Red Deer Advocate, January 02, 2016

SYLVAN LAKE RINGS IN THE NEW YEAR

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Parents Leanne LaBrash, left, and Hushton Block sit with their newborn daughter, Cadence Block, who is the first baby of the new year in Red Deer, at their Glendale home on Saturday evening.

CADENCE BLOCK BORN AT 12:14 A.M.

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer family that anticipated a new baby at Christmas kicked off the new year in the delivery room instead.

Cadence Tora Solvej Block was born at 12:14 a.m. on Jan. 1 at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.

The healthy nine-pound, eight-ounce (4.31 kilograms) baby girl was 23.75 inches (60 centimetres) long.

Her parents Hushton Block and Leanne LaBrash were expecting her to arrive closer to Christmas since her due date was Dec. 22.

Medical staff decided to admit LaBrash to hospital the morning of Dec. 31 to induce her pregnancy because the baby was already eight days late.

LaBrash said she was taken to the delivery room after 11 p.m. where staff broke her water, but she did not expect labour to progress so quickly.

“The last time I remember looking at the clock, … , it said 11:46 p.m. I thought there was nooo way this baby was coming in the next 16 minutes,” LaBrash said.

“I looked at the clock when she came out and it was 12:14 and I thought that was a fast half hour.”

She said whether the birth happened in 2015 or 2016 wasn’t important, but it did feel “a little surreal” to discover their baby was the first to be born in the new year in Red Deer.

Cadence has a big brother, Magnus, 7, and a big sister Kierce, 4.

Their father said Kierce was awaiting the baby’s arrival. ”(Kierce) had been ready for some time. She told Santa for Christmas she wanted the baby out,” Hushton Block said.

LaBrash is a program co-ordinator at Red Deer College and Block is a research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Lacombe. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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CARE marks 35th anniversary with exhibit

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Central Alberta Refugee Effort capped off its 35th year by preparing for more newcomers as Red Deer got ready to welcome Syrian refugees last week.

CARE evolved in response to the plight of Indo-Chinese refugees, known as ‘boat people,’ who left their homes in the late 1970s to escape the restrictive policies of the Communist regime after the Vietnam War. The exhibit, CARE — Welcoming Immigrants to Central Alberta for 35 Years, at Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery, runs until Jan. 24 and follows the journey of two women who fled Vietnam and eventually called Red Deer home.

Muoi Ngo left Vietnam with her niece Tomy Huynh and survived seven harrowing encounters with pirates during her escape by boat in 1979. They spent nine months in a makeshift refugee camp in Indonesia before accepted as refugees in Canada.

At 10-years old, Sherry Diep practically raised herself in the 1960s after six members of her immediate family were killed. She escaped Vietnam by boat to Hong Kong with her husband and three youngest children before they were accepted by Canada.

Between 1975 and 1980, 56,000 Vietnamese people came to Canada. When the Red Deer Ministerial Association asked for assistance to help some of these refugees resettle in the region, CARE was born.

The group became a registered non-profit society and continues to help refugees and immigrants adjust to life in Canada.

Frank Bauer, CARE executive director, said CARE, in partnership with Catholic Social Services’ immigrant and settlement services, have about 1,500 active clients who regularly visit the immigrant centre for two or three years depending on how long they need English As A Second Language (ESL) classes.

He said between 700 and 1,000 newcomers arrive in Central Alberta every year.

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Red Deer’s Matthew Peavoy performed at the world famous Carnegie Hall as part of the American Protégé International Piano and Strings Competition 2015.

Red Deer pianist performs at Carnegie Hall

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer’s Matthew Peavoy can now add — Carnegie Hall recital — to his musical resume.

The 22-year-old pianist, finishing up his bachelor degree in music and performance at Brandon University in Manitoba, was selected as one of several artists to play at Carnegie Hall in the American Protégé International Piano and Strings Competition 2015.

Peavoy was among 16 pianists to win an honourable mention in the college students and professional musicians category.

The prize for all winners was to perform at the famous and prestigious New York City venue.

“It was a dream of mine,” said Peavoy about the opportunity to be on stage at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on Nov. 28 where he performed Rachmaninoff Etude Tableaux op. 39, no. 9.

He said it was an amazing experience knowing how many legendary performers walked through the same doors, and perhaps played the same instruments.

Artists were judged solely on recordings they submitted to the competition.

Peavoy’s video submission can be viewed at www. youtube.com/watch?v=Fc-QCSM4aAo. Applications came from musicians across the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Austria, Bosnia

and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany, Italy, France, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, China, Mongolia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand and South African Republic.

Peavoy was also captivated by New York’s acclaimed theatre and music district.

“Getting to see the musical environment. Seeing how close all these amazing facilities were like Juilliard, the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall — all within a couple blocks of each other. Radio City Music Hall. Broadway theatres. They are right there so if you ever needed inspiration, you could just go see a performance.”

He said New York City has so much to give musicians.

“It would be a place where I would want to live more than I’d want to travel to visit. It’s a place of so much opportunity and energy.”

Peavoy, a graduate of Lindsay Thurber Composite High School and a Red Deer Royals alumnus, said he would like to continue his music studies in the U.S. and eventually join a university faculty.

“Once I get my doctorate in music, I’d love to teach in university because there’s so much that goes into a role like that, not just teaching, but the research you get to perform. You get a wide diversity of experiences.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

More changes coming for Alberta Details of the government’s new climate change policy will be partly thrashed out in the coming months.

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Offering legal help to those who can’t afford it

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF You may never know it’s there, until you need it.

For a decade now, a special clinic in Red Deer has been working away at helping those more vulnerable and who cannot afford legal advice.

Unlike the Legal Aid system — where clients do pay but at a reduced rate — the legal services provided by the Central Alberta Community Legal Clinic are free.

Of course clients have to qualify, but when there’s little or no money, there is some help available for them in three main areas of law — criminal, family and civil.

“We don’t charge. It’s free. The only thing they have to apply for here is if there’s an application to court, so they need to pay the court fees,” says the clinic’s executive director, Kathy Parsons.

“We use volunteer lawyers who will provide 30 minutes of free legal advice to low-income people.”

The summary legal advice involves a short meeting with a lawyer where the client is provided with information to help them understand their rights and obligations and their next steps.

A group of about 35 local lawyers regularly volunteer their skills at the legal clinic, which is funded mainly by the Alberta Law Foundation. It is one of five in Alberta.

For reasons that are not entirely clear, the local clinic is seeing a big increase in the demand for service.

Parsons said they are already up by 40 per cent this year in demand. They saw 800 people last year and this year they will be helping well over 1,000, she said. The clinic gets about 3,000 calls each year from people seeking help.

It’s probably a combination of reasons why the numbers are up, maybe more awareness, and more clients coming their way from referrals. Also, typically when there’s a downturn in the economy there is more family breakup, more debt issues and more landlord tenant issues.

But this year the clinic started seeing higher numbers as early as February, before the slower economy really started rolling through, Parsons said.

There could be an even greater demand on their services going forward as Legal Aid Alberta is no longer providing some services as of early December.

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Central Alberta Community Legal Clinic staff lawyer Joe Sumiya meets with clients in his office at 5008 Ross Street.

This could result in more people turning to the community legal clinics.

The provincial government has launched a review of Legal Aid Alberta services and recommendations are expected this spring.

“I would hope we’re part of that review,” said Parsons. “We could be part of the solution. We have resources, things we can bring to the table to ensure the most vulnerable in our populations are getting what they need in the justice system.”

The community clinic in Red Deer offers a number of different programs, ranging from the free legal advice, to outreach clinics done by video, photo ID clinics, public education, to a program that helps resolve tenant and landlord conflicts.

The cases they see are about 35 per cent involving criminal law, 35 per cent family law and the rest is civil, Parsons said.

An example of a case would be a single mom wanting a court order for child support and custody and access, who is of limited income. She would be able to meet with one of the volunteer lawyers, who could ex-

plain her rights and obligations and the process, and answer her questions.

Summary legal advice means a very short, 30 minutes, where a client is provided with information to understand their rights and obligations and their next steps.

If it’s felt a client needs more help, the individual could be recommended to the clinic’s full-time lawyer, Joe Sumiya. A file might then opened and the client may be assisted all the way to representation in court. Sumiya handles about 100 files each year.

Parsons said one of their biggest challenges is that the Central Alberta Community Legal Clinic covers a large geographic area beyond Red Deer.

It runs from Leduc to Airdrie, and to the east and west provincial borders. Transportation has been identified as a common barrier for people to access justice, so since 2010, summary legal advice clinics in remote areas can be offered by video conference, Parsons said.

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CARE: Newcomers Of those, about 70 are refugees, and the majority are economic immigrants.

“Apart from the refugees who are directly directed to our centre, no one else will get the information that there is an immigrant settlement agency in Red Deer so we have to rely a lot on word of mouth.

That’s why we do a lot of public events, to make the community and newcomers aware that we exist,” Bauer said.

Some newcomers don’t need help. Others don’t realize they could use some assistance until they start sharing their questions and concerns, he said.

An important role of CARE is to help newcomers connect with others in their brand new country, he said.

“People never forget the first time someone recognizes them in the street or grocery store and says, ‘How are you doing and good to see you again.’”

One of the current goals of CARE is to link up with more community groups. Recently, CARE and Central Alberta Women’s Outreach formed a partnership so young, immigrant mothers can access child care and attend informal ESL classes at the outreach.

“It helps them to improve their English and gives them a reason to get out of the house, get out of their social isolation, and get to know about other social organizations.”

He said Canadians can by very friendly and welcoming, but newcomers are still faced with a new culture where they don’t always understand the differences.

“I always use the simple example of trying to order your first coffee at Tim Hortons. You get all those questions. What do you want? What size? Milk?

Cream? Which way to go? It can be a challenge.”

He said learning or improving their English language skills is a priority for many newcomers. While CARE does offer translation services, people in the

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they are very soon lost,” Bauer said.

People can view the CARE, along with another interactive exhibit featuring videos of more immigrants to the area telling their stories, at Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on weekdays and noon to 4:30 p.m. on weekends. Admission is by donation. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Tax increases give leeway to other provinces: Rating agency

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — A bond-rating agency says recent tax increases in Alberta give more leeway to other western provinces to raise their own levies.

Standard and Poor’s recently confirmed its AA rating for the Manitoba government.

It noted that one of several factors in the decision was the Alberta government’s recent tax changes, including a new surtax on higher personal incomes.

“With Alberta changing its corporate and personal income taxation, we believe that tax competition between Alberta and other Canadian provinc-

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Girl survives crash that killed man, woman and toddler in Saskatchewan SASKATOON — A five-year-old girl is the only survivor from a car that police say was hit by a Jeep near Saskatoon.

RCMP say the girl was in a Hyundai Elantra with a man, a woman and a two-year-old boy early Sunday on Highway 11 when it was stuck by a Jeep Wrangler that was attempting to cross the highway.

The 34-year-old man who was driving the Hyundai and the 33-year-old woman who was a passenger both died at the scene.

The boy and girl were both taken to hospital with serious injuries, but the boy has since died.

A 49-year-old woman, who was the only person in the Jeep, was taken to hospital and released but remains in custody.

Police say charges are pending.

Proposed one-metre rule for cars and cyclists ‘a great idea:’ Manitoba premier WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger is throwing his support behind a proposed new rule of the road affecting motorists and cyclists.

Selinger says a call to force drivers to move over at least one metre when passing a cyclist is “a great idea” that he would like to see become law.

“Safety for active transportation makes sense. It’s part of having a more livable city,” Selinger said in a recent interview.

“It’s in the interests of both parties to have a respectful understanding of what the zones of safety are.”

Ontario recently passed a one-metre law and one of Selinger’s backbenchers, Dave Gaudreau, wants Manitoba to follow suit.

Gaudreau has put forward a private member’s bill in the legislature and Selinger said he’d like to see it become law.

However, the bill is one of many currently on the agenda and the legislature is scheduled to sit for only 12 days before the campaign begins for the April 19 election.

Whether there is enough time to pass the bill will depend partly on the opposition, Selinger said.

Manitoba’s Highway Traffic Act currently requires motorists only to keep “a safe distance” when passing cyclists.

Gaudreau has said specifying a one-metre rule will make things more clear and ensure cyclists are given ample room.

Man accused of trying to kill woman by crashing passenger side of vehicle WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg man is accused of trying to kill his common-law wife by forcing her into his car and crashing the passenger side into a semi-trailer.

es, especially those in Western Canada, will decrease, as will constraints on the ability to raise revenues,” the agency wrote in a report.

Manitoba’s NDP government has already faced public anger over tax hikes, most notably a 2013 decision to raise the provincial sales tax to eight per cent from seven.

Alberta has no provincial sales tax, but the NDP government has revamped its formerly flat 10 per cent income tax rate.

It has introduced new surtaxes for high-income earners, starting at $150,000.

Manitoba is musing about new income surtaxes as well, although its existing rates are already above 10 per Police say the couple were arguing outside a nightclub at about 2 a.m. on New Year’s Day when the 31-year-old man allegedly forced the 21-year-old woman into a car and drove off.

Police allege he assaulted and threatened her repeatedly while he drove, and then intentionally guided her side of the vehicle into a parked trailer.

He ran from the wreck, police allege, while she was trapped.

Emergency workers freed the woman with extraction equipment and police say she’s in stable condition.

Christopher Rutherford, 31, was later arrested and faces charges that include attempted murder, kidnapping and several charges of failing to comply with a recognizance.

“There’s no question, some unusual and pretty scary circumstances here,” Const. Jason Michalyshen said on Sunday.

Michalyshen said one of charges the accused faces involves breaching a condition that prevented him from contacting the woman.

Rutherford remains in custody. A date for his next court appearance was not immediately available.

Michalyshen said investigators believe the vehicle was travelling fast when it hit the truck, but the woman appears to have been wearing a seatbelt.

“Her injuries, thankfully, were not life-threatening,” Michalyshen said.

A 59-year-old woman is dead after she was struck by a pickup truck in Lacombe on Saturday morning.

It is the first traffic fatality in the city in 13 years.

The woman was running near 50th Avenue and 54th Street when she attempted to cross the street.

She was hit by a pickup truck turning eastbound onto 50th from 54th Street, west of the downtown.

Several witnesses including the 72-year-old driver from Lacombe stopped to help the woman.

Each year the clinic must apply for funding from the Alberta Law Foundation in order to keep its doors open.

The foundation’s funds comes from the interest that financial institutions pay on clients’ funds held in lawyers’

Seamus O’Regan checks into wellness program seeking ‘alcohol free lifestyle’

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Newly elected Liberal MP and former broadcast journalist Seamus O’Regan says he has entered a wellness program to adopt “an alcohol free lifestyle.”

O’Regan, who hosted CTV’s Canada AM for nearly a decade, announced from his Twitter account on Sunday that he had checked into the program over the holiday break.

“I’ve decided after consultation with family that I can be most effective as a Member of Parliament by adopting an alcohol free lifestyle,” O’Regan tweeted. “To that end, over the holiday break, I have entered a wellness program.”

O’Regan added that he will return to his duties as a MP for St. John’s

South-Mount Pearl before Parliament resumes later this month.

He also noted that he’d have “more to say” on the matter in the future, but asked for privacy until then.

O’Regan’s husband expressed his support shortly after the announcement was made online.

“So proud of my husband,” Steve Doussis said on Twitter.

A spokeswoman for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not comment on the matter on Sunday.

But many others expressed their encouragement for O’Regan on social media.

“VERY proud of my good friend @ SeamusORegan for getting the help he needs,” tweeted Olympian and mental health advocate Clara Hughes. “I look forward to welcoming him back after treatment.”

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WHISTLER, B.C. — An Australian tourist has died after a snowmobile crash in Whistler, B.C., on New Year’s Day. Canadian Wilderness Adventures has issued a statement saying the 65-year-old man was going down Blackcomb Mountain on a tour when he hit a tree around 11 p.m. Friday.

The company says it appears the man lost control of the snowmobile and left the track.

Staff and a nursing student who were on the tour provided first aid, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

A 54-year-old woman who was also on the vehicle was taken by ambulance to Lions Gate Hospital in Vancouver.

The company expressed condolences to the man’s family and friends in the statement.

Body of missing camper found in provincial park near Maple Ridge, B.C. MAPLE RIDGE, B.C. — The body of a missing camper has been found in a provincial park near Maple Ridge, B.C. A 39-year-old man went missing in Golden Ears Provincial Park around 2:30 a.m. on New Year’s Day after telling friends he was going to set off fireworks.

Rick Laing of Ridge Meadows Search and Rescue says about 34 people from several search and rescue organizations looked for the man Friday afternoon and continued late into the night.

The search resumed early Saturday morning, and a boat found a man’s body in Alouette Lake around 10 a.m.

Ridge Meadows RCMP say the body is that of the missing camper.

The victim was initially treated at the scene and transported to Lacombe Hospital where she died a short while later.

Police say either speed nor alcohol were factors in the collision.

Lacombe Police chief Steve Murray said, “sadly this tragic outcome was the result of a momentary lapse in attention and judgment on the part of the driver.

“This extremely sad loss will be felt by not only the family but the entire community.”

The driver has been charged with careless driving.

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LEGAL: Funding

said bond rating agencies feel other provinces will have an easier time, politically, raising their own taxes if need be to meet budget targets.

Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger said while his government has raised some taxes, it has lowered others, such as the education property tax for seniors and the small-business income tax rate.

“We’re always looking at ways to make sure Manitobans can have an affordable cost of living and that we can grow job opportunities in the province,” the premier said in a year-end interview.

Australian tourist dead after snowmobile hits tree in Whistler

59-year-old killed trying to cross the street in Lacombe

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Fletcher Baragar, an associate professor of economics at the University of Manitoba, said small differences in corporate or income taxes usually don’t mean much in terms of where people choose to live or set up businesses.

But there can be a big public backlash for politicians who raise taxes, he warned.

“I think the constraint has really been a political one — the perception of that. Part of that perception is heightened by the concern that if the tax rate gets too far out of the park, you’re going to lose people, you’re going to lose business.”

With Alberta raising taxes, Baragar

pooled trust accounts. (This does not include interest paid on a specific trust investment held for an individual client). The interest is then provided in grants to groups such as the community legal clinics. For more information on the Central Alberta Community Legal Clinic go to www.communitylegalclinic. net barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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Reece Driedger, 1, races through the tunnels and hallways of the Treehouse Indoor Playground, located on Red Deer’s north end, on Saturday evening. The playground includes a large jungle gym geared towards younger children, but features arcade games and a variety of different play areas.

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Notley right to reconsider wage hike STEVE LAFLEUR AND HUGH MCINTYRE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE In a recent interview, Premier Rachel Notley seemed to hint that the Government of Alberta could slow its plan to increase the minimum wage to $15 if the economy remains weak.

The premier’s comments came one day after it was reported that an internal government briefing note stated that a significant job loss as a result of the minimum wage hike is “one realistic possibility,” noting that such a large minimum wage increase puts the province in “uncharted waters.”

The premier’s comments seemed to be an implicit recognition that raising the minimum wage can have negative effects, effectively in a difficult economic environment.

A government spokesperson quickly stepped in to say that the government remains committed to its plan to increase the minimum wage to $15 by 2018.

This is unfortunate, because the government’s schedule for more minimum wage increases will do more harm than good for low-income Albertans. The premier should follow her initial comments and re-consider the government’s minimum wage strategy

in light of the evidence on the impact of minimum wage increases.

If the government does take another look at the evidence, what they will find is that not only does raising the minimum wage have a negative effect on employment, it’s also an ineffective way to reduce poverty.

First, let’s consider the evidence on how a minimum wage increase effects employment.

The Fraser Institute examined 12 Canadian studies focused on the relationship between minimum wage changes and employment of young workers (between the ages of 15 and 24). Collectively, the studies estimate that a 10 per cent increase in the minimum wage translates into a three per cent to six per cent job loss among this group.

This is in line with the overwhelming majority of international research that finds that raising the minimum wage reduces employment.

This evidence suggests that the 47 per cent increase planned by the government over the next few years will substantially reduce the employment opportunities available for young and lower-skilled workers in Alberta.

Workers are negatively affected by a minimum wage increase in other ways as well. A higher minimum wage

could discourage future job growth, lead to a reduction in the hours employees work and the cutting of nonwage benefits like on-the-job training.

The negative effects associated with minimum wage increases fall disproportionately on young, low-skilled workers.

This deprives them of opportunities to gain valuable employment skills that can help them to move up the income ladder. In other words, the minimum wage is most likely to hurt the people that proponents presumably most want to help.

One of the primary motivations for the minimum wage is to help low-income workers by reducing poverty, but the Canadian evidence shows that raising the minimum wage does not have a statistically significant effect on poverty.

In fact, one academic study found that raising the minimum wage increased the share of Canadian families falling into relative poverty.

The futility of minimum wage increases in combating poverty makes sense when we understand who actually earns the minimum wage.

According to Statistics Canada data, 87.5 per cent minimum wage workers in Canada do not live in low-income households (as defined by LICO).

Consider that in 2014, half of all minimum wage workers in Alberta lived with their parents, and most of these people were between 15 and 24 years old and attending school. Of the remaining minimum wage workers, 26 per cent had working spouses.

Statistics Canada data shows roughly only two per cent of minimum wage workers are single parents with young children.

Of course, helping increase the purchasing power of these people is a worthwhile policy objective, but there are more efficient targeted approaches to this goal that don’t have adverse employment effects.

Notley’s suggestion the government would revisit the evidence before implementing a 47 per cent minimum wage increase in a shaky economy was a positive sign.

Hopefully, despite the about face since then, the premier is serious about taking an evidence-based approach to this important issue. There is too much at stake for Alberta workers to enter the “uncharted waters” of a $15 minimum wage without seriously assessing the potential dangers.

Steve Lafleur and Hugh McIntyre are public policy analysts with the Fraser Institute.

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Be wary of politicians making claims based on date TREVOR SHELLEY SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Certain politicians have grown fond of invoking the date – the year, or the century – as a substitute, or surrogate, for rational argument. The present moment, they seem to infer, carries great weight in and of itself.

When addressing the Russian invasion of Ukraine in March 2014, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry responded by proclaiming that Russia was acting “in a 19th century fashion” and that nations “just don’t in the 21st century behave” in such a way. It remains to be seen (and few of us will see) whether the 21st century will actually be more peaceful than the 19th.

Kerry’s presumption, however, overshadows concrete criticisms and thoughtful reasons against Putin’s actions – for example, in defense of Ukrainian sovereignty, concerns regarding Russian geopolitical ambitions, an increasing threat to neighbouring NATO countries, and so on. It is certainly conceivable that the 19th and 21st centuries have much more in common than Kerry would have us believe.

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Closer to home, Canadians are now well familiar with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s quip in response to questions about the equal number of men and women he selected for his cabinet, to wit: “Because it’s 2015.”

What might not have been obvious or necessary in previous years seems to have become both in the year 2015. The statement implied, what more need be said? In fact, one Huffington Post commentator wrote that Trudeau’s pithy phrase “takes the wind out of recent debates about quotas and merit-based appointments.”

As good as gender parity may be, is it better than talent and experience, or excellence and ability, irrespective of gender? Has the arrival of our present year closed debate on the matter for good? One cannot help but wonder at the gravitas these calendrical invocations seem to bear.

A general assumption inherent in all such remarks is that history is not merely the passage of time and a series of events. For those fond of aggrandizing the present, history is unfolding according to a particular logic, imbuing our moment with greater significance than previous ones. History, they believe, is not merely a series

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of more or less recurring patterns, as historians find in the life cycles of civilizations or peoples. Instead, history in and of itself is a moral force with a greater meaning.

To speak of the meaning of history is very different than speaking about meaning in history. We can all attest to meaningful events in our lives; some of us to significant moments in history. We sometimes speak of “turning points” – an event so momentous that it changed the course of things, though there may be many such twists and turns. But this understanding differs categorically from those who believe history has an inexorable direction, that its course is fixed, and that the unfolding logic of history is progressing towards a more envisioned end such as perpetual peace, or greater equality, or an alternate ideal.

What follows from this progressive view of history is the establishment of history - or, better give it its proper honours: History – as the judge of right and wrong. History itself becomes the high court of good and evil, regarding opinion and action.

Consequently, progressive historians pronounce with assurance that others are with them on “the right side

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of history,” or against them on “the wrong side of history.”

Both phrases have been used in abundance by U.S. President Barack Obama, and Trudeau has been known to criticize his opponents proclaiming them to be on “the wrong side of history.” Rather than make rational arguments appealing to common sense and the lived experience of citizens, the politician – as prophet of History – can deprecate others for their historical incorrectness or backwardness. It represents yet another way our public figures contribute to a growing political correctness that otherwise stifles thoughtful debate.

Whatever evidence one can muster of moral progress in history, one can definitely find ample evidence of regress. Assessing progress as such is a complex undertaking; however, the course of human affairs is more than sufficiently complex to deny any simple or singular logic working itself out in history.

Best to be wary in the coming new year of politicians making claims on the basis of the date.

Trevor Shelley completed his PhD in political science at Louisiana State University.

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Toronto 18 member granted day parole TERRORISM

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS An expert on terrorism and de-radicalization said a Toronto 18 member’s release on day parole could act as a benchmark for years to come.

Kent Roach, law professor and co-author of a book on Canada’s anti-terrorism policy, said the string of conditions attached to Saad Gaya’s day parole might serve as a template for other convicted terrorists granted some form of parole from prison.

“This is an issue that is going to reoccur over the next decade,” he said.

“Although some convicted terrorists have been sentenced to life imprisonment, many others have not.”

“The issue of whether they have been rehabilitated is something we will see more and more,” he added.

Gaya, now 28, is serving time after pleading guilty to participating in a plot to bomb three Toronto targets, including the Toronto Stock Exchange, in protest of Canada’s military involvement in Afghanistan. The former science student at Hamilton’s McMaster University was arrested in 2006 while

unloading a delivery truck filled with Canada does not yet have a rehabilthree tonnes of bags marked ammoni- itation program focused on de-radicalum nitrate fertilizer. He was originally ization, said Roach, which gives him sentenced in 2010 to 12 years in prison, cause for concern. and an appeal court increased that to In 2014, Correctional Service Can18 years. ada released three inter-connected On Wednesday, Gaya was denied studies into the radicalization and pofull parole, but was tential de-radicalgranted up to six ization of inmates, “FROM A SECURITY months of day pabut Roach said the role, which will algovernment still PERSPECTIVE, IT IS low him to attend hasn’t created a IMPORTANT TO HAVE PEOPLE school and work in focused program the community. to rehabilitate WHO HAVE EXPERTISE But he must reterrorists. “This AND LEGITIMACY TO turn to a communiis early days,” he ty-based residential added.

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Gaya’s parole is “From a secu— KENT ROACH, LAW PROFESSOR rity perspective, contingent on a number of factors, init is important to cluding mandatory have people who religious counselling from an Imam have expertise and legitimacy to try — a Muslim religious leader — who is to address these misreadings of Islam approved by Correctional Service of that may have motivated many people Canada. who have been convicted of terrorism

offences in Canada.”

In its written decision, the parole board said that Correctional Service Canada did not recommend that Gaya be required to speak with an Imam for religious counselling. The board added that condition.

A representative from the board did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Further conditions of Gaya’s release prevent him from associating with people he has reason to believe are involved in criminal activity. He cannot own or use a computer, or any device that can connect to the Internet.

The decision also said he must immediately report all contact with men he plans to associate with to his parole officer.

In the written decision, the board said Gaya has shown remorse for his participation in the bomb plot, and has gained “tremendous insight” into his radicalization. The decision said Gaya has already helped Muslim community groups to address the radicalization of youth.

“Others believe that .125Gaya.375 can be of assistance in preventing other youth from falling into the same predicament as .125him.375,” the decision reads.

Climate change affecting vital winter roads for First Nations

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Wonky weather conditions are prompting aboriginal leaders to raise concerns about the impact of climate change on winter roads, which serve as lifelines for food, fuel and other necessities in several northern communities.

Isadore Day, the Ontario regional chief for the Assembly of First Nations, said the reliability of the northern winter road network is in jeopardy in his province.

“The winter roads have essentially become a way of life for the communities and now they can’t rely on those winter roads,” Day said, noting the network is used to offset the cost to bring essential goods to fly-in reserves by air.

The problem exemplifies why there was outcry from First Nations during the recent COP21 climate change summit in Paris, Day said.

There is “every evidence” Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples are indeed on the front lines of climate change, Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett said in an interview with The Canadian Press.

“I think it is very worrying and I think that as we look not only to Ontario but to Manitoba, the proposals for the eastern road there, it is something that we are looking at and knowing that we’ve got to build the kind of resilient infrastructure that will deal with the changing climate.”

The federal Liberal government is open to examining the impacts of the issue to allow for a long-term strategy to be developed, Bennett added.

“This will require a real collaborative effort,” she said, highlighting

that permanent infrastructure would help to create resource revenue in the future.

“We need to have everybody included in really assessing the need and then developing feasibility projects and proposals.”

Day said First Nations leaders from Ontario plan to press the minister to bring this “essential issue” to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet table.

Solutions will also have to include all levels of government, he said.

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If people want access into the north, the only viable way now is to have a proper road network, Day added.

NDP indigenous affairs critic Charlie Angus, who represents a northern Ontario riding that includes a number of First Nations communities, said money needs to be invested in sustainable infrastructure.

There has been a long-standing push for permanent roads but climate change has made the issue much more pressing, he noted.

“My message to the government is ‘you’re going to have to put your money where your mouth is when you make these promises,”’ Angus said.

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Ringing in the new year with a bang

New Year’s Day fireworks at Sylvan Lake Story and photos by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff Central Albertans wrapped up the first official day of 2016 with a bang.

Or rather, multiple ones.

Sylvan Lake’s annual New Year’s Day fireworks attracted hundreds of Sylvan Lakers and people from surrounding communities to the lake to take in the display at the end of the

pier.

Some laced up their skates so they could stand on the frozen lake beneath the shimmering showers and brilliant explosions of light and colour. Others watched from the warmth of vehicles driven onto the ice as flares were volleyed into a clear night sky.

The display, which began at 7 p.m. sharp, lasted for about ten minutes and ended to a chorus of cheers from onlookers.

TOP; A red glow is cast over New Year’s revellers at Sylvan Lake as the fireworks are shot into the night sky.

MIDDLE LEFT; Sylvan Lakers gather on the lake to watch a fireworks display at the end of the pier.

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BOTTOM LEFT; Flare light up the night sky as people take in the New Year fireworks display.

BOTTOM RIGHT; Bursts of red and green light illuminate the Friday night sky at Sylvan Lake during the New Year’s fireworks display.

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More changes coming to Alberta PROVINCE WORKS OUT CLIMATE POLICY DETAILS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Climate isn’t all that’s changing in Alberta.

The province’s NDP government has arguably made bigger moves on global warming in six months than the previous Conservatives made in a generation.

And the changes aren’t going to stop. The details of the government’s new climate change policy — carbon-price rebates and green infrastructure investments, for starters — will be at least partly thrashed out in the coming months as the government readies its spring budget. But that, says Environment Minister Shannon Phillips, is just the beginning.

“We are entering a world that is going to be constrained with respect to (carbon),” the minister said recently in an interview with The Canadian Press.

“Alberta must be carbon-competitive with respect to our energy. It is also not something that this government created. It is a fact. Just as the science

of climate change is a fact.

“We have a low price of oil, a scientific consensus on the way the global economy is going. Within that, one must make careful and deliberate decisions on how we move forward. The way to do that is not to engage in angry navel-gazing.”

Phillips is clear that Premier Rachel Notley understands that governments must not only lead, they must get people to follow. That became especially clear after poor communication sparked noisy protests against the government’s farm safety legislation.

Phillips uses the word “conversation” — with Albertans, with communities, with industry — again and again.

But make no mistake. She is working toward a different province than the one in which she grew up.

“Climate policy can be — and is — a job creator and community developer and a way that communities can really take ownership over how they develop.”

The boom-and-bust Alberta of gogo oil and gas investment followed by

shuddering halt has got to end, she said.

“I’m not sure that anybody likes $35 a barrel (West Texas Intermediate).

Or a $6-billion deficit due to a drop in royalties. Or a spike in domestic violence rates. Or a spike in food bank usage. Or a spike in suicide rates. Or charitable donations being down. I’m not sure that anyone’s actually comfortable with that.

“And that’s what relying on one commodity to one market at one price delivers to us. It delivers great wealth when that one commodity is high, but this has been an object lesson, the last six to eight months, in the need to diversify the economy.”

Phillips isn’t sure that Albertans need to be taught that lesson.

“Albertans know (it) very well.

When you talk about the need to diversify, everyone nods their heads.”

Voters not only elected a progressive government last spring, suggested Phillips. They did it in the previous election when the Redford Tories won on a platform that attracted teachers,

health-care workers, parents of schoolage children and university students.

“Alberta is much more progressive than most people give it credit for.

We saw that even with the election of the Redford government, and you saw it again on May 5. Albertans did that twice in a row.

“Albertans are ready for a strong, diversified economy in which we take our environmental responsibilities seriously, in which we are ensuring that we are delivering on our responsibility (for) good health and good air quality.”

That new economy will have some new faces in it, too.

“What we don’t want to do is replicate the social exclusions and the economic inequalities of the old days.

What we want to do is ensure that all Albertans have access to growth and prosperity from these initiatives.”

Despite the farm safety protests, Phillips downplays the likelihood of a backlash. But if there is, bring it on.

“I’m a New Democrat in Alberta,” she said. “I’m not really afraid of much.”

Oklahoma car crash to test legal boundaries of scandal

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

IGNITION SWITCH

NEW YORK — A civil trial set to start this month in New York City will test the legal boundaries of hundreds of claims remaining against General Motors Co. stemming from faulty ignition switches.

The case involves an Oklahoma man who blames a defective ignition switch for preventing his air bags from deploying during a crash. It’s the first trial to result from hundreds of lawsuits filed against GM after the auto giant revealed in 2014 that faulty ignition switches in Chevy Cobalts and other small cars necessitated an unprecedented recall. The switches can slip out of the “on” position, causing the cars to stall, knocking out power steering and turning off air bags.

GM knew about the faulty switches for more than a decade but did not recall them until February 2014. The company paid nearly $600 million to settle 399 claims made to a fund it established. Those claims covered 124

deaths and 275 injuries, though GM’s fund rejected more than 90 per cent of the 4,343 claims it received, according to figures the company released in December.

In recent weeks, U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman, the presiding judge, has made rulings that may prevent the automaker from taking the easy road toward settling or forcing dismissal of scores of lawsuits.

The judge has refused the company’s request to exclude evidence and arguments related to punitive damages, saying GM’s delay in recalling admittedly defective vehicles was “arguably dangerous conduct as it involved a hidden defect that caused a risk of serious injury or death.”

The judge also ruled that the “New GM,” as it is repeatedly referred to in court papers, cannot dismiss the claims of Robert S. Scheuer — the plaintiff in the trial set to start Jan. 11

— merely because he failed to keep his 2003 Saturn Ion after his front air bags failed to deploy when he was forced off an Oklahoma highway by another car and smashed head-on into two trees in Bristow.

Scheuer, of Tulsa, was injured in the May 28, 2014, crash and retained lawyer Bob Hilliard, co-lead counsel for hundreds of federal cases consolidated in New York City.

“For years and years, GM — including to some of my clients — would say: ‘Look, this accident is your fault. Take $75,000 even though your family is dead,”’ he said in a telephone interview from his Texas office.

Hilliard said the litigants watching the case closely include “many traumatized folks who got pushed around

by GM while the coverup was active.”

General Motors has told U.S. regulators in a recent quarterly report that it still faces 217 wrongful death and injury lawsuits in the U.S. and Canada, along with 122 lawsuits alleging that the recalls reduced values of owners’ cars.

GM spokesman Jim Cain said the Scheuer trial, likely to last about a month, is the first of six bellwether trials that will occur over the next year.

He said the outcome of the Scheuer trial would “help form the basis for settlement of similar claims.”

“It’s our belief that the air bags weren’t designed to deploy in the accident that he had,” Cain said.

In September, GM announced it had reached a $575 million deal with Hilliard to settle 1,385 death and injury cases and to resolve a 2014 class-action lawsuit filed by shareholders claiming GM’s actions reduced the value of their stock.

The announcement came as the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan revealed GM had settled a criminal investigation, agreeing to pay $900 million to the government to avoid prosecution on wire fraud charges.

The company has initiated companywide safety reforms and in 2014 issued a record 84 recalls covering more than 30 million vehicles, including 27 million in the U.S.

Things to consider about owning U.S. property Winter brings with it the dream of many Canadian snowbirds of owning a piece of property in the sunny south. With the recent rebound in the U.S. housing market and a decline in the value of the Canadian dollar, however, buying vacation property south of the border may TALBOT not be quite as BOGGS appealing as it was a couple of MONEYWISE years ago.

“If you are just looking for a property deal you are probably too late as the housing market has already rebounded and the Canadian dollar has dropped against the U.S. greenback,” says Cleo Hamel, a senior tax specialist with American Expat Taxes.

“Before you begin you should ask yourself some important questions, because how you answer them could well determine whether this is the right decision for you.”

One of the first issues to consider is how you’re going to finance your purchase.

As a foreign investor, if you don’t

have the full down payment for the property you may have to qualify for a mortgage, which can be difficult.

The mortgage lender is likely going to look at your credit history and sometimes will ask for up to six months of mortgage payments up front.

“You may need to make a larger down payment than expected because you have no credit history in the U.S.,” Hamel says.

Canadians cannot get a Canadian mortgage for a property in another country.

However, if you already own property in Canada with enough equity, you could refinance it here and use the money to buy in Florida.

In the end, the best and maybe cheapest way to finance your purchase might be to borrow the money in Canada and buy the property in Florida outright.

When you live in the United States part-time and own property or other investments there you can be affected by the tax laws of both countries. In the United States you could be liable under certain circumstances for income tax, capital gains tax, estate tax and gift tax.

If you own a piece of real estate in the U.S., when you die U.S. estate taxation rules apply.

You also have to report your property every year according to Foreign

Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) rules in the U.S. and on the T1135 form in Canada.

The FATCA was passed in the U.S. in 2010 to help detect U.S. persons who may be evading U.S. tax using financial accounts held outside of the United States. The T1135 Foreign Income Verification statement must be filed

by Canadian resident individuals, corporations and certain trusts that at any time during the year own specified foreign property costing more than $100,000.

“If you fail to report to one of the governments they share the information and they will find out,” Hamel cautions.

There are different tax rules for Canada and the U.S. For example, you have to claim depreciation on a rental property in the U.S. whereas it is optional in Canada. “You therefore should prepare your returns at the same time to save the most tax,” Hamel advises.

Your U.S. tax implications will depend on how many days you spend in the United States per year.

The Internal Revenue Service has a complicated way of conducting the “substantial presence test” which determines whether you have been in the U.S. long enough to be considered a U.S. resident for tax purposes.

The formula works this way. Each

day in the U.S. in the current calendar year counts as one day; each day in the U.S. in the prior year counts as onethird of a day; and each day in the U.S. in the year before that counts as onesixth of a day.

If the sum of those three numbers totals 183 or more, the IRS may insist you file a U.S. tax return.

There are other issues as well.

Property taxes vary in Florida from county to county and you should check out your insurance policy for things like hurricane coverage and coverage when you are not there.

Some policies will not provide coverage when you are absent, even if you have someone checking on the property, which is why many people buy condos over stand-alone houses.

Before buying it might be advisable to consult a cross-border tax adviser.

“Canada and the U.S. may share the world’s largest border but there are significant differences,” Hamel says.

“It’s important to look at more than the selling prices of a house – make sure you do your research so you know all the costs and tax implications involved.”

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

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GOOGLE TO OFFER TOOL TO MAKE IT EASIER TO JUDGE PROS AND CONS

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A barn structure outfitted with solar panels in Prince Edward County, Ont.. works. The metro areas were picked based on several criteria, including Google’s available satellite imagery and local market conditions including government incentives, Elkin said.

Google’s proposition is a faster, simpler way of sizing up possible pros and cons of solar than calling out someone for a site evaluation or using the more complex calculator offered by the U.S. Energy Department.

NYC embarks on big plan to reinvent payphones as Wi-Fi hot spots

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Operator, won’t you help me replace this call?

A 9-foot-tall, narrow structure installed this past week on a Manhattan sidewalk is signalling a plan to turn payphones into what’s billed as the world’s biggest and fastest municipal Wi-Fi network.

The first of at least 7,500 planned hot spots are due to go online early next year, promising superfast and free Wi-Fi service, new street phones with free calling, ports to charge personal phones and a no-cost windfall for the city.

With some cities nationwide making renewed pushes for public Wi-Fi after an earlier wave of enthusiasm faded, New York officials say their project is democratizing data access while modernizing outmoded street phones.

For now, the first hot spot is still being tested and sits under a grey cover.

But some passers-by like the sound of what’s in store.

“It’s always helpful” to have WiFi to reduce the bite that apps and web-surfing take out of cellular data service, which is capped in many consumers’ plans, Jack Thomas said this week while texting near the dormant kiosk.

But others have qualms about New Yorkers linking their devices to a public network as they stroll down the street, though the city has said data will be encrypted and any information harvested for advertising will be anonymized.

“I think it makes us all more vulnerable to wrongdoers,” Bee Mosca said as she eyed the future hot spot.

Payphones may seem like telecom relics when 68 per cent of Americans own smartphones, according to the Pew Research Center on Internet, Science & Technology. But about 8,200 payphones still dot New York streets.

Some were pressed into service amid outages after 2012’s Superstorm

Sandy, but their numbers and usage have declined overall, and 37 per cent of those inspected last year were inoperable.

The city experimented with providing Wi-Fi from a few payphones in 2012, then hatched the current, eightyear “LinkNYC” plan.

A consortium of companies, including wireless technology player Qualcomm Inc., is to pay the estimated $200 million installation cost and take half the revenue from the kiosks’ digital advertising, projected at $1 billion over 12 years. The city gets the other half, more than doubling the $17 million a year it gets from payphones now.

Each hot spot covers about a 150-foot radius with what’s pledged as one-gigabit-per-second service, about 20 times the speed of average home Internet service. Officials have said the service is intended for outdoor use it’s not clear whether it might extend inside some businesses and homes.

Though many Americans now carry Internet connectivity in their pockets, the network “can be a win for users who can save on their data plans, and it can be a win for (cellular) networks if they’re really overtaxed,” said Erik Stallman, general counsel of the Center for Democracy and Technology, a group that advocates for Internet liberties and access.

Tourists without local cellular service also could benefit, noted John Breyault, a National Consumers League vice-president.

LinkNYC isn’t without opponents: A payphone company has sued the city, saying it created a monopoly for the new consortium.

The city has said it believes the arrangement is legal.

Many U.S. cities strove to cover themselves in Wi-Fi in the early 2000s.

But a number of the plans foundered as home access proliferated, usage and ad revenues disappointed and some Internet service providers complained the city networks were unfair competitors.

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But if the reporter chose to pursue the idea further, buying rather than leasing or a loan would be the better

Apple ups iPhone, iPad prices in Germany after smartphone makers agree to pay content levy

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN — Apple raised the prices for hand-held devices in Germany at the start of the year, following a deal between the tech industry and content producers that will benefit a range of creative professionals including musicians, actors and pornographic filmmakers.

The Cupertino, California-based company confirmed in a statement Sunday to The Associated Press that the price increase affecting iPhones and iPads is linked to the new copyright levy.

Apple Inc., Samsung and others agreed last month to pay about 5-7 euros for each smartphone or tablet imported to Germany. A basic version of iPhone 6s now retails for 744.95 euros compared with 739 euros last year.

The agreement matches similar arrangements already in place for other consumer electronics and consumables such as blank CDs. It is based on a 1965 German law that allows consumers to make private copies of sound, images or texts in return for a small surcharge when they buy the device.

Markus Scheufele, a copyright expert at the tech industry lobby group Bitkom, said the deal includes back payments for phones sold after 2008, and tablets sold after 2012.

In the long term, the industry wants to move away from adding a fixed surcharge on devices to subscription services and pay-per-use models, where consumers only pay for what they actually download, he said.

But Juergen Becker, a spokesman for the umbrella organization ZPUe that negotiated the deal on behalf of content producers, said past experience had shown that consumers would always find ways to copy material for free, without paying for it, making the up-front surcharge on devices fairer.

All forms of content are covered by the deal, meaning that proceeds from the new levy will also be shared with a group representing “creators, producers and acting artists of erotic and pornographic films.”

“Since it’s assumed that these are copied too, they get a share,” Becker said.

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It’s the ninth death worldwide attributed to Takata air bags, which can inflate with too much force and injure occupants with metal fragments.

A 13-year-old boy was driving a relative’s 2001 Honda Accord Coupe on July 22, 2015 when it crashed and the air bag inflated. The boy’s family contacted the government last month.

After investigating, Honda and the government found that the boy’s injuries were caused by a ruptured air bag inflator. Honda says the car was initially recalled in 2010. A recall notice was mailed to the current owner the day before the crash.

Takata says it’s working with the government and Honda on the case.

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Google is rolling out a new online service that quickly tallies up considerations of going solar and whether homeowners should consider buying or leasing photovoltaic panels costing thousands of dollars.

Google’s Project Sunroof combines the eye-in-the-sky images behind Google Earth with calculations on how much shade trees cast over a rooftop, data on local weather patterns, industry pricing and available subsidies to arrive at its bottom line.

The service expanded in December to analyze properties in the Raleigh area, as well as 15 other metro areas in Arizona, Nevada, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Colorado.

Interested potential customers are referred to solar-panel installers for further follow-up, cutting their marketing costs, said Carl Elkin, the senior software engineer behind the service.

“We at Google believe in solar energy. The solar industry needs our help,” he said.

Google has invested more than $1 billion in recent years into solar energy, including $300 million earlier this year into a fund that finances residential rooftop projects installed by SolarCity Corp. Google invested $280 million in the publicly traded company in 2011.

Project Sunroof launched this summer in San Francisco and Fresno, California, and Boston, where Elkin

deal.

Google’s increased involvement in solar comes as some states begin to re-evaluate policies that have helped stimulate the rapid growth in turning the sun into electricity.

All but a handful of states have laws allowing what’s called “net metering” for homes or businesses — basically selling power from rooftop cells they don’t use themselves, usually to the local electric utility, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

In December, Mississippi became the 46th state to adopt broad rules promoting solar power.

In Texas and some of the remaining states, individual utilities may offer similar solar-purchase options, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association, a national trade group.

Solar accounts for about 1 per cent of the country’s total reported electricity generation, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

About two-thirds of that is from utility-scale solar arrays that are often spread across rural tracts.

But as many as two dozen states are considering changes that would reduce the incentives for solar customers under the theory they too should pay for the broader power grid.

Nevada utilities regulators last week adopted a policy to reduce by 75 per cent over five years the amount Las Vegas-area electric company NV Energy pays customers for extra power their solar panels produce.

The change means rooftop solar customers will pay more of the costs now shifted to non-solar customers to maintain the utility’s transmission lines and power generation.

HEALTH

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Using improv to tackle anxiety

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A decade ago, Cameron Algie couldn’t imagine getting up on a stage in front of an audience, let alone performing improv comedy for one.

Gripped by anxiety, he scoffed when his therapist suggested he was naturally funny and might do well in an improv class at Second City Toronto. “It seemed like the scariest thing to do,�’ recalls the Cambridge, Ont., native. “Getting through the door that first day, the first class, is the scariest thing.

Anxiety is all about anticipation and imagining all these scary things, but once I was there in the class, it really was scary but fun.�

Algie went on to complete all five stages of the improv classes there and then studied at the conservatory level.

Now he teaches Improv for Anxiety or Public Speaking at the Second City Training Centre in Toronto. “I think play is the key, No. 1 part of it so it doesn’t feel like therapy or work,� he says. “Getting them playing — and then tackle issues like being in the moment and get in touch with your body, connect with other people, make mistakes, allow yourself to not be perfect and be OK with not being perfect.�

Group work and building social skills are also a focus of the centre’s new class, improv for teens on the autism spectrum, which begins Jan. 9.

Instructor Cassie Moes, who pitched the idea for the class, learned how to work with people with special needs as a middle-school teacher. She also

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Improv comedy instructor Cassie Moes shown in a handout photo. Group work and building social skills are a focus of the Second City Training Centre’s new class, improv for teens on the autism spectrum, which begins Jan. 9. had experience teaching improv exercises for people with special needs and did respite care at Reach Child and Youth Development Society in Delta, B.C. “I find a lot of the times ‌ as kids get older — kids who are on the spectrum — there’s not a lot of programming and resources that’s of good quality for them to explore different

things,� says the Vancouver native. “So I really wanted to offer a program where not only will they get the social element that improv really provides but they would also just get to learn some skills which they can apply in their day-to-day life.�

Algie says the biggest obstacle for students in the anxiety class is self-judgment.

“When you stand in front of an audience, the audience is never judging you as harshly as you’re judging you,� says Algie. “If you make a little mistake onstage, the audience probably doesn’t notice or care or think of it as a mistake. They probably laughed, found it funny.�

Moes, who has also taught the class, says they tell students not to try to be funny. “I always try to say, who you are and what you have and what you bring inherently is enough,� she says. “You are protected by the framework of the game. The more you let yourself go, those are the people who have the most success, the people with no filter.�

Algie and Moes say some anxiety alumni have gone on to perform in front of hundreds and even formed their own troupes. “For a lot of people, public speaking is worse than death,� says Moes. “So they’re like, ‘If I can stand on this stage and perform in front of 200 people, what else can’t I do in my life?�’ The Improv for Teens on the Spectrum classes are for “high-functioning independent teens� ages 13 to 19.

Moes says she plans to do group exercises to help students feel safe, pick up on emotional cues and “go outside of themselves.� “Also just to have fun and have a regular space, where it’s just like, ‘Hey, there are all these people on the same page as me, let’s just be friends and have fun with each other in this environment that’s less schooled and less worried about fixing what’s wrong with you.�’

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The way they live is remarkably refreshing and worth taking note of some of their healthy habits. As New Year’s approaches, take a moment to reflect on your lifestyle choices and implement some of these suggestions the Balinese use to nourish, pamper and treat themselves to stay feeling vibrant and fresh.

1. Self pamper with a simple at home spa treatment. Light some candles, have a bath with essential oils, epsom salts, put on a clay mask and play soft music. Give yourself a deep conditioning hair treatment with a “self scalp massageâ€? Finish by massaging your body with pure coconut oil or cacao butter. When your body is relaxed and soothed‌ “Pamperedâ€? you are less prone to indulgent or addictive behaviour‌ In the way you eat and in the way you live.

2. Pesto! I am reminded of the simplicity and deliciousness of a simple pesto! Wow! To make yourself, see recipe below.

Toss with a fresh quinoa pasta or buckwheat noodle and chop some fresh cherry tomatoes, maybe a sprinkle of cashew cheese (or a little Parmesan), cracked black pepper and a couple of tablespoons of hemp seeds for a simple meal or snack.

3. Ginger root and honey tea. In the evening, slice up some fresh ginger root and let it steep in a cup of hot water. About ½� is fine in 2-3slices. Put a teaspoon of an unpasteurized honey to get a beautiful medicinal digestive aid for the evening.

4. Make your own “Jamu� tonic! Jamu tonic is used often in both Ayurvedic treatment as well as traditional Chinese medicine as a strong anti-inflammatory remedy with the turmeric root.

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Nourishing and pampering are part of a happy healthy lifestyle‌ so give yourself permission to feel like you are in a Balinese spa whenever possible.

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Kristin Fraser, BSc, is a holistic nutritionist and local freelance writer. Her column appears every second Thursday.

She can be reached at kristin@somethingtochewon.ca.

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Singer Natalie Cole dead at 65

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This photo provided by Disney shows a scene from the new film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, directed by J.J. Abrams.

Star Wars edges in on Avatar record

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BOX OFFICE

LOS ANGELES — Star Wars: The Force Awakens marched confidently into the new year, raking in an additional $88.3 million over the New Year’s weekend and topping the box office for a third week, according to studio estimates Sunday.

In addition to setting a new high mark in New Year’s box office history, the record-busting film blew past the domestic grosses of both Jurassic World ($652.3 million) and Titanic ($658.7 million) to become the second-highest earner of all time with $740.3 million in just 19 days of release.

The top domestic film is Avatar with a $760.5 million lifetime domestic gross, but Star Wars is barrelling in to surpass it soon. For context, it took Avatar 72 days to reach $700 million. Star Wars did that in 16 days.

While Star Wars might not give up its throne any time soon, films like Daddy’s Home and Sisters have proven to be incredibly strong performers.

Daddy’s Home, the comedy starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, came in second with an estimated $29 million, bringing its total to $93.7 million in just two weeks. The film fell only 25 per cent from its first weekend in theatres.

Even more formidable is the mere 11 per cent drop from the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler comedy Sisters, which brought in $12.6 million in its third weekend for a fourth-place spot. The film has earned $61.7 so far.

“When you look at the holding power of Daddy’s Home and Sisters, it shows you that those films are for many people the antidote to Star Wars,” said Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst for box office tracker Rentrak.

“The diversity of the slate that the studios created by not retreating from Star Wars is helping.”

Quentin Tarantino’s bloody Western The Hateful Eight, meanwhile, took third with $16.2 million in its first weekend in wide release after a strong limited debut.

The three-hour epic, which cost a reported $44 million to produce, has made $29.6 million to date — just shy of what Django Unchained made in its first weekend.

“There is still a big audience out there for auteur-driven cinema,” Dergarabedian said.

“Tarantino, no matter what, is an interesting filmmaker. Film fans want to see what he’s up to. It’s not as big as some of his other films, but it’s still doing well as it expands.”

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip took fifth place with $11.8 million, dropping only 10 per cent from last weekend.

The year is off to a strong start overall, up 24.5 per cent from last year.

This New Year’s weekend could even set a record if it tops the $220 million total of 2009/2010, when both Avatar and Sherlock Holmes were in theatres.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to Rentrak. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

1.Star Wars: The Force Awakens, $88.3 million.

2.Daddy’s Home $29 million.

3.The Hateful Eight, $16.2 million.

4.Sisters, $12.6 million.

5.Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip, $11.8 million.

6. Joy, $10.4 million.

7.The Big Short, $9 million.

8. Concussion, $8 million.

9. Point Break, $6.8 million.

10.The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2, $4.6 million.

LOS ANGELES — Natalie Cole, the daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, who carved out her own success with R&B hits like Our Love and This Will Be before triumphantly intertwining their legacies to make his “Unforgettable” their signature hit through technological wizardry, has died. Natalie Cole She was 65.

While Cole was a Grammy winner in her own right, she had her greatest success in 1991 when she re-recorded her father’s classic hits — with him on the track — for the album Unforgettable … With Love. It became a multiplatinum smash and garnered her multiple Grammy Awards, including album of the year.

Cole died Thursday evening at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles due to complications from ongoing health issues, her family said in a statement.

“Natalie fought a fierce, courageous battle, dying how she lived … with dignity, strength and honour. Our beloved Mother and sister will be greatly missed and remain UNFORGETTABLE in our hearts forever,” read the statement from her son Robert Yancy and sisters Timolin and Casey Cole.

“I had to hold back the tears. I know how hard she fought,” said Aretha Franklin in a statement. “She fought for so long. She was one of the greatest singers of our time.”

Other celebrities honoured Cole on social media. In a tweet, actress Marlee Matlin called Cole a lovely songbird and a great actress, writing “she is now singing in heaven.” Patti LaBelle tweeted, “She will be truly missed but her light will shine forever!”

Natalie Cole had battled drug problems and hepatitis that forced her to undergo a kidney transplant in May 2009.

Cole’s older sister, Carol “Cookie” Cole, died the day she received the transplant.

Their brother, Nat Kelly Cole, died in 1995.

Natalie Cole was inspired by her dad at an early age and auditioned to sing with him when she was just 11 years old.

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NEW YORK — For fans of George R.R. Martin, winter is not coming — at least not right away.

The Game of Thrones author says he missed a Dec. 31 deadline to finish The Winds of Winter” the sixth book in his popular fantasy series. That means the next HBO season based on the novel will start airing in April, before the book is published.

The words “you won’t like it” appeared Saturday on Martin’s blog, reporting that “the book’s not done. … I tried, I promise you. I failed.”

Martin says he is working with HBO to ensure the show reflects the next installment of the A Song of Ice and Fire books — in which characters warn of impending doom with the phrase “Winter is coming.”

With hundreds of pages and dozens of chapters written, Martin said he estimates it will still take months more if the writing goes well.

“You can blame my travels or my blog posts or the distractions of other projects and the Cocteau and whatever, but maybe all that had an impact,” he wrote, referring to the single-screen Jean Cocteau Cinema he purchased and fixed up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lives.

“For months now I have wanted nothing so much as to be able to say, ‘I have completed and delivered The Winds of Winter on or before the last day of 2015,” the 67-year-old author blogged.

The truth is “sometimes the writing goes well and sometimes it doesn’t, and that was true for me even when I was in my 20s,” he wrote.

Messages left at Martin’s office and the cinema were not immediately returned.

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She was 15 when he died of lung cancer, in 1965.

She began as an R&B singer but later gravitated toward the smooth pop and jazz standards that her father loved.

Cole’s greatest success came with her 1991 album, Unforgettable … With Love, which paid tribute to her father with reworked versions of some of his best-known songs, including That Sunday That Summer, Too Young and Mona Lisa.

Her voice was spliced with her dad’s in the title cut, offering a delicate duet a quarter-century after his death.

The album sold some 14 million copies and won six Grammys, including album of the year as well record and song of the year for the title track duet.

While making the album, Cole told The Associated Press in 1991, she had to “throw out every R&B lick that I had ever learned and every pop trick I had ever learned. With him, the music was in the background and the voice was in the front.”

“I didn’t shed really any real tears until the album was over,” Cole said.

“Then I cried a whole lot. When we started the project it was a way of reconnecting with my dad. Then when we did the last song, I had to say goodbye again.”

She was also nominated for an Emmy award in 1992 for a televised performance of her father’s songs.

“That was really my thank you,” she told People magazine in 2006. “I owed that to him.”

Another father-daughter duet, When I Fall in Love, won a 1996 Grammy for best pop collaboration with vocals, and a follow-up album, Still Unforgettable, won for best traditional pop vocal album of 2008.

Cole made her recording debut in 1975 with Inseparable. The music industry welcomed her with two Grammy awards in 1976 — one for best new artist and one for best female R&B vocal performance for her buoyant hit This Will Be (An Everlasting Love).

She also worked as an actress, with appearances on TV’s Touched by an Angel and Grey’s Anatomy.

But she was happiest touring and performing live.

“I still love recording and still love the stage,” she said on her website in 2008, “but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.”

Cole was born in 1950 to Nat “King” Cole and his wife, Maria Ellington Cole, a onetime vocalist with Duke Ellington who was no relation to the great bandleader.

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BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Rebels 10 Wheat Kings 0 The Red Deer Rebels’ newly-acquired offensive star was a major hit in his debut Saturday night at the Centrium.

Skating on a line with Ivan Nikolishin and centre Jake DeBrusk, Adam Helewka scored once and added three assists as the Rebels blasted the Brandon Wheat Kings 10-0 in a WHL contest viewed by 5,742 fans.

Clearly, the 20-year-old didn’t require an adjustment period after being obtained from the Spokane Chiefs the previous day and after serving a six-game suspension for injuring an opponent in a fight that followed the final buzzer of a Dec. 12 contest versus TriCity. He fit in immediately and was only too happy to contribute to a big win.

“It’s great to be part of this team, this organization,” said Helewka, following his second-star selection. “This is my first day here and I’m already loving it.”

Helewka admitted he was emotional at the news he was on his way out of Spokane.

“It was tough to say goodbye to all of the players and the staff and my billets,” he confessed. “I made some really strong relationships over the last almost three and a half years. It was tough to say goodbye, but at the same time I was super excited to come and be a part of this team going towards the Memorial Cup.” The Rebels exploded for seven first-period goals to make the final result a mere formality.

Defenceman Nelson Nogier ignited the onslaught at 4:21. Brandon netminder Jordan Papirny got a piece of the blast from the top of the circle but couldn’t prevent what proved to be the winning goal.

From there, DeBrusk sniped his first of three markers on the evening, converting a give-and-go with Helewka at 6:07. Helewka found the back of the net at 13:19 for a 3-0 lead, Grayson Pawlenchuk tallied 37 seconds later and

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Red Deer Rebels forward Jake DeBrusk crashes the net of Brandon Wheat Kings netminder Logan Thompson for his third goal of the game during Saturday night WHL action at the Enmax Centrium. The Rebels pounded the Wheat Kings 10-0.

Brandon Hagel, DeBrusk, again, and Conner Bleackley rounded out the opening-frame eruption.

The first-period production fell one goal short of a team record that was established when the Rebels connected eight times in the opening 20 minutes en route to an 11-4 win over Prince Albert on Jan. 12 of 2002.

“We put a lot of pucks on net,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter, in reference to the 19 shots faced by Papirny and Logan Thompson, who replaced his teammate

following Red Deer’s fifth goal.

“I’m sure they (Wheat Kings) would like to have some of those (goals) back, but credit our kids for moving their feet and generating some offence. We had some speed in our game and obviously the big line created a lot tonight.”

After dominating in the early going, the Rebels were outshot 13-7 in the second period while serving the only two minor penalties of the stanza. But goaltender Rylan Toth, who finished with a 30-save shutout — his third of

the season — turned aside every Brandon opportunity.

“I thought Tother made some key saves at certain times,” said Sutter, whose club held a 35-30 advantage in shots overall.

While Toth was earning his keep in the middle period, DeBrusk completed his hat trick, his wrister from the high slot catching the top of the net.

Nikolishin scored the Rebels’ ninth goal at 14:14 of the third period — a marker that was originally credited to DeBrusk — and Pawlenchuk potted his second of the night and

15th of the season 58 seconds later.

“That’s a good team we played. They had a tough night,” said Sutter.

As for his own squad …

“We played hard, we had energy, we had emotion, and that’s kind of what we want to see from our team,” said Sutter. “We can generate offence, but again we have to continue to do other things well, like managing the puck. At times tonight we were really good at that and at times we were probably a little sloppier than we wanted to be.

“But it’s a big win. Any time you can generate that kind of offence it’s certainly a confidence booster for your group.”

Sutter was more than impressed with Helewka’s debut.

“I think it speaks for itself what type of player he is,” said the Rebels boss. “It has been close to three weeks since he last played a game and I thought he really had his feet moving. He’s a big, strong body who protects the puck and makes plays.

“I (also) like his responsibility on the ice. He knows how to play the game.”

Helewka’s skills and assets aside, his acquisition and ensuing opening-game performance sparked the other Red Deer veterans, as Sutter had hoped.

“It’s a jolt, right?” said Sutter.

“We need to have more emotion, more intensity right from our dressing room out to the bench and on to the ice, and we certainly had that tonight.”

The Helewka-DeBrusk-Nikolishin unit combined for 13 points.

“Those players have amazing skill,” said Helewka of his new linemates. “Through just one game I think we’ve kind of found some chemistry together and I hope we have a great season ahead of us.”

The Rebels left today for a two-game road trip that consists of stops in Prince Albert and Saskatoon Tuesday and Wednesday. Red Deer will host Lethbridge and Vancouver Friday and Saturday. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

Rebels add another ‘high-end’ player in trade

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

great understanding of the game.”

In exchange for the Ice captain, who underwent ankle surgery in November and is slated to return to action What Red Deer Rebels GM/head before the end of January, Sutter relinquished overage forward coach Brent Sutter adPresten Kopeck, 17-yearmires most about Luke old defenceman Ryan Philp is that the Canmore Pouliot, 16-year-old prosnative does not appear to pect forward Tanner Sihave a ‘best-before’ expidaway and a second- and ry date. third-round pick in this “Let’s face it, he’s a year’s WHL bantam draft. high-end player. The Philp is an obvious thing you like about Luke upgrade on Kopeck, who is that every year he’s is an excellent penalty continued to get better killer but has struggled and he’s always risen to offensively this season, the occasion in the playwhile Pouliot was bareoffs,” Sutter said Sunday, ly utilized by the Rebels a few hours after acquirLuke Philp and Sidaway was considing the 20-year-old forered a marginal prospect. ward from the Kootenay “At the end of the day we’re very Ice. “He’s a playoff guy. The bigger the happy with the young players we still game, the better he plays. He’s the have in our system,” said Sutter. “In kind of player who can put up points regards to Pouliot, we looked at our but is also a 200-foot player with a young players and felt that (Carson)

Sass, (Ethan) Sakowich, (Jacob) Herauf and possibly Jace Foskey from Dallas — if things worked out with getting him signed — are all ahead of Ryan (on the Rebels depth chart).

“And with Sidaway, we feel we have other players in the system who can play his role.”

The 2016 Memorial Cup hosts, as Sutter pointed out, still own their first-round pick in this year’s bantam draft. Red Deer is missing a secondand third-pick in the draft and have already dealt their first-round pick in 2017.

Sutter also gave up promising prospect Eli Zummack in the trade that landed overage forward Adam Helewka from Spokane, but has picked up three elite up-front skaters in the past week in Jake DeBrusk, Helewka and now Philp.

“We feel we’ve covered all of the assets and pieces we’ve dealt and the key thing is we’ve been able to keep our first-round pick in this year’s draft,” said Sutter, who stock-piled draft picks

over the past two to three years, for example getting three second-rounders from Portland in exchange for Mathew Dumba in December of 2013.

Philp, a five-foot-10, 180-pound center, recorded 94 points, including 35 goals, in 78 regular-season and playoff games in the 2014-15 WHL campaign.

In total, he has produced 95 goals and 140 assists for 235 points in 247 regular-season games since 2011, and 28 points (12-16) in 28 playoff contests.

“He fits right in with our top three to four forwards,” said Sutter.

Sutter said Kopeck was relatively reserved when informed of the deal.

“Kopes is the type of person who doesn’t show a lot of emotion, he kind of keeps it inside,” said Sutter. “I’m sure he’s disappointed, but it’s all going to work out for him at the end of the day.”

With the Ice in full-blown rebuild mode, there is every chance that Kopeck will be dealt to another team before or at the Jan. 10 trade deadline. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Hockey Canada’s Renney defends world junior coaches

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HELSINKI — Tom Renney came to the defence of Canada’s coaching staff at the world junior hockey championships on Sunday.

The president and chief executive officer of Hockey Canada spoke a day after Canada dropped a 6-5 decision to Finland in the quarter-finals of the international event, guaranteeing a sixth-place finish at the tournament. It is the lowest Canada has placed at the world juniors since 1998.

“I thought our team was very well prepared, I thought we had as good a coaching staff at the competition as anyone,” Renney said in a conference room at the team’s hotel. “There’s no doubt in my mind that our guys put the time and effort in to have the team ready to go.

“There is a point in time where that transfer of responsibility goes from the coach to the player.”

Head coach Dave Lowry’s squad of under-20s struggled throughout the tournament with discipline on the ice.

Canada took 10 minor penalties in a 5-2 loss to Sweden in the final game of the preliminary round before taking nine penalties in the quarter-final loss

‘I THOUGHT OUR TEAM WAS VERY WELL PREPARED, I THOUGHT WE HAD AS GOOD A COACHING STAFF AT THE COMPETITION AS ANYONE. THERE’S NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT OUR GUYS PUT THE TIME AND EFFORT IN TO HAVE THE TEAM READY TO GO. THERE IS A POINT IN TIME WHERE THAT TRANSFER OF RESPONSIBILITY GOES FROM THE COACH TO THE PLAYER.’ —PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF HOCKEY CANADA, TOM RENNEY to Finland.

A particularly costly series of events saw forward Jake Virtanen — on loan from the NHL’s Vancouver Canucks — take a double minor in the third period against Finland. While killing that penalty defenceman Joe Hicketts took a delay of game penalty when trying to clear the puck.

It was during the ensuing 5-on-3 that Patrik Laine scored the game-winning goal for Finland.

“That’s the beauty of this event,” said Renney. “We’re talking about teenagers that are having to deal and cope with situations in the spontaneity of playing hockey that sometimes work against you and sometimes don’t.

“The bottom line is that the coaching staff did an excellent job.”

Instead, Renney pointed to the performance of goaltenders Mackenzie

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Blackwood and Mason McDonald and Canada’s power play and penalty kill units.

“At the end of the day, our special teams needed to maybe perform a bit better,” said Renney. “When your save percentage is under .900 everyone knows that it’s going to be tough to win.

There’s no question about that.”

Canada’s team save percentage was second-worst in the 10-team tournament at .860 and Blackwood and McDonald combined for a 3.58 goalsagainst average.

The Canadian power play was tied with Russia as second-best at the world juniors (up to quarter-final play) with a 33 per cent conversion rate.

Its penalty-killing unit, however, was dead last with a 58.82 percentage.

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said the Canadians paid the price for their lack of discipline.

“Canada was so close but they shot themselves in the foot,” Wilson said Sunday after his team’s practice. “I mentioned to their coach before the game that you’ve got to make sure you don’t take any penalties because penalties will kill you, especially against Finland. Finland had the best power play coming in.

“I guess you could say they got what they deserved when they’re living and dying by the penalty. You just can’t do that.”

Regardless of who is to blame, Renney and the rest of Hockey Canada can’t hide their disappointment in one of the worst performances by a Canadian team at the world juniors.

“We’re not happy with our situation, obviously. We’re not happy where we finished,” said Renney. “This is a competition like any at the world level that will expose deficiencies in teams throughout the course of the competition and also illuminate some of the things that are real good about a federation, ours included.

“The fact of that matter is we came up short. We have to sit back and evaluate why and look for solutions and not point fingers.”

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Arizona’s John Scott selected as NHL All-Star captain JAGR, OVECHKIN, KANE ALSO SELECTED TO LEAD DIVISIONS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE — John Scott is known for intimidating opponents with his fists and massive size.

Now the Arizona Coyotes tough guy can add a new title: NHL All-Star captain.

Fans voted for the four captains to the Jan. 31 All-Star game at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena and the final tally had Scott’s name next to Florida’s Jaromir Jagr, Washington’s Alex Ovechkin and Chicago’s Patrick Kane. “It’s one of those things where I don’t want to be a joke, I don’t want to be an embarrassment, I don’t want to kind of embarrass the game in that way,� Scott said before the Coyotes faced the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday. “But I talked to some people, I talked to a lot of former players and every-

one said have fun with it, just go with it and it’ll be a good experience�.

The other three captains were not surprising. Jagr is one of the game’s elder statesmen, Ovechkin one of its best players and Kane is the NHL’s points leader.

The 6-foot-8, 270-pound Scott is one of the game’s last heavyweight fighters, a player who’s articulate and well thought of off the ice, but one of the most intimidating forces on it.

Scott has one assist and 25 penalty minutes in 11 games this season and was waived three times by the Coyotes.

The enforcer has five goals, six assists and 542 penalty minutes in 285 career games.

The All-Star game was reformatted this year, with one player from each division selected by fan voting to lead a team in the three-on-three game. “Fans — I was afraid that 3on3 all-Star game may kill me, now, I am

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Arizona Coyotes’ John Scott checks Columbus Blue Jackets’ Matt Calvert during an NHL game in Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 14. Tough guy Scott was chosen as an NHL all-star game captain despite dressing for just six games this season. more afraid, fighting John Scott 6,8 300 during All-Star, kill me for sure,� Jagr tweeted.

A fan campaign began when voting started and continued until Scott became an improbable captain.

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“At first it was one of those things that I thought was a joke, but now it happened so I’ve kind of got to go with it, have some fun with it and try to do the best I can,� Scott said.

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Brooks Bandits easily win home-and-home weekend series OLDS — A fast start didn’t help the Olds Grizzlys in an Alberta Junior Hockey League game Saturday.

The Grizzlys jumped out to a 2-0 lead on first-period goals from Jack Goranson and Wyatt Noskey before 474 fans at the Sportsplex, but the Brooks Bandits evened the count before the period ended, then tallied twice in the second frame and added a single goal in the third to post a 5-2 win.

Scoring for the Bandits, who were one-for-eight on the power play, were former Grizzly Ty Mappin, Kyler Nachtigall, Cale Makar, Logan Mick and Derek Lodermeier.

Winning netminder Josh Davies made 17 saves.

Kurtis Chapman blocked 48 shots for Olds, which was two-for-five with a man advantage.

The victory gave Brooks a sweep of the weekend home-and-home set, which opened Friday with a 12-2 Bandits romp.

Nachtigall and Jeff Malott led the hosts with three goals apiece, while Nick Prukusic and Jesse Pereira each scored twice and Lodermeier and Jared Cockrell chipped in with singles in front of 1,464 fans at Centennial Regional Arena.

Landon Kletke notched both goals for Olds, which was one-for-seven on the power play. The Bandits extra-man units struck for five goals on 15 opportunities.

Jonathan Reinhart turned aside 19 shots in the Brooks net. Chapman and back-up Ben Giesbrecht each made 20 saves for the Grizzlys, who return to action Friday against the host Grande Prairie Storm.

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Kelsie Caine of Red Deer scores against Finland in first game of best-of-three final for world junior ringette championship, Saturday in Helsinki, Finland. Team Canada, with Caine contributing three assists, defeated host country Finland 10-9 in overtime Sunday to capture the world junior ringette championship. The Canadian team was undefeated (6-0) in round-robin play and swept the Finns in a best-of-three final. Caine scored once as the Canadians prevailed 7-5 in Saturday’s first game of the championship series. The Red Deer player finished third in team scoring in round-robin action with 11 goals and 24 points, then added a goal and three helpers in the playoff series. Meanwhile, the Canadian senior team lost 13-0 to Finland in the second game of the best-of-three Sam Jacks series. Lacombe’s Dailyn Bell, whose sister Jamie was also on the team, picked up the player of the game award for Canada, which settled for silver. Canada lost Game 1 of the series 8-2 Friday.

Canada’s loss to Finland not the end of the world It’s tempting, when Canada loses swapped goalies without hesitation; the wrong hockey game, to ascribe the over-reliance on players like Jake bigger problems to the loss. The joke Virtanen, even after his penalty that about Royal Commissions ages pretty wiped out a 5-on-3 in the second periwell, considering; Hockey Canada is od, and his disastrous double minors under such pressure, and depends so in the third; a lack of well-defined much on teenagers at this time of year, roles. and sometimes it goes Oh, and the discipline: wrong. This year, it did: Nine penalties in a big game with a 6-5 loss to Finland is a wreck. Virtanen’s douin Helsinki, Canada failed ble minors were thoughtless; to reach the semifinals of Marner’s punch to Julius the world junior hockey Nattinen late in the third championship for the first was foolish. Virtanen, who is time since 1998. headed back to the VancouSo, failure. It happens, ver Canucks, alluded to bithough rarely this early. ased referees, and Marner, But since the collapse in the Leafs’ super-prospect, Buffalo in 2011, Canada told reporters he was just tryhas won a bronze medal ing to grab Nattinen, as if his in Alberta, a gold medal hands were that imprecise.

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and never so much as trailed. With Connor McDavid and Aaron Ekblad and others in the NHL, this version just wasn’t that good.

Nobody came out of the round-robin thinking this team had the chemistry, the discipline, or the goaltending to win gold.

There were still great things.

Marner’s dancing, absurd, flip-to-aspot, slalom-through-three-Finns-andshoot assault with eight minutes left just before a 4-on-4 expired — that was stunning, and it was Canada’s best last chance while the score was still 5-5.

Then came Virtanen’s mistakes, and a clearing attempt that has still not come down, and next thing you know, Finland was ahead. Marner was incredible in the third period, a man-boy among boys.

But Canada didn’t quite have enough. It happens.

And that’s okay, really. This isn’t the crisis. If you want one, there are smart people in junior hockey who worry that Canada coaches the skill out of hockey, and this country’s goaltending vacuum is well-established, and the spectre of American hockey coming for Canada is a serious one. Those problems, those worries, exist.

But this was one year, and there will be another chance next time, in Toronto and Montreal. The best larger lesson here might be this: it would be more fun if more hockey was played like that. Worse goaltending, less over-coaching, more mistakes, more goals. Going into Saturday night, NHL teams were scoring 2.66 goals

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There have been two 6-5 games in the NHL this season. The game is so often a grind. “It’s close games every night,� said Leafs defenceman Morgan Rielly the other day. “There’s not a lot happening off the rush, it’s all off the cycle. Guys are so strong now, and I mean, that’s just the game’s played. It sucks for D-men. This year with Mike (Babcock), I haven’t seen a player or a coach have so much concentration on D-men keeping players away from the net. It’s box-outs, box-outs, keep them out. And guys are so strong, and they make the play out of the corner, and they try to get to the net.�

As another NHL player puts it, “It’s hard to watch, every night.�

And in junior, and at the world junior, we still get to see players before they’re crammed in a box, before they’re drilled to play the 200-foot game and not take chances. This means they make mistakes, and they fail, and sometimes they soar. And again, it’s okay. It’s how hockey should be.

Bruce Arthur is a sports columnist for the Toronto Star. He was named the 2012 sportswriter of the year by Sports Media Canada, and he has been named to Sports Illustrated’s list of the top 100 people to follow on Twitter four times. Arthur is a regular on TSN’s The Reporters with Dave Hodge, and appears Monday afternoons on TSN Radio.

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Ramo, Flames shutout Avalanche

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Flames 4 Avalanche 0 DENVER — Karri Ramo had his best game of the season to deny Jarome Iginla his place in the NHL record books.

Ramo made 26 saves for his first shutout of the season, Josh Jooris had a goal and an assist and the Calgary Flames beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-0 on Saturday night.

Matt Stajan, Dougie Hamilton and Mikael Backlund also scored to help the Flames improve to 10-4-0 since the start of December. Ramo got his fifth career shutout and first since Nov. 29, 2014, at Arizona.

“They’re always nice but it’s something that shows your team played really well,” Ramo said. “We played the full 60 minutes really well. Main thing is always to win the game but these are nice and it’s good to get the one out of the way.”

Iginla, one goal away from becoming the 19th player in NHL history to score 600, was shut down by his former team. After getting No. 599 last Sunday against the Coyotes, he has not scored in three straight games since then. He said he hopes his quest isn’t a distraction to his teammates.

“We talk about it,” Iginla said. “It’s not to look for me. I want us to play normal, if anything use me as a decoy.

There’s a lot of time to get that.”

Despite Iginla’s request his teammates were guilty of trying too hard to set him up. Alex Tanguay was alone in front early in the game but tried to pass to Iginla through traffic and squandered a scoring chance.

“I guess we focused more on seeing Iggy score that 600th instead of playing our game,” Avalanche coach Patrick Roy said. “We had a few good chances and we tried to pass the puck to him instead of bringing it to the net.”

Iginla, who scored 525 goals in 15-plus seasons with the Flames, had a couple of chances in this one but one shot was blocked and Ramo made a save on another early in the third period.

Flames coach Bob Hartley, who

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Colorado Avalanche center Mikhail Grigorenko runs into Calgary Flames goalie Karri Ramo as he stops a shot in third period of an NHL game Saturday, in Denver. Calgary won 4-0. coached Iginla for 31 games in 2012-13, said he is now rooting for him to get the big goal.

“Now I’m his biggest fan,” he said.

Calgary led 1-0 after the first period and then blew it open with three goals in a 4:49 span of the second period.

Jooris made it 2-0 with a tip through the legs of Colorado defenceman Brandon Gormley at 8:18 and Stajan redirected defenceman Dennis Wideman’s shot from the point past goalie Semyon Varlamov at 10:47.

Backlund made it 4-0 he banged in his own rebound at 13:07. It was his fifth of the season.

“It was big,” Jooris said of the second period. “We just wanted to stay on them. We did really good on the forecheck, we generated a lot of chances off the forecheck and making their (defencemen) turn the puck over.

Calvin Pickard replaced Varlamov, who finished with 15 saves.

The Flames are last in the NHL on the power play but scored on the sec-

ond of their three chances in the first period when Hamilton beat Varlamov at 7:57. It was his fifth goal of the season.

“It was so important we took the crowd away,” Hartley said. “That was part of our plan.”

NOTES: Flames RW Jiri Hudler didn’t play in the third period because of a lower-body injury. … Calgary D Deryk Engelland sat out after taking a puck to the face in Thursday’s loss to the Kings.

Oilers get shootout win over Coyotes

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Oilers 4 Coyotes 3 (SO) EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers are hoping a new year means renewed life in the playoff hunt.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored the shootout winner and Jordan Eberle scored twice in regulation as the Oilers snapped a four-game losing skid with a 4-3 victory over the Arizona Coyotes on Saturday.

“After Christmas, we didn’t take advantage of the games against teams in our division,” Nugent-Hopkins said. “It was great to see us stick with it after getting down by a goal in the third. We really wanted to come back and get that one and played with some desperation tonight.”

Oilers goalie Cam Talbot, who stopped two of three attempts in the shootout, said the team is hoping a win

can get them going in the new year.

“We talked about that after our last game, to let the end of December go and to focus on a new day, a new year here,” he said.

“I think we got off to a good start tonight.”

Taylor Hall also scored for the Oilers (16-21-3), who have won eight of their last 10 games at home.

Steve Downie, Brad Richardson and Anthony Duclair replied for the Coyotes (18-16-4), who have lost two of their last three outings.

“It was a tight game, tight game,” said Arizona head coach Dave Tippett.

“We missed an assignment in our own end and gave them a chance to tie it up, and then it was a tight game. Some chances here and there. Thirteen seconds left we had a real good chance.

But you get to the shootout, anything can happen.”

Arizona got on the board seven min-

utes into the opening period as Jordan Martinook sent a pass through a defender’s legs from behind the net to Downie, who beat Talbot five-hole.

Edmonton tied it up a minute later as Leon Draisaitl sent a no-look backhand feed in front to Hall, who redirected it past Coyotes starter Louis Domingue for his 16th of the season.

The Oilers went up 2-1 on the power play with eight minutes left in the first as Mark Letestu found Eberle in a scramble in front and he picked the top corner.

Arizona tied the game with fiveand-a-half minutes to play in the second when Richardson took a couple of whacks at the puck in the blue paint and eventually got one under Talbot.

The Coyotes made it 3-2 six minutes into the third as Max Domi made a beautiful pass on a two-on-one to allow Duclair to score his 11th of the season.

Edmonton tied the game again with

Raptors drop close decision to Bulls

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Bulls 115 Raptors 113 TORONTO — Jimmy Butler was apparently plotting his revenge when he was in the locker-room having his split lip stitched up.

Butler scored 40 points in the second half Sunday to break Michael Jordan’s record for points in a half by a Bull, propelling Chicago to a 115113 victory over the Toronto Raptors.

“I was mad,” Butler said, about the first-half knock to the lip that required one stitch and left Air Canada Centre staff cleaning the blood on the floor during a timeout. “I just came out and was aggressive after that.”

The Raptors had no answer.

“We tried everybody and everything, and couldn’t get him stopped,” coach Dwane Casey said.

DeMar DeRozan topped Toronto (21-14) with 24 points, while Kyle Lowry added 22 points and 10 assists in the Raptors’ last home game for two weeks.

Luis Scola had 22 points, Cory Joseph finished with 13 and DeMarre Carroll added 10.

Carroll was making a layup when he split Butler’s lip.

But the Bulls guard, who had just two points in the first half, would exact his revenge. And his final field goal of the game, fittingly, was a three-pointer he launched over Carroll with 31 seconds left that gave Chicago its first lead since early in the second quarter.

“I’m not all of the way there,” said Carroll, who returned last week after missing nine games with a knee contusion. “(Butler) did what he’s supposed to do when a guy’s not all of the way there. I’ll see him again. It’s no big deal.”

Jordan’s record was 39 points in the second half versus Milwaukee in 1989.

Pau Gasol added 19 points for a Bulls team (20-12) missing star point guard Derrick Rose (hamstring injury).

The Raptors were looking for payback, winless in their previous six games against the Bulls, including a 104-97 defeat just six nights earlier in

six minutes left in the third. Eberle scored his second of the game on a backhander, recording his 300th career NHL point in the process.

The Oilers had the best chances in overtime, including a post hit by Nugent-Hopkins.

Domingue ended up with 38 saves in the loss.

Both teams return to the ice on Monday as the Coyotes travel to Vancouver and the Oilers host Carolina.

Notes: The Coyotes defeated the Oilers 4-1 in their only previous meeting this season. Arizona swept the fivegame series last season and came into the game with an 11-1 record in their previous 12 contests against Edmonton. … The Oilers were still without Connor McDavid (collarbone), Nail Yakupov (ankle), Oscar Klefbom (finger), Andrew Ference (undisclosed) and Iiro Pakarinen (upper body).

Agent for Lightning forward Drouin says trade request was made

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Toronto Raptors’ Cory Joseph makes a pass in front of Chicago Bulls’ Pau Gasol during second half NBA action in Toronto on Sunday.

Chicago.

Sunday, they led for virtually all but the first quarter in a thrilling Eastern Conference matchup, taking an 87-81 advantage into the fourth quarter in front of a capacity crowd of 19,800 fans at the Air Canada Centre.

But the fired-up Butler was unstoppable down the stretch, and when he drilled a three in DeRozan’s face with two-and-a-half minutes to play, it pulled the Bulls to within two points.

DeRozan missed two shots in the final 18 seconds, including a threepoint attempt that clanged around the rim with no time left that elicited a collective groan from fans.

DeRozan praised Butler’s “amazing” second half.

“He got hot, and we tried to contain him,” DeRozan said. “Once you’re scoring and get hot it doesn’t matter what you do from there. We

just have to do a better job of getting the ball out of his hands and make someone else beat us.”

The Raptors finished the homestand 2-1, and departed for the airport Sunday night for Cleveland, where they open a five-game road trip that culminates Jan. 14 in London’s O2 Arena against the Orlando Magic.

“We could have done better,” Lowry said of the homestand. “But it’s our last home game for two weeks, and then we come back and we’ve got two straight weeks here, so we just worry about the road right now and not worry about home. I think we need to protect home a lot better.”

The Raptors aren’t back at the Air Canada Centre until Jan. 18, when they host the Brooklyn Nets.

DeRozan led the way with 10 points in a first quarter Sunday that saw the teams tied 26-26 heading into the second.

TAMPA BAY, Fla. — The agent for Tampa Bay forward Jonathan Drouin said Sunday that he made a trade request with the Lightning over a month ago.

Drouin, who was drafted with the third overall pick in 2013, has eight points in 19 games with Tampa Bay this season. He was assigned to AHL Syracuse on Saturday.

“On behalf of Jonathan Drouin, I formally requested a trade from the Tampa Bay Lightning back in November,” agent Allan Walsh said in a statement. “We have not said one word about this untenable situation publicly until today. It’s in everyone’s best interests that Jonathan be allowed to move on and play hockey.

“Let’s be clear, Jonathan loves playing for the fans in Tampa, he loves his teammates and many people within the Lightning organization have treated him well. It was his sincere intention to play in Tampa for many years.”

Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman said in a statement on Sunday that the team acknowledges Walsh’s request for Drouin to be trade.

“Moving forward, my sole intention is to act in the best interest of the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey club,” Yzerman said. “In the meantime, Jonathan has been assigned to our American Hockey League affiliate, the Syracuse Crunch, and we expect him to report for practice with the rest of his teammates this Tuesday morning.”

On Saturday, Yzerman said Drouin was being sent to the minors to get more playing time.

Slowed by injuries, Drouin has just two goals this season. The 20-year-old native of Ste-Agathe, Que., had 32 points (four goals, 28 assists) in 70 games last season.

The year before, he had 108 points (2979) in his final season with the Halifax Mooseheads of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.

The defending Eastern Conference champions open a road trip against the Flames on Tuesday.

SCOREBOARD Hockey

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA 39 27 12 0 0 166 120 39 26 13 0 0 149 115 42 25 15 1 1 140 129 40 16 20 4 0 112 132 38 14 20 3 1 125 148 41 7 31 3 0 82 172

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Kelowna 40 28 10 2 0 145 113 Victoria 40 23 14 1 2 133 101 Prince George 39 23 14 1 1 133 115 Kamloops 37 18 14 4 1 129 114 Vancouver 40 15 20 3 2 118 139

Everett Seattle Spokane Portland Tri-City

GP 36 37 39 38 38

U.S. DIVISION W LOTLSOL 22 12 0 2 20 14 3 0 19 15 3 2 20 17 1 0 16 20 2 0

GF GA 100 79 118 111 129 132 134 124 120 143

Pt 52 50 43 40 33 29 Pt 54 52 52 36 32 17

Pt 58 49 48 41 35 Pt 46 43 43 41 34

Sunday’s results Saskatoon 6 Moose Jaw 3 Kootenay 3 Swift Current 1 Prince Albert 7 Regina 3 Brandon 4 Calgary 1 Vancouver 5 Prince George 3 Portland 5 Spokane 1

Tuesday’s games Red Deer at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

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

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

Vancouver at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Prince George at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

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

Saturday’s summary Rebels 10, Wheat Kings 0 First Period 1. Red Deer, Nogier 2 (Hagel) 4:21.

2. Red Deer, Debrusk 12 (Helewka, Strand) 6:07.

3. Red Deer, Helewka 17 (Debrusk, Nikolishin) 13:19.

4. Red Deer, Pawlenchuk 14 (Hagel) 13:56.

5. Red Deer, Hagel 8 (Shmoorkoff) 14:05.

6. Red Deer, Debrusk 13 (Nogier) 15:46.

7. Red Deer, Bleackley 11 (Helewka, Nikolishin) 19:56 (pp).

Penalties — Nogier RD (cross-checking) 8:14, Armour Bra (high-sticking) 18:28.

Second Period 8. Red Deer, Debrusk 14 (Helewka, Nikolishin) 3:06.

Penalties — Helewka RD (hooking) 8:48, Hagel RD (hooking) 16:27.

Third Period 9. Red Deer, Nikolishin 22 (Debrusk, Nogier) 14:14.

10. Red Deer, Pawlenchuk 15 (Hagel, Bleackley) 15:12.

Penalties — Daley Bra (tripping) 1:24, Campbell Bra (slashing) 16:18, Johnson RD (high-sticking) 18:21, Johnson RD (high-sticking) 18:21.

Shots on goal Brandon 10 13 7 — 30 Red Deer 19 7 9 — 35 Goal — Brandon: Papirny (L, 13-11-2) Red Deer: Toth (W, 20-10-0).

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

WHL Scoring Leaders G 24 21 11 25 22 24 16 23 20 19 14 19 14 24 24 25

Brayden Point, MJ Justin Gutierrez, Let Brett Pollock, Edm Mathew Barzal, Sea Andrew Nielsen, Let Jonathon Martin, SC Chase Witala, PG Radel Fazleev, CAL Dominic Turgeon, Por Keegan Kolesar, Sea Connor Gay, Sas

18 18 16 9 9 24 24 14 19 17 14

25 25 27 34 34 18 18 28 22 24 26

43 43 43 43 43 42 42 42 41 41 40

2016 IIHF World Junior Championship At Helsinki, Finland PLAYOFFS Sunday’s result Relegation (Best-of-3) Switzerland 6 Belarus 2 (Switzerland wins series 2-0 Belarus relegated for 2017) Saturday’s results Quarter-finals Finland 6 Canada 5 Russia 4 Denmark 3 (OT) Sweden 6 Slovakia 0 United States 7 Czech Republic 0 Monday’s game Semifinals Sweden vs. Finland, 7 a.m.

Russia vs. United States, 11 a.m.

Tuesday’s games Bronze Medal Sweden-Finland loser vs. Russia-U.S. loser, 7 a.m.

Gold Medal Sweden-Finland winner vs. Russia-U.S. winner, 11:30 a.m.

World Junior Hockey Scoring Leaders G A Puljujarvi Fin 5 10 Aho Fin 4 8 Matthews U.S. 7 4 Laine Fin 6 5 Al.Nylander Swe 4 5 Malgin Sui 1 8 Juolevi Fin 0 9 Tkachuk U.S. 2 6 White U.S. 3 4 Werenski U.S. 2 5 Marner Cda 4 2 Saarela Fin 4 2 Strome Cda 4 2 Rod Sui 4 2 Kempe Swe 3 3 Timashov Swe 2 4 Korshkov Rus 1 5 Milano U.S. 1 5 Provorov Rus 0 6 Kamenev Rus 4 1

Saturday’s results Moose Jaw 4 Kootenay 3 (OT) Red Deer 10 Brandon 0 Lethbridge 4 Calgary 3 Medicine Hat 5 Edmonton 2 Everett 4 Kamloops 3 (OT) Vancouver 4 Prince George 1 Portland 6 Spokane 5 (SO) Kelowna 5 Victoria 4 Tri-City 4 Seattle 2

Tyson Baillie, Kel Adam Brooks, Reg Brayden Burke, Let Dryden Hunt, MJ Ivan Nikolishin, RD Parker Bowles, TC Devante Stephens, Spo Reid Gardiner, P.A. Giorgio Estephan, Let Egor Babenko, Let Alex Forsberg, Vic Cameron Hebig, Sas Nolan Patrick, Bra Collin Shirley, Kam Tyler Wong, Let Jesse Gabrielle, PG

MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 2016

Local Sports

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Brandon 40 24 12 2 2 150 122 Prince Albert 39 23 12 3 1 130 121 Moose Jaw 39 19 15 4 1 135 128 Regina 40 17 17 3 3 125 144 Saskatoon 38 15 20 3 0 121 157 Swift Current 39 12 22 4 1 91 126

Lethbridge Red Deer Calgary Edmonton Medicine Hat Kootenay

B4

A 39 38 45 29 32 29 37 29 28 28 33 27 32 21 20 18

Pts 63 59 56 54 54 53 53 52 48 47 47 46 46 45 44 43

Pts 15 12 11 11 9 9 9 8 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Florida 39 23 12 4 50 Montreal 40 22 15 3 47 Detroit 39 19 13 7 45 Boston 37 20 13 4 44 Tampa Bay 39 19 16 4 42 Ottawa 39 18 15 6 42 Toronto 37 15 15 7 37 Buffalo 39 15 20 4 34

GF 106 116 100 116 100 111 99 91

GA 85 99 106 102 95 118 103 105

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts 38 28 7 3 59 40 22 13 5 49 39 21 14 4 46 39 20 14 5 45 38 19 15 4 42 39 16 17 6 38 37 15 15 7 37 40 15 22 3 33

GF 121 113 112 93 91 92 79 103

GA 83 99 103 94 93 110 102 127

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Dallas 41 28 9 4 60 Chicago 40 23 13 4 50 St. Louis 41 23 14 4 50 Minnesota 38 20 11 7 47 Nashville 39 19 13 7 45 Colorado 39 18 18 3 39 Winnipeg 39 18 19 2 38

GF 144 111 101 101 103 109 104

GA 107 97 100 90 102 110 114

Washington N.Y. Islanders N.Y. Rangers New Jersey Pittsburgh Carolina Philadelphia Columbus

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 38 25 11 2 52 104 83 Arizona 38 18 16 4 40 107 122 Anaheim 38 16 15 7 39 73 90 Vancouver 39 15 15 9 39 95 110 San Jose 37 18 17 2 38 101 106 Calgary 38 18 18 2 38 101 121 Edmonton 40 16 21 3 35 101 122 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s Games Edmonton 4, Arizona 3, SO Tampa Bay 3, Minnesota 2, SO Columbus 5, Washington 4, SO Detroit 4, Buffalo 3 Los Angeles 2, Philadelphia 1 Toronto 4, St. Louis 1

Florida 3, N.Y. Rangers 0 New Jersey 3, Dallas 2, OT Pittsburgh 5, N.Y. Islanders 2 Nashville 2, Carolina 1, OT Calgary 4, Colorado 0 Winnipeg 4, San Jose 1

Today • Women’s basketball: Big Ballers vs.

Dynamo, Hoosier Daddy vs. Xpress, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber; Shooting Stars vs. Age Gap, Triple Threat vs. Rampage, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Central Alberta Christian; Storm vs. Ball Hawks, Spartans vs. Pink Panthers, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber main.

Sunday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 6, Dallas 5 Florida 2, Minnesota 1 Chicago 3, Ottawa 0 Anaheim 4, Winnipeg 1 Monday’s Games Detroit at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Los Angeles at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Carolina at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Arizona at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Tuesday

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

Florida at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

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

Chicago at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Montreal at Philadelphia, 5:30 p.m.

Winnipeg at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s summaries Flames 4, Avalanche 0 First Period 1. Calgary, Hamilton 6 (unassisted) 7:57 (pp).

Penalties — Mitchell Col (interference) 4:07, Mitchell Col (slashing) 6:33, Granlund Cgy (stick holding) 9:01, Landeskog Col (holding) 11:56, Ferland Cgy (high-sticking) 17:45.

Second Period 2. Calgary, Jooris 3 (Giordano, Brodie) 8:18.

3. Calgary, Stajan 3 (Wideman, Jooris) 10:47.

4. Calgary, Backlund 5 (Ferland) 13:07.

Penalties — None.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Mitchell Col (slashing) 7:02, Holden Col (delay of game) 10:46, MacKinnon Col (high-sticking) 16:14.

Shots on goal Calgary 10 12 12 — 34 Colorado 12 13 1 — 26 Goal — Calgary: Ramo (W, 14-12-1) Colorado: Varlamov (L, 12-10-3).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Calgary: 1-7 Colorado: 0-2.

Oilers 4, Coyotes 3 (SO) First Period 1. Arizona, Downie 3 (Martinook, Richardson) 6:56.

2. Edmonton, Hall 16 (Draisaitl, Purcell) 7:55.

3. Edmonton, Eberle 9 (Letestu, Pouliot) 11:39 (pp).

Penalties — Pouliot Edm (hooking) 4:33, Grossmann Ariz (hooking) 11:20, Pouliot Edm (interference) 13:46, Gryba Edm (high-sticking) 18:39.

Second Period 4. Arizona, Richardson 3 (Martinook, Dahlbeck) 14:30.

Penalties — Dauphin Ariz (roughing) 8:57.

Third Period 5. Arizona, Duclair 11 (Domi, Dahlbeck) 5:51.

6. Edmonton, Eberle 10 (Nugent-Hopkins, Pouliot) 14:08.

Penalties — Downie Ariz (unsportsmanlike conduct) 2:55, Ariz Bench (too many men) 15:30, Stone Ariz (roughing) 19:11, Pouliot Edm (stick holding) 19:11.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shootout — Edmonton wins 2-1 Arizona : Boedker goal, Domi miss, Vermette miss.

Edmonton : Eberle miss, Hendricks goal, Nugent-Hopkins goal.

Shots on goal Arizona 12 10 9 3 — 34 Edmonton 10 12 16 3 — 41 Goal — Arizona: Domingue (LO, 3-2-2) Edmonton: Talbot (W, 6-11-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Arizona: 0-3 Edmonton: 1-4.

NHL Scoring Leaders Patrick Kane, Chi Jamie Benn, Dal Tyler Seguin, Dal Taylor Hall, Edm Erik Karlsson, Ott Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy Blake Wheeler, Wpg Joe Pavelski, SJ Evgeni Malkin, Pgh Daniel Sedin, Vcr Michael Cammalleri, NJ Patrice Bergeron, Bos Alex Steen, StL Evgeny Kuznetsov, Wash John Klingberg, Dal Alex Ovechkin, Wash Mike Hoffman, Ott Brent Burns, SJ Nicklas Backstrom, Wash Artemi Panarin, Chi Ryan O’Reilly, Buf Patrick Sharp, Dal Nathan MacKinnon, Col Loui Eriksson, Bos Bobby Ryan, Ott

G 23 24 23 16 9 23 17 10 20 18 16 14 14 13 12 5 21 18 16 11 11 15 15 13 13 11

A 33 28 27 25 32 17 22 29 18 19 21 21 21 22 23 30 13 16 18 23 23 18 18 20 20 22

Pts 56 52 50 41 41 40 39 39 38 37 37 35 35 35 35 35 34 34 34 34 34 33 33 33 33 33

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Cleveland 22 9 .710 — Chicago 20 12 .625 2 Miami 20 13 .606 3 Toronto 21 14 .600 3 Atlanta 21 14 .600 3 Indiana 19 14 .576 4 Orlando 19 15 .559 4 Boston 18 15 .545 5 Detroit 18 16 .529 5 Charlotte 17 16 .515 6 Washington 15 17 .469 7 New York 16 19 .457 8 Milwaukee 14 21 .400 10 Brooklyn 10 23 .303 13 Philadelphia 3 33 .083 21

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Dallas Memphis Utah Houston Portland Sacramento Minnesota Denver New Orleans Phoenix L.A. Lakers

19 18 15 16 15 13 12 12 11 12 8

15 17 17 19 21 20 22 23 22 25 27

.559 .514 .469 .457 .417 .394 .353 .343 .333 .324 .229

12 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 20 21 24

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

Minnesota at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Indiana at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Boston at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Orlando at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Sacramento at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Houston at Utah, 7 p.m.

Memphis at Portland, 8 p.m.

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

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WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Golden State 31 2 .939 — San Antonio 29 6 .829 3 Oklahoma City 24 10 .706 7 1/2 L.A. Clippers 22 13 .629 10

Sunday’s Games Chicago 115, Toronto 113 New York 111, Atlanta 97 Miami 97, Washington 75 Portland 112, Denver 106 L.A. Lakers 97, Phoenix 77

Saturday’s Games Brooklyn 100, Boston 97 Sacramento 142, Phoenix 119 Indiana 94, Detroit 82 Oklahoma City 109, Charlotte 90 Cleveland 104, Orlando 79 Milwaukee 95, Minnesota 85 San Antonio 121, Houston 103 New Orleans 105, Dallas 98 Utah 92, Memphis 87, OT Golden State 111, Denver 108, OT L.A. Clippers 130, Philadelphia 99

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

New York at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

Sacramento at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

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

Transactions Saturday’s Sports Transactions FOOTBALL National Football League MIAMI DOLPHINS — Announced Dennis Hickey general manager is leaving at the end of the season.

HOCKEY National Hockey League FLORIDA PANTHERS — Signed coach Gerard Gallant to a contract extension through the 2018-19 season.

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS — Assigned D Harrison Ruopp from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (AHL) to Wheeling (ECHL).

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Assigned F Jonathan Drouin to Syracuse (AHL).

American Hockey League MANITOBA MOOSE — Recalleed D Aaron Harstad from Tulsa (ECHL).

ROCKFORD ICEHOGS — Assigned G Mac Carruth to Indy (ECHL) and F Dane Walters to Toledo (ECHL).

WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON PENGUINS — Recalled F Patrick McGrath from Wheeling (ECHL).

ECHL FLORIDA EVERBLADES — Released D/F Jordan Ciccarello.

INDY FUEL — Released G Jordan Ruby.

KALAMAZOO WINGS — Released G Dave DeSander as emergency backup.

WHEELING NAILERS — Loaned F Derek Army to Ontario (AHL).

WICHITA THUNDER — Added G Kevin St. Pierre as emergency backup.

Sunday’s Sports Transactions FOOTBALL National Football League CLEVELAND BROWNS — Fired general manager Ray Farmer and coach Mike Pettine.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Fired coach Jim Tomsula. Placed LB Michael Wilhoite on injured reserve.

HOCKEY National Hockey League

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Recalled F Brock McGinn from Charlotte (AHL).

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Acquired F Richard Panik from Toronto for F Jeremy Morin. Loaned D David Rundblad to ZSC Lions (National League A-Switzerland).

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Assigned F Jonathan Drouin to Syracuse (AHL).

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Toronto LW Richard Clune one game.

BAKERSFIELD CONDORS — Assigned G Ty Rimmer to Norfolk (ECHL).

LAKE ERIE MONSTERS — Recalled F Peter Quenneville from Cincinnati (ECHL).

TORONTO MARLIES — Assigned G Rob Madore to Orlando (ECHL).

ECHL ECHL — Suspended Tulsa F Mathieu Gagnon eight games, Rapid City D Garrett Clarke and D Jonathan Narbonne five games, Tulsa G Kevin Carr three games and Tulsa F Emerson Clark one game.

JUNIOR B HOCKEY

MAJOR MIDGET AAA

The Red Deer Vipers jumped out to a 2-0 lead after one period and cruised past the host Airdrie Thunder 3-1 in a Heritage Junior Hockey League game Sunday.

Declan Johnston, Colton Weseen and Spencer Yeats scored for Red Deer, which got a 24-save outing from Cole Sears. The Vipers were one-for-10 on the power play, while the Thunder were zero-for-seven.

Airdrie goalie Kade Taplin stopped 31 shots.

Elsewhere Sunday, the Blackfalds Wranglers downed the visiting Three Hills Thrashers 6-2. Details were unavailable.

The Thrashers beat the visiting Mountainview Colts 4-3 via shootout Saturday.

The Thrashers battled back from a 3-0 deficit on goals from Ben Schierman, Taylor McCubbing and Ryan Spiller to force extra time and then the shootout, in which Patrick Fougere and Rylan Plante-Crough connected to nail down the win.

Greg Pols turned aside 33 shots for Three Hills in regulation and overtime, while Thomas Della Siega made 31 saves for the Colts.

Joel Ray and Matthew Froehlick scored in a losing cause as the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs dropped a 5-2 Alberta Midget Hockey League decision Saturday to the host Southeast Tigers.

Josh McNeil assisted on both Red Deer goals.

The Tigers, who are based in Medicine Hat, led 2-1 and 3-1 by periods and held a 37-34 edge in shots. Justin Travis made 32 saves for the Chiefs, who were assessed seven of 13 minor penalties.

The loss dropped the Chiefs to 14-73. Red Deer sits second in the Chrysler (South) Division, three points back of the Calgary Flames.

The win was just the third of the season for the last-place Tigers.

Red Deer returns to action Friday at 8 p.m. at the Arena against the visiting Foothills Bisons. The Chiefs host the Calgary Royals Saturday at 4:45 p.m.

• Senior high basketball: Hunting Hills at Rocky Mountain House, Lindsay Thurber at Ponoka, Notre Dame at Lacombe, Sylvan Lake at Camrose, Innisfail at Wetaskiwin; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow.

• WHL: Red Deer at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

(The Drive).

• Men’s basketball: Subaru vs. Sheraton Red Deer, Lacombe All Sports Cresting vs. Wells Furniture, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

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

Mountainview at Three Hills, 8 p.m.

• Chinook senior AAA hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Bentley, 8:30 p.m., Rimbey.

Saturday • Juvenile curling: Servus Credit Union Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre.

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Canucks at Red Deer Strata Energy, 11:30 a.m., Arena.

• Midget AA hockey: West Central at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 2 p.m., Arena; Red Deer Elks at Olds, 7:30 p.m.

• Peewee AA hockey: Wheatland at Olds, 2:15 p.m.; Central Alberta at West Central, 5:30 p.m., Rocky Mountain House.

• Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Royals at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Arena.

• Bantam AA hockey: Lethbridge at Olds, 4:45 p.m.

• WHL: Vancouver at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Centrium.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Coaldale at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Three Hills at Ponoka, 8 p.m.

Wednesday • JV basketball: Sylvan Lake at Notre Dame, Wetaskiwin at Lindsay Thurber, Stettler at Hunting Hills, Lacombe at Rocky Mountain House, Ponoka at Camrose; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow.

• WHL: Red Deer at Saskatoon, 6 p.m.

(The Drive).

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

• Men’s basketball: Vikings vs. Btown, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs. Silver Spurs, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Friday • Bantam AA hockey: Bow Valley at Central Alberta, 6 p.m., Big Valley; Airdrie at West Central, 8 p.m., Sylvan Lake.

• Juvenile curling: Servus Credit Union Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre.

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

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

• Midget AAA hockey: Foothills at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena.

• Heritage junior B hockey:

Sunday • Juvenile curling: Servus Credit Union Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre.

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Southeast at Red Deer North Star, 11:30 a.m., Arena; Rockyview at Red Deer Strata Energy, 2:15 p.m., Arena.

• Major midget girls hockey: Edmonton at Red Deer, 2:30 p.m., Kinsmen A. • Heritage junior B hockey: Coaldale at Ponoka, 2:30 p.m.

• Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at West Central, 2:45 p.m., Sylvan Lake.

• Midget AA hockey: Central Alberta at West Central, 3:15 p.m., Rocky Mountain House; Foothills at Red Deer Elks, 5 p.m., Arena; Wheatland at Olds, 5:30 p.m.

• Men’s basketball: Grandview vs.

Carstar, Chillibongs vs. Monstars, Alken Basin vs. Rusty Chuckers, 4:15 p.m.; Washed Up Warriors vs. NWS, Henry’s Eavestroughing vs. Lacombe All Sports Cresting, Triple A Batteries vs. The D Leaguers, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber.

• Bantam AA hockey: Okotoks at Central Alberta, 4:30 p.m., Big Valley.

• Chinook senior AAA hockey: Innisfail at Bentley, 4:45 p.m., Rimbey.

Football National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct y-New England 12 4 0 .750 N.Y. Jets 10 6 0 .625 Buffalo 8 8 0 .500 Miami 6 10 0 .375 South W L T Pct y-Houston 9 7 0 .563 Indianapolis 8 8 0 .500 Jacksonville 5 11 0 .313 Tennessee 3 13 0 .188 North W L T Pct y-Cincinnati 12 4 0 .750 x-Pittsburgh 10 6 0 .625 Baltimore 5 11 0 .313 Cleveland 3 13 0 .188 West W L T Pct y-Denver 12 4 0 .750 x-Kansas City 11 5 0 .688 Oakland 7 9 0 .438 San\ Diego 4 12 0 .250 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct y-Washington 9 7 0 .563 Philadelphia 7 9 0 .438 N.Y. Giants 6 10 0 .375 Dallas 4 12 0 .250 South W L T Pct y-Carolina 15 1 0 .938 Atlanta 8 8 0 .500 New Orleans 7 9 0 .438 Tampa Bay 6 10 0 .375 North W L T Pct y-Minnesota 11 5 0 .688 x-Green Bay 10 6 0 .625 Detroit 7 9 0 .438 Chicago 6 10 0 .375 West W L T Pct y-Arizona 13 3 0 .813 x-Seattle 10 6 0 .625 St. Louis 7 9 0 .438

San Francisco 5 11 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

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PF 465 387 379 310

PA 315 314 359 389

PF 339 333 376 299

PA 313 408 448 423

PF 419 423 328 278

PA 279 319 401 432

PF 355 405 359 320

PA 296 287 399 398

PF 388 377 420 275

PA 379 430 442 374

PF 500 339 408 342

PA 308 345 476 417

PF 365 368 358 335

PA 302 323 400 397

Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 24 NFC, TBA AFC, TBA

PF 489 423 280

PA 313 277 330

Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 31 At Honolulu Team Rice vs. Team Irvin, 8 p.m.

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Sunday’s Games Houston 30, Jacksonville 6 Washington 34, Dallas 23 Detroit 24, Chicago 20 Buffalo 22, N.Y. Jets 17 Miami 20, New England 10 New Orleans 20, Atlanta 17 Cincinnati 24, Baltimore 16 Pittsburgh 28, Cleveland 12 Indianapolis 30, Tennessee 24 Philadelphia 35, N.Y. Giants 30 San Francisco 19, St. Louis 16, OT Denver 27, San Diego 20 Seattle 36, Arizona 6 Kansas City 23, Oakland 17 Carolina 38, Tampa Bay 10 Minnesota 20, Green Bay 13 NFL Playoff s Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 9 Kansas City (11-5) at Houston (9-7), 2:35 p.m.

Pittsburgh (10-6) at Cincinnati (12-4), 6:15 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 10 Seattle (10-6) at Minnesota (11-6), 11 a.m.

Green Bay (10-6) at Washington (9-7), 2 p.m.

Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 16 & Sunday, Jan. 17 Pittsburgh, Kansas City or Houston at Denver (124), TBA Cincinnati, Houston or Kansas City at New England (12-4), TBA Seattle, Green Bay or Washington at Carolina (151), TBA Minnesota, Washington or Green Bay at Arizona (13-3), TBA

Soccer English Premier League GP W D L GF GA Pts Arsenal 20 13 3 4 34 18 42 Leicester City 20 11 7 2 37 25 40 Manchester City 20 12 3 5 39 21 39 Tottenham 20 9 9 2 34 16 36 Man. United 20 9 6 5 24 17 33 West Ham 20 8 8 4 30 23 32 Crystal Palace 20 9 4 7 23 19 31 Liverpool 20 8 6 6 22 24 30 Watford 20 8 5 7 25 22 29 Stoke 20 8 5 7 21 21 29 Everton 20 6 9 5 36 29 27 West Brom 20 7 5 8 20 25 26 Southampton 20 6 6 8 26 24 24 Chelsea 20 6 5 9 26 29 23 Norwich 20 6 5 9 23 32 23 Bournemouth 20 5 6 9 22 34 21 Swansea 20 4 7 9 17 26 19 Newcastle 20 4 5 11 19 35 17 Sunderland 20 4 3 13 22 39 15 Aston Villa 20 1 5 14 16 37 8 Saturday, Jan. 2 West Ham 2, Liverpool 0 Arsenal 1, Newcastle 0 Leicester City 0, Bournemouth 0 Manchester United 2, Swansea 1 Norwich 1, Southampton 0 Sunderland 3, Aston Villa 1 West Brom 2, Stoke 1 Watford 1, Manchester City 2

England Championship GP W D L GF GA Pts Middlesbrough 24 16 4 4 36 12 52 Derby County 25 13 9 3 37 17 48 Hull 25 14 5 6 36 18 47 Brighton & Hove 25 11 11 3 31 25 44 Burnley 25 11 9 5 34 23 42 Ipswich 25 11 8 6 34 30 41 Sheffield Wed 25 10 9 6 36 28 39 Birmingham 25 11 6 8 30 27 39 Cardiff 25 9 10 6 30 26 37 Brentford 25 10 6 9 37 35 36 Wanderers 25 9 7 9 32 32 34 Reading 25 9 6 10 30 28 33 Leeds 25 7 11 7 26 28 32 Nott Forest 25 7 10 8 25 24 31 Preston North 25 7 10 8 21 22 31 QPR 25 7 9 9 30 33 30 Blackburn 24 6 10 8 22 21 28 Huddersfield Town 25 7 7 11 30 36 28 Fulham 25 6 9 10 40 43 27 MK Dons 25 6 5 14 21 33 23 Roth United 25 6 3 16 30 44 21 Bristol City 25 4 9 12 22 44 21 Charlton Ath. 25 4 8 13 21 42 20 Bolton 25 2 11 12 19 39 17 Saturday, Jan. 2 Birmingham 2, Brentford 1 Bolton 0, Huddersfield Town 2 Burnley 0, Ipswich 0 Cardiff 1, Blackburn 0 Charlton Athletic 1, Nottingham Forest 1 Fulham 0, Sheffield Wednesday 1 Leeds 1, MK Dons 1 Middlesbrough 2, Derby County 0 Preston North End 2, Rotherham United 1 Reading 1, Bristol City 0

Sunday, Jan. 3 Crystal Palace 0, Chelsea 3 Everton 1, Tottenham 1 Tuesday, Jan. 12 Aston Villa vs. Crystal Palace, 1945 GMT Bournemouth vs. West Ham, 1945 GMT Newcastle vs. Manchester United, 1945 GMT

Tuesday, Jan. 12 Blackburn vs. Queens Park Rangers, 1945 GMT Brentford vs. Middlesbrough, 1945 GMT Bristol City vs. Preston North End, 1945 GMT Derby County vs. Reading, 1945 GMT Huddersfield Town vs. Charlton Athletic, 1945 GMT Ipswich vs. Leeds, 1945 GMT MK Dons vs. Burnley, 1945 GMT Nottingham Forest vs. Birmingham, 1945 GMT Rotherham United vs. Brighton & Hove, 1945 GMT Sheffield Wednesday vs. Bolton, 1945 GMT Wolverhampton Wanderers vs. Fulham, 1945 GMT

Wednesday, Jan. 13 Chelsea vs. West Brom, 1945 GMT Manchester City vs. Everton, 1945 GMT Southampton vs. Watford, 1945 GMT Stoke vs. Norwich, 1945 GMT Swansea vs. Sunderland, 1945 GMT Liverpool vs. Arsenal, 2000 GMT Tottenham vs. Leicester City, 2000 GMT

Lacrosse National Lacrosse League East Division GP W L Pct. GF Buffalo 0 0 0 .000 0 New England 0 0 0 .000 0 Rochester 0 0 0 .000 0 Toronto 0 0 0 .000 0 Georgia 1 0 1 .000 15 GP Colorado Saskatchewan Vancouver

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West Division L Pct. GF GA 1 0 1.000 16 1 0 1.000 10 0 0 .000 0

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Calgary at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.

Colorado at Rochester, 5:30 p.m.

New England at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Jan. 4, 2016 B5

Panthers wrap up top playoff spot in NFC CAROLINA AND DENVER WRAP UP NO. 1 SEEDS, REX RYAN HELPS KNOCK JETS FROM POST-SEASON

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Carolina closed out its remarkable season by wrapping up home-field advantage in the NFC. Denver turned to Peyton Manning to take advantage of New England’s slip-up in the AFC. And Rex Ryan made certain to continue the New York Jets’ playoff drought.

Carolina and Denver wrapped up the No. 1 playoff seeds in each conference by winning at home on the final day of the regular season on Sunday. Carolina routed Tampa Bay 38-10, while Denver edged San Diego 27-20 to win the AFC West title.

“We find our edge playing in front of the home crowd,” Carolina QB Cam Newton said. “Everything here feels just right. We don’t have travel to a hostile environment. This is our house — and it’s hostile.”

New England will be the No. 2 seed in the AFC after losing at Miami, while Arizona will have the other bye in the NFC despite getting routed 36-6 by Seattle.

Denver’s victory finally settled the AFC playoff picture. Cincinnati is the No. 3 seed and will host AFC North rival Pittsburgh in a wild-card game on Saturday night, while AFC South champion Houston is the No. 4 seed and will host Kansas City, winners of 10 straight games. The Texans and Chiefs will play the first game of the playoffs on Saturday afternoon.

New England will host the early game on Saturday, Jan. 16, with Denver hosting the lowest remaining AFC seed in the late game on Sunday, Jan. 17.

The NFC playoff picture was settled late Sunday night when Minnesota beat Green Bay 20-13 to win the NFC North. The Vikings will host Seattle in the early game Sunday, while Green Bay will travel to NFC East champion Washington for the late Sunday game.

The Redskins closed the season with their fourth straight win on Sunday beating Dallas.

Arizona will host the late game on Saturday, Jan. 16, while the Panthers will host the lowest remaining seed in the NFC in the early game on Sunday, Jan. 17.

The highlight of the day was Ryan and the Buffalo Bills stopping the Jets from making the playoffs and gave the Steelers the final playoff spot

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Buffalo Bills head coach Rex Ryan hugs Buffalo Bills’ Manny Lawson (91) after Lawson intercepted a pass during the second half of an NFL game against the New York Jets Sunday, in Orchard Park, N.Y. The Bills won 22-17 to eliminate the Jets from playoff contention. in the AFC. The Bills beat the Jets 22-17, while Pittsburgh knocked off Cleveland 28-12, the only results that would have gotten the Steelers into the post-season. The Jets have not made the playoffs since 2010.

“I’ve got a lot of friends over there, and I want them to be successful, but not at my expense,” Ryan said.

Ryan has plenty of friends in the Steel City now.

“A lot of thanks to coach Ryan and the rest of the Bills and everybody in Buffalo,” Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said. “I know they’re excited about 8-8 and we’re excited they got us in.”

New England had a chance at home field in the AFC, but flopped in Miami

getting beat 20-10. Denver struggled in the first half against San Diego before inserting Manning in place of Brock Osweiler at quarterback and holding on late for the seven-point victory.

“Wherever we play, we play,” Patriots coach Bill Belichick said.

Houston also clinched the AFC South with its win over Jacksonville and will host Kansas City after the Chiefs beat Oakland for their 10th straight victory.

Houston avoided the headache of possibly having to look at eight different tiebreakers against the Colts by beating Jacksonville 30-6 to win the AFC South, making Indianapolis’ victory over Tennessee moot. The Colts entered the day with the slimmest of

chances to win the division, but a Texans loss was needed. Houston is the fourth seed.

“We are not happy with just winning the AFC South,” Houston wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins said. “There are bigger goals ahead of us.”

Seattle rebounded from last week’s loss at home against St. Louis with one of its most dominant victories of the season, winning big at Arizona. The Seahawks led 30-6 at halftime and won for the sixth time in seven games. It’ll be their second trip to Minnesota in about a month. Seattle beat the Vikings 38-7 on Dec. 6.

“These guys are confident that we can go wherever we got to go,” Seattle coach Pete Carroll said.

Vikings hold off Packers to win NFC North NFL ROUNDUP

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VIKINGS 20 PACKERS 13 GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Minnesota Vikings won the NFC North by holding on for a 20-13 win Sunday night over the Green Bay Packers.

Adrian Peterson ran for a touchdown, cornerback Captain Munnerlyn returned a fumble 55 yards for a score, and Minnesota (11-5) claimed its first division title since 2009.

The Vikings will host the Seattle Seahawks for a wild-card playoff game next weekend. The Packers (10-6) will travel to Washington after watching their four-year reign atop the NFC North end.

The upstart Vikings survived despite a shaky finish in hostile territory.

The defence knocked away a desperation pass in the end zone from Aaron Rodgers on fourth down as time expired.

Packers kicker Mason Crosby forced a fumble on Cordarrelle Patterson’s potentially field-flipping 70-yard kickoff return with 5:21 left. But the Packers’ next drive ended with Rodgers’ pass being intercepted in the end zone

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BRONCOS 27, CHARGERS 20 DENVER (AP) — Peyton Manning replaced Brock Osweiler in the third quarter Sunday and led the Broncos to a victory over San Diego that wrapped up the top seed in the AFC playoffs for Denver.

Combined with New England’s loss at Miami, the Broncos (12-4) secured the No. 1 seed even as they head into the playoffs with a quarterback quandary on their hands.

The Chargers (4-12) wrapped up what might have been their final season representing San Diego as ownership tries to move the team to L.A. The Broncos were facing the possibility of tumbling into the wild-card round because of Kansas City’s 10th consecutive win, 23-17 over Oakland, when Manning came to the rescue.

BILLS 22, JETS 17 ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Ryan Fitzpatrick threw interceptions on each of New York’s final three drives and the Jets’ playoff hopes were dashed.

The Jets (10-6) would have made the post-season for the first time since 2010 with a win, but the defeat combined with Pittsburgh’s win at Cleveland ended those hopes. New York had a five-game winning streak stopped, and the loss came against former Jets coach Rex Ryan — fired by New York and hired by the Bills (8-8) last January.

Fitzpatrick, who had thrown just one interception in the Jets’ winning streak, was picked off by Leodis McKelvin in the end zone early in the fourth quarter with New York driving.

The game was decided when Fitzpatrick’s side-arm pass over the middle was intercepted by A.J. Tarpley with 11 seconds remaining.

STEELERS 28, BROWNS 12 CLEVELAND (AP) — Ben Roethlis-

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Minnesota Vikings’ Captain Munnerlyn (24) gets past Green Bay Packers’ Aaron Rodgers (12) and James Starks (44) for a touchdown after recovering a fumble during the second half an NFL game Sunday, in Green Bay, Wis. berger threw three touchdown passes, Pittsburgh’s defence dominated and the Steelers slipped into the AFC playoffs with the win over Cleveland, which fired coach Mike Pettine and GM Ray Farmer after the game.

The Steelers (10-6) had to win and needed Buffalo to knock off the New York Jets to make the post-season.

Pittsburgh did its part, then earned a wild-card berth when the Bills beat the 22-17. Pittsburgh will play at Cincinnati next weekend.

Roethlisberger threw for 349 yards, 187 to Antonio Brown, who had 13 catches and a TD. The Browns finished 3-13.

DOLPHINS 20, PATRIOTS 10 MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Tom Brady was sacked twice and knocked down at least half a dozen times, and New England missed a chance to clinch the No. 1 seed in the AFC playoffs.

Brady watched New England’s final offensive series from the sideline.

With the Patriots eager to protect his health, he threw a season-low 21 passes, but even so was lucky to make it through the game in one piece.

New England (12-4) ends up as a No. 2 seed after Denver defeated San Diego to earn the top seed.

The Dolphins (6-10) wrapped up a disappointing season and are expected to embark on a search for their ninth coach since 2004.

TEXANS 30, JAGUARS 6 HOUSTON (AP) — J.J. Watt and Whitney Mercilus led the defence and Jonathan Grimes scored twice to help the Texans clinch the AFC South.

Houston will host Kansas City next weekend in the a wild-card game.

Grimes had a 12-yard touchdown reception and added a 3-yard rushing score in the second quarter to help Houston take a 20-3 lead by halftime.

Kareem Jackson added a score on an interception return in the fourth quarter to pad the lead.

Watt, playing without a cast for the first time since breaking his left hand Dec. 9, had had three sacks, forced a fumble and recovered another one to help the Texans (9-7) to their first division title and playoff berth since 2012.

Blake Bortles threw for 239 yards with two interceptions for the Jaguars (5-11) BENGALS 24, RAVENS 16 CINCINNATI (AP) — AJ McCarron overcame a rough start and threw a pair of touchdown passes.

The Bengals (12-4) matched the best record in franchise history — they also won 12 games during the 1981 and 1988 seasons when they reached the Super Bowl.

Cincinnati will host Pittsburgh next weekend in a wild-card game.

The AFC North champions wasted a chance to clinch the No. 2 seed when they lost in Denver 20-17 on Monday night.

The Ravens finished 5-11.

PANTHERS 38, BUCCANEERS 10 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Cam Newton ran for two touchdowns and threw for two more, and Carolina captured the NFC’s No. 1 seed for the first time.

Newton tied Steve Young’s NFL record for most career TDs rushing by a quarterback with 43. Young took 15 seasons to reach that plateau Newton did it in five.

Newton completed 21 of 26 passes for 293 yards as Carolina (15-1) overcame a slow start to build a 31-3 lead in the third quarter.

Rookie Devin Funchess had seven catches for 120 yards and a touchdown and Cameron Artis-Payne ran for 44 yards and a score as Carolina won its 11th straight home game.

Jameis Winston was intercepted twice, and the Bucs (6-10) finished last in the NFC South for the fourth time in five years.

CHIEFS 23, RAIDERS 17 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Alex

Smith threw two touchdown passes, Kansas City sacked Derek Carr six times, and the Chiefs collected a franchise-best 10th straight win.

The Chiefs are headed to Houston for a wild-card game next weekend after Denver won the AFC West with its win over San Diego.

Regardless, the Chiefs (11-5) are somehow in the dance after a 1-5 start.

The Raiders (7-9), who accounted for two of those victories, had the ball with 1:34 left. But Carr was sacked one last time, and the clock expired before they came close to a go-ahead touchdown.

SEAHAWKS 36, CARDINALS 6 GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Russell Wilson threw three touchdown passes in a second-quarter outburst and Seattle snapped Arizona’s nine-game winning streak.

Seattle will play at either Washington or Minnesota in the wild card round next weekend, depending on the outcome of Sunday night’s game between the Vikings and Green Bay. The Seahawks (10-6) dominated from their opening possession and led 30-6 at the half.

It was a sour end to the regular season for the NFC West champion Cardinals (13-3), who already had clinched the NFC’s No. 2 seed and a first-round playoff bye.

Tyler Lockett set up three of Seattle’s four first-half touchdowns — with punt returns of 66 and 42 yards and a 36-yard reception.

EAGLES 35, GIANTS 30 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The New York Giants suffered another tough loss in what may have been Tom Coughlin’s final game.

Former Giant Walter Thurmond scored on an 83-yard fumble return in the third quarter and Philadelphia added to Coughlin’s season-long frustrations.

It was the third straight loss for the Giants (6-10) and finished a third straight losing season and a fourth straight year out of the playoffs.

After meeting with Eagles interim coach Pat Shurmur at midfield, Coughlin walked off the field, waving to the crowd just before walking into the tunnel.

Coughlin, who led the Giants to two Super Bowl titles in his 12 seasons, has a year left on his contract. His future is expected to be decided soon by co-owners John Mara and Steve Tisch.

The 69-year-old might retire and end his 20-year NFL head coaching career.

REDSKINS 34, COWBOYS 23 ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Kirk Cousins threw for three touchdowns before leaving late in the first half of a playoff tuneup.

Cousins broke Jay Shroeder’s franchise record for yards passing in a season, finishing with 4,166. Had the game mattered, he might have threatened Sonny Jurgensen’s 48-year-old team record of 31 touchdown passes, instead settling for 29.

The Redskins (9-7) won four straight to finish the season, their longest streak since winning the last seven the last time they made the playoffs in 2012. The NFC East champions will be the No. 4 seed on wild-card weekend.

B6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Jan. 4, 2016

Lawler keeps title in thriller over Condit UFC 195

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS — Only the fifth-round bell could stop Robbie Lawler and Carlos Condit from punishing each other. When it finally rang, the champion and challenger stood side-by-side with their arms leaned up on the cage, wearing exhaustion and respect on their bruised, bloodied faces.

Although Lawler kept his title by a narrow margin, he can’t wait to do it all again.

Lawler defended his UFC welterweight belt with a split-decision victory over Condit at UFC 195 on Saturday night, getting the promotion’s new year off to a thrilling start.

“That’s just two competitors with a lot of heart and a lot of skill just trying to get the job done,” Lawler said.

Lawler (27-10) was awarded the decision after a 25-minute brawl that had the MGM Grand Garden Arena crowd on its collective feet in the fantastic fifth round. Condit (30-9) landed 120 more strikes and wobbled the champion multiple times, but Lawler’s power did enough damage to win three rounds on two judges’ scorecards.

A few moments after they spontaneously leaned on the cage together, taking deep breaths and basking in cheers, they ended the night with their arms mutually raised in victory. While Condit said he would consider retirement, Lawler had a better idea.

“There was two winners tonight, and let’s do it again,” Lawler said.

Earlier, Stipe Miocic stopped Andrei Arlovski with punches 54 seconds into the first round, likely earning a heavyweight title shot with a victory in the UFC’s traditional New Year’s week show in its hometown.

But Lawler and Condit established a lofty benchmark for the best fight of 2016 with their draining slugfest. Both fighters landed huge strikes and big knockdowns, yet both bounced up and kept fighting into a brutal fifth round in which they struggled to lift their arms for punches or defence.

“I thought there was a good chance I was ahead,” Condit said. “I knew he was going to come out gunsa-blazing. You have to come out and fight. I wasn’t hurt neurologically, but I was roughed up a little bit.

I thought I had three rounds in the bag, but that happens.”

Condit was disappointed, but not surprised, after losing for the fourth time in six fights despite landing 198 strikes to 78 for the champion. The third round was the only one in dispute on the judges’ scorecards, with Lawler getting the nod on two cards despite Condit’s 22 strikes to Lawler’s 10, which included a vicious elbow.

“I don’t even remember much about what happened in the third,” Lawler said. “I was trying to live it minute by minute.”

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Robbie Lawler, right, fights Carlos Condit during a welterweight championship mixed martial arts bout at UFC 195, Saturday, in Las Vegas.

Condit connected in the fourth with a short left hand and a right behind Lawler’s ear, wobbling the champion and unloading on him before the bell. The fifth was a flat-out brawl.

I’m not dejected,” Condit said. “I have to evaluate, but there’s a possibility that might be my last one.

We’ll see.”

UFC 195 kicked off the new year after a tumultuous, successful 2015 in which seven of the UFC’s 10 champions lost their belts, including Ronda Rousey, Jose Aldo and Jon Jones. Lawler was among those who hung on to his title, winning a similarly grueling decision over Rory MacDonald in his only fight of 2015.

“He’s our Evander Holyfield,” UFC President Dana White said of Lawler. “He’s never in a boring fight. When he gets hurt, he continues to go toe-totoe.”

Lawler’s matchup with Condit only underlined his reputation as a tenacious veteran willing to do anything to preserve the title that he finally won 12 years after his first UFC fight.

“I’m just going out there to knock someone’s head off and get a quick victory, but for some reason these

guys won’t stay down,” Lawler said.

Condit had done just about everything in MMA aside from winning an undisputed UFC belt. The 13-year veteran pro held the interim UFC title in 2012 before losing the belt to Georges St. Pierre, who described the New Mexico wrestler as his toughest opponent.

Before the main event, Miocic likely earned a shot at the UFC heavyweight belt with an opening-minute victory. The 6-foot-4 firefighter from the Cleveland suburbs has won five of six fights despite enduring winter travel delays on his way to Vegas this week.

Miocic ended it abruptly when he caught Arlovski with a short right hand to the chin and another against the cage moments later, sending the veteran Arlovski defenceless to his knees. Miocic celebrated his victory by running across the cage to White and UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta, yelling at them to “Give me my shot! Come on!”

The 33-year-old Miocic is likely to be the next contender for the heavyweight belt after champion Fabricio Werdum’s rematch with former champ Cain Velasquez next month at UFC 196 in this same Las Vegas cage.

Ice beat Broncos to snap Revitalized Chelsea beats 16-game losing streak Palace in confident display

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WHL ROUNDUP

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — Jesse Zaharichuk scored twice and assisted on the winner as the Kootenay Ice snapped their 16-game losing streak with a 3-1 win over the Swift Current Broncos on Sunday in Western Hockey League action.

Kootenay’s last victory was on Nov. 21 — a 2-1 win over the Broncos.

Bryan Allbee broke a 1-1 deadlock at 18:40 of the third period for the Ice (7-31-3). Zaharichuk secured the two points by putting his second goal of the game into an empty net while Swift Current was playing six-on-five.

Lane Pederson opened the scoring for the Broncos (12-22-5) early in the second period with a power-play goal before Zaharichuk responded with the equalizer before the second intermission.

Kootenay’s Wyatt Hoflin made 25 saves to improve to 5-22-1 on the season. Travis Child kicked out 24-of-26 shots for Swift Current.

There was only one power-play opportunity the entire game, when Ice forward Matt Alfaro was given a minor for slashing 48 seconds into the second period.

BLADES 6 WARRIORS 3 SASKATOON — Bryton Sayers had a pair of goals and Cameron Hebig tacked on three assists as the Blades doubled up Moose Jaw. Mason McCarty, Wyatt Sloboshan, Connor Gay and Josh Paterson also scored for Saskatoon (15-20-3) while Brock Hamm made 14 saves for the win.

Jesse Shynkaruk scored once for the Warriors (19-15-4) and assisted on goals from Dryden Hunt and Marc McNulty.

Brody Willms stopped 26-of-31 shots in defeat.

RAIDERS 7 PATS 3 REGINA — Reid Gardiner scored

twice and added an assist while Rylan Parenteau made 24 saves as Prince Albert defeated the Pats.

Matteo Gennaro scored once and set up two more for the Raiders (23-12-4), who also got goals from Sean Montgomery, Jordan Tkatch, Cal Babych and Jesse Lees.

Jared McAmmond, Sam Steel and Austin Wagner supplied the offence for Regina (17-17-6). Jordan Hollett started, and finished, in net and allowed four goals on 18 shots in 36:12 of ice time. Tyler Brown took the loss after stopping 13-of-16 shots in a relief appearance ending with an undisclosed injury that forced Hollett back into the game.

WHEAT KINGS 4 HITMEN 1 CALGARY — Jordan Papirny made 34 saves and Nolan Patrick struck twice as Brandon got past the Hitmen.

Stelio Matheos and Tyler Coulter also found the back of the net for the Wheat Kings (24-12-4).

Beck Malenstyn kept Calgary (25-152) from being shut out. Nik Amundrud turned aside 24-of-27 shots in a losing cause.

GIANTS 5 COUGARS 3 PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — Alex Baer had two goals and an assist and Ryan Kubic stopped 32 shots as Vancouver beat the Cougars.

David Brumm, Dmitry Osipov and Carter Popoff also scored for the Giants (15-20-5) and Brennan Menell chipped in with three helpers.

Brad Morrison, Jesse Gabriel and Brogan O’Brien had a goal apiece for Prince George (23-14-2). Nick McBride made 17 saves in a losing effort.

WINTERHAWKS 5 CHIEFS 1 PORTLAND, Ore. — Dominic Turgeon had two goals and an assist and Adin Hill made 30 saves as the Winterhawks toppled Spokane.

Ryan Hughes, Alex Schoenborn and Skyler McKenzie also scored for Portland (20-17-1).

Dominic Zwerger was the lone scorer for the Chiefs (19-15-5), who got a 26-save outing from Tyson Verhelst.

Matthews, Church each have five points, Rush open season with win over Roughnecks

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Rush 10 Roughnecks 8 CALGARY — Mark Matthews and Robert Church both had two goals and three assists as the Saskatchewan Rush got past the Calgary Roughnecks 10-8 on Saturday night in National Lacrosse League action.

Zack Greer also had a pair of goals for the Rush (1-0). Ben McIntosh, Adrian Sorichetti, Chris Corbeil and Riley Loewen rounded out the attack.

Dane Dobbie scored a hat trick for Calgary (0-1), which got two goals and two assists from Curtis Dickson. Dan MacRae, Wesley Berg and Jeff Shattler had the others.

Aaron Bold made 37 saves for the win in net as Frankie Scigliano also kicked out 37 shots in defeat. Mike Poulin played 23 seconds of relief for the Roughnecks and made one save.

Saskatchewan was 1 for 4 on the power play while Calgary scored four times on eight opportunities.

MANCHESTER, England — Chelsea signalled its intent to surge up the Premier League by crushing Crystal Palace 3-0 on Sunday in a stylish display that had shades of last season’s cruise to the championship.

Oscar, Willian and Diego Costa scored for Chelsea, which is out of realistic title contention following a dismal start to its defence but could still challenge for a Champions League spot on the evidence of its performance at Selhurst Park.

The champions are unbeaten in four matches under caretaker manager Guus Hiddink since firing Jose Mourinho a week before Christmas, but are still languishing in 14th place — 13 points behind fourth-place Tottenham.

Spurs lost ground in the title race by drawing 1-1 at Everton in Sunday’s other game, with Dele Alli’s superb volley earning Spurs a point after cancelling out Aaron Lennon’s opener.

But Spurs’ domination at Goodison Park shows they are genuine challengers for the trophy. Only six points separate Tottenham and its north London rival Arsenal in first place, and Spurs have only lost twice all season in the league.

Tottenham ended the busy festive period with 10 points from a possible 12, more than any other side in the league.

“The way we played today, we can achieve what we want,” Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino said.

The belief appears to be back at Chelsea, which looks a different side to the one that struggled under Mourinho. Its attacking players are playing with more freedom, with Spain

PREMIER LEAGUE SOCCER internationals Cesc Fabregas and Costa excelling against Palace.

Costa ran onto Fabregas’ throughball, cut in and squared a pass for Oscar to sidefoot home into an empty net for the opening goal in the 29th.

Willian struck a rising shot into the net from long range to make it 2-0 in the 60th and then played a part in the third goal, sending in a shot that was parried out to the feet of Costa inside the six-yard box. Costa couldn’t miss.

“That was the Chelsea of last year, I think,” Chelsea captain John Terry said.

The only negative for Chelsea was the sight of Eden Hazard hobbling off with a groin injury. The Belgium winger has failed to reproduce his fine form from last season, when he was voted player of the season in England.

Alli has been one of the success stories of this season, establishing himself as a regular for Tottenham and also breaking into the England squad in his first year in the Premier League.

Last season, he was playing in the third tier with MK Dons.

His goal against Everton was another example of his talent, controlling on his chest a long pass forward from Toby Alderweireld and burying a firsttime volley from just inside the area in first-half injury time.

Lennon put Everton ahead against his former club in the 22nd, against the run of play. Harry Kane and Ben Davies struck shots against the goal frame either side of Lennon’s goal, as Spurs drew for the ninth time in 20 games this campaign.

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B7 Tensions grow in the Middle East

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SAUDI ARABIA SEVERS DIPLOMATIC TIES WITH IRAN AS ANGER RISES OVER EXECUTION OF SHIITE CLERIC

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TEHRAN, Iran — Saudi Arabia announced Sunday it was severing diplomatic relations with Shiite powerhouse Iran amid escalating tensions over the Sunni kingdom’s execution of a prominent Shiite cleric.

The move came hours after protesters stormed and set fire to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran and followed harsh criticism by Iran’s top leader of the Saudis’ execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel alJubeir said Iranian diplomatic personnel had 48 hours to leave his country and all Saudi diplomatic personnel in Iran had been called home.

The mass execution of al-Nimr and 46 others — the largest carried out by Saudi Arabia in three and a half decades — laid bare the sectarian divisions gripping the region as demonstrators took to the streets from Bahrain to Pakistan in protest.

It also illustrated the kingdom’s new aggressiveness under King Salman. During his reign, Saudi Arabia has led a coalition fighting Shiite rebels in Yemen and staunchly opposed regional Shiite power Iran, even as Tehran struck a nuclear deal with world powers.

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned Saudi Arabia on Sunday of “divine revenge” over al-Nimr’s death, while Riyadh accused Tehran of supporting “terrorism” in a war of words that threatened to escalate even as the U.S. and the European Union sought to calm the region.

Al-Nimr was a central figure in Arab Spring-inspired protests by Saudi Arabia’s Shiite minority until his arrest in 2012. He was convicted of terrorism charges but denied advocating violence.

On Saturday, Saudi Arabia put alNimr and three other Shiite dissidents to death, along with a number of al-Qaida militants. Al-Nimr’s execution drew protests from Shiites around the world, who backed his call for reform and wider political freedom for their sect.

While the split between Sunnis and Shiites dates back to the early days of Islam and disagreements over the successor to Prophet Muhammad, those divisions have only grown as they intertwine with regional politics, with both Iran and Saudi Arabia vying to be the Mideast’s top power.

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Surrounded by policemen, a Muslim cleric addresses a crowd during a demonstration to denounce the execution of Saudi Shiite Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, seen in poster, in front of the Saudi embassy in Tehran, Iran, Sunday. Saudi Arabia announced the execution of al-Nimr on Saturday along with 46 others. Al-Nimr was a central figure in protests by Saudi Arabia’s Shiite minority until his arrest in 2012, and his execution drew condemnation from Shiites across the region.

Iran accuses Saudi Arabia of supporting terrorism in part because it backs Syrian rebel groups fighting to oust its embattled ally, President Bashar Assad. Riyadh points to Iran’s backing of the Lebanese Hezbollah and other Shiite militant groups in the region as a sign of its support for terrorism. Iran also has backed Shiite rebels in Yemen known as Houthis.

Khamenei, the Iranian supreme leader, condemned al-Nimr’s execution, saying Sunday the cleric “neither invited people to take up arms nor hatched covert plots. The only thing he did was public criticism.”

Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard said Saudi Arabia’s “medieval act of savagery” would lead to the “downfall” of the country’s monarchy.

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry

said that by condemning the execution, Iran had “revealed its true face represented in support for terrorism.”

In Tehran, a protest outside the Saudi Embassy early Sunday quickly grew violent as protesters threw stones and gasoline bombs at the embassy, setting part of the building ablaze, according to Gen. Hossein Sajedinia, the country’s top police official, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.

Forty people were arrested and investigators were pursuing other suspects, Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi said, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani condemned Saudi Arabia’s execution of al-Nimr, but also branded those who attacked the Saudi Embassy as “ex-

tremists.”

“It is unjustifiable,” he said in a statement.

Hundreds of protesters later demonstrated in front of the embassy and in a central Tehran square, where street signs near the embassy were replaced with ones bearing the slain sheikh’s name.

Western powers sought to calm the tensions.

In Washington, State Department spokesman John Kirby said the Obama administration was aware of the Saudis’ severing of ties with Tehran. “We believe that diplomatic engagement and direct conversations remain essential in working through differences and we will continue to urge leaders across the region to take affirmative steps to calm tensions,” Kirby said.

Israel indicts Jewish extremists in arson attack JERUSALEM — Israel on Sunday indicted two Jewish extremists suspected in a July arson attack on a Palestinian home that killed a toddler and his parents — a case that has been unsolved for months and helped fuel the current wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence.

The long-awaited indictment follows months of investigations into a web of Jewish extremists operating in the West Bank. The indictment named Amiram Ben-Uliel, a 21-year-old West Bank settler, as the main suspect in the attack. A minor was charged as an accessory.

Yinon Reuveni, 20, and another minor were charged for other violence against Palestinians. All four were charged with belonging to a terrorist organization.

The arson attack in the West Bank village of Duma killed 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh, while his mother, Riham, and father, Saad, later died of their wounds. Ali’s 4-year-old brother Ahmad survived.

The firebombing, carried out at night while the family slept, sparked soul-searching among Israelis.

It was condemned across the Israeli political spectrum and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged “zero

tolerance” in the fight to bring the assailants to justice. Israel has authorized a series of steps, including holding several suspects without charge — a tactic typically used against Palestinian militants — to crack the case.

But critics have said that similar, albeit not deadly, attacks have festered for years with little action by the government. And for months, Palestinians watched angrily as the case remained unsolved, intensifying a feeling of skewed justice in the occupied territory, where suspected Palestinian militants are prosecuted under a separate system of military law that gives them few rights. The arson also touched on Palestinian fears of extremist Jewish settlers, who have attacked Palestinian property with impunity.

Palestinians cite the Duma incident as a factor in a three-month wave of attacks and clashes roiling the region, saying they are frustrated by years of unchecked settler violence.

Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers over the past three and a half months have killed 21 Israelis, mostly in stabbings, shootings and car-ramming attacks. That figure does not include the two Israelis killed Friday by an Arab man in a shooting attack on a Tel Aviv restaurant, as the motive for the attack hasn’t officially been determined yet.

During that time, at least 131 Pales-

Video purports to show IS fighters killing five ‘spies’ for Britain

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — A video circulated online Sunday purported to show the Islamic State group killing five men accused of spying for Britain in Syria.

The high-quality footage bore the markings of the IS media wing, and shows five men “confessing” to filming and photographing sites in exchange for money within Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic State group’s self-declared caliphate. It could not be independently verified.

The men, speaking Arabic, are introduced as “the enemy” and “apostates.”

Several said they were given hidden cameras with lenses disguised as shirt buttons to provide images and videos to a contact in Turkey. One said he later saw that his videos appearing in international media including Britain’s BBC. He goes on to say he was sent two photos of British Islamic State mem-

bers and asked to locate them, and also to photograph a former Syrian government building now housing the Islamic State group’s “Islamic Courts.”

“Don’t let them fool you like they fooled us,” one of the condemned men said, referring to those seeking to collect information on IS and undermine it.

Another man appeals to people in similar situations to confess and turn themselves in, repeatedly saying “the door to repentance is open.”

The video then cuts to the men kneeling, lined up in orange jumpsuits in the desert, where they are shot in the head by masked men.

Before the shooting, a masked man with a British accent mocks British Prime Minister David Cameron, calling him a “slave of the White House,” and “mule of the Jews.”

He describes the men as “spies,” and says IS will one day invade Britain and impose their extremist version of Islamic law.

tinians have been killed by Israeli fire, 90 of them identified by Israel as assailants. The rest died in clashes with security forces.

Israel says the violence is being fanned by a Palestinian campaign of incitement. The Palestinians say it is rooted in frustrations stemming from nearly five decades of Israeli occupation.

The violence continued Sunday as a female Israeli soldier was shot in the West Bank city of Hebron, the military said. She was moderately wounded and troops were searching for the shooter.

Israel’s Shin Bet security service said Sunday that the suspects admitted to carrying out the Duma attack, saying it was in retaliation for the killing of an Israeli settler by Palestinians a month earlier. It said all the suspects were part of a group of extremists that had carried out a series of attacks over the years in a religiously inspired campaign to undermine the government and sow fear among non-Jews.

The indictment said Ben-Uliel admitted to spraying graffiti on the Dawabsheh family home and then tossing a firebomb through a bedroom window before fleeing the scene. BenUliel’s parents said they believe in his innocence and that he was tortured during interrogation.

Nasser Dawabsheh, Saad’s brother,

said the indictments were not enough.

“It’s clear the Israeli institutions are not serious,” he said. “It’s clear there was an organization behind this crime, even the media knows that. And the government was not serious in preventing it and is not serious in pursuing the killers.”

Jewish extremists have for years vandalized or set fire to Palestinian property, as well as mosques, churches, the offices of dovish Israeli groups and even Israeli military bases. The so-called “price tag” attacks seek to exact a cost for Israeli steps seen as favouring the Palestinians.

The extremists are part of a movement known as the “hilltop youth,” a leaderless group of young people who set up unauthorized outposts, usually clusters of trailers, on West Bank hilltops — land the Palestinians claim for their hoped-for state. A lawyer for one of the suspects says his client gave a forced confession after interrogators deprived him of sleep and tied him upside down by his feet.

The Yesha council, an umbrella group of West Bank settlements, commended the indictment and said the suspects do not represent it.

“It is now clear that these acts were perpetrated by a fringe group of anarchists bent on destroying the State of Israel and the freedom and justice that it represents,” it said in a statement.

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MCFARLANE Helen Beth 1923 - 2015 Beth McFarlane passed away at Extendicare Michener Hill in Red Deer on Wednesday, December 30th, 2015 at the age of 92 years.

She was born in Vancouver Washington, USA, on October 19,1923, moving to Alberta shortly thereafter.

Beth led a happy, simple life and was admired for her positive attitude and helpful nature. She was blessed with many true friends. She was a great example for everyone and handled both good and difficult times with dignity.

Our prayer for her is that she rests in peace. Beth was predeceased by her husband, Ken McFarlane, her parents; Herschell and Patricia Bryant and her siblings; Keith Bryant, Phyllis Courtright and Jack Bryant. She will be lovingly remembered by her sons; Bob (Connie) and Don (Elaine), her grandchildren; Angela (Dave) Leonard, Nicola (Jeff) Meier, Scott (Roxanne) McFarlane and Kevin McFarlane (Kathryn Horrigan), as well as her six great-grandchildren; Jackson Leonard, Ty Leonard, Chloe Leonard, Edward Meier, Charles Meier and Shae McFarlane. Twins are also on the way! A Private Family Service will take place at a later date. The family wishes to thank the staff at Rivera Aspen Ridge for their attention during her time there and also Dr. Hovan and the staff at Extendicare Michener Hill, especially Household 3700, for their care, kindness and compassion in Beth’s final days. In lieu of flowers, donations in Beth’s honour may be made directly to The Red Deer & District SPCA, 4505 77 Street, Red Deer, AB, T4P 2J1 or to the charity of one’s choice. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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Armed protesters put call out to join them OREGON

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BURNS, Ore. — The remote high desert of eastern Oregon became the latest flashpoint for anti-government sentiment as armed protesters occupied a national wildlife refuge to object to a prison sentence for local ranchers for burning federal land.

Ammon Bundy — the son of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who was involved in a 2014 standoff with the government over grazing rights — is among the people at the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. It was unclear exactly how many people were taking part in the protests.

Ammon Bundy posted a video on his Facebook page asking for militia members to come help him. He said “this is not a time to stand down. It’s a time to stand up and come to Harney County,” where Burns is located.

Bundy and other militia members came to Burns last month, a small town about 280 miles (450 kilometres) southeast of Portland, Oregon. They were upset over the looming prison sentences for local ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond. They went to the wildlife refuge Saturday evening following a peaceful rally in Burns to support the ranchers.

Dwight Hammond, 73, and Steven Hammond, 46, said they lit the fires on federal land in 2001 and 2006 to reduce the growth of invasive plants and protect their property from wildfires.

The two were convicted of the arsons three years ago and served time — the father three months, the son one year. But a federal judge ruled in October that their terms were too short under U.S. minimum sentencing law and ordered them back to prison for about four years each.

The decision generated controversy and is part of a decades-long dispute between some Westerners and the federal government over the use of public lands. The issue traces back to the 1970s and the “Sagebrush Rebellion,” a move by Western states like Nevada

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Protesters march on Court Avenue in support of an Oregon ranching family facing jail time for arson in Burns, Ore., Saturday. Family members were convicted of the arsons three years ago and served time. But a judge ruled their terms were too short under federal law and ordered them back to prison for about four years each. to increase local control over federal land. Critics of the push for more local control have said the federal government should administer the public lands for the widest possible uses, including environmental and recreation.

In an interview with The Associated Press at the wildlife refuge Sunday, Ryan Bundy, Ammon Bundy’s brother, said the protesters’ ultimate goal is to

turn the land over to local authorities so people can use it free of federal oversight.

They want to “restore the rights to people so they can use the land and resources” for ranching, logging, mining and recreation.

Ryan Bundy says the federal government has been “tromping on people’s rights and privileges and proper-

ties and livelihoods.”

“I understand the land needs to be used wisely, but that’s what we as stewards need to do. A rancher is going to take care of his own ranch,” Ryan Bundy said.

On Sunday, supplies were seen being delivered to the refuge area, which is remote even by rural Oregon standards.

Damage assessed as Mississippi River recedes

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KINCAID, Ill. — The Mississippi River and many of its tributaries continued their retreat Sunday from historic and deadly winter flooding, leaving amid the silt a massive cleanup and recovery effort likely to take weeks if not months.

The flood, fueled by more than 10 inches (25 centimetres) of rain over a three-day period that began Christmas Day, is blamed for 25 deaths in Illinois and Missouri, reflecting Sunday’s discovery of the body of a second teenager who drowned in central Illinois’ Christian County.

The Mississippi River was receding except in the far southern tip of both states.

The Meramec River, the St. Louis-area tributary of the Mississippi that caused so much damage last week, already was below flood stage in the hard-hit Missouri towns of Pacific and Eureka and dropping elsewhere.

But worries surfaced anew Sunday along the still-rising Illinois River north of St. Louis, where crests near the west-central towns of Valley City, Meredosia, Beardstown and Havana were to approach records before receding in coming days.

In Kincaid, a 1,400-resident central Illinois town near the Sangamon River’s south fork, Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner toured flood-damaged homes Sunday as residents piled ruined furniture, appliances and clothes along the street for disposal crews to pick up. Mike Crews, Christian County’s emergency manager, said the worst of the inundation appeared to be past, “until the new weather comes,” citing

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Petersburg, Ill., Mayor John Stiltz climbs the nearly 2,000-foot long wall erected to protect the town’s business district from the Sangamon River on Saturday.

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner of Illinois also toured flood-ravaged areas Saturday as near-record crest predictions of the Mississippi River and levee breaks threatened more homes. the prospect of potentially heavy rain later in the week.

In Illinois’ Morgan County, home to the 1,000-resident village of Meredosia, locals were keeping wary eyes on levies fortified with 50,000 sandbags. As of midday Sunday at Meredosia, the Illinois was more than 10 feet (3 metres) above flood stage and pressing toward an expected crest Tuesday roughly a half foot (15 centimetres) short of the record set in July.

While optimistic those levies would

hold, Jacksonville-Morgan County Emergency Management Director Phil McCarty the prospect of flooding during the chill of winter carried dangerous health risks, including hypothermia if people have to wade out of their homes in sub-freezing weather.

In central Illinois, the 1,400-resident town of Kincaid was starting to clean up after floodwaters damaged more than three dozen homes and several roads, Christian County emergency manager Mike Crews said. He said the

worst of the inundation appeared to be past, “until the new weather comes,” citing the prospect of potentially heavy rain later in the week.

President Barack Obama signed a federal emergency declaration Saturday for Missouri, allowing federal aid to be used to help state and local response efforts. It also allows the Federal Emergency Management Agency to co-ordinate disaster relief efforts.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon had asked for the help.

Illinois Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Patti Thompson said the state’s flooding death toll increased to nine. Fifteen have died in Missouri.

St. Louis-area cleanup largely was focused around the Meramec. Two wastewater treatment plants were so damaged by the floodwaters that raw sewage spewed into the river. Hundreds of people were evacuated in the Missouri communities of Pacific, Eureka, Valley Park and Arnold, where many homes took in water. 0.4 feet (0.12 metres) In southeast Missouri, up to 30 homes and several businesses were damaged in Cape Girardeau, a community of nearly 40,000 residents that is mostly protected by a flood wall. The Mississippi peaked at 48.9 feet (14.9 metres) Friday night, four-tenths of a foot (0,12 metres) above the 1993 record, but short of the 50-foot (15-meter) mark projected. Nearby levee breaks in other places kept the crest down.

Amtrak passenger train service between St. Louis and Kansas City was back in business on Sunday, four days after high water that reached the tracks at some locations forced the passenger service to be halted.

Three detained in slaying of mayor a Employees return to San Bernardino day after taking office in Mexico city offices for first time since massacre

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY — Three people, including a minor, were being held Sunday in the slaying of a newly inaugurated mayor just hours into her term in a gang-troubled central Mexican city.

Morelos Gov. Graco Ramirez ordered flags on state buildings flown at half-staff and called for three days of mourning following the killing of Temixco Mayor Gisela Mota.

He blamed organized crime for killing the 33-year-old Mota, a former federal congresswoman who had been sworn in as mayor the day before she was gunned down in her home Saturday morning.

Ramirez ordered security measures for all of the state’s mayors, though he gave no details on what that involved.

Ramon Castro Castro, Roman Catholic bishop of Cuernavaca, celebrated Mass at Mota’s home Sunday and later spoke critically of a state where some areas are in control of organized crime.

“One theory could be that it was a warning to the other mayors,” Castro said to reporters. “If you don’t co-operate with organized crime, look at what will happen to you. It’s to scare them.”

Following Mota’s killing, two suspects were killed in a clash with police and three others arrested. Officials

said those taken into custody were a 32-year-old woman, an 18-year-old man and a minor. They gave few other details, though state Attorney General Javier Perez Duron said the suspects had been tied to other crimes.

Temixco, with about 100,000 people, is a suburb of Cuernavaca, a city famed among tourists for its colonial centre, gardens and jacaranda-decked streets. “The city of eternal spring” was long a favourite weekend getaway for people from nearby Mexico City.

But drug and extortion gangs have plagued the area in recent years, driving away some tourists and residents.

The expressway — and drug routes — between Mexico City and the country’s murder capital of Acapulco cuts through Cuernavaca and Temixco.

Neither the governor nor prosecutors indicated which criminal organization might be involved in the mayor’s slaying.

Drugs, kidnappings and extortion in the area were once under the control of the Beltran Leyva cartel, but that group’s collapse a few years ago unleashed fierce competition among its progeny and rivals.

In December 2014, a state lawmaker who was a candidate for mayor of Temixco from the same party as Mota, was kidnapped there. Authorities rescued him the following day and blamed the Guerreros Unidos cartel.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — In the San Bernardino offices of the Inland Regional Center, Christmas did not come after a couple massacred 14 people at a holiday party a month ago.

Tinsel still festoons cubicles. A small tree with presents sits undisturbed. A sign-up sheet to bring in food remains empty of names.

The staff was still gearing up for the holidays on Dec. 2, the day of the attack on the centre’s gleaming campus.

Few of its 600 employees have gone to the office since, other than a brief visit to gather personal belongings a week after the terror attack.

On Monday, they return.

While many have continued to work, visiting the homes of autistic children and mentally disabled adults, they haven’t been together in the place where everything froze once law enforcement officers whisked them away.

Amid the investigation and cleanup, the campus has been locked behind a chain link fence wrapped in green mesh. Within that perimeter, in one corner, is a second fence.

It seals the conference centre that San Bernardino County’s health department was renting for a holiday luncheon when the two attackers began their assault. A county restaurant

inspector targeting his co-workers was joined by his wife in killing 14 and wounding dozens. The FBI says the attackers were motivated by radical Islamist beliefs.

The conference centre will not reopen Monday, and it’s not clear when it might. For now, the act of reuniting elsewhere on campus will be a huge step forward for Inland Regional Center staff. They miss the friendly faces, the hallway conversations. They yearn to renew a sense of stability at an institution unmoored by violence.

“That’s what I’m hearing from them: ‘We want to be together again. We want to be back at work,”’ said Lavinia Johnson, the centre’s executive director.

Sitting for an interview in a tidy courtyard shaded by two of the centre’s large, red stone buildings, Johnson and associate executive director Kevin Urtz reflected on the reopening.

The plan for Monday morning is, after a welcome and some food in the lounges, to do what social workers and counsellors do best — sit and talk.

After that, it’s back to work. Professional counsellors will be available for employees who want them.

“Our goal is to help people help themselves. And that’s pretty much the same strategy that we want to take with our staff,” Urtz said. “You know, help them through this.”

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January 4 2010 — Burj Khalifa (Khalifa tower) officially opens in Dubai, UAE. At 2,722 ft (829.8 m). It becomes the world’s tallest man-made structure.

2006 — Suncor marks the sale of its billionth barrel of oil sands crude since operations began in 1967.

1999 — The euro, the new money of 11 European nations, goes into effect on the

continent of Europe.

1987 — Canada and the Soviet Union juniors engage in bench-clearing brawl during the final game of the 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Pešťany, Czechoslovakia. It resulted in the ejection of both nations; the Soviets had already been eliminated from medal contention, but the disqualification cost Canada a certain medal – potentially the gold.

1915 — Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry the first Canadian troops sent to the front lines in France during World War I.

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Husband uncomfortable with wife’s nude modeling for college art class Dear Annie: My wife and I are recently married, Dear Annie: I am concerned about a friend who and we moved to a new town a year ago. consumes large quantities of alcohol every night.

Our neighbor is an art professor at a community Since his liver tests come back OK, he thinks it isn’t college. He is a kind gentleman, and we spend a fair a problem, and that he can drink a lot because he’s a amount of time together, having each other over for big guy. dinners, cookouts, etc.

Would you be able to elaborate with facLast summer, he asked my wife to tual information on what harm may be done work as a model for two of his drawing to the body other than the liver? classes. He has trouble finding models Most discussions about alcohol refer to during the day, and she is a homemakthe damage it does to relationships and job, er. She agreed. and the risk of driving under the influence.

Well, she recently brought home one But I think there’s more than temporary of the professor’s sketches from class impairment. I want him to make a more inand I was shocked to see that she posed formed decision on how to deal with stress. in the nude. She assumed I knew what I love him and would like to see him have a kind of models work for college art long life. — Hoping for a Change classes, but I was really upset. She said Dear Hoping: We doubt this knowledge she enjoys the work and would like to will change his attitude about drinking, but keep doing it. according to the National Institute on AlMITCHELL Now I find myself uncomfortable cohol Abuse and Alcoholism, alcohol inter& SUGAR when the three of us are together, feres with the brain’s communication pathknowing that he sees her naked on a ways, and can affect the way the brain looks ANNIE regular basis. If the class were taught and works. by a stranger, I would have less of a While moderate drinking can prevent problem with it. He has already asked her back for coronary heart disease, drinking a lot over a long next semester, and I’d like her to say no. She says I time, or too much on a single occasion can cause am being unreasonably jealous. Is she right? — The cardiomyopathy, arrhythmias, stroke and high blood Husband pressure. Alcohol causes the pancreas to produce Dear Husband: Art class models are not objects toxic substances that can lead to pancreatitis. of sexual desire. They are simply a way to help stuToo much alcohol can increase your risk of develdents draw the human form. oping cancer of the mouth, esophagus, throat, liver We doubt the professor thinks about your wife in and breast, and can weaken your immune system. any way other than as a friend and colleague.

This is in addition to liver damage, which you alHere’s our recommendation: Attend the class a ready know about. By the time his liver tests aren’t few times to see exactly what’s going on. If you still “OK,” it may be too late. feel that the professor or the students have a pruriAnnie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and ent interest in your wife, or if you believe your wife Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers colis doing this because she wants to be seductive, you umn. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ should ask her to stop for the health of your mar- creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators riage.

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Calgary couple gets subtle shout out on ‘Simpsons’ for kitchen

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A Calgary couple who renovated their kitchen to match a cartoon one on The Simpsons has been saluted by the popular TV show.

Marcia Andreychuk and Joel Hamilton spent the past year turning their kitchen into a colourful match of Marge and Homer Simpson’s, complete with purple and red cupboards, avocado green appliances and corn cob curtains above the sink.

They watched the Dec. 13 episode, as they do each Sunday, but missed the subtle name drop. A few days ago, Andreychuk put the show on again.

As Homer and Bart are watching a hockey game on TV, a sports announcer can be heard referring to Andreychuk and Hamilton as players.

“I’m like, ‘What?!’ and nearly fell out of my chair,” recalled Andreychuk.

She then went to wake up her husband, who has been a big fan of the show since he was a kid. He was thrilled, she said.

“Immortalized is far too strong a word but to be included in such a pop cultural icon television show that’s been running for so long … Joel loves the show and it’s such a thrill for him especially.

“And I just love the kitchen.”

News of the couple’s kitchen project made headlines around the world earlier this year.

Andreychuk didn’t want a cookie-cutter kitchen like everyone else and pitched the idea to her husband. He jumped on board. They recently completed the project. And while Andreychuk said it’s functional, some items in it are props. The teal blender on the counter doesn’t work. And the orange slim-line telephone on the wall isn’t connected.

But it’s her happy place.

“You should see that thing in the morning when the sun’s coming in,” Andreychuk said. “If I got out of the wrong side of the bed, you just walk into that kitchen and you can’t help but just take things a little less seriously and it puts a smile on your face.”

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This male American Goldfinch does not seem worried about the snow while enjoying an early winter snack during a balmy December day.

With all the sunflowers and seed at feeders he may stay all winter.

He is slowly changing into his dull tan winter coloring.

Monday, Jan. 4 LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Mighty Mars is moving through CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Dyan Cannon, 78; your sign — until March 6 — which helps you become as Michael Stipe, 55; Julia Ormond, 50 motivated and proactive as a laidback Libran can possibly be.

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Mars moves into Scorpio which Enjoy the energy surge while it lasts! increases motivation and determination.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Assertive Mars HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You are very practical charges through your sign every two years — which but don’t become too rigid in your outlook. boosts your Scorpio confidence and motivation. So Jupiter encourages you to explore new ideas, it’s the perfect time to take on a challenge with plenconcepts, people and places in 2016. ty of passion and purpose.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Attached AriSAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Mars shifts es — your ruler Mars moves into your intimacy into your solitude zone, so it’s important you find the zone, so it’s time to get closer to your partner, time and space to look within. Activities like mediphysically and emotionally. Singles — look for tation, contemplation, yoga and tai chi are positive love with a sassy Sagittarius or a sexy Scorways to channel this spiritual energy. pio.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Mars is marchTAURUS (April 20-May 20): With dynamic ing through your hopes and wishes zone — until Mars moving into your relationship zone until March 6 — so it’s vital that you focus on manifesting March 6, it’s the perfect time to be proactive your goals and dreams into something tangible.

JOANNE MADELINE about improving close partnerships — whether Mars encourages you to walk your talk.

MOORE of the romantic, platonic or business variety.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): With Mars powHOROSCOPE GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’s time to get ering through your work zone, the next two months motivated about diet, health and fitness, as is the best time of the year to kick-start your career Mars moves into your wellbeing zone. When it and power ahead with professional projects. The comes to regular exercise, it helps if you take up a sport that early bird catches the worm! also has a social component.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March CANCER (June 21-July 22): Friendships are favoured 20): Are you feeling restless? over the next two months, as Mars fires up your peer group Have you been dreaming of zone. It’s also a good time to be more proactive about sorting foreign escapades and exotout a challenging relationship with a child or teenager. ic adventures? The next two LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It’s action-stations on the home months is the best time to take front, as mighty Mars charges through your domestic zone. a trip, as Mars motivates you The next two months is a terrific time to tackle all those jobs to travel and explore. you’ve been putting on the back-burner!

Joanne Madeline Moore is VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Can you contribute more an internationally syndicated within your neighbourhood? Dynamic Mars motivates you to astrologer and columnist. Her become more involved within your local community. You have column appears daily in the a wide variety of Virgo talents to offer.

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