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Consultations key: labour minister NDP GOVERNMENT LISTENING TO FARMERS’ CONCERNS, SAYS SIGURDSON

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF The NDP government minister responsible for moving controversial farm safety legislation forward said there will be a window of time for compliance.

“This is really about safety and it’s not about destroying the family farm,” Lori Sigurdson, Minister of Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour told the Advocate on Friday morning.

Bill 6, the Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act, an omnibus bill involving four different pieces of legislation, has drawn considerable opposition from those involved in farming directly or otherwise.

Sigurdson said she is listening, consultations are key and she knows that the farming and ranching sector is unique and important.

However while the number of town halls have

been increased and run until Dec. 14, the last day of the fall sitting of the legislature is Dec. 3. This could mean that Bill 6 will be passed before consultation has finished.

The new legislation, if passed, will bring farms and ranches under the Occupational Health and Safety and Workers Compensation Acts effective Jan. 1.

Sigurdson said there have been myths circulating about what the new legislation is acLORI SIGURDSON tually about.

“That’s why it’s so important for us to actually be listening … as a firm believer in democracy and certainly

BILL C6 a person who’s participated in many protests myself, I think it’s so important for people to stand up for what they believe in and … I’m happy to meet with the farmers and hear about their concerns and assure them that absolutely we’re listening as a government.

“We very much know that the unique and essential farming way of life, we want to preserve that. We want to work with family farms, however we want to make sure that they are safe.

“We’re creating more of a culture about safety on the farm. And that doesn’t mean that farmers aren’t concern about that. I know they are. I’m a mom of three kids myself and I know that families care about their kids working on the farm already. But there’s things that we can do industry wide and specifically with family farms.”

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In search of an identity FILMMAKER RUEBEN TSCHETTER GAINED A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF HIMSELF

BY TELLING CENTRAL ALBERTANS’ STORIES

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF From Springbrook’s firefighting airplanes to Sylvan Lake’s row of veterans’ flags, Central Alberta has many stories to tell.

Filmmaker Rueben Tschetter is capturing more than a dozen local narratives in short documentaries that will start airing at the end of January on TELUS Optik TV-on demand and Shaw TV channel.

It happens that Tschetter’s own life story is as interesting as any of them. Although his past won’t be filmed for TV, it explains why he has an outsider’s eye for what makes Central Alberta an interesting and unique place to live.

For Tschetter grew up on the Cluny Hutterite Colony, southeast of Calgary.

While he described life in his colony as being halfway between restrictive and progressive, Tschetter explained, “I was a rebellious kid who didn’t like authority.” He left at age 18, hoping to join the army.

Since he needed to get a high school diploma to get into the Canadian Forces and, as with most Hutterite boys, his schooling was stopped at age 15, he moved into a Calgary rooming house and buckled down to do three years of upgrading.

“I walked 26 blocks to school every day, but it was cheap rent,” he recalled. The government gave him just enough money to cover his housing costs “and have a little leftover for food.”

While he wishes he’d had more support during his school years, Tschetter, who’s still in touch with Hutterite relations, appreciated feeling in charge of his own destiny. He soon volunteered as a reservist, and decided “I didn’t like it …

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Central Alberta filmmaker Rueben Tschetter.

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60 members of the École Barrie Wilson Elementary School in Red Deer took to the stage at the Festival of Trees Friday to perform their rendition of several Christmas Carols. The 22nd Annual Festival of Trees in Support of the Red Deer Regional Hospital Foundation continues through the weekend at Westerner Park on Saturday,10 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Kaminski resigns as president and CEO of Alberta Health Services EDMONTON — The president of Alberta’s health superboard has resigned halfway into her three-year contract.

Vickie Kaminski hasn’t said why she is stepping down as CEO of Alberta Health Services — a job which included a base salary of $540,000 a year.

In a news release, Health Minister Sarah Hoffman thanks Kaminski, noting her experience as a frontline nurse and hospital administrator.

There was no immediate word on whether Kaminski will receive a severance package.

Linda Hughes, chairwoman of the AHS board,

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BILL C6: Goal to prevent injuries, fatalities The main change regarding Occupation Health and Safety is when there’s a fatality or serious injury on a farm, OHS officers will be allowed to attend and investigate. Presently OHS cannot do this.

In 2014, 25 people died in farm-related accidents in Alberta, and 16 in 2013.

“Not everything can be prevented but there’s things that can be prevented so we very much want to work with the farm and ranch sector to make sure people are safe, and workers have the same rights as any other workplace in Alberta,” Sigurdson said.

“So that’s what January 1st will give us. We’ll have an officer that will be able to go when there’s a serious injury or fatality and then we’ll work with them to prevent the fatality or injury from happening again,” the minister said.

“Certainly we have a lot of education to do with farmers and ranchers cause this is a brand new thing, so we’re going to be working with them and their umbrella organizations to support them to understand what the requirements are.

“There certainly is a window of time in terms of their compliance.”

Changes to Employment Standards and Labour Relations Codes will not take place until next spring.

Technical regulations won’t be developed and complete until 2017, she said.

As for the cost of Workers’ Compensation insurance, Sigurdson said WCB is working to have some of the lowest, if not the lowest, in Canada.

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says she accepted Kaminski’s resignation with regret.

The group Friends of Medicare calls her resignation a welcome step.

“We have a new government, but AHS had not changed,” Sandra Azocar, executive director of Friends of Medicare, said Friday.

“Until this new government deals effectively with the governance structure of our health-care system we will not be able to focus on the real work of improving our health care to ensure that Albertans receive timely, quality, publicly funded and delivered health care.”

The AHS website says Kaminski assumed her duties as CEO and president on May 26, 2014.

“I think people are making some assumptions.

They may not have the whole understanding of what’s going on and so we need to make sure that that gets out,” Sigurdson said.

“We’re very much authentically listening to them but sometimes I feel like they aren’t sure that is true, and so we need to prove ourselves. I’m happy to do that.”

On Friday, the venue for an upcoming Red Deer town hall meeting about the new legislation was moved from Red Deer College to the Westerner.

A number of extra registrations that then became available were snapped up quickly. The meeting takes place from 1 to 4 p.m. on Tuesday. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

TSCHETTER: ‘I’d felt like an immigrant’ “It was too much like the colony. I thought, why am I replacing one system of authority for another?”

With his army dreams dashed, Tschetter began working in the oilfield. He later opted to continue his education by studying communications, first at Red Deer College then the University of Calgary.

The degree program he completed in 2011 focused on visual communications and sparked his interest in video storytelling.

Tschetter said “I started getting an understanding of who Canadians are” by interviewing Albertans about what they did in their communities and how they felt about issues.

He also began forming his own Canadian identity.

“I’d felt like an immigrant,” he admitted, since colony life was so different than mainstream society.

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Come next year the City of Red Deer will be $45.4 million more in the red.

Council gave first reading to bylaws that enable it to borrow the money to pay for projects in the $160.5-million capital budget for 2016.

Second and third readings will be on council’s agenda after the two-week advertising period.

By the end of 2016, the city is expected to be sitting at $323 million in long-term debt.

Chief Financial Officer Dean Krejci said the city is utilizing all the grants that are available to it.

Capital projects are typically funded through a combination of financing through reserves, debt and customer contribution.

“The city has a plan to repay its debt, and the reserves are being kept above the mark requested by council,” said Krejci. “They said, ‘Above zero,’ and we went a little more conservative and kept it above $4 million as an additional mitigation-risk measure.”

Some projects funded completely by debt this year include storm offsite projects to the tune of $10.6 million for service to new and re-development areas in various parts of the city.

An extra $6.6 million in 2016 and another $1 million in 2017 for the 67th Street corridor improvements will be funded through debt. The total tally on the project is $11.3 million with $3.6 million previously approved and funded through grants and reserves. This project is based on the 2009 needs study that calls for improvements to the Johnstone Drive area.

The $3.5 million River Bend Recreation Area enhancements will also be funded by debt. The project includes expanding the parking lot, revitalizing Discovery Canyon and the beach and picnic areas.

Krejci said some projects will be completed in 2016 and others will be finished in 2017 and 2018.

The city’s goal is to keep the reserves above $4 million throughout. It is estimated in 2016, the city will be sitting at $4.5 million in reserves between the captial projects and debt repayment reserves.

The Conference Board of Canada has recommended that municipalities borrow for capital infrastructure projects. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com els to Australia, Thailand and Hong Kong, his eyes were opened “to where I live and what a great country Canada is.”

Central Alberta became Tschetter’s film-making focus since he moved to Red Deer in 2004 and stared work with Duane Rolheiser’s 247 website news show.

He feels he’s met many “trailblazers” through his videography, and has an affinity with their pioneering spirit.

Tschetter began turning his independent documentaries over to TELUS Optik and Shaw for broadcast a few years ago. When TELUS asked for more films, he said he couldn’t afford to keep making them. Tschetter was then encouraged to apply for TELUS’s Cache Project, which supports the creation of short films about Alberta’s development, culture and history.

He recently got some funding to help make his next series of six to 20-minute docs — about Red Deer’s rejuvenated downtown, Springbrooks’ Air Spray company, the flags along Hwy 11, local artists, conservationists and other subjects.

It was part of more than $3.2 million that TELUS awarded to support the creation of more than 60 new local content projects in Alberta and B.C. in 2015.

Since Red Deer lost its local TV station in 2009, Tschetter feels there’s a need to tell more Central Alberta stories than fit into the “three-and-a-half minutes Red Deer gets” on half-hour TV newscasts out of Calgary or Edmonton.

“What’s going on here is very important. There’s a lot of stuff happening here that people need to know about,” said the filmmaker, who feels videotaped stories have a different impact than those told by newspapers or radio.

“There are many unique things about our community that we don’t always recognize. Sometimes we take these things for granted …”

And we shouldn’t, he added. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Legislature protest told farm safety bill could kill livelihoods EDMONTON — About 200 angry farmers and ranchers have staged a protest in front of the Alberta legislature over a proposed new farm safety bill.

Bill 6 would make Workers’ Compensation Board coverage mandatory for farm workers and would cancel the agriculture sector’s exemption from occupational health and safety rules.

Farms would also be subject to employment standards covering areas such as hours, vacation pay and minimum wages.

Farmers at Friday’s rally fret the bill could kill their livelihood, and waved signs including one that read: “Save the farm family from genocide.�

Rally organizer Sara Wheale says Bill 6 will have a dramatic impact on the way of life of farm families, many of whom rely on their children to help with farm chores.

Defamation trial hears column online for years CALGARY — A forensic computer expert says an article at the heart of a defamation lawsuit filed by former television reporter Arthur Kent was readily accessible for years after it was originally published.

Kevin Ripa testified Friday that all it took was a

simple check on Google to find the 2008 column by Don Martin.

Kent, who became known as the Scud Stud for his live reports for NBC during the Gulf War, is suing Martin, Postmedia and the National Post over the column.

Headlined ‘Scud Stud’ A ‘Dud’ On The Election Trail, it criticized Kent as an ego-driven, out-of-control candidate.

Ripa told court the article was available for nearly five years on several sites and traced back to the National Post website. “It was absolutely available on the Internet,� Ripa said. “It wasn’t being called from any mystical, magical place other than where any other article would be called from that would be visible today.�

He said the websites carrying the Martin column seemed to be current, with up-to-date advertising and links to current stories.

Counselling murder: Two more Alberta men charged in plan to kill trial witness LEDUC — More charges have been laid in an alleged plan to kill a witness in an criminal trial.

RCMP say an investigation began when they received information that there was a credible threat against the life of the witness.

The person cannot be identified due to safety concerns.

Evidence gathered resulted in a charge against a man from Lodgepole last week of counselling to commit murder.

Police say new charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice have now been laid against Scott Buchanan, who is 36, and 46-year-old Darren Boutlier.

All three accused are to appear in Leduc provincial court next Thursday.

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Alan Kurdi’s aunt hopes her brother Mohammed’s family will arrive in Canada soon VANCOUVER — The aunt of a Syrian boy whose lifeless body was photographed on a Turkish beach says she’s torn between grief and happiness after one of her brothers was approved to come to Canada.

Tima Kurdi said her brother Mohammed, his wife and five children have been accepted by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. But she is still haunted by thoughts of three-year-old Alan Kurdi and his father Abdullah, she said.

“To be honest, my feelings are mixed feelings — happy I’m saving those lives,” she said Friday when reached by phone at her Metro Vancouver home.

“But deep down, I’m so, so hurt by just thinking about my brother Abdullah,” she said. “Every single night, those two little nephews, it just breaks my heart. … It just hurt me so much, and I hope one day it will get easier and we will move on.”

Abdullah’s two sons and wife drowned in early September after he paid smugglers to help them cross the treacherous waters between Turkey and Greece. A photo of Alan’s body face down in the surf sparked international sorrow and momentum to help Syrian refugees.

Photo of drowned Syrian boy galvanized Canadians, refugee expert says HAMILTON — The now-iconic photograph of the body of a young boy washed up on a Turkish beach sparked a remarkable change in Canadian interest in the Syrian refugee crisis, says an expert tapped to provide advice to the government.

While refugee and aid workers had long recognized the looming crisis, no one seemed to be paying much attention. Not even months ago, when the UN refugee agency reported that 42,500 people were being forcibly displaced every day, half of them children.

Front-line workers in places like Belgrade, perhaps accustomed to dealing with a few hundred refugees a day, were being overwhelmed by tens of thousands a day, but headlines in Canada were few and far between.

Jennifer Bond, now an adviser to Refugee Minister John McCallum, said the beginnings of a shift in public sentiment began in June, when the “European crisis” started to find its way into Canadian news reports.

The photograph of three-year-old Alan Al-Kurdi in September changed everything.

“Suddenly, people had a human face to a huge disaster,” Bond said in an interview.

Those who had been warning for years about what would become a tsunami of desperate people were being

heard.

Bond, a professor at the University of Ottawa, said her inbox was flooded.

“All of these people…were reaching out, wanting to know what they could do to help,” she told a refugee conference this week.

The situation demonstrated that a single photo can galvanize public sentiment, Bond said.

Prominent community members began speaking in support of refugees, chatter around kitchen tables led to fundraisers, lawyers sought information on the legalities of sponsoring newcomers, people started knitting toques, others offered to house refugees.

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Ontario businessman sponsoring 50 Syrian families An “impatient” Ontario businessman weary of lengthy, bureaucratic processes that can keep refugees out of their host countries is personally ending the waiting game for 50 Syrian families.

Jim Estill says he’s spending at least $1.5 million to privately sponsor the families and help them settle in the southern Ontario city of Guelph.

He’s also mobilizing the community to provide everything from housing, language training, clothing and career counselling to the new arrivals.

Estill’s efforts illustrate the complexities of Canada’s private refugee sponsorship program, under which sponsors commit to meeting all of a newcomer’s needs for the first few months of their time in Canada.

Estill says he hopes to see families start arriving in the next six to eight weeks.

He says the decision to sponsor a handful of families in need was an easy one for him to make.

“It’s a humanitarian crisis. It needs to be dealt with, and I wasn’t finding that other organizations or government were doing things fast enough,” Estill said. “I’m a businessperson, I’m very impatient, and we should just do it now.”

How many Syrian refugees from each country will depend on need: ambassador OTTAWA — The governments of Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey are all jockeying to be the main source of the 25,000 Syrian refugees to be selected for Canada’s new resettlement program.

Close to four million Syrians are currently living in UN refugee camps, informal settlements, on the streets and in crowded apartments in those three countries, straining the resources of each.

But Michelle Cameron, Canada’s ambassador to Lebanon, said the eventual breakdown of how many refugees are selected from each of the countries will depend on one thing — who needs resettlement most.

It’s not a skilled worker immigration program, where technical points or quotas are in play, she said in an interview with The Canadian Press from Beirut.

“We have to let the files dictate,” she said.

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Taking in the show from the balcony at Festival Hall from the left, Lindsay Thurber music students Allison Vesely, Natalia Ganson, Tristin Fehr and Josh Vanakker listen as the first performance by Lindsay Thurber alumni Morgan McKee and Friends gets the night going on Friday. Lindsay Thurber High School hosted their 10th Annual Jazz Café with performances from former students and current jazz students, from Central Middle School and Lindsay Thurber. The high school R&B band was also on the bill to perform.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was greeted with applause by his fellow leaders when he announced Canada’s latest contribution towards an international climate fund seeking to raise US$100 billion annually by 2020.

The announcement came ahead of next week’s United-Nations sponsored climate change conference in Paris.

“Canada is back and ready to play its part in combating climate change and this includes helping the poorest and most vulnerable countries in the world adapt,” Trudeau said in a statement.

The contribution announced Friday was in addition to the $1.5 billion the previous Conservative government contributed to the UN fund since 2009.

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TORONTO — A Crown prosecutor is suggesting that a Toronto officer on trial for killing a teen on an empty streetcar was not interested in any kind of discussion with the youth on the night he confronted him.

Crown lawyer Milan Rupic says Const. James Forcillo didn’t see his job as one that required him to speak with a “drug-addled teenager who is on a very bad trip.”

Forcillo is being cross-examined at his own trial after pleading not guilty to second-degree murder and attempted murder in the death of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim.

The jury that will decide the case has heard that on a night in July 2013, Yatim had consumed the drug ecstasy before he boarded a streetcar where he pulled out a small knife.

Videos and audio played at the trial have shown that Forcillo arrives on the scene, yells repeatedly at Yatim to “drop the knife” and fires nine bullets at the 18-year-old after a 50-second confrontation.

Forcillo says he used proper techniques that police officers are taught when he dealt with Yatim.

Rupic, however, has been pressing Forcillo on his mindset when he shot Yatim.

“In your mind, officers are entitled to bark orders and make demands and expect people to follow, and you were amazed when someone didn’t follow,” the Crown lawyer said.

“Police officers are entitled to choose what they think will work best in a particular situation,” Forcillo contended.

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Police say they received information that led them to a rural area northwest of Saskatoon where the remains were found on Nov. 14.

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Trudeau on tour A NEOPHYTE CANADIAN LEADER ASSUMES A NEW ROLE FOR CANADA ON THE WORLD STAGE The checklist continues for our new prime minister as he works through a series of international meetings before he can settle down in Ottawa and worry more about Canada.

J u s t i n Trudeau met the Queen on Wednesday.

This weekend, there’s the meeting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government in Malta. After that, he will barely have time to debrief, before GREG attending the Paris round of NEIMAN international INSIGHT talks on climate change.

And don’t forget the the crowds of groupies in Manila, at the 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum earlier this month, all looking for a selfie with Canada’s “hottie” prime minister.

Attending all these global events, while dealing with the complexities of setting up a new government at home, would make anyone’s head spin.

Still, Trudeau says even a neophyte national leader like ours has a role to play on the world stage. According to the The Associated Press, he said U.S. president Barack Obama and German chancellor Angela Merkel “were very pleased that I was going to the Commonwealth, because they wanted me to make a real effort to talk about climate change” ahead of the U.N. climate conference in Paris next week.

That’s a pretty hefty pair of endorsements for a nation that’s had zero presence on the climate change docket up to now (and that’s putting it generously).

The agenda for the Commonwealth group does include the current topof-mind issues: climate change, international terrorism, the refugee crisis.

Add to that their internal agenda of promoting what is purported to be the purpose of the Commonwealth’s existence: democracy, equality, rule of law.

Because on those fronts, the Commonwealth hasn’t really performed all that well.

The Commonwealth is comprised of 53 nations, mostly former British colonies, with a combined population of 2.2 billion people. As a trading group, that

represents a lot of potential market, but you also need to remember that Commonwealth nations take up about 20 per cent of the world’s international economic support payments.

And for all the talk of the “civilizing influence” of Britain on these nations, that influence is questionable.

Following a protest at the Commonwealth’s London headquarters, Peter Tatchell, a gay rights campaigner, said 40 of the 53 Commonwealth nations still criminalize homosexuality. Uganda, Cameroon, Nigeria and Brunei actively persecute gays, with murder, imprisonment and torture part of their official anti-gay policies.

Equality and rule of law are not always a given in Commonwealth nations, either. In fact, this year’s meeting is being held in Malta, because Mauritius refused its turn to host, and boycotted the previous meeting in Sri Lanka, in protest of Sri Lanka’s abhorrent record on human rights.

So what’s the point of listing the issues confronting Canada’s presence at all these big events?

I believe it’s the change of expectations being put on government here at home. For 10 years now — a very long time in the life of politics — Canadians have been led to expect less and less of the federal government. Doing less has been official government ethos for a very long portion of the electorate’s memory.

That pendulum has reversed.

Trudeau senses people want our government to do more, to be more than the mere holder of the national economy. And attending these international events in such early days of his taking office must surely affect that sense.

Just recall your own feelings upon return from a major convention for your business or volunteer group.

I’ve been to more than a few of these, and if you participate at all, you come home with a buzz of new ideas and energies.

Now, multiply that by becoming prime minister, being mobbed for selfies in Manila, being presented to the Queen, attending a Commonwealth summit with the endorsement of two of the world’s most powerful politicians behind you, and then going to another global summit with a tectonic shift in expectations for some big decisions — all within a few weeks.

That has got to affect the next few discussions at cabinet.

It’s exhausting enough to get a new government going, for a rookie prime

minister and cabinet members, plus a host of first-time MPs. Now try it after being in the room with King Mswatti III who has 15 wives, all of whom he got pregnant before marrying, and being expected to discuss with him British notions of equality.

And then being asked to do big

things to help to save the planet.

This is not something Canadians have ever seen before. If we have not recognized a change of eras in our history by now, wait to see what happens next.

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Seeking solutions for the abundance of discarded needles “Hey Cook,” came the accented remains. voice of the kitchen janitor we affecLike many other businesses, estionately call Frenchy, “I’m at the hos- pecially in the downtown core, it has pital.” “Why, what happened” I asked? been recommended to place drop box“Oh, I just got poked while es in the bathroom stalls, cleaning at the kitchen; a but we have refused to this needle got caught in my point, because we take a broom and it poked me in different stand on the issue. the hand when I tried to In speaking with an adremove it. I know that was dictions counsellor recentdumb, but I did it anyway. ly, I was quite vocal about They are going to do a few my feelings on this issue, blood tests but I think it will but she reminded me of be ok.” why we were doing what we In my mind I tried to did. “Don’t lose that sense minimize the potential danof compassion that brought ger of one small poke, but you to this point; place your on further thought, I realfocus on solutions rather CHRIS ized that one little poke is than reactions”.

SALOMONS all it would take to become Fast approaching my infected with Hep or worse, three score and 10, I realSTREET TALES AIDS. ized that even now I need For a long time now, we to keep learning, but in a have received phone calls from con- positive way; stop focusing on issues, cerned people about the over-abun- rather look to a future where a soludance of used needles carelessly be- tion was found that accommodated all ing discarded pretty much all over the sides. city, but this past Sunday made me I can lament the fact that I can no realize that something had to be done. longer leave my house doors unlocked In a meeting with the Downtown and that any item left lying in my yard Business Association a while ago, it is a temptation to theft, or I can do my was also a subject of conversation, part in removing anything that might and I, being an observer almost igno- be an influence to the misbehaviour of rant of the ramifications of this type of another person, thereby removing ofproblem, became aware that we had fendedness from my life on this score. to come up with a plausible, yet fitting So then, the question remains, how solution. do we handle this issue of scattered Almost daily we find evidence of needles? needle usage at the kitchen; but now Then on a past Sunday, like I menthe janitor and others who help are tioned earlier, this issue was imposed very cautious about cleaning up the on me in such a way as to bring into fo-

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cus that now there was no longer time to ignore the problem, we have to act.

Let me give you an example of what happened.

Like any Sunday morning, I went to church, and in conversations, three times people angrily brought up this issue; venting their frustrations at finding needles even on their own properties, on playgrounds, almost anywhere there was even a small place to hide. In some cases the needles were full of blood.

One parent while telling me about restricting his young daughter’s playground experience when they found four used needles, was obviously very disturbed by the whole thing and did not restrict his verbiage on the dilemma. Then on Monday, I received two calls at the kitchen asking me to come and pick up the left behind needles and associated garbage, because “You work with these people and hand them all these needles.” It didn’t matter that we have nothing to do with it, just the fact that we operated a kitchen that users frequent was evidence of collaboration as far as these callers were concerned.

As well on Monday, we had to unplug another toilet from flushed needles, and found a small bagful of needles and associated paraphernalia left behind in the stall.

This is the way some agencies give them out; by the bagful, all in the name of harm reduction. As it turns out, the harm reduction benefits the users, but not the public at large. In essence, the harm is transferred from the user to

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The aforementioned counsellor made mention of the fact that some cities in B.C. having the same problem chose to implement the following program; a needle EXCHANGE. In order to get one you had to return one, no exceptions.

The results were impressive to say the least! All our Red Deer agencies that hand them out by the bagful’s, are called needle exchanges, but for some reason this has proven not to be the case.

An exchange, by my understanding, is to trade one item for another. If this is not the case, please somebody, inform me so that I can gain a better understanding.

My aim is not to criticize the agencies that hand these needles out because they do a tremendous amount of good work. But like me and learning in my later years, they also must learn that the point is harm REDUCTION, not harm removal. The recipients of these needles have a responsibility to act in a reasonable manner in the disposal of said items; if they won’t, then they will have to pay for their own carelessness.

I’m sure, the debate on this issue will rage for a while longer before anything is done to curb the garbage left behind, but I sincerely hope not so long that someone is seriously hurt, or contracts a disease.

Like possibly an innocent child in a playground.

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015 A7

Turkey: seventeen seconds The key fact is that the Russian plane, by Turkey’s own admission, was in Turkish airspace for precisely 17 seconds. That’s a little less time than it takes to read this paragraph aloud. The Turks shot it down anyway — and their allies publicly backed them, as loyal allies must.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg declared: “We stand in solidarity with Turkey and support the territorial integrity of our NATO ally, Turkey.” President Barack Obama called his Turkish counterpart, Recep GWYNNE Tayyip Erdogan, to assure him DYER that the United States supported Turkey’s right to deINSIGHT fend its sovereignty. But privately, they must have been cursing Erdogan. They know what he’s up to.

This is the first time in more than 50 years that a NATO plane has shot down a Russian plane, and it happened in very suspicious circumstances.

Even if Turkish radar data is to be believed, the two Russian SU-24s only crossed the bottom of a very narrow appendix of Turkish territory that dangles down into Syria. As Russian President Vladimir Putin said: “Our pilots, planes did not threaten Turkish territory in any way. ” What harm could they have done in 17 seconds?

Moreover, the two Turkish F-16s that brought one of the Russian planes down had only 17 seconds to get into position to fire their air-to-air missiles over Turkish territory. It would have been hard to do, in that confined space, without crossing into Syrian territory themselves.

According to the Russian radar data, it was the Turkish planes that crossed into Syrian territory. In

this version of the story, the Russian planes were following a well-established route just south of the Turkish border, probably turning into a bomb run against Syrian rebels in Latakia province. How strange that there was a Turkish TV crew in northern Syria, positioned just right to film the incident.

(The Russsian plane crashed 4 km inside Syria.)

Either way, it seems quite clear that President Erdogan really wanted to shoot down a Russian aircraft, and that the Turkish pilots were under orders to do so if they could find even the slightest pretext.

So why would Erdogan want to do that?

President Putin said bitterly that Erdogan and his colleagues were “accomplices of terrorists.” That’s hard to deny: Erdogan is so eager to see Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad overthrown that he left the Turkish-Syrian border open for four years so that recruits and supplies could reach the Syrian rebel groups, notably including Islamic State (IS).

Putin also observed that “We have long been recording the movement of a large amount of oil and petroleum products to Turkey from IS-occupied territories. This explains the significant funding the terrorists are receiving.”

Black-market oil is Islamic State’s largest source of revenue, and almost all of it goes to Turkey — which could not happen without the Turkish government’s active connivance. And when the Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, was driving Assad’s forces back in northwestern Syria last spring, Turkey jammed the Syrian army’s telecommunications to help the rebels win.

Erdogan is utterly determined that Assad must go, and he doesn’t really care if Assad’s successors are Islamist extremists. But he also wants to ensure that there is no new Kurdish state on Turkey’s southern border.

That is a problem for him, because that state already exists in embryo. It is called Rojava, a territory that the Syrian Kurds have carved out in the far

north of the country along the Turkish border, mainly by fighting Islamic State. Indeed, the Syrian Kurds are the U.S.-led coalition’s only effective ally on the ground against IS. When Erdogan committed the Turkish air force to the Syrian war in July, he explained it to the United States as a decision to fight against Islamic State, but in fact Turkey has made only a token handful of strikes against IS. Almost all Erdogan’s bombs have actually fallen on the Turkish Kurds of the PKK (who had been observing a ceasefire with the Turkish government for the past four years), and above all on the Syrian Kurds Erdogan has two goals: to ensure the destruction of Assad’s regime, and to prevent the creation of a new Kurdish state in Syria.

He was making some progress on both objectives — and then along came the Russians in September and saved the Syrian army from defeat, at least for the moment.

Worse yet, Putin’s strategy turns out to be quite pragmatic, and even rather attractive to the United States despite all the ritual anti-Russian propaganda emitted by Washington. Putin wants a ceasefire in Syria that will leave everybody where they are now — except Islamic State, which they can all then concentrate on destroying.

This strategy is now making some headway in the Vienna ceasefire talks, but it is utterly abhorrent to Erdogan because it would leave Assad in power in Damascus, and give the Syrian Kurds time to consolidate their new state. How can he derail this Russian-led project?

Well, he could shoot down a Russian plane, and try to get a confrontation going between Russia and NATO. Gwynne Dyer is a freelance Canadian journalist living in London. His latest book, Crawling from the Wreckage, was published recently in Canada by Random House.

Canada begins massive ‘climate rebrand’ It was a gracious gesture, but also politically shrewd.

As Canada’s first ministers gathered here for a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, they made it clear they wanted some long overdue credit for their down-in-the-weeds environmental labour while a federal government was amassing a collection of fossil awards for its mantle and a truck full of negative international media reports for its scrapbook.

So Trudeau invited Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, the woman who had put the poliTIM cy in the window of this great HARPER Canadian climate rebrand, to speak to her colleagues first INSIGHT about her bold plan she had announced on the eve of this meeting. It was a sign that Trudeau was prepared to respect provincial climate change work rather than dictating from his federal pulpit.

It was a sign that a new federal government knew that while common goals could be achieved, provinces had to get to those goals on their own, with some federal cajoling or threatening, mindful of the patchwork of economies and capabilities across this country.

There they were, the two most transformative politicians to land on the Canadian landscape in 2015 — the new NDP premier and the new Liberal prime minister — as if a switch had been flicked and Canada had come out of the climate change dark age.

But, of course, it is not that easy and it is not exactly accurate, either.

No one mentioned Stephen Harper, but all premiers made the point that this country had been pilloried internationally, and the unspoken but clear message was that Harper had been the pariah and provincial efforts were shoved aside when a Keystone-obsessed friend of big oil took to the global stage.

Trudeau set a dinner table, not a target on Monday, but he is already receiving credit for getting the premiers to that table, shaking them into a renewed sense of purpose, maybe even expediting a major move by an Alberta premier who knew she couldn’t head to Ottawa with nothing new on offer.

The other premiers, squinting into the rays of these new sunny, collaborative methods, must understand that next week’s Paris summit is not merely a marketing exercise.

One by one, they said it was time for Canada to stride boldly onto the world stage and explain the differences between Canadian perception and reality.

Christy Clark of British Columbia, where a revenue-neutral carbon tax has been in place for eight years, said it was time to “lift the curtain” on Canadian efforts and get rid of the global black eye that Canada doesn’t deserve. The country talked too

much about economic growth and too little about the environment on the global stage, she says.

Quebec’s Philippe Couillard called it a national “rebranding.” With Notley’s initiative, close to 80 per cent of the country is living under some type of carbon pricing, he said.

“Nobody knows that in the world, by the way. It has to be known. It has to be said. It has to be repeated,” he said.

Ontario’s Kathleen Wynne: “We go to Paris … with a very strong story to tell.” New Brunswick’s Brian Gallant echoed that message.

But if this is a rebranding exercise, maybe they shouldn’t put Brad Wall on the posters. The Saskatchewan premier has become the de facto opposition leader in this country, already speaking out against Trudeau’s withdrawal of the CF-18s that were bombing Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria, and calling on the Liberals to suspend the Syrian refugee resettlement program pending full assurance that none pose a security threat to Canada. Before Monday’s meeting, he was the affable outlier on

both climate change and the need for provincial-federal meetings. (Wall liked those one-on-one bilaterals just fine, he said, channelling his inner Harper.)

Any message the premiers and Trudeau take to Paris must include the impact on the economy and the thousands of Western Canadian families feeling the shock of layoffs in the energy sector, heading into Christmas with no breadwinner, he said. That has received scant attention in this rush to a greener image, Wall said, “and I wonder if that might be the case were it another sector in the country? I don’t know if it would.”

Maybe next week we will be spared the fossil awards. The blunt assessment of Alberta’s “dirtiest oil on the planet,” by Barack Obama, and our reputation as an environmental laggard can both fade. But much of the work so far has been of the low-hanging fruit variety. It’s going to take more than goodwill when the hard work is at hand. If you don’t believe me, just ask Brad Wall.

Tim Harper is a national affairs writer syndicated by the Toronto Star.

Anyone can have a seniors’ moment They say not to worry when you can’t find your keys. The time to start worrying is when you find your keys in the refrigerator. If what they say is true, I’m pretty sure I’m way beyond the worrying stage.

You see, just the other day I couldn’t find my car keys (again.) I was in a hurry (as usual) and I checked in my favourite hoodie, my other hoodie, all four pockets of my fall jackets, all six pockets of my winter jacket which I already had on, the key hanger in the front closet, the key hanger in the back porch, inside the fridge, etc. etc.

By then I was stomping around, frustrated and late HARLEY (again), very close to pulling HAY a major snit. In fact I was one thin nanosecond away from HAY’S DAZE blaming the Better Half who was busy being busy (as usual). The B.H. always “puts things away” to “where they are supposed to go” which, technically, is a foreign concept to me.

So the B.H., seeing that I was dangerously close to combusting, shakes her head a here-we-go-again shake, and without being asked, pitches in to look for the keys (as usual). This is good I’m thinking, on account she usually saves the day when it comes to lost items. Especially mine. I used to think that it was a supernatural trait common to the female species. I believe it was “comedienne” Rosanne Barr who said that when her husband kept asking where his socks were she answered: “What? You think my womb is a

homing device?”

So anyway, the Better Half is busy looking in the same places that I had just looked because that is where she usually finds my missing stuff, and I pick up the full garbage bag that is parked on a kitchen chair because I was supposed to take it out to the back alley for garbage day but hadn’t gotten around to it yet, so I pick up the big green bag to see if by some miracle or unexplained consequence of a flawed universe that my keys have somehow ended up on the chair under there and when they clearly aren’t there, I shove my hand into my pocket to get a Werther’s caramel candy that I keep handy when I want to feel better and — guess what? — I pull out my humongous jangle of keys (of course).

Groans all around. (For the record, in my own defence, I hardly ever put my keys in my pants pocket.

That’s where my stash of Werther’s go!)

So I nonchalantly try to pretend I’m not an absolute moron (without much success) and I grab the Canadian Tire bag of return items that I’d forgotten to return before and I head for the door. It was then that I notice the B.H. is looking at me funny (not for the first time) and she’s pointing at something. “Um, where are you going with that?” she says quietly.

Turns out I’m apparently heading off to do my errands with (a) my keys (check), (b) my Canadian Tire returns (check), and (c) the full garbage bag still in my hand (say what??).

It was one of those legs-turn-to-rubber, melt-tothe-floor moments of silent apoplectic laughter that hit both of us simultaneously and lasted very nearly long enough to call 911.

We haven’t laughed that hard since last spring when the Better Half followed me into the men’s washroom at the busy movie theatre. She was day-

dreaming at the time, just walking along with me minding her own business, and after a little while became somewhat confused when she saw the urinals on the wall (etc.)

They call it “a seniors’ moment” even though you certainly don’t have to be of a “certain age” to have said moments of head-shaking lapse and obliviousness. It can happen at any age, and I’m living proof.

Like the time I drove to the store to pick up some AA batteries and a litre of milk. And came back with two chocolate bars and bottle of Windex. And no batteries. Or milk, for that matter. We didn’t even need Windex.

Or just the other day I drove out east of town to Fudd’s place for a jam with my musician buddies — a session that I had personally organized by phone, email and carrier pigeon and was very explicit on account of it turned out that the third Friday was the only day in the whole month that everyone was available.

I grabbed my gear, my beverages, myself and my car and arrived, raring to go, at 7 o’clock. Quite proud of myself because the session was slated for 7:30 and I’m, like, never early. I was early all right.

Twenty-four-and-a-half hours early. It was Thursday that day.

So the next time you’re blinking and squinting around looking for your glasses, just remember you may be having a seniors’ moment. Just reach up and run your hand through your hair. They are probably sitting on the top of your head.

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

A8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015

Shooting suspect arrested AT LEAST 11 PEOPLE, INCLUDING FIVE POLICE OFFICERS, TAKEN TO HOSPITALS AFTER GUN BATTLE

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A gunman was arrested Friday hours after opening fire at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic, wounding multiple people and engaging in gun battles with police inside the building, officials said.

At least 11 people, including five police officers, were taken to hospitals, police Lt. Catherine Buckley said.

Authorities were still trying to determine if anybody was left inside the building.

Authorities were expected to spend several hours investigating unspecified items the gunman left outside the building or carried inside, Buckley said.

An unknown number of people were evacuated during the standoff — some wrapped in blankets in the blowing snow — to a nearby Veterans Administration clinic.

Three officers were injured while responding to the initial report of shots fired at the clinic before noon, authorities said. More than two hours later, the gunman shot and injured a fourth officer in another exchange with police inside the clinic, Buckley said.

Authorities said they don’t know the motive of the gunman or whether the shooter had any connection to Planned Parenthood. The name of the suspect was not released.

“We don’t have any information on this individual’s mentality, or his ideas or ideology,” Buckley said.

Planned Parenthood released a statement that said it did not know the full circumstances or motives behind the attack, or whether the organization was the target.

The shots sent people inside the clinic racing for cover. Jennifer Motolinia hid behind a table inside the clinic and called her brother, Joan, who said he heard multiple gunshots in the background.

“She was telling me to take care of her babies because she could get killed,” Joan Motolinia said of his sister, the mother of three.

He rushed to the clinic but was frustrated because a police barricade kept him from getting close.

“People were shooting for sure. I heard someone shooting. There was a lot of gunfire. She was calm, she was trying to hide from those people,” he said.

Police cordoned off the clinic, nearby medical offices and a shopping centre. Authorities ordered everyone in the area to take shelter where they were.

Denise Speller, manager of a nearby hair salon, said she heard as many as 20 gunshots in less than five minutes.

She told The Gazette newspaper that she saw a police cruiser and two officers near a Chase Bank branch, not far from the Planned Parenthood facility.

One of the officers appeared to fall

to the ground and the other officer knelt down to help and then tried to get the officer to safety behind the car, she said. Another officer told Speller to seek shelter inside the building.

“We’re still pretty freaked out,” Speller said by phone. “We can’t stop

shaking.”

Ambulances and police vehicles lined up at a nearby intersection and police told people via Twitter to stay away from the shooting scene because it was not secure.

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NEW DELHI — Gunmen attacked a Shiite mosque in Bangladesh, killing one person and wounding three others, in the latest in a wave of deadly assaults this year on foreigners, secular writers and members of the Shiite community in the Sunni-majority nation.

The attacks, claimed by radical Islamist groups, have alarmed the international community and raised concerns that religious extremism is taking hold in the traditionally moderate country. The Islamic State group and a local affiliate have claimed responsibility for the killings of two foreigners — an Italian aid worker and a Japanese agricultural worker — as well as for attacks on the country’s minority Shiite Muslim community.

Bangladesh’s government, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has repeatedly said that IS has no organizational presence in the country. It accuses domestic Islamist groups along with the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its main ally, the Jamaat-e-Islami party, of carrying out the attacks to destabilize the South Asian nation for political gains.

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The attack occurred during the annual Arbaeen procession from Nigeria’s second-largest city, Kano, to the ancient Islamic city of Zaria, said Aliyu Yusuf Kakaki, a spokesman for the Shiite community in Kano.

The leader of Shiites in Kano, Sheikh Muhammadu Mahmud Turi, told reporters on Friday that 21 members of the sect lost their lives in the blast. Earlier, Kakaki said at least 15 had been killed and 40 injured.

A second suicide bomber was detained before he could blow himself up and was being interrogated, Kakaki added.

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SIN CITY It is a Tuesday evening and I am touring an exhibit that features 43 Pablo Picasso works spanning 30 years of the prolific artist’s career and offers insight into his evolution as an artist.

It’s not uncommon for me to choose to explore a unique art exhibit while travelling, but it is surprising to find an exhibit of this calibre inside a Las Vegas casino hotel — the Bellagio Hotel and Casino to be precise.

When you think of Sin City you’re more likely to picture neon signs ASDFSD and noisy casinos than ADFADF arts and culture venues, but Las Vegas is evolvLKASDJFLKJ ing and the arts are becoming a vital part of its new image. The most luxurious Las Vegas hotels now have extensive art collections and some like the Bellagio have permanent fine art galleries that feature major exhibits. In a city that loves to reinvent itself, fine art, fine dining, top musicians and world-class shows are becoming almost as important as gambling.

On a recent visit to Las Vegas, I took some time to experience a few of its artistic attractions.

Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art The Bellagio is famous for its free fountain show which combines water, music and lights and is set on an 8-acre lake, but the famed resort has even more to offer the artistically inclined. The onsite Picasso restaurant is adorned with original art by the master artist and the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art regularly hosts internationally acclaimed artworks and exhibitions. Past exhibitions have included

the works of Claude Monet and Andy Warhol as well as other great artists. The current exhibition “Picasso: Creatures and Creativity” features 43 of Picasso’s paintings, linocuts and lithographs spanning the 1930s–1960s. These works showcase Picasso’s extraordinary ability to capture the human form with his use of line, movement and color. Highlighting his ability to create portraits that vary from realism to the highly abstract, the exhibition reveals Picasso’s evolution as an artist over a 30-year span.

The exhibit will run through January 10, 2016 and admission costs $19 USD per adult. (bellagio.com)

P3 Art Studio at the Cosmopolitan Located on the third floor of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, this glass-walled studio features contemporary artists from around the world who create interactive art as part of a unique artist-in-residence program. You can watch the artists at work or step inside the studio and interact with them and help create a piece of art.

P3 Studio is curated in partnership with the non-profit Art Production Fund and has featured a wide variety of artists from painters and photographers to fashion designers and performance artists. Most artists stay for about a month. When I popped into the studio, artist Mikayla Whitmore was setting up an exhibit of projection-based installation art called “When the Night Comes” that will run through mid-December. People who visit the studio while Whitmore is in residence can use their own photos to create button art. They will keep one button and the other will become part of a larger art display.

You can see P3 Studio’s artist-in residence in action Wednesdays through Sundays, 6 p.m.11 p.m and admission is free. (cosmopolitanlasvegas.com)

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TOP: When you think of Vegas, you’re more likely to picture the bright lights of the strip and the casinos than you are cultural sites, but Sin City definitely has a cultural side.

ABOVE: The 14,000-square-foot Bellagio Conservatory is free to explore and has a team of horticulturalists that change out the floral displays regularly.

RIGHT: Every year during the Life is Beautiful festival in September, international artists and we as top local artists are invited to use the old buildings in Freemont East as their canvas. The result is a huge outdoor art gallery. The focus on the arts has also brought arts businesses to occupy the once abandoned inner city spaces.

WHEN YOU THINK OF LAS VEGAS, YOU’RE MORE LIKELY TO PICTURE NEON SIGNS AND NOISY CASINOS THAN ARTS AND CULTURE VENUES. BUT THE CITY IS EVOLVING AND THE ARTS ARE BECOMING A VITAL PART OF ITS NEW IMAGE.

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ABOVE: The Bellagio is famous for its musical fountains, but inside thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a 14,000-square-foot Conservatory, a fabulous art collection and a Fine Art Gallery that hosts world class exhibits.

BELOW: Marking the entrance of Downtown Container Park is a 17-metre-tall steel praying mantis sculpture built by Kirk Jellum and Kristen Ulmer as a mobile art piece. At night, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Mantisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; shoots fire from its antennae.

BOTTOM: Like Le RĂŞve, many of the shows in Las Vegas are very artistic these days.

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LAS VEGAS: Artistic productions Le RĂŞve â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Dream How do you retain the title of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Production Show in Las Vegasâ&#x20AC;? for an unprecedented five consecutive years?

At Wynn Las Vegas, it seems to involve not only coming up with a fantastically artistic show, but constantly tweaking it and allowing it to evolve. In honour of the 10th anniversary of Le RĂŞve, the newest act in the show is a DĂŠnouement, which features a daring dance through spectacular water and fire elements. The show combines water, fire, swimming, acrobatics and spectacular effects in an intimate circular theatre where the furthest seat is just 13 metres from the stage. Guests are invited to leave reality behind and step into an exciting and mysterious dream world created by Franco Dragone. Le RĂŞve features thrilling high diving, underwater tango, dancing, acrobatics and music and is mesmerizing. Tickets start at $110 USD. (wynnlasvegas.com) Le RĂŞve is one of several very artistic productions currently playing in Las Vegas. Top Broadwayâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;style shows, musicians and comedians perform in the city regularly.

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Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also outdoor entertainment and food vendors.

Even if you arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t in town on the first Friday of the month, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fun to explore this area of the city. Besides the interesting shops, there are many fascinating murals on the old buildings that were created by top international artists. Every year new ones are added during the Life is Beautiful Festival (lifeisbeautiful.com) which happens each September.

The other interesting area to explore in Fremont East is Container Park (downtowncontainerpark.com), a unique development built entirely from shipping containers that serves as a small business incubator for artists and other entrepreneurs. The tiny shops are a safe and inexpensive place for new entrepreneurs to take

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BEND, Ore. - “Do you want to go to the Shell or Chevron?” asks Andrea as we heft our mountain bikes onto car racks after a ride at Shevlin Park, a 650-acre spread three miles northwest of downtown Bend, Oregon. I tell Andrea I don’t care where she gets gas.

“I’m not getting gas,” she says. “I don’t have any beer to go with dinner. I’ve got my growler to fill.”

Oregon law doesn’t allow you pump your own gas.

But the beer scene in Bend, an outdoors playground anchored by mountain biking in the summer and the Mt. Bachelor ski area in the winter, is such that a local company, the Growler Guys (11400 NW College Way, www.thegrowlerguys.com), successfully pushed to make it legal for them to have taps in gas station convenience stores. “While they’re filling up your car, I run inside and get a growler filled,” Andrea says. “It’s so much more convenient than buying a six-pack at the grocery store or going to a brewery itself.”

Inside the Chevron there are 36 taps; 30 dispense beer or hard cider and six dispense kombucha. As a guy fills Andrea’s growler - an accessory here akin to a briefcase on Capitol Hill - with Boneyard Beer’s Taps at Crux Fermentation Project, one of the breweries flagship brew, RPM, a pale ale brewed with six dif- offering the latest in Bend, Ore., beerdom. ferent varieties of locally grown hops, we’re offered samples. I go for What Does the Fox Say?, a Cascadian dark ale from local Riverbend Brewing. It’s described as having a slightly chocolate flavor. The mouthwash-size sample comes in a mouthwash-size plastic cup.

Sipping it, I see a handwritten sign taped above taps: “Pints now available. Limit 2.” In Wyoming, where I live, there are drive-through liquor stores.

This is another level, though.

Here’s the problem: I hate the taste of beer. Never in my entire life - college fraternity parties included - have I been able to drink an entire pint without throwing up in my mouth. As an adult, friends have sometimes sneaked beer into an opaque glass before handing it to me just to watch my facial expressions. The adjectives I use to describe beer’s taste and smell, and it doesn’t matter if it’s a pilsner, IPA, hefeweizen or stout, include “toe cheese,” “cat urine” and, when I’m low on imagination, “bitter.”

I’ve never had a beer I didn’t find bitter. I do not like bitter.

My taste buds pick up no chocolate in What Does the Fox Say. They do pick up bitter. And as much as Andrea, and the rest of Bend, love Boneyard’s RPM, it makes me pucker. with enjoyment.

Mountain Pilsner, Central Oregon Saison and SumI wish I liked beer. My mom loves it and collects I start with Flanders Red, Crux’s interpretation of mer Piquant, are pub exclusives. The others are bottles from around the world; the souvenir can’t be a traditional Belgian-style red ale. It tastes like foot Twilight Summer Ale, Nitro Obsidian Stout and the in the collection unless she drank its contents. Twen- mold to me. The Farmhouse Ale, a saison, is slightly Black Butte. ty-five years ago her collection started on one shelf better - minty and light - but it’d be a struggle for me An enthusiastic 20-something delivers the fourhigh on a kitchen wall. Over the past two decades, to get an entire pint down. ounce samples and applauds our selection. “I’m my father built shelves extensive enough to ring Freakcake time. Freakcake is not only a sour, but really inspired by your order,” he says. I think he’s the entire kitchen. Some walls have double-decker also barrel aged. There is a 2013 and a 2014 on the joking. But no. “I really like what you guys have done shelves, and many shelves have bottles two deep. No menu. I try both. I’m a fiend for espresso, and these here.” Because Bend is a hop-crazy town, he probatwo are the same. One of my wildest dreams is to en- immediately appeal to me - they’ve got crema, the bly thinks our selections are shrewd and meaningful. joy a beer with her - without getting sick. foam layer on top of a properly pulled espresso; are The only meaning is that they are the six least hoppy Visiting Bend this past summer, I quickly see it almost the color of coal; and I can smell coffee notes beers of the 17 currently on tap. as a city especially qualified to help me realize this as soon as I pull them near me.

Five of the six fail with me. The sixth, Nitro Obdream.

I’m unable to distinguish the nuances between the sidian Stout, I kind of like, probably because it’s like The Bend Ale Trail, promoted as “the largest beer 2013 and the 2014 Freakcakes, but I return to each drinking dessert - part espresso, part chocolate. trail in the West,” includes 16 breweries; you can sample for second and third sips. If they weren’t 10.5 Since I’m getting closer to liking something, I bike or walk between most of them. percent alcohol, I think I could like both. They are don’t stop.

Last year, the lifestyle website Livability named the first beers I have had in my life with a positive Worthy Brewing has a beer that comes with a side Bend the No. 1 Beer City in the country, writing flavor profile: I taste the fig and dried cranberry the of raspberry syrup to sweeten it up, but it’s still too that it has one of the highest concentrations of craft menu description promises. (I don’t pick up the men- bitter. McMenamins’ Terminator Stout and Ruby, an breweries per capita in the country. Within the city tioned hints of sour cherries, raisins, dates, currants ale with added raspberries, fall into the same catelimits there are about 81,000 people and 21 brewer- or lemon and orange zest.) gory as the Nitro Obsidian Stout: getting closer, but ies (with seven additional breweries nearby).

Next up is Deschutes (901 SW Simpson Ave., www. not quite to “like” yet.

They include one of the biggest craft brewer- deschutesbrewery.com). I do a morning tour of their I bypass liking and fall in love at 10 Barrel (1135 ies in the country, Deschutes, as well as the tiny 91,000-square foot production facility. Deschutes NW Galveston Ave., www.10barrel.com). Some Bend Ale Apothecary, which barrel-ages all of its wild began brewing beer in 1988 in a smaller facility in locals began boycotting this brewery after Anheusfermented beer in the garage of former Deschutes downtown Bend and today makes 337,000 barrels er-Busch InBev bought it last year - for a reported brewer Paul Arney, its headquarters. (Wild fermen- (one barrel is 31 gallons) annually in this bigger one, $50 million and changing nothing really, besides intation uses yeast from the air or a reused barrel which opened in 1993, expanded in 2004 and does vesting $10 million - but since I have no history with instead of a cultivated one, like brewer’s yeast.) It daily free tours. Every 23 minutes, the tour guide it, I don’t care. And that’s a good thing because I love sells for about $30 a bottle, if you can get your hands tells us, they bottle a lifetime supply of beer for its Swill. on one. Last year, the Ale Apothecary (61517 River someone who lives to the average age, which they It’s only 4.5 percent alcohol, and I drink an entire Rd., www.thealeapothecary.com) produced only 150 say is 79, and drinks the average annual number of pint of Swill without making a single funny face. barrels of beer; Arney gets about 300 bottles of beer beers, which they say is 219.

Swill is based on a Berliner weisse and is lemony, efper barrel.

There’s a tasting room at the brewery, but I save fervescent and thirst-quenching. I don’t sip it slowly, In Bend, people drink beer like wine - sniffing, myself for Deschutes’s downtown Bend Public but swig it like water after a long run. And then I call sipping and savoring before talking about things like House (1044 NW Bond St., www.deschutesbrewery. my mom with the good news. undertones of grapefruit, vanilla or caramel. This is com), which was their original production facili“I’ve found a beer I really like!” the most basic level of Bend beer conversation and ty and where they today serve not only standards “What kind?” connoisseurship. “This is definitely a place that goes such as Black Butte Porter, Obsidian Stout, Mirror “It’s an American radler. I drank the whole pint!” for quality over quantity,” says Arney, who was voted Pond Pale Ale and Chainbreaker IPA, but also lim[silence] the city’s best brewer in August by readers of Bend’s ited-edition special projects. “We use people at “Did you hear? I drank a whole pint of beer!”

City Source. “There might be a saturation point for the brewpub as guinea pigs,” says Gina Schauland, “Radler isn’t beer. But I guess it’s a start.” how many brewery/restaurants Bend can support, Deschutes’s social media coordinator and also the Despite her high standards - after checking with but I don’t think there is one for well-crafted beer. founder of the Central Oregon Beer Angels, a group several other sources, the consensus is that radler is People here will always appreciate that and seek out of women beer drinkers that has nearly 400 mem- beer, but “it’s what Germans drink when they don’t new tastes.” bers. want to drink” - I leave Bend saying I like beer.

On the outskirts of the orderly downtown in a If a limited-edition beer does well at the brewMishev is the editor-in-chief of Jackson Hole magazine building that was formerly an Aamco, Crux Fermen- pub, Deschutes makes it again and it becomes a and an editor of Inspirato. tation Project (50 SW Division St., www.cruxfermen- “pub exclusive.” Three tation.com) is so packed there’s an official parking of our six samples, Pine attendant. The main lot is full, and I’m directed to a satellite lot. Seats at a communal table are even harder to find than a parking spot, but we snag some Escorted Motorcoach Tours in time to hear our new neighbor ask the server whether his beer has Brettanomyces or LactobacilPALM SPRINGS lus in it.

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Rebels tame Tigers

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Rebels 6 Tigers 4 MEDICINE HAT — The secret to success for the Red Deer Rebels is no secret at all, according to GM/head coach Brent Sutter.

“When we play the right way, play hard and create scoring chances, we’re a good team,” Sutter said Friday, following a 6-4 Western Hockey League win over the Medicine Hat Tigers in front of 4,126 fans at the Canalta Cen-

tre.

“We had a lot of chances tonight … throughout the entire game.”

The Rebels, who were 5-2 winners over the Kootenay Ice in Wednesday’s first half of their two-game jaunt, trailed 1-0 a mere two minutes into Friday’s contest when Tigers overage forward Cole Sanford potted his ninth goal of the season.

But the Rebels — while outshooting their hosts 18-9 — struck for the next two first-period goals, with Brandon Hagel connecting on the power play at

7:23 and rookie Adam Pratt scoring 46 seconds later.

Red Deer continued to carry the play in the middle frame and opened a three-goal lead when Presten Kopeck tallied with the Tigers’ Alex Mowbray serving a high sticking penalty and Grayson Pawlenchuk sniped his 11th of the season.

Sanford scored his second of the night to cut the Rebels’ lead to 4-2 after 40 minutes, but the Rebels pretty much sealed the deal with third-period goals from Haydn Fleury and Con-

ner Bleackley.

The Tigers responded with late markers — both coming in the final four minutes and change — from Max Gerlach and Brad Forrest, but they were too little, too late.

“After we got up 6-2 we dropped our guard a little bit and gave them too much ice through the neutral zone and allowed them to get a forecheck going,” said Sutter. “But overall we played pretty darn well here tonight.”

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Battle of receivers ESKIMOS’ RECEIVING CORPS READY TO MEASURE UP AGAINST REDBLACKS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — Edmonton Eskimos’ leading receiver Adarius Bowman sees similarities between his team’s pass catchers and their Ottawa Redblacks’ counterparts.

While Ottawa’s offence features four receivers who each hauled in more than 1,000 yards receiving this season — only the third time for one team in league history — the veteran Eskimos slotback is confident in his own side.

“I definitely feel like we have the same group that can do those same things,” Bowman said of his team, which will play the Redblacks in Sunday’s Grey Cup. “No offence to the Ottawa receivers, I take my group still.

Even if we were doing the draft right now, I’d take my same group.”

Ottawa quarterback Henry Burris helped develop his team’s prolific quartet of Chris Williams (1,214 yards), Greg Ellingson (1,061), Brad Sinopoli (1,035) and Ernest Jackson (1,036).

Bowman led Edmonton’s receivers with 93 catches for 1,364 yards and seven touchdowns, just behind league-leader Eric Rogers from Calgary (1,448 yards).

CFL rookie of the year Derel Walker set an Edmonton club record for receptions by a rookie with 89. The wide receiver racked up 1,110 yards with six TDs in only 10 starts.

Slotback Kenny Stafford hauled in 47 passes for 732 yards and led the Esks with nine TDs in 18 starts. Kendial Lawrence, who also returns kicks, was next with 332 yards off 35 catches with three TDs. Some of the output came with quarterback Mike Reilly on the shelf with a knee injury he suffered in the season-opener that kept him off the field until early September.

“This is a pro league, there’s going to be great players everywhere,” Walker said after Friday’s practice at Investors Group Field.

“I wouldn’t change my receiving corps with any other receiving corps in the league. I love these guys. We’ve

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Edmonton Eskimos’ quarterback Mike Reilly, left, and quarterback Jordan Lynch go through drills during a team practice session in Winnipeg, Man. Friday. The Edmonton Eskimos will play the Ottawa Redblacks in the 103rd Grey Cup Sunday. been through so much together. I’m just ready to strap it up with these guys one more time this season.”

Edmonton’s defence is often the side getting most of the praise, but the defensive line also tipped its hats to the offence.

Since Reilly’s return, the team has put up a nine-game winning streak.

“They started clicking like really, really well towards the end of the year,” Edmonton fifth-year defensive lineman Almondo Sewell said. “And if I was supposed to choose, that’s when you really wanted that because we had

a bunch of injuries.

“We all feed off of each other. The offence goes out there to do their thing. We go out there. We’re all feeding off of each other’s energy. It’s a good time to start doing it.”

Edmonton head coach Chris Jones said the defence complements the offence and sets them up to do what they do best.

“We’ve got an awful good offence,” Jones said. “And when you’ve got a good defence, that means that offensively they’re staying on the field.”

Fifth-year linebacker J.C. Sherritt

described his team’s receivers as “very explosive.”

“Adarius is one of the best players I’ve ever played with,” he said. “And then I think everybody’s going to see now what (Walker) can do.

“And then the guys that aren’t in the headlines. Nate Coehoorn and Shamawd (Chambers) and Kenny (Stafford), who show up every day and seem to make a big play for us.

“They’re as complete a receiving corps as I’ve ever played with.”

Matear leads Kings over Trojans in college hoops

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Kings 90 Trojans 51 Last season RDC Kings fans never got to see Matt Matear at his best.

Coming off a broken arm Matear joined the Kings at Christmas and put together a solid second half, but felt he wasn’t where he wanted to be.

This year it’s another matter altogether.

“I trained hard in the summer and had a good training camp and I feel like my old self,” said the six-foot-six native of Calgary, who pumped in 19 points and grabbed 15 rebounds as the Kings downed the SAIT Trojans 90-51 in Alberta Colleges Men’s Basketball League play at RDC Friday.

Matear was especially strong in the first half when the Trojans stayed within striking distance of the undefeated Kings, 8-0.

The Kings needed his solid play as they were without league scoring leader Ian Tevis “But we have so much talent we can still come through,” said Matear. “It’s a matter of cohesiveness and chemistry.

“As well all year the coaches have been stressing defence and it was there today. Even in the second quarter when they outscored us (15-14) it meant nothing as we still help them to 15 points.”

Head coach Clayton Pottinger was especially pleased with the defence.

“The key today was we defended better than we have any game this season,” he said. “We held them to 15 and

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Red Deer College Queen Madison Whiting scrambles after a loose ball after colliding with a SAIT Trojan player at Red Deer College Friday.

11 points in the first half and similar in the second.

“We’ve said all along that when we score like we’ve shown this season we’re dangerous but when we play defence we’re invincible.”

The Kings led 26-11 after the first quarter and 40-26 at the break. They pulled away in the third quarter when they outscored the Trojans 31-15. Then put together a 19-10 fourth quarter.

Matear has also been able to stay fresh this season with Dallas Hancox

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coming in off the bench to give him a breather.

“It really helps to have a big player like Dallas … it takes a lot of pressure off me defensively. He’s been strong on the glass.”

Hancox had a strong game Friday with 11 points, 10 rebounds and three blocked shots.

“You could see tonight what we see from Dallas in practice,” said Pottinger. “You could see that potential two years ago and the more he plays the

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more comfortable he feels. He defends the rim like nobody’s business.”

The Kings were able to use all their bench and walk-on Jabin Binnendyk continues to improve and didn’t look out of place.

“He’s getting a chance to play some minutes and he’s executing,” said Pottinger.

The Kings showed their cohesiveness cheering loudly for the bench players when they had success.

“It’s helps to have so many players on the bench, there’s a lot of energy,” said Matear.

“The guys on the bench are involved, look at Ian tonight he led the crew. We have a lot of chemistry and I enjoy that,” said Pottinger.

Rodney Teal added 15 points, Anthony Ottley 13 Kelvin Omojola 11 and Matt Johnson nine. Justin Makasiar had 22 for SAIT. Trojans 66 Queens 57 The Queens turned in their most disappointing effort of the season in dropping a 66-57 decision to the Trojans.

The RDC squad, 3-5, struggled to find any cohesiveness on offence missing a number of open outside shots and continued to struggle at the free throw line.

They finished 12-for-24 at the line while SAIT hit 20 of 33.

Despite never finding their rhythm it turned out that the second quarter 17-8 in the Trojans’ favour, was the difference.

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Raiders get hot at the right time

BY ADVOCATE STAFF The Lindsay Thurber Raiders found their game at the most opportune time Friday.

After losing all three of their preliminary matches Thursday, the Raiders won a pair of playoff contests in the provincial 4A senior high girls volleyball championship at Edmonton Jasper Place.

The Raiders posted a 3-0 victory over Lloydminster (game scores were unavailable), then took out Charles Spencer of Grande Prairie in three straight sets to advance to a semifinal today at 10:15 a.m. versus Calgary

William Aberhart. The championship final goes at 6:15 p.m.

Meanwhile, a 2-1 record in preliminary action didn’t do the Notre Dame Cougars much good when they got into Friday’s playoff bracket of the 4A boys provincials, also at Jasper Place.

The Cougars fell 3-2 to Calgary Dr. E.P. Scarlett and will face Lethbridge Chinook in a placement match today at 2:15 p.m.

• The Ponoka Broncs are 3-1 in pool play in the 3A girls provincial championship at Bonnyville, while the Sylvan Lake H.J. Cody Lakers are 2-2. Each team has one match remaining prior to the playoffs.

Ponoka won three straight Friday —

25-16, 25-22 over Airdrie St. Martin de Porres, 25-20, 16-25, 16-14 over Taber and 25-14, 25-11 over Bonnyville. The Lakers were 2-1 Friday, defeating Lethbridge Catholic Central 26-24, 21-25, 15-13 and St. Paul 24-26, 25-20, 15-13, and falling 18-25, 14-25 to Springbank.

In the 3A boys provincials at Grande Prairie, H.J. Cody won two matches and lost one Friday. The Lakers downed Dunmore Eagle Butte 2523, 25-11 and beat St. Paul 25-23, 17-25, 15-8, and dropped a 13-25, 22-25 decision to Barrhead to sit at 2-2 with one pool match left.

• Lacombe Central Alberta Christian was 2-2 Friday in the 2A boys provincial tournament at Okotoks and fin-

ished with a 3-2 record.

The Knights downed Redwater 25-11, 25-22 and Black Diamond 2517, 25-17, and lost 25-18, 18-25, 8-15 to High Prairie and 19-25, 16-25 to Calgary Christian. Central Alberta Christian was set to face host Strathcona Tweedsmuir in a quarter-final today at 9 a.m.

Rimbey finished 4-0 in pool play at the girls 2A provincials at Vauxhall and advanced directly to today’s semifinals.

Rimbey won three matches Friday — 25-21, 25-22 over Vegreville, 25-23, 25-23 over Peace Rriver Glenmary and 25-21, 23-25, 15-11 over Brooks St. Joseph’s.

Coyotes extinguish Oilers fall short of Red Wings in OT Flames in OT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Coyotes 2 Flames 1 (OT) GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Arizona Coyotes grinded their way through the tough stretches, relied on great goaltending and won it on a big goal at the end.

Call it a Dave Tippett special.

Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored in overtime, Mike Smith stopped 25 shots and the Arizona Coyotes beat the Calgary Flames 2-1 Friday night for coach Tippett’s 500th career victory.

“I’ve been involved in a lot of ugly games in that 500, so it’s probably fitting that was an ugly game,” said Tippett, who has 229 wins with Arizona and the rest with Dallas.

It certainly was right out of the Tippett playbook.

The Coyotes played a solid first period and both teams scored goals in the second on caroms: Martin Hanzal early for Arizona, Mark Giordano late on a power play for Calgary.

Arizona followed with a series of penalties, but Smith was sharp for the second straight game to send this one to overtime.

The Flames had the edge early in the 3-on-3 overtime, leaving the Coyotes gasping for air. Arizona flipped the ice for the final stretch, leaving Calgary’s players winded and scrambling.

Arizona won it with 39 seconds left on the clock when Brad Richardson

Kings win ugly It wasn’t pretty, but the RDC Kings emerged victorious in an error-filled Alberta College men’s volleyball match Friday versus the host Lethbridge Kodiaks.

The Kings, with player of the match Tom Lyon contributing six kills on eight sets, prevailed 25-23, 25-18, 25-19.

Earlier, Jess Jones had a big night with 12 kills, three blocks and 15 digs as the Queens won 24-26, 25-22, 25-19, 25-20 in the women’s match.

“We found a way to win when the

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KRONWALL SCORES WINNER

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Red Wings 4 Oilers 3 (OT) DETROIT — Niklas Kronwall scored 26 seconds into overtime to lift the Detroit Red Wings over the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 on Friday night.

Kronwall was stripped in front of his net 10 seconds into the extra period, but Henrik Zetterberg and Dylan Larkin were able to tie up the play without allowing a shot. The puck eventually bounced loose, and Larkin led a 2-on-1 rush, with Kronwall one-timing a pass past Cam Talbot for his first goal of the season.

Larkin, Gustav Nyquist and Tomas Tatar also scored for Detroit, while Iiro Pakarinen scored twice for the Oilers and Andrej Sekera added another.

Detroit has now gone six games without losing in regulation.

The Red Wings got an early power play, when after a big hit along the boards by Kronwall, Matt Hendricks jumped him and was called for roughing. Detroit had three quality chances to score but couldn’t beat Talbot.

Detroit dominated the first period, but continued its recent struggles to score. The Red Wings finally took the lead at 5:11 of the second when Talbot made a save on Tomas Tatar’s shot, but the rebound was left in front of the net,

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momentum of the match never really felt like it was going our way,” said Queens coach Talbot Walton. “We made the plays when we needed to.”

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sent a pass from behind the goal to Ekman-Larsson, and he one-timed it past Karri Ramos.

After the game, the Coyotes handed their championship belt, awarded to the player of the game, to their low-key coach after his milestone victory.

“Coaches don’t have many milestones, but that’s a big one,” Smith said. “Players have milestones all the time, but coaches only have winning, which is all that matters, really.”

The Flames certainly had their chances to win.

Calgary had a rare power-play goal when Giordano scored his fifth of the season, but the Flames failed on five other chances with the man advantage to lose to Arizona for the first time in six games.

Ramos stopped 18 in his first loss in five career games against Arizona and the Flames lost for the first time in six 3-on-3 overtimes.

“It was a good road game,” Flames coach Bob Hartley said. “We played smart, we played hard, it’s just the result, we wish we could change it.”

The Flames were coming off one of their worst performances of a disappointing season, blowing an early twogoal lead and a one-goal lead in the third period for a 5-3 loss to Anaheim on Tuesday night.

The Flames went straight to Arizona, where they watched the Coyotes beat Anaheim 4-2 on Wednesday night.

They played well and so did the Coyotes in a crisp first period.

Bulldog Scrap Metal loses by 11 to Carstar Cameron Kusiek drained 27 points and Jacob Cusumano scored 23 to lead Carstar past Bulldog Scrap Metal 88-77 in a Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association game Thursday.

Tyler Horner scored 22 points for Bulldog, while Will Hara contributed 15.

COLLEGE: Season winds down against SAIT

“We can’t let them score 17 points Rebels netminder Rylan Toth and only get eight,” said Queens head finished with 30 saves, while Mack coach Ken King shaking his head.

Shields turned aside 36 shots.

The Queens trailed 17-13 after the “He (Toth) should have had the first quarter and 34-21 at the half. They fourth goal, but he made some big tied the third quarter 16-16 and won saves, especially early,” said Sutter. the fourth 20-16.

The Rebels boss was impressed King had little to say, but did say with his fourth line of Hagel, Pratt and that it was time for some players to buy Jeff de Wit. Hagel added two assists in. and was named first star, while de Wit had a single RED DEER MINOR HOCKEY COMMISION helper.

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SYDNEY, Australia — A “flat” and tired Adam Scott shot a 2-over 73 at the Australian Open on Friday, a round that allowed him to make the cut but likely did little to help him end his 2015 victory drought.

Scott, playing for the sixth time in eight weeks, was right on the cutline when he finished his second round just before midday Friday, but he eventually was two inside the 4-over cut mark. He was tied for 34th and nine strokes behind second-round leader Matt Jones.

“I expect to see some changes to the starting lineup and possibly the roster,” he said. “We need players with a positive attitude and work hard every day.”

King did like what he saw from firstyear point guard Madi Whiting, veteran Morgan Dool and Emily White.

“Madi played well and Morgan did what we wanted again,” he said. “Emily had a strong game in a number of areas.”

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where players from both teams swiped at it.

It appeared that an Oilers player accidentally knocked the puck past Talbot, but credit was given to Nyquist.

The Red Wings made it 2-0 at 12:07 of the period, taking advantage of a sloppy Edmonton line change to get a 3-on2 break that Tatar finished off a pass from Nyquist.

Edmonton, though, took advantage of a turnover behind the net to make it 2-1 on Pakarinen’s goal, and then tied it on a power-play goal by Sekera at 17:34.

Larkin put Detroit back in front, sweeping in to beat Talbot at 19:24.

Pakarinen tied it back up at 8:45 of the third, knocking the puck off Darren Helm’s stick, then bumping Kronwall and spinning to fire past Howard for his second of the night.

Both teams had good scoring chances with about seven minutes to play, but Howard and Talbot made big saves and both rebounds bounced harmlessly away. The Red Wings nearly won it with two minutes left, but Tatar’s tip hit the outside of the goal post and Talbot stopped Nyquist’s slap shot.

NOTES: Red Wings G Petr Mrazek was presented with his 2014-15 team Rookie of the Year award before the game. . Pakarinen came into the game with two career goals in 31 games over the last two seasons He teed off for the third round Saturday morning with playing partner Pan Cheng-tsung of Taiwan, nearly 2 1-2 hours before the leading groups that included defending champion Jordan Spieth, who trails Jones by four strokes.

The winner of at least one tournament every year since 2001, Scott said he failed to take advantage of better scoring conditions and softer greens on The Australian Golf Club course.

He three-putted twice for bogeys and didn’t make a single birdie, admitting he couldn’t remember when he last had a round without one.

“I can’t recall off the top of my head, normally I can sneak one in,” said Scott, managing a smile. game, finishing with 17 points, 19 rebounds and three steals.

Dool added 12 points and seven boards while Shaylee Farren continues to improve and had 11 points and Dedra Janvier eight.

The RDC teams finish their 2015 portion of their schedule today at SAIT. Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog.

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Hockey

Today ● College curling: ACAC fall bonspiel at Pidherney Centre. ● 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. ● Junior women’s hockey: Lethbridge at Central Alberta, 3:45 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● 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.

Sunday ● College curling: ACAC fall bonspiel at Pidherney Centre. ● 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.

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Prince Albert 25 15 7 2 1 85 79 33 Brandon 24 14 8 0 2 84 65 30 Moose Jaw 25 12 8 4 1 90 81 29 Regina 24 12 10 2 0 73 85 26 Saskatoon 24 10 11 3 0 78 98 23 Swift Current 25 8 14 3 0 63 79 19 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Red Deer 26 18 8 0 0 104 73 36 Calgary 28 16 10 1 1 86 87 34 Lethbridge 25 16 9 0 0 102 76 32 Edmonton 27 10 14 3 0 77 95 23 Medicine Hat 22 7 12 2 1 74 91 17 Kootenay 26 6 18 2 0 53 107 14 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 24 18 5 1 0 100 71 37 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 24 5 15 2 2 64 97 14 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Seattle 23 15 7 1 0 84 63 31 Spokane 24 13 8 2 1 77 77 29 Everett 21 12 7 0 2 52 43 26 Portland 22 12 10 0 0 79 68 24 Tri-City 25 9 15 1 0 71 97 19 z-league title y-conference title d-division leader x-clinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top two positions per conference regardless of points a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns Friday’s results Edmonton 5 Prince Albert 1 Saskatoon 5 Swift Current 4 (OT) Regina 4 Calgary 3 (OT) Lethbridge 4 Brandon 2 Red Deer 6 Medicine Hat 4 Kamloops at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Kelowna at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

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

Moose Jaw at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Vancouver at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

Today’s Games Vancouver at Portland, 4 p.m.

Prince Albert at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Regina at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

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

Kamloops at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Kelowna at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Basketball NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Cleveland 12 4 .750 — Indiana 10 5 .667 1.5 Miami 10 5 .667 1.5 Chicago 9 5 .643 2 Toronto 10 6 .625 2 Atlanta 11 7 .611 2 Boston 9 7 .563 3 Charlotte 9 7 .563 3 Detroit 8 8 .500 4 Orlando 8 8 .500 4 New York 8 9 .471 4.5 Washington 6 7 .462 4.5 Milwaukee 6 10 .375 6 Brooklyn 3 12 .200 8.5 Philadelphia 0 17 .000 12.5

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

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Rebels 6, Tigers 4 First Period 1. Medicine Hat, Sanford 9 (Stanton, Mowbray) 1:58.

2. Red Deer, Hagel 4 (Pawlenchuk, Johnson) 7:33 (pp).

3. Red Deer, Pratt 4 (De Wit, Hagel) 8:19.

Penalties — Clouston MH (tripping) 6:11, Clouston MH (hooking) 10:28.

Second Period 4. Red Deer, Kopeck 3 (Musil, Bobyk) 4:07 (pp).

5. Red Deer, Pawlenchuk 11 (Pederson) 9:04.

6. Medicine Hat, Sanford 10 (Rassell, Kirichenko) 10:09.

Penalties — Mowbray MH (high-sticking) 2:12, Nogier RD (slashing) 11:38, Sanford MH (high-sticking) 14:19, Sanford MH (high-sticking) 14:19, Bleackley RD (interference) 16:35.

Third Period 7. Red Deer, Fleury 7 (Nikolishin) 5:07.

8. Red Deer, Bleackley 4 (Hagel, Nikolishin) 11:02.

9. Medicine Hat, Gerlach 10 (Shaw, Stanton) 15:44 (pp).

10. Medicine Hat, Forrest 1 (Butcher, Quenneville) 18:44.

Penalties — Pratt RD (fighting) 6:23, Clouston MH (fighting) 6:23, Heid MH (slashing) 12:33, Kopeck RD (roughing) 12:39, Musil RD (tripping) 14:06.

Shots on goal by Red Deer 18 12 12 — 42 Medicine Hat 9 7 18 — 34 Goal — Red Deer: Toth (W, 12-6-0) Medicine Hat: Shields (L, 1-2-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Red Deer: 2-6 Medicine Hat: 1-4.

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Montreal 24 18 4 2 38 86 Ottawa 22 12 5 5 29 73 Boston 22 13 8 1 27 73 Detroit 23 12 8 3 27 55 Tampa Bay 24 11 10 3 25 57 Florida 22 9 9 4 22 58 Buffalo 23 9 12 2 20 50 Toronto 22 7 10 5 19 51 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF N.Y. Rangers 23 16 5 2 34 70 Washington 22 16 5 1 33 71 Pittsburgh 22 13 8 1 27 50 N.Y. Islanders 23 11 8 4 26 64 New Jersey 22 11 9 2 24 53 Philadelphia 23 8 10 5 21 42 Carolina 23 8 11 4 20 47 Columbus 24 10 14 0 20 59 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division

GA 53 64 64 58 55 58 61 62 GA 47 49 51 57 55 65 66 73

W L OT Pts GF GA 18 5 0 36 81 59 14 6 3 31 62 57 12 6 4 28 58 56 13 8 2 28 65 59 11 7 3 25 60 57 11 11 2 24 64 75 8 13 1 17 63 67 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 22 13 8 1 27 55 48 San Jose 22 13 9 0 26 61 56 Arizona 22 12 9 1 25 61 62 Vancouver 24 9 8 7 25 69 65 Anaheim 24 8 11 5 21 47 65 Calgary 23 8 13 2 18 54 82 Edmonton 23 7 14 2 16 59 72 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Dallas St. Louis Nashville Chicago Minnesota Winnipeg Colorado

GP 23 23 22 23 21 24 22

Friday’s Games Montreal 3, New Jersey 2, SO Florida 3, N.Y. Islanders 2, SO Dallas 3, Vancouver 2, SO Boston 4, N.Y. Rangers 3 Philadelphia 3, Nashville 2, OT Winnipeg 3, Minnesota 1 Chicago 3, Anaheim 2, OT Washington 4, Tampa Bay 2 Buffalo 4, Carolina 1 Columbus 2, Pittsburgh 1, OT Detroit 4, Edmonton 3, OT Arizona 2, Calgary 1, OT Today’s Games Philadelphia at N.Y. Rangers, 11:30 a.m.

Washington at Toronto, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Montreal, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Edmonton at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Columbus at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Buffalo at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Winnipeg at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Ottawa at Arizona, 8 p.m.

Calgary at San Jose, 8 p.m.

Chicago at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Florida at Detroit, 12 p.m.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Russell Cgy (hooking) 1:00, Ekman-Larsson Ari (cross-checking) 2:46, Murphy Ari (high-sticking) 4:54, Ekman-Larsson Ari (boarding) 16:36, Brodie Cgy (cross-checking) 16:36.

Overtime 3. Arizona, Ekman-Larsson 5 (Richardson, Domi) 4:20.

Penalties —None.

Goal — Calgary: Ramo (LO, 6-8-1) Arizona: Smith (W, 10-5-1).

Red Wings 4, Oilers 3 (OT) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Hendricks Edm (roughing) 7:00, Larkin Det (hooking) 8:35, Eberle Edm (holding) 19:12.

Second Period 1. Detroit, Nyquist 8 (Green, Tatar) 5:11.

2. Detroit, Tatar 8 (Nyquist, Ericsson) 12:07.

3. Edmonton, Pakarinen 2 (Lander, Purcell) 15:17.

4. Edmonton, Sekera 2 (Letestu, Pouliot) 17:44 (pp).

5. Detroit, Larkin 9 (Zetterberg) 19:24.

Penalties — Glendening Det (interference) 16:46.

Third Period 6. Edmonton, Pakarinen 3 (unassisted) 8:45.

Penalties —None.

Overtime 7. Detroit, Kronwall 1 (Larkin, Zetterberg) :26.

Penalties —None.

Goal — Edmonton: Talbot (LO, 3-8-1) Detroit: Howard (W, 6-4-1).

Stars 3, Canucks 2 (SO) First Period 1. Dallas, Ja. Benn 17 (Sharp, Seguin) 15:27 (pp).

Penalties — Roussel Dal (interference) 1:07, Ja. Benn Dal (high-sticking) 6:22, D. Sedin Vcr (tripping) 14:10.

Second Period 2. Vancouver, D. Sedin 11 (Hansen) 3:10.

3. Dallas, Spezza 9 (Klingberg, Sharp) 11:52 (pp).

Penalties — Sbisa Vcr (interference) 7:34, Baertschi Vcr (tripping) 11:25, Sceviour Dal (interference) 19:54.

Third Period 4. Vancouver, H. Sedin 8 (D. Sedin, Vrbata) 15:50 (pp).

Penalties — Goligoski Dal (delay of game) 6:36, Burrows Vcr (high-sticking) 7:08, Hemsky Dal (interference) 13:20, Ja. Benn Dal (tripping) 14:55.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — Vcr Bench (too many men) 2:31.

Shootout — Dallas wins 1-0 Vancouver : McCann miss, Vrbata miss, Higgins miss.

Dallas : Seguin goal, Spezza miss, Ja. Benn miss.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Coyotes 2, Flames 1 (OT) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Murphy Ari (hooking) 10:58, Ferland Cgy (charging) 13:58, Duclair Ari (interference) 18:00.

Second Period 1. Arizona, Hanzal 5 (Rieder) :29.

2. Calgary, Giordano 5 (Gaudreau, Hudler) 16:40 (pp).

Penalties — Murphy Ari (tripping) 9:09, Stone Ari (hooking) 15:10.

Football CFL PLAYOFFS

Most Outstanding Canadian Brad Sinopoli, WR, Ottawa.

Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman SirVincent Rogers, OL, Ottawa Most Outstanding Special Teams Player Brandon Banks, WR/KR, Hamilton Most Outstanding Rookie Derel Walker, WR, Edmonton Jake Gaudaur Veterans’ Trophy Jeff Perrett, OT, Montreal Tom Pate Memorial Award Henry Burris, QB, Ottawa Hugh Campbell Distinguished Leadership Award Bob Irving The Commisioner’s Award Bernie Custis

Sunday’s results Division Finals East Division Ottawa 35 Hamilton 28 West Division Edmonton 45 Calgary 31 Sunday, Nov. 15 Division Semifinals East Division Hamilton 25 Toronto 22 West Division Calgary 35 B.C. 9

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Golden State 17 0 1.000 — San Antonio 13 3 .813 3.5 Oklahoma City 11 6 .647 6 Dallas 9 7 .563 7.5 Memphis 9 8 .529 8 Utah 7 7 .500 8.5 L.A. Clippers 7 8 .467 9 Minnesota 7 8 .467 9 Phoenix 7 9 .438 9.5 Denver 6 10 .375 10.5 Houston 6 10 .375 10.5 Portland 6 10 .375 10.5 Sacramento 6 10 .375 10.5 New Orleans 4 11 .267 12 L.A. Lakers 2 12 .143 13.5

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

2015 Canadian Football League Awards Winners TORONTO — The winners of the 2015 Canadian Football League awards as chosen Thursday by members of the Football Reporters of Canada and CFL head coaches.

Most Outstanding Player Henry Burris, QB, Ottawa Coach of the year Rick Campbell, Ottawa Most Outstanding Defensive Player Adam Bighill, LB, B.C.

Friday’s Games Orlando 114, Milwaukee 90 Cleveland 95, Charlotte 90 Boston 111, Washington 78 Miami 97, New York 78 Atlanta 116, Memphis 101 Oklahoma City 103, Detroit 87 Houston 116, Philadelphia 114 Indiana 104, Chicago 92 San Antonio 91, Denver 80 Golden State 135, Phoenix 116 Minnesota at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct New England 10 0 0 1.000 Buffalo 5 5 0 .500 N.Y. Jets 5 5 0 .500 Miami 4 6 0 .400 South W L T Pct Indianapolis 5 5 0 .500 Houston 5 5 0 .500 Jacksonville 4 6 0 .400 Tennessee 2 8 0 .200

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PA 182 227 208 249

PF 224 208 211 182

PA 248 228 268 233

Cincinnati Pittsburgh Baltimore Cleveland

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Denver Kansas City Oakland San Diego

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North L T 2 0 4 0 7 0 8 0 West L T 2 0 5 0 6 0 8 0

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PA 186 191 249 277

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PF 222 257 240 213

PA 183 198 259 282

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct N.Y. Giants 5 5 0 .500 Washington 4 6 0 .400 Philadelphia 4 7 0 .364 Dallas 3 8 0 .273 South W L T Pct Carolina 11 0 0 1.000 Atlanta 6 4 0 .600 Tampa Bay 5 5 0 .500 New Orleans 4 6 0 .400 North W L T Pct Minnesota 7 3 0 .700 Green Bay 7 4 0 .636 Chicago 5 6 0 .455 Detroit 4 7 0 .364

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PA 253 253 274 261

PF 332 250 236 255

PA 205 214 254 315

PF 211 262 231 230

PA 184 215 264 288

Arizona Seattle St. Louis San Francisco

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PA 216 192 199 252

Thursday’s Games Detroit 45, Philadelphia 14 Carolina 33, Dallas 14 Chicago 17, Green Bay 13 Sunday’s Games 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’s Game Baltimore at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 3 Green Bay at Detroit, 6:25 p.m.

Transactions BASEBALL American League TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Agreed to terms with LHP J.A. Happ on a three-year contract.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Suspended Milwaukee coach Jason Kidd one game for aggressively pursuing and confronting a game official, slapping the ball out of his hands, and not leaving the court in a timely manner upon his ejection during a Nov. 25 game against Sacramento.

International Basketball Federation FIBA — Suspended the Mexican basketball federation because of the national government’s

Today’s Games Toronto at Washington, 5 p.m.

Brooklyn at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.

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

Denver at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Utah, 7 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Portland, 8 p.m.

Sacramento at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Milwaukee at Charlotte, 12 p.m.

Minnesota at L.A. Clippers, 1:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Memphis, 4 p.m.

Phoenix at Toronto, 4 p.m.

Detroit at Brooklyn, 4 p.m.

Boston at Orlando, 4 p.m.

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

Indiana at L.A. Lakers, 7:30 p.m.

interference in how the sport is run.

FOOTBALL National Football League CINCINNATI BENGALS — Activated OT Cedric Ogbuehi from the reserve/non-football injury list.

Placed CB Darqueze Dennard on injured reserve.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released LB Eric Martin.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Signed DB Jaylen Watkins from Buffalo’s practice squad. Placed CB Nolan Carroll on injured reserve.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed CB Dashaun Phillips. Placed CB Chris Culliver on injured reserve.

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National Hockey League COLORADO AVALANCHE — Reassigned F Dennis Everberg to San Antonio (AHL). Recalled LW Andrew Agozzino from San Antonio.

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Recalled G Dustin Tokarski and LW Christian Thomas from St. John’s (AHL). Assigned D Jarred Tinordi to St. John’s for conditioning purposes.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Placed F Jiri Tlusty on injured reserve, retroactive to Nov. 20. Signed F Tyler Kennedy to a one-year contract.

American Hockey League ALBANY DEVILS — Signed RW Alexandre Carrier to a professional tryout contract.

SPRINGFIELD FALCONS — Signed Fs Mike

Hoeffel and Jon DiSalvatore to professional tryout contracts. Released D Keith Aulie from his professional tryout contract.

ECHL READING ROYALS — Announced G Connor Knapp was recalled be Lehigh Valley (AHL) and F Brandon Alderson was assigned to the team from Lehigh Valley. Signed G Brent Troyan.

COLLEGE HAWAII — Named Nick Rolovich football coach.

UNLV — Announced sophomore F Goodluck Okonoboh is leaving the basketball program and will be granted his release.

Nick Cullen, Australia 70-73—143 Pan Cheng-tsung, Taiwan 73-70—143 Others Adam Scott, Australia 71-73—144 Vincent Covello, US 73-71—144 George McNeill, US 77-69—146

a-Jordan Niebrugge, US 77-69—146 Missed the Cut Dino Giacomazzi Jr., US 75-72—147 Ryan Dillon, US 72-75—147 Mark Baker, US 71-76—147 Stuart Appleby, Australia 72-76—148

Sam Chien, US 7 Peter Uihlein, US Thane Ringler, US Garrett Sapp, US Ryan Carter, US Kyle Souza, US

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ARLINGTON, Texas — Dallas quarterback Tony Romo will miss the rest of the season with a small fracture in the same collarbone that previously sidelined him for seven games this year.

Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones said on his radio show Friday that Romo’s left collarbone would not require surgery after getting hurt in the third quarter of Thursday’s 33-14 loss to Carolina. He didn’t need surgery after breaking the collarbone in Week 2 at Philadelphia, either.

Matthew Jones, Australia Todd Sinnott, Australia Nicolas Colsaerts, Belgium Aron Price, Australia Jordan Spieth, United States Geoff Ogilvy, Australia Lincoln Tighe, Australia Rhein Gibson, Australia John Senden, Australia Brett Rankin, Australia Richard Green, Australia Stephen Dartnall, Australia Daniel Pearce, New Zealand Grant Thomas, Australia a-Bryson DeChambeau, US Lee Westwood, England Terry Pilkadaris, Australia Darren Clarke, N. Ireland Wade Ormsby, Australia Matthew Guyatt, Australia Alistair Presnell, Australia Joon-woo Choi, South Korea Nathan Holman, Australia Neven Basic, Australia David Klein, Germany Callan O’Reilly, Australia Tim Hart, Australia Ryan Fox, New Zealand Rod Pampling, Australia Jinho Choi, South Korea Brett Rumford, Australia

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Royalty system should be simplified CNRL CHAIR SAYS CHANGE IS IN ORDER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LAKE LOUISE — The chairman of one of Canada’s biggest oil and gas companies says there’s room for improvement in Alberta’s royalty system.

Murray Edwards of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (TSX:CNQ) says there’s not much room to change the amount the province charges for the right to exploit oil and natural gas on Crown land.

Rather, the prominent oilpatch financier says it’s more about the way the regime is designed.

Speaking to reporters at a conference in Lake Louise, Alta., Edwards said there is an opportunity to make the system simpler.

Peter Tertzakian, a well-known energy economist and a member of the province’s royalty review panel, says to expect an announcement before year end.

Tertzakian says virtually everyone he’s met with acknowledges change is in order.

The royalty panel was working in tandem with another group that recently recommended an overhaul of Alberta’s approach to tackling climate change.

Among other things, the climate plan aims to cap oilsands emissions at 100 megatonnes annually — about 30 megatonnes more than the industry now emits. The plan also includes a $20-a-tonne price on carbon emissions that will cover about 90 per cent of the economy in 2017, increasing to $30 the next year.

Edwards was one of four oilpatch leaders to speak out in favour of the plan and share the stage with Alberta Premier Rachel Notley on Sunday when she made the announcement.

He said Friday he’d like to see the royalty system used to drive better performance on the climate front.

For instance, he said conventional oil and gas producers are going to be “challenged” to reduce their emissions between now and 2023 under the new climate policy.

“The government can use the royalty system as a carrot to encourage those kinds of investments. So I think you can use the royalty system as a tool to drive efficiencies in the province, to drive simplicity in the province and hopefully get a better result in terms of investment opportunities.”

Tertzakian said when the royalty panel first embarked on its work he was “disturbed” by the gap between reality and perception of the system.

He likened the discussion at the time to a car full of people bickering about whether it should be going faster or slower when there are bigger issues at hand.

“I’m sitting there thinking some fundamental questions like ‘has anybody changed the oil in this thing?… And actually the most fundamental question: ‘where’s this thing taking me?”’

He said he’s consulted with some 300 people about royalties, 30 of whom were involved in detailed discussions.

“There’s not one person after those consultations that didn’t think we need to change this thing for the better. It’s way too complicated. It’s got distortions. It doesn’t give incentives to go after the highest-value products,” he said.

“It’s not transparent. It’s ephemeral the programs expire. How’s that supposed to be something that breeds any sort of certainty into what we’re supposed to be doing going forward?”

Live TV still highly popular VIDEO ON DEMAND SEEING RAPID GROWTH

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Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Customers line up outside a Best Buy store on Black Friday ahead of the store’s 6 a.m. opening on Friday.

Best Buy site shutdown hinders Black Friday shoppers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — One of Canada’s largest tech retailers has incurred the wrath of Black Friday shoppers who say a website malfunction that spanned several hours prevented them from taking advantage of the annual markdowns.

The online backlash against Best Buy Canada began shortly after the company tweeted Thursday night that its Black Friday sales were in effect.

By midnight, many were complaining that the site wouldn’t allow them to make purchases and tweeting photos of themselves shopping on competitors’ websites.

Some suggested that the retailer, which also owns the Geek Squad computer support company, should be able to avoid tech-related problems on one

of the busiest shopping days of the year.

Best Buy Canada posted on its website about 15 minutes after midnight that it had encountered an “issue” but expected to be up and running soon. It asked shoppers to be patient as staff tried to fix the problem.

An update 2 ½ hours later said “many” customers were now able to complete their purchases and that it was working to resolve any lingering technical issues.

The company said later Friday morning the site was fully functional and blamed record web traffic for the hitch.

But many online had jumped ship much long before then.

“Waiting for your site to work. Wandered over to Amazon. SAME PROMOS, and a working website! .bestbuy,” one person tweeted earlier.

“I bought my stuff from Walmart.

Same prices and their site works,” another person said on Twitter. “ BestBuyCanada you ARE a technology based online business right?

This sale proves you’re in the wrong business. .WorstBuy .YOUHADONEJOB,” another shopper said.

At least one person said their credit card had been charged for several orders that failed to go through, and the company referred them to customer service.

Best Buy Canada wasn’t the only site bogged down by hordes of bargain-hungry shoppers.

Many reported that Canada Computers’ website was down, and the company tweeted that it was experiencing “technical difficulties.”

Walmart’s U.S. site also faltered, though its Canadian equivalent appeared to hold up.

TORONTO — Even though the overwhelming majority of Canadians still watch live TV, a new study says there has been “rapid” growth in people accessing video on demand through their service providers.

Canadian audience measurement firm Numeris released a report Friday which found about 90 per cent of overall viewing is still live — a broadcast over the air or through cable — as compared with on demand.

But the findings also noted a shift in how younger demographics are watching television.

“Services such as video on demand are relatively new offerings in Canada, but they have been steadily on the rise,” the report said.

“Catch-up viewing is growing rapidly, especially for the younger age groups.”

In the study, video-on-demand was considered anything viewed through either a set-top box or a broadcaster’s website or smartphone app. It conducted the study with its radio and TV panel of 5,000 households, made up of 11,000 individuals more than two years old.

Numeris did not consider other sources, such as video streaming services like Netflix and Shomi or illegal online downloads, which are harder to accurately track.

The most common VOD users were females 25 to 49 years old, with a job, and children under 12 years.

In the United States, many cable channels have been shifting away from determining a TV show’s success by its “same-day” ratings numbers, arguing that advertisers should pay based on the popularity of shows over several days of VOD availability.

Last week, Fox became the first of the big U.S. networks to stop providing “same-day” ratings to the public.

In Canada, the changes have been much slower, though an eventual shift is expected by Numeris.

“The importance of this viewer information will increase in value as time-shifted platforms continue to grow in popularity,” it said.

New hire has disabilities, owner worried about potential costs Dear Working Wise: I just hired a new designer.

She hasn’t started work yet, but she seems like a good fit. She has the education plus a great personality — but I’m a little worried.

She uses a wheelchair and I’m concerned about the cost to accommodate her disability.

Where can I access more information on hiring a person with a disability? Signed, Concerned Dear Concerned: Hiring a new employee is always an opportunity to think about how to best bring them on board. Your new employee CHARLES will benefit from all of the STRACHEY usual onboarding processes WORKING WISE and the topic of accommodation can be discussed and reviewed together at this time.

One in seven Albertans has a disability including those with invisible disabilities like learning disabilities or mental health issues. You may already employ someone with a disability and not even know it.

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Accommodating a disability is less expensive than you might think and you may realize some unexpected benefits as accommodations might assist other employees or your customers.

A Job Accommodation Network survey of more than 1,000 employers found that 56 per cent of disabled employees required accommodations that cost nothing at all. Employers reported the average cost to accommodate an employee with a disability at $320 and 95 per cent said that it was a one-time cost.

The Alberta Government’s Disability Related Employment Supports (DRES) can be used help offset some of the costs of worksite modifications or assistive technology. To learn more about DRES, visit humanservices.alberta.ca/dres.

Your new employee may not need any modifications at all. Many people who live with disabilities have become experts in overcoming the challenges of daily living and your employee may have some ideas to share about accommodation strategies as well. She may tell you that she has to perform a task in a different way or that she will require some sort of accommodation, e.g. special software.

Opening your doors to all Albertans gives you more choice to hire the right skill sets for the job.

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If you have questions, help is available for employers. Alberta Works Centres and Alberta Human Services funded agencies around the province help employers attract and retain employees with disabilities. Contact your nearest Alberta Works Centre for more information at humanservices.alberta.ca/ offices.

Alberta Human Services is developing and implementing an Employment First Strategy to get government, employers and communities working closer together to help more people with disabilities find rewarding careers.

For more information on Employment First, employer success stories, Employment First webcasts, and the Top 10 Myths of Hiring People with Disabilities, click humanservices.alberta.ca/ef.

More than a dozen events are being held on December 3, 2015 to mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Check out the calendar of events at: humanservices.alberta.ca/premierscouncil-idpd.

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

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 124.22 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.63 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.74 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 67.52 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — A drop in commodity prices dragged the Toronto stock market lower on Friday as Wall Street finished early for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 56.95 points at 13,368.24 — a decline of half a per cent on the week — with mining and energy issues leading the way lower.

Energy shares fell 1.44 per cent as the price of oil slid on the heels of weak Chinese economic data, which resurrected oversupply concerns.

The January contract for benchmark crude oil was down $1.33 to US$41.71 a barrel while January natural gas dropped nine cents to US$2.21 per mmBtu. Next week, OPEC will convene for a meeting that could see the oil cartel rein in production or keep it at current levels.

The decision could determine the direction of oil prices in the coming months.

Analysts widely anticipate oil prices will remain under pressure well into next year.

“It’s not looking great for the next year because you still are seeing (energy) producers in survival mode and they are going to maximize production,” said Cavan Yie, equity analyst of investments at Manulife Asset Management.

“You are going to have to see oil low for a while before you see these bankruptcies happen and supplies permanently run off.”

In other commodities, a stronger U.S. dollar pushed the December gold contract down $13.80 to $1,056.20 an ounce — hitting a new five-year low.

The Canadian dollar was down 0.44 of a U.S. cent at 74.78 cents US. In New York, markets closed early at 1 p.m. ET following the

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 22.07 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.08 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.89 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 21.37 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . . 9.47 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.10 First Quantum Minerals . . 4.80 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 15.46 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 5.87 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . 12.89 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.53 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 26.10 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.800 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 5.50 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 18.16 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 24.32 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 52.78 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.35 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 21.28 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 31.77 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 8.33 Canyon Services Group. . 4.11 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 19.47 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1000 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 10.85 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.500 U.S. Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday.

That still gave traders enough time to digest the initial anecdotal information on retail sales from Thanksgiving and early morning Black Friday.

The Dow Jones industrials was down 14.90 points at 17,798.49, while the broader S&P 500 edged up 1.24 points to 2,090.11 and the Nasdaq added 11.38 points to 5,127.52.

Broadly speaking, the sentiment was that while consumer traffic was high in stores, people weren’t spending as much as last year. Shares of a number of big name retailers — like WalMart and Amazon — lost ground as a result.

“The consumer performance in the U.S. has been good but not great,” said Yie, reflecting on recent months of economic data.

“While the’re benefiting from lower gas prices, and unemployment continues to trend down, we’re seeing the U.S. consumer save a little more, which is putting a damper on total consumer spending.”

Shares of pharmacy chain operator Jean Coutu Group (TSX:PJC.A) briefly hit their lowest point in nearly 2 1/2 years as Quebec’s association of pharmacy owners promised to spar with provincial plans to introduce a system that would decide which generic drugmakers become exclusive suppliers for specific medications.

Jean Coutu, which declined to comment on the matter, saw its shares recover slightly from the lowest point, ending the session down $1.30 to $17.50.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,368.24, down 56.95 points Dow — 17,798.49, down 14.90 points

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 81.23 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 39.13 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.66 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 17.93 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 42.39 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 1.09 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.410 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.61 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.28 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.700 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.06 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 39.49 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1500 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 76.64 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 60.83 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.94 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.74 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 36.09 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 37.96 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 88.43 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.80 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 43.64 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.68 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 75.25 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 43.85 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.48 S&P 500 — 2,090.11, up 1.24 points Nasdaq — 5,127.52, up 11.38 points Currencies: Cdn — 74.78 cents US, down 0.44 of a cent Pound — C$2.0114, up 0.40 of a cent Euro — C$1.4166, up 0.66 of a cent Euro — US$1.0594, down 0.12 of a cent Oil futures: US$41.71 per barrel, down $1.33 (January contract) Gold futures: US$1,056.20 per oz., down $13.80 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: Closed for holiday.

ICE FUTURES WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Jan. ‘16 $0.10 lower $463.10 March ‘16 $0.40 higher $470.40 May ‘16 $0.70 higher $476.00 July ‘16 $1.40 higher $481.00 Nov. ‘16 $0.80 higher $473.60 Jan. ‘17 $2.40 higher $475.30 March ‘17 $2.40 higher $475.30 May ‘17 $2.40 higher $475.30 July ‘17 $2.40 higher $475.30 Nov. ‘17 $2.40 higher $475.30 Jan. ‘18 $2.40 higher $475.30.

Barley (Western): Dec. ‘15 unchanged $189.00 March ‘16 unchanged $191.00 May ‘16 unchanged $197.00 July ‘16 unchanged $197.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $197.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $197.00 March ‘17 unchanged $197.00 May ‘17 unchanged $197.00 July ‘17 unchanged $197.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $197.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $197.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 348,560 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 348,560.

Quebec pharmacies vow ‘big battle’ against province’s drug pricing plan

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — The cash-strapped Quebec government’s move earlier this week to lower generic drug prices has ignited a debate that risks spreading across the country.

In its latest bid to reduce healthcare spending, the province plans to introduce a tendering system to decide which generic drugmakers would become exclusive suppliers for specific medications.

Quebec is the fourth province to take a stab at implementing such a bidding system after unsuccessful attempts several years ago in Saskatchewan and Ontario. British Columbia launched tenders for seven drugs earlier this year.

Although generic drug prices have decreased significantly in recent years, Quebec Health Minister Gaetan Barrette said the province is still paying far too much.

“We believe we can get significant savings if we go through a group purchasing process,” he said in an interview Friday, adding lower prices would also be passed on to private insurers.

The minister declined to provide details of the process, including how many drugs would be subject to tendering or potential cost savings. But he believes other provinces will be watching very closely and will follow suit if the effort is successful.

“The issue here is about public finances and the capacity of provincial governments to provide drugs at a price that we can afford. It is a very, very significant issue across this country.”

But Quebec’s association of pharmacy owners says it is prepared to launch “a big battle” against changes that it says would hurt local drug manufacturers and cost pharmacies, threatening the survival of some.

“It’s dangerous how the minister has simplistic solutions to complex problems,” said Jean Thiffault, president of the association quebecoise des

pharmaciens proprietaires.

Thiffault said he believes low-cost manufacturers in India or China would likely win the tenders, addling that Quebec pharmacists have suggested alternative ways to achieve savings that don’t run the risk of leading to shortages or quality issues.

Barrette said he disagrees with the association’s position but is prepared to deal with its concerns.

“There are ways to prevent any financial harm in the process,” he said, refusing to say if that would involve financial compensation.

Previous moves to lower drug prices prompted large protests at legislatures in Ontario and Alberta. But Mike Law, associate professor of the University of British Columbia’s School of Population and Public Health, believes Quebec has the greatest chance of succeeding and it could prompt other provinces to follow.

“Were this to succeed and other provinces to follow, you’re potentially talking about hundreds of millions of dollars in public sector savings every year,” Law said in an interview from Rwanda, where he is on sabbatical.

In a 2013 study, Law found that 90 per cent of the top 82 generic products were less expensive outside Canada.

New Zealand launched drug tendering in the late 1990s and the move as been copied by several countries in Europe, as well as in Australia and by the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department.

About $4 billion is spent annually on generic drugs in Canada, representing 65 per cent of prescriptions filled and 25 per cent of dollars spent.

Quebecers spend the most on prescriptions but use the lowest number of generic alternatives. The Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association said Quebec’s tendering proposal is “inconsistent” with the tiered pricing framework adopted across the country.

“Tendering is a risky approach in Canada with the potential for exacerbating drug shortages, delaying the introduction of new cost-saving generic medicines, and reducing jobs,” it said in an email.

Suncor, COS clash at Alberta Securities Commission CALGARY — A lawyer for Suncor Energy says the Alberta Securities Commission should overturn an extended deadline for shareholders of Canadian Oil Sands to decide whether to accept its proposed takeover bid.

In closing arguments on the second day of hearings, David Tupper told the regulator it should reject the COS plan to give its shareholders 120 days to consider Suncor’s $4.5-billion all-stock takeover offer.

Tupper says the COS plan lacks shareholder approval and there is little likelihood that a new buyer will come forward.

He also warned that the COS share price will likely see a significant drop if the COS plan is upheld because Suncor will not extend its 60-day offer, which is set to expire next Friday.

Tristram Mallett, part of the COS legal team, accused Suncor of “fear mongering” and objected to that company’s portrayal of COS as a “financial basket case.”

He says that without the COS shareholder rights plan, there is little chance of finding another potential buyer, but with the plan there is a good chance.

Liberals push back decision on burying nuclear waste near Lake Huron OTTAWA — The new Liberal government has pushed back the deadline for approving a plan to bury nuclear waste near Lake Huron.

The decision will now come by March 1.

The government was initially supposed to decide by September whether to greenlight the proposed deep geologic repository.

However, the previous Conservative government pushed that back until December — after the election.

A $1-billion underground storage bunker near Kincardine, Ont., has won preliminary approval, but needs a green light from Ottawa.

Critics — many of them Americans — argue it would be folly to bury the toxic waste close to the lake but proponents say it’s safe.

It’s not clear what impact the delayed approval decision will have on a court challenge to the proposed repository.

Chief of Alberta First Nation files suit over coal tailings pond spill EDMONTON — The chief of an Alberta First Nation is suing three companies over spill from a coal tailings pond that went into waterways that feed the Athabasca River.

Ronald Kruetzer of the Fort McMurray First Nation filed the lawsuit as a class action to include anyone who resided near, used, relied on or prospered from the Plante and Apetowun creeks, Athabasca River and Peace-Athabasca delta.

The Obed coal mine near Hinton had a spill of about 670 million litres of waste water on Oct. 31, 2013.

At the time, Coal Valley Resources Inc. operated the mine as a subsidiary of Sherritt International Corp. (TSX:S).

Both companies were named in the statement of claim, along with Westmoreland Coal Co., which bought Coal Valley from Sherritt in 2014.

In the weeks following the spill, the province advised communities downstream not to draw water from the river and farmers not to let livestock drink from it.

The lawsuit alleges the plaintiffs could not safely hunt, fish or use drinking water due to the toxins contained in the waste water that spilled.

It also claims the defendants should have known the waste water contained materials hazardous to the environment and failed to properly construct, design and inspect the tailing pond.

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Farmers, ranchers and their workers want to return home safely after working hard all day.

We want to help. That’s why we’re proposing changes to laws that keep farm and ranch workers safe and ensure they’re treated fairly.

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Ensuring farm and ranch accidents can be properly investigated so they can be prevented.

Making sure farm and ranch workers can still support their families if they’re injured on the job.

Protecting farm and ranch owners against the impact of workplace injuries and illnesses.

If approved, laws that govern workplace safety and Workers’ Compensation Board insurance coverage would apply to farm and ranch workers as of January 1, 2016.

We also want your views on how we can work with employers to make lives better for farm and ranch workers. For example: • • •

How should hours of work for farms and ranches be regulated?

How should vacation leave work on farms and ranches?

How do we make these changes while protecting family farms and ranches?

A town hall session will be held Tuesday, December 1 from 1:00-4:00 pm: NEW LOCATION Westerner Park, Marquis Room, 4847A 19 Street, Red Deer Space is limited, pre-registration is encouraged.

To learn more, take part in an online survey or attend a town hall near you, visit work.alberta.ca/farmandranch For further information, call 1-866-415-8690.

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Diwali: The Festival of Lights Hindu families have settled in Central Alberta for more than 30 years. However, the rapid growth in the number of families of Hindu faith has been very recent. The families settled in this region have been travelling to either Calgary or Edmonton to fulfill their religious aspirations and to participate in cultural activities based on Hindu faith.

A proposal to establish a Hindu Cultural Society of Central Alberta started in summer of 2012 with a main focus to build a place of worship or temple in Red Deer area.

Prior to this, a group of families were getting together regularly on a monthly basis to perform Pooja (worship) and sing bhajans (religious music) at a community hall or in one of the residences of the group.

Diwali is the most important festival for the followers of Hindu faith.

Diwali, the “festival of lights” is an ancient Hindu festival celebrated in autumn (in the northern hemisphere) every year. Diwali signifies the victory of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, good over evil, and hope over despair.

Festival preparations and rituals can extend over five days, but the main festival night of Diwali coincides with the darkest new moon night that falls between mid-October and mid-November.

Every year since 2012, HCSCA celebrates Diwali by organizing an evening of cultural programs that includes dances, music and dinner.

This year the function was held at Festival Hall on Nov. 7.The gathering had about 250 guests who enjoyed an evening of great cultural festivities and Indian food.

The society was also honoured by presence of Mayor Tara Veer and MLA Kim Schreiner.

HCSCA will for sure have this function every year.

We do have other programs all year round but they are mostly religious functions. Of course, the public is welcome to join us.

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Participants, musicians, singers and dancers, are members of the local community, plus some from Edmtonon and Calgary.

The dance using the sticks is called Dandiya, or more traditionally, “raas.”

No cultural festival can ever be complete without an array of wonderful food.

Mayor Tara Veer lights a candle.

A pair of young dancers watches celebrations.

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Environment report: Room to improve RED DEER LOSING GROUND IN KEY AREAS OF ENVIRONMENTAL MEASURES, IMPROVES IN OTHERS

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer took some environmental strides forward and a few steps back last year, according to the Environmental Master Plan 2014 Annual Report.

Presented to city council on Monday, the report showed success or solid progress on nine out of 19 environmental measures and “negative progress” in six measures.

Unfortunately, fuel consumption per capita increased. Residents put out more garbage for curb side collection, and the overall solid waste disposal rate (residential, institutional and commercial) increased. Greenhouse gas emissions and electricity use climbed at City of Red Deer buildings and operations (not calculated for any other buildings).

Also, fine particulate matter in the region exceeded ambient air quality standards.

Fine particulate matter is believed to be linked to a number of respiratory illnesses, cancer, birth defects and other ailments. Vehicles, home heating, chemical manufacturers, oil and

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

The City of Red Deer Environmental Master Plan 2014 Annual Report states that the city has made success or solid progress in several areas including man-made park dedication. gas industries all contribute.

Nancy Hackett, the city’s environmental initiatives supervisor, said the environmental plan contains actions to reduce particulate matter such as greening the municipal fleet by using alternative fuels, idle-free initiatives, and using the right sized vehicle for the task, and driving smart.

“We can all benefit from smart driving, where we don’t speed or we don’t hard break,” Hackett said.

Data for all gasoline sales in Red Deer show people bought more gasoline for their vehicles in 2014 and more driving means more particulate matter, she said.

A Canadian Ambient Air Quality Standards report released in September showed Red Deer Region exceeded standards for particulate matter between 2011-13.

As a result, the province put together an advisory committee to develop a

MacIntyre sounds off on carbon tax

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Alberta NDP’s carbon tax is a little more than a “back-door” provincial sales tax, charges Innisfail-Sylvan Lake Wildrose Party MLA Don MacIntyre.

Calling it a “$3-billion tax grab,” the $20-per-tonne levy to take effect in 2017, increasing to $30-a-tonne in 2018, is a flowDON MACINTYRE through tax that will hit all Alberta consumers in the wallet, said MacIntyre earlier this week.

“It impacts everything in our province just as a provincial sales tax

“THIS CARBON TAX IS REALLY JUST A BACK-DOOR WAY OF INTRODUCING A PROVINCIAL SALES TAX WITHOUT CALLING IT A PROVINCIAL SALES TAX.” DON MACINTYRE, INNISFAIL-SYLVAN LAKE WILDROSE PARTY MLA would,” he said.

“This carbon tax is really just a back-door way of introducing a provincial sales tax without calling it a provincial sales tax.”

The Opposition believes Premier Rachel Notley’s government is low-balling the cost impacts on Alberta households.

Electricity cost increases and the additional costs a carbon tax will add to anything produced with energy or transported have not been adequately factored in, he said.

A plan to retire Alberta’s coal-fired power generation plants will also car-

ry huge compensation costs that have not been determined.

“We’re talking about billions and billions of dollars of infrastructure that’s about to get stranded, and those companies are not just going to roll over and let the government do this.”

The government has stated its plan involves rebates for consumers and financial help will be provided to industries most affected by the carbon tax.

The Wildrose Party agrees more needed to be done to improve greenhouse gas emissions in the province but the NDP plan missed the mark.

“We already had one of the best environmental records of the top-10 oil-producing nations in the world. So, I don’t believe (the industry) was as broke as the Left would like us to believe.”

Access to markets through coastal export points is the most pressing issue facing the industry, he said.

Red Deer’s NDP MLAs could not be reached for comment on Friday. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

SINGING TO STUFF-A-BUS

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Amy Metcalfe stopped in at the Parkland Mall Friday to help out with the Stuff-A-Bus campaign organized by the Red Deer Christmas Bureau and the Red Deer and District Food Bank Society. Metcalfe, a country music recording artist played some music from her recent album “Inside Out.” The annual campaign hopes to bring in $50,000 in cash along with toys and food donations. The campaign, which runs through the weekend, is set up near the Staples store.

response plan. Included on the committee were representatives from the City of Red Deer.

“I think it’s important to recognize it’s a regional issue. Air is a regional resource and so it’s very positive that the province had us on an advisory committee with other municipalities in the region, local industries, Parkland Airshed Management Zone.”

A draft plan was developed.

“We are expecting that to be released anytime with some more of the science, the information on what is causing this issue and what actions we can take and expect the province to take on fine particulate matter.”

“Depending on what comes out of the report, there may be additional things that we add to Environmental Master Plan.”

Among the nine successes in the 2014 report on the city’s Environmental Master Plan were water conservation, natural park dedication, manmade park dedication, integrated pest management, share of dwelling units close to community amenities, length of trail kilometres per resident, use of renewable energy, waste diverted, and ‘footprint’ of per capita land consumption.

“I think the main message is that we are still working hard and Red Deerians are working hard. We have continued to see success. There are some areas where we need to work a little bit harder. But the overall message is that we have since the beginning of this plan four years ago, we have made progress.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

City approves $2.8M more for firehall moves

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Relocating two firehalls is just the beginning for what is in store for Red Deer Emergency Services.

Earlier this week, council approved an additional $2.8 million for the Station 3 and Station 4 relocation projects. It brings the total project costs to $18.2 million.

The extra cash was allocated to address the shortfall in preliminary cost estimates on the project.

Fire chief Brian Makey said the work is coming along nicely. The design development on both stations is currently underway.

He expects construction to begin in about a month on Station 4 in Timberlands and four to six months later on Station 3 near the Collicutt Centre on the corner of Lees Street and 30th Avenue.

But Makey is also deep into the final stages of the long awaited fire master plan. It is expected to be presented to council by early February.

Part of the work may include the plan for a new fire training facility.

There was some talk during the budget debate about the possibility of building the training facility on a site earmarked for snow storage. The city will buy land for a third snow storage site in 2016.

Makey said there is tremendous growth in Red Deer and the region which dictates there is a need for such a facility. It could be operational in 2018.

The relocation of Station 3 and Station 4 was approved as part of the 2015 capital budget in response to growth in southeast and northeast Red Deer.

The current Station 3 (4340-32 St.), will be the new Emergency Services Headquarters.

It will retain administration, fire prevention, and 911 emergency communications but will transfer fire suppression and ambulance services to the new site.

Station 4 in Deer Park will close. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Two accused plead guilty in Ponoka abduction case

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Of the seven people accused of an abduction in Ponoka, two pleaded guilty and warrants were issued for the arrest of two more.

Zachary Purdy, 25, of Innisfail pleaded guilty to five charges while Tyler Scott, 22, of Red Deer pleaded guilty to one charge.

In Ponoka provincial court, Purdy pleaded guilty to attempted robbery with a firearm, possession of a weapon dangerous to the public, threats to cause death of bodily harm and

possession of stolen property under $5,000.

Scott pleaded guilty to one count of break and enter with the intent to commit an indictable offence.

Purdy was sentenced to two-and-ahalf years in jail, but given credit for 516 days of pretrial custody. He has 397 days left to serve on his sentence.

A 10-year firearm prohibition was also ordered.

Sentencing for Scott was adjourned to Dec. 10 in Red Deer provincial court.

All seven of the accused were charged with break and enter, assault with intent to steal while armed with

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an offensive weapon, using a firearm during a kidnapping, carrying an imitation of a weapon, uttering threats and unlawful confinement.

Warrants were issued for the arrest of Lane Dickson, 20, of Red Deer and Ashley Shewchuk, 28, of Ponoka.

Prosecution against two individuals came to a halt as well as a stay of proceedings was ordered for Shane Kerik, 43, of Lacombe County and charges against Christine Kirkeby, 30, of Red Deer were withdrawn.

Charges against the seventh individual, James Miller-Laney, 29, of Ponoka, or continuing as soon as a new information is sworn before the courts.

The seven were arrested on Dec. 17, 2014 by Ponoka RCMP on allegations of an abduction from a home in the community.

Police said a group of people broke into a residence and forcibly confined a 23-year-old man and then drove him to another residence.

Investigators set up surveillance on the residence when they saw the victim being placed into a vehicle and driven away. Police pulled the vehicle over and arrested the occupants.

Police said the victim did not suffer any physical injuries and the abduction was a targeted event. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Two words that will change your life

BY ERIC DEMETER SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE It’s almost incredulous that Jesus heals 10 lepers in Luke 17 simultaneously. Without fanfare, he simply commands the motley crew, “Go, show yourselves to the priest.” They exit stage left and their skin is restored.

Jesus earns a big, two thumbs down for lack of sensationalism.

Yet, the Lord was never concerned with aggrandizement. What was unbelievable to Him, however, was the lack of thankfulness from the former lepers.

Only one of them makes a U-turn to thank Him for His tremendous miracle.

Only one.

As the Bible records in Luke 17:15-16, “When he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice.

He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him — and he was a Samaritan.”

Jesus is shocked and asks, “Were not 10 cleansed?

Where are the nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?”

The unfortunate result was that 90 percent of them missed the second, more important gift Jesus had planned for them. To the lone, grateful Samaritan, He responds, “Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well.” Most importantly, this person’s spiritual life had been restored.

Gratitude gives and receives Scripture doesn’t tell us why the other lepers failed to thank God. Yet it’s clear that the Samaritan’s grateful heart prepared him to receive more.

The same is still true for us today: the gratitude we give God increases His activity in us.

How? Here’s a theological sequence that is paramount to understanding this: gratitude begets humility (thanks to Dallas Willard for this idea) which begets God’s grace.

Let’s begin with gratitude. Gratitude has been called the “gateway” spiritual discipline. As Psalm 100:4 commands us, “Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.”

In gratitude, we thank Him not just for the stuff that fills our storage spaces, but for Him. Gratitude begets humility because it reveals our God-given neediness.

Humility is a heart condition that recognizes that all of our blessings have been received, not earned.

It understands how utterly deprived we stand before a Holy God. We simply can’t advance God’s Kingdom, be saved, or even love God in return without His own love for us first.

Indeed, humility is the right posture when relating to God. And it permits God’s grace in our lives.

As James 4:6 states, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Since God’s grace is God’s power, the more thankful and needy we are before the Lord, the more power we receive.

This recursive pathway of gratitude, humility, and grace allows us to experience more of God’s presence and power.

It’s a “win-win-win.”

What about when we suffer?

Gratitude flows easily when we’ve landed our dream job or just fell head-over-heels for a potential mate. And it’s easy to lift up some heavenly appreciation when we only receive a warning (instead of a ticket) for speeding. But what about when we don’t get our way? Or when tragedy strikes?

Can we still be thankful then?

Indeed, life is not always a buffet of delicious circumstances where we get to pick and choose which items we put on our plate. Sometimes we get served a dish of lemons.

Yuck.

Fortunately, Christian gratitude doesn’t require us to “turn our lemons into lemonade” — a cliché that might be found in some cheesy, self-help book.

Certainly painful events can be serendipitous.

At the same time, I can hardly imagine Jewish people building lemonade stands in Nazi concentration camps or parents serving lemonade at their child’s funeral.

A theology of gratitude like this is at best misguided, if not downright egregious. Can you imagine a passerby saying to Jesus on Calvary, “Turn that frown upside down”?

Ingesting life’s difficulties and tragic events can be overwhelming.

Having a heart of gratitude, therefore, is not about looking at the bright side of things. It’s not even acknowledging that things could be worse. Our thankfulness is never to be based on a set of circumstances.

It’s based on a Person.

Jesus understands our pain The answer to our pain and suffering wasn’t new circumstances but God Himself.

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Jesus came not only to suffer for us, but to suffer with us. Isaiah 53:3 describes Christ as being: “Despised and rejected — a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.”

Jesus understands our pain and empathizes with us.

Instead, our gratitude rests soundly in the assuredness that God will ultimately redeem every horrible situation in this life or the next. “He will wipe every tear from their eyes.

There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away” (Revelation 21:4).

It’s easy to miss God’s current blessings when pain overwhelms us, however.

I’ve shaken my fist toward heaven more than once in agony.

Even so, God will never take away His gifts.

He’s that good. If I were in Jesus’ shoes, on the other hand, I’d probably replace the nine leper’s healings with nine nasty curses. Or I’d at least unheal them all.

That’ll show ‘em to be thankful!

But it was love, not intimidation that drew one Samaritan to unwrap the gift of eternity. Saying “thank you” will always reveal unseen blessings. We can’t control the Giver, but we can always expect one gift: the grace to hope.

Then, we’ll receive other common events like watching sunsets, eating dinner with a friend, or sleeping in a comfortable bed as underserved blessings.

Every day is a treasure hunt. What hidden gifts will gratitude lead you to find today?

Eric is an entrepreneur at heart. He has the desire to change hearts towards Christ through Bible-centric teaching, and to create opportunities for the marginalized. He has traveled around the world several times and has a master’s degree in theological studies. www. ericdemeter.org.

Nov. 28 Christmas Muffins and Coffee Party will be featured at Gaetz Memorial Church on Nov. 28 from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Admission by freewill offering. For sale will be baking, Christmas items, white elephant items, preserves and jewelry. Phone 403-347-2244.

Open House for Skip’s Place — an alternative to Sunday school for children with a disability — will be held on Nov. 28, at Knox Presbyterian Church from 10 a.m. to noon.

The program will be begin in Jan. and uses modern media with puppets and a large on site theatre set. Phone 403-358-3536.

Nov. 29 Living Faith Lutheran Church invites everyone to Sunday Worship, Holy Communion, and Sunday School for children ages three to 12 years, at Bethany CollegeSide at 10 a.m. Contact Ralph at 403-3479852. Coffee and fellowship follow service.

Living Faith is a North American Lutheran Church Congregation. See www.livingfaithlcrd.org, contact Ralph at 403-347-9852 or John at 403-341-4022.

Dec. 1 Heartland Cowboy Church will be held the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Stettler Agriplex. Cowboy church will be held .

Phone 403-742-4273.

UPCOMING EVENTS Christmas Christian Conference — Putting Christ Back in Your Christmas — will be hosted by End Time Message Tabernacle (Edmonton), on Dec. 18 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 19 at 2:30 p.m. at Collicutt Centre, Rooms A and B. Free admission; open to all.

Talk about the mystery of God for today, enjoy Southern Gospel Quartet, refreshments, young people’s singing, literature, fellowship and more. For more information, contact Martin Warner, international evangelist and missionary at 780-250-1612.

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LUTHERAN CHURCHES OF RED DEER

Sunday, Nov. 29

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11:00 a.m.

Celebration Service

Rev. Teresa Phillips www.cslreddeer.org

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ST. LEONARD’S ON THE HILL “A Church For All Ages” 43 Avenue & 44 Street 403-346-6769 www.stleonardsonthehill.org

Officiant: Rev. Gary Sinclair

8:00 a.m. Holy Communion 9:00 a.m. Celebration Service 10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Sunday School/ Nursery

WELCOME YOU Sunday, Nov. 29

40 Holmes St. 403-340-1022 Rev. Dr. Marc Jerry

9:30 a.m. Sunday School Youth & Adult Forum 10:30 a.m. Worship Holy Communion at all Services Everyone Welcome

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Sunday, Nov. 29

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Minister: Rev. Wayne Reid

Bahá’í Faith “Man is, in reality, a spiritual being, and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy. This spiritual longing and perception belongs to all men alike, and it is my ¿rm conviction that the Western people possess great spiritual aspiration. It is my fervent prayer that the star of the East will shed its brilliant rays on the Western world, and that the people of the West may arise in strength, earnestness, and courage, to help their brethren in the East.” Abdu’l-Baha Nov. 28th is the commemoration of the Ascension of Abdu’l-Baha.

See www.ca.bahai.org or call 403-343-0091 for more information about the Bahá’i Faith.

10:30 am Worship Service “I will keep my promise” says the Lord. www.knoxreddeer.ca

WILLOW VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN 26016-HWY 595 (Delburne Road)

Sunday 10:00 a.m.

Speaker: Fred Lane Everyone Welcome

#18 Selkirk Blvd. Phone 403-346-3798

Pastor Don Hennig | Pastor Peter Van Katwyk

10:00 a.m.

Family Advent Event 11:00 a.m.

Divine Service www.mclcrd.org

King Kids Playschool Growing in Faith Through Word and Sacrament

Living Faith

Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m.

Pastor: Jonathan Aicken Sunday School Bethany Collegeside, RDC www.livingfaithlcrd.org

BRIEF U.K. court rules non-religious views should be included in religious studies LONDON — Britain’s High Court has ruled that the nation’s education secretary erred in failing to include non-religious views in the curriculum on religious studies.

The ruling came after three families supported by the British Humanist Association sued for a judicial review.

Some 28 religious leaders, including the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, urged the government to reconsider the decision to leave humanism out.

Judge Mark Warby ruled that Education Secretary Nicky Morgan should have taken care to make sure the religious studies curriculum conveyed the pluralistic nature of the U.K. Changes to the content of the curriculum were announced in February.

Those changes led to complaints that priority was given to religious views including as Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism.

UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA Gaetz Memorial United Church “Sharing Faith, Serving Community” 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer 403-347-2244 www.gaetzmemorialunitedchurch.ca

Worship Service Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Children’s Programs weekly

Sunnybrook United Church

Caring - Dynamic - Proactive - Inclusive 12 Stanton Street 403-347-6073

Sundays at 9:30 am, 11:15 am and 1:00 pm

10:30 a.m. Worship Service “Waiting In Hope” Babyfold, Toddler Room Sunday Club www.sunnybrookunited.org

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Shrill-voiced Pinocchio, three Germanic pigs, a cross-dressing wolf and all manner of magical fairy-tale folk are letting their “freak flags fly” on the Red Deer Arts Centre stage.

And so did many of the people who watched Thursday’s enjoyable opening night performance of Shrek: The Musical. Dozens of paper flags were waved by audience members in response to lines LANA such as: “It’s MICHELIN not a choice you REVIEW make, it’s just how you were hatched.”

It shows how much of a cultural phenomenon this contemporary fairy tale, with its light-hearted messages about inclusiveness and embracing individuality, has become since William Steig created his 1990 Shrek picture book.

After the splashy 2001 big-screen movie adaptation and its three sequels, came a short 3-D film, a theme park ride, two television specials, a Puss-in-Boots spin-off, and a 2008 Broadway musical adaptation.

The fun stage show, with script and music by David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori, is being presented by RDC Theatre Studies students — and they’ve done a terrific job of recreating the beloved roles.

Fans of the Shrek films will warm to Brendan Hutchison’s portrayal of the title character, a grouchy Scottish ogre who agrees to rescue a princess to get his swamp land back from fairy-tale squatters.

Along for the adventure is his pushy but perceptive, wise-cracking burro buddy Donkey (Logan Shave).

And waiting to bust out of her lofty tower is the spunky Princess-with-asecret Fiona (portrayed by Bethany Monaghan and, in younger incarnations, by Emily Vaillant and Grace Hoffart), who initially mistakes Shrek and Donkey for a noble knight and his steed.

Anyone who’s seen the movies will know pretty much what to expect as the RDC cast gives the characters the same vocal treatments as Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and the rest of the film cast.

Director Tom Bradshaw understandably went in this right direction since everyone is so familiar with the films. And the populist approach generated laughs — such as when Gingy

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Red Deer College performing arts students Bethany Monaghan as Fiona, Brendan Hutchison as Shrek and Logan Shave as Donkey run through a scene of the RDC production of Shrek. the Gingerbread Man (portrayed as a high-voiced puppet by Meegan Sweet) responds to Lord Farquaad’s threats with “Eat me!”

Or when the Three Little Pigs (Dustin Funk, Bret Jacobs, and Ashley Keenan) say anything at all in their German accents.

Or when Fiona sings Morning Person and shows how too much coffee can be lethal to bluebirds.

Some of the small divergences are good calls — such as turning the Three Blind Mice (Ashley Keenan, Tori Grebinski and Nicole Leal) into a dance team.

Others are less successful. The vertically challenged Lord Farquaad (Alicia Maedel) is not menacing enough,

for instance, and depicting the giant dragon (voiced by Sweet) as a benign Muppet instead of a fiery threat diminishes whatever other conflict this story line had.

Hutchinson is also a better actor than singer, but he’s helped along by Shave and Monaghan’s stronger pipes.

The great chemistry between the three leads is the best thing about this well-paced production — as is the solid support from side characters, including the ponderously long-winded Bishop (Bronlynn Bleich), obnoxiously endearing Pinocchio (Ashley Mercia), the sly Big Bad Wolf, (Trysten Luck), and tap dancing Rats.

Designer Carrie Hamilton created an interesting set resembling a row of

storybooks that can be opened as popups, or turned into more elaborate settings. There’s some fun choreography

by Jill Kuzina, and a live eight-musician orchestra, conducted by Val Sherman.

But a hitch to this family musical is the lack of catchy hooks in the original tunes and the absence of all but one cover song. Presumably because of royalty costs there’s no Hallelujah, I’m On My Way, Best Years Of Our Lives, or You Belong to Me. There is I’m a Believer, however, and it should keep kids and their parents happily humming all the way home.

Shrek: The Musical continues to Dec. 5. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Rediscovering the spirit of Christmas

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Tom Jackson’s The Huron Carole is going after higher stakes this year in an effort to feed the hungry.

For 28 years, Jackson has toured Canada with Christmas-time concerts that raise money for local food banks.

Attending these philanthropic shows had become a holiday tradition for many families.

But that tradition is taking a new twist this year towards corporate sponsorship by turning The Huron Carole into a $200-a-plate gala on Friday, Dec. 4, at the Harvest Centre’s Marquis Room at the Westerner.

Jackson said there was a need to think of new ways to continue the annual fundraiser in future — with or without his involvement.

“We had to think of a model that could carry on whether Tom Jackson gets hit by a bus… I know we don’t like to think about it, but we will always get hit by a bus someday…”

Since he’s had a lot of success with the gala model of fundraiser in Calgary, where $920,000 was raised over four years for Hull Child and Family Services, Jackson feels it’s possible to hold similarly successful exclusive benefits for food banks — although it will take time to build a different audience.

He believes interest in The Huron Carole galas will pick up steam over the next few years— if local food banks begin reaching out to local corporations “to get them rallying around this.” Food banks will also get a number of free tickets to the annual gala to distribute to people who use their services.

This year’s event in Red Deer will include a 6 p.m. reception, followed by dinner and entertainment.

But the idea behind the musical evening remains the same as ever, said Jackson. “We want to create an entertaining evening of celebration that rediscovers the spirit of Christmas.”

It will feature a multi-media musical play starring singer/guitarist Jackson, along with Vancouver singer/percussionist Shannon Gaye and Bulgarian-born pianist Kristian Alexandrov.

The plot deals with mythical characters in modern times, who connect with the spirit of giving: A cat, a donkey, a little girl and an old Indian storyteller will share a secret.

“The story is one of a homeless guy who goes on a mystical journey…

There will be a lot of technical pieces and musical pieces,” said Jackson, who believes the effect on the audience will be magical.

The performer, who was once homeless himself, has a long history of altrusim. His latest album, Ballads Not Bullets will help support the Canadian

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Tom Jackson brings The Huron Carole to Red Deer on Dec. 4 at the Harvest Centre’s Marquis Room at the Westerner.

Red Cross. Tickets to the 6 p.m. gala are $204.20 from the Black Knight Tick-

et Centre. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Local author tackles inner vulnerabilities in new book

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer author Miji Campbell had a pretty great life — including a childhood that contained no abuse, “abductions” or other trauma.

Therefore, the mother of two didn’t understand why she was experiencing anxiety over everyday things — like driving on the highway or shopping in big-box stores. “I’d grown up in an era where you would try to have it all,” said Campbell. “You could have a career, you could have kids, and you’d keep it all together.”

Her emotional turmoil in her mid40s is one of the story threads in her memoir Separation Anxiety: A Comingof-Middle-Age Story.

Campbell, who teaches English at

Notre Dame High School, feels her book is more about self-searching than self-help. But it still seems to be helping others deal with their own vulnerabilities in middle age.

“Reaction to it is surprising. I didn’t know what to expect, but it’s better than I hoped,” said Campbell, who has heard people like her literary descriptions of growing up in Miji Campbell the 1960s and ’70s and her close relationship with her mother.

Many readers are also relating to

her years of wrestling with insomnia and increasing anxiousness. She believes these issues started to be problematic in her late 30s and built into a bigger concern over the next decade.

Campbell eventually came to grips with an anxiety disorder that she realized, in hindsight, had been plaguing her for her whole life. She said she found relief though talk therapy and medication.

But she also had to move past her childhood beliefs about family, career and marriage towards a more realistic viewpoint.

Separation Anxiety is described as “exploring the challenges and evolving priorities for women in each stage of life,” but Campbell has heard men also say they were moved by her “ordinary” story about being human.

Ironically, the memoir’s “ordinari-

ness” was a liability when Campbell tried shopping the book to Canada’s dwindling number of publishers, who loved her literary prose but were looking for more tragic or exotic stories.

The 55-year-old ended up partnering with Page Two Strategies, a company that helps authors produce non-fiction work “to the highest possible standard.” Then she independently published Separation Anxiety.

Campbell, who will read and sell copies of her book at 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 3 at the Timberlands branch of the Red Deer Public Library, hopes it continues to give readers enjoyment and insight into their own lives.

The memoir is available from Chapters or Amazon for $19.95, or $9.95 as an ebook. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Diverse offerings in First Friday openings

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Arts, crafts and abstract thoughts can be absorbed by viewers during the First Friday gallery openings for Red Deer.

Conversations in Crafts is an exhibit of artisan crafts, produced by members of the Red Deer Arts Council. It’s showing at the Kiwanis Gallery, downstairs at the Red Deer Public Library until Dec. 27. A reception for the group show, presented by the Arts Council, will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 4.

Red Deer artist Elena Rousseau created eclectic multi-media art that can be seen in Tonal Exercises in Abstract Thought at The Hub on Ross Street. The show runs to the end of December. But a reception will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday at 4936 Ross St. Clay works by Tara Lynne Franco and KJ McAlister are being displayed in #ClayChallenge at the Harris-Warke Gallery upstairs at Sunworks, 4924 Ross St. A reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday for the show that runs to Dec. 31.

The following art shows don’t have receptions, but can still be viewed this month: Scapes, Stills and Martha is a joint exhibit by painters David More, Doug Williamson and Vivian Bennett at the white gallery, connected to Sunworks.

Upstairs at Sunworks in The Coconut Room is Flower Talk— Full Bloom, abstract paintings by Jeri Lynn Ing. And the exhibit Crocky Rocky Prairie Fairy: Prints and Drawings by Red Deer-based artist Jim Westergard is on until Jan. 31 at the Red Deer and District Museum.

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Wintervoice choral concerts slated for next Saturday Songs of hope and peace will be heard at the Wintervoice choral concerts Saturday, Dec. 5, in Red Deer.

Two different concerts will be held on the same day at the First Christian Reform Church, 16 McVicar St. At 2 p.m., the ihana youth choir, Brioso junior and senior children’s choirs, and Soliloquy adult mixed chorus will perform. All are all under the direction of Lisa Ward.

At 7 p.m., ihana, Brioso (a brief part) and Soliloquy will perform again — this time with special guests from the Lindsay Thurber Chamber Choir, which is under the direction of Lisa Friesen.

Tickets for the afternoon concert are $15. Tickets for the evening performance are $20 at the door, or by calling 403-340-3249.

For more information about Wintervoice and the Choral Singers United Society choirs, please visit www. csusreddeer.com.

Hardcore-punk band to play Bo’s Bar and Grill The Cancer Bats are flying out on a cross-Canada tour that stops in Red Deer on Sunday, Dec. 6.

The Toronto hardcore-punk band will be performing tunes from its acclaimed fifth album, Searching For Zero, at Bo’s Bar and Grill.

The band made up of singer Liam Cormier, guitarist Scott Middleton, drummer Mike Peters, and bassist Jaye Schwarzer, has been nominated for numerous awards, including three Junos and a Metal Hammer Golden

Peeping Tom, colour lithograph by artist Jim Westergard an exhibit at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery by artist Jim Westergard.

God Award.

Averaging 300 shows a year, the Bats are considered among the hardest working musicians in Canada.

Tickets are $20 from Ticketfly or the venue. For more information about the show with, special guest Lord Dying, please call 403-309-2200.

Arrogant Worms bringing spoofy tunes to Lacombe The Arrogant Worms will serve up some spoofy music about being Canadian — and other things — on Saturday, Dec. 5, in Lacombe.

The trio that’s toured North America, the United Kingdom and Australia will perform irreverent rock, folk, country, and children’s tunes at a benefit concert for the Friends of Guatemala. Some Arrogant Worms songs that could be on the program are Canada’s Really Big, Me Like Hockey, We are the Beaver, I Am Not American, and Proud to Be Canadian.

The Ontario-based group — consisting of singer Trevor Strong, bassist/vocalist Chris Patterson, and guitarist/vocalist Mike McCormick — has released 14 CDs since forming in 1992, including SPACE from 2014.

The Worms will perform at 7 p.m. at St. Andrew’s United Church, 5226-51st Ave. Tickets are $35 from Sunny 94, the United Church office, or by calling Tom at 403-341-9348 or 403-782-2032.

First Thursday to feature jazz music from Downtown Some snappy, happy jazz music will be performed at the next First Thursday in the Snell concert.

The featured artist for December is local jazz group Downtown. The concert goes from 12:15 to 1 p.m. in the Snell Auditorium, downstairs at the Red Deer Public Library.

There is no admission charge, but donations will be accepted. Coffee and Tea will be provided by Cafe Noir.

Poland will not extradite Polanski to U.S.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WARSAW, Poland — Poland will not extradite Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski to the U.S. in an almost 40-year-old case after prosecutors declined to challenge a court ruling against the extradition request.

Prosecutors in Krakow, who had sought the extradition on behalf of the U.S., said Friday they found the court’s refusal of extradition to be “right” and said they found no grounds to appeal it.

A lawyer for Polanski, Jan Olszewski, said that Polanski’s reaction was of “great relief” and “satisfaction” that the irregularities in the U.S. procedure have been exposed. Polanski spoke to his lawyer over the phone

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from Paris, where he lives with his family.

The decision by the prosecutors closes the case in Poland and means Polanski, 82, is free to reside and work in Poland, where he grew up and studied filmmaking, and where he is preparing to make a new movie. Preparations for the movie were stalled by the arrest and extradition requests that the U.S. made last year. In 2011, Switzerland rejected a U.S. request to extradite Polanski.

The director pleaded guilty in 1977 to one count of unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl during a photo shoot in Los Angeles. In a deal with the judge, he served 42 days in prison, but then fled the U.S. fearing the judge would have him imprisoned again for much longer.

Teen star of The Good Dinosaur finds much to relate to in dino tale fears, Arlo has no choice but to tackle each obstacle as they come, which he learns to do with help from a wild and fearless two-legged critter — a grunting, wide-eyed cave boy — he dubs Spot. Ochoa says filming sad moments were the toughest part of the gig. But while the movie gets dark at times, Ochoa says even the littlest viewers can handle heavy storylines.

“There always has to be a movie that can touch you in some way … and (kids) can relate to it in their own ways,” he says. Ochoa says he knew he wanted to act for a living after booking his first commercial at age four.

“And then I saw Monsters Inc,” says Ochoa, whose other credits include working opposite Jim Carrey, Robin Wright and Gary Oldman in Disney’s A Christmas Carol, and voicing a Martian hatchling in Mars Needs Moms.

“I was six years old when I said: ‘I want to be in a Pixar movie.”’

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TORONTO — As the youngest boy in a family of five kids, actor Raymond Ochoa says he could easily relate to the anxieties of the animated hero he voices in The Good Dinosaur.

The 14-year-old provides the voice of 11-year-old Arlo, a knobby-kneed Apatosaurus who’s more fearful than fearsome, but desperate to find his place in the world and make his parents proud.

“He’s a big family person, the family relationship comes through his (siblings) and when they fight I can relate to it because I have three older brothers,” Ochoa said during a recent publicity stop in Toronto.

“But also he wants to make his parents proud and that’s a big thing of his and I want to make my parents proud.

That’s all I want to do.”

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Drunken hookup not something to laugh off your relationship.

Being intimate takes being vulnerable. In order to be vulnerable, you need to start with yourself, not him (that’s the biggest mistake you can make).

Start with what you can do. Focus on your role. Are you telling him, showing him and communicating what you want?

How can you show him what you want, what you need and what you’d like for him to do? Be willing to be honest. Remind him how attractive you find him. See where this takes you.

Make sure to start any suggestion with how much you desire him. If he’s open to learning and experimenting, you will find your answers in the bedroom. If not, you’ll find another person who can be your intimate partner.

Dear Harlan; My best friend has been dating a guy since junior prom.

Yes, a prom relationship.

He is one year older than we are.

They go to different schools, and I have heard rumors that he hasn’t been the most loyal.

I really don’t like him, and as her best friend, I know she can do better.

But he makes her happy. Do I say something? Is it worth it? She seems dead-set on this guy and I just don’t see why. — Blind Love Dear Blind; You heard rumors. Rumors are just stories based on, well, stories.

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TORONTO — It’s been three years since the first annual instalment of “Drake Night” at Air Canada Centre, but the Canadian rapper behind the event still can’t believe it’s happening.

Nor will he take much credit for it.

“This is surreal,” Toronto-born Drake said prior to the Raptors’ 103-99 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday night. “Even though it’s my name it’s something we always do for the city. We try to get the crowd up and create exciting moments. Yes it’s named after me but it’s definitely dedicated to the city of Toronto.”

Fans at the game were given free black and gold Drake-inspired t-shirts and headbands, which the rapper and his clothing line/record label OVO designed.

The 29-year-old has been involved with the Raptors for the past few seasons after being named a “global ambassador” for the team in 2013.

He even helped design the Raptors’ alternate gold and black jersey, new this season, which he unveiled at his OVO Fest concert in Toronto over the summer.

The team wore them against the Cavaliers on Wednesday night.

“I hope it lasts forever,” Drake said of his partnership with Canada’s only NBA team.

“Again, the Raptors are an institution in this city. I always like to be here to get the city excited.

“I’m a hometown boy.

I’ll never stop supporting. As long as we have

wonderful guys like Masai (Ujiri, the Raptors general manager) here, I’m sure the partnership will grow and blossom.”

Drake, who was at Staples Centre last week to watch the Raptors easily beat the lowly Lakers, said he wasn’t too concerned with the stiffer competition for Wednesday’s game.

That included Cavaliers superstar and fourtime league MVP LeBron James.

“LeBron’s like my brother,” Drake said.

“He’s one of my closest friends in the world. But tonight is about Toronto. I’m not really worried about LeBron or the Cavs. It’s about our city, our team. Right now, it’s a Raptors thing.”

One of many Canadians to dominate the Billboard charts recently — his latest single “Hotline Bling” is currently No. 3 on the Top 100 behind Adele’s “Hello” and Stratford, Ont., native Justin Bieber’s “Sorry” — Drake said he was thrilled to be able to watch a number of Canadians thriving in the NBA as well.

Three of them — Cavaliers forward Tristan Thompson, Raptors guard Cory Joseph and Raptors forward Anthony Bennett — were in uniform for Wednesday’s game.

“All good friends of mine — Tristan, Cory, Anthony,” Drake said. “I think basketball in Canada is growing as a whole and we’re all excited about it. I talk to Masai about it all the time.

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is doing or not doing. Here’s what you do know: You hate your friend’s boyfriend. That’s it.

The minute you tell your friend that her boyfriend is cheating is the moment she is going to have to make a choice. She can hate you for sharing a rumor about the boyfriend she loves, or she can hate her boyfriend for being part of a rumor.

My guess: You will lose. It’s impossible to compete against a junior-prom date and first love.

You can’t give your friend what her boyfriend is giving her. Until you know the facts, there’s nothing to share. I should mention that I can’t help but sense something else happening in your question.

You seem a little hurt, jealous or frustrated. Let me ask you two questions: Is she happy? Is she in danger?

If she’s happy, back off.

If she’s not in danger, back off. Focus on yourself. Do things you love to do. Meet people you love being around. Invite your friend along. Introduce her to more people. Help her create a life that has more in it. If she has more, she can see what you see.

There’s more to life than dating a guy who is only good enough.

Write Harlan at harlan(at)helpmeharlan.com or visit online: www.helpmeharlan.com. All letters submitted become property of the author. Send paper to Help Me, Harlan!, 3501 N. Southport Ave., Suite 226, Chicago, IL 60657.

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Dear Harlan; I told my friends I You’re living in a world I call “rethought I was assaulted when I was alantasy.” It’s somewhere between reblackout drunk and they laughed it ality and fantasy. It’s a place where off, saying it was just another drunken you choose to avoid facing reality behookup. cause the fantasy is so much more exI don’t feel that way, and can’t even citing. Reality is scary. Realantasy is look at the kid on campus. How do I get safer. my friends to take what I’m saying seWant to get out of it and start living riously? — Assaulted But life? Break up with him! I’m Not Supported serious. You need to break Dear Assaulted; I’m so up with your emotional lover. sorry this happened to No one can get phyiscally you. I’m sorry your friends close to you because you’ve aren’t giving you the supgot another man glued to port you need. your side. No one can get Here’s what you need to emotionally close to you behear: When you can’t say cause you’re unavailable and “yes,” it’s NOT consent. are making unfair compariWhen you don’t remember sons. saying “yes” because you Breaking up doesn’t mean were too drunk, it’s NOT you need to avoid him; it consent. When you black means you need to face the HARLAN out, you cannot give confact that this isn’t a romanCOHEN sent. tic relationship. It means you HELP ME HARLAN This isn’t another need to do things with other drunken hookup to laugh people in other places. But about. This is sexual asfirst, to give yourself emosault. You need to talk to the right peo- tional distance, you’re going to need ple. The right people are trained to un- more people in your corner. derstand, identify and support surviYou will have to intentionally put vors. The right people will support you yourself in more places where you can and help you find the places where build new relationships. Find more you can be supported. These include friends by sweating, playing and praya therapist, counselor, other survivors, ing with more people. Date more men. parents, trained spiritual leaders and Date lots of men. And stop comthe right friends. paring these dates to something that Not all friends are equipped to lis- isn’t real. It’s not fair to you, or to your ten. Some get scared. Some don’t know friendship. how to react. This is why you need to Dear Harlan; How do I tell my boyuse campus resources, support groups, friend he’s awful in bed? I like him websites for survivors, hotlines, wom- as a person and love hanging out with en’s centers and places where you can him, but he is the worst kisser, and find unconditional love and support. only lasts about three minutes. It’s just Facing this will be difficult. awful. I don’t want to completely end Remember that you have all the it and not talk to him, since I enjoy his power. Finding the right people and company until it gets physical. Is there using the resources available to you a nice way to try to adjust things? — will help you stay empowered. No one Too Fast is EVER allowed to do this to you.

Dear Too Fast; This is either the beReach out to the right people. They are ginning of an awesome sexual advenwaiting to help, support and empower ture or the end of this relationship. you.

This is intimacy.

Dear Harlan; My best friend hapIntimacy is having real conversapens to be of the opposite sex. tions about sensitive issues, with the We have been there for each other possibility of real consequences. It’s for seven years. I compare the guys I the stuff that either brings you closer date to him. He is what I want in a guy, together or causes you to grow apart. but I feel zero attraction to him. Help!

Intimacy is having conversations — Stuck about secrets from your past, hurt feelDear Stuck; No one can compare to ings, sloppy kissing and bad sex (but him because he’s not real; he’s perfect. don’t call it “bad”).

You are dating a man who isn’t datIt’s knowing that your partner trusts ing you. This is an emotional relation- you and that you trust your partner. If ship without the physical contact. It’s there is no intimacy in a relationship, safe. It’s predictable. But it’s not real. it’s hard to talk about the real issues in

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This photo provided by CBS Films and Lionsgate shows, Amanda Seyfried, from left, as Ruby, Jake Lacy, as Joe, Olivia Wilde, as Eleanor, Maxwell Simkins, as Bo, Blake Baumgartner, as Madison, John Goodman, as Sam, Ed Helms, as Hank, Alan Arkin, as Bucky, Diane Keaton as Charlotte, and Alex Borstein (back to camera), in Love the Coopers, released by CBS Films and Lionsgate.

Hollywood searches for new Xmas classics If there’s a checklist for holiday fare, it would include “snow, and family, and a little bit of magic,” says Rogers.

But film programmer Jesse Wente points to a marked tonal change that distinguishes modern-day favourites from days of yore.

“Whether it was Scrooge or Miracle on 34th Street or Holiday Inn or any of the ones that I loved, they are pretty Pollyanna,” says Wente, a programmer at Toronto’s TIFF Bell Lightbox theatre where more offbeat offerings this year include Black Christmas and Gremlins.

“They’re pretty hopeful and the good always wins out and they’re very respectful of the holidays, which I think is pretty reflective of the time. When those movies were made, Christmas probably had an even tighter relationship to Christianity and those sort of religious connotations.”

Flash forward to Love the Coopers, which includes an atheist character, and The Night Before, which features Rogen as a drugged-out father-to-be tearing through New York with a giant star of David emblazoned on his Christmas sweater.

Krampus, meanwhile, upends the genre altogether by focusing on the antithesis of Santa Claus — a Christmas demon who terrorizes a family, led by To-

TORONTO — The test of a truly great Christmas movie is not in its opening weekend, it’s in the years that follow.

It’s with that understanding that Love the Coopers writer Steven Rogers will evaluate how his ensemble family flick does, noting it’s the film’s afterlife that will really determine whether he has a hit on his hands.

“Absolutely (making an enduring favourite is) what you aspire to,” says Rogers in a recent interview from Los Angeles, listing some of the Christmas-themed films that have become personal staples over the years.

“I remember watching It’s a Wonderful Life when I was really young for the first time and just going around to everyone saying, ‘Do people know about this?’ I thought it was the most remarkable movie.”

The canon of beloved holiday fare is deep and diverse, with well-worn family faves including Miracle on 34th Street, Home Alone and A Christmas Story and newer entries like Elf and Frozen. Meanwhile, more tangential Christmas-set flicks like Die Hard and In Bruges have staked their claim to audiences looking to escape overly cloying fare.

But that hasn’t stopped Hollywood from trying to create a new holiday classic year after year, and there’s a bevy of contenders this season including the Seth Rogen comedy The Night Before and the upcoming horror flick Krampus. Meanwhile, the Canadian spine-chiller A Christmas Horror Story continues a theatrical roll-out to Edmonton, Ottawa and Saskatoon on Dec. 11 in addition to its recent DVD release.

“You always hope that your holiday movie will become a classic because then it can be the gift that keeps on giving every year when people go to seek it out and download it or buy it,” says box office analyst Paul Dergarabedian.

But Scrooged scribe Mitch Glazer says it’s not easy to craft a holiday tale, noting it can easily veer into saccharine territory if you’re not careful.

“You don’t want to be cynical and sentimental — meaning manipulative in a crass way — but you are dealing with the Christmas season,” says Glazer, who scored a holiday classic with his 1988 adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol, starring Bill Murray as a pompous TV boss.

“That’s why we felt confident having A Christmas Carol as the basis for Scrooged, this kind of eternal, perfect Dickensian structure and the three ghosts.

It had a real rock-solid proven (premise), and then it has a real hard edge to it, given the season and all.”

Catherine O’Hara says making a Christmas classic all comes down to the story, in explaining the enduring appeal of Home Alone, in which she played the panicked mom to Macaulay Culkin’s eight-year-old Kevin, who is left behind during Christmas vacation.

“There is something really special about empowering children to feel like when everything falls apart they can actually still — not only survive — but be the hero,” says O’Hara, whose film marks its 25th anniversary this year.

Story has to be paramount, agrees Glazer, noting that’s how he and his longtime pal Murray approached Scrooged.

“I’m not exactly sure what the chemistry is of it but I do know that we had faith that the story was going to end up in an emotional place so we had the freedom to be as funny and dark and black as we could be,” says Glazer, who recently reunited with Murray for Netflix’s GREAT THINGS upcoming musical special A Very Murray Christmas, premiering Dec. 4.

ni Collette and Adam Scott.

That harder premise could help the film extend its appeal beyond the typical family crowd and into the non-Christmas period, says Dergarabedian, a senior analyst with the film and TV audience tracker Rentrak.

Selling a Christmas movie’s ability to survive beyond the season is key.

When pitching Love the Coopers, Rogers says he found some studios feared a Christmas movie narrowed the audience too much.

“A lot of countries don’t celebrate Christmas so that cuts them out, supposedly. But I think (the film is) about family, so I didn’t necessarily agree with that,” he says.

Any calculated approach to create the next big holiday classic, with guaranteed TV airings every year, is doomed to fail, says Wente.

“As soon as you decide, ‘I’m going to make a cult classic,’ you are immediately opted out of ever making a cult classic,” he says, citing the 2011 Garry Marshall film New Year’s Eve as smacking of that kind of artifice.

“Cult classics are something defined by the audience.”

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Husband needs to cut off contact with former mistress her evil head with some drama that she must speak to him about.

He has her numbers blocked, but she will call him at work or use another phone with a number that he doesn’t recognize.

Every time she gets ahold of him, it sets back our progress.

She sends him cards and emails, and puts notes on his car because she is so “in love” with him.

I have contacted her and told her to butt out of our marriage. She accused me of harassment and said she would call the police.

Our marriage is hanging by a thread, and this woman keeps showing up even though my husband has told her numerous times that it is over.

She tore her own family apart a few years ago when she cheated with her fitness trainer and now she wants to do the same to ours.

How can I get her to leave us alone?

— Frustrated Wife Dear Wife: If your husband truly wants this woman to stop contacting him, he can arrange it. She is the one

HOROSCOPES Saturday, Nov. 28 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Judd Nelson, 55; Ed Harris, 64; Jon Stewart, 52 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Strive to be kind, creative and compassionate today.

H A P P Y BIRTHDAY: Jupiter blesses professional projects and adventurous career moves up until September. So make the most of your lucky stars!

A R I E S (March 21-April 20): Your head JOANNE MADELINE tells you to MOORE knuckle down SUN SIGNS and catch up on work, while your heart longs to escape into delicious daydreams. And remember — the first idea you have may not necessarily be the best one.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s time to put your Taurus talents to work within your neighbourhood. Plus today’s stars are fabulous for communicating with like-minded souls in your local community.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you think you know how a loved one is feeling, then you may be way off the mark.

And don’t believe everything you hear today — someone may be spinning you a yarn.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Expect a roller coaster ride, as your emotions go up and down in rapid succession.

A colleague or loved one may let you down, but don’t be too hard on them.

They have a lot on their plate.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you take on too much today, you’ll end up feeling stressed and grumpy. You’re not indispensable, and you don’t have all the answers! Pace yourself, prioritize — and learn to say no.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Just when you thought you had a loved one worked out, they’ll turn around and do something that completely confuses you.

Strive to be less critical and much more compassionate.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Make the most of mighty Mars moving through your sign. Be proactive about initiating

projects — and then see them through with plenty of passion, purpose and persistence.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpios can be stubborn and incredibly intractable. But today’s stars favour being more open to shifting circumstances. So start flexing your adaptability muscles right now!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’ve got big plans and even grander dreams, as you talk things up with confidence and enthusiasm. You have noble intentions, but don’t promise more than you can actually deliver.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Life’s hectic as you juggle home and work with Capricorn chutzpah. But if you don’t think before you speak, then it will be very easy to upset a family member who has different views to you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Make sure you allow a close friend plenty of freedom today Aquarius. You’re keen to help them sort things out, but they need to find their own way — and make their own mistakes.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Expect some communication problems Pisces — especially if your unpredictable emotions overwhelm your rational thoughts.

Balancing intuition and intellect is the wise way to go.

Sunday, Nov. 29 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Don Cheadle, 50; Kim Delaney, 53; Lauren German, 36 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Things will become more muddled and confusing as the day develops.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You have the power to influence others in positive and negative ways. So strive to keep your personal influence as beneficial as possible.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Have you been so busy you’ve been neglecting your friends? It’s the perfect day to pick up where you left off with a close mate. There’s so much news — and gossip — to catch up on.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Singles — Neptune is confusing your judgment, so it will be hard to differentiate between a dream date and a disappointing dud.

Avoid making decisions until you are thinking more rationally.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Avoid accepting things at face value today Twins — check the facts first. It’s a great eve-

doing the harassing, not you. Nonetheless, you should not be responding to her at all. Cards from her should be unopened and marked “return to sender.” If your husband accidentally picks up one of her phone calls, he should hang up immediately.

Her emails should go directly into his spam folder.

Notes on his car should be tossed into the garbage unread.

He should not engage her in conversation of any kind because she interprets it as encouragement.

If your husband needs an order of protection to keep this obsessive woman away, he should take steps to get one.

As long as she thinks he is still susceptible, she will continue to pursue him.

And if he refuses to do these things, his commitment to your marriage is not as strong as you believe.

Dear Annie: I can relate to the letter from “Struggling in New York,” whose wife kept sabotaging her weight-loss efforts, gradually becoming less active

in their lives. You said she sounded depressed.

I had the same problem with weight loss and relationships. My husband and I discussed it, and we thought I might have a self-destruct switch in my brain. It turned out I was deeply depressed. I went to a therapist and also had weight-loss surgery. It helped. I’ve lost nearly 200 pounds, and I have continued with my psychotherapy. It turns out I have many problems to deal with.

My life is better now. Medication and therapy are helping, and I talk to my husband regularly.

There are still some problems, but all and all, things have improved. — In His Name

ning to socialize at home as the planets boost your desire to connect and converse with others.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t assume others know what you are thinking, and how you are feeling. Clear communication is essential today Crabs — otherwise there’ll be mix-ups and misunderstandings.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Avoid being seduced by surface gloss and outer appearances today Lions. If you look beneath the surface, you’ll discover what’s really going on. Plus don’t promise more than you can deliver.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): If you want to shop more, then you’ll have to generate more income! So Mars encourages you to be proactive about increasing your cash flow. Friends and family are a messy mix today.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you’ve got a lot of things to do today Libra then write out a list, and prioritize the importance of each task. Otherwise you’ll just end up feeling overwhelmed and confused.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You won’t feel like being particularly social today Scorpio so tackle individual projects, and catch up on unfinished business.

Plus listen to what your intuition is telling you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You may feel a bit down and confused but don’t take negative feelings too seriously. Concentrate on solo projects and postpone making personal decisions until you’re feeling more positive.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Money matters are on your mind. When it comes to joint finances, don’t overlook important details. The more research you do, and the more up-to-date you are, the more benefits you’ll reap.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Don’t jump to hasty conclusions or take things literally today — all is not as it seems.

Search for the grey areas and the hidden meanings behind people’s words, actions and motivations.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Sun/Neptune square may leave you feeling exhausted and confused. So don’t plan anything too demanding today.

You need to time to clear your mind as you rest and rejuvenate.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Three paintings by Group of Seven artist Lawren Harris shattered pre-sale estimates and sold for $9.5 million Thursday night at the Heffel Fine Art Auction House fall sale in Toronto.

His top-selling canvas, entitled Mountain and Glacier, set an auction record for the artist and sold for $4.6 million, far above the expected $1.5 million.

The auction house said the 157 works offered at its semi-annual sale sold for a combined $23.4 million to set a Canadian record for a fine art auction.

Experts had anticipated a total closer to between $10 million and $15 million.

“Our 20th year of live auctions has been particularly gratifying, thanks to Lawren Harris’s remarkable momentum,” said auction house president David Heffel.

“It’s rewarding to participate in the growth of the international art market and share sought-after masterpieces with the public as they pass through one set of hands to the next.”

Another canvas by the Brantford, Ont., native, Winter Landscape, had a pre-sale estimate as high as $1.6 million, but sold for $3.6 million. The third Harris painting, Winter in the Ward, fetched just over $1.1 million — well over the pre-auction estimate of up to $700,000.

Including these sales, Heffel has now sold works

by Harris totalling $63.8 million.

Harris, who died in 1970, has been in the news lately after entertainer Steve Martin, a noted art collector, curated a collection of his paintings at Los Angeles’ Hammer Museum.

Martin spent three years putting together the 32 pieces in The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris.

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This woman knew me and my family, and that we were happy, but it didn’t stop the homewrecker KATHY MITCHELL from pursuing AND MARCY SUGAR my husband until he gave ANNIE’S MAILBOX in. I realize he is just as guilty as she is, and could have said “no” at any time.

But he realized what a huge mistake he made, and we decided to get counseling and salvage our marriage.

The problem is, the mistress rears

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Super pantry KITCHEN WISH LISTS WANT THEM WALK-IN – AND WIRED

BY MELISSA KOSSLER DUTTON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Teresa Keller used to joke that she was pantry-challenged. She often relied on a flashlight to search the deep, dark cupboard that held her canned goods and other food items.

When she and her husband, Dave, decided to build their new home, a proper pantry was a priority.

“I brought it up to the builder,” said Teresa Keller, who moved into the new house in October. “I told them I’ve got to have this.”

The Kellers’ new “super pantry” is a walk-in, with plenty of quality shelving to store drinks, trash bags and other household goods bought in bulk. One shelf is dedicated to snacks for the grandchildren. A small door connects it to the garage, so groceries can be unloaded easily.

“At a certain price point, it’s what people are expecting — more storage,” said Ed Snodgrass, vice-president of P&D Builders in Delaware, Ohio, which built the Kellers’ house.

Many new homeowners are asking for larger pantries, said Kermit Baker, chief economist Open floor plans, for the American Inbuilding costs and stitute of Architects in Washington, D.C. In big-box stores, where a recent survey by the people buy cases of group, 43 per cent of water and a month’s residential architects worth of paper towels, reported that customare driving the trend. ers placed an increased Besides storing food, emphasis on pantry some of the newer, space. bigger pantries offer Besides storing food, storage for china and some of the newer, bigserving pieces that are ger pantries offer storused just a few times age for china and serving pieces that are used a year. Some include just a few times a year. spaces for toasting Some include spacbread, brewing coffee es for toasting bread, and chilling wine. brewing coffee and Others have spots for chilling wine. Others laptops, or sinks for have spots for laptops, prepping food and or sinks for prepping washing pets. food and washing pets.

Open floor plans, building costs and bigbox stores, where people buy cases of water and months’ worth of paper towels, are driving the trend, industry experts said.

“The ‘super’ pantry is a backlash to the open floor plan,” said Amy Beth Cupp Dragoo, an interior designer who works in New York City and Litchfield County, Connecticut. “People have been living in the open concept house long enough now to know that if the kitchen is messy, the whole place feels messy.”

Pantries allow them to stow kitchen items out of sight.

Homeowners no longer feel the need to leave their high-end mixers and coffee makers on the counter, added Bob Vila, the longtime home-improvement TV show host who now dispenses advice at www.bobvila.com .

“There was a generation for whom all of these things were brand new luxuries and they wanted to show them off,” he said.

Now the emphasis is on decluttering.

Builder Michael Menghini gets more and more requests for electrical outlets in pantries. “People want to leave their appliances out, they just don’t want to leave them on their counters,” said Menghini, president of Covenant Custom Homes in Overland

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In this photo provided by Crown Point Cabinetry, ample counter space and open shelving with decorative brackets create a functional corner pantry with a place for everything.

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Storing appliances, large pots and serving pieces in a walk-in pantry also saves money, Vila said. It’s cheaper to install open shelving in a pantry than to build more kitchen cabinets, which require counter tops and hardware.

“I have been a booster of the concept of pantries for as long as I can remember,” he said. “It minimizes the amount of money spent on kitchen cabinets.”

In older homes, finding space for pantries can be difficult. Many layouts will not accommodate them.

One idea is to create space by installing kitchen cabinets that stretch all the way to the ceiling, Vila said. Even if they are hard to reach, they can hold things you don’t use regularly. Another option: Add cupboards in the garage for appliances and non-food items.

Pantries aren’t just for food any more, as homeowners are storing serving pieces, coolers and other household items in the space. Industry experts say organized pantries like this one designed by California Closets help people keep the kitchen looking neat and tidy.

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ABOVE LEFT: Advent tree. Heres a special advent tree for DIYers that can be refilled every year.

ABOVE RIGHT: End Cap Wreath

Handmade giving When someone shares end caps as well as decotheir passion for cook- rative elements. ing, or decorating, or Putnam describes her making something from Advent Tree shown here nothing it always excites as taking the pressure me. Enthusiasm is conta- off making an Advent gious, it produces sparks Calendar year after year; of energy once its made that radiate, it will beand enrichcome a fames the lives ily favourite, of all those it reappearing touches. I am with differalways temptent treats ed by new for years to ideas and just come. Lay out discovered a 25 buckets great book, with openDIY Rustic ings onto a Modern Metal board in a Crafts, writtriangular DEBBIE ten by a womtree shape, TRAVIS an with such and cut the HOUSE TO HOME a passion for board to fit. upcycling galPaint the vanized metal board white, objects that you will find or your preferred colour them in every room of and let dry. her home.

Start at the base, line Laura Putnam began up five buckets, and atas a blogger, writing tach each one to the about what she loved wood at the top of the doing and how to gather bucket with a sheet metthe bits and pieces that al screw and screw gun. make a home truly yours. Once the tree is comIf you are looking for a plete, add numbers from new outlet for your cre- 1 to 25 starting at the top ative energy, or simply with scrapbook number want to explore different stickers. ways to upcycle using Fill the buckets with metals, there are 35 clev- a variety of treats: caner ideas to inspire you. dy, small toys, a note or To start at the begin- poem, a tree decoration, ning, galvanized metal whatever suits. is iron or steel that has As a gift or for your been coated in a layer of own home, a personalzinc to protect the metal ized wreath is a special from the elements, and way to celebrate any seathus holds rust at bay. son of the year, or even When searching out birthdays and annivermetal objects for a proj- saries. ect, Putnam describes You’ll find stove pipe both vintage and new end caps at hardware galvanized materials, stores. and where to look for They are designed to them, which is an essen- close out the end of stove tial guide to the numer- piping and come in mulous project ideas she tiple sizes to fit different describes and illustrates sized pipes. with step-by-step photos.

They are round and These include sheet met- Putnam shows their useal, buckets, feeding ves- fulness in many ways sels, strap iron and stove making candles, plant-

NEWS IN BRIEF

U.S. home prices rise by most in more than a year, pushed higher by dwindling supply U.S. home prices rose in September from a year earlier at the fastest pace in 13 months as a lack of houses for sale has forced buyers to bid up available properties. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index, released Tuesday, increased 5.5 per cent in September compared with a year ago, the largest annual gain since August 2014.

Steady job gains and low mortgage rates have propelled a solid rebound in home sales, which are on track to reach the highest level since 2007. The unemployment rate fell to 5 per cent in October as employers added the most jobs since December. Borrowing costs have ticked up but remain below 4 per cent, a low level historically.

San Francisco reported the largest annual home price increase, at 11.2 per cent, followed by Denver at 10.9 per cent. Portland had the third largest gain, at 10.1 per cent. All 20 cities surveyed reported higher prices than a year earlier. On a monthly basis, prices rose 0.2 per cent in September from August. Prices rose in seventeen of 20 cities from the previous month. They fell in Chicago, Cleveland and Washington, D.C. Sales of existing homes, while improving, have been volatile this year. They slipped in October after a healthy jump the previous month, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Overall, home sales have increased 3.9 per cent in the past 12 months. At the same time, the number of available homes has fallen 4.5 per cent. That squeeze has pushed up prices. The typical home sold for $219,600 last month, up nearly 6 per cent from a year ago, the Realtors group said Monday.

ing, and for this wreath.

The base is an 18-inch MDF wreath form.

Two sizes of end caps are used, 9x3-inch and 5x4-inch, and are attached to the base with heavy duty craft glue designed for metal.

The caps are then filled with your choice of curios chosen by theme, shells from the seaside, small Christmas ornaments, or family photos cut to size and fitted into the caps.

Find out how to make a feed pan clock, a milk can table lamp, galvanized mirror frame, leaf wreath and lanterns, toy storage container and other unique ideas. You can discover more about Laura Putnam, her blog, her book and her family business at www.findinghomefarms.com.

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Mercerau......... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550 .............................. Vanier Woods East 6 Thompson Crescent .... ....12:00 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. p.m. ..Aaron .. Aaron .............................. LAEBON HOMES ................................ 396-4016 .............................. Timberstone 22 Tindale Place ...............12:00 ............... 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. p.m. ..Samantha .. Samantha ...................... LAEBON HOMES ................................ 392-6261 .............................. The Timbers

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28 - OUT OF TOWN 49 Westview Crescent .... ....10:30 10:30 – 12:30 p.m. ... ...Kim Kim Fox .......................... CENTURY 21, ADVANTAGE.............

ADVANTAGE............. 346-0021 .... $270,000....... Blackfalds 9 Mackenzie Avenue ...... ......2:00 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. .....Chris ..... Chris Forsyth ................ MAXWELL, REAL ESTATE SOLUTIONS ... 391-8141 .... $409,900....... Lacombe 4273 Ryders Ridge Blvd.

Blvd. ....1:00 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Lyle .... Lyle Kellington ............ MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2231 .............................. Sylvan Lake #E4, 5300 Vista Trail .........1:00 ......... 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Debra .... Debra Grabo ................ TRICON DEVELOPMENTS ............... 396-1688 ... ...$219,900 $219,900....... Blackfalds 129 Mann Drive ................1:00 ................ 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.. p.m.. ....Jocelyn .... Jocelyn ........................... LAEBON HOMES ................................ 302-9612 .............................. Penhold

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 - RED DEER 144 Ireland Crescent....... .......1:00 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. .....Christina ..... Christina Courte.......... CENTURY 21, ADVANTAGE.............

ADVANTAGE............. 505-6194 .... $389,900....... Inglewood West 231 Wiley Crescent ..........2:00 .......... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Eduardo .... Eduardo Haro...............

Haro............... SUTTON LANDMARK ....................... 347-0751 .............................. Westlake 20 Valentine Crescent .... ....1:00 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Len .... Len Parsons .................. REMAX .................................................. 343-3020 .... $619,900....... Vanier Woods 15 Bannerman Close ...... ......2:00 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Garth .... Garth Olson .................. REMAX .................................................. 340-9110 .... $999,000....... Bower South 62 Arnold Close ................1:00 ................ 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Kim .... Kim Argent ................... REMAX .................................................. 343-3020 .... $274,900....... Aspen Ridge 35 Lawford Ave.................1:30 ................. 1:30 – 4:00 p.m. ....Dale .... Dale Stuart .................... COLDWELL BANKER, ON TRACK .. 302-3107 .... $329,900....... Lonsdale 50 Jenner Crescent Crescent.......... ..........1:00 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. ...Robert ... Robert Annable .......... CENTURY 21, ADVANTAGE.............

ADVANTAGE............. 377-5210 .............................. Johnstone Crossing 8 Halladay Avenue ..........2:00 .......... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Larry .... Larry Hastie .................. ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ........... 550-3984 .............................. Highland Green Estates 90 Maxwell Avenue ........2:00 ........ 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Doug .... Doug Wagar ................. ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ........... 304-2747 .... $367,900....... Morrisroe Extension 85 Tyson Crescent............2:00 ............ 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Bett .... Bett Portelance ........... CENTURY 21, ADVANTAGE.............

ADVANTAGE............. 307-5581 .... $559,900....... Timber Ridge 191 Adams Close .............2:00 ............. 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Kendra .... Kendra Footz ............... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ........... 346-8900 ... $599,900....... Anders South 105 Lalor Drive .................1:00 ................. 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Kyle .... Kyle Lygas ..................... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550 .............................. Laredo 68 Vancouver Crescent ....1:00 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ...Jessica ... Jessica Mercerau.........

Mercerau......... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550 .............................. Vanier Woods East 6 Thompson Crescent .... ....12:00 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. ..Aaron .. Aaron .............................. LAEBON HOMES ................................ 396-4016............................... Timberstone 22 Tindale Place ...............12:00 ............... 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. ..Samantha .. Samantha ...................... LAEBON HOMES ................................ 392-6261............................... The Timbers

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 - OUT OF TOWN 161 Westridge ...................2:00 ................... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Carol .... Carol Clark..................... COLDWELL BANKER, ON TRACK .. 350-4919 .............................. Red Deer County 28241 Hwy 596.................2:00 ................. 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. p.m. .... Carol Clark.................... COLDWELL BANKER, ON TRACK .. 350-4919 .............................. Red Deer County 2711-209 Hwy 597 Burbank ..12:00 .. 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. .Steven . Steven Cormack.......... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ........... 391-1672 .............................. Blackfalds 4273 Ryders Ridge Blvd. 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ...Lyle ... Lyle Kellington ............ MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2231 .............................. Sylvan Lake #E4, 5300 Vista Trail .........1:00 ......... 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. .... Debra Grabo ............... TRICON DEVELOPMENTS ............... 396-1688 ... ...$219,900 $219,900....... Blackfalds 129 Mann Drive ................1:00 ................ 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. .....Jocelyn ..... Jocelyn ........................... LAEBON HOMES ................................ 302-9612............................... Penhold

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Country-style living-dining room

A — It sounds to me like you are well on your way towards creating the type of look you want.

A country style is most often described as a comfortable, casual and eclectic mix of pieces that take their cue from the furnishings, finishes and fabrics found typically in a 19th century farm house.

In North America, the furniture was mostly built with the ubiquitous pine,

the most common and available wood.

Historically, these pieces were usually painted in milky colours, or they were stained (and “grained”) to emulate other woods.

Often, finely crafted family heirlooms were interspersed with these pine pieces, some of them in rich mahogany or cherry wood, so a few of these would not be out of place in a room like yours.

Colours were not particularly subtle, mostly primary and secondary shades, and tended towards a combination of earth tones and the natural dyes and milk paints that were available during that era.

Fabrics varied from the rough homespun to the polished cotton and chintz.

Geometric patterns and floral motifs predominate this style, but other non-luxury fabrics and simple prints were also be used.

What gives a country style its warm appeal is the variety of fabrics and the harmonious use of a number of different prints.

I would say that your space is large enough to accommodate more seating than you currently have.

I have shown your two wing-back chairs in a classic pose, one flanking each side of the fireplace.

I have, however, shown your love seat replaced with a full size sofa, with a goal to seating at least six, and possibly more, using occasional chairs.

The typical harvest table is long and narrow As such, your dining area can easily manage a seating for eight, with room left for a buffet.

The cream and hunter green combination will work well to emphasize architectural lines, underscoring the woodwork around doors and windows.

While the cream and hunter green check is a good choice for the draperies, I would not advise using that same pattern elsewhere.

Generally, the key is to mixing fabric patterns is to use the larger patterns on the larger expanses.

For example, you can use a larger pattern on the draperies than on the sofa and a larger pattern on the sofa than on the wing back chairs, etc.

For added visual excitement, consider mixing some scarlet red into the room’s colour scheme instead of relying solely on the greens and creams in your colour palette.

Remember, a successfully executed country style depends on an eclectic mix.

If necessary, you might also choose to mix some modern accent pieces into the space provided they feature simple, clean lines that complement, rather than compete for attention with your antique pieces.

Although not a huge space, this reader’s living-dining room is nevertheless amply sized to accommodate most of her existing furniture and, more importantly, most of the items on her “wish list.” to David at: david.ferguson@hotmail.ca.

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Q — I hope you will be able to help me with a project that I have ongoing in my living-dining room combination, and which I am determined to finish before Christmas.

I have always been partial to a country theme, and have been working to create an air of authenticity, rather than the “manufactured” look that we see so often.

The room is carpeted in a sage green colour.

Like many of these rooms in townhouses DAVID like mine, it is FERGUSON L-shaped, and not particularCREATIVE SPACE ly large.

I really do not have enough seating here for the type entertaining I frequently do.

If I decide to put a television in the room, it will most likely go above the fireplace where I have had the appropriate wiring located.

In the dining room, I would like to use my antique buffet, and my harvest table with seating for eight, six if that’s impossible.

I have three quality seating pieces that I would like to re-use, including two large wing back chairs and a love seat sofa.

I would like to reupholster them in a corduroy fabric, and I am partial to hunter green colour.

The walls will be repainted with a nice yellow-cream tone, and any trim on the main level in white cream.

I am making my own draperies with a green and cream check fabric.

They will be a simple French plait (pleat) style on a wooden rod.

I did, at one time, think of covering the wing back chairs in the same material, but I’m pretty sure that is an old fashioned idea.

I often go to auctions and have bought a few end tables, none of which match, as well as a hand-painted blanket box and pie cupboard.

Not all of these pieces have to be incorporated.

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PETERSON Doreen Joyce 1926 - 2015 Doreen Joyce Peterson passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Thursday, November 26, 2015 at the age of 89 years. Doreen was born in Edmonton on August 26, 1926 and grew up in the Mellowdale and Barrhead areas. Doreen, lovingly known as Oma, was an adventurous cook who delighted her family with her detailed meals and desserts. Her warm Celebrations bread fresh from the oven, HAPPY 6th BIRTHDAY cookies and cabbage rolls TOMORROW ZAC! were anticipated favorites.

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Always ready for adventure, Love Grandma and Papa, Doreen and Vern loved aunty and cousins Yolanda, travelling the world, her Becky, Amanda, second favorite destination being cousins Jasper and Asher.

Hawaii. Doreen was a talented seamstress and crafter, always creating special gifts for her Over 2,000,000 family. Doreen will be lovingly remembered by her husband hours of 58 years, Vernon; her four St. John Ambulance children: Brian (Sharon), Brenda, Carole (Ron) volunteers provide Villeneuve, and Gordon Canadians with more (Shannon); six grandchildren; than 2 million hours ten great-grandchildren; as well as her sister, Shirley of community service (Tom) Roddick; and her each year. brother, Howard (Carmen) Bender. She was predeceased by her first husband, Thomas Richmond (1955); brother George; grandson Ben; and parents: Matthew and Grace Bender. The family would like to thank the staff of the Red Deer Regional Hospital for the care and comfort they provided Doreen in her last days. A Memorial Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer, on Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Memorial donations in Doreen’s honour may be made directly to the Heart & Stroke Foundation, 202, 5913 - 50 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 4C4. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

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HUDSON EDITH Edith was born Feb. 9th 1911, passed away Nov. 24th 2015 at her residence in Royal Oak Manor Lacombe.

In recent years she was known as Edie, the lady who was always cheerful, concerned for others and lived one day at a time. At birth she was Edith Violetta Adams, 6th of 10 children.

She married Aug. 20 1932, became Mrs. Alfred Hudson (also known as Baldy) who was born at Garrington. They lived on a small farm at Garrington from 1933 to 1965. Their 4 children were born there, and are still living, Helen (Gordon) Clark, Shirley Crouch, both of Courtenay B.C., Eunice (Robert) Kullman of Haynes east of Red Deer, and Ken (Joan) Hudson of Medicine Hat. There are many grandchildren, great grandchildren, greatgreat grandchildren and because of a recent marriage, great-great-great grandchildren.

Edith was pre-deceased by her husband Alfred Oct. 22 1982, all of his brothers and sisters, also all of her brothers and sisters; two sons-in-law, Clare Brown (Helen) and Jim Crouch (Shirley). No service will be held at this time, because of winter travel and other family concerns. There will be a full memorial service on July 10th 2016. At that time close family will place Mom’s ashes with Dad’s casket in the Bowden Cemetery. Time and place of memorial will be published. Those who wish to donate in Edith’s memory may do so to any Hospice or charity of your choice.

HEARTLAND FUNERAL SERVICES LTD. INNISFAIL entrusted with arrangements.

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40 hrs/wk. Flexible time including weekends. Must have at least 1 - 2 yrs. food service exp. Email resume allan_barker25@yahoo.ca or apply in person @ 9, 6791 50 Ave. Red Deer.

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ROOFING LTD. Duties: bath, dress, feed, Requires meal prep, light housekeeping. $12-$16.00/hr. 44 SLOPED ROOFERS hrs. per wk. Completion of LABOURERS high school, 1-2 yrs. exp. & FLAT ROOFERS Call 403-754-3369 or email anderson-christine@ Valid Driver’s Licence hotmail.com Optional preferred. Fax or email accommodation avail. at info@goodmenroofing.ca no charge on a live-in or (403)341-6722 basis. Note: This is not a NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! condition of employment.

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AB. is looking to fill the $11.50/hr. 44 hrs./wk, free position of HACCP/QA accommodation with light Technician. Duties will housekeeping duties. involve: maintaining Contact Joel or Maria at HACCP records, following 587-877-3452 or email CFIA regulations, sampling resume to: parialmarie38 and interpretation of @gmail.com results, monitoring duties under the HIP program, NANNY needed for elderly with disability. Must assist and training staff. Successful candidate needs to personal care, accompany have good attention to to doctors appointments. detail, communication Red Deer $15.56/hr. Email skills, interpersonal skills, amal.hamdan0@yahoo. com able to multi task, and follow instructions.

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FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 FIREWOOD: Spruce & Pine - Split 403-346-7178

LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, F/T DISPATCHER REQ’D. tamarack, poplar, birch.

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015 D7

Eight killed in strikes on Islamic State HQ

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This picture released on Friday by the Amaq news agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic State group, purports to show part of damaged building caused by Russian airstrikes that targeted civilian areas, in Raqqa, Syria. A new wave of airstrikes targeting the Syrian city of Raqqa, the headquarters of the extremist Islamic State group and the focus of an international military campaign, killed several people, including children, Syrian opposition groups said Friday. The Arabic caption on the bottom picture reads:”Russian airstrikes on the Muslims in Raqqa city.” them to “those who dream of the devil in heaven.”

“All those who demanded the resignation of Assad have left and Assad remained,” he said, adding that elections will decide who stays and who goes.

Al-Moallem also seized on comments made by Fabius Friday in which he suggested France could work with Syrian government forces to fight the Islamic State group.

“Better late than never,” al-Moallem said. “The Syrian army is ready to collaborate with anyone who has the intention to fight terrorism in Syria,” he said, adding that first France would have to change its whole take on the

Climate change, extremists on agenda in Malta

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VALLETTA, Malta — Queen Elizabeth II opened the Commonwealth summit Friday on the Mediterranean island of Malta — a meeting that will focus on climate change and the threat of extremist violence.

The 89-year-old British monarch praised the accomplishments of the 53-nation Commonwealth and her happy associations with Malta.

“Prince Philip and I first came to live here in Malta in 1949, the year the Commonwealth was founded,” she said, hailing a vast advancement in freedom and human rights in the decades since then.

“I have been privileged to witness this transformation and to consider its purpose.”

The Commonwealth links more than 2 billion people on five continents, including large countries like India, Australia and Canada and small island states like Tonga and Vanuatu.

French President Francois Hollande briefly left grief-stricken France Friday to travel to Malta to urge Commonwealth leaders to take action on climate change during the United Nations climate conference that begins in Paris Monday and will be attended by some 150 world leaders.

He said that man is his own worst enemy, when it comes to both terrorism and the environment.

“We are mobilizing ourselves in fa-

vour of the environment for the planet,” he said, while expressing his fear that a deal may be blocked by a small group of countries.

He also called for a united front against extremists and urged the British Parliament to support military action against the Islamic State group in Syria.

UN Secretary-General Ban Kimoon told the summit that the climate change conference will show a political commitment to creating a better environment for the planet Earth and its people.

“It may be premature to judge what will happen, all the stars seem to be aligning in one direction. There is a strong commitment not only from government but civil society too,” he said.

The queen was accompanied to Malta by her husband Prince Philip, her son Prince Charles, the heir to the throne, and Charles’ wife, Camilla.

She has long ties to Malta. Between 1949 and 1951, Philip was stationed on Malta as a Royal Navy officer and the future queen lived here as a military wife, rather than a duty-burdened heir to the throne.

The queen paid tribute to Philip, praising his “boundless energy and commitment” to the Commonwealth, and to Prince Charles and Camilla.

Outgoing Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma said that both Canada and Australia have pledged substantial amounts for combating climate change.

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Syrian crisis.

Fabius later clarified his comments, saying such co-operation must be part of a political transition in which Assad would step down.

A Raqqa-based activist group that reports on IS, known as Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, said Friday that most of the casualties in the latest aerial bombardment occurred when warplanes targeted the city’s Heten School. The school, like others in Raqqa, has been taken over by IS. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll at 12, including the five children. Conflicting ca-

sualty figures are common in the chaos of Syria’s civil war, now in its fifth year.

Russia and a U.S.-led coalition that includes France have been pounding Raqqa.

An IS-affiliated agency, Aamaq, published a video purporting to show nighttime explosions that lit up the Raqqa sky. The video showed a building and several cars on fire, and a man crouching over the bodies of five children. The agency claimed the casualties and destruction were caused by Russian airstrikes that targeted civilian areas.

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Location Location! Ideally located along the thriving Calgary-Edmonton Corridor - one of the fastest growing markets in Canada, Ponoka is positioned for growth. Ponoka’s strong community lifestyle appeal and ideal location offers opportunities for all. The growing and dynamic community of Ponoka boasts a vibrant, rural lifestyle in the heart of central Alberta. Nestled in the picturesque and lush Battle River Valley, Ponoka is still one of Alberta’s ‘best kept secrets’. The Town of Ponoka is home to some 6,800+ residents and is a service hub for both the oil and gas industry and the agricultural sector. Ponoka also has an innovative and thriving manufacturing sector. Ponoka is also known for its leading edge mental health and brain injury centre. Ponoka is on the move and has something for everyone. Recreation, culture, scenery, adherence to protecting sustainable practices and small town living are “keeping it real” for the next Chief Administrative Officer and their family.

The Town of Ponoka is pleased to accept executive applications that will be considered for the position of Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) to lead a municipal workforce and work within a growing community.

EXECUTIVE REQUIREMENTS This executive position reports to Mayor and Council who; through, executive recruitment will require the following competencies: • Serves as an advisor to council through reporting, recommendations and assessing the issues for decision; • Builds rapport with the public, council, the region and the administration staff team; • Maintains a strategic focus and assists Council with the development and implementation of long term strategic and operational plans; • Provides financial stewardship; • Administers advice and guidance to Council, Administration, Developers, new businesses and residents on Economic Development, Planning and Development • Provides stewardship of municipal resources and leadership of all staff teams and community boards and committees; • Provides policy development, Bylaw compliance and oversight, legal and contractual coordination and due diligence; • Is able to bond and build a relationship with the community.

COMPETENCIES AND QUALIFICATIONS • The ability to negotiate, adapt, listen, and persuade through communication, and interpersonal leadership; • Comprehensive knowledge and experience regarding leadership and management of operations, practices, and administration; • A high level of ethical competence; strong analytical skills and manage complex financial processes; • A bachelor degree and 10 - 15 years of progressive management experience, with a minimum of 5 years at a senior management level; • The commitment to executive development, motivation and training for senior administration and all staffing levels; • Set goals based on an established vision; • Be assertive and decisive in decision-making; • The ability to take direction and synthesize it into action plans, operational plans, emergency plans, and community development and capacity building.

Wage will be negotiated via Delstan Innovations Group/The Werkz and the Town of Ponoka.

Please submit your cover letter and resume electronically outlining experience, education in key municipal functions, references, reasons for applying and salary expectations by 12:00 p.m. on 11 December, 2015 to: Delstan Innovations Group The Werkz Municipal Executive Recruiting Agent Municipal Executive Recruiting Agent OR Attention: C.D. (Doug) Wright, CD at email: Attention: Donna Tona, CTS at email: dugrite@gmail.com donna@donnawekz.ca 7317660K28

BEIRUT — A new wave of airstrikes targeting the Syrian city of Raqqa, the headquarters of the extremist Islamic State group and the focus of an international military campaign, killed at least eight people, including five children, Syrian opposition groups said Friday.

The strikes came as France’s foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, declared that destroying the IS headquarters and “neutralizing and eradicating” the extremist group is the main objective of the international campaign.

It wasn’t immediately clear who carried out the latest airstrikes. The city in northern Syria is the group’s de facto capital and has become the focus of international airstrikes in the wake of the Paris terror attacks and the bombing of a Russian jetliner over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. IS has said it was behind both attacks.

Those developments have turned the world’s attention to the fight against IS at a time when the international community is trying to engage Syrians in a diplomatic process that would lead to a political transition in the war-ravaged country.

That process faces enormous hurdles, including the fate of President Bashar Assad and agreeing on which armed factions in Syria should be allowed to take part in negotiations.

Speaking in Moscow at a joint news conference with the Syrian foreign minister Friday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that peace talks for Syria cannot go ahead until all parties involved agree on a list of which groups should be listed as terrorist and which as legitimate opposition.

“Vienna talks cannot go ahead productively without such a list of terrorists and a list of opposition groups,” Lavrov said, adding that the lists should be vetted by the U.N. Security Council.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem scoffed at those who call on Assad to step down, comparing

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SATURDAY, NOV. 28, 2015

Blue cheese and mushroom gougeres

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS It’s holiday entertaining season, so we say bring on the fat and carbs!

After all, navigating the minefield of office parties and in-laws and dinner parties and cookie swaps (when you’d rather be on the couch with Netflix and a pint of ice cream) requires a bit of comfort food (not to mention a stiff drink, but that’s another recipe for another time). Still, if you’re entertaining, you can’t totally slack off.

You just need to marry your need for fatty comforting carbs with something dressy enough to serve in polite company.

So we give you blue cheese and mushroom cheese gougeres. Or just call them cheese puffs they’re delicious no matter what you call them.

They’re basically dough balls studded with chopped mushrooms and crumbled blue cheese. They are delicious right from the oven or at room temperature. And as an entertaining bonus, they can be prepped ahead and frozen on the baking sheet. Just add a few minutes baking time when you’re ready to cook them off.

Blue cheese and mushrooms not your style? Substitute pretty much any cheese you like, ditch the mushrooms, add fresh herbs or scallions. Whatever.

It all works.

And while your mother-in-law or boss may judge you, we promise to look the other way if you feel the need to power eat these like popcorn during the party. Our gougeres are a judgment-free zone.

BLUE CHEESE AND MUSHROOM GOUGERES Start to finish: 50 minutes Makes 25 to 30 ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, divided 8 ounces mixed mushrooms, finely chopped 2 shallots, finely chopped Kosher salt ½ cup water ½ cup milk Ground black pepper 1 cup all-purpose flour 4 eggs ¾ cup crumbled blue cheese Heat the oven to 400 F. Coat 2 baking sheets with cooking spray.

In a large skillet over medium-high, melt 1 tablespoon of the butter. Add the mushrooms, shallots and a hefty pinch of salt. Cook until tender and lightly browned, 4 to 5 minutes. Set aside.

In a medium saucepan over medium, combine the remaining 7 tablespoons butter, the water, milk and a

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This photo shows blue cheese and mushroom gougeres. If you’re entertaining, you can’t totally slack off. You just need to marry your need for fatty comforting carbs with something dressy enough to serve in polite company. hefty pinch of each salt and pepper.

Bring to a simmer, then add the flour all at once. Stirring with a wooden spoon, mix well and continue to cook until the mixture becomes a ball that separates from the pan, 1 to 2 minutes.

Scoop the dough ball into the bowl of a stand mixer. Beat on medium speed for 2 minutes to allow the mixture to cool slightly. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating thoroughly between additions.

Stir in the reserved mushroom mixture and the blue cheese. Scooping by the tablespoonful, place walnut-sized dollops on the prepared baking sheets,

leaving 1 ½ inches of space between each.

Alternatively, transfer the dough into a large zip-close plastic bag. Snip off one of the lower corners and pipe

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