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Heroism in action LACOMBE FAMILY GRATEFUL CONST. JOHN HUBBARD CHARGED INTO A BURNING BUILDING TO RESCUE THEM
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ABOVE: City of Lacombe Const. John Hubbard holds one-year-old Holly McKim as her parents, Danielle Collins and Don McKim, look on. Hubbard entered the burning four-plex in Lacombe early Sunday morning to locate McKim and his daughter on the second floor of the house, which was filling with smoke and flames. Contributed photo
RIGHT: Lacombe firefighters aggressively attack the burning units of the fourplex while Lacombe Police and EMS stand by. “It was pretty scary. We started the day just beautifully celebrating her first birthday. Family and friends were over, we had a nice beautiful day, and it ended in a nightmare.” But hang on — Don McKim’s nightmare actually turned into a miracle, thanks to the bravery of Lacombe Police officer Const. John Hubbard. McKim, 46, is talking about last Saturday when he and his wife, Danielle Collins, 43, celebrated their daughter Holly’s first birthday a day earlier than the day it actually fell. If it
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hadn’t been for Hubbard, the family of three, who were residing in a rented fourplex, in the 5400 block of 45th Street in Lacombe, would have perished in a fire on Holly’s birthday, McKim said Tuesday. On Saturday night, McKim had watched the Oilers win their first game of the season and gone to sleep at about 11 p.m. “All of a sudden Danielle was awakened by some knocking. And all of a sudden, bang! bang! … she got up and scurried down the stairs. She got about halfway down the stairs and
she started smelling the smoke and she yelled ‘Fire!’ And she proceeded down the stairs to open the door.” “I just started to get out of bed and all of a sudden the smoke just started billowing. I got disoriented … Constable John Hubbard, he was the one who was knocking, and when my wife answered, he directed her immediately out. My wife told him her husband and daughter were upstairs still. (Hubbard) ran right in up the stairs — I met him at the top of the stairs. “You know, I’m still trying to figure things out. It was that quick, and (Hubbard) said ‘Get out now!’ I said my daughter’s down the hallway, he ran down the hallway, and the fire was coming in (Holly’s) room.”
McKim said the police officer grabbed Holly “and I’m just about at the bottom of the stairs and he beat me out with my daughter. He wrapped her in a couple blankets … I was right behind him. He handed her off to my wife and as we came out on the front steps the whole roof atop was just in flames.” The fire in the fourplex had started in a different unit attached to the McKim-Collins residence. The cause has not yet been determined. The couple had working fire detectors but McKim doesn’t believe they went off until they were nearly outside.
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Christy McDougall grimaces and holds on tight to her three-year-old son, William, as he reacts to getting his influenza immunization from Alberta Health Services R.N. Kelly Stever on Tuesday. The first free, drop-in influenza immunization clinic in Red Deer took place at Westerner Park on Tuesday. A second clinic will be held at the same location in the Harvest Centre on Thursday October 22, from 12:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. For information on other clinic locations, dates and times visit www.albertahealthservices.ca/influenza or call Health Link at 811.
Police allege 3 jaywalkers assaulted 3 officers on Edmonton’s Whyte Avenue EDMONTON — Three people have been charged with assaulting three Edmonton police officers. Police say it happened early Sunday on Whyte Avenue near 105 St.
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RESCUE: ‘It was a little scary there’ Hubbard and his partner, Const. Michelle Wilzer, arrived on scene at about 12:30 a.m., before the Lacombe Fire Department arrived. They started banging on doors. After they found one man in a residence and told him to get out, the man told the officers there was a family living next door. Hubbard raced over and started pounding on the door of the McKim-Collins home. The officer recalls going into the home and up the stairs: “I ran down the hall. It was a little scary there. They have a window at the end of the hall, you could see the flames in the window and smoke billowing into the room, so I went in and found (Holly) standing in her crib. I scooped her and a blanket and turned around and realized: Man I can’t find the door. So I figured — well it’s three strides in, it’s got to be three strides out.” Hubbard laughed a bit telling the story of early Sunday morning. “I hit the door hole and ran back down the hall. … We got them all out the front door.” He explained why he was laughing: When the police officer’s son, who is now five, was just learning to walk, they had laminate flooring in their hallway. “He comes running down the hallway and slipped on socking feet and hit the door post, and he falls over … ‘Little man are you all right?’ and he goes ‘Oh Dad! I missed the door hole.’” “And so Saturday night when I’m walking out, like man, I hit the door hole this time!” After Hubbard rescued Holly and put her in her mother’s waiting arms, he and Wilzer continued on. “My partner was headed to the next house that
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They say when officers approached a group of jaywalkers, there was a struggle with three men. Police allege the trio became aggressive and assaulted the officers. Charged are Dylan Austin and Jordan Royal, who are both 23, and 24-year-old Savana Haynes. The three officers were treated on scene for nonlife threatening injuries.
The Hugginz Highway journey ended on Monday without a face-to-face meeting with Ellen DeGeneres. On Aug. 30, former Red Deer College student Curtis Hargrove undertook a 49-day journey from British Columbia to run to Los Angeles to deliver a letter and a handmade blanket from his friend Angel Magnussen to the TV host. Magnussen, a 19-yearold with down syndrome and autism, is the creator of the non-profit Hugginz By Angel. She sews blankets, pillows CURTIS HARGROVE and knits soft hats and donates them to sick children and children with special needs in hospital. Magnussen also wanted to invite DeGeneres to come to her sewing studio in Port Alberni, B.C. to help make a blanket. Hargrove left Los Angles on Monday and drove straight back to Canada. By Tuesday afternoon he was only a few hours away from Port Alberni. “Our heads are held high. We raised a lot of awareness for Hugginz by Angel. We got a lot support, a lot of donations and made a lot of friends along this journey,” said Hargrove, 26, of Cold Lake. Unable to schedule a meeting with DeGeneres, Hargrove said he was advised to just deliver the items to a gate at the studio. Instead, he returned to Canada with both the blanket and letter. “The main mission from day one was to get the blanket in Ellen’s hands. We didn’t want it to be dropped off and disappear and for her to not see it.” Hargrove said he will be taking the blanket along when he visits schools to talk about Hugginz by Angel. Visit facebook.com/chargrove15 or www.hugginzhighway.com.
was in flames to see if we could get anybody out of “People are helping us. It’s wonderful. I’m totally there. And we got to the door there and it was just a thrilled. They’ve been so gracious,” Collins said. little too sketchy at the front. There was fire over top, McKim has been ill from diabetes the past couple so we ran around the back and found the back door of years and has just regained his health, he said. He open, I went in,” Hubbard says. has been a stay-at-home dad because he wasn’t able “In the living room the flames were in the roof to work. His wife works part-time. already. So I went downstairs. There was nobody in McKim calls Holly their “miracle baby.” the basement and then I couldn’t make it upstairs to “She was a surprise. We sure weren’t expecting check upstairs. The smoke and flames were too thick at our age. This beautiful miracle happened and so I went out the back door again and ran into the she’s so adorable. She has just been grounding us. fire guys coming around.” She’s been getting me through this. All you have to Hubbard, an eight-year veteran with the police do is play with her or look at her, hold her and everydepartment, then told firefighters everyone was out thing’s fine.” except he wasn’t able to check the second floor of They have lost most of their possessions, but have the one unit were the fire started. Firefighters soon been receiving donations of baby clothing and food got the fire out. Nobody from the community. was injured. They think they have ‘WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS HOW GRATEFUL found a new place to live “Honestly you don’t think. … If you can get the I AM FOR THAT MAN’S BRAVERY. … I KNOW but McKim admits they people out then at least have to pull together a HE’S GOING TO BE A LIFELONG FRIEND this way now the fire guys damage deposit and othcan work on the fire and er funds. TO MY DAUGHTER. SHE DOESN’T REALIZE don’t have to go in and “We’re not complainWHAT AN ANGEL HE WAS TO HER THAT rescue people.” ing. We will find a way. Hubbard took the couThe baby’s just playing DAY.’ ple and their daughter to with her new toys that a nearby hotel while his were donated so she’s partner stayed and called — DON MCKIM doing good. We’re just in Victim Services. The overwhelmed with the next day, which was Hubresponse from the combard’s day off, Const. Wilzer went to see the couple, munity. I don’t know how to thank everyone.” and delivered a Teddy bear and birthday card for “Words cannot express how grateful I am for that Holly and gift card for the family. man’s bravery. … I know he’s going to be a lifelong McKim and Collins are very thankful for Hubfriend to my daughter. She doesn’t realize what an bard’s heroics. angel he was to her that day,” McKim said, calling “It was just amazing. I was just thrilled he was Hubbard a “hero”. able to get up to her. I saw the room on fire,” Collins “The smoke was on its way up. If he hadn’t showed said. up at that exact time I’m positive all three of us “I didn’t know what to do. I totally felt helpless would have been overwhelmed by the smoke and but as soon as he brought her down I was so grateful. wouldn’t have made it.” He was so wonderful,” she said. Police chief Steve Murray has congratulated “Holly she would have been just turning one at Hubbard. “It’s not just me. It’s the entire group,” the 12:01 when he was carrying her out, otherwise she officer said. wouldn’t have turned one,” McKim said. barr@reddeeradvocate.com
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Accentuate the positive NOTLEY SAYS TRUDEAU WIN, HARPER LOSS REVEALS DOWNSIDE OF NEGATIVE CAMPAIGNING “A majority of Canadians did appear to vote for a platform that talked about protecting and properly funding health care, about investing in infrastructure, about taking action on climate change and about renewing our relationship with indigenous Canadians,” she said. “There’s a tremendous amount of overlap. I think going forward there’s a good opportunity for our province to work collaboratively with the federal government on some key files.” Notley said she spoke with Trudeau briefly on election night and said she looks forward to working with him. Notley stumped at times for the NDP and its leader Thomas Mulcair in Alberta. But her historic majority win in the May 5 provincial election, ending more than four decades of Progres-
sive Conservative government, did not translate into success federally. The NDP’s lone Alberta MP, Linda Duncan of Edmonton Strathcona, won her seat for a third time, but the party was otherwise shut out. The New Democrats have only ever elected two MPs from Alberta: Duncan and Ross Harvey in Edmonton in 1988. Historically, the party’s popular vote has hovered just below 10 per cent. “I felt that it was important to participate in what little way I could (for Mulcair) and so I did, because I’ve been a New Democrat all my life and always will be,” said Notley. “That being said, Albertans made different choices and I actually agree very much with former prime minister Harper that the voters are always right.”
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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta NDP Premier Rachel Notley says Liberal Justin Trudeau’s election win demonstrates the importance of avoiding a negative campaign. “I believe that as much as possible it’s important to run a positive campaign that brings voters together,” Notley said at the legislature Tuesday. “I’m pleased that that seems to have been the ultimate outcome.” The Liberals won a majority government on Monday night after a campaign that focused on a message of change. Conservative Stephen Harper has been criticized for a campaign that included attack ads that ridiculed
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The case of a man who stabbed his new neighbour 37 times is now in the hands of the judge. Final arguments were made Tuesday at the trial of Nicolas Rasberry, 32, who is on trial for second-degree murder in the death of Craig Kelloway, 31. The defence maintains the killing was an act of self-defence, with Rasberry testifying that Kelloway threatened to sexually assault him and his wife. The prosecution argues Rasberry, who didn’t testify during the trial, has not sufficiently explained why he needed to use three knives or why the attack was so vicious.
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BRIEF Woman taken to Calgary hospital after being stabbed, beaten in home CALGARY — A woman has been taken to hospital in serious condition after being attacked in a northeast Calgary home. EMS Spokesman Stuart Brideaux says a woman in her 30s had multiple injuries, including stab wounds. Brideaux says a 10-year-old boy, the woman’s son, ran out of the home and asked someone on the street for help. Police have not said if there are any suspects.
Edmonton police officer charged with stealing gas from city-owned pumps EDMONTON — An Edmonton police officer has been charged with stealing from gas pumps owned by the city. Police say the alleged thefts took place between Sept. 7 and Oct. 8. Const. Heinz Schilling, a seven-year member, is charged with one count of
Trudeau as “Justin” the greenhorn who was “just not ready.” Religion also became a wedge issue when Harper promised that his team would ban niqabs and other face coverings at citizenship ceremonies. Early on, Harper took a run at Notley, saying her NDP government’s decision to hike taxes and increase spending was disastrous, unwise and had spiralled the Canadian economy further downward. Notley declined to analyze Harper’s 10-year legacy as prime minister. She also declined to give an opinion as to why the federal New Democrats plunged from official Opposition to third place. But she did note that Alberta NDP policies mesh in many ways with the federal Liberal platform.
A verdict is to be rendered on Oct. 28. The two men and their wives met for the first time on the day Kelloway was killed, getting together as new neighbours for a few drinks and a barbecue. Later that night, Rasberry made a call to 911, saying he’d stabbed Kelloway and telling the operator that Kelloway had “tried to have sex” with him after their wives had gone to bed. Rasberry later told investigators he acted in self-defence. “There was a knife block and I grabbed a knife and I stabbed him,” he told police in an interview. “Reached around and got him in the back a couple times. “I made the decision to defend
myself but I felt like I had to put him down. The last thing I wanted for him is for him to die, the last thing.” Detective Trish Allen questioned why Rasberry felt he needed to use three knives to prevent Kelloway from acting out on his threats. “His injuries are really bad,” she told Rasberry during the interview. “He’s got multiple stab wounds. He’s been eviscerated his bowel’s hanging out.” During the trial, the medical examiner said that Kelloway was stabbed 37 times and his chest cavity, lungs, ribs, intestine, and diaphragm were punctured in the attack. The expert said the incident was so violent that knife fragments, including the tip, were left in Kelloway’s body.
theft under $5,000. Police allege the constable stole the gas while off duty. Schilling is suspended from duty without pay.
Chris Fisher, author of the book “Birds of Alberta,” says the hooded warbler is a long way from home. He says the warbler’s breeding range is east of the Mississippi and the bird that has shown up probably got turned around when he was heading south. It is yellow like a canary but with a black balaclava. It’s believed to be only the third hooded warbler sighting anywhere in Alberta. Fisher says with luck, the bird which migrates at night, will flee southward as soon as there’s a hard frost. “They do tend to get misdirected, particularly during the fall season, so we’ve got a misguided warbler showing up here … mistaking Calgary for Cancun, Mexico,” he said.
No injuries to students when school bus rear-ended LETHBRIDGE — No one was injured when a school bus was rearended while stopped to let a student off in southern Alberta. Lethbridge RCMP say it the bus was stopped on Highway 25 near Lethbridge to let a student off when a brown minivan hit the bus. Police say the driver told them the school bus had its stop-sign arm out and warning lights activated at the time. Mounties say the students and school bus driver were shaken up but not injured. A passenger in the minivan was taken to Lethbridge hospital for treatment. Charges are pending against the driver of the van.
Tiny Mexico-bound warbler ends up in Calgary CALGARY — Birders from across Alberta have been making their way to a meadow in Calgary’s Fish Creek Provincial Park for a rare glimpse of a lost little bird.
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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Two brothers have pleaded guilty to kidnapping and repeatedly raping a 17-year-old girl in Calgary. Corey Manyshots, who is 26, and 22-year-old Cody Manyshots were supposed to stand trial Monday, but instead pleaded guilty to four of five charges. Last November, the teenaged girl was taken from a northeast bus stop and dragged to a nearby alley where she was sexually assaulted. She was then taken to a home where she was repeatedly raped. The Grade 12 student was held for eight hours before she was able to escape. The girl told police she worried if she didn’t “take it” she would be killed. She was at court in a separate room away from her attackers, with Hawk, the Calgary police trauma dog. “She is probably one of the sweetest girls I’ve ever met, and I can’t imagine what she’s going through,” said Crown prosecutor Jonathan Hak. “The facts of this case are so horrific that I needed to ensure they admitted every single word that the Crown read in as part of the facts…to make sure they acknowledge they did all of those horrible things.” The brothers have been sent for psychological and psychiatric assessments. The sentencing hearing for both brothers is set for next April.
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Majority once again not heard Canada’s longest election campaign der Stephen Harper last time around. in a century has produced a first-ever In each case, more than 60 per cent result: a third-place party vaulting to of Canadians had voted for something a landslide win. As Western provinces other than the party that won. In Canwill appreciate, this was not exactly ada we call that democracy, and it the will of the electorate. generally serves the incumBut that’s political irony bents pretty well. for you. As Eastern provIn the hours before polls inces would appreciate, the closed in Quebec, Ontario previous three federal elecand the Prairie provinces, tions did not exactly reflect pundits had a lot of time to the will of the people, eiwatch the Red Wave gather ther. And before that, the in Newfoundland and the West spent a long time on Maritime provinces. A total the outside looking in. Liberal victory in every ridIn fact, in living memoing, with popular support ry, no federal election has around 70 per cent. Anyone ever fully reflected the will would call a result like that of the majority of Canadian a democratic return. GREG voters. The pundits and party NEIMAN Fortunately, that record reps around the shiny glass has a good chance of ending tables on the TV networks OPINION soon. In this election, about bantered at length whether 62 per cent of Canadian votLiberal support in the rest ers cast their ballot for a party that of Canada would prove a mile wide had promised immediate electoral re- and an inch deep. They suggested solid form as part of their platform. (That core support in other parties in many would be all the parties, minus the ridings might rally over widespread Tories, who reject any such notion and but soft support for the Liberals. the Bloc which was silent on the matWell, we found otherwise, didn’t ter.) we? In Canada, an inch deep is all you With just 39.5 per cent of the popu- need to form a majority government. lar vote, the Liberal Party and leader In the campaign, Trudeau repeatJustin Trudeau secured 184 seats in an ed whenever asked that the 2015 elecexpanded Parliament of 338 seats. Pro- tion “will be the last conducted under portionally, that’s close enough to the the first-past-the-post system.” If his result gained by the Conservatives un- promises are to be fulfilled, look for
an all-party committee to recommend changes to our election system within 18 months. NDP leader Thomas Mulcair — whose support is deep but not very wide — lost the great gains made from wide-but-shallow support for Jack Layton in the previous election. Mulcair favours straight-out adoption of proportional representation, which would have given his party 66 seats this time around, instead of 43. But even that would have been a drop from the 71 MPs the NDP would have elected in the last Parliament, if seats had been allocated according to national popular vote. The Green Party under Elizabeth May are electoral reformers in a hurry. Under proportional representation, there would be 11 Green MPs in Ottawa this time around, instead of just one. She wants an all-party committee to come up with a full-blown report on electoral reform, including draft legislation, within a year. My political acumen may be neither deep nor wide. But my impression of the campaign was that Canadians were not in the mood to re-elect a fourth-term Conservative government. No electorate in our history has ever elected four straight governments of the same party. Three terms mark the best-before date of any leader. Just the same, the alternatives were never straightforward. My reading sug-
gested Canadians were convinced that a minority government was the most likely outcome, and if so, a Liberal minority, backed by the NDP was the better choice. That’s how I read it, anyway. So it seems that enough people wanted a Liberal minority, enough in fact to give them a majority. Just a few ticks under 40 per cent of voters cleared the mark. Under any type of reform, Canada would probably have a Liberal minority government today, instead of a majority. The dynamic in the next Parliament would have been different. There would have been less “strategic” voting. People could vote for the party platform they preferred, knowing their wishes would be fully represented no matter who their local MP might be. That’s in contrast to what we saw: people voting against a party whose leader had worn out his welcome, even among many in his own rank-and-file. Knowing that a new Parliament would require some co-operation between parties would also have tempered the personal attacks and base negativity of the campaign we’ve just endured. And I think Canadians would have gotten more exactly what they voted for — which is a better democracy. Follow Greg Neiman’s blog at Readersadvocate.blogspot.ca
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Bloody battle takes out Tories and NDP Canada’s progressive majority got its act together Trudeau’s son in an election. Instead, his name will on Monday and ushered Stephen Harper out with a forever be joined with that of his Liberal nemesis in vengeance. Canada’s electoral annals. In the process they brought their own resolution Almost 40 years apart, both tried and failed to seto the problem of vote splitting on the cure a fourth consecutive mandate. left of the Conservatives, steamrolling the Unlike Trudeau who came back to NDP to hand Justin Trudeau the first Libpower less than a year later, Harper will eral majority victory in 15 years. wear this defeat for all time. In the end, the election turned out to Whether the Conservatives can agree be more than about terminating the Conon a successor without tearing the party servative decade in power. It resulted in a apart is not a given. Liberal comeback that is headed straight Monday’s election finish was not the for the history books. worst Conservative rout ever or even The red wave that the Liberals had Harper’s poorest finish. He lost his first hoped for at the tail end of the campaign campaign to Paul Martin in 2004 with 99 swept Atlantic Canada and then carried seats. on into Quebec. But the party is less healthy than its The last Liberal leader to come out seat count would suggest. Behind the faCHANTAL of Quebec with a majority of the provcade of a second-place finish, there are HÉBERT ince’s seats before this election was … cracks in the Conservative foundation Trudeau’s father in 1980. along the familiar Tory versus Reform/ OPINION Ontario decisively broke the back of Alliance fault line. It will be hard for a the Conservative bid for a fourth consecparty that has taken no prisoners for a utive mandate. In Canada’s largest province, the decade, including within its own ranks, to find a uniLiberals won more than twice as many seats as the fying figure to replace Harper. Conservatives. As for the Bloc Québécois, even niqab politics In the process, Ontario voters parted with their could not yield the 12 seats it needed to once again long-held tradition of putting their election eggs in enjoy official party status in Parliament. For the secdifferent federal and provincial baskets. ond consecutive federal election in a row, Quebec Over the course of a bit more than a year, they voters have turned their backs on the sovereigntist have now installed or helped install Liberals at both to cast their lot with a federalist party. The Bloc Queen’s Park and in the House of Commons. came out of the night with more seats but a smaller Harper is said to have stuck around for this share of the popular vote than it had managed to campaign to get the satisfaction of beating Pierre keep four years ago. This is not the kind of momen-
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tum-inducing result Parti Québécois Leader PierreKarl Péladeau was hoping for. Still, in the end, it was the NDP that suffered the most brutal night. Eighty days ago, the New Democrats has federal power in sight for the first time in their history. After the votes were counted, the party could be said to have been set back two decades. The party was shut out of Atlantic Canada; it was reduced to a distant also-ran in Quebec. It won fewer than 10 seats in Ontario. It is returning to a distant third place in the House of Commons, a lessened position to which Mulcair is no more suited than Harper would have been in the role of leader of the opposition to Trudeau. Few Parliament Hill watchers will mourn the defeat of MPs such as Paul Calandra, Harper’s personal attack dog in question period, or that of tin-eared Conservative ministers such as Julian Fantino and Chris Alexander. But a lot of new blood was also shed in the war between the NDP and the Liberals as promising candidates for one party defeated equally promising ones for another. Think of the battle that pitted two articulate star female candidates in their own right, such as Chrystia Freeland against Jennifer Hollett in University-Rosedale or former astronaut Marc Garneau and the former head of the Old Brewery mission, James Hughes, in Montreal. The NDP has just sacrificed its most talented slate of candidates ever to a self-destructive battle against the Liberals. Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer syndicated by the Toronto Star.
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‘We’re back’ JUSTIN TRUDEAU SENDS MESSAGE TO CANADA’S ALLIES ABROAD BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
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OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau made a triumphant return to the nation’s capital Tuesday and immediately began setting a new tone for the Canadian government, both at home and abroad. To those around the world who may have had difficulty recognizing the Canada of old during a decade of combative, militaristic Conservative rule under Stephen Harper, the Liberal prime minister-designate had a direct message. “Many of you have worried that Canada has lost its compassionate and constructive voice in the world over the past 10 years,” Trudeau told a boisterous partisan rally in Ottawa. “Well, I have a simple message for you. On behalf of 35 million Canadians, we’re back.” At a news conference later, he also had a reassuring message for civil servants, many of whom complained of being muzzled and ignored by the Harper regime. Trudeau promised to run “a government that listens to, works with and respects the public service.” And he had another message for the parliamentary press gallery, which has been shunned and vilified by the Harper Conservatives, that he intends to run a more open, media-friendly shop. Fresh from his stunning victory in Monday’s election, Trudeau held a formal news conference in the national press theatre — something Harper did only handful of times and not at all since late 2008. Trudeau said “it’s important to underline the important role that the media fills in public dis-
government up and running at the same time. Nevertheless, Trudeau is already getting a quick introduction to international affairs, fielding congratulatory phone calls from U.S. President Barack Obama, as well as the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Mexico and Italy. While he and Obama had a “warm conversation” in which the president teased him about his lack of gray hair, Trudeau said they also discussed his commitment to withdraw Canadian fighter jets from the U.S.-led aerial bombing mission against Islamic radicals in Syria and Iraq. Trudeau believes Canada’s military involvement should be restricted to training missions only. “We talked about Canada’s continued engagement as a strong member of the coalition against ISIL. And I committed that we would continue to engage in a responsible way,” Trudeau said. “But he understands the commitments I’ve made around ending the combat missions.” At the rally earlier, Trudeau used the occasion to thank staff in party headquarters and the 80,000 volunteers whom he credited with making nearly 12 million phone calls and door knocks over the course of the longest campaign in modern Canadian history. But as gruelling as the campaign was, he acknowledged the hard part starts now. “This afternoon we can celebrate, but our hard work is only beginning.”
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Prime minister designate Justin Trudeau walks to a news conference from Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Tuesday. course and public life” and, when the news conference was over, he vowed: “I’ll be back. I promise.” For now, though, tone is all Trudeau can set. He will not officially take office until Nov. 4, when he plans to swear in a new cabinet. He would not commit to recalling Parliament before Christmas, only to doing so “as quickly as is reasonable.” His schedule for the next two months is anything but reasonable, with four back-to-back international summits scheduled starting in mid-November. Trudeau suggested he may not attend all of them. He said he’s “committed” to attend-
ing the United Nations climate change conference with the premiers in Paris at the end of November. That leaves the Liberals just weeks to come up with a national position based on the party’s promise to join with the provinces and territories to put a price on carbon and reduce carbon pollution. As for the G20 summit in Turkey and a meeting of leaders of Pacific Rim countries in the Philippines, Trudeau said only that he hopes to attend. He did not mention the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Malta, saying he’d have to see how many international trips he can squeeze in while trying to get his new
Names fly as Conservatives plan leadership race BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Charest, Raitt, Ford, Kenney … Mulroney? The names of potential leadership contenders began swirling around Conservative circles within hours of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal win, including that of another man who grew up at 24 Sussex Drive — Mark Mulroney. Mulroney, son of former prime minister Brian Mulroney, is the head of equity capital markets at National Bank. Brother Ben is a well-known broadcaster with the CTV network. His name might be sheer speculation, but in these early days before the race crystallizes, party members will have fun blue-skying about possible contenders. The structure of the race itself hasn’t taken shape yet. A conference call of the party’s governing body will
take place Tuesday night to appoint a committee tasked with organizing the leadership contest. The Conservative constitution lacks specifics on the rules for a leadership contest. Ontario MP and former cabinet minister Lisa Raitt isn’t ruling out a run, but said there’s analytical work to be done before anyone heads down that road. “We need to understand what happened before we understand where we’re going in the future,” said Raitt, who is advocating for a meeting of all current and unseated caucus members. “Until you know what the problems were, you can’t put yourself forward being the solution.” Early Tuesday, a group promoting former Toronto city councillor Doug Ford put out a press release supporting his potential candidacy. Ford delivered a 10-minute speech at a Harper
rally just a few days ago. “I can’t answer that now,” Ford told Toronto Sun reporter Don Peat on Tuesday when asked about the unfolding race. He was seen having lunch recently with another possible contender, MP and former cabinet minister Kellie Leitch. Leitch has been said to be kicking the tires for a possible run. Of all the names most often mentioned, MP Jason Kenney is the one believed to be the best organized and placed for a run. Party insiders say Kenney has been quietly putting together a base of support for many years, particularly through his contact with ethnic communities across the country. He is also likely to have the strongest support within the caucus itself, having lent his campaigning and fundraising assistance to so many of the MPs and candidates.
NDP dreams shattered by Trudeau campaign train BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — The soul-searching is starting among members of the NDP after the stunning collapse of their vote in the federal election. Party insiders say they saw the electoral freight train that was Justin Trudeau’s campaign coming down the tracks as much as a month ago, but many in the senior leadership refused to believe it. Even still, the insiders says the scope of the loss and the prospect of a long, painful, rebuilding process are just beginning to sink in. Some of the party’s brightest public lights have been extinguished. High-profile MPs, including deputy leader Megan Leslie, Peter Stoffer, Jack Harris, Paul Dewar, Nycole Turmel and Peggy Nash lost their seats.
Mulcair plans to spend the day calling all members of his team — elected and defeated — to praise them for their work on the campaign. The question on the minds of many people outside the party is whether leader Mulcair will stick around to lead a vastly smaller caucus of 44 MPs, especially when some in the party have questioned whether he dragged the NDP too far to the centre in a failed effort to make it electable. Robin Sears, who once served as the NDP’s national director, says the party is not inclined to turf leaders. “No. 1, you have a huge investment in the brand of the leader,” Sears said. “Even if things have gone badly on election night, why would you write that off immediately? “No. 2, post-election-defeat leadership contests are never pleasant. They’re always divisive. Why would
you do that if you didn’t have to either?” Sears said he has always been “quite baffled by the enthusiasm of other political tribes to kill the king” as soon as defeat has set in. “It has so many negative consequences,” he said.
BY THE NUMBERS OTTAWA — A by-the-numbers look at Canada’s incoming members of Parliament: 338: Total seats in the House of Commons. 30: Seats added from the last Parliament. 88: Women newly elected to the House of Commons. 197: Candidates elected to the House for the first time. 20: Seats the NDP won in Western Canada. 16: Seats the NDP won in Quebec. 37.9: Per cent of ridings where the winner and runner-up were separated by less than 10 per cent of the vote. 42,165: Votes separating Conservative Kevin Sorenson from runner-up Liberal Andy Kowalski in the Alberta riding of Battle River-Crowfoot, the widest margin of victory in the country. 47,650: Votes Sorenson received, the most of any candidate in Monday’s election. 39: Votes obtained by Brian Sproule, the Marxist-Leninist candidate in Burnaby North-Seymour, the fewest of any candidate in the federal election. 1,792: Candidates who ran in Monday’s election. Sources: Elections Canada, Parliament of Canada website
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UN chief urges calm in Middle East BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for calm during a surprise visit to Jerusalem on Tuesday ahead of meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, in a high-profile gambit to bring an end to a monthlong wave of violence. The visit comes amid unrest that erupted a month ago over tensions surrounding Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site sacred to Jews and Muslims. A spate of almost daily Palestinian attacks against civilians and soldiers, most of which have involved stabbings, has caused panic across Israel and raised fears that the region is on the cusp of a new round of bloodshed. “These are difficult times for Israelis and Palestinians. I am here in the hope that we can work together to end the violence, ease the tensions and begin to restore a long term political horizon of peace,” Ban said at a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday night. “I deplore the random attacks against civilians, such terror attacks make every place unsafe and every person regardless to gender or age a potential victim,” he said. “We need to keep the situation from escalation into a religious conflict, with potential regional implications,” he added. Over the past month, 10 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks, most of them stabbings. In that time, 46 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire, including 25 identified by Israel as attackers, and the rest in clashes with Israeli troops. An Eritrean migrant died after being shot by a security guard and beaten by a mob that mistakenly believed he was a Palestinian assailant during a deadly Arab attack at a bus station. Netanyahu said Tuesday night that the violence has been caused largely by incitement from Palestinian leaders, including President Mahmoud Abbas. “President Abbas unfortunately has been fanning the flames. President Abbas has not condemned a single one of the 30 terrorist attacks against Israelis over the last month and he continues to glorify the terrorists as heroes,” Netanyahu said. The initial outbreak of Palestinian
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A Palestinian swings a sling during clashes with Israeli troops, near Ramallah, West Bank, Tuesday. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for calm during a surprise visit to Jerusalem on Tuesday ahead of meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, in a high-profile gambit to bring an end to a month-long wave of violence. attacks was fueled by rumours that Israel was plotting to take over Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site. Unrest began about a month ago, when Palestinians repeatedly barricaded themselves inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, hurling stones, firebombs and fireworks at police. The hilltop compound in Jerusalem’s Old City is revered by Jews as the Temple Mount, site of the two Jewish biblical Temples. It is the holiest site in Judaism. Known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, it houses the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the gold-topped Dome of the Rock. It is the third-holiest site in Islam after Mecca and Medina in Sau-
di Arabia. Israel has adamantly denied the allegations, saying it has no plans to change the status quo at the site, where Jews are allowed to visit but not pray. Israel has accused Palestinian leaders of incitement to violence over the site. But Jewish visits to the site have doubled since 2010 and senior members of Netanyahu’s government have called for Jewish prayer rights, fueling Palestinian concerns about the site. Netanyahu, using an alternative acronym for the Islamic State group, said “President Abbas has joined ISIS and Hamas in claiming that Israel threatens the Al-Aqsa Mosque. This Mr. Secretary is a total lie.” He said Abbas
must be held accountable for his “dangerous words.” He insisted that Israel is maintaining the status quo at the site. “Palestinians by contrast are the ones who violate the status quo. Palestinians have brought explosives into Al-Aqsa Mosque, that’s a violation of the status quo, they try violently to prevent Jews and Christians from visiting the Temple Mount, that’s another violation of the status quo.” Palestinian official Saeb Erekat said the “The U.N. Security Council should adopt a decision that would set the principles for establishing a state with east Jerusalem as its capital and providing international protection for the Palestinian people.”
Airstrikes, fighting sends thousands fleeing NORTHERN SYRIA
BEIRUT — A U.N. official said Tuesday that recent fighting in northern Syria has displaced tens of thousands of people — some of them staying in open fields with nowhere to go — as clashes between Russian-backed Syrian government forces and opposition fighters intensified. Activists meanwhile said that Russian airstrikes killed at least 45 people in a Syrian coastal province, including a rebel commander who formerly served in President Bashar Assad’s army. If confirmed, it would make it one of the deadliest incidents since Russia began its aerial campaign in Syria Sept. 30. The Russian airstrikes have allowed Syrian troops and their allies from Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group to launch multiple ground offensives in northern, central and southern Syria as well as in the rebel-held suburbs of the capital, Damascus. That has increased pressure on Western-backed rebels and pushed more civilians out of the areas of fighting, potentially creating a fresh wave of refugees. A U.N. official in Geneva said that around 35,000 people are reported to have been displaced from the villages of Hader and Zerbeh on the southwestern outskirts of Aleppo city over the past few days. “Many people are living with host families and in the informal settlements in areas west of the city,” said
Vanessa Huguenin, a spokeswoman for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. “People urgently need food and basic household and shelter items,” she said in an emailed statement, adding that aid agencies are growing more and more concerned for families living outdoors as the weather gets colder. The Syrian American Medical Society, which has volunteer medical personnel treating victims and reporting on attacks in Syria, said Russian airstrikes in the area over the weekend targeted the only two hospitals in southern Aleppo, forcing both facilities to shut down and evacuate patients. Opposition fighters have so far been able to slow down the push by government forces, thanks to U.S.-made anti-tank missiles, although fighting on multiple fronts is draining their resources. Jamil Saleh, leader of Tajammu Elezzah, a rebel group backed by the CIA operating in the central province of Hama, said no new types of weapons have reached the rebels but that their stocks have been replenished. He refused to elaborate. “There is assistance but qualitatively there is nothing new,” he said in a written exchange. He said the rebels are putting up a fight and pushing back against advances and the government is accumulating more losses. “Hezbollah, Iranians and Russians
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are not from Syria and they don’t know its geography. They also have the traits of mercenaries,” he said. Turkey-based activist Faraj Shaheed and Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV said government troops captured the villages of Shqaidli, Abteen and Safera in the southern parts of Aleppo
province. The goal appears to be opening a path to the strategic northwestern town of Jisr el-Shughour in the northern province of Idlib, which Assad’s forces lost to insurgents in April. The loss of Jisr al-Shughour, followed by the fall of the entire province, was a resounding defeat for Assad, opening the way for rebels to threaten his traditional stronghold in the coastal province of Latakia.
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Construction industry poised to benefit LIBERAL PROMISES TO BOOST INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING WILL HELP SOME COMPANIES’ BOTTOM LINES “It’s much easier to deal with longterm infrastructure programs when there’s some certainty about the programs themselves.” Economists said Trudeau’s plan, which would see the government borrow money by selling bonds, will push much needed fiscal stimulus into Canada’s lagging economy, at least in the near term. “The net fiscal boost — and we can all debate the appropriateness of running deficits — will give at least a short-term lift to economic growth, with most of the impact landing in 2016,” BMO economist Douglas Porter said Tuesday in a note to clients. “At best, the stimulus would lift GDP growth by a bit more than 0.5 per cent next year,” he added, noting that even if the effects prove temporary, they would keep the potential for another rate cut from the Bank of Canada at bay and could even lead to a rate hike. One company that could benefit is SNC-Lavalin, which has landed multi-
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Corporate Canada is sizing up the Liberal majority and what it could mean for their bottom lines, with the construction industry particularly poised to benefit from Justin Trudeau’s promises to boost infrastructure spending. The Liberal leader has vowed to inject billions of dollars into repairing roads, building bridges and improving waste water treatment plants across the country, among other projects — all commitments that could cement big profits for the bricks-and-mortar industry. “There’s no question, the Liberal commitment to infrastructure in their election platform was sizable,” said Michael Atkinson, president of the Canadian Construction Association. “We’re very excited about that.” The government’s majority status will be helpful in implementing infrastructure projects, he added.
million-dollar contracts with various levels of government in the past. But the Montreal-based engineering giant, which declined to comment Tuesday, could be banned from bidding on federal contracts for 10 years it if is convicted of fraud for work in Libya. The company’s case is still before the courts. It has said it will plead not guilty. RBC analyst Sara O’Brien listed Aecon Group Inc. (TSX:ARE), Stantec Inc. (TSX:STN), WSP Global Inc. (TSX:WSP) and Canam Group Inc. (TSX:CAM) as other companies in the engineering and construction sector that are likely to reap rewards from increased infrastructure spending. Medical marijuana stocks also surged on news of Trudeau’s win, with Canopy Growth Corp. (TSXV:CGC) up more than 10 per cent in morning trading to $2.40. Shares of Canopy, a combined company formed by Tweed Marijuana Inc. and Bedrocan Cannabis Corp., have soared more than 40 per cent over the
past five days, while Mettrum Health Corp. (TSXV:MT) saw its shares shoot up eight per cent, or 15 cents, Tuesday morning to $1.99. Licensed producers are preparing for the likelihood that the new government will permit recreational access to the drug as the Liberals have promised — a move that would fuel rapid growth in Canada’s burgeoning cannabis industry. “One of the keys will be learning from the experience we’ve had over the last 18 months in providing medicine to patients … and looking at what can be translated into adult recreational use,” said Greg Engel, the CEO of B.C.-based Tilray. Engel said the potential growth in the cannabis industry if a recreational program were implemented is difficult to quantify, adding that the medical program alone is expected to see significant expansion. “I can’t predict what the adult recreational market would look like,” he said.
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BRIEF Home sales continue to lag Central Alberta home sales continue to lag behind last year’s record-setting numbers. There were 411 sales last month, down 18.3 per cent from the same month last year, according to Multiple Listing Service statistics from the Central Alberta Realtors Association. The dollar value of sales fell 22 per cent to $123.1 million. On a year-to-date basis, the numbers are similar with the 3,682 sales representing a 16.9 per cent decline from last year. While the numbers are down sharply from last year, September sales still remain above the five-year average. It was also the third best September on record both in house sale numbers and dollar value. Central Alberta region is also faring better than the province as a whole, where the number of sales fell 23.7 per cent last month compared to September 2014 and the dollar value was down 27.1 per cent.
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A Canadian Pacific Rail maintenance worker climbs onto a locomotive at the company’s Port Coquitlam yard east of Vancouver, B.C.
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’Just leave us alone,’ CPR CEO tells Trudeau BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The head of Canada’s second-largest railway urged the country’s incoming Liberal government to stop what is says is Ottawa’s history of meddling in its operations. Canadian Pacific Railway CEO Hunter Harrison said the Conservatives and prior Liberal governments haven’t done much in the past to help the railway. “Just leave us alone, give us a level playing field and let us run our business,” Harrison said Tuesday during a conference call about its third-quarter results a day after Justin Trudeau led the Liberals to a majority government. The Calgary-based company and its larger rival, Canadian National Railway (TSX:CNR), were highly critical of the Tories for imposing fines and setting minimum grain volume requirements last year following backlogs in moving a bumper grain crop.
Harrison said he hopes the new government won’t again regulate Western grains. “I think they’ve got larger issues than to worry about than rails in Canada,” he said, adding that the country has been best rail system in the world. Canadian Pacific (TSX:CP) beat analyst expectations as it posted stronger adjusted profits by continuing to control costs while facing weaker volumes. CP’s adjusted profits were $427 million or $2.69 per share, which was up 16 per cent from the same time last year and two cents above an estimate compiled by Thomson Reuters. Revenues rose to $1.709 billion in the three months ended Sept. 30, up two per cent from the third quarter of 2014. Analysts had estimated $2.67 per share of adjusted earnings and $1.686 billion of revenue. Net income decreased 19 per cent to $323 million or $2.04 per diluted share —mainly because of the impact of for-
eign exchange fluctuations on the value of the debt it owes. The company said it plans to cut up to $400 million in capital spending next year and will extend its holiday from buying locomotives a few more years until at least 2018. Cutting costs will further improve operating efficiencies to ensure double-digit EPS growth next year despite the weak economy, the company told analysts. Measures being taken include running trains faster, running fewer locomotives and further reducing staff levels. The workforce is already down nine per cent from last year and 5,900 positions have been cut since Harrison joined the railway more than three years ago. “There is no silver bullet there,” said chief operating officer Keith Creel. “It is rightsizing our assets relative to the business levels with a much more productive physical plant — doing more with less effectively.”
VANCOUVER — Securities regulators in nine provinces are warning about fraudulent stock promotions that use popular smartphone applications such as WhatsApp to generate investor interest. They say the so-called pump-anddump scheme targets potential investors in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, and Saskatchewan. The sham involves creating artificial interest in a particular stock by using spam to talk up the benefits of a company and convince people to invest. But investors have no idea that the person or company touting the stock owns a large amount of it and as more investors buy shares, the value skyrockets. Securities regulators say that once the price hits a peak, the scam artists sell their shares and the stock value plummets, with investors left holding worthless shares. They say app users should ignore any promotional spam and report it to their provincial or territorial securities regulatory authority.
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A bumper crop of information As harvest 2015 winds down, like farmers bringing in their crops, I was able to reap a bumper crop of information and experiences over the past month. Seems like a good time to share my ‘gleanings’ with you. Each year, the Canadian Farm Writer’s Association has a conference and tour to give we ag reporters some new experiences, as well DIANNE as a chance to FINSTAD discuss issues FROM THE FIELD we’re covering on a regular basis, and network with each other. This year’s event was in Calgary, and I was able to take in the tour which visited a number of beef related enterprises. At CL Ranches near Cochrane, we heard from Cheri Copithorne-Barnes about the challenges of managing a fourth-generation ranch which borders the city of Calgary, as well as two different First Nations reserves. Their scenic location provides challenges as well as opportunities, and the family has been able to diversify in unique ways, such as building a movie set. We even had a chance to get a drive-thru peek at where the TV program Hell on Wheels was being shot. As well, the family set up a guiding company to manage and organize hunters who want access, working around the varied ranch operations. Being so close to urban eyes puts extra pressure on the ranch’s environmental practices, and they’ve been careful to track their good processes. The focus on their cattle herd is not breed specific, but rather looking for
traits that will give them the economic performance in the environment they face. The quest led them to using some Sussex genetics, which has proven to be a good cross for the hybrid vigor they seek in the herd. Copithorne-Barnes has learned the importance of speaking up on issues, and she’s currently serving as chair of the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef. As that group works on defining the sometimes catch-all term ‘sustainability’, Copithorne-Barnes lives those challenges on a daily basis, trying to keep their own ranch relevant and profitable enough to attract another generation of the family back to run it. Other tour stops included Rocky Mountain Holsteins, which focuses on genomics to select and breed elite dairy animals, again within a near urban setting. We also had a chance to hear from Dr. Alastair Cribb, the Dean of the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, as he took us around the teaching and research facility. The program has a large animal, rural-practice aim, which gives students their clinical experience in the real world with working vets across the province. As well, Dr. Cribb explained, academics marks aren’t the only factor when going over the applicant pool. “We want good vets, not just those who writes good tests,” he told us. An interview and an essay are also key in the selection process. In the training, there’s an emphasis on teaching students professional skills for dealing with people, to complement the animal science. Another tour highlight was the new Canadian Beef Centre of Excellence in Calgary. There we got a chance to see how Chef Marty Carpenter and butcher Abe Van Melle share the story of beef with customers from near and far. Representatives of 25 different nations have already visited the Centre. One of
the objectives is showing how to add extra value to the entire carcass, like finding new uses for trim, or different ways of cutting and cooking certain muscles often overlooked. But it’s not only food service and retailers Canada Beef is targeting with its education. A new Roundup App is designed to help demystify the meat case for consumers, by putting a tool at the fingertips of shoppers to help them know how to buy the right cut of beef and cook it well. Of course, we got to sample their work, and I can vouch for the quality taste factor! Those are just a few snapshots from an informative weekend. Also this month I had the chance to take in some of the western horse action at the Canadian Supreme in Red Deer. It was great to see the show’s long-time announcer Ron Anderson be inducted into the Canadian Supreme Hall of Fame. I enjoy listening to, learning from, and have even had a chance to work with Ron, whose knowledge of the equine world is immense. He’s got a quick wit and sense of humor, so you always need a keen ear to catch all that he delivers. Anderson was moved to near speechlessness by the honor! And he enjoyed the opportunity to reflect back on the many stories of the Supreme, like one of the early years when he announced some classes in the outdoor ring in the midst of an October winter weather snap! Many central Alberta riders and trainers did well at the Supreme. That included Elaine Speight of Rocky, who’s no stranger to success in cutting competitions. But it was extra special this year, because her husband Bill was able to be there and cheer her on, just six weeks after suffering a heart attack. Innisfail trainer Geoff Hoar also had a career highlight when he was
finally able to win the Open Bridle class, one of the popular contests during the Saturday night evening showcase. He rode a horse called Dazzle Disco to first in an exciting fence work finale. “I’ve been reserve once before, and I’ve crashed and burned in the Finals before too,” smiled Hoar. “This is one of the bigger titles to win, and it was neat because the horse is only six, and was the youngest in the contest.” “He’s cowy and gritty, but definitely has some swagger. When he saw the crowd watching him on Saturday night, he stepped it up.” Hoar will also be taking the horse to Fort Worth, TX in February for a World competition, and will enter him in the World’s Greatest Horseman contest there too . Other local riders to do well at the Supreme included Brady Jensen of Delburne, Michelle Lund of Bluffton and Colton Hall of Lacombe. While I’m digesting all I was able to learn the past month, I see it’s going to be a big month ahead. The Westerner Championship Dairy Showcase starts October 29th, with the addition of the Alberta Milk Regional Meeting to the activities at Westerner Park. Both Jersey and Holstein cattle show throughout the weekend, and it’s an event that often determines which cows will be heading east next to be part of the Royal Winter Fair dairy show. As well, mark your calendars for November 11-15 for Agri-Trade. It’s your chance to see the Ag Innovation winners, plus get new equipment and technology ideas for your operation. Plus it’s a great chance to visit, and do your own information harvesting. Dianne Finstad is a veteran broadcaster and reporter who has covered agricultural news in Central Alberta for more than 30 years. From the Field appears monthly in the Advocate.
Saskatchewan changes law to clarify who can own farmland BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
Shell changes response to possible blowout, gets OK to drill off N.S. BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — A federal regulator will allow Shell Canada Ltd. to begin exploration drilling off Nova Scotia after it reduced the number of days it would take the company to bring in capping technology in the event of a subsea well blowout. The company says it would have a capping stack on site within 12 to 13 days after previously saying it would take up to 21 days. The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board said Tuesday it is satisfied that Shell is taking all reasonable precautions to protect safety and the environment. Environmentalists have questioned the amount of time it would take the multinational company to bring a vessel and a capping system to the Shelburne Basin offshore site, about 250 kilometres off the southwestern coast of Nova Scotia. They say the most recent U.S. ruling in Alaska requires that a capping stack be on hand for a blowout within 24 hours. The offshore petroleum board says Shell initially plans to drill two exploratory wells, but before it drills the first well it must receive approval from the board, which it anticipates will be issued within a few days. Approval for the second well will also be required. The board says in addition to bringing in a capping stack within 12 to 13 days, Shell has agreed to also deploy a second capping stack at the same time as a contingency. The board says it has imposed more stringent conditions on Shell over the past five years including improvements to the blowout preventer. “With the stringent requirements now in place for blowout preventers, independent well examiners, real time monitoring and CNSOPB’s deep water drilling oversight plan … we are confident that all reasonable precautions
to protect safety and the environment have been taken,” board CEO Stuart Pinks said in a statement. But Mark Butler, of the Halifax-based Ecology Action Centre, thinks the board should have been even more stringent in reducing the time required to get capping technology in place. He said there’s no guarantee the equipment will make it in the time required in the unlikely event of a blowout, given the unpredictability of weather in the Atlantic. “It’s still two weeks of oil flowing into the ocean in the event of a blowout,” Butler said. “We should have capping stack technology here in Atlantic Canada, so it’s 24 or 48 hours to get it out to the shelf.” Christine Pagan, Shell’s Atlantic Canada venture manager, said it has been 10 years since the company drilled exploratory wells off Nova Scotia. “Shell has more than 30 years of experience operating safely in the deep water around the world,” she said in a news release. The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency has said a blowout in the wells that are planned is unlikely. It also said the Alaska plan to have a vessel and capping system on call was based on the harsh, icy environment in the area and the long distances a vessel would have to travel to get there. An overview of the project published on the petroleum board’s website says Shell Canada plans to begin drilling in the fourth quarter of this year and the first phase is expected to take 11 to 12 months. Shell acquired six exploration licences in the Shelburne Basin in 201213. It says the Shelburne Basin has water depths ranging from 1,500 to 3,500 metres. The Nova Scotia premier’s office said a drilling vessel owned by Scotland-based Stena Drilling arrived in the province’s waters on Tuesday to begin work on the $1 billion exploration program.
— AGRICULTURE MINISTER LYLE STEWART farmland and limit foreign ownership to four hectares, but the investment board’s structure made it eligible. “While they have purchased some farmland, we will not be ordering divestiture since at the time that they purchased it, the purchase was legal,” said Stewart. “They would not be eligible to purchase farmland again.” Ray Orb, president of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities, says the big concern was around so-called mega-farms that weren’t locally owned. He believes the changes to the legislation will help protect communities. “We see our small communities dwindling,” said Orb. “We’ve had that actually happen in our community of Cupar, where we had foreign-land ownership and it kind of decimated our community because people weren’t moving there. They were sending the money out of the country. “And so we want people to move there, to bring their kids with them, to expand the schools and to keep the hospitals running.” The legislation still has to be passed, but the new rules are expected to come into effect by next year.
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An explosion at British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon offshore rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, killed 11 workers. Federal regulator The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board shortened the timeline that Shell Canada must bring in a capping stack in the event of a blowout during its drilling off the coast of N.S.
REGINA — Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart has introduced amendments to Saskatchewan’s farm security legislation that will make pension plans and their administrators ineligible from owning farmland in the province. All financing for a farmland purchase will also have to be through a financial institution registered to do business in Canada or by a Canadian resident. “If a foreign financial institution or individual loaned the money to purchase the farmland and then subsequently foreclosed, that foreign entity would be the owner of the farmland, so I think that’s where the concern comes with foreign financing,” Stewart said Tuesday. The changes come after almost nine out of every 10 people who responded to a government survey said they didn’t want the province’s farmland to end up in foreign hands. Eighty-seven per cent of the more than 3,200 respondents said they didn’t support foreign ownership and 75 per cent said they were opposed to allowing investors such as Canadian pension funds to purchase farmland. Farmers had raised concerns about loopholes they said allowed investors to drive up rents and farmland prices in the province. The Farm Land Security Board will also get tougher powers to enforce the rules. “There’s a belief that some transactions were slipping under the radar, transactions that would be illegal, and that the Farm Land Security Board couldn’t stop them,” said Stewart. The question of who can own farmland in Saskatchewan prompted a spirited debate that was sparked after the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board started buying up farms in 2013. The rules currently don’t allow institutional investors to own Saskatchewan
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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 115.37 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.12 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.86 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 69.42 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market and the loonie both closed slightly higher Tuesday as investors mulled Justin Trudeau’s majority win in Monday’s federal election. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 83.54 points at 13,841.92, outperforming its American counterparts, which all closed slightly in the red. Meanwhile, the loonie rose against the American greenback, up 0.22 of a U.S. cent to 77.03 cents US. Colin Cieszynski, chief market strategist at CMC Markets Canada, said investors were reacting positively to news that the Liberals won an unexpected majority. “You’re not going to be worrying about them getting knocked out and having to have an election again in two years,” Cieszynski said. In addition to erasing the uncertainty related to the possibility of another election, the government’s majority status also means they won’t have to lean on other parties — notably the NDP — for support, Cieszynski said. “The NDP isn’t going to hold the hammer or the swing vote in a minority parliament, which could push them (the Liberals) farther to the left,” Cieszynski said. Martin Pelletier, portfolio manager at TriVest Wealth Counsel, said a majority government is good news for businesses generally because minority governments may have difficulty passing new legislation. “It’s hard to get things done, and we need to get things done in the energy patch,” he said. “We have infrastructure issues and environmental issues and so we can’t kick that can any longer and international investors want
Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 21.29 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.14 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.75 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 25.28 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 10.26 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.50 First Quantum Minerals . . 6.92 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 20.02 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 6.36 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.87 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.96 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 28.22 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.910 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 8.07 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 20.39 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 19.67 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 53.17 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.55 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 22.05 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 31.15 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 9.85 Canyon Services Group. . 5.41 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 21.00 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1800 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 11.00 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.730 to see some action there.” The gold sector of the TSX was the biggest gainer, up nearly four per cent, while energy rose 1.4 per cent. Healthcare declined roughly six per cent. The major U.S. indexes traded within a narrow range Tuesday and finished the day slightly lower as investors looked to individual companies’ earnings reports. The Dow Jones average of 30 stocks was down 13.43 points at 17,217.11 and the broader S&P 500 futures gave back 2.89 points to 2,030.77, while the Nasdaq retreated 24.50 points to 4,880.97. “Some companies are doing okay and some aren’t and so that’s kind of leaving the broader markets in a holding pattern,” Cieszynski said. On commodity markets, the December gold contract was up $4.70 at US$1,177.5 an ounce, the December crude contract was up one cent at US$46.29 a barrel and the November contract for natural gas was up three cents at US$2.48 per thousand cubic feet. In corporate news, shares of Air Canada (TSX:AC) rose 4.2 per cent, or 45 cents, to $11.12. The airline announced that it has reached a tentative, 10-year deal with the union that represents more than 7,000 of its flight attendants. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Tuesday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,841.92, up 83.54 points Dow — 17,217.11, down 13.43 points S&P 500 — 2,030.77, down 2.89 points Nasdaq — 4,880.97, down 24.50 points
Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 80.83 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 37.68 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.52 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 21.85 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.49 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 1.28 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.450 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.97 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.84 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.080 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.50 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 47.66 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1900 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 76.15 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 60.76 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.22 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 24.69 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 33.46 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 37.29 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 94.30 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.61 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 41.82 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.32 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 74.39 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 44.03 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.17 Currencies: Cdn — 77.03 cents US, up 0.22 of a cent Pound — C$2.0049, down 0.89 of a cent Euro — C$1.4720, down 0.27 of a cent Euro — US$1.1339, up 0.12 of a cent Oil futures: US$45.55 per barrel, down 34 cents (November contract) Gold futures: US$1,177.50 per oz., up $4.70 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.395 oz., up 6.6 cents $687.85 kg., up $2.12 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov ‘15 $0.30 higher $471.50 Jan. ‘16 $2.10 higher $478.30 March ‘16 $2.70 higher $481.60 May ‘16 $2.40 higher $482.00 July ‘16 $1.70 higher $480.90 Nov. ‘16 $2.50 higher $471.10 Jan. ‘17 $2.50 higher $469.30 March ‘17 $2.50 higher $471.00 May ‘17 $2.50 higher $471.00 July ‘17 $2.50 higher $471.00 Nov. ‘17 $2.50 higher $471.00. 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. Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 968,520 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 968,520.
$20M settlement of Beck’s lawsuit over deceptive packaging MIAMI — U.S. drinkers of Beck’s beer who thought the American-made brew they were buying was still a fancy, century-old German import can get cash payments under a $20 million settlement approved Tuesday in a class-action lawsuit over deceptive packaging. On tap: People with proof they bought Beck’s at retail outlets could get up to $50 per household. Those without receipts can qualify for $12 maximum. Claims may be filed through Nov. 20 via a court-approved website: www. becksbeersettlement.com . The settlement, approved by U.S. Magistrate Judge John J. O’Sullivan, came in a lawsuit filed in 2013 by several Beck’s drinkers who noticed there was almost no visible “made in the U.S.A.” language on the beer’s packaging even though it has been brewed in St. Louis, Missouri, since 2012. Instead, in big letters, the Anheuser-Busch InBev brand emphasized its “German Quality,” noted that it was made under the “German Purity Law of 1516” and originated in Bremen, Germany. All may be true, said plaintiffs’ attorney Tucker Ronzetti, but the point of the lawsuit is that a beer made in St. Louis shouldn’t be passed off as the import it once was — with premium
pricing to boot. “They realized they had been deceived,” Ronzetti said of the plaintiffs. “The packaging didn’t really explain that it was a domestic beer.” There was some U.S.-made language on the packaging and bottles, but it was difficult to find. For example, a Beck’s drinker had to turn a 12-pack upside down to find the country of origin on the box’s bottom. Still, U.S. regulators approved the designs. The original Beck’s brewery, founded in 1873, remained in the same family until 2002, when it was purchased by the Belgian conglomerate now known as Anheuser-Busch InBev. Court documents show that Anheuser-Busch decided for cost reasons to shift brewing for Beck’s U.S. market in 2012 to St. Louis, where the company makes Budweiser and other beers. Yet the Beck’s packaging still emphasized Germany, something Ronzetti’s lawsuit claimed was misleading and false advertising. One Miami plaintiff, Francisco Rene Marty, said in court papers he bought a six-pack or 12-pack of Beck’s every week partly because it was supposedly brewed in Germany using local ingredients that gave it a distinctive taste. Marty said he “would not have purchased Beck’s had he known (Anheuser-Busch’s) representations were false.”
Chevrolet Bolt electric car’s range could surpass 320 km: GM BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WARREN, Mich. — General Motors’ entry into the long-range electric vehicle market should be able to go more than 200 miles (320 kilometres) on a single charge, company officials said Tuesday. The company also plans to market the Chevrolet Bolt, a small hatchback car due out late next year, as a crossover SUV as it tries to take advantage of the global thirst for SUVs. The comments were made at an event at GM’s technical centre north of Detroit announcing joint development efforts with LG Electronics of Korea to design the Bolt’s electric motor, heating and air conditioning system, infotainment screen and other components. LG Chem already has worked with GM on the battery design. GM’s 200-mile range estimate for the Bolt is a bit conservative, product development chief Mark Reuss told reporters, without giving a number.
GM unveiled the Bolt early this year as it tries to compete with Tesla Motors and other automakers that are working on long-range electrics. Many industry watchers see the 200-mile range as making battery-powered cars more appealing to the masses. Reuss said the partnership with LG Chem and LG electronics enabled GM to overcome range, price and utility limitations that have hampered mainstream electric car sales in the past. The Bolt will cost under $30,000 including a $7,500 federal electric car tax credit. At that price, the car would be in the range of Tesla’s planned Model III, which also would go about 200 miles per charge. The car is due out in 2017. Currently Tesla’s Model S sedan can go up to 270 miles per charge, but it starts at more than $70,000. Pam Fletcher, GM’s executive chief engineer for electric vehicles, said the company will try to get the Bolt classified as an SUV because it has the “spaciousness and utility” of a larger vehicle.
Yahoo still struggling to boost revenue, despite CEO plan BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo’s revenue is still evaporating three years into CEO Marissa Mayer’s turnaround attempt, magnifying worries that the Internet company will be stuck in a financial sinkhole after spinning off its lucrative stake in China’s Alibaba Group. A third-quarter report released Tuesday showed Yahoo took another step backward during the summer as its revenue slipped 8 per cent from the same time last year to $1 billion. The figure reflects how much revenue that Yahoo keeps after paying its advertising partners — a bill that has been climbing since the company struck a deal late last year to serve as the builtin search engine in the U.S. on the Firefox browser. It marked the ninth time in the past 11 quarters that Yahoo’s net revenue has declined or remained unchanged from the previous year. Meanwhile, revenue at Yahoo rivals Google, Facebook and Twitter has been steadily surging as advertiser spend more of their marketing budgets on the Internet. Analysts are projecting third-quarter revenue increases ranging from 14 per cent to 55 per cent at Google, Facebook and Twitter when those companies report their results
during the next two weeks. Yahoo’s earnings also plunged 99 per cent to $76 million, or 8 cents per share, during the three months ended in September. The steep decline reflected huge windfall that Yahoo pocketed from selling some of its stock in the Chinese company’s initial public offering. If not for expenses covering employee stock options and other options, Yahoo said it would have earned 15 cents per share to match the estimates of analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research. Yahoo’s stock dipped 38 cents to $32.45 in extended trading after the numbers came out. Investors are now focused on the fate of Yahoo’s plan to place its remaining Alibaba holdings — 384 million shares currently worth about $28 billion — into a new company called Aabaco Holdings. Yahoo is doing the spin-off as part of a plan to prevent the remaining profits from its $1 billion investment in Alibaba from being taxed in the U.S., but it’s now unclear whether that will pan out. The Internal Revenue Service raised doubts by declining to declare the spin-off will protect the Alibaba stake from being taxed.
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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21, 2015
ON VERGE OF ELIMINATION AS ROYALS ROUGH UP PITCHING IN GAME 4 BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Royals 14 Blue Jays 2 TORONTO — A dream season for the Blue Jays could end short of its destination Wednesday, with Toronto once again on the verge of post-season elimination. Ben Zobrist and Alex Rios homered as Kansas City roughed up Toronto starter R.A. Dickey early and a depleted bullpen late en route to a lopsided 14-2 victory Tuesday that pushed the Blue Jays to the playoff precipice. The Royals lead the best-of-seven American League Championship Series 3-1, meaning Toronto now faces its fourth must-win game of the post-season. Game 5 goes Wednesday at the Rogers Centre with Toronto’s Marco Estrada facing Edinson Volquez in a rematch of Game 1 at Kauffman Stadium. “We’ll be fine (Wednesday) if we get a good outing by Marco. We expect to,” Toronto manager John Gibbons said hopefully. “And it was ugly today, no doubt about that. That’s all I can say.” How ugly? Their bullpen in tatters, the Jays sent in infielder Cliff Pennington to pitch with two outs and two on in the ninth. Pennington, who pitched in college, gave up two runs on back-to-back singles in a seven-pitch cameo before Russell Martin saved him with a foul catch at the Jays dugout. The Rogers Centre crowd of 49,501 had little to cheer about. Pennington offered welcome relief, albeit while adding to the smackdown. He arrived to an ovation that grew louder with a 90 m.p.h first strike. Pennington is the first position player to pitch in a post-season game, according to Sportsnet Stats and ESPN Stats. “Trying to save an arm down there,” said Pennington, who talked with Gibbons in the eighth about pitching. “We’ve got to win three in a row and we need everybody healthy and fresh for (Wednesday). Figured I’d try and go in there and help.” With the game a lost cause, Gib-
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Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Cliff Pennington comes in to pitch during the ninth inning in Game 4 of baseball’s American League Championship Series against the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday, in Toronto. bons tried to keep Mark Lowe, Aaron Sanchez and Roberto Osuna — his top three relievers — out of the fray to fight another day. But he had to use Lowe for an inning. The 14 runs allowed matched the Jays’ post-season record for most runs against them, a mark set 22 years to the day in a 15-14 win over the Phillies in the 1993 World Series. The World Series is where these Jays seemed headed after a remarkable second-half surge. The Jays strutted their way into the playoffs after a 22-year absence, an offensive juggernaut that topped the majors in runs and home runs among other categories. But the bats have gone quiet and the bullpen has been suspect outside Lowe, Sanchez and Osuna. After reloading in the off-season
by acquiring Martin and Josh Donaldson, GM Alex Anthopoulos rolled the dice in acquiring David Price, Troy Tulowitzki, Ben Revere and Lowe at the trade deadline. The Royals pitchers have shut down the free-swinging Toronto bats in three of four games. The Jays, who led the majors with 891 runs in the regular season, have scored zero, three, 11 and two against Kansas City. The Jays slugged 232 homers during the season. While they homered three times in Monday’s 11-8 win, they have failed to clear the fences in the other three games. And while the Royals homered twice off Dickey, it has largely been death by a thousand cuts for the Jays. Kansas City scored four of its runs off sacrifice flies Tuesday and has filled
the bases with runners, finding a myriad of ways to bring them home. The opportunistic Royals went 8-for-11 with runners in scoring position. Toronto was 1-for-6. “Defensively we played well. Offensively we played even better,” said Rios. The Jays, who rallied from an 0-2 hole to down Texas in the best-of-five 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. They have their work cut out for them, needing to win three straight. There is no margin of error. “Right now it’s win or go home,” said Martin. “I don’t feel like going home yet so we might as well just win three in a row and get to the World Series.” Added Dickey: “We’ve been here before, where we’ve had to win three games. Hopefully (Wednesday) Marco can keep us in it. Win one, win another one and we’ll see where we stand.” Estrada has thrown the Jays a lifeline once already, keeping them alive with a win in Game 3 of the ALDS in Texas. Dickey lasted five outs, with Kansas City up 5-0 when he left after dispatching just five of the 12 batters he faced in the shortest start in Jays’ playoff history. The first four Royals got on base and ultimately scored, including Zobrist who hit a two-run homer. The four runs in the top of the first were an ALCS record, with Rios adding a solo shot off Dickey in the second. Martin said Dickey didn’t do anything out of the ordinary. The Royals just had some good swings “I had a hard time catching it, so it was dancing around pretty good,” Martin said. “The thing with a knuckleball is if you throw one that doesn’t do enough, it can be a home run.” Liam Hendriks stemmed the flow with 4 1/3 innings of sparking shutout relief. Then LaTroy Hawkins and Ryan Tepera went up in flames, giving up seven runs in 1 2/3 innings.
Shmoorkoff steady as Rebels sixth defenceman BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR As the extra man on the Red Deer Rebels blueline, Austin Shmoorkoff has been extra steady. While his ice time has been limited as the club’s sixth defenceman — a role he inherited when Josh Mahura and Ryan Pouliot went down with injuries — the Edmonton native has dressed for all Austin Shmoorkoff 11 Western Hockey League games and is an impressive plus-five in the plus/minus department. “With (the playing time) I’m getting I’m trying to be at the best of my abil-
ity … just playing a simple game and supporting the boys when I don’t play,” the 18-year-old said Tuesday. “I play a stay-at-home style. I just try to make the simple play and a good first pass.” Shmoorkoff was listed by the Rebels in 2012 and got into six games during the 2013-14 WHL season before being reassigned to the Edmonton midget AAA Canadians. The six-foot-three, 177-pound rearguard didn’t make the Rebels’ roster coming out of training camp last year and started the season with the Okotoks Oilers of the AJHL, with whom he collected four assists in six games. The Oilers, however, owed the Calgary Canucks a player and Shmoorkoff found himself with a new AJHL team. He lasted just four games with the Canucks before being told he was expendable. “They pretty much said there was no room for me there. They said they could deal me somewhere else or I could go home,” said Shmoorkoff, who decided to go back to Edmonton and
suit up with the junior B Beverly Warriors. After appearing in one game with the Rebels last season, he was determined to give it another shot in August. He made the opening-day roster and is still with the team. “I just kept a positive frame of mind. I kept working hard and had a bunch of people supporting me,” he said. “I came into camp prepared to do anything. The goal was to work my bag off, earn a spot on the team and hopefully stick.” So far, so good. “He’s been steady,” said Rebels GM/ head coach Brent Sutter. “He doesn’t play all the time because we’ve often gone with five defencemen, but he’s given us exactly what we thought he would. “It’s been good for him to go through the experience. Last year he didn’t play at all when he was here and this season we had him as the seventh to eighth D-man before Josh got
hurt. Then with Pouliot getting hurt it bumped him into that sixth hole. But he’s given us what we needed.” With Mahura likely out until March following knee surgery, Shmoorkoff is a nice insurance piece on the blueline. Pouliot, sidelined with a lower body injury, skated on his own Tuesday and if he’s not back in the lineup tonight when the Saskatoon Blades visit the Centrium, he might return for home games Friday and Saturday versus the Medicine Hat Tigers and Kootenay Ice. Whatever, Shmoorkoff has slotted into an effective supporting role with the Rebels, who improved to 7-4-0-0 with wins last Friday and Saturday at Victoria and Vancouver and will host the 2016 Memorial Cup tournament in May. “We have a solid team with a lot of depth and a lot of character,” he said. “The two wins we had on the weekend were huge after losing the first two games of the road trip. We battled back and did well.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com
Flames fizzle again with loss to Ovechkin, Capitals BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Capitals 5 Flames 2 CALGARY — Nicklas Backstrom continues to make up for lost time. Backstrom recorded his second multi-point game, scoring twice Tuesday night to lead the Washington Capitals to a 6-2 victory over the struggling Calgary Flames in just his second outing of the season. The 27-year-old forward missed the season’s first three games as he recovered from off-season hip surgery. Backstrom looks fine now though with three goals and two assists since getting back in the line-up. The Capitals blew the game open with three straight goals in the second period, with Backstrom’s first of the night making it 3-1 at 10:56. “We played a solid game. I think we had a game plan before the game and we followed our structure pretty good,” said Backstrom. “Then we capitalized on their mistakes in the second period.” Backstrom’s goal epitomized the defensive struggles the Flames have endured all season in equalling the worst start in franchise history. Justin Williams — with all five Flames skaters affixed on him behind the net — fed the puck to an uncovered Backstrom in the slot and he hammered a one-timer past Karri Ramo. “I was hoping to get it, to be honest. I was just trying to sneak up there in the slot. He made a great pass,” Backstrom said. Just 41 seconds later, TJ Oshie
drove to the top of the crease, knocked Dougie Hamilton out of the way with a hit, and promptly converted Evgeny Kuznetsov’s centring pass before Hamilton could recover. “It’s all of us making bad plays, bad decisions and getting out-battled,” said Flames captain Mark Giordano. “Bottom line is this is as disappointing of a stretch as I can remember in a long time and we’ve got to turn it around.” Alex Ovechkin broke a 1-1 tie 30 seconds into the second with his fourth goal of the season and 900th NHL point. His long shot was stopped by Ramo, but mishandled, allowing the Washington captain to poke in his rebound. “It’s a huge milestone. I have to thank my teammates. It’s hard to do by yourself in this league,” said Ovechkin, who also had an assist. His 479 goals are the most in the NHL since 2001-02, despite not starting his NHL career until 2005. Andre Burakovsky, and Jason Chimera also scored for Washington (4-1-0) and Kuznetsov chipped in with three assists. The Capitals continue their three-game road trip Thursday in Vancouver. Sean Monahan and Giordano scored for Calgary (1-5-0). The Flames have opened with four straight losses on home ice for the first time in franchise history. Also, two points through six games equals the club’s worst overall start. In 1997-98, Calgary began the season 0-4-2. Flames coach Bob Hartley pointed to Ovechkin’s goal as a key moment in the game.
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Washington Capitals’ Chandler Stephenson, right, gets away from Calgary Flames’ Dougie Hamilton during third period NHL action in Calgary, Tuesday. “I could feel the guys on the bench getting down. They came right back and they scored a third goal, a fourth one,” said Hartley. “Right now, that’s where we have to show some character. We have to roll up our sleeves and be ready for any kinds of adversity because no one feels sorry for us around the league.” Hartley pulled Ramo after the fourth goal. He left with 14 saves. Jonas Hiller, surrendered two goals on 12 shots in relief. “Those aren’t bad goals. Those are defensive miscues,” said Flames centre Matt Stajan. “If you leave guys
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wide-open in front for easy goals in the scoring areas, you’re not going to win. We’ve gotta clean it up. This is embarrassing for our hockey club.” Calgary is carrying three goalies, with 24-year-old Joni Ortio also on the roster. Braden Holtby had 17 stops for the win. Notes: Calgary C Joe Colborne (broken thumb) returned after missing the season’s first give games… Ortio has yet to even dress as the back-up. He hasn’t played since his last pre-season appearance on Oct. 1… His goal was Giordano’s first point.
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Mets take command of NLCS MURPHY HOMERS AGAIN, LEADS DEGROM, METS TO 3-0 SERIES LEAD BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Mets 5 Cubs 2 CHICAGO — Maybe somebody can stop Daniel Murphy and solve these young New York Mets aces. Sure hasn’t happened so far in the playoffs. Murphy homered in his record-tying fifth straight post-season game, Jacob deGrom pitched seven strong innings and the Mets beat the Chicago Cubs 5-2 Tuesday night for a 3-0 lead in the NL Championship Series. A cluster of New York fans gathered in the rain behind their team’s dugout after the final out and chanted “Let’s go, Mets!” And with a win Wednesday night at Wrigley Field, the Mets will be going to their first World Series in 15 years. Rookie Steven Matz gets the start for the Mets in Game 4 while Jason Hammel goes for the Cubs. “Being up 3-0, we’re very, very fortunate, because the Cubs have played great,” manager Terry Collins said. “We’ve got to come out tomorrow and Steven Matz has got to give us a game.” After going 0-7 against the Cubs during the regular season, New York is overpowering them with their arms and bats. Yoenis Cespedes and David Wright each had three hits for the Mets. Cespedes scored the goahead run on a two-out wild pitch by Trevor Cahill on a strikeout of Michael Conforto in the sixth inning. Murphy tied the mark set by Houston’s Carlos Beltran in 2004 with his drive off Kyle Hendricks in the third. DeGrom followed up dominant starts by Matt Harvey and Noah Syndergaard in New York with one of his own. The NL Rookie of the Year held the Cubs’ big bats to just two runs and four hits. He struck out seven, walked one and retired his final 11 batters. The righty with the flowing hair improved to 3-0 in his first post-season, with all of the wins coming on the road. Jeurys Familia closed for his fifth save of the post-season. Kyle Schwarber had the towel-waving crowd shaking 101-year old Wrigley Field to its foundation in the first inning with his club-record fifth homer of the post-season. Jorge Soler also had them roaring with his solo drive in the fourth. But manager Joe
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New York Mets’ Daniel Murphy hits a home run during the third inning of Game 3 of the National League baseball championship series against the Chicago Cubs Tuesday, in Chicago. Maddon’s Cubs have just five runs in this series. Barring an epic comeback, a World Series drought that dates to 1908 will continue. Only one other team has won a playoff series after dropping the first three games. Theo Epstein’s Red Sox came back against the New York Yankees in the 2004 AL Championship Series and ultimately ended one long championship curse. Now, the team he constructed in Chicago, that stirred the imaginations of long-suffering fans, finds itself in a similar spot. “Of course you think about those things, you think about the parallels, think about the fact that that happened against a New York team,” Maddon said. “We think about all that stuff, but it’s up to us to go out and play and execute.” Cespedes broke a 2-all tie when he led off the
sixth with a single against Cahill and scored from third with two out as Conforto swung at a 2-2 pitch in the dirt. The ball rolled to the backstop, allowing the runner to reach first and extending the inning. Conforto was forced to stay at third when Wilmer Flores’ drive rolled to the ivy in right field was called a ground-rule double. That drew a heated argument from Collins, who came back out to protest some more after he returned to the dugout. The Mets added two more runs in the seventh on an RBI single by Cespedes and groundout by Lucas Duda off Justin Grimm that made it 5-2. Hendricks went four innings for Chicago, allowing two runs and five hits. Never before had the Cubs played this late on the calendar at Wrigley Field. And they did not start this one on a smooth note.
Morrison returns after motorcycle crash
small, hard-won improvements he must achieve to be among the world’s fastest skaters again. “It’s a long comeback trail,” Morrison cautioned. “I know what I can improve and I know I can improve it and I know I’m going to go faster. At the same time, being patient is the difficult part now.
“Just because you’re a fast healer doesn’t mean you can become arrogant about it and not do your due diligence in healing the right way and not rushing into things.” The 30-year-old from Fort St. John, B.C., needs to gain power and confidence in his right leg as it crosses over his left in the turns.
“It’s the stabilizers that are missing that add that extra confidence to quickly do a crossover and step down,” Morrison explained. “Getting that confidence back is a matter of getting the strength back is matter of getting stabilizers back.” Morrison won both of Canada’s longtrack speedskating medals at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, despite breaking a bone in his left leg while skiing just 14 months prior. Morrison fell in the 1,000 metres at national trials, but teammate Gilmore Junio vacated his spot in the distance so Morrison could race it in Sochi. Morrison won silver and Junio ascended to folk-hero status in Canada because of his selflessness. Morrison put an exclamation mark on Canada’s feel-good story in Sochi with a bronze in the 1,500 metres. Morrison also helped the men’s pursuit team win gold at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler, B.C. The most decorated skater currently on the national long-track team also owns a pursuit silver from 2006. A few weeks before the motorcycle accident, Morrison took silver in the 1,500, bronze in the 1,000 and was a member of the men’s pursuit team that earned silver at the world single distance championships. Lying in his hospital bed in May, Morrison vowed to be back racing in time for the World Cup season-opener Nov. 13-15 in Calgary. He’s tempered his expectations and doesn’t expect to compete before January if he does race this winter. “My goal is Pyeongchang,” he said. “With the way the hip his healing, the knee is healing and the femur is healing, it seems likes skating in 2018 is a much higher chance than originally thought. There’s no point rushing it.”
pinching a nerve. Woods had his first surgery just before the 2014 Masters and missed nearly three months. He said later he came back too early. “Rehab will be soon, and it will be tedious and long,” Woods said at the Bridgestone America’s Golf Cup, an exhibition he was supposed to play with Matt Kuchar until the second surgery. “The last one, it took me awhile to get back. Some players on tour have done the same procedure and to be back pain-free it took them over a year.” Woods hasn’t won since the 2013 Bridgestone Invitational for his 79th career win on the PGA Tour, just three short of the record held by Sam Snead. For most of his career, the record with which he was compared was Jack Nicklaus and his 18 professional majors. Woods won his 14th major at the
2008 U.S. Open, and had reconstructive surgery on his left knee a week later. Woods turn 40 in December. Nicklaus won only three of his 18 majors after he turned 40. Woods, who dropped to No. 334 in the world ranking this week, has not given up on catching Nicklaus. He just
figures he will have to play like Vijay Singh, who won 22 times (but only one major) in his 40s. “It’s important for me to have more than 18 majors when all is said and done,” Woods said. “It took Jack his whole career to achieve it and mine is not done yet.”
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Winner Denny Morrison of Canada competes during the men’s 1,500 meter distance at the Speedskating World Cup in Erfurt, Germany, March 22, 2015. Morrison was back on the ice less than six months after a motorcycle accident put the Canadian speedskater in hospital, broken and bashed from his head to his knees.
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CALGARY — Denny Morrison was back on the ice less than six months after a motorcycle accident put the Canadian speedskater in hospital, broken and bashed from his head to his knees. The Olympic multi-medallist in long track might not race this season. But Morrison in his skates and training already indicates he may recover his speed and form in time for the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. “Anybody else probably would have died in that accident, so he’s been very tough and resilient because he’s so fit,” his coach Bart Schouten said this week. “He also heals faster than anybody we know.” Morrison’s motorcycle struck a left-turning Toyota Corolla in northwest Calgary and knocked the car on its side May 7. The two people in the car did not require hospitalization. Morrison was issued a traffic ticket for failing to yield to a yellow light, which is a fine of $155. His many injuries threatened to end a career that includes four Olympic and a dozen world championship medals. Along with a broken right leg, Morrison suffered a concussion, a punctured lung, a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his knee, bruised liver and kidneys and a small fracture in a bone near his spine. Given the wreck he was a few months ago, Morrison’s stride seemed remarkably smooth and strong during Monday’s training session with the men’s pursuit team at the Olympic Oval. But still in front of him are many
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SCOREBOARD Hockey WHL
Today • 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.
EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Prince Albert 11 8 2 0 1 44 38 17 Brandon 9 6 1 0 2 46 18 14 Moose Jaw 9 6 1 1 1 39 24 14 Regina 11 6 5 0 0 33 39 12 Saskatoon 9 4 2 3 0 35 34 11 Swift Current 10 4 5 1 0 30 32 9 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Red Deer 11 7 4 0 0 41 34 14 Calgary 10 6 3 0 1 29 33 13 Lethbridge 8 6 2 0 0 39 22 12 Medicine Hat 9 4 4 1 0 32 37 9 Edmonton 11 3 6 2 0 28 39 8 Kootenay 12 2 10 0 0 23 51 4 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Victoria 10 7 3 0 0 33 21 14 Kelowna 11 7 4 0 0 45 41 14 Vancouver 10 4 4 1 1 37 46 10 Prince George 7 3 4 0 0 17 19 6 Kamloops 9 2 7 0 0 23 36 4 U.S. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Seattle 7 5 1 1 0 28 18 11 Tri-City 9 4 4 1 0 31 33 9 Everett 6 4 2 0 0 17 17 8 Spokane 9 3 5 1 0 25 39 7 Portland 8 2 6 0 0 21 25 4 Tuesday’s results Saskatoon 3 Edmonton 2 (OT) Regina 3 Kootenay 2 Calgary at Prince George, late 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.
• 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. • 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.
Baseball Major League Baseball Playoffs WILD CARD Tuesday, Oct. 6: Houston 3, New York 0 Wednesday, Oct. 7: Chicago 4, Pittsburgh 0 DIVISION SERIES American League Kansas City 3, Houston 2 Toronto 3, Texas 2
Victoria at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Brandon at Spokane, 8:05 p.m. Tri-City at Seattle, 8:05 p.m. Friday’s games 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. Saturday, October 24 Lethbridge at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Kootenay at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Moose Jaw at Swift Current, 7 p.m. Saskatoon at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m. Calgary at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Victoria at Spokane, 8:05 p.m. Seattle at Everett, 8:05 p.m. Portland at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m. Sunday, October 25 Prince George at Vancouver, 3 p.m. Prince Albert at Regina, 4 p.m. Brandon at Portland, 6 p.m. National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Montreal 7 7 0 0 14 Tampa Bay 7 4 2 1 9 Florida 6 3 2 1 7 Ottawa 6 3 2 1 7 Detroit 5 3 2 0 6 Boston 5 2 3 0 4 Toronto 5 1 3 1 3 Buffalo 5 1 4 0 2
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.
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.
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GF GA 21 15 18 15 19 12 10 11 8 12 11 16 11 17 13 34
WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Dallas 6 5 1 0 10 Nashville 6 5 1 0 10 St. Louis 7 5 2 0 10 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 21 17 20 13 14 15 14 14 16 16
GF GA 23 7 23 20 18 12 19 17 15 13 18 21 12 17 9 14
Monday’s Games N.Y. Rangers 4, San Jose 0 Tuesday’s Games Nashville 5, Tampa Bay 4, SO New Jersey 3, Arizona 2, OT Pittsburgh 3, Florida 2, OT N.Y. Islanders 4, Columbus 0 Dallas 2, Philadelphia 1 Montreal 3, St. Louis 0 Washington 6, Calgary 2
Metropolitan Division
PF 483 390 381 308
PA 295 427 400 330
Pt 20 18 18 10
PF 391 408 363 322 357
PA 295 320 420 454 462
Pt 24 24 10 10 4
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
GP 6 7 5 6 5 6 5 7
Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 6 4 2 0 8 17 12 Vancouver 6 3 1 2 8 16 11 Arizona 6 3 2 1 7 18 14 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 6 1 5 0 2 12 25 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
FG 38 37 33 27 29
S 6 7 11 11 4
C.Milo, Ott G.Shaw, Edm L.Hajrullahu, Wpg S.Whyte, Edm T.Gurley, Tor x-Je.Johnson, Ott K.Stafford, Edm x-E.Rogers, Cgy x-K.Elliott, Tor R.Pfeffer, Ott E.Arceneaux, BC x-C.Marshall, Wpg x-A.Collie, BC x-R.Bagg, Sask x-A.Bowman, Edm x-H.Burris, Ott x-G.Ellingson, Ott x-A.Harris, BC x-K.Lawrence, Edm
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25 21 22 18 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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 Pt 166 138 126 115 109
Indianapolis Houston Tennessee
W 3 2 1
South L 3 4 4
T 0 0 0
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Rebels vs. Saskatoon Blades Tonight, 7 p.m., Enmax Centrium Centre Wyatt Sloboshan scored in overtime Tuesday as the Blades edged the host Edmonton Oil Kings 3-2. Saskatoon improved to 4-2-3-0 with the victory and sit fifth in the East Division and eighth in the Eastern Conference … C Cameron Hebig picked up a single assist Tuesday and leads the Blades’ scoring parade with seven goals and 14 points. RW Connor Gay, a former Rebel, also garnered a helper at Edmonton and has three goals and 12 points to his name. Also clicking at a point-per-game pace or better are D Brycen Martin (1-8-9), LW Ryan Graham (5-38), LW Nick Zajac (4-4-8) and Sloboshan (3-5-8) … Czech D Libor Hajek was the Blades’ first-round selection — second overall — in the 2015 Canadian Hockey League import draft and is projected by
Tuesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Claimed RHP Vance Worley off waivers from Pittsburgh. Designated RHP Jorge Rondon for assignment. SEATTLE MARINERS — Released RHP Logan Kensing. National League PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Assigned OFs Kelly Dugan, Brian Bogusevic and Domonic Brown and C Tommy Joseph to Lehigh Valley (IL). American Association WICHITA WINGNUTS — Sold the contract of OF Jayce Ray to Boston (AL). Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Released RHP Shawn Sanford. TROIS-RIVIERES AIGLES — Released LHP Jeff Lorick. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association BROOKLYN NETS — Waived G Ryan Boatright, F Quincy Miller and C Chris Daniels. LOS ANGELES LAKERS —Waived C Robert Upshaw and G Michael Frazier II. UTAH JAZZ — Waived G Bryce Cotton and F Traveon Graham. FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Terminated-injury settlement DB Chris Clemons. ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed LB Philip Wheeler. Released S Charles Godfrey. BUFFALO BILLS — Placed WR Marquise Goodwin on injured reserve. Signed OT Jordan Mills. Released QB Dustin Vaughan from the practice squad. Signed WR Titus Davis to the practice squad. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Waived RB Shaun Draughn. Released DB Ty Zimmerman from the practice squad. Signed LB Jayson DiManche from Kansas City’s practice squad and TE Brian Leonhardt to the practice squad. DALLAS COWBOYS — Released LB Dakorey Johnson and RB Gus Johnson from the practice squad. Signed LB Darius Eubanks and DT Casey Walker to the practice squad. DENVER BRONCOS — Waived RB Kapri Bibbs. Signed TE Richard Gordon. DETROIT LIONS — Placed RB Zach Zenner on injured reserve. Signed RB George Winn from their practice squad. Released G Taylor Boggs. Signed RB Marion Grice and WR Ryan Spadola to the practice squad. INFIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed CB Tony Carter. Signed QB Matt Blanchard to the practice squad. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Released WR Kenny
Cook from the practice squad. Signed WR Fred Williams to the practice squad. NEW ENGLAND PATROITS — Signed OL Brennan Williams to the practice squad. NEW YORK GIANTS — Waived TE Jerome Cunningham. Signed DB Brandon McGee from the practice squad. NEW YORK JETS — Signed WR Kenbrell Thompkins from the practice squad. Signed CB Jeremy Harris to the practice squad. OAKLAND RAIDERS — Re-signed S Taylor Mays. Placed DE Justin Tuck on injured reserve. PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Placed OT Kelvin Beachum on injured reserve. Signed OT Byron Stingily. SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Waived OT Michael Ola. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Waived CB Crezdon Butler. Placed LB Brock Coyle on injured reserve-return. Re-signed C Lemuel Jeanpierre. Activated FB Derrick Coleman. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Waived DT Derrick Lott from the practice squad. Signed CBs Keon Lyn and Dax Swanson and OT Martin Wallace to the practice squad. TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms with C-G Joe Looney. Placed C Brian Schwenke on injured reserve. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed RB Mack Brown to the practice squad. Released LB Nico Johnson from the practice squad. Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed DL Ethan Farmer, RB B.J. Catalon and WR Spencer Davis. HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES — Recalled D Rasmus Rissanen from Charlotte (AHL). COLORADO AVALANCHE — Reassigned RW Borna Rendulic to San Antonio (AHL). American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Wilkes-Barre/Scranton LW Kael Mouillierat two games for an illegal check to the head of an opponent in an Oct. 17 game vs. Lehigh Valley. LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS — Recalled Fs Kevin Goumas, Brandon Alderson and Derek Mathers from Reading (ECHL). ECHL READING ROYALS — Signed F Adam Berkle. TOLEDO WALLEYE — Traded F Stephan Vigier to South Carolina for future considerations. SOCCER National Women’s Soccer League NWSL — Announced the addition of the Orlando Pride for the 2016 season. Named Tom Sermanni coach.
Kodiaks 5 Grizzlys 0 OLDS — The Camrose Kodiaks jumped out to a 3-0 first-period lead and coasted to a 5-0 win over the Olds Grizzlys in an Alberta Junior Hockey League game Tuesday. Scott Ferguson, Estian Coetzee and Angus Scott connected in the opening period before 397 fans at the Sportsplex. Jake Dube potted a second-period power-play goal and Nelson Gadoury scored in the final frame. Brodan Salmond turned aside 23 shots to record the shutout. Grizzlys starting netminder Kurtis Chapman and back-up Ben Griesbrecht combined to make 39 saves. Camrose was one-for-five on the power play. Olds was zero-for-six with a man advantage. The Grizzlys return to action Saturday against the visiting Drumheller Dragons.
Wednesday’s Games Toronto at Buffalo, 5 p.m. Philadelphia at Boston, 6 p.m. Detroit at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m. Carolina at Colorado, 8 p.m. Thursday’s Games Arizona at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m. Dallas at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m. New Jersey at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m. Anaheim at Nashville, 6 p.m. Columbus at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Florida at Chicago, 6:30 p.m. Washington at Vancouver, 8 p.m. Los Angeles at San Jose, 8:30 p.m. Tuesday’s summary Capitals 6, Flames 2 First Period 1. Calgary, Monahan 2 (Gaudreau) 9:00. 2. Washington, Burakovsky 1 (Kuznetsov) 16:02. Penalties — Orlov Wash (high-sticking) 10:48, Chorney Wash (holding) 13:24. Second Period 3. Washington, Ovechkin 4 (Orpik, Kuznetsov) :30. 4. Washington, Backstrom 2 (Williams, Carlson) 10:56. 5. Washington, Oshie 3 (Kuznetsov, Ovechkin) 11:37. Penalties — Bollig Cgy (kneeing) 2:57, Hamilton Cgy (holding) 14:37. Third Period 6. Calgary, Giordano 1 (Frolik, Gaudreau) 3:09. 7. Washington, Chimera 2 (Beagle) 6:53. 8. Washington, Backstrom 3 (Williams, Niskanen) 16:14. Penalties — Engelland Cgy (charging) 19:35. Shots on goal Washington 7 13 10 — 30 Calgary 7 4 8 — 19 Goal — Washington: Holtby (W, 4-1-0) Calgary: Ramo (L, 0-3-0). Power plays (goal-chances) — Washington: 0-3 Calgary: 0-2.
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Central Scouting as a secondto third-round pick in next year’s NHL entry draft. Injuries: Saskatoon — D Anthony Bishop (upper body, two-three weeks). Red Deer — D Ryan Pouliot (lower body, day-to-day), D Josh Mahura (lower body, indefinite). Special teams: Saskatoon — Power play 20 per cent, 15th overall; penalty kill 81.4 per cent, seventh. Red Deer — Power play 22.4 per cent, 11th overall; penalty kill 71.1 per cent, 19th.
Blackhawks D Duncan Keith to miss 4 to 6 weeks after right knee surgery BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Blackhawks star Duncan Keith had right knee surgery on Tuesday, sidelining the top defenceman for the Stanley Cup champions for four to six weeks. Keith, a two-time Norris Trophy winner, has two assists in six games this season. The team said he had a meniscal tear repaired. “I don’t think it was a defining blow, but it was bothering him,” coach Joel Quenneville said. The loss of Keith, who won the Conn Smythe Trophy last season for playoffs MVP, is a huge blow for the Stanley Cup champions. They play in one of the NHL’s toughest divisions, and every point could make a difference at the end of the year. The 32-year-old Keith, a two-time Olympic gold medallist with Team Canada, has led Chicago in average ice time for 10 consecutive seasons. “Obviously, you look at a guy like Duncs, he can be arguably maybe the most valuable guy on the team with what he brings to the table,” forward Patrick Kane said. Keith is likely headed for long-term injured reserve, giving the Blackhawks some cap relief. Lubomir Visnovsky, a veteran defenceman who was with the team during training camp, could be brought back, or they could promote Ville Pokka or another defenceman from the minors. David Rundblad and Viktor Svedberg likely will see more ice time with Keith out, and Michal Rozsival could return next month from long-term injured reserve. “A lot of defencemen are going to get a lot more responsibility, quality enhanced in their ice time as well,” Quenneville said. “I don’t think we want to change our style of play, but at the same time we want to make sure that we’re tight.”
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Two MPs better than one MAYOR VEER ENCOURAGED BY RED DEER’S GROWING VOICE IN OTTAWA BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF A bit of history was also made in Red Deer while the Liberals swept to a staggering victory on Monday. Two MPs — Conservatives Earl Dreeshen in Red Deer-Mountain View and Blaine Calkins in Red Deer-Lacombe — will represent the city’s interests in Ottawa for the first time. Monday’s election was the first under the new federal electoral boundary scheme. Thirty new ridings were added across Canada, of which six were in Alberta, when the lines were redrawn in 2014. Red Deer Mayor Tara Veer said the city will have to adjust its advocacy plan somewhat because EARL DREESHEN it will now be working with two MPs. The city has a strong relationship with Dreeshen who has represented Red Deer since 2008. But the city will need to bring Calkins, who has represented Wetaskiwin since 2006, BLAINE CALKINS up to speed on the Red Deer issues in the coming weeks. “I think having two voices in Ottawa albeit in a much bigger Parliament at least elevates our profile and positioning somewhat,” she said. Veer said the city will be watching for issues around infrastructure for cities, a national transit and housing strategies. It is also the first time in more than a decade that Red Deer will not have an MP who is part of the governing party. Veer said this is not unusual for
Voter turnout up across the country BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF
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Earl Dreeshan, the Conservative candidate for Red Deer-Mountainview, is congratulated by Mayor Tara Veer Monday night at the Sheraton as election results come in. Red Deer to have an Opposition member but the city will have to navigate through Parliament differently. David Baugh, a Red Deer College political science instructor, said what stands out for him the most is the election of four Liberals in Alberta, the first since 1993 and before that four others in 1968 when former prime minister Pierre Trudeau earned his first majority government. Baugh said it should come to no surprise that Red Deer’s two MPs are Conservatives. “Although we had an NDP government provincially, if the right hadn’t been split between the Wild Rose and Conservatives, that wouldn’t have happened,” he said. “But federally the Conservative vote was not split. The results were what I expected. I think there was strong Conservative support in a bit of a reaction to the loss provincially.” But Baugh sees a decline of regionalism — a sense of regional conscious-
ness and alienation — which depended upon a common identification with a single regional economic base. “We have had almost 10 years of a prime minister who was from Alberta,” he said. “It used to be that it was the west against the east. Back in the days when wheat was king, this province voted the same way federally and provincially and they voted as a block. Then when oil and gas became the new battlefield, Alberta voted landslide federal and provincial Conservative.” Baugh said Alberta is much more diverse economically, more urban and larger. As a result, Alberta has an NDP provincial government and four Liberals elected federally. He said both the NDP and Liberals did well in Central Alberta compared to previous elections. “I think that is a sign that we are not just a single regional block thinking as one,” said Baugh. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com
More than 71 per cent of eligible voters cast ballots in the four Central Alberta federal ridings on Monday. Early results from Elections Canada indicate 68.5 per cent of eligible voters turned out to vote across Canada. The number could rise because the figures do not factor in the voters who registered on election day. This was the first election under the new electoral boundary scheme, of which six new ridings were added in Alberta. The new riding of Red Deer-Mountain View boasted a 71.7 per cent turnout of eligible voters cast ballots. Some 62,210 of 86,737 of the eligible voters went to the ballot box, according to preliminary results. The Red Deer riding was dissolved as part of the boundary reconfiguration. In 2011, the turnout was 54.01 per cent. Conservative candidate Earl Dreeshen emerged from a field of six to secure 74.3 per cent of the votes on election day. In 2011 Dreeshen took 75.9 per cent and in 2008 he secured 73.2 per cent in the Red Deer riding. In Red Deer-Lacombe, the turnout was 71.5 per cent with 61,972 of 86,609 eligible ballots cast. Blaine Calkins, the Conservative candidate, took 70.4 per cent of the votes. Calkins represented the Wetaskiwin riding since 2006 before the riding was dissolved. The 2011 turnout in the Wetaskiwin riding was 58.9 per cent. Calkins secured 81.4 per cent in 2011, 77.1 per cent in 2008 and 75.1 per cent in 2006. In the last two elections, the Liberal candidates in the Red Deer ridings were typically third in the vote standings after the New Democratic Party. In the two new Red Deer ridings, the Liberal candidates placed a distant second. Chandra Kastern, the Liberal candidate in Red Deer-Mountain View, took 13.4 per cent while Jeff Rock, the candidate for Red Deer-Lacombe, received 15.4 per cent of the votes. Paul Harris, the NDP candidate for Red Deer-Mountain View received 8.4 per cent of the vote while Doug Hart received 11.4 per cent of the votes in Red Deer-Lacombe. The highest voter turnout in Central Alberta was in the Battle River-Crowfoot riding with 72.9 per cent. Some 58,847 of 80,698 of registered electors voted. In Yellowhead, 52,439 of 73,996 voters cast ballots for a 70.8 per cent rate. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com
County gives RDC polytechnic support BY ADVOCATE STAFF
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Work continues on the new Wolf Creek School Division Iron Ridge Intermediate Campus grade 4-6 school in Blackfalds right next to where the new Red Deer Catholic Regional School’s St Gregory The Great Catholic School is to be built on Cottonwood Drive. A ground breaking took place on the site Tuesday morning.
Construction starts on new school BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF
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St. Gregory the Great Catholic School has broke ground in Blackfalds. The $16-million, kindergarten to Grade 9 school will open September 2017 in the northeast end of town. Guy Pelletier, school board chair with Red Deer Catholic Regional School Division, said Catholic students in Blackfalds are being bused into Red Deer, mostly to St. Teresa of Avila School and St. Patrick’s Community School. “It’s a sign we have a growing division and we need the space. We’re thrilled today to be able start the ground work on St. Gregory the Great,” said Pelletier following a sod turning ceremony with division and community officials on Tuesday morning. “We’ll open up right around 350 (students) and ultimate capacity is closer to about 600.”
The new Catholic school will be built beside Iron Ridge Intermediate Campus, a Grade 4 to 6 school currently under construction for Wolf Creek Public Schools. Wolf Creek superintendent Larry Jacobs said construction on its $10-million school started last summer and will open September 2016. The Iron Ridge school will allow 10 portable classrooms to be attached to accommodate 500 students. It will open with six portables already in place. Wolf Creek already operates a kindergarten to Grade 4 school and a Grade 5 to 9 school in Blackfalds. Jacobs said the division is just pleased the construction of Iron Ridge Intermediate Campus is proceeding according to the time frame originally planned.
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“We’re at such a place now that within the next two years we couldn’t handle all the students,” Jacobs said. “At Iron Ridge Junior Campus, we’re using the stage area. We’ve taken away from the science rooms, the music room area, and turned those into areas that operate as classrooms during the day.” Blackfalds Mayor Melodie Stol said her town has been waiting for school construction to start for about five years. “Blackfalds right now has over 1,000 people living here that are under the age of five. So these new schools, St. Gregory the Great Catholic school, the new public school that’s constructed next door, these are all buildings that are so desperately needed,” Stol said. She said busing students to another community is an OK strategy, but educating them where they live creates cohesiveness and builds community, as well as local infrastructure. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com
Red Deer College can count on the neighbouring county’s support in the drive to become a polytechnic university. A motion to endorse and advocate on behalf of the college was unanimously endorsed by Red Deer County council on Tuesday. Earlier this year, the county approved $500,000 towards the college’s Centre for Health, Wellness and Sport, seen as an integral component of the college’s bid for degree-granting status. Coun. Christine Moore said transforming the college into a polytechnic university will go a long way to stemming the “brain drain” from Central Alberta to the province’s other universities. “We will lose nothing, and only gain,” by the college’s elevated status, she said. Moore said she’s talked about the college’s plans with Municipal Affairs Minister Deron Bilous, who questioned what was preventing the change, which she took as a positive sign. “I do think we’re on the cusp of something wonderful.” Mayor Jim Wood also expressed optimism that the province would support a polytechnic university. “We’ve got some exciting times coming,” he said. “It’s nice to see that progress.” Wood said allowing students to study close to home will keep them in their communities when they graduate. On top of that, it will save students and their families thousands of dollars by not having to live elsewhere.
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County wants feedback on new safety bylaw BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Faced with a poor building permit compliance rate, Red Deer County is taking a bigger role in overseeing new developments. A new Safety Codes Services Bylaw was given first and second reading on Tuesday. Final reading was postponed until a later meeting to give the public an opportunity to comment. Under proposed changes, the county will be accredited to do safety inspections. Previously, those getting a development permit from the county were required to get a building permit and hire their own safety code companies to inspect the work. But too many developments were
COUNCIL falling between the cracks. In 2014, only 60 per cent of the 375 development approvals issued by the county that also required a building permit were in compliance. A county building inspector and two permit issuers will oversee the program, with other staff in support. A company will be contracted to undertake electrical, plumbing and gas inspections. A request for proposals has already gone out with a Nov. 16 deadline. The winning bid will get a three-year contract with a two-year option to renew. The county has previously said the changes will mean they can arrange all of the necessary inspections through
the municipality and can get more detailed advice from staff. Quality control will also be improved and residents will have easier access to building inspection reports. Mayor Jim Wood sought assurances from staff that residents won’t face higher costs under the new regime. Dave Dittrick, county director of planning and development, said rates are based on those already used by private inspection firms. Wood also confirmed that the permit changes don’t affect farm buildings, which do not require safety inspections unless there is a retail component. “That would have been a real can of worms to be honest with you,” said the mayor. Increased vigilance by the county is good news for residents and future
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buyers, who will be assured that buildings have passed all necessary inspections. In the case of permits for small accessory buildings, the county has eliminated the development permit charge because a safety inspection charge will now be needed. Doubling up charges would lead to some people avoiding taking out permits, he told council. The county expects taking a bigger permitting role will yield about $150,000 in additional revenue above costs per year. Red Deer County is one of the few remaining large municipalities in the province with a “hands-off” approach to safety code inspections, with the exception of the fire code. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com
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RCMP looking for slip tank thief A theft of a pickup truck’s slip tank from its bed has Coronation RCMP asking for the public’s help in locating the culprits. Police said on Sept. 26 at about 1:30 a.m., the theft occurred at the UFA in Castor. According to their release, a white truck with a red round slip pulled into the UFA and one male suspect exited the vehicle. The male proceeded to steal an L-shaped red slip tank. Police said the male wore a red jacket with white panels on each side. Police believe the same truck is linked to a theft of tools from a trailer located in the parking lot of the UFA in Coronation at 12:10 a.m. on Sept. 28. Video surveillance showed two male suspects were involved in this incident. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the Coronation RCMP at 403-578-3666 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.
Diva on a Dime fundraiser on Friday People are invited to have a sip of wine, snack on finger food and help fundraise for an organization that helps women and children as they move out of the emergency shelter. The Diva on a Dime project helps women and children that go through the Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter move on with their lives after they leave. On Oct. 23 from 5 to 8 p.m. a $10 per person fundraiser for the organization will take place at 7419 Gaetz Ave. The fundraiser includes a silent auction, finger food and wine, live music and a 50/50 draw. For more information on the event visit www.empoweringwmoentogether. com or visit the Empowering Women Together Facebook group.
Waste management Spooktacular set for Saturday Red Deer’s waste reduction spooktacular aims to educate young people on the role the waste management facility plays and what scary items may be lurking in their home that should probably be disposed of. On Oct. 24 from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the waste management facility at 1709 40th Avenue, people can learn all about Red Deer’s waste and recycling programs. The event includes guided tours,
trick or treat with the kids, free snacks and a chance to ask questions about the facility. People can also enter a chance to win an iPad by bringing in recycling and waste for proper disposal. For every battery, compact fluorescent light bulb, electronic waste, nail polish or recyclable and for dressing in costume, people can earn one ballot (to a maximum of six). For more information visit www. reddeer.ca/spooktacular.
Sockey Night in Red Deer at Rebels Friday game Keeping warm in winter can always be a challenge, but the annual Sockey Night at the Enmax Centrium hopes to warm up a few cold feet. Socks can be purchased at the Oct. 23 Red Deer Rebels home game and during the second period intermission, the sock toss will shower the rink in socks. Then on Oct. 26 the United Way of Central Alberta will deliver the socks to various local community groups including the Central Alberta Women’s Outreach, Safe Harbour Society, Central Alberta AIDS Network, Canadian Mental Health Association and the John Howard Society. These organizations will then make sure socks get onto the feet that need them in time for the winter. The game at the Enmax Centrium, 4847A 19th St., is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. For more information visit www. caunitedway.ca.
Bluffton post office robbed, RCMP investigating Rimbey RCMP are investigating a break-in and mail theft from Bluffton post office. RCMP said the break-in occurred sometime Monday night or early Tuesday morning when the post office was closed. Rimbey RCMP Const. Carman Dutz said some mail was recovered by a postal worker not far from Bluffton. Canada Post spokesperson John Caines said the door to the post office was damaged during the break-in and an inventory of the site has to be completed. “If any customers were expecting material and they don’t get it in the next couple days, they should let us know and maybe we can trace back to see if it was in the system or not,” Caines said. A sign was also posted at Bluffton post office telling people to use the postal service available in Rimbey. “Hopefully, we’ll be able to open up the post office in Bluffton tomorrow. We’re working with the police to see what we can do and hopefully apprehend who did this,” said Caines on Tuesday. Anyone with information on this crime is asked to call Rimbey RCMP at 403-843-2224.
Ask The Dentist! by Dr. Michael Dolynchuk, DDS
Mom’s Had a Stroke What About Her Dentistry Now? Dear Dr. D: I am now the primary care giver for my mother, who is in her 80's. She recently suffered a stroke and we are trying to get a good overall picture of her health moving forward. She does need some dental work, and I need to know what may have changed regarding that now? Typically those who suffer heart attacks or strokes are older A: individuals, and the 'safest' advice historically has been to delay any significant dental treatment until a recovery or at the least stabilization has been reached. The duration typically has been half a year. The primary concern was that an invasive dental procedure may release bacteria back into the bloodstream. A recent study with the University of Minneapolis was undertaken to determine the level of risk to cardio vascular patients following significant dental treatment. They sought to rule out any increase in risk, and this was found to their satisfaction. Researchers discovered that any dental procedures, even invasive procedures, did not adversely affect the patients' health by increasing the hazard ratios. We suspect that the careful dentists would still postpone more invasive procedures such as dental implants for a period up to six months. The traditional dentistry the average general practice dentist performs is unlikely to cause a bacteremia (release of bacteria into the blood stream). As always, each case is individual and you should consult with your mother's family dentist to determine exactly what treatment has been diagnosed in his/her office. When we encounter questions like this it highlights the need for coordination in compiling healthcare information across the various disciplines. In our practice we constantly request for our patients to update their health information, including all medications (prescription as well as over the counter) for our records. Most patients are quite good about it, but some don't ever draw a parallel between something like medications they are taking and the ability to heal properly following a dental procedure. Make no mistake – some dentistry involves surgery. Your mouth is the portal to the rest of your body. Any infections or poisons from your mouth can flow directly downstream – and your heart and circulatory system are immediately south of your mouth. Dentists receive a lot of the same training as their MD colleagues during the first two years of their professional programs. We find that some patients are surprised to discover that their dentists have an unusually good understanding of their 'other' health issues and medications. Please share health information with all your providers. Nobody wants to be wishing after the fact that they 'had known' about particular medications that could interact with other meds. Be safe – inquiring about your mom's situation up front is just being responsible!
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Ryker Piecowye, 5, puts his ‘spidey’ skills to the test on the rope web in the Imagination Grove at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre on Saturday. With the warm weather, and a Trash to Treasure swap meet held in conjunction with the city’s Kick it to the Curb event, the nature centre was a busy place, with more than 200 Red Deerians of all ages passing through at some point in the day.
A Red Deer woman facing multiple charges in separate incidents has entered a not guilty plea but will also have some of the charges adjourned to a later date without a plea. Madison Leigh Coutre, 23, pleaded not guilty to charges including theft, possession of stolen property over $5,000 and failing to attend court. The pleas were entered by her counsel Andrew Phypers in Red Deer provincial court before judge Gordon Yake. Coutre has been released from custody and was not in the courtroom Tuesday morning. Phypers elected to be tried by a provincial court judge on behalf of Coutre. Two trials were set, one about a day in length and another about half a day in length. Coutre also faces 13 charges from an incident that allegedly involved a car with three occupants driving around Red Deer pointing a pellet gun at people. Phypers said he did not have enough disclosure from Crown to proceed on these charges and asked for an adjournment. Yake granted the adjournment to Nov. 5 in Red Deer provincial court. She is charged with possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, two
counts of possession of stolen property under $5,000, possession, four counts of making or possession identification documents, flight from a police officer, failing to stop at a collision and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle. Those charges were laid on Sept. 21 after Coutre and two others were arrested in Highland Green. Red Deer RCMP said they had received several reports of a black vehicle driving erratically with its occupants pointing a firearm at people as they drove past. Police had attempted to stop the vehicle on Gaetz Avenue in downtown Red Deer, but it fled at a high rate of speed at about 5 p.m. that day. An hour later the vehicle was found abandoned in a parking lot in Highland Green. Police contained the scene, located the suspects and arrested them. Police also seized a replica firearm. Also charged in the incident were Terence Beaverbones, 26, and Michael Allen Simon, 25. Beaverbones is charged with pointing a firearm, failing to comply with a court order and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose. Simon is charged with four counts of failing to comply with a court order and one count of possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose. Beaverbones is next due in Red Deer provincial court on Nov. 17 while Simon is scheduled to appear on Oct. 23.
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A doctor puts his mind to mindfulness MANOJ JAIN SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE A few summers ago during a week-long vacation, I started playing a mind game. In the mornings, I would sit outside on a comfortable deck chair, surrounded by the shrill call of cicadas, and gaze across the lawn into the trees. After getting settled, I would close my eyes and bring my body to complete stillness except for the rhythmic rise and fall of my chest with each breath. Then I’d embark on what I think of as a journey with my thoughts: noticing them nonjudgmentally and letting them pass through my mind like white clouds moving across the blue sky. I was practicing the very popular relaxation technique known as mindfulness. I wasn’t sure if this practice was helping me relax, making me healthy or just wasting my time. Some days I felt almost pleasantly lost, tension-free while sitting quietly for 20 minutes; at other times I struggled not to think about an upcoming meeting for my next writing assignment. Experts define mindfulness as a state of moment-to-moment awareness that emphasizes attention without judgment, without thinking, for example, that the sound of the cicadas is irritating or that the lawn needs to be trimmed or “Why did I say that to so-and-so?” Meditation practices vary, but the scientific literature presents three general categories: Focused attention is when you concentrate on a word, sound or activity (such as breathing or slowly repeating a mantra such as “om”); open monitoring is when you just observe your thoughts (mindfulness meditation); and self-transcendence is clearing your mind of thoughts (Transcendental Meditation). Doctors, including me, haven’t universally embraced mindfulness and other forms of meditation as a therapy for our patients. Studies have shown psychological and even some physical benefits. One 2015 meta-analysis of mindfulness-based interventions, which considered findings involving more than 8,500 participants, found that the interventions produced a decrease in depressive symptoms, anxiety and stress levels, as well as enhanced quality of life and physical functioning. A small study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder who participated in an eightweek mindfulness course experienced a modest but significant decrease in symptoms compared with those given group talk therapy. And a 2012 study found that Transcendental Meditation practiced over five years in a group of African American men and women with cardiovascular disease resulted in nearly a 50 percent lower rate of heart attack, stroke and death compared with a control group. Still, other studies have shown meditation to be little or no better at decreasing anxiety than, say, listening to music or relaxing on the couch. Yet neuroscience studies on meditation are intriguing. During meditation, our brain waves are distinctly different from those during sleep or an awake state. One study found that long-term meditators had greater volume of gray matter in the insula and prefrontal cortices, regions of the brain activated during learning, memory processes and emotional regulation. Another found a decrease in the volume of the amygdala region, which is involved in processing the emotions of fear. Scientists say it is unclear what if any meaning these brain changes have in someone’s behavior or life.
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Students meditate during Mindful Studies class at Wilson High School in Portland, Ore. Other studies have shown that meditation may diminish cell inflammation. Most captivating is a 2011 study that showed that intensive three-month meditation retreats increased the activity of telomerase, a protective enzyme that is linked to the aging process. If confirmed, this may mean that meditation could help slow the aging of cells. Doctors in other countries have incorporated mindfulness in their guidelines. In the United Kingdom, for instance, the government’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence recommends mindfulness for patients who have had three or more episodes of depression. Given all this, why do I not regularly recommend mindfulness or other meditation to my patients, while I do advise them to exercise, eat right and take their medicines? Maybe it’s that I fear some patients may see it as a fringe religious or spiritual practice and that my colleagues may see me as much too “touchy-feely” or lacking substance or scientific grounding. Once while teaching medical students I talked about meditation and proposed we try it. “Close your eyes … clear your thoughts … focus on your breath … ,” I said. Of the 100 students, a half-dozen got up and walked out of the lecture hall. Why? I wondered. “You were trying to get inside my head,” one medical student told me later. “I can’t sit still,” another one said. Yet I have come to think that encouraging patients to adopt meditation as a way to mental well-being is as important as encouraging them to jog as a way to physical well-being. Half a century ago, only a small percentage of the population participated in aerobic exercises such as jogging regularly. A person jogging in the neighborhood often was viewed as downright weird. Today, the number doing aerobic exercise has increased to nearly 50 percent of adults, thanks in part to encouragement
from government, corporations and health providers. Some medical schools, including those at Harvard, Georgetown and Emory universities, have begun to integrate mindfulness and meditation into their curriculum. The Army has a course in mindfulness-based mind fitness training. Public schools in San Francisco are encouraging mindfulness under a program called Quiet Time.” Even the top doctor in the United States, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, practices meditation daily. Today, our lives are filled with stressors, from work, home, financial pressures and digital devices. Mindfulness is a low-cost, medication-free way to manage and reduce the ill effects of stress. I have grown less shy in recommending meditation - along with exercise and nutrition - for physical and mental wellness to my patients. Last week I recommended mindfulness and meditation to two patients: one a middle-aged man with HIV and hypertension who is doing well on HIV meds but with hypertension out of control, and another elderly man with depression and insomnia. They both looked at me quizzically as if they were saying, “Really?” They had heard about meditation but never linked it to their illness or expected their doctor to recommend it. So I didn’t oversell it - not everyone likes the feeling of sitting quietly with their eyes closed without judgment and observing the thoughts in their mind. I hope at least some of my patients will give it a try. Meanwhile, I have taken my own advice. I am still at it: sitting on the deck, focusing on my breath, watching my thoughts, clearing my mind amid the shrill end-of-summer calls of the cicadas. I think I have noticed an effect - I feel a deeper sense of acceptance in my life, without losing a passion or resolve to change things for the better. Jain is an infectious-disease physician and adjunct assistant professor at Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
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Genetic research suggests the arrival of permanent trading posts in Arctic Quebec meant more than easier access to flour and metal cookware for Inuit families. A newly published paper from McGill University concludes that’s how tuberculosis was introduced into the region as well. “It would appear that the tuberculosis epidemic dates to permanent interaction with some outside people,” said lead author Marcel Behr. Although TB is a distant memory in most of Canada, it still stalks the North. Last year, Nunavut recorded 83 cases, although that was an improvement. There were 100 cases in 2010, a rate of infection 63 times higher than that in the south. In 2008, a study found Canada’s four main Inuit regions had a tuberculosis incidence rate of 157.5 for every 100,000 people. The rate in southern Canada was 0.8 per 100,000. In an attempt to understand why the respiratory disease remains so per-
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the conditions under which it flourishes. “You can either see TB as the problem, and then your goal is controlling TB, or you can see TB as a symptom of the problem, and then your goal should be broader. “What we need is not brand-new interventions, but to scale up things that already exist and we have to apply them better.” Tuberculosis has left an indelible mark on Inuit culture. In the ’50s and ’60s, thousands of infected Inuit were sent south for treatment, many never to return.
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Dissecting a trailer HOW ‘STAR WARS’ EXPLAINS ALL THE GREAT CULTURAL DEBATES OF OUR TIME ALYSSA ROSENBERG ADVOCATE STAFF
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Part of what’s striking about the trailer for ‘The Force Awakens’ is the explicit way it positions a woman — Rey (Daisy Ridley) — and a man of colour — Finn (John Boyega) — as the inheritors of Luke Skywalker’s role.
COMMENT terial. The Marvel movies are headed toward a “Civil War” storyline, but it’s not clear to what extent that plot arc will match up with the big comics event. Abrams, who tackled the revitalization of the Star Trek universe before diving into Star Wars, solved the problem of integrating his new versions of old characters by suggesting that they existed in an alternate reality. But while comics fans may be used to stories rebooting, and Star Trek has moved from crew to crew over the years, Star Wars is fascinating precisely because there were decades of continuous storytelling set in the universe (even if things like Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, a novel with some very racy Luke-Leia stuff, were superseded by the movies as as Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi revealed that the two were siblings). The Star Wars Expanded Universe kept the franchise vital and alive during the years when it didn’t seem like we’d get more movies beyond the original trilogy, and it was solace during the dark years of Episodes I-III, when it seemed like George Lucas might permanently tarnish his legacy. Certainly, I have much more attachment to Michael Stackpole’s Rogue Squadron books than I do to the three most recent Star Wars movies. It absolutely makes sense that Disney decided to scrap the Expanded Universe, opening up storytelling space for moviemakers rather than committing them to an uneven batch of plotlines. But it’s also clear that some of the main ideas from the Expanded Universe are carrying over into the revitalized
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Sonny Rollins to receive jazz foundation prize BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Saxophonist Sonny Rollins will receive a lifetime achievement prize from the Jazz Foundation of America, and Keith Richards will be on hand at the gala to honour former Rolling Stones backup singer Merry Clayton. The foundation announced Tuesday that the lineup for its 14th annual A Great Night In Harlem benefit gala also will feature performances by Randy Weston, Ravi Coltrane, Donald Fagen and many others. Actor and activist Danny Glover will host a musical tribute to the late civil rights leader Julian Bond, who died earlier this year. The program will take place Thursday at the Apollo Theater. Rollins, 85, is widely regarded as one of the greatest living jazz musicians. He is being given an award that previously went to Quincy Jones and Herbie Hancock.
Clayton, who suffered numerous injuries in a car accident in 2014, is to receive the foundation’s first ever Clark & Gwen Terry Award for courage. A backup singer for many major performers, Clayton is known to Rolling Stones fans for her searing vocals on the classic Gimme Shelter and was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary about backup singers, 20 Feet from Stardom.
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Sith with that incredibly impractical crossguard lightsaber. Some speculation suggests that Luke himself is the Big Bad. Other theories point to potential Skywalker offspring, since The Force Awakens appears to be set at some remove from the events of the original trilogy. If I were pressed to give an answer, I’d guess that for all that Disney has thrown out the Star Wars Expanded Universe — the books, comics, games, etc., that fleshed out George Lucas’s creation after the events of Return of the Jedi — J.J. Abrams might have held on to Han and Leia’s kids from that universe, Jacen and Jaina Solo. But all this is beside the point. I profoundly don’t want to know more about the Guy With The Impractical Lightsaber And Some Intergenerational Issues before I see The Force Awakens for the first time. I want to be shocked and either delighted or devastated the way I was by Darth Vader’s “No, I am your father” all those years ago. There’s a certain amount of satisfaction to having glimpsed a plot twist before anyone else. There’s far greater pleasure in being profoundly surprised. Part of the power of the original Star Wars trilogy was its bigness and unfamiliarity. The contours of the current cultural conversation are designed to make these very big pictures feel picked to pieces by the time they actually arrive in theaters. 3. The status of canon: Right now, a great deal of pop culture is dominated by large franchises that are adapted from existing works but have complicated relationships to their source ma-
movies, among them, that killing the Emperor doesn’t make unifying a galaxy any easier. As I’ve said earlier, I wouldn’t be surprised if some specific characters that made for particularly good drama end up carrying over, too. Whatever happens, though, the official death of the Expanded Universe is probably a good reminder for fans everywhere that just because the latest official story differs from stories past doesn’t mean that a big corporation like Disney can take the stories you love away from you. 4. Corporate synergy: Speaking of which, there’s something truly astonishing about the fact that a Star Wars trailer debuted during Monday Night Football, signaling both the convergence of the jock and nerd worlds (which really are both just intense enthusiasm with different objects) and the full might of Disney, which owns both Lucasfilm and ESPN. If this is a moment of triumph for people who grew up being treated like they were weird for loving stories about aliens, it ought to be a bittersweet one: Rather than occupying the position of scrappy rebels against a dull, majority culture, our enthusiasms have become a massive business and the plaything of gigantic corporations. It’s one thing to get more of what we want. But it’s also worth thinking hard about the challenging role science fantasies such as Star Wars might have once played in American culture and to keep a sharp eye out for the ways in which these genres get blunted by the corporations that stand to make planet-size piles of money off them. Rosenberg writes The Post’s Act Four blog, at http://www.washingtonpost.com/ news/act-four/.
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Lloyd would love to go back to Doc Brown BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Pass the lab coat, wacky printed shirts and hair teaser. Back to the Future star Christopher Lloyd is eager to play Doc Brown again. “If they want to do some more, have Doc appear in a film, film a cameo, I’m happy to do it,” the 76-year-old actor, who played the passionate, frizzyhaired scientist in the Back to the Future films, said. “I love the character and I love doing it.” The beloved franchise celebrates a milestone on Wednesday: Oct. 21, 2015 was the exact day and year that Marty McFly, played by Canadian Michael J. Fox, travels into the future in the second part of the series. To mark the event, Cineplex Entertainment will screen Back to the Future parts one and two in theatres across the country on Wednesday, followed by the full trilogy on Sunday. A por-
tion of ticket sales will be donated to Team Fox, benefiting the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Lloyd said the first film, which hit its 30th anniversary in July, lit a flame under his career as hot as the one that burns behind Doc’s DeLorean car when it blasts through time. “The film Back to the future certainly did a lot to put me where I am today and I did not foresee that,” he said. “I just was hoping the film would open successfully, the first one, but it’s gone way beyond what I think most of us have imagined. “It doesn’t quit.” The franchise even led to a personal milestone: his first onscreen kiss. It was with Mary Steenburgen, in Back to the Future Part III. “Not only was it my first, it was my only,” said Lloyd. “I can’t think of a film where there’s been a romantic kiss of any sort, so I treasure that.” Robert Zemeckis directed the three Back to the Future films and also cowrote them with Bob Gale.
Lloyd said an early draft for the first film had Doc Brown going to an atomic test site in New Mexico with Marty in the DeLorean, to get energy to travel into the future. But they changed it. “I’m glad they did,” said Lloyd. “I think it would’ve put a kind of darkness to the film I don’t think they wanted.” Lloyd said he still has one of the shirts Doc wore in Back to the Future Part II. “It’s more or less yellow with little steam engines going around on it. I haven’t been wearing it. It’s just hanging in the closet all these years.” And he still keeps in touch with Fox. “We’ve had a chemistry that just is innate,” said Lloyd. “We didn’t have to figure out how to bring our chemistry up to the level that was necessary for the film. It’s just present automatically and so it’s been great. “We’ve had quite a ride.”
Hayek, Schumer, DuVernay celebrate success, call for equality at Elle’s Women in Hollywood about a fellow director. They both had features at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and were taking on their first LOS ANGELES — Mary J. Blige big-budget projects. asked Ava DuVernay to be her friend. “I got a big movie,” she rememLena Dunham compared bered telling him, Amy Schumer to Oprah. talking about the $20 milMeryl Streep told Carlion budget for “Selma.” ey Mulligan her voice He said he had gotten sounds “like warm caraa big movie, too. It was mel poured over the En“Jurassic World.” glish language.” And Sal“Now… he’ll go off ma Hayek gave everyone and do ‘Star Wars,’ and a painting of a butterfly. I’m happy for him,” DuIt was a starry lovefest Vernay said of her friend at Elle magazine’s 22nd Colin Trevorrow. “But Women in Hollywood think about the women celebration Monday who were also in that night at the Four Seaclass at Sundance 2012.” sons Hotel, but it was alHonoree Mulligan so a call for equality. said that until she made Editor-in-chief Robher latest film, “Suffragbie Myers said Hollyette,” in which Streep wood’s vast gender disappears, the best parts parities — 95 per cent of for women were always studio movies are made “a really great female by men — prove such role in a story about a nights are still needed. man.” The annual event rec“Imagine how many ognizes women for their millions of women’s stoaccomplishments in the ries there are for us to entertainment industry. tell,” Mulligan said. “Did you know the Dunham introduced lowest paid male actor Schumer. In describing on the Forbes list was how the comedian inPhoto by ADVOCATE news services spired women, Dunham still ranked above the highest paid female ac- S a l m a H a y e k g a v e said: “She’s like Oprah, tor on the same list?” everyone a painting of a if Oprah squashed her she said. boobs together more.” Blige introduced Du- butterfly. Schumer dedicated Vernay, who illustratAnne Sexton’s poem Aded the gender gap with an anecdote monitions to a Special Person to the auBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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NEW YORK — After renewing his comedy career with appearances on Saturday Night Live and at the Emmy Awards, Tracy Morgan will embark on a nationwide stand-up tour this winter. The Tracy Morgan: Picking up the Pieces tour is set to begin Feb. 5 at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana, it was announced Tuesday. Morgan was in a coma for two weeks following a June 2014 accident, when a truck on the New Jersey Turnpike crashed into the back of a van he was riding in. Comedian James “Jimmy Mack” McNair was killed in the crash. Morgan made a surprise appearance at the Emmy Awards last month, with a more substantive turn as guest host on Oct. 17 of NBC’S Saturday Night Live, the show where he was once a cast member. In one sketch, he was joined by his fellow cast members of 30 Rock, Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Jane Krakowski and Jack McBrayer. “People are wondering, ‘Can he speak? Does he have 100 per cent mental capacity?”’ he said in his opening monologue. “The truth is, I never did. I might even be a few points higher.” Morgan was unavailable for comment about his concert tour, although in a news release he described it as getting back on a bike after falling down — “you don’t forget where the pedals are.” His bookings, from February until the end of May, include some coldweather gigs: Vermont and Ontario in February. But he does have two dates in Hawaii in early April. He will perform three shows in New Jersey, including at a theatre in New Brunswick, about 20 miles north of where the accident happened.
Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o to take play Eclipsed to Broadway this winter NEW YORK — Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o will make the leap to Broadway this winter, bringing the harrowing play Eclipsed to the Great White Way. The play by Danai Gurira about how some women might endure captivity and regular rape in squalid, harrowing conditions is currently in the middle of a sold-out run downtown at The Public Theater. It closes there Nov. 29. It then jumps to the Golden Theatre, with previews beginning Feb. 23. Nyong’o (12 Years A Slave) portrays a teenager who finds herself enslaved in a rebel compound during a bloody civil war in 2003 Liberia. The playright is also an actress, who portrays Michonne on AMC’s hit series The Walking Dead.
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announcements Obituaries OPSAL Betty 1934 - 2015 Betty Lou Opsal of Red Deer, passed away peacefully with her family by her side, on Thursday October 15, 2015, at the Red Deer Regional Hospital, at the age of 81 years. Betty was born on March 31, 1934 in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan. She grew up in her father’s lumber camp in the Cypress Hills. A little known fact was that this lumber camp was also a POW war camp, where German war prisoners were brought to Canada to work. While in high school, she lived in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan where she lied about her age and worked as a nurse’s aide to pay for her room and board. In 1950, she met Norman Opsal and they married in 1952. Four years later they moved to Calgary and two years after that they moved to a ranch south of Gadsby, Alberta. This is where she had her 2 sons, Tyler and Shane. During this time, she also worked at Johnson Connor Agencies in Stettler, along with her every day farm activities. In 1973 the family moved to a ranch at Tees, Alberta where they cleared the land and raised Limousin cattle. During this time she worked as the office manager at Chain Lakes Gas Coop and then later on at Burnt Lake Livestock Mart in Red Deer. In 2000, they moved off of the farm to Lacombe and then in 2002 it was off to Red Deer. During this time they enjoyed winter trips to Arizona and other destinations. Betty loved hard work, whether it was in the fields swathing or baling hay, feeding cattle, or picking rocks. She was famous for her cooking skills, especially her cinnamon buns and pies. She enjoyed sharing a funny joke, gardening, watching her two grandsons grow, but most of all, she loved looking after her husband, Norman. One of her greatest accomplishments, of which she was very proud, was the book she wrote on her family’s history and she made sure every descendent received a copy of it. Betty is lovingly remembered and dearly missed by her husband Norman of Red Deer; her two sons and daughter in laws: Tyler and (Nicola) of Calgary and Shane and (Doreen), of Whitecourt, Alberta and two grandsons, Dylan and Chase, both of Whitecourt, Alberta. Betty was predeceased by her parents, Albert (aka Abbie) and Sylvia Noble and two brothers, Cecil and Leslie Noble. An open house to share stories of Betty will be held at the Tees Hall on Sunday, November 1, 2015 from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations in Betty’s memory can be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, www.heartandstroke.ca. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com. Arrangements in care of Quinn Edwards, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.
VAN’T BOSCH Peter 1931-2015 On October 18, 2015 the Lord called Peter to his heavenly home at the age of 84 years. He was born August 29, 1931 in Voorthuizen, Netherlands to Gerrit Van’t Bosch and Antonia Bouw. Growing up on the farm, he quickly learned the values of hard work. As a youngster he also suffered the atrocities of WWII, remembering both the drudgery of subsistent meals through the war and the joy of receiving chocolate from liberating Canadian soldiers at the end of the war. Peter worked at a chicken farm and later at an egg grading facility. After completing two years of service in the army, Peter considered becoming a policeman, but his sense of adventure took him to Canada instead. In 1952, Peter picked potatoes in Prince Edward Island. In 1953 a call from Peter’s friend, Walter, caused him to pull up stakes and go milk cows for three months in Springbank near Calgary. By August he began his career as a lineman for Farm Electric. This career path took Peter all over central Alberta in two week increments. His job was to manually dig holes for power poles and then to climb the poles to hang the wires. He would often challenge his coworkers to see who could climb the most poles in one day. In 1956 Peter met Emmy Havinga. They were married on October 19, 1957. Their first home was a small trailer which they towed from work site to work site as they brought electricity to communities throughout central Alberta. Along their travels they were blessed with two children; Gordon and Lynn. With school age approaching, they purchased an acreage in Rocky Mountain House without the conveniences of running water or plumbing. Peter settled into a permanent position with Calgary Power and indulged his love for farming by purchasing 30 chickens and 50 pigs. So began a farming trend that continued throughout the rest of his life. Peter was well known in the community for being the man to call when your electricity was out, day or night. Peter was an active member of First Christian Reformed Church. He always remembered his parent’s advise, “Stay clean, don’t forget where you came from, and love the Lord.” He served as a Sunday School teacher and an elder; often reading sermons in the Dutch language for the new immigrants. The values that Peter instilled in his family were: “Be faithful with church work, keep things clean, work hard, and pray for each other.” 1986 saw him retire from Trans Alta Utilities to full time farming. Peter farmed a half section with 100 beef cattle; calving was his favorite time of year. He encouraged his grandchildren to join 4H and delighted in helping them train their calves. His favorite hobby was ice-fishing at Struble Lake. Peter is survived by his loving wife Emmy; one son Gordon (Bettie) and one daughter Lynn (Andy Starker). Also 5 grandchildren: Tanya (Kyle) Biersdorff, Shantelle (Kelly) Brouwer, Nicolas (Shianne) Van’t Bosch, Logan Starker, Quinn Starker and two great-grandchildren Ryan and Jason Brouwer. He is also survived by his brothers Walter (Rie) Van’t Bosch of Kelowna, Gert (Henny) Van’t Bosch, and one sister Tini (Dirk) Hols of the Netherlands. A Funeral Service for Peter will be held at the First Christian Reformed Church on Saturday, October 24th at 2:00 p.m. with Pastor Len Batterink officiating. Condolences may be forwarded to www.rockyfuneralhome.ca ROCKY AND SYLVAN LAKE FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM, your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements. 403-845-2626
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FRASER Leo 1936 - 2015 Mr. Leo Edward Fraser of Red Deer, passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Friday, October 16, 2015 at the age of 78 years. Leo was born on December 7, 1936 at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He leaves to mourn, his loving wife, Elsie; his daughter, Dr. Sandra (Robert) Shuya; his grandchildren, Mason, Justin and Alyson; and two sisters, Helen Fremont and Clara Crabb. Leo was predeceased by his parents, three brothers and five sisters. A Memorial Tea will be held in the Reception Centre of the Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, October 23, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. If desired, Memorial Donations in Leo’s honor may be made directly to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta and N.W.T. at www.heartandstroke.ab.ca or to the Canadian Cancer Society at www.cancer.ca. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Rhian Solecki, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.
FROST Edwin Oct. 19, 1943 - Oct. 11, 2015 Edwin Charles Frost of Red Deer passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Hospice on Sunday, October 11, 2015 at the age of 71 years. Edwin was past president of the Lions Club, the Red Deer Royals, and was a member of the Moose Hall. Edwin was an avid hunter, fisherman and camper. A Celebration of Edwin’s Life will take place at the Moose Hall, 140 Petrolia Drive, Red Deer, on Friday, October 23, 2015 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Edwin’s honour may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4R 3S6. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222
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HENDERSON Shirley Jeanne 1927 - 2015 Shirley Jeanne Henderson passed away peacefully on October 12, 2015 in the Lacombe Hospital and Care Centre at the age of 88. Shirley is survived by her husband Lawrence and three children Steven, Bruce and Beverly (Brunner). She also leaves behind numerous loving relatives and friends. Shirley was born on June 22, 1927 in Wenatchee, Washington to father Ernest Peterson and mother Jessie Peterson (Gunn). She grew up in a loving family in Bentley Alberta, with two sisters, Betty (Gingara) and Aubrey (Pye). Shirley attended the University of Calgary where she obtained a Teaching Certificate, followed by a teaching practicum at Benjamin School north of Eckville. She taught for two years at the Spruceville one room country school and then taught another year at Red Deer Central School. Shirley married Lawrence Henderson on July 11, 1951. The couple lived on the Henderson dairy farm just west of Lacombe where they raised their three children. The family would especially like to thank Shealagh and Marco for their spiritual support, Shirley’s doctors in Lacombe and Red Deer, and the staff at the Lacombe Hospital and Care Centre Palliative Care unit for their excellent, attentive and loving care. In lieu of flowers, the family is asking you to please make a memorial donation to Lacombe Health Trust in support of palliative care. To make a gift today, please donate online at lacombehealthtrust.com or by mail at Box 5663, Lacombe AB T4L 1X3. Shirley has requested a private family burial, where her ashes will be interred at the Bentley Cemetery. A Funeral Service will be be held at St. Andrews United Church in Lacombe on October 23, 2015 at 1:00 pm. Condolences may be made by visiting ww.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone: 403-782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”
WOODS Brenda ‘Bea’ 1957 - 2015 Mrs. Brenda ‘Bea’ Lea Woods of Innisfail, Alberta, passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Thursday, October 15, 2015 at the age of 58 years. Bea was born on June 6, 1957 at Lac La Biche, Alberta and raised in Smithers, British Columbia. She moved to Red Deer in the early 1980’s, and worked at Canadian Tire for twentyfive years. Bea will be lovingly remembered by her husband of twenty-eight years, Paul Woods of Innisfail; her sons, Tyler (Nicole) Bacon, Monty (Clancy) Woods and Robert (Tanya) Sirdar, all of Red Deer; her daughters, Tamyka (Robin) Latiff of Calgary, Alberta and Felecia (Victor) Woods of Red Deer; and five grandchildren. She will also be sadly missed by her brothers, Laurie Bouvier of Kamloops, British Columbia and Dean Bouvier of Smithers, British Columbia and one sister, Wendy Leiterman, also of Smithers. Bea was predeceased by her father, Jean Bouvier. A Celebration of Bea’s Life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. If desired, Memorial Donations in Bea’s honor may be made directly to the Alberta Children’s Hospital, 2888 Shaganappi Trail NW, Calgary, Alberta, T3B 6A9. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com. Arrangements in care of Quinn Edwards, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.
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Caregivers/ Aides Card Of Thanks MORE Our family would like to extend our heartfelt appreciation to all who have supported us in the difficult moments since we lost our beautiful Lindsey. The thoughtfulness that went into all the lovely flowers, wonderful casseroles and food items, as well as the numerous cards and phone calls did not go unnoticed. Thank you as well to all those who have generously donated to Lindsey’s legacy: Smiles Thru Lindsey. This is a Foundation set up through the Red Deer & District Community Foundation to assist those who seek help dealing with depression related issues. Every life is precious and worth fighting for. The More Family.
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EXPERIENCED caregiver for senior needed. Position involves light housekeeping. First aid/CPR certified. $11.50/hr,40hr/wk. Call 403-314-0700 Looking for: In Home Caregiver/Nanny for 2 children(12 yrs old and a 6 yrs old with special needautism) FullTime ($11.50 40/44hrs/week) Must be reliable,experience is not required but must be willing to train. Located in Red Deer, AB. Email to limpinnoel@yahoo.ca
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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. She is predeceased by her husband, Scott Swords. There will be an informal celebration at Leto’s Restaurant, 4944 Hwy 2A, Lacombe, AB on Saturday, October 24, 2015 from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
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Restaurant/ Hotel
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MOTEL manager/couple, live-in and manage 26-unit motel, 1:30 hr northwest of Edmonton, as of Nov 1. Experience is an asset. rambustah@hotmail.com.
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JJAM Management (1987) GOODMEN Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s ROOFING LTD. Requires to work at these Requires Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. SLOPED ROOFERS 37444 HWY 2 S LABOURERS 37543 HWY 2N & FLAT ROOFERS 700 3020 22 St. FOOD ATTENDANT Valid Driver’s Licence Req’d permanent shift preferred. Fax or email weekend day and evening info@goodmenroofing.ca both full and part time. or (403)341-6722 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! benefits. Start ASAP. Job description SHUNDA www.timhortons.com CONSTRUCTION Education and experience Requires Full Time not req’d. Carpenters Apply in person or fax Competitive Wages resume to: 403-314-1303 & Benefits. Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca
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REQ’D IMMEDIATELY EXPERIENCED Sheet Metal and Furnace Installers Top wages, hourly wages. Openings in new home, replacement and service dept. Great working conditions. Please call or e-mail. brent@ comfortecheating.com 403-309-8301
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BUSY Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers and/or Lease Operators. We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and comm. abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net
HEAVY HAUL TRUCK DRIVER F/T position required for an oilfield construction company based in Sundre, Ab. Minimum 5 years experience loading and hauling heavy equipment. Clean Driver’s Abstract. Benefits and competitive wages offered to the right candidate. Applications can be faxed, Attn: Mark 403-638-4950 or emailed to safety@ saunderstrucking.ca
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GREENHOUSE Laborers are required for our greenhouse operation located near Blackfalds, Alberta. Responsibilities include transplanting, watering, handling and caring for plant material and preparation of customer orders. This position is labor intensive and entails working in both hot and cold environments. Laborers are required to work a minimum of 40 hours per week. Laborers must be available to work different shifts, 7 days a week. Positions are available starting mid January and last until late June. No previous work experience or qualifications are required. Starting wage is $11.20 an hour. Please email resumes to Kevin@cagreenhouses.ca or fax resume to 403-885-4147 (Attn. Human Resources.) Resumes may also be mailed to Box 100, Blackfalds, Alberta, T0M 0J0.
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Circa 1960’s-1970’s HUDSON’S BAY, 100% wool, 4-point blanket coat. Ladies’ Size M-L (10-12). Still in great condition. $85 firm. ***SOLD*** LADIES leather jacket, butter color from Boutique of Leathers, like new, size 12, $40. SOLD
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Household Furnishings
LADIES size 4 1/2 Italian chocolate leather knee high boots, soft fits like a glove, $200 403-227-2976
HIDE-A-BED, double, very good cond. $75. 403-342-4949 or 780-717-6206
MEN’S leather coat, large, $20. Ladies black wool coat, size 10-12, $20. 403-347-5316
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HUTCH in nice shape, real wood, $70 obo. 403-986-8661
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VARIETY of furniture, oak dining table and 6 chairs with 2 large leaves, rolltop oak computer desk, and much more. 403-782-3964
GRUNDIG am/fm shortwave field radio, model #S450DLX w/owners manual, used 2x, $50. SOLD
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SONY Trinitron tv 26” w/remote, used little $75, also black glass tv stand, 42”w, 24”h, 18”d, bought at Sims, good for flat screen tv, $125. 403-352-8811
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100 VHS movies, $75. For All 403-885-5020 21’, five in one Mastercraft ladder, like brand new, $85 obo. 403-986-8661 TWO king size pillows, $25 for both. 403-347-5316
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KEYBOARD, stand, bench and music books, $100; set of encyclopedias, $25; standing lamp, $10; sewing machine, $25; and hood hair dryer, $10. 403-346-2346 KIZZ Halloween costume, adult medium, includes several pieces, very good cond. $40. 403-314-9603 PROPANE heater for inside travel home, works good $150 obo 403-314-0804 WATER cooler $50. 403-885-5020 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds
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Tools
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ANTIQUE staple guns, $40 obo. 403-986-8661
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ELECTRIC DRILLS, 3/8”, (5) $20. Each. 403-314-0804
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STAR WARS VHS trilogy, like new cond., $20. 403-314-9603
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SKILL SAW, Craftsman 7.25, $50. 403-314-0804
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INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS
Homestead Firewood Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp.
Spruce, Pine, Aspen - Split. Avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472
with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351 Start your career! See Help Wanted
B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail. PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 FIREWOOD, North of Costco. 403-346-7178 FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227
Contractors
FREE firewood, but needs to be falled. Bring your own chainsaw.403-346-4307
Household Furnishings
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BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542
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Entertainment
DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606
Handyman Services
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BEAT THE RUSH! Book now for your home projects. Reno’s, flooring, painting, small concrete/rock work, landscaping, small tree cutting, fencing & decking. Call James 403-341-0617
Massage Therapy
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FANTASY SPA
DALE’S Home Reno’s DINING ROOM SET with 4 Free estimates for all your Elite Retreat, Finest chairs & leaf, exc. shape. reno needs. 403-506-4301 in VIP Treatment. LADIES London Fog, reg. nice top with light wood 10 - 2am Private back entry 10 size, cranberry pea around side, brass legs on JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. 403-341-4445 coat, $50. 403-227-2976 chairs. $100 403-346-4155 Free Est. 403-872-8888
Misc. Services
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5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 505-4777 GARAGE Doors Serviced 50% off. 403-358-1614 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds
Window Cleaning
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ROBUST CLEANING SERVICES - Windows, eavestroughs, vinyl siding. Pckg. pricing, free quotes. 403-506-4822
Yard Care
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FALL cleanup. Tree/junk removal. Snow removal contracts welcome. 403-358-1614
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Sold 1995 TRAVELAIRE, 25.5’, very good,cond., sleeps 6, new awning, full size fridge, 3 burner stove/oven, micro., queen bed, x-long couch, $7000. 403-347-1997
SELLING CHEAP! $1900 for 2001 Ford Escape 4x4, 5 spd, std, 293, 453 kms, dependable 403-887-0373
2006 BUICK CXL Lucerne 117,000 kms, n/s, all options, winter & summer tires on wheels, $6800 obo
1996 26’ PHOENIX 147,000 kms, sleeps 6, new tires, good working order $9100 403-704-3094
2001 INTREPID SE $2000 firm 403-357-9459
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2003 NISSAN Maximan SE Titanium 143,000 km V6, 6 spd. manual, loaded $6450. 403 358 1713
2007 DODGE Nitro 4x4, SLT V6, auto., loaded w/sunroof, low kms., CLEAN.. Priced to buy Call 403-318 3040
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2013 HONDA PCX 150 scooter, 1,400 km, $2,200. 403-346-9274
2007 JAYCO Eagle, 32’, sleeps 6, assumable, 3 1/2 yr. warr. 2 slides, fridge, stove, oven, $13,900. 403-348-9746
2011 COLORADO, Z71 4x4, loaded for comfort, 45,000 kms., 1 owner, $27,500. 403-341-0603
2015 TOYOTA 4Runner Limited, remote start, lots of extras, 490 km, $53,000 obo. 403-392-5446
2008 LINCOLN Navigator 4x4 exc. shape, tan
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RARE 1997 LINCOLN Mark VIII, exc. cond. throughout, $6000. obo. 403-342-6295
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2012 ZINGER trailer, Thor built, 27’ , hard wall, large slide, air, elec. awning, $17,900 obo 403-896-8860
WE Will Take Payments!! 2012 Dodge Gr. Caravan White, 93,000 Kms. Full Inspection $13,450. Call Harvey @ Reward Lease 403-358-1698
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2009 VENZA AWD, fully loaded, 39,000 kms. $18,999.
2007 Ford Ranger Level II 6 cyl auto 4x4 loaded. Clean.. Priced to Buy Call 340-318 3040
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VINTAGE Royal Doulton Beswick horse, brown shetland Pony, 3 1/2” high $40; Merrell Ortholite shoes, air cushioned, size 6 1/2, like new $25. 403-352-8811
Cats
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KITTENS, (5) 8 wks old, ltter trained, FREE to good home. 403-782-0344
Sporting Goods
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AIR HOCKEY by Sportscraft was $900 new, exc. cond, $200. 403-352-8811 BODY vibe brand new, $150; EZ cycle bike $50, never used 403-309-6653 T- BAR back roll sports exercise equip. Asking $45 SOLD TRAVELING GOLF BAG, black. $45. 403-885-5020 TREADMILL in good cond., $60 obo. Cannot deliver. 403-346-8121
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Houses/ Duplexes
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3 BDRM. main level house, Johnstone Park. $1350 + d.d., 70% utils., avail. now, no pets. 403-971-9640, 923-1119 4 BDRMS, 2 1/2 baths, single car garage, 5 appls, $1695/mo. 403-782-7156 403-357-7465 AVAIL. Nov. 1, 3 bdrm. house, full bsmt, 2 bath, fridge, stove, microwave, dishwasher, in Parkvale (downtown area). 4614 47 St. R.D. Small pets only. Apply in person to 4610-47 St. or call 403-347-2943
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People walk along a street in Sentilj, Slovenia, heading for the border between Austria and Slovenian border after arriving by train carrying migrants and refugees, Tuesday. 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.
Thousands join migrant exodus through Slovenia Slovenia was dragging its heels in accepting people quickly enough. He asserted that Croatia was admitting BREZICE, Slovenia — Led by ri- people twice as quickly from Serbia. ot police on horseback, thousands of “If we are receiving 10,000, then weary migrants marched across west- 5,000 people have to be transited to ern Balkans borderlands as far as the Slovenia,” he said near the Serb-Croat eye could see Tuesday as authorities border. cautiously lowered barriers and inTensions flared on Slovenia’s bortensified efforts to cope with a human der with Austria as police in both tide unseen in Europe since World countries struggled to keep migrants War II. walking in orderly queues to buses Leaders of Slovenia deployed mil- bound for Austrian refugee centres. itary units to support police on their At one point, a few hundred people overwhelmed southern border with being confined by Slovene police Croatia, which delivered more than broke free and ran across the bor6,000 asylum seekers by train and bus der — seeking to get in front of others to the frontier in bitterly disputed cir- waiting hours for buses. Slovene officumstances between the former Yugo- cers’ bursts of pepper spray failed to slav rivals. stop them, but Austrian police erected With far too few buses available in physical barriers that blocked the inSlovenia to cope, most people walked terlopers’ path to buses. They eventu15 kilometres (9 miles) on rural lanes ally were persuaded to walk back to past cornfields and pastures to reach the end of the line. a refugee camp, a challenge eased by The trekkers’ primary goal is to sunny weather after days of torrential reach Germany or Scandinavian narain, fog and frigid winds. tions, which traditionally have offered On Slovenia’s frontiers with Croa- strong supports for asylum seekers. tia and Austria, aid workers toiled to But even the most liberal and wealthy erect enough tents and other emer- European countries are signalling gency accommodation to shelter up plans to increase deterrents to what to 14,000 travellers, they view as an unmore than five times anted overflow ‘IF THIS CONTINUES WE w the tiny nation’s preof immigration that WILL HAVE EXTREME PROB- should be managed vious official limit. Interior Secretary to home. LEMS. SLOVENIA IS AL- closer of State Bostjan Sefic To that end, EU told reporters in the READY IN DIRE STRAITS, AN leaders last month Slovene capital, Ljuto boost fiIMPOSSIBLE SITUATION.’ pledged bljana, that the presnancial aid by at sure on border secuSLOVENIA’S INTERIOR SECRETARY OF STATE least 1 billion eurity with Croatia had BOSTJAN SEFIC ros ($1.1 billion) to grown “very difficult camps hosting an with an enormous estimated 4 million number of people.” He said Slovenia, people in Turkey, Lebanon and Joran Alpine land of barely 2 million, dan. needed much more help immediately Yet the EU often fails to meet its from bigger EU partners to cope or own more modest targets. The bloc’s the country might have to adopt bor- border security agency, Frontex, ander-toughening measures. nounced Tuesday that EU members “If this continues we will have ex- had fulfilled barely a fourth of its treme problems. Slovenia is already months-old appeal to provide border in dire straits, an impossible situa- guard reinforcements for Greece and tion,” Sefic said as lawmakers debat- Italy, the two biggest entry points for ed whether to increase the military’s refugees and other migrants. Frontex powers to manage border security. said 291 guards would be deployed to In Brussels, Slovenian President both countries immediately but the diBorut Pahor met European Union rector, Fabrice Leggeri, said he hoped leaders and said he expected his EU members would provide more country to apply for emergency finan- staff to permit Frontex to move “much cial aid and border patrol reinforce- closer to our goal.” ments from EU partners. The Netherlands, another comHungary, long the most popular mon destination for asylum seekers, eastern gateway for people fleeing unveiled a new letter of caution for conflict and poverty in the Middle those seeking a Dutch refuge. The letEast, Asia and Africa, has padlocked ter, to be provided to all new arrivals, its borders for migrants progressive- warned they would face lengthy legal ly over the past month, forcing the delays and spend a year or more livtide west through Croatia and Slove- ing in “an austere reception, such as nia. All three nations have expressed in sports centres or tents, where mafears of ending up stuck accommodat- ny people share the same lodgings” ing tens of thousands of asylum-seek- while their asylum applications are ers indefinitely if other EU nations considered. farther north close their borders too. Dutch Junior Justice Minister Croatia, which has erected rela- Klaas Dijkhoff said that given the tively few shelters along its borders country’s shortage of public housing, with Serbia and Slovenia, directed even successful applicants might be thousands into special trains and bus assigned to long-term housing in conconvoys Tuesday to Slovenia in an ap- verted shipping containers or disused parently concerted effort to clear a office blocks. backlog built up since Saturday, when The history of undocumented imHungary closed its borders with Cro- migration to Europe suggests that, evatia. ery time one route is closed, another The Slovenes complained bitter- opens. ly that Croat officials were ignoring To that end, nations bordering their requests for advance warnings Russia signalled Tuesday that they of migrant deliveries. 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stalks. It behaves like a plant that can’t quite nail down its identity, vegetable or herb, and its indecision makes it that much more exciting to cook with. Between those two types, dozens of varieties exist, though you might need to turn to seed catalogs to find them. There is garnet-hued celery, said to possess a clear, sweet, nutty taste and a texture that stays on through long cooking; heirloom self-blanching varieties that were all the rage in the late 19th century for their pale color and sweet, nutty flavors; and golden-leaved kin tsai celery, a Chinese celery whose delicate, glossy leaves carry an intense, peppery fragrance. (Chinese celery, found easily in Asian grocery stores, is in fact cutting celery, and a good choice for cooking when local celery is not in season.) Growers of those varieties, their market copy promises, can expect “true celery flavor,” “real celery flavor” or “pure celery flavor” from their harvests. Those are modest assertions reflecting reasonable expectations. Once you have your bunch of real celery flavor, don’t let it succumb to the usual fate of neglect. If you can’t use it all at once, blanch it (to preserve it) and take it to the freezer. Defrosted, it will serve best in stocks and soups, but it will still offer a wealth of flavor in thinner times.
Among superlatives and generalizations, celery must be the most indispensable, widely used and yet simultaneously underappreciated vegetable in contemporary cooking. Why? Perhaps because the celery we have access to year-round, while serving most purposes adequately, is boring. Crunchy, but sometimes watery; sometimes sweet, often bland. I suspect that most cooks use celery only where it would feel remiss to proceed without it — egg salad, gumbo — and that’s why it seems particularly prone to languish in the backs of refrigerator crispers. It’s not a vegetable we typically buy with enthusiasm or plan meals around. What I love about in-season celery is that it can shift that ambivalence, albeit temporarily. With its lucid green stems, shocks of fragrant leaves and rich, surprisingly complex flavor, seasonal celery offers the moxie of a main-ingredient vegetable. And the time to buy it, at farmers markets, is now. Seasonal celery owes part of its depth of flavor to bitterness, which, in many of our modern cultivars, has dwindled to a meek astringency. That bite, however subdued, is what enables the balance in a sweetly aromatic dish of tarragon-roasted celery, featured in chef-author Jennifer McLagMAKES: 4 servings (makes about 6 cups) an’s “Bitter” (Ten Speed Press, 2014). It Photos by ADVOCATE news services INGREDIENTS sharpens the edge in a passive butter 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons extra-virgin FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Celery Leaf, Parsley and Pistachio Pesto; Potato and lettuce salad and, McLagan notes, an- olive oil Celery Soup; Emmer, Lentil and Celery Salad With Lemon-Cumin Dressing. 1 medium yellow onion, diced chors the richness of a beef stew. 1 1/2 teaspoons sea salt In-season celery accomplishes the 3 cloves garlic, minced same thing, but with greater presence. 1 cup diced celery ribs, plus 2 cups loosely STEPS Consider a celery risotto, a stir-fry of packed celery leaves (see headnote) Place the emmer in a medium, heavy pot. Covcelery and mushrooms or a braise of 1 1/2 pounds yellow potatoes, such as Yellow er with water by 2 inches; bring to just below a boil celery, scented with tomato and or- Finn or Yukon Gold, cut into 3/4-inch pieces over medium heat; partially cover and cook for 35 ange. 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, or to 45 minutes, until the emmer is just tender but still It also offers more leaves, which more as needed chewy. (Wheat berries might cook for 50 to 60 min4 cups water yield such returns on flavor and aroma utes before becoming tender.) Remove from the MAKES: 4 servings (makes about 6 cups) heat and let stand for 5 minutes. Drain completely; that all efforts should be made to use STEPS INGREDIENTS once the emmer is completely dry, transfer to a or preserve them. Heat a large, heavy soup pot or Dutch oven 1 cup whole emmer (may substitute wheat berlarge bowl. “The main thing is the leaves,” over medium heat. Add the oil and warm for a place the lentils in a medium, heavy said McLagan. “Everyone usually just minute. Add the onion and 1/2 teaspoon of the salt; ries)3/4 cup dried green French du Puy lentils or pot.Meanwhile, Cover with water by 2 inches; bring to just throws them away, but they’re won- cook for 7 to 8 minutes, stirring occasionally, until brown Spanish Pardina lentils below a boil over medium heat, then partially cover derful to use. They have a hint of bit- translucent. Add the garlic and the diced celery; 2 cups diced celery ribs and cook over medium heat, until the lentils are terness, and they help to change up cook for 2 minutes, then add the potatoes, the re1 poblano pepper, stemmed, seeded and diced barely tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from the maining teaspoon of salt and the 1/2 teaspoon of 1/4 cup finely diced onion heat, cover and allow the lentils to cool in their texture and color.” 2/3 cup chopped parsley cooking liquid. Drain thoroughly, then transfer them You’ll do well treating them as pepper, stirring to incorporate. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally to keep the potatoes from 1 1/2 teaspoons sea salt to the bowl with the emmer, along with the celery, an herb, as generously and often as sticking to the bottom of the pot. 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice poblano pepper, onion and parsley. you might use parsley and cilantro, Add the water; once it comes almost to a boil, 5 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive Combine the salt and lemon juice in a small although how generous you are in reduce the heat to medium-low and cook for 20 to oil bowl, stirring until the salt has dissolved. Whisk the dosing might depend on your pal- 25 minutes or just until the potatoes have begun to 1 teaspoon cumin seed, toasted, then ground in the oil until emulsified, then add the cumin, the ate and the preparation. Raw celery break down and thicken the soup but are still hold1 large clove garlic, pounded into a paste or garlic and the red pepper flakes to form a dressing. leaves can be somewhat astringent and ing their shape. Stir in the celery leaves; cook for 5 minced Pour over the emmer mixture in the large bowl, 1 to 2 teaspoons Aleppo pepper or Marash red tossing until well coated. Add half of the toasted rough, but their brusqueness softens minutes, then turn off the heat. Cover and let the soup rest for 5 minutes before pepper flakes sesame seeds, then toss the salad again. Garnish in the heat of a soup, where fistfuls serving; taste, and add pepper as needed. 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon unhulled sesame with the remaining sesame seeds. are appropriate, and adds nuance to seeds, toasted Divide among individual plates; crumble 1 otherwise mild-toned salads of leafy One 4-ounce block homemade or good-quality ounce of feta cheese, if using, over each portion. greens, where a handful will do. In a feta cheese (optional) Serve right away. roasting pan they perform a different trick, turning shatteringly crisp in minutes. (Add them to a pan of potatoes or MAKES: 4 servings (makes 1/2 cup) other vegetables in the last minutes of INGREDIENTS cooking.) 1 cup packed flat-leaf parsley leaves Despite celery’s usual role as an 1 cup packed celery leaves all-purpose aromatic, in fuller-fla2 cloves garlic vored guises it betrays a real affinity 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon sea salt for a few particular ingredients. You 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon shelled, unsalted piscan’t do much better than potatoes as tachios, toasted and coarsely chopped 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil a partner ingredient for good celery, 1/4 ounce Parmigiano-Reggiano or Grana whether you combine the two in a potato salad, a soup full of celery ribs Padano cheese, finely grated (optional) and leaves, or a bowl of cooked potaSTEPS toes dressed with a celery-leaf pesto. Chop the parsley and the celery leaves. Pistachios, too, pair seamlessly with Use a mortar and pestle to pound the garlic with celery, their rich, nutty, earthy notes 1/4 teaspoon of the salt to form a smooth paste. is proud to support the an underscore and echo of some of cel(Alternately, use the flat side of a chef’s knife Advocate “Newspapers to crush the garlic, then mince it with the salt until ery’s subtler charms. You will find few better seasonal extremely fine.) in Education” program by Use a large mortar and pestle or a food procesjunctions than tomatoes and celery, providing newspapers for sor to reduce the pistachios to fine crumbs. if you can line up their availability at If using a mortar and pestle, add the parsley classroom use at the cusp between summer and fall. and celery leaves to the garlic and pistachios a Theirs is a partnership of balance, bit at a time, pounding well after each addition, each bringing out the best in the other. until they break down to a coarse paste, scraping As you source local celery, know around the bowl occasionally to incorporate. If that cultivated celery appears as two using a food processor, add the leaves to the pismajor types: stalk or stem celery, and tachios all at once, along with the garlic; pulse until leaf or cutting celery. A third type, broken down to a coarse paste, about 1 minute, Helping students gain once to scrape down the sides of the celeriac or celery root, is of the same stopping bowl. skills for tomorrow. species but grown for its fleshy bulb Add the oil in a slow stream, stirring or pulsing (although the stems and leaves, if you until fully blended. Scrape the pesto into a medium find them attached, make a fine addi- bowl. If serving right away, stir in the cheese, if using. If you’re not adding the cheese, taste the pesto tion to stock). Stalk celery is what you’ll encoun- and add some or all of the remaining salt, as needSPROULE’S MOUNTVIEW IDA ter most often in farmers markets and ed. If you’re refrigerating the pesto, cover with plas403-347-2345 at the grocery store, though depend- tic wrap pressed directly onto the surface. 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Dear Michael: Thank you for your honesty and desire to help others who suffer from depression and anxiety. Readers, please visit HelpYourselfHelpOthers.org to learn more. Dear Annie: I know the younger generation likes to do things the easy way, but where do proper manners end and just plain laziness and the “gimme” attitude begin? We received a postcard invitation from a newly married couple stating that they could not hold a real housewarming party, so they were inviting us to a virtual housewarming party. The invitation included where they were registered for gifts. I thought about copying and pasting a photo from the registry and emailing it with a note saying, “Your virtual gift is attached.” But I didn’t think they would understand that a real gift would not be forthcoming, so I did not respond at all. Should I have sent a real one? — Thought My Granddaughter Knew Better Dear Thought: How nice that the
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As a partner, you would offer one free pass to your facility for a patient and accompanying friend for people who present the prescription & we would advertise your business on our website. For application forms, go to
www.rdpcn.com or call Lynsey @ 403.352.6073
7239959J13-31
Mon – Thurs 8am-8pm Friday 8am-3pm
Serving Red Deer and Area since 2003
Moon and Saturn help you power through the day with plenty of compassion and a practical plan. The combination of emotional energy and physical endurance is a winning double. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you’ve got a problem that needs solving, tune into your Aquarian intuition to get the answers you’re searching for. Plus be proactive about asking for assistance from family and friends. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Avoid getting drawn into discussions about money today. When it comes to work or financial matters, think outside the box and experiment with an adventurous new approach. Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.
The Red Deer Primary Care Network (PCN) Family Doctors are encouraging their patients to increase their activity by writing a “Prescription to Get Active”
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#103 2004 50 Ave. Red Deer, Alberta
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Do you have an on-going problem with a family member or neighbour? The Moon encourages you to be compassionate, while Saturn helps you find a practical solution to a stressful situation. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’re trying to persuade someone to do something, but are they ready for your intense — and somewhat controlling — approach? Smart Scorpios will use charm to get others onside. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’re often inclined to buy expensive things you really don’t need. Hopefully today — with the help of Saturn — you’ll tune into your sensible Sagittarian side and keep your wallet closed. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The