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Welcome to the Jungle RED DEER FILMMKER WORKING ON PROJECT ABOUT ONE OF EUROPE’S WORST REFUGEE CAMPS

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It’s called the Calais Jungle.

Red Deer filmmaker Justice Brooks twice visited one of the worst refugee camps in Europe to raise awareness of its tense, garbage-strewn conditions.

The illegal camp is made up of thousands of North African migrants who have been fleeing their wartorn homelands to seek a better life in the West — only to get stuck living in temporary shelters as the weather cools and they wait for their refugee applications to be processed.

Brooks, who graduated from Notre Dame High School and SAIT’s film program, is now based in the U.K. He is making a short video to be shown on YouTube about the camp. Its purpose is to “encourage people to do what they can … however small their contribution may be.”

While the migrant situation “has been all over the media in Europe, people still know little to nothing, regarding what they can do to help,” said the 21-yearold formerly known as Justice Letkeman, who usually makes music videos.

Along with members of a U.K. non-profit called Green Light, he was helping clean up the camp last month. “The garbage that was cleared will have been covered up with more garbage within a matter of hours, but to the refugees it made a difference to see that people took the time to come and do whatever they could to help.”

Advocate reporter Lana Michelin spoke to Brooks about the project and his impressions of the camp:

How did you become involved in the film project?

A director of photography I work with asked if I wanted to get involved on the project. I was keen on (it) because the sole purpose is to raise awareness.

The (video) will be roughly three to five minutes so it can be distributed on the web. We worked with Green Light, a charity based in London. They go into the street at night and provide free non-invasive medical care for the homeless. In the camp, the Green Light team was picking up garbage and speaking with refugees. We had a media team capturing what was happening. The main company in charge of producing and showcasing the project is Hillsong Production, owned by Hillsong (Church, of Australia).

Were you able to just drive into the camp?

Technically the camp is illegal. UNICEF and the UN cannot intervene unless they are officially summoned by the country’s government. Because France doesn’t want the refugees there, they are trying to turn a blind eye. There’s very little organization.

Anyone can go in and out of the camp as much as they want. Something that I found really awful is that it’s actually become a tourist attraction. Tourists come into the camp to see what all the news hype is about, they bring their kids and everything. I understand that people want to see what’s happening but going there to see it as a form of entertainment is not OK in my opinion.

Describe the conditions.

I did a project in West Africa, so I thought that I would be somewhat prepared for what I would see in the camp. I wasn’t. In Africa people are very grateful for everything they have.

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FILM PROJECT: Finished by end of year They’ve been brought up in a culture where everyone is used to living with what they have, even if it’s not a lot. In the camp, everyone is fleeing from war torn countries. They are desperate to get into the U.K. (for) a better life. A lot of people in the camp seem a bit embarrassed about their situation.

Yes, they do come from a poorer country but they’re used to being able to work and make enough money to take care of themselves and their families. For them to be completely vulnerable and dependant on someone else, is very uncomfortable for them. Going into the camp was like stepping into a Third World country. It was awful to see a normal French city on one side of the road, and (squalor) on the other.

Why has the French government refused to call in the United Nations to help with infrastructure?

Calais is the last border before the U.K., and with winter coming everyone is desperate to get out. Most of the people have spent an entire year getting to where they are now. With the U.K. being so close, people are willing to do almost anything to get across the border. The second reason is the military presence. I have visited the camp twice. On my first trip there were no police, not even at the entrance.

On my second visit there was a lot of tension and a lot of military. At least 100 soldiers fitted with body armour, machine guns and tear gas. If there was any conflict or argument, the soldiers without hesitation would throw tear gas. It was really frustrating that the French government was turning a blind eye to the situation, yet they could afford to send the military to deal with it.

How many people are in the camp? Who is helping them? And what supplies and services are they lacking?

On my first visit there was 3, 000 people in the camp. On my second visit there was 5,500. The camp size had almost doubled in just three weeks. The camp in Greece where Lincoln Waldron (the director of photography) had been was getting 14,000 new

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Taking part in a school carnival, Morgan Morris, left, and Hannah Lewis lift Regan Dietzen in the photo booth Friday afternoon at Camile J. Lerouge School in Red Deer. About 30 Grade 8 and 9 students planned the one-day carnival activity day and in doing so raised about $12,000 for the middle school programs and about $38,000 for elementary grades. The money will be used to support field trips, gym equipment and school programs. migrants a day. They need help with food. Feeding 6, 000 people every day is difficult to do for small independent organizations. Because food is in short supply, fights break out when it’s time to line up to be fed. It’s not that these people are savages for food, they’ve just been through a lot and have nothing left. Another thing they really are in need of is the Internet. Most of the (migrants) are men that have been sent by their families to get refugee status for the U.K. so they can bring their families over. Most of them have no (way) of contacting their families back home.

How can Canadians help?

There are countless ways to give online to countries that are already under control of the UN and UNICEF. Unfortunately it is very difficult to give to countries that aren’t covered by the UN. The best thing that can be done is to raise awareness. To show people that the government is aware of what’s happening but is refusing to take action. What they don’t realize is that if they continue to ignore the refugees, they’re just going to settle in France, which will cause an even bigger problem.

How long have some of the Syrians been living in the camp?

When is your film coming out? Will it be possible for Central Albertans to see it?

Oddly enough a lot of the refugees aren’t actu-

ally Syrian. The majority of them are from Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Sudan and Somalia. A lot of them originally fled to Syria because of extremist groups in their home countries. And now because of what’s happening in Syria they’ve had to leave. A lot people have given up hope that their country’s situation will be getting better anytime soon so they’ve decided to go to Europe. To get into the U.K., everyone needs to have refugee status. Most of the applications are rejected and in some countries a rejected application means they will be deported back to their home country.

You mentioned being very moved by some of the stories you heard. Which stories have stayed with you?

One story really hit home. I met a young man named Al, he’s originally from Sudan. We are the same age but we come from completely different worlds. We were just packing up, getting ready to leave, and he stopped by. He asked where we were from. His face lit up when he learned I was Canadian, he began asking questions about the culture and the weather and such. (We) chatted for a while and then I asked how he got to France. His smile disappeared. His eyes started watering and I could see he was fighting back tears.

“One day I will be able to talk about how I got here, but right now I can’t say.”

Seeing someone my age who’d been through so much opened my eyes in ways I can’t even explain. I apologized and told him he didn’t have to say how he got there. He had been sent by his family in October of 2014 to get into the U.K. and once he successfully got a refugee status he would bring his family over.

He (hadn’t) been in contact with his family in over a year. They have no idea where he is, or if he’s even alive.

The project will be finished by the end of the year. It will be very short, so that it can be shown on the web. Hillsong owns the project and will be in charge of showcasing it, but I’m speaking with them to see if I can put it on my website.

A lot of your work in London is focused on altruism and working with nonprofit groups. Do you see yourself as an activist filmmaker?

I would not consider myself an activist filmmaker, no. I’m focusing mainly on music visuals right now.

It’s great when people can go to the movie theatre and be entertained for an hour. But for my work I really try to get a relevant message across. Not only in documentaries but in music videos as well. I am drawn to projects that challenge people to look at issues from a different angle. Media is everywhere and it is a very powerful medium.

Have any other projects on the go?

I’m going on tour with a band to Norway this November. I recently did a music video for an independent artist named YAHYAH. On the project, we had some very talented dancers who have performed in West End shows. We were also lucky enough to have movement coach Jono Hart who has worked with Beyoncé, Rihanna and the X Factor UK. I’m also producing a video for one of the best drummers in the U.K. His name is MckNasty … a semi finalist on Britain’s Got Talent (who) has worked with artists such as Natasha Bedingfield, Lily Allen and Labrinth.

(This interview was edited for space). lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Keystone XL rejected SEVEN-YEAR SAGA OF CANADIAN PIPELINE CULMINATES IN ‘NO’

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — The seven-year saga of the Keystone XL pipeline culminated Friday in U.S. President Barack Obama rejecting a project that had become the biggest irritant in Canada-U.S. relations, amid its improbable escalation from an isolated land dispute into a major cross-border environmental struggle.

The pipeline became the fault line in the American battle over climate change as the green movement pressed the president to turn down a permit that would have allowed Calgary-based TransCana-

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da Corp. to ship bitumen from Alberta’s oilsands to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries.

After years of suspense and a change in government in Canada, Obama called the new prime minister to break the news Friday: the project is being rejected because it’s not in the U.S. national interest.

Obama’s stated rationale wasn’t that Keystone mattered much. In fact he argued that it mattered very little, to the U.S. economy and to global greenhouse-gas emissions. But he said it had become an from Tumbler Ridge, B.C. Thomas Sutton is charged with second-degree murder.

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important symbol — and rejecting it proved the U.S. intends to get serious at the upcoming climate summit in Paris.

According to public statements from both leaders, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed disappointment but vowed not to let the development poison relations between the countries.

Trudeau has promised a more constructive tone on climate change and on the broader relationship than his predecessor Stephen Harper, who cancelled the last North American leaders’ summit in frustration over the pipeline issue.

Please see KEYSTONE on Page A4 Police say Sutton will be brought to Alberta to appear before a justice of the peace.

A court date has not been set.

Man arrested after Penhold pedestrian fatality A pedestrian is dead after being hit by a car near the Penhold Regional Multiplex on Thursday evening.

Police are treating it as a suspicious death and have not ruled out if it was intentional.

Innisfail RCMP said witnesses reported seeing a car with one occupant strike an adult pedestrian and try to get away in a vehicle before getting stuck on a nearby berm around 5:45 p.m. The driver fled on foot.

Police arrived shortly afterward and arrested a man nearby without incident.

The pedestrian was transported to hospital and subsequently died from injuries. The identity or the gender of the victim has not been released.

No other suspects are being sought by the RCMP. Further details will be provided after the incident scene has been fully examined. Police are in Penhold this morning investigating.

B.C. man 3rd person charged in 2014 death of northwestern Alberta man TUMBLER RIDGE, B.C. — Mounties have charged a third person in the 2014 death of an Alberta man.

Twenty-seven-year-old Devin Pisch of Grande Prairie was killed on June 25, 2014.

Two men were charged about a week later.

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Keystone XL rejection proves need for sustainable development: Dion

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and still asking the U.S. to approve a pipeline supBY THE CANADIAN PRESS porting a carbon-intensive industry, said Jaccard.

“Canada, under Harper, treated Obama like he EDMONTON — U.S. President Barack Obama’s was stupid.” decision to deny approval to the Keystone XL pipeJaccard said new pipelines could be built if line has permanently changed the discussion on new enough greenhouse gases are cut elsewhere. But he energy projects, say environmentalists and analysts. disputed claims that pipelines don’t affect oilsands “It’s premature to talk about other pipelines yet, expansion. but if Alberta and Canada don’t introduce proper “Emissions growth is directly correlated with degreenhouse gas regulations for the industry, then it’s livery infrastructure growth,” he said. “It’s hard to going to be challenging to make the argument that attribute emissions growth to any one project, but if those projects are in the public interest,” says Simon you’re stopping this pipeline and stopping that pipeDyer of the Pembina Institute, a clean-energy think- line, you’re stopping the growth in emissions.” tank.

Last month, Shell cited a lack Obama on Friday rejected ‘THE MOBILIZATIONS THAT WE of new pipelines as one reason TransCanada Corp.’s (TSX:TRP) for cancelling its Carmon Creek ALREADY SEE AROUND ENER- oilsands project. application to build Keystone XL, capping a seven-year debate GY EAST AND AROUND KINDER Dyer said he’ll be watching in both Canada and the United how the Liberals review pipeMORGAN ARE JUST GOING TO lines post-Keystone.

States over whether more fossil fuel infrastructure would lead to “Prime Minister (Justin) GET STRONGER. THE LOGIC OF Trudeau increased production. did say the Liberal ParKeith Stewart of Greenpeace ‘DON’T BUILD NEW PIPELINES ty is committed to modernizing called the decision “a victory National Energy Board’s reBECAUSE IT CONTRIBUTES TO the for people power” and promised view process, ensuring climate it would energize opposition to CLIMATE CHANGE’ IS EXACTLY change is included,” he said. “It’s other proposed pipelines for carhopefully going to drive a converTHE SAME.’ rying crude from Alberta’s oilsation to actually get modern regsands. ulations in place that are going “Nothing breeds success like — KEITH STEWART to address emissions from the oil success,” he said.

GREENPEACE and gas sector.”

“The mobilizations that we alAlthough some on both sides ready see around Energy East of the issue have said Keystone and around Kinder Morgan are just going to get has accrued too much importance, Stewart said envistronger. The logic of ‘don’t build new pipelines be- ronmentalists were forced into making it a proxy for cause it contributes to climate change’ is exactly the the entire climate change debate. same.”

“Limiting pipelines is the only way to slow the Diane Beckettt, Sierra Club interim director, expansion of the tar sands called Obama’s decision a model for Canada’s new because (governments) Liberal government. had already handed out “This decision points to the opportunity for Cana- permits to more than douda to build a 21st-century economy based on today’s ble (their) size,” he said. green, clean energy technologies, rather than con“It became such an imtinuing to rely on yesterday’s dinosaur fossil-fuel portant issue in the Unitindustry,” she said in a release. ed States, because this Mark Jaccard, an energy economist at Simon Fra- was an area where the ser University, said it was the previous Conserva- president could act on his tive government’s slowness on climate change that own without having to get pushed Obama to reject Keystone XL. something through (the While the Americans were meeting greenhouse Republican-dominated) gas reduction targets, Canada was ignoring its own Congress.”

“We are disappointed by the decision but respect the right of the United States to make the decision,” Trudeau said in a statement.

“The Canada-U.S. relationship is much bigger than any one project and I look forward to a fresh start with President Obama to strengthen our remarkable ties in a spirit of friendship and co-operation.”

The death of the project has an array of consequences on people living near the route, on businesses linked to the oil industry, and on a now-jubilant climate-change movement.

But critics argue that Obama’s logic is built on sand.

His own State Department has repeatedly concluded that this project would be better for the environment than high-emitting trains. That dirtier rail transport is skyrocketing. And Canadian oil exports have continued to rise, even as oilsands opponents worked to block pipelines — first Keystone, and now others within Canada.

Keystone would have handled nearly one-quarter of all the Canadian oil exports to the United States, which would have created thousands of temporary jobs and longer-term resource revenues for American counties along the route.

Sources recently indicated that TransCanada Corp. was weighing a possible NAFTA lawsuit as it braced for a rejection, its storage yards stacked with mounds of unused pipe in a project that has cost the Calgary company billions. Its share price had plummeted 40 per cent since last year with falling oil prices, and dropped another five per cent Friday.

The company said Friday that it was reviewing its options, including filing a new permit. The project will likely become a 2016 U.S. presidential election issue, with Republicans all aligned in favour of it.

“Today, misplaced symbolism was chosen over merit and science — rhetoric won out over reason,” TransCanada president Russ Girling said in a statement.

“We believe KXL is in the best interest of the United States and Canada.”

Unfortunately for them, the man in the Oval Office disagreed.

Obama began his remarks in the White House by dismissing the rhetoric of both sides in the debate — he said the project would neither have been a huge economic boost, nor a climate disaster.

But the Obama administration was tasked with determining whether the project satisfied the national interest. It concluded the effect on job-creation oil prices U.S. energy supplies and perhaps even greenhouse-gas emissions were virtually nil.

But Obama said it mattered — as a signal entering this month’s big climate summit.

“America is now a global leader when it comes to taking serious action to fight climate change,” Obama said. “And frankly, approving this project would have undercut that global leadership. And that’s the biggest risk we face — not acting.”

He continued: “Today, we’re continuing to lead by example. Because ultimately, if we’re going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we’re going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground.”

Obama certainly didn’t sound like a pipeline opponent a few years ago.

He’d even appeared at a TransCanada pipe yard for an election-year speech in 2012 where he promised to get the southern leg of Keystone XL opened as quickly as possible. Oil began flowing two years in that southern portion, between the U.S. midwest and Gulf Coast refineries.

But Obama’s tone hardened. He even vetoed a bill passed by Congress this year that would have forced him to approve the northern leg.

His change in approach delighted Bill McKibben, an activist who helped organize the first Washington protest against Keystone XL four years ago.

“President Obama is the first world leader to reject a project because of its effect on the climate.

That gives him new stature as an environmental leader,” said McKibben, head of the group 350.org.

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Alberta’s new NDP premier expressed disappointment in how the president characterized her province’s oil. She said she’d spoken with Trudeau about the importance of securing new export routes, which face opposition.

She also said the rejection proves the need for action on climate change in Paris, to help rehabilitate Alberta oil’s reputation.

“The decision … underlines the need to improve our environmental record and hence our reputation so that we can achieve our goal of building Canada’s energy infrastructure — including pipelines — to new markets,” she said.

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OTTAWA — U.S. President Barack Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline illustrates vividly why Canada must confront the challenge of finding a sustainable way to develop the oilsands, Global Affairs Minister Stephane Dion said Friday.

The seven-year Keystone odyssey came to an end with Washington’s thumbs-down on a cross-border permit for Calgary-based TransCanada Corp., which hoped to ship up to 830,000 barrels a day of Alberta crude to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast through the 1,897-kilometre line.

The new Liberal government in Ottawa, however, is indicating the push for new pipeline capacity is far from over.

The government is disappointed, said Dion, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made that point “very clearly” in a phone call Friday with the U.S. president.

“We want to have a fresh start regarding both the issue of environment and climate change, and also our energy challenge as a continent.”

Many environmental groups are adamant there can be no more expansion of oilsands production — meaning no new pipelines — if Canada is to play the responsible role in the global fight against climate change that Trudeau has promised.

“I respect their view, but it’s not our view,” said Dion, his foreign portfolio newly christened as Global Affairs, following a cabinet orientation meeting at department’s fortress-like downtown building.

“We didn’t say, ‘We’ll close the shop and then we will not have any pollution.”’

Dion, a former Liberal environment minister and party leader, said the latest Liberal platform said nothing about freezing oilsands development.

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Status of cabinet ministers questioned OTTAWA — The new Liberal government says all of its ministers are full members of cabinet — contrary to suggestions otherwise.

Justin Trudeau’s 30 cabinet members were billed as ministers upon being sworn in Wednesday. The new prime minister made good on a promise of gender parity, appointing 15 men and 15 women.

In response to an inquiry that day, the Prime Minister’s Office said all had equal standing, with none categorized as junior ministers, a common feature of previous governments.

But subsequently published orders-in-council designated five members — all of them women — as ministers of state, prompting further questions about their actual status.

They are Carla Qualtrough in Sport and Persons with Disabilities, Patricia Hajdu in Status of Women, Kirsty Duncan in Science, and Bardish Chagger in Small Business and Tourism.

In addition, Marie-Claude Bibeau was named a minister of state for La Francophonie as well as becoming International Development minister.

Ministers of state receive $60,000

in addition to their MP’s salary, compared with $80,100 for ministers. They also lack full ministerial powers.

However, the Liberals say the designations were a technicality — the women in question are full members of cabinet, carry the title of minister, were always intended as such, and will receive benefits and supports commensurate with those of their colleagues.

The five women were appointed under the Ministries and Ministers of

isters,” said Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion. “I will have the great pleasure to work with minister Bibeau, and I may tell you she is not junior in my mind one minute.”

Coming statutory changes will legally cement the ministerial status of those temporarily branded ministers of state and salary adjustments will be retroactive, one official said.

The five members will lead on a number of federal priorities, the government says. Of these, Qualtrough’s

THE LIBERALS SAY THE DESIGNATIONS WERE A TECHNICALITY — THE WOMEN IN QUESTION ARE FULL MEMBERS OF CABINET, CARRY THE TITLE OF MINISTER . . .

State Act to ensure they have access to the support of existing departments, as new organizations are not being created, officials said Friday.

For instance, Hajdu’s portfolio, Status of Women, is attached to that of the Canadian Heritage minister and Bibeau’s La Francophonie responsibilities are linked to the newly named Global Affairs Canada, formerly Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development.

“I understand that they are full min-

responsibility for disabled persons and Duncan’s science portfolio are seen as deliberate efforts to make new policy strides.

During a news conference, Dion stressed that those working in the International Development portfolio “are on the same footing” as everyone else in the Lester B. Pearson Building, home of Global Affairs, drawing applause and cheers from onlooking bureaucrats.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BURNABY, B.C. — A species of invasive, disease-carrying mosquito has been found in British Columbia — the first such discovery in Western Canada.

A team from Simon Fraser University, along with workers at a mosquito control company, discovered larvae of the aedes japonicus in standing water in Maple Ridge, a suburb east of Vancouver.

A report published in the Journal of Medical Entomology said researchers believe the mosquito could be a significant threat to the health of humans and domestic animals.

“The ability of these species to survive and spread rapidly is well documented by its history in Europe,” the study said.

The mosquito has the potential to transmit several diseases, including West Nile virus, varieties of encephalitis and dengue fever.

The study said it has been infected in the lab with nine different pathogens, including chikungunya, an illness found in Caribbean countries that causes fever, muscle and joint pain and stiffness, headache and rash.

Study co-author and retired SFU professor Peter Belton said researchers have been waiting for the mosquito to arrive since the insects were discovered in Washington state 14 years ago.

“They haven’t done any dangerous

transmission of diseases in Washington,” he said. “But global warming could very well bring up some nasty viruses. They’re good at transmitting viruses, we know that.”

The larvae was first found in a tarpaulin in July 2014, and when researchers returned to the same area in 2015, they found the larvae had survived a relatively mild winter.

The batch of eggs was resistant to freezing and drying, the study said.

This past May, a researcher caught and photographed a female in “pristine condition” in the neighbouring municipality of Mission.

“They’re covered in scales, that’s what gives them the gorgeous golden stripes,” Belton said.

Had the female been flying for a few days, many of the scales would have rubbed off, so it means the species has been found in more than one place in the Lower Mainland, he added.

Belton said the larvae appears to be extremely hardy.

“That’s how they got worldwide in about 20 years,” he said.

The breed, also known as the Asian bush mosquito, is native to Asia but has been found in Eastern Canada and many U.S. states. A sub-species has been discovered in Oregon and Washington states.

Researchers are studying the B.C. insects to pinpoint their place of origin.

Liberal ministers will be working with public servants who weathered an often stormy relationship with the Harper government.

Debi Daviau, president of the Professional Institute of the Public Service, said she received a call from new Treasury Board President Scott Brison — who succeeded Conservative Tony Clement — the day after he was appointed.

“I think we are off to an excellent start in that regard,” Daviau said Friday. “Over the past two years, Tony Clement couldn’t be bothered to pick up the phone and discuss issues with me.”

The Liberal elimination of several ministers of state with responsibility for regional development agencies under the previous government had led to speculation about the future of those institutions.

The Privy Council Office issued a statement Friday saying Navdeep Singh Bains, minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, would oversee the six regional agencies.

Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef will be responsible for matters relating to the electoral system, including Elections Canada.

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TORONTO — The CBC building in downtown Toronto was briefly evacuated Friday afternoon after a military artifact was found.

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Victor Kwong said they were called just after 1:30 p.m. to investigate a military shell that was donated to the broadcaster’s archive.

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People were allowed back into the building around 3 p.m. and nearby roads were to reopen shortly afterward.

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What will be legalized next?

“Do you have $20 until supper time tonight?” This request came from a very tall, shapely young woman whom we have known on the street for about four years. Almost immediately as I studied her face, a deep sadness came over me as my limited knowledge of this person flashed in front of me.

I remember the first time that I saw “Florence” just a little over four years ago.

Please note that in my description of her, there is no attempt to sexualize a woman, but in my observations of both male and female patrons, I am not blind to their attributes.

Both males and females have their beauty, but also at times reveal the ugly side of life.

Like I was saying, four years ago as I was hauling CHRIS some trash out to the back, I SALOMONS accidentally dropped an article as I was passing by FlorSTREET TALES ence.

She immediately stooped down to pick it up and then proceeded to walk with me to the garbage can to deposit the load.

Shaking her hand, I thanked her for her consideration, and I proceeded to tell her who I was and where this garbage was coming from. “Oh yes,” she replied, “I know who you are and what you do, and I keep meaning to come for a supper, but I thought it better to leave the food to someone who needs it more than me.”

With a very comely countenance, she flashed a smile that revealed a perfect set of teeth.

“But maybe I will come tonight and taste the cooking they all talk about on the street,” at which time she turned and went walking down the sidewalk.

Just the way she said this made me realize that this very attractive, tall, youthful woman was more familiar with the street than I first realized. I guessed her age at between 25 and 30.

Over the next few weeks, I learned that Florence was working the street, but nothing I saw in her suggested involvement with the drug culture she was circulating in.

After about six months, a relaxed friendship developed between us as periodically she would stop by the kitchen and grab a cup of coffee.

Also, by this time I had seen her often patrolling the street corners, so her vocation was evident.

This prompted me at one visit to ask her why she worked the street, because in my mind she looked almost too regal to do so.

Her reply was that she was saving money to take a paramedic’s course which was very expensive.

I learned later that she actually was taking some courses toward that end.

In our discussion, I asked her about drugs to which she replied that she often smoked some pot, but nothing harder than that, but I also know that working the street does something to their heart and their mind.

Advance a few months, and I began to see a change in her appearance.

Her normally flawless facial skin was taking on a slightly different color and texture.

But where I noticed the greatest change was her teeth.

They also took on a different shade of white, which on the street is often indicative of crack usage.

Many were the times that I spoke with her and encouraged her to take action on drug reduction, even to the point that we would offer assistance for her to

go to recovery, but to no avail.

So when she approached me at the kitchen yesterday, she had poured herself a coffee and then proceeded to ask me for that $20. Whenever I receive a request for cash (most of which I deny), I always intently study a person’s face. Not really for any wise reason, but rather to observe their attitude and purpose for the request.

Now as I look at her face, I see extensive damage to her skin and her teeth. Mostly the teeth. Teeth are the most indicative of a person’s health and hygiene.

Her teeth are now in various stages of brokenness, discoloration and deterioration; all of it from crack smoke.

As I look at this once very attractive young woman, and realize that we have just put a very charismatic man in as prime minister who has pledged to legalize pot and supports assisted suicide, my level of sadness increases. What will be legalized next?

I am reminded of the story of a frog in a pot of water placed over a fire. The devastation that is caused by drugs, although immediately addictive, takes a length of time to bring about irreversible changes.

Is it not time as a society to take the time to learn about the choices we are making? More and more we are faced with governments that legislate the way we are to think and live and now also die (under pressure from minorities), but ignore the alarm bells that are ringing about a society that is hurting and destroying itself and ignoring the need of the vulnerable.

Are we not all a bunch of frogs in that proverbial pot? The water is heating up, so instead of relaxing in the nice warm water, maybe we should be looking, with alarm, at reducing the level of the fire underneath.

Chris Salomons is kitchen co-ordinator for Potter’s Hands ministry in Red Deer.

Energy sector squanders special relationship with Albertans ITS CRASS BETRAYAL WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN, OR FORGIVEN

BY ROBERT MCGARVEY SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Albertans have long memories, and one of their fairest memories is almost a century old. It’s a highly emotional tale, filled with swaggering oilmen and wildcatters from places like Oklahoma and Texas bringing their wide-eyed optimism and their money to Alberta during the Great Depression.

When the bottom fell out of the Alberta economy in the ‘30s and our national banks vanished into the night, the oil business rode in like the 7th Calvary to save the day.

Albertans have never forgotten that history, and a special bond has been built between the energy industry (foreign and domestic) and the people of Alberta.

But, today, that bond and the public support that has endured for decades are being severely tested.

The energy sector in Canada is dumping tens of thousands of its most dedicated employees in its scramble to protect its bottom line. It’s a crass betrayal by the industry that will – likewise – not be forgotten or forgiven.

Cenovus Energy is only one of many companies “fundamentally changing the way we work”. What does this mean in practice?

2015 has been a bloodbath. Cenovus alone has cut thousands of jobs, Husky, roughly the same. Both have more and deeper cuts planned for 2016. It is an all too common tale and the hallways of downtown Calgary office buildings are beginning to resemble ghost towers in a living breathing Halloween night-

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The oil field service sector, including the drilling industry and a host of support services, are being gutted throughout the province, with many businesses closing their doors for keeps.

Of course, this is the bust part of ‘boom and bust’ cycle.

Modern business logic stipulates that “the only stakeholders that matter are stockholders,” so the losses and layoffs are the only reasonable course of action to take.

By this logic, employees are not assets to be protected, but cost centres that must be managed in good times and cut ruthlessly in bad.

It’s no secret that the cancellation of major projects, the layoff of staff and the general panic to reduce operating costs is a choice, not a necessity. In the face of falling oil prices and revenues, the energy sector is desperate to protect its dividends.

Why? Simple: dividends (unlike employees) are sacred.

After all, dividends reward and protect (passive) investors, which in turn support the companies’ share price and (not unrelated) senior management bonuses.

These days, senior managers in the energy sector are making the choice to defend these financial metrics at the expense of vulnerable families in Alberta.

It puts a chill into the phrase ‘fundamentally changing the way we work” for it implies that the industry believes low oil prices are here to stay.

Further, it implies that the senior management will pull out all the stops to protect shareholders, while slashing staff and operations as the industry

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This is a very short-sighted, maybe fatal mistake for an already embattled industry.

Let’s face it, we’ve been through these busts before. Once the dust settles, there will be a need for oil in a world with upwards of seven billion people and rising global standards of living. In other words, oil prices will stabilize, growth and optimism will return and a much different industry will pick up the pieces in future.

And what are the assets this industry is going to need in future?

Senior managers might think for a moment about their human capital and the value of their highly qualified workforce.

Furthermore they might also consider just how valuable the loyalty of Albertans might be for an industry under constant attack. Basically, they’re going to need all the goodwill they can muster.

If the oil and gas industry squanders its special relationship with the people of Alberta, there’ll be no morally charged vanguard in this province to defend the industry’s interest on the inevitably day when government ratchets up royalties, imposes higher and (much needed) environmental standards and/or ramps up the levels of public scrutiny.

This generation of oil and gas executives will have made their choices and the industry’s foundational myths will be jettisoned.

We’ll all have to live with the consequences.

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Bring on the face fungus Every October Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving which pays tribute to the ancient pilgrims who first landed in Newfoundland and wore funny hats and enjoyed a traditional Maritime lobster Thanksgiving dinner. “Let’s go south next year,” said the boss pilgrim who really didn’t like seafood. “I’m not eating anything that looks remotely like the alien in the movie Alien,” he said. “But I hear they have turkeys in Massachusetts!”

Then in October, Halloween rolls around and all the neighborhood ghosts and gobHARLEY lins come out to scare everyHAY one and also many children HAY’S DAZE dress up like ghosts and goblins but all those little ghouls want to do is fill pillow cases with candy.

And then … BAM! Suddenly it’s November already!

But just what is November and how did it get here so fast? Is it just a dumb month that acts as obstreperous connective tissue to kill time between the fun of Halloween and the magic of Christmas? Potentially, 30 days of dismal mornings, dark and dreary afternoons and the beginnings of Canadian weather that is … check one: • Pathologically chilly.

• Cold enough to complain about (constantly).

• Freezing your tush right off.

November is the month that merchants, department stores and TV commercials attempt to make Christmas supernaturally appear a month early.

Were you positively bombarded with when you innocently popped into the Hudson’s Fray or London Rugs to pick up a 10 pack of AA batteries, a box of garbage bags and a couple of chocolate bars? I know I was. CHRISTMAS?!

Christmas trees, lights, ornaments, decorations and in-your-face Yuletide displays from the future.

Like, a month-and-a-half from the future. As in Dec. 25. But November has very little “Yule” and certainly no “tide”. What it does have, however, is moustaches.

This time of year many people eschew the premature Christmas spuriousness and instead direct their energies into encouraging the augmentation of their very own facial hair. In particular, this is the month for hairy upper lips — and that’s why many mangy people like to refer to it as “Movember”.

When I first heard the month of “Movember” I thought maybe it was called that because Moe Howard was born in November and had a famous soup strainer. You know, Moe from the Three Stooges? I checked and Moe was born in June and also, it was Groucho Marx who has the famous cookie duster.

Moustaches tend to confuse me, apparently. It was Moe that had the famous Beatle haircut about three decades before the Beatles did. So that wasn’t it.

When I finally figured out that Movember is a mashup of Moustache and November, truth be told, I winced a little. I was feeling a bit winceful because I knew that any attempt on my personal behalf to grow a crumb catcher would end in embarrassment and disaster. Oh I’ve tried to grow my winter facial outerwear on several occasions, and I always end up looking like a scurvy-ridden pirate or a victim of some sort of dermatitis involving scraggly patches of thin moth-eaten face fuzz.

But Movember is about so much more than lip rugs. It all started in 2003 as a bit of a lark for two mates over adult beverages in Australia. They wondered why moustaches weren’t in fashion anymore, and set out to challenge their friends to grow lady ticklers for the month of November. Thirty handlebar honchos signed up and Movember was born.

The next year they decided to attach a fundraising component to the November flavour saver challenge and in 10 years nearly seven million participants in the worldwide Movember Foundation have raised 677 million dollars for men’s health issues. Most of the mouth brow money has gone to fight prostate diseases, which for a long while I thought was called a “prostrate” (with an “r”) but that by definition refers to the position that a guy ends up in when his prostate acts up.

But it’s not only men for whom Movember is

meaningful and memorable. Since moustaches are not exactly encouraged for females (although we’ve all known a few ladies, like one of my meaner elementary school teachers, who have unintentionally sported a ’stache) but women can certainly participate in the fund raising aspect. Since the word “Move” is conveniently embedded in “Movember,” instead of growing some upper lipholstery, the female gender of species can raise moola by registering a physical activity for each day — “30 moves for Movember!”

So even if you are like me and couldn’t grow a snot mop if my prostate depended on it, let’s support those who can create an impressive grass grin for Movember and donate to an important worthy cause that has affected the lives of so many unfortunate dudes. So even if I’m not too crazy about November, I really like Movember. It makes me think of my two very good friends, one who has a moustache and one who doesn’t. But neither of them have a prostate anymore. They are both better now, thank goodness, and if Movember had anything to do with that, I say bring on the face fungus!

You can always shave before Christmas.

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

Burma: The Lady, the General, and the Future There are good generals in Burma cards rights, but he certainly talks dif– that is, generals who are not too cor- ferently these days: “Now we are in rupt, not too brutal, and not absolutely a democracy, a different form of govdetermined to maintain milernment that requires total itary control of the country dedication … Our people forever. One such general is are living below the poverty Thura Shwe Mann. line. We have to change evShwe Mann retired from erything.” the army in 2010 to lead the That’s also what Aung newly created Union SolSan Suu Kyi wants to do: idarity and Development change everything. She Party (USDP), a civilian wants to end the army’s front for the generals who control of 25 per cent of still really control the counthe seats in parliament. try. Since that election was She wants to get it out of boycotted by the democratthe economy (the military ic opposition led by Aung now directly or indirectly San Suu Kyi (known simply control half the Burmese GWYNNE as “the Lady” to most Bureconomy). And above all DYER mese), the USDP ended up she wants to stand for the INSIGHT with a majority and Shwe presidency (the constitution Mann became the speaker written by the army forbids of parliament. her to run).

There was nothing in his past to Could the Lady and the General acsuggest that he would ever jump the tually cooperate? It looked like that fence: he fought three successful cam- to the current president, ex-generpaigns against various minority eth- al Thein Sein, because Shwe Mann nic groups featuring the usual human was openly talking about a possible rights violations, and he was number post-election coalition that would inthree in the military hierarchy by the clude both his own USDP and Aung time he retired. But Shwe Mann is San Suu Kyi’s National League for now Suu Kyi’s best hope for a peaceful Democracy (NLD). So in September transition to a real democratic gov- troops surrounded the USDP’s headernment after next Sunday’s national quarters — and when they left Shwe election.

Mann was no longer the party’s leader.

Something happened to Shwe Mann Suu Kyi will still probably need on the way to this election. Maybe it Shwe Mann, because this election is was just the realization that he might not going to be like the last free elecend up as president if he played his tion in 1990, when the NLD swept the

board. (Of course, the military just ignored the outcome and Aung San Suu Kyi spent most of the intervening quarter-century in jail or under house arrest, so there is no foolproof formula for political success in Burma.)

But the military clearly don’t want to go back to that style of rule now, because the facade of democracy has ended sanctions, foreign investment is rolling in, and army officers are getting rich. So much better if you can sabotage the actual democracy without destroying the facade.

Athough the NLD will probably get a big win in this election, it will have trouble turning that into a government.

It hasn’t managed to attract the support of the ethnic minorities, who see it as an ethnic Burmese party with the usual centralising instincts. It must also face the fact that 25 per cent of the members of parliament will be military officers appointed by the high command.

And the USDP, although tainted by its military origin, will gain votes because of a shamelessly Islamophobic campaign by ultra-nationalist Buddhist monks who paint Suu Kyi’s NLD as a pro-Muslim party. Suu Kyi should defend Burma’s beleaguered Muslim minority (only four per cent), but she dares not do so publicly because that would lose her even more votes.

So here’s the deal. The NLD will win more than 50 per cent of the seats, but it probably won’t get 67 per cent, which is what it would need to elect a

president over the opposition of the military bloc in parliament. Suu Kyi can’t run for the presidency anyway, because the constitution, written especially with her in mind, says the president must not have foreign relatives.

(Suu Kyi’s husband was English, so her two sons have British passports.)

But if Suu Kyi and Shwe Mann form a coalition — although he is no longer the USDP’s leader, he could probably bring a large chunk of his party with him — then that coalition could elect a new president and form a government.

The president would have to be Shwe Mann (for constitutional reasons), but Suu Kyi could be the most powerful member of his cabinet, which would be loaded with NLD members.

Not a marriage made in heaven, perhaps, but much better than an anti-democratic coup by a panicked military. Burma was never going to become a full democracy in a single breath-taking leap, but this outcome would get it a long way down the road without panicking the army.

Burma has been ruled by brutal, ignorant and incompetent soldiers for more than fifty years, and what was once the richest country in South-East Asia is now the poorest. It’s time for a change. Take what you can get now, and come back for more later.

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

A new plan for Canada’s economy and environment In a major speech on the environment in June, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau told his Vancouver audience “we need to take real action on climate change.”

But nothing he has said since then — and this includes the Liberal Party platform — has told us what he means by “real action.” He has promised carbon pricing, but without details, but has DAVID not even set a CRANE greenhouse gas emissions reINSIGHT duction target for Canada.

O n c e sworn in as Prime Minister on Nov. 4, Trudeau cannot avoid spelling out precise initiatives to address climate change since this is one of the greatest challenges facing Canada, given the structure of the economy. There will be costs and opportunities and dealing with them and they will entail hard choices.

Nicholas Stern, the British economist who produced the 700-page Stern Report on the economics of climate

change in 2006, has a compelling new book, Why Are We Waiting? The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change. In it he not only argues that what the world does in the next two decades is critical if catastrophic climate is to be avoided, but also contends that the transition to low-carbon growth “represents a very attractive path” that could launch “an energy industry revolution.”

As he puts it, “the right climate policies will likely trigger new waves of global investment, innovation and discovery.”

But will Canada be part of this revolution or will we be on the sidelines, saddled with an economy that is increasingly irrelevant in the global marketplace?

A new report from the Council of Canadian Academies’ Expert Panel on Climate Change — Technology and Policy Options for a Low-Emission Energy System in Canada — spells out opportunities for Canada, while calling for urgent action. “Both for Canada and for the world in general, the risks arising from climate change justify significant and accelerated efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the course of decades to come.”

A low-emission future is possible, but this will require political will and ambition from both the federal and provincial governments. But the panel contends that “Canada could achieve

major emission reductions with the adoption of commercially available technologies” focusing on improvements to energy efficiency, a shift from high-emission to low-emission energy sources, and the possible adoption of carbon capture and storage technologies. The goal should be to ensure that some of this is Canadian technology with potential for exports.

However, and this is the tough part, given the higher cost today of clean new technologies, compared to conventional options, “voluntary measures alone are insufficient, and policies that focus exclusively on further technological progress offer no guarantee of emissions reductions. Stringent, compulsory, economy-wide emission reduction policies are therefore essential if Canada is to successfully undertake an energy system transition.”

While large emission reductions are possible, the expert panel makes clear that “this transition will not be without cost for consumers, businesses, or the economy as a whole.”

But, it promises, this can be achieved “without jeopardizing Canada’s long-term economic growth and competitiveness.”

This will mean, however, a much different economy, including a transformed energy system which is much greener, as well as many changes in our infrastructure, transportation sys-

tems, design of buildings, and land use. It will pose big challenges for the oil and coal industries.

The Liberal platform, while acknowledging the need to act (including carbon pricing), lacks a sense of urgency, promising a vague federal-provincial climate plan, to be negotiated with the provinces, by the end of next March. The Liberal platform does promise that in its first budget, it will launch as resource sector clean technology strategy worth $300 million a year (a bit less than it plans to spend to make Employment Insurance easier to get) and a year later will make a down payment of $1 billion towards a $2 billion Low Carbon Energy Trust, as well as promising the world’s best tax incentives for investments in research, development and manufacturing of clean technologies. While all of these may have merit, they fall short of a climate change innovation action plan that offers confidence of real change.

If we take the threat of climate change as real but also recognize that there are big opportunities to build a new economy that is prosperous and sustainable, then we will need something much bolder than we have been offered so far. This is one of the greatest challenges facing the new government.

Economist David Crane is a syndicated Toronto Star columnist. He can be reached at crane@interlog.com.

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Decision to take direct route likely cause of U.S. helicopter crash TOKYO — An investigation into a U.S. military helicopter crash that killed 13 people during earthquake rescue operations in Nepal has found that the likely cause was the crew’s decision to use the most direct route to bring out the injured, taking the flight over unfamiliar terrain in bad weather.

U.S. Marines based in Japan said in a news release Saturday that the UH-1Y “Huey” helicopter is believed to have been either enveloped by rapidly developing clouds or lifted into a cloud by air currents before crashing in the mountainous area on May 12.

All 13 on board died, including six Marines, two Nepalese soldiers and five injured civilians.

The U.S. relief mission was deployed after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck Nepal on April 25, killing more than 8,200 people.

Sharp contrast in tone between top 2 finishers in Haiti presidential election PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The top finisher in last month’s first-round presidential voting already refers to himself as Haiti’s leader while the No. 2 vote-getter is contesting preliminary results he says were tainted by fraud and don’t reflect the will of voters.

There was a sharp contrast in tone and message Friday between government-backed candidate Jovenel Moise and former state construction chief Jude Celestin. A preliminary tally released by Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council put them at the top of the 54-candidate field, setting up a late December runoff between the two.

Leading candidate Moise was largely celebratory, expressing gratitude to voters while referring to himself as “the president of all Haitians” at an upscale hotel. Electoral authorities say the agricultural entrepreneur hand-picked as President Michel Martel-

Mexico steps up search for escaped tiger, seizes 3 other Bring on the big cats MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities said Friday they are intensifying efforts to trap a tiger that escaped from a restaurant zoo on the country’s southern Pacific coast.

Tracks from the tiger named “Ankor” were found about 10 kilometres from the private zoo he escaped from on Oct. 26 in the township of Coyuca de Benitez, west of the resort of Acapulco.

Experts from Mexico’s Environmental Protection agency said the tiger was in an area dotted with marshes, reeds and stands of button mangrove.

Photos of the dense vegetation suggested the tiger had chosen a pretty good area to hide out in, and the agency did not say how it planned to trap him.

The owner of a ranch about a mile (two kilometres) from the restaurant found five of his cows dead earlier this week, and the tiger is suspected in that case.

The agency issued a statement saying it “recommends that the population not approach” the area, and said it was setting up a plan to capture Ankor without hurting him.

Authorities also seized another tiger, a lion and a jaguar from the zoo, known as the “Mangrove Paradise,” and took them to a zoo park in the central state of Hidalgo for safekeeping.

It said the owners of the Mangrove Paradise had not provided adequate security measures nor properly cared for the big cats.

They had been confined in bare concrete-and-steel cages.

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Celestin was far more austere at an unadorned office of his political faction called Lapeh, or “Peace,” denouncing alleged widespread fraud and accusing the Provisional Electoral Council of acting “undemocratically.” He got 25.2 per cent in the official tally, trailing Moise by 117,602 votes.

He told reporters he is working to create a coalition of other presidential candidates who assert the recent elections and ballot-counting process was too problematic for the preliminary count to be legitimate.

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Prosecutors say he arranged a tryst with a Huntington Beach police officer who was posing online as a 14-year-old girl.

Enciso was carrying condoms and the tickets when he was arrested.

He was fired immediately.

South Florida man gets year in prison for biting small dog WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Florida man has been sentenced to a year in prison for biting a small dog on the face and choking him so hard his eye popped out.

Local media reports that a Palm Beach County judge sentenced 37-yearold David Etzel on Friday.

He was convicted Tuesday of felony animal cruelty.

Etzel’s mother told deputies in April that her 6-foot-8-inch, 375-pound son had been drinking and was teasing her shih tzu named Cujo, prompting the dog to bite him. She said Etzel then bit the dog back.

Veterinarians were able to put Cujo’s eye back in, but officials say the animal is permanently blind in that eye.

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ABOVE and BELOW: Nicknamed ‘The Blue Ghost,’ the USS Lexington was built during the Second World War for the U.S. Navy. Today it’s a museum ship docked in Corpus Christi, Tex. It’s a U.S. National Historic landmark.

Engaging military

When you think of military tour- I wasn’t prepared for the intense emoism you might picture a group of high tions I felt the first time I visited Pearl school students or Royal Harbor on the Hawaiian isCanadian Legion members land of Oahu. touring the battlefields of I was there for a beach Europe and learning about vacation and since this was the history of Canada in the a U.S. military site and not Great Wars. a Canadian one, I had a caAnd while that is defisual attitude about it. As I nitely one form of military watched a film about Pearl tourism, many popular tourHarbor and then wandered ist destinations have miliaround the site, I was trutary sites and museums that ly touched. I realized this make interesting stops as wasn’t just U.S. history, it part of a vacation experiwas world history. ence.

Over many years of travDEBBIE Taking time to visit these el, we’ve made a point of OLSEN sites with your children stopping at these kinds of not only helps to educate sites when we are in a desTRAVEL them about world military tination. We’ve visited milhistory, it shows them that itary graveyards, historical you value the sacrifices that have been sites and war museums on several conmade to preserve freedom and helps tinents and heard the story of war from them come to appreciate those sacri- different perspectives. As often as posfices themselves. sible we have taken our children along Visiting a military site can evoke a and besides being a learning experivariety of responses in adults and kids. ence, we’ve had fun together. They’ve

climbed inside submarines and imagined living there, hopped in old airplanes and played with the controls, and stepped onto aircraft carriers and listened to the stories of war. They had fun doing these things and we hope they learned something along the way.

Here are a few suggestions for sites you can visit in popular tourist destinations. If possible bring your kids along.

Pearl Harbor — Oahu, Hawaii There is much to see at Pearl Harbor, but the two key sites are the Arizona Memorial and the Battleship Missouri Memorial. These two sites represent the start and finish of Second World War for the United States. The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7,

1941, killed 2,388 Americans and propelled the U.S. into the Second World War. The war ended on Sept 2, 1945, aboard the Missouri when Japanese leaders signed formal surrender documents in a ceremony presided over by General Douglas MacArthur.

A visit to Pearl Harbor can be a somber experience, but there are also fun hands-on things for kids. Be sure to take time to wander around the grounds and let your kids explore various pieces of military equipment.

They’ll love climbing aboard the ships and submarines and hopefully they’ll learn something and feel something for those who fought in the Second World War in the process. (pearlharborhistoricsites.org)

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‘TAKING TIME TO VISIT THESE SITES WITH YOUR CHILDREN NOT ONLY HELPS TO EDUCATE THEM ABOUT WORLD MILITARY HISTORY, IT SHOWS THEM THAT YOU VALUE THE SACRIFICES THAT HAVE BEEN MADE TO PRESERVE FREEDOM AND HELPS THEM COME TO APPRECIATE THOSE SACRIFICES THEMSELVES.’ — DEBBIE OLSEN

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ABOVE LEFT: Military sites can be both fun and educational. Kids love to climb inside military equipment and play with all the controls as pictured here at Pearl Harbor. They also love to imagine themselves living on a submarine or navy ship. This kind of imagining helps to bring history alive and make it personal.

ABOVE RIGHT: The DMZ is one of the most popular tourism sites in South Korea.

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LEFT: Catch a gondola near the Jewish ghetto and you’ll pay half as much as you would near the Grand Canal.

RIGHT: The neighbourhood that gave the world the word ghetto is today a quiet neighbourhood surrounding a large campo with restaurants, Jewish institutions and five synagogues.

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that set more battle records than any other carrier in the history of naval aviation. You’ll also learn interesting facts. In the ship’s galley, we learned that the sailors consumed 640 litres of milk, 300 kg of meat and 97 dozen eggs each day. There are historical aircraft on board and kids have fun sitting inside the cockpits of select ones or sitting in the captain’s chair of the ship that was nicknamed “The Blue Ghost.” (usslexington.com)

USS Lexington — Corpus Christi, Tex.

The DMZ — South Korea

Just outside Corpus Christi sits a unique military museum that helps visitors understand what life was like for many servicemen during the Second World War. You might think the USS Lexington was just a military aircraft carrier, but after you tour the ship you realize that to the 3500 sailors onboard, it was a floating city. As you wander through this enormous vessel, you can see where sailors slept, ate, and lived during wartime. You can also see the 45-bed hospital, the dental clinic, explore the engine room and sit in the command centre of the vessel

The demilitarised zone (DMZ) that separates North and South Korea has become a popular tourist site in South Korea. Thousands of visitors to South Korea travel via tour bus to the edge of this heavily guarded stretch of land just to see the fortifications and gaze across to the North. Since the two sides occasionally fire at each other through the DMZ, some say it is the most dangerous place on earth. These days, I would beg to differ, but there is no doubt that it is a fascinating tour.

I couldn’t help but think of the 26,000 Canadians who fought and the 516 who died in the Korean War conflict when

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issue with its dock.

The park service said Thursday officials noticed bolts connecting the dock to the memorial were stressed.

Visitors may still board boats to the memorial and float past it. They will also be able to see battleship’s remnants. But they won’t be able to disembark the boats and walk on the memorial.

The Arizona Memorial is an openair structure honouring the 1,177 sailors and Marines killed when their battleship was bombed by Japanese planes on Dec. 7, 1941. The memorial sits above the sunken hull of the vessel in Pearl Harbor.

Visitors ride boats to the memorial from a visitors centre on shore.

I visited the DMZ. (english.visitkorea. or.kr)

The Jewish Ghetto — Venice, Italy In most big cities, if you find out where the ghetto is, you are wise to avoid it, but Venice’s Jewish Ghetto is a definite exception. In 1516, a closed neighbourhood for Venetian Jews was created. It was the world’s first ghetto and it is where the present day word “ghetto” is derived. While it is not a military site, it has a story to tell about intolerance - something that is at the heart of many conflicts. Visitors to the Jewish Ghetto can learn its history over the ages and what happened to the Venetian Jews during WWII. (museoebraico.it) Organization of Military Museums of Canada You don’t have to travel far to explore Canada’s military history. Canada has some exceptional military sites and museums that are recognized as part of the Organization of Military Museums of Canada (OMMC). There are 11 sites in Alberta including the social media police, and there won’t be any signal blockers. But staff likely will offer gentle reminders that no posting is allowed inside the private room. Christie says those who post anyway risk losing their exclusive but free membership to the club.

Museum opens exhibit featuring life of Billy Graham

Military Museums of Calgary (themilitarymuseums.ca), which are housed in Western Canada’s largest military museum complex devoted to educating visitors on the victories, tragedies and sacrifices of the Canadian Armed Forces. At the museums, you can walk through a WWI trench, witness a bomber squadron’s mission over enemy territory or enter a WWII wheelhouse. A special Remembrance Day ceremony is held at the museums on November 11.

Canada’s national military museum, The Canadian War Museum, is located in Ottawa. It contains a vast collection of 13,000 artefacts, military vehicles and artillery. Key events and defining moments in Canadian military history are highlighted. The Memorial Hall contains a single artefact: the headstone of the Unknown Soldier from the First World War. (www.warmuseum.ca) Debbie Olsen is a Lacombe-based freelance writer. If you have a travel story you would like to share or know someone with an interesting travel story that we might interview, please email: DOGO@ telusplanet.net or write to: Debbie Olsen, c/o Red Deer Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, Alta., T4R 1M9.

Remarkable Journey of Faith,” opens on Friday in Raleigh, one day before Graham celebrates his 97th birthday.

The 5,000-square-foot exhibit explores his life as well as a ministry that spanned seven decades. It includes personal memorabilia, interactive displays, and multimedia that help bring Graham’s story to life.

In addition, the exhibit also provides glimpses into Graham’s family life, his leadership and influence in the Cold War and in the battle against segregation.

Also included in the exhibit is a look at each of Graham’s 12 crusades in North Carolina and other appearances in the U.S. and overseas.

OTTAWA — Arctic cruise operator RALEIGH, N.C. — A new exhibit at Adventure Canada, which offers jourthe N.C. Museum of History chronicles neys through the Northwest Passage, is the life of the Rev. Billy Graham in among winners of the Canadian Musetime to celebrate a milestone. um of Nature’s 2015 Nature Inspiration The exhibit, “North Carolina’s Awards.

Favorite Son: Billy Graham and His The Mississauga, Ont.-based company promotes environmental sustainability through educational voyages that include guided hikes, lectures and workshops, the museum said.

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An adventurer scales one of the two rock-climbing walls in downtown Chicago’s Maggie Daley Park.

CHICAGO HAS THREE NEW SPACES FOR ADULTS TO CHANNEL THEIR INNER CHILD Virgin Hotel

BY ANNE CALCAGNO SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Play makes for happier children and resurrects the inner child in the rest of us. Applying this philosophy to urban planning, Chicago has inaugurated three bold venues in the past year that season childlike exuberance with just the right jolt of grown-up creativity.

An underground garage’s leaking roof was transformed into a game-changing verdant park, a foreclosed bank was reinterpreted as a cheeky hotel, and a derelict rail line has been repurposed into an urban-cool bike and hike trail.

Welcome to Chicago’s newest playgrounds.

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It’s only a short walk from the park to the former Old Dearborn Bank Building, now recast into the very first Virgin Hotel. Flamboyant founder Richard Branson’s vision: “We’re here to wake up the industry and bring back the fun.”

And the 250-room hotel certainly seems to be animated by a wacky sense of humor. The red carpeting in the entry hall tumbles down the stairs, mimicking a spilled bucket of red paint.

The restroom signs feature crouched desperate-to-go male and female icons.

The framed art reinterprets European masterpieces with stuffed animals.

(Think “Fluffy with a Pearl Earring.”)

The hotel is pet-friendly — a sign reads: “Heavy Petting Encouraged” — and red-collared white dog statues stand guard outside what the hotel refers to as your “chambers.” Why not your “room”? Because even the single room I visited had a sliding door separating the dressing room from the sleeping lounge, hence two “chambers.” Note that such internal doors are outfitted with teasingly suggestive peepholes.

Everywhere, little placards direct through wordplay. The basket under the sink says, “Throwing in the towel never felt so good.” Directions to the hotel’s wraparound rooftop terrace promise, “Girls like it on top.”

From the “Greek Wedgie” salad at Miss Ricky’s diner to the Funny Library’s picture books and retro games, to the trophy room featuring wire-beaded safari animals and gigantic fake beetles, Virgin plays tonguein-cheek. I cotton to the hotel’s Web page, “The Know,” where people making reservations can personalize the contents of their mini fridge. When travel brings on my inner cranky child, it’s pretty cool to not have to bug Mom

Chicago’s official motto is Urbs in Horto, or City in a Garden, and it feels truer now that its downtown boasts 20 new acres of lush green parkland honoring Maggie Daley, the late wife of former Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley. Set atop the now-repaired underground garage and connected to Millennium Park via a pedestrian bridge, Maggie Daley Park completes a 45-acre tract that Mike Kelly, superintendent of the Chicago Park District, describes as “the largest combined green roof area in the United States.”

The park, which opened in December, rises along the west side of busy Lakeshore Drive. Shrubs, perennials and more than 1,400 trees outline play areas with primary-colored equipment in a landscape design that ranges from wild native prairie plantings to elegant rows of evergreens.

It’s a hilly landscape, created by stacking and molding 71,000 cubic yards of polystyrene-based geofoam, then burying them under horticultural soil. Amid Illinois’s pancake-flat terrain, Kelly says happily, “We will have valleys for the first time!”

The dips and peak encourage surprise, says Martin Roura, of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, the architectural landscaping firm that designed Maggie Daley Park.

“We’ve all been kids,” he says. “It’s always great to keep discovering things, not knowing what’s going to be around the corner.”

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The 606 Two miles northwest of the Loop is the 606, named for Chicago’s Zip code prefix and the city’s version of Manhattan’s High Line (but almost twice as long). Pointedly inaugurated on 6/06/15, Chicago’s newest baby is a decade in the making and still growing. While the wheel-friendly plaza and solar observatory are still under construction, all the runners, skaters, skateboarders, dog walkers and bikers zooming past sumacs and poplars aren’t pausing to worry.

The 2.7-mile trail has linked and revitalized four congested neighborhoods — Bucktown, Wicker Park, Humboldt Park and Logan Square — that had been chopped up by the abandoned Bloomingdale rail line. Amid the squeals and chatter of perambulating families, I can almost hear the chaching of rising real estate values.

Part of the 606’s mission is to thrive as a “living work of art” through rotating temporary art installations. On one late June afternoon, I passed a sky-blue billboard that framed linguist and artist Kay Rosen’s work: an eye-level alphabet that reads “ABCDEFGHI” — revealing a sudden greeting. On a lower wall façade, Chicago’s Gallery 37 Youth Arts alumnus and

Project Onward member Louis deMarco has painted murals of colorful gridded clouds, which he describes as “emotional periodic charts” that help guide him through the ups and down of his autism.

At a spot called Graffiti Gardens, funded by the Chicago Cultural Center, I stop my bike to watch dozens of graffiti artists spray-painting in broad daylight. I meet BBoyB, Flash and BreakerRay, of the Artistic Bombing Crew, neighborhood kids who used to dodge the police now grown and replaying the area’s rebellious art history under city auspices. Flash is the historian: “If you go back to 1984, you’ve got Puerto Rican and Mexican gangs on either side of the train tracks. This art form, started out by kids, is defiant.” BBoyB adds, “You went through the ranks, from tagger to bomber to graffiti writer to graffiti artist. How cool, here now, it comes full circle.”

Flash said: “When graffiti is seen as an art form, the neighborhood improves.” He points to a wall emblazoned with the word “Herencia,” Spanish for heritage, and decorated with playful figures. “The comic characters — Cantinflas, Tin Tan, Chapulin and Cri-Cri — reference the heritage of cartoons we Mexican kids watched.”

If I had chalk right now, I’d color up the sidewalk. Go on, Chicago: Keep breaking ground, especially when you uncover the fountains of youth within.

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BY ADVOCATE STAFF Rebels 4 Raiders 0 PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — Consistency was the key for the Red Deer Rebels as they opened a five-game Western Hockey League road trip Friday on a positive note.

The Rebels were the better team basically from start to finish while recording a convincing 4-0 win over the Prince Albert Raiders in front of 2,651 customers at the Art Hauser Centre.

“It was a solid game on our part right from the get-go, a good 60-minute effort,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “For 60 minutes we played the way we want to play.

“We were strong on the forecheck and our neutral-zone play and defending was very good. And Tother (netminder Rylan Toth) made the saves when he had to.”

Grayson Pawlenchuk’s goal — his eighth of the season — at 4:06 of the first period stood up as the winner.

With the Rebels on the power play, the

third-year forward tipped Haydn Fleury’s point shot past Raiders netminder Rylan Parenteau.

Fleury extended Red Deer’s lead with his fifth of the season at 13:08 of the middle frame and Adam Musil and Evan Polei — at 13:53 and 18:18 of the third period, respectively — closed out the scoring.

The Rebels were one-for-three on the power play and their penalty kill was four-for-four.

“We got a power-play goal and did a very good job of killing penalties. And

the Raiders have a good power play,” said Sutter. “Our overall game, right from the opening faceoff right through, was very solid.”

Clearly, there were no passengers on the Rebels bench Friday.

“We had four lines going strong and our defence and Tother were consistent throughout the game,” said Sutter.

“We kept our mistakes to a minimum and we had a playoff-type mindset in the way we played the game.

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Penguins back on track

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Pittsburgh 2 Edmonton 1 EDMONTON — The tough start to the season for the Pittsburgh Penguins seems far behind them now.

Phil Kessel’s fifth goal of the season stood up as the winner as the Penguins won their sixth game in a row, defeating the Edmonton Oilers 2-1 on Friday.

Daniel Sprong also scored for the Penguins (9-4-0), who have won nine of their last 10 games after an 0-3 start to the season.

Sprong was inserted into the lineup to take the place of Pens forward Pascal Dupuis, who was taken to the hospital as a precaution prior to the game after experiencing symptoms that were apparently similar to his blood clot history.

“He went for precautionary tests before the game and the tests came back negative,” said Penguins head coach Mike Johnston. “He’ll be re-evaluated in Pittsburgh. We want to make sure so he’ll get checked out and won’t play tomorrow night.

“Spronger came back into the lineup after two games out and I thought he played well.”

Kessel’s goal came on the power play, which he said is coming along nicely.

“We’re getting better, we’re starting to improve,” he said. “We had chances, but, a little crisper and we’ll be better.”

Oscar Klefbom responded for the Oilers (5-9-0), who have lost two of their last three.

“It was a game of bounces tonight,” said Oilers forward Matt Hendricks.

“We just couldn’t find the back of the net. We had at least three posts tonight. We were right there to the end with some good opportunities, but we just weren’t able to finish.

Edmonton head coach Todd McLellan said there were some positives against a tough team.

“I don’t want us to accept losing, but the approach to the game, the effort the build throughout the night, because I didn’t think we were real strong in the first period, the resiliency those were all positives for us,” he said. “But I don’t want us to acknowledge that losing is fine, because it isn’t.”

Pittsburgh appeared to have scored

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Pittsburgh Penguins’ Sidney Crosby (87) battles with Edmonton Oilers’ Griffin Reinhart (8) during first period NHL action, in Edmonton, on Friday. with four minutes left in the first period on a power-play goal by Patric Hornqvist, but a coach’s challenge video review determined that the Penguins were offside on the play and the goal was disallowed.

The Penguins had 15 first-period shots on Edmonton goalie Anders Nilsson, while the Oilers only had five on Pens starter Jeff Zatkoff, playing in just his second game.

Edmonton got on the board just 45 seconds into the middle frame as Klefbom crossed the blue line and unleashed a rocket that beat Zatkoff up

high.

Pittsburgh tied the game with 11 minutes left in the second as Matt Cullen won a battle on the boards and fed it in front for Sprong, who scored his second goal of the season.

The Penguins went up 2-1 midway through the third as a power-play shot

by Kessel hit the hand of defender Brandon Davidson and deflected past Nilsson.

Edmonton came close to tying it with two minutes left, but a Leon Draisaitl shot rang off the post.

The Penguins return to action on

Saturday against the Flames in Calgary. The Oilers start a four-game road trip in Chicago on Sunday.

Notes: Oilers winger Jordan Eberle made his season debut after missing the first 13 games of the season with a shoulder injury sustained in a pre-season game on Sept. 29… It was Edmonton’s first game this year without young phenom Connor McDavid, who suffered a broken collar bone in Tuesday’s win against Philadelphia and could be out for up to three months.

Salmon rock-solid in Kings’ win over Griffins

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Kings 3 Griffins 2 PENHOLD — The popular opinion is that carrying three goaltenders at any level of advanced hockey is a nono.

Red Deer College Kings head coach Trevor Keeper wouldn’t have it any other way.

When RDC stopper Kraymer Barnstable went down with a groin injury in the first period of Friday’s Alberta Colleges Men’s Hockey League game against the visiting Grant MacEwan Griffins, Keeper tapped Mike Salmon on the shoulder.

Salmon not only proved to be an adequate replacement for Barnstable, he was rock-solid while turning aside 30 of the 32 shots he faced the rest of the way and was the key component in a 3-2 Kings victory.

With Barnstable expected to be out for at least a week, the Kings won’t have to worry about goaltending depth with Devon Fordyce also in the stable.

Barnstable left the game at 14:06 of the opening frame, roughly 12 minutes after teammate Jordan McTaggart opened the scoring. The Kings were outshot 15-10 in the period but held their lead thanks to Barnstable’s 12 saves and three stops from Salmon.

“We ran into a bit of adversity in the first period. Kraymer had been

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After colliding with MacEwan University Giffin Tyler Palmer, Red Deer College King Pat Martins reaches for the puck during first period action at the Penhold Regional Multiplex on Friday. playing really well and then he pulled his groin,” said Keeper. “Sammy had to come in off the bench and that distracted us a bit, it took away from our focus.

“But I thought that Mike Salmon might have won the game for us with his play in the second period. I thought he played really well.”

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

The Red Deer product was indeed sharp in the middle frame, stopping everything he faced as the Kings were outshot 17-5.

The hosts were stronger in the final frame but were outshot 44-28 overall.

“It was tough, we had four penalty kills and didn’t have any power plays today,” said Keeper. “That’s one of the

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main reasons we got outshot. We spent a lot of energy killing penalties, but our penalty kill was three-for-four and did a good job.”

Connor Hartley upped the Kings’ lead to 2-0 at 1:38 of the final frame, capping a three-on-one break, but the Griffins battled back with a goal from Stephen Zipp — on an in-close deflection — four minutes later and pulled even when defenceman Tyler Palmer scored from the point at 9:21 during a power play.

McTaggart notched his second of the game just 1:29 later and the goal stood up as the winner.

“The important thing is our players found a way to stay focused and found a way to get a 3-2 win in a tough game,” said Keeper.

Salmon will get the call again tonight when the teams meet in Edmonton, with Fordyce available in a relief role.

“We’ve got three great goalies this year,” said Keeper. “Devon Fordyce will have to back up tomorrow but we trust all of them and stats-wise they’re all in the top five in the league.

“Last year we didn’t have that third goalie and both of our guys were injured at different times. As a result, we lost some games we probably should have won.”

Griffins netminder Chris Wray finished with 25 saves. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Argos bid adieu to Rogers Centre with win RAY AND HARRIS THROW TD PASSES TO SEAL VICTORY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Argonauts 21 Blue Bombers 11 TORONTO — Ricky Ray and Trevor Harris threw TD passes to lead Toronto past the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 21-11 on Friday night in the Argonauts’ final game at Rogers Centre.

Ray earned his second straight start but gave way to Harris in the second quarter after firing a TD strike to Dave Stala that staked Toronto to an early 9-3 lead. Harris, who was the Argos’ starter for their first 16 games, also had a scoring pass to Stala in the second half before a Rogers Centre gathering of 17,511.

That could set up an interesting scenario this week regarding who’ll start for Toronto (10-8) when it visits either Hamilton or Ottawa in next weekend’s East Division semifinal. Fortunately for the Argos, they’ll enter the playoffs on a positive note after

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snapping a three-game losing streak.

But questions exist regarding the playoff status of Swayze Waters. The veteran was scheduled to handle field goal and punting duties Friday but felt tightness during the pre-game warmup, leaving former Bomber Justin Palardy to handle all kicking duties.

Winnipeg (5-13) ended its season with a third straight loss to finish fourth in the West Division and out of the post-season. But Bombers head coach Mike O’Shea, who played 12 seasons at linebacker in Toronto, was inducted as an All-Time Argo at halftime.

Winnipeg rookie Dominique Davis, in his first CFL start, was 16-of-25 passing for 169 yards but watched the final minutes of the game from the sidelines with ice taped to his right hamstring.

The game was Toronto’s last at Rogers Centre after 27 seasons. The Argos will move into a refurbished BMO Field next season.

Toronto lost its regular-season debut at Rogers

Winning netminder Brian Wilson stopped 29 shots. Kurtis Chapman made 34 saves for the Grizzlys, who host the Oilers tonight at 7 p.m.

quarter-final action, then hammered the Sacramento Reds 26-7 in a semifinal contest.

The Red Deer squad will face the Chicago Mudville 9 in the championship game today.

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Old timers still swinging their big bats

seven kills, five blocks and one ace.

Meanwhile, the Queens fell 3-2 to the Trojans in women’s play. The visitors dropped the first set 18-25, won the next two 27-25, 25-22, then lost 1725, 7-15.

• OLDS – The RDC hockey Queens got goals from Emily Swier and Kirsten Brown and a 16-save shutout performance from Jen West in a 2-0 win over the Olds Broncos Friday.

Losing netminder Tracie Kikuchi made 18 saves.

• OLDS — The RDC basketball Kings were 115-107 winners over the Olds Broncos in men’s action, while the Queens came up short in the women’s match, falling 69-66 to their hosts.

RDC vollyeball teams split meeting with SAIT

Oilers squeak by Grizzlys OKOTOKS — The Okotoks Oilers scored a goal in each period Friday en route to a 3-1 AJHL win over the Olds Grizzlys in front of 785 fans.

Trey DeGraaf, Braeden Nesbitt and Matt McNair tallied for the Oilers, while Wyatt Noskey potted the lone Grizzlys goal.

PHOENIX, Ariz. — The Red Deer Gary Moe Volkswagen Legends had their hitting shoes on Friday in the 60-and-over division of the World Amateur Baseball Championship.

The defending champion Legends blitzed the Milwaukee Rattlers 18-0 in

Centre — then called SkyDome — 24-15 to Hamilton on July 12, 1989. Overall, the Argos compiled a 12296-1 record under the dome and won the 100th Grey Cup there in 2012.

Palardy booted two field goals, a convert and two singles.

Sergio Castillo accounted for all of Winnipeg’s points, kicking three field goals and two singles.

Castillo hit from 48 yards out on the final play of the opening half to cut Toronto’s lead to 12-7. Ray’s 13-yard pass to Stala at 10:33 of the second was the lone TD of the half and was set up by a great play-action fake to Chad Kackert — who had earlier ripped three runs for 39 yards.

With plenty of time, Ray calmly threw to a wideopen Stala, who after scoring booted the ball into the stands. Ray finished 9-of-12 passing for 99 yards before giving way to Harris.

Davis was 12-of-17 passing for 123 yards.

CALGARY — The RDC volleyball Kings rallied for a 3-2 win over the SAIT Trojans Friday.

After dropping the first two sets 20-25, 23-25, the Kings came on strong with 25-15, 25-21, 15-6 victories. Ty Moorman was selected as the RDC player of the match after contributing

Jays give Estrada a qualifying offer current collective bargaining agreement, none of the 34 qualifying offers was taken as free agents sought contracts with longer terms.

Teams had easy decisions in making offers to top pitchers such as Zack Greinke (Dodgers), Jordan Zimmermann (Washington) and John Lackey (St. Louis), and to hitters such as outfielder Jason Heyward (Cardinals) and first baseman Chris Davis (Baltimore).

For a less-sought-after free agent, a qualifying offer could dampen his market because clubs hesitate to give up a high draft pick.

“I expect free agent compensation will be an important part of bargaining in 2016, as it has been over our entire history,” players’ association head Tony Clark said last off-season.

The 30-year-old Murphy homered

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The qualifying offers are in. Based on recent history, few if any big leaguers will accept.

Second baseman Daniel Murphy and outfielder Colby Rasmus were among a record 20 free agents who received $15.8 million qualifying offers before Friday’s deadline.

With teams sensing that starting pitching will be prized, Jeff Samardzija (Chicago White Sox), Marco Estrada (Toronto), Yovani Gallardo (Texas), Ian Kennedy (San Diego), Wei-Yin Chen (Baltimore), Hisashi Iwakuma (Seattle) and Brett Anderson (Los Angeles Dodgers) also received offers.

Players have until Nov. 13 to accept.

In the three previous offseasons of the

in a record six straight post-season games for the New York Mets but then slumped in the World Series, hitting .150 (3 for 20) and making key errors in Games 4 and 5. He batted .281 during the regular season with 73 RBIs and a career-best 14 homers.

Rasmus hit .238 with a career-high 25 homers and 61 RBIs for Houston, then batted .412 in the post-season with four homers, six RBIs and seven talks.

Others who received offers were catcher Matt Wieters (Baltimore), second baseman Howie Kendrick (Dodgers), shortstop Ian Desmond (Nationals), and outfielders Alex Gordon (Kansas City), Dexter Fowler (Chicago Cubs) and Justin Upton (San Diego).

This year’s total was up from nine in 2012, 13 in 2013 and 12 last year.

An offer could be made only to a free agent who was with the team for the entire season, a provision blocking Toronto from making an offer to pitcher David Price and the Mets from giving one to outfielder Yoenis Cespedes. The price was determined by the average of the top 125 major league contracts this year by average annual value.

If a team made a qualifying offer to a player who signs a major league contract with another club before the June amateur draft, his former club would receive a draft pick as compensation at the end of the first round.

The club signing that player loses its first-round pick in the amateur draft, unless that pick is among the top 10, in which case the club signing that player loses its next-highest pick.

Raptors suffer first loss of the season on the road in Orlando DEROZAN LEADS RAPS WITH 23 POINTS, LOWRY HELD TO 17 Magic 92 Raptors 87 ORLANDO, Fla. — With several early season matchups against playoff-calibre teams, the Orlando Magic have been flirting with posting a signature win.

They finally got one, at the expense of one of the league’s hottest teams.

Tobias Harris had 20 points, including what turned out to be the decisive free throw, and the Magic handed the Toronto Raptors their first loss of the season, 92-87 on Friday night.

Victor Oladipo added 18 points, and reserve C.J. Watson had 12 as the Magic snapped an 11-game losing streak to the Raptors.

“That’s what we have to do,” Magic coach Scott Skiles said. “When a team might not have their ‘A’ game, and we’re doing something to affect their game, we need to take advantage of it.”

Trailing 88-86 after Harris’ free throw, Toronto had a chance to take the lead but Jonas Valanciunas

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REBELS: Build off of win “That’s what we want to build off of … that’s how we have to play.”

Toth made 34 saves while recording his first shutout of the season and the second of his WHL career.

“We didn’t give up a lot, even though they got some shots,” said Sutter. “We kept a lot of them to the outside.

“But Tother played well, he came up big when he

was forced to put up an awkward runner that rolled off the rim, and was rebounded by Orlando.

The Magic played without starting centre Nik Vucevic, who sat with a bone bruise in his right knee.

The loss ended what had been a franchise-best 5-0 start for Toronto.

DeMar DeRozan led the Raptors with 23 points, while Cory Joseph had 19, and Kyle Lowry added 17.

Entering Friday it had been hard to spot a weakness in the Raptors’ play this season.

They showed plenty on the offensive end against the Magic.

Toronto struggled shooting the ball all game, finishing 30 of 86 from the field.

But they were able to erase what had been a ninepoint halftime deficit just 1:36 into the third quarter.

Toronto hit eight of their first 10 shots during a 194 run to start the third, taking a 55-49 lead on a threepoint play by Lowry.

The Magic started the quarter 2 for 6 from the field with three turnovers, prompting Skiles to pull all five starters.

The move worked, with the reserves keeping Orlando within striking distance heading into the fourth quarter.

TIP-INS: The Raptors had 18 second-chance points. … Toronto was 5 for 23 from 3-point range. …

Orlando’s Dewayne Dedmon had three blocks. …The Magic had three defensive 3-seconds calls against them in the first half.

PAYTON’S STRUGGLES: Magic starting point guard Elfrid Payton struggled for the fourth straight game, this time going scoreless with two assists and two turnovers. Skiles said the adjustment that the second-year guard needs to make is internal. “He’s got to get himself over it,” Skiles said. “At some point it’s the player’s responsibility to get himself going.

He’s got a lot to learn at that position, like all younger players do, and right now he’s got to dust himself off, pick himself up and come back and have a good game (Saturday).”

had to and as the game went on he got stronger and more confident. He was solid.”

The Rebels improved to 13-5-0-0 with the victory and moved into a first-place tie with the Raiders (124-1-1) in the Eastern Conference.

• The three stars were (1) Toth, (2) Fleury and (3) Parenteau … The Rebels are in Saskatoon tonight to face the Blades, then have a three-day layoff before meeting the Wheat Kings Wednesday afternoon at Brandon. From there, Red Deer plays Friday in Regina and concludes the trip the following evening at Moose Jaw … The Rebels’s next home game is Nov. 20 versus Saskatoon. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Today ● High school football: Central Alberta League Rural Division final — Stettler at Sylvan Lake, 1:30 p.m., H.J. Cody field. ● Major bantam hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Red Deer, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Major bantam girls hockey: Sherwood Park at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Bantam AA hockey: Medicine Hat at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Lethbridge at West Central, 5:30 p.m., Rocky Mountain House. ● High school football: Central Alberta League City Division final — Notre Dame at Hunting Hills, 3 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Rangers at Olds, 3:30 p.m.; Calgary Blazers at Red Deer Elks, 4:45 p.m., Arena; Calgary Blackhawks at Central Alberta, 5:45 p.m., Lacombe. ● College volleyball: SAIT at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. ● WHL: Red Deer at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

(The Drive). ● AJHL: Okotoks at Olds, 7 p.m. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Southeast at Red Deer North Star, 7:30 p.m., Arena. ● Peewee AA hockey: Lethbridge White at Red Deer TBS, 12:30 p.m., Kinsmen A; Central Alberta at Red Deer Parkland, 4:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

Sunday ● Bantam AA hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer Ramada, 1:45 p.m., Kinsmen A; Cranbrook at West Central, 2:45 p.m., Sylvan Lake; Medicine Hat at Central Alberta, 4:30 p.m., Big Valley; Wheatland at Olds, 5:30 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Wheatland at Central Alberta, 2 p.m., Lacombe. ● Major bantam girls hockey: Calgary Outlaws at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Southeast at Red Deer Strata Energy, 2:45 p.m., Arena. ● Peewee AA hockey: Central Alberta at Red Deer Parkland, 12:45 p.m., Kinsmen A; Red Deer TBS at West Central, 2:30 p.m., Bentley; Lethbridge White at Olds, 2:45 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: High River at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m. ● Men’s basketball: Silver Spurs vs.

Rusty Chuckers, Triple A Batteries vs. B Town Maple Jordans, 4:15 and 5:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Prince Albert 18 12 4 1 1 64 54 26 Brandon 17 11 4 0 2 67 46 24 Moose Jaw 17 9 5 2 1 66 52 21 Saskatoon 17 7 7 3 0 58 69 17 Swift Current 17 7 8 2 0 44 51 16 Regina 15 7 7 1 0 40 52 15 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Red Deer 18 13 5 0 0 70 50 26 Lethbridge 16 11 5 0 0 69 50 22 Calgary 19 9 9 0 1 51 67 19 Edmonton 18 6 9 3 0 47 59 15 Medicine Hat 14 5 6 2 1 51 57 13 Kootenay 18 4 12 2 0 42 74 10 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Victoria 19 13 5 0 1 62 37 27 Kelowna 16 11 5 0 0 62 49 22 Prince George 14 8 6 0 0 39 37 16 Kamloops 14 6 8 0 0 46 50 12 Vancouver 15 4 8 2 1 43 63 11 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Seattle 16 9 6 1 0 56 44 19 Spokane 17 7 7 2 1 48 63 17 Portland 14 7 7 0 0 41 34 14 Everett 11 6 4 0 1 24 25 13 Tri-City 16 6 9 1 0 49 56 13 z-league title y-conference title d-division leader x-clinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top two positions per conference regardless of points a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns Friday’s results Red Deer 4 Prince Albert 0 Swift Current 3 Regina 1 Moose Jaw 7 Saskatoon 4 Victoria 4 Brandon 1 Lethbridge 5 Seattle 2 Edmonton 4 Calgary 1 Kootenay 4 Medicine Hat 3 (OT) Kelowna at Portland, 8 p.m.

Kamloops at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Prince George at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Today’s games Victoria at Regina, 6 p.m.

Prince Albert at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Brandon at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Red Deer at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Seattle at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Kelowna at Portland, 8 p.m.

Prince George at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Vancouver at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

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

Wednesday, Nov. 11 Red Deer at Brandon, 3 p.m.

Vancouver at Kelowna, 3:05 p.m.

Everett at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

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

Friday, Nov. 13 Lethbridge at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Red Deer at Regina, 6 p.m.

Saskatoon at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Kootenay at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Tri-City at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Swift Current at Portland, 8 p.m.

Edmonton at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Seattle at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Kamloops at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Spokane at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

1. Red Deer, Pawlenchuk 8 (Fleury, Nikolishin) 4:06 (pp).

Penalties — Glover P.A. (tripping) 2:53, Kelly P.A. (tripping) 10:30.

Second Period 2. Red Deer, Fleury 5 (Kopeck, Musil) 13:08.

Penalties — Nogier RD (slashing) 4:33, Yorke P.A. (checking to the head) 7:15, Strand RD (holding) 14:02, Stransky P.A. (fighting) 16:44, Johnson RD (fighting) 16:44, Johnson RD (roughing) 16:44.

Third Period 3. Red Deer, Musil 4 (Johnson) 13:53.

4. Red Deer, Polei 8 (De Wit) 18:18.

Penalties — Nogier RD (roughing) 5:39, Williamson P.A. (fighting) 9:25, De Wit RD (fighting) 9:25.

Shots on goal by Red Deer 15 10 14 — 39 Prince Albert 7 16 11 — 34 Goal — Red Deer: Toth (W, 9-4-0) Prince Albert: Parenteau (L, 7-3-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Red Deer: 1-3 Prince Albert: 0-4.

Referees — Reagan Vetter, Cole Hamm.

Linesmen — Derek Craig, Javan Bexson.

Attendance — 2,651 at Prince Albert.

Oil Kings 4, Hitmen 1 First Period 1. Edmonton, Baddock 6 (Gorda, Yewchuk) 16:48.

2. Edmonton, Pollock 6 (Mohr, Mayo) 19:19.

Penalties — Sanheim CAL (hooking) 5:20, Bertolucci Edm (slashing) 8:27, Twarynski CAL (hooking) 11:48.

Second Period 3. Calgary, Houck 8 (Zipp) 9:42.

Penalties — Yewchuk Edm (delay of game) 0:16, Elizarov Edm (roughing) 11:44, Morrison CAL (holding) 17:21, Sanheim CAL (slashing) 18:34.

Third Period 4. Edmonton, Klatt 1 (Bauer) 3:06.

5. Edmonton, Bauer 8 (Meyer, Klatt) 12:33.

Penalties — Koep Edm (hooking) 0:43, Pollock Edm (slashing) 5:22, Mohr Edm (slashing) 9:57, Klatt Edm (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 13:31, Baddock Edm (holding) 15:08.

Shots on goal by Edmonton 19 8 6 — 33 Calgary 8 11 8 — 27 Goal — Edmonton: Dea (W, 4-7-2) Calgary: Burke (L, 3-3-0).

Ice 4, Tigers 3 (OT) First Period 1. Kootenay, Alfaro 2 (Lishchynsky, Wellsby) 11:52.

Penalties — Clouston MH (tripping) 3:18, Patterson Koo (tripping) 8:52, Allbee Koo (hooking) 15:05.

Second Period 2. Kootenay, Hines 1 (Philp, Legien) 6:01.

Penalties — Hoflin Koo (delay of game) 7:25, Clouston MH (roughing) 10:33.

Third Period 3. Medicine Hat, Mowbray 3 (Morrissey) 3:20.

4. Medicine Hat, Mowbray 4 (Morrissey, Kirichenko) 9:17.

5. Medicine Hat, Rassell 4 (unassisted) 12:32.

6. Kootenay, Beattie 2 (Philp, Hines) 19:05.

Penalties — Schultz MH (interference) 1:07, Beattie Koo (interference) 6:48, Clouston MH (cross-checking) 11:18, Dymacek Koo (roughing) 11:18.

Overtime 7. Kootenay, Philp 11 (Dymacek) 2:14.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Medicine Hat 12 10 21 0 — 43 Kootenay 14 9 7 3 — 33 Goal — Medicine Hat: Lotz (LS, 2-2-0) Kootenay: Hoflin (W, 2-9-1).

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FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Rebels 4, Raiders 0 First Period

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NHL Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts 15 12 2 1 25 13 7 4 2 16 15 7 6 2 16 13 7 5 1 15 12 6 5 1 13

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13 5 5 3 13 36 13 5 8 0 10 29 13 2 8 3 7 27 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF N.Y. Rangers 13 9 2 2 20 38 Washington 12 9 3 0 18 40 Pittsburgh 13 9 4 0 18 29 N.Y. Islanders 14 7 4 3 17 39 New Jersey 13 7 5 1 15 33 Philadelphia 13 4 6 3 11 25 Carolina 13 5 8 0 10 27 Columbus 14 4 10 0 8 33 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF Dallas 14 11 3 0 22 50 St. Louis 13 9 3 1 19 36 Nashville 12 8 2 2 18 35 Winnipeg 14 8 4 2 18 42 Minnesota 12 7 3 2 16 37 Chicago 14 7 6 1 15 35 Colorado 14 4 9 1 9 36 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF Los Angeles 13 8 5 0 16 31 Vancouver 13 6 3 4 16 38 San Jose 13 7 6 0 14 38 Arizona 12 6 5 1 13 34 Edmonton 14 5 9 0 10 37 Calgary 14 4 9 1 9 32 Anaheim 12 3 7 2 8 17

31 39 42 GA 24 29 23 35 33 39 38 50 GA 38 31 27 38 35 36 42 GA 28 29 35 34 43 57 31

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Friday’s Games Detroit 2, Toronto 1, OT New Jersey 4, Chicago 2 Dallas 4, Carolina 1 N.Y. Rangers 2, Colorado 1 Pittsburgh 2, Edmonton 1 Columbus at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Today’s Games Vancouver at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

Florida at Los Angeles, 2 p.m.

Boston at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Washington, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Winnipeg, 5 p.m.

St. Louis at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Arizona, 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Calgary, 8 p.m.

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

Sunday’s Games Dallas at Detroit, 1 p.m.

Vancouver at New Jersey, 3 p.m.

Boston at N.Y. Islanders, 3 p.m.

Edmonton at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Penalties — Hayes NYR (hooking) 6:44.

Second Period 2. NY Rangers, Stepan 4 (Zuccarello, McDonagh) 12:42 (pp).

3. NY Rangers, Lindberg 7 (McDonagh, Hayes) 13:03.

Penalties — Miller NYR (hooking) 4:34, Street Col (hooking) 11:51, Kreider NYR (tripping) 13:51, Lindberg NYR (tripping) 18:24.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Soderberg Col (hooking) 3:27, Comeau Col (cross-checking) 6:35, Moore NYR (elbowing) 6:35, Klein NYR (delay of game) 14:42.

Shots on goal by NY Rangers 11 10 12 — 33 Colorado 7 9 14 — 30 Goal — NY Rangers: Lundqvist (W, 7-2-2) Colorado: Berra (L, 1-3-0).

Devils 4, Blackhawks 2 First Period 1. New Jersey, Stempniak 3 (unassisted) 3:48.

2. New Jersey, Palmieri 4 (Zajac) 17:48.

3. New Jersey, Zajac 6 (Severson, Stempniak) 18:14.

Penalties — Garbutt Chi (high-sticking) 11:12, Toews Chi (fighting) 17:54, Henrique NJ (fighting) 17:54.

Second Period 4. New Jersey, Cammalleri 4 (Severson, Palmieri) 7:28.

5. Chicago, Kane 9 (Gustafsson, Shaw) 18:42.

Penalties — Greene NJ (interference) 4:56, Schlemko NJ (high-sticking) 19:39.

Third Period 6. Chicago, Kero 1 (Panarin, Teravainen) 18:34.

Penalties — Larsson NJ (cross-checking) 5:05, Seabrook Chi (holding) 5:15.

Shots on goal by Chicago 8 7 14 — 29 New Jersey 13 8 5 — 26 Goal — Chicago: Crawford (L, 6-4-1) New Jersey: Schneider (W, 7-3-1).

Stars 4, Hurricanes 1 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Hainsey Car (high-sticking) 14:59.

Second Period 1. Carolina, Jo. Staal 2 (E. Staal, Hainsey) 3:41.

2. Dallas, Hemsky 2 (Sceviour, Fiddler) 9:46.

Penalties — None.

Third Period 3. Dallas, Sharp 5 (Seguin) 11:15.

4. Dallas, Faksa 1 (Sceviour, Jo. Benn) 13:20.

5. Dallas, Demers 4 (unassisted) 19:59 (en).

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Dallas 13 8 7 — 28 Carolina 6 13 12 — 31 Goal — Dallas: Lehtonen (W, 5-1-0) Carolina: Lack (L, 1-3-0).

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Penguins 2, Oilers 1 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Plotnikov Pgh (interference) 2:15, Hall Edm (slashing) 3:04, Hendricks Edm (hooking) 14:48.

Second Period 1. Edmonton, Klefbom 2 (Pouliot, Yakupov) :45.

2. Pittsburgh, Sprong 2 (Cullen, Plotnikov) 9:06.

Penalties — Davidson Edm (interference) 11:38.

Third Period 3. Pittsburgh, Kessel 5 (Letang, Crosby) 9:45 (pp).

Penalties — Nilsson Edm (tripping) 9:30, Cole Pgh (delay of game) 15:55.

Shots on goal by Pittsburgh 15 11 7 — 33 Edmonton 5 14 9 — 28 Goal — Pittsburgh: Zatkoff (W, 2-0-0) Edmonton: Nilsson (L, 2-3-0).

RANGERS 2, Avalanche 1 First Period 1. Colorado, MacKinnon 6 (Barrie) 7:13 (pp).

Red Wings 2, Maple Leafs 1 (OT) First Period 1. Detroit, Zetterberg 4 (Larkin, Abdelkader) 16:21.

Penalties — Smith Det (hooking) 18:29.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Ericsson Det (high-sticking) 0:16, Nyquist Det (holding) 15:33.

Third Period 2. Toronto, Phaneuf 1 (Bozak, Parenteau) 18:58.

Penalties — Spaling Tor (high-sticking) 0:06, Bozak Tor (high-sticking) 5:04, Winnik Tor (high-sticking) 13:02, Marchenko Det (tripping) 15:53.

Overtime 3. Detroit, Kindl 2 (Pulkkinen, Tatar) 2:17.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Detroit 9 3 9 3 — 24 Toronto 12 8 13 0 — 33 Goal — Detroit: Mrazek (W, 4-3-0) Toronto: Reimer (LO, 2-2-2).

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MLS Playoffs Knockout Round Wednesday, October 28 D.C. 2 New England 1 Seattle 3 Los Angeles 2 Thursday, October 29 Montreal 3 Toronto 0 Portland 3 Kansas City 2 (so)

CFL East Division W L T PF PA x-Ottawa 11 6 0 420 426 x-Hamilton 10 7 0 502 347 x-Toronto 10 8 0 438 499 Montreal 6 11 0 364 372 West Division GP W L T PF PA y-Edmonton 18 14 4 0 466 341 x-Calgary 17 13 4 0 450 339 x-B.C. 17 7 10 0 430 458 Winnipeg 18 5 13 0 353 502 Saskatchewan 17 2 15 0 400 539 x — clinched playoff berth y — clinched division.

GP 17 17 18 17

Eastern Conference Semifinals Sunday, November 1 New York City 1 D.C. 0 Montreal 2 Columbus 1 Sunday, November 8 D.C. at New York City, 1 p.m.

Montreal at Columbus, 3 p.m.

Western Conference Semifinals Sunday, November 1 Portland 0 Vancouver 0 Seattle 2 Dallas 1 Sunday, November 8 Seattle at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.

Portland at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

GA Pts 9 25 8 25 19 22 8 21 9 20 15 20 13 17 12 17 15 16 11 16 10 16 14 14 15 13 12 13 22 11 23 9 24 8 22 7 25 6 20 4

Today’s Games Bournemouth vs. Newcastle, 1245 GMT Leicester City vs. Watford, 1500 GMT Manchester United vs. West Brom, 1500 GMT Norwich vs. Swansea, 1500 GMT Sunderland vs. Southampton, 1500 GMT West Ham vs. Everton, 1500 GMT Stoke vs. Chelsea, 1730 GMT Sunday’s Games Aston Villa vs. Manchester City, 1330 GMT Arsenal vs. Tottenham, 1600 GMT Liverpool vs. Crystal Palace, 1600 GMT

Golf WGC-HSBC Champions At Sheshan International Golf Club Shanghai Purse: $8.5 million Yardage: 7,261 Par: 72 Second Round Kevin Kisner 64-66—130 Russell Knox 67-65—132 Branden Grace 63-71—134 Patrick Reed 65-70—135 Haotong Li 66-69—135 Bernd Wiesberger 70-66—136 Dustin Johnson 65-71—136 Hunter Mahan 68-68—136 Scott Hend 68-69—137 Byeong Hun an 69-68—137 Matthew Fitzpatrick 68-69—137 Louis Oosthuizen 68-69—137 Ross Fisher 69-69—138 Thorbjorn Olesen 64-74—138 Tommy Fleetwood 67-71—138 Sergio Garcia 68-70—138 Thomas Pieters 67-71—138 Harris English 67-71—138 Daniel Berger 68-71—139 Kiradech Aphibarnrat 69-70—139 Soren Kjeldsen 68-71—139 Paul Casey 67-72—139 James Morrison 69-70—139 Xinjun Zhang 67-72—139 Steven Bowditch 64-75—139 Danny Willett 65-74—139 Gary Woodland 69-71—140 Thongchai Jaidee 72-68—140 Martin Kaymer 69-71—140 Richard T Lee 68-72—140 Rickie Fowler 68-72—140 Rory McIlroy 68-72—140 Emiliano Grillo 69-71—140 Charl Schwartzel 68-72—140 Luke Donald 71-69—140 Jordan Spieth 68-72—140 Lee Westwood 72-69—141 S.S.P Chawrasia 69-72—141 Zecheng Dou 70-71—141 Trevor Fisher Jnr 67-74—141 Marc Leishman 69-72—141 Thomas Aiken 70-71—141 David Howell 73-68—141 Justin Thomas 72-69—141 Bubba Watson 68-73—141 Henrik Stenson 69-72—141 David Lingmerth 70-72—142 Robert Streb 73-69—142 Daniel Summerhays 68-74—142 Scott Piercy 70-73—143 Ian Poulter 72-71—143 Ashun Wu 69-74—143 Andy Sullivan 70-74—144 Matt Jones 74-70—144 Hideki Matsuyama 71-73—144 Cameron Smith 71-73—144

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WEEK 20 Bye: Edmonton Friday’s result Toronto 21 Winnipeg 11 Today’s Games Hamilton at Ottawa, 2 p.m.

Calgary at B.C., 5 p.m.

Sunday’s game Saskatchewan at Montreal, 11 a.m.

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 7 0 0 1.000 249 N.Y. Jets 4 3 0 .571 172 Buffalo 3 4 0 .429 176 Miami 3 4 0 .429 154 South W L T Pct PF Indianapolis 3 5 0 .375 173 Houston 3 5 0 .375 174 Jacksonville 2 5 0 .286 147 Tennessee 1 6 0 .143 125 North W L T Pct PF Cincinnati 8 0 0 1.000 229 Pittsburgh 4 4 0 .500 168 Cleveland 2 7 0 .200 177 Baltimore 2 6 0 .250 190 West W L T Pct PF Denver 7 0 0 1.000 168 Oakland 4 3 0 .571 178

Kansas City San Diego

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NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct N.Y. Giants 4 4 0 .500 Washington 3 4 0 .429 Philadelphia 3 4 0 .429 Dallas 2 5 0 .286 South W L T Pct Carolina 7 0 0 1.000 Atlanta 6 2 0 .750 New Orleans 4 4 0 .500 Tampa Bay 3 4 0 .429 North W L T Pct Green Bay 6 1 0 .857 Minnesota 5 2 0 .714 Chicago 2 5 0 .286 Detroit 1 7 0 .125 West W L T Pct Arizona 6 2 0 .750 St. Louis 4 3 0 .571

195 191

182 227

PF 215 148 160 133

PA 208 168 137 171

PF 191 213 213 163

PA 136 173 234 199

PF 174 147 140 149

PA 130 122 202 245

PF 263 135

PA 153 125

Seattle San Francisco

4 2

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167 109

140 207

Thursday, Nov. 5 Cleveland 10, Cincinnati 31 Sunday, Nov. 8 Tennessee at New Orleans, 11 a.m.

St. Louis at Minnesota, 11 a.m.

Green Bay at Carolina, 11 a.m.

Washington at New England, 11 a.m.

Miami at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at N.Y. Jets, 11 a.m.

Oakland at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m.

Atlanta at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Tampa Bay, 2:05 p.m.

Denver at Indianapolis, 2:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Open: Arizona, Baltimore, Detroit, Houston, Kansas City, Seattle Monday, Nov. 9 Chicago at San Diego, 6:30 p.m.

Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL — Suspended Texas minor league 2B Evan Van Hoosier (High Desert-Cal) 50 games after testing positive for Amphetamine and for a second positive test for a drug of abuse in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League BOSTON RED SOX — Announced RHPs Jean Machi and Alexi Ogando refused outright assignments to become free agents. Sent OF-1B Allen Craig outright to Pawtucket (IL). Signed C Sandy Leon to a a one-year contract and assigned him outright to Pawtucket. Reinstated RHPs Clay Buchholz, Koji Uehara, Anthony Varvaro, Brandon Workman and C Christian Vazquez from the 60-day DL. LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Declined their 2016 contract options on OF David DeJesus. Named Jose Molina catching co-ordinator.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Promoted Billy Owens to assistant general manager/director of player personnel and Dan Feinstein to assistant general manager, pro scouting and player personnel.

Claimed OF Andrew Lambo off waivers from the Pittsburgh Pirates, SEATTLE MARINERS — Claimed OF Dan Robertson off waivers from Los Angeles (AL). Sent RHP JC Ramirez outright to Tacoma (PCL).

TEXAS RANGERS — Reinstated RHPs Yu Darvish and Nick Tepesch and LHP Alex Claudio from the 60-day DL. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Announced RHP Jhoulys Chacin refused outright assignment to become a free agent.

ATLANTA BRAVES — Named Andrew Hauser director of player health and performance, Joe Metz minor league medical co-ordinator, John Pierson minor league hitting co-ordinator, Steve Webber minor league pitching consultant, Kenny Dominguez assistant rehabilitation instructor, Garrett Wilson baseball operations analyst and Noah Woodward major league operations analyst.

CHICAGO CUBS — Claimed RHP Ryan Cook off waivers from the Boston.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Announced OF Justin Ruggiano refused his outright assignment and to become a free agent. Announced OF Chris Heisey cleared outright waivers and became a free agent. Extended qualifying offers to RHP Zack Greinke, RHP Brett Anderson and 2B Howie Kendrick.

NEW YORK METS — Announced C Anthony Recker, OF Eric Young Jr. and INF Wilfredo Tovar refused outright assignments and elected free agency.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Announced OF Juan Perez cleared waivers.

American Association SIOUX FALLS CANARIES — Exercised the 2016 contract option on RHP Joe Van Meter.

KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Exercised the 2016 contract option on RHP Danny Gutierrez.

GRAND PRAIRIE AIR HOGS — Exercised the 2016 contract options on RHP Colin Allen, RHP Zachary Dando, RHP Sam Martin, RHP Logan Norris, RHP Dylan Rucker, LHP Ben Whitmore, C Michael Pair, INF Victor Diaz, INF Brian Frazier, OF Justin Byrd, OF Ronnie Richardson, RHP Taylor Black, RHP Jason Jarvis, LHP Stetson Nelson, RHP Blake Oliver, RHP Brent Wallach, C Zane Chavez, INF Miguel Castano, INF Robi Estrada, INF Ridge Hoopii-Haslam and OF Jordy Hart.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Signed OF Johnny Bladel.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association BROOKLYN NETS — Acquired the right to own and operate an NBA D-League team. The Long Island Nets, will begin play in the 201617 season at Barclays Center.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Fined Seattle DE Michael Bennett $20,000 for his late hit on Dallas QB Matt Cassel and Cincinnati S George Iloka $23,152 for his helmet-to-helmet hit on Pittsburgh TE Heath Miller during Nov. 1 games.

ATLANTA FALCONS — Waived S Dezmen

Southward. Signed CB Akeem King from the practice squad.

BUFFALO BILLS — Signed WR Walter Powell to the practice squad. Released OT Chris Martin from the practice squad.

Arena Football League ORLANDO PREDATORS — Agreed to terms with OL Torrian Wilson, DL Cameron McLeod and WRs Paul Browning and Brandan Green.

HOCKEY National Hockey League TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Reassigned D Nikita Nesterov and F Tye McGinn to the Syracuse (AHL).

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Reassigned F Stanislav Galiev to Hershey (AHL) for conditioning purposes.

American Hockey League GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Recalled C Al-

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den Hirschfeld from Toledo (ECHL).

SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Recalled Fs Trevor Cheek and Garrett Meurs from Fort Wayne (ECHL).

ECHL SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Announced F Andrew Rowe was loaned to the team by Bridgeport (AHL).SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Fined Montreal’s owner Joey Saputo, vice-president of international relations & technical development Nick De Santis and technical director Adam Braz undisclosed amounts for inappropriate conduct directed at the match officials after a Nov. 1 game against Columbus.

COLLEGE MINNESOTA — Announced the resignation of associate athletic director Mike Ellis.

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Election boosts employment: Statscan 44,000 NEW JOBS IN OCTOBER CALLED A TEMPORARY SPIKE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s labour force ballooned by 44,400 net jobs last month thanks to a surge in temporary public-administration work likely generated by the federal election, Statistics Canada says.

The agency’s latest job-market report also said Friday that the increase helped push October’s unemployment rate down one tenth of a percentage point to seven per cent.

The report noted how the reference week for the survey, which registered a gain of 32,000 public-administration jobs, overlapped some of the final days before the Oct. 19 election. The poll was taken between Oct. 11 and Oct. 17.

“The increase was seen across all provinces and mostly in temporary work, and coincided with activities related to the recent federal election,” the agency wrote.

Historically, Statistics Canada’s jobs report has detected similar, temporary spikes in employment during election and census periods.

“But it wasn’t just public administration — it

wasn’t just elections,” said Krishen Rangasamy, senior economist for the National Bank.

“The nice thing about this report is that you also saw gains in the private sector. Huge gains in private-sector employment, so that’s encouraging.”

The October data showed the country added 41,300 positions in the private sector and 30,500 public-sector jobs.

The overall net rise in employment last month was higher than economists’ expectations of a 10,000job increase. It also surpassed the 12,000 positions added in September.

The agency also found that 143,400 more people were working compared with a year ago and that the overall employment number eclipsed 18 million last month for the first time.

“But not everything was rosy,” said Rangasamy, who noted that the report revealed weaknesses in the construction and natural resources sectors.

“So, basically, what that’s telling you is that the economy is still working its way through this oil shock.”

The oil sector has struggled since world crude prices plummeted late last year. Oil prices have re-

mained low, which has hurt the resources industries in some parts of the country.

The October employment data reflected some of those regional differences, Rangasamy added.

Energy-rich Alberta, hit hard by the drop in oil prices, registered a decline in employment, while Ontario, British Columbia, New Brunswick and Manitoba added jobs. The other provinces only saw small changes.

The Statistics Canada report also showed that the number of part-time positions in the country soared by 35,400, while full-time jobs crept up by just 9,000.

It also found that the youth unemployment rate fell to 13.3 per cent, down from 13.5 per cent in September. The economy added 14,100 net positions last month for young workers, aged 15 to 24, compared with the month before.

In a note to clients Friday, Leslie Preston of TD Economics wrote that Canada’s labour market has held up well even though real gross domestic product — a common measure of economic growth — contracted over the first two quarters of 2015.

Going forward, however, Preston predicted overall employment gains to slow in the months ahead.

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Alberta Premier Rachel Notley speaks about the Keystone XL decision at a press conference at the Alberta legislature in Edmonton on Friday.

Long trail of people affected

by Keystone decision

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — Thousands of lives are sure to be touched by President Barack Obama’s long-awaited decision Friday to reject the Keystone XL pipeline.

The trail of people potentially affected stretches 2,000 kilometres from Canada to the midwestern U.S., where the star-crossed pipeline would have connected to its already functioning southern leg.

Some cheered Friday’s decision, while others say they fear the economic impact, which is already being felt.

Merri Beck had big hopes for Keystone. She runs a clothing store in a town where the pipeline would have picked up some American oil. Her sales have dropped 27 per cent already this year amid collapsing oil prices.

Oilfield workers disappeared from her town of Baker, Mont., after the completion of the last pipeline project in the area. There are no new projects on the horizon. A coffee shop has closed, and she fears others will follow.

“I’m really sad,” Beck said.

“With oil prices down, the economy in our oil town is suffering. There’s vacancies everywhere — the campers’ spots, hotels, the restaurants…

“My store too… It’s really sad for our community.”

In Friday’s announcement from the White House,

Obama pointed out that the number of jobs Keystone XL would have created was a drop in the bucket compared to the 13.5 million created in recent years.

Nonetheless, they mattered to Steve Baldwin, a commissioner with Fallon County in Montana.

There, the pipeline potentially meant a new water tower, and new plumbing to replace infrastructure from the 1940s and 1950s.

Waste water was bubbling up onto people’s properties in one neighbourhood, where the sewage system was just modernized. They’re hoping to make other improvements — and Friday’s news will make it that much harder.

Fallon County is just one of many that would have seen an influx in resource royalties.

Keystone XL would have meant whopping revenue increases for some local governments: for Fallon County, the increase would have been 64 per cent.

For a neighbouring county, it was 117 per cent.

The Obama administration calculated those figures. Its own reviews say 17 counties would have experienced a 10-per-cent jump in revenues, with an additional $55.6 million pouring into the coffers of 27 counties in three states.

“It’s huge,” Baldwin said. “With respect to the revenues from the jobs coming through town — and the revenues in taxes afterwards… Our infrastructure is so depleted.”

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TORONTO — With BlackBerry’s latest smartphone now on store shelves, the question turns to whether consumers will be convinced to carry it in their pockets.

The Waterloo, Ont.-based technology company is reaching for mainstream audiences for the first time in years with the BlackBerry Priv smartphone.

The device runs the Android operating system, instead of BlackBerry’s own operating software, a first for the company.

But it could also be the last if the Priv doesn’t sell.

Chief executive John Chen has said BlackBerry’s hardware division needs to become profitable before the end of its fiscal year on Feb. 29, or the company may stop making phones and focus mainly on growing sales of its security software.

By his calculations, BlackBerry needs to sell five million phones in the current fiscal year to break even, and with the company about halfway through its financial year, it still needs to sell roughly three million phones.

Most of those sales will have to come from the Priv device, since BlackBerry’s Passport and Classic are considered antiquated in the ever-evolving technology market. The Priv is sleek and modern, with its 5.4-inch screen, 18-megapixel camera and a dual-touch screen and slider keyboard option.

But it also comes with a hefty price tag of $899 at BlackBerry’s Canadian web store without a carrier contract, making it the most expensive Android phone on the market.

“This is a buttoned-up device that seems more at home in the boardroom than it would at the bar or pool hall,” said Ramon Llamas, research manager of mobile phones at IDC Canada, a market research firm. “If you were a Blackberry user in the past, absolutely there’s stuff to like here.”

Making an Android phone resolves one of the biggest criticisms levelled against BlackBerry — a lack of apps that left it behind its competitors in an era where customers increasingly use their phones to stream movies and upload photos.

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Stresses from outside the workplace affecting person’s job Dear Working Wise: I’m worried about my friend at work. She’s distracted and nervous all the time.

I know there are problems in her marriage and I suspect that her partner is verbally abusive and may even hit her, but she won’t leave him and it seems to be getting worse. She’s also close to losing her job, because she’s always away due to her stress. What can I do? Signed Worried at Work Dear Worried: No one likes to talk about family violence and most workplaces treat it as a private matter.

But no matter how hard we try to ignore it, the effects of family violence creep into our workplaces, causing: ● higher turnover ● lower productivity ● higher absenteeism ● higher workplace instability ● increased risk of alcohol and drug abuse ● increased risk of violence in the workplace Unfortunately, Alberta has the fourth-highest rate of family violence among the provinces. The social, health, and criminal justice costs of family violence are estimated at more than $4 billion per year in Canada.

Not many years ago, suspected alcohol and drug abuse was regarded as a private matter. When the links between substance abuse and productivity were clearly established, though, many workplaces responded with programs to help employees deal

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with these issues.

In a similar way, programs, resources and support offered in the workplace can play an important role in preventing family violence.

Safety is the priority. If you or someone in the workplace is in immediate danger, call 911.

Ideally, employers should have policies and procedures in place so that the workplace CHARLES knows how to respond to staff STRACHEY that may be in a family violence situation.

WORKING WISE As a supervisor or co-worker, you can offer support in the following ways: ● Name what you saw/heard, e.g., “I noticed that you’ve been away from the office more than usual, and I am concerned about you. Is everything ok”? ● Acknowledge the danger. Don’t downplay the situation or suggest the person try harder. ● If your co-worker denies being abused, let them know that the door is open if they want to talk about their situation. ● Listen carefully without being judgmental. ● If they disclose abuse, tell them that you believe them and acknowledge their feelings.

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● Let the person know that no one deserves to be abused, that family violence is a crime, and that they are not responsible for the abuser’s behaviour. ● Don’t offer advice or try to fix the situation. ● Encourage them to seek professional help through an employee-wellness programs or community family violence agency. ● Ask if they want your help accessing services, but respect their decision if they say “no”. ● Keep yourself safe – don’t confront the abusive person.

You can also help raise awareness of family violence resources: ● Display information in your workplace about family violence services. ● Sponsor a workplace event to raise awareness in November during Family Violence Prevention Month humanservices.alberta.ca/abuse-bullying.

For more tips and advice: ● Call the toll-free Family Violence Info Line at 310 1818. ● Read the Family Violence Prevention tip sheet on the ALIS web site: alis.alberta.ca.

The Alberta Council of Womens’ Shelters also offers an Employer Toolkit at www.acws.ca/an-employers-toolkit.

Working Wise is compiled by Charles Strachey, a manager with Alberta Human Services, for general information. He can be contacted at charles.strachey@gov. ab.ca.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 128.70 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 37.74 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.79 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.65 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.52 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.81 Cdn. National Railway . . 78.67 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 178.63 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 34.77 Capital Power Corp . . . . 18.91 Cervus Equipment Corp 14.50 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 51.84 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 51.74 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 20.48 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.60 General Motors Co. . . . . 35.75 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 22.96 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.30 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 41.38 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 33.35 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.51 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.02 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 43.32 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 115.06 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.15 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.01 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 68.29 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed slightly lower Friday, with gold stocks bearing the brunt of the pain as the price of the precious metal declined to a three-month low.

Toronto’s S&P/TSX composite index gave back 5.48 points to 13,553.30, while the loonie lost 0.73 of a U.S. cent to 75.21 cents U.S. The global gold sector of the TSX was the lead decliner, slipping 3.2 per cent, as the December gold contract fell for a seventh straight session, settling at $16.50 to US$1,087.70 an ounce. That’s the lowest level that gold futures have been at in more than three months.

In New York, markets were mixed as solid jobs data made a December interest rate hike from the U.S. Federal Reserve seem increasingly likely.

The Dow Jones average of 30 stocks gained 46.90 points to 17,910.33, the broader S&P 500 index declined 0.73 of a point to 2,099.20 and the Nasdaq rose 19.38 points to 5,147.12.

The U.S. Labor Department said the economy added 271,000 jobs last month — the biggest gain so far this year — while unemployment declined to five per cent and hourly wages rose.

Craig Fehr, the Canadian market strategist at Edward Jones in St. Louis, called the U.S. jobs report “incredibly strong by all accounts.”

“I think we’re starting to see expectations for a December rate hike increase dramatically after today’s employment announcement,” said Fehr.

North of the border, Statistics Canada announced that the economy added 44,400 net jobs, although much of the gain stemmed from temporary public administration work most likely

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 20.87 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.38 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.78 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 23.30 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . . 9.38 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.97 First Quantum Minerals . . 6.86 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 15.34 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 6.99 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.36 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.45 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 27.17 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.900 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 7.17 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 18.60 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 19.55 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 52.08 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.92 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 22.43 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 33.66 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 9.94 Canyon Services Group. . 4.67 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 21.17 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1600 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 10.71 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.650 linked to the federal election.

Strong gains in trade and services jobs — core elements of the Canadian economy — were balanced out by layoffs in the oilpatch, said Fehr.

“That’s not surprising, but it continues to be a big drag on the overall economy,” said Fehr. “I think we’re out of the technical recession we saw in the first half, but I think growth is going to continue to be slow until we see any sort of stabilization or ultimately momentum in the energy space.”

On the commodity markets, the December crude contract slipped 91 cents at US$44.29 a barrel and the December contract for natural gas climbed by nearly a cent to US$2.37 per mmBtu. Meanwhile, shares of TransCanada Corporation (TSX:TRP) slipped more than four per cent, or $1.93, to $43.32, after U.S. President Barack Obama rejected the company’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline.

“I think some of that expectation has been built in for some time though, and that’s probably why you’re not seeing a bigger reaction in the stock today,” said Fehr, adding that the looming U.S. presidential election leaves the project’s long-term outlook uncertain.

“I think the market is trying to weigh out the short-term impacts of what the administration did today, against the potential for there to be an administration change in the U.S. that could be a little bit more favourable to North American energy policy.”

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,553.30, down 5.48 points Dow — 17,910.33, up 46.90 points S&P 500 — 2,099.20, down

Bell to cut 280 jobs in Toronto, Montreal TORONTO — Hundreds of job cuts planned at Bell Media have union officials worried about the future of CTV’s local news operations.

A majority of the 380 cuts announced to Bell Media’s staff in Toronto and Montreal late Thursday are production and editorial positions.

It’s the latest round of layoffs at the broadcaster which has been pulling back on its TV staff over the past year and a half.

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 84.47 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 39.35 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.72 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 19.91 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.64 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 1.27 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.660 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.50 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 39.47 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.970 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.34 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 44.38 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1750 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 76.88 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 61.66 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.63 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.51 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 35.96 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 37.91 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 89.63 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.36 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 44.00 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.29 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 76.65 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 45.04 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.64 0.73 of a point Nasdaq — 5,147.12, up 19.38 points Currencies: Cdn — 75.21 cents US, down 0.73 of a cent Pound — C$2.0012, down 0.16 of a cent Euro — C$1.4286, down 0.34 of a cent Euro — US$1.0745, down 1.30 cents Oil futures: US$44.29 per barrel, down 91 cents (December contract) Gold futures: US$1,087.70 per oz., down $16.50 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.406 oz., down 17.9 cents $656.05 kg., down $5.76 ICE FUTURES WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov ‘15 $4.60 higher $472.30 Jan. ‘16 $5.20 higher $479.70 March ‘16 $5.70 higher $485.50 May ‘16 $5.60 higher $487.50 July ‘16 $6.20 higher $488.30 Nov. ‘16 $5.90 higher $478.80 Jan. ‘17 $5.90 higher $478.80 March ‘17 $5.90 higher $478.80 May ‘17 $5.90 higher $478.80 July ‘17 $5.90 higher $478.80 Nov. ‘17 $5.90 higher $478.80.

Barley (Western): Dec. ‘15 unchanged $188.50 March ‘16 unchanged $190.50 May ‘16 unchanged $191.50 July ‘16 unchanged $191.50 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $191.50 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $191.50 March ‘17 unchanged $191.50 May ‘17 unchanged $191.50 July ‘17 unchanged $191.50 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $191.50 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $191.50.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 178,700 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 178,700.

“We’re bare to the bone as it is, and of course it impacts our coverage, and we’re absolutely worried,” said Susan Lea, the president of Unifor Local 614M in Montreal, on Friday.

In Montreal, 110 jobs will be cut: 70 in production and editorial, 45 in sales and marketing and five in administration.

In Toronto, 270 jobs will be cut: 220 in production and editorial, 45 in sales and marketing and five in administration, Unifor said.

A spokesman for Bell Media, which is owned by Bell Media and its parent BCE Inc. (TSX:BCE), declined to comment on details.

CALGARY — The University of Calgary will face an independent review over concerns about corporate influence at the institution.

“Questions have been raised regarding the creation and operation of the Centre for Corporate Sustainability, and the potential infringement of academic freedom of those involved,” Mark Starratt of the university’s board of governors said in a release Friday.

“We believe that academic freedom is a fundamental value of all universities. We’ve been listening and are taking action.”

The school’s board of governors initiated the review following reports that alleged Enbridge (TSX:ENB) interfered at the University’s Centre for Corporate Sustainability after the company provided a donation. Enbridge had promised the university $2.25 million over 10 years for the centre, but its name is now off the centre and its donation has been cut by $1 million.

The Canadian Association of Uni-

versity Teachers has said the former chairman of the centre claims he was fired after raising concerns about Enbridge’s influence. Another allegedly left over the university’s failure to defend academic freedom.

The board hasn’t yet said who will conduct the review.

Board chairwoman Bonnie DuPont, a former Enbridge executive, will not take part. University president Elizabeth Cannon has also recused herself.

This week, Cannon also stepped down from her paid position as a director of the Enbridge Income Fund.

Cannon has said that when funds come from the private sector, there is a written agreement set out with expectations, but the university makes decisions on day-to-day operations and staffing. She has acknowledged concerns were expressed in emails to the former dean of the university’s Haskayne School of Business. No formal complaints were made, she said.

Cannon has said the emails from 2011 and 2012 prove there could have been a better job done communicating with staff and more transparency on the decision when it came to corporate sponsorships.

STORIES FROM B7

KEYSTONE: Hopeful next president revists decision

BLACKBERRY: Traders optimistic Traders appeared to be optimistic about the prospects of the new device, sending BlackBerry’s stock up 6.5 per cent to close at $10.65 on the TSE. Availability for the BlackBerry Priv rolls out Friday from Rogers, Bell and Telus. Both Wind Mobile and Sasktel will begin carrying the phone on Monday, said a BlackBerry spokesman.

Over the coming weeks, the BlackBerry Priv will be front-and-centre at Canadian carriers with a featured role in holiday marketing campaigns, which wasn’t the case last year for the BlackBerry Passport, a phone aimed squarely at business users.

Some of BlackBerry’s advertising will emphasize the phone’s heightened privacy features, which includes an app called DTEK that monitors how your phone is being monitored by third parties.

“We feel like we’ve got an opportunity to make people aware,” said Ron Louks, president of devices and emerging Solutions at BlackBerry.

Like others in his area, Baldwin said he’s hopeful the next president revisits the decision. People will be angry at Obama, he added: “It’s basically just a political tool,” he said of his Keystone decision. “Unless you can show me science that says we don’t need petroleum products anymore.”

But for many families, this is a joyful moment.

The Keystone debate has been torturous for some opponents who’ve been living in limbo.

Almost two years ago, when The Canadian Press visited a family farm in Nebraska, Jeanne Crumly wept at the thought of a pipeline being forced through the land of a multi-generational property her husband had painstakingly restored.

The Crumlys are among the project’s original opponents.

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In the spirit of

Terry Fox

Photos by Photos by Brad Salomons

Sent out by councillor Lawrence Lee, participants choose their pace for the 10 km fundraiser trek. Inset above: autographed dedications for the day’s effort

Red Deer shows well at Canada’s annual memorial event

BY LORETTA WINIA SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

Over the trails bridge leaving Heritage Ranch.

Volunteers are briefed on the day’s event; healthy volunteer participation is key to success.

Comemorative T-shirts available.

Fast or slow, on foot on on wheels, the nation moved on Sept. 20 to honour Terry Fox, and continue his legacy of caring for people in the battle against cancer.

The 35th Anniversary of the Terry Fox Run took place under mostly sunny skies on Sunday, Sept. 20. A variety of bikers, skateboarders, runners and walkers were sent off by Lawrence Lee, deputy mayor, from Heritage Ranch to travel the 10 km route on the City Trails.

Together, the 330 participants and volunteers raised $18,200 for ccancer research! We ccan only imagine how T Terry would marvel at the incredible fund-raising e efforts that have taken place — over $700 million raised over the past 3 35 years.

The Terry Fox Foundattion ensures that 84 per ccent of the monies raised a are directed to cancer research projects in research facilities across C Canada.

We have yet to conq quer cancer, but the movement that Terry sstarted has given us a positive and hopeful outlook on the fight. It is not jjust about the challenge es, but also about how we face and eventually o overcome those challenges. That is what truly m matters.

Many thanks to the enthusiastic participants, t dedicated volunteers, the Red Deer media the a business community who generously supand p ported this important fund-raising event. Your c compassion, sense of community, your faith in t cures to come allows this remarkable legacy the t flourish, to strengthen, to grow. to The spirit of Terry Fox has a home in our w wonderful Red Deer community!

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Gassing and dashing must end

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer gas station owner is pointing her finger at Alberta’s limping economy for a frustrating increase in gas-and-dashers.

“We are hovering around $1,000 in October on gas runaways,” said Vanessa McCroy, who runs a pair of Run’n on Empty gas stations in Red Deer’s north end.

“I got in the car and chased somebody one day. It’s getting dangerous.”

Two weeks ago, a pickup owner came filled up, including slip tanks, then said he had to grab his wallet from his truck. “Then he took off — $260 bucks. The next morning we had another $93 gas runaway.”

She believes the oil downturn is to blame for the spike in thefts, which began in the spring.

“When I start seeing jacked-up trucks, big trucks and nice vehicles doing gas runaways, that’s when it starts prompting me to believe it’s an economy thing.

“These guys can barely afford their $1,400 truck payments now that they’re not working, let alone their $200 for diesel.”

A fed-up McCroy has now posted signs on her pumps requiring customers to pay before gassing up at her stations on Gaetz Avenue at 76th Street and at 71st Street.

It was not a decision taken lightly.

“I am so afraid of losing business because we don’t have pay at the pump,” she said, adding the upgrades to take debit and credit cards is coming but will take a while.

“At the risk of losing business I had to do it.

“It’s just crazy,” she said of the thefts. “It’s dangerous to my staff (and) it’s horrible for business.”

McCroy is well aware that a payfirst system won’t stop the crooks.

Thieves will just victimize other gas stations.

She believes it’s time for Alberta to follow B.C.’s lead and require all drivers fueling up to pay in advance, either in cash or by card. She plans to raise the issue with local MLAs. “You can’t eat a sandwich before you pay for it. Why can you fill your

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Vanessa McCroy has posted signage outside her Run’n on Empty Stores in Red Deer indicating customers must pay for gasoline prior to pumping fuel. Through October McCroy says she lost about $1,000 to gas-and-dash thefts. tank full of gas?”

McCroy isn’t the only gas station owner who is seeing a rise in gas thefts.

Sharon Weisenburger, manages a north-end Centex station. In September, $200 worth of gas was stolen and in October $500.

“So far, knock on wood, we haven’t had one this month.”

There doesn’t seem to be any typical thief. In one recent incident, a staffer spoke to a customer about paying. He then feigned looking for a wallet before taking off in his car.

While every month varies, the thefts are getting more frequent.

She, too, believes the poor economy

is likely a contributor.

Weisenburger shares McCroy’s view that pre-paying Alberta-wide is due.

An RCMP review of its records showed there was roughly one gas and dash every day and a half to two days in September and October 2014.

In 2015, the crime peaked in August, averaging 1.5 thefts per day. In the three months prior and the two months following, about one per day was reported to police.

The numbers are only estimates and have not been subject to a detailed review police do before releasing official statistics. Police also note their numbers only reflect crimes reported to them.

Imperial Oil spokesman Pius Rolheiser said they haven’t detected a significant increase across Alberta in drive-offs.

But it is not an uncommon crime for gas retailers. Imperial, which markets under the Esso brand, trains its staff on what to do and how to keep safe and has other measures in place such as video surveillance to deter thieves.

“This is an industry issue. All retail sites experience this from time to time,” he said.

Some Esso stations, depending on the site, have pre-pay in place after certain hours but it is not a chain-wide policy. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Ground broken on Asooahum Crossing

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MULTI-PHASE PROJECT INCLUDES AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND CULTURAL CENTRE

Five charged in mail theft

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF The sound of hand drums signaled another chapter in Red Deer’s history.

Symbolic in nature, ground was broken on the first phase of the highly-anticipated $13.7 million Asooahum Crossing cultural and community centre project on Friday.

Sixteen affordable housing units are expected to be completed by next summer on the Riverside Drive site, east of Lions Campground.

There were speeches, prayers and drumming as some 50 people gathered to celebrate the occasion.

“I am confident that we are moving forward in a good way,” said Tanya Schur, executive director of the Red Deer Native Friendship Centre. “The project is about the culture as well as the housing. We need to be able to provide cultural supports for people who will live here as well as provide opportunities to access the First Peoples cultures to the whole city.”

To date, the group has roughly $7.4 million in the bank from government grants and fundraising efforts. Another $5 million is needed to complete the three-phased project. The next two phases include a 22-apartment tower and cultural centre.

The capital fundraising campaign launched officially on Friday.

It also coincided with the launch of I Am a Kind Man, a culturally-based program, aimed at helping men and boys understand their roles in ending violence against Aboriginal women and girls.

Red Deer is one of nine communities across the province that will host the six-week workshop.

Leslie Stonechild, the Red Deer group facilitator, said “creating kind men” will not happen over night.

“The program is designed to involve men to help end violence against Aboriginal women,” said Stonechild. “To

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by Crystal Rhyno/Advocate staff

Dakota Dion (left) and Brandon McDonald drum at the official groundbreaking for the Asooahum Crossing on Riverside Drive on Friday.

“THE PROJECT IS ABOUT THE CULTURE AS WELL AS THE HOUSING. WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE CULTURAL SUPPORTS FOR PEOPLE WHO WILL LIVE HERE AS WELL AS PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES TO ACCESS THE FIRST PEOPLES CULTURES TO THE WHOLE CITY.” TANYA SCHUR, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE NATIVE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE

FRIENDSHIP CENTRE educate them about the historic events that have occurred and what has led us to this day, the present way men, all men, who have been a part of violence.”

He said they hope to help by providing support through the elders and cultural teaching. He said they hope to education and bring awareness that there is another way.

“What I hope to find for our men and our community is to have that understanding and to grow in a different light, to grow under the light of our grandfathers and our elders and to instil love, respect and honour,” he said.

Stonechild said hope has been gone for a long time from his people but he has hope this provincial program will just be the beginning.

To donate to the Asooahum Crossing project visit www.rdnfs.com/donate or contact Schur at tschur@rdnfs.com crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Hospital maternity ward upgrades begin

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre will have two dedicated operating rooms for scheduled caesarean sections and emergency obstetrical procedures by early 2017.

Work on the $9.7-million project, announced 22 months ago, has begun with some preliminary preparations.

An atrium, known as the Family Boardwalk Lounge inside the Maternal Child Services Unit, will be turned

into the operating rooms.

“Recently as part of the construction, the atrium has been closed.

They’re doing some hazardous material abatement, which is basically removing the asbestos,” said Robert Storrier, spokesperson with Alberta Infrastructure, on Friday. “The tender for the operating room expansion closes on Dec. 17. Construction will get underway shortly after that.”

Construction was to begin in 2015 and the project is on schedule, he said.

Alberta Health Services says there will be no impact to obstetrical ser-

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vices during construction.

Currently, obstetric surgical patients are taken to the operating unit located on another floor, creating safety challenges in emergency situations.

On average 225 babies born each month or 2,700 a year at the hospital, of which 30 per cent result in c-sections.

The new obstetrical operating rooms will alleviate pressure on the hospital’s general operating rooms and are expected to allow 1,600 more general surgeries to be performed each year. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

A stolen vehicle led Ponoka RCMP to lay 190 stolen property charges — mostly stolen mail — against four adults and one youth.

On Wednesday at about 10 p.m., police said they observed three people loading property from an apartment into a stolen vehicle.

Suspects fled on foot when police approached and a brief foot chase ensued. Suspects ran to a nearby apartment where police apprehended all three suspects, along with two other people without incident.

In an apartment and two vehicles, police recovered about $25,000 in stolen property that included mail stolen from about 40 mailboxes in Central Alberta.

Ponoka RCMP initiated their investigation after receiving a number of complaints about mail theft in the last two months.

Shon Hunter, 24, of Ponoka, was charged with 40 counts of possession of stolen mail, two counts of possession of stolen property over $5,000, and two counts of possession of stolen property under $5,000.

Steven Donaldson, 22, of Ponoka, was charged with 40 counts of possession of stolen mail, three counts of possession of stolen property over $5,000, and five counts of possession of stolen property under $5,000.

Kristin Doucet, 24, of Ponoka, was charged with 40 counts of possession of stolen mail, three counts of possession of stolen property over $5,000, six counts of possession of stolen property under $5,000, and one count of possessing break-in instruments.

Cody Estelle-Pittman, 22, of Ponoka, was charged with one count theft under $5,000 A youth, who cannot be identified under the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was charged with 40 counts of possession of stolen mail, three counts of possession of stolen property over $5,000, and four counts of possession of stolen property under $5,000.

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Movement supports transgender rights REFORM JUDIASM

ORLANDO, Fla. — The largest movement of Judaism in the U.S. passed the most far-reaching resolution in support of transgender rights of any major religious organization, saying Thursday that it’s a continuation of a tradition of inclusion in the Reform Jewish movement.

Members of the Union for Reform Judaism attending its biennial meeting in Orlando approved on a voice vote the resolution, which calls for congregations and camps to have gender-neutral bathrooms and encourages gender-neutral language at Reform Jewish institutions.

It also suggests training on gender issues for religious school staff and encourages advocating on behalf of the transgender community.

There was no opposition, although three conference attendees who said they were in favour of the resolution asked if preschools and religious schools would be affected. Union for Reform Judaism leaders said they would be, but they weren’t asking congregations to spend extra money on new facilities.

After the resolution passed, most of the 5,000-attendees in the meeting hall stood up and applauded.

“Your reaction in this room shows what this movement is about. It makes me very proud,” said Stephen Sacks, chairman of the Union for Reform Judaism’s board.

Other religious bodies, such as the Episcopal Church, the United Church of Christ, the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association, previously approved resolutions affirming equality for transgender and non-gender-conforming people.

None, however, go as far as the one offered by the Reform Jewish move-

ment, which counts 1.5 million members.

The Union for Reform Judaism is offering a one-page pamphlet to help congregations adopt the goals of the resolution. It suggests dividing kids by birth month rather than gender in youth programming and avoiding using gender titles such as “Mr.” or “Mrs.” on nametags or in emails. It also to ask congregants by which pronouns they would prefer to be called.

The resolution doesn’t mandate congregations to do anything, so it will be up to individual synagogues to implement policies to meet the goals of the resolution.

“One of the key components is it calls for resources, development and training so we get into the congregations and do training with their leaders, youth professionals, rabbis, lay leaders, and then supply them with materials on how do you deal with bathrooms? How do you deal with language? How do you deal with prayer?” said Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, a senior vice-president with the Union for Reform Judaism.

Some adjustments may be trickier than others. In Hebrew, nouns are either masculine or feminine.

Congregations can alternate between using male and female pronouns in their prayers and when possible use gender-neutral substitutes, such as the Hebrew word “guardian” instead of “king” in certain prayers, Pesner said.

The resolution was approved in a year when transgender issues have never been more visible, thanks to Caitlyn Jenner and others, but Union for Reform Judaism officials said it has been in the works for some time and is part of a tradition of inclusion

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that dates back decades. The Union of Reform Judaism in 1977 passed a resolution affirming the rights of gays and lesbians.

More than 6 million Jews live in the United States, less than 2 per cent of the nation’s population, and more than a third of all Jews in the U.S. identify with the Reform movement, according to a 2013 survey by the Pew Research Center.

Less than a fifth of them identify with Conservative Judaism — sort of a middle-ground ideologically between the more liberal Reform movement and traditional Orthodox Judaism. Orthodox Jews account for 10 per cent of U.S. Jews, and Reconstructionist and other smaller movements make up 6 per cent.

Nov. 7

St. Cyprian’s Anglican Church Annual Fall Tea and Bazaar, Nov. 7, 2 to 4 p.m. in Lacombe. There will be lots of cookies, baking, frozen perogies, crafts and more. Phone 403-782-4212.

St. Leonard’s on the Hill Coffee and Bake Sale will be offered Nov. 7, 9 a.m. to noon. Admission is $4. Phone 403-346-6769.

Nov. 8

Centre for Spiritual Living will celebrate 25 years in Red Deer on Nov. 8 with a service at 11 a.m. followed by a luncheon, open house, speakers — including some of the founders, and more. Contact Rev. Gail McEwen at 403-347-6530.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LA CROSSE, Wis. — Flooding, snowstorms, a flu outbreak, even a fire — any of those might have slowed a group of Wisconsin nuns who say none of it has kept their order from praying nonstop for hundreds of thousands of people over the last 137 years.

The La Crosse-based Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration claim to have been praying night and day for the ill and the suffering longer than anyone in the United States — since 11 a.m. on Aug. 1, 1878.

“When I walk into the chapel I can feel this tangible presence kind of hit (me),” said Sister Sarah Hennessey, who helps co-ordinate the prayers.

The tradition of perpetual Eucharistic adoration — uninterrupted praying before what is believed to be the body of Christ — dates to 1226 in France, according to Sister Marlene Weisenbeck. Catholic orders around the world have done it since then. It grew in popularity in 19th century and again under Pope John Paul II, said Father Steven Avella, a history professor at Marquette University.

In La Crosse, the nuns estimate they’ve prayed for hundreds of thousands of people, including 150,000 in the last decade.

“Sometimes it’s overwhelming with the pain that people have and the illnesses that they are suffering,” said Donna Benden, who is among 180 lay people known as “prayer partners” who help the 100 sisters. Benden prays from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. every Wednesday before going to work.

The order started asking for community help in 1997, when the number of nuns began dwindling.

Nowadays, the sisters usually take night shifts and lay people cover the day, according to Sister Maria Friedman, who schedules two people for every hour.

“Even the sisters go away frequently or take on other tasks, it’s the complexity of modern life,” she said.

She said she’s constantly trying to find ways to make it easier, like getting a bed on campus where lay people can sleep. If necessary, the sisters will find more creative solutions. “We will make it work,” she said.

Other U.S. orders also pray 24 hours, seven days a week, like the 16 nuns who take two-hour shifts at Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration in Cleveland, Ohio. Their order has done so in the U.S. since 1921, a carryover from an effort that began in 1856 in France, according to that order’s Sister Mary Thomas. One or two nuns are there at all times, with no help from lay people. Some orders, though, have scaled back to part-time because of aging nuns or other reasons.

Since the La Crosse nuns began, they’ve prayed through a fire in an adjacent building in 1923, a flood in La Crosse in 1965, the flu and many storms. Sister Hennessey compiles the requests for each day from paper slips people leave in person, phone calls, emails and online forms.

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France walks narrow line on religion in schools France’s Socialist government has come down strongly against towns that have stopped offering alternatives when school cafeterias serve pork.

In speeches Wednesday to public officials who advise on secularism in schools and government, the country’s education and interior ministers said forcing children to eat something forbidden by their religion has nothing to do with France’s ideals. The issue is a tense one, and the meeting was intended to help the government-appointed secular mediators do a job that many link to the January terror attacks

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Education Minister Najat Vallaud Belkacem said separating religion and state was “not up for discussion, not negotiable” — but at the same time sharply criticized politicians who use it to target Muslims.

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Dysfunction junction

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF All families are arguably dysfunctional — it’s just a matter of degree, says Glorene Ellis, director of Central Alberta Theatre’s 37 Postcards.

High on the nuttiness scale is the kooky Sutton clan in the dinner theatre production that opens Friday, Nov. 13, at the North Hill Inn. The comedy by Michael McKeever is about an affluent and eccentric Connecticut family. Ellis said when matriarch Evelyn, her husband Stanford and their son Avery are emotionally upended by the death of a relative, each goes off in a different direction in search of personal solace.

Evelyn escapes into her own off-kilter world that involves much redecorating, Stanford regularly runs off to the golf course, and Avery disappears for years of travelling around Europe (did you catch that they are rich?).

The play begins with Avery finally deciding to return home — and discovering that nothing and no one is as he left them.

Ellis said there’s mayhem and miscommunication in the first act. Amid the wackiness is Avery’s new girlfriend, Gillian, who’s meeting his parents for the first time and regularly being mistaken for the Suttons’ maid, Sheridan. While the folks at the core of 37 Postcards are a more extreme version of some families Ellis knows, she still feels the plot is relatable.

“What family isn’t a little dysfunctional?”

This 1998 comedy has been compared to the 1938 film You Can’t Take it With You for being about people who appear to act nonsensically. But by the end of the play, Ellis feels audience members will understand what’s driving the Suttons to behave as they do.

“People will be laughing, and then some will say. ‘Oh. There’s something a little deeper going on here…’”

Ellis is a first-time CAT director, who has years of experience helming community theatre productions in Stettler. Since moving to Red Deer in 2011, she’s acted in a couple of CAT plays and is looking forward to bringing this one to the stage with six actors.

“I hope to bring out the tension between the characters,” said Ellis.

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Central Alberta Theatre players from the left, front, Michael Sutherland, as Stanford, Deb O’Brien, as Evelyn, Tara Rorke, as Gillian, and Perry Mill, as Avery and back, Debby Allan, as Ester, and Lavila Lang, as Nana rehearse their parts in the CAT production of 37 Postcards in the technical workshop at the Memorial Centre.

Her cast includes such CAT regulars as Debby Allan, Deb O’Brien, Michael Sutherland and Tara Rorke, as well as relative newcomer Perry Mill and a long-time CAT player Lavila Lang making a stage comeback.

Ellis hopes audience members are entertained by the comedy and bittersweet moments in 37 Postcards

— but mostly she hopes they “enjoy the atmosphere of live theatre. That’s why all of us get involved. It’s a passion.”

Tickets are $65 from the Black Knight Ticket Centre. Dinner is served from 6 p.m., show is at 7:30 p.m.

(Sunday brunches start at noon, show is at 1:30 p.m.) lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Charlie Brown and Lucy play in the new film, “The Peanuts Movie.” The movie was released in theatres on Friday.

The Peanuts Movie is reliably nostalgic The Peanuts Movie Three stars (out of four) Rated: G Snoopy’s imagination is as wild as ever, but thankfully the makers of The Peanuts Movie tame any temptation to sully cherished memories.

It’s a big, wet dog kiss of an animated family film, hitting all the expected notes of the Charles Schulz comic strip and TV specials that generations have loved.

This isn’t the first widescreen Peanuts adaptation — that would be A Boy Named PETER Charlie Brown back in1969 — HOWELL but it certainly feels like it, acting as if nothing has hapMOVIES pened to Schulz’s vision of small-town America since the 1970s or thereabouts. The only concession to modernity is 3D viewing.

Good ol’ Charlie Brown, as neurotic as ever, is still trying to fly a kite, make friends and get the Little Red-Haired Girl to notice him.

His dog Snoopy, with avian sidekick Woodstock, acts like the Artful Dodger on the ground and a World War I flying ace in the skies of his dreams, fighting the Red Baron. Snoopy also chases romance, a poodle named Fifi.

Linus still has his blanket and homespun philosophy. Lucy has her temper and her psychiatrist’s stand. Peppermint Patty is still a tomboy and dynamo.

The cast members all sound exactly like the voices recalled from TV specials that began in 1965 with A Charlie Brown Christmas — and Vince Guaraldi’s bouncy jazz theme from that show is woven throughout the film’s otherwise unremarkable soundtrack.

Director Steve Martino is faithful to the episodic nature of the strip and TV shows, down to the last detail: the telephone in Charlie Brown’s house is still a rotary-dial landline; Lucy’s psychiatric help still costs just 5 cents.

The screenplay penned by Schulz’s son Craig, grandson Bryson and co-producer Cornelius Uliano similarly chooses nostalgia over novelty.

The story is hard-luck Charlie’s quest for love and friendship in the face of continuing obstacles, including a kite-eating tree and, yes, Lucy’s insistence on yanking away the football just as he’s trying to kick it.

Even when Charlie finally gets some respect and attention, perhaps for the wrong reason, he doubts the motives behind his new admirers: “Do they like me for who I am or for who they think I am?” (Wonder what he’d make of “friends” on Facebook?)

We do finally get to learn how Snoopy obtained the typewriter for his “Dark and Stormy Night” novel and why Charlie Brown’s shirts have that zigzag black strip (hint: yet another accident by that blockhead).

But The Peanuts Movie is for burnishing memories, not burning them.

And would you have it any other way? The smartphones, social media and global warming worries can all follow in subsequent chapters of this freshly hatched franchise, and you can bet those movies won’t have the same warm glow as this one.

Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic

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Lots of Bull Skit shows this month November’s a busy month for Red Deer’s Bull Skit gang.

Young and up-and-coming improvisers will hone their chops at Veal Skit show at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday (Nov. 12, 13) at the Scott Block. Tickets are $15 at the door or from www.bullskitcomedy.com.

The entire company will be trying out new material at the Bull Prov show on Saturday, Nov. 14 at the Centennial Stage, accessed from the back of the Scott Block. Shows are a t 7:30 and 10 p.m. and tickets are $10.

Theatre-sports teams will compete in the Thespian Fight Club, Nov. 17 at Fratters Speakeasy. There’s a $5 cover charge.

The regular monthly Bull Skit sketch comedy, improvisation and music shows get underway at 8 p.m. on Nov. 27 and 28 — featuring seasoned comedy veterans and special guests.

Tickets are $23 from the website and $25 at the door.

Family fun’s in the offing at the next Calf Skit show at 2 p.m. on Nov. 28 at the Scott Block. Interactive fairy tales will be acted out and kids get free popcorn.

Tickets are $20 at the door per family.

Autumn comes to live at Gallery on Main in Lacombe Fall Extravaganza is the title of two art shows happening this month at Gallery on Main in Lacombe.

From Nov. 13 to Dec. 4, paintings by Sandra Bingeman will be featured in an exhibit called Exploring Colour.

Her nature-themed show was inspired by peaceful settings “that evoke a feeling of tranquility.”

An opening receptions will be held the first day of the show, from 5 to 9 p.m.

Then the much larger Light Up the Night exhibit starts on Nov. 27 and includes painting, pottery, sculpture and stained glass from more than 80 Alberta artists.

The gallery will be opened from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Nov. 27, with music refreshments and goodies served.

For more information, please call 403-782-3402.

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Veteran Paul Franklin, who lost both his legs in a suicide bombing in Kandahar, is shown saluting during the First Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry Remembrance Day ceremony in Edmonton in 2013.

‘War Story’ TV series turns to Afghanistan THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — It took about a year for retired Master Cpl. Paul Franklin to accept the fact that he’ll spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair.

A suicide bomb in Afghanistan destroyed his legs and left him a double amputee above the knee. The blast also killed Canadian diplomat Glyn Berry, while two other passengers in the car Franklin was driving were severely injured.

While Franklin has come to terms with his fate, his wife, who was never sent to Afghanistan, still struggles.

Franklin says she suffers from secondary post-traumatic stress from the incident — a little-discussed condition in which post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms emerge after indirect exposure to trauma, such as the experiences of an injured loved one.

“We actually separated because of the blast and because of her PTSD, so it’s unfortunately part of the deal that you get,” says Franklin, nearly 10 years after the January 2006 blast.

Franklin’s experience is one of several featured in a new season of the History series War Story, which this year focuses on Canadian soldiers deployed to Afghanistan.

Other events detailed in the half-hour show include a devastating friendly fire incident, Canada’s involvement in

NATO’s largest-ever battle, the longest kill shot achieved by a sniper, a horrific axe attack on a Canadian soldier, and the emotional repatriation of fallen soldiers.

The six-part season premieres Monday with two back-to-back episodes and continues daily through Remembrance Day. “War Story” director Barry Stevens notes this is the first time the show will explore Canada’s experiences in Afghanistan, after the previous three seasons focused mostly on the Second World War. He describes this conflict as much more difficult in its military aims and development goals, with Canadian soldiers facing an almost impossible job in especially dangerous conditions.

“At one moment they’re waving and smiling at kids when they go outside the wire (to talk) to villagers and councils, and the next moment somebody’s riding up on a bicycle with explosives strapped to him blowing you up, or in the case of (Capt.) Trevor Greene, sinking an axe into your head while you’re sitting down having a cup of tea,” says Stevens.

“So it was difficult for the soldiers to (say), ‘We’re here to help.’ And as one guy said, you have to fill your heart with hate.”

The final episode looks at the “Highway of Heroes,” a stretch of highway through southern Ontario where military caskets travel af-

ter landing at Canadian Forces Base Trenton for a repatriation ceremony.

The episode features retired captain Wayne Johnston, who worked as a national repatriation officer from 2008 to 2010 co-ordinating all aspects of a fallen soldier’s return.

“The job turned me into a bit of a pacifist in that you see the real sacrifice,” Johnston says by phone from his home in Brooklin, Ont. “To me, November the 11th is for the fallen, the rest of the year is for those they leave behind, you know what I mean?

The injured, the mother whose only child was lost and she’ll never see grandchildren. That’s pretty serious sacrifice.”

Dealing with such grief has taken its toll.

Johnston says he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and severe depression.

He’s battled alcohol abuse and “moral compass malfunction” because of mental health issues, citing a period of time in which he wore military medals he didn’t earn.

“There’s just some days you’re overcome with sadness. I’m not looking forward to Remembrance Day,” says Johnston.

Franklin was glad to see War Story include references to the impact war has on families and friends, saying there isn’t enough discussion about how spouses, children and parents can be sent reeling from battle,

Superstein coming to Fratters Flame-haired chanteuse Andrea Superstein is bringing her tour-de-force jazz/pop act to Red Deer next week.

The Vancouver-based singer performs on Thursday, Nov. 12 at Fratter’s Speakeasy.

Montreal born-and-raised Superstein takes her various loves — of theatre, art and -90s “trip hop” acts — and turns them into a unique personal style.

Her repertoire ranges from early jazz standards to covers of Radiohead and Bananarama tunes.

What Goes On is her new album, made up of original music — including Superstein’s recounting of her first date with her now husband — as well as a wistful version of I Love Paris, and overs of the rock and pop songs Karma Police and Venus.

For more information about the 8:30 p.m. show, please call Fratters at 403-356-0033.

too.

He and his wife split in 2009, but she still battles grief over his injuries and stress from witnessing his night terrors — which he doesn’t recall himself. She, too, would have nightmares.

“She was having bad dreams of Kandahar — of course never having been there — but (she felt) the sights, smells, the blood, the whole piece,” says the 48-yearold Edmontonian, who adds he had to battle Veterans Affairs for disability payments.

“And then I used to be a runner and a climber and all that other stuff so she felt horrible that I would no longer be able to do those things. It just builds and builds to a point where it broke.”

History’s schedule Monday through Wednesday will be dedicated to honouring those who served their country.

The documentary series War Junk returns for a third season on Sunday with military historian David O’Keefe and history buff Wayne Abbott heading to Juno Beach, Vimy Ridge, Monte Cassino and the battlefields of northern Holland, which Canadians helped liberate in the spring of 1945.

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Sex too soon complicates relationships your daughter while her roommate is FaceTime-ing her mom and have a face-to-face time with the mom.

But that would be overparenting and just as wrong.

Listen, I would love to carry on about this over-involved, privacy-invading, hoarding mom, but I know better.

I have no idea what’s happening in this woman’s life. She could be dealing with a family crisis, a personal issue or mental-health challenges. Her daughter might have a history of struggling and is in need of mom’s help.

All we know is that your daughter doesn’t like the constant FaceTime sessions, sleepovers and invasive stuff.

When I hear “easygoing daughter,” I hear “keeps her feelings a secret and avoids conflict.” These issues all could be minor problems if your daughter addresses them in a kind, caring and direct manner.

When your daughter is calm and comfortable, she should have an honest conversation with her roommate.

She should start by mentioning that she should have discussed these problems a lot sooner, but felt it was time to be honest.

She can politely ask her roommate to use headphones and position the screen in a way that doesn’t violate her privacy when using FaceTime.

She can suggest an organization or storage system for all the stuff. And when the roommate’s mom visits, your daughter can stay with a friend.

If none of this works, your daughter can live with it or live somewhere else.

This roommate’s mom isn’t going anywhere.

Dear Harlan; My son is dealing with the reality that he’s not the highest

achieving student in the room anymore.

He’s a freshman in college, and recently texted me that he doesn’t feel like he’s smart enough to compete.

His grades are not as easy to come by as he experienced in high school.

What can I say or do to help deal with this first unpleasant taste of reality? — Struggling Dear Struggling; It’s time to share your most uncomfortable, humiliating and imperfect moments with him. Give him the best and worst stuff you’ve been holding back.

Talk about a project that was a big fail at work. Share your “D” story from college. Celebrate being imperfect. Explain that not being perfect is a family trait (and a human trait). Then explain what he can do to help.

He needs to talk to his professor, teaching assistant, older students, an adviser and smart classmates. Getting help is the most intelligent thing he can do. I was talking to a professor about this problem the other day.

He said that students who see him during office hours become personal projects. If a student he helps continues to fail, the professor feels like he’s failed. Professors have egos, too.

A student who gets help forms a closer, more meaningful relationship with the professor.

Your son needs a reminder that learning and imperfection are part of the process. But first, you need to give him permission to be imperfect - just like you.

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Dear Harlan; I’m in a relationship sick with diarrhea and almost 1 out of that has become physical too fast. I 5 young children with respiratory indon’t want to turn him away, but I’m fections, like pneumonia.

Ask your friend if and when he not comfortable with sex being so imwashes his hands (after urinating or portant so soon in the relationship.

How do I transition my relationship defecating?). If he doesn’t wash, menaway from just having sex all the time? tion the potential health issues.

Otherwise, wash your hands regu— Slow Down Dear Slow Down; You’re having sex; lary and realize we live in a world with this means you should be able to talk lots of friends who don’t wash.

Dear Harlan; I’m 17 years about anything. old and not sure what to do I mean anything. This with my life. includes the feeling that it I’m supposed to choose a happened too fast and how career or major soon. How it’s making you uncomfortdo I decide what I want to able. do for the rest of my life?

Bring it up while sober, How do I know what I during daylight hours. Do want to be when I grow up? it face-to-face (no texting).

— Growing Up Make this about you and Dear Growing Up; No deyour feelings, not him or cision-making today; just what he’s doing. Remind choose a direction. him that you’re incredibly Most 17-year-olds don’t attracted to him (if you are) HARLAN know what they want to and absolutely love spendCOHEN do. Most 18-year-olds don’t ing time with him (if you know, either. do), and then explain why HELP ME HARLAN Most 19-year-olds try to you need to slow down the figure it out, but change sex.

Help him understand why (this their majors. How are you supposed to means you need to understand it your- figure out your life when you’ve lived self and put it into words). If he listens so little of it?

You need to live more and do more. to you and respects your boundaries, Don’t figure it all out. Choose a direcyou’ll grow closer.

If putting the brakes on ends it, he’s tion. Take a step in that direction. Get not the right guy for you, which proba- involved in clubs, organizations and bly is what you fear and are scared to activities that can give you a taste of what you love and don’t love. Get a figure out.

Dear Harlan; What do I do about part-time job in a business that intera good friend who never washes his ests you. Get an internship. Shadow people doing jobs you want to do. Find hands when leaving the restroom?

I’ve mentioned something to him, the people who are the best at doing it. but he doesn’t seem to listen. Any sug- Then, do something similar.

Start moving in a direction, and gestions? — Dirty Friend Dear Dirty Friend; No handshaking, you’ll know where to go. Not moving is high-fives or sharing family-size bags when you run into problems.

Dear Harlan; What if the problem of chips.

Keep in mind that there are some isn’t with a roommate but with the guys who walk into the bathroom, pee roommate’s mother?

She insists on FaceTime-ing with without touching anything and walk my daughter’s roommate for very long out. periods of time, leaving my daughter Still wrong.

According to the Centers for Dis- no privacy in her own room or quiet ease Control and Prevention, hand- time to study because their FaceTime washing education can help the com- conversations are loud.

She also stays in their room overmunity by reducing the number of people who get sick with diarrhea by 31 night when she visits. (Weird.) Lastly, she keeps bringing more and more percent.

It reduces diarrheal illness in peo- stuff with her each time.

The room now is only one-third my ple with weakened immune systems by 58 percent, and reduces respirato- daughter’s. My daughter is pretty easyry illnesses, like colds, in the general going and can accept a lot, but it is getpopulation by 16 to 21 percent. Hand- ting to the point she can’t even move in washing with soap could protect about the room. — Mothering or Smothering Dear Mothering; You can FaceTime 1 out of every 3 young children who get

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Is it a sibling rivalry or something more?

Dear Annie: Even though my older sister and I are a long-simmering sibling rivalry could be adding in our senior years, I believe that she has never over- meaning where none exists. come her competitiveness and resentHave you asked your sister directly ment toward me. whether she is jealous or competitive? She As the other members of our immemay be unaware of it. diate family have sadly passed away, Have you let her know that when she conone would think that we would become stantly responds with bitterness and negcloser, since we are the only ones left. ativity that it is difficult to be around her?

However, I believe she is in denial She may not realize this is how she comes about the problems still between us, across, and it may occur with everyone she so she’s never been able to get beyond knows. them.

Have you asked whether she is happy?

I don’t want the relationship we have She could be depressed and might benefit to end, but sometimes, it is difficult for from seeing her doctor. Approach her with me to face her negative and bitter feelsisterly love and concern, and see whether ings toward me. you can make a difference in her demeanor.

MITCHELL I know she will not change as long as We hope so, because a sibling relation& SUGAR she denies that our sibling rivalry exship should be cherished. ists. How can I deal with her and mainDear Annie: This is in response to “WaitANNIE tain a positive relationship? — Montreing for Answers,� whose husband, “Ron,� al, Quebec left their marriage after 14 years for a “vulDear Montreal: You are assuming a great deal gar, overweight, heavily tattooed biker chick, who about your sister’s attitude. was into drugs and random sex.� She asked why he Is it possible she is simply one of those Negative would do that.

Nellies and it has nothing to do with you? Some I understand his thinking. I was in my late 40s and people have downer personalities that are difficult had been married for 22 years when I got divorced to be around, but to assume her negativity is due to and thought I’d enjoy living large. I enjoyed my freehave fun; I want to shine like the Sun.�

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’re in the spotlight Sagittarius, as you get your message out loud and clear. Study and eduSaturday, Nov. 7 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: cation are also highlighted, so make sure you Lindsay Duncan, 65; Joni Mitchell, 71; Lorde, exercise your brain cells and learn something new.

18 CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Are you THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Strive to communicate in creative and compassionate a Capricorn who criticizes and tries to control others? Communicating with family, friends ways. and colleagues in a caring and compassionHAPPY BIRTHDAY: Born ate way brings many rewards toon the zodiac’s Day of Discovday. ery, personal freedom is very AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. important to you. 2016 is the 18): Education, study, travel and year to keep on your chosen adventure are favoured today as path with plenty of passion and you give your mind and body a purpose. thorough workout. Strive to be ARIES (March 21-April extra compassionate towards a 19): With four planets visiting stressed family member. your health and fitness zone, PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): shake out the running shoes It’s a terrific time to increase your and get physical in the gym or financial literacy via reading or outdoors. And modify your dilearning some new skills from an et to include more nourishing expert. The more disciplined and JOANNE MADELINE meals. focused you are, the better your TAURUS (April 20-May MOORE fiscal future will be.

20): Creativity and compassion SUN SIGNS are high today, as you dream Sunday November 8, 2015 a big dream or start pursuing CELEBRITIES BORN ON an ambitious new goal. Plus spend quality time with a loved one or favour- THIS DAY: Gordon Ramsay, 48; Bonnie Raitt, 65; Rickie Lee Jones, 60 ite four-legged friend!

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Cool cooperaGEMINI (May 21-June 20): Strive to nurture a very special person — you. Plus give tion is the secret to having a successful day.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Your motto for the fair-weather friends the flick, as you surround yourself with positive people who boost your next 12 months is from birthday great Bonnie Raitt “One of the biggest obstacles I’ve overself-esteem and encourage your dreams.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Clear com- come in my life was thinking I didn’t deserve munication is the key to having a positive and to be successful.�

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Moon’s productive day Crabs.

If you have an on-going health issue, may- in Libra so try to get the balance right bebe it’s time to be extra thorough and get a tween your professional and personal responsibilities. second opinion?

Be wary of being bossy and controlling LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leos love the limelight. You adore being the centre of atten- especially with loved ones.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Look at your tion, but is it time to let a loved one have their goals and ambitions in a practical way Taumoment in the sun? Step to the side-lines for rus. Are you doing what you want to do? a while, and watch them shine.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The buzz Are you heading in the right direction? If not, word for today is communication. So long some adjustments may be necessary.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Be sensiconversations are favoured, as you get your tive to the needs of loved ones, especially point of view across to others — and receive where money or possessions are involved. important feedback in return.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Today suits If you jump to conclusions about what others being quiet and inwardly focused, so it’s the are thinking, you’ll attract an unexpected reperfect day for activities like yoga, tai chi, sponse.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): When it meditation or contemplation, as you prepare comes to close personal relationships, stop yourself for the busy week ahead.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): With the sulking!

If you focus on the negatives, then you’ll Sun visiting your sign, your motto for the moment is from birthday great, singing and just spend the day being a cranky Crab. song-writing legend Joni Mitchell: “I want to Clear communication is the key.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Even though it’s

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Sunday, it’s not a day for flamboyant Leo frolics. Rather, it’s time to focus on unfinished business. You can achieve a lot when you get your head and heart working together as a team.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Today’s stars favour helping others in practical and useful ways. As the great Mother Teresa said “Not all of us can do great things - but we can do small things with great love.�

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Expect relations with a female family member to be complicated today Libra. Whatever you say is likely to be the wrong thing. A cool and calm approach is the sensible way to go.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Today you’ll feel more practical and precise than usual.

So it’s a great time for forensic Scorpios to examine and analyze things - but avoid imposing your ideas on others.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Being practical with money doesn’t come naturally to spontaneous Sagittarians. You love to spend! But a focused financial approach is the only way to go in the current economic climate.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your obsessive, conscientious side could take over but resist being over-critical, with yourself and others today Capricorn. The Libran Moon demands high standards - not 100% perfection.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Those around you won’t react in rational ways today Aquarius. You need to be patient and understanding. Be ready to listen to a relative or neighbour’s problems - or share your own.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Work diligently towards goals that will be fulfilled in the future. Just because the results are modest now doesn’t mean they won’t be fabulous further down the track.

Patience is the key.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

Puppet, Twister, Super Soaker make National Toy Hall of Fame

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Twister, the parlour game once too hot for the Sears catalogue but cool enough for Johnny Carson, was inducted Thursday into the National Toy Hall of Fame.

The class of 2015 also includes the old-as-time puppet and Super Soaker — think squirt gun on steroids.

A panel of experts picked the inductees from a field of 12 finalists that also included the spinning top, coloring book, Wiffle Ball, American Girl dolls, Battleship, Jenga, PLAYMOBIL, scooter and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Twister inventor Reyn Guyer made the players the game pieces that intertwine as they try to reach hands and feet to colored dots without landing in a heap on a plastic mat.

Anyone can nominate a toy for hall inclusion. But to be inducted, they must have survived the test of time, be widely recognized and foster learning, creativity or discovery through play.

The puppet has been around for thousands of years and throughout the world. In modern times, puppets have appeared in street theatres and vaudeville houses and propped on the hands of countless children.

Finalists for the hall are chosen by historians and curators at The Strong.

From there, a national panel of judges choose the winners.

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Nicholas Herman, left, and Shannon Claire Smith, right, with dog Max in the living room of their apartment; they dumped most of their furniture, 90 per cent of their books and half their clothes to downsize.

One can be more content with less stuff

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ity. They dumped most of their furniture, half their clothes, 90 per cent of their books and all of their holiday decorations.

“We watched from our window as people stuffed our tree into their car and pulled away,” Smith says, “just like the Grinch.”

The couple didn’t have a lot of sentimental attachment to most things, as they had bought them secondhand.

Nicholas Herman and his wife, Shannon Claire Smith, had dreamed for years of moving to Washington. In April 2014, Herman, 30, flew to the U.S. capital for a job interview. When Smith, 29, arrived to pick him up from the airport, he handed her his phone: He had an e-mail offering him the position at the George Mason University, starting in two weeks.

First, she burst into tears.

But as she dried her eyes, she was already figuring out a plan to downsize.

“I began working like a madwoman,” says Smith, who now works at American University while also running a design business and writing a design blog, Burlap & Lace.

“We knew that in D.C., all we could afford was a one-bedroom, so we had to sell and donate most of our possessions.

We weren’t even sure we could keep our king-size bed.”

The only nonnegotiables were their pets: Pomeranian Max and two cats, Fritters and Miss Kitty, would have to be welcome in their new digs.

G o o d b y e , 2,300-square-foot traditional suburban house with three bedrooms, a nice yard and a two-car garage.

Hello, 850-square-foot one-bedroom in a 1928 building.

Herman and Smith, who met as univder- Their admitedly tiny home office is shared by both Herman and Smith. It once sity students in 2009 and was a screened-in porch. The mirror and lamp came from a thrift shop, but most bought their first house in a foreclosure sale. of the furniture is from Ikea.

They upgraded the house with DIY projects, laying At the end of every weekend, they posted a “curb laminate flooring, changing kitchen countertops and alert” on Craigslist and stacked up pieces that hadn’t installing crown molding.

But they always talked about relocating to Wash- sold, free for the taking. “People showed up and ington, where Smith’s best friend lived. “We like the picked our driveway clean,” Smith says. The last day, “I mopped my way out the door.” energy of the city,” Herman says.

They rounded up the pets and drove seven hours So with his offer in hand, they focused on how much they could get rid of in four weeks. The plan to their new home, following their small moving was for Herman to start work and come back on truck. Inside were two white dressers, a desk, a small table, a sofa, a KitchenAid mixer, a knife weekends to help.

First, they went apartment hunting. They found block, dishes and the king-size mattress set, and a pet-friendly one-bedroom rental for $1,850. “We what was left of their clothes and books.

Then it was time to settle in. It was time to join wanted a building with history and character and quirky detailing,” Smith says. “Our home in North that group of people who live in apartments and conCarolina was a cookie-cutter house and was build- dos, and who have to make the most of every square foot of space they they have. er’s-grade-everything.”

“We had to think about design in a totally differThe apartment had original hardwood floors, a cute dining alcove, high ceilings and a glassed-in ent way,” Smith says. “In North Carolina, we had former porch that let in lots of natural light. The extra space, and I filled it with stuff.”

They thought of ways to make each room serve kitchen was tiny but had two built-in china cabinets several functions. “I wanted to embrace the size with glass doors.

The couple downsized fast. They hosted yard and wanted it to be as bright and bold as possible,” sales, listed things on Craigslist and donated to char- Smith says. “I wanted to break the rules and be

T dining alcove is set off by a black wall. Smith The ccovered their Ikea round table with Contact paper tthat has a marble pattern on it. The chairs came ffrom Craigslist and were recovered. colorful and have fun with things like painting the ceiling in the hallway pink.” (That would be Pink Popsicle by Benjamin Moore.)

They struggled with the long, narrow living room layout. To make sense of it, they created three spaces: an entry area with a console table and place for mail and keys, a library wall of open bookshelves (to keep it from feeling closed in) and a lounging area with a sofa and TV. The dining alcove got a stylish new hanging lamp that glows copper inside when lighted. Smith painted a blackboard wall in the kitchen and installed a tiny herb garden of mint, oregano and thyme in wallmounted pots.

There have been new DIY projects: building a radiator cover in the bathroom, painting white cotton Ikea curtains ($14 a pair) to make them look custom and creating a headboard that required the two of them to wrestle $10-a-yard banana leaf fabric over layers of plywood, upholstery foam and batting.

Thrift-shop bedroom lamps were updated with black drum shades from Target.

Their small space doesn’t deter them from entertaining. They had 30 for a make-your-own-gin-andtonic party and a baby shower for 20, where Smith took everything off her bookshelves and filled them with presents.

Last year they hosted Friendsgiving in their living room, sticking their sofa in the dining room and renting two tables to seat 20. Herman roasted two turkeys in their seven-foot-long galley kitchen. They are hosting the second annual Friendsgiving this year.

Yes, they do miss grilling and having parties spill outside to the backyard.

But they have no regrets.

“It’s like a giant weight of knickknacks has been lifted off our shoulders,” Smith says. “We honestly don’t miss our old stuff.”

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Decorate the holidays with the welcome warmth of rustic materials and woodland creatures. activities.

One big addition to this years list (not shown) is scripting in chalk table runners, napkin rings and ornaments can be personalized with chalk.

This schoolroom classic symbol has made its way into our homes for the holidays.

There is also lots of glitz and glamour for those who love the style. Metallics, plastics, coloured trees, wreaths with attitude are all there so that everyone can decorate for their personal take on the holidays.

Debbie Travis’ House to Home column is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara Dingle. Please email your questions to house2home@debbietravis.com. You can follow Debbie on Twitter at www.twitter. com/debbie_travis, and visit Debbieís new website, www.debbietravis.com.

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As I begin to make plans for the holidays the now predictable emotions of excitement tinged with trepidation are upon me. I love the season with all its pageantry and entertaining; decorating the house comes second-nature to me; getting calendar dates and family and friends organized is not so easy as we live countries apart.

But I know it will all be wonderful and Iím getting started early just to make sure.

Christmas DEBBIE Trends is kind of a questionTRAVIS able subject.

HOUSE TO HOME The ornamentation and decor is wrapped in traditions that don’t change. Central themes of a Christmas tree, stars, angels, reindeer and elves are ever present. However manufacturers do introduce new materials, and fashion and design themes have a way of showing up on or around the tree. To discover whats hot this year and to inspire me, I went directly to the source and spoke with Jackie Blackwell, Chief Elf at The Snowman Factory. www.snowmanfactory.com. She enthusiastically shared all the top favs for this year in her holiday vignette. Here are notes from the Chief Elf’s decorating list.

The rustic, cottage theme developed with natural materials is wildly popular. Twigs and vines show up everywhere from large and small trees to ornaments, and forest creatures. Burlap is used for ribbons and around the base of the tree, even gift wrap.

Old wooden storage boxes make good stands, Small space living has increased the demand for pencil trees (very slender) and corner trees (half trees), both artificial but realistic and reusable.

Snowy trees are popular, great for white themes.

Red will always mean Christmas, this year’s trend colour is Marsala, a deep wine red. Winter whites, shades of ivory and cream are a natural winter colour, perfect for woodsy scenes or matched with metallic colours for a more neutral, contemporary decor.

LEDs have exploded onto the scene.

These eco-friendly lights are brightening up everything: tree lights, tapers, large candles, themed ornaments and wreaths.

Many are battery operated and remote controlled. Coloured and white lights are softer. Fairy lights are wrapping stair banisters, windows, entranceways and more. Lanterns are a year round favourite inside and out, showing up with LED candles.

Elves, elves and more elves. Stronger than ever this year.

They pop up everywhere, snuggled into the tree, perched in a vine sleigh on the mantel, hiding under tables ñ they are mischievous after all. Reindeer continue to be popular, again inside and out.

Small deer hang from the tree, with apples tucked into branches — deer need something to eat!

Winter wreaths are a staple, either artificial or fashioned with evergreen boughs.

Decorate simply with ribbon, or add miniature skis, snowshoes, skates and other ornaments reminiscent of winter

Faux furs inject some fluffy and fabulous into home decor Faux fur. For decades, the term conjured up images of obvious artificiality.

Its fakeness often became a style feature — “fun fur” had colours and patterns so exaggerated there was never any doubt that the fur came from a factory, not a forest. And while the look may have been sometimes passable as real, the “hand,” or feel, gave the game away. Like early versions of the shag rug, faux fur felt rough and plastic-y.

Today’s versions are remarkably realistic. Often, the acrylic pile that makes up much of faux fur is augmented with natural fibers like wool, silk and cotton rayon, with various silicones and resins used to improve the lustre. Manufacturers are working with other techniques, like mixing shrinkable and non-shrinkable fibers, as well as fine and coarse fibers, to even more closely resemble complex furs like beaver, mink and river otter.

In this season’s home decor offerings, faux furs are common in pillows, throws and stools. They add a touch of drama and cruelty-free coziness.

Set decorator Beth Kushnick, whose chic rooms on CBS’ “The Good Wife” garnered such a following that she launched her own line of decorative accessories, called BAK Home and available at Wayfair and AllModern, likes to use faux fur throws and pillows as a textural element.

“Keeping them in the same colour palette as the sofa or bed works best and creates another layer,” she says.

For her taste, a little fur goes far.

“I use it sparingly, but specifically. Picture a crisp bed of white linens with a white faux fur throw, or a black velvet sofa with black faux fur pillows as a backdrop for some other patterned pillows,” she says.

Pottery Barn has throws and pillows in a warm, caramel-hued faux fur, as well as imitation chinchilla and brown bear. (www.potterybarn.com ) At Wayfair, find faux red fox, cheetah and sable patterned throws, all machine-washable. (www.wayfair.com ) A white, shaggy, oversize ottoman at Urban Outfitters would be a fun addition to a family room, or a playful element in an otherwise traditional living space. (www.urbanoutfitters.com )

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Working from home on your own terms Hendrik Varju is a man who’s spent most of his working life doing two things most people just dream of. First, he works largely from home, more-or-less free from the increasing cost and emotional burden of commuting. And second, Hendrik’s work is a creative extension of himself. Two extensions, actually. For years heís been one of Canada’s finest custom woodworkers and woodworking instructors, providing lessons and outstanding furniture from his shop in rural Ontario. But more recently, Hendrik’s turned his love of food into regular work as a cooking instructor.

One of the biggest benefits of STEVE living in the free world is the MAXWELL chance to pursue work you HOUSEWORKS love, and Hendrik is a prime example of this. Whats puzzling to me is how few people actually exercise this freedom.

“I specialize in Hungarian and Mexican cuisine” explains Hendrik. “With a Hungarian father and a Mexican mother, the two food traditions come naturally to me. In addition to woodworking, I do private one-on-one cooking instruction. I also put on cooking events in people’s homes. I still spend 85% of my time in the wood shop, but cooking’s a nice change.”

Ive been watching the world of home-based entrepreneurship like Hendrik ever since I cashed my last paycheck as an employee in 1988 and took the plunge myself, and Ive been waiting for this lifestyle to catch on and change the world with a big bang.

But instead of seeing a revolution, I find myself puzzled.

Why do so few people pursue independent work from home?

Urban traffics getting more congested, travel expenses are high, and job security as an employee isn’t what it used to be. Corporations are friendlier than ever about hiring independent contractors, the Internet allows more work to happen remotely, and the world has many more digital business niches than ever. So why no mass movement away from a life tied to someone else’s desk, schedule and agenda?

Fear is probably the biggest reason. I was reminded of this fact talking to a graphic designer I know.

Marys been an employee for decades, shes got great skills, and though she finds her 90 minute commute emotionally and financially draining, pension and job security kept her at it.

She wouldn’t even consider heading out on her own, at least not until she got a pink slip a month ago.

Now I’m talking to her again about how to build the kind of independent working life that people like Hendrik have made for themselves, and thats what shes doing now.

So, exactly how does the home-based micropreneurial lifestyle play out with a guy like Hendrik?

The same way it does for anyone. First, Hendrik has worked to become a master at his craft. Theres no substitute for the skills that come from thousand of hour of successful practice.

While it might be possible to hide a lack of skill or low productivity within a corporation, theres no such thing on your own. If you’re an employee now, use your time away from work to get good at the home-based micro-business you have in mind.

Hendrik Varju quit his career as a lawyer to pursue woodworking. He makes fine furniture, teaches other people to make it and now teaches cooking classes from his home based in rural Ontario.

Second, Hendrik takes the time to reach out with sales efforts. Every job in the world ultimately rests on successful sales. Even non-sales jobs as employees depend on someone else in the corporation making connections with customers and sealing deals.

Why not handle this most important of tasks yourself? Visit www.passionforwood.com to see how Hendrik does it.

And third, Hendrik knows that each home-based,

self-directed business is unique and evolves. ì†I’m sure there are a lot of people out there who feel the urge to do this sort of thing.

Maybe they’ll be encourage to see my dual career business as an example. Its a great life.

Steve Maxwell has been living and working remotely on a quiet rural Ontario island since 1988. Connect with him at SteveMaxwell.ca.

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A floating seating island Q — Adjacent to the kitchen is our family room which is not very large, but has a lovely fireplace wall angled in one corner.

As I see it, the main problems with the space are a lack of walls, and a busy traffic path that runs through it to the kitchen.

With these issues, I am stumped as to how to best arrange the seating.

Since I plan to purchase DAVID new furniture, I FERGUSON am open to any CREATIVE SPACE ideas you may have.

The only pieces we need to accommodate are our television and stereo, since this room is used primarily for those activities.

We would like the room to appear cosy and casual and ideally should seat at least four adults.

A — In the days when family rooms were relegated to the wood-panelled basement, organizing space was rarely a problem.

Floor space for furniture was usually abundant and that furniture usually consisted of well-worn pieces relocated from other parts of the house.

Today, thankfully, family rooms are more often than not located at the hub of the house — like yours, often right off the kitchen in an open concept design.

Being above ground, they are brighter and airier, but they are also more open to “public” view and therefore usually more integrated into the overall decor.

Wherever there is an open concept design, there will be more traffic flow requirements, and one consequence of that is less useable floor space.

Open concept designs may also diminish the cosy effect that many of

us crave for our family room environment.

You are correct in your recognition of this room’s limitations and although it is not large, it has some interesting characteristics that make it unique.

Its focal points are all gathered in one general area — the fireplace is tucked in one corner, and the television has a logical place located along the one open wall.

When a room has little or no wall space from which to build a furniture arrangement, the best alternative is to create a “seating island” which has the main seating spaces “floating” in the arrangement.

In order to have the best view of both the television and fireplace, I have shown one sofa directly opposite the TV and a large chair flanking one side.

An additional chair can be located next to the fireplace, providing a comfortable position from which to enjoy the flames, or to watch television.

Different rooms that share a space should look good together because if they are wildly different in style, the ultimate effect will be jarring and uncomfortable.

Coordinate your kitchen to the family room by using the same or similar colours in adjacent spaces, but if you like, you can change textures from room to room.

For example, the some materials used in your family room and kitchen might be the same — wood tones, plastic laminates, upholstery — but one might have smooth, shiny surfaces while the other might have rougher textures.

Colour continuity is important so, for example, the family room you might have green walls, but in the kitchen, the same colour is used only as an accent colour in a tile pattern or hardware (drawer pulls, light fixtures, etc).

Similarly, you can repeat patterns in adjacent rooms.

A seating island, which “floats” the furniture in the room, is the best way to arrange seating in a room lacking wall space.

David Ferguson is a regular contributor to CBC Radio’s Ontario Today. Write to David at: david.ferguson@hotmail.ca.

From furniture placement to colours, how to make a room feel bigger

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS As the weather gets colder and we come indoors, it’s easy to wish your indoor space had some of the open, airy feeling of the outdoors.

It is possible to make a room feel larger than it really is: Choosing the right colours and finishes and arranging furniture properly can create the illusion of space. Here, three experts on designing small living spaces share their strategies for making rooms feel larger and more open, without the expense of construction or major redecorating.

REFLECTIONS That classic advice is really true: Strategically placed mirrors will make a room feel larger.

“They let your eye travel beyond the room,” explains Maxwell Ryan, founder of ApartmentTherapy. com. In small dining rooms, Ryan suggests, place a large, horizontal mirror along one wall, so that while entertaining, you’ll see the reflection of guests at your table and flickering candles.

But mirrors aren’t the only reflective option: New York-based designer Young Huh uses reflective, glossy paint finishes on ceilings to make her clients’ rooms feel taller and more open.

GO BIG Surprising as it sounds, Huh recommends adding one oversize piece of furniture to a small room. Playing with scale by adding something large amid more modest-size furniture, she says, tricks the brain into perceiving that the room must be fairly large if it can hold something oversize.

Ryan says this works with art as well: Consider adding a large painting or other big piece of art.

“It seems counterintuitive,” he says, “but our eye likes contrast. We like variation.”

Long, dramatic curtains can trick your eye in the same way.

“Hanging curtain rods all the way at the ceiling, using large art and big mirrors and vertical stripes with paint are great ways to make your eye go up visually,” says Kyle Schuneman, co-author of “The First Apartment Book: Cool Design for Small Spaces” (Potter). This has the effect of “lifting the ceiling and making it feel more spacious than it actually is.”

Huh agrees: “Where you have small or low ceilings, definitely have curtains go all the way up to the ceiling.”

LOCATION, LOCATION “Decluttering and cleaning up is always essential,” Ryan says, but you don’t have to pare down your furniture. Instead, try rearranging it to let energy flow more easily.

“A room has good energy and good flow if you can vacuum it without moving any furniture, including the corners,” Ryan says. “If you can’t get behind stuff, that’s a sign that the space is gonna feel a little crowded.”

Experiment with small changes in furniture placement and see whether the room feels different.

“If your bed is pushed up against the wall on two sides,” Ryan says, it may make the room feel tighter.

Try moving the bed out so you can step out either side, he says.

Losing a bit of actual space could make the room feel roomier.

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RANGEN Lyle Hans Dec. 28, 1933 - Oct. 31, 2015 Lyle Hans Rangen of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away at Innisfail Hospital on October 31, 2015, at the age of 81 years. Lyle was born in Leslieville, Alberta and raised in Eckville. Lyle worked 30+ years in the Oil and Gas Industry throughout Alberta, settling in many different areas with his family. Lyle enjoyed 25+ years of retirement in the High River, Bellevue, Lethbridge, Sparwood and Red Deer areas. He very much enjoyed nature and woodworking. Most of all, he enjoyed visiting with family and friends, and socializing at the weekly dances. Lyle is lovingly remembered by his four sons and their families; Dale (Liz), Larry (Michelle), Darcy (Barb), Stephen (Christine), his grandchildren: Derek (Gemma), Brandy, Brittany (Sheldon) Pearson, Michael, Jorgen, Alana, Ashley, Alexander and Walker; three great granddaughters Kassidy, Kaila and Kara; his brother Henry (Sally) and sister Bonny (Archie) Radowitz, as well as numerous nieces and nephews and their families.

Lyle was predeceased by his parents, Margaret (Belt) and Hans Rangen, as well as his sister and brother-in-law Helen and Stan Gasior Following Lyle’s wishes there will not be a formal funeral, rather a small family gathering to celebrate his life.

Lyle is a 10 year survivor or Prostate Cancer. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to the Movember Website in his honour. Movember Website: https://ca.movember.com/ Search Lyle Rangen Direct Link: https://ca.movember.com/donate /payment/member_id/12487565/

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WASHINGTON Noreen (nee Troy) 1933 - 2015 Mrs. Mariam Washington of Red Deer, Alberta, beloved wife of the late Lew Washington (June 19, 2015), passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Saturday, October 31, 2015 at the age of 82 years. Mariam was born on March 11, 1933 at Mossleigh, Alberta. Mariam was much loved by her children; Sandi Cooper, Dan W. (Chris) Washington, Stephen (Jennifer) Washington and her grandchildren; Kelly (Michael) Hogan, Gregory (Stephanie) Koop (great granddaughter, Isa), Barb Cortez, Kristen Washington, Cody Washington, Alyssa Washington and Samantha Washington. A Private Family Service will take place at a later date. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Quinn Edwards, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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BARRETT Florence On Wednesday, November 4th, 2015, Florence Barrett passed away peacefully at the Lacombe Hospital at the age of 101 years.

Florence was born on February 8th, 1914 to Joseph and Mary Hainsworth, being one of nine children, she lived most of her younger years in the Leslieville area. On June 10th, 1933, Florence married George Barrett and they lived in Evarts and then four years later, moved to Delburne, where they farmed and drove the rural mail route for 32 years. In 1975, they retired and moved to the Village of Delburne. In March of 2008, she moved to Red Deer. She lived there until 2014 when she moved to the Royal Oaks in Lacombe. Florence is survived by her four children; Harry (Tina) and their children, Rick and Monica; Eleanor (Al) Volker and their children, Jan and Doug; Russell (Dorothy) and their children, Jeff and Jennifer; and Joyce (Sandy) Starkey and their children, Scott and Leanne. Florence was also blessed with fourteen great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. She is also survived by two sisters; Ruth MacDonald and Alice Thompson, and sister-inlaw, Bettie Hainsworth. Florence was predeceased by her husband, George, four brothers and two sisters. Mom was always a very busy person and loved to work in her garden, play bingo, cards, curl, shuffleboard (winning gold medal in the Alberta Senior games) and helping on the farm and in the community. She was involved in and was secretarytreasurer of many local groups, a couple being the Royal Purple and Drop-In Centre. Mom drove her car until she moved to Red Deer in 2008 and always said she had to give the “old people” a ride, when she was actually older than most of them. She loved her family and how could anyone not love her, as she always helped in any way she could.

She will be deeply missed by her family and friends. A family interment will be held at the Delburne Cemetery on Thursday, November 12th, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. A Memorial Service will follow at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, at 1:00 p.m. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com. Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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VIK Walter Olaf Vik passed away in Didsbury on October 22, 2015 at the age of 93 years.

He was predeceased by his, wife Marion (2008), father Olaf (1976), mother Frieda (Kober - 1964), and sisters Ida Campbell (1943), Louise Roach (2006), and Blanch Bruce (2015). Walter was born February 06, 1922 on the family homestead east of Huxley a few miles from the banks of the Red Deer river.

He attended Donaldson and Huxley schools. He quit school at the age of 15 (1937) to work on the farm his dad bought north of Huxley in 1936. He was called to military service for World War ll but was not accepted because as the only son he was needed on the farm. He worked with his dad farming and enjoyed hockey, baseball and curling through the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s in Huxley and Trochu, playing and competing with all the locals, including his cousins the Wik and Jenson boys. In January, 1947, he and Johnny Jacobson scored 3 goals each for the Huxley hockey team. In 1953, as a member of the Huxley Hornets, they were league champions. He loved to dance and was the driver for many of his sister Blanche’s trips to school dances.

Walter met Marion Cora Thompson at a dance in Red Deer, and they married in 1971. He sold the farm in 1973 and moved to an acreage east of Red Deer, working part time at an auction and golf course.

They moved to Red Deer, where he and Marion continued their love for camping with friends at Pine Lake, and for collecting, wheeling and dealing in collectibles and antiques from auctions and garage sales. They were married for 37 years, and he was dedicated to her through her long illness. Marion passed away at Valley Park Manor, Red Deer, August 22, 2008.

Walter moved to Crossfield Lodge in 2012 and then Didsbury Lodge. He attended the Kober Family Reunion in summer, 2015 as the oldest member of the family. He passed away in Didsbury after a short illness. He will be remembered for his hard work on the farm, his love and support for Marion, and antiques and collectibles. His niece and nephews fondly remember him in their childhood; Sunday visits, family dinners and summers on the farm, wrestling with him in his favorite chair, helping with harvest, picking rocks by hand, the horse drawn wagon and sled. He is survived by his niece Leslie Ann McCloskey, Grande Prairie, and nephews Gene Roach, Red Deer and Hank Bruce, Calgary. Friends can contact Gene Roach 403-348-1850.

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In loving memory of MITCH SULLIVAN Dec. 10, 1937 - Nov. 7, 2011 You were our best friend Closet advisor.

Dedicated parent, grandparent, friend and the love of our lives.

We have shed many tears because you are gone.

But we have smiled because you lived.

When we open our eyes, we see all that you left us, and we are full of love for all we shared.

You were our everything.

We miss you so very much, and you live on in our hearts forever.

Love, Shirley, Michelle, Murray, Mikasa, Mitaya, Taylor and Presley

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IN MEMORIUM EDWARD PAUL METZ Jan. 4, 1923 - Nov. 6, 2014 Remembered with love, Bea, family and friends

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GENT in 60’s looking for lady in her 50’s or 60’s to BLACKFALDS go out. Reply with phone LAW OFFICE number to Box 1115, c/o RED DEER ADVOCATE, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red BARRISTERS & SOLICITORS 5014 Park Street Deer, AB T4R 1M9 Blackfalds, Alberta Buying or Selling your home?

Based in Blackfalds, Check out Homes for Sale Alberta, Blackfalds Law in Classifieds Office has been serving clients throughout central SWM SEEKING petite Alberta since 2008. woman late 50’s or early We are currently seeking 60’s who enjoys swim- up to 2 junior associates to ming, biking, horse back join our real estate, wills riding. I have 40’ motoand family law practice. rhome for travel and own Blackfalds is a thriving home in resort area near community, with record lake. Please reply with population growth, nearing phone number to Box 9000 residents. Only a few 1114, c/o RED DEER AD- short minutes to Red Deer, VOCATE, 2950 Bremner with all the benefits of Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 small town living, Blackfalds is a great place to work and live. If you have strong interpersonal, Personals organizational and problem solving skills, combined ALCOHOLICS with at least 1 year ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 experience as a junior associate, we encourage Classifieds you to apply. Please send Your place to SELL resumes by fax to Your place to BUY 403-885-4509, or by email to reception@ COCAINE ANONYMOUS blackfaldslawoffice.ca 403-396-8298

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Tell Everyone with a Classified Announcement

Office & Phones CLOSED Wednesday November 11, 2015 Red Deer Advocate Publication Dates: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 Thursday, November 12, 2015 Deadline is: Tuesday November 10 @ 5 p.m.

Central Alberta Life Publication Date: THURSDAY November 12 Deadline is: Monday November 9 @NOON CALL CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

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MOVING! Complete home contents. EVERYTHING MUST GO! From furniture to dishes, all like new.

1 DAY ONLY! Sat. Nov. 7, 8-5.

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10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

DVDs, housewares, comics, unpasteurized honey.

All inside heated garage.

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ACADEMIC Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

SERVICE RIG

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Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking a FLOORHAND

GED Preparation

Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule.

Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: payroll@ bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 252-9719 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

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EAST 40TH PUB REQ’S F/T or P/T GRILL COOK

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

CASE IH EQUIPMENT DEALER in Red Deer is seeking a FT

SERVICE WRITER for an exciting position.

We are looking for a motivated candidate with computer + organization skills. The successful applicant will be customer oriented + show strong inter-personal skills, Service-writing experience is an asset.

Forward your resume to: FUTURE AG INC. Attn. Human Resources Box 489 Red Deer, AB T4N 5G1 Fax to (403) 342-0396 Email hr@futureag.ca

Apply in person with resume 3811 40th Ave. 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.

16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Education and experience not req’d.

Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303

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Trades

Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Lacombe

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Registered Massage Therapist Part or full-time with 2,200 hours of training Sylvan Steam & Spa Sylvan Lake Please email resume to contactus@ sylvansteamandspa.ca

Restaurant/ Hotel

Would you like to take the GED in your community?

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.

CHEF-PART TIME Trail Appliances Ltd. has an immediate opening for a part time Chef to work out of our Red Deer store.

If you are creative, personable and selfmotivated, this may be for you. The schedule for this position includes Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

The responsibilities for this role include:

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

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Preparing food live in a display kitchen Providing cooking classes Providing product knowledge to customers

Valid Driver’s Licence The ideal candidate will: preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca • Comfortably prepare or (403)341-6722 food in front of customers NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! • Enjoy interacting with and speaking with Start your career! general public See Help Wanted • Hold a cooking diploma or degree

Truckers/ Drivers

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DRIVER with clean Class 1 or Class 2. Bus driver or semi driver exp. preferred Must be availl eves. and wknds. Looking for both P/T & F/T Fax resume to 347-4999 or email to: frontbus@platinum.ca

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1699960 Alberta Ltd is looking for 2 F/T permanent shift supervisors, varied schedule. At 120 47 Clearview Market Red Deer, AB. Must have exc. customer service, cash handling, and more supervisory related. Starting wage $13.75. College education, 1 + years experience req’d. email: restuarantbusiness@hotmail.ca

If you are interested in working for a well-known and respected company, please submit your resume to: reddeerjobs@ trail-appliances.com or fax to (403) 342-7168.

Please indicate ‘Chef’ on the Subject line of your email or fax. A security check will be conducted on the successful candidate.

Greenhouse workers wanted for Blue Grass Nursery & Garden Center in Red Deer, Alberta We are looking for 10 full time seasonal employees.

No experience needed, training will be provided Starting in February 2016.

Duration is for 4 months Wage is $11.20 per hour at maximum 44 hrs. per week.

Please fax resume to 403-342-7488 Or by email: edgar.rosales@bg-rd.com

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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: Spruce & week. Positions are Pine - Split 403-346-7178 available starting mid January and last until late FREE BLACK POPLAR June. No previous work logs. You pick up. experience or qualificaVery close to Red Deer. tions are required. Starting 403-392-8385. wage is $11.20 an hour.

LOGS Please email resumes to Kevin@cagreenhouses.ca Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar, birch. or fax resume to Price depends on location.

403-885-4147 Lil Mule Logging (Attn. Human Resources.)

403-318-4346 Resumes may also be mailed to Box 100, Blackfalds, Alberta, T0M 0J0.

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DANBY 3.5 cu. ft. fridge, suitable for dorm/beer fridge $100 403-346-9899

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2 END tables, dark, 2 lamps $100 403-342-4949 or 780-717-6206

403.341.4544

LIKE new Dining Room Suite with China cabinet.

Oak in color. Will take offers. 403-506-5989 PLANTERS, OAK, solid quarter cut, 25” x 17” on top x 25” tall, (X2).

Could be converted to end/bedside tables. $60 for the pair.

Call (403) 342-7908

stuff

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Stereos TV's, VCRs

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SONY Trinitron tv 26” w/remote, used little $75.

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ROTARY PHONE, Circa 1940’s black, bakelite, Mint condition. Cord has been converted, so it can be used. Works great. $45. Call (403) 342-7908

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20 - commercial rectangle serving trays, 14” x 18” asking $2.00 each; 75 commercial 9” sandwich plates asking $1.00 each; size 8 1/2 mens 852 tack skates asking $5.00 call 403-728-3485

Sunday November 8 10 am * Viewing 9 am Location: Ridgewood Community Hall Partial List only Electric Power Scooter with Cab – Texaco and Coke Collectables – Antique Sofa Set – New iPhone Accessories – Antiques – Collectables – Furniture – Tools – Misc. AND MUCH MORE Complete list and Directions visit www. cherryhillauction.com Cherry Hill Auction & Appraisals Phone 403-342-2514

DISHWASHER, GE, 2 Yrs. old; $150.

TOILET, Crane, taller than normal, $75. $200 for both.

403-342-4949 or 780-717-6206 FRAMED, 30x30 large genuine painting of Indian Peace Treaty, $200.

403-347-7405 FUR All Real , 4 ft. rugs (2) composed of animal fur, $100 ea. 403-347-7405 TIGER Head pillow, genuine, with glass eyes, $150. 403-347-7405

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LITTLE TYKES Flintstone car, and child’s push pull car $18/ea. 403-346-5423

Clothing

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100 VHS movies, $75.

For All 403-885-5020

ESTATE ANTIQUE AUCTION

Children's Items

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VINTAGE Royal Doulton Beswick horse, brown shetland Pony, 3 1/2” high $40; Merrell Ortholite shoes, air cushioned, size 6 1/2, like new $25.

403-352-8811 WATER cooler $50.

403-885-5020

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AIR HOCKEY by Sports3 BDRM main fl. house for 1 Bdrm Adult Apt. craft was $900 new, exc. n/s, no pets or parties, $895/mo. rent, avail. imm., cond, $200. 403-352-8811 $1150/mo. + 2/3 util. Call www.ambassadorapts.ca Bob 403-872-3400 403-343-1576 BIKE helmet, for mountain biking, size M new $100, 2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult TOO MUCH STUFF? asking $45 w/storage bag, bldg, free laundry, very Let Classifieds good cond. 403-314-9603 clean, quiet, Avail. Dec.1 help you sell it. $900/mo., S.D. $650.

TEMPO treadmill in new BLACKFALDS excellent cond., $800. 403-343-8439 403-304-5337 2001 family home with 4 2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. bdrms/3 baths. Large yard TRAVELING GOLF BAG, $875 rent/d.d. and RV parking. $291,000 black. $45. 403-885-5020 403-346-1458 (Quick Poss.) Call Marianne Nicholson Para2 bdrm. suite downtown Collectors' dise Realty 403-318-1803 area, above store, at 5115 Gaetz Ave. Quiet Items person preferred $950/mo., $950 d.d. all DISNEY Party Time utils., except electricity.

Mickey Mouse, mint cond, Avail. immed. 347-3149 in box, vintage toy $35 403-314-9603 ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water FISHER Price vintage incld., ADULT ONLY lunch kit w/thermos, good BLDG, no pets, Oriole cond, $25 403-314-9603 Park. 403-986-6889

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AVAIL. IMMED. large 2 bdrm. in clean quiet adult building, near downtown Co-Op, no pets, 403-348-7445

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

WANTED TO BUY: old lead batteries for recycling 403-396-8629

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

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3 bdrm, 3 bath, 3 finished flrs, 3 parking at 7316-59 Ave. avail. to family with over 30 year old adults. 5 appls., deck through patio doors and small fenced yard for critters. Rent/Sec. $1575/mon. 403-341-4627 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

4 BDRM. house in Eckville 4 appls., $1400/mo. + utils.

Avail. Nov 30, 877-2864 cell or 887-7143 eves.

Condos/ Townhouses

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3 BDRM, 3 bath, 3 flr, 3 parking, 5 appls, fenced yard, pets allowed to over 30ish parents with family at 7316-59 Ave. Rent/S.S. $1590.Ph 403-341-4627.

CONDO for rent. 2 bdrm, 2 bath, 6 appl., 2 parking stalls, 1 underground heated, all util. incl., 1,100 sq. ft., amenities include gym and social room, avail.

Dec. 1. $1,350/mo. lease.

403-358-4582

1 & 2 bdrm., Adult bldg. only, N/S, No pets. 403-596-2444

Opposite Hospital 2 bdrm. apt. w/balcony, adults only, no pets heat/water incld. $875.

403-346-5885

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

Manufactured Homes

This is a three bedroom two bath modified bi level walk out, backing onto green area and alley great for trailer .Many upgrades. $419,900 includes GST legal fee, front sod. Tree.

LLOYD FIDDLER 403-391-9294

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Manufactured Homes

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1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

Warehouse Space

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COLD storage garage, 14’ x 24’, $200/mo.; heated big truck space, $775/mo.

VARIETY SHOP SPACES ~ offices ~ fenced yards ~ Big or small, different locations. 403-343-6615

FOR LEASE Riverside Light Industrial 4614-61 St. (directly behind Windsor Plywood) 2400 sq. ft. large 55 x 85 compound 403-350-1777

Mobile Lot

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PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

34 Parkland Drive $185,000 3 Beds/1 Bath 1212 sq ft Mobile Home On its own lot. Fully Fenced Back yard Contact Margaret Comeau RE/MAX 403.391.3399

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Cars

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2003 BUICK Regal loaded, 78,500 kms, $4000 403-346-9408 1994 OLDS 88 $1500 obo 403-347-5316

SUV's

SEIBEL PROPERTY 6 locations in Red Deer, well-maintained townhouses, lrg, 3 bdrm, 11/2 bath, 4 + 5 appls.

Westpark, Kentwood, Highland Green, Riverside Meadows. Rent starting at $1100. For more info, phone 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545

RISER HOMES

Tires, Parts Acces.

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STUDDED tires Hankook 225/60R16 $75/ea.

403-346-9899

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300 ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

SPECIAL! 1 ONLY! 3 bdrm. 2 bath bi-level walkout, hardwood/tile, $329,900 Includes all fees, For delivery of Flyers, appl. pkg, sod and tree.

Wednesday and Friday LLOYD FIDDLER GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm.

ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK 403-391-9294 anytime apartments, avail. immed, CLEARVIEW RIDGE rent $875 403-596-6000

LIMITED TIME OFFER: First month’s rent FREE! 1 & 2 Bedroom suites available. Renovated suites in central location.

Cat friendly. leasing@ rentmidwest.com 1(888)679-8031

DAY bed, new, still in box, paid $350 sell $300 587-272-2530

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Realtors & Services

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2006 JEEP Commander full load, 4.7. Best Offer ASAP 403-342-7798

Trucks

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CLEARVIEW TIMBERSTONE LANCASTER VANIER WOODLEA/ WASKASOO DEER PARK GRANDVIEW EASTVIEW MICHENER MOUNTVIEW ROSEDALE GARDEN HEIGHTS MORRISROE Call Prodie at 403-314-4301

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK ANDERS BOWER HIGHLAND GREEN INGLEWOOD JOHNSTONE KENTWOOD RIVERSIDE MEADOWS PINES SUNNYBROOK SOUTHBROOKE WEST LAKE WEST PARK Call Sandra at 403-314-4306

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For early morning delivery by 6:30 am Mon. - Sat. VANIER CLEARVIEW Call Joanne at 403- 314-4308

CARRIERS NEEDED

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LADIES lambskin leather fall/winter coat, Cold Water For COUNTRY Mobile Home, Creek, L, $40; ladies long Cats HERE TO HELP 2003 FORD Sport truck, CENTRAL ALBERTA near Bentley. $950/mo. + black dress jacket, knee SHOP HAND / & HERE TO SERVE F/T DISPATCHER REQ’D. exc. cond, 403-350-0485 utils. + d.d., 403-748-2678. length, Emma James, size LIFE KITTENS to give away, Knowledge of Red Deer BUS CLEANER Call GORD ING at 14, $15; ladies black wool 6 mos. old. and 2 mos. old and area is essential.

Must be avail. to work RE/MAX real estate 1 day a week Well-maintained 2 bdrm knee length coat, DKNY Needs good home Verbal and written eves./wknds. and have mobile home in Alix. $910 central alberta 403-341-9995 Vans INNISFAIL size 10 $25 403-348-0201 403-782-3031 communication skills are own transportation. Fax gord.ing@remax.net Buses inclds. water, 5 appl. req’d. Send resume by fax resume to 403-347-4999 MEN’S 3X and up clothing Something for Everyone PENHOLD 403-348-6594 to 403-346-0295 email: frontbus@platinum.ca for sale 403-598-8371 2007 DODGE Grand Everyday in Classifieds LACOMBE Houses Caravan, Blue, 168,000 4 Plexes/ SYLVAN LAKE For Sale kms. Runs great. Comes with an extra set of all 6 Plexes OLDS season tires. $3,900 OBO BLACKFALDS 587-876-0344 3 BDRM., no pets, PONOKA $1000 mo. 403-343-6609 2006 FREESTAR, 7 passenger, fully loaded, DVD, ACROSS from park, Call Rick at exc. shape, 94,000 km, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 403- 314-4303 $6,500 obo. 403-318-1878 4 appls. Rent $925/mo.

CLASSIFICATIONS d.d. $650. Now or Nov. 1.

403-304-5337 1000-1430 Public “COMING SOON” BY ACROSS from park, SERGE’S HOMES Notices Oriole Park, 3 bdrm.

Duplex in Red Deer Close 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. to Schools and Recreation Rent $1025/mo. d.d. $650.

Center. For More Info FOR SALE BY TENDER Avail. Dec. 1 403-304-5337 Call Bob 403-505-8050 Board of Trustees of the Red Deer Public School District No. 104 has for sale by Tender, in accordance with The Disposition of Property Regulation AR 181/2010, the “North School Site” (currently leased to Koinonia Christian School), with municipal address of 6014-57th Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta and legal description of: PLAN 4596NY Massage Painters/ LOT S Entertainment Therapy Decorators Accounting CONTAINING 1.55 HECTARES (3.82 ACRES) MORE OR LESS EXCEPTING THEREOUT: LAUREL TRUDGEON DANCE DJ SERVICES INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS HECTARES (ACRES) MORE OR LESS Residential Painting and 587-679-8606 Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp.

A) PLAN 1524652 SUBDIVISION 0.076 0.19 Colour Consultations. with oilfield service EXCEPTING THEREOUT ALL MINES AND MINERALS 403-342-7801. companies, other small ATS REFERENCE: 4;27;38;20;E Elite Retreat, Finest businesses and individuals ESTATE: FEE SIMPLE Flooring RW Smith, 346-9351 in VIP Treatment.

MUNICIPALITY: CITY OF RED DEER 10 - 2am Private back entry Seniors’ Tender Bids should be addressed to “North School Land Sale” and Services NEED FLOORING DONE? 403-341-4445 are to be received no later than 2:00 PM Mountain Standard Time, Don’t pay the shops more. on January 6, 2016, at the offices of Red Deer Public School District Something for Everyone Contractors Over 20 yrs. exp.

HELPING HANDS Home No. 104 at 4747-53 Street, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 2E6, Attention: SE Farms & Everyday in Classifieds Call Jon 403-848-0393 Supports for Seniors.

Della Ruston.

Red Deer Acreages Cooking, cleaning, BRIDGER CONST. LTD. Prospective buyers must rely on their own inspection. The highest Misc. companionship. At home Handyman We do it all! 403-302-8550 AMAZING up/down duplex BUSINESS/FAMILY or any Tender will not necessarily be accepted. A deposit for Ten or facility.

403-346-7777 Services Services - live up and have renter acreage, 1 mile SE of city, Percent (10%) of the tender Offer payable to Warren Sinclair DALE’S Home Reno’s pay mortgage or use as 1,756 sq. ft. house, 40’ x LLP in trust for Board of Trustees of Red Deer Public School District Free estimates for all your income property. City ap60’ shop, fenced w/waterNo. 104 must be submitted with the Tender bid by way of certified 5* JUNK REMOVAL Yard BOOK NOW! reno needs. 403-506-4301 praised at $434,000. er, orchard, playground, cheque or bank draft.

Property clean up 505-4777 For help on your home Care Asking $424,000.

Open to and much more.

Asking For more information, and to receive a copy of the Tender Document JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. projects such as bathroom, GARAGE Doors Serviced offers. Open house Sun $945,000. Sun, Nov 8 main floor, and bsmt. renoPackage please contact Della Ruston, Associate Superintendent, Free Est. 403-872-8888 50% off. 403-358-1614 Nov 8, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. 45 Open House, 1 p.m. to 4 TREE / JUNK / SNOW vations. Also painting and System Improvement, Red Deer Public Schools at (403) 357-3994 or Inglewood Drive. p.m. 37540 Range Road Classifieds...costs so little Snow shoveling/dump removal. Contracts flooring. by email at della.ruston@rdpsd.ab.ca.

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Barber Ryan Rich, right, shaves Adam Paul’s mustache at Movember & Co. in Culver City, Calif. Most men growing moustaches throughout the month are doing so in the name of charity. But the popularity of Movember has led to others who are simply growing a “mo” for the sake of it - and not to raise funds. Is there a risk of losing the true message behind a movement when people are seeking to simply be part of a trend?

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MOVEMBER CHARITY CAMPAIGN SEEKS TO DRAW MORE MEN WITH MOUSTACHES TO CAUSE TORONTO — Seth Glick was inspired by moustaches grown by his friends when he decided to ditch his razor for charity, but his reasons for sporting a “mo” cut even deeper.

“Unlike other charities, it wasn’t one run or one event — it was the whole month,” said the Edmonton-based realtor, who has participated in the annual Movember campaign for six years.

“I thought that you could get a lot of conversations, a lot of people looking at your funny moustache, and also hopefully meet some people in the city that were raising money as well. So, fun definitely has a lot to do with it.”

The global men’s health charity has added a month-long fitness challenge dubbed MOVE as a way for both men and women to take part in Movember.

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The City of Lacombe is currently recruiting for: “I mean, that’s not a bad thing because in the Facility Operator 1- Part Time end, that moustache — for most people — is goApplication Deadline is November 13, 2015 ing to be associated with Movember. But if we find people that aren’t doing For full job description and other employment Movember, we give them opportunities please visit the City of Lacombe website a kind nudge and suggest they sign up … and doat www.lacombe.ca/employment nate a little bit of money to make the moustache Please Apply To: count.”

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District Engineer • Responsible for supervision, operation and budgeting of the Engineering Department • Manage the design, budgeting and construction of irrigation works • Work effectively with Management Team and Board of Directors • Experience or knowledge of irrigation is desirable • Civil Eng. degree and Professional Engineer designation with APEGA • Excellent computer skills including MS Office, AutoCAD, Civil 3D and GPS software • Experience in project management and construction supervision • Ability to handle difficult situations with diplomacy • Opportunity for growth in an expanding irrigation district • Comprehensive benefit package; compensation under review • Applications will only be accepted by email. See www.lnid.ca for more information regarding this position and how to apply.

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Central Alberta Residence Society

Seeking people to join our team who share our Vision that...

“Individuals with disabilities will achieve full meaningful lives as valuable citizens of the community” Currently have the following positions available:

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SUPERVISOR - DIRECT SUPPORTS FULL TIME DIRECT SUPPORT WORKER - FULL AND PART TIME

Parkland C.L.A.S.S. has grown over five decades to Àcome one of the largest disability based service providers in AlÀrta. Parkland C.L.A.S.S. exists to improve the quality of life of children & adults with developmental disabilities through individual choice, dignity and rights. We strive to empower the people we serve, measuring our success against the goals they set for themselves.

CHILDREN & ADULT PROPRIETORS NEEDED APPLY NOW TO PROVIDE VALUE IN THE HUMAN SERVICES INDUSTRY We are continuously seeking specialized Proprietors for children and adults with developmental disabilities. Individuals or couples willing to open up their home have the opportunity to make an incredible difference in the life of an individual. As a Full Time Proprietor you will provide a caring, safe and structured environment with fun activities and dependable routines. Respite (part time) Proprietors offer support and care, working one to two 48 hours weekends per month. This commitment involves the inclusion of the child/adult in your regular family life. PCLASS has a licensed basement suite where Respite can be provided if applicants are not able to provide Respite within their own home.

Proprietors will provide a very individualized service that is based on the needs of the individual.

Experience with young children, youth and/or adults with developmental disabilities would be ideal.

Knowledge of First Nations culture and some related post-secondary education would be an asset.

Individual must have a private room and be in a non-smoking environment. Driver’s license and transportation are required.

Full time Proprietors receive a (tax free) monthly remuneration and Relief Proprietors are paid $125.00 per days worked. Parkland CLASS provides extensive training which all Proprietors are required to take.

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Please send a cover letter & resume confirming you are interested in either children or adult Proprietorship to: HR Fax: (403) 342-2677 e-mail: hr@pclass.org

If you would like more information please contact Cori Brennan, Children Proprietor Coordinator or Nicole Shultz, Adult Proprietor Coordinator at 347-3333.

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the good with the bad” with respect to how individuals respond to viral campaigns.

“What are you going to say? You can’t grow a moustache if you’re not generating funds?” said LaBarge, an assistant professor of marketing in the Smith School of Business. “I think that’s really tough, and I think that a lot of these organizations really rely on positive social media.

“If you think about the ALS ice bucket challenge, a lot of those people probably weren’t living up to what the ALS society would have liked. But what are they going to say? ‘No, you can’t do it that way?”’

Movember is a grassroots movement that relies on participants to communicate the message about men’s health, said Hayman.

“There’s definitely people that are probably growing moustaches and haven’t signed up. And our biggest thing internally is to get people to sign up,” he said.

“One, you can raise funds that way.

As a Supervisor - Direct Supports, you are directly accountable to the Supervisor - Client Services, to work on site, for the purpose of monitoring, and organizing the overall daily operation of a specific setting/service. Responsible to ensure that the supervision, training and personal support provided meets the individual(s) needs. The Supervisor - Direct Supports is also responsible for liaising with government departments, family and other related community support agencies. Ensuring effective and consistent supports across all team members.

QUALIFICATIONS: • Disability & Community Studies or related post-secondary diploma with a minimum of two years experience providing community support services for individuals with developmental disabilities • Prior supervisory experience • Strong communication, organizational, interpersonal, leadership and problem solving skills, contributing to your effectiveness working as part of a multidisciplinary team • Knowledge of and the ability to implement pro-active support strategies • Driver’s license HOURS/COMPENSATION: • 40 hours/week, shiftwork may be required occasionally • Salary range: $3,539.46 - $4,312.54 As a Direct Support Worker, you are directly accountable to the Supervisor - Direct Supports, Individualized Support Coordinator or Supervisor - Client Services (as identified) to carry out directions related to direct individual client service, providing supervision, training and personal support. The Direct Support Worker is expected to provide support across multiple environments which will promote personal growth, independence and increase social inclusion. To complete such duties ensuring that services provided are of the maximum possible benefit to the individuals.

QUALIFICATIONS: • Minimum Grade 12 education, prior experience in the human service field a definite asset.

• First Aid - CPR • Completion of required in-service training • Driver’s license and vehicle required for most positions HOURS/COMPENSATION: • Hours vary pending position, shiftwork and weekends required • Wage range: $16.15 - $18.81 per hour If you believe you have the skills, abilities and motivation to be a part of our team of professionals, please forward your resume to: Central Alberta Residence Society 101-5589 47 Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1S1 Phone: 403-342-4550 • Fax: 403-346-4550 • Email: markw@carsrd.org

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D8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015

Russia suspends flights to Egypt

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW — In an abrupt turnaround, Russia on Friday suspended all passenger flights to Egypt after days of resisting U.S. and British suggestions that a bomb may have brought down a Russian plane in the Sinai Peninsula a week ago.

The move dealt a sharp blow to both countries’ tourism sectors amid fears about security in Egypt.

Russia’s federal aviation agency said airlines would be allowed to send empty planes to bring home travellers, but it was unclear when the Russians in Egypt, estimated to number at least 40,000, would be able to return home as planned from the Red Sea resorts including Sharm el-Sheikh.

Within hours of the Oct. 31 crash of the Metrojet Airbus 321-200 that killed all 224 aboard — mostly Russians — a faction of the Islamic State militant

group claimed to have downed it in retaliation for Moscow’s airstrikes that began a month earlier against fighters in Syria. The claim was initially dismissed on the grounds that the IS affiliate in Egypt’s troubled Sinai region didn’t have missiles capable of hitting high-flying planes.

British and U.S. officials, guided primarily by intelligence intercepts and satellite imagery, suggested a bomb might have been aboard the aircraft. The Russians and Egyptians called that premature, saying the investigation had not concluded.

France 2 TV, citing an investigator who had access to one of the Metrojet plane’s flight recorders, reported that “the sound of an explosion can be distinctly heard during the flight.”

France’s BEA accident investigation agency said it could not confirm the report.

After Britain suspended its flights to and from Sharm el-Sheikh, Prime

Minister David Cameron said it was “more likely than not” that the cause was a bomb. President Barack Obama also said the U.S. was taking “very seriously” the possibility that a bomb brought down the plane in the Sinai, where Egyptian forces have been battling an Islamic insurgency for years.

As the suspicions grew, Russia appeared unwilling to countenance the possibility, and Egyptian officials played down terrorism as a cause of the crash, with President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi calling the IS claim “propaganda” designed to embarrass his government.

But on Friday, the head of Russian intelligence, Alexander Bortnikov, recommended a suspension of all flights to Egypt “until we determine the real reasons of what happened,” and President Vladimir Putin quickly agreed.

The flight suspension order would last until “a proper level of aviation

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security is in place,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, denying it will run until the investigation was finished. He added that it “definitely doesn’t mean” Russia regards terrorism as the main theory.

Putin and el-Sissi spoke by telephone a few hours after the suspension was announced, and they agreed to co-operate further in order to “confirm the overall effectiveness of the security measures taken by Egyptian authorities at the airports of the country,” the Kremlin said in a statement.

The U.S. Homeland Security Department announced new procedures that will include expanded security screening of items put on commercial jets, airport assessments and offers of security assistance for certain international airports. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the new protocols apply to fewer than 10 overseas airports in “the region in which the Sinai Peninsula is located.”

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MARIANA, Brazil — The flood of mud came without a warning. The only hint the roughly 600 residents of Bento Rodrigues had that a sea of viscous, clay-red mud was about to flow into their village with the destructive power of lava was a deafening clap.

The sound of two dams bursting Thursday afternoon at the Samarco iron ore mine in Brazil’s central Minas Gerais state sent residents running for the hills, and, miraculously, most appear to have survived.

Only two people were confirmed to have been killed in the accident, which sent some 62 million cubic meters of water and iron ore leftovers flooding into the village, which is located some 4 miles (7 kilometres) downhill from the mine, officials said Friday. Four were injured and another 13 were missing.

Still, officials warned that those numbers could rise. Only about 100 of the nearly 600 people thought to live in the area have been officially accounted for.

The cause of the accident was not known, but a seismology lab at the University of Brasilia reported that several small tremors were registered in the area hours ahead of the disaster, according to O Estado de S.Paulo newspaper.

A spokesman with the U.S. Geological Survey, John Bellini, said the agency, which monitors seismic activity worldwide, had not located any earthquakes in the region on Thursday, noting that they would generally not receive data on any event smaller than a 4.2-magnitude quake. Still, he stressed that it would generally take a quake larger than 4.5 magnitude to damage a dam.

Hundreds of survivors were taking shelter Friday in a gym in the nearby city of Mariana, as donations of food, clothing and mattresses poured in. Many of the survivors had injuries to their feet, sustained after they fled their houses barefoot and trekked through the devastated terrain and then onto scorching asphalt.

Gov. Fernando Pimentel called the

Prosecutors question owner of Romanian nightclub where 32 died in deadly blaze

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Horses struggle in the mud in the small town of Bento Rodrigues, Minas Gerais, Brazil after a dam burst on Friday. Mud flowed into the village 7 kilometers downhill from the Samarco iron ore mine in the mountainous area. flood an environmental tragedy and said the accident was the “biggest natural disaster in the history of our state.”

State prosecutor Carlos Eduardo Ferreira Pinto said he will recommend the governor suspend Samarco’s environmental license for its operations in the region.

As rescue workers evacuated remaining survivors, the mining company’s president worked to dispel fears that the mud contained toxins that could contaminate the land and rivers.

Ricardo Vescovi also insisted Brazilian law does not require any emergency alarm for dam failures and that the authorities had approved the company’s emergency response plan.

The public prosecutors’ office said it was looking into filing criminal charges against Samarco, which is jointly owned by the Brazilian mining company Vale and Australia’s BHP Billiton, over the facility’s lack of an emergency siren.

Resident Joaquim Teofilo Dutra

confirmed that the crash of the dams giving way was the first sign of the impending disaster.

“When I went outside there were already people running uphill saying the dam burst,” Dutra told The Associated Press. “All I did was close my house and run to the top.”

Rescue worker Denir Ubaldo Monterio said neighbours banded together to escape the mudflow.

BUCHAREST, Romania — Romanian prosecutors on Friday questioned an owner of the nightclub where a fire killed 32 people and injured 180.

Anti-corruption prosecutors questioned Paul Gancea, one of the three owners of the Colectiv nightclub, where the fire broke out Friday night, the deadliest of its kind in Romania.

Gancea was responsible for securing permits for the club. He was detained Tuesday with the other two owners for “grave negligence and irresponsibility” and a “high level of social danger.”

Agerpres news agency reported that prosecutors on Friday were taking documents from the district town hall where the club was located and the financial administration authorities.

Also Friday, Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders said that nine survivors of the fire will be flown to the Netherlands to receive treatment in specialist burns units at three Dutch hospitals. Some 90 people remain hospitalized in serious or critical condition in hospitals around the capital, many suffering from burns.

“I’m pleased that Dutch expertise can be used to give the victims the best possible care,” Koenders said.

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