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Record deficit expected ALBERTA BUDGET

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta’s NDP government is set to reset the economic game plan Tuesday, choosing from a menu of unpalatable alternatives brought on by a core economy deep in the dumper of low oil prices “We’ve got a budget billions of dollars (in) the hole,” Finance Minister Joe Ceci said in an interview.

$10M settlement reached with Malley clients

“We have a fiscal structural problem in this province that needs to be repaired and we’re starting to take steps to do that.”

The budget is the centrepiece of a fall legislature session that begins Monday.

The budget is expected to feature the biggest deficit in Alberta’s history. Ceci has already projected it will be just under $6.5 billion.

On top of that, there are expected increases in capital spending for a province squeezed in the vise of a growing population, thousands of private-sector job layoffs, and shrinking revenues.

Ceci said it will be a longer-term blueprint to create jobs, grow the economy, and balance the budget by 2020 while protecting core services in areas like

health and education.

The government has already signalled it will continue debt financing for capital construction that began under the Tories and is projected to $31-billion by 2019.

“We want to see if we can … bring in some programs and capital programs that will help stimulate the economy,” said Ceci.

But Ceci said the government is looking for places to cut without sacrificing critical front-line jobs, like teachers and nurses.

“We’re going to get the rate of program growth under control,” he said.

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NEW EXHIBITS AT KERRY WOOD NATURE CENTRE

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A settlement topping $10 million has been reached in the class action lawsuit against a financial advisor in jail for the bombing death of a former client.

Currently serving a life sentence for a first-degree murder conviction, Brian Andrew Malley, 58, of Innisfail, was also one of the defendants in an $80 million class action lawsuit from his former clients.

Malley, his wife Christine and the two companies they administered and directed — Assante Wealth Management and Assante Capital Management, were all the subject of the lawsuit launched in 2012.

A recently reached settlement of $10 million is now open for former clients to apply for a share of the money.

The suit alleged Malley “disregarded the stated investment goals of the class members … engaged in a one-size fits all investment strategy for the class members that was wholly unsuitable for the investors and … acted in his own best interests which were in conflict with the interests of his client class members.”

The settlement is not an admission of liability, wrongdoing or fault on the part of the defendants, who continue to dispute the allegations of the suit.

For the settlement to be implemented the class action has to be certified and the agreement must be approved by the court.

The approval hearing is scheduled for Nov. 30, 2015 at the Red Deer court house, 4909 48th Ave. Malley’s financial management was also at the centre of a murder trial earlier this year.

He was convicted of first-degree murder in the November 2011 bombing death of Victoria Shachtay.

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Ryan Cross of Brothers Installations of Edmonton works at installing a mural in the new exhibits gallery at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre on Monday. With construction of the renovated gallery space complete over the next two weeks, finishing touches will be installed along with the exhibits themselves. A grand opening of the new space is scheduled to take place Nov. 13.

Council endorses plan for south entrance into city OPTIMISTIC THAT HWY 2 AND GAETZ AVE. INTERCHANGE PROJECT IS IN BUDGET

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF City officials are hopeful a project to upgrade the south entrance into Red Deer is inked into the provincial budget.

On Monday, council endorsed Alberta Transportation’s revised plan to upgrade the Hwy 2 and Gaetz Avenue interchange.

The new plan proposes a single lane north bound exit from Hwy 2 that ultimately provides three lanes into the city – two lanes northbound onto Gaetz Avenue and one lane onto 19th Street and Taylor Drive.

The city has been working with the province on the issue since 2010 after a functional planning study was conducted in 2009.

Alberta Transportation’s original plan did not receive council approval because of concerns around the configuration, trail access and losing entry points into the city.

City manager Craig Curtis said the new design is a significant improvement for the interchange south of the city.

“It will provide for a better entrance into the city past the Westerner and it will also provide for an

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overpass that will bring traffic into the west side of Hwy 2 into the slow moving lane,” he said. “Presently it leads into the fast lane causing a potential conflict between slow moving and fast moving traffic. It’s a major safety concern.”

Mayor Tara Veer said the plan has some substantial improvements from what the city was presented with in 2010/2011.

Council was pleased that the new plan calls for more substantial directional signage into the city from all directions on the highway.

“That interchange is one of the highest areas of safety concerns both for the city and the county,” said Veer.

“Our citizens engage in the weave with highway traffic but also for citizens throughout Alberta. We know it is a priority for Alberta Transportation as it should be because of the significant safety concerns caused by an urban level of speed and competing with highway levels of speed at the interchange.”

The plan leaves the door open to build a singlelane south bound flyover from Gaetz Avenue onto Hwy 2 to allow for future expansion of two lanes.

It will also leave space for future trail connections underneath the structures at Hwy 2A (Taylor Drive).

Curtis said in the future there will likely be some adjustments to the whole traffic situation on the east

side of Hwy 2.

He said at least this will build the major piece of bridge infrastructure which is critical to resolving the traffic concerns on the west side.

Veer said the province is fully aware of the importance of having this project on the books in time for the 2019 Canada Winter Games. She said the project will likely be deferred to beyond 2019 if it does not make the provincial budget.

“We cannot be pre or mid construction in 2019,” said Veer.

“If construction is deferred and continues to be deferred because of the provincial economy then I think the city reserves the right to comment on the needs of the day. We are looking at a project that is four or six years out. The position of the council of the day may change.”

The city will also be keeping an eye on the budget for other key infrastructure projects including capital for a new courthouse, a decision on municipal land holding, funding for Red Deer College’s Gary W. Harris Centre for Health, Wellness & Sport and funding allocation to repurpose the Red Deer nursing home site for senior housing. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Community mailbox program suspended Door-to-door delivery will stay for now as Canada Post temporarily suspended the community mailbox program Monday.

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COURT OF QUEEN’S BENCH

Man who coerced teen to send illicit photos pleads guilty

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Putting up the winter stores this squirrel was spotted hard at work working its way through a supply of spruce cones near Bower Ponds on Monday. Overnight low temperatures are expected to dip into the freezing levels, while daytime highs are expected to stay in the single digits until Friday.

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Culture Fee for Service program changes coming next year Changes to the Culture Fee for Service grant program are in the works for the 2016 funding year.

First off the program has been renamed the Community Culture Development Fund. Other changes have been made to strengthen the program, including a focus on outcomes, simplified application process, changes to funding categories and opportunities for multi-year funding.

The program has been in place for 15 years and provides financial support to not-for-profit organi-

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BUDGET: Putting credit rating at risk “We are continuing a hiring restraint initiative that was started in January.

“And) we’re going to be carefully looking at all the (300-plus) agencies, boards and committees that are out there.”

Wildrose Opposition Leader Brian Jean said Alberta is flirting with a debt-to-GDP ratio that will cost it its valued triple-A credit rating.

Lose that rating, said Jean, and the dominoes fall: the province needs to spend more to borrow, causing it to hike taxes to pay for it.

“The NDP are putting our credit rating at risk and it’s a very, very serious issue,” said Jean.

Progressive Conservative finance critic Manmeet Bhullar urged the NDP to tread carefully on sweeping initiatives like its plan to eventually hike the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2018.

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zations that deliver arts, culture and heritage initiatives within Red Deer.

“Our community’s unique culture is conveyed through artistic expression, creative citizens, public art, natural and built heritage features, cultural heritage, festivals, special events, and more,” said Tara O’Donnell, Culture superintendent. “The Community Culture Development Fund is designed to support these initiatives and build the kind of vibrant community that Red Deerians have expressed is important to them.” The intake period for the 2016 funding year will run from Nov. 1 to Dec. 1, 2015. Application forms will be available on the city’s website starting on Nov.1. To help applicants understand the new program and application process, workshops will be held as follows on Nov. 9 and Nov. 12 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Culture Services (3827-39 Street). Both sessions will provide the same information.

“Ideological pursuits and wishful thinking will not solve our problems,” said Bhullar.

Making good on other campaign promises, the NDP has already hiked the corporate tax rate, the minimum wage and personal income tax rates on high end earners.

Alberta Party Leader Greg Clark said the NDP needs to work smarter, reduce administrative overlap and free up public sector workers up for other tasks.

“What I would like to see is a real effort to do more with less,” said Clark.

“Let’s create that culture of innovation.”

West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark price for Alberta’s oil, has been in a deep funk for more than a year.

It peaked at more than US$100 a barrel last June, but slid quickly by the fall and has been in a trough ever since.

It is now under US$45 per barrel.

The budget is for the 2015-16 fiscal year, which began April 1 and is already more than six months old.

The province has been paying the bills after passing spending warrants in the spring session.

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A Red Deer man pleaded guilty to coercing a 13-year-old to sending him illicit photos of herself.

Justin Andrew Peck, 22, was to have started a trial in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Monday before Justice Monica Bast.

However, negotiations between defence counsel Lorne Goddard and Crown Prosecutor Jennifer Rees, of special prosecutions, changed the trial. Rees agreed to change the Crown election on the charge from indictment to summary conviction for the guilty plea from Peck.

A summary conviction carries a lesser sentence than an indictable conviction.

Because it became a summary conviction matter, a re-election from Court of Queen’s Bench to provincial court also occurred.

Peck pleaded guilty to one count of luring a child with the intent of making child porn before judge John Holmes in Red Deer provincial court.

The victim, who was 13 at the time, can’t be identified because of a court ordered publication ban.

Between March 24 and July 23 of 2013, Peck communicated with the victim through telecommunications devices and proceeded to coerce her to send the photos to him.

Peck, who was 20 at the time of the offence, used Facebook to get the teenaged girl to send the photos.

The facts of the incident were not read into the record, instead a paper copy Peck had signed was tendered to the judge.

Rees said the Crown is requesting a pre-sentence report be done on Peck, who has been released from custody.

In addition to the pre-sentence report, Holmes also ordered a full risk assessment to examine the likelihood of recidivism and a psychiatric evaluation.

Rees told Holmes that while the two sides had agreed on the plea, they had not agreed on sentence and said it would likely be a contested sentencing hearing.

Due to the extensive reports needed before sentencing and scheduling for counsel, Peck’s sentencing hearing was adjourned until March of 2016.

Holmes has been seized with the matter and will preside over the sentencing hearing. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

MALLEY: Loan Shachtay was killed when she opened a gift left on her door stop. The gift disguised a bomb, which detonated.

Shachtay had invested $575,000 with Malley in 2007. She had received the money as part of a settlement for a 2004 car crash that left her paralyzed.

Malley convinced her to bump up her investment with a $264,000 loan.

By the spring of 2011, Shachtay’s money was gone.

Malley paid Shachtay $44,000 out of his own pocket from the spring to the fall of 2011.

The Investment Industry Regulation Organization of Canada also ruled in a disciplinary hearing in 2014 that Malley violated regulations in his dealings with Shachtay. The violations included failing to know essential facts related to some of his clients, making unsuitable recommendations and engaging in unauthorized discretionary trading.

Malley was permanently banned from the investment industry registry and fined $300,000.

Malley is appealing the first-degree murder conviction. The appeal is scheduled to be heard in the Alberta Court of Appeal on Jan. 6, 2016. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Government announces flood funding inflicted on Alberta’s infrastructure and economy.

She said an independent report recommended the government proceed with the Springbank reservoir instead of a dry dam farther west at the confluence of McLean Creek and the Elbow River.

“The Springbank Off-stream Reservoir can and will work in tandem with the Glenmore Reservoir (in Calgary) to better protect communities along the Elbow River against another 2013 flood,” she said.

“Springbank has a simpler design, requires less work in the regulatory process than other options.”

Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, who shared the podium with Phillips, welcomed the funding but noted there still needs to be work done to reduce flooding prospects along the Bow River.

“The flood of 2013 had a devastating impact on the lives of thousands of Albertans,” he said.

“I am very pleased that the new provincial government has moved to protect downtown Calgary and our flood-prone communities from a similar flood in the future.”

He said an additional $150 million committed

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The Alberta government will spend $297 million to build a new reservoir west of Calgary in hopes of preventing a repeat of one of the worst floods in Canadian history.

About 120,000 were affected after heavy rains hammered southern Alberta in June 2013. The deluge wiped out roads and bridges and swamped streets, homes, and vehicles.

The Springbank Off-Stream Reservoir will provide protection for communities along the Elbow River, including Calgary.

“The floods of June 2013 were the largest natural disaster in Alberta’s history by almost every measure — the extent of the damage, the number of people affected and the financial cost,” Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips said at a Calgary news conference Monday.

“We cannot let a disaster of this magnitude happen again.”

Phillips said more than $6 billion in damage was

over the next 10 years for local projects to prevent flooding in Calgary is a good start.

“It’s probably not going to be enough — sorry minister, you’re standing right there — but it will really help us move forward on a number of those brute force mitigation projects. We will continue to work with the province as part of a working group to develop this overall plan,” Nenshi added.

The Springbank reservoir is expected to upset area landowners opposed to the project, but Phillips said more discussions will take place.

“We will work with them as we go through the environmental assessment process,” she said.

Liberal Leader David Swann supports the flood mitigation measures but says the government needs to acknowledge angry landowners.

“There was no comment on the possible lawsuits that may ensue which the landowners have committed to so that could significantly delay the timing that they’re projecting for this,” Swann said.

At least 20 years in prison for B.C. man who trafficked teens

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Sideshow performer ‘The Great Orbax’ lies on a bed of nails as motorcycles are driven over him while his performing partner ‘Sweet Pepper Klopek’, right, encourages him and monitors the stunt in an attempt to set a Guinness World Record, in Vancouver, B.C., on Monday. The duo known as ‘The Monsters of Schlock’ broke the previous record when 70 motorcycles were driven over him in under two minutes. They are currently performing at Fright Nights at Playland at the Pacific National Exhibition grounds.

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Calgary man suffers serious injuries after his vehicle collides with train

CALGARY — Police are looking into a crash between a semi-tractor trailer unit at a train in Calgary’s southeast industrial area that sent a man to hospital in serious condition.

Emergency crews were called to the scene on Monday afternoon.

When fire crews arrived they found the driver of the truck pinned unFamily der the windshield post of the vehicle and they had to use hydraulic extrication tools to free the man.

Carol Henke of the Calgary Fire Department says the man was conscious and breathing during the extrication process, but his leg was trapped.

EMS transported the man in his 50s to Foothills Hospital in serious condition with injuries to both lower legs.

THORSBY, — Alberta Mounties are searching for a prisoner who escaped by fleeing in a marked cruiser.

Police say 26-year-old Jason McGinn jumped into the driver’s seat of the cruiser this morning near Thorsby while he was transferred to Drayton Valley RCMP. McGinn was taken into custody Sunday night for allegedly being in possession of a stolen vehicle.

The RCMP cruiser was found abandoned near Warburg.

Police say nothing was taken from the police car. McGinn is described as white, five feet 10 inches tall with dark brown hair, green eyes, a missing tooth and a recent scratch on his face.

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Alberta agency investigates death of inmate in back of police van EDMONTON — A man has died after being in “medical distress” while being transported in an

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VANCOUVER — A British Columbia man convicted of trafficking underage girls for sex should be locked up for more than 20 years, say Crown prosecutors, though a defence lawyer is calling such a sentence “crushing.”

David Milburn told B.C. Supreme Court that a sentence between 10 and 12 years would be more appropriate for his client, Reza Moazami.

Moazami, who is in his 30s, was found guilty last year of luring nearly a dozen teenage girls into prostitution, in the province’s first human-trafficking conviction.

“There can be no doubt that he’s deserving of a substantial penitentiary sentence, but not along the lines of what the Crown is looking for,” Milburn told court Monday about the proposed 20-year sentence.

“In my submission, that is unduly harsh — it’s excessive, it’s crushing.”

Milburn listed several mitigating factors, including Moazami’s relatively young age, his limited criminal record, his history of being abused as a child and the impact steroids had on his temper.

The court heard Moazami worked partially as a personal trainer around the time of his offences and would take steroids in order to attract more customers.

“They were changing his body as well but they were changing his emotional response in certain situations,” Milburn told the court.

“There’s a lot of literature out there that confirms that people who use steroids can have fits of rage.”

Justice Catherine Bruce interrupted Milburn at one point to raise concern over the cyclical nature of Moazami’s offences, saying she believed it would be “better for him” had they all occurred at the same time.

“It wasn’t that he did this all at once and he was arrested and that was it,” she said. “This was a situation where he was doing it, then he was arrested, released and he started doing it again.”

Bruce also challenged the math behind Milburn’s proposed 10- to 12-year sentence, noting that adding the minimum sentences together resulted in an overall sentence in excess of 40 years.

“That is troublesome to me,” she said.

“It isn’t one complainant where you have multiple counts. It’s 11 complainants. Crime isn’t cheaper by the dozen.”

Moazami has already spent a little more than three and a half years behind bars. That time will go toward reducing his overall sentence, though Crown and defence lawyers dispute how much credit he should receive.

Milburn agreed to a number of separate orders requested by the Crown, including registering his client on the sex-offender registry and paying a victim surcharge of $2,600.

Other orders included weapons prohibition for at least 10 years and a non-communication order with the 11 victims and a number of vulnerable witnesses.

Moazami was to be sentenced last December, but the proceedings were set back several times after he fired his lawyers.

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Stephen Harper remains an enigma Few people, if any, know at what Canada’s highest political office. exact point Stephen Harper felt in his By the time Harper and Trudeau bones that he would lose the election appeared together for the memorito Justin Trudeau, but it was some al ceremony of the first anniversary time before Canada’s television net- of the Parliament Hill shootings on works declared the advent Thursday, the pair of them of a majority Liberal govlooked more like comradesernment on Monday. in-arms than like two rivals Indeed, watching the who had just spent the past Conservative leader coolly months in electoral combat. concede defeat later that The mantle of elder evening, it seemed likely statesman may yet suit he had not bothered to preHarper better than that of pare a victory speech. party leader.

Harper had stopped tryFor the outgoing prime ing to outrun the wheels of minister, the ceremony was change some days or possian opportunity to look back bly weeks before election on a series of events that night. shaped the last year of his CHANTAL His campaign always mandate in ways he had no HÉBERT came across more like a reason to anticipate.

OPINION farewell tour for diehard Harper’s reign — like fans than like a perforthat of all his predecesmance orchestrated to earn sors — featured its share of an encore. dark days. It was marked by a highLike most manifestations of life in er-than-average number of estrangeHarperland, his re-election strategy ments from formerly close friends and mystified those who covered it. It will associates and a fair amount of pertake some time for the Conservatives sonal betrayals. Some were reportedly themselves to make sense of it all. reciprocal.

That being said, coming to terms The near-toppling of Harper’s secwith defeat likely comes more easily ond government just weeks after the to a prime minister who has almost a 2008 election almost brought his tendecade in power under his belt than ure to an abrupt end; the premature to one such as Paul Martin, who never death of Jim Flaherty robbed his team had enough time to put his mark on of one of its rare happy warriors.

But chances are Harper’s darkest minutes in office were spent closeted in the grand Reading Room of Parliament’s centre block in fear for the life of his House of Commons colleagues and his own.

Nothing prepares a Canadian politician to dodge real bullets.

There are many issues a prime minister can lose sleep over. The threat of successful terrorist attacks on one’s watch is not far from the top of the list.

The calculating Conservative strategists who saw a partisan opportunity in the Parliament Hill shootings never had to wake up — as Harper did — to a country expecting to be kept safe from arbitrary acts of terrorist violence. In the immediate aftermath of last year’s shootings, security would have become job one for any party in federal power.

Harper had imagined a different worst-case scenario might overtake his pre-election year.

Months before the shootings, he uncharacteristically opened up to his opposition counterparts about his concerns about the possible election of a Parti Québécois majority government in the upcoming provincial campaign.

In the end, the Conservative prime minister was spared the unity crisis he so dreaded. In contrast with his three predecessors, Harper never had to deal with a surging or a resurging sovereigntist movement.

In hindsight though, he might have willingly traded the anti-terrorism file and an attending combat mission in the Middle East for a more familiar constitutional war of words.

That is just an assumption on my part.

More pages have probably been written about Harper over his active political life than about any other recent prime minister. (The Pierre Trudeau book industry really picked up steam only after he retired.)

To my knowledge Harper has co-operated with none of the many authors who have dissected — sometimes with an axe — his motives, his political persona and his presumed thinking.

Three of his 2015 election rivals published precampaign memoirs that doubled up as political manifestos.

Many parliamentary journalists know more about the incoming Trudeau’s world view than about what really makes the outgoing Harper tick.

He has kept his thoughts to himself to the very end, forcing those who covered him to treat their own bathwater as a source of insights. Even his resignation letter — if such a written note exists — has yet to surface.

Historians may have to file an access-to-information request to get their hands on it.

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer syndicated by the Toronto Star

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Netanyahu doing a lot of damage with lies “I can’t stand him. He’s a liar,” then-French pres- denounced this travesty of the historical record, and ident Nicolas Sarkozy told U.S. President Barack the greatest outrage was expressed by Jews who felt Obama four years ago, in a conversation about Is- that Netanyahu had given a great gift to the Holoraeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Obama caust deniers. replied: “You’re fed up with him? I have to deal with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel was so aphim every day.” It was a private conversation, but we palled that she effectively called Netanyahu a liar know about it because it was accidentally to his face. Standing beside him in Berbroadcast to journalists. lin, she said: “We don’t see any reason to Politicians may deliberately mislead change our view of history, particularly people, omit vital facts, spin the truth a on this issue. We abide by our responsidozen different ways to serve their purbility, in Germany, for the Holocaust.” poses of the moment, but they usually Yet Netanyahu continued to insist that it avoid outright lies. It’s just too embarrasswas Husseini who first suggested genoing to be caught in a lie. And other politicide to Hitler. cians generally accept that some of their Experienced journalists know that the colleagues shade the truth to fit their own most useful question to ask yourself when agenda as one of the regrettable realities confronted with an implausible story is of their trade. They all swim in the sea. not: “Is this bastard lying to me?” It is: What drove Sarkozy and Obama to talk “WHY is this bastard lying to me?” So about Netanyahu like that was the sheer why did Netanyahu say that? In particuGWYNNE brazen effrontery of his lies — and he was lar, why now?

DYER at it again last week. In public, this time.

Because he needs to show that his polSpeaking to the 37th World Zionist icy of creating and expanding Jewish setOPINION Congress in Jerusalem, Netanyahu detlements in the West Bank, the one-sixth clared that Hitler decided to exterminate of former Palestine that still has a Palesthe Jews on the advice of a Palestinian, Haj Amin tinian majority, is not responsible for the recent rash al-Husseini, the grand mufti (senior Islamic cleric) of of violent attacks on Israeli Jews by young PalestinJerusalem. Husseini met Hitler in Berlin in Novem- ians. ber 1941, he said (although there is no record of the It is getting quite serious, though it is not yet a meeting), and that was why the Holocaust happened. “third intifada.” Ten Jews have been murdered in “Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the the streets by Palestinians in the past month. About time, he wanted to expel the Jews. And Haj Amin 50 Palestinians have been killed, including most of al-Husseini went to Hitler and said: ‘If you expel the killers and would-be killers. The fear and susthem, they’ll all come here [to Palestine].’” Accord- picion have grown so intense that in two cases of ing to Netanyahu, Hitler then asked: “What should I mistaken identity Jews have killed or wounded other do with them?” and the mufti replied: “Burn them.”

Jews.

So, you see, it was the Palestinians, driven by a There appears to be no central direction behind vicious and unreasoning hatred of the Jews, who the attacks. Most observers believe that the phenomreally thought up the Holocaust, and Adolf Hitler enon is mainly driven by the despair of young Paleswas merely a tool in their hands. Historians instantly tinians who see their land slipping away and don’t

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believe that Netanyahu will ever let the Palestinians have their own state in the occupied territories.

That would put the blame for the outbreak squarely on Netanyahu’s policies, which he cannot accept. So he is trying to prove that Palestinians just naturally hate Jews: “My intention was … to show that the forefathers of the Palestinian nation — without a country and without the so-called ‘occupation,’ without land and without settlements — even then aspired to systematic incitement to exterminate the Jews.”

That is Netanyahu’s explanation for the current attacks: incitement by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, whom he blames for the rumours about Israel’s intention to expand Jewish access to the Haram al-Sharif, the area around Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque. It is Islam’s third most sacred site, but it is also sacred to Jews as Temple Mount, and these rumours certainly played a role in stimulating the attacks.

There is no evidence that Abbas was behind the rumours, however, and it’s unlikely that he would have encouraged them: what these attacks are actually showing is his own people’s loss of faith in his ability to get a Palestinian state. Nor is Saturday’s agreement in Amman between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan’s King Hussein to guarantee the current rules for access to the holy site likely to quell the violence.

The rumours were a trigger for the violence, but the gun is always loaded. The Palestinian revolts in 1929 and 1936, which were indeed incited by Grand Mufti Husseini, were already about the Jewish colonization of Palestine. It was always about the land, and it still is today.

Netanyahu knows that very well. It is the real motive behind his own policies. He just can’t afford to admit it.

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Five confirmed dead after boat sinks OWNER OF WHALE-WATCHING BOAT SAYS IT HAD PERFECT SAFETY RECORD BEFORE SINKING

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TOFINO, B.C. — The owner of a whale-watching vessel that sank off British Columbia’s coast on Sunday, killing five people, doesn’t know why the boat would have flipped, sending 27 people into the water. “This vessel has operated for 20 years with an absolutely perfect safety record,� Jamie Bray, the owner of Jamie’s Whaling Station, said at a news conference on Monday.

Bray said the 20-metre long Leviathan II flipped and when rescuers arrived it was still running and in gear, with it’s bow bobbing in the water.

Private vessels rushed to the scene Sunday afternoon after the mayday call, picking up survivors and bodies. “We’re all traumatized,� Bray said, his voice shaking.

One person was still classified as missing on Monday afternoon.

Marc-Andre Poisson, director of investigation for the Transportation Safety Board, said they don’t know what caused the boat to sink but they’ll be collecting data, conducting interviews, looking at weather conditions, analyzing photos and the maintenance records of the vessel.

Poisson said the boat has been towed away to a sheltered area to be examined.

All five people who died were British nationals, Britain’s Foreign Office Ahousaht First Nations member Francis Campbell was one of the first responders confirmed on Monday. whale-watching boat Leviathan II capsized near Tofino, B.C., Monday. “My thoughts are with the family and friends of all those affected by He said the boat had not sunk but in Ahousaht on Sunday afternoon and this terrible accident,â€? British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said in a was bouncing up and down in the wa- estimates that every vessel that could ter, its bow up and be used in the village was in the water statement, adding searching for missing people. stern down. consular staff in B.C. “I COULD SEE DEBRIS “The Ahousahts were the first on “I could see deare supporting grievFLOATING OUT OF THE CABthe scene,â€? he said. “They know these bris floating out of ing family members. cabin, the win- waters. They have a custom not to The B.C. CoroIN, THE WINDOWS, DOOR the dows, door was slam- leave a body out at sea.â€? ners Service said Australia’s Department of Foreign WAS SLAMMING OPEN AND ming open and shut, those killed ranged in age from 18 to 76, SHUT, AND LIKE CUSHIONS and like cushions Affairs and Trade confirmed in a statefrom seats and cush- ment that an Australian man was missand that four of them FROM SEATS AND CUSHIONS ions from ‌ inside ing. The Associated Press reported were men. the boat were float- that it was providing consular assisThree of the dead FROM ‌ INSIDE THE BOAT ing out of the boat,â€? tance to the man’s family. were from Britain, Australian Associated Press reportWERE FLOATING OUT OF he said. while two of the Brited that the 27 year-old Sydney man’s He said he also ish nationals were THE BOAT.â€? saw a deflated life- family said he was on the boat with his living in Canada. The raft, still attached to girlfriend and her family when it sank. woman was from B.C. RICHARD LITTLE, OWNER OF A WATER TAXI CALLED THE the boat with a line.

His girlfriend’s father was among the and a man lived in AHOUSAHT RAIDER T h e A h o u s h a t five British citizens confirmed dead, Ontario, the service First Nation was the the Australian news agency said. said.

Some of the 21 people who were resclosest community to Richard Little, 59, owner of a water taxi called the Ahousaht Raider, said where the boat sank, about 15 kilome- cued were injured.

Valerie Wilson, with the Island he arrived at the accident scene after tres northwest of the tourist town of Health authority, said four people revolunteers had rescued survivors and Tofino.

Robert Burridge of Nanaimo was mained in different hospitals around removed many of the dead.

Canada Post suspends community mail box program

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The country’s national mail carrier has halted the installation of community mailboxes, one week after the Trudeau Liberals were elected with a pledge to scrap the move away from door-to-door delivery. “Canada Post is temporarily suspending future deployment of the program to convert door-to-door mail delivery to community mailboxes,� the Crown agency said in an emailed statement.

The move means nearly half a million households that were to be converted over the next two months will keep their current mail service. “Efforts are now underway to place the comprehensive program on hold in an orderly fashion,� said the statement. “Customers impacted by this decision will receive a letter within the next few weeks advising them of the status of their mail delivery service.�

But those already converted over the last 10 months will not get door-todoor service back — at least not under Canada Post’s current plan.

The union representing postal employees said it was elated with the news.

But the Canadian Union of Postal Workers will be pushing the Liberal government to reverse the cuts to postal services that have been made so far, said the organization’s national president. “I think the people of this country spoke quite clearly last Monday,� said Mike Palecek. “We also need to look at restoring the home mail delivery to those who have already lost it,� Palecek added. “And we need to look at having a public mandate review for Canada Post about exactly what direction we want this Crown corporation to go.�

CUPW has been pushing Canada Post to expand its business into ventures such as postal banking services, similar to those adopted in other countries including the United Kingdom and France.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau promised during the election campaign to reverse cuts to door-todoor mail delivery that were begun

under the Harper Conservative government.

And with the Liberals elected to a majority government, some Liberal MPs said they were getting an earful from constituents who wanted to know why the boxes were still being installed.

There were several localized protests against the installations in Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador, with some people defiantly taking to standing or lying on dirt piles to prevent workers from placing cement foundations for the mailboxes.

Canada Post, however, was adamant that it was moving ahead with the mailbox conversions, telling CUPW late last week — after the election results were known — that it would not back away from the plan.

It also placed ads to hire door-todoor canvassers to sell the merits of community mail delivery in British Columbia.

But late Monday, the Crown agency said it would rethink its plan. “We will work collaboratively with the Government of Canada to determine the best path forward given the ongoing challenges faced by the Canadian postal system,� the corporation said.

Canada Post has been warning for some time that it expects home mail delivery revenues to continue to decline.

It announced in 2013 a plan to phase out door-to-door delivery and cut up to 8,000 jobs, mainly through attrition.

The corporation said it handled nearly 1.2 billion fewer pieces of mail in 2013 than in 2006.

Canada Post Group reported in May that letter mail volumes fell 8.4 per cent in the first quarter of 2015, or by 41 million pieces, compared with the same period a year earlier.

At the same time, however, the agency said it recorded a 10-per-cent increase in overall revenues and a before-tax profit of $24 million in the first three months of the year, contrasting with a $37-million loss during the same quarter in 2014.

Canada Post Group includes the Canada Post mail service, Purolator and other businesses.

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on the scene, patrols an area where the the province. All four people were listed in stable condition, she said.

Michael Harris, executive director of the Pacific Whale Watching Association, said the whale-watching community is in shock over the incident.

He said tour operators go above and beyond to make sure their passengers are safe.

Harris said the first thing operators do when passengers get on board is explain safety, including where the life-jackets are kept. It’s unclear if the passengers on the Leviathan were wearing life-jackets.

Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau and B.C. Premier Christy Clark expressed their condolences. “I was shocked and saddened to hear of the sinking of a whale watching boat near the B.C. coast and the passengers aboard who have lost their lives in the incident,� Trudeau said.

Both Trudeau and the premier thanked people who helped in the rescue effort.

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Mulcair says niqab position was a defining moment OTTAWA — NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says he believes he did the right thing to stand up to Stephen Harper on the niqab — even though his position may well have cost his party some crucial support.

In his first post-election interview with The Canadian Press, Mulcair says maintaining a principled approach on the issue was one of the defining moments of his political career.

The issue of face coverings became a thorny issue during the campaign, with some suggesting it seriously hurt the party’s stronghold in Quebec, after Harper insisted on a ban on the garments at citizenship ceremonies.

The Federal Court of Canada found the Conservative rule unlawful in February and the Federal Court of Appeal has supported that decision.

Mulcair said he continues to think he did the “right thing to stand up to Mr. Harper on those issues.”

“I would quote back to him his MPs that were being very divisive, talking about brown people or talking about Muslim women who should get the hell back to where they came from,” Mulcair said.

“I wasn’t going to be part of that. I just found it undignified.”

Mulcair said he thought it was wrong to divide Canadians on issues of race and religion.

“These were defining moments for me in my political career and in the campaign,” Mulcair said.

“And could a different result have been achieved? Perhaps. But I wasn’t going to do something that I had never

done in my career.

“I’d always been a person who stood up for his convictions.”

Mulcair said his team was aware the niqab debate was a “very emotional issue” that created waves in the campaign.

“That’s something that was measured by us,” he said.

“We knew that there was a very strong reaction. I was able to understand but I couldn’t agree…

“I was also obliged to say that we live in a society where rights are not a popularity contest and the rights, when they’re set down by the courts, have to be respected. It is no longer a question of what people like or don’t like.”

Following last Monday’s election, Mulcair says he has been busy calling successful and defeated MPs. “I have such great admiration and strong affection for every single person who had been involved in our caucus and I want to make sure we keep them close,” he said.

The NDP caucus is now made up of 44 MPs, including 16 new members.

That’s down from 95 in the previous Parliament, with high-profile MPs such as Paul Dewar, Megan Leslie, Peggy Nash and Peter Stoffer losing their seats to Liberals.

The NDP leader gave no indication that he has considered stepping down.

Rather, Mulcair said his party continues to have much to offer, especially as the Liberal government prepares for an upcoming climate change conference in Paris and plans to move forward on issues such as electoral reform.

National Defence may need two extra years to meet budget battle savings goals

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — National Defence is struggling to implement a program to give the military less administrative tail and more operational teeth, which was a signature initiative of the outgoing Conservative government.

Documents, written earlier this year and obtained by The Canadian Press under access to information legislation, show officials running the Defence Renewal Program are searching for more “reinvestment opportunities” to meet the government’s goal of finding between $750 million and $1.2 billion a year in departmental savings.

The plan, as announced in the fall of 2013, was to divert savings from redundant programs to front-line initiatives.

The program was supposed to be fully in place by the 2017-18 budget year, but the memos suggest the department needs more time, possibly as much as two years.

A briefing prepared for former defence minister Rob Nicholson, on Jan. 16, 2015, says a cumulative total of only $146 million in savings had been earmarked to the end of the fiscal year in March.

Maj. Doug McNair, a spokesman for the renewal team, says that figure was eventually bumped up to $158 million.

He said the original dollar amounts and timelines were “an estimate of possible savings developed by a consultant using data from 2012” and that refinements were expected and are underway.

“No new estimate and timeline has been finalized or approved,” McNair said in an email. “We remain committed to achieving the strategic outcomes of Defence renewal and reinvesting the resulting substantial savings in readiness and capability development.”

The administrative overhaul of National Defence, which the Conservatives long considered bloated and in-

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Quebec public sector workers begin week-long rotating strikes MONTREAL — Public sector workers in Quebec have started what they say will be a week’s worth of one-day, rotating strikes across the province to protest lagging contract talks with the provincial government.

Thousands of teachers, health care workers and support staff are off the job today in a number of regions and their colleagues will take turns demonstrating in different parts of the province throughout the week.

Jacques Letourneau, president of the CSN labour union, says members decided to take to the streets to highlight the lack of progress at the bargaining table.

He says essential services are being maintained and the goal of public sector workers is to put pressure on the

efficient, was one of the pillars of the outgoing government’s reform agenda, something in which Stephen Harper took a personal interest. At one point, he took the unusual step of admonishing former defence minister Peter MacKay for not cutting deep enough on the administrative side and publicly made his feelings known during the swearing-in for former general Tom Lawson in 2012.

“The Forces must be restructured to ensure administrative burdens are reduced and resources freed up for the front line,” the prime minister said on Oct. 29, 2012. “The Canada First Defence Strategy must continue to advance and, as I’ve said before, with the constant search for more teeth and less tail.”

Harper commissioned a study by retired lieutenant-general Andrew Leslie, who is now a newly elected Liberal MP and a leading contender for a cabinet post in Justin Trudeau’s government.

Trudeau, during the election campaign, signalled he would follow a similar path to Harper and proposed “a leaner, more agile, better equipped” military, saying he believed “there’s a lot of administrative weight” in the department compared with the uniformed branch.

The new government will be sworn in next week and it remains unclear how hard the Liberals will lean on defence to follow the Conservative initiative.

A defence source, who was not authorized to speak to the media on the subject, says Gen. Jon Vance, the country’s new top military commander, has put his weight behind the savings exercise, even though some corners of the department see less urgency.

In formulating the renewal plan, defence officials cherry-picked from Leslie’s transformation report. It remains an open question whether the Liberals will use the report as a template for their own changes.

Quebec government.

The rotating strikes will close schools, health-care establishments and government offices.

A common front of para-public and public sector unions is seeking a 13.5 per cent salary increase for members — 4.5 per cent per year over three years. That’s nowhere close to the government’s proposal of 3 per cent over five years.

Winnipeg teen shot with gun allegedly stolen from RCMP vehicle at officer’s home WINNIPEG — Two men are in custody after a Winnipeg teen was shot with a gun allegedly stolen from an off-duty RCMP officer.

Winnipeg police say a 16-year-old girl was shot early Saturday morning after an altercation in a convenience store parking lot. She was rushed to hospital in critical condition.

Deputy police chief Danny Smyth says investigators believe the gun was stolen Friday evening from a marked RCMP vehicle parked outside the officer’s home.

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The Canadian prime ministers’ residence, 24 Sussex, is seen on the banks of the Ottawa River in Ottawa on Monday. The Parliament Hill Peace Tower is in the distance.

Trudeau, family to live in Rideau Cottage, not 24 Sussex

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA -- Justin Trudeau will not move into the traditional prime minister’s residence at 24 Sussex Drive, at least until further notice.

Instead, the prime ministerdesignate and his family will live at Rideau Cottage, a 19th century home located on the grounds of Rideau Hall, the Governor General’s residence.

The cottage is actually a two-storey Georgian Revival brick home built in 1866-67 to serve as a home for the secretary to the governor general.

Annabelle Cloutier, a spokeswoman for Rideau Hall, said this will be the first time a prime minister has lived on the grounds of the governor general’s residence.

“It’s a big estate, so there is enough space for him to be living here and have his own private space with his family,” Cloutier said.

The grounds cover 32 hectares.

Rideau Cottage is located in an area not normally open to the public, but extra security will be provided on its perimeter.

The other areas of Rideau Hall normally open to the public will remain so.

“The grounds are open to the public, yes, because it’s the front of the residence of Rideau Hall that is open to the public and that remains the same,” said Cloutier.

The cottage was last renovated in 2013 by the National Capital Commission.

Stephen Wallace, the current secretary to Gov. Gen. David Johnston, moved out on the weekend to allow the Trudeaus to move in.

The residence at 24 Sussex has been in need of repairs for years.

In 2008, the National Capital Commission estimated repairs would cost about $10 million and would require full access to the residence for a minimum of 12 to 15 months.

A critical auditor general’s report issued that year said putting off the rehabilitation of the residence could have a number of consequences including “the risk of fostering a negative image of Canada with visiting foreign dignitaries.”

“The most recent work of an extensive nature carried out at 24 Sussex Drive dates back to when it was purchased by the government, over fifty years ago,” the report said. “It is therefore not surprising to note that a number of the residence’s systems are reaching the end of their useful lives, are in poor condition, and will have to be replaced in the near future.”

Broadcaster Catherine Clark, the daughter of former prime minister Joe Clark, produced a documentary on the residence last year. She congratulated the Trudeaus on making the decision saying it is the right choice.

“I’m not surprised for a few reasons,” Clark said. “There is a very clear need for either full updating and renovation or rebuilding of a residence at 24 Sussex. It is so well documented at this point that it is a matter of making the right decision at the right time.”

Clark said she has spoken to former residents who complained about the heat during the summer months and the chill in the winter.

“There’s obviously an issue with technology and the house needs to be upgraded in a security sense as well,” she said. “If they’re going to rewire the house and make it a truly technology proficient place, that is going to be a big job in and of itself.”

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Rocque solid at Curling Classic

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR As a two-time world junior women’s curling champion, Kelsey Rocque has obviously accomplished everything she could at that level.

Now, in her first season at the helm of a women’s foursome, the Edmonton skip is threatening to make some major noise at the next level.

Rocque and her supporting cast of third Laura Crocker, second Taylor McDonald and lead Jen Gates downed reigning women’s world champ Alina Paetz of Switzerland 9-8 in Monday’s championship final of the Red Deer Curling Classic at the Pidherney Centre.

Two sheets over, Mick Lizmore of Edmonton rallied from a 3-1 deficit to defeat Jason Ackerman of Regina 5-3 in the men’s final.

The women’s finale featured a trio of three-enders, two by the winning rink. Rocque scored three in the seventh for a 9-6 lead and defending Classic champ Paetz had a shot — albeit a difficult one — at scoring three in the eighth and forcing an extra end, but could only count a pair.

‘There was definitely a lot of offence in that game, a lot of missed opportunities for both sides,” said Rocque.

“They’re a great team. We knew it would be a game that went right to the end.”

With all of her junior success and fresh off a second world title in March in Tallin, Estonia, Rocque hit the ground running while moving into the women’s category full time this fall. It didn’t hurt that her teammates backed former Manitoba champion Chelsey Carey last season.

“It’s simply just curling, but this definitely is a higher level. You can’t miss as many shots and you don’t get as many breaks,” said the rookie women’s skip. “But I got pretty fortunate getting three girls who are fantastic in front of me. It’s been a pretty good ride for me so far.”

The winner’s cheque for $9,000 will keep the Rocque foursome near the top of the World Curling Tour mon-

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Skip Kelsey Rocque makes a shot as lead Jen Gates, left, and second Taylor McDonald bring the rock in as they play the Alina Paetz rink from Zurich, Switzerland in the women’s final of the Red Deer Curling Classic on Monday afternoon. ey list with total earnings of $28,400.

The quartet also plans on chasing the Alberta women’s title this year and a berth in the 2016 Scottie’s Tournament of Hearts.

“We have high hopes for this season,” said Rocque. “We want to do well in all the (WCT) events we play in and hopefully make a good run at provincials.”

Ironically, all four of this year’s Classic finalists came out of the A event. In other words, none suffered a

loss until the last draw.

“We had a few hiccups along the way, but for the most part we played well,” said Rocque. “It was a successful weekend for our team.”

The Paetz foursome picked up $6,000 as runners-up.

Meanwhile, the Lizmore crew stole their way to victory in the men’s final, swiping a single point in the sixth and two more in the seventh for the margin of victory.

Ackerman had a chance to take con-

Halak stymies struggling Flames STOPS 29 SHOTS FOR SECOND SHUTOUT IN LAST THREE GAMES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Islanders 4 Flames 0 NEW YORK — After missing the first four games, Jaroslav Halak has picked up where he left off last season for the New York Islanders.

Halak stopped 29 shots for his second shutout in his last three starts, Frans Nielsen scored twice and the Islanders beat the Calgary Flames 4-0 Monday night.

“Guys are doing so many good things in front of me,” said the mild-mannered Halak, who had a team-record 38 wins last season.

“Everyone is doing a good job.

And every point is huge for us.”

The win gave the Islanders a 6-2-1 mark after nine games and has them behind only the Rangers and undefeated Montreal Canadiens in the Eastern Conference.

Mikhail Grabovski and Cal Clutterbuck also scored and Kyle Okposo and Nikolay Kulemin each had two assists to help the Islanders improve to 4-1-1 at home this season.

Grabovski, who scored the overtime winner at St. Louis on Saturday, beat Flames goalie Joni Ortio with a snap shot on the power play with just under 6 minutes left in the middle period for a 1-0 lead.

“You can’t win the Stanley Cup in the first 10 games but you can play yourself into playoff position in the first 10 games,” said Clutterbuck, whose third goal of the season was set up by linemate Casey Cizikas. “When we scored that first goal, it dampened their spirits and picked us up.”

Halak, who improved to 3-1 with a 1.76 goals-against average in four starts this season, also had a shutout at Columbus last Tuesday night. He missed the beginning of the season with an upper body injury.

“Jaro made some big saves when he had to,” Islanders coach Jack Capuano said. “And I thought everyone contributed. We played pretty well tonight.”

Nielsen made it 2-0 with his second of the season 5:26 into the third period. Clutterbuck added to the lead with about 8 ½ minutes to go, and Nielsen capped the scoring with his second of the game with 1:50 left.

“We were rewarded tonight with some goals we deserved,” Islanders captain John Tavares said. “Our second and third efforts are paying off.”

The Flames, coming off a 4-1 defeat at the New York Rangers the previous night, lost for the sev-

trol of the contest in the third end, but his final stone picked during a hit attempt for three and he had to settle for a single point and a 1-1 tie. His team split $7,000.

“We definitely dodged a few bullets,” said Lizmore. “They had a couple of unfortunate picks, but I must say we did a good job of fighting to stay in the game. We had some breaks go our way.”

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Jays GM says it’s not the time to discuss his contract

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Calgary Flames goalie Joni Ortio stops a shot on the goal by New York Islanders’ Anders Lee during the second period of an NHL game Monday, in New York.

‘WE CAN’T HAVE TOO MANY MORE OF THESE OR IT WILL GET AWAY FROM US PRETTY QUICKLY. TONIGHT WE UNRAVELED A BIT. WE HAVE TO KEEP GRINDING AND NOT LET GAMES SLIP AWAY.’ FLAMES CAPTAIN MARK GIORDANO enth time in nine games.

“We can’t have too many more of these or it will get away from us pretty quickly,” Flames captain Mark Giordano said. “Tonight we unraveled a bit. We have to keep grinding and not let games slip away.”

The Islanders came out strong, registering five of the first six shots of the game on Ortio, who made strong saves on Boychuk and Nielsen. Casey Cizikas also rang a shot off the crossbar in the opening period.

New York held a 14-8 shots advantage in the first. Both teams had 10 shots in the second.

The Flames had 11 more shots in the third but couldn’t solve Halak, who improved to 3-1-0 this season. Flames defenceman Dennis Wideman had perhaps the best chance almost five minutes with a point-blank from the top of the left circle.

The 24-year-old Ortio made his first start of the season and finished with 31 saves. He became the backup when Karri Ramo was sent to the minors last week. The

Finnish goaltender was a sixthround draft pick by Calgary in 2009.

“He made some big saves to keep us in it,” Giordano said. “But we let in one goal get us down. We have to fight through and turn this around.”

The Flames, who won 45 games and finished with 97 points last season, are averaging less than two goals a game with just 16 goals in nine contests. They have yet to lead after two periods and they have yet to score more than three goals in a game.

Last season’s rookie sensation Johnny Gaudreau hasn’t scored in the last seven games and has only one goal this season.

Islanders forward Ryan Strome returned after he was a healthy scratch in the previous game.

NOTES: Tavares’ points streak ended at six games. He had 10 points (4 goals, 6 assists) during that stretch. … The Islanders won a pair of 2-1 games from Calgary last season and are 6-2-0 in their last eight meetings against the Flames.

Greg Meachem, Sports Editor, 403-314-4363 E-mail gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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TORONTO — Alex Anthopoulos feels he’s starting to “hit his stride” as general manager of the Toronto Blue Jays.

Whether he’ll be with the team for his peak years remains up in the air.

Anthopoulos didn’t shed any light on his contract status during his season wrapup news conference Monday at Rogers Centre. The GM’s future has become a front-burner topic since the Blue Jays were eliminated from the playoffs by the Kansas City Royals.

Anthopoulos, whose deal expires at the end of the month, has said he’d like to return but he decided to put contract talks aside during the post-season so it wouldn’t become a distraction. He will be negotiating with new president Mark Shapiro, who will replace the retiring Paul Beeston next week.

“That will be addressed at the appropriate time,” Anthopoulos said of his future with the team. “The appropriate time is not today.”

The 38-year-old Montreal native helped end the team’s 22-year playoff drought by making some impressive off-season moves and then landing more top-flight talent at the trade deadline. Anthopoulos used a different approach over the last year and it paid off.

“By design last off-season we really targeted a certain type of player,” he said. “We walked away from a lot of players that were talented and productive that didn’t fit what we were trying to do. I don’t know that as a GM I would have done that a few years earlier.

“I was probably so caught up on value, contractual status, salary, things like that. You learn from your mistakes, you learn from some things if you don’t adjust.”

Signing Canadian catcher Russell Martin and acquiring third baseman Josh Donaldson gave the clubhouse a different feel. The trade deadline acquisitions of David Price, Ben Revere, Troy Tulowitzki and others helped build on the team’s impressive core.

With Donaldson and sluggers Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion powering the offence, Toronto won the American League East title with a 93-69 mark and beat Texas in the American League Division Series.

The Blue Jays hung with Kansas City in the ALCS but going 0 for 12 with runners in scoring position proved costly in Friday’s must-win game at Kauffman Stadium. The Royals took advantage of their opportunities and advanced in six games.

“We had a great club this year,” Anthopoulos said.

“I don’t think that’s overstating it, we really were. We didn’t get it done, but we got close.”

Anthopoulos’s future will obviously have a huge impact on where the franchise goes from here. It’s also unclear what kind of stamp Shapiro wants to put on the team, which leads to more questions than answers right now.

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Cardinals soar in victory over Ravens

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cardinals 26 Ravens 18 GLENDALE, Ariz. — Chris Johnson rolled his way to a big play, Joe Flacco couldn’t quite respond with one of his own.

And the Arizona Cardinals escaped with a 26-18 victory over the luckless Baltimore Ravens on Monday night.

Johnson rushed for 122 yards, 62 on a play where he rolled over the belly of a big defender and kept on running to set up a field goal.

Baltimore (1-6) drove to the 4 in the final seconds before Tony Jefferson’s interception deep in the end zone clinched the victory for NFC West-leading Arizona (5-2).

“A lot of things happened during the game,” Cardinals coach Bruce Arians said.

“Good, bad and one ugly one, but we finished and made a great play at the end.”

Arizona led 26-10 before Asa Jackson’s blocked a punt to set up Joe Flacco’s 1-yard touchdown pass to Kyle Juszczyk. The 2-point conversion pass to Nick Boyle made it an eight-point game with 4:26 to play.

Baltimore got the ball back and Flacco quickly moved the team downfield before the final ill-fated throw.

“The punt block and all of a sudden you let them in,” Arizona’s Carson Palmer said, “but that’s what you want on ‘Monday Night Football.’ We made it a game at the end.”

Flacco and Harbaugh said they had trouble with the communications system throughout the game, particularly in the final drive.

The eight-point loss was the most one-sided of the season for the Ravens.

Johnson also ran 26 yards for a touchdown. The 30-year-old running back, signed late in training camp after recovering from a gunshot wound during the off-season, topped 100 yards for the third time this season and didn’t even play in the fourth quarter.

The last Arizona player to do that was Edgerrin James in 2007.

Palmer completed 20 of 29 passes for 275 yards and two touchdowns.

Flacco was 26 for 40 for 252 yards, with

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Arizona Cardinals wide receiver John Brown scores a touchdown as Baltimore Ravens cornerback Jimmy Smith defends during the second half of an NFL football game, Monday, in Glendale, Ariz. a touchdown and that one interception. The Ravens’ Justin Forsett had a 14-yard touchdown run, but finished with only 36 yards in 12 carries.

A 26-10 lead seemed comfortable before Bryant burst up the middle to block Drew Butler’s punt to set up the final Ravens touchdown.

The play of the night came in the third quarter, when Johnson hit the line and was pulled down, but he came to rest on the belly of 6-foot-1, 335-pound Brandon Williams. Johnson’s knee or elbow didn’t touch, so he alertly got up and kept running to the 4.

“I was standing right in front of him

and he was sitting on top of the guy,” Arians said. “He wasn’t down and no whistle blew, so it was a good call.”

The play set up Chandler Catanzaro’s second 21-yard field goal, making it a two-possession game at 20-10.

After Arizona scored again, Catanzaro’s try for the conversion bounced off the right upright and was no good, setting the stage for the tight finish.

The only turnover of night, before Jefferson’s interception, led to a touchdown that put the Cardinals up 14-10 at the half and Arizona never trailed again.

Baltimore, leading 10-7, forced a punt late in the second quarter.

Justin Bethel, a Pro Bowl player on special teams the last two years, stripped the ball from punt returner Jeremy Ross’ hands and recovered at the Ravens 25. Penalties gave Arizona a series of chances inside the 5 and, finally, Palmer threw 3 yards to Michael Floyd for the score to put Arizona up 10-7 with 1:01 left in the half.

The Cardinals won a close game for the first time this season. The others were blowouts.

“We wanted to be in these types of games to see if we can win it,” Arians said, “but we exorcised that, ‘Can-wewin-it-at-the-end thing?’ So, I was very, very pleased.”

West is wild, but Cavs seem to stand out in East NBA PREVIEW

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Kevin Durant is back in uniform, LaMarcus Aldridge is back home in Texas and the Golden State Warriors are back intact.

All over the Western Conference, there are teams who look capable of winning it.

In the East, one team appears to stand out — and maybe it’s finally Cleveland’s time to stand above everybody else in the NBA. The Cavaliers, who fell just short last season, have big goals and a bigger payroll as they try to finally bring a title to their championship-starved city.

“Yes, we were able to get to where we wanted to get to, but we didn’t close the deal,” LeBron James said. “So we look forward to the opportunity once again to be able to go out there and continue to try to play at a high level.”

The Cavs might not look like championship material when they open the season Tuesday night at Chicago, with James battling a bad back in the preseason, Kevin Love only recently returning from shoulder surgery and Kyrie Irving still recovering from knee surgery.

But they have the pieces, after shelling out big bucks to assemble one of the most expensive teams in NBA history, to get the job done this time.

“The Cavaliers, man, they are loaded,” TNT’s Charles Barkley said. “I just want to see them healthy.”

The Warriors were too good for them and everyone else last season, winning 67 games in Steve Kerr’s first season as coach. Kerr will miss the opener Tuesday while recovering from back surgery but MVP Stephen Curry and every other important piece from last season is back.

“What’s great about us, we’re all so competitive, that I don’t think complacency will be an issue,” All-Star Klay Thompson said. “But we love having the bullet on our back.”

Many of their pursuers return stronger, with Oklahoma City getting former MVP Durant back from last season’s broken foot. Aldridge left Portland for San Antonio and a spot on a tantalizing front line next to Tim Duncan and Kawhi Leonard, while Houston (Ty Lawson) and the Los Angeles Clippers (Paul Pierce) added potential missing pieces.

Memphis will be rough and tough as always and New Orleans has a top talent on his way to dominance in Anthony Davis, making it impossible to predict the path in the West. There

were seven 50-game winners there last season, and count on Oklahoma City getting there after finishing with 45 mostly on the back of Russell Westbrook while Durant was sidelined.

The West may be wild, but drama is harder to envision back East. The Cavs might only be vulnerable until they’re healed and whole.

“I think it does give the Chicago Bulls an opportunity if they’re able to get off to a quick start to maybe challenge Cleveland for the top seed in the East, but at the end of the day, it’s still going to be hard if Cleveland is healthy at the end of the year to beat them in a seven-game series,” ESPN’s Jeff Van Gundy said.

“So they’ve got a really good shot at winning it all.”

Other things to watch this season:

COLLEGES TO CONTENDERS Oklahoma City and Chicago had successful runs under their previous coaches, then dipped into the college ranks when they decided it was time for a change. Billy Donovan finally left Florida to take the Thunder job, Fred Hoiberg went from Iowa State to the Bulls, and both will have to adapt to the semifinals. In the other quarter-final games, Heidt downed Wade White of Edmonton 5-3 and Kim edged Bruce Korte of Saskatoon 6-5.

The losing quarter-finalists picked up cheques for $3,000 and the unsuccessful semifinalists garnered $5,000.

In the women’s semifinals, Rocque knocked off Nadine Chyz of Calgary 7-3 and Paetz was a 7-6 winner over Carey’s Calgary foursome, stealing a point in an extra end after scoring two in the eighth. The Chyz and Carey foursomes each pocketed $4,000.

In quarter-final play, Rocque beat Sijia Liu of China 5-2, Paetz was a 7-1 winner over Kalynn Park of Calgary, Carey got past Casey Scheidegger of Lethbridge 7-6 and Chyz downed Jie Mei of China 6-1. The losing quarter-final rinks each came away with $2,000. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Skip Mick Lizmore of Edmonton, makes a shot against the Jason Ackerman rink from Regina, Sask. in the men’s final of the Red Deer Curling Classic on Monday afternoon.

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be an advantage once you get to Monday. You get to rest up more.

“Mind you, it doesn’t affect me much one way or the other. My teammates are doing all the good work.”

The Lizmore foursome, which also includes third Daylan Vavrek and second Brad Chyz, came into the Classic sitting 36th on the WCT men’s money list with earnings of $4,850.

“This is our first year together as a team and we’ve progressed as the season has gone on,” said Lizmore.

The eventual men’s champions defeated 2014 Classic winner Josh Heidt of Kerrobert, Sask., 6-4 in the semifinals after scoring a 5-4 quarter-final win over Dean Joanisse of New Westminster.

Ackerman was an 8-6 quarter-final winner over Charley Thomas of Calgary and prevailed 8-2 over a Korean foursome skipped by Soo Hyuk Kim in

Will Shapiro keep the team’s policy of five-year maximum deals? Will the club’s overall salary go up or down?

Does Shapiro plan to bring in his own people or will Anthopoulos, manager John Gibbons and the rest of the coaching staff remain?

Expect things to become clearer over the next few weeks as Shapiro gets settled in.

At the moment, the Blue Jays appear set with position players so team offence should be strong again next year. However, the pitching situation will need to be addressed.

Price and Marco Estrada could go the free-agent route, Mark Buehrle is expected to retire or sign elsewhere and a decision needs to be made on whether to pick up the option year on R.A. Dickey’s contract.

That could leave big holes in a starting rotation that may include Marcus

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CLASSIC: teammates doing all the work The winning foursome pocketed a cheque for $10,000, of which a portion will likely go to temporary lead Dan Sherrard, who replaced Carter Lautner for Monday’s three playoff games.

Lautner, a college student, was writing mid-term exams in Edmonton.

After qualifying out of the A event Saturday, Lizmore’s crew had Sunday off before returning to competition in the Monday morning quarter-finals.

“The nice thing about these events is they give you access to practice ice,” said the skip. “But not playing as many games as most of the rinks here could

the pro game quickly on teams that are built to contend for titles now.

LAST CALL FOR KOBE? Back from a couple of injured-shortened seasons, Kobe Bryant begins his 20th and perhaps final NBA season.

He’s 37 and entering the final year of his contract, and said even he doesn’t know if this is his last season with the Lakers, or as a player.

HOPING FOR HEALTH From Bryant to Durant, Carmelo Anthony to Chris Bosh, too many superstars had to shut it down early last season for health reasons. The NBA is trying to do its part to help players stay healthier, trimming back-to-backs to a record low of fewer than 18 per team.

THE BOSS IS WATCHING The U.S. plans to pick its Olympic team without a tryout, naming its 12-player roster sometime around the June draft. So this season is the last chance to make an impression on USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo and coach Mike Krzyzewski.

Stroman, Drew Hutchison and perhaps relievers Aaron Sanchez and Roberto Osuna in 2016. Dipping into the bullpen would create vacancies there too, so there will be a need to add arms via trade or free agency.

Price was excellent after the trade deadline but struggled at times in the post-season. Anthopoulos said there is “strong interest” in trying to bring him back, but he will command top dollar on the open market and may be out of Toronto’s price range.

Estrada, meanwhile, was arguably the team’s most dependable starter this year and the GM feels optimistic he’ll return.

“The fact that both sides have a willingness to have it get done, we’re going to do everything we can to have him back here,” he said.

Anthopoulos also made a point to give Gibbons credit for leading the team to an East title despite injuries and early-season bullpen issues.

“I can’t give him enough credit for the way he kept it together,” he said.

“Really it was a reflection too of the way that clubhouse was handled day in and day out. Even if we were under .500, the mood stayed the same.”

The team’s second-half surge led to regular sellouts and record television ratings. Baseball was finally back in a big way in Toronto.

Sportsnet said in a release that Friday’s Game 6 broadcast drew a network-record average audience of 5.12 million, with more than 12 million people tuning in at some point.

“It’s the talk of the league. It’s been the talk of the players. I think we put Toronto back on the map,” Anthopoulos said. “And really I think we put the sport in Canada back on the map.

That’s in direction correlation (to and is) really a credit to the fans.”

The sting of watching the Royals play the New York Mets in the World Series will hurt for a little while. But the future looks bright in the Ontario capital.

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Ray returns to helm of Argonauts QB RAY TO MAKE FIRST START OF THE SEASON WHEN ARGOS HOST LIONS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Ricky Ray is back as the Toronto Argonauts’ starting quarterback.

Head coach Scott Milanovich said Sunday that Ray will be under centre Friday when the Argos (9-7) host the B.C. Lions (6-10) at Rogers Centre. Ray replaces Trevor Harris, who had been the club’s starter for its first 16 regular-season games. “We need to find out what Ricky is capable of doing before we get into the playoffs,� Milanovich said. “Then we, I, need to make a decision as to who gives us the best chance to advance when we get there. “Part of this is a function of that.

When I spoke with Trevor (on Saturday) I told him he needs to be ready.�

Ray saw his first action of the season Friday night in Hamilton, replacing Harris in the second half of Toronto’s lopsided 34-2 loss to Montreal. He finished 12-of-15 passing for 94 yards and had a late TD strike negated by a penalty.

Harris was 11-of-14 passing for 102 yards against Montreal but Toronto’s offence struggled mounting any consistency versus the Als. Ray wouldn’t say how healthy he is, only that he’s capable of playing. “I am good enough to play, that’s all that matters,� he said. “At this point it doesn’t do me any good to think about where I’m at, what I can do, what I can’t do. “When you’re out there in the game you just drop back, go through your

progressions and try to get it to the guy that’s open and do what you’re supposed to do back there. I don’t foresee any problems with that.�

Harris assumed the starting duties while Ray recovered from off-season shoulder surgery. The fourth-year pro has completed over 70 per cent of his passes for 4,144 yards with a leaguebest 32 TD strikes but also 18 interceptions.

Harris has helped Toronto clinch an East Division playoff spot but the club has dropped its last two contests to stand third in the standings, two points behind co-leaders Ottawa and Hamilton. “It’s undeniable that we’re not in the situation we’re in without the way (Harris) has played,� Milanovich said. “The good thing for the team is we’ve got two good quarterbacks.�

Milanovich said the decision was probably the most difficult he’s faced in his four-year tenure in Toronto. He had nothing but praise for the professionalism Harris displayed when told of the move. “The one thing I want to be clear about is this is not Trevor’s fault,� Milanovich said. “I’ve spent every day for the last four years during the season with these two guys and both of them are professional, they’ve made it so easy. “When I spoke with Trevor I knew he’d handle it well. Had I been sitting in his shoes I can’t guarantee I would’ve handled it as professionally.

Dealing with quarterbacks is different.

It just is. There’s so much pressure on them, so much responsibility. We ask

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Toronto Argonauts’ quarterback Ricky Ray throws during CFL action against the Montreal Alouettes in Hamilton, Ont., on October 23. Argos head coach Scott Milanovich announced Sunday that Ray will make his first start of the season when the Argonauts host the B.C Lions next Friday. so much of them and any time, really, when you make a move at quarterback it’s difficult.�

Ray, 36, in his 13th CFL season, also spoke with Harris and offered advice to his teammate. “We’re always talking,� Ray said. “I’ve been in this situation before and talked to him a little after the game about just controlling what he can control. “He’s just got to continue to go out there and try to be his best for any opportunity that comes his way.�

With the Toronto Blue Jays’ ouster from the baseball playoffs, the Argos

will return to Rogers Centre for their two remaining regular-season games against B.C. and Winnipeg. Playing indoors will make it easier for Ray and Co. to adopt more of an aerial gameplan. “It definitely doesn’t hurt being inside and not having to deal with any kind of conditions you’ve got to play in,� Ray said. “It’s definitely going to be a pass-friendly environment. “It’s just nice knowing we’re going to be in our dome these next two games and don’t have to worry about anything else that’s going to happen.

Redblacks heading into New edition of Rules of crucial home-and-home Golf include some changes series with Hamilton

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CFL

The Ottawa Redblacks’ pre-season goal was to simply make the playoffs.

Now they have bigger aspirations.

Ottawa (10-6), which went 2-16 in its inaugural 2014 season, visits Hamilton (10-6) on Sunday to open a crucial home-and-home series between the East Division co-leaders. It will make the first meeting between the Redblacks and Tiger-Cats this year. “It’s exciting because that’s what you play for,� Redblacks head coach Rick Campbell said Monday. “What I like is our guys aren’t content with just making the playoffs. “We’re trying to get as good as we can and see how many games we can win and where we can take this thing.

They understand the hard work it takes because everybody we play from here on in is going to be a top-flight team.�

Ottawa or Hamilton would clinch first by sweeping the home-and-home series or earning a win and tie. If the two teams split, first would be decided by aggregate points.

The second-place finisher secures home field for the East semifinal Nov. 15. But the Toronto Argonauts (9-7) remain in contention for a home playoff game with two regular-season home dates remaining, Friday night versus B.C. (6-10) and Nov. 6 versus Winnipeg (5-11).

Toronto would clinch first if it won its two games and Hamilton and Ottawa tied both contests. The Argos would clinch second if they finished tied with Ottawa but take third if they had the same record as the Ticats based on head-to-head meetings.

The fourth-place Montreal Alouettes (6-10) are also in playoff contention for the West Division crossover.

Securing a post-season berth was Ottawa’s pre-season goal, but general manager Marcel Desjardins said now having to settle for second or third would be disappointing. “You’re never satisfied with where you’re at, you always want to try to be better,’ Desjardins said. “Am I surprised we’re still in a position to finish first? Maybe, a little bit but it’s not shocking by any stretch.�

A big reason for Ottawa’s improvement has been a potent offence. After struggling in 2014, the Redblacks are third in scoring this year (23.7 points per game), have scored 30 TDs in 51 red-zone chances and a CFL-best 18 rushing touchdowns.

This off-season, Ottawa hired former Toronto assistant Jason Maas as its offensive co-ordinator and added receivers Ernest Jackson, Chris Williams and Brad Sinopoli as well as offensive lineman SirVincent Rogers in free agency. But it’s quarterback Henry Burris who has made the unit go.

Burris, 40, has thrown for a CFLbest 5,148 yards with a 71.8 completion percentage and is a leading contender for the league’s outstanding player award. “Henry is playing some of the best football he has ever played, which is incredible given his age,� said Sinopoli, the former Calgary Stampeder who won a Hec Crighton Trophy as the Ottawa Gee-Gees quarterback. “He’s the start of it all, really.�

Desjardins agrees. “It’s a function of what we’re doing offensively, the system but also who’s distributing the ball and Henry has been outstanding,� Desjardins said.

‘WE HAD A CORE GROUP OF GUYS WHO WERE THE RIGHT GUYS AND WE ADDED SOME PLAYMAKERS WHO COULD STEP UP AND MAKE PLAYS WHEN NEEDED. WE’VE WON CLOSE GAMES THIS YEAR, THAT’S THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE. GOOD TEAMS WIN CLOSE GAMES AND THAT’S WHAT WE’RE TRYING TO LEARN AS A TEAM, FINDING WAYS TO WIN THOSE TOUGH GAMES.’ REDBLACKS HEAD COACH RICK CAMPBELL

“It’s night and day versus last year relative to what our system was ‌ but that’s all because of the ability of Jason Maas and Henry Burris to be on the same page and the offence in general being on the same page.â€?

Increased offensive production has really helped an Ottawa defence that spent too much time on the field in 2014. The unit leads the CFL in sacks (52), fewest rushing yards (67.2 per game) and is tied with Hamilton for most interceptions (24). “Our defence amazes me every game,� Sinopoli said. “They give us a chance to get the ball back and have good drives and finish in the red zone.�

Desjardins said Campbell’s evolution has also contributed to Ottawa’s turnaround. “He’s more comfortable in that role, he has a better grasp of the bigger picture,� Desjardins said. “All those little intricacies that aren’t necessarily obvious are things I feel he has gotten better at.�

Campbell, a career CFL assistant before joining the Redblacks, understood the 2014 season would have its challenges. “I haven’t been around many losing teams so losing that often was difficult,� he said. “But at the same time I also had great hope for the future because we were building something. “We had a core group of guys who were the right guys and we added some playmakers who could step up and make plays when needed. We’ve won close games this year, that’s the biggest difference. Good teams win close games and that’s what we’re trying to learn as a team, finding ways to win those tough games.�

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Golfers no longer face automatic disqualification for two violations, including an incorrect scorecard, under the latest set of rules that reflect a little more leniency in handing out penalties.

The Royal & Ancient Golf Club and U.S. Golf Association announced changes to the 2016 edition of the Rules of Golf, which is updated every four years.

Players will avoid disqualification if the incorrect scorecard is the result of penalty strokes they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know about when they finished their rounds.

The penalty also was softened for players using artificial devices, such as training aids, in the middle of the round.

The new rules take effect Jan. 1.

The most notable addition was Rule 14-1b, which bans an anchored stroke used primarily for long putters. That already went through an exhaustive discussion and debate two years ago, with some protesting from the PGA of America that it would keep some recreational golfers from playing.

Changes were made to 18 of the 34 rules. Most of them were tweaks, though there were two instances when the penalty no longer is disqualification. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we would take the view that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re certainly always looking to apply proportionate penalties, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very conscious that disqualification is a very serious situation,â&#x20AC;? said David Rickman, executive director of rules and equipment standards for the R&A. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And the removal from competition is something that we should use judiciously and therefore only when appropriate. We feel that this is a step in that right direction.â&#x20AC;?

One of those changes involved the scorecard. Players still face disqualification if they sign for a lower score on a hole. However, the new exception to Rule 6-6d allows a player to avoid disqualification if the score includes a penalty that was discovered only after he signed his card.

Previously, players were disqualified if a violation was reported after the round because their scorecards did not account for the penalty strokes.

Starting in 2016, players would have

the penalty added to the hole, along with an additional two-shot penalty for the scorecard error.

Rickman said the case of Tiger Woods at the 2013 Masters does not apply.

Woods took an incorrect drop on the 15th hole of the second round. A former rules official saw it on TV and notified the Masters rules committee, which decided it was not a violation and Woods signed for a 71. Only later, after the committee spoke to Woods, was it a clear violation. He was given a two-shot penalty but not disqualified because the committee felt it was at fault.

Rickman said the new exception to Rule 6-6d would not have applied because a committee error was involved.

Another change involved artificial devices.

During a 30-minute wait in the middle of her round at the 2010 Safeway Classic, Juli Inkster put a weighted â&#x20AC;&#x153;doughnutâ&#x20AC;? on her 9-iron. She was disqualified for violating Rule 14-3 banning artificial devices. Now that penalty is two shots (loss of hole in match play), and the penalty for any subsequent violation of the rule is disqualification.

Rickman said that also applies to range finders. To use it once is a twoshot penalty, twice is disqualification.

The other significant change to the rules involved when a ball at rest moves (Rule 18-2b) Currently, if a ball moves after it has been addressed, the player is deemed to have caused the movement and is penalized one shot. An exception was added in 2012 for when it is virtually certain that it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the playerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fault (such as strong gusts).

Now, the rules no longer say players are guilty unless proved innocent. The penalty will be applied only if the facts show a player caused the ball to move. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not an absolute anymore,â&#x20AC;? said Thomas Pagel, the USGAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s senior director of rules.

This change comes with a new decision to serve as a guideline (18-2/0.5).

Among things an official would consider is what actions the player takes near the ball how much time elapses between those actions and the ball moving the lie of the ball (on a slope, perched on a tuft of grass) and weather conditions.

SCOREBOARD Local Sports

TUESDAY, OCT. 27, 2015

Hockey

Today • Men’s basketball: Johns Manville vs.

Alken Basin, Brown Maple Jordans vs.

Silver Spurs, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Wednesday • Senior high volleyball: Notre Dame at Hunting Hills, girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow.

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

• Men’s basketball: Vikings vs. The D Leaguers, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs.

Kingsmen, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Friday • Senior high volleyball: Hunting Hills girls/boys tournament.

• College basketball: SAIT at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow.

• Peewee AA hockey: Airdrie at Olds, 6:45 p.m.

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

• College men’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex.

• High school football: Playoffs, teams and times TBA. • Midget AA hockey: Central Alberta at Red Deer Elks, 8 p.m., Arena.

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

Saturday • Senior high volleyball: Hunting Hills girls/boys tournament.

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Rockyview

at Red Deer Strata Energy, 11:30 a.m., Arena.

• Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at Red Deer Parkland, 12:30 p.m., Kinsmen A. • High school football: Playoffs, teams and times TBA. • Major bantam hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, 2 p.m., Arena.

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

• Midget AAA hockey: Sherwood Park at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Arena.

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

• Midget AA hockey: Cranbrook at Olds, 7:30 p.m.

• Bantam AA hockey: Taber at West Central, 8 p.m., Sylvan Lake.

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 National League Chicago 3, St. Louis 1 New York 3, Los Angeles 2 LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES American League Kansas City 4, Toronto 2 Friday, Oct. 16: Kansas City 5, Toronto 0 Saturday, Oct. 17: Kansas City 6, Toronto 3 Monday, Oct. 19: Toronto 11, Kansas City 8 Tuesday, Oct. 20: Kansas City 14, Toronto 2 Wednesday, Oct. 21: Toronto 7, Kansas City 1 Friday, Oct. 23: Kansas City 4, Toronto 3 National League

New York 4, Chicago 0 Saturday, Oct. 17: New York 4, Chicago 2 Sunday, Oct. 18: New York 4, Chicago 1 Tuesday, Oct. 20: New York 5, Chicago 2 Wednesday, Oct. 21: New York 8, Chicago 3 WORLD SERIES (Best-of-7) Tuesday, Oct. 27: N.Y. Mets (Harvey 13-8) at Kansas City, 6:07 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 28: N.Y. Mets (deGrom 14-8) at Kansas City, 6:07 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 30: Kansas City at N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 9-7), 6:07 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 31: Kansas City at N.Y. Mets (Matz 4-0), 6:07 p.m. x-Sunday, Nov. 1: Kansas City at N.Y. Mets, 6:15 p.m. x-Tuesday, Nov. 3: N.Y. Mets at Kansas City, 6:07 p.m. x-Wednesday, Nov. 4: N.Y. Mets at Kansas City, 6:07 p.m.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Atlanta 0 0 .000 — Boston 0 0 .000 — Brooklyn 0 0 .000 — Charlotte 0 0 .000 — Chicago 0 0 .000 — Cleveland 0 0 .000 — Detroit 0 0 .000 — Indiana 0 0 .000 — Miami 0 0 .000 — Milwaukee 0 0 .000 — New York 0 0 .000 — Orlando 0 0 .000 — Philadelphia 0 0 .000 — Toronto 0 0 .000 — Washington 0 0 .000 — GB — — — — — — — —

New Orleans Oklahoma City Phoenix Portland Sacramento San Antonio Utah

0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0

.000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000

— — — — — — —

Tuesday’s Games Cleveland at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Washington at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Indiana at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Chicago at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Utah at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Charlotte at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

New York at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Cleveland at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Denver at Houston, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Dallas at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at Portland, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Bowling Heritage Lanes Monday 55+ 1 p.m.: Vale Hunter, 326 high single; Rose Long, 728 high triple.

Monday 7 p.m. mixed: Melissa Edwards, 276; Ken Bement, 653.

Tuesday 7 p.m. mixed: Paul Waisman, 324; Waisman, 834.

Wednesday 55+ 1 p.m.: Robert Doll, 301; Don Knowler, 781.

Wednesday 7 p.m. mixed: Corey Uhryn, 271; Uhryn, 667.

Thursday morning ladies: Glenda Regnier, 283; Tammy Downey, 705.

Thursday Special Olympics mixed: Anthony

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Prince Albert 13 10 2 0 1 53 41 21 Brandon 12 8 2 0 2 55 29 18 Moose Jaw 12 7 3 1 1 47 35 16 Saskatoon 12 6 3 3 0 45 48 15 Regina 12 6 5 1 0 34 41 13 Swift Current 13 5 6 2 0 36 41 12 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Red Deer 14 10 4 0 0 55 39 20 Lethbridge 10 8 2 0 0 46 27 16 Calgary 14 7 6 0 1 35 48 15 Medicine Hat 11 4 6 1 0 37 45 9 Edmonton 13 3 7 3 0 35 48 9 Kootenay 15 3 11 1 0 34 63 7 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 13 9 4 0 0 53 43 18 Victoria 13 8 5 0 0 39 26 16 Prince George 11 6 5 0 0 32 27 12 Vancouver 12 4 6 1 1 39 52 10 Kamloops 11 3 8 0 0 28 42 6

Sunday • Major bantam hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer, noon, Arena.

• Peewee AA hockey: West Central at Olds, 12:15 p.m.

• Bantam AA hockey: Taber at Red Deer Ramada, 1:45 p.m., Kinsmen A; Central Alberta at Olds, 2:45 p.m.

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

• Midget AAA hockey: Grande Prairie at Red Deer, 3 p.m., Arena.

• Midget AA hockey: Olds at Central Alberta, 3:45 p.m., Blackfalds.

• Men’s basketball: Grandview Allstars vs. Washed Up Warriors, Monstars vs.

Wells Furniture, Henry’s Eavestroughing vs. Sheraton Red Deer, 4:15 p.m.; Orangmen vs. Carstar, NWS Axemen vs.

Lacombe All Sports Cresting, Triple A Batteries vs. Johns Manville, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber.

• WHL: Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 6 p.m.

(The Drive).

Baseball

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct Dallas 0 0 .000 Denver 0 0 .000 Golden State 0 0 .000 Houston 0 0 .000 L.A. Clippers 0 0 .000 L.A. Lakers 0 0 .000 Memphis 0 0 .000 Minnesota 0 0 .000

B4

Kubasek, 257; Kubasek, 456.

Thursday 7 p.m. mixed: Bonnie Clermont, 306; Matt Desjardins, 796.

Monday scratch league: Bruce Kicks, 344; Kicks, 1,34 (four games).

Youth Bowling of Canada Bumpers: Brody Ehret, 90.

Bowlasaurus: Liam LaFrance, 96.

Peewees: Jennika Wudkevich, 117; Wudkevich, 222 (two games).

Bantams: Kedrixx Streit, 177; Blake Stanley, 426 (three games).

Juniors: Jarron Wudkevich, 329; Emma Jean Ostrikoff, 607.

Seniors: Cody Pratt, 273; Pratt, 628.

JUNIOR B HOCKEY The Blackfalds Wranglers struck for three third-period goals and edged the visiting Banff Academy Bears 6-5 in Heritage Junior Hockey League play Sunday.

Down 5-3, the hosts got successive goals from Ryan Spiller, Andrew McLennan and Mark Simpson to pull out the narrow victory. Simpson’s goal was his second of the game, with the other Blackfalds markers contributed by Brock Boguski and Austin Wilson, both in the first period. Nicholas Herrebrugh made 40 saves as the winning netminder. Banff goalie Jacob Anthony stopped 35 shots.

CATALINA SWIM CLUB Red Deer Catalina Swim Club athletes turned in 34 top-three placings in the Saskatoon Goldfins Invitational meet during the weekend. Leading the way was Kyla Leibel, who finished first in the 50-meter, 100m and 200m freestyle events. She also placed second in each of the 100m backstroke and 100m butterfly.

Lauren Bettenson took top honours in the 50m and 100m backstroke and finished third in each of the 50m and 100m free, 100m breaststroke, 200m breast and 200m individual medley.

River Roos, meanwhile, was first in the 200m and 400m free events, finished second in the 50m back, 50m breast and 100m free, and placed third in the 50m ‘fly.

Other top-three placings: First — Jaden DeBruijn, 50m breast; Kyra McMurray, 800m free; Elizabeth Moore, 100m and 200m breast.

Second — Jaleesa Zaparniuk, 400m free; girls 11-12 medley relay (Lauren Bettenson, Paige Pacuin, Alex Mah, Delaney Lehman); girls 11-12 200m free relay (Ocean Roos, Bettenson, Mah, Lahman); girls 13-14 200m free relay (Kyla Leibel, Elizabeth Moore, Kyra McMurray Claire Halford); girls 13-14 200m medley relay (Leibel, Moore, McMurray, Halford); boys 13-14 200m relay (Logan Lopaschuk, Daniel Morrison, Tyrus Toews, Jayden Vale).

Third — DeBruijn, 100m breast; Claire Halford, 50m ‘fly; Ocean Roos, 400m free; McMurray, 400m free; Zaparniuk, 800m free; Jayden Vale, 100m ‘fly.

New qualifiers — 11 years MQT, Delaney Lehman, 200m I.M.); 12 years A, Jayden Vale, 100m fly; 12 yrs A, Jaden DeBruijn, 50m breast; 11 and under A, River Roos, 400m free.

Seattle Everett Portland Spokane Tri-City

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt 10 7 2 1 0 34 23 15 8 5 3 0 0 19 19 10 11 5 6 0 0 33 29 10 12 4 6 1 1 30 47 10 12 4 7 1 0 40 46 9

Sunday’s results Prince George 3 Vancouver 1 Prince Albert 2 Regina 1 (OT) Portland 5 Brandon 0 Monday’s result Kootenay 5 Edmonton 4 (OT) Tuesday’s games Brandon at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Lethbridge at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Spokane at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Prince George at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Tri-City at Portland, 8 p.m.

Brandon at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Thursday’s games Spokane at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.

Red Deer Rebels Scoring GP Nikolishin 14 Spacek 14 Pawlenchuk 14 Bobyk 15 W.Johnson 14 Fleury 8 Hagel 14 Bleackley 12 Kopeck 14 Pederson 14 Musil 14 Polei 13 Pratt 12 Nogier 12 Purtill 4 de Wit 14

G 10 7 7 5 4 3 2 1 2 3 2 4 2 0 1 1

A 12 14 3 4 5 6 7 8 6 3 4 1 2 4 1 1

Pts 22 21 10 9 9 9 9 9 8 6 6 5 4 4 2 2

PIM 0 6 4 14 7 15 2 4 6 10 11 22 2 6 2 6

+/5 4 2 -1 2 3 4 4 1 4 4 3 3 6 0 2

PF 496 408 392 342

PA 335 420 461 332

Pt 20 20 18 12

PF 426 408 403 342 381

PA 319 320 433 481 497

Pt 26 24 12 10 4

Doetzel Strand Mahura R.Johnson Pouliot Martin Toth Shmoorkoff Goaltenders

14 14 2 6 1 7 11 14

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MP 280 558

Martin Toth

2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 GA 11 27

2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 SO 0 0

18 15 0 2 0 0 0 6

GAA 2.36 2.90

8 3 1 1 0 — — 5 Sv% .917 .899

WHL Scoring Leaders G 10 9 9 10 8 9 7 6 11 9 3 12 10 9 8 5 4 6 5 7 7 5 5 7 7 6 6 5 4 3 2 2

Brayden Point, MJ Tyson Baillie, Kel Reid Gardiner, P.A. Ivan Nikolishin, RD Dryden Hunt, MJ Luke Philp, Koo Michael Spacek, RD Simon Stransky, P.A. Jonathon Martin, SC Jayce Hawryluk, Bra Brayden Burke, Let Tyler Wong, Let Zachary Zborosky, Koo Dillon Dube, Kel Cameron Hebig, Sas Travis Sanheim, CAL Nolan Patrick, Bra Radel Fazleev, CAL Jake Debrusk, SC John Quenneville, Bra Austin Glover, P.A. Josh Morrissey, MH Macoy Erkamps, Bra Jake Bean, CAL Adam Brooks, Reg Keegan Kolesar, Sea Nikita Popugaev, MJ Parker Bowles, TC Noah Gregor, MJ Giorgio Estephan, Let Devante Stephens, Spo Ivan Provorov, Bra

A 14 14 14 12 14 12 14 14 8 10 15 5 7 8 9 12 13 10 11 8 8 10 10 7 7 8 8 9 10 11 12 12

Pts 24 23 23 22 22 21 21 20 19 19 18 17 17 17 17 17 17 16 16 15 15 15 15 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Montreal 9 9 0 0 18 Tampa Bay 9 5 2 2 12 Florida 8 4 3 1 9 Detroit 8 4 3 1 9 Ottawa 8 3 3 2 8 Boston 7 3 3 1 7 Toronto 8 1 5 2 4 Buffalo 8 2 6 0 4

GF 35 27 26 21 24 27 19 16

GA 12 24 17 21 26 29 28 26

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts N.Y. Rangers 10 6 2 2 14 N.Y. Islanders 9 6 2 1 13 Washington 7 6 1 0 12 Philadelphia 7 4 2 1 9 New Jersey 8 4 3 1 9 Pittsburgh 8 4 4 0 8 Carolina 8 2 6 0 4 Columbus 9 1 8 0 2

GF 28 31 29 16 20 13 14 19

GA 20 22 18 18 23 16 25 40

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts 8 6 1 1 13 8 6 2 0 12 9 6 3 0 12 8 5 2 1 11 8 5 2 1 11

GF 25 27 19 28 23

GA 16 21 16 21 20

Nashville Dallas Chicago Winnipeg St. Louis

Minnesota Colorado

8 7

5 2

2 4

1 1

11 5

24 19

22 21

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Arizona 9 5 3 1 11 27 22 Los Angeles 8 5 3 0 10 16 17 San Jose 8 5 3 0 10 23 18 Vancouver 8 3 2 3 9 20 17 Edmonton 9 3 6 0 6 21 27 Anaheim 8 1 5 2 4 6 21 Calgary 9 2 7 0 4 16 35 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Sunday’s Games Winnipeg 5, Minnesota 4 N.Y. Rangers 4, Calgary 1 Los Angeles 3, Edmonton 2 Monday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 4, Calgary 0 Arizona 4, Toronto 3 Chicago 1, Anaheim 0, OT Tuesday’s Games Arizona at Boston, 5 p.m.

Columbus at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Colorado at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Los Angeles at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Anaheim at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Montreal at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Calgary at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Washington, 6 p.m.

Nashville at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

NHL Scoring Leaders Jamie Benn, Dal David Krejci, Bos Tyler Seguin, Dal Max Pacioretty, Mtl John Tavares, NYI Patrick Kane, Chi Blake Wheeler, Wpg Evgeny Kuznetsov, Wash Michael Cammalleri, NJ Henrik Zetterberg, Det Jaromir Jagr, Fla Tomas Plekanec, Mtl John Carlson, Wash Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy P.K. Subban, Mtl Andrei Markov, Mtl Zach Parise, Minn Adam Henrique, NJ James Neal, Nash Alex Ovechkin, Wash Connor McDavid, Edm Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Brendan Gallagher, Mtl Max Domi, Ari Mark Stone, Ott Martin Hanzal, Ari Victor Hedman, TB Joel Ward, SJ Jason Spezza, Dal Kyle Turris, Ott Mike Hoffman, Ott Alex Steen, StL Patrice Bergeron, Bos Nail Yakupov, Edm Artemi Panarin, Chi Erik Karlsson, Ott

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

A 4 7 8 4 6 6 7 8 8 9 4 5 8 9 9 9 2 3 3 4 4 4 5 6 7 9 9 3 3 4 4 4 4 6 6 8

Pts 12 12 12 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 10 10 10 10 10 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

Football x-Hamilton x-Ottawa x-Toronto Montreal

GP 16 16 16 16

CFL East Division W L T 10 6 0 10 6 0 9 7 0 6 10 0

West Division GP W L T x-Edmonton 17 13 4 0 x-Calgary 16 12 4 0 B.C. 16 6 10 0 Winnipeg 17 5 12 0 Saskatchewan 16 2 14 0 x — clinched playoff berth.

x-A.Collie, BC

WEEK 19 Bye: Winnipeg Friday, Oct. 30 B.C. at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 31 Saskatchewan at Calgary, 1 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 1 Ottawa at Hamilton, 11 a.m.

Montreal at Edmonton, 2 p.m.

CFL scoring leaders (x—scored two-point convert): TD C FG J.Medlock, Ham 0 47 38 R.Paredes, Cgy 0 20 37 B.Bede, Mtl 0 19 35 R.Leone, BC 0 27 28 C.Milo, Ott 0 29 27 P.McCallum, Sask 0 18 29 Shaw, Edm 0 19 21 L.Hajrullahu, Wpg 0 15 22 S.Whyte, Edm 0 10 20 T.Gurley, Tor 10 0 0 x-Je.Johnson, Ott 9 2 0 E.Arceneaux, BC 9 0 0 K.Stafford, Edm 9 0 0 x-E.Rogers, Cgy 8 4 0 R.Pfeffer, Ott 0 11 12 x-K.Elliott, Tor 8 2 0 x-A.Harris, BC 8 2 0 x-C.Marshall, Wpg 7 6 0 x-R.Bagg, Sask 7 4 0 x-A.Bowman, Edm 7 2 0 x-H.Burris, Ott 7 2 0

S Pt 6 167 7 138 12 136 12 123 1 111 4 109G. 9 91 10 91 3 73 0 60 0 56 0 54 0 54 0 52 5 52 0 50 0 50 0 48 0 46 0 44 0 44

7

2

0

0

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct New England 6 0 0 1.000 N.Y. Jets 4 2 0 .667 Miami 3 3 0 .500 Buffalo 3 4 0 .429

44

PF 213 152 147 176

Chicago Detroit

PA 126 105 137 173

Indianapolis Houston Jacksonville Tennessee

W 3 2 2 1

South L T 4 0 5 0 5 0 5 0

Cincinnati Pittsburgh Cleveland Baltimore

W 6 4 2 1

North L T 0 0 3 0 5 0 6 0

Pct 1.000 .571 .286 .140

PF 182 158 147 161

PA 122 131 182 190

Denver Oakland Kansas City San Diego

W 6 3 2 2

West L T 0 0 3 0 5 0 5 0

Pct 1.000 .500 .286 .286

PF 139 144 150 165

PA 102 153 172 198

Pct .429 .286 .286 .167

PF 147 154 147 119

PA 174 199 207 139

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct N.Y. Giants 4 3 0 .571 Washington 3 4 0 .429 Philadelphia 3 4 0 .429 Dallas 2 4 0 .333

PF 166 148 160 121

PA 156 168 137 158

Carolina Atlanta New Orleans Tampa Bay

W 6 6 3 2

South L T 0 0 1 0 4 0 4 0

Pct 1.000 .857 .429 .333

PF 162 193 161 140

PA 110 150 185 179

Green Bay Minnesota

W 6 4

North L T 0 0 2 0

Pct 1.000 .667

PF 164 124

PA 101 102

Arizona St. Louis Seattle San Francisco

2 1 W 5 3 3 2

4 6

0 0

.333 .143

120 139

179 200

West L T 2 0 3 0 4 0 5 0

Pct .720 .500 .429 .286

PF 229 108 154 103

PA 133 119 128 180

Sunday’s Games Jacksonville 34, Buffalo 31 Atlanta 10, Tennessee 7 Kansas City 23, Pittsburgh 13 St. Louis 24, Cleveland 6 Washington 31, Tampa Bay 30 Minnesota 28, Detroit 19 Miami 44, Houston 26 New Orleans 27, Indianapolis 21 New England 30, N.Y. Jets 23 Oakland 37, San Diego 29 N.Y. Giants 27, Dallas 20 Carolina 27, Philadelphia 16 Open: Chicago, Cincinnati, Denver, Green Bay Monday’s Game Baltimore 18, Arizona 26 Thursday, Oct. 29 Miami at New England, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 1 Detroit vs. Kansas City at London, 7:30 a.m.

San Francisco at St. Louis, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Giants at New Orleans, 11 a.m.

Minnesota at Chicago, 11 a.m.

Tennessee at Houston, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 11 a.m.

Arizona at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

San Diego at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

Seattle at Dallas, 2:25 p.m.

Green Bay at Denver, 6:30 p.m.

Open: Buffalo, Jacksonville, Philadelphia, Washington Monday, Nov. 2 Indianapolis at Carolina, 6:30 p.m.

Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Named Ruben Amaro Jr. first base coach and outfield and baserunning instructor.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Announced the retirement of OF Torii Hunter.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Named Tim Bogar bench coach, Edgar Martinez hitting coach, Mel Stottlemyre Jr. pitching coach and Chris Woodward first base coach.

National League PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Named Matt Klentak general manager and vice-president.

American Association JOPLIN BLASTERS — Exercised the 2016 option on INF Matt Padgett.

ST. PAUL SAINTS — Exercised the 2016 option on RHPs Robert Coe, Dustin Crenshaw, Chris Peacock, Ryan Rodebaugh and Kevin Cravey LHPs Pedro Hernandez and Kramer Sneed C Vince Di Fazio INFs Ryan Cavan, Ryan Lashley, Sam Maus, Steve Nikorack, Anthony Phillips and Angelo Songco and OFs Willie Argo and Alonzo Harris.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association BROOKLYN NETS — Waived G-F Dahntay Jones and F Justin Harper.

DALLAS MAVERICKS — Waived F Maurice Ndour.

DETROIT PISTONS — Waived F Danny Granger.

INDIANA PACERS — Waived G Toney Douglas and F Terran Petteway.

LOS ANGELES LAKERS — Waived G Jabari Brown.

MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Waived C Ryan Hollins.

MILWAUKEE BUCKS — Exercised the third-year contract options on G Tyler Ennis and F Jabari Parker, and the fourth-year contract options on F Giannis Antetokounmpo and G Michael Carter-Williams.

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Waived Gs Pierre Jackson, J.P. Tokoto, Scottie Wilbekin and Jordan McRae, and F Furkan Aldemir. Signed C Jordan Railey to an NBADL contract and assigned him to Delaware.

PHOENIX SUNS — Exercised their 2016-17 options on C Alex Len, F T.J. Warren and G Archie Goodwin.

SAN ANTONIO SPURS — Exercised their thirdyear option on F Kyle Anderson for the 2016-17 season.

UTAH JAZZ — Waived Gs Eric Atkins and Phil Pressey.

FOOTBALL National Football League DETROIT LIONS — Fired offensive co-ordinator Joe Lombardi, offensive line coach Jeremiah Washburn and assistant offensive line coach Terry Heffernan. Named Jim Bob Cooter offensive co-ordinator, Ron Prince assistant head coach/ offensive line, Curtis Modkins running backs coach/ run game co-ordinator and Devin Fitzsimmons tight ends coach.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed DT Justin Hamilton to the practice squad.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Released TE Sean McGrath from the practice squad. Signed G David Arkin to the practice squad.

NEW YORK JETS — Announced S Jaiquawn

Jarrett cleared waivers and was placed on injured reserve.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed WR Corey Washington to the practice squad. Released WR Colin Lockett from the practice squad. Released WR Issac Blakeney from the practice squad/injured list with an injury settlement.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Fined Winnipeg F Alexander Burmistrov $4,167 for elbowing Minnesota D Jared Spurgeon during an Oct. 25 game.

ARIZONA COYOTES — Reassigned G Marek Langhamer to Rapid City (ECHL). Recalled F Tyler Gaudet from Springfield (AHL).

BUFFALO SABRES — Recalled F Tim Schaller from Rochester (AHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Signed D Mattias Ekholm to a six-year contract. Recalled F Miikka Salomaki from Milwaukee (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Claimed F Bobby Farnham off waivers from Pittsburgh.

American Hockey League SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Reassigned D Gabriel Beaupre to Fort Wayne (ECHL).

SOCCER National Women’s Soccer League ORLANDO PRIDE — Acquired F Alex Morgan and MF Kaylyn Kyle from Portland for their first selection in the expansion draft, a 2016 first-round draft pick and one international roster spot in 2016 and 2017. Acquired the rights of F Sarah Hagen from FC Kansas City for 2016 and 2017 second-round draft picks. athletics.

RDC ATHLETICS

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Frisk, Teah named RDC athletes of the week

Riley McLean drained 28 points Sunday and Wyatt Saari added 17 to lead the Alkin Basin Drillers to an 82-35 Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association win over the Btown Maple Jordans.

Justin Van Henvel and Mike Plamanden scored eight and seven points, respectively, for the losers.

In another contest, Jeremy Purviance hit for 32 points and Brandon Wetmore chipped in with 15 as All Sports Cresting Lacombe downed Henry’s Eavestroughing 88-66. Dave Torwalt led Henry’s with 35 points.

Meanwhile, Ray Teskey’s 23 points and 19 from Jeremy Roberge helped the Chillabongs Orangemen slip past the Axemen 81-78. Dario Viveros led the Axemen with 21 points and Tony Burnyi scored 14.

Queens hockey player Alex Frisk and versatile Yenner Teah of the Kings soccer team are the RDC Boston Pizza women’s and men’s athletes of the week.

Frisk, a first-year netminder, posted a pair of shutouts as the Queens recorded 3-0 and 4-0 victories over the SAIT Trojans. She owns a 3-0 record this season with a 0.67 goals-against average.

Teah, meanwhile, played up front and was consistently involved in the offence in a 3-1 win over Medicine Hat, and played centre back and defence in a 2-2 draw with Lethbridge. He was named RDC player of the game in the second match.

• The Queens host the NAIT Ooks in a women’s hockey contest Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Arena, the RDC basketball squads entertain SAIT Friday — with the women starting at 6 p.m. — and the Kings hockey squad takes on the SAIT Trojans Friday at 7 p.m. at the Penhold Regional Multiplex.

BUSINESS

B5

TUESDAY, OCT. 27, 2015

Housing market to slow in 2016

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CMHC FOURTH QUARTER OUTLOOK

OTTAWA — The Canadian housing market is expected to cool over the next two years, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said Monday in its fourth-quarter outlook.

A rise in the inventory of unsold homes, higher prices and mortgage rates and an increase in the supply of rental units are all expected to contribute to the slowdown.

CMHC chief economist Bob Dugan says gains in provinces like Ontario and B.C. have offset the drop-off in oil-producing provinces like Alberta.

“We expect, however, that this counterbalancing effect will decrease over time,” Dugan said.

“As such, housing starts and MLS sales are projected to moderate in 2016 and 2017.”

Low interest rates have helped fuel sales and drive prices in many markets.

However, CMHC noted in its report

that it expects interest rates to gradually rise from current levels starting late next year.

The Canadian housing market has been a key concern for economists as household debt has risen to record levels in relation to income.

Housing has been a key driver of the economy as the real estate market has boomed in recent years and while the drop in oil prices has hurt some markets, others have continued to march higher.

In its latest report, CMHC raised its forecasts for housing starts and home sales this year, but lowered its expectations for next year.

For 2015, CMHC said housing starts are expected to range between 162,000 and 212,000 units, with a “point” forecast of 186,900 units.

Housing starts are expected to slip in 2016 to a range of between 153,000

and 203,000 units, with a point forecast of 178,150 units, and further slow in 2017 to between 149,000 and 199,000 units, with a point forecast of 173,650 units.

That compared with CMHC’s May point forecast of 181,618 for this year and 181,800 units for next year.

The report Monday predicted sales through the MLS system are expected to range between 444,000 and 546,000 units this year with a point forecast of 494,700 units.

In 2016, sales are forecast to range from 425,000 to 534,000 units with a point forecast of 479,500, and from 416,000 to 536,000 units in 2017 with a point forecast of 476,000.

In May, the point forecast for this year was for sales of 475,400 homes and 469,000 next year.

The average MLS price is forecast at between $417,000 and $459,000 this

year with a point forecast of $437,700, before rising to between $420,000 and $466,000 in 2016.

The average price in 2017 is expected in a range of between $424,000 and $475,000.

The updated outlook is up from May when the point forecast was for $422,129 this year and $428,325 in 2016.

In a separate report, CIBC economist Benjamin Tal noted that while the stock of unsold condominiums in Vancouver has been falling, the number in Toronto between December 2014 and May 2015 rose from less than 1,000 to close to 3,000.

“To be sure, the GTA’s condo market will be tested as interest rates start rising in the coming years, and increased resale activity from domestic condo investors will result in excess supply and some downward pressure on prices,” Tal said in his report.

“But for now, those who look at the rise in unabsorbed units as a sign of increased vulnerability are barking up the wrong tree.”

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Marijuana clones are monitored inside the “Vegetative Room” at the Ataraxia medical marijuana cultivation center in Albion, Ill.

Trudeau win could send influx of foreign investment into Canadian cannabis space

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Friendlier laws on medical marijuana use in Canada are already drawing American investment north or the border, and the trend is likely to further ignite if the federal Liberals make good on their promise to allow recreational use of the drug.

Poseidon Asset Management, a San Francisco-based hedge fund focused squarely on the cannabis space, says it is considering boosting its Canadian holdings following Justin Trudeau’s election win.

“We have one core holding up there currently but we would love to expand that,” says Morgan Paxhia, the hedge fund’s founding partner and chief investor.

South of the border, Poseidon invests only in businesses that are “one step away from touching the leaf,” such as producers of cooling systems used in marijuana production facilities or vaporizer technology.

That’s because despite the fact that a number of states — including Oregon, Colorado and Washington — have legalized the recreational use of marijuana, U.S. federal laws that prohibit the drug leave cannabis producers operating in a legal grey zone.

“We wouldn’t want to put our (investors) at risk with that exposure in the United States,” says Paxhia. “That’s why Canada is of interest to us, because we can then participate in that

growth.”

Experts say American institutional investors looking for cannabis plays are heading north, where medical access to the drug is legal countrywide, to avoid running afoul of U.S. federal laws or sinking their money into companies that could be shut down by U.S. federal authorities.

“That’s a theme we’ve been seeing for a long time — foreign investors investing in Canadian companies, to the point that most of the capital raised now for Canadian companies comes from overseas,” says Khurram Malik, a Jacob Securities analyst who tracks the medical cannabis space.

Trudeau’s election win could accelerate that trend further says Alan Brochstein, the founder of 420 Investor and communications and marketing firm New Cannabis Ventures.

“Canada really has a chance to be a global leader here,” says Brochstein.

Some companies that operate in the U.S. have even started listing their shares on Canadian markets in the hopes of capturing more investment dollars.

“That’s part of the rationale of listing in Toronto, because we can attract U.S. investment in Toronto,” says Don Robinson, CEO of Golden Leaf Holdings, a cannabis extracts producer currently operating in Oregon.

Golden Leaf, which has plans to expand across North America, listed its shares on the alternative Canadian Securities Exchange on Oct. 14. under

the symbol GLH. Nutritional High International Inc., a company that sells marijuana edibles to recreational users in the U.S., has been trading on the Canadian Securities Exchange since March, even though edible cannabis products are not currently legal north of the border.

“You’re going to see a lot of U.S. marijuana companies listing on the Canadian exchanges up here,” says Malik, noting that Canada has a high number of legitimate cannabis companies trading on its stock markets relative to other countries.

“If you go to the OTC pink sheets in the U.S. there’s probably over 100 names, but a lot of those are pretty sketchy,” says Malik. “So (cannabis companies) are looking for a market where their legitimate peers are trading and that happens to be Canada.”

However, Braden Perry, a lawyer who specializes in government compliance, says even investing in Canadian cannabis firms could spell trouble for American funds.

“If you have U.S. money invested in a product that is illegal in the United States, repatriating that money could be considered a money laundering violation,” said Perry, a partner in Kansas City-based law firm Kennyhertz Perry, LLC. However, Perry adds that the issue is a complicated one.

“I don’t want to be accusing people of breaking the law when I don’t know exactly what they’re doing.”

Agrocorp buys transloading facility

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

INNISFAIL

Agrocorp International has purchased Central Alberta Transloading Terminal Ltd.s facility in Innisfail.

The purchase agreement was first announced two years ago and was officially completed last week.

Located on the CP Rail line, the transloading terminal handles grains, pulse crops and oilseeds.

The plant has a storage capacity

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Agrocorp will puts its name on the plant, which will become part of the company’s growing asset base in Western Canada.

The company says it is in the research and design phase for an expansion of the plant.

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It is one of the largest pulse-trading companies in the world, specializing in exporting, trading and processing a wide range of agricultural commodities.

Agrocorp handles about four million tonnes of products a year with an annual turnover of US$2 billion.

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OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada says deputy governor Agathe Cote will retire at the end of January.

Cote is responsible for overseeing the central bank’s analysis of domestic economic developments.

She joined the Bank of Canada in 1982 as an economist in its international department.

During her career, she served as deputy chief of monetary and financial analysis as well as financial markets and as chief of the research department.

Cote also served as secretary to the governing council for monetary policy and adviser to the governor before being appointed a deputy governor in July 2010.

A process to appoint a new deputy governor is expected to start before the end of this year.

Governor Stephen Poloz said he first met Cote when she interviewed at the bank more than 30 years ago.

“I suspected then what we all know today — that Agathe’s contribution to the bank would prove to be extraordinary, and lasting,” Poloz said Monday in a statement.

Hudson’s Bay plans offshoot Lord & Taylor discount fashion chain in U.S. TORONTO — Hudson’s Bay Co. is bringing a new discount fast fashion option to the United States.

The Canadian department store chain operator says it hopes to attract young shoppers on the hunt for cheap and trendy threads with Find @ Lord & Taylor.

The offshoot of its Lord & Taylor department store chain will stock name brands at prices that will be reduced by as much as 70 per cent.

Styles hot off the runway have been soaring in popularity over the past decade, led by European low-priced chains like H&M and Zara.

As those companies rapidly expand into smaller markets, they’ve attracted more people who might have once spent their money at department stores.

Hudson’s Bay Co. (TSX:HBC) says its new Find @ Lord & Taylor stores will offer a selection of women’s, men’s and kids apparel, as well as footwear and home furnishings.

“Off-price continues to be a key driver of HBC’s growth strategy, and we are thrilled to expand this business with the introduction of our newest concept,” said president and CEO Jerry Storch in a statement Monday.

“We see significant opportunity for expansion and remain committed to investing in this sector through new store opening and developments.”

Volkswagen hires Opel exec as strategy chief FRANKFURT -- Volkswagen is hiring a top strategy executive from competitor Opel as it seeks to recover from a scandal over its cheating on U.S. diesel emissions tests.

Taking on Thomas Sedran as Volkswagen’s new chief of corporate strategy brings another outside voice to the company as it re-examines its culture in the wake of the scandal. The move announced Monday by the automaker based in Wolfsburg, Germany, comes on top of the company’s decision to hire Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt, a former judge who oversaw legal compliance at competitor Daimler AG in the wake of a bribery scandal there.

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 117.72 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.40 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.92 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 70.51 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Oil prices slid to two-month low on Monday and dragged the Toronto stock market down with them, led by the energy sector.

Toronto’s S&P/TSX index ended 162.76 points lower at 13,790.90 in a gradual slide that extended throughout the session.

Energy stocks weakened, with the index falling 2.7 per cent. The December contract for benchmark crude oil lost 62 cents to US$43.98 a barrel, its lowest level since late August, amid continuing concerns about oversupply in the market.

November natural gas plunged 22 cents to US$2.06 per mmBtu while gold rose $3.40 to US$1,166.20 an ounce.

Meanwhile, the Canadian dollar was up 0.07 of a U.S. cent at 75.97 cents US as the greenback weakened in advance of this week’s two-day policy rate meeting of the Federal Reserve, which gets underway Tuesday.

There has been increased speculation recently that the U.S. central bank is much less likely to raises rates this year than previously believed as a result of continued weakness in the global economic recovery, especially the ongoing slowdown in China.

Earnings season is also getting underway in Canada with Tim Hortons’ owner Restaurant Brands International Inc. (TSX:QSR) and Canadian National Railway Co. (TSX:CN) scheduled to issue results on Tuesday.

“Corporate management in both Canada and the United States are still underpromising and overdelivering,” said Brian Belski, chief investment strategist at BMO Nesbitt Burns.

“We still think both countries will be recovering in terms of growth for the next several quarters.”

In New York, markets were mostly negative with the Dow Jones industrial average down

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 22.55 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.09 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.02 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 24.65 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . . 9.88 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.57 First Quantum Minerals . . 7.54 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 19.66 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 6.73 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.00 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.89 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 28.60 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.900 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 8.67 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 19.38 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 19.61 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 52.46 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.09 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 20.29 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 30.32 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 9.80 Canyon Services Group. . 5.19 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 19.25 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1900 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 9.86 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.700 23.65 points at 17,623.05, while the broader S&P 500 gave back 3.97 points to 2,071.18 and the Nasdaq index edged 2.84 points higher to 5,034.70.

In corporate news, Valeant Pharmaceuticals (TSX:VRX) says it is asking U.S. securities regulators to investigate Citron Research, the short-seller research firm whose scathing report last week caused the Quebec-based drugmaker’s stock to tumble.

Chief executive Michael Pearson told analysts on a conference call Monday that the main reason for Valeant’s recent problems is that it’s the victim of false allegations by outsiders who want to manipulate the market for their own profit. On the TSX, Valeant was down another 4.8 per cent, falling $7.35 to $145.34 per share, in afternoon trading.

“The good news in respect to the Valeant pullback is that it provides an opportunity to redistribute money into areas that we think have bottomed, like energy, but more importantly things we think are dramatically underowned that can, will and should lead the Canadian market higher,” said Belski.

“We think that’s namely the banks.”

South of the border, Duke Energy, the biggest electric company in the U.S., said it will buy Piedmont Natural Gas for about $4.9 billion, or $60 per share.

The deal will give Duke about a million new customers in the Carolinas and Tennessee. Duke shares were down $1.49 or two per cent at US$72.25.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,790.90, down 162.76 points Dow — 17,623.05, down

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 81.22 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 38.55 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.73 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 21.09 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 73.76 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 1.14 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.490 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.18 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 37.05 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.060 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.30 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 45.38 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1900 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 77.42 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 61.77 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.11 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 24.85 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 34.21 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 37.83 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 93.52 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.15 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 43.10 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.45 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 74.93 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 44.99 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.21 23.65 points S&P 500 — 2,071.18, down 3.97 points Nasdaq — 5,034.70, up 2.84 points Currencies: Cdn — 75.97 cents US, up 0.07 of a cent Pound — C$2.0206, up 0.31 of a cent Euro — C$1.4547, up 0.39 of a cent Euro — US$1.1051, up 0.39 of a cent Oil futures: US$43.98 per barrel, down 62 cents (December contract) Gold futures: US$1,166.20 per oz., up $3.40 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.815 oz., up 8.4 cents $701.35 kg., up $2.70 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov ‘15 $9.50 lower $466.00 Jan. ‘16 $8.60 lower $474.70 March ‘16 $8.00 lower $480.10 May ‘16 $7.30 lower $481.60 July ‘16 $6.80 lower $480.20 Nov. ‘16 $6.70 lower $469.50 Jan. ‘17 $6.70 lower $467.70 March ‘17 $6.70 lower $469.40 May ‘17 $6.70 lower $469.40 July ‘17 $6.70 lower $469.40 Nov. ‘17 $6.70 lower $469.40.

Barley (Western): Dec. ‘15 unchanged $185.00 March ‘16 unchanged $187.00 May ‘16 unchanged $188.00 July ‘16 unchanged $188.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $188.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $188.00 March ‘17 unchanged $188.00 May ‘17 unchanged $188.00 July ‘17 unchanged $188.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $188.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $188.00.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 821,700 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 821,700.

Valeant asks U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate Citron

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Embattled drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals is asking U.S. securities regulators to investigate Citron Research, whose explosive report about the Quebec-based company’s business practices caused its stock to crater.

Chief executive Michael Pearson told analysts on a conference call Monday that the main reason for Valeant’s recent problems is that it’s the victim of false allegations by outsiders who want to manipulate the market to their own profit.

Pearson says he has called on the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate Citron Research and Andrew Left, its executive editor, after the U.S. short seller compared Valeant to Enron, the U.S. energy firm that collapsed after widespread deception and fraud at the highest levels of management.

“His motivation is the same as someone who runs into a crowded theatre to falsely yell, ‘Fire.’ He wanted people to run,” Pearson said.

“He intentionally designed the report to frighten our shareholders to drive down the price of our stock so he could make money for his short selling.”

Left said it’s Pearson who owes people an explanation.

“Before accusing me of market manipulation, Pearson should ask himself why Philidor was undisclosed to Valeant shareholders,” Left said in an email. The SEC declined to comment.

Citron is a short seller’s research firm that publishes reports online about companies. Short sellers earn money when a stock declines. Citron says on its website that it does not guarantee that it is providing all available information, and its principals “most always” hold a position in securities profiled on its site.

In a report last week, Citron alleged that Valeant set up a network of phantom pharmacies to fool auditors — al-

legations that Pearson said are “completely untrue.”

Valeant’s (TSX:VRX) stock has been on a slide since the report was released, resulting in billions of dollars of losses for its shareholders. Its shares fell another $7.35 or 4.81 per cent to close at $145.34 on Monday.

Pearson said Valeant follows the law as well as accounting and disclosure rules, adding he would not hesitate to take action if he finds violations.

Valeant’s board will conduct its own review of allegations into the drugmaker’s business relationship with Philidor, a specialty pharma company based in Hatboro, Pa. The committee review will determine whether Valeant will maintain its relationship with Philidor or turn to several other specialty pharmaceutical companies, the company said.

Philidor issued a statement saying it values its relationship with Valeant and will provide any information required for the review.

Valeant lead director Robert Ingram, who has been on the company’s board for five years, said the directors have complete confidence in Pearson, the company’s accounting practices and the use of specialty pharmaceutical companies.

“With that said, there are other allegations that have been raised publicly with respect to Philidor and we as a board felt it was important to review those issues and any related ones that might arise,” Ingram said.

Among them are allegations in a Wall Street Journal report that Valeant employees placed at Philidor used separate email accounts with fictitious names, including Spider-Man’s alter ego, Peter Parker.

Philidor said in an email those workers set up separate Philidor email accounts to keep their internal Philidor communications separate from Valeant communications, mainly to reduce the risk of accidentally sharing either company’s propriety information.

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This photo shows the Roots clothing store at the Toronto Eaton Centre.

Roots co-founders sell majority stake

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The co-owners of prominent clothing chain Roots Canada are selling off a majority stake in the company to a private equity firm as another wave of retail competition hits Canada.

Roots — known for emblazoning its famous beaver logo across sweatshirts and other garments and dressing Olympic Games athletes — will now be owned by Searchlight Capital Partners LP while the retailer’s co-founders, Michael Budman and Don Green, maintain a smaller stake.

The unspecified “significant investment” by Searchlight Capital, which has offices in Toronto, New York and London, will be used to launch the brand’s next stage of growth.

Budman and Green say they both intend to remain actively involved with Roots.

Searchlight Capital has invested in other Canadian companies, including rubber boot maker Hunter Boot Ltd. and Canadian frozen food retailer M&M Meat Shops.

In a statement, Budman said the duo met with the co-founders of Searchlight before signing the agree-

ment.

“We were impressed by how well they understood and respected our brand,” he said.

“Not only do they have relevant experience, international expertise and financial resources to draw on, but they are also committed to Roots staying true to its long-standing values, culture and quality products.”

Roots also has to contend with the soaring popularity of fast fashion retailers like H&M, Zara and trendy, lower-priced brands like Topshop.

And next spring Hudson’s Bay (TSX:HBC) plans to throw open the doors to the first Saks Fifth Avenue stores, while U.S. department store chain Nordstrom is also opening stores in big cities across the country.

Despite the competition, Roots hasn’t budged on embracing its Canadian identity and reputation for durability.

When Target Corp. entered Canada, Roots signed a partnership where the U.S. discount chain stocked its Beaver Canoe home decor offerings and some of its clothing.

Roots operates 245 retail stores across Canada, the United States and Asia.

Companies increasingly looking for takeovers SURVEY

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

billion) takeover of British-based SAB Miller by Anheuser Busch InBev is to cope with faltering beer consumption in many parts of the world.

Other big deals this year include Royal Dutch Shell’s 47 billion-pound ($71 billion) yet-to-be-completed acquisition of BG Group, as well as the $62.6 billion merger between Heinz and Kraft Foods, which is now called Kraft Heinz. EY said the boundaries between industries looks set to blur, with 48 per cent of executives planning acquisitions in a different sector as new technology impacts almost everything along the business chain. The manufacturing and retail sectors are set for the most such activity. And companies are increasingly ready to make deals outside their home country. The firm said 70 per cent of respondents are looking to do so, with the 19-country eurozone set to see a rise in deals amid hopes that the debt crisis that has gripped the region has abated following the latest bailout of Greece.

LONDON — There is no let-up in executives’ appetite for corporate takeovers despite volatility in the stock market and mounting concerns over the global economy, particularly China.

According to a survey released Monday by consulting firm EY, the recent wave of mergers and acquisitions, or M&A, is set to continue over the coming year. It found that 59 per cent of global companies are planning to secure at least one deal over the next 12 months, partly as a means of cushioning waning global growth as China’s economy slows. The figure for October is up from 56 per cent in April and 40 per cent at the same time last year. It represents the highest interest in acquisitions that EY’s survey of corporate deal-making has found in its six-year history. The low point was at the start, when only 24 per cent of companies signalled the intention to make a takeover.

“With modest increases in global GDP, organic growth alone is not enough for companies to expand and reshape at the pace they need,” said Pip McCrostie, EY’s global head of transactions.

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Murder suspect caught near Ponoka CHASE INCLUDED A CAR JACKING AND HOME INVASION, FIVE ARRESTED

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An attempted carjacking on Hwy 2, followed by a home invasion, led Central Alberta RCMP to track and eventually arrest five young suspects, one who was wanted in connection with a Calgary homicide.

At 3:40 a.m. Friday, Ponoka RCMP responded to a report of a possible carjacking on Hwy 2 about four kilometres south of the Ponoka exit. It was reported that passengers from a black SUV had stopped in the median and appeared to be forcibly removing three occupants from a silver Honda Civic.

As police approached, five occupants of the black SUV fled on foot.

Police later determined the black SUV

had been reported stolen out of Calgary and that the SUV occupants had allegedly assaulted the passengers in the Civic. RCMP tracked and arrested one 19-year-old female suspect nearby.

About two hours later, residents near the scene reported four people had just broken into their home, and following threats made with a pipe, had stolen the homeowner’s Jeep Cherokee and some money.

The RCMP were able to arrest a 17-year-old female and 18-year-old male near this scene and advised neighbouring detachments to be on the lookout for the stolen Jeep and the other two suspects.

Shortly thereafter, RCMP in Mask-

wacis saw the Jeep speed by.

RCMP used a spike belt in an effort to stop the vehicle and it came to rest as it entered the Ermineskin First Nations Reserve. One 17-year-old female suspect was arrested at the scene while a male suspect fled on foot. An initial search of the area by the RCMP, Police Dog Service and RCMP Air Service, along with several consent searches of residences, failed to locate the suspect.

A short time later, acting upon information received from local residents, the final suspect was located and arrested without incident. He was identified as Isaiah Riel Rider, 18, of Calgary, who was wanted by Calgary Police Service in connection with the Oct. 11 homicide of Christa Cachene, 26, of Calgary.

The three victims of the attempted carjacking near Ponoka were taken to hospital with minor injuries and released. The two residents who were subject to the home invasion were not injured. Both stolen vehicles have been recovered, as well as a firearm in relation to this event.

The four suspects taken into custody not associated with the Calgary homicide are being detained in Ponoka while Rider is being held in Maskwacis pending the RCMP investigation and transfer to the custody of the Calgary Police Service.

Charges are pending in relation to the RCMP’s investigation into these events.

Names of the accused that can be lawfully released will be issued after charges are sworn.

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Innisfail RCMP looking for failed thief Innisfail RCMP are investigating an attempted armed robbery at a Penhold restaurant shortly after midnight on Sunday.

Police said a male entered Penhold Family Restaurant, at 1060 Emma St., and produced and pointed a firearm at a female employee.

The suspect fled when he was confronted by another employee.

The suspect attempted to get into a silver car, but the vehicle sped away at a high rate of speed. He then fled on foot.

Police said the suspect left emptyhanded.

No injuries to employees or property damage was reported.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact Red Deer RCMP at 403-227-3342. To remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

Dementia conference set for weekend Early Onset Dementia Alberta is hosting its third annual Building Awareness Conference in Red Deer on Friday and Saturday.

The conference is open to anyone who wants to learn about the disease and will be held on Friday at Red Deer College and continues on Saturday at Sheraton Red Deer Hotel.

Registration on Friday starts at 4:30 p.m. at Margaret Parsons Theatre.

Guest speakers will begin at 5 p.m. and run to about 9 p.m.

Speakers include: Dr. Duncan Robertson, a geriatric medicine specialist, who will look at what may prevent or delay cognitive impairment, challenges diagnosing dementia, and steps towards a dementia strategy and action plan for Alberta; Mollie Cole, an advanced practice nurse, who will discuss the appropriate use of antipsychotics; Donna Durand, executive director of Alberta Council on Aging and a recreation therapist who promotes healthy aging, aging in place and dementia care; Larry Quintilio, Red Deer representative with Early Onset Dementia Alberta, who lost his wife last year after a 13-year battle with Alzheimer’s.

On Saturday, registration begins at 8 a.m. and conference runs from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Speakers include president of Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories Dr. David Westaway, client services and program manager Laurie Grande with the Alzheimer Society in Red Deer, Red Deer Police and Crisis Team representatives, and more.

Group discussions will focus on how to increase awareness early of onset dementia, education and advocating for patients and caregivers.

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Chad Yanulik, left, and Ryan Pedersen of Trimmed-Line Tree Services in Red Deer work to measure and cut one of several felled poplar trees at Red Deer College, Monday morning. The work to clear a number of trees on the west side of the campus is the being done to make way for the new Sport and Wellness Centre planned for the site. Trimmed-Line Tree Services owner Shawn Moore says some of the salvaged wood may be used in the building trades program at the college, as well he is hoping to have some of the lumber make its way into the Sport and Wellness Centre as architectural components and furniture.

Admission is free. To register e-mail eodarep@gmail.com or call Quintilio at 403-346-8401.

The conference is held in partnership with Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories.

Red Deer Mounties search for armed Fas Gas robbers Red Deer RCMP are searching for two men who robbed a Fas Gas at gunpoint early Saturday morning.

Police said at about 2:40 a.m., two men — one with a handgun — entered the Fas Gas, at 4023 50th St. They made off with an undisclosed amount of cash and lottery tickets.

The suspect brandishing the gun left through the front door and the other suspect exited by the back door.

No one was injured during the robbery.

The suspect with the gun was described as Caucasian, about 1.72 metres tall (five-foot-eight), with a slim build and thick, short dark hair.

He appeared to be in his mid-20s and wore a grey sweater, a shirt with a zipper, and blue jeans. His face was covered with what looked like a t-shirt or bandana.

The other suspect was Caucasian,

also in his mid-20s, and between 1.67 and 1.70 metres tall (five-foot-six to five-foot-seven). He wore a black, hooded jacket with the hood up, a red ball cap, blue jeans and sneakers.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. To remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

Lumber now accepted at waste management facility Solid wood that is unpainted, unstained and free of glue can now be recycled at Red Deer’s Waste Management Facility.

Know as “white dimensional lumber,” the wood includes untreated lumber used for general construction and home building. It can be repurposed for landscaping mulch, composting or alternative industrial fuel.

Particle board that contains pressed wood fiber with glue, or wood from renovations that contains drywall, tile or any other contaminants are not accepted.

Recycling tipping fees of $57 per

tonne (minimum $7) will apply. For more information call the Blue Line at 403-340-BLUE (2583).

Lacombe reviewing Land Use Bylaw City of Lacombe wants to hear from its business community on how to build for the future.

The municipality is reviewing its Land Use Bylaw, which sets out the goals and regulations around how property is developed in the community.

For businesses, the bylaw outlines the number of parking spaces needed, where they can develop, sign and landscaping standards and other regulations to ensure orderly development.

The city is looking at ways to remove barriers to development while ensuring long-term community planning goals are met.

An open house aimed at the business community is set for Thursday from 3 to 7 p.m. at 5019B 51st St. Similar open houses are geared towards residential issues and industrial players are set for Nov. 4 and Nov. 17 respectively.

Doors open on pregnancy care centre

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Central Alberta Pregnancy Care Centre’s housing project will begin welcoming its first clients by the end of November.

Earlier this year, the Christian non-profit agency began gutting the top floor of the Central Alberta Trade and Labour Society building, at 5116 47th St., to create living space for four young single, pregnant women and onsite staff.

At an open house last Thursday, about 100 people toured the site that is almost ready for occupancy.

“We’ll have staff move in their right away and then we’ll start preparing for the screening and the intake of clients,” said executive director Anne Waddell on Monday.

“WE’RE UNIQUE IN CENTRAL ALBERTA ... OTHER CENTRES ARE LOOKING AT WHAT WE’RE DOING AND THEY’RE SEEING THE NEED TO DEVELOP THAT MODEL.” ANNE WADDELL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR “The community really stepped up.

They’re supporting the project and the work we’re doing so we’re quite fortunate.”

It’s the first phase of the housing program to help women, age 17 to 25, carry their pregnancy to term and help equip them with life and parenting skills.

Mothers will be able to stay until

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their baby reaches the age of two to give the women an opportunity to prepare for the future and provide a stable environment during a critical time in a child’s development.

“We’re unique in Central Alberta.

There are some other models in Calgary, Edmonton, but not linked to a pregnancy care centre. Other centres are looking at what we’re doing and they’re seeing the need to develop that model,” Waddell said.

The second phase of the housing project — construction of a new $5 million building containing seven to 10 bachelor and one-bedroom apartments — is expected to break ground in 2016 and will be attached to phase one.

Pregnancy care centre offices, currently located at 4610 48th Ave., will move onto the main floor of the facility.

Waddell said about $1.2 million has been raised so far for the second

phase that will allow women and their children to stay longer if necessary.

Partnerships with landlords in the community are also being sought.

Central Alberta Pregnancy Care Centre provides support and education to individuals and families impacted by unplanned pregnancy regardless of age, gender, or religion.

In March 2014, the centre opened an office in Olds. A fundraiser and information night will be held in December in Rocky Mountain House to help bring services to that community.

Services at Central Alberta Pregnancy Care Centre are confidential and free of charge and include prenatal education, counselling, parenting programs, adoption support, programs about healthy relationships, and male mentorship. The centre does not provide abortion referrals. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Harnessing girl power INSIDE THE GLITTERY AND LONG-BELATED RISE OF THE FEMALE YOUTUBE STAR CAITLIN DEWEY SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

It’s a Thursday night at the Fillmore in Silver Spring, Maryland, and there’s hardly a guy to be found in the place. A bemused man takes tickets from the girls who jostle at the door, not even bothering to ask if they’re of drinking age. Inside the venue, a few Cool Dads nurse beers and swipe their smartphones, surveying the knot of giddy preteens who have massed by the stage.

The dads know they’re interlopers at this particular show, even more than they would be if they had chaperoned their daughters to see Taylor Swift or One Direction. This is the first-ever national tour of female Internet celebrities - and they are really, really amped to have their “Girls’ Night In.” “I need you to scream as loud as you possibly can, ‘kay?” shouts opener Andie Case, a bleached-blonde singer-songwriter who has racked up 850,000 subscribers on YouTube. “I want you to burst my eardrums for this snap. One, two, three -“ The Cool Dads wince; the girls scream like banshees.

It’s a scene that’s repeated a dozen times over since the Girls’ Night In tour kicked off in Anaheim, California, on Sept. 22, uniting six female YouTubers IRL for their largely preteen, almost-entirely female audience. Eva Gutowski - the most successful of the bunch, with 4.5 million subscribers - specializes in scripted comedy videos with titles like “How to Survive High School.” The other young women - Case, Meredith Foster, Alisha MaPhoto by ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES rie, Sierra Furtado and Mia Stammer Eva Gutowski, Sierra Furtado and Meredith Foster at are part of the “Girls’ Night In” tour of YouTube female celebrities.

- ranging in age from 19 to 23, fall into a grab bag of popular YouTube genres: The tour is bringing the females into light on a YouTube platform that traditionally has seen men get most of the success. music, vlogging, beauty.

On Girls’ Night In, the shout-outs In recent years, women, such as Jen- one-bedroom apartment; Gutowski and en masse: “your (sic) so ugly,” “she rego down in real life: Hundreds of ally needs to gain some weight,” “god her sister slept in the living room. na Mourey, Michelle Phan and Grace young girls scream affirmations like Determined to get on TV somehow, damn your (expletive) hideous!!!!”

Helbig, have made serious names for Sometimes, other YouTubers on “I love you” and “your hair is so pretthemselves in those categories. But by she started a broadcast journalism deand large, female YouTube stars have gree at Cal State Fullerton in 2012. the tour said, the behavior has gotten ty!” as Gutowski and friends play-act a missed out on the upswell of support Later that semester, she began post- worse: nasty emails and repeat com- sleepover night.

The content is beige, if pleasantly and interest that made some of their ing YouTube videos to practice how ments, death threats when they pose male counterparts mainstream celeb- she’d speak on-air. Gutowski’s early with certain beloved male YouTube wholesome: There’s a lot of happy talk about “ignoring the haters” and “doing clips are rambly and under-produced: celebrities. rities.

Rosianna Halse Rojas, a veteran what you love.” Backstage, the girls Of YouTube’s top 50 YouTube-na- grainy webcam “haul” videos filmed in tive channels, only six belong to wom- a messy bedroom with stacks of folded vlogger and the former longtime ex- tell me that they think of their fans as en; and on the most recent incarnation clothes piled behind her. But people ecutive assistant to “The Fault in Our their little sisters.

“We all remember what it was like of Digitour, the pre-eminent touring liked Gutowski’s unvarnished make-up Stars” author and YouTube royalty to be at that age, you know?” said Case, John Green, remembers once posting and shopping tips. circuit for profes‘SO MANY WOMEN START Within six months, a video under which thousands of com- the singer-songwriter. “I remember sional social media she had 10,000 sub- menters threatened to gang-rape her. how insecure and sheltered I felt … celebs, all six headYOUTUBE CHANNELS THAT scribers.

(Now we’re) able to be a positive influShe was 17. liners were men.

“It’s a toxic creative environment,” ence and give these girls confidence These days, Gu(Gabrielle Hanna, of HAVE GREAT POTENTIAL, AND towski’s persona is said Rojas, who has moderated Vid- and tell them they can do what they “The Gabbie Show,” THEN SEE THE ABUSE AND a little more pol- con’s “Women on YouTube” panel for want - things we never heard when we made just a handful were that age.” of West Coast ap- STOP. IT’S HURTING FEMALES ished: fewer make- several years.

“The worst thing you can do is con“So many women start YouTube up tutorials, more pearances.)

R e s e a r c h s u g - ON EVERY LEVEL, FROM THE airy, Buzzfeed-style channels that have great potential, and form to what everyone else wants,” gests that men are ONES WHO HAVE THOUSANDS comedy sketches. then see the abuse and stop. It’s hurt- Case continued. “That’s what we’re (Ironically, it’s prob- ing females on every level, from the standing against.” more likely both And yet, at the very same time, Roto watch YouTube OF FOLLOWERS TO THE ONES ably videos like Gu- ones who have thousands of followtowski’s “Awkward ers to the ones who have just a couple jas and others have begun to fear that videos and to make WHO HAVE JUST A COUPLE celebrity YouTubers are reinforcing High School Mem- hundred.” them. And as recent Gendered bullying and harassment the stereotypes of the mainstream. ories” that initially HUNDRED. women’s panels at inspired Buzzfeed are far from the only struggles that The women on the Girls’ Night In tour the social media VETERAN VLOGGER, ROSIANNA HALSE ROJAS, to expand in that young women face on YouTube, Rojas spend a lot of time talking about boys conference VidON THE NEGATIVITY SOME FEMALES FACE direction.) Her most said. There are also fewer sponsor- and make-up. con have shown, feThey’re all pretty and pole-thin. Gupopular production - ship and advertising opportunities for male creators face a music video to the female YouTubers looking to go pro: towski is half Puerto Rican, and tourunique, intractable problems in the space: from sponsor- horrifically catchy song called “Lit- Their options are basically fashion or mate Stammer was born in Japan; but aside from that, there’s little diversiship pressure to harassment in the erally My Life” - was professionally high-end cosmetics. (“There’s nothing wrong with beau- ty in terms of race or interests. In a Internet’s most notorious comments produced by the same guy who wrote music for the recent Selena Gomez ty and fashion,” Rojas insisted. “But group interview, the six young women section.

“We all come from the Internet,” movie. It’s been viewed more than 14 aren’t we just replicating on YouTube rarely disagree: They parrot each othsaid Gutowski before the Silver Spring million times and inspired a string of what the media already says about er’s jokes about the nae-nae and the unlikely party line that their fans feel women?”) show, noting - in her typically chirpy, derivative memes.

On top of that, female YouTube per- like “besties.”

Gutowski wouldn’t tell you it’s all wide-smiled way - that the Web’s a font In other words, these women who for good and evil alike. “I think we been easy, of course; there’s a segment formers have struggled to establish just all want to represent the positive in the Girls’ Night In show when each the kind of visibility and promotional gyrate to the piped-in sounds of Fifth YouTuber tells a story about the in- networks that developed organically Harmony on the Fillmore stage look side.”

The Internet has certainly been securities that almost stopped them for their male counterparts. Over the more like pop stars than the “average positive for the 21-year-old Southern from vlogging. Gutowski long suffered summer, a group of fed-up lady You- girls” they avidly profess to be.

But they’re self-made pop stars, the Californian, who once thought her par- anxiety about her body, she said; it’s Tubers decided to push back: They ent’s financial struggles would prevent exactly the sort of anxiety that You- established a hashtag called #femtube, products of their own hard work and her from becoming a performer. At Tube trolls live to punish. Even her where they shout out their favorite savvy. And that, if nothing else, has got points growing up, her family shared a tamest videos tend to draw them out women’s YouTube channels. to count for something.

BREWSTER, N.Y. — A blind woman who was struck by a school minibus while crossing a suburban New York street says her goal for recovery was to bring home the guide dog that jumped in front of the bus to save her.

Audrey Stone and Figo (FEE’-goh) the dog were reunited at her Brewster home on Monday, after nearly four months of recuperation for both.

Stone and her golden retriever were together for over six years before the crash in June. He was trained by the Guide Dog Foundation.

Witnesses say Figo leaped between Stone and the oncoming bus, then wouldn’t leave her side once both were hit.

’Vampire Academy’ author Richelle Mead to launch new series, ‘The Glittering Court,’ in April NEW YORK — “Vampire Academy” author Richelle Mead is giving life to a new series.

Penguin Young Readers Group announced Monday that Mead’s “The Glittering Court” will launch April 12.

The publisher is calling the fantasy series “a mix of Elizabethan and frontier worlds,” featuring three girls on a “search of empowerment and love.”

Mead’s previous series also include “Bloodlines,” “Georgina Kincaid” and “Dark Swan.”

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Halloween prep turns into trip down memory lane I hauled a single, somewhat misshapen pumpkin home the other night.

“There, Halloween. I am ready,” I said to self, as I dumped the huge piece of yet to be created piece of pumpkin art ceremoniously at my front door.

If the truth were known, I had stopped at the store to pick up one item and one item only that being milk. So how I ended up coming home with several bags of groceries and this huge pumpkin probably has more to do with strategic advertising than good planning, but I am pleased with myself anyway.

“Buy now, be happy later,” I told myself, as I dug around in a huge cardboard box filled with every size and shape of pumpkin imaginable.

Here today. Gone tomorrow. That’s how it is with pumpkins and paychecks!

I drive home slowly and my pumpkin rolls around in the back seat making appropriate bump in the dark noises.

I see lots of yards and houses (pretty much every yard and house but mine) all lit up like there is some kind of Halloween decoration contest going on.

“Whatever,” I mutter to self, climbing my front steps wearily and hugging my pumpkin possessively.

And in my mind I peer down the shrouded path of the past, impatiently pushing aside all the cobwebs and spider webs blocking the way.

In those days Halloween was my brother and I, alone and deliciously afraid, in a world where the inky blackness of the night was interrupted only by a lacy network of stars and a few streetlights obligingly casting evil shadows on the sidewalk.

We knew magic and evil were out there and we were loving the fact that we knew.

This was, after all, our town, and because it was so, we felt protected in an invisible shroud of familiarity and innocence.

We were the kids who hung out at the skating rink, warming our frozen toes and fingers on the old wood stove

inside the skating shack and watching the steam come off our mittens.

We were the kids who could be seen on countless sunny afternoons balancing ourselves on the steel track of the railroad TREENA that ran down MIELKE the centre of LIFE town, carefully putting one foot in front of the other, walking on to forever.

“Trick or treat,” we chanted, holding out our pillowcases, as we went up one side of Main Street, which, by odd coincidence, was the only street, and down the other side.

The next morning there were no treats left and only a few tricks like pushed over outhouses and soaped windows reminded us that Halloween had even been here.

“Who did that?” we wondered, secretly admiring them for being brave enough to perform such wicked deeds.

I smile as I remember and lovingly set my misshapen pumpkin on the front step.

Soon it will be turned into a garish creature of the night, lit with a candle of some sort and set in the window to welcome all the little trick or treaters who will soon be ringing my door bell.

And, finally I lug in the rest of my groceries and close the door once again to the past with all its ghosts and flickering memories.

And even though soaping windows and pushing over outhouses are not really shining examples of goodness, it’s good to remember those days.

And the way it was!

Treena Mielke lives in Sylvan Lake and is editor of the Rimbey Review. She has been a journalist and columnist for more than 25 years. Treena is married to Peter and they have three children and six grandchildren.ftreena

Vacation enjoyed, but nice to be back with kids The house was dark and still when Jamie and I rolled our suitcases into the front foyer. As we made our way into the house all of its usual smells sprung to memory and I realized that even after a short week I had begun to miss this place. Or perhaps it was just the thought of the small people who lived here that had my heart skipping a beat.

Daniel, Jamie’s brother, was asleep on the couch. The hallway lights were turned off and I’m positive at that moment I had never felt quiet quite like that. The time was somewhere around 11 o’clock at night as I made my way towards the children’s bedrooms.

After all of these years of parenting, all of the frustrations and meltdowns, I really didn’t think a week long break would be that difficult to endure. And believe me I’m not complaining. You know, the sun, the sea, the amazing quality time that my husband and I got to experience in our seven days of childfree time was very much treasured.

It seemed however that so many of the activities we participated in while visiting the Mayan Rivera would remind us of our little darlings back home. As I snorkeled with sea turtles I could only imagine how elated Sophie would be to meet those massive sea creatures too. Or whenever Jamie and I would stumble over one of the hundreds of iguanas that roamed our resort we couldn’t help but think of Lars and how fascinated he would have been with the small reptiles.

Needless to say our flight home was filled with anticipation. We both couldn’t wait to give those first initial hugs and kisses to our babes after what seemed like a lengthy time apart.

As it sometimes happens we got a bit held up in our arrival back to Canada and found ourselves at home much later than we expected. Despite my efforts of “accidentally” waking the kids up by clumsily dragging the suitcases up the stairs and flicking on every light in the place, that evening they slept right through the night. Go figure.

I decided to unpack the suitcases that night, because well, I’m that kind of a type A human being. As I created a mountainous pile of beach wear that needed washing I wondered how the kids’ time away from us went. If you remember a couple of weeks ago I had poked fun at the fact that they were so excited for us to leave that they couldn’t help but verbalize it in

their honest adolescent way.

A major part of me expected that this is exactly what happened. I was sure they had hardly thought about us or our absence at all and they had had the time of their lives while LINDSAY we were away.

BROWN But I must adME PLUS THREE mit there was a tiny part of me that hoped we were missed.

The saying “distance makes the heart grow fonder” I’ve come to discover is true in so many different circumstances. Here, I realized how our time away from the kids has made me appreciate their beauty and uniqueness in a way that I think we all as parents can sometimes overlook in the hustle and bustle of everyday life. But I have to wonder if children experience that same kind of logic and reasoning when away from the people they love?

“Daniel?” Sophie called from her bedroom faintly. I rolled over to look at the clock, 6:30am. Jamie’s brother Daniel had tucked her in the night before and she must have forgotten that we were coming home. I moved eagerly towards her room.

“Good morning my love.” I said.

“Mom?” She asked.

“Yes, sweetie, it’s me.”

“Mama, it’s you!” Tears began to immediately stream down my daughters face as she jumped out of bed and ran towards me. “I missed you so much Mom! I love you.”

I knelt down to hug her; I too was now crying because of this unexpected emotional response from her—the kid who usually is least likely to show this kind of sentiment. She grabbed my neck to pull me close to her, “I really love seeing your face right now Mama.” Lars then joined us from his room and we all moved towards mine and Jamie’s bed for a cuddly family reunion.

I guess it goes to show that distance certainly does makes the heart grow fonder and that is true for any age group.

Lindsay Brown is a Sylvan Lake mother of two and freelance columnist.

Sometimes it’s as simple as learning to smile again Learning to Smile Again “Change the self-image and you change the personality and the behavior.”

– Maxwell Maltz, American cosmetic surgeon, author of Psycho-Cybernetics “Is this you?” I asked, pointing to a photo of a small boy in a snow suit.

“That’s me,” replied Doug. “I’m probably about three in that picture.”

I was helping a friend move when I noticed an old photo album tucked away in a box. I have always enjoyed looking at old photographs, so when we paused to rest I asked Doug if I could take a peek. He shrugged. I learned the album had belonged to Doug’s late mother. The pictures seemed to celebrate milestones in Doug’s young life: birthdays, pony rides, the first day of school, first bicycle, summer vacation, Halloween costumes and Christmas concerts. In most of the pictures, Doug was smiling – by all appearances, a happy and well-adjusted child.

The Doug I knew wasn’t always happy. I knew that in the past Doug had struggled with addictions and now battled chronic depression and anxiety.

I wondered what had happened to the smiling little boy and how his self-image and self-esteem had become so eroded.

Self-image is the mental picture we have of ourselves – the internal criteria by which we judge our level of worthiness and deservability. Our

self-image is comprised of perceived assets and liabilities and strongly determines whether we see ourselves as intelligent or foolish, beautiful or wretched, capable or inept. For people like Doug with a poor self-imMURRAY age and equalFUHRER ly poor self-esteem, the image EXTREME ESTEEM is often distorted and generally slanted toward the negative.

The reflection we see in the mirror may be true to who we are or just as likely a distorted unconscious view of ourselves as individuals. If we have a positive self-image, we’ll acknowledge our assets while being realistic about our liabilities. With a negative self-image, we tend to focus on perceived faults and inadequacies and fail to see our innate beauty.

For better or worse, internalized strengths and weaknesses affect our behaviour and how we interact with others and the world around us. We are constantly evaluating ourselves and drawing conclusions about how

DOES YOUR SMILE FEEL AS YOUNG AS YOU DO?

we look, how we’re performing and how successful we are in the context of work and relationships. A positive self-image can enhance our overall wellbeing, while a negative self-image can decrease our satisfaction and ability to succeed in life.

Self-image changes over a lifetime.

That’s why you’ll find smiling pictures of Doug as a child yet experience anxious and depressed Doug as an adult. We can’t help but be affected – negatively or positively – by our experiences. The good new is – with practice – we can choose the extent to which we’re affected by experience and whether the affect is negative or positive.

It’s important to remember that body image is also part of self-image.

Body image is more than how you look.

It also refers to how you think, feel and react to your perceived physical attributes. A positive body image can greatly enhance your psychological wellbeing, resulting in less anxiety, less depression and greater self-worth.

As with your mental and emotional self-image, you also can exercise control of your physical body image. In fact, a positive self-image and a positive body image always go hand-inhand – one supporting the other and vice versa.

People with healthy self-esteem generally have a positive self-image and thus a healthier body image. If not completely satisfied with their appear-

ance, they will make an effort – in a positive and healthy manner – to make changes deemed necessary. They’re also less likely to buy into the perfect body myth as perpetuated by movies, media and advertising.

Are you ready to shift your self-image? Good. Start by making a self-image inventory. Make a list of your positive qualities.

This can be a challenge but stick with it. Once you’ve made your list, ask a friend or your significant other to make the same list from their perspective. Compare the two lists and note the similarities and differences. Remember, you’re hoping to shift your self-image, so let go of your natural tendency to be overly critical or self-judgmental.

Create a timeline going back through the significant events of your life. At each juncture, make a determination of whether you were happy and satisfied or depressed and disgruntled. This can be insightful. I learned from talking with Doug that his self-image began to deteriorate when his parents’ relationship faltered and dramatically declined when his parents divorced. It slumped further when Doug’s mother had to work two jobs to sustain their meager existence.

Remember that people with a poor self-image often exaggerate the negative.

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What it takes to grow a giant pumpkin A QUALITY SEED, A LITTLE LUCK AND A LOT OF HARD WORK

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COVENTRY, R.I. — Ron Wallace grows pumpkins nearly the size of a Fiat.

From the pumpkin patch in his rural Rhode Island backyard, Wallace has become the rock star of giant pumpkin-growing. He was the first person in the world to break the 2,000-pound, or 1-ton, barrier when he grew a 2,009-pound pumpkin in 2012, and he previously broke the world record in 2006. A friend calls him a “mainstreamer,” someone whose passion for the hobby has spread word to the broader public.

Wallace, a country club manager, has spent 27 years at the hobby, swapping ideas with growers worldwide.

About 30,000 people grow giant fruits and vegetables competitively, and pumpkins are most popular, said Andy Wolf, president of the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth, which he calls “the NFL of pumpkin-growing.”

“All walks of life. Doctors, lawyers, farmers,” Wallace says. “The bond is giant pumpkins.”

It all starts with the seed. Top growers know their pumpkins’ lineage back generations, and the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth keeps records.

Seeds from Wallace’s 2,009-pound pumpkin have sold for more than $1,000 in a charity auction. Wallace has seen counterfeits sold on eBay. Still, many growers freely swap seeds with each other or lobby top growers to use a seed they think is promising.

Like most serious growers, Wallace ties plants’ blossoms closed and hand-pollinates them so he can be sure of the mother (the seed) and the father (the pollinator) and protect them from bees carrying pollen from a neighbour’s squash.

The vines can grow 1 foot or more per day, and pumpkins can put on 45 pounds per day, mostly from water.

The best pumpkins every year follow the weather. If conditions were right in the Ohio Valley, growers there might see a string of huge pumpkins. When there’s a drought, as in California, don’t expect a bumper crop.

Standing in Wallace’s fields, a person feels smaller. Around the edges where he grows flowers and vegetables, his sunflowers have reached 18 feet. A tomato plant produced a 5-pound tomato. Wallace has spent more than two decades painstakingly researching soil science and experimenting. This year, he launched a product based on his growing program, Wallace Organic Wonder. It includes among its ingredients mycorrhizal fungi. He calls it a superfungus that helps deliver water and nutrients.

“For growers who are competitive, it’s year-round. They’re studying, they’re researching, they’re building

COVENTRY, R.I. — Ron Wallace is renowned in the world of giant pumpkin growing as the first man to break the 2,000-pound barrier, after he grew a 2,009-pound pumpkin in 2012. This month, he broke the North American record with a 2,230-pound pumpkin, the largest grown worldwide this year and the second-largest ever grown in the world. The pumpkin will be on display in the New York Botanical Garden through Nov. 1.

Here are some tips from Wallace on how to grow a giant pumpkin: GETTING STARTED Wallace recommends that anyone who’s interested in growing giant pumpkins should check out www. bigpumpkins.com , a website for growers to ask questions and swap ideas. There’s also the 1993 book “How-To-Grow World Class Giant Pumpkins,” by Don Langevin, once considered the bible for pumpkin growers, and how many pumpkin growers today got their start.

IN THE GROUND To get a really big pumpkin, there’s no substitute for hard work.

The plants need to be checked and tended to at least daily. They need fertilizer, lots of water, pruning, and to be checked for disease, rot and other issues. Wallace spends so much time growing and swapping tips with people that this year he developed his own line of products called Wallace’s Organic Wonder.

The product includes, among other things, mycorrhizal fungi, a superfungus that helps get water and nutrients into the plant.

THE WEIGH-OFF “Pumpkins always tell you when it’s time to get weighed,” Wallace says. Often, it’s just that a disease has started to creep in, and it’s time to go for it.

Wallace has developed several strategies to keep his pumpkins’ weight up. He waits to cut the vine until the last possible moment, and cuts it long enough so it can be kept in water. He’ll cover the gourds with damp sheets to prevent evaporation.

ADVANCING SCIENCE Wallace sees practical uses for what he and other growers have learned as the hobby has developed.

He says medical marijuana growers have already approached him because they’re interested in maximizing yields, and that what they have developed has even broader applications.

“I really feel that giant pumpkin growers are shaping how the world grows produce,” Wallace says. “We are doing a lot for farming.”

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A judge takes a look under the pumpkin entry, grown by Ron Wallace, during the giant pumpkin contest weigh-off at the Rochester Fair in Rochester, N.H.,this September. greenhouses, they’re looking at genetics,” Wallace said. “Most competitive giant pumpkin growers aren’t taking summer vacations.”

Wallace, who’s single, works up to 40 hours a week on his hobby, checking for mice and disease and burying vines, keeping pumpkins covered in sheets to protect the skin.

Most growers end up spending hundreds or thousands of dollars per year.

If they’re lucky, they can sell what they grow for a holiday display for $1 a pound, maybe more for a state record, but they say they rarely make money or break even.

One place these pumpkins won’t end up: pumpkin pie. They’re too big to be tasty.

Many growers branch out. Wallace’s friend Joe Jutras, of Scituate, is a 2007 pumpkin world record holder. Now, he’s going for the trifecta: world records for heaviest pumpkin (check), longest long gourd (check) and heaviest squash (still working on it after a squash that was on track to break the record split).

The weigh-off is the moment of truth. Crews check for holes, cracks and rot, which would disqualify the entry, before putting it on the scale.

“You can do anything. You can tinker with professional plant hormones or whatever fertilizer you think’s going to give you an advantage,” Wolf said.

“The only thing you can’t do is somehow doctor the actual fruit.”

Wallace took the biggest pumpkin he grew this season to a weigh-off in Warren on Oct. 10. He won top prize weeks earlier at the Rochester Fair in New Hampshire, with a 1,975-pound gourd. A greenhouse grower in Switzerland holds the world record: 2,323 pounds, grown from a Wallace seed.

Wallace estimates disease cost his Warren pumpkin as much as 150 pounds, and he was wary before the weigh-in.

“I really ratcheted up with water this year,” he said.

The result was a victory: 2,230 pounds, a new North American record.

It’s the second-biggest pumpkin ever grown and the largest grown worldwide this year.

It’s closer than Wallace has ever been to 2,500 pounds, the next pumpkin-growing milestone.

“I do feel I’m on the edge. I know my program is capable,” he says, as he sketches out plans for next year.

“We’re gonna give it a shot.”

A quick guide to grown-up Halloween Free candy, ghosts and goblins, parental sanctioned dress-up — it’s no wonder Halloween rivals Christmas as the best day of the year for children.

But adults are also circling Halloween on their calendars, and not because they’re on trick-or-treat duty. In recent years, Halloween has become the perfect excuse to host parties that test the limits of creativity and flirt with the scandalous.

Promoters across the country now organize Halloween parties that are as big, if not bigger, than New Year’s Eve parties. There is even a website — besthalloweenparties.com — that serves as a sort of one-stop shop for the biggest bashes in North America.

Daniel Fazio, a promoter who heads Vancouver’s Arrival Agency, attributes the popularity of grown-up Halloween parties to a desire to escape our everyday ways of interacting with others.

“I feel like, now more than ever, people need to come together and connect with other people,” Fazio said in a recent email interview.

“We spend so much time online now that we need to find more ways to be with actual humans.”

Fazio has been behind some of the West Coast’s more memorable Halloween parties. The Arrival Agency’s 2014 event was held on a floor of the historic Hotel Vancouver, said to be haunted by the ghost of Jennie Pearl Cox, the so-called “Lady in Red.” The party, which featured magicians, comedians

and live bands, may have been too loud, though, for the ghost to make an appearance.

This year’s Halloween party will be held in another charismatic Vancouver venue, the Fox Cabaret, which has served variously as an East Indian movie house, a repertory cinema, and a pornographic theatre.

As a salute to this less than puritan past, Fazio’s party will feature an elaborate burlesque show, along with a haunted house and the requisite slate of live DJs. Vancouver is also the site of Dooms Night, a massive Halloween dance party that’s been held annually for more than a decade. This year’s venue is the Pacific Coliseum — a 16,000-seat arena that was once home to the Vancouver Canucks. Among those taking charge of the DJ booth this year will be Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, who claimed top spot in a recent survey of 100 leading DJs. Toronto, for its part, claims to host the largest Halloween party in North America. The annual Church Street Halloween Block Party is akin to a giant downtown costume contest where no effort is spared.

“These are costumes that people spend the whole year making themselves,” says Francis Gaudreault, chair of the Church Wellesley Business Improvement Area, which is responsible for putting on the party.

“The costumes make coming to the party worthwhile. The spectacle and festival atmosphere that night are something worth seeing.”

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FUHRER: It takes time and practice They think in extreme generalizations like, “I always make mistakes,” or “I’ll never figure this out.” Practise catching your negative self-talk and work to correct this critical internal voice. Bring awareness to your tendency to exaggerate, and consciously choose to accentuate the positive.

As with anything we hope to master – including a better self-image – it takes time and practice. We must change our thinking before we can expect our circumstances to change.

By working from the inside out, we can build a better and more positive self-image. A healthier and more accurate self-image is possible only when

we learn to love and accept ourselves.

“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own heads. Always [and] all the time,” declared American fantasy author, Patrick James Rothfuss. “That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”

I’m happy to report that Doug has been working on his self-image and as his self-esteem has improved, his depression and anxiety have decreased.

He’s also smiling a lot more often. Perhaps, as Rothfuss asserts, the time has come to build a better story. Why not start today?

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eral blocks are shut to traffic as onlookers marvel at the colourful and outlandish costumes. As the night wears on, the party continues in the area’s many bars and nightclubs.

The Block Party has grown steadily in popularity over the years.

Gaudreault said the neighbourhood has had to close two additional city blocks this year to accommodate increased numbers.

“In the LGBTQ community, where we operate, it’s a great chance to get dressed up, show off your creativity and hang out with friends,” he adds.

“It’s a chance for people to be big kids for a night and enjoy themselves.”

It is Montreal, arguably, that hosts the country’s spiciest Halloween party.

Production company Cirque de Bou-

doir boasts organizing the city’s “kinkiest thematic dress-up events.” Its Halloween party this year will be held in a converted church outfitted with a bar, and will feature DJs, go-go dancers and body painting.

Costumes are mandatory the more leather and latex the better. It’s a dress code that tends toward the scandalous rather than the scary.

The Cirque’s party, granted, is not for everyone. But it is just an extreme example of the enduring appeal that Halloween holds, regardless of the age bracket.

“Halloween is a chance to escape, to get out of daily life,” said Fazio, the Vancouver promoter.

“Dress up and have fun, become someone else for a night!”

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Adele performs during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Adele’s Hello was released Friday, and topped the iTunes singles chart in 85 countries.

The music video broke the Vevo record for most views in a day with 27.7 million.

Producer of Adele’s new single said keeping mum was hard NEW YORK — Getting into the studio and writing a potential hit song for Adele sounds hard enough. Now add keeping mum about the track for a year.

That’s the challenge Greg Kurstin faced after producing and co-writing Hello last year.

“I’m not going to lie it’s not easy to hold that information in for that long.

It’s kind of like I was holding this big secret for so long, but I stuck with it,” the Grammy- and Golden Globe-nominated songwriter-producer, said in an interview with The Associated Press.

“It wasn’t easy. You kind of want to shout it out, run around in the streets yelling to random strangers what you’ve just done,” he added.

Hello was released Friday and it topped the iTunes singles chart in 85 countries.

The music video broke the Vevo record for most views in a day with 27.7 million.

Hello is Adele’s first single since releasing 2011’s earth shattering “21,” her sophomore album that sold more than 11 million units in the United States and won the Grammy Award for album of the year, among other accolades.

“I’m still in shock honestly. …I was just pretty blown away,” Kurstin said of the insta-success of Hello.

Kurstin, who has worked with Pink, Lily Allen, Katy Perry and Taylor Swift, said he and Adele were sup-

posed to work on music for 21 but that it didn’t pan out. On 25, which Adele will release on Nov. 20, he also contributes to the tracks Water Under the Bridge and Million Years Ago. Kurstin said he was putting some pressure on himself before meeting with powerhouse singer since this was her follow-up to 21. But that changed once he set foot in the studio, and they started working on songs last year, including Hello.

“She’s just so wonderful to be around. She is funny and she’s just so down-to-earth. …You can immediately relate to her and connect with her,” Kurstin said of Adele.

“I really felt very comfortable around her because she makes you feel that way. She’s just cool, and then she gets on the microphone and of course blows your mind.”

Kurstin’s writing and production credits include pop smashes like Sia’s Chandelier, Kelly Clarkson’s Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) and Ellie Goulding’s Burn.

He is one-half of the indie duo The Bird and the Bee, who released its fourth album this year.

Kurstin is also working with another Grammy album of the year winner: He produced Beck’s new single, Dreams, and is producing other tracks on the rock singer’s follow-up to 2014’s Morning Phase which won the top Grammy earlier this year.

“I used to play in his band actually,” said Kurstin, who added that is the first time he’s officially writing and producing for Beck.

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On Thursday night the RDC Symphonic Winds will take listeners on a musical tour of the museum, where history comes alive at night.

Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. concert at the RDC Arts Centre are $21.80 ($17.80) from the Black Knight Ticket Centre.

Earlier the same day, RDC students will put on a musical variety show at 1 p.m., also on the RDC Arts Centre’s Mainstage.

These classical and contemporary music student performances offer a great way to spend the lunch hour.

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Just in time for Halloween, on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 30, 31, RDC Motion Picture Arts will present a spine-chilling vampire comedy film called Truckstop Bloodsuckers at the Welikoklad Event Centre.

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CHANHASSEN, Minn. — Prince seems to be shedding his reclusive reputation and becoming a party animal.

In recent weeks the superstar has hosted late-night jam sessions where he serenaded Madonna, celebrated the Minnesota Lynx’s WNBA championship and showcased his latest protege, singer Judith Hill. Hundreds of fans descended on suburban Paisley Park Studios on Saturday night, paying $10 each to hear Prince and his backing band raise the roof until 3 a.m.

“Y’all want to party with me?”

Prince asks the crowd at one point.

So why the new openness? Prince, of course, isn’t talking.

“Why is he so friendly? Why is he open now? He’s inviting strangers into his house. Why? Why? What’s the reason? Let’s ask everyone else besides him,” Prince — wearing a purple tunic and large gold chain — teased from the darkened stage as he blasted through a funky mix that included oldies by Bill Withers and Sly and the Family Stone and his own songs (Alphabet St., Hot Thing).

Since Prince wasn’t giving interviews that night (he rarely does), here’s what fans had to say: “I think he’s been open for a while,” said Gina Meier, 48, of Richfield, seeing her seventh Prince performance at Paisley Park. “He’s done Paisley Park stuff for years. It’s like he’s brought us into his home.”

Meier described Paisley Park as “a safe place” for fans, with no drugs or alcohol allowed (Red Bull, juice, water, ginger ale and Coke were for sale).

Fans browsed through Prince T-shirts at the merchandise booth in the lobby, adorned by a large heartshaped mirror and another mirror with the word Love. An ATM machine was nearby. For $40, fans could take a “mini-tour” of Paisley Park, where Prince’s gold records are on the walls and the purple motorcycle he rode in his 1984 breakout movie, Purple Rain, is on display. In between music sets, a

DJ spun Prince music as well as R&B hits.

“If you don’t leave here feeling fantastic, there’s something wrong with you,” Meier said.

Andy Kiernan, 45, of Minnetonka, who has been at Paisley Park several times, brought a friend to see her first show at the white-walled studio complex bathed in purple lights outside of Minneapolis.

“My impression is it’s every Prince fan’s dream to have the access he allows now,” Kiernan said. “I feel this is him opening up a little bit.”

Longtime Prince fan Mark Anderson, 42, of Eagan brought his 17-yearold son Noah, who was making his second trip to Paisley Park. Anderson said Prince’s music “just got with a groove and it just sucks you in. It’s mesmerizing.”

“Some people think that Purple Rain is his best music,” Anderson said. “I just love what he’s doing now.”

Announced on Twitter, the event was to promote Hill and her new album, Back in Time, co-produced by Prince and released just the day before. Wearing a white fringed top, blue jeans and boots, Hill, a former contestant on NBC’s The Voice and a backup singer to Michael Jackson and Steve Wonder, played keyboards and soulfully sang her songs such as Cry, Cry, Cry and My People to warm applause.

Hill, a 31-year-old California native, had told an interviewer that working with Prince would be her “dream collaboration.” Shortly afterward, she got the call from Prince.

“It’s been incredible,” Hill told The Associated Press in the Paisley Park studio where her album was recorded — old-school analog — on 2-inch tape.

Jam sessions at Paisley Park led to the album, Hill said, citing the studio’s “very free-spirited environment.” She said Prince “wants to share with the world what goes on here.”

“He feels he wants to share with everyone,” Hill said of Prince’s recent open houses.

Back onstage, Prince trades hot licks with 3RDEYEGIRL guitarist Donna Grantis.

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Wicked City falls flat AN ’80S KILLER WIELDS A KNIFE - BUT HE’LL GAG YOU WITH A SPOON COMMENT

BY HANK STUEVER SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE ABC’s abysmal crime series Wicked City is the last thing Los Angeles needs —more self-reflective nostalgia for its favorite criminal eras, when men were men and dames were dames and you could leave the beheaded bodies of said dames in creative places meant to taunt hard-nosed police detectives who had no access to a DNA database or copious security-cam footage.

Wicked City is also the last thing a TV viewer needs right now - it’s violent in a dumb, done-before, tediously psychosexual way. Presumptuously conceived by its producers as an anthology series in which each season will take place in a different murderous decade, Wicked City begins with the fictional tale of a slimy-yet-suave serial killer, Kent Grainger (Gossip Girl’s Ed Westwick — remember him?), who prowls the Sunset Strip rock clubs in search of victims.

It’s the late summer of 1982 (like, omigod), which is significant, I guess, as a moment between the new-wavy MTV explosion and the emergence of hard-rocking hair bands.

In an opening scene that at least features carefully chosen period details, Kent visits the Whiskey-a-Go-Go, where the band Mickey Ratt (later known simply as Ratt) is playing a set.

It isn’t long before Kent zeroes in

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Ed Westwick stars in ABC’s dreadful new series “Wicked City.” on his latest victim (she’s very Flashdance), but before they leave, he uses this thing called a pay phone to make a dedication request to a local rock station (Feels Like the First Time by Foreigner). He drives her to an empty parking lot; once the song plays (and while she’s performing oral sex on him) he stabs her to death. If campiness was meant to underscore all this (a la Ryan Murphy, perhaps?), it fails

to convey.

Jeremy Sisto (Six Feet Under, Suburgatory) looks fairly miserable as Detective Jack Roth, who relies on his years of expertise to search for clues in the latest killing, while his annoyingly ambitious younger partner, Paco Contreras (Gabriel Luna), keeps encouraging the use of the department’s newfangled desktop computer to hunt for suspects.

By episode’s end (ABC only sent the pilot —and that’ll do), Roth and Contreras have enlisted the help of a freelance rock journalist (American Horror Story’s Taissa Farmiga as Karen McClaren — stop starin’), asking her to act as bait for the killer.

But Kent has already settled on a new victim, or so he thinks. It’s none other than Parenthood’s Erika Christensen as Betty Beaumontaine (oof, these character names - just stop), a divorced mom and secretly sadistic hospital nurse who is looking for a nice guy.

When Kent figures out that Betty likes being tied up and threatened with a butcher knife — and that she’s been intentionally inflicting pain on the patients in her care — he sees an opportunity to collaborate. Now they can enjoy serial-killing together, with Betty acting as the Bonnie to Kent’s Clyde.

With one tired premise after another, stands in sad contrast to NBC’s rather enjoyable summer series Aquarius, which also delved into L.A.’s seedy yesteryears (the late ’60s, the Sunset Strip, the Manson family) and came away with a better written and better realized TV show.

It’s not that hard.

Style and editing can mask a lot of mediocrity in prime-time dramas these days - which is why Wicked City can be rather slick-looking at times - but it doesn’t take long to sniff out the fact that something’s dead in here. It’s the show.

Royals, cast give sparkle to premiere of Spectre LONDON GETS FIRST TASTE OF NEW 007 FLICK

Ethan Hawke special guest at native water ceremony in Nova Scotia

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS ANTIGONISH, N.S. — Four-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke has added his star power to efforts by environmentalists and a Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq community who are trying to muster support for a moratorium on oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Hawke was the special guest of the Mi’kmaq community’s annual water ceremony held Monday in Pomquet Harbour near Antigonish.

Hawke, who owns land in nearby St. George’s Bay, was asked to attend the event in support of his neighbours.

The actor said he wanted to stand up for “an absolutely magical place” where he has lived for parts of the summer for the past 15 years.

“I’m sure some people are wondering what I’m doing here,” said Hawke.

“I’m largely here as your neighbour and your friend and a friend to this area.”

Hawke said the native community members have proven to be trustworthy stewards of the land and it was an honour to take part in their event.

The ceremony involved prayers and offerings by Mi’kmaq elders as the sound of traditional drums and the smell of burning sweetgrass filled the air.

Held each season, it honours the Mi’kmaq people’s relationship with the water, the fish, the land, and their resources.

Hawke said he’s glad his celebrity drew media to cover the event. But he also downplayed his participation.

“I know the real difference will be made in other rooms,” he said.

“It’s just an opportunity to talk about it . . I was invited to be a part of this so I take it seriously.”

The Mi’kmaq and environmental groups want a 12-year moratorium on any potential drilling in the gulf.

They say it will take that long to complete a proper and comprehensive environmental assessment of a biodiverse area of the ocean.

“While Canada’s thinking about drilling out there … we are telling them that they can’t do it without talking to the Mi’kmaq,” said Troy Jerome, executive director of the Mi’gmawei Mawiomi Secretariat.

Jerome said with a new Liberal government about to take power in Ottawa Canadians need to ask their MPs what they are doing about the gulf.

“Ethan Hawke is here doing something about the gulf, what are you (MPs) doing about the gulf?” he said.

Jerome told a news conference that Atlantic petroleum boards are operating at pace where Nova Scotians don’t feel they have a say about oil drilling.

The Gulf of St. Lawrence is one of the largest marine breeding regions in Canada with more than 2,000 marine species.

The area is home to endangered whales and is also home to a lucrative lobster fishery.

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The new James Bond flick Spectre got a royal seal of approval at its world premiere Monday night.

Fans who lined the red carpet not only got to see Daniel Craig — resplendent in a dark tuxedo and earthy smile — and glamorous co-stars Lea Seydoux and Monica Bellucci, but could also catch a glimpse of Prince William, his wife Kate, and Prince Harry, still sporting a beard.

All eyes were on Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, who was among the last to arrive at the Royal Albert Hall before the film rolled.

She chose a light blue Jenny Packham dress for the event.

The two princes wore tuxedos, which have been something of a Bond trademark since the days when Sean Connery played 007 for the first time in Dr. No in 1962.

The royals, who arrived in a Bentley, were greeted by director Sam Mendes and co-producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson.

Craig, accompanied by his film star wife Rachel Weisz, patiently posed for dozens of selfies with adoring fans.

He told reporters he had “loved

every minute” he’s spent as Bond and declined to answer questions about whether he would return for a fifth turn as the sexy, world-saving British agent.

Seydoux wore a shimmering gold backless gown for the night that marked her emergence as the latest in a long line of romantic interests for the suave British agent. Bellucci, also a love interest in the film, wore a dark gown with a plunging neckline.

Naomie Harris, reprising her role as loyal Miss Moneypenny, wore a low-cut full length orange dress to the premiere.

They were joined by Christoph Waltz, the Academy Award winner recruited to play villain Franz Oberhauser, who challenges Bond in a series of exotic locales, and Ben Whishaw, who has an expanded role as the gadget master Q. British critics have praised the film and Craig’s performance.

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Actor Ethan Hawke, right, an area property owner, talks with Robert Pictou, a Mi’kmaq elder, as he attends their community’s water ceremony on the shores of Pomquet Harbour to support the aboriginal call for a moratorium on oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, near Antigonish, N.S. on Monday.

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WILLIAMS Janice Joan 1954 - 2015 It is with great sadness that the family of Janice Joan Williams announce her passing on Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at the age of 61 years. Janice was born on January 21, 1954 in Lashburn, Saskatchewan to Bud and Kay. She then moved to Red Deer in 1988 to pursue her visual arts degree, which she finished in 1990. Some of Janice’s favorite pastimes were skydiving, martial arts, scuba diving, belly dancing, photography and gardening.

She also had many artistic pursuits such as Alberta Art Council, teaching art classes at Red Deer College and attending the Artwalk. Janice will be lovingly remembered by her sons; Derek (Jennifer) McEwen and Shayne (Ashley) McEwen, both of Red Deer, five granddaughters; Celeste, Kali, Sienna, Jaeda and Danika, brother Ted (Judy) Williams of Devon, Alberta, three sisters; Faye Burns of Kelowna, British Columbia, Lynn (Greg) Ballan of Maidstone, Saskatchewan and Lori (Bill) Cutsforth of Maidstone, Saskatchewan, as well as four nieces, five nephews and many loved great nieces and nephews and cousins. She was predeceased by her son Damien McEwen in 2009, mother Kathleen Williams in 2008, father Bud Williams in 2012 and nephew Matthew Williams in 1981. A Memorial Service for Janice will be held at Living Stones Church, 2020 - 40th Avenue, Red Deer, on Friday, October 30, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. with Pastor Paul Vallee officiating.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of Rhian Solecki, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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SMITH 1956 - 2015 Brian Edward Smith of Red Deer, passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Thursday, October 22, 2015 at the age of 59 years. Brian is survived by his loving wife Kerria; mother Lillian Smith; brother Trevor (Peggy) Smith and additional family members and friends.

A Memorial Service in Remembrance of Brian’s life will be held at the Salvation Army Church, 4837 - 54 Ave., Red Deer on Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, 17312 - 107 Ave. Edmonton AB T5S 1E9, The Kidney Foundation, 202, 11227 Jasper Ave. Edmonton AB T5K 0L5 or to the Salvation Army, 4837 - 54 Ave, Red Deer, AB T4N 2G5.

Condolences to Brian’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca.

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FEEDLOT in Central Alberta seeking F/T employee for feed truck operator and machinery maintenance. Send resume to fax: 403-638-3908 or e-mail to: dthengs@hotmail.com FULL-TIME position on a mixed farm operation.

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JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening both full and part time.

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F/T DISPATCHER REQ’D. 10 size, cranberry pea Knowledge of Red Deer coat, $50. 403-227-2976 and area is essential.

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NURSES’ uniforms, pants & tops. med. to large size. $5 each. (approx. 25) good shape.

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TWO king size pillows, $25 for both. SOLD WATER cooler $50.

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5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 505-4777 GARAGE Doors Serviced 50% off. 403-358-1614

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BODY vibe brand new, $150; EZ cycle bike $50, never used 403-309-6653 TRAVELING GOLF BAG, black. $45. 403-885-5020

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GREENHOUSE Laborers TRAILERS for sale or rent are required for our Job site, office, well site or greenhouse operation storage. Skidded or located near Blackfalds, wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Alberta. Responsibilities include transplanting, watering, handling and Firewood caring for plant material and preparation of customer orders. This AFFORDABLE position is labor intensive Homestead Firewood and entails working in both Spruce, Pine, Aspen - Split. hot and cold environments. Avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 Laborers are required to B.C. Birch, Aspen, work a minimum of 40 hours per week. Laborers Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 must be available to work different shifts, 7 days a FIREWOOD, North of week. Positions are Costco. 403-346-7178 available starting mid January and last until late FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver June. No previous work 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 experience or qualifications are required. Starting wage is $11.20 an hour.

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ELSE SOULIER SCOTT ROWAN The sale will be on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2015 via an online auction thru iBid4Storage.com, http://www.ibid4storage.com.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BELGRADE, Serbia — With freezing weather setting in, tens of thousands of migrants surging across Europe could face even more hurdles after European Union leaders pledged to stem their flow by introducing tighter border controls.

EU leaders committed at a weekend summit to helping the Balkans handle the flow of people making their way through the region en route to more prosperous countries. But with record numbers arriving from the Middle East, Asia and Africa, the moves will likely make their journeys more difficult.

On Monday, thousands of people, including many women, children and elderly, waited in long lines at the Croatian and Slovenia borders as the flow of humanity continued unabated.

“It is not difficult for me, but for people with families and children, it is so hard,” said a 19-year-old Afghan, Habibi Loh. Humanitarian officials warned of plummeting winter temperatures.

“In the short term, the situation is manageable,” said Antonija Zaniuk of the Slovenian Red Cross. “We have a lot of winter clothing, blankets. We are distributing cups of tea, food. But, in the long term, who knows.”

In a statement seeking to paper over deep divisions about how to handle the crisis, the EU and Balkan leaders meeting in Brussels committed to bolster the borders of Greece as it struggles to cope with the wave of refugees who cross over through Turkey. They also pledged to boost the capacities of reception centres in Greece and along the Balkans route to shelter 100,000 more people as winter looms and additional EU border watchdog agency officials are deployed to monitor the flow.

“This is a step in the right direction and now it is crucial to respect the commitments,” said Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar, whose tiny Alpine nation has been overwhelmed since Hungary put up a fence on the border with Serbia and Croatia, diverting the flow to Slovenia.

Slovenia has hinted that it will build a fence on the bor-

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TRACEY R. FRANCE, MICHAEL CAMPELL, JASON H. MARSH

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The goods may be viewed commencing on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2015. All bids are for the entire contents of the storage unit.

Winning bidder will be contacted via iBid4Storage.com for payment arrangement.

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A child walks down a path in a field close to Serbia’s border with Croatia, in Berkasovo, Serbia, Sunday. Thousands of migrants and refugees are still crossing from Serbia into Croatia and continuing their journey towards Western Europe. der with Croatia if the migrant surge becomes too difficult to handle.

“OK, place a fence, but if you are not ready to shoot at the people, it will not stop anyone,” Croatian Interior Minister Ranko Ostojic said amid a spat between the two neighbours over how to handle the crisis.

Croatian police said that as of early Monday, more than 13,000 migrants had arrived from Serbia over the previous 24 hours, while Slovenian police reported nearly 10,000 arrivals from Croatia in the same period. Further west, in Austria, some 3,500 people had to sleep outside in the cold fall weather, while Germany said it had seen 15,000 arrivals over the weekend.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic warned that addressing the crisis will take time.

“We will all be able to achieve some results in the coming weeks and months,” he said. “But, it is clear that this crisis cannot be solved in a few weeks or months, but will improve step by step.”

Sunday’s meeting was called in response to a string of chaotic actions taken by countries along the route. With no real

ability to control Greece’s porous island border or stop people leaving Turkey for sanctuary or jobs in Europe, the EU wants to restore some order and apply the brakes on those passing through.

Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said resolving the crisis mostly depends on Turkey, where most of the refugees enter Europe, and on Germany, the desired destination of the vast majority of Syrians and others seeking protection in Europe.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday she remained confident Germany can integrate the large number of refugees who are arriving, and noted that many won’t stay forever.

“There are very, very many, but there are 80 million of us,” the German leader said at a town hall meeting in Nuremberg. “We can and we will manage this integration.”

Merkel said most Syrians will get residency for three years but many likely will want to help rebuild Syria when the war ends. She said the Geneva Convention on refugees obliges Germany to protect people, “but we don’t have the task of keeping everyone here for life.”

At least 120,000 displaced in past month by fighting in Syria

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — At least 120,000 people have been displaced in Syria this month because of fighting, according to U.N. humanitarian officials.

The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said the people fled their homes in the Aleppo, Hama and Idlib governorates between Oct. 5 and Oct. 22.

U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Monday that most remain in the three governorates but some have fled to camps near the Turkish border.

He said most people in Aleppo moved toward villages and towns in the countryside west of the city.

Dujarric said the displaced Syrians need tents, basic household items, food, water and sanitation services.

He said the U.N.’s humanitarian partners are scaling up their response, and distribution of cooked and ready-to-eat food has started to those displaced in the three governorates but needs to be stepped up.

The U.N. report largely matches up with a similar report Monday by the Norwegian Refugee Council, which estimated that 100,000 Syrians have been displaced in the last three weeks by the recent surge in

fighting following the start of an airstrike campaign by the Russian military.

The council said that this new exodus is pressuring already overcrowded and overstretched camps in the country.

In a statement, the group said that the new wave of displacement is mostly from the province of Aleppo, where Syrian government and allied troops, emboldened by Russian airstrikes, began a ground offensive on Oct. 16. The militant Islamic State group has also seized new territories in Aleppo, pushing out rival rebels and fighting with government troops.

Others were displaced by the airstrikes and fighting in Hama and Homs.

“This is a cry for help,” said Karl Schembri, the Refugee Council’s media adviser. He said the newly displaced are heading toward already crowded facilities along the border with Turkey.

“There are already people moving day-to-day to find places” to lay their tents, while rainy season has begun, he said.

Last week, a U.N. official in Geneva said that around 35,000 people are reported to have been displaced from just two villages on the southwestern outskirts of Aleppo city.

The civil war, in its fifth

year, has killed more than 250,000 people and displaced half of Syria’s prewar population of 23 million.

Russia began conducting airstrikes in Syria on Sept.30, saying it aims to help the government defeat the IS group and other “terrorists.” But many of the strikes have targeted Syrian rebels in areas where the extremist group is not present and have hit civilians.

The Syrian National Coalition, the main Western-backed opposition group, said Monday that indiscriminate Russian aerial attacks are now the leading killer of civilians.

Najib Ghadbian, the coalition’s U.N. representative, said Russia’s intervention in Syria is facilitating President Bashar Assad’s “war on civilians” and elimination of moderate opposition forces — contrary to Moscow’s claim that its campaign is aimed at countering terrorist extremist groups.

Ghadbian said in a letter to the U.N. Security Council that Russia has carried out more than 297 airstrikes since initiating its campaign on Sept. 30.

According to data from Syrian Civil Defence rescue workers, he said, more than 436 civilians have been killed since then and “more than half of these civilian deaths are directly attributable to Russian airstrikes.”

Saudi Arabia: Suicide bomber strikes mosque in southern city of Najran, killing one

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a mosque in southern Saudi Arabia on Monday, killing one person and wounding several others, according to the Saudi Interior Ministry.

The blast went off shortly after nightfall in the city of Najran, near the country’s southern border with Yemen.

It was the latest in a series of bombings that have targeted

mosques in the oil-rich kingdom in recent months.

Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Turki said the bomber detonated his device as worshippers were leaving sunset prayers.

He said several wounded victims were being treated in nearby hospitals, and that authorities have launched an investigation.

Najran is the capital of a border region of the same name that is home to a large concentration of the Sunni-ruled kingdom’s Ismaili Shiite minority.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast.

Suspicion is likely to fall on the Islamic State militant group. It considers Shiites to be heretics and seeks to weaken the ruling Al-Saud family’s legitimacy and custodianship of Islam’s holiest sites in Mecca and Medina The group’s two Saudi affiliates have claimed three significant bombings, targeting mosques in Saudi Arabia and another in neighbouring Kuwait since May.

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South Asia hit hard by earthquake MORE THAN 260 DEAD AS EARTHQUAKE STRIKES REMOTE AREAS OF AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL — A massive earthquake struck remote and impoverished regions of northern Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 263 people as it shook buildings across South Asia and knocked out power and communications to already-isolated areas.

The 7.5-magnitude quake was centred deep beneath the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan’s sparsely populated Badakhshan province, which borders Pakistan, Tajikistan and China, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

In the Afghan capital of Kabul, buildings shook for up to 45 seconds, walls cracked and cars rolled in the streets as electricity went out. Frightened workers who had just returned from lunch also rushed from swaying buildings in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad and to the south in the Indian capital of New Delhi.

“I was praying when the massive earthquake rattled my home. I came out in a panic,” said Munir Anwar of Liaquat Pur in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province.

At least 228 people were killed in Pakistan, with more than 1,000 injured, while Afghan officials reported 33 dead and more than 200 injured, and authorities in the Indian-controlled Kashmir region reported two deaths.

Officials expected the casualty toll to rise as they reached the remote areas.

Authorities struggled to reach the hardest-hit areas in Afghanistan near the epicenter, located 73 kilometres south of Fayzabad, the capital of Badakhshan province.

Abdul Humayoon Dehqan, the head of the National Disaster Management Authority’s provincial office, said he knew of only 12 dead and 20 injured in the province, mostly in collapsed buildings, and that his teams would not reach affected areas until Tuesday morning to get a better count.

Despite vast mineral deposits, Badakhshan is one of Afghanistan’s poorest provinces. It is often hit by earthquakes, but casualty figures are usually low because it is so sparsely populated, with fewer than 1 million people spread across its vast mountains and valleys. It also suffers from floods, snowstorms and mudslides.

Taliban-led insurgents have used its remote valleys as cover recently to seize districts as they spread their footprint across the country. Dehqan said some districts remain under Taliban control “and we don’t know how we will be able to help people in those areas.”

In Takhar province, west of Badakhshan, 12 students at a girls’ school were killed in a stampede as they fled shaking buildings, said Sonatullah Tai-

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People stand near a car damaged from an earthquake in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday. A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake in northern Afghanistan rocked cities across South Asia. Strong tremors were felt in Kabul, New Delhi and Islamabad on Monday. In the Pakistani capital, walls swayed back and forth and people poured out of office buildings in a panic, reciting verses from the Quran. mor, the spokesman for the provincial governor. Another 42 girls were taken to a hospital in the provincial capital of Taluqan.

Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah convened an emergency meeting of disaster officials and urged them to ensure that people were prepared for aftershocks. That could mean many hundreds would be forced to sleep outdoors in nighttime temperatures dropping below freezing. He instructed doctors and hospitals to be prepared to receive casualties.

President Ashraf Ghani sent condolences to those who lost relatives and property and appointed an “assessment committee” to ensure emergency relief reached the needy as soon as possible, his office said.

The U.S. said it has emergency shelters and relief supply kits stored in warehouses throughout Afghanistan that could be used.

White House spokesman Josh earnest says the U.S. government has

been in touch with officials in Afghanistan and Pakistan and is ready to provide any additional support.

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who was completing a trip to the U.S., said in a televised comment from London that he planned to fly to the quake-affected region Tuesday.

He called the quake a “tragedy,” saying most of the casualties and damage were reported in remote areas in the country’s northwest.

Pakistan’s army chief, Gen. Raheel Sharif, ordered troops to the areas, the military said.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had contacted Sharif to offer help, Pakistani state-run media said.

Pakistani TV said Sharif thanked Modi for the offer but provided no further details.

Pakistan will not issue any appeals to the international community for help as the country has the required resources to carry out the rescue and relief work, said Information Minister

Haiti faces long wait for results after landmark elections

Pervez Rashid.

“We have enough resources to handle the situation. Our top priority is to help those affected because of the earthquake,” Rashid told a news conference.

Pakistani meteorological department official Zahid Rafiq said the quake was felt across the country. As buildings in Islamabad shook, panicked residents poured into the streets, and many recited verses from the Qur’an.

Many Pakistanis recall the 7.6-magnitude earthquake of Oct. 8, 2005, that killed more than 80,000 people and left more than 3 million homeless, most in the northwest of the country and in the divided region of Kashmir.

That quake was much shallower than Monday’s — 10 kilometres below the surface, compared with 213 kilometres — and caused greater damage, said Mohammad Hanif, an official at the Meteorological Department.

In Srinagar, the main city in the

Rebels ambush group of Colombian election workers

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti’s voters have spoken. But nobody’s quite sure what they’ve said.

Even tentative results of Sunday’s presidential election likely won’t be known for at least 10 days, despite the fact that the election, which involved 54 presidential candidates and tens of thousands of contenders for other races, went unusually smoothly.

Few places in the world take longer to give citizens any hint of who won an election.

One reason is that it’s against the law for results to be released by anyone other than the Provisional Electoral Council, whose members are replaced every election cycle.

“A lot of the learning that is accrued every time they go through an election process seems to be lost,” said Kenneth Merten, Haiti special co-ordinator for the U.S. State Department and a former U.S. ambassador to the country.

Haitian and international observers said Sunday’s vote was largely free of the violence and disorder that has plagued previous elections, including the first round of legislative elections in early August.

Haiti appears to be “moving in the right direction,” said Celso Amorim, chief of the Organization of American States’ 125-member observer mission.

But watchdog groups said they are trying to keep a close eye on transportation and count of ballots.

Under guard by Haitian police and U.N. peacekeepers, Sunday’s ballots and polling-place counts were being trucked from the countryside across often-dilapidated roads to a ware-

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A member of the European Union Election Observation Mission observes electoral workers counting ballots at a tabulation center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday. Final results are not expected until late November, according to the country’s Provisional Electoral Council. house tabulation centre in the capital of Port-au-Prince on Monday.

“Fraud can occur especially during the transportation and certification of ballots,” said Abdonel Doudou, a member of the umbrella group Citizen Observatory for Institutionalizing Democracy, which deployed 1,830 observers across the country on election day.

Amorim said OAS observers will be present 24 hours a day at the warehouse tabulation centre until the results of the first round of presidential elections are released. He dismissed concerns about reactions to the likely announcement of the two presidential candidates for the runoff, assuming no single candidate ends up dominating

the vote.

“Democracy is like that,” he said.

“Not everyone will be happy.”

The Observatory estimated turnout at perhaps 29 or 32 per cent, an improvement from the 18 per cent turnout in August’s parliamentary elections. Years of broken promises by governments that have failed to provide basic services have fed significant voter apathy in Haiti.

Dumel Richardson, spokesman for Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council, said preliminary results could be issued in 10 days. Final results are not expected until late November, at least, due to political factions contesting tallies.

BOGOTA — Leftist rebels on Monday ambushed election workers transporting ballots cast at an indigenous reservation in Colombia’s Andean highlands, killing 12 security forces members who were protecting the group.

Authorities attributed the attack to the National Liberation Army, or ELN, Colombia’s second-biggest rebel group. The poll workers were transporting to the capital for counting about 130 ballots cast at the remote U’wa reservation during Sunday’s elections for governors, mayors and other local officials.

Of those killed early Monday, 11 belonged to the army while the other was a police officer. Three more soldiers were wounded and six people remain missing, including two poll workers and an indigenous guide, Defence Minister Luis Carlos Villegas said.

“They were safeguarding the political liberty of our U’wa brothers,” Villegas said in a press conference, adding that the military’s top command had travelled to the area to oversee efforts to locate those still missing as well as the attackers.

President Juan Manuel Santos expressed his condolences, saying the attack marred what had otherwise been the safest elections Colombia has held in decades, with a 60 per cent reduction in violence compared with the previous vote in 2011.

He also chastised the ELN, which has been holding exploratory peace talks with government for more than a year and were widely expected to soon join the more powerful Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in initiating formal negotiations aimed at ending a half century of bloodshed.

Police arrest suspects in killing of Italian aid worker in Bangladesh’s capital

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DHAKA, Bangladesh — Police in Bangladesh have arrested four suspects in the killing of an Italian aid worker last month, and said Monday that the alleged gunmen had confessed to being hired to attack “a white man” in order to destabilize the impoverished South Asian nation.

Cesare Tavella was gunned down by motorcycle-riding assailants Sept. 28 while jogging in the diplomatic quar-

ter of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital.

Five days later, a Japanese citizen was killed in a similar attack in northern Bangladesh.

The killings spooked the country’s expatriate community and threatened its fragile economy, which is heavily reliant on foreign aid and a $25 billion garment industry supplying clothing for international brands.

Responsibility for the attack on Tavella was quickly claimed by the Islamic State group, but Bangladesh’s government rejected the claim and

said there was no evidence that the extremist Sunni militant group had any presence in the country.

It also rejected Islamic State claims for killing the Japanese man, and for the bombing of a Shiite procession over the weekend that left a teenage boy dead and more than 100 people injured.

Bangladesh has instead accused domestic Islamist militants along with Islamist political parties — specifically the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its main ally, Jamaat-e-Isla-

mi — of orchestrating the violence to destabilize the already fractious nation.

On Monday, Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia said the latest arrests supported that theory.

The suspects, including known professional killers identified from closed-circuit television footage from the attack site, allegedly told investigators they’d been hired by “a big brother” to kill Tavella in order to “create chaos” in the country, Mia said.

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Suji ki halwa

From the basic, many variations of the halwa have been created, like this mango halwa.

This halwa is ideal to serve the unannounced guests; it takes only three simple steps to prepare: the semolina is first roasted in a frying pan in some clarMADHU ified butBADONI ter (ghee) FOOD until the white semolina turns to a golden colour. After the sugar and water is added, the semolina is cooked until the soupy consistency converts to a thicker solid fluffy texture.

Suji ki halwa or semolina “pudding” is the quintessential comfort food for many East Indians.

Having my mom live close to me has endless advantages.

One of the greatest, is having her sneak into my house while I’m at work to leave me some of my favourite dishes. Even though I have the recipes, I have to admit, they are never the same as when she makes them.

My latest surprise waiting for me from her was her “suji ka halwa.”

This may sound very dramatic, but internally, seeing the container, I was doing the happy dance.

It’s very much like cream of wheat but much more richer as it is made with clarified butter and with dried fruits and nuts.

Its consistency some describe as a “pudding” but the texture is much coarser while it looks light, fluffy and moist. This halwa is served during so many occasions in India that it could be perceived as people are just looking for an excuse to make this sweet treat.

It is eaten with chickpeas and puries (fried bread) for breakfast, or served during afternoon tea.

This halwa is usually prepared during Indian festivals like Diwali, janmashtami, and holi. It is made for religious gatherings or poojas because traditionalists believe that a prayer is incomplete without offering halwa to the deities.

After the prayer, the sweet treat is distributed to all participating as a blessing. Whenever my family moved to new house, the first thing my mom made to inaugurate the stove was suji ka halwa, which was then offered to gods hoping in return for good fortune. It was also made to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries or a celebration of a good report card from school.

For my husband, during the monsoon season, warm halva was always served. Even now, when it rains, he has a strong craving for the sweet dish. This halwa is ideal to serve the unannounced guests; the basic recipe requires only three ingredients, ghee, sugar and semolina, all of which are staple in the East indian pantry and it takes only three simples steps to prepare: Step one of the recipe is the most aromatic and it just fills the house with inviting and comforting smells. The semolina is roasted in a frying pan in some clarified butter (ghee) until the white semolina turns to a golden colour.

For the second step, the semolina is taken off the heat and sugar is mixed in. In the final steps, semolina mixture is then placed back on the heat and water is added.

The mixtures is cooked until the soupy consistency converts to a thicker solid fluffy texture.

In some regions of India, semolina is often replaced with whole wheat flour — atte ka halwa (atta/atte is the Hindi word for whole wheat flour).

Personally, I prefer the semolina one, probably because that was what I grew up with.

The whole wheat flour halwa is almost always served in Gurudwaras (the Sikhs temple) as prasad (god’s offerings), to the attendees after the service. Depending on personal tastes, add-ins like raisins, cashews, pistachio, almonds and dry coconut are incorporated into the halwa. Many cooks also include fruits like banana, pineapple and mango into the cooking process to create different flavours.

Below is the traditional recipe for suji ka halwa and one with my favourite fruit incorporated.

Madhu Badoni is a Red Deerbased freelance food writer. She can be reached at madhubadoni@gmail.com or on Twitter @madhubadoni. Watch for Madhu’s Masala-Mix blog on www.reddeeradvocate.com.

Basic Suji (Semolina) halwa You can replace the semolina with whole wheat flour 1/2 cup finely ground semolina, (Asian aisle at Superstore) 1/2 cup sugar 2 tablespoon ghee(Asian aisle at Superstore) 1/4 tsp cardamom powder 1 1/4 cup water orange food colouring, optional raisins toasted slivered almonds, for garnish Heat a wide pan on medium heat and add two tablespoons of ghee. Add in the semolina and roast until the semolina turns lightly brown, about 7-10 . Remove the pan from the heat and add in the sugar and mix until combined. Next, stream in the water and add colour if using and return to the heat (increase the heat to medium-high) and keep stirring until the semolina thickens, about 5 minutes. When it has thickened reduce the heat to low. Add in cardamom powder, raisins and almonds. The consistency should be that of a thick porridge or oatmeal. Garnish with the raisins, and almonds. It is best if it served warm.

Mango halwa 1 cup Semolina 1.5 cup Mango Pulp (Asian aisle at Superstore) 1/2 cup Ghee 1 cup Sugar 2.5 cups water 1/2 teaspoon Cardamom Powder 1 tablespoon pistachio, cashews or almonds, roasted Salt - a pinch Orange food colour, - a pinch (optional) Heat one tablespoon of ghee in a frying pan and roast the semolina till it turns lightly brown. Remove from heat and add the sugar. Slowly add the water, the mango pulp and the colour. Cover and let it cook for about 5 minutes. Add the ghee little by little and continue to mix till the whole things forms a shiny mass and does not stick to the pan. Add the cardamom powder and roasted cashews and remove from heat. Best served hot.

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Third party may be needed for strained relationship Dear Annie: My father has a bunch of serious medical problems. We’ve never been close. Dad was a heavy drinker and always yelled at me. He was extremely rude, critical, sarcastic and angry all the time, for no reason.

Once, he threw me out of a slow-moving car. I’ve attempted suicide three times, and Dad refused to visit me in the hospital. I’m still angry about this.

I suspect he could pass away soon, and I would like to have some meaningful dialogues before that happens.

I also have a terrible secret I’d like to tell him before he dies.

Since his health problems started, Dad has changed for the better, but we still rarely talk to each other. How do I begin to tell him my secret? — Scared Son in Florida Dear Scared Son: Since you and Dad have such a hard time communicating, it might help to bring in a third party to facilitate the initial conversation — perhaps an understanding relative, mutual friend or clergyper-

son. You can always start by telling him you care about him and worry about his health. However, we have to wonder why you are so desperate to tell him a “terrible secret.” It doesn’t sound as if you seek his counsel MITCHELL on the matter, & SUGAR only that you ANNIE’S MAILBOX are trying to unburden yourself at his expense.

Examine your motives. If telling Dad will bring him some peace of mind and make your relationship better, go ahead. Otherwise, please discuss your secret with someone who can be of assistance or support.

Dear Annie: I am a 17-year-old ju-

nior in high school and get invited to various parties. One girl, “Sarah,” likes to show R-rated movies.

Annie, I am extremely uncomfortable with the content of these movies, but Sarah says she’s doing me a favor by making me watch them. The synopses of some of these films make me physically ill. I now avoid Sarah’s parties (and sometimes Sarah) so I won’t be pressured. I refuse to lower my standards, but I am tired of Sarah jumping down my throat about it. How do I get her to respect my choices? — Need Suggestions Dear Need: Every crowd has one person who enjoys tormenting those who are easily flustered. Just because you are old enough to watch R-rated films doesn’t mean you have to. Instead of becoming upset with Sarah’s shenanigans, try being completely bored. Sigh and say, “Thanks for your interest in my education.” Smile. Walk away. She’ll tire of it eventually.

Dear Annie: I read “L.K.’s” response

to “Baby Mama,” who wants to get pregnant. L.K. said having a baby at age 19 limits any further education.

I was 19 when I became pregnant with my first child. However, I went on to finish college and now have a BA in education and a teaching career. I agree that it is irresponsible to want a baby just because her friends have one. And it’s true that finishing school was a struggle. However, if she works hard, she can still have a good education and a career. — Managed It Dear Managed: Those who truly want an education can achieve that goal. But we worry that young women like “Baby Mama” don’t see any further into their future than nine months.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

Study says fewer teens texting while driving REASONS INCLUDE DANGERS AND FINES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — A new study suggests teenagers are texting less while driving, in large part because they think it’s dangerous and irresponsible.

The study’s lead author, Sean Tucker, an associate professor at the University of Regina, says the number of teens who said they sometimes or almost always texted while driving fell to six per cent in 2014 from 27 per cent in 2012.

The findings are based on surveys of 6,133 teens in 2012 and 4,450 teens in 2014, mostly in Ontario.

Tucker and co-author Simon Pek from Simon Fraser University also

asked the teens why they stopped texting and driving.

“The top reason for a significant decrease in texting while driving was the perceived danger and irresponsibility of the activity and 27 per cent of the people said that,” said Tucker.

The teens also cited laws and fines against texting while driving and seeing close calls or accidents by other drivers.

Texting while driving usually falls under the law for distracted driving.

Ontario implemented stiffer fines for distracted driving in September.

The new penalties include an increased set fine of $490 and three demerit points upon conviction. As well, drivers without a full licence will re-

HOROSCOPES Tuesday, Oct. 27 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: John Cleese, 75; Simon Le Bon, 56; Roberto Benigni, 62 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: It’s Full Moon so expect plenty of passion and intensity today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: 2016 is the year to balance being physically active with some creative contemplation.

Plus expand your goals and dreams for the future in adventurous new ways.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): If it seems like crunch time in the financial department, don’t despair — it’s just a new chapter. Before you spend money, make sure you consult with your romantic or financial partner first.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Taurus Full Moon emphasizes your earthy personality, as an idea or project comes to fruition, or a problem comes to a head. Make sure you handle things in a sensible fashion.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Some of your motives are a mystery at the moment, but soon you’ll reveal your true colours. Is a loved one being completely honest with you? Listen to what your inner voice is telling you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Crabs are usually teary on a Full Moon but this one’s in earthy Taurus, so you’ll feel more emotionally grounded. It’s

time to network with friends, as you fraternize with a creative new crowd.

LEO (July 23Aug. 22): Work issues could come to a head as the pressure builds and is then released by someone — hopefully you’re JOANNE MADELINE taking decisive MOORE action. For students or volunSUN SIGNS teers — aim to give 100% today.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’re more experimental than usual, as the Full Moon activates your adventure zone. But unclear communication could lead to misunderstandings with a friend, relative or neighbour.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): How’s your budget and bank balance going? The Full Moon highlights hiccups in your financial management. Aim to be less extravagant, and much more cautious with cash and credit.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Try to keep things in perspective today.

ceive a 30-day suspension for the first conviction for distracted driving.

In Saskatchewan, legislation banning the use of hand-held cellphones while driving became law in 2010. The province toughened the rules last year so that drivers caught breaking the law for the second time within one year will have their vehicles seized for up to seven days.

Distracted driving was the No. 1 factor in all crashes in Saskatchewan in 2012 and 2013, even ahead of impaired driving.

“It became socially unacceptable to engage in drinking and driving, more and more so, and we may be seeing that over time with texting while driving, that it’s increasingly being

shunned, although we still see it all too often,” said Tucker.

The findings are published in the November edition of the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention.

He suggests the findings could be used to target awareness campaigns to young people. Tucker could not say if the findings are indicative of what’s happening across Canada, noting different jurisdictions have different laws for distracted driving.

“I think it’s a tough question when it comes to young people — do laws make a difference for young people — because some of the driving rules are different too, but it does seem to be effective. The enforcement side of it is pretty important,” he said.

Your motto for the moment is from fellow Scorpio, Neil Young “As you go through life, you’ve got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The Full Moon lights up your work zone, so you’re keen to be in charge.

But are you being the boss — or just plain bossy? Utilize your Sagittarian leadership skills in clever and creative ways.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s time to nurture rickety relationships, foster new friendships and connect with the creative Capricorn within.

Don’t believe everything you hear though — check the facts before you respond.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Full Moon heralds a house move, home renovations, guests arriving or domestic dramas. Strive to get the balance right between your professional life and your family responsibilities.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your emotions are stirred up as the Full Moon stimulates your communication zone. Allow yourself plenty of time to prepare for meetings and appointments, so you don’t end up feeling stressed.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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