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Waters Edge Marina at Sylvan Lake. Consultants were hired to undertake a detailed study of potential boat launches sites for the lake, which doesn’t have enough access points, creating traffic jams at the few existing launches on prime summer days.

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A draft study does not support locating a boat launch at a controversial site near the Summer Village of Half Moon Bay on Sylvan Lake.

Consultants were hired to undertake a detailed study of potential boat launches sites for the lake, which doesn’t have enough access points, creating traffic jams at the few existing launches on prime summer days.

One option that has been considered is at the end of Range Road 2-1 on the east side of Half Moon Bay. The spot had long been a makeshift launch point, generating complaints about traffic, noise and garbage from nearby property owners.

Despite those issues, there was support from others to install parking, washrooms and a formal boat launching area there.

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The draft Sylvan Lake Boat Launch Access Strategy and Action Plan for Recreational Lake Access recommends against building a launch ramp at Range Road 2-1, saying it doesn’t meet the minimum design criteria.

A pair of other sites near Norglenwold have various environmental restraints, but those issues could be worked around through good design, the consultants suggest. A third site north of the summer village on a point of land also has potential but would require measures to protect the launch from wind and wave action.

Another site, located within the summer village itself, has been earmarked in Norglenwold’s own plans as a non-motorized launch only.

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Sentencing delayed in assault case BID TO REMOVE PUBLICATION BAN DISMISSED

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Lindsay Thurber Raiders Jayda Aasman, left, and Kaylee Domoney dig a ball as their teammates and coach, Kirsten DeZutter, watch from the sidelines as the Raiders take on the Hunting Hills Lightning at Hunting Hills High School on Thursday.

Leaders face off over niqab during fiery French-language debate

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OTTAWA — Some of the most touchy subjects in Canadian politics — minority rights, climate change and Quebec sovereignty — had their airing during a lively and edgy French-language debate Thursday.

The broadcast, hosted by Radio-Canada and La Presse, featured one of the most heated exchanges of the election so far, on the controversial question of Muslim women who cover their faces.

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Notley drops budget hints Premier Rachel Notely say Alberta will maintain public-sector services and not lay off workers despite a drop in revenue.

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An application by four siblings to allow their identities to be printed was dismissed as a judge said he didn’t have the authority to remove a publication ban of their names.

The four had leveled accusations of physical, sexual and emotional abuse against their mother over a 13-year period in the 1980s and 1990s.

Red Deer provincial court judge James Glass convicted the mother of one count of assault causing bodily harm, while acquitting her of 17 other charges including 13 counts of assault, two counts of assault causing bodily harm and two counts of sexual assault on Sept. 3.

The 63-year-old woman can’t be identified because naming her could identify the victims, who are protected by the publication ban.

On Sept. 3, all four siblings submitted sworn letters to Glass asking for the publication ban to be lifted. Publications bans are typically granted to protect the identity of victims of sexual offences.

In his ruling Thursday in Red Deer provincial court, Glass said he did not have the authority to bury or lift the publication ban. He did say the Court of Queen’s Bench may have the power and a proper application made to the higher court may be considered.

Muddying matters about their application to remove the publication ban is whether or not the victims have the standing to make such an application.

As Glass pointed out, the new legislation from the Conservative government, called the Victim Bill of Rights, does not allow for victims to make an application to lift a publication ban.

However, case law from a 1994 ruling does allow the application to be made by the siblings at the Court of Queen’s Bench level.

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Legislature committee votes to restore $275K funding to child advocate EDMONTON — An Alberta government legislative committee has voted to restore funding to the province’s child and youth advocate.

Last year, the former Progressive Conservative government cut funding the advocate said was needed to do more investigations into deaths of children in government care.

In February, the Tories turned down a request to restore the $275,000 to help pay the salaries of three new investigators and two analysts.

The child advocate went ahead and paid these staff anyway, but had to make cuts to the organization’s budget to do it.

Tim Chander, a spokesman for the child advocate, said they are heartened by the unanimous vote Thursday to approve the restoration of the funding.

“Over the course of the past three years, the incidents of serious injuries and deaths of children in care have risen. Now we can try and investigate and release reports in a more timely manner,” Chander said.

“I think the message this sends is that they see the work that we do as important and this is just their collective way for them to say, ‘keep on doing what you are doing and here are the tools to do it.”’

Human Services Minister Irfan Sabir praised the decision, saying he looks forward to future recommendations from the advocate on how to improve government support for vulnerable people.

The Wildrose Opposition said NDP members of the committee also approved a 7.25 per cent raise for seven senior independent officers of the legislature, including the auditor general.

BOAT LAUNCH: No recommendation on which site to pursue The most recent study did not include what is likely the top option for a boat launch at the end of Range Road 2-2 in Lacombe County. It is an undeveloped road allowance northwest of Half Moon Bay on the west edge of Scouts Canada’s Camp Woods. That was already examined in a 2010 study that determined it was suitable for a boat launch.

Consultants made no recommendations on which site to pursue. And when, and if, a new boat launch will be built is up to the eight municipalities around the lake that form the Sylvan Lake Management Committee.

“The report highlighted what can be done,” said Phil Lodermeier, Lacombe County manager of operations. “It’s now up to municipalities to decide what’s to be done and how to fund it.”

Range Road 2-2 probably remains the best option, he told council on Thursday.

Coun. Rod McDermand expressed some frustration with how long it has taken to find a way to improve lake access.

“This has been going on forever,” he said, adding all of the studying has cost tax dollars. The most recent study cost about $190,000.

“Sooner or later there has to be something built.

This is getting silly. I don’t know how we go on and on and on.”

Coun. Ken Wigmore, who chairs the Sylvan Lake Access Management Steering Committee, said the study is a “great step forward.”

It both provides the necessary planning groundwork needed to go ahead with a launch.

Council voted unanimously to support the draft plan, recommending that the previous study on Range Road 2-2 be included in the final report.

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Her eldest son recalled coming to with his mother sitting on his chest, repeatedly hitting him across the face. He said he had two black eyes, a split lip, multiple lacerations and bruises. The youngest son corroborated the incident saying he saw his brother get punched in the head and knocked out. The mother then dragged the eldest son into the living room, sat on his chest and hit him in the head repeatedly.

A further ruling was needed on which victim impact statements would be eligible to be read at the sentencing hearing. A total of six statements were submitted from the siblings and their spouses. However, Crown Prosecutor Ed Ring and defence counsel Dave Inglis said only one victim impact statement was eligible to be read.

Ring noted because the woman was found guilty of only one charge, only the victim of that offence was eligible to have his victim impact statement considered. However, complicating matters was that his victim impact statement was written before the conviction and acquittals and covers a wide range of times and incidents.

Inglis said the victim impact statement shouldn’t be heard as it addressed many incidents and not the single incident for which the mother was convicted.

Glass gave the 40-year-old male victim the chance to write a new victim impact statement. Sentencing has been adjourned to Sept. 30 in Red Deer provincial court for consideration of the new statement.

Inglis and Ring estimated the hearing would take about two hours. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

DEBATE: Shifting alliances Conservative Leader Stephen Harper and the Bloc Quebecois’ Gilles Duceppe had both run provocative television ads expressing the controversial position that women who wear the veil should be made to remove it during the ceremony.

“We’re talking about a fundamental question, it’s the question of equality between men and women in our society,” said Duceppe, who promised the Bloc’s first bill in the Commons would be to extend a ban on the veil to other areas, such as public servants.

Although NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau are going head to head for seats in Quebec, they wound up on the same page on the issue — they didn’t think a woman should be told how to dress.

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“I understand it’s a question that makes many people uneasy, but for me, the state is there to defend minority rights, and to defend the rights of women,” Trudeau said.

That led to a tense moment during the debate that featured Harper and Mulcair facing each other directly, gesticulating with their hands and nearly yelling.

“Mr. Mulcair, I will never tell my young daughter that a woman should cover her face because she is woman. That’s not our Canada, that’s not acceptable for me,” Harper said.

“Attack the oppressor, don’t attack the woman, Mr. Harper … have the courage to do that,” Mulcair said. “But it’s not by depriving these women of their citizenship and their rights that you’re going to succeed in helping them.

“You’re playing a dangerous political game.”

Green party Leader Elizabeth May called the issue a “fake debate” that has nothing to do with important questions on climate change, unemployment and the economy.

“For women’s rights, where is the inquiry on missing and murdered aboriginal women?” she asked.

Other lively moments came during a discussion on constitutional issues, where Trudeau challenged Mulcair’s position that a simple majority in a referendum would be enough for Quebec to separate from Canada.

“Mr. Trudeau says it will take much more than simple majority, but he refuses to say how much,” Mulcair said.

Trudeau said Mulcair’s own party constitution would require more than just 50 per cent-plus-one of voters to remove “new” from the name of the New Democratic Party.

“A prime minister should fight for the unity of the country, and it won’t surprise anyone that’s what I intend to do,” said Trudeau.

On climate change, most of the firepower was directed at Harper, whom his rivals slammed for not doing enough to reduce greenhouse gases.

Duceppe also took his shots at Trudeau for not opposing the Energy East pipeline project that will run through the province.

On the pipeline issue, Harper accused his rivals of not being in favour of replacing foreign oil with Canadian oil.

“That’s false!” exclaimed Duceppe, who was backed by May. “That oil is neither consumed, nor refined in Quebec.”

The leaders also debated the plight of Syrian refugees, and Canada’s military mission in the region.

Again, Harper was criticized for not doing enough to bring in refugees.

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Volunteer Luke Risher, of Germantown, Pa., works at the knotted grotto art project next to The Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, before Pope Francis’ upcoming trip, Thursday, in Philadelphia. Messages for the project were gathered worldwide, and by passers by who wrote their messages on strips of cloth and then tied the fabric in a knot. See related story on page A9.

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Mulcair can’t slip in French debate With his party’s competitive posi- ger be a realistic contender for prime tion in national voting intentions hang- minister. With the Liberals lagging too ing by a Quebec thread, NDP Lead- far behind to have a shot at winning er Thomas Mulcair has more to lose the election and the help of a cautious than to gain in Thursday’s platform there would be an French-language debate.

NDP wave in the making in Since the campaign beOntario. gan, a commanding lead in So far, neither has hapQuebec is mostly what has pened. kept the New Democrats in Eight weeks and two Enthe game. glish-language debates latBut the status of er — including one on the front-runner comes at a central issue of the econoprice and Mulcair will my — the Liberal leader is spend the first French-lanstill standing and his party guage debate of the camhas gained more ground in paign on the hot seat. public opinion, in particHe absolutely needs to ular in Ontario, than the CHANTAL keep alive the prospect of NDP. HÉBERT a second Quebec orange At this juncture, a slide wave. Absent a strong showin NDP support in Quebec OPINION ing in the province’s polls, could lead to a hemorrhage the NDP’s carefully conof support in other regions structed bid for power could crumble of the country as non-Conservative votlike a house of cards. ers coalesce behind the stronger oppoThe party’s narrative hangs on the sition option. notion that the New Democrats are Until this week, the main liabilbest placed to beat the Conservatives ity Mulcair was expected to take in next month. On the way to this week’s the French-language debate was his French-language debate, that conten- support for the Energy East pipeline. tion has been sorely tested.

That stance pits him against Green If all had gone according to plan for Party Leader Elizabeth May and Bloc the NDP, Justin Trudeau would no lon- Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe, and

it does not play well with Quebec’s environmental activists.

But now the NDP leader is coming to the debate with a much larger target on his back.

In Quebec, the debate over whether Muslim women should be required to uncover their faces to take the oath of citizenship has given a moribund Bloc campaign a bit of a kiss of life.

Support for a veil ban runs high in Quebec. In the national assembly, a Liberal move to ban face coverings for public servants and for anyone using provincial government services enjoys multi-party support.

The NDP is not alone in opposing a niqab ban. So do the Liberals. But because the Bloc and the New Democrats fish in the same nationalist pool of francophone voters, Duceppe’s attacks have focused on Mulcair.

Anecdotal and recent polling evidence suggest they are taking a toll.

At this juncture, the NDP’s best hope of riding out the niqab controversy would be for the election conversation to move on to other topics. But with not one but two French-language debates on the agenda of the next two weeks and with the help of BQ and Conservative ads, the niqab issue could be on the Quebec radar to stay.

A good debate for Duceppe on Thursday would be good news for Harper and Trudeau.

Every vote that the Bloc takes back from the NDP helps the Liberals and the Conservatives in their own local battles against the New Democrat tide.

The NDP has owned Quebec since the beginning of the campaign but that could still change. Past history shows that the debates tend to focus Quebecers on their election choices — sometimes with unexpected results.

When he arrived on the set of the French-language debate in the last election, Duceppe had cause to believe he was bulletproof. His party was sitting on its usual comfortable lead.

As the only Quebec leader on the set, he had the home advantage.

So widespread were those assumptions that those who covered the 2011 French-language debate did not come away with the impression that it had been a watershed moment.

A few days later, the NDP jumped into the lead in Quebec, and never looked back.

This year, the roles are reversed, with Mulcair the leader to beat and Duceppe the one to watch.

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer syndicated by the Toronto Star.

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Michelin’s Confession one of many such stories With regard to Lana Michelin’s Confessions of a refugee, I congratulate her on a very timely story.

Canada can do more than it has to help the more than 60 million refugees today.

My parents were European refugees after the Second World War. They grew up in the Soviet Union, of German descent in what today is again the Ukraine. They were fortunate to have fled to Austria and what became West Germany by the end of the war and met in a refugee camp. My mother came to Canada on her own in January 1949 as a 19-year-old and worked as a domestic in Ottawa for a year to fulfill her immigration conditions. My father followed in October with her mother, stepfather, and half sister and brother.

My father and stepfather were sponsored by Mennonite farmers near Winnipeg, but when they arrived there was no work on the farm for them. The family moved to Winnipeg to find work. My father worked for 40 years in a sewing factory to support his family.

As my parents’ schooling was curtailed by war, they were very proud to earn their high school equivalency through the GED program.

They were very proud of their four children’s accomplishments — we were all fortunate to be able to attend university. I had a 35-year career in water management with the Manitoba, B.C., and federal governments. My sisters became a teacher, an immigration officer, and a policy analyst. They were even prouder of their eight grandchildren.

They came to Canada with nothing as refugees, raised a family, and retired with their own home and a family cottage. My father said he grew up in a country where the less the government knew

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about you, the better. They were very happy to have their children grow up in a country that offered an opportunity to obtain an education and employment, and to live in freedom and peace. They gave back to their community and church, volunteering when the Vietnamese boat people were welcomed in 1979.

They loved Canada.

We too are grateful. In addition to welcoming refugees to Canada, we can volunteer at the local level. CARE (Central Alberta Refugee Effort) and the Adult Literacy Program of the Red Deer Public Library provide volunteer opportunities to assist immigrants and refugees with language skill development and adjusting to a new life in Canada.

Thank you.

Bill Franz Red Deer

Gretzky and Harper share much in common beyond support Wayne Gretzky and Stephen Harper shaking hands on stage reminded me of a retirement ceremony.

Wayne Gretzky was a hero in Edmonton, in Alberta, and in Canada, he won the Stanley Cup four times, but he got shipped out of his comfort zone, and his team and he never recaptured the Stanley Cup afterwards.

External events sideswiped Gretzky’s career, some say he stayed too long in the game. His size and speed were not spectacular but he was always thinking three steps ahead, and that made him a legend, but he had a great team in Edmonton, and together they were unstoppable.

Stephen Harper was a leader in Canadian politics; he won the political Stanley Cup and became

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Prime Minister. He was always thinking three steps ahead, and that made him a legend in the Conservative Party. External events are sideswiping Harper’s career, some say he stayed too long in the game. His inner cabinet team has all but left him to try and recapture the political equivalent of the Stanley cup, but internal events means he is working alone.

Wayne Gretzky played for four teams over 20 years before retiring. Stephen Harper became an MP for Calgary West 22 years ago in 1993 and he played for three teams, Reform, Canadian Reform Alliance, and the Conservatives, now perhaps he should have retired.

Perhaps Wayne Gretzky stayed too long in the game, and maybe he wanted one more win but he still retired and is still a hero in the hockey arena.

Will Stephen Harper stay too long in the game, it is obvious that he wants one more win, failing that will he retire a hero in the political arena or just another has-been? Has he stayed too long and diminished any chance of remaining a hero or will he be blamed for the Conservatives’ demise? Only the future can tell.

Stephen Harper has an affinity for the sports of hockey and politics. He has seen many professionals stay too long in their respective sports, but he is blinded to his own expiry date and it is unfortunate.

Harper’s attributes like Gretzky’s size and speed are not spectacular but his ability to think three steps ahead helped him achieve his goals but now he needs smoke, mirrors, suppression, shenanigans, attack ads, and schemes to get him his goals. Perhaps it is time to retire?

Wayne Gretzky gave you his hand on that stage perhaps you should take his hand and follow him out of the arena and try something different? It worked for Wayne. Retirement is not that bad.

Garfield Marks Red Deer

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Notley drops budget hints PROMISES SOME SPENDING DESPITE REVENUE SQUEEZE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Premier Rachel Notley says the Alberta government will maintain public-sector services and not lay off workers despite a drop in revenue triggered by plunging resource revenues.

Notley gave some hints about the NDP’s first provincial budget next month in a speech Thursday at the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association convention.

“We’re going to stabilize public services and correct some mistakes the previous government made in managing finances like a $1.1- billion cut to health care and deep cuts to our schools and post-secondary institutions,” she told delegates.

A budget was introduced, but never passed, by former premier Jim Prentice’s Progressive Conservative before it was defeated by Notley and the NDP in May. Finance Minister Joe Ceci has been touring the province to gather input for his budget. RACHEL NOTLEY He has warned that challenges lie ahead as it will be the first full fiscal year with oil at drastically reduced prices.

Ceci has already said that Alberta is on track for a record $5.9-billion deficit this year as the oil crunch hits families and businesses.

“It makes no sense to respond to layoffs and job losses in the economy by making things worse by more layoffs and more job losses,” Notley said.

“I would suggest this is a basic disagreement with both of the province’s conservative parties. They continue to make their case, which is about immediately laying off thousands of public servants, including teachers and nurses.”

The current economic situation actually means the time is right for a “significant reinvestment in infrastructure, the premier said.

“We are looking carefully for useful, well-thought-out, shovel-ready ini-

Terrorism charges laid against Calgary man FARAH MOHAMED SHIRDON BELIEVED TO BE OVERSEAS

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dia as a recruitment tool. A search Thursday for the Twitter account he reportedly used, MuhajirSumalee, showed it has been suspended.

Other media have said Shirdon, a nephew of a former prime minister of Somalia, used to work at a Calgary movie theatre.

Calgary Imam Syed Soharwardy of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada has said he didn’t know Shirdon, but had seen him at some Calgary events in the past.

He said he worried that Shirdon’s actions would inspire other radicalized youth to head overseas.

Mounties said they are working to bring Shirdon back to Canada so he can be arrested.

RCMP Assistant Commissioner James Malizia said in a news release that the charges are important to discourage others.

“These charges not only demonstrate that the RCMP is taking active measures to investigate and pursue criminal charges against high-risk travellers, but also serve as a powerful deterrent message to individuals seeking to travel abroad for terrorist purposes and those already engaged in such activity.”

Traffic stop finds marijuana-tainted ‘Randy Candy’

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MEDICINE HAT — Two Manitobans are facing drug charges after a traffic stop in Alberta.

A Medicine Hat police officer searched a vehicle early Thursday on the Trans-Canada Highway near the city in southeastern Alberta.

The officer found about 8,000 candies containing THC — the active ingredient in marijuana — and 170 marijuana plants.

Two men, one 37 and the other 42, from St. Laurent, Man., are charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking and production of a controlled substance.

Police said the “Randy Candy,” as the drug is called, looks and tastes like soft or hard sweets.

“It’s been around for years but we are just seeing more and more of it in Alberta,” said Staff Sgt. Jason Graham.

“This is obviously of concern to us because it mimics real candy and it’s targeting youth. Knowingly or unknowingly you could be taking this thinking its ju-jubes or gummy bears or what have you.”

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CALGARY — RCMP in Alberta have laid terrorism charges against a Calgary man they believe has gone abroad to fight with the Islamic State.

Farah Mohamed Shirdon, 22, faces several offences, including participation in the activity of a terrorist group and instructing others to carry out terrorist activity.

Mounties said Thursday that the charges are being laid in absentia because they believe Shirdon remains overseas. A Canada-wide arrest warrant has been issued and a notice was to be issued via Interpol.

Police said their investigation — part of what they call Project Staccato — determined that Shirdon left Canada on March 14, 2014, to fight with the Islamic State in Syria.

RCMP Assistant Commissioner Marlin DeGrand said in Edmonton that it’s believed Shirdon served in various roles with the organization.

“Our investigation showed that Shirdon served in a combat role and performed other functions for ISIS such as recruiting, fundraising, encouraging others to commit violence

and spreading propaganda — all designed to enhance the activities of the ISIS,” DeGrand said in a release.

There were reports he had been killed, but RCMP said that wasn’t the case.

Shirdon has featured prominently in western media’s coverage of North Americans travelling overseas to fight with the militant group.

Last year, the CBC aired a propaganda video of Shirdon burning his Canadian passport and threatening U.S. President Barack Obama. One of the terrorism charges relates to that video.

Another charge relates to threats Shirdon allegedly made in a video interview with media outlet Vice last September. In the video, a man calling himself Abu Usamah, says he’s going to bomb New York and fly the Islamic State’s flag over the White House.

“I’m Canadian, well, I was Canadian,” he told Vice’s online magazine, Motherboard, a few months earlier.

He said he had talked to a Canadian intelligance agent a few days before leaving Canada and that the “poor girl” who interviewed him probably lost her job.

He told the magazine that he was active on Twitter and using social me-

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Notley wouldn’t discuss whether there will be any tax increases in the Oct. 26 budget, but did say she believes Albertans are willing to pay for health care and education.

She couldn’t commit to balancing the Alberta budget by 2018 as promised during the provincial election campaign.

“I would like to take my platform … and drop it down and say this is what we’re going to do in the next four years. But things change, circumstances change, and we’re grappling with that right now.”

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Suspect had long criminal history WOMEN’S SHELTERS KNEW OF MAN ACCUSED OF TRIPLE HOMICIDE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The female victims of a triple homicide in eastern Ontario died despite their efforts to protect themselves and a legal system that largely took pains to address their alleged killer’s long history of domestic violence.

Shelter workers in eastern Ontario were familiar with Basil Borutski’s name years before it surfaced in the headlines following an alleged killing spree that culminated in three charges of first-degree murder.

Court documents reveal that two of his alleged victims, 36-year-old Anastasia Kuzyk and Nathalie Warmerdam, 48, used to date Borutski and had both pressed assault charges against him. Media reports have identified the third victim, 66-year-old Carol Culleton, as Borutski’s most recent partner.

The three women died in and around the tiny village of Wilno, Ont., about 180 kilometres west of Ottawa. But Borutski’s long criminal history had given him a reputation well beyond the town’s boundaries.

Leigh Sweeney, executive director of the Bernadette McCann House shelter in Pembroke, Ont., about 70 kilometres northeast of Wilno, said Borutski’s name was known to staff.

“Renfrew County is maybe the largest county in Ontario, but it’s small,” she said. “People know people. We’re very connected.”

Sweeney said the tragedy highlights the complex, insidious nature of domestic violence, a crime that too often goes unreported.

In this case, however, Sweeney said, Borutski did not fly under the radar.

Court documents reveal allegations that the onetime millwright assaulted Kuzyk, Warmerdam and his ex-wife, Mary Ann Borutski.

Borutski “successfully defended” an assault charge filed by Mary Ann Borutski in 1985, but his own daughters described him as “violent, easily agitated and tyrannical,” according to an Ontario Superior Court judgment that granted a divorce to Basil and Mary Ann Borutski in 2011 and ordered him to pay his ex-wife almost $93,000.

In 2012, he was convicted of making threats and breaking a door while he lived with Warmerdam. A charge that he assaulted her, however, was stayed by the Crown.

Two years later, and Borutski had moved on to a new girlfriend — and a new assault charge, after Kuzyk accused Borutski of choking her.

He was also accused of burning some of Kuzyk’s possessions and of stealing a car from a member of her family, as well as violating a probation order that required him to keep the peace. He was convicted and served time in prison last year.

Domestic violence experts say Borutski’s repeat history of violence, coupled with the increasingly serious nature of his attacks, would have raised every

conceivable red flag.

“If you were to go through our risk assessment list, you can check off every one 10 times over for this person,” Sweeney said.

Less typical, she said, was the fact that the system designed to protect both men and women from chronic abusers appears to have worked as intended. The victims spoke up, ended their relationships and followed through on pressing charges. For the most part, the legal system took their claims seriously, ultimately imposing jail time on Borutski in 2014.

But Amanda Dale, executive director of Toronto’s Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic that supports women survivors of violence, said the traditional legal system is not equipped to deal with domestic violence cases properly.

Courts tend to treat each case as an isolated incident without considering past patterns of behaviour, but Dale said it’s those very patterns that can most reliably flag repeat offenders.

Victims who press charges are usually warned when their attacker is released from jail, but Dale said such warnings need to be spread beyond people connected with the case at hand.

“Even if it didn’t meet the threshold of a criminal charge, if there was a record of other domestic violence, those women should be warned because we know these guys can be lethal as we see that progression over time.”

Harper’s list of potential allies grows thin

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OTTAWA — Stephen Harper doesn’t have a reputation as a gambler, but his 2015 federal election call is shaping up as an all-or-nothing bet on another Conservative majority.

The prime minister heads into tonight’s nationally televised, French-language leaders’ debate with only Gilles Duceppe of the Bloc Quebecois as a potential supportive dance partner after the votes are counted on Oct. 19.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Green party Leader Elizabeth May both slammed the door this week on any prospect of propping up a Conservative minority government, joining Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau in their flat out disdain for keeping Harper in office if his party can’t command majority support in the House of Commons.

“There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell,” Mulcair said Wednesday on the campaign trail.

“We would not ever collaborate or support Stephen Harper,” May told The Canadian Press in an editorial board the same day. “It’s critical that he be gone before the Paris negotiations (this December on climate change) for the health of those negotiations.”

“There are no circumstances in which I would support Stephen Harper to continue being prime minister of this country,” Trudeau averred a day earlier.

Harper won a majority government — his first — in the 2011 general election on the strength of a pitch that explicitly called for a majority mandate. He’s avoided such talk during eight long weeks of campaigning this time around as most polls have had the three major parties deadlocked in a three-way tie.

Asked about the absence of his majority pitch earlier this month during a campaign stop in Whitehorse, Harper warned voters of “some kind of unworkable coalition that ends up with an agenda nobody actually voted for.”

“So I don’t know whether that’s a choice, but I know the only choice to keep us moving forward is a strong, stable, national majority Conservative government and that’s what I continue to advocate,” he said at the time.

There were early signs Thursday that the logjam could be starting to break, with three different pollsters suggesting New Democrat support may be beginning to soften, to the benefit of both Conservatives and Liberals.

“Overall, it’s fragile,” pollster Jean-Marc Leger said of NDP support. “It’s really fragile in Quebec.”

That makes tonight’s French debate in Montreal a critical milestone for Mulcair. It also makes him a target.

When Parliament was dissolved for the election, the NDP held 54 of Quebec’s 75 seats, with no other party in double digits. The Liberals held seven seats, five ridings were represented by Independents and five by Conservatives with a splintered Bloc Quebecois and Forces et Democratie splitting the remainder.

Under new riding redistributions this election,

Canada’s mayors call on parties to make housing a campaign issue TORONTO — The mayors of some of Canada’s largest cities have called on federal parties to make commitments to affordable housing.

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson says the country is facing a housing crisis and wants the leaders of the federal political parties to make housing an election issue.

He says the federal government has done a good job investing in transit, but housing has largely been ignored.

The comments came Thursday at a meeting of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Big City Mayor’s Caucus in downtown Toronto. the House of Commons increases to 338 seats from 308, including three new Quebec electoral districts which will give the province 78 MPs. The leaders’ debate is the third of the campaign but the first to be nationally televised by the major networks. It is also the first to include five party leaders, adding May of the Greens and the Bloc’s Duceppe to the mix.

Toronto Mayor John Tory says in many cities, it is becoming impossible to find affordable housing that is anywhere close to their jobs.

The mayors also urged the federal parties to commit money to help with repair bills their cities have to fix existing affordable housing buildings.

The Greens have promised to create a national housing strategy and offer more funding for co-operative housing, while the NDP say they would pay for more affordable housing through measures including raising the corporate income tax rate.

The Liberals have committed to eliminating the GST on all new rental builds while giving up to $125 million a year to landlords to renovate aging rental units.

It also marks the beginning of an intense nine-day period that will see three leaders’ debates in all, two in French and one predominantly in English.

The wild card tonight is the emotionally charged issue of religious face coverings and citizenship ceremonies.

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CANADA Jewish groups dismayed by Auschwitz comment Childrens’ advocate says she was deceived about teen’s death ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — British Columbia’s representative for children says her trust in the provincial government has been shaken after she claims she was misled into believing that no children in care were being housed in hotels.

Mary Ellen TurpelLafond issued a sharp rebuke following the death of 18-year-old Alex Gervais, a First Nations teen in care who was killed after falling from the fourth-floor window of an Abbotsford hotel last Friday.

Turpel-Lafond says Gervais had been living in a hotel for about two months after the province shut down the group home where he was living over safety concerns.

She says Gervais moved 16 times before taking up residence in the hotel.

Turpel-Lafond says the young man was in distress and may have taken his own life.

Abbotsford police say they don’t suspect foul play in the death.

Minister of Children and Family Development Stephanie Cadieux has issued a statement saying information recently brought to light has caused her great concern but she declined to comment on specific cases.

B.C. bishop says abstinence is only healthy choice over HPV vaccine PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — A Catholic bishop in British Columbia says a vaccine that protects girls against a sexually transmitted infection isn’t inherently wrong, but that abstinence is the only healthy choice.

The comments by Stephen Jensen of the Diocese of Prince George were delivered in a September letter to the parents of Grade 6 and Grade 9 girls attending Catholic schools.

The letter posted online says vaccination teams will visit Catholic schools three times in the coming year to vaccinate girls against the human papillomavirus.

The provincial government website ImmunizeBC says three quarters of sexually active women will get HPV during their lives and the virus can become cancerous.

Jensen says the vaccination program isn’t inherently wrong but parents need to talk to their children to strengthen the virtue of chastity and “appreciation of abstinence as the only truly healthy choice.�

He says students may not consent to or refuse the immunization without their parents’ permission though either option is legally available to children under 19.

Top court won’t hear squirrel case OTTAWA — The Supreme Court will not hear the case of a Montreal man with a passion for feeding squirrels and other wildlife.

Lawrence Klepper has been involved in a lengthy dispute with the City of Westmount, which has ticketed and fined him in the past for repeatedly feeding animals in public spaces.

Klepper, who is in his early 70s, has described himself as an extreme lover of animals.

Westmount has previously had Klepper followed by a public security official in an unmarked car to ensure he was not dropping nuts and birdseed.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — Jewish groups said they were astonished that an educated school trustee running for the New Democrats in the federal election reportedly said she was unfamiliar with one of the Nazis’ most notorious death camps.

Leaders in the Jewish community reacted with dismay on Thursday after it was revealed that Alex Johnstone, the NDP candidate in Hamilton, Ont., referred to fence posts at Auschwitz as beALEX JOHNSTONE ing phallic on Facebook in 2008.

To them and many others, her claim to a local newspaper Tuesday that she didn’t know about the infamous concentration camp was more gall-

ing than the comments themselves. “It’s disappointing that you still seem to have people who are living in some cocoon of a lack of general knowledge,� said Jon Goldberg, executive director of the Atlantic Jewish Council. “It’s just an ignorance that’s surprising for someone who’s running for office.�

Shimon Koffler Fogel, CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, was equally incredulous at the admission and said it may signal the need for greater education about the Holocaust.

Both Fogel and Goldberg say they saw no malice in Johnstone’s remarks, but stressed the importance of elected officials knowing their history so that they might work to prevent it from being repeated. “If we can’t draw lessons from those experiences that are going to inform the way we respond to crises, then we are just playing into that old cliche of history repeats itself through neglect or ignorance,� he said. “We’re more than surprised that that wouldn’t be one of the thousands of things that holds a memory chip in a federal candidate’s memory bank, which means that

some of the onus is on to make sure people are better informed.�

Johnstone and her campaign officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

A spokesman for B’nai Brith, a human rights and anti-Semitic advocacy group, said they had reached out to Johnstone and hoped to speak with her.

Johnstone issued an apology on her Facebook page after her comments surfaced via a satirical web-based publication.

She conceded that her remarks were inappropriate, but not meant to cause harm.

The Facebook posting from April 2008 featured a friend’s photo of part of Auschwitz’s electrified fence and its curved, concrete supports at the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. “Ahhh, the infamous Pollish (sic), phallic, hydro posts,� Johnstone commented underneath. “Of course you took pictures of this! It expresses how the curve is normal, natural, and healthy right!�

After the remarks came to light, Johnstone said that, “I didn’t know what Auschwitz was, or I didn’t up until today.�

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Fahmy vows to fight for freedom JOURNALIST FILLED WITH ENTHUSIASM FOR FUTURE AS A FREE MAN

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Mohamed Fahmy is filled with ideas for his future as a free man.

Mere hours after being released from a Cairo prison, the Canadian journalist who spent nearly two years fighting widely decried terror charges is eager to discuss the next stage of his fight for freedom of the press in Egypt.

“It’s a whole new chapter, it’s like being born again,” he told The Canadian Press as the reality of his liberty began to sink in. “I just have so much inside me that I want to let out.”

When he was sent to prison for the second time in the same case last month, Fahmy began working on what he called a charter of rights for journalists in Egypt. Before he leaves Cairo for Canada in a few days he wants to present his document to Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi who pardoned him.

“I want to build on what happened with this case and explain to him some of the issues that journalists face here on the ground,” he said. “I will continue fighting to get at least little victories to a real true free press.”

Fahmy’s long-running legal saga has drawn attention from around the world ever since he and two colleagues were arrested in December 2013 while working for satellite news broadcaster Al Jazeera English.

The trio — who maintained their innocence throughout — were charged with offences that included supporting Canadian Al Jazeera English journalist Mohamed Fahmy flashes the V sign as he a banned organization and with fabricating footage to undermine the coun- after being released from Torah prison in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday. try’s national security.

They were convicted in a trial that your mind is not prepared for what’s out there lobbying for me and (my lawobservers called a sham and sen- to come, no matter what you do,” he yer) Amal Clooney as well. I think the tenced to years in prison. An appeal said. “When I got sentenced for three reason why I’m out is that Marwa and brought about a second trial, although years this time around it really hurt Amal did a really, really intense job.”

Like everything else in his case, one of them, Australian Peter Greste, and it was hard as well, but I sort of was suddenly released under a law was more prepared mentally and phys- Fahmy’s presidential pardon granted which allows for the deportation of for- ically in handling the prison. But it Wednesday came as yet another surprise. eign nationals conHe was in his victed of crimes.

‘I WANT TO BUILD ON WHAT HAPPENED WITH THIS CASE AND EX- cell, with the Fahmy and his Egyptian colleague PLAIN TO HIM SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT JOURNALISTS FACE HERE t e l e v i s i o n o n , when he heard Baher Mohamed, however, under- ON THE GROUND. I WILL CONTINUE FIGHTING TO GET AT LEAST LIT- his name and his colleague’s name went a retrial, were TLE VICTORIES TO A REAL TRUE FREE PRESS.’ announced on a granted bail over the course of it, and — MOHAMED FAHMY list of presidential pardons. ended up back be“We were hind bars when a jumping and hugging,” he recalled. judge found them guilty yet again — an was tough, it was really tough.”

There were days over the past “The officers came in (and) they’re like outcome which shocked observers.

Returning to prison was difficult, month when Fahmy didn’t even leave pack your bags, we’re leaving now. It Fahmy admitted, but not quite as hard his cell when prisoners were allowed was surreal.”

After being bundled into a police as the initial shock of being sentenced to mill around.

“I was in bed a lot of the time,” he vehicle, Fahmy said he and his colto seven years during his first trial.

“You realize that your body and said. “I think what kept me going on league were dropped outside a school is knowing that Marwa, my wife, was in a south Cairo neighbourhood and

Turcotte admitted to causing children’s deaths, trial hears

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SAINT-JEROME, Que. — Jurors at Guy Turcotte’s first-degree murder trial heard Thursday that he admitted to causing the deaths of his two children.

The former cardiologist is charged in the slayings of Olivier, 5, and Anne-Sophie, 3, in a residence north of Montreal in February 2009.

The admission that Turcotte caused their deaths was read out to the jury two days after he pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The trial also heard from Patrick Bigras, the police officer who eventually arrested Turcotte after discovering the bodies of Olivier, 5, and Anne-Sophie, 3.

“It was upsetting, very upsetting,” he testified in reference to that day’s events.

Bigras smashed a window to get into the residence and climbed one floor where he saw blood on a door.

Then he discovered the children’s blood-spattered bodies.

Bigras said the two were in their beds lying on their backs, wearing only underwear. Their stomachs and abdomens were covered in wounds.

Turcotte stood in the prisoner’s box during that part of the testimony, looking downward with his eyes closed.

“The children were already stiff, pale and cold,” Bigras testified. “The little boy’s eyes were half-open.”

Bigras took the children’s pulse and quickly realized they were dead.

The officer then went looking for a suspect because he had heard noise coming from somewhere on the same floor when he entered the house.

He found Turcotte lying under his bed, vomit at the corners of his mouth.

Bigras testified that he called Turcotte an imbecile and that the accused answered, “Yes, I know.”

Earlier on Thursday, jurors saw two knives that were found near where Olivier and Anne-Sophie were found.

The longer one — at 32 centimetres — was found underneath Olivier with blood on the blade. The other one was located on the side of a bathtub in a bathroom adjacent to Turcotte’s bedroom.

The Crown has said it intends to prove that Olivier was stabbed 27 times and Anne-Sophie 19 times.

Quebec Superior Court Justice Andre Vincent has ordered that witnesses not be allowed in the courtroom before they testify. They will after they have taken the stand.

The Crown has said the children’s mother, Isabelle Gaston, will testify early in the proceedings.

The trial resumes Monday.

Police waited more than a year to take statement from paramedic

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SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Police did not request a statement from a paramedic who examined the body of Richard Oland until more than a year after the prominent New Brunswick businessman was found dead in his Saint John office, a jury trial heard Thursday.

Philias Comeau testified that he and his partner got a call before 9 a.m. on July 7, 2011, about someone with a wound and trauma.

Upon entering Oland’s office building on Canterbury Street, Comeau testified that a police officer in the second-floor office told them they didn’t need to bring any gear with them.

Comeau said he noticed a strong odour as he approached the office.

“I call it the odour of death,” he told the court in Saint John.

Oland’s son Dennis has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the high-profile case.

Comeau said Richard Oland’s body was lying in a large pool of blood and rigor mortis had set in.

He described the 69-year-old’s inju-

ries as “incompatible for life.”

The Crown has told the jury that Richard Oland was killed by 40 blows to his head and neck.

Under cross examination by defence lawyer Gary Miller, both Comeau and his partner, Chris Wall, said they weren’t contacted by the police for statements until November 2012.

Miller asked if police would normally seek a statement much sooner.

Comeau said, “Yes.” Charlene MacDonald was one of two funeral directors who attended the crime scene. She testified she wasn’t interviewed by police until 2014.

When asked by the defence if it was hard to remember details after a few years, she replied, “Yes.” Earlier, a police officer testified about the search for a weapon. Const.

Don Shannon of the Saint John Police Force said he checked along buildings, in grass, under cars and a construction area down the street, but found nothing during an hour-long search.

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Sex consensual but pharmacist’s licence loss ruled constitutional TORONTO — A pharmacist whose licence was automatically revoked because he had consensual sex with a patient has lost his bid to have the relevant rules governing health professionals thrown out as unconstitutional.

In its written decision released this week, Ontario’s top court rejected arguments from Mohamed Hanif that provisions of the province’s Health Professions Procedural Code regulate morality and therefore stray into federal territory.

“Treating a patient while involved in a sexual relationship undermines the integrity of the professional-patient relationship,” the Appeal Court ruled. “The intended, and in fact overwhelming, effect of the provisions is to protect the public.”

Hanif, who was a pharmacist at Loblaws in Simcoe, Ont, fulfilled prescriptions for a cashier at the store. In 2008, they developed a romantic and consensual sexual relationship. When Loblaws found out, it fired him and referred the situation to the Ontario

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celebrates with his wife Marwa Omara bid goodbye.

“They dropped me and Baher in the middle of the street with no money and no mobile phones and no way of contacting anyone,” he said with a laugh.

“We’re standing there dressed in our prison garb, everyone is looking at us, we didn’t know what to do until somebody came in and tweeted a photo of us and then all the journalists came in.”

After sharing many hugs with his wife — who he called his lifeline— thanking his supporters in Canada and around the world over and over again, and trying to digest his newfound freedom, Fahmy is setting his sights on the future.

Over the coming days he needs to ensure the travel ban he was under is lifted so he can leave Egypt for Canada. He plans to stop first in either Toronto, where he has many supporters, or in Montreal, where his parents live, before heading for Vancouver, where he and his wife will build a new life.

College of Pharmacists, which began disciplinary proceedings against him in 2011.

Under the code, any sexual activity between a health professional and a patient constitutes sexual abuse that automatically leads to loss of a licence to practise for at least five years.

Hanif did not challenge the purpose of the code — to prevent sexual abuse.

Woman alleges illegal search, says Mounties threatened to seize her children BELLA COOLA, B.C. — A First Nations woman from British Columbia’s central coast is suing the province after two Mounties allegedly threatened to seize her three young children if she didn’t let them search her vehicle for marijuana and crack cocaine.

Kimberly Mack appeared in provincial court in Bella Coola Thursday asking to be compensated $15,000 for what she alleges was an illegal search that failed to turn up any drugs.

“When I meet up with the cops now I feel a lot of anger,” said Mack. “When I think they can get away with so much I feel angry towards them.

“I would just like an apology. That’s my main thing.”

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‘The stranger in our midst’ POPE FRANCIS ISSUES PLEA FOR MIGRANTS IN HISTORIC CONGRESS SPEECH WASHINGTON — Standing before a rapt Congress, Pope Francis issued a ringing call to action on behalf of immigrants Thursday, urging lawmakers to embrace “the stranger in our midst” as he became the first pontiff in history to address a joint meeting at the U.S. Capitol.

Referencing the migration crisis in Europe as well as the United States’ own struggle with immigration from Latin America, Francis summoned lawmakers “to respond in a way which is always humane, just and fraternal.”

“We must not be taken aback by their numbers but rather view them as persons, seeing their faces and listening to their stories, trying to respond as best as we can to their situation,” Francis urged.

He was welcomed enthusiastically to a House chamber packed with Supreme Court justices, Cabinet officials, and lawmakers of both parties, uniting the bickering factions as all stood to cheer his arrival. The sergeant at arms intoned “Mr. Speaker, the pope of the Holy See,” and Francis made his way up the centre aisle in his white robes, moving slowly as lawmakers applauded, some inclining their heads in bows.

After the speech, he appeared on a Capitol balcony and briefly addressed a cheering crowd of thousands below on the lawn and the Mall beyond.

“Buenos dias,” he called out, and the crowd thundered its response.

Francis asked the crowd to pray for him, as he always does. Speaking in Spanish, he added a line to acknowledge that not everyone there was a believer. “If among you there are some who don’t believe or who cannot pray, I ask that you send good wishes my way,” he said, to tumultuous applause.

“God bless America!” he concluded, as he had in the House chamber.

From the Capitol where he challenged Washington’s elites Francis travelled to comfort some of the city’s neediest. He spoke to homeless people at St. Patrick Parish and pressed into a crowd at Catholic Charities, where people surrounded him and took selfies after he offered a

blessing before their lunch.

He called on the faithful to solve homelessness, declaring: “Let me be clear: There can be no social or moral justification, no justification whatsoever, for lack of housing.”

Late in the day he was leaving for New York for more prayer services and a speech to the United Nations.

The pope’s whirlwind three-day visit to Washington was the first stop on a three-city U.S. tour that winds up in Philadelphia.

On Wednesday he was cheered by jubilant crowds as he visited the White House — where he and President Barack Obama embraced each other’s warnings on climate change — paraded through Washington streets in his “popemobile,” addressed U.S. bishops, noting the clergy sex abuse scandal, and celebrated a Mass of Canonization for Junipero Serra, the Spanish friar who founded major California missions.

Introducing himself at the Capitol as “a son of this great continent,” the Argentine pope, reading his remarks slowly in English, spoke from the same dais where presidents deliver their State of the Union speeches. Behind him sat Vice-President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner, the first and second in line to the presi-

dency, both Catholics. Outside, tens of thousands watched on giant screens, and many more were watching on TV around the world.

Lawmakers of all political backgrounds and religious affiliations eagerly welcomed the pope, pledging to pause from the bickering and dysfunction that normally divide them and

hear him out. Yet Francis spoke to a Congress that has deadlocked on immigration legislation, at a time when there are more than 11 million people in the U.S. illegally, and where some lawmakers have balked at Obama administration plans to accept more of the migrants from Syria and elsewhere who are now flooding Europe.

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The money was donated by people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and four foreign nations, the mayor said. About 6,500 people donated in amounts ranging from 50 cents to $100,000, officials said.

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EU hopes to have migrant ‘hotspots’ BRIEFS up and running by November Two killed, most of nine critically hurt in crash

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Seattle fire officials say two people killed when a charter bus and an amphibious tour vehicle crashed were on the bus, as were most of the nine people critically injured.

Fire Department Lt. Sue Stangl says 12 people suffered minor injuries that would require hospital visits, and officials evaluated 30 other passengers on the vehicles who didn’t need further treatment.

Officials have not said what caused the crash Thursday.

The amphibious, military-style tour vehicles are operated by a tour company called Ride the Ducks and are known for exuberant drivers and tour guides who play loud music and quack through megaphones as they lead tourists around the city.

A man who answered the phone at the Ride the Ducks corporate office says the company had no immediate comment.

BRUSSELS — In EU-speak they’re called “hotspots” — teams of European border, legal and asylum experts considered key to identifying those in need of international protection among the tens of thousands of people arriving in Greece and Italy in search of sanctuary or better lives.

Yet many are wondering when they will be put in place, how they will operate and whether they will provide the magic solution Europe needs.

For the moment, these task forces are the only hope the European Union has to quickly respond to the unfolding humanitarian emergency, the biggest refugee crisis it has faced in decades.

Without them, EU plans to ease the pressure on Greece and Italy by distributing 160,000 refugees among other nations over the next two years cannot get off the ground.

Still, few seem to understand exactly what they are, and despite the urgent need for their deployment, the teams are not likely to be fully operational until November at best.

In a nutshell, hotspots are made up of experts from the Frontex border agency, the European Asylum Support Office, the EU’s police and justice agencies — Europol and Eurojust — and representatives from the bloc’s anti-smuggler operation in the Mediterranean.

Once summoned by a country under heavy migration pressure, these experts could be quickly deployed to identify, register, fingerprint and screen people for criminal backgrounds as well as to better understand the routes they use to get to Europe.

The idea is to identify people who are fleeing conflict or violence and thus have the right to asylum or some other form of protection, as opposed to those who have come to Europe in search of jobs and better lives, and who don’t.

It means that potential refugees will know sooner whether they can stay, and filter out those who must go home.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi welcomed the plan as a European, rather than a national, solution to a challenge that has implications for the entire 28-nation bloc.

“This is very important for us because for the first time the migrant question is not simply a question of the single member states. It’s a question about all European people and particularly all European institutions,” he said early Thursday following an emergency EU migration summit in Brussels.

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Migrants rest near a train at the railway station in Beli Manastir, near Hungarian border, northeast Croatia.

Italy and Greece have been so overwhelmed by the flood of people that in many cases their few reception centres have been unable to register them. Bulgaria is also considering whether to call for hotspots along its border with Turkey, which has become a temporary home to almost 2 million refugees.

The EU teams will work in co-operation with national authorities in Greece and Italy to speed up the process and ensure that common standards are applied. They will also bring language and cultural skills that local officials might not have.

The system benefits the authorities too, by allowing justice and police agencies to gather and share intelligence.

Some work has already begun. EU experts have been operating out of a headquarters in Catania in southern Italy since July.

Italian anti-terror and anti-mafia officials are also involved. Tiny Lampedusa island, closer to Libya than to Italy, is expected to be the first hotspot to start operating, in part because it has been handling migrants rescued at sea for several years.

WASHINGTON — A U.S. research institute says a North Korean long-range rocket launch appears unlikely at the upcoming 70th anniversary of the ruling party.

Pyongyang is expected to stage its biggest celebration in years on the Oct. 10 anniversary, and there’s speculation it could launch a rocket into space. The U.S. views that as a way for the North to develop a long-range ballistic missile.

The U.S.-Korea Institute is basing its analysis on recent satellite photos, the latest taken Monday, of the North’s main rocket launch site at Sohae. It says a launch

by Oct. 10 remains possible but there’s no sign of preparations that would have been expected by now for that to happen.

The institute detects activity at North Korea’s nuclear test site, but says its purpose is unclear.

Myanmar minister defends decision barring Rohingya from voting WASHINGTON — Myanmar has defended a decision barring 800,000 ethnic minority people from voting in November elections by saying that green card holders can’t vote in U.S. elections either.

Foreign Minister Wanna Maung Lwin drew awkward laughter Thursday at the Council on Foreign Relations when he likened the situation of foreign citizens permitted to live and work in the U.S. with Myanmar’s so-called “white card” holders, many of them stateless Rohingya Muslims.

In March, Myanmar declared the temporary identification cards invalid. Those who held them could vote in the last national elections in 2010, but they won’t be able to vote this time.

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Rebels roster taking shape RELEASE MCCLELLAND, GET MUSIL AND SPACEK BACK

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR In the end, Jack McClelland’s age and lack of top-end talent caught up to him in his quest to earn a roster berth with the Red Deer Rebels.

McClelland was released Wednesday by Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter, who didn’t see any way the rugged 19-year-old winger could help his club this season.

“It’s tough being a 19-year-old and being a 14th forward. It didn’t make a lot of sense, for him or for us,” Sutter said Thursday. “He flew back home (to

Wichita, Kan). He was talking about going to school.”

The six-foot-two, 207-pound McClelland played in all five Rebels preseason games, scoring once and picking up four minutes in penalties. He was

minus-1 in the plus/minus department.

“We gave him a chance, we gave him an opportunity,” said Sutter. “He played in every exhibition game so we (coaching staff) could fully assess his play. In the end, that (14th forward) is where he fit on our depth chart.”

Meanwhile, Adam Musil arrived back from the St. Louis Blues training camp Thursday and fellow Rebels forward Michael Spacek was returned by the Winnipeg Jets later in the day.

Nelson Nogier, who played 15 minutes and 32 seconds on the Jets blueline in Wednesday’s 3-2 NHL preseason loss at Edmonton, will be back with the Rebels as early as Saturday and as late as Monday or Tuesday. The Jets’ prospect delivered two hits and blocked two shots at Edmonton.

“We’re told that he played really well last night in Edmonton,” said Sutter. “They (Jets) want to give him another game, but they’re not sure

whether that will be Friday or Sunday.

If he plays Friday he might be back for us Saturday or Sunday. If he plays Sunday he won’t be back until next week.”

The Rebels boss has heard nothing regarding the status of forward Conner Bleackley (Colorado) and defenceman Haydn Fleury (Carolina).

Bleackley scored once as the Avalanche downed the Anaheim Ducks 5-4 in NHL preseason play Tuesday. He had three shots on goal and was credited with one hit during his 11 minutes of ice time.

Fleury, meanwhile, was minus-2 with one shot on goal, two hits and one blocked shot Monday as the Hurricanes were blanked 2-0 by Washington.

The Rebels open their WHL regular season Saturday at 7 p.m. against the visiting Edmonton Oil Kings. The clubs meet again Sunday at 4 p.m. at Rexall Place in Edmonton. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Thompson learned a lot in rookie year YOUNG RED DEER RACE CAR DRIVER FINISHES AS SECOND BEST ROOKIE ON CIRCUIT

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF One weekend, three races, three top five finishes.

For Red Deer’s young racing phenom Parker Thompson, that experience highlighted his rookie campaign on the USF2000 tour.

From July 30 to Aug. 2, Thompson spent the weekend in Lexington, Ohio in three races. He finished fourth in one race and fifth in the other two that weekend. Most racing weekends for the young driver were doubleheaders, but the tripleheader was a fun experience for Thompson.

Not bad for the 17-year-old rookie, racing against older drivers.

“I was the only driver in the USF2000 category in their first year racing cars,” said Thompson, who had previously raced karts and just graduated to the bigger vehicles.

“Other drivers were rookies to the series, but they weren’t necessarily rookies to formula cars. That was a big transition.”

He ended the season in fifth place overall out of 26 drivers and second amongst rookies. Australia’s Anthony Martin, 20, was the top rookie.

Thompson spent the racing season touring North America and competing in 16 races on the tour, as well as some races on the side. This included two races and two wins at the Circuit ICAR in Quebec, racing in the Formula Tour 1600.

“The highlight of the season would be my first two wins in cars,” said Thompson, who came away from that weekend winning both races.

“That was huge on a track I’ve never been on before in a car I’d never been on before.”

As much as Thompson learned about racing, he learned even more about the importance of the car’s mechanics and the background work that has to be done before the car even hits the track.

“You can only get so much out of a car,” said Thompson. “Good drivers

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Red Deer’s Parker Thompson finished up his rookie season on the USF2000 circuit with a fifth place finish overall, second amongst rookies. The 17-year-old is spending part of his offseason giving talks to schools across Canada about the dangers of distracted driving.

‘THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE SEASON WOULD BE MY FIRST TWO WINS IN CARS. THAT WAS HUGE ON A TRACK I’VE NEVER BEEN ON BEFORE IN A CAR I’D NEVER BEEN ON BEFORE.’ PARKER THOMPSON can get a lot out of a car, but they also come in and work with the engineers and make precise changes to move the car in the right direction.

“Going into next year I’m so much more confident on how to set up the car.”

It was a year of firsts for Thompson as he had his first “race start” as op-

posed to starting the race from a dead stop. He had his first experience with qualifying ahead of the races, practicing on the track and setting up the car.

He is considering his options on where to race next, but may be back on the USF2000 tour next year with a year of experience under his belt.

For now though, Thompson heads

into the offseason with a full plate. He is practicing and testing cars or using a simulator to train for the next racing season.

He is also finishing up his education, working towards his high school diploma through St. Gabriel Online School.

Thompson is also on a national campaign on the dangers of distracted driving. He will give his talk to a hometown crowd today at Ecole Secondaire Notre Dame High School.

For more information on Thompson visit www.parkerthompsonracing.com. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Lightning defence strike down hard on Lacombe Rams

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Lightning 46 Rams 0 The Hunting Hills Lightning offence was in fine form once again Thursday evening, but it was their defence that was front and centre before 333 fans at Great Chief Park.

The Lightning defenders limited the Lacombe Rams to 65 net yards as the defending Central Alberta High School Football League champions pitched a resounding 46-0 shutout.

“Our defence played well, we played aggressive,” said Hunting Hills defensive back/receiver/punter Zech Pilgrim, who finished the night with an interception, a 38-yard reception and four punts that totaled 177 yards.

“We wanted to set the tone right off the bat. We started making our tackles and we shut them down.”

The Lightning, who improved to 3-0 in league play, were coming off an impressive 27-8 exhibition win over host Medicine Hat High last Friday.

“We had a strong game there and it was nice to carry that over into tonight’s game,” said Pilgrim.

The Lightning actually struggled to move the ball without being penalized early in the contest and were up 8-0 — on a pair of safeties, a 23-yard field goal by Eder Arias and a missed 35-yard field goal attempt — before finally busting through for a touchdown late in the first half.

League leading rusher Brandt Burzuk ran 27 yards for a major with 1:46 remaining in the half, and then — following a quick two-and-out by the Rams — scored on a 60-yard punt return. Arias booted a 28-yard field goal with six seconds showing on the clock

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Hunting Hills Lightning Zech Pilgrim pulls in an interception intended Lacombe Ram Lucas Wessner during second quarter high school football action at Great Chief Park Thursday. and the Lightning were up 25-0 at the break.

“We had a slow start. It was a short week for us, we had a tough game last week and the guys were a little tired,” said Lightning head coach Kyle Sedgwick. “Lacombe came out swinging and we had to get our legs going before we got a couple of big plays.

“Earlier, it seemed like every time we got a big play we took a penalty, but our defence held us in there, which is impressive considering they (Rams)

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have a good running back and a quarterback with a good arm. Our defence held us in until our offence got going, which hopefully is not going to be an ongoing problem. Tonight it was, but we found a way.”

Kaden Hall scored on a 17-yard run early in the third quarter and quarterback Eric Thomson hooked up with Josh Patterson on a 40-yard pass-andrun play for a touchdown four minutes later.

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ning attack with a two-run touchdown run midway through the fourth quarter and Arias added his fifth convert of the evening.

Burzuk led all rushers with 88 yards on 11 carries, while Thomson completed five of 13 passes for 133 yards. Ryan Neamtu was the Lightning’s top receiver with two catches for 60 yards.

Mustapha Yekini, Brandon Rees and Layton Barisenkoff also operated under the Lightning centre late in the contest and combined to complete five of six passes for minus-three yards.

“Tonight, everyone who dressed got into the game, which is tough to do the way our league is and how competitive it is,” said Sedgwick.

Lacombe quarterback Jonathan Ericson, whose team fell to 0-3, was good on seven of 15 pass attempts for 48 yards, his primary target being Lucas Wessner who gained 34 yards on four receptions. Logan Ellis paced the Rams ground attack with 45 yards on nine carries.

The Lightning are idle until next Friday when they face the Notre Dame Cougars, who take on the Lindsay Thurber Raiders tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Great Chief Park. ● Sedgwick took great pride in his team’s performance last week at Medicine Hat. “They have a smaller roster, but that’s a program that has produced six current CFLers,” said the Lightning sideline boss.

“It’s a strong program down there and they were in the (Tier 2) provincial final last year against (Grande Prairie) St. Joseph’s.

“Those are the games we want to play. We need to play teams that we’re maybe going to see in provincials.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Flames edge Avs in defensive battle ORTIO STOPS 35 SHOTS, JOORIS SCORES LONE GOAL AS FLAMES SHUT OUT AVALANCHE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Flames 1 Avalanche 0 DENVER — Joni Ortio earned the shutout on Thursday with some help from his blue liners.

Ortio stopped all 35 shots he faced as the Calgary Flames blanked the Colorado Avalanche 1-0 in NHL pre-season action.

After getting off to a slow start, Ortio was at his best in the third period as Colorado turned on the pressure in search of the tying goal — outshooting the Flames 14-6 in the final 20 minutes.

“Pucks were bouncing on me in the first, but the guys were good clearing loose change in front and I think that settled me down,” said the 24-year-old Ortio.

Karri Ramo and Jonas Hiller had the night off while 23-year-old netminder Kent Simpson served as backup.

Josh Jooris scored the lone goal at 13:50 of the first period for the Flames (1-2-0), with 2015 second-round pick Rasmus Andersson picking up the assist.

“I just took it to the net and luckily got my own rebound,” said the 25-yearold Jooris.

Jooris, who had two shots on net in 12:54 of playing time, was making his pre-season debut after sitting out split-

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Colorado Avalanche left wing Cody McLeod tries to shoot puck past Calgary Flames defenseman Ryan Wilson, Avalanche center Matt Duchene, Flames defenseman Rasmus Andersson and Avalanche right wing Jack Skille as Flames goalie Joni Ortio watches during the third period of an exhibition NHL game Thursday, in Denver. Calgary won 1-0. squad games against the Edmonton Oilers.

“I felt good today, good win for the guys,” said Jooris. “It was a defensive battle.”

Defenceman Kenny Morrison led all

Calgary skaters in ice time with 24:43, including 6:30 of that on special teams.

Veteran blue liner Francois Beauchemin had a game-high 24:46 of ice time for the Avalanche.

Reto Berra made 24 saves for Colo-

rado (1-1-0).

Calgary went 0 for 5 on the power play while the Avalanche failed to score on four chances with the man advantage.

Sick’s homecoming couldn’t have worked out better When Jody Sick decided to return A hockey,” he said. home it was a gift the RDC Kings never The 20-year-old native of Red Deer expected. played the last two seasons with the Sick left Topeka RoadRunners of Camrose Kodiaks of the AJHL and still the North American Hockey League had a year of eligibility remaining. with the idea of returning home and However, he asked for a trade at the going to school. During his trip home end of last season as he felt he needhe received a text mesed more exposure to get a U.S. sage from Kings assisscholarship as a 20-year-old. tant coach Jeff Den“I talked with a former teamham asking if he’d be mate (Tanner Lomsnes) who interested in trying played in the North American out for the Kings. He League and got a scholarship. I jumped at the idea. felt it would be a good opportuHe arrived at RDC nity for me, but once I was there early last week, regisI decided to move on and go to tered in Open Studies school. I must admit I was also a as he looks to get into little homesick and wanted to go Commerce, and attendto school closer to home.” ed one Kings practice Kings head coach Trevor prior to playing last Keeper couldn’t have happier DANNY Thursday in a 2-1 loss with Sick’s decision.

RODE to the Camrose Au“It’s nice to have him here. gustana Vikings. He We were looking for a right LOCAL SPORTS saw limited ice time, winger, plus we had an injury on but didn’t look out of that side. He has a man’s body at place. He also dressed for the Kings six-foot-four and 210-pounds so will fit 2-1 shootout loss to the Innisfail Eagles in nicely. I also talked with Boris (Koon Saturday at SAIT. diaks GM/head coach Rybalka) to get “It was good to get a couple of some feedback on him and Boris spoke games under my belt. I hadn’t done highly of him.” anything for a couple of weeks and was Sick had a solid season last year a little rusty. But I got better as the with the Kodiaks, finishing with 18 (first) game went on and I was better goals and 21 assists in 57 games. on Saturday.”

Sick came up through the Red Deer As for the calibre of play, he liked Minor Hockey Association playing what he saw. with the Red Deer Rebels White ban“It was good. The guys are bigger tam AAA team in 2009-10 and the IROC and stronger and it’s better than junior Chiefs in 2010-11. He had a spleen in-

jury prior to his first season of midget AAA and didn’t make the Optimist Chiefs. He joined the Leduc Oil Kings, who hosted the Telus Cup championship that season. The Chiefs won the national title as they did the following season and this time Sick was on the roster.

“That was a tremendous experience,” he said. “It was a special feeling.”

Sick had been listed by the Prince Alberta Raiders of the WHL when he was 15 and attended their camp, but decided he wanted to go the scholarship route.

He had a cup of coffee with the Okotoks Oilers in 2011-12 and 2012-13 and with the Drayton Valley Thunder in 2012-13. He joined the Kodiaks for the 2013-14 season.

Sick will play on the right side with the Kings and possibly on the third or fourth line, which is fine with him.

“I usually play the wing and really I’m not worried where I play as long as I’m playing. I just need to work hard and focus on my grades.”

Sick felt comfortable joining the Kings as he played minor hockey with defenceman Kirk Johnson and skated with several members of the Kings during the off season.

He will also be around for a few years.

“I’ll see how things go, but I will be here for a while. I could transfer down the road … we’ll see.”

Sick will likely be in action tonight

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Jody Sick’s idea to return home was a blessing as the Red Deer native is getting a chance to suit up for the RDC Kings this season. as the Kings open their ACAC regular season as they host the Concordia University of Edmonton Thunder at 7 p.m. at the Penhold Regional multiplex.

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.

Leafs captain Phaneuf shows Kings volleyball team opens leadership style by taking tourney with win over Alumni Marner under his wing

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — On the ice at the junior level, Mitch Marner is an electrifying talent who can put up points seemingly at will. Off the ice at his first NHL training camp with the Toronto Maple Leafs, he’s far more subdued.

“When I came in here I was really shy,” Marner said. “I didn’t really know how to talk to anyone. You’re kind of scared to talk to the older guys, the vets.”

So one of those older vets took it upon himself to make a connection to Marner. On the Leafs’ flight to Halifax at the start of camp, captain Dion Phaneuf invited Marner to sit next to him and spent more than an hour talking to the 18-year-old about his family, his draft experience and his time with the OHL’s London Knights.

“For him to come up right away and introduce himself to me was kind of special,” Marner said. “He said he’s always going to be there for me and help me out whenever I need it. It’s special having that kind of bond with a captain of an NHL team.”

Phaneuf is often maligned for his leadership style, but new coach Mike Babcock spelled out in no uncertain terms that even though he’s an easy target, the 30-year-old was his captain.

“I think he’s got great intentions,” Babcock said. “He’s our leader right now and we can really help him with the leadership side of things and we’ll help him be the best he can be just like everyone else.”

Reaching out to Marner was a peek into Phaneuf’s behind-the-scenes approach with teammates that fans don’t ever get to see and rarely hear about.

“I’ve been in his shoes, and that’s why I do it,” Phaneuf said. “I know coming into camp at a young age, it can be intimidating. … For a new guy coming into his first camp, there could

be some nerves. I just wanted to get to know him a little bit better, and I did that.”

Phaneuf, who’s going into his sixth season wearing the “C” for Toronto, doesn’t consider what he did for Marner anything special. He said he does it all the time.

“For me, it’s nothing to do with being the captain,” Phaneuf said. “It’s about trying to welcome him into our group and make him feel as comfortable as possible to allow him to have a really good camp.”

Marner has high expectations as the fourth pick in the draft, even though he’ll likely go back to the Knights for at least another season. The Leafs want their top prospects to develop before they reach the NHL, and the six-foot, 170-pound Marner has some growing to do before he should be physically ready.

Mentally, Marner took a big step thanks to Phaneuf’s gesture.

“It kind of opened my eyes that if I go back to junior that’s the kind of leader I want to be, introducing guys around and kind of taking them under my wing,” Marner said.

Kings 3 Alumni 1 The Alumni is never an easy test for the RDC Kings volleyball squad, especially with it being their first match of the season.

Still, the Kings jumped into a 2-0 lead and went on to down the Alumni 25-20, 25-20, 20-25, 25-22 in the opening match of the ACAC South Challenge tournament at RDC Thursday.

“The first couple of games we were crisp, then they started to play a little better and we went away,” said Kings head coach Aaron Schulha. “We started to mix our lineup a bit, but the main difference was first contact.

“I thought we started out crisp in terms of our serving and passing and then it kind of went south. They started to serve tougher and we started to get cute at times and you can’t do that against a veteran team.”

The Kings didn’t make a lot of errors in the first two sets, outside of the few missed serves. On the other side, the Alumni looked a bit rusty, but once they found a rhythm they didn’t give much away, except for once again their serves.

“We were a bit rusty, but they have a good looking squad … Aaron did a good job recruiting,” said former Kings star Tim Finnigan, who is an assistant coach with this year’s RDC squad, along with Mitch Irvine, who was also with the Alumni.

“Mitch and I knew some of their tendencies from practice and coaching them, but they still stepped up,” he said.

“What I did notice was some of the second-year guys have shown a lot growth, which is exciting to see.”

Finnigan admitted he missed playing, but it was also fun to be with the Alumni.

“I’m friends with some of the older guys, but I look across the net and see

a lot of guys I played with.

“I know it upsets me not winning,” he added with a laugh.

“It was a bit strange to look across the net and see Tim on the other side,” said Schulha. “He was our leader, so this is a bit of a new learning curve for this group. But it’s an exciting group with a lot of athleticism. We have a lot of weapons, now it’s a matter of finding how they can work together.”

Setter Luke Brisbane looked sharp and was named the Kings player of the match, finishing with 29 assists, five digs, two blocks and a kill. Regan Fathers added seven kills, five aces, a block and three digs while new middle Tommy Lyons had six kills, three aces and three blocks.

Irvine led the Alumni with 12 kills, two blocks, seven digs and two aces, while Darcee Froese had seven kills and three digs.

Chris Wowchuk had six kills, an ace and five digs and libero Pat McIntyre had 11 digs.

Action resumes at 11 a.m. today with SAIT facing Camrose Augustana, while Briercrest faces College of the Rockies at 1 p.m. and Medicine Hat meets Vancouver Island University of Nanaimo at 3 p.m.

SAIT and the Alumni clash at 6 p.m. and the Kings meet VIU at 8 p.m. in the main gym. Briercrest and Camrose clash at 6 p.m. and Medicine Hat takes on College of the Rockies at 8 p.m. in the Kevin Sirois Gym. On Sunday in the Main Gym, the Alumni meets Briercrest at 10 a.m. and Medicine Hat at 6 p.m., with the Kings facing College of the Rockies at noon and Augustana at 8 p.m. As well, Briercrest takes on VIU at 4 p.m.

In the KS Gym SAIT faces VIU at 10 a.m., Medicine Hat meets Augustana at noon and SAIT clashes with College of the Rockies at 6 p.m.

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

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 25, 2015 B3

Giants hold off Redskins for first win

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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New York Giants running back Rashad Jennings (23) rushes past Washington Redskins’ Keenan Robinson (52) during the first half an NFL game Thursday, in East Rutherford, N.J.

Giants 32 Redskins 21 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Giants do know how to hold onto a lead.

New York didn’t let Washington steal a victory late, finishing off a 3221 decision Thursday night on Odell Beckham Jr.’s 30-yard touchdown catch and Rueben Randle’s 41-yarder.

The Giants fell apart in the fourth quarter of losses to Dallas and Atlanta. This time, New York (1-2) dominated most of the action against the injury-plagued Redskins (1-2), who lost veteran cornerback DeAngelo Hall to a right leg injury that looked serious.

“We won,” Giants coach Tom Coughlin said. “Smile.”

The Giants scored in nearly every way possible, beginning with Rashad Jennings blocking Tress Way’s punt for a safety on Washington’s opening series. Andre Williams scored on a 1-yard run, Josh Brown kicked three field goals, and Beckham toasted Bashaud Breeland to settle matters.

Randle had a 41-yard TD catch in the closing minutes, after which Washington’s Rashad Ross returned the kickoff 101 yards for the final score.

New York also led at halftime and through three quarters of its losses to the Cowboys and Falcons.

“Players need the reinforcement that comes with closing out the game with a win,” Coughlin said.

Prince Amukamara and Uani Unga had interceptions of Kirk Cousins, who struggled once more against New York. Last season, he threw four picks in a loss to New York.

Washington, which has lost five straight to the Giants, got field goals of 44 and 37 yards from Dustin Hopkins, but any thoughts of a comeback ended when Matt Jones fumbled on his way into the end zone with 9 1-2 minutes remaining. A late 4-yard TD pass to Chris Thompson and 2-point conversion brought the deficit to 11, then Randle made his scoring catch.

The victory provides some optimism for the Giants in the muddled NFC East, where Dallas is 2-0 but missing several stars, and Philadelphia is 0-2.

“I felt bad for the first two games,” said Eli Manning, who struggled in key situations in the two losses.

“We were right there, could easily have won. To not be at our best in final minutes of a game is frustrating.

You have to want to get back in that moment, have success and feel good about yourselves.”

Manning was coolly efficient, finishing 23 of 31 for 279 yards. Beckham had seven receptions for 79 yards, and Randle had seven for 116.

The Giants were super-aggressive with the blitz, with inconsistent results. Cousins’ mobility helped him avoid sacks, but the sloppy Redskins couldn’t find the end zone until it was too late.

New York, meanwhile, was scoring with variety. Jennings, who rushed for only 32 yards on the night, surged through to block Way’s punt out of the side of the end zone for a quick 2-0 lead.

“Everyone has to contribute,” Coughlin said, “including starters (on special teams).”

That margin increased to 9-0 after Amukamara jumped Pierre Garcon’s route and picked off Cousins’ pass deep in Washington territory. Williams rushed a yard for the TD four plays later.

Big plays by Randle (30-yard reception) and Daniel Fells (one-handed catch for 23 yards on third down) set up Josh Brown’s field goals of 35 and 36 yards in the first half. Brown made a 48-yard in the third period.

New York was missing five starters, including top draft pick Ereck Flowers at left tackle and cornerback Dominque Rodgers-Cromartie. Washington was hit with several injuries during the game, the worst of which appeared to be Hall’s. He had to be helped to the sideline, unable to put any weight on the leg. The team said he had a toe injury.

Former Eskimos A healthy quarterback becoming an Curran grateful for increasingly rare sight in the CFL chance with Lions

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WINNIPEG — Bo Levi Mitchell hasn’t resorted to tucking a fourleaf clover in his shoe or clipping a lucky rabbit’s foot to his uniform.

Heading into Friday’s game against the Blue Bombers, the Calgary Stampeders quarterback is one of only three pivots who has avoided injury and started every game for his team this season.

Despite his counterparts falling like dominoes across the CFL, Mitchell said Thursday he’s not about to change his style.

“I just go out there and play the way I play football,” he said, noting he missed three games last year because of injury.

“I’m not going to change anything up. I’m not going to tell myself not to run more or anything like that.”

Ottawa’s Henry Burris has also stayed healthy this season, while backup Trevor Harris has had the reins from the get-go in Toronto with No. 1 Ricky Ray recovering from off-season shoulder surgery.

Ray is back practising.

The number of injured quarterbacks has climbed every year since 2011, according to CFL statistician Steve Daniel.

Going into this weekend’s action, the nine clubs have started 19 different quarterbacks because of injuries or performance, Daniel said, adding Bomber Matt Nichols is counted twice as he’s started for Edmonton and Winnipeg.

That number will climb to 20 after B.C. plays this weekend, with Jonathon Jennings expected to start for the Lions in place of recently injured John Beck. It moves to 21 when Hamilton finishes its bye week and has to use a new starter for Zach Collaros, who’s out for the season with a knee injury.

Daniel said in a phone interview he dug up stats going back to 2000 and a high of 22 different quarterbacks were used in 2007.

He also calculated the number of quarterbacks who specifically missed playing time because of injury and it’s been rising the past five years.

Five quarterbacks were injured in 2011 (the lowest in the past 15 years), six in 2012, eight in 2013, 11 last year and it’s up to 12 this season, including Ray. “Since I’ve been up here, it’s always been you need two quarterbacks to win a championship,” said Nichols, a six-year veteran acquired Sept. 2 in a trade with Edmonton.

“It’s a long season, take a lot of hits. I think I took we counted 18 hits last week. As a quarterback, you take your punishment. Things are going to happen, you just need to be able to have someone there that can be the next man up.”

Nichols is a league-high fourth starting QB for Winnipeg this season after No. 1 Drew Willy went down with a knee injury on Aug. 9.

“As an offensive lineman, it’s always frustrating to see those guys go down, even if they’re not

SURREY, B.C. — Rennie Curran is already hearing it from his former teammates. Those chirps from the Edmonton Eskimos could get a lot louder very soon.

The free-agent linebacker signed with the B.C. Lions this week and says he’s ready to go if his new club needs him when it meets his old one at Commonwealth Stadium on Saturday.

“I talked to a bunch of the guys (on Edmonton).

They all know that I’m over here,” the 26-year-old said with a smile. “It’s real small network of guys in the CFL.” A third-round pick of the Tennessee Titans back in 2010, Curran spent the last two seasons with the Eskimos, amassing 123 defensive tackles, two sacks and two interceptions in 34 games.

“It’s definitely going to be weird,” said the native of Snellville, Ga. “Just looking at the film as an enemy, as opposed to preRennie Curran paring for another team is definitely strange — seeing my guys who I became close with, knowing I’m going to have to go up against them.

“I know there’s going to be a lot of smack talking, but it’s going to be fun as well.”

Curran decided to try his luck at landing an NFL job after his contract expired with Edmonton after last season, but when nothing materialized he looked north of the border for work once again.

“It’s been really hard. I got tired of looking at weights,” he said. “I’ve been working out with other free agents, just staying motivated, working as if I’m going to get a call the next day. I’m glad that I did stay ready because the opportunity did present itself and now I’m ready to go.”

WEB.COM TOUR FINALS Curran joins a Lions defence that was already struggling before it lost standout linebacker Solomon Elimimian to a torn Achilles tendon last month.

B.C. (4-7) heads into the tilt against Edmonton (8-4) second-last in total yards allowed per game at 399.6 while giving up and average of nearly 29 points. The Lions also rank at the bottom of the league by a wide COLUMBUS, Ohio — Martin Flores birdied his margin in rushing yards against (127.6) and are third- final hole for a 4-under 67 and a share of the firstworst against the pass (272.0). round lead with Alex Aragon on Thursday in the “He played really well when he was up here. He Web.com Tour Finals’ Nationwide Children’s Hospihad a great career at (the University of Georgia) and tal Championship. was very well-respected by our coaches who used to Flores and Aragon each had five birdies and a boevaluate him and play against him,” said B.C. head gey on Ohio State’s difficult Scarlet Course. coach Jeff Tedford. “He’s a guy who brings a lot to The tournament is the third of four events in the the table, a lot of skill, a very good player. We’re anx- series for the top 75 players from the Web.com Tour ious to increase the learning curve for him so he can money list, Nos. 126-200 in the PGA Tour’s FedEx be a part of what we’re doing.”

Cup standings and non-members who earned enough Lions running back Andrew Harris said he’s glad money to have placed in the top 200 had they been the five-foot-11 230-pound Curran is on his side now eligible to receive points.

The top 25 players on Web.com regular-season after having to face him the last two years.

“He’s definitely a house. You just look at him, he’s money list earned PGA Tour cards. They are coma monster,” said Harris. “Hopefully he can help us peting against each other for PGA Tour priority, with out and get in quickly and make some plays.”

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Stampeders head coach and general John Hufnagel is thankful he’s still fielding his No. 1 pivot, but sympathized with the plight of his coaching peers.

“Some teams are down to their third and fourth quarterbacks, and no matter how much you plan you’re not going to have that much depth at the position,” Hufnagel said.

“It’s very, very unfortunate.

We need our star players on the field.”

The defending Grey Cup champions are 24-5 when Mitchell starts and have kept him healthy despite starting eight different offensive linemen this season.

Calgary goes into Friday’s game as heavy favourites, having defeated the Bombers twice this season and 12 of the past 13 meetings.

Winnipeg is also playing in a short week and had only one full practice since last Sunday’s 35-14 loss in Montreal. Its record in games with only four days between is 1-1 this season and 1-8 since 2012.

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Winnipeg receiver Nick Moore is back after missing one game …

Linebacker Ian Wild rejoined the Bombers this week and should play at least on special teams.

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Aragon finished 68th on the Web.com Tour regular-season money list and has earned $4,421 in the first two series events.

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Moose Jaw 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 2 Regina 1 0 1 0 0 1 3 0 Saskatoon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Prince Albert 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Brandon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Swift Current 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Lethbridge 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Medicine Hat 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Calgary 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Edmonton 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kootenay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Red Deer 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Vancouver 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Victoria 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kamloops 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kelowna 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Prince George 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Everett 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Portland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Seattle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Spokane 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tri-City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 z-league title y-conference title d-division leader x-clinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top two positions per conference regardless of points a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns

Pt 0 0 0 0 0

Friday’s games Swift Current at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Calgary at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.

Everett at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Portland at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Kamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p Seattle at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

2 2

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1 2

1 0

1 0

2 2

4 9

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Edmonton 3 3 0 0 6 10 5 Los Angeles 2 2 0 0 4 8 3 San Jose 2 1 0 1 3 4 1 Vancouver 2 1 1 0 2 1 4 Calgary 3 1 2 0 2 4 7 Anaheim 1 0 0 1 1 4 5 Arizona 2 0 1 1 1 3 8 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Wednesday’s Games Ottawa 5, Buffalo 2 N.Y. Islanders 2, New Jersey 1 Detroit 4, Chicago 1 Nashville 5, Tampa Bay 2 Edmonton 3, Winnipeg 2 Thursday’s Games Boston 4, N.Y. Rangers 3, SO Washington 4, Montreal 3, SO Minnesota 5, Columbus 2 Detroit 6, Pittsburgh 1 St. Louis 6, Dallas 0 Calgary 1, Colorado 0

Thursday’s summary

Sunday’s games Red Deer at Edmonton, 4 p.m.

Everett at Prince George, 6 p.m.

Kelowna at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

National Hockey League Preseason EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Toronto 3 3 0 0 6 Boston 3 3 0 0 6 Detroit 3 2 0 1 5 Florida 3 2 1 0 4 Ottawa 3 1 1 1 3 Buffalo 2 1 1 0 2 Montreal 2 0 0 2 2 Tampa Bay 2 0 1 1 1

GF 10 8 14 8 9 5 4 4

GA 5 4 7 9 10 7 6 8

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts 3 2 0 1 5 3 2 1 0 4 3 2 1 0 4 3 2 1 0 4 3 1 1 1 3 4 1 2 1 3 2 0 2 0 0 3 0 3 0 0

GF 7 12 8 9 12 7 3 4

GA 5 9 8 9 12 12 9 10

GF GA 15 9 12 5 8 5 5 5 6 8

NHL Preseason Scoring Leaders G 4 2 1 1 0 0 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 2 2

Nail Yakupov, Edm Filip Forsberg, Nash Kristopher Letang, Pgh Roman Josi, Nash Kevin Klein, NYR Ryan Ellis, Nash Tomas Tatar, Det Jordan Weal, LA Oscar Lindberg, NYR Nick Shore, LA Ryan Dzingel, Ott Matt Hendricks, Edm Brian Gibbons, NYR John Tavares, NYI Sidney Crosby, Pgh Jake Gardiner, Tor Erik Karlsson, Ott Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Viktor Arvidsson, Nash Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Edm R.J. Umberger, Pha Brad Richards, Det Mat Bodie, NYR David Pastrnak, Bos Shayne Gostisbehere, Pha Colton Sissons, Nash

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Toronto, 14-7.

GB — 3 11 12 1/2 15

Central Division W L Pct 89 63 .586 78 74 .513 75 76 .497 72 81 .471 71 81 .467

GB — 11 13 1/2 17 1/2 18

West Division W L Pct 83 69 .546 80 73 .523 78 74 .513 74 79 .484 64 89 .418

GB — 3 1/2 5 9 1/2 19 1/2

x-Kansas City Minnesota Cleveland Chicago Detroit

New York Houston Los Angeles Minnesota Baltimore Cleveland

Friday’s Games N.Y. Islanders (ss) at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.

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

Chicago at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

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

Buffalo at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Arizona at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

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Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Toronto 87 65 .572 New York 84 68 .553 Baltimore 76 76 .500 Tampa Bay 75 78 .490 Boston 72 80 .474

Texas Houston Los Angeles Seattle Oakland x-clinched division

Flames 1, Avalanche 0 First Period 1. Calgary, Jooris 1 (Andersson) 13:50.

Penalties — Morrison Cgy (holding) 2:03, Stuart Col (holding) 4:44.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — McLeod Col (holding) 2:58, Col Bench (too many men) 8:11, Raymond Cgy (holding) 13:47, MacKinnon Col (tripping) 18:15.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Stajan Cgy (tripping) 8:01, Mitchell Col (hooking) 11:43, Bollig Cgy (hooking) 16:10.

Shots on goal Calgary 9 10 6 — 25 Colorado 11 10 14 — 35 Goal — Calgary: Ortio (W, 1-0-0) Colorado: Berra (L, 0-1-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Calgary: 0-5 Colorado: 0-4.

Saturday’s games Kootenay at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Regina, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Kelowna at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Portland at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

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

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Nashville 4 3 0 1 7 St. Louis 3 2 1 0 4 Minnesota 3 2 1 0 4 Colorado 2 1 1 0 2 Chicago 2 1 1 0 2

Winnipeg Dallas

Saturday’s Games Columbus at Pittsburgh, 2 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders vs. Carolina at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 3 p.m.

Minnesota vs. Edmonton at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 3 p.m.

Boston at Detroit, 5 p.m.

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

Buffalo at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Montreal at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Dallas, 6 p.m.

St. Louis at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Anaheim at San Jose, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Thursday’s results Moose Jaw 3 Regina 1

Washington Philadelphia N.Y. Islanders Pittsburgh N.Y. Rangers Columbus Carolina New Jersey

B4

Wild Card W L 84 68 80 73 78 74 78 74 76 76 75 76

Pct WCGB .553 — .523 — .513 1 1/2 .513 1 1/2 .500 3 1/2 .497 4

Wednesday’s Games Detroit 7, Chicago White Sox 4 L.A. Angels 6, Houston 5 Baltimore 4, Washington 3 Toronto 4, N.Y. Yankees 0 Tampa Bay 6, Boston 2 Minnesota 4, Cleveland 2 Kansas City 4, Seattle 3, 10 innings Texas 10, Oakland 3

Today

New York Washington Miami Atlanta Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 86 67 .562 78 74 .513 66 87 .431 62 91 .405 57 96 .373

GB — 7 1/2 20 24 29

z-St. Louis z-Pittsburgh Chicago Milwaukee Cincinnati

Central Division W L Pct 97 56 .634 93 60 .608 89 63 .586 64 89 .418 63 89 .414

GB — 4 7 1/2 33 33 1/2

West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 87 65 .572 San Francisco 79 72 .523 Arizona 73 80 .477 San Diego 71 81 .467 Colorado 63 90 .412 z-clinched playoff berth

z-Pittsburgh z-Chicago

Wild Card W L Pct 93 60 .608 89 63 .586

GB — 7 1/2 14 1/2 16 24 1/2

WCGB — —

Saturday

Wednesday’s Games Baltimore 4, Washington 3 Atlanta 6, N.Y. Mets 3 Miami 4, Philadelphia 3, 11 innings Milwaukee 4, Chicago Cubs 1 St. Louis 10, Cincinnati 2 Pittsburgh 13, Colorado 7 L.A. Dodgers 4, Arizona 1 San Diego 5, San Francisco 4 Thursday’s Games L.A. Dodgers 6, Arizona 3 Pittsburgh 5, Colorado 4 Baltimore 5, Washington 4 N.Y. Mets 6, Cincinnati 4 Miami 1, Philadelphia 0 St. Louis 7, Milwaukee 3 San Francisco at San Diego, late

Thursday’s Games Texas 8, Oakland 1 Baltimore 5, Washington 4 N.Y. Yankees 3, Chicago White Sox 2 Tampa Bay 4, Boston 2 Cleveland 6, Minnesota 3 Kansas City 10, Seattle 4 Friday’s Games Chicago White Sox (Rodon 8-6) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 5-9), 5:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 8-8) at Toronto (Dickey 1011), 5:07 p.m.

Minnesota (Pelfrey 6-10) at Detroit (Boyd 1-5), 5:08 p.m.

Baltimore (Gausman 3-6) at Boston (R.Hill 1-0), 5:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Carrasco 13-11) at Kansas City (Volquez 13-8), 6:10 p.m.

Texas (Gallardo 12-11) at Houston (Kazmir 7-10), 6:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Leake 10-9) at Oakland (S.Gray 13-7), 8:05 p.m.

Seattle (Nuno 1-3) at L.A. Angels (Richards 14-11), 8:05 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Texas at Houston, 11:05 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Baltimore at Boston, 2:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at N.Y. Yankees, 2:05 p.m.

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

Minnesota at Detroit, 5:08 p.m.

Cleveland at Kansas City, 5:10 p.m.

Seattle at L.A. Angels, 7:05 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. MiCabrera Det 113 410 61 138 .337 Bogaerts Bos 146 574 77 185 .322 Altuve Hou 145 598 78 188 .314 Brantley Cle 135 523 68 164 .314 NCruz Sea 144 558 86 172 .308 LCain KC 134 527 98 162 .307 Hosmer KC 149 565 93 172 .304 Fielder Tex 148 574 74 174 .303 Kipnis Cle 133 532 81 160 .301 Donaldson Tor 150 589 117 177 .301 Home Runs CDavis, Baltimore, 43 NCruz, Seattle, 42 Trout, Los Angeles, 40 Donaldson, Toronto, 39 JMartinez, Detroit, 37 Bautista, Toronto, 36 Ortiz, Boston, 36 Pujols, Los Angeles, 36.

Runs Batted In Donaldson, Toronto, 120 CDavis, Baltimore, 110 Bautista, Toronto, 105 Encarnacion, Toronto, 105 KMorales, Kansas City, 105 Ortiz, Boston, 101 JMartinez, Detroit, 98.

Pitching Keuchel, Houston, 18-8 FHernandez, Seattle, 18-9 Price, Toronto, 17-5 McHugh, Houston, 17-7 Lewis, Texas, 17-8 Eovaldi, New York, 14-3 Buehrle,

Friday’s Games Pittsburgh (G.Cole 17-8) at Chicago Cubs (Lester 10-11), 12:20 p.m.

Philadelphia (Eickhoff 1-3) at Washington (Zimmermann 13-8), 5:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Weber 0-1) at Miami (Fernandez 5-0), 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 8-7) at Cincinnati (DeSclafani 9-11), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Bolsinger 6-4) at Colorado (Hale 4-5), 6:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (A.Pena 2-0) at St. Louis (C.Martinez 14-7), 6:15 p.m.

San Francisco (Leake 10-9) at Oakland (S.Gray 13-7), 8:05 p.m.

Arizona (R.De La Rosa 13-8) at San Diego (C.Kelly 0-0), 8:10 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 9:05 a.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 12:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Oakland, 12:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Cincinnati, 12:10 p.m.

Atlanta at Miami, 3:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at St. Louis, 3:15 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 4:10 p.m.

Arizona at San Diego, 4:40 p.m.

Hamilton Ottawa Toronto Montreal

CFL East Division W L T 8 4 0 7 4 0 6 5 0 5 6 0

West Division GP W L T Calgary 12 9 3 0 Edmonton 12 8 4 0 B.C. 11 4 7 0 Winnipeg 12 4 8 0 Saskatchewan 12 1 11 0

PF 410 254 277 242 PF 322 297 245 223 289

PA 246 286 322 210 PA 247 215 316 352 365

Pt 16 14 12 10 Pt 18 16 8 8 2

WEEK 14 Bye: Hamilton Friday’s game Calgary at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday’s games B.C. at Edmonton, 2 p.m.

Toronto at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Sunday’s game Montreal at Saskatchewan, 2 p.m.

WEEK 15 Bye: Toronto Thursday, Oct. 1 Montreal at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 2 Calgary at Hamilton, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 3 Edmonton at Winnipeg, 2 p.m.

Saskatchewan at B.C., 5 p.m.

Canadian Football League Scoring Leaders (x—scored two-point convert): TD C FG S Pt

J.Medlock, Ham 0 B.Bede, Mtl 0 R.Paredes, Cgy 0 G.Shaw, Edm 0 P.McCallum, Sask 0 L.Hajrullahu, Wpg 0 R.Leone, BC 0 C.Milo, Ott 0 x-Je.Johnson, Ott 8 R.Pfeffer, Tor 0 x-E.Rogers, Cgy 7 T.Gurley, Tor 7 x-A.Collie, BC 6 x-A.Harris, BC 6 x-K.Lawrence, Edm 6 D.Alvarado, Ott 0 K.Stafford, Edm 6 T.Toliver, Ham 6 x-R.Bagg, Sask 5 x-C.Marshall, Wpg 5 x-K.Elliott, Tor 5 B.Banks, Ham 5 A.Bowman, Edm 5 V.Hazleton, Tor 5 J.Mathews, Ham 5 x-B.Brohm, Wpg 4 x-H.Burris, Ott 4 x-J.Cornish, Cgy 4 x-C.Getzlaf, Sask 4 x-B.Grant, Ham 4 x-T.Harrison, Cgy 4

40 15 16 19 15 12 17 17 2 11 4 0 2 2 2 4 0 0 4 4 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 2

29 29 27 21 24 21 19 12 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

4 8 4 8 3 8 7 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 2 0 0 1.000 68 N.Y. Jets 2 0 0 1.000 51

131 110 101 90 90 83 81 54 50 49 46 42 38 38 38 37 36 36 34 34 32 30 30 30 30 26 26 26 26 26 26

PA 53 17

Miami Buffalo

1 1

1 1

0 0

.500 .500

37 59

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Harper Was 145 490 116 166 .339 DGordon Mia 136 576 78 190 .330 YEscobar Was 133 515 73 168 .326 Posey SF 141 518 72 168 .324 Goldschmidt Ari 150 540 96 172 .319 Pollock Ari 148 574 104 182 .317 Votto Cin 149 510 93 161 .316 DPeralta Ari 143 448 59 139 .310 LeMahieu Col 144 539 80 163 .302 Cervelli Pit 121 419 51 126 .301 Home Runs Harper, Washington, 41 Arenado, Colorado, 39 CaGonzalez, Colorado, 37 Frazier, Cincinnati, 35 Goldschmidt, Arizona, 31 Rizzo, Chicago, 30 Votto, Cincinnati, 29.

Runs Batted In Arenado, Colorado, 117 Goldschmidt, Arizona, 104 Bryant, Chicago, 98 Kemp, San Diego, 98 Harper, Washington, 95 McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 95 Rizzo, Chicago, 95.

Pitching Arrieta, Chicago, 20-6 Greinke, Los Angeles, 18-3 Bumgarner, San Francisco, 18-8 Wacha, St. Louis, 17-6 GCole, Pittsburgh, 17-8 Kershaw, Los Angeles, 15-7 CMartinez, St. Louis, 14-7.

33 54

W 1 1 0 0

South L T 1 0 1 0 2 0 2 0

Cincinnati Cleveland Pittsburgh Baltimore

W 2 1 1 0

North L T 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0

Pct 1.000 .500 .500 .000

PF 57 38 64 46

PA 32 45 46 56

Denver Oakland San Diego Kansas City

W 2 1 1 1

West L T 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0

Pct 1.000 .500 .500 .500

PF 50 50 52 51

PA 37 66 52 51

PF 47 78 55 34

PA 36 72 59 46

PF 50 44 40 38

PA 44 26 61 57

Jacksonville Tennessee Houston Indianapolis

Pct .500 .500 .000 .000

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Dallas 2 0 0 1.000 N.Y. Giants 1 2 0 .333 Washington 1 2 0 .333 Philadelphia 0 2 0 .000

Atlanta Carolina Tampa Bay New Orleans

W 2 2 1 0

South L T 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0

Pct 1.000 1.000 .500 .000

PF 32 56 37 21

PA 40 42 51 47

Green Bay Minnesota Detroit Chicago

Arizona St. Louis San Francisco Seattle

W 2 1 0 0

North L T 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0

W 2 1 1 0

West L T 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0

Pct 1.000 .500 .000 .000 Pct 1.000 .500 .500 .000

PF 58 29 44 46 PF 79 44 38 48

PA 40 36 59 79 PA 42 55 46 61

Thursday’s Game N.Y. Giants 32, Washington 21 Sunday’s Games Atlanta at Dallas, 11 a.m.

Indianapolis at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Houston, 11 a.m.

San Diego at Minnesota, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 11 a.m.

Oakland at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

Cincinnati at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at New England, 11 a.m.

New Orleans at Carolina, 11a.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Jets, 11 a.m.

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

Chicago at Seattle, 2:25 p.m.

Buffalo at Miami, 2:25 p.m.

Denver at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Monday’s Game Kansas City at Green Bay, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 1 Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 8:25 p.m.

NBA — Named Jennifer Chun senior vice-president, global media distribution.

LOS ANGELES LAKERS — Agreed to terms with F Metta World Peace on a one-year contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS — Signed CB Bryce Callahan to the practice squad.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Promoted Tanya Dreesen to vice-president of partnerships activation & special projects, Bryan Harper to vice-president of content & production, Phil Huebner to vice-president of ticket sales & operations, Dannon Hulskotter to vice-president of marketing & fan engagement, Chad Lundeen to vice-president of operations & facilities, J.P. Paul to vice-president of corporate development & guest relations, John Penhollow to vice-president of Corporate & Technology Partnerships and Kate Shibilski to vice-president of finance & controller.

KANE INVESTIGATION

Lawyer for woman accusing Kane of sexual assault abruptly quits case over evidence bag The lawyer for a woman accusing Chicago Blackhawks star Patrick Kane of sexual assault abruptly quit the case Thursday night, saying he’s no longer comfortable representing the woman because of how her mother reported finding an evidence bag they believed once held the woman’s rape kit.

Thomas Eoannou told reporters he believes there were, what he called, “fabrications” in the story of how the bag was found. And he added that he’s no longer sure if the bag ever contained evidence from the investigation.

● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer Parkland at Central Alberta Selects, 10:15 a.m., Lacombe; Western Central Tigers at Olds Grizzlys, 1 p.m. ● Midget AAA preseason hockey: Fort Saskatchewan Rangers at Red Deer Optimist Chiefs, 3 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Central Alberta Selects at Red Deer Steel Kings, 3:15 p.m., Kinsmen A; Foothills Bisons at Olds Grizzlys, 3:30 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie Thunder at Blackfalds Wranglers, 3:30 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Edmonton Oil Kings, 4 p.m., Rexall Place.

Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF New York 28 14 8 6 49 Columbus 30 13 9 8 49 New England 30 13 10 7 43 D.C. 30 13 11 6 37 Toronto 29 12 13 4 49 Montreal 28 11 11 6 40 Orlando 30 9 13 8 37 New York City 30 9 14 7 44 Philadelphia 30 9 15 6 38 Chicago 30 7 17 6 37

GA 32 49 41 37 50 39 51 50 47 48

Pt 48 47 46 45 40 39 35 34 33 27

Western Conference GP W L T GF 29 15 11 3 40 28 14 9 5 41 30 13 9 8 49 30 14 13 3 38 29 12 9 8 44 29 11 10 8 29 30 11 12 7 37 30 10 12 8 37 29 10 11 8 35 29 8 11 10 27

GA 31 34 36 32 40 34 36 39 41 33

Pt 48 47 47 45 44 41 40 38 38 34

Vancouver Dallas Los Angeles Seattle Kansas City Portland San Jose Houston Salt Lake Colorado

Wednesday’s results Montreal 2 Chicago 1 Houston 1 Kansas City 0 Friday’s games Orlando at New York, 5 p.m.

Saturday’s games Chicago at Toronto, noon D.C. at Montreal, 3 p.m.

Portland at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at New England, 5:30 p.m.

Colorado at Houston, 6:30 p.m.

New York City at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s games Seattle at Kansas City, 3 p.m.

Salt Lake at San Jose, 5 p.m.

Dallas at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, October 2 New York City at D.C., 5 p.m.

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL — Suspended Arizona minor league SS Kal Simmons 50 games after testing positive for Amphetamine, a stimulant in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Selected the contract of OF David Lough from Norfolk (IL). Recalled RHP Dylan Bundy from Norfolk and placed him on the 60-day DL. BOSTON RED SOX — Named Mike Hazen senior vice-president-general manager.

National League MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Named Jamie Norton vice-president-finance and accounting.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association

● College men’s volleyball: RDC Kings ACAC South tournament; games at 10 a.m., noon, 4, 6 and 8 p.m. ● Peewee football: Drumheller Terrapins at Red Deer Hornets, 11 a.m., Great Chief Park. ● High school cross-country running: Hunting Hills meet, 11 a.m. start at River Bend Recreation Area. ● Peewee AA hockey: Medicine Hat Hounds at Red Deer Parkland Chiefs, 11:30 a.m., Kinsmen A. ● Bantam football: Ponoka Broncs at Lindsay Thurber Raiders, 3:30 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Bantam AA hockey: Airdrie Lightning at Olds Grizzlys, 3:30 p.m.; Red Deer Steel Kings at West Central Tigers, 5:15 p.m., Sylvan Lake. ● WHL: Edmonton Oil Kings at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● AJHL: Calgary Canucks at Olds Grizzlys, 7 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills Thrashers at Red Deer Vipers, 8 p.m., Arena; Mountainview Colts at Ponoka Stampeders, 8 p.m. ● College women’s preseason hockey: SAIT Trojans at RDC Queens, 9:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

Sunday

Football GP 12 11 11 11

● College men’s volleyball: RDC Kings ACAC South tournament; games at 11 a.m., 1, 3, 6 and 8 p.m. ● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer TBS Chiefs at West Central Tigers, 6 p.m., Sylvan Lake. ● College men’s hockey: Edmonton Concordia Thunder at RDC Kings, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● College women’s preseason hockey: St. Francis Xavier Academy of Edmonton at Olds College, 7 p.m., Sportsplex. ● High school football: Notre Dame Cougars at Lindsay Thurber Raiders, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park; Camrose Trojans at Stettler Wildcats, 7:30 p.m.; Drayton Valley Warriors at Wetaskiwin Sabres, 7:30 p.m.

Canadian Football League CFL — Fined Edmonton’s J.C. Sherritt an undisclosed amount for a low hit on Hamilton QB Zach Collaros and Edmonton’s Justin Sorensen an undisclosed amount for a chop block on Hamilton’s Bryan Hall, during a Sept. 19 game. Fined Winnipeg’s Jasper Simmons an undisclosed amount for lowering his head and leading with the crown of his helmet during a Sept. 20 game against Montreal. Fined Hamilton’s Terrence Toliver, Saskatchewan’s Jerome Messam and Toronto’s Jermaine Gabriel each undisclosed amounts for making public comments about officiating on Twitter over the weekend.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Released F Graham Knott.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Assigned G Yann Danis, D Dan Kelly, D Jacob Sweeney, F Graham Black, F Chris McKelvie, F Rod Pelley and F Ben Thomson

“I can only say that I don’t know what’s true and what’s not true,” Eoannou said during a hastily called news conference at his downtown Buffalo law office. “I received the story line from the mother.

And it’s my position that I’m not comfortable with that version of the events.”

Despite his concerns, Eoannou said he’s still confident in the woman’s allegations against Kane.

“I don’t know how that reflects, and I don’t think it does, on the night in question,” Eoannou said.

The woman’s mother declined an interview request, and instead referred to a statement the family released to the media.

“While we are disappointed that Mr. Eoannou has withdrawn from his role providing advice and counsel in the criminal investigation of Patrick Kane, we have every intention of pursuing this case to a just conclusion,” the statement said.

“It must be emphasized that there exists

to Albany (AHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS — Assigned LW Richard Nejezchleb and C Travis Oleksuk to Hartford (AHL).

Released RW Jayden Hart and LW Kirill Kabanov from their tryout agreements.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Assigning D Dominik Masin to Peterborough (OHL).

American Hockey League HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Signed F Richard Nejezchleb.

ECHL ADIRONDACK THUNDER — Acquired the rights to F Greg Wolfe from Alaska for the rights to F Tyler Maxwell.

IDAHO STEELHEADS — Named Gord Baldwin assistant coach.

SOCCER Major League Soccer D.C. UNITED — Agreed to terms with MF Chris Rolfe on a contract extension.

no evidence or allegation that the accuser herself had any knowledge of the evidence bag until it was brought to Mr. Eoannou’s office.”

The AP doesn’t identify people who may have been sexually assaulted unless they have come forward and voluntarily identified themselves.

Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita, reached at home after the news conference, declined comment but said he would address the issue Friday at a previously scheduled news conference.

The reversal comes after police said Wednesday that the rape kit and its packaging were handled properly, and after Eoannou held a press conference to announce the evidence bag was found by the women’s mother at the front door of her home.

Kane has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in her 20s at his waterfront mansion outside of Buffalo on Aug. 2. He has not been charged.

Saturday, October 3 Philadelphia at Toronto, 3 p.m.

Columbus at New York, 5 p.m.

Montreal at Orlando, 5:30 p.m.

New England at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Vancouver at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Kansas City at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, October 4 Houston at Dallas, 3 p.m.

Salt Lake at Colorado, 5 p.m.

Los Angeles at Seattle, 7:30 p.m.

English Premier League GP W D Manchester City 6 5 0 Man.United 6 4 1 West Ham 6 4 0 Leicester City 6 3 3 Arsenal 6 3 1 Everton 6 2 3 Swansea 6 2 3 Crystal Palace 6 3 0 Tottenham 6 2 3 Watford 6 2 3 Norwich 6 2 2 West Brom 6 2 2 Liverpool 6 2 2 Bournemouth 6 2 1 Chelsea 6 2 1 Southampton 6 1 3 Aston Villa 6 1 1 Stoke 6 0 3 Newcastle 6 0 2 Sunderland 6 0 2

L 1 1 2 0 2 1 1 3 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 2 4 3 4 4

GF 12 9 13 13 5 8 7 8 5 5 9 4 4 8 9 7 6 5 3 6

GA Pts 2 15 5 13 7 12 9 12 5 10 5 9 5 9 7 9 4 9 5 9 10 8 6 8 7 8 9 7 12 7 8 6 9 4 9 3 9 2 13 2

Saturday, Sept. 26 Tottenham vs. Manchester City, 1145 GMT Leicester City vs. Arsenal, 1400 GMT Liverpool vs. Aston Villa, 1400 GMT Manchester United vs. Sunderland, 1400 GMT Southampton vs. Swansea, 1400 GMT Stoke vs. Bournemouth, 1400 GMT West Ham vs. Norwich, 1400 GMT Newcastle vs. Chelsea, 1630 GMT Sunday, Sept. 27 Watford vs. Crystal Palace, 1500 GMT Monday, Sept. 28 West Brom vs. Everton, 1900 GMT England League Cup Third Round Wednesday’s Matches Crystal Palace 4, Charlton Athletic 1 MK Dons 0, Southampton 6 Newcastle 0, Sheffield Wednesday 1 Norwich 3, West Bromwich Albion 0 Tottenham 1, Arsenal 2 Walsall 1, Chelsea 4 Liverpool 1, Carlisle United 1, Liverpool won 3-2 on penalty kicks

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 25, 2015 B5

Stenson off to another great start PGA TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — Just getting to East Lake is the challenge for Henrik Stenson. Playing the golf course appears to be the easy part.

Two years after his wire-to-wire victory to capture the FedEx Cup, Stenson was just as dominant Thursday until he stalled at the end and had to settle for a 7-under 63 and a twoshot lead over Paul Casey in the Tour Championship.

Stenson ripped a 4-wood from 288 yards to 25 feet and made the eagle putt on the par-5 ninth to go out in 29.

He added two more birdies to reach 8 under through 12 holes until he made pars the rest of the way and his lone bogey on the 17th.

Even so, it was just the start he wanted on a course that he has figured out. Stenson opened with a 64 two years ago, stretched his lead to as many as nine shots in the third round and joined Tom Watson as the only wireto-wire winners of the Tour Championship.

He missed last year when he failed to get into the top 30 who qualify for the FedEx Cup finale, and knew he only needed to get back to have a chance.

“I wanted to get out of the blocks quickly, and I surely did,” Stenson said.

Jason Day, in his first tournament as the No. 1 player in the world, stayed with Stenson until one shot. Day birdied his opening three holes, but his drive on the par-4 fifth hole sailed through the trees on the right, over the fence and out-of-bounds. He made triple bogey and never really got back on track. He shot a 69 and was six behind.

“I wish I could say that I was a machine and I can hit it straight down the gut every single time, 315 yards,” Day said. “But unfortunately, as humans we’re going to make errors. … To make triple was pretty disappointing, but it’s early on in the tournament, so I can’t dwell on that.”

Rory McIlroy started slowly, finished the front nine with three straight

birdies and had a 66 to join British Open champion Zach Johnson.

Jordan Spieth took the stress out of his game and rarely was out of position. He just didn’t hit it close enough for birdie chances, made three of them and shot a 68 to join a large group that included Brooks Koepka and Brandt Snedeker.

For the longest time, Stenson looked uncatchable.

The trouble at East Lake is the Bermuda rough, which is why the powerful Swede leans so heavily on his 3-wood off the tee. He kept it in play, hit iron shots as crisp as ever and made plenty of putts. It was an ideal combination for scoring, until the final hour.

His round stalled with a 4-iron that missed the green on the par-5 15th, and his bunker shot came out hot and left him 20 feet away. He made par, saved par from a tough lie in the rough at the 16th and missed a 6-foot par putt on the 17th.

“I can’t really play the front nine any better — very similar to what I did in 2013 when I started with a good score and shot 5 under on the front,” Stenson said. “So hopefully, the rest of the week can be as successful as it was then.”

Stenson is No. 4 in the FedEx Cup and has been a big topic of conversation this week. He could finish as low as third and still win the $10 million bonus without having won a tournament all year. But the Swede looked at it from a simpler form of math. As one of the top five seeds, he only has to win the Tour Championship to take home golf’s biggest payoff, and that’s all he was thinking about.

“I’ll be happy on Sunday if I were to finish second and win the FedEx Cup,” he said. “I’ll be smiling more if I got two trophies, but I’ll deal with one, as well. But at this point, I’m here to try and win this Tour Championship for the second time, and it would be great to pull that off. Still a long ways to go.

We’re only one round down and as we know, a lot of things can happen in 54 holes.”

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Henrik Stenson hits from the 14th fairway during the first round of the Tour Championship golf tournament at East Lake Club Thursday, in Atlanta.

Canada looks to bounce back at Rugby World Cup

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Kieran Crowley has made six changes to his starting lineup against Italy as Canada looks to bounce back from a lopsided opening loss to Ireland at the Rugby World Cup. Both Canada, ranked 18th in the world, and No. 15 Italy are 0-1-0 after weekend losses. Despite some good patches of play, the Canadians were put to the sword 50-7 by No. 5 Ireland while an inconsistent Italy was beaten 32-10 by No. 7 France With three games in 11 days, Crowley has to manage his squad although Rugby Canada calls Saturday’s lineup the strongest available.

Injuries have robbed Crowley of three backs with fly half Liam Underwood out for the tournament with a chipped bone in his leg. Scrum half Gord McRorie (shoulder) and winger Jeff Hassler (calf) sit out with minor injuries.

One of the Canadian tournament goals is securing automatic qualification for the next World Cup, which can be achieved by finishing third in its pool. Crowley has said that means two

wins, with No. 15 Italy and No. 17 Romania the likeliest targets.

That won’t be easy.

The Canadians are 2-5-0 against Italy, which has won the last four meetings between the two. Canada’s wins came in 1983 and 2000.

Sky Bet has Canada as an 8-1 underdog, meaning a $100 bet will return a profit of $800.

The Italians are a 1-16 favourite, with a $100 wager netting you $106.25 in total. The point spread is 17 points in favour of Italy.

Canada is boosted by the return of captain Tyler Ardron, who strained his medial collateral ligament July 29 against Samoa.

“He’s a very athletic player … We’re expecting him to contribute around the field,” said Crowley. “It’s his first game back for a little while so he’s probably going to be a little bit rusty but certainly we’re expecting an impact from him. He’s chomping at the bit.”

The lanky forward should help the Canadians take on the physical Italians in the scrum and lineout at Elland Road in Leeds, England.

“If we can combat that and match

that, I think we’ll be in with a better than a good chance, even,” Ardron said.

He is joined in the back row by fellow newcomer Nanyak Dala and incumbent John Moonlight as Crowley opts to go with two open-side flankers. Crowley believes the duo will help Canada blunt Italy’s drive.

Forward Jebb Sinclair moves from the bench to join Jamie Cudmore in a vastly experienced, physical lock pairing.

Canada sticks with a front row of Hubert Buydens, Ray Barkwill and Doug Wooldridge against an Italian pack that was dominated by the French.

Aaron Carpenter and Kyle Gilmour shift to the bench while lock Brett Beukeboom drops out of the matchday 23.

Jamie Mackenzie comes for McRorie at scrum half, with brother Phil Mackenzie retaining his spot on

the wing.

The Mackenzies are set to become the first set of Canadian brothers to start a World Cup match together.

Props Mike and Dan Pletch played in all of Canada’s games at the 2007 World Cup but came off the bench each time.

The Mackenzies are one of 10 brother pairings at this year’s tournament.

Connor Braid comes in for centre Nick Blevins. Harry Jones, who had been nursing a shoulder injury, starts on the bench. Nathan Hirayama remains at fly half, taking over kicking duties from McRorie.

For Italy, reserve flanker Mauro Bergamasco can become only the second player to feature at five Rugby World Cups.

The 36-year-old Bergamasco, who first played in the tournament in 1999, would tie the record of Samoa winger Brian Lima.

Blue Jays control own destiny as regular season winds down

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TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays are in control of their own destiny in the American League East. They are the favourites to win the division title and are a virtual lock to make their first playoff appearance in 22 years.

Here are five things to watch as the regular season winds down: PRICE POSITION The Blue Jays acquired ace David Price at the trade deadline to handle big games — especially against the New York Yankees — over the playoff push in the second half. With an 8-1 record and 1.95 earned-run average since joining Toronto, he has come as advertised.

His next start is scheduled for Saturday against the visiting Tampa Bay Rays and he’ll get another start next week in Baltimore. If the Blue Jays fall into a wild-card position, Price could be used in the Oct. 6 game on five days rest. But it’s much more likely they’ll take the East title and start him in the American League Division Series opener on Oct. 8.

Knuckleballer R.A. Dickey will start against the Rays on Friday night and veteran southpaw Mark Buehrle will close out the homestand on Sunday.

EAST FEAST It has been an American League East-heavy schedule for the first-place Blue Jays of late and they’ll continue that trend for the remaining 10 games.

After the home schedule is completed Sunday against the Rays, it’s on to Baltimore for four games before wrapping the campaign with three games at Tampa Bay. The second-place Yankees, who enter play Thursday 3 ½ games behind the Blue Jays, are home for four-game sets against the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox before closing their season with a three-game series in Bal-

timore.

REST EASIER The 162-game regular season is a long one and any time off around this time of year is precious.

The Yankees have games scheduled every day until their finale Oct. 4. The Blue Jays, who have played one more game than New York, get a break before kicking off their last home series against Tampa Bay on Friday night.

“That’s got to help us, everybody is gassed this time of year,” said Blue Jays manager John Gibbons. “So much intensity too, that wears on them.”

POWER PLAY Toronto’s offence has cooled a bit of late but the team should still finish first in several offensive categories this season. The Blue Jays lead the major leagues in runs scored, home runs, slugging percentage and OPS (on-base percentage plus slugging). Toronto also has three players — Josh Donaldson, Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion — who have reached the 35-homer and 100-RBI plateau.

It’s only the second time in franchise history that three players have accomplished the feat in the same year. The 1998 Blue Jays boasted a power trio that included Jose Canseco (46 homers, 107 RBIs), Carlos Delgado (38-115) and Shawn Green (35-100).

Donaldson leads the way this year with 39 homers and 120 RBIs. Bautista has 36 homers — one more than Encarnacion — and both have 105 RBIs. ALDS PLANS The Blue Jays have an idea of the rotation they’d like to use in the bestof-five ALDS, but they don’t want to get too far ahead of themselves.

If they win the division, expect Price to work two games with Dickey and Marcus Stroman likely to get starts as well. If that happens, the Blue Jays would then have to decide whether to go with Marco Estrada or Buehrle for the remaining nod.

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Obituaries

JOHNSON David Franklin (July 9, 1945 - Sept. 21, 2015) David Franklin Johnson of Red Deer, Alberta passed away at the Lacombe Hospital and Long Term Care Centre on September 21, 2015 at the age of 70. Our profound thanks to the staff for their care and comfort of David in his final days. He is survived by his wife, Rose, and their children, Brian (Dawn), Douglas (Danielle), Karen Davis (Tyler), and Owen. He is also lovingly remembered by his grandsons Tyler and Hunter, niece Sydney, his mother Eva Morris, as well as his brother Clifford (Gail), and sister Beverly Johnson.

David was predeceased by his father Frank in 1985 and his sister Valerie Smart in 2013. David and Rose were married July 10, 1970 at the Shady Nook Community Centre. Their first home was in Sylvan Lake where David began a 26 year career working as a cleaning porter at Michener Centre in Red Deer. David’s interest in raising livestock led to leaving town life and reestablishing his farm roots in the Sylvan Lake and Bentley rural areas while continuing his job at Michener Centre. This is where their four children were raised with family chores and other rural responsibilities.

In the summertime, he and his two oldest sons would often volunteer at the Little Red Barn at the Red Deer Westerner, masterminding the celebrity goat-milking contests and assisting with care of the animals. He also contributed animals as well as time to various petting zoos throughout Central Alberta. This lifestyle continued until 1999 when poor health forced David and his family to retire from farm life and move to Red Deer. David’s sociable nature and love of people continued to thrive in Red Deer, as evidenced by his many friends, and he was able to maintain close family ties for the remainder of his life. Interment will be held on Friday, September 25, 2015 at 3:00 PM at the Tindastóll Cemetery, near Markerville, Alberta. A memorial service for David will be held on Saturday, September 26, 2015 at 1:00 PM at 3002 47 Ave, Red Deer, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Bower Chapel, after which a luncheon will be held in his honour. All are welcome to attend. If desired, memorial donations may be made to the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB), the Alberta Diabetes Foundation, or a charity of your choice. Viewing details at www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

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ROTH Florence Edna 1933 - 2015 Florence Edna Roth, of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away peacefully, surrounded by the love of her family, at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre, on September 23, 2015, at the age 82 years.

Florence will be lovingly remembered by her children: Jan Reid, of Red Deer, Alberta; Bruce (Sharon) Roth, of Kelowna, British Columbia; Jim Roth, of Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta; and John (Joan) Roth, of Blackfalds, Alberta. Also left to honor her memory are her eight grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren, and her sister Helen Williams, of Calgary, Alberta and numerous nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband, Eldred, in 2007. A Celebration of Florence’s Life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Sunday, September 27, 2015 at 1:00 p.m.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of Sonya Henderson, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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GRASSE ALVIN 1928 - 2015 Alvin K. Grasse of Lacombe, Alberta, passed from this earth to his heavenly home on September 23rd, 2015, at the age of 87 years. He was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania to Anthony and Lillian Landis Grasse on February 3rd, 1928. He grew up on a farm near Chalfont, helping his parents raise poultry and produce to sell on a huckster route in Philadelphia, PA. Alvin later completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture Education at Penn State University. In 1950, Alvin took his first teaching job at Iowa Mennonite School, Kalona, Iowa, where he taught high school, Industrial Arts and Agriculture classes. While there he met, Ruth Swartzendruber, and they were married in 1953. He taught for 15 years and completed a Masters degree from Iowa State University during that time. A big game hunting trip to BC gave him the idea to move to Canada. The family moved to Edson, Alberta in 1966 with six children and later that year a seventh was born. Jubilee Junior High School hired Alvin as a science teacher, before the move, with the contract having been arranged by telephone and telegraph. Alvin taught in Edson until his retirement in 1988; remembered by his enthusiasm for science and his “hands on” learning style. Alvin enjoyed hunting, fishing, and camping trips with his brothers, sons and family. He used his carpentry skills to do many building, remodeling and fine woodworking projects. Alvin and Ruth were active as youth leaders, teachers and other roles in the Edson Mennonite Church. In 2004 with the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease, Alvin and Ruth sold their farm and moved to Lacombe to be nearer to family. Alvin was active in taking walks to feed birds, participating in Gideons International, and in the Evangelical Free Church. Alvin was verbal about his faith far into his illness, and told others of the Lord’s faithfulness to him and his satisfaction with life.

Alvin is survived by Ruth, his faithful and loving wife of 62 years, and by six children: Carolyn of Pennsylvania, Marilyn (Cliff) of Michigan, Susan (Craig) of Oregon, Mary Anne (Ron) of Leduc, Miriam (Ron) of Lacombe, Lowell (Heidi) of Didsbury, daughter-in-law Janice Grasse of Red Deer, sixteen grandchildren: Amanda, Donald, Josh (Celeste), Katie (Chris),Todd, Beth Anne, Calla, James, Emily, Jon, Kristen, Murray, Naomi, Tom, Lukas, Levi. Also surviving are three brothers, Meryl (Gladys), Willard (Gladys), and Warren (Linda) all of Pennsylvania. Alvin was predeceased by his son Dennis (1997) and his parents. Friends are invited for visitation at Wilson’s Funeral Chapel and Crematorium (6120 Highway 2A, Lacombe) on Monday, September 28, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. A Funeral Service will be held at the Lacombe Evangelical Free Church (4619 C&E Trail) on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 2:00 pm. If friends so desire memorial donations can be made in Alvin’s honor to a charity of choice. Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

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God looked around His garden And he found an empty place.

He then looked down upon the Earth, And saw your tired face.

He put his arms around you And lifted you to rest.

God’s garden must be beautiful, He always takes the best.

Card Of Thanks SIM, Norman The family of Norman Sim would like to extend heartfelt thanks to relatives, friends and neighbors for your love and support with phone calls, cards, flowers, donations and condolences during our time of loss. Thank you to Mrs. Shealagh McClelland for your kind words and prayers, also to Ken Oliphant, Sue Gustafson, Dick Cameron and the Lacombe Legion for your contribution to our time of remembrance, and to everyone who honored Norman with your attendance. Thank you also to Wilson’s Funeral Chapel for your care. We truly are grateful to you all.

Patricia Sim, Debra, Neil, Ken, Joshua, Micheal, Amanda, Terry, Robyn, Randy, Brian and Ashley.

He knew that you were suffering, He knew that you were in pain.

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He saw the road was getting rough, And the hills were hard to climb So He closed your weary eyelids, And whispered “Peace be Thine.”

It broke our hearts to lose you But you didn’t go alone, For part of us went with you, The day God called you home.

FOREVER LOVED FOREVER MISSED HARRY and FAMILY

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Getting support in the North TRAINER SAYS UFC BAD BOY NICK DIAZ IS NOT GETTING FAIR SHAKE ON CANNABIS USE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canadian trainer, promoter and former fighter Jason Heit is leading the charge north of the border to support UFC bad boy Nick Diaz in the wake of his five-year ban for marijuana use.

Heit, who like Diaz has a prescription for medical marijuana, calls Diaz’s punishment “a tipping point.”

“It’s absolutely insane,” Heit said from Victoria.

With the support of Canadian marijuana advocates, Heit is calling for a boycott of all Nevada State Athletic events “until they drop the punishment and fine, and allow an exemption for prescribed medical cannabis patients.”

Both Diaz and former middleweight champion Anderson Silva failed drug tests at UFC 183 on Jan. 31 and were subsequently disciplined by the Nevada commission, getting vastly differing sanctions.

The 40-year-old Silva, who tested positive for steroids and two other banned substances, was suspended for a year and fined US$380,000 — 30 per cent of his fight purse and all of his win bonus The 32-year-old Diaz, who did not disclose his marijuana use prior to the fight, was suspended five years and fined $165,000 — 33 per cent of his $500,000 purse.

While it was Diaz’s third positive test for marijuana, many have objected to his being punished more severely for a so-called social drug than his opponent who was busted for a performance-enhancing substance.

“It’s so unfair if one person tests for steroids that could actually really hurt a person and the other person smokes a plant that makes them happy and he gets suspended for five years, whereas the guy that could hurt someone gets a slap on the wrist,” said UFC bantamweight champion (Rowdy) Ronda Rousey.

A pro-Diaz petition submitted on the White House’s “We the People” platform has drawn more than 52,000 signatures.

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

UFC fighter Nick Diaz flexes during the weigh-in for UFC 158 in Montreal on March 15, 2013.

Canadian trainer, promoter and former fighter Jason Heit is leading the charge north of the border to support UFC bad boy Diaz in the wake of his five-year ban for marijuana use.

“Nick Diaz was unfairly banned from being a professional fighter by the Nevada Athletics Commission. They ruled based on their personal feelings and beliefs towards the use of medical marijuana and used their power to deprive Mr. Diaz of being able to make a living,” states the petition.

The Nevada commission routinely tests for steroids, stimulants and what it calls “drugs of abuse.”

The commission has argued in the past that abuse of alcohol and marijuana can affect the way a fighter handles himself in the ring or cage. So-called social drugs can dull reflexes, reduce skill level and set the scene for a possible mismatch in which a fighter can get hurt.

Cannabis is banned during competition by WADA, which oversees drug testing worldwide in Olympic sports. Canadian Ross Rebagliati lost and then got back his gold medal in the snowboard giant slalom after testing positive for marijuana at the 1998 Olympics.

In 2013, WADA raised the threshold for

testing positive for marijuana with officials widely quoted as saying someone who failed the new test would have to be “a pretty dedicated cannabis consumer.”

That would appear to be Diaz, who says he has been prescribed a medical marijuana card to help deal with his ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder).

Diaz was tested three times on Jan. 31, and passed two of the tests, both with a lab accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

“Man, let that man smoke weed and enjoy his life,” champion boxer Floyd Mayweather said.

In 2007, Diaz was suspended for six months and fined US$3,000 after testing positive for marijuana at a Pride show in Las Vegas. In 2012, the California fighter was banned for a year and fined $60,000 for a positive test after a UFC loss to Carlos Condit.

Heit, who volunteers at a marijuana dispensary on Vancouver Island, says he is “a prescribed patient of medical marijuana because of injuries suffered in my profession.”

Canadian Kajan Johnson survives string of injuries, says he is stronger for it

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“My whole career has kind of like been up and down, and up and down. But I think that’s Trucks how life is,” said Johnson.

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Josh (The Warmaster) Barnett, ranked 403-598-4131 eighth among heavyweight contenders, faces No. 11 Roy (Big Country) Nelson in the main Holiday event of the televised card.

Trailers Johnson is coming off a unanimous decision over Zhang (The Warrior) Lipeng in May in Manila. Prior to that he was knocked out by Tae Hyun Bang at UFC 174 in June 2014 after appearing on “The Ultimate Fighter Nations” where fellow Canadian Chad Laprise broke his jaw in three places in the welterweight semifinal.

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“a really dark place” in 2012 after surgery to repair a second orbital injury. His facial injuries meant he couldn’t be a doorman at a club or teach martial arts.

“I wasn’t really able to sustain life,” he said.

His mother begged him to come back to B.C. “But I knew if I left and I went to Burns Lake, I would probably never make it back here.

“I did what I had to do. Not all of it was good but I did what I had to do and I was able to stay in Montreal and continue learning and continue on my path.”

Johnson did not fight for 11 months after UFC 174, his return to action slowed in part by a severe concussion. He would get headaches when he returned to training. He says he used the time to study his sport, to see who was doing what and what was working.

“I think it all happened for a reason,” he said. “It all helped me to evolve at a very very very fast pace. So it’s not like I changed my style, it’s not like I changed the way I fought.

It was like I grew very very fast in that year.

And now I’m continuing to grow.”

He was able to survive financially thanks to a US$50,000 fight of the night bonus.

The Zhang win that followed was vindication. “It definitely was. It felt amazing,” he said.

While he continues to train at Tristar, Johnson has added to his routine. That includes spending time in a chamber that simulates the oxygen deprivation at 10,000 feet.

It’s a far cry from when he began his pro fighting career in February 2002.

He also looks to meditation. And Johnson, who is one-eighth Blackfoot, has gone back to his native roots, taking part in traditional fasts in 2008 and in 2014 after the 2-14 loss to Bang.

The fasts are in the bush, with a small shelter called a hogan. “You sit there four days, four nights, no food, no water, no talking … It’s a very difficult experience.”

The most challenging aspect, he says, is “being alone with your thoughts.”

Johnson, who has also helped elders co-ordinate fasts for others, says he is in a good place these days.

“I’m in the light and I’m not going back to the dark.”

In an interesting twist, Johnson and Kotani both excel in the kitchen as well as the cage.

Johnson has a culinary school diploma while Kotani has studied to be a pastry chef.

“That’s really cool,” said Johnson who normally walks around at 180 pounds before cutting down to fight at 155.

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James Hinchcliffe to drive Indy car for first time since crash when he tests at Road America INDY CAR

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS — James Hinchcliffe will be back in an Indy car for the first time since his near-fatal accident in May when he tests next week at Road America in Wisconsin.

Hinchcliffe crashed during a May 18 practice for the Indianapolis 500. A piece of his broken suspension pierced his leg and the IndyCar safety crew had to prevent him from bleeding to death as he was rushed to surgery.

Hinchcliffe has had several surgeries and has been in an intensive rehabilitation program.

Recently cleared to drive again, the Canadian says he feels physically and mentally ready to return to the cockpit.

“This is obviously the day that has been the goal and the motivation to get through the last four months,” said Hinchcliffe. “And the fact that it is at Road America, one of my favourite road courses in the country, makes it that much better.”

The IndyCar Series will make its debut at Road America next year. The permanent road course held its first race in 1955 and the CART Series raced there from 1982 through 2007.

Several IndyCar drivers tested

there this week to rave reviews.

Hinchcliffe will be part of a second test on Monday.

“I expect to be grinning like an idiot for the first few runs,” said Hinchcliffe. “I’m under no illusions that it won’t be a massively difficult day. Going to a track we haven’t run, on top of the physical stress of getting back in, but that’s OK. I’m definitely ready for a little hard work.”

Hinchcliffe won the Pro Mazda race at Road America in 2005, and competed at the track in the Atlantic Championship from 2006 to 2008.

He also co-drove a Daytona Prototype during the United SportsCar Championship race weekend.

Hinchcliffe was injured in the first season of a multi-year deal with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports. He won the New Orleans race in April for Schmidt. The team used Conor Daly and Ryan Briscoe to complete the season after Hinchcliffe was injured.

“This has been a long time coming, but we are extremely pleased that James has made a full recovery and will be testing at Road America,” team co-owner Sam Schmidt said. “All of us appreciate the incredible amount of support James and SPM have received from the motorsports community throughout this process. We are now more confident than ever that this team can be ready and compete for the championship in 2016.”

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

James Hinchcliffe is shown during practice for the IndyCar Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg auto race in St. Petersburg, Fla. Hinchcliffe will be back in an Indy car for the first time since his nearfatal accident in May when he tests next week at Road America.

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Getting the right diagnosis, at the right time, is crucial, but Tuesday’s Institute of Medicine report found diagnostic errors get too little attention.

The biggest needed change: “Patients are central to a solution,” said Dr. John Ball of the American College of Physicians, who chaired the IOM committee. That means better teamwork between health providers — doctors, nurses, lab workers — and making the patient be part of the team, too. Providers must take patients’ complaints more seriously, get them quick copies of test results and other records, and encourage them to ask, “Could it be something else?”

Another culture shift: When the patient’s third doctor finally gets the right diagnosis, it should become the norm, not an embarrassment, for that physician to call the others and say, “It turned out this patient had X and not Y,” added committee member Dr. Christine Cassel, president of the National Quality Forum. “That’s the only way we can really learn.”

Possibly the most well-known diagnostic error in recent memory occurred last year when a Liberian man sick with Ebola initially was misdiagnosed in a Dallas emergency room as having sinusitis. Thomas Eric Duncan returned two days later, sicker, and eventually died.

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21 is World Alzheimer’s Day. It is therefore, the ideal time to explore the latest research findings in the field of Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia.

Alzheimer’s disease is characterized partly by accumulation of a protein amyloid beta in the brain. Failure to clear the amyloid build-up leads to formation of plaques PADMAJA and the consequent mental GENESH decline, including memory SENIORS loss, faulty decision-making, inability to perform familiar tasks, communication difficulties, and changes in personality, mood and behavior.

Currently, there are approximately 747, 000 Canadians living with one form of dementia or the other, and this is projected to double by 2050. We are not any closer to a cure for Alzheimer’s Disease compared to last year; but we have definitely made significant progress in this direction.

The medications currently available to treat Alzheimer’s Disease include Aricept, Exelon, Reminyl, and Ebixa. These medications do not stop or slow the progression of the disease, since they do not target the ‘plaques and tangles,’ the hallmark brain changes that lead to death of nerve cells. They only change the level of certain chemicals in the brain that enhances the functioning of the healthy nerve cells.

An ongoing study using an anti-amyloid antibody (Aducanumab) in individuals who have not developed symptoms of the disease, but have either the PET scan evidence of plaques or the genetic mutations predictive of the disease, has reported initial success in clearing the plaques, and has now moved on to Phase 3 trials involving larger groups of individuals. Another study using BACE inhibitors — a medication that helps to reduce the formation of amyloid plaques — is currently being undertaken in the United States and is reported to be promising.

Researchers from Dublin University claim to have identified a couple of proteins — Claudin-5 and Occludin that can regulate the walls of blood vessels in the brain and facilitate the removal of amyloid from the brain. If true, this could lead to new and improved ways of treatment.

In regards to new techniques for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease, a study at Washington University School of Medicine, published in JAMA Neurology recently, reported that changes in some biomarkers during mid-life is predictive of Alzheimer’s Disease. According to researchers, decline in amyloid beta 42 levels in cerebrospinal fluid between 45-54 years of age, and progressive increase in tau levels during mid-50 to mid-70 is highly suggestive of incipient Alzheimer’s Disease.

Since a cure for Alzheimer’s Disease has eluded us, the current focus is on lifestyle changes that can delay the onset, or prevent the disease, if possible.

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Designer making fashion waves

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer designer Janelle Brown returned to Western Canada Fashion Week in Edmonton on Sept. 18 with a collection that spoke to the future of fashion.

Brown won the WCFW emerging designer competition in the spring and her prize included last week’s runway showcase complete with models, staff and services worth $2,000 to put on the show.

“We had hair and makeup artists — the whole nine yards. It was very exciting for sure,” Brown said on Thursday who showcased her high fashion clothing line JJ Darling.

“It’s great to have a professional venue to show your work. Just to be able to meet other designers. Just to be in that atmosphere.”

Brown, 22, said she was inspired by historical detailing and added futuristic flare to create her fall-winter collection that included eight different looks.

“I was actually working at Fort Edmonton in the spring. They have a lot of historical costumes and I had a chance to see them all up close and get a taste for those details.”

Her fresh designs incorporated soft wool textures, satiny sheen and flowing rayon to create movement and sculpture.

“I had quite a few people come up to me and say they liked what I was working on and what I was making.

“They haven’t been up for sale yet.

I would like to (produce). It’s always a tricky thing to figure out how to do that on your own. I made a few contacts who may be able to direct me.”

Western Canada Fashion Week started Sept. 18 and runs to Saturday at ATB Financial Arts Barn featuring 50 local, national and international designers.

Brown’s work landed on the WCFW runway last week after submitting a design in the spring competition she

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Red Deer fashion designer Janelle Brown works in her home clothing studio. Brown has just returned from Edmonton where her designs were featured in Edmonton Fashion Week. called “somewhere in between a dress and top and a pair of pants.”

“It’s one of those things that aren’t too easily defined.”

The graduate of Nova Scotia College of Art & Design University used upholstery material for the top to make it more sculptural. She added puckers to the stretchy, satin pants.

She said it was actually a comfortable outfit that would be fun to wear for a special event.

“You might not want to wear it to the grocery store,” Brown said with a

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“Every time I make something I try and branch out and do something I’ve never really done before. For me, I just get bored doing the same thing all the time.”

Brown was home schooled on an acreage between Penhold and Pine Lake. Originally, she moved to Red Deer to be near her family, but she has also found it a convenient way to be connected to the fashion scene in both Calgary and Edmonton.

Last year she was part of Calgary’s

Sophia Dauda of Ghana greets Jeannie Brown and Joanne Packham as they arrive at the Tools For School Africa Foundation Shine event at the Harvest Centre at Westerner Park Thursday. Dauda, who has received education scholarships from the Red Deer Tools For School Africa Foundation greeted all attendees to the fourth annual fundraising event and later spoke to show her thanks for the support she has received. Through this support, Dauda is the first girl in the program to have graduated university. Along with sponsoring about 70 girls to attend school in Damongo Ghana the foundation has also delivered shipping containers of books, computers and other school resources to Ghana, provided teacher training, built classrooms, a library, and a boarding school addition with the help from University of Manitoba architecture students.

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Lacombe County updates environmental plans

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Lacombe County’s systematic approach to environmental management is already bearing fruit.

Council was given an update on a number of environmental initiatives undertaken since its passed an Environmental Management Plan in March 2014 following a year of consultation with residents, agricultural producers, businesses and other stakeholders.

Blayne West, county environmental co-ordinator, said transparency is key to the municipality’s environmental efforts, which is why the supplemental report has been released.

Copies of the update will be available at the county office and will be posted online.

The plan outlines five priority areas: energy consumption, efficient use of water, land use in the natural and built environment, waste creation and disposal, and water quality.

Reducing energy and water use were chosen as the first targets upon which to focus.

Upgrading lights and installing sensors and timers is expected to save around $17,000 a year.

The county is also looking at switching its light trucks over to natural gas, which would save about $44,000 a year at current prices. The switch would cost about $270,000 — partly because a natural gas pump would need to be installed at a convenient site — which means it would take about six years to recover the initial cost.

Diesel costs the county about $1.3 to $1.4 million a year.

An idle reduction program for county equipment will also save up to $15,000 a year. Greenhouse gas emissions will also be reduced.

Reducing water use is also planned, but requires additional meters to track sources. An audit is planned for this year.

Coun. Barb Shepherd said the county’s environmental efforts have not gone unnoticed.

The Parkland Airshed Management Zone, which monitors air quality in Central Alberta, singled the municipality out for praise recently.

The Environmental Management Plan has also received nearly half a dozen awards.

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She said the fashion industry is smaller in Alberta, but may offer more possibilities for new designers.

“It kind of enables new designers to have their own platform. It’s a positive experience and people are wanting to help bring up new designers. If you go to Toronto, there’s so much competition and so many people that are established.”

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New helipad on track in Rocky

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Rocky Mountain House Health Centre will have a new heliport in February.

Site preparation started on the $2.3-million heliport replacement and expansion project Aug. 11 in order to accommodate the larger AW139 helicopter in use by STARS air ambulance.

STARS introduced its first AW139 in 2013. It flies about 20 per cent faster than their smaller BK117 helicopters.

The AW139 has de-icing capability so it can fly in worse weather, as well as fit two patients compared to the BK117 that typically handles one.

Tracey Black, area director for Mountain View and Clearwater counties with Alberta Health Services, said air ambulance transportation to the community will continue throughout construction.

“All the STARS helicopters still land at the airport in Rocky Mountain House. Then ground ambulance is used to transport folks to and from the hospital,” Black said on Thursday.

The drive between the hospital and airport is 10-minutes by ambulance.

She said no disruptions have occurred to medical services at the hospital due to construction.

“There has been very minimal impact to the hospital. It’s been going quite smooth.

“There has only been some minor disruptions to the staff in terms of parking. They are parking across the street at the Brick. They have kindly given us their parking lot for free to use. That’s been working well.”

The heliport will be located in the same location as the original heliport, on the northwest side of the hospital. A gas line had to be relocated.

Rocky Mountain House Health Centre serves a population of 25,000.

Kastern stresses to vote for local MP not party leader

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really want to work hard to get it back to a place where my son has the same innate sense of pride about being Canadian. That is huge to me.”

A Red Deer single mothKastern is a massage er who holds down two therapist and the the execjobs to makes ends meet is utive director of the Red ready to be the voice of Red Deer Symphony Orchestra Deer-Mountain View.

Association. She is currentChandra Kastern, 32, ly working on her certificathe Liberal candidate for tion to be able to work with Red Deer-Mountain View, non-profit organizations. tossed her hat in the politiKastern has lived in Red cal ring because she wants Deer for 10 years and has a better Canada for her son always had her ear to the CHANDRA and she felt there ought to political ground.

KASTERN be a local Liberal choice.

It is her strong commu“I am proudly Canadinication skills, ability to rean,” she said. “I feel my country has late with the constituents and ability departed from the things that have to put differences aside that are on her made me proud to be a Canadian. I side, said Kastern.

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RED DEER-MOUNTAIN VIEW “Somehow as Canadians we have lost how the Canadian parliamentary system works,” said Kastern. “I think a lot of people are focused on the leaders right now and not necessarily their actual representatives. I would encourage people to vote like a Canadian and look at who your representatives are and get in touch with them and get to know them. Then decide from there who you want to be your voice in the government. You are not in Justin Trudeau’s riding so you are not electing Justin Trudeau. You are electing your local MP.” Kastern said she can get behind the statement, “we can do better” because

she knows it is true.

“I am one rooted in optimism and hope,” she said. “For myself going back to being proud to be Canadian, a big part of that is that hope, optimism and growth as a country that we all know we are capable of.”

The 32-year-old has tried to keep her campaign clean and refuses to take shots at other candidates or parties. Kastern said she has seen it in social media and in local media.

Kastern grew up in Thunder Bay, Ont., and has lived in Mexico and Victoria. Her son Phoenix, 11, is a Grade 6 student at Eastview. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Peace officers ditching shotguns

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Lacombe County is getting rid of its shotguns.

The municipality has a pair of shotguns that could be used by its peace officers to kill badly injured animals hit by vehicles. Shotguns have been used by peace officers since 1991. However, the government has been tightening requirements and in 2010 required more training and a re-certification process for officers with shotguns.

The last time an officer went through the training it cost more than $2,000, said Keith Boras, the county’s manager of environmental and protective services.

“We recommend that we get out of the program,” he told council.

The county has only one officer trained to use the shotgun. A second is left locked away in a gun safe as a

backup.

Shotgun use by peace officers, who do not have the same powers as police officers, is strictly regulated by the province. In no circumstances can they be used for protection under provincial regulations.

The guns are only to be used to dispatch wildlife.

Considering the shotgun has only been used three times in the last three years, the council voted to do away with shotguns on Thursday.

Injured wildlife can be put down

by RCMP and Fish and Wildlife officers if peace officers come across an animal in distress. The two shotguns now owned by the county will be sold to Camrose County, which is planning to put them in their peace officer vehicles.

Lacombe presented heritage award

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A mule deer peers out from the forest at Heritage Ranch earlier this week. Several narrow walking paths exist at Heritage Ranch along with the paved multi-use trails making it easy to get a natural experience in the park.

Man convicted in vehicle fraud case A man convicted of an elaborate scheme, taking money for vehicles that were never delivered, has been ordered to pay more than $100,000 in restitution.

Andrew Hannemann, 49, of Red Deer pleaded guilty to one count of false pretense or false statement by promising to deliver vehicles to a business but instead selling them for his own profit. The guilty plea was entered on April 30.

He was accused of taking more than $100,000 for 11 vehicles from a business.

However, these vehicles were never delivered as promised. Instead he sold and paid for vehicles were brought

Lacombe, county to split airport repairs Lacombe County will split the cost of fixing the runway at Lacombe Airport with the city.

The Lacombe Flying Club said there are concerns that cracks in the runway could be further damaged during freeze-thaw cycles causing heaves or broken asphalt.

Filling in the cracks will cost around $13,500.

County council voted on Thursday

on any application before the city’s municipal planning commission makes its decision.

Applicants must also advertise any historical building for salvage, ensuring unique architectural features and historic building materials can be reclaimed and reused. Heritage buildings are identified in a Historic District Area Overlay.

As a result of its heritage focus, the city has designated its first two Municipal Historic Resources, St. Andrew’s United Church and the Lacombe Blacksmith Shop. A Facebook page devoted to Lacombe’s heritage has also been created and a Heritage Resources Fund to provide money for historical initiatives.

to split the cost of the repair with the City of Lacombe.

Both municipalities and airport representatives are working on a longterm plan for the airport.

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Louis is charged with second degree murder and indignity to a human body in the death of Tyrell Preston Soosay, 18. The alleged murder took place on Oct. 12, 2014.

Maskwacis RCMP found the body of Soosay on the Samson Reserve and Calgary RCMP Major Crimes Unit was called and took charge of the investigation. Louis was charged with murder on Oct. 14, 2014.

Murder trial set in death of Tyrell Soosay A five-day trial will be held next spring in Red Deer for a man accused of killing a teen and then burning the teen’s body.

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In Red Deer provincial court Thursday, judge James Glass ordered Hannemann to pay $102,717.82 in restitution to the business that was victimized.

Crown Prosecutor Jordan Petty noted that about one-third of the restitution has already been re-payed.

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Notley wants ‘drama-free’ pipeline

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Alberta’s premier says she wants at least one new “drama-free” pipeline built that will carry the province’s oil to new markets.

Rachel Notley told delegates to an Alberta Urban Municipalities Association convention on Thursday that she plans to achieve that through ongoing discussions with British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec.

It is essential for Alberta, with its reliance on resource revenue, to get access to overseas customers, she said.

Canada’s premiers signed a Canadian Energy Strategy in July to get energy products to global buyers.

“This … strategy will also help … as we address a key challenge facing the energy industry in this province, which is the need to improve our access to

new world markets, which means essentially getting at least one new pipeline built to tidewater,” Notley told the association.

She later told reporters she has never suggested she is opposed to pipelines as a general rule, but has never advocated for the Keystone XL line through the United States, because there was little chance of influencing American decision-makers.

It also goes against the NDP’s goal to keep domestic jobs.

“Keystone is about providing massive capacity to get bitumen to a competing refinery hub … a refining hub that competes with any potential development that we could hope for here in Alberta or in Canada.”

During a campaign stop in Iowa this week, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she opposed the controversial pipeline project.

The former secretary of state said she wanted to outline her position now after deciding the debate over the pipeline had become a distraction to larger efforts to fight climate change.

Notley said Alberta needs to prepare for renewed growth in the energy industry as prices improve, but only in tandem with greater efforts on the environment.

“It’s long past due for the government of Alberta to clean up its environmental act.

“If we don’t get it right on this issue, quite frankly, a solution is going to be imposed upon us sooner or later by others — by a federal government and/ or our markets, which will increasingly insist that energy products that they buy be mined and processed responsibly.”

With oil prices currently under US$50 a barrel, the Alberta govern-

ment has faced criticism for moving forward with a royalty review even though rates wouldn’t be affected until the end of next year.

Notley defended the move in her speech as necessary for the government to collect and save an “appropriate share” of Alberta’s resource wealth.

“The royalty review is about modernizing and updating our system, so it fits our future energy industry instead of its past,” she said.

“This review is about ensuring that as prices recover, we collect and begin to save an appropriate share of our own resource wealth in the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund for the future of our children and our grandchildren.”

Notley expects to have the review completed by the end of the year.

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A tablet is seen on the paper edition of a La Presse newspaper in Montreal. Montreal La Presse is laying off 158 employees as it prepares to eliminate its weekday printed newspaper in January.

La Presse laying off 158 workers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Montreal La Presse is laying off 158 employees as it prepares to eliminate its weekday printed newspaper in January.

The French-language newspaper says it is cutting 102 permanent and 56 temporary positions.

They include 43 newsroom positions.

However, La Presse says it will still have the largest newsroom in Quebec with 283 employees compared with 239 in 2011, before it began hiring to cre-

ate a digital offering called La Presse Plus.

The job cuts include unionized, non-unionized and management positions.

La Presse says the departure of unionized positions will be determined in accordance with collective agreements, including seniority.

After the job cuts, the paper will have 633 permanent positions.

The print edition of the 131-year-old paper will only be available on Saturdays after Jan. 1.

Publisher Guy Crevier has said that more than 460,000 people read the

digital paper weekly. The number of paid print subscribers decreased to 81,000 from 161,000 when the tablet was launched.

Most of the remaining readers are expected to go digital.

Three quarters of La Presse’s advertising revenues are expected to flow from the tablet in December, plus 10 per cent from its other mobile and web platforms.

Torstar and the parent company of La Presse hold investments in The Canadian Press as part of a joint agreement with a subsidiary of the Globe and Mail.

Uber can raise incomes, help address gridlock, says Obama election mastermind

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Uber can help Canadians earn extra income and address urban gridlock, the controversial ride-hailing service’s chief adviser said during a swing across the country on Thursday.

David Plouffe said UberX provides flexible employment for retirees, students and workers looking for ways to top up their incomes when they need some extra money.

“Every city has a huge problem with stagnant wages and every city is facing mobility challenges,” he said during a speech to the Montreal Board of Trade.

The manager of Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign made his pitch after visiting Toronto and before appearing in Vancouver.

Uber has raised the ire of the taxi industry, which says its business has dropped with the arrival of the unlicensed and lower-priced competitor.

Plouffe said Uber isn’t competing for a “stagnant small taxi pie,” but is attempting to grow a market that is an alternative to private cars and public transit.

“Every place ride-sharing has prospered, the market grows,” he said.

Plouffe said UberX and its UberPool car-pooling service make it practical for people to give up their cars, which can ease traffic congestion and eventually reduce the need for costly expenditures to upgrade transit and roads.

In the United States, eight per cent of Uber riders choose not to buy a vehicle, he said, which is in line with the thinking of millennials.

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David Plouffe, Uber senior vice-president of policy and communications, listens as Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey speaks at the opening of the new Uber offices. Plouffe, Uber’s chief adviser, is on a swing across Canada selling the controversial ride-hailing service. some 25 municipalities across Canada.

Montreal is an under-developed Uber market with 3,000 drivers, about half of whom drive for less than 10 hours a week, Plouffe said. There are 16,000 Uber drivers in Toronto, but nearly three times as many in Los Angeles and other large global cities.

As in many cities, Uber has received a cool welcome in Quebec.

Several hundred cabbies protested in Montreal and Quebec City a month ago urging the province to outlaw the service.

Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard has said he’s open to legalizing the service, but his transportation minister and Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre have called it illegal.

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A spokesman for the taxi industry said it isn’t willing to let a parallel industry to take money from cabbies who have paid hefty permit fees.

“If the Quebec government decides to go and legislate Uber they’re going to need to compensate the industry,” said Benoit Jugand of the union representing about 5,000 taxi drivers in the province.

“It’s either the same level playing field for everybody or else you create two kinds of industry and that will not work, that’s for sure.”

Plouffe said Uber isn’t opposed to being regulated but said many different ways have been adopted around the world that preserve core elements of the service.

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BLAIRMORE — Alberta’s energy regulator is about to consider a plan for a large mountaintop coal mine at the same time it investigates the proponent for possibly fouling a crucial spawning stream for endangered trout.

Benga Mining has begun the regulatory process for a mine that would see 12 square kilometres on the top of Grassy Mountain in southwestern Alberta near Blairmore turned into a terraced coal mine.

The company — a wholly owned subsidiary of Australia-based Riversdale Resources — has not yet filed an environmental impact assessment for the proposal. It is being investigated for possible environmental infractions at another nearby project.

“We are investigating the possible release of coal into Gold Creek,” said Tracie Moore of the Alberta Energy Regulator.

The investigation began in July after a resident complained about a large pile of refuse from an earlier mine on Benga’s site collapsing into the creek after a heavy rainfall.

In a letter to the Alberta Wilderness Association, Benga head Steve Mallyon suggested the company’s activities may have contributed to a earlier, similar release.

“The excess fluid occurred as a result of this drill site intersecting an unusual amount of ground water that was higher than anticipated,” he wrote about a release in November 2014.

Local investigators claim the release reached 12 kilometres downstream and entered the Crowsnest River.

The river and Gold Creek are considered crucial habitat for native cutthroat trout, which federal scientists are recommending should receive Canada’s highest level of habitat protection.

“Gold Creek is one of the few tributaries of the Crowsnest River that still contain pure-strain West Slope cutthroat trout,” said fisheries biologist Lorne Fitch. “If we ever get to the point where we are engaged in recovery efforts, these small remnants are going to be instrumental.”

Slides such as the one at Gold Creek not only affect levels of potentially toxic minerals such as selenium, said Fitch, they make it impossible for fish to deposit their eggs into the streambed.

That’s why putting a coal mine at the headwaters of those streams is a terrible idea, said Margo Pagonis, who owns land and a summer cabin adjacent to Benga’s property.

“It’s going to destroy streams on both sides of that mountain,” she said.

“This is mountaintop removal mining.”

Mallyon said his company’s plans have little in common with American mines that have used that method.

Instead of knocking off the mountaintop and dumping the rock in a valley, the mine would get at the coal by terracing its way up the slope, he said.

Topsoil would be conserved, overburden safely stored and the land reclaimed as the miners went along, he promised. Mallyon points out Grassy Mountain has seen decades of coal mining with many piles of coal spoils and other impacts on its slopes. He said Benga’s $700-million proposal, which includes promises of cleanup and remediation, could provide an opportunity to restore it.

“I don’t see a federal or provincial authority suddenly writing a cheque to rehabilitate a site that’s probably 1,200 hectares,” he said. “The only way to do that, in our view, is to develop a longterm sustainable mine plan.”

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 123.02 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.13 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.86 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.36 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.46 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.93 Cdn. National Railway . . 73.15 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 185.16 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 35.42 Capital Power Corp . . . . 19.34 Cervus Equipment Corp 13.63 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 42.49 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 50.98 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 19.47 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.97 General Motors Co. . . . . 29.44 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 23.07 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.98 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 37.84 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 30.28 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.45 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.02 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 43.67 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 121.73 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.97 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.15 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 68.55 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The loonie bounced back after falling to its lowest levels in more than a decade in early trading on Thursday to end the day higher as Toronto and U.S. stock markets declined.

The Canadian dollar traded at levels not seen since the summer of 2004 early in the session before recovering to end trading up 0.17 of a cent to 75.09 cents US. The S&P/TSX index ended the day down 45.02 points to 13,338.67, adding to losses earlier in the week. The Toronto market dropped 107.40 points on Wednesday after tumbling 288.35 points the day before.

Kash Pashootan, portfolio manager at First Avenue Advisory in Ottawa, a Raymond James company, said the Canadian dollar’s close ties to the price of oil means the loonie is unlikely to recover the value it has lost over the past year any time soon.

“With evidence coming out that oil prices are in no rush to go up, we’re seeing pressure on the loonie as a result,” he said.

The Dow Jones industrial average of 30 stocks close down 78.57 points to 16,201.32, the broader S&P 500 index declined 6.52 points to 1,932.24 and the Nasdaq index lost 18.26 points to 4,734.48.

Caterpillar, one of the 30 companies in the Dow Jones average, fell $4.33, or 6.2 per cent, to US$65.88 after cutting its 2015 revenue forecast by $1 billion to about $48 billion, saying it may eliminate as many as 10,000 jobs between now and 2018.

The maker of mining and construction equipment is suffering amid a global slump in commodity prices driven by oversupply and a cooling Chinese economy.

“On several fronts there is further conviction that the slow-

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 22.24 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.62 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.83 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 23.51 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . . 8.72 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.43 First Quantum Minerals . . 5.54 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 17.97 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 5.56 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.27 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.18 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 28.00 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.790 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 6.81 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 18.42 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 19.70 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 53.21 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.37 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 22.10 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 25.94 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 6.48 Canyon Services Group. . 4.96 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 19.93 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1750 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 8.93 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.710 down in China, combined with a building of supply, is leading to commodity prices staying weak for the foreseeable future,” Pashootan said.

On the commodity markets, the December gold contract rose $22.30 to US$1,153.80 an ounce, the November crude contract was up 43 cents to US$44.91 a barrel and the November contract for natural gas rose 3.6 cents to US$2.674.

The soaring gold price pushed up shares in the gold subsector, which rose 7.36 per cent as the biggest gainer on the day.

The financials subsector fell 0.49 per cent on the day, and Pashootan said Canadian financial institutions have been having a rough year on the stock market.

He said Canadian banks are dealing with exposure to a struggling oil patch and low interest rates, which have cut into their margins.

Another storm cloud on the horizon is loan growth, he said, which is set to slow over the next few years because of Canada’s sky-high levels of household debt.

“At some point the consumer reaches a point where they can’t borrow anymore because they’re already so heavily indebted,” he said.

Selling more loans to more people and businesses had been helping the banks’ bottom lines despite years of low interest rates, Pashootan said.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,338.67, down 45.02 points Dow — 16,201.32, down 78.57 points S&P 500 — 1,932.24, down 6.52 points

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 72.73 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 37.00 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.60 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 21.40 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 41.36 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 1.26 Penn West Energy . . . . . 0.620 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 4.90 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 34.48 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.43 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.47 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 41.87 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1750 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 69.79 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 57.24 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.66 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 22.91 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 31.86 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 34.70 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 94.45 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.41 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 41.81 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.33 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 71.35 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 41.99 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.02

Nasdaq — 4,734.48, down 18.26 points Currencies: Cdn — 75.09 cents US, up 0.17 of a cent Pound — C$2.0307, down 0.28 of a cent Euro — C$1.4947, up 0.22 of a cent Euro — US$1.1223, up 0.41 of a cent Oil futures: US$44.91 per barrel, up 43 cents (November contract) Gold futures: US$1,153.80 per oz., up $22.30 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.092 oz., up 58.2 cents $678.11 kg., up $18.71 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov ‘15 $5.40 higher $471.70 Jan. ‘16 $5.50 higher $476.70 March ‘16 $5.40 higher $478.40 May ‘16 $5.40 higher $478.20 July ‘16 $5.00 higher $477.00 Nov. ‘16 $5.20 higher $461.20 Jan. ‘17 $5.20 higher $462.40 March ‘17 $5.20 higher $464.10 May ‘17 $5.20 higher $464.10 July ‘17 $5.20 higher $464.10 Nov. ‘17 $5.20 higher $464.10.

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.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 458,580 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 458,580.

Germany: cars with suspect Volkswagen software in Europe too, unclear how many

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN — The software at the centre of Volkswagen’s emissions scandal in the U.S. was built into the automaker’s cars in Europe as well, Germany said Thursday, though it isn’t yet clear if it helped cheat tests as it did in the U.S. A day after longtime CEO Martin Winterkorn resigned over the scandal, a member of Volkswagen’s supervisory board said he expects more executives to step down. The company’s supervisory board meets Friday and could announce new resignations then as well as a new CEO. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency disclosed Friday that stealth software makes VW’s 2009-2015 model cars powered by 2.0-litre diesel engines run cleaner during emissions tests than in actual driving.

The EPA accused VW of installing the so-called “defeat device” in 482,000 cars sold in the United States. VW later acknowledged that similar software exists in 11 million diesel cars worldwide and set aside 6.5 billion

euros ($7.2 billion) to cover the costs of the scandal. The company has told officials that the vehicles in question included VW cars with 1.6-litre and 2-litre diesel engines in Europe, German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt said Thursday.

“We don’t yet have figures for how many of these 11 million cars that are apparently affected are in Europe,” Dobrindt said. “That will be cleared up in the next few days.”

Authorities will continue working with Volkswagen to determine what cars exactly are involved.

It isn’t yet clear to what extent the scandal affects other brands in the Volkswagen Group, which has 12 brands in all — including Seat, Audi, Skoda and Porsche. It was also not clear whether the software would have led to VW cheating on emissions tests outside the U.S. as well.

Dobrindt this week set up a commission of inquiry to look into the scandal.

The motor transport authority is conducting static and road tests on Volkswagen models and spot tests on cars made by other manufacturers, German and foreign.

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Chef, owner and founder of Milk Bar, Christina Tosi, serves up customized cereal combinations at the Kellogg’s Cereal Bar Street Cart, outside of Milk Bar’s Upper Westside location on Thursday in New York.

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CMHC researching foreign ownership of real estate Data indicating how much of Canada’s real estate is being snatched up by foreign buyers is scant, but the country’s national housing agency is working to change that. In a briefing note dated May 15, 2015, obtained by The Canadian Press through an Access to Information request, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., says it will be hosting “bi-lateral meetings” and roundtables with indus-

try stakeholders to fill a number of data gaps, including the share of new and existing homes owned by foreigners.

The initiative will go beyond the limited data the agency currently gathers, including a survey of property managers indicating how many condo units are owned by people whose permanent residence is outside of Canada. The contentious issue has been in the spotlight recently, especially in Vancouver, where some have blamed demand from offshore buyers for the city’s soaring home prices.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The â&#x20AC;&#x153;monsterâ&#x20AC;? El Nino weather system expected to hit Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s West Coast later this fall and winter could lead to higher tides, flooding and erosion in low-lying coastal areas, says a professor at the University of Victoria.

Ian Walkerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s warning comes out of part of a larger study by a group of researchers from five countries bordering the Pacific who looked into El Nino and La Nina weather systems. The study was published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Thirteen researchers from universities and government agencies tried to determine if patterns in coastal change, such as erosion and flooding, could be connected to major climate cycles, like El Nino and La Nina, across the Pacific.

Walker, a geography professor whose specialties include beach and dune systems, coastal erosion and climate-change impacts, said he contributed data collected from the west coast of Vancouver Island, between Tofino and Ucluelet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What makes B.C. kind of distinct in the broader Pacific Basin is that we see coastal erosion and flooding responses for both El Nino and La Nina,â&#x20AC;? said Walker. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now this year is a pretty monster El Nino, probably the largest ever witnessed. We know that in past El Ninos from here to California weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen some of the highest historic rates of erosion. So we can prepare for that and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen that signal in our data.â&#x20AC;?

El Nino is a natural, tropical, ocean temperature phenomenon, in which warm water near the equator in the Pacific moves towards South Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s northern coast and then turns northward, as far as Haida Gwaii and Alaska, said Walker. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As warm things expand, we see a higher water level, on the order of tens of centimetres, depending on where you are,â&#x20AC;? said Walker. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s super imposed on the tides and storms are then superimposed on top of that.â&#x20AC;?

The result can be higher ocean-water levels, he said. Contrast that to a La Nina, which typically follows an El Nino and is a phenomenon where the upwelling of cold water off northwest South American results in cooler coastal ocean waters along B.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coast, said Walker. Less energy is available for storms and the ocean levels are lower, but what leads to erosion and flooding during a La Nina event is the track of the storms that plow directly into the central portion of Vancouver Island, said Walker. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a big El Nino year, so we should be prepared but we should also be prepared as much for the La Nina which could follow in a couple years,â&#x20AC;? said Walker.

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This image provided by NASA shows the moon, left, and the Earth, top, transiting the sun together, seen from the Solar Dynamics Observatory. The edge of Earth appears fuzzy because the atmosphere blocks different amounts of light at different altitudes. This image was taken in extreme ultraviolet wavelengths, invisible to human eyes, but here colorized in gold. A total lunar eclipse will share the stage with a so-called supermoon Sunday evening.

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The proposed bylaw may be inspected at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular office hours or for more details, contact City of Red Deer Planning Services at 403-406-8700.

City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaw at the Public Hearing on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor of City Hall. If you want your letter included in the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services by Friday, October 2, 2015. You may also submit your letter at the Public Hearing, or you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

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Development Officer Approvals On September 22, 2015, the Development Officer issued approvals for the following applications: Permitted Use Golden West Industrial 1. IMC Construction Ltd. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a 41.0 m2 addition to an existing industrial building, to be located at 6424 Golden West Avenue.

Discretionary Use Pines 2. 1637981 Alberta Ltd. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a new secondary suite, with two bedrooms, to be located at 11 Patterson Crescent.

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Discretionary Use Approvals: Waskasoo Park and Red Deer Golf and Country Club Timcon Construction (1988) Ltd. - development of a 1254.0 m2 maintenance shop and office, a 111.48 m2 greenhouse and a bulk fuel storage area, to be used by the Red Deer Golf and Country Club, to be located at 6704 Kerry Wood Drive.

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A total lunar eclipse will share the stage with a so-called supermoon Sunday night or early Monday, depending where you are. That combination hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been seen since 1982 and wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen again until 2033.

When a full or new moon makes its closest approach to Earth, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a supermoon. Although still about 220,000 miles away, this full moon will look bigger and brighter than usual. In fact, it will be the closest full moon of the year, about 30,000 miles closer than the average distance. (The moonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s orbit is far from a perfect circle.)

NASA planetary scientist Noah Petro is hoping the celestial event will ignite more interest in the moon. He is deputy project for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, which has been studying the moon from lunar orbit since 2009. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The moonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a dynamic place,â&#x20AC;? Petro said Wednesday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeing changes on the surface of the moon from LRO. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeing that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not this static dead body in the sky â&#x20AC;Ś itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s this great astronomical object that we have in our backyard, essentially.

So people should get out and start looking at it.â&#x20AC;?

Many stargazers, professional and amateur alike, dislike the term â&#x20AC;&#x153;supermoon,â&#x20AC;? noting the visible difference between a moon and supermoon is slight to all but the most faithful observers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not like the difference between an ordinary man and Superman,â&#x20AC;? said Alan MacRobert, a senior editor at Sky & Telescope magazine. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It really ought to be called a tiny, slightly little bit bigger moon, rather than the supermoon.â&#x20AC;?

The full eclipse of the moon will last more than an hour and be visible, weather permitting, from North and South America, Europe, Africa and western Asia. Showtime on the U.S. East Coast is 10:11 p.m.

EDT (0211 GMT) thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when the moon, Earth and sun will be lined up, with Earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shadow totally obscuring the moon.

In Europe, the action will unfold before dawn Monday. No matter where, the preshow will begin two hours earlier.

There wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be another total lunar eclipse until 2018.

This weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eclipse marks the end of a tetrad, or series of four total lunar eclipses set six months apart. This series began in April 2014.

The 21st century will see eight of these tetrads, an uncommonly good run. From 1600 to 1900, there were none.

Observatories are marking the celestial event with public telescope viewing, although magnifying devices wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be necessary the eclipse will be easily visible with the naked eye. Astronomers are urging stargazers to simply look to the east.

In Los Angeles, Griffith Observatory also will serve up Beethovenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Moonlight Sonataâ&#x20AC;? on the piano and other moon-themed music.

NASA will provide a live video feed of the entire eclipse â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an option in case clouds obscure your own view.

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Fossils of new duck-billed dinosaur found in Alaska

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Fossils from a unique plant-eating dinosaur found in the high Arctic of Alaska may change how scientists view dinosaur physiology, say Alaska and Florida university researchers.

A paper published Tuesday concluded that fossilized bones found along Alaska’s Colville River were from a distinct species of hadrosaur, a duck-billed dinosaur not connected to hadrosaurs previously identified in Canada and the Lower 48 states.

It’s the fourth species unique to northern Alaska. It supports a theory of Arctic-adapted dinosaurs that lived 69 million years ago in temperatures far cooler than the tropical or equatorial temperatures most people associate with dinosaurs, said Gregory Erickson, professor of biological science at Florida State.

“Basically a lost world of dinosaurs that we didn’t realize existed,” he said.

The northern hadrosaurs would have endured months of winter darkness and probably snow.

“It was certainly not like the Arctic today up there — probably in the 40s (5 to 9 degrees Celsius) was the mean annual temperature,” Erickson said.

“Probably a good analogy is thinking about British Columbia.”

The next step in the research program will be to try to figure out how they survived, he said.

Mark Norell, curator of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, said by email that it was plausible the animals lived in the high Arctic year-round, just like musk oxen and caribou do now.

It’s hard to imagine, he said, that the small, juvenile dinosaurs were physically capable of long-distance seasonal migration.

“Furthermore, the climate was much less harsh in the Late Cretaceous than it is today, making sustainability easier,” he said.

Most of the fossils were found in the Liscomb Bone Bed more than 300 miles (480 kilometres) northwest of Fairbanks and a little more than 100 miles (160 kilometres) south of the Arctic Ocean.

The bed is named for geologist Robert Liscomb, who found the first dinosaur bones in Alaska in 1961 while mapping for Shell Oil Co. Liscomb thought they came from mammals.

They remained in storage for about two decades until someone identified the fossils as dinosaur bones, said Pat Druckenmiller, earth sciences curator at the University of Alaska Museum.

Researchers over the next 25 years excavated and catalogued more than 6,000 hadrosaur bones, far more than any other Alaska dinosaur. Most were from small juveniles estimated to have been about 9 feet (2.7 metres) long and 3 feet (90 centimetres) tall at the hips.

“It appears that a herd of young animals was killed suddenly, wiping out mostly one similar-aged population to create this deposit,” Druckenmiller said.

They initially were thought to be Edmontosaurus, a hadrosaur wellknown in Canada and the U.S., including Montana and South Dakota. The formal study of the Alaska dinosaur, however, revealed differences in skull and mouth features that made it a different species, Druckenmiller said.

Researchers have dubbed the creature Ugrunaaluk kuukpikensis (ooGROO’-nah-luk KOOK’-pik-en-sis).

The name means “ancient grazer” and was chosen by scientists with assistance from speakers of Inupiaq, the language of Alaska Inupiat Eskimos.

The dinosaurs grew up to 30 feet (9 metres) long.

Hundreds of teeth helped them chew coarse vegetation, researchers said.

They probably walked primarily on their hind legs, but they could walk on four legs, Druckenmiller said.

The Liscomb Bone Bed during the Cretaceous Period was hundreds of

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ABOVE: Researcher Greg Erickson works a fossil site in the Liscomb Bonebed near Nuiqsut, Alaska.

BELOW: This photo released by the University of Alaska Museum of the North, a sample of frozen bone is seen after researchers excavated it from the Liscomb Bed in the Prince Creek Formation near Nuiqsut, Alaska. Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have found a third distinct dinosaur species documented on Alaska’s oil-rich North Slope.

The new species is a type of hadrosaur, a duck-billed plant-eater.

miles farther north in what’s now the Arctic Ocean, Druckenmiller said.

University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate student Hirotsugu Mori over five years completed his doctoral work on the species.

The findings were published Tuesday in “Acta Palaeontologica Polonica,” an international paleontology quarterly journal.

Researchers are working to name other Alaska dinosaurs.

“We know that there’s at least 12 to 13 distinct species of dinosaurs on the North Slope in northern Alaska,” Druckenmiller said. “But not all of the material we find is adequate enough to actually name a new species.”

They have found no evidence of crocodiles, turtles, lizards or other ectotherms, the cold-blooded animals that depend on the sun or another external source of heat to regulate their body temperature.

Erickson said, an indication they were more like birds and mammals.

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4-ingredient zucchini soup

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In the farm-to-table food world of today, we often praise the cook who keeps recipes simple, letting the ingredients speak for themselves. Yet once I get started in the kitchen, sometimes I can’t help but add in a final touch, an extra this or that (or two or three) that will make the whole recipe really sing.

So I’ll admit, when I gave myself the task of creating a truly simple weeknight soup, I had to exercise uncharacteristic restraint. In fact, truth be told, I made eight different versions of this soup, half of which I allowed myself to continue to tweak and taste, adding everything from low-fat sour cream and citrus for tang to prosciutto chips and smoked paprika for a smoky edge.

Guess which soup won the taste tests at my house?

The simple 4-ingredient version I’m sharing with you today.

Four ingredients is all it takes to create this perfect meal starter. By starting my meals with a healthy veggie-driven soup, I load up my family with vitamins and fiber before the main meal even begins. And since my kids usually arrive at the dinner table racing in from hours of soccer practice or dance rehearsal, they are ravenous. Whatever I feed them first has the highest chance of being eaten, so why not make it uber healthy?

Zucchini — available most of the year despite technically being a summer squash — is full of fiber and offers nice array of vitamins. One medium squash provides vitamin B6, folate and over half our daily requirement of vitamin C, not to mention minerals, such iron and calcium. Zucchini also sports a couple grams of protein, which are always welcomed.

So while you should feel free to tweak this recipe if you must, I urge you to try it as is first. You will be pleased.

4-INGREDIENT ZUCCHINI SOUP The soup is great as is, but it’s also a wonderful slate for dressing up with a variety of toppings. It also allows everyone in the family to customize the soup as they see fit. Mini toasts, browned turkey or chicken sausage, sauteed winter or delicata squash, a spoonful of plain Greek yogurt blended with chopped fresh herbs, or bread.

Start to Finish: 20 minutes Servings: 4 3 medium-large zucchini (about 1 1/2 pounds) Kosher salt and ground black pepper 2 cups low-sodium chicken or vegetable broth, warmed to hot

2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives 1 tablespoon lemon juice Heat the oven to 400 F. Line a baking sheet with kitchen parchment.

Cut the zucchini in half lengthwise, then slice off the nubby ends. Place the zucchini on the prepared baking sheet, then mist with cooking spray. Season with salt and pepper, then roast until tender, about 15 minutes, turning halfway through.

In a blender, combine the roasted zucchini, hot broth, chives and lemon juice. Blend until creamy and smooth.

Serve immediately.

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Fiancé not interested in heirloom furniture Dear Annie: After five years of dating, my fiancé and I have purchased a house and are in the process of moving in together.

Everything is going well, except for one thing: “Walter” does not want me to bring any of the furniture my mother gave me.

My mother has kept several couches, rugs and other household items in storage for me, and I love these pieces.

Walter has expressed the desire to simply buy new items rather than use what KATHY MITCHELL was left to me, which I find AND MARCY SUGAR disrespectful, not only to me, but to my family.

ANNIE’S MAILBOX I tried to compromise by donating many of these items and only keeping a handful, but he wants all of it gone.

Annie, this is causing a major rift. I refuse to give away items my mother left me simply because he is being stubborn.

Walter thinks I am being difficult and that dumping these things is no big deal.

His cavalier attitude makes me even more upset.

I would never ask him to donate an entire storage locker of items from his family because I disliked the style or wished for new things.

I don’t want to resent Walter over this. Any suggestions? — War of the Roses Dear Roses: We see that you have made concessions about the furniture and donated some of it.

Has Walter made any concessions?

It’s his turn. He should agree to keep most of the remaining pieces, provided they are in good condition. If he has legitimate objections, he should voice them.

This may seem like a minor disagreement, but if Walter refuses any compromise, then you are getting a small sample of every decision the two of you will make in the future.

Please don’t assume his attitude will mellow.

Get some premarital counseling so Walter can understand that his autocratic style is not going to create a happy marriage.

Dear Annie: I am at my wits’ end when it comes to my husband’s behavior.

Whenever my opinion does not coincide with his, he plugs his ears, walks away or filibusters.

I have reached the point where I refrain from giving my opinion since every time I do, he accuses me

of trying to start a fight.

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Any help would be greatly appreciated. — Lonesome Wife Dear Lonesome: We know two-year-olds who behave with more maturity than your husband. Is there someone he respects (a relative, friend, clergyperson) who would referee for the two of you and make it clear that married couples have a responsibility to listen to one another?

A spouse who disagrees with your opinion is welcome to say so, calmly and respectfully.

But plugging one’s ears or otherwise preventing you from expressing yourself is childish and damaging. If your husband won’t listen to any third-party suggestions, please get some counseling and see whether you can find different ways to cope — or whether you want to.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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HOROSCOPE Friday, Sept. 25 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Michael Douglas, 70; Catherine Zeta-Jones, 45; Will Smith, 46 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The stars favour working overtime — but avoid making hasty moves tonight.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: The more organized you are, the more productive and pleasurable the coming year will be. But strive to be more sensitive to the feelings of loved ones.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Have you been neglecting yourJOANNE MADELIN self? The current stars remind you MOORE to be proactive about your health and fitness, as you nurture your SUN SIGNS body with nutritious food and regular exercise.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You need a break from all the hard work you’ve been doing so put aside time for some R & R at home. Some Bulls will play Domestic God or Goddess, and entertain in splendid style.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A fussy friend or family member may criticize your professional performance but don’t let them undermine your confidence as well. Have the strength to stand up for what you believe in.

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frustrating, and you may feel as if you’re doing everything on your own. Don’t despair Crabs! Most people are preoccupied with their own problems today.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Putting effort into long-term projects leads to rewards later on. But its not a good day to make witty wisecracks and insensitive jokes, as others may be offended. Choose your words wisely.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgos are very conscientious.

But your talent for criticism— constructive and otherwise — is likely to go into overdrive today, as you critique the efforts of those around you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You won’t feel like being particularly social today Libra so tackle individual projects, and catch up on unfinished personal business. Plus listen to what your intuition is telling you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Venus boosts romantic prospects and work-place relations. And you’ll find the more creatively you communicate with family, friends and colleagues, the more exciting the day will be.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): With Saturn visiting your sign, be realistic about your strengths and weaknesses. Try to maximize your Sagittarian sex appeal and intelligence— and minimize your slap-dash streak.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Loved ones and work colleagues are unlikely to fit in with your plans Capricorn, but is that their problem — or yours? Cool compromise will get you a lot further than pointless debate.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Adventure and outdoor activities beckon but you’ve got so much to do it will be hard to get away. Make sure you are shouldering your share of the work, otherwise others will be resentful.

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Some of the most popular costumes are expected to be based on the reptilian superheroes after the 2014 release of the film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, according to Steven Silverstein, CEO of Spirit Halloween, a chain of more than 1,150 pop-up stores devoted to costumes and decor for the holiday.

Children love the Turtles, and so do adults who watched them on TV and in movies when they were kids, he says.

Girls are expected to choose costumes based on the Disney TV movie, The Descendants, the story of the children of Disney characters such as Cruella De Vil and Cinderella.

Adult costumes and accessories based on TV shows like The Walking Dead and Orange Is the New Black are expected to sell well.

Costumes based on superheroes like the Avengers or Batman should also be brisk sellers, Silverstein says.

And as usual, corsets and skimpy outfits for women are likely to attract a lot of partygoers.

Risque costumes are big Halloween sellers.

For those with gorier tastes, Halloween fare also includes bloodied zombies and ghouls and characters from slasher movie classics like Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th. ping, avoid buying things that you later regret.

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Red Deer Rebels Preston Kopeck, Wyatt Johnson and Kayle Doetzel, as the team’s three overage players are expected to contribute on and off the ice as the team prepares be hosts of the Memorial Cup tournament this May.

This year, there’s more on the line

GREG MEACHEM

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The role of a 20-year-old Western Hockey League player includes being not only an on-ice force but being a fine example for younger teammates both on and off the ice.

If that’s true, then the Red Deer Rebels have the right people in place as their three overage players.

“The thing that all three of these guys have in common is they’re outstanding people, every one of them,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter, in reference to forwards Wyatt Johnson and Presten Kopeck and defenceman Kayle Doetzel. “They are all competitors and they are all character kids.

“They care very deeply, they want to have success and they want the team to have success. They love to win and they come to play, all three of them. They are three players you

don’t ever worry about because you know what you’re going to get from them.”

Johnson is entering his fourth season with the Rebels, who will host the 2016 Memorial Cup tournament in May. Fresh from his second consecutive appearance at the Anaheim Ducks training camp, the Saskatoon native fully realizes what is on the line this season.

“It’s a huge season. A player couldn’t ask for a better opportunity both personally and for the team,” he said. “Obviously it’s my last year in the league so I want to make it count and there’s no better way of doing that than winning a championship.”

Johnson admitted there’s an extra air of excitement around the Rebels dressing room this fall.

“Obviously we’re trying not to look too far

ahead, but yeah, you can feel that little extra enthusiasm in the city and throughout the team,” he said.

Johnson is more than willing to not only take on, but excel in an advanced leadership role.

“As a 20-year-old, you have to provide a strong sense of leadership in the room and outside of the rink as well as on the ice,” he said. “I’m looking forward to the role.

Any time you play a couple of seasons in the league and are one of the older players on the team, you’re relied upon more in different scenarios.

“So yeah, it’s all about getting the younger guys included. We were all there once, too.”

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REBELS: More responsibilities and higher expectations Johnson is coming off a season in which he scored 25 goals and garnered 54 points in 71 games. Naturally, he’ll push to increase those numbers this winter, but will focus more on playing a strong two-way game.

“I want to contribute offensively and continue playing a strong defensive game as well,” he said. “I don’t want to set a goal in regards to (offensive) numbers. I just want to help the team in any way that I can and hopefully it goes well.”

Kopeck is another who is willing to shoulder the extra responsibility of providing a strong example for the younger players.

“Being one of those older guys, you always want to be a role model for the younger guys,” he said. “With that, we have three good 20-year-olds to start off the year and I think all of the young guys are going to look up to us.

“That’s the main thing — just being a good role model and just kind of leading them in the right direction. I think we’ll do a good job of that.”

As Memorial Cup hosts, the Rebels should perform with an extra dose of intensity this winter. But, as Kopeck pointed out, anticipating and relishing their appearance in the national major junior championship will not be a regular exercise for he and his teammates.

“We know we’re hosting the Memorial Cup, but right now that’s not the goal,” he insisted. “We want to be first in the regular season, we want to finish on top of the league. That’s our goal.

“We’re not even worrying about the Memorial Cup right now. We just want to get off to a good start and keep that rolling. We’ll get through the WHL season first and the Memorial Cup will come when it comes.”

Kopeck is confident that his team goals are not inflated, that the current edition of the Rebels is a legitimate WHL championship contender.

“With the group we have now, we’re good,” said the Medicine Hat product. “Everybody works hard, everybody knows their role. When everyone is back from pro camps we’ll be an elite group. Everyone is looking forward to this year.”

Sutter is more than comfortable with his overage forwards, who provide versatility as well as various intangibles.

“The thing about Wyatt is you can play him at centre ice or on the wing and a guy like Kopes can play all three forward positions. And they’re both good penalty killers,” said Sutter.

But most importantly …

“They bring leadership and they have character. You always know

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Rebels forward Wyatt Johnson steps around Calgary Hitmen defenceman Jake Bean in WHL action last season. what you’re getting out of them, every night,” said the Rebels boss. “I’ve never seen them have a tough game.

They’re consistent in everything they do.

“The details they bring to the game are huge. They do everything right, they act like pros, they train like pros.

They come prepared to play and put themselves on the line every night.

They’re key players here and we’re expecting big things out of those guys.”

Doetzel is the longest serving of the overage players, having joined the club as a 16-year-old in 2011.

Like his 20-year-old teammates, he welcomes the challenge and responsibility associated with his age.

“As 20-year-olds in this league, the three of us have a big responsibility. We have to help lead the team and help out with everything,” said the Rosetown, Sask., native, the Rebels’ first pick in the 2010 WHL bantam draft.

Doetzel has been to a pair of NHL camps, but didn’t get an invitation this year. However, he can attract more pro interest this winter, especially if he performs at the level he did the second half of last season.

“Hosting the Memorial Cup, you’re always going to get a lot of exposure,” he said. “For me, I have to have a big year and see what happens. Hopefully

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I’ll get something working during the season or toward the end of the year that I can be playing hockey again next year.”

Doetzel’s performance over the final few months of the 2015-16 season earned him the Rebels’ defenceman of the year award.

“I felt like I had a good year,” he said. “It was probably a little slower start than I would have liked, but I feel that the last half of the season I really stepped it up and had a big year.

That’s what I have to bring this year. I have to be a big physical presence and just play my game.”

Doetzel is adamant that the Rebels will be in the championship hunt this season.

“Once everyone is back (from pro camps) and we get all the lines and (defensive) pairings put together, I feel we’ll definitely be a strong team, one that many teams are going to want to mess with,” he said.

Sutter is looking for a more consistent season from his veteran rearguard.

“Doetz has had a tough time in the first half of seasons, for whatever reason,” said Sutter. “A lot of it had to do with going to a couple of pro camps.

He came back thinking he’s a different player than he is.

“He never had a chance to go to a pro camp this year, so now he has a chance to just focus in on what he needs to be as a player for the first half of the year and carry that on to the second half. The last two years his second half has been outstanding.

“We’re expecting big things from Doetz, too, he has to be a leader on our back end. We think we have three very good 20-year-olds and yet with the situation we’re in with our team, with us hosting the Memorial Cup, they have to perform and produce.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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GM: Mike Moore (third season).

Head coach: Mark French (second season). Assistants: Darcy Wakaluk (12th season), Joel Otto (ninth season), Trent Whitfield (first season).

Key losses: Overagers C Adam Tambellini, LW Connor Rankin and LW Kenton Helgesen as well as D Keegan Kanzig, who will likely play in the AHL. The 20-year-olds: D Colby Harmsworth, LW Elliott Peterson, G Brendan Burke.

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General manager: Randy Hansch (third season).

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Assistant coaches: Ryan Marsh, Kurtis Mucha (goaltenders).

Key losses: D Ashton Sautner, D Blake Orban, LW Edgars Kulda, all to graduation; LW Mads Eller (turned pro); G Tristan Jarry (turned pro).

The 20-year-olds: C Brandon Baddock, D Ben Carroll, RW Luke Bertolucci.

The imports: RW Dario Meyer of Bern, Switzerland; D Anatolii Elizarov of St. Petersburg, Russia; both selected in this year’s Canadian Hockey League import draft.

Key returnees: LW Brett Pollock, a Dallas Stars draft pick, led the club in scoring last season with 32 goals and 62 points; C Lane Bauer, second in team scoring in 2014-15 with 55 points (25g,30a); D Dysin Mayo, Arizona Coyotes draft pick who will co-anchor the Oil Kings back end with Carroll and fellow veteran Aaron Irving; Baddock, scored 19 goals last season and is a legitimate heavyweight.

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Assistant coaches: Mike Craig (third season), Josh MacNevin (1st season), Jeff Battah (goalies, third season).

Key losses: Are there key losses after a 20-win season? If so, the trade of speedy captain F Jamal Watson (26g, 28a) might be it.

The 20-year-olds: New additions in F Corey Millette (from Seattle Thunderbirds), F Justin Gutierrez (TriCity Americans) and D Arvin Atwal (Vancouver Giants). Millette was dealt for Watson and has the most pedigree.

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Assistant coaches: Gordon Burnett (first season), Mike Bergren (goaltending coach, fourth season), Wayne Dougherty (skills and development coach, second season).

Key loss: Elite offense of C Sam Reinhart (Buffalo Sabres), LW Tim Bozon (Montreal Canadiens) and D Rinat Valiev (Toronto Maple Leafs) won’t be easily replaced.

The 20-year-olds: Too many. G Wyatt Hoflin and C Luke Philp seem likely locks. Beyond that, RW Jaedon Descheneau (St. Louis Blues) could land the third spot if returned from NHL. Also in the mix: D Tyler King (injured), D Tanner Lishchynsky, RW Jon Martin.

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Watch for: Work ethic will be the calling card. Pierce, 32, has preached that and intelligent play. If the group buys into message being sold by the WHL’s youngest coach, they will compete nightly.

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Key returnees: LW Jake Virtanen (sixth overall in 2014, Vancouver Canucks) will be a force to be reckoned with if he’s returned by the NHL club.

New faces: RW Matt Dorsey, C Mark Kastelic, LW Dawson Martin, RW Murhpy Stratton, RW Andrew Fyten, RW Lucas Cullen, D Jakob LaPointe, D Aaron Hyman, G Kyle Dumba, G Lasse Petersen.

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Just notes: Hitmen D Jake Bean, who put up 39 points in 51 games in his rookie campaign, went untouched through the bantam draft.

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Prognosis: The Hitmen will be very deep on the blueline but will likely struggle to fill the net. They should still be a top four team in the Eastern Conference, but won’t be in Brandon’s league.

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MEDICINE HAT TIGERS Last season: 45-23-2-2, eliminated in second round of playoffs.

Head coach: Shaun Clouston (sixth season as coach, fourth as general manager).

Assistant coaches: Joe Frazer (sixth season), Jerrid Sauer (second), J.F. Martel (goaltending).

Key losses: G Marek Langhamer — The big Czech netminder was the backbone of Medicine Hat’s defence for two seasons; D Tyler Lewington — The Tigers captain parted ways in the off-season as an overage player and will likely find himself in the AHL with the Hershey Bears this season.

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The imports: Given the overage situation, it’s unlikely Medicine Hat will retain Eisenschmid, as he occupies an import and an overage spot on the roster. The Tigers also parted ways with the league’s last import goaltender, Langhamer, in the off-season. In their places the Tigers have taken on Russian D Alexei Platonov and Hungarian D Tamas Laday.

Key returnees: Cox and Sanford both reached career highs last season, while Cox became one of only four players since 1997 to record 80 assists in a season; D David Quenneville is coming off a strong 16-year-old season and will be looking to cement his place as one of the league’s most promising defencemen this season; G Nick Schneider picked up victories in each of his first 11 starts as a Tiger and signed an entry-level contract with the Calgary Flames.

New faces: RW Caleb Fantillo — drafted 123rd overall in the 2013 WHL bantam draft — had two goals and two assists through four pre-season games and is poised to join the team as a 17-year-old forward; Texan C Max Ger-

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Noteworthy: The Tigers are known to play with a shoot-first mentality, and that won’t change this season. Expect some lopsided shot counts in close games.

Did you know: Both Cox (second in WHL scoring for 2014-15) and Sanford (fourth in WHL scoring for 2014-15) went undrafted in the NHL. The prognosis: While the Tigers look as though they may be in the midst of a rebuild, with some solid young talent and strong potential in the trade market, it wouldn’t come as a surprise to see them extend their playoff streak to 14 years.

— Ryan McCracken, Medicine Hat News

LETHBRIDGE HURRICANES Last season: 20-44-5-3, 21st in the WHL. Missed playoffs.

General manager: Peter Anholt.

Head coach: Brent Kisio (1st season).

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Fri Oct 30: Spokane at Red Deer 7:00 PM Sun Nov 1: Red Deer at Medicine Hat 6:00 PM Tue Nov 3: Seattle at Red Deer 7:00 PM Fri Nov 6: Red Deer at Prince Albert 6:00 PM Sat Nov 7: Red Deer at Saskatoon 6:05 PM Wed Nov 11: Red Deer at Brandon 3:00 PM Fri Nov 13: Red Deer at Regina 6:00 PM Sat Nov 14: Red Deer at Moose Jaw 6:00 PM Fri Nov 20: Saskatoon at Red Deer 7:00 PM Tue Nov 24: Regina at Red Deer 7:00 PM Wed Nov 25: Red Deer at Kootenay 7:00 PM Fri Nov 27: Red Deer at Medicine Hat 7:30 PM Sat Nov 28: Regina at Red Deer 7:00 PM Sat Dec 5: Red Deer at Lethbridge 7:00 PM Sun Dec 6: Prince Albert at Red

Deer 5:00 PM Wed Dec 9: Red Deer at Medicine Hat 7:00 PM Fri Dec 11: Medicine Hat at Red Deer 7:00 PM Sun Dec 13: Calgary at Red Deer 5:00 PM Tue Dec 15: Red Deer at Kootenay 7:00 PM Fri Dec 18: Kootenay at Red Deer 8:00 PM Sat Dec 19: Lethbridge at Red Deer 7:00 PM Sun Dec 27: Edmonton at Red Deer 5:00 PM Mon Dec 28: Red Deer at Edmonton 7:00 PM Thu Dec 31: Red Deer at Kootenay 4:00 PM Sat Jan 2: Brandon at Red Deer 7:00 PM Tue Jan 5: Red Deer at Prince Albert 6:00 PM Wed Jan 6: Red Deer at Saskatoon 6:05 PM Fri Jan 8: Lethbridge at Red Deer 7:00 PM Sat Jan 9: Vancouver at Red Deer 7:00 PM

Wed Jan 13: Red Deer at Moose Jaw 6:00 PM Fri Jan 15: Red Deer at Brandon 6:30 PM Sat Jan 16: Red Deer at Swift Current 6:00 PM Wed Jan 20: Moose Jaw at Red Deer 7:00 PM Fri Jan 22: Swift Current at Red Deer 7:00 PM Sat Jan 23: Everett at Red Deer 7:00 PM Fri Jan 29: Kootenay at Red Deer 7:00 PM Sat Jan 30: Brandon at Red Deer 7:00 PM Fri Feb 5: Red Deer at Kootenay 7:00 PM Sat Feb 6: Moose Jaw at Red Deer 7:00 PM Wed Feb 10: Medicine Hat at Red Deer 7:00 PM Fri Feb 12: Red Deer at Calgary 7:00 PM Sat Feb 13: Tri-City at Red Deer 7:00 PM Tue Feb 16: Red Deer at Kelowna 8:05 PM Wed Feb 17: Red Deer at

Kamloops 8:00 PM Fri Feb 19: Red Deer at Prince George 8:00 PM Sat Feb 20: Red Deer at Prince George 8:00 PM Fri Feb 26: Portland at Red Deer 7:00 PM Sat Feb 27: Victoria at Red Deer 7:00 PM Mon Feb 29: Red Deer at Regina 10:30 AM Tue Mar 1: Red Deer at Swift Current 6:00 PM Fri Mar 4: Calgary at Red Deer 7:00 PM Sun Mar 6: Red Deer at Calgary 4:00 PM Tue Mar 8: Prince Albert at Red Deer 7:00 PM Fri Mar 11: Red Deer at Lethbridge 7:00 PM Sat Mar 12: Lethbridge at Red Deer 7:00 PM Tue Mar 15: Calgary at Red Deer 7:00 PM Thu Mar 17: Red Deer at Edmonton 7:00 PM Sat Mar 19: Edmonton at Red Deer 7:00 PM

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D8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Sept. 25, 2015

Tigers goalie signs with Flames

BY RYAN MCCRACKEN SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Nick Schneider made his mark on the Calgary Flames.

The undrafted 18-year-old Medicine Hat Tigers goaltender got an invitation to attend training camp with the big league franchise, and he left with his name signed on a three-year, entry-level contract.

“That was the goal going in, to show them I can play and compete at this level. It’s been a great experience all around,” said Schneider, who went 15-7-1 with a 2.82 goals against average with the Tigers last season. “It definitely makes up for (going undrafted), that’s for sure.”

The 6-foot-2, 175-pound goaltender was ranked ninth among North American goaltenders entering the 2015 NHL draft. While he went unselected, Schneider says the unfortunate news only inspired him to work harder.

“In the summertime I felt I had something to prove and I still do right now. I’ve got to show that I deserve it and I can play,” said Schneider, who played two periods with the Flames at training camp, against the Vancouver Canucks and the Calgary Dinos. “I just

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Nick Schnieder impressed at the Calgary Flames training camp. want to keep developing and trying to get ready for the next step.”

Schneider finalized his professional contract Wednesday morning.

Within minutes of the news going public, his phone started to buzz.

“Right when it happened a bunch of

the boys and coaches texted me to congratulate me,” he said. “It’s awesome.”

Schneider added he is thrilled to be a part of the Flames organization, especially with their knack for grooming young talent proven in last season’s second-round NHL playoff push.

“It’s definitely a top class organization in an exciting time,” he said.

“They have a really good staff through the American Hockey League and NHL. The thing I noticed the most is they treat their players really well.”

• The overage situation has become more clear for the Tigers. The Tigers announced Wednesday they had traded forward Dryden Hunt to the Moose Jaw Warriors in exchange for a second round bantam draft pick in 2016 and a third round bantam pick in 2018.

Hunt, who was acquired by the Tigers in a trade with the Regina Pats in January, posted 33 goals and 50 assists between the two clubs last season.

“Dryden was a major contributor during the second half of the season,” said Tigers head coach and general manager Shaun Clouston.

“He put up good numbers for us and contributed in the playoffs. He played well in our first round win against Red Deer and he played well against Calgary. He was one of our better players in the Calgary series.”

Clouston also revealed overage defenceman Matt Staples had cleared waivers Wednesday afternoon, after being re-added to the team for the pre-season.

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New season, even bigger challenges for coach-of-the-year John Paddock GREG HARDER SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE John Paddock pulled a rabbit out of his hat last season when he guided one of the WHL’s youngest teams to the second round of the playoffs.

For his next trick, the WHL’s reigning coach of the year will attempt to duplicate that performance with an even younger team that opens the season minus two of its top veteran players.

“We’re going to have some rough moments because we’re young but we’re going to grow from those moments,” said Paddock, whose team will launch the WHL’s 50th season tonight against the host Moose Jaw Warriors.

“I believe we can accomplish the same thing as we did last year. That’s the goal. Anything less will be a disappointment.”

That said, Paddock also admits that his outlook may vary based upon the chair in which he’s sitting.

As the head coach, he will prepare his team with the expectation of winning every game this season.

As GM, he realizes the Pats’ best days are still ahead.

“There’s a big picture view,” not-

ed Paddock, who’s looking to build a championship contender within three years.

“I don’t mind saying it’s a 19-yearold driven league (and the Pats only have two of them). That’s going to cause some rough moments, but I still think we can overcome it.”

It won’t be easy in the absence of 20-year-olds Taylor Cooper and Colby Williams.

Cooper — one of Regina’s few proven scorers — is expected to be out until the start of November due to off-season shoulder surgery.

Williams, the Pats’ captain and No. 1 defenceman, could miss the entire first half after suffering an arm injury over the summer.

“We knew back in the spring that Coops wasn’t going to be here to start with but Colby is a big, big hole,” said Paddock. “We can’t replace him. We just have to wait. It’s going to be a significant factor. That’s why we have to keep our head above water (until he’s back). It would be like all of a sudden getting what is going to be the best player on your team in a trade.

That’s what is going to happen when he comes back.”

In the meantime, Regina will go to battle with a roster that includes just

two of its top it doesn’t show in a win on eight scorers a certain night,” said Padfrom last season dock. “We have to be getting (Adam Brooks better individually and colI don’t mind saying and Sam Steel). lectively.” it’s a 19-year-old driven The holdovers That proved to be a winwill be under league (and the Pats only ning formula last season t r e m e n d o u s have two of them). That’s when Paddock dismantled pressure to en- going to cause some rough a strong lineup at the trade sure the team moments, but I still think we deadline, shipping out four doesn’t dig too key veterans with an eye can overcome it. deep of a hole toward bigger things in the to begin the sea— Regina Pats coach future.

John Paddock son.

Instead of waving the “It’s probably white flag, the Pats hung ongoing to be chalto second place in the East lenging; I’ve hinted at that for a long Division and hit their stride in the time,” said Paddock. “We know where playoffs, sweeping the Swift Current we’re at in the (building) process, but Broncos in the first round and giving it is important to get off to a good start. the heavily favoured Brandon Wheat You don’t make the playoffs in the first Kings a run for their money in the seccouple of months but I think you can ond. lose it.”

It remains to be seen if the Pats can Either way, Paddock expects his do it again — albeit under different promising young team to be better at circumstances — but Paddock doesn’t the end of the season than it is at the see why not. start. That would seem to be a must “We expect to be in the playoffs and if the Pats hope to make the playoffs see what happens,” he added. “Last with a lineup that includes 10 rookies year we were in the playoffs and we and 10 more players with just one sea- won a round. I think we had Brandon son of WHL experience. nervous. There would be nothing bet“We have to be at our best and we ter than to make them nervous again.” also have to be getting better even if — Regina Leader Post

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