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Gone with the windrows CITY CREWS TO REMOVE ANNUAL IRRITATION FROM FRONT DRIVEWAYS

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Council has decided snowplows will do the heavy lifting by removing windrows from in front of residential driveways this winter.

On Monday, city council passed changes to the Integrated & Acces-

sible Transportation Policy that will see windrows from front driveways cleared by city crews, who will move the snow to windrows on the remainder of the street.

The move will increase the height of windrows and may affect on-street parking.

“In my view, we’ve traded a wind-

row problem for a parking problem,” said Mayor Tara Veer.

“Obviously none of us like windrows. The concern is that the trade-off for clearing windrows from the driveways is piling more snow on both sides of the street.”

She said the city heard a substantial number of complaints about windrows

in front of driveways last year, but complaints depended on the size of windrows. Some windrows were small and people could just drive over them.

But council decided to go back to the old model of clearing windrows from driveways.

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Mable Tooke, aka SpiderMable, and Spider-Man, rescue Black Cat in Edmonton on Monday. Six-year-old Mable Tooke has been fighting cancer for the past two years and her wish has come true to fight crime with SpiderMan. See related story on page A3.

Like a rock: Liberal candidate refusing to back down in face of lawsuit threat

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

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In the face of accusations of slander and liable, the Red Deer-Lacombe Liberal candidate is standing by statements the MP should return money raised during a visit from Mike Duffy.

Last week, Liberal candidate Jeffrey Rock received a cease-and-desist letter from lawyer Craig Paterson, of Ponoka, on behalf of Blaine Calkins, the Conservative candidate for the Red Deer-Lacombe riding. The letter demands Rock to retract statements in a Sept. 12 press release.

The letter goes on to threaten legal

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“It’s intended to silence me and to bully me,” said Rock. “I will not allow either to happen.

“I haven’t said anything that’s not public record and isn’t true.”

In the Sept. 12 press release, Rock called on Calkins to return $4,185 to Canadian taxpayers or donate the money to charity. The money was

raised at an Oct. 13, 2009, Conservative riding association fundraiser, which included embattled Conservative senator Mike Duffy.

The letter from Paterson calls the accusation that the fundraising done

by Duffy for Calkins “was somehow wrong and as such Calkins engaged in inappropriate behaviour by allowing Mr. Duffy’s [sic] to fundraise on his behalf slander and liablass [sic].”

The statement from Rock points to Duffy’s diary, entered as evidence at his trial, showing he often collected a Senate per diem while attending more than 45 fundraising events.

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Handed a two-year-and-four-month sentence for a fatal hit and run, a New Brunswick man asked for his sentence to be longer.

Sporting new defence counsel, Brent Robert Cameron, 27, formerly of Saint John, N.B., sat in the prisoner’s box wearing a black sweater with a collared shirt underneath.

Cameron is convicted of failing to remain at the scene of a collision and mischief, for providing a false report to police. He was sentenced Monday in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench to 26 months jail by Justice John Little. Due to his pre-sentence custody credit, he has one year and four months left to serve.

Paul Gabriel Bertin, 18, was killed in a collision on the Taylor Bridge at about 2 a.m. on Oct. 6, 2012. His body was found in the northbound lanes.

“Paul will be a name I never forget,” said Cameron while apologizing to the Bertin family.

RCMP witnesses said Cameron had reported his vehicle stolen later in the day and that it was found damaged and abandoned on a side street in Riverside Meadows, blocks from the scene of the collision.

Little said he was originally going to sentence Cameron to 28 months in custody, but reduced the sentence to 26 months after hearing Cameron address the court and show remorse for his actions.

Cameron asked for his sentence to be longer so he could do his time at a federal correctional facility and take advantage of the better mental health and educational programs.

Little did not increase his sentence or reduce Cameron’s pre-sentence custody credit. Instead he agreed to sign a recommendation that Cameron serve his time in a federal correctional facility.

During his time at the Red Deer Remand Centre, a provincial correctional institution, Aloneissi said Cameron was triple-bunked in a cell intended for two inmates for a few months.

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Edmonton police face spike in crime calls due to energy industry woes Edmonton police are linking the downturn in the oilpatch to a spike in crime.

Chief Rod Knecht said officers have responded to 9,000 more calls for service this year, compared to the same time in 2014.

Violent crime is up 12 per cent, property crime 18 per cent and the number of 911 emergency calls is up by almost 14 per cent.

Knecht said the calls for service are not all serious crimes, but added this “significant” jump means that sometimes his officers take longer to respond.

“When oil is up, we are busy, and when oil is down, we are really busy,” Knecht said Monday.

“And that is just because a lot of folks are coming back to Edmonton from, say, Fort McMurray, Cold Lake, other points north, and they are staging here in Edmonton waiting for the price of oil to go back up so they can go back to work.”

Knecht said it was almost like someone threw a switch last November. That’s when the price of oil tumbled to below US$70 a barrel after the OPEC cartel declined to cut oil production.

“We saw a (crime) spike occur then and it has continued on since then. You can say the crime rate is linked, to a certain degree, to the price of oil.”

Oil was trading not much above $44 US on Monday.

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers estimates that 35,000 jobs in the oil and gas industry have been shed so far this year. Last week, Calgary-based TransCanada told its workforce that more staff cuts are on the horizon.

WINDROWS: Public enemy No. 1 An amendment proposed by Veer for city crews to not clear windrows from driveways was defeated at council six to two, with Veer and Coun. Tanya Handley voting in favour.

Coun. Ken Johnston also put forward an amendment that would have seen city crews remove windrows from front driveways and take the snow and ice away so it would be not be added to windrows on the street.

City administration estimated that would cost an extra $1 million if required four times this winter Johnston said that amounted to only $48 more a year for taxpayers, which was an extraordinary value.“I think it is affordable and I think it does add to the quality of life, convenience and safety, especially for seniors,” Johnston said.“Windrows are public enemy No. 1 in our city.”

Council voted seven to one against dumping driveway windrows elsewhere. Coun. Lynne Mulder said residents don’t want higher taxes. But many contacted her when windrows in front of their driveways contained big, heavy chunks of ice.

“A lot of people said, ‘I can’t move that ice myself,’” Mulder said.

Coun. Dianne Wyntjes also favoured removing windrows from driveways after hearing from residents like seniors or people with disabilities, as well as those “after a hard day’s work having to shovel through those windrows” to get to their driveway.

In the end, council voted unanimously in favour of the group of four recommendations made by the city’s governance and policy committee, which included clearing windrows in front of driveways and three other changes: • Residential streets (grey routes) and collectors, transit routes and residential streets adjacent to schools (green routes) will be plowed within 15 days of a 10 cm snow pack. It will improve operational efficiencies and allow green and grey routes to be completed in each snow zone at the same time.

• Public sidewalks will be cleared within three days of a snow event.

• Industrial and commercial areas (orange routes) may be plowed sooner than the 15-cm snow pack trigger when it makes sense to do so.

Veer said the new changes to snow clearing that eliminate differences in service between grey and green routes, as well as quicker snow clearing for

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“The city has had a long-standing inequity in terms of snow removal policy on public sidewalks.

We expect our residents to shovel their sidewalks within 48 hours or they are ticketed by bylaw. The city previously didn’t have a standard and than last year we had a standard at eight days. Now this year we’ll have a standard of three days so we’re closing the differential between what we expect our of our citizenry and what we’re doing as a public service,” Veer said.

The city’s snow and ice program was launched last winter and set out triggers and targets for snow plowing to be phased in over two years.

Last year, more than 10,000 vehicles were left on the street during snow clearing, which drastically slowed down operations. Warnings were issued to vehicle owners to allow them to get used to the program.

This year, vehicle owners will get a $75 ticket, and if the vehicle needs to be towed that will cost them about another $50. Residents can find out about their snow zone and route at www.reddeer.ca/snowzone.

FATAL: A tragedy for both families Cameron teared up as he listened to Mike Bertin read his victim impact statement.

Mike, Paul’s father, called the incident a tragedy for his family and Cameron’s. He said both families will always have the tragic memory of this incident, but Cameron gets to continue with life, while Paul does not.

Mike talked about how he had to call all of Paul’s siblings and break the bad news, trying his best to convey the anguish and sadness in his conversations the evening they were told about Paul’s death.

The Alberta Sheriff assigned to the court room passed facial tissues to both Cameron and Mike during the reading of the victim impact statements.

Opening his address to the court, defence counsel Bob Aloneissi turned to Paul Bertin’s family with an apology on behalf of Cameron. Paul’s family took up a row of seats in the court house.

Aloneissi said Cameron was very sorry for their loss.

Then Aloneissi turned to the incident on Oct. 6, 2012, and talked about how Paul climbed over the barrier that separates the pedestrian walkway from the road and put himself in harms way.

He conceded that Cameron failed to act properly when he fled the scene.

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“This is a blatant attempt to tie Calkins to Duffy’s legal issues where not [sic] such connection exists and in the process slander Calkins and his constituently [sic] association.”

“I’ve asked him to return to money to taxpayers or donate it to charity,” said Rock. “I asked him to do that two weeks ago and instead he decided to send me a cease and desist letter.”

Mike Duffy headlined a Oct. 13, 2009, Wetaskiwin Conservative Association fundraising dinner held at the Lacombe Memorial Centre. Tickets to the event were $75 in advance or $100 at the door.

Calkins has been the MP of the Wetaskiwin riding for about nine years. Ridings in Central Alberta changed for the 2015 federal election, with the northern half of Red Deer and a significant portion of the former Wetaskiwin riding combined into a new district. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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alive right after the crash and the criminality came when Cameron left the scene, leaving Paul to die.

Silliker sought a sentence of two-and-a-half to three years in custody for Cameron as well as a three-year driving prohibition and an order to provide a sample of his DNA. Aloneissi countered that Cameron had already served the equivalent of one year in custody at the Red Deer Remand Centre and that was enough. He was re-arrested on Jan. 26, 2015 and has been in continuous custody since then. Taking into account the one-to-one-and-a-half credit for pre-sentence custody afforded to accused persons this would equal about a year. Aloneissi also suggested a period of probation, a one year driving prohibition and consented to the DNA order.

Little settled a two-year driving prohibition for Cameron in his sentence.

Cameron originally stood trial in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench from Jan. 13 to 16. Mid-trial, just before closing arguments, he did not attend court and a warrant was issued for his arrest. He was re-arrested on Jan. 26. Cameron was convicted on June 5 at the trial’s continuation, and a sentencing hearing was scheduled for July 22. At that hearing before, defence counsel Glen Allen of Wetaskiwin informed the court that he would withdraw as counsel of record and Aloneissi would take over. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Six-year-old cancer patient Mable Tooke first learned about Spider-Man in hospital and he quickly became her favourite superhero because, of course, they both have radioactive blood.

So when Mable got to choose anything from The Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada, she dissed Disneyland and was set on spending a day swinging around Edmonton and fighting crime with the webbed wonder.

After she woke up Monday morning, she watched a spoof TV newscast in which Edmonton police called on SpiderMable to help save the city and rescue kidnapped Edmonton Oilers Captain Andrew Ference.

Her mother, Lisa Tooke, said Mable had to watch the news story twice because she wasn’t sure if it was about her.

“At first that disbelief in her eyes and then a slow smile appears and then a big grin and then a ‘Let’s go!”’

Elizabeth LoPresti with the wish foundation said the elaborate event was the biggest the organization has ever pulled together. Ference, several police officers and Mayor Don Iveson all took part in the ruse, along with Spiderman himself, who acted as Mable’s sidekick for the day and chatted with her about his life in New York City.

LoPresti said Mable’s idea may have stemmed from a similar event held for Batkid, a five-year-old leukemia patient named Miles Scott, whose mission to save San Francisco in 2013 touched hearts around the world.

Dressed in her own caped-costume and mask, SpiderMable was whisked around the city by limo and joined Spiderman in various adventures, which included zip-lining through the water-

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Mable Tooke, aka SpiderMable, and Spider-Man, take a zipline to save Black Cat in Edmonton on Monday. Six-year-old Mable has been fighting cancer for the past two years and her wish has come true to fight crime with Spider-Man. park at West Edmonton Mall to rescue the feline superhero Black Cat. “We have a clue about where we’re going to go next,” the pint-sized superhero next told reporters after stopping for a pizza lunch.

“We’re going to get some superhero training and then we’re going to track down Mysterio and catch him.”

She added that the experience was “pretty cool” but taking lots of energy.

Mable has been undergoing regular chemotherapy since she was diagnosed with leukemia in 2013. While her prognosis is good, Mable’s mother said the special day gave her a much-needed boost.

“She’s getting close to the end of her treatment. It’s become such an incredible drag.”

Mable not only skipped her Grade 1 class on Monday but also her dai-

ly chemo pill, her mother said, since there was so much crime-fighting to do.

Her father, Neil Tooke, was astounded by the scale of the event and said he wasn’t sure if Mable knew it was all a game.

“I don’t know if she believes it or not but she’s going along with it.”

He hopes the day helped her “forget about the hospital, forget about procedures, just be a kid again.”

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we reasonably can,” she said, adding she will “phase in change prudently, as our economy recovers,” in recognition of the fact Alberta is likely to run at least a $5-billion deficit this year because of a drastic drop in oil prices.

But Notley said she recognizes her province needs to change the way it is perceived nationally and internationally regarding the fight against climate change — and soon.

“If we don’t get it right on this issue, a solution is going to be imposed on us — sooner or later — by others. By the federal government, and by our markets, who will increasingly insist that energy products then buy be mined and processed responsibly.”

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Rachel Notley, on the first leg of a business trip to Montreal, New York City and Toronto, told executives and politicians that a national cap-andtrade system “may not be our best road forward.”

She added that Alberta — whose economy is heavily dependent on the greenhouse gas-intensive oilsands — must get its act together to reduce emissions or risk having a “solution imposed on us” by the federal government and international resource markets.

On Sunday, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair proposed a national carbon trading system to combat man-made greenhouse gas emissions, which are considered by an overwhelming number of international scientists as the leading cause of climate change.

He said provinces would be allowed to opt out of a national scheme if their efforts are as good as or better, but didn’t provide details.

“We’re not going to replace something that’s working,” Mulcair said.

Notley said her province “may address climate change using different tools than Ontario and Quebec will use,” referring to a deal between those provinces to work together to cut emissions with a cap-and-trade system.

While Notley didn’t provide specific targets or details about her strategy, she said Alberta will move away from coal-fired plants — which she said account for 55 per cent of the province’s electricity supply — and look into renewable energy, energy efficiency and some form of carbon pricing.

“We will be looking for a strategy to phase out the use of coal as quickly as

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and former Quebec premier Jean Charest attend a business luncheon in Montrel, Monday.

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Niqab issue a Tory boon There is no consensus as to which lic opinion in Quebec will bring more of the five federal leaders — if any Conservative sympathizers out of the — won Thursday’s French-language closet; they will be more eager to proselection debate. But on the elytize on Harper’s behalf. issue that briefly set the deThe status of veiled Musbate studio on fire, there is lim women in Canada’s citlittle doubt that Conservaizenship courts is not in ittive leader Stephen Harper self an automatic ballot box is winning the argument. issue.

By the time Canada goes But many of the Quebecto the polls next month, the ers who feel strongly about discussion as to whether the niqab are also aligned Muslim women who wear with Harper on Canada’s the niqab should be remilitary role in the interquired to unveil their faces national coalition fighting to take the citizenship oath Islamic State extremists. will have given way to other More than a few support his CHANTAL campaign themes. anti-terrorism agenda.

HEBERT But if any national parIn a debate exchange as ty benefits from the controrevealing as the flare-up OPINION versy over the face-covering over the niqab, the Bloc niqab, it will be the ConserQuébécois’ Gilles Duceppe vatives. And if that happens, the Lib- was even more vocal in his defence of erals and the New Democrats will — the need to take the battle against ISIS at least in part — have themselves to to the Middle East than his Conservablame. tive rival.

The unexpected emergence of the Justin Trudeau and Thomas Mulniqab issue as a campaign flashpoint cair both believe that a veil ban is de has given Harper a rare opening in facto irreconcilable with the Charter Quebec. of Rights and Freedoms and they reThe province that most dislikes his peated as much at the debate. party is home to the largest proporThey may be right, but their case tion of supporters of the Conservative might have been more effectively adniqab ban. At the very least, having vanced if they had first admitted that their party on the winning side of pub- the individual rights guaranteed in the

charter are subject to what the courts determine to be a reasonable limit in a free and democratic society and, second, agreed that this is a worthwhile question to be put to the Supreme Court by the next government.

The latter is not something Harper has undertaken. He is appealing the quashing of the niqab ban by the Federal Court on technical grounds.

Using the argument of the charter as if it were a string of garlic cloves designed to ward off an unwelcome issue is not only inefficient, it does a disservice to the fundamental freedoms the Liberals and the New Democrats purport to champion.

The Conservatives did all they could to have the niqab on the election radar — including keeping a lost legal cause alive to have a peg for their veil ban rhetoric. But they did not manufacture the strong societal consensus that backs that ban. It is not just in Quebec that a strong majority is on side with the Conservatives’ take on the niqab.

Some might see dropping the niqab hot potato into the lap of the Supreme Court as a cop-out, but sooner or later the top court is bound to have a say in this debate.

Quebec’s national assembly is currently debating a Liberal bill that requires provincial government services

to be delivered and received with uncovered faces. It will inevitably be challenged in court.

If and when the Supreme Court gives its take on the extent of religious freedoms, its conclusions could have a more decisive impact on public opinion than all of Mulcair and Trudeau’s admonitions.

At the time of the Parti Québécois plan to impose a secular dress code on Quebec’s public servants, Pauline Marois’s government took pains to dismiss the probability that the project was at odds with the Canadian and the province’s charters. The PQ feared support for its secularism agenda would decline if the courts concluded that it trampled on fundamental freedoms.

There are those who believe the topic of the niqab is a trivial one or who feel its appearance in the campaign narrative sullies the election conversation. And yet, under the guise of this discussion, voters are getting a taste of one of the fundamental debates of the 21st century. It revolves around how the increasingly diverse communities that make up pluralistic societies accommodate their cultural and religious differences and it is not going away after Oct. 19.

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

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Spain headed for battle over unity “We would have preferred a referendum like in the institutions of an independent state — a diploQuebec and Scotland but the only course left to us matic service, central bank, tax authority and armed was to organize these elections,” said Artur Mas, forces — and declare independence unilaterally 18 president of the regional government of Catalonia. months from now.

So, he said, the election that was held on Sunday in This will create a serious confrontation with MaSpain’s richest province should be seen as a referen- drid in much less than 18 months, because creatdum on independence — and he won it. ing such separate institutions is against It was not a big win: the pro-indepenSpanish law. But Mas argues that he had dence parties needed 68 seats for a mano choice but to go ahead without a refjority in the 135-seat regional parliament, erendum, since the Spanish government and they got 72. But it was a win neverrefuses to authorize a referendum on the theless, and Mas says he will unilaterally grounds that the constitution does not aldeclarate Catalonia independent in the low regions to make unilateral decisions next eighteen months on the strength of on sovereignty. this vote.

What Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy Catalonia could certainly make it as offers instead is a referendum in which an independent country: it’s about the the entire country would vote on Catalan same size as Switzerland, with about the independence. same population (7.5 million). But there is He defends this peculiar procedure on doubt about whether Spain would agree the grounds that Catalonia’s separation GWYNNE to a friendly divorce — and even greater would affect the whole of Spain, since it DYER doubt about whether a majority of Cataaccounts for 16 per cent of the population OPINION lonia’s voters would actually vote “yes” and a fifth of the economy. if there were a real referendum on indeNaturally, this option has no appeal pendence. to the separatist leaders, but Madrid’s As in most places, the rural constituencies in Cat- intransigence does give them an excuse to proceed alonia contain fewer voters than the urban ones, and without a referendum that they might well lose. it is in the rural parts of Catalonia that the support Indeed, they would have lost it at most times in for independence is strongest. The pro-indepen- the recent past, although support for independence dence parties got a majority of the seats, but they fluctuates with time: it was below 40 per cent in 2010, only won 48.7 percent of the votes. rose to the low 50s in 2012-13, and is back down to the Mas’s parliamentary majority is therefore a flimsy low 40s in the most recent polls. basis for such a momentous decision as breaking up Nor can the separatists assume that it is back up Spain, but he is going ahead anyway. to almost 50 per cent on the evidence of Sunday’s He says that he will immediately start building vote. Most of the pro-independence parties are on

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the left, and some traditional left-wing voters would have supported them without necessarily backing independence.

The arguments for independence, pro or con, are often cast in terms of the economy, but it’s very unlikely that an independent Catalonia would experience either an economic disaster or an economic bonanza. Independence is basically an emotional issue, not an economic one — and for Catalan nationalists, the emotions are very strong.

The problem is that ethnic Catalans are barely half the population. Catalonia’s relative prosperity attracted huge numbers of Spanish immigrants in the latter half of the 20th century, and 46 per cent of the people in Catalonia now speak Spanish as their first language (although 96 per cent claim to speak both languages).

It’s very hard to win an independence referendum when almost half the population does not share the emotions that drive the cause, so the separatists’ best hope is to go for independence without one.

That is going to make things very messy in Catalonia, and even violence is not to be excluded.

Nor is the forthcoming national election in Spain likely to change Madrid’s fierce resistance to Catalan independence: all the major Spanish parties oppose it, although the new Podemos Party at least supports Catalonia’s right to hold a referendum on it.

But then, that may just be tactical thinking. Letting Artur Mas hold a referendum would not necessarily be doing him a favour.

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‘It’s like the worst nightmare’ MAN, 29, CHARGED WITH A DOZEN IMPAIRED-DRIVING OFFENCES FOLLOWING FATAL CRASH

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VAUGHAN, Ont. — The parents of three young children who died in a crash involving an alleged drunk driver north of Toronto said Monday they are in shock and called it their “worst nightmare.”

The children’s mother, Jennifer Neville-Lake, who also lost her father in the crash, told Toronto television station CP24 the news hasn’t fully sunk in yet.

“It’s like the worst nightmare, as a daughter, as a parent, to have to go through and just know it was caused by someone’s stupidity… It just kills me,” she said.

Daniel Neville-Lake, 9, his brother Harrison, 5, and sister Milly, 2, died after the crash that took place Sunday afternoon in Vaughan, Ont. Jennifer Neville-Lake said her father often took care of the children because she and her husband both work full time.

Daniel was devoted to dance, having taken ballet for several years, and went to Cubs meetings every week, his mother said. He loved to play strategy games, she said.

Harrison — nicknamed Harry — was a bilateral hand amputee and was often sick, Jennifer Neville-Lake said.

He also had a developmental delay, she said.

“Harry was just so happy. He loved beauty, loved to dance, loved long flowing hair and dresses and pink and My Little Pony,” she said.

Milly, she said, was “feisty” and loved to play outside.

The two youngest siblings died to-

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Police investigate the scene after a fatal accident in Vaughan, Ont., north of Toronto, on Sunday. A 29-year-old man faces 18 impaired-driving charges after three young children and their grandfather died following a three-car crash north of Toronto. gether in hospital, holding hands, as their grandmother — who was driving the van and suffered serious injuries — sang to them over the phone, Neville-Lake said.

“She didn’t know that my dad had died,” she said. “She was driving and was pinned in the car and was screaming the kids’ names and she couldn’t… there was no answer.

“At first she thought it was her hearing but it wasn’t until I called her from Sick Kids and I said, ‘Mommy the babies are dying, I need you to sing to them please,’ so she did, she sang to each of them, and then she found out about my dad.”

Police said all were travelling in the same vehicle when their car was

struck by another car. Fire officials said they were T-boned by the other car. A third vehicle was also involved in the crash but its two occupants were not injured.

A 29-year-old man was charged with a dozen impaired-driving offences and appeared briefly in court Monday.

Marco Muzzo of King Township, Ont., also faces six charges related to the dangerous operation of a motor vehicle.

He is due in court for a bail hearing Friday. Crown attorney Brian McCallion said he will be contesting Muzzo’s release.

Muzzo’s lawyer Rudi Covre would only say that his client is struggling.

“I’m sure you can appreciate that

Federal party leaders square off on foreign policy in fourth debate

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau invoked his father’s ghost Monday night in an election leaders’ debate that was far more emotional and animated than the dry foreign affairs subject matter might have suggested.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper also amped up his ardour, pounding home the point that convicted terrorists have no home in Canada and can expect to be stripped of their citizenship, while painting his rivals as soft on security.

And the NDP’s Tom Mulcair asserted that New Democrats are prepared to send Canada’s military into combat, provided the mission has NATO or United Nations approval.

The debate, the fourth of five during the extraordinarily long, 78-day election campaign, was also remarkable for the capacity crowd of more than 3,000 paying — and occasionally partisan — patrons at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall.

The large live audience helped animate the well-paced debate with applause and laughter that punctuated the three leaders’ most cogent points.

A battle over federal stewardship of the economy was supposed to be this election’s defining issue, but emotive “values” questions have increasingly dominated the discourse.

Those values have been attached to the country’s place in the world: Canada’s handling of an international Syri-

an refugee crisis the place of minority religious face coverings at citizenship ceremonies and rescinding Canadian citizenship from convicted terrorists who hold dual citizenship.

Trudeau, the Liberal leader considered to have the most to lose in a twohour debate on foreign policy, came out swinging.

On Syrian refugees, Trudeau drew applause when he invoked nearby Ireland Park in Toronto, where he said 38,000 Irish arrived in 1847 fleeing the potato famine. They arrived to a city of 20,000 citizens.

But it was under attack for supporting the contentious Conservative security bill, C-51, that Trudeau reminded viewers of his famous prime minister father.

“When we talk about the legacy that my father leaves behind, first and foremost is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which has defined Canada as a country that stands up for individual rights, even against governments that want to take those away,” said the younger Trudeau.

“Multiculturalism that has made Canada strong not in spite of its diversity, but because of its diversity….”

Trudeau added that the evening was emotional because it marked the 15th anniversary of Pierre Trudeau’s death.

“And I know he wouldn’t want us to be fighting the battles of the past he’d want us squarely focused on the future and how we’re going to respond to Canadians’ needs, and that’s what we’re

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Harper stoutly defended his government’s policies to date on accepting Syrian refugees.

“We haven’t opened the floodgates,” said the prime minister. “Some European countries just started letting everybody in and now they’re trying to reverse those policies.”

Harper noted that the process has been sped up, “while maintaining our security and not literally spending tens of millions of additional dollars.

And these are the numbers we’ve arrived at. We’re not chasing headlines.”

Harper’s repeated invocation of headline-hunting opposition parties earned a stern rebuke from Mulcair.

Helping the world’s most vulnerable is not headline chasing, scolded the New Democrat.

The refugee issue has come up repeatedly during the election campaign, and with it the related arguments around how to approach the civil war in Syria, how to shape immigration policy, and what constitutes an optimal level of development aid.

On climate change, Harper said his government has been consistent in stating any international protocol required all countries to sign on and that he’s “very optimistic” the world will reach an historic accord later this year.

The next round of international negotiations on global climate change targets is scheduled for December in Paris.

this is a very tough time for him,” he said outside the courthouse after the hearing.

“It’s a difficult period in his life right now. We’re going to have to get through it.”

The two boys were students at St. Joachim Elementary School in Brampton, Ont. — Daniel was in Grade 4 and Harrison in senior kindergarten, according to the school board.

Grief counsellors are at the Catholic school and Tuesday’s mass will be dedicated to the siblings, spokesman Bruce Campbell said. A memory table has also been set up in the foyer for students to share their feelings and recollections, he said.

“It’s obviously a shock,” he said.

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BRIEF Nova Scotia school board bans dances for middle schoolers SYDNEY, N.S. — A school board on Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island has banned school dances for students in grades 6 to 8, a move that has prompted hundreds of people to sign an online petition demanding the dances be reinstated.

The Cape Breton-Victoria Regional School Board said Monday its administration made the decision after moving from a junior high to middle school grade configuration this school year.

Donnie Holland, acting co-ordinator of school services, said following a professional development session in the spring, officials decided there were better activity options to create a positive school climate that are more age-appropriate.

“It’s not so much that we’re saying dances are evil,” said Holland. “We’re just saying that we’re trying a new philosophy with middle school, so let’s try some new approaches to building school spirit.”

Holland said grade six students, who can be 10 and 11 years old, also may not be developmentally ready for the social pressures related to relationships that surround dances.

“We wanted to have activities that would be more developmentally appropriate, that would be more effective at creating a positive school climate, which is so critical to student achievement,” said Holland.

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Suicide a public health crisis in Nunavut: coroner IQALUIT, Nunavut — Nunavut’s chief coroner supports the verdict of a fatality inquest jury that found suicide should be declared a public health emergency in the territory.

An official acknowledgment that Nunavut’s suicide rate is a crisis might be the way to break a logjam in the territory’s ability to implement major parts of its suicide prevention strategy, Padma Suramala said Monday. “We came to know through the inquest there was an issue to implement the suicide action plan. They were lacking only in funding.”

The jury also said Nunavut should create a ministry exclusively devoted to suicide prevention.

The territory’s health minister refused to say how the government will respond.

“I have to work with my cabinet colleagues,” said Paul Okalik. “I will be taking all the recommendations to cabinet.”

Suramala called the inquest in early 2014 after a record number of people in Nunavut had killed themselves the previous year. The total number of deaths reached 45 — a number that included an 11-year-old child — and brought the territory’s suicide rate to 13 ½ times the national average.

Few in the territory are unaffected.

Almost everyone knows someone who has committed suicide. The territory is replete with tragedy, including one case in which a grandmother who was distraught over the suicide of her granddaughter killed herself.

Late Friday, the jury returned a verdict re-emphazing 41 of the 42 recommendations in Nunavut’s 2010 suicide prevention plan. It added another 10 recommendations from the territorial government that were made during the inquest.

But none of them will prevent a single death unless they are put into play — and that takes resources, said Suramala.

“A considerable amount of effort has been put in to develop Nunavut’s suicide prevention strategy,” she said. “We know it was lacking in the implementation.”

Declaring a public health emergency might qualify the territory for federal programs, she said.

Jack Hicks, a researcher who has done important studies on suicide in Nunavut, said the territory has been dragging its feet.

“There’s an accepted basket of things you’re supposed to do,” said Hicks. “Nunavut has not done the usual stuff. Suicide alertness and intervention training is barely alive in Nunavut.”

Murder trial of doctor charged in kids’ deaths hears from their mother

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SAINT-JEROME, Que. — The day his children were killed, an ex-Quebec doctor who stands accused in their stabbing deaths declared war on their mother, she told the court on Monday.

Isabelle Gaston’s emotion-packed testimony took centre stage at the trial of her ex-husband, Guy Turcotte, who is facing two counts of first-degree murder in the 2009 slayings of Olivier, 5, and Anne-Sophie, 3.

Turcotte, 43, has pleaded not guilty to the charges but admitted last week, through a statement of agreed facts filed by the lawyers, to causing the deaths.

The Crown has said the GUY TURCOTTE children were stabbed 46 times.

Gaston kept her back to the accused and her focus on the jury as she described, while responding to prosecutor Rene Verret’s questions, how their rocky relationship came to an end in January 2009.

In the weeks that followed, Gaston said, she decided to have the locks on the family home changed after several unannounced visits by Turcotte, including one where he reportedly punched her new lover.

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Suicide is a long-running tragedy in Nunavut, where people kill themselves at 13 ½ times the rate of the Canadian average. Here are some of the recommendations to come out of an inquest into the suicides of two people from Nunavut. ● The territorial government should immediately declare suicide to be a public health emergency in Nunavut ● The government should create a minister responsible for suicide prevention ● A secretariat on suicide prevention should be created and given adequate resources. It should report to the minister ● A public awareness campaign should be created to “de-normalize” suicide ● Suicide prevention curriculum materials should be introduced in schools ● Community grief support networks should be created ● A followup protocol should be established for people who unsuccessfully attempt suicide ● All three regions of Nunavut should have substance abuse treatment centres ● All levels of government should provide adequate, multi-year funding for suicide prevention ● The territorial government should recommit to the goals of Nunavut’s 2010 suicide prevention strategy

On Feb. 20, 2009, Gaston and Turcotte had a telephone conversation, with Gaston testifying Monday he was livid after learning about the lock change.

“You had no right, it was my house,” Gaston quoted Turcotte as yelling at her over the phone. “If you want a war, you’ll have it.”

She pulled over while driving to a ski weekend near Quebec City, trying to call Turcotte back several times without success.

By the next morning, the children were discovered dead.

Earlier, Gaston said the couple met in 1999 and were married for six years before splitting in January 2009 — less than a month before the young children were found stabbed to death in a home Turcotte had rented following the split.

Gaston said there were “ups and downs” throughout the marriage and, that by 2008, she had fallen in love with her personal trainer, Martin Huot, who was also an acquaintance of Turcotte’s.

Gaston testified she was on vacation with Turcotte and their children in Mexico in January 2009 when an email from Huot informed her that his ex-girlfriend had outed their infidelity to Turcotte.

“I regret that my relationship wasn’t over,” she told the jury, suggesting a wish she’d formally ended her marriage before taking up with Huot.

She said Turcotte was never clear about how he felt about the separation — sometimes expressing optimism and relief, other times anger and a refusal to accept Huot’s growing presence in his children’s lives.

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TUESDAY, SEPT. 29, 2015

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Character and consistency will be the keys to the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs’ Alberta Midget Hockey League season, in the opinion of head coach Brandin Cote.

“I think we have a solid group and more importantly for us as coaches, we have a solid character group with kids that are together and willing to be a team,” said Cote.

Certainly, the Chiefs will be looking at moving up in the standings this season after finishing seventh in the South Division during the 2014-15 campaign and missing the playoffs by three points.

“It’s not that we weren’t competitive last year.

We were right there, but we just weren’t consistent enough,” said Cote. “From top to bottom this season I think we’ll see a bit more consistency and character.

“I don’t want to say that we lacked character last season, but we have a lot of character kids this year.”

The Chiefs were 0-5 at the recent AMHL preseason tournament at Strathmore and posted their first win this fall in their final exhibition game Sunday at the Arena, where they got two goals from rookie forward Josh Tarzwell in a 5-3 victory over the Fort Saskatchewan Rangers.

“I don’t put a lot of stock in an exhibition tournament in terms of results,” said Cote. “My primary focus was picking our team. The reality is we had some people to watch and I wanted to get as many guys in there as I could to see who can play at this level and who couldn’t.

“I think we got the people we need to have, I think we got it right in terms of the people we brought on.

I like our team, we’re solid from our goaltenders on out.”

The Chiefs’ roster features six returning players and two more — goaltender Dawson Weatherill, who stopped pucks at Notre Dame College last winter, and defenceman Matt Krawiec, who suited up with the Leduc Oil Kings — who have midget AAA experience.

The returnees are rearguards Dayton Playford and Landon Mackenzie and forwards Parker Smyth, Tyler Graber, Regan Doig and Tyrees Goodrunning.

The rookie group includes three 15-year-olds in defenceman Luke Bast and forwards Tarzwell and Josh McNeil, all of whom played major bantam last season, with McNeil also getting some time at the mi-

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Forward Parker Smyth of the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs fends off defenceman Kona Jackson of the Fort Saskatchewan Boston Pizza Rangers during AAA midget action last season. Smyth is one of six returning players that will be leaned on to help the Chiefs get back to the playoffs this season. nor midget AAA level.

“All three have been real good so far,” said Cote.

“They all have a high skill level and they’re also very intelligent players.

“They bring that energy that we need. They’re willing to work and they’re willing to listen and learn. That’s all you can ask from those guys.”

Justin Travis, up from the minor midget AAA ranks, will share goaltending duties with Weatherill.

Newcomers on defence include Brady Park (midget AA last season) and Adam Sandstrom (minor midget AAA).

The other first-year forwards are Zachary Froehlick (major bantam last winter), Levi Glasman and Joel Ray from the minor midget AAA ranks and Ko-

Rodgers throws five TDs as Packers dissect Chiefs

be Scott, Tanner Zentner and Landon Siege, all of whom played midget AA in 2014-15.

“I don’t necessarily know if we’ll be one of the most skilled teams, but we’re going to be real competitive every night,” said Cote. “We’re going to work and the kids showed that Sunday.

“We have guys like Tyrees Goodrunning, Parker Smyth and Tyler Graber who we’re going to lean on for leadership up front, for sure, and guys like Landon Mackenzie and Adam Sandstroms are big parts of our back end.”

The Optimist Chiefs open their regular-season schedule Friday at the Arena against the Calgary Buffaloes. Game time is 8 p.m gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Jays inch closer to AL East crown with win over Orioles

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Kansas City Chiefs’ Alex Smith (11) fumbles as he is sacked by Green Bay Packers’ Mike Daniels during the second half of an NFL game Monday, in Green Bay, Wis. The Chiefs recovered the fumble.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Packers 38 Chiefs 28 GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Packers coach Mike McCarthy is running out of superlatives to describe Aaron Rodgers.

Every week, his MVP quarterback dissects defences in painstakingly methodical fashion.

Rodgers threw for 333 yards and five touchdowns, including three to Randall Cobb, and Green Bay beat the Kansas City Chiefs 38-28 on Monday night.

Rodgers led the Packers (30) on two successful first-quarter drives that ended with scoring passes to Cobb and rookie Ty Montgomery. He found James Jones for a 27-yard touchdown reception late in the second quarter for a 24-7 lead at the break.

“Aaron is a phenomenal player ... and playing great football,” McCarthy said with a laugh. “I’ll just keep saying it.”

Green Bay built a 38-14 lead early in the fourth quarter before withstanding a late rush by Jamaal Charles and the Chiefs.

Charles rushed for three touchdowns for Kansas City (1-2), which followed its stunning, last-minute loss at home to Denver with a respectable fourth-quarter effort at raucous Lambeau Field.

Charles’ 7-yard TD with 1:25 left got the Chiefs within 10. But

the end result was the same for Kansas City, which lost its second straight.

“Green Bay did a nice job,” said a curt Chiefs coach Andy Reid.

Another masterful performance by Rodgers made for a difficult night for Reid’s defence.

Rodgers, who finished 24 of 35, again burned a secondary on freeplay situations following defensive penalties. The longest play came on a 52-yard catch in the fourth quarter by Jones following an offside penalty, setting up Cobb’s third touchdown catch.

“His ability to really process information is as good as I’ve ever been around,” McCarthy said about Rodgers.

The Chiefs were on alert for Rodgers’ tendency to take advantage of free plays.

They still got beat.

“This is not acceptable, and coach Andy Reid is not happy,” Chiefs linebacker Derrick Johnson said.

The offence’s ability to build big leads feeds into the Packers’ philosophy of making the opposing offence one-sided. It helps when the Packers can stop the running game, too.

Despite the three touchdown runs, the Packers prevented Charles from making explosive plays, limiting him to 49 yards on 11 carries.

Up front, Green Bay controlled the line of scrimmage when it counted and got to Alex Smith for seven sacks.

“Forcing (them) to punt that first half was pretty boring, being on the sideline,” linebacker Clay Matthews said. “But, hopefully, this is just an indication of where we’re headed as a defence.”

Smith finished 24 of 40 for 290 yards and a touchdown.

Under pressure near his own end zone, Smith also threw an interception to Sam Shields at the Chiefs’ 19 with about 7 minutes left in the third quarter. Shields returned it 15 yards, and on the next play, Rodgers found Cobb for a 4-yard touchdown and a 31-7 lead.

Rodgers and Cobb hooked up for another 4-yard scoring pass in the fourth. With the score, Rodgers set the franchise record with his fourth career game of at least five touchdown passes.

“That’s a Hall of Fame quarterback, and we give him much respect,” Johnson said. “It’s not panic mode, but if we want to do good down the stretch, we’re going to have to play a lot better against really good teams.”

Kansas City stopped its long streak of no touchdown receptions by a receiver when Jeremy Maclin hauled in a 5-yard TD pass with 56 seconds left in the third quarter to get the Chiefs within 31-14.

Greg Meachem, Sports Editor, 403-314-4363 E-mail gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Blue Jays 4 Orioles 3 BALTIMORE — As they charge toward their first AL East title in 22 years, the Toronto Blue Jays are finding new and interesting ways to win.

A team that has hit 223 home runs used a 60-foot dribbler to beat the Baltimore Orioles 4-3 Monday night.

Toronto’s fifth straight victory, coupled with the Yankees’ loss to Boston, reduced the Blue Jays’ magic number for securing the division crown to two.

After scoring twice in the eighth to pull even, the Blue Jays got the decisive run against Brad Brach (53) in the ninth. Dioner Navarro led off with a single and was replaced by pinch-runner Dalton Pompey, who advanced on a single. After a sacrifice moved the runners up, Pompey scored when Justin Smoak hit a slow roller to first and Chris Davis threw wildly to the plate.

“I hit it off my thumbs,” Smoak said. “Looking for a changeup, got a heater. That can happen.”

The Blue Jays did get a home run — from Edwin Encarnacion — but that wasn’t much of a factor in the Blue Jays’ 35th comeback victory of the year.

“We can win any way possible,” Smoak said. “This team is unbelievable. Guys fight to the end.”

Brett Cecil (5-5) pitched one inning and Roberto Osuna got two outs for this 20th save.

Ryan Flaherty hit a three-run homer for the Orioles, who have lost four straight. Toronto starter Marco Estrada, Cecil and Osuna retired the last 17 Baltimore batters in order.

“Part of that is you have to credit the other guy who is on the mound,” Baltimore’s Matt Wieters said.

“We’ve had some tough pitchers. Estrada was really pounding the zone. Anytime he wanted to throw a strike, he threw a strike.”

Estrada gave up three runs and four hits in 7 1-3 innings. After allowing Flaherty’s home run in the second, Estrada retired 18 of the next 19 batters. The only Baltimore baserunner during that span was Wieters, who singled with one out in the fourth.

Down 3-1, the Blue Jays rallied in the eighth against Chris Tillman and All-Star reliever Darren O’Day. Ryan Goins led off with a single and advanced on a groundout before O’Day entered and gave up RBI singles to Ben Revere and Jose Bautista.

The uprising, which didn’t feature a hard-hit ball, was an appropriate prelude to the ninth.

“We felt good with Darren going in there,” Wieters said. “He had a couple of ground balls that shot through the infield that could have easily have been an inning-ending double play. But they found holes.”

The comeback came after Tillman took a four-hitter into the eighth.

“Tip my hat to my guys,” Toronto manager John Gibbons said. “They hung around and made a run at it late.”

Tillman was 0-4 with a 15.50 ERA in five starts against Toronto this season, and 4-10 with a 6.02 ERA over his career. He was much improved this time around, but not good enough to get the win.

“Would’ve been better to come out of that with a W, but you know what? They’re a good team. And they never stop,” he said.

After Encarnacion led off the second inning with his 36th home run, Baltimore answered in the bottom half. Wieters and Jonathan Schoop hit successive one-out singles before Flaherty hit an opposite-field drive that barely cleared the left-field wall.

That ended a run of 29 consecutive scoreless innings by the Orioles, who were blanked in three straight games by Boston over the weekend.

But more zeroes followed, right up through the ninth.

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Kings go undefeated in exhibition test

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

RDC VOLLEYBALL

The last time the RDC Kings and Camrose Augustana Vikings met on the volleyball court it was in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference final.

On that date the Vikings came from behind to down the Kings 3-2 to win the championship. While Saturday’s meeting in the Ramada Inns and Suites ACAC Southern Challenge tournament at RDC didn’t have the same meaning, nor the same level of competition, it had a bit of the same excitement.

This time it was the Kings who stormed from behind to down the Vikings 25-27, 22-25, 25-19, 25-19, 15-10 to finish the tournament with a 4-0 record. Not all of the eight teams met during the three-day affair and there was no final, but the RDC-Augustana clash was possibly the highlight match.

With it being early in the season there were a number of mistakes on both sides.

“It was ugly for sure,” said Kings head coach Aaron Schulha. “A few guys had too many errors and I told them at one point if they weren’t going to pass the ball with consistency they’d be off the floor.”

As a result Schulha brought in back up power hitters Brian Grenier and Grady Mawer for starters

Tanner Rehn and Regan Fathers, which seemed to kick start the Kings.

“They certainly didn’t hurt us and it was good for them to come in and contribute,” added Schulha.

“They are depth guys who made the most of their opportunity.

“As well both (right side) Nic (Dubinsky) and (middle) Tommy (Lyon) are fifth-year guys and they stepped up to take a leadership role and be vocal about it. Then (middle) Ty (Moorman) came in and made a difference on both offence and defence. He’s an energy guy.”

Dubinsky finished with 22 kills while Lyon had eight kills, four blocks and two aces. Moorman came in in the third set and finished with five kills, a block and an ace. Setter Luke Brisbane had 41 assists, three kills, two blocks and an ace. Grenier had five kills and Mawer three kills and an ace.

They Vikings do have an experienced team, although they lost both middle blockers from last season.

“Right now they don’t have as much experience in the middle, but both their guys will grow as the season goes on,” said Schulha. “On the outside they are

similar and have their top two go-to guys back along with their setter and libero. So they will be good once again.”

Schulha will spend time working on team passing this week.

“Our passing definitely needs to get fixed,” he said. “When Brian and Grady came in it was better and we’re tough when we’re serving tough and passing the ball. I definitely liked the way we grinded it out after the first two dismal sets. It will help us as we go forward.”

The Kings also defeated College of the Rockies 2523, 25-14, 25-12 on Saturday.

The Kings will travel to NAIT on Saturday for an exhibition match and face the Mount Royal University Cougars in Calgary before opening their regular season Oct. 16-17 at home against Medicine Hat. In other games Saturday the RDC Alumni downed Briercrest Bible College 25-20, 25-17, 19-25, 25-18 while Vancouver Island University stopped SAIT 3-2 and Briercrest 3-1, Medicine Hat downed Augustana 3-0 and SAIT defeated College of the Rockies 3-0.

The RDC Queens will host the Wild Rose Classic, beginning Friday.

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.

Price makes Canadiens best hope to end Canadian Cup drought

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — With individual accolades all around him at the NHL Awards in Las Vegas, Carey Price’s mind was still on the Stanley Cup that had eluded him and his teammates.

“I’d trade all four of these in for that one,” the star Montreal Canadiens goaltender said. “We have a lot of very good parts in Montreal and a very good hockey team. We’re gaining experience and I’m very, very happy and very excited about our future.”

Price is the biggest reason to be excited about the Canadiens’ present and future. The reigning Hart and Vezina Trophy-winner is only one player, but his presence makes Montreal the most likely team to end Canada’s Cup drought that currently sits at 21 seasons.

Oddsmakers give eight NHL teams better odds than the Habs (18-1), but they have the most realistic shot of any Canadian-based team. The Calgary Flames and Winnipeg Jets are 28-1, the Edmonton Oilers 33-1, Ottawa Senators 40-1, Vancouver Canucks 66-1 and Toronto Maple Leafs 100-1, according to the online sportsbook Bodog.ca.

If the Habs are going to lift the Cup for the first time since 1993, they’ll need to do more to support a goaltender who is playing at the level of twotime Conn Smythe Trophy-winner Patrick Roy. Price led the league with 44 wins, a 1.96 goals-against average and .933 save percentage, but skaters have to score more and be better, too.

“We’re fortunate to have him, and obviously as players we want to help him out a little bit more than we did last year,” centre Tomas Plekanec said. “A big part was Pricey, which is one thing that obviously we want to get better at and play better in front of him.”

The Habs will have defenceman Jeff Petry for an entire season and should be better by having him on the second pairing behind one of hockey’s most dynamic players in P.K. Subban. They also have a captain for the first time since Brian Gionta left in the summer of 2014, giving left-winger Max Pacioretty the honour. Talented forward Alex Galchenyuk moves to centre in the hopes of sparking his career.

For all the minor changes in Montreal, Price is the constant. And what a constant to have.

“My expectations for him are no different from what they’ve been since I

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Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price makes a save on Chicago Blackhawks’ Daniel Paille during first period NHL preseason hockey action in Montreal, Friday. The reigning Hart and Vezina Trophy-winner is only one player, but his presence makes Montreal the most likely team to end Canada’s Cup drought that currently sits at 21 seasons. started playing on this team and that’s to remain and be one of the best goaltenders in the world,” Subban said.

“He proved that he could be that last year. He’ll have to continue to prove that for our team to win a Stanley Cup.” Immediate Stanley Cup aspirations are hard to find elsewhere across Canada, though the Flames have real expectations on them this season after a surprise run to the playoffs ahead of schedule. With the addition of defenceman Dougie Hamilton, the return of captain Mark Giordano and the maturation of Sean Monahan, Johnny Gaudreau and Sam Bennett, there’s reason to believe the Flames are a legitimate playoff contender.

“On paper today, if you look at our roster, we do look like a deeper, better team than last year, but we have to, as players, bring that now and prove it on the ice,” Giordano said.

On paper, the Jets aren’t quite as formidable as they were in making

their first playoff appearance since returning to Winnipeg. Gone are forwards Michael Frolik and Jim Slater and deadline pickups Lee Stempniak and Jiri Tlusty, and there will be an infusion of youth into the Jets’ lineup.

The Jets were banged up beyond recognition when they were swept in the first round by the Anaheim Ducks.

A healthy under coach Paul Maurice could provide better results this season, much like how the Tampa Bay Lightning rebounded following their 2014 first-round sweep.

“I guess I do feel more encouraged by it that you realize we’re not that far off,” said defenceman Jacob Trouba, who played with a broken bone in his left hand.

Adding phenom Connor McDavid, coach Todd McLellan, goaltender Cam Talbot and defenceman Andrej Sekera should make the Oilers substantially better. Centre Ryan Nugent-Hopkins said the Oilers are still young but trending away from that label, and

Dream of playing in football game comes true for boy with cerebral palsy

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — Scoring a touchdown in a Regina Minor Football game was a dream come true for an 11-year-old boy who has cerebral palsy.

Mark Sulymka is the coach of the Griffins Atom team, and he heard all about Logan Tonge from his regular players who have gone to school with him since kindergarten.

“Logan is one of our biggest fans and I had heard that he was a big football fan and I saw him at one of our games a few weeks ago,” said Sulymka.

“I thought maybe he would enjoy coming down on the sidelines if we got him involved with the team because they’re all of his buddies and he’s never had an opportunity to participate in a group sports activity before.”

Tonge got his own jersey and came to the practice the night before the big game. Sulymka said it was the head coach of the opposing team, the Canadians, who gave him the idea to give Tonge the ball.

With 10 seconds left in the game, the Griffins had the ball, and that’s when

the coach called time out and asked the official and the other coach if he could substitute a brand new player.

It was Logan’s big chance and with the encouragement of players from both teams and the coach pushing his wheelchair, he made his move.

“We got Logan out there and we gave him a hand-off and he took off to the end zone and everybody was laughing and cheering and it was a very memorable, fantastic moment,” Sulymka explained.

“Logan was completely overwhelmed, he was screaming all the way to the end-zone, he’s a very bright and fantastic kid.”

Krista Smith, Logan’s mother, originally thought he would be thrilled just to see the game from the sidelines, but she never expected he would get this opportunity.

“He came home telling me that he had got to run this play and that he got to be part of the game,” she said. “He was just so excited.”

Smith said her son’s friends keep him involved with hand-offs when they play at recess on the playground.

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“What I can tell you is I believe the margins are very, very thin on making the playoffs,” Chiarelli said.

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In Ottawa, the expectation is still the playoffs. But the Senators know they can’t wait until mid-season to make a miraculous run like they did a year ago, thanks in large part to goaltender Andrew Hammond.

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Leaner Lowry getting buzz as Raptors open camp

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Eyes turned and followed Kyle Lowry when he strode into the Air Canada Centre practice gym on Monday. Who’s the skinny guy in Lowry’s jersey, someone joked.

The Toronto Raptors’ traditional season-opening media day had an air of newness. But nothing was as remarkable as the new and improved Lowry, who had teammates and media alike marvelling at his off-season metamorphosis.

“I see him in the locker-room the other day. And I’m like ‘Man, I’ve never seen this before. You’ve always been this short, chunky, bulldog-fat kid that I’ve known since my first year in the NBA,”’ Patrick Patterson recounted, prompting laughter from reporters.

“I’m like ‘Seeing you like this, it’s like the evil twin brother or something. I don’t know.’

“It’s just weird but I’m happy for him. He looks great. Talking to him, he said he feels great so I’m proud of him.”

The Raptors point guard is coming off a roller-coaster season that saw him earn NBA all-star honours then struggle down the stretch. The Raptors set a franchise record with 49 wins, and won the Atlantic Division title. But they were swept by the Washington Wizards in the opening round of the playoffs.

Lowry went into the off-season vowing to turn things around. His body was a big part of that.

“Sometimes you get older, you’ve got to change your body a little bit.

And I’m not a young pup no more, but it’s just about the future for me, it’s about being healthy,” Lowry said.

The 29-year-old, who’s listed at six foot one and 196 pounds, hired a nutritionist, and said he changed the way he ate. He wouldn’t say how much

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Toronto Raptors’ Kyle Lowry, left, greets teammate Luis Scola during the Raptors’ media day in Toronto on Monday. Nothing was as remarkable as the new and improved Lowry, who had teammates and media alike marvelling at his off-season metamorphosis. weight he’d lost, but it was a couple of belt loops at least.

“None of my pants fit, I can tell you that much. Dead serious,” he said.

The change was clear in his lean face, cut arms and narrow waist.

“I feel faster, I feel a lot lighter, I feel quicker, I feel sharper. I still feel strong because when I go in the weight room, I still move the same weight I’ve always moved,” he said — then added to a reporter: “I can still bench press you.”

His wife is a fan.

“It’s nice having abs, I can walk around with my shirt off, my wife’s like ‘wow.’ She likes me,” he said, laughing.

Lowry averaged 17.8 points a night last season, his best games coming before February’s all-star game. His playoff numbers told the tale of his disappointing second half of the season: 12.3 points a game, down from 21.1 a year earlier.

Raptors coach Dwane Casey believes Lowry’s fitness will help him sustain a high level of play throughout the season, and applauded his hard

work.

“Believe me, Kyle put his nose to the grind and did that all himself.

He’s the one who had his own trainer. He had his own regimen that he went through this summer that most of our guys probably couldn’t make it through,” Casey said. “He ran the hills in Vegas, he did a lot of stuff that he did on his own.

“And my hat is off to him for doing that because he could’ve relaxed and took the summer off but he didn’t. He knew what he had to do and he did it.”

Like Patterson, DeMar DeRozan first learned of Lowry’s transformation via a photo posted on Instagram.

“It was a shock, it was a shock to everybody, it was a shock to me so I made him come see me in L.A. to make sure it’s real,” DeRozan said. “That’s big. That takes a lot of discipline, when you play at a certain size your whole career in the league, to be able to drop that much weight. When he came to see me in L.A. I didn’t believe it when I seen him. But he did it.

“I think he’s trying to be more athletic, trying to play above the rim or something… he’s a lot quicker, a lot more aerodynamic,” he added, with a devilish grin.

The sting of last season’s ugly ending lingered for a while for DeRozan and Lowry, but the two said the best thing to do was learn from it and move on.

“Nobody wanted to go out like that, especially with how we started off the season and expectations everybody had for us,” DeRozan said.

Raptors GM Masai Ujiri certainly didn’t want the team to go out like that, and thus made several off-season changes.

Among the new faces in camp, which opens Tuesday in Vancouver: forwards DeMarre Carroll and Luis Scola, and Canadians Cory Joseph and Anthony Bennett.

Stampeders defence takes a hit with European, US team captains loss of Simpson, Burnett to injury begin countdown to Ryder Cup

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Calgary Stampeders linebacker Juwan Simpson has been sidelined four to six weeks with a broken clavicle.

The CFL club made the announcement Monday via Twitter.

Simpson has started at middle linebacker for the Stampeders every game since the 2012 season-opener.

The three-time West Division allstar and Stampeder co-captain has 27 tackles and a pair of sacks in 12 games this season.

Simpson has been a Stampeder for eight seasons and won Grey Cups with the team in 2008 and 2014.

Calgary added defensive backs Brandon McDonald and Keith Lewis to the roster and placed cornerback Joe Burnett on the six-game injured list Monday.

Burnett suffered an ankle injury on a punt return during Friday’s 25-23 win over the Blue Bombers in Winni-

peg. He was filling in for injured Tim Brown on return duties.

McDonald was added to the active roster, while Lewis was placed on Calgary’s practice roster.

McDonald had 33 tackles, two interceptions and three knockdowns in eight games this season for the Ottawa Redblacks before his release Aug. 26.

He appeared in a pair of games with the Stampeders in 2014 and totalled three tackles.

The 30-year-old also played a combined 80 games in the NFL for Cleveland, Arizona, Detroit and Tampa Bay. Lewis, who played two seasons for Virginia University of Lynchburg, attended training camp of the New York Jets this season and Tampa Bay’s in 2014.

Calgary also released offensive lineman Nate Menkin from the practice roster.

MINNEAPOLIS — The battle for the Ryder Cup began Monday with a friendly exchange between rival captains in a Minneapolis skyscraper a half-hour away from the suburban course where the 17-inch trophy will be awarded this time next year.

European captain Darren Clarke and U.S. captain Davis Love III met for a breakfast to mark the one-year countdown to the matches. They were welcomed by Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton and other officials who are counting on international exposure and considering whether to use state money to pay for some of the costs.

The Ryder Cup is Sept. 30 to Oct. 2 next year at Hazeltine National Golf Club in suburban Chaska.

The matches are known for a charged atmosphere — rowdy by golf’s gentile standards — and outward displays of intensity among players striving for a team championship in a sport more accustomed to individual titles.

The 12-man teams will not be decided until about a month before the matches, but each side has among the biggest names in golf — Jordan Spieth of Texas and Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland have won four of the last six majors.

Europe is the defending champion and has dominated the Ryder Cup over the last 30 years, losing the cup only four times since 1985. The last time it was held in America, at Medinah in the Chicago suburbs in 2012, Europe rallied from 10-6 on the final day to beat a U.S. team captained by Love.

Love was brought back as captain this year by a task force created to stop a losing trend.

Clarke will be looking to find success at a golf course that has vexed

Queens soccer player Krysten Strand and Kings hockey foward Pat Martens are the RDC Boston Pizza female and male athletes of the week.

Strand, a centre back who anchors the RDC defence, turned in a pair of stellar, physical performances during a pair of weekend road games, a 6-2 over the Medicine Hat Rattlers and a 1-1 draw with the Lethbridge Kodiaks.

Martens, a third-year King, potted three goals and added an assist in a 5-4 loss to the Concordia Thunder and an 8-1 win over the Thunder in the second game of a home-and-home set. ● The RDC volleyball Queens will host the Ramada Inns and Suites Wil-

drose Classic Friday to Sunday.

The tournament, featuring two Queens squads and the Queens Alumni as well as The Kings University College, Lethbridge, Olds, Grande Prairie Medicine Hat, SAIT, Camrose Augustana, Ambrose College and College of the Rockies, starts at 4:30 p.m. Friday and concludes with 2 p.m. final.

Meanwhile, the hockey Kings will host Briercrest Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at the Penhold Regional Multiplex, the soccer teams will play at Olds Saturday and SAIT Sunday, and the cross country team will be at SAIT Saturday for a Grand Prix meet.

Subban leads Habs past Pens in Quebec P.K. Subban and Andrei Markov had two assists apiece, and the Montreal Canadiens beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-1 on Monday night in a preseason game at Videotron Centre in Quebec City.

Alex Semin, Lars Eller, Brian Flynn and Dale Weise scored for Montreal.

Carey Price, who won the Hart Trophy last season for NHL MVP, and the Vezina Trophy as the league’s top goaltender, made 22 saves.

Beau Bennett scored for Pittsburgh, and Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 24 shots.

Quebec City and Las Vegas are bidding for NHL expansion franchises. ● In New York, Keith Yandle’s penalty shot goal 1:16 into overtime lifted the Rangers to a 3-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers.

Yandle was awarded the penal-

ty shot after being hooked by Scott Laughton on a breakaway. The defenceman beat Philadelphia goaltender Steve Mason with a quick snap shot.

New York trailed 2-0 heading into the third period. Dan Girardi’s goal at 4:21 cut the deficit in half, and Chris Kreider drew New York even with a wrist shot from the low slot at 18:53.

Rangers goaltender Antti Raanta made 27 saves.

Mark Streit and Wayne Simmonds scored for Philadelphia. Steve Mason made 41 saves. ● In Boston, Thomas Jurco had a goal and an assist, leading the Detroit Red Wings to a 3-1 victory over the Bruins.

Drew Miller and Andreas Athanasiou also scored for Detroit. Jimmy Howard made 31 saves.

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him. Hazeltine hosted the PGA Championship in 2002 and 2009, and Clarke was out of contention early in both majors. He anticipates spectator support will make Europe’s job even tougher.

“I’m sure next year the atmosphere is going to be electric. It is going to be full of home support, as it should be,” Clarke said. “I for one cannot wait to get back here.”

After the American team was defeated last year in Scotland, Love said he’s looking forward to a home game.

Reflecting on his close friendship with Clarke, Love said he expects an emotional week. “We’re going to try hard to beat him,” Love said. “But it’s going to be a fair fight.”

The event is part of Minnesota’s upcoming run in the international sporting spotlight, with a Super Bowl and basketball Final Four both in store.

Minnesota officials were approached last year about dedicating state money toward special sponsorships and paying for logistical costs, such as state patrol overtime for security and traffic management for the hundreds of thousands of visitors. The proposal didn’t materialize in time for lawmakers to add it to a new state budget, but Dayton said he’d be willing to consider legislation next year to absorb some security costs tied to the Ryder Cup. “Given the economic impact of it and just the prestige of it, I would hope the Legislature would be supportive of something that would be a couple hundred thousand dollars really,” Dayton said.

Republican Rep. Joe Hoppe, who has Hazeltine in his district, said he’s hopeful such a request would be well-received.

“It’s a big deal for the state,” Hoppe said. “It’s a lot of people coming in and spending a lot of money.”

SCOREBOARD Local Sports ● AJHL: Canmore at Olds, 7 p.m.

Thursday ● High school football: Sylvan Lake at Stettler, 4 p.m.; Ponoka at Wetaskiwin, 6 p.m. ● Senior high volleyball: Hunting Hills at Notre Dame, girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow.

Friday ● Women’s preseason college volleyball: The King’s University of Edmonton at RDC, 4:30 p.m. ● WHL: Swift Current at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● College men’s hockey: Briercrest at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● High school football: Hunting Hills at Notre Dame, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park; Lindsay Thurber at Lacombe, 7:30 p.m., MEGlobal Athletic Park. ● Midget AA hockey: Central Alberta at Olds, 7:30 p.m.; Bow Valley at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 8:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Buffaloes at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Ponoka at Three Hills, 8 p.m,

Saturday ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Stampeders at Red Deer North Star, 11:30 a.m., Arena; Calgary Rangers at Red Deer Strata Energy, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer Parkland

at Red Deer TBS, 12:30 p.m., Kinsmen A; Okotoks at Olds, 1 p.m. ● College men’s hockey: Briercrest at RDC, 1:30 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Midget AA hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 2:45 p.m., Arena; Red Deer Elks at West Central, 8 p.m, Sylvan Lake. ● Bantam AA hockey: Okotoks at Olds, 3:30 p.m.; Red Deer Ramada at West Central, 5:30 p.m., Sylvan Lake. ● Chinook senior hockey: Innisfail Eagles tournament — Fort Saskatchewan vs.

Innisfail, 5 p.m.; Bentley vs. Stony Plain, 8 p.m. ● WHL: Kelowna at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Heritage junior B hockey: High River at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.

● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Northstars at Red Deer, noon, Arena. ● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer Parkland at Olds, 12:15 p.m.; Airdrie at Red Deer TBS, 1:30 p.m., Kinex. ● Chinook senior hockey: Innisfail Eagles tournament — Fort Saskatchewan vs.

Stony Plain, 1 p.m.; Bentley vs. Innisfail, 4 p.m. ● Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Ramada at Red Deer Steel Kings, 1:45 p.m., Kinsmen A; Foothills at Central Alberta, 2 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Strathmore at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m.; Banff Academy at Red Deer, 6:45 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Olds at Central Alberta, 4 p.m., Lacombe.

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Football Alberta High school rankings and records (Last week’s ranking in parentheses) Tier 1 1 (1). Calgary St. Francis, 4-0 2(2). Calgary Notre Dame, 4-0 3(3). Sherwood Park Bev Facey, 4-0 4(8). St. Albert Bellerose, 3-1 5(5). Lethbridge Collegiate, 3-1 6(-). Spruce Grove, 2-1-1 7(6). Sherwood Park Salisbury, 1-1-1 8(10). Calgary Centennial, 2-2 9(4). Edmonton Harry Ainlay, 2-2 10(-). Red Deer Notre Dame, 2-2 Tier 2 1(1). Grande Prairie St. Joe’s, 7-0 2(2). St. Albert Paul Kane, 2-1 3(3). Okotoks Foothills, 3-1 4(4). Red Deer Hunting Hills, 4-0 5(5). Calgary St. Mary’s, 2-0 6(6). Airdrie George McDougall, 4-0 7(7). Medicine Hat, 3-1 8(8). Lethbridge Catholic Central, 3-1 9(9). Lloydminster, 3-1 10(10). Lethbridge Chinook, 3-1.

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 0 6 6 5 5 5 5 5

40 15 18 17 19 14 19 19 2 11 4 2 0 6 4 2 2 2 4 0 0 2 0 0 0 0

29 30 30 28 21 21 19 14 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct New England 3 0 0 1.000 Buffalo 2 1 0 .667 N.Y. Jets 2 1 0 .667 Miami 1 2 0 .333 South W L T Pct Indianapolis 1 2 0 .333 Jacksonville 1 2 0 .333 Houston 1 2 0 .333 Tennessee 1 2 0 .333 North W L T Pct Cincinnati 3 0 0 1.000 Pittsburgh 2 1 0 .667 Cleveland 1 2 0 .333 Baltimore 0 3 0 .000 West W L T Pct Denver 3 0 0 1.000 Oakland 2 1 0 .667 San Diego 1 2 0 .333 Kansas City 1 2 0 .333

Tier 3 1(1). Cochrane, 4-0 2(2). Med Hat Crescent Heights, 5-0 3(4). Calgary Rundle College, 2-0-1 4(5). St. Paul, 4-0 5(3). Cardston, 2-2 6(6). Peace River, 4-1 7(8). St. Albert, 2-2 8(9). Stettler, 2-1-1 9(10). Sylvan Lake, 1-1 10(7). Camrose, 1-1 Tier 4 1(1). Lloydminster Holy Rosary, 5-0 2(2). Sexsmith, 4-0 3(3). Claresholm, 1-2 4(4). Pincher Creek, 5-1 5(5). Cold Lake, 2-2 6(6). Ardrossan, 1-3 7(7). Rocky Mountain House, 2-1 8(8). Wainwright, 2-2 9(9). Olds, 1-2 10(10). Canmore, 3-2 Six Man 1(1). Brooks St. Joseph’s, 3-0 2(2). Breton, 3-0 3(3). Rimbey, 2-1 4(4). Edm Millwoods Christian, 2-0 5(8). Edm Oscar Romero, 3-0 6(5). Hanna, 3-1 7(10). Jasper Ecole Desrochers, 2-1 8(6). Edson Holy Redeemer, 1-2 9(7), Buck Lake, 1-2 10(9). Redwater, 1-1 CFL East Division GP W L T 12 8 4 0 12 7 5 0 12 7 5 0 12 5 7 0

PF 410 312 280 263

PA 246 348 321 243

Pt 16 14 12 10

West Division GP W L T Calgary 13 10 3 0 Edmonton 13 9 4 0 B.C. 12 4 8 0 Winnipeg 13 4 9 0 Saskatchewan 13 2 11 0

PF 347 326 268 246 322

PA 270 238 345 377 386

Pt 20 18 8 8 4

WEEK 14 Bye: Hamilton Sunday’s result Saskatchewan 33 Montreal 21 Saturday’s results Edmonton 29 B.C. 23 Toronto 35 Ottawa 26 Friday’s result Calgary 25 Winnipeg 23

4 10 4 3 8 9 7 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

131 115 112 104 90 86 83 62 50 49 46 44 42 42 40 38 38 38 37 36 36 32 30 30 30 30

PF 119 100 68 51

PA 70 68 41 74

PF 56 49 56 89

PA 80 91 60 77

PF 85 76 58 70

PA 56 52 72 84

PF 74 77 66 79

PA 49 86 83 89

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Dallas 2 1 0 .667 75 75 N.Y. Giants 1 2 0 .333 78 72 Washington 1 2 0 .333 55 59 Philadelphia 1 2 0 .333 58 63 South W L T Pct PF PA Carolina 3 0 0 1.000 71 48 Atlanta 3 0 0 1.000 89 72 Tampa Bay 1 2 0 .333 49 80 New Orleans 0 3 0 .000 60 84 North W L T Pct PF PA Green Bay 3 0 0 1.000 96 68 Minnesota 2 1 0 .667 60 50 Detroit 0 3 0 .000 56 83 Chicago 0 3 0 .000 46 105 West W L T Pct PF PA Arizona 3 0 0 1.000 126 49 St. Louis 1 2 0 .333 50 67 San Francisco 1 2 0 .333 45 93 Seattle 1 2 0 .333 74 61 Sunday’s Games Atlanta 39, Dallas 28 Indianapolis 35, Tennessee 33 Houston 19, Tampa Bay 9 Minnesota 31, San Diego 14 Pittsburgh 12, St. Louis 6 Oakland 27, Cleveland 20 Cincinnati 28, Baltimore 24 New England 51, Jacksonville 17 Carolina 27, New Orleans 22 Philadelphia 24, N.Y. Jets 17 Arizona 47, San Francisco 7 Seattle 26, Chicago 0 Buffalo 41, Miami 14 Denver 24, Detroit 12

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.

Thursday, Oct. 1 Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 6:25 p.m.

GA 37 42 51 39 52 39 53 51 48 51

Pt 48 47 47 45 43 42 38 37 34 27

Western Conference GP W L T GF 31 14 9 8 52 30 15 12 3 41 29 14 10 5 43 31 14 13 4 39 30 12 9 9 45 30 12 10 8 31 31 12 12 7 38 31 11 12 8 40 30 10 12 8 35 30 8 12 10 29

GA 38 33 37 33 41 35 36 41 42 36

Pt 50 48 47 46 45 44 43 41 38 34

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.

GP 1 2 1 1 2

Spokane Everett Seattle Tri-City Portland

English Premier League GP W Man. United 7 5 Manchester City 7 5 West Ham 7 4 Arsenal 7 4 Everton 7 3 Tottenham 7 3 Crystal Palace 7 4 Leicester City 7 3 Liverpool 7 3 Southampton 7 2 Swansea 7 2 Norwich 7 2 Watford 7 2 Chelsea 7 2 West Brom 7 2 Bournemouth 7 2 Stoke 7 1 Aston Villa 7 1 Newcastle 7 0 Sunderland 7 0

U.S. DIVISION W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt 1 0 0 0 6 4 2 1 1 0 0 3 5 2 0 1 0 0 2 3 0 0 1 0 0 4 6 0 0 2 0 0 6 10 0

Sunday’s results Red Deer 3 Edmonton 2 (OT) Prince George 5 Everett 1 Vancouver 5 Kelowna 2 Friday, October 2 Calgary at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Kelowna at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Spokane at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.

Kamloops at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Columbus Carolina Pittsburgh NY Islanders New Jersey

Prince George at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Kamloops at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

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

Sunday, October 4 Vancouver at Saskatoon, 2 p.m.

Swift Current at Edmonton, 4 p.m.

Calgary at Regina, 4 p.m.

Kelowna at Lethbridge, 6 p.m.

Seattle at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.

Red Deer Rebels Scoring GP Spacek 2 Nikolishin 2 Bobyk 2 Musil 2 de Wit 2 Pawlenchuk 2 Kopeck 2 Mahura 2 Polei 2 Martin 1 Doetzel 2 Hagel 2 R.Johnson 2 W.Johnson 2 Pederson 2 Pratt 2 Sakowcih 2 Shmoorkoff 2 Strand 2 Toth 2 Goaltenders MP Martin 4 Toth 116

G 3 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

A 2 2 1 2 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 GA 0 3

Pts 5 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

PIM 0 0 2 4 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0

SO GAA 0 0.00 0 1.55

+/1 0 -1 1 1 -1 -1 1 1 — 0 0 0 -1 1 0 0 2 -1 —

Nashville Chicago Minnesota St. Louis Colorado Dallas Winnipeg

5 4 5 7 5

2 2 2 2 1

2 2 3 5 4

1 0 0 0 0

11 10 12 16 11

14 13 17 25 16

5 4 4 4 2

Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT GF 4 3 0 1 15 4 3 1 0 14 5 3 2 0 16 4 2 2 0 13 3 1 1 1 6 4 1 3 0 10 4 0 2 2 6

GA 9 10 9 8 7 16 16

Pt 7 6 6 4 3 2 2

Pacific Division GP W L OT GF GA Pt Edmonton 5 5 0 0 17 8 10 Los Angeles 4 3 1 0 11 6 6 Calgary 5 3 2 0 12 11 6 Anaheim 3 2 0 1 8 7 5 San Jose 4 2 1 1 9 4 5 Vancouver 4 1 2 1 5 12 3 Arizona 3 0 1 2 4 12 2 Note: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Sunday’s results Carolina 2 Ottawa 1 Minnesota 8 Winnipeg 1 Florida 4 Dallas 2 Los Angeles 2 Colorado 1 (SO) Monday’s results Montreal 4 Pittsburgh 1 Detroit 3 Boston 1 Washington 3 NY Islanders 1 NY Rangers 3 Philadelphia 2 (OT) Arizona at Vancouver, late

Sv% 1.000 .932

NHL Preseason Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT GF 5 3 0 2 20 5 4 1 0 13 4 3 1 0 17 5 3 2 0 14 5 3 2 0 13 5 2 1 2 10 4 1 2 1 11 5 1 3 1 14

GA 12 10 15 12 15 12 15 18

Pt 8 8 6 6 6 6 3 3

Tuesday’s games Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Columbus at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Ottawa at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

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

Colorado at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Arizona at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

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

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

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT GF Washington 4 3 0 1 10 Philadelphia 5 3 1 1 19 NY\ Rangers 5 3 1 1 19

GA 6 14 17

Pt 7 7 7

Wednesday’s games Boston at NY Rangers, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Washington at Carolina, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Detroit Boston Buffalo Toronto Florida Montreal Tampa Bay Ottawa

Saturday, October 3 Kelowna at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Regina, 7 p.m.

Everett at Portland, 8 p.m.

Baseball Major League baseball American League East Division W L Pct 91 65 .583 86 70 .551 76 80 .487 76 80 .487 75 81 .481

z-Toronto New York Baltimore Boston Tampa Bay

x-Kansas City Minnesota Cleveland Chicago Detroit

Central Division W L Pct 90 66 .577 81 75 .519 77 78 .497 73 83 .468 73 83 .468

West Division W L Pct Texas 84 72 .538 Houston 82 74 .526 Los Angeles 81 74 .523 Seattle 74 82 .474 Oakland 65 91 .417 z-clinched playoff berth x-clinched division Wild Card W L 86 70 82 74 80 74 81 75 77 78 76 80 76 80

New York Houston Los Angeles Minnesota Cleveland Baltimore Boston

Houston (Fiers 2-1) at Seattle (Nuno 1-4), 8:10 p.m.

GB — 5 15 15 16 GB — 9 12 1/2 17 17 GB — 2 2 1/2 10 19

Pct WCGB .551 — .526 — .519 1 .519 1 .497 4 1/2 .487 6 .487 6

Sunday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 6, Chicago White Sox 1 Toronto 5, Tampa Bay 4 Minnesota 7, Detroit 1 Boston 2, Baltimore 0 Kansas City 3, Cleveland 0 Houston 4, Texas 2 L.A. Angels 3, Seattle 2 San Francisco 5, Oakland 4 Monday’s Games Boston 5, N.Y. Yankees 1 Toronto 4, Baltimore 3 Minnesota 4, Cleveland 2 Detroit 7, Texas 4 Chicago Cubs 1, Kansas City 0, 11 innings Oakland at L.A. Angels, late Houston at Seattle, late Tuesday’s Games Boston (Porcello 8-14) at N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 12-8), 5:05 p.m.

Toronto (Stroman 3-0) at Baltimore (Mi.Gonzalez 9-11), 5:05 p.m.

Miami (Conley 4-1) at Tampa Bay (M.Moore 2-4), 5:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Gibson 10-11) at Cleveland (Co.Anderson 6-3), 5:10 p.m.

Detroit (Da.Norris 2-2) at Texas (Hamels 5-1), 6:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Cueto 3-6) at Chicago White Sox (Samardzija 10-13), 6:10 p.m.

Oakland (Bassitt 1-7) at L.A. Angels (Tropeano 2-2), 8:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Miami 9, Atlanta 5 N.Y. Mets 8, Cincinnati 1 Philadelphia 12, Washington 5 Milwaukee 8, St. Louis 4 San Francisco 5, Oakland 4 Arizona 4, San Diego 2 Colorado 12, L.A. Dodgers 5 Chicago Cubs 4, Pittsburgh 0

Wednesday’s Games Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m.

Oakland at L.A. Angels, 5:05 p.m.

Toronto at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Miami at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.

Minnesota at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m.

Detroit at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m.

Houston at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. MiCabrera Det 117 422 62 142 .336 Bogaerts Bos 150 591 80 192 .325 Altuve Hou 148 610 80 192 .315 Brantley Cle 137 529 68 164 .310 LCain KC 137 539 99 166 .308 Fielder Tex 152 592 76 182 .307 NCruz Sea 147 569 88 174 .306 Kipnis Cle 137 550 84 166 .302 Hosmer KC 152 576 94 173 .300 Kinsler Det 151 610 93 183 .300 Home Runs NCruz, Seattle, 43 CDavis, Baltimore, 43 Donaldson, Toronto, 41 Trout, Los Angeles, 40 Bautista, Toronto, 39 JMartinez, Detroit, 37 Pujols, Los Angeles, 37.

Runs Batted In Donaldson, Toronto, 122 Bautista, Toronto, 111 CDavis, Baltimore, 110 Encarnacion, Toronto, 106 KMorales, Kansas City, 105 Ortiz, Boston, 104 JMartinez, Detroit, 99.

Pitching Keuchel, Houston, 19-8 Price, Toronto, 18-5 McHugh, Houston, 18-7 FHernandez, Seattle, 18-9 Lewis, Texas, 17-9 Richards, Los Angeles, 15-11 Eovaldi, New York, 14-3.

x-New York Washington Miami Atlanta Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 89 67 .571 80 76 .513 69 87 .442 62 94 .397 59 97 .378

GB — 9 20 27 30

z-St. Louis z-Pittsburgh z-Chicago Milwaukee Cincinnati

Central Division W L Pct 99 58 .631 95 62 .605 91 65 .583 66 90 .423 63 93 .404

GB — 4 7 1/2 32 1/2 35 1/2

West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 87 68 .561 San Francisco 81 74 .523 Arizona 75 81 .481 San Diego 73 83 .468 Colorado 66 90 .423 z-clinched playoff berth x-clinched division Wild Card W L Pct z-Pittsburgh 95 62 .605 z-Chicago 91 65 .583 z-clinched playoff berth

GB — 6 12 1/2 14 1/2 21 1/2

WCGB — —

Monday’s Games Washington 5, Cincinnati 1 St. Louis 3, Pittsburgh 0 Chicago Cubs 1, Kansas City 0, 11 innings L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, late Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Mets (B.Colon 14-12) at Philadelphia (D.Buchanan 2-9), 5:05 p.m.

St. Louis (Wacha 17-6) at Pittsburgh (Morton 9-8), 5:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Haren 9-9) at Cincinnati (Jos.Smith 0-2), 5:10 p.m.

Miami (Conley 4-1) at Tampa Bay (M.Moore 2-4), 5:10 p.m.

Washington (Roark 4-6) at Atlanta (Wisler 6-8), 5:10 p.m.

Colorado (Bergman 3-1) at Arizona (Ray 5-12), 7:40 p.m.

Milwaukee (Jo.Lopez 0-0) at San Diego (T.Ross 10-11), 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 15-7) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 18-8), 8:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

Miami at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.

Washington at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.

Colorado at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

Milwaukee at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE G AB R H Pct. Harper Was 148 503 117 169 .336 DGordon Mia 139 590 82 196 .332 Posey SF 145 537 74 174 .324 YEscobar Was 136 528 73 168 .318 Votto Cin 153 525 94 167 .318 Pollock Ari 151 584 106 185 .317 Goldschmidt Ari 153 548 96 173 .316 DPeralta Ari 146 456 60 140 .307 LeMahieu Col 146 548 85 167 .305 Inciarte Ari 131 520 72 158 .304 Home Runs Arenado, Colorado, 41 Harper, Washington, 41 CaGonzalez, Colorado, 39 Frazier, Cincinnati, 35 Goldschmidt, Arizona, 31 Rizzo, Chicago, 30 Votto, Cincinnati, 29.

Runs Batted In Arenado, Colorado, 126 Goldschmidt, Arizona, 105 Bryant, Chicago, 99 Kemp, San Diego, 99 Harper, Washington, 96 McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 95 Rizzo, Chicago, 95.

Pitching Arrieta, Chicago, 21-6 Greinke, Los Angeles, 18-3 GCole, Pittsburgh, 18-8 Bumgarner, San Francisco, 18-8 Wacha, St. Louis, 17-6 Kershaw, Los Angeles, 15-7 CMartinez, St. Louis, 14-7.

Rugby Argentina Georgia Tonga Namibia

2 2 1 1

Ireland France Italy Canada Romania

MP 2 2 2 2 2

1 1 0 0

0 0 0 0

1 1 1 1

70 26 10 14

35 64 17 58

5 4 1 0

POOL D W D L 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2

PF 94 70 33 25 21

PA Pt 17 10 21 9 50 4 73 0 82 0

Australia 65 Uruguay 3 At Leeds, England Scotland 39 U.S. 16 At London Ireland 44 Romania 10

PRELIMINARY ROUND POOL A W D L PF 2 0 0 93 2 0 0 82 1 0 1 60 0 0 2 24 0 0 2 12

PA Pt 16 9 34 9 39 6 63 0 119 0

MP Scotland 2 South Africa 2 Samoa 2 Japan 2 United States 2

POOL B W D L 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 2

PF 84 78 31 44 32

PA Pt 26 10 40 7 62 4 77 4 64 0

Saturday’s results At Leeds, England Italy 23 Canada 18 At Birmingham, England South Africa 46 Samoa 6 At London Wales 28 England 25

MP New Zealand 2

POOL C W D L 2 0 0

PF 84

PA Pt 30 9

Sunday’s results At Birmingham, England

Saturday, Oct. 3 At Milton Keyes, England Samoa vs. Japan, 7:30 a.m.

with Bryce Harper during Sunday’s game.

American Association AMARILLO THUNDERHEADS — Exercised the 2016 contract option on OF Logan Vick.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHICAGO BULLS — Signed Gs Jordan Crawford and Marcus Simmons and Jake Anderson.

MILWAUKEE BUCKS — Named Rod Thorn special consultant.

FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS — Traded LB Jared Allen to Carolina for an undisclosed draft pick.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Waived DT Davon Coleman.

NEW YORK JETS — Claimed S Dion Bailey off

waivers from Seattle. Waived S Ronald Martin.

Indoor Football League SPOKANE SHOCK — Named Cleveland Pratt assistant head coach and director of player development.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Released F Daniel Paille, F Tomas Kopecky and D Lubomir Visnovsky.

Reassigned F Brandon Mashinter and D Cameron Schilling to Rockford (AHL).

DALLAS STARS — Loaned D Mattias Backman, Ludwig Bystrom, Julius Honka, Stephen Johns and Esa Lindell and Cs Travis Morin and Devin Shore to Texas (AHL). Released RW Mads Eller.

OTTAWA SENATORS — Signed D Mark Fraser to a one-year contract.

MP 2 2 2 2 2

Pt

MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF New York 29 14 9 6 51 New England 31 13 10 8 44 Columbus 31 13 10 8 50 D.C. 31 13 12 6 37 Toronto 30 13 13 4 52 Montreal 29 12 11 6 42 Orlando 31 10 13 8 42 New York City 31 10 14 7 46 Philadelphia 31 9 15 7 39 Chicago 31 7 18 6 39

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

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Vancouver 2 2 0 0 0 8 4 4 Victoria 2 2 0 0 0 10 6 4 Kelowna 3 2 1 0 0 13 11 4 Prince George 2 1 1 0 0 5 3 2 Kamloops 2 0 2 0 0 6 11 0

Australia Wales England Fiji Uruguay

Soccer

Sunday’s results Kansas City 1 Seattle 1 San Jose 1 Salt Lake 0 Los Angeles 3 Dallas 2

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt 2 2 0 0 0 7 3 4 2 2 0 0 0 5 2 4 2 1 1 0 0 8 6 2 2 1 1 0 0 6 8 2 2 0 1 1 0 3 7 1 2 0 2 0 0 2 5 0

Red Deer Calgary Lethbridge Medicine Hat Edmonton Kootenay

RUGBY WORLD CUP At Sites In England and Wales

Monday’s Game Green Bay 38, Kansas City 28

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

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Saskatoon 2 1 0 1 0 12 8 3 Brandon 2 1 0 0 1 5 3 3 Moose Jaw 2 1 0 1 0 5 4 3 Regina 2 1 1 0 0 4 5 2 Prince Albert 2 1 1 0 0 8 12 2 Swift Current 2 1 1 0 0 3 5 2

Sunday

Football

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

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Tuesday’s match At Exeter, England Tonga vs. Namibia, 9:45 a.m.

Thursday’s match At Cardiff, Wales Wales vs. Fiji, 9:45 a.m.

At Milton Keyes, England France vs. Canada, 1 p.m.

Friday’s match At Cardiff, Wales New Zealand vs. Georgia, 1 p.m.

Transactions D 1 0 1 1 3 3 0 3 2 3 3 3 3 2 2 1 3 1 3 2

L 1 2 2 2 1 1 3 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 4 3 5 4 5

GF 12 13 15 10 11 9 9 15 7 10 8 11 5 11 6 9 7 8 5 6

Saturday, Sept. 26 Tottenham 4, Manchester City 1 Leicester City 2, Arsenal 5 Liverpool 3, Aston Villa 2 Manchester United 3, Sunderland 0 Southampton 3, Swansea 1 Stoke 2, Bournemouth 1 West Ham 2, Norwich 2 Newcastle 2, Chelsea 2 Sunday, Sept. 27 Watford 0, Crystal Palace 1 Monday, Sept. 28 West Brom 2, Everton 3 Saturday, Oct. 3 Crystal Palace vs. West Brom, 1145 GMT Aston Villa vs. Stoke, 1400 GMT Bournemouth vs. Watford, 1400 GMT Manchester City vs. Newcastle, 1400 GMT Norwich vs. Leicester City, 1400 GMT Sunderland vs. West Ham, 1400 GMT Chelsea vs. Southampton, 1630 GMT

GA Pts 5 16 6 15 9 13 7 13 7 12 5 12 7 12 14 12 9 11 9 9 8 9 12 9 6 9 14 8 9 8 11 7 10 6 12 4 11 3 16 2

Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL — Suspended Arizona minor league 1B Austin Byler (Missoula-Pioneer) 50 games after testing positive for Amphetamine and San Diego minor league RHP Michael Dimock (El Paso-PCL) 50 games following a second positive test for a Drug of Abuse, both violations of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League SEATTLE MARINERS — Named Jerry Dipoto general manager.

National League WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Suspended RHP Jonathan Papelbon four games for his altercation

KOBE BRYANT

Back from injury again, isn’t sure his 20th year with Lakers will be his last EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Kobe Bryant hasn’t decided whether his 20th season with the Los Angeles Lakers will be his last.

He has thought about it extensively, even consulting with Derek Jeter about the best way to know when to hang it up.

But Bryant won’t be sparing many thoughts for retirement this fall while he attempts to lift

the Lakers back from the worst season in franchise history.

Bryant reported to his 20th training camp Monday with the Lakers, joining veterans including Metta World Peace and Roy Hibbert playing alongside with a talented group of untested young players.

Bryant has accomplished nearly everything possible in an NBA career, but the five-time champion’s last three seasons have ended early due to injury. He has played only 41 games in the past two years -- and none since tearing the rotator cuff in his right shoulder last January, his famously resilient body finally breaking down under heavy minutes and responsibilities.

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Representation of women on boards varies

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A review of more than 700 companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange has found that the number of women on corporate boards and in executive positions varies by industry and company size, with larger firms boasting a higher rate of female representation than their smaller counterparts.

For example, about 60 per cent of TSX-listed companies with a market capitalization more than $2 billion reported having at least two female board members.

And 59 per cent of the reporting issuers of that size said they had at least two female executive officers.

Meanwhile, 62 per cent of the TSX-listed companies with a market capitalization below $1 billion had no women on their boards and 48 per cent

said they had no women in executive positions.

Utilities and the retail sector had the highest number of women on their boards, with 57 per cent of utilities reporting two or more female directors, as did 43 per cent of retailers listed on the TSX. That contrasted with the mining, oil and gas and technology sectors, in which 60 per cent of the TSX-listed companies said they had no female directors and half reporting zero female executive officers.

The review was conducted by securities regulators in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon.

Regulators in those jurisdictions implemented rule amendments at the end of last year requiring issuers to annually disclose the number of wom-

en on their boards and in executive positions.

They were also required to provide targets for how many women should sit on boards or in executive positions and disclose their policies relating to how women are identified and nominated for such posts, among other things.

The rule changes state that if a publicly listed company chooses not to implement targets for female composition and other related policies it must explain its reasoning.

Michelle de Cordova, director of corporate engagement for fund manager NEI Investments, says she was surprised at the number of companies that reported they don’t set diversity targets because they make director appointments based on merit.

“There’s a lot of research pointing to this correlation between diversity on the board and the performance of

companies,” said de Cordova, whose company runs a socially responsible mutual fund family called Ethical Funds.

“Given that correlation argument, we would respectfully say that the companies citing this meritocracy argument don’t really get it … If there is a correlation between better diversity performance and better corporate performance, a shareholder should want there to be better diversity performance.”

Nearly half — 49 per cent — of the 722 companies included in the review had at least one woman on the board, while 60 per cent had at least one woman in an executive officer position.

Of the issuers included in the review, 15 per cent said they had added at least one woman to their board this year.

Shell abandons Alaska

NEW PARKADE

DISCOURAGING SIGNALS FOR CANADIAN BEAUFORT EXPLORATION

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Working from a manlift, a worker installs components to the east side of the new parkade at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Monday. The five level structure built by Graham Construction and Engineering is scheduled to be substantially completed in October 2015.

Provincial agriculture ministers to shadow feds during talks

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP

OTTAWA — Ontario and Quebec’s agriculture ministers are worried about the details of any Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and are heading to Atlanta to shadow their federal counterpart this week.

They’ll be accompanied by representatives from the Canadian dairy industry. It’s a gesture designed to remind federal Trade Minister Ed Fast of a federal-provincial promise made this summer to “preserve the integrity of the supply management system.”

Quebec Agriculture Minister Pierre Paradis said there’s concern that Canada is facing undue pressure from other countries and that without the presence of the provinces and industry, the negotiators could give up too much.

“We want the minister, who left the federal campaign to go down there, to feel that this is a big deal, that all of the Canadian jurisdictions want to remind him of the agreement in Char-

lottetown,” said Paradis, referring to federal-provincial meetings.

Negotiators for the 12 countries involved are into the final stages of hashing out an agreement, which would include some sort of concession from Canada on access to the dairy market.

Trade ministers are to meet in Atlanta towards the end of the week.

Fast was one of the first to announce he would attend.

A loosening of the “country of origin” rules around how much of a car built in Canada could come from someplace else is another point to be agreed upon.

Harper conceded at a campaign debate earlier this month that the auto industry might not be pleased with the TPP deal.

Another contentious issue is intellectual property and the length of time a pharmaceutical company can keep data about a drug confidential and out

of the hands of generic producers.

Canada’s sets a threshold of eight years for the drug industry, while the United States wants it to be 12. With many other national standards even shorter than Canada’s, there is a belief Canada won’t need to make any adjustment.

The TPP situation is an unusual one — the country is in the midst of an election campaign, but negotiators have had to plow ahead, lest the TPP train leave the station without Canada aboard.

The Conservatives appear poised to use any deal sealed on the TPP to their advantage on the campaign trail.

New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser said in a newspaper interview last week that, “the Canadians are negotiating as if there’s no election.”

New Zealand is one of the most aggressive voices in favour of scrapping trade barriers in the dairy industry.

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says farmers have lost more than $5 billion over the last two years because of grain transportation difficulties.

The latest numbers from the Agriculture Transportation Coalition show Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX:CP) and Canadian National (TSX:CN) supplied 90 per cent of ordered hopper cars during Week 6 of the current crop year.

Gehl, who farms north of Regina, would like to see better numbers before Canada’s reputation as a grain supplier is affected further.

“We’re seeing customers not happy with the service that they’re receiving from Canada and we’ve lost some of those customers, not only to the Americans, but actually out of the Black Sea

as well.

“Certainly cause for concerns.”

Gehl says the issue should be at the forefront of the federal election campaign in rural areas.

He would like to see farmers have direct input into plans for grain-handling and transportation in the future to avoid a repeat of the last two years.

A shipping bottleneck two harvests ago due to a shortage of rail cars left huge amounts of grain from a record crop sitting in bins across Western Canada.

It prompted the federal government to bring in rail transportation rules to speed up deliveries.

BRIEF Wheat commission wants grain transportation to be election issue REGINA — The Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission wants grain transportation to be the key federal farm election issue.

Commission chairman Bill Gehl

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CALGARY — Royal Dutch Shell’s decision to scrap plans to explore for oil off Alaska’s coast is sending a discouraging signal to those who want to see Canada’s Arctic offshore resources developed.

Shell drilled a well in the Chukchi Sea this summer that indicated the presence of oil and gas, but said Monday the results weren’t good enough to warrant further exploration for the “foreseeable future.”

“Shell continues to see important exploration potential in the basin and the area is likely to ultimately be of strategic importance to Alaska and the U.S. However, this is a clearly disappointing exploration outcome for this part of the basin,” said Marvin Odum, who directs Shell’s upstream Americas business.

The company said its decision to walk away from Alaska is based on the disappointing results of the well, along with high costs and a “challenging and unpredictable” U.S. regulatory environment.

In all, Shell has spent upwards US$7 billion on Arctic exploration.

A successful program in the Chukchi Sea would have helped along development of resources in the Beaufort Sea off the coast of the Northwest Territories — an even more challenging operating environment than Alaska, said energy consultant Doug Matthews.

“The loss for Canada is we really could have learned something from the Shell operation about how to better operate in the Arctic waters,” he said.

The National Energy Board, which has authority over the Arctic offshore but next to no experience in that region to draw from, could have learned from the U.S. regulatory approach.

“This would have been a very good laboratory for our purposes and that’s gone,” Matthews said.

The probability that Canadian Beaufort resources will one day be exploited was already looking dicey.

In June, Imperial Oil (TSX:IMO) and its partners deferred exploration in the Beaufort and asked for a seven-year extension to their licence, which expires in 2020. Chevron Canada said in December that it had put its plans in the region on ice indefinitely.

Both cited the National Energy Board’s requirement that companies show they can kill a ruptured oil well in the Arctic offshore in the same season it’s drilled — a difficult and costly proposition in a region that’s covered in ice for much of the year.

Shell’s decision is welcome news for environmental groups. After the U.S. government gave the green light to the company’s exploration plans in May, opponents mounted massive protests aimed at stopping drilling equipment stored in Seattle from moving north. Shell did not cite the environmental opposition as a factor in its decision, but Greenpeace Arctic campaigner Diego Creimer said it was clear it played a role.

“What happened today can be an inspiration,” he said. “People campaigning, people protesting definitely had an effect because they were really undermining (Shell’s) social licence to operate in the Arctic.”

Shell’s Arctic experience is a lesson for companies pursuing expensive and risky projects elsewhere in the world, added Anthony Hobley, CEO of the Carbon Tracker Initiative, a London-based think-tank.

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — North American stock markets closed sharply in the red Monday as more evidence of a continuing slowdown in China, the world’s second-largest economy, delivered a blow to commodity prices.

In Toronto, the S&P/TSX index plunged 373.99 points or 2.8 per cent to 13,004.58. The massive decline was led by the health-care sector, which lost more than 10 per cent, and metals and mining, which slipped more than nine per cent.

Oil and metals prices fell after Chinese government statistics showed that profits at the country’s industrial companies plunged 8.8 per cent last month.

The November contract for benchmark crude oil was down $1.27 at US$44.43 a barrel while December copper gave back three cents to US$2.25 a pound.

Even gold, often considered a safe haven for investors, took a beating, with the December contract falling $13.90 to US$1,131.70 an ounce.

“People traditionally buy gold for safety reasons, to diversify away from other assets. That’s not what’s happening right now,” said Luciano Orengo, managing director and portfolio manager at Manulife Asset Management.

“There are fears that the Chinese are selling some gold, to raise some cash to put back into the economy to try to stimulate it.”

An added influx of supply would put downward pressure on the price of the previous metal, Orengo said.

Elsewhere in commodities, the November natural gas gained four cents to US$2.67 per thousand cubic feet.

The loonie was off 0.44 of a U.S. cent at 74.66 cents US. The last time the loonie closed below that level was in June of 2004.

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Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . . 8.39 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 15.64 First Quantum Minerals . . 4.65 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 16.60 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 4.94 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.15 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.03 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 26.95 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.740 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 5.95 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 17.42 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 19.25 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 50.50 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.14 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 20.94 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 25.47 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 6.09 Canyon Services Group. . 5.11 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . . 19.8 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.170 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 8.36 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.670 industrial average gave back 312.78 points or 1.92 per cent to 16,001.89, while the broader S&P 500 declined 49.57 points or 2.57 per cent to 1,881.77 and Nasdaq plunged a whopping 142.53 points or 3.04 per cent to 4,543.97.

Meanwhile, in corporate news, Valeant Pharmaceuticals(TSX:VRX) — a heavily weighted stock on the TSX — fell by 16.3 per cent, or $43.20, to close at $221.81 after U.S. congressional Democrats asked to subpoena documents from the drugmaker related to massive price increases for two drugs.

They claim Valeant increased the price of congestive heart failure treatment Nitropress and another heart drug, Isuprel, by 212 and 525 per cent respectively on the day it purchased the rights to them from Marathon Pharmaceuticals.

“A lot of pharma companies have been put under scrutiny,” Orengo said. “Last week Hillary Clinton was talking about making some of these companies’ spend on R&D mandatory.”

In other corporate news, Alcoa Inc. (NYSE:AA) bucked the downward trend after announcing that it will split into two independent companies. Its bauxite, aluminum and casting operations will be in one company and its engineering and transportation businesses will be in another. Its stock rose 52 cents or 5.73 per cent to US$9.59.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,004.58, down 373.99 points Dow — 16,001.89, down 312.78 points S&P 500 — 1,881.77, down 49.57 points

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 72.60 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 34.93 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.33 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 20.61 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 41.21 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 1.16 Penn West Energy . . . . . 0.680 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 4.72 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 34.60 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.98 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.33 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 41.41 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.200 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 69.60 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 57.28 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.45 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 23.17 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 31.57 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 33.88 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 94.91 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.27 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 41.61 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.40 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 71.05 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 41.96 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.11 Nasdaq — 4,543.97, down 142.53 points Currencies: Cdn — 74.66 cents US, down 0.44 of a cent Pound — C$2.0319, up 0.87 of a cent Euro — C$1.5046, up 1.25 cents Euro — US$1.1233, up 0.28 of a cent Oil futures: US$44.43 per barrel, down $1.27 (November contract) Gold futures: US$1,131.70 per oz., down $13.90 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.263 oz., down 70.9 cents $651.46 kg., down $22.79 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov ‘15 $2.50 lower $473.80 Jan. ‘16 $2.70 lower $478.80 March ‘16 $2.80 lower $481.00 May ‘16 $2.40 lower $481.30 July ‘16 $1.80 lower $480.60 Nov. ‘16 $1.20 higher $470.30 Jan. ‘17 $1.20 higher $471.50 March ‘17 $1.20 higher $473.20 May ‘17 $1.20 higher $473.20 July ‘17 $1.20 higher $473.20 Nov. ‘17 $1.20 higher $473.20.

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.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 431,440 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 431,440.

Prosecutors open investigation into former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN — German prosecutors on Monday opened an investigation against former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn to establish what his role was in the emissions-rigging scandal that has shaken the world’s largest automaker.

The investigation will concentrate on the suspicion of fraud committed through the sale of vehicles with manipulated emissions data, and aims to determine who was responsible, prosecutors in Braunschweig said in a statement.

In the German system, anyone can file a criminal complaint with prosecutors, who are then obliged to examine it and decide whether there is enough evidence to open a formal investigation.

In this case, following the revelations about the rigged tests, prosecutors in Braunschweig, near VW’s headquarters in Wolfsburg, received about a dozen complaints, including one from Volkswagen itself, said spokeswoman Julia Meyer.

She said it was too early to say if and when prosecutors may try and interview Winterkorn himself, and that she did not know whether he already had an attorney to represent him.

She said at this stage, she could not estimate how long the investigation would last.

“This is a very broad case and in other such investigations it has taken many months, sometimes years,” she said.

Winterkorn, Volkswagen’s CEO since 2007, resigned Wednesday — days after the world’s top-sell-

ing carmaker admitted that it had rigged diesel emissions to pass U.S. tests during his tenure.

He said that he was going “in the interests of the company even though I am not aware of any wrongdoing on my part.”

Under German law, it is not possible to bring charges against a company, only against individuals. Meyer would not elaborate on specifics of the investigation, and it wasn’t clear what Winterkorn’s suspected role might be.

There was no immediate comment from Volkswagen on the prosecutors’ decision.

Fraud can carry a prison sentence of up to 10 years in Germany.

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Julia Sotera, Director of Marketing Services at Tetra Pak, launches Marketing Services, a new offering from Tetra Pak that helps brands fast-track food and beverage product innovation at Pack Expo at the Las Vegas Convention Center

Mexican delegation say country an opportunity for Canadian energy firms

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Canadian energy companies looking south for new opportunities should cast their eyes beyond the U.S., according Mexican politicians and businessmen attending an event at Calgary’s Petroleum Club on Monday.

The delegation, speaking at a forum hosted by the Economic Club of Canada, said Mexico’s energy sector is open for business now that the country has lifted the state monopoly that existed for more than 75 years.

“You are facing a country that has dared to change,” David Penchyna, chairman of the Mexican Senate’s energy committee, said through a translator.

Penchyna said that after so many years without competition or proper investment there now is potential in all areas of the Mexican energy sector, including exploration, production, petrochemicals and transportation.

Investment is sorely needed as the country’s oil output has dropped from 3.4 million barrels a day in 2004 to 2.2 million barrels at present, he said.

Luis Vazquez, chairman of Mexican energy firm Grupo Diavaz, said the country is building 11,000 kilometres of pipelines and will need to build thousands more, but it needs money and human resources to do it.

Jesus Rodriguez Davalos, chairman of law firm Rodriguez Davalos Abogados, said energy and financial services companies will also find opportunity in the country as Mexico continues to reform regulations in the energy sector.

“This reform is one of the most revolutionary economic reforms that we’ve had in the last 25 years,” said Davalos.

He said that thanks to the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico has already established a transparent methodology for investment that Canadian banks are comfortable with.

Mexico changed its constitution in 2013 to allow for competition in oil and gas production, but the country’s efforts to embrace the free market have so far been hampered, in part, by the low oil prices affecting the industry globally.

The country held its first open auction for offshore oil leases in July, but only managed to off-load two of the 14 blocks up for sale.

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City busing gets funding boost PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT EARMARKS $9.5 MILLION

BY ADVOCATE STAFF City of Red Deer’s next generation of buses will be cleaner running and “smarter” thanks to a major investment from the province.

The Alberta government has earmarked $9.5 million to help Red Deer buy 10 regular buses and four Action buses running on compressed natural gas instead of diesel.

The latest in location-tracking systems using GPS technology will also be funded through a $2.75-million grant.

Red Deer County will also receive $320,000 for a new low-floor bus on the increasingly popular Springbrook and Gasoline Alley service.

“It’s a great day for anyone who supports public transit in Red Deer Region,” said county Mayor Jim Wood at a ceremony at the city’s civic yards.

Mayor Tara Veer applauded the province for stepping up with the cash, which is being provided through Alberta’s GreenTRIP program. It will cover about two-thirds of the cost of

TRANSPORTATION the buses and the natural gas and tracking upgrades.

The funding allows the city to follow through on its commitment to reduce its environmental footprint. Upgrading transit tracking systems is expected to make service faster and more environmentally efficient.

Funding also allows the city to extend service into its newest neighbourhoods and commercial areas.

About $3.7 million will go to buying the 14 new buses. Installing the pumps and other infrastructure needed for compressed natural gas will cost about $2.5 million.

Converting buses to natural gas will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 61 tonnes next year, the city estimates. By 2025, it’s expected emission will be cut by 376 tonnes.

The county estimates expanding transit service will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 121 tonnes.

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Red Deer North and South MLA’s Kim Schreiner, left, and Barb Miller listen as City of Red Deer mayor Tara Veer speaks to those gathered at the City Transit Yard on Monday. The Alberta Government announced a Green TRIP grant for the City of Red Deer and Red Deer County during the event.

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This will be the fifth year for the stationary bike fundraiser in Red Deer and they have a goal of raising $55,000 this year.

Teams of five register, raise pledges and ride in seven-minute intervals over the course of an hour. Organizers are expecting 35 corporate teams to register this year.

The Red Deer event will go on Oct. 7 at the Bower Place, Centre Court from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

For more information or to register, go to www.jdrf.ca/ride.

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City removing trees along 20th Avenue Chainsaws will be taken to a line of long-standing trees on future 20th Avenue this week.

City of Red Deer announced that the trees on the west side of former Range Road 271 from 55th Street (Hwy 11) to 32nd Street will be removed.

Trees are being cut down to make way for a two-metre berm designed to act as a sound and sight buffer when 20th Avenue is developed. Long-term plans are to turn 20th Avenue into a ring road around the east edge of the city.

Berm construction is expected to begin this fall and will continue next year. Once built, aspen, poplar and choke cherry trees will be planted on the berm running behind Deer Park and Rosedale subdivisions.

The work is being done now to give the trees time to mature before 20th Avenue is built.

As part of the project, a threemetre-wide asphalt path will be built on the east side of the berm. The trail from 55th to 32nd Streets is expected to be completed next summer. Then, work will begin on the next leg to 19th Street (Delburne Road).

Foodgrains Bank Project Harvest Day BBQ The Central Alberta Foodgrains Bank Project will be holding a Harvest Day BBQ at noon on Oct. 10.

The project has been operating for the last 20 years, growing crops locally to help people throughout the world.

This year they are working a field southwest of Lacombe, harvesting 130 acres of CPS Wheat.

People are asked to bring a their appetite, a lawn chair and a friend.

For more information call Doug at 403782-1860.

In 2014-15, with support from the Canadian government, the project provided $41.6 million of assistance for 1.1 million people in 39 countries.

Charity Check Stop looking for winter clothing

City and county of Lacombe combining on planning The city and county of Lacombe are joining planning forces.

Staff and councils from both municipalities will be working to update their Intermunicipal Development Plan (IDP), which offers a shared planning vision.

The last plan was completed in 2007 and work has just begin on an updated version, expected to be finalized and approved by both councils sometime next year.

“The IDP will develop policies that build on the city’s and county’s existing strengths, and also develop future joint projects that will foster and support continued economic growth in the region,” says county senior planner Anita O’Driscoll.

Public input will be sought as part of the planning process. The first open house is set for Nov. 10 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Lacombe Memorial Centre.

Fraud charges dropped in Holt court case Michael Holt, 34, had charges of fraud and forgery dropped in Red Deer provincial court on Monday.

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Autumn colours are reflected in the ponds at Three Mile Bend Recreation off leash dog park on Monday afternoon. With the continuation of beautiful fall weather the parks and trails in Red Deer are busy places.

The Prince George, B.C., man was set for the Monday-scheduled trial on charges of fraud over $5,000 and using a forged document. He appeared Monday before judge James Glass.

The four charges, two counts each of fraud and forged documents, were withdrawn by the Crown Prosecutor.

A second trial is scheduled for Tuesday on other charges relating to a robbery incident at Kelly’s Campground in the summer of 2014.

Those charges include three counts of breach of probation, theft under $5,000, failing to comply with release conditions and failing to appear in court were adjourned to Oct. 20 in Red Deer provincial court. However, defence counsel Jason Snider

indicated the charges would likely be waived to Prince George so Holt could deal with them where he lives.

Ride for Diabetes Research coming to Red Deer Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is encouraging local business people to trade in their suits for gym shorts on Oct. 7 for the Ride for Diabetes Research.

The bike-a-thon will take place in 21 communities across Canada between September and November with the goal of raising money and awareness towards finding a cure for Type 1

The Central Alberta Crime Prevention Centre will be hosting its second annual Charity Check Stop on Oct. 17.

The check stop will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.. on Taylor Drive and residents are asked to drop off their gently used coats and other winter clothing items for the Crime Prevention Centre. Participating local dry cleaners will clean the items and Coats 4 Kids will distribute the winter clothing to those in need.

Outkasts holding Christmas Bureau Toy Drive A group of local classic car enthusiasts is coming together with some early Christmas cheer.

Outkasts CC and Friends is holding their first toy run on Oct. 4, encouraging people to make a contribution to the Red Deer Christmas Bureau, a local charity organization that helps people in need during the holiday season. There will be a drop off centre set up in the Parkland Mall parking lot from 1-4 p.m. followed by a hamburger/ smokey BBQ at the Linn Valley Community Hall from 1:30-5 p.m.

A number of hot rods, classic cars and muscle cars will also be on display, for those who want a final glimpse before the winter comes.

Hart challenges Tory record on accountability, economy

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

ning. Provinces should have a 20-year plan and federal governments should have a 40- or 50-year plan. But governments have fallen into a If Doug Hart looks fatrap of one-year budget cymiliar on the ballot, that’s cles.” because this isn’t the first The 65-year-old father time he’s run for office this of four is hard on the camyear. paign trail identifying supThe Ponoka resident porters, door knocking and came a close second in the preparing for a gauntlet of Lacombe-Ponoka riding in forums throughout the ridthe May provincial election, ing. losing by 1,201 votes to WilHe has worked at the Red drose candidate Ron Orr. Deer Regional Hospital, But the long-time nurse taught at Red Deer College is taking another stab at full-time for 18 years and politics and is running with DOUG tended bar part-time in Lathe NDP in the upcoming HART combe for 13 years. federal election in the new“If you’re not part of the ly created Red Deer-Lasolution, you’re part of the problem,” combe riding.

“Government is more complicated said Hart.

“There are lots of people who sit than ‘we won’t raise your taxes,’” said Hart. “Government is long-term plan- around the table and Tim Hortons and

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RED DEER-LACOMBE complain about the government, taxes and services and do nothing more than complain.

“I really believe people need to get out of their seats and do something.”

Believing in both public ownership and administration of essential services and capitalism at the same time led Hart to find a home with the NDP. “I believe government should serve citizens not corporations,” said Hart.

Hart said the Conservative government has failed both of its key tenets that led to its election in 2006, accountability and sound economic management.

“For six years in a row they’ve run deficits,” said Hart. “Our dollar has dropped 18 cents this year against the American dollar. That says other G7

countries have no confidence in our economy.”

Hart instead supports diversifying the Canadian economy. Specifically the creation of value-added industry, instead of relying on raw material extraction and then exportation of the raw goods. He pointed specifically to the energy, agriculture and lumber sectors.

“We’ve adopted a strip and ship mentality about our economy,” said Hart. “We need to change our thinking.

We need to add value to our resources.”

Hart is running against Conservative Blaine Calkins, Liberal Jeffrey Rock and Green Party Les Kuzyk.

Voting day is Oct. 19. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Could there be life on Mars?

NASA SAYS PLANET APPEARS TO HAVE FLOWING WATER IN SUMMER

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Mars appears to have flowing rivulets of water, at least in the summer, scientists reported Monday in a finding that boosts the odds of life on the red planet.

“Mars is not the dry, arid planet that we thought of in the past,” said Jim Green, director of planetary science for NASA. Scientists in 2008 confirmed the existence of frozen water on Mars. Now instruments aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have yielded what researchers said is the strongest evidence yet that water in liquid form trickles down certain Martian slopes.

And because liquid water is essential to life, the finding could have major implications for the possibility of microscopic life forms on Earth’s nextdoor neighbour.

“It suggests that it would be possible for there to be life today on Mars,” NASA’s science mission chief, John Grunsfeld, said at a Washington news conference.

The rivulets — if that’s what they are, since the evidence for their existence is indirect — are about 12 to 15 feet wide and 300 feet or more long, scientists said. They apparently consist of wet soil, not standing water.

The water is believed to contain certain salts — not ordinary table salt, but magnesium perchlorate, magnesium chlorate and sodium perchlorate. Like road salt used to melt ice and snow on Earth, such compounds can prevent water from freezing at extremely low temperatures.

That would explain how water could exist in liquid form on Mars, which has an average temperature of minus 85 degrees Fahrenheit.

In addition to supporting life, the presence of liquid water could make things easier for astronauts visiting or living on Mars. Water could be used for drinking and for creating oxygen and rocket fuel. NASA’s goal is to send humans there in the 2030s.

Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA’s Mars exploration program, said the only definitive way for now to determine whether there’s life on Mars is to collect rocks and soil for analysis on Earth, something a U.S.

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This undated photo provided by NASA and taken by an instrument aboard the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows dark, narrow, 100 meter-long streaks on the surface of Mars that scientists believe were caused by flowing streams of salty water. Researchers said Monday, that the latest observations strongly support the longtime theory that salt water in liquid form flows down certain Martian slopes each summer. lander set for liftoff in 2020 will do.

“Water is one of the most precious resources necessary for a human mission to the red planet,” Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, chairman of the House science, space and technology committee, said in a statement. “The more evidence we find of it, the more encouraged I am for future Mars missions.”

Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona at Tucson, a scientist on the project, said he, for one, believes the possibility of life on Mars to be “very high.”

The source of the briny water is a mystery. Scientists said it could be melting ice, an underground aquifer, water vapour from the thin Martian atmosphere, or some combination.

The evidence of flowing water consists largely of dark, narrow streaks on the surface that tend to appear and grow during the warmest Martian months and fade the rest of the year.

The streaks are in places where the temperature is as low as 10 below zero.

They were spotted by the Mars orbiter’s high-resolution, telescopic camera, and another on-board instrument detected the chemical signature of salt compounds combined with water.

McEwen said that there appears to be a “significant volume” of water, speculating it could fill many Olympic swimming pools, but that it is spread thin.

Present-day Mars is nothing like ancient Mars. Three billion years ago, our most Earthlike neighbour had a huge ocean, but something radical happened, and exactly what remains a mystery.

The notion of water and life on Mars has been irresistible to earthlings for generations.

In 1877, Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli spied what he called “canali” on Mars — Italian for “chan-

nels” — but the word was mistranslated as “canals” in English, causing imaginations to run wild. In the early 1900s, amateur astronomer Percival Lowell claimed to have spotted irrigation canals and theorized they were built by Martians.

In 2008, NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft landed on Mars and confirmed the long-suspected presence of ice in the soil. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been circling the planet since 2006.

The latest findings were published in the journal Nature Geoscience. The lead author, Lujendra Ojha, a doctoral candidate at Georgia Institute of Technology, first noticed the streaks on Mars in 2010. Ojha and colleagues speculated at the time that they were seeing flowing water.

For NASA, at least, the timing couldn’t be better. This Friday, the NASA-approved movie “The Martian” has its premiere.

Rosetta comet likely formed by collision

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their history, gently ‘docking’ together during an ancient encounter that apparently did little damage to either partner,” he said.

“This growth is believed to have occurred about 4.5 billion years ago, contemporaneous with the formation of the solar system.”

Melosh, who was involved with NASA’s Deep Impact, NExT and EPOXI missions to explore comets Tempel 1

BERLIN — When the Rosetta space probe sent back its first close-up pictures of a comet last year, scientists got a bit of a surprise: Instead of the ball of rock and ice they had expected, the comet turned out to have two distinct lobes connected by a “neck.”

Some said it looked like a giant rubber duck.

Researchers have now concluded that the comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko was probably formed when two separate objects collided during the early stages of the solar system, according to a paper published Monday in the journal Nature.

Using data collected by the OSIRIS cameras onboard Rosetta, scientists were able to determine that the flat planes and arcs on 67P’s surface are in fact terraces that wrap around the two lobes Photo by ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES like layers around an onion.

A close up of 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko, taken by “ F o r t h e f i r s t Rosetta in August, shows the comet has two distinct time, this study gives lobes connected by a ‘neck.’ This tells scientists that the observational evidence on how the comet was likely formed by when two separate objects primordial bodies collided during the early stages of the solar system. formed,” said Matteo Massironi, one of the study’s authors.

Thanks to the high resolution of the images, scientists were able to see that the layers on the larger lobe — some up to 650 metres (2,130 feet) thick — are independent of the layers on the smaller lobe. In essence, this means the comet is made of two separate cores.

Jay Melosh, a professor of planetary science at Purdue University in Indiana who wasn’t involved in the study, called the study a “wonderful piece of research (that) exemplifies science at its best, bringing order out of apparent chaos.”

“The big news is that the layers of each lobe wrap independently, indiGREAT THINGS HAPPEN WHEN cating that the two lobes grew separately and only joined together later in

and Hartley 2, said “hints of layering had been seen before in other comet nuclei, but it took the exquisite resolution and complete coverage afforded by the Rosetta mission to fully reveal the relatively simple underlying structure of comet 67P and, by extension, to other comets.”

“The fusion should have happened when dust was coagulating into larger, layered bodies in the outer regions and planets were still growing in the inner regions,” explained Massironi, who works at the University of Padova, Italy.

The knowledge gleaned by the Rosetta photos should help scientists better understand how planets and comets formed, he said.

‘THE BIG NEWS IS THAT THE LAYERS OF EACH LOBE WRAP INDEPENDENTLY, INDICATING THAT THE TWO LOBES GREW SEPARATELY AND ONLY JOINED TOGETHER LATER IN THEIR HISTORY, GENTLY ‘DOCKING’ TOGETHER DURING AN ANCIENT ENCOUNTER THAT APPARENTLY DID LITTLE DAMAGE TO EITHER PARTNER.’ JAY MELOSH, PROFESSOR OF PLANETARY SCIENCE AT PURDUE UNIVERSITY

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Cleaning frenzy takes Not worse off, over summer maybe just different A few weeks ago Jamie and I ventured south to Lethbridge on business while the kids stayed home with their granny. As we were travelling home one of my worst nightmares came to life. My phone began blowing up with text messages. Friends and family were madly informing me about a shooting that had happened near Sylvan Lake. The perpetrator fled into town and was cruising around with a loaded shotgun. I thanked God at the time my children were secure in the safeguard of their school, but that didn’t stop my constant worry as we journeyed homewards.

This incident was right around the same time as the tragic Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette story. Only a few days prior the little girl had gone missing from her home in Blairmore, Alta. For the entire time Jamie and I were in Lethbridge I couldn’t stop thinking about the tragedy and I’m sure along with many others I was stridently eager for the guilty party to be brought to justice.

I’ve noticed that each time a horrific occurrence like this arises it seems to hit closer to home so to speak. Now with a family of my own the news has turned into a multitude of terrifying possibilities of what could happen to the people I love. It is enough to drive a lady to packing up the entire brood and finding a secluded cabin in the woods to hunker down in for the rest of time. Because it seems that there are heartbreaking missteps from our fellow man everywhere we look.

And often it is difficult to remember the good in this world.

That is, until something unexpected comes along and rekindles your optimistic conviction. Last week I found myself holding a beautiful baby girl.

Now don’t get too excited, this one did not exit out of my own womb but that of a close friend of mine. And it occurred to me as the babe squiggled and wiggled in my arms that this wee human is the one of the most import-

ant of all earth’s marvels.

Every day as these darkening issues unfold there is something else at work—life, birth and the continuation of the human race.

If you’ve been reading my work for any LINDSAY length of time I BROWN may sound like ME PLUS THREE a broken record at this point. It is an issue that lives near to my heart, thus my steady droning about it. Our children, regardless of race, religion or background are the unsung miracles we witness each day.

Likely there will always be at least one group of people who are not happy with our political leaders. There will forever be wars waged over land, religion and resources. A small percentage of people will continue to commit heinous acts of treachery and terror out of personal or passionate reasoning. These are not issues that will resolve on their own. Not without alteration in the way we run things at least.

Every day I hear talk about how the world has become this grim place—a scary life to raise a child in. I’m not sure if the world is worse off than it was before, but rather different. With the social media movement we have access to more information sharing than ever before. With these monumental changes in our technological life comes hope for all aspects of the future. Parents and caregivers today ride a very rare opportunity. We as the human race sit on the brink of change; our way of life will soon revolutionize.

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September is kind of a bossy, flamboyant month.

I’ve noticed that lately, as I try very hard to adhere to the timetable that seems to come along automatically with the new calendar page.

Okay, I admit it. I have been feeling just a tad sorry for myself.

I wasn’t quite ready for September because I hadn’t quite finished with summer.

Summer kind of got away on me because of the book. The book was called The Magic of Organization and it was supposed to change my life.

I bought it because I keep thinking if I read enough of those books something will click and a new organized me that has been hiding inside my body for many years will emerge.

Common sense tells me you can’t get organized from a book anymore than you can jump into the deep end of the pool just by reading about it, but me and common sense are usually at odds anyway.

So I bought the book, sighed deeply and began reading, waiting, in a most impractical way, for the magic to begin.

It didn’t.

About the same time as I bought the book, a friend who, for some reason, knows about such things told me if I just started with one shelf or one cupboard or one corner, I could have my whole entire house clean and organized.

“When?” I said all meek and compliant.

“One day,” my unhelpful friend said.

And so it began.

One shelf in my pantry. And then another.

Before I knew it I became obsessed.

Clean, clean, clean. Look at me go!

My self-imposed cleaning frenzy lasted throughout the summer. I have to say I went through every closet, every cupboard, every bathroom and even the laundry room for heaven sakes, did not escape my ruthless attack.

But, as I purged and cleaned, summer with all its magic, charm and delightful green and blue sun drenched days, disappeared.

Wow! That was fast. Oh well, my efforts have paid off and my house is so neat and organized, I alTREENA most feel like MIELKE someone else lives in it. I dare FAMILY not question myself as to how long it will last, but right now am enjoying the satisfaction of opening a closet and staring at neatly folded towel and sheets.

It’s a miracle, actually!

Anyway, now we are on to September. People are saying its time to get back to a routine.

Its time to get back to lessons and classes and getting all fit and self-improving whatever self improvement thing needs work.

Waiting in a line up at the grocery store, I grabbed one of those magazines whose front cover flaunted something about being all fit and looking at least 20 years younger than your real age.

Once again common sense perched its little voice on my shoulder and said, “you can’t read about it and make it happen, you dummy.”

I guiltily dropped the magazine in my cart anyway, hiding the unhealthy choices like nachos and cookies and smiled sweetly at the check out girl.

But, whatever, I’m ready. I know all about verbs as opposed to nouns.

Action. Take action! It’s the only way to make things happen.

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Just face it, deal with it, get over it and move on Face it, deal with it and get over it!

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.”

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down to me.

Someone once told me there are two kinds of people in the world: Keepers and Throwers. I am a Keeper, as is my wonderfully sentimental mother, who keeps every-thing from Christmas cards to locks of our baby hair. My “Can you see anything?” I father was a Thrower. If an asked in a loud whisper. item served no practical “Give me a chance,” purpose, it was thrown out. came the reply. “The flash“Why the hell are you keeplight won’t work.” ing this stuff?” he would ofI was 12 and my brother ten ask her. was 10. I was standing guard The Keeper/Thrower at the bottom of a ladder – distinction is useful when MURRAY nailed to the wall – that led it comes to dealing with FUHRER to the attic of our old abanfamily hand-me-downs: doned farmhouse. Always it’s important to identify EXTREME ESTEEM braver than I was and far ourselves as a Keeper or less concerned about breakThrower when we try to deing the rules, my younger cide what to keep and what brother took little convincing to climb to throw away. In this case though, the the ladder and explore the loft. hand-me-downs I’m referring to are I had been up in the attic as a small the family traits we get from our parchild and remembered it as a magi- ents or grandparents — even siblings cal, mothball-scented sanctuary filled and relatives likes aunts, uncles and with cardboard boxes, winter coats cousins. and stacks of old movie magazines.

Their beliefs, attitudes and actions Father’s army uniform was up there seemed perfectly normal and right to along with anything Mother could us as children, and we accepted them cram through the small opening in the without question. ceiling. She could never be sure when Unfortunately, people rarely apply someone might want something that the same kind of critical judgment to was up there, and she would be ready these hand-me-downs as they do to to hand it down. boxes full of generation-old clothing.

Reflecting back, I realize I was Phrases like “He’s just like his father” standing at the bottom of that ladder and “She gets that from her mother” hoping the attic was exactly as I re- indicate how easily people accept that membered it. I wanted to climb up beliefs and attitudes will be passed there and be a small child again. It down from generation to generation was a fond memory and I wanted to without any scrutiny. But what if our keep it. Like my mother, my first in- hand-me-downs include things like anstinct has always been to hang onto ger, depression, envy, guilt, prejudices things; it’s a strong trait she handed and abuse? Do we still want them?

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One of the best visual demonstrations of this concept I’ve seen was in a session many years ago entitled Getting Past Your Past by Glenn Allen, a noted authority on self-esteem, who referred to it as “family baggage.” Allen started the evening by walking out in front of the audience weighed down with suitcases and duffel bags, looking like a weary traveller. He reminded us that sometimes it’s OK to lose your luggage. Everyone laughed and we all got the message. This is what most of us would look like if we could see the family baggage we carry every day. No wonder we often have difficulty negotiating life.

But you’re no longer a child, and the time has come to examine your boxes of hand-me-downs and do some unpacking. One of the first steps is to acknowledge their existence. Acknowledging is not about assigning blame, it’s about taking responsibility. You can’t change the events of your past, nor can you change the other people. You can, however, change your perspective and view your hand-medowns objectively. Once you’re able to see issues with more clarity, you can begin to label traits that you want and those that no longer serve you.

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It’s healthy for couples to spend time with friends Q: Do you think it’s a good idea for husbands and wives to have regular activities apart from each other with their friends of the same sex? My husband feels a deep need to get together with his guy friends a couple of times each month, but I’d rather spend most of my time with him. I get out with some girlfriends a couple times a year, and this seems to be more than sufficient for me. What are your thoughts?

Jim: Assuming that the two of you aren’t short-changing your time together as a couple, we’d suggest that it’s almost always a good idea for a husband and wife to enjoy a reasonable amount of activity with their respective samesex friends. Females need other females. Guys need guys. But this isn’t necessarily the last word.

If we were sitting across the table from you and asked you to describe your marriage, what would you say?

What are your expectations for the relationship? Are those expectations being fulfilled or not? Give some honest thought to the quality of your relationship. When it is just the two of you, do you enjoy each other’s company, or do you find it difficult to be together?

How would your spouse answer that question?

Bottom line: If you’re connecting, enjoying the time you spend together, and striking a healthy balance between friend time and couple time, we don’t think you have anything to worry about. A secure wife who cares about her husband’s enrichment is usually happy to see him forming healthy bonds with other men of solid character. If, however, your husband is deliberately cutting you out of his life or trying to “escape” the relationship, I’d encourage you to give the situation some attention — preferably with the assistance of a trained marriage counselor.

Q: How can I encourage my bashful preschooler to open up and break out of her shell? She’s soft-spoken, reserved, and afraid of walking into a room full of people. Is there something we can do to make it easier for her to interact with others?

Greg Smalley, Vice President, Family Ministries: Every individual is dif-

ferent, and there are some situations in which a child’s bashful behavior may turn into a cause for serious concern. But most of the time it’s simply a question of temperament. In these cases, there’s JIM no need to think DALY of it as an insurmountable FOCUS ON FAMILY problem or to treat it like one.

Some kids are just born with a predisposition to be less outgoing than others.

Raising bashful boys and girls is a delicate art that requires discernment, sensitivity and balance. If you have a more assertive, confident personality than your daughter, it may be particularly difficult for you to understand her. If so, your first assignment is to get inside her head and try to see the world through her eyes.

One of the best ways to help a shy child is to show her that you love her unconditionally. Let her know that she doesn’t have to perform in certain ways to be accepted by you. At those moments when she seems paralyzed by her bashfulness, respond with encouragement — a disapproving comment or look will only make her feel even more self-conscious.

At the same time, resist the temptation to make life easier for her by shielding her from new people or situations. Coddling and reinforcing self-defeating behavior will only create additional problems in the future.

If you feel like you need more guidance in this matter, you can start with our licensed staff counselors by calling 855-771-HELP (4357).

Jim Daly is a husband and father, an author, and president of Focus on the Family and host of the Focus on the Family radio program. Catch up with him at www.jimdalyblog.com or at www.facebook.com/DalyFocus.

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BROWN: Inspire self-assured kindness Potentially the early beginnings of that change could be beautiful and monumental and brewing somewhere deep in the subconscious of our children or grandchildren.

Today it is up to us to provide our next generation with the tools to create a better tomorrow. Rather than filling their heads with bigoted thoughts and a fascination for scandalous tittle-tattle let us build them up with confidence and aptitude. Teach them that small talk is cheap. Give them the knowhow to switch up a lackluster, “how about this weather?” into a heated debate over what to do about climate change.

Tell them it is perfectly acceptable to disagree but also wise to have the clarity to see both sides of a dispute. Allow them the freedom to speak and think and encourage them to search for the answers of all the questions they can conjure up. Give them strength to stand up for what they believe in even when it intimidates the “traditional” ways.

Please join me in inspiring a self-assured kindness in our children which in turn will promote confident and freethinking leaders of tomorrow.

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

MIELKE: The start of another adventure So, I’m back at the gym, working at working out, and being all glad when I’m done. And my wonderful, sweet and very patient piano teacher has agreed to take me on for yet another year, coaching and encouraging me as I stumble through yet another book, hopefully one level higher.

And, for some reason, I’m all happy.

Every morning and every night when I drive to

Distracted cellphone walkers create hazards as ‘deadwalkers’

BY ASHLEY HALSEY III SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE You have seen the zombie-like creatures walking among us. In fact, you may be one of them, moseying along with your eyes fixated on that tiny screen that rests in the palm of your hand. North Americans overwhelmingly think this is okay. It’s not.

“It’s just really dangerous,” said Deborah Hersman, who heads the National Safety Council and is a former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board. “Everybody walking down the sidewalk either has their headphones on or is looking down at their phone. It’s a sad commentary on our society when you look at how distracted people are.”

By now, everyone knows that talking or texting while driving can get you killed. But the fact that 3,154 people died and an estimated 424,000 were hurt in 2013 is evidence that a great many people are willing to ignore the advice to keep their attention on the road. News that you could get hurt or even die while walking around - made oblivious to your surroundings by your cellphone obsession - isn’t very like to be more persuasive. But there is plenty of anecdotal evidence and an emerging body of research to back up those warnings.

“Some data suggests that at any given moment on the streets of America, 60 percent of pedestrians are distracted while walking, meaning either on the phone or doing something on their phone,” said Alan S. Hilibrand of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. “It’s a bit of a startling number.”

Hilibrand, vice chairman of orthopaedic surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, has seen evidence of what he calls “digital deadwalkers” on center-city streets.

“We’ve had people come into the emergency room who were hit by cars,” he said. “They’re looking at their phone and not paying attention to the fact that a vehicle is making a turn.”

In a bizarre tragedy a few blocks from Hilibrand’s hospital in May, a

and from work September blesses me with a delightful kaleidoscope of colours that takes my breath away.

My little grandson just began Grade 1, leaving the cocoon of mom’s kitchen and chocolate chip cookies for a bigger world. He is somewhat tired, bewildered and missing his brothers, his Lego and his favorite TV shows.

I think about him as I drive through the glorious golden September days.

“It’s just the start of another adventure,” I muse to myself. “For you and for me!”

And it’s good. It’s all good!

Treena Mielke lives in Sylvan Lake and is editor of the Rimbey Review. She has been a journalist and columnist for more than 25 years. Treena is married to Peter and they have three children and six grandchildren. ftreena

FUHRER: Do a little reassessment At this point it’s very easy to go to extremes: to be a Keeper and try to hang onto all the characteristics of your parents, or to be a rebellious Thrower and vehemently reject everything they stood for. To find the right balance, look at your attitude toward your family and proceed from a place of love. They did the best they were capable of, and some of the effects on you were positive and some negative. Keep traits that are empowering and self-esteem building like kindness, empathy, compassion and courage.

Look back upon family members who best exemplified these positive qualities and choose them as role models. Throw out fear-based traits that lead to anxiety, fear and loathing. Grandfather’s sense of honesty: keep. Grandfather’s cycles of anger and oppression: throw.

Keeping and throwing takes practice but persistence will eventually lead you from burden to freedom. Recruit a support system to help keep you on track: a group of supportive friends who will cheer your achievements and keep you from backsliding or becoming discouraged. Take baby steps at first and remember, your steps should lead to something specific and measurable so you’ll know when

68-year-old woman visiting from Texas was said to be looking down at her iPad as she crossed a street in the city’s Chinatown. She was hit by an amphibious duck boat filled with tourists and died of head injuries. As mobile devices have become more ubiquitous, the number of emergency room visits by distracted walkers has climbed steadily. Some of the best information is a bit out of date, but it gives a sense of the trend. In 2005, 256 pedestrians who were injured while using phones received hospital treatment, a number that grew sixfold by 2010.

“I would say the really rapid explosion and proliferation of these devices has taken off in the last five years, so I suspect the numbers have jumped quite a bit,” said Hersman, whose National Safety Council compiled data from several different reports in its annual statistical safety profile.

One surprise was that more than half of injuries happened while people were fixated on their cellphones while walking in their homes. Overall, more than two-thirds of the injured were women, and slightly more than half were under age 40. More than 20 percent were age 71 or older.

“I do it if there’s not a lot of people around,” said Courtney Thomas, 32, when his communion with his cellphone was interrupted on 12th Street NW, just below H Street, in the District. “I’ve seen videos of people falling into fountains and running into signs, so I look up every couple of seconds.”

One Chinese city, Chongqing, home to more than 9 million people, has put up satirical “no cellphone” lanes on the sidewalk to remind people their distraction can be dangerous and annoying. A recent survey by the Pew Research Center found that Americans have grown comfortable using their mobile devices in public, and nowhere more so than “while walking down the street,” which 77 percent said was generally okay.

“I was just checking something my brother sent me on e-mail,” said Cameron Ratliff, 27, as he crossed 11th Street NW at G Street recently. “Usually, if I look at it, it’s when I’m stopped at a crosswalk. I’ve never run into anything.”

you’ve done what you set out to accomplish.

“There’s nothing up there,” said my brother, climbing down the ladder, wood shavings clinging to the knees of his pants. “Must have all got thrown out.”

Years later, Mother told me that when we moved houses, she and Father had moved everything from the attic to the living room for sorting. Together they placed items in Keep and Throw piles. I can imagine my father, out of respect for my mother, trying his best to think like a Keeper and see the value in holding onto an item while my mother, struggling to release her sentimental attachments, tried to thinking like a Thrower and toss a few things out.

Perhaps the French author and diarist, Anais Nin expressed the idea best when she wrote, “Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous I let go.”

Climb into the attic of your mind and do a little reassessment. Sort through your boxes and decide what you can keep and what you can throw out. And remember to resist your natural tendencies to keep or throw.

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator.

His recent book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca.

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Medical drama strives for gritty realism TORONTO — Harrowing stories from an overburdened U.S. medical system inspired the acclaimed documentary Code Black.

And now that documentary has inspired a TV series, which its co-stars say breaks away from standard network fare with a realistic look at frontline trauma care.

Benjamin Hollingsworth and Bonnie Somerville say each medical crisis depicted on CBS/CTV’s Code Black is based on a real event — and was even shot in the same public facility that witnessed those life-or-death moments.

The two marvelled at re-enacting chaotic scenes at the shuttered headquarters for the Los Angeles County Hospital, which allowed the TV crew to enter after the centre was replaced by a new state-of-the-art building.

“They’re keeping it true to form,”

Somerville said during a visit to Toronto back in June with Hollingsworth.

“It’s shot like a documentary, it’s shot as it would go down in the actual E.R.” The documentary captured the daily blood-spattered battles that took place in a 20-by-20 foot trauma bay and Somerville says the TV series attempts to do the same.

She recounted feeling the weight of history in the “cathedral” credited with pioneering emergency medicine.

“L.A. is a newer city so you can’t actually tear it down so we got to shoot where this was,” said Somerville.

“It was pretty intense when you’re in there.”

Hollingsworth said extras include actual nurses and doctors who adlibbed their own lines, adding even more authenticity to the story.

Code black is invoked when an influx of patients is so great that hospital staff are too overwhelmed to treat them all.

Hollingsworth said that while a

typical urban hospital might go into code black five or six times a year, L.A. County goes into code black 300 times a year.

Hollingsworth and Somerville play resident physicians while Marcia Gay Harden stars as their tough-minded boss, Dr. Leanne Rorish, nicknamed “Daddy.”

The two gushed over Harden’s professionalism and leadership on set.

“She sends out emails at the end of a 16-hour shoot day mentioning everyone by name and something that they really did that kind of stood out that day,” said Hollingsworth. “She goes over and beyond.”

Somerville also welcomed Harden’s character as a strong female lead who is countered by macho actor Luis Guzman — who plays a senior nurse known as “Mama.”

“The show definitely breaks a lot of stereotypes for sure,” she said.

Code Black premieres Wednesday on CBS and CTV.

Vice look at criminal justice system dissolves into dull photo-op

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New-media behemoth Vice, which has a successful TV partnership with HBO, has a way of discovering issues and social concerns that many people already know about, if they’ve been paying any attention at all to the news.

But that’s the trick, isn’t it? Vice, as a half-hour show, excels at presenting crises and troublespots as fresh correspondence from the edge of global apocalypse, with short stories that are stylishly and casually reported by Vice honcho Shane Smith and his team of (often male, often hipper-than-thou) journos. Vice can drive a old-fashioned news junkie nutso with its combination of swagger and naivete, but there’s

also something about the show that can, on occasion, be enthrallingly spot-on — especially when it comes to reaching younger audiences. Sometimes it seems like show’s biggest drawback is its brevity.

Or maybe not. Here, in an hour-plus special report called Fixing the System, Vice grapples unsuccessfully with the rather broad subject of U.S. criminal justice — focusing mainly on the deplorable rate with which the federal prison population has expanded since the 1990s, mainly because of mandatory sentencing on drug-related convictions.

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He speaks their language, too, referring not to criminal acts so much as “mistakes,” the usual euphemism in such situations; both Smith and the president acknowledge that their own mistakes might have lead to jail time, had circumstance and fate not intervened.

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A lot has changed in late-night TV in the six months since Comedy Central announced that Trevor Noah would become the new host of The Daily Show.

Jon Stewart left the show in August.

David Letterman stepped down from The Late Show in May, and Stephen Colbert is now immersed in his first few weeks of it.

What hasn’t TREVOR NOAH changed is a viewing audience that craves a funny voice at the end of the day to skewer the insanity of politics and culture and the news media.

Over the past 15 years, thanks to Stewart, The Daily Show became the place to turn — and on Monday night, Comedy Central hands the high-profile gig over to Noah, 31, a little-known stand-up comedian.

A risky move?

Obviously, but one that Comedy Central hopes will infuse a certain spirit in a show launching a new era.

So far, much of the talk surrounding Noah (who caught the network’s attention after a brief stint as a Daily Show correspondent last year) has been about his “outsider” status, given that he was born in South Africa and lived there most of his life. Although Comedy Central executives appreciate the global perspective he will bring, they are even more intrigued that he’s about the same age as their target viewers.

“He’s a millennial. ... He brings a generational perspective more than a worldly perspective,” Comedy Central President Michele Ganeless said, noting that Noah will be the only member of that age cohort hosting a late-night show.

“He gets his news the same way our audience gets their news.”

There are certainly advantages to a young host who can connect naturally with an audience coveted by advertisers, but Noah’s age brings downsides, too.

As part of a generation steeped in the spontaneity of the Internet, he didn’t hesitate to make some poor jokes on Twitter several years ago — or think to delete them when he became an overnight celebrity.

That led to controversy this spring, when people went digging through his account and found a few offensive tweets about Jewish people and women. The outrage almost overshadowed Comedy Central’s announcement, and Noah was forced to release a statement (“To reduce my views to a handful of jokes that didn’t land is not a true reflection of my character, nor my evolution as a comedian.”)

The furor mostly blew over, though it was certainly a learning experience.

“He’s said it better than I ever will ... but what we’ve learned is that not every joke is a good joke,” Ganeless said. “You really can’t understand what a person is about from a few selective tweets.”

So now it’s time for the couple of million fans who tune into The Daily Show to get to know its new host.

Noah has detailed his rough upbringing during apartheid.

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VICE: Tries to recap War on Drugs Leaving and returning to the president’s day in El Reno, Fixing the System profiles some of the inmates’ family members, showing some of the immeasurable ways their lives have changed since their fathers, sons and brothers went to prison; the interviews are moving, but not profoundly so. Fixing the System also tries to recap the entire War on Drugs, with assistance from former Attorney General Eric Holder and other experts, and examines some recent bipartisan reform efforts on sentencing.

Vice viewers aren’t the type to expect or demand objectivity, which is of little use to them — and perhaps even less so on this particular issue, which may as well come down to the question of legalizing drugs. The flaws in Fixing the System” are organization and intent; it lacks an emphatic through-line that would recommend reforms, amp up the outrage, or tell viewers how to get involved.

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‘Quantico,’ like a lot of ABC’s shows, is stocked with a cast that’s diverse in just about every way — though they all share the same shocking good looks. ry.

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‘WHEN I PITCHED I SAID, ‘IT’S A SEXY SOAP,’ BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO TICK THAT BOX, BUT IT’S ALSO A CHARACTER STUDY AND A POLITICAL THRILLER.’ — JOSHUA SAFRAN SERIES CREATOR are motivated to prove they are “as much of an American as anyone else,” Safran said.

Nimah’s religiosity in particular opens up not just political options for Quantico but new storytelling opportunities. “When I was down (at Quantico), there was someone who, for religious purposes, had to wear a garment in their daily lives,” Safran recalled.

“And I said: ‘Isn’t it hard to have an agent pass through who will never take off that religious garment? Is that something that you look for or not?’

And they said it’s great, because they can’t go undercover everywhere, but they can go undercover in that group.

They’re the real deal.”

Those opportunities don’t always turn out well. In the pilot, we meet a Mormon member of the recruit class who explains why the FBI likes Mormon officers: “Mormons respect authority, don’t drink or take drugs, spend time in foreign countries, and they speak several languages.” That’s all to the good in theory, but this character has intense internal conflicts that manifest themselves in shocking ways.

Even Caleb Haas (Graham Rogers), a recruit who fears that he’s not living up to standards during training, and that he was accepted into the recruiting class only because of his family connections, provides a way for Safran to get into issues of the bureau’s histoer and white Swiss father had to hide their relationship. You may have gotten a glimpse of his personality if you have seen him perform live, or via YouTube, or when he appeared on Colbert’s show last week to joke about everything from the GOP debate to having Stewart as a predecessor.

Otherwise, no one really knows how he’ll be as a late-night host.

Although details about the first night’s show are locked down, Ganeless says that it’s still the same format: monologues, correspondent segments, interviews. As with Stewart, the guests will reflect a mix of pop culture and politics; the first week includes actor Kevin Hart, Tinder co-founder Whitney Wolfe, Republican presidential candidate and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and singer Ryan Adams.

Noah and Comedy Central are well aware of the sky-high expectations for his premiere.

“Every day, I go, ‘What have I done?’” Noah joked to Colbert. “You can’t live up to Jon Stewart. It’s insane.”

That’s especially the case with the people of Twitter primed and ready to pounce and judge in real-time.

Ganeless has high hopes. “The more time you spend with Trevor, the more exceptional you find he is — he really is so thoughtful about every part of the show ... in how he is going to approach the correspondents, how he’s approaching the interviews, how he’s approaching the multiplatform aspect,” she said, adding, “He’s much less of an outsider than I think people think he’s going to be.”

So what if Noah includes a few international stories in the mix? That won’t be such a departure for The Daily Show.

“Jon did more stories on the Middle East than anyone,” Ganeless noted.

“And he was from New Jersey.”

thriller about a man, played by Henry Fonda, who struggles to prove his innocence after he’s accused of a crime, as one template.

Simon’s Zionism or Nimah’s faith are both potential assets for the bureau, but they’re also beliefs that potentially make them targets when Grand Central Station is demolished.

And the central mystery gives Safran a way to talk about racial profiling, policies such as stop-and-frisk and the continued operation of the American detention center at Guantanamo Bay while keeping them tied closely to the plot.

And beyond any of the specific Trojan horses Safran has built into his show, he wants to emphasize a central tension that he believes Americans have to learn to live with.

“I believe, unfortunately, that terrorist events on American soil are inevitabilities, and not something that can be avoided,” he said. “It’s a fact of life. That’s what I took from being in New York on 9/11, and the Boston bombing, and all the shootings. You can turn turn a blind eye to it and not read about 240 mass shootings in 240 days in this country. Or you can look at that and say this is not going away, you can’t fix that.”

The pilot episode ends with a very specific shot: the sight of Grand Central Station burning from the perspective of someone who would be seeing the damage from inside the Freedom Tower.

“We rebuilt, but it is not forgotten, and it will happen again, and it is happening again. And while the rebuilding is incredibly important because it allows us to move on, we also cannot ever forget. And we cannot ever stop trying to prevent it, trying to stop it, trying to find it. It will always be there, there will always be a hole in New York; there will always be these holes in our hearts,” Safran said of that image. “It was very politically important to me: Rebuild, but don’t forget.”

“What’s interesting about these institutions in the government, and in corporate America too, is they wish that everybody was slightly robotic and everybody was exactly the same, that they all follow the same rules,” Gordon explains. “When we think of FBI guys, we think of buttoned-down, buttoned-up, all kinds of buttons. And the fact of the matter is in some ways what they want is antithetical to what they need. Because if everybody’s the same, how can you have different points of view? And the only way to solve a problem is to have different points of view, to be asking questions.”

The diversity of the cast isn’t the only way in which Quanticois a political show.

“When I pitched I said, ‘It’s a sexy soap,’ because you have to tick that box, but it’s also a character study and a political thriller,” Safran told me. “I love Three Days of the Condor, The Parallax View, The Manchurian Candidate.

These things won’t necessarily show up in the show, but that’s what my first love is ... It was a way to do a political thriller instead of, like you said, a military show. It is not 24 — we talk about that a lot.”

He also cites Sundance’s Israel drama The Honorable Woman and the fifth season of The Good Wife, particularly the episode that followed National Security Agency agents tapping a law firm’s phone, as inspirations. “What they did so well,” Safran said of The Good Wife, is portraying how that wiretapping, “It’s just people’s jobs, it’s not their actual politics. You could be very much against spying on these people, but it’s still your job and you have to do it.” Those tensions might play out as generational debates in Quantico, pitting new recruits against their trainers.

Safran and Gordon are also interested in how our assumptions work against us. Gordon pointed to The Wrong Man, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1956

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Television executives are increasingly trying to sound clued-in and committed when they talk about diversity, but when it comes to walking the actual walk, ABC continues to be far out in front of the other broadcast networks.

And the longer that network head Paul Lee’s experiment in dishing up soapy, kinetic shows to audiences underserved by less diverse — and less juicy — offerings goes on, the more examples ABC provides of ways diversity can be put to use for storytelling purposes.

Quantico flashes back and forth between two timelines, one in which a new class of recruits arrives at the Federal Bureau of Investigation training center, and a second one, where one of their number is accused of a bombing that’s just leveled Grand Central Station. It’s as if a Shonda Rhimes series hooked up with a paranoid ’70s political thriller.

It’s no surprise that Quantico, like a lot of ABC’s shows, is stocked with a cast that’s diverse in just about every way — though they all share the same shocking good looks. The new FBI class includes Simon Asher (Tate Ellington), a Zionist who spent time in Gaza and a gay man with relatively little sexual or romantic experience; Shelby Wyatt (UnREAL star Johanna Braddy), a blonde with an internal steel disguised by a hyper-feminine exterior; Nimah Amin (Yasmine Al Massri), an observant Muslim recruit with a secret; and Ryan Booth (Jake McLaughlin), the sort of hyper-competent straight white guy who often shows up as sexual catnip in Shonda Rhimes’s shows.

In a particular nod to the increasingly powerful international market for American entertainment, Bollywood megastar Priyanka Chopra is series lead Alex Parrish, who is eager to forge a reputation independent of her agent father’s, and who in the pilot is accused of the devastating terror attack that occurs a year after the class begins its training.

It would be one thing for Quantico to use all that diversity to “present the world as we want it to be, not as it necessarily is,” as series creator Joshua Safran put it when we spoke in Los Angeles in August.

“You’re not just watching people who have struggled to achieve places of power and they’re there,” he argued. “This show is about the struggle to achieve that. Their politics and their racial makeup and their religious backgrounds are very important to their characterizations and who they are ... I really am interested in looking at how every culture handles stress” — and in particular, how people from all these different backgrounds find their place in the FBI, an agency that has historically fraught relationships with gay people and people of color.

Simon was inspired by one of the first FBI agents to be out of the closet; as Safran puts it, “they were very late to the game ... ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ might not have been an FBI thing, but it was still in there, people did not want to come out, but there clearly were gay agents.”

And executive producer Mark Gordon pointed to J. Edgar Hoover as evidence of the bureau’s contradictions on gay rights. “He was a cross-dresser!

And probably gay!” Gordon asserted.

“And yet was the most homophobic bureaucrat that we certainly, publicly, that we know of.”

For Alex and Nimah, the tension is about race and religion. We meet Nimah when a gas station clerk won’t let her use the bathroom unless she buys something; she picks out an American flag key ring out of spite. Both women

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Countries pledge troops for UN upgrades MORE THAN 30,000 NEW PEACEKEEPERS PROMISED IN EFFORT TO STRENGTHEN AND MODERNIZE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS President Barack Obama on Monday announced notable steps to upgrade UN peacekeeping, saying more than 50 countries have pledged to contribute more than 30,000 new troops and police to serve in some of the world’s most volatile areas.

But there was no sign the U.S., which pays a quarter of the peacekeeping budget, would put more of its own troops into the field.

The United States chaired a high-level meeting to strengthen and modernize peacekeeping, whose nearly 125,000 personnel increasingly face threats from extremist groups while being severely stretched in personnel and equipment. Deployments to crises can take several months.

And a series of sexual abuse allegations against peacekeepers has brought new concerns about a long-standing problem that Obama called “an affront to human decency.”

Obama’s presence at Monday’s meeting, shortly before his first face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of an annual U.N. gathering of world leaders, was the latest sign of high-level U.S. interest in the issue.

Putin did not attend the meeting — the only leader of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, which approves peacekeeping missions, not to be there.

For months, officials such as the U.S. military’s top officer and U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power have pressed countries, especially European ones, to contribute more.

European countries contributed more than 40 per cent of U.N. peacekeepers two decades ago but now provide less than 7 per cent.

The U.N. has no standing army, meaning that it’s up to the U.N.’s 193 member states to supply people and equipment.

Monday’s pledges of new troops and police significantly exceed the 10,000 goal that U.S. officials had mentioned. In addition, the dozens of leaders from India, Britain and China and elsewhere said they would contribute the kinds of more sophisticated equipment the U.N.’s 16 peacekeeping missions say they need: Special forces, intelligence units, engineering skills, airlift capacity, field hospitals and even unarmed drones.

Obama said the U.S., which contributes less than 100 troops and police, will help with training and more sophisticated support.

Chinese President Xi Jinping made one of the largest commitments, saying his country would establish a permanent 8,000-strong rapid deployment force to respond to crises anywhere in the world and to provide $100 million to fund a similar force under the African Union.

Catalan voters want region’s lawmakers to push for independence SPAIN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BARCELONA, Spain — Voters in Spain’s Catalonia region cast ballots Sunday to decide if pro-secession parties will get a majority in the regional parliament and a mandate to push for independence or whether they will fall short in an outcome that would probably quell secessionist fervour for years.

Secessionists have long pushed for an independence referendum, but Spain’s central government refused to allow it — saying such a vote would be unconstitutional. So the pro-independence parties pitched the vote for regional parliamentary seats as a de facto plebiscite.

“Today is a great win for democracy in Catalonia,” said Artur Mas, Catalonia’s regional leader, after he cast his vote.

“We have surpassed all the obstacles placed by the Spanish government. Now, Catalonia faces its own destiny.”

Sunday’s election is for Catalonia’s 135-member Parliament, located in the region’s capital Barcelona. By early evening, more than 63 per cent of those eligible to vote had cast their ballots, close to 7 per cent more than in the previous regional election, the government said. Regional spokeswoman Meritxell Borras said postal votes cast by Catalans living overseas could also have an important impact on the results.

Mas and the other secessionists argue that if they win 68 seats, the result would give them a democratic mandate to initiate an 18-month plan to split from Spain that could include a unilateral declaration of independence.

The central government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy says it will use all legal means to prevent Catalonia from breaking away, an exit European leaders warn would include ejection from the European Union.

Spain’s government has also said it is concerned that if Catalonia tries to break free it would disrupt the fragile signs of economic recovery for the country that has endured unemployment of over 22 per cent for several years.

While the majority of Catalans support a vote on independence to decide the divisive question, polls have forecast a slim win for the separatist parties. They also indicate that Mas’ leading bloc of separatist parties “Together for Yes” will likely need the support of the extreme left-wing CUP to cobble together a majority of seats needed to launch their push to sever century-old ties with the rest of Spain.

Catalans from both sides of the independence divide are fiercely proud of their Catalan language, which is spoken along with Spanish and was suppressed under three decades of Gen. Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. Many Catalans are also angry because they say their industrialized region, which represents nearly a fifth of Spain’s economic output, pays too much in taxes and receives less than its fair share of government investment.

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Taliban capture key Afghan city FIRST URBAN AREA SEIZED SINCE 2001 US-LED INVASION

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Taliban prisoners walk on a street after their comrades released them from the main jail in Kunduz, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday. The Taliban captured the northern Afghan city of Kunduz in a massive assault Monday involving hundreds of fighters, and now control a major urban area for the first time since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. absolute security. All traders, workers, staff of hospitals, municipality and governing bodies should continue their daily routines without any fear or intimidation.”

The Taliban have a history of brutality toward those they regard as apostates, and have banned girls from school as well as music, movies and other trappings of modern life in areas under their control.

The fall of Kunduz marks a major setback for government forces, who have struggled to combat the Taliban since the U.S. and NATO shifted to a supporting role at the end of last year.

The city is a strategic prize for the Taliban and its capture, however short-lived, is sure to be used as a propaganda victory. This year’s fight has severely tested Afghan forces, who lack air power and must rely on the United States for selective airstrikes, and suffer huge casualties and low morale.

Nevertheless, they have largely held their ground in the face of a Taliban strategy clearly aimed at forcing

New clashes at disputed holy site ahead of major Jewish holiday

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — Israeli riot police briefly clashed with young Palestinian protesters at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site early Sunday, raising tensions ahead of a major Jewish holiday.

No injuries or arrests were reported following the clashes at a hilltop compound in Jerusalem’s Old City that is revered by Jews and Muslims.

The site is a frequent flashpoint of violence, and Israel has beefed up security around the area following several rounds of clashes in recent weeks.

In Sunday’s incident, police said a small group of masked Palestinian youths threw stones and firecrackers at Israeli police gathered at a main entrance to the compound.

Police released video footage showing protesters burning fabric and dropping it into an adjacent archaeological park. The video showed smoke and flames, but police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the fire caused no damage.

Police, many of them holding riot shields, responded with stun grenades and the crowd was quickly dispersed.

Abdelazeem Salhab, an official with the Jordanian Islamic authority that oversees the holy site, said the presence of Israeli policemen at an interior gate of the compound angered the protesters.

He warned that police should move further away to avoid “tensions and

provocations.”

In light of the violence, police said they would only allow women of all ages and men aged 50 or older to enter the mosque compound for prayers on Monday to prevent further clashes, which tend to mainly involve young men.

The unrest occurred hours before the beginning of Sukkot, a weeklong festival that celebrates the fall harvest and commemorates the wandering of the ancient Israelites through the desert following the exodus from Egypt.

In ancient times, Jews made pilgrimages to Jerusalem on Sukkot, and many Jews are expected to visit the city throughout the holiday period, raising the risk of further unrest.

The hilltop compound is known to Jews as the Temple Mount, home to the biblical Temples, and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, site of the Al-Aqsa mosque, where the Prophet Muhammad is said to have ascended to heaven.

Israel captured the site from Jordan in the 1967 Mideast war. Under a longstanding arrangement, Jews are allowed to visit the compound, but not pray there, while Jordan retains custodial rights.

Calls by a group of religious Jews to visit the site on the eve of the Jewish New Year earlier this month sparked rumours among Palestinians that Israel was planning to disrupt the delicate status quo governing the site and take it over.

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Sediqqi said military reinforcements were being sent to Kunduz, where government forces managed to fend off a major Taliban assault in April, the start of the insurgents’ annual summer offensive. “We are trying our best to clear the city as soon as possible,” he said.

Kunduz has been regularly targeted by the Taliban, who have allied with other insurgents, including the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and militants driven into Afghanistan from neighbouring Pakistan by an assault on their hideouts near the porous border.

Gen. Murad Ali Murad, the deputy chief of army staff, said Monday’s attack involved a large number of Taliban drawn from across the north and included foreign fighters, likely Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan members with an eye on the Central Asian states to Afghanistan’s north.

“Strategic areas, including the airport, are controlled by Afghan security forces,” he said. “Reinforcements have

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More than 500 prisoners escape jail in capital as chaos deepens BANGUI, Central African Republic — The worst violence to hit Central African Republic’s capital in a year further deteriorated Monday as more than 500 inmates escaped from a prison and militia fighters looted the offices of international aid organizations, officials said. The death toll from several days of clashes reached 42 including a teenage boy who was decapitated.

The unrest erupted as transition-

already arrived and attacks on the insurgent positions will be launched soon,” he added, without elaborating.

Sediqqi said the target of the Taliban assault was the city’s main prison and police headquarters.

Earlier, deputy presidential spokesman, Zafar Hashemi, had called the situation “fluid,” saying Ghani was “in constant contact with the security and defence leadership to provide them with guidance.”

“Our first priority is the safety and security of residents,” he said.

Analyst Faheem Dashty said Afghan security and intelligence agencies had been “caught by surprise” in what appeared to be a “big failure” of security and intelligence.

“They were expecting a big attack but couldn’t defend the city,” he said.

Authorities were similarly blind-sided by the April attack and subsequent massing of fighters across the northern provinces, raising questions about the adequacy of the government’s security and defence agencies. al President Catherine Samba-Panza was in New York at the U.N. General Assembly, sparked by the death of a Muslim man whose body was left near a mosque. Muslim militants then attacked a Christian neighbourhood with weekend clashes leaving several dozen people dead.

Amnesty International, which has documented the human rights abuses since the conflict first erupted in early 2013 with the overthrow of the president of a decade, said the latest fighting had shattered the peace in Central African Republic. Sectarian violence had ebbed in recent months with the arrival of a U.N. peacekeeping force and after tens of thousands of Muslims fled the country for their lives.

The United States swiftly condemned the unrest, and pledged its support for Samba-Panza’s government.

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KABUL — The Taliban captured the strategic northern Afghan city of Kunduz on Monday in a multi-pronged attack involving hundreds of fighters, the first time the insurgents have seized a major urban area since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion.

The fast-moving assault took military and intelligence agencies by surprise as the insurgents descended on the city, one of Afghanistan’s richest and the target of repeated Taliban offensives as the militants spread their fight across the country following the withdrawal last year of U.S. and NATO combat troops.

Within 12 hours of launching the offensive around 3 a.m., the militants had reached the main square, tearing down photographs of President Ashraf Ghani and other leaders and raising the white flag of the Taliban movement, residents reported.

More than 600 prisoners, including 140 Taliban fighters, were released from the city’s jail, and many people were trying to reach the airport to flee the city.

“Kunduz city has collapsed into the hands of the Taliban,” Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi told the Associated Press. “Security forces in Kunduz were prepared for an attack, but not one of this size, and not one that was co-ordinated in 10 different locations at the same time.”

The Taliban used social media to claim the “conquest” of Kunduz and reassure residents that the extremist group — responsible for the vast majority of nearly 5,000 civilian casualties in the first half of this year, according to the United Nations — came in peace.

A statement attributed to the group’s new leader, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, the self-styled Islamic emir of Afghanistan, said: “The citizens of Kunduz should not worry about safeguarding their lives and properties.

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Mother blames son for missing pills Dear Annie: I am a 20-year-old male who currently lives with my parents. I just started my first year of college.

Both of my parents have prescriptions to Xanax.

When I was 15, I took a few from my dad’s bottle. My parents labeled me a thief and an addict. I knew it was wrong and haven’t done it since. I thought we had moved on from that inKATHY MITCHELL cident, but my AND MARCY SUGAR mother called me at work and ANNIE’S MAILBOX asked whether I had taken 60 of her Xanax.

I had no idea what she was talking about and said I hadn’t touched her

pills. She insisted that I stole them and sold them, and wouldn’t hear anything other than an admission of guilt.

I honestly have no idea what happened to her pills, but I feel terrible that my mother believes I stole from her. No matter how many times I proclaim my innocence, they assume I’m guilty. What else can I say? — Guilty by Accusation Dear Guilty: Nothing, really. You said you didn’t do it, and unless evidence surfaces that someone else took the pills (or they were misplaced), your parents will think you are the guilty party.

We suggest you sincerely apologize for giving them cause to mistrust you because of your past behavior. But understand that it may not convince them of your innocence. Once trust is broken, it is difficult to regain. It will take a great deal of time for your parents to see you as a responsible, trustworthy person. Consider this a goal for the long haul. It’s worth it.

Dear Annie: Many years ago, you published my piece, “Hold Fast the Summer,” that I wrote when my son went off to college. Now a third grandchild is going off to college. Could you print it again for all the parents who are sending kids to places of higher learning? — Mary W. Abel Dear Mary Abel: With pleasure.

Here it is: “Hold Fast the Summer” by Mary W. Abel Hold fast the summer. It is the beauty of the day and all it contains.

The laughter and work and finally the sleep. The quiet.

Oh September, do not put your weight upon my mind.

For I know he will be going.

This son of mine who is now a man — he must go.

Time will lace my thoughts with joyous years.

The walls will echo his “Hello.” His caring will be around each corner.

His tears will be tucked into our

memory book.

Life calls him beyond our reach — to different walls.

New faces, shiny halls, shy smiles, many places.

Greater learning — he must go.

But wait, before he leaves, be sure he knows you love him.

Hide the lump in your throat as you hug him.

He will soon be home again — but he will be different.

The little boy will have disappeared.

How I wished I could take September and shake it, for it came too soon.

I must look to the beauty of each new day, and silently give thanks.

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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BRIEF Police: Man throws fit at New Mexico McDonald’s after pickles are added to his order CARLSBAD, N.M. — A McDonald’s customer in New Mexico was not loving it when employees mistakenly put pickles on his order. Police in Carlsbad say officers had to squash a public disturbance at the fast-food restaurant after the customer began harassing employees over the mistake.

Workers told police the man raised his voice and started throwing things off the restaurant’s counter. No one was injured.

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Tuesday, Sept. 29 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Erika Eleniak, 46; Natasha Gregson Wagner, 45; Madeline Kahn, 73 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Get the balance right between being assertive and being cooperative.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Resist the urge to obsess over things. 2016 is the year to boost your social life, and become more involved in your local community.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Being creative and proactive is a powerful combination at the moment Rams. If you are involved with a group, be inclusive and make sure everyone gets the chance to have their say.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): With Venus visiting your domestic zone, itís a wonderful time to entertain at home.

You’re feeling positive and are keen to help others, as you focus on big dreams and grand schemes.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Communication and conversation are the buzz words today as you share opinions, learn a new skill or pass on valuable information to someone else. But expect some mix-ups along the way.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): When it comes to your job, strive to anticipate problems before they happen. For

through any temporary turbulence.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A close relationship deepens and moves to the next level. You’ll feel like indulging your passion for a favourite sport, hobby or travel destination. But there’ll be delays so be patient.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’re keen to work hard, especially on projects that stimulate your mind and stir your emotions. You’re also in the mood to talk about your feelings, but strive to do so in a tactful way.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgos are very easily thrown by misunderstandings and minor mess-ups. If you expect the unexpected — and take a few deep breaths — then you’ll get through a day of disruptions just fine.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): With Mercury still retrograding through your sign, the universe is urging you to be more practical and patient at the moment.

Good things come to laid-back Librans who wait!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Mystery abounds today Scorpio. If you are attached — is your partner hiding something from you? Some singles may become involved in a secret love affair.

Tread carefully.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Get ready to overdo everything Sagittarius, as Venus highlights your inner hedonist. You’re feeling optimistic about your abilities, but don’t take on more than you can happily handle.

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All you knead is dough!

HOW TO COOK NAAN

Pumpkin-filled cinnamon buns.

This week, I am paying tribute to a recipe that has been with me for more than 30 years.

I use it a few times a month, and it always rises to the occasion and has never failed me. It’s very basic, versatile and adaptable into many recipes — it’s my yeasty dough recipe.

I started using this recipe to make Tandoori naan, a traditional east Indian flatbread.

Over the years, however, this recipe has become the leading star in many of the things I have whipped up in my kitchMADHU en.

BADONI From the naan, I began using the dough for making FOOD pizza crusts, and then realized the dough made perfect pockets for calzones. The dough is ideal for making breads, such as Parmesan bread sticks, garlic bread, baguettes, fancy dinner rolls and moist sticky cinnamon buns.

It even has become my go to recipe for making artesian crackers. Simply roll the dough into thin sheets, pick holes with fork, brush with olive oil, sprinkle with sea salts and baking in cooking sheet at 400 F for 8-10 minutes until they turn crispy. Once cool, crack and serve alongside dips, hummus, or cheese.

This recipe transverses many ethnic boundaries.

Besides naan, the dough can be used to make the Chinese steamed buns or the popular Middle Eastern pita bread. It’s uses are limitless. So without further ado, here are my top four ways to use my multi-purpose dough recipe.

Dough

2 cups flour ½ teaspoon baking powder ½ teaspoon sugar ½ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon quick rise yeast 4 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 egg ¾ cup lukewarm water Using a Kitchen Aide mixer, mix all the dry ingredients together. Mix in egg and oil . Add in enough water (about ¾cup) to make a manageable dough.

Knead the dough for about 7 minutes. Oil the top of ball and let rise at least 1 hour.

Tandoori Naan

1 dough recipe makes six naan.

Punch down dough and divide into six equal parts. Roll into balls. If time permits, all the ball to rise covered with saran wrap for ½ hour. This allows the rolling out to be easier. Roll out each ball to ¼ inch thickness and 4 inch diameter. On top of the stove, heat a frying pan to medium hot. Line a oven rack with foil paper and move to second top layer.

Pre-heat oven to broil Once the oven and the frying pan are hot, place the naan on the frying pan. Let cook for about 1 minutes. Once black dots form on the naan immediately lift the bread and place in the oven shelf. The uncooked side will be under the broiler grill. Watch the naan steadily. In a few minutes, the bread will puff up and turn a golden brown. Remove immediately and place in a tray and butter it. Repeat with remaining naan.

Calzones

Divide dough into 4 balls. Roll out into a round ¼ inch thick. Place the filling of your choice on half of the dough.Fold the top of the calzone crust over the bottom into the traditional half-moon shape. Seal the edges by crimping them with a fork. Be sure to press firmly enough to seal the edges and keep the fillings from leaking. Use the edge of a knife or fork to shape the crust edge into a uniform border. Just before baking, brush each calzone all over with a beaten egg. At this point you can sprinkle with a flavour enhancer of your choice: parmesan cheese, sesame seeds, garlic powder, etc .

Calzones

Pumpkin-Filled Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Glaze

2 recipe for dough Pumpkin Filling ¾ c pumpkin puree 2 tbsp milk ¼ c brown sugar 1 tsp ground cinnamon ¼ tsp ground nutmeg 1/8 tsp ground ginger 1/8 tsp ground cloves ¼ c butter, softened Cream Cheese Glaze 4 oz cream cheese, softened ¼ c butter, softened 1 tsp pure vanilla extract 1 c confectioners’ sugar Make the pumpkin filling. In a small bowl, combine the pumpkin puree, milk, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and cloves. Spread the softened butter evenly on top of the dough and then spread the pumpkin mixture evenly on top of the dough, leaving 1 inch on all sides untouched.

Starting at one of the shorter ends of the dough, roll it up from one end to the other as tightly as you can and seal the edges together. Cut the dough into 1-inch pieces. Place the rolls cut-side down on a greased 12 x 9 baking sheet, leaving about ½ inch of space between each roll. Cover the baking dish and allow the dough to rise for 45 minutes in a dark, warm place. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Sprinkle some cinnamon and brown sugar over all. Bake the cinnamon rolls for 30 to 35 minutes, or until golden brown. Allow the rolls to cool completely.

Make the cream cheese glaze. In a large bowl, combine the cream cheese, butter, vanilla and confectioners’ sugar. Drizzle the glaze liberally on top of the rolls.

Steamed Barbecue Pork Buns

½ pound boneless pork loin roast ½ cup barbecue sauce 3 tablespoons shallots, chopped 1/3 cup chicken broth 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 1 tablespoon white sugar Mix together pork, barbecue sauce, shallots, flour, chicken stock, soy sauce, oil, and sugar. Chill in refrigerator for at least 6 hours. Preheat grill for medium heat and lightly oil the grate. Cook the pork until an instant-read meat thermometer reaches 145 degrees F (63 degrees C). Allow to cool; shred or finely chop the meat. Can also be cooked in a roasting pan in the oven or slow cooker.

Shape dough into balls. Roll each out into a circle, (like won-ton wrappers). Put 1 tablespoonful of prepared meat mixture in the center of each circle, and wrap dough around filling. Place seam-side down onto wax paper squares. Let stand until doubled, about 30 minutes. Bring water to a boil in wok, and reduce heat to medium; the water should still be boiling. Place steam-plate on a small wire rack in the middle of the wok. Transfer as many buns on wax paper as will comfortably fit onto steam-plate, leaving 1 to 2 inches between the buns. At least 2 inches space should be left between steam-plate and the wok. Cover wok with lid. Steam buns over boiling water for 15 to 20 minutes. REMOVE LID BEFORE you turn off heat, or else water will drip back onto bun surface and produce yellowish “blisters” on bun surfaces. Continue steaming batches of buns until all are cooked.

Place the rolled naan into a hot frying pan, cook until black dots form on the naan, and immediately lift the naan and place in the oven shelf.

The uncooked side will be under the broiler grill.

Watch the naan steadily. In a few minutes, the bread will puff up and turn a golden brown.

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