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Alberta to implement carbon tax

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta took what it hopes will be the first step toward shedding its status as international environmental pariah Sunday by revealing a sweeping climate change plan.

The plan, the result of months of study and public input, will introduce a broad-based carbon tax that would apply across the economy. The government will move to phase out the province’s coal-fired power generation by 2030.

And it will introduce a hard cap on greenhouse gas emissions for the oilsands.

“This is the day we step up, at long last, to one of the world’s biggest problems — the pollution that is causing climate change,” Premier Rachel Notley said as she announced her government’s new policy

in Edmonton on Sunday.

“I’m hopeful these policies will lead to a new collaborative conversation about Canada’s energy infrastructure on its merits and to a significant de-escalation of conflict worldwide about the Alberta oilsands.”

Notley made the announcement on a stage packed with representatives of groups that have in the past often been at each other’s throats over this issue.

But joining her Sunday were leaders of major energy companies, environmental groups and First Nations.

“The framework announced today will allow the ongoing innovation technology, investment and growth in the oil and gas industry at the same time we are looking to reduce overall carbon emissions,” said Murray Edward of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.

Said Ed Whittingham of the clean energy thinktank the Pembina Institute: “I think the world needs more of this kind of leadership.”

Starting in 2017, Alberta will apply a $20-a-tonne price on carbon emissions that will cover about 90 per cent of the economy, including essentials such as gasoline and home heating fuel. That price will increase to $30 the following year.

That $30 will add about seven cents to the cost of a litre of gas. The total cost of the increases will be about $500 a year for an average family, the government calculates.

That money — about $3 billion in 2018 — will be used in part to rebate middle and lower income families. About 60 per cent of households will have at least some part of their carbon tax bill repaid.

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Looking to connect with at-risk youth

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Some youth at-risk or those who may have already taken a wrong turn in life tend to hang out at the Red Deer Public Library, the G.H. Dawe Community Centre and the Collicutt Centre.

The three locations are where two Arcadia Mobile Outreach and Family Reunificiation workers – Maritza Noriega-Cook and Terra Leslie – hope to connect with them before they become fully entrenched in homelessness.

The first of its kind in the city, the youth-targeted outreach program was launched in July. It is run through McMan Youth, Family and Community Services Association.

The outreach workers spent the first few months navigating the downtown streets in the hopes of building relationships and trust with the youth under the age of 24.

Noriega-Cook said it has been working and relationships have been developed.

There have been a few “successful” cases where they have put the supports in place to allow the youth to re-connect with family or friends and to begin the process of finding housing or a job.

She said she did not have concrete numbers but there is a definite need for support.

Leslie said some youth, for example, may be couch surfing which means they are not necessarily in the downtown core.

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Brandt Schellenberger, 2, gets his face painted by Terry Rowland during the Red Deer Christmas Show Saturday at Westerner Park in the Parkland Pavilion. All proceeds from admission to the show went towards the Red Deer Christmas Bureau. The Christmas bureau will also be taking items for the annual Stuff a Bus campaign beginning Nov. 26-28 at Parkland Mall.

Warming shelter essential for dozens of people

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Miles Kern’s wife kicked him out.

Serge Desbiens had a job working at the carnival but it didn’t work out.

Low on money and nowhere to go, the two men from different walks of life now had something in common – they are homeless.

At the Safe Harbour’s temporary warming shelter, the two men bump into each other.

But they likely have crossed paths at People’s Place, where they both regularly claim a spot for the night.

Kern, 36, said it was a “bad situation” that lead him to the streets. Obviously, Kern says, he does not want to be in this situation. He is currently trying to find a place to live. While Kern has been homeless in the past for a few months, it has never been in the winter.

“I can get out of it,” said Kern, who has been homeless for about four months. “I was out of it for two years. I don’t keep coming back to it. The situation just (forced) me. As soon as I find a place, I should be good.”

Desbiens, 23, said he was working for a carnival company when he lost his job in July and had no place to go. He is from Surrey, B.C. where he was also homeless but the carnival job was helping turn his life around.

One day, he hopes to get a place and save up

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enough money so he can visit his sister and nephew in Thunder Bay, Ont. “I am trying to but it’s hard because I have a disability, ” said Desbiens. “I am trying to get paperwork done for all that so I can get housing and I can get more income.”

The temporary warming shelter opened on Nov.6 on the Safe Harbour site on 53rd Street.

Stacey Carmichael, Safe Harbour’s director of programs, said between 50 and 80 people pass through the doors between the opening hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. every single day.

The mornings are particularly busy with the men and women arriving after spending the night in the shelters.

Carmichael said the sheer volume is not surprising and expects the number to increase as the temperatures drop. They had similar numbers last year at the warming site in the Seventh Day Adventist Church in downtown Red Deer.

“I have no doubt, if it hasn’t already, it will prevent someone from freezing to death,” said Carmichael. “We are grateful for that. At Safe Harbour we are always looking to get more permanent solutions and appropriate services year around and adequate housing to provide housing to all these guys.”

Sunday marked National Housing Day, a day to raise awareness about housing-related issues and homelessness in Canada.

Carmichael said this homeless population (mostly individuals) need a variety of housing options such as stock housing owned by a non-profit; access to pri-

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Serge Desbiens, left, and Miles Kern in the new warming Centre in Red Deer on Friday afternoon. vate rental stock and housing subsidies.

“Those things help enhance the housing options,” said Carmichael. “Off the top of my head, there is a need for a couple hundred suites or (other) options.”

She said there are various challenges from the low economy to inadequate capital support from governments.

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GoFundMe page set up after tractors lost in fire

BY ADVOCATE STAFF A GoFundMe account has been set up for the Rimbey-area farm family who lost more than a dozen treasured tractors in a fire.

Roy Rosenthal’s collection of 14 antique restored tractors were destroyed and numerous parts, welding equipment, a skid steer, pickup and other items were lost when a farm building was levelled by fire last Monday night.

The family said on its Facebook page that Roy had spent thousands of dollars and many hours restoring the tractors, to which he had a deep sentimental attachment.

Over the last couple of decades he has restored and sold more than 170 tractors. His favourites, he kept.

Forty years of collecting went up in smoke in the fire that started at the farm about 15 km northwest of Rimbey around 9 p.m. and kept Rimbey and Ponoka volunteer firefighters busy until 1:30 a.m.

A nearby house and mobile home were saved by firefighters’ efforts. Roy, his wife Loanna, a son and grandson live on the farm.

Unfortunately, the contents of the large farm building are not covered by insurance, and the insurance status of the building itself is still being determined.

To donate go to www.gofundme.com/veasbh5g or go to Rosenthal Farms on Facebook.

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Christmas events in Olds this weekend Catch the holiday spirit in Olds.

Next Saturday the community will celebrate the holidays with a Santa Claus parade and a variety of Light Up events for the whole family.

All activities are free and will take place in Centennial Park and indoors at the Cow Palace,

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A GoFundMe account has been set up for the Rimbey-area farm family who lost more than a dozen treasured tractors in a fire. Roy Rosenthal’s collection of 14 antique restored tractors were destroyed and numerous parts, welding equipment, a skid steer, pickup and other items were lost when a farm building was leveled by fire last Monday night located near the downtown area at the corner of 50 Ave and 54 St. starting at 3 p.m.

Enjoy games, activities, straw bale maze, train rides and wagon rides around Centennial Park.

Free hot dogs and hot chocolate will be handed out between 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm.

The Santa Claus parade begins at 5 p.m.

Visit www.olds.ca for more information.

10-year-old boy dies while driving forklift on Alberta family farm KILLAM— A ten-year-old boy has died while driv-

ant, whether that is housing or a job or an income or anything that is causing them to be in that crisis mode,” she said. “And helping to connect them with supports … Then once they are housed, (we will) look at that family support piece or reunification and move forward from there.”

The two women are at the downtown library (from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursdays), the G.H. Dawe Community Centre (3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Mondays) and the Collicutt Centre (3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays). They want to talk to youth and family members.

On Thursday, McMan will host a parent support night at 7 p.m. at its office in the Red Deer Park Plaza (#103, 5214 47th Ave.).

Leslie said they also want to dismiss the stigma that youth are trouble makers.

“They find themselves in a difficult situation and they are just human like everybody else,” she said.

“They want a warm home to be and they do not necessarily know who to turn to and who to talk to.”

Email arcadia@mcman.ca for more information or call 403-309-2002. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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CARBON TAX: Ease The rest will go to programs to ease the transition away from coal for communities and workers dependent on that industry, as well as to innovation programs and energy efficiency measures.

Eventually, said Notley, the carbon taxes could be dedicated toward paying down public debt.

Large emitters will continue to be regulated based on their carbon emissions per barrel of oil, although those requirements will be more stringent.

By 2030, about 30 per cent of Alberta’s power will come from renewables. A mediator will be appointed to work out the contentious details of plant closures with power companies, who were not represented at the announcement.

The oilsands will be limited to a total of 100 megatonnes of emissions — about 30 megatonnes more than the industry now emits. That gap will be largely filled by projects now being built.

That means if oilsands producers want to pump more oil, they’ll have to do it in a way that stays under the cap.

The plan doesn’t include a target for emissions reductions. It calculates that its provisions should reduce emissions from business as usual by about seven per cent by 2020, and about 16 per cent by 2030.

Mark Jaccard, an energy economist at Simon Fraser University, called the plan a prudent mix of sound economics and real-world pragmatism that creates incentives for emissions reductions.

“I need to look at the details, but I think I’m seeing some real leadership here,” he said.

“It’s not the economist’s perfect (model), but it’s real-world. I’m seeing policies I like.”

The announcement is the result of months of consultation and study by an expert panel convened to help the government write the policy. Andrew Leach, a University of Alberta energy economist, led the panel, which received thousands of pages of submissions from citizens, industry and environmental groups.

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Outreach workers Terra Leslie, left, and Maritza Noriega-Cook with the McMan Youth and Community Services Association in Red Deer are working to make contact with at risk youth in the city.

YOUTH: Reunification with family or friends “We want a consistent schedule in spots that we consider to be highly populated with our vulnerable population,” said Leslie.

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RCMP say it happened Saturday morning on his family’s farm near Killam, southeast of Edmonton.

They say it appears the machine became unstable while the boy was driving it on a gravel road, and that it went into a ditch and tipped over.

Police say witnesses were nearby and performed first aid, but the boy suffered serious injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.

RCMP aren’t releasing the name of the child or the farm.

Police say family members told them the boy had operated the forklift before and was familiar with its operation.

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SHELTER: Hopeful But Carmichael is hopeful one day there will be more government investments in affordable housing for this population.

Carmichael said these people like anybody simply need an affordable and safe place to live.

“They can be great tenants as we have demonstrated through the previous people we housed,” she said.

“Just getting that home can be life changing. For a lot of these guys, we have the ability to provide case management and rent subsidies. Those things help these people to be successful. So when we have the ability to house people 75 to 80 per cent it shows it is working. We know that it is working so we just need more people to trust that it is a good thing.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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First ministers’ summit: what you need to know

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — For the first time in nearly seven years, federal, provincial and territorial leaders will gather together Monday for a meeting. They’ll meet in the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., just across the river from Parliament Hill.

Here are five things to know about the summit: What’s the purpose of the meeting?

The first ministers are meeting one week before the start of the UN climate change conference in Paris, known as COP21. Newly minted prime minister Justin Trudeau has invited the premiers to accompany him as part of the Canadian delegation to the conference.

He has not had enough time since winning the Oct. 19 election to negotiate a national climate change strategy with the provinces that could be presented in Paris. So Monday’s meeting is intended to show the international community that he’s at least taken the first steps towards delivering on that commitment and that Canada is now serious about combating climate change after a decade in which the country was widely condemned as an environmental laggard.

Will the meeting produce new targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions or policies for achieving them?

No. That will come later. Trudeau has promised another formal first ministers’ meeting to formulate a national climate change strategy within 90 days of the Paris summit.

So what emission reduction target will Canada offer in Paris?

For the time being, the Canadian delegation will stick with the target proposed by Stephen Harper’s previous Conservative government: a 30 per cent reduction below 2005 levels by 2030. Canada is on track to fall far short of the 2020 emission reduction targets it agreed to at the last international climate summit in Copenhagen in 2009 and the Harper government gave no indication how it intended to meet the 2030 target.

The new Liberal environment minister, Catherine McKenna, has said her government considers the Harper target to be the least Canada can do and is hoping to come up with something more ambitious.

Will the international community be convinced Canada has changed course if the meeting is all talk and no action?

Federal officials say other countries are prepared to cut the new Canadian government a lot of slack, believing Trudeau’s heart is in the right place and appreciating that he’s been prime minister for less than a month. Still, they need to see some evidence of action, particularly on Alberta’s oil sands, which have turned Canada into an international environmental pariah.

On that score, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has done some of the heavy lifting for Trudeau, unveiling Sunday a new climate policy for her province, including imposition of a carbon tax, phase-out of coalfired power plants and a hard cap on greenhouse gas emissions from the oil sands, the country’s largest emitter.

Once in Paris, Trudeau is expected to join U.S. President Barack Obama in announcing funding for clean energy research.

What else will first ministers talk about?

First ministers are also expected to discuss Trudeau’s promise to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by the end of the year. The feds’ detailed plan for offering safe haven is to be released Tuesday but at least one premier, Saskatchewan’s Brad Wall, has expressed concern that the federal government is trying to rush matters to meet an artificial year-end deadline. He has suggested that the government needs to take more time to ensure adequate security screening is done on all those allowed into the country.

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Steve and Joanne Gruenberg, and a camera-shy Scott, shop for Norwegian baked goodies during the Norwegian Laft Hus’ bake sale Saturday. The event was held in conjunction with the second annual Friends of Rotary Park Open House, which featured crafts, sales and more at the Laft Hus, Golden Circle, Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery, Red Deer Tennis Club and the Recreation Centre.

Highway of Tears gathering: another roadblock or road to bus line?

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA — Community leaders along British Columbia’s notorious Highway of Tears meet this week to debate the highly charged issue of improving safety along the route that cuts across the centre of the province.

Eighteen women have been murdered or disappeared along Highway 16 and adjacent routes since the 1970s.

First Nations’ leaders and the Opposition New Democrats say government roadblocks in the form of endless meetings over transportation solutions that go nowhere must come down to improving safety.

Up to 100 people are expected to be in Smithers to review locally developed transportation options along the 750-kilometre highway corridor, but Transportation Minister Todd Stone won’t attend and said he would leave the discussion up to local officials.

Stone describes the Tuesday meeting as information gathering and non-political.

North Coast New Democrat MLA Jennifer Rice, who represents the Prince Rupert area, wanted to go to the meeting, but said she wasn’t invited.

“I understand the chief administrative officers (from communities) are invited because those are the practical people. Minister Stone is always talking about practical solutions, and I guess those are the practical people who implement practical things.”

Representatives from 23 First Nations along the corridor, municipal governments and the B.C. government will attend the day-long meeting.

A government statement said the gathering will review previous community transportation reports,

including a 2006 report that called for bus service between communities and the 2012 Missing Women Commission of Inquiry that recommended enhanced transportation in the area.

Regional politician Bill Miller said many agree that Highway 16 is too geographically challenged for a region-wide bus service, but there’s concern about government stalling.

“Sometimes it seems like we’ve just been put on a treadmill,” said Miller, an elected member of the Bulkley-Nechako Regional District. “We have some cost-effective and efficient solutions.”

He said a more workable system would link neighbours like Vanderhoof, Fort St. James and Fraser Lake and would ease safety concerns for those who have to travel the route.

“The underlying issue is vulnerability of women in general, First Nations women in specific.”

But he said local governments need the province to help communities get the locally driven transportation system.

“We’re going to send some people to the symposium in Smithers and hopefully get them to understand that this is a significant issue.”

Stone said he agrees with some locals that a shuttle-bus service along the entire route isn’t practical.

But the NDP said that recently released documents contradict Stone and highlight the concerns of local officials who say a bus service should be considered.

“A lot of people are feeling this is past due and this is time to take action,” said Rice.

Among the more than 600 pages of recently released government documents are bus service estimates, pegging costs of a six-day-a-week, Prince Rupert to Prince George bus at less than $1 million annually.

Former minister takes shots at critics of U of C president on fire as others did.”

“She went to work behind the scenes, and was tireless in her efforts to make provincial leaders come face to face with the work of researchers, professors and students, highlighting their worthiness for more funding,” Dinning wrote.

“Even the work of those who now slag her from the comfort of their tenured La-Z-Boy.” Cannon has said that there is a written agreement set out with expectations when funds come from the private sector, but the university makes decisions on day-to-day operations and staff.

The Canadian Association of University Teachers has said the former chairman of the Centre for Corporate Sustainability claims he was fired after rais-

CALGARY — Former Alberta finance minister Jim Dinning has come out swinging against critics of a University of Calgary president who’s been under fire over concerns about corporate influence.

Dinning, who was university chancellor from 2010 to 2014, wrote an opinion piece for the Calgary Herald where he refers to the detractors of Elizabeth Cannon as “those who now slag her from the comfort of their tenured La-Z-Boy.” An independent review will probe the university over concerns about corporate influence at the school following media reports alleging Enbridge interfered at the university’s Centre for Corporate SusRED DEER MINOR HOCKEY COMMISION tainability after the company provided a donation.

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Caution needed in Bombardier bailout That Bombardier has asked for fed- government should support Bombareral aid to save its C-Series passenger dier, despite its poor management of jet project has been confirmed by the the C-Series project, raises a bigger company’s top executive, Alain Belle- question, and that is the broader role mare. of public support — incenNow the request is on tives or subsidies dependthe desk of Navdeep Bains, ing on where one stands — the Minister of Innovation, of business enterprise.

Science and Economic DeSupport can be used, for velopment, who will have to example, to bail out corpotake his recommendation to rations in trouble, help uncabinet for approval. Prime derwrite the cost of highMinister Justin Trudeau, risk projects, encourage correctly, says “there has to research and development be a strong business case” or the development of new to justify federal support. industries, or to attract inBut given the potential vestments that could go to level of support that Bomanother country without DAVID bardier may seek — the support from Canada.

CRANE Quebec government has With the impending colOPINION suggested matching its own lapse of General Motors US$1 billion commitment and Chrysler as the 2008 — it is important that Bomglobal recession hit, the bardier also make its business case Canadian and U.S. governments were public. faced with the need for major bailouts And any federal aid, if offered, if these companies were to survive. should require tough conditions on What made the issue compelling for management and corporate gover- governments was not only that these nance. This would include a require- were large-scale employers but if ment that the Beaudoin family give up they failed much of the supplier base, its privileged grip on the company and where many more people were emconvert multiple-vote shares to ordi- ployed, would also collapse. So the nary voting shares. One reason Bom- Canadian, Ontario and U.S. governbardier is in trouble is poor manage- ments injected significant funds, forcment, a direct outcome of the existing ing significant restructuring along with system of corporate governance. management changes and union conThe question of whether the federal cessions.

The bail-out worked and the economic results have more than justified the aid provided. The companies are making major new investments and hiring has picked up. The supplier base has also been investing and hiring.

But what about subsidies to retain or attract investment? This is a big issue in the automotive industry, for example. While GM and Fiat-Chrysler have recovered in Canada, the future of their Canadian operations is in doubt. With free trade there is no requirement that they invest in Canada. And in both the U.S. and Mexico, attractive subsides are available to attract automotive assembly plants, the rationale being that an automotive assembly plant creates many more jobs in supplier plants that need to locate nearby. Canada is faced with the choice of providing incentives to retain or attract investment or getting out of the game and watching a steady decline of an automotive industry in Canada.

Ontario is also using subsidies to promote new investment in high-tech industries. It established a partnership with Open Text Corp., Canada’s top software company, with the company pledging to add 1,200 new jobs in the province and invest $2 billion over a 7-year period, with Ontario providing $120 million in support. Likewise, Ontario has signed a similar partnership

agreement with Cisco Systems, with Cisco pledging to create up to 1,700 new jobs in Ontario in a potential $4 billion R&D hub in Ottawa, with Ontario kicking in $190 million.

Similarly, the Alberta government put up $740 million towards Shell Canada’s $1.35 billion Quest carbon capture and storage project in the oil sands to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with the federal government putting up another $120 million.

Purists would eliminate all of these forms of support, relying on low taxes and free trade to deliver market-driven investment.

But in a world where others are using incentives to attract investment to create good jobs and expand the local tax base, or to develop new economic activity, it is hard to see how we can stay away.

What governments can do is ensure transparency to the process, set clear conditions for incentives, monitor performance and develop the in-house capabilities to negotiate toughly with business.

There is a global competition for investment, and the jobs and tax revenues that flow from investment, so if Canada is to be in the game the challenge is to be there in the most transparent and cost-effective way.

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Remembrance Day service needs a fitting venue I had the honour of attending the Remembrance Day ceremony help at the downtown Red Deer Arena. I’ve been attending these ceremonies for decades now — not to glorify war, but to honour the soldiers who have fought and perhaps died in the many conflicts that Canada has been involved in since the first World War. This letter is not intended to present any negative remarks about the ceremony itself. I think that the organizer of this event (the Red Deer Royal Canadian Legion) does a wonderful job in honouring our military past. This letter, however, is intended to comment on the facility in which the ceremony has been held over the past several years.

Since the mid-90s, attendance to the Remembrance Day ceremony, to my eye anyway, has increased year by year. It’s increased so much, that for the past few years, the Red Deer Arena clearly isn’t a big enough venue to house the number of people that wish to attend. For the past few years, there has been standing room only. I’m not just talking about people having to stand in the walkways along the backs of the seats, but this year even the stairways were packed with people. Without going into the fire hazards that this creates, it just seems to me that Red Deer could do better at providing a venue more suitable to the numbers of the general public that wish to attend the Remembrance Day ceremony.

The Red Deer Enmax Centrium, for example would be a much better venue in my opinion.

I’ve heard several times that the reason that the ceremony isn’t held at the Centrium is because the Red Deer Agritrade show is held at the same time and there simply isn’t any room. I have no doubt

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that this is a true statement. My question is this: Why can’t the Agritrade Show be moved by a week? Is there a reason why it couldn’t be held a week before or a week after Nov. 11? Surely, the date for the Agritrade Show isn’t written in stone.

It seems to me a small thing to ask that a ceremony observing and honouring the soldiers who have participated in Canadian military conflict over the last 100 years be held in a venue suitable for the numbers of people that wish to attend. Surely some kind of alternative arrangements can be negotiated and a venue (such as the Centrium) can be found that would allow comfortable seating for all locals who wish to be present. It also seems to me that the City of Red Deer should feel at least a modicum of obligation to see that such a venue be provided not only to the citizens of Red Deer but also to honour the members of the military (both past and present) who attend the Remembrance Day ceremony held in this wonderful city.

Ken Hoskin Red Deer

City needs to take care of all infrastructure not just roads and sewers With regard to the Budget to be discussed on Nov. 24, one notes that Council has in mind the burden on Taxpayers of the City. That is desirable and commendable.

It is however a concern that “sewer and roads” continue to take most of the available money leaving taxpayers to contribute to a savings fund (included the annual tax assessment) to eventually fund other projects now deferred because of a lack of funds — ice being an exception Accepted economic policy is to incur deficit spending during economic down turns and is cur-

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Council is aware that they are responsible for the best use of funds available. This includes use of debt which should be regarded as a resource to fund projects which have a long term benefit to the taxpayers.

This not being fully done, the result being a continuation of the lack of culture and recreation facilities in Alberta’s third largest city.

Change is the order of the day.

Council must review and address why their policy is the opposite of recommendations of economic thought that is accepted by our national and provincial governments.

Change and accept the priorities of needed infrastructure given by the taxpayers in many studies. In particular the most recent ones-being the Facilities Report and that of the Ad-Hoc committee Change to using the method of assessing major projects on cost as the veto for proceeding or not.

The benefit must be given appropriate consideration as well.

Change to bring the aquatic centre back on the table, from the bottom drawer where it has been consigned. That such a facility is required has been long recognized by every major city and town in Alberta. Red Deer does not and is missing major benefit in doing so. Two senior levels of government acknowledge the need for upgrading and updating infrastructure.

Our council appears to be out of step and needs to demonstrate the ability and desire to lead and address the critical shortage of all infrastructure in Red Deer, including that of culture and recreation, and to adjust priorities accordingly.

This is an ideal time for council to do so.

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Intimacy discount SENTENCES LIGHTER FOR MEN WHO KILL FEMALE PARTNERS

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Canadian Defence Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan leads a five kilometre run along the harbour on the third day of the Halifax International Security Forum in Halifax on Sunday.

Sajjan stands firm on decision to withdraw from air campaign against ISIL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan is suggesting CF-18 fighter jets would make little difference in the war against the Islamic State if Canada doesn’t focus completely on its training mission in Iraq.

Sajjan faced more questions Sunday at the close of the Halifax International Security Forum about the Liberal government’s plans to withdraw the fighter jets from the fight against ISIL. “Myself and the government feel we need to focus on the training,” he said. “If we do not get that piece right, is does not matter where one bomb drops.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said last week that Canada will increase the number of ground troops, currently at 69, in Iraq to train local forces as a way of making a bigger military contribution to the coalition fighting Islamic militants.

The Liberals promised during the election campaign that they would withdraw Canada’s CF-18 jet fighters. The former Conservative government committed to keeping them involved in coalition air strikes until March.

However following the terrorist attacks in Paris this month, the opposition Conservatives and some premiers have called on the government to rethink abandoning the air campaign.

Sajjan reiterated on Sunday that Canada is part

of a coalition in the fight against ISIL, and noted that other members of the coalition are contributing resources to airstrikes.

“As tragic as those events are, the solution is not based on one tool,” he said. “The solution is based on our efforts working as a coalition with all the tools together.”

“We’re going to be taking the fight to ISIS…and we work as part of a team.”

Sajjan sidestepped reporters’ questions on whether Canada’s allies used this weekend’s security forum as a chance to raise the issue of Canada’s decision to withdraw from the combat mission.

But the former envoy to the American-led global coalition to defeat ISIL, said the decision to withdraw fighter jets is up to Canada and the United States would respect the decision.

“That’s a sovereign decision of Canada and we’ll support that decision,” Retired Gen. John Allen said in an interview with The Canadian Press on Saturday.

“We won’t ever question that, but we would be poised and ready to provide whatever information or advice that would be asked of us.”

Sajjan also stressed the need to stay ahead of terrorist groups by getting better at spotting indications of threats “so we can deal with the threat when it’s at it’s infancy.”

“That’s how we are going to be able to move forward and Canada is very good at that.”

TORONTO — Men who kill their female partners are more likely to be criminally convicted than men accused of killing strangers — but they also tend to get lighter sentences, a Canadian study concludes.

The research, being published in the journal “Current Sociology,” finds that men who kill their wives, girlfriends or other female family members are handed shorter prison terms than men who kill strangers.

In fact, according to the findings, men who kill women they know are treated more leniently at most stages of the criminal-justice process, such as facing fewer charges of first-degree murder.

Study author Myrna Dawson, an associate sociology professor at the University of Guelph, calls it the “intimacy discount.”

“This may mean that women killed by male partners are still seen as property and, as such, these femicides are not treated as seriously as other femicides,” the study states.

Another factor at play could be that femicide of a partner or family member is typically seen as a spontaneous “crime of passion” or the result of victim provocation.

“Despite the dominance of these beliefs, there has been little examination of the validity of resulting stereotypes,” Dawson told The Canadian Press.

“Some exploratory research has shown that premeditation or intent is actually more likely in cases involving men who kill female partners.”

Perhaps counterintuitively, given the lighter sentences, the study found that men who kill intimate partners are convicted at rates three times higher than men who kill female strangers.

Crimes involving relatives tend to be easier both to solve and prosecute, research suggests. The shorter sentences could therefore be due to charges that are more often reduced in exchange for guilty pleas.

“Understanding whether the plea process or common stereotypes associated with intimacy and violence explain this relationship (between convictions and sentencing) is a crucial next step and one that I am currently examining,” Dawson said.

“Court actors — judges, Crown attorneys, defence lawyers — are professionals but they are also members of the public (so) how they see these crimes is key.”

For her journal article “Punishing femicide: criminal justice responses to the killing of women over four decades,” Dawson analyzed Ontario homicide cases between 1974 and 2013, a period in which men killed at least 1,381 women — roughly one femicide every 10 days. She reviewed coroner’s records, police reports and court files to look at criminal charges, guilty pleas and prison sentences.

A key finding was the “female victim effect,” a corroboration of previous American research: Men who kill women are generally treated more harshly than when they kill other men, with those who kill female strangers facing the most severe punishment, particularly at sentencing.

Researchers disagree on why this happens. One idea is that it may be because femicide often occurs in conjunction with a sexual assault, seen as a significant aggravating factor. Another is that the justice system views women as more vulnerable and in greater need of protection.

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by ASHLI BARRETT/ Advocate staff Red Deerians rang in the holiday season this past weekend during the annual Red Deer Lights the Night festival.

The Christmas lighting spectacular saw thousands of city residents head to City Hall Park to soak

up some holiday spirit, enjoy the warm weather, and watch as the park lights came on as the trees and displays around them took on a festive glow.

Music, entertainment, crafts and games for the kids, and a small winter market were part of the celebrations.

Hot chocolate, popcorn and candy canes were provided, and children had a chance to visit Santa Claus.

The biggest attraction of the night, however, came as

crowds counted down for the lighting of the biggest Christmas tree, located this year on the north-east corner of City Hall. A fireworks display, launched from the Central Middle School field, wrapped the festivities up with loud applause from attendees.

City Hall Park will be lit up until about Jan. 11, and a musical light show surrounding the biggest Christmas tree will happen nightly from 6-8:30 p.m.

ABOVE; Prop performers entertain with glow poi in front of one of City Hall Park’s lit trees during the Red Deer Lights the Night festivities Saturday evening.

RIGHT; Alycia Betts creates fun shapes with her glowing hula hoops.

LEFT; Tyler Allen performs in the Trappers Lounge- a heated tent for Red Deerians to warm up in- Saturday evening during Red Deer Lights the Night festivities downtown.

ABOVE LEFT; Ethan Orser, 3, checks out some of the lit deer during Red Deer Lights the Night festivities ABOVE RIGHT; A display of snowman and deer sits outside of Red Deer City Hall.

BELOW RIGHT; Fireworks launched from the Central Middle School field wrap up the evening celebrations.

BELOW LEFT; Payton Holowaychuk tosses a bean bag into the hole during the Red Deer Lights the Nights festivities. There were tons of games for children, including lawn bowling, human monopoly and an obstacle course.

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High cost for high security FEDS WON’T HELP AIR CANADA PICK UP $100-MILLION SKY MARSHAL SECURITY TAB

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal government has rebuffed Air Canada’s plea to be compensated for a portion of the more than $100 million the airline says it has spent over the last five years to accommodate gun-toting sky marshals on its flights.

Newly released documents show the government dismissed the airline’s concerns about costs and other aspects of the program earlier this year on the grounds that changes would “compromise public safety.”

Established after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, the Canadian Air Carrier Protective Program involves placement of covert sky marshals, known as in-flight security officers, on select commercial routes to prevent planes from being commandeered by terrorists.

Details of the program — including information about its scope and which flights have officers — are a closely guarded secret.

The Canadian Press used the Access to Information Act to obtain a censored version of a secret Public Safety Canada memo prepared earlier this year for Steven Blaney, minister at the time, and an accompanying letter from a senior departmental official to Derek Vanstone, an Air Canada vice-president.

Air Canada had expressed concerns about the sky marshal program in 2013 and subsequently met representatives of the RCMP, Public Safety and Transport Canada, prompting the follow-up correspondence.

Air Canada spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick declined to comment on the documents, saying that “disclosing information about security programs or procedures could compromise their effectiveness.”

However, the airline did say in a written submission to the government in February that carriers provide seats to in-flight security officers at no charge. If an officer requests a specific seat it must be provided even if it has been sold to a passenger, says the submission to a review of the Canada Transportation Act. In these cases carriers must remove the passenger and negotiate compensation for the seat, representing “a significant cost and lost opportunities to carriers.”

In the last five years the value of the seats Air Canada has provided to security officers “has reached over $100 million,” the submission says. “In most jurisdictions, foreign governments provide compensation for similar programs to their carriers.”

Air Canada recommended the Canadian security program buy seats from airlines at market rates. Alternatively, airlines should be allowed to write off the value of seats against taxes and to charge officers for in-flight food and entertainment In some cases, the airline says, security officers have requested seats on so-called positioning flights, which have no passengers on board, simply to travel to another airport.

Carriers should not be responsible for helping officers get to work, Air Canada says.

It recommended the RCMP share all data regarding risk assessments for individual flights with airlines, allowing carriers to make educated judgments about whether to cancel a flight, and to generally focus the program “only on flights that have a pre-agreed level of risk.”

Public Safety had no immediate response to questions.

But in its letter to Vanstone, much of which remains secret, the department says the federal policy requir-

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As an Air Canada Embraer ERJ-190 jetliner taxies to the terminal, an Air Canada Boeing 777-300ER takes off, Vancouver International Airport. ing airline expenditures on the sky marshal program — including in-flight meals and luggage handling — is “consistent with other countries” and the government is “not considering any amendments.”

In addition, there is no evidence security officers are taking advantage by filing expense claims for free meals, the letter says. “ The RCMP conducted a review and has confirmed that appropriate oversight and controls are in place, and

that officers are not reimbursed for a meal when one is provided on board.”

The air-carrier protective program contributes to the safety of Air Canada staff, passengers and equipment and, generally, all Canadians, the letter adds.

“As such, the RCMP will continue to do what is necessary aboard your aircraft, and all other Canadian airlines, to preserve the security of Canadian air travellers.”

Former rower Tricia Smith elected new COC president

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Olympic medallist and lawyer Tricia Smith was voted president of the Canadian Olympic Committee on Sunday morning.

A four-time Olympic rower from Vancouver, Smith won silver at Los Angeles 1984 in coxless pairs with teammate Elizabeth Craig. Smith — a recipient of the Order of Canada — had been vice-president of the Canadian Olympic Committee since 2009.

“I feel enormously privileged and grateful that our sport community has entrusted me today with the leadership of the COC,” said Smith in a statement. “It’s an honour I accept with pride and gratitude at a time when the eyes of the country are upon us.

Based on my platform, this endorsement sends a clear message that our members embrace the values of sport and expect integrity.”

COC board members chose between Smith and award-winning high performance coach and lawyer Peter Lawless, who will continue to serve the organization as vice-president.

CANADIAN OLYMPIC COMMITTEE Smith recently became interim president of the organization following Marcel Aubut’s resignation in early October after women accused him of sexual comments and unwanted touching.

“I will be a champion for creating a safe and inclusive environment for our employees and all those involved in the Olympic Movement in this country,” said Smith. “I will be a tireless advocate for unity, inclusiveness and collaboration with our many partners.

“We now enter an Olympic year with great excitement and anticipation. We must be at our best. We will do everything in our power to ensure we create an optimal environment for Rio 2016, so our athletes and coaches can be the very best they can be.”

Smith has served the COC in various capacities for over 30 years. Since joining the COC’s athletes’ council in 1980 as rowing’s representative, Smith has been a member of the executive, team selection, games, governance and compensation committees. She was

Canada’s Chef de Mission for the 2007 Pan American Games.

She is also the vice-president of the International Rowing Federation and has been a leader in creating opportunities for women in FISA, in all aspects of the sport, increasing the number of opportunities for women to compete, coach, administrate and officiate in international rowing. She has also played a strong role in FISA’s anti-doping policies as a member of the executive committee.

Smith participated in the 1976 Montreal Olympics, the 1984 Los Angeles Games and the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

She qualified for the 1980 Moscow Games, but like all Canadians did not participate because of a boycott of those Olympics led by the United States after the Soviet war in Afghanistan in 1979.

Other Canadian amateur sports organizations applauded Smith’s election.

“On behalf of the Canadian Paralympic Committee, our congrat-

ulations to Tricia as she embarks on her presidency,” said Gaetan Tardif, president of the Canadian Paralympic Committee. “Tricia brings inclusive, positive leadership to the Canadian Olympic movement. Her decades of experience in both sport and the law are unmatched.

“She always puts the athletes and coaches first and believes strongly in the positive power of sport.”

Own The Podium, a not-for-profit organization that determines investment strategies for national sport organizations in an effort to deliver more Olympic and Paralympic medals for Canada, was also pleased with Smith’s appointment.

“This is a great day for sport in Canada, and for Own the Podium’s continued goal to foster stronger relationships with its partners,” said Anne Merklinger, Own the Podium’s chief executive officer. “The Canadian Olympic Committee is a critical partner in our efforts to deliver the critical resources and programs our nation’s athletes need and deserve in their quest for the Olympic podium.”

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Face to face PROVINCIAL FINANCE MINISTERS PRIMED FOR FIRST DATE WITH NEW FEDERAL COUNTERPART

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Even as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with premiers on Monday to discuss climate change and Syrian refugees, provincial finance ministers are already building a federal-provincial agenda of their own.

What’s at the top of their list for a meeting with federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau expected next month?

In a series of recent interviews with The Canadian Press, one provincial finance minister after another pointed to the need to figure out how to pay for health care.

“It’s probably the biggest issue for all of us,” Alberta NDP Finance Minister Joe Ceci said last week, before adding that health-care spending consumes about 40 per cent of the province’s operational budget — easily the biggest chunk.

Federal and provincial finance ministers have been meeting regularly over the years, even though meetings at the highest level — between the premiers and the prime minister — were suspended for seven years by Stephen Harper. But the Liberal platform that propelled Trudeau to electoral victory in October has wide-ranging implications for many files in the provinces, and the finance ministers will have more than a few items to discuss.

The ministers say they hope to come away from the late December meeting with a better understanding of the election pledges. They’ll be looking to Morneau to explain the implementation of Liberal promises such as infrastructure spending, taxation changes and public-pension enhancement.

But it’s the federal promise of a new health-care accord that unites them, since there’s nothing more central to

fiscal health than figuring out a different way to control that sector’s ever-increasing price tag.

“We’re hoping the federal government will take a larger role in terms of paying healthcare costs,” said Manitoba NDP Finance Minister Greg Dewar, who added that health costs chew up 45 per cent of his province’s budget.

“It’s also one of the budgetary items that increases quicker, more rapidly, than the growth Bill Morneau in our economy.”

Ontario’s Liberal Finance Minister Charles Sousa said all the provinces are under some stress when it comes to health care.

“Demographic changes are what they are and have to make some transformative changes to our health-care system in order to make us sustainable,” Sousa, whose office appointed Morneau as a pension adviser in 2012, said in a recent interview in Ottawa.

The federal Liberals pledged to negotiate a new health accord and provide a fresh commitment for long-term funding. Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott has already begun exploratory talks with her provincial counterparts.

The former Conservative government allowed the previous health accord to expire. It was a 10-year, $41-billion agreement signed in 2004 under then-prime minister Paul Mar-

tin which guaranteed federal health transfer payments would increase annually by six per cent.

In 2011, the Tories decided unilaterally that the Canada Health Transfer would grow by six per cent a year until 2017-18. After that, health transfers will be tied to the rate of economic growth and inflation, but the annual rate of increase won’t fall below three per cent.

The funding is not tied to any agreed upon policy objectives, leaving provinces and territories to solve issues on their own.

Beyond health care, the finance ministers expect the meeting with Morneau to also focus on the Liberals’ commitments to spend big on infrastructure.

The party pledged to provide billions of dollars worth of funding for the provinces, territories and municipalities for infrastructure projects such as public transit.

Ministers say they want to learn more about how that program will work.

“Probably one of their biggest planks was around infrastructure, so like many jurisdictions there are a lot of infrastructure opportunities (in Nova Scotia),” said Nova Scotia’s Liberal Finance Minister Randy Delorey.

“It’s well known that our economy has struggled the last few years, so we have to look with that lens when we’re having discussions.”

Delorey, who also serves as the province’s environment minister, said he will have particular interest in the federal government’s promised “green” infrastructure funding for projects like wastewater facilities.

The provinces, like Ottawa, expect infrastructure spending to boost the country’s sluggish economy and create

SE Asia formally creates regional economic community ASEAN COMMUNITY

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Thirteen years after the idea was mooted, Southeast Asian leaders on Sunday formally created a unified economic community in a region more populous and diverse than the European Union or North America, and with hopes of competing with China and India. The 10 leaders in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations signed a declaration during their summit establishing the ASEAN Economic Community, as part of a larger ASEAN Community that aims for political, security, cultural and social integration.

Summit host Prime Minister Najib Razak of Malaysia hailed the ASEAN Community as a “landmark achievement,” and urged members to accelerate integration. “The region is primed to expand exponentially,” he said.

The community, known by its acronym AEC, is already a reality and many of its fundamentals have been applied in the region such as removal of tariff barriers and visa restrictions among others. It has also led to greater political and cultural co-operation.

AEC will bolster income and employment, and provide the region with stronger economic muscle in facing the other giants, said Michael G. Plummer, a professor of international economics at the Europe Center of Johns Hopkins University, based in Bologna, Italy.

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ASEAN leaders join their hands as they pose for photographers after the signing ceremony of the 2015 Kuala Lumpur Declaration on the Establishment of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Community and the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on ASEAN 2025, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday.

“ASEAN integration will help balance the economic power of China and India. Individually, ASEAN countries are, perhaps, too small to be important players in the economic and security game, but as an integrated group of more than half a billion people, they would be in the major league,” Plummer said.

But there is a long way to go before the AEC becomes fully functional after

becoming a legal entity on Dec. 31. The region’s diversity can be a hindrance sometimes. ASEAN has 630 million people, speaking different languages, following various faiths and governed by various systems, including rambunctious democracies, a military dictatorship, quasi-civilian, authoritarian, monarchy and communism.

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jobs.

In Manitoba, Dewar said the government has taken advantage of low interest rates to make large infrastructure investments of its own. He insisted the plan will make the province a leader in economic growth next year.

“I wanted to encourage him to fulfil his promise,” Dewar said of the Liberals’ infrastructure vow, which Morneau is partially responsible for.

The finance ministers interviewed also shared other issues they were hoping to discuss with Morneau at the meeting, which is expected the week of Dec. 21. Here are a few of them: — Ontario’s Sousa wants to talk about the Trudeau government’s vow to beef up pensions and how a Canada Pension Plan enhancement would fit with the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan. He also anticipates talks on the planned national co-operative securities regulator and the possible impacts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty.

— Alberta’s Ceci hopes to discuss Ottawa’s plans for social-housing investments and taxation. He says he wants to ensure any changes to the federal tax system won’t affect the significant, lower-tax advantage Alberta has relative to other provinces.

— Manitoba’s Dewar says he not only wants Ottawa to give the provinces their “fair share” for health care, but also for education. He hopes to discuss the federal pension-enhancement plan as well.

— Nova Scotia’s Delorey says he also wants to learn more about federal taxation adjustments to make sure they don’t have negative consequences for the province. He says his focus is getting Nova Scotia out of deficit on the road to “fiscal sustainability.”

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BRIEF Ford workers narrowly approve new 4-year contract with United Auto Workers DETROIT — Ford workers narrowly approved a new four-year contract, wrapping up five months of negotiations between the United Auto Workers union and Detroit automakers.

The UAW said late Friday that Ford’s contract passed with a 51.4-per cent vote. The agreement covers 53,000 U.S. hourly workers at 22 plants.

“There is no higher authority than the membership. Through a fair and democratic process UAW-Ford members have delivered job security and strong economic gains for their families and communities,” said UAW Vice-President Jimmy Settles, the union’s top Ford negotiator, in a statement.

Union leaders held a press conference earlier this week to push for the Ford agreement when they feared workers would reject it. Some workers said the union didn’t push hard enough to win back things they lost in previous agreements, including annual wage increases. They also wanted a two-tier wage system eliminated immediately instead of over eight years, as the contract promises.

But union leaders warned that they might not get a better deal from Ford if workers rejected the agreement and sent them back to the bargaining table.

“If we thought there was another dollar on the table, we would have got it the first time,” said Bernie Ricke, the president of Local 600, a large union in Ford’s hometown of Dearborn.

Weighing the costs of going back to school The school year now is in full swing.

Classrooms across the country are not just being inhabited by children and undergraduates. Many are filled with mature adults who have entered into post-graduate or other programs to better their education and professional qualifications in the hope of new and improved job prospects.

For adults, TALBOT returning to BOGGS the classroom often can inMONEYWISE volve juggling work, school and financial and family obligations that younger students don’t have to worry about.

According to Universities Canada, more than 53,000 Canadians were enrolled full-time in graduate programs in 2012 – 34,000 in Master’s degrees, 2,400 in Doctorate programs and the

rest in residency or other programs.

Another 145,000 were enrolled in graduate programs part-time.

Statistics Canada reports that students enrolled in graduate programs in Canada paid an average of about $6,200 in tuition fees for the 2014/15 school year and fees rose from the previous year in every province except Newfoundland and Labrador. The average cost of an executive Masters of Business Administration degree is around $40,000 but can rise much higher to $90,000 and even $100,000 and more at some of the country’s more prestigious schools.

“There are two main reasons most people want to return to school – for income and job fulfilment,” says Myron Knodel, Director of Tax and Estate Planning at Investors Group. “It’s really important to prepare a detailed plan on what it will actually cost you, not only in terms of money but also the impact and sacrifices that it might have on you, your family and their lives.”

People wanting to return to school should consider all possible sources of income. These can include income from a working spouse or partner, tak-

ing a part-time job or getting financial support from other family members.

The federal government offers student loans for those who qualify and grants for students from low and middle income families, for part-time studies and for students with dependants, permanent disabilities and for services and equipment for students with permanent disabilities.

Under the Lifelong Learning Plan (LLP) you can borrow up to a total of $20,000 (a limit of $10,000 per year) over a maximum of four years to fund studies at a qualified educational institution for you or your spouse, but not your children.

Amounts that are withdrawn are not subject to taxes on withdrawal and at least 10 per cent of the amount borrowed must be repaid each year over a maximum period of 10 years. You can continue to make contributions to your RRSP and deduct them from your income on your income tax.

If you do not have an RRSP you cannot set one up and then make an LLP withdrawal immediately. The contribution has to be in the RRSP for 90 days before you can deduct it from income on your tax and benefit return.

You also could use a Tax Free Savings Account (TFSA) as a sort of revolving line of credit and withdraw money and then recontribute it in the year following the withdrawal.

People consider returning to school should not only look at the financial aspects but whether a career change or improvement will make them happier and the likelihood of success in their new venture.

“A lot of people might feel they have hit the proverbial glass ceiling in their careers but they need to consider what kind of job they hope to get and how much more salary they might expect,” says Knodel. “They also need to prepare to sacrifice some of their lifestyle. It’s always a good idea to consult your financial professional and to discuss with your spouse or partner and family to determine whether this is the right course of action. It should be a collective effort.”

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

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5 things to watch for in business this week TORONTO — Five things to watch in Canadian business this week: Premiers’ confab: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sits down with the country’s premiers on Monday, the first such meeting since 2009. The new prime minister invited Canada’s 10 premiers and three territorial leaders to Ottawa for the meeting, being held a week before he heads to Paris for a global conference on climate change.

Aviation assembly: The country’s new transport minister, Marc Garneau, is expected to attend the International Civil Aviation Organization forum on Monday in Montreal. The event is billboarding aviation as the “engine of development and socio-economic prosperity.” Garneau will likely face questions about beleaguered aircraft-maker Bombardier and Canadian Pacific’s play for U.S. railroad operator Norfolk Southern Corp.

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EPA says VW cheating software is on more six-cylinder diesel engines WASHINGTON — Volkswagen’s emissions cheating scandal widened Friday after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said the German automaker used software to cheat on pollution tests on more six-cylinder diesel vehicles than originally thought.

Volkswagen told the EPA and the California Air Resources Board the software is on about 85,000 Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche vehicles with 3-litre engines going back to the 2009 model year. Earlier this month the reg-

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ASEAN: Most ambitious “The AEC is arguably the most ambitious economic integration programin the developing world. But implementation of the AEC is increasingly uphill. Much remains to be done and the region faces many challenges in finishing. The AEC is a process,” Plummer said.

It falls short in more politically sensitive areas such as opening up agriculture, steel, auto production and other protected sectors. ASEAN citizens will be allowed to work in other countries in the region, but will be limited to jobs in eight sectors, including engineering, accountancy and tourism.

Bombardier boon: The Quebec transportation giant holds its annual investor day on Tuesday in Montreal.

Things appear to be looking up for the struggling Bombardier — it’s received a US$1 billion infusion from the Quebec government, and last week it inked a deal that would see the province’s pension fund manager invest US$1.5 billion for a minority stake in the company’s rail business.

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ulators accused VW of installing the so-called “defeat device” software on about 10,000 cars from the 2014 through 2016 model years, in violation of the Clean Air Act. The regulators said in a statement they will investigate and take appropriate action on the software, which they claim allowed the six-cylinder diesels to emit fewer pollutants during tests than in real-world driving.

VW made the disclosure on Thursday, a day before it submitted plans to the EPA to fix a much larger problem — emissions-cheating software on 482,000 four-cylinder diesel cars.

The EPA said in a statement Friday night that VW had turned in its proposed fix, but the agency wouldn’t give details. The EPA and CARB now will review the proposal, the statement said.

Any fix would almost certainly include a recall, with owners being asked to take their cars to dealers for repairs.

VANCOUVER — Two Vancouver businessmen hid silently in their rooms for seven hours as gunmen stormed their hotel in Mali, sending text messages describing the sounds of gunfire and grenades to horrified colleagues in Canada.

The B2Gold Corp. executives were in the Radisson Blu hotel in the capital Bamako when Islamist militants launched the attack Friday morning. Unable to talk on the phone or leave their rooms, the men spent all day reporting what they were hearing through texts and emails, said CEO Clive Johnson.

Johnson was supposed to be on the same trip but had to stay in Vancouver due to knee surgery complications. He was in constant communication with his coworkers, which meant staying up all night due to the time difference.

“It was surreal to be on that end of it and to think what they were going through, and that I would have been in the same situation,” he said.

The militants took about 170 hostages and killed 19 of them in the mass shooting, for which the jihadist group Al-Mourabitoun has claimed responsibility in co-operation with al-Qaida.

The executives were in the African country for a ground-breaking ceremony at the company’s Fekola mine, which is under construction. Luckily, the men hadn’t yet gone downstairs for breakfast at the restaurant, where the attack began.

Johnson said the company’s security advisors were instructing the two men and they spent much of the day either lying on the balcony or hiding in the

bathrooms.

“Staying in the rooms was the right thing to do. Your instinct, obviously, is to want to get out of there.”

He said the men described “lots of commotion, equipment being moved around on the roof, and lots of bangs, which probably were stun grenades, lots and lots of shooting in the hallways.

“They’d have quiet periods where they’d think it was over, and then it would start up again. So it went on for a very long time.”

Despite the terrifying circumstances, he said his colleagues remained “remarkably calm and brave” until they were saved by Malian special forces who went room-to-room kicking down doors to rescue people inside.

“It was a huge relief,” said Johnson. “We were obviously very worried about them.”

Johnson said he didn’t want to reveal the identities of the executives without their consent but they were coping well and their flight was set to land in Vancouver late Saturday.

The company’s Fekola open-pit gold mine is scheduled to open in 2017.

The ground-breaking ceremony went ahead on Friday without the two executives, the CEO said.

“We’re not going to change our plans in terms of what we’re trying to do, which is build a mine that will be very good for Mali,” he said. “If we stop creating jobs around the world and doing what we do well, then some would argue that (terrorists) win.”

This accounts for only 1.5 per cent of the total jobs in the region, and host countries still can put up constitutional regulatory hurdles restricting the inflow of talent.

Intra-regional trade has remained at around 24 per cent of ASEAN’s total global trade for the last decade, far lower than 60 per cent in the European Union.

ASEAN members also struggle to resolve diplomatic flare-ups among each other such as border disputes between Cambodia and Vietnam, or Indonesia’s inability to fight annual forest fires that spew noxious haze for months over Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Plummer said progress has been slow in in services liberalization. Cross-border flow of investment is also restricted by large exclusion lists and caps on foreign ownership.

Government procurement and curbing monopolies by state-owned enterprises are highly sensitive and untouched,

he said.

Although the four poorer economies — Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam — have until 2018 to bring down tariffs, economic integration could further reinforce income equalities in the region, he said. AEC “is not the finished article. Neither is it officially claimed to be. There is much work to be done,” said Mohamad Munir Abdul Majid, chairman of a council that advises ASEAN on business matters.

“There is a disparity between what is officially recorded as having been achieved … and what the private sector reports as their experience.”

There are also other hurdles, such as corruption, uneven infrastructure and unequal costs of transportation and shipping. A wide economic gulf divides Southeast Asia’s rich and middle income economies — Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Thailand and the Philippines — and its four less developed members, Communist

Vietnam and Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia. The AEC was envisaged in 2002 — and a blueprint created in 2007 — to face competition from China and India for market share and investments.

While China’s economic growth is expected to slow to an average of 6 per cent annually over the next five years, India’s expansion is likely to pick up to 7.3 per cent in the same period, according to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development. The AEC is one of the three pillars of the ASEAN Community, which was created by the signing of the declaration Sunday. The other two pillars are political-security and socio-cultural. After the ASEAN summit, the 10 leaders huddled with heads of state from four other Asian countries as well as President Barack Obama, Russian Prime Minister Dimitri Medvedev, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key for a two-hour East Asia Summit.

Crude spill report: The Royal Society of Canada will release a report Wednesday looking at the environmental effects that crude oil spills have on water. The study is bound to create waves in the energy sector as companies try to forge ahead with their pipeline plans.

Oilpatch battle: The Alberta Securities Commission hears Suncor’s challenge to takeover target Canadian Oil Sands’ poison pill defence on Thursday in Calgary. Suncor, Canada’s largest energy company, says it’s in no rush to sweeten its bid for Canadian Oil Sands.

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ENTERTAINMENT Politician wants Bird Dance band to strut down Canada’s Walk of Fame ALBERTA BAND CREATED ICONIC SONG THE EMERALDS went double-platinum in Canada and gold in Australia.

Broder wouldn’t reveal his age, but EDMONTON — A politician is said The Emeralds’ five members are trying to get a roosting place on all in their late 60s and early 70s.

Canada’s Walk of Fame for an Alberta Wallis Petruk and Don Remeika are band that popularized the “chicken founding members who still play with dance.”

Chris Nielsen, an NDP legislature the band. Al Oswald and Dave Hnatiuk member, introduced the members of retired and were replaced by Terry The Emeralds earlier this week during Kole and Reiner Piehl. the legislative session.

The band He called the continues to play band “a Canadian about 40 shows a treasure” and year at casinos, asked for support corporate events in nominating and anniversary them. parties, said The polkaBroder. loving Edmonton Nielsen can group formed 45 years ago and had recall doing the a smash hit with chicken dance The Bird Dance — himself in high a take on an older school.

European dance He said he song. had no idea The The band’s Emeralds were version still has — ALLAN BRODER, ORIGINAL MEMBER OF THE EMERALDS from Edmonton people clucking until he was their hands and flapping their talking with a arms at weddings around the world. fellow legislature member who is a fan Nielsen has asked all Alberta of the band and an accordion player. legislature members to sign a letter Nielsen initially thought about requesting that the band be given a hiring the band for a fundraiser, star on the Walk of Fame next year.

A social media campaign is also in then decided his mission would be getting the group formally recognized the works, he said.

One of the band’s original members, alongside Bryan Adams and Celine Allan Broder, says it would be nice Dion. to be remembered on the celebrity He jokingly admits that the song has sidewalk in downtown Toronto. since been stuck in his head.

“It would be something that we “I’m just hoping with the support could leave behind,” he said Friday. of Canadians we can get a band, that “We’re not going to live forever has long entertained a couple of and we’ve had a wonderful career in music. We have entertained thousands generations, recognized for all that and thousands of people over the hard work and entertainment they’ve provided to us. years.”

“We have to make sure they finally The Emeralds have recorded 29 albums, including Bird Dance, which get what I think is due.”

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BRIEF Former game show host Jim Perry dies at age 82 TORONTO — Former entertainer and game show host Jim Perry has died, he was 82.

Former CTV executive and personal friend Pip Wedge says Perry died Friday.

Some media reports say he had suffered from cancer.

Perry worked on both sides of the border, becoming a game show host in Canada in the early 1970s appearing on a number of shows, perhaps the best known of which was Definition.

He hosted the show from 1973 until 1990.

Perry was also the long running emcee of the Miss Canada pageant, something he did from 1967 until 1990.

And he hosted a number of game shows on American television including Card Sharks, commuting across the border to juggle his gigs in both countries.

Wedge says Perry was a “marvellous guy” and “wonderful to work with.”

He says Perry had the ability to think on his feet and was remarkably cool when it came to performing.

Stuart McLean is diagnosed with melanoma, cancels annual Christmas tour TORONTO — Stuart McLean has called off his annual Vinyl Cafe Christmas Tour to begin treatment for melanoma.

McLean has toured with the CBC radio show since 1998, according to the show’s website.

McLean made the announcement about his cancer Saturday on his Facebook page and on the radio show’s website.

McLean has published numerous books of short stories based on the radio program, and is an officer of the Order of Canada.

He said he will begin cancer therapy next week.

McLean says his doctor expects the treatment to be successful.

“It feels like I invited everyone to dinner and am calling to say the party’s off. I don’t know what to say except, I am sorry,” he wrote.

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UBC shouldn’t have announced Steven Galloway suspension: faculty VANCOUVER — The University of British Columbia’s faculty association says the university should not have publicly revealed that high-profile author Steven Galloway had been suspended over “serious allegations.”

Association president Mark Mac Lean sent a memo to all faculty on Friday saying that the university released “confidential information” when it posted a memo earlier this week announcing that Galloway had been suspended as chairman of the creative writing program.

Mac Lean says Galloway has a legal right to privacy regarding matters pertaining to his employment status and he deeply regrets that the suspension has been madepublic.

Dean of Arts Gage Averill gave several media interviews this week in which he said the university would soon announce the identity of an external investigator hired to probe the allegations.

But on Friday a university spokeswoman said UBC would not provide any further details to the media, in order to maintain the integrity of an impartial, independent investigation.

Author and graduate of UBC’s Creative Writing program Chelsea Rooney says she’s concerned that Mac Lean’s memo will serve to silence people involved in the investigation.

Church of England threatens action over ban of ‘Lord’s Prayer’ spot before Star Wars LONDON — The Church of England is threatening legal action over the rejection of a one-minute film featuring the Lord’s Prayer that it wanted to run before showings of the new Star Wars film that opens shortly before Christmas. Church officials say the decision not to air the short film amounts to religious discrimination against the Church. The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said Sunday it is “extraordinary” that cinemas won’t show the film in the week before Christmas.

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Mockingjay - Part 2 opens to $101 million A FRANCHISE LOW FOR OPENING WEEKEND

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Mockingjay — Part 2, the final Hunger Games film, soared to a $101 million opening in its first weekend in theatres, according to Rentrak estimates Sunday. For most films this would be a coup, but The Hunger Games had its own records to beat, and this sets a new low for the four-film franchise.

The series starring Jennifer Lawrence kicked off with a bang in March 2012 with a massive $152.5 million weekend — one of the highest openings of all time.

Catching Fire, the second film in the franchise, one-upped that with a $158.1 million debut in November 2013.

Lionsgate split the final book in Suzanne Collins’ trilogy into two films, following the precedent of Twilight and Harry Potter.

Mockingjay — Part 1 opened on this weekend last year to $121.9 million, considered at the time to be a necessary and expected dip, while fans awaited the final installment, which, if it mimicked Twilight or Harry Potter, would have snared the second highest (if not highest) opening in the series.

With that perspective, a franchise low for the final Hunger Games film, which cost a reported $160 million to make, was a bit of a surprise. Lionsgate, however, is not disappointed.

“It’s a great accomplishment. The overall franchise has grossed over $2 billion worldwide and counting,” said David Spitz, co-president of theatrical distribution for Lionsgate.

“It’s a pretty phenomenal result.”

“When a franchise is this popular and this successful in this short a time, expectations run very high,” said Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst for Rentrak.

“If we live in a world where a $100 million opening is a disappointment, that’s pretty crazy.”

To date, there have been only 34 movies in history to open at over $100 million, and each film in The Hunger Games series has hit that massive benchmark.

Dergarabedian attributes the showing to a down marketplace. Just two weekends ago, Spectre, which fell to second place with $14.6 million, failed to live up to Skyfall’s domestic opening, too.

“Thanksgiving represents a good opportunity for a really strong second weekend,” Dergarabedian said.

Katniss didn’t have the weekend to herself, either.

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Liam Hemsworth, left, as Gale Hawthorne, Sam Clafin, back left, as Finnick Odair, Evan Ross, back right, as Messalia, and Jennifer Lawrence, right, as Katniss Everdeen, in the film, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2.

Night Before opened in fourth place, behind The Peanuts Movie, with $10.1 million, which was within Sony’s expectations.

The R-rated film cost about $25 million to produce.

“This is a movie that people love.

Opening early seemed like a really good prelude to the Thanksgiving weekend where it will expand beautifully,” said Rory Bruer, Sony’s president of worldwide distribution.

“It’s a good start for us.”

The Julia Roberts thriller The Secret in Their Eyes, a remake of the Oscar-winning Argentinian film, also debuted wide this weekend to $6.6 million from 2,392 locations — slightly

under expectations.

With this weekend down 11 per cent from last year, it remains to be seen whether 2015 will indeed be a record-breaking $11-billion year as many predicted at the outset.

While the box office is up 4.2 per cent from last year, the year to beat is 2013 and this year is tracking less than 1 per cent ahead of that.

“We’re in the home stretch,” Dergarabedian said.

“But remember, we have a little secret weapon in ‘Star Wars.”’

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to Rentrak. Final

domestic figures will be released Monday.

1.”The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2,” $101 million.

2.”Spectre,” $14.6 million.

3.”The Peanuts Movie,” $12.8 million.

4.”The Night Before,” $10.1 million.

5.”The Secret in Their Eyes,” $6.6 million.

6.”Love the Coopers,” $3.9 million.

7.”The Martian,” $3.7 million.

8.”Spotlight,” $3.6 million.

9.”The 33,” $2.2 million.

10.”Bridge of Spies,” $1.9 million.

International Emmys to honour Downton Abbey creator

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The timing couldn’t be better for the International Emmys to honour Downton Abbey writer and creator Julian Fellowes as the acclaimed British period drama wraps up its sixth and last season with a Christmas Day finale on Britain’s ITV. Elizabeth McGovern, who stars as Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, and the show’s executive producer Gareth Neame will present the honorary International Emmy Founders Award to Fellowes Monday night at the Hilton New York.

Downton Abbey was never nominated for an International Emmy honouring excellence in TV productions outside the U.S. because its producers opted to compete in the Primetime Emmys, winning 12 awards and earning the most nominations ever for an international TV series.

The show’s final season begins airing on PBS in the U.S. on Jan. 3.

Downton Abbey, portraying the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants amid the backdrop of such historical events as the sinking of the Titanic and World War I, has become one of the most popular TV shows in the world, airing in at least 150 countries.

“We give the Founders Award to somebody whose work crosses cultural boundaries to touch our common humanity,” said Bruce L. Paisner, president and CEO of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

“It’s amazing with Downton — al-

most any place you go in the world people watch it, like it and refer to the characters.”

“In the guise of early 20th century aristocrats and the people who work for them, Julian has recreated everybody so people can see themselves and their situations and their life in these characters.”

The presentation to Fellowes will highlight the International Emmy Awards ceremony in which 40 nominees from 19 countries will be competing in 10 categories.

The ceremony will be hosted by Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef, dubbed “the Jon Stewart of the Arab world.”

Britain garnered a leading seven International Emmy nominations, led by Sheridan Smith, who received a best actress nod for her role in Cilla nabout the rise to stardom of pop singer and TV personality Cilla Black. Rafe Spall was nominated for best actor for his role opposite Jon Hamm in the techno-thriller White Christmas, the holiday special of the anthology series Black Mirror.

Brazil’s five nominees include two shows that received double nominations. Doce de Mae (“Sweet Mother”), about a matriarch who confronts issues of aging while dispensing wisdom to her family, was nominated for best comedy and actress (Fernanda Montenegro).

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How the West was won ESKIMOS HOLD OFF STAMPEDERS TO GET TO GREY CUP

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Eskimos 45 Stampeders 31 Edmonton Eskimos quarterback Mike Reilly shredded the Calgary Stampeders in the CFL West Final Sunday, punching his team’s ticket to the Grey Cup for the first time in a decade.

Reilly threw for three touchdowns and ran in two more as the Eskimos defeated their southern Alberta rivals 45-31 in front of 34,414 fans at Commonwealth Stadium.

The Eskimos will play the Ottawa Redblacks next Sunday at Investors Group Field in Winnipeg in the 103rd Grey Cup. “We got one more to go and that’s the ultimate goal,” said Reilly.

The Redblacks defeated the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 35-28 in the East Division Final earlier Sunday.

The last time an Ottawa team was in the Grey Cup was 1981, when the Rough Riders lost to the Eskimos 26-23.

“It was execution,” said Reilly talking on the field after the game as fans chanted his name.

“We weren’t giving up the big play defensively, and we were marching down the field and not taking penalties and not turning over the ball offensively.

“We slowed down a bit in the fourth quarter … but we played enough for three that it didn’t matter.”

It’s a bit of revenge for the Eskimos, and Reilly, the 30-year-old from Kennewick, Wash., now in his third season as Edmonton’s starting QB. Due to a broken foot and other injuries, Reilly saw limited action in last year’s West Final, which saw the Stampeders rout the Eskimos 43-18 at McMahon Stadium en route to a Grey Cup championship.

Eskimo receiver Adarius Bowman said that loss left a sour taste all season long.

“There aren’t too many times in this business you get a chance to rematch anything,” said Bowman.

“We never stopped believing.”

Reilly missed almost half the regular season due to torn knee ligaments, but came back to lead the Eskimos to nine consecutive wins, including Sunday’s victory.

The Eskimos last went to the title game in 2005, defeating the Montreal Alouettes 38-35 in overtime.

The first half saw the Eskimos defence bend but not break as the Stampeders used tailback Jerome Messam either running the ball or on play action to move the ball on Edmonton’s notoriously stingy de-

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Edmonton Eskimos celebrate the win over the Calgary Stampeders during the CFL West Division final in Edmonton, on Sunday. fence.

Four times Calgary quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell drove the offence down the field only to have the drives stall. Rene Paredes kicked four field goals of 44, 16, 48 and 10 yards.

He added a 49-yard field goal in the third quarter in a lost cause for Calgary.

The Eskimos opened the scoring after Mathieu Boulay forced Stampders kick returner Skye Dawson to fumble a Grant Shaw punt five minutes into the game.

Four plays later Reilly ran up the middle from the one yard line. A two-point convert made it 8-0.

The Eskimos added their second major late in the second quarter on a 15-yard pass from Reilly to Bow-

Lightning suffer power outage in provincial semifinal

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Falcons 45 Lightning 0 The Foothills Falcons soared while the Hunting Hills Lightning experienced a power outage.

The visitors from Okotoks flew past the Lightning 45-0 before 340 fans at Great Chief Park Saturday.

The provincial tier 2 high school football semifinal was close after one quarter, but was basically decided by halftime.

Foothills quarterback Trey Kellogg, who had a big day passing, ran 29 yards up the middle for a first-quarter touchdown.

The Falcons then scored 17 second-quarter points, including two majors that followed an interception and fumble recovery in the Lightning end.

Kellogg tossed a four-yard scoring strike to Coal Clark and also legged out an eight-yard touchdown, and Seth Nelson kicked a 16-yard field goal that followed a Falcons interception.

Down 24-0 and with their running game negated by a talented and aggressive Falcons defence, the Lightning were in an awful place.

“Foothills is a very talented, high football-IQ team. They’ve got very good athletes with a lot of experience,” Lightning head coach Kyle Sedgwick noted following the contest.

“Today it’s a 7-0 game and then we have two turnovers. In big games, big teams capitalize on mistakes and all of a sudden it’s 21-0. Right now, because of some injuries and limitations, we’re not able to climb out of a hole. If it’s a seven-, 10- or maybe 14-point game at the half, maybe we can get that, but then you turn the ball over again and it’s 24 points.

“It’s tough.”

Two third-quarter touchdowns — on a seven-yard quarterback keeper by Kellogg and a 25-yard Kellogg pass to Brendan Lowry — upped the count to 38-0 and the visitors concluded the rout with a late fourth-quarter major, back-up pivot Tyson Pitcher hitting Mwamba Chali with a 43-yard pass.

Kellogg completed 10 of 22 passes for 238 yards and Pitcher was three-for-four for 72 yards.

Hunting Hills quarterbacks Layton Barisenkoff, Brandon Rees and Brandt Burzuk, who played most of the game at running back, combined to pick up 54 yards through the air.

“We’re pretty inexperienced in

man as the Stampeders defence seemed to tire.

Reilly hit Bowman on a crossing pattern just inside the five. Bowman outraced the defender to the pylon for the score.

Sean Whyte added field goals of 32 yards and 17 yards to round out the Eskimos’ first-half scoring.

In the second half, Edmonton took control of the game for good.

Reilly hooked up with slotback Kenny Stafford on a 33-yard pass-and-run play barely three minutes into the third quarter to make the score 28-12.

Whyte added a 31-yard field goal to up the lead to 31-12.

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That was the difference today, for sure.”

On a positive note for the Lightning, they did limit the Foothills running game to 110 yards.

“Our front seven has been probably the strongest group on our team all year,” said Sedgwick.

“They were missing their main running back (Landon Rose, due to injury) so we knew they would be a passing team today. I was happy with how we played the run.”

The Lightning simply couldn’t contain Kellogg and couldn’t solve a defence that was led by speedy and physical linebacker Daylon Creason, who also lined up behind Kellogg while playing on both sides of the ball.

“Dalen played a great game for us today and he hasn’t played much at tailback this season,” said Olson. “With Landon Rose out, he had a great week of practice and played great both ways today.”

Okotoks Foothills will face the Grande Prairie St. Joseph’s Celtics in the provincial tier 2 final Saturday at Foote Field in Edmonton. St. Joe’s crushed the host Lloydminster Barons 53-13 in the other semifinal.

OTTAWA — Henry Burris and Greg Ellingson ended their former team’s Grey Cup aspirations and sent Ottawa to its first CFL championship appearance since 1981.

Burris’s 93-yard TD strike to Ellingson with just over a minute remaining rallied Ottawa to a stirring 35-28 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the East Division final Sunday afternoon. Burris and Ellingson were both teammates in Steeltown in 2013. Burris joined the Redblacks as a free agent before the 2014 season and Ellingson followed suit prior to the 2015 campaign.

“Wow, wow. It was way too dramatic as far as the ending,” Burris said. “I thought I didn’t throw the ball well especially trying to deal with the wind but we did enough.

“I tip my hat off to Greg. If you could write a script for a story and an ending for a book … to have a chance to go against his old team and drive the dagger home, you can’t beat that moment.”

The play almost ended before it started as Burris bobbled a high snap. He threw to Ellingson, who made the catch with Hamilton defender Ed Gainey falling on the play.

Then after shedding Emmanuel Davis’s attempted tackle, Ellingson streaked untouched into Henry Burris the end zone. His TD came with Ottawa facing a second-and-25 situation after Hamilton defensive lineman Arnaud Gascon-Nadon dropped a seemingly easy interception and the Redblacks were penalized for a chop block, putting them on their 18-yard line.

“It’s nice to play against my old team but it’s more about going to the Grey Cup and winning it,” Ellingson said. “It’s just a play we’ve done before, I think we’ve completed that ball three or four times this year. It’s a ball that’s thrown outside to the receiver and you try to get the guys to go up and make the play.”

Burris, the East nominee for the CFL’s outstanding player award, finished 17-of-32 passing for 326 yards and the TD while running six times for 29 yards and a touchdown. Ellingson had five receptions for a game-high 186 yards.

The win, before a boisterous TD Place sellout of 25,093, earned Ottawa its first Grey Cup berth since the former Rough Riders lost in the ‘81 final to Edmonton.

The Redblacks will face either the Edmonton Eskimos or Calgary Stampeders in the CFL title game next weekend in Winnipeg.

Ottawa will represent the East Division in the CFL championship contest after posting just two wins in its inaugural 2014 season.

“I know it’s a big deal and I have a lot of respect for it,” Ottawa head coach Rick Campbell said.

“We’ll be happy for a few more hours and tee it up one more time. Then after that game we can discuss more things about Ottawa football history.”

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Layton Barisenkoff of the Hunting Hills Lightning fends off Foothills Falcon Daylon Creason during the Tier 2 South High School Football Final at Great Chief Park on Saturday afternoon. the secondary and they got some big plays on us,” said Sedgwick.

“There was some good cover on our part, but their quarterback put it into some tight windows and their guys made catches. What do you do? That’s going to happen, you just try and limit that.”

The Lightning, without regular starting quarterback Eric Thomson due to a season-ending shoulder injury he suffered two weeks earlier, needed their normally strong ground game to excel.

Instead, rushing yards were extremely hard to come by, including the 90 earned by Burzuk on 25 carries.

“Foothills just knows how to play football,” said Sedgwick.

“They’re very athletic. Today we knew we had to try and make it work, but we knew they were going to try and shut our run down and they did.”

“Our defence was the difference today, they had a lot of turnovers on these guys,” said Falcons head coach Darren Olson. “We know Hunting Hills is a strong team, they had a big game last week against St. Mary’s (in a 52-35 Lightning win at Calgary) while making some big plays.

“Our coaches did a great job of getting the guys ready and the guys executed the game plan.

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DeRozan leads Raptors past Clippers

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Raptors 91 Clippers 80 LOS ANGELES — The Toronto Raptors shut down Blake Griffin and Chris Paul, and then had enough to hold off the Los Angeles Clippers at the very end.

DeMar DeRozan had 21 points, DeMarre Carroll scored each of his 21 points in the first half, and the Raptors held Griffin and Paul scoreless through the first 20-plus minutes of a 91-80 victory over the Clippers on Sunday.

“We respect Griffin and Paul because they’re AllStars, but it’s not the first time we’ve played them,” centre Bismack Biyombo said after making his first start of the season for the injured Jonas Valanciunas. “Today our guards and our bigs did a pretty good job of taking them out of the game. We started the game the right way, and that helped.”

Luis Scola added 20 points and Kyle Lowry had 13 points and 10 assists for the Raptors (9-6), who closed out a 2-3 road trip. They shot just 37 per cent from the field, but outrebounded the Clippers 46-42 and forced 19 turnovers.

J.J. Redick scored 17 points for Los Angeles (6-7), which has lost three straight and seven of nine after starting the season 4-0. The only other time the Clips were under .500 during Doc Rivers’ two-plus seasons as coach was after his first game on the job, which they lost to the Lakers before winning their next three.

“We’re pretty frustrated,” Griffin said. “It’s been three in a row, so I think it’s pretty normal to be frustrated. But we can’t let that frustration affect us negatively, moving forward.”

The Clippers, who blew a 23-point lead in a 124117 home loss to the Warriors on Thursday, sliced a 29-point deficit against the Raptors to 73-67 with a 17-2 run capped by Austin Rivers’ short jumper with 9:26 to play. But that was as close as they got.

“The hardest thing to do in the NBA is play with a big lead, because human nature says you’re going to let down,” Raptors coach Duane Casey said. “You’ve got to come out in the third with the same energy, and that’s very difficult to do in this league. It was a good win, and we’ll take it, but we’re not satisfied with it. We’ve got so much room for improvement on the offensive end.”

Griffin, who picked up three fouls in his first 10 ½ minutes on the floor, scored his first points on a 20-footer 31 seconds into the third quarter. He finished with nine points and six rebounds.

Paul recorded five of his 11 assists before getting his first field goal on his fifth attempt, a 21-footer with 3:36 left in the second period. Neither Paul nor Griffin made a trip to the free-throw line in the first half.

“We have to get off to better starts, and it starts

Midget AAA The Red Deer Optimist Chiefs split a pair of weekend home games, falling 4-1 to Edmonton Southside Saturday and doubling the St. Albert Raiders 6-3 Sunday. Josh McNeil sniped two goals in the Chiefs’ victory. Landon Siegle, Kobe Scott, Tyrees Goodrunning and Landon McKenzie accounted for the other Red Deer goals, while winning netminder Justin Travis made 16 saves.

The clubs split eight minor penalties and the Chiefs, who led 2-1 after one period and 4-2 after 40 minutes, held a 48-19 advantage in shots.

On Saturday, Dawson Weatherill turned aside 34 shots in a losing cause and Regan Doig notched the lone Red Deer goal. The Chiefs were assessed four of seven minor penalties and were outshot 38-35.

Minor midget AAA The visiting Red Deer North Star Chiefs outshot their opponents 45-33 Saturday but suffered a 5-4 loss to the Calgary Canucks.

Scoring for the Chiefs were Lynden Kidd, Keaton Sawicki, Hunter Leslie and Zachary Zaparniuk. Justin Verveda made 28 saves in a losing cause.

In another contest, the Red Deer Strata Energy Chiefs were 3-0 losers to

FENCING Red Deer Fencing Club head coach Petar Toshkov earned a silver medal in the open men’s epee event of the Jujie Luan Open weekend meet at Leduc.

CJ Wilson also picked up a silver

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ESKIMOS: Last hurrah for Hufnagel Reilly then put the final nail in the Stamps’ coffin on the first play of the fourth quarter, hitting wide receiver Derel Walker in stride over the top for a 57-yard touchdown to make the score 38-15.

The Eskimos got the ball right back on an interception by linebacker Dexter McCoil. Four plays later, with more than 11 minutes left in the game, Reilly faked a pass and scrambled eight yards up the middle to make it 45-15.

Calgary fought back with two late touchdown passes from Mitchell to receivers Eric Rogers and Joe West.

“They (the Eskimos) were definitely the better football team today. They made the plays when they had to,” said Mitchell.

“They made the adjustments at halftime and we didn’t.”

The weather was not a factor in the game. It was a relatively balmy 5 C at kickoff with mild wind at field level.

It was the third time the Eskimos beat Calgary this season. Edmonton won 27-16 and 15-11 and lost 16-7 in the regular season.

It was a sour last hurrah for Calgary head coach John Hufnagel, who now leaves the sidelines to focus full time on his general manager duties.

The game marked the first-ever meeting of 14-4 teams in the CFL playoffs and tied the record for most combined wins (28) by division finalists.

with me,” Paul said.

Biyombo had 14 rebounds in 31 minutes in place of Valanciunas, who broke his left hand during Friday night’s 102-91 win over the Lakers.

“Nothing changes. It’s just going out there and doing my job,” Biyombo said.

Valanciunas, averaging 9.3 rebounds through the team’s first 14 games, has decided to rehab the injury instead of undergoing surgery. On Aug. 20, the 7-footer signed a four-year contract extension worth more than $15 million.

CARROLL’S DAY Carroll was 8 for 8 in the first half to help the Raptors build a 63-34 lead. But he was 0 for 5 the rest of

the way.

“When the ball moves, it finds the open man. And it was finding him in the first half,” Casey said. “He had some open looks. He’s a good shooter, he works hard at it in practice.”

TIP-INS Raptors: Terrence Ross, who scored a career-high 51 points against the Clippers at Toronto on Jan. 25, 2014, played 16 scoreless minutes in this one. … The Raptors missed their first nine shots in the fourth quarter. … Lowry’s steal with 7:43 left in the first quarter gave him at least one in each of the team’s first 15 games, eclipsing his longest such streak at any point of a season. beat Mountainview Colts netminder Jake Carlson on any of the 34 shots they directed his way in a 5-0 loss Saturday at Didsbury.

Anthony Hamill made 29 saves for the Wranglers, who trailed 2-0 after one period and 3-0 after 40 minutes.

• The Three Hills Thrashers rolled to a pair of weekend home-ice wins, thumping the Okotoks Bisons 7-3 Saturday after posting a 5-4 victory over the Ponoka Stampeders.

Patrick Fougere sniped two goals against Okotoks, with Michael Lougheed, Tom Vanderlinde, Ryan Spiller, Donovan Teichbrob and Cody Phillips also finding the back of the Bisons net.

Greg Pols blocked 43 shots for the winners, who were outshot 46-32.

The Stampeders rallied from a 4-1 deficit to force overtime Friday, then gave up the winner to Phillips.

Fougere scored twice for the Thrashers, who got additional goals from Spiller and Ben Schierman. Scoring for the Stamps were Nate Higgins with a pair, Brendan Scott and Jaizen Threefingers. Pols kicked out 29 shots for Three Hills. Ponoka goalies Lanny Blitt and Carter Gendreau combined to make 38 saves.

the host Airdrie/Cochrane Avalanche Friday. Details were unavailable.

Major midget girls The Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs split a pair of games at Lloydminster during the weekend, prevailing 3-0 Saturday and falling 3-1 Sunday afternoon. Bailey Knapp posted Saturday’s shutout with a 23-save performance.

Skylar Colonna, Emily McLennan and Emma Thomas supplied the goals for the Chiefs, who held a 26-23 edge in shots.

Major bantam The Red Deer Rebels were losers of two home-ice weekend contests, going down 4-1 to the Lethbridge Golden Hawks Saturday and dropping a 4-2 decision to the Calgary Northstars 24 hours later. Josh Zinger sniped the lone goal against Lethbridge, while Jason Very made 38 saves. The Rebels were outshot 42-9 and were assessed five of seven minor penalties.

Caileb Berge and Payton Wright tallied for the Chiefs Sunday. Bretton Park made 32 saves for Red Deer, outshot 36-23 and the recipients of seven of the 12 minor infractions assessed.

Major bantam girls The host Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs, on goals from Paige Dodd and Dylan Norrie and with the aid of a 39-save effort from Chantelle Sandquist, earned a 2-2 draw with the visiting Rocky Mountain Raiders Sunday.

The host Red Deer Vipers peppered Strathmore Wheatland Kings netminders Brady Hoover and Isaac Stewart with 62 shots Saturday night but dropped a 9-8 overtime decision.

The Vipers, with Dustin Spearing, Nick Glackin and Spencer Yeats each notching two goals and Matt Krusky and Declan Johnston adding singles, led the Kings 8-3 before coughing up four late third-period markers and an overtime tally. Rylan Bardick made 28 saves in a losing cause.

Red Deer also came up empty Friday, blowing a 3-1 lead and losing 5-3 to the host Stettler Lightning.

Kale Lapointe, with two goals, and Krusky scored for the Vipers, while Bardick and losing goalie Brody MacDonald combined to make 31 saves.

Dylan Houston scored twice for the Lightning. Derek Muhlbach, Steven Fletcher and Chandler Knibb had the other Stettler goals, while Taylor McLaughlin stopped 38 shots.

In other Heritage League weekend games involving Central Alberta teams: • The Blackfalds Wranglers couldn’t

medal in the under-17 men’s epee. Red Deer bronze-medals winners — all in epee — were Wilson (junior men), Karen Lyver (open women and veteran women) and Shawn Rowland (junior men and under-17 men).

The meet was attended by more than 150 fencers from Alberta and B.C.

DRUMHELLER — Chase Olsen’s 13th goal of the season — a power-play marker at 3:35 of overtime — lifted the Olds Grizzlys to a 2-1 Alberta Junior Hockey League win over the Drumheller Dragons Saturday.

Wyatt Noskey staked the visiting Grizzlys to a 1-0 lead with a power-play

goal midway through the first period and Keaton Holinaty pulled the hosts even with a short-handed marker just under six minutes later.

The Dragons held a 29-24 advantage in shots before 620 fans at the Memorial Arena. Olds was two-for-five on the power play, as opposed to zero-forthree for Drumheller.

The Grizzlys are idle until Saturday when they host the Brooks Bandits.

REDBLACKS: Didn’t make plays

said Sedgwick.

“If this is a different day, maybe it’s a different score. But it would have taken our best effort to beat that team and unfortunately we just didn’t have it. That’s the worst thing for a coach because you know how hard your guys work. I’m so proud of our team.

“You hate to see your Grade 12s go out but especially like that. But they

have so much to be proud of over their three years. This will hurt now but they have a lot they can take and cherish.”

• The Rimbey Spartans captured the provincial six-man championship Saturday at Lacombe with a 36-6 victory over the Edmonton Millwoods Christian Royals. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Campbell was just 10 years old when Ottawa last appeared in the Grey Cup, losing 26-23 to an Edmonton squad coached by his father, Hugh.

Hamilton created some anxious moments for Ottawa when Jeremiah Masoli, making just his second career playoff start, hit Luke Tasker on a 22-yard scoring strike with 1:34 remaining. Justin Medlock’s convert tied it 28-28.

“They made a play at the end,” said Hamilton coach/GM Kent Austin. “I really thought second and 25 we’d get them off the field, have great field position and we’d go out there and kick the field goal and get into the Cup. “We had plenty of opportunities to win the football game. We had them beat a couple different times, the difference is we didn’t make the plays, plays that were there.”

Hamilton (10-8) finished tied with Toronto for second but got the higher positioning after winning that season series.

The Ticats dispatched the Argos 2522 in the East Division semifinal last weekend.

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Busch brings home first NASCAR title

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Kyle Busch watched the season opener from a hospital bed, his pregnant wife and his dogs by his side.

He ended the year in victory lane, hoisting the Sprint Cup with his infant son in the middle of a celebration.

NASCAR’s comeback story is now a championship tale.

Busch won his first career Sprint Cup title Sunday night, nine months after he crashed into a concrete wall the day before the Daytona 500 and broke his right leg and left foot in a wreck that forced NASCAR to make immediate safety improvements at almost all of the circuits.

Busch withstood multiple surgeries, went through a grueling rehabilitation program and missed only 11 races. He got back in his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota in late May and NASCAR granted him a waiver to race for the title should he earn a berth in the playoffs.

“Going through the rehab, it was hard. It was really, really hard,” Busch said. “To just get vertical and get straight up and down, I did about three seconds and I was seeing stars. We just kept powering through and doing as much as we could, as quick as we could, and we were able to power through and get back.

“I said back then, I’ll say it again, the rehab and then getting back and getting focused was the hardest part, the hardest thing I’ve ever gone through. To put it all together here tonight, this night wasn’t all that hard.”

He won the season finale Sunday night at Homestead-Miami Speedway to claim the title, and knocked Kevin Harvick from his perch as reigning champion. Busch also denied Jeff Gordon a fifth crown in his final race.

Harvick finished a distant second, Gordon was sixth, and Martin Truex Jr., the fourth driver in the championship field, finished 12th.

“You always want to win, but I’ve learned not to be greedy,” Harvick said after his 12th second-place finish of the year cost him the championship.

There was a strong sentimental push for Gordon to go out on top in his final race. But he was only average all season, and that didn’t change Sunday night in front of a huge contingent of friends and family that included Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton and Mario Andretti, who both sat atop his pit box at the start of the race.

Gordon led nine laps early in the race and was third for an early restart

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Kyle Busch does a burnout after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race and the season title, Sunday, at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Fla. but he bobbled it and plummeted to eighth. That was about as good as he’d be the rest of the race as he struggled mightily with the handling of his Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet.

“Gosh, I’m a little disappointed, I’ll be honest,” Gordon said. “I thought going into the race we had something for them.”

Gordon eventually made his way to victory lane to congratulate Busch, who began his career as Gordon’s teammate at Hendrick Motorsports.

Temper tantrums and wrecked race cars led to his release before the 2008 season, and Busch has been chasing a Cup championship ever since. He’s the most successful driver in the second-tier Xfinity Series and on Friday he captured his fourth owners’ championship in the Truck Series.

“All he’s been through this year, nobody’s more deserving than him,” Gordon said about the new champion.

Truex, the underdog driving for single-car team Furniture Row Racing, also didn’t have enough in his Chevrolet to contend despite a handful of gutsy pit calls the team used out of desper-

ation.

“We really felt like without trying something really different, we weren’t going to get there,” Truex said. “We felt like we had to take a really big swing at it.”

That made the championship race a two-car battle between Busch and Harvick, and the outgoing champion simply didn’t have enough for Busch.

Busch was headed toward the title via a second- or third-place finish in the race when NASCAR called a caution for debris with 11 laps remaining. Team owner Joe Gibbs pumped his fists in frustration, but Busch remained calm in the car. The field headed to pit road, Busch asked for an adjustment, and was second on the restart with seven laps remaining.

He worked his way past Brad Keselowski to claim the lead, then pulled away and beat Harvick by 1.553 seconds.

“The dream of a lifetime, a dream come true,” Busch said.

The title is a sweet reward for Busch, who has made huge personal and professional gains over the last several

years. Known as one of most talented drivers in the sport, his temperament often got in his own way. But he has mellowed with marriage, gained perspective after the Daytona wreck, and was determined to be on his feet in the delivery room when wife Samantha delivered their first baby, a boy born in May — right after Busch returned to the race car and celebrated his 30th birthday.

“I don’t know if I quite understand life yet, but there’s something to be said about this year,” an emotional Busch said on his team radio.

Busch also joins older brother, Kurt, as a NASCAR champion. Kurt Busch won the title in 2004, the inaugural season of NASCAR’s Chase format.

The system has been tweaked several times and is in the second year of an elimination format that sends four drivers to Homestead to race for the title.

The title is the fourth NASCAR crown for Joe Gibbs, a three-time Super Bowl winning coach, but first since 2005. The title also is the first for Toyota, which joined the series in 2007.

Theories abound on how Kings drop close decision against Augustana to fix scoring problem NHL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Steven Stamkos watches old NHL highlights and sees a completely different game than the one that he’s starring in.

“The goals that were scored 20, 30, 40 years ago have no chance of going in the net now,” the Tampa Bay Lightning captain said. “It definitely is harder than ever to score and put up points.”

Hall of Fame coach Scotty Bowman called it “tough to score, real tough,” and Mike Babcock of the Toronto Maple Leafs deemed it “impossible to score.”

The NHL isn’t at a crisis point like it was in the early 2000s when interference, clutching and grabbing had drowned scoring to 5.14 goals a game, the lowest level since the expansion era began in 1967. But after post-lockout rule changes opened up the game in 2005-06 to get the league to 6.16 goals a game, it’s back down to 5.46 through the first 277 games this season.

“The athletes are better, bigger, stronger goalies and it’s just tougher to score,” Florida Panthers general manager Dale Tallon said. “Better coaching, video, all these things.”

Modern hockey is arguably the fastest the game has ever been, but there’s no shortage of complaining about a lack of scoring chances and goals. And there are plenty of theories on how to fix the NHL’s scoring problem.

MAKE THE NETS BIGGER Babcock started this new wave of goal-scoring grumbling recently when he said goaltender interference reviews were taking goals away when the puck was already not going in enough.

He pointed to the size of goalies in 1980 to now and explained the game has changed significantly as a result.

Hockey nets are six feet wide by four feet tall. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the size of goaltenders has grown four inches in the past three decades.

Making the nets an inch or two bigger is not a new idea. NHL senior vice-president and director of hockey operations Colin Campbell has four different sized nets in his barn and cautioned that even though GMs have discussed the idea, it would have far-reaching consequences, like whether minor, junior and youth leagues all over the world would have to spend millions of dollars to change their nets.

Veteran winger Jarome Iginla, part of the joint NHL-NHLPA competition committee, used to be against making nets bigger but now supports the idea. Bowman and Iginla’s coach with the Colorado Avalanche, Patrick Roy, would rather the league make the goal-

posts smaller.

“If every time you hit the crossbar and the post it goes in, and it happens three or four times a game, I think that could make a difference,” Roy said.

MAKE GOALIE EQUIPMENT SMALLER Goalies believe with the quality of sticks and the speed of shots that they need equipment for safety reasons.

Skaters — and GMs — disagree.

“I think that guys are so big now and so athletic that I’m sure with the ways that companies make their equipment, they can find a way to still make it protective,” Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby said.

Reducing goalie equipment has been an ongoing process in recent years, and it could take another step for next season. Campbell believes today’s bigger, better-trained and more athletic goalies are ready to co-operate with that.

“It’s one thing to have large equipment, it’s another to be six-foot-six,” Campbell said. “We can’t legislate against that.”

MAKE THE NEUTRAL ZONE BIGGER In 2005, the NHL increased the size of attacking and defensive zones from 60 to 64 feet, with the aim of giving more room to manoeuvre offensively, especially on the power play.

It worked right away, but over the past 10 years coaches and defenders have changed their approach, allowing the puck to move freely at the points on the blue line but collapsing to choke up room in better-quality scoring areas.

Going back to 60-foot zones is where Bowman would start.

“It’s hard now because the coaches, it’s a big end zone, they can’t cover the points, so they cover in front of the net, the scoring areas and (are) trying to stop goals,” Bowman said. “It’s hard to score from the point now because it has to go through a lot of guys and it has to beat a pretty good goalie.”

CALL MORE PENALTIES One key to the offensive outburst in 2005-06 was an increase in power-play goals. Rules were more strictly enforced, and goals followed.

The standard lapsed in the following seasons, and it’s something New York Islanders captain John Tavares noticed slipping even more after the all-star break last year.

“There just was not as many penalties being called, and it made it really tough for a lot of guys to be able to create the same amount of opportunities and be able to score at the same rates that they had been,” Tavares said.

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Vikings 3 Kings 1 PENHOLD – There’s little to choose between the RDC Kings and the University of Alberta, Augustana Vikings whether it’s in the Alberta Colleges Men’s Hockey League standings or on the ice.

It comes down to who plays the more complete game and Saturday that proved to be the Vikings as they downed the Kings 3-1 to move back into second place in the league, one point up on the Kings.

“Last night we put the gas pedal down and outshot them 40-29 (in a 2-2 tie in Camrose) and we started like that today but in the second period we let down and our power play killed us,” said Kings head coach Trevor Keeper. “We weren’t moving the puck and were consistently on the perimeter and not getting the puck into the slot.

“They’re good on the penalty kill … they force the play and are aggressive but that leaves some holes and we weren’t getting pucks to those spots “We killed a lot of time on the power play. In fact we had only one quality scoring chance in that period.”

The Kings got out of the period down 1-0 after Dylan Coupal scored a power play goal at 3:40.

The Vikings made it 2-0 five minutes into the third period when Connor McLaughlin rifled a shot from the left

RDC ATHLETICS The RDC basketball Kings bolted out to a 63-17 halftime lead en route to a 110-81 win over the Briercreast Clippers in ACAC action Saturday at Caronport, Sask.

Kings player of the game Ian Tevis hit eight of 10 three-point attempts and finished with 38 points, while Anthony Ottley scored 27 points and contributed nine rebounds.

The Kings are now 7-0 and face SAIT this weekend in a home-andhome series.

circle high to the glove side on Mike Salmon.

“They’re going to score a couple of goals but we needed to find a way to score more than one, which we have been doing lately,” said Keeper. “But today we weren’t shooting the puck enough.

“Everybody is a little tired and banged up, but so are they. We just needed to execute. To win we need to out compete the other team.”

The Kings were more effective in the third period, although they missed the net on several good opportunities against Augustana netmidner Andy Williams.

Tanner Butler got the Kings on the board at 14:14 with a blast just inside the blueline that picked the top corner on William’s stick side.

The Kings controlled the play following Butler’s marker, but Williams was solid.

“He’s aggressive and plays the puck well which makes it hard on our forecheckers,” said Keeper.

The Vikings put the game away with 10.8 seconds remaining with an empty net goal by Lukas Biensch.

The Kings finished with 32 shots on Williams while Salmon faced 29.

The Kings finish the pre-Christmas portion of their schedule against Concordia – Friday in Edmonton and Saturday at 7 p.m. in Penhold.

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.

The RDC Queens beat Briercrest 66-49 in the women’s game, getting nine points from each of Morgan Dool, Shaylee Farren, Cassidy Hollingsworth, Dedra Janvier and Paige Sneed.

• The RDC volleyball teams were at Ambrose College in Calgary Saturday and the Queens and Kings both prevailed 3-0. Details were unavailable.

• The RDC hockey Queens, with Alex Frisk turning in a flawless, 23-save performance, blanked the Grant MacEwan Griffins 3-0 Friday in Edmonton.

Ashley Graf, with two, and Morgan Fraser supplied the RDC goals.

Innisfail drops both weekend games, including a shutout to rival Generals CHINOOK LEAGUE The Innisfail Eagles experienced a difficult Chinook Hockey League weekend, losing 3-2 to the visiting Stony Plain Eagles Friday and 4-0 to the host Bentley Generals, Saturday night.

Trailing 3-0 midway through the third period Friday, Innisfail got goals from Ty Clay and Chad Ziegler, but came up just short. Aaron Letorneau, Brandon Kosolofsky and Bryce Wil-

liamson scored for Stony Plain before 700 fans at the Innisfail Twin Arena.

Sean Cahill made 50 saves as the winning netminder, while Dan Dunn turned aside 32 shots in a losing cause.

The visitors were zero-for-five on the power play; Innisfail was one-for-five.

Bentley netminder Thomas Heemskerk kicked out 30 shots Saturday to record the shutout.

Scoring for the Generals were Mike Kneeland, Colton Hayes, Jesse Todd and Chance Lund. Dunn made 27 saves for the Eagles.

B4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Nov. 23, 2015

Late FG lifts Cards over Bengals

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cardinals 34 Bengals 31 GLENDALE, Ariz. — The matchup between two of the best in the NFL lived up to the hype — with a bizarre twist at the end for good measure.

Chandler Catanzaro kicked a 32-yard field goal with 2 seconds remaining and the Arizona Cardinals escaped with a 34-31 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday night.

The winning field goal was from considerably closer range than it would have been because Cincinnati’s Domata Peko was called for unsportsmanlike conduct for hollering out offensive signals to try to confuse the Cardinals (8-2) as they were about to spike the ball to set up the kick.

The penalty moved the ball from the 27 to the 14.

“I don’t think I have ever seen that call, ever since I have been in the NFL,” Peko said. “We had way too many penalties today. That was the name of the game. We were fighting the refs and the Cardinals. “ Bengals coach Marvin Lewis called it a “phantom call.”

“It’s kind of ridiculous,” he said.

The Bengals were penalized 10 times for 108 yards, Arizona seven times for 40.

Carson Palmer overcame two early interceptions to throw four touchdown passes and, with 57 seconds left, completed three quick passes to move the team into field goal range after the Bengals rallied to tie it at 31.

“I just made two really stupid plays,” Palmer said. “Just kind of got the jitters out and we got rolling. We caught fire in the second half.”

Andy Dalton threw two touchdown passes for the Bengals (8-2), both to Tyler Eifert. The second cut, a 10-yarder, cut it to 31-28 with 3:44 to play. Mike Nugent tied it at 31 with a 43-yard field goal 1:03 from the finish.

Palmer, who had said during the week that this one against his former team was “not just another game,” completed 20 of 31 passes for 317 yards and has 11 TD passes in his last three games — four against Cleveland, three against Seattle and four against Cincinnati.

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Arizona’s Chandler Catanzaro kicks the game-winning 32 yard field goal against the Bengals in the second half of an NFL game Sunday, in Glendale, Ariz.

Dalton bounced back from a shaky start to the second half to engineer the Bengals’ comeback. He finished 22 of 39 for 315 yards.

Arizona rookie speedster J.J. Nelson caught four passes for 142 yards, including a 64-yard touchdown reception.

“We were kind of out of sync in the first half trying to force a few things,” Arizona coach Bruce Arians said.

“We were running it OK, but the passing game was not there. Big thing was the defence got off the field. We

got the ball and got some good momentum going. The big play to J.J. was a catalyst.”

Cincinnati running back Giovani Bernard caught eight passes for 128 yards. Jeremy Hill had two short scoring runs for Cincinnati.

Arizona won its third straight and is alone as the No. 2 team — behind unbeaten Carolina — in the NFC. Despite the loss, the Bengals remain No. 2 — behind unbeaten New England — in the AFC. The Cardinals trailed 14-7 at the

Panthers pounce early in win over Redskins, stay perfect NFL ROUNDUP

Hufnagel suffers loss in final game as head coach CALGARY STAMPEDERS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PANTHERS 44 REDSKINS 16 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Cam Newton threw a career-high five touchdowns passes, and the Carolina Panthers improved to 10-0 with a 44-16 victory over the Washington Redskins on Sunday.

Newton completed 21 of 34 passes for 246 yards and threw TD passes to five different receivers as Carolina stretched its regular-season win streak to 14 games, including eight straight at home.

The Panthers are the 16th team in the Super Bowl era to start 10-0. Of the previous 15, all made the playoffs and nine have advanced to the Super Bowl, with six winning it all.

The Panthers scored 27 points off five Washington turnovers, three of those by quarterback Kirk Cousins.

Newton became the first Carolina quarterback to throw four TD passes in the first half as the Panthers jumped to a 31-14 lead. Jonathan Stewart ran for 102 yards on 21 carries and caught a 12-yard touchdown pass. Mike Tolbert, Greg Olsen, Ted Ginn Jr. and Devin Funchess also caught TD passes.

Andre Roberts had a 99-yard kickoff return for a touchdown for the Redskins (4-6), who’ve lost nine straight on the road.

CARDINALS 34, BENGALS 31 GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Chandler Catanzaro kicked a 32-yard field goal with 2 seconds remaining and Arizona escaped with a wild victory over Cincinnati.

The field goal was considerably closer than it would have been because Cincinnati’s Domata Peko was called for unsportsmanlike conduct for calling out the offensive signals as the Cardinals (8-2) were about to spike the ball to set up the kick.

Carson Palmer overcame two early interceptions to throw four touchdown passes and, with 57 seconds left, completed three quick passes to move the team into field goal range after the Bengals rallied to tie it at 31.

Andy Dalton threw two touchdown passes for the Bengals (8-2), both to Tyler Eifert. The second cut, a 10-yarder, cut it to 31-28 with 3:44 to play.

BUCCANEERS 45, EAGLES 17 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jameis Winston and Doug Martin were an unstoppable combination.

Winston tied a rookie record with five touchdown passes, Martin ran for 235 yards for the Buccaneers. Winston completed 19 of 29 passes for 246 yards and had four of his TD passes in the first half to four different receivers.

He tied Matthew Stafford’s rookie mark in the third quarter on an 8-yard toss to Cameron Brate, the fifth receiver to catch a TD. Martin had 177 yards in the first half, including runs of 84 and 58 yards.

He finished 2 yards short of tying Barry Sanders’ record for most without a TD. Sanders had 237 for the Lions against Tampa in 1994.

Tampa set a franchise record with

half, led 28-14 in the third quarter and 31-21 in the fourth before the Bengals rallied.

Arizona had the ball at its 16 with 58 seconds to go and Palmer quickly threw 19 yards to Nelson. He followed with passes of 18 and 20 yards to Larry Fitzgerald to move the ball to the Cincinnati 27.

The Cardinals were trying to spike the ball because they were out of timeouts when the referees blew their whistles and announced the penalty against Peko.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Kansas City Chiefs running back Spencer Ware, center, pushes past San Diego Chargers inside linebacker Manti Te’o (50) on his way to scoring a touchdown during the second half of an NFL game Sunday, in San Diego.

283 yards rushing and 521 total yards and were second most in franchise history in the regular season .

The Buccaneers (5-5) have won two straight games for the first time in two years. The Eagles (4-6) have lost two in a row, but are only one game behind the New York Giants (5-5) in the mediocre NFC East.

Mark Sanchez threw a pair of TD passes in his first start replacing injured Sam Bradford, but Chip Kelly’s offence couldn’t keep up with Winston and the Buccaneers.

COWBOYS 24, DOLPHINS 14 MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Tony Romo pulled off his latest comeback victory, returning from a collarbone injury to throw for two scores as the Cowboys won for the first time since he was hurt in Week 2.

The Cowboys (3-7) snapped a seven-game losing streak, their longest in a single season since 1989. The Dolphins (4-6) increased the likelihood they’ll miss the playoffs for the seventh year in a row.

Romo went 18 for 28 for 227 yards, and overcame two interceptions by throwing touchdown passes of 31 yards to Terrance Williams and 16 yards to Dez Bryant.

Dallas linebacker Rolando McClain scored the game’s first points and his first career touchdown on a 12-yard interception return. Miami had the ball for only 21 minutes.

BRONCOS 17, BEARS 15 CHICAGO (AP) — Brock Osweiler threw for two touchdowns, and the Broncos stopped Jeremy Langford on a 2-point conversion run in the final minute.

Langford scored on a 2-yard run with 24 seconds left to cap a 65-yard drive. But he ran into a crowd on a conversion attempt, and the Broncos (8-2) escaped.

Osweiler completed 20 of 27 passes

for 250 yards with five-time MVP Manning staying back in Denver because of injuries to his foot, ribs and shoulder.

Ronnie Hillman ran for 102 yards, and the AFC West-leading Broncos (8-2) got back to winning — against former coach John Fox, too — after dropping two in a row.

Osweiler threw a 48-yard touchdown to Demaryius Thomas on Denver’s first possession of the game and a 10-yarder to Cody Latimer early in the fourth quarter to make it 17-9. The Bears (4-6) then drove to the Denver 4, only to have Jay Cutler’s fourth-down pass to Langford in a crowd in the end zone get broken up.

RAVENS 16, RAMS 13 BALTIMORE (AP) — Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco tore ligaments in his left knee during the closing seconds of a 16-13 victory over the Rams.

The Ravens also lost running back Justin Forsett, who broke both bones in his right forearm.

Justin Tucker kicked a 47-yard field goal as time expired to end a mistake-filled game in which the Ravens rallied from a 10-point deficit.

One final miscue decided the issue: Rams quarterback Case Keenum fumbled when hit by Courtney Upshaw, and teammate Lawrence Guy recovered at the St. Louis 41 with 54 seconds to go.

Flacco moved the Ravens (3-7) to the 29 — injuring his knee along the way — before Tucker delivered the winning kick.

St. Louis (4-6) lost four fumbles and missed an extra point. In his first start of the season, Keenum went 12 for 26 for 136 yards and fumbled three times, losing two.

Baltimore won despite committing two turnovers and being penalized 10 times for 137 yards. The Ravens have lost seven games by a total of 32 points, but this close one went their way.

EDMONTON — John Hufnagel’s career as a head coach in the Canadian Football League didn’t have a story book ending.

Hufnagel and the Calgary Stampeders were unable to defend their 2014 Grey Cup championship — losing 4531 to the rival Edmonton Eskimos on Sunday.

The Eskimos will now play the Ottawa Redblacks next Sunday at Investors Group Field in Winnipeg in the 103rd Grey Cup while Hufnagel will hand over the head coaching job for next season to offensive co-ordinator Dave Dickenson.

“When we were unable to score touchdowns in the first half, and they did, that really was a big factor in the overall outcome of the game,” Hufnagel said. “In the third quarter we didn’t do anything offensively and they did some really good things.

“If we had scored some touchdowns in the first half, it would have been a better football game.”

Hufnagel, who has been running the show with the Stampeders since 2008 when Calgary won its other previous Grey Cup during his tenure, is dropping his head coach title, but will keep the general manager job description in 2016.

The 64-year-old Hufnagel said it wasn’t the ideal way to leave the sidelines.

“I’m disappointed that we John Hufnagel lost,” he said. “We lost a very important football game.”

Although he will no longer be on the field, Hufnagel said it is not like he is leaving the game altogether and that the decision to move upstairs is best for Calgary.

“I’ll find out if I miss it,” he said.

“I’m not riding away into the sunset.

I’m still going to be in the building and at the games and a part of it. I made a decision that I thought was the right one for the organization and I have no qualms or regrets about it.”

When asked if rumours that they Saskatchewan Roughriders may be looking to lure him away, Hufnagel responded that he is still under contract with the Stampeders.

He did, however, confirm that Calgary assistant GM/Director of player personnel John Murphy is a candidate to become Saskatchewan’s G.M. Hufnagel led the Stampeders to a 14-4 record this season. In 2014, he was named CFL coach of the year for a second time after Calgary went 15-3 and won its seventh Grey Cup in team history.

SCOREBOARD Local Sports • Women’s basketball: Funk vs. Xpress, Big Ballers vs. Spartans, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber; Age Gap vs. Triple Threat, Hoosier Daddy vs. Ball Hawks, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Central Alberta Christian; Pink Panthers vs. Rampage, Shooting Stars vs. Storm, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber main.

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

• Men’s basketball: Johns Manville vs.

Sheraton Red Deer, Alken Basin vs, Rusty Chuckers, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

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

Wednesday • WHL: Red Deer at Kootenay, 7 p.m. (The Drive).

• Heritage junior B hockey: Stettler at Ponoka, 7:45 p.m.

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

• Men’s basketball: Vikings vs. Henry’s Eavestroughing, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs. Carstar, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

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

• WHL: Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m. (The Drive).

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Bruins at Red Deer North Star, 8 p.m., Arena.

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

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

Saturday • Bantam AA hockey: West Central at Red Deer Ramada, 2:30 p.m., Kinex.

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Blue at Red Deer North Stars, 2:45 p.m., Arena.

• Midget AA hockey: Calgary Stampeders at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 4:45 p.m., Arena.

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

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

• AJHL: Brooks at Olds, 7 p.m.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Blackfalds at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena.

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 9 6 .600 — New York 8 6 .571 1/2 Boston 7 6 .538 1 Brooklyn 3 11 .214 5 1/2 Philadelphia 0 14 .000 8 1/2 Southeast Division W L Pct 8 4 .667 9 6 .600 6 4 .600 7 6 .538 6 7 .462

GB — 1/2 1 1 1/2 2 1/2

Central Division W L Pct 10 3 .769 8 4 .667 8 5 .615 7 6 .538 5 8 .385

GB — 1 1/2 2 3 5

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 10 3 .769 — Dallas 9 5 .643 1 1/2 Memphis 7 7 .500 3 1/2 Houston 5 9 .357 5 1/2 New Orleans 3 11 .214 7 1/2 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 8 6 .571 Utah 6 6 .500 Denver 6 8 .429 Portland 6 9 .400 Minnesota 5 8 .385

GB — 1 2 2 1/2 2 1/2

• Major bantam hockey: Lloydminster at Red Deer, noon, Arena.

• AJHL: Grande Prairie at Olds, 2 p.m.

• Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Ramada at Red Deer Steel Kings, 1:45 p.m., Kinsmen A; Foothills at West Central, 2:30 p.m., Bentley • Men’s basketball: Grandview Allstars vs. Chillabongs, Monstars vs. Lacombe All Sports Cresting, Triple A Batteries vs.

Silver Spurs, 4:15 p.m.; NWS vs. Washed Up Warriors, Wells Furniture vs. The D Leaguers, Subaru vs. Btown Maple Jordans, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber.

Pacific Division W L Pct 15 0 1.000 7 6 .538 6 7 .462 5 9 .357 2 11 .154

GB — 7 8 9 1/2 12

Saturday’s Games Sacramento 97, Orlando 91 Indiana 123, Milwaukee 86 Cleveland 109, Atlanta 97 Washington 97, Detroit 95 New York 107, Houston 102 Miami 96, Philadelphia 91 San Antonio 92, Memphis 82

Monday’s Games Orlando at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Sacramento at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

New York at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

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

Oklahoma City at Utah, 7 p.m.

Seattle Spokane Everett Portland Tri-City

U.S. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL 22 15 6 1 0 23 12 8 2 1 20 11 7 0 2 21 11 10 0 0 23 9 13 1 0

GF GA Pt 82 58 31 74 75 27 47 43 24 73 63 22 69 88 19

Saturday’s results Prince Albert 4 Regina 3 (OT) Calgary 4 Everett 3 (SO) Kootenay 2 Swift Current 1 Lethbridge 5 Saskatoon 2 Prince George 5 Medicine Hat 2 Kamloops 5 Edmonton 3 Spokane 5 Moose Jaw 2 Tri-City 6 Victoria 5 (OT) Kelowna 5 Vancouver 2 Seattle 5 Portland 2 Tuesday’s games Calgary at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Regina at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Calgary at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Regina at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Red Deer at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Portland, 8 p.m.

Seattle at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Vancouver at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

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

CFL PLAYOFFS

NBA Leaders Scoring Curry, GOL Westbrook, OKC Harden, HOU James, CLE Lillard, POR Griffin, LAC George, IND Davis, NOR Bledsoe, PHX Anthony, NYK Knight, PHX Wiggins, MIN Leonard, SAN Thomas, BOS Butler, CHI DeRozan, TOR Beal, WAS Jackson, DET Lowry, TOR McCollum, POR

Drummond, DET Jordan, LAC Love, CLE Gobert, UTA Whiteside, MIA Towns, MIN Davis, NOR Pachulia, DAL Monroe, MIL Aldridge, SAN

Westbrook, OKC Rondo, SAC Wall, WAS Paul, LAC Smith, NOR Lillard, POR Jack, Bro Green, GOL Conley, MEM Lowry, TOR

65-67-64-64—260 66-65-68-67—266 67-68-65-67—267 67-70-66-66—269 65-67-71-67—270 67-67-67-70—271 66-72-68-65—271 64-72-66-69—271 66-71-68-67—272 67-70-66-69—272 66-71-67-68—272 64-72-67-69—272 64-74-68-66—272 67-70-67-68—272 69-69-68-66—272 69-68-67-68—272 66-70-69-67—272 68-69-69-67—273 70-68-68-67—273 67-72-65-69—273 66-69-67-71—273 66-72-67-68—273 68-71-69-65—273 72-66-71-64—273 68-67-68-71—274 68-71-66-69—274 69-67-69-69—274 65-70-70-69—274 70-66-69-69—274 68-71-69-66—274 68-72-66-68—274 72-67-66-69—274 67-69-69-70—275 70-67-67-71—275 66-71-70-68—275 67-70-68-70—275 67-71-71-66—275 68-70-66-71—275 70-69-69-67—275 70-70-69-66—275 68-72-69-66—275 66-67-71-71—275 65-72-70-68—275 67-71-68-70—276 68-69-69-70—276 67-67-72-70—276 65-71-69-71—276 70-69-67-70—276 71-67-71-67—276 68-70-71-67—276 71-65-71-69—276 69-70-67-71—277 68-70-71-68—277 68-71-69-69—277 69-70-66-72—277 67-67-70-73—277 71-69-69-68—277 66-73-67-72—278 71-69-68-70—278 69-71-65-73—278 67-71-71-69—278 69-71-69-69—278 70-69-67-73—279 67-70-68-74—279 65-69-73-72—279 66-73-69-71—279 68-70-71-70—279 68-71-68-73—280 66-74-69-71—280 67-70-71-73—281 67-73-68-73—281 71-69-69-72—281

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 23 17 5 1 0 95 69 35 Victoria 25 16 7 1 1 87 58 34 Prince George 22 12 9 1 0 63 63 25 Kamloops 21 10 8 3 0 76 69 23 Vancouver 23 5 14 2 2 62 94 14

Sunday’s results Division Finals East Division Ottawa 35 Hamilton 28 West Division Edmonton 45 Calgary 31

Tuesday’s Games Indiana at Washington, 5 p.m.

Dallas at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Boston at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Denver, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Portland, 8 p.m.

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

G 15 14 14 13 15 13 13 11 13 14 13 12 12 13 12 15 7 13 15 15

FG 163 140 109 133 136 131 106 92 106 111 101 91 102 92 84 97 55 97 88 114

FT PTS 90 490 95 402 138 391 63 346 66 383 59 323 76 323 64 256 66 302 70 316 45 282 67 258 29 255 62 274 66 252 115 313 17 143 52 265 86 302 43 301

AVG 32.7 28.7 27.9 26.6 25.5 24.8 24.8 23.3 23.2 22.6 21.7 21.5 21.3 21.1 21.0 20.9 20.4 20.4 20.1 20.1

G 13 13 13 10 12 13 11 14 13 12

OFF DEF TOT 72 160 232 39 130 169 41 115 156 35 76 111 33 100 133 33 102 135 21 92 113 42 98 140 43 86 129 34 85 119

AVG 17.8 13.0 12.0 11.1 11.1 10.4 10.3 10.0 9.9 9.9

G 14 14 10 10 14 15 13 15 14 15

AST 143 142 84 83 111 107 92 101 92 97

AVG 10.2 10.1 8.4 8.3 7.9 7.1 7.1 6.7 6.6 6.5

Golf PGA-RSM Classic Sunday At St. Simons Island, Ga. Par: 72 Purse: $5.7 million Final Kevin Kisner, $1,026,000 Kevin Chappell, $615,600 Graeme McDowell, $387,600 Jon Curran, $273,600 Freddie Jacobson, $228,000 AlexCejka, $190,950 Russell Henley, $190,950 Jeff Overton, $190,950 Chad Campbell, $123,500 Jason Dufner, $123,500 Lucas Glover, $123,500 David Hearn, $123,500 Tom Hoge, $123,500 Charles Howell III, $123,500 John Huh, $123,500 Jamie Lovemark, $123,500 Scott Stallings, $123,500 Mark Hubbard, $69,377 Sean O’Hair, $69,377 Scott Brown, $69,377 Jim Herman, $69,377 Si Woo Kim, $69,377 Chris Kirk, $69,377 Boo Weekley, $69,377 Ricky Barnes, $41,681 Harris English, $41,681 Matt Kuchar, $41,681 Trey Mullinax, $41,681 Robert Streb, $41,681 Brian Stuard, $41,681 Jhonattan Vegas, $41,681 Mark Wilson, $41,681 Cameron Percy, $27,049 Tyler Aldridge, $27,049 Zac Blair, $27,049 Brendon de Jonge, $27,049 Bill Haas, $27,049 Smylie Kaufman, $27,049 Scott Langley, $27,049 Davis Love III, $27,049 Chez Reavie, $27,049 Kyle Stanley, $27,049 Johnson Wagner, $27,049 Jonathan Byrd, $16,473 Fabian Gomez, $16,473 Hiroshi Iwata, $16,473 Rob Oppenheim, $16,473 Kyle Reifers, $16,473 Patrick Rodgers, $16,473 Vijay Singh, $16,473 Tim Wilkinson, $16,473 Stuart Appleby, $13,224 Roberto Castro, $13,224 K.J. Choi, $13,224 Tim Herron, $13,224 Michael Kim, $13,224 Lucas Lee, $13,224 Thomas Aiken, $12,540 Rhein Gibson, $12,540 D.A. Points, $12,540 Justin Thomas, $12,540 Dawie van der Walt, $12,540 Matt Atkins, $11,970 Stewart Cink, $11,970 Jason Gore, $11,970 David Lingmerth, $11,970 Steve Marino, $11,970 Andres Gonzales, $11,571 Harold Varner III, $11,571 Derek Fathauer, $11,286 Tim Petrovic, $11,286 Scott Pinckney, $11,286

GF GA Pt 91 64 32 75 79 29 89 74 28 66 90 19 70 85 17 51 93 14

WHL Scoring Leaders Brayden Point, MJ Tyson Baillie, Kel Reid Gardiner, P.A. Dryden Hunt, MJ Mathew Barzal, Sea Jonathon Martin, SC Ivan Nikolishin, RD Keegan Kolesar, Sea Alex Forsberg, Vic Brayden Burke, Let Devante Stephens, Spo Luke Philp, Koo Radel Fazleev, CAL Parker Bowles, TC Simon Stransky, P.A. Collin Shirley, Kam Noah Gregor, MJ Tyler Wong, Let Lane Bauer, Edm Jayce Hawryluk, Bra Michael Spacek, RD Adam Brooks, Reg Austin Glover, P.A. Joe Hicketts, Vic Giorgio Estephan, Let Cha Butcher,MH Nolan Patrick, Bra

G 18 16 17 16 6 19 15 15 7 5 8 13 12 11 10 16 11 16 12 12 10 10 7 1 8 8 7

A 25 25 20 19 28 14 18 16 24 26 22 16 17 17 18 11 16 10 14 14 16 16 19 25 17 17 18

Pts 43 41 37 35 34 33 33 31 31 31 30 29 29 28 28 27 27 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 25 25 25

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Montreal 22 16 4 2 34 Ottawa 20 10 5 5 25 Detroit 21 11 8 2 24 Tampa Bay 22 10 9 3 23 Boston 19 10 8 1 21 Florida 20 8 8 4 20 Buffalo 20 8 10 2 18 Toronto 21 7 10 4 18

GF GA 78 50 61 57 49 52 53 50 62 56 54 53 43 55 48 58

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts N.Y. Rangers 20 15 3 2 32 Washington 19 13 5 1 27 Pittsburgh 20 12 8 0 24 New Jersey 20 11 8 1 23 N.Y. Islanders 21 10 8 3 23 Carolina 20 7 10 3 17 Philadelphia 20 6 9 5 17 Columbus 22 8 14 0 16

GF GA 63 38 61 44 45 46 50 50 59 53 40 58 35 58 55 71

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Dallas 21 17 4 0 34 St. Louis 21 13 6 2 28 Minnesota 19 11 5 3 25 Nashville 19 11 5 3 25 Chicago 21 11 8 2 24 Winnipeg 21 10 9 2 22 Colorado 20 7 12 1 15

GF GA 74 50 57 52 57 51 53 48 57 55 57 65 56 61

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts

GF GA

San Jose 21 13 8 0 26 59 51 Los Angeles 20 12 8 0 24 51 45 Vancouver 22 8 8 6 22 64 60 Arizona 20 10 9 1 21 55 59 Anaheim 21 7 10 4 18 38 55 Calgary 21 8 12 1 17 50 75 Edmonton 20 7 12 1 15 55 63 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s Games Boston 2, Toronto 0 Ottawa 4, Philadelphia 0 Tampa Bay 5, Anaheim 0 N.Y. Rangers 5, Florida 4, OT San Jose 3, Pittsburgh 1 Washington 7, Colorado 3 Winnipeg 3, Arizona 2 Detroit 4, St. Louis 3, OT Dallas 3, Buffalo 0 Minnesota 4, Nashville 0 Vancouver 6, Chicago 3 Sunday’s Games Carolina 4, Los Angeles 3 San Jose 5, Columbus 3 Montreal 4, N.Y. Islanders 2 New Jersey 3, Vancouver 2 Monday’s Games St. Louis at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Nashville at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Edmonton at Washington, 5 p.m.

Boston at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Colorado at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Ottawa at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Calgary at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

NHL Scoring Leaders Patrick Kane, Chi Tyler Seguin, Dal Jamie Benn, Dal Taylor Hall, Edm John Klingberg, Dal Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Daniel Sedin, Vcr David Krejci, Bos Erik Karlsson, Ott Mats Zuccarello, NYR Nathan MacKinnon, Col Blake Wheeler, Wpg Evgeny Kuznetsov, Wash Artemi Panarin, Chi Henrik Sedin, Vcr Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy Alex Ovechkin, Wash Max Pacioretty, Mtl Jeff Carter, LA Brendan Gallagher, Mtl Bobby Ryan, Ott Tomas Plekanec, Mtl Patrice Bergeron, Bos Ryan Suter, Minn

G 13 11 14 9 4 13 10 8 5 10 9 8 7 7 6 5 10 10 9 9 7 7 7 3

A 19 19 15 15 19 9 12 14 17 11 12 13 14 14 14 15 9 9 10 10 12 12 12 16

Pts 32 30 29 24 23 22 22 22 22 21 21 21 21 21 20 20 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19

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Sunday’s Games Toronto 91, L.A. Clippers 80 New Orleans 122, Phoenix 116 Brooklyn 111, Boston 101 Oklahoma City 117, Dallas 114 Golden State 118, Denver 105 Portland 107, L.A. Lakers 93

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL Red Deer 23 16 7 0 0 Calgary 25 14 10 0 1 Lethbridge 23 14 9 0 0 Edmonton 25 8 14 3 0 Medicine Hat 21 7 11 2 1 Kootenay 24 6 16 2 0

Thursday, November 26 Kootenay at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

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

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Prince Albert 23 15 5 2 1 82 70 33 Brandon 23 14 7 0 2 82 61 30 Moose Jaw 23 11 8 3 1 81 73 26 Regina 21 10 9 2 0 62 74 22 Saskatoon 22 9 10 3 0 71 90 21 Swift Current 24 8 14 2 0 59 74 18

Sunday’s results Calgary 5 Saskatoon 2

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CME Group Tour Championship NAPLES, Florida (AP) — Scores from the $2 million CME Group Tour Championship at the 6,540-yard,par-72 course on Sunday at Tiburon Golf Club: Final Cristie Kerr, $500,000 68-69-66-68—271 Gerina Piller, $139,869 68-70-67-67—272 Ha Na Jang, $139,869 69-65-69-69—272 Lexi Thompson, $90,982 70-69-67-68—274 Karine Icher, $73,230 71-67-68-69—275 Inbee Park, $59,915 71-69-67-69—276 Sydnee Michaels, $42,385 72-71-69-65—277 Minjee Lee, $42,385 75-66-67-69—277 Amy Yang, $42,385 72-69-67-69—277 Lydia Ko, $42,385 69-67-69-72—277 Jennifer Song, $32,176 68-69-72-69—278 Brittany Lincicome, $32,176 68-70-68-72—278 Br. M. Henderson, $29,114 72-70-71-66—279 Xi Yu Lin, $23,936 74-69-69-68—280 Suzann Pettersen, $23,936 71-70-69-70—280 Hee Young Park, $23,936 71-69-70-70—280 Austin Ernst, $23,936 66-73-71-70—280 Stacy Lewis, $23,936 72-70-67-71—280 Ai Miyazato, $23,936 72-67-68-73—280 Ryann O’Toole, $19,351 72-69-73-67—281 Eun-Hee Ji, $19,351 72-69-71-69—281 I.K. Kim, $19,351 69-71-70-71—281 Jenny Shin, $19,351 71-69-69-72—281 Sei Young Kim, $15,711 68-71-71-72—282 Anna Nordqvist, $15,711 71-75-68-69—283 Paula Creamer, $15,711 70-73-71-69—283 Catriona Matthew, $15,711 70-69-74-70—283 Karrie Webb, $15,711 70-72-70-71—283 Jessica Korda, $15,711 70-71-69-73—283 DP World Tour Championship Sunday At Jumeirah Golf Estates Dubai, United Arab Emirates Purse: $8 million Yardage: 7,675 Par: 72 Final Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland 68-68-65-66—267 Andy Sullivan, England 66-66-68-68—268 Branden Grace, South Africa 68-69-69-67—273 Byeong-hun An, Korea 70-68-66-71—275 Matthew Fitzpatrick, England 68-69-68-70—275 Emiliano Grillo, Argentina 69-64-71-71—275 Francesco Molinari, Italy 67-71-69-68—275 Charl Schwartzel, South Africa 71-65-70-69—275 Danny Willett, England 68-70-67-70—275 Martin Kaymer, Germany 66-71-71-68—276 Soren Kjeldsen, Denmark 71-70-67-68—276 Patrick Reed, United States 70-65-68-73—276 Luke Donald, England 69-72-68-70—279 Victor Dubuisson, France 72-67-69-71—279 Tyrrell Hatton, England 69-69-72-69—279 Chris Wood, England 68-70-69-72—279 Kristoffer Broberg, Sweden 70-73-67-70—280 Thorbjorn Olesen, Denmark 70-74-68-68—280 Richie Ramsay, Scotland 71-70-68-71—280 Lee Slattery, England 76-71-68-65—280 Bernd Wiesberger, Austria 72-65-72-71—280 Also Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Thailand 73-65-73-70—281 Justin Rose, England 71-66-78-66—281 Peter Uihlein, United States 71-69-69-72—281 Thongchai Jaidee, Thailand 69-67-69-77—282 Joost Luiten, Netherlands 69-72-68-73—282 Jamie Donaldson, Wales 70-71-71-71—283 Anirban Lahiri, India 73-67-72-71—283 Louis Oosthuizen, South Africa 73-68-70-73—284 Ian Poulter, England 66-74-71-74—285 Lee Westwood, England 71-70-74-70—285 Miguel Angel Jimenez, Spain 68-74-72-73—287 Shane Lowry, Ireland 75-70-69-73—287 Henrik Stenson, Sweden 77-69-72-73—291

Sunday, Nov. 29 103rd Grey Cup At Winnipeg Edmonton vs. Ottawa, 4 p.m.

Sunday’s summaries Eskimos 45, Stampeders 31 First Quarter Edm — TD Reilly 1 run (two-point convert: Walker 3 pass from Reilly) 7:10 Cgy — FG Paredes 44 10:40 Cgy — FG Paredes 16 15:00 Second Quarter Edm — FG Whyte 32 6:01 Cgy — FG Paredes 48 8:45 Edm — FG Whyte 17 11:18 Cgy — FG Paredes 10 13:06 Edm — TD Bowman 15 pass from Reilly (Whyte convert) 15:00 Third Quarter Edm — TD Stafford 33 pass from Reilly (Whyte convert) 2:41 Edm — FG Whyte 31 6:58 Cgy — FG Paredes 49 12:16 Fourth Quarter Edm — TD Walker 57 pass from Reilly (Whyte convert) 0:14 Edm — TD Reilly 8 run (Whyte convert) 3:23 Cgy — TD Rogers 66 pass from Mitchell (two-point convert: West 3 pass from Mitchell) 4:33 Cgy — TD West 17 pass from Mitchell (two-point convert: Moniz 3 run) 9:22 Calgary 6 6 3 16 — 31 Edmonton 8 13 10 14 — 45 Attendance — 34,414 at Edmoton.

Redblacks 35, Tiger-Cats 28 First Quarter Ham — FG Medlock 10 5:56 Ott — TD Powell 2 run (Milo convert) 8:25 Ham — TD Masoli 2 run (Milo convert) 13:54 Second Quarter Ott — TD Burris 9 run (Milo convert) 2:09 Ham — TD Underwood 66 pass from Masoli (Medlock convert) 11:59 Ott — Safety Medlock concedes 13:56

Ott — FG Milo 39 15:00 Third Quarter Ott — FG Milo 34 3:11 Ott — FG Milo 45 12:35 Fourth Quarter Ham — FG Medlock 42 2:14 Ott — FG Milo 43 9:07 Ham — Single Medlock 43 11:55 Ham — TD Tasker 22 pass from Masoli (Medlock convert) 13:26 Ott — TD Ellingson 93 pass from Burris (Milo convert) 13:49 Hamilton 10 7 0 11 — 28 Ottawa 7 12 6 10 — 35 Attendance — 25,093 at Ottawa.

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 9 0 0 1.000 303 Buffalo 5 4 0 .556 231 N.Y. Jets 5 5 0 .500 234 Miami 4 6 0 .400 205 South W L T Pct PF Indianapolis 5 5 0 .500 224 Houston 5 5 0 .500 208 Jacksonville 4 6 0 .400 211 Tennessee 2 8 0 .200 182 North W L T Pct PF Cincinnati 8 2 0 .800 266 Pittsburgh 6 4 0 .600 236 Baltimore 3 7 0 .300 226 Cleveland 2 8 0 .200 186 West W L T Pct PF Denver 8 2 0 .800 222 Kansas City 5 5 0 .500 257 Oakland 4 6 0 .400 240 San Diego 2 8 0 .200 213 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct N.Y. Giants 5 5 0 .500 Washington 4 6 0 .400 Philadelphia 4 6 0 .400 Dallas 3 7 0 .300 South W L T Pct Carolina 10 0 0 1.000 Atlanta 6 4 0 .600 Tampa Bay 5 5 0 .500 New Orleans 4 6 0 .400

PA 169 207 208 249 PA 248 228 268 233 PA 186 191 249 277 PA 183 198 259 282

PF 273 221 229 190

PA 253 253 229 228

PF 299 250 236 255

PA 191 214 254 315

GreenBay Minnesota Chicago Detroit

W 7 7 4 3

Arizona Seattle St. Louis San Francisco

W 8 5 4 3

North L T 3 0 3 0 6 0 7 0 West L T 2 0 5 0 6 0 7 0

Pct .700 .700 .400 .300

PF 249 211 214 185

PA 198 184 251 274

Pct .800 .500 .400 .300

PF 336 228 179 139

PA 216 192 199 252

Thursday’s Game Jacksonville 19, Tennessee 13 Sunday’s Games Houston 24, N.Y. Jets 17 Denver 17, Chicago 15 Detroit 18, Oakland 13 Indianapolis 24, Atlanta 21 Tampa Bay 45, Philadelphia 17 Baltimore 16, St. Louis 13 Dallas 24, Miami 14 Carolina 44, Washington 16 Kansas City 33, San Diego 3 Seattle 29, San Francisco 13 Green Bay 30, Minnesota 13 Arizona 34, Cincinnati 31 Open: Cleveland, N.Y. Giants, New Orleans, Pittsburgh Monday’s Game Buffalo at New England, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 26 Philadelphia at Detroit, 10:30 a.m.

Carolina at Dallas, 2:30 p.m.

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

Sunday, Nov. 29 New Orleans at Houston, 11 a.m.

Buffalo at Kansas City, 11 a.m.

Oakland at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

St. Louis at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Minnesota at Atlanta, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Giants at Washington, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

San Diego at Jacksonville, 11 a.m.

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

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

Pittsburgh at Seattle, 2:25 p.m.

New England at Denver, 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 30 Baltimore at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.

Transactions Saturday’s Sports Transactions FOOTBALL National Football League DALLAS COWBOYS — Activated QB Tony Romo from injured reserve-return.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed RB Akeem Hunt from the practice squad.

NEW YORK JETS — Activated WR Quincy Enunwa from the suspended list. Signed DE Mike Catapano from the practice squad. Placed RB Zac Stacy on injured reserve. Waived S Ronald Martin.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Signed WR Tyrell Williams from the practice squad. Waived TE Sean McGrath.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Placed QB Colin Kaepernick on injured reserve.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Waived RB Bryce Brown. Signed LB Eric Pinkins from the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League

ANAHEIM DUCKS — Recalled D Shane O’Brien from San Diego (AHL).

ARIZONA COYOTES — Recalled G Marek Langhamer from Rapid City (ECHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Reassigned F Colton Sissons to Milwaukee (AHL). Activated F Eric Nystrom from Injured Reserve.

American Hockey League BAKERSFIELD CONDORS — Announced RW Andrew Miller was assigned to the team by Edmonton (NHL).

ECHL READING ROYALS — Announced D Jesper Pettersson was reassigned to the Lehigh Valley (AHL).

Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL National League WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Signed OF Chris Heisey and INF Scott Sizemore to minor-league contracts.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHICAGO BULLS — Assigned F Cameron Bairstow to Austin (NBADL).

HOCKEY National Hockey League COLORADO AVALANCHE — Reassigned G Calvin Pickard to San Antonio (AHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Claimed D Petter Granberg off waivers from Toronto.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Reassigned Fs Mike Blunden and Mike Angelidis and D Luke Witkowski to Syracuse (AHL).

American Hockey League SPRINGFIELD FALCONS — Recalled G Tyler Beskorowany from Norfolk (ECHL).

COLLEGE IOWA STATE — Fired football coach Paul Rhoads, effective at the end of the season.

Canadian coach summons youth for pre-Olympic women’s camp SOCCER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canadian women’s soccer coach John Herdman has summoned the heart of his World Cup team along with an injection of youth for his first camp on the road to Rio. Herdman’s roster includes captain Christine Sinclair and fellow World Cup veterans Erin McLeod, Rhian Wilkinson, Allysha Chapman, Diana Matheson, Sophie Schmidt and Melissa Tancredi.

The squad also includes 16-year-olds Deanne Rose and Kennedy Faulknor. Gabi Carle is 17, Marie Levasseur 18 and Summer Clarke 20.

“It’s an exciting group we’ve brought together.”

Herdman said Sunday from Vancouver. “I really do hope we can find some of the quality that we are going to need to get on the Olympic (podium).”

Herdman knows what’s needed. He’s looking for a centre back to partner with rising star Kadeisha Buchanan, some guile and creativity on the wing and a pacey forward.

All three were needed at the World Cup. “We’ve recognized there are some gaps we want to fill within our team,” he said.

The Canadian women lost 2-1 to England in the quarter-finals of the World Cup this summer on home soil. For Herdman, it remains a lost opportunity. “A game we could have won,” he said.

“It’s just that it ended too early,” he added of the tournament. “I think that’s what hurt most of us.”

There are better Olympic memories. Canada won bronze at the 2012 Games in London in a stirring campaign that included a roller-coaster 4-3 extra-time loss to the U.S. in the semifinals and a 1-0 win over France in the third-place game.

Herdman will augment the

Vancouver camp roster with veterans and NCAA players for next month’s International Tournament of Natal 2015 in Brazil where Canada will face Brazil, Mexico and Croatia starting Dec. 9.

The reinforcements include college players Buchanan, Janine Beckie, Ashley Lawrence, Nichelle Prince and Rebecca Quinn as well as veterans Desiree Scott, Josee Belanger and Marie-Eve Nault.

Herdman will hold another camp in January ahead of the Feb. 10-21 CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Qualifying Championship in Houston and Frisco, Tex. Canada, ranked 11th in the world, will be competing against the World Cup champion and top-ranked Americans, Mexico (No. 26), Costa Rica (No. 34), Trinidad & Tobago (No. 48), Guatemala (No. 84), Guyana (No. 92) and Puerto Rico (No. 115) for the two Olympic berths available for North and Central American and the Caribbean.

B6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Nov. 23, 2015

Kisner snags first win at Sea Island PGA TOUR

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Kevin Kisner, who did everything this year but win, suddenly felt as though he had everything to lose.

“Just chilling,” he said Sunday on the practice range at Sea Island, only that wasn’t necessarily the case.

Four times a runner-up this year when someone else simply played better, Kisner had a three-shot lead in the RSM Classic. Expectations were never higher. He battled to keep his mind off the prospects of ending the year with yet another close call.

“That was the hardest thing I had to deal with all day,” he said. “Only thing you can do is win or fail in that position. Hard to keep yourself from thinking, ‘What if it doesn’t work out?’ So I just wanted to go out and make birdies early and try to keep playing the way I was playing.”

The golf was never easier.

He took only 11 putts on the front nine, five of them for birdie. He doubled his lead to six shots at the turn. And in the final round of the final tournament of the year, Kisner finally captured his first PGA Tour title with a 6-under 64 for a six-shot victory over Kevin Chappell.

“What a way to end the year, by far the greatest year of my life golf-wise,” he said. “To finish it that way, I couldn’t write it up any better.”

So dominant was the 31-year-old from South Carolina that no one got closer than four shots after the second hole. He finished at 22-under 260, breaking the tournament record by four shots.

Kisner became the sixth first-time winner in the fall start to the PGA Tour season, only this was hardly a surprise.

Jim Furyk had to make two birdies to beat Kisner in a playoff at Hilton Head. Rickie Fowler had to go four holes and make two birdies on the island-green 17th at the TPC Sawgrass to beat him at The Players Championship. He closed with a 64 only to lose in a four-man playoff at The Greenbrier. Russell Knox had all four rounds in the 60s in the HSBC Champions two weeks ago in Shanghai.

No one came close to him at Sea Island.

“First time I think I’ve ever played with him,” said Graeme McDowell, who closed with a 67 to finish third. “Didn’t realize just how steady he was. He played really aggressive today for a guy who has never won a golf tournament. I was thinking if I could get a couple under (par) early on that I might have some sort of a short. But he closed the door early on.

And it was impressive.”

Kisner, who started the year at No. 236 in the world, moved up to No. 17.

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Kevin Kisner celebrates after his winning putt during the final round at the RSM Classic golf tournament, Sunday, in St. Simons Island, Ga. “When he’s shooting 128 (64-64) on the weekend, pretty tough to beat,” Chappell said.

The highlight of the day was seeing 17-month-old daughter Kate running toward him when he tapped in for par on the 18th. Kisner scooped her up and said, “We did it!”

Did he ever.

“I’ve just been playing so well all year,” Kisner said. “I knew one day it was going to happen when I was going to make all the putts. I did it on the front nine.”

If there was a turning point, it would have been on the par-5 seventh hole when Kisner’s second shot landed in a native bush in the dunes short of the green. He chose to hammer it out of there and moved it about 5 feet, then chipped 8 feet by the hole. Graeme McDowell missed his 10-foot birdie putt and Kisner holed his for par. His lead stayed at four shots, and Kisner followed with a lob wedge to 8 feet for birdie on the next hole, and a 30-foot birdie putt on No. 9 to go six clear.

The final three hours, if not the entire day, was a

battle for second place.

McDowell, coming off a victory in the OHL Classic at Mayakoba last Monday in Mexico, lost out when his approach to the 16th buried so badly he had to clear away sand just to identify it. He swung as hard as he could, only for the ball to roll back into his foot print. He did well to make bogey, though Chappell made birdie on the hole for a two-shot swing that carried him to a 67 and the runner-up finish.

All that mattered to Kisner was keeping his distance. For all his second-place finishes, all he wanted was a big lead going to the final hole.

“Five strokes was pretty nice,” he said.

Kisner goes into the six-week break atop the FedEx Cup standings and eager for his next chance.

The victory allows him to start 2016 one week earlier in the Hyundai Tournament of Champions at Kapalua.

“You’ve got to feel like you belong or you’ll get run over,” Kisner said. “That sense of belonging and having a chance to win changes your outlook on yourself and your game on the PGA Tour.”

Kerr wins LPGA finale, Ko wins $1 million bonus

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NAPLES, Fla. — Cristie Kerr was the player of the week. Lydia Ko was the player of the year and pocketed another $1 million bonus. Inbee Park will be among the players of all-time.

One tournament, three women celebrating.

And just as the LPGA Tour intended, the season finale was dramatic until the end.

Kerr won the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship on Sunday, taking the lead for good with a 12-foot eagle putt on the par-5 17th and soon wrapping up her 18th career victory.

Her $500,000 first prize, which pushed her career earnings past $17 million, almost seemed ancillary given the stakes that Ko and Park were playing for this week.

“Good golf is just good golf,” Kerr said. “It doesn’t really matter what age it is. I think I proved that.”

Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., was 13th at 9-under par, while Hamilton’s Alena Sharp tied for 46th at even par.

Kerr is 38, and says she doesn’t plan on slowing down anytime soon. Ko is still just 18, and became the fourth player to go from rookie of the year one year to player of the year the next.

The others on that list: Nancy Lopez, Beth Daniel and Annika Sorenstam.

Greats all, and Ko is well on her way to that same status.

“I said if I could choose one of the awards, I would choose player of the year,” Ko said. “To know that I am the player of the year, it’s an awesome feeling.”

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McIlroy sees off Sullivan challenge to win World Tour Championship and Race to Dubai

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Rory McIlroy survived a late scare and finished his frustrating season on a high, winning both the DP World Tour Championship and the Race to Dubai crown on Sunday.

McIlroy got the better of overnight leader Andy Sullivan over the back nine to clinch the European Tour’s season-ending tournament.

The third-ranked Northern Irishman shot 6-under 66 with eight birdies

Ko won the $1 million bonus for winning the Race to the CME Globe, just as she did last year. And Park wrapped up a trip to the LPGA Hall of Fame by winning the scoring title, meaning the only step that now remains between her and induction is completing her 10th season on tour next year, a prerequisite for eligibility.

“It’s been a long season,” Ko said.

“Up and down. Mostly ups.”

Kerr shot a 4-under 68 and finished at 17-under 271, one shot better than Gerina Piller and Ha Na Jang. Lexi Thompson was fourth at 14 under.

She and Paula Creamer were among a group of U.S. Solheim Cup teammates who doused Kerr with champagne on the 18th green moments after she tapped home a 2-footer to end the season.

France’s Karine Icher was fifth at 13 under. Park was alone in sixth, good enough to beat Ko by three shots over the course of the entire season for the Vare Trophy and the 27th point she needed for her trip to the LPGA Hall.

“I said the Hall of Fame will be my last goal, but it really came early and I achieved pretty much everything I set so far in my career,” Park said. “There is plenty other goals to set.”

The pressure was obvious, all over the final back nine of the year.

Thompson had an 8-foot birdie putt on the par-5 14th, and never got it near the hole. Park missed a 2-footer for par on the 12th, then rallied with consecutive birdies. Stacy Lewis, one of three women who entered the week controlling their destiny in the $1 million race, gave her wedge a smack after needing two shots to escape a bunker at the 16th. Ko had a birdie try at 16

to finish on 21-under 267, one stroke ahead of Sullivan (68).

England’s Danny Willett, who started the tournament 1,613 points behind McIlroy in the Race to Dubai and needed to beat him to become the European No. 1 for the first time in his career, finished tied for fourth on 13-under 275 after shooting 70.

South Africa’s Branden Grace shot 5-under 67 in the final round to finish third on 273.

McIlroy had an anxious moment late in the day when his tee shot on the par-3 17th found the water and threatened to nullify his advantage at that stage. But the 26-year-old McIlroy made a brilliant 40-feet putt to limit the damage to a bogey, which gave him a one-shot lead going to the 18th where he and Sullivan made par.

“In hindsight, I probably should have gone with a different club and a different shot,” McIlroy said of his problems at the 17th. “It’s definitely probably the longest putt I’ve ever made for a bogey. I don’t think there’s

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Lydia Ko, left, and Cristie Kerr hold their trophies at the conclusion of the CME Group Tour Championship golf tournament on Sunday, in Naples, Fla. not long afterward, leaving it uncharacteristically short.

But in the end, Kerr, Park and Ko did enough to all come away with big prizes.

“Pretty cool,” Kerr said. “A lot of different honours.”

Kerr shot four rounds in the 60s, made a 35-foot birdie putt at No. 15 to tie for the lead, then the eagle at the

17th put her on top for good.

Park was second in the Globe chase, pocketing a $150,000 bonus. Thompson was third, taking home $100,000 in bonus money — though she spent much of the afternoon in position to sweep both the $500,000 first prize and the $1 million bonus.

“It’s been a special year for the tour,” Ko said.

been one that’s come at a better time.

So, yeah, definitely the best bogey of my career.”

McIlroy also won the Race to Dubai title as the European Tour’s No. 1 player for the year, the third time he has

secured the honour after winning in 2012 and 2014.

McIlroy’s closest rival for the Race to Dubai was Willett, who needed to finish ahead of McIlroy in the tournament.

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Gove had seven birdies and a bogey at Pebble Beach to finish at 15-under 273 total.

“I felt in the moment all day,” Gove

said. “I love this. I love the pressure of having a chance to win.”

Sutherland and Waldorf shot 67.

Sutherland won in 2000 and finished third last year.

Gove broke a tie with Sutherland on the par-3 17th, hitting to 3 feet to set up a birdie. Gove hit his second shot on the par-5 18th to the back, chipped to 7 feet and made the birdie putt.

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Alvarez downs Cotto in a decision

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS — Canelo Alvarez made a case for himself as boxing’s next star Saturday night, landing the bigger punches to take a unanimous decision over Miguel Cotto and win a piece of the middleweight title.

Alvarez took the fight to Cotto from the opening bell, winning rounds with big right hands and uppercuts. Cotto tried to box and had his moments, but Alvarez was clearly ahead as the crowd stood on its feet as both fighters traded punches in the final rounds.

Alvarez won the WBC version of the title that Cotto vacated days earlier for not paying sanctioning fees. His win set up a possible megafight with Gennady Golovkin, the middleweight champion who was watching at ringside.

“With all due respect if he wants to fight right now I’ll put the gloves on and fight him,” Alvarez said.

Alvarez won by scores of 117-11, 119109 and 118-110. The Associated Press had him ahead 116-112.

Alvarez, whose only loss came to Floyd Mayweather Jr., set the tone early, winging big left hooks in the first round that Cotto largely avoided. As the fight went on, though, he began landing more of his punches as he patiently stalked Cotto around the ring.

Cotto boxed well at times and landed flurries of punches, but his didn’t seem to have nearly the same power as those thrown by Alvarez. In the final rounds, Alvarez caught Cotto with a series of punches that seemed to shake him some though he was never down and never appeared in real trouble.

“It’s an emotion I can’t put into words,” Alvarez said.

“I’m very happy and much respect to Miguel Cotto. I will always respect him and he’s a great champion but now it’s my era.”

Cotto expressed disappointment in the judges’ decision, but left the ring before speaking.

“We thought it was much closer than the scorecards showed,” said Cotto’s trainer, Freddie Roach. “It was a competitive fight.”

Alvarez went into Cotto’s locker room after the fight, telling the fighter he just beat that “I admire you.”

Though the fight was for a 160-pound title it was fought at a catch weight of 155 pounds. Alvarez weighed exactly that the day before the fight, but after rehydrating appeared much larger in the ring than did Cotto, who was 153 ½ pounds at the official weighin.

Alvarez was a 3-1 favourite coming into the bout, largely because he is 10 years younger than Cotto and a bigger puncher. The ages didn’t seem to make a difference, but the ringside judges were surely influenced by the harder punches that the red-headed Alvarez landed.

Cotto was credited with throwing 629 punches to 484 for Alvarez, but Alvarez landed 155 to 129 for Cotto.

Cotto had vowed to pull the upset by using his boxing skills, and at times he was quite effective. But by the third round, Alvarez was landing some of the big punches he was winging at Cotto.

The fight was the latest in the boxing rivalry between Mexico and Puerto Rico. Alvarez, from Mexico, was the clear favourite of the crowd at the Mandalay Bay casino. But Cotto was competitive and a lot of the early rounds were close.

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Miguel Cotto, right, of Puerto Rico, get hits by Canelo Alvarez, of Mexico, during a WBC middleweight title bout Saturday, in Las Vegas.

The action picked up in the eighth round, with both fighters trading punches. Again, Alvarez landed the harder shots, using his uppercut effectively and shaking Cotto with punches to the head.

Cotto, who earned $15 million, fell to 40-5, while Alvarez improved to 461-1.

In a wild fight on the undercard, Francisco Vargas seemed to be taking a beating and was half blinded before coming back to stop Takashi Miura of Japan at 1:31 of the ninth round.

Vargas won a piece of the 130-pound

title, but paid a price to do it. He was knocked down once and staggered at the end of the eighth round, and the ring doctor looked closely at his swollen right eye before allowing the fight to continue in the ninth.

When it did, Vargas landed a sudden right and left that knocked Miura down. He followed it by chasing the champion around the ring, finally landing a series of shots to the head that prompted the referee to step in and stop the bout.

Vargas, of Mexico, improved to 23-01, while Miura fell to 29-3-2.

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Lewis Kent, who raced to a beer mile world record in London, Ont., poses after race on Nov.17. In between training and his fourth-year kinesiology classes, Lewis Kent was doing interviews. TMZ was among news agencies wanting to talk to the Mississauga, Ont., native about his talent for running and chugging beer - simultaneously. Kent raced to a world beer mile record Tuesday night in London, Ont. “And that’s kind of helped me practise, dealing with the stomach expansion and learning the technique.”

Kent and Gallagher will race head-to-head at the FloTrack Beer Mile World Championships on Dec. 1 in downtown Austin, Texas.

Gallagher, a mail carrier, won the world championships last year in 5:00.23, while Kent was fifth in 5:32.58.

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The person spoke on the condition of anonymity Sunday night because the team hasn’t announced the move that is expected Monday.

Roberts is a former Dodgers outfielder who will be the first minority manager in the storied franchise’s history. His father is black and his mother is Japanese.

The 43-year-old most recently served as bench coach of the San Diego Padres since 2011.

Roberts played for the Dodgers from 2002-04 during his 10-year big league career.

He also played for Cleveland, Boston, San Diego and San Francisco during his career that ended in 2008.

Roberts was a career .266 hitter with 243 steals.

He will succeed Don Mattingly, who mutually parted ways with the team last month after five years that included winning three consecutive NL West titles but never reaching the World Series. A week later, Mattingly signed a four-year contract to manage the Miami Marlins.

One of the favourites to replace Mattingly was Gabe Kapler, the club’s farm director. He played with Tampa Bay when Andrew Friedman, the Dodgers’ president of baseball operations, was that club’s general manager.

The franchise also interviewed Dodgers bench coach Tim Wallach and third base coach Ron Roenicke, who has since joined the rival Angels. Others interviewed included Kirk Gibson, a hero in the Dodgers’ 1988 World Series championship Nebraska baseball coach Darin Erstad former Padres manager Bud Black and Cubs bench coach Dave Martinez.

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Between track practice and his fourth-year kinesiology classes Wednesday, Lewis Kent was doing interviews.

Celebrity news agency TMZ was among those curious to know about the young Canadian’s unique talent of running and chugging beer — virtually at the same time.

“It’s been crazy … ESPN, TMZ, Sports Illustrated,” said Kent, who stepped out of class to do the phone interview.

The 21-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., broke the world record Tuesday night in the beer mile — a race that combines running and drinking beer. Runners chug a beer then run a lap, for each of the four laps of a mile.

Kent, who just completed his senior cross-country season with the University of Western Mustangs, ran four minutes 51.9 seconds, lowering the previous mark of 4:54.38 set by Winnipeg’s Corey Gallagher in October. He then announced he’d gone pro, signing a shoe deal with Brooks.

Kent ran the race — Amsterdam Beer was his beer of choice — at a London, Ont., high school.

Kent and Gallagher have been swapping the world record for the past few months. Kent lowered it in August before his Winnipeg rival etched his name on it in October.

It’s fitting, said Kent, that Canadians have dominated the race, on both the men’s and women’s side, since it was invented in the late 1970s by a group of runners at Queens University.

“I feel a great sense of pride that Canadians invented the beer mile,” Kent said. “Only we could come up with something so different, yet so amazing.”

Kent, whose fastest mile — sans beer — is 4:15, first ran the race with a group of fellow track athletes as a way to celebrate the end of the season. He clocked about six minutes in his first one.

It wasn’t the running that slowed him down, but the chugging. He figured he could easily shave time off the 90 seconds it had taken him to drink four beers.

In the weeks before running a beer mile, he’ll consume between three and five during interval training. While he’s in cross-country or track season, however, he trains by chugging non-alcoholic beer, periodically through the day.

“One roommate who’s not a runner, but he’s kind of my designated beer mile coach, I have a case of non-alcoholic beer sitting in the corner, and he’ll say ‘All right, let’s fire two up right now,”’ Kent said.

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Belgian Army soldiers and policemen patrol near Christmas stalls in the center of Brussels on Sunday.

Western leaders stepped up the rhetoric against the Islamic State group as residents of the Belgian capital awoke to largely empty streets and the city entered its second day under the highest threat level. With a menace of Paris-style attacks against Brussels and a missing suspect in the deadly Nov. 13 attacks in France last spotted crossing into Belgium, the city kept subways and underground trams closed for a second day.

Belgium police nab 16 in raids PARIS FUGITIVE SALAH ABDESLAM STILL AT LARGE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS — Belgian prosecutors announced early Monday that police had detained 16 people in 22 raids but that Paris fugitive Salah Abdeslam was not among them.

Federal prosecutor Eric Van Der Sypt said that “no fire arms or explosives were discovered,” in the raids — 19 in Brussels and the three in Charleroi in the country’s south. One of those detained was injured when a car he was in tried to ram police during an attempted getaway.

“The investigation continues,” he said.

The raids capped a tense day with hundreds of troops patrolling and authorities hunting for one or more suspected militants, the Belgian government chose Sunday to keep the capital on the highest state of alert into the start of the workweek to prevent a Paris-style attack.

Citing a “serious and imminent” threat, Prime Minister Charles Michel announced that schools and universities in Brussels will be closed Monday, with the subway remaining shut down, preventing a return to normal in the city that is also home to the European Union’s main institutions.

“We fear an attack like in Paris, with several individuals, perhaps in several places,” Michel said after chairing a meeting of Belgium’s National Security Council.

While Brussels was kept on the highest of four alert levels, the rest of the country remains on a Level 3 alert, meaning an attack is “possible and likely.”

“Nobody is pleased with such a situation. Neither are we. But we have to take our responsibility,” Michel said.

Western leaders stepped up the rhetoric against the Islamic State group, which has claimed responsibility for the attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and wounded hundreds more the suicide bombings in Beirut that killed 43 people and injured more than 200 and the downing of the Russian jetliner carrying 224 people in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. All happened

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“We will not accept the idea that terrorist assaults on restaurants and theatres and hotels are the new normal, or that we are powerless to stop them,” President Barack Obama said in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said IS must be destroyed at all costs.

“We must annihilate Islamic State worldwide … and we must destroy Islamic State on its own territory,” Le Drian said. “That’s the only possible direction.”

The decision to put Brussels on the highest alert came early Saturday as authorities frantically searched for Abdeslam, who is believed to have played a key role in the Nov. 13 attacks in France. He is known to have crossed into Belgium the day after the attacks.

Interior Minister Jan Jambon warned that the threat wouldn’t necessarily disappear if Abdeslam was found, because they are looking for several people in connection with a possible planned attack in Brussels.

“The terror threat is wider than just that person,” Jambon said. “We are looking at several things. That is why we are making the big show of power and following everything up by the minute. It’s no use to hide this.”

Several of the Paris attackers had lived in Brussels, including Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the plot’s orchestrator who was killed Wednesday in a standoff with French police.

Abdeslam is known to have crossed into Belgium on Nov. 14. His brother, Mohamed Abdeslam, went on Belgian TV and urged him to surrender, saying he would rather see him “in prison than in a cemetery.”

Authorities in Turkey said Saturday that a 26-year-old Belgian citizen suspected of be-

ing linked to Islamic extremists and possibly to the Paris attacks had been detained in the coastal city of Antalya.

France has intensified its aerial bombing in Syria and Le Drian said the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, which has been sent to the Mediterranean to help combat IS militants in Syria, will be “operational” from Monday and “ready to act.”

Also Monday, French President Francois Hollande is scheduled to meet in Paris with British Prime Minister David Cameron and will travel to Washington and Moscow later in the week to push for a stronger international coalition against IS. Cameron is expected to outline his plan for combating the militants as he seeks parliamentary approval to join France, the U.S. and Russia in striking the group’s strongholds in Syria.

Russia also is trumpeting action it’s taking to fight IS. It has intensified its airstrikes in Syria in response to the Oct. 31 downing of its passenger plane in Egypt.

On Sunday, Russian law enforcement officers raided a militant hideout in the North Caucasus, killing 11 in an exchange of fire. The militants were part of a group whose members had pledged allegiance to IS, the National Anti-Terrorist Committee said in a statement.

Attacks like those in Paris are aimed partly at provoking the West, as the Islamic State group hopes that stepped-up military action in the region will reinforce its narrative of a clash of civilizations and attract more Muslims to its ranks.

IS and other militant groups seize on harsh Western rhetoric and civilian deaths to portray themselves as defending Muslims from modern “Crusaders.”

Horror, panic, heroism at the Bataclan concert hall - bloody nexus of Paris attacks

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PARIS — The vibe in the Bataclan concert hall was hot, steamy and electric as the California rock band Eagles of Death Metal jammed away a half-hour into a set. Revelers slam-danced to the hard rock, and bodies glistened with sweat. Suddenly, the drum beats gave way to a different kind of rat-a-tat-tat-tat, and flashing stage lights met with glints from automatic rifle barrels.

In the spasm of chaos, some revelers thought the lights and sounds were part of the show.

Then the lead singer fled, bodies began to fall — and shouts of partying turned to screams of horror.

It was the beginning of the worst carnage of the Paris attacks that killed 130 people, injured over 300, and caused the French president to declare his nation at war with Islamic State extremists. The legendary music venue in a shabby-chic corner of Paris turned into a chamber of death that one policeman described as “Dante’s Inferno,” as three men laden with explosives and toting Ka-

lashnikovs fired indiscriminately at revelers, turning the dance floor into a sea of blood.

“I crawled on the ground as low as possible without getting up,” said Arthur, one of the Bataclan fans, who didn’t give his last name. “I scrambled for the emergency exit on the left.

We all crawled. Others tried to walk out and stepped on an arm or two.”

Partiers poured like bees from a hive from the emergency exit into a backstage alley.

The escape was hampered by bodies of dead and injured clogging the exit. Outside people on higher floors of the concert hall dangled desperately from windows, facing the choice of gunfire from the attackers or a bone-shattering drop to the ground.

The attackers turned up at the Bataclan around 9:40 p.m. in a black Volkwagen Polo, after two other extremist teams had launched suicide bombing attacks on the Stade de France soccer stadium and a string of drive-by shootings at cafes and restaurants. Getting out, they unleashed a burst of automatic gunfire at two young men on rental bikes who happened to be cycling by. The men crum-

pled to the ground, shot at point-blank range.

“To see it with my own eyes, it was like being in a horror film,” said witness Ludovic Mintchov. “In 10 years, I won’t forget it.”

The attackers strafed their way inside the concert hall, through the bar and merchandise counter, and straight to the pit, according to witness accounts — unleashing a torrent of gunfire.

As the attackers mowed people down, a police commissioner and his driver, learning from the police radio that they were near the site, sped to the concert hall before more elite teams could get there. They charged inside, shooting one of the gunmen before the attacker had a chance to use his high-powered rifle. Then they retreated so that special-operations teams could assemble.

It was a key action that slowed the pace of carnage.

“In hindsight, I know that we saved dozens, maybe hundreds of lives,” the commissioner, who hasn’t been named, told private television channel M6.

While the Bataclan death toll of at least 89 was horrific, most of the partygoers survived.

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Community taking to the streets PEOPLE OF LOS ANGELES HAVE HAD ENOUGH AS MURDERS AND SHOOTINGS ON THE RISE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Eduardo Rebolledo had just gotten into his pickup truck after work, eager to head home to his two children when a gang dispute erupted 30 yards behind him on a Los Angeles street. The 38-year-old ducked right into the path of a bullet that hit him in the head, killing him instantly.

“He was completely innocent. The guy’s never even had a parking ticket,” said Detective Dave Peteque with the Los Angeles Police Department. “He’s just a working Joe, a family man trying to support his kids.”

In a split second, Rebolledo joined the growing list of victims in the second-largest U.S. city, where murders are up 12 per cent this year and shooting victims have increased 20 per cent.

The city is also on the cusp of recording its 1,000th shooting victim of the year.

After an especially violent weekend in late September, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck expressed his frustration about the bloodshed, particularly among gangs.

“This is not Dodge City,” Beck said, referring to 19 shootings in one weekend, 13 of which were gang-related.

The increases come as redevelopment of the city’s downtown and nearby neighbourhoods has attracted trendy new bars and restaurants, thousands of new residents and megaprojects that include a $1 billion mixeduse hotel tower that will be the tallest in the West.

In response to the rising numbers, the LAPD has deployed hundreds of elite officers to crime hot spots, increased the number of officers walking the streets versus patrolling in cars, and created a community relationship division dedicated to building the public’s trust in police officers.

But Beck said his department can’t solve the problem alone.

“A lot of it is public will,” he said.

“A will of everyone in the city of Los Angeles to say, ‘Enough is enough.”’

Members of the community say they stepped up their own efforts when the crime numbers started going up.

Rebolledo’s death, for instance, inspired a “peace movement” in the neighbourhood where he was killed, said Michelle Miranda, founder of Alliance for Community Empowerment, a non-profit that provides services to disadvantaged young people, including gang intervention.

Young people involved with Miranda’s organization decided to hold a peace march on a recent Saturday in response to Rebolledo’s death. More than 250 people took to the streets wearing white shirts, carrying signs that included: “We protest our right to live in peace.”

“These are young people that know drugs in the community and gang activity, and they’re tired of it,” Miranda said.

Miranda said the same youths who organized the march are working on more plans to continue the peace movement.

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Los Angeles County Coroner officials remove the body of Joseph Gatto, father of California Assemblyman Mike Gatto, from his home in the Silverlake district near downtown Los Angeles in early November. Joseph Gatto was found fatally shot and his home had been ransacked.

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This Oct. 17 photo, provided by the Alliance for Community Empowerment, shows a peace march organized after the death of Eduardo Rebolledo, an innocent man caught in the crossfire of a gang dispute, in the Canoga Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. In 2015, murders in Los Angeles are up 12 percent and shootings have jumped 20 percent. In response to the rising numbers, the Los Angeles Police Department has deployed hundreds of elite officers to crime hot spots, increased the number of officers walking the streets versus patrolling in cars, and created a community relationship division dedicated to building the public’s trust in police officers. But Police Chief Charlie Beck says his department can’t solve the problem alone.

South Los Angeles, the Rev. Winford Bell began a program through his non-profit group to train members of the community how to counsel family and friends of people who’ve been murdered.

The idea for the so-called “life comforters” is to provide a safe outlet to vent anger and sorrow, and wherever possible, attempt to prevent retaliatory violence common among gangs.

“Don’t get me wrong, hardcore gang members are not going to hear me.

Them we can’t do nothing with,” Bell said. “The other ones who aren’t so hard, who aren’t dedicated to being gang members … If they come, we can do a lot of work.”

Los Angeles is among a number of major cities across the U.S. seeing rises in violent crime this year, including Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Cleveland and Houston. Other California cities also have seen increases, including Sacramento, Oakland and Long Beach.

Though the numbers are up, those cities are far safer than they were in the early 1990s during the crack cocaine epidemic. In Los Angeles, for example, murders peaked in 1992 at 1,092 people killed.

So far this year, there have been 251 homicides, compared to 225 during the same time period last year.

Still, the LAPD is taking this year’s uptick seriously.

“We’re not panicking,” said Capt.

Jeff Bert, commanding officer of the department’s strategic planning group.

“But we are in the business of driving down crime so when a crime spike goes up, we’re all over it. It is a concern.”

It’s still too early to pinpoint what’s driving the increased violence across the country and in Los Angeles, said Charis Kubrin, a criminologist at the University of California at Irvine who analyzes crime in Southern California.

She said there could be a number of contributing factors, including easier access to guns, the poverty rate, a new state law that reduced penalties for certain crimes, and a growing distrust of police, which can contribute to retaliatory violence.

“If you don’t see the police as a viable option when you have a problem, then you handle things on your own,” Kubrin said.

The LAPD, all the way to the chief, acknowledges that community trust in police is wavering.

Restoring it will be the No. 1 way to turn the crime numbers around, Bert said.

“We make or break our success based on our relationships, based on people’s willingness to talk about to police and based on police’s ability to get out of their car and talk to people,” Bert said. “We can’t arrest our way out of this.”

Mali attack meant to derail peace talks BAMAKO, Mali — The assault on a luxury hotel in Mali’s capital that killed 19 people was a clear attempt to derail a fragile peace process meant to stabilize the country’s volatile north, a representative of northern separatist groups said Sunday.

Halting peace negotiations have been dragging on between the central government and northern separatist groups for more than two years in an effort to end the disputes that turned large sections of the country into a haven for radical Islamic militants.

The talks have shown some promise in recent months.

The Radisson Blu hotel attacked by two gunmen on Friday was preparing to host a meeting on implementing the latest accords.

“The attack was targeting the peace agreement,” said Sidi Brahim Ould Sidati, a representative of the Coordination of Azawad Movements, known by its French acronym CMA. The CMA is a coalition of groups seeking autonomy in northern Mali and includes ethnic

Arabs and Tuaregs.

“The jihadis are in different groups but their goal is the same, and that’s to hinder implementation of the peace accord,” Sidati said.

It was the secular separatist groups that first wrested northern Mali from the government in 2012, using weapons looted from arsenals in neighbouring Libya, but they were soon overtaken by al-Qaida-allied radicals.

In 2013, the French pushed the Islamic extremists out of cities and towns though they continue to carry out attacks on U.N. peacekeepers.

The peace talks between the government and the separatists excluded the radicals, who have spoken out against the negotiations, accusing participants of betraying the population’s desire for independence.

The hotel attack was claimed by the Al-Mourabitoun (The Sentinels) radical group which has links to al-Qaida. The group’s statement said attacks would continue until the government ended its “aggression against our people in the north and the centre of Mali.”

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Violence breaks out in Israel ahead of Kerry visit

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — A young Israeli woman was stabbed to death by a Palestinian who was among three assailants to be shot dead following separate attacks Sunday, Israeli security forces said, with the latest flare-up of violence coming ahead of a visit to the region by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

The 21-year-old Israeli woman was seriously wounded when a Palestinian attacked her with a knife in the West Bank Sunday before being shot and killed by soldiers, the military said.

Dr. Ofer Merin of the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem said “the young woman was stabbed numerous times in the head, chest and the area of the heart.” Despite attempts to save her, she succumbed to her wounds.

The attack occurred at the Gush Etzion junction near Jerusalem, the scene of multiple Palestinian attacks against civilians and security forces over the past two months.

In an earlier attack, the military

said a woman pulled out a knife at the entrance to a military base and began approaching civilians. A local West Bank settler leader, Gershon Mesika, said he veered off the road and struck the woman with his vehicle. A soldier then fired at her and killed her. The army did not say how close the woman had been to carrying out an attack or release a video of the incident.

Her father, Taha Qatanani, said his 16-year-old daughter went to school as usual in the morning and that he heard about her death two hours later. “She talked about stabbing to her brother the day before but no one took her seriously. If she tried to stab she did what she wanted,” he said.

Elsewhere in the West Bank, a Palestinian driving a taxi cab tried to run over Israelis east of Jerusalem, police said. After crashing his car, he emerged with a knife and tried to stab people, but was shot dead by a bystander before he could harm anyone.

Israeli politicians have encouraged licensed gun owners to carry their weapons during the latest wave of unrest.

current chairman of the West African ECOWAS bloc, visited Bamako on Sunday and went to the Radisson with Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. At a joint press conference early Sunday evening, Sall said a regional meeting to discuss security concerns would be convened in the coming days, though he provided no details.

Friday’s attack began at around 7 a.m., when two gunmen armed with assault rifles and explosives attacked just as guards who had worked the night shift were preparing to hand over to a new team.

The two young gunmen quickly overpowered the guards and moved into the hotel as terrified guests scrambled out of the dining room where they were having breakfast and tried to hide in the kitchen. They were armed with two Kalashnikov assault rifles, explosives and “a large amount of ammunition,” Maj. Modibo Nama Traore, a commander with the Malian army, said Sunday.

Malian troops backed by French and American forces then assaulted the hotel in a siege lasting more than seven hours that involved clearing the

building floor by floor.

The timing of the attack suggested a well-planned operation that analysts said could have been an attempt by al-Qaida and its Al-Mourabitoun allies to assert its relevance amid high-profile assaults by the rival Islamic State group, including the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris that killed 130 people.

The separatists and other analysts say, however, that it could also have been an effort to derail Mali’s fragile recovery.

Jean-Herve Jezequel, with the International Crisis Group, said it was a “new element” for Al-Mourabitoun to position itself as defenders of the northern region — as though it were a national movement rather than just a terror group.

Sidati said he suspected this type of rhetoric was intended to help the extremists get as many recruits from northern Mali as possible.

In the northern Mali regions of Timbuktu and Kidal, new leaflets were distributed on Saturday warning against collaboration with the Malian army, France and the United Nations peacekeeping mission, he added.

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Dr Anthony Levitt, chief of the brain sciences program at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.

Light therapy not just for SAD: study WORKS FOR BOTH SEASON AND NON-SEASON DEPRESSION

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Light-box therapy typically used to treat people with seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, during the winter months can also ease symptoms of depression that occur throughout the rest of the year, a study suggests.

Researchers found that patients with non-seasonal major depressive disorder (MDD) who received both light therapy and an antidepressant improved more than those given just one therapy.

“Light therapy is a low-cost treatment option with few side-effects, and our findings show it could benefit many patients,” said study co-author Dr. Anthony Levitt, a psychiatrist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.

He added that researchers were surprised by just how effective the combination treatment proved to be.

The clinical trial involved 122 patients who were randomly assigned in roughly equal numbers to receive one of four treatments: light therapy and an antidepressant light therapy and a placebo pill an antidepressant with exposure to a sham light box and both access to a sham light box and a dummy pill.

Patients who received an antidepressant were treated with fluoxetine (sold under the brand name Prozac), and those given light-box therapy were exposed for 30 minutes each day during the eight-week study.

Levitt said 75 per cent of the patients given the combination of light and drug therapy saw an easing of symptoms, which can include persistent and consistent low mood, poor concentration, and changes in sleep and appetite.

About half of the patients treated with active light therapy and a placebo pill experienced similar improvement, while only about 30 per cent of those given the active antidepressant with a sham light, or the sham light and dummy pill, got better, he said.

That 30 per cent response for the latter — called the placebo effect — is typical in any clinical trial testing a drug or another therapy.

“We don’t usually get response rates in the range of 75 per cent in any depression trials,” said Levitt, chief of Sunnybrook’s brain sciences program. “So the magnitude of the difference was surprising to us.”

Adding light therapy to the antidepressant treatment also reduced patients’ symptoms much more quickly, he said.

“In the combination group what we saw was continued improvement each week across the eight weeks. The greatest reduction is in the first one to two weeks — that’s true of all antidepressant trials — but improvement continued even up until eight weeks.”

Light therapy has long been used to treat SAD, but its effects in patients with non-seasonal depression were not well-known.

“What we’re showing here is that light works in non-seasonal depression and it works at any time of the year,” said Levitt. “The season in which (patients) were treated made no difference to the outcome.”

While medications are effective in treating depression, they work in only about 60 per cent of cases, said study co-author Dr. Raymond Lam, a psychiatrist at the University of British Columbia.

“It’s important to find new treatments because our current therapies don’t work for everyone,” Lam said in a statement. “Our findings should help to improve the lives of people with depression.”

However, the researchers stopped short of recommending that people with depression self-treat with light boxes, saying their findings need to be replicated by other scientists in trials involving more patients.

As well, some people should not use light therapy, said Levitt. Those with retinal and certain other eye disorders should not sit in front of a light box, nor should those with bipolar disorder, as exposure could set off an episode of mania.

“It still should be prescribed by a physician,” Levitt said.

The study was published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry.

WASHINGTON — The National Institutes of Health is sending its last remaining research chimpanzees into retirement — as soon as a federal sanctuary has room for them.

The government already had declared that the use of humans’ closest relative as a test subject was coming to an end. In 2013, the NIH said it would retire most of the several hundred government-owned chimps still living at research laboratories.

But it set aside 50 animals to be on standby just in case they still were needed for a public-health emergency or some other extreme situation.

Wednesday, the agency said those chimps’ lab days are over, too.

“It’s time to say we’ve reached the point in the U.S. where invasive research on chimpanzees is no longer something that makes sense,” said Dr. Francis Collins, director of NIH. Animal welfare groups welcomed the decision, and said they would work to find sanctuary space for the animals.

“We are overjoyed by this decision,” said Kathleen Conlee of the Humane Society of the United States.

But some research advocates questioned the surprise announcement, saying if a new pathogen emerged, it might be wise to have some research chimps in reserve.

“Is that ultimately in the public health interest?” asked Frankie Trull, president of the Foundation for Biomedical Research.

Trull noted that Ebola kills chimpanzees in the wild, and wondered if efforts to create a vaccine for wild apes could be hindered without research chimps for testing.

Chimps were vital in creating important medicines and paved astronauts’ way into space. But their use already had become rare in recent decades, even before a 2011 Institute of Medicine report said science had advanced to the point that most such research could no longer be justified. The NIH agreed, and began phasing out remaining use of the animals in invasive medical research.

Some labs also use chimps for non-invasive behavioural research.

About 300 government-owned chimpanzees already had been sent to Chimp Haven, a federally approved sanctuary in Louisiana. Still others were awaiting space. Since 2013, NIH had received only one application for research with the agency’s remaining 50 chimps and it subsequently was withdrawn, Collins said. Also, last summer the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gave research chimps endangered-species status, another steep hurdle to using them in medical studies, he said.

As for Ebola vaccine candidates, Collins noted that they’re already tested in monkeys, something that won’t change.

“We still feel that research on other non-human primates is essential for human health,” he said.

Scientists grow human vocal cords in the lab OFFER HOPE FOR TREATING VOICE-ROBBING DISEASES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — From mom’s comforting croon to a shout of warning, our voices are the main way we communicate and one we take for granted unless something goes wrong. Now researchers have grown human vocal cords in the laboratory that appear capable of producing sound — in hopes of one day helping people with voice-robbing diseases or injuries.

Millions of people suffer from voice impairments, usually the temporary kind such as laryngitis from a virus or a singer who overdoes the performing.

But sometimes the vocal cords become too scarred and stiff to work properly, or even develop cancer and must be removed. There are few treatments for extensive damage.

Your voice depends on tiny but complex pieces of tissue that must be soft and flexible enough to vibrate as air moves over them — the way they make sound — but tough enough to survive banging together hundreds of times a second.

Wednesday, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison reported the first lab-grown replacement tissue that appears pretty close to the real thing — and that produced some sound when tested in voice boxes taken from animals.

“There is no other tissue in the human body that is subject to these types of biomechanical demands,” said Dr. Nathan Welham of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who led the work published in Science Translational Medicine. “This lends promise or hope to one day treating some of the most severe voice problems that we face.”

The vocal cords, what scientists call “vocal folds,” sit inside the larynx or

voice box, near the Adam’s apple in the neck. Welham’s team started with some rare donations of vocal cords from four patients who had had their larynx removed for non-cancerous reasons, and from one deceased donor.

The researchers culled two types of cells that made up most of the tissue, and grew a large supply of them.

Then they arranged the cells on 3-D collagen scaffolding, and the two cell types began mixing and growing. In 14 days, the result was tissue with the shape and elasticity of human vocal cords, and with similar chemical properties.

But could it work? To tell, the researchers turned to a technique that sounds, well, strange but is a staple in voice research. They took a larynx that had been removed from a large dog after its death and attached it to a plastic “windpipe” that blew in warm air to simulate breath. A dog’s voice box is pretty similar to a human’s, Welham said. So the researchers cut out one of the native canine vocal folds and glued a piece of the new bioengineered tissue in its place.

Sure enough, the human tissue vibrated correctly and made sound — a buzzing almost like a kazoo, the recordings show.

It didn’t sound like a voice because it takes all the resonating structures of the mouth, throat and nose to “give the human voice its richness and individuality, and make my voice sound recognizable to my loved ones and you to yours,” Welham explained.

But that raw sound was essentially the same when the researchers tested the unaltered dog larynx and when they substituted the newly grown human tissue, suggesting the sound should be more normal if it were placed inside a body, Welham said.

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This photo provided by J. Scott McMurray Md., Associated Professor, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, taken Oct. 14, 2011, shows a normal larynx and vocal folds, center, during surgery in Madison, Wis. Our voices are the main way we communicate, one we mostly take for granted until something goes wrong. Now researchers have grown human vocal cords in the laboratory, a step toward one day helping to restore a voice to people who have lost theirs to disease or injury.

Wouldn’t the body reject tissue grown from someone else’s cells?

Further study using mice engineered to have human immune systems suggested this bioengineered tissue may be tolerated much like corneal transplants, less rejection-prone than other body parts.

This is a first-stage study, and it will take far more research before the ap-

proach could be tested in people, cautioned Dr. Norman Hogikyan, a voice specialist at the University of Michigan, who wasn’t involved in the new research.

But “I was impressed,” Hogikyan said. Growing replacement tissue “is an important step that’s potentially useful in treating scarring from a wide range of reasons.”

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Should I disclose liaisons if I reconcile with husband?

Dear Annie: I am six months into a separation from my husband of seven years. (The separation was his idea.) I thought our relationship was solid and was completely blindsided when he told me he felt deserted and lonely.

While I am still hoping for reconciliation, I have recently begun seeing someone else. My relationship with Mr. New is of the friends-with-benefits nature. I have no desire to actually date him (we want very different things in life), and at any rate, he is leaving the area in a couple of months.

But for the moment, he’s a fun distraction and a much-needed boost to my ego.

If I reconcile with my husband, am I required to disclose this liaison? My husband has been seeing other women for quite some time, although this was not a factor in our separation. We have a “don’t-ask-don’t-tell” type of open marriage and seeing others is accepted. — Still Married Dear Still: If you have a “don’t-ask-

don’t-tell” relationship, then you are under no obligation to disclose anything about your extracurricular activities. However, if your husband feels lonely and abandoned, you might want to rethink the type KATHY MITCHELL of marriage AND MARCY SUGAR you have. Open ANNIE’S MAILBOX marriages don’t work for everyone, and yours may not be as satisfying as either of you expected.

Please don’t assume your problems will resolve themselves during the separation. The two of you should have a frank and honest discussion and see whether you can get to the root

of your issues. Then you can work on making the necessary adjustments so things improve. Otherwise, professional counseling can help steer you in the right direction, together or separately.

Dear Annie: There’s another option to consider when it comes to “Guilty

by Accusation,” the 20-year-old whose parents accused him of taking their Xanax because he had once done so when he was 15.

Xanax is prescribed for anxiety. For those who experience it, anxiety is a truly troubling ailment. Those suffering from it keep the issues that bother them roiling around in their heads much more intensely than the average person. The Xanax calms this and helps them “let go” a bit easier.

So one needs to take the parents’ response into consideration — that they were more anxious about the missing pills than they were convinced that their son had stolen them. Accusing him was the easiest answer to their anxiety.

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Most of us have done something when we were young that we’d like to take back. I hope “Guilty” realizes that his youthful slip-up doesn’t define who he is. He sounds like a guy who cares.

So when he asks what else he can say to his parents, I suggest he say, “How can I help you find the Xanax?” — Retired Pharmacist Dear Pharmacist: You make a good point that people with anxiety issues might worry tremendously about their misplaced medication, blaming whoever is handy. We hope the Xanax turns up soon so that their son is off the hook.

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.

Gift shopping at the dollar store NEW YORK — Not looking to spend a bundle on holiday gifts? Head to the nearest dollar store instead.

Such emporiums are alive with holiday trimmings at the moment, but they’re also stuffed with goofy, stylin’ and branded gifts and stocking stuffers to please everyone. We headed to a Jack’s World in Manhattan and picked up 11 items with price tags of $2.99 and under, for a grand total of $17.04.

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U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and John C. Fremont High School students hold a beet grown in the school’s Gardening Apprenticeship Program plot on the campus south of downtown Los Angeles Friday, Nov. 20, 2015. Murthy visited the partnership between community organizations and the high school to support healthy initiatives in neighborhoods starved for fresh produce and grappling with childhood obesity. Students involved in the 12-week after-school gardening apprenticeship program learn to grow food and cook healthy dishes, pulling from kumquat and lime trees and planters filled with potatoes, peas and beets.

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HIPSTER HATS: A blue-stripe Where’s Waldo knit style for the guys and a brimmed cap with bow in swirls of forest green, black and white for the gals.

COIN BANKS: Let the Monsters Inc. and SpongeBob SquarePants gangs help teach toddlers the value of saving their pennies with mini coin banks.

These two are stuffed with multicolored candy canes.

SALT AND PEPPER: Though we’re not sure who’s who, this condiment set is truly friendly. Its two armin-arm ceramic shakers are described thusly: “Meet George. He’s Claude’s best mate and not afraid to show it.”

CALENDAR: Dogs, cats, bunnies and goats in get-ups for 2016 in a hanging calendar that declares: “Dear Human, Nasty Notes from Dressed-Up Pets.”

The cover is Chuckles the dog clown. August features a dachshund in bun and ketchup and this personal note: “Dear Human. Bite me. Love, Oscar M. Eyer.”

HIGH FINANCE: The iconic Wall Street bull on a coffee mug with a background showing the New York Stock Exchange and other details from the neighbourhood.

CANDY: Can you go wrong with Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles Gummy Turtle Power Candy Pizza and Disney Frozen Best Friends Gummies & Stickers?

We think not.

CANDY FOR THE GROWNIES: Send someone back into childhood with a bag of Dad’s Old Fashioned Root Beer Barrels.

GOT A BASEBALL FAN?: This five-inch plastic Christmas ornament in holiday green is filled with a Big League Chew Bubble Gum Pouch, four trading cards, two tattoos and three gumballs. Ballpark perfection.

Don’t underestimate the power of networking to open you up to exciting new friendships, business opportunities and international contacts.

Monday, Nov. 23 you want to go a CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: lot faster. ComOded Fehr, 44; Franco Nero, 73; Miley municating with Cyrus, 22 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The others will be stars favour being emotionally proactive. fruitful, if you HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You hate other take the time to people telling you what to do. 2016 is really listen. the year to get the balance right between SAGITTARIUS personal freedom and satisfying relation- (Nov. 22-Dec. ships.

21): With Venus ARIES (March 21-April 19): Expect an and Mars visiting emotional roller coaster today Rams, as your hope and the planets unsettle you and stir up un- w i s h e s z o n e , JOANNE MADELINE predictable moods. So avoid making im- you need to be portant decisions until things settle down. passionately proMOORE TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A loved active about your SUN SIGNS one may surprise you by making an un- goals for the fuexpected move today Taurus. In this ture. Don’t just case, your first reaction is the best one, dream about it — as you honestly express what’s really on get out there and do it! your mind.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): AssistGEMINI (May 21-June 20): Are you ing others may feel like a chore today.

Experience our keen to explore new frontiers with your But, as you help those in need, you’ll alpartner or a close friend? Why not or- so be helping yourself. If you are flexible, ganize an adventurous camping trip, or then you’ll end the day feeling surprisingTheatre investigate a subject together that has ly satisfied. always intrigued you?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): SomeCANCER (June 21-July 22): When it one presents you with a puzzle that comes to family and friends, expect an you’re keen to solve. Plus group activirdc.ab.ca/showtime unsettling day. If you are patient and un- ties, team sports and social networking PRESENTING SPONSOR FOLLOW US! derstanding, then you’ll work through any are highlighted, as you connect with othproblems with plenty of Crab compas- ers in a variety of stimulating ways. sion and composure.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’re in LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Look for cre- the mood to help others today Pisces. ative and lasting ways you can help out in your local community. But avoid trying to impose your ideas on others. You’ll have more success if you lead — subtly — by example.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When it comes to a friendship or a financial partnership, things are in a state of flux. So don’t waste time worrying about where things are going — for they are constantly changing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Have you been too busy to catch up with old friends?

It’s time to re-connect with like-minded people within your local community. But expect a loved one to be restless or rebellious.

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