat Chrysler and the United Auto Workers, a person briefed on the deal said. Union leaders will explain details of the four-year pact to factory-level leaders at a meeting Friday afternoon in Detroit. Then the deal will go to FCA’s 39,000 union workers for another ratification vote. That’s likely to be finished next week.

Parts of the deal will serve as a template for contracts to be negotiated with Ford and General Motors.

The person says longtime workers will see pay rise from $28.50 to $30 per hour. Top entry-level worker pay would rise from $19 to $25 per hour.

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Stringing together generations

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Charlie Gargus works with his grandson Cason on a fiddle tune.

ALBERTA SOCIETY OF FIDDLERS CAMP BROUGHT TOGETHER SENIORS AND KIDS

BY BARB HANEY-JONES AND RANDY JONES SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE The Alberta Society of Fiddlers is a nonprofit organization, founded in 1992, whose members enjoy the music of the fiddle.

Some of them are fiddlers, but all of them enjoy fiddle music and they are committed to passing on the traditions of fiddling to the generations to come.

The society has been hosting both summer and winter camps since 1995. The annual winter camp is held at Camp He Ho Ha on Lake Isle in February, and the summer camp is at Deer Valley Meadows Camp in August near Alix.

Those attending the camps can choose to be a part of fiddle, piano, guitar, mandolin or quilting classes, or register as guests.

A typical day at camp includes formal class instruction, workshops, jamming, free time and organized evening events.

The evening activities at this year’s summer camp included a camp instructor’s concert, old-tyme dance night, talent show and a final concert. Excellent meals and accommodations added a great deal to the camp experience.

The ASF fiddle camps are wonderful opportunities for young and old alike to come together and enjoy traditional fiddle music. All ages and levels of playing ability are welcomed and encouraged to be a part of the positive camp experience.

This year our youngest fiddler was six and our oldest fiddlers were over 80! Two and three generations of families attended camp this summer as well.

The ASF website has information on memberships, province-wide events, fiddle tune books, camp and contact numbers. Members receive quarterly newsletters. Check out the website at www.albertafiddlers.com for more details.

Under the Bridge during the Virginia Reel.

The younger fiddlers had the stage for the family dance (bottom) but everyone got together for the grand finale (top).

Many types of fiddling skills were on display, short and tall — and taller.

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Harris donates $5 million for centre LACOMBE, RED DEER COUNTIES AND HOCKEY ALBERTA CONTRIBUTE A COMBINED $3 MILLION TO $88-MILLION PROJECT

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

RDC

A combined $8 million in donations, including the largest single donation in the history of Red Deer College, was announced at a special event at the college on Friday.

Local philanthropist Gary Harris donated $5 million and in recognition of his generosity, the new centre will be named The Gary W. Harris Centre for Health, Wellness & Sport.

“When I became aware of the wide-ranging impact of this facility, and what it means for the future of our college and the citizens of Red Deer and Central Alberta, I wanted to do my part in making it a reality,” said Harris. “It’s very encouraging to see the direction that we are headed in this community, and I am excited to see it all unfold.”

Ground breaking on the estimated $88-million facility is slated for later this fall. Major construction is expected to begin in early 2016 and the facility is expected to be completed in the fall of 2018, a year before the 2019 Canada Winter Games in Red Deer.

The college also recognized the $1-million donation from Lacombe County and $500,000 from Red Deer County. A $1.5-million investment from Hockey Alberta was also announced. The new facility will be Hockey Alberta’s new provincial training centre and head office, and will be used for enhanced branding, programming and events.

Shelley Ralston, RDC board of governors chair, said the generosity the college has experienced from supporters such as Harris “brings us that much closer to our vision in serving our learners.”

“Being the beneficiary of Mr. Harris’s trust and philanthropy not only makes us very grateful but truly honoured,” she said. “Mr. Harris’s longstanding personal involvement in community building,

“IT’S A PRIVILEGE TO LIVE IN A REGION WHERE SO MANY UNDERSTAND THE VALUE OF RDC AND WHAT OUR COLLEGE CONTRIBUTES TO ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL GROWTH IN CENTRAL ALBERTA.” JOEL WARD, CEO AND PRESIDENT OF RDC coupled with his success as a business owner and entrepreneur will be reflected in this legacy. We are very excited for what this means for our future and the learners and communities we serve.”

The new centre will strengthen RDC’s case for polytechnic university status, which would allow the institution to grant its own degrees. The facility will also play a key role in ensuring renowned programs within RDC’s School of Health Sciences maintain certain accreditations and standards, and ensure that students are provided the up-to-date tools and resources they need for their training.

“It’s a privilege to live in a region where so many understand the value of RDC and what our college contributes to economic, social and cultural growth in central Alberta,” said Joel Ward, CEO and RDC president. “It is with this generous support, investing in amazing new facilities and toward student success, that we will continue to make a tremendous impact in the prosperity and well-being of our region.”

RDC is an official venue partner for the 2019 Canada Winter Games. It will host the athletes village and provide the venues for squash and short-track speedskating competitions.

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Gary Harris and his wife Ruth Harris at Red Deer College on Friday. Gary Harris donated $5 million to the construction of the school’s new centre of health, wellness and sport.

Over the next four years, the college will look to raise $25 million more to fully fund the new centre. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Police still investigating Sylvan Lake shooting Police continue to search for clues in the shooting of a Blackfalds man on the outskirts of Sylvan Lake early Thursday morning.

While police have little to go on, they believe the shooting was not random.

Sylvan Lake RCMP Staff Sgt. Gary Rhodes said there is not a risk to public safety. But police ask the general public to exercise caution if encountering anyone who may be related to the shooting.

“Do not approach them,” he said.

“Call the Sylvan Lake RCMP, your local police or 911 immediately.”

The 33-year-old victim remains in hospital in Edmonton with non-lifethreatening injuries suffered from being shot more than once. Police have spoken with the man but few details have been released.

Police were called to the scene about four kilometres west of Sylvan Lake around 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, after reports of gunshots.

RCMP say the victim drove a Mazda CX5 to a home and was shot more than once at that location.

The car was then driven away by a person or persons unknown. It was later recovered by RCMP in the town of Sylvan Lake.

Police are still on scene where the shooting took place and are examining the recovered Mazda.

RCMP ask that any member the public with any information regarding this offence contact the Sylvan Lake RCMP, your local police or call Crime Stoppers if you wish to remain anonymous.

Safe Harbour asks to use modular structure Safe Harbour Society will ask Red Deer city council to allow a modular structure on its site as a temporary warming centre on Monday.

Council will consider the development permit application at a special council meeting starting at 2 p.m.

Council recently refused a proposal to establish a warming centre at 4934 54th Ave. in Riverlands. City administration was directed to explore other sites.

Tara Lodewyk, director of city Planning Services, said the newly proposed site fits within the current zoning and aligns with the city’s Municipal Development Plan in that it supports a safe, inclusive greater downtown that offers social and support services to the public.

Nature Centre, Fort Normandeau get award

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Braydon Cariou catches some air as he exits the bowl at the Glendale Skatepark Friday afternoon. With temperatures reaching 19C, about 20 skaters turned out to take turns on the ramps, stairs and bowls at the park.

The proposed site is located at 5256 53 Avenue, next to Safe Harbour in Railyards. The modular structure would be used for the next two winters as a day-time warming centre, from Nov.1, 2015, to April 30, 2017.

All landowners within 100 metres of the proposed site were notified of the development permit application.

They have been asked to review and comment on the proposed

development.

Site access, landscaping, relationship with adjacent uses and buildings, parking and building locations are examples of some of the factors that will be considered when council evaluates the development permit.

The centre would be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., with three employees on site during operating hours.

The Kerry Wood Nature Centre and Historic Fort Normandeau have been awarded the Robert R. Janes Award for Social Responsibility from the Alberta Museums Association.

During the award ceremony, the Kerry Wood Nature Centre was praised for its commitment to environmental engagement and education, as well as for its community partnerships with organizations like the city and the Central Alberta Refugee Effort (CARE).

Red Deer Mayor Tara Veer said the nature centre and Fort Normandeau are certainly deserving of this award.

She said the city is proud to partner with such an innovative organization that is recognized as a leader in the area of social change.

“The work they do and programs they offer definitely contribute to the building of an ever-vibrant and sustainable Red Deer,” she said.

“We were very honoured to receive this recognition,” said Waskasoo Environmental Education Society board chair Cynthia de Boer. “Especially since it was a nomination and recognition by our peers, and came out of the blue.

“It is good to know that how we look at working with our community has led to partnerships and programs that other Alberta museums and municipalities feel are worth emulating.”

The organization was recognized with a plaque and a $3,000 contribution to the society.

The two sites offer extensive programs related to natural and human history interpretation, environmental education, school and public programs, family events, courses, day camps and more. The award ceremony was held at the AMA’s 2015 Conference at the Chateau Lacombe Hotel recently in Edmonton.

Hargrove hits 1,000 km on Hugginz Highway

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Curtis Hargrove hit 1,000 km on Friday on Day 20 of his run to Hollywood from Port Alberni, B.C. The Albertan’s 2,400-km journey — Hugginz Highway — is all about delivering a message from Angel Magnussen to TV host Ellen DeGeneres.

Magnussen, a 19-year-old with down syndrome and autism, is the creator of the non-profit Hugginz By Angel.

She sews blankets, pillows and knits soft hats and donates them to sick children and children with special needs in hospital. Magnussen wants to invite the American TV host to come to her sewing studio in Port Alberni to help make blankets.

“Yesterday was officially the countdown for 30 days before we hit Ellen DeGeneres’ studio if all goes well,”

said Hargrove before starting his run bridge across the Columbia River between Washington and Orfrom North Bend, Oregon on egon.

Friday.

“It’s great to be able to “We finished Washmeet these people in their ington. We probably have cities and share Angel’s stoabout three days left in Orry and why we want to help egon. The fourth day we’ll Angel’s dream come true,” be passing the border into said the former Red Deer California.”

College student.

Hargrove, of Cold Lake, He ran amid cyclists met Magnussen a few years along the Oregon coast who ago as a result of their volwere involved in another unteer efforts, and is runcharity event, as well as ning 50 km a day. other cyclists touring the He said along the way CURTIS U.S. Pacific Northwest. he’s been spreading the HARGROVE “It’s almost like I’m in word about Magnussen’s a Tour de France, but runcharity and had a lot of fun becoming an honorary firefighter in ning,” Hargrove said with a laugh.

Bananas have also become a runRaymond, Wash. and getting a ride in a clown car to cross the Astoria-Megler ning gag after Hargrove talked about Bridge. The car was originally used to fueling up for his run with a banana raise awareness for the need to build and someone started #CurtisNEEDS-

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bananas. Some hotels Hargrove stayed at have got into the act and have held ‘banana scavenger hunts’ and the fruit started showing up everywhere.

“You open a drawer and there’s a banana in there. You go to pull the (decorative bed pillows) away and there’s a banana behind them. You open your blinds and there’s a banana sitting in the window. It’s just funny.”

“I do like bananas. I don’t eat as much as everyone thinks I do,” he laughed. “I love the support we’re getting and I love the enthusiasm. I think those are the things that are going to help get Ellen’s attention.”

He hopes to arrive at DeGeneres’ Hollywood studio on Oct. 17.

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Our human mission to redeem history

BY GALEN GUENGERICH SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Several years ago, a leak developed in the roof of our office building at church, and a roofing company was called in to fix the problem.

During the repair process, an unexpected overnight rainstorm flooded the roof, enabling the water to seep down through four of the six floors of the building.

Though the resulting damage was not structurally major, it was significant in other ways: waterlogged papers and photos, many ruined supplies, a few collapsed ceilings, and lots of damaged carpet and walls.

It was a mess.

When the owner of the roofing company arrived to assess the damage (it happened to be a Monday morning), he came into the church office, at which point someone made an offhand comment about this being quite a way to start the week. He chuckled, and then replied. “That’s why they make those little rubber things on the end of pencils, because sometimes people make mistakes.”

He was exactly right, of course, though I suspect his humor had more to do with his relationship with an insurance broker than with his progressive view of human history.

But his response reminds me of the task to which Jews are called on the cusp of each new year, which they will celebrate again beginning this Sunday evening at sundown.

The sharp sound of the shofar calls them to pay attention to their lives, to assess the good they have done or failed to do.

This process of assessing our lives, which Jews undertake in a focused way during the 10 Days of Awe between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, is a process all of us need to undertake.

Whatever standard we

set for ourselves, we need occasionally to measure ourselves against it. For most of us, an eraser would come in handy during this process of review and assessment. After all, the term tabula rasa means not a tablet that has never been written upon, but one that has been erased completely.

The notion of a clean slate or a fresh start is an appealing one, especially when we think back over the mistakes we have made, the hurt we have caused, or the pain we may have inflicted.

But is it ever possible to begin again? Perhaps we could if time were actually like a wheel, turning round and round, repeating itself again and again. It’s true that each turn of the wheel would be completely new, but the wheel would be the same old wheel.

Nothing would ever change, really. The person I once was is the person I am, which is the person I will always be. In this view of time, we can never escape from our bondage to the past; history becomes a millstone which will finally drag us down.

And if not? Milan Kundera suggests an alternative in his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Perhaps we escape from time’s intolerable weight, he ventures, because our actions in time do not matter. Maybe our lives, our choices, and our decisions are free of history’s weight because they are completely insignificant. If life is not a millstone, perhaps it is a mirage.

I think not. We need a third option. Kundera’s dilemma simply will not suffice. If I am to greet each day with confidence that my choices and actions matter, then I need to know that time is neither a mirage which

Vatican hopes for end to U.S. embargo on Cuba AFTER RESTORATION OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is hoping the recent restoration of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba will soon translate into an end of the U.S. economic embargo on the island.

On the eve of Pope Francis’ trip to the onetime Cold War foes, the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, recalled Thursday that the Vatican has long called for an end to sanctions, saying they hurt ordinary Cubans most.

In an interview with Vatican TV, Parolin said there is optimism now as a result of the rapprochement.

“As the bishops have said, there is hope that measures of this type — a liberalization of links and above all at an economic level — can bring about also a major opening from the point of view of freedom and human rights that are fundamental for the life of the people,” Parolin said.

Parolin also acknowledged criticism in the U.S. to Francis’ economic and environmental message. He said he believed Francis would invite all Americans to reflect on necessary changes to humanity’s relationship with creation.

“I think it’s right to realize that things aren’t going in the right direction and that a path to solutions must be found. I think the pope will invite this: One can offer a contribution, but change is necessary.”

Francis leaves Saturday for a 10-day trip, spending the first four days in Cuba and the final leg in the U.S. cities of Washington, New York and Philadelphia.

Parolin concurred that Francis will be visiting the U.S. as an immigrant — temporarily from Cuba — and that migration will be “surely among the most important themes” of the visit.

Francis has denounced the “globalization of indifference” the world is showing migrants and has urged all Catholic parishes and religious orders to take in a refugee family the Vatican itself is hosting two.

Parolin recalled the United States itself was founded by immigrants and has a “long history of opening, of welcome, and of integration of the various waves of immigrants who arrived.”

“I think this could constitute a social and cultural base to confront the daily challenges of immigration today, and resolve cases that are painfully open,” he said.

mocks me nor a millstone which will destroy me. I need to know that today I can make a real and constructive difference in my own life and in the experience of others.

At the heart of the Jewish faith lies the simple and audacious belief that life is suffused with purpose.

The story of creation found in the Torah testifies to the Hebrew belief that the spirit of life is greater than the universe it animates. It insists that within and beyond the goodness of the material world lies the holiness of ultimate reality.

This faith lays claim to the whole of history, for it knows that we find history’s meaning in the story of its divine creation. Thus, the creation of a world or a day or a moment is a holy enterprise, linking human efforts in time with the very forces which brought time into being. Indeed, the human mission in life is nothing less than the redemption of history.

Whether we are Jewish or not, those of us who shape time’s journey into eternity — and that would be all of us — must do so with great diligence. The prophets of old took seriously the call to redeem the future from the clutches of a shameful past. So too must we.

The heart of the challenge can be found in the words of the prophet Mi-

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cah: “What doth the Lord require of thee? Only to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.” Maybe the roofer was right. In the end, it comes down to recognizing our faults and getting out the eraser. We can’t fully erase the past, of course. Unkind words can never be retrieved, nor can thoughtless actions ever be undone. But I can acknowledge the damage I have done and begin to rebuild, just as the roofers did.

Perhaps we too could become Keepers of the Tabula Rasa — quick to forgive others their shortcomings and quick to confess our own.

Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly: faith has never been simpler than that, nor more profound. It’s a way of living that makes each day worthwhile and every new year worth celebrating. It is a faith that makes everything possible.

Galen Guengerich is Senior Minister of All Souls Unitarian Church, a congregation located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. He was educated at Franklin and Marshall College, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of Chicago. Dr. G is author of ‘God Revised: How Religion Must Evolve in a Scientific Age’ and writes a regular column on “The Search for Meaning” for psychologytoday.com.

Downtown Sounds @ Gaetz Concert Series — Autumn Delights — features Wendy Markosky on the Centennial Pipe Organ on Sept. 20, 3 p.m. at Gaetz Memorial United Church. Tickets are $15 per person. Children under 12 attend free of charge. Phone 403-3472244.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23 Multi Church Seniors Luncheon will be offered at Living Stones Church on Sept. 23, 11:30 a.m. Tickets are $10 at the door. Guest singer is Lisa Ellerby-Boomer.

UPCOMING EVENTS Jon Neufeld, singer, songwriter, guitarist, recording artist, worship leader will offer a free night of worship on Oct. 9, 7 p.m. at Deer Park Church. Newfeld will be doing a 12-city tour in partnership with Food for the Hungry Canada.

Saving Jesus Redux session will be offered at Sunnybrook United Church on six Thursdays, Oct. 1 to Nov. 12, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Join the guided discussion around the relevance of Jesus for today. Transportation available. Contact Linda at 403-343-6073.

Our Lady of Peace Annual Turkey Supper will be served on Sept. 30 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Royal Canadian Legion in Innisfail. Adult ages 13 years and up cost $14, $6 for six to 12 years, and free for under six. Take out and delivery for seniors and shut-ins available.

Phone 403-865-1985.

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ST. LEONARD’S ON THE HILL “A Church For All Ages” 43 Avenue & 44 Street 403-346-6769 www.stleonardsonthehill.org

Officiant: Rev. Gary Sinclair

8:00 a.m.

Holy Communion 9:00 a.m.

Celebration Service 10:30 a.m.

Holy Eucharist with Sunday School/Nursery

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40 Holmes St. 403-340-1022 Rev. Dr. Marc Jerry 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School Youth & Adult Forum 10:30 a.m. Worship Holy Communion at all Services Everyone Welcome

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MOUNT CALVARY (LC-C) #18 Selkirk Blvd. Phone 403-346-3798

Pastor Don Hennig | Pastor Peter Van Katwyk 9:00 a.m.

Divine Service 10:00 a.m.

Sunday School & Bible School 11:00 a.m.

Divine Service

“True Wisdom”

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Growing in Faith Through Word and Sacrament

WILLOW VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN 26016-HWY 595 (Delburne Road) Sunday 10:00 a.m.

Speaker Rev. Reg Graves Everyone Welcome

Living Faith Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m.

Pastor: Jonathan Aicken Bethany Collegeside, RDC www.livingfaithlcrd.org

UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA Gaetz Memorial United Church “Sharing Faith, Serving Community” 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer 403-347-2244 www.gaetzmemorialunitedchurch.ca

Worship Service Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Children’s Programs weekly

Sunnybrook United Church Caring - Dynamic - Proactive - Inclusive Sundays at 9:30 am and 11:15 am

12 Stanton Street 403-347-6073

10:30 a.m. Worship Service

“A new way of seeing”

Babyfold, Toddler Room Sunday Club www.sunnybrookunited.org

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Danser mines the blues

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF With the music market trending towards folk-pop and new country, it’s not a particularly easy time to be singing the blues.

Try being a female blues musician.

Kat Danser is one of the few triple-threats out there — a blues woman who writes, plays and sings her own music. She can count on one hand the other Canadian females who do what she does: Suzie Vinnick, Shakura S’Aida, Rita Chiarelli and Pura Fe. While there’s seemingly plenty of space for new women to enter the blues world, Danser said, “Why would I mentor a female artist if she has no opportunities to play?”

For every 20 spots available at a blues festival, she estimates only one is given to a blues woman who also performs on her own instrument and writes her own material.

No bones about it, “it’s a sexist industry,” added Danser, who performs Saturday, Sept. 26, at the Golden Circle in Red Deer.

Not only are female artists relegated to singing other people’s material, she believes it’s harder to be an accepted songsmith in the blues industry if your sound isn’t electric-guitar based and your lyrics don’t conform to the template of: your love’s done you wrong; your life’s going down the tank; or you need to stick it to the Man. Danser’s latest album, Baptized by the Mud, contains blues songs that depart from the expected.

Some ask listeners some pretty deep questions. Danser also holds herself accountable in many of them.

For instance, Who Will You Be When the Sun Goes Down? revolves around the soul-searching question “Am I the kind of person I thought I would be at the end of the day? ” said Danser, while None of Us Are Free makes the statement: “If one of us is chained,

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Canadian blues singer Kat Danser writes, plays and sings her own music. She performs on Saturday, Sept. 26, at the Golden Circle in Red Deer. none of us are free.”

Oh Mary, Don’t You Weep takes a traditional song from the Catholic Book of Worship, adds new lyrics and a soft, salsa-inspired rhyme scheme. “It says, ‘Mary, don’t you weep. It’s OK, It’s OK … the evil forces in life have been conquered,’” said Danser.

She sees no church associations in a song about the much-maligned Mary Magdalene. “I was raised Catholic, but

I haven’t really found a place there, except musically.” The African-American gospel tunes she found in the Catholic Book of Worship struck a chord while she was a child named Kathleen, growing up in southeastern Saskatchewan.

Always possessing a deep voice, she remembers being discouraging from singing by her mother “because she said I sounded like a man.” Danser

became a social worker and kept her musical interests at bay until she was in her early 30s.

One day, she ordered a Columbia House blues album and heard 1920s blues artist Bessie Smith perform for the first time.

“I was so moved by the experience, that two weeks later, I’d signed up for guitar lessons — but I found it was taking too long to learn, so I became self-taught.”

Danser has since performed on stages across Canada, including various folk festivals, as well as the 25th Anniversary of Canadian Women in Blues at Toronto’s Massey Hall.

She also recorded four albums, winning recognition from the Blues Underground Network, the International Blues Competition (she was a semi-finalist), the Western Canadian Music Awards, and the Maple Blues Awards (a best new artist nomination).

All the while Danser has been balancing her performing career with an academic one, teaching music at the University of Alberta and continuing her studies as a PhD student.

Although she looks forward to recording her next album, to be released early in 2017, she’s still exploring the dichotomy of church blues in Baptized by the Mud. While the blues has often been characterized as the devil’s music and the gospel as the Lord’s, she doesn’t see a distinction.

“One is preached from behind the pulpit and the other’s from behind the plow,” but Danser said she’s spiritually moved by both.

Carving out a career in blues music has been “immensely” satisfying, added the artist, who particularly likes hearing from people who are touched by her songs.

“It makes me want to continue on.”

Tickets to her 7 p.m. show are $20 from the Golden Circle. For more information, call 403-343-6074. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Dawn Saunders Dahl’s surreal circus

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

KIWANIS GALLERY

Like a lot of kids, Dawn Saunders Dahl dreamed of running off to join the circus while she was growing up.

“I was longing to escape, to get away from reality,” recalled Saunders Dahl, whose Prairie Circus Series: Figurative Works exhibit is showing in the Kiwanis Gallery, downstairs at the Red Deer Public Library.

“Of course, it never happened. …”

The “magical” travelling circus packed up after spending a few days near her home in Camrose, taking its glittery costumes, acrobats and fair rides on to the next Prairie destination. But part of its kitschy glamour stuck in Saunders Dahl’s imagination.

She fondly thought of the circus’s sparkly and gold-painted trappings as a “weird, surreal kind of thing.”

These childhood memories came flooding back in 2002, while the Red Deer College-trained artist was doing a residency in France. “We went to this old circus, and the rides were falling apart,” she recalled. “There was this great big toy clown and (it looked like) his skin was peeling.”

Really it was paint. But “it was like 20 feet high, and his arms moved and really, it was actually kind of creepy,” said Saunders Dahl, with a chuckle.

She was once again bitten by the circus bug. This time she decided to get some glitter paint and put some of her impressions on canvas.

Many of the portraits Saunders Dahl

painted in the following decade contain elements of the surreal — masks — contrasted with the mundane — her subjects’ clothing and unadorned, sepia-toned faces. The artist intentionally sought to depict the “dichotomy” between the fantastical hyper-reality created by circus performance and people’s everyday lives.

The very idea of a Prairie circus “is this weird juxtaposition,” she said, of the familiar and grotesque.

Her largest work, the two panel After Guernica, was named after Picasso’s famous anti-war painting because it is compositionally similar, said the artist.

It hints at a deeper theme, with light-hearted circus life — portrayed by an accordion player and Dr. Seuss character on the left side of the painting — becoming nightmarish, with skulls on the right.

But Saunders Dahl, who attended the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary after graduating from RDC’s visual arts program in 1996, said she doesn’t have a particular message she wants to impart to viewers of her artwork. “If it makes them think of their own childhood memories, or of circuses, or of what a weird thing it is to see a circus on the Prairies,” then that’s fine, she added.

According to her artistic statement, “Evoking moods and memories, a playground of nostalgia and personal revelations is created.”

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Jess, an oil on canvas piece by artist Dawn Saunders Dahl, is one of several paintings by the artist hanging in the Kiwanis Gallery at the Red Deer Public Library.

Saunders Dahl, who curated group exhibitions for The Works Art and Design Festival in Edmonton, is now an administrator with the Edmonton Arts Council.

Her works have appeared in solo and group shows across Alberta and in France.

In 2010, some of her portraits appeared in the Farm Women exhibit at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery.

The Prairie Circus Series: Figurative Works show goes to Oct. 18 in the gallery that’s curated by the Red Deer Arts Council. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Culture Days return to Red Deer next weekend

BY ADVOCATE STAFF The streets of Red Deer will come alive with art, theatre, dance and a festival of lights during Alberta Culture Days next weekend.

Red Deer has been chosen as a host celebration site for the province’s largest arts and culture celebration — which means tons of activities and displays can be experienced across the city from Sept. 25-27.

Among the biggest local events is the third-annual “Light Up the Night” Nuit Blanche festival, held next Saturday night in the Rotary Recreation Park, by the Red Deer museum and outdoor pool at 4501-47th Ave. The after-dark festival that runs 7 p.m. to midnight will celebrate Central Alberta’s rapidly growing and diverse arts community in an atmosphere of glowing, tree-top lights.

This year’s festival promises more interactive entertainment. The family-friendly event will feature live art, music, dancing, artisan vendors, and a kids’ zone.

There are also opportunities to take participate in several live installation pieces, partake in food-truck fare, and a craft beer garden.

Alberta Culture Days events will actually begin on Friday. These include:

● A pop-up Global Gallery at 5000 Gaetz Ave., on the east side of the Scotia Bank. The Central Alberta Refugee Effort is hosting a wide array of artworks created by artists from different cultures, as well as providing snacks, crafts and performances from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. ● The launch of the Red Deer Reads book Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, at 6:30 p.m. at the downtown branch. ● A family dance at Festival Hall, next to the Memorial Centre. The Two Bit Bandits band from Calgary plays country, classic rock and pop, and “jukebox oldies.” Presented by the City of Red Deer, Red Deer Cultural Heritage Society, Country Pride Dance Club and Red Deer Arts Council. Tickets are available at the door or from www.countrypridedanceclub.ca.

Some events start on Friday, but go longer, including an art exhibit at Artribute Art School in the Old Court House.

It’s opening reception with refreshments is Friday from 6-8 p.m., but the display of landscapes by Galia Kwetney and Kim Toth continues on Saturday, and also includes environmental posters, collages and mixed media works by students.

Also running both Friday and Saturday are Bull Skit comedy nights at

the Scott Block. The live improv and sketch comedy comes with mature language and themes. There’s also a cash bar. Tickets are available from www.

BullSkitComedy.com.

More family fun is on from Friday right through to Sunday at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery with the Kids Celebrate interactive exhibition about different global celebrations.

Kids can also try their hand at encaustic art, melting crayons at the museum 1-4 p.m. on Saturday.

Art by Robert F.M. McInnis will also be exhibited from Friday evening through to Sunday afternoon at RDC’s downtown space, the Welikoklad Event Centre.

Besides Nuit Blanche, other Saturday-only events include: ● Another pop-up gallery, featuring works by local artists, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday at the Scott Block.

Access will be from the back of the building.

It’s presented by the Red Deer Arts Council and the Central Alberta Retired Teachers’ Association. ● There’s sidewalk chalk art and music in the downtown, as well as a heritage and public art information table at Ross Street and Little Gaetz from noon to 4 p.m. ● An open house will be held at the Central Alberta Immigrant Women’s

Association at #110, 5017-49th St. ● There will be two free screenings, at 2 and 4 p.m., of the locally made Ignition Films movie Year After Year at the Red Deer College Arts Centre. ● Against the Wall Theatre’s Calf Skit will entertain families with an interactive fairy tale from 1-2 p.m. at the Hub on Ross Street. ● A public art demonstration, dance extravaganza, and repurposed jewelry sale, benefiting the Global Enrichment Foundation, will be happening at the same spot from 2-4 p.m. ● You can swing to the blues music performed by Kat Danser at the Golden Circle, from 7-9 p.m. Tickets are available in advance and at the door.

For more information, please call 403343-6074, ext. 107.

On Sunday, you are invited to take a peek inside some city-run spaces that aren’t normally open to the public, including the water tower, the museum archives.

It’s free and runs from noon to 4 p.m.

The RDC Symphonic Winds will also put on a children’s concert at the RDC Arts Centre from 2-4 p.m.

For more information about Alberta Culture Days events, please visit culture.alberta.ca/culturedays/.

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Maze Runner sequel has scarier hazards BY: BRUCE DEMARA SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 2.5 stars (out of four) Rated: PG They’re still running but this time, it’s over a new landscape with different hazards.

If The Scorch Trials, the sequel to The Maze Runner has one obvious weakness, it’s that the movie — like a still-toddering child — really doesn’t stand on its own. In other words, you’ll have to see the first one to know what the heck is going on.

The film picks up immediately after the original, with the survivors Thomas et al alighting from a helicopter into a desolate desert landscape before being hustled inside a fortified compound by agents from World in Catastrophe Killzone experiment Department.

(Since that doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, it’s WCKD for short.)

Before long, Thomas — aided by a new character, Aris (Jacob Lofland) — discovers exactly what the people from WCKD want from the young people and it ain’t pretty.

After a daring escape, they find themselves wandering through sun-scorched sand dunes and derelict cities and trying to stay out of the clutches of their former captors and “cranks,� zombielike humans infected with the “flair.�

If only they can connect with the Right Arm resistance movement, they might find sanctuary at last.

But then there’d be no reason for the third leg of the series, already in pre-production.

Director Wes Ball has assembled some well-conceived postapocalyptic sets and the “cranksâ€? are certainly menacing. Aidan Gillen plays Janson, the relentless pursuer of the escapees, with a cool ĂŠlan and Patricia Clarkson returns as the well-meaning but evil Dr. Paige.

Rosa Salazar is a welcome addition to the cast as feisty Brenda, a nice counterpart to the anemic Teresa (Kaya Scodelario); Giancarlo Esposito is fun as the treacherous Jorge.

The action sequences are well-executed and

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jacob Lofland, from left, Alex Flores and Dylan O’Brien appear in a scene from the film, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. there’s plenty of them and drabs of exposition along the way that marginally advance the story. (The series actually extends to five books. Yikes!)

Dylan O’Brien, front and centre throughout as Thomas, is reasonably appealing without exuding too much by way of screen presence.

The remaining cast has little to do other than to jog along for the ride.

The original Maze Runner amassed a tidy $100

million-plus at the box office and it’s a safe bet that fans will enjoy the new set of perils and pitfalls awaiting the band of intrepid Glazers.

Scorch Trials isn’t particularly original or challenging, but there’s enough action and adventure to maintain audience interest until the arrival of Part 3 in 2017.

Bruce DeMara is Toronto Star Movie Reviewer

Lucas Museum unveils redesign

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‘IT REMINDS YOU OF THE SAND DUNE LANDSCAPE THAT HAD BEEN THERE ON THE LAKEFRONT A LONG TIME AGO. SO IT’S VERY ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE.’

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — The team behind George Lucas’ art and movie museum released revised renderings Thursday showing more green space at the Chicago site but no radical changes to the undulating, futuristic building stoking passions in a city that guards its Lake Michigan shoreline with religious-like devotion.

Images that will be presented to City Council next week show designers have significantly shrunk the lakefront building while preserving a smooth, tapering, dune-like form topped with an observation deck resembling a floating disc — a shape that critics have compared to Jabba the Hutt.

Defenders of what will be known as the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, including Mayor Rahm Emanuel, have said the design is loyal to Chicago’s history of making bold architectural statements and its devotion to keeping the lakefront open, accessible and green. “Currently, it’s a vast asphalt parking lot that is not welcoming it’s not very green,â€? museum President Don Bacigalupi said of the site to the south of Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears. “And so replacing that with both a museum that’s an amenity, that’s an attraction and an educational inspiration, plus this very new green space park ‌ that’s really our goal.â€?

The 17-acre site will erase the parking lot and add 4.5 acres of new parkland.

A group committed to preserving open space, especially along the Lake Michigan shoreline, has fought the museum’s location out of concern it opens the way for more construction on the valuable ribbon of public, open land.

In a lawsuit currently in federal court, it says the city has no authority to hand over the land, citing a legal principle known as the public trust doctrine, which requires the state to ensure open spaces are preserved and accessible to the public.

The design revisions were not an attempt to appease critics. Rather, as more planning went into the interior space, the exterior changed, Bacigalupi said.

Ma Yansong., architect

The original building was scaled back from 400,000 to 300,000 square feet, allowing for more park space.

That space will include an “event prairie� and expanses of trees and native plantings to attract birds and other wildlife, as well as layers of pools designed to filter storm runoff.

Its designers, architects Jeanne Gang and Kate Orff, said they wanted the space to function as educational “green infrastructure� while also providing an inspiring gateway to the museum rising in the distance.

The design is essentially final, although there could be minor adjustments. Construction is expected to begin in March and last until 2018.

It features an open-air observation deck on the rooftop accessible for free by a ramp winding up the building’s interior cone shape.

An outdoor plaza in front gently rolls upward into the sloping face of the building. “It reminds you of the sand dune landscape that had been there on the lakefront a long time ago,� said architect Ma Yansong. “So it’s very organic architecture.�

The museum will showcase popular art Lucas has collected since college, including illustrations by Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish and N.C. Wyeth as well as works by Lucas’s visual effects company, Industrial Light and Magic.

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Hell paving his own roads INTERNET MUSIC SENSATION MAKING STOP IN RED DEER ‘I RAN AWAY FROM IT. I NEVER EMBRACED IT BEFORE, BUT NOW I REALIZE IT’S WHO I AM.’

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Electro musician Coleman Hell turned an Internet hit into a record contract. He appears on Monday at the International Beer Haus in Red Deer.

Electro musician Coleman Hell did what it takes to land a recording contract — he just did it backwards.

Most singer/songwriters put out at least one highly successful album before multiple record labels come a-knocking. Hell didn’t get around to recording a whole album. One of his singles, 2 Heads, went viral after being posted on YouTube.

“And all of a sudden, there were one million, then 10 million streams. Then all the record labels started calling,” he recalled, “and I was flying out to meet with these different labels. …”

2 Heads, a monster hit about fatal romantic attractions between incompatible couples, was at No. 1 on so many Internet Top-10 lists that radio stations couldn’t ignore it.

“I knew it was a good song, but I didn’t expect all this word-ofmouth … I didn’t expect people to leap at it the way they did,” he said — but Hell is very excited that they did.

The Ontario artist, who per-

COLEMAN HALL, SINGER/SONGWRITER forms with his two musical partners on Monday at the International Beer Haus in Red Deer, ended up signing a deal for his debut album to be put out by Columbia Records by the spring of 2016.

Hell mixes musical genres on a keyboard and synthesizer — from hip-hop to nu-disco and folk/electronica — and works on songs with longtime friends La+ch (who produced 2 Heads with Coleman) and Michah.

Hell, 26, and his two collaborators grew up in Thunder Bay before moving to Toronto.

There was a time, Coleman admitted, when he didn’t appreciate his small-town environment.

“I ran away from it. I never embraced it before, but now I realize it’s who I am.”

He hints that the new tunes on his upcoming album will deal with his feelings about his home-

town. “It’s about relationships with family, with nature … it’s about learning to be comfortable in your own skin.”

Althought Coleman’s music is sometimes pegged as dance/ electronica, he isn’t entirely comfortable with this label, saying “I think there’s more substance in my songs.”

All the Monsters, for example, has dark themes that surface in the surprising violent ending to the music video.

“I would like to make music that’s timeless,” said Hell, who uses his real name and credits his parents with encouraging his talent for creating new tunes from synthsized computer programs.

“They were very strongly supportive. Most (musicians) I talk to didn’t have the same experience … I would be making music in the middle of the night and be playing it too loud, and they would never tell me to turn it down.

“I think my parents just wanted me to do something I was passionate about.”

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ENTERTAINMENT Megan Fox to play recurring role on New Girl NEW YORK — Megan Fox will guest star in a recurring role next season on New Girl.

The popular actress will play a gorgeous pharmaceutical sales rep who shakes things up in the loft by renting out the room of Jess (series star Zooey Deschanel) while she is sequestered on jury duty.

Fox will make her first appearance in the sixth episode of the upcoming fifth season, scheduled to premiere in January on the Fox network.

Fox is best known from her hit films, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Transformers.

New Girl also stars Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Lamorne Morris and Hannah Simone.

The Who postpones 50th-anniversary tour NEW YORK — Fans of The Who in North America are going to have to wait to celebrate the band’s 50th anniversary. The band announced Friday that it was postponing all 50 dates of “The Who Hits 50!” tour this fall because lead singer Roger Daltrey has contracted viral meningitis. He’s feeling better, but says he’s under doctors’ orders to rest. Earlier, the band had postponed the

Quincy Jones taken to hospital with shortness of breath LOS ANGELES — Quincy Jones was taken to a Los Angeles hospital with shortness of breath, but his representatives say he’s going to be OK. Publicist Arnold Robinson told The Associated Press in an email that Jones was hospitalized for observations out of caution after having breathing problems Thursday.

Robinson said “Quincy is fine,” and gave no further details. Jones’ hospitalization was first reported by TMZ.com.

The 82-year-old producer and arranger’s long and storied career has included collaborations with Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra and Ray Charles.

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Actress Jaimie Alexander of Blindspot poses during an interview in Toronto.

coffee shop, going platinum on her debut album, Pieces of You, a folksy anthem in the grunge era. But as she reveals in her new memoir, Never Broken and a companion album, Picking Up the Pieces, her story didn’t have a fairytale ending.

“I’ve always been very transparent as an artist,” said the 41-year-old singer.

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TORONTO — Jaimie Alexander begins her work day by stripping and then getting completely covered in temporary tattoos. The star of NBC/ CTV’s new conspiracy thriller Blindspot proudly declares that the headto-toe ink that covers her mysterious character is not fake.

“When I first sat down with the showrunner and the producers and (executive producer) Greg Berlanti, I said, ‘Look, if you’re going to do this please don’t cut corners, let’s not CGI, let’s not do a body stocking —let’s really make this artistic and amazing and just go for it,” Alexander said during a stop in Toronto to promote the series in June.

“And they did.”

Alexander said her skin art is a mix of medical adhesive and actual ink, and it really is applied everywhere — in a process that takes seven-and-ahalf hours.

The “Thor” actress stars as Jane Doe, a heavily tattooed woman who emerges naked from a duffel bag left in Times Square. She has no memory of how she landed there, how she got her tattoos, or any details of her past.

But the marks on her body point to a puzzle that needs solving, and the biggest clue is the name of an FBI agent, Kurt Weller, played by Sullivan Stapleton. Jane also exhibits some very curious talents — for fighting and lan-

guages, especially — and the mystery deepens.

“I wasn’t really told too much about the character ahead of time, which in a way was intimidating at first, but then as I went through and started filming the pilot I thought this is actually a gift because I can create her with the writer, with the director as I go,” said Alexander, known for playing Lady Sif in the Thor franchise. “And there are no rules, there’s no limitations, I can just go for it.”

Much has been made of a slew of female-focused series hitting the small screen these days, among them Quantico, Supergirl, Marvel’s Jessica Jones, and Agent Carter. Alexander said the folks behind Blindspot are working hard to offer up a strong female character, even if she might be disrobing from time to time.

“It’s so cool as an actress, as a female, to get a role like this that’s very Jason Bourne, which you don’t see for females very often. But also have a creative say in what’s going to be happening,” she said. “I prayed that this was the right choice for me in my career to move onto next. I’ve spent a long time away from television — I’ve done bits and bobs here and there but I’ve mainly stuck to film — and when I got this script I said, ‘I don’t care what it is, it could be a commercial, I’m doing it because this is a role of a lifetime for me.”’

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Husband not comfortable with house guest Dear Annie: My husband and I live in a very desirIf you have a friend who would put him up, that able area and are happy to have guests often. would be a kindness. You also can ask your husband The problem is, a male friend of mine wants to about having the friend out of the house during visit, but my husband doesn’t want to have a single working hours. Send him to the beach, the museum man in the house while he’s at work. He or the local attractions. claims it would make him uncomfortOtherwise, whether or not to visit under able knowing that I was playing tour these restrictions is up to your friend. guide and sharing wonderful memories Dear Annie: I read the article from “O,” in his absence with someone he doesn’t who asked how to dispose of an old Bible. I know well. have the best solution for her.

My husband is aware that I am not, Our brave men and women fighting to nor would I ever be attracted to this keep us safe often need a word of encourperson. He says he would feel this way agement or solace to help them through a regardless of who the guy was. problem.

We really don’t have trust issues, so I recently collected old Bibles from memthis is perplexing and embarrassing to bers of my church and mailed them overexplain to my friend. He cannot afford seas. This is a wonderful way to recycle our a hotel in our town, and was hoping to holiest of books. Plus it provides something MITCHELL stay with us to save a few bucks. very special for anyone who might be in & SUGAR How should I tell him? — Not His need. — G.N. Girlfriend Dear G.N.: This is a sweet suggestion, but DEAR ANNIE Dear Not: Tell him the truth — that if the Bible is torn, falling apart or otheryou are so sorry, but your husband is wise too damaged to donate, it would be uncomfortable having a single male staying in the difficult to send overseas. house when he isn’t home.

Our readers had several other suggestions. Here

is a sampling: From Jason: When doing construction, placing a Bible in the wall or floorboards will give a pleasant memory to those who know it is there. It will also be a surprise if future work is done and it is discovered.

Anita: There are missionaries who would be happy to have even half of a Bible to share. Check the Bible Foundation at bf.org for locations to drop one off.

Quebec: The procedure in our Altar Guild was to burn the old Bibles in our fireplace along with altar linens, and put the ashes in the church garden.

Crown Point, Ind.: My husband reads his Bible a lot, and writes and highlights in it, so it is well-used.

He thought a good idea would be when someone dies, to place the worn Bible in the casket with the person.

I thought this was a wonderful suggestion.

Pragmatist: Oh, for heaven’s sake, put the Bible in the recycle bin and honor Mother Earth. The respect and appreciation you feel will be in your heart.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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The fourth Annual Rifco Charity Golf Classic was held at the Innisfail Golf and Country Club on Sept. 8. It is organized every year to raise funds for a charity selected by the Rifco staff. For the past five years, the staff have selected the Haiti Children’s Home orphanage supported by the Haitian Children’s Aid Society. The staff was thrilled to present the HCAS executive director Amy Von Doesburg with a cheque totaling $31,987.65 from this year’s tournament. Rifco staff have raised over $234,000 for the HCAS facility rebuild since the 2010 earthquake rendered their existing buildings uninhabitable. Von Doesburg accepts a cheque from Lorraine Knorr, Rifco Charity Committee chairperson, and Bill Graham, CEO Rifco National Auto Finance. are a natural manager. If you can balance being organized with being adventurous, then you’ll have a successful year.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’re keen to articulate your ideas today Aries, as you catch up on the latest news with Saturday, Sept. 19 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Trisha Yearwood, family and friends. But remember Mercury is retrograde, so choose your words carefully and wisely.

50; David McCallum, 81; Jeremy Irons, 66 TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you are having financial THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Saturn is transiting through problems, think of creative ways you can boost your bank Sagittarius, until December 2017.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: The next 12 months is the time to be account. Tenacious Taureans are practical folk — so can you more experimental — personally and professionally. Confi- make or fix things for some extra cash?

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Attached Librans — take the routine, the healthier you’ll be.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When it comes to your creative time to explain your ideas carefully to your partner. For singles talents, Saturn will teach you how to be more disciplined and — romance is in the air, with a friend or business acquainproductive over the next two years. So put your head down tance. So keep your eyes and ears open.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio creative juices are and learn the lessons fast! flowing so write that report, compose that song or paint that VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Devote extra time to improving family relationships, restructuring your domestic life, or picture. Plus pay close attention to your dreams — are they tackling house renovations over the next couple of years, as trying to tell you something?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When the Moon’s in Saturn saunters through your home zone.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Librans are ready to learn! You your sign it highlights your sociable Sagittarian side, as you may undertake serious study over the next two years, as you communicate creatively and talk up a storm. You’re also very put effort into disciplining your mind and improving the way tuned in to how a friend is feeling.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Attached Capricorns you communicate with others.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’re in for a few hard fi- sharing a special meal with your partner will help you feel nurnancial lessons, as Saturn stirs up your money zone. It’s time tured inside and out. Singles — look for love with a kind and to build your material security — and your inner emotional caring Cancer or a tender and thoughtful Taurus.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Focusing on helping others security as well. Both are equally important.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Saturn will send many will bring long-term benefits today Aquarius. Plus, the more challenges your way over the next two years. But, if you are a proactive you are in partnerships, the happier you’ll be. Clear smart Sagittarian, then you’ll learn some valuable life lessons, communication is the key.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Fish are susceptible to flatand you’ll mature — like a fine red wine.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your ruler Saturn is tery — especially today. Don’t let someone sweet talk you moving through Sagittarius for the next two years. It heralds a into doing something that you don’t want to do. Take off your period where you’ll be more philosophical. Travel, education rose-coloured glasses and face facts!

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated and exercise will also become more important. astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Over the next two years it’s time to take your hopes and wishes from the abstract Advocate. realm and bring them down to earth. Through hard work and discipline, you can make your dreams come true.

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The report from the C.D. Howe Institute noted that Canadian immigrants do well compared to their counterparts in other countries. However, the report says that Canada’s overall standing was impacted because its immigrant population is higher than other nations.

C.D. Howe analyzed a report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development that measured the performance of adults in literacy, numeracy and problem-solving on computers in 24 countries.

Results of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies were released in October 2013.

In the survey, Canada placed at the international average in literacy and slightly higher in problem-solving. The country was below the international average in numeracy.

The institute said while the results weren’t “unequivocally bad,” they “seemed disappointing” considering rankings of high school student assessments and educational attainment are typically high.

A closer look at the survey findings revealed that Canada places above the international average when the literacy scores of its immigrant and non-immigrant populations are considered separately.

The Howe report noted that Canada ranked sixth in literacy scores of immigrants and seventh among non-immigrants, but when the two scores were combined Canada ended up 11th overall.

“While they are behind adults that are born in Canada, that gap is lower in Canada than it is in many other countries,” said report author Andrew Parkin.

“So Canada does quite well in ensuring that everyone has a good basis of skills.”

Parkin said when the survey results were initially released, there was discussion about colleges and universities not being as effective as they should be.

A deeper analysis of the findings shows that “that’s not where the issue is.”

“The graduates of our education system have scores that are above average, but there are Canadians who are struggling more.

“Those are Canadians that have lower levels of education. In many cases, they’re older Canadians.

And in some Canadian they’re immigrants, particularly those who don’t have English or French as a first language.

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Décor that reflects life CREATIVE WAYS TO TELL YOUR STORY IN YOUR HOME’S DÉCOR

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Every home tells a story. Some only whisper it through a handful of clues: a wedding photo on a fireplace mantle, perhaps, and maybe a few other framed photos scattered around a living room. Others say much more, with dozens of items illuminating the lives of those who live there.

Crafter Lisa Hathaway has come up with one way to seed a living space with the story of where you’ve come from and who you are. Her “What a Difference a Day Makes” prints begin with a simple sheet of burlap — a fabric as textured as the lives her clients seek to commemorate. By printing their names and meaningful dates (births, marriages, etc.) in stark black on the pale brown burlap, she creates a frame-able wall hanging that invites conversation.

“With home gallery walls being filled with lots of family photos, the simple display of numbers adds a unique touch,” says Hathaway, who sells her work through her Etsy.com business, Emma & the Bean.

Beyond celebrating names and dates, there are many ways to combine decorating and personal storytelling.

Here are four creative approaches to celebrating your personal story through your home: REPURPOSE CLOTHING Somewhere in the back of a closet there may be an old sweatshirt from college or a T-shirt that you loved for years but never wear anymore. Why not bring that memory-infused old clothing into your living space? A tutorial on diynetwork.com offers simple steps for creating a pillow cover out of a treasured old T-shirt. Don’t have one that speaks to your history? Hunt at a vintage shop or online for clothing that captures a moment from your childhood or a decade of your history.

Several Etsy vendors will make quilts from old T-shirts, sports jerseys or baby clothes you’ve saved. You can also ask around in your community to find a quilter who will create the perfect throw blanket for your family room sofa.

PHOTOS WITHOUT FRAMES Framed photos are great. But to share your history in a really compelling way, consider going really big.

Choose a black-and-white image from your childhood or a vintage photo of your ancestors and have it printed on a huge scale.

You can have it mounted on a canvas with no frame for a modern look, or visit one of many custom wallpaper websites to have it printed as a mural that partially or entirely fills a wall.

Eazywallz.com will print a large wall mural from your uploaded photo (they suggest using a photo that’s 8 megapixels or larger), which arrives as a peeland-stick decal. A 5-foot-square mural costs about $150 with shipping costs included.

At designyourwall.com, you can order custom wallpaper printed from personal photos. They have an inhouse designer who can help you plan the project, and they offer samples of your custom order ($9.99 each) so you can be sure you like it.

Another option: Search for photo collage ideas on Pinterest, then create a collage that combines vacation pictures and luggage stickers from your last trip. You can make a new collage or add to an existing one each time someone in your family travels to a new location.

MARK YOUR WORDS It’s popular to decorate with inspir-

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ABOVE: It’s easy to find online patterns to help you create a quilt of memories, made from T-shirts you can gather from cleaning out family closets.

BELOW: In this photo provided by Lisa Hathaway, this burlap wall hanging, designed by Hathaway for the Etsy.com store Emma and the Bean, turns a family’s dates of birth and wedding date into a piece of art. Items like these add beauty to a home and also serve as mementos celebrating a family’s history. ing phrases or well-known quotes. But what about the most meaningful words from your own history? Choose a saying that your parent or grandparent often repeated, or a quote from a relative that is meaningful to you. Then use stencils to paint it onto a wall in your home, or use decals. At the Etsy. com shop Dana Decal, you can have a personal quote printed as a wall decal for prices ranging from $24 to $71, depending on the size.

Or create a memory wall: Paint one kitchen wall with chalkboard paint, and then let family members fill it with short notes about their favourite old and new memories. Don’t forget to photograph the wall before erasing a section to make room for new writing.

CELEBRATE PLACES If you’ve lived in several cities or states, or your ancestors migrated, find artistic ways to bring those places into your home. UncommonGoods.com offers a cork globe ($129) that comes with pushpins and string, so you can literally connect the dots between the places you’ve come from and where you are now. Or mark the locations of loved ones around the world, or the

next five destinations on your list of dream vacations.

Many crafters make variations on local or global maps, marking special places with hearts or stars. To do it yourself, sketch an outline of your

state, for instance, on a piece of heavy paper, then use a hole-punch (craft stores sell ones with holes shaped like stars or hearts) to mark the spot in the state where you live now or have lived previously.

Extend your outdoor living Dear Debbie: We enjoy our backyard almost all year round. Even when it’s cold and snowy, my husband barbecues outside. It’s a large yard in the country with beautiful views.

Do you have any ideas for innovative fireplaces or heaters that are suitable for year round outdoor HOUSE TO life? Thanks.

— Francie and HOME Tom DEBBIE TRAVIS Dear Francie and Tom: With the cooler weather coming soon, this is the perfect time to invest in heaters of some kind to take the chill off while you enjoy your outdoor living. Propane patio heaters are a good choice. You’ll find a variety of heights and styles that are economical and practical. For example, the Fire Sense Square Flame Heater stands about seven feet tall and has wheels on its base so that you can relocate it as the need arises. It burns for 10 continuous hours on a tank of fuel. Stainless steel tabletop heaters are about three feet high and will keep you and your guests warm for

those al fresco meals. www.woodlanddirect.com.

If your space is large and your locale allows outdoor fires, then look into the newest fire pit designs. The ak47 shown here has a variety of magnificent tops in concrete, steel and marble. Some fire pits have grill kits so that you can barbecue over an open fire. I bought one of these fire pits for my home in Italy. www.ak47design. com. It has been the highlight of the long summer evenings, and will be even more welcome as the weather cools down. Designed rather like an Oreo cookie, the logs are sandwiched between two metal plates … great for easy access. The top can be used to put mibblies and drinks on as the metal does not get hot. We also grill on the barbecue nearly every night. During the day the lid goes back on and you have a huge coffee table.

Dear Debbie: I have low ceilings in the upper bedrooms of my house and was wondering if there was a trick to make them appear higher. Thanks. — George Dear George: There are some do’s and don’ts. Don’t paint your ceilings with any mid-tone or dark colour. It’s best to keep to white or try a pale pastel, which I love. The light shade will visually lift the ceilings. Do choose a wall pattern that will keep your eye moving up, not across. One of the ways to give the illusion of height is to dec-

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Whether large or small, an outdoor fire pit is a natural draw for entertaining all year round. orate the walls with stripes. Your eye follows the direction of the stripe, so vertical stripes will make the walls appear taller. The stripes should be between 3 inches and 14 inches wide; any narrower and the walls will be too

busy, any wider and the stripes will look heavy.

You can vary the width of the stripes as you please.

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Planning around patio access

play area for now.

When the children are a little older, you might want to add a large coffee table, and possibly a desk space for homework and hobby projects.

Around the fireplace I have arranged an informal setting, geared towards adults.

You could include a second television here (above the fireplace?), or simply use the space as a relaxing space.

Maintaining flexibility will make the decoration process that much more enjoyable.

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OUTDOOR: Stripe colours The base coat will be one of the stripe colours.

Use a plumb line to ensure that the stripes are straight and mark off the stripes with a pencil.

Using low-tack painter’s tape, press the tape down along the outside perimeters of each stripe to be painted. Use a roller to paint the stripes.

Remove the tape immediately and wipe away any paint that has seeped under the tape with a damp paper tow-

You shouldn’t have to worry about the investment that will last a lifetime - your home

el.

There are dozens of alternatives for striped finishes.

Shadow striping is a subtle, dramatic paint effect that is easy to achieve.

Paint the base coat in a flat sheen, and use high-gloss varnish for the stripes.

Debbie Travis’s House to Home column is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara Dingle. Please email your questions to house2home@debbietravis.com.

You can follow Debbie on Twitter at www.twitter.com/debbie_travis, and visit Debbie’s new website, www.debbietravis. com.-

If your family enjoys playing board games, you might eliminate one of the two love seats and place a game table near the window.

If billiards is the family game, you might install a table in place of the sectional sofa, then integrate the television and storage into cabinets built on each side of the fireplace.

If you need a home office, custom cabinets provides you with the opportunity to make that happen.

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I have often said that large rooms can be as difficult to decorate as small ones.

The way I would approach the arrangement of this room is by delineating two functions within this space.

The traffic pattern that runs between the kitchen and the patio door effectively cuts the room into two distinct areas; one dominated by the fireplace and the other without a dominant focal point.

With this in mind, the task of furnishing this huge area is made easier since you will be furnishing two distinct spaces.

The one rule to follow is that both areas will need to visually complement each other.

Often described as a “Great Room,” this is a family space and how they will use it provides the key to deciding how it should be furnished.

I have found that the best way to decorate a room from scratch is to try to imagine what family life will be like in several years.

Trying to anticipate technology is mind-boggling, but it’s a pretty safe bet that, eventually, there will be three (or more) teenagers using the space.

What will the space be like when they are away at school?

If you are like most families, electronic media is an important part of your relaxation style and this is not likely to change in the next few years.

Bearing this in mind, on my plan I have taken the smaller area in the room and created a media centre.

Here there is a wall units for the television and its peripheral equipment, as well as ample space for other storage.

There is ample comfortable seating on the sectional sofa and the recliner and good play area on the carpet in front of the media centre. This carpet not only helps to define the space, but it also gives the children a safe, soft

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Question: We have had the good fortune to buy a newly-built home that has an exceptionally large family room.

The room measures eight and a half metres (about 28 feet) long and is flooded with natural light through four large windows and a patio door.

We anticipate the patio will be used a lot during the summer months.

In addition, DAVID this fantastic FERGUSON room is open CREATIVE SPACE to the kitchen, which adds to the airy spaciousness of the room.

The room features a beautiful flagstone fireplace and the flooring is a stunning cork.

All of this sounds wonderful, but because of the overwhelming size of this room, we just can seem to decide how to arrange it logically.

It is glorious to look at, but simply not cozy.

We are wondering if the problem is that there are just too many options and we haven’t stumbled upon the right one?

Our children are six, four and two and still require lots of play room, and for them, we would like to integrate the television (which is also the family computer) and other electronics, space for toys and many, many books.

As well, we would like a place for grown-ups, as we often entertain.

Answer: It is a pleasure read your glowing description of the room, but equally distressed to hear you (understandably) stymied by its size.

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Simple supplies and simple techniques are all you need to create great wood finishes. These days, water-based stains come in non-traditional colours, too.

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This stained finish on pine cabinets was done in a home workshop using nothing more than a rag, a paint brush and sandpaper. You don’t need fancy equipment or a fancy space to get a fancy wood finish.

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A living room that goes with your way of life Iantha Carley and her husband raised her two kids, now grown, in a small house. This meant that the living room was also the home theater, game room, library and meeting space.

“We all had to decide whether to watch the same show or go read a book,” Carley says.

The Silver Spring, Md., interior designer finds that her clients have a similar situation; often, there’s no basement to watch movies in, no room to relegate kids’ toys to.

The living room - once decorated with pretty accessories and reserved as a space for entertaining - is finding itself again as a place for living, with all the demands that come with it: wall space for a flat-screen TV, speakers for Friday-night movies, a surface for board games, storage for remote controls, seating for guests.

It needs to be stylish enough to host dressy Thanksgiving hors d’oeuvres and still be comfy enough for Sunday afternoon naps.

As Washington designer Patrick Baglino Jr. explains, “When the room is organized and looks good, and is arranged in a way that is conducive to conversation and living, it’s a total picture: style, form, function.”

You might think that means the first order of business is to hide the TV, but both Carley and Baglino agree that it’s no longer passe to have the telly out in plain sight. “It is what it is,” Carley says. “We watch TV.” What’s more important is to make the room ready to pivot to whichever activity is happening next, whether that’s book club in the morning or a video-game session after school.

Think about how the room flows, whether people can walk through it without bumping into furniture.

Use durable fabrics to stand up to spills. Get those cords organized and out of sight. And make sure there’s adequate, dimmable recessed and task lighting. Whether it’s called a living room, family room or multipurpose room, “it’s intended to be a place for a family to hang out,” Carley says. “Make it a place that everyone wants to enjoy.”

— DVDs, DVRs, streaming-media consoles, game consoles, cords - they all come together to make an unsightly mess, Carley says. A media cabinet with slatted doors, such as the Marin 58-Inch Media Console, or one with a mixture of open and closed shelves, will conceal it all without inhibiting remote signals ($1,199, www.crateandbarrel.com). Bonus: “If the equipment is behind closed doors, there’s also less dusting!” Carley says.

— Sonos’ Play:1 wireless speaker, at 6.36-by-4.69 inches,. is compact enough to tuck away on a bookshelf and move

around as needed ($199, www.sonos. com).

The sound gets good reviews, too; Carley thought the speakers worked so well in the family room she designed for the 2015 D.C. Design House that she brought them home.

— The days of hiding your television are over.

“You have a TV. Lots of people have TVs. Why pretend like you don’t watch TV?” Carley asks. She likes the Muro Media Storage unit because it conceals cables yet keeps TV and related equipment accessible ($650, www.dwr.com). The fiberboard back can be painted or wallpapered to blend in with the decor - or stand out against it.

— Search for “cord” on Real Simple’s Web site and 16 clever organizational solutions pop up, including using a paper towel tube, a clothespin and a trouser sock. Baglino, though, is fond of the binder-clip method, in which you clip the cords and hook the clip onto screws on the back of furniture. Not up for DIY? Try the self-adhesive CableDrop Cord Clips ($10 for a package of six, www.containerstore. com).

— Baglino has used a television easel like the 19th C. English Artist’s Easel in at least two projects ($1,395, www.restorationhardware.com). His clients like it because it frees up the space over the fireplace for paintings and whimsically elevates the TV itself to the status of art.

— Cord clutter is the pet peeve of designers and homeowners everywhere.

“I can’t stand tangled-up cords behind tables and things all over a living room or a family room,” Baglino says. He likes the bamboo Cable Cubby to hide both cords and power strips and has two in his home ($35-$40, www.greatusefulstuff.com). “They’re super-efficient,” he says. “They look good.”

— When choosing a media cabinet, Baglino suggests finding one with “presence.” Skip the standard threetiered systems that are purely function; you want a cabinet that can stand on its own as an attractive piece of furniture.

The Prime Media Console, made by Illinois-based Slate Design out of shesham wood and powdercoated iron, is a rustic beauty ($699, www.cb2.com).

— Both Baglino and Carley recommend putting DVD collections behind closed doors or going with services such as Netflix, Hulu and iTunes.

To streamline the collection you already have, try tossing the cases and putting the discs in binder sleeves.

Russell+Hazel’s Signature Pattern Binders are sturdy with metal-reinforced corners ($14, www.russellandhazel.com).

— Carley’s room in the D.C. Design House was completely automated us-

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A media cabinet with slatted doors, such as the Marin 58-Inch Media Console, or one with a mixture of open and closed shelves, will conceal it all without inhibiting remote signals. ing a high-end, custom system. For a lower-cost option, try Logitech’s Harmony Smart Control ($130, www.bestbuy.com), which Carley uses in her own home. It’s “very simple to install, and you can control your equipment from a smartphone,” she says.

— Stray remote controls cramp a family room’s style. Keep them contained in a pretty box out of sight - just make sure you measure your remote first. (Some monster universal remotes might be hard to conceal.) Our pick: West Elm’s Faux Shagreen Box in charcoal ($79, www.westelm.com).

— Instead of filling a large room with a sectional, Carley suggests using a sofa and flanking it on one side with two “loungey” upholstered chairs, on the other with two accent chairs, and then filling out the arrangement with ottomans.

The Apollo Swivel Chair is especially cozy at an oversize scale with generous pillows - and can easily help rearrange the room for different focuses: game night, movie night or hot cocoa in front of a fire ($999, www.roomandboard.com).

— “An ottoman is a classic for a reason - because it works,” Baglino says.

It can serve as extra seating for guests, as a table (with tray) for drinks and, yes, as somewhere to put your feet up.

A storage ottoman, such as the

Stocksund, can also house blankets and board games ($229, www.ikea.com).

— An upholstered ottoman is made more versatile with a tray, such as the Large Woven Rectangular Serving Tray from High Street Market ($110, www.highstreetmarket.com). Use it to organize remotes or magazines, or as a place to put a candle or mug.

— If your room is small, limit the clutter and consider clear acrylic chairs, tables or even trays - such as the Hex Tray, with a trendy hexagonal shape - which disappear visually ($40, www.cb2.com).

— The ideal family room “has lots of storage, and it can hold things like electronics, components and televisions, but in a beautiful, thoughtful way,” Baglino says.

Baskets and bins with grown-up patterns - see the Canyon Basket’s red tribal motif - are also ideal for camouflaging toys ($78, www.anthropologie. com).

— Add a fun touch to a family room often used for movie nights: a retro-inspired Mini Refrigerator for soda to go with the popcorn and candy ($149, www.urbanoutfitters.com). It’s small enough to fit in a corner or serve as a side table.

Roberts is a freelance writer. She can be found at www.lindseymroberts.com.

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ARMSTRONG Mildred Laura Born December 25, 1923 to Joseph and Cora Best.

Beloved wife of Al Armstrong, passed away September 14, 2015 in Camrose, Alberta, age 91. Mildred greatly enjoyed her travels south in the winter. She will always be remembered by family and friends as an excellent housemaker and took great pride in her personal appearance.

She was dearly loved and will be dearly missed by her husband Al and their dog, ZuZu, as well as friends and neighbors. Her longtime request and desire was to be buried alongside her Mother in Claresholm. Our love is forever.

EBELING JOHN KENNETH 1959 - 2015-09-18 Mr. John Kenneth Ebeling passed away on September 16, 2015 at the age of 55 years. As was his wish, he passed away peacefully at home after a lengthy battle with cancer. He is survived by his wife Nancy, son Ryan Woods, and daughter Jessica (Skye) Bowman, and his four grandchildren: Rosalyn, Harley, Kayn and Hugo. Also, by his four sisters: Kathie (Jim) Morrison, Judy (Ron) Fraser, Linda (Keith) Dechant and Barb (Willard) Wilton and his grandmother Ruby Baker. He was predeceased by his parents: John and Millicent Ebeling, and his eldest son M. Damon Woods. John attended Olds College where he became an agricultural mechanic which followed with a 30 year career in oilfield sales. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather, brother, and a great friend that was always ready with a joke and a smile, even throughout his suffering. He enjoyed many years of curling and loved his farm.

The sparkle in his eye came through in the times he spent with his grandchildren. A Funeral Service will be held at the Woody Nook Christian Reformed Church, Lacombe County on Tuesday, Special thanks go to Dr. Douglas Stewart and his nurse Melissa (Tom Baker, Calgary, AB.), Kim Bailey, his homecare nurse from Lacombe, AB. and last but not least, our beloved Dr. Ronald Smith of Bentley, AB. John will be forever missed. If friends so desire memorial donations may be made to the Lacombe Palliative Care Society, (Box 5576 Lacombe, Alberta, T4L1X2). Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

REITSMA Frank Stuart Reitsma (Stu) passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Sunday September 13, 2015 at the age of 86. A memorial will be held in his honour at 11:00 am Tuesday September 29, 2015 at the Royal Canadian Legion 5027- 51 Avenue in Eckville, Alberta. Arrangements in care of Sylvan Lake Funeral Home 403-887-2151, 5019 47A Ave Sylvan Lake AB T4S 1G6.

WILKINS Margaret (nee Petty) With sadness our family announces the passing of Margaret Wilkins (nee Petty) on Wednesday September 16, 2015 at 85 years of age.

She was our Mum, Gran, Sister, Auntie and Friend.

Margaret is lovingly remembered by her three children: Jeffrey (Cathy), Susan (Dale) and Peggy (Mark) and her daughter-in-law Annelle. She was predeceased by her eldest son Hugh and her husband C.R. (Dick). Her five grandchildren: Heidi (Craig), Rebecca (Mike), Kyle, Melina and Alecia will miss and always remember their special Gran. She was blessed with her first great-grandson Charley in May. Margaret is survived by her sister Barbara (Jim) Housen and her nieces and nephew. The family would like to thank the wonderful staff at Aspen Care Cottage in Red Deer. It was there that Mum was so patiently and lovingly cared for in her final years. Mum’s wishes were to be cremated and the disposition of her cremated remains will be carried out by her family.

There will be a Celebration of Life gathering for family and close friends on Tuesday, September 22, 2015 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. at Serenity Funeral Service, 5311 - 91 Street NW Edmonton. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to the Alzheimer’s Society of AB and NWT, 14925 - 111 Ave Edmonton. AB T5M 2P6 SERENITY FUNERAL SERVICE Edmonton, Alberta (780) 450-0101

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YAKIMETZ Rose Jean passed away peacefully at the Ponoka Centennial Centre on Friday, September 11 at the age of ninety years. She was the youngest of four children born to Ephriam Littlechilds and Christina Gonko in Edmonton. She is lovingly remembered by her four children: Caroline Preston (Alfred), David Yakimetz (Bernie), Douglas Yakimetz (Judy) and Lori Bolin (Pat); her ten grandchildren: Lisa Preston, Jodi Preston-Overacker, Christie Preston-Gunning, Scott Yakimetz, Lara Yakimetz-Borggard, Teralea Yakimetz, Tanisyn Yakimetz-Blair, Carlene YakimetzSoetaert, Tyler Hirsche, Tricia Hirsche; and her 15 great-grandchildren. Rose was pre-deceased by her loving husband, Nicholas in 1982.

Rose will always be remembered for her exceptional gardening and farming abilities as well as her love of music and dancing. This love of music was also shared with her husband Nick whom she met during her years of service in the Canadian Womens Army Corps. Entrepreneurial blood flowed in her veins as she and Nick ran many successful businesses in Red Deer, Penhold, Innisfail and Rocky Mountain House.

She was regarded as a shrewd businesswoman by anyone who dealt with her.

She valued hard work and took great pride in having the cleanest and best maintained business or farm bar none.

Weeds were afraid to grow in her garden. She provided us all with an exemplary role model as she continued to manage the farm near Rocky Mountain House after Nick died. Her love of life and her ability to take on life’s challenges without ever quitting were the legacy she left for those who were lucky enough to know her. She will truly be missed.

A Celebration of Life will be held on Friday, September 25 at 12Noon at Red Deer Funeral Home, 6150-67 Street. For those who wish to pay their last respects, a viewing will take place from 11:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. on September 25. In lieu of flowers, memorial tributes may be made to the Alzheimer Society (10531Kingsway Ave., Edmonton, AB. T54 4K1. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Suspected Taliban militants launched a brazen attack on a Pakistani military base on Friday, killing 29 people including 16 who were gunned down inside a mosque during prayers. The Pakistani army quickly blamed militants from neighbouring Afghanistan, which Islamabad routinely accuses of harbouring terrorists who launch attacks across their porous border.

The attack was a major blow to Pakistan’s military, which had stepped up operations against militants following a horrific Taliban attack last December at a Peshawar school that killed 150 people, mostly children. It also underscored the ability of the militants to stage spectacular attacks on targets linked to the country’s military and government.

All 13 attackers were killed after an hours-long firefight at the Badaber base on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Peshawar, army spokesman Gen. Asim Saleem Bajwa said. In addition to the dead, another 29 people were wounded.

More than 2,000 employees were on the base at the time of the attack, Bajwa said. The attackers first stormed the guard room and then tried to move toward its administrative block, but were stopped by security forces, he said.

The base was established in 1960s but in recent years has mostly been used as a residence for air force employees and officers from Peshawar.

Bajwa said the assault was quickly repulsed because of timely and co-ordinated action by security forces. He told reporters in Peshawar that “the attackers came from Afghanistan,” though he stressed he did not mean that the government in Kabul was behind the assault.

Intercepted communications indicated that the attackers were being handled by superiors in Afghanistan, he said, but would not elaborate further because Pakistan’s spy agency was investigating the evidence. It was also possible that the attackers were assisted by someone on the inside, he added.

There was no immediate response from Afghanistan.

A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, Mohamad Khurasani, claimed responsibility for the attack. In a statement to the media, he said 14 Taliban fighters were involved in the assault. They offered “safe passage” to women and children after attacking the base, Khurasani said. He added that the Taliban “targeted” 50 security forces, without explaining what that

meant.

The Pakistani Taliban also released a video in which militant leader Khalifa Umar Mansoor is seen sitting among the alleged attackers.

He said he was in charge of the attack and that the purpose was to avenge Pakistani military bombardment of mosques and the killing of civilians in tribal regions, as well as the humiliation of seminary students in cities.

He said the attack was ordered by Mullah Fazlullah, the chief of the Pakistani Taliban whom Pakistan says is hiding in Afghanistan. Pakistan wants Kabul to arrest Fazlullah as he is accused of numerous of acts of terrorism in Pakistan.

Independent Pakistani analyst Zahid Hussain said Pakistan and Afghanistan should work together to eliminate militants, who were their common enemy. “I think both Pakistan and Afghanistan should act against militants without indulging in any blame game as there will be no end to it,” he said.

A wounded security official, Mohammad Rizwan, said he was coming out of the mosque when he was hit by a bullet. Another victim, Akram Ullah, said from his hospital bed that he was inside the mosque and remembered seeing a gunman with a grenade enter the building.

Shortly after the attack, a suspected U.S. drone strike hit a home in the South Waziristan tribal region, south of Peshawar, killing at least three militants and wounding five, according to two Pakistani security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the country’s powerful army chief, Gen. Raheel Sharif, rushed to Peshawar and attended some of the funerals of the victims. According to Muslim tradition, the deceased are buried as soon as possible.

Pakistani TV footage showed army helicopters hovering near the base, as police and troops surrounded the area.

Friday’s attack came a day after Pakistan reported the arrest of a militant figure behind a recent failed attempt to target an air force facility in Kamra, also in Pakistan’s northwest. The suspect, Umar Hayat, was currently being questioned, said counterterrorism officer Junaid Khan in the southern port city of Karachi, where the arrest took place. Also Thursday, police in Karachi reported the arrest of Syed Sheaba Ahmad, a former air force pilot who allegedly helped finance al-Qaida’s newly formed South Asian affiliate.

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CANADIAN PACIFIC (CP) SUPERVISOR MECHANICAL - CALGARY REQUISITION # 43445 Tired of the same old thing?

At CP you can be part of something historic. You have a chance to make a difference, to see Canada, and build a future.

CP is one of Canada’s most iconic companies. We move the goods that keep the world turning, and we’re on our way to doing it better than anyone else. To get there, CP is looking for some adaptable, hard-working, safety-conscious, and resultsdriven people to join our mechanical force.

You will assist the General Foreman with the planning, scheduling and assignment of manpower to specific jobs within the Shop/Yard and Line Point environments ensuring that all repairs and/or servicing are performed in a safe and efficient manner, in accordance with Company, AAR and FRA regulations.

Position Requirements: • Must possess a minimum of a High school diploma or mechanical trade certification • Proficient knowledge of railway operations (road, yard, locomotive, mechanical) For additional information on CP and this career opportunity, visit us online at www.cpr.ca.

Only those candidates contacted will be considered. All communication will be directed to the email address you use on your online application form.

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It takes time to grow friends Dear Harlan; I just moved to college. people you enlist to help. Ask these I feel really uncomfortable in the people where, when and how to find new environment here. I just want a these places. Then go to these places. lot of friends and to have a group who Do this for the next three months. accepts and likes me, but I feel very Yes, three months. Do not quit after awkward meeting a group of the first time. Smile and be new people. What do I do? friendly, and you will find — First Year new friends. Shared experiDear First Year; No one ences plus time equal new tells you this: You’re not friendships. supposed to have a group of Have fun with this projclose friends in a new enviect. Do things that look inronment. teresting. Become more inIt’s going to be uncomteresting. fortable at times. Change Remember to be patient. is uncomfortable. Life is Impatient people will panuncomfortable. The broic. They hang out with the chures, websites and camwrong people in the wrong pus tours don’t include a places. Some of them hide HARLAN visit with students who are with drugs, alcohol or bad COHEN struggling with the uncomrelationships. Some of them fortable. just go home. Patience is HELP ME HARLAN Here’s how I put it when what will keep you there talking to students: Life is long enough to build deep 90 percent amazing and 10 percent a friendships. bunch of junk. When you fight the unDear Harlan; How do you teach your comfortable, you only create more of children to have the confidence to ask it. When you face and embrace the un- questions and not think they are being comfortable, you can work through it judged? — Parent of Shy Child and create change.

Dear Parent; It’s disingenuous to tell Here’s how you work through it: Em- a child he or she won’t be judged. brace that you want a group of friends I don’t know how old your child is, that likes you and accepts you, but you but we are always judging and being don’t have it yet. Focus on what you judged. It’s a fact. That’s why a kid want - NOT about who wants you. Then doesn’t like to ask questions. put together a plan.

It feels uncomfortable. UncomfortA plan consists of places, people able people will focus on what others and patience. Pick three places where think instead of what they think. you can do things you love to do with Once they can get comfortable with people who share similar interests. the uncomfortable, they can focus on If you don’t know where to go, talk to what they want and worry less about people who will volunteer to help and what others want and are thinking.

Our job as parents is to help our children get comfortable with the uncomfortable so they can say what they think and do what they feel.

The first step is to validate your child’s feelings. Share the times when asking questions has scared you. Give an example. It can be school-related, about relationships or even job-related. Share the self-talk that helped you.

Then, ask your child if he or she has questions for you.

Then, play a game: Ask questions and answer questions as different people. You can be a teacher and your child can be a student. Your child can be a waiter, and you can be a diner.

You and your child can change roles.

Talk about what you’re thinking. Talk about what your child is thinking. Ask your child what he or she was thinking.

When it comes to putting this into practice, turn it into a game or a challenge (depending on your child’s age). For every question your child asks someone else, he or she can get a star or a point. After a certain number of points, there can be a prize.

Games and clearly defined roles make risk-taking far less emotional.

Dear Harlan; What should I do if I hooked up with someone and then found out he had a girlfriend the next day? I’m super upset and feel gross about myself. I don’t know how to handle it. —Enabler Dear Enabler; Don’t do it again. You made a mistake. Learn from it.

Don’t let regret turn into shame.

Make a change. Don’t hook up with people you barely know. It’s not always safe - physically or emotionally.

It’s easy to blame the guy, but you didn’t exactly know him. The best way to avoid hooking up with people in relationships is to have a relationship before hooking up. If you spend time with someone during daylight hours, while sober, you’ll figure these things out.

If you go on dates, connect with people on social networks and hang out for long periods of time, you get the rest of the story.

Dear Harlan; My friend started talking to this guy before school started, but she now doesn’t like him.

However, he won’t stop texting her. She doesn’t want to be mean, but he can be a little overbearing. What should she do? — Friendly Rejection Dear Friendly Rejection; There’s something called “talking.”

It clears up confusion. Your friend needs to get a lot better at it. She needs to tell this guy that she appreciates his attention, but she isn’t looking for more than friendship. And if she doesn’t want a friendship, she can call him and explain that she’s been really busy and can’t text him back. She can explain why she’s not texting back and forth without ignoring this guy.

It’s better to be honest. There is nothing mean about sharing the truth.

It’s mean to hide, avoid or run from the truth. Yes, sharing the truth can be uncomfortable, but it’s respectful and kind.

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Cineplex buying into future of eSports, forming league TORONTO — The operator of Canada’s largest chain of movie theatres is moving further into the world of competitive electronic gaming, announcing some US$15 million in investments on Thursday that will see so-called eSports competitions playing out on Cineplex stages across the country.

Cineplex Entertainment Inc. (TSX:CGX) will pay US$10 million to acquire the assets of WorldGaming, which has a platform used for tournaments and leagues for the competitive gaming community.

It will also invest a further US$5 million to created a new competitive gaming league that will operate and oversee future tournaments at Cineplex theatres across the country, with the first competitions beginning in October.

The games will take place on theatre stages, in front of a big screen and as an audience watches, while also being streamed to other Cineplex venues.

Enthusiasts can also sign up to play.

Big international matches will also be live-streamed into Cineplex movie screens in an effort to utilize infrastructure during slow periods.

Cineplex CEO Ellis Jacob said the investment will help the company reach a younger demographic whose

attention is being pulled away from its movie theatres by the wealth of available digital content.

He said the company wants to make its theatres a destination for all kinds of entertainment, and that the social aspects of competitive gaming make it a perfect fit for Cineplex.

“People want to be face to face with each other and compete, and other people want to watch them play,” he said.

Jacob said competitive gaming, also known as eSports, could be a huge market in Canada, pointing to places such as South Korea and Japan where eSports events can sell out stadiums.

Cineplex hopes one day that its eSports promotion can sell out the Air Canada Centre.

“It’s very big phenomenon and I think that all that is needed in Canada is for a brand like ours to embrace it and work with other companies on promotion,” he said.

Cineplex spokeswoman Pat Marshall said the gaming league will involve local tournaments, regional qualifiers and national tournaments for a variety of eSports titles. Details are expected to be announced in the coming weeks.

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(TSX:DCF), which is the majority investor in WG Ltd., said it will receive C$6.4 million for its stake. Its shares soared more than 27 per cent, or 16 cents, to closed at 75 cents on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Cineplex shares rose 24 cents, or half a per cent, to $47.38.

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SUPERVISOR - DIRECT SUPPORTS FULL TIME DIRECT SUPPORT WORKER - FULL AND PART TIME

As a Supervisor - Direct Supports, you are directly accountable to the Supervisor - Client Services, to work on site, for the purpose of monitoring, and organizing the overall daily operation of a speciƓc setting/service.

Responsible to ensure that the supervision, training and personal support provided meets the individual(s) needs.

The Supervisor - Direct Supports is also responsible for liaising with government departments, family and other related community support agencies. Ensuring effective and consistent supports across all team members.

QUALIFICATIONS: • Disability & Community Studies or related post-secondary diploma with a minimum of two years experience providing community support services for individuals with developmental disabilities • Prior supervisory experience • Strong communication, organizational, interpersonal, leadership and problem solving skills, contributing to your effectiveness working as part of a multidisciplinary team • Knowledge of and the ability to implement pro-active support strategies • Driver’s license HOURS/COMPENSATION: • 40 hours/week, shiftwork may be required occasionally • Salary range: $3,539.46 - $4,312.54 As a Direct Support Worker, you are directly accountable to the Supervisor - Direct Supports, Individualized Support Coordinator or Supervisor - Client Services (as identiƓed) to carry out directions related to direct individual client service, providing supervision, training and personal support. The Direct Support Worker is expected to provide support across multiple environments which will promote personal growth, independence and increase social inclusion. To complete such duties ensuring that services provided are of the maximum possible beneƓt to the individuals.

QUALIFICATIONS: • Minimum Grade 12 education, prior experience in the human service Ɠeld a deƓnite asset.

• First Aid - CPR • Completion of required in-service training • Driver’s license and vehicle required for most positions HOURS/COMPENSATION: • Hours vary pending position, shiftwork and weekends required • Wage range: $16.15 - $18.81 per hour

That’s all it takes to deliver for the Red Deer Advocate, and the money you earn

IS ENOUGH FOR MONTHLY PAYMENTS ON YOUR NEW CAR! We are looking for adult carriers for our morning delivery 7191703I18,19

If you believe you have the skills, abilities and motivation to be a part of our team of professionals, please forward your resume to: Central Alberta Residence Society 101-5589 47 Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1S1 Phone: 403-342-4550 • Fax: 403-346-4550 • Email: markw@carsrd.org

HOURS A DAY Call 403-314-4394

and talk to a district manager today! carriers@reddeeradvocate.com

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