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Grim outlook pervades ATB FINANCIAL PREDICTS RECESSION FOR ALBERTA THIS YEAR, MODEST GROWTH IN 2016

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Alberta’s economy is likely going to get worse before it gets better, says the chief economist of regional financial services group ATB Financial.

“It is probably going to be another eight to 12 months of pretty tough sledding for Albertans,” Todd Hirsch said

during a news conference Thursday announcing the bank’s fourth-quarter outlook.

The latest outlook sees Alberta in a recession for 2015 with a 0.7 per cent contraction of real GDP, a more pessimistic view than in early July when the bank expected growth of 0.4 per cent for the year. That compares with real GDP growth of 4.4 per cent in 2014, when oil and gas prices were much

higher.

“Unfortunately the economic situation in Alberta has darkened from our last forecast,” said Hirsch.

ATB says the drop in oil prices is the “single reason” for the economic challenges as prices have fallen to about US$45 a barrel at present from more than US$100 in the summer of 2014. Prices were hovering around US$60 when ATB made its last forecast

in July.

Hirsch expects the economy to get out of its slump in the second half of 2016 and post modest growth of 1.4 per cent for the year. Meanwhile, over the fall and into the new year could be the “roughest patch” for Albertans and the province’s economy as severance packages and savings run out.

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Kiara McIllravey uses the backstroke to power her way through the water at the Dawe Centre Pool Thursday as she takes part in the École J. Lerouge annual Aquathon. McIllravey lead her heat from the start of the first 1.5-km run through the 300-metre swim and finished out front on the final 1.5-km run. Some 26 middle school students took part in the event, the school’s eighth annual Aquathon.

Enrolment across Central Alberta a hodgepodge of increases, decreases

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Enrolment for the new school year in Central Alberta was a mixed bag with increases and decreases.

Red Deer Public Schools had 10,699 students, an increase of 101 students or about one per cent, as of the end of September.

Bruce Buruma, director of communications, said with job losses in Alberta’s oil and gas industry — and the mobility of families that can result — the district was unsure about the impact to enrolment.

“Most of our schools are coming in at the same levels. A few areas have had some growth, but it’s been pretty consistent when you spread that over 22 schools,” Buruma said.

He said the district typically sees annual growth of about two and four per cent so there was a decline this year.

But enrolment is still on the way up and the district is building a new elementary school in Inglewood to ac-

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‘HAVING A GRADUAL GROWTH, WHERE IT’S CLOSE TO A PER CENT A YEAR, IT’S HEALTHY AND MAKES IT EASY TO RESPOND TO STUDENT NEEDS. IT HELPS WITH PLANNING AND SUPPORTING PROGRAMS.’ — KURT SACHER SUPERINTENDENT, CHINOOK’S EDGE SCHOOL DIVISION commodate future growth. Alberta has a young population and that means long-term growth for the district, Buruma said.

Enrolment at Central Alberta’s francophone school Ecole La Prairie saw a decline in enrolment. The Red Deer school, built for students up to Grade 12, shrunk to a kindergarten to Grade 8 school with 131 students because older students choose to attend other schools. Last year the kindergarten to Grade 9 school had 140 students.

Chinook’s Edge School Division had

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10,988 students, or 72 more students which is less than a one per cent increase.

The large rural division operates in communities in Red Deer County and includes Sylvan Lake, Penhold, Olds, Delburne, Innisfail, Crossfield, Cremona, Carstairs, Elnora, Bowden, Didsbury, Benalto, Spruce View and Sundre.

“Having a gradual growth, where it’s close to a per cent a year, it’s healthy and makes it easy to respond to student needs. It helps with planning and supporting programs,” Chinook superintendent Kurt Sacher said.

Wild Rose School Division, which serves Rocky Mountain House, Caroline, Leslieville, Drayton Valley, Breton, and Condor, ended September with fewer students. Enrolment stood at 4,824 due to 98 fewer students, or a two per cent drop.

Superintendent Brad Volkman said the economy did force some families to move to find work.

Two trials will be set for a man facing a long list of 26 charges, including several firearms offences.

Michael Alois Schaab, 42, is accused of trafficking cocaine and methamphetamine and numerous firearms offences. He was arrested during a police search of a rural property near Markerville last spring.

On Thursday, in Red Deer provincial court, his counsel Andrew Phypers entered elections of two trials by a judge alone in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

Phypers requested a preliminary hearing for both trials. Preliminary hearings are held to test the strength of the Crown’s case before heading to trial.

Because Schaab faces two sets of charges, one prosecuted by the Federal Crown and one by the Provincial Crown, the two trials were necessary.

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Defence lawyers warn they will stop helping poor get legal aid EDMONTON — Alberta criminal defence lawyers have told the province they will scrap a volunteer program that helps poor and handicapped clients apply for legal aid.

The Criminal Trial Lawyers’ Association and Criminal Defence Lawyers Association have written a letter to Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley saying their members will stop providing the service on Nov. 1.

The service began last year to help needy clients through a cumbersome process of applying to a judge to get a court order for legal aid.

Lawyer Kelly Dawson says the program helped hundreds of people charged with serious crimes, but lawyers can’t afford to do it any longer.

He says Alberta legal aid is poorly funded and the new NDP government must come up with a better way.

Dawson says 75 lawyers across the province are affected and the decision will lead to more delays in the courts.

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Although the City of Red Deer Recreation Parks and Culture employees have begun the task of removing the flowers from the beds in City Hall Park, the space in the centre of Red Deer remains a colourful place to spend the lunch hour. the province, while forestry remains in good shape thanks to strong prices for lumber.

For the economy to recover, Hirsch says oil prices would need to rebound to around US$60 a barrel, labour costs would have to rebalance and sectors outside the energy industry such as agriculture, forestry and tourism need to see strong performances. As well, the Canadian dollar needs to stay low to help exporters.

ECONOMY: Higher level of unemployment ATB is predicting that the unemployment rate will rise to 5.9 per cent this year from 4.7 per cent last year before improving slightly to 5.7 per cent next year.

“We are going to see a higher level of unemployment and that does present a lot of challenges for a lot of Albertans and there is going to be some hardship,” Hirsch said.

The bank says it expects the North American benchmark price for oil to trade around US$45 to US$50 a barrel for the rest of 2015, rising only moderately to between US$55 to US$60 by mid-to-late 2016.

Indicators outside the oil and gas industry have shown more stability, with the bank saying residential construction was solid, retail and wholesale trade has stabilized and manufacturing has levelled off.

But the Calgary Real Estate Board said Thursday that its unadjusted benchmark housing price dropped 0.26 per cent in September compared with last year. It blamed rising unemployment and persistent weakness in the local economy for the impact on housing demand.

The ATB report says that agriculture, the Alberta’s second-largest sector, had disappointing crop production this year due to drought in some parts of

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ENROLMENT: ‘We’ll ride TRIAL: Preliminary this through’ hearing up next “We’ll ride this through. This is a boom-bust province we live in. It does impact Wild Rose School Division. We don’t expect these numbers to stay down permanently. They’ll end up going back up again,” Volkman said.

Fewer students means about $750,000 less in government funding for the rural division.

He said money was set aside in anticipation of an enrolment decline and the division also has reserves so there will not be staff layoffs.

“We’re going to absorb this,” Volkman said.

Meanwhile, Red Deer Catholic Regional School Division saw a four per cent increase in enrolment with a total of 9,243 students across the division.

“Last year we were under 9,000 so that’s kind of a milestone,” said school board vice-chair Anne Marie Watson.

Enrolment in Catholic schools in Red Deer alone was also up by four per cent with more than 6,600

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Crown Prosecutor Maurice Collard said the provincial charges would take about 90 minutes. Those charges include forcible entry, being unlawfully in a dwelling house, assault causing bodily harm and breach of an undertaking.

Federal Crown Prosecutor Dave Inglis and Phypers agreed the federal charges would take longer, possibly two days. Judge Bert Skinner ordered a pre-hearing conference to discuss the length of the preliminary hearing.

The federal file charges include six counts of unsafe storage of a firearm, seven counts of failing to comply with an undertaking, four counts of possession of property obtained by crime and several other drug trafficking, weapons and explosive charges.

The lengthier set of charges will return to Red Deer provincial court on Oct. 29 to set a preliminary hearing date.

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She said the pressure point for a few years has been at Notre Dame High School which will see some relief when the new high school in northeast Red Deer opens in 2017.

The Catholic division has schools in Sylvan Lake, Rocky Mountain House, Innisfail and Olds.

“Innisfail, Red Deer and Olds were the growth spots,” Watson said.

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EDMONTON — Six people have been fined more than $71,000 for multiple poaching charges over seven years.

Alberta Justice says all six pleaded guilty in Stony Plain provincial court on Monday.

The convictions came from a seven-year investigation by Alberta Fish and Wildlife that included videos posted on Facebook and YouTube showing illegal hunting.

The department says the investigation found Gerard Visneskie, Sophie Goupil, Damien Verheyden, Alyssa Rogers, Mark Ernewein and Stanley Raugust participated in a substantial amount of unlawful hunting and fishing activity.

It also says the six demonstrated a complete lack of regard for conservation laws and the offences ranged from using a variety of unlawful equipment and methods, falsifying documents to unlawfully obtain licences, hunting and fishing without licences, and hunting and fishing during closed seasons.

The two with the highest fines are Goupil with $16,000 Visneskie, $34,000 and Verheyden, $13,500, while the others were ordered to pay $667 to $4,500.

Goupil and Visneskie are also prohibited from hunting or accompanying others who are hunting for eight years and fishing or accompanying others who are fishing for two years.

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would turn more than 1,000 square kilometres into a provincial park and provincial wildland area.

But the association — along with other groups such as the Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition — has since written to Phillips expressing concern the government plans to allow activities usually forbidden in provincial parks such as off-highway vehicle use, hunting and livestock grazing.

“Not even (former Conservative environment minister) Ty Lund made decisions allowing hunting in provincial parks or OHVs in provincial parks,” said Urquhart in an email.

All those activities have long been practised in the area. Together with resource extraction, they’re among the reasons environmentalists have called for

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Rules mean no more menthol cigarettes to be sold in province EDMONTON — In an effort to reduce the teen smoking rate, menthol tobacco products will no longer be sold in Alberta beginning today.

The ban was one of the first decisions made by the NDP government and has been applauded by anti-smoking groups.

However, some business owners say the ban will hurt their bottom line.

Gerry Ell of the Modern Family convenience store says generally his customers are unhappy with losing their menthol cigarettes.

He says some customers have been stocking up on menthol products in the last couple of weeks.

Health Minister Sarah Hoffman says she’s confident store owners will comply with the new rules.

“Our No. 1 driver is to ensure that we’re keeping kids safe and enabling them to make healthy long-term decisions,” says Hoffman. “I’m really proud our government moved in that direction so quickly.”

According to the province, if a retailer sells a menthol product, the store could face a $500 fine.

EDMONTON — A shortage of officers has prompted the Edmonton police service to stop providing escorts for funeral processions.

Acting chief Brian Simpson says the department’s primary duty is to answer calls for service, so it can’t afford to take four to six officers off the road for a few hours anymore.

Edmonton police have offered the service for decades, doing between 20 and 40 funerals a year.

Simpson says the decision “was not taken lightly.”

Stu Murray, the general manager of First Memorial Funeral Chapels in Edmonton, says it was a fantastic service that the department offered.

He says police escorts were particularly helpful to move larger services through the busy city streets.

Murray says his funeral home will be looking at making changes to adapt for the lack of police escorts, such as adding extra signage or another car to the procession.

One dead in house fire on First Nation FROG LAKE — Mounties say a body was found in the remains of a burned home on a First Nation.

Police say the fire happened on the Frog Lake First Nation, about 240 kilometres northeast of Edmonton.

RCMP say were notified of the fire at 9 a.m.

Wednesday, but the fire burned to the ground overnight.

The identity of the deceased person is not known at this time.

The Edmonton Medical Examiners office has scheduled the autopsy for Thursday.

Environmentalists raise doubts about park proposal EDMONTON — Onetime supporters of the Alberta government’s plan to protect a much-loved corner of southwestern Alberta are having second thoughts about the proposed Castle provincial park.

While the New Democrat government won wide praise for the promise to protect the region’s mountains, foothills and prairie, many environmentalists are now concerned the area could turn into park in name only.

“The protection outlined in early September is more symbolic than substantive,” said Ian Urquhart of the Alberta Wilderness Association in a letter to Environment Minister Shannon Phillips.

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Coalition spokesman Gordon Petersen said allowing those activities in a park would be a bad precedent.

“We don’t want to win the battle for the park but lose the war because of a watered-down park designation,” he said.

In his 23-page letter, Urquhart points out the existing off-highway vehicle trail network is already double what science suggests is compatible with grizzly bear and cutthroat trout. Hunting has no place in a provincial park, he writes.

Livestock grazing, he writes, tramples plants, introduces invasive species and fills valleys with manure, reducing their recreational value.

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Mulcair in tailspin in Quebec Less than a month ago, the NDP was tive play on the identity front. From poised to sweep Quebec for the second a Quebec perspective the NDP’s platfederal election in a row. Now, a re- form is an underwhelming one. peat orange wave is indefWith the provincial govinitely on hold and things ernment’s cost-cutting crucould actually get worse for sade already taking a toll the New Democrats. on its social programs, it is An Abacus poll pubhard to think of a NDP comlished on Monday showed mitment more likely to miss the NDP still leading the the mark with Quebec’s pack in Quebec but down 17 progressive voters than the points from a mid-Septemcome-hell-or-high-water deber sounding. Other polls termination to balance the have reported a smaller federal books. If anything, drop but all concur on the many Quebecers are suffertrend. As the election gets ing from an overdose of govnearer, Thomas Mulcair’s ernment-imposed austerity.

CHANTAL party is falling from grace The promise of a naHÉBERT in Quebec. tional universal child-care There is no doubt the system has short legs in a OPINION controversy over whether province that has set up the Muslim women should be most comprehensive prorequired to unveil their faces to take gram in the country on its own. the oath of citizenship is acting as a Mulcair’s call to open the Constitucatalyst for the drop in party fortunes. tion to abolish the Senate is similarly An overwhelming majority of Que- of limited appeal. becers support a niqab ban. The NDP For one, it pits the NDP leadopposes it. er against Quebec Premier Philippe But the New Democrat campaign Couillard. He believes the Senate had started to lose steam before the should be reformed, not abolished. niqab appeared on the radar, for rea- And then there is the matter of Quesons more fundamental than the pent- bec’s own long-standing constitutional up passions unleashed by a Conserva- agenda. Couillard insists that a round

on the Senate would have to include it as well.

On that score, Mulcair did not help his cause when he told Radio-Canada two weeks ago that the premier’s stance was just part of the game.

Going into the campaign, the NDP leader’s Quebec trump card was the sense that he was best placed to beat Stephen Harper.

More so than any federal NDP initiative, it was the party’s victory in Alberta last spring that cemented Mulcair’s formidable pre-campaign lead in his home-province. The fact that the party is running third in the rest of Canada is now sinking in.

At this juncture, the question on everyone’s mind is whether the NDP has hit bottom in Quebec or whether it could continue to lose support between now and the vote. The short answer is that the New Democrats have no fixed floor of support in Quebec. It has yet to build a solid capital of loyalty.

Mario Dumont, the former leader of the Action Démocratique party, can testify to the perils of that.

In 2007, he came within seven seats of leading his young party to a minority victory against Jean Charest’s Liberals. But over the year and a half

that followed, Quebecers were unimpressed by the ADQ’s performance in official opposition.

In an election held 20 short months after he had landed on the doorstep of provincial power, Dumont was left with only seven seats.

If the NDP is to avoid going in a similar tailspin, time is increasingly of the essence. Over the next four days, Mulcair will have his last best two opportunities to reverse the tide.

Today, he will take part in the last French-language debate of the campaign on Quebec private network TVA. Then, on Sunday, Mulcair will appear on Tout le monde en parle, Radio-Canada’s popular television talk show.

Both events are expected to draw large audiences.

But Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is going into the debate on more of a roll than Mulcair is and the niqab issue that has been the NDP’s nemesis in Quebec is bound to come up on both nights.

Mulcair is down two strikes. He desperately needs a home run if he wants his party to still be the Quebec home team after Oct. 19 Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer. Her column appears Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

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Ready to debate science of climate change In a recent Evan Bedford column on climate change, he took special care to single out my interpretation of widely disseminated factual information regarding the rate of melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

In his interpretation of the facts at hand, Bedford relies heavily on the writings and teachings of climate change fanatic, Dr. James Hansen.

I personally don’t subscribe to much of anything that Hansen says or writes for a number of reasons, hence, one of the multitude of differences between Bedford and myself when it comes to climate change hysteria.

I consider Hansen a fanatic largely because the scientific world, and especially the climate science world, is increasingly distancing itself from the aforementioned former NASA scientist precisely because his fanaticism has undermined his credibility as both a researcher and climate educator.

Worse, there is a growing body of evidence that Hansen has presented as fact that which can only be considered conjecture.

I won’t attempt to badger Bedford with the kinds of climate science presented by Anthony Watts at the great climate blog “Watts Up With That,” which is a great antidote to climate hysteria. This widely read climate blog relies on a large network of scientific

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advisers and contributors, many who work in the field of climate science. I won’t bother, as Mr. Bedford holds a particular animosity towards Watts and the climate scepticism dispensed on his site.

A much better understanding of Hansen’s fall from climate grace can be found at the website operated by Dr. Judith Curry, a renowned climatologist and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Curry is not known to be a “climate denier”, a phrase which I find to be particularly scurrilous.

A timely perusal of Dr. Curry’s site will provide the interested reader a glimpse into the shadowy world of climate science politics and the money which drives it. You will also find one of the most reasoned approaches to the current climate of global warming hysteria that there is to found anywhere.

In a nutshell, more and more scientists are expressing concerns over the shift from scientific research to political activism that borders on fanaticism. Their words, not mine.

Hansen’s fanaticism is not new, nor is his proclivity for making wild predictions about the downfall of mankind due to human-induced climate change.

In 1988, Hansen predicted that, long before now, the sea level would have risen by 10 feet. He also predicted that the United States would be beset by an increased number of more powerful hurricanes.

It has not. He predicted an increase in the number and force of tornadoes. That has not occurred. And he predicted that the early 1990’s would be a time of increased drought and heat across North America, a

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prediction that was also wrong.

Because I know it will be brought up, the current droughts in California and the Colorado River Basin are not outside the scope of droughts that the geologic record shows as having visited those regions in the past 500-1,000 years.

Again, though, I have to emphasize the two most important problems with global warming fanaticism that have to be addressed.

In order to meet the CO2 reduction goals of the warm-mongers, the free and therefore industrial nations of the world would be forced to eliminate both their freedoms and their industry. Period. The social and economic price of meeting the proposals of the IPCC would be massive.

Imagine the loss of 25-30 per cent, or more, of Canada’s jobs, and the tax revenues that go with it. Try and imagine the human and social costs of that, just to reduce our own greenhouse gas emissions to what China will be producing every two to three days. I’ve yet to meet a warmist who was not also a fan of big government, yet they insist on promoting a fallacy that the big governments they love can be left intact without the private sector industries that rely on our current cheap and clean energy to provide us with food, medicine, and the materials of a modern, free society.

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From tee to green: NDP to rebuild Kananaskis course

Government to start paying for cost of drugs for vision loss

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The Alberta government has announced a new pilot project that it says will provide more treatment options for Albertans suffering from vision loss, and save patients approximately $300 every year.

Albertans will be able to choose treatment with either Lucentis or Avastin, both of which treat age-related macular degeneration, diabetic macular edema, retinal vein occlusion and other retinal conditions as of Thursday.

Under the program, the Alberta government will cover the cost of Avastin to prevent vision loss.

The will be no co-payment for patients under the program, which will save seniors $25 per injection, or $300 per year for most patients.

These patients will also be able to receive treatment directly from their doctors, simplifying their access to treatments.

An estimated 7,000 Albertans will be eligible to participate in the pilot project, based on advice from their physicians. As part of the project, the Retina Society of Alberta will lead a monitoring program, which will include data collection on the effectiveness of the treatment.

Health Minister Sarah Hoffman says the program will save taxpayers between $23 to $46 million over the next three years. “This program is an opportunity to expand treatment options while saving patients money and freeing up tax dollars at the same time,� Hoffman said.

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The Kananaskis Country Golf Course, which calls itself one of the premier golf destinations in the Canadian Rockies, was severely damaged by flooding that ravaged the region in 2013.

EDMONTON — The Alberta government says it’s reluctantly following through on a deal made last year by the Tories to rebuild a golf course west of Calgary at a cost to taxpayers of millions of dollars.

The Kananaskis Country Golf Course, which calls itself one of the premier golf destinations in the Canadian Rockies, was severely damaged by flooding that ravaged the region in 2013.

An independent review by Deloitte LLP of the sole-sourced agreement with the Crown-owned course’s operator, Kan-Alta Golf Management Ltd., says the net cost to taxpayers could be up to $8.8 million for the rebuild.

The report says breaking the deal, which also covers the operator’s lost profits and extends the operating agreement until 2026, could saddle taxpayers with $16.9 million in higher legal and other costs.

The government estimates that bill could swell to up to $30 million.

Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips said the NDP government doesn’t want to be in the golf course business, but proceeding with the rebuild is the best approach. “Albertans could have had liabilities in the tens of millions of dollars if we had recklessly proceeded with a decision to break the deal with the current operator,� Phillips said Wednesday.

Brian Bygrave, one of the owners of Kan-Alta who said he has been involved with the course since it opened in July 1983, praised the government’s decision.

He said the 2014 agreement will bolster the economic stability of the Kananaskis region, which draws tourists from around the world. “It is extremely good news for everybody con-

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The 36-hole course, which charged up to $98 for a regular round of golf before the flood, is to reopen in 2017. Alberta residents were charged a rate of $78.

The course was built when former Progressive Conservative premier Peter Lougheed was in office using money from Alberta’s Heritage Savings Trust Fund.

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Campaign hot in Quebec FRENCH DEBATE GIVES LEADERS LAST MAJOR STAGE TO SWAY VOTERS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — In Ascot Corner, Que., population 2,000, 50 farmers and a few tractors showed up this week to protest outside an all-candidates meeting.

Fifteen minutes away, in Sherbrooke, Calgary Conservative Jason Kenney came bearing his party’s message on religious face-coverings as he campaigned with local candidates.

And in Quebec City, the National Assembly voted Thursday to condemn acts of hate and violence against Muslim citizens.

The federal campaign is hot in Que-

bec, with a few particularly provocative topics with the potential to shake up the vote. The final French-language debate on Friday, hosted by the TVA network, has become a high-stakes event for the leaders tussling over the province’s 78 seats.

In recent weeks, the NDP’s polling numbers in the province have softened, opening up the possibility of unexpected gains for their rivals.

For example, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is hoping to win back seats his party formerly held in Montreal.

He was in the city’s suburbs Thursday, promoting more transit infrastructure to alleviate the city’s notorious grid-

lock The emotional issue of religious accommodation and specifically the wearing of face coverings during citizenship ceremonies, has become one of the most contentious issues. There is wide support in the province for the Conservative and Bloc Quebecois position that women wearing the niqab be forced to remove it when swearing the oath.

But the niqab issue also appears to have spurred more that just anti-Islamic rhetoric in the province. A pair of teens tore the headscarf from a pregnant woman in Montreal earlier in the week, causing her to fall on the

ground.

On Thursday, the National Assembly passed a unanimous motion saying that “Muslim Quebecers are full citizens and this legislature condemns without reservations hate speech and violence against all citizens of Quebec.”

Also Thursday Alberta NDP Premier Rachel Notley said she was troubled by how minority rights are being debated in the election campaign.

She said it’s not helpful that minority rights issues are becoming political footballs, but did not elaborate.

Khadr in Toronto to visit family

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Police escort former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi, centre, who appears with his lawyer Marie Henein, right, for his pretrial hearing for his sexual assault case in Toronto on Thursday.

Ex-CBC Radio host pleads not guilty to five charges

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Disgraced former broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi pleaded not guilty Thursday to five charges, including four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcoming resistance by choking.

The former host of CBC Radio’s cultural affairs show Q did not speak with reporters as he walked into the courthouse in downtown Toronto where he was arraigned.

Ghomeshi, wearing a dark suit and tie, spoke only two words in court, “not guilty,” when asked how he pleaded. He had to repeat that because he wasn’t speaking into a microphone.

Judge William Horkins then cleared the public and media from the courtroom to deal with a motion.

Ghomeshi’s trial begins Feb. 1, 2016 and will be by judge only.

The 48-year-old was originally charged with seven counts of sexual assault and one count of overcoming resistance by choking, but the Crown withdrew two sexual assault charges in May because they said there was no reasonable prospect of conviction.

A lawyer for Trailer Park Boys actress Lucy Decoutere, one of the women involved in the case currently before the courts, said the allegations against Ghomeshi have triggered an important national conversation about intimate violence.

“While this case works its way through the justice system, countless assault survivors are privately reclaiming agency over their lives, telling their stories, and finally beginning to trust that people will believe them,” said Gillian Hnatiw.

Decoutere, who waived her right to a publication ban, as publicly accused Ghomeshi of choking her “to the point she could not breathe.” She also said he slapped her three times “hard” on the side of her head” in 2003.

Ghomeshi is also facing one charge of sexual assault that is being tried separately. That trial is scheduled to

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The CBC fired Ghomeshi last October after executives saw what they described as graphic evidence that he had physically injured a woman.

The one-time radio star has admitted to engaging in rough sex, but said it was consensual.

The alleged assaults for which he was originally charged occurred between 2002 and 2008.

Ghomeshi’s $100,000 bail conditions require him to remain in Ontario and live with his mother.

If convicted, Ghomeshi faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.

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TORONTO — Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr has landed in Toronto on Thursday for a court-approved visit to his grandparents.

K h a d r ’ s lawyer Dennis Edney says Khadr arrived in Toronto from Edmonton, dispelling earlier doubts that he might have been on Canada’s no-fly list, which could have prevented OMAR KHADR him from travelling.

Khadr’s visit comes after an Edmonton judge eased his bail conditions last month, allowing him to travel to Toronto with one of his lawyers for a period of up to two weeks.

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

He pleaded guilty in 2010 to several war crimes, including the murder of an American soldier. A United States military commission sentenced him to another eight years behind bars. He was transferred to Canada in 2012 on a U.S. military plane.

Khadr later said he only pleaded guilty to get out of Guantanamo.

He was granted bail in May, pending his appeal of the convictions in the U.S. Justice June Ross later said that Khadr’s grandmother was ill and there was no reason why he shouldn’t be able to visit his grandparents in Toronto.

Ross ruled that Khadr can also take off his electronic monitoring bracelet, which he argued was embarrassing and interfered with activities such as biking, swimming and playing soccer.

The federal government is appealing Khadr’s release on bail.

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FRIDAY, OCT. 2, 2015

AT LEAST 10 KILLED, 20 WOUNDED

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ROSEBURG, Ore. — A gunman opened fire at a rural Oregon community college Thursday, killing at least 10 people before dying in a shootout with police, authorities said.

The killer, identified only as a 20-year-old man, invaded a classroom and demanded that people stand up and state their religion before spraying more bullets, one student reported.

Authorities shed no light on the gunman’s motive and said they were investigating.

Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said 10 people were dead and seven wounded after the attack at Umpqua Community College in the small timber town of Roseburg, about 180 miles south of Portland. He did not clarify whether the number of dead included the gunman.

Earlier, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said 13 people were killed. It was unclear what led to the discrepancy.

“It’s been a terrible day,” a grimfaced Hanlin said. “Certainly this is a huge shock to our community.”

Hours after the attack, a visibly angry President Barack Obama spoke to reporters at the White House, saying the U.S. is becoming numb to mass shootings and that the shooters have “sickness” in their minds.

Repeating his support for tighter gun-control measures, the president said thoughts and prayers are no longer enough in such situations because they do nothing to stop similar attacks from happening a few weeks or months later. He challenged voters wanting to confront the problem to vote for elected officials who will act.

Police began receiving calls about a campus shooting at 10:38 a.m. The school has a single unarmed security guard.

Kortney Moore, 18, said she was in a freshman writing class when a shot

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A patient is wheeled into the emergency room at Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg, Ore., following a deadly shooting at Umpqua Community College, in Roseburg, Thursday.

OREGON came through the window and hit the teacher in the head.

The gunman then entered the Snyder Hall classroom and told people to get on the floor, she told the Roseburg News-Review newspaper. He told people to stand up and state their religion before opening fire.

Next door, students heard a loud thud and then a volley of gunfire,

Brady Winder, 23, told the newspaper.

Students scrambled “like ants, people screaming, ‘Get out!”’ Winder said.

He said one woman swam across a creek to get away.

The sheriff said officers had a shootout with the gunman, but it was not clear if he was killed by authorities or whether he took his own life.

The gunfire sparked panic as students ran for safety and police and ambulances rushed to the scene.

Lorie Andrews, who lives across the street from the campus, heard what

sounded like fireworks and then saw police cruisers streaming in. She spoke with students as they left.

“One girl came out wrapped in a blanket with blood on her,” she said.

Some students were in tears as they left. Police lined up students in a parking lot with their hands over their heads and searched them before they were bused with faculty to the nearby county fairgrounds, where counsellors were available and some parents waited for their children.

Taliban retreat amid street battles

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Afghanistan’s security forces take their position during a clash by Taliban fighters in the highway between Balkh province to Kunduz city, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday. Acting Defense Minister Masoom Stanekzai says operations to clear the Taliban from Kunduz continue. The insurgents still have a presence in various parts of the city, he said at a press conference. propaganda victory and was succeeding in making the government look ineffectual, saying the weakness of the government side “has always been in propaganda and marketing ourselves.”

In a statement Thursday, the presidential palace said Ghani will send a team to Kunduz to investigate how the Taliban had been able to infiltrate the city.

The fall of Kunduz to the Taliban on Monday marked a major setback for Afghan government forces, which have struggled to combat insurgents with limited aid from the U.S. and NATO troops. The international forces’ role has shifted to training and support after all NATO combat forces withdrew from Afghanistan at the end of last

year.

Earlier Thursday afternoon, before Ghani’s press conference, the Taliban denied they had lost the city and the group’s spokesman Zabihullah Muja-

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President Ashraf Ghani, appearing at a televised press conference with his defence and interior ministers, said the city was retaken in a sixhour assault with no fatalities among the government security forces. He praised the government troops, saying they, “were able to foil one of the most significant operations to have taken place in Afghanistan in 14 years.”

Ghani warned that the “good news” from Kunduz, “should not make us complacent.”

“The war is ongoing,” he said.

Defence Minister Masoom Stanekzai said that sporadic clashes were still taking place as government forces continue to battle pockets of Taliban insurgents. “Small guerrilla forces remain in various neighbourhoods. We have to clear all the surrounding areas and open transport links so people can come and go,” he said.

Interior Minister Noor-ul-Haq Ulumi defended the performance of the government in the initial fall of Kunduz. Hundreds of Taliban fighters apparently entered the city over the recent Eid holiday and lay in wait until their operation to take the city was launched early Monday morning.

“We never took our eyes off the ball,” Ulumi said. “We had to protect citizens and so the security forces retreated.”

Ulumi seemed to acknowledge that the Taliban had scored a significant

hid claimed that it was still in their hands, saying “the Taliban flag is still flying” over Kunduz.

The spokesman for the Interior Ministry said the operation to take back Kunduz was launched late Wednesday, with ground forces moving from the airport — where they had massed since the city fell — over roads that had been mined by the insurgents.

Sediqqi claimed that control of Kunduz “was taken by 3.30 a.m.” on Thursday but conceded that an operation “to clear the city is ongoing” and could take some days.

He told The Associated Press the battle is a joint army and police operation and that roadblocks set up by the Taliban to prevent any movement had been removed. He said essential supplies, including food and medicine, would be delivered soon to the residents.

Sediqqi said around 200 Taliban fighters have been killed in the fighting so far but did not provide a figure for government casualties. Kunduz police chief, Sarwar Hussaini, said bodies of dead Taliban lay on the streets but that the clearance operation was complicated because some Taliban fighters had hidden inside people’s homes.

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Rebels welcome Bleackley back

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Conner Bleackley arrived back in Red Deer this week feeling good about himself and his pro hockey future.

That wasn’t the case one year ago when the Red Deer Rebels star forward and captain was returned to the WHL squad by the Colorado Avalanche earlier than expected, the reason being that Avs head coach Patrick Roy had issues with Bleackley’s conditioning.

This year, the 2014 NHL entry draft first-round selection of the Avs was not only promoted from rookie to main camp, he appeared in a trio of preseason games and even scored his first NHL goal Sept. 22 in a 5-4 win over the Anaheim Ducks.

“To get three exhibition games was huge for me,” Bleackley said Thursday. “Just knowing that I can play at that level was a confidence boost. I think I did the most I could with the ice time I got.”

Bleackley looks more lean and muscled this year than last, which no doubt left a positive impression with Roy. “Every year I’m just trying to add muscle and keep the body fat down,” said the six-foot-one, 196-pound centre.

“It’s especially important for the next level where the guys are a lot bigger and stronger.”

Instead of being reassigned to the Rebels on a negative note as was the case last year, Bleackley came back Wednesday in an upbeat frame of mind.

“It was good. I got some positive feedback and playing in three exhibition games is not something most 19-year-olds do,” he said. “But at the same time it just leaves me hungry for more. I think each year and each season you have to strive to be better and that’s exactly what I plan to do.

“Being an older guy in this league I’m excited for tomorrow night and this season.”

Bleackley, who will make his 201516 Rebels debut tonight against the vis-

iting Swift Current Broncos, won’t soon forget his first NHL goal.

“I was pretty fortunate,” he said.

“About 10 seconds into my first shift of the game I got a nice chip pass along the wall. I beat the D-man wide with speed, took the puck to the net and kind of got lucky on the goal.

“As I was shooting their player kind of tipped it and (the puck) went up and over (Ducks’ goalie John) Gibson’s shoulder. It felt real nice. Obviously, any time you get a first goal, whether it’s in exhibition or not, it’s pretty cool.

As soon as I scored I could feel the extra confidence which I carried through the rest of the camp.”

Bleackley’s third and final preseason contest was Tuesday at Calgary, where the Avalanche dropped a 2-0 decision to the Flames. Being from High River, it was akin to playing in his hometown.

“I was fortunate to be able to be in an Avalanche sweater in Calgary, it was something you dream of growing up and I think it was even more special for my family,” said Bleackley. “I think my dad bought 16 tickets. That was a special night for me and something that I’ll remember. Hopefully I can be there a lot more.”

Bleackley has yet to secure an NHL contract but realizes that his play this season will determine if the Avs come calling with paper and pen.

“I take care of my on-ice and off-ice business and the (contract) stuff just kind of takes care of itself,” he said.

“We have a real good team here and I’m impressed with what they’ve done already (2-0 to start the season). I’m just excited to come be a part of the team and only add to it.”

• On Thursday,Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter reassigned forward Akash Bains and defenceman Ethan Sakowich, both 16, leaving the club with 23 players.

Bains will join the Delta Hockey Academy midget prep team, which plays in the Canadian Sport School League, while Sakowich will rejoin the Fort Saskatchewan Rangers of the Alberta Midget League. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Red Deer Rebels and Colorado Avalanche center Conner Bleackley celebrates with teammates after scoring a goal against the Anaheim Ducks during an NHL preseason hockey game, Sept. 22, 2015, in Denver. Bleackley was returned to the Rebels this week and is eager to help the team this season.

Burris sets record in Redblacks win over Alouettes

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Redblacks 39 Alouettes 17 OTTAWA — It’s not like Henry Burris needed any more accolades.

Burris ran for two touchdowns, threw for another two and completed a record-setting night with 45 completions as the Ottawa Redblacks downed the Montreal Alouettes 39-17 on Thursday night.

In the most lopsided win in the Redblacks’ two-year history. The 40-yearold Burris had 43 completions after three quarters and broke the CFL record for most completions in a game with 45. The old record of 44 was set back in 2008 by Anthony Calvillo of the Alouettes.

“I didn’t even know there was a record being broken,” said Burris. “You know me, I’m a guy that wasn’t even thinking about the record. I was making sure that we execute every pay that was called, getting the ball to receivers, making the right call and the right reads.

“It’s a truly special moment to know that you’re recognized up there with some of the best quarterbacks that ever played this game.”

His 45th completion was a 13-yard pass to Patrick Lavoie early in the fourth quarter. Burris left shortly after that, giving way to Danny O’Brien, but not before raking up 504 yards through the air on 53 attempts.

All this just after being named one of the three CFL Top Performers for September.

“You want guys on your team that say ‘hey we’ve got this. We can get this done’. (Burris) has been all in on this since the beginning working hard,”

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Ottawa Redblacks’ Maurice Price, middle, runs the ball through Montreal Alouettes’ Jerald Brown, left, and Billy Parker during second half CFL action in Ottawa on Thursday.

Redblacks coach Rick Campbell said.

“I’m happy for him but I’m even happier for our team.”

Leading 23-3 at the half, Burris threw an eight-yard touchdown pass to Brad Sinopoli and then ran one in himself from a yard out in the third quarter upping that lead to 37-3 The Redblacks drive stalled on the Montreal one-yard line to open the fourth quarter, but the Alouettes were unable to gain any ground and conceded a safety rather than punting from their own end zone.

Anthony Boone came on in relief of Rakeem Cato at quarterback for Montreal and led a short drive that ended in a 14-yard touchdown pass to Samuel Giguere but the two-point conversion failed. Cato then threw a 27-yard touchdown pass to Fred Stamps with 1.4 seconds remaining and the twopoint conversion was good.

“Not to take anything away from Ottawa, they have a great team and one of the best quarterbacks ever to play the game, we just have to figure out what’s going on and keep fighting,”

Stamps said.

“It’s tough, and it never comes easy in the CFL, but we just have to stay focused and get ready for next week because we’ll be up against another good team.”

The Alouettes can consider themselves lucky things didn’t go much worse in the first half, both on the scoreboard and with their personnel.

They did trail 23-3 at the break, but the Redblacks twice had first downs in the red zone and were only able to come away with a pair of Chris Milo field goals.

More importantly, the injury suffered by defensive back Jonathan Hefney didn’t turn out to badly nearly as serious as it first appeared.

Hefney collided head-to-head with Lavoie early in the game and immediately hunched forward and fell head first to the turf.

He was knocked unconscious and stayed down for several minutes before being removed on a stretcher.

Hefney was alert and walking around in the Alouettes’ locker room shortly after the incident. He did not return to the game.

The Redblacks eventually turned that drive, their first of the game that included two third-down conversions, into a one-yard touchdown run from Burris.

The Alouettes responded with a 38-yard field goal from Boris Bede before the end of the quarter, but the Redblacks came back in the second quarter with an 18-yard touchdown pass from Burris to Chris Williams and field goals of 17, 34 and 16-yards from Milo. The final one came on the final play of the half.

Mathews looks to move on from rough debut to lead Ticats against Stamps

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Hamilton Tiger-Cats rookie quarterback Jeff Mathews faces a daunting task in his first CFL start.

Mathews leads the Ticats against the Calgary Stampeders on Friday as the top two CFL teams battle it out on in the second re-match of last year’s Grey Cup final.

Despite his lack of CFL experience, Mathews said he’s prepared to face the defending Grey Cup champions.

“I’m excited, I’m ready to go,” said Mathews, 24, who played under Ticat head coach Kent Austin for three years while they were both at Cornell and understands Austin’s offensive systems as well as anyone.

Mathews came in for Zach Collaros in the second quarter against Edmonton two weeks ago after Collaros, the league’s leading passer to that point, suffered a season-ending knee injury.

It was a disastrous performance for the rookie.

Mathews threw three interceptions (two returned for touchdowns and one in the end zone) to hand Edmonton the come-from-behind 25-18 win.

Despite Mathews’ struggles, he has Austin’s confidence to be handed the start.

“He’s got all the qualities that we believe in, in that position,” said Austin, himself a former quarterback. “He’s smart. He’s accurate and he’s tough.”

Austin wouldn’t bite when asked if he’s tweaked the game plan with a new kid at the helm.

“We have a game plan that we believe fits the skill sets of everybody on the offence,” he said, before adding: “Jeff’s capable of running our offence in its entirety.”

Mathews agreed the game plan is similar to what’s been used all season.

“There’s some things that I do, maybe, a little differently than Zach,” he said. “It’s a little bit towards me but for the most part it’s what we do as a team. So we’re not changing too much.”

Calgary (10-3) and Hamilton (8-4) lead their respective divisions. Calgary beat Hamilton 24-23 in Week 1 on a walk-off field goal. That game was a re-match of the 2014 Grey Cup, also narrowly won by Calgary.

They have the top two offences in terms of points scored per game (Hamilton 27.8, Calgary 24.8).

But now only Calgary has one of the league’s top quarterbacks. Bo Levi Mitchell is second in the CFL (behind Ottawa’s Henry Burris) with 3,578 passing yards and third in the league with 19 TDs. All eyes will be on Mathews and whether or not he’s been able to take advantage of a bye week to recover from those disastrous three quarters two weeks ago and show that he is a master of Austin’s systems.

The numbers don’t bode well. The Ticats are only 1-6 when Collaros either doesn’t start or can’t finish. Plus, Calgary has won its last seven meetings

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against Hamilton (and 11 of 12), though this will be the Stamps first time at the new Tim Hortons Field.

Calgary has the league’s third and fourth-leading pass rushers with Charleston Hughes (nine sacks) and Freddie Bishop (eights sacks), though they will be missing linebacker Juwan Simpson and defensive back Joe Burnett who have been put on the six-game injured list.

“You’ve got to play really well to beat (Calgary),” said Austin.

“If you’re not on top of your game against Calgary, you won’t win the football game.”

Mathews spent last season jumping around the NFL before signing with Hamilton in the off-season.

He had a great pre-season, throwing two TD passes and leading Hamilton to 20 points in the first half during a win against Ottawa.

To this point in the season, he has scored five touchdowns as the short-yardage quarterback. Austin isn’t worried about Mathews’ mistake-riddled game against Edmonton.

“Jeff knows what he did. I didn’t have to belabour it. He won’t make those mistakes again.”

Receiver Bakari Grant is back from injury, giving the Ticats’ offence one more weapon to go with its impressive stable of receivers. And the Ticats have re-signed running back Michael Ford this week (he was initially released in August after playing three games) whom Austin referred to as “an excellent pass protector.”

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Taking positives out of a bad situation KATE GRIFFITHS RETURNS TO RED DEER AFTER NOT GETTING THE EXPERIENCE SHE HOPED AT U.S. COLLEGE Kate Griffiths could well look at last year as a neg- pus and the education wasn’t what I expected.” ative experience and a year lost.

Griffiths took rec adminThe 19-year-old Notre Dame grad attended Jackson State University on a golf scholarship, which istration in the States and switched to kinesiology at turned out to be far from what she had hoped.

“There were a lot of problems, in fact the whole RDC. “I hope to eventually girls team left,” said Griffiths, who is back in Red teach physical education,” Deer attending RDC and playing with the golf team.

“The coach was the coach for both the men and she said. “I’m glad to be back women and the men’s team got everything and we home as the education here got very little. When I went down I was looking to im- is better. I plan on living, and prove my game. I heard they had a swing coach and teaching, in Canada and feel it’s best to get an edua mental coach but that wasn’t so. The cation here.” swing coach that they did have didn’t However, if the have experience. There was nothing I Kate Griffiths possibility arises was promised.” where she could reGriffiths stuck it out for the seaturn to the States, attend a top-notch college son, and despite the lack of coaching and live close to her brother Zak, who is in she still placed seventh in the conferCalifornia, she would look at it. She would ence and named to the all-conference also like to turn pro if possible. But not right team.” now.

She looks back at last season and “Right now I’m more focused on my eduwhile it wasn’t what she expected, or cation. That’s my first goal. I would love to wanted, she has a positive outlook. teach and if golf doesn’t work out then I have “It was a real eye-opener and I take that. Also once I get my degree there will still the positives out of it,” she said. “But DANNY be time for golf.”

I want to reach my potential and want RODE Griffiths grew up in a golfing family with to work with the right coach and I feel LOCAL SPORTS Zak one of the premier junior golfers in the I have that with Scott (Bergdahl at Red area and her dad her swing coach.

Deer College). His program is great.

As a youngster Kate was into hockey and We talk about the mental side and golf was secondary. work on the basic stuff.”

“I was big into hockey and was a bit stubborn to The Kings also added former pro Brett Bingham switch sports,” she said with a laugh. “But my brothto the coaching staff this week. er was into it and I was always very competitive, so I “He will be great,” added Griffiths.

Not only was the program at Jackson State not wanted to beat him.”

Kate, along with Zak, spent part of each winter in what it was billed, but she was away from home by herself for the first time and admitted she was a bit Arizona with their father.

“When I was in Grade 9, 10 and 11 we went to Arhomesick. I was excited to leave Red Deer when I left, but after I was gone I appreciate Red Deer and izona for a couple of months,” Kate said. “We took glad to be back. Also there was a safety issue on cam- on-line schooling.”

But in Grade 12 she stayed home and played with the midget AAA Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs.

Last year it was strictly golf, but this year she wants to return to the ice.

“Once our golf season is over I’ll look to play some hockey,” she said. “I’ve talked with a few teams, so I’ll see.”

Her time on the ice, especially playing with the boys when she was younger, didn’t hurt her development on the course. She has the size — five-foot-seven and 150-pounds — and strength to drive the ball as well as anyone she faces.

“My driver is my money club,” she said. “I have the power and distance. What I need to work on his my iron play from 60 yards.”

Griffiths showed her talent early this season by winning the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference North Regional individual title. However, an old tendinitis injury to her right elbow flared up during the first round of the South Regional in Innisfail and she shot a 94 and then rested the second round.

“In high school I had tendinitis and tennis elbow,” she explained.

“I kind of got over it, but last weekend it started to bother me. I was able to get to the end of the round, but we decided to rest it for the second round. I want to play in the league final (this Saturday and Sunday in Medicine Hat) and hopefully qualify for the nationals.

“I’ve had it looked at and hopefully I can play. I will push as hard as I can to get through it.”

As for how long she will be at RDC, she will see how it goes.

“The kinesiology program I’m in is for two years and then I have to attend either Alberta or Lethbridge,” she said. “I will look at the best way to combine the programs and my golf. Also look at the coaches available.”

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.

Scheifele scores pair Jets soar past Flames

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Jets 3 Flames 1 WINNIPEG — Mark Scheifele got an up-close look at a couple of Winnipeg’s top prospects. He liked what he saw.

Scheifele had a pair of goals as the Jets beat the Calgary Flames 3-1 on Thursday night in NHL preseason play. But it was his linemates Nic Petan and Nikolaj Ehlers — both who’ve yet to secure spots on Winnipeg’s opening night roster — that he was most impressed with.

“They’re special players, they have tons of skill,” Scheifele said. “(My goals) were little work by me. I just had to get into the open spots and I’m happy to put it in.”

Ehlers scored his first for the Jets, nestled in between both Scheifele goals. Ehlers’ goal proved to be the game winner and was assisted by Schiefele.

Petan, meanwhile, set up Schiefele on a nifty feed after undressing Flames defenceman Ryan Wilson in the slot.

“It was nice playing with those two,” Petan said. “I don’t think my game changed. I just tried to keep it simple.

If I had space, I tried to take advantage of it.”

The win was just the second of the preseason for the Jets (2-2-2), who will finish up their exhibition schedule on Saturday in Calgary against the Flames.

The loss snapped a four-game win streak for the Flames (4-3-0) after they dropped their first two exhibition con-

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Winnipeg Jets goaltender Michael Hutchinson stops the shot from Calgary Flames’ Drew Shore during first period of NHL preseason game action in Winnipeg on Thursday. tests.

Defenceman Deryk Engelland was the lone man to score for Calgary.

Michael Hutchinson got the win for Winnipeg, stopping 32-of-33 shots. Joni Ortio picked up his second loss of the pre-season after allowing three goals on 26 shots.

“You want to come up with those big saves for your team, to keep us in

it. It just didn’t happen tonight,” Ortio said.

The Flames wasted little time getting onto the scoreboard. Michael Ferland drove to the net and found the trailing Engelland, whose wrist shot found the top corner above Hutchinson’s glove hand.

The Jets responded five minutes later on the power play.

With defenceman Brett Kulak in the box for hooking, Petan’s quick feet stymied Wilson. Petan’s subsequent backdoor feed only required a tap in for Scheifele for his second of the pre-season, tying the game at 1-1.

Winnipeg would take a 2-1 lead into the first intermission as Ehlers showed some patient play in front of the net.

The 2014 first-round pick waited out Ortio, slipping it underneath him for the go-ahead marker.

Defenceman Ben Chiarot drove down the right side behind Ortio’s net and found Scheifele sitting on the doorstep for his second of the night and a two-goal cushion at 3-1.

Flames head coach Bob Hartley said Thursday’s game was more about evaluation ahead of Tuesday’s roster cut-down deadline.

“They (Jets) had a good lineup and we basically put the guys that we wanted to really evaluate tonight in all kind of situations — tough situations, defensive situations, offensive situations,” Hartley said. “It’s part of the process.

We will sit on this. We are going to sit as an organization and make some decisions.”

Flames forward Joe Colborne will be re-evaluated tomorrow after taking a slapshot off his right hand. He left the game in the first period and didn’t return. Hartley had no update on his status post game.

Jets captain Andrew Ladd didn’t come out for the third period and Winnipeg head coach Paul Maurice said he didn’t return due to precautionary reasons.

Canucks’ offence comes alive in win over Oilers plan,” Hall said. “The battle level wasn’t there on some plays. It’s something we have to fix before the pre-season is done.”

Oilers goalie Cam Talbot, who was acquired in the summer from the New York Rangers, took much of the blame on is shoulders.

“I have to play better, bottom line,” he said.

“They didn’t trade for me to come in here and play like that. I didn’t think I played very well at all.”

It didn’t take long for the scoring to start as Edmonton got on the board 1:29 into the game when Hall was able to sweep the puck into the Vancouver net after Canucks starter Jacob Markstrom made the initial stop on a backhand attempt by Connor McDavid.

Vancouver responded just 23 seconds later as a pass from behind the net by Virtanen that caught Talbot by surprise, hitting his stick and deflecting right to Horvat for the goal.

The Canucks took a 2-1 lead with

Canucks 5 Oilers 2 EDMONTON — It took some time, but the Vancouver Canucks have found their scoring touch.

Bo Horvat had two goals and an assist and Sven Baertschi had four assists as the Canucks spoiled Edmonton’s spotless pre-season record with a 5-2 victory over the Oilers on Thursday.

Vancouver had only scored seven goals total in its previous six pre-season games.

Ben Hutton, Yannick Weber and Jake Virtanen also scored for the Canucks, who improved to 3-3-1 in exhibition action. Virtanen tacked on two helpers for a three-point outing.

“I thought Bo had a real strong game, he’s a real good skater,” said Vancouver head coach Wille Desjardins.

“I thought Jake played one of his better games, went to the net well, battled hard. Baertschi was good too, I thought the whole line was good.”

Baertschi, who split time last season in the American Hockey League, was happy to pick up the pace on offence.

“I felt I was practising really well and I was unable to translate the practices into the games,” he said.

“It’s good to get some points, but I thought our line the way we played was really simple and in the end we created a lot and that’s what I’m all about. I want to create offence, so it was good to finally get going.”

Taylor Hall and Nail Yakupov scored in response for the Oilers, who dropped to 6-1-0 in exhibition play.

GREAT “Tonight was kind of the first night that things didn’t go according to

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Edmonton tied the game with 42 seconds left in the first as Yakupov put on a burst of speed and then beat Markstrom with a quick wrist shot.

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Ravens down Steelers in OT for first win Ravens 23 Steelers 20 PITTSBURGH — Playing to salvage a rapidly deteriorating season, the Baltimore Ravens needed a little help.

The swirling wind at the open end of Heinz Field, a rough night for Pittsburgh kicker Josh Scobee and some curious decision-making by Steelers coach Mike Tomlin provided the Ravens plenty.

So did Justin Tucker’s right leg.

Tucker made a 42-yard field goal in the final seconds of regulation to tie it and knocked through a 52-yarder with 5:08 left in overtime to lift Baltimore to a weird 23-20 victory Thursday night.

“The finish is what counts,” Ravens coach John Harbaugh said. “The finish is what our guys were able to accomplish.”

The Steelers, not so much.

Scobee, acquired from Jacksonville in August after injuries to Shaun Suisham and Garrett Hartley, had two chances to give the Steelers (2-2) some cushion late in the fourth quarter only to pull both kicks wide left.

“It’s pretty frustrating,” Scobee said.

“I feel like I let the team down. It’s not something I ever want to remember doing. It’s just a bad feeling.”

The second miss gave the Ravens (1-3) enough time to put Tucker well within range to force the extra period.

It also gave Tomlin pause when the Steelers moved into Baltimore territory twice in overtime.

Both times Tomlin opted to go for it with backup quarterback Michael Vick rather than send out Scobee for another long attempt into the unforgiving end of one of the trickiest places to kick in the NFL. Vick, starting in place of injured Ben Roethlisberger, was stopped on fourth-and-2 at the 39 and later overthrew Antonio Brown on fourth-and-1 from the 33.

“We lost, so I’m not going to try and

justify anything that we did,” Tomlin said. “Anything we did, I take responsibility for.”

Neither Vick nor Scobee would get a third shot. Joe Flacco led the Ravens to the Pittsburgh 35 and Tucker’s winner was never in doubt even though Harbaugh admitted he considered trying to get a little closer.

It hardly mattered to Tucker, who “definitely” knew the winner was good the second it left his foot.

“To be able to come in and win in such a dramatic fashion with just a consummate team effort, it’s really special,” Tucker said.

Justin Forsett ran for 150 yards for the Ravens. Flacco threw a touchdown pass and did just enough late to help Baltimore end the worst start in franchise history.

“The first win for us should (propel) us to go on to big things,” Tucker said.

Vick threw for 124 yards and a score and Le’Veon Bell ran for 129 yards and a touchdown but the Steelers bumbled late.

“It’s probably one of the toughest losses of my career,” Vick said. “We had our chances to win the game.

There were a lot of plays I could’ve made that I didn’t make.”

For most of the night, it appeared Pittsburgh would survive with Roethlisberger relegated to a sweatsuit after spraining his left knee last week against St. Louis.

The Steelers sacked Flacco five times, forced a pair of turnovers and twice stopped the Ravens on downs in the fourth quarter to seemingly seize control only to have Scobee let Baltimore back in it.

“The last two I played them down the middle and they both moved,” said Scobee, who is 6 of 10 on the season.

“It’s a tough end to kick because it’s a little more open area. It’s something that takes experience.”

One Scobee might not get, with Tomlin saying the Steelers “have to turn stones over” in an effort to win games.

Colorado Avalanche’s Jarome Iginla, right, moves the puck under pressure by Anaheim Ducks’ Kevin Bieksa during the second period of an NHL preseason game, Thursday, in Anaheim, Calif.

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Anderson makes 40 saves to lead Senators over Habs

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Craig Anderson made 40 saves, Mark Stone and Cody Ceci each had a goal and two assists and the visiting Ottawa Senators beat the Montreal Canadiens 5-2 in an exhibition game Thursday night.

Mike Hoffman, Clarke MacArthur and Patrick Wiercioch also scored for Ottawa.

Andrei Markov and Nathan Beaulieu scored for Montreal, and Carey Price made 16 saves.

Montreal’s Max Pacioretty, returning earlier than expected from a knee injury, wore the ‘C’ for the first time at the Bell Centre since being named captain at the start of training camp.

The teams will meet again Saturday night in Ottawa.

After regulation, the teams played a mandatory 3-on-3 overtime practice session. Neither team scored.

ALLEN BACKSTOPS BLUES In St. Louis, Jake Allen made 20 saves to help the Blues beat the Chicago Blackhawks 5-2.

Dmitrij Jaskin, Troy Brouwer, Jori Lehtera, Kevin Shattenkirk and Kyle Brodziak scored for St. Louis.

Dennis Rasmussen and Brandon Mashinter scored for Chicago, and Scott Darling made 19 saves.

WILD ROUT SABRES In St. Paul, Minnesota, Jason Zucker, Tyler Graovac each had a goal and an assist in the Wild’s 6-1 victory over the Buffalo Sabres.

Zach Parise, Nino Niederreiter, Zac Dalpe and Thomas Vanek also scored, and Charlie Coyle and Mikko Koivu each had two assists. Devan Dubnyk made 10 saves.

Tim Schaller scored for Buffalo, and Chad Johnson made 36 saves.

BROWN LIFTS LIGHTNING PAST STARS In Tampa, Florida, J.T. Brown broke a tie with 4:32 left, and Ben Bishop made 23 saves in the Lightning’s 3-2 victory over the Dallas Stars.

Nikita Kucherov and Valtteri Filppula also scored for Tampa Bay. Curtis McKenzie and Valeri Nichushkin scored for Dallas, and Karin Lehtonen made 21 saves.

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Baltimore Ravens tight end Nick Boyle leaps over Pittsburgh Steelers inside linebacker Lawrence Timmons in the third quarter of an NFL game, Thursday, in Pittsburgh.

Blue Jays balance rest and desire for home-field advantage

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BALTIMORE — When the cigar smoke settled from a wild celebration after clinching the American League East, the Toronto Blue Jays began planning for the playoffs.

“We think we have more ahead of us,” manager John Gibbons said. “We really do.”

Oddsmakers have made the Blue Jays favourites to win the World Series. They’d still like to assure themselves home-field advantage throughout the post-season, but the current tact is to give top players as much rest as possible.

Toronto trotted out a lineup with no regulars again Thursday in a rain-delayed 6-4 loss to the Baltimore Orioles.

The magic number to clinch the top seed in the American League is three, and the half-game lead over the Kansas City Royals also includes the fact that the Blue Jays own the tiebreaker.

That’s still the goal, but the club decided to skip David Price’s next start to give him extra rest before Game 1 of the AL Division Series on Oct. 8.

“It’s pretty simple: He’s had a long season and hopefully he makes five, six starts, however long the post-season runs,” Gibbons said Thursday evening. “It’s really a no-brainer to me.

What good’s it going to accomplish to make one more start?”

Price is 18-5 with a league-best 2.45 earned-run average and could win the Cy Young Award. But he has also thrown 220 1/3 innings this season, so rest took precedence.

“They wanted me to throw just because of personal awards and I could care less about those,” Price said. “It’s that point in the season if you can get an extra couple days, you’ll take it.”

Price is 12-5 with a 3.25 ERA with six or more days of rest after a start during his major-league career. That’s his highest ERA of any amount of rest, but after pitching in the final days of the season each of the past two years

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“We have a plan and I like it,” Price said. “I’m going to throw a lot of (batting practice). It’s still pitching.”

One of Price’s duties will be to throw BP to shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, who hasn’t played since Sept. 12 with a cracked shoulder blade. Tulowitzki is expected to play at some point during the series at the Tampa Bay Rays.

Despite fielding a lineup without any regulars in the second half of a doubleheader Wednesday and then again Thursday to give the regular starters a rest, home-field advantage is still something the Blue Jays care about. It’s not the only thing they care about.

“My job’s to take care of these guys, make sure they’re ready to go when it comes, not what other people think,” Gibbons said. “Yeah, we’d love to win it. But I’ve got to do what’s best for these guys not what some bozos out there in fantasyland thinks.”

The Blue Jays opted for mostly rest Thursday but worked in some important players in what amounted to early October spring training. Most notably, reliever Aaron Sanchez pitched a perfect inning of relief in his first work since Sunday.

Toronto begins a three-game series, the final one of the regular season, on Friday at Tampa Bay. Securing homefield advantage means something because Rogers Centre is a place the Blue Jays feel can be intimidating for opponents.

“Home field for us with the environment we have at that stadium … everybody across the league is talking about what an unbelievable environment it is, to have a dome, playing conditions, all that, I think it’s a big advantage for us,” general manager Alex Anthopoulos said Wednesday.

Rogers Centre was sold out for 20 of the final 21 home games of the regular season, and ace Price remarked on the day he debuted for Toronto that he had never pitched in an atmosphere like that before.

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports ● 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.

Sunday ● 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.

Football Central Alberta High School League City Conference W L T F Hunting Hills 3 0 0 106 Notre Dame 2 1 0 67 Lindsay Thurber 1 2 0 43 Lacombe 0 3 0 28

A 28 55 59 102

Pts 6 4 2 0

FG 0 0 2 5 0 0

Pts 30 30 23 28 18 15

Scoring TD 5 5 2 0 3 1

C 0 0 5 12 0 8

2C 0 0 0 0 0 0

S 0 0 0 1 0 1

Rushing C 62 63 23 36 44

Burzuk, HH Smith, ND Fedun, ND Ellis, Lac Pope, LT

YDS 491 410 239 221 220

Y/C 7.9 6.5 10.4 6.1 5

TD 4 5 2 0 2

Edmonton B.C. Winnipeg Saskatchewan

13 12 13 13

9 4 4 2

4 8 9 11

0 0 0 0

326 268 246 322

238 18 345 8 377 8 386 4

WEEK 15 Bye: Toronto Thursday’s result Ottawa 39 Montreal 17 Friday’s game Calgary at Hamilton, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday’s games Edmonton at Winnipeg, 2 p.m.

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

R 6 5 5 5 4

YDS 35 178 94 59 55

AVG. 5.8 35.6 18.8 11.8 13.8

WEEK 16 Tuesday, Oct. 6 Toronto at Ottawa (relocated from Toronto), 5:30 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 9 Saskatchewan at Hamilton, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 10 Edmonton at Calgary, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at B.C., 8 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 12 Toronto at Montreal, 11 a.m.

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 3 0 0 1.000 119 Buffalo 2 1 0 .667 100 N.Y. Jets 2 1 0 .667 68 Miami 1 2 0 .333 51

TD 0 2 2 0 0

Passing C 13 18 7 8 19

Kunaka, LT Desormeau, ND Vandervlis, LT Thomson, HH Ericson, Lac

A 21 41 16 23 59

YDS 203 413 68 145 221

Pct. 61.9 43.9 43.8 34.8 32.

PA 70 68 41 74

Indianapolis Jacksonville Houston Tennessee

W 1 1 1 1

South L T 2 0 2 0 2 0 2 0

Pct .333 .333 .333 .333

PF 56 49 56 89

PA 80 91 60 77

Cincinnati Pittsburgh Cleveland Baltimore

W 3 2 1 1

North L T 0 0 2 0 2 0 3 0

Pct 1.000 .500 .333 .250

PF 85 96 58 93

PA 56 75 72 104

Denver Oakland San Diego Kansas City

W 3 2 1 1

West L T 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0

Pct 1.000 .667 .333 .333

PF 74 77 66 79

PA 49 86 83 89

PF 75 78 55 58

PA 75 72 59 63

Punting Pilgrim, HH Foley, Lac Warren, LT Dahl, ND

P 15 14 16 13

YDS 545 393 446 301

Ave. 36.3 28.1 27.9 23.2

INT 3 2 2

YDS 39 60 20

TD 0 0 0

Interceptions McCrae, LT Pilgrim, HH Fletch, LT

Rural Conference W L T F 2 0 1 94 2 1 0 32 1 1 1 70 1 1 0 49 1 1 0 23 1 2 0 30 0 2 0 12

Stettler Rocky MH Wetaskiwin Sylvan Lake Ponoka Camrose Dray Valley

A 36 48 54 20 43 54 55

Pts 5 4 3 2 2 2 0

FG 2 0 0 0 0

Pts 32 26 18 18 18

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Dallas 2 1 0 .667 N.Y. Giants 1 2 0 .333 Washington 1 2 0 .333 Philadelphia 1 2 0 .333

Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans

W 3 3 1 0

South L T 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 0

Pct 1.000 1.000 .333 .000

PF 71 89 49 60

PA 48 72 80 84

Green Bay Minnesota Detroit Chicago

W 3 2 0 0

North L T 0 0 1 0 3 0 3 0

Pct 1.000 .667 .000 .000

PF 96 60 56 46

PA 68 50 83 105

W 3 1 1 1

West L T 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 0

Scoring TD 3 4 3 3 3

Leblanc, Stett Letawsky, Wet Page, Stett Gusse, Wet Smyth, Stett

C 8 0 0 0 0

2C 0 1 0 0 0

S 0 0 0 0 0

Rushing C 53 25 45 19 18

Berkholtz, Cam Rosland, Stett Gusse, Wet Smyth, Stett Munday, RMH

TDS 291 211 195 156 144

Y/C 5.5 8.4 4.3 8.2 8

TD 2 1 3 3 1

Arizona St. Louis San Francisco Seattle

Receiving Letawsky, Wet Leblanc, Stett Sommerfeld, DV Kirk, Stett Smyth, Stett Munday, RMH Elwood, SLake

R 8 5 5 4 4 4 4

YDS 131 149 76 112 109 71 33

Y/R 16.4 29.8 15.2 28 27.2 17.8 8.2

TD 3 3 0 2 1 1 0

C 4 5 12 7 20 8 6 3

A 7 9 22 15 46 24 22 19

TDS 21 114 193 80 462 135 106 22

Pct. 57.1 55.6 54.5 46.7 43.5 33.3 27.3 15.8

Bennett, SLake Home, Ponoka Morrow, Wet Kristoff, RMH Lane, Stett Boudreau, DV Smyth, SLake Davidse,Cam Punting Wright, Wet Leblanc, Stett Munday, RMH Dixon, Cam Smyth, S Lake

Pct 1.000 .333 .333 .333

PF 126 50 45 74

PA 49 67 93 61

Thursday’s Game Baltimore 23, Pittsburgh 20, OT

Passing

P 15 5 14 13 9

YDS 477 158 410 379 255

Ave. 31.8 31.6 29.3 29.2 28.3

INT 2

TDS 50

TD 0

Hamilton Ottawa Toronto Montreal

CFL East Division GP W L T 12 8 4 0 13 8 5 0 12 7 5 0 13 5 8 0

PF 410 319 312 280

PA 246 338 348 282

Calgary

West Division GP W L T 13 10 3 0

PF 347

PA Pt 270 20

Pt 16 16 14 10

Sunday’s Games N.Y. Jets vs. Miami at London, 7:30 a.m.

Oakland at Chicago, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Giants at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

Carolina at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 11 a.m.

Houston at Atlanta, 11 a.m.

Kansas City at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Cleveland at San Diego, 2:05 p.m.

Green Bay at San Francisco, 2:25 p.m.

St. Louis at Arizona, 2:25 p.m.

Minnesota at Denver, 2:25 p.m.

Dallas at New Orleans, 6:30 p.m.

Open: New England, Tennessee Monday’s Game Detroit at Seattle, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 8 Indianapolis at Houston, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 11 Chicago at Kansas City, 11 a.m.

St. Louis at Green Bay, 11 a.m.

Buffalo at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Seattle at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Washington at Atlanta, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.

New Orleans at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Cleveland at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

Arizona at Detroit, 2:05 p.m.

Denver at Oakland, 2:25 p.m.

New England at Dallas, 2:25 p.m.

San Francisco at N.Y. Giants, 6:30 p.m.

Open: Carolina, Miami, Minnesota, N.Y. Jets

Italy Canada Romania

Wales Australia Wales England Uruguay Fiji

PRELIMINARY ROUND POOL A MP W D L PF 3 3 0 0 105 2 2 0 0 93 2 2 0 0 82 2 1 0 1 60 2 0 0 2 12 3 0 0 3 37

Scotland South Africa Samoa Japan United States

MP 2 2 2 2 2

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

L 0 1 1 1 2

New Zealand Tonga Argentina Georgia Namibia

MP 2 2 2 2 2

POOL C W D 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0

France Ireland

MP 3 2

2 3 2

1 0 0

0 0 0

1 3 2

Thursday’s results At Milton Keynes, England France 41 Canada 18 At Cardiff, Wales Wales 23 Fiji 13

PA 47 16 34 39 119 86

Pt 13 9 9 6 0 0

PF 84 78 31 44 32

PA 26 40 62 77 64

Pt 10 7 4 4 0

Saturday’s matches At Milton Keynes, England Samoa vs. Japan, 5:30 a.m.

At Newcastle Upon Tyne, England South Africa vs. Scotland, 7:45 a.m.

At London England vs. Australia, 11 a.m.

L 0 ` 1 1 2

PF 84 45 70 26 35

PA 30 38 35 64 93

Pt 9 6 5 4 0

Sunday’s matches At Leicester, England Argentina vs. Tonga, 7:30 a.m.

At London Ireland vs. Italy, 9:45 a.m.

POOL D W D L 3 0 0 2 0 0

PF 111 94

PA 39 17

Pt 14 10

Friday’s match At Cardiff, Wales New Zealand vs. Georgia, 11 a.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 6 At Leicester, England Canada vs. Romania, 9:45 a.m.

At Milton Keynes, England Fiji vs. Uruguay, 1 p.m.

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

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

Spokane Everett Seattle Tri-City Portland

Friday’s games 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.

33 43 21

50 114 82

Detroit Buffalo Boston Florida Toronto Montreal Ottawa Tampa Bay

6 6 6 5 6 6 7 6

4 4 4 3 3 2 2 2

0 2 2 2 3 2 3 3

2 0 0 0 0 2 2 1

10 8 8 6 6 6 6 5

27 22 15 13 14 12 22 16

14 21 13 15 16 17 24 21

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts N.Y. Rangers 6 4 1 1 9 Washington 5 3 0 2 8 Philadelphia 6 3 2 1 7 Columbus 6 3 2 1 7 Carolina 5 3 2 0 6 Pittsburgh 7 3 4 0 6 New Jersey 6 2 4 0 4 N.Y. Islanders 7 2 5 0 4

GF 22 13 21 16 14 18 15 16

GA 19 10 18 16 16 26 18 25

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Minnesota 6 4 2 0 8 St. Louis 6 4 2 0 8 Nashville 5 3 1 1 7 Chicago 5 3 2 0 6 Winnipeg 6 2 2 2 6 Colorado 4 1 2 1 3 Dallas 6 1 5 0 2

GF 22 22 17 16 13 6 13

GA 10 11 14 15 20 9 23

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Edmonton 7 6 1 0 12 23 13 Calgary 7 4 3 0 8 15 14 Anaheim 4 3 0 1 7 10 8 San Jose 5 3 1 1 7 11 5 Los Angeles 5 3 1 1 7 12 8 Vancouver 7 3 3 1 7 12 16 Arizona 5 0 3 2 2 4 17 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Wednesday’s Games Carolina 4, Washington 3, SO N.Y. Rangers 3, Boston 2 New Jersey 4, Philadelphia 2 Detroit 7, Pittsburgh 2

Saturday’s games 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.

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

Kamloops at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

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

Thursday’s Games Ottawa 5, Montreal 2 Tampa Bay 3, Dallas 2 Minnesota 6, Buffalo 1 St. Louis 5, Chicago 2 Winnipeg 3, Calgary 1 Vancouver 5, Edmonton 2 Colorado at Anaheim, late

Sunday’s games 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.

Friday’s Games Columbus at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Boston at Washington, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

San Jose at Arizona, 8 p.m.

GF GA

Saturday’s Games Nashville at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Florida, 5 p.m.

Rebels vs.

Swift Current Broncos Tonight, 7 p.m., Enmax Centrium The Broncos bring a 1-1-0-0 record into the Centrium after splitting their season-opening home-and-home set with the Brandon Wheat Kings, winning 2-1 in a shootout at Brandon and losing 4-1 at home. Swift Current is tied for fourth place in the East Division and tied for sixth in the Eastern Conference … C Conner Chaulk is the Broncos’ leading scorer with one goal and two points. LW Tyler Adams has the club’s other even-strength marker … The Broncos received some good news this week when LW Jake DeBrusk and C/RW Glenn Gawdin returned from NHL camps. DeBrusk, the team’s leading scorer last season with 42 goals and 81 points, was select-

Montreal at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Dallas at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

San Jose at Anaheim, 7 p.m.

Winnipeg at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Colorado vs. Los Angeles at Las Vegas, NV, 8 p.m.

Thursday’s summaries Canucks 5, Oilers 2 First Period 1. Edmonton, Hall 1 (McDavid, Draisaitl) 1:29.

2. Vancouver, Horvat 2 (Virtanen, Baertschi) 1:52.

3. Vancouver, Hutton 1 (Baertschi, Horvat) 11:47.

4. Edmonton, Yakupov 5 (Sekera, Schultz) 19:18.

Penalties — Prust Vcr (holding) 9:16, McDavid Edm (hooking) 20:00.

Second Period 5. Vancouver, Weber 1 (unassisted) :24 (pp).

6. Vancouver, Virtanen 2 (Weber, Baertschi) 15:24 (pp).

Penalties — Virtanen Vcr (hooking) 12:49, Nugent-Hopkins Edm (interference) 14:02.

Third Period 7. Vancouver, Horvat 3 (Virtanen, Baertschi) :54.

Penalties — Lander Edm (holding) 9:36, Sbisa Vcr (roughing) 15:29, Pouliot Edm (cross-checking) 15:29, Hendricks Edm (fighting) 18:29, Dorsett Vcr (fighting) 18:29.

Shots on goal Vancouver 5 15 9 — 29 Edmonton 7 10 6 — 23 Goal — Vancouver: Markstrom (W, 3-0-0) Edmonton: Talbot (L, 2-1-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Vancouver: 2-3 Edmonton: 0-3.

Jets 3, Flames 1 First Period 1. Calgary, Engelland 1 (Ferland, Bennett) 3:38.

2. Winnipeg, Scheifele 2 (Petan, Ehlers) 8:55 (pp).

3. Winnipeg, Ehlers 1 (Scheifele, Raffl) 19:22.

Penalties — Byfuglien Wpg (hooking) 5:37, Kulak Cgy (hooking) 8:05, Chiarot Wpg (interference) 16:35.

Second Period 4. Winnipeg, Scheifele 3 (Chiarot, Byfuglien) 18:34.

Penalties — Peluso Wpg (cross-checking) 13:03, Trouba Wpg (goaltender interference) 16:47, Hathaway Cgy (roughing) 16:47, Bollig Cgy (roughing) 19:46, Pardy Wpg (roughing) 19:46.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Backlund Cgy (slashing) 7:33, Trouba Wpg (roughing) 7:33, Wpg Bench (too many men) 9:48, Peluso Wpg (fighting) 12:17, Bollig Cgy (fighting) 12:17, Peluso Wpg (instigator) 12:17, Peluso Wpg (misconduct) 12:17, Byfuglien Wpg (roughing) 17:38, Ferland Cgy (roughing) 17:38, Byfuglien Wpg (misconduct) 17:38, Ferland Cgy (misconduct) 17:38.

Shots on goal Calgary 10 7 16 — 33 Winnipeg 9 12 5 — 26 Goal — Calgary: Ortio (L, 1-1-0) Winnipeg: Hutchinson (W, 1-1-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Calgary: 0-5 Winnipeg: 1-1.

ed 14th overall by the Boston Bruins in this year’s NHL entry draft, while Gawdin was a fourth-round pick of the St. Louis Blues … Tonight’s contest will mark the return of former Rebels C and Red Deer native Scott Feser, who was dealt to the Broncos in June.

Injuries: Swift Current — D Jordan Harris (upper body, indefinite), LW Cole Johnson (upper body, day-to-day), RW Andreas Schumacher (upper body, week-to-week). Red Deer — None to report.

Special teams: Swift Current — Power play 28.6 per cent, seventh overall; penalty kill 100 per cent, tied for first. Red Deer — Power play 23.1 per cent, 10th overall; penalty kill 100 per cent, tied for first.

Scouting report

Baseball x-Toronto y-New York Baltimore Boston Tampa Bay

x-Kansas City Minnesota Cleveland Chicago Detroit

Major League baseball American League East Division W L Pct 92 67 .579 87 72 .547 78 81 .491 78 81 .491 78 81 .491 Central Division W L Pct 92 67 .579 83 76 .522 78 80 .494 74 85 .465 73 85 .462

Thursday’s Games Philadelphia 3, N.Y. Mets 0 Chicago Cubs 5, Cincinnati 3 L.A. Dodgers 3, San Francisco 2 San Diego 3, Milwaukee 1 Tampa Bay 4, Miami 1 Washington 3, Atlanta 0 Colorado at Arizona, late

Toronto at Tampa Bay, 4:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Boston at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m.

Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 5:10 p.m.

Houston at Arizona, 6:10 p.m.

Oakland at Seattle, 7:10 p.m.

GB — 5 14 14 14 GB — 9 13 1/2 18 18 1/2

West Division W L Pct GB z-Texas 87 72 .547 — Houston 84 75 .528 3 Los Angeles 83 76 .522 4 Seattle 75 84 .472 12 Oakland 66 93 .415 21 z-clinched playoff berth; x-clinched division; y-clinched wild card

Sunday’s Games L.A. Angels at Texas, 1:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 1:05 p.m.

Boston at Cleveland, 1:10 p.m.

Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 1:10 p.m.

Houston at Arizona, 1:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Minnesota, 1:10 p.m.

Oakland at Seattle, 1:10 p.m.

Toronto at Tampa Bay, 1:10 p.m.

End of Regular Season AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R 118 425 63 153 603 82 151 625 82 137 529 68 155 602 78 139 547 99 140 562 86 150 581 89 155 589 97 155 607 122

MiCabrera Det Bogaerts Bos Altuve Hou Brantley Cle Fielder Tex LCain KC Kipnis Cle NCruz Sea Hosmer KC Donaldson Tor

Friday’s Games N.Y. Yankees (L.Severino 5-3) at Baltimore (W.Chen 10-8), 5:05 p.m.

Boston (Owens 4-3) at Cleveland (Tomlin 6-2), 5:10 p.m.

Toronto (Buehrle 14-7) at Tampa Bay (E.Ramirez 11-6), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Weaver 7-12) at Texas (M.Perez 3-6), 6:05 p.m.

Detroit (Simon 13-11) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 12-11), 6:10 p.m.

Kansas City (C.Young 11-6) at Minnesota (E.Santana 7-4), 6:10 p.m.

Houston (Keuchel 19-8) at Arizona (R.De La Rosa 14-8), 7:40 p.m.

Oakland (Brooks 2-4) at Seattle (Iwakuma 9-5), 8:10 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Kansas City at Minnesota, 11:05 a.m.

L.A. Angels at Texas, 11:05 a.m.

H 142 194 194 164 186 166 170 175 177 182

Pct. .334 .322 .310 .310 .309 .303 .302 .301 .301 .300

x-New York Washington Miami Atlanta Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 89 70 .560 81 78 .509 69 90 .434 64 95 .403 62 97 .390

GB — 8 20 25 27

x-St. Louis y-Pittsburgh y-Chicago Milwaukee Cincinnati

Central Division W L Pct 100 59 .629 96 63 .604 94 65 .591 68 91 .428 63 96 .396

GB — 4 6 32 37

West Division W L Pct x-Los Angeles 89 70 .560 San Francisco 83 76 .522 Arizona 77 81 .487 San Diego 74 85 .465 Colorado 66 92 .418 x-clinched division; y-clinched wild card

Friday’s Games Cincinnati (Sampson 2-6) at Pittsburgh (Liriano 127), 5:05 p.m.

Miami (Nicolino 4-4) at Philadelphia (Harang 6-15), 5:05 p.m.

Washington (G.Gonzalez 11-8) at N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 9-7), 5:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Jai.Garcia 10-5) at Atlanta (Teheran 108), 5:35 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 21-6) at Milwaukee (A.Pena 2-0), 6:10 p.m.

Houston (Keuchel 19-8) at Arizona (R.De La Rosa 14-8), 7:40 p.m.

San Diego (C.Kelly 0-1) at L.A. Dodgers (A.Wood 11-12), 8:10 p.m.

Colorado (K.Kendrick 6-13) at San Francisco (Heston 12-10), 8:15 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Colorado at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

Miami at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

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

St. Louis at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.

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

Houston at Arizona, 6:10 p.m.

San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 1:05 p.m.

Colorado at San Francisco, 1:05 p.m.

Miami at Philadelphia, 1:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Atlanta, 1:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, 1:10 p.m.

Houston at Arizona, 1:10 p.m.

San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 1:10 p.m.

Washington at N.Y. Mets, 1:10 p.m.

End of Regular Season

GB — 6 11 1/2 15 22 1/2

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R Harper Was 151 514 117 DGordon Mia 142 602 83 Posey SF 148 549 74 YEscobar Was 137 528 74 Votto Cin 155 533 94 Goldschmidt Ari 155 555 98 Pollock Ari 153 590 107

H 170 198 175 168 169 175 186

Pct. .331 .329 .319 .318 .317 .315 .315

Soccer

Rugby RUGBY WORLD CUP At Sites In England and Wales

Red Deer Calgary Lethbridge Medicine Hat Edmonton Kootenay

Thursday’s Games Baltimore 6, Toronto 4 N.Y. Yankees 4, Boston 1 Tampa Bay 4, Miami 1 Minnesota 4, Cleveland 2 Texas 5, L.A. Angels 3 Kansas City 6, Chicago White Sox 4

Interceptions Burns, SLake

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

National Hockey League Preseason EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts

Receiving Dunbar, LT Goulet, LT Mueller, Lac Pilgrim, HH Arifin, Lac

FRIDAY, OCT. 2, 2015

Hockey

Friday

Smith, ND Burzuk, HH Goulet, LT Arias, HH Hall, HH Dahl, ND

B4

4 1 0

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

GA 37 42 51 39 52 39 53 51 48 51

Pt 48 47 47 45 43 42 38 37 34 27

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

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

New York City at D.C., 5 p.m.

GA 38 33 37 33 41 35 36 41 42 36

Pt 50 48 47 46 45 44 43 41 38 34

Saturday’s games 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.

Friday’s games

Sunday’s games Houston at Dallas, 3 p.m.

Salt Lake at Colorado, 5 p.m.

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

FOOTBALL National Football League CLEVELAND BROWNS — Named Paul Dunn assistant offensive line coach. Signed OL Erle Ladson to the practice squad. Released QB Matt Blanchard from the practice squad.

DENVER BRONCOS — Agreed to terms with OT Tyler Polumbus a one-year contract. Released S Josh Bush.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Released WR Fred Williams from the practice squad. Signed WR Kenny Cook to the practice squad.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — S Brock Vereen to the practice squad.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Acquired DL Akiem Hicks from New Orleans for TE Michael Hoomanawanui. Signed DL Khyri Thornton from the practice squad. Signed DB Brandon Dixon, OL Sean Hickey, WR Austin Hill and LB Eric Martin to the practice squad.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed RB Mike James to the practice squad. Released LB Orie Lemon from the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Recalled F Brandon Mashinter and D Ville Pokka from Rockford (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned G Jared Coreau to Grand Rapids (AHL).

MINNESOTA WILD — Claimed LW Chris Porter off waivers from Philadelphia.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Assigned F Cody Bass to Milwaukee (AHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer FC DALLAS — Promoted Luchi Gonzalez to academy director.

North American Soccer League NEW YORK COSMOS — Signed F Kharlton Belmar on loan from Portland (USL).

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB — Suspended New York Mets RHP Hansel Robles three games and fined him an undisclosed amount for intentionally throwing a pitch in the head area of Philadelphia’s Cameron Rupp during a Sept.

30 game.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Promoted John Coppolella to general manager.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Announced the retirement of LHP Jeremy Affeldt.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHICAGO BULLS — Signed G Stefhon Hannah.

GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS — Announced coach Steve Kerr will take a leave of absence to recover from back surgery. Named Luke Walton interim coach.

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France bowls past Canada to close in on playoffs RUGBY WORLD CUP

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS France 41 Canada 18 MILTON KEYNES, England — France closed in on a Rugby World Cup quarterfinals spot after scoring five tries in a 41-18 win against Canada in their Pool D match on Thursday.

Veteran lock Pascal Pape scored the fourth try to earn a bonus point which is likely to be enough for France, the losing finalist in 2011, to reach the last eight.

France now faces Ireland in a game that is expected to determine top spot in Pool D, with the winner likely to avoid a showdown with the All Blacks in the quarterfinals. The French lead the group with 14 points from three games, four points clear of Ireland and 10 ahead of Italy.

“It will be a different game, a different story,” against Ireland, France coach Philippe Saint-Andre said. “The guys are looking forward and they will be ready.”

Captain Thierry Dusautoir is already relishing facing the Irish.

“We’re here to test ourselves against the best,” he said. “Their scrum is very strong, they tackle well and their backs find space.”

Despite the fulltime score against Canada, it was a somewhat patchy performance from France and the only safe bet was the accurate kicking of Frederic Michalak.

The 32-year-old flyhalf converted

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France’s Mathieu Bastareaud is tackled by the Canada defence during the Rugby World Cup Pool D match between France and Canada at stadium:mk, Milton Keynes, England, Thursday. the first four tries and added two penalties on his way to becoming his country’s all-time World Cup scorer with 136 points. He made his World Cup debut in 2003.

“A lot of people were surprised why I picked him,” Saint-Andre said.

“Against Italy and today he showed that he’s a class player.”

Michalak was replaced near the end

by Morgan Parra, who helped to set up winger Remy Grosso for a try on his

test debut as Canada played the last 10 minutes with 14 players after Nanyak Dala was sin-binned.

Despite it being a fifth straight win for France, Saint-Andre will be seeking answers as to why his team switched off in the first half.

The French appeared to be in complete control at 17-0 after tries from centre Wesley Fofana and hooker Guilhem Guirado, but Canada rallied with two quick tries.

“The first 30 minutes were high quality. Then we played with less intensity, missed tackles and put ourselves in danger,” Saint-Andre said.

“They were playing with a lot of speed and we failed to react properly.”

Left winger DTH Van Der Merwe crossed out wide and hooker Aaron Carpenter bulldozed over the creaking French line on the right.

“I’m really proud of the performance,” Canada coach Kieran Crowley said. “We competed for long periods of the game.”

At least Canada’s tries stirred France back into action.

The French won a penalty at the end of the half, but Michalak chose an attacking lineout instead of a shot at goal. The move paid off, the French rolling maul proved too good and prop Rabah Slimani ducked in to pad out the lead to 24-12.

France beat Italy 32-10 and Romania 38-11, with Saint-Andre using all 31 squad players, extending it to 32 as Grosso came in to replace the injured Yoann Huget. Although well executed, France’s first try against Canada was made easier by some poor defence.

Michalak burst through the midfield, offloading a one-handed reverse pass to Fofana, who easily beat the defence for his 13th test try.

Michalak converted, moving level with Thierry Lacroix on 124 World Cup points, and then passed him after slotting over his first penalty goal.

Another direct move between Michalak and Fofana resulted in a try for Guirado before the Canadians responded with two tries.

Kim trying to get healthy for another shot at golf

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ing started. Never. And they tested me more than anyone. These rumours tainted my reputation, and I didn’t have a great one to begin with.”

Kim had no idea he would be gone this long. He played golf with Phil Mickelson at the Madison Club in the California desert. He rented a house in San Diego to prepare for the 2013 season. He said he was up at 5 a.m. every day to train when his Achilles tendon popped. Once he recovered from the leg, he had a herniated disc. And the injuries piled up.

Golf moved on without him. He still has a major medical exemption he can use if he ever returns.

Kim would have to earn $613,500 in 16 events to keep his card. But even Kim can’t say that he will return.

He described his health as a “6” on a scale of 1 to 10 and said he was coping with thoracic outlet syndrome. He also said he was in the process of moving, hiring a trainer and getting back to full health with hopes of giving golf one last chance.

Kim was given a chance to provide his own answer to a question that has been raised plenty over the last two years. Whatever happened to Anthony Kim? “Ask me in two years,” he said.

Anthony Kim was tired of whispers on the PGA Tour about what was wrong with him and his game, so he found a patch of grass behind a row of trees down from the practice range at Quail Hollow and hit balls for two hours.

This was where he won his first PGA Tour event in 2008, when he was fearless, brash and backed it all up with an exciting brand of golf. He ended that year by demolishing Sergio Garcia in the leadoff singles match at the Ryder Cup, the last time the Americans won.

Kim referred to Quail Hollow as the start of his career.

“Hopefully, I can start a new one here,” he said. Two days later, he shot 74 and walked straight to his car, dumped his clubs in the trunk and drove away.

That was 2012, and he hasn’t been back.

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“Here’s what I’m telling you today,” he said. “I’m going to step away from the game for a little while and get my body pieced together. Instead of going from an Achilles injury to try to go 180 mph and not fixing the problem … I’ve got so much ground to make up from injuries — rotator cuff, labrum, spinal fusion, hand injury. I’ve had six or seven surgeries in the last three-and-a-half years.”

Asked if it was possible that he played his last round on the PGA Tour at age 26, Kim paused, chuckled and said, “Anything is possible. Isn’t that what the slogan says?”

Paul Azinger, the Ryder Cup captain at Valhalla where Kim emerged as a star, was among those who could not believe that someone with so much talent could be done at such a young age.

“His energy and enthusiasm, his killer instinct, it all converged into him becoming our team leader,” Azinger said.

Kim’s immediate future is a business venture with Dallas-based Quality Metrics Partners that was started with longtime friend and caddie Brodie Flanders and two others, including Mike Knall, a former punter for the Oklahoma Sooners. It provides ancillary service management in the health care industry. Kim said he made a substantial investment, which he made back within months.

His joy comes from a stronger relationship with his mother. Kim spent three weeks with her in South Korea, sees her at least once a month and was headed to his native Los Angeles to sign the papers on a house he just bought for her in Beverly Hills.

He said he has not played a full round of golf in nearly 18 months. Physical therapy occupies most of his time.

Kim didn’t entirely disappear, though sightings have been rare and have led to rumours, including one that he was sleeping on the streets of Las Vegas because he was out of money.

He earned just over $12 million in five full seasons on the PGA Tour and says he saved up more money than people realize. The stories and photos on social media over the years painted a wild side to Kim. He doesn’t deny he lived different than most golfers, nor will be apologize.

“If you don’t like the way I live, change the channel. You’re the one who tuned in here,” Kim said.

“A lot of the golf public may not appreciate the way I live, which is by my own rules. But I give everyone respect. I’m not rude to anyone. And I treat everyone the same.”

He said he is getting monthly payments from an insurance policy he took out five years ago in case he was injured. But he denied speculation in a magazine story last fall that the policy was a factor that is keeping him from returning to the PGA Tour.

“I paid well into the mid-six figures for the policy,” he said. “They wouldn’t have paid me every month had I not been to the doctors, showing them all my X-rays, doing all the treatment, the acupuncture, twice a day for physical therapy.”

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It’s sweaty. It’s uncomfortable.

I’m so out of shape.

Yes I hated running … until I didn’t.

A few years ago I was challenged to run a 10K and write about my training for the newspaper where I worked.

Let’s just say it was the hardest assignment ever. Running did not come easy for me. I didn’t have a runner’s body (if that at all exists) and I carried a few extra pounds.

I was in the what the hell is the point? camp.

But somewhere along the trail and between brief moments of self-loathing, I fell madly in love

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with running.

It remains an unlikely love affair that grows stronger with every kilometre.

Running has become my therapy and best stress reliever.

Since that 10K race, I have added five marathons, three 50Ks, a dozen or so half-marathons and shorter distances to my race tally.

Let me get this straight I am not what you call a “fast” runner.

You will not find me at the head of the pack. I simply love to run.

I admit I can get a little competitive but only with myself. I love running with new runners and explaining my joy of running.

(I’m in the process of obtaining a coaching certification.)

Through running I have gained confidence, lost a few toenails, learned some life lessons and much more.

In my future biweekly columns, I will share all the ups and downs of my adventures. I will also introduce you to some pretty awesome Central Alberta runners and and shine some light on local races.

First things first, tomorrow I am heading to Lacombe for the Bill Nielsen Trail Run. I have been on the injury reserve list for most of the season so I am nervous about running 10 miles.

Come back next week for my race review. I will also be chatting with the race director and other runners.

In the meantime, I would love to hear from you: Do you have a favourite running route in Central Alberta?

What’s the worst piece of running advice you have ever received? Do you think running sucks? Have you ever run a beer mile? Did you find love on the trail? Want to show me a favourite running route?

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Using zombies to help you lose weight WORKPLACE WELLNESS GAME PROVIDES INCENTIVES THAT MAKE GETTING HEALTHY FUN WHILE ALSO GETTING RID OF BAD HABITS

BY JANICE LYNCH SCHUSTER SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Despite the years I’ve spent trying to lose 20 or 50 pounds, my bad habits stymie me. I am held captive, it seems, by ice cream, my taste buds chained to what feels like relief from my chronic oral pain problem.

Like many others who spend weeks or months trying to lose weight, I usually fail to reach my goal and then give up entirely.

No matter that I write about health care for a living or that I can recite the latest news on nutrition, health and well-being: I surrender and remain stuck. Knowing what to do - eat less, move more - is seldom motivation enough to do it.

The sense that I was a hostage to bad habits might explain why I was so intrigued when I heard about a workplace wellness game - A Step Ahead: Zombies - developed by Mike Tinney, chief executive of Fitness Interactive Experience (FIX).

Wellness games, in which employees sign up for such challenges as counting their steps and changing their diets, seem to be popular and can be part of a larger push by businesses to promote healthful behavior.

The jury is out, however, on whether these programs and incentives actually work.

Tinney had taken a leadership course from Chris Voss, a former FBI hostage negotiator, and he figured that the strategies Voss used to keep a hostage-taker talking could be applied in games to keep an exerciser moving.

As he crafted his zombies game, Tinney brought Voss in as a strategic adviser, hoping to find new ways to keep players engaged, motivated and on the move to more-healthful lifestyles. Voss was with the FBI for 24 years, retiring as its lead international hostage negotiator. He is now based in Los Angeles and is chief executive of the Black Swan Group, which helps people solve business-negotiation problems.

Tinney, whose company is located in Atlanta, was curious about Voss’ approach to behavior change.

“He had to quickly assess and categorize personalities and decision-mak-

ing types of hostage-takers, and then, in simple and effective ways, communicate in a way that would increase their engagement and not shut them off or turn them away,” Tinney said.

“It was similar to us [in game development]. We have some people who are excited about a challenge and others who are reluctant adopters, who are doing it because they get a benefit [from their employer] or a discount, but it’s not something they’d do on their own.”

I wanted to know what, exactly, could be learned from a hostage negotiator, whose world I imagined to be fast-paced and violent, without apparent relevance to corporate wellness.

The zombie game offers a playful spin on America’s fascination with the undead. (Even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has used zombie apocalypse themes in its programs on emergency preparedness.)

As in many corporate wellness programs, players join teams and report their daily progress in achieving fitness goals. But in Tinney’s game, reaching those targets has another purpose: to evade pursuing zombies.

Teams that fall behind risk becoming zombies.

Neither hostage negotiators nor game developers, Voss said, can “push people into things, but [they can] help people discover what’s inside themselves to move in a specific direction.

It is about sustainable negotiation.”

Voss said that game developers need to know “how people make decisions, how they’re comfortable, how they like to get information. Developers need to know how to encourage [players] in ways that promote a positive mind-set.”

For years, I’ve been an emotional eater. Anxious, lonely, tired? Bring on the ice cream and cookies, my emotions clamor, and never mind the calorie count or the sugar.

“Beating yourself up about your health - or even saying things like ‘I

should do this because the opposite is bad’ - is punishing behavior that puts you in a negative frame of mind and makes it harder to make rational decisions,” Voss said.

“As with hostage negotiation, the point of Fitness Interactive Experience is to put people in a positive frame of mind when it comes to their health by turning it into a game so they make good decisions.”

So Tinney’s game incorporates the tactic of continuous positive reinforcement - the idea is to push the hostage-taker to develop a sense of trust, a willingness to cooperate to achieve his own ends.

In doing this he tapped into the notion of the zombie apocalypse. (The idea of a world in which the living dead take over seems to have grown with the popularity of the television show The Walking Dead.)

Keith Kantor, owner of Service Foods in Norcross, Ga., has tried the zombies games with his 100 employees, who prepare and deliver flash-frozen meals and other foods to people’s homes. A nutritionist, Kantor had long offered wellness programs: access to a dietitian, discounts on healthful food products, free gym memberships and more. About three-quarters of his staff participated.

“But when the gaming came in, that other 25 percent all got engaged,” he said.

“They were more excited about doing exercises and running away from zombies than they were in hearing that over 40 percent of them would likely develop diabetes.”

Voss said that someone like me with little time for myself - needs to replace bad habits with good ones “that build on what you enjoy doing and how it appeals to your identity.”

I began to see how my interior negotiations could take a turn for the better.

The trick would be to replace the happiness that comes from eating

chocolate with some similar benefit such as clothes that fit - that can come from physical activity.

Mitesh Patel, on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics, has studied making small changes as a way to improve health habits.

Instead of aiming for targets that can be unrealistic - “I need to lose nearly 50 pounds,” for instance - Patel suggests making smaller changes that can become part of a daily routine.

He recommends a few basics, such as setting a goal. Without one, people won’t change.

“Small wins early on can support changes,” he said.

It’s helpful to involve a friend, because if you have agreed to take a walk with or to meet a buddy at the gym, you have an incentive to follow through.

And don’t forget social media, he advises. Exchanging Facebook posts with others looking to get fit can offer the encouragement you need.

It’s so hard to change fitness habits, Voss said, because change involves loss.

“When people have trouble changing, it’s because they’re focused on what they’re losing, and [they] need to substitute something that they’re going to gain. You can’t get rid of a bad habit or vision unless you add a positive habit or vision.

“One example is putting up pictures of fit people, which can become the vision of the gain you’re pursuing. You can ask yourself, ‘Have I given up on myself?’ Answering ‘no’ becomes a way to drive yourself forward and spur action.”

Do I really want to give up on myself? I’d like to enjoy the years ahead, and I know that physical activity is one way to ensure that I’ll feel better along the way.

The other side of my internal negotiation has yet to find a way to dispute that.

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Asthma may have a bacterial source: study FOUR KEY TYPES IN BABY’S GUT MAY LEAD TO ASTHMA

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Researchers found that smokers who switched to special low-nicotine ones wound up smoking less and were more likely to try to quit, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday

Low-nicotine cigarettes cut use, dependence RESULTS MAY HELP PUSH FOR FDA TO SET LIMITS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A new study might help the push for regulations to limit nicotine in cigarettes. Smokers who switched to special low-nicotine ones wound up smoking less and were more likely to try to quit, researchers found.

The study only lasted six weeks, and researchers call the evidence preliminary. But they say it’s the first large study to show that slashing nicotine, perhaps below an addiction threshold, is safe and leads to less smoking.

The Food and Drug Administration was given the power in 2009 to mandate lower nicotine levels if it would help public health, but has not yet done so.

“This, I think, provides support” for lowering nicotine, said one study leader, Dr. Neal Benowitz of the University of California, San Francisco.

“What our study shows is that it’s feasible,” and that people won’t smoke more regular cigarettes to compensate, he said.

Results are in the New England Journal of Medicine. The FDA and the National Institute on Drug Abuse paid for the study. Two study leaders have advised companies that make smoking cessation aids, and two testified in tobacco lawsuits.

Smoking is a leading cause of heart disease and cancer. Tar and other substances inhaled through smoking make cigarettes deadly, but the nicotine in tobacco is what makes them addictive.

Some earlier work suggests they might not be if nicotine was limited to roughly 0.7 milligrams per gram of tobacco. Most cigarettes contain around 15.8 milligrams per gram of tobacco.

There are no low-nicotine cigarettes on the market the government made special ones with several lower nicotine levels to test.

“We wanted to see how much lower it would need to be to see that effect,” where dependence did not happen or was diminished, said another study leader, Dr. Eric Donny, a University of Pittsburgh psychologist.

For the study, about 800 people who smoked five or more cigarettes a day and had no interest in quitting were assigned to smoke either their usual brand or an experimental type with nicotine ranging from a low of 0.4 milligram to 15.8 milligrams, the level in most cigarettes.

The cigarettes were provided for free, and no one except people as-

signed to keep smoking their regular brand knew how much nicotine any of their smokes contained.

Smokers had to report daily how much they smoked and to make 10 office visits, some of which included tests to measure nicotine exposure and dependence. They were paid $20 an hour or so for the visits and extra for completing tests and daily calls, up to $835 in all.

The low-nicotine users were a little more likely to smoke some regular cigarettes in addition to the ones provided in the study, yet the overall number of cigarettes and nicotine levels were lower in those groups. During the last week of the study, those given cigarettes with low amounts of nicotine — 2.4, 1.3 or 0.4 milligrams per gram of tobacco — were averaging 15 or 16 smokes a day. That compares to 21 or 22 cigarettes for those given the 15.8-milligram cigarettes or their usual brand.

One low-nicotine level — 5.2 milligrams — did not cause any change in number of cigarettes smoked from smokers’ usual brand.

All low-nicotine cigarette users reported fewer symptoms of nicotine dependence on various standardized tests.

The study was not intended or designed to get smokers to quit. But twice as many in the low-nicotine group than those smoking standard-strength cigarettes — 35 per cent versus 17 per cent — said they had tried in the month after the study ended.

A longer study is under way to see whether a gradual or abrupt shift to low-nicotine cigarettes is best.

Dr. Michael Fiore and Timothy Baker, tobacco researchers from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, wrote in a commentary in the journal that the study shows the potential for a policy to cut nicotine that “could help to end the devastating health consequences” of smoking.

The FDA declined to comment on the study, but the director of its Center for Tobacco Products, Mitch Zeller, said in a statement that “though all tobacco products are potentially harmful and potentially addictive, different categories of tobacco products may have the potential for varying effects on public health.”

Two large cigarette makers — R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., which sells Camel and other brands, and Altria Group Inc., which owns Philip Morris USA — declined to comment.

Rare fever outbreak among medical tourists ONE CANADIAN HIT WITH Q FEVER

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Five Americans came down with an unusual illness after travelling to Germany for a controversial treatment involving injections with sheep cells, health officials reported Wednesday.

The treatment is not permitted in the United States. The five New York residents received the “live cell therapy” in May last year. About a week later, they developed fever, fatigue and other symptoms of a dangerous bacterial illness called Q fever.

Two told investigators that they were part of a group that, for the last five years, had travelled to Germany twice a year for the injections. They said they get them to improve their health and vitality.

There is no published clinical proof the treatments work, health officials say.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday released a report on the outbreak, which included a Canadian case — another medical

tourist who got the treatment in Germany at about the same time. The four women and two men ranged in age from 59 to 83.

Three of the six recovered. But three others were still experiencing symptoms more than nine months later, health officials said.

Live or fresh cell therapy involves injecting people with fetal cells from sheep. It’s sometimes offered as an anti-aging therapy, but also has been touted as a treatment for conditions ranging from impotence to migraines to liver disease.

Q fever is caused by a hardy germ found in cattle, sheep and goats. People usually get it from inhaling barnyard dust — it’s an occupational hazard for farmers.

But cases in the U.S. are unusual — each year fewer than 200 are reported. It is treated with antibiotics and U.S. residents rarely die from Q fever three or four deaths are reported in the worst years.

The cases were reported by health officials in the upstate New York counties of Erie and Ulster.

TORONTO — Canadian researchers have discovered that babies at high risk of developing asthma have low levels of four types of bacteria in their gastrointestinal tracts — and replacing those microbes might prevent the disease.

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that clogs the airways with mucous, causing an affected person to cough, wheeze and have difficulty breathing.

The condition arises when the immune system — which develops early in life through interactions with bacteria and other microbes in the gut — overreacts to allergens and other environmental triggers.

A research team led by University of British Columbia scientists identified four bacteria that appear to be involved with the development of asthma when present in insufficient numbers.

Dubbed FLVR — for Faecalibacterium, Lachnospira, Veillonella and Rothia — these bugs are typically acquired by babies from the environment.

But factors such as being born via a C-section versus vaginal birth, having formula over breastfeeding, and antibiotic use early in life can alter the makeup of “good” bacteria in the digestive system.

“This research supports the hygiene hypothesis that we’re making our environment too clean,” said co-lead investigator Brett Finlay, a microbiologist at the University of British Columbia.

“It shows that gut bacteria play a role in asthma, but it is early in life when the baby’s immune system is being established.”

The researchers made that determination after analyzing fecal samples from 319 children enrolled in the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) study.

Analysis of stool samples taken at three months of age found that 22 babies shown by allergy testing to be at high risk of asthma had decreased FLVR levels in their gut flora compared to children at low risk.

However, the researchers found fewer differences in FLVR levels

“THIS DISCOVERY GIVES US NEW POTENTIAL WAYS TO PREVENT THIS DISEASE THAT IS LIFE-THREATENING FOR MANY CHILDREN. IT SHOWS THERE’S A SHORT — MAYBE 100-DAY — WINDOW FOR GIVING BABIES THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS TO PROTECT AGAINST ASTHMA.” DR. STUART TURBEY B.C. CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL PEDIATRIC IMMUNOLOGIST among the children at one year of age, suggesting the first three months of life are a critical period for a baby’s developing immune system.

“This discovery gives us new potential ways to prevent this disease that is life-threatening for many children,” said co-lead researcher Dr. Stuart Turvey, a pediatric immunologist at BC Children’s Hospital.

“It shows there’s a short — maybe 100-day — window for giving babies therapeutic interventions to protect against asthma.”

One intervention could come in the form of a probiotic containing the FLVR bacteria, said Turvey, but he noted that probiotic products sold in drug and health-food stores contain “a small handful of bacteria and certainly don’t include this FLVR combination that we’ve identified.”

“The longer-term goal would be to see if we could offer … those specific bacteria.”

However, fecal and allergy testing needs to be done in larger groups of children to confirm the findings, and a commercialized probiotic is likely a few years off, the researchers said.

Asthma affects about 300 million people worldwide, but ironically it is western countries — not poorer, developing countries — where prevalence rates have risen most dramatically since the 1950s.

The disease now affects up to 20 per cent of children in developed countries like Canada.

The study was published Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

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Some twists on the Thanksgiving feast CHORIZO CORNBREAD STUFFING, MAPLE BRINED TURKEY AND CARAMEL APPLE UPSIDE DOWN CAKE

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This Caramel Apple Upside Down Cake created by chef Anna Olson is a delectable twist on the classic dessert and an ideal way to round off a Thanksgiving feast.

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heat, cook chorizo until almost crisp, about three minutes. Reduce heat to medium add celery and leeks. Cook until vegetables are tender, stirring occasionally, about 10 minutes. Stir in thyme and salt season with pepper.

Transfer to a large bowl.

Return skillet to medium-high heat and add stock bring to a simmer, scraping up brown bits and stirring constantly with a wooden spoon.

Add to bowl with chorizo-vegetable mixture. Stir in eggs. Gently mix in cornbread mixture. (Do not overmix.)

Transfer to baking dish. Dot top with butter. Bake until golden brown, about 35 minutes.

Makes eight to 12 servings.

CARAMEL APPLE UPSIDE DOWN CAKE To Anna Olson, the comforting fragrance of this decadent cake wafting out of the kitchen is what Thanksgiving desserts are all about. “That sense of welcoming, that style of baking just creates such a sense of expectation for guests,” she says.

Apples make an ideal upside down cake, since they caramelize nicely and the juice melds with the sugar syrup, making for a shiny, saucy glaze when the cake is inverted.

When caramelizing sugar, Olson suggests putting the water in the pot before adding the sugar. It dissolves more evenly and is less likely to crystallize as it starts to boil.

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No matter what you serve for Thanksgiving, planning is key.

“If cooking stresses you out, then you gotta keep it simple or you’re just not going to have fun at your own Thanksgiving party. But some people really love planning those details,” says chef Anna Olson.

“I’m a big list maker so one of the tips I would offer at holiday time if you’re hosting the party, you gotta cook like a chef and write those prep lists” for ingredients and tasks.

You can make pie dough a week ahead and freeze it. Write down which day you need to remove the turkey from the freezer to give it enough time to thaw. Chop onions, celery and carrots for the stuffing or other dishes days ahead and refrigerate in resealable bags. Whether you’re hosting a harvest celebration or contributing a dish, here are some Thanksgiving recipes to try.

MAPLE AND STOUT BRINED TURKEY Lora Kirk, chef at Ruby Watchco restaurant in Toronto with Lynn Crawford, brines turkey for flavour and to keep it moist.

1 turkey (6.5 to 7.25 kg/14 to 16 lb) Brine 6 l (24 cups) water 250 ml (1 cup) kosher salt 125 ml (½ cup) maple syrup 15 ml (1 tbsp) black peppercorns 15 ml (1 tbsp) mustard seeds 1 bunch fresh thyme 7 ml (1 ½ tsp) chili flakes 2 l (8 cups) ice cubes 2 cans (each 500 ml) stout beer Aromatics 1 Honeycrisp apple, sliced ½ onion, sliced 1 cinnamon stick 250 ml (1 cup) water 4 sprigs rosemary ½ bunch of thyme 2 bay leaves Canola oil In a large stockpot, combine 2 l (8 cups) of the water, salt, maple syrup, peppercorns, mustard seeds, thyme and chili flakes over medium-high heat. Stir occasionally to dissolve solids and bring to a boil. Remove brine from heat, let cool to room temperature and refrigerate.

Combine brine, remaining 4 l (16 cups) water, ice cubes and beer. Using a clean cooler or container, place turkey (with innards removed) breast side down in brine. If necessary, weigh bird down to ensure it is fully immersed, cover and refrigerate or set in cool area for 8 to 16 hours, turning bird once halfway through brining.

Preheat oven to 180 C (350 F). Remove bird from brine and rinse inside and out with cold water. Discard brine.

Place bird on a roasting rack inside a half sheet pan and pat dry with paper towels.

In a small pot, combine apple, onion, cinnamon stick and water and bring to a boil. Add steeped aromatics to turkey’s cavity along with rosemary, thyme and bay leaves. Tuck wings underneath bird and coat skin liberally with oil.

Roast turkey on lowest rack of oven at 180 C (350 F) for two-and-a-halfto three hours. Insert a probe thermometer into thickest part of breast (avoiding bone), looking for a internal temperature of 70 C (161 F). Let turkey rest, loosely covered with foil, for 15 minutes before carving.

TOASTED PECAN, CHORIZO AND CORNBREAD STUFFING The nuttiness of pecans, spice of chorizo and cornbread is a wonderful combination, says chef Lynn Crawford.

500 ml (2 cups) toasted pecans, chopped 2 cornbreads (rounds, squares or loaves, each 20 cm/8 inches across), coarsely broken into 5-cm (2-inch) pieces (4 l/16 cups) 45 ml (3 tbsp) unsalted butter, cut into small pieces, plus more for dish 250 g (8 oz) chorizo sausage, casing removed and crumbled 4 celery stalks, chopped into 1-cm (½-inch) pieces 4 leeks, rinsed well and chopped into 1-cm (½-inch) pieces 30 ml (2 tbsp) chopped fresh thyme 6 ml (1 ¼ tsp) salt Pepper, to taste 625 ml (2 ½ cups) chicken stock or turkey stock 125 ml (½ cup) grated Parmesan cheese 4 large eggs, lightly beaten Preheat oven to 180 C (350 F). Butter a 33-by-23cm (13-by-9-inch) baking dish.

In a large bowl, mix together pecans and cornbread.

In a large high-sided skillet over medium-high

5 ml (1 tsp) vanilla extract 300 ml (1 ¼ cups) all-purpose flour 5 ml (1 tsp) baking powder 2 ml (½ tsp) ground cinnamon 1 ml (¼ tsp) salt Preheat oven to 180 C (350 F).

Grease a 23-cm (9-inch) cake pan and place it on a parchment-lined baking tray.

Caramel Apple Layer: Arrange apples tightly together in bottom of prepared pan. Pour water and lemon juice into a small saucepot, then add sugar and butter. Bring mixture to a boil without stirring and continue to boil, occasionally brushing sides of pot down with water, until it is a rich caramel colour, four to six minutes.

Remove pot from heat and pour caramel over apples, coating them as much as possible (but don’t worry if they are not completely coated). Set aside while preparing cake.

In a bowl, beat butter, sugar and brown sugar together. Add egg yolks, sour cream and vanilla and beat until blended.

In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt and stir into butter mixture.

In another bowl, whip egg whites until they hold a soft peak. Fold into cake batter intwo additions. Scrape batter over top of apples and spread evenly.

Bake cake for about 45 minutes, until a tester inserted in centre comes out clean. Let cake cool for 30 minutes.

Run a knife around inside edge of cake pan and place a serving plate over top of pan. Flip cake over and lift pan off, revealing caramel apple top.

Makes 12 servings.

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Changes coming to BOLT Transit

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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A transit link between Lacombe and Red Deer is paying off.

BOLT Transit is attracting a “strong base” of 1,200 to 1,600 riders a month, says Mayor Steve Christie in a statement announcing service level changes to the system.

“There was a need to add additional time into the bus schedule to improve overall operational efficiency and service reliability,” says Guy Lapointe, Lacombe’s community and economic development manager.

Scheduling changes will add 15 minutes to the express round trip. Twenty-one minutes will be added to the local loop to accommodate a new stop at the Abbey Centre multiplex.

Changes to the system will provide an arrival time in Red Deer before 8 a.m. and improves timing for picking up high school students. A 4:45 p.m. departure time from downtown Red

Deer’s Sorensen Station has been added.

Tweaks to the transit system, officially opened in August 2014, were made after Lacombe and Blackfalds staff did on-board surveys.

That feedback pinpointed accessibility and safety issues at several Lacombe bus stops. Three stops: northbound Woodland Drive, Southbound C&E Trail/Elizabeth Park, and Southbound Arena have been moved.

The new schedule will be in place on Nov. 1. At the same time, a one-year pilot project will get underway allowing BOLT bus pass holders to transfer to Red Deer’s Route 10 at no extra cost.

Red Deer Transit is planning to move to a paperless pass and ticket system with automated fare box and card reload systems. Cash can still be used for fares.

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Auvigne still working on plea negotiations Plea negotiations continue for charges laid against a man facing 16 drug trafficking charges.

Gary Raymond Auvigne, 40, of Penhold is represented by defence counsel Brad Mulder. In Red Deer provincial court on Thursday, Jason Snider acted as agent for Mulder.

Snider said Auvigne had trial matters on other charges set for Nov. 2 and requested the trafficking charges be adjourned to the same date.

Judge Bert Skinner granted the application and the charges were adjourned to Nov. 2 in Red Deer provincial court.

Auvigne has been held in custody and appeared in court from the Red Deer Remand Centre by closed-circuit television.

He was arrested on May 15 by Sylvan Lake RCMP. He is charged with 16 drug trafficking charges, seven fail to comply charges, two possession of stolen property over $5,000 charges, two possession of stolen property under $5,000 charges and possession of another person’s identification.

Fright night back in action in Rocky Fright night at the site returns, bringing spooks and scares to the Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site.

Two weekends this October, the yearly scarefest features a walk through the dark forest along the banks of the North Saskatchewan River.

On Oct. 9, 10, 16 and 17 from 7 to 10 p.m., people are invited to take part in the Halloween themed event at the site west of Rocky Mountain House.

The event costs $15 in advance or $20 at the door and is recommended for people aged 13 and up. A family fright night is scheduled for Oct. 18.

For more information visit www. universe.com/frightnightatthesite.

Communities combine to earn Municipal Excellence Award The effort of three Central Alberta communities to work together has been recognized by the province.

Clearwater County, Rocky Mountain House and Caroline were given a Municipal Excellence Award at the recent Alberta Urban Municipalities Association convention in Calgary.

The communities were recognized for their participation in an Intermunicipal Collaboration Committee, which was an offshoot of the Stronger Together agreement signed in 2013.

Under the agreement, communities look for partnership opportunities to improve municipal programs and services, improving existing ones, and

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Volunteering to be a firefighter, Gateway Christian School Grade 3 teacher John Kranenborg sports a huge pair of muscled arms as he and Mary Lambert play out a musical skit on stage at the Memorial Centre in Red Deer on Thursday. Along with the City of Red Deer Emergency Services dept. Lambert brought her fire safety message to a room full of elementary school aged children. Lambert is touring her presentation designed to captivate and teach students the very important messages of fire prevention and safety through interactive music, dance, drama, colourful costumes, humour and fun. resolving issues of mutual interest.

City puts block heater timers up for grabs The city is giving away block heater timers.

A limited supply of outdoor multiuse timers in exchange for program commitment to use the timer throughout the winter with your block heater or outdoor lights. Participants must agree to complete a short follow up survey in the spring.

The multi-use timers can also be used with Christmas lights or outdoor patio/landscape lighting.

Program participants are welcome to use their timers with any outdoor electric device as long as it is utilized to reduce energy consumption.

Reserve a timer online at www.reddeer.ca in the Block Heater Timer section or in person. Full details are available online.

Fill out your application on site at one of the pickup locations (Bower Place or Parkland Mall). Supply will

be very limited and available on a first come, first served basis.

Timers must be picked up on Oct. 16 at Parkland Mall or on Oct. 17 at Bower Place between noon and 2 p.m.

Tobacco-free workshop returning to Red Deer A free six-week workshop returns to Red Deer to help those people trying to kick their tobacco habits.

QuitCore is a program led by trained cessation professionals. It teaches tobacco users how to develop a plan to quit while providing strategies to address recovery symptoms, manage stress and ultimately prevent relapse.

The program returns to Red Deer starting on Oct. 8 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Provincial Building, 4920 51st St., in room 206 in Red Deer.

The free tobacco-cessation program is run by Alberta Health Services.

According to AHS more than 3,000 deaths each year can be linked to tobacco use.

To register call 1-866-710-7848. More information is available online at www.albertaquits.ca.

County fire services issues burn notice Red Deer County Fire Services is burning down an old house for training purposes near Gasoline Alley and Waskasoo Avenue on Saturday afternoon.

Motorists and others in the area are asked not to call 911 if they see smoke from the area. Part of Waskasoo Avenue will be blocked off as a precaution since smoke may drift across the road.

The training exercise is expected to be finished around 5 p.m.

Correction The Sisters In Spirit Red Deer Memorial Vigil is scheduled to take place on Oct. 4. The date was inaccurate in Wednesday’s Advocate.

Walper hoping for history to repeat with rise of party

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

watched taxpayers pay for larger governments and increased bureaucracy out of their back pockets.

He said the LibertariJames Walper rememan movement is basically bers watching the Reform about smaller governments.

Party of Canada take off in “We want more power the early 1990s. in the local communities,” It was when the now-33said Walper, who is running year-old began to take an in the new Red Deer-Mouninterest in politics. Walper tain View riding. “We don’t said it was nice to see first want that money leaving hand a smaller party start and going to Ottawa in the up and make its way to Otfirst place to get circled tawa. around a slow system and He hopes that history remaybe make its way back.”

JAMES peats itself with the LiberHe would like to see WALPER tarian Party of Canada. The more open competitions, no party has been existence in more government favoritCanada since the 1970s. ism and businesses complementing Walper said over the years he has one another. Walper believes in a flat

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RED DEER-MOUNTAIN VIEW tax system that will save people more money. The party wants to raise the tax exemption to $17,000 and lower taxes to a maximum rate of 15 per cent.

“It doesn’t punish people for making more money,” said Walper. “It allows them to keep the money in the community. The way that true free market capitalism is supposed to work is people’s money determines the success and failure of a community, of a business, the business sector in general. Instead what we have right now is the government … playing favourites.”

Wapler works as a fluid technician or mudman in the oil and gas industry. He was born in Chilliwack, B.C.,

and spent most of his life in the Lower Mainland and in the Vancouver area working in the banking and information technology sectors. He is married with two young children. He moved to Red Deer in 2007.

“From working in the oil fields I have come to realize that it is the hard working individuals in this country that have built this nation,” he said.

“This is something that politics has never done — we need to reward the people are boots on the ground making a difference. I am not talking about just the oil field workers but (everybody).” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Bombing campaign slackens during election

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Fewer Canadian bombs have been falling on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant since the federal election call on Aug. 2, new National Defence statistics show.

CF-18 fighters conducted 10 air raids last month and 12 in August, which is roughly half the average number of attacks carried out each month since the spring.

There were 30 raids by Canadian warplanes in July and 20 raids in each of May and June. The only time Canada conducted fewer missions this year was in February, when only nine strikes were recorded.

The statistics emerged as Russia opened its own air campaign in Syria this week, hitting targets on behalf of the Assad government and heralding what experts say is a dangerous new phase of the ongoing war in the Middle East.

National Defence was asked directly whether it had been given direction to tone down airstrikes during the election cycle.

There’s been no change in the government’s mandate towards the war, and targets are selected by the U.S.led coalition headquarters, said Capt.

Kirk Sullivan, a spokesman for the military’s operations command.

“Many factors determine the frequency and location of airstrikes” among allies, Sullivan added.

The Harper government hasn’t said anything about the latest developments involving Russia — or reports that Iran is sending forces to fight alongside the Assad government. But Green party Leader Elizabeth May says Canada should be pressing for urgent talks engaging Russia, Iran, the U.S. and other allies.

She hearkened back to the Conservative government’s expansion of the Canadian bombing campaign last spring, in which it cited the American legal justification for bombing in Syria.

“Putin is hoisting the West on our own petard,” May said.

“The U.S. and Canada made it possible to claim bombing raids in a civil war were acceptable, even though falling outside international law.”

Quebec condemns ‘Islamophobia’

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Quebec’s legislature unanimously adopted a motion Thursday condemning “Islamophobia” — particularly toward Syrian refugees — in response to what some politicians say is a growing anti-Muslim climate in the province.

About 100 members of the legislature voted in favour of the motion tabled by Francoise David, whose Quebec solidaire has three members in the 125-seat national assembly.

David said she was concerned by what she called the increasing number of attacks against Muslims in Quebec, notably online.

The motion condemned Islamophobia and incitement of hatred and violence toward Muslim Quebecers, in particular Syrian refugees.

The governing Liberals and the two other opposition parties in the legislature attempted to amend the motion to condemn racism more generally as well as other forms of intolerance.

But David told reporters she insisted the word “Islamophobia” be included in the text.

“The incidents that have been multiplying over the past few weeks particularly affect Quebec’s Muslims,” she said. “We need to call a spade a spade.”

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Sandra D’Addese holds daughter Olivia, 6, during a candlelight vigil at St. Padre Pio Church in Kleinburg, Ont., for the members of the Neville-Lake family Thursday.

Hundreds show support at family devastated by deadly Ontario crash

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VAUGHAN, Ont. — Grief-stricken members of a community came together Thursday to mourn three young siblings and their grandfather, whose deaths in an alleged drunk driving accident north of Toronto have sparked an outpouring of grief and sympathy.

Many sobbed openly at a vigil in Vaughan, Ont. as candles were lit in memory of nine-year-old Daniel, fiveyear-old Harrison and two-year-old Milly Neville-Lake and their grandfather Gary Neville.

Hundreds hoisted candles of their

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Ex-Quebec lieutenantgovernor in jail for now QUEBEC — Former Quebec lieutenant-governor Lise Thibault will remain behind bars until at least next Tuesday.

Her lawyer, Marc Labelle, wanted to seek leave to appeal on Thursday, a day after Thibault was sentenced to 18 months in jail on fraud and breach of trust charges.

Labelle said she should have been released because of her ailing health.

The Crown prosecutor in the case argued he needed more time to prepare his case and a Quebec Court of Appeal justice ruled he had not been convinced of the urgency for Thibault, 76, to be released so quickly.

Instead, Quebec’s top court will hear Labelle on Tuesday as well as his arguments that his client should be freed pending the appeal proceedings.

Thibault was charged two years after a 2007 report by the federal and provincial auditors general revealed she claimed more than $700,000 in improper expenses when she held the vice-regal post between 1997 and 2007.

Co-accused to testify against Canadian diplomat’s son charged in brother’s death

own outside St. Padre Pio church, many of them families with small children in tow.

Some placed flowers on the church steps or left messages and donations for the family in the care of organizers.

Marco Muzzo, of King Township, Ont., faces a dozen impaired-driving offences and six charges related to the dangerous operation of a motor vehicle in connection with the incident.

The suspect is set to appear in court for a bail hearing on Friday regarding the allegations.

At Thursday night’s vigil, Frances Pullano said the tragedy hit close to home because she lives near the site of

Sunday’s fatal crash and has two young grandchildren.

“There’s no comfort for this, there’s no words,” she said as church bells tolled in honour of the Neville-Lake family.

“I haven’t slept, I haven’t been able to sleep in peace…I haven’t had five minutes without these little angels in my mind.”

Lella DePalma, one of the vigil’s organizers, said the Neville-Lake family’s loss has struck a chord with parents everywhere.

“This tragedy has awakened in us a sense of familial vulnerability,” she said.

agreement that will see them take the stand in the trial of their co-accused Marc Wabafiyebazu.

Wabafiyebazu was arrested March 30 outside an apartment in which his 18-year-old brother Jean Wabafiyebazu and another man, Joshua Wright, 17, were shot dead.

He has pleaded not guilty to felony first-degree murder.

Police allege the younger sibling confessed that he and his brother had gone to rip off the dealer, but the armed robbery had gone sour.

While the prosecution does not allege Wabafiyebazu shot or even threatened anyone, Florida law allows for the felony murder charge if he was part of the armed robbery that resulted in the killings.

people and 4,000 vehicles descended on Inverness, a town that is home to about 1,300 people, the RCMP say.

About 25,000 are expected this weekend.

The popularity of the weekly draw, which started almost a year ago, grew exponentially after the jackpot exceeded $30,000 and kept growing, says Jim Mustard, the municipal councillor for the rural area.

“The buzz is on now,” he said in an interview.

“It feeds in to some Maritime qualities: people love to get together, and they don’t mind having a drink and some conversation — and then to gamble and win in that moment. It’s something that is feeding people’s imaginations right now.”

Mustard says the large crowds helped create a carnival-like atmosphere every weekend through the summer months, which has set the stage for a final must-attend kitchen party.

At first, the draws were held at the local Royal Canadian Legion, which has organized the event for the past two years.

In recent weeks, the draws have been moved to the local arena, where tables and chairs have been set up to let people gather, talk, play cards and have a good time.

Final ‘Chase the ace’ Cape Breton lottery draw expected to draw thousands INVERNESS, N.S. — A small town in Cape Breton is bracing for the arrival of thousands of money-hungry visitors Saturday as the wildly popular Chase the Ace fundraising game draws to a close with a $1-million jackpot on the line.

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‘We believe we are on track’ CANADIAN GOVERNMENT EAGER TO COMPLETE A HISTORIC TRADE AGREEMENT TPP

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS ATLANTA — The Canadian government is eager enough to complete a historic trade agreement this week that the country’s lead minister has no idea when he’ll be back home campaigning in the federal election.

In his first full day at the meetings that could ult i m a t e l y c l i n c h Ed Fast the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership, Ed Fast said he’s willing to stay as long as it takes.

He said he doesn’t yet have a return plane ticket to British Columbia where he’s in a re-election fight because, he says, completing the deal is critical to Canada’s economy.

“What I can say is that Canada is prepared to negotiate, to stay here until we have a deal,” the international trade minister said Wednesday.

“We believe we are on track to do so.”

He insisted that he’s also willing to walk away if necessary: “I can’t prejudge whether there will be a deal this weekend… We are only going to sign a deal that is in our national interest.”

Some countries are expressing a sense of urgency that a deal be completed now before several governments involved in the talks face uncertain re-election campaigns, starting

with Canada’s.

But the biggest impending concern for TPP proponents is the fast-approaching U.S. presidential primaries, which could play havoc with attempts to get the agreement ratified in Congress.

The Canadian government faces the dual pressure of having to run a campaign at the same time. While Fast chats about dairy and auto quotas in Atlanta, his colleagues back home are weighing the potential impact in dozens of ridings that could hold the key to Conservative re-election chances.

The government left the last talks dismayed by a surprise Japan-U.S. agreement that would have upended auto-production, with tariffs eliminated on cars that primarily use cheaper parts from non-TPP countries like China.

Fast called the last proposal unacceptable. He added Wednesday that there has been movement since the failed round in July: “We have continued to make progress,” he said.

But the Canadian government also desperately wants to change the conversation.

It’s attempting to steer attention toward companies and industries enthused by the TPP. It hopes those voices drown out some of the skeptics: the auto-workers union warning of lost middle-class jobs, and the dairy farmers urging against even a one-per-cent increase in foreign cheese imports.

The government has been circulating quotes from supportive stakeholders in multiple industries: mining, seafood, pork, cattle, and even from the bigger auto-parts companies with foreign plants.

One enthusiastic stakeholder is the Canadian beef industry. It predicts exports to Japan could potentially triple

if tariffs fall as low as reported in Japanese media.

John Masswohl said the industry shipped $100 million to Japan last year — and lost almost 40 per cent in duties.

But that’s not the biggest issue: It’s that Australia is gnawing away at everyone else’s market share, he said, because it already has a tariff-reduction deal with Japan.

“It’s a bad scenario for us if there is no TPP because Australia’s rate continues to get lower and lower,” said Masswohl, director of government relations for the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association.

In Quebec and Ontario, the concerns of dairy farmers have received widespread media coverage. Those two provinces also happen to produce more than half of Canada’s hogs.

And the pork producers are delighted.

Martin Rice of the Canadian Pork Council predicted that joining the TPP would increase the $1 billion in pork exports to Japan by more than 30 per cent within four years.

He warned that the exact opposite would happen if the TPP happens without Canada.

“Our processors just wouldn’t be able to compete anymore,” he said.

Expect to hear arguments like those from the Conservative party repeatedly in the last weeks of the federal election, should an agreement come together in Atlanta.

Another emerging debate has to do with transparency. The deal is being negotiated in secret the final text might not even be made public before Canadians vote and the government hasn’t involved opposition parties despite the fact that one of them might actually have to implement the deal if they win Oct. 19.

WATERLOO, Ont. — Shopify Inc. chief executive Tobias Lutke is keeping a close watch on an NDP election pledge that could change the way stock options are taxed, despite reassurances from Tom Mulcair that technology startups wouldn’t be impacted by the new rules.

Lutke said Thursday that he wants to ensure Canada’s burgeoning startup community doesn’t get sideswiped by new taxation on stock options, described by Mulcair as a “loophole” used by the wealthiest Canadians which he has pleged to close if NDP wins power in the Oct. 19 federal election.

The co-founder of the Ottawa-based e-commerce startup said stock options were one of the crucial ways Shopify was able to attract employees when it was first getting off the ground and money was tight. “(Stock options were) a reason why many amazing people ended up joining Shopify, and that made a big difference for the success of the business,” Lutke said.

What is it: Supply management controls levels of milk production by tying it to Canadian consumer demand and limiting foreign competition through high tariffs. Similar systems also regulate production of cheese, poultry and eggs.

Farms: The number of dairy farms has shrunk from 145,000 nearly 40 years ago to less than 13,000 today. The system supports 215,000 jobs and contributes about $19 billion to Canada’s GDP and $3.6 billion in taxes.

However, the Conference Board of Canada says dairy production quotas cost the economy $28 billion per year.

Prices: The price for milk paid to the producers is based on the costs of production set by farmers, not the market. As a result, Canadians pay about twice as much for milk than Americans. One litre of milk sold for $2.33 in Canada on average in August, according to Statistics Canada, compared to US$3.39 per gallon— or C$1.20 a litre — according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, milk prices vary by province.

Subsidies: Canadian dairy farmers receive no direct government subsidies, while the U.S. pays about US$4 billion a year and the EU 55 billion euro to their farmers.

Imports: Imports are limited through high tariffs. The system originally banned all imports, but that ran afoul of global trade rules.

So now about five per cent of dairy products on Canadian shelves are imported tariff-free.

Another 18,500 tonnes of cheese will be imported from Europe under a proposed deal.

Exports: Milk production caps limit export opportunities, especially to rapidly growing Asian markets. Global dairy export volumes have been growing by seven per cent annually, but the OECD projects that butter demand will increase 21 per cent from 2013 to 2022, cheese by more than 11 per cent and whole milk powder by 13 per cent.

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Things to know about Canada’s dairy supply management system

“Will less companies succeed because (fewer) great people join early stage startups? Absolutely, and I think that’s regrettable.”

A potential clash between Mulcair and tech entrepreneurs like Lutke was quickly extinguished last week. The party leader sent a personal letter to Lutke and fellow Canadian startup founder Ryan Holmes of HootSuite saying that “early stage companies” would be excluded from his taxation plan.

Lutke said the response gave him more confidence in the NDP plan.

The NDP has also proposed to raise corporate taxes, which Lutke considers less of an issue.

“Canada has really low taxes for companies to begin with, so (taxes) going up doesn’t make a lot of difference,” he said.

“Everyone should pay their fair share,” he added.

Shopify has been growing in leaps and bounds this year after listing on the public markets in May. On Thursday, the company announced plans to raise its profile in Waterloo, Ont., the hotbed of the country’s technology sector, by moving into

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A reclamation crew works to back fill the land at the corner of Ross Street and 40th Avenue in Red Deer Tuesday. Through the last few months work has been done to reclaim the former service station property.

Pipeline battle could set tone for future relations

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — First Nations fighting to block the Northern Gateway pipeline project say a long-awaited court hearing that began Thursday will set the tone for aboriginal relations with the next federal government.

Eight indigenous bands, four environmental groups and a labour union are in Vancouver’s Federal Court of Appeal trying to overturn the government’s approval of the $7-billion plan to ship diluted bitumen from Alberta’s oilsands to British Columbia’s coast.

Speaking just before the start of appeal, Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs president Grand Chief Stewart Phillip said Stephen Harper’s government has demonized First Nations on the issue of resource development.

“Our people have reached a breaking point, there’s no question about that,” he said.

“I absolutely pray that we elect a national government that has a better national vision for this country, that’s more inclusive and more respectful of what the indigenous peoples are attempting to tell this country.”

The bands argue that the Joint Review Panel, an independent body mandated by the National Energy Board and federal minister of environment, failed to adequately consider environmental threats or consult with First Nations.

Acting on the panel’s recommendation, the government approved the project in June 2014 with 209 condi-

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Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, third from left, President of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, speaks as other First Nations chiefs and leaders listen during a news conference about the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline in Vancouver, B.C., on Thursday. Multiple legal challenges aimed at overturning the federal government’s approval of the pipeline project began being heard Thursday at the Federal Court of Appeal. tions, including the development of plans for caribou habitat restoration, for marine mammal protection and for oil spill modelling.

Jennifer Griffith, a lawyer for the Haisla Nation, told the three-judge panel that the proposed pipeline route — running parallel with the Kitimat River to a terminal in Kitimat in B.C.’s North Coast region — puts the nation’s

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traditional territory at serious risk of a spill.

“The importance of the Kitimat River to the Haisla Nation cannot be denied,” she said.

“It is demonstrated by the decades of effort Haisla has put into ending the pollution of the river.”

Griffith said the government has accepted in court documents that it has

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a duty to consult with First Nations, but didn’t provide the “deep consultation” with all aboriginal applicants as it claimed.

“In order to be meaningful, consultation cannot be postponed to the last stage of decision-making,” she said.

“Consultation that excludes accommodation from the outset is not meaningful, and consultation cannot be merely an opportunity to blow off steam.”

A lawyer for the Haida Nation, whose traditional territories encompass the remote Haida Gwaii archipelago off B.C.’s coast, said the government’s approval of the project appears to violate reconciliation agreements with the nation.

Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson said the agreements, negotiated by the Haida with Canada and B.C. over the past three decades, created collaborative management of the land and marine environment.

“At issue in this judicial review is whether Crown commitments to reconciliation with the Haida Nation will be reduced to mere puffery, an exercise in public relations lacking substantive content,” she said.

Haida Nation council president Peter Lantin said outside the court that the federal government had jeopardized years of work towards building a strong relationship.

He said the panel’s environmental assessment didn’t look at the project’s direct impacts on his community.

“Haida Gwaii is a unique ecosystem. It’s a beautiful place on earth that deserves protecting.”

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

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 116.42 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.78 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.59 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.05 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.52 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.87 Cdn. National Railway . . 75.49 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 194.17 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 35.89 Capital Power Corp . . . . 19.01 Cervus Equipment Corp 13.50 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 42.98 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 49.47 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 19.22 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.52 General Motors Co. . . . . 30.67 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 22.72 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.90 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 38.99 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 29.29 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.57 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.36 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 42.31 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 119.91 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.62 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.25 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 68.01 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market fell back into the red Thursday after a two-day respite from the severe declines that saw many indexes turn in their worst quarterly performance in years.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 65.07 points at 13,241.89, adding to the 8.5 per cent decline that Canada’s main index has endured since the end of June.

In New York the Dow Jones industrial average was down 12.69 points at 16,272.01, while the S&P 500 gained 3.79 points to 1,923.82 and the Nasdaq added 6.92 points to 4,627.08.

American markets traded even lower earlier in the day following the release of two significant indicators for manufacturing in the United States and China that showed continuing weakness in the factories of the world’s two largest economies.

Mackenzie Investments chief economist Todd Mattina said Canada’s economic performance depends on a healthy American economy and traders are still analyzing the evidence of a recovery.

“Everyone is looking for clues that the U.S. economy is remaining healthy and that growth is still robust,” he said.

American manufacturing expanded at its slowest pace in two years in September, held back by faltering global growth, a high American dollar and cutbacks in oil and gas drilling, according to the Institute for Supply Management.

The ISM said Thursday that its index of factory activity fell sharply from 51.1 in August to 50.2 in September, its lowest level since May 2013. Any number above 50 indicates expansion.

Meanwhile, an official mea-

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 21.99 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.57 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.27 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 24.49 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . . 8.19 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 15.99 First Quantum Minerals . . 4.89 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 16.09 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 5.01 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.24 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.00 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 26.08 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.720 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 6.09 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 17.56 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 19.17 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 51.18 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.04 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 19.99 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 25.67 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 6.20 Canyon Services Group. . 4.76 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 19.67 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1800 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 8.80 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.690 sure of manufacturing in China, the Chinese Federation for Logistics and Purchasing, edged up to 49.8 in September from 49.7 in August, which was the lowest level since August 2012.

Like the ISM indicator, a number above 50 indicate expansion.

On commodity markets, the November contract for benchmark crude oil was down 35 cents at US$44.74 a barrel and November natural gas fell 9.1 cents to US$2.433 per thousand cubic feet. December gold lost $1.50 to US$1,113.70 an ounce, while December copper was down 3.7 cents at US$2.305 a pound.

The continuing oil slump, which began in July 2014, points to the need for Canada to refocus its economy after a first-half recession, Mattina said.

“What’s so critical is for Canada to make the transition from an energy-led to a manufacturing and export-led recovery.”

The loonie advanced 0.51 cents to 75.44 cents US after adding 0.4 of a U.S. cent on Wednesday.

Mattina said the Canadian dollar’s gain was led more by what is happening south of the border.

“Because the growth outlook in the U.S. weakened with the PMI report, the U.S. dollar weakened against a number of currencies including the Canadian dollar,” he said.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,241.89, down 65.07 points Dow — 16,272.01, down 12.69 points S&P 500 — 1,923.82, up 3.79 points Nasdaq — 4,627.08, up 6.92

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B.C. MLA blasts government for farmland sales to global corp.

An Independent member of the legislature says British Columbia must protect valuable farmland after an international company bought more

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 74.06 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 34.91 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.38 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 20.53 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 41.29 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 1.08 Penn West Energy . . . . . 0.670 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 4.74 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 35.25 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.750 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.28 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 41.98 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2500 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 73.17 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 59.08 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96.26 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 23.53 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 32.18 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 34.64 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 92.98 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.68 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 43.16 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.25 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 73.57 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 42.94 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.74 points Currencies: Cdn — 75.44 cents US, up 0.51 of a cent Pound — C$2.0055, down 1.32 cents Euro — C$1.4829, down 0.85 of a cent Euro — US$1.1187, up 0.11 of a cent Oil futures: US$44.74 per barrel, down 35 cents (November contract) Gold futures: US$1,113.70 per oz., down $1.50 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.168 oz., down 13.7 cents $648.40 kg., down $4.41 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov ‘15 $5.10 lower $470.90 Jan. ‘16 $4.80 lower $476.20 March ‘16 $4.80 lower $478.30 May ‘16 $4.90 lower $478.40 July ‘16 $4.90 lower $477.80 Nov. ‘16 $5.30 lower $469.30 Jan. ‘17 $5.30 lower $470.50 March ‘17 $5.30 lower $472.20 May ‘17 $5.30 lower $472.70 July ‘17 $5.30 lower $472.20 Nov. ‘17 $5.30 lower $472.20.

Barley (Western): Oct. ‘15 unchanged $190.00 Dec. ‘15 unchanged $185.00 March ‘16 unchanged $187.00 May ‘16 unchanged $188.00 July ‘16 unchanged $188.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $188.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $188.00 March ‘17 unchanged $188.00 May ‘17 unchanged $188.00 July ‘17 unchanged $188.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $188.00.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 627,560 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 627,560.

than 12,000 hectares it plans to turn into a forest. Vicki Huntington, who represents the South Delta riding, says the latest purchase by British-based company Reckitt Benckiser included about 320 hectares of ranch land in Dawson Creek. She says the cattle-grazing property was part of B.C.’s agricultural land reserve and the company that began buying in B.C. nine years ago plans to use it to plant trees to benefit its own environmental program. Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick says his ministry does not endorse turning farms into forests and received assurances in June that Reckitt Benckiser would not buy any more agricultural land.

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Draftpot director of sales and business development H. Harrison Fields, left, and chief operating officer Brian Goldrich, work at the Fantasy Football operation’s workspace, Wednesday, in New York. After starting up from their dorm rooms at Columbia University earlier this year, the operation paid out $220,000 in it’s first week online.

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Reddit user was asking how he could invest in the company, eventually putting in $20,000. A few months later, with help mostly from angel investors, Draftpot has raised $2.2 million to fund operations. With only 7,200 registered users, Draftpot is tiny compared to the industry powerhouses, which spend tens of millions of dollars to get customers. It’s also in a business where customer loyalty is fleeting and there’s no guarantee the next week will be better than the last or the company will survive at all.

“There’s a lot of operators out there trying to get a piece of the pie,” said Cory Albertson, a top fantasy player who studies the industry. “Ultimately, most of them will fail.”

But Levy believes Draftpot can succeed by enticing players to stay longer than on the major sites, where player “churn” is high. The main reason people stop playing fantasy sports, he said, is they don’t like losing money to players who may flood contests with multiple entries and use computer algorithms to turn profits. Those big players win a big majority of the money in daily fantasy play, forcing the daily sites to keep replacing the smaller players who drop out after losing.

“Casual players will consistently lose money in that system,” Levy said.

“And losing money consistently is not good for user retention.”

By eliminating the salary cap, Draftpot allows players to pick whomever they want on their teams. The contests are still a game of skill, Levy contends, but not so much tilted in favour of big players who might win other contests by consistently finding obscure players who might add a few points to their scores.

“High-volume players still may have a little bit of advantage with us because they put more time in studying players,” Levy said. “But casual players have more of a chance.”

Draftpot may have a chance, too, though the daily fantasy market can be a treacherous one. A number of companies have already gone belly-up, with some taking customer money with them.

World headquarters for the daily fantasy site Draftpot is a bedroom in a New York City apartment a few blocks from Columbia University.

Joey Levy and his two fellow Draftpot co-founders sleep in the apartment, too, making for an easy commute.

“It’s very convenient and very cost effective,” Levy said. “And it allows us to work day and night.”

The story is a familiar one: College student with an idea creates a website and the money starts rolling in. Draftpot may not be the next Facebook, but in the first few weeks of the NFL season there was money rolling in — and out.

“We paid out $220,000 in prizes our first football weekend,” Levy said.

“We’re well on our way by the end of December of paying a million dollars.”

Levy’s company is doing it by tapping into a daily fantasy sports market dominated by DraftKings and FanDuel, which both spent huge amounts of money leading to the opening of football season promising to make millionaires of some of their best players.

Draftpot — at least so far — is promising no such thing. The company does believe, however, that the niche it has found in the marketplace — essentially games with no salary caps — gives players a far better shake than contests that are dominated by the bigger and more sophisticated players.

“It levels the playing field and gives casual players more of a chance,” Levy said. “That $220,000 we paid out the first week didn’t just go to five people.”

Paying out $220,000, of course, means the company took in more than that. Draftpot charges a “rake” of between 8 per cent to 10 per cent, so there is some room for profit, even after paying rent and utilities at the company’s apartment headquarters.

Not bad for a 20-year-old fantasy sports junkie who just a few months ago was quietly pursuing a history degree at Columbia.

“I’ve promised my mother that I will go back to school when this is over,” Levy said by phone.

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Switching focus to solar energy Mining makes up a large part of the Canadian economy.

Alberta, B.C., Ontario, and Quebec all have large excavations for different minerals — or in Alberta’s case hydrocarbon. Kimberley, B.C., was once home to Canada’s largest lead and zinc mine, the Sullivan, this mine has changed name and totally changed focus with the object of its industry.

Now known as the ‘SunMine’ it is home to the first “grid connected solar photovoltaic installation” in British Columbia. With some 4,000 modules, covering eight hectares of land it produces approximately one megawatt of electrical power and is the largest of LORNE its kind outside of Ontario. The city of OJA Kelowna owns the site handed down from Teck Resources, the former ownENERGY er, which contributed the land and 38 per cent of the $5.3 million cost of installation.

The site was chosen for its 2,200 hours of annual sunshine, six hours per day on average, enough to provide a reliable power source. The cooler climate of winter also aids in the electrical power produc-

tion.

A photovoltaic panel at 0°C produces about nine per cent more energy than nominal, while one at 70°C produces approximately 20 per cent less than the manufactures rating at a standard temperature of 20°C. The Canadian Solar Industry Association reports Canada’s capacity in 2014 at some 1.4 GW. Ontario is the Canadian leader, and currently Alberta is a dismal second at 4.5 MW. This, despite Canada’s sunniest city Medicine Hat having approximately 2,500 hours of sun, Calgary with the nation’s sunniest winters, and the province possesses the potential to generate 12 times more energy than what is consumed.

When compared to the world’s leaders, Germany with 36 GW of photovoltaic power, and the U.S. at 16 GW installed, Canada is lagging far behind.

In Alberta, Enmax has a scheme for solar installations for home owners, but the fee structure and the equipment used is not conducive to either peak performance or payback in anything less than 25 years.

This past April, the new NDP government promised interest free loans for the installation of solar

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photovoltaics for the family home and interested businesses. More initiatives and systems designed for our seasonal changes would go far in making inroads to Alberta taking the lead in renewable sun generation.

If a small community between the Purcells and the Rocky Mountains can change its focus from mining minerals to mining sunshine, could not Alberta with all its ingenuity, ambition, and “get it done” attitude not also realign?

Don’t get me wrong, we are still hugely dependant on oil. If you do not want to walk, heat your home with wood, or give up a myriad of plastics and consumer goods made from hydrocarbon, then we will be “using” for a while yet. However, at the rate of technological advances, factoring in the failures, our future of lowered atmospheric carbon and our weening from our hydrocarbon dependence may not be that far in the future.

Maybe the next generation will have a different mindset, and a new set of problems to solve.

Lorne Oja is an energy consultant, power engineer and a partner in a company that installs solar panels, wind turbines and energy control products in Central Alberta. He built his first off-grid home in 2003. His column appears every second Friday in the Advocate. Contact him at: lorne@solartechnical.ca.

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XPrize offers $20M to find new uses for carbon emissions

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Asking the public to “reimagine carbon,” a group of oilsands companies is helping to launch a $20-million XPrize competition to find innovative ways to address carbon emissions.

Dan Wicklum, chief executive of Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance, said the goal is to find practical uses for converted carbon emissions, rather than an outright reduction in carbon dioxide production.

“The competition will promote and advance the discovery and development of new technologies to take carbon emissions, which are now seen as a liability, and change them into a resource, a valuable, usable product,” Wicklum said at the public launch Tuesday.

Calling climate change “one of the biggest challenges facing the planet,” Wicklum said carbon emissions are a key contributor to the problem, and oilsands producers are part of that.

“We’re part of the global problem, but today is about taking a leadership role in becoming part of the global solution,” he said.

“Today we’re throwing down the gauntlet, we are lighting a fire under the brightest minds in the world.”

Wicklum said that fossil fuels will continue to be a source of energy for years to come, so research needs to be done on both reducing emissions and on better managing the emissions that are produced.

“Under any scenario, petroleum will be a part of our energy mix in the foreseeable future, so it just makes sense to work on reducing emissions, but also on the game changing technologies too. So it’s a balanced approach.”

The competition runs for four and a half years and the winning team will be the one that converts the most CO2 into one or more products with the highest net value and the smallest environmental impact.

Possible solutions listed by the organizers include new ways to make cement and other building materials, chemicals to make industrial and consumer goods, low-carbon transportation fuels, or entirely new products.

Teams will be able to choose between capturing carbon emissions from a coal power plant or a natural gas facility.

Several large-scale carbon capture projects have been or are being developed, but efforts so far to find uses for the captured carbon have been limited.

Saskatchewan’s government-owned utility, SaskPower, opened the $1.4-billion Boundary Dam carbon capture project last year, which it bills as the first commercial scale effort of its kind.

Under the project, some of the carbon captured from a coal power plant is sold to the oil companies which pump it into the ground to increase the amount of oil companies can pump out.

Royal Dutch Shell’s Quest carbon capture project, the first for an oilsands project in Canada, will take carbon emissions from the Scotford Upgrader and pump it into porous rock two kilometres underground.

The Carbon XPrize is being half-funded by U.S.based NRG Energy, a utility that promotes renewable energy, and half by Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance, founded by 13 oilsands companies to find ways to reduce the environmental impacts of the industry. Only eight of the 13 COSIA member companies are taking part in this competition.

The non-profit XPrize foundation, known for organizing high-profile research competitions like creating the first private space flight, will run the competition.

Development Officer Approvals In accordance with The City of Red Deer Neighbourhood Planning and Design Standards (2013), the properties known as legal land description NW1/4 Sec 26 TWP 38 RR 27 W4M located in the neighbourhood of Evergreen, have been identified for sale for the development of a community amenity site

by Melcor Developments Ltd. These properties may be developed for temporary care, assisted living, adult day care, day care facility, or place of worship.

Details as to eligibility, conditions of sale, prices, etc. may be obtained from: Melcor Developments Ltd. 403-343-0817 If these sites are not purchased for the purpose listed above by October 31, 2015, they may be utilized for conventional residential development as shown in the Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan.

PUBLIC NOTICE RED DEER RIVER DYE STUDY ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND ENHANCEMENT ACT NOTICE OF APPLICATION In accordance with the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act, The City of Red Deer has applied to Environment and Parks for registration of hydrologic tracing analysis studies to be conducted in the Red Deer River. Rhodamine WT (Fluorescent Red Dye Concentrate, 20% active ingredient) will be the substance used in the study.The impact of the dye injection to the river will be pink coloration of the river water. The dye will have no negative impacts on aquatic life at the concentrations that it will occur in the river. Furthermore, Rhodamine WT dye will have no impact to human health and contact recreation from the activity in the river at the low predicted concentrations.

Pursuant to section 73 of the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act, any person who is directly affected by this operation may submit a written statement of concern regarding this application. Failure to file a statement of concern may affect the right to file a Notice of Appeal with the Environmental Appeals Board. Such a statement of concern must be submitted to: Environment and Parks Regulatory Approvals Center Main Floor, 9820 - 106 Street Edmonton, Alberta T5K 2J6 Fax: (780) 422-0154 Email: esrd.epeaapplications@gov.ab.ca within 30 days of the date of this notice. Please quote Application No. 001-367378 when submitting a statement of concern in regards to the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act application.

NOTE: Any statement filed regarding this application are public records which are accessible by the public.

Copies of the application and additional information can be obtained from: City of Red Deer Attn: Kingsford Amoah P.O. Box 5008 Red Deer, AB T4N 3T4

On September 29, 2015, the Development Officer issued approvals for the following applications: Permitted Use Aspen Ridge 1. K. L. Stannard – a 3.5 m variance to the minimum rear yard, to the doors of a proposed detached garage, to be located at 12 Ammeter Close Edgar Industrial 2. Camdon Construction Ltd. – a 933.7 m2 industrial accessory building and two temporary tent structures, to be located at 7883 Edgar Industrial Way. Inglewood West 3. K. Durling – a 0.91 m variance to the minimum rear yard, to the doors of an existing detached garage, located at 36 Irving Crescent.

Sunnybrook 4. S. Allison – a 0.52 m variance to the minimum side yard, to an existing elevated patio, located at 101 Selkirk Boulevard.

5. IMC Construction Ltd. - an area redevelopment for a 56.58 m2 addition to a single-family dwelling, to be located at 47 Springfield Avenue.

Vanier Woods East 6. Snell & Oslund Surveys Ltd. – a 0.15 m variance to the minimum side yard, to an existing single-family dwelling with an attached garage, located at 262 Viscount Drive.

Woodlea 7. 343514 Alberta Ltd. – a 0.35 m variance to the maximum height, for a proposed detached garage, to be located at 5315 46 Avenue.

Discretionary Use Devonshire 8. Bat Your Lashes – a home-based aesthetics business, to be located at 30 Darling Crescent.

Normandeau 9. Salt Lick & Lime Hair Design Inc. - a home-based hair salon business, to be located at 28 Newlands Avenue.

West Park 10. P. Hallman – a secondary suite with two bedrooms and a separate rear entrance, to be located at 5 Waghorn Close.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on October 16, 2015. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw.

Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8190.

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An occupational oxymoron GOOGLE’S DRIVERS OF DRIVERLESS CARS DO A JOB THAT MAY SOON BE OBSOLETE

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13 million new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus models sold in 3 days following launch Apple says it sold more than 13 million iPhone 6s and 6s Plus phones in the three days since its iPhone launch, topping last year’s early sales mark.

Apple sold 10 million IPhone 6 and 6 Plus models during their first weekend last year. This year’s results include sales in China which was included in the initial launch for the first time.

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Brian Torcellini, Google team leader of driving operations, right, poses for photos with vehicle safety specialists Rob Miller, top left, and Ryan Espinosa, next to a vehicle at a Google office in Mountain View, Calif. Google employs a few dozen “safety drivers” that grab the steering wheel or hit the brakes on a fleet of robot cars that Google’s engineers are programming to navigate the roads without human assistance. climbs into one of Google’s self-driving cars and pushes the button that activates the vehicle’s robotic controls.

“When you go scuba diving and take a moment to really think about it, you realize you are doing something that isn’t supposed to be humanly possible: you are breathing underwater,” Torcellini says. “It’s the same kind of feeling you get in one of these cars. It’s not supposed to be humanly possible.”

While the engineers who are programming the robot cars have technical backgrounds, most of the test drivers don’t.

Torcellini worked in a drug store warehouse while getting his degree in political science at San Diego State University. He dreamed of pursuing a career writing about surfing. He ended up at Google in 2009 after a friend who worked for the company suggested he interview for an opening on a then-secret project.

Espinosa, 27, was working in a bicycle shop before he was hired as a test driver two-and-half years ago. Steph-

anie Villegas, 28, was a swim instructor, knife sharpener and bond trader before becoming a test driver. Other test drivers are military veterans and former photographers. They all share at least one thing in common: spotless driving records.

Before they are entrusted with the cars, Google’s test drivers must complete three-week training courses. The drivers are taught to take control of the robot car whenever there is any moment of doubt or danger.

Google employs “dozens” of test drivers but won’t reveal the precise number. It’s likely around 100 because California law requires two test drivers per vehicle, and Google’s fleet currently consists of 25 pod-like cars and 23 Lexuses.

A few of those self-driving cars Google also recently began cruising around Austin, Texas, so a few of the test drivers are based there.

The crew consists of a mix of fulltime employees and contractors, some of whom are eventually hired by the

company.

The drivers who start off as contractors begin at $20 per hour with “many opportunities” for overtime when they log more than eight hours in a day or 40 hours in a week, according to Google’s recent help-wanted listings posted on Glassdoor.com. The drivers who become employees receive company stock options in addition to their salaries, though Google won’t disclose how much they are paid.

Besides having clean driving records, Google’s test drivers say the job requires a combination of good judgment, patience and fearlessness. The self-driving cars were in 16 accidents from May 2010 through August, but they are becoming more frequent as the vehicles spend more time on public roads. Half of the collisions have happened since February — a stretch when the self-driving cars were travelling an average of about 10,000 miles per week on public streets in autonomous mode. There have been no major injuries reported so far.

Apple said previously that preorders were so strong that it expected to surpass last year’s record.

PiperJaffray analyst Gene Munster said results came in at the high end of his expectations for sales of 12 million to 13 million. He estimates China added about 2 million in sales.

“Today’s news suggests the iPhone 6 cycle is off to a good start,” he wrote.

The new models have more memory and faster processors, along with a new 12 mega-pixel camera, and starts at $649. Apple and wireless service providers are also offering leasing and monthly installment plans.

Cupertino, California-based Apple Inc. says the phones will be available in 40 additional countries beginning Oct. 9.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — After a friend recommended that he join a secret Google project six years ago, Brian Torcellini suddenly found himself on the road to an occupational oxymoron. He became a driver in a driverless car.

Torcellini, 31, leads a crew of test, or “safety,” drivers who are legally required to ride in Google’s fleet of 48 robot cars. They only take control in emergencies. Otherwise, they make observations that help the Internet company’s engineers program the cars to navigate the roads without human assistance.

“A lot of people go to work and sit in a cubicle,” Torcellini says. “Our cube just happens to move around the roads. And if we are successful, we are going to put ourselves out of a job.”

The driverless cars already have logged more than 2 million miles in six years of sometimes tedious testing on private tracks, highways and city streets located mostly near Google’s Mountain View, California, headquarters.

The vehicles have travelled more than half that distance in automated mode, with one test driver in place to take control of the car if the technology fails or a potentially dangerous situation arises. Meanwhile, another driver sits in the front passenger seat typing notes about problems that need to be fixed and traffic scenarios that need to be studied.

“I don’t want to compare myself to an astronaut, but it kind of feels like that sometimes,” says Google test driver Ryan Espinosa while riding in an automated Lexus that recently took an Associated Press reporter on a 20-minute ride around town without requiring any human intervention.

If the technology advances as Google envisions, the only people sitting in driverless cars by 2020 will be passengers looking for an easier way to get around.

Even fewer test drivers will be working because the driverless cars will be completely autonomous, eliminating the need for the vehicles to be equipped with steering wheels or brake pedals. Everything will be controlled through a combination of sensors, lasers, software and intricate maps — a vision that could very well leave many of Google’s test drivers looking for a new line of work.

The job requires a sense of adventure, something Torcellini acquired when he began to surf in high school.

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THOMAS Ada Jean Dec. 27, 1928 - Sept. 24, 2015 It is with love and sorrow, that we announce the peaceful passing of Ada Jean Thomas, on September 24, 2015. She is celebrated by her son Keith Thomas, his wife Souad, and grandchildren Hisham, Yara and Rashad; her son Shane Thomas, his wife Korri, grandchildren Tina, Lacey (Kurt) and Chantel as well as her great grandchildren Hudson and Lincoln.

Please join us for coffee and sweets on Thursday October 8th at the Pioneer Lodge (4324 46A Avenue), between 1pm and 4pm to celebrate the life of this beloved woman.

GORSALITZ Myrna Joy 1938 - 2015 Myrna Joy Gorsalitz took her final journey on Sunday, September 27, 2015. She was 77 years young. Born in Gerald, Saskatchewan, Myrna became enamored with Robert Gorsalitz at a young age and stole his bachelor status from him on May 11, 1957. Between them they brought three new souls into the world: first their only daughter Michelle, followed

by Jason and then Stafford.

Together they embarked on their family adventure. Their travels took them across the globe to Germany for military service, before returning home to Canada. She left her mark in many places including Drinkwater, Calgary, Yellowknife, Pine Lake, Elnora, Tilley, Vernon, Hundred Mile House, Central Butte, and Benalto, to name a few. From Veterinarian Assistant to Bank Manager to Hotel Owner, Myrna expanded her resume by travelling with Robert across the country, cooking and catering to the hardworking diamond miners in the Northwest Territories and the laborers of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Later she managed a senior residence before settling on her last business enterprise as a Bed and Breakfast Operator.

Myrna had many talents and was active in many organizations, her favorite being the Royal Canadian Legion. Although she took this last trip on her own, she will be greeted by her dad, Albert Edward Upton, her mom Ida Rachel Upton, and her brother David all who have been waiting anxiously for her to visit them on the other side. She will be fondly remembered by her immediate family: her grandchildren, Caroline, Darbi, Reis, Matthew, and Logan; great grandchildren; numerous nieces and nephews; and by many friends she made wherever she and Robert settled.

Myrna chose not to have a service in her memory; her only wish was for her inner circle of family and friends to convene together and celebrate her life at a later date. If desired, Memorial Donations in Myrna’s honor may be made directly to the Canadian Cancer Society at 6751 52 Ave, Red Deer, AB T4N 4K9. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Ashley Paton, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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SIMS Harvey Paul July 2, 1923 - Sept. 28, 2015 With heavy hearts, yet with the sure hope of glory, we announce the passing of Harvey Sims. Harvey was born in Youngstown, Alberta to Oliver and Beda Sims. He was raised in several Alberta districts, including Hemaruka, Ferintosh, New Norway, and Camrose. In 1961 he married Ruth Smith, and farmed near Joffre, and the couple was blessed with two children, Laurel and Duane. In 1984 they relocated to a quarter section near Mirror, where Harvey spent his final years, passing into the presence of Jesus peacefully in his sleep.

Faith was everything to Harvey Sims. He was a faithful church member, as well as elder and Sunday School teacher at various times in Nazarene, Free Methodist, and Alliance churches.

Harvey was predeceased by an infant brother, Dennis, in 1940, and in later years by his mother and father, his sister Audrey, and brother Allan.

Harvey’s beloved grandchildren included Evan and Laurel Mansell’s daughters Paige and Sarah Mansell, and Duane (and Sheila’s) children Kevin Sims (wife Janice and children Selah, Balian, and Kestrel), Hannah Sims, Joel Sims, Tiffany (Brent) Lever, Michael Sims, and Natalie Kelbaugh. A Funeral Service for Harvey Sims will be held at Clive Baptist Church, Clive, Alberta on Friday, October 2nd at 11:30 a.m. A lunch will follow, and an afternoon Interment will take place at Highland Park Cemetery. The following is a note written by granddaughter Paige Mansell: “He taught me to ride, how to harness a horse, and how to work with what you have on hand.

He always did everything he could for us grandchildren. He shared stories that would anchor us all to the rich history that our family has. He loved his family and he loved his Lord.

Even though he grew up in the desperation of the 1930s and lived most of his adult life without half his fingers, he knew and declared that God is good. I cannot even fathom the hole that has just opened up in my life, but he left a legacy worth following.

We stand on the shoulders of giants. Miss you Grandpa.

Blessed be the name of the Lord.” To express condolences to Harvey’s family, please visit www.womboldfuneralhomes.com Arrangements Entrusted To BASHAW FUNERAL HOME ~ A Wombold Family Funeral Home ~

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LAUER Doris Mary 1935 - 2015 Doris passed away peacefully Monday, September 28, 2015 at the age of 80 years. Doris was predeceased by her mother Caroline; her father Peter and step-mother Martha; three brothers, Jack, Tommy and Bill. Doris leaves behind to cherish her memory her children, Diana (Mike) Lyons of Lacombe, AB, Darlene (Greg) Wallace of Aylmer, ON, Charlene (Troy Bakos) Donaghy of Lethbridge, AB, Trevor (Dalene) Persson of Calgary, AB, and Keith (Linda) Persson of Calgary, AB; seventeen grandchildren; twelve great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.

Doris is also survived by her sister-in-law Mary Dunbar in California. Doris was born in Fusilier, SK, grew up in Calgary and Altario, AB. She worked as a Nurse’s Aide in Fairview, Alberta where she met her former husband Lawrence Persson. They raised their family on an acreage just outside Red Deer, Alberta. Doris ran a successful tailor and alterations shop in Red Deer until her retirement. Doris was a member of the Catholic Women’s League at Sacred Heart Parish. In her retirement, Doris and her brother Jack enjoyed their reunion with their brother Bill Dunbar in California. For those who wish to pay their respects, visitation will take place on Saturday, October 3, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. at Sacred Heart Parish, 5508-48A Avenue, Red Deer, AB. A funeral service will follow at 11:00 a.m.

Family and friends are asked to join to celebrate Doris’s life. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Doris’s honor may be made directly to the Heart & Stroke Foundation or the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com.

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BATES Jean 1923 - 2015 Mrs. Jean Dorothy Bates of Red Deer, passed away peacefully at Villa Marie Covenant Care, Red Deer, Alberta on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at the age of 92 years. Jean will be lovingly remembered by her daughter, Sandra Peterson of Red Deer, her son, Lester Bates of Calgary, Alberta, and her two grandchildren, Ryan and Cory Peterson. She was predeceased by her husband, Neil Bates and a son, Gerald Bates.

Honoring Jean’s wishes, no funeral service will be held. If desired, Memorial Donations in Jean’s honor may be made directly to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta and N.W.T. at www.heartandstroke.ab.ca or to the Breast Cancer Society of Canada at www.bcsc.ca. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

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

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Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

RED DEER FOOD BANK Is hiring a WAREHOUSE ASSISTANT. The successful candidate must hold a current Alberta drivers license, work well in a team environment, be organized, be able to lift up to 23 kg, possess forklift knowledge, be knowledgeable in warehouse procedures and general facilities maintenance procedures, and be comfortable in an ever changing work force.

Please apply in person with resume at #12, 7429 49 Ave. Red Deer.

No phone calls please.

Employment Training

OCT. 3 & OCT. 4, 10-4.

67 Carter Cl. Downsizing.

Gardening, Indoor/outdoor furniture, tools, lots of everything.

Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Oriole Park COMPLETE HOUSEHOLD DISPERSAL, Oct. 2, 3 & 4 - 10-4. #5 ORILLIA PARK All reasonable offers will be accepted.

West Lake Garden Heights 43 GARRISON CIRCLE Oct. 2 & 3 Fri. 10-5, Sat. 10-4 Books, tools, sporting goods, misc. household...

97 WEDDELL CRES., Oct. 1, 2, & 3, 10 - 6, Halloween costumes, Christmas items, lots of misc. items & more.

West Park

Highland Green 91 WRIGHT AVE. Oct. 2, 3 & 4 FRI. Oct. 2, 2-5. DVD’s, Fri. to Sun.. 10 - 6 cassettes, albums, remote BLOW OUT SALE!! Tool gas car, cappuccino ma- boxes, tools, tires, camping, chines, total gym., various toys, bike, household.... items. #4 Halladay Ave. Out of Town

Normandeau 83 NYMAN CRES Oct. 1, 2 & 3 Thurs. Fri. Sat. 10 - 6 Everything Must Go! *******

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#519 -37543 ENGLAND WAY Waskasoo Estates Tools, motorcycle gear, plus size clothing, misc. housewares, table saw.

Oct. 2 & 3, 10-6.

900

MOTORCYCLE Jacket, black leather, size M. in good cond. $40.

403-346-6539 NURSES’ uniforms, pants & tops. med. to large size. $5 each. (approx. 25) good shape.

403-347-2526

Electronics

Wii w/10 games and dance mat $140; DS Lite w/4 games $60 403-782-3847

EquipmentMisc.

1620

PUMPS & PRESSURE SURPLUS EQUIPMENT LIQUIDATION AUCTION Sat. Oct. 3, 10 am 7018 Johnstone Dr. R. D. New/Used/Rebuilt

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

1640

Tools

VARIETY of miscellaneous tools, $20. For ALL. 403-885-5020

1660

Firewood

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce, Pine, Aspen - Split.

Avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

OILFIELD TICKETS

B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 FREE BLACK POPLAR logs. You pick up.

Very close to Red Deer.

403-392-8385.

Household Appliances

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Clothing

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COAT, MINK, Ladies gold, size Tall. $50.

403-346-6539

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10 cu. ft. upright deep freeze, $200.

403-346-4155

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

CARRIER SUPERVISOR

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SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

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Clothing

Household Furnishings

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2 BROWN wooden end tables $45/ea.

403-346-7825 DINING ROOM SET with 4 chairs & leaf, exc. shape. nice top with light wood around side, brass legs on chairs. $150 403-346-4155

Auctions

Household Furnishings

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DOUBLE/queen size heavy duty steel bed frame 72”L, adjust to 54-60-78” wide, 6 casters (2 locks) $40 403-346-6539

T- BAR back roll sports exercise equip. Asking $45 Please call 403-346-4263

TEAK wood coffee table 36” round, one of a kind, $40 403-347-3741 Morrisroe

TREADMILL

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1730

14” Citizen Tube tv w/DVD player $50; 27” Tube tv w/entertainment stand $50 403-782-3847

Misc. for Sale

1760

EPIC 425 MX Commercial grade.

New $1400. Asking $250.

SOLD

1900

Travel Packages

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

1930

Wanted To Buy

100 VHS movies, $75.

For All 403-885-5020 ELECTRIC skillet new in box $32; .7 microwave oven, new in box $35; oak top dining table w/leaf, 6 chairs $30; misc. end tables w/lamps $10/ea, accent table w/drawers, shelf, lamp $65 403-346-2192

FOLD-AWAY cot/table for exercising. Must be clean and in good condition.

403-346-5360 WANTED TO BUY 4 WHEELED ELECTRIC SCOOTER. 403-350-6589

ESTATE SALE - misc. items. 587-377-6988

WANTED TO BUY: old lead batteries for recycling 403-396-8629

FIREPLACE BUSINESS, Closing Out Sale

Items To Give Away

EVERYTHING MUST GO! All fireplace displays, including office furniture, also warehouse equipment, i.e. forklift.

Sat. Oct. 3 & Sun. Oct. 4.

10 am - ?

5215A - 54 Ave. Red Deer 403-588-9082 LOPI wood burning fireplace insert, glass doors, c/w elec. blower, $175 403-347-2452 leave msg. or email bambam11@shaw.ca ROOM heater for 1000 sq. ft. room, oak veneer casing, 14wx13dx18”h, remote control $175 403-347-7858 after 6 pm.

WINE making equipment from start to finish, comes with filter, corker, etc. $150.

Peter @ 403-746-3482.

Cats

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4 mos. old, all orange tabby M, free to good homes 403-782-3130

1530

1940

PICNIC table, wooden, 6 sided, 3 benches, good condition. Free.

403-346-4687

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

2 BDRM. lower floor, approx 1000 sq.ft. Shared Laundry. $650 + utils. 403-660-7094

WATER cooler $50.

403-885-5020

2 BDRM. main flr. Close to RDC & Hospital. $1100/mo./DD. utils. incl.

N/S, no pets. Avail. Oct. 1.

403-341-0156 885-2287 3 bdrm.. 1/2 duplex, South side. N/S, no pets.

Avail. Oct. 1. Rent & S.D. $1225 403-340-5050 FOR LEASE, Executive style 1/2 duplex in Lacombe on large lot.

4 bdrms., 3 bath, dble. garage, no pets, N/S. 403-588-2740 GULL LAKE HOUSE WITH LAKE VIEW 3 bdrm., 2 bth., fully furn. with dbl. att. garage and games room, hot tub, n/s, no pets, ref. req., $2,800/mo. plus util.

780-514-0129

The successful candidate will be responsible for the recruitment of carriers and the successful delivery of the Red Deer Express in Red Deer.

Condos/ Townhouses

The ideal candidate will have an outgoing personality, the ability to multi-task and good written and verbal communication skills.

Basic computer skills, a valid driver’s license, and use of a car and are required. Candidate must pass a vulnerable sector criminal records check.

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SEIBEL PROPERTY 6 locations in Red Deer, 3 bdrms, 1 1/2 bath, appls, starting at $1100. For more info 403-347-7545 or 403-304-7576 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

This is a full-time position, five days per week.

Please forward your resume to: Red Deer Express Attention: Debbie Reitmeier 2950 Bremner Avenue Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 dreitmeier@reddeeradvocate.com

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Sporting Goods

TABLE, 45” round, glass top bistro with 4 chairs. $70. 403-877-0825

Manufactured Homes

3040

2 BDRM. mobile, 5 appls., lrg. fenced yard, $1050/mo. incl water. 403-872-2532

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Clearview Ridge

GED Preparation

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

880

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

880

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Help

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3050

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

880

ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $975/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. Nov. 1.

403-304-5337

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NORMANDEAU 2 Bdrm. 4-plex. 1.5 bath, 4 appls. $1050. No pets, N/S Quiet adults. 403-350-1717

Excellent Salary with Benefits CARPET CLEANING TECHNICIAN

EquipmentMisc.

Become a sought-after professional in the art and science of carpet & upholstery and all-surface cleaning! Work Monday to Friday during the day, with some evenings and Saturdays.

We’re looking for someone with: • A commitment to excellence • Good communication skills • Good physical fitness • Mechanical aptitude • Good hand/eye coordination

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Salary and Benefits based on skill set and experience

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• C Flange • Single Phase • Three Phase

7018 Johnstone Drive, Red Deer www.pumpsandpressure.com 403-347-9770 | 1-888-430-9359 577698H4-28

Drop off or mail resume + driver’s abstract to MancusoCleaning #8-7428-49 Ave Red Deer, T4P 1M2 www.mancusocleaning.com

EDMONTON 780-430-9359

CALGARY 403-263-7207

LEDUC 780-980-9294

GRANDE PRAIRIE 780-539-9939

SASKATOON 306-242-6622

BRANDON 204-728-9303

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BURNABY 604-434-2188

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4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

Suites

3060

Suites

3060

2 BDRM. bsmt suite. $900/mo. 403-348-1304 2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $875 rent/d.d.

403-346-1458 ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., ADULT ONLY BLDG, no pets, Oriole Park. 403-986-6889 AVAIL. IMMED. large 2 bdrm. in clean quiet adult building, near downtown Co-Op, no pets, 403-348-7445

CITY VIEW APTS.

NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 3 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, inÁoor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

VANIER WOODS NOW OPEN

Brand new rental community.

Reserve now for your choice of suite!

1&2 BDRMs from $1170.

In-suite laundry. Dishwasher.

Balcony. Pet friendly.

GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm.

Elevator. Parking avail. apartments, avail. immed, Gym. Community garden. rent $875 403-596-6000 Non-smoking. On-site mgmt.

LARGE 2 bdrm. suite 39 Van Slyke Way, Red Deer w/balcony, $895/mo.

403.392.6751 inclds. most utils.

VanierWoodsApartments.ca 403-314-0209

LIMITED TIME OFFER: First month’s rent FREE! 1 & 2 Bedroom suites available. Renovated suites in central location.

Cat friendly. leasing@ rentmidwest.com 1(888)679-8031

Cottage/ Seasonal

3070

SNOW BIRD? Fully furn. well equipped Park Model in clean, gated community outside Phoenix, AZ. Renting due to health issues. 403-340-9677 email phil@phillippeters.com

MORRISROE MANOR

Rooms For Rent

1 & 2 bdrm., Adult bldg. only, N/S, No pets. 403-596-2444

3090

AVAIL Immed: 1 Lrg fully furn bdrm c/w gas Àreplace - $275 dd $550/mo..

Call 403-396-2468

TO ORDER COZY Furnished room, n/s, $525. 403-466-7979 HOME ROOM in quiet home.

DELIVERY OF N/S, no drinking, working F. Avail. Sept. 30. $480 + THE $300 d.d. 403-309-4155 ADVOCATE Celebrate your life CALL OUR with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Warehouse 403-314-4300 Space

3140

FOR LEASE

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

Houses For Sale

4020

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

SYLVAN: 4 fully furn. units avail. OCT 1. $1200 to $1400 inclds. utils., details 403-880-0210.

Clean, quiet, newly reno’d adult building. Rent $900 S.D. $800. Avail. Oct. 15.

Near hospital. No pets.

403-318-3679

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

3190

MOBILE home lot for rent, at Joffre, $350/mo. + tax.

Incl. water, sewer & garbage. 403-885-4265

GLENDALE 2 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $975. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail. now or Nov. 1 403-304-5337

Mobile Lot

Riverside Light Industrial 4614-61 St. (directly behind Windsor Plywood) 2400 sq. ft. large 55 x 85 compound 403-350-1777 OFFICE 2372 sq ft. plus 4381 sq. ft. warehouse Burnt Lake Industrial Park 403-588-7120

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RISER HOMES FALL SPECIAL(1)BLACKFALDS 1200 sq. ft. bi-level walkout 3 bdrm. 2 bath, open Áoor plan, Àreplace $339,000 Legal fees, GST, sod, tree and appls. incld.

LLOYD FIDDLER 403-391-9294

homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

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Cars

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HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

2006 BUICK Lucerne CXL 117,000 kms, n/s, all opCall GORD ING at tions, winter & summer RE/MAX real estate tires on wheels, $6800 obo central alberta 403-341-9995 403-350-8893 gord.ing@remax.net 1980 LINCOLN Towne car TOO MUCH STUFF? $5000 obo 403-507-5682 Let Classifieds 1974 CADILLAC Fleethelp you sell it. wood limo 500 cu. inch, loaded, black, fresh inspect 403-391-8385

Houses For Sale

4020

“COMING SOON” BY

SERGE’S HOMES Duplex in Red Deer Close to Schools and Recreation Center. For More Info Call Bob 403-505-8050

RISER HOMES 1 ONLY! Must See! Blackfalds Bungalow walkout backing onto valley view. A must see. This 2 bdrm. 2 bath has many upgrades.

This weekend only $399,000. GST, legal fees and 4 appl. package included. LLOYD FIDDLER 403-391-9294

SUV's

5040

2012 ACURA MDX 1 owner, no GST, tech pkg, navigation, 80,000 kms, 7 pass., 403-341-4260 403-598-4260

2007 DODGE Nitro 4x4, SLT V6, auto., loaded w/sunroof, low kms., CLEAN... Priced to Buy Call 403-318-3040

Trucks

5050

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to For delivery of Flyers, find the purrfect pet.

Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK 2007 FORD Ranger Level II CLEARVIEW RIDGE 6 cyl., auto, 4x4, loaded.

Clean... Priced to Buy CLEARVIEW Call 403-318-3040 TIMBERSTONE LANCASTER VANIER ATV's WOODLEA/ 2002 660 Grizzly $3500 WASKASOO obo 403-507-5682 DEER PARK Tour These Fine Homes GRANDVIEW Tires, Parts EASTVIEW Acces.

MICHENER CLASSIFIED City 4 SUMMER TIRES .

MOUNTVIEW AD DEADLINE 205-70R15 with Alessio Centre ROSEDALE sports rims , plus 1 brand new spare tire w/rim.

NEWLY reno’d 2 storey GARDEN HEIGHTS Rims could also be put on townhouse w/garage. No MORRISROE winter tires. $200 for all Each Day For condo fees. 4 appls, centra

Open House

5150

Directory

4240

vac. Great location. Open House Sat. Oct.3, 2-4.

Oct. 4, 1-3. 4315-46A Ave. (Parkvale)

Call Prodie at 403-314-4301

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

Call Rhonda at 403-314-4306

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For early morning delivery by 6:30 am Mon. - Sat. INGLEWOOD ORIOLE PARK ANDERS Call Joanne at 403- 314-4308

CARRIERS NEEDED

Call Rick at 403- 314-4303

5 P.M.

The Next Day’s Paper CALL 309-3300

Please call 403-346-4263

BRAND new P265/75R/16 Firestone Wilderness AT on rim $80 403-358-5568

The Red Deer Advocate has an opening for a results oriented, junior sales professionals to join our team.

With unlimited earning potential, the candidate will contribute to the success of Black Press by growing our business, maximizing revenue streams with existing and potential clients.

Responsibilities: Apply a consultative audience based selling approach.

Maintain and build a group of client accounts on a proactive basis.

Achieve and exceed planned annual revenue targets.

Focus of time to increasing existing business and/or bringing new clients into their portfolio; consistently seek out new revenue opportunities with existing and new customers.

Competencies: Strong time management skills, well-organized, effectively managing multiple demands, prioritized against key business objectives with tight deadlines.

An energetic self-starter with a drive to succeed and grow new business.

Excellent communication, presentation and negotiating skills.

Tenacious, persistent with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Qualifications: Experience in sales environment preferred.

Proven ability to sustain and grow business and revenue.

Post-secondary education in Marketing, Sales or another related discipline.

Valid Driver’s License; personal vehicle in good working order required.

If you have the passion to succeed and enjoy selling in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment, submit your resume along with a compelling cover letter no later than October 15, 2015 to: Wendy Moore, Advertising Manager wmoore@reddeeradvocate.com We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only selected candidates will be contacted. No phone calls please.

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Sales/Junior Advertising Consultant

For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK ANDERS BOWER HIGHLAND GREEN INGLEWOOD JOHNSTONE KENTWOOD RIVERSIDE MEADOWS PINES SUNNYBROOK SOUTHBROOKE WEST LAKE WEST PARK

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this photo provided by the Philippine National Police Basilan, a vehicle damaged by a powerful bomb explosion lies along a road in Basilan, southern Philippines on Thursday.

Bomb hits convoy

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MANILA, Philippines — A powerful bomb hidden in a parked motorcycle taxi exploded and hit the passing convoy of a vice mayor in the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing four people and wounding at least six others, the police and military said.

The blast happened about an hour after a bomb blew up on a crowded passenger bus some 300 kilometres (190 miles) to the west, injuring at least 18 people in the town of Polomolok, officials said.

No group claimed responsibility for either attack. Col. Rolando Joselito Bautista, the military commander in Basilan province, where the second blast occurred, said Abu Sayyaf militants were among the initial suspects in that attack because of their history of deadly bombings in the area, where the al-Qaida-linked group first surfaced in the 1990s.

The roadside bomb struck the two-vehicle convoy of Isabela city Vice Mayor Abdulbaki Ajibon, killing her driver and another passenger, and two pedestrians, said Bautista.

Ajibon was uninjured, although her SUV was badly damaged.

“The vice mayor was shocked but she’s safe. Two of her people died in this attack,” Isabela police chief Supt. Albert Larubis told The Associated Press by telephone.

The bomb was packed with shrapnel and shattered the glass of nearby buildings, he said. It occurred in

front of the house of Mayor Cherrylyn Santos-Akbar, who was not home, he said. Three years ago, a roadside bomb exploded as Ajibon’s convoy was passing in the same area that was hit by Thursday’s bombing, although no one was killed or wounded in that past attack, police said.

Ajibon was reportedly aspiring for a higher office in next year’s elections and investigators were also trying to determine if the attack had something to do with the often-violent political rivalries in the south.

The earlier bomb on the bus appeared to have been placed in the overhead baggage bin, officials said.

The injured were rushed to nearby hospitals in General Santos city, in South Cotabato province. They included a 9-year-old girl with a serious head wound, according to emergency ward nurse Gina Loren.

Past bombings of passenger buses in the south have been blamed on Muslim insurgents and criminal gangs.

The Abu Sayyaf has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United Nations and the Philippines for deadly bombings, extortion, kidnappings for ransom and beheadings. It’s one of at least four Muslim rebel groups outside of a peace deal the government signed with the largest insurgent group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, last year in the hope of peacefully settling a decades-old separatist rebellion by minority Muslims in the south of the largely Catholic nation.

ADULT RESIDENTIAL SUPERVISOR 1 YEAR TERM Parkland CLASS is currently seeking an Adult Residential Supervisor to manage the overall program delivery for 3 individuals with developmental disabilities living in a residential home. Responsibilities include: providing direct care, participating in the development & implementation of personalized plans, training, supervising a team of approximately 5-12 employees & budget management. Hours of work are 40 hrs. / wk., primarily days, Mon-Fri; however, you will be required to work some evenings and weekends.

Qualifications: A Degree/Diploma in Human Services, Social work or a related field.

Preferably, you will have 3–5 years of experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities, as well as, excellent interpersonal, team building and leadership skills. Experience responding to behaviours of concern, assisting with personal care and/or working with medically fragile individuals would be ideal.

Salary: $4,004.15 - $4,073.49 A valid class 5 driver’s license and your own transportation are required.

We offer an RRSP Plan, a Group Benefit Plan, a Health & Wellness Plan and an Employee Assistance Plan after 3 months of employment.

We look forward to hearing from you; please forward your resume by October 8, 2015 quoting competition # 5364SUP to: Parkland CLASS Human Resources, 6010-45th Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 3M4 Fax: 403-986-2404 email: hr@pclass.org We thank all applicants but only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Competition will remain open until all positions are filled.

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1991 — Blue Jays clinch American League East title and become first team in sports history to draw four million fans in one season.

1973 — Gas main ruptures near Red Deer

Lake, forcing evacuation of 500 people from three Alberta towns.

1958 — Guinea, the French colony in West Africa, proclaimed its independence.

1944 — The Nazis crushed the Warsaw Uprising.

1925 —Scottish inventor John Logie Baird completed the first transmission of moving images.

1895 — Ottawa sets up northern districts of Yukon, Ungava, Mackenzie, and Franklin, under the administrative control of the north West Territories government at Regina.

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Russia defends its military action CLAIMS IT SEES â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;EYE-TO-EYEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; WITH U.S. ON TERRORIST TARGETS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Prosecutors say U.S. man killed 3 people because they wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t move out SALT LAKE CITY â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A man told police he shot three people staying at his house, including a baby, because they wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t move out, prosecutors said Thursday.

Alexander Hung Tran, 32, was charged Thursday with three counts of aggravated murder. The bodies were found Sept. 18 after one victimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 8-year-old grandson wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t picked up from school.

Tran had been living in the basement of the house that his mother bought for him, and the three victims were living on the main floor, police said. When she found out the he was letting people stay there, she asked for them move out.

Tran told her that they wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave but called a few days later â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the day of the deaths â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and reported they were gone, prosecutors wrote in charging documents.

Oklahoma asks to delay scheduled executions MCALESTER, Okla. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Oklahomaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attorney general on Thursday asked a court to delay all scheduled executions while the state reviews how it received the wrong drug as it prepared to lethally inject an inmate.

Attorney General Scott Pruitt said Oklahoma needed time to sort out why its Department of Corrections received a shipment of potassium acetate in-

SYRIA

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this image made from video provided by Hadi Al-Abdallah, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, smoke rises after airstrikes in Kafr Nabel of the Idlib province, western Syria, Thursday. Russian jets carried out a second day of airstrikes in Syria Thursday, but there were conflicting claims about whether they were targeting Islamic State and al-Qaeda militants or trying to shore up the defenses of President Bashar Assad. ida-linked Jabbat al-Nusra and other groups. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would recall that we always were saying that we are going to fight ISIL and other terrorist groups,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the same position which the Americans are taking. The representatives of the coalition command have always been saying that their targets are ISIL, al-Nusra and other terrorist groups. This is basically our position as well. We see eye-to-eye with the coalition on this one.â&#x20AC;?

Lavrov added: â&#x20AC;&#x153;If it looks like a terrorist, if it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a terrorist, right?â&#x20AC;?

Asked if he agreed with Lavrov, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, in concept.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;What is important is Russia has to not be engaged in any activities against anybody but ISIL,â&#x20AC;? Kerry said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clear. We have made that very clear.â&#x20AC;?

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stead of potassium chloride for Richard Glossipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s execution that was to occur Wednesday. Pruittâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s request to the state Court of Criminal Appeals came hours after Gov. Mary Fallin said she was confident the state could resolve its problems in time for an execution set for next week.

Pruitt asked for an indefinite stay.

The next scheduled execution is Benjamin Coleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on Oct. 7, followed by John Marion Grantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on Oct. 28. Glossipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s execution was rescheduled for Nov. 6.

Burkina Fasoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coup leader now in custody, defence ministry says OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The military general in Burkina Faso who took power in a recent short-lived coup is now in custody, the West African nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defence minister said Thursday.

Gen. Gilbert Diendere, who stepped down after about a week in power, was handed over to the gendarmerie, said defence ministry spokesman Boureima Ouedraogo.

Diendere, who led the September coup, had sought refuge at the Vatican Embassy after the army on Tuesday opened fire on his supporters in the presidential guard to force them to disarm, a person who works closely with the clergy said. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have permission to speak to journalists.

Diendere had called on his supporters in the presidential guard to lay down their arms as they were supposed to disarm as part of the peace deal. He told The Associated Press that he was willing to surrender to authorities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am willing to turn myself over to face justice,â&#x20AC;? he said Wednesday.

acknowledged to reporters that, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Of course the goal is to help the Syrian army where it is weakest. Yes, that is right. The weak points are where the Syrian army is fighting against IS and other terrorist groups.â&#x20AC;?

As concerns grew about a conflict that has now drawn in warplanes from the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two most powerful militaries, Russian President Vladimir Putin denied reports that civilians were killed in any Russian airstrikes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are ready for such information attacks,â&#x20AC;? he said in a live broadcast from the Kremlin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first reports of civilian casualties came even before our jets took off.â&#x20AC;?

Lt. Gen. Robert Otto, deputy chief of staff for intelligence and surveillance for the Air Force, said the Russians have been dropping â&#x20AC;&#x153;dumb bombsâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; munitions that are not precision-guided. The use of such indiscriminate targeting could lead to the deaths of innocent civilians, he said, and create more terrorists than they kill.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ELEUTHERA, Bahamas â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Hurricane Joaquin unleased heavy flooding as it roared through sparsely populated islands in the eastern Bahamas on Thursday as a Category 4 storm, with forecasters warning it could grow even stronger before carving a path that would take it near the U.S. East Coast.

The storm battered trees and buildings as surging waters reached the windows of some homes on Long Island in the Bahamas and completely inundated the airport runway at Ragged Island. There were no immediate reports of casualties, according to Capt. Stephen Russell, the director of the Bahamas National Emergency Management Agency.

Prime Minister Perry Christie said he was amending laws to mandate evacuations because some people were refusing to move into shelters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do not know the impact of 140 miles an hour on those areas,â&#x20AC;? he said, referring to the hurricaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s winds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a horrific kind of expeTS ON TICKE

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The billionaire businessman, who remains a longshot for the White House, said Wednesday during an hour-long speech that included several profanities that he was worried the refugees, who have been fleeing Syria after years of civil war, could be Islamic State militants looking to get into the U.S. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m putting the people on notice that are coming here from Syria as part of this mass migration. If I win, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going back,â&#x20AC;?

Trump said during a campaign stop in New Hampshire. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going back. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m telling you.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going back.â&#x20AC;?

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at least one thing that would stand in his way: U.S. immigration laws.

Refugees are awarded legal immigration status as soon as they arrive and granted work permits shortly thereafter. Within one year, they are eligible and must apply to become a legal permanent resident.

To send them home, a Trump administration would have to strip the refugees of the legal status that allowed them to travel to the U.S. That would require either a change in the conditions in Syria or evidence that immigrants werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t actually qualified to be refugees in the first place.

Even then, under federal regulations, any refugee would be allowed to protest such efforts in a process that could take at least one month.

The Obama administration said it intends to accept about 10,000 Syrian refugees and increase the overall number of refugees allowed into the U.S. from around the world to 85,000 in the next 12 months. That total would increase to 100,000 by 2017.

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The claim of agreement with Washington came amid conflicting reports about Russiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intentions in Syria and whether it is targeting only Islamic State and al-Qaida-linked militants.

The U.S. and its allies fear that Russia, which has backed the family of President Bashar Assad since the current leaderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father was in power, is using the air campaign as a pretext to go after anti-Assad rebels that include CIA-backed groups.

Russian jets appeared to be primarily bombing central and northwestern Syria, strategic regions that are the gateway to Assadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strongholds in the capital of Damascus and the coast.

Warplanes hit locations of a U.S.backed rebel group, Tajamu Alezzah, in the central province of Hama, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It added that Tajamu Alezzah also was targeted a day earlier.

Idlib province appeared to bear the brunt of the attacks, activists said. The province is controlled by a coalition of rebel groups that includes the al-Qaida-linked Jabbat al-Nusra.

In Syriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chaotic civil war and rapidly shifting battlefield terrain, however, it can be difficult to distinguish which groups holds what territory.

On Wednesday, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Russian warplanes â&#x20AC;&#x153;didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hit Islamic State,â&#x20AC;? and U.S. Defence Secretary Ash Carter had also said the Russians appeared to have targeted areas that did not include IS militants.

Speaking Thursday at the United Nations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejected suggestions that the airstrikes were meant to shore up support for Moscowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main ally in the Middle East.

He insisted Russia was targeting the same militant groups as the U.S.led coalition, which is conducting its own airstrikes in Syria: the Islamic State, also known as ISIL, the al-Qa-

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Spendthrift parents becoming a burden Dear Annie: My husband and I are in our late 50s and have been married for 26 years. I have had the privilege of not needing to hold an outside job since I married, allowing me to be a stay-at-home mom and raise our kids, who are now grown and out of the house.

My husband and I have always been careful with our money, eating out perhaps once a month. We are easily entertained at home. His parents, who have now passed on, lived like paupers. However, upon their passing, they were able to distribute a lot of their wealth to their two sons and five grandkids. The money allowed us to pay off our mortgage and buy some stocks.

My parents, on the other hand, have blown through retirement payouts and the reverse mortgage they took out on their home. My mom has always demanded the best, whether it is fine linens or a pair of jeans. It is beneath

her to shop at a discount store.

I now face their failing health and am angry about their poor financial planning. Whatever extra money my husband and I have came from his parents’ estate, and I MITCHELL agree with him & SUGAR that this money should not ANNIE be spent on my parents.

Am I a bad daughter not to help them financially? They dug their own hole. My dad won’t even file the paperwork for being a veteran. Having them live with us when their money runs out is not an option. My mother has tried to make

me feel guilty saying, “Well, I got a job to provide for MY mother.” Her other saying is “The Lord will provide.” I think the Lord will provide a state-run nursing home. What do you say? — Not My Parents’ Savior Dear Not: You do not have to use your in-laws’ money to provide for your profligate parents. Nonetheless, that doesn’t mean you should abandon them altogether.

If Dad needs help (or encouragement) to fill out forms, surely you can do that for him. You might also offer financial advice, helping them take steps to put away any remaining income. But you are fortunate that there are facilities that will accept and care for your parents when they are infirm and run out of money, and you can visit often.

Dear Annie: I have a friend who, after using her dinner knife to cut salad or other items with dressing, sauce, gravy, etc., wipes the knife with her

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Vet offices offer music to reduce barking, animal stress LOS ANGELES — Can music tame the savage beast? Can it hush puppies and calm kitties?

A veterinarian thinks so. Dr. Pamela Fisher has put music in over 1,100 animal shelters, saying that it calms dogs and cats, and even cuts down on barking.

Fisher started the non-profit Rescue Animal MP3 Project nearly four years ago by asking artists around the world to donate dog- and cat-friendly music. The result was MP3 players packed with 30 hours of classics, including music by Beethoven, Mozart and Chopin, nursery rhymes like “Three Blind Mice” and harps, pianos and violins mimicking ocean waves and gentle breezes. She gives them free to animal shelters, sanctuaries and spay-and-neuter clinics.

“I have used therapeutic music in my practice and wanted to figure out a way to help the shelter animals in my own community,” said Fisher, a holistic veterinarian whose practice in North Canton, Ohio, includes alternative approaches like aromatherapy.

Her “community” has grown to include shelters in all 50 states that house over 115,000 dogs and cats.

One fan is Tina Gunther, vet tech at the Cut Bank Animal Shelter near Cut Bank, Montana, and its sole volunteer (there are no paid employees). Winter temperatures at the rural shelter for six dogs and six cats routinely run well below zero, and “the wind blows nearly every day. We call them black blizzards — the top soil is just blown away,” Gunther said.

To calm the animals, Gunther tried the radio.

Besides hit-and-miss reception, the news and sports had people yelling and disturbing sound bites. Then the project MP3 player was installed for the dogs on one side. “The difference has been dramatic,” she said.

She and her husband had to buy a second player for the cats.

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HOROSCOPES Friday, Oct.2 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Don McLean, 69; Sting, 63; Annie Leibovitz, 69 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today’s stars favour being careful and creative.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You have a natural charm that is hard to resist. 2016 is the year to hand other people the controls occasionally, so you have more time to concentrate on individual projects.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): It could feel like “Everybody wants a piece of me!” Resist the pressure to be all things to all people. You’ve got plenty on your plate today, so put your head down and get on with it.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’re keen to discuss and dissect serious topics today Taurus. But, when it comes to matters of the heart, strive to be generous rather than jealous, and passionate rather than possessive.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Geminis often have a superficial knowledge about a lot of different things.

When it comes to a child, teenager or friend, make sure you have all the relevant information before you respond.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Expect complicated communication with a family member today Crabs, as you exchange complex information. Just make sure you donít get your wires crossed in the process!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Romance, research and local community projects are all highlighted today Lions. With Venus visiting your sign ñ until October 9 — you have the power to charm and persuade others.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When dealing with other people, have your wits about you today Virgo. They will say one thing — but may mean something completely different. If in doubt then donít hesitate to double-check.

mouth. I have seen her do this in fine restaurants and I cringe every time.

How can I tell her how crude this is without offending her? — Anonymous, Please Dear Anonymous: Correcting another adult’s manners is problematic.

Being able to do so without offense depends upon your friend’s sense of humor and willingness to accept criticism. You can say, “Judy, aren’t you afraid you will cut your tongue doing that? Please stop, for my sake.

I cringe every time for fear there will be blood.” But if you don’t think she will be amenable, we recommend you grit your teeth and ignore it as best you can.

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.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Attached Librans — be careful that you and your partner don’t start heading off in separate directions. Singles — look for lasting love with an amorous Aries or an adventurous Aquarian.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Be diligent when dealing with finances — there may be less in the kitty than you think.

Saturn encourages you to become more financially literJOANNE MADELINE ate, as you study and learn MOORE more about money.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22SUN SIGNS Dec. 21): When the Moon’s in Gemini it brings out your childlike Sagittarian side — but you can also be childish. By all means have fun today, but don’t forget your responsibilities along the way.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Are other people being stubborn and intolerant? Hang on— is that the perfect description of you at the moment? Strive to be powerfully persuasive, rather than compulsively controlling.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When it comes to a child, teenager or close friend, make sure you verify what they are saying. They may be — intentionally or unintentionally — only telling you half the story.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A spot of delicious daydreaming is fine but don’t let it slip into the realm of dangerous delusions.

Make sure you keep your ideas — and expectations — grounded in reality Pisces.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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