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Seniors issues top forum agenda

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF After opening statements focusing specifically on seniors issue, the forum at the Golden Circle Senior’s Centre quickly changed gears to broader election issues.

Seven of the 10 candidates in both Red Deer-Lacombe and Red Deer-Mountain View attended Tuesday’s forum at the seniors centre in downtown Red Deer. The forum was hosted by the Central Alberta Council on Aging.

Before opening the floor to questions, the candidates were given five minutes to touch on several seniors issues including dementia care, seniors housing, a national senior strategy, a national pharmacare program, assisted death legislation, a health-care accord and seniors home care.

Conservative candidates Blaine Calkins, Red Deer-Lacombe, and Earl Dreeshen, Red Deer-Mountain View, touted Brain Canada and the $100 million of funding over six years the government provided. They said the non-profit is doing work related to dementia research. Calkins said the party has promised another $100 million if elected.

Jeff Rock, Liberal Red Deer-Lacombe, and Doug Hart, NDP Red Deer-Lacombe, talked about the importance of first minister meetings.

Calkins said the federal minister of health would have to work with the provinces towards bulk buying of pharmaceuticals. He said this was the best way to get value for health-care dollars.

Hart pointed out that since Prime Minister Stephen Harper was elected, he has held only two meetings with the first ministers of the provinces.

None of which focused on seniors care, health care or social issues.

Paul Harris, NDP Red Deer-Mountain View, said municipalities needed to be involved in the pharmacare discussion. He spent much of the forum drawing on his experience as a Red Deer city councilor.

It was during the pharmacare discussion that the issue of the Trans Pacific Partnership was raised, with only Hart touching on it and saying it could impact the cost of pharmaceuticals.

The yet to be ratified trade agreement was finalized on Monday.

The health accord, in effect from 2004-14 was a hot topic. Over those 10 years, the federal government provided six per cent increases to health care funding to the provinces. Calkins trumpeted the Conservatives work to tie the increase to economic growth instead of an “unsustainable” six per cent. Dreeshen said the six per cent was to make up for the Liberals cuts in the 1990s.

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From the left, Cayley Jacobsen, MacKenzie Dulc, Ceanna Feldberg, Alyssa Huston and Kaitlyn Fleury found themselves covered in powdered dye as they took part in the Lindsay Thurber DYEversity Relay on Tuesday. The DYEversity Relay was all in the name of celebrating and promoting diversity. During the event participants were encouraged to walk and run the track, play a variety of games, and take in the live entertainment on the stage near the track and repeatedly run a gauntlet of dye-flinging volunteers.

NDP blaming Tories for major delay in school construction

City composting program honoured

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Alberta’s education minister says it’s not the NDP government’s fault that there will be a major delay in completing new schools and modernizing others.

Dave Eggen told a news conference in Calgary that about 100 projects which were to be completed starting next September are behind schedule.

He said the delays range from a few months to a full year.

The minister said the blame should be squarely focused on the former Progressive Conservative government which was defeated in last May’s election.

“People have been asking about where’s the skeletons from the previous government? This is a big one,” Eggen said Tuesday.

He is asking the province’s auditor general to investigate.

“The former government failed to set out realistic construction timelines and pushed project timelines through without long-term planning to keep them and make sure they would bear out to fruition,” he said.

“As a result, at a time when Alberta was growing rapidly, the previous

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‘PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASKING ABOUT WHERE’S THE SKELETONS FROM THE PREVIOUS GOVERNMENT? THIS IS A BIG ONE.’

government did not build a sufficient supply of schools to meet the needs of children.”

The former PC government said the province would spend $5 billion to build or upgrade 230 schools. It promised in 2012 to build 50 new schools and modernize 70 more by 2016.

Then-premier Jim Prentice added 56 new schools and 21 more modernizations to be completed by 2018.

“We saw this shell game going on for months, or even years, where there was a sign with a picture of a school but no school,” Eggen said. “I’ve asked the auditor general to look into what has happened with these school projects and why there are so many that are so far behind and to give us advice on how to do better in the future.”

The City of Red Deer’s Composting at Home program earned top honours at a waste reduction conference in Banff last week.

The city received the 2015 Social Marketing Award from the Recycling Council of Alberta (RCA). The awards recognize outstanding contributions to waste reduction, recycling and resource conservation in Alberta.

The Composting at Home Program gives participants the tools and training they need to start backyard composting, in exchange for a commitment to compost for one year. Since the program launch in 2012, 839 households have committed to composting with approximately 72 per cent of households maintaining their composting practices one year later.

“We are so proud of this accomplishment,” said Lauren Maris, Environmental Program Specialist. “Not just of our team that has helped to promote the composting program, but also of our residents who have embraced composting and are putting in the time and effort to make it an ongoing practice.”

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— DAVE EGGEN EDUCATION MINISTER

Big win for small science A professor emeritus is a co-winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on tiny particles known as neutrinos.

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Quebec company looks at setting up cigarette plant in Alberta EDMONTON — A company registered on a Mohawk reserve in Quebec says it is looking at setting up a cigarette manufacturing plant in southern Alberta.

Representatives of Four Winds Tobacco Products Inc. appeared before Newell County council last month about a possible location in Brooks, about 190 kilometres southeast of Calgary.

Tom O’Connell, a company consultant, said Four Winds wants to produce cigarettes for export and for three wholesalers in Ontario.

There is no immediate plan to sell in Alberta, but Four Winds may eventually try to market cigarettes on First Nations reserves in Western Canada, he said.

“If it is sold on First Nation reserves, we will only sell to registered wholesalers with the Canadian government,” O’Connell said.

“And those cigarettes cannot be sold outside of the reserves. They are strictly for sale on the reserves.”

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Corky the sea otter pulls through historic operation in Vancouver VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Aquarium say veterinarians have made medical history by removing a kidney and performing a blood transfusion on a sick sea otter.

Corky the sea otter was suffering from a fractured rib and other injuries when he was rescued in August near Tofino, B.C. He was brought to Vancouver, where tests showed one of his kidney had likely ruptured.

Since the aquarium’s head veterinarian was away, officials called in surgical assistance from Seattle.

The aquarium says the veterinary team performed what’s believed to be the first kidney removal and transfusion on a sea otter.

Corky’s prognosis is now guarded, as he is critical condition and under 24-hour care.

Montreal asked to suspend dumping of 8 billion litres of sewage into river

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FORUM: More to come Both Conservative incumbents said they were proud Alberta MPs, all but one of whom are Conservative, had worked to bring an extra $1 billion in funding through transfers.

Aging in place, or homecare, was an issue both Liberal candidates spoke about. Chandra Kastern, Liberal Red Deer-Mountain View, touted her party’s plan to open up the Employee Insurance program and allow people to care for their elderly family members.

Taking a more philosophical approach to his comments, James Walper, Libertarian Red Deer-Mountain View, focused on his party’s message of less government, lower taxes and more decisions made at the local or personal level.

Outside of the topics directed by the Central Alberta Council on Aging, there was animated discussions on the role of the CBC and its government funding. Calkins said the government is returning funding to what it was before 2008 when the government ran stimulus deficits.

Candidates including Rock, Harris, Kastern and Hart all talked about the importance of preserving the CBC and its influence on Canadian arts, culture and identity. Calkins invoked the image of former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi in his comments. Ghomeshi recently pleaded not guilty to four charges of sexual assault and one count of choking.

Green Party candidates Les Kuzyk, Red Deer-Lacombe, and Simon Oleny, Red Deer Mountain-View, and Pirate Party candidate Scott Milne were all absent from Tuesday’s forum.

Two more forums are scheduled to occur at the

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billion litres of sewage into the St. Lawrence River.

Federal Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq said in a statement today she wants more time to study the environmental impacts of releasing the waste into the water.

Montreal plans to dump the untreated wastewater into the river between Oct. 18 and 25.

City officials say they have to release the sewage into the St. Lawrence because roadworks will temporarily shut down a nearby treatment facility and there is no other place for the waste to go.

Aglukkaq said she has asked her department to explore the options it has to prevent the city from releasing the sewage into the St. Lawrence.

The plan is controversial and a petition to stop it has so far collected 70,000 signatures.

Nova Scotia man’s double murder trial hears from gunman

MONTREAL -- The federal government is asking the City of Montreal to suspend plans to dump eight

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The Vancouver Aquarium say veterinarians have made medical history by removing a kidney and performing a blood transfusion on a sick sea otter. Corky the sea otter, shown on the operating table in this undated handout image, was suffering from a fractured rib and other injuries when he was rescued in August near Tofino, B.C.

Red Deer Public Library’s downtown branch, 4818 49th St., starting at 6:30 p.m. Red Deer-Mountain View is first up on Wednesday and Red Deer-Lacombe will take place on Thursday.

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SCHOOLS: NDP’s mess to clean up The auditor general is expected to report back before the end of the year.

Interim PC Leader Ric McIver was infrastructure minister for the Tories when the school announcements were made. He said the current government — not the former administration — is to blame for the delays.

“When I was infrastructure minister, my staff was telling me the schools could be done. Full stop. Not maybe. Not kind of. They could be done.

“The only change that’s happened is political direction, so the minister ought to be looking at himself as the problem.”

Liberal Leader David Swann agreed that blame for the delays lies with the previous PC government. But he added that the desperate need for new schools has become the sole responsibility of the New Democrats.

“This is now the NDP’s mess to clean up,” Swann said in a release.

“These schools are the top infrastructure need for Alberta families and it is the NDP’s responsibility to ensure they get fully built, fully staffed and fully operational.”

MONTREAL — The jury trial of a Nova Scotia man charged with two counts of first-degree murder in a Montreal double slaying is hearing from the person who pulled the trigger.

Leslie Greenwood is accused of being the getaway driver in slayings in which another Nova Scotia man, Robert Simpson, has admitted to being the killer.

Simpson is serving a life sentence for gunning down Kirk (Cowboy) Murray and Antonio Onesi in a McDonald’s parking lot in west-end Montreal in January 2010.

Now a co-operating witness, Simpson is testifying on behalf of the Crown at Greenwood’s trial in Montreal.

Simpson says he, his brother and Greenwood were sent to Montreal to kill Murray at the behest of Jeffrey Albert Lynds, also of Nova Scotia, as part of a complicated settling of accounts.

Simpson says Greenwood’s task was to drive him and his brother to Montreal to complete the hit and take them back to Nova Scotia.

The chairwoman of the Calgary Board of Education said the delays aren’t a surprise. Joy Bowen-Eyre said she always thought the PC plan was lofty.

“We were always hoping best-case scenario that all of those schools would be built, but, realistically, that hasn’t been possible due to some things beyond our control.”

The New Democrats are to deliver their first budget Oct. 27 in the face of low oil prices that Finance Minister Joe Ceci has already said will contribute to a multibillion-dollar deficit.

The former PC government tabled a 2015-16 budget in March and ran on it in the May election, but lost to the NDP.

AWARD: Program growing in popularity The Composting at Home program has increasingly grown in popularity. In 2014, the 200 spaces available to residents were filled in 36 hours.

“Composting has so many benefits to both the environment and the homeowner,” said Maris.

“It can significantly reduce your household garbage, it can be used to add nutrients to your lawn and garden, and it helps in our efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”

Those interested in joining the Composting at Home program in 2016 are encouraged to plan ahead by collecting at least two big garbage bags full of fallen leaves to store in a dry place over the winter.

The leaves are high in carbon, a key ingredient in composting.

Learn to compost on your own with tips and videos, or sign up to be notified when 2016 registration begins at www.reddeer.ca/composting.

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Freer trade and poverty reduction linked Suggested head: Freer trade and $1.25 a day; today, a new accounting poverty reduction may be the same system adjusted the rate to $1.90/day, story but while global population has risen, The close timing of two of the the portion living below that line has world’s most important dropped from the 1990 level news stories of the year of 1.95 billion people, to 702 seems almost too good to be million today. coincidental. I believe they Jim Yong Kim, president are connected and hold lesof the World Bank Group sons for Canada. calls it the “best story in In the past few days, 12 the world today.” In 2013, nations — including Canashortly after Kim became da — signed an agreement president, the World Bank to form the Trans Pacific adopted two goals. One was Partnership, creating the the eradication of extreme second largest trading bloc poverty by 2030; the other in the world (after the Euwas to boost the rate of the ropean Union). Trade barglobe’s shared wealth, by GREG riers will fall in the coming raising the incomes of the NEIMAN years, opening markets to world’s bottom 40 per cent. global competition that till Where were the greatest OPINION now have been protected by gains made? In two nations restrictive tariffs. that were taking away a Also in the past few days, the World lot of North American manufacturing Bank announced that for the first time jobs: China and India. Where were the in history, the number of people living poorest gains made? In countries that in extreme poverty is expected to drop have less manufacturing and which below 10 per cent of total world popu- are mostly reliant on natural resource lation. exports.

Their report flags some significant Makes you think, doesn’t it? numbers: in 1990, more than a third of My reading of the coverage of the world subsisted on less than US this report finds little or no mention

of their second goal, but I can’t help imagining that increasing the wages of the bottom half of workers created conditions that elevated the incomes of the poorest of the poor. This wasn’t charity alone, it’s business.

Consider India, which still has the world’s largest population living on less than $1.90 a day. The Times of India had trouble reporting the World Bank’s story because of this. Which is more significant: that the greatest gains since 1990 in eliminating extreme poverty were made in India (the lowest population percentage of countries with the largest numbers of very poor people), but while it brought millions out of extreme poverty, India just happens to have a very large population. So the number of those in extreme poverty in India is still the lion’s share of the Asian group of countries.

Or China. In 1990, the Chinese tiger was just discovering its potential. Two decades since of hyper-fast urbanization has fed an army of newly-educated workers into their factories to produce stuff at a fraction of the wages being paid in the wealthy West.

Good news? Bad news? Depends on whether you were dirt poor in China before you got a job making auto parts,

or were paying down a big mortgage in Canada before you got laid off doing the same thing.

My point is we need perspective.

Canada lost jobs and a fair amount of economic potential when the BRICs stole away much of our manufacturing sector. But if we only look at our losses, we miss a bigger picture.

The world is a better place with fewer really poor people in it. Rather than moaning about businesses relocating their manufacturing to lowwage India, China or other developing countries, we may need to adjust our sights as to what our own income expectations are. Our middle-class salad days may be behind us — we need to start competing again.

One way to do that is to level the playing field between nations in how we conduct international trade. Developing countries discovered that a good way to treat wealthy neighbours was to sell them stuff — including their labour.

If wealth were more evenly distributed, perhaps we could begin to do the same.

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War with China again: The Thucydides Trap There is a small but significant industry in the miscalculation, they might create such traps for United States that predicts the “coming war” with themselves.”

China, and Atlantic Magazine is foremost among repWell, he wasn’t going to say “Yeah, we’re doomed utable American monthlies in giving a home to such to go to war with each other,” was he? But it’s clear speculation. It has just done it again, in an article that Chinese (and American) leaders worry about that includes a hearty dose of geopolitical theory. this — and that worrying about it paradoxically The theory is “The Thucydides Trap”. makes it more likely to happen, because it places The author is Graham Allison of Harvard Uni- the whole question of ‘Who’s on top?’ at the centre of versity, the man who coined that phrase. their thinking.

Thucydides, the historian of the PeloponDoes it really matter who’s more pownesian War in the 5th century B.C., exerful when China and the United States plained what caused the war this way: “It have no shared border, make no territoriwas the rise of Athens, and the fear that al claims against each other, and are septhis inspired in Sparta, that made war inarated by the world’s largest ocean? Lots evitable.” It lasted 20 years, and at the end of people in each country would say no, of it the two great powers of the ancient but both countries have military-industriGreek world were both devastated. al-academic complexes that thrive on the Yet they didn’t really go to war over threat of a U.S.-Chinese military conflict. anything in particular, according to ThuThey wouldn’t benefit from an actual cydides. The problem was that Athens was war, of course. But the threat of a great overtaking Sparta in power (like China war kept millions of people in the miliis overtaking the U.S. now), and just that tary, in defence industries and in various GWYNNE one fact was enough to send them to war. universities and think tanks in interestSo are China and the U.S. doomed to go to ing and sometimes very profitable work DYER war in the next decade? during the four decades of the U.S.-Soviet OPINION Graham Allison knows better than to Cold War. The threat of a U.S.-Chinese make a hard prediction, but he does point war already provides gainful employout that out of the past 16 cases when one ment to a lot of people, though nothing major power was gaining in power and its rival like as many as those who made a living off the feared relegation to the second rank, 12 ended in threat of World War III during the Cold War. If the war. perceived threat of war grows, so will the number Such predictions and formulas have an impact in of American and Chinese experts who make a living the real world. When Chinese President Xi Jinping from it. So it’s worth examining Graham Allison’s asarrived in Seattle two weeks ago at the beginning of sumptions to see if they hold water. his U.S. visit, he felt obliged to respond to Allison’s There are only two key assumptions. One is that article: “There is no such thing as the Thucydides China will decisively surpass the United States in Trap in the world,” Xi said. “But should major coun- national power in the coming decade. The other is tries time and again make the mistakes of strategic that such transfers of power from one dominant na-

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tion to another are still likely to end in war. Neither is as certain as it seems.

Chinese dominance is certain if the country keeps growing economically even at its new, lower rate of seven per cent a year. That is still at least twice the U.S. rate, and the magic of compound interest will still do its work. But the era of 10 per cent annual growth ended for Japan and South Korea, the other East Asian “miracles”, after about 30 years. Each country then fell to a normal industrialized-country growth rate or (in Japan’s case) below it.

China is at around the 30-year point now. Maybe its managers are cleverer and it can avoid the same fate, but their recently ham-fisted efforts to prop up the stock market suggest otherwise.

Most observers believe that China’s economic growth this year is already below seven per cent — maybe four per cent or even less. Neither of the other East Asian miracles ever got back onto the ultra-high growth track after they fell off it. At four per cent growth or less, China would not be overtaking the U.S. any time soon.

As for 12 out of 16 changes in the great-power pecking order ending in war, that’s true. But according to Allison’s own data, three out of the four that didn’t end in war were the last three, covering the last half-century. Recent history is a great deal more encouraging than older history.

Maybe more effective international institutions have helped the great powers to avoid war. Maybe the existence of nuclear weapons has made them much more cautious. Probably both. But a U.S.-Chinese war is not inevitable. It may not even be very likely.

Gwynne Dyer is a freelance Canadian journalist living in London. His latest book, Crawling from the Wreckage, was published recently in Canada by Random House.

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Execution drug rejected RULING GOOD NEWS FOR RED DEER MAN ON DEATH ROW

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A U.S. judge has rejected a request from the state of Montana to change one of the drugs used to execute prisoners on death row.

The decision by District Court Judge Jeffrey Sherlock could be good news for Ronald Smith of Red Deer, Alta., who is one of two inmates condemned to die in that state.

Sherlock presided over a hearing last month on whether the sedative pentobarbital, which was being proposed by the state, complies with language in Montana’s execution protocol requiring an “ultra-fast-acting barbiturate.”

Lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union argued that the sedative could lead to an “excruciating and

terrifying” death.

“This case is not about whether the use of pentobarbital in a lethal injection setting is cruel and unusual or if pentobarbital in the doses contemplated by the State of Montana would produce a painless death,” wrote Sherlock in his decision.

“This case is only about whether the drug selected ... meets the legislatively required classification of being an ultra-fast-acting barbiturate.

“The court rules that pentobarbital is not.”

Sherlock’s decision means it’s back to the drawing board for Montana officials, who are now prevented from going ahead with any executions.

“The State of Montana will either need to select a barbiturate that is ultra-fast-acting ... or it will need to modify its statute.”

Lethal injection has been the sole method of execution in Montana since 1997. It is the only state that specifies the death penalty must be accomplished by an “ultra-fast-acting” barbiturate.

Ron Waterman, a senior counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, was happy with the ruling and said the issue will have to go back to the state legislature.

“It would have to be a bill that is introduced at the next legislative session, which is 2017. It would then have to be passed by both houses of the legislature and then signed by the governor,” he said.

Waterman said getting both the legislature and the senate to pass a new law would be challenging for the state of Montana and bodes well for his clients.

“It’s very good news,” Waterman said. “I believe this is a very good outcome and we’re very pleased.”

Smith, 57, was convicted in 1983 for shooting Harvey Madman Jr. and Thomas Running Rabbit while he was high on drugs and alcohol near East Glacier, Mont.

He had been taking 30 to 40 hits of LSD and consuming between 12 and 18 beers a day at the time. He refused a plea deal that would have seen him avoid death row and spend the rest of his life in prison.

Three weeks later, he pleaded guilty. He asked for and was given a death sentence. Smith later had a change of heart and has been fighting for his life ever since. He has had a number of execution dates set and overturned.

Alberta lax on chasing down back taxes: auditor

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The auditor general says Alberta’s tax collectors are falling down on the job when it comes to going after corporate deadbeats.

Merwan Saher says in a report issued Tuesday that some corporations have unpaid tax bills going back eight years.

And he says the province is not using the tools at its disposal to make them pay up.

“There is a significant backlog (of unpaid tax files),” Saher told reporters on a conference call.

“There’s a series of administrative process problems that we think can be improved.”

Saher said he was unable to provide numbers or estimates to reflect the scope or size of the problem.

Finance Department spokesman Gerald Kastendieck agreed that it’s difficult to quantify, given that some files in arrears may qualify for a refund, have no income to pay taxes on or are no longer incorporated.

But he noted that about 1,000 unfiled returns were more than eight years old in a department that processed 250,000 files last year.

He said the department is already taking steps to improve procedures.

“We will continue to work with the (auditor general) to ensure government is pursuing unfiled tax returns as effectively and efficiently as possible,” Kastendieck said in an email.

Finance Department officials are responsible for making sure corporations file their tax returns within six months of their tax year-end.

County bridge projects $500,000 under budget Red Deer County has had some good financial news.

Three bridge projects this year came in under budget, saving the county $500,000.

That will allow the savings to be put towards another bridge and push ahead completion to this year. About $100,000 was already in the budget for the work, which was going to be completed next year originally.

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Kim McRae, right, a Canadian Olympic luger, practises her taekwondo skills with her coach Seoung Min Rim in Calgary on Tuesday.

Luger hopes taekwondo will help her slide faster

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Kim McRae intends to break a lot of boards with her feet on the road to the 2018 Winter Olympics.

The Canadian luger has taken up the national sport of the country where she hopes to stand on the Olympic podium. McRae feels taekwondo’s mental discipline, strength and balance can help her slide faster in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Her bare feet flying off the mats at a southwest Calgary gym is a stark contrast to her typical day of sliding down an icy outdoor track.

“I got into taekwondo to help with co-ordination and overall body awareness,” McRae said Tuesday. “That’s my biggest issue on the sled. I wanted to enhance that and make it better.

“I can’t wait to see the difference it will make on my sled.”

The 23-year-old from Victoria, now based in Calgary, was fifth at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, behind Canadian teammate Alex Gough in fourth.

What was a breakthrough result for McRae also signalled Canada has depth in sport historically dominated

by German women. McRae had five

top-10 finishes but was held off the World Cup podium in 2014-15.

“After Sochi, it was a tough time for me mentally. I was coming out of a bit of depression. Just a whole bunch of family things came together at once,” she said without elaborating.

“This year I’m looking forward to going into the season and being ready.”

After watching her six-year-old twin cousins in a taekwondo class, McRae took her first class with instructor Seoung Min Rim in March and quickly progressed to her orange belt.

“Because she’s an Olympic athlete, she learns very quickly and progresses extremely fast,” Rim said.

As much as McRae was curious about the martial art, Rim went looking for information about his new student’s sliding sport.

“After having Kim as a student, I looked up more and studied more and got to know more about luge,” Rim

said. “Very interesting and looks very scary.”

A native of Seoul, Rim intends to return to South Korea and watch McRae compete in 2018.

“I told her we are going to go and ‘you have to work hard to be on the podium,”’ he said. “A little bit of stress, yes.”

McRae intends to continue with taekwondo and progress to higher belts.

“It will mostly be during the summer so I’m able to fit that into our training schedule,” she said. “I do only come once a week instead of twice or three times like most students do. So it’s a lot of practice at home.”

She’s tried kickboxing “but it’s a little too intense for me,” she said.

“I wanted to do taekwondo because it’s more the mental side. It’s just as hard, but it’s less painful on the hands and feet.”

It’s painful enough as McRae required a bandage on her ankle.

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Big win for small science CANADIAN ARTHUR MCDONALD SHARES NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS FOR WORK ON NEUTRINOS

FIVE THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT NEUTRINOS

ble, a physicist at Queen’s University and associate director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, said they were A professor emeritus at Queen’s scrambling to put together a party to University in Kingston, Ont. — the for- celebrate the big news. mer director of the Sudbury Neutrino “This is just incredible and it valObservatory in northern Ontario — is idates all the incredible work that is a co-winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in being done at the (neutrino lab in SudPhysics for his work on tiny particles bury),” Noble said. known as neutrinos.

McDonald said being Arthur McDonald was named by the committee roused from sleep at about is a “very daunting experi5 a.m. on Tuesday by a ence, needless to say.” phone call from the Nobel “Fortunately, I have maPrize committee telling him ny colleagues as well who the news. share this prize with me.”

“I was a little surprised,” McDonald said they he said from Kingston, have put in a “tremendous laughing with joy. “I am amount of work” and that overwhelmed, but excited.” he benefited from having The first thing the a “very friendly collabora72-year-old did as a Nobel tion among scientists from Prize winner was hug his Canada, the United States, wife.

Britain and Portugal.”

“Thank you,” he told her. ARTHUR He also explained that McDonald and Japanese MCDONALD the work could only have scientist Takaaki Kajita been performed in Canada. were cited for the discovery The Sudbury Neutrino of neutrino oscillations and their con- Observatory, a collaborative effort by tributions to experiments showing that six Canadian universities, is situatneutrinos change identities. ed two kilometres underground at a “We were also able to determine working nickel mine in Sudbury, Ont. that neutrinos do have a The group was able to borsmall mass and that’s somerow $300 million worth of thing that wasn’t known beheavy water — used in the fore and it helps to place country’s Candu nuclear neutrinos in the laws of reactors — for 10 years for physics at a very fundamenjust $1 from Atomic Energy tal level,” McDonald said.

Canada Limited, McDonald “So it’s very fundamental explained. in terms of understandting That amount of heavy how the world works at a water, McDonald said, alvery microscopic level.” lowed their group the abiliThe Nobel Prize committy to discover different “flatee was impressed. vours” of neutrinos in the “The discovery has giant detector they built. changed our understanding TAKAAKI “We were able to obof the innermost workings KAJITA serve once per hour a neuof matter and can prove trino from the sun because crucial to our view of the we were able to shield out, universe,” the Royal Swedish Acade- in this underground location, all of my of Sciences said in announcing the the other radioactive particles coming award early Tuesday. from outer space and just observe neuEven McDonald’s colleagues were trinos,” he said. caught off guard by the announceMcDonald said there was a “eureka ment. By mid-day Tuesday, Tony No- moment” when they discovered that

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BRIEF Dennis Oland murder trial examines forensic evidence SAINT JOHN, N.B. — A forensic identification officer who collected more than 560 pieces of forensic evidence is testifying for the fourth day at the second-degree murder trial of Dennis Oland.

Oland is accused of killing his father Richard Oland in his office in Saint John, N.B., on July 6, 2011.

Sgt. Mark Smith of the Saint John Police Force described for the Court of Queen’s Bench today where he collected various DNA samples in the office three days later.

He says he found blood spatter almost three metres from where the body was found.

Smith says he also checked the washroom outside Oland’s office and found a stained piece of paper towel in the garbage and it tested positive for blood.

Smith says other police officers had been using that washroom for the previous two days.

Asked by the Crown if that concerned him, Smith said it did but he continued his search.

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SAINT-JEROME, Que. — An emergency technician has testified that Guy Turcotte told hospital officials a day after his children were stabbed to death that he wanted to die and that what he had done was terrible.

Marie-Pierre Chartrand says Turcotte arrived at the hospital a day after his children were killed in February 2009.

Chartrand told Turcotte’s first-degree murder trial this morning that he asked to not be treated and to be allowed to die.

The decision was made to treat him because she thought he was suicidal.

Turcotte, 43, is facing two counts of first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of Olivier, 5, and Anne-Sophie, 3.

The former cardiologist has pleaded not guilty but has admitted to causing the children’s deaths.

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Why are they so unusual?

The tiny particles are affected only by a “weak” sub-atomic force of much shorter range than electromagnetism, and are therefore able to pass through great distances in matter without being affected by it. If neutrinos have mass, they also interact gravitationally with other massive particles, but gravity is by far the weakest of the four known forces.

neutrinos were able to change from one type to another in travelling from the sun to the Earth.

A native of Sydney, N.S., McDonald studied at Dalhousie University in Halifax in the mid-60s and later at the California Institute of Technology.

He was made an officer of the Order of Canada in 2006.

McDonald and Kajita, the director of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research and professor at the University of Tokyo, will split the prize money, the equivalent of about $1.3 million Cdn. Kajita seemed flummoxed at a news conference organized by his university. “My mind has gone completely blank,” he said after taking the stage.

“I don’t know what to say.”

After getting his composure back,

There are three types and they oscillate from one type to another, dispelling the long-held notion that neutrinos are massless. Neutrinos are so small that about a billion neutrinos pass through a human thumb every second.

What did Canada discover about neutrinos?

In 2001, while working at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, Canadian Nobel Prize winner Arthur McDonald found that neutrinos coming from the sun didn’t disappear — some just changed identities.

He and Takaaki Kajita, a Japanese colleague with whom he shares the Nobel Prize, gave rise to the conclusion that neutrinos have mass.

Fun fact: Neutrino means “little neutral one” in Italian.

Source: The University of California, Arthur McDonald, Tony Noble

he stressed that many people had contributed to his work, and that there was much work still to do.

“The universe where we live in is still full of unknowns,” he said. “A major discovery cannot be achieved in a day or two. It takes a lot of people and a long time. I would like to see young people try to join our pursuit of mystery-solving.”

Neutrinos are minuscule particles created in nuclear reactions, such as in the sun and the stars.

For decades the neutrino remained a hypothetical particle until American researchers proved that it was real in 1956.

There are three kinds of neutrinos, and the laureates showed they oscillate from one type to another.

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Turcotte because he worked at the same hospital in Saint-Jerome, says he was lucid although she had the impression he may have been slightly intoxicated.

“There was clear psychological distress,” Chartrand said. “He was crying a lot and talking a lot.”

On Monday, pathologist Andre Bourgault testified that Anne-Sophie’s heart was pierced, while Olivier’s hands had wounds.

“He tried to defend himself between four and seven times,” said Bourgault, who has conducted more than 4,000 autopsies in his career.

He said Olivier was stabbed 27 times and Anne-Sophie 19 times. They had wounds to the stomach, the thorax and on their back.

Turcotte’s trial will be curtailed this week as one juror has a medical appointment and another has to attend a wake and a funeral for a relative who passed away on the weekend.

It will sit all day on Tuesday as well as Wednesday morning.

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Growth outlook cut to 1%

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

IMF REPORT

OTTAWA — The International Monetary Fund has cut its growth outlook for the Canadian economy to just 1.0 per cent for the year, due to the drop in oil prices and reduced investment in the energy sector.

The forecast, issued Tuesday, is down from the IMF’s expectation in July for Canadian growth of 1.5 per cent. The organization also lowered its Canadian outlook for 2016 to 1.7 per cent from 2.1 per cent.

Meanwhile, the IMF said the world economy would grow only 3.1 per cent this year, the lowest since 2009, although it increased its estimate for the United States to 2.6 per cent for this year from a July forecast of 2.5 per cent.

A major contributor to Canada’s slowdown, it said, was lower capital spending in the oil sector.

“In commodity exporters, lower commodity prices weigh on the outlook through reduced disposable income and a decline in resource-related investment,” the IMF said.

“The latter mechanism has been particularly sharply felt in Canada, where growth is now projected to be about one per cent in 2015, 1.2 percentage points lower than forecast in April.”

The downgrade by the IMF came as Statistics Canada reported the country’s trade deficit with the world increased to $2.5 billion in August as exports

posted their biggest drop since 2012 due to a sharp fall in oil prices. Economists had expected a trade deficit of $1.2 billion for the month, according to estimates compiled by Thomson Reuters.

Statistics Canada also updated its reading for July to show a deficit of $817 million compared with its initial reading of a $593-million deficit.

CIBC economist Nick Exarhos noted soft energy prices and temporary disturbances to more regular trade patterns played a role in August.

“It’s clear that the cheaper loonie still needs time to have its full effect in lifting Canadian export volumes,” Exarhos said.

Canada’s exports in August fell 3.6 per cent from the previous month to $44 billion, while imports edged up 0.2 per cent to $46.5 billion.

Exports in the energy sector fell 14.7 per cent to $6.3 billion, due to a 20.9 per cent drop in the value of crude oil and crude bitumen exports. For the group as a whole, prices fell 16.4 per cent while volumes increased 2.0 per cent.

However, exports of motor vehicles and parts rose 3.1 per cent to $7.8 billion due to a 4.5 per cent increase in exports of passenger cars and light trucks.

On the other side of the trade equation, imports

of consumer goods increased 2.6 per cent to $10.0 billion, while metal and non-metallic mineral products rose 6.0 per cent to $3.9 billion.

Economist David Madani of Capital Economics said given the earlier strength in exports, the economy is still on track for growth of around 2.5 per cent, ahead of the Bank of Canada’s forecast.

“After suffering a mild recession in the first half of the year, it appears that the economy returned to growth in the third quarter,” he said.

However, Madani also noted that imports were largely unchanged.

“This persistent weakness in import volumes is a sign of soft domestic demand,” he said.

The Canadian economy began 2015 by sliding into recession with back-to-back quarters of contraction.

However economists predict the third quarter will show growth.

The IMF forecast for the economy is slightly more pessimistic than the Bank of Canada’s prediction that the economy will grow by 1.1 per cent this year.

However, the Canadian central bank predicts the economy will pick up to 2.3 per cent next year, ahead of the IMF’s 1.7 per cent prediction.

The central bank has cut its key interest rate twice this year taking it to 0.5 per cent in a bid to help a struggling economy hurt by a drop in the price of oil.

BMO SURVEY

Living on the edge NEARLY ONE IN SIX COULD NOT HANDLE $500 INCREASE IN MORTGAGE PAYMENT: POLL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Nearly one in six Canadians would not be able to handle a $500 increase in their monthly mortgage payments, a new survey from the Bank of Montreal suggests.

According to the bank, 16 per cent of respondents said they would not be able to afford such an increase, while more than a quarter, or roughly 27 per cent, would need to review their budget.

Another 26 per cent said they would be concerned, but could probably handle it.

Such an increase would be generated in the case of a three percentage point hike in interest rates — from 2.75 per cent to 5.75 per cent — on a $300,000 mortgage with a 25-year amoritization period.

Given that interest rates are likely to increase in the foreseeable future, the bank said there was no better time to put together a detailed debt management plan.

“The ultimate goal of most Canadians should be the elimination of debt, but the first step needs to be getting rid of bad debt, which has the potential to destabilize a household’s financial situation,” said Chris Buttigieg, senior manager of wealth planning strategy at BMO. “A financial professional can help you avoid having your debt lead to long-term financial instability and work with you to develop a plan to sort out your balance sheet as quickly and efficiently as possible.”

A report by Statistics Canada last month found the ratio of household credit market debt to disposable income climbed in the second quarter of 2015 to 164.6 per cent, up from 163.0 per cent in the first three months of the year.

That means Canadians owed nearly $1.65 in consumer credit and mortgage and non-mortgage loans for every dollar of disposable income.

The report by BMO’s Wealth Institute found that almost half of Canadians, 47 per cent, believed that the high level of debt in Canada has been influenced by soaring real estate values, while 40 per cent believed it has been influenced by low rates.

Interest rates, including mortgage rates, have been near historic lows. The Bank of Canada has cut its key interest rate twice this year in an attempt to boost an economy hobbled by a sharp drop in commodity prices. BMO noted that when interest rates are low it is a good time to make aggressive principal repayments on loans and its survey found that 35 per cent of those asked are looking to pay down their mortgage sooner.

BRIEF Bombardier shares surge on report it approached Airbus to buy CSeries stake MONTREAL — Stock in financially strapped Bombardier surged following a news report that the Montreal-based plane maker has approached Airbus to sell a majority stake in its CSeries jet.

The transportation company’s shares (TSX:BBD.B) gained more than 12 per cent to $1.73 on the Toronto Stock Exchange after Reuters reported that the European planemaker would help Bombardier complete development of the 110- to 160-seat aircraft in exchange for a controlling stake in the program.

A source described the discussions are exploratory.

Bombardier couldn’t be immediately reached for comment, but Reuters said neither company would comment on the “market rumour.”

Scotiabank analyst Turan Quettawala said this week that Bombardier may need cash by mid-2016 if orders don’t improve.

The company is already looking at selling a minority stake in its railway products division.

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Feds defend ‘thorough’ review

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NORTHERN GATEWAY PIPELINE

VANCOUVER — The Canadian government is asking the Federal Court of Appeal to uphold its controversial decision to approve the $7-billion Northern Gateway pipeline project.

First Nations, environmental groups and a union are asking the court to quash the decision because of an alleged failure to consider environmental threats or consult with aboriginal bands.

But government lawyer Jan Brongers argued Tuesday that the federal review was extensive, and there must be a high bar for a court to overturn a democratically elected cabinet’s decision.

“It is our firm position that the order-in-council, which is the culmination of a lengthy, thorough and fair environmental assessment process, which included honourable consultation with the impacted First Nations, strongly deserves to be left in place.”

The government approved the proposal from Calgary-based Enbridge (TSX:ENB) in June 2014 with 209 conditions, including the creation of plans to protect caribou habitats and marine mammals.

The 1,177-kilometre twin pipeline would ship 525,000 barrels of diluted bitumen a day from Alberta’s oilsands to a terminal on British Columbia’s north coast for overseas shipping.

Brongers said the federal review panel concluded the 209 conditions would mitigate nearly all the ecological risks, apart from threats to certain woodland populations of grizzly bears and caribou, which were found to be “justified” given the economic benefits.

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The Douglas Channel, the proposed shipping route for oil tanker ships in the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project, just south of Kitmat, B.C., is pictured. The Canadian government is asking the Federal Court of Appeal to uphold its controversial decision to approve the Northern Gateway pipeline project.

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OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the country’s trade deficit with the world increased to $2.5 billion in August — much higher than economists expected.

The increase came as exports fell 3.6 per cent in August, while imports edged up 0.2 per cent.

Economists had expected a deficit of $1.2 billion for the month, according to Thomson Reuters.

Statistics Canada also updated its reading for July to show a deficit of $817 million compared with its initial reading of a deficit of $593 million.

In August, exports to the United States fell 3.0 per cent to $33.7 billion while imports from the U.S. slipped 0.8 per cent to $30.8 billion.

Exports to countries other than the United States fell 5.5 per cent to $10.2 billion, while imports from countries other than the U.S. increased 2.2 per cent to $15.6 billion

Pengrowth Energy to sell Bodo property in eastern Alberta for $95 million CALGARY — Pengrowth Energy Corp. (TSX:PGF) has agreed to sell a property in eastern Alberta for $95 million, which will be used to reduce the company’s debt.

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The government has said Northern Gateway would diversify Canada’s energy export markets and contribute to long-term economic security.

The project has been estimated to be worth $300 billion in gross domestic product over 30 years.

Eight First Nations argued last week that Canada violated its constitutional duty to consult with them before it approved the project.

Brongers responded that the panel heard both oral and written evidence from indigenous groups and determined the pipeline would not have significant adverse effects on traditional use of their lands.

The lawyer urged the three judges presiding over the case to consider previous rulings that have set a high standard for a court to toss a government decision on a resource project.

There were only a handful of scenarios in which they could quash the project approval, he said, including if a decision broke the law or if it had no reasonable basis in fact.

“In other words, applicants who disagree with a (government) decision on whether or not to conditionally approve a resource transportation project will have a tough hill to climb if they choose to challenge it in a judicial forum rather than in the political arena,” he said.

The B.C. government and Northern Gateway are set to state their cases later this week, before the hearing is expected to wrap Thursday.

The Bodo property produced the equivalent of 2,700 barrels of oil per day on average for first eight months of 2015.

Pengrowth says it still expects to produce between 70,000 and 72,000 barrels per day on average in 2015. The Bodo sale brings Pengrowth’s total asset sales and committed sales for 2015 to $260 million.

The company says it expects to achieve the target of $600 million in dispositions of non-core assets.

Pengrowth announced in September that its dividend will be cut in half to one cent per qharter, starting with the December payment. It’s also suspending its dividend reinvestment plan on Dec. 15.

UAW threaten strike Wednesday night in contract talks with Fiat Chrysler DETROIT — The United Auto Workers union is threatening to go on strike against Fiat Chrysler.

The company says in a statement Tuesday that it received a strike notice from the union and it continues to work toward reaching an agreement.

A letter to Fiat Chrysler that was posted on the UAW website says the union is terminating its contract with FCA at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday. Union members overwhelmingly rejected a tentative contract agreement with the company last week. Union leadership said they would go back to the bargaining table.

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Keeping emotions in check Derek, how do emotions factor into making investments?

I’ve been told that my job is as much about psychology as it is about helping people invest.

The reality is that there is a tendency for investors to react emotionally to changes in their portfolios, whether those changes are good or DEREK bad. This emoFUCHS tional reaction WEALTH WATCH can be seen through all stages of a market cycle, and understanding this cycle is important to being a successful longterm investor.

To help understand how investors can react, it’s important to understand each stage thoroughly.

When an investment is made usually there is a feeling of optimism, we expect our hard earned savings to increase in value. We have gone through the process of reviewing our investment, understanding what makes it a good choice, and look forward to what the future brings.

As the market improves the next

stages bring us excitement and ultimately a thrill of seeing our money increase notably in value. Perhaps the return has exceeded your expectations and you’re feeling confident and happy. The market has moved higher and your investment was a good choice.

The next stage is close to the peak of the market.

At this point, you’ve made more money than you imagined you would and you’ve noticed consecutive statements with your balance moving higher.

You have a feeling of euphoria and you are over confident in the decision you’ve made – perhaps you’re even bragging to friends about how much money you have made and you are feeling that you have outsmarted the average investor.

It is important to note that at this stage you are at the point of maximum financial risk. While it’s true your investment may move higher, you also need to understand that there may come a time to take some profit, or reduce your risk. The feeling of euphoria tends to be very powerful and investors tend to hang on for just a “bit more”.

Shortly after, the market and the economy as a whole begins to cool. As an investor you may feel anxiety or even denial.

Some will focus on their long-term goal at this stage. Others get an emo-

tional attachment to their investment choice and will continue to hang on because they are adverse to selling lower than the position was at one time (even if it’s higher than their original purchase).

The next stages involve fear, desperation, and then panic.

In these stages some investors will seek more information and attempt to fight whatever is happening to their investment. They will seek out positive reassurance from articles and get hyper focused on their statements.

They become very aware of what is happening in the economy and regularly watch the business news.

The final stages involve capitulation and despondency. At this stage, an investor may give up completely on their investment. They ignore their long-term goals and perhaps they even sell their investment at a much lower price then they originally bought it for. Perhaps they give up on investing altogether and choose to keep their savings in cash or in a very low-risk investment. At this stage, we have reached the point of maximum financial opportunity. This is also the time when investors should be focused on making good long-term investments, rather than selling at rock-bottom prices.

The bottom of the market tends to feel negative. The economy is bad, people are losing jobs, and the pros-

pects for a recovery seem far away. In some cases, investors may believe that this time is different, or that the worst is yet to come or it will never be back to where it was.

However, at some point, the markets begin to improve. Depression turns into hope, hope turns into relief, and relief turns into optimism. This stage of optimism brings us back to the beginning and the pattern is ready to repeat itself.

Understanding these stages may be helpful to identify what you may be experiencing.

While there is no doubt the market has been moving lower in the past few months it is important to understand whether your emotions are impacting the way that you are investing.

As always, be sure to discuss your specific situation with a financial advisor. Ideally this financial advisor should be able to help remove part of the emotional factors when you’re planning to invest.

Happy investing, Wealth Watch is written by Derek Fuchs, a wealth advisor with ScotiaMcLeod in Red Deer. It is provided for informational purposes only and any opinions contained in it are his own. Readers are urged to consult a wealth advisor for help with their personal investment circumstances. Fuchs can be contacted at derek. fuchs@scotiamcleod.com.

Recovery will ‘not happen without pain’: VW CEO EMISSIONS SCANDAL

NEWS IN BRIEF

Twitter unveils new ‘Moments’ feature to highlight top stories NEW YORK — Twitter on Tuesday launched a new feature called “Moments” that helps highlight the top stories being tweeted.

The feature will showcase top stories being discussed, even if you don’t follow the tweeters. It can be found by tapping a lightning bolt icon tab on the site or app. It will update the “Moments” throughout the day.

The “Moments” are a mix of news and fluffy trending topics. For example, two “Moments” on Tuesday

included tweets about the South Carolina floods breaking dams and a pygmy hedgehog called Marutaro.

Twitter, which limits posts to 140 characters, has been trying to find a way to make the site easier to navigate and broaden its appeal beyond media junkies, athletes, celebrities and politicians.

The short messaging service has amassed more than 300 million users but its growth has been slowing.

Meanwhile, Facebook has 1.5 billion people on its online social network and even its photo-sharing application, Instagram, has surpassed Twitter in size.

The news comes a day after Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey returned officially as CEO. Shares fell 22 cents to $27.93 during midday trading.

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Adam Brotman, Starbucks chief digital officer, talks about the company’s new mobile ordering app at Starbucks Coffee Company’s annual shareholders meeting in Seattle in March 2015. Starbucks Canada will launch an update to its popular app that allows people to jump the queue by placing orders before they even step inside one of its cafes.

Starbucks helping customers vault lineups SMARTPHONE APP UPDATE ALLOWS PEOPLE TO JUMP QUEUE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Lengthy lineups are often considered one of the greatest challenges facing the fast food industry, but a growing number of companies are getting savvy with smartphone apps designed to keep impatient customers satisfied.

Next week, Starbucks Canada will launch an update to its popular app that allows people to jump the queue by placing orders before they even step inside one of its cafes.

By design, the new service is intended to reduce the amount of time spent standing around waiting for a cashier, and hopefully shorten the length of lineups during peak hours.

It’s one of the latest developments from retailers looking to appease the grab-and-go culture, which doesn’t even necessarily want to partake in the traditional in-store experience or feels the daily grind is putting a squeeze on their schedules.

“The lineup for some can be an incredible deterrent in the morning,” said Jessica Mills, director of brand and digital operations for Starbucks Canada.

“There’s this interesting paradox

that’s going on. People want speed and convenience … and then there are moments when people just want to slow down and take a few moments for themselves.”

With the app, Starbucks hopes to give its customers the option to choose a more rushed service or stand in line and socialize, she said.

Starbucks’ new Mobile Order & Pay option will be rolled out across the 300 stores owned by the company in the Toronto area on Oct. 13. The feature will only be available to customers with Apple’s iPhone at first, though an Android version is coming.

The service will expand to other Canadian cities next year, but no timeline has been finalized, Mills said.

Already, already 18 per cent of sales at Starbucks’ Canadian cafes are completed using its mobile payment app.

Ordering food and drinks through a smartphone isn’t exactly a fresh idea, despite the recent surge in popularity.

In Canada, pizza delivery companies like Pizza Pizza and Domino’s Pizza led the charge with apps that gave customers the option to create a pizza before choosing either delivery or pick-up service.

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WOLFSBURG, Germany — Volkswagen’s new CEO has told more than 20,000 workers that overcoming its emissions-rigging scandal will “not happen without pain” and that the company will have to review its investment plans.

Matthias Mueller vowed Tuesday that “we will overcome this crisis” but said that the company would have to be more careful about costs.

He told the meeting at the company’s sprawling home plant in Wolfsburg, Germany, that the company would have to put its future investments in plants, technology and vehicles “under scrutiny” to spend only what was needed to maintain a leading edge.

“We will do everything to ensure that Volkswagen will stand for good and secure jobs in the future as well,” he told concerned workers.

The head of Volkswagen’s influential employee council said later Tuesday that the scandal won’t have any immediate effect on jobs.

“It is not possible to say today whether and how this wrongdoing could affect our jobs in the medium and long term,” Bernd Osterloh told reporters. But “at the moment … there are no consequences for jobs,” including those of temporary workers, he added.

Employees at Volkswagen’s German factories at the very least face a possible reduction in their profit-sharing checks. Those under the union contract received 5,900-euro bonuses for 2014, when the company made net profit of 10.8 billion euros. Analysts have been slashing profit forecasts for this year and next.

Volkswagen AG faces fines and lost sales after U.S. environmental regulators found it had installed software that disabled pollution controls when the vehicle was not on the test-

ing stand. The company has set aside 6.5 billion euros ($7.3 billion) to cover costs but analysts say that likely is not enough.

Osterloh also acknowledged that recovering from the scandal won’t be painless. But he said the employee council “will watch carefully that this crisis, which was caused by a circle of managers, is not settled on the backs of employees.”

“We assume that, for reasons of decency, the management board’s bonus will in case of doubt fall in the same way as the workforce’s bonus,” he said.

Mueller said some of the affected cars - more than 11 million diesel engine vehicles worldwide - could be fixed by adjusting the software, while others would need hardware fixes. He didn’t elaborate.

Volkswagen has until Wednesday to give German regulators a binding timetable that sets out when it will have a fix for the cars in the country and by when it can be implemented.

Osterloh said Mueller’s speech went down well with employees, and added that he “can count on the support of employees to put Volkswagen back on the right track.”

Osterloh sits on Volkswagen’s supervisory board — the German equivalent of a board of directors — as does the governor of Lower Saxony state, which is a minority shareholder.

In a letter to VW employees released Tuesday, state governor Stephan Weil said it is “intolerable” for the whole company and workforce to be placed under “general suspicion” as a result of the emissions cheating.

“I am aware that work at Volkswagen is the livelihood for many thousands of employees and their families, worldwide and above all here in Lower Saxony,” Weil said. “So I view it as our task to work with all our strength for the security of these jobs.”

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 121.60 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.00 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.19 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.82 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.77 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.22 Cdn. National Railway . . 76.43 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 194.51 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.18 Capital Power Corp . . . . 19.40 Cervus Equipment Corp 13.68 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 47.08 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 54.22 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 20.40 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.43 General Motors Co. . . . . 32.22 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 24.09 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.98 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 40.59 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 30.47 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.83 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.85 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 44.95 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 116.32 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.00 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.51 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 67.26 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market advanced for a third consecutive session Tuesday as sharply rising oil prices supported a continuing rally the energy sector.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed 95.06 points higher at 13,647.26 after a combined advance of more than 300 points the previous two trading days.

The capped energy and materials sectors were among the top performers on the TSX as the November contract for benchmark crude oil soared $2.27 to US$48.53 a barrel, adding to a rebound from under US$45 just a week ago.

“We have (an) energy rally … that’s the key,” said John Stephenson, president and CEO of Stephenson and Company Capital Management.

“There is just a series of more bullish themes out there,” added Stephenson, pointing to a new report quoting a top OPEC official as predicting a rebound in prices and a short-term outlook from the Energy Information Administration calling for a decline in U.S. oil production.

That, along with the feeling that perhaps that badly mauled energy issues have been oversold has may traders believing “the worst is over,” he said. “(But) I don’t think there is any compelling reason for that truthfully,” said Stephenson, who believes oil could still test lows under US$40 a barrel in the current slow-growth economy.

“I do think it goes lower and it goes lower because I don’t think that we have enough demand out there,” he said.

“That’s one of the issues that’s driven things down to this level and nothing really has changed tremendously.”

Beyond demand, supply issues also remain unresolved, with U.S. production cuts being far from “earth shattering” and with Iranian oil yet to come on

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 21.85 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.98 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.68 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 24.89 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . . 9.51 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.57 First Quantum Minerals . . 7.49 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 17.97 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 6.26 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.80 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.00 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 27.61 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.890 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 7.78 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 20.87 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 20.20 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 55.31 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.77 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 24.34 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 29.55 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 9.25 Canyon Services Group. . 5.41 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 21.20 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1800 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 10.60 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.780 the market as a result of an end to western-led sanctions, he said.

Elsewhere on commodity markets, November natural gas was up two cents at US$2.47 per thousand cubic feet, while the December gold contract rose $8.80 to US$1,146.40 an ounce The loonie also continued its recent uptick, up 0.35 of a U.S. cent at 76.76 cents US. In New York, markets were mixed as the Dow Jones industrial average posted a modest advance, up 13.76 points to 16,790.19, while the broader S&P 500 fell 7.13 points to 1,979.92 Biotechnology stocks were among the worst performing issues and the tech-heavy Nasdaq gave back 32.90 points to 4,748.36. The sector has been hammered in the past month on investor concerns that the industry might face more scrutiny from Washington over its drug pricing practices.

In corporate news, stock in First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) soared $1.30 or 21 per cent to $7.49 after the Vancouver-based mining and metals company said it wanted to slash outstanding debt by at least US$1 billion within six months though a combination of asset sales and other strategic initiatives.

First Quantum also announced it was cutting 644 people from its workforce and reducing salaries by up to 20 per cent while also lowering the cost target for its flagship Cobre Panama project by seven per cent to US$5.95 billion.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,647.26, up 95.06 points Dow — 16,790.19, up 13.76 points

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 77.89 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 39.04 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.58 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 22.05 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.92 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 1.41 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.260 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 6.29 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 34.87 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.950 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.85 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 47.24 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2300 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 74.44 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 59.40 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.96 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.75 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 33.07 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 36.58 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 91.19 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.02 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 41.88 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.37 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 73.22 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 44.15 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.75 S&P 500 — 1,979.92, down 7.13 points Nasdaq — 4,748.36, down 32.90 points Currencies: Cdn — 76.76 cents US, up 0.35 of a cent Pound — C$1.9857, up 0.28 of a cent Euro — C$1.4694, up 0.59 of a cent Euro — US$1.1280 up 0.97 of a cent Oil futures: US$48.53 per barrel, up $2.27 (November contract) Gold futures: US$1,146.40 per oz., up $8.80 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.865 oz., up 59 cents $702.96 kg., up $18.97

First Quantum to reduce debt

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Shares in First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) soared 21 per cent Tuesday after the Vancouver-based mining and metals company said it plans to slash its debt by at least US$1 billion within six months through a combination of asset sales and other strategic initiatives.

The various moves announced by the company, which are aimed at offsetting the effects of low copper prices, included laying off 644 people and reducing salaries by up to 20 per cent.

Copper future contracts are currently pricing the industrial metal at about US$2.35 a pound, down from about $3 at year ago.

Meanwhile, the company also lowered the cost target for its flagship Cobre Panama project by seven per cent to US$5.95 billion.

“Even at current commodity prices, Cobre Panama remains economically highly attractive,” the company said late Monday.

“The initiatives now being undertaken are aimed at protecting against disruption to the planned timetable to completion for Cobre Panama and importantly, the current strong support of the company’s lenders is maintained.”

In addition to the reduced spending on the Panama project, which First Quantum is developing with several

“THE INITIATIVES NOW BEING UNDERTAKEN ARE AIMED AT PROTECTING AGAINST DISRUPTION TO THE PLANNED TIMETABLE TO COMPLETION FOR COBRE PANAMA AND IMPORTANTLY, THE CURRENT STRONG SUPPORT OF THE COMPANY’S LENDERS IS MAINTAINED” — FIRST QUANTUM MINERALS partners, the company is aiming to reduce or reschedule about $700 million in other capital programs.

First Quantum says about US$2.6 billion has already been spent on Cobre Panama, including $524 million from partner KPMC. The rest of the costs will by be covered by a further $666 million from KPMC, $1 billion from Franco-Nevada and $1.66 billion from First Quantum.

It announced separately that a subsidiary of Toronto-based Franco-Nevada Corp. (TSX:FNV) is expected to provide US$330 million to US$340 million this month as an initial payment towards the US$1-billion deposit on future sales of gold and silver from the Cobre Panama copper project.

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ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov ‘15 $3.90 higher $477.10 Jan. ‘16 $4.20 higher $481.90 March ‘16 $4.30 higher $484.10 May ‘16 $4.20 higher $484.00 July ‘16 $3.90 higher $482.60 Nov. ‘16 $3.20 higher $472.50 Jan. ‘17 $3.20 higher $473.70 March ‘17 $3.20 higher $475.40 May ‘17 $3.20 higher $475.40 July ‘17 $3.20 higher $475.40 Nov. ‘17 $3.20 higher $475.40.

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.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 458,940 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 458,940.

TransCanada seeks different approval for Nebraska route LINCOLN, Neb. — The Canadian company that wants to build the Keystone XL pipeline is taking steps to circumvent one of the major roadblocks in Nebraska.

But in seeking approval Monday for the same contentious route through the state, TransCanada could create another round of lengthy delays in an already drawn-out process.

It also indicates a new push for the $8 billion Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline in a state where opponents have repeatedly thwarted efforts to build the project. President Barack Obama has indicated that he may reject a federal permit for the project, as he did in 2012 when he accused congressional Republicans of setting an arbitrary deadline.

Former Gov. Dave Heineman approved the Nebraska route in 2013 under a state law that allowed TransCanada to use eminent domain against holdout landowners, but opponents sued and the project has been mired in state courts ever since.

The state’s Public Service Commission, which regulates pipelines, taxis and other “common carriers” used for transportation, offers another av-

enue for approval — one opponents have said they would have preferred the company use in the first place because the PSC can impose additional requirements.

However, the PSC’s eventual decision can be appealed.

TransCanada announced last week that it would withdraw its eminent domain claims to the land on the pipeline’s proposed route and instead seek approval through the commission.

Legal experts said the company may have decided not to risk a legal battle to try to uphold the 2013 pipeline-siting law, which the Nebraska Supreme Court allowed to stand by default in January. Opponents then filed a nearly identical lawsuit with landowners who were directly affected by TransCanada’s use of eminent domain.

The case, which is set to go to trial Oct. 19, is widely expected to return to the state’s highest court, and if it sides with the landowners, TransCanada would have to apply to the PSC anyway.

“The writing’s kind of on the wall,” University of Nebraska law professor Anthony Schutz said. “The prospect of losing was significant enough that they probably looked at the tea leaves and said, ‘Why don’t we just go forward with that process now?’ “

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Rebels suffer first setback

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Hurricanes 5 Rebels 2 LETHBRIDGE — Red Deer Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter didn’t have to search for words while describing his club’s performance in a 5-2 WHL loss to the Lethbridge Hurricanes Tuesday.

“We weren’t very good tonight,” the Rebels boss stated following his team’s first setback of the season. “We had a lot of not very good players.

“Right from the opening faceoff, there was no intensity, no emotion, no push. Our best players were the worst players on the ice. When that happens, it’s not a good sign.”

Tyler Wong’s sixth goal of the season — a power-play marker — at 7:52 of the opening period provided the ‘Canes with a lead they never relinquished.

The Hurricanes stretched their lead to two when Egor Babenko connected midway through the second period. Rebels forward Brandon Hagel potted his first-ever WHL goal, on the power play, at 12:09, but whatever momentum the visitors enjoyed was wiped out when Red Deer native Andrew Nielsen answered for the ‘Canes just over three minutes later.

Nielsen’s tally came with Rebels defencemen Kayle Doetzel and Haydn Fleury in the penalty box.

Clearly, discipline was not one of Red Deer’s strong points Tuesday.

“That comes with not being mentally prepared to play the game the right way,” said Sutter. “The play of our penalty killers reflected our five-on-five play.

“We didn’t compete or work very hard. We didn’t make the sacrifices you need to make to win.”

Nielsen, a defenceman who was selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the third round of June’s

NHL entry draft, increased the Hurricanes’ lead to 4-1 with another power-play goal at 9:24 of the final frame.

From there, Adam Musil potted his first of the season for the Rebels at 18:39 and Wong scored into an empty net with one minute remaining.

The Rebels, with goaltender Trevor Martin making his regular-season debut, were outshot 40-29, including 19-4 in a putrid second period.

“We just didn’t do anything, we just stood around and watched and took some penalties,” said Sutter, who was referring to his team’s second-period play but didn’t see any positive signs through the entire 60 minutes.

“It’s like we were a little complacent being four and zero. Over the last 48 hours we’ve talked to the kids about how we didn’t play very well for 30 minutes of the Kelowna game (a 7-4 Rebels win Saturday at the Centrium). Tonight it was 60 minutes that we didn’t play well.”

Jayden Sittler, another Red Deer minor hockey product, turned aside 27 shots in the Lethbridge net.

Martin made 35 saves for Red Deer.

“We didn’t give our goaltender much support tonight,” said Sutter. “Overall, he was fine.”

The Rebels hook up with the Calgary Hitmen in a home-and-home set starting Friday at the Saddledome and concluding with a Saturday match at the Centrium. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Astros eliminate Yankees in AL wild card

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Astros 3 Yankees 0 NEW YORK — Dallas Keuchel and the Houston Astros defied expectations all season long. Facing his biggest test yet, the bearded ace beat the odds and the Yankees once again.

Pitching on three days’ rest for the first time in his career, Keuchel baffled New York for six innings of three-hit ball. Colby Rasmus and Carlos Gomez homered, and the Astros won 3-0 Tuesday night in the American League wild-card game.

The orange-clad Astros, who secured their spot in this winner-take-all game on the last day of the regular season, advanced to the AL Division Series.

They will face the defending AL champion Royals, starting Thursday night in Kansas City.

“To come to Yankee Stadium and play that well was truly remarkable,” said Keuchel, the AL’s only 20-game winner.

Aggressive from the start in their initial playoff appearance as an American League club — and first since being swept by the White Sox in the 2005 World Series — the Astros came out swinging against Masahiro Tanaka in front of a revved-up Yankee Stadium crowd.

Rasmus sent Tanaka’s first pitch of the second inning soaring into deep right field. Gomez, who only had five plate appearances after missing nearly two weeks with a strained chest muscle in mid-September, connected on the first offering of the fourth.

“That really settled me down, and that’s who we are,” Keuchel said. “We hit a lot of home runs, pitch well and play defence.”

AL hits leader Jose Altuve had an RBI single off All-Star reliever Dellin Betances in the seventh.

Reliever Tony Sipp walked one, and Will Harris and Luke Gregerson were each perfect for an inning to finish the three-hitter. The boos from the 50,113 stunned fans in the crowd grew with each out as Gregerson closed for a save.

The Astros raced to an area between first and second after Brian McCann grounded out to end it and jumped up and down in a big scrum. As he was coming off the field, Keuchel pumped his fists toward a group of cheering Astros supporters in orange shirts — and a few in big black beards — behind the visiting dugout.

It was a celebration a few years in the making.

The Astros had averaged 104 losses in their previous four seasons.

“Now we get to go to Kansas City. It’s going to be some grind-it-out baseball,” Rasmus said. “We have to come in there the way we came in tonight. It’s going to be fun.”

In a matchup of two teams that surprised many by building big division leads before wasting them late, the upstart Astros, just two years removed from a 111-loss season, looked the more comfortable team in the October limelight.

They clowned around during pregame introduc-

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Houston Astros second baseman Jose Altuve, above, gets tangled up with New York Yankees Didi Gregorius after tagging him out on a fielder’s choice during the sixth inning of the American League wild card baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York, Tuesday. tions, then stayed loose the whole game.

The Yankees lost six of seven to close the regular season. And despite all the talk of a playoff reset for the struggling lineup, they went bust against a new nemesis in their first — and only — post-season game of the post-Derek Jeter era.

“Just didn’t get it done,” manager Joe Girardi said.

Fans taunted the 27-year-old Keuchel the moment he walked to the outfield for warmups. Then he toyed with the Yankees from the first batter, striking out Brett Gardner looking.

“I felt like I had never been on the mound before with the adrenaline I had,” Keuchel said.

Gardner, Brian McCann, Chris Young and Girardi all had words with plate umpire Eric Cooper as Keuchel cruised through New York’s lineup for the third time this season.

The AL Cy Young Award contender held the Yankees scoreless for 16 innings in two regular-season

starts. On this much bigger stage, the lefty was just as confounding, dropping his slider and two-seam fastball seemingly wherever he wanted in striking out seven as nearly all his teammates and coaches stood along the dugout railing for every pitch.

When he gave up two singles in the sixth — bringing the crowd to its feet with Alex Rodriguez stepping into the batter’s box — manager A.J. Hinch took a walk to the mound to give Keuchel a breather.

Keuchel responded by getting A-Rod to fly out lazily to centre field for his final out.

Keuchel is the first starter with a scoreless post-season start on three days’ rest since Josh Beckett pitched a shutout for the Marlins at Yankee Stadium in the clinching Game 6 of the 2003 World Series.

Tanaka struggled with the long ball all season, giving up 25 homers in 24 starts this year. He only allowed two more hits in five innings but matched a season high with three walks. He struck out three.

Blue Jays feeling the effects of ‘epic’ fan support going into playoffs

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — First baseman Chris Colabello experiences Blue Jays fever every time he looks at his phone or steps out his door.

“It’s pretty epic,” he said.

Colabello, a platoon player who readily admits he’s nowhere near the top of the Jays’ star pecking order, says just getting a cup of coffee is an adventure these days.

“That’s a testament to how much this city loves their team and appreciates what we’ve done for them,” he said. “And we hope to continue it for them.”

“It’s a blessing,” added left-fielder Ben Revere.

Toronto’s wild ride this season will go up a gear Thursday when the Blue Jays host the Texas Rangers in Game 1 of their American League Division Series. It’s Toronto’s first visit to the post-season since winning a second straight World Series in 1993 and interest is booming.

Toronto ace David Price will face Texas’ Yovani Gallardo in the series opener while Marcus Stroman, adding a new chapter to his remarkable comeback from spring training knee surgery, takes on Rangers marquee man Cole Hamels in Game 2 Friday.

The best-of-five series will then de-

scend on Texas for the next two games, if necessary, with Game 5 in Toronto if needed.

A relaxed bunch of Jays met the media Tuesday before working out at the Rogers Centre to the diverse sounds of Miguel, Beck, Fetty Wap, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin, the Zac Brown Band and Hardwell.

Promotions for Thursday’s game flashed on the giant scoreboard as the players held batting practice.

Earlier, manager John Gibbons leaned back in his chair as he chatted with reporters in his office.

“I feel good,” he said. “Nice and relaxed. I feel good about the way the year’s gone. And you know what I think we’ve got a real shot to advance in this

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thing.

“You never know (in) the playoffs.

Everybody will tell you that … But I feel confident in the group. I know they feel confident. We’ve just got to go out and play it.”

The 53-year-old Gibbons, in his second go-round as Toronto manager, summed up the Jays’ formula for success.

“We score a lot of runs. That’s really what this team is,” he said. “But we started winning more when we started playing better defence — a couple of changes — and the bullpen improved.”

And he pointed to Jose Bautista, Josh Donaldson, Edwin Encarnacion, Price and Stroman as the kind of players who thrive on the big stage.

Every Jay is in the spotlight these days, with fans across the country following the team.

Colabello, who has 24,100 Twitter followers, estimates 20,000 of them came after joining Toronto this season.

Gibbons says he too feels the buzz.

“I get recognized probably a little bit more — maybe in a better way,” he said with a smile. “You can just feel the excitement, no doubt about that.”

His phone isn’t lighting up, however.

“My buddies might call. (It’s a) secure number,” he added with a grin.

Toronto (93-69) went 4-2 against Texas (88-74) this season. Toronto and Tex-

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as were 1-2 in scoring runs in the second half of the season when Toronto went 48-23 and Texas 46-28.

Both managers have only confirmed their starters for the first two games of the series. Gibbons said one of R.A. Dickey and Marco Estrada will pitch Game 3. Stroman used social media to announce his Game 2 start.

“Tore my ACL, finished my degree from @DukeU, rehabbed my knee in 5 months, and now pitching in Game 2 of the .ALDS. Crazy excited!” he tweeted Tuesday.

Hamels threw a complete game Sunday in Texas’ regular-season finale, a 9-2 win over the Angels that clinched the AL West title.

The Rangers have won their past 10 games started by Hamels, who is 7-1 in 12 starts since being acquired from Philadelphia in late July.

The two Texas pitchers have fared differently against the Jays in a limited number of meetings Gallardo (13-11, 3.42 ERA) won both of his starts this season against Toronto, pitching 13 2/3 scoreless innings.

Toronto managed just six hits while batting 136 against him. Gallardo is 3-0 with a 1.33 ERA all-time against the Jays.

Hamels is 0-2 with a career 6.97 ERA in four starts against the Jays. On the plus side, his post-season ERA is 3.09 against all teams.

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Late catch gets Argos the win

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Argonauts 38 Redblacks 35 OTTAWA — If you going to win in dramatic fashion, you might as well do it with some pizzazz.

Chad Owens made a one-handed catch in the end zone with 25 seconds left to play to give the Toronto Argonauts a key 38-35 win over the Ottawa Redblacks on Tuesday night.

Owens was left virtually unmarked with Toronto trailing 35-31 in the final minute of play. He broke open in the end zone but still had to make an acrobatic play to bring the pass from Trevor Harris down and in control.

“Unbelievable. I was watching it the whole way and I thought there was no way he would get to that. Just an amazing play by a great player and that’s what you count on,” Argonauts coach Scott Milanovich said, thinking the pass was overthrown.

“I’m proud of the win, how we stuck together and found a way to have a three minute drive at the end to get the win against a real good team.

Harris passed for five touchdowns — including Owens’s late 10-yard strike — to give the Argonauts (8-5) their second straight win lead and a share of the division lead with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Ottawa had a scary moment in the dying seconds of the game after Owens’ highlight-reel play. Quarterback Henry Burris was hit awkwardly as he went to throw on the second-to-last play of the game and was down for a while. Thomas DeMarco came in to finish the game.

“I’m going to be fine. It was just scary on impact when I kind of felt the shoulder move. It’s a good thing I have good offensive training in the off season. It helped keep me healthy in this case,” said Burris, who is coming off

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Ottawa Redblacks’ Justin Capicciotti, left, and Abdul Kanne, right, Argonauts’ Brandon Whitaker during first quarter CFL action in Ottawa on Tuesday.

Top Performer of the Week and Month honours.

“I’ll be back next week.”

Burris threw two TDs and 250 yards for the Redblacks (8-6). Chris Milo had four field goals and converted three touchdowns, but it wasn’t enough as the Redblacks fell to third place in the division.

Toronto was officially the home team for the crucial CFL East matchup even though the game was held in Ottawa.

The Argonauts could not play at home because Rogers Centre was being used by the Toronto Blue Jays who are in Major League Baseball’s play-

offs for the first time since 1993.

Following a three-yard touchdown run by Ernest Jackson that gave the Redblacks a 35-31 lead with less than three minutes to play, Harris led the Argos downfield for the winning score.

“They ended up making one more play than we did to win a tough football game,” Redblacks coach Rick Campbell said. “We’re very disappointed, but there’s a lot of important football games coming up. We’re going to take a couple of days to catch our breath here and get right back at it.”

The Redblacks got off to a flying start, driving 57 yards on the opening possession of the game.

Jeremiah Johnson ran the ball in from two yards out for the touchdown right after Ernest Jackson completed a 38-yard catch and run play with Burris, 15 of those yards coming with a pair of Toronto defenders on his back.

The Argonauts responded immediately, taking their first possession 79 yards down field, culminating in a six-yard touchdown pass from Harris to Kevin Elliot.

The big play on that drive was a 55-yard completion from Harris to Elliott, plus another 15 yards that was tacked on for a horse collar tackle by Ottawa defender Domaso Munoz.

An Ottawa punt on the ensuing series pinned the Argonauts deep in their end, but they moved the ball 98 yards on nine plays including the 15-yard touchdown pass from Harris to Tori Gurley that gave Toronto its first lead of the game at 10:06.

Milo kicked field goals of 20 and 21 yards before the end of the quarter, and then both teams traded field goals in the second quarter. Justin Palardy gave the Argonauts a 17-13 lead at 11:10 with his 27-yard three-pointer before Milo cut the lead to 17-16 with a 46-yarder on the last play of the half.

The Argos took the opening drive of the second half and turned it into a 16-yard touchdown pass from Harris to Vidal Hazelton.

At one point they were facing a firstand-25 scenario, but in two plays went to second-and-12 and then the touchdown. The Redblacks finished the quarter strong thanks to a 46-yard field goal from Milo and a 32-yard touchdown pass from Burris to Greg Ellingson to give the Redblacks a 26-24 lead after three quarters.

Harris connected with Brandon Whitaker on a four-yard scoring play early in the fourth quarter to give the Argos a 31-26 lead.

Romania stuns Canada in comeback at RWC

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LEICESTER, England — Romania produced the biggest comeback in Rugby World Cup history to rally from a 15-point deficit and beat Canada 17-15 in a Rugby World Cup Pool D match on Tuesday, clinching the dramatic victory with a nerveless late penalty from centre Florin Vlaicu.

It was not as dramatic as France’s semifinal comeback against New Zealand at the 1999 World Cup, where the French trailed 24-10 before triumphing 43-31. But it was certainly tension-filled at Leicester’s City Stadium, as Vlauci held his nerve to land the winning kick with three minutes left.

Canada was in control when left winger DTH Van Der Merwe scored late in the first half — his fourth try of the tournament — and right winger Jeff Hassler crossed four minutes after halftime.

But Romania’s bold decision to forsake penalty kicks for attacking lineouts and scrums paid off.

Canada played the last eight minutes with a man down after flanker Jebb Sinclair was sin-binned, and paid a serious price. Four missed shots at goal and too many wasted attacking chances also cost the Canadians.

“We said if we could stay within 14 points going into the last 20 minutes we knew we’d get the chance,” Roma-

nia coach Lynn Howells said.

“We saw that — Canada’s wide game fell apart.”

Still, it needed an inspired individual performance to get them going and captain Mihai Macovei delivered it for Romania with two tries, the No. 8 bundling over the line for his second with five minutes left.

“He’s a captain that leads by example, even when we did struggle he was able to pull everyone together,” Howells said.

Canada’s players appealed for a double-movement on the second try, but referee Wayne Barnes awarded it after asking for a television referral.

Vlaicu — who missed two firsthalf penalty attempts — added the extras and there was just one point in it.

After Canada’s scrum was penalized in the 78th minute, Vlaicu calmly guided his kick through the posts to send the Romania fans into celebrations.

“He’s the top point scorer in Romanian rugby and he deserves that,” Howells said.

Romania has four points and can still finish in third place in the group — assuring automatic qualification for the 2019 World Cup — if it beats Italy next weekend.

Canada has played some great attacking rugby at this tournament, but it has also thrown away game-winning positions, having led 10-0 against Italy before losing 2318.

“We did some pretty naive

things in the last 30 minutes,” Canada coach Kieran Crowley said. “Romania deserved to win.”

Van Der Merwe showed his clinical finishing skills, side-stepping left and then cutting back right for his fourth try of the tournament and 20th in tests to make it 8-0 after 33 minutes. Van Der Merwe has scored in every pool game and only New Zealand’s Julian Savea has more with five tries.

Hassler, too, showed great strength to break two tackles to make it 15-0 early in the second half.

Then it all went wrong.

“We got a try straight after halftime and then the wheels fell off,” Crowley said. “We’re just not good enough in the final plays. We just have to get better.”

Scrumhalf Gordon McRorie landed only one of three penalties and missed a conversion in the first half. Flyhalf Nathan Hirayama took kicking duties after the break, and although he converted the second try he also missed a penalty.

It was a scrappy early on, not helped by the wet conditions caused by a downpour before kickoff.

The Oaks got their first chance for points when Canada collapsed the scrum but Vlaicu’s effort from near halfway fell short. His next longrange effort missed, too, but he was saving his best for last.

Howells said the players

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Romania’s Ionut Botezatu is tackled by Canada’s Conor Trainor, centre, and Jebb Sinclair during the Rugby World Cup Pool D match between Canada and Romania at the Leicester City Stadium, Leicester, England, Tuesday. would celebrate in moderation.

“They’ve earned the right,” he said. “They’ll have a beer but it won’t be to any great ex-

tent.”

For now.

The celebrations promise to be wilder if Romania beats Italy.

Canucks want to show last season’s playoff run was no fluke

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks want to prove last year wasn’t a fluke.

Not expected to be a playoff team by many observers after one disastrous campaign under John Tortorella, Vancouver finished a surprising second in the Pacific Division in 2014-15 with 101 points before losing out in the first round to the Calgary Flames in a tight six-game series.

That step forward aside, there’s a similar negative feeling surrounding the Canucks heading into this season — a sentiment that, not surprisingly, isn’t shared inside the locker-room.

“No one gives us credit and no one thinks we’re going to make the playoffs,” veteran winger Chris Higgins said recently. “Staying together as a team and just worrying about ourselves and not what’s being talked about our team is going to be key.”

Despite last season’s success, the Canucks are a franchise of two minds — wanting to compete for a playoff spot while also bringing younger players into the fold to compliment a veteran core led by Henrik and Daniel Sedin.

General manager Jim Benning added forwards Brandon Sutter and Brandon Prust in the off-season with an eye towards physicality and speed while saying goodbye to forwards Zack Kassian and Nick Bonino, defenceman Kevin Bieksa and goalie Eddie Lack.

“Last year when I watched our team, I felt like we were a little bit in between,” said Benning. “We weren’t

fast enough to get in on the forecheck and we didn’t spend enough time in the other team’s end.”

Head coach Willie Desjardins said he’s especially excited to have Sutter, who signed a five-year extension with the Canucks after coming over in a trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins, in the fold as his likely No. 2 centre.

“He’s a player that wins. He finds ways to win,” said Desjardins. “He’s not super flashy. He’s not a guy that you rave about offensively, but he’s a guy you can win games with.”

Bo Horvat should have an increased role in his second year, likely centring the third line and getting time on the power play. Vancouver could also to keep one or both of its 2014 first-round picks, Jake Virtanen and Jared McCann, for at least nine-game auditions before having to decide whether or not to send them back to junior.

Brendan Gaunce, a 2012 first rounder, made a strong case to be a part of Desjardins’ plans when the season starts Oct. 7 in Calgary before being assigned to the AHL on Friday, while Sven Baertschi looks to be locked into a spot up front.

“When you hear people talking about us getting younger and looking at that as a negative, I think it’s a positive for us,” said Henrik Sedin. “(There’s) a lot of excitement. A lot of players have upside.”

Ryan Miller is back as the Canucks’ No. 1 goalie after missing most of the second half of last season with a knee injury. Jacob Markstrom will serve as the backup following a strong campaign in the AHL that convinced the Canucks they could afford to part with Lack.

Meanwhile on defence, Matt Bartkowski was signed in free agency to

add some speed to a unit that still includes Dan Hamhuis, Alexander Edler, Christopher Tanev, Luca Sbisa and Yannick Weber.

And while Benning said he believes he’s improved his roster, the same can be said for many of Vancouver’s closest rivals.

Calgary added forward Michael Frolik and defenceman Dougie Hamilton, the Los Angeles Kings acquired

forward Milan Lucic and will be rested and restless after missing the playoffs last season, while the Edmonton Oilers grabbed generational talent Connor McDavid with the first pick in the draft.

“I think our team is better now than it was last year,” said Benning.

“But we’re dealing with all the other teams in our division getting better, too.”

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF GA Pt Prince Albert 5 4 1 0 0 23 23 8 Brandon 5 3 1 0 1 21 9 7 Moose Jaw 3 2 0 1 0 11 7 5 Saskatoon 4 1 0 3 0 18 16 5 Swift Current 4 1 2 1 0 6 13 3 Regina 4 1 3 0 0 4 14 2

Red Deer Calgary Lethbridge Medicine Hat Edmonton Kootenay

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF GA Pt 5 4 1 0 0 21 13 8 5 4 1 0 0 14 10 8 5 3 2 0 0 21 15 6 5 2 2 1 0 18 21 5 4 1 2 1 0 9 14 3 5 1 4 0 0 11 17 2

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF GA Pt Kelowna 7 5 2 0 0 34 29 10 Victoria 4 4 0 0 0 19 9 8 Vancouver 5 3 1 0 1 20 21 7 Prince George 3 1 2 0 0 6 7 2 Kamloops 4 0 4 0 0 9 20 0

Spokane Everett Tri-City Seattle Portland

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt 3 2 1 0 0 12 12 4 3 2 1 0 0 6 6 4 3 1 1 1 0 13 15 3 3 1 1 1 0 11 10 3 3 0 3 0 0 7 13 0

Tuesday’s results Brandon 8 Vancouver 3 Kelowna 6 Medicine Hat 5 Prince Albert 5 Kootenay 3 Lethbridge 5 Red Deer 2 Spokane at Victoria, late Wednesday’s games Vancouver at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.

Tri-City at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Spokane at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

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

Vancouver at Regina, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Red Deer at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.

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

Spokane at Portland, 8 p.m.

Pittsburgh Washington

Victoria at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

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Tuesday’s summary Hurricanes 5, Rebels 2 First Period 1. Lethbridge, Wong 6 (Burke, Estephan) 7:52 (pp).

Penalties — Shmoorkoff RD (slashing) 6:28, Burke Let (tripping) 9:29, Johnson RD (cross-checking) 19:42, Nielsen Let (cross-checking) 19:42.

Second Period 2. Lethbridge, Babenko 2 (Gutierrez, Pankewicz) 9:52.

3. Red Deer, Hagel 1 (Kopeck, Strand) 12:09 (pp).

4. Lethbridge, Nielsen 1 (Estephan, Burke) 15:32 (pp).

Penalties — Doetzel RD (high-sticking) 7:51, Estephan Let (tripping) 10:35, Doetzel RD (interference) 13:43, Fleury RD (cross-checking) 14:22, Bobyk RD (cross-checking) 19:58.

Third Period 5. Lethbridge, Nielsen 2 (Burke) 9:24 (pp).

6. Red Deer, Musil 1 (Bleackley, Spacek) 18:39 (pp).

7. Lethbridge, Wong 7 (unassisted) 19:00 (-EN).

Penalties — Doetzel RD (charging) 8:14, Folk Let (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 10:11, Bobyk RD (boarding) 10:11, Merezhko Let (slashing) 14:14, Vandervlis Let (high-sticking) 17:46, Vandervlis Let (interference) 19:41.

Shots on goal Red Deer 13 4 12 — 29 Lethbridge 9 19 12 — 40 Goal — Red Deer: Martin (L, 0-1-0) Lethbridge: Sittler (W, 0-1-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Red Deer: 2-5 Lethbridge: 3-6.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Boston 0 0 0 0 0 Buffalo 0 0 0 0 0 Detroit 0 0 0 0 0 Florida 0 0 0 0 0 Montreal 0 0 0 0 0 Ottawa 0 0 0 0 0 Tampa Bay 0 0 0 0 0 Toronto 0 0 0 0 0

GF GA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Carolina 0 0 0 0 0 Columbus 0 0 0 0 0 New Jersey 0 0 0 0 0 N.Y. Islanders 0 0 0 0 0 N.Y. Rangers 0 0 0 0 0 Philadelphia 0 0 0 0 0

GF GA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Chicago 0 0 0 0 0 Colorado 0 0 0 0 0 Dallas 0 0 0 0 0 Minnesota 0 0 0 0 0 Nashville 0 0 0 0 0 St. Louis 0 0 0 0 0 Winnipeg 0 0 0 0 0

GF GA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Arizona 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Calgary 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Edmonton 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Los Angeles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 San Jose 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Vancouver 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Wednesday’s Games Montreal at Toronto, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Calgary, 8 p.m.

San Jose at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Winnipeg at Boston, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

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

Edmonton at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Carolina at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Colorado, 7 p.m.

NHL Stanley Cup Champions since 1967 10 — Montreal Canadiens 5 — Edmonton Oilers 4 — Detroit Red Wings 4 — N.Y. Islanders 3 — Boston Bruins 3 — Chicago Blackshawks 3 — New Jersey Devils 3 — Pittsburgh Penguins 2 — Colorado Avalanche 2 — Los Angeles Kings 2 — Philadelphia Flyers 1 — Anaheim Ducks 1 — Calgary Flames 1 — Carolina Hurricanes 1 — Dallas Stars 1 — N.Y. Rangers 1 — Tampa Bay Lightning

Hamilton Ottawa Toronto Montreal

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

West Division GP W L T x-Calgary 14 11 3 0 x-Edmonton 14 10 4 0 B.C. 13 5 8 0 Winnipeg 14 4 10 0 Saskatchewan 14 2 12 0 x — clinched playoff berth.

PF 430 354 350 280

PA 269 376 383 282

Pt 16 16 16 10

PF 370 350 314 269 342

PA 290 261 365 401 432

Pt 22 20 10 8 4

WEEK 16 Tuesday’s result Toronto 38 Ottawa 35 (relocated from Toronto) Friday’s game 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.

Tuesday’s summary Argonauts 38, Redblacks 35 First Quarter Ott- TD Jeremiah Johnson 2 pass from Henry Burris (Chris Milo convert) 13:05.Tor- TD Kevin Elliot 6 pass from Trevor Harris (Justin Palardy convert) 11:28.

Tor- TD Tori Gurley 15 pass from Harris (Palardy convert) 4:54.

Ott- FG Milo 20 1:54.

Ott- FG Milo 21 0:00.

Second Quarter Tor- FG Palardy 27 3:29.

Ott- FG Milo 46 ):00.

Third Quarter Tor- TD Victor Hazelton 16 pass from Harris (Palardy convert) 11:24.

Ott- FG Milo 46 5:40.

Ott- TD Greg Ellingson 33 pass from Burris (Milo convert) 0:56.

Fourth Quarter Tor- TD Brandon Whitaker 4 pass from Harris (Palardy convert) 11:42.

Ott- Safety. 6:58.

Ott- TD Ernest Jackson 3 pass from Burris (Milo convert) 2:18.

Tor- TD Chad Owens 9 pass from Harris (Palardy

convert) 0:24.

Ottawa 13 Toronto 14

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Canadian Football League Scoring Leaders (x—scored two-point convert): TD C FG S J.Medlock, Ham 0 42 30 5 R.Paredes, Cgy 0 18 35 6 B.Bede, Mtl 0 15 31 10 P.McCallum, Sask 0 17 29 4 R.Leone, BC 0 22 23 9 L.Hajrullahu, Wpg 0 15 22 10 G.Shaw, Edm 0 19 21 8 C.Milo, Ott 0 23 17 1 x-Je.Johnson, Ott 8 2 0 0 K.Stafford, Edm 8 0 0 0 x-C.Marshall, Wpg 7 6 0 0 R.Pfeffer, Tor 0 11 12 2 x-E.Rogers, Cgy 7 4 0 0 x-K.Elliott, Tor 7 2 0 0 T.Gurley, Tor 7 0 0 0 x-R.Bagg, Sask 6 4 0 0 x-H.Burris, Ott 6 2 0 0 x-A.Collie, BC 6 2 0 0 x-A.Harris, BC 6 2 0 0 x-K.Lawrence, Edm 6 2 0 0 D.Alvarado, Ott 0 4 11 0 National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct New England 3 0 0 1.000 N.Y. Jets 3 1 0 .750 Buffalo 2 2 0 .500 Miami 1 3 0 .250

Indianapolis Tennessee Houston Jacksonville

W 2 1 1 1

South L T 2 0 2 0 3 0 3 0

Cincinnati Pittsburgh Baltimore Cleveland

W 4 2 1 1

North L T 0 0 2 0 3 0 3 0

W 4

West L T 0 0

Denver

Oakland San Diego Kansas City

35 38

Pt 137 129 118 108 100 91 90 75 50 48 48 49 46 44 42 40 38 38 38 38 37

Saturday

PA 70 55 92 101

Pct .500 .333 .250 .250

PF 72 89 77 62

PA 93 77 108 107

Pct 1.000 .500 .250 .250

PF 121 96 93 85

PA 77 75 104 102

2 2 3

0 0 0

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Major League Baseball Playoffs WILD CARD Tuesday, Oct. 6: Houston 3, New York 0 Wednesday, Oct. 7: Chicago (Arrieta 22-6) at Pittsburgh (Cole 19-8), 6:08 p.m.

108 110 125

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Dallas 2 2 0 .500 95 N.Y. Giants 2 2 0 .500 102 Washington 2 2 0 .500 78 Philadelphia 1 3 0 .250 78

PA 101 82 79 86

Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans

W 4 4 1 1

South L T 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 0

Pct 1.000 1.000 .250 .250

PF 108 137 72 86

PA 71 93 117 104

Green Bay Minnesota Chicago Detroit

W 4 2 1 0

North L T 0 0 2 0 3 0 4 0

Pct 1.000 .500 .250 .000

PF 113 80 68 66

PA 71 73 125 96

W 3 2 2 1

West L T 1 0 2 0 2 0 3 0

Pct .750 .500 .500 .250

PF 148 74 87 48

PA 73 89 71 110

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 Monday, Oct. 12 Pittsburgh at San Diego, 6:30 p.m.

Pct 1.000

PF 97

Central Alberta, 11 a.m., Lacombe.

• Rodeo: Foothills Cowboys Association Finals, 1 and 7 p.m., Westerner Stockmens Pavilion.

• Midget AA hockey: Calgary Bruins at Central Alberta, 2 p.m., Stettler; Calgary Canucks at Olds, 7:30 p.m.

• College preseason basketball: Ramada Inns Classic at RDC — RDC Kings vs.

University of Northern B.C., 4 p.m., RDC Queens vs. Camrose Augustana, 6 p.m.; other games at noon and 2 p.m.

• WHL: Calgary Hitmen at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium.

• College hockey: NAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex.

• Heritage junior B hockey: High River at Three Hills, 8 p.m.

Sunday • College preseason basketball: Ramada Inns Classic at RDC — RDC Queens vs.

University of Northern B.C., 10 a.m.; second game at noon.

• Bantam AA hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer Steel Kings, 12:30 p.m., Kinsmen A. • Rodeo: Foothills Cowboys Association Finals, 1 p.m., Westerner Stockmens Pavilion.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Medicine Hat at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m.

Baseball

97 96 100

Arizona St. Louis Seattle San Francisco PF 119 95 110 65

2 2 1

Friday • College preseason women’s/men’s basketball: Ramada Inns Classic at RDC — RDC Kings vs. The King’s University, 4 p.m., RDC Queens vs. Grant MacEwan, 6 p.m.; other games at 2 and 8 p.m.

• Bantam AA hockey: Olds at Central Alberta, 6 p.m., Lacombe.

• Rodeo: Foothills Cowboys Association Finals, 7 p.m., Westerner Stockmens Pavilion.

• WHL: Red Deer at Calgary, 7 p.m., Saddledome (The Drive).

• Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.; Strathmore at Three Hills, 8 p.m.

• Midget AA hockey: West Central at Red Deer Elks, 8:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

• Peewee AA hockey: West Central at

Football GP 13 14 13 13

Thursday • High school football: Stettler at Rocky Mountain House, 4 p.m.; Sylvan Lake at Drayton Valley, 4 p.m.; Ponoka at Camrose, 7 p.m.

• College preseason basketball: Ramada Inns Classic at RDC — RDC Kings vs.

Montana State University, 8 p.m.

PA 69

DIVISION SERIES (Best-of-5 x-if necessary) American League Kansas City vs. Houston Thursday, Oct. 8: Houston at Kansas City (Ventura 13-8), 5:37 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 9: Houston at Kansas City (Cueto 4-7), 1:45 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 11: Kansas City (Volquez 13-9) at Houston, 2:10 p.m. x-Monday, Oct. 12: Kansas City at Houston, TBA x-Wednesday, Oct. 14: Houston at Kansas City, TBA Toronto vs. Texas Thursday, Oct. 8: Texas (Gallardo 13-11) at Toronto (Price 18-5), 1:37 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 9: Texas (Hamels 7-1) at Toronto (Stroman 4-0), 10:45 a.m.

Sunday, Oct. 11: Toronto (Estrada 13-8) at Texas

(Lewis 17-9), 6:10 p.m. x-Monday, Oct. 12: Toronto (Dickey 11-11) at Texas (Holland 4-3), TBA x-Wednesday, Oct. 14: Texas at Toronto, TBA National League St. Louis vs. Pittsburgh-Chicago winner Friday, Oct. 9: Pittsburgh-Chicago winner at St. Louis, 4:45 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 10: Pittsburgh-Chicago winner at St. Louis, 3:37 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 12: St. Louis at Pittsburgh-Chicago winner x-Tuesday, Oct. 13: St. Louis at Pittsburgh-Chicago winner x-Thursday, Oct. 15: Pittsburgh-Chicago winner at St. Louis Los Angeles vs. New York Friday, Oct. 9: New York (deGrom 14-8) at Los Angeles (Kershaw 16-7), 7:45 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 10: New York (Syndergaard 9-7) at Los Angeles (Greinke 19-3), 7:07 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 12: Los Angeles (Anderson 10-9) at New York (Harvey 13-8) x-Tuesday, Oct. 13: Los Angeles at New York x-Thursday, Oct. 15: New York at Los Angeles

Rugby RUGBY WORLD CUP At Sites In England and Wales

x-Australia x-Wales England Fiji Uruguay

PRELIMINARY ROUND POOL A MP W D L PF 3 3 0 0 126 3 3 0 0 105 3 1 0 2 73 4 1 0 3 84 3 0 0 3 27

PA 29 47 72 101 166

Pt 13 13 6 5 0

MP 3 3 3 3 2

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

L 1 1 1 2 2

PF 112 100 70 36 32

PA 56 60 82 88 64

Pt 11 10 8 4 0

MP x-New Zealand 3 Argentina 3 Tonga 3 Georgia 3 Namibia 2

POOL C W D 3 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0

L 0 1 2 2 2

PF 127 115 61 36 35

PA 40 51 83 107 93

Pt 14 10 6 4 0

POOL D MP W D L x-Ireland 3 3 0 0 x-France 3 3 0 0 Italy 3 1 0 2 Romania 3 1 0 2 Canada 4 0 0 4 x — advanced to second round.

PF 110 111 42 38 58

PA 26 39 66 97 131

Pt 14 14 5 4 2

South Africa Scotland Japan Samoa U.S.

Tuesday’s results At Leicester, England Romania 17 Canada 15 At Milton Keynes, England Fiji 47 Uruguay 15 Wednesday’s matches At London South Africa vs. U.S., 9:45 a.m.

At Exeter, England Namibia vs. Georgia, 1 p.m.

Friday’s match At Newcastle Upon Tyne, England New Zealand vs. Tonga, 1 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 10 At Newcastle Upon Tyne, England Samoa vs. Scotland, 7:30 a.m.

At London Australia vs. Wales, 9:45 a.m.

At Manchester, England England vs. Uruguay, 1 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 11 At Leicester, England Argentina vs. Namibia, 5 a.m.

At Exeter, England Italy vs. Romania, 7:30 a.m.

At Cardiff, Wales France vs. Ireland, 9:45 a.m.

At Gloucester, England U.S. vs. Japan, 1 p.m.

End of Preliminary Round

Transactions BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Promoted Chris Antonetti to president of baseball operations, Mike Chernoff to general manager and Derek Falvey to assistant general manager.

National League MIAMI MARLINS — Promoted Jeff McAvoy to vice-president-player personnel, Brian Chattin to assistant general manager and David Keller to director-pro scouting. Agreed to terms with OF Ichiro Suzuki on a one-year contract.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Signed F Sampson Carter.

FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed S Charles Godfrey and TE Tony Moeaki. Released TE Mickey Shuler.

Placed WR Devin Hester on injured reserve-return.

BUFFALO BILLS — Signed RB Dan Herron. Placed TE MarQueis Gray on injured reserve. Signed WR

Walter Powell to the practice squad.

CHICAGO BEARS — Placed C Will Montgomery on injured reserve. Signed T Nick Becton from the practice squad. Signed S Sherrod Martin. Signed DT Brandon Dunn and C Barrett Jones to the practice squad. Waived P Spencer Lanning and LB John Timu. Placed WR Jalen Saunders on the practice squad/injured list. Terminated the practice squad contract of DT Terry Williams.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed DL Ray Drew and DB Ty Zimmerman to the practice squad. Released DL Dylan Wynn and OL Garth Gerhart from the practice squad.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed DT Bruce Gaston to the practice squad.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Traded LB Gerald Hodges to San Francisco for C Nick Easton and a 2016 sixth-round draft pick.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed K Connor Barth. Signed WR Donteea Dye and DE Howard Jones from the practice squad. Placed DE T.J. Fatinikun on injured reserve. Released T Martin Wallace from the practice squad. Signed T Reid Fragel and DE Josh Shirley to the practice squad.

Canadian Football League

TORONTO RAPTORS

Barboza, Thompson combine for 29 points in Warriors’ preseason win over Raptors Leandro Barbosa scored 15 points, Klay Thompson added 14 and the NBA champion Golden State Warriors beat the Toronto Raptors 95-87 in a preseason game Monday night. DeMarre Carroll scored 15 points for the Raptors, who played in Vancouver on Sunday.

Raptors: Norman Powell scored 13 points on 6-of-8 shooting in the fourth quarter.… DeMar DeRozan scored 12 points.… Jonas Valanciunas had 10 re-

EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Signed RB Zach Bauman to the practice roster.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed DL Jamarkus McFarland, WR Desmond Lawrence, RGKR Jeff Scott, DL Roy Philon and DL Leon Mackey.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Recalled D Ville Pokka from Rockford (AHL). Assigned D Viktor Svedberg to Rockford. Placed D Michal Rozsival on long-term injured reserve.

COLORADO AVALANCHE — Signed F Jack Skille to a one-year contract. Reassigned F Dennis Everberg to San Antonio (AHL).

EDMONTON OILERS — Signed F Braden Christoffer to a three-year, entry-level contract.

MINNESOTA WILD — Placed RW Justin Fontaine on injured reserve. Assigned D Mike Reilly to Iowa (AHL). Placed C Jordan Schroeder on waivers.

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Claimed F Paul Byron off waivers from Calgary. Assigned G Dustin Tokarski, D Mark

bounds.… All-Star guard Kyle Lowry was given the night off to rest a sore right groin after Sunday’s game Warriors: NBA MVP Stephen Curry fouled out with 6:25 remaining in the third quarter. He went 5 of 7 from the floor, including 3 of 5 from long range, and finished with 14 points, four rebounds and two assists.… James Michael McAdoo scored all 10 of his points in the fourth quarter.… Marreese Speights had 12 points.

Star watch: Carroll, who played all 12 minutes, scored 10 points on 4-of-7 shooting in the first quarter.

Coaching debut: Warriors interim coach Luke Walton said his dad (Hall of Famer Bill Walton) advised him to call six different coaches and read six different books in preparation for his promotion.

Barberio and F Jacob De La Rose to St. John’s (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Acquired F Brian O’Neill from Los Angeles for a 2017 conditional seventh-round draft pick. Assigned D Seth Helgeson to Albany (AHL) and F Pavel Zacha to Sarnia (OHL).

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Claimed G Jean-Francois Berube off waivers from Los Angeles.

ST. LOUIS BLUES — Named Rob DiMaio director of player personnel.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Assigned C Mike Angelidis, G Kristers Gudlevskis, RW Jonathan Marchessault and D Luke Witkowski to Syracuse (AHL).

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Claimed D Frankie Corrado off waivers from Vancouver. Assigned D Scott Harrington to Toronto (AHL).

WINNIPEG JETS — Agreed to terms with F Thom-

as Raffl on a one-year contract.

American Hockey League CHARLOTTE CHECKERS — Assigned D Justin Agosta to Florida (ECHL). Released F Jared Staal.

ECHL IDAHO STEELHEADS — Announced D Zack Kamrass, F Cam Braes and F Emil Molin were assigned to the team from Texas (AHL).

READING ROYALS — Announced D Nick Luukko was been loaned to the team from Lehigh Valley (AHL). Announced F Jonathan Parker was been returned to the team after being released from AHL training camp. Released G Louie George from his tryout agreement.

LACROSSE National Lacrosse League COLORADO MAMMOTH — Signed F Jeremy Noble to a five-year contract.

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BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

A plan is progressing to develop, manage and market Central Alberta as a regional tourism hot spot.

Last week about 100 people involved in tourism, business and government met in Red Deer to provide input on the draft of the Central Alberta Tourism Destination Management Plan. Liz Taylor, executive of Tourism Red Deer, said the steering committee and consultants have been working for about a year on the plan for the region that includes 11 communities and stretches north to Ponoka, south to Olds, east to Stettler and west to Nordegg.

“Central Alberta for an awful long time has not come together and said

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‘WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO ATTRACT INVESTMENT. WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO GROW THE PRODUCT. AS ONE VOICE, WE HAVE A MUCH STRONGER VOICE FOR THE THINGS WE NEED TO GET DONE.’ LIZ TAYLOR, EXECUTIVE OF TOURISM RED DEER ‘how can we work together, how can we identify Central Alberta as a destination?’” said Taylor on Monday.

She said Central Alberta needs both an identity and a development plan for tourism in the region.

“We need to be able to attract investment. We need to be able to grow

CENTRAL ALBERTA the product. As one voice, we have a much stronger voice for the things we need to get done.”

She said recreational activities like trail systems for hiking, walking and biking, as well as local rivers to explore the region by water, are a few of the tourism opportunities already identified that could be built upon.

For example, infrastructure like washrooms, signage and ways to connect different trails could be examined.

Campgrounds could be located adjacent to waterways and more docks could be installed for boaters.

Taylor said right now tourism is disjointed in the region.

“We’ve got a bunch of activities but they’re not connected. They’re very

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Festival of Trees tickets on sale now Tickets are now on sale for the 22nd annual Festival of Trees, which will take place Nov. 26-29 at the Westerner in Red Deer.

The popular seasonal event that attracts thousands of people will raise funds this year for enhanced client care and services in medical specialty clinics at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.

The clinics provide a multidisciplinary approach to care for clients in Central Alberta living with multiple sclerosis, hepatitis, heart failure, anticoagulation therapies, specialized geriatric services, stroke prevention and complex medical conditions.

Over 2,000 clients per year access ambulatory services in the specialty clinics. This number is anticipated to double by 2024.

The Festival of Trees is a major community volunteer effort and has raised over $10 million over the past 20 years for health care in Central Alberta.

Tickets for specific events during the festival, such as the Festival business lunch, Festival of Wines, ‘Tis the Season Luncheon and Breakfast with Santa are available at Ticketmaster, at www.ticketmaster.ca Call 1-855-985-5000.

General admission tickets to the festival this year will be adults $10; seniors (60 and older) $6; youth 12-17 $6; children four to 11 $4; and three and under free. Parking will be $5 per day, or $16 for four days, $12 for three days and $8 for two days.

For more information about the festival and about ticket prices for the various events, go to www. festivaloftrees.ca or contact the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation at 403-343-4773.

Olds College turned down for county funding Red Deer County has turned down a $500,000 funding request from Olds College.

The agriculture-focused college is seeking donations to establish a dedicated fund to support a College Chair in Sustainable Agriculture and Innovation.

It is part of an initiative to establish the college as a leader in the animal health sciences, skilled trades and agriculture industries. A $2 million request was initially made, but the college reduced that to $500,000.

However, council rejected the request, pointing out the college was outside the county’s jurisdiction and did not qualify for funding out of the county’s reserves.

Unlike Red Deer College, which received a $500,000 county donation earlier this year, Olds College was not requesting money for a facility that could be used by the general public.

“I can’t see how it fits our mandate at all,” said Mayor Jim Wood.

Coun. Richard Lorenz agreed the request was outside the county’s responsibility, also pointing out

independent and they don’t tell the Central Alberta story.”

The Tourism Destination Management Plan is about 80 per cent complete and input from last week’s meeting will be incorporated.

By about December, the plan will go out to municipalities to figure out the next step in the tourism process and to identify opportunities to be part of the plan.

Taylor said last week was the first major community consultation on the plan and it will take a lot more communication and in-depth development.

“This is the start of a process and a very long process.

“Collectively Central Alberta will have a vision and a goal and we’ll have a plan that will take us at least the next 10 or 20 years.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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A cyclist goes through the corner as he descends the bike path that runs parallel to 40 Avenue at 55 Street. The forecast calls for warm temperatures and sunny skies through the week and into the long Thanksgiving Day weekend. the municipality will face costly infrastructure upgrades in coming years.

Council voted 6-1 against the request with Coun. Philip Massier the dissenting vote.

Red Deer speed limits set to change Speeds on city streets are changing in northeast Red Deer.

Starting on Oct. 14 speed limits on the 67 Street and 30th Avenue bend and on Riverside Drive are changing to improve safety and to address the new growth areas and intersections.

The speed limit on 30 Avenue from Timothy Drive to 150 metres west of Garden Gate on 67 Street will be reduced to 60 km/hr from 70 km/h.

On Riverside Drive from 49 Avenue to the 67 Street westbound ramp, the speed limit will change to 60 km/hr.

This is an increase from 50km/hr on the western section of Riverside Drive and a decrease from 70 km/h on the eastern section.

Drivers are asked to always obey the posted speed limit and to be aware of changes to on-street speed limit signage, which will have flags for the first couple of weeks alerting motorists to the change. The RCMP and Community Peace Officers will enforce the new speed limit changes.

The speed limit changes under the Traffic Bylaw Amendment were approved by council on Aug. 31.

Movie shot in Red Deer to be screened at Welikoklad Event Centre The locally-made movie Year After Year has racked up multiple award nominations in Alberta and the U.K. Now Central Alberta audiences can see it screened in Red Deer — where many of the scenes were shot.

The feature-length film, made by Ignition Films with assistance from Red Deer College’s Motion Picture Arts staff and alumni, is being shown every night until Thursday at RDC’s Welikoklad Event Centre in downtown Red Deer.

Year After Year is described as chronicling “the dissolving years of seven friends in their late 20s as they

attempt to navigate the tumultuous waters of hollow careers, lost ambition, forgotten dreams and the relationships that matter most.”

Based on a successful stage musical of the same name created by local residents Matt Grue, Curtis Labelle, Stephanie Ridge and Spenser Pasman, Year After Year was adapted for the screen

by Dustin Clark and shot in Red Deer, Innisfail, Edmonton and Vancouver.

The movie is an official selection of the Hamilton International Film Festival in November. After being nominated for five Alberta Film Awards earlier this year, it also received five nominations last month at the Portsmouth International Film Festival in the U.K. To date, the film has been shown in four countries.

Year After Year will be screened nightly at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 at the door.

Memoir recounts difficult childhood A B.C. author has written a memoir of life lessons and thoughts to ponder.

Surviving My Family, Thriving in Yours is called “a very open memoir”

by Normand Allan Richard.

The self-published book follows the ups and downs of Richard’s life, starting from his difficult childhood in Trail, B.C. with an alcoholic mother and abusive, angry father.

“My whole life is a series of learning lessons,” writes Richard in his Forward.

He proceeds to share his thoughts on family life, education, gaining safe-reliance, dealing with depression and many other topics.

“My intent is mostly directed to young families and children,” said Richard, who has included, along with his own story, mini-biographies on some of the people who inspired him, including Terry Fox, Malala and Mickey Mantle.

“The main focus of my book is to tell parents to share meals with their children and engage them often in positive conversation about family discipline, education plans, safe-sex and career plans.”

Richard, a Red Deer Rebels fan was planning to donate some of his book proceeds to the Rebels’ home opener.

Surviving My Family, Thriving in Yours is available for $15 by calling 1-778-4147797.

RCMP are trying to gather information about a man who died after being found in the south end of Rocky Mountain House early Monday morning.

At 4:50 a.m., Rocky Mountain House RCMP responded to the intersection of Hwy 11 and 42nd Avenue to assist Alberta Health Services.

The man was in medical distress and was transported to a local hospital where he later died.

Police said he may have died for reasons that are not considered criminal.

An autopsy was performed Tuesday afternoon and the medical examiner is conducting further tests.

The man has been identified, but police are not releasing his name at this time.

RCMP are continuing to assist the medical examiner’s office with the investigation and are interested in anyone who may have seen someone matching the man’s description in the Rocky Mountain House general area, between 12:30 and 4:50 a.m. on Monday.

The aboriginal male was described as about 47 years old, wearing a black ball cap with red markings, and a waist-length tan jacket.

He was last seen on Monday at 12:30 a.m. at a convenience store in Rocky.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Rocky Mountain House RCMP at 403-845-2881.

If people wish to remain anonymous, they can contact Crime Stoppers by 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or at www.tipsubmit.com.

Police search for witnesses

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer RCMP are looking for witnesses to a drive-by pellet gun shooting last week that led to the arrest of five youths.

On Sept. 30, police arrested the male youths after reports they were driving around the city pointing an imitation firearm at people and discharging it.

A release Tuesday from police, said they are looking for witnesses to help with their investigation. Anyone in the areas of 30th Avenue, Dunlop Street, 32nd Street, Lockwood Avenue and 40th Avenue between 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Sept. 30 are asked to contact the RCMP at 403-343-5575, or call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

The investigation is ongoing and charges are pending.

Didsbury student taking the federal politics plunge

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Didsbury high school student Scott Milne wants to add evidence policy-making to the constitution.

It’s the pet project of the Pirate Party of Canada candidate for Red Deer-Mountain View.

“I’m a big believer in the scientific method and it seems like a no-brainer,” said Milne.

The Grade 12 student has been interested in politics for a very long time. Milne said his father Bruce is very political and plays close attention to town politics.

The 18-year-old joined the Pirate

Party recently because of its policies on open government, government accountablility, copyright law, mincome and net neutrality.

The Pirate Party of Canada is part of an international SCOTT movement that MILNE began in Sweden in 2006. One of the founding principles was open government.

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RED DEER-MOUNTAIN VIEW Milne said he gave the party a second look because it expanded its platform to cover other areas. Milne said people can suggest their own policies on the party’s website.

“I am big on neutrality and freedom of information and digital privacy,” said Milne.

“I am a big supporter of mincome/ basic income guarantee.”

His family moved to Didsbury from Calgary when he was eight. Milne said he is interested in reading about trivia, facts and information especially on the Internet.

His parents were surprised that he threw his hat into the political ring but they are supportive of his run for federal office.

Milne knows his age may be a factor in his election chances but he is optimistic about his chances.

“Sometimes a young perspective can be good,” he said.

Also running in Red Deer-Mountain View are PC candidate Earl Dreeshen, Liberal candidate Chandra Kastern, NDP candidate Paul Harris and Libertarian candidate James Walper. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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TPP thrust into spotlight HARPER TOUTS LANDMARK DEAL AS OPPONENTS CALL FOR MORE DETAILS ON COMPENSATION

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

FEDERAL ELECTION

OTTAWA — Inside the Global Emissions System Inc. manufacturing plant in Whitby, Stephen Harper talked up the merits of a landmark trade agreement, one that the company’s vice-president thought could help his firm create jobs.

Outside, about two dozen auto workers from the nearby GM assembly plant in Oshawa toted signs wondering if that agreement was going to cost them their jobs.

In between, a Conservative supporter told the protesters to relax: they would soon see the full text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

“It’s no different than children. It’s no different than the petulant, fiveyear old brat that wants it all now,” the Tory supporter, who declined to identify himself, said to the union members.

The moment mirrored the battle that unfolded Tuesday on the feder-

al election campaign as the TPP was thrust into the spotlight.

The Tories pushed the economic merits of the 12-nation pact as part of their re-election bid, the NDP and Greens opposed it, saying it was bad for Canadians, while the Liberals said they wanted to see the actual TPP text before making any pronouncements.

Harper promised $1-billion to help the auto industry cope with the repercussions of the phased-in elimination of tariffs on some auto imports over five years — a sign opposition leaders argued that the pact would cost Canadian jobs. The money would be spread in equal $100 million annual payments for 10 years, and is contingent on the Conservatives getting re-elected on Oct. 19.

A day earlier, the government promised dairy farmers $4.3-billion over 15 years to compensate them for any lost

income as a result of concessions in the deal.

Under the program announced Tuesday, grants would be offered to companies that make firm commitments to build new auto assembly plants.

“The programs we have here are not compensation programs,” Harper said. “They are incentive programs to attract this kind of investment into the sector and keep this kind of investment in the sector.”

Speaking in Surrey, B.C., NDP Leader Tom Mulcair said Harper’s $1-billion pledge was an admission the deal would kill jobs in the auto sector.

“He’s just admitted it by talking about that sort of compensation.”

Mulcair also warned workers in the sector to be wary of promised cash from the Conservatives to help with any losses, pointing to Newfoundland and Labrador’s experience under the European Union trade deal.

The province believed a $280-million fund could be doled out easily

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to fishermen whose livelihoods were affected by the trade deal with the EU, but that the Conservatives have said the money was always meant for those who could prove they had lost out financially.

Former Newfoundland premier Danny Williams said in an interview that the Conservatives turned their backs on their “blanket commitment” to the fisheries industry in the province.

“Good trade agreements are good for the country if they’re negotiated properly, but you cannot trust what this man (Harper) is saying to you on that agreement,” Williams said.

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May said she worried the agreement would increase the cost of pharmaceutical drugs.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said he wanted to see the full text before making any pronouncements, arguing Harper “hasn’t done a very good job on talking to Canadians about the kinds of benefits that come from trade.”

Fahmy leaves Egypt for London

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Governor General David Johnston looks on as an aide-de-camp assists him with a difficult clasp as he invests Rosemary Sullivan, from Toronto, Ont. as an Officer of the Order of Canada during a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. A biography of Stalin’s daughter, by University of Toronto professor emeritus Rosemary Sullivan, has won this year’s $60,000 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction.

B.C. wife, husband ‘stuck’ after refugee claim rejected

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — A former British soldier married to a disabled Canadian woman may be forced to leave their Victoria home for the United Kingdom after a series of missteps and a snarl of red tape.

John Collins, 62, first made an application for refugee status when he entered Canada, based on alleged harassment in the U.K. by a member of the Irish Republican Army. The application was denied and he’s been ordered to leave by the Immigration and Refugee Board.

But Collins is the main caregiver for his wife, Anne, who is disabled and can’t work. He also doesn’t make enough money as a security guard to pay their bills while saving for airfare so both can return voluntarily to the U.K., said John.

“We are totally stuck,” said John.

“We are penned into the corner at the

moment, and the situation is getting worse day by day.”

“We just really need help but we want to also point out how unjust the whole thing has been,” added Anne, who’s 63.

Green party Leader Elizabeth May, who is running for re-election in the nearby riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands, said her staff is helping the couple, noting their situation isn’t unique, but is complicated.

The Collins married a decade ago and came to Canada from England in September 2012. When they arrived, John was denied entry and told that if he wanted to work in Canada he would have to return to the U.K. to apply.

After hours of questioning, and in frustration, Anne suggested he make a refugee claim.

A July Immigration and Refugee Board decision noted John served in the British special forces and he claimed a member of the IRA recognized him as a veteran at church. Af-

ter that, his house was flooded, hit by fire, vandalized and robbed, the board heard.

The decision said he hadn’t proven the events were ordered by the IRA, nor did Collins provide any “objective evidence” the IRA was pursuing British veterans. It ruled police acted on his complaint and he was unable to prove they couldn’t protect him.

The board ruled John was not a refugee nor in need of protection. He’s been told to leave by Nov. 6.

Refugee board spokeswoman Melissa Anderson said it’s rare for claims to be accepted from the U.K. because it’s not considered a refugee-producing nation by the Canadian government.

CAIRO — A Canadian journalist who fought terror-related charges in Egypt for nearly two years has finally begun his journey home.

Mohamed Fahmy tweeted a photo on Tuesday of himself with Canada’s ambassador to Egypt, Troy Lulashnyk, writing: “Canadian Ambassador Troy kindly escorted me to the gate at Cairo airport. A glorious end to our battle for freedom!”

Fahmy and two colleagues were arrested in Cairo in December 2013 while working for satellite news broadcaster Al Jazeera English and faced widely denounced charges.

A lengthy legal battle involving two trials and more than a year in prison for Fahmy finally came to an end when he was abruptly pardoned by Egypt’s president just over a week ago.

On Monday, Fahmy was told his name was removed from a no-fly list, clearing the way for his departure from Cairo.

Fahmy’s first stop is London, where he plans to meet with his high-profile lawyer, Amal Clooney, and take part in a few speaking engagements.

He is then expected to fly to Toronto, where he’s said he plans to urge political party leaders to make sure Canada does everything possible to help citizens detained abroad.

Fahmy has also been invited to meet with NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau ahead of the federal election on Oct. 19 and has said he’s eager to thank both politicians for their support during his ordeal.

The Conservative government said it was pleased that Fahmy was on his way home.

“Canada has worked tirelessly, at the highest levels, on Mr. Fahmy’s behalf. We are grateful that his long ordeal is over,” said Lynne Yelich, minister of state for foreign affairs.

“We look forward to Mr. Fahmy’s return and his reunion with family and friends. We wish him well as he embarks on a new chapter in his life.”

Fahmy moved to Canada with his family in 1991, living in Montreal and Vancouver for years before eventually moving abroad for work.

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Palestinian leader appeals for calm

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Cars parked at a business along Old Bush River Road in Columbia, S.C., are engulfed in floodwaters from the Saluda River on Oct. 5.

Ordeal far from over after historic floods

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Carolinas saw sunshine Tuesday after days of inundation, but it could take weeks to recover from being pummeled by a historic rainstorm that caused widespread flooding and 17 deaths.

Tuesday was the first completely dry day in Columbia since Sept. 24, but officials warned that new evacuations could be ordered as the huge mass of water flows toward the sea, threatening dams and displacing residents along the way.

“God smiled on South Carolina because the sun is out. That is a good sign, but … we still have to be cautious,” Gov. Nikki Haley said Tuesday after taking an aerial tour. “What I saw was disturbing.”

“We are going to be extremely careful. We are watching this minute by minute,” she said.

At least 15 weather-related deaths in South Carolina and two in North Carolina were blamed on the vast rainstorm. Six people drowned in their cars in Columbia alone, and several died after driving around safety barriers onto flooded roads.

Flooding is a concern wherever concrete covers soil that would otherwise act as a sponge in heavy rain. The multitude of waterways in the Midlands area — where the Broad and Saluda rivers come together to form the Congaree — made the state capital even more vulnerable.

Now officials are looking with concern to the Lowcountry, where several other rivers make their way to the sea, including the Santee and Edisto. Haley warned evacuations may be needed in several counties toward the coast, and noted that several rivers rising down-

stream of Columbia worried officials.

“We are seeing some stage of flooding with all of them,” she said, adding that none have crested.

Haley said it was too soon to put a price tag on the damage and it could be “any amount of dollars.” The Republican governor asked for and received a federal disaster declaration from President Barack Obama, freeing up money and resources for the state.

But South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican presidential candidate, promised on the Senate floor not “to ask for a penny more than we need” in federal aid, to avoid the “pile-on” seen in some previous disaster aid bills that were used to get financing for unrelated projects.

Water distribution remained a key problem Tuesday across much of the state. In Columbia, as many as 40,000 homes lacked drinking water, and the rest of the city’s 375,000 customers were told to boil water before using it for drinking or cooking, an order that Mayor Steve Benjamin said will likely be in effect for “quite some time.”

On the campus of the University of South Carolina, there was no floodwater in sight and the dorms had electricity and Wi-Fi. Brennan Maly was able to flush the toilet and use the shower and the university is handing out free bottled water for drinking.

And classes have been cancelled for the entire week.

“For the most part, it kind of feels like a very inconvenient way of camping,” said Maly, a 20-year-old sophomore. “It’s weird. I feel like there’s definitely a naive sense of, ‘Hey, we don’t have drinking water,’ while folks down the road are losing their homes.”

Search for answers begins in sinking of U.S. cargo ship

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — On board the 790-foot El Faro when it set out on its doomed voyage into the path of Hurricane Joaquin were five Polish workers whose job was to prepare the engine room for a retrofitting.

Could that work have caused the loss of power that led to the U.S. container ship’s sinking?

The vessel’s owners say they don’t believe so, but the question — along with the captain’s decision to plot a course near the storm — will almost certainly be part of an investigation launched Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board into the disaster near the Bahamas that may have claimed 33 lives.

“We don’t have all the answers, I’m sorry for that. I wish we did,” Anthony Chiarello, president and CEO of ship owner Tote Inc., told reporters. “But we will find out what happened.”

The 41-year-old El Faro was scheduled to be retired from Caribbean duty

and retrofitted in the coming months for service between the West Coast and Alaska, said Phil Greene, another Tote executive.

The El Faro and its equally aged sister vessel were being replaced on the Jacksonville-to-Puerto Rico run by two brand-new ships capable of carrying much more cargo and emitting less pollution.

When the El Faro left Jacksonville on Sept. 29, the five Polish workers came along with 28 U.S. crew members to do some prepatory work in the engine room, according to Greene. He gave no details on the nature of their work.

But “I don’t believe based on the work they were doing that they would have had anything to do with what affected the propulsion,” said Greene, a retired Navy admiral.

The NTSB dispatched a team from Washington to investigate.

“It’s just a tragic, tragic situation,” NTSB vice chairman Bella Dinh-Zarr said.

JERUSALEM — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called Tuesday for calm after several weeks of heightened unrest with Israel, saying his people had no interest in any further “escalation” and urging renewed dialogue.

The comments marked the Palestinian leader’s strongest attempt yet to restore calm after the worst outbreak of fighting in months, and came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to take even tougher measures to quell the violence.

The clashes erupted three weeks ago at the start of the Jewish new year and have turned more violent in recent days. Four Israelis were killed last week in shooting and stabbing attacks in Jerusalem and the West Bank, while Israeli forces have killed four Palestinians, including a 13-year-old boy, amid violent protests.

Both Abbas and Netanyahu are dealing with precarious domestic situations as they try to find a way out of the crisis.

Netanyahu is under heavy pressure, particularly from hard-liners in his governing coalition, to respond with a tough crackdown. Abbas, fed up with years of diplomatic paralysis and unpopular with his public, does not want to appear to be caving in to Israeli pressure. Yet neither man has an interest in seeing the violence spin out of control.

Speaking to senior officials of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Abbas said he has told the Israelis that the Palestinians don’t want “military and security escalations.” He said the message had been delivered to Palestinian security forces and activists but added that, “at the same time, we will protect ourselves.”

Abbas also said he was ready to renew dialogue with Israel, a topic that could come up during a gathering of international Mideast envoys from the U.S., Europe, Russia and the United Nations in Jerusalem on Oct. 14.

Clashes took place in several places across the West Bank on Tuesday.

In Qalandia, on the outskirts of Je-

rusalem, demonstrators hurled burning tires, rocks and a firebomb at Israeli forces, injuring one riot police officer, the Israeli military said. It said troops opened fire with rubber bullets and small .22-calibre rounds, shooting demonstrators in the legs. Clashes also erupted in the West Bank cities of Bethlehem, Nablus, Ramallah, Jenin and Hebron.

The Palestinian Red Crescent medical service said a 39 people were wounded, including a 17-year-old boy who was in serious condition after being shot in the abdomen.

But in a sign that things might be calming, there were no major incidents of violence in Jerusalem, police said.

In New York, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s office said he was “profoundly alarmed” by the violence and called for “urgent action” by both sides to ease tensions.

Israel has already beefed up its forces in Jerusalem and the West Bank in recent weeks and is under intense domestic pressure to do more. Thousands of Israelis, including three Cabinet ministers in his own party, demonstrated outside the prime minister’s residence on Monday night, demanding tough action.

On Tuesday, Netanyahu visited the site of a West Bank shooting where an Israeli settler and his wife were killed last week as they were driving and promised additional measures “to break this wave of terror like we broke previous waves of terror.”

Speaking at a nearby army base, he instructed the military to “change the way of thinking” about Palestinian attackers and said Israel will deploy ground and aerial cameras along major West Bank roads to help prevent further such attacks.

Netanyahu also alluded to recent criticism from West Bank settler leaders and their allies that he is not doing enough to guarantee their security.

“Leadership is needed from public leaders, including the settler movement, maybe first and foremost with the settler movement,” Netanyahu said. “We are in a continuing battle.

Such a battle does not need a fiery reaction. It needs a lot of strength, a lot of tenacity, a lot of restraint.”

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The NBC drama ‘Blindspot’ is about an amnesiac woman discovered in a duffel bag abandoned in Times Square. Her body has been covered in fresh tattoos, all of which are obscure clues linked to larger mysteries.

Must-see TV FROM ‘BLINDSPOT’ TO ‘SUPERGIRL,’ TV’S CROP OF ACTION SHOWS PACKS A PUNCH COMMENT

Summer blockbusters may be fading from the screen, but for anyone who loves action stories and action choreography, this fall’s television season is full of Halloween-come-early treats.

The idea that Hollywood is outpacing the movies has mostly been discussed in terms of the film actors who are signing up for TV shows they might have disdained in the past and the increasingly cinematic style some ambitious shows are adopting. But television is also catching up to the movies in another way, with a new group of shows proving that just because the screen is small doesn’t mean the action sequences don’t have a big impact.

The NBC drama Blindspot is about an amnesiac woman discovered in a duffel bag abandoned in Times Square. Her body has been covered in fresh tattoos, all of which are obscure clues linked to larger mysteries.

At first, Jane Doe (Marvel veteran Jaimie Alexander), as she’s known, is understandably tentative and traumatized. She’s confused about what’s happened to her and compliant as she’s taken through the paces of having her tattoos scanned and her body examined. But when she finds herself in danger, one thing about her past becomes very clear: at some point, someone trained Jane Doe to be a lethally effective fighter, and the training, if not the memory of how she received it, stuck. “I have a huge fight background, so my own skill set, aside from my character’s, definitely influence my performance, and makes it possible,� Alexander said at the Television Critics Association press tour in August, explaining the difference between Jane

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‘The Player’ is a story about a man named Alex (‘Strike Back’ star Philip Winchester, above) who is recruited by the mysterious Johnson (Wesley Snipes) to try to stop crimes while very wealthy people bet on the outcome.

Doe’s fight style and that of Lady Sif, the Asgardian warrior she plays in Marvel’s Thor movies. “I was a wrestler growing up. Lady Sif, her moves are very fancy, graceful, big and glittery, in a way. And this character’s hand-tohand combat, brutal efficient, quick and realistic.�

Her interest in action isn’t just professional. “I started the female (wrestling) team at my school to create an opportunity to learn self-defense for the young women in my grade and the grade below mine, and it just kind of started as a thing,� she said. “I’ve always been sort of an activist in pro

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jay Leno says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been easy to lure Francis Ford Coppola, Laurence Fishburne and other famous folks to his new car-centric TV show.

All he has to do is assure them that Jay Lenoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Garage, debuting tonight on CNBC, wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t veer off the road. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not gonna talk about show business or your career, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just going to talk about cars,â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; according to Leno. The usual response, he said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Great!â&#x20AC;?

The Detroit-born Coppola, for example, is a car enthusiast, with his 1988 movie about an independent automaker, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, just one indication of that.

And thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s this fun fact: Coppolaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s musician-father, Carmine, worked on The Ford Sunday Evening Hour, a radio series sponsored by automaker Ford.

In an â&#x20AC;&#x153;old Italian custom of the day, you named your son after your employer,â&#x20AC;? Leno said, hence the filmmakerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s middle name.

Another guest, Keanu Reeves, is a known gearhead with a start-up motorcycle company, giving Leno a chance to test the bike and hear about the actorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business plans.

Despite the celebrities sprinkled into each episode, Leno said, the show isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t designed as a star vehicle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mostly about interesting people and their relationship with automobiles, be it a love story or one about the first female drag racer,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The series also will look at the past and future of automobiles and showcase Lenoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s famed and extensive car collection. Car buffs, prepare to drool: On the electric side alone, he owns a 1909 Baker that can travel 128 kilometres on a charge and a Tesla with a 480km range.

A more tech-centric version of Jay Lenoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Garage began on YouTube about a decade ago, becoming so popular that Leno decided it was ready for prime time. The rocky moments of his tenure as Tonight Show host (he had the job, then he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, then he did again) had no effect on his returning to the NBC corporate fold.

CNBC simply is a good fit for Jayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Leno Garage, he said, with the right demographic. Or as he more colorfully put it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not housewives yelling at each other.â&#x20AC;?

Despite professing his loyalty to NBC, he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t resist taking a dig at the company when he talking to a TV criticsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; meeting in August. Discussing an episode in which he goes for a 160 km/h-plus ride in a self-driving car, Leno quipped, â&#x20AC;&#x153;NBC has been trying to kill me for years.â&#x20AC;?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obvious that Leno, unlike his guests, has no qualms about going off topic. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clearly glad to give a shoutout to his wife, Mavis, a longtime supporter of womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rights in Afghanistan. Her focus now is bringing women and girls to the United States to get the education no longer available to them at home, he said.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s willing to assess the current state of late-night, lauding his Tonight successor, Jimmy Fallon, as well as Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah, who he boasts about spotting early on and bringing to Tonight in 2012. But heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s critical of what he considers a â&#x20AC;&#x153;mean streakâ&#x20AC;? in Jimmy Kimmelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comedy, including videos of kids reacting tearfully to the parental theft of Halloween candy.

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“There are rules that let you do things and don’t let you do other things,” Winchester reflected in August of the difference between shooting action sequences for a cable network and working for a broadcast channel such as NBC. Strike Back, we got a lot more stuff when we were in South Africa, Budapest. But, having said that, NBC and Sony have been amazing, and they said, ‘If you want to get in there and ride that bike, you want to do that stuff, go ahead.’ ... This is a show where we’re bringing back ’80s action and we’re putting it television on a Thursday night, and we’re having a good time doing that.”

By “’80s action,” series creator John Rogers said he wanted to restore a sense of grandeur and pleasure to television action.

“The original idea was ... ‘ridiculous’ is a strong word. ‘Pulp’ is the word we really landed on when we were developing the show,” he said. “ ‘Pulp’ is any story that’s high-velocity, big characters making big decisions, big emotional stakes and every episode is a thrill ride. And it doesn’t matter what context it is. We just decided to do it within the genre of action ... you’re showing up to have a good time

“So when you see this movie, it’s their voices, it’s not my voice. So I feel like it’s very personal and it goes a level deeper than most movies.”

Guggenheim filmed over 18 months, in the United Kingdom, Nigeria, Kenya, Abu Dhabi and Jordon.

His three children, including two daughters, met Yousafzai and “love her,” he said.

“I think if I didn’t have daughters, I would have made a very different film, because at the core of it I wanted to answer this question I had, which is: What happened? How did this man, this father in Pakistan, 7,000 miles away from my home, create this daughter? Or how did they do it together?

Because I don’t believe he created her,” said Guggenheim.

“This inspiring man and this courageous daughter — what happened?

And how, as a father in Los Angeles, how am I going to do that? Because I find my daughters completely mysterious and confounding,” he continued with a laugh.

“Am I doing everything I can as a father? When I make a movie, I have to find a personal angle in, I have to answer questions for myself and I feel like if I do that, then I’ll make an interesting movie.

“If I’m detached from it, then I can’t.”

and have your fun ride, so we’re going to knock your socks off every week.”

That meant casting actors who had fight experience and wanted to be in the scrum themselves, and building a weapons training program for Charity Wakefield, who plays Johnson’s associate, the evocatively named Cassandra.

“We’re really drawing from everybody’s experience,” Rogers explained.

“Philip’s experience, doing Strike Back was crucial for the pilot ... It’s him running down Hollywood Boulevard in his underwear. It is him doing as much as he can. We were lucky enough to get Wesley, who is, of course, a fantastic martial artist. The stunt guys had a very easy day the day they had their fight.”

If The Player is looking back three decades for inspiration, Supergirl, Greg Berlanti’s forthcoming superhero show for CBS, reached across to another continent. Like her more famous cousin Superman, Kara Danvers (Melissa Benoist) is an exile from Krypton. But unlike him, she arrived on Earth as a young teenager, fully aware of how her powers would function on this new planet. And she chose to stay in hiding, rather than using those abilities to change the course of events in her new home.

To design an action style that would make use of the fact that Kara can fly, and that would express her joy once she finally does start using her powers, Berlanti and his colleagues turned to wuxia movies, specifically to Ang Lee’s 2000 masterpiece Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Kara can fly better than wuxia heroes, who are generally very skilled humans rather than actual superheroes, but wuxia provided a sense

of how she might move in the air. And it’s a genre of fight choreography that emphasizes delicacy and precision as much as brute force, which makes it a nice fit for a lithe young female hero, rather than Marvel and DC’s muscle-bound supermen.

Variety in action choreography might not be the most meaningful

form of diversity television can aspire to. But the different approaches new shows such as Blindspot, The Player and Supergirl are taking, along with Berlanti’s other superhero shows, Arrow and The Flash, mean that for action fans, an increasing number of nights are mustsee TV.

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“I think sometimes maybe in the West, we move past things that are so fundamental that we forget, like school. School’s annoying, we take it for granted, but for them, school was liberation, school was emancipation.”

Guggenheim built the family’s trust by first interviewing them off-camera, only recording audio.

Some of those audio-only interviews are heard throughout the film, accompanied by lyrical, hand-painted-style animation from Jason Carpenter.

“What I said to them was, ‘Let me help you tell your own story,”’ said Guggenheim, whose other films include Waiting for ‘Superman’ and It Might Get Loud.”

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Cameras follow Malala Yousafzai, 18, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban when she was returning from school in Pakistan’s Swat Valley in 2012. She was targeted for advocating for girls’ education along with her father, Ziauddin, who is heavily featured in the film. Also featured is Yousafzai’s mother, Toor Pekai, and brothers Khushal and Atal.

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He admits that while it’s not his intention, he ends up making movies about people he loves and things that inspire him, and that includes Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai and her family.

“I love them, I’m inspired by them and I want to express that,” Guggenheim said at the recent Toronto International Film Festival.

“I think if you were to make a political movie, you need to be more skeptical. But not this movie. I think sometimes an inspiring person is just an inspiring person, and what am I going to say — she didn’t floss? She doesn’t brush her teeth?

“I’ve made other political films. I chose to make that film and so I live by that choice and I wouldn’t change it.”

Guggenheim wrote and directed the doc, which opens Friday. Cameras follow 18-year-old Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban when she was returning from school in Pakistan’s Swat Valley in 2012.

She was targeted for advocating for girls’ education along with her father, Ziauddin, who is heavily featured in the film. Also featured is Yousafzai’s mother, Toor Pekai, and brothers Khushal and Atal.

Guggenheim interviews Yousafzai and her family about how she came to love school so much, and how her human rights activism has been aided by her father but has ultimately been her own choice.

Yousafzai also reveals her giddy teenage side when she talks about her everyday interests, including boys.

“What’s amazing about her is, because she’s very sophisticated, she’s a deep thinker and very spiritual — but she doesn’t have a bitterness to her and also, she believes in some simple truths,” said Guggenheim, who won an Oscar for the 2006 doc An Inconvenient Truth.

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WATSON FITCH Eugene (Gene) Harold Gordon Raymond Watson was born in Bracken, Dec. 28, 1938 - Oct. 3, 2015 SK, on Oct. 13, 1932, grew Gordon passed away with his up in the Pine Lake area, and wife Margaret by his side at spent his adult years in Red the Red Deer Regional Deer where he died Hospital on Saturday, peacefully on Oct. 3, 2015. In October 3, 2015. He leaves the late 1950s Gene to mourn his children Melanie partnered with his brother (Brian) and Greg; his Alan to form Watson grandchildren Monica and Brothers Plumbing & Heating Alex; brother Lorne (Cheryl) and, later, a construction and many close extended company, Swell Investments. family and friends. Gordon Over more than five decades farmed in the Centerville the two men completed many District since 1972. He was a buildings and developments member of the Burnt Lake in Red Deer, including part of Gas Co-op for 20 years, as the Morrisroe subdivision well as many other different (Red Deer’s first private sector organizations over the years. residential lot development), Gordon loved his friends and the Village Mall, Watson colleagues and will be dearly Towers, and Michener Manor missed by all. A Celebration (Red Deer’s first residential of Life and time of fellowship condominium). Gene was an for Gordon will be held at the active community volunteer, Sylvan Lake Royal Canadian especially with the Red Deer Legion Branch #212 on Elks Lodge #85 and the Saturday, October 10, 2015 Knights of Columbus. He from 2 PM to 5 PM. was an avid Edmonton Cremation entrusted to the Eskimos fan and season Rocky Mountain Crematorium, ticket holder, and he Rocky Mountain House, attended over 20 Grey Cups. Alberta. Donations in Gordon’s He enjoyed curling, golfing memory may be given to the and playing hockey, and was charity of donors choice. pleased to be the founding Condolences may be forwarded “Commissioner” of the Silver to: www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.ca Selects Old-Timer Hockey SYLVAN LAKE AND team. He loved spending ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES time at the family cabin at AND CREMATORIUM, Sylvan Lake, which he built. your Golden Rule Funeral A proud family man, Gene is Homes, entrusted with the survived by his beloved wife arrangements. of 56 years, Marguerite 403-887-2151 (Lerouge); his children and grandchildren: Michael (Maria Forte) and Alexander and Isabella of London, ON; In Memoriam Debbie-Jo and Christopher, Aydan, Meghan, and Nicholas of Red Deer; LisaJane (Peter Schoenberg) and Patrick and Suzanne of Edmonton; and, Anne Marie (Brad Baumgarten) and Joseph and Jennifer of Red Deer; brothers Ken (Elma) of Lacombe and Alan of Red Deer; brother-in-law Charles Nesbitt of Sydney, BC; as well as numerous nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his parents Harold and Agnes Joyce (Stephens) Watson; his sister Shirley Nesbitt; and his sister-in-law Myrna Watson. A prayer service will be held on LEWIS, Edward Thursday, October 8, at 7:00 Oct. 7, 2014 P.M. at Eventide Funeral Fondly loved and deeply Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red mourned Deer. Mass of Christian Heart of my heart, Burial will be celebrated by I miss you so.

Father Jozef Wroblewski on Often, my darling, Friday, October 9, at 1:00 my tears flow, P.M. at Sacred Heart Parish, Dimming your picture 5508-48A Avenue, Red before my eyes.

Deer. Funeral arrangements But never the one in my in care of Eventide Funeral heart that lies, Chapel. If desired, memorial The stars seem dim as donations may be made to I whisper low, My darling the Red Deer Hospice husband, I miss you so.

Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, It only takes a little space Red Deer, AB T4R 3S6.

To write how much we miss you But it will take the rest of our lives To forget the day we lost you.

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Hard to believe a year has passed so soon. Seems like just yesterday I was holding your hand. We love and miss you so very, very much.

Your forever loving wife, Rita, sons: Corey, Shaun (Randi), Myles (Sam), Mason (Sarah)

Celebrations

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Announcements the informative choice!

Classifieds 309-3300

Shauna, Shelley and Kim invite you to join us for a Birthday celebration In honor of our Mom Pat Blakely Please come for tea and refreshments.

Saturday, October 10, 2015 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Senior Center, 4908 - 50 Ave., Sylvan Lake, AB

Are you new to the neighbourhood?

Expecting a Baby?

Planning a Wedding?

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Caregivers/ Aides

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CHILD caregiver needed for 2 children in Red Deer.$11/hr. willing to do split shifts,days and nights rotation 44 hrs/wk. high school graduate,1-2 yrs exp. in child care. apply at frh1951@outlook.com

Clerical

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FULL time office position for data entry in Alix, AB. Require knowledge of Simply Accounting, and working knowledge of rural Alberta maps. See canpak@xplornet.ca

Call or visit us online!

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ICE CREAM

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Payroll Clerk must have experience with NavisionSerenic payroll systems.

Full cycle payroll for 150+ Employees. SE Calgary, AB. Email Resume to jobsnow@dcpu1.com Website: www.dcpu1.com

Professionals

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Senior Accounting Technician - Full Time We make this offer to Public Practice Accounting staff with 3 to 5 years experience in a public practice setting and at least a Business Administration diploma or equivalent.

Cornish Harder Niederle LLP offers a competitive base salary and benefits program. We take pride in the successes of our clients and staff.

Please respond with a detailed resume to the attention of: Dave Niederle, CA, Partner e-mail: dniederle@chnllp.com Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Is now accepting applications for the following full time position: ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN RECEIVABLES in our Rocky Mountain Restaurant/ House location You can sell your guitar Accounting Technician for a song...

Hotel Responsibilities & or put it in CLASSIFIEDS Qualifications: and we’ll sell it for you!

JJAM Management (1987) Duties include but not Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s limited to: Requires to work at these Process and maintain A/R Red Deer, AB locations: Lost Sap Business One 5111 22 St. experience mandatory 37444 HWY 2 S Working knowledge of MS 37543 HWY 2N CAT, Manx, lost Glendale 700 3020 22 St. area, Calico, small but full Office & Simply Accounting (2013) program is essential Food Service Supervisor grown. Has a chip. Call Able to work with minimal Req’d permanent shift 403-347-2863 supervision weekend day and evening Must have an accounting Classifieds both full and part time. designation Your place to SELL 4 Vacancies, $13.75 /hr. + Min of 3+ years accounting medical, dental, life and viYour place to BUY related experience sion benefits. Start ASAP. Preference will be given to Job description candidates who are highly www.timhortons.com organized, able to multi Personals Experience 1 yr. to less task, complete tasks in a than 2 yrs. timely fashion & Apply in person or fax ALCOHOLICS are team players resume to: 403-314-1303 ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 Please email resumes and JJAM Management (1987) a minimum of 3 references Looking for a place Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s to: resumes@ to live?

Requires to work at these newcartcontracting.com Take a tour through the Red Deer, AB locations: or fax resume to: CLASSIFIEDS 5111 22 St. 1-403-729-2396 37444 HWY 2 S *NO PHONE CALL COCAINE ANONYMOUS 37543 HWY 2N INQUIRIES PLEASE 403-396-8298 700 3020 22 St. FOOD ATTENDANT Coming Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening Events both full and part time.

16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Education and experience not req’d.

Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303 ANNUAL end of season half price sale, Fri. Oct. 9 starting at 5 p.m.

The Little Ice Cream and Soda Shoppe, 4030 50 St. Red Deer

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Office & Phones CLOSED MONDAY October 12, 2015

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Galaxy Plumbing & Heating is currently hiring plumbers who have exp. in residential plumbing.

Competitive wages, benefits after 3 months.

Please send resume to galaxyadmin@telus.net or fax to 403-347-4539.

Red Deer Advocate Publication Dates: SATURDAY October 9, 2015 TUESDAY October 13, 2015 Deadline is: FRIDAY October 9 @ 5 p.m.

Central Alberta Life Publication Date: THURSDAY October 15 Deadline is: THURSDAY October 8 @NOON

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.

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SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

Restaurant/ Hotel

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Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!

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Trades

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SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION Requires Full Time

Carpenters Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca STRONG Insulation Inc. Looking for exp. residential insulators w/drivers licence (Batt And Poly, Blow-in).

Call Curtis 403-307-7295 W.R. SCOTT Equipment, Red Deer, requires a driver yard person for small compact equipment yard. e-mail resume to: dbevan@ wrscottequipment.com or call Dan cell 1-780-717-8586

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PROFESSIONAL Truck Driver Position Available www.ads-pipe.com Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc., the world’s largest and most innovative manufacturer of HDPE drainage products is expanding and we are currently accepting applications for a certified Class 1 Driver, with a minimum of two (2) years experience.

ADS Drivers are required to safely operate company equipment and provide a high level of customer service, delivering our products within Alberta.

ADS Drivers are required to be drug free and maintain legal transportation paperwork and driving practices. This position requires a valid Class 1 License; with previous off road forklift and shipping /receiving experience a definite asset. We offer quarterly safety bonuses as well as a comprehensive medical plan.

Benefits include: * Company provided Canadian Benefits Package * Voluntary Dental Plan * Life Insurance Option Plan * Short-term/Long-term Disability Policy * Retirement Savings Plan (RSP) and Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) * Paid Vacation * Quarterly Safety Bonus All applicants are subject to a pre-employment physical and MVR check.

Interested Applicants may submit a resume, along with a current drivers abstract to: Advanced Drainage Systems Of Canada Inc. 4316 Gerdts Ave. Blindman Ind. Park Red Deer County, AB. T4S-2A8 Fax: (403) 346-5806 E-mail ken.mccutcheon @ads-pipe.com or jeremy.bunker@ ads-pipe.com Position closing date: Oct.9, 2015 BUSY Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers and/or Lease Operators.

We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and comm. abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net

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CARRIER SUPERVISOR

Now Hiring GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION FULL TIME

SUPERVISORS • Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities • Medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

The successful candidate will be responsible for the recruitment of carriers and the successful delivery of the Red Deer Express in Red Deer.

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.

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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VENANCE Patricia (Lee) 1953 - 2015 Patricia Venance was born in Ponoka, AB, and passed away in Red Deer, AB, after a lengthy illness on Thursday, October 1, 2015 at the age of 61 years. She leaves to mourn her sons; Jason and Curtis Huff, four sisters, two brothers, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

Patricia was predeceased by her parents; Sam and Edna Lee, two brothers, and two sisters.

The family would like to extend their thanks to Judy, Ted, and Bonnie. A Memorial Tea will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, AB, on Friday, October 9, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

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LOXAM Peggy Anne (Smith) Sept. 16, 1951 - Oct. 03, 2015 Peggy passed away at the Red Deer Hospice after a six month battle with cancer.

Peggy was born at the Red Deer General Hospital. She grew up and remained in Red Deer her entire life attending school at Central Elementary and Lindsay Thurber Composite High.

Peggy is survived by her loving husband of 43 years, Ed; her son, Jason, who she was very close to; sisters, Diane Jacobson of Red Deer, AB and Sharon Jaeger of Prince Albert, SK; several nieces and nephews; as well as several great nieces and nephews. At Peggy’s request, there will be no funeral. A gathering among friends and family may be announced at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations in Peggy’s memory may be made to the Red Deer Hospice, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4R 3S6. At this time, the family would like to extend their thanks to Dr. Grundling at the Easthill Medical Clinic for his friendship and help during a very difficult time. Peggy truly loved her Doctor! To Terry and staff from unit 32 at the hospital, Terry helped this family 25 years ago with a similar situation and was there for us each and every day. The Red Deer Hospice, what can a person say, the most incredible care and friendship offered to Peggy as well as the family. Special thanks for the meals and helping the family stay on their feet to be there for Peggy. We are truly blessed to have this facility in our community. A little extra thank you to Janice and Robyn for the adjusting they do to each person’s meals to allow them to eat the things they want.

Love Ed, Jason & Diane.

I cannot deny that, now I am without your company I feel not only that I am deprived a very dear sister but that I have lost half of myself. ~ Beatrice D’Este Love Diane

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NOW HIRING TRUCK DRIVER $25/HR Full Time , 44hrs/wk min 2 years experience req Please email resume tankmasterrd@gmail.com or drop off at Tankmaster Rentals (2012) LTD 117 Poplar St Red Deer Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

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BLUE WATER WASH is looking for an experienced leader to join our team in Red Deer in the role of Day Shift Supervisor.

Responsibilities include: -Leadership of the team - Building a positive team environment - Ensuring trailer washes meet specifications - Operating a yard truck - General maintenance Previous leadership experience is required. To join our team, please submit your resume to hr@slt.ca.

stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

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16 STORYBOOK classic DVD’s over 100 stories, very good cond. $35 403-314-9603

Clothing

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COAT, MINK, Ladies gold, size Tall. $50.

403-346-6539

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Electronics

LADIES chocolate brown Wii w/10 games and dance coat w/fleece lining and mat $140; DS Lite w/4 hood, size M, very good games $60 403-782-3847 cond., $15; UGG slippers size 5, new cond.

Equipment$30 403-314-9603 LADIES London Fog, reg.

10 size, cranberry pea coat, $50, 403-227-2976 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

LADIES size 4 1/2 Italian chocolate leather knee high boots, soft fits like a glove, $200 403-227-2976 MOTORCYCLE Jacket, black leather, size M. in good cond. $40.

403-346-6539

Heavy

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1605 Tools 1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

TABLE SAW, DELTA 10” Contractors Series 2000, with biasemeyer fence.

403-350-6589

SEASONED split poplar firewood, $50.00 1/2 ton load call 403-728-3485

Spruce, Pine, Aspen - Split.

Avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

ELECTRIC DRILLS, 3/8”, (5) $20. Each.

403-314-0804

B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

SKILL SAW, Craftsman 7.25, $50. 403-314-0804

FIREWOOD, North of Costco. 403-346-7178

10 cu. ft. upright deep freeze, $200.

403-346-4155

Household Furnishings

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ESTATE SALE - misc. items. 587-377-6988 PROPANE heater for inside travel home, works good $150 obo 403-314-0804

DOUBLE/queen size heavy duty steel bed frame 72”L, adjust to 54-60-78” wide, 6 casters (2 locks) $40 403-346-6539

CARPET CLEANING TECHNICIAN

TABLE, 45” round, glass top bistro with 4 chairs. $70. 403-877-0825

Learn under the personal direction of one of North America’s experts in restorative cleaning!

LARGE collection of Model Toys, every tool made to run a household. Guns, gun cabinets etc. Selling due to health reasons.

Viewing by appt. only.

403-343-2722, 391-1796

services CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430 To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

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Contractors

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BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

TEAK wood coffee table 36” round, one of a kind, $40 ***SOLD*** Morrisroe

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

WANTED

CONCRETE???

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

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DINING ROOM SET with 4 chairs & leaf, exc. shape. nice top with light wood around side, brass legs on chairs. $150 403-346-4155

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2 BROWN wooden end tables $45/ea.

403-346-7825

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

Needed highly motivated, energetic person to help in busy shop in Sylvan Lake.

Must have a class 5 license, a class 1 would be a asset but not required. Jobs would include sweeping shop, cleaning office, organizing shelves and travelling to get parts for mechanic and helping them with jobs. For more info call Debbie 780-706-5121 between 8:00 and 5:00

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Household Homestead Firewood Appliances AFFORDABLE

GROW WITH US Excellent Salary with Benefits

F/T DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

FREE BLACK POPLAR logs. You pick up.

Very close to Red Deer.

403-392-8385.

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Tools

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

VARIETY of miscellaneous tools, $20. For ALL. 403-885-5020

Firewood

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Firewood

We’ll do it all...Free est.

Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197

Massage Therapy

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FANTASY SPA

Elite Retreat, Finest in VIP Treatment.

10 - 2am Private back entry

403-341-4445

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Services

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5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 505-4777

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DALE’S Home Reno’s DUMP RUNS, ODD JOBS, Free estimates for all your METAL P/U 403 550 2502 reno needs. 403-506-4301 GARAGE Doors Serviced 50% off. 403-358-1614 14” Citizen Tube tv w/DVD player $50; 27” Tube tv w/entertainment stand Window Entertainment $50 403-782-3847 Cleaning

Stereos TV's, VCRs

Salary and Benefits based on skill set and experience

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SPECIALTY PRESSURE SERVICES LTD

Drop off or mail resume + driver’s abstract to MancusoCleaning #8-7428-49 Ave Red Deer, T4P 1M2 www.mancusocleaning.com

Now accepting resumes for shop workers for general labour positions and Bop Technicians.

Apply at 3130 Queens Land Cres. Red Deer, AB. Resumes can be dropped off between the hours of 8 am and 5 pm. Suitable applicants will be contacted for interviews.

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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

DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606

Handyman Services

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BEAT THE RUSH! Book now for your home projects.

Reno’s, flooring, painting, small concrete/rock work, landscaping, small tree cutting, fencing & decking.

Call James 403-341-0617

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ROBUST CLEANING SERVICES - Windows, eavestroughs, vinyl siding.

Pckg. pricing, free quotes.

403-506-4822

Yard Care

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FALL cleanup. Tree/junk removal. Snow removal contracts welcome.

403-358-1614

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ADVERTISE YOUR VEHICLE IN THE CLASSIFIEDS AND GET IT

Sold 1995 TRAVELAIRE, 25.5’, very good,cond., sleeps 6, new awning, full size fridge, 3 burner stove/oven, micro., queen bed, x-long couch, $7000.

403-347-1997

SELLING CHEAP! $1900 for 2001 Ford Escape 4x4, 5 spd, std, 293, 453 kms, dependable 403-887-0373

2006 BUICK CXL Lucerne 117,000 kms, n/s, all options, winter & summer tires on wheels, $6800 obo

2007 Ford Ranger Level II 6 cyl auto 4x4 loaded.

Clean.. Priced to Buy Call 340-318 3040

DO YOU HAVE A DIRT BIKE TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2012 ZINGER trailer, Thor built, 27’ , hard wall, large slide, air, elec. awning, $17,900 obo 403-896-8860

Sold 1996 26’ PHOENIX 147,000 kms, sleeps 6, new tires, good working order $9100 403-704-3094

2001 INTREPID SE $2000 firm 403-357-9459

DO YOU HAVE A BOAT TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2007 JAYCO Eagle, 32’, sleeps 6, assumable, 3 1/2 yr. warr. 2 slides, fridge, stove, oven, $13,900.

403-348-9746

2009 VENZA AWD, fully loaded, 39,000 kms. $18,999.

2013 HONDA PCX 150 scooter, 1,400 km, $2,200.

403-346-9274

DO YOU HAVE A TENT TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A SEADOO TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A MOTORHOME TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2008 LINCOLN Navigator 4x4 exc. shape, tan

2011 COLORADO, Z71 4x4, loaded for comfort, 45,000 kms., 1 owner, $27,500.

403-341-0603

2015 TOYOTA 4Runner Limited, remote start, lots of extras, 490 km, $53,000 obo.

403-392-5446

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK CAMPER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2003 Pontiac Montana EXT 69,000 kms., good shape, reasonable price.

2008 SUZUKI Boulevard C109RT, loaded w/saddle bags, windshield,

DO YOU HAVE A HOLIDAY TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

WE Will Take Payments!!

2012 Dodge Gr. Caravan White, 93,000 Kms. Full Inspection $13,450. Call Harvey @ Reward Lease 403-358-1698

Please contact 403-392-5733 to view.

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IF YOUR VEHICLE DOESN’T SELL THE FIRST WEEK, THE 2ND WEEK IS HALF PRICE!

2007 DODGE Nitro 4x4, SLT V6, auto., loaded w/sunroof, low kms., CLEAN.. Priced to buy Call 403-318 3040

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cruise, running lights, back rest 403-318-4653

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CALL AND ONE OF OUR SALES SPECIALISTS CAN PUT YOU ON THE FAST TRACK TO SELL YOUR VEHICLE.

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Clothing

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Misc. for Sale

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HOTWATER TANK 50 gal. Waterford Defender Safety System - Gas. Only used for a couple of months - like new!! Reason for selling is we switched to direct venting unit.

New was $850. $425. 403-318-4653 WATER cooler $50.

403-885-5020

Sporting Goods

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T- BAR back roll sports exercise equip. Asking $45 Please call 403-346-4263

Travel Packages

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TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Wanted To Buy

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FOLD-AWAY cot/table for exercising. Must be clean and in good condition.

403-346-5360 WANTED TO BUY 4 WHEELED ELECTRIC SCOOTER. FILLED WANTED TO BUY: old lead batteries for recycling 403-396-8629 Looking for a place to live?

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FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

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Investigation started into deadly mudslide that buried hundreds in Guatemala

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Warehouse Space

COLD storage garage, 14’ x 24’, $200/mo.; heated big truck space, $775/mo.

VARIETY SHOP SPACES ~ ofÀces ~ fenced yards ~ Big or small, different locations. 403-343-6615

FOR LEASE Riverside Light Industrial 4614-61 St. (directly behind Windsor Plywood) 2400 sq. ft. large 55 x 85 compound 403-350-1777

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OFFICE 2372 sq ft. plus 4381 sq. ft. warehouse Burnt Lake Industrial Park 403-588-7120

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Storage Space

RENT or sale, storage unit at Sylvan Lake, all concrete const., 24 x 48 w/water/power/heat, 16’ door, no GST 403-347-0016

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Mobile

2 BDRM. lower Áoor, approx Lot Central Alberta’s Largest 1000 sq.ft. Shared Laundry. $650 + utils. 403-660-7094 MOBILE home lot for rent, Car Lot in Classifieds at Joffre, $350/mo. + tax.

4 BDRMS, 2 1/2 baths, single car garage, 5 appls, Incl. water, sewer & gar$1695/mo. 403-782-7156 bage. 403-885-4265 403-357-7465 PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

GULL LAKE HOUSE Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., WITH LAKE VIEW 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

3 bdrm., 2 bth., fully furn.

Down payment $4000. Call with dbl. att. garage and at anytime. 403-588-8820 games room, hot tub, n/s, no pets, ref. req., $2,800/mo. plus util.

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New South Wales police say more than 200 officers swooped into homes in western Sydney on Wednesday and arrested the men as part of their investigation into the killing of Curtis Cheng. Cheng was a police finance worker who was shot by an Iranian teenager while leaving work in the western Sydney suburb of Parramatta last week. The killer was shot dead by police.

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SANTA CATARINA PINULA, Guatemala — The warning signs were everywhere in the canyon neighbourhood of Cambray on the outskirts of Guatemala City, where a mudslide buried hundreds of people last week.

Residents lived with regular falling rocks and flooding from the adjacent Pinula River. Evelyn de Cifuentes said her mother-in-law was killed in a smaller slide in 2010 next to her own house. A November report by Guatemala’s National Disaster Reduction Commission said there were “fractures in blocks of material that can indicate future slides,” and people should be moved out.

But the area wasn’t declared uninhabitable until Monday, four days after hundreds of people almost certainly perished when a hillside buried acres of the neighbourhood.

The official death count stood at 161 Tuesday, with 300 people still believed to be missing.

The Guatemala prosecutor’s office announced it will conduct an investigation into who was responsible for allowing the dangerous conditions to exist.

“We will establish the degree of responsibility as best we can — who authorized construction in that area, and whether someone didn’t take appropriate action to avoid this tragedy,” said prosecutor Rotman Perez of the political crimes section.

Perez said all aspects are under investigation, including who was given the report from the disaster commission, whether anything was done, who had jurisdiction over the area and who was collecting the taxes.

About 250 people remained in two municipal shelters barred from returning to their homes. They said they hadn’t received any information on relocation, but had been told that it’s coming.

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Jorge de Leon Duque said he is calling for municipal authorities to remove 50 other families still in the area. He said if it’s not done, he will seek a court order.

He said similar dangerous conditions exist all over Guatemala. The disaster commission, known as Conred, says there are 8,000 threatened locations.

“We have a huge risk that this could happen again,” de Leon said. “You can’t authorize homes in areas with dangerous conditions.”

Conred issued at least two other reports, in 2001 and 2008, identifying Cambray as high risk, commission spokesman David de Leon said. One report followed the devastating Hurricane Mitch in 1998 and the other came after a landslide buried more than 1,000 people in 2005.

He said the recommendation that people not live in Cambray has stood since 2001, but the population there continued to grow. He said the agency can declare an area at risk, but it’s up to a municipality to move people, short of a court order.

Conred Director Alejandro Maldonado said he warned Santa Catarina Mayor Tono Coro last December that the river was eating away at the base of the steep hill at Cambray and residents needed to

be relocated.

Coro, who was mayor for 15 years, gave up the post in January for an unsuccessful run for mayor of Guatemala City. He could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

Coro offered his condolences and support to the slide victims on what appeared to be his public Facebook page Friday, and was vilified in a list of comments that blamed him for the disaster. The newspaper La Hora showed a woman displaying documents proving she legally bought her land in 2006, long after the municipality knew of the risk.

Conred’s report was mostly about the risks created by the Pinula River and also recommended dredging. Municipal spokesman Manuel Pocasangre said local authorities decided to dredge the river and go door to door to warn residents about the dangers, but that people said they preferred to stay. The municipality has no documented proof it talked to residents.

“That’s not true. No one came, no one brought anything, no one said anything,” said Sonia Hernandez, 26, who grew up in the house her parents owned for 20 years. “Apparently the mayor was advised, but he didn’t have the dignity to come and tell us the risk we were running.”

the overthrow of Burkina Faso’s government.

Gen. Gilbert Diendere now will stand trial before a military tribunal after making an appearance earlier Tuesday, according to the prosecutor who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to journalists.

Djibril Bassole, who served as foreign minister under the longtime president whose supporters are accused of backing the coup, also faces charges of attacking national security.

Bassole has denied any participation in the coup, which was carried out by Diendere and members of the presidential guard loyal to ex-President Blaise Compaore.

reviews each prisoner’s case to decide if his or her release would jeopardize public safety.

Most of those eligible for consideration have already served 10 years or more.

The Justice Department estimates that roughly 40,000 prisoners could benefit from the program in the coming years.

The changes are part of a national bipartisan effort to rethink decades-long sentences for drug offenders, who are roughly half the federal prison population.

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HONOLULU — A family was reunited with their dog after a rescue team removed the Labrador retriever who was trapped in a crack in the earth at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

Volcano resident Marta Caproni and her boyfriend were walking the four-year-old chocolate Lab, Romeo, and his littermate, Tommy, at the park when Romeo ran off and disappeared, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported.

“We had no idea that to the left of this gravel area, there is a major crack in the earth about 20 feet deep,” she said.

“Romeo went jumping around this area and disappeared. We couldn’t tell he had fallen in.”

Caproni said they tracked Romeo’s faint whining and discovered that it was coming from deep inside a crack.

A rescue team was able to remove Romeo by sending in a park ranger, Arnold Nakata. He found the dog apparently unhurt, and he was above ground by around noon Sunday.

WASHINGTON — Thousands of federal inmates serving sentences for drug crimes are set for early release next month under a cost-cutting measure intended to reduce the U.S. prison population.

The more than 5,500 inmates set to go free in November are among the first of what could eventually be tens of thousands eligible for release. The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted last year to retroactively apply substantially lower recommended sentences for those convicted of drug-related felonies.

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Vertigo is associated with migraines in some people. Sudden episodes of extreme dizziness can occur with or without a headache.

Like visual auras associated with migraine, Zee calls this a vestibular aura. Sometimes these episodes are triggered by looking at things in motion, “such as disco lights or an action movie,” Zee says.

Vertigo can be a symptom of stroke.

While 2.6 million Americans go to the emergency room with vertigo every year, only about 4 percent of them have had a stroke.

Zee says an eye-movement exam can sometimes be better than an MRI scan for figuring out inner-ear problems.

And a new device, which looks like a pair of goggles, is being tested by Johns Hopkins doctors to gauge innerear problems quickly at the bedside.

“It’s like an EKG of the eyes,” Zee says.

Meanwhile, it’s duck hunting season in Wisconsin.

My brother-in-law will go, as he has done most years of his life, but he doesn’t expect to bring home a bird.

The three-dimensional coordination needed to swing a gun and shoot at a moving object exposes his balance deficit to the max.

Even in everyday life, he says, his condition is unpleasant. “But if this is the worst thing that happens to me? I can deal with it.”

Most of us take our sense of balance for granted. My brother-in-law John Heinrich no longer has that luxury.

Nearly 10 years ago, John went to the emergency room with terrible vertigo.

His eyes were rapidly moving back and forth and he was violently ill with nausea. “Violent is the correct term for it,” he says.

A dose of Valium provided temporary relief, but the episodes continued as he sought help from one doctor to the next.

John’s story is disturbing, but many people experience trouble with their vestibular system, which helps the body sense spatial orientation and movement. “Seventy percent of people in the U.S. experience a problem with their vestibular system at some time in their lives,” says P. Ashley Wackym, a neuro-otologist at Legacy Health in Portland, Ore. Vertigo - dizziness or difficulty maintaining your balance - is a common reason for people to seek medical help.

Often the symptom is caused by a short-term problem, such as an ear infection. Other times the problem endures. That’s when the condition causing the vertigo can be most difficult to diagnose.

Indeed, researchers described a new disorder of the vestibular system as recently as 1998. In that condition, called superior semicircular canal dehiscence, an opening in one of the canals of the inner ear causes vertigo and/or auditory disturbances.

To the afflicted, vertigo - along with related symptoms such as ringing in the ears or hearing one’s own eyes blinking - is vexing, and the sensations are difficult to describe. “Patients can feel isolated and alone,” says Cynthia Ryan, the executive director of the Vestibular Disorders Association, based in Portland.

Misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis is a common story for people with chronic vertigo.

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My brother-in-law finally found an ear, nose, and throat doctor who ruled out many of the causes of chronic vertigo before coming to a diagnosis - that a viral infection had caused permanent damage to a nerve in his inner ear. “It was a process of elimination,” John says.

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Dear Annie: This is written in desperation. I have seven children, and my middle son, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Randall,â&#x20AC;? age 57, is in the grip of psychosis.

His late father was a schizophrenic who refused treatment and regularly beat me.

I lived with him for years, not understanding what I was KATHY MITCHELL doing wrong, until I drew up AND MARCY SUGAR enough courage ANNIEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MAILBOX to ask a psychiatrist for advice.

This doctor told me to leave him before he killed me. I did, and struggled raising my children.

I was rarely home because I held multiple low-paying jobs, and the kids grew up in deprivation.

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Dear Frantic: Check the website for the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs (va. gov) to see whether you are eligible for survivor benefits.

Then we recommend you contact the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (samhsa.gov) at 1-800-662-HELP for referrals to treatment centers or local state services for those without insurance.

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Dear Annie: I am responding to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Garyâ&#x20AC;? about appropriate dress for a funeral.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Spending time with children, teenagers, colleagues or friends is highlighted, but expect some confusing misunderstandings along the way. Focus on the things you have in common.

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