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Dairy industry seeks clarity

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF The devil is in the details, but for now Alberta dairy farmers are glad to have Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations wrapped up.

And a package worth more than $4 billion of compensation and programs from the federal government doesn’t hurt either.

Tom Kootstra, chairman of Alberta Milk and a dairy farmer near Ponoka, said the dairy industry is experiencing a sense of relief that a decision has fi-

TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP nally been made.

Representatives of 12 countries reached a trade agreement on Monday. The countries represent about 40 per cent of the world’s gross domestic product In the agreement, about 3.25 per cent of Canada’s dairy market will be opened up to imports.

But the details of how that market access will look is still unclear.

“What makes up the 3.25 per cent is unclear and we’re working on under-

standing that,” said Kootstra.

“It needs to be defined for us. Will it be butter, will it displace milk in the store, does it mean it will go into cheese topping on pizza or the processing industry? We don’t know.”

But, Kootstra does suggest the opening up of 3.25 per cent of the country’s dairy industry will impact revenue for Canadian producers.

Gerry Ritz, Lloydminster-Battlefords Conservative candidate and federal agriculture minister before

the election call, said the agreement does protect the three pillars of supply management, which includes price, production and import controls.

“We kept our promise, we said we would keep them whole and we’ve done exactly that,” said Ritz.

“It’s a combination of limiting the amount of products coming in and transitionatory money to maintain their strong bottom line. As well as investing on the production side so they can take advantage of the export opportunities that go along with this.”

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Naloxone kits saving lives

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF In the past three months take-home Naloxone kits have saved the lives of 19 people in Red Deer who overdosed on opiates.

Since July 7, Central Alberta AIDS Network Society (CAANS) has distributed 76 kits and 19 of them, or 25 per cent, have been used. Each kit contains two doses of the medication NalJENNIFER oxone to temporarily reverse VANDERSCHAEGHE the symptoms of fentanyl and other opioid poisonings.

“That’s 19 people who are around and have another chance to be healthier,” said Jennifer Vanderschaeghe, CAANS executive director on Wednesday.

Initially she expected to give out about 100 kits during the one-year pilot program funded by Alberta Health developed in response to the rise in fentanyl overdoses.

Having already distributed 76 kits means there are a lot of people worried about opiate overdose, she said.

Naloxone, which is injected intramuscularly, keeps people breathing until paramedics arrive. It’s possible for a person to lapse into an overdose again once Naloxone wears off so medical attention is required.

She said interest in the kits has spread through word of mouth and by seeing them in action.

“We’re having people come in that we’ve never met before which is a nice way to engage them in services and talk to them about other things we might be able to help them with.”

She said CAANS staff has not heard from anyone that the kits have encouraged people to increase their drug use.

“In fact what we’re hearing is ‘I had to use the kit. I had to do rescue breathing. I had to call 911. It was really stressful. This is not okay. I don’t want to do this again. I want to reduce.

This is crazy and dangerous,’ so overall people are becoming a bit more engaged in managing their risk,” Vanderschaeghe said.

Out of the 19 times kits were used, 911 was called in all but two of the overdoses.

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Barb Cross pedals hard as teammates (from left) Wendy Beattie, Sydney Dobroski, Paige Beingessner-Kerr and Ellie Rochon cheer her on during the Ride for Diabetes Research at Bower Place on Wednesday. The Royal Bank employees from the Gaetz and Piper branch in Red Deer were joined by 12 other corporate teams including a total of 185 participants in the bike-a-thon in the shopping centre. This is the fifth annual stationary bike fundraiser in Red Deer for Juvenile Diabetes and Type 1 diabetes research. This year the Red Deer ride is hoping to raise $55,000 for the cause.

Health care dominates debate at election forum hosted by library

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Three candidates vying for votes in the newly carved Red Deer-Mountain View riding fielded mostly health-care related questions in a forum hosted by the Red Deer Public Library on Wednesday.

Attendees wanted to know the candidates’ take on a national pharmacare program and how they would address the senior and persons with disabilities housing crisis.

New Democratic Party candidate Paul Harris, Liberal candidate Chandra Kastern, and Libertarian Party candidate James Walper presented their cases in the hope of being the voter’s choice on Oct. 19.

The Red Deer-Mountain View riding runs from Red Deer south of Ross Street to Carstairs, west to Sundre (but not Rocky Mountain House) and east to Delburne and Elnora. It includes portions of Mountain View and Red Deer counties.

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RED DEER-MOUNTAIN VIEW Missing from the forum were candidates Earl Dreeshen for the Conservatives, Scott Milne, for the Pirate Party and Simon Olney for the Green Party.

The three were unable to attend because of prior engagements.

Once again it was Canada’s changing demographic and the repercussions that dominated the forum. Today there are more seniors than children in the country.

All three candidates were on different sides of the fence when it came to introducing a national pharmacare program.

Kastern said the Liberals have committed to bring the provinces and territories together to begin negotiations on a new Health Care Accord and discuss improving pharmaceutical care in the provinces and the funding required from the federal government.

Walper said the Libertarian Party would approach the issue of afford-

able drugs in a different way. He said the party would like to free up patent laws. The party believes in a true free market that would bring costs down.

“When it comes to health care in general, we are very much wanting to allow the municipalities to have more power over the federal,” said Walper.

“We are very much bottom up than top down.”

The NDP are very much in favour of putting together a national program, said Harris.

He said perhaps it is time to extend the health-care system and revisit some of the things that are falling through the cracks.

“I think we need a national framework that looks at our whole medical system and we need to do that in collaboration with both the provinces and the municipalities,” said Harris.

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Education minister dismisses PC criticism on school construction delays EDMONTON — Alberta’s education minister is firing back at the former Progressive Conservative government over criticism stemming from massive delays in school construction.

Progressive Conservative Leader Ric McIver says ambitious timelines to build or refurbish almost 200 schools were on track until the NDP took over this spring.

McIver says bureaucrats told him the projects could and would be done on time.

But Education Minister David Eggen says it became clear in recent weeks that about 100 of those projects will be delayed past 2016, many for almost a year.

Eggen says he has no evidence that shows bureaucrats misled the former government.

He says the fault lies with the PCs for making promises on school construction the bureaucrats had no hope of meeting.

No injuries after 4 homes destroyed by fire in Cold Lake COLD LAKE — Several homes have been destroyed in a fire in northeastern Alberta.

Mounties says four units were burned to the ground Tuesday in the blaze in Cold Lake.

No one was injured, but a family dog did perish in the fire.

A cause and damage estimate have yet to be determined.

Fire investigators remain on scene combing through the rubble.

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TPP: Yet to be ratified $4.3 billion over 15 years in compensation and programs from the federal government will be made available to supply managed producers, including dairy.

Also included in the deal is reduced tariffs for exported Canadian beef to countries including Japan and Vietnam.

Though the trade deal has been negotiated, it has yet to be ratified by the member nations. Ritz was hopeful it would be approved in short order, however the federal election does cloud the trade deals future.

“I think the response from producers is we have time to understand the rules and once we understand the rules we’ll adjust our strategy to accommodate the change,” said Kootstra.

“If you were not confident in the dairy industry and wavering on staying in or exiting, this TPP announcement might be just one more criteria or impetus to exit. It’s not going to be the cause of your exit, it just might be another indication to confirm a decision you were heading out of the industry.”

Outside of the agricultural implications, Ritz touted the new market access for energy exports in the partner countries which include Japan, New Zealand, the U.S., Australia, Mexico, Peru, Vietnam, Brunei, Singapore, Chile and Malaysia.

“It’s going to take pipelines to get it to the west coast to serve these markets,” said Ritz, adding more countries may enter the partnership going forward including South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, India and China.

“There’s going to be a bigger demand for our energy. The gauntlet is down, we have some pipelines to build.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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the finger-pointing and come together to address the housing crisis.

Kastern said this is clearly an issue where one in four Canadians pay too much for housing and one in eight cannot find suitable and affordable housing.

She said this is part of the Liberal’s investment in social infrastructure, including building senior facilities, retrofitting existing ones and refurbishing old and empty ones.

Walper said under the Libertarian’s flat tax system, the first $17,300 that a person makes would be tax-free. He said people would have more money to afford more housing.

One person asked about the “national disgrace” of Canada’s First Nations who, for example, are living in poverty and drinking unsafe water on reserves in reference to a recent Macleans article.

Kastern said the Liberal platform has several prongs, including Métis reconciliation, to address the crisis that is the First Nations community. She said there would be an immediate inquiry into the missing and murdered indigenous women.

Harris said he has been leading a national group on urban aboriginal issues, which brings municipal leaders together to discuss what they can do to help people who move into their communities. He said people who do not feel they belong in a community may be more prone to suicide and addictions. He would like to continue those discussions and work with municipalities.

Walper said as a politician he would have to go out and talk to individuals in different locations of Canada about how they actually feel and consider any necessary funding to set them up for success.

Candidates also fielded a question on the recent focus on the niqab on the election trail. All three agreed it was time to move on and to focus on what is relevant when considering where to cast a ballot come election day.

The new riding was carved out of the electoral districts of Crowfoot, Red Deer and Wild Rose.

Red Deer College political science instructor Dave Baugh acted as moderator.

The Red Deer Public Library will host a forum for candidates in the Red Deer-Lacombe riding at its downtown location today at 6:30 p.m. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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All three candidates agreed the federal government must collaborate with the municipal and provincial governments.

Harris said the three orders of government — municipal, provincial and federal — need to get rid of

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CAANS, one of eight agencies across Alberta distributing the kits, also runs other harm reduction programs like the needle exchange.

She said so far CAANS has only distributed the kits in Red Deer. The plan is to expand to other Central Alberta communities in January, but pressure to make them available is already growing.

“We may need to see if we can respond sooner than that,” said Vanderschaeghe.

She said it may also be time to think about how to reach out to occasional or recreational drug users, who wouldn’t necessarily be aware of Naloxone kits and risks associated with the latest drugs on the street.

Fentanyl, which has been showing up unexpectedly in other street drugs, is still considered a threat in Central Alberta, she said.

“It’s making the concentration of opiates that people are buying and selling unpredictable. What you could use yesterday of the exact same looking pill, you might overdose on a quarter of that today. Sometimes the stuff is hitting and hitting fast — really fast,” Vanderschaeghe said.

Fentanyl is about 100 times stronger than morphine.

In the first six months of 2015, a total of 145 people in Alberta died from taking drugs in which fentanyl was detected. That includes 19 deaths in Central Alberta.

Only six deaths related to fentanyl were recorded in Red Deer between 2011 and 2013.

Dr. Ifeoma Achebe, medical officer of health for Alberta Health Services Central Zone, said the latest statistics available show in the first eight months of 2015 there were 102 opiate-related emergency room visits in Central Zone.

In 2014 there were a total of 152 visits for the entire year.

Opiate-related emergency room visits involve morphine, heroin, oxycodone or fentanyl.

Achebe said fentanyl remains a particular concern.

“We’re hearing marijuana that’s circulating around the province is also tainted with fentanyl so that even makes it a bigger problem because one time users, kids who are going out partying with friends, can just use once and overdose,” Achebe said.

Vanderschaeghe said unfortunately the fentanyl scare has also made it an attractive drug to some.

“By cautioning people you’ve just said something is really yummy. It’s been telling people that fentanyl is around and available and really strong.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Mulcair down to TPP Hail Mary That screeching sound is the great, again pits Mulcair versus Stephen careening, orange juggernaut hitting Harper and puts him back on the map the brakes on the race to the centre. in Ontario, two scenarios the party Instead, in the waning worked unsuccessfully to days of the 2015 election maintain during the camcampaign, Tom Mulcair paign. has returned to the NDP He is playing the “trust” of yore, opposing a major card again on Harper, telltrade deal, citing union staing Canadians that after 10 tistics to back his case, conyears they know the Conserjuring memories of Liberal vative leader isn’t the man John Turner’s famous free to be protecting Canadian trade “fight of his life,” exjobs behind closed doors in cept Mulcair’s lifetime fight his “secret” deal. is measured in days.

He is gambling that Mulcair’s full-throated over the last 12 days, this TPP opposition certainly issue can vault him again TIM smacks of a political Hail over Justin Trudeau as the HARPER Mary pass. But at least he man who really represents has the ball. change. He has ceded that OPINION The roots of his opposimantle, but wants Trudeau tion are easily divined. He to be seen to be drifting had no choice. on this question, making the dubious His support being washed over the claim that Liberals are always procliff, Mulcair grabbed the TPP reed. trade, but holding fire until a text is But that’s not to say there aren’t up- available. Trudeau is obliging. sides for him.

Finally, he is shoring up his base — Here are the numbers he must work a base, it goes without saying, not large with: 20,000 lost jobs, $5.3 billion in enough for an NDP victory, so if that compensation for the agriculture and is the end result of this exercise, New auto sectors, 12 Ontario Conserva- Democrats will be back in their traditive-held ridings in which concerns tional third spot in Canadian politics. over the future of the auto industry The downsides to this strategy are loom large. Twelve days. also immense.

If nothing else, the TPP debate In order for Harper to politically

“win” on this issue, he needs an opponent. When his government announced a tentative trade deal with the European Union the reaction was largely silence (the NDP held fire awaiting a text) and it quickly faded from view.

The Conservative leader clearly feels he pulled a late campaign ace with a successful deal and Mulcair’s opposition will likely just add to the discernible spring to Harper’s step.

Mulcair is trying to whip up discontent on a major trade deal in a country that is by-and-large pro-trade and likely intuitively understands the dangers of being shut out of such a pact. He is playing to the long-standing perception that the NDP is reflexively anti-trade (something he vehemently denies).

But it does give him a bone and he has shown in the past that he can be a political force when given an opening.

Harper appeared to give him that opening Tuesday with his promise of $1 billion to the auto sector over 10 years. Unlike the agricultural compensation, which was approved by the Conservative cabinet, this is only a promise, contingent on his re-election.

It isn’t a lot of money.

It is also, Mulcair maintains, an admission that jobs will be lost and Harper is selling out the auto sector in his TPP jewel.

Jerry Dias, president of Unifor, which represents auto workers, says the Harper announcement is a recognition of a government mistake and he predicted this deal will cause “significant grief” to the auto parts sector.

Harper says the money is an enhancement to the Automotive Innovation Fund and will kick in when the current commitment expires at the end of 2017-18. It is an incentive fund for an industry to upgrade machinery and equipment, to build new assembly lines or expand facilities.

The Mulcair strategy, born of necessity, may give us unintended results.

Instead of flipping 12 Ontario seats into his column, he could depress Liberal support in key ridings, allowing Conservative victories.

His position has thrown another log on the fire that would be any Liberal-NDP accord to oust Harper.

He again looks like a politician who could never find a comfortable spot from which to campaign, alternately taking his party into the brave new 2015 world of balanced budgets, then yanking it back to 1988 on trade issues.

The ride is getting dizzying.

But, on balance, Mulcair is doing the only thing he could.

Tim Harper is a national affairs writer and a member of Unifor and is syndicated by the Toronto Star.

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Conservatives need to rethink their values Regarding Mary-Ann Barr’s Sept. 28 article “Towle says conservatives should come together,” I can see some merits in uniting the “right.”

To serve Alberta, the united party must have progressive values, and fair and sensible solutions for current issues. I admired Kerry Towle’s passionate advocacy for vulnerable persons.

However, both of her leaders, Danielle Smith and Jim Prentice, favoured low taxes and did not encourage Albertans to sacrifice for the common good. Where were the needed funds and the good will to support vulnerable persons to come from?

The uniting of the federal Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance to form the Conservative Party of Canada is an example of how not to unite the right. The union has been very effective in winning elections, but not effective in providing good government. The radical views of the Canadian Alliance have dominated the new party. Foolish and rigid idealism has eroded democracy, neglected people living in poverty, and provided a climate for greater inequality. The Conservative government has failed to provide sound environmental policies or even recognize that climate change is an issue that needs to be addressed.

Across Canada, the right leaning provincial parties have tended to become more radical like the federal Conservatives. This is the situation in Ontario and Manitoba, where Liberal and NDP

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governments are both past their best before dates, but the main opposition parties have values that would hinder them from implementing sensible and fair policies if they obtained power.

Provincially, my hope is that a strong slightly right leaning party with good values and policies will emerge from the Progressive Conservative and Wildrose parties. This would give Albertans meaningful choice in the next election, and also confidence that whoever wins will provide reasonably good government. Federally, my hope is that the upcoming election will be the last time that a strong, radical right wing party will be running.

Jim Saltvold Red Deer

Darts for judicial system, bouquets for City of Red Deer I realize the Advocate doesn’t follow the “darts and bouquets” format, but I felt it was an easy way for me to express a few comments: Bouquet — to the City of Red Deer – the flowers downtown this year were absolutely beautiful.

Bouquet — to the City of Red Deer for the paving and pothole repair. It’s a treat to drive on smoother roads and there’s a prompt response to pothole complaints (also they’re doing some of the work at night so less traffic tie-ups).

Dart — a HUGE dart to our judicial system [Ilegal police search brings drug trial to abrupt end — Sept. 23rd]. 78 kg of marijuana buds and the criminal

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gets set free because the police didn’t get a warrant for a vehicle they’d already seized. We keep allowing people’s “rights” but, apparently, there is no responsibility or accountability attached to these rights. The rights of the general population are superseded by the rights of the criminals. As Charles Dickens wrote “the law is an ass.”

Diane Cingel Red Deer

New age of cellphones have a frightening reality Please bring back the home phone.

Today I saw four persons texting while driving.

Have we become dependent on our devices?

Parents; your child has his/her own personal phone to which they feel entitled. They can go into their bedrooms and summon up … who knows what on “their” phones. And you pay the bill?

Surely this time of “social media” is becoming dangerously close to placing our kids in potential danger.

There are many examples of persons “meeting” others of questionable character on the internet.

Has it become the new babysitter?

Time to disconnect, and look to real personal communication with people that you can see, to become a human society again.

David Mathias Red Deer

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ALBERTA Calgary man who stabbed two at house party gets life, no parole for 12 years CALGARY — A Calgary man has been sentenced to life in prison with no parole eligibility for 12 years in the stabbing death of a young man at a house party in 2013.

Mitchell Harkes, 22, was found guilty of seven offences including second-degree murder, attempted murder and aggravated assault.

He stabbed Brett Wiese, 20, numerous times after they got into an altercation at the party.

Colton Lewis was also stabbed and suffered life-altering injuries but

Sex abuse charges stayed against man whose wife ran dayhome in Calgary CALGARY — Charges have been stayed in the case of a Calgary man accused of sexually abusing a young boy in a day home his wife ran.

Miles Clark was 51 when he was arrested and charged with sexual interference in February.

His case was supposed to go to a preliminary inquiry on Tuesday, but instead the prosecution filed a stay.

A stay happens when there is not a reasonable likelihood of the case ending with a conviction.

The Crown has one year to re-open such a case.

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CALGARY — Payday loan companies will not banned under a review of the industry by the Alberta government despite concerns about high interest rates charged by providers.

“The government of Alberta is not going to ban payday lenders,” Service Alberta Minister Deron Bilous said Wednesday.

“We don’t want to drive them underground. We know from talking to organizations that you’re actually doing the opposite of consumer protection if you drive them underground. They’re much more dangerous when they’re illegal.”

The current legislation, which expires June 30, 2016, regulates lenders that offer short-term credit to people who typically borrow smaller sums.

In Alberta, the stores can charge up to $23 of interest for every $100 borrowed, and if people don’t pay back the full amount on time, interest charges can mount substantially. Alberta’s rate is the second highest in Canada, only behind Prince Edward Island which allows $25.

Manitoba is the lowest at $17 per $100.

In tough economic times some Alberta families turn to payday loan ser-

vices to help them deal with financial challenges, Bilous said, adding the review will ensure “vulnerable families aren’t being taken advantage of.”

The minister said there is a need for payday loan companies, but wouldn’t say there are some lenders who take advantage of the less fortunate.

“There are Albertans who get a short-term loan which turns out to be an ongoing cycle and a revolving door and we want to look at ensuring Albertans have the tools to find shortterm loans when they need it to fill that stop-gap, but not to put them onto a perpetual (debt) cycle,” he said.

The review will begin with an online survey and then move to face-toface meetings with payday loan users, industry members and community organizations that provide support to low-income Albertans.

Jeff Loomis, executive director of Momentum, a community development organization that works with low-income Albertans, says not all providers are the same.

“I would say that some of the payday loan companies are a little bit better than others and the business model definitely can create a debt trap.”

Alberta Liberal Leader David Swann, who was at the announcement, said a review is necessary.

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EDMONTON — Alberta is preparing to roll out a program in casinos to help people who play games of chance to gamble more responsibly.

The program, called GameSense, was developed in British Columbia and is also being used in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

It aims to teach people the difference between chance and skill-based games, the odds of winning and to gamble for fun, not for money.

The Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission says GameSense will initially be available at 24 casinos and three horse racetracks that also offer gambling machines.

“The idea is to have players more engaged and encourage them to seek out information about responsible gambling, to steer away from any highrisk behaviours or potentially problem gambling behaviours,” Tatjana Laskovic, a commission spokeswoman, said Wednesday.

This year the Alberta government expects to rake in more than $1.9 billion from casino gaming terminals, VLTs and electronic bingo machines.

The British Columbia Lottery Commission (BCLC) introduced GameSense to casinos in 2009 and has since expanded the program to include all forms of legal wagering, including online gaming.

Kahlil Philander, BCLC’s director of social responsibility, calls GameSense a holistic program to reduce gambling-related harm.

“It has been enormously successful,” he said from Vancouver.

“In the most recent problem gambling study carried out in 2014, the number of problem gamblers in the province actually shrank.”

The program is designed to provide information to people in a friendly way, Philander said.

B.C. casinos have GameSense advisers on hand to answer questions. Information is also available online and at lottery retail outlets. The advisers chat with about 4,500 people each month.

“The GameSense approach is a more amenable approach than has been used in the past,” he said. “We wanted to alleviate any stigma that might be around getting information that can help.”

The messaging includes simple statements such as “Keeping it fun means playing within your means” and “Wondering if you can win back losses by playing more? — Chances are the more you play, the more money you will lose.”

Philander said B.C. gave the program to the Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba governments at no charge. It is also being used in the state of Massachusetts.

Paul Smith, who helped develop GameSense for the BCLC, said the program is all about effectively connecting with people in a low-key way.

“The hope and expectation is that the more that people know about gambling, the more people know about their decisions to gamble and what they can do to be more responsible, the less likely they are to develop problems,” he said.

Laskovic said GameSense will eventually be expanded to other forms of gambling in Alberta, including lottery ticket kiosks and VLT locations.

The Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission has been reviewing proposals for the province to get into online gaming.

If the government decides to proceed, GameSense could be extended to include that form of gambling, she said.

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Harper unveils proposed niqab ban

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OTTAWA — Stephen Harper’s proposed ban on the wearing of niqabs by anyone dealing with — or working for — the federal government ricocheted down the campaign trail Wednesday, drawing condemnation from opponents, premiers and Muslim groups.

He told CBC’s Power and Politics on Tuesday that, a re-elected Conservative government would look at legislation to nix niqabs in the public service — echoing similar comments last week in the French-language debate hosted by network TVA. Harper then went further, saying the Conservatives are examining Quebec’s Bill 64, which requires Muslim women or others who wear face coverings to remove them if they want to work in the public sector — or do business with government officials.

Although tabled in the Quebec National Assembly, the bill has yet to be debated.

On Wednesday, Harper praised the Quebec Liberal government’s measured approach and pledged that when it came time for federal legislation, he would follow their lead.

“I believe the Quebec government has been handling this controversial issue in a responsible manner and we will do exactly the same thing in Ottawa,” Harper said during a campaign stop in Saskatoon where he touted the Conservative plan to expand parental leave benefits under employment insurance.

As if to hammer home the point, the Conservatives released online attack ads in French Wednesday, going after Justin Trudeau’s position on the niqab.

A proposed ban on niqabs in the federal civil service would affect an infinitesimally small number of bureaucrats — if any at all. Statistics from 2011 show only 1.8 per cent of 257,000 federal employees are Muslim women, and only a small subset of them is likely to wear face coverings.

The Conservatives have already tried to require Muslim women to show their faces at citizenship ceremonies, but those rules are being challenged in the courts. Harper’s comments on Wednesday make clear he is eyeing additional legislation to require women to unveil every time they want services from the federal government.

Harper insisted his government has been “saying the same thing for several months” on the issue.

While the prime minister may have been con-

‘CANADIAN MUSLIMS HAVE NOTICED MR. HARPER’S CHOICE OF WORDS AND QUESTION WHETHER HE WOULD HAVE TAKEN THE SAME STANCE IF THESE WERE BIGOTED ATTACKS AGAINST OTHER MINORITY COMMUNITIES.’

sistent in his comments that niqabs are contrary to Canadian values, that doesn’t mean members of his own cabinet are all on the same page about a wider ban.

Asked last spring whether the Conservatives would consider implementing similar measures to Quebec, federal Treasury Board President Tony Clement said the federal opposition to niqabs was limited to citizenship ceremonies.

“That is what the prime minister said and that is a point of view that one can hold,” Clement said on March 11, 2015. “That doesn’t mean that you can impose that view in the workplace or in the private sphere. The one place where I think we have a right and an obligation to stress Canadian values is in the act of obtaining one’s citizenship.”

Both Trudeau and NDP Leader Tom Mulcair condemned the latest proposal as an attempt to distract voters from serious questions about Conservative management of the economy.

Trudeau, in London, Ont. to tout the party’s proposed new Canada Child Benefit, said Wednesday Harper’s divide-and-conquer approach “is unworthy of the office he holds and he needs to stop because no election win (is) worth pitting Canadians against Canadians.”

Mulcair said what Harper was doing was “dangerous” and part of a broader political strategy aimed at getting the Conservatives re-elected by accentuating differences rather than bringing Canadians together.

“Stephen Harper is reminding us every time he does this why he doesn’t deserve to be prime minister,” Mulcair said as he highlighted the party’s $4.8 billion plan to improve aboriginal education.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne called the issue a “shocking” attempt to divide Canadians.

The National Council of Canadian Muslims says it’s upset Harper passed on a chance in the CBC interview to specifically condemn recent assaults against Muslim women, who appear to have been attacked simply because they wore head scarves.

“Canadian Muslims have noticed Mr. Harper’s choice of words and question whether he would have taken the same stance if these were bigoted attacks against other minority communities,” said the council’s executive director, Ihsaan Gardee, in a statement.

“We urge Mr. Harper to reassure Canadian Muslims and condemn Islamophobia and affirm that it has no place in Canadian society or in our political discourse.”

The niqab debate comes as a Liberal candidate in London, Ont., says divisive politics are to blame for the defacing of his election signs with ethnic slurs.

A photo posted online shows the words “ARAB scum” scrawled across one of Khalil Ramal’s signs.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SYDNEY, N.S. — A 15-year-old Cape Breton boy has been found guilty of criminal negligence causing death after he pushed a fellow schoolmate down a snowy embankment and under the wheels of a moving bus, killing the teen instantly in front of horrified classmates.

Provincial court Judge Peter Ross dismissed the defence’s assertion that the accused was acting like a typical boy his age and was engaged in ordinary horseplay at the time, saying the young man should have known his actions could have deadly consequences.

“It is not horseplay to push someone in the path of an approaching vehicle, knowing that it is approaching,” he said in his 50-minute address to the court in Sydney.

“Even at 15 years of age, (he) was capable of appreciating the risk entailed. His act was highly reckless.”

The teen, who can’t be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, stared straight ahead and showed no emotion as he sat on the front bench and the judge read the verdict in the small, but packed courtroom. One family member broke down in tears before quickly leaving.

The young boy was accused of using two hands to shove 18-year-old Christopher Chafe down an embankment outside Sydney Academy last winter. Court heard the rear wheels of the bus rolled over Chafe’s head and he was pronounced dead at the scene on Feb. 11, 2015.

Defence lawyer James Snow said Chafe’s grisly death was the result of “momentary inadvertence,” not reckless behaviour. He told the judge-only trial that there was rowdy “goofing around” among students outside the academy that day, but he said there was no evidence of fighting or aggression.

The boy will be sentenced on Dec. 7.

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Khalil Ramal, a Liberal candidate in London, Ont., says divisive politics are to blame for the defacing of his election signs with ethnic slurs.

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Richard Oland crime scene was among bloodiest officer had seen: court hears SAINT JOHN, N.B. — A forensic identification officer with the Saint John police department says some of the 40 blows to the head of Richard Oland were caused by a hammer-type instrument while others were inflicted with a blade-like weapon.

Sgt. Mark Smith is facing cross-examination today in the second-degree murder trial of Dennis Oland in New Brunswick’s Court of Queen’s Bench.

Oland has pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Smith says the blade-like weapon left wounds that were six- to seven-centimetres long.

Oland, who was 69, was found lying in a pool of blood in his Saint John office on July 7, 2011.

Under questioning from defence lawyer Gary Miller, Smith said it was one of the bloodiest crime scenes he had ever seen.

Big police presence in Kitchener after man dies of an arrow to chest KITCHENER, Ont. — Police have increased their presence in a Kitchener, Ont., neighbourhood as they continue to search for clues following the death of a 60-year-old man who was found with an arrow in his chest outside a home.

Waterloo Regional police say they were called to the neighbourhood around 7 a.m. on Monday at Margaret Ave. and Union St. where they found Michael Gibbon lying on the ground.

They say paramedics took him to hospital where he died.

Police say Gibbon’s injuries aren’t self-inflicted.

Investigators say they’re working around the clock, canvassing the neighbourhood and have set up a command post as part of their investigation.

Waterloo Regional police chief Bryan Larkin says the community is fearful and is pleading with the public for information.

Historic operation in Vancouver not enough to save Corky the sea otter VANCOUVER — Experimental surgery to save an injured Vancouver Island sea otter dubbed “Corky” wasn’t

enough to save the animal’s life.

Veterinarians had hoped to keep Corky alive by removing a kidney and performing a blood transfusion, but the Vancouver Aquarium confirms Corky died early Wednesday morning.

It’s believed he had been hit by a boat and suffered a fractured rib and other injuries before he was rescued in August near Tofino, B.C. Members of the aquarium’s Marine Mammal Rescue Centre were nursing the otter but tried the never-before attempted surgery when tests showed one of Corky’s kidneys had ruptured.

Rescue centre manager Emily Johnson says everyone hoped the otter would beat the odds and pull through, because he seemed to have so much will.

Corky earned his nickname because his original injuries trapped air under his skin, leaving him unable to dive or forage for food, but as the rib healed, the kidney injury was discovered.

Nicaraguan dog to be flown to Ottawa for snout-saving surgery An Ottawa veterinarian is preparing to fly in a dog from Nicaragua to perform snout-saving surgery.

Graham Thatcher says a stranger posted a video of Tyson’s deep gash on Instagram and asked for help.

He says Tyson, a beagle mix, was hurt accidently when his owner was clearing brush in the jungle with a machete about a year ago.

Thatcher says the dog’s mouth and nasal cavity are visible through the severe gash and he needs surgery to alleviate his suffering.

He had arranged to fly the dog with United Airlines, which cancelled the flight because the dog’s injury was too severe.

But a United spokesman says they reversed course, and are now paying for a flight for Thatcher and the dog to get to Houston from Nicaragua. Air Canada will fly the dog to Ottawa for the surgery.

N.W.T. Mounties say 2 in critical condition after ingesting unknown substance TUKTOYAKTUK, N.W.T. -- Mounties say two people are in critical condition after ingesting a toxic substance in Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T. RCMP say one person was unconscious and the other appeared to be intoxicated when they were brought to the medical centre in Tuktoyaktuk on Tuesday.

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Ignition failure FLAMES CAN’T GET GOING AGAINST CANUCKS IN SEASON OPENER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canucks 5 Flames 1 CALGARY — Daniel Sedin had a goal and two assists for the Vancouver Canucks in a 5-1 season-opening win over the Calgary Flames on Wednesday.

Jannik Hansen, Brandon Sutter, Alex Burrows and captain Henrik Sedin also scored for the visitors in a rematch of a Western Conference quarter-final playoff last April between Calgary and Vancouver.

The Flames won that series in six games to advance to the second round, where they lost out in five to the Anaheim Ducks.

Vancouver defenceman Ben Hutton recorded his first point in his NHL debut with an assist on Hansen’s goal. Canucks goaltender Ryan Miller made 29 saves for the win Jiri Hudler replied for the Flames with Karri Ramo stopping 39 of 44 shots in the loss.

The two clubs square off again Saturday in Vancouver for the second of their five meetings this season in the Pacific Division.

Henrik Sedin scored on a sharp-angled wrist shot at 16:31 of the third extend Vancouver’s lead to four goals.

The Canucks led 4-1 on an own-goal by Calgary at 8:17 in the third. Flames defenceman Dennis Wideman knocked down a long, off-speed shot by Burrows, but tipped it past Ramo.

Daniel Sedin restored Vancouver’s two-goal lead with five seconds left in the second period. A Dan Hamhuis shot deflected off Ramo, then Sedin and into Calgary’s net to make it 3-1.

The Flames trailing 2-0, Hudler halved the deficit at 3:39 of the second. Canucks defenceman Luca Sbisa turned the puck over under pressure from Sean Monahan. Johnny Gaudreau dished to Hudler who beat Miller between the pads.

Sutter scored a pretty goal in his first game in a Canucks jersey. He batted a rebound out of the air past Ramo with a deft touch at 18:01 of the first period. The Canucks dealt forward Nick Bonino, defenceman Adam Clendening and a draft pick to the Pittsburgh Penguins in July to obtain Sutter.

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Vancouver Canucks goalie Ryan Miller, left, looks on as Calgary Flames Jiri Hudler skates in for a goal during second period NHL action in Calgary, Wednesday.

Hansen took Hutton’s cross-ice pass along the boards and beat Ramo top corner glove side with a blast from the top of the circle at 10:34.

Calgary’s Micheal Ferland and Vancouver’s Der-

ek Dorsett dropped the gloves two seconds after the opening faceoff. Flames winger Brandon Bollig and Canucks forward Brandon Prust then traded punches eight minutes into the game.

Cubs send Pirates packing after NL wild card win

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CHINOOK HOCKEY LEAGUE

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR There’s no such animal as too many defencemen.

Well aware of that fact, Innisfail Eagles head coach Brian Sutter iced a lineup featuring eight rearguards during last weekend’s Eagles senior AAA hockey preseason tournament.

“That’s one thing we learned last year,” said Sutter, whose squad was eliminated by the arch-rival Bentley Generals in last spring’s provincial final.

“We played step to step with those guys before we ran into injury trouble at the end of the year. Then we were down to three defencemen and we played Peter (forward Vandermeer) back there.

“You’ve got to have defencemen and they have to be key guys.”

To that end, Sutter has brought in the likes of former Olds Grizzly Chris Bailer, who graduated from the AJHL to play four seasons of NCAA hockey and spent the last three years in the Southern Professional League, and another former minor pro in Jordan Braid.

Sutter also expects to have Dan Vandermeer for a whole season after the former ECHL defenceman was in and out of the lineup last winter, and has talked to former blueliner Jason Lundmark, who has suited up for the Bentley Generals in the past and apparently hasn’t committed to either team for the 2015-16 campaign.

The former NHL coach of the year has also recruited forward Tyler Beechy, a former WHL star with Kootenay and Calgary who last season skated in Germany, and has brought in netminder Dan Dunn from the Okotoks Drillers, who have taken a one-year leave of absence from the Chinook League.

The Eagles’ 2015-16 roster will feature three Vandermeer brothers in Dan, Peter and Joe, who is the team captain and top offensive defenceman, while forwards Justin Cox, Mark Bomersback and Chad Ziegler are among the other key returnees.

Another new face who has impressed Sutter is forward Adam Johnson, a Hay Lakes product who played three seasons with Fort McMurray of the AJHL and suited up with the Camrose Augustana Vikings of the Alberta Colleges League over the past four winters.

“He’s a heck of a player and one of our top-end guys,” said Sutter.

The Eagles bench boss is entering his fourth season with the club after coaching the Generals for five years and winning the Allan Cup — the Canadian senior AAA championship — in 2009.

Since signing on as the Eagles head coach, Sutter has seen an improvement in the club each year.

“It’s a process, it takes two to three years to establish a winning mentality, to get the right people, and it’s the same thing here,” he said. “We started from scratch three years ago and we’ve just kept adding guys.

“It’s a process, it’s not something you just say you’re going to do. You have to bring in good people.”

• With the loss of the Drillers, the Chinook League will be comprised of four teams — Bentley, Innisfail, the Fort Saskatchewan Chiefs and Stony Plain Eagles — this season.

The Rosetown, Sask., Redwings joined the Chinook League in June but just recently — after the schedule had been completed — had a change of heart and will stay in the Sask Valley League. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Cubs 4 Pirates 0 PITTSBURGH — These Chicago Cubs are supposed to be too young to be here. Or maybe they’re just too good to care.

Jake Arrieta allowed four hits in nine dominant innings and the Cubs rolled to a 4-0 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates in the NL wildcard game on Wednesday night.

Arrieta struck out 11 without a walk. He also dusted himself off getting plunked by Pittsburgh reliever Tony Watson to send the Cubs to the NL Division Series in St. Louis starting on Friday.

“I’m exhausted. I haven’t felt this way all year,” said Arrieta, who led the majors with 22 wins.

“This atmosphere, the energy was unbelievable. Tried to use it to the best of my ability. They were loud, they were really loud.”

Dexter Fowler homered and scored three times for the Cubs.

Kyle Schwarber added a towering two-run shot off Pittsburgh starter Gerrit Cole as Chicago raced to an early lead and let Arrieta do the rest.

The largest crowd ever at PNC Park failed to rattle Arrieta or one of baseball’s youngest teams.

First-year manager Joe Maddon’s club played with swagger and confidence and looked right at home while snapping a nine-game playoff losing streak that dated to the 2003 NL Championship Series.

“It’s tremendous for the city.

It’s been a while,” Arrieta said.

“Chicago’s been waiting for this, but it’s only step one.”

Pittsburgh was knocked out after finishing second in the majors with 98 victories this year.

Last season, the Pirates also were shut out on four hits at home in the wild-card game, losing to San Francisco.

“Well, sports is hard. Life’s not fair. You go out and play. You get beat, you move on,” manager Clint Hurdle said.

The bearded, 29-year-old Arrieta, still unbeaten since July 25, stretched his remarkable second half — in which he posted an 0.75 ERA — into the opening round of the playoffs. He threw the first complete-game shutout for the Cubs in the post-season since Claude Passeau tossed a one-hitter in the 1945 World Series against Detroit.

Arrieta even laughed off a weird sequence in the seventh when Watson’s fastball hit him in his left side. The benches and bullpens cleared when Watson was issued a warning, leading to little more than a few heated exchanges along the first base line.

“I hit two guys, unintentionally.

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Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo, right, holds Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Jake Arrieta as third baseman Kris Bryant, left joins in the celebration after they defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates in the National League wild card baseball game 4-0, Wednesday, in Pittsburgh. The Cubs advance to play the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League Division Series.

I’m not trying to hurt or hit anybody,” Arrieta said. “Balls were slick tonight. I just lost it a couple of times, it kind of ran away from me. I expected that. They’re going to take care of their own guys. It’s understandable. Everything after that was fine,” he said.

Pirates utility player Sean Rodriguez, who’d already been pulled, was ejected and proceeded to give an unsuspecting water cooler a series of one-two combinations, eventually sending it tumbling to the ground.

Pittsburgh had no such luck against Arrieta, with Hurdle seemingly flummoxed on how to get to attack a right-hander who has matured from raw project into overpowering force.

Hurdle shelved slugger Pedro Alvarez — whose 27 homers led the team but whose 23 errors made him a defensive liability — in favour of more sure-handed Rodriguez. Hurdle pointed to the athleticism Rodriguez brought

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as a major factor, figuring the Pirates would need to get creative to score against Arrieta rather than hope Alvarez runs into the kind of mistake Arrieta has avoided nearly all season.

Maddon took a decidedly different approach, starting Kris Bryant in left and Schwarber in right and Tommy La Stella at third — positions each had played only sparingly during the regular season — because it was the lineup that presented the most firepower.

Did it ever. Chicago took a 1-0 lead two batters into the game when Fowler led off with a single, stole second and scored on a single to left by Schwarber.

The two hooked up again in the third. Fowler singled with one out and Schwarber turned an 88 mph slider from Cole into a massive two-run shot that appeared destined for the downtown Pittsburgh skyline before disappearing over the stands in right field.

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Rangers motivated by underdog role BLUE JAYS SEE OPPONENT AS MORE OF AN ‘EVEN MATCHUP’ AHEAD OF ALDS OPENER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Texas Rangers have arrived in Toronto with a chip on their shoulder.

Being overlooked by the bookmakers and others has only served to motivate the AL West champions as they prepare to meet the surging Blue Jays on Thursday in the American League Division Series.

Texas manager Jeff Bannister says there are plenty of emotions in his clubhouse.

“I think it’s full of energy, belief, confidence,” he said Wednesday. “But yet they’re the ones that aren’t being given a chance. So I also think that there’s a little different edge. And I thank you all.”

The Rangers have already worked one miracle under their rookie manager, climbing from last place in the American League (67-95) in 2014 to make the playoffs. Only four other teams in the majors have done that before.

Toronto manager John Gibbons sees the ALDS contest as more of an “even matchup.”

“Our teams are very similar,” he said. “Good offences. Balanced.

They’ve got some pretty good team speed over there.”

And they both went out and made big pitching acquisitions with Toronto trading for David Price and Texas picking up Cole Hamels. They also looked to bolster their bullpens.

“Both GMs attacked it the same way,” said Gibbons. “They saw what they needed and they went out and did it.”

Toronto sends out Price, its left-handed ace, against right-hander Yovani Gallardo as post-season baseball returns to the Rogers Centre for the first time since Joe Carter took Philadelphia’s Mitch Williams deep in Game 6 of the 1993 World Series.

That walkoff homer has since become part of Canadian sports lore, as has the accompanying memorable call from the late Tom Cheek — “Touch ‘em all, Joe. You’ll never hit a bigger home run in your life.”

A new band of free-swinging Blue Jays hopes to add to that legacy, backed by a fervent following that stretches across the country like the Trans-Canada Highway.

Canadians have celebrated the Jays’ rise to prominence. But deep down in Texas, the Rangers were also making some noise.

Both teams swing big bats, with more than 400 homers between them, and tore up the second half of the season when they went 1-2 in the majors in scoring runs (405 for Toronto and 381 for Texas).

Toronto finished with a 93-69 record in the regular season while Texas was 88-74. The Jays were 48-23 after the all-star break while the Rangers were 46-28.

The Jays, while full of belief in their team, aren’t getting carried away by their rave reviews.

“It doesn’t really mean anything once you step on the field,” said centre-fielder Kevin Pillar.

Toronto third baseman Josh Donaldson, while acknowledging the Jays have to beat a “very good Texas Rangers team,” is confident his team’s offence will keep firing.

“Have you looked at our lineup?” he asked. “Well that’s why.”

The Rogers Centre is being gussied up for the playoffs. Baseball loves a party.

Mini “2015 AL East Champs” pennants now hang in the Jays’ well-appointed clubhouse. There is a space between the pennants hanging high above centre field, waiting for the bigger version of the 2015 pennant to be put into place.

Toronto knuckleballer R.A. Dickey wore a T-shirt that read “The East is ours.” New nameplates with the ALDS logo are atop the Jays’ lockers. Uniforms have sparkling post-season logo on the shoulder.

Both managers were complimentary about their opponents. But Bannister’s assessment came with a polite but noticeable edge.

“Look we know that that’s a really good ball club over there. We look at the numbers, we’ve seen it. We hear everything that’s being said. Dynamic

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Toronto Blue Jays Russell Martin, centre, and Troy Tulowitzki, left, prepare to take batting practice during a team workout at the Rogers Centre in Toronto on Wednesday. The Blue Jays start the American League Divisional Series against the Texas Rangers in Toronto today. ball club. Lot of power. They love playing in this ball club.

“We know that we’ve got to play well. We’ve got to pitch well, play well.

If we do that, we’ve got an opportunity.”

Price versus Gallardo is a fascinating opening matchup.

Price is 9-1 as a Blue Jay with an earned-run average of 2.30. Over his career, he is 11-1 at the Rogers Centre.

He comes into Thursday’s game on 11 days rest, with his last real outing Sept. 26 in Tampa.

“You take guys with great arms and they can locate the ball, now you got the superstars. … He’s a complete pitcher with a great arm,” Gibbons said of his six-foot-six ace.

And yet the former Tampa Bay and Detroit pitcher is 1-5 in the playoffs with a 4.50 ERA. Gallardo, meanwhile, is a Blue Jays bogeyman.

Texas won two of six meetings with Toronto this season and Gallardo was

on the mound for both of them, throwing 13.2 scoreless innings.

“He lives and dies on the corners,” said Gibbons. “He likes to get you to chase out of the zone.”

“He was on both those games so he’s confident going in, he’s got to be confident going in,” he added. “We’re hoping third time’s the charm for us.”

There was no immediate word on whether the roof will be open Thursday. The forecast for the 3:37 p.m. ET start calls for 14 Celsius and a 20 per cent chance of precipitation.

A sellout crowd of some 48,000 is expected. Price says the fans will play their part.

“It can turn 95 (m.p.h) into 96. It can make that hitter get to that pitcher’s pitch,” he said. “It pumps you up.

“Whenever you have that many fans and they’re that loud, it’s just that added element. I mean everybody out there (Thursday) is going to have adrenalin but it’ll take it to that next level and it’s a big factor.”

Stamps put perfect Behind Spieth, Americans look to home record on line extend win streak in ‘other cup’ against arch rivals

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CFL PICKS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Mike Reilly and the Edmonton Eskimos will try to do something no other CFL team has this season: Beat the Calgary Stampeders at McMahon Stadium.

The Eskimos (10-4) visit the Stampeders (11-3) in a battle between the league’s top two teams. The winner claims the season series and tie-breaker in the event the two squads end the regular campaign with identical point totals.

The defending Grey Cup-champion Stampeders have the league’s best home record at 7-0 and are 6-1 within the West Division.

Edmonton is the CFL’s hottest team with four straight wins and boasts a defence that’s allowing just 18.6 points and 67.1 yards rushing per game, both league lows.

Edmonton is 4-0 with Reilly back as its starter. Reilly suffered a knee injury in the season-opening loss to Toronto and saw action in the Eskimos’ 167 Labour Day loss to the Stampeders before returning as the starting quarterback and leading his team to a 27-16 home victory over Calgary on Sept. 12.

Reilly has completed 82-of135 passes (74.1 per cent) for 908 yards and six TDs over his last four starts with four interceptions. He finished 22-of-40 passing for 352 yards and three TDs in the win over Calgary.

Reilly has also rushed for 146 yards and a TD in 29 carries (5.03-yard average) since returning as the starter.

Grey Cup MVP Bo Levi Mitchell leads a Calgary offence that’s averaging over 26 points per game and features two potent weapons in receiver Eric Rogers and running back Jon Cornish.

Rogers is the league’s receiving leader with 72 catches for 1,184 yards and seven touchdowns. Cornish, from New Westminster, B.C., was the CFL’s top player in 2013 and three times has been named its top Canadian however he didn’t play in the two previous contests versus Edmonton.

But it’s Mitchell who makes the unit go. Mitchell is second overall in passing (3,808 yards) with 20 TDs but has also thrown 11 interceptions, two behind league leader Trevor Harris of the Toronto Argonauts.

Calgary is also coming off a close win, nipping Hamilton 2320 on Rene Paredes’ game-ending 37-yard field goal. Edmonton

needed Sean Whyte’s 53-yard boot on the final play to beat Winnipeg after Bombers kicker Lirim Hajrullahu missed four of the five field goals he tried.

Calgary and Edmonton have both clinched playoff berths but first in the West remains the big prize. The first-place finisher not only receives a first-round playoff but also hosts the division final.

Pick — Calgary.

Saskatchewan Roughriders vs.

Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Friday Hamilton (8-5) suddenly is in dire need of a home win.

After winning 10 straight at Tim Hortons Field, the Ticats have dropped three-of-four games there, including last weekend’s 23-20 decision to Calgary.

Saskatchewan (2-12) has lost three-of-four contests since beating Winnipeg 37-19 for its first victory of the year.

Riders running back Jerome Messam has 818 rushing yards — one behind B.C.’s Andrew Harris, the league leader — and is averaging 6.3 yards per carry.

Pick — Hamilton.

Winnipeg Blue Bombers vs.

B.C. Lions, Saturday Winnipeg (4-10) deserved better last week against Edmonton as starter Matt Nichols was 22of-39 passing for 320 yards and a TD against his former club.

But Hajrullahu simply must be better. B.C. (5-8) holds the West Division’s third and final playoff position for now.

Incumbent Travis Lulay recently came off the six-game injured list but rookie Jon Jennings had four TD strikes in last weekend’s 46-20 win over Saskatchewan.

It’s hard to overlook the Bombers’ 3-6 division record.

Pick — B.C. Toronto Argonauts vs.

Montreal Alouettes, Monday A must-win for Montreal (58), which is six points out of the third and final East Division playoff spot and tied with B.C. for the West crossover. The Als haven’t played since their 39-17 road loss to Ottawa on Oct. 1 as Henry Burris had a league-record 45 completions.

Toronto (8-5) comes off consecutive wins over the Redblacks, including a 38-35 decision Tuesday night thanks to Chad Owens’ late one-handed TD grab.

It was one of five scoring strikes for Harris, who also threw for 397 yards.

Pick — Toronto.

Last week: 4-1 Overall: 37-24.

INCHEON, Korea, Republic Of — Comparing the Presidents Cup to the Ryder Cup is like listening to a conversation between a Scot and an American.

The words might be similar, but they sound nothing alike.

The biggest difference with the Presidents Cup is an American team that is filled with smiles, not stress.

And there’s a reason for that.

The Americans haven’t lost in these matches since 1998, and the last four have not been particularly close.

They walk taller. They worry less.

Jordan Spieth has played in one of each in his short but already stellar career, and it was hard not to notice the contrast between the two cups.

“It seems there is a bit of a difference in the two teams rooms in the Presidents Cup experience I’ve had and the Ryder Cup last year,” Spieth said Wednesday. “Almost like we put too much emphasis on the Ryder Cup instead of just freeing up to play our own game.”

Ryder Cup practice rounds felt like dress rehearsals. Presidents Cup practice rounds feel like a Tuesday money game on tour.

“We feel like the favourites,” Spieth said. “We’re walking around with cockiness in our step, and often that can bite you if you’re not careful, but we’re aware of that. But the point is, we’re out there smiling because we believe whatever matchup we want to put together, we believe we can beat the other team.”

The Americans, who have won the Ryder Cup only one time in the last 16 years, go after their sixth straight victory in the Presidents Cup when the matches get started Thursday at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea.

Adam Scott, who has yet to play on a winning Presidents Cup team in six previous tries, and Hideki Matsuyama lead off the foursomes session against J.B. Holmes and Bubba Watson, two of the longest hitters in golf.

Spieth and Dustin Johnson are in the anchor match against Marc Leishman and Danny Lee. A lively opening ceremony Wednesday night, which featured South Korean President Park Geun-hye and former President George W. Bush, began with great suspense when a secret box was carried onto the stage. It was

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United States’ Jordan Spieth plays a chip shot during his final practice round ahead of the Presidents Cup golf tournament at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea, in Incheon, South Korea, Wednesday. carefully opened to reveal the shiny gold Presidents Cup trophy.

But there really hasn’t been much suspense at all.

The last time it was close was in 2003 at South Africa when it ended in a tie after Ernie Els and Tiger Woods matched pars in three sudden-death playoff holes before it was too dark to continue.

Jack Nicklaus was the captain that year, and he mentioned that Presidents Cup in a speech Wednesday night.

Nicklaus referred to it as the greatest sporting event in which he had ever taken part.

“We have that opportunity again this week,” Nicklaus said.

The Presidents Cup has lacked the rancour of the Ryder Cup, which is inevitable when it’s a competition between two tours (PGA and Europe) instead of the Americans against an International team in which all but one player — Thongchai Jaidee of Thailand — is or will be a PGA Tour member.

“They’re all Americans, they were just born in a different country,” U.S. assistant captain Fred Couples said.

This is the first Presidents Cup without Woods since 1996 when he was a 20-year-

old playing on sponsor exemptions to avoid going to Q-school. Els didn’t qualify and didn’t feel worthy of a pick, so he is out for the first time since 2005.

Price has an International team that is the youngest ever despite the 45-year-old Thongchai.

The captain is worried that if the Presidents Cup is another blowout, even some of the players might start losing interest.

What might give these matches a little edge is a debate over the number of matches, which were reduced from 34 to 30 this year in a decision that left neither team happy. The International team wanted it lowered to 28, like the Ryder Cup. The Americans wanted it to stay at 34.

Price believes the fewer the matches, the more likely it is to come down to the last day.

Whether that makes a difference depends largely on the one aspect that doesn’t change no matter what kind of cup is involved. It’s about making putts, winning holes and piling up points.

“We don’t have a crystal ball, and anything can happen in this game,” Scott said.

“But I believe we’re moving closer to a great competition.”

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McDavid ushers new era in Edmonton

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Next Thursday, in the shadow of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, after 18 years, eight months and 25 days, it’s showtime for the kid who wears his birth year on his back.

Connor McDavid — with his No. 97 jersey, soft hands and otherworldly playmaking skills — will suit up for the Oilers season opener against the Blues and take his first step toward fulfilling predictions as hockey’s Next Big Thing and its first superstar of the Twitter and Tablet Age. The teen from Newmarket, Ont., says right now he is just focusing on his next shift.

“I’m just worried about each and every day here, trying to get better and prove to the coaching staff and management team what I’m all about and making sure I’m earning their trust,” McDavid told reporters in training camp.

Because of McDavid, it has become the most anticipated season in the Alberta capital since the Wayne Gretzky era.

You knew Edmonton was cuckoo for Connor just days after he was drafted No. 1 overall in the June entry draft, when 3,000 people showed up in the heat of July to cheer him on as he stretched and shot pucks into an empty net at Rexall Place.

He comes with eye-popping junior scoring numbers (285 points in 166 games), and leaves hardened hockey observers groping to explain how he does it. He seems to accelerate while he’s gliding, a shinny grandmaster who sees the game in slow motion, with eight gears,and eyes in the back of his head.

From a defenceman’s point of view he’s a six-foot-one, 194—piund onrushing blur, accelerating from Vespa to Lamborghini in a heartbeat, stickhandling at top speed, eyes front, the puck moving left, right, left, right, like it’s being chopped with a Ginsu knife before going through the defenceman’s legs, and McDavid is gone, barrelling in from the side, swooping past the net at Mach 1, taking the goalie with him to the far side before switching to his backhand and sliding the puck over the line as neatly as a pie into an oven.

For marketers, he’s a kid straight out of central casting, or at least out of a comic as he resembles the floppy-haired Archie Andrews.

Oilers name Hall, Eberle, Nugent-Hopkins and Ference alternate captains The Edmonton Oilers won’t have a captain this season.

The team announced they’ll have four alternates: Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Andrew Ference.

Ference, who could be Edmonton’s seventh defenceman, served as captain the past two seasons.

Coach Todd McLellan says that Matt Hendricks will also wear an “A” while Eberle is injured.

The Oilers are following the lead of the Montreal Canadiens, who had four alternates last year before Max Pacioretty got the “C” this season.

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Edmonton Oilers head coach Todd McLellan stands behind Anton Slepyshev, left, Connor McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins during a pre-season game against the Vancouver Canucks. All eyes are on McDavid as the Oilers open their season full of hope.

He’s also a product of the Age of Instant Messaging, where hundreds of thousands can and do lionize and pulverize their heroes in real time, sometimes in the same news cycle.

Like in April, when the NHL draft lottery ping pong balls fell, the Oilers beat the odds and won the right to pick McDavid. The camera found McDavid and he seemed to be not overwhelmed or underwhelmed. Just, well, whelmed.

The Twitterverse exploded with interpretations of the non-expression.

He doesn’t like Edmonton. He does like Edmonton. He will report. He won’t report.

So McDavid, understandably, plays a verbal neutral zone trap in media scrums, delivering bullet-proof generalizations in low-talker tones.

The default phrase is “fun.”

“It will be fun,” McDavid said when asked about last month’s rookie tournament in Penticton, B.C. Asked about playing the University of Alberta Golden Bears in an exhibition game, he said, “It will be fun.”

Asked about his first game against NHL veterans, in a split squad game in Calgary, he said: “It was fun.”

But for a kid who talks softly, he wields a big stick that likely catalyzed the longed-for demolition and renovation of a carnival franchise that has missed the playoffs for nine consecutive years.

In that time, Oiler coaches and general managers came and went like the autumn leaves. Owner Daryl Katz was dismissed as a fan boy from the team’s glory years reluctant to part ways with ex-stars like hockey operations boss Kevin Lowe and general manager Craig MacTavish.

One writer once likened the Oilers to a “tree fort.”

Worse, the team that literally has an L in the middle of its jersey saw a losing culture take root.

In training camp this season, longtime Oiler Jordan Eberle admitted that the constant setbacks had taken their toll and that winning gold at the recent World Championships made him feel less like “a loser.”

When the Oilers won the lottery to pick McDavid, some observers and writers said hockey itself was the big loser, bemoaning the NHL’s future transcendent marquee property being consigned to immolation on the heap of its longest burning dumpster fire.

For McDavid’s part, he never even remotely hinted he would pull an Eric Lindros and not report.

Nevertheless, within 48 hours of the lottery ball fall, the Oilers began dismantling the tree fort.

Former Hockey Canada president Bob Nicholson was made head of hockey and business operations.

Nicholson hired as general man-

ager Peter Chiarelli, who had built the Boston Bruins into a Stanley cup winner. Chiarelli in turn hired ex-San Jose head coach Todd McLellan, the most sought after bench boss of the off season after Mike Babcock.

The scouting staff? Sacked. The assistant coaches? Out. Chiarelli began wheeling and dealing to address the team’s weak spots in defence and in goal. Veteran Andrej Sekera was signed as a free agent as one D-men expected to get the puck to McDavid.

Mark Fayne is expected to join Sekera on the top pairing.

Newcomers Griffin Reinhart and Eric Gryba join Oscar Klefbom and Justin Schultz on the back end.

Up front, McDavid has been paired in the pre-season with slick-skating Taylor Hall on left wing and either Leon Draisaitl or Teddy Purcell on the right.

The other top line is expected to be Ryan Nugent-Hopkins with Eberle and Benoit Pouliot on the wings — a line that excelled late last season. The line will need a replacement winger to start the season, with Eberle out 4-6 weeks with a shoulder injury.

Goaltender Cam Talbot, brought over from the New York Rangers after starring there when Henrik Lundqvist went down, is expected to be the starter.

Can the Oilers avoid a 10th consecutive season out of the playoffs? The consensus among observers is no. Even coach McLellan isn’t hyping it, telling reporters, “We’re not going to talk about playoffs here. We’re going to talk about foundation.”

Deeper Calgary Flames pushing for a return trip to the post-season Calgary Flames captain Mark Giordano says the team’s upgrades will help them push the pace even more this season.

The arrival of defenceman Dougie Hamilton and right-winger Michael Frolik means their new teammates can play quality — not quantity — minutes.

“What it does do is add so much depth to our team and add so many different options,” Giordano said. “Last year we had guys playing close to 30 minutes on the back end and forwards playing well over 20. Where the depth helps is you limit those minutes so every shift, you are full out.

“The strength of our team is our hard work and being able to go full out every shift.”

Under head coach Bob Hartley, the winner of the Jack Adams Trophy as the NHL’s top coach in 2014-15, the Flames’ relentless, buzzing attack and their willingness to block more shots than any other team in the league helped end a five-year playoff drought.

A second-round loss in five games to the Anaheim Ducks was the deepest Calgary (45-30-7) had gone in the post-season since their appearance in the Stanley Cup final in 2004.

Calgary opens the 2015-‘16 regular season at home Wednesday against the Vancouver Canucks — the team they eliminated in six games in the first round — with great expectations from their fan base.

The most suspenseful position is in

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goal as Jonas Hiller, Karri Ramo and Joni Ortio are all on one-way contracts.

Hiller played the majority of the regular-season games and started in the first round of playoffs. Ramo took over for Hiller early in the second series versus Anaheim.

Whatever tandem the Flames go with, Hartley will continue the philosophy of he who wins plays the next game, and he who loses gets the hook.

Not every team can have a Carey Price, so the belief is two goalies jockeying for starts gives the Flames a level of goaltending that can win a championship.

“We want someone to carry the ball,” Hartley said. “This business is about winning.”

Wily veteran Jiri Hudler, last season’s Calder Trophy nominee Johnny Gaudreau and 20-year-old centre Sean Monahan, who’s entering his third NHL season, make up a formidable top line for Calgary.

Early indications are heralded rookie Sam Bennett and Frolik will flank Mikael Backlund on the second line, which gives Calgary a solid top six.

The emergence of Micheal Ferland as a punishing deterrent late last season and his re-signing is an important ingredient for a team expected to be fit and fast again, but not very beefy.

Hamilton’s presence offsets the loss of T.J. Brodie to a broken finger to start the season. The 22-year-old Hamilton was paired in the pre-season with Giordano, a Norris Trophy candidate until a season-ending torn biceps Feb.

other team’s zone a lot more than we have in the past, but last year when we weren’t possessing the puck and the other team was, we were eliminating a lot of scoring chances and weren’t giving up much,” the captain explained.

“They had the puck on the outside and that’s fine, but for sure offensively we have to do a better job of holding it and creating more plays behind their net and stuff like that.”

The Flames have established a reputation as a team hard to put down with 24 of their 97 points last season earned when trailing after two periods. Their challenge this season is to maintain that culture.

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports • 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 women’s hockey: Grant MacEwan at Olds, 7 p.m., Sportsplex.

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

Montana State University, 8 p.m.

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.

Saturday • Peewee AA hockey: West Central at 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.

Baseball man 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

Major League Baseball Playoffs WILD CARD Tuesday, Oct. 6: Houston 3, New York 0 Wednesday, Oct. 7: Chicago (4, Pittsburgh 0 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 (Stro-

National League St. Louis vs. Chicago Friday, Oct. 9: Chicago at St. Louis, 4:45 p.m.

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

Monday, Oct. 12: St. Louis at Chicago x-Tuesday, Oct. 13: St. Louis at Chicago x-Thursday, Oct. 15: Chicago 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

Soccer GF 55 39 45 51 55 44 44 47 40 42

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF 15 10 6 51 47 14 9 9 51 53 15 12 5 50 42 13 9 9 48 46

x-FC Dallas x-Los Angeles Vancouver Sporting KC

GA 39 40 45 53 53 43 54 53 51 52

Seattle 14 13 5 47 40 San Jose 12 12 8 44 39 Portland 12 11 8 44 31 Houston 11 13 8 41 41 Real Salt Lake 11 12 8 41 37 Colorado 8 13 10 34 30 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie. x- clinched playoff berth

34 37 36 45 43 38

Wednesday’s Games New York 2, Montreal 1 Vancouver 0, FC Dallas 0, tie

GA 38 39 34 41

Red Deer Women’s League

Wednesday, Oct. 14 New York at Toronto FC, 5 p.m.

Vancouver at FC Dallas, 7 p.m.

Portland at Real Salt Lake, 7:30 p.m.

Funk 67 Dynamo 12 Funk: Allison Lunday 21 points; POG: Lundall. Dynamo: Meghan Banks 4; POG: Emily Nelson.

Hoosier Daddy 76 Shooting Stars 17 HD: Mallory Jones 18; POG: Kathy Ahlquist. SS: Paula Chapman, Carlyn Duckett 4; POG: Whitney Silbernagel.

Spartans 42 Xpress 27 Spartans: Carla Stewart 10; POG: Sam Steenbergen. Xpress: POG: Sandra Tapias.

Ball Hawks 51 Triple Threat 46 BH: Rachelle Adris 18; POG: Adrias. TT: Jessi Chachuk 17; POG: Charchuk.

National Basketball Association Preseason EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 1 1 .500 — Boston 0 0 .000 — Brooklyn 0 0 .000 — New York 0 0 .000 — Philadelphia 0 1 .000 1/2

Chicago Indiana Cleveland Detroit Milwaukee

Southeast Division W L Pct 2 0 1.000 1 0 1.000 1 0 1.000 1 1 .500 0 2 .000 Central Division W L Pct 1 0 1.000 1 1 .500 0 1 .000 0 1 .000 0 1 .000

Houston San Antonio Dallas

Utah Oklahoma City Denver Portland Minnesota

Sacramento Golden State L.A. Clippers Phoenix L.A. Lakers

1 0 0

1 0 2

.500 .000 .000

1/2 1/2 1 1/2

Northwest Division W L Pct 2 0 1.000 1 0 1.000 1 1 .500 0 1 .000 0 1 .000

GB — 1/2 1 1 1/2 1 1/2

Pacific Division W L Pct 1 0 1.000 1 0 1.000 1 1 .500 0 0 .000 0 2 .000

GB — — 1/2 1/2 1 1/2

Tuesday’s Games Washington 129, Philadelphia 95 Indiana 115, Detroit 112 Chicago 105, Milwaukee 95 Memphis 92, Houston 89 Denver 96, Dallas 86 Utah 117, L.A. Lakers 114, OT

GB — 1/2 1/2 1 2

Wednesday’s Games Atlanta 98, Cleveland 96 Orlando 100, Miami 97 Oklahoma City 122, Minnesota 99 Houston 109, Dallas 82 Sacramento at Phoenix, late

GB — 1/2 1 1 1

Thursday’s Games Cleveland at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Orlando at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Brooklyn at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Chicago vs. Denver at Boulder, CO, 7 p.m.

Golden State at Portland, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Toronto vs. L.A. Lakers at Ontario, CA, 8 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 1 0 1.000 — New Orleans 1 0 1.000 —

Friday’s Games New York at Washington, 5 p.m.

Atlanta vs. New Orleans at Jacksonville, FL, 5 p.m.

Utah at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Transactions Wednesday’s Sports Transactions BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Waived C Holyfield.

Signed F-C Alex Stepheson.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Signed K Billy Cundiff and WR Denarius Moore. Released K Jordan Gay and KR Marcus Thigpen.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed QB Josh Johnson. Placed CB Jalil Brown on injured reserve.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Placed TE Daniel Fells.

Signed WR Myles White from the practice squad.

Signed TE Dominique Jones and WR Julian Talley to the practice squad.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed LB Orie Lemon. Waived-injured DE Josh Martin. Signed WRs Rannell Hall and Adam Humphries to the practice squad.

Canadian Football League CFL — Named Tyler Mazereeuw vice-president of corporate partnerships, Christina Litz vice-president of marketing and content, and Matt Maychak vice-president of communications and public affairs.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed OL Cole Manhart and DB CJ Roberts to the practice roster.

HOCKEY

Midget AA Red Deer Elks results Elks 7 at Sylvan Lake 2 Elks: Tyler Gibson, Zach Kungle, Tyler Wall, Seth Stratton, McKoy Kahlert, Liam Stalwick, Brady Berger. Goaltender: Justin Anderson, 45 saves.

Elks 2 at Calgary Gold 5 Elks: Berger, Connor Stalwick.

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF GA Pt Prince Albert 5 4 1 0 0 23 23 8 Moose Jaw 4 3 0 1 0 19 12 7 Brandon 5 3 1 0 1 21 9 7 Saskatoon 5 2 0 3 0 25 18 7 Swift Current 4 1 2 1 0 6 13 3 Regina 4 1 3 0 0 4 14 2 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF GA Pt Red Deer 5 4 1 0 0 21 13 8 Calgary 5 4 1 0 0 14 10 8 Lethbridge 5 3 2 0 0 21 15 6 Medicine Hat 5 2 2 1 0 18 21 5 Edmonton 4 1 2 1 0 9 14 3 Kootenay 6 1 5 0 0 13 24 2 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF GA Pt Victoria 6 5 1 0 0 24 13 10 Kelowna 7 5 2 0 0 34 29 10 Vancouver 6 3 2 0 1 25 29 7 Prince George 3 1 2 0 0 6 7 2 Kamloops 5 0 5 0 0 12 24 0

Spokane Tri-City Everett Seattle Portland

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF GA Pt 5 3 2 0 0 16 17 6 4 2 1 1 0 17 18 5 3 2 1 0 0 6 6 4 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 3 Victoria 1

National Hockey League DETROIT RED WINGS — Waived F Daniel Cleary.

MINNESOTA WILD — Assigned C Jordan Schroeder to Iowa (AHL).

ST. LOUIS BLUES — Signed C Scott Gomez to a one-year contract. Placed C Patrik Berglund on long-term injured reserve.

VANCOUVER CANUCKS — Recalled G Richard Bachman from Utica (AHL).

American Hockey League ALBANY DEVILS — Signed G Doug Carr to a tryout agreement. Assigned D Joe Faust to Adirondack (ECHL). Released D David Shields from his tryout agreement.

HAMILTON BULLDOGS — Acquired D Ben Gleason from London for a 2017 OHL Priority Selection second-round pick and a conditional 2019 15thround pick.

ECHL READING ROYALS — Signed D Todd Perry.

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Announced Sporting Kansas City and Portland were in violation of the Mass Confrontation Policy following an incident in the 79th minute of their Oct. 3 match. Fined Portland MF Diego Valeri an undisclosed amount for instigating/escalating the incident.

SWIMMING Red Deer Catalina Swim Club coach Mandi Smith was feted four times during the recent Alberta coaches conference and awards dinner.

Smith was honoured as the female athlete coach of the year, outlying community coach of the year and national age group coach of the year. She also picked up the Desperado Award, as voted on by the Swim Alberta coach membership.

Meanwhile, Catalina swimmer Rebecca Smith was honoured as the junior female athlete of the year.

In addition, the Catalina Club was recognized for setting 38 — 22 per cent — of the 132 provincial records during the season, and Rebecca Smith was highlighted as one of six Alberta swimmers to break national age group marks. She set a new record in the 50m freestyle event.

Spokane at Portland, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Winnipeg Chicago

Saturday’s games Edmonton at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

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

Victoria at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

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

Spokane at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vancouver 1 1 0 0 2 5 1 Anaheim 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Arizona 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 Calgary 1 0 1 0 0 1 5 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Sunday, October 11 Edmonton at Regina, 4 p.m.

Saskatoon at Swift Current, 4 p.m.

Prince Albert at Everett, 5:05 p.m.

Seattle at Portland, 6 p.m.

Canadian Hockey League Top Ten 1. (8) Erie Otters (OHL, 4-0-0-0) 2. (7) Rouyn-Noranda Huskies (QMJHL, 7-1-1-0) 3. (4) Calgary Hitmen (WHL, 4-1-0-0) 4. (1) Brandon Wheat Kings (WHL, 3-1-0-1) 5. (2) Shawinigan Cataractes (QMJHL, 7-2-0-0) 6. (3) Barrie Colts (OHL, 4-1-0-0) 7. (NR) Rimouski Oceanic (QMJHL, 6-1-0-0) 8. (6) London Knights (OHL, 2-0-1-1) 9. (9) Red Deer Rebels (WHL, 4-1-0-0) 10. (NR) Drummondville Voltigeurs (QMJHL, 7-20-0) Honourable Mention Victoria Royals (WHL, 4-1-0-0) Prince Albert Raiders (WHL, 4-1-0-0) Windsor Spitfires (OHL, 3-0-1-0).

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

Wednesday’s results Moose Jaw 8 Vancouver 5 Saskatoon 7 Kootenay 2 Tri-City 4 Kamloops 3 Victoria 4 Spokane 1

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA N.Y. Rangers 1 1 0 0 2 3 2 Carolina 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Columbus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 New Jersey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 N.Y. Islanders 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Philadelphia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Pittsburgh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Washington 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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.

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

0 1

0 0

0 1

0 0

0 0

0 2

0 3

Wednesday’s Games Montreal 3, Toronto 1 N.Y. Rangers 3, Chicago 2 Vancouver 5, Calgary 1 San Jose at Los Angeles, late 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.

Friday’s Games Winnipeg at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

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

Toronto at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Chicago at N.Y. Islanders, 5:30 p.m.

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

Wednesday’s summary Canucks 5, Flames 1 First Period 1. Vancouver, Hansen 1 (Hutton, Burrows) 10:34.

2. Vancouver, Sutter 1 (D. Sedin) 18:01.

Penalties — Dorsett Vcr (fighting) 0:02, Ferland Cgy (fighting) 0:02, Engelland Cgy (high-sticking) 3:58, Prust Vcr (fighting) 8:02, Bollig Cgy (fighting) 8:02, Sbisa Vcr (cross-checking) 18:59.

Second Period 3. Calgary, Hudler 1 (Gaudreau, Monahan) 3:39.

4. Vancouver, D. Sedin 1 (Hamhuis, Tanev) 19:55.

Penalties — Hamilton Cgy (boarding) 9:34, Burrows Vcr (goaltender interference) 11:09.

Third Period 5. Vancouver, Burrows 1 (unassisted) 8:17.

6. Vancouver, H. Sedin 1 (D. Sedin, Sutter) 16:31.

Penalties — Hamilton Cgy (tripping) 11:47, Stajan Cgy (misconduct) 14:33, Bollig Cgy (misconduct) 14:33, Prust Vcr (misconduct) 14:33, Dorsett Vcr (misconduct) 14:33, Bartkowski Vcr (roughing) 17:10, Jooris Cgy (roughing) 17:10.

Shots on goal Vancouver 15 11 18 — 44 Calgary 9 5 16 — 30 Goal — Vancouver: Miller (W, 1-0-0) Calgary: Ramo (L, 0-1-0).

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

Football Hamilton Ottawa Toronto Montreal

GP 13 14 13 13

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.

Saturday’s Games Montreal at Colorado, 4 p.m.

Basketball

Charlotte Atlanta Washington Orlando Miami

THURSDAY, OCT. 8, 2015

Hockey

Today

Major League Soccer EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts x-New York 16 9 6 54 x-D.C. United 14 12 6 48 New England 13 11 8 47 Columbus 13 11 8 47 Toronto FC 14 13 4 46 Montreal 12 13 6 42 Orlando City 11 13 8 41 New York City FC 10 15 7 37 Philadelphia 9 16 7 34 Chicago 8 18 6 30

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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

Pt 137 129 118 108 100 91 90 75 50 48 48 49 46

x-K.Elliott, Tor T.Gurley, Tor x-R.Bagg, Sask x-H.Burris, Ott x-A.Collie, BC x-A.Harris, BC x-K.Lawrence, Edm D.Alvarado, Ott

7 7 6 6 6 6 6 0

2 0 4 2 2 2 2 4

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11

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

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

44 42 40 38 38 38 38 37

PF 119 95 110 65

Washington Philadelphia

2 1

Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans

PA 70 55 92 101

Indianapolis Tennessee Houston Jacksonville

W 2 1 1 1

South L T 2 0 2 0 3 0 3 0

Pct .500 .333 .250 .250

PF 72 89 77 62

PA 93 77 108 107

Cincinnati Pittsburgh Baltimore Cleveland

W 4 2 1 1

North L T 0 0 2 0 3 0 3 0

Pct 1.000 .500 .250 .250

PF 121 96 93 85

PA 77 75 104 102

Denver Oakland San Diego Kansas City

W 4 2 2 1

West L T 0 0 2 0 2 0 3 0

Pct 1.000 .500 .500 .250

PF 97 97 96 100

PA 69 108 110 125

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Dallas 2 2 0 .500 95 N.Y. Giants 2 2 0 .500 102

PA 101 82

2 3

0 0

.500 .250

78 78

79 86

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

Arizona St. Louis Seattle San Francisco

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.

Mike Babcock makes history with first coach’s challenge in NHL history

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — It didn’t take long for one of the NHL’s new rules to get its first test.

On the opening night of the season, the Toronto Maple Leafs’ Mike Babcock initiated the first coach’s challenge in NHL history and was successful in overturning a goal by the Montreal Canadiens.

It looked like Jeff Petry had scored 6:36 into the second period Wednesday night, but Babcock challenged it on the grounds that Tomas Plekanec interfered with goaltender Jonathan Bernier. Babcock will get his name in the history books, but he gave the credit to assistant coaches Andrew Brewer and Jim Hiller.

“Someone’s going to say I challenged — I didn’t challenge nothing,” Babcock said after the Leafs’ 3-1 loss. “Brew yelled in Jim Hiller’s ear, and Jim Hiller said we’re challenging.

They were good enough to put it up on the screen, so I knew by the time the guy got over there.”

Coach’s challenges are new to the NHL this season and can be made on goals involving goalie interference or offside plays.

Referees Frederik L’Ecuyer and Dan O’Rourke looked at the replay by the penalty box at Air Canada Centre and determined Plekanec made incidental contact with Bernier and therefore it was not a goal.

“The play happened so quick and you couldn’t see that stick that got me the throat,” Bernier said.

NHL

BRIEFS Sharks forward Raffi Torres won’t appeal 41-game suspension for illegal check SAN JOSE, Calif. — San Jose Sharks forward Raffi Torres will not appeal his 41-game suspension for an illegal check to the head of Ana-

While scrappy winger Brendan Gallagher quipped that he was surprised he didn’t interfere with the goaltender first, his Habs teammates were satisfied even though the coach’s challenge cost them a goal.

“Smart play for them and obviously it worked out,” said Montreal captain Max Pacioretty, who acknowledged he didn’t know how the new system worked. “It seemed like it was the right call from what I saw. Got to give them credit for the good decision.”

Because he won the challenge, Babcock maintained his timeout. As part of the new rule, a coach must have his timeout left in order to challenge a goal.

The league takes over the expanded video review for the final minute of the third period and all of overtime.

Coaches weren’t allowed to try during the pre-season, but Michel Therrien of the Canadiens said his staff was prepared.

“This is something new for everyone, and we’re going to learn through the course of the season,” Therrien said after the morning skate.

“We’re ready. We’re anticipating and went through different situations with our staff because a lot of times behind the bench it’s tough to make that call.”

The other new rule is three-on-three play in overtime, replacing four-on-four in an effort to reduce shootouts. Alex Galchenyuk’s game-winner in the third period prevented more history from taking place at Air Canada Centre on Wednesday night. heim’s Jakob Silfverberg in a preseason game.

The NHLPA said Wednesday that Torres will not contest the longest suspension in NHL history for a hit on another player.

This marks the fifth and most significant suspension for Torres in his career.

His previous longest ban had been a 21-game suspension — initially 25 games — for a high hit on Chicago’s Marian Hossa in the first round of the playoffs in 2012 when he played for Arizona.

Torres was suspended for the final six games of the playoffs in 2013 with San Jose for a hit to the head against Los Angeles’ Jarret Stoll. Torres was also suspended for two games in January 2012 and April 2011 for hits.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015 B5

Price establishes dominance early LEADS CANADIENS PAST MAPLE LEAFS IN SEASON OPENER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canadiens 3 Maple Leafs 1 TORONTO — Carey Price got to go through the game-day routine he’s comfortable with and looked like he hadn’t missed a beat from his MVP season.

The reigning Hart and Vezina Trophy-winning goaltender made 36 saves as the Montreal Canadiens beat the much-improved Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1 Wednesday night in the season opener at Air Canada Centre.

It was the kind of dominance that has become commonplace for Price.

“We’re used to that,” said captain Max Pacioretty, who scored on the team’s first shot of the game and added an empty-netter. “We definitely relied on him a little bit too much tonight, but that’s what we’re used to. He plays that way every night.”

Price was the difference on a night the Leafs carried the play for long stretches and got 37 shots to Montreal’s 30. Alex Galchenyuk delivered the game-winning goal in the third period.

“We obviously would’ve liked to maintain a little bit more offensive-zone pressure,” Price said. “But at the end of the day it worked for us, and we’ll definitely take the win.”

Mike Babcock didn’t just want to accept the loss, but his players put forth a strong performance in his first regular-season game as coach.

“There’s no moral victories in the NHL,” Babcock said. “You either won or you lost. It’s real simple that way. But obviously the process is there, and they’re trying.”

Habs players recognized the Leafs as a much more difficult opponent under Babcock than in previous seasons. But they were more concerned with their own play, which Pacioretty described as having flashes of positives but featuring plenty to work on.

Just because the recipe worked didn’t make the Habs all too happy.

“We don’t want to allow 40 shots every night,” said defenceman P.K. Subban, who appeared to injure his left leg when he was boarded by Leo Komarov but stayed in the game. “We started the game with some zip and then they sort of pushed back and we just ever really got our system going consistently throughout the game. … We’re going to have to play a whole lot better than that.”

The Habs got the timely offence they relied on so much last season in winning the Atlantic Division

thanks in large part to Price, who set the franchise record with 44 victories and led the NHL with a 1.96 goals-against average and .933 save percentage.

Toronto registered the first four shots, but Pacioretty scored 3:09 in on a shot that hit and went over Jonathan Bernier and then trickled into the net. Bernier, who finished with 27 saves, lamented some bad rebounds but said he got more comfortable as the game went on.

Bernier just wasn’t as locked in as Price.

“I thought their goaltender was real solid,” Babcock said. “I thought ours was real solid after the first shot.”

Galchenyuk’s game-winner at 12:02 of the third period came on a juicy rebound that Bernier left after Andrei Markov’s shot from the point. In his first game as a full-time centre, Galchenyuk was in the perfect place to score.

The Leafs had their chances, too, but ran into Price.

“He won the MVP last year for a reason so he’s a tough one to score on,” said James van Riemsdyk, who scored the only Leafs goal when the puck banked in off his left skate.

“But we’ve got to stick with that process, and we’ll have some success.”

NHL teams show patience NHL trending towards smaller, faster and quicker with top prospects

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

2015/16 PREVIEW

TORONTO — Drew Doughty knows that opponents who go into Staples Center expect to get hit early and often by the big, physical Kings. Los Angeles won the Stanley Cup twice with that hard style of hockey.

Now, perhaps, more teams have the antidote.

The Tampa Bay Lightning are on the front lines of the NHL’s trend toward smaller, faster more skilled teams that hit and fight less and would rather win by holding onto the puck.

“If they can’t catch us, they can’t hit us,” Lightning captain Steven Stamkos said.

Rule changes 10 years ago put the emphasis on skill over size, and in recent years more players like Tyler Johnson of the Lightning and Johnny Gaudreau of the Calgary Flames can thrive despite being well under six feet tall. While Martin St. Louis and Daniel Briere had to break the mould, players of their ilk are now far more prominent.

“It’s about if you can skate and play the game,” Boston Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask said. “It gives more people the opportunity to play in the NHL. When you look at the kids, their dreams are not shattered if they don’t grow to be 6-2, 200 pounds.”

There’s still room in the NHL for the six-foot-five, 230-pound players, provided they can keep up. Someone like the Winnipeg Jets’ Blake Wheeler fits the model of a player who has the size and the speed to succeed.

“Pretty effective, he’s a good guy to have on your team,” Jets defenceman Jacob Trouba said. “If you have a big, quick guy, he’s probably going to come out on top.”

Traditional hockey scouting suggests teams would rather draft a bigger player with the same skill-set as a smaller one. But the Toronto Maple Leafs are trying to cash in on skill, skill and more skill, as they’ve selected smaller forwards William Nylander and Mitch Marner in the top 10 each of the past two years.

Deputy commissioner Bill Daly said teams following Stanley Cup champions like the Chicago Blackhawks and runners up like the Lightning is nothing new and considers the smaller, faster trend a cyclical development.

Commissioner Gary Bettman said skill comes in all shapes and sizes.

“It just so happens that we’re seeing a group of extraordinarily talented young players who happen to not be the largest players on the ice, but their

skill, they’re able to shine,” Bettman said.

Coaches talk defence first, and Doughty thinks that is what tipped the scales in the Blackhawks’ favour in the Cup final. But scoring is the name of the game now.

“If he can score the goals, you look at Johnson last year for Tampa Bay, he’s hard to play against,” Chicago defenceman Duncan Keith said. “He’s fast and skilled and smart. If you have a bunch of fast, skilled, smart guys, it doesn’t matter what their size is, they’re going to be hard to play against.”

The biggest change veteran players notice over their careers is just how fast the NHL has gotten. Without so much hooking and holding, the sport is as fast as ever, and that has opened the door to shorter players.

“It’s definitely more about being in the right place and movement,” New York Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist said. “The shorter guys, if you’re fast, you can have an opportunity to play in the league. It doesn’t matter if you’re 5-9 or 6-5.”

Critics argue that, without the red line for two-line passes and as much obstruction, the game is too fast. Ottawa Senators captain Erik Karlsson acknowledges accidents are going to happen but believes it’s actually harder to play correctly because the speed has been ratcheted up.

“It’s a way faster game now than what it used to be,” Karlsson said.

“That’s tougher on your body. That’s going to be tougher for everything you have to do. You have to make the decisions even faster now and you have to worry about things that you didn’t have to worry about before.”

Not every team is following the Chicago or Tampa Bay model. The Kings and Bruins are sticking with big and strong, and the Jets, St. Louis Blues and Anaheim Ducks have played that way with success.

Doughty wondered if playing such a physical style has gassed the Kings over the course of a season, but he and teammate Anze Kopitar believe that kind of hockey is still a winning recipe if there’s some speed involved, too.

“I do think you have to have a good balance of that, of being big and hard and strong and at the same time being quick and fast and have a lot of skills,” Kopitar said.

“I guess that’s the GM’s job to throw that mix in there.”

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“You never really hear about guys TORONTO — Going into training camp, Arizona Coyotes general man- regretting staying an extra year,” van ager Don Maloney was all but certain Riemsdyk said. “Sometimes you hear that Dylan Strome would go back to about guys regretting leaving early. … I juniors. Midway through, Strome’s play wanted to make sure i was really ready was so good he wondered if the No. 3 for what was next for me.”

Van Riemsdyk made his NHL debut pick should stay in the NHL. In the final analysis, the Coyotes at the age of 20 and was part of Philasaw Strome look like an 18-year-old delphia’s run to the Stanley Cup final. in the final few pre-season games and Among the teams drafting in the top 10 sent him back to the Ontario Hockey last year, the climb to that level will be League’s Erie Otters. And they weren’t steeper, but they see their top picks as key pieces of the future. alone in taking the patient approach.

Maloney said the Only five players Coyotes don’t want drafted in June are on ‘THE REALITY IS THAT Strome to be a “run-ofopening-night rosters: PHYSICALLY THEY’RE the-mill NHL player” No. 1 pick Connor McDavid for the Edmon- JUST NOT READY TO COM- and would rather let him dominate the OHL ton Oilers, No. 2 pick Jack Eichel for the PETE AT THIS LEVEL ALL like Max Domi did last season as a 19-yearBuffalo Sabres, No. THE TIME.’ old. Like Domi, Strome 5 pick Noah Hanifin could lead a team and for the Carolina HurARIZONA COYOTES GENERAL MANAGER DON MALONEY represent Canada at ricanes, No. 10 pick the world junior chamMikko Rantanan pionship to get a taste of a higher level for the Colorado of competition.

Avalanche, No. “I don’t see how that is ever a bad 46 pick Daniel experience,” Maloney said. “We want Sprong for the him to be a front-line player, and I Pittsburgh Penthink there’s steps to get there.” guins. The CoyLetting him play this year would’ve otes, Toronto Mabeen a risky step contractually and ple Leafs, New physically. In recent years the Sabres Jersey Devils and burned a year of Mikhail Grigorenko’s Philadelphia Fly- Dylan Strome entry-level contract by being indeciers in particular followed through on their long-term sive about his status, and the Oilers plans by letting top-10 picks go back to did the same with Leon Draisaitl last season. the CHL. Strome or any rookie can play nine “To me patience is also part of the plan and patience with young players,” games before the contract counts for a New Jersey Devils GM Ray Shero said. season but not beyond that.

“To me that’s not something you “If it’s good enough for Marian Hossa or it’s good enough for Jonathan Toews take a chance on and then a month to stay another year at North Dakota later say, ‘Uh oh,’ send him back and after being drafted, it’s good enough now you blow a year of the contract,” Maloney said. for a lot of other guys.”

Physically, there’s the concern that No. 4 pick of the Toronto Maple Leafs Mitch Marner is back with the an 18- or 19-year-old kid might be inOHL’s London Knights now as co-cap- jured by something as simple as a hit tain, and on Wednesday the Otters an- from a six-foot-five, 200-pound veteran. nounced Strome will wear the “C” this Maloney said the Coyotes are “bullish” season. No. 6 pick Pavel Zacha of the on Strome’s future but didn’t want to Devils goes back to the Sarnia Sting to risk him getting hurt.

“All you have to do is look around play with top 2016 prospect Jakob Chychrun, and No. 7 pick Ivan Provorov the league and how many young playof the Flyers goes back to the loaded ers that came in the league and they’re Brandon Wheat Kings of the Western great for two months and then they pop out a shoulder,” he said. “The injuHockey League.

“The reality is that physically ries are always a concern with young they’re just not ready to compete at players that aren’t physically mature enough to handle it.” this level all the time,” Maloney said.

Then there are the exceptions. On As tempting as it is to keep 18-yearolds for a nine-game trial run or even Thursday, McDavid will debut in St. the season, Philadelphia GM Ron Hex- Louis, Eichel at home against the Ottawa Senators and Hanifin in Nashville. tall considers it “dangerous.”

“Obviously the top two dogs, that’s “It’s one thing now, it’s anothp r e t t y er thing in October, November, and Best Wishes To December,” Hextall told reporters at easy,” MaLeo and Marie Leonard camp last week. “This is what’s right loney said. on celebrating their “But even a for the kids.”

Maloney said young players often guy like No- 55th Wedding Anniversary October 8,, 2015 generate pre-season hype for the first ah Hanifin, few practices and games before vet- t h a t g u y ’ s erans kick their play into gear. There big and he’s was certainly some excitement about p h y s i c a l l y Leafs prospects Marner, William a man, so Nylander and Kasperi Kapanen, but m a y b e h e Toronto stayed true to its vow to let c a n w i t h young players develop in the junior s t a n d t h e physical ranks and the minors.

After picking him second in 2007, p o u n d i n g the Flyers wanted winger James van that you get Riemsdyk to turn pro. He had the in the NHL. Love size to play with grown men, but van T i m e w i l l from their Family Riemsdyk figured it better for his de- tell.”

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COWBOY CLASSIC FINALS RODEO

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This weekend Westerner Park will play host to the Foothills Cowboy Association Cowboy Classic Finals Rodeo. Action gets underway Friday, Oct. 9, 7 p.m.

There are two performances on Saturday, 1 p.m. and 7 p.m., and a Sunday performance at 1 p.m. Above is a photo of 2014 action with Carter Sahli of Red Deer riding in the boys steer riding event. For more information, visit www.fcarodeo.com.

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FRIDAY, OCT. 9 ● Red Deer Table Tennis Club meets to play every Friday, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Michener Recreation Centre gymnasium. There is a drop-in fee of $10. All levels welcome.

Contact Tom at 403-872-7222. ● Red Deer Legion Branch #35 year round events: Singles Bridge on Thursdays at 1 p.m. (all levels welcome, including beginners) and Texas Hold ‘Em on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m.; meat draws on Fridays at 5 p.m., and Saturdays at 4 p.m. Phone 403-3420035. ● Hard of Hearing Support Group meets the second Friday of each month from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. at ABC Country Restaurant. Discuss the highs and lows and laughs of living with hearing loss on Oct. 9.

No charge, but please RSVP to speakupcentralalberta@gmail.com, 403-356-1598. ● Jon Neufeld, singer, songwriter, guitarist, recording artist, worship leader will offer a free night of worship on Oct. 9, 7 p.m. at Deer Park Church. Neufeld will be doing a 12-city tour in partnership with Food for the Hungry Canada. ● Loft Society Chili Cook-off goes Oct. 9 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 5124 49 Ave. Innisfail. Enter as singles or teams to cook up a batch of chili. Cost to enter is $10 per entry, and$5 per bowl with bun to eat. Choose one chili to eat or $5 for five tickets to

taste. Registration deadline is Oct. 7. All proceeds to Loft Society supporting adults with developmental disabilities. See Facebook, or contact Darcy at 403-227-2885, theloftpros@ outlook.com. ● Red Deer Legion presents Randy Hillman on Oct. 9 and 10 from 8 p.m. to midnight for their weekend dance. Phone 403342-0035. Legion members are required to show their valid membership card. Non-members cover charge is $5. ● Pride Fridays at RDPL is offered in the Waskasoo Kiwanis Meeting Room at Downtown Branch of Red Deer Public Library from 3 to 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 9, 23, Nov. 6, 20, and a Christmas Party on Dec. 4. Ages 12 and up welcome. ● Coffee Break @ the Timberlands Branch of Red Deer Public Library for adults is offered Fridays from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Enjoy a hot beverage and a comfy chair and a good read. ● Inventor’s Workshop Day Camp for children six to 12 years will be offered at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery on Oct. 9 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m Register online or in person at the museum. See www.reddeermuseum.com for details. ● Silver Blades senior skating is offered on Fridays, 2 to 3:30 p.m., and Seniors Skating is offered on Tuesdays from 2:30 to 3:30, both at the Red Deer Arena. Ages 50 years plus. Purchase 10-time punch card from City

of Red Deer Recreation Parks and Culture, or $4.75 drop-in. Phone 403-347-6883.

SATURDAY, OCT. 10 ● Story Yoga with Jamie de Koning of Spiritus Yoga will go Oct. 10, 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Children can try yoga in a storytelling setting, practice poses and more while using their imaginations. ● Star Wars Reads Day! family event celebrates reading and the Star Wars Universe, including Star Wars Lego and Star Wars Angry Birds on Oct. 10 from 1 to 3 p.m.

Wear costumes, build your own pod racer out of Lego, enter to win prizes, enjoy snacks, and much more. ● Senior Citizens Downtown House musical jam session, dance, and sing-along will be featured on Oct. 10 from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Admission $2.50, includes coffee, tea and goodies. Call 403-346-4043. ● Central Alberta Foodgrains Bank Project Harvest has been rescheduled to Oct. 10 starting at 1 p.m. starting with a free barbecue. Bring your lawn chair and help out.

Location is south of Ponoka Airport on C & E Trail. Signs will be posted.For updates contact Doug at 403-782-1860. ● MAGnificent Saturdays offer free art making with a professional artist from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery in downtown Red Deer. The Oct. 10 session is called Fanciful Feasts. All materials supplied. Families welcome. Phone 403-3098405. Free with admission. ● Royal Canadian Air Force Association members meet at noon on the second Saturday of the month at the ABC Country Restaurant for a luncheon and business meeting. Guests are welcome. Next meeting is Oct. 10. The association preserves and perpetuates the traditions of the Royal Cana-

dian Air Force and advocates a proficient and well equipped air force in Canada. The local 703 Wing provides a forum for serving former participants in military and civil aviation and a meeting of like minded people. Contact Al at 403-341-3253, or email to amlow@shaw.ca. ● Nature Savvy Saturdays at Kerry Wood Nature Centre are offered from 1 to 4 p.m. each week. Enjoy a nature-themed craft or activity. All ages invited to drop in and for a seasonal nature-inspired craft or activity.

Phone 403-346-2010. ● Earth Play Saturday is for tots five years and under and their caregivers to learn about nature through hands-on exploration and is offered Oct. 10 from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Drop-in. Admission by suggested donation of $5 per couple or $10 per family.

Older siblings are welcome. Phone 403-3462010. ● Fall Festival will be offered at Faith Community Church in Blackfalds on Oct. 10.

Supper at 6 p.m. followed by a concert with Grace Revolution, live painting by Lewis Lavoie and a silent auction. RSVP to faithcc@ telus.net or call 587-447-7724.

SUNDAY, OCT. 11 ● Last chance threshing bee hosted by the Central Alberta Massey Harris Collectors Association, takes place on Oct. 11.

Event features binding, threshing and plowing demonstrations along with a garage sale and silent auction. Picnickers and tailgaters are welcome. Liquid refreshments only will be offered on site. Go east a the Husky station in Ponoka and follow the signs. For more details, call Bruce at 403-596-2558 or Carol at 403-783-5322.

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Oregon college gunman killed himself inside classroom after 2 officers wounded him ROSEBURG, Ore. — The gunman who fatally shot nine people at an Oregon community college last week killed himself in front of his victims after two police officers wounded him, authorities said Wednesday.

When two plainclothes detectives spotted Chris-

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015 B7 Seconds later, the officers “both felt they had a good target,” Douglas County District Attorney Rick Wesenberg said. Two of their bullets hit a wall. A third struck Harper-Mercer on the right side.

The wounded gunman “entered the classroom again, went to the front of the classroom and shot and killed himself,” Wesenberg said.

The attack in this rural timber town was the worst mass shooting in Oregon history. Eight students and a teacher died. Nine others were wounded.

topher Harper-Mercer in the doorway of a campus building, he fired at them, and the officers quickly returned fire. The killer then went back inside and shot himself in a classroom where many of his victims lay dead and wounded, a prosecutor told a news conference.

It was authorities’ most detailed account yet of the gunman’s death. Previously, they had said only that the 26-year-old attacker killed himself after a shootout.

The detectives arrived within minutes of the first reports of gunfire at Umpqua Community College.

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS ● An Evening With Emily St. John Mandel — author of Station Eleven — will be celebrated at Welikoklad Event Centre on Oct, 27 from 7 to 9:30 p.m. This lecture is a discussion of St. John Mandel’s process of writing and research that went into her book Station Eleven. Following the reading, there will a question and answer period and a book signing in the lobby. Tickets are free but required. Pick up a ticket at any branch of Red Deer Public Library or call 403-346-4576 for ticket availability. ● Create Folded Book Art on Nov. 3 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Waskasoo Kiwanis Meeting Room at Downtown Branch of Red Deer Public Library. Make a unique present for book-loving family and friends. All supplies are provided. Registration limited to 20 people Register in person on Level 4 or call 403346-2100. ● Third Annual Student Alumni Film Festival takes place at Welikoklad Event Centre on Oct. 16 and 17, 7 p.m. each night and showcases work of Motion Picture Arts Students of Red Deer College graduates. Cost is $10. Violence and language warning. ● Red Deer College offers several musical events.

Faculty Recital: Meet the Teacher will be featured on Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m. Night at the Museum Concert will be featured on Oct. 29 at 7:30 p.m. Thursday Live Concert will be featured Oct. 29 at 1 p.m. with all funds raised going to charity. All events at on Main Stage Arts Centre at RDC, and tickets are available at bkticketcentre.ca, rdc.ab.ca/showtime ● Beef-on-a-Bun Supper at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church will be offered on Oct. 28 at 6 p.m. Adults cost $12, ages six to 12 years cost $6, and under six, free. Phone 403347-5372 to reserve tickets by Oct. 21. ● Red Deer and District Community Foundation is offering Central Alberta Human Resources Scholarship for $500 to be awarded to a resident of Central Alberta who is currently enrolled in a post-secondary program focussing on Human Resources Management. To view requirements or download an application form see http://rddcf.ca/for-grant-

seekers/available-grants/. The deadline is Oct. 31. ● Central Alberta Singles Club is sponsoring a dance on Oct. 24 at Royal Canadian Legion Innisfail Hall. Music by Hot Spur. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Music starts at 8 p.m. Non-singles and everyone welcome. For information, call Elaine at 403-341-7653 or Bob at 403-304-7440. ● Memorial Society of Red Deer and District Annual General Meeting will be held at the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre on Oct. 22 starting with lunch at noon for $15, followed by general meeting. Meeting is free of charge to attend. Speaker will be Val Hilario, executive director of Red Deer Hospice Society. RSVP to reserve lunch by Oct. 16.

Contact Virginia at 403-340-9183, Ruth at 403-340-3898, or Joan at 403-347-3792. ● Light the Night volunteers are needed to kick off the Christmas Season on Nov. 21 with the lighting of City Hall Park, the lighting of the tree, visits with Santa, a winter market, children’s activities and many more events. About 75 volunteers are required. Contact Peter by email at peter.mcgee@ reddeer.ca or call 403-348-5078. ● Stettler Christmas Farmers Market will be featured Oct. 27 at the Stettler Agriplex from 11 a.m. to 17 p.m. Over 70 different vendors will be present. Concession on site. For information call 403-742-6288. ● Red Deer Christmas Bureau needs volunteers for various duties. Please call 403-347-2210 to help out. ● Run with Heart Glow Run will be held on Oct. 17 starting at 7 p.m. This is a family fun run of 5 or 10 km, in the dark along some of the flatter trails of Red Deer. Wear bright, elaborate and colourful clothing to have fun while raising funds for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Registration fee is $50 online at events.runningroom.com ● Halloween Party at Innisfail Historical Village goes Oct. 23 and 24 from 6 to 8 p.m. Tickets are $3 for children under 10 years, $5 for adults, and $15 per family. Call 4030-2272906 or idhsjane@gmail.com. Prizes, entertainment, goodies. ● Living Stones Church seniors luncheon will be of-

fered on Oct. 28 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Guest singers will be The Gospel Troubadours. The cost is $10 per person at the door. Phone 403-347-7311. ● Central Alberta Brain Injury Society (CABIS) is seeking a volunteer board members. Meetings are held on the last Monday of each month, (except July and August) at 5:30 p.m. at the CABIS office. CABIS provides support, information, advocacy and social events for people with brain injuries, their family and caregivers. Call CABIS at 403-341-3463 for more information. ● United Way of Central Alberta has many businesses offering specials to support them. Most promotions run until Oct. 31. Businesses include Bistro on Gaetz, Botanica Garden Restaurant, Chillabongs, Edgar Restaurant, Imperial Oil Esso, Las Palmeras, Mitchell and Jewel, Openhwy, Special Event Rentals, Tandoor ‘n’ Flame, Turple Brothers Ltd. See caunitedway.ca for details. ● Dickson Store Museum Dinner and Dessert Theatre will be offered Spruce View Hall featuring the play Across the Desk written by Sharon Lightbown. Dinner theatre will be on Nov. 27 with supper at 6 p.m. and the play to follow for a cost of $45 each or $320 for a table of eight. Dessert theatre will be on Nov. 28 with doors opening at 12:30 p.m. followed by the play at 1 p.m. for a cost of $25 each or $160 for a table of eight. For details and tickets see www.dicksonstoremuseum. com, or contact dicksonstoremuseum@gmail.com, 403-7283355. ● Alberta Sports Hall of Fame Halloween Family Night will be held Oct. 29, 6 to 9 p.m. Admission is $10 per family up to six people. See www.ashfm.ca, contact info@ashfm.ca, 403-341-8614. ● Innisfail United Church Harvest Turkey Supper goes Oct. 27, 4:30 to 7 p.m. at Royal Canadian Legion Auditorium in Innisfail. Costs are $14 for 11 years and up, $6 for six to 10 years, and free for five years and under. Take out orders are welcome between 9 a.m. and noon on supper day at 403227-4159.

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only. Book and audiovisual donations are gratefully accepted at the downtown branch during regular business hours. ● Central Alberta Prostate Awareness and Support Group meets the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at Gaetz Memorial United Church in the parlour. The next meeting is Oct. 15 features Dr. John Lewis speaking on new research. Space is limited, contact nhstevens1941@gmail. com, or phone 403-350-5511to confirm attendance. ● Red Deer and District Garden Club meets on Oct. 15 at Kerry Wood Nature Centre at 7 p.m. Kelly Storm from Olds College will talk about flowering shrubs for our climate. More information at www.reddeergardenclub.ca or www.facebook. com/RedDeerGardenClub. For more information call Noreen at 403-357-4071. ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre Dinner Dance, Oct. 15, 5:15 to 10 p.m. at the seniors’ centre. Dance to the music of Black Velvet. Admission is $25 by advance tickets only. Phone 403-347-6165, 403-342-2875, or 403-3414672. ● Red Deer Art Club has ongoing sessions every Thursday from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre. These afternoons are open to all who are interested in learning techniques and sharing ideas using water based mediums. Open to beginner or advanced artists. For more information email reddeerartclub@gmail.com or see www.red-

deerartclub.com, or search out the club on Facebook. ● Independent Achievers LinkedIn Social Media workshop will be offered on Oct. 15, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School. Learn more about LinkedIn. Cost is $90 for members and $100 for non-members. Register at www.independentachievers.com. Maximum 30 participants. ● Perogy Supper at St. Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic Church on Oct. 15 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Adults cost $13, children ages 10 years and under cost $6. Tickets available only at the door. Phone 403-347-2335. ● Mostly Acoustic Recital free lunchtime concert will showcase the talents of Red Deer College’s music students on Oct. 15, 1 p.m. in Studio C at RDC Arts Centre. Free admission. ● Almost, Maine Theatre Production by John Cariani will be presented in Studio A, Red Deer College Arts Centre, Oct. 15 to 17, and Oct. 20 to 24 at 7:30 p.m., and Oct. 17 and 24 at 1 p.m. Purchase tickets at bkticketcentre.ca, rdc.ab.ca/ showtime ● Red DeerPublic Schools offers Being an Executor Workshop, Oct. 15, 6:30 p.m. at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School. Cost is $10 plus GST. Register online at http://rdpsd.augusoft.net or call 403-342-1059.

● Lego Builders Tuesdays meet at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Oct. 13, and Nov. 24. Children ages six and up are invited to participate in a free Lego build activity. Children under six may attend with an adult. Space is limited; email ttilly@rdpl.org to secure a spot. ● Teen Halloween at Downtown Branch of Red Deer Public Library offers three events all to be held in the mezz.

Design Your Own Tombstones will be held on Oct. 13 from 4 to 5 p.m. The Punk ‘n King will be held on Oct. 20 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. and features mini-pumpkin decorating and the film The Nightmare Before Christmas. Rise of the ZomBarbies will be held on Oct. 27 from 3:45 to 5:15 p.m. and offers new life for Barbies. ● CrossRoads Church Seniors Gems monthly luncheon is offered on the second Tuesday of each month from noon to 2 p.m. in the Chapel, next Oct. 13. All seniors invited.

The cost is $8 at the door. Phone 403-347-6425. ● Rise Against Rett Syndrome FUNraising for Falan Get Your Purple on at the Bomb will be held on Oct. 13 from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. at CherryBomb Hair Lounge. Purple is the official colour of Rett Syndrome and October is Rett Syndrome Awareness Month. Get a purple hair streak, or purple nails all in support of Rett Syndrome and to raise money to build a wheelchair accessible playground at Mattie McCullough School. There will be raffles, refreshments and snacks. Phone 403-986-3147. A second event will be held on Nov. 20, 7 p.m. at Bo’s Bar and Grill featuring silent auction, 50/50 draws, complimentary appetizers, and music. Tickets cost $20. For more information on these events, contact Sean and Nicole at 403-598-2000, seanhollman@yahoo.com. ● Take Off Pounds Sensibly (T.O.P.S.) Innisfail meets every Tuesday in the basement of the Innisfail United Church.

Weigh-in from 12:15 p.m., with meeting beginning at 1 p.m.

Call Rose at 403-227-6903 or Elsie at 403-227-3508. ● The Parkland Cross Country Ski Club will hold their first meeting of the winter season at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 13 at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre. Regular meetings are on the second Tuesday of each month from Oct. to March. Novice to experienced cross country skiers are welcome to come and find out about trips and activities. Visit parklandxskiclub.org.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 14 ● Crib and Card Games Club plays cards on Wednesdays at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library from 2 to 4 p.m. near the fireplace. ● Daytime Documentaries will be held on the second Wednesday of each month from 2 to 4 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. The documentary film Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s will be shown on Oct. 14 in the Waskasoo Kiwanis Meeting Room, followed by a library staff facilitated discussion. Free. Those planning to bring groups, or for more information, phone Donna Stewart or Priscilla at 403-346-2100. ● Central Alberta Photographic Society (CAPS) meets the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month at 6:45 p.m. at Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. and socializing hour will be held following the meeting.

Guest presenter on Oct. 14 is Calgary sport photographer Robert Wallator. Contact Leo at 403-748-3666, or capsphotoclub@gmail.com, or go online to www.centralalbertaphotographicsociety.com for more information. ● Boomtown Trail Cowboy Church meets the second and last Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Elnora Drop In Centre, next Oct. 14 and 28. Cowboy boots and hats welcome. For more information, call 403-749-3361. ● Inspirational Ladies Fun and Fellowship meets the second Wednesday of the following months from 9:30 to 11:15 a.m. at Innisfail Legion Hall, next Oct. 14 and then Dec. 16. Cost is $5 per person including refreshments. The group hosts speakers and special guests each time. Contact Elsie Lee at 403-227-3508. ● Ponoka United Church Thrift Shop is open every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information call Mary at 403-783-5030, or Jessie at 403-783-8627. ● Red Deer Legion Old-Time Dance with Purt’ Near Country is on Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. Cost is $7, or $13.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035.

THURSDAY, OCT. 14 ● Apocalyptic Movie Night: I am Legend will be shown at Timberlands Branch of Red Deer Public Library on Oct. 15 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Rated PG-13. ● Friends of the Red Deer Public Library Fall Book Sale will be held at Downtown Branch of Red Deer Public Library in the Snell Auditorium on Oct. 15 from 5 to 9 p.m. for members. Memberships are available at the door. The sale continues on Oct. 16 and 17, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the general public. All proceeds to the library. Payment by cash or cheque

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Hostage case set for preliminary hearing

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Two of the four adults accused in a hostage taking situation at the Aladdin Motor Inn have been released from custody.

Appearing in Red Deer provincial court Wednesday before Judge Jim Mitchell, lawyers for three of the four said they were ready to proceed to a preliminary hearing. But the fourth accused has yet to obtain counsel and is applying for a court appointed lawyer.

Darren Curtis Lagrelle, 19; Jeffrey Allan King, 18; Daniel Arthur Potter, 26; and Corim Kyle Conway, 23, are all charged with forcible confinement, aggravated assault and being disguised with the intent to commit an indictable offence. Two female youths were also arrested.

They were arrested at the Aladdin Motor Inn in north Red Deer when Mounties executed a search warrant

for Lagrelle at a hotel room on July 30. When police entered the room they found the six individuals holding the victim hostage. The victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was treated at the scene by EMS. Potter is the only one of the four adults accused to have not obtained counsel yet. An application is being made on his behalf to get court-appointed counsel.

Jason Snider, defence counsel for King, said the other three were ready to schedule a preliminary hearing.

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Hearings are held to test the strength of the Crown’s case before heading to trial. Mitchell asked if it would be risky to schedule a preliminary hearing before counsel was appointed to expedite the court process. Defence counsel indicated it could be as it can be difficult to ensure four lawyers are available at the same time.

Mitchell adjourned the charges to Oct. 27 in Red Deer provincial court.

Conway has already been released from custody and King was granted his release Wednesday.

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Accused in sexual assault case suffers from disorder

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Big white letters will soon spell out to people that they have arrived at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery.

New signage will be installed during an exterior renovation to the museum valued at $200,000. Don Kilmury of Phoenix Construction in Red Deer was on site Wednesday removing the decorative cedar panels on the building.

Westerner Park names Antifaiff new CEO Westerner Park will have a new CEO next year.

On Wednesday, the board of directors of Westerner Park announced Ben Antifaiff will join the organization effective Jan. 1 as its new chief executive officer and general manager.

Since July 2013, Antifaiff has been the vice-president of finance/ administration and chief financial officer with The Regina Exhibition Association Limited.

Antifaiff, a chartered accountant, teaches accounting and finance at two post-secondary institutions in Regina, and has over 15 years of leadership experience in a number of organizations.

“Ben brings a stellar background of experience in the fairs and exhibition industry, as well as skills in financial management,” said Graham Heron, president and board chair of Westerner Park.

Antifaiff will take over from interim CEO Jim White.

Westerner Park is Central Alberta’s largest trade show, agricultural, sports, entertainment and convention facility.

The centre has 50 full-time staff and 150 volunteers and generates $150 million in economic activity by hosting more than 1,500 annual events.

Business of the Year awards set for Oct. 21 The 2015 Business of the Year Awards will be held on Oct. 21 in Red Deer.

The event is at 6 p.m. at the Red Deer College Arts Centre and Foyer, and tickets are $95 each.

The evening begins with a standing reception in the foyer with live entertainment, canapes, wine and a cash bar. The awards presentations will follow.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.reddeerchamber.com or at the Red Deer and District Chamber of Commerce office located at 3017 Gaetz

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More information is available by calling the chamber office at 403-3474491.

African Children’s Choir performing on Friday The renowned African Children’s Choir will perform on Friday in Lacombe.

The choir that’s performed with Paul McCartney, Annie Lennox and Mariah Carey will be singing at 7 p.m. at the First Baptist Church just outside Lacombe (Township Road 405).

The program includes well-loved children’s songs, traditional spirituals and gospel favorites sung by children from seven African countries. The choir’s latest celebrity undertaking is a brief appearance in the Warner Bros. film Pan, starring High Jackman.

The Music For Life charity, which founded the choir, has helped educate 52,000 children and has assisted 100,000 people through relief and development programs that aim to create new leadership for Africa.

Everyone is welcome. Admission is by free-will offering at the door to support the charity’s programs.

RCMP searching for man approaching kids Mounties are looking for a man who tried to convince an eight-year-old girl to get in his truck on her way home from school.

Red Deer RCMP said the girl had just got off a school bus on Addington Drive at 4 p.m. on Tuesday. She was walking east when a man in a brown truck driving the opposite direction attempted to convince her to enter the truck. The driver reversed the truck to get closer to her.

Police said the girl refused and ran to her home. The suspect drove away,

continuing westbound on Addington Drive.

Police describe the suspect as a Caucaisan male, about 18- to 20-yearsold. He has blonde hair and blue eyes with a black tattoo beside one eye. He wore a white shirt over another white shirt. He drove a light brown two-door truck.

On Wednesday, another incident took place where a man in a truck approached a boy about 13 years old in Deer Park.

The truck is described as being black or dark, with tinted windows and had one or two men inside — no description of the men was available.

The incident happened on Duffield Avenue and the boy rode away on his bike, according to an observer who reported it to the police.

Police are working to locate the truck and the youth from Wednesday to investigate further.

The RCMP were unable to confirm if the two incidents are related, but they urge parents to educate their children to stay away from strangers and to report any suspicious activity to police immediately.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403343-5575. Anyone wishing to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

RCMP search for man who stole skid steer Mounties in Blackfalds recovered a skid steer tractor and trailer in April and now have identified a person they believe may have been involved.

On April 18, the skid steer was stolen from Nor-Ag Ltd. in Red Deer County during the evening. Police found the stolen items the next morning and returned it to the lawful owner.

Police describe the suspect as a middle aged male with brown hair.

Anyone with information that would help police identify the suspect is asked to contact Blackfalds RCMP at 403-885-3300. Those wishing to remain anonymous can contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online at www.tipsubmit.com.

A man accused of groping women in public places in 2014 was on trial in Red Deer last week where evidence was heard that he suffered from a schizophrenic disorder.

Defence lawyer Michael Scrase said his client should not be held criminally responsible due to mental disorder.

Blaise Kambu-Ndengi, 24, was arrested outside the Port O’ Call Safeway on July 7, 2014, after a confrontation in the store.

Kambu-Ndengi was charged with five counts of sexual assault by grabbing them or touching them in a sexual manner. Incidents also occurred at a Co-op grocery store and at a park.

After his arrest he was held in Red Deer Remand before taken to the psychiatric unit of Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre for treatment where his irrational behaviour included dialing 911 and demanding an ambulance for his mother. He had to be held down by four people in order to be medicated.

At the hospital he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, prescribed anti-psychotic medication and released.

A video taped police interview played in Red Deer provincial court showed Kambu-Ndengi propositioning the female constable even as she discussed his assaults.

The officer told Kambu-Ndengi he was becoming more violent with each assault and spoke about one woman he accosted who screamed for help.

“You grabbed her. You wanted to take her into her backyard,” the officer said in the video.

Psychologist Aaron Clegg, from Red Deer Remand, testified Kambu-Ndengi was confused, didn’t understand where he was, and was fixated on sex, often asking to be released so he could have sex or asked if he could have sex at the centre.

Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Oluyemisi Ajeh, of Calgary, who later assessed Kambu-Ndengi diagnosed him with schizoaffective disorder of a bipolar type, which is a type of schizophrenia.

She concluded he should not be held criminally responsible because of mental disorder based on reports of his behaviour, his mental history, a family history of mental disorders, psychological tests, and her own interviews of Kambu-Ndengi.

She said his sexual disinhibition at the time of his arrest was a symptom of his disorder. Other symptoms included auditory delusions, diminished need for sleep, and his inability to stop what he was doing even though he knew it was wrong.

The trial continues Friday with defence and Crown prosecutor Jordan Petty presenting their arguments before Judge David Plosz.

Kuzyk frustrated with lack of action on climate change

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF From the shadow of pump jacks and the smell of oil that permeates in Lloydminster, the Red Deer-Lacombe Green Party candidate is now standing up for environmental concerns.

Les Kuzyk, a senior planner at the City of Calgary, is listed as the riding’s Green Party candidate on their website.

At the age of seven he moved to Lloydminster where he got his first taste of the oilfield industry. He went on to become a petroleum technologist after studying at the Northern Alber-

tan Institute of Technology in Edmonton and carved out a career in the industry.

In the 1980s, following the oil price crash, Kuzyk studied at both the Southern Alberta Institute of LES Technology in KUZYK Calgary and the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Burnaby, B.C., studying

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RED DEER-LACOMBE Geographic Information System spatial analysis. He also earned a bachelor of science in geography and a masters in anthropology focusing on social justice.

After completing his studies, Kuzyk bid adieu to the petroleum industry and focused on municipal government.

He researched a GIS sustainability model called the ecological footprint, measuring human demand on nature, and published articles and academic papers on the topic.

But it was when his daughter was born that he took up a call to action.

Frustrated by the lack of political action on the issue of climate change, Kuzyk put his name forward.

Kuzyk believes in renewable energy sources such as wind turbines and giving them a greater role in energy production in Alberta.

Messages sent by the Advocate to Kuzyk seeking comment were not returned.

He is running against Conservative Blaine Calkins, Liberal Jeff Rock and NDP Doug Hart.

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

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Calm returns to Kunduz AFGHANISTAN SAYS TROOPS HOLD MAIN SQUARE

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Afghan protesters shout slogans during a demonstration against government, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday. An Afghan official says government troops have regained control of the main square in Kunduz, a strategic northern city briefly seized by Taliban insurgents last week.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL — Afghan troops have regained control of the main square in Kunduz, a strategic northern city briefly seized by the Taliban last week, following intense fighting over the site, Kabul officials said Wednesday.

The Afghan campaign to retake Kunduz was marred by a tragic U.S. airstrike that destroyed a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders on Saturday, killing at least 22 people. The international charity on Wednesday called for a fact-finding mission to determine whether the strike violated the Geneva Conventions.

Taliban fighters seized control of Kunduz, the capital of the province of the same name, for three days last week. The government launched its counter-offensive on Thursday, and troops have since fought intermittent running battles with the insurgents, who have launched attacks on security forces from the rural outskirts of the city.

Sarwar Hussaini, the spokesman for the Kunduz provincial police chief, said Wednesday that the government had regained control of the main square, which had traded hands several times, with each side tearing down the other’s flag and hoisting its own.

“The national flag is flying over the main square, shops have re-opened and life is returning to normal,” Hussaini said, adding that main roads running east and south have opened and traffic is starting to flow.

Qamirudin Sediqi, an adviser at the Public Health Ministry, said medical supplies were being delivered to Kunduz airport aboard military flights, lauding what he described as “great co-ordination between the public health and defence ministries” in sending medical aid.

However, some Taliban fighters remain in hiding in residential areas of Kunduz as operations continue to clear them from the city, according to a spokesman for President Ashraf Ghani.

“Afghan forces have control of Kunduz city, however, some scattered elements of the enemy are still hiding in the residential areas inside people’s houses,” deputy spokesman Zafar Hashemi said. “This could at times slow down the speed of our military operations as we put the utmost effort into not harming civilians.”

Emergency relief supplies of food and medicines had not been able to reach Kunduz earlier, leading to dire shortages, residents and medical officials said.

Authorities still had no precise casualty figures for the past days since the Taliban blitz on Kunduz, though the number of dead and wounded is believed

to be in the hundreds. Sediqi said local hospitals had received around 60 bodies so far, with about 800 wounded since the fighting began with the Taliban assault of Sept. 28.

Residents said militants have regrouped in the Chahar Dara district to the west, where they have been present for months. Bilal Ahmad, a grocer, said he hesitated to open his shop because of the tenuous situation. He said tanks have moved into the main square.

Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, meanwhile called for the first-ever fact-finding mission to be launched under the Geneva Conventions.

MSF’s international president, Joanne Liu, told reporters in Geneva that the strike “was not just an attack on our hospital, it was an attack on the Geneva Conventions. This cannot be tolerated.”

Liu said MSF is “working on the assumption of a possible war crime,” but said the group’s real goal is to establish facts about the incident and the chain of command, and clear up the rules of operation for all humanitarian organizations that work in conflict zones.

Ghani’s office, reacting to MSF’s call for the fact-finding mission, said that “the Afghan government is fully committed to a full and transparent investigation of the hospital incident.”

Afghan authorities “will fully co-operate with the investigation through appropriate channels agreed upon by our partners” in the NATO Resolute Support mission, said Hashemi, the spokesman.

“The tragedy has shocked and extremely saddened the president, who feels the burden of loss of lives of his fellow citizens on daily basis,” he added.

The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen. John F. Campbell, said Tuesday that the strike was a mistake, and investigations are underway.

Obama apologizes for U.S. attack WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama apologized to Doctors Without Borders on Wednesday for the American air attack that killed at least 22 people at a medical clinic in Afghanistan, and said the U.S. would examine military procedures to look for better ways to prevent such incidents.

Obama’s phone call to the group’s international president, Joanne Liu, came just a day after the White House had stopped short of an apology, waiting to learn more while acknowledging that the attack was a U.S. mistake. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama offered condolences to the group’s staff and pledged a “transparent, thorough and objective accounting of the facts.”

“When the United States makes a mistake, we own up to it, we apologize where appropriate, and we are honest about what transpired,” Earnest said. He described the call as a “heartfelt apology.”

Liu confirmed the apology. In a written statement, she reiterated her organization’s call for the U.S. government to consent to an independent investigation “to establish what happened in Kunduz, how it happened, and why it happened.”

Emerging details about the erroneous strike have only fueled growing condemnation by Doctors Without Borders and other aid groups in the four days since the clinic in the northern city of Kunduz came under fire, killing civilian workers and patients. After initial confusion, officials determined the U.S. had carried out the strike, an admission that complicates delicate U.S. efforts in Afghanistan as Obama weighs how many troops to leave there.

Obama told Doctors Without Borders that the U.S. would review the attack to determine whether changes to U.S. military procedures could reduce the chances of a similar incident.

Obama also spoke to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to convey condolences and praise Afghan forces for securing Kunduz, the White House said. Taliban fighters had seized control of Kunduz for three days last week.

Investigations by the U.S., NATO and the Afghan government are underway, but Doctors Without Borders has called them insufficient and demanded the independent fact-finding mission. Without addressing that demand, the White House offered assurances that the Pentagon would dutifully carry out its internal probe.

Doctors Without Borders has also said the strike may have been a war crime and has described it as an attack on the Geneva Conventions governing humanitarian treatment during war. But the White House urged patience while the Pentagon works to establish what happened.

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JERUSALEM — Palestinian assailants carried out a series of stabbings across Israel on Wednesday, jolting an anxious country unnerved by weeks of unrest as clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian demonstrators raged across the West Bank.

The violence forced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to call off a high-profile visit to Germany and prompted him to tell the nation to be on “alert” for further trouble. And in another sign of the tensions, Jerusalem’s mayor, Nir Barkat, was seen carrying an assault rifle while visiting an Arab neighbourhood.

The unrest began three weeks ago and has spread from the confines of a sensitive Jerusalem holy site to spots across Israel and the West Bank. In Wednesday’s violence, stabbings occurred outside a crowded mall in central Israel, in a southern Israeli town and in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Israeli forces shot two of the attackers, killing one, while a third was arrested. No Israelis were seriously hurt. Another Palestinian was wounded when he was shot by police after he attempted to run over an officer at a checkpoint, police said.

Netanyahu has threatened a tough response to the violence, and Israel has beefed up security in Jerusalem and the West Bank. It also briefly barred non-resident Palestinians from entering the Old City, home to sensitive holy sites.

In all, four Israelis have been killed in stabbings and a roadside shooting in recent days, while five Palestinians, including three attackers, have been killed.

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Atwood a longshot for prize

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STOCKHOLM — On Thursday, the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in literature will be announced by the first ever female permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius.

Will the prize awarding body choose to honour the occasion by picking a female winner? Will it break new ground by giving the prize to a journalist? Or will it rush to bestow the coveted prize on one of the many aging favourites?

The secretive academy drops no hints on whom they are considering but that doesn’t stop literature buffs from guessing. Here is a look at some of the themes and potential candidates being mentioned in this year’s speculation:

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Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich’s investigative reports from a politically turbulent Russia, along with her literary style of writing, has made her a favourite among critics for many years. So far, the academy has never picked a journalist for the prize, but Schottenius says it had its eyes on Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski and would have likely picked him in 2007 had he not died. In addition to Alexievich, Schottenius suggests another worthy winner would be Anglo-Dutch journalist Ian Buruma, who she calls a “thrilling” and knowledgeable thinker.

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On Wednesday, Atwood’s chances of winning were at 50-1 on betting firm Ladbrokes’ list ahead of the announcement.

Toronto-born writer Anne Carson’s odds were better — at 20-1.

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In 2007, 88-year-old Doris Lessing became the oldest Nobel literature laureate ever by picking up the prize that many said was long overdue. Yet other critics’ favourites for the award haven’t been so fortunate. In the past year alone two writers often mentioned as strong contenders — Algeria’s Assia Djebar and Turkey’s Yasar Kemal — have passed away. The previous permanent secretary of the academy, Peter Englund has acknowledged that the difficulty for the jury members isn’t to find a worthy winner, but rather to decide which of the many talented writers to pick. Among those past retirement age who have been listed as favourites year after year are Syrian poet Adonis, 85, South Korean poet Ko Un, 82, as well as American novel-

Ryder set sights on working with Polley

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — There’s chatter all over the Internet about a possible Beetlejuice sequel, but Winona Ryder is consumed with news that Sarah Polley is tackling a reboot of Little Women.

The actress erupts with elation upon hearing that the Toronto-based filmmaker has been writing a fresh big screen adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott novel.

There’s no word yet on a director, but Ryder says she’d love to see Polley get behind the lens. It turns out she is a big fan.

“You have no idea, she is amazing.

Oh my God. I don’t know her personally but I’ve been a diehard fan of hers both as an actress and filmmaker,” Ryder says in a recent interview to promote her latest film, Experimenter, out Oct. 16 on VOD and iTunes as well as playing in select theatres.

“I wish there was a role for me in it but there really isn’t. Well, I could be Marmee, I suppose. Marmee in the book — the mom — was my age. I’m turning 44.”

Ryder starred in the 1994 film as one of four sisters coming of age in the wake of the U.S. Civil War. Susan Sarandon played Marmee in that film.

So wouldn’t it be weird to appear in a new interpretation decades later?

Not if Polley is involved, says Ryder.

“I’d do anything for her,” Ryder declares. “If it was her, I’d do it in a heartbeat.”

Ryder says her favourite films from the child actress-turned-writer/director include the heartwrenching Alzheimer’s story Away From Her and Polley’s intensely personal documentary Stories We Tell.

The Reality Bites star can claim to

be partially Canadian herself, since her left-leaning parents moved to Vancouver years ago when Republican president George W. Bush was re-elected in 2004.

“They were like the only people who actually did that,” she chuckles.

“A lot of people threatened (to move) but they did. I couldn’t believe it.”

To their chagrin, Canada elected a Conservative government less than a year and a half later.

“It was so weird because they really didn’t see that coming,” says Ryder.

“When (Democratic U.S. President Barack) Obama got elected I was like, ‘OK, are you coming back now?’ Because we live in San Francisco. But they’d gotten settled.”

Ryder says her parents have taken full advantage of their relative anonymity in Vancouver to score some movie memorabilia.

She chuckles while recalling a stunt in which they used their insider knowledge to win a contest surrounding her 2006 film A Scanner Darkly.

“Some radio program was giving away free stuff and my parents called in — they didn’t say they were my parents — with all the right trivia answers and won tickets to the first showing and a bunch of T-shirts.”

As for Beetlejuice, Ryder says she knows little about a possible resurrection.

But she says there is a script, her character Lydia is included, and that original director Tim Burton seems keen to revisit the ghostly comedy.

But nothing has been confirmed, she stresses.

“In reality I don’t really know,” says Ryder.

“It looks like it’s going to happen but I don’t really know much more.”

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ists Thomas Pynchon, 78, and Philip Roth, 82. Many also argue it’s about time to honour 68-year-old British Indian author Salman Rushdie, who was subjected to a Fatwa calling for his assassination by the Supreme Leader of Iran in 1989.

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While the majority of past laureates have been Europeans, the academy constantly strives to broaden its perspectives and look at authors from all over the world. Schottenius says she expects several African writers will be honoured eventually, including “the groundbreaking authorship” of Kenya’s Ngugi wa Thiong’o and “enchanting” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie of Nigeria, who wrote the acclaimed

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BRIEF Pop, country singer Billy Joe Royal, dies at age 73 NASHVILLE — Billy Joe Royal, a pop singer who popularized the song Down in the Boondocks, and crossed over into country music, has died.

He was 73 years old.

His agent, Brent Taylor, said the singer died at his home Tuesday in Morehead City, North Carolina.

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books Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah. Other hot names from outside of Europe include Jamaica Kincaid of Antigua and Israel’s David Grossman.

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On Wednesday, Alexievich had the lowest odds on betting firm Ladbrokes’ list ahead of the announcement, followed by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, Wa Thiong’o and Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse. Atwood’s chances of winning were at 50-1 while Toronto-born writer Anne Carson’s odds were better — at 20-1. Although the academy has stepped up efforts to prevent leaks before the announcement, the winner is still sometimes among those getting the most attention by gamblers. Last year, betting on French author Patrick Modiano surged in the days ahead of the announcement, which revealed he was in fact the winner.

Columbia Records with Down in the Boondocks in 1965, which reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100. But he struggled to match his initial success with his subsequent records and starting in the late 1980s, he reinvented himself as a country singer.

He was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1988.

Hawke to run marathon with wife for charity NEW YORK — Actor Ethan Hawke will run his first marathon next month to raise money for charity.

Hawke said Wednesday he and his wife will take part in the New York City Marathon on Nov. 1 to support The Doe Fund, which works to break the cycles of homelessness, addiction and criminal recidivism.

It will be the first 26.2-mile race for both Ethan and Ryan Hawke. The Academy Award-nominated actor says that “Ryan and I are both feeling daunted and terrified” but “are of course excited, too.”

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Of the total 107 Nobel literature prizes awarded so far, only 13 of them have gone to women. There has, however, been a clear pickup in the number of female laureates in recent years, including Canadian Alice Munro in 2013. By picking Danius as the new permanent secretary, the Swedish Academy has taken another historic step toward more gender balance. If it were to pick a female winner this year, authors such as Canada’s Margaret Atwood or Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi may be considered.

Maria Schottenius, literature critic at Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, also mentions France’s Marie Darrieussecq and American writer Marilynne Robinson as hugely talented female writers worth keeping an eye on.

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Protesting poaching What may be the world’s first and only public protest of poachers and poaching took place on Sept. 30 when half a dozen Alberta anglers, led by Jordan Pinkster of Calgary, showed up in Provincial Court in Pincher Creek for the guilty pleas and sentencing of six Lethbridge men on various f i s h e r i e s infractions, including i l l e g a l possession of 25 west slope cutthroat trout and four bull trout, many of them of spawning age, and all of them BOB endangered SCAMMELL and threatened s p e c i e s , OUTDOORS federally and provincially.

Actually, the six protesters formed mainly a wake, a support group for the deceased trout, the dying river, and the officers who try their best to do something about both before it is too late.

On June 24 another angler saw what he believed to be fisheries infractions taking place on the Oldman River upstream of Hwy. 22, and called the Report a Poacher line with vehicle licence numbers and other information, including, possibly, pictures.

The result was the Fisheries Act and Regulations charges against six Lethbridge men with only two surnames among them: Subba and Gurung.

Poaching has probably been with us longer even than prostitution; it is simply the taking of fish or game by trespass, or otherwise illegally.

Over the years I came to know too many poachers in several countries, and learned that they are, curiously, tolerated by the public.

For example, after court proceedings, Pinkster said of the Lethbridge poachers: “There was a quite personal story of where these guys came from and how they came to be in Canada. So it really sheds light on the human element of why they did what they did and a lack of understanding that exists … They didn’t seem like bad guys to me.”

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seemed to agree in the sentences handed down after the poachers pleaded guilty.

The Crown Prosecutor wanted a total fine of $1,000 per fish split equally among the six poachers, forfeiture of their equipment, and substantial licence suspensions.

Instead the six poachers were fined only $1,000 each, their equipment was ordered returned to them, and their licenses were suspended for only the remainder of the fiscal year, until next March 31.

Defence counsel gave the standard “poor, but honest poacher” plea: they had no criminal records and did not do it for money.

Only implied was the ignorance of the law non-defence, when the court was told these men were refugees from Bhutan, a Himalayan country. Add another country to Alberta’s corps of south East Asian fish poachers ...

Excuse me, but I have never met a poacher who did not know exactly what he was doing and that it was illegal. Bhutan has environmental and ecological problems, and poaching ranks highly among them.

The Lethbridge six had bought sportfishing licenses, so they would also each have received copies of the 2015 Alberta Sportfishing Regulations.

They knew where and how they were going to fish and, regulations aside, you can’t turn around up there without being hit with a sign reminding you the limit is zero and that live bait is banned.

In the end, Pinkster said “ignorance isn’t an excuse for this, because the river is clearly marked with signs stating that anglers can’t keep the trout they catch.

It’s always the anglers’ responsibility to know the rules in every single circumstance. If you’re going to put a line in the water, you better know what the rules are.”

That goes for everyone not just refugees, and our government is at least three decades behind on developing a much-needed mandatory angler education course and exam, similar to hunter education course and the exam you must pass before you can obtain your first Alberta hunting licence.

Anglers are a major threat and a menace to Alberta’s threatened fish and fishery if they can’t differentiate one species from another or know why some species have zero limits and that

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Jordan Pinkster — polite poacher protester. bait, generally, is forbidden because of the high mortality rate of released bait-hooked fish.

Outdoors people generally are poor at recognizing the major points of difference between one bird, mushroom or fish species or another.

To my sainted dad, the Guv, back when it didn’t matter because we had ample of them all, they were all just trout, but he often got the rainbow trout right because of the red band, and the brown trout were always, well, brownish.

Just after I started this column the government issued a stop work order against a landowner on the Oldman

River down stream of Hwy. 22 who, under a permit to clean a sidediversion ditch had run his bulldozer into the riverbed and was rearranging it to his own liking, That is an extreme example of a modern form of poaching done daily to the Oldman and its tributaries, spring, summer and fall, by recreational ATV operators.

There are just not enough courses, exams, and stop-work orders to go around.

Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@telusplanet.net.

Sea level timescale confusion “In 1988, (NASA climatologist James) Hansen predicted that, long before now, the sea level would have risen by 10 feet.”

—Bill Greenwood Obviously, global sea levels have not risen by 10 feet in the last 27 years.

The map of Florida is still shaped like a camel’s nose, and we haven’t been inundated by millions of EVAN refugees from BEDFORD Bangladesh.

So, apparent- ENERGY AND ECOLOGY ly Greenwood is justified in pointing out the discrepancy. And perhaps also justified in calling Hansen a “fanatic” several times in his recent letter. Perhaps.

And perhaps not. For not only is the word fanatic a tad harsh (usually reserved for descriptions of terrorists and despots), but the notion of sea levels rising by 10 feet in less than 27 years immediately puts my BS meter on high alert. And so I did an internet search.

Hansen (and six other scientists) did publish a rather provocative paper in 1988, and in June of that year, he did tell a U.S. Congressional Committee that human-caused climate change was a reality. But nowhere, it seems, did Hansen et al predict an imminent sea level rise of 10 feet. According to the New York Times (June 24, 1988), he predicted a rise of between one and four feet by the year 2050. At the current rate of rise (3.2 mm’s per year), boats in 2050 will be floating about eight inches (200 mm’s) higher than what they were in 1988. And with observed feedback effects (such as the de-grounding of outlet glaciers and soot on ice) that rate is already increasing.

So where did Greenwood’s 10 foot rise come from? It was from a casual remark made by Hansen when he was asked about the effects of a doubling of the atmospheric concentration of CO2 from pre-industrial levels of 280 parts per million. We’re at 400 ppm now. 15 years ago, we were at 370 ppm. At that rate, to get to a doubling of 560 ppm, we would need to wait until the year 2095.

That’s 80 years from now. So where did Greenwood’s timescale of “long before now” come from? Well if you leave out the essential criteria of CO2 doubling, and if you divide by two the arbitrary 40 years that Hansen was asked to fit that doubling into (by Bob

Reiss, a non-scientist), and if you have a fairly relaxed attitude towards facts, then I guess you can say “long before now” (this is all on Anthony Watts’ website, in case you have a bout of insomnia).

Fortunately though, Greenwood also mentioned the name of Judith Curry, who is known to have an auspiciously high number of healthy brain cells. Whereas Watts has only a high school diploma, Curry has a Phd, and has published over 140 research papers on climate.

Greenwood trots out Curry’s name, figuring that since she has questioned some of Hansen’s assertions, his name can automatically be assigned to the dustbin of oblivion. But such is not the case. Although she questions the validity of some of Hansen’s findings, she also states (on July 26, 2015) that “… I am very sympathetic to what Hansen did. I regard him as a fellow maverick — thinking for himself and not afraid to challenge the ‘consensus’ — Hansen and I are of course on opposite ends of the climate maverick spectrum, with Hansen more alarmed and myself being less alarmed.”

In other words, you have a glass half full and glass half empty set of viewpoints, based on a science that is not perfect (for example, there is still the nagging question about the sequestering of over 90 per cent of global

warming by the oceans, and how that heat gets spit out by periodic El Nino events).

Given the Curry quote, I doubt that we would ever hear her calling James Hansen a fanatic. And I’m quite sure that anyone with a background in science would prefer to spend time on Curry’s website, as opposed to Watts.

For not only is her site advertisement-free (as opposed to the incessant reminders that I get on Watts’ site about my recent visits to Amazon.com), but the chatter at the bottom of her blog has significantly fewer one-sentence rants by anti-government trolls.

Not content to bash Hansen, Greenwood then goes on to bash the notion that we can reduce our carbon footprint without wearing rags, eating gruel, and loosing “25-30 per cent, or more, of Canada’s jobs …”.

The last I heard, this hasn’t happened in neighbouring B.C., where a revenue-neutral carbon tax has been in effect for the last seven years. Perhaps Greenwood can explain that state of affairs … but preferably not before he tells us why he came up with that bit about the 10-foot sea level rise in 20 years.

Evan Bedford is a local environmentalist. Direct comments, questions and suggestions to wyddfa23@telus.net. Visit the Energy and Ecology website at www. evanbedford.com.

Plants can have plenty of colour in autumn Many of the flowers have finished blooming for the year but that does not mean that the garden is void of colour. The opposite is true.

Plants, with the exception of evergreens put on a colorful display each fall. The trees and shrubs retain their bright leaves for a couple of LINDA weeks or until TOMLINSON a strong wind GARDENING blows through.

Perennials foliage lasts until it freezes solid or is covered with snow.

The majority of trees and shrubs, including native stands of deciduous plants turn a bright yellow just before the leaves drop. Adding plants to

the garden with leaves that change to shades of orange or red make a nice contrast especially if a few evergreens are in the background.

The following plants are easy to grow in our area and have orange to red foliage in the fall.

The shrub, Peking Cotoneaster Cotoneaster acutifolia turns a bright red in the fall. The plant is often confused with the European Cotoneaster Cotoneaster integercima. The only visible difference is in the fall when the peking varietiy turns red and the European yellow.

There are a few hedges in Central Alberta where the wrong species was used to replace a dead plant which results in a yellow spot in a red hedge each fall.

There are numerous cranberries on the market each variety is slightly different in shape and size but all their foliage turns a bright red in the fall sunlight.

Cranberries are usually an under-

story plant in the wild which means they will do well in partial shade or full sunlight.

Red Twig dogwood is a native plant that can be found in many gardens.

Once the red leaves drop in the fall, the red branches are visible.

Like the Cotoneaster there is more than one variety of Mountain Ash. If you are looking for the plant that turns bright red in the fall, make sure you have a Showy Mountain Ash Sorbcus decora. Other varieties of Mountain Ash leaves turn yellow in the autumn.

Given the correct supports, a mature Virginia Creeper Parthenocissus quinquefolia can cover the side of a house. It can also be used as a ground cover to fill in a bed, bank or slope.

The large green leaves will turn a spectacular bright red in the fall. Virginia Creepers will grow in full sun to full shade.

Maple trees that are prevalent in BC and Eastern Canada turn a bright

red. While we can’t grow their large trees do not discount the smaller maples such as Red Maple and Ginnala Maple that can be seen growing throughout the region.

The common name of (Euonymus nanus) Burning bush is derived from the fall colour of the leaves. These plants turn a spectacular colour each fall. The larger varieties tend to be hardier with all plants doing best in full sun.

All a lower level, perennials will either turn yellow, red or remain as is until they freeze. Red leaves in the perennial bed is usually an indicator of Peonies.

As with the deciduous plants, yellow dominates in the fall.

Enjoy the fall colour as it’s natures promise that spring will come, after a long cold spell.

Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist that lives near Rocky Mountain House.

She can be contacted at your_garden@ hotmail.com.

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THURSDAY, OCT. 8, 2015

LOUNGE LOCATED AT FORMER LOCATION OF THE OLIVE

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Offering live music and featuring a new menu, Red Deer’s new night hotspot is now open.

The Lux Lounge, formerly the Olive (4928C 50 St), is now under new ownership.

A group of six Red Deerians — with the main partners Dana Carlson, Mario Côté and Daniel Christen — took over the venue about a month ago.

Carlson said there are some changes with the Lux Lounge but it will continue to support local music and local art.

He said they want to cater to professionals and business patrons.

“We want to try to provide a bit of a community where they can get to know each other, network and bolster local businesses,” said Carlson, who is a local lawyer and works in concert promotion.

The lounge will be open Tuesday to Saturday with open mic on Tuesdays and likely live music on Thursdays and Saturdays.

A new system has been installed to improve the sound. Carlson said the Lux may bring in some special acts but they are limited by space.

A new menu is in the works and will feature items like gourmet flat bread pizza. Carlson said they are considering having specials, such as cheese fondue nights.

The liquor menu will include specialty spirits and wines.

The renovations are not wrapped up but changes include relocating the main stage a central spot near the entrance of the bar, adding chandeliers, new seating and wall paper.

The washrooms are also getting a face lift.

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Mario Côté, part owner of the new Lux Lounge sands down the stage he installed in the new bar in Red Deer on Tuesday afternoon. The Lux Lounge, opened Tuesday in the former The Olive location in the alley north of Ross Street at 4928C-50 Street. The Lux Lounge will be open Tuesday to Saturday each week from 4 p.m. to close with open mic performances on Tuesday and live paid entertainment on Thursday and Saturday evenings. play the venue, the work is being done when the bar is closed. The Lux Lounge officially opened on Tuesday.

The name pays homage to the orig-

inal name of the spot, Deluxe Lounge.

The Velvet Olive was operated and owned by Penny Elliott since 2004 before Peter McGee took over last year.

McGee said it was with mixed emotions that he sold the business but he is ready to move on. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Balsillie guiding creation of lobby group for Canadian innovation

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Jim Balsillie says there’s a major policy gap when it comes to nurturing Canada’s budding high-tech firms, and he has a plan to fix it.

With an eye on missed opportunities in the Pacific Rim trade talks and the federal election campaign, the former co-chief executive of Research In Motion is helping entrepreneurs in the sector set up a made-in-Canada lobby group.

“It’s a bizarrely missing piece … The discourse in the country is dominated by people who have never done it,” Balsillie said in an interview.

“The game is won and lost substantially by how the rules are shaped — and they’re shaped and changed dozens of times every day.

“And this idea of being passive and thinking the rules are going to work for you is naive.”

Balsillie has credited persistent lobbying efforts with governments — not only in Canada, but in the United States and beyond — for helping his old company grow into a $20-billion global player.

In the interview, Balsillie recalled how he personally pressed for RIM’s interests in Washington once a month, in Brussels once every three months and in Ottawa every couple of months.

He described lobbying as a critical ingredient for a sector based on developing ideas that will generate economic value — an area he said is often misunderstood by policy makers because it differs from traditional industries like manufacturing.

The lobby group, which will create a single voice for some dozens of CEOs and founders of indigenous Canadian technology businesses, should be operating in the weeks following the Oct. 19 election.

It means that before long the next federal government will have a new organization knocking on its door.

Balsillie said up until now only multinational companies from the innovation industry — big players like Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon — have been regularly securing face time with Canadian politicians. He said they’ve brought their “very sophisticated” lobby efforts to meetings in Ottawa on an almostweekly basis over the past two years.

By contrast, he said Canadian tech firms have been slow to grasp the importance of actively pushing the public-policy discussion, which will help forge the all-important regulations that govern their industry.

“You have to start taking matters into your own hand and tell the policy makers what, specifically, you need,”

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said Balsillie, who added it’s not that politicians don’t want to do the right thing, it’s that no one is talking to them.

He acknowledged the lobby group’s creation will come too late for negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive, 12-country trade deal signed by Ottawa earlier this week.

Dairy and auto-sector lobby groups were aggressive in the lead-up to the TPP, a pact that also includes areas of interest to the tech sector, including intellectual property.

With less than two weeks before the federal election, the lobby group will also miss out on providing input to campaigning political parties.

The organization, which has already obtained office space, will also promote the Canadian industry’s interests abroad.

This aspect is crucial to companies like D2L Corp., which develops online learning platforms and has offices in Canada, the U.S., Europe, Australia, Brazil and Singapore.

John Baker, D2L’s president and CEO, said the company was tied up in litigation in the U.S. for three and a half years with one of their competitors over intellectual property.

D2L prevailed after a “long and hard road,” he said, but the situation might have been avoided if the company had voiced its position beforehand with the local government.

“If we’re not having that dialogue and, even worse if our competitors are, then it puts us at a very big disadvantage as we go to compete both in our country as well as globally,” Baker said in an interview.

He said Balsillie inspired CEOs like himself to form the group.

“He’s actually climbed the mountain,” Baker said of Balsillie. “He’s built a $20-billion company.”

John Ruffolo, CEO of one of the country’s biggest venture-capital firms, said Canada’s innovation sector wasn’t quite ready to create a lobby group in the past because it had been struggling until about four years ago.

Its future now looks bright, added Ruffolo, the head of OMERS Ventures.

“But one thing is violently clear — there’s almost universal consensus of ‘Yes, you’re right, we need to have a single voice,’ ” Ruffolo said.

Balsillie argues the country’s prosperity will depend on the success of commercialization ideas, which will also affect innovation in traditional industries such as manufacturing and natural resources.

He said the innovation economy has shown zero growth for three decades and has a considerable productivity gap with the U.S. despite billions of dollars of government assistance.

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A child wears a pumpkin costume, surrounded by pumpkins at Saunders Farm in Munster, Ont., just west of Ottawa. Canadian pumpkin producers are carving out opportunities in the American Midwest after heavy rain threatened to cause a jack o’ lantern shortage as Halloween approaches.

Canadian pumpkin producers cashing in on American shortage

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Canadian pumpkin producers are carving out opportunities in the American Midwest after heavy rain threatened to cause a jack o’ lantern shortage as Halloween approaches.

Some growers in the U.S. have sought help from other states and Canada to make up the shortfall in fresh product caused by a massive disruption during the key June planting season.

Between 50 and 60 per cent of the region’s crop was wiped out by record rain.

“It has caused everybody to scramble and look to get them wherever they can,” said Darrell Theis, co-owner of Theis Farms in Missouri.

About 40,000 kilograms of Canadian pumpkins were delivered to his eight-hectare farm earlier this month.

That supplied about 25 per cent of the deficit.

Theis said it’s not the first time he’s turned to Canadian producers while faced with potential pumpkin peril.

“We’re all in it together (and) every once in awhile we have to help each other out,” he said in an interview.

The strong U.S. dollar makes it especially attractive for American producers to look north, added Philippe Quinn, owner of Quinn Farms near Montreal.

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“I wouldn’t be surprised that there will be some loads coming in from Ontario, maybe a little bit from Quebec,” he said.

Like many Canadian growers, Quinn’s operation is enjoying a good selling season. Canada grew more than 65,000 tonnes of pumpkins last year, with nearly half in Ontario, followed

by Quebec and British Columbia.

In the U.S., however, wet weather has driven up pumpkin prices and prompted canned pumpkin manufacturer Libby’s to warn of shortages of its pie filling since this year’s harvest will last only until next month’s American Thanksgiving.

Canadian pumpkin producers haven’t faced the same problems.

Elaine Roddy, a vegetable crop specialist for Ontario’s agriculture ministry, described this year’s Canadian crop as average. Conditions were variable at planting, but improved significantly later in the season.

But Roddy cautioned that pumpkins, like all perishable goods, can be affected by poor weather in the key buying season over the next few weeks.

“Even in the next few weeks ahead, if we get into really wet conditions, things can change,” she said.

She added that export opportunities for Canadian growers are limited because most of them plant only enough crop to satisfy marketing agreements with large buyers.

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 114.92 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.12 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.01 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 66.62

Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 21.80 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 21.30 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 56.68 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.85 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 24.87 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 31.23 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 9.55 Canyon Services Group. . 5.50 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 21.80 CWC Well Services . . . 0.2000 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 11.04 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.810

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — North American stock markets extended their rally on Wednesday driven by strength across most key sectors, led by heavy activity in resource stocks.

Toronto’s the S&P/TSX composite index gained 221.09 points to close at 13,868.35, extending gains into a fourth straight session.

Overall, the TSX has risen 4.7 per cent since launching a steady climb last Friday.

Metals and mining stocks were by far the leading gainer, rising a stunning 11 per cent.

Pushing the index higher were high-profile industry news, which saw First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) outline plans on Tuesday to reduce its debt by at least US$1 billion over the next six months. The company said it plans to sell off assets and make other changes, which helped its shares gain 18 per cent to $8.85.

Stock in Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) jumped about 14 per cent as the company announced a silver output deal that includes a US$650-million advance payment.

In commodities, the December gold contract lifted $2.30 to end at $1,148.70 an ounce and December copper added a penny to US$2.37 a pound.

Traders were reconsidering some of the pessimism which has gripped stock markets in recent months, suggested Brian Belski, chief investment strategist at BMO Capital Markets.

He pointed to the weaker loonie, China’s struggling economy and uncertainty surrounding the federal election, as some major motivating factors that have started to subside.

“We’ve come out of a period of intense emotion and volatility and calmer heads are prevailing,” he said.

“I think Canada is setting up for a pretty big rally in the fourth quarter. Most portfolio managers

that we speak with are sitting on their hands waiting for the election to come through, and the believability of oil and energy stocks hitting a bottom … is becoming more of a reality.”

The heavily-weighted energy sector was among the advancers, rising three per cent even as the November contract for benchmark crude oil lost 72 cents to US$47.81 a barrel. The commodity reversed direction for the first time in four sessions after slipping below US$45 a barrel last week.

November natural gas gained less than half a cent to US$2.47 per thousand cubic feet.

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 122.10 points to 16,912.29, while the S&P 500 index gained 15.91 points to 1,995.83 and the Nasdaq rose 42.79 points to 4,791.15.

The Canadian dollar was down 0.22 of a U.S. cent at 76.54 cents US. In corporate news, Canadian Oil Sands Ltd. (TSX:COS) announced it was adopting a poison pill defence plan in the face of a hostile takeover offer from oilsands giant Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU).

The new shareholder rights plan could be triggered under certain circumstances if anyone buys 20 per cent or more of the company. At that point other shareholders would be able to buy stock at a discount, making the acquisition less attractive to the hostile bidder.

Shares were up 27 cents or nearly three per cent at $9.55 on the TSX, while Suncor traded 58 cents higher at $35.45.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,868.35, up 221.09 points Dow — 16,912.29, up 122.10

Currency changes make luxury hotels more affordable in Moscow, Sao Paulo TORONTO — Gyrations in currency markets are helping to make some high-end hotels more affordable for Canadian travellers.

The price of a five-star hotel room in Moscow, in Canadian dollars, fell 24 per cent to $202 in the first half of 2015 compared with the same period in 2014, according to a Hotels.com survey.

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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.

Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 339,880 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 339,880.

IMF PROTEST

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Demonstrators hold messages near the site where the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are holding their annual meetings in Lima, Peru, Wednesday. The sign at left reads in Spanish “$2.86 U.S. dollars a day is not a middle class income.” At right reads “World Bank. Are you so big you don’t care about us?”

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The drop coincided with a slide in the value of the ruble versus the dollar.

As well, four-star accommodation in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, dropped 30 per cent to $152, along with a decline in the Brazilian real versus the loonie.

It’s a good time for Canadians to travel to those cities, “especially if you wanted to splurge,” said Hotels.com travel expert Taylor Cole.

Warsaw offered the cheapest price for a five-star room during the same period — C$148 — followed by Berlin at $193 and Mumbai at $198.

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CALGARY — The regulator weighing the Energy East pipeline proposal is being criticized for seeking oral evidence from aboriginal groups when an application for the controversial project is not yet complete.

Adam Scott with Environmental Defence takes the National Energy Board to task in a letter, saying there’s widespread confusion about the process among those wanting to have their say.

Scott says there are serious questions about how concerned parties can participate in the process before all the facts are known about the more than $12-billion cross-Canada project.

Earlier this year, pipeline builder TransCanada decided to scrap a planned export terminal in Cacouna, Que., because of concerns over beluga whale habitat.

The change of plans requires TransCanada to update the 30,000-page application it filed just under a year ago, something expected to be complete by year end.

Last week, the NEB said it would begin holding oral hearings starting Nov. 9 to gather evidence from aboriginal communities. In its Oct. 1 letter to

aboriginal interveners, the NEB said even though some aspects of the project may change, the majority is expected to be unaffected by any revisions TransCanada makes.

“With regards to the content and nature of oral traditional evidence, these sessions are intended to gather traditional knowledge and stories that aboriginal interveners already possess,” the board said, noting that includes testimony about sacred and ceremonial sites, traditional uses of land and water and how those areas may be affected.”

The NEB’s rationale doesn’t wash with Scott.

“The board continues to act and press forward a process on a project application which is not complete. The responsibility to file a complete project application lies with TransCanada,” he said.

“The NEB should not rush ahead with an incomplete application to advantage a proponent that is unable to meet basic process criteria. Should any potential interveners file evidence to the board late, I am not confident the board would grant them similar flexibility.”

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AHENAKEW Dustin Lucas (Barthel) was born in North Battleford, SK. September 27,1999 at 9:21 PM, weighing 8lbs. 12oz. Proud parents were Chastity Barthel (Red Deer), Dallas Ahenakew (Whitecap, SK).

Dustin moved to Saskatoon, SK late 2013 and his life was tragically cut short. He was killed and taken from us September 7, 2015, at the young age of 15 years; only 20 days from his 16 birthday.

Dustin is predeceased by his grandmother Wanda Barthel, his great grandmother Marlene Barthel, his aunt Janice Barthel, and great aunt Paulette Barthel (Gratton).

Left to cherish his memory are his mother Chastity, brothers Jacob and Drae; and sisters Samantha and Alyssa all of Red Deer, AB. Dustin has an extended family consisting of uncles David Barthel (Delmas), aunts Vanessa Barthel (N B’ford), great uncles Tony Barthel (Red Deer) and Lloyd Barthel (Lloydminster); and many cousins. Dustin lived a full, happy life during our time in Lloydminster and Red Deer.

He attended West Park Middle School and Lindsay Thurber High School. Dustin took Tai Kwon Do and Army Cadets. Dustin loved music and hanging out with friends.

As a family we tried to take in all events and festivities that Red Deer has to offer. Dustin was daring, and adventurous, though a caring person who was humble and down to earth. Everyone describes Dustin as selfless with an infectious smile and amazing kind blue eyes. He was bright and quick witted with a great sense of humor which sometimes got him into trouble (especially at school). He was the class clown always making people laugh. Dustin had unconditional love and acceptance with his mom and siblings. We loved spending time together, we were in our own little world.

Dustin had an extra special bond with his baby brother Jacob. Jacob adored him, as did Drae. It was beautiful to witness the bond between siblings. Dustin will be dearly missed for eternity; as though we are missing a part of our hearts and soul. Words cannot articulate our love for you or our pain. We will reunite one day my angel. Until then we must fight for justice. Funeral service was September 12, 2015 at Sallows Funeral in N B’ford, SK. Reception was held at Moose Hall in Lloydminster, AB. There is a memorial page to celebrate his life on Facebook called Remembering Dustin. There has been a GO FUND ME page set up for donations to “Justice for Dustin”, by Krista Fox.

HILLOCK Daniel Robert July 23, 1968 - Oct. 2, 2015 It’s with much sadness that we the family of Rob Hillock announce his sudden but peaceful passing. Left to cherish his memory is his wife Tamarann, his daughters Christel and Takira, and his granddaughter Kieerah. A celebration of Rob’s life will be held on Friday October 9 at the Crossroads Church in Red Deer, Alberta. In lieu of flowers please help Rob to continue to love Takira. You can go to your nearest Servus Credit Union in Alberta with the following information: Takira Hillock, acct.# 662120501762

has a special package just for you & your little one!

For more information, Call Lori, 403-348-5556

ICE CREAM 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 Start your career!

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Lost MERCER Frank Arthur Mercer, 74, passed away October 3, 2015 at Red Deer Regional Hospital. Frank was born to Percy and Maggie Mercer on May 18, 1941 at Gods Lake, Manitoba. He has three sons Dale, Daryl and Darren.

Frank worked in gold mines right across Canada. He moved to Australia in 1971 and returned to Canada in June 2010. During that time he also spent 1974 living in New Zealand. Frank was a loyal supporter of the Innisfail Eagles hockey team. He enjoyed most sports and especially hockey and golf.

Frank was predeceased by his father Percy (1998), his mother Maggie (2014) and brother Barney (2014). Frank is survived by sisters Margaret, Ada (Don) Desta, Chi, Phyllis (Dave), his brothers Stan (Denise). John (Doris), Chief (Cathy) and Harvey and numerous nieces and nephews. As per Frank’s wishes a service will take place at Parkland Funeral Home at 2 pm. on Friday, October 9, 2015. Frank will be sadly missed by family and friends and his beloved Innisfail Eagles Hockey Club.

STEWART Robert William Henry 1965 - 2015 Robert “Rob” Stewart of Red Deer, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, October 1, 2015, at the age of 50 years. Rob will be lovingly remembered by his wife Susan, son Dailyn, daughter Shayna, stepdaughter Chandra (Norman), parents, Pearl and Hank, sisters Robin (Ross) and Della May (Norm), brother Mike, nephews Richard, Justin (Diane), Craig, Tyler, Jake, Joss, Jesse, niece Hannah, great niece Alea, and best buddies James, Daryl, Gisele and Tim. A Celebration of Rob’s life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 4:00 p.m.

A Public Visitation, for those wishing to pay their respects, will be held one hour prior to the service, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. If desired, in lieu of flowers, Memorial Donations in Rob’s honor may be made directly to the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada at Alberta@ccfc.ca, Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation at www.canlyme.com, or the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta and N.W.T. at www.heartandstroke.ab.ca Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Sonya Henderson, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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ROMANZIN Marion 1923 - 2015 Marion Genevieve (nee Steeves) Romanzin of Red Deer passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Sunday, October 4, 2015 at the age of 92 years. Marion was born in Carnduff, Saskatchewan and graduated from St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg with a Nursing Degree. She became a member of the Alberta Association of Registered Nurses in 1950 and settled in Red Deer, where she was O.R. Head Nurse. Marion loved baseball and played first base for the Red Deer Rockettes. Her passion was gardening and won many awards for her beautiful yard and prolific garden. She loved sewing and crocheting and made many quilts which will be cherished by all of her family members. She has also knitted over fifty scarves for the Festival of Trees children’s shop. Marion is survived by her husband of sixty-one years, Elso; daughters, Heather (Russel) of Powell River, BC, Sandra (Dale) of Stettler, Janice of St. Albert, and son, Larry (Danielle) of Red Deer; grandchildren, Tracy (Darla), Teresa (Jesse), Erin, Evan and Wyatt, as well as great grandchildren, Jayden, Shelby and Zander; brother-in-law, Fred Mains, and many nieces and nephews. Marion was predeceased by her parents, Rodney and Genevieve (Miller) Steeves, brothers, Harley and Floyd Steeves, sisters, Vivian (Jim) East and Lillian Mains. Her family is respecting her wishes of cremation and a private celebration of life. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Marion’s honor to the Palliative Care Unit 32 at the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation at www.rdrhfoundation.com/donateCondolences may now. be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

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

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WATSON Eugene (Gene) Harold Watson was born in Bracken, SK, on Oct. 13, 1932, grew up in the Pine Lake area, and spent his adult years in Red Deer where he died peacefully on Oct. 3, 2015. In the late 1950s Gene partnered with his brother Alan to form Watson Brothers Plumbing & Heating and, later, a construction company, Swell Investments.

Over more than five decades the two men completed many buildings and developments in Red Deer, including part of the Morrisroe subdivision (Red Deer’s first private sector residential lot development), the Village Mall, Watson Towers, and Michener Manor (Red Deer’s first residential condominium). Gene was an active community volunteer, especially with the Red Deer Elks Lodge #85 and the Knights of Columbus. He was an avid Edmonton Eskimos fan and season ticket holder, and he attended over 20 Grey Cups.

He enjoyed curling, golfing and playing hockey, and was pleased to be the founding “Commissioner” of the Silver Selects Old-Timer Hockey team. He loved spending time at the family cabin at Sylvan Lake, which he built.

A proud family man, Gene is survived by his beloved wife of 56 years, Marguerite (Lerouge); his children and grandchildren: Michael (Maria Forte) and Alexander and Isabella of London, ON; 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 Thursday, October 8, at 7:00 P.M. at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated by Father Jozef Wroblewski on Friday, October 9, at 1:00 P.M. at Sacred Heart Parish, 5508-48A Avenue, Red Deer. Funeral arrangements in care of Eventide Funeral Chapel. If desired, memorial donations may be made to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4R 3S6.

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Celebrations HAPPY 55th ANNIVERSARY TOM AND RITA WELLS OCT. 8, 2015 Love from your Family and Friends

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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.

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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

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Full cycle payroll for 150+ Employees. SE Calgary, AB. Email Resume to jobsnow@dcpu1.com Website: www.dcpu1.com

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Please respond with a detailed resume to the attention of: Dave Niederle, CA, Partner e-mail: dniederle@chnllp.com Start your career!

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100 MUSTANG ACRES Oct.9 & 10 Fri. & Sat. 10 -5 MULTI FAMILY 10,000 items!!!

Sylvan Lake 60 ROZIER CLOSE Ryders Ridge. Oct. 10, 11 & 12. 9-5. Moving, everything must go! Tools, fishing, firepits, bed nets, etc.

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JJAM Management (1987) JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. 700 3020 22 St. Food Service Supervisor FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening weekend day and evening both full and part time. both full and part time.

16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + 4 Vacancies, $13.75 /hr. + medical, dental, life and vibenefits. Start ASAP. sion benefits. Start ASAP. Job description Job description www.timhortons.com www.timhortons.com Education and experience Experience 1 yr. to less not req’d. than 2 yrs.

Apply in person or fax Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303 resume to: 403-314-1303

g Sales & We Have The Paper You Need! Distributors Central Alberta SALES ASSOCIATE REQUIRED LIFE For North/Central Alberta.

Opportunity for a mature & person or couple in wholesale fashion jewelry, Red Deer giftware and clothing sales.

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HOME Reply to: DELIVERY OF order@klassenjlrs.com Terry, 306-652-2112 THE Check us out at: www.klassenjlrs.com ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION Trades DEPARTMENT Galaxy Plumbing & is currently hiring 403-314-4300 Heating plumbers who have exp.

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Competitive wages, benefits after 3 months.

Please send resume to galaxyadmin@telus.net or fax to 403-347-4539.

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.

For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK CLEARVIEW RIDGE CLEARVIEW TIMBERSTONE LANCASTER VANIER WOODLEA/ WASKASOO DEER PARK GRANDVIEW EASTVIEW MICHENER MOUNTVIEW ROSEDALE GARDEN HEIGHTS MORRISROE

Requires SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!

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

Truckers/ Drivers

Call Prodie at 403-314-4301

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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 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK ANDERS NOW HIRING BOWER TRUCK DRIVER $25/HR HIGHLAND GREEN Full Time , 44hrs/wk min 2 years experience req INGLEWOOD Please email resume JOHNSTONE tankmasterrd@gmail.com or drop off at KENTWOOD Tankmaster Rentals RIVERSIDE (2012) LTD 117 Poplar St Red Deer MEADOWS PINES Restaurant/ SUNNYBROOK Hotel SOUTHBROOKE WEST LAKE WEST PARK

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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

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FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 FREE BLACK POPLAR logs. You pick up.

Very close to Red Deer.

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SEASONED split poplar firewood, $50.00 1/2 ton load call 403-728-3485

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10 cu. ft. upright deep freeze, $200.

403-346-4155 FRIDGE, Danby 3.2 cu. ft.

Brand New, still in box. $150. 403-346-9899

Household Furnishings

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DINING ROOM SET with 4 & leaf, exc. shape.

CLASSIFICATIONS chairs nice top with light wood around side, brass legs on 1500-1990 chairs. $150 403-346-4155 DOUBLE/queen size Children's heavy duty steel bed frame Items 72”L, adjust to 54-60-78” wide, 6 casters (2 locks) 16 STORYBOOK classic $40 403-346-6539 DVD’s over 100 stories, very good cond. TEAK wood coffee table 36” round, one of a kind, $35 403-314-9603 $40 ***SOLD*** Morrisroe

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WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

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4 BDRMS, 2 1/2 baths, single car garage, 5 appls, $1695/mo. 403-782-7156 403-357-7465 AVAIL. now. Mountview reno’d and charming, 2 bdrm. main floor, ultra quiet, $1350 403-392-2488 GULL LAKE HOUSE WITH LAKE VIEW 3 bdrm., 2 bth., fully furn. with dbl. att. garage and games room, hot tub, n/s, no pets, ref. req., $2,800/mo. plus util.

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GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

Brand new rental community.

Reserve now for your choice of suite!

1&2 BDRMs from $1170.

In-suite laundry. Dishwasher.

Balcony. Pet friendly.

Elevator. Parking avail.

Gym. Community garden.

Non-smoking. On-site mgmt.

39 Van Slyke Way, Red Deer

RISER HOMES 1 CHANCE ONLY! (1)BLACKFALDS 1200 sq. ft. bi-level walkout 3 bdrm.

2 bath, open floor plan, fireplace $339,000 Legal fees, GST, sod, tree and appls. incld. LLOYD FIDDLER 403-391-9294

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AVAIL Immed: 1 Lrg fully furn bdrm c/w gas fireplace - $275 dd $550/mo..

Call 403-396-2468 Looking for a place to live?

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ROOM TO RENT very large $450. 403-350-4712

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COLD storage garage, 14’ x 24’, $200/mo.; heated big truck space, $775/mo.

VARIETY SHOP SPACES ~ offices ~ fenced yards ~ Big or small, different locations. 403-343-6615

RISER HOMES 1 ONLY! Must See! Blackfalds Bungalow walkout backing onto valley view. A must see. This 2 bdrm. 2 bath has many upgrades.

This weekend only $399,000. GST, legal fees and 4 appl. package included. LLOYD FIDDLER 403-391-9294

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FOR LEASE Riverside Light Industrial 4614-61 St. (directly behind Windsor Plywood) 2400 sq. ft. large 55 x 85 compound 403-350-1777

Storage Space

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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

Mobile Lot

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Cars

2006 HHR Chev, 1 owner, 265,000 kms., sunburst orange, $2700.

403-350-1562 2001 GRAND PRIX GT, runs good, some body damage, 3.8L, $1000.

2000 GRAND PRIX, SE good motor & tranny, new tires, currently non operational. $400. 403-350-1562 1980 LINCOLN Towne car $5000 obo 403-507-5682

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PADS $450/mo.

ATV's Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000. 2002 660 Grizzly $3500 Down payment $4000. Call obo 403-507-5682 at anytime. 403-588-8820

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BRAND new P265/75R/16 Firestone Wilderness AT on rim $80 403-358-5568

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GOOD Year Wrangler, set of 4, P235-75R16. $100. 403-350-1562

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HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

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MOBILE office trailer 240 for sale c/w toilet, satellite dish, TV, Stereo, fridge.

Call B & L Enterprise 403-346-6106

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SERGE’S HOMES Duplex in Red Deer Close to Schools and Recreation Center. For More Info Call Bob 403-505-8050 Tired of Standing?

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The ideal candidate will have an outgoing personality, the ability to multi-task and good written and verbal communication skills.

Basic computer skills, a valid driver’s license, and use of a car and are required. Candidate must pass a vulnerable sector criminal records check.

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The successful candidate will be responsible for the recruitment of carriers and the successful delivery of the Red Deer Express in Red Deer.

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Contractors

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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BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

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VANIER WOODS NOW OPEN

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WANTED TO BUY 4 WHEELED ELECTRIC SCOOTER. FILLED WANTED TO BUY: old lead batteries for recycling 403-396-8629

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Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 7179466IJ14

For early morning delivery by 6:30 am Mon. - Sat. INGLEWOOD LANCASTER ANDERS

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SEIBEL PROPERTY COAT, MINK, Ladies 6 locations in Red Deer, 3 gold, size Tall. $50. bdrms, 1 1/2 bath, appls, Stereos 403-346-6539 starting at $1100. For more LADIES chocolate brown TV's, VCRs info 403-347-7545 or coat w/fleece lining and 403-304-7576 14” Citizen Tube tv w/DVD hood, size M, very good SOUTHWOOD PARK player $50; 27” Tube tv cond., $15; UGG slippers 3110-47TH Avenue, w/entertainment stand All applicants are subject size 5, new cond.

2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, $50 403-782-3847 to a pre-employment $30 403-314-9603 generously sized, 1 1/2 physical and MVR check. baths, fenced yards, Interested Applicants may LADIES London Fog, reg. Misc. for 10 size, cranberry pea full bsmts. 403-347-7473, submit a resume, along coat, $50, 403-227-2976 Sorry no pets.

Sale with a current drivers www.greatapartments.ca abstract to: LADIES size 4 1/2 Italian 100 VHS movies, $75.

Advanced Drainage chocolate leather knee For All 403-885-5020 Systems Of Canada Inc. high boots, soft fits like a Manufactured 4316 Gerdts Ave. glove, $200 403-227-2976 CAKE Decorating Set, Homes Blindman Ind. Park Wilton, $100.

MOTORCYCLE Jacket, Red Deer County, AB. Several decorating books black leather, size M. in 2 BDRM. mobile, 5 appls., T4S-2A8 and assorted baking pans. lrg. fenced yard, $1050/mo. good cond. $40.

Fax: (403) 346-5806 $50 for all.

403-346-9899 403-346-6539 incl water. 403-872-2532 E-mail ken.mccutcheon ELECTRIC skillet new in @ads-pipe.com or box $32; .7 microwave jeremy.bunker@ oven, new in box $35; oak 4 Plexes/ ads-pipe.com Electronics 6 Plexes top dining table w/leaf, 6 Position closing date: chairs $30; misc. end Oct.9, 2015 GRUNDIG am/fm shorttables w/lamps $10/ea, ACROSS from park, wave field radio, model accent table w/drawers, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, #S450DLX w/owners shelf, lamp 4 appls. Rent $975/mo.

Misc. manual, used 2x, $65 403-346-2192 d.d. $650. Avail. Nov. 1.

Help $50 403-896-9246 403-304-5337 HOTWATER TANK w/10 games and dance 50 gal. Waterford Defender ACADEMIC Express Wiimat $140; DS Lite w/4 Safety System - Gas. ADULT EDUCATION games $60 403-782-3847 Only used for a couple of Suites AND TRAINING months - like new!! Reason for selling is we switched Equipment2 BDRM. N/S, no pets.

NOV. START to direct venting unit. $875 rent/d.d.

Heavy New was $850.

403-346-1458 $425. 403-318-4653 • Community TRAILERS for sale or rent ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious Support Worker Job site, office, well site or LARGE collection of Model suites 3 appls., heat/water Toys, every tool made to Program storage. Skidded or incld., ADULT ONLY run a household. Guns, wheeled. Call 347-7721.

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Tackling an illness that hits close to home FAMED SCIENTIST TAKES ON ILLNESS AFFLICTING HIS SON home visits to collect blood, sweat, saliva and fecal samples. The samples will be analyzed with sophisticated technologies such as mass spectrometry (which measures the amount and type of chemicals in a sample) and DNA and RNA sequencing.

“My plan is to collect more data on a group of patients than has ever been collected on a human being before, by orders of magnitude… . We’re going to be state-of-the-art on everything,” Davis says.

By studying just the sickest people, he hopes to identify a more consistent set of characteristics than has emerged from previous studies of more-diverse patient groups lumped under the “chronic fatigue syndrome” heading.

After that, Davis plans to conduct the same studies in ME/CFS patients who are only moderately ill - to see what characteristics they share with the severely ill group - and also in people with other fatiguing illnesses such as lupus and fibromyalgia, to identify what is unique about ME/CFS and to separate out abnormalities due to inactivity alone.

“What we’re trying to do initially is find a biomarker, something that shows a clear indication of something uniquely wrong… . That would help the patients a lot. It would mean that physicians could no longer deny that they’re sick,” Davis says.

For some patients, ME/CFS starts suddenly, with an illness or a trauma from which they never fully recover.

For others, like Whitney, the illness follows a series of ailments. He was healthy as a child but caught a bad case of mononucleosis in high school and had a spell of headaches and dizziness after a trip to Jamaica during college. He eventually recovered from both.

He’d been in India for several months in 2006 when he began experiencing stomach pain, bloating and nausea. He returned weighing just 115 pounds on his 6-foot-3 frame. Then, two years later, he developed what seemed like a cold and never felt normal again.

“He went downhill from there,” his mother says.

By 2011, he could no longer care for himself. “Moving home was really devastating for him… . He’d worked so hard to be independent,” she says.

All along, he’d been seeing a series of doctors, most of whom told him they could find nothing wrong and suggested he was depressed.

In fact, says Andreas Kogelnik, the infectious-disease specialist who diagnosed Whitney with ME/CFS more than a year after he returned from India, “this was a vibrant, successful

Before he got sick, Whitney Dafoe was an award-winning photographer and a world traveller. He’d helped build a nunnery in India, ridden a motorcycle in the Himalayas and visited all 50 American states.

He also worked on Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, and although he was already ill by January 2009, pushed himself to travel to Washington from his California home to photograph the inauguration.

But now, at 31, Whitney lies in bed in a darkened room in his parents’ home, unable to talk, walk or eat. He is fed intravenously and is barely able to tolerate light, sounds or being touched.

His parents and the medical personnel who see him wear plain clothing when they enter his room because bright colors, shapes or any kind of print make him feel even worse, as does any movement that he’s not expecting.

“It’s hard to explain how fragile he is,” says his mother, Janet Dafoe.

This isn’t the picture that people imagine when they hear “chronic fatigue syndrome,” which is often viewed by the public and the healthcare community as a trivial or primarily psychological complaint.

In a February report, the Institute of Medicine gave the illness a new name — systemic exertion intolerance disease. Many patients have long criticized the name “chronic fatigue syndrome” for not reflecting the seriousness of the illness. The new name, some say, is not much of an improvement. Some patients call it by an older name, “myalgic encephalomyelitis.”

Most official documents refer to it with a compromise term, “myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome,” or ME/CFS. The IOM report notes that doctors often lack understanding of the condition and are often skeptical that it is a true medical condition, believing instead that it’s partially or wholly psychological.

Some may therefore be surprised that the illness is now a major research focus for one of the world’s leading biomedical scientists.

That scientist, Ronald W. Davis, is Whitney Dafoe’s father.

Davis heads the Genome Technology Center at Stanford University. In the 1970s, he developed techniques for gene mapping that were later used in the Human Genome Project, for which he was a co-investigator. In 2013, the Atlantic magazine named him one of “Today’s Greatest Inventors, ” along with such people as Vint Cerf, sometimes called “the father of the Internet,” and Elon Musk, one of the founders of electric-car company Tesla Motors.

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“He has some of the classic symptoms that we talk about with ME/CFS, but in him they’re amplified 10 or 100 times,” adds Kogelnik, president and founder of the Open Medicine Institute, the research/clinical institution affiliated with the fundraising foundation.

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Several definitions for “CFS” and “ME” have been developed over the years, but none has been deemed ideal, in part because they rely on self-reported symptoms rather than objective measures.

Davis served on the IOM panel, which was convened in 2014 to conduct a scientific review aimed at redefining the illness.

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Husband needs to rebuild trust Dear Annie: I read you on Facebook and hope you can help. My husband and I have been married for two years, after living together for five.

We have four beautiful children.

Things were going well until we moved into our new home.

It’s as if we suddenly beKATHY MITCHELL came strangers.

We barely AND MARCY SUGAR spoke to each ANNIE’S MAILBOX other.

He kept a lot of secrets and lied about everything.

I started snooping around and found out he was having two online affairs.

I confronted him, and he became angry, as if it were my fault.

He made me feel terrible, so I let

him walk all over me and was miserable.

He claims these “affairs” were the same as looking at pornography, but he’s wrong.

I know one of these women, and they were both sending him text messages and racy photos.

Last month, he cleared out half of our bank account and won’t tell me where the money went.

After that, I told him he had to stop or the marriage was over, so he trashed his phone and now he rarely gets online.

But I can’t help thinking, given the chance, he would do it all again. I love him and our family and believe in keeping our marriage intact, but I just don’t trust him anymore.

Should I leave him or give him another chance? — Confused and Worried Wife Dear Confused: When trust disappears in a marriage, it takes a great deal of effort — from both parties — to regain a foothold. You have four children together.

Your husband has apparently

trashed his phone and rarely gets online, and, as far as you know, he is no longer carrying on with other women.

These things would justify giving him another chance.

But he still hasn’t explained or replaced the missing money (this is a huge red flag) and, obviously, you don’t fully believe that he will remain faithful down the road.

This is why counseling is so important.

Please ask your husband to go with you to see a professional who can help him understand why his behavior is so damaging, and work on ways for you to trust him again.

As always, if he refuses to go with you, go alone.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Know the Difference Between You’re and Your,” who worked part-time as a proofreader and media relations contact for a good friend who didn’t like to have her grammar or spelling corrected.

I agree with your suggestion of tact, instead of the writer’s apparent “I’m right, you’re wrong,” approach.

A spirit of camaraderie and mutual support is always helpful.

I’d also like to recommend that “Know the Difference” buy a copy of “The Chicago Manual of Style” and try to get her boss to agree that the experts will settle all bets. — Marty in SoCal Dear Marty: This is an excellent suggestion.

The CMOS is one of the most widely used guides for American English.

It was first published in 1906 and the latest edition can be found in hardcover or online.

Using such a guide would defer grammar and spelling questions to a respected authority and remove some of the rancor between friends.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies

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CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Chevy Chase, 71; Sigourney Weaver, 65; Matt Damon, 44 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: It’s time to play.

Leave strenuous tasks for another time.

H A P P Y BIRTHDAY: In 2016, you have JOANNE MADELINE the power to MOORE influence deciSUN SIGNS sions that are made within your local community.

So don’t waste the opportunity to make a difference.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Rushing Rams have a tendency to burn the candle at both ends.

Today, slow down and spend some quality time with family and friends. Plus research a project thoroughly before you start.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): All types of relationships are favoured as the planets bestow harmonious vibes.

So it’s the perfect time to roll up your sleeves and patch up problems with a partner, child, friend or colleague.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Expect a super busy day, as you converse with colleagues or catch up with family and friends. Single Twins — look for lasting love with someone who is dependable and emotionally mature.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s a wonderful day to nurture family relationships and foster friendships — as long as you communicate clearly.

Otherwise there will be unnecessary crossed wires and confusing mix-ups.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Relations with family and friends should be fun today Lions, as past problems fly out the window and you concentrate on cooperation and convivial conversation.

Make the most of it while it lasts!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Are you perplexed about exactly where a relationship is heading?

Listen to your intuition — it will point you in the right direction. If you can, leave complex paperwork for another time.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Avoid being a lazy Libran!

The more care and compassion you put into family relationships, the more you’ll receive in return, as you accept domestic responsibilities with a smile.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The focus is on having fun in relationships, as you start a joint venture or share a creative project with a like-minded soul.

When it comes to work or school, it’s time to express yourself!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Don’t feel you have to accomplish everything on your own.

The more you involve family and friends in your aspirations and dreams for the future, the more likelihood they will come true.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You may feel discouraged today, as longterm goals suddenly seem way out of reach.

The gap between dreams and reality is wide but — with plenty of patience — you’ll eventually get there.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The planetary spotlight is on partnerships and convivial conversation as you exchange neighbourhood news, celebrity gossip or positive current affairs stories.

Keep the topics light and lively!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Attached Fish — resist the temptation to keep a big secret from your spouse. Single Pisceans — when it comes to the ideal date, are you deluding yourself?

Perhaps you need to be more realistic?

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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