Red Deer Advocate, October 20, 2015

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Liberal Leader and incoming prime minister Justin Trudeau speaks to supporters at Liberal party headquarters in Montreal early Tuesday.

BY BRUCE CHEADLE THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Just watch him.

Ready or not, a Trudeau is returning to 24 Sussex Drive, completing the first father-son dynasty in Canada’s federal government history.

Justin Trudeau, 43, will become Canada’s next prime minister after his party steamrolled to a stunning majority victory Monday night following the longest and most expensive general election in modern times.

The Liberal party, which was en route to claiming more than 180 seats in newly expanded 338-seat House of Commons, becomes the first ever

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to vault directly from third party status to government.

And Trudeau returns to his childhood home at 24 Sussex Drive, where he was the first-born of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who served as prime minister for almost 16 years before retiring in 1984.

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Dreeshen rolls to easy Calkins re-elected victory over rivals with 69.8 % of the vote

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Earl Dreeshen is heading back to Ottawa as part of the official Opposition.

The Conservative candidate decidedly won the new riding of Red Deer-Mountain View snagging 38,903 votes with 201 of 238 polls reporting.

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Sorenson thwarts challengers A5 Eglinski holds Yellowhead A5 in 2008 in the former Red Deer riding, Dreeshen is no stranger to different scenarios playing out in Ottawa.

The 62-year-old life-long Conservative worked under both Conservative minority and majority governments.

But never on the other side of the table as the Liberal Party of Canada will form the next government with Justin Trudeau at the helm.

“I’ve talked to many people who have been in Opposition and I think they are joking because they say when you’re in Opposition, you can say anything and do anything,” said Dreeshen.

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The moods at campaign headquarters didn’t really reflect which candidate Red Deer-Lacombe voters chose to send to Ottawa.

A bittersweet Conservative Blaine Calkins looked at the prospect of sitting in opposition and took solace in the strong local BLAINE CALKINS showing.

“I think I may actually be wired more to be an opposition guy than to be a government guy anyways,” said Calkins. “Now I’m going to unleash the hounds and hold the government to account.

“I want to make sure all the hard fought for things we won over the last several years such as support for families, getting rid of the wasteful longgun registry, marketing freedom for grain farmers and make sure we keep going forward with the Trans Pacific Partnership.”

With 193 of 239 polls reporting, Calkins won the riding by a wide margin, taking 32,855 votes or 69.8 per cent.

Liberal candidate Jeff Rock finished with only 7,143 votes or 15.2 per cent.

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Murphy hailed as a ‘comedic hero’ A star-studded lineup of comedians honoured Eddie Murphy as an ‘American Icon’ as he received the Mark Twain Prize.

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LEFT: Earl Dreeshan, the Conservative candidate for Red Deer-Mountain View, is congratulated by Mayor Tara Veer Monday night at the Sheraton as election results come in.

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RIGHT: Red Deer-Lacombe Conservative MP Blaine Calkins, left, fist bumps his volunteer co-ordinator Jonathan Strome at Calkins campaign headquarters in Red Deer after it was clear Calkins had won his riding Monday night.

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DREESHEN: Involved in party since 2005 “But when you are in government you actually have to follow the line … I am an honest individual, making sure I hold people to task if that’s necessary.

But I want to make sure people recognize how significant the Conservative Party has been, not just in the last four years but to Canada in general.”

Dreeshen has been involved with the party since 2005 and a life-long Conservative. He thanked his family and his supporters for the support. Dreeshen said he is looking forward to working hard for Central Albertans.

Chandra Kastern, the Liberal Party candidate, came in a distant second with 7,297 votes. Kastern, 32, said she could not be more proud of her team across Canada. Kastern said she wanted to earn 10 per cent of the vote in Red Deer-Mountain View because a Liberal has never crested 10 per cent of the vote in Central Alberta. She said she had less time and less fundraising capacity compared to the other candidates. Kastern said she ran a clean and tight budget campaign and she is proud of her local supporters and campaign workers.

“Obviously Canadians were hungry for change and the right kind of change,” said Kastern. “We’re seeing that happen tonight. It’s super exciting.”

NDP candidate Paul Harris said a third place finish with 4,510 votes was not the outcome he expected.

Harris, a Red Deer city councillor, said he thought the NDP would do slightly better in the riding.

“I had no illusions that we would win it,” he said.

“Although talking to people door to door, it felt like we might.”

Harris said the NDP wanted to form government but a lot of what they worked for made its way into the Liberal platform as policies changed over the course of the election campaign. Harris said the bright spot of the evening is that Harper is no longer in charge.

“For me he was the worst prime minister that I have seen in my lifetime,” said Harris. “I think history will look back and think this is the downfall of the country and it has taken us decades to build.”

Also running were Scott Milne, the Pirate Party candidate with 249 votes, Simon Oleny, the Green Party candidate with 1,339 votes and James Walper the Libertairian candidate with 375 votes.

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 also includes Mountain View and Red Deer counties.

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

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Liberal candidates Chandra Kastern, Red Deer-Mountain View and Jeff Rock, Red Deer-Lacombe, centre, are congratulated for their efforts in the election by supporter Lyn Swanson at their campaign headquarters in Red Deer as election results were announced.

CALKINS: ‘Decisions to make as a group’ NDP candidate Doug Hart finished third with 5,725 votes, or 12.2 per cent. Green Party candidate Les Kuzyk finished in last place with 1,364 or 2.9 per cent. All results are unofficial.

“I’m very sorry to see the end of what I consider to be a tremendous run by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who’s done an absolutely admirable job governing Canada for the last 10 years and I know this will be hitting him very hard,” said Calkins.

“He’s a modest and humble man and he’s going to accept the results graciously and we’ll have some decisions to make as a group in the next coming days.”

For Liberal candidate Jeff Rock, a jubilant expression and a positive attitude overtook any disappointment in the local polls. His party had won a majority government, four years removed from a meagre showing of 34 seats.

“We sought out to engage as many people as possible,” said Rock. “We did that in spades. It’s not necessarily about winning or losing, it’s about engaging people. I couldn’t be happier, unless maybe one thing happened, which didn’t happen.”

Doug Hart, NDP candidate, had some pointed words for the results, calling it a win-win-win.

“Blaine Calkins got back in and he can sit in the back bench and say nothing and represent us, the Liberals are in and Jeff Rock is happy, Stephen Harper is gone and I’m happy,” said Hart.

“There is more to governing than low taxes, but that’s all it takes to appeal to the voters in Central Alberta.”

This was Hart’s fifth time running in a campaign, one federal and four provincial, and after five loses he doubts he will run again.

Harper announced he will step down as leader of the Conservative party, but will continue to sit as an MP following last night’s election results.

Blaine Calkins has been a member of Parliament for nine years. He was first elected in 2006 when the riding was called Wetaskiwin and did not include Red Deer.

The ridings were redrawn for this year’s election, with 30 new ridings added due to population growth. Alberta added six new ridings and many constituencies were changed as a result. The new riding includes the north half of Red Deer as well as Lacombe, Ponoka, Sylvan Lake, Blackfalds, Rimbey, Clive, Alix, Bentley and Maskwacis.

In 2011, Calkins won the old riding with 81.44 per cent of the vote, 37,756 total votes. The next closest was the NDP candidate, Tim Robson, who won 11.39 per cent or 5,281 votes. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Just the beginning of change Good news for the Toronto Blue Jays, the last time the Liberals seized power from the Conservatives, they had just wrapped up their second World Series title.

While the Jays’ fate will be determined in the coming weeks, the Liberals are hoping this mandate will launch another dynasty for the Grits.

The only thing that was certain heading into Monday was that the previous 11 weeks were ugly.

Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi talked on CBC about how “No one can be proud of the last three months” and that we must find a way to emerge from this rancour to move this country forward as one.

He hit the nail on the head.

Full credit must be given to the Liberals who were considered also-rans at the beginning of the process but picked up steam as the election continued. They clearly were the big benefactor of the “Anybody but Harper” campaign, launched by strategic voters across the country, as they surprisingly rolled to a majority government. It wasn’t by mistake or by fluke, however, they ran a near perfect election with few missteps.

At home, there were some interest-

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ing results.

After the Orange Crush and the ouster of the provincial Progressive Conservatives it was thought that the NDP had their first legitimate opportunity to take power nationally. But it now appears that those votes were cast in much the same fashion as these federal votes were, pushing for change, regardless of what that change was.

It is still far too early to forecast how it will work out with the NDPs provincially, however, but perhaps there may have been some voter remorse by the electorate, including in all four of the Central Alberta ridings that went blue with concerns over the economy.

It is clear selling the Trudeau brand is still a difficult task in Alberta, where PET has a place in many households with certain four letter words that are best not used in print. Despite the majority win for the younger, only a couple of them came out of the Wild

Rose Province.

Skepticism is fair. The National Energy Program dropped Alberta into a financial dark age and this new federal Liberal Party has not exactly shown a love for what has turned this province into the country’s economic engine.

Meanwhile, disparaging comments that Trudeau made about the province prior to becoming the Liberal leader, continue to make rounds on social media.

On one positive note, Trudeau is not anti-every pipeline as the NDP appeared to be.

He has his work cut out to win the province over and to prove that he is not his father.

But does he really have to?

Be prepared for the rhetoric of the ’80s and ’90s to return that all you have to do is win Ontario and Quebec and that the West doesn’t matter.

In Trudeau’s election ads, heading into the final days, he talked about the divisiveness of the Harper government; to avoid hypocrisy, Alberta and the West must be a critical part of his plan as opposed to an irritant. The promises to increase spending to the tune of running up $10 billion in debt

in each of the next three years, also means he will need the province to be an economic power once again.

For Tories upset with their formerly lauded leader, in particular his lean on the niqab debate or frustrations with the handling of the Syrian refugee crisis or his record on the environment or concerns over issues like Bill C-51, Trudeau represents the lesser of two other evils. It will be critical for the Liberals that this economic plan does actually pull the country out of the current recession. If it doesn’t, saddling the country with $30 billion of extra debt will make it difficult to secure a second mandate.

Change in the PM’s office also means change in Conservative leadership.

With a united right wing still in tact, and still with a seat of power as the official opposition, the Conservatives are far from out of the game. But it is clear the next man to take over the ship needs to be someone who can actually connect with the public, bring back their lost supporters and re-energize the base.

Change will not stop on Monday night, we are in for a lot more of it over the next four years.

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Big holes in columnist’s argument about free trade Greg Neiman’s comment “Freer trade and poverty reduction linked” makes a series of formal and intellectual errors in an effort to serve a dubious political end masked as contemplative and ethical thought. The facile nature of his argument misses significant factors in global economics and politics.

To put it bluntly, his simple equation that free trade reduces poverty essentializes complex systems to an untenable position. It is ironic that Neiman asks his reader the following question: “Makes you think, doesn’t it?” I wonder whether he asked himself the same question.

Of course, space limits a thorough and thoughtful examination of these issues, so I must limit my response here. I will pick one easy factor that Neiman omits from his argument, namely corporate interests in free trade, perhaps focusing on Neiman’s own example of outsourcing labour to poorer countries.

Neiman makes the common and fallacious argument that third world workers love Western jobs because it helps lift them out of poverty. It’s better to have a Western sweatshop job than a third-world sweatshop job. I suppose there is some truth to that. However, he fails to mention the corporate motivation for outsourcing jobs, specifically the cheap labour of thirdworld workers. Such labour is cheaper because the

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workers lack the protection of government regulated minimum wages, worker benefits like health or accident coverage, or limited working hours — all benefits enjoyed by many Western workers. Obviously, if companies do not have to pay benefits to workers, the company profits will increase. Thus, companies move their production centres to third world countries not because of some altruistic or generous move to help third world poverty but because it is cheaper. If labour cost the same in third world countries and businesses saw no increase in bottom line profits, you can rest assured the issue of third world poverty reduction would vanish from this discussion.

This is an ethical red herring. And, to use Neiman’s own words, comma splice, and tense shift, “This wasn’t charity alone, it’s business.”

Neiman’s argument is steeped in notions associated with trickle-down economics, as if the rich getting richer will somehow help the poor. This proposition is historically false, as the inequality both within and between nations has increased in the last century. The problem is not simply poverty. The problem is not simply one thing, as Neiman’s title suggests.

A significant part of the problem is wealth distribution, what we might call unequal distribution. In fact, Neiman ends his piece by suggesting this possibility, yet, since he fails to consider the business or industry interests in profiting from cheap third world labour, he fails to mention that soaring corporate profits do little to redistribute wealth, unless you subscribe to the false principles of trickle-down

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economics. If anything, outsourcing labour increases economic inequality.

In a rather offensive manner, Neiman suggests that “Our middle-class salad days may be behind us.” Neiman is essentially arguing that the corporate profits are now to be made at the expense of the middle class. Yes, you might lose your cushy job in auto manufacturing or oil sands extraction, but think of the poor in India or China! You are helping them.

You are also helping the industrial sectors who are helping themselves to shoddy and inhumane labour practices in faraway countries. If this is wealth redistribution, it is taking from the middle class and giving to the poverty class; meanwhile, corporate profits increase. It’s a kind of redistribution, but it is certainly not equal redistribution.

If any reader wonders about the logic of my argument here, I would suggest that he or she go read the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement that motivated Neiman’s commentary on the subject.

Oh, wait. You can’t go read the agreement because it has never been made public. We might consider the state of our democracy and our input as citizens as treaties like the TPP are negotiated and rammed through behind closed doors. In Neiman’s own words, “the second largest trading bloc in the world” was created last week. Behind closed doors.

Without significant citizen input. With very little public awareness. “Makes you think, doesn’t it?”

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Sorenson thwarts challengers Eglinski holds riding with in East Central Alberta almost 24,000 votes to spare

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Conservative incumbent Kevin Sorenson maintained a tight grip on the Battle River-Crowfoot riding and captured 81 per cent of votes in Monday’s federal election.

Sorenson, who was first elected to the House of Commons in 2000, pulled in 47,650 votes. Liberal candidate Andy Kowalski came in a distant second with 5,485 votes or 9.3 per cent.

NDP candidate Katherine KEVIN SORENSON Swampy had 3,844 votes, or 6.5 per cent, and Green Party candidate Gary Kelly received 1,868 votes, or 3.2 per cent.

A total of 58,847 out of 80,689 voters in the riding cast ballots.

Sorenson said he was very pleased with the strong support he received, but very disappointed with his party’s loss.

“I just have 100 per cent confidence in Stephen Harper. It’s really disappointing,” said Sorenson, 56.

“We have a strong leader. We have a prime minister that we are proud of.

We have an economist. He gets it. We’ll see how the next guy does,” he said referring to Justin Trudeau who led the

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MAJORITY: Onslaught opened on East Coast Trudeau, who became Liberal leader in 2013, faced more than two years of Conservative attack ads before defeating Harper, including a barrage of “just not ready” ads that were so ubiquitous that school-age children could recite them.

During the October crisis of 1970, Pierre Trudeau famously told an inquiring reporter “Just watch me,” when asked how far he would go in limiting civil liberties to combat separatist terrorists. The elder Trudeau went on to shape much of the modern Canadian state that Prime Minister Stephen Harper came to power in 2006 in part to re-make.

With the magnitude of the Conservative party loss still sinking in, the Conservative leader — who called the extraordinarily long, 78-day election on Aug. 2 after almost 10 years in power — is expected to step down as party leader.

And NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, who’d aspired to lead Canada’s first NDP federal government, instead lost the party’s hard-won 2011 grip on official Opposition status, but managed to hold on to his Montreal seat despite a tough Liberal challenge.

Green Leader Elizabeth May was also re-elected on Vancouver Island.

Liberals to a majority win.

Sorenson said the campaign proved to be difficult for the Conservatives.

“The way the media was, it was hard to get our message out,” he said.

Kowalski said Sorenson is a good man. But Canadians just got tired of Harper.

“Mr. Harper really stepped on the press and wouldn’t answer any questions, wouldn’t let the people know, and it’s the people who are the ones in charge. They pay the taxes. Once every four or five years they get to speak and they spoke. I’m glad that it happened,” said Kowalski about the Liberal win.

Swampy said people wanted change and that’s exactly what they got.

“At least it’s not Harper,” said Swampy, who intends to run again.

She said the drop in NDP support had a lot to do with the strong campaign run by Trudeau and his team.

Sorenson was first elected in 2000 as the Canadian Alliance MP for the federal riding of Crowfoot. After the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservatives merged to become the Conservative Party, Sorenson was re-elected in 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2011.

Battle River-Crowfoot was created out of part of the ridings of Crowfoot and Vegreville-Wainwright during the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution.

Sorenson was named Minister of State for Finance in 2013.

“I know the importance of good, strong opposition and we’ll have a good, strong opposition,” said Sorenson who served in opposition during his first six years as an member of parliament.

The New Democrats were decimated, dropping below 40 seats after entering the election with 95. Mulcair had a tough fight just hanging on to his own Montreal seat.

The campaign, which began on a sweltering August long weekend with the country firmly Conservative blue, ended under a threat of October frost and a Liberal red tide.

The shocking Liberal onslaught opened on the East Coast, where Liberals were on track for a remarkable sweep of all 32 Atlantic Canada seats, before rolling into Quebec and Ontario and Manitoba.

With the polls simultaneously closing from the Quebec-New Brunswick border all the way to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, the scale of the Liberal charge became clear as the ballot counting commenced: The Liberals had more than 40 per cent of the popular vote and were knocking off Conservative and NDP heavyweights across the country.

Trudeau romped to victory in his gritty Montreal riding of Papineau as the Liberals restored their Quebec fortunes to help anchor the surprising victory.

Finance Minister Joe Oliver, Immigration Minister Chris Alexander, Fisheries Minister Gail Shea, Veterans Minister Julian Fantino and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt were among the Conservative cabinet ministers rejected by voters.

NDP stars including deputy leader Megan Leslie and foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar also fell to Liberal challengers.

Olivia Chow — her late husband, Jack Layton, led the NDP’s so-called “orange crush” in 2011 — succumbed to Liberal juggernaut Adam Vaughan.

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Retired RCMP officer Jim Eglinski easily held on to his Yellowhead riding for the Conservatives.

Eglinski, who won the seat in a byelection last fall, finished well ahead of Liberal Ryan Maguhn, a Hinton town councillor.

But Eglinski, 66, will return to Parliament as an Opposition JIM EGLINSKI member after the dramatic Liberal victory.

Eglinski took 72.3 per cent of the vote and Maguhn 14.2 per cent with 245 of 247 polls reporting. Trailing them was NDP’s Ken Kuzminski with nine per cent of the vote and Green Party’s Sandra Wolf Lange (2.9) and Libertarian Cory Lystang (1.6).

As with all Conservative winners on Monday, the celebration was muted by

the Liberal victory.

“I’m very pleased with the numbers, but not pleased with them nationally of course,” said Eglinski, a former Fort. St. John, B.C., mayor, who now lives near Edson.

“Now we’ll just have to work as the Opposition and to do the best job I can for the people of this riding.

“It’s going to be a strong Opposition.

It’s not going to easy for (the Liberals).

“They’ll have to work hard to maintain the government and we’ll be there to watch over them.”

He believes the Conservatives came up against an electorate in search of a different look in Ottawa.

“The people said they wanted change and they made change and we have to respect that in a democracy and work the best we can with them.

For Eglinski, Monday night ends almost a year of campaigning, counting his nomination and byelection races.

But there is little time for rest.

“It doesn’t stop here. It’s just to keep pushing, and I’ll just push the Liberals that much harder and keep them accountable.”

Eglinski gave Justin Trudeau credit for running a good campaign, performing better than many expected.

RESULTS BY RIDING

Red Deer—Mountain View (220 of 238 polls. Turnout 66.02 %)

Conservative Earl Dreeshen 42,416 (74.1%) Liberal Chandra Lescia Kastern 7,828 (13.7%) NDP Paul Harris 4,849 (8.5%) Green Party Simon Oleny 1,497 (2.6%) Libertarian James Walper 403 (0.7 %) Pirate Scott Milne 270 (0.5 %)

Red Deer—Lacombe (205 of 239 polls. Turnout 57.23 %)

Conservative Blaine Calkins 34,723 (70.1%) Liberal Jeff Rock 7,489 (15.1%) NDP Doug Hart 5,930 (12.0%) Green Party Les Kuzyk 1,421 (2.9%)

Yellowhead (245 of 247 polls. Turnout 70.4%)

Conservative Jim Eglinski 37,664 (72.3 %) Liberal Ryan Maguhn 7,373 (14.2%) NDP Ken Kuzminski 4,711 (9.0%) Green Party Sandra Wolf Lange 1,527 (2.9%) Libertarian Cory Lystang 821 (1.6%)

Battle River—Crowfoot ( 251/251 polls. Turnout 72.92 %)

Conservative Kevin Sorenson 47,650 (81.0%) Liberal Andy Kowalski 5,485 (9.3%) NDP Katherine Swampy 3,844 (6.5%) Green Party Gary Kelly 1,868 (3.2%) Turnout numbers do not include electors who registered on election day.

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Spectators torn between Jays, election

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A tiny slice of the Canadian electorate gathered at a long-time political bar in west-end Toronto on Monday night and all anyone really wanted to discuss was baseball.

The stars aligned to change an otherwise dull Monday into a blue moon with a Blue Jays playoff game playing out alongside the federal election.

“This is a perfect night for any bar,” said Gwyn Williams, one of the owners of The Longest Yard, “because people in bars really only talk about three things: sports, politics and sex.”

“People endlessly argue about politics and sports, but — stay with me here — they are the same. Someone wins, someone loses and it’s almost always because one made a mistake that the other took the advantage of.”

Williams said he was talking to his staff and co-owner, Debra DeMonte, about which audio they’d broadcast at the bar given their TVs were tuned into both the baseball game and results of the federal election.

“No-brainer,” Williams said. “The ball game, but that will likely change when results from Ontario start rolling in.”

DeMonte said they have been broadcasting election nights — federal, provincial and municipal — since 2000. It all started with the fiery debate, oddly enough, over the strange U.S. presidential election in 2000 between George W. Bush and Al Gore that was a tossup due to problems with ballots in Florida.

“That’s when we decided we should make a night of elections,” he said.

Despite that, Game 3 of the ALCS series between the Jays and the Kansas City Royals dominated most of the televisions at the bar — although there were

Mother of toddler sobs as videotape of tragedy played in Edmonton court

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The mother of a toddler who died when a vehicle crashed into a restaurant patio sobbed as a surveillance video of the tragedy was played in court.

Two-year-old Geo Mounsef was killed and four other members of his family injured in May 2013 when an SUV driven by Richard Suter went through a glass partition at Ric’s Grill, an upscale restaurant in southwest Edmonton.

Suter, now 65, had been parked in front of the restaurant, and the surveillance tape showed him accelerating and then reversing several feet.

A sentencing hearing began Monday for Suter,

who has pleaded guilty to refusing to provide a breath sample when there is death, a charge that carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.

Suter had originally faced charges including impaired driving causing death and the boy’s mother, Sage Morin, had previously testified Suter appeared intoxicated, but he has continued to maintain he was not drunk at the time.

Last January, Suter told police he had been abducted from his home by three people who posed as police officers.

He said he was blindfolded, driven to a rural area and his thumb was cut off. A man was later charged in the case.

His lawyer said it was the second attack on the family in 18 months.

Grieving community remembers girls killed in farm accident

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WITHROW — About 500 coloured helium-filled balloons were released into the air when a small Alberta farming community paid tribute to three young sisters who were smothered last week in a load of canola seed.

Hundreds of people crowded into the Withrow Gospel Mission, west of Red Deer, on Sunday to honour the memories of Catie Bott, who was 13, and her twin 11-year-old siblings, Jana and Dara Bott.

The girls were fatally injured last Tuesday evening on their family farm while playing on a truck loaded with the grain.

Two of them were pronounced dead at the scene, while the third died after being taken to an Edmonton hospital.

They will be buried on Friday at Crossroads

Church in Red Deer.

A GoFundMe page created by a family friend for the girls’ parents surpassed its goal of $100,000 in donations in just three days.

For many people in the community, the Bott sisters were considered members of their own extended family.

“We all went to each other’s house after church every Sunday,” said Baillie Burns. “We’d always see each other.”

“We would paint and cook together,” recalled Adelita Studer, Jana’s best friend. “She was just perfect.”

Family friend Dave Brand said the fact the girls are no longer around is tough to comprehend.

“As a community, we’re still reeling,” said Brand.

“It’s really difficult to conceptualize what happened.”

a few showing early election results from Atlantic Canada that suggested the Liberals were poised for a romp.

“The campaign has been really interesting …oh my God,” said Jerry Ormiston, trailing off as he took in yet another athletic catch by Blue Jays centre fielder Kevin Pillar.

“Did you see that play? I’m sorry, what was I talking about? Sorry, the election. Did you see that play? Yeah, I don’t really want Stephen Harper to win. But, I’m sorry again, that was a helluva play.”

Mike O’Connor said he came down to the bar because it’s the only place he knows that will show both the game and the election, which he calls the perfect combination for a Monday night.

“This could lessen the blow,” he said with the Jays up big over the Royals as the Liberals stormed out to an early lead in the polls over his favoured Conservatives.

Incumbent snack trays win out at council debate

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Canadians may have been intently focused on the federal election Monday, but at Edmonton city council it was all about an issue with a little more meat in it.

Members of the Edmonton Youth Council decided earlier this year to try and convince councillors to make a change — at least when it came to the three food trays sometimes served at meetings.

The incumbent trays were a varied lot — one veggies, one fruit and one processed meat and cheese.

The youth council campaigned for three vegan trays instead, but when a council committee rejected the pitch, they countered with a “more flexible” alternative.

“We talked about either plant-based food or food sourced from local businesses,” explained youth council chairwoman Marina Banister. “So in our minds that was a great compromise.”

But that idea also laid an egg and in the end, councillors decided not to even hold a vote.

“I’m really disappointed that administration wouldn’t have flagged this,” said Coun. Dave Loken, suggesting the debate was a waste of time. “This could have been done better.”

“It’s bad enough that we have to drink the horrible coffee,” grumbled Coun. Ed Gibbons. “I could be voting right now, instead of wasting my time on this.”

Jolene Noble from the Cattleman’s Association was on hand for the meeting and was pleased with the outcome, saying vegan snack trays could have had a ripple effect on the beef industry.

“This is our Edmonton City Council,” said Noble.

“What they do, often other companies or other cities, even, follow suit so I think that message would have been loud and clear and would have had far-reaching effects.”

Banister called the youth council’s taste of defeat “unfortunate.”

“We’re talking as representatives of Edmonton youth and this is something that’s important to us.

But at the same time we understand that councillors are extremely busy with a number of pressing issues.”

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Blue Jays’ bats come alive USE LONGBALL TO WIN FIRST GAME OF ALCS; STAVE OFF LATE RALLY FROM ROYALS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Blue Jays 11 Royals 8 Toronto’s power outage ended Monday, allowing the Blue Jays to get one foot out of the hole they dug for themselves in Kansas City.

Troy Tulowitzki, Josh Donaldson and Ryan Goins homered as the Jays battered Royals ace Johnny Cueto en route to an 11-8 Toronto win that cut Kansas City’s lead to 2-1 in the American League Championship Series.

The Royals, who outhit Toronto 1511, rallied for four runs in the ninth but it was too little, too late.

“We desperately needed that breakout,” said a relieved Blue Jays manager John Gibbons. “You look at how the game finished up, those runs really came in handy.

“It wasn’t an easy game, even though we had a big lead.”

The Royals won 5-0 and 6-3 in Kansas City, handcuffing a Jays offence that had led the majors in averaging 5.5 runs a game during the regular season. But the bats came alive in Game 3 in front of a loud sellout Rogers Centre crowd of 49,751.

Tulowitzki, Donaldson and Goins combining for nine RBI on a night where the 11 runs scored set a Toronto franchise record in a home post-season game.

It marked the third time in Jays’ playoff history that the team has scored 10 or more runs. The three homers matched a franchise single-game playoff mark.

It also was the first time Toronto has won a post-season game when allowing 15 hits.

Apart from the Royals rally, the lone sour note was Tulowitzki’s ejection after taking the field in the eighth, for chirping home plate umpire John Hirschbeck. The Jays shortstop, who had to be held back by bench coach DeMarlo Hale, had just struck out for the second time and wasn’t happy about it. Neither was the crowd.

“I think it was obvious I didn’t agree with the called third strike. And there were other pitches that were questionable,” said Tulowitzki, who felt the ejection was unwarranted.

“Obviously he’s been an umpire for a long time. He’s a good one at that.

And so I am surprised,” he added.

After giving up a run to Kansas City in the first inning, Toronto sent eight men to the plate in the second and nine in the third to build a 9-2 lead.

Goins, who had driven in two earlier runs, made it an even 10 with a solo shot in the fifth after the Royals added two of their own.

Birthday boy Jose Bautista, who turned 35, made it 11-4 with an RBI single in the eighth. The Royals added two runs on three hits and a sacrifice fly in the ninth off Liam Hendriks, forcing Gibbons to bring in closer Roberto Osuna.

Kendrys Morales then hit a two-run homer to make it interesting.

For Goins, it was an evening of redemption after a fielding blunder that

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Troy Tulowitzki hits a three-run homer off Kansas City Royals’ starting pitcher Johnny Cueto (47) during third inning game three ALCS playoff baseball action in Toronto on Monday. opened the door to the Royals winning rally in Game 2 Saturday. He did damage with the bat and showed off his silky fielding skills.

For Tulowitzki, who is still feeling the effects of a late-season shoulder injury, it was a second straight successful outing at the plate after a playoff slump.

For Cueto, it was simply a night to forget. He was pulled after giving up four runs in the third when he failed to get out the five hitters he faced. He retired just six of the 17 batters he faced.

“They just beat me today,” he said through an interpreter.

“I felt great in the bullpen, my pitches were down, I felt great. When I got into the game, God only knows,” he added.

Cueto gave up eight runs on six hits with four walks, one hit batsman and two strikeouts in two innings. He threw 69 pitches, of which only 39 were strikes.

In going down in flames, Cueto set a Royals record for runs allowed in a post-season game. And he became the first pitcher in post-season history to allow at least eight earned runs and 11 base-runners in two or fewer innings pitched, according to ESPN Stats.

“He couldn’t command the ball down. He was up all night long,” said Royals manger Ned Yost. “Just really struggled with his command. Got his pitch count up and just couldn’t make an adjustment.

Pair of Rebels named to WHL team for Canada/Russia series

BY ADVOCATE STAFF The Red Deer Rebels will be represented by defenceman Haydn Fleury and forward Conner Bleackley in the 2015 Canadian Hockey League Canada/Russia series.

The Rebels players were named to Team WHL for the first two games of the cross-Canada series — Nov. 9 in Kelowna and the following evening in Kamloops. The OHL will host the third and fourth games of the series and the fifth and sixth contests will be hosted by the QMJHL. The Brandon Wheat Kings had four players — forwards Jayce Hawryluk, Nolan Patrick and John Quenneville, and defenceman Kale Clague — named to the WHL squad.

The other forwards to see action for Team WHL are Matthew Barzal and Ryan Gropp of the Seattle Thunderbirds, Rourke Chartier and Nick Merkley of the Kelowna Rockets, Jansen Harkins of the Prince George Cougars, Brayden Point of the Moose Jaw Warriors, Jake DeBrusk of the Swift Current Broncos and Brett Pollock of the Edmonton Oil Kings.

The goaltenders are Moose Jaw’s Zach Sawchenko and Carter Hart of the Everett Silvertips, while the remainder of the defensive corps consists of Everett’s Noah Juulsen, Travis Sanheim of the Calgary Hitmen, Brendan Guhle of the Prince Albert Raiders and Joe Hicketts of the Victoria Royals.

Team WHL will be coached by Royals bench boss Dave Lowry, who will also serve as head coach of Team Canada in the world junior championship Dec. 26-Jan. 4 at Helsinki, Finland.

Assisting Lowry with Team WHL will be Kelly McCrimmon of the Wheat Kings and Don Hay of the Kamloops Blazers. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

The crowd rode the Dominican right-hander throughout his time in the game and kept it up after he left, chanting: “We Want Cueto.”

Cueto was coming off a dominant performance in Game 5 of the ALDS when he retired 19 Astros in a row en route to a 7-2 win. But the Jays worked him Monday, forcing him to throw 50 pitches in the first two innings. And they got to him in the second, scoring three runs to match their total of the first two games.

It got worse in a six-run third, which matched the team record for runs in a single-inning in the post-season. Tulowitzki — with a three-run shot — and Donaldson — with a two-run 458-foot blast —homered as the Jays, who led the majors with 232 home runs during the regular season, found the fence for the first time in the series.

Starter Marcus Stroman pitched 6 1/3 innings in a bend-but-don’t-break performance, giving up four runs on 11 hits with one walk and one strikeout.

“It was a battle all day. It was tough,” he said of his first pot-season win.

“I definitely didn’t have my best command. I felt like I was getting into advantage counts and my off speed, I wasn’t able to put them away, I was leaving some off speed up in the zone.

Aaron Sanchez, Mark Lowe, Hendriks and Osuna pitched the rest of the way.

Jays knuckleballer R.A. Dickey fac-

es Chris Young in Game 4 on Tuesday.

“We’re going to have to come out tomorrow and play just as good if not better because you see the quality of team they have over there,” said Donaldson. “They don’t stop until the 27th out. They’re tough.”

Yost took solace from reliever Kris Medlen’s five-inning outing, which allowed him to rest other key bullpen members for the coming games.

“Now we’ve got two more games here, we can go ahead and pour the coals on them,” Yost said.

The Jays, who rallied from an 0-2 hole to down Texas in the ALDS, are trying to become just the third team to overcome multiple 0-2 deficits in a single post-season, according to Elias Sports. The Dodgers (1981) and Royals (1985 when they trailed the Blue Jays in the ALCS) both did it.

Toronto is the 26th team in LCS history to fall behind 0-2 since the advent of the best-of-seven format in 1985. The Cubs became the 27th team when they were beaten by the Mets on Sunday night.

Only three of those teams recovered to make it to the World Series — the 1985 Royals (who trailed the Jays), 1985 Cardinals and 2004 Red Sox. All three lost the first two games on the road.

With three homers in these playoffs, Donaldson is tied with Paul Molitor, Joe Carter and Candy Maldonado for most by a Blue Jay in a single post-season

O’Connell uses body shots to make quick work of Toth prove where I’m at.

“We did what we wanted to do.”

O’Connell plans to face his next opponent Dec. 4 Cam O’Connell took his coach’s advice to heart at the Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton. Who and landed a blow to a vital that opponent will be won’t be organ of his opponent Friday determined for some time. night at the Genesis Centre in “By the looks of things, even Calgary. if we started booking (an oppo“We were working upnent) now we’d be changing,” stairs. I was hitting him hard he said. with headshots and then he The Red Deer fighter is all lifted his hands and my coach about staying busy. yelled ‘body shots’,” the Red “If another fight comes up Deer boxer said Monday, three before Dec. 4, I’m sure we’ll days after scoring a technical take it,” he said. knockout win over Csaba Toth For now, though, he’s lookof Hungary on the undercard ing at early December, which of the Nekada Premier Fight means he’ll be back in the gym Night event. as early as Wednesday.

“I ripped a left hook to the “I just got a text from my liver and that’s what took him coach, Roman Rzepkowski. He out.” said we’re just seven weeks And just like that, the lightout so we have to start getting weight fight was over, a mere ready,” said O’Connell. one minute and 50 seconds inEarlier on the card, welterweight Brian Samuel of Red to the first round. How tired Deer evened his record at 1-1-0 and unmarked was O’Connell after recording a unanimous following the victory that improved his unbeaten record to Cam O’Connell scored another victory with decision victory over Brett 9-0-1? a TKO in the first round of his fight against Enns of Calgary (2-2-0).

It was a satisfying win for “I was back to work on SaturCsaba Toth in Calgary, Friday.

Samuel, who lost his pro debut day,” he said. to Michael Affainie of MissisDespite the early finish, O’Connell insisted Toth, whose record fell to 14-27-1, sauga, Ont., May 29 in Calgary.

“I was very proud of him,” said O’Connell. “In his was a worthy opponent.

“He’s a tough competitor,” said O’Connell. “No- first fight he got beat pretty bad (second-round TKO) body else in Canada had stopped him, so my job was but he stepped up to the plate this time.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com to beat him easier than anyone else in Canada just to

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Giants fall prey to Eagles’ defence

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Eagles 27 Giants 7 PHILADELPHIA — A tenacious defence bailed out Sam Bradford and made Eli Manning miserable.

DeMarco Murray ran for 109 yards and a touchdown, Nolan Carroll returned one of Manning’s two interceptions for a score and the Philadelphia Eagles beat the New York Giants 27-7 Monday night.

The Eagles had three takeaways, sacked Manning three times and forced two intentional grounding penalties.

“All the credit goes to them,” Bradford said of Philadelphia’s defence.

“It seemed like every time we needed a stop or a big play, they created a lot of turnovers tonight. That always gives us a lot of momentum and always gives us juice.”

Bradford threw for 280 yards with a 32-yard TD pass to Riley Cooper, but had three interceptions to keep New York in the game. The Giants got zero points off the turnovers.

“We were stagnant,” Giants coach Tom Coughlin said. “They did more with their opportunities than we did.”

The Eagles (3-3) have won two straight to move from last place in the NFC East into a tie for first with the Giants (3-3). The teams meet again in Week 17.

Neither team looked sharp in front of a prime-time audience. They combined for seven turnovers and 21 pen-

alties.

“That’s bad football,” Coughlin said.

The Giants gave the Eagles first downs on a roughing-the-passer penalty and a running-into-the-kicker penalty to keep both of their TD drives going.

Wearing all-black uniforms for the third time in franchise history, the Eagles got off to another slow start.

Manning completed his first 10 passes, including a 13-yard TD pass to Odell Beckham Jr. for a 7-0 lead.

But things went downhill for Manning from there.

The Eagles took a 14-7 lead in the second quarter when Carroll jumped in front of a pass intended for Dwayne Harris and ran it back untouched for his first career TD. “Terrible read by me, bad decision to make that throw,” Manning said. “I should have gone to my next guys in my progression.”

After Nikita Whitlock ran into punter Donnie Jones to give Philadelphia a first down at its 28, Murray took over.

He had two runs of 11 yards each and finished off the drive with a 12-yard TD run to give Philadelphia a 24-7 lead in the third quarter.

Murray had his best game since joining the Eagles after a record-breaking season in Dallas. The All-Pro led the NFL in rushing last year and broke Emmitt Smith’s single-season club record, but has struggled in Philadelphia. He entered the game with 130 yards this season.

“We know we have a long way to

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New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning, top, is sacked by Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Vinny Curry during the first half of an NFL game Monday, in Philadelphia. go,” Murray said.

The Eagles were 1-3 before a 39-17 win over the New Orleans Saints at home last week. They’ll travel to play unbeaten Carolina (5-0) next Sunday night.

The Giants had won three in a row.

They’ll host Dallas (2-3) next week.

Daniel Norris played with cancerous growth in 2015

Bradford had a pair of third-quarter interceptions on poor throws, including one that Landon Collins picked in the end zone.

But Philadelphia’s defence bailed him out.

“We need to improve on offence,” coach Chip Kelly said.

NLCS

Cubs looking for ‘several 1-game winning streaks’ heading into Game 3 against deGrom, Mets

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DETROIT — Tigers pitcher Daniel Norris says baseball kept him sane after a jarring medical diagnosis.

The Detroit left-hander announced in a message on Twitter and Instagram on Monday that he kept playing last season after finding out he had a cancerous growth on his thyroid. The 22-year-old Norris said the growth was deemed malignant but he was told by a doctor that he could wait until the end of the season to have it removed.

“I was given the option to shut my year down & get it removed immediately,” Norris posted.

“However, seeing another doctor that determined I could wait until the end of the season reassured my gut feeling. Just keep playing.”

Norris went 3-2 with a 3.75 ERA this year in 13 starts for Toronto and Detroit. He was traded to the Tigers in late July as the most highly regarded prospect in the deal that sent David Price to the Blue Jays.

Al Avila, who was promoted to replace Dave Dombrowski as Detroit’s general manager shortly after the trade deadline, said in a text message that the Tigers knew

CHICAGO — Kris Bryant, Kyle Schwarber and Jason Hammel played hacky sack with a baseball, and manager Joe Maddon chatted amiably with his players and staff as he made his way around Wrigley Field on Monday afternoon.

Down 2-0 to the New York Mets in the NL Championship Series, the Chicago Cubs are sticking with what worked for them during a breakthrough season.

“We’ll come out tomorrow, we’ll be ready to play,” Maddon said. “Our guys are always ready to play.”

It might not matter if the Mets continue to pitch as well as they did in New York. Matt Harvey and Noah Syndergaard shut down Chicago’s powerful lineup in the first two games of the series, putting New York in an ideal position to make it to the World Series for the first time in 15 years — a quaint little drought compared to the Cubs’ seven mostly empty decades since they last played in the Fall Classic.

According to STATS, the winner of the first two games of a best-of-seven series in the baseball playoffs has advanced 83 per cent (63 of 76) of the time, and the Mets have Jacob deGrom heading to the mound for Game 3 on Tuesday night.

“We have a lot of confidence,” manager Terry Collins said. “Any night that he pitches, we’ve got a good chance to win.”

DeGrom is coming off a pair of impressive victories in the NL Division Series, albeit for different reasons.

The 27-year-old was dominant in Game 1 at Los Angeles, striking out 13 while pitching seven scoreless innings in New York’s 3-1 win. Then he came back for Game 5 and worked six effective innings despite not having his best stuff.

about Norris’ condition when they acquired him and expect him to recover in full.

“It’s time to get this thing out,” Norris said in his social media post. “So please keep me in your thoughts & prayers as I undergo surgery & come out 100% cancer free!”

Norris said he found out about the growth a few months ago, after he was optioned to Triple-A. He said it was alarming to hear the

growth was malignant, but he kept playing.

“Baseball kept me sane,” he said.

“Regardless of the results on the field, I forgot about it when I was between the lines. … I was just trying to get the heck out of AAA. … I was revived with an opportunity, a blessing from God, with the Tigers.”

Norris made eight starts down the stretch for the Tigers.

Blue Jays rediscover their swagger in Game 3, played like themselves THEY POUNDED THE BALL TO PLACES THE ROYALS COULDN’T CHASE IT DOWN UNLESS THEY BOUGHT A TICKET John Gibbons charted the course before the fes- said Donaldson. “And we were able to go get that big tivities, before the blowout, before the whole thing hit for us, and I’ve always said the run is the hardest turned into a party for one side, and not the other. at playoff time.

“For us, personally, we need to score anyway,” “And we’re going to have to come out tomorrow said the Toronto Blue Jays manager. “That’s kind of and play just as good if not better, because you see who we are.” the quality of team they have over there. They don’t The Kansas City Royals won the first two games stop until the 27th out. They’re tough.” of this series with pitching and scrapping and magThis is what the Jays are facing. They are facing ic, and they made the Jays look small and cold. And a team whose starting pitcher in Game 1, Edinson then they came to Toronto, and the Jays came heavy. Volquez, junked the plan to throw inside because No matter what, one of these teams is going to be he, in his words, “felt sexy,” and decided to throw a hard to bury. Grab your shovel, but be ready to fight. pile of the best pitches of his life to the outer half of And that’s as it should be. In Game the plate instead. They are facing a team 3 the Jays played like themselves, like that starts a human hashtag named Alcides their best selves. They pounded the ball Escobar at leadoff even though it doesn’t to places the Royals couldn’t chase it make any sense, that strings together hits, down unless they bought a ticket. They that chases down what you hit like Rafael talked about how they needed an early Nadal in his prime, and forces you to hit it lead, before Kansas City’s near-death better, hit it again. The Royals are baseball bullpen got one. They talked about in its weirdly mystical sense, all in all. breaking out.

The Jays are baseball with a club, and Hey, welcome home. Troy Tulowitzki, a bigger club, and after leaving 18 men on who was waving at balls early in Game base in the first two games of this series, 2, hit a three-run home run to centre, they were due for something like this. They 411 feet. Josh Donaldson, with one hit in needed this because going down 0-3 would his last three games, sent a two-run hoBRUCE be something close to the end, and because mer to left centre, 400 feet. Ryan Goins, ARTHUR they needed a big enough lead that the Roywho looked eviscerated as he answered als couldn’t come back. They got it. question after question about his biOTHER SIDE The Jays came back to a changed city. zarre Game 2 gaffe, added a solo shot They didn’t let the plebes in the 500s buy to right centre, 392 feet. He had a nice tall boys they could throw, but they could have, benight, Goins. He deserved that. cause nobody was throwing anything on this night.

“That’s what we do,” said Gibbons.

But two of those homers may not have gone out in Someone brought a sign that said ‘We’re Not In the cold air of Kauffman Stadium, with its 410-foot Kansas Anymore,’ which must have been funny to centre field fence, to 400 in Toronto. In Toronto, they the people of Kansas City, Missouri. It turned into a go. It was almost enough to make you wonder about party, and it never really stopped.

If the Toronto Blue Jays do lose this series, they the end of the regular season, and the failure to secan blame the weather in Baltimore, the beer and cure four games here, rather than the middle three.

But in the meantime, they needed it all to win the champagne, Osuna’s second blown save, and this game. The Jays needed to pack it on, to keep themselves. If it comes to that, then maybe they will running, to keep swinging. They needed to push the rue the final few days of the season, and wish they lead to 9-2, 10-4, 11-4. Because in the ninth the Royals had four possible games in this giant concrete pinstarted stringing together hits, and the Jays were ball machine, and look back with regret.

But that’s not on the menu yet, and may never be. forced to go to closer Roberto Osuna, who may have a cracked nail or a blister on his throwing hand, and Right now, the Jays are back. They’re not in Kansas anymore, but then, they never were. therefore no slider, according to ESPN Deportes Bruce Arthur is a sports columnist for the Toronto But they held, because four ninth-inning runs wasn’t enough. They won 11-8, because they had a Star. He was named the 2012 sportswriter of the year by cushion. These are the Toronto Blue Jays. Series Sports Media Canada, and he has been named to Sports Illustrated’s list of the top 100 people to follow on Twitain’t over.

“I felt like we had great at-bats the entire night,” ter four times.

JUNIOR B HOCKEY Bryce Boguski and Andrew McLennan each tallied twice in a losing cause as the host Blackfalds Wranglers dropped a 7-6 shootout decision to the Coaldale Copperheads in Heritage Junior Hockey League action Sunday.

Dylan Scheunert and Jaye Sutherland also scored for the Wranglers, who led 4-0 after one period and were up 6-2 in the third before the visitors mounted a four-goal comeback.

Nicolas Herrebrugh started in the Blackfalds net and stopped 17 of 23 shots before being replaced by Klay Munro, who blocked all three he faced.

Meanwhile, the Ponoka Stampeders lost 6-1 to the visiting Okotoks Bisons, their lone goal coming off the stick of Kacey Straub. Zeke Leuck made 24 saves for Ponoka, outshot 30-26.

In another Sunday outing, the Red Deer Vipers posted a 4-2 win over the host Strathmore Wheatland Kings despite being outshot 38-31. Further details were unavailable.

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Detroit Tigers pitcher Daniel Norris throws during a baseball game Sept. 29, 2015, in Arlington, Texas. Norris says he kept pitching last season after finding out he had a cancerous growth on his thyroid.

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Opening up about abuse FORMER NHL PLAYER O’SULLIVAN OPENS UP ABOUT YEARS OF ABUSE AT HANDS OF FATHER IN NEW BOOK week, O’Sullivan describes the years of abuse, and the frustration with those who turned a blind eye.

TORONTO — Patrick O’Sullivan has He recounts, in gag-inducing detail, a strong aversion to baked beans. The a dinner of Spam and baked beans his smell of freshly-cut grass can send him dad John — nicknamed “Crazy John” into an emotional tailspin. over the course of his failed hockey And even when he played in the Na- career — served him. When O’Sullivan tional Hockey League, and the days of vomited up the meal, his dad forced being beaten by his dad were behind him to eat it. The horrific cycle repeathim, he still instinctively scanned the ed several times. O’Sullivan was eight crowd for his face in the arena every at the time. night.

There were nights he was locked The 30-year-old O’Sullivan seemed outside until morning. He was forced destined for hockey greatness, but it to run, weighed down by his sweaty all went horribly wrong at the hands of equipment, behind his dad’s van afhis father. ter games. He was woken up in the In “Breaking Away: A Harrowing night to do “pushups until my arms True Story of Resilience, Courage and gave out…situps until my stomach Triumph,” O’Sullivan writes in un- cramped.” flinching detail about a childhood of “When I came off the ice after pracphysical abuse and emotional cruelty. tice or a game, I never knew exactly His hope is that people start talking what was next, but I knew it was going about what happens in some homes af- to be bad,” O’Sullivan writes. ter the lights of the arena of turned off.

“I’d be looking at an hour or two or “I think it’s a story that is far too more of my father’s conditioning procommon — maybe not as extreme as gram, running the steps in the arena mine — but there’s a lot of people, par- stands like a hamster on a treadmill or ents or even coaches that think they’re chasing after the van for two or three going to be the difference-maker in miles. If he didn’t think that was toughtheir kid making it, whether it sports ening me up, he’d slap me around. Evor music or whatever,” O’Sullivan said. ery year he was ramping it up: slap in “You do a lot more harm than you do the face when I was eight a slap with good. more force and a kick in the ass when “It’s important because the subject I was nine a punch when I was 10 a big involved is kids, right hook on my and they don’t have “THERE’S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT jaw and a kick a voice of their own, in the gut or ribs they can’t change DON’T EVEN KNOW IT GOES ON, until I was gasptheir circumstanc- IT’S A VERY PRIVATE THING, ‘IT’S ing when I was es, someone needs twelve NOT MY BUSINESS ANYWAYS.’ A eleven, to do that for them. and thirteen.”

“There’s a lot of LOT OF PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO O’Sullivan people that don’t was born in Toeven know it goes KNOW BECAUSE IT PUTS THEM ronto but grew on, it’s a very prilargely in the IN A TOUGH SPOT. THEY THINK up vate thing, ‘it’s not U.S. He was almy business any- THEY SAW SOMETHING, THEY’RE ready living the ways.’ A lot of peo- NOT SURE, THEY DON’T WANT TO life of a hockey ple don’t want to drifter, he said, know because it KNOW ANYMORE. THAT’S GOT TO by age nine, movputs them in a tough ing towns and CHANGE.” spot. They think teams each seathey saw something, PATRICK O’SULLIVAN ON THE son as his dad they’re not sure, IMPORTANCE OF GETTING HIS STORY OUT wore out one welthey don’t want come after anothto know anymore. er.

That’s got to change.”

Fearing for his life one night at age O’Sullivan had a ton of promise. He 16, O’Sullivan fought back. He evenwas the OHL and CHL rookie of the tually got a restraining order, and year in 2002, and the AHL’s top rookie when he attended the 2003 NHL draft in 2005. He remains the all-time lead- — which saw him freefall from a proer in games, goals, assists and points jected top-five talent way down to 56th for the Mississauga/Niagara IceDogs overall — he was flanked by two secufranchise. He played 334 NHL games rity guards. over eights seasons with Los Angeles, O’Sullivan said he’ll carry the emoEdmonton, Carolina, Minnesota and tional scars forever. Sitting in a coffee Phoenix. He played in three world ju- shop in a posh Toronto hotel, he fidgetnior championships, scoring the win- ed in his seat. He said he has trouble ning goal to lift the United States over sitting still. There are certain triggers, Canada for gold in 2004. like the smell of freshly-cut grass. He But away from the spotlight he lived was regularly beaten after cutting the a nightmare. In “Breaking Away,” writ- lawn if his job was not up to his dad’s ten with Gare Joyce and released this impossible standards.

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Patrick O’Sullivan skates during a practice with the Edmonton Oilers, Nov.10, 2009. In ‘Breaking Away: A Harrowing True Story of Resilience, Courage and Triumph,’ O’Sullivan writes in unflinching detail about a childhood of physical abuse and emotional cruelty. His hope is that people start talking about what happens in some homes after the lights of the arena of turned off.

“A lot of things around the game of hockey too, certain smells at the arena, stuff like that,” he said.

“If you push a kid really hard, and then they decide to stop playing, I think a lot of people think it’s over then, but it’s a life-long thing, and it’s day to day. For me, each day, things happen and now I’m at the point where I can recognize the triggers. Kids that are abused, it doesn’t go away when they become adults.

“It’s the worst thing you can do for a kid. As somebody who has kids myself, I can’t wrap my head around it at all, it’s the thing I struggle most with. It’s the decision, for the adult to think ‘This is the answer, this is what I should do.”’

O’Sullivan said he’s proud of his hockey career. He still loves the game, and enjoys watching his friends play.

“Hockey was the one thing that always got me through,” he said. “And hockey has always been love-hate for

me. It was what I love the most, but it was also the most direct thing that caused me the most pain and suffering and difficulties in my life.”

He’s teaching his two sons — Nathan is two and Henry, four — to skate, but would be happy if they never played hockey because it’s a “ruthless business.”

After spending the better part of a year writing his book, O’Sullivan, who lives in Naples, Fla., with his wife Sophie and two sons, is turning his attention to his future. He’s not sure what it holds, but speaking about this topic will almost assuredly be part of it.

“I’m just starting to feel like I’m getting my life back from the game of hockey,” he said. “Taking control of my own happiness, that’s the biggest thing.

Hockey doesn’t define me, and I didn’t realize that for most of my life because it was all I knew. It’s kind of like a new beginning for me and what I want to do next.”

Referee wrong to award penalty at RWC WORLD RUGBY SAYS LATE CALL WAS WRONG IN QUARTERFINAL MATCH THAT HAS SCOTLAND UP IN ARMS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — Craig Joubert has drawn the ire of Scotland, where they’re screaming dark blue murder over his contentious late penalty call that cost their team a Rugby World Cup quarterfinal victory against Australia before he ran from the field at Twickenham.

Ex-Scotland captain Gavin Hastings said the South African referee’s hasty exit from the field after Australia’s last-minute, 35-34 win on Sunday was “one of the worst things I have seen on a rugby field.” On the BBC, he accused Joubert of not wanting to face the Scottish players in the wake of the decision, which World Rugby on Monday said was incorrectly awarded.

He demanded Joubert be “sent home” and not be allowed to officiate in another test.

Former England scrumhalf Matt Dawson condemned Joubert’s quick departure as a “disgrace.” In a Twitter post that was retweeted thousands of times, Dawson said: “How dare you sprint off the pitch after that decision!!”

Australia coach Michael Cheika defended Joubert on Monday, saying his speedy exit was likely because a bottle was thrown onto the pitch.

“Someone threw a bottle at him, didn’t they? I’d be racing off, too, if I saw a bottle coming,” said Cheika, who has been sanctioned in the past for criticizing match officials. “I don’t think anything of him going off quickly.

“I don’t like the way that people are making something out of the way he ran off the field.”

Joubert was harshly criticized for awarding the penalty for a Scottish offside infringement following a lineout in their own half in the 78th minute, when the ball was tapped loose and ricocheted forward from one man in a dark-blue jersey to another, Jon Welsh. In the process, the ball came into contact with Australia replacement scrumhalf Nick Phipps, but Joubert didn’t see that from his angle and made the call based on instinct.

He couldn’t ask for a review from the Television Match Official, because referrals can only be sought when awarding a try or assessing acts of foul

Argentina hoping to have captain Creevy fit for semifinal v Australia

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South African referee Craig Joubert, right, points as he makes a decision beside Scotland’s captain Greig Laidlaw, left, Blair Cowan, center, and Australia’s Michael Hooper, center right, during the Rugby World Cup quarterfinal match between Australia and Scotland at Twickenham Stadium in London, Sunday. play.

Following a review of the match officials’ performance, World Rugby Welsh had actually been played onside because the ball was touched by Phipps, and that the call should have been a scrum to Australia.

“It is important to clarify that the referee could not refer to the TMO in this case and, therefore, had to rely on what he saw in real time,” Joel Jutge, World Rugby’s high performance manager for match officials, said. “Despite this experience, Craig has been and remains a world-class referee and an important member of our team.”

Given the Wallabies had scored five tries — and had one disallowed by the TMO after a referral by Joubert — and were within range to attempt a dropped goal, there’s no saying the Scots would have won.

It was two opportunistic tries, including Mark Bennett’s intercept in the 74th minute, and accurate goalkicking from captain Greig Laidlaw that gave the Scots the chance at an against-all-odds victory with five minutes remaining.

Australia’s win ensured that, for the first time, all of the Rugby World Cup semifinalists came from one hemisphere — the south. Australia will play Argentina, and defending champion New Zealand will play South Africa.

The All Blacks trounced France by a record margin, Argentina beat Six Nations champion Ireland 43-20 and South Africa scored a late try to beat Wales. Those wins came before the Australians played Scotland, which was given almost no chance of ending the southern hemisphere streak but got the closest to it.

Scotland coach Vern Cotter said he needed to review the game before commenting on the calls, but said he thought a TMO decision on a yellow card for his winger, Sean Maitland, in the second half was 50-50. Laidlaw said he believed the last penalty was wrongly awarded, and thought the referee may have had the same feeling when he watched a replay on the big screen as Bernard Foley was lining up Australia’s winning kick.

World Rugby chief executive Brett Gosper, an Australian, said he didn’t

Argentina captain Agustin Creevy is set to undergo tests on his injured leg ahead of the Rugby World Cup semifinal against Australia on Sunday, when his experience and technique in the scrum could be crucial for the Pumas’ chances of reaching the final for the first time.

“We’re very hopeful that Agus will be able to start,” backup hooker Julian Montoya said Monday, without elaborating on Creevy’s injury.

“He’s the captain, he’s an excellent player, an excellent person, so he’s very influential.”

The 21-year-old Montoya has 14 test caps and has come off the bench four times during the World Cup, including the last 25 minutes of the 43-20 quarterfinal win over Ireland on Sunday.

The scrum will be a key focal point of the semifinal, with the Australian pack making big gains in the set-piece under the tutelage of former Pumas hooker Mario Ledesma, who played in four World Cups including Argentina’s run to the 2007 semifinals.

The Australian scrum got the better of the English and Welsh packs in the group stage, but struggled at times against Scotland and conceded some important penalties in the quarterfinals. know why Joubert left the field so quickly, but backed the referee’s integrity.

Cheika said he has been stunned by the backlash, adding that nobody questioned any decisions that went against his team.

“I’ve been really interested to see some of the rhetoric that’s come out about officialdom over the week,” Cheika said. “Some decisions you’ll get and some decisions you won’t.

“Everything in rugby is open to interpretation because everything in rugby is a contest. That’s the great thing about rugby — it’s a contest sport.”

SCOREBOARD Local Sports Tuesday • AJHL: Camrose at Olds, 7 p.m.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Blackfalds, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday • WHL: Saskatoon at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium.

Thursday • High school football: Rocky Mountain House at Ponoka, 4 p.m.; Hunting Hills at Lacombe, 7:30 p.m., MTGlobal Athletic Park.

• Senior high volleyball: Hunting Hills at Lindsay Thurber, girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow.

• College women’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena.

Friday • World Curling Tour: Red Deer Classic at Pidherney Centre.

• Senior high volleyball: Lindsay Thurber girls/boys tournament.

• High school football: Stettler at Drayton Valley, Wetaskiwin at Sylvan Lake, 4 p.m.; Lindsay Thurber at Notre Dame, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park.

• Peewee AA hockey: West Central at Red Deer TBS, 6 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

• WHL: Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Ponoka at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.

• Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Elks at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 8 p.m., Arena.

• Chinook senior hockey: Bentley at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday • World Curling Tour: Red Deer Classic at Pidherney Centre.

• Senior high volleyball: Lindsay Thurber girls/boys tournament.

• Peewee AA hockey: Olds at Red Deer Parkland, 10:30 a.m., Kinex; West Central at Central Alberta, 2:45 p.m., Clive.

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 3, Houston 2 Thursday, Oct. 8: Houston 5, Kansas City 2 Friday, Oct. 9: Kansas City 5, Houston 4 Sunday, Oct. 11: Houston 4, Kansas City 2 Monday, Oct. 12: Kansas City 9, Houston 6 Wednesday, Oct. 14: Kansas City 7, Houston 2 Toronto 3, Texas 2 Thursday, Oct. 8: Texas 5, Toronto 3 Friday, Oct. 9: Texas 6, Toronto 4, 14 innings Sunday, Oct. 11: Toronto 5, Texas 1 Monday, Oct. 12: Toronto 8, Texas 4 Wednesday, Oct. 14: Toronto 6, Texas 3 National League Chicago 3, St. Louis 1 Friday, Oct. 9: St. Louis 4, Chicago 0 Saturday, Oct. 10: Chicago 6, St. Louis 3 Monday, Oct. 12: Chicago 8, St. Louis 6 Tuesday, Oct. 13: Chicago 6, St. Louis 4 New York 3, Los Angeles 2 Friday, Oct. 9: New York 3, Los Angeles 1 Saturday, Oct. 10: Los Angeles 5, New York 2 Monday, Oct. 12: New York 13, Los Angeles 7 Tuesday, Oct. 13: Los Angeles 3, New York 1 Thursday, Oct. 15: New York 3, Los Angeles 2

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Canucks at Red Deer North Star, 11:30 a.m., Arena.

• College soccer: Medicine Hat at RDC, women at noon, men to follow.

• Major bantam girls hockey: Calgary Rangers at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Bruins at Red Deer Strata Energy, 4:45 p.m., Arena.

• Major midget girls hockey: Calgary Fire at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

• Bantam AA hockey: Olds at Red Deer Ramada, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Bow Valley at Central Alberta, 5:45 p.m., Lacombe.

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

• Chinook senior hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Bentley, 7 p.m.

• AJHL: Drumheller at Olds, 7 p.m.

• Midget AA hockey: Calgary Gold at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 7:30 p.m., Arena; Taber at West Central, 8 p.m., Sylvan Lake; Lethbridge at Central Alberta, 8:15 p.m., Lacombe.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Okotoks at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.; Medicine Hat at Ponoka, 8 p.m.

Sunday • World Curling Tour: Red Deer Classic at Pidherney Centre.

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Rangers at Red Deer North Star, 11:30 a.m., Arena.

• College soccer: Lethbridge at RDC, women at noon, men to follow.

• Midget AA hockey: Taber at Red Deer Elks, 2 p.m., Arena; Calgary Gold at West Central, 3:30 p.m., Caroline; Okotoks at Central Alberta, 4:30 p.m., Lacombe.

• Major midget girls hockey: Edmonton Thunder at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Ponoka, 2:30 p.m.; Banff at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m.; High River at Red Deer, 6:45 p.m., Arena.

• Peewee AA hockey: Okotoks at Red Deer TBS, 11:30 a.m., Kinsmen A; Airdrie at West Central, 2:45 p.m., Sylvan Lake.

LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (Best-of-7 x-if necessary) American League Kansas City 2, Toronto 1 Friday, Oct. 16: Kansas City 5, Toronto 0 Saturday, Oct. 17: Kansas City 6, Toronto 3 Monday, Oct. 19: Kansas City 8, Toronto 11 Tuesday, Oct. 20: Kansas City (Young 11-6) at Toronto (Dickey 11-11), 2:07 p.m. x-Wednesday, Oct. 21: Kansas City at Toronto, 2:07 p.m. x-Friday, Oct. 23: Toronto at Kansas City, 6:07 p.m. x-Saturday, Oct. 24: Toronto at Kansas City, 6:07 p.m.

National League New York 2, Chicago 0 Saturday, Oct. 17: New York 4, Chicago 2 Sunday, Oct. 18: New York 4, Chicago 1 Tuesday, Oct. 20: New York (deGrom 14-8) at Chicago (Hendricks 8-7), 6:07 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 21: New York (Matz 4-0) at Chicago (Hammel 10-7), 6:07 p.m. x-Thursday, Oct. 22: New York at Chicago, 6:07 p.m. x-Saturday, Oct. 24: Chicago at New York, 2:07 p.m. x-Sunday, Oct. 25: Chicago at New York, 6:07 p.m.

WORLD SERIES (Best-of-7) Tuesday, Oct. 27: at American Wednesday, Oct. 28: at AL Friday, Oct. 30: at National League Saturday, Oct. 31: at NL

Rugby RUGBY WORLD CUP At Sites In England and Wales QUARTER-FINALS Sunday’s results At Cardiff, Wales Argentina 43 Ireland 20 At London Australia 35 Scotland 34 Saturday’s results At London South Africa 23 Wales 19 At Cardiff, Wales New Zealand 62 France 13

At London Saturday, Oct. 24 New Zealand vs. South Africa, 9 a.m.

Sunday, Oct. 25 Argentina vs. Australia, 9 a.m.

Friday, Oct. 30 Third-place Match At London New Zealand-South Africa loser vs. Argentina-Australia loser, 1 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 31 Championship At London New Zealand-South Africa winner vs. Argentina-Australia winner, 9 a.m.

SEMIFINALS

Bowling Heritage Lanes High scores Oct. 12-18 Monday Club 55+ 1 p.m.: Geoff Gunter, 273 high single; Shirley Hocken, 657 high triple.

Monday 7 p.m. mixed: Andy Silbernagel, 270; Silvernagel, 744.

Tuesday 7 p.m. mixed: Tony Zirk, 326; Zirk, 773.

Wednesday Club 55+ 1 p.m.: Verna Patko, 262; Patko, 722.

Thursday morning ladies: Glenda Regnier, 239; Regnier, 604.

Thursday Special Olympics mixed: Jerrod Sleight, 209; Sleight, 345.

Thursday 7 p.m. mixed: Matt Desjardins, 337; Desjardins, 794.

Monday Scratch League (4 games): Stacey Miller, 349; Miller, 1,173.

Youth Bowling of Canada Bumpers: Brody Ehret, 91.

Bowlasaurus: Rogan Clark, 84.

Peewees (two games): Jonathan Holford, 122; Holford, 219.

Bantams (three games): Blake Stanley, 237; Stanley, 487.

Juniors: Kennedy Chrest, 224; Chrest, 631.

Seniors: Jason Smith 222; Smith 635.

Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League HOUSTON ASTROS — Promoted Quinton McCracken to director of player personnel, Brandon Taubman to director of baseball operations, Mike Fast to director of research and development, Allen Rowin to director of minor league operations, Bill Firkus to director of sports medicine and performance, Pete Putila to assistant director of minor league operations and Tom Koch-Weser to manager of advance scouting.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — LHP Barry Zito announced his retirement. Announced RHP Cody Martin was claimed off waivers by Seattle. Released OF Jason Pridie to allow him to play in Japan. Sent C Bryan Anderson outright to Nashville (PCL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Claimed LHP-RHP Pat Venditte off waivers from Oakland. Designated INF Darwin Barney for assignment.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Suspended New York Jets WR Quincy Enunwa four games for violating the league’s personal conduct policy.

CHICAGO BEARS — Signed CB Bryce Callahan from the practice squad. Waived S Demontre Hurst.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Claimed CB Charles James off waivers from Baltimore. Placed S Lonnie Ballen-

BASKETBALL Cameron Kusiek drained 23 points Sunday to lead Carstar to a 91-76 Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association win over the Warriors.

Murray Cunningham added 20 points for the winners. The Warriors got 19 from Braden Coteck and 15 from Chris Unsworth.

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tine on injured reserve.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed TE Brandon Williams from the practice squad. Waived S Jonathan Dowling.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Released K Zach Hocker. Signed K Kai Forbath.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Activated FB Derrick Coleman from suspension.

Arena Football League ORLANDO PREDATORS — Named Matthew Sauk offensive co-ordinator.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Reassigned D Shea Theodore to San Diego (AHL).

ARIZONA COYOTES — Placed C Joe Vitale on injured reserve. Recalled F Matthias Plachta from Springfield (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS — Reassigned LW Marek Tvrdon from Grand Rapids (AHL) to Toledo (ECHL).

American Hockey League STOCKTON HEAT — Released F Garet Hunt from his pro tryout.

ECHL BAKERSFIELD CONDORS — Announced F Andrew Miller has been recalled by Edmonton (NHL).

READING ROYALS — Signed F Riley Armstrong.

Acquired D Kevin Young from Allen for F Jonathan Parker.

In another contest, Chris Karambamuchero netted 30 points as the Chillibongs Orangemen edged the Grandview Allstars 96-94. Rick Feser scored 16 in a losing cause.

Meanwhile, Lacombe All Sports Cresting, with Jeremy Purviance scoring 17 points, squeaked past the Kingsmen 84-83. James Wixwat hooped 11 points for the winners and Cole Foster scored 14 for the Kingsmen.

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF Prince Albert 11 8 2 0 1 44 Brandon 9 6 1 0 2 46 Moose Jaw 9 6 1 1 1 39 Regina 10 5 5 0 0 30 Saskatoon 8 3 2 3 0 32 Swift Current 10 4 5 1 0 30

GA 38 18 24 37 32 32

Pt 17 14 14 10 9 9

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF 11 7 4 0 0 41 10 6 3 0 1 29 8 6 2 0 0 39 9 4 4 1 0 32 10 3 6 1 0 26 11 2 9 0 0 21

GA 34 33 22 37 36 48

Pt 14 13 12 9 7 4

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF Victoria 10 7 3 0 0 33 Kelowna 11 7 4 0 0 45 Vancouver 10 4 4 1 1 37 Prince George 7 3 4 0 0 17 Kamloops 9 2 7 0 0 23

GA 21 41 46 19 36

Pt 14 14 10 6 4

Red Deer Calgary Lethbridge Medicine Hat Edmonton Kootenay

Seattle Tri-City Everett Spokane Portland

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF 7 5 1 1 0 28 9 4 4 1 0 31 6 4 2 0 0 17 9 3 5 1 0 25 8 2 6 0 0 21

GA Pt 18 11 33 9 17 8 39 7 25 4

Sunday’s results Calgary 5 Regina 1 Tuesday’s games Saskatoon at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Regina at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Saskatoon at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Brandon at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

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

Friday, October 23 Saskatoon at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

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

Victoria at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

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

Seattle at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Portland at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Red Deer Rebels Scoring GP 11 11 7 11 11 9 11 11 11 11 11 11 9 9 11 11 11 2 1 5 5 9 11

Nikolishin Spacek Fleury Hagel Bobyk Bleackley Kopeck Pawlenchuk Polei Pederson Musil W.Johnson Nogier Pratt de Wit Doetzel Strand Mahura Pouliot R.Johnson Martin Toth Shmoorkoff Goaltenders

G 7 6 3 2 4 1 1 5 4 3 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

A 10 11 5 6 3 5 5 0 1 2 4 3 3 1 1 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0

Pts 17 17 8 8 7 6 6 5 5 5 5 4 3 2 2 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0

MP 166 493

Martin Toth

PIM 0 0 10 0 14 4 4 4 20 6 11 7 4 2 6 14 15 0 0 2 0 0 4

+/5 4 3 4 -5 4 -2 0 2 3 2 -1 3 1 2 4 2 1 0 0 — — 5

GA 8 25

SO 0 0

GAA 2.90 3.04

Sv% .901 .888

WHL Scoring Leaders G 9 9 9 3 8 7 6 12 5 412 8 3 7 6 9 7 6 6 6 5 5 5 2 1 5 5 5 4 4 4 3 6 4 4 3 1 7 6 5 4 4 3 3 3 2 0

Tyson Baillie, Kel Reid Gardiner, P.A. Brayden Point, MJ Brayden Burke, Let Jayce Hawryluk, Bra Ivan Nikolishin, RD Michael Spacek, RD Tyler Wong, Let Dryden Hunt, MJ Simon Stransky, P.A. Jonathon Martin, SC Travis Sanheim, CAL Jake Bean, CAL Nikita Popugaev, MJ Reid Duke, Bra Adam Brooks, Reg Dillon Dube, Kel Cameron Hebig, Sas Austin Glover, P.A. Josh Morrissey, MH Radel Fazleev, CAL Macoy Erkamps, Bra Giorgio Estephan, Let Ivan Provorov, Bra John Quenneville, Bra Carter Popoff, Van Keegan Kolesar, Sea Parker Bowles, TC Cole Sanford, MH Luke Philp, Koo Nolan Patrick, Bra Tomas Soustal, Kel Jake Debrusk, SC Noah Gregor, MJ Connor Gay, Sas Devante Stephens, Spo Ty Ronning, Van Lane Bauer, Edm Jason Fram, Spo Andrew Nielsen, Let Jordan Tkatch, P.A. Brett Pollock, Edm Jesse Lees, P.A. Sam Steel, Reg Parker Wotherspoon, TC Joe Hicketts, Vic

A 10 10 9 15 9 10 11 4 11 16 7 12 7 8 4 6 7 7 7 8 8 8 11 12 7 7 7 8 8 8 9 5 7 7 8 10 3 4 5 6 6 7 7 7 8 10

Pts 19 19 18 18 17 17 17 16 16 15 15 14 14 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 11 11 11 11 11 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Montreal 6 6 0 0 12 Tampa Bay 6 4 2 0 8 Ottawa 6 3 2 1 7 Florida 5 3 2 0 6 Detroit 5 3 2 0 6 Boston 5 2 3 0 4 Toronto 5 1 3 1 3 Buffalo 5 1 4 0 2

GF GA 20 7 19 15 19 17 16 9 15 13 18 21 12 17 9 14

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

GF GA 18 15 17 15 13 10 7 10 7 9 8 14 11 17 13 30

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts St. Louis 6 5 1 0 10 Dallas 5 4 1 0 8 Nashville 5 4 1 0 8 Winnipeg 6 4 2 0 8 Minnesota 5 3 1 1 7 Chicago 6 3 3 0 6 Colorado 5 2 3 0 4

GF GA 21 14 19 13 14 9 20 13 14 15 14 14 16 16

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts 6 4 2 0 8 6 3 1 2 8

GF GA 17 12 16 11

San Jose Vancouver

Arizona 5 3 2 0 6 16 11 Los Angeles 5 2 3 0 4 6 14 Edmonton 6 2 4 0 4 12 16 Anaheim 5 1 3 1 3 5 12 Calgary 5 1 4 0 2 10 19 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Sunday’s Games New Jersey 2, N.Y. Rangers 1, OT St. Louis 4, Winnipeg 2 Anaheim 4, Minnesota 1 Edmonton 2, Vancouver 1, OT Los Angeles 2, Colorado 1 Monday’s Games N.Y. Rangers 4, San Jose 0 Tuesday’s Games Arizona at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Florida at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

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

Dallas at Philadelphia, 5:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Washington at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Toronto at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Boston, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Carolina at Colorado, 8 p.m.

NHL Scoring Leaders Vladimir Tarasenko, StL David Krejci, Bos Henrik Zetterberg, Det Jamie Benn, Dal Kyle Turris, Ott John Tavares, NYI Tyler Seguin, Dal Blake Wheeler, Wpg Mark Stone, Ott Erik Karlsson, Ott Zach Parise, Minn Jaromir Jagr, Fla Jason Spezza, Dal Patrick Kane, Chi Mike Hoffman, Ott Alex Steen, StL Artemi Panarin, Chi Martin Hanzal, Ari Anthony Duclair, Ari Gabriel Landeskog, Col Max Pacioretty, Mtl Max Domi, Ari Aleksander Barkov, Fla Nathan MacKinnon, Col Dylan Larkin, Det Jori Lehtera, StL Troy Brouwer, StL Kyle Okposo, NYI Ryan Johansen, Clb Jonathan Drouin, TB Ales Hemsky, Dal Torey Krug, Bos Tomas Plekanec, Mtl Justin Abdelkader, Det Steven Stamkos, TB Oscar Lindberg, NYR Tobias Rieder, Ari Connor McDavid, Edm Bryan Little, Wpg Patrice Bergeron, Bos Joe Thornton, SJ Joe Pavelski, SJ Brandon Sutter, Vcr John Carlson, Wash Roman Josi, Nash Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy Mika Zibanejad, Ott David Desharnais, Mtl Brendan Gallagher, Mtl Alex Galchenyuk, Mtl Paul Stastny, StL Mathieu Perreault, Wpg Dennis Wideman, Cgy Francois Beauchemin, Col Ryan Suter, Minn

G 5 4 2 5 4 3 3 3 2 0 5 4 4 4 3 3 2 0 4 4 4 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 0 5 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0

A 4 5 7 3 4 5 5 5 6 8 2 3 3 3 4 4 5 7 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 6 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5

Pts 9 9 9 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5

Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans

0 1.000 0 .833 0 .400 0 .333

135 183 110 134

94 143 148 164

Football x-Hamilton x-Toronto x-Ottawa Montreal

GP 15 15 15 15

CFL East Division W L T 10 5 0 9 6 0 9 6 0 5 10 0

West Division GP W L T x-Edmonton 16 12 4 0 x-Calgary 16 12 4 0 B.C. 15 5 10 0 Winnipeg 16 5 11 0 Saskatchewan 15 2 13 0 x — clinched playoff berth.

PF 483 390 381 308

PA 295 427 400 330

PF 391 408 363 322 357

PA 295 320 420 454 462

Pt 20 18 18 10 Pt 24 24 10 10 4

6 6 6 6 6 6 0 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 4 0

4 2 2 2 2 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 13

0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct New England 5 0 0 1.000 N.Y. Jets 4 1 0 .800 Buffalo 3 3 0 .500 Miami 2 3 0 .400

WEEK 17 Bye: Saskatchewan Sunday’s result Hamilton 23 Montreal 11 Saturday’s results Calgary 27 Toronto 15 Edmonton 26 B.C. 23 (OT) Friday’s result Ottawa 27 Winnipeg 24 WEEK 18 Bye: Calgary Friday, Oct. 23 Montreal vs. Toronto (at Hamilton), 5 p.m.

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

Saturday, Oct. 24 Ottawa at Winnipeg, 2 p.m.

Edmonton at Saskatchewan, 5 p.m.

CFL scoring leaders (x—scored two-point convert): TD C J.Medlock, Ham 0 46 R.Paredes, Cgy 0 20 B.Bede, Mtl 0 16 R.Leone, BC 0 23 P.McCallum, Sask 0 18 C.Milo, Ott 0 28 G.Shaw, Edm 0 19 L.Hajrullahu, Wpg 0 15 S.Whyte, Edm 0 7 T.Gurley, Tor 10 0 x-Je.Johnson, Ott 9 2 K.Stafford, Edm 9 0 x-E.Rogers, Cgy 8 4 x-K.Elliott, Tor 8 2 R.Pfeffer, Ott 0 11 E.Arceneaux, BC 8 0 x-C.Marshall, Wpg 7 6 x-A.Collie, BC 7 2

x-R.Bagg, Sask x-A.Bowman, Edm x-H.Burris, Ott x-G.Ellingson, Ott x-A.Harris, BC x-K.Lawrence, Edm D.Alvarado, Ott B.Banks, Ham V.Hazleton, Tor J.Mathews, Ham T.Sinkfield, Ham T.Toliver, Ham B.Whitaker, Tor x-T.Harrison, Cgy x-M.McDaniel, Cgy J.Palardy, Tor

FG 38 37 33 27 29 25 21 22 18 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 0

S 6 7 11 11 4 1 9 10 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0

Pt 166 138 126 115 109 104 91 91 64 60 56 54 52 50 50 48 48 44

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

40 38 38 38 38 38 37 36 36 36 36 36 36 32 32 32

PF 183 129 145 103

PA 103 75 139 111

5 5 2 2

0 1 3 4

Green Bay Minnesota Chicago Detroit

W 6 3 2 1

North L 0 2 4 5

T Pct 0 1.000 0 .600 0 .333 0 .167

PF 164 96 120 120

PA 101 83 179 172

Arizona St. Louis Seattle San Francisco

W 4 2 2 2

West L 2 3 4 4

T 0 0 0 0

PF 203 84 134 100

PA 115 113 125 160

Pct .667 .400 .333 .333

Sunday’s Games Minnesota 16, Kansas City 10 Miami 38, Tennessee 10 N.Y. Jets 34, Washington 20 Pittsburgh 25, Arizona 13 Cincinnati 34, Buffalo 21 Detroit 37, Chicago 34, OT Denver 26, Cleveland 23, OT Houston 31, Jacksonville 20 Carolina 27, Seattle 23 San Francisco 25, Baltimore 20 Green Bay 27, San Diego 20 New England 34, Indianapolis 27 Open: Dallas, Oakland, St. Louis, Tampa Bay

Indianapolis Houston Tennessee Jacksonville

W 3 2 1 1

South L 3 4 4 5

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .500 .333 .200 .167

PF 126 128 112 113

PA 147 155 129 176

Cincinnati Pittsburgh Cleveland Baltimore

W 6 4 2 1

North L 0 2 4 5

T Pct 0 1.000 0 .667 0 .333 0 .167

PF 182 145 141 143

PA 122 108 158 162

Denver Oakland San Diego Kansas City

W 6 2 2 1

West L 0 3 4 5

T Pct 0 1.000 0 .400 0 .333 0 .167

PF 139 107 136 127

PA 102 124 161 159

PF 132 101 117 117

PA 109 131 103 138

Sunday, Oct. 25 Buffalo vs. Jacksonville at London, 7:30 a.m.

Atlanta at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Kansas City, 11 a.m.

Cleveland at St. Louis, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Washington, 11 a.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 11 a.m.

Houston at Miami, 11 a.m.

New Orleans at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at New England, 11 a.m.

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

Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 2:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at Carolina, 6:30 p.m.

Open: Chicago, Cincinnati, Denver, Green Bay

PF

PA

Monday, Oct. 26 Baltimore at Arizona, 6:30 p.m.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct N.Y. Giants 3 2 0 .600 Dallas 2 3 0 .400 Philadelphia 2 3 0 .400 Washington 2 4 0 .333 W

South L T

Pct

Monday’s Game N.Y. Giants 7, Philadelphia 27 Thursday, Oct. 22 Seattle at San Francisco, 6:25 p.m.

Basketball National Basketball Association Preseason EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB New York 3 1 .750 — Boston 2 1 .667 1/2 Toronto 4 2 .667 — Brooklyn 2 3 .400 1 1/2 Philadelphia 2 4 .333 2

Charlotte Atlanta Washington Orlando Miami

Indiana Detroit Chicago Milwaukee Cleveland

Southeast Division W L Pct 6 0 1.000 4 1 .800 3 1 .750 3 2 .600 3 3 .500 Central Division W L Pct 4 1 .800 2 4 .333 2 4 .333 1 3 .250 1 6 .143

GB — 1 1/2 2 2 1/2 3 GB — 2 1/2 2 1/2 2 1/2 4

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 4 0 1.000 — Houston 3 4 .429 2 1/2 New Orleans 2 3 .400 2 1/2 San Antonio 1 3 .250 3 Dallas 0 5 .000 4 1/2 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 3 1 .750 Denver 4 2 .667 Portland 3 2 .600 Utah 2 3 .400 Minnesota 1 4 .200

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

Pacific Division W L Pct 5 1 .833 2 2 .500 2 2 .500 1 3 .250 0 4 .000

Sunday’s Games Brooklyn 92, Philadelphia 91

RDC ATHLETICS

Griffiths and Dubinsky named RDC athletes of the week Golfer Kate Griffiths and volleyball player Nic Dubinsky are the RDC Boston Pizza female and male athletes of the week.

Despite playing with tendinitis in her right elbow and a sore left hand, Griffiths turned in a strong performance and finished second in the women’s division of the Canadian Colleges Athletic Conference championship at Chilliwack, B.C. Griffiths posted scores of 80-81-76 for a 237

GB — — 1/2 1 1/2 2 1/2 GB — 2 2 3 4

San Antonio 96, Detroit 92 Memphis 90, Minnesota 68 Toronto 87, Cleveland 81 Oklahoma City 111, Denver 98 Miami 101, Atlanta 92 Portland 116, Utah 111, OT Monday’s Games Charlotte 94, Chicago 86 Cleveland 103, Dallas 97 Boston 111, Brooklyn 105 Houston 120, New Orleans 100 Portland at L.A. Lakers, late Tuesday’s Games Indiana at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Minnesota vs. Milwaukee at Madison, WI, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Utah, 7 p.m.

Golden State at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games New Orleans at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Charlotte at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Memphis at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

Washington at Miami, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

total and finished six strokes behind winner Carolyn Lee of UBC Okanagan. She was named to the tournament all-star team and prior to the event received her All-Canadian award.

Dubinsky helped the Kings sweep both ends of a doubleheader with the visiting Medicine Hat Rattlers. He contributed seven kills, a block and one dig in a 3-0 win and had 19 kills, five blocks and two digs in a 3-1 victory, in which he was named RDC player of the match.

• The RDC Queens will host the SAIT Trojans in women’s hockey action Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Arena and will visit SAIT for a Saturday date.

Meanwhile, the Kings and Queens soccer squads will host Medicine Hat and Lethbridge Saturday and Sunday, with the women’s games starting at noon each day.

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File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

The Suncor Refinery in Edmonton is seen in this photo. The board of Canadian Oil Sands Ltd. is telling shareholders to reject Suncor Energy’s $4.3-billion takeover offer.

Canadian Oil Sands recommends rejection TELLS SHAREHOLDERS SUNCOR BID IS EXPLOITATIVE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The board of Canadian Oil Sands Ltd. is telling shareholders to reject Suncor Energy’s $4.3-billion takeover offer, saying it exploits inside information about an oilsands mine partly owned by both companies.

Board members have unanimously decided the hostile bid, made two weeks ago, is not in shareholders’ best interests, COS said Monday.

COS CEO Ryan Kubik said Suncor is looking to capitalize on improvements that are in the works at Syncrude — a sprawling oilsands development north of Fort McMurray — before they are reflected in his company’s share price.

“They understand the improvements already underway and want to take credit for them,” he told a conference call, which did not include a question-and-answer session.

COS is the largest owner of Syn-

crude with a 37 per cent stake — its main asset. Suncor, Canada’s dominant oilsands player, has a 12 per cent interest.

The COS (TSX:COS) board is also accusing Suncor of taking advantage of “unprecedented” turmoil — not just because of the crude downturn, but also because of political and regulatory uncertainty.

Kubik said Suncor is asking shareholders to “give them your upgrader for free,” by failing to factoring in Syncrude’s ability to process oilsands bitumen into more valuable and easier-to-refine synthetic crude.

As well, Kubik said the Suncor bid does not account for an eventual recovery in oil prices, which are less than half what they were in mid-2014 Both Kubik and COS chairman Donald Lowry took aim at recent comments by Suncor CEO Steve Williams, who said his company would be considering acquisitions at “fire sale”

prices amid the crude slump.

“Your board’s objective is to maximize value for shareholders, not to sell you out at fire sale prices,” said Lowry.

Williams said none of COS’s reasons for rejecting the bid detracts from its “compelling” value.

“Our offer reflects the new business reality and when proposed, included a substantial price premium of 43 per cent and a dividend increase of 45 per cent,” Williams said Monday in an emailed statement.

“It also represents an opportunity for investment in a financially stronger, more diversified and stable company that has considerable upside potential in a rising price environment, but can also deliver significant value should oil prices stay lower for longer.”

Suncor (TSX:SU) approached COS in the spring with an offer that was at the time worth $11.84 a share. Kubik described that offer as “barely credi-

ble” and a “takeunder” rather than a takeover.

The current all-stock bid, which has been taken directly to COS shareholders, was worth $8.84 a share when it was made on Oct. 5.

In a research note, Desjardins Capital Markets analyst Justin Bouchard said the current offer is too low, but it’s “in the ballpark.”

A 16 per cent increase in its value would be fair, he said.

“We believe the offer is opportunistic (as it should be!), but note that Suncor is the only logical buyer.”

COS has enacted a new shareholder rights plan — also known as a poison pill defence — to dissuade Suncor from buying up its target’s shares.

The COS board and its advisers are continuing to look at other options, ranging from remaining an independent company to a deal with another firm.

Energy Regulator says charges laid against Apache Canada for 2013 spill

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — An energy company with a troubled safety history is facing seven charges related to a pipeline spill that leaked roughly 1.8 million litres of contaminated water in a remote area of northwestern Alberta.

Apache Canada Ltd. has been charged under the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act, the Public Lands Act and the Pipeline Act for the October 2013 spill near Zama City that leaked a mix of water, salt, oil and minerals onto more than 3.8 hectares of land.

Alberta Energy Regulator spokesman Ryan Bartlett says the company faces a maximum penalty of $3.1 mil-

lion for all charges.

Earlier this year, the regulator fined the company the maximum administrative penalty of $16,500 and issued four orders to improve pipeline safety after it conducted a comprehensive investigation into Apache for failing to follow regulations.

The regulator says that between June 2013 and October 2014 the Texas-based company had six pipeline incidents that caused loss or damage to public lands and potential environmental impact.

And between 2009 and late 2013, the company had 12 high-risk enforcement actions against it for non-compliance with pipeline regulations.

Apache spokesman Paul Wyke said that while the company wouldn’t com-

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ment on the charges because they’re before the courts, it has been implementing recommendations to improve pipeline safety and is complying with the regulator’s orders.

“Apache has been working closely with the AER to meet its obligations and ensure the integrity of Apache-operated pipelines,” Wyke said in an emailed statement.

The AER is still investigating an additional Apache pipeline spill from January 2014 that released 1.6 million litres of industrial waste water near Whitecourt, Alta.

Apache’s first court appearance on the charges is scheduled for Dec. 7 in Provincial Court in High Level,

Amaya limits daily fantasy sports betting in U.S. pending new regulations WILL CONTINUE TO OPERATE IN FOUR STATES STARSDRAFT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Online gaming company Amaya Inc. is limiting the availability of its daily fantasy sports betting south of the border in the face of regulatory concerns raised in some U.S. states.

Montreal-based Amaya said Monday that it will continue to operate StarsDraft in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Kansas and Maryland.

However, it chose to stop operations in most other states in addition to recently suspending activities in Florida and Nevada and declining to launch in Michigan.

The Nevada Gaming Control Board recently determined that daily fantasy sports operations are required to obtain gambling licences.

“Amaya supports the decision by the board and believes that it is prudent to limit the StarsDraft offering until such time as more states adopt a clear stance on daily fantasy sports,” the company said in a news release.

Larger rivals DraftKings and FanDuel haven’t said if they’ll pursue a licence in Nevada.

S&P / TSX 13,758.38 -79.72

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TSX:V 551.93 -4.36

“AMAYA SUPPORTS THE DECISION BY THE BOARD AND BELIEVES THAT IT IS PRUDENT TO LIMIT THE STARSDRAFT OFFERING UNTIL SUCH TIME AS MORE STATES ADOPT A CLEAR STANCE ON DAILY FANTASY SPORTS.” —AMAYA INC. Legislators in several states said they are reviewing Nevada’s decision and whether their state’s criminal gambling laws apply to daily fantasy sports.

Amaya (TSX:AYA) said the company’s decision shouldn’t have a negative financial impact on the company. Players can continue to withdraw funds from their online accounts.

The owner of PokerStars entered the daily fantasy sports business about a month ago with the acquisition of Victiv, which it relaunched as StarsDraft.

The site allows players to build a roster of their favourite sports stars and compete for real money.

Amaya has been testing its own sports betting activities in Europe but is moving slowly in North American because the market is very small, with less than $100 million in industry

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revenues last year.

The company suspended its daily fantasy sports betting in Canada after acquiring Victiv.

Amaya’s decision to pause its daily fantasy sports activities makes sense, coming soon after New Jersey approved its application to offer online gambling that will mark a return to the U.S., said analyst Ralph Garcea of Cantor Fitzgerald.

“You’ve got to be on the side of the regulators. Especially now that they’ve been approved in New Jersey I don’t think you want to get on any state’s bad side,” he said in an interview.

Garcea said Amaya can bide its time until the daily fantasy market develops over the next few years.

Globally, sports betting is a US$40billion-a-year business and Amaya stands to gain billions of dollars in annual revenues, he said.

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Valeant takes brighter view of 2015 outlook, Q3 results beat analyst estimates LAVAL, Que. — Valeant Pharmaceuticals (TSX:VRX) says 2015 is shaping up to be more profitable than its previous estimates.

The Quebec-based company is now estimating at least US$11.67 per share of cash earnings for the full year, up from the previous minimum of US$11.50 per share.

Valeant also announced US$2.74 per share of cash earnings in the third quarter, up 30 per cent from US$2.11 in the same time last year, with US$2.786 billion of revenue.

The cash earnings were four cents per share above analyst estimates compiled by Thomson Reuters.

Revenue was above the estimate of US$2.779 billion.

Valeant’s cash earnings exclude numerous items such as restructuring charges, writedowns of in-process research and development and other intangible assets and the impact of foreign exchange gains or losses.

Including those items, Valeant’s net earnings attributable to shareholders totalled US$49.5 million in the third quarter, or 14 cents per share — down from US$275.4 million or 81 cents per share a year earlier.

TD Bank cutting some jobs, changing others as part of ongoing review Toronto-Dominion Bank is eliminating some jobs and changing others as part of a company-wide review to trim costs amid a challenging operating environment.

The bank (TSX:TD) would not confirm how many people are affected by the review, which began in the first quarter of the year with a focus on the lender’s U.S. operations.

A TD spokeswoman said the review is now focused on the bank’s Canadian operations.

The bank’s statement was responding to a report by the Reuters on Sunday that said TD employees were informed of job cuts last week.

One of two unidentified sources quoted by the news agency said several hundred employees were being laid off. The review, which has the lender revising its executive and corporate management structure, is expected to be completed by the end of 2015.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 123.48 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.67 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.11 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.36 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.57 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.48 Cdn. National Railway . . 77.10 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 190.22 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.41 Capital Power Corp . . . . 19.66 Cervus Equipment Corp 14.32 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 47.39 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 56.15 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 20.18 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.83 General Motors Co. . . . . 33.24 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 23.74 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.04 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 42.37 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 32.03 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.30 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.66 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 44.29 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . . 9.83 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.07 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.90 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 69.57 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Weaker oil and metals prices sent the Toronto stock market lower on Monday amid suggestions of further slowing in China’s economic growth.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 79.72 points at 13,758.38, while the commodity-sensitive Canadian dollar also took a hit. It pulled back 0.64 of a U.S. cent to 76.81 cents US. Driving the decline was the TSX metals and mining sector, which dropped four per cent, while the gold sector was down three per cent.

Gold logged its steepest single day loss in more than two weeks. The December bullion contract was down $10.30 at US$1,172.80 an ounce, while December copper gave back four cents to US$2.37 a pound.

The TSX energy sector eased off three per cent as the November contract for benchmark crude oil retreated $1.37 to US$45.89 a barrel, while November natural gas added a penny to US$2.44 per thousand cubic feet.

Falling crude prices also affected energy companies on the U.S. markets, including Exxon Mobil and Chevron, which fell the most in the Dow Jones industrial average.

Overall, New York indexes were slightly higher, with the Dow rising 14.57 points to 17,230.54, the S&P 500 inching up 0.55 of a point to 2,033.66 and the Nasdaq moving ahead 18.78 points to 4,905.47.

Data released by China on Monday showed that growth in the world’s second-largest economy was the slowest since early 2009 in the aftermath of the global crisis.

Growth in China’s economy slowed to 6.9 per cent in the third quarter, down from 7.0 in the previous three-month period.

Only relatively strong consumer spending averted a steeper

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 21.29 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.77 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.85 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 25.15 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . . 9.83 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.32 First Quantum Minerals . . 6.83 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 19.28 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 6.37 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.69 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.15 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 28.47 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.910 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 8.09 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 20.25 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 19.90 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 53.33 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.44 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 22.37 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 30.28 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 9.77 Canyon Services Group. . 5.26 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 20.89 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1800 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 10.75 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.730 downturn.

The slowdown in China has left traders skittish about the impact it could have on earnings for key U.S. and Canadian companies with an international presence.

Corporate Canada will also be keeping a close watch on the outcome of the federal election and potential ramifications it could have on the energy sector and other industries.

But few, if any, of those marks will be seen on the TSX in the short term, suggested Ian Nakamoto, director of research at 3Macs.

He said the parties most likely to rise to power haven’t been particularly specific when it comes to shifting business policies.

“Nothing brings to mind such a bold statement (that) is going to affect the market,” he said.

“Any tax policies would have to (be in) a budget, and then you’ve have to pass it, and that all takes a while.”

Nakamoto said he expects U.S. earnings and the direction of commodities prices to overshadow any fallout from the election.

Meanwhile, shares of heavily-weighted Valeant Pharmaceutical International (TSX:VRX) dropped after the company said it may sell its neurology business amid increased scrutiny political and legal scrutiny over soaring drug prices.

The pharma operator, one of Canada’s largest companies by market capitalization, saw its stock drop six per cent to $213.05.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,758.38, down 79.72 points Dow — 17,230.54, up 14.57 points

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 80.99 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 37.36 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.53 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 21.77 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.25 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 1.29 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.420 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.75 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.36 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.120 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.42 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 47.43 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1900 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 75.35 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 60.38 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.93 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 24.43 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 33.41 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 37.17 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 93.86 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.33 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 40.96 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.50 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 73.55 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 43.84 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.85 S&P 500 — 2,033.66, up 0.55 points Nasdaq — 4,905.47, up 18.78 points Currencies: Cdn — 76.81 cents US, down 0.64 of a cent Pound — C$2.0138, up 2.08 cents Euro — C$1.4747, up 0.88 of a cent Euro — US$1.1327, down 0.27 of a cent Oil futures: US$45.89 per barrel, down $1.37 (November contract) Gold futures: US$1,172.80 per oz., down $10.30 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.329 oz., down 30 cents $685.73 kg., down $9.64 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov ‘15 $1.40 lower $471.20 Jan. ‘16 $0.90 lower $476.20 March ‘16 $0.90 lower $478.90 May ‘16 $0.90 lower $479.60 July ‘16 $0.80 lower $479.20 Nov. ‘16 $1.10 lower $468.60 Jan. ‘17 $1.10 lower $466.80 March ‘17 $1.10 lower $468.50 May ‘17 $1.10 lower $468.50 July ‘17 $1.10 lower $468.50 Nov. ‘17 $1.10 lower $468.50.

Barley (Western): 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 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $188.00.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 467,820 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 467,820.

China’s economic growth dips to 6-year low

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING — China’s economy decelerated in the latest quarter but stronger spending by consumers who are emerging as an important pillar of growth helped to avert a deeper downturn.

The world’s second-largest economy grew by 6.9 per cent in the three months ended in September, the slowest since early 2009 in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, data showed Monday. That was down from the previous quarter’s 7 per cent.

China’s economic prospects are being scrutinized around the world. Its slowdown has unnerved global markets and held down worldwide economic growth, especially in countries such as Brazil and Australia that export raw materials to China.

Last month, the Federal Reserve cited China’s slowdown and deteriorating global economic conditions when it delayed a long-anticipated increase in short-term American interest rates.

Weakening trade and manufacturing have fueled concern in China about possible job losses and unrest.

The communist government has cut interest rates five times since last November in an effort to shore up growth.

The latest data highlight the twospeed nature of China’s economy in the midst of a marathon effort by the Communist Party to nurture self-sustaining growth based on domestic consumption and reduce reliance on trade and investment. Manufacturers are shrinking and shedding millions of jobs while consumer-oriented businesses expand.

In September, growth in factory output slowed to 5.7 per cent from August’s 6.1 per cent. At the same time, retail sales growth rose to 10.9 per cent from July’s 10.5 per cent. E-commerce spending leaped ahead, rising 36 per cent in the third quarter over a year earlier.

“Continued downward pressures from real estate and exports caused GDP growth to drop,” said Louis Kuijs

of Oxford Economics in a report. “But robust consumption and infrastructure prevented a sharper slowdown.”

The decline in Chinese heavy industry and construction has depressed demand for oil, iron ore and other commodities, dragging on growth in Australia, Brazil and other supplier countries.

At the same time, rising Chinese incomes are propelling demand for European wines, wheat and fresh fruit from Australia and the United States, medical technology and other imports.

Private sector forecasters have cut their outlook for China’s growth this year to between 6.5 and 7 per cent.

That still would be the second-strongest of any major country, surpassed only by India, where the International Monetary Fund expects 7.5 per cent. It would be more than double the 3.1 per cent growth forecast by the IMF for the United States.

Much of China’s 5-year-old slowdown has been self-imposed but an unexpectedly sharp decline over the past year, due in part to weak demand for Chinese exports, prompted concern the downturn might be deepening too sharply. Forecasters expect Beijing to cut interest rates further and take other steps to shore up growth.

The IMF expects growth to slow to 6.3 per cent next year and 6 per cent in 2017.

“We think there is further slowing to go,” said Wei Li of Commonwealth Bank of Australia in a report. “Although we do not foresee China falling into a crisis, the economic growth rate is set to stay lower for longer.”

Communist leaders set an official growth target of “about 7 per cent” for this year but have tried to discourage investors and the public from focusing on that figure.

The top economic official, Premier Li Keqiang, said in September he would accept growth below that level so long as the economy keeps creating enough new jobs.

“In order to restructure, the economy will face some downward pressure,” said Sheng Laiyun, a spokesman for the Chinese statistics agency.

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A woman takes part in a march against the Canadian B2Gold mining company and the Nicaraguan police, demanding the release of their relatives detained during clashes Saturday, at Mina El Limon, Nicaragua. Riot police clashed with striking workers demanding the reinstatement of fired B2Gold employees.

Amazon sues to stop phony product reviews

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Internet users increasingly rely on online customer reviews when making spending decisions, whether they’re buying an iPhone case on Amazon or hiring an Uber ride in their hometown. But just how much can you trust those reviews?

A new lawsuit in which Amazon accuses more than 1,000 people of offering to post bogus glowing write-ups for as little as $5 apiece might give you pause.

The case, filed in Washington state court Friday by the nation’s biggest online retailer, casts light on what appears to be a burgeoning practice: the commissioning of paid, fake reviews that masquerade as testimonials from ordinary people.

Fake reviews are nothing new to online retailing, and Amazon is far from the only big company affected. Yelp’s restaurant reviews and TripAdvisor’s hotel ratings have long been a target of critics who claim that merchants can easily post positive reviews of their own businesses.

Amazon’s legal counteroffensive, however, appears to be one of the most aggressive attempts yet by a major U.S. e-commerce company to fight back.

Its lawsuit alleges that individuals would write five-star reviews about products they never even tried, and plotted with product makers to subvert Amazon safeguards that are meant to bolster confidence in the website’s reviews.

“Suing the reviewers is a way to discourage them from doing it again,” said Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter. “They’re trying to make a statement that you can rely on the integrity of the reviews on the site.”

There are powerful incentives to plant fraudulent reviews.

About 45 per cent of consumers consider product reviews when weighing an online purchase, according to Forrester Research. Two-thirds of shoppers trust consumer opinions online, according to research by Nielsen.

For small businesses, it can be more economical to pay for positive reviews than to buy advertising.

For example, a half-star increase in a restaurant’s online rating can increase the likelihood of securing, say, a 7 p.m. booking by 15 to 20 per cent, said Jenny Sussin, a director at Gartner Research. So a restaurateur might be tempted to pay $250 for 50 positive reviews online in the hopes of raising that rating.

Online sites like Amazon, Yelp and TripAdvisor have worked hard to thwart the planting of fake reviews — a

practice sometimes called “astroturfing,” a reference to the synthetic grass used on sports fields.

They employ computer algorithms and teams of investigators who scour reviews and delete suspicious entries.

Often, only people who have paid for a product or service and been verified can post reviews.

Yelp director of business outreach Darnell Holloway said that when suspicious reviews are found, the company puts a “consumer alert” badge on a company’s Yelp site for 90 days warning consumers that reviews might be deceptive. If the problem persists, Yelp removes all reviews of the company.

Most recently, Yelp deleted all reviews of a business called Movers Alliance after if found the company was pressuring customers to write positive reviews.

TripAdvisor says it has a team of 300 people using fraud detection techniques to weed out fake reviews.

“In the first half of 2015 alone we took action against 29 different optimization companies around the world to put a stop to their activity,” said spokesman Kevin Carter.

But in general, experts say, fraudulent reviews aren’t going away anytime soon. Gartner estimates that 10 to 15 per cent of all online reviews are fake.

Legal recourse has been scarce. In 2013, the New York attorney general’s office said it had settled cases with 19 companies and secured $350,000 in penalties for fake reviews.

In April, Amazon sued several websites that offered to produce positive reviews. Now it’s targeting the actual writers of the reviews — in this case, those who have accounts at Fiverr. com, a site for freelancers looking for work.

In many cases, the writers ask product sellers themselves to write the review, and then they put their name on it, the Amazon lawsuit alleges. At least one would-be reviewer offered to receive an empty envelope from a seller to make it look as if the person had actually bought the product, according to the lawsuit.

The defendants in the lawsuit are identified only by their online handles. Amazon is still working to determine their real names.

Amazon is suing for unspecified damages and an order forcing the users to stop writing fake reviews. The Seattle company said the offenders are liable for breach of contract for violating Amazon’s terms of service.

Forrester analyst Sucharita Mulpuru said that ultimately it’s up to the consumer to read and evaluate reviews online carefully.

NEWS IN BRIEF

Transcontinental closing its last two English-language newspapers in Quebec MONTREAL — Transcontinental is closing its last two stand-alone English-language newspapers in Quebec.

The weekly West Island Chronicle and the Westmount Examiner will cease publication Wednesday, with the loss of three jobs.

The Chronicle dates to 1924 while the Examiner started in 1935.

The media company (TSX:TCL.A)

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said the papers were no longer financially viable.

The company’s last remaining English-language newspaper in the province — the Huntingdon Gleaner — is inserted inside the French-language weekly paper Le Journal Saint-Francois. Meanwhile, the company says that ne xt month it will launch Ambiance, a second monthly, bilingual publication to join Rendez-Vous in the Montreal area. Neither publication will be distributed in the West Island of Montreal. Transcontinental also publishes papers in Saskatchewan and the Atlantic provinces.

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Gaashaan pleads to murder ADMITS TO BRUTALLY KILLING JENNA CARTWRIGHT IN PARANOID, DRUG-FUELED 2011 INCIDENT

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF A 33-year-old man, who apologized for brutally strangling Jenna Cartwright in a paranoid, drug-fuelled state, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in Red Deer court.

“I am ashamed that this has happened,” said Bashir “Donovan” Gaashaan, who faced Cartwright’s family from the prisoner’s dock after spending most of Monday morning looking down at his lap.

“I wish I could take it back,” he added. “I take full responsibility. I wish I could make this better, but I can’t.”

Gaashaan was originally charged with first-degree murder in the March 30, 2011 killing of the 21-year-old Red Deer woman. But he pleaded guilty to the reduced charge of second-degree murder, which indicates there was no premeditation in the killing.

Gaashaan, of no fixed address, also pleaded guilty in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench to committing an indignity to human remains by dumping Cartwright’s partially clad body in a treed area east of Olds, about six metres from a rural roadway.

Cartwright, who was last seen on March 29, was reported missing on April 12. Her remains were discovered in a ditch on May 3, 2011.

Reading her victim impact statement in court, Jenna’s mother, Lynda Cartwright, said she continues to feel guilty she couldn’t protect her daughter.

“This has left a hole that will never be filled. It feels like my heart was ripped out of my chest,” said Lynda, who’s particularly devastated that her

granddaughter, Jayda, will never know her deceased mother.

“How do you tell (a child) your mom won’t be there on your first day of school … or on your wedding day or when you have a baby? … I doubt I’ll ever stop grieving,” said Lynda, whose health has worsened. “When I’m old and in need of the comfort of my children, someone will always be missing …”

Jenna’s twin sister, Marissa, was also in court along with their brother and other friends and relatives.

Gaashaan, who had a previous drug conviction, had been ordered deported from Canada in 2009, but this was overturned by the Immigration and Refugee Board. On Monday, Red Deer court heard Gaashaan is certainly expected to be deported back to his native Somalia after he serves his murder sentence.

A second-degree murder conviction carries a life sentence with the opportunity to seek parole after 10 years Crown prosecutor Bruce Ritter asked Justice Donna Read to increase this ineligibility to 12 years because of the brutality of the crime, and because of Gaashaan’s callous treatment of Cartwright’s body.

According to an agreed-upon statement of facts: Cartwright and Gaashaan, then 29, had been drinking alcohol and consuming cocaine and crack cocaine. At one point, Gaashaan left Cartwright alone in a room in a home the accused was sharing with a roommate on McBlaine Close in Red Deer.

When he returned, he claimed some drugs were missing. In an “anxious and paranoid” state, he searched the house for the items.

When Cartwright followed him

“THIS HAS LEFT A HOLE THAT WILL NEVER BE FILLED. IT FEELS LIKE MY HEART WAS RIPPED OUT OF MY CHEST.” LYNDA CARTWRIGHT, VICTIM’S GRANDMOTHER to another room, he angrily flipped her onto the ground and “manually strangled” her. To stop her screams, he shoved a balled-up shirt into her mouth.

An autopsy later determined that strangulation and gagging caused her death While Gaashaan might not have planned to kill Cartwright, the Crown argued he certainly meant to cause her bodily harm, acting in a “reckless,” violent manner.

Gaashaan panicked when he realized she was dead. He rolled her partially dressed body into a duvet that he hid in the basement.

After Gaashaan’s roommate came home and discovered the body, Gaashaan loaded Cartwright’s remains into a borrowed vehicle and drove south, towards Olds. He couldn’t dig in the frozen ground, so dumped her remains near a rural road.

Gaashaan had driven all the way to Ontario, where he has relatives, when he was arrested in Thunder Bay on June 17, 2011 and charged with possessing a stolen vehicle.

He was interviewed by RCMP about Cartwright’s murder and revealed details of the crime. After being flown back to Alberta, Gaashaan has been in protected custody at the Edmonton Remand Centre for the past four years

Voters given mixed signals RED DEER NORTH RESIDENTS TOLD TO VOTE IN WRONG RIDING

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF A local couple who voted in the federal election advance poll subsequently found out they were directed to and voted in the wrong riding of Red Deer-Mountain View.

Lea Ann and Bruce Mackenzie realized Elections Canada’s error after they received a second set of voter information cards with new information that their riding was Red Deer-Lacombe. But they had already voted in the advance poll for Red Deer-Mountain View. The correct information arrived after advance polls had closed.

Lea Ann Mackenzie, who has resided on an acreage off the C&E Trail just north of Red Deer for the past 10 years, said Monday because her husband wasn’t sure he would be home on election day, they decided to vote in the advance polls that were held from Oct. 9 to 12.

Their first set of voter information cards — sent out by Elections Canada earlier with information on where to vote in advance polls and on election day — indicated their riding was Red Deer-Mountain View and the advance poll was at the Penhold Multiplex.

When they went to the Penhold advance poll, Mackenzie said their names were on the list of voters for Red Deer-Mountain View and they received their ballots. But they were surprised to see unfamiliar names on the ballot so they voted for the party instead of the individual, she said.

“Who are we to dispute Elections Canada?” They thought it was because of the new riding with new boundaries.

“We didn’t question it until we got the second set of cards. That’s like, what?”

Then last Wednesday they received

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First responders pull child from four-plex fire

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

The polling station at Joseph Welsh Elementary School in Red Deer saw a steady flow of voters through the day Monday.

FEDERAL ELECTION new voter information cards in the mail, which indicated they could vote in the advance polls at the Dawe Centre in Red Deer (which had already closed) and on election day Monday, in the Red Deer-Lacombe riding at Poplar Ridge School.

Both the Mountain View and Lacombe ridings are new in this election, and each partially comprises some of the old Red Deer riding that ceased to exist in this 42nd general election.

The Mackenzies do live in the Red Deer-Lacombe riding.

Mackenzie said it was confusing when the second set of cards arrived.

She said she was not going to vote in her correct riding, “Because once you’ve voted you can’t vote again, can you?

“I don’t have an issue with it except that the person whose riding that is, is not going to get the vote for the riding.”

“Our other neighbours … had the same problem,” but had not voted in the advance polls and were voting Monday in the correct riding. Wendy Moore, who lives across the street from the Mackenzies, did not receive voter information cards at all.

Both Mackenzie and Moore said they have had problems in the past with the post office, and cable and courier companies, confused about exactly where they live. The rural acreage subdivision has had more than one name.

Elections Canada spokesperson Leanne Nyirfa said Monday she would check further into the matter but with 26.4 million voter information cards, Elections Canada does “account for some level of error to be made.” barr@reddeeradvocate.com

Rainwater information session planned

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Using rainwater can be more than simply filling up the rain barrel and watering plants.

An interactive seminar — Intro to Rainwater Harvesting — is planned for Red Deer.

It is aimed at wide range of possible participants — home owners or renters, property managers, builders, developers, renovators, educators, elected officials, and municipal administrators.

The Canadian Association for Rainwater Management is presenting the four-hour, region-specific Seminar on Friday, Oct. 30 from noon to 4 p.m. located at Red Deer River Watershed Alliance office at 4918 59th St. Information will be presented about both residential and commercial applications — from simple rain barrels

and four months.

His lawyer, Naeem Rauf of Edmonton, asked Justice Read to impose the minimum 10-year jail term before his client can have parole eligibility. Rauf blamed our drug and alcohol-filled culture, saying “it bears tragic fruit,” extinguishing, in effect, two young lives.

He told the court that Gaashaan was born into an educated family in Somalia in 1982. Along with his mother and siblings, he became a political refugee during the Somalian war, fleeing by boat to Kenya. While his relatives got admission to Canada in 1990, Rauf said Gaashaan was left behind in rough refugee camps in Syria, Turkey and Russia before being able to rejoin his family in 1993 when he was 11.

His hardship continued when he was bullied by other ethnic groups in Toronto. While Gaashaan’s siblings prospered, completing post-secondary education that landed them good jobs in Canada, Rauf’s client dropped out of high school, did some upgrading, but also dropped out of college.

After coming to Alberta to seek employment, he “fell into the drug culture.”

While Ritter credited Gaashaan for pleading guilty to save Cartwright’s family the pain of a trial, he stressed he is not a first-time offender.

“He already had violent tendencies before this incident,” said Ritter, who added the accused had 15 previous criminal convictions, including assault and robbery.

Read will consider reports from the prosecution and defence before handing down a sentence on Thursday afternoon. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

RED DEER to professional distribution systems for both indoor and outdoor use.

The agenda (subject to change) is as follows: ● Define what rainwater harvesting is an how it’s being used to benefit consumers, municipalities, and the environment. ● Provide a basic understanding of the practice of rainwater harvesting in a global context and share specific details for Alberta/Saskatchewan/Manitoba. ● Explain established guidelines, relevant codes, and best practices for rainwater harvesting in Canadian prairie cities. ● Define the basic components and operating considerations of indoor and outdoor rainwater harvesting systems in the prairies.

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● Showcase examples of residential and commercial rainwater harvesting systems in operation. ● Provide a hands-on example of basic rainwater harvesting system design calculations. ● Provide details on opportunities for next steps in rainwater harvesting system installation certification training (e.g., AP Training).

There will also be a question and answer session and general discussion.

The cost is $99 per person to attend and people can register online at https://arcsa.site-ym.com/store/ViewProduct.aspx?id=5143056 For more information contact Rene Michalak, Prairie Chapter Governor, Canadian Association for Rainwater Management at rene@canarm.org.

A child and two cats were rescued from a burning four-plex by emergency crews responding to the fire.

Early Sunday morning, the Lacombe Police Service and Fire/Rescue Service were called to the residence in the 5400 block of 45th Street. Responding within two minutes of the call, police came upon a structure fire fully involving two of the four units.

Officers began alerting and evacuating the residence, forcibly entering two of the homes to do so.

In the second unit, an officer was told by a female inside that her husband and infant girl were still upstairs. The officer entered the residence and followed the sound of the male yellowing out up the stairs. The male was located trying to find his way through the smoke.

The officer was told the infant girl was in an adjacent bedroom. After telling the male to evacuate the building, the officer went into the bedroom and found the one-year-old girl standing in her crib with smoke and flames already encroaching the room. The officer picked up the girl and her blanket and found his way back through the smoke, down the stairs and safely exited the home through the front door.

The child was reunited with her mother.

Officers continued to search and evacuate the adjacent residences. Lacombe Fire/Rescue arrived shortly thereafter and immediately began attacking the fire. Two cats were rescued from one of the units by firefighters.

Despite extensive smoke damage, Lacombe firefighters saved the majority of the structures. There were no injuries or loss of life.

“Every police officer knows they could be called upon at any moment to risk their life to protect members of our community,” said Chief of Police Steve Murray.

“I could not be more proud of our officers that night. They showed courage, dedication and professionalism in their service to our community and they did so under extremely dangerous and difficult circumstances.”

Residents affected by the fire are being assisted by the Red Cross and Lacombe Victim Services.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NEWMARKET, Ont. — A woman who lost her three children and her father in a suspected drunk driving crash says she came to a Toronto-area court to see the man allegedly responsible for her grief.

Jennifer Neville-Lake says she is still struggling to process the loss but that she and her husband can now start to move forward.

Daniel Neville-Lake, 9, his brother Harrison, 5, their sister Milly, 2, and their 65-year-old grandfather Gary Neville died as a result of the Sept. 27 collision in Vaughan, Ont. The children’s grandmother and great-grandmother were also seriously injured in the crash.

Marco Muzzo, 29, is facing a dozen impaired-driving offences and six charges related to the dangerous operation of a motor vehicle.

The bail hearing for Muzzo, who was in court Monday, was postponed to Nov. 12 at his lawyer’s request.

“I wanted to come and I wanted to see the man who’s allegedly the reason why I don’t have children anymore,” Neville-Lake said outside the courthouse after the brief hearing.

She wouldn’t say which outcome she hoped for in court, saying she placed her faith in the judicial system.

“No matter what happens, we have no family left,” she said.

Neville-Lake’s mother has been released from hospital but needs care around the clock and has been staying with the family. Her grandmother remains in hospital and has been told of the tragedy but Neville-Lake said she’s not sure the news has sunk in.

Muzzo’s lawyer, Brian Greenspan, has previously said it was too early to say how his client would plead.

The Muzzo family owns the construction company Marel Contractors and is worth nearly $1.8 billion, according to Canadian Business magazine. The family has issued a statement expressing condolences to the victims’ relatives.

Journalist won’t appeal lost decision in defamation suit

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — A freelance journalist who lost her defamation lawsuit against former Vancouver Olympics CEO John Furlong says she will not appeal the ruling.

Laura Robinson says she reached the decision after reflection and discussion with her family and in spite of advice from independent legal counsel who say the judge made errors in fact and law.

Robinson had accused Furlong of defaming her in public statements he made after she wrote a 2012 article that contained abuse allegations from First Nations students at a B.C. school where he taught more than four decades ago.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Catherine Wedge released a searing judgment last month that found Furlong had a right to defend himself from Robinson’s articles, which the judge called an “attack” on his character, conduct and credibility.

Robinson says continuing the court battle will not accomplish her original goal of listening to indigenous people and she is launching a website called justtrylistening.org as part of an ongoing effort to meet that objective.

She says the past three years have had a huge impact on her health, but she feels honoured to be trusted

by First Nations and there is still a “chasm” between the reality of their lives and how non-Native people see them.

Post’s Coyne in public disagreement with paper

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Prominent political journalist Andrew Coyne says he has stepped down from his position as editor of editorials and comment for the National Post after clashing with the newspaper over a piece he wrote that was at odds with the Post’s endorsement of the Conservatives in Monday’s federal election.

Coyne issued an explanation in a series of tweets, saying he resigned the editor’s post “to protect my reputation and to preserve my editorial freedom as a columnist.”

Coyne said he will continue as a columnist ANDREW COYNE for the National Post.

Coyne had penned an unpublished column expressing a different view than the position the National Post took on the election. He later wrote on Twitter that he intends to back the NDP candidate in his riding and that “the Conservatives don’t deserve to be re-elected, and the Liberals don’t deserve a majority.”

“Postmedia executives and I had a professional disagreement,” Coyne wrote of the National Post’s parent company. “Their view was that the publication of a column by the editorial page editor dissenting from the Post’s endorsement of the Conservatives would have confused readers and embarrassed the paper. My view was that that was what I was paid to do as a columnist: give my honest opinion on issues of public interest.”

Coyne did not immediately respond

to requests for comment.

In a note to National Post staff, Editor-in-Chief Anne Marie Owens announced Coyne’s decision, saying he felt his dual roles were in conflict. She praised his tenure in the editor’s job.

“In his short time as editorials & comment editor, Andrew brought intellectual rigour to our editorials and his enthusiasm for intelligent argument and debate to the comment pages,” she wrote.

Coyne tweeted that a newspaper’s managers and owners have every right to take an editorial stance and determine who and what gets published, but suggested he felt his columnist job would be compromised if he stayed silent when he and management didn’t see eye to eye.

In this case, Coyne said he felt readers would be able to differentiate between the newspaper’s official endorsement and the views of an individual columnist.

“I don’t see public disagreement as confusing. I see it as honest,” he tweeted. “Readers, in my view, are adults & understand that adults can disagree.”

Coyne said he would stay on as a columnist with the paper, but would no longer oversee the editorial and commentary section that he presided over since December 2014.

Coyne, the son of a former Bank of Canada governor, has carved out a long and varied career among Canada’s major media outlets.

In addition to columnist positions with the National Post and Globe and Mail, he spent years as national editor of Maclean’s magazine. He is also a regular member of CBC’s weekly At Issue panel.

Winnipeg couple ask to go ahead to vote because wife has C-section scheduled

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — Gillian Taronno wasn’t going to let giving birth to triplets stop her from voting.

She and her husband Sandy went Monday morning to a polling station in the riding of Winnipeg South Centre.

Gillian asked those in line inside Harrow United Church if they could go ahead to vote.

She told them it was because she

had to have a C-section at 9 a.m. to deliver her three babies.

People in line replied yes in unison and motioned them to move ahead to the front of the line.

Relatives say Taronno has given birth and she and the three baby girls are healthy and doing well.

The names of the babies have yet to be announced, but someone on a relative’s Facebook post suggested Justine, Stephanie and Thomasina.

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Turcotte testifies at murder trial he was mocked and intimidated as a child SAINT-JEROME, Que. — Guy Turcotte took the stand at his first-degree murder trial on Monday, saying he was mocked and intimidated as a child and that he had few friends.

“I was sort of the scapegoat,” said Turcotte, who is charged in the stabbing deaths of his two young children in 2009.

The former cardiologist’s early testimony also keyed in on what he described as a stormy relationship with the children’s mother, Isabelle Gaston.

They split up in 2001 after numerous arguments but later made up.

Turcotte’s testimony came shortly after one of his lawyers, Pierre Poupart, told the trial he will argue that his client should be found not criminally responsible in the deaths.

While Turcotte, 43, has pleaded not guilty to the two counts of first-degree murder, he has admitted to causing the deaths of Olivier, 5, and Anne-Sophie, 3.

Poupart told the 11 jurors he will call witnesses as well as experts -- “doctors specialized in the examination of what goes on in the brain.”

“They will talk about an acute suicidal crisis,” he said.

Poupart said Turcotte’s mental illness brought about that condition.

The high-profile defence lawyer told the jurors they will have to determine whether Turcotte was in a state of such psychological distress.

He said he will try to prove that the accused would never have caused the children’s deaths had he not been in that mental state.

Posting alleged threat against Wilfrid Laurier was ‘dumb decision,’ accused says LONDON — A man in London, England accused of posting an online threat against Wilfrid Laurier University says he made the comment as a joke and never expected anyone to take it seriously.

In an interview with CTV News, a man the network identified as 22-yearold Daniel Ransem apologized to the school for the distress he caused.

Ransem, who is charged with malicious communications, told the network the post is “a running joke” on the 4chan forum and he had no malicious intent.

He says he has been released on bail and is due back in court in January.

The U.K.’s Malicious Communications Act makes it illegal for anyone to send a threat with the intent to cause distress or anxiety.

The post, which was initially flagged

by U.S. authorities, triggered a lockdown of the Waterloo, Ont., campus for nearly six hours on Friday.

Waterloo police compared the threat to a warning posted before a shooting earlier this month at an Oregon college that left 10 people, including the shooter, dead.

A photo shared on Twitter showed a post that featured an image of a frog

Hungry bruin finds home among branches of towering B.C. pear tree CHILLIWACK, B.C. — A yearling black bear has settled into a tree in Chilliwack, B.C., and won’t budge.

Residents of the Fraser Valley community have alerted conservation officers after spotting the bear high in the branches of a pear tree about 100 kilometres east of Vancouver.

The little bruin is believed to have been in the tree for several weeks, munching on the abundance of fruit.

There’s concern it might be stuck more than a dozen metres off the ground and conservation officers agree it is too high to safely bring down with a tranquilizer dart.

Other observers say the creature, dubbed Pear Bear, comes down at night to feast on fallen fruit, then returns to its perch in the morning.

It is shy of humans and is not believed to be a threat to the public but a trap has been set nearby in hopes of capturing the bear so it can be relocated before winter.

Plane lands safely in Cape Breton after smoke reported in cockpit SYDNEY, N.S. -- Cape Breton Regional Police say no one was hurt when a Porter Airlines flight made an emergency landing Monday in Sydney.

Police say emergency crews were called to the J.A. Douglas McCurdy Airport at around 5 p.m. after the Porter aircraft en route to St. John’s, N.L., reported smoke in the cockpit.

Porter spokesman Brad Cicero said the flight, which originated in Halifax, was carrying 66 passengers and four crew members.

Cicero said the plane landed safely and no injuries were reported.

He said a second aircraft was sent from Halifax to pick up the passengers and take them to St. John’s.

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holding a gun and read: “Don’t go to laurier science building hall tomorrow. happening thread will be posted in the morning.”

A post that preceded the Oregon shooting read: “Don’t go to school if you are in the northwest. happening thread will be posted tomorrow morning.”

Ransem said he didn’t realize authorities took those kinds of posts as real threats.

“I was ignorant of certain realities such as being that there was a level of paranoia across the pond that I wasn’t knowing about,” he said.

“I knew there was a lot of shootings but I didn’t know the paranoia was such that I was going to be arrested in this country. As soon as I was identified as being in another country, I’m not sure how I would be considered a credible threat.”

He said it was “a dumb decision” and he thought he was protected by freedom of speech legislation.

“From the bottom of my heart, I am very, very sorry. I did not mean for the university to be shut down. I’m not a bad man, 10 minutes with me and you’ll realize I’m as dangerous as a doormouse.”

FAMILY “When you speak to yourself, rememPractise personal hygiene. Enjoy a ber, someone is listening.� relaxing shower and bath. Brush your - Author Unknown teeth, trim your nails and style your “You are a good and worthwhile hair. Wear freshly laundered clothing. person deserving of happiness and This may seem obvious, but many desuccess.� pressed people go through life feeling “OK, that’s enough,� she said, her unworthy and the reflection in the mireyes fluttering open. “You can stop ror confirms it. now.�

Find a hobby. Get inI was in the middle of a volved in activities that guided hypnotic visualizahelp express your uniquetion focusing on self-esteem ness. Try your hand at building when my client painting, learn to play a opened her eyes and sat up musical instrument, write in the chair. She looked on poetry or dance. Such crethe verge of tears. ative endeavours allow for “How are you feeling?� I self-expression, a sense of asked, setting aside my sesmastery and positive intersion notes. action with others. “I was enjoying the expeYou may ask, “What do rience,� she said, “until you these techniques have to do MURRAY got to the part about me bewith self-esteem building?�

FUHRER ing a good and worthwhile Trust me, everything beperson. I want to believe it comes easier when you’re EXTREME ESTEEM but part of me keeps saying rested, feeling healthy and it’s just not true!� less stressed. As I started Long-standing beliefs to gain momentum, I began - especially those pertaining to self- to add new techniques (like the followworth - can be difficult to shift. For ing) to my arsenal. people with chronically low self-esList your positive qualities. Make teem, the very notion that they are a list of your strengths, your achievegood, worthwhile or deserving of any- ments and the things you admire about thing positive can be a foreign concept. yourself. In the beginning, this list may Countless people have said to me, “I only have one item under each categoknow all this stuff yet nothing seems ry, but that’s OK. If you find creating to change.� Understanding something the lists especially challenging, enlist on an intellectual level is no guarantee the help of a friend or relative. Keep of change - it is simply a starting point. the list in a safe place or put it in your Think of it this way: my lawn needs wallet or purse and read it often. mowing and I accept it as fact but that Identify and avoid energy leeches. acknowledgement changes nothing. Avoid people who treat you poorly or Change requires action and action re- leave you feeling energetically depletquires responsibility, and that is often ed. Choose to be with people who apthe real stumbling block. plaud your best efforts and build you There are many ways to take action. up rather than tear you down - people You could speak to a mental health- who listen and offer constructive critcare professional. You might seek icism. therapy or counselling. These are efCheck your self-talk. Listen to the fective approaches but, as I often tell statements you make about yourpeople, a little step can also make big self, especially when you’re feeling things happen. When I began my jour- stressed or anxious. Watch for common ney of building self-esteem, I often felt phrases such as, “I’ll never amount overwhelmed. Awareness of a better to anything,� “No matter how hard I choice seemed to bring only more frus- try, it’s never good enough,� or “No tration. I remember someone telling one will ever love me.� When you can me to relax, that I could start by mak- recognize self-criticism, you can grading little changes. It was no different ually change the message to something than goal-setting - breaking big chunks positive. into bite-sized portions.

I won’t lie. I still struggle with feelThat made sense to me. To bring ing worthy and deserving at times. I about change, I was reading books still cycle back into old patterns occaand attending self-esteem sessions. sionally. But as someone pointed out That was certainly helping to raise my to me years ago, healthy self-esteem is awareness. When I began to make lit- like having a healthy immune system. tle changes at home, I noticed things It doesn’t mean that you won’t occaslowly beginning to shift. Here are a sionally fall ill with a cold or the flu; few simple techniques that worked it simply means that you rebound and well for me. I suggest you start to em- recover much more quickly. “Tell me how a person judges his ploy them immediately.

Choose a healthy, well-balanced or her self-esteem,� wrote Nathaniel diet. Make mealtime a sacred time Branden, the author of The Six Pillars where you prepare nutritious foods of Self-Esteem, “and I will tell you how and enjoy them in a comfortable set- that person operates at work, in love, ting, free from noise and distractions. in sex, in parenting, in every important Turn off the TV or computer and put aspect of existence and how high he or away your smart phone. Eat slowly and she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem deliberately.

Exercise regularly. Go for a brisk is the single most important factor for walk. Visit the gym, if you prefer. It’s a fulfilling life.�

You are a good and worthwhile perimportant to raise your heart rate and break a sweat. When you feel good son deserving of happiness and sucphysically, it’s much easier to feel cess, and though that may be hard to good mentally and emotionally. Get in accept at the moment, it’s true and has the habit of exercising at least three always been the case. Start doing the little things that make big things haptimes per week.

Get adequate sleep. Research sug- pen and watch your attitude and your gests that most people receive only life change.

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert a fraction of the sleep needed to rest the body and mind and restore the im- and facilitator. His recent book is entitled mune system to a natural state of bal- Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For ance. Make your bedroom a stress-free more information on self-esteem, check zone where worries of the day can be the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca. left outside.

Grandchildren enjoy a trip to the country My grandchildren, lured by the the road and the fields and the sky and promise of quad rides, canoe rides, a being really hopeful we were going the chance to shoot a real gun and the op- right way. portunity to help band sawIt turns out we were, and whet owls, were ready. after a few hundred miles In fact, they were more the sounds of silence faded than ready. away and someone turned They were pumped. ‘kid speak’ on.

A lot of 11 and 13 year“How much farther? I’ve olds would not have willingbeen in this car for a hunly loaded up their parent’s dred hours? Are we almost SUV with pillows and blanthere.? Are we at least in kets and video games and Saskatchewan? Mom, tell strange music and headhim to stop looking at me phones and iphones and like that. He is so bugging ipads and subjected themme. No, she is bugging me. selves to eight hours of drivCan I sit in the front? Can TREENA ing time just to do any or all I? Can I? You wrecked my MIELKE of the above. head phones. Why do you But they did! always do that?

FAMILY For the children, the How could you eat evroad trip was a very long ery single chocolate bar? I prelude to the fun things to come. I’m think I’m going to be car sick? Really!! sure there are ways to shorten the Of course, as in all road trips, the drive to Prince Albert, Sask. somehow, end comes eventually, and, finally, afbut weirdly enough no one in my fami- ter we have driven past three hundred ly has yet figured that out. thousand fields that stretched endlessWe just drive. ly from the road to the horizon and “East,� I say, but quietly to my looked surprisingly similar to the field daughter, the driver. “We just need to we just passed and the one we passed go east.� before that, we found the plastic owl.

And in the end, we did go east, but Seeing the plastic owl perched mafirst, because apparently the trip to PA jestically at the entrance of the long isn’t long enough without getting lost, and winding driveway was a good we backtracked a little. thing. It meant we had arrived.

The little trip backwards was not a And so we spilled out of the vehicle, good thing and for a great many miles our limbs slightly numb and our brains no one said much of anything at all. foggy from seeing nothing but fields We were scared to because of the cut and sky and more of the same for such like a knife type tension that happens a long time, and pasted on our plastic when you are on a very long road trip smiles. made even longer because you got lost.

We just drove, staring in silence at Please see MIELKE on Page C4

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Hunger games with Sophie Every once in a while we as mothers catch something so catastrophic coming out of our blabbering mouths that we cannot help but wonder if this parenting game has begun to kill off some of our over-worked brain cells. I know I’ve talked about Sophie’s healthy appetite before but once again I’d like to revisit the topic.

This is the conversation I had with Sophie a few days ago. The topic?

Sandwiches. “You know I’m kind of hunLINDSAY gry‌And I can’t BROWN stop thinking ME PLUS THREE about SANDWICHES! Mama did you hear me? My favorite thing in the world is SANDWICHES! I could eat a sandwich for every meal‌As long as it was a different one each time.â€? “I’m glad you like sandwiches so much because most sandwiches are pretty healthy for you.â€? I said trying to get onboard with her affection for the legendary sandwich. “I JUST LOVE THEM SO MUCH.â€?

She pauses and looks dreamily at something in the air above her head. “Ahhh Sandwiches‌â€?

She then looked me dead in the eye and said in the most sombre of voices, “Maybe you could go make me a sandwich?� “But it’s only 9 in the morning Sophie. Don’t you think It’s a little early for sandwiches?� I asked. “Ugh.� She sighed and rolled her eyes as if to imply that further explanation would be a huge waste of her precious four year old time. “It is never too early for sandwiches Mom. Now my mouth is watering for a sandwich!� “Okay okay I will make you one then, hold your horses, I’ll get the bread out.�

She seemed momentarily thrown by the horses comment but breezed on by it without a second thought. I suppose she was mainly concerned with the sandwich I was about to make her. “I’m so excited you’re making me this sandwich. Make sure it’s a good one okay?� “Um, Okay I’ll try Kiddo.� “Thanks Mama, this is really the pick-me-up I needed this morning.�

After this unusual conversation transpired I made Sophie another sandwich for lunch, actually to be precise I made Sophie three sandwiches for lunch.

I make my own French bread so the

slices are considerably smaller than that of a normal bread piece. So in reality three sandwiches aren’t as gluttonous as it actually sounds. Still, for a four year old‌I’d say it was pretty impressive that she put it all away easily.

Now here’s where things got shameful. Not more than half an hour later Sophie slinks up to me with a wellknown look on her face.

There is this thing that my daughter does when she is about to ask me for something that I will probably say no to. She uses this particular voice that is not at all her own.

It is guttural and choppy somehow.

It makes my very insides squirm and my brain turn to mush in mere seconds.

I don’t know why this voice she uses composes such annoyance at my very core, but ever since she realized how it makes me feel she has continued to use this method of exploitation on me. “Hungry!� She said in that same presumptuous sort of voice. She didn’t even bother to form an entire sentence for the love of all things linguistic!

So the problem I face at this point is that I am so exasperated I end up getting completely tongue tied in my attempted response to her.

This is not the first time this has happened to me and I am sure that my evil genius of a daughter has predicted this exact response from me.

All I could muster up to say was, “No, just no. No. You go.�

As I pointed towards the living room psychologically willing her to make her way back to the playroom.

She stayed her ground. She knew what she is doing. “No Sophie, just go. No no no. Go please, just go.� I’m starting to feel like one of those twisted characters from her DR. Seuss books. “Just go now. NO and GO.�

Sophie is finding my inability to dictate my thoughts absolutely hilarious and perpetuates the situation by repeating the initial, “Hungry!� while I stutter and stammer over the four words I am able to muster in response.

It has become some kind of sick game to my four year old and I am losing horrifically.

Eventually after I have lost hope of redeeming myself I pick up an apple and whip it at her and she leaves me in peace.

She strides out of the kitchen with an overconfident waggle to her walk.

She knows she has won this round, I know she has won this round.

And once again I wonder how a small child can best me in a game I was once so good at.

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

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Parents advised to introduce allergenic foods at earlier age

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Parents should be feeding their babies potentially allergenic foods to ward off serious allergies, suggests a new review of recent evidence.

The review, published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, states that most babies at four to six months of age can begin eating these foods, which include cow’s milk, soy, peanuts, tree nuts, eggs, wheat, fish, shellfish and sesame.

And once those foods have been introduced, it’s important the baby continue to eat them on a regular basis or an allergy could develop.

“We’re in the midst of a food allergy epidemic, so prevention is really important,” said co-author Dr. Elissa Abrams of the University of Manitoba’s department of pediatric allergy and clinical immunology.

In the past, parents of babies at high risk of developing allergies were advised to wait 12 months to 36 months before introducing commonly allergenic foods.

“At the time we thought that if you allowed the infants’ immune system and gut to mature it would decrease the chance that they would become al-

lergic,” said Abrams, who co-authored the review with Dr. Allan Becker.

Instead of food allergy rates dropping, as was expected, there was an increase in some areas.

“For example, in the U.K., when they started avoiding peanut there was as much as a tripling of peanut allergy,” said Abrams.

Later studies “found that giving the foods late did not prevent allergies and in fact may actually increase the risk that these children would become allergic.”

Groups including the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology now call for introducing peanuts to high-risk kids at between four and 11 months of age.

The new review does suggest it might be advisable for parents to visit an allergist if there is a history of allergies in the family.

A recent survey of Canadian households found that eight per cent, or one in 12 families, reported at least one food allergy.

Researchers have also learned more about what could be causing food allergies.

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Dr. Elissa Abrams of the Department of Pediatric Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of Manitoba is the co-author of a new review on preventing food allergies in infants published Monday in the CMAJ which says introducing allergenic foods such as peanuts at four to six months of age can help ward off serious allergies. posed to these foods in the environment and not already eating them,” Abrams said.

“So that’s why the guidelines have shifted so dramatically from the old guideline, which was wait, to the new guideline, which is there is no need to wait.”

Current guidelines say mothers don’t need to avoid foods that commonly cause allergies while pregnant or breastfeeding. Many mothers ask what’s the harm in avoiding the foods as a preventative measure.

“There is a harm,” said Abrams. “In some of the studies, when moms avoided foods when they were pregnant, they were at an increased risk of having small children and having children

that were born early.”

Dr. Susan Waserman, professor of medicine in the clinical immunology and allergy division at McMaster University, said in her clinic they haven’t been telling parents to avoid allergenic foods for many years.

“But we never had good evidence even to make that recommendation until this study, which actually proves the point,” she said.

“You can’t be 1,000 per cent sure in everybody, but eating peanut at that (young) age seems to be protective.

“Start slowly on the first feeding, watch your child, monitor…. But for the most part, for most children, this will be a safe intervention.”

Tamoxifen may offer powerful punch against killer superbugs STUDY SHOWS BREAST CANCER DRUG SHOWN TO HELP BODY’S DEFENCE SYSTEM FIGHT INFECTION ARIANA EUNJUNG CHA ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES For humans, the superbug MRSA, or methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, is one of the most terrifying creatures that share our Earth.

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MIELKE: Trip was good We assured our host the trip was good, we love all things about Saskatchewan and we were ready for the fun to begin. I must admit I was a little worried the kids would not realize the great opportunities that lay before them in the good old rural prairie province, and might end up doing kid things like nothing and more of the same. I could not have been more wrong. And for the short time we visited, my citified grandchildren, without any resistance at all on their part, became quite thoroughly countrified with absolutely no help from me. It ap-

for decades but have mostly run into dead-ends. Now, a study published in Nature Communications raises the possibility that a promising new weapon for MRSA may have been right under our noses: tamoxifen.

Tamoxifen is a popular breast cancer drug used for both prevention and treatment. In addition to its anti-estrogen role in fighting tumors in the breast area, scientists have noticed that it also creates what the study called “excessive or aberrant” production of what are known as neutrophil extracellular traps - which are on the front lines of the body’s defense system against infection.

University of California-San Diego researchers put this ability to the test in mice. They gave the mice tamoxifen and then injected them with enough MRSA to kill them. They found that the drug boosted the animals’ chances of survival by a third.

Researcher Victor Nizet told the

San Diego Union-Tribune that the results are very preliminary as they have only been studied in a lab and that more testing is needed before making the jump to humans, but that he hopes the study “inspires clinical trials in patients with severe infections.”

“We believe this is part of the larger need that we have in medicine to move to a more holistic approach to treating infections,” Nizet said.

Scientists are also testing a handful of other unconventional approaches to fighting MRSA. Earlier this year, researchers reported that 1,100-year-old home remedy comprised of a bit of garlic, some onion or leek, copper, wine and oxgall (a florid name for cow’s bile) appeared to hold some promise in the lab.

Doctors hope that one day, these treatments could be used to stop infections like the one that New York Giants tight end Daniel Fells is battling in his foot and ankle. On Sunday, the

Giants dedicated their game to their teammate.

NFL.com reported Sunday that Fells, who has spent more than 10 days in the hospital, is in danger of losing his foot.

Fells sought help Oct. 2 after he came down with a 104-degree fever and had foot and ankle pain. He was reportedly moved to the intensive care unit after several surgeries.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that studies show that roughly one in three people carry staph in their nose without any issues, and that two in 100 people carry MRSA. While anyone can get an infection through contact with an infected wound or by sharing contaminated items, people in certain settings that involve crowding and skin-to-skin contact, such as day-care centers, hospitals or sports locker rooms, might be at higher risk.

peared to be a seamless transition.

I had made a list of things to do because I do stuff like that. I am list maker from a way back.

But, really they needed no list.

And anyway, I could list things to do, but not the corresponding emotion such activities could evoke. They would think I was nuts. But, even without the list they got it. I watched them watching the Northern Lights flicker and dance across the sky and I knew without saying they felt a sense of awe they simply couldn’t get from a device.

And I watched them take a tiny owl out of the mist net, and hold the bird ever so gently and observe it being weighed, measured, banded and finally released and I was pleased.

It turned out I didn’t have to tell them about the thrill of riding the quad, or the fact the machine was very powerful and big.

And I didn’t need to talk about the absolute tranquility and beauty of a

canoe ride or the thrill of aiming a firearm at a coke can filled with water and watching it shatter when the bullet hit it dead on.

I didn’t have to tell them any of that stuff.

They, in fact, told me!

And that was even better!

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

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Murphy a ‘comedic hero’ ACTOR RECEIVES NATION’S TOP HUMOUR AWARD

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WASHINGTON — A star-studded lineup of comedians including Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, George Lopez, Kathy Griffin and Arsenio Hall honoured Eddie Murphy as an “American icon.”

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presented the comedian Sunday with the Mark Twain Prize, the nation’s top prize for humour.

The evening’s most emotional tribute came from Saturday Night Live alum Tracy Morgan, who received a standing ovation from the audience. He called Murphy his “comedic hero.”

Morgan survived a serious car crash last year that left him in a coma. Morgan said Murphy was the first person to call him on the phone and make him laugh after the tragic accident that killed a passenger in Photo by ADVOCATE news services the limo and seriously injured two others Eddie Murphy accepts the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the John F. Kennedy Center for the “He’s the reason I’m in comedy. He’s the reason I have a job. He’s the reason I have a career,” Morgan Performing Arts on Sunday in Washington, D.C. said.

At one point, Murphy offered a reminder of his willingness to do politically incorrect humour by offering some jokes about former Mark Twain award winner Bill Cosby — who was one of his “heroes,” but has been accused by various women of sexual misconduct.

Among the other SNL alumni who paid tribute to Murphy were Jay Pharoah, Kevin Nealon and Joe Piscopo.

“Some people are just blessed with talent, and with Eddie, it was just luck,” Nealon ribbed.

Nealon said Murphy saved SNL from slumping ratings in the 1980s, and he hoped he could also save the Kennedy Center from becoming the Trump Center.

“I can see the slot machines in the lobby,” joked Nealon, who starred with Murphy in Daddy Day Care.

Trevor Noah, who took over hosting The Daily Show in September, said he was introduced to the comedian after viewing of Coming to America.”

“Eddie Murphy’s influenced almost every single comedian — especially of my generation. He did everything brilliantly,” Noah said in an interview.

“He showed me a benchmark to aim for. He made me realize that there was a level of excellence to try and attain, and I still think I’m working at that ‘til this day.”

Murphy called the prize a “tremendous honour,” but asked the centre to clear up any confusion over the prize for future recipients.

“Actually, it’s an award, but they call it a prize,” he said. “Usually when there’s a prize, there’s money.”

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A powerful story about the end of childhood What is a boy? There’s a debate on that subject early in Cary Joji Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation, which arrived on Netflix and in theaters Friday.

Agu (Abraham Attah) is fleeing the soldiers who have killed his father and brother and forced his mother to flee with his younger siblings to more secure territory, when he is captured by a group of slightly older boys wearing colourful makeshift uniforms and foliage as camouflage. While some of them are at a loss to do with so young a child, their commandant (Idris Elba) has a different idea about the opportunity — and the threat — that stands, terrified, before them.

“A boy. A boy is nothing. A boy is harmless? Does the boy have two eyes to see? The boy has two hands to strangle and fingers to pull triggers,” he says. “That boy is very dangerous.”

But boys are more than weapons.

And for all that Beasts of No Nation is a war movie, the film I kept thinking of while watching Beasts of No Nation was Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, a far gentler movie about all the things boys can be and all the rough paths they take on the way to manhood.

There are political speeches and party names tossed around in Beasts of No Name, but the specific issues that motivate the conflict aren’t the point and are sometimes subsumed to personal grievances. In an early scene, a woman who believes that Agu’s family stole land from her ancestors names them as rebels to military forces; they execute Agu’s father and brother, carrying out the revenge she was too powerless to make manifest in a more reasonable time.

Instead, Fukunaga has made a rough, sometimes brutal movie about a childhood denied. And while the scenes of war and fighting are undeniably distressing, the deeper moral ugliness in the film comes from the way the commandant and his forces warp the processes by which boys become men.

In an early scene, Agu explains that his father (Kobina Amissah-Sam) used to be a schoolteacher, but now works housing and feeding refugees.”I like my father more now that he’s not my teacher,” Agu tells us, remembering a day when he gave a wrong answer to a question, and his father had his classmates lightly mock him before asking someone else for the correct response.

The commandant uses the same pedagogical tools to inculcate his young troops, schooling them through calland-response, making the boys responsible for one another other in training and in battle.

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similar, even if they are warped by circumstances and degree. At home, Agu’s older brother (Francis Weddey) wrestled him to the ground and rolled him up in a rug after he caught Agu peeing on him while he was taking a shower. The frustration on Agu’s face is both real and sweet; mostly, he just seems tremendously young.

The violence the commandant uses to bond his troops has no play in it. As part of the rituals of initiation, boy recruits must run a gantlet, staggering off into the arms of their fellow battalion members once they’ve made it through their beatings. In the aftermath of one battle, the commandant orders Agu to kill a prisoner who claims that he is an engineer, rejecting a shotgun as too large for the small boy to wield and instructing Agu in how to wield a machete. After Agu sinks his blade deep into the man’s skull, another boy joins him; they’re united by the complicity of murder.

But if the commandant wants to transform boys into men before the years can do the work for him, they retain parts of themselves, at least for a while. In one scene, Agu and his friends play a version of Blind Man’s Bluff, becoming children again before the whistle of a bullet calls them back to their adult work.

Beasts of No Nation is blunt that just because the commandant is capable of compelling the boys who follow him, that doesn’t mean he has a viable vision of manhood to offer them. He introduces them to drugs, and in one scene, it’s suggested that he abuses his charges. While he may seem impressive in the jungle, the commandant longs for a promotion to a generalship.

When the commandant and his boy soldiers arrive in a city, he’s humiliated by more regimented troops, by men in suits, by the supreme commander, who grants an Asian man with a briefcase an audience and keeps the commandant and his followers waiting in an outside foyer. Sitting on a plush, red couch in an audience chamber, the commandant looks smaller and less impressive than he does on the road; he and the boys fall asleep in the unaccustomed comfort. When the commandant claims Agu as a son, he does so less to extend his own protection to the boy than to exploit Agu’s loyalty in service of his own flagging vanity.

Agu may have been rescued from starvation in the woods by the commandant’s forces. But he has become even more lost in the intervening months. “I cannot be going back to doing child things,” he reflects mournfully after the commandant’s forces break up and begin an independent campaign of pillage. None of us ever can, once that time is past. But most of us are granted more time to linger in a time before our ingenuity and loyalty could be forged into weapons.

NEW YORK — The final season of the popular British drama Downton Abbey will begin on Jan. 3, leading up to a finale on the first weekend of March, PBS announced Monday.

The show has been both a creative and ratings triumph for the network.

On the Sunday before its final episode, PBS will air a marathon of the season up to that point and a behind-thescenes program on how the show was made.

The network will also try to use Downton Abbey as a launching pad for Mercy Street, a Civil War drama premiering on Jan. 17 directly after an episode of the outgoing hit.

David Lynch memoirbiography coming in 2017 NEW YORK — David Lynch wants to tell the straight story of his life, but with a little help.

The 69-year-old filmmaker is collaborating with his friend the journalist and critic Kristine McKenna on the memoir-biography Life & Work, Grand Central Publishing announced Monday. The book will combine Lynch’s reflections with material from McKenna based on dozens of interviews Lynch’s friends, family and colleagues. Grand Central, a division of Hachette Book Group, plans a 2017 release.

Lynch’s credits include the films Blue Velvet, Eraserhead and The Straight Story and the TV drama Twin Peaks.

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The show has hired a new fact-checker and two new genealogists as part of its reforms, said the network’s Beth Hoppe on Monday.

PBS had suspended the series after determining that the show’s producers violated standards by allowing Affleck undue influence on its content and failing to inform the network of his request.

“It has become a more transparent process and a more rigorous process,” Hoppe said, “but essentially at its core these are personal stories about people who are finding out about their histories. That hasn’t changed.”

Finding Your Roots, which is hosted and written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., returns on Jan. 5.

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Sunday, the commercial Force behind the Star Wars franchise unveiled the official poster for The Force Awakens. And Monday night, to kick off ticket sales for the film’s Dec. 19 opening, the first full SW: TFA trailer will air between kickoffs on Monday Night Football (courtesy of a Disney-owned network).

Ahead of the trailer, that “chockfull o’ iconic images” poster stirred as many questions as it answered. Among them: 1. Where, O where, is Luke?

The most conspicuous absence on the poster, by a long Falcon shot, is Luke Skywalker. Some fans are specu-

lating that Luke will be in exile during much of Force Awakens, and that he’ll get more screen time in the subsequent films. But of course, speculation is rampant, and even the trailer may not solve much.

2. Where, O where, is Lupita Nyong’o?

The Oscar-winning actress will play space pirate Maz Kanata in TFA. So … is that poster’s smaller, goggled creature alongside the droids the Maz we’re looking for?

3. Is that a new Death Star?

Behind John Boyega’s Finn, we gaze at that menacing body. Is this the new killer star base we’re looking for?

4. Just what menace does that lightsaber of Rey (Daisy Ridley) possess?

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RALPH Allan Allan Ralph passed away peacefully into the arms of his loving Savior, Jesus Christ, on October 17, 2015 at Red Deer Regional Hospital at the age of 88. He was born November 19, 1926 in Winnipeg, MB. Allan taught French in many schools in Alberta and Saskatchewan the last school being at Eckville Junior/Senior High until his retirement.

Allan was predeceased by his loving wife Irene, of 50 years on May 26, 2010. Allan was an only child and he and Irene had no birth children. A Celebration of Life Service will be held at Liberty Christian Assembly, 6315 Horn St. Red Deer on Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at 3 pm. where he was an active member until his passing. Donations in Allan’s memory can be made to Liberty Christian Assembly Missions Department towards a project near and dear to Allan’s heart. Interment is in Kelvington Saskatchewan.

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SWORDS Teresa Sept. 16, 1959 - Oct. 13, 2015 Teresa Swords died suddenly on October 13, 2015 in Blackfalds. Teresa is survived by her mother, Florence Willick; her sisters, Kathy and Lorie Willick, and Rose Turner; and her brothers, Stephen, John, and Dave Willick.

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CAIRO — Egypt gave government workers a half-day off on Monday in an attempt to boost low turnout in the first legislative elections since a chamber dominated by Islamists was dissolved by a court ruling in 2012, but there was no sign of increased activity at polling stations.

Monday is the second day of voting in 14 provinces, including Cairo’s twin city of Giza and the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. Voting in Egypt’s other 13 provinces, including Cairo, will take place next month.

Final results are scheduled to be announced in December and the 596-seat chamber is expected to hold its inaugural session later in the month, thus completing a three-phase political roadmap announced by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi when, as military chief, he ousted Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi in July 2013.

The first two phases were drafting and adopting a new constitution by January 2014, replacing a charter mostly written by Morsi supporters and which had an Islamist slant. Presidential elections, which el-Sissi won last year, were the second stage.

The parliamentary elections are widely expected to result in a rubber-stamp assembly supportive of el-Sissi, who urged Egyptians to vote in a televised address Saturday. A low turnout would indicate growing disillusionment or distrust of the political system under his rule.

Prime Minister Sherif Ismail was quoted by the official Middle East News Agency as saying turnout in Sunday’s voting was between 15 and 16 per cent. Some half-dozen judges interviewed

by The Associated Press on Monday gave roughly the same figure. Ismail did not say what he based his figures on and there was no way to independently confirm them.

The figures given by officials, however, appeared to be much higher than the extensive coverage by local and regional TV news networks would suggest. State media has acknowledged that turnout was generally weak on Sunday.

Associated Press reporters who toured polling centres across Giza on Sunday and Monday said that, unlike in previous elections held since the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak, there were no long lines.

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The decision to give government workers a half-day off on Monday reflected deep concern over the turnout, which analysts and observers have said may not exceed 10 per cent. The state-owned Al-Ahram daily said the government urged private businesses to ensure employees are able to get off work and vote.

Private broadcaster CBC aired simultaneous live footage from 16 polling centres in various parts of the country that were mostly empty. The channel ran advertisements between segments appealing to Egyptians to go out and vote.

In the coastal province of Alexandria, public transport was to be free from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Monday to encourage a bigger turnout, according to a statement from Governor Hany el-Messiry’s office.

“We were expecting more than this. This is our country, and we have to stand by it,” said retiree Fatima Salam at a polling centre in Dokki, Giza. “Unfortunately the youth aren’t coming out. Us old people are.”

Many voters said they feel disconnected from the candidates.

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“No one is going to take time out of their day to go vote for the same people who did nothing or people who never even spoke to them,” said retired social worker Farouq Ali. When asked why he was voting, he responded: “What else can one do?”

The next parliament is widely expected to support el-Sissi, who is struggling to revive the economy, crush an Islamist insurgency and play an assertive political and military role in a turbulent Middle East. Such a chamber would harken back to the Mubarak era, when elections during his 29-year rule were rigged or manipulated to give his National Democratic Party an overwhelming majority in what amounted to rubber-stamp legislatures.

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The offensive in the northern province of Aleppo aims to lift the siege that IS has been imposing on the Kweiras military base since 2014.

Jihadis have launched several attacks over the past weeks in an attempt to capture the base but were not able to.

The army captured the village of Bkayze, about seven kilometres (four miles) from the air base, the military official said, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.

Troops also captured two other villages near the base, Aleppo-based activist Maamoun al-Khatib told The Associated Press.

“It will be a moral victory for the regime if they are able to lift the siege imposed on Kweiras,” said Syrian activist Ahmad al-Ahmad, who is currently in Turkey.

In another battle in Aleppo province, Syrian troops and pro-government gunmen killed the

military commander of one of the most powerful rebel factions in northern Syria, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group that monitors the Syrian war through a network on the ground.

Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV identified the dead commander as Ismail Nassif, with the Noureddine Zengi rebel group. The Observatory and AlManar gave no further details.

Since Russian airstrikes began on Sept. 30, Syrian troops have been on the offensive on several fronts in an attempt to secure supply routes and regain control of strategic areas.

In Moscow, the Russian Defence Ministry said that its jets have conducted 33 sorties, hitting 49 targets in the past 24 hours in the provinces of Aleppo, Damascus, Idlib, Latakia and Hama.

Among the targets, it said, were underground facilities, a workshop producing homemade missiles and a training camp.

Moscow says its airstrikes on Islamic State positions outside the capital Damascus are forcing the militants to flee. The ministry said that its drones flying overnight showed several groups of militants, about 100 people in each of them, leaving their positions in Marj al-Sultan.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERKASOVO, Serbia — Thousands of people trying to reach the heart of Europe surged across Serbia’s border into Croatia on Monday after authorities eased restrictions that had left them stranded for days in ankle-deep mud and rain.

The miserable wave of humanity left behind a field scattered with soaked blankets, mud-caked clothing and water-logged tents as they headed for Slovenia, the next obstacle to their quest to reach richer European Union nations via the Balkans.

Monday’s surprise move allowed an estimated 3,000 more migrants to enter Croatia bound for its small Alpine neighbour, which also has been struggling to slow the flow of humanity across its frontiers — and faced another wave of trekkers seeking to reach Austria and Germany to the north.

“Without any announcement, the borders opened.

When the borders opened, everybody rushed,” said Melita Sunjic, a spokeswoman for the U.N. refugee agency, who was stationed at the Serb-Croat border.

Many had discarded their mud-soaked socks and walked only in sandals or slippers through the ankle-deep muck in a driving rain, frigid winds and fog.

Some who had lost limbs during the civil war in Syria were aided by friends pushing their wheelchairs down a country lane that, since Saturday, had been blocked by Croat police.

Now the officers stood

aside to permit asylum-seekers by the thousands to walk toward buses for transport north — where they would become Slovenia’s problem.

Croatia’s prime minister, Zoran Milanovic, said his country had hoped to minimize the flow of people following Hungary’s decision to seal its border with Croatia, but conditions on the poorly sheltered Serb side of the border had quickly grown unbearable.

“It’s apparent that this is no solution, so we will let them through. We will send them toward Slovenia,” Milanovic said.

Aid workers handed out blue rain ponchos and bags of food to travellers, many of them slipping in the mud as they walked across the border. Officials on the Croat side planned to bus the newcomers either to a Croat refugee camp or — far more likely, given asylum seekers’ reluctance to stop before reaching their desired destinations — to the Slovenian border.

Slovenia’s Interior Ministry said some 5,000 people had reached its borders Monday, and most were allowed to enter, with at least 900 reaching Austria by the evening. Slovenia had vowed to let in no more than 2,500 migrants per day.

Slovenian President Borut Pahor insisted his country would accept only as many travellers as could be funneled directly on to Austria.

He said Slovenia was determined not to be left holding the bag should Austria or Germany suddenly stop accepting refugee applicants.

“As long as Austria will control the flow of refugees,

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Children take shelter from the rain in Sredisce ob Dravi, a border crossing between Croatia and Slovenia Monday. Hundreds of migrants have spent the night in rain and cold at Croatia’s border after being refused entry into Slovenia. we will have to do the same on the Slovenian-Croatian border,” Pahor said.

An empty field near the Serbian border town of Berkasovo was littered with discarded belongings in an illustration of just how desperately those who had been stuck there wanted to cross into Croatia. Only hours before, its rows of tents had been packed with people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Now only a few hundred remained. Doz-

ens could be seen in the distance walking into Croatia, many carrying children on their backs.

Left behind in the scramble were stuffed toys, a milk bottle, a child’s rubber boot, crayons scattered in the mud and soaked blankets. Cleaning crews could be seen collecting the scattered belongings with shovels in hopes of clearing the boggy field in time for the next migrant wave coming north from Macedonia.

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Fatal beating of migrant prompts soul-searching in Israel amid violence

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — The death of an Eritrean migrant who was shot and beaten by a mob that mistakenly believed he was a Palestinian attacker set off a round of soul-searching Monday amid the jittery atmosphere sweeping Israel in a wave of unrest.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the vigilantism. Some critics accused Israel’s leaders of fostering the charged climate, while others called for the swift prosecution of the crazed mob.

“It is a disgrace to Israeli society, and those that carried out this lynching need to be found and brought to justice,” said Yaakov Amidror, Netanyahu’s former national security adviser.

“Even if it was the terrorist himself, by the way, after he was shot, after he was neutralized and lying on the floor, you need to be an animal to torment him,” he told Israel Radio.

Nine Israelis have been killed in the past month in the attacks, mostly stabbings, on city streets. At least 41 Palestinians have been killed — including 20 identified by Israeli authorities as attackers the rest were slain in clashes with Israeli forces.

Amid the seemingly random attacks, Israelis have stocked up on mace and pepper spray, and some public officials are openly carrying personal weapons and encouraging the public to do the same. Security has been increased, and especially in Jerusalem.

The violence has led to fear and sometimes outright panic.

Following an attack at Jerusalem’s bus station last week, a swarm of security forces and armed civilians ran along a central road in search of a second assailant following a false alarm.

Elsewhere, an Israeli man stabbed a fellow Jew after mistaking his darkskinned victim for an Arab. Palestinians in Jerusalem say they are afraid of being shot if perceived to be a threat.

But Sunday night’s mob scene at the bus station in the southern city of Beersheba took things to a new level.

The violence began when an Arab with a knife and gun killed a soldier, stole his weapon and opened fire, wounding nine people before being killed by police.

In the mayhem, Habtom Zerhom, an Eritrean migrant in his late 20s, ran into the station to seek cover, police said. A security guard, mistaking Zerhom for an attacker, shot him.

As the young man lay on the floor, a mob cursed him, kicked him and hit him with objects.

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Mulu Habtom Zerhoma, a wounded Eritrean, is evacuated from the scene of an attack in Beersheba, Israel. Israeli security officials said a 21-year-old Arab citizen of Israel, opened fire in a southern Israeli bus station, killing an Israeli soldier and wounding 10 people. Zerhoma died of his wounds after an Israeli security guard fired at him, apparently thinking he was an assailant. Security camera footage of the incident on Israeli news sites showed an Israeli security guard shooting the man as he crawled on the ground. Israeli news sites said the man was kicked by bystanders as he lay in a pool of blood. li officer and a few bystanders tried to protect him. Zerhom later died at a hospital.

“It doesn’t matter if it was a terrorist or not. It was a man lying on the ground that couldn’t move. I couldn’t sleep at night from seeing him, his blood,” Meir Saka, a passer-by who tried to protect the Eritrean, tearfully told Channel 10 TV. An Israeli identified only by the first name Dudu told Israeli Army Radio that he regretted participating in the attack.

“If I would have known he wasn’t a terrorist, believe me, I would have protected him like I protect myself,” he said.

“I didn’t sleep well at night. I feel disgusted.”

Meeting lawmakers from his Likud Party, Netanyahu condemned the vigilante violence and sent his condolences to Zerhom’s family.

“We are a law-abiding country,” he said. “No one should take the law into their own hands.”

Police said they were reviewing the security video to identify the mob. As of late Monday, no arrests had been announced.

Critics said the shooting was the result of the charged atmosphere. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, for instance, has openly called on all licensed gun owners, like himself, to carry their weapons to help back up overstretched security forces.

“The death of an asylum seeker at the hands of security guards and an

angry mob is a tragic but foreseeable outgrowth of a climate in which some Israeli politicians encourage citizens to take the law into their own hands,” said Sari Bashi, director for Israel and the Palestinian areas of Human Rights Watch.

Hanan Ashrawi, a top Palestinian official, accused Israeli leaders of whipping up the public.

“They are creating a mentality of lynch mobs and of course feeding the culture of hate and racism,” she said.

Others questioned whether Zerhom’s ethnicity had been a factor.

“Just because of his skin colour,” said a headline in the Yediot Ahronot daily.

There are about 34,000 Eritrean migrants in Israel. They say they are fleeing persecution and conflict in their homeland, one of the world’s worst violators of human rights.

Israel says they are merely economic migrants looking for work, and it refuses to give them refugee status. But it does not deport them because of the danger they face at home.

Many Israelis fear the influx threatens their country’s Jewish character, with one right-wing lawmaker famously calling migrants a “cancer.” Africans frequently complain of racial discrimination in Israel.

“The young Eritrean man is clear testimony to foreignness. He sustained critical injuries in a war not his own.

Alone,” Danny Adino Ababa, an Israeli journalist of Ethiopian origin, wrote in Yediot.

to Croatia on Monday was a 28-year-old Syrian who had lost a leg in that country’s civil war and was being pushed by friends in a mud-caked wheelchair. The group stared, eyes vacant with exhaustion, at nearby Croat cornfields as the man, who gave only his first name, Less, lit a cigarette with shaking hands.

“We have no more money, no jacket, no food,” he said, pleading to be permitted to reach Germany without further delays.

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Official says Oscar Pistorius released from prison, put under house arrest Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympic runner who fatally shot his girlfriend in 2013, was released from prison and placed under house arrest on Monday night, a South African official said.

“Oscar Pistorius was placed under correctional supervision tonight,” Manelisi Wolela, a spokesman for South Africa’s correctional services department, said.

Under South African law, an offender sentenced to five years or less in jail can be released after serving onesixth of the term — in Pistorius’ case 10 months.

Pistorius was acquitted of murder last year for the Valentine’s Day shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, but prosecutors have appealed the trial verdict of culpable homicide, or manslaughter, and will seek a murder conviction again at South Africa’s Supreme Court on Nov. 3.

If Pistorius is convicted of murder by a panel of five judges at the appeal, he faces going back to prison for 15 years, the minimum sentence for murder in South Africa, which no longer has the death penalty.

SUV backs into Houston supermarket, killing 1 customer HOUSTON — A sport utility vehicle driven by a 74-year-old woman smashed into the front of a southeast Houston supermarket, killing one customer and injuring six other people The crash happened at 1:40 p.m.

Monday at the H-E-B supermarket at Houston’s Gulfgate Center. Police spokesman Kese Smith says the woman had put her SUV in reverse to back from a handicapped parking spot. It’s not clear why the vehicle crashed into the supermarket.

Smith said the two employees were treated for minor injuries at the scene.

Five customers were transported to hospitals. A 31-year-old woman died at a hospital, while her sister and 2-yearold daughter were being treated for minor injuries.

35 injured after bush crashes along busiest highway in Dominican Republic Thirty-five people have been injured following a bush crash in the Dominican Republic.

A traffic division spokesman says the bus was carrying 50 people when it ran off the country’s busiest highway on Monday. Diego Pesqueira said authorities are investigating what caused the crash that occurred on the Duarte highway just north of the capital of Santo Domingo.

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Autumn salads are definitely different from those served during the 3 cups butternut squash, chopped summer months. They are still very 1 Tbsp. olive oil healthy and fall ingredients can make 1 cup uncooked quinoa 1½ cups waa salad more heartier and less like ter “rabbit ” or “diet” food. Incorporat1/3 cup dried cranberries ing high fiber vegetables like turnips, 1/3 cup red onion, fine!y chopped beets and Brussels sprouts, you can 3 Tbsp. toasted pumpkin seeds prepare a robust salad that is perfect salt and black pepper for sustaining and nourishing during Balsamic Vinaigrette the shorter days and cooler months. ½ cup olive oil Spicy hearty greens like kale and aru¼ cup balsamic vinegar gula added with high protein ingredi1 tsp. honey ents such as toasted nuts, seeds and 1 tsp. Dijon mustard gains like quinoa, couscous or rice you 1 garlic clove, minced can create a salad that is a meal in salt and black pepper itself.

Preheat the oven to 400F.Toss the some helpful hints: To use the win- butternut squash with olive oil in a ter squashes, lightly caramelize slic- bowl. Season with salt and pepper. es of roasted squash in coconut oil in Arrange coated squash on a baking frying pan. Root vegetables like beets, sheet in a single layer. Roast for 25 turnips and yams are also a great add minutes or until squash is tender and in to autumn salads. Simply roast in lightly browned.While the squash is the oven before using. Toasted al- roasting, rinse quinoa under cold wamonds and pumpkin seeds can be used ter until water runs clear. Place quias garnishing and adding texture. noa and water in a medium saucepan.

Say goodbye to the delicate pro- Bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer, duce that warm weather brings and partially cover and cook until liquid is embrace the hardy ingredients that is absorbed, about 20 minutes.To assemso bountiful during the cooler season. ble the salad, combined the cooked Here are some of my favourites! quinoa, roasted squash, cranberries, red onion, toasted pumpkin seeds in a large bowl. Drizzle with vinaigrette and mix until combined. Season with salt and pepper as needed. Chill in 18 brussels sprouts, washed and the refrigerator for couple hours and stems removed serve.Vinaigrette:Whisk all the ingre2 large carrots peeled dients in a small bowl until combined.

1 apple, diced Season with salt and pepper.

1 large celery stalk, diced ½ cup sunflower seeds 4-6 tbsp raisins 2-4 tbsp fresh lemon juice, to taste ¼ tsp fine grain sea salt 1 tsp fresh Thyme leaves (optional), or other herbs of choice Pure maple syrup, to taste Add the grate/shred blade to food processor. Turn machine on and drop 2 tablespoons coconut oil in the brussels sprouts to shred. Now 1 acorn squash, sliced in ½ -inch drop in the carrots to shred. Alternatively, you can finely chop brussels thick rounds and seeds removed ¼ teaspoon salt and shred carrots with a hand-held ¼ teaspoon pepped grater. Transfer to a large mixing bowl.

2 teaspoons brown sugar Stir in the diced apple, celery, sun½ cup whole pecans, chopped flower seeds, and raisins into the car¼ teaspoon pumpkin pie spice rot and brussels sprout mixture.Add 6 cups baby arugula, (kale) lemon juice, salt, pepper, and option1 avocado, sliced al fresh thyme to taste. Add a small 1 pomegranate, arils removed amount of maple sryup (about ½-1.5 1 seedless cucumber, sliced tsp) to take the edge off the lemon pomegranate ginger vinaigrette juice. Sprinkle with cinnamon if de1/3 cup pomegranate juice sired. Serve & enjoy! ¼ cup apple cider vinegar

Butternut Squash and Cranberry Quinoa Salad

½ teaspoon freshly grated ginger 1 garlic clove, freshly grated ¼ teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon pepper 1/3 cup olive oil Heat a large skillet over medium heat and add coconut oil. Cover the squash slices with salt and pepper, then add them to the skillet and cook until golden, about 5 minutes per side.

If desired, you can add the brown sugar to help the squash caramelize. Heat a small saucepan over low heat and add the pecans. Toast until they are slightly golden and fragrant, stirring and shaking the pan as they toast, for about 5 minutes. Toss them with the pumpkin pie spice.

Add the arugula to a large bowl with a pinch of salt and pepper. Add in the avocado, pomegranate arils, cucumber, pecans and squash pieces.

Cover in the pomegranate dressing. pomegranate ginger vinaigrette Combine pome juice, vinegar, ginger, garlic, salt and pepper in a large bowl and whisk together. Stream in the olive oil while constantly whisking until the dressing comes together. Store in the fridge for up to one week.

Madhu Badoni is a Red Deer-based freelance food writer. She can be reached at madhubadoni@gmail.com or on Twitter @madhubadoni. Watch for Madhu’s Masala-Mix blog on www.reddeeradvocate.com.

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Tough to crack control of family pics Dear Annie: My family is very dysfunctional be- mother and sister are furious that I have asked to cause of my mother’s poor parenting and her history take the pictures to go through them. They cannot of playing favorites. I maintain minimal contact with give me a reason I can’t have access to the photos but my siblings. consider me the bad guy in this scenario.

One of my sisters is very controlling I could back down and let my sister have and has always manipulated my mother her way, but I would like to have that piece to get what she wants. She’s my mother’s of my family history to pass on to my chil“golden child.� A number of years ago, dren. Ideally, all of the siblings would have this sister took all of the old family phosome of the originals, but my sister never tos from my mother’s home. Mom says learned to share. she only borrowed them. Knowing my Should I continue my quest for these sister, I was concerned that the family photographs, even knowing I will be treatwould never see those pictures again. ed with contempt by my mother and sister?

I recently decided to ask my sister Or should I just let it go? — Living in Dysto let me have the pictures so I could functional Family Land go through them, make some enlargeDear Living: There may be another way ments and copies, and write down some to get the pictures. names and dates. My adult children also Your sister seems controlling and posMITCHELL have expressed interest in having acsessive, so she is unlikely to hand over & SUGAR cess to the pictures, as they have never the photographs. Instead, as nicely and seen them and would like to know about sweetly as possible, ask whether you can ANNIE their family’s history. My sister lives four go through them in her home. Discuss scanhours away, and I offered to pick them ning the ones you want into her computer up. and emailing them. Or you could offer to pay her to Well, my request has started World War III. My make copies.

HOROSCOPE Tuesday, Oct. 20 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Viggo Mortensen, 56; Tom Petty, 64; Danny Boyle, 59 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Success comes through combining tried and true methods with innovative new techniques.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Enthusiastic and good at business, you love to keep up-to-date with current trends. 2016 is the year to spend some time developing your spiritual side.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Keep on your toes Rams, as the day develops in a rather shambolic fashion.

If you are flexible and adapt to changing circumstances, then you’ll handle any disruptions along the way!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Relationships are JOANNE MADELINE somewhat strained today, as work colMOORE leagues or loved SUN SIGNS ones view your behaviour as being selfish. If you are a smart Bull, you’ll choose compromise over confrontation.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Keep your quicksilver energy in check today — especially at home. Loved ones may question your plans for the future, but are you full of big dreams and short on practical details?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Have the confidence to speak from the heart and say what’s really on your mind today Crabs. Others may not agree with your comments, but they will respect you for being open and hon-

est.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Expect an entertaining ride, as your emotions go up and down in rapid succession. Is a friend or colleague being incredibly demanding? Donít be too hard on them — they have a lot on their plate.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): With Venus, Mars and Jupiter all in your sign, your natural style shines through. Be inspired by writer Gore Vidal “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.�

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Mercury is now moving through your sign — until Nov. 2 — so you’re at your creative and communicative Libran best. But avoid the tendency to procrastinate and sit on the fence.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If you blurt out the first thing on your mind — unusual for you — then communicating with others will become strained and unpredictable. So hold your tongue — for the moment!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The Sun and Mercury are visiting your social networking zone, and others are sitting up and taking notice of what you are posting. So make sure you have something interesting to say!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Do you feel annoyed that you’re doing so much work behind-the-scenes and no one seems to notice? Calm down Capricorn — your efforts will be acknowledged further down the track.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you want to get ahead financially, aim to combine a creative approach with a proactive strategy.

A group discussion could become fiery, so step back and observe from the side-lines.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You may find yourself torn between head and heart today Pisces, as you make an important decision. If you combine intellect and intuition, then you’ll make the choice that is right for you.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

Bring your mother along so she can see that you are being reasonable and flexible. If Sis says no and your mother gets angry, you will be no worse off.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Ohio,� who wondered why prospective employers never get back to her after job interviews.

I would suggest that after the interview, she send a thank-you letter expressing something she liked about the job and explaining how she’s looking forward to working for that company.

I learned about that when I attended a community college. It helps. One employer was so impressed that he kept the thank-you note in my file. — B.T. Dear B.T.: We like this idea. It can only enhance your chances of learning whether you got the job or not. It also doesn’t hurt to make a follow-up phone call or send a polite email if you haven’t heard back within a week of the interview.

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Children run near the sculpture ‘Wonderland’ by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, Sunday, in downtown Calgary at the Bow Building. Depicting a young girl’s head, 12-metres high and rendered in white bent-wire, this enigmatic bust gazes serenely at the comings and goings of the downtown.

Still work to do in maternal, newborn health

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GLOBAL MATERNAL NEWBORN HEALTH CONFERENCE

MEXICO CITY — Eight hundred women die every day globally from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth, despite great strides in that area, philanthropist Melinda Gates said Monday.

Gates spoke at the first Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference in Mexico City. Public health experts from around the world were to discuss research and policies that could continue to drive those numbers down. “All the data proves that helping a woman plan and space her pregnancies is the most effective way to save mothers and newborns,� Gates said.

The conference aims to develop strategies to achieve development goals launched last month at the United Nations. Preventable complications related to pregnancy, childbirth and other causes still claim 7,400 newborns each day.

Maternal mortality has fallen almost 50 per cent since 1990 globally.

But the new U.N. goal is to have fewer

than 70 deaths per 100,000 live births globally by 2030, down from 210 per 100,000 in 2013.

Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund, said the reason they have not achieved more in the area of mothers’ health is because of a lack of empowerment of women worldwide.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has an ongoing project in southern Mexico and Central America. It is collaborating with The Carlos Slim Foundation, the Inter-American Development Bank, as well as the governments of Spain and Central American countries to reduce health inequities.

The project is working in Mexico’s Chiapas state to increase access to health facilities with prenatal and postnatal care. “In Chiapas I think the big challenge is really meeting so many peoples’ needs who are in these communities, these remote communities, that aren’t not easily accessible ‌ with

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She said the project did not initially achieve its goals, but was now on track and making progress and access to those services had increased from 3 per cent to 46 per cent.

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