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Growth boosts Sylvan Lake’s bottom line

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

Sylvan Lake residents could get some unexpected tax relief next year.

Town council gave local residents their first peak at the next three-year budget, and it proposes a 2.47 per cent municipal residential tax rate increase for 2016. That is down from the 3.7 per cent increase anticipated in last year’s plan.

However, a two per cent increase proposed for 2017 will increase to 2.96 per cent followed by 3.89 per cent in 2018.

Mayor Sean McIntyre said solid development growth in the community this year helped boost the municipality’s bottom line. As well, council was committed to keeping a tight rein on spending.

“Staff and council both recognized that given the economic circumstances in Alberta we need to do everything we can to deliver the highest level of services for the greatest value,” said McIntyre.

Council plans to maintain a freeze introduced for 2015 on non-residential tax rates for another year, a move meant to encourage more economic development and investment in the community.

The town began budgeting on threeyear cycles last year to improve efficiency and give residents more clarity on long-term plans. Capital plans are based on 10-year cycles.

Under the system, first-year tax rates are set and estimated increases are prepared for the following two years. Given changing grant levels, growth or unforeseen developments those rates are subject to change — as happened this year.

However, McIntyre said, staff and council try to nail down future-year tax numbers as closely as they can, “but there is still room to change plans as circumstances change.

“As far as we’re concerned the numbers for 2017 and 2018 are as accurate as we can project at this time.”

An open house will be held on Dec. 3 from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Municipal Government Building to gather public feedback on the town’s spending plans.

Council expects to pass its final budget before the end of the year.

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The government may have changed but the resolve in Sylvan Lake for an urgent care centre remains as strong as ever.

Sylvan Lake Mayor Sean McIntyre, who sits on the committee that has been tirelessly working towards better health care for the area, said the mission remains the same.

“Our attitude on the committee is we will get urgent care because we won’t give up until it happens,” he said on Tuesday, a day after council was given an update on progress.

The NDP’s unexpected win means filling in a new minister and her staff on the efforts of the community — which has raised $100,000 towards the project — as well as tweaking the urgent care centre business plan.

“The plan we had developed referenced the family care clinic model, which was the former government’s version of urgent care,” he said. “The new government doesn’t use that terminology, that approach.

“So, we’ve got to now tailor the business plan to essentially suit what the new government is looking for.”

To that end, the committee is anxious to meet with Health Minister Sarah Hoffman to determine the best way to move forward. The minister’s staff have promised a face-to-face meeting next month.

McIntyre said community support remains strong. Local property developers are on board and have made room for a centre in their plans. Likewise, Central Alberta Medical Imaging Services, which is expanding to Sylvan Lake, has offered space for future urgent care needs.

“There’s plenty of people who are willing to help. What we’re looking for now is instruction from the health minister.”

Urgent Care Committee chairperson Susan Samson said they know that the government is facing a deficit and the financial landscape has changed.

“We’re quite conscious of that,” she said. “We’re going to offer (Hoffman) a solution to deliver advanced health care to the area that’s affordable and effective.”

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Hailey Poole proudly recites her lines as she takes part in a Remembrance Day ceremony at Grandview Elementary School on Tuesday morning. Hailey, along with her classmates from Jan Hart’s Grade 2 class, took turns reading the poem ‘Remember’ by Evelyn Merritt. Many other schools in the Red Deer area held Remembrance Day ceremonies Tuesday. A community Remembrance Day ceremony will take place at the Red Deer Arena beginning at 10:30 a.m. today.

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Child benefit, tax credit available to low-income families

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Alberta is bringing in two benefits to give more money to low-income families.

The new Alberta Child Benefit and enhanced Alberta Family Employment Tax Credit will impact families earning less than $41,220 per year, including those receiving Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped and social assistance.

The maximum annual benefit is $1,100 for families with one child, and up to $2,750 for families with four or more children.

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The maximum annual tax credit is $754 for families with one child, and up to $1,987 for families with four children or more.

“No child should grow up in poverty. Every child in Alberta deserves the chance to take part in their communities and reach their full potential,” said Human Services Minister Irfan Sabir.

“It is simply unacceptable that in a province as prosperous as ours that many hardworking Albertans struggle to make ends meet.”

Both benefits will be sent out to parents starting in July 2016 and the child benefit will be sent out in four pay-

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ments, while the tax credit will be sent out twice a year.

To be eligible, families must be residents of Alberta, file a tax return and have one or more children under 18.

Finance Minister Joe Ceci said it made sense to implement the benefit next summer instead of right away.

“There was the view that we could do it best if we took some time,” Ceci said.

“We wanted to ensure that it came out when it was needed. It’s needed right across this province but we could get it organized and deliver it best.”

Man accused of killing pedestrian appears in court

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A short adjournment could lead to a quick resolution for a man accused of running over and killing a woman.

Jason John Powell, 40, is charged with several offences in the death of Chasity Holman, 41, of Red Deer. Holman was killed on Nov. 5 near the Penhold Multiplex last week.

Powell made his first appearance on Tuesday in Red Deer provincial court. Appearing from the Red Deer Remand Centre by closed circuit television, the charges were read to him and his counsel Kevin Sproule.

Crown Prosecutor Ann MacDonald elected to proceed by indictment, which means a more significant penalty if the accused is convicted.

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THIN ICE

Reporter shocked RCMP planned to shadow him

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A Canadian journalist expressed dismay Tuesday after learning that the RCMP were planning to shadow him in hopes he would lead them to the person who leaked secret information on a suspected terrorist.

The proposed surveillance was part of an investigation into the leak of a sensitive spy agency document about Adil Charkaoui to Montreal’s La Presse newspaper.

“I’m in a bit of shock still,” La Presse reporter Joel-Denis Bellavance said from Ottawa. “We live in a democratic country. Freedom of the press is a guaranteed freedom.”

Information about the surveillance is in highly classified RCMP documents a Federal Court ordered disclosed as part of a lawsuit filed by Abfousian Abdelrazik, another man the government once branded a terrorist and who was also subject of a damaging leak.

The records show Canadian Security and Intelligence Service had concluded the Charkaoui document, passed to La Presse in 2007, came from Citizenship and Immigration Canada. But the agency could not identify the source despite using fingerprints and DNA analysis. At the time, Charkaoui was under a national security certificate as a suspected al-Qaida sleeper agent.

CSIS then called in the Mounties, who proposed questioning Immigration employees while tailing Bellavance in what was dubbed “Project Standard.”

“It is expected that the view questionnaire process will generate communication between the source and the journalist, which should provide a unique opportunity to capture the meet through surveillance, and to identify the source,” states an RCMP report in December 2008 marked “Top Secret.”

Surveillance of the reporter was to be limited to a “specific period of time.” The document also suggests that there was a “purpose and a motivation” to the leak that warranted investigation.

In their final report, dated April 7, 2011, RCMP said they had not been able to find the culprit “due to poor record management and lack of recall or co-operation from (Immigration) staff.”

It made no mention of Bellavance surveillance.

“The fact that they wanted to do it is still troublesome,” Bellavance said. “It still is mind-boggling.”

Federal Court ordered disclosure of the records because of the similarities to the Abdelrazik leak in August 2011, which the Mounties say they are still investigating. Abdelrazik’s lawyers will ask the court this month to force the RCMP to turn over their file, saying it’s crucial to his civil lawsuit over the leak.

“The RCMP’s investigation file is the only source of information directly relevant to issues at the heart of the present action, including who was responsible for the leak, what responsibilities and duties their position(s) entailed, and what safeguards were in place to prevent such a leak,” Abdelrazik’s motion states.

Federal Court is slated to hear Abdelrazik’s disclosure motion Nov. 19.

URGENT CARE: Efficient alternative “We’ve got the stats that show our after-hours on-call doctors save the local emergency room over 2,000 visits annually. That means those people are being treated here in their community for those non-life-threatening injuries.”

Putting an urgent-care centre in Sylvan Lake will offer a more efficient alternative to sending patients to Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre’s already-overcrowded emergency room.

Sylvan Lake and area, which includes Bentley, Benalto, Eckville, five summer villages and parts of Lacombe and Red Deer Counties, is home to more than 22,000 people. They are looking for a seven-daya-week facility able to handle non-life-threatening

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Wounded Afghan soldier Capt. Trevor Greene receives honorary UVic degree VICTORIA — A Canadian soldier who almost died after he was axed in the head in Afghanistan will receive an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Victoria.

Capt. Trevor Greene was attacked in 2006 while he was sipping tea with village elders near Kandahar during a peacekeeping gathering.

Greene said before the fall convocation ceremonies Tuesday that the degree holds great significant for him, especially because he will receive it just before Remembrance Day. He said Nov. 11 is an emotional day for him, just as it is for all Canadian veterans.

“It’s our history,” he said. “I will probably cry.”

Greene said his recovery has been a life-changing struggle, but worth all the effort.

He is now able to walk with the use of a walker and is an advocate and inspiration for brain injury survivors.

He and his wife, Debbie Greene, published his memoir, March Forth, in 2012.

injuries and ailments with extended hours and lab, diagnostic imaging and observation beds.

Needs have also been identified for expanded mental health services, preventive medicine and programs focused on seniors.

Ahead of the meeting with the minister, a lunchhour event will be held at Sylvan Lake’s Municipal Government Building on Dec. 1 in connection with Giving Tuesday to provide a public update on the project and demonstrate local support.

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A dangerously thin layer of ice has formed up on the water at Bower Ponds over the last few days, and City of Red Deer Recreation and Parks have posted signs warning people from taking to the ice. Other area wetlands in Red Deer are also beginning to freeze over with a thin layer of ice.

COURT: Case adjourned to Friday Family and friends came to watch the proceedings, but declined to comment afterwards.

Sproule told Powell and the court that a resolution proposal had been made at Powell’s request the Crown Prosecutor assigned to the file, but had not received a response.

Suicide in military a concern, those at risk should seek help, says Vance OTTAWA — The country’s top military officer is weighing in with his concerns about the problem of suicide in the Canadian Armed Forces.

Gen. Jonathan Vance, the chief of the defence staff, says in a statement that the Forces need to work harder on the ever-present issue of suicide prevention.

A June report from the military surgeon general suggested that those with a history of deployment may have an increased risk of suicide compared with those who have never been deployed.

It found that the suicide risk is higher for those in the army, whose members tend to be the ones exposed to ground combat.

Vance, who is likely reacting to recent media reports about suicide and the Canadian Forces, says he is looking at what needs to be done to get help for troubled servicemen and women.

He says the health and well-being of the troops and their families is his highest priority.

“We already have an extensive suicide prevention program in place, supported by highly capable and compassionate personnel, but clearly we must continually strive to improve,” the statement said.

Vance is urging his troops to seek help if they need it.

“To all members of the Canadian Armed Forces, if you think that you, or someone you know needs help, get it now,” he said.

Sproule requested a short adjournment to Friday in Red Deer provincial court for the Crown to respond. Judge James Glass granted the adjournment.

Innisfail RCMP were called to the Penhold multiplex at 5:45 p.m. on Nov. 5 to a report of a pedestrian being hit by a car. Witnesses reported seeing a car with one occupant strike an adult pedestrian and then try to leave the scene, but the vehicle got stuck on a berm and the driver fled the scene on foot.

Police arrived on scene and arrested the male suspect nearby without incident.

Holman was transported to hospital, but died of the injuries she sustained.

Powell is charged with dangerous driving causing death, impaired driving causing death, failing to provide a breath sample while operating a vehicle that was involved in the death of a person and driving while disqualified.

Powell was convicted of driving while having a blood alcohol content level over 0.08 on June 19, 2014 and as a result was disqualified from driving.

Police said Holman and Powell were known to each other. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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No cash for coal- Province waiting to see power shutdown: details of refugee plan think-tank study

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta power generators have no right to billions of dollars in compensation if the province shuts down coal-fired plants as part of its climate change strategy, says a study from a clean energy think-tank.

The Pembina Institute says deals the companies agreed to long ago give them plenty of time to recoup their investments without big payouts from taxpayers.

Nor should Albertans cover costs for coal-fired plants built after it was clear that climate change would affect government policy, says the institute’s report.

“Now that we’d like to move away from your type of electricity, we don’t need to pay you off — you’ve been paid off for that capital,” summarized co-author Ben Thibault.

Don Wharton, TransAlta’s vice-president of policy and sustainability, said recouping capital doesn’t account for the money generators are forced to spend to keep their coal plants operating safely.

Shutting those plants too soon would weaken the very companies Alberta will depend on to finance the transition to cleaner power, he said.

Retirement of coal-fired power is expected to be a major part of the Alberta government’s climate change policy, which is expected before the end of the month.

Companies, using terms such as “expropriation,” have argued that taxpayers should compensate them for that. Some have warned that requiring them to close coal-fired plants before the companies want could put the government on the hook for as much as $4.6 billion.

Not so, said Thibault.

Sixteen of Alberta’s 18 coal-fired plants have power purchase agreements with the government that run out in 2020.

Nine of those agreements expire at about the same time the plants are deemed in their agreements to have earned back their original investment.

The rest would take a decade or so longer.

Taxpayers have no obligation to compensate companies for facilities that have already earned back their capital, said Thibault.

“The public doesn’t owe you anything given that we’ve accomplished our terms of the contract.”

‘NOW THAT WE’D LIKE TO MOVE AWAY FROM YOUR TYPE OF ELECTRICITY, WE DON’T NEED TO PAY YOU OFF — YOU’VE BEEN PAID OFF FOR THAT CAPITAL.’ — BEN THIBAULT CO-AUTHOR Plants that still have some value left in 2020 can earn back the rest of their capital on the open market, he suggested.

The two plants without such agreements were built after it was clear that climate change was going to affect the regulatory environment. Their owners should have accounted for that risk, the report says.

Equating the worth of those plants to their book value is too simple, said Wharton.

“TransAlta spends tremendous amounts of capital every year to maintain those plants. They’re ignoring tens if not hundreds of millions in investment.

“We’re required to do exactly that — we can’t let them die and be zero value at some book date.”

Wharton emphasized TransAlta is not looking for a cheque.

The company, together with Atco and Maxim, proposes it be exempted from future carbon taxes if it reduces its coal-fired generation to conform with the government’s current reduction targets for major emitters.

“That, in our estimation, is adequate compensation for the lost production that we would incur by dialling back.”

Wharton said retiring coal plants too quickly could slow the growth of renewable energy in Alberta. Forced to rapidly add generating capacity, companies would probably build natural gas facilities — substituting one fossil fuel for another.

“We need to be cognizant of how we treat coal in order to get renewables.”

Independent energy economist David Gray said Pembina is right to suggest taxpayers have no obligation to compensate power generators.

“There’s no legislative requirement or anything else for the government to pay compensation,” said Gray.

“They have those power plants fully paid off at the end of a power purchase agreement and they were looking forward to years of gravy.”

CALGARY — Two Alberta ministers say they don’t know what the province’s plans are to handle Syrian refugees.

Prime Minister No price tag on Syrian Justin Trudeau has refugee plan A5 said the federal government will bring in 25,000 refugees by the end of the year despite observations from many resettlement organizations that the short timeline will put massive pressures on local resources.

Premier Rachel Notley said two weeks ago Alberta will join with other provinces — including Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia — who have committed to opening their doors.

But Alberta’s Human Services minister suggests there is nothing in the works at this time.

“I think our government hasn’t reached any decision with the number to which we are committing,” Irfan Sabir told reporters at a Calgary news conference Tuesday.

Sabir said it’s a federal matter and Alberta is waiting to see details of the federal plan.

“Certainly some of those will end up in Alberta and we will brace for the impact and we will make sure they have needed supports available to

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They say a resident of the community north of Edmonton called on Monday night to say they’d seen the large cat in a wooded trail area near Bellerose High School.

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start their life again,” he said.

“When they are taken into Canada they will have mobility — they can go wherever they feel like and Alberta is one of the best provinces to start over.”

Notley has said discussions are underway in her government, but it would be premature to give a figure on how many refugees Alberta could take.

She says she still needs to talk to the appropriate provincial cabinet ministers whose budgets would be affected.

Alberta has already pledged up to $250,000 to support Syrian refugee relief efforts.

Finance Minister Joe Ceci was also unable to shed any light on the government’s plans.

“Different immigrant serving agencies are already starting to meet with organizations throughout Calgary to get them prepared so I think there’s action on the ground,” he said.

“Those discussions are probably happening but we’re not directly involved in them.”

The federal cabinet is expected to discuss the Syrian refugee issue at its meeting this week. have been called and are also en route to check for the animal.

Residents of the community are being asked to stay indoors and bring their pets inside.

Police are also asking residents to accompany their children to bus stops on Tuesday morning, espeically if the walking routes are near wooded areas, and to “walk and run in groups for added safety.”

RCMP say cougars hunt at anytime of the day or night but they are most active at dawn and dusk.

They say if a cougar is seen, people should stay calm, not approach the animal, pick up their children to prevent rapid movements that might startle the animal, and back away.

They recommend trying to make yourself as large as possible, and pick up sticks or branches and wave them about.

Police officer won’t have record for assaulting man at hotel

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MEDICINE HAT — A police officer in southeastern Alberta has been given a conditional discharge for assaulting a man at a hotel in 2012.

It means Constable Robert Angstadt of the Medicine Hat police will not have a criminal record if he meets the conditions.

The 42-year-old will be on probation for a year, he has to take anger management counselling and do a report on the role and responsibilities of police officers.

Angstadt was convicted for assaulting James Halcro, who is now 37, during an arrest at the Cecil Hotel in August 2012.

Victim statements from both Halcro and his sister outlined his struggles since the assault, including depression, anxiety, job loss, and medical issues.

Angstadt’s lawyer, Willie de Wit, says his client’s comments seemed to affect the judge’s decision.

The constable expressed remorse and sympathy for Halcro and also spoke about how it affected his life and career.

“He believed he was following the training he was given and I think he followed that to the best of his abilities at the time,” de Wit said outside court.

“Certainly he indicated he would do things differently in the future and that he’s learned from the situation.”

Drunk driver gets 18 months and driving ban for crashing into house

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The man who was behind the wheel of an SUV that crashed through a home in northeast Edmonton in May has been sentenced to 18 months in jail and a five-year driving ban.

Craig Daniel Head, 29, was charged with impaired driving, dangerous driving and flight from a peace officer.

Seven people had been sleeping when the collision happened and some debris landed close to a little boy in

his bed.

Police had tried to stop Head’s SUV on May 11 as it sped down Edmonton streets at more than 100 kilometres an hour, sometimes going against traffic.

At one point, Head backed his vehicle into a police cruiser.

He finally drove through a wooden fence and then through a home, his vehicle coming to a rest in the garage.

The judge in the case said he believed Head was remorseful, and that he was a “good man” who made a mistake, but said jail time was needed.

Jaywalking cited as factor in latest Edmonton pedestrian fatality

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Twelve people have lost their lives so far this year in pedestrian accidents on Edmonton’s streets.

Police say the latest victim is a 55-year-old woman, who was struck by a vehicle on the city’s north side last

Saturday afternoon.

She died in hospital the following day, after being taken off life support.

Investigators believe she was jaywalking when she was hit.

They do not expect to lay charges against the driver.

Since the start of 2015, 32 people have been killed in traffic accidents in Edmonton.

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A4 Carbon capture is not real progress

The Alberta NDP did the right thing But even Shell CEO Ben van in not pulling the plug on the money Beurden allowed this wasn’t the best the government and the Shell corpora- possible arrangement. For carbon caption had already spent on its Quest car- ture to grow — a very real necessity if bon capture and storage facility near Shell is to continue extracting oil in Fort Saskatchewan. It wasn’t the best the future — van Beurden says there thing, but it was the right needs to be an economic thing, a start. imperative.

For about $1.3 billion, He means a price on carQuest will strip carbon dibon of between $60 and $80 oxide out of “process gas a tonne. This cost, tacked streams” at the Scottford onto the price of our fuUpgrader and shove it deep el and electricity is what underground. That’s not he’s talking about. And no the same as stripping cardoubt, the Alberta governbon from its waste gases, ment has been listening. or from the exhaust of all Prepare for a carbon tax to the vehicles that will burn pay for more projects like the gasoline and diesel this in the future.

Scottford’s customers will A better path forward GREG refine down the pipeline. would be a cap-and-trade NEIMAN But it’s an easy meme to system, but that seems say the process is the yearly about as politically possible OPINION equivalent of taking 250,000 in Alberta as a provincial cars off the road. I figure sales tax. We’ll have to wait that’s less than all the cars, trucks and and see on that. buses in Edmonton.

Here’s a reason cap-and-trade The Alberta government, under the would work better than the straight previous Conservative regime, dedicat- taxing of the carbon as it comes out of ed $745 million to the project over its the tailpipes of consumers’ cars. first 10 years. The federal government One of the rock stars of the climate gave $120 million, and the rest is com- change movement is John Schellnhuing from Shell and its Athabasca Oil ber, born Hans Joachim Shellnhuber.

Sands partners Chevron Canada and He’s been named a science and cliMarathon Oil. mate change advisor to the pope, and The government needs something is a Commander in the Order of the for show and tell at the Paris confer- British Empire, among many other ence on climate change. This, along honours and accomplishments. with Saskatchewan’s similar project Last June the Executive Intelligence are at least something large to put on Review named him a “Satanist in the the table. service of the British Royal Family”

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who has “in effect declared himself Pope.” So what’s not to like about that?

Schellnhuber will be a key player in the Paris climate change talks. His message is that you can do all the carbon capture you like, and do all the conservation efforts you can imagine, but none of it holds a smoky candle to switching to renewables.

Solar, wind, tide, whatever — nothing Shell or its partners can do will bring us closer to the greenhouse gas cuts we need, the way renewable energy can.

Renewable power has already proven scalable in many of its forms, and the so-called problem of intermitancy (when the sun don’t shine and the wind don’t blow) is merely an engineering problem that engineers get closer to solving every day.

Remember how people once said you can’t get crude oil out of the tar sands without putting more energy (and money) into the process than you can get out? Well, that was an engineering problem too.

A carbon tax on its own does not promote the growth of renewables, except insofar as it raises the price of all energy, making renewables more profitable.

Cap-and-trade, on the other hand, works at both ends of the production process. Producers get paid for their energy, and they get paid just because they produce energy without burning fuel.

That’s why cap-and-trade probably won’t fly in Alberta. If you cap our total carbon emissions at something

even a bit below current levels, every tonne of growth will be taxed and the money paid to industries whose very existence is to put the fossil fuel industry out of business.

That’s also why the big energy players are working so hard to look less like bad guys these days.

But just as big oil and gas needed tax subsidies over the years, so will renewables. The source of that cash needs to be cap-and-trade because it taxes all major producers directly, not the buyers of gasoline and diesel.

A carbon tax needs to be more or less revenue-neutral, offset by tax cuts in other areas (like income taxes), or it won’t get off the ground. Cap-andtrade is a cash transfer which need not be revenue-neutral. Nor would it be profit-neutral for the big emitters (oil sands developers and coal-fired power generators — the kingpins of the Alberta fossil fuel economy).

But rock stars like Prof. Schellnhuber are adamant that the only way to reach our emission goals is to get off the carbon economy.

In his words, we need “an induced implosion of the carbon economy over the next 20-30 years. Otherwise we have no chance of avoiding dangerous, perhaps disastrous climate change.”

So, taking some of the process carbon out of making more gasoline is not really making progress.

I wonder what our government will come back with, along with its souvenirs of Paris.

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Conservatives have only themselves to blame for recent election failures Recently, an editorial compared the inexperienced yet media friendly Justin Trudeau to President Obama. And yet the jest of the editorial seemed to be a bleak outlook for Canada. It is pointless trying to list the advantages the U.S. population have since the ousting of the Bush administration.

It is pointless in referring to the reduced deficits, affordable health care for millions, the withdrawal of a war that was costing billions weekly and was never going to be won. All those things mean nothing to Conservative leaning people who think America has a bad leader because he rejected the Key stone pipeline.

President Obama is not our leader. He doesn’t see the advantage to his nation by bringing in our oil at a time the Americans are again ready to export.

He says the couple of thousand long term jobs the pipeline brings in may threaten tens of thousands of jobs already paying Americans. I fail to see how a stronger American economy makes him a poor leader. The rich remain rich while the middle class has a tad more security and the poor have it marginally better.

And that brings me to my point. We are what we are and we simply rationalize why. Local conservatives who write for your paper are so very anti anything our new government proposes. I am not conservative but my theory applies to me equally. I know it does, because I cannot for the life of me get my head around conservative thinking. Especially

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when we come to mixing christian and conservative values. Our Provincial economy is ailing right now, largely because of oil. Because Arabs and Americans are in a price war. Because we are not showing the world how hard we are working to maintain some sort of responsibility in keeping our product as clean as possible. Because in 40 years of previous governments we did nothing to try and diversify our economy. We are incredibly scared of deficit budgeting by any government other than Conservatives, who provincially and federally had somewhere around seven deficit budgets each. Every single time I bring that up, it is simply denied, or ignored.

It doesn’t matter that our previous government collected pension monies from unions like the teachers, and put those funds into general revenues. Such an action in most circles could be called theft but words in law are more important than actions so the books appeared balanced to an adoring public. In fact the Klein years may actually have had a plan for the future. His total neglect of all things publicly owned are now part of the strategy to jump start the economy today.

Had the Conservatives in Alberta not managed to lure the Wild Rose party into their fold, we may actually have a very right wing government today.

We may have had a government plan to fire the civil service and bad mouth the rest of Canada for our problems. But that didn’t happen. Instead we got a government who have so far been very careful with their moves. Granted, they have added a little tax to the higher income and corporate people, like they said they would. They haven’t added a sales tax like they said they wouldn’t. They are trying to jump start

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our economy like the past seven or so deficit budgets didn’t.

We could have had a federal conservative government as well. We didn’t elect one because the Prime Minister, while being an attractive economist who produced conservative friendly deficit budgets, had little or no respect for any other Canadian value.

He enjoyed photo ops with our troops, and then cut their benefits and medical pensions. He made large omni bills to pass contentious items into law without debate. He employed a campaign strategist who used racism and fear to try and control the voting public. He made reference to other party leaders in the most disrespectful tones, and in spite of being a clerk and a party office boy before becoming the leader of our country, suggested inexperience was a one way street. Conservatives would have likely had a majority government had they simply ousted the man who made many of his countrymen feel ashamed.

There are many good people in the Conservative party. Many humanitarians, economically responsible, respectful Canadians who would have served the nation well. But the Conservative party elected to go with a man who was not mindful of our national identity. They have a chance to find a good fit now.

They have some time to take stock in where they went off the rails. As do the Conservatives in Alberta. And for your local columnists who so badly want our nation and province to fail, I would say it is too high a price to pay just to say “I told you so.”

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No price tag on refugee plan

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Health concerns, security checks, housing and transport requirements are all elements of a plan to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by year’s end set to be discussed by the Liberal cabinet on Thursday for a decision on the way forward.

But how much it is all going to cost is one detail that will take longer to reveal, Immigration Minister John McCallum said Tuesday.

In their platform, the Liberals budgeted $100 million for the ambitious resettlement program for this fiscal year, including money for settlement services, and $100 million for next year. A further $100 million was pledged to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

The Liberals have not said when and how they’d allocate the promised funding. McCallum said there are a huge number of variables at play in terms of how the plan will be implemented, but Canadians will get the full cost accounting, eventually.

“It’s an ongoing process, but what I can guarantee to you, absolutely, is

that we will not keep Canadians in the dark on what the costs are and that I can say with 100 per cent certainty,” he told reporters after the first meeting of the cabinet subcommittee tasked with drafting the resettlement plan.

“What I cannot say today precisely the moment at which we will be able to release those costs, but certainly, it won’t be forever, because our commit-

government to identify refugees for resettlement in Lebanon and Jordan and efforts are also underway to find others in Turkey. The three countries have absorbed over three-quarters of the four million people registered as refugees by the United Nations since the civil war broke out in Syria in 2011.

Earlier Tuesday, the agency said one element of the program would give

‘IT’S AN ONGOING PROCESS, BUT WHAT I CAN GUARANTEE TO YOU, ABSOLUTELY, IS THAT WE WILL NOT KEEP CANADIANS IN THE DARK ON WHAT THE COSTS ARE AND THAT I CAN SAY WITH 100 PER CENT CERTAINTY.’ — JOHN MCCALLUM IMMIGRATION MINISTER ment is only two months away.”

The Liberals still insist that the end of the year remains the target date for bringing the 25,000 to Canada, despite observations from many resettlement organizations that the short timeline will put massive pressures on local resources.

For its part, the UNHCR said Tuesday it is working with the Canadian

Syrians refugees temporary residency permits until their cases have been fully processed in Canada, after which they’d receive permanent residency and then be eligible for Canadian citizenship in four years time.

But the UN body later said those comments were premature and no final decisions had been made, which McCallum confirmed.

Still, the High Commissioner for Refugees called Canada’s commitment a model for the world.

“Too many vulnerable refugees are languishing in countries neighbouring Syria, caught in a downward spiral of poverty and risk as they struggle to meet their basic needs,” Antonio Guterres said in a statement.

“We need many more ambitious programs like this to offer Syrians a chance to start their lives anew.”

McCallum said the government currently has about 10,000 applications already in the pipeline, following commitments made by the previous Conservative government to Syrian refugee resettlement. They had pledged that many spaces, initially over three years, to be filled by a mix of private sponsors and government. To date, just over 3,000 Syrian refugees have arrived in Canada since the government first began reaching out in 2013.

McCallum said it remains to be seen whether that group would form part of the 25,000.

“Obviously we need way more than that to meet our goal,” he said.

Liberals facing bigger Crown moves to rebut defence evidence at Turcotte trial baseline deficits: PBO

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal government will open its books to public scrutiny before the end of the year, Finance Minister Bill Morneau promised Tuesday after a report warned that deteriorating economic conditions could drive Canada into deeper deficits.

The report by the parliamentary budget officer suggested the new Trudeau government was on track to face larger-than-expected baseline shortfalls in the coming years.

The Liberals won last month’s federal election after vowing to roll out large spending plans for projects like infrastructure, which the party argued will kick-start economic growth and create jobs.

But the revised figures suggest it will be tougher — by billions of dollars — for the Liberals to fulfil their campaign promise to cap deficits at no more than $10 billion over the next two years and still balance the books before the next election.

The updated numbers came after the budget office downgraded its economic projections for Canada, blaming the gloomier forecast on weaker growth, low commodity prices and shrinking revenues.

For now, at least, the Liberals say they’re sticking with their plan.

Morneau said it was “way prema-

ture” for any decision on whether the government would tweak campaign commitments because of the lower projections.

“As you heard during the course of the campaign, we were and continue to be concerned with the state of the economy — and that really was the foundation for our platform,” said Morneau, who promised a fiscal and economic update by Christmas.

“We’re working towards having an update for Canadians in the near term so they can understand what it is that we’ve taking on as a new government.”

Morneau, who will travel to Turkey later this week for G20 meetings, said it’s still too early for him to provide a more specific timeline for the update. He also said it was too soon to say when the government would table its first budget in the new year.

To help fund their infrastructure pledges, the Liberals said they would run deficits of less than $10 billion in each of the next two years. Those platform figures were based on calculations made in July by the parliamentary budget office.

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A: Only in very rare cases is a genetic abnormality present that causes weak enamel in teeth. In my experience, weak enamel is environmentally induced, not genetically induced. Young people with new adult teeth beat them into submission with abuse. They love candy – enjoy snacking – and hate brushing and flossing. I had a patient who was the poster child for the opposite approach.

She has two children, and was bound and determined they were not going to have any dental problems. She controlled everything that went into their mouths. She had all food products under lock and key in her home, so her children only ate what she could monitor personally. She went as far as to take photographs of her children around her neighbourhood to the convenience stores, and warned the proprietors of the evil fortune she was going to bestow on them if they ever provided any candy whatsoever to her children. They brushed and flossed their teeth between 3 and 5 times per day. They ate only nutritious foods and never ignored the 'clean up' routine after ingesting anything except water. I saw her children grow to become college students, and they lived their entire life until adulthood without a single cavity between them.

Other than ortho treatment on her daughter to correct a straightening situation, they never needed dentistry other than checkups and regular hygiene. Granted, very few people would ever go to these extremes for great dental health. In your case, you are likely more similar to the average adult. They brush a couple of times a day, and perhaps floss once. When they leave the house often a trip to Timmy's is part of their day, and the 'double double'. At work they drink coffee (frequently with sugar) all day long. Why not help the day along with a box of Tim-Bits? Stopping at the big box store those free food kiosks are everywhere when picking up photocopy paper for the office. The cumulative damage from that entire food product can devastate any dentition.

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SAINT-JEROME, Que. — A person suffering from an adjustment disorder doesn’t lose contact with reality, the ability to reflect or a sense of responsibility for his actions, a Crown witness told the trial of a Quebec man accused of murdering his children.

Pierre Bleau did not examine Guy Turcotte but was called to the stand by the Crown on Tuesday as the first of three expert rebuttal witnesses to discuss certain notions involving mental health.

Bleau said a person with adjustment disorder doesn’t necessarily have a sick mind — far from it. People with sick minds are those who suffer from an illness that biologically al-

ters the brain, such as dementia, Bleau said.

“To say that someone’s brain is sick is a cliche,” Bleau said. “It’s a cliche often used to sell medication.”

Turcotte’s defence team had presented two psychiatrists to the 11-member jury who testified that on the night the ex-doctor stabbed his two children to death in February 2009, he was suffering from an adjustment disorder and was in an anxious and depressed state.

Defence witness Dominique Bourget testified that Turcotte’s brain was “profoundly sick” and wasn’t working properly.

Turcotte has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the slayings of his son, Olivier, 5, and his daughter Anne-Sophie, 3.

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Alexis wins Giller Prize

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Toronto writer Andre Alexis said he was feeling “pure, unadulterated joy” after winning the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel Fifteen Dogs — just one week after nabbing the $25,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for the same book.

“It was really fun doing that, the money part,” he said at Tuesday’s black-tie Giller gala at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Toronto.

“The other stuff is a little bit tricky, because you’re sort of not sure how it’s supposed to change how you feel about yourself, or if it’ll change how people feel about you, and you hope not. The big thing that you want is to just go on doing your work.”

And that’s exactly what Alexis, 58, plans to do.

Fifteen Dogs, about 15 pooches gifted by gods with the skills of human consciousness and language, is the second in a series of five planned books Alexis conceived of all at once.

They’re inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film Teorema, about a powerful being that comes down to Earth and influences a bourgeois family in Italy.

The first in the series was Pastoral.

Alexis said he’s already written the next book, The Hidden Keys, which is set in Toronto and was influenced by Treasure Island.

And he’s about halfway through a draft of the fourth book.

With a vision already in place, he didn’t foresee being changed by his latest windfall, which he said will help him pay off his mortgage and take a trip to Florida.

“Not at all, not at all. It won’t have a chance,” said Alexis, whose debut novel, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller and the Writers’ Trust.

“Although maybe five years from now when I look back and I think, ‘Oh my God, I won $100,000!’ — then maybe it’ll change me. But now, no.”

The Trinidad native, who was

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Andre Alexis is congratulated by family members on stage after winning the Giller Prize for his novel ‘Fifteen Dogs’ during a gala ceremony in Toronto on Tuesday The book — about 15 dogs gifted by gods with human traits — was praised by jury members as an ‘insightful and philosophical meditation on the nature of consciousness.’ raised in Ottawa, beat out titles by Montreal’s Heather O’Neill, Vancouver-based Anakana Schofield, Montreal’s Samuel Archibald, and London-based Rachel Cusk.

Fifteen Dogs was praised by jury members as an “insightful and philosophical meditation on the nature of consciousness.”

The Giller Prize was established in 1994 by businessman Jack Rabinovitch in honour of his late wife, literary jour-

nalist Doris Giller.

This year’s jury, which was expanded to five members from the usual three, read 168 books submitted by 63 publishers.

The jury included Irish author John Boyne, Canadian writers Cecil Foster, Alexander MacLeod and Alison Pick, and British author Helen Oyeyemi.

“I think they brought a different, more international perspective,” said Rabinovitch of the jury. “I would like

to continue it. I think it’s worked out real well.”

Boyne said the jury made their decision Tuesday morning after chatting for about 2.5 hours.

“We look for the book that really, as a jury, we feel we can stand behind the most, that moved us the most, that excited us, filled us with envy as writers.”

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RCMP stymied in probe of Parliament Hill shooter’s rifle

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ered Zehaf Bibeau a terrorist, and that he would have been charged with terrorism offences under the Criminal Code had he lived.

Zehaf Bibeau became “increasingly aligned with terrorist ideology” in the last years of his life while living in the lower mainland of British Columbia and, for a short time, in Alberta, Paulson told the MPs. “Anyone who aided him, abetted him, counselled him, facilitated his crimes or conspired with him is also, in our view, a terrorist and where the evidence exists we will charge them with terrorist offences.”

MONTREAL — The City of Montreal says it will begin dumping eight billion litres of untreated sewage into the St. Lawrence River on Wednesday after it agreed to conform its discharge plan to several federal government conditions.

Mayor Denis Coderre told reporters on Tuesday as of midnight Wednesday morning sewers in certain parts of the city — during a one-week period — will begin diverting untreated waste water away from an interceptor and directly into the river.

On Monday, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said she would permit the city’s plan as long as it implemented a series of riskmitigating measures to limit the effect of the sewage on the river.

Coderre says Montreal will meet all the requirements, such as keeping a closer eye on the discharge plume, creating an emergency protocol for unintended problems as well as cleanup plan for areas affected by the sewage.

The city has said the controlled release of waste water is necessary in order to complete repairs on an aging interceptor sewer that feeds sewage to a treatment facility as well as relocate a snow chute.

“The decision we are taking, as unpopular as it is, is a responsible one and its primary purpose is to ensure

Afghan War hero’s father has obstruction trial adjourned OTTAWA — The father of one of Canada’s most highly decorated soldiers had his trial adjourned Tuesday after the Crown tried to introduce new evidence and a witness in a move that was characterized as an ambush.

Bryan Fitzgerald, of Morrisburg, Ont., is accused of trying to obstruct a heavily armed police officer who arrived at the family home to arrest his son Collin, a former Canadian Forces corporal, on a charge of breaching bail conditions in August 2014.

Prosecutors in Cornwall, Ont. gave his lawyer less than 24 hours notice that they were going to call a witness and one of the police officers who testified read from notes that had not been disclosed to the defence.

The trial before an Ontario provincial court judge was paused briefly while the notes were photocopied and later adjourned without a new date being set.

“The Crown is not to suppose to operate in a trial by ambush,” Neha Chugh, Fitzgerald’s lawyer, said after the postponement. “The Crown has an obligation to make timely and complete disclosure.”

The charge was just the latest in a long-running legal drama — one that the family claims was aimed at driving the ex-soldier out of Morrisburg, a small community south of Ottawa.

“The whole thing, as far as I’m concerned was a setup,” Fitzgerald said Tuesday.

OTTAWA — The RCMP believes it has “come to a dead end” in its probe of where Parliament Hill shooter Michael Zehaf Bibeau got his gun — one of the most vexing questions about the events of Oct. 22, 2014.

The Mounties continue to investigate several threads of what happened that day, including whether Zehaf Bibeau had accomplices, but have not gathered evidence sufficient for criminal charges.

A source with direct knowledge of the police investigation provided the update to The Canadian Press on condition of anonymity due to the ongoing sensitivity of the file.

On Wednesday, crowds will gather for Remembrance Day ceremonies at the National War Memorial, where Zehaf Bibeau killed honour guard Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, shooting him in the back three times with a .30-30 Winchester rifle.

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Driver gets 3 months for putting 2 in hospital MANCHUIK HAD BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL OF 0.09, TRUCK DROVE UP ON CAR IN COLLISION

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A crash that left three people trapped and hurt will mean three months in custody for the woman convicted of driving impaired and dangerously in the incident.

Judge James Glass sentenced Kesley Jean Manchuik, 26, on Tuesday in Red Deer provincial court.

She pleaded guilty on Aug. 6 to impaired driving causing bodily harm and dangerous driving causing bodily harm.

Aug. 6 was the start of her preliminary inquiry on the charges, but before witnesses were called to testify she entered the guilty plea.

In his decision, Glass said a custo-

dial sentence was warranted given the circumstances. He also ordered two years of probation to start immediately upon the completion of the custodial sentence, a three year driving prohibition, a five-year firearms prohibition and an order to provide a sample of her DNA. A three month sentence can be served intermittently, with offenders in jail on weekends but out of custody during the week. Glass opened the floor for submissions from defence counsel Kevin Sproule. Sproule said his client did not want to seek an intermittent sentence and was prepared to serve the three months starting Tuesday.

The collision occurred on July 21, 2014. Three people were in a car travelling north on 30th Avenue near 55th

Avenue when Manchuik in a pickup truck made a left hand turn in front of them. The car attempted to stop while the truck did not, causing the head-on collision. In the collision, part of the truck drove up on the smaller car.

At the time Manchuik had a blood alcohol content level of 0.09, slightly above the legal limit of 0.08.

Two were taken to the Red Deer Regional Hospital by Red Deer Emergency Services with serious, but non life-threatening injuries. The third had minor injuries and was treated at the scene.

In court, the injuries were described by the victims. One suffered ruptured bowels and had to have a piece of her small intestine removed, while another suffered four broken ribs. A woman victim said she was suffering from severe anxiety while driving, something she just started doing again.

Crown Prosecutor Katie Clarey and Sproule gave their sentencing argu-

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ments on Tuesday.

Clarey sought a custodial sentence of nine to 12 months for Manchuik followed by probation and a three-year driving prohibition. Sproule said a custodial sentence was not the only punishment method available. Sproule instead suggested a suspended sentence, three years probation, hundreds of hours of community service and a driving prohibition.

Sproule backed this suggestion up by pointing to Manchuik’s circumstances as a young, first time offender who has made significant strides to address substance abuse problems ever since the incident.

Clarey said the pre-sentence report suggested that time in custody would give Manchuik the ability to access programming to help with her addictions issue, but Sproule said that wasn’t the only way she could access that type of programming. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Sylvan Lake passes first reading of new winter bylaw

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Snowmobilers may be allowed to zip off Sylvan Lake for a quick bite or to fuel up this winter.

Sylvan Lake town council gave first reading to a bylaw on Monday creating a short designated route on 32nd Street for snowmobilers to reach gas stations at the east end of Lakeshore Drive.

The season would run Dec. 1 to March 31 and allows travel only on designated routes and in permitted areas. Two gas stations on either side of 33rd Street (the eastern end of Lakeshore Drive) are designated for snowmobile use. A hotel, restaurant and convenience store are also within reach. Those who travel outside permitted areas face a $443 fine, or $310 if paid within 10 days.

The bylaw will come back to council for second and third reading after the public has had an opportunity to comment, said Mayor Sean McIntyre.

“We’ll have to notify the residents and the businesses around 32nd Street to make sure they are aware of the potential changes in their neighbourhood. We will have to consider their feedback.

“By no means, is (the snowmobile route) a done deal just yet.”

For years, snowmobiles were allowed to use Sylvan Lake streets to get to and from the lake. But in January 2010, council overturned a bylaw that had allowed limited travel for snowmobiles and ATVs. A request this fall from an area snowmobile club led to the town taking a look at other options. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Victim to testify behind a screen

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Getting his first taste of an Alberta winter, Jake Tunney of North Queensland, Australia got down and made his first snow angel Tuesday at the Canyon Ski Resort. Its 40 C at home now said Tunney who will be working at the ski area through this winter. Cold temperatures meant snow makers at the ski area were able to keep the snow guns running all night long. Canyon is planning to open for the season Saturday Nov. 21 with the blue T-Bar and magic carpet lifts running on the beginner slopes.

Former gas station site ready to be sold

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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A prominent gas station site that sat vacant for 14 years is expected to be sold.

Imperial Oil closed the gas station and car wash at the corner of 40th Avenue and Ross Street in 2001. It has since sat empty, the weed-filled lot becoming what is known in municipal circles as a brown field.

However, over the summer contractors were busy on site for weeks, removing and replacing soil and doing

other reclamation work.

Imperial Oil says once all the cleanup work is completed and the site is verified as cleaned up the property will be put up for sale.

“We don’t have a specific timeline at this point, but it is our intent to see the property returned to productive use as soon as possible,” says spokesperson Killeen Kelly in an email.

The cost of the remediation work was not disclosed.

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In addressing the lengthy gap between closing the station and preparing it for sale, Kelly says a number of factors come into play.

Community, environmental and technical considerations play a role, as well as regulatory requirements, the property’s market value, and potential future uses among others.

Last year, Imperial Oil spent $200 million across Canada on assessment, risk management, land remediation and reclamation. Sixty-two properties were returned to productive use through sales or lease returns. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

The victim in an attempted abduction from the G.H. Dawe Centre last winter will be allowed to testify behind a screen.

In Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday, Crown Prosecutor Ann MacDonald requested the screen be provided for the preliminary inquiry scheduled for Nov. 17. The screen prevents the victim from having to look at the accused.

Alexander Beaulieu, 30, is charged with attempted kidnapping, choking with intent, aggravated assault, robbery, uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm, possession of stolen property under $5,000 and theft under $5,000.

The victim, 13, can’t be named because of a court ordered publication ban. Judge James Glass granted the order. A change of counsel was also put on the record. Beaulieu’s counsel at the preliminary hearing will be Andrew Phypers. Preliminary hearing’s are held to test the strength of the Crown’s case before heading to trial.

Beaulieu is accused of an assault and attempted abduction that occurred on Dec. 22, 2014 behind the G.H. Dawe Centre.

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A brief in Tuesday’s Advocate contained the wrong address for the Red Deer Legion Branch #35. It is located at 2810 Bremner Avenue.

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Racism talk long overdue STUDENTS SAY FERGUSON PROTESTS INFLUENCE ACTION AT UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI

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BRIEF Israeli forces kill 2 alleged Palestinian stabbers as violence returns JERUSALEM — Two Palestinian boys, aged 11 and 14, stabbed and wounded an Israeli guard on a train who responded by firing and wounding one of them Tuesday. Meanwhile, Israeli security forces killed two other Palestinians who carried out knife attacks, police said, as violence returned to Jerusalem after a two-week lull.

The train attack was reminiscent of a similar case from October when two young Palestinian cousins stabbed two Israelis in east Jerusalem. That case became fodder for the ongoing war of words between the Palestinian and Israeli governments and the trial of one of the attackers began on Tuesday.

In the first attack Tuesday, police said two young Palestinian relatives stabbed a security guard on a train. The guard was moderately wounded and shot the younger assailant. Passengers subdued the other, police said. The wounded boy was being treated at a hospital.

An amateur video that surfaced on a Palestinian website showed plainclothes Israeli security forces wrestling a young boy, presumably one of the attackers, to the ground and taking off his clothes and shoes. The boy was stripped to his underwear as the security men shouted at him.

Jerusalem had been relatively calm over the last two weeks as the focus of a two-month wave of Palestinian attacks, mainly stabbings, shifted to the West Bank, where Israeli troops have regularly clashed with Palestinian protesters.

Most of the Palestinian attackers have been in their late teens or early 20s. On Tuesday, 13-year-old Ahmed Manasra went on trial before a Jerusalem court over a stabbing last month that fueled a highprofile media war.

Since mid-September, 12 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks, mostly stabbings. mention of the preceding attack.

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Concerned Student 1950, led by University of Missouri graduate student Jonathan Butler, second from right, speaks following the announcement that University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe would resign Monday in Columbia, Mo. Wolfe resigned Monday with the football team and others on campus in open revolt over his handling of racial tensions at the school.

Mike Sickels, a 32-year-old doctoral student, also credited Ferguson for inspiring the push for Columbia campus reforms. But he added: “This is something I wish had been happening here my entire tenure. I think universities should be bastions for this.”

A St. Louis County grand jury and the Department of Justice ultimately exonerated officer Darren Wilson in Brown’s death, concluding that evidence backed Wilson’s claim that he shot Brown in self-defence after Brown tried to grab the officer’s gun.

But months of Ferguson protests scored what activists considered victories, including the resignations of the predominantly black city’s police chief, city manager and municipal judge. A new state law also limits cities’ ability to profit from traffic tickets and court fines — a measure that followed the Justice Department’s findings that Ferguson’s policing and municipal court system unfairly profited from

minorities.

At the University of Missouri, black student groups had complained for months that Wolfe was unresponsive to racial slurs and other slights.

Wolfe, hired in 2011 as the top administrator of the system, and Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin, the top administrator for the Columbia campus, stepped down hours apart Monday.

Students who pressed for Wolfe’s ouster celebrated Monday. Critics considered him out of touch and insensitive. He said the university would draw up a plan to promote diversity and tolerance by April, a wait protesters considered laughably unacceptable.

They were also frustrated by his response to black protesters who blocked his car during a homecoming parade. Wolfe did not get out and talk to them, and they were removed by police.

Israelis were shocked by a separate security camera video that appeared to show the two young cousins wielding knives and chasing a man, and later stabbing an Israeli boy as he got on his bicycle outside a shop after buying candy.

party is introducing a bill that would allow patients easier access to cannabis-based medicines.

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Sen. Cristina Diaz Salazar’s bill would codify in law a recent court ruling that granted an 8-year-old girl’s parents permission to import marijuana oil to treat her severe epilepsy.

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COLUMBIA, Mo. — Students whose activism led to the resignation of the president of the University of Missouri system said they were emboldened by the protests in nearby Ferguson, where the police killing of a black man helped spark the nationwide “Black Lives Matter” movement.

Tim Wolfe, who is also the head of the university system’s flagship campus in Columbia, resigned Monday with the football team and others on campus in open revolt over what they saw as indifference to racial tensions at the school. Wolfe, a former business executive with no previous experience in academic leadership, took “full responsibility for the frustration” students expressed and said their complaints were “clear” and “real.”

Students recounted racist incidents the school dating back years.

When cotton balls were scattered outside the black culture centre at the Columbia campus in 2010 in a clear reference to slavery, two white students were arrested and expelled.

But there was no broader conversation about race anywhere at the school, where blacks were not allowed to enrol until 1950.

“To say we were livid is an understatement,” said black alumna Erika Brown, who graduated in 2007 and 2012 and now lives in St. Louis. “It was just another example of them finding the offender and never going past that. There was never a larger discussion.”

The race complaints came to a head last weekend, when at least 30 black football players announced they would not play until the president left. A graduate student went on a weeklong hunger strike.

Reuben Faloughi, a third-year doctoral student in psychology who participated in the recent protests, said more needs to be done. But he said he felt “liberated” by Wolfe’s departure.

The activism, he said, is a nod to Ferguson, the St. Louis suburb about two hours from Columbia where Michael Brown, a black, unarmed 18-year-old, was killed by a police officer. After the shooting, Faloughi took part in a “die-in” protest in Columbia, joining others in feigning death in Brown’s memory.

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LOW RATE OF COMPLICATION SHOWN FOR WIRELESS PACEMAKERS IMPLANTED WITHOUT SURGERY

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ORLANDO, Fla. — Researchers are reporting encouraging results for a new generation of pacemakers — miniature, wireless ones that can be implanted through a leg vein without surgery.

In a study of 725 patients, one of these devices, made by Medtronic, was successfully implanted 99 per cent of the time, with a low rate of complications compared to traditional pacemakers.

Leaders of the company-sponsored study discussed the research Monday at an American Heart Association conference in Orlando. Results also were published online by the New England Journal of Medicine.

Two months ago, the journal published a study of a similar device made

by St. Jude Medical. Both of these mini pacemakers are already sold in Europe and the companies are seeking Food and Drug Administration approval to sell them in the U.S. Roughly 200,000 people in the U.S. each year get a pacemaker, a device to regulate their heartbeats. Pacemakers are implanted just under the skin in the chest, with wires called leads that go into the heart. The wires can break, wear out or become infected and are the main weakness of these pacing systems.

The mini pacemaker is the size of a large pill and can be placed without surgery, through a tube into a blood

vessel in the groin, and attached to the right side of the heart.

“I think it is a breakthrough,” said Dr. Douglas Zipes, an Indiana University School of Medicine heart rhythm expert and past president of the American College of Cardiology. “Leads have been the Achilles’ heel of our implanted devices. To get rid of them will clearly benefit patients.”

That said, this is the first version of these devices, and they don’t do everything conventional pacemakers do. Only about one quarter of people who get pacemakers now would be candidates for the new mini ones. Future versions are expected to help more patients, and companies also are designing defibrillators that can be implanted without surgery as well.

Dr. Dwight Reynolds of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center led the study on the new Medtronic mini pacemaker. Four per cent of patients had major complications, including the device poking into the heart. Although the study did not test the device against a traditional pacemaker, previous studies involving nearly 2,700 patients suggest this is roughly half the rate of complications usually seen.

In the previous study on the St. Jude device, the implant success rate was 96 per cent and the complication rate was 6.5 per cent.

The two studies show leadless pacing “is feasible and relatively safe, at least in the short term,” Dr. Mark Link of Tufts Medical Center in Boston

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This image provided by Medtronic displays the Medtronic Micra pacemaker, right, next to a conventional pacemaker. wrote in a commentary in the medical journal.

Many questions remain, though, including how to remove an infected or failed device, and whether the batteries really will last more than a decade as the companies project.

Dr. Jagmeet Singh, a Harvard Medical School professor and spokesman for the American College of Cardiolo-

gy, called the results “really good” but echoed the concerns about long-term safety.

In Europe, “they’re markedly more expensive than a simple, conventional pacemaker,” said Singh, who has consulted for many device makers.

A pacemaker without wires into the heart is an advance, but “there are downsides.”

Why health is a journey, not a destination While setting goals in your health may lead you The perfection is in the awareness: the understanddown a path towards a more favorable desired out- ing of yourself and the continuous never-ending recome, the “destination” in fact should be one more lationship building with yourself. When to push and in the present. when to relax. When to prep your food and What tends to happen with a destiwhen to get take out. When to discipline what nation mindset is that you are never you eat and when to let go. When to workout really ever “there”. An ideal body, and when to relax. When to care and when to weight or optimal energy level is not care so much. And ultimately to do this as merely a moment in passing or an ungracefully and intuitively as possible without achievable expectation. Where then, having to put too much thought into it -minithe majority of the time you are left mizing the analysis process. feeling less than ideal, which in fact, The biggest obstacle is in discovering isn’t all that ideal. which foods to eat and which to avoid and All too often this comes with the simply how to prepare and enjoy. Cutting cost of losing one of the more importout as much processed and adding as much ant elements of our health, which is whole. Food that is. really to understand how to navigate All in all it’s finding the enjoyment of the KRISTIN your own body and needs of nourishjourney, which is essentially the process FRASER ment and of what sort. of learning and relearning. And for most, SOMETHING TO The “healthiest” of people will cerre-learning some more. Learning about your tainly still feel elements of fatigue or body and what is capable of. What it is adCHEW ON stress or “not their best”. The purpose dicted to. What makes it feel the best? What is never to achieve perfection. What it enjoys. really is perfection anyways? There is no perfect.

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Fewer getting inappropriate angioplasties in U.S. STUDY

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Fewer heart patients are getting inappropriate angioplasties, a new study suggests.

The analysis showed overuse of the common procedure to open clogged heart arteries has declined dramatically since 2009 guidelines, which were aimed at curbing inappropriate use.

The study examined nearly 3 million angioplasties done nationwide. In these procedures, doctors guide a narrow tube into an artery, inflate a tiny balloon to flatten blockages, and often insert a stent to keep arteries propped open.

Major medical groups looked into overuse concerns after studies suggested that many nonemergency angioplasties were unnecessary. The groups’ guidelines say angioplasties may not be needed for patients without severe chest pain or lacking other high-risk symptoms. The advice says risks of the procedure may outweigh benefits in these patients, who often can be managed with medication alone.

According to the new analysis, the portion of nonemergency angioplasties deemed unnecessary dropped by 50 per cent, from more 26 per cent early in the study to 13 per cent.

The results suggest doctors may be doing a better job of limiting nonemergency angioplasties to those patients most likely to benefit, said the study authors, led by Dr. Nihar Desai, a researcher at the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

“This is the first study to assess the national impact of a societal effort to quantify the appropriateness of a procedure,” Desai said in presenting the study Monday at an American Heart Association meeting in Orlando. The research was simultaneously published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

But the researchers also said it’s possible doctors have changed the way

they document procedures. They noted that there were increases in the portion of nonemergency angioplasty patients reported to have severe symptoms but with little change in diseased heart arteries.

That suggests the possibility of “intentional up-coding,” meaning that doctors might have overstated some patients’ conditions to justify the procedures.

“We cannot determine whether the observed changes truly reflect improved patient selection or overestimation of patient symptoms,” the researchers said.

They used criteria developed by the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and other medical groups to evaluate angioplasties done at more than 700 hospitals in a national registry. The registry includes detailed information on patients’ symptoms, heart tests and hospital treatments.

Angioplasties can cost $30,000 or more and hundreds of thousands are done nationwide each year.

The decline occurred amid a push to reduce costly, unnecessary medical procedures, and a rise in pay-for-performance initiatives. Some health insurers have declined to pay for angioplasties deemed inappropriate.

Three-fourths of the angioplasties studied were emergency cases, and the number of those cases performed yearly remained stable. By contrast, nonemergency cases dropped from almost 90,000 in 2010 to about 60,000 in 2014, and these patients were increasingly sicker.

The researchers found declines in angioplasties performed in nonemergency patients with few or no symptoms among those taking little or no heart medication and among those not at high risk for a heart attack, based on test results.

While some signs suggest up-coding could be happening, others “suggest true quality improvement,” said Dr. Raymond Gibbons, a former American Heart Association president from the Mayo Clinic.

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healthy, vibrant individual” vs. “I will be happy when I am a healthy, vibrant individual.” It takes the happiness part of the equation into the present, which is all that matters in the end. Enjoying the process of this never-ending journey.

There’s a Ghandi story that provides an insightful perspective. A woman brings her son to see Ghandi asking him to tell her son not to eat sugar. Ghandi tells the woman to bring her son back in a week, and so she does. When she brings him back in a week, he says to the boy. “Please give up eating sugar” The woman was thankful for his words to her son, but asks why he didn’t share these words a week ago when they first had arrived to which Ghandi responded, “Because a week ago, I had not given up eating sugar.”

You see? Nobody is perfect. A reminder to stay present in your days, and enjoy the process of discovery, because health is in fact a journey - not a destination.

Kristin Fraser, BSc, is a holistic nutritionist and local freelance writer. Her column appears every second Thursday. She can be reached at kristin@somethingtochewon.ca.

Pot belly risky even if you’re not considered overweight THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — A pot belly can be a bad thing — even if you’re not considered overweight.

New research suggests normal-weight people who carry their fat at their waistlines may be at higher risk of death over the years than overweight or obese people whose fat is more concentrated on the hips and thighs.

Monday’s study signals the distribution of fat matters whatever the scale says.

“If the waist is larger than your hips, you’re at increased risk for disease,” said Dr. Samuel Klein, an obesity specialist at Washington University School of Medicine at St. Louis, who wasn’t involved in the new research.

It also has implications for advising patients whose body mass index or BMI, the standard measure for weight and height, puts them in the normal range despite a belly bulge.

“We see this with patients every day: ‘My weight is fine, I can eat whatever I want,”’ said study senior author Dr. Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, preventive cardiology chief at the Mayo Clinic. “These results really challenge that.”

Abdominal fat — an apple-shaped figure — has long been considered more worrisome than fat that settles on the hips and below, the so-called pear shape.

Risk increases for men if their waist circumference is larger than 40 inches, and 35 inches for women. Still, doctors typically focus more on BMI than waistlines after all, girth tends to increase as weight does.

But a BMI in the normal range may not give the full story for people who are thin but not fit, with more body fat than muscle, or who change shape as they get older and lose muscle, Lopez-Jimenez said.

His study analyzed what’s called

‘IF THE WAIST IS LARGER THAN YOUR HIPS, YOU’RE AT INCREASED RISK FOR DISEASE.’ DR. SAMUEL KLEIN, AN OBESITY SPECIALIST AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT ST. LOUIS waist-to-hip ratio, dividing the waist circumference by the hip measurement. There are different cutoffs, but a ratio greater than 1 means a bigger middle.

Researchers checked a government survey that tracked about 15,000 men and women with different BMIs — normal weight, overweight and obese.

More than 3,200 died over 14 years.

At every BMI level, people with thicker middles had a higher risk of death than those with trimmer waists, the researchers reported in Annals of Internal Medicine.

In the study, 11 per cent of men and 3 per cent of women were normal weight but had an elevated waist-tohip ratio. Surprisingly, they were at greater risk — for men, roughly twice the risk — than more pear-shaped overweight or obese people.

Fat that builds around the abdominal organs is particularly linked to diabetes, heart disease and other metabolic abnormalities than fat that lies under the skin, said obesity expert Dr. Lisa Neff of Northwestern University, who wasn’t involved the study.

Blood tests typically show higher blood sugar and triglyceride levels in people with a belly bulge, so doctors might spot their risk without a tape measure, Klein noted.

Genetics plays a role in apple shapes and waistlines tend to increase with age, so Neff and Klein advised even normal-weight people to pay attention if belts are getting tighter.

Sorry, sit-ups aren’t the solution, they said: Like all weight loss, it requires a healthier diet and general physical activity to burn calories.

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Big Sugar back with heavier vibe LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Big Sugar likes Red Deer. And it goes both ways, with Red Deer fans happy to keep welcoming Big Sugar back to town.

For the third time this year, the blues-rock-reggae band fronted by Gordie Johnson is set to play a local gig — this time on Monday, Nov. 16, at Bo’s Bar and Grill.

Johnson, who married a Central Albertan and has a ranch near Red Deer, is eager to take a few days off for something completely different than touring. “We have animals on the farm,” he said, “so usually, from sun up to sun down, I’m up to my boots, working.”

Even without this local connection, the Texas resident said he’d probably be stopping in the area because Big Sugar is an equal opportunity performer, playing in centres large and small.

“I don’t differentiate,” said Johnson, whether an audience is in Gladwell Sask., or Vancouver.

What’s important is that crowds are digging the tunes.

And Big Sugar has a bunch of new songs to share from the recently released seventh studio album, Calling all the Youth. It’s more rock-driven that the group’s last reggae-flavoured album, Revolutions Per Minute, said Johnson, with a heavier vibe. “It’s more of a return to where the guitars are louder.”

Lyrics-wise, “we’re trying to send a positive message. We don’t adhere to the age gap between generations,” said Johnson, but like to mentor rising young musicians. The group has a history of this, having encouraged many up-and-coming groups over the years, including Wide Mouth Mason (with which Johnson is now a bass player), Nickelback, The Trews and Bedouin Soundclash.

“You don’t see it happening enough,” added Johnson who’s seen some disheartening examples of successful musicians protectively “hanging on to what they have” instead of spreading it around. “We have a more open-door policy, where if we’re doing great, we let others in to roam in the sunshine.”

This brings us to Triggerfinger, a successful European rock group from Antwerp, Belgium that’s being introduced to a Canadian audiences this fall by touring with Big Sugar.

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For the third time this year, Big Sugar, the blues-rock-reggae band fronted by Gordie Johnson, is set to play a local gig — this time on Monday at Bo’s Bar and Grill. ago that the band’s members had been influenced to form their group after catching an early Big Sugar concert in Europe.

“We didn’t know anything about it at the time. We only found out about it after we met their manager,” said Johnson, who “very generously” invited Big Sugar musicians to go a tour of Europe with Triggerfinger.

The Belgian band that’s hugely popular across the Atlantic, helped Big Sugar widen its European fan base.

“Now we’re passing it back,” by taking Triggerfinger on its first Canadian tour, said Johnson. This will allow

North American audiences to discover a great European band.

Its musicians are hard rockers.

They’ll “be taking their own course” — which doesn’t involve playing reggae. “They’ll completely annihilate the crowd, then we’ll come on,” said Johnson, who joked “fans will really be in the mood for our show then!”

The singer and guitarist has had a busy year working on multiple music projects, including producing for other artists, playing bass for Rich Robinson’s (of the Black Crowes) band, as well as for Wide Mouth Mason. Big Sugar also opened earlier this year for

LEGENDARY MUSICIAN DIES

Daniel Fleetwood, who had cancer, had a private screening at his home in Spring, Texas, Nov. 5.

His wife, Ashley, posted on Facebook that he died in his sleep early Tuesday and “is now one with God and with the force.”

Diagnosed with spindle cell carcinoma and told he had just months to live, the 31-year-old Fleetwood lobbied online to be allowed to see an early version of the movie, due out Dec. 18. He saw an unfinished version, thanks to the film’s producers and director, J.J. Abrams.

Cason Monk-Metcalf Funeral Directors say a celebration of Fleetwood’s life is scheduled Nov. 21.

BRIEF Chisholm to perform at Fratters on Saturday Four-time Canadian Country Music Award-winner Shane Chisholm will perform with some highly unusual instruments Saturday at Fratters Speakeasy in Red Deer.

The Ontario native will be playing on some hand-crafted, recycled instruments, including an upright bass made from a Chevy Astro gas tank and a guitar made from an old-school curling broom.

The unique country artist who mixes rockabilly, bluegrass and Celtic elements into his music, recently relocated in Red Deer from his previous residence in Claresholm.

This city’s central location was one factor, “and it usually has something to do with a girl,” he added.

Chisholm is described as “a simple man with a lot to say” as he travels the country sharing his story songs with fans.

The title track from the upcoming album, Blow Away, was inspired by the frustration his brother-in-law felt after his High River home was flooded in 2013.

Chisholm received Alberta’s first Male Artist of the Year Award in 2011 from the Alberta Country Music Association for his debut album Hitchhiking Buddha. He’s also received four instrumentation awards from the CCMA, as well as numerous nominations.

There’s a $15 cover for his 9 pm show.

Lady Gaga, Celina Dion added to Sinatra tribute concert NEW YORK — Lady Gaga and Celine Dion have been added to the list

AC/DC. For all the closet musicians who secretly dream of playing with this world-famous metal band, Johnson suggests it might not be as fun as they imagine. The festival sites were so vast people were being flown in by helicopter. “It’s on a scale that’s so industrial, it’s almost too big for you to have a good time,” he said. ”It’s probably more fun just to go to an AC/DC show.”

Tickets for the Red Deer concert are $29.50 from the venue or www.songkick.com. Doors open at 8 p.m. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Disney: Star Wars Weekends end at Hollywood Studies File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Allen Toussaint performs at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans. Legendary New Orleans musician Toussaint died after suffering a heart attack following a concert he performed in Madrid after emergency services were called Monday to his hotel. of performers singing in honour of Frank Sinatra next month.

Zac Brown and Harry Connick Jr. will also perform at “Sinatra 100 — An All-Star GRAMMY Concert” on Dec. 2 in Las Vegas, the Recording Academy announced Tuesday.

Sinatra, who died in 1998 at 82, would have turned 100 on Dec. 12.

Previously announced performers include Garth Brooks, Tony Bennett, Carrie Underwood, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Adam Levine and Usher. More performers will be announced at a later date.

The taped event at the Wynn Las Vegas Encore Theatre will air as a two-hour CBS special on Dec. 6. The Recording Academy will announce nominees for the 2016 Grammy Awards on Dec. 7.

Terminally ill Texas man who lobbied for early screening of new Star Wars film dies SPRING, Texas — A terminally ill Star Wars fan who requested an advance screening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens has died less than a week after watching the movie.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Say goodbye to Star Wars Weekends at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

The theme park says in a blog post that the annual event held on consecutive weekends in May and June will no longer be offered because of construction of a Star Wars-themed land at Hollywood Studios. Once it’s completed, 14 acres will be devoted to Star Wars every day.

Disney officials are slowly unveiling details about upcoming Star Wars attractions, including changes coming to the Star Tours ride that incorporates scenes from the upcoming movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

A Jedi Training attraction is opening at the park in early December.

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Bikram Yoga Red Deer sold

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Bikram Yoga Red Deer is under new ownership.

Owners Josh Biro and Jenna Rosene brought the hot yoga studio to #3-4940 54 Avenue about five years ago.

“We have accomplished what we wanted to and we personally are ready to move on to something else,” said Biro. “I feel like it is a good time to transition to someone who really has got some fire in their belly to take it to the next level.”

Jackie Kurylo and Breanna McCubbin took over the reins last week.

“They are actually teachers of ours who we have mentored,” said Biro. “They have been at the studio for years now and have been in the yoga world for a long time. We wanted to make sure that those taking the reins would be a great leader for this community because it’s just such a positive place and has a strong following.”

Kurylo, who has been practicing yoga for about five years, said there will be no huge changes in the immediate future. She said Biro and Rosene have set them up for success. There will be no changes to the yoga and the schedule.

“I am sure there will be some changes in the future because we do have some ideas and some things we want to get going,” said Kurylo.

Regular workshops will continue to be part of the 4,000 square-feet studio with a 1,500 square foot hot room and boutique. Classes run at the studio seven days a week.

Bikram yoga is deemed the original hot yoga, a 90-minute hot yoga series with 26 postures and two breathing exercises practised in a hot room.

“Josh and Jenna have been such fantastic mentors and they have built such a wonderful community here,” said Kurylo. At the heart of it all is what we give to the students. It’s that therapeutic aspect. It’s helping people out in their day-to-day lives. That’s what motivates and drives us.”

Kurylo encourages those who have never tried

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Bikram Yoga Red Deer new owners Breanna McCubbin, centre and Jackie Kurylo have taken over the business from Josh Biro, left, and Jenna Rosene.

Bikram Yoga to give it a try.

“We are super excited to take the community on this next path,” she said.

For more information, visit www.bikramyogareddeer.com crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Lawsuit should be heard in Guatemala, says judge SEVEN PROTESTERS WERE HURT OUTSIDE MINE OWNED

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A haul truck carrying a full load drives away from a mining shovel at the Shell Albian Sands oilsands mine near Fort McMurray.

Shell not done with the oilsands yet CARMON CREEK RETREAT DOES NOT MARK A RETREAT FROM THE OILSANDS: CEO

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS FORT SASKATCHEWAN — The CEO of Royal Dutch Shell Plc says a decision to back away from its Carmon Creek oilsands project last month does not mean it’s backing away from the oilsands in general.

Ben van Beurden told reporters last week that his company ranks investment opportunities in its global portfolio project-by-project, not region-by-region — so the whole industry cannot be painted with the same brush as the halted 80,000-barrel-a-day Carmon Creek project in northwestern Alberta.

More important than its upfront cost was the project’s “resilience” under a variety of different scenarios, said van Beurden.

“The most sensible thing was to shelve it and to focus our cash elsewhere,” he said.

For Carmon Creek, Shell looked at a host of variables — from having the means to export the crude to sourcing the diluent needed to help the bitumen flow through pipelines.

“There were just too many uncertainties causing a range of outcomes from the absolutely fantastic to the absolutely disastrous, and that is the sort of lack of resilience that we cannot live with, certainly not in today’s environment.”

Van Beurden noted Shell’s existing oilsands operations around Fort McMurray, Alta., make money even in today’s weak market, with operating costs of $25 a barrel during the third quarter.

“We also, by the way, think that in the longer run, oil prices are going to stabilize at slightly higher levels than where they are today.”

The U.S. benchmark, West Texas Intermediate, settled below US$44 a barrel on Monday.

Van Beurden made his remarks during a visit to Shell’s Scotford refining and upgrading complex

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northeast of Edmonton last Friday, where its Quest carbon capture and storage project had its grand opening.

The Quest project aims to capture more than a million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year from the Scotford oilsands upgrader and store it two kilometres underground rather than release it into the atmosphere.

The event came on the same day as U.S. President Barack Obama’s rejection of the contentious Keystone XL pipeline, which would have offered a more direct route for 830,000 barrels a day of oilsands crude to make its way to the lucrative U.S. Gulf Coast market.

Much of the opposition that contributed to Keystone XL’s downfall was focused on the pipeline’s role in enabling more oilsands development — and more carbon emissions as a result.

Van Beurden said there’s been a “general frustration” about a lack of progress on climate change and that’s spilled over into the pipeline debate. Shell is among the companies pushing for a broad carbon price ahead of the UN climate talks in Paris in a few weeks.

“There is a growing sort of reservoir of anxiety and maybe even sort of resentment, and with it, the will to do almost everything and that’s why you see quite understandably very, very strong positions taken, like ‘let’s stop this pipeline,’ or ‘let’s divest from fossil fuel companies,’ or ‘let’s advocate for leaving fossil fuels in the ground,’ or ‘let’s demonize everything that has to do with fossil fuels,”’ he said.

“If indeed there would be a very sensible and actionable policy framework that would indeed have demonstrable results, maybe some of these more extreme positions that get taken go back into the box again.”

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VANCOUVER — Seven protesters hurt outside a Guatemalan mine owned by a company registered in British Columbia must file their lawsuit in the Central American country, a judge has ruled.

The men launched a civil claim in B.C. Supreme Court against Tahoe Resources Inc. (TSX: THO) after security guards sprayed protesters with rubber bullets outside the Escobal Mine in 2013.

The Guatemalan citizens had argued the case should be heard in B.C. because they had no faith that their country’s legal system would hold the company accountable.

But Tahoe asked the court to decline jurisdiction and stay the lawsuit, and Justice Laura Gerow agreed with the company.

“It is apparent that trying this action in British Columbia will result in considerably greater inconvenience and expenses for the parties and dozens of witnesses,” she said in a written decision.

She noted that translators would be required for all the Spanish-speaking plaintiffs, and evidence and witnesses would have to be transported from Guatemala and Tahoe’s U.S. offices.

Tahoe is incorporated in B.C. but its headquarters and majority of its staff are in Reno, Nev. It is the parent company to Guatemalan-based Minera San Rafael, which owns the mine.

The judge ruled that Guatemala is clearly the more appropriate forum for the suit.

She said the country’s legal system is “imperfect” but functional.

“In my view, the public interest requires that Canadian courts proceed extremely cautiously in finding that a foreign court is incapable of providing justice to its own citizens,” the decision said.

“To hold otherwise is to ignore the principle of comity and risk that other jurisdictions will treat the Canadian judicial system with similar disregard.”

A criminal case is already underway in Guatemala against the security manager who allegedly ordered the shooting.

The plaintiffs are seeking compensation for their injuries as part of that case.

The incident unfolded on April 27, 2013, when guards attempted to disperse protesters gathered outside the silver, gold, lead and zinc mine under construction.

Adolfo Garcia claimed a projectile lodged in his spine when he was shot in the back, while Luis Monroy said his sense of smell was destroyed when he was shot in the face.

The other plaintiffs, ranging in age from 17 to 40, are farmers and students who claimed projectiles hit them in the legs, knee and foot.

They alleged shotguns, pepper spray and buck shot were also used.

The suit claimed Tahoe was liable for either authorizing the use of excessive force or negligence for not preventing the violence.

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Create your market dominating position I spoke on this topic at the Success4Business Expo in October and started by asking the following questions.

What happens when that demand slows or stops? What happens when your competitor comes up with a “new and improved” version of your product? How do you keep your offering fresh while growing JOHN and maintainMACKENZIE ing your client base?

BUSINESS BASICS The answer: innovate your business and offer extraordinary value by creating a “market dominating position”.

A “market dominating position” is any customer perceived value-added benefit, or a combination of benefits, that differentiates you from your competitors and does so in a strong enough manner that it makes your business the logical choice in the minds of your prospects and customers.

Every choice made when buying a product or a service represents a point of differentiation between one company and their competitors.

What, if anything, makes your business different from your competitors as perceived by your targeted prospects and customers?

For the vast majority of businesses that answer is price.

Do you really want to compete on

price and narrow margins?

Nike offers a wide range of shoe, apparel and equipment products, all of which are currently best sellers globally yet Walmart sells an excellent imitation for around $50. Yet Nike outsells them tent to one. Nike’s position revolves around being the best athlete, being hip and in style.

Starbucks typical clients spend between $3.50 and $5.50 on every visit.

That’s around two to three times higher than most of their competition. Obviously low price isn’t the driving force here. Starbucks creates the perception that their products are the secret to a better lifestyle.

These top selling companies have staked out a specific and targeted market dominating position.

The key is to create added value in everything you do. Prospects and customers don’t buy based on price, they buy based on the value they receive for the price they pay. Creating added value is a strategy that can take the form of a product or service that’s added to your original offering for free or as part of a discounted package Everyone can add value to their business.

The key to adding value is determining what your customers and target market perceive as valuable. Understand their needs, wants, troubles and inconveniences.

Revisit the value you offer, or your customers will be drawn to your competitor who consistently innovate their business so they offer exceptional value that you don’t.

Adding value will also add to your profits.

This works for product and ser-

vice-based businesses. If you’re service-based like hairstyling, try treating your customers by offering them a latte while they wait, or complimentary shampoo samples or a free conditioning treatment with every sixth visit.

If you sell a product, consider offering convenience services like free shipping or delivery and set up to make the customer’s experience a seamless one.

Here is a 5 Step Differentiation Process. I will use Dominos as an example for these steps. It may be a little dated but well known and fits the model perfectly. Pick your own example and see how it fits.

Step #1… Determine your strategic position in the market What specific niche market or segment of the marketplace should your business focus on? Determining this involves combining the skills your business has with the unmet needs of your targeted prospects and then designing your product or service to fulfill those needs.

Step #2… Determine your primary market dominating position This is the most dominating advantage that separates you from your competitors. Domino’s claimed it could deliver its pizza, hot and in 30 minutes or less, or they would give it to you for FREE! This was the primary advantage that met the needs of their newly defined market position – hungry college kids that wanted food fast.

Step #3… Determine your supporting business model How will you specifically deliver what your strategic position and primary market dominating position

promises? What changes, if any do you need to consider making to your business to ensure you deliver consistently on your position and your promise?

Domino’s built low cost, plain vanilla stores strategically located near college campuses and hired additional delivery staff and drivers on a stand-by basis.

Step #4… Determine your secondary market dominating position What additional competitive advantages does your business offer that your customers will perceive as being different from your competition? Domino’s secondary benefits might include special pricing (10% Off on Tuesdays), assorted sizes, a much broader selection of toppings or additional menu items.

Step #5… Create your market dominating position statement or elevator pitch This is a statement you create by combining steps 1 – 4. This helps you to state unequivocally what differentiates you from your competitors to your target market.

An expanded version of this might say: “Domino’s provides busy customers with fresh hot pizza and other food items within 30 minutes or less. Our assorted pizza offerings combined with our value pricing makes Domino’s affordable to everyone”.

Don’t just survive, thrive. What makes you different?

John MacKenzie is a certified business coach and authorized partner/facilitator for Everything DiSC and Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team, Wiley Brands. He can be reached at john@thebusinesstraininghub.com.

SNC-Lavalin CEO wants Ottawa to New financial services adopt corruption settlement deals ombudsman wants greater

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SNC-Lavalin’s CEO wants the new federal government to allow companies to settle corporate corruption cases — as what happens in the United States and United Kingdom — so that Canadian firms can remain competitive.

In his first speech since taking control of Canada’s largest engineering company last month, Neil Bruce said federal corruption charges laid against a few of SNC-Lavalin’s legal entities unfairly point the finger at 40,000 employees who did nothing wrong.

Instead, Canada should allow corporate settlements outside the court system so that SNC-Lavalin and other Canadian businesses are not at a disadvantage when competing against rival firms in other G7 countries, Bruce said.

“With the great strides we have made in our goal to be both a Quebec and Canadian player on the global stage, nevertheless we still have to deal with the reality of the current business environment in Canada which presents real challenges to a company like ours,” he told the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations on Tuesday.

Bruce said the company is willing to reach a “reasonable and fair solution on issues of the past,” but changes are needed to allow companies to deal with their actions, pay fines and move on.

He said countries that have so-called

deferred prosecution agreements have found that companies and people who perpetrate illegal actions are held to account more swiftly.

The system encourages companies to be transparent with authorities about ethics issues and allows for settlements, including improved internal monitoring and compliance, he said.

“This is not a way of the company getting away from its responsibilities,” he later told reporters after his speech.

While he said this is likely not a priority for federal politicians, Bruce hopes they will look at this option closely and work with civil servants and the judiciary to put something similar in place.

“Ultimately, it’s the wider (business) community that’s looking at this saying, ‘Maybe this is a way forward in order to accelerate holding companies and people to account quicker’ than getting involved in long, drawn-out court cases.”

Bruce said the Montreal-based company has improved its ethics and compliance programs since it and two subsidiaries were first implicated and later charged with fraud and corruption over its dealings in Libya.

The company has said it will plead not guilty to the charges but is willing to pay a fine for the alleged transgressions of former employees.

The case will be back in court on Feb. 26.

CONTROVERSIAL CUPS

enforcement powers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canada’s new financial services ombudsman says she would welcome regulatory changes giving the organization more power to enforce its decisions — but notes that such changes would come at a cost.

The Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments, or OBSI, is an impartial organization that serves as an alternative to costly legal battles by resolving disputes between banks or investment firms and their customers.

But although OBSI can recommend that firms compensate clients up to $350,000, companies are under no obligation to abide by the organization’s decisions.

OBSI’s only enforcement tool is its “name and shame” mandate, which allows it to go public with its findings if a company refuses the arbitrator’s recommendations.

However, Sarah Bradley — the woman chosen to head up the organization after long-serving ombudsman Douglas Melville stepped down last spring — says that system contains weaknesses.

“Nobody is really happy with naming and shaming,” said Bradley, the former chairwoman and CEO of the Nova Scotia Securities Commission, in one of her first interviews since taking the helm of OBSI in September.

For consumers, the lack of teeth means no compensation may be paid.

For the financial services industry, publishing investigation details leaves all firms “tarred with the same brush,” Bradley said.

“Binding authority, or the ability to make enforceable recommendations against firms, would, I think, be beneficial to the vast majority of our stakeholders, but we do have to also keep in mind that it will come at a cost,” said Bradley.

“It will result in a little bit more formality to our process. It may increase cost somewhat.”

Bradley says OBSI and its industry members are currently considering whether such changes should be made.

“We are looking at it,” she said. “I think for there to be an amendment or an adjustment to that system is going to require co-operation and buy-in from all stakeholders.”

Until late 2012, a firm had only refused OBSI’s recommendations once

“WHEN, AS AN ORGANIZATION, WE DECIDED TO CONFRONT AND OVERCOME AND CLEAR THAT BACKLOG, IT MEANT CLOSING THOSE CASES, DESPITE THE FACT THAT THERE WAS NOT AN ACCEPTANCE OF OUR RECOMMENDATIONS.” — SARAH BRADLEY in its 17-year history. Since then, the ombudsman has faced more than a dozen refusals, a fact that Bradley attributes to a backlog of difficult to resolve complaints stemming from the global financial crisis.

“When, as an organization, we decided to confront and overcome and clear that backlog, it meant closing those cases, despite the fact that there was not an acceptance of our recommendations,” said Bradley.

OBSI has been working to strengthen its relationships with the financial services industry following a period of tension that saw two of its large member firms — TD Bank (TSX:TD) and Royal Bank of Canada (TSX:RY) — ditch the organization in favour of another arbitrator. Bradley says sluggish case-processing times stemming from the backlog was among the chief concerns cited by the two banks and a number of other members who have considered leaving the organization — an issue that the arbitrator has since resolved.

“We took the concerns that were voiced by our stakeholders very seriously,” said Bradley. “TD and RBC shared their reasons for departure with us and it led to a period of reflection and very significant process improvements. What’s emerged from that is that we have, now, a much more robust and efficient system for handling complaints. We do not have a backlog.”

That could change given recent market turmoil stemming from the Chinese stock market crash and lagging commodity prices. Dispute resolution services often see an uptick in complaints when markets turn south, said Bradley. So far, the arbitrator hasn’t seen the volume of complaints rise in any identifiable way — but Bradley says OBSI is bracing itself for the possibility.

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A barista pours steamed milk into a red paper cup while making an espresso drink at a Starbucks coffee shop in the Pike Place Market, Tuesday, in Seattle. It’s as red as Santa’s suit, a poinsettia blossom or a loud Christmas sweater. Yet Starbucks’ minimalist new holiday coffee cup has set off complaints that the chain is making war on Christmas.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 126.91 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.05 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.11 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.18 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.45 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.28 Cdn. National Railway . . 77.98 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 185.78 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 34.69 Capital Power Corp . . . . 19.22 Cervus Equipment Corp 13.90 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 51.71 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 50.09 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 20.74 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.30 General Motors Co. . . . . 35.62 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 22.38 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.13 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 41.45 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 33.45 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.02 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 5.99 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 42.73 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 108.93 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.80 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.12 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 67.10 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed lower Tuesday as lingering concerns about lagging global growth and a fresh spate of data out of China weighed on metals and mining and gold stocks.

The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX index ended the day down 70.99 points at 13,411.63. The loss came on the heels of a 70.68 point decline on Monday, when the index closed at 13,482.62.

The metals and mining sector of the TSX slipped 3.6 per cent, while gold stocks declined by 2.2 per cent. Utilities stocks — a sector perceived as defensive — rose 0.6 per cent.

Todd Mattina, chief economist and strategist at Mackenzie Investments, said investors may be reacting to data out of China overnight that indicates deflationary pressures are persisting in the world’s second-largest economy. Slowing demand from China bodes poorly for Canadian commodity producers.

In New York, markets were mixed as investors continued to mull how stronger-than-anticipated U.S. employment data out last week will impact the pace of an interest rate hike from the U.S. Federal Reserve.

The Dow Jones average of 30 stocks climbed 27.73 points to 17,758.21, the broader S&P 500 index gained 3.14 points to 2,081.72 and the Nasdaq index lost 12.06 points to 5,083.24.

The latest U.S. employment report, which came out on Friday, showed the U.S. economy added 271,000 jobs in October.

That left many investors expecting the Fed to begin raising its benchmark interest rate, which has been at historical lows since the global financial crisis, in December, with odds growing that another rate hike will follow in

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Mattina said that although a rate hike could indicate that the underlying economy is strong enough to stomach the increase, investors are concerned that the higher borrowing costs associated with it would come at a time when corporate profits in the U.S. are already under pressure.

“The key in my mind is really not when the Fed starts hiking rates,” Mattina said. “The big question is where does the Fed stop hiking rates, and at what pace will it be hiking rates? I think that’s really going to be the key driver for stocks and bond prices for the rest of this year and into 2016.”

On the commodity markets, the December gold contract rose 40 cents to US$1,088.50 an ounce, the December crude contract climbed 34 cents to US$44.21 a barrel and the December contract for natural gas was up two cents at US$2.32 per mmBtu. December copper declined by a penny to US$2.22 a pound.

Meanwhile, the loonie gained 0.06 of a cent to 75.39 cents U.S. Shares of Amaya (TSX:AYA) plunged 32.4 per cent, or $10.13, to $21.10 after the Montreal-based gaming company lowered its financial expectations for the year, partly due to the fact that the stronger U.S. dollar has eaten into revenues.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,411.63, down 70.99 points Dow — 17,758.21, up 27.73 points S&P 500 — 2,081.72, up 3.14 points Nasdaq — 5,083.24, down

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 82.35 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 38.91 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.03 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 18.56 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.06 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 1.28 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.780 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.41 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 39.11 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.900 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.22 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 43.37 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2000 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 76.69 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 60.74 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.72 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.36 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 35.77 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 38.16 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 88.85 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.11 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 43.59 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.47 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 76.05 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 44.85 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.91 12.06 points Currencies: Cdn — 75.39 cents US, up 0.06 of a cent Pound — C$2.0053, down 0.11 of a cent Euro — C$1.4214, down 0.65 of a cent Euro — US$1.0715, down 0.41 of a cent Oil futures: US$44.21 per barrel, up 34 cents (December contract) Gold futures: US$1,088.50 per oz., up 40 cents (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $19.973 oz., down 8.8 cents $642.13 kg., down $2.83 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov ‘15 $9.80 lower $460.60 Jan. ‘16 $9.80 lower $468.00 March ‘16 $8.70 lower $474.20 May ‘16 $7.80 lower $477.20 July ‘16 $6.50 lower $479.80 Nov. ‘16 $5.90 lower $470.40 Jan. ‘17 $5.90 lower $470.40 March ‘17 $5.90 lower $470.40 May ‘17 $5.90 lower $470.40 July ‘17 $5.90 lower $470.40 Nov. ‘17 $7.10 lower $470.40.

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.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 558,260 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 558,260.

Labatt to buy Mike’s Hard Lemonade, Okanagan Cider, Palm Bay in $350M deal

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A growing taste for sweeter drinks has pushed Labatt Breweries into its latest acquisition for the Canadian rights to Mike’s Hard Lemonade, Okanagan Cider and a couple of other alcoholic beverages.

The Canadian brewer, which is owned by Belgian company Anheuser-Busch InBev, said late Tuesday it has struck a US$350-million deal with the Mark Anthony Group of Companies that will also give it ownership of Palm Bay pre-mixed drinks and the Turning Point Brewery in British Columbia, which brews Stanley Park beers.

The move would diversify Labatt’s growing stable of drinks and put the company into a market where its hardly tread before.

For years, Labatt rarely made anything but beer, but spokesman Charlie Angelakos said changing consumer preferences have meant the company needs to be more nimble.

“Increasingly consumers are looking for sweeter options,” he told The Canadian Press.

“We plan to make the most of these opportunities by making strong consumer connections with the acquired brands and growing their presence across the country.”

Once the deal is finalized, which is expected to happen in the coming months, Labatt will have a bigger stake in both the growing pre-mixed drinks and ciders markets, which have been

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TD Bank shakes up senior management ranks TORONTO — TD Bank (TSX:TD) is shaking up its senior management, re-assigning its chief financial officer and replacing her with another senior bank executive.

Colleen Johnston, TD’s current CFO, will become the group head of direct channels, technology, marketing and real estate.

growing in popularity.

According to data from Labatt, sales of pre-mixed drinks have grown by seven per cent annually over the past three years.

Popularity in ciders has also soared, rising 20 per cent annually over the same period after years of limited availability in Canadian bars and liquor stores.

Labatt has been tapping into niche markets over the past few years.

Last month, Labatt grabbed a larger stake in the craft beer market when it bought up Mill Street Brewery in Toronto for an undisclosed amount, its sixth acquisition of a North American craft brewer since 2011.

Under the agreement with the Mark Anthony Group, Labatt’s parent company also gains the international trademark rights — which exclude the United States.

The Mark Anthony Group would retain full ownership of its U.S. operations and its Canadian wine, spirits and beer import and distribution business, which the company said is where it will focus its growth plans.

“This is a very bold step into the future for our business,” said founder and CEO Anthony von Mandl in a news release.

“Once this transaction is complete it will provide even greater financial capacity as we embark on a new era of significant investments and growth in our businesses in Canada, the United States and beyond.”

She will be replaced by Riaz Ahmed, currently TD’s group head of insurance, credit cards and enterprise strategy.

Teri Currie will take over as group head of Canadian personal banking from Tim Hockey, who is being reassigned to TD Ameritrade.

Currie is currently TD’s group head of direct channels, technology, marketing and people strategies.

The changes will come into effect on Jan. 2, 2016.

As the bank previously announced, Hockey will vacate his role as group head of Canadian banking and wealth management to become the president of TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. effective Jan. 2.

Cineplex expected to reap benefits of Star Wars

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — If it isn’t a superhero or a dinosaur, there’s a growing chance moviegoers aren’t buying tickets.

More than ever before, blockbusters — like the latest entry in the “Minions” franchise and megahit “Jurassic World” — are devouring box-office ticket sales at the expense of other films.

And the shift is expected to only intensify heading into the holiday season, as audiences prepare for “Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens,” billed to be one of the top-grossing films in Hollywood history.

Advance ticket sales for “Star Wars” have already shattered previous records, which has the head of theatre chain Cineplex Inc. predicting that attendance will soar to near historical levels for the company.

“It’s the highest we’ve ever had — by far,” Cineplex’s chief executive Ellis Jacob said of presales, though he declined to provide actual numbers.

The pending release of “Star Wars” comes at a time when Cineplex is already riding high on a handful of huge hits.

Earlier this year, the company reported that advance ticket sales for “Avengers: Age of Ultron” raked in more than $4 million, smashing the record previously held by “Harry Potter: Deathly Hallows Pt. 2.”

To respond to “Star Wars” demand, Cineplex is adding extra blocks of advance tickets for the film, due on Dec. 18.

But as the company rushes to pack theatres full of dedicated fans, that means other movies are losing a spotlight in the run-up to awards season.

It’s a trend that has been playing out for most of this year.

In the first nine months of 2015, the Top Five grossing films represented 26.1 per cent of ticket sales — versus 19.5 per cent in the same window of 2014 — as movies like “Jurassic World” and “The Avengers” overshadowed mid-sized titles like “Magic Mike XXL,” “Vacation” and “Black Mass,” which generated plenty of attention but only lukewarm attendance.

Over the next seven weeks, a barrage of major Hollywood movies will charge into theatres, including the fi-

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This photo provided by Disney shows Daisey Ridley as Rey, left, and John Boyega as Finn, in a scene from the new film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. nal instalment in the “Hunger Games” series and Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight.”

“I think our problem is there’s going to be too many movies,” said Jacob.

Like most North American movie chains, Cineplex has been dealing with outsized hits and deep misses all year long, a sign that moviegoers are shifting the way they view movies, as the popularity of Netflix and other video streaming services alter the industry. In the second quarter, which marked the start of summer movie sea-

son, a trio of Hollywood smashes dominated the exhibitor’s box office, with “The Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Jurassic World” and “Furious 7,” representing 43.5 per cent of box-office revenue.

The impact on the final half of summer movie season was less pronounced, with nearly 30 per cent of the box office coming from “Minions,” the latest “Mission: Impossible” instalment and “Ant-Man.” Cineplex Inc. (TSX:CGX) said attendance during the third quarter was up 7.6 per cent to 19.4 million patrons

from a year ago.

Revenue jumped 9.8 per cent to a record $328.2 million as more people bought premium-priced tickets for its VIP cinemas and the Imax screen.

The Toronto-based company’s net income was up 34.7 per cent, rising to $21.4 million or 34 cents per share from $15.9 million or 25 cents per share. Concession revenue per person was up 5.9 per cent to $5.38 from $5.08, while box office revenue per patron declined 0.8 per cent to $9.09 from $9.16.

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Military still grips the reins

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MYANMAR

YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s military-backed ruling party appeared set Tuesday for an overwhelming electoral defeat, but a victory by Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition National League for Democracy party would not mean the end of military involvement in the nation’s politics. Far from it.

The military, which took power in a 1962 coup and brutally suppressed several pro-democracy uprisings during its rule, gave way to a nominally civilian elected government in 2011 — with strings attached.

Aside from installing retired senior officers in its proxy political party to fill Cabinet posts, the army granted itself constitutional powers that enshrine its influence over the government no matter who is elected. In a state of emergency, a special military-led body can even assume state powers. Another provision bars Suu Kyi from the presidency because her sons hold foreign citizenship.

Right now, though, the focus is on the stunning, if not yet official, victory of Suu Kyi’s party over the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party in Sunday’s elections.

In an interview Tuesday with the BBC, Suu Kyi said her party expects to win 75 per cent of the contested seats in the 664-member two-chamber Parliament.

It staked its claim even though the government’s Union Election Commission had announced results for only 88 lower house seats by Tuesday afternoon, with 78 going to the NLD and five to the ruling party. The commission has given no explanation for the slow results.

“The NLD’s big victory is best seen as the first step of a negotiation that is going to play out in the coming weeks and months between the elected pow-

ly co-operate with them since one of their mandates is national reconciliation,” he said. The military “is an important group in Parliament that shouldn’t be ignored. There must be co-operation and the NLD will have to convince the military to co-operate with them.”

In 1990 elections, the army annulled the results after a landslide victory by the NLD. But that kind of response is not widely expected this time. The military is invested in the freed-up economy that semi-democracy has brought, as Western nations eased trade and investment sanctions in response to political liberalization. And the military always has its constitutional safeguards to fall back on.

Estimates by the NLD put it on pace with the 1990 landslide. Tin Oo, a senior colleague of Suu Kyi, told The Associated Press the party is likely to receive “nearly” 81 per cent of the vote.

Official results for 33 upper house seats, released Tuesday evening, support the NLD’s optimism — 29 went to the opposition party.

But the delay in announcing official returns has raised concern, with NLD spokesman Win Htein telling reporters that the election commission has been “delaying intentionally because maybe they want to play a trick or something.”

“It doesn’t make sense that they are releasing the results piece by piece. It shouldn’t be like that,” he told reporters after a party meeting at Suu Kyi’s house. “They are trying to be crooked.”

In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said it is still early days in the more than two-week period mandated for announcing election results, but the U.S. “wants to see the process move forward as quickly as possible.”

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People gather to buy merchandise with pictures of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at a shop run by her National League of Democracy party in Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday. Her party, which appears headed for a massive election victory, accused the government election panel Tuesday of intentionally delaying results, saying it may be trying ‘to play a trick.’ er of the NLD, and entrenched, constitutionally guaranteed military power,” said Phil Robertson, deputy director of the Asia division of New York-based Human Rights Watch.

When the former military junta oversaw the drafting of the 2008 constitution, he said, “they built a political structure that keeps Aung San Suu Kyi out of the presidency and locks in their influence and prerogatives — with things like 25 per cent of the seats reserved for the military, the 75 per cent approval bar to amend the constitution, no legislative scrutiny of military budgets, and ensuring only military

Schmidt guided West Germany through turbulent ’70s

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN — Helmut Schmidt, the chancellor who guided West Germany through economic turbulence and Cold War tensions, stood firm against a wave of homegrown terrorism and became a respected elder statesman, died Tuesday.

He was 96.

Schmidt died at his house in Hamburg, according to German weekly Die Zeit, of which Schmidt was a co-publisher.

“We have lost a sharp-witted adviser, a trusted companion and a good HELMUT SCHMIDT friend,” Die Zeit said in a statement. “Until recently he contributed to the editorial team with his analyses, his commentaries and his interviews about current affairs.”

Schmidt’s friend and doctor Heiner Greten told Bild newspaper the former chancellor died with partner Ruth Loah and daughter Susanne at home with him.

“He died the way he wanted: in his bed at home and fully without pain,” Greten said.

Schmidt, a centre-left Social Democrat, led West Germany from 1974 to 1982. He was elected chancellor by lawmakers in May 1974 after the resignation of fellow Social Democrat Willy Brandt, triggered when a top aide to Brandt was unmasked as an East German agent.

Sigmar Gabriel, chairman of the Social Democrats and Germany’s vice chancellor, recalled Schmidt delivering his last big speech at an SPD party

convention in 2011.

Gabriel said he reminded party members that Germany has “a responsibility to hold Europe together.”

“I think that in these days and weeks, where some are disappointed by the developments in Europe, these words will stay in our memory,” he told reporters outside the SPD’s Parliamentary offices.

“He was someone who, I believe, will remain for generations of Germans one of the most significant statesmen of our country.”

As a new leader, Schmidt brought a sometimes abrasive self-confidence and his experience as West Germany’s defence, finance and economy ministers to the job, which he took during the economic downturn that followed the 1973 oil crisis.

Schmidt’s chancellorship coincided with a tense period in the Cold War, including the Soviet Union’s 1979 invasion of Afghanistan.

He went along the following year with the U.S.-led boycott of the Moscow Olympics, although he later said that it “brought nothing.” Schmidt later said he had disputes with the United States under President Jimmy Carter over financial and defence issues at the time and concluded “that we Germans could not afford an extra conflict with America,” West Germany’s protector against the Soviets.

Amid efforts to ward off a global recession, Schmidt was among the movers behind the first economic summit of leading industrial powers at Rambouillet, France, in 1975, which later turned into the annual Group of Seven meeting.

He and then-French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing also played leading roles organizing the European Monetary System, aimed at protecting European currencies from wild fluctuations, which ultimately paved the way for the common European currency, the euro.

Russian ban on flights to Egypt expected to last months

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Moscow’s ban on all flights to Egypt in the wake of a Russian plane crash will last for at least several months, the Kremlin chief of staff said Tuesday, dealing a severe blow to Egypt’s struggling tourism industry.

President Vladimir Putin’s chief of staff, Sergei Ivanov, said on a visit to Finland that it would be impossible to radically revise Egypt’s security system in a short time, according to Russian news reports.

Putin suspended all flights to Egypt on Friday amid security concerns after the Oct. 31 crash of a Russian airliner that killed all 224 people onboard.

Other airliners from Britain and Western Europe are also bringing their nationals home, after several countries and airlines last week suspended new flights to Egypt amid suspicions that a terror attack could be the cause of the crash of the Airbus A321-200 operated by Metrojet.

U.S. and British officials have cited intelligence reports indicating that the plane, en route from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, was brought down by a bomb on board.

While Russia and Egypt said the

statements were premature pending the official crash probe, Moscow’s ban on flights signalled that it was taking the bomb theory seriously.

Ivanov said Egypt needs to revise its security regime not only in Sharm el-Sheikh, but also in airports in Cairo and the Red Sea resort Hurghada.

Asked how long the Russian flight ban could last, Ivanov said that “I think for several months, as a minimum.”

“It’s impossible to radically change the systems of security, protection and control in a week or even a month,” he added.

Security officials at Sharm elSheikh airport have told The Associated Press that it has long seen gaps in security, including a key baggage scanning device that often is not functioning and lax searches at an entry gate for food and fuel for the planes.

The head of Cairo’s international airport, Maj. Gen. Ahmed Genina said officials from Russia, Holland, Italy, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar were examining the scanning of passengers, cargo and baggage at the airport Tuesday. Security guards and caterers were also being inspected.

men can lead the most powerful ministries, like defence, home affairs and border affairs.”

“So, even with the people behind her, Aung San Suu Kyi will face problems — because if she tries to force her way with the military, it will be like banging her head against the wall,” Robertson said.

Because the military still controls important political decisions, the NLD and other political parties have to co-operate with the military, said Toe Kyaw Hlaing, an independent political analyst in Myanmar.

“But I think the NLD will happi-

Lufthansa cancels 930 flights due to strike by flight attendants BERLIN — Lufthansa has cancelled 930 flights scheduled for Wednesday at three hubs in Germany after efforts failed to halt an ongoing strike by flight attendants.

The cancellations affect 100,000 travellers going to or from Frankfurt, Munich and Duesseldorf.

They were announced even as the airline and the union said late Tuesday they were open to mediation.

Officials for the UFO flight attendants union did not call a halt to the ongoing stoppages at Frankfurt, Mu-

nich and Duesseldorf, but indicated they would be open to mediation under certain conditions, the dpa news agency reported. A mediation proposal had been sent by the company.

As things stood, the union was to strike long-haul and local flights Wednesday through Friday at the three airports. The strike action started Friday and took a break Sunday.

Lufthansa has been able to carry out most flights despite extensive cancellations.

A court decision in the German city of Duesseldorf added to uncertainty. The labour court there ordered a temporary halt to the strike in that town, saying the strike’s goals were not clearly formulated.

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Panthers claw past Flames JAGR SCORES DECISIVE GOAL IN THIRD TO SNAP 5-GAME SKID WITH WIN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Panthers 4 Flames 3 SUNRISE, Fla. — Jaromir Jagr and the Florida Panthers were glad to snap their five-game losing streak. They weren’t all that satisfied with how they did it, though.

Jagr scored the tiebreaking goal in the third period and the Panthers beat the Calgary Flames 4-3 on Tuesday night.

The 43-year-old Jagr gave Florida a 4-3 lead when his shot from in front slipped past Karri Ramo’s glove and into the corner of the net at 8:11 of the third. The goal was Jagr’s first in five games, and he leads the Panthers with seven goals. Jagr also had an assist, but the team held a players-only meeting after the game.

“We won, that’s a good thing. We feel like we didn’t play our best,” Jagr said. “Everybody felt like we should play a little better.”

Aaron Ekblad, Reilly Smith and Vincent Trocheck also scored for the Panthers. Roberto Luongo made 25 saves.

Luongo fell to the ice at 15:06 of the third when a slap shot from Dennis Wideman hit him in the shoulder or neck. Luongo stayed in the game after a visit by the trainer.

“It was a bit of a sloppy game in general, but we found a way to win,” Luongo said.

The Panthers played their first in a stretch that includes seven of eight games at home. They want to make the most of it, especially after losing all three games on a West Coast swing.

“It’s a huge homestand,” Luongo said. “We’ve got some tough tests ahead of us and we’re going to need to be playing some better hockey if we want to win.”

Panthers coach Gerard Gallant didn’t share his players’ disappointment with their performance.

“I don’t know why they wouldn’t be happy,” Gallant said. “I thought they played pretty well, for the most part. They made a couple of bad mistakes that cost them a 3-1 lead, but overall we played pretty well.”

David Jones scored twice for Calgary, which lost for the first time in three games. Sean Monahan had a goal, and Ramo stopped 25 shots.

Ramo was disappointed he couldn’t prevent Jagr’s go-ahead goal.

“He kind of surprised me that he got the puck,” Ramo. “He fanned on the first shot and I lost the

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Calgary Flames center Sean Monahan skates past Florida Panthers center Rocco Grimaldi in the first period of an NHL game Tuesday, in Sunrise, Fla. edge of my skate. I got a push and started to reach. It was a slow goal. There was a lot of bad luck today.”

Calgary tied it at 3 on a power-play goal by Monahan. He grabbed a rebound in front and put the puck past Luongo with 28 seconds left in the second.

Monahan has nine points in 11 games.

“We had chances in the third that we just couldn’t finish off,” Flames coach Bob Hartley said. “We had some great looks. They had a chance and got the winning goal out of it.”

Ekblad stretched the Panthers’ lead to 3-1 when he one-timed a pass from Jagr to the left circle past Ramo at 3:53 of the second.

Calgary closed the gap to 3-2 on Jones’ second goal. Jones’ shot from in front hit Luongo’s glove,

then trickled past him into the net at 6:35.

Smith’s goal gave the Panthers a 2-1 lead. Alex Petrovic’s shot from near the blue line was blocked, but Smith got the rebound and poked it into the net at 15:43 of the first.

The Panthers took a 1-0 lead on a power-play goal

by Trocheck. Jussi Jokinen took a shot from the left circle and Trocheck grabbed the rebound and put it past Ramo at 5:16.

The Flames tied the score less than 2 minutes later on their first shot on goal. Two Panthers players collided at mid-ice, opening up a lane for Joe Colborne. His drop pass went off the skate of a Florida player, and Jones grabbed the loose puck and beat Luongo on the stick side at 7:13.

GMs talk about how to increase scoring NHL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Scoring hasn’t necessarily taken a nose dive in the NHL, but it’s enough of a concern that general managers are debating how to generate more offence.

An average of 5.32 goals are being scored this season, down slightly from 5.5 through Nov. 10, 2014, but down significantly from the 6.16 goals a game in the 2005-06 season. It’s not the numbers but the causes of the decline that made it a hot topic at Tuesday’s fall GMs meeting.

“When you talk about scoring, where do you want to start?” David Poile of the Nashville Predators said.

“Do you want to start with the goaltending equipment, do you want to start with all the congestion in front of the

net, all the shot-blocking? How about taking out the trapezoid? We can go on and on and on.”

Ray Shero of the New Jersey Devils called scoring a “never-ending” subject at these meetings, whether it’s in light of reducing the size of goaltending equipment, making the nets bigger or changing some other part of the game.

Maybe it’s not the goals but the opportunities for them.

“Basically for me it’s scoring chances,” Dale Tallon of the Florida Panthers said. “Is the game better off with more scoring or is it fine the way it is? Those are the things we have to discuss and figure out. I think that’s what we’re going to discuss in-depth in March.”

Very rarely are decisions made at this time, during the GMs’ post-Hall of Fame induction weekend meeting. It’s a time to set the table for the board of governors in Pebble Beach, Calif., next month and then the March GMs meet-

ing in Boca Raton, Fla. This was a chance for GMs to review a couple of major rule changes: three-on-three overtime and coach’s challenges. Three-on-three overtime has been overwhelmingly effective, as 70 per cent of games that go past regulation have been decided before the shootout.

“The players enjoy it, and threeon-three to me is less gimmicky than one-on-one,” Chuck Fletcher of the Minnesota Wild said.

Coach’s challenges are new to the league this season for goals scored on goaltender interference and offside plays. The first impression of the new system is good, even though GMs would like to fine-tune the system.

“I think just taking less time, that’s probably it, and making sure that there aren’t any egregious errors,” Tallon said. “It’s just a matter of everyone getting communication down better and quicker.”

One complaint so far is that too lit-

tle contact on goaltenders is getting goals taken off the board. GMs looked at several examples of goaltender interference and were asked to decide whether the goal should have counted.

Setting the standard for what goaltender interference is will be part of the ongoing process.

“We don’t want to go back to foot in the crease,” NHL senior vice-president and director of hockey operations Colin Campbell said. “We’ve had some issues where we might want to see the other decision, but the referees are adapting pretty well.”

Campbell said beaming video replays to officials on the ice is something new, and he expects that to continue to improve. The more practice the league has, the less time it should take to make a decision.

One theory is giving the responsibility on coach’s challenges to the situation room in Toronto. That won’t be decided until the March GMs meeting, at the earliest.

Good named to All-Canadian team for goalkeeping greatness

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Lauren Good is at the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association women’s soccer championships, the only problem is she wishes she wasn’t alone.

Good, who was in her fifth and final season of eligibility with the RDC Queens, was named to the CCAA All-Canadian team and received her award at the national banquet hosted

by Ahuntsic College in Montreal, Tuesday “It’s nice to end my career on a high note and it’s good as goalies always don’t get recognized,” the Red Deer native said. “We don’t get recognized as much because we don’t score the big goals or make the big tackle.

“It’s nice but I wish the team was here … I think we deserved to be here but that’s the nature of the game.”

Good was named to the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference South Division All-Conference team but didn’t even think about being an All-Canadian.

“I was more focused on the team’s success,” she said. “That was most important, although it’s nice to get the recognition with this being my last year. But really I felt this was one of my easier years because of the team in front of me. They were so good and did a great job of preventing a lot of good chances.”

But when there was a chance Good was there. She put together a spectacular season for the undefeated Queens, who won their first South Division title with an 8-0-2 record. She finished with a 7-0-2 mark, five shutouts and a 0.56

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Goalkeeper Lauren Good of the Red Deer College Queens makes a save during ACAC soccer action. Good was named to the CCAA All-Canadian team and received her award at the national banquet hosted by Ahuntsic College in Montreal, Tuesday. goals-against average. She played four seasons with the Queens posting a 213-7 record, 16 shutouts and a 0.76 GAA. While she was outstanding during the season she turned in an inspired performance in the ACAC playoffs as she played with a separated left shoulder and a broken right thumb.

She allowed just one goal in a 1-0 loss to Concordia in the semifinals and played the second half of a 2-1 shootout loss to Grande Prairie in the bronze medal match.

“I had to adapt my style of play,” she explained. “I couldn’t lift my left

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arm and I couldn’t move my thumb.

I had to get my body in front of everything and couldn’t control the ball like I was used to, but my team really backed me up.”

Good grew up in Red Deer, playing minor soccer and eventually joined the Major League Renegades and the Queens. She played two years with RDC before joining the University of Calgary Dinos for two seasons.

In her first season with the Dinos she received a concussion in her second game and was out for the remainder of the season. She applied to get

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that eligibility back and it was granted giving her two years at RDC. “My second year there I played and started all the games but there and played in the playoffs,” she explained.

She received her degree in kinesiology and decided to return to RDC for the 2014-15 season to take education.

“I also wanted to finish my eligibility off back at my old stomping grounds,” she said with a laugh. “I had so much fun with this program and a lot of the girls I knew were still here.

I also knew Dave (head coach Colley) and Moria (Duley) is one of my best friends and we’ve played together our whole lives.”

Duley was an assistant coach with the Queens this season and also coached the Renegades U14 Tier I team with Good.

“I want to continue on with soccer as long as I can and I hope to be part of the RDC program if Dave will allow me to be,” she said, adding there’s something special about the RDC program.

“The university team has more depth and there’s always players behind you pushing you. The college is smaller but the group at RDC is much closer. There are no cliques …l we were a close knit group. This group was so much fun to be with.

“Krysten (Strand) and I played together for two years in Calgary and she came here this year and loved it.

She said it made her fall in love with soccer all over again. The team made her feel so welcome. That’s a good way to recruit.”

Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog.

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B6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015

Mistake costs Raptors win against Knicks

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Knicks 111 Raptors 109 TORONTO — For a large chunk of 48 minutes Tuesday night, the Toronto Raptors didn’t deserve to win.

But in a controversial final 23 seconds, the Raptors, coach Dwane Casey, and a legion of fans that took to Twitter to voice their outrage, argued they did.

The Raptors dropped a 111-109 decision to the New York Knicks, and much of the post-game buzz was about a botched call.

With the Raptors trailing just 106105 with 22.8 seconds left, Carmelo Anthony stepped out of bounds while holding the ball, directly in front of the Raptors bench. The officials didn’t see it at the time.

“I saw it with my own eyes right in front of me, but again, it’s a tough game to officiate,” said Casey, who hollered at the officials, arms raised in fury, when the incident happened. “I wouldn’t say anything if he wasn’t right there in front of me.”

The NBA’s lead official for the game Ed Malloy told a pool reporter that they’d made a mistake.

“We came in, we reviewed the play. We did see Anthony step out of bounds, and should’ve awarded the ball to Toronto,” Malloy said.

While Casey argued the Raptors were trapping Anthony, not looking for a foul, Lowry was called for a foul on the play. And so, instead of the Raptors taking possession, New York’s Lance Thomas went to the line and drained two free throws.

DeMar DeRozan, who scored a game-high 29 points, was hesitant to say much about the play.

Asked what he saw, DeRozan said “Same thing everybody else seen.”

Anthony, led the Knicks (4-4) with 25 points, told reporters he didn’t want to see a replay.

“I’m getting out of here,” he said.

“Ain’t no need for me to look back and watch it, it’s over with. I don’t even know if I did it. Probably, but we’re getting out of here with the win.”

Kyle Lowry had 23 points, nine assists and seven rebounds for Toronto (5-3). Jonas Valanciunas had 16 points and nine boards, and Cory Joseph chipped in with 12 points, including a three with 1.5 seconds left.

Luis Scola added 11 points for a Raptors team missing both DeMarre Carroll (plantar fasciitis) and Terrence Ross (injured thumb).

After Toronto raced out to a franchise-record five straight wins to start the season, the Raptors promptly dropped two games in Florida, including Sunday’s 96-76 rout by the Heat on Sunday in Miami.

They had hoped to turn things around in the friendly confines of the Air Canada Centre. But it was the Knicks who led for most of the night, and were up by 13 points early in the third quarter.

The game went into the fourth tied at 85-85 in front of a sellout crowd of 19,800 fans, but the Knicks held the lead for most of the final frame and were up by five with a minute to play.

DeRozan missed on a layup with six seconds left that would have tied the game, and Thomas had a pair of free throws for the Knicks that sealed Toronto’s fate.

“All night there were a lot of things we were definitely frustrated about,” DeRozan said. “We still had a chance to pull it out… Just combination of things.”

The Raptors say there’s no timetable for Ross’s return after he sustained ligament damage in his thumb during a workout Monday. Ross, wearing a purple brace on his left thumb, said he could be back as quickly as two weeks.

The Raptors opened with one of their worst quarters of the season, shooting just 6 for 18 to trail 24-17 heading into the second.

After scoring just a point in the

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Toronto Raptors forward James Johnson (3) and New York Knicks guard Sasha Vujacic (18) battle for a loose ball during NBA action in Toronto, Tuesday.

Canada’s roster is starting to take Local charities benefit from shape for World Cup of Hockey Glencross

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — When Canada’s World Cup management team met this week, each member of the staff again came with a 23-man roster. Again there were 11 players on every list.

It’s not hard to assume goaltender Carey Price, defencemen Drew Doughty, Shea Weber and Duncan Keith and forwards Jonathan Toews, Sidney Crosby, John Tavares, Jamie Benn, Patrice Bergeron, Steven Stamkos and Tyler Seguin are gimmes to make the team. Now comes the tough job of filling out the other 12 spots.

“I think the (top) 16 is not going to be overly debated,” Canadian general manager Doug Armstrong said.

“I think the really hard decision for Hockey Canada comes because of the depth of our player pool is that 17 through 23.”

Canada is further along in its roster-construction process than the United States or the 23-and-under Team North America. It helps to have a deep foundation from the undefeated, gold-medal-winning Sochi Olympic team, though Stamkos and Seguin warrant inclusion.

Armstrong, who’s being assisted by Ken Holland, Bob Murray, Marc Bergevin and Rob Blake, also pointed to a handful of off-the-radar players who have forced their way into the discussion. “(Tyler) Toffoli in Los Angeles is playing very well, (Jake) Muzzin in Los

Angeles is playing very well, (Mark) Stone in Ottawa’s a very good player, (Brendan) Gallagher in Montreal,” Armstrong said. “Now what we’re going to do as a group is really hone in on probably that list of 14 or 15 guys that are going to make our final part of our roster and really get a chance to watch these guys.”

Mike Babcock and his coaching staff haven’t had input yet, but they will.

“If the coaching staff doesn’t see a fit for the player, then we’re basically picking a 22-man roster instead of a 23-man roster,” Armstrong said. “So we want to make sure that Mike and his staff share the same vision of why these guys are on the team.”

U.S. general manager Dean Lombardi, who was set to meet with his lieutenants Tuesday night, is taking a more patient approach to putting the pieces together. He said the U.S. was still in the “formative stages” after a summer of planning.

One thing seems clear: the U.S. won’t bring back the same team that finished fourth in Sochi. There’s a new sheriff in town in coach John Tortorella, and the team will look much different.

“I think there’s a definite trend towards having a bit of a turnover,” Lombardi said. “Not only with the players but with the players that will be back in assuming a more hands-on leadership role.”

Lombardi wants Zach Parise, Ryan Suter and Ryan McDonagh to assume those bigger leadership roles.

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Team WHL rallies past Russia 4-2 in Game 2 of annual junior exhibition series

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Deven Sideroff, Jayce Hawryluk and Brett Pollock — into an empty net — all scored as Team WHL rallied past Russia 4-2 on Tuesday in Game 2 of the Canadian Hockey League’s annual exhibition series with

Leadership may be an issue for the younger Team North America.

“I have a sense of who the guys will be to form this kind of leadership group,” co-GM Peter Chiarelli said.

“We’ve got some of the older candidates, but I don’t know how they will lead. Maybe you just let it evolve just because they’re young, they’re enthusiastic and they can get things going in a hurry.”

Team North America will soon name the rest of its coaching staff to work under Todd McLellan, Chiarelli said. As far as players go, there are some no-doubters like Connor McDavid and Jack Eichel, but many others like Max Domi and Anthony Duclair have stood out.

Because of the variance of young players, Chiarelli estimated that 60 per cent of his roster is pretty much decided and the rest will go down to the wire.

Teams must name 16 players, including two goaltenders, by March 1 and the final seven by June 1.

McDavid and Nathan MacKinnon are among the young players not available to Canada, something Armstrong implied was something of a relief.

“I don’t have to worry about Connor McDavid, and I’m sure he would’ve been a player we would really hone in on, and we don’t have to worry about that now,” Armstrong said.

Eichel, Brandon Saad, Alex Galchenyuk, Seth Jones and Jacob Trouba won’t be available for the U.S., which could hurt that team.

the European hockey power.

Jansen Harkins opened scoring for Team WHL, which won both of its games against the team of Russian all-stars.

Adin Hill made 17 saves for the win.

Sergey Zborovskiy and Egor Yakovlev both scored in the second period to give Russia a 2-1 lead. Maxim Tretiak stopped 35-of-38 shots in net for the visitors.

Sideroff tied the game 2-2 for the WHL all-stars at the 11:19 mark of the second period. Hawryluk had the winner at the 16:47 mark of the third before Pollock added some insurance with 17 second left to play.

Neither team scored on their one power play.

Russia will play the Ontario Hockey League’s all-stars on Thursday in Owen Sound, Ont.

rodeo event proceeds

BY HOCKEY ALBERTA SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE More than $200,000 was raised in support of two worthwhile Red Deer organizations at the annual Glencross Invitational Charity Roughstock Rodeo and Poker event held in August.

Curtis Glencross, and representatives from the event, were in attendance Monday to present cheques to the two beneficiaries of the event — Ronald McDonald House Charities Central Alberta and the Hockey Alberta Foundation’s Every Kid Every Community program.

“The Fourth Annual Glencross Invitational was a great success again this year” said Glencross. “We indeed have loyal support. The rodeo and evening concert was great entertainment and a perfect way to spend your Friday night. I would like to thank all of our loyal sponsors.”

The charity poker and rodeo was held Aug. 20-21, with all proceeds – a total of $226,000 — donated to the two organizations. A total of $90,400 directed to the Hockey Alberta Foundation and $135,600 to Ronald McDonald House Central Alberta. With this year’s contribution, the event has now surpassed the $1,000,000 mark in its four-year history.

“It costs $1.2 million to operate the House every year,” said Larry Mathieson, CEO, Ronald McDonald House Charities Southern & Central Alberta.

“Without the fundraising support of the community, corporations and individuals like Curtis Glencross, we wouldn’t be able to meet those annual goals.

“Today’s donation will help us to continue to provide a home away from home for families from rural communities surrounding Red Deer with sick children in the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.”

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Wednesday’s games 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’s games 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.

Saturday, November 14 Red Deer at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Lethbridge at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Tri-City at Calgary, 7 p.m.

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

Edmonton at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Portland at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Swift Current at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Kelowna at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Seattle at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday, November 15 Lethbridge at Regina, 3 p.m.

Prince Albert at Brandon, 3 p.m.

Tuesday’s summary WHL 4, Russia 2 First Period No scoring Penalties - WHL- Ryan Gropp, cross-checking, 6:47 Second Period 1. WHL- Jansen Harkins (2) (Brayden Point, Reid Gardiner), 3:24 2. RUS- Sergey Zborovskiy (1) (Nikita Yazkov), 9:55 3. RUS- Egor Yakovlev (1) (Arkhip Nekolenko), 10:38 4. WHL- Deven Sideroff (1) (Mathew Barzal, Collin Shirley), 11:19 Penalties - RUS- Yakovlev, interference, 12:12 Third Period 5. WHL- Jayce Hawryluk (1) unassisted, 16:47.

6. WHL- Brett Pollock (1) (Hawryluk), 19:43 (en).

Penalties - WHL- Sideroff, roughing, 4:32.

RUS- Andrey Svetlakov, roughing, 4:32.

Shots on goal Russia 6 9 4 — 19 WHL 9 18 12 — 39 Goal - WHL Adin Hill (17 saves-19 shots), RUS Maxim Tretiak (35-39) Power plays (goals-chances) — WHL 0/1, RUS 0/1 Attendance — 5,278 at Kamloops. B.C. National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Montreal 16 13 2 1 27 Detroit 15 8 6 1 17 Ottawa 15 7 5 3 17 Tampa Bay 17 7 8 2 16 Boston 14 7 6 1 15 Florida 15 6 6 3 15 Buffalo 15 7 8 0 14 Toronto 15 3 8 4 10

GF GA 59 29 34 36 47 49 39 42 47 45 41 38 36 42 32 47

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts N.Y. Rangers 15 11 2 2 24 Washington 14 10 4 0 20 Pittsburgh 14 9 5 0 18 N.Y. Islanders 15 7 5 3 17 New Jersey 15 8 6 1 17 Philadelphia 15 5 7 3 13 Carolina 15 6 9 0 12 Columbus 16 4 12 0 8

GF GA 45 25 43 32 31 28 40 37 37 38 28 43 30 43 38 59

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Dallas 16 12 4 0 24 St. Louis 15 11 3 1 23 Minnesota 14 9 3 2 20 Nashville 14 9 3 2 20 Winnipeg 16 8 6 2 18 Chicago 15 8 6 1 17 Colorado 15 5 9 1 11

GF GA 56 42 42 31 43 38 42 36 45 46 39 38 40 42

Vancouver Los Angeles

Pacific Division GP W L OT 16 7 4 5 14 9 5 0

Pts 19 18

GF GA 48 39 35 29

Arizona 14 7 6 1 15 39 41 San Jose 14 7 7 0 14 38 36 Anaheim 15 5 7 3 13 25 37 Calgary 16 5 10 1 11 40 63 Edmonton 15 5 10 0 10 39 47 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

y-Ottawa x-Hamilton x-Toronto Montreal

CFL East Division W L T 12 6 0 10 8 0 10 8 0 6 12 0

PF 464 530 438 388

PA 454 391 499 402

Pt 24 20 20 12

Jackson, Ott Sinopoli, Ott Sinkfield, Ham R.Smith, Sask Dressler, Sask Moore, Wpg

84 86 69 59 70 76

1036 1035 1030 991 941 899

12.3 12.0 14.9 16.8 13.4 11.8

55 41 87 68 79 64

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

• Peewee AA hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer Parkland, 6 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

• WHL: Red Deer at Regina, 6 p.m. (The Drive).

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

• AJHL: Brooks at Olds, 7 p.m.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.; Banff at Three Hills, 8 p.m.

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

• Chinook senior AAA hockey: Stony Plain at Bentley, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Montreal at Pittsburgh, 5:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Colorado at Boston, 5 p.m.

St. Louis at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Vancouver at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

Calgary at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Toronto at Nashville, 6 p.m.

New Jersey at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Winnipeg at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Arizona, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s summary Panthers 4, Flames 3 First Period 1. Florida, Trocheck 6 (Jokinen, Campbell) 5:16 (pp).

2. Calgary, Jones 4 (Colborne) 7:13.

3. Florida, Smith 5 (Jokinen, Petrovic) 15:43.

Penalties — Jooris Cgy (boarding) 2:06, Mackenzie Fla (fighting) 4:31, Jooris Cgy (fighting) 4:31, Russell Cgy (interference) 4:54.

Second Period 4. Florida, Ekblad 2 (Jagr, Huberdeau) 3:53.

5. Calgary, Jones 5 (Stajan, Engelland) 6:35.

6. Calgary, Monahan 4 (Hudler, Brodie) 18:32 (pp).

Penalties — Huberdeau Fla (tripping) 17:36.

Third Period 7. Florida, Jagr 7 (unassisted) 8:11.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Calgary 9 12 7 — 28 Florida 11 11 9 — 31 Goal — Calgary: Ramo (L, 3-5-0) Florida: Luongo (W, 4-5-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Calgary: 1-1 Florida: 1-2.

PASSING West Division GP W L T PF PA Pt y-Edmonton 18 14 4 0 466 341 28 x-Calgary 18 14 4 0 478 346 28 x-B.C. 18 7 11 0 437 486 14 Winnipeg 18 5 13 0 353 502 10 Saskatchewan 18 3 15 0 430 563 6 x — clinched playoff berth y — clinched division.

CFL PLAYOFFS Sunday, Nov. 15 Division Semifinals East Division Toronto at Hamilton, 11 a.m.

West Division B.C. at Calgary, 2:30 p.m.

Medlock, Ham Paredes, Cgy Bede, Mtl Leone, BC McCallum, Sas Whyte, Edm Hajrullahu, Wpg Shaw, Edm Pfeffer, Ott

Yds 1059 1039 826 636 633 622 614 574 454 448

Avg 5.9 4.7 6.1 5.3 5.6 5.4 4.4 6.2 5.5 4.6

L 54 33 53 59 6.9 26 26 47 50 35

Yds 1448 1304 1214 1151 1110 1071 1066 1038 1036

Avg 16.6 14.0 13.8 15.1 12.5 15.5 14.0 12.1 14.6

L 49 69 84 82 62 53 64 63 51

RECEIVING No 87 93 88 76 89 69 76 86 71

A 47 47 40 39 36 26 32 24 16

M 42 41 36 30 29 24 22 21 12

L 57 51 52 56 50 53 53 44 52

Yards 7352 6946 6822 6640 6621 6235 6135 5968 5691

Pass 5816 4796 4924 4902 5148 4850 4059 4504 4165

Rush 1536 2150 1898 1738 1473 1385 2076 1464 1526

TEAM OFFENCE (Yardage includes losses)

Sunday, Nov. 29 103rd Grey Cup At Winnipeg East vs. West Champions, 4 p.m.

Rogers, Cgy Bowman, Edm Williams, Ott Arceneaux, BC Walker, Edm Ellingson, Ott Tasker, Ham McDaniel, Cgy Green, Mtl

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FIELD GOALS

Sunday, Nov. 22 Division Finals East Division Hamilton-Toronto winner at Ottawa, 11 a.m.

West Division Calgary-B.C. winner at Edmonton, 2:30 p.m.

Final 2015 CFL statistics RUSHING C Sutton, Mtl 180 Harris, BC 222 Messam, Cgy 135 Whitaker, Tor 121 Bell, Edm 113 Cornish, Cgy 115 Marshall, Wpg 141 Allen, Sask 92 Rutley, Mtl 83 Je.Johnson, Ott 97

C Burris, Ott 678 Mitchell, Cgy 555 Harris, Tor 538 Collaros, Ham 359 Reilly, Edm 329 Glenn, Mtl 257 Cato, Mtl 251 Jennings, BC 215 Lulay, BC 266 B.Smith, Sask 224

Ottawa Saskatchewan Edmonton Calgary Hamilton Toronto Montreal B.C. Winnipeg

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 8 0 0 1.000 276 N.Y. Jets 5 3 0 .625 200 Buffalo 4 4 0 .500 209 Miami 3 5 0 .375 171 South W L T Pct PF Indianapolis 4 5 0 .444 200 Houston 3 5 0 .375 174 Jacksonville 2 6 0 .250 170 Tennessee 2 6 0 .250 159 North W L T Pct PF Cincinnati 8 0 0 1.000 229

PA 143 162 190 206 PA 227 205 235 187

Denver Oakland Kansas City San Diego

5 2 2 W 7 4 3 2

4 0 6 0 7 0 West L T 1 0 4 0 5 0 7 0

.556 .250 .222 Pct .875 .500 .375 .222

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct N.Y. Giants 5 4 0 .556 Philadelphia 4 4 0 .500 Washington 3 5 0 .375 Dallas 2 6 0 .250 South W L T Pct Carolina 8 0 0 1.000 Atlanta 6 3 0 .667 New Orleans 4 5 0 .444 Tampa Bay 3 5 0 .375 North W L T Pct Minnesota 6 2 0 .750 Green Bay 6 2 0 .750 Chicago 3 5 0 .375 Detroit 1 7 0 .125 West W L T Pct Arizona 6 2 0 .750 St. Louis 4 4 0 .500 Seattle 4 4 0 .500 San Francisco 3 6 0 .333

206 190 177

182 214 247

PF 192 213 195 210

PA 139 211 182 249

PF 247 193 158 160

PA 226 164 195 204

PF 228 229 241 181

PA 165 190 268 231

PF 168 203 162 149

PA 140 167 221 245

PF 263 153 167 126

PA 153 146 140 223

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Assigned F Kenton Helgeson from San Diego (AHL) to Utah (ECHL).

DALLAS COWBOYS — Waived QB Kellen Moore.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Placed G Carter Hutton on injured reserve. Recalled F Colton Sissons from Milwaukee (AHL).

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended San Antonio LW Patrick Bordeleau three games, Syracuse C Tanner Richard two games and Albany C Blake Coleman and Providence D Tommy Cross one game.

CHARLOTTE CHECKERS — Assigned D Justin Agosta to Florida (ECHL).

HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Assigned G Jeff Malcolm to Greenville (ECHL).

FORT WAYNE KOMETS — Signed F Nikita

Thursday, Nov. 12 Buffalo at N.Y. Jets, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 15 Detroit at Green Bay, 11 a.m.

Carolina at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Chicago at St. Louis, 11 a.m.

Dallas at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.

New Orleans at Washington, 11 a.m.

Miami at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

Minnesota at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Denver, 2:25 p.m.

New England at N.Y. Giants, 2:25 p.m.

Arizona at Seattle, 6:30 p.m.

Open: Atlanta, Indianapolis, San Diego, San Francisco Monday, Nov. 16 Houston at Cincinnati, 6:30 p.m.

PA 142

Kashirsky.

HERSHEY BEARS — Assigned F Austin Fyten to South Carolina (ECHL).

ONTARIO REIGN — Returned F Kenton Miller to Wichita (ECHL).

PROVIDENCE BRUINS — Signed F Garry Nunn to a professional tryout agreement. Recalled F Eric Neiley from Atlanta (ECHL).

SYRACUSE CRUNCH — Recalled D Charlie Dodero from Greenville (ECHL).

UTICA COMETS — Assigned G Clay Witt to Kalamazoo (ECHL).

ECHL INDY FUEL — Released D Dave Pszenyczny.

KALAMAZOO WINGS — Released G Ryan DeMelo.

ORLANDO SOLAR BEARS — Released G Matt Grogan. Added G Bobby Fowler as emergency backup.

UTAH GRIZZLIES — Released F Alexander Mac-

CATALINA SWIM CLUB Red Deer Catalina swimmers snared 74 medals in three separate meets during the weekend, including nine gold in the Rocky Mountain Cup at Calgary.

Rebecca Smith was dominant in her division, striking gold in the 50-metre, 100m and 200m freestyle, as well as the 50m butterfly and 100m individual medley events. She also set new provincial records in the 15-year-old girls 50m and 100m free and meet records in both events as well as the 200m free.

Elizabeth Moore won gold in the 100m breaststroke and established a new Canadian Summer Championships qualifying time in the event, and Josh Young was golden in the 50m, 100m and 200m breast.

Other Rocky Mountain Cup Catalina medal winners: Silver — Kyla Leibel, 400m free; Ryan Mah, 50m breast; Moore, 50m and 200m breast; Justin Valentine, 50m backstroke; Young, 200m I.M. Bronze — Leibel, 50m ‘fly; Mah, 50m ‘fly, 100m breast; Moore, 200m I.M.; Smith, 100m ‘fly; Young, 400m free; mixed 4x50m free relay (Daniel Stayer, Young, Leibel, Smith); mixed 4x50 medley relay (Stayer, Young, Leibel, Smith); men’s 4x50m medley relay (Young, Mah, Stayer, Valentine).

• Cascade Speed meet at Calgary: Gold — Kyla Leibel, 200m back; Elizabeth Moore, 100m breast; Rebecca Smith, 200m free, 800m free; Josh Young, 100m breast; 4x50m

Saturday • Peewee AA hockey: Okotoks Green at Red Deer TBS, 12:30 p.m., Kinsmen A; Taber at West Central, 5:30 p.m., Sylvan Lake.

• College volleyball: Olds at RDC, women at 1 p.m., men to follow.

• Bantam football: Calgary Mavericks at Hunting Hills, provincial tier 2 semifinal, 1 p.m., Great Chief Park.

• Midget AA hockey: Okotoks Green at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 2 p.m., Arena; Airdrie at West Central, 8 p.m., Sylvan

Millan.

BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Named Gordon Edes strategic communications advisor for Fenway Sports Group and Red Sox team historian.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Named Rick Renteria bench coach and Greg Sparks assistant hitting coach.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Assigned 2B Ryan Jackson outright to Salt Lake (PCL).

MINNESOTA TWINS — Traded C Chris Herrmann to Arizona for OF Daniel Palka.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Named Manny Acta third base coach.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MIAMI HEAT — Traded G Mario Chalmers and F James Ennis to Memphis for G Beno Udrih and F Jarnell Stokes.

mixed medley relay, 15 and over (Young, Rebecca Smith, Ryan Mah, Madalyn Smith).

Silver — Lauren Bettenson, 50m back, 50m free; 4x50m free relay (Leibel, Moore, Claire Halford, Tanille Collicutt).

Bronze — 4x50m mixed medley relay, 14 and under (Justin Valentine, Moore, Leibel, Dylan MacDermaid).

New Age Group National and Western qualifier – Leibel, 200m back.

New Provincial “A” qualifier – Lauren Bettenson, 50m back.

• Silver Tide Poppy Invitational at Edmonton: Gold — Dalton Powell, 100m free, 400m free, 25m ‘fly; 100m I.M.; Laina Powell, 50m back, 50m ‘fly; Ocean Roos, 200m free, 50m ‘fly; River Roos, 50m breast, 400m free; Kaillen Sumang, 25m free.

Silver — Brooklyn Weins, 50m ‘fly; Dalton Powell, 50m ‘fly; Ocean Roos, 400m free; River Roos, 200m free, 200m I.M., 50m free, 100m free; Sumang, 100m free, 25m ‘fly, 25m breast; Cooper Waddle, 50m breast; Madisson Young, 200m free, 400m free.

Bronze — Emalee Broen, 50m ‘fly; Camila Chacon, 50m breast; Hidde Guerts, 100m ‘fly; Delaney Lehman, 50m free; Chayce Moon, 200m free; Dalton Powell, 25m breast; Laina Powell, 400m free, 100m ‘fly; Reef Roos, 25m back; Ocean Roos, 100m ‘fly; River Roos, 50m ‘fly; Waddle, 50m back, 400m free, 100m breast.

New provincial meet qualifiers (MQT) — Brooklyn Young, 200m I.M.; Weins, 200m I.M.; Dalton Powell, 100m I.M., 400m free.

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• Bantam AA hockey: Okotoks at Red Deer Ramada, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; West Central at Red Deer Steel Kings, 3 p.m., Kinsmen A. • Midget AAA hockey: Edmonton K of C at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Arena.

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

• WHL: Red Deer at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

(The Drive).

• Heritage junior B hockey: Ponoka at Red Deer, 6:45 p.m., Arena.

• Major bantam girls hockey: Peace Country at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Cochrane at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m.; Okotoks at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; High River at Ponoka, 8 p.m.; Medicine Hat at Three Hills, 8 p.m.

Sunday • Major bantam girls hockey: Peace Country at Red Deer, 10 a.m., Collicutt Centre.

• Peewee AA hockey: Okotoks Black at Red Deer TBS, 11:30 a.m., Kinsmen A; Okotoks Green at Stettler, 2 p.m.

• Midget AAA hockey: Edmonton Maple Leafs at Red Deer, 3 p.m., Arena.

• Midget AA hockey: Medicine Hat at Red Deer Elks, noon, Arena.

• Bantam AA hockey: Okotoks at Red Deer Steel Kings, 1:45 p.m., Kinsmen A; Bow Valley at West Central, 3:30 p.m., Caroline.

• Men’s basketball: Grandview vs.

Monstars, Carstar vs. NWS, Johns Manville vs. Silver Spurs, 4:15 p.m.; Chillabongs vs. Washed Up Warriors, Sheraton Red Deer vs. Lacombe All Sports Cresting, BTown Maple Jordans vs.

Rusty Chuckers, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 5 3 .625 — New York 4 4 .500 1 Boston 3 3 .500 1 Brooklyn 0 7 .000 4 1/2 Philadelphia 0 7 .000 4 1/2

Atlanta Miami Washington Charlotte Orlando

Southeast Division W L Pct 7 2 .778 5 3 .625 3 4 .429 3 4 .429 3 5 .375

GB — 1 1/2 3 3 3 1/2

Cleveland Detroit Chicago Indiana Milwaukee

Central Division W L Pct 7 1 .875 5 2 .714 5 3 .625 4 4 .500 4 4 .500

GB — 1 1/2 2 3 3

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 5 2 .714 — Houston 4 3 .571 1 Dallas 3 4 .429 2 Memphis 3 5 .375 2 1/2 New Orleans 1 6 .143 4

Oklahoma City Minnesota Utah Portland Denver

Northwest Division W L Pct 5 3 .625 4 3 .571 4 3 .571 4 4 .500 3 4 .429

GB — 1/2 1/2 1 1 1/2

Monday’s Game Chicago 22, San Diego 19

Transactions Tuesday’s Sports Transactions

• WHL: Red Deer at Brandon, 3 p.m. (The Drive).

• Men’s basketball: Vikings vs. Wells Furniture, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs. Henry’s Eavestroughing, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Tuesday’s Games St. Louis 2, New Jersey 0 N.Y. Rangers 3, Carolina 0 Colorado 4, Philadelphia 0 Vancouver 5, Columbus 3 Detroit 1, Washington 0 Buffalo 4, Tampa Bay 1 Florida 4, Calgary 3 Nashville 7, Ottawa 5 Minnesota 5, Winnipeg 3 Toronto 3, Dallas 2 Arizona at Los Angeles, late N.Y. Islanders at San Jose, late

Pittsburgh Baltimore Cleveland

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Monday’s Games Arizona 4, Anaheim 3, OT

Football GP 18 18 18 18

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WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Prince Albert 19 12 5 1 1 68 60 Brandon 18 11 5 0 2 68 50 Moose Jaw 18 10 5 2 1 72 56 Saskatoon 18 8 7 3 0 62 71 Swift Current 18 8 8 2 0 48 52 Regina 16 7 8 1 0 41 58

Red Deer Lethbridge Calgary Edmonton Medicine Hat Kootenay

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

Pacific Division W L Pct 8 0 1.000 5 2 .714 3 4 .429 1 6 .143 1 7 .125

GB — 2 1/2 4 1/2 6 1/2 7

Monday’s Games Indiana 97, Orlando 84 Chicago 111, Philadelphia 88 Minnesota 117, Atlanta 107 Denver 108, Portland 104 San Antonio 106, Sacramento 88 Golden State 109, Detroit 95 L.A. Clippers 94, Memphis 92 Tuesday’s Games Cleveland 118, Utah 114 Oklahoma City 125, Washington 101 New York 111, Toronto 109 Miami 101, L.A. Lakers 88 Charlotte 104, Minnesota 95 New Orleans 120, Dallas 105 Boston 99, Milwaukee 83 Wednesday’s Games Toronto at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Orlando, 5 p.m.

New York at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Indiana at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Golden State at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Brooklyn at Houston, 6 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Dallas, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

Milwaukee at Denver, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Utah at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Golden State at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Phoenix, 8:30 p.m.

Curling 2016 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship At Toronto Preliminary Round Pool A Province (Skip) W L Alberta (Lizmore) 4 0 Nova Scotia (MacKenzie) 3 1 Northern Ont. (Koivula) 2 2 Saskatchewan (Korte) 2 2 P.E.I. (MacKenzie) 1 3 British Columbia (Joanisse) 1 3 Nfld & Labrador (Ford) 1 3 Pool B Province New Brunswick (Sullivan) Northwest Terr. (Moss) Manitoba (Sigurdson) Quebec (Elmaleh) Ontario (McLean) Yukon (Smallwood) Nunavut (Macdonald)

W 3 3 2 2 2 2 0

L 1 1 2 2 2 2 4

Tuesday’s results Fourth Draw Manitoba 10 Ontario 6 Quebec 8 Nunavut 4 Alberta 6 Saskatchewan 4 P.E.I. 6 British Columbia 5 Fifth Draw New Brunswick 4 Quebec 3 Northern Ontario 5 Newfoundland & Labrador 4 (ee) Northwest Territories 6 Manitoba 4 (ee) Yukon 13 Nunavut 2 Saskatchewan 7 Nova Scotia 2 Sixth Draw Alberta 6 Newfoundland & Labrador 1 New Brunswick 7 Northwest Territories 3 Nova Scotia 6 British Columbia 5 (ee) Northern Ontario 5 P.E.I. 4 Yukon 7 Ontario 6 Monday’s results Second Draw Alberta 6 British Columbia 4 Northwest Territories 5 Yukon 3 Nova Scotia 9 P.E.I. 2 Ontario 7 New Brunswick 5 Third Draw New Brunswick 6 Manitoba 3 Newfoundland & Labrador 5 Saskatchewan 3 Northwest Territories 11 Nunavut 2 Nova Scotia 6 Northern Ontario 4 Quebec 7 Yukon 2 Wednesday’s games Seventh Draw, 8 a.m.

Nunavut vs. Manitoba Saskatchewan vs. Northern Ontario Newfoundland & Labrador vs. Nova Scotia Northwest Territories vs. Quebec Eighth Draw, 12:30 p.m.

British Columbia vs. Northern Ontario Nova Scotia vs. Alberta Northwest Territories vs. Ontario Newfoundland & Labrador vs. P.E.I. Ninth Draw, 5 p.m.

Manitoba vs. Yukon Ontario vs. Quebec P.E.I. vs. Alberta British Columbia vs. Saskatchewan Nunavut vs. New Brunswick

The National OSHAWA, Ont. — Schedule for the National, part of the 2015-16 Grand Slam of Curling: ROUND ROBIN MEN Tuesday’s results First Draw Koe 6 Laycock 4 Jacobs 9 Michel 1 Wednesday’s games Second Draw, 6:30 a.m.

Howard vs. Shuster Third Draw, 10 a.m.

Koe vs. Ulsrud Carruthers vs. Epping Edin vs. Simmons Fourth Draw, 1:30 p.m.

McEwen vs. Shuster Bottcher vs. Michel Laycock vs. Gushue Fifth Draw, 5:30 p.m.

Howard vs. Carruthers Jacobs vs. Edin Menard vs. Ulsrud Thursday’s games Sixth Draw, 6:30 a.m.

Bottcher vs. Simmons Seventh Draw, 10 a.m.

Edin vs. Michel Epping vs. McEwen Gushue vs. Koe Carruthers vs. Shuster Eighth Draw, 1:30 p.m.

Jacobs vs. Bottcher Laycock vs. Ulsrud Ninth Draw, 5:30 p.m.

Simmons vs. Michel Epping vs. Howard Gushue vs. Menard WOMEN Tuesday’s results First Draw Homan 6 Hasselborg 1 Wednesday’s games Second Draw, 6:30 a.m.

Carey vs. Einarson Sweeting vs. McDonald Tirinzoni vs. Lawton Rocque vs. Hasselborg Third Draw, 10 a.m.

Fleury vs. Kim Jones vs. Hastings Fourth Draw, 5:30 p.m.

Fleury vs. Middaugh Lawton vs. McDonald Thursday’s games Fifth Draw, 6:30 a.m.

Middaugh vs. Hastings (rescheduled from Tuesday) Jones vs. Kim McDonald vs. Sinclair Carey vs. Rocque Sixth Draw, 10 a.m.

Einarson vs. Homan Seventh Draw, 1:30 p.m.

Fleury vs. Hastings Sweeting vs. Tirinzoni

JUNIOR GOLF Red Deer’s Carter Graf was crowned Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour bantam boys national champion Monday after carding a second-round 70 in the final event of the year at Kissimmee, Fla. Graf, 14, opened the 36-hole event with a 78 and finished with a 148 total, six strokes better than first-round leader Dylan Henderson of Waterloo, Ont. (71-83—154). He accepted his award from PGA Tour veteran Retief Goosen.

“I drove the ball in the fairway often which set me up for good approach shots for birdie,” said Graf, in reference to his second-round charge. “This is a tournament full of good players and (my win) proves I can compete and that all the dedication paid off.”

Graf also won one of five Golf Town comeback awards for best second-day improvement.

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LLOYD Larissa 1973 - 2015 It is with great sadness that we mourn the loss of our beloved “Risi”. She passed away on November 4th, 2015 leaving behind her loving husband Glenn Lloyd, daughters Robyn Lloyd and Arynn Lloyd, her sister Olga Selikhanova and her niece Leera Selikhanova. She lived her life and touched the world in such a special way that she brought light and happiness to all that were around her. The wonderful things she brought to this world will live on through the love and caring she spread to all of those who knew her.

Our memories and love for her we will cherish forever, we love you Risi.

THEVENAZ Nov. 11, 2005.

In memory of Michel (Mitch) We have lost, Heaven has gained, The most wonderful Dad this world contained.

There’s just one thing makes us glad, God chose you to be our Dad. Love, David, Brenda and family Maurice, Valerie and family.

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To family and friends, you are cordially invited to a Surprise 90th Birthday Party for November 21, 2015 from 1:00 - 5:00 at 2300 Danielle Dr., Davenport Place, Red Deer, AB. No gifts please, but we will accept donations towards a surprise trip for Mom.

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DOBSON/WILLIAMS In loving memory of: Greg Dobson Nov. 11, 2010 Heather Williams Jan. 13, 2012 Gone are the days we used to share But in our hearts you’re always there Never more than a thought away Loved and remembered every day.

Forever loved and sadly missed by Ross, Corrie, Carey, Jim, Judy, Barb and families

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Split on youth appreciation of vets POLL FINDS CANADIANS SPLIT ON WHETHER YOUTH APPRECIATE VETERANS ENOUGH

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canadians overwhelmingly find Remembrance Day as relevant today as when it began nearly a century ago, but are split on whether younger generations properly appreciate and honour the country’s veterans, according to a new survey released days before the ceremony.

The poll commissioned by Historica Canada found that 82 per cent of Canadians believe the annual tribute is as important now as it was shortly after the First World War. Only slightly more than half (54 per cent), however, feel today’s youth “do a good job” of honouring veterans, and slightly fewer than half (46 per cent) think young people understand the sacrifices of those who have died in conflict.

Even those under 35 are torn, with only 54 per cent saying young people recognize veterans’ sacrifices — in itself a sign of engagement, Historica Canada’s president said.

“When the answer among

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Retired lieutenant-general Richard Evraire walks among tombstones in the National Military Cemetery of the Canadian Forces in Ottawa, a day before Remembrance Day, on Tuesday. youth themselves is split as to whether they sufficiently care or not, if you’re saying ‘Yeah, I don’t actually know if I care as much as I should,’ in effect you’re really saying, ‘I do care because I’ve taken the trouble to think about that,”’ Anthony Wilson-Smith said.

Overall, the importance Canadians attribute to the Nov. 11 commemoration has risen slightly in the decade that His-

torica Canada has been polling on the topic, Wilson-Smith said.

“The further that we get from (the Second World War)…the more reason there would seem to be for interest to lessen, but actually I think there’s a tremendous awareness among all Canadians that our veterans from that war in particular are now generally in their 90s, it’s an open ques-

tion as to how much longer we will have them and their memories and the ability to celebrate them while they’re here.”

Wearing a poppy remains the most popular way for Canadians to mark the event, with 79 per cent of respondents saying they will don one of the traditional pins.

More than 77 per cent say they will observe two minutes

of silence at 11 a.m. on Remembrance Day, and 32 per cent say they will attend a service.

But many say they would support other ways to pay tribute to those who have fought for their country. Eighty per cent say Canada should build a memorial similar to the Vietnam War monument in Washington, D.C., which would bear the names of all Canadian military personnel who died in combat during modern times.

And the vast majority (91 per cent) believe Canada should do more to honour its veterans.

Support for making Remembrance Day a national holiday has remained steady since 2012 at 85 per cent.

While it is currently a federal statutory holiday, only six provinces deem it a day off.

But some believe the switch would turn Remembrance Day into another holiday spent shopping or socializing and detract from the date’s significance.

One thousand Canadians were interviewed online by Ipsos Reid between Oct. 22 and 26.

The sample’s composition was weighted to reflect the country’s adult population according to Census data.

The poll is accurate to within plus or minus 3.5 percentage points 19 times out of 20 had all Canadian adults been surveyed.

Reflecting on what Remembrance Day means

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Veterans across the country reflect what Remembrance Day means to them: When David Seager left the British army all he wanted to do was forget the Second World War. Seager, now 91, moved to Canada and he says it took several decades before he was able to openly talk about his experiences during the campaign against the Japanese in Burma.

For Seager, opening up about his military experience was a gradual process that began in 1987 in Merrickville, Ont., when a neighbour who had served as a nurse during the Allied campaign in Africa asked him to join her in the town’s Remembrance Day parade.

“She wore her medals and said, ‘Why don’t you wear yours?’ “ As a consequence of his friend’s encouragement, Seager says he gradually developed an interest in telling his own story to the point where he regularly gives presentations to school-aged children in Halifax, where he now lives.

He’s had 26 speaking engagements in elementary, junior and senior high schools since 2002.

“The feedback from the kids has encouraged me to keep on doing it,” he says. “As a result, things come back to you which you have forgotten.”

Seager says Remembrance Day itself has also been key in keeping his memories alive.

“That’s always been a critical day for me, an emotional day,” he says. “I lost a lot of friends, relatives and buddies in the army during the war.”

On Nov. 11, Seager says he wears a regimental blazer and his medals, and observes quietly at home with his wife Helene because they are “both getting older.”

Although people can now watch war almost in real time, Seager says there are things modern technology can’t convey and that he can’t forget.

“The thing about watching television or about listening to stories on wars is that there’s no smell. One of the things which still lives with me is the smell.”

John Melbourne says Remembrance Day isn’t just about those who died in Canada’s wars.

The retired Royal Canadian Air Force search-and-rescue pilot, who finished his military career as a flight lieutenant, joined the military in the 1950s after growing up during the Second World War.

The Calgary-based Melbourne, who turns 80 later this month, says Remembrance Day is about comrades lost.

“I’m referred to as a Cold War Warrior and of course we did lose a lot of Air Force people especially in those days and people we lost in peacekeeping missions,” Melbourne said.

“It hits home because I have lost personal friends over the years — not necessarily in combat but flying and they were part of the military. They lost their lives and knew what they were facing — we all did.”

Melbourne is heartened by the renewed interest from younger Canadians. He said Canada’s participation in Afghanistan has brought the meaning of loss home to many new Canadians.

But Melbourne, who was the honorary colonel of the 410 Tactical Fighter Operational Training Squadron in Cold Lake, Alta., is saddened by the diminished numbers of Second World War veterans.

“They’ve lived through very horrific times and as a human being you try to block that out from your memory.

At this time of year some of the stories start coming out,” he said.

“They don’t get up and brag about what they did. They were there. They had to do it. It was a job and that’s all there was to it.”

For Sgt. Al Stapleton, Remembrance Day brings back memories of the Second World War, but at age 95 he feels lucky to be able to remember.

“I first went to England in 1939 and we were stationed just south of London,” recalls Stapleton. “Finally due to politics we went to Italy for the campaign there, I went personally from Malta to Sicily and the campaign there was pretty rigorous, to say the least.”

Stapleton served throughout Italy and Holland, then found himself back in England when Germany surrendered.

“It’s sort of a blank in your total life,” said the Toronto resident. “It does nothing to provide you with living after you come back from a war.”

Remembrance Day is important for the continuation of the military, so the next generation wants to serve and sees what it takes, he said.

“The military depends upon volunteers in our country,” Stapleton said.

“There’s no draft here like other countries and to keep that going it requires a recognition of veterans.

It came to me when I visited Holland, where the people turned out en masse to shake your hand. They remembered and the mothers were holding up their children so that the

child could touch the hand of a veter-an. They remembered.”

An image of a dark-trimmed tele-d gram comes to Jack Purdie’s mind d when he thinks back to the Second World War. The 90-year-old veteran rememberss n working as a telegraph messenger in Edmonton as a teenager during partt y of the war. He would occasionally m be tasked with delivering a telegram with a black border.

“In that case we were told, ‘Justt give it and leave,”’ he said. “‘This tele-gram is telling somebody that a mem-ber of their family has died.”’ d It wasn’t long before Purdie joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. He wass 17 years old.

Though he never saw active com-bat, Purdie trained as a tail gunnerr y and travelled to and from Europe by sea during the war. e He remembers being in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, en route back to Canada, when the Allies declared victory.

“We had a great celebration,” he said.

“They gave me an orange and a bottle of beer and I was able to trade my bottle of beer for a second orange because oranges were very scarce in Britain.”

These days, the retired Baptist minister spends Remembrance Day reciting Flanders Fields at a ceremony organized in his retirement home in Vancouver.

But leading up to Nov. 11 Purdie visits elementary schools in the area to talk about his experience in the military.

“I like to talk to the kids about

Al Stapleton, a veteran of the World War Two Allied Forces’ Sicilian campaign. is pictured outside his home in Toronto on Thursday. what a hero is,” he said. “I like to … help them to realize that heroes come in all sizes.”

As for the most powerful element of the Remembrance Day celebration: the Last Post, he said.

“It’s a sad, sad bugle call,” said Purdie. “I’m still silenced as I hear that.”

He said when he joined the military he wanted to give his life for Canada but that ultimately it wasn’t needed.

“I’m so grateful that I’ve been allowed to go on and live.”

‘In Flanders Fields’ still Canada’s pre-eminent war poem

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A century after it was written, “In Flanders Fields” — the solemn lament of war, sacrifice and obligation by John McCrae that’s carved into the marble masonry of Parliament Hill’s Peace Tower — will find new life Wednesday among schoolchildren who will recite its haunting refrain.

Few other works of battlefield art are as poignant or as famous — indeed, as Wednesday’s now-familiar Remembrance Day proceedings will make clear, none of the bloody conflicts of the past decade have produced anything that comes close.

McCrae — a colonel, a surgeon and artillery field officer — wrote the poem in the midst of mourning the death of a close friend following the Second Battle of Ypres in late April 1915.

It was published later that year to wide acclaim many credit it with inspiring Britain, Canada and other Commonwealth countries to adopt the poppy as symbol of sacrifice.

Its personal sentiment and haunting symbolism are why the poem has its own special place in the

pantheon of great art and literature that was born out of the suffering of the First World War. McCrae’s poem was a response to newly emerging questions about the meaning of war and the need to keep fighting, said Adam Muller, a professor at the University of Manitoba who researches how war is represented in art.

The same questions weren’t being asked of Canada’s fight in Afghanistan, which is why the artistic answers are different as well.

“These are peripheral representations they don’t strike at the core of our day-to-day life in the way that something like ‘Flanders Fields’ did,” he said.

“And I think also there’s prevailing ambivalence about Canadian involvement in that war … we find evidence of this ambivalence in the art that has been produced to date as well. It’s not clear cut. Say what you like about McCrae, he’s clear cut. “ It’s one of the reasons it still resonates 100 years later and why the Vimy Foundation, which is committed to preserving the legacy of Canada’s greatest First World War battle, has challenged classrooms from coast to coast to recite it.

Kathleen Pick, a Grade 12 student at Ottawa’s

John McCrae Secondary School — named after the poet-soldier — says since 9/11 she is hard-pressed to point to any enduring artistic expression of this generation’s wars.

Part of it may be that society looks at war differently than it did a century ago and people today — bombarded by images of conflict in the news and movies — may have become numb, or indifferent.

“Our perception of war has definitely changed as a society,” said Pick.

“We don’t see it as the same series of tragedies that it was in the First World War and I don’t think people recognize exactly how devastating the wars of today can still be to people.”

In the U.S., there is a growing body of art reflecting on the American side of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, some of which that has won major awards, said retired U.S. Army officer Peter Molin, who teaches at Rutgers University and runs the website Time Now, about how those two wars are represented in art, film and literature.

A major difference from past wars is that most of the poems and novels aren’t about life on the battlefield, but what happens after.

FOOD

B11

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 11, 2015

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Crinkled Savoy cabbage, stunning red cabbage and common green cabbage are differentiated by slight variations in taste, as well as texture and appearance.

Turn some heads with cabbage

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LONDON, Ont. — Cabbage is not really one of the “cool” vegetables.

A whole cabbage can be huge and more than a little intimidating. It’s hard to chop into small pieces and harder yet to peel leaf by leaf. Once you’ve made coleslaw, cabbage rolls or maybe sauerkraut, what do you do with it?

And if you don’t cook it properly, it can smell up the joint.

Despite this, cabbage is experiencing “a nice little resurgence,” says Brian Faulkner, vice-president of sales and marketing for BCfresh, the largest produce marketing agency in British Columbia.

Faulkner is also an enthusiastic home cook and always looking for new ways to serve cabbage to his family.

There’s also a renewed interest in canning and an increase in those who want to ferment their own foods.

“People are going back to cole crops (members of the mustard family including broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower and kale) because of their high nutritional value and because they are relatively inexpensive for the amount of nutritional value you get out of them, and people are going back to the roots, not so much of their parents, but their grandparents.”

In addition, the “eat local” and “eat seasonal” movements make cabbage a good choice. It is grown in most

provinces in Canada, says Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and because it stores so well it is readily available pretty much year-round.

B.C. is the third largest commercial grower, but with only about 140 hectares (350 acres) in the two most common varieties (green and red), it is far behind Quebec and Ontario.

The other main types grown are Savoy, with dark green, crinkly leaves and a mild taste Taiwanese cabbage, which is light green but has a flat head, with a sweet, mild taste and crispy texture and napa or Chinese cabbage, with a pale, crinkled, light green leaf and a white core. It is the mildest tasting.

“The different varieties of cabbage are pretty much interchangeable,” says Faulkner, although there are distinctions in terms of texture, visual impact and ease of use.

Two of his favourite ways to prepare cabbage are braising and roasting. He prefers green or red cabbage for those purposes because they are more dense than the others, hold their shape better (whether cut in small pieces or in large slices) and retain some crunch when cooked.

Savoy cabbage is his choice for making cabbage rolls because the heads are a little “fluffier,” meaning the leaves are a little easier to peel off.

“That crinkly leaf rolls much easier, is more tender and it stretches and gives a little bit before it breaks.”

Chinese and Taiwanese cabbage

BRAISED RED CABBAGE WITH BACON This low-effort recipe brings out the sweet flavour of cabbage and eliminates the sulphury heat some people dislike. It is also great as leftovers.

You can use any cabbage for this recipe, but red gives the dish a rich colour.

1 medium head red cabbage 6 thick slices bacon, cut into short pieces about 5 mm (¼ inch) wide 1 medium yellow onion, thinly sliced Salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste 30 ml (2 tbsp) packed dark brown sugar 30 ml (2 tbsp) Dijon mustard

CREATE HOLIDAYS WITH MORE COMFORT & 75 ml (1/3 cup) cider vinegar

250 ml (1 cup) low-sodium chicken broth (approx)

Slice cabbage lengthwise into quarters. Cut out white core and discard. Slice each quarter across the grain into strips 5 mm (¼ inch) thick.

Place bacon in a large Dutch oven (with a tight-fitting lid) over medium heat and cook, stirring occasionally, until browned and most of the fat has rendered.

Add onion and stir to coat in bacon fat. Season with salt and pepper and cook until onion softens and edges start to brown, 4 to 5 minutes.

Add sliced cabbage and stir to coat in bacon fat. Cook until cabbage begins to soften, about 4 minutes.

Stir in brown sugar and mustard.

Deglaze pan with cider vinegar, scraping up any browned bits from bottom of pan with a wooden spoon. Add chicken broth and season with a few pinches of salt and more freshly ground pepper.

Bring to a simmer, then reduce heat to medium-low and cover pan tightly. Simmer, stirring occasionally, until cabbage is soft and soupy and bacon is tender, about 45 minutes. If cabbage begins to look dry, add more broth or water. Makes 8 servings.

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B12 Elderly mother has eating disorder

Dear Annie: My mother has never been a big eater, but in the past year, she seems to have developed a serious eating disorder. At age 62, she skips meals regularly and has shrunk to a bony 90 pounds. Her skin is sagging, her hair is thinning, and she is very irritable.

KATHY MITCHELL Mom acts AND MARCY SUGAR superior about her size and ANNIE’S MAILBOX often criticizes other peoples’ weight or eating habits. Oddly, she watches cooking shows all day, swaps recipes with me and cooks for everyone else. But she only eats her own “special” food. When I call it to her attention, she denies it and says she’s

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simply watching what she eats.

I think it’s ridiculous that a woman in her 60s is behaving like a teenage girl. I am her only daughter and apparently the only one in the family who realizes what a big deal this is. My dad and brothers think she’s just a health freak.

I have cut back on my visits because I don’t want my young daughters to be exposed to such a terrible female role model when they already struggle with their own body image issues. I’m also worried that there will be serious health consequences if Mom doesn’t start eating normally. What should I do? — Worried and Annoyed Dear Worried: Please try to be less annoyed. Your mother sounds anorexic. While you are right that anorexia is more common in teenage girls, it can affect both men and women of any age.

This is a mental health problem.

Mom’s self-worth is tied to how thin she is, and she doesn’t recognize that she’s in serious trouble.

Anorexia can cause heart problems

and bone loss, kidney failure and even death.

You cannot force Mom to seek help, but you can get information and suggestions on how to approach her by contacting the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (anad.org) and the National Eating Disorders Association (nationaleatingdisorders.org).

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Frantic Mom,” who desperately wanted help for her middle-aged son who is addicted to drugs and in need of psychiatric help.

She said her late husband was a veteran and asked whether she was eligible for benefits.

You recommend several organizations, including the VA. Please tell her to also check with her local VA hospital and the Disabled American Veterans.

Both of these organizations have highly trained service officers to help veterans and their families obtain the benefits to which they are entitled. If

she has trouble, an officer from any local Veterans of Foreign Wars post should be able to connect her to the right people.

I hope this helps. — Kathleen Blake, Past Erie County President, Ladies Auxiliary to the VFW Dear Kathleen Blake: We appreciate the additional suggestion and hope that “Frantic Mom” will look into all avenues of assistance. We would also like to take this opportunity to send our veterans our best wishes on this Veterans Day. Thank you so much for your service.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.

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BRIEFS Police: Man tries to torch Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ giant flag after team’s defeat After the Tampa Bay Buccaneers suffered a defeat marked by fumbles, penalties and just one touchdown, authorities say a south Florida man tried to set the team’s oversized flag on fire. Tampa police say it happened just after the New York Giants beat the Buccaneers 32-18 Sunday evening.

A caller said someone was attempting to torch the $26,000 flag outside the Bucs’ corporate offices, near Raymond James stadium. The red banner featuring a skull and two crossed cutlasses measures about 80 feet by 50 feet and hangs from a 15-story pole. Police say the fire-retardant flag did not go up in flames, but a small part was damaged.

Man breaks new ground playing iconic lead role in Hello Dolly

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ince 1991, military families have relied on Military Family Resource Centres when confronted with issues that only families with soldiers will face.

Retired Col. Charles Hamel said before the centres, families were on their own to manage and cope.

“I certainly know that because my father was in the military,” said Hamel who is board chair of Calgary Military Family Resource Centre that serves families of Canadian Armed Forces members and reservists in Southern Alberta and as far north as the Red Deer area.

He said centres came about after military spouses campaigned to have more say in issues that affect their families.

“We’ve come to realize the military institution takes good care of its soldiers in terms of making sure they are ready to do their job the best they can do and prepare them for war or peacekeeping duties. But the soldier is only really one part of the family system. If they don’t have a support base back on the home front, then they’re not going to be as operationally effective as they could be.”

Hamel said when he served it helped to know the local Military Family Resource Centre (MFRC) was there to help his family.

“The first call (my family) would make would be to the MFRC and ask for assistance. I knew, and I was comfortable with the fact, that the MFRC was taking care of their basic needs. That allowed me to be focused on the job I was doing out there.”

He said military families are unique. The military member faces danger during both deployment and training and they can be gone for long periods of time. Frequent relocation means a spouse must leave their jobs and children must leave their schools and friends.

“It’s not uncommon for families, throughout a military career, to move 10, 12 times across the

country or overseas.”

MFRC programs to help families deal with the challenges of military life include: • Family separation and reunion support to help them during absences due to military service.

• Personal development and community integration services and activities to make the transition to new communities easier.

• Access to prevention, support and intervention services and referrals.

• Child and youth development and parenting support.

• Access to Military Family Services programs and the website Family Navigator for information on communities where families are moving.

“First and foremost, we’re the first point of contact. You got a problem, we’ll find a solution to it, whether it’s emergency child care or it’s financial woes, and keeping in touch with them to make sure they’re getting the appropriate response and they’re not lost in the system. They’re not on their own,” Hamel said.

The Calgary centre is one of 32 MFRCs in Canada created by the Department of National Defence.

Centres receive 45 per cent of their funding from Military Family Services which is under the umbrella of the defence department.

Centres are non-profit charities that also raise money through fundraising events, activities, casinos, donations and merchandise sales.

He said centres have also been mandated to help families affected by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

“When you have a member of the family with PTSD it affects everybody. We’ve got to deal with the whole mental health issue as a family system,” Hamel said.

The military’s Road to Mental Readiness (R2MR) program for its soldiers has also been expanded to families as

a preventative measure to promote resiliency.

Tessa Clayton, communications coordinator at Calgary MFRC, said the centre has been in contact with about 1,200 families, including 115 in the Red Deer area.

Most families involved with the Calgary MFRC have a family member in the military reserves.

She said military members can access MFRC services for up to two years after their release date, but the centre doesn’t turn people away.

“We tend to focus on social events, bringing families together in the communities so they can meet other people. It’s up to them if they choose to participate, but opportunities are there,” Clayton said.

Recently about 30 children and adults went to the Lacombe Corn Maze for a preHalloween barbecue. The next event in Red Deer is a Christmas party for military families on Dec. 16 at Cormack Armoury.

Services are either free of charge or low cost.

She said more of an effort is being made to let families know about the centre’s programs and services by visiting military units. Efforts will also be made in the future to expand programs to single and younger military members.

“There have been talks to expand programs and services to veterans. There is a pilot project taking place with select MFRC in the country. We are not one of them.”

Remembrance Day 2015

November 11th “Lest We Forget” Red Deer Arena 10:40 a.m.

Assembly 10:50 a.m.

Marching on the Colours O’ Canada Invocation Lord’s Prayer The Last Post 11:00 a.m.

Minute Gun Silence Two Minute Gun The Lament Reveille

The Red Deer Legion Branch #35 Club Rooms will open at 12:00 noon for Members and Guests.

Are you in the military? Do you love someone who is?

If the answer is yes, the Calgary Military Family Resource Centre is here for you.

The MFRC works to empower and support our military families.

We offer a variety of programs and services including social activities, workshops and training, family separation and reunification support, child and youth programs, and referral services to help you live a life unlike any other.

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LESTER WILLARD BATTLE Branch of Service: Royal B “What we have now is because of what they gave then”

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C Canadian Air Force Y Years Served: 1943-1945 T Theatres of Service: Canada M Medals: 1939-1945 Service M Medal L Lester served as a Sergeant N Navigator. He lives in Red D Deer.

PTE. MARTIN LAWFORD ELLIS This Day Is Remembered And Quietly Kept

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E Enlisted in Calgary on N Nov. 23, 1915 with the 8 89th Battalion and then ttransferred to the 31st B Battalion of the Canadian IInfantry. He was killed in a action on Sept. 27, 1916 at V Vimy Ridge, France.

DONA JOSEPH DURAND S Served with the Calgary H Highlanders. Was killed in b battle at Vimy Ridge.

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PHYLIAS DURAND P Participated in the battle o of Vimy Ridge and was w wounded in the action.

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E Enlisted in Victoria, B.C. on M May 11, 1916, he served w with the CMR in Germany.

H He was discharged on May 1 1, 1919.

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MAJOR HARVEY WILLIAM FISH “Remember ... it’s our freedom.”

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H Harvey served in the 10th Field Ambulance Royal Canadian Medical Corps. He was R w with the army reserve but posted overseas in 1943-45. Served in England, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. Awarded B th the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, 1939-45 Star, Defence Medal, The War C Medal and was Mentioned in Despatches. He M re received two citations: one for Outstanding Good Service and Great Devotion to Duty, G ssigned by Field Marshall Montgomery, and a another one for Distinguished Service, signed

by L. Lawson, Secretary of War for the King. b In fighting around Caen, France, the Official H History of the Canadian Medical Service notes that on the 25th of July, Captain Fish’s n unit handled over 400 causalities in one 24 u h hour period. Dr. Fish was promoted to Major o on the 10th of February, 1945.

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F Frank joined up in Saskatoon in October 1 1941-1946 at 17-years-old. He started with tthe Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps a and later joined the Royal Canadian Eng gineers 2nd Battalion B company as a d dispatch rider. He spent many months in E England getting ready for the invasion. He la landed on Normandy Beach via land craft. ““It wasn’t very pretty but I got through it O OK,” he said. “I’ve had better days!” He w was discharged in Regina in 1946. He rreceived the 1939-1945 France and Germ many Star, Defence Medal, King George M Medal, Service Medal and a medal for tthe liberation of Holland. He was wounde ed in Germany. Two of his brothers and h his sister also served. Frank is a life memb ber of the Royal Canadian Legion.

EDWARD JOSEPH DONOVAN Edward was awarded the E 1 1939-1945 Star, Italy Star, F France & Germany Star, D Defence Medal, Canadian V Volunteer Service Medal a and clasp and the War Medal 1 1939 - 1945. He served in tthe 2nd Armored Regiment L Lord Strathcona’s Horse.

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A gunner with the Royal C Canadian Artillery, Mr. A Arthur won several medals d during WWII including the “Our Veterans gave us F France and Germany Star, Freedom, Peace and Hope D Defence Medal, Great to live the lives we do!”

B Britain Medal, and Voluntary Red Deer S Service Medal with clasp.

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B Born Feb. 7, 1915, 100 years old. He was in WWII, on the beach at Juno, w D-Day. Edmond was appointed D Knight of the French National Order K of the Legion of Honour which is the o highest award that can be given to a h non-French citizen. He has received n many medals. “He says that the m hardest thing about the Battle of h Dieppe was that, under orders, he D ccould not stop to help his friends when they fell dead or wounded w beside him”. b

RAYMOND L’HEUREUX

M My uncle Raymond L L’Heureux was a born macchine gunner on a anti tank ccrew in the Patrica Rifles “Veterans are recognized R Regiment. He landed on for the freedom we take for granted!”

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Joe joined 6th Light AntiAircraft Regiment of the Royal Canadian Army in December 1941. He served as a bombardier in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. He was discharged in December 1945. Joe was awarded the 1939-1945 Star, the FranceGermany Star, the Defence Medal, the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and clasp, and the 1939-1945 War Medal.

WILLIAM HERBERT BAUGH “They made tomorrow better for us because of what they did yesterday!

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Born and raised on the family homestead near Clive, AB. , Bill enlisted with the Royal Canadian Electrical Mechanical Engineers in Calgary on July 21, 1943. After training in Hamilton, Ontario Bill served in the U.K. and Continental Europe as a radio operator thereby earning the WWII European Campaign Ribbon.

Bill was discharged from the forces in Calgary on April 5, 1946 with the rank of Craftsman and awarded the Defence Medal, the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal (with Clasp) and the War Medal (1939-1945).

CLAYTON ERNEST MCGRATH “Our rights and freedoms were won for us”

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Unit: Regina Rifles Regiment Years Enlisted: 1939 - 1945 WWII Medals: War Medal 1939-45, Defence Medal Was on active duty during D-Day Born: Jan. 21, 1921 - Swalwell, AB Died: Feb. 24, 1967 – Valley View, AB

WILLIAM CHARLES MCDONELL “We recognize and salute all these men and women past . . . present”

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Enlisting as a Private in September 1914 with the Winnipeg Rifles, he received the Officer’s Commission in March 1916. He was awarded the military cross in July 1917 for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty.

He was later promoted to Captain.

DUNCAN MCDONELL Duncan was a member of the With honor & respect to our veterans

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PPCLI from 1935-1958. He was one of the first Canadians overseas, landing in Scotland on Dec. 30, 1939. He was torpedoed in the invasion of Sicily in 1943. Rescued and reequipped, he then landed in Italy and was involved in the battles at Monte Cassino and Ortona. He was promoted to Regimental Sergeant Major.

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Walter belonged to the 1st Canadian Division out of Red Deer. He enlisted in 1914 and served until 1919. He participated in the battles of the Somme, Ypres, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele and Hill 70. He was in the first gas attack from the Germans. As a sergeant he advised the men to wet their kerchiefs from around their necks and put over their faces. He had no idea if it would help. Everyone listened to Walter but one soldier who later died. After the war, Walter received 160 acres in Knee Hill Valley and farmed there till he retired to Innisfail.

Leonard Lyle served as an airframe mechanic with the RCAF from 1941-46. He was stationed in Calgary, Trenton, Winnipeg and Suffield, AB. during his military career.

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Served with the Seaforth Islanders in Scotland, England, Sicily, Italy, France and Germany.

Taken prisoner in Italy and spent 24 months in a POW camp in Germany. Awarded the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, the Italy Star, 193945 Star, Defence of Britain Medal, and Victory Medal.

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ROBERT SINCLAIR CORRIGAN Robert enlisted in the Edmonton Regiment, Canadian Army Active Service on November 27, 1939. He “Respecting our Veterans shows our Freedom received the 1939-45 Star, is Real!” the Italy Star, France-Germany Star, Defence of Brit- Cosmos Group ain Medal and the Canada of Companies volunteer Service Medal 403-343-0715 and Clasp. www.cosmosreddeer.ca

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Phillip Edward Connolly was member of the Air Force from 1941 to 1946. While flying along the west coast on “From generation to submarine patrol, his plane generation may we remember crashed into the Pacific those who served and continue to serve.”

Ocean. He was rescued six hours later lying on the wing of his plane with a broken back. He was demobilized with rank of warrant officer, www.lacombe.ca First Class.

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HAROLD CLINTON MCDONELL Branch of Service: Army Unit: Canadian Expeditionary Force Years Enlisted: 1915 - 1917 Served: Europe Fought at Vimy Ridge, Killed in Action, Hill 70, France, August 15, 1917, Age 19

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Served in the Women’s Division RAF in the Bomber Command unit. She served in England as an Instrument Mechanic. She was awarded the Defense Medal and the 1939-1945 Medal.

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Served in the 1st Division “From generation to of the Army in 1940. He generation may we remember received several medals those who served and continue while in Europe. to serve.”

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It is rare to see as many as six members of one family in the Armed Forces, but the Allan-Ramage family of Markerville can claim this unique honour. They are Archie Allan, Allan Ramage, Jock Allan, William Allan, William Ramage and George Ramage. Each one returned safely home from overseas in 1945 & 1946. These men are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Ramage, who have each been married twice. Mrs. Ramage was Mrs. Allan prior to her marriage to Mr. Ramage; and the three Allan men came to Canada from Scotland in 1927. A newspaper clipping stated, “These men are fine physique and are men that any district would be proud of. The family is one that is always a real pleasure to visit as guests are always welcome and sure of a pleasant time.”

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Cpl. Allwright served with the RAF from 1940-46 and with the RCAF from 1952-70. He served in WWII and the Korean War.

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L/CPL. PAUL AJAS Remembering You, Our Veterans, On This Day!

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RUFUS FRANKLIN JONES “Proud to Honour Our Country’s Veterans on November 11th”

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Se Served in the army with Calgary Highlanders R.C.I.C. From Hig 1940-1944 in World War 2.

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A member of the 28 Company Co Forestry Corps for nearly Co four fo years, Mr. Williamson served in W Scotland, then on to Sc Continental Europe.

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Master Warrant Officer Jim Shea participated in several peacekeeping missions including the Golan Heights from February 1977 to February 1978, Cyprus from April 1986 to October 1986, Bosnia from December 1997 to May 1998, May 1999 to December 1999, April 2000 to May 2000 and March 2004 to September 2004. In his tours of duty, he served from Alert to the Middle East. He served in a support role and provided freedom of movement.

Se Served in the 14th Canadian Tank Battalion Ca (King’s own Calgary Tank (K Regiment).

Was taken Re prisoner on the beach of pr Dieppe and escaped 23 Di months later. mo He received the military medal for bravery from me King George VI at Kin Ki Buckingham Palace.

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Gu Gunner WW11 1941 - 1945 19 John joined The Canadian Jo Army in 1941. He served Ar in Britain, and Northwest Europe.

Eu He received the 1939 - 1945 Star, France & Germany St Star, Defence Medal and St Volunteer Service Medal Vo with CLASP as well as War wi Me Medal 1039-1945.

Se Served as Gunner with the 78 78th attachment.

Jo John passed away in 1999 in Red Deer.

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R Robert was best known as a man who enjoyed life and meeting people. w He served his country in the WWII H as a Sergeant with the Calgary 3rd a Anti-Tank Regiment. Canadian A Army (Active) 1941 – 1945. Served A in Canada, Britain, & North West Europe. Medals Awarded: 1939 – E 1945 Star, France & Germany Star, 1 Defense Medal, Canadian Volunteer D Service Medal with Clasp, and War S Medal 1939 – 1945.

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Branch of Service: Canadian Army Reserve Unit: 41 Signal Regiment, 2 Squadron, Red Deer Years Enlisted: 2001 – present Theatres of Service: Golan Heights 2005, Afghanistan 2011 Medals: CPSM, UNDOF, GCS (Afghanistan) Served in Israel and Syria and was with the last mission task force in Khandahar, Afghanistan. Promoted to Sergeant.

KEN L. LONG D.F.M PILOT “Grateful for their dedication & bravery”

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Ken served with the 78 Sqd. of the RCAF. On his third trip, he was shot down while returning from BurgLeopold. Four crew members were severely injured, the starboard engines were dead and the fuselage on fire. They managed to crossw the North Sea and land at Woodbridge Airdrome. He finished a tour of 35 bombing trips.

SERGEANT G. HAROLD DAWE “It’s our freedom that makes this Country great!”

1910-1999 Served with the Royal Canadian Air Force 1942-1945

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THOMAS (TOM) HOSKIN

Thomas joined the Army in May, 1940. After serving 2 years as an instructor in Winnipeg he joined “Take a moment to the 13th Field Regiment, reflect upon the freedom you enjoy today” 78th Battery, and hit the beaches at Courelles-SurRed Deer Mer on “D” Day.

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Royal Canadian Army - C.I.C. 1939 - 1944 Britain and France (Dieppe) Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and CLASP, War Medal - Enlisted Sept. 9, 1939 - in R.C.E. - Was at Dieppe & survived - Killed in an explosion during a Training exercise - July 7, 1944 at Camp Ipperwash, Left a young Wife and Son behind.

SMILEY DOUGLAS, M.M. Branch of Service: P.P.C.L.I. Unit: 2nd Battalion Years of Service: 1950 – 1951 Theatre of Service: Korea Medals: Military Medal Smiley lost his right forearm at the Battle of Kapyong.

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Wellington was with the Royal Canadian Air Force and served as a bombing “Honoring our veterans proudly” instructor in Canada and overseas from 1942-45.

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Rex was in the RNWMP when WWI broke out. He completed his 5 year term at the end of 1916, and enlisted in January, 1917, being sent overseas in April. He was wounded in the ill fated Battle of Moreuil Wood in November, 1917. His two brothers also served, one being killed on the Somme in 1916.

In WWII Rex served in the 2nd/78th Artillery Battery (Reserve) here in Red /Deer, finishing the war as Acting C.O. His son Stan enlisted in the RCASC in November, 1944, at the age of 17. Rex was awarded the C.V.S.M. and 1914-18 War Medal.

Branch of Service: Canadian Infantry (Sask. Regiment) Unit: 46th Battalion, World War 1 Killed in Action August 1918 He has no know grave. His medals went back to his mother in England.

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Harold served as a Storeman. He enlisted in 1942.

He received the Defense Medal 1939-1945, France and Germany Star, Service Volunteer Medal and The Allied Victory Medal.

Harry was a Navigator with the Royal Canadian Air Force during WW2. He was with the No.434 Squadron On December Gone but not forgotten.

18, 1944 his squadron went Barb Miller down over Belgium with MLA all members killed except the wireless operator who Red Deer South was able to parachute 403-340-3565 out. Harry is buried in Leopoldsburg. Belgium.

Branch of Service: Calgary Tanks. Unit: 14th Army Regimenty “What we have now is Years Enlisted: Joined Septem- because of what they ber 2, 1942, World War II gave then.”

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HENRY HANNA

Corporal Army 0600 Unit 1941 - 1945 Henry Hanna of Trochu AB attended Canadian Army Trades “They “Th heyy sacrifi ific ifi ficed edd ttheir heiir School in Hamilton, Ontario. “T lives so we might migh g t live Becoming a qualified electrician, in a free country.” he enrolled under the National Resources Mobilization Act in the Canadian Army Overseas at St. John’s Nfld. on Sept. 27, Prosthetic/ 1941. Here he worked on Army Orthotic O r t hotic Services Services Vehicles, returning to civilian life on demobilization in 1945.

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CHARLES SCOTT

WWI - April 17, 1891 - November 11, 1971 Enlisting in the 25th Battery of the Canadian Field Artillery in Ottawa, Ontario on July 22nd, 1915, Charles served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force - 22nd Howitzer Battery in Britain, France and Belgium from 1915 - 1919. Bis Brigade was involved in the famous Battle at Vimy Ridge in April 1917 and as Passchendale in the fall of 1917.

JAMES RONALD SCOTT

WWII - March 9, 1923 - June 14, 1998 Ron Scott joined the 78th Field Battery R.C.A. in Red Deer, Alberta on June 3rd, 1940 and was in active service with the 13th Canadian Field Regiment in Britain, France and Belgium. His Regiment took part in “Operation Overlord” and fought in the historic June 6th, 1944 D-Day invasion on the beaches of Normandy. Ron was wounded in action in Belgium on April 24th, 1945.

JAMES FIELDING COOP

EMANUAL POHL

Ema Emanual Pohl worked as cook in the Army during a co WWII. He was given WW the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal.

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Ja James was an RCAF flight navigator who received hi his training at Canadian Forces Base Penhold. He ne never talked about his war service as he was distre tressed knowing that people were being killed when hi his plane dropped its bombs. He had to parachute ou out of his military aircraft, the Lancaster, many times an and some 40 years later asked a novice skydiver, “W “Why would anyone pay to jump out of an airplane?”

He returned from war duty and while stationed at a Ca Canadian Forces Base in New Brunswick, he met hi his future bride, Ruth Spaulding, from Shediac, N.B. To Together they moved and raised a family in Calgary w where he served a distinguished career as a teacher and administrator with the Calgary Public School Bo Board. Coop was born in 1911 and passed away in 1996. He is survived by his son Stephen Coop in Red Deer and granddaughter Caitlin Ranger. Two daughters also reside in Vancouver: Jane and Elsbeth Coop, granddaughter Beth Gulevich and a great granddaughter. Jane Coop was recently honoured as a member of the Order of Canada, as a distinguished Canadian pianist.

SGT. PHILLIP J. NEIS WALTER POHL

Walter Pohl served in Canada, United Kingdom and Continental Europe during WWII from 194346.

Ph Phillip served in the 29th Battery with the Royal Ca Canadian Army. He enlisted in 1941-46 and la later in the Reserves from 1950-53 and regular fo force from 1954-1968. He arrived in Britain in 19 1942 and was on the first barges on D-Day. He was awarded the 1939-45 Star, France and G Germany Star, Canadian Volunteer Service M Medal, 1939-45 War Medal, Special Services M Medal – NATO Bar, Queen’s Jubilee Medal and Ca Canadian Forces Decoration with Bar.

PTE. RICHARD H. BILL R Richard Bill was a member of the C Canadian Scottish R Regiment from 19424 46 in Europe. He was w wounded in France o on June 8, 1944. He m married Winnifred Carr in London, England on Ja January 12, 1945. He re received five medals.

JOHN J. BILL John J. Bill was a Chief Petty Officer with the Royal Canadian Navy in Nova Scotia from 1943-45 and received two medals. He is one of four brothers and one sister who served overseas and returned home to Canada.

PTE. CHARLES W. BILL C Charles Bill served with th the Royal Canadian O Ordinance Corps from 19 1942-1946 in Europe.

H He received five m medals.

PTE. JOSEPH G. BILL A member of the Calgary Highlanders, Pte Joseph Bill served in Europe from 1942 to 1945 and received six service medals. He was wounded in France on August 13, 1944.

FRED POHL PVT. CARL V. NEIS Fre was enlisted from Fred 1942-46 as a rifleman.

194 He served in the UK and France and was an wounded in 1944 & 1945. wo His medals include the 1939-45 star, France & 193 Germany star, Defence Ge Medal, War Medal, and Me the Volunteer Service Medal & clasp.

He Me trained at Dundrun, SK. tra

HARRY POHL

Harry saw duty in the army during WWII from 1945-46. He served as a prison guard in a POW camp in Lethbridge. He received his training in Maple Creek, SK and Calgary.

Carl served in the army, 260 BTN CEF, Veterans Guard of Canada. He enlisted in 1918-1919 and 1941-45. He served in Siberia in the First World War as a sniper with CEF Siberia, based out of Vladivostok. He served in Canada during the Second World War. Medals received include the British War Medal, Victory Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and War Medal.

CPL. LARRY NEIS

L Larry enlisted as a soldier apprentice in 19545 56 and served with the first draft to Egypt iin 1956-57. His units included RC Sigs, 3 RCHA Sigs Trp, 56 Canadian Sigs and LDSH R S Sigs Trp. He served with the United Nations Emergency Force in Egypt and was awarded E tthe United Nations Emergency Force Medal a and Canadian Peacekeeping Service Medal.

He was enlisted with the army until 1961.

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GEORGE MABEN

Branch of Service: CLI Unit: 89th Years Enlisted: 1915 - 1918 Sgt. George Maben returned home after WW I and died in a work related accident in 1919.

EDWARD HAROLD (TED) BILL T Bill was a member Ted of the R.C.A, Ordinance C Corp and the Royal C Canadian Electrical M Mechanical Engineers fr from 1939 to 1946.

H He served in France, B Belgium, Holland and G Germany and received th the France and G Germany Star, 1939-45 S Star and the Canadian V Volunteer Medal.

WILLIAM MABEN

B Branch of Service: Canadian In Infantry, Alberta Regiment U Unit: 49th Ye Years Enlisted: 1915 - 1918 M Medals Awarded: M.M. Le Le.Sgt. William Maben was one of 3 brothers enlisted in WW I. He w was killed by a sniper’s bullet on O October 1, 1918 and is buried in Fr France.

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Branch of Service: Air Gunner, RCAF Years Enlisted: 1943 Theatre Served: Bomber Command, England Medals: 1939-45 Star, France/Germany Star, War Medal 1939-45, Canadian Volunteer and Clasp, Defense Medal, Bomber Command 1939 – 45.

Three-quarters through his tour, Dalphas’ aircraft received heavy damage but still made it home.

The plane crashed on landing and Dalphas was out of action for one month. He still has problems with his knees because of the crash.

CPL. WILFRED D. COULLIARD

As we gather at the cenotaph, where we once again give thanks.

To all of those who died for us, in ships and planes and tanks.

We stand here with our heads bowed low, in the steady falling rain.

And think of how they suffered, through so many years of pain.

How they stood there in the trenches, midst the mud and dirt and grime.

Waiting for the dreaded sound, of the enemy attacking one more time.

How a young man on the front line, felt an awesome painful thud.

Then slowly slid down in the trench, and laid there dying in the mud.

How the airmen watched the tracers, floating up towards their planes, Then slowly tumbled earthward, where they crashed and died in flames.

How the sailors on the briny deep, were filled with massive dread.

When torpedoes tore their ships apart, and the sea consumed the dead.

They gave their all that we could live, in a world that was free from strife.

They never really had the chance, to lead a normal life.

Now as we hear the “Last Post”, echoing through the crowd.

Once again we think of them, and how they were so proud.

To march away to foreign shores, where they’d bravely fight and die.

To ensure a country that was safe, for folks like you and I. Now we must never forget them, so on each remembrance day, we must gather at the cenotaph, and for our dear departed, pray.

George Del Fabro CWO, MMM, CD, Ret. November, 1998

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Branch of Service: Field Engineer, Canadian Army Years Enlisted: 1915 Theatre Served: Europe, France Medals: two ribbons awarded Wilfred and his buddy were in the trenches when the gas rolled in. In the confusion, the friend took Wilfred for dead. Wilfred was later picked up and returned to hospital in England, then on to Moose Jaw. He would go meet the troop trains returning the soldiers from Europe and, to his surprise, one day saw his old buddy. Wilfred greeted him, but his friend was afraid to touch him; the friend believed himself to be dying and thought he was simply seeing the ghosts of his old friends.

MASTER WARRANT OFFICER BOB PROSPERO

W.O. Prospero served as a Peacekeeper with the Canadian Contingent Multinational force and observes (MFO) in Sanai, Egypt. His position from November 1, 1996 to May 21, 1997 was supply quartermaster.

PTE. ALEXANDER MCDONALD As a 16 year-old, Alexander McDonald fought in the Boer War in South Africa with the Seaforth Highlanders from 1899 to 1901 and was awarded the Queen Victoria Medal. He also served in WWI with the Scottish Army, but was wounded. He came to Canada in 1926, raised his family, and then enlisted with the Veterans Guard in 1941. He had three sons who served in WWII. Medals received included the Canadian Volunteer Service Medals the 1939-45 Star.

CORPORAL MARK FALT

Branch of Service: Army Unit: 1st Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry Years Enlisted: 4 Served: Afghanistan Medals Awarded: Campaign Star Afghanistan TF 1-08 Nijmegen 2010 Afghanistan TF 1-11

TROOPER WILLIAM B. HORNE

William was assigned to the 3rd Armoured Regiment and the 5th Canadian Armoured Division while serving in Italy, France, Holland and Belgium.

GNR. ROY HERBERT HORNE

Roy fought in the D-Day battle in Normandy.

In addition, he served in France, Holland and Belgium with the 29th Field Battery and 11th Army Field Regiment of the Canadian Army.

L.A.W. MARGARET HORNE

Margaret served her country in the Royal Canadian Air Force from November 1942 to November 1945.

CLIFF FULLER Cliff was a Petty Officer, 1st Class with the Royal Canadian Navy. He served his country for 32 years on the HMCS’ Bonaventure, Preserver, and Ottawa, as well as on the CFB’s Ottawa, Comox (2), Holberg, Edmonton. Lahr Germany, Golan Heights & Alert.

CPL. BETTY NORTHEY (NEE. TROUP)

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Cpl. Betty Northey served in the women’s division of the Royal Canadian Air Force.

F/O Howard Northey served overseas with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

WILLIAM ARTHUR EDWARDS

Enlisted in 1939 - 1945. He was a Signal Corp. who served in Sicily, Italy, France, Holland and Germany. While in service, William was awarded the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal. 1939 - 1945 Star, Italy Star, France and Germany Star and The War Medal.

IVAN C. EDWARDS SGT. HAROLD J. HORNE

Served with the Lanark and Renfrew Scottish Regiment.

Enlisted in 1941 and discharged in April 1946. Served in England, the Invasion of Sicily, Italy, Belgium and Holland.

Enlisted August 1943 - September 1945. Served in the Canadian Army U.C., Infantry Corp. in Canada and Britain. Ivan received the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and The War Medal.

HUBERT JOHN (JACK) EDWARDS

Enlisted Sept. 1943 - Oct. 1946. Stationed in Trenton On. as a Mechanic. Received Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and The War Medal.

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Norm joined the RCNVR from 1943-45. He served in the Communications dept. as a Signalman aboard the HMCS Orangeville, patrolling between Newfoundland and Londonderry, Ireland on convoy escort duty. He attended the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic in Liverpool, UK in May 1993.

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R Royal Command of 36th Company o of 11th Bn, Imperial Yeomanry 1 1900-1901 Boer War (South Africa) L Lieutenant L Lt Hudson was killed in action a at Groenkop Hill on the farm T Tweefontein on Christmas mornin ing 1901. He was born in October 1 1874. In Britain he volunteered as a trooper, was accepted and sailed ffor South Africa in February 1900.

O On the Christmas morning that he w was killed, Lt Hudson was in comm mand of 36th Company of 11th Bn, IImperial Yeomanry.

J Jean was known for her iirrepressible sense of humor a vvaluable asset during the war yyears. Stationed in Woodstock, O Ontario 1944-1946, Jean was an e excellent mechanic and driving iinstructor both skills which were w well used when she returned to ccivilian life.

S Stanley was a Flying Officer with the R RCAF during WWII, Regular Force.

He trained as a Bomber Navigator H sstationed at Edmonton, Clareshome a and Rivers, Manitoba. Receiving his Navigator wings in 1945, he was N assigned to go fight in Japan when a tthe war ended. In the 50s, he served as Commanding Officer of the 97th a Squadron Air Cadets and later comS m manded all Alberta Air Cadets at Summer Camp at Sea Island Air S Station B.C. He also served as S p president of Field Marshal Alexander Branch of the Canadian Legion in B Vermilion, Alberta. He passed away V o on Nov. 22, 2000.

S Served: France, Belgium, Holland & Germany. Medals Awarded: Can.. Volunteer Service Medal, C French & German Star. Unique F Experiences: Landed on Juno E Beach June 6th 1944 and shortly B after encountered a French farma er who was pleading for his life in e French because the Canadians F were firing on him thinking he was w the enemy. Emile being French th heard his pleas & saved his life. h Returned to Ponteix Sk. after the R war. w

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P Percy served his country in both WWI a and WWII. He enlisted with the Winnipeg G Grenadiers in Jan. 1916 and volunteered to serve with the Canadian Overseas E Expeditionary Force, the 100th Battalion.

H He saw service until Apr. 1917, then sserved in France until March 1919 w when he was demobilized. In 1940, he “With deep respect and lasting e enlisted in the Royal Canadian Engineers gratitude, we reflect upon the a and arrived in England in July. During th the Battle of Britain, he volunteered deeds to those who served.” to join the demolition squad in aiding th the British experts to render harmless th the buried missiles, loaded with deathd dealing explosives. These steel-nerved e engineers were known as the ‘Suicide S Squad’. He served in England until his re return to Canada in 1945.

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C Canadian Army. Support Company of the Queen’s C Own Cameron Highlanders O of Canada, Sixth Canadian o IInfantry Brigade, Second Canadian Division. November “Veterans...they are the brave C 1942 – February 1946. Sam men and women who have 1 put their lives at risk to sserved as a driver/mechanic protect our country.” on a tracked vehicle called a o ccarrier which towed an anti tank gun. He saw action from July g 1945 in Normandy through to 1 tthe end of the war in Germany.

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T Thomas was an artillery gunner in tthe 37th battery, 11th field regiment with the 5th Canadian Armoured w Division. He served from 1942 until D 1946 in the Italian campaign and 1 European theatre. He was wounded E and the sole survivor when his gun a took a direct hit during the fierce to Italian campaign. He was then It ssent to the Netherlands. Here he located by sight the Germans’ lo artillery gun placements and a rreported it back.

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SAMUEL KIFFIAK

A anti-aircraft gunner with the An Canadian and Royal Navy, he C sserved from 1942 to 1946 in the North Atlantic and Pacific. Highlights N iincluded trips to Murmansk, Russia, sailing through the Suez R Canal and landing in Hong Kong.

C Medals include the 1939-45 Star, M Atlantic Star, Burma Star, Canadian A Volunteer Service Medal and Bar; V 1939-45 War Medal and the 19411 45 Russian War Medal as well 4 as The Artic emblem for medals a awarded. a

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J Joseph Graham was a mechanic with the R.C.A.F. m and served from Jan. 29, 1941 a to Jan. 22, 1946 in Canada and England. He was in charge of a E “Take a moment to hanger of Lancaster bombers h reflect upon and and made sure they were in appreciate those who a good working condition. Many fought for the rights and g titimes he went up with the pilots freedoms of mankind.” to listen to the engine, and mane times he wasn’t sure m they would make it back to the th rrunway. He was discharged as 403-343-1177 Flight Lieutenant.

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R Royal Canadian Signal Corp, WW 2 W S Served in Korea, Germany (2 tours), Congo to Medals M Awarded: Korea “We recognize and salute V Volunteer Service Medal, these men & women who Special Service Medal (NATO), served in the Canadian S Canadian Service Medal, UN C Armed Forces.”

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WILLIAM MANYLUK

W William, from Vermilion, Alberta, served w with the Royal Canadian Air Force during W WWII. He was a Fight Lieutenant pilot to tthe #354 (RAF) Squadron. This squadron w was formed on May 10, 1943 at Drigh R Road, Karachi, India, as a general reconn naissance unit. In December 1943, antissubmarine patrols were augmented by a attacks on enemy shipping off Burma and b both types of operation were continued u until the squadron was disbanded on May 1 18, 1945. Manyluk was killed in action on D Dec. 30, 1944 when his Liberator Aircraft 3 3EV 942 failed to return from operations.

M Manyluk has no known grave but his n name is inscribed on the Singapore War M Memorial in Singapore. He was 22.

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B Branch: Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Canadian Army. a S Served as a Peacekeeper during the Cuban Missile Crisis. in Albert was an Able Seaman A w with the Royal Canadian Navy from 1961-64 and a Private fr in the Royal Canadian Army ffrom 1969-70. After retiring, he spent his free time restorh ing military badges and has in d donated a number of them to Canadian museums.

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VERN GLOVER H served in the Atlantic He w with the navy in 1944. He w was awarded the Atlantic S Star, the 1939-45 war medal a and the Canadian Volunteer S Service medal.

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