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OPERATING BUDGET

Number crunching trims tax hike to 3.15%

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Operating budget talks began on an optimistic note as city administration worked overnight to bring down the proposed property tax hike on Wednesday.

R o u g h l y $744,000 in savings were found after some juggling with numbers. That included adjusting the gas price to reflect new projections and factoring in the RCMP “soft” vacancies at the end of year.

TARA VEER Those are the positions that are not filled because of various forms of leaves.

The tweaks bring the proposed property tax hike to 3.15 per cent from 3.77 per cent. The budget was tabled at 3.78 per cent in December.

So if there are no changes to the proposed rate an owner of a house assessed at $325,000 would pay $5.07 more each month. The tax bill would rise to $1,990.64 in 2016 compared to $1,929.85 in 2015.

And that is where the recommended property hike stayed after four hours of debate despite attempts by council to bring it down further on the second day of operating budget talks.

“We are very pleased that we are down to 3.15 per cent,” said Mayor Tara Veer. “Council is having some rigorous debate. I think ultimately it is reflect of where our community is at and recognizing that we are in a deeper recession then we were in 2008 and we need to recognize that.”

Veer said the intent of council is to try to arrive at the lowest number possible recognizing that it is charged with being responsible for the financial decisions of the community.

“But I think there is a recognition on council’s part that we don’t want to arrive at that number artificially,” said Veer. “Having engaged in deep service level or infrastructure cuts in the past, our community responds the other way saying that there are shortfalls and we need to adjust issues in the community. So I think we are trying to find the right balance to serve our citizens and honours the commitments that we made to our citizens and do it the most rigours financial way.”

Council, however, successfully trimmed a total of $37,000 from two line items — stopping security checks on the old RCMP building ($12,000) and cutting the temporary procurement resources in half to $25,000. The item will be up for discussion again at mid-year budget review in August.

Coun. Tanya Handley unsuccessfully argued to cut the one per cent growth revenue contribution of $1.2 million to the capital amenities fund in half to $600,000 in 2016.

Last year council established the capital amenities fund, where one per cent of the growth revenue into a fund to pay for projects in the 10-year plan.

Please see BUDGET on Page A2

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Lily Breland, 66, pictured here in her Parkvale home, has not received respite care for most of 2015 for her two adult sons with developmental disabilities.

A RED DEER MOTHER IS AT HER WIT’S END IN HER BATTLE FOR RESPITE CARE

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer mother with two adult sons with developmental disabilities says she went without respite care for most of 2015 despite a government service contract with a community agency.

Lily Breland, 66, said regular respite care ended last January even though 15 hours a week of respite care in her home is included in the service contract between Lacombe Action Group and the provincial government department Persons with Development Disabilities (PDD).

For more than 10 years, a respite worker has regularly cared for her sons so she could have a few hours a week all to herself.

She said the community agency did provide a respite worker in the summer, but only for about five weeks.

‘I’M KIND OF AT MY WIT’S END TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO. I DON’T HAVE THE MONEY TO SUE A GOVERNMENT AGENCY AND THAT’S KIND OF WHERE I FEEL I’M AT NOW. ALL I WANT IS MY 15 HOURS A WEEK. I NEED A BREAK.’ — LILY BRELAND Breland said she was told regular staffing was unavailable for a variety of reasons.

“I’m kind of at my wits end trying to figure out what to do. I don’t have the money to sue a government agency and that’s kind of where I feel I’m at now. All I want is my 15 hours a week. I need a break,” Breland said.

Her sons Ryan Breland, 42, and Daniel, 36, both have severe mental disabilities and autism, and respite care gives Breland dedicated time off.

“I’m sure they do not look at this as a really imperative position to cover

(but) it means I’m on call 24 hours.”

Action Group staff do take her sons out to community activities and venues seven hours each day, Monday to Friday. Breland said she is always on call regardless of whether her sons have community staff, and when those staff are sick or on vacation, she fills in.

She said the agency told her to file an appeal with PDD, and PDD agreed she was owed many hours of respite care which sounds great, except she still can’t get any respite.

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Potter’s Hands pastor to stand trial on sexual assault charge in July

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A local pastor and operator of several affordable housing developments has pleaded not guilty to one count of sexual assault.

Stanley Richard Schalk, 57, of Red Deer County is the accused and had his first appearance in Red Deer provincial court on Thursday.

The alleged offence occurred on June 15, 2015. The sexual assault charge was sworn earlier this week by

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investigators.

In a phone interview Thursday, Schalk said he will be “vigorously defending my innocence,” and did not want to comment further.

Defence counsel Tyler Nightingale appeared as an agent for Schalk’s lawyer Lorne Goddard before judge Bert Skinner.

Schalk was not present, but a designation of counsel was filed by Nightingale on behalf of Goddard.

Crown Prosecutor Blair Brandon elected to proceed summarily on the charges, which carries a lesser sen-

tence if the accused is convicted.

Nightingale entered the not guilty plea and attempted to set the matter for a Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench trial by a judge and jury. However, because the Crown proceeding summarily the trial can only take place in provincial court.

Brandon estimated the trial would take about half a day.

A publication ban was ordered by Skinner, protecting the identity of the accused.

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Long-time gym closes doors A Red Deer fitness club closed its doors unexpectedly at the end of last year, leaving some members out cash.

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OPERATING BUDGET

City staffing up 2% over eight years

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF City staff has increased by two per cent over the last eight years.

It was mostly in the areas of policing, public works and providing regional services.

City manager Craig Curtis delivered a short presentation on the staffing levels in response to council questions on the first day of operating budget talks on Wednesday.

It is an issue that comes up every year during the day-to-day spending debate.

Staffing accounts for roughly $135.7 million or 40 per cent of the proposed $341-million operating budget.

The city had 1,163 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff on the books in 2008 when the population was at 87,816.

The proposed 2016 operating budget calls for 1,466 FTE employees. Red Deer’s population in 2015 came in at 100,807.

If the 2016 operating budget is approved, it would mean 303 FTEs were hired over the last eight years.

It is a projected 303 increase or roughly two per cent over eight years.

Curtis said more than one third of the positions were filled to perform services for either regional partners or for the province through the ambulance contract or the dispatch.

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Nathon Kettyle Kozuback of the Red Deer Speedskating Club goes for an evening skate as snow falls at the Golden Circle Speedskating Oval Thursday. The speedskating club will host the Red Deer Long Track Meet Jan. 23-24.

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Taxpayers will be on the hook for .37 per cent more on a homeowner’s tax bill because the province will not pay the $455,000.

The city penned a letter to Sarah Hoffman, Minister of Seniors, in December asking for the province to re-instate the funding. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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BUDGET: City needs to look to the future Handley said this motion is not about amenities rather about how they can save more for the taxpayers in light of the current economic reality. She said there is no service reduction as opposed to other items in the budget. She said future budgets including this one could choose to add to the percentage once the economy bounces back.

“I think what it really does is show our citizens that we hear them and that we are just as concerned about job loss and the economy as they are,” she said. “People feel that we need to pull back and this is an area where I feel we could pull back without too much damage to service levels.”

But council reasoned the implications would be too far reaching.

Chief Financial Officer Dean Krejci told council that the reduction would force the city to ultimately reduce or eliminate projects in the capital plan, if it did not find additional funding sources.

The city would lose $6 million in the fund for projects in the 10-year plan.

Coun. Lynne Mulder said this issue was debated long and hard. Mulder said the city needs to look to the future. She started on council when taxes were raised 10 and 11 per cent because previous councils had “robbed Peter to pay Paul’ and did not put money into infrastructure.”

Debate Highlights: ● Council slammed the province over the loss of $455,000 in funding for social housing.

Last spring the province notified the city it would not pay roughly $195,000 its portion of municipal taxes on six units of social housing.

The city’s budget team, however, learned while preparing the budget, the reduction was actually $455,000, its portion of municipal taxes on the city’s entire social housing units (163 units).

The city was not informed or consulted on the elimination in funding.

“Shame on the provincial government for this,” said Coun. Buck Buchanan. “Shame on the provincial (government) for making municipalities find it by surprise. This is absolutely ridiculous and unacceptable. I am hoping our premier is listening and so is our financial minister.”

Coun. Lawrence Lee said it is a direct download onto municipalities to cover off provincial expenses.

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RESPITE: Had to pay for care out of own pocket “PDD has told me I can change agencies. I have phoned other agencies. And all the agencies have a problem with getting and retaining respite staff. So me changing agencies isn’t going to make any difference, near as I can see.”

Breland wondered how many other families were without respite care.

Last spring she went ahead and paid for six weeks of respite care. She said neither the agency or PDD would reimburse her the cost of care, that amounted to $1,500, because the agency didn’t provide the service so it wasn’t PDD-funded.

“It’s all caught up in policy. The agency is following all its policies. PDD is following all their policies. This is a service contract signed between PDD and the agency and if it is a contract then why is this not a breach of contract.”

Breland said she has contacted the Alberta Ombudsman who has agreed to investigate.

Lacombe Action Group could not comment on their service to a specific family.

Debbie Martin, executive director of Lacombe Action Group, said for years it’s been a struggle to find caregivers in general. Workers must also be matched with the specific needs of families.

“There’s challenges with all positions. Sometimes it depends on the types of hours you’re looking at, the types of qualifications you’re looking at. Each situation is unique, although there are challenges throughout,” Martin said.

“Even with the economy we’re not seeing larger numbers coming forward. The types of workers out there aren’t necessarily the types of workers coming into our field.”

She said recruiting workers for children is particularly difficult because workers are usually required only for a few hours before and after school.

Martin said families will often go without services if staff aren’t available, or they may recruit workers on their own. Reimbursement depends on a family’s PDD contract.

Breland said families can choose to manage PDD-funded services entirely on their own. But families must screen, hire and arrange pay, and do all the bookkeeping and accounting that an agency would normally do.

“I’m 66 years old. I don’t feel like doing that. I want somebody else to do it,” Breland said.

Aaron Manton, Ministry of Human Services press secretary, said in an e-mail that the province is committed to stable funding to support Albertans with disabilities.

“We are aware of the challenges that agencies face in attracting staff into these important and complex positions, and are examining ways to attract and retain qualified staff to ensure Albertans receive the support they need in a timely manner,” Manton said.

According to information on accessing PDD services, the wait to receive services varies because of differing circumstances. Those include the availability of programs or services in the area, service provider programs are full or need to hire staff, preferring to wait with no services until a preferred service provider is available, time taken by the person or guardian to explore service options, and more.

Individuals with complex health and safety needs that cannot be addressed through other resources are prioritized for access to services. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

SCHALK: Disclosure requested from Crown Nightingale indicated Goddard had requested disclosure from the Crown, but did not say it had been received.

Schalk will stand trial on July 21 in Red Deer provincial court.

If convicted, the accused faces a maximum sentence of 18 months in prison.

Schalk is the pastor of Potter’s Hand Ministries and co-owner of Potter’s Hands Developments. The corporation operates several affordable housing buildings in Red Deer. Including the River Valley Apartments on 49th Street, a townhouse development on 61st Street in Riverside Meadows, apartments above the Potter’s Hands kitchen located near the Intersection of Gaetz Avenue and 51st Street and The Buffalo Apartments on Ross Street. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Shredding with impunity WATCHDOG FINDS NO CONTROLS, PENALTIES ON ALBERTA GOVERNMENT ON PRACTICE er.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Government watchdogs say there is confusion, contradictions, no oversight, and no control over what documents get shredded at the Alberta government — and there are no penalties for rule-breakers.

“Everything is obscure. Nothing is clear,” Information and Privacy Commissioner Jill Clayton told a news conference Thursday.

“The easy application (of the rules) is lost in this maze of (document) retention schedules and rules.

“We had a strong sense that staff don’t really understand how to apply them.”

Clayton and Public Interest Commissioner Peter Hourihan issued a report following an investigation that was launched last year into reports that documents were being shredded by officials in the Environment Department around the time the Progressive Conservative government lost the election to Rachel Notley and the NDP. The department was run at the time

by Tory Kyle Fawcett, who was defeated in the May 5 vote.

Clayton said investigators didn’t interview Fawcett because they did not consider his information relevant given that it was his officials who were responsible for handling the documents.

The investigation found that 344 boxes of high-level briefing material and ministerial correspondence were improperly shredded in the days just before and following the election.

The report said investigators could not find an order to wrongly destroy the documents, but there was confusion and conflicting policies over what

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Jill Clayton, Alberta’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, and Peter Hourihan, Alberta’s Public Interest Commissioner, speak to reporters Thursday following the release of their joint report into document shredding at the Alberta government. The report found widespread confusion, no control, and no oversight over what gets shredded — and no penalties for improper shredding. could be shredded and why.

As the watchdogs dug deeper, they found the problems extended far beyond the Environment Department to encompass the entire government.

The report said that Service Alberta, the department responsible for rules about shredding, doesn’t monitor what happens.

Some Service Alberta officials described to investigators a “dog’s breakfast” of confusing and contradictory regulations. Some staffers character-

Caseworker testifies at fatality inquiry

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A Children’s Services caseworker has told a fatality inquiry he was shocked when he learned about a father who had murdered his own sons, ages six and three.

Todd Weekes testified Wednesday that he has repeatedly asked himself if he should have done anything differently in the case of Jason Cardinal, but concluded there was nothing he could think of that he had missed.

Jason Cardinal is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to two counts of first-degree murder after the strangled bodies of the boys, Caleb and Gabriel, were found in his Edmonton home just before Christmas five years ago.

Children’s Services apprehended Caleb and Gabriel after concerns with Cardinal’s mental health and other issues.

Weekes testified he believed Cardinal was managing his mental health problems appropriately and he showed a commitment to improving.

A judge had ordered Cardinal receive access to the boys but left it up to Children’s Services to decide whether those visits were supervised or unsupervised.

Weekes said doctors’ reports and information from support workers that spent a lot of time with Cardinal suggested the father was of little risk to the children.

Unsupervised visits followed. But two weeks after a court hearing in early December 2010, in which Cardinal did not receive custody, the father murdered Caleb and Gabriel and then tried to kill himself.

It all happened during an unsupervised visit. Cardinal injected both boys with morphine. He then strangled the boys and cut his own wrists. The three were found lying on Cardinal’s bed.

The boys’ mother disputes Weekes’ assertion that the violence could not have been predicted.

Andrea Badger’s lawyer pointed out an e-mail to Weekes from Badger questioning how safe Cardinal could be if he was not taking his medication.

Weekes said he likely spoke to Badger about the email but he did not show it to his supervisor or include the information in court files.

Badger’s lawyers also noted documents that suggested Cardinal needed a family doctor and a psychiatrist to help him manage his medication.

Cardinal had neither. In fact, his former family doctor wrote a letter to Children’s Services describing Cardinal as a “potentially very dangerous man.”

The fatality hearing is intended to find ways to prevent similar tragedies from happening.

Meanwhile, Badger is suing the province claiming Children’s Services contributed to the deaths of her children by allowing unsupervised visits with their father.

ized management of the system as “a huge hole.”

The report quoted senior records officials in departments complaining that they were held responsible when problems arose, but had no budget, mandate, or authority to get things done.

On top of that, it noted, there are no sanctions for those who break the rules.

Clayton said a system with no sanctions for non-compliance is a non-start-

“There needs to be some sanctions,” she said.

“The overriding issue that we’re seeing with this records management program is that there’s a lack of support, there’s a lack of monitoring, and there are no consequences.”

Service Alberta Minister Danielle Larivee said they are moving forward to implement all of the report’s recommendations to improve the system and make it more accountable.

She said in the meantime, there is now additional staff training and oversight measures to make sure the proper documents are retained.

“It is a mess and we will be cleaning it up,” said Larivee.

Fawcett could not immediately be reached for comment.

Alberta Party Leader Greg Clark, who called for action at the time reports of shredding first surfaced, said Notley’s government should have acted faster.

“I just wish the NDP had taken it seriously then,” said Clark. “If they did, maybe some of those 344 boxes or records wouldn’t have been destroyed,” he said.

Notley ordered a halt to government-wide shredding eight days after the election, but that order was eventually lifted.

PC Leader Ric McIver said the Tories support changes to improve the system and added: “We are pleased to see that this report determined that the allegations of (intentional) wrongdoing were unfounded.”

The Opposition Wildrose and Liberal parties agreed that the recommendations need to be implemented to get the program back on track.

Inquiry to be held into judge after comments in sex assault case

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Alberta’s justice minister has forced an inquiry into a Federal Court judge who asked a sexual assault complainant why she couldn’t keep her knees together.

The Canadian Judicial Council said Thursday that the public inquiry will determine whether Justice Robin Camp should be removed from his job.

An inquiry is held automatically when a provincial justice minister requests one. Alberta Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley asked for the process in a letter to the council last month.

The council had ordered a review panel in November to examine the judge’s conduct in the sex assault case when he was a provincial court judge in Calgary.

Council spokeswoman Johanna Laporte said the panel was going to decide if there should also be an inquiry and Ganley’s request bypassed that step.

In June 2014, Camp acquitted a man

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STAFFING: Largest increase in policing The largest increase was in the area policing for a total of 70 with the addition of ALERT, communications

of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old girl after deciding that the man’s version of events was more credible.

Three legal academics who filed a complaint about Camp’s decision said he disregarded the law and treated the woman badly.

According to court transcripts, Camp questioned the woman’s morals, suggested her attempts to fight off her attacker were feeble and described her as “the accused” throughout the trial.

He asked her, “Why couldn’t you just keep your knees together?” and said “pain and sex sometimes go together.”

The judge also told the accused after he found him not guilty that all men have to be more gentle and careful with women, and that he should pass the message onto his friends so they wouldn’t get into trouble.

The verdict was overturned on appeal and a new trial was ordered. operators and officers and municipal employees. Six police officers and six municipal employees are proposed in this year’s operating budget.

A total of 69 employees were hired in EMS. In Recreation, Parks and Culture, there were 54 and staffing transfers in-house including legal, utility billing and planning brought 36 more staff on board.

Staff were also hired as a result of growth, expansion to the city plants, public works and transit. Nine staff have been hired over the last eight years in general administration. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Library gets back overdue book that was returned 38 years late ST. ALBERT — Talk about a long read.

The library in St. Albert,, says over the holidays, somebody returned a late book — make that a few decades late.

The book was Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne’s House of Dreams, and the last due date stamped on it was for Nov. 25, 1977.

Apparently, a family found the book while clearing out their mother’s house.

Library spokesman Peter Bailey says at the current overdue rate of 15 cents per day the book is overdue, the late fees would add up to about $20,000.

But he says the library gave the family a break, and only charged them the maximum late fee of $5.

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Poland backsliding furiously Lech Walesa, a national hero 26 public service media under party conyears ago for his role in ending Com- trol. munist rule in Poland as the leader of The new Polish Culture Minister, Solidarity, has little politPiotr Glinski, explained ical power in the country that it was necessary to today, but he still has his “re-Polonise” Polish socivoice. Last week he raised ety — i.e. cleanse it of all it, to condemn the new the decadent Western EuPolish government that ropean liberal notions and emerged from last October’s values that had infected it election. under the rule of the out“This government acts going Civic Platform govagainst Poland, against our ernment — and that the achievements, freedom, depublic broadcasters would mocracy, not to mention the therefore be re-designated fact that it makes us look rias “national cultural instidiculous to the rest of the tutes.”

GWYNNE world,” Walesa said. “I’m The head of PiS’s parliaDYER ashamed to travel abroad.” mentary caucus, Ryszard Walesa said this on priTerlecki, was even franker: OPINION vately-owned Radio Zet, be“Over the past few weeks cause Polish public service … we have had to deal with television and radio will no longer in- the extremely unreliable work of the vite him to speak on any of their chan- public media,” he said, referring to nels. The new government sees him the media coverage of popular protests as an enemy, and it now controls pub- against the PiS’s attack on the constitulic broadcasting completely: all four tional tribunal. “If the media criticizes channels of TVP and the 200 stations our changes … we have to stop it.” of Polskie Radio.

The PiS is the creation of Jaroslaw It took them over in an operation Kaczynski and his late twin brother that the European Parliament’s pres- Lech, who died in a plane crash at ident, Martin Schultz, described as Smolensk in Russia in 2010. The brothhaving the “characteristics of a coup.” ers have always had a close political First the new Law and Justice Par- relationship with the Catholic Church ty (PiS) government packed the con- in Poland, and the PiS largely owes its stitutional tribunal that might have recent electoral victory to the support stopped the media takeover, swearing of Poland’s very conservative Catholic in five new PiS appointees in the mid- bishops. But it wasn’t all that sweeping dle of the night. And then it used its a victory, really. The PiS got just over parliamentary majority to bring the half the seats in the Sejm (parliament),

which technically allows it to do almost anything it wants now that the constitutional tribunal has been crippled. But it won those seats on only 37 per cent of the popular vote — and now that it has begun to put its agenda into action, recent opinion polls are giving it only 24 per cent support.

That doesn’t bother Jaroslaw Kaczynski in the slightest. He has the same knack as Donald Trump for saying nasty, untrue things and making them sound bold and incisive (to his target audience, at least) rather than just stupid and slimy.

For example, he recently warned Poles that Syrian refugees would bring diseases and parasites into the country. He continues to speculate publicly that the crash that killed his twin brother was a plot (presumably a Russian plot), despite the fact that two official Polish investigations have concluded that the cause of the crash was pilot error.

Even the poor, left-behind Poles who are Kaczynski’s target voters are sometimes alarmed by his anger and his extremism, so he wisely decided to let another, virtually unknown party member, Andrzej Duda, run for the presidency last year.

Duda won, so Kaczynski repeated the strategy in October, promoting another relatively obscure and unthreatening party member, Beata Szydlo, as prime minister after the PiS’s victory in the parliamentary election. But most people suspect that he will quickly tire of working from the shadows

and take her place as prime minister himself.

What has brought this deeply unattractive politician to power in Poland? It’s largely the same factors that have made Donald Trump a political phenomenon in the United States: an economy that is doing quite well overall — Poland’s economy grew by a third under Civic Platform in the past six years — but that has left a large chunk of the population behind.

It’s even the same chunk of the population that backs Trump in the U.S.: older, more religious, less well educated, living in smaller cities and rural areas. Kaczynski’s victory therefore depends on a very narrow and fragile base, and he may well become more and more radical in his struggle to hold it together.

It is therefore going to be quite exciting in Poland for a while, and probably quite embarrassing for people like Lech Walesa. But it isn’t an anti-democratic revolution with real staying power.

Poles overwhelmingly want to remain part of NATO and the European Union, if only (in some cases) because they still fear Russia so much. You cannot go far down the road Kaczynski wants to travel without coming into serious conflict with the EU’s laws protecting civil and human rights — and when Poles have to choose between the EU and Kaczynski, they will not back Kaczynski.

Gwynne Dyer is a freelance Canadian journalist living in London.

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We need to think carefully and critically about subjects like climate change I thank the gentleman from Alix for the interest he demonstrated (as well as Mr. Mathias and Mr. Randall) and work he put into his response to my letter on Global Warming deniers and their illogic (Advocate letters, Dec. 28, 2015). In a democracy we should always remember that it is as important, maybe more important, to listen attentively, carefully and critically to the views of others rather than to simply listen to ourselves speaking our own opinionated minds.

The points raised by his response are hardly convincing. I will let the readers decide where the following mistakes are made in his piece.

1. Cherry picking information from a variety of disconnected and irrelevant sources in place of controlled, systematic, fact-based research which is double-blind checked by experts; 2. Confusing cause and effect; 3. Confusing a contributing cause (increase in human population) with a primary cause (increase in human produced carbon in the atmosphere); 4. Citing claims without any factually-based support provided (for example, differences in temperature measurement results, commonly found unsupported on deniers’ sites);

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5. Claiming, without any shred of support, an imagined conspiracy between scientists and politicians involved in the extensive IPCC research and its results. If there were such a conspiracy any investigative reporter would give her all to get the evidence supporting it immediately into print. It hasn’t happened. What could possibly be gained from such a conspiracy by the conspirators, I leave to the imagination of science fiction writers, like well-known Global Warming denier Michael Crichton, and the unfounded opinions of anti-everything communitarian idealogues?

On a positive note, however, there is good news about an international collaboration, not conspiracy, between scientists and politicians, known as the Montreal Protocal, signed in 1985 and ratified two years later. According to a report in 2005 edition of Nature, this action plan proved that the reduction of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) could have a beneficial effect on a potentially disastrous hazard to all life on Earth. A huge hole in the ozone layer is closing itself as the Earth heals itself, with the reduction of human created damages to this life sustaining layer, which protects us from damage from the sun.

Suppose, contrary to fact, that 97 per cent of all scientists who believe human promoted global warming is real, are wrong, then what? Well, clearly we would spend some money and considerable effort to clean up the atmosphere, which would improve the earth’s atmosphere. All of us, present

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and future generations, would benefit by the reduction in the incidences of eye flushing and lung burning toxic fog. We could see an improvement in our attitudes and behaviour toward our home in the natural world. It is hard to see any significant downside, even if we are wrong about the claimed human cause. The odd thing about global warming is that the common enemy of the environment is identical to the only possible remedial saviour: all of us! If we deny we are the cause, and deny a leadership role in anti-idling legislation, then we equally seem to deny that we can be the remedy. In fact, our determined, collaborative efforts are the only possible remedy.

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Ottawa takes it slow on assisted dying SPECIAL PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE STILL AWAITING MEMBERS hear oral arguments Monday on the federal government’s request for a six-month extension for coming up with a new law.

The top court last February struck down the prohibition on physician-assisted dying and gave the federal government one year to produce a new law recognizing the right of clearly consenting adults who are enduring intolerable physical or mental suffering to seek medical help in ending their lives.

In considering the request to extend the deadline to August, the court may want to consider the government’s efforts — or lack thereof — to meet the original Feb. 6 deadline.

The previous Conservative government dragged its feet until mid-July, when it created a three-member panel to consult Canadians and stakeholders.

That panel, created just two weeks before the Conservatives plunged the country into a marathon election campaign, handed its report to the new Liberal government last month.

The report has not yet been released publicly, but one panel member, Benoit Pelletier, has said the panel found near-unanimity on the need for better

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Trudeau government appears to be in no hurry to grapple with the explosive issue of doctor-assisted dying, even as it prepares to urge the Supreme Court of Canada next week to give it more time to craft a new law on the matter.

The new Liberal government rushed last month — during the only week that Parliament has sat since the Oct. 19 federal election — to pass a motion striking a special joint parliamentary committee on assisted dying.

At the time, government House leader Dominic LeBlanc said it was urgent that the committee get to work quickly, since it would have only until the end of February to consult broadly on the complicated life-and-death issue and come up with recommendations for a new law.

One month later, no MPs have yet been assigned to sit on the committee, much less begin hearings on the matter.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is scheduled to

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StatsCan uses census common sense when it came to planning for 2016 elected, they would bring back the mandatory longform census, so we had started to look at how that would be possible,” Hamel said in an interview.

The agency decided to design the questionnaire in a more adaptable format.

Rather than sending selected households separate pieces of mail with the short form and then the National Household Survey, the questionnaires were integrated into one document.

“That design was going to be efficient and it was going to work for both approaches,” said Hamel.

“From that perspective, no redesign was required.

We were simply able to move ahead with the same questionnaires that we had already designed for 2016.”

Also, because most Canadians fill out the census online — 54 per cent in 2011 — changing details in a computer system was not a major overhaul.

The letter that accompanies the questionnaires will allow the agency to underline that the long part is mandatory again. Census staff will also drive home the message.

Census day is May 10, and most people will begin receiving letters and packages on May 2.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — If Statistics Canada was surprised by the Conservatives before the last census, this time it was ready for the unexpected.

Stephen Harper’s government revealed it would kill the mandatory long-form questionnaire less than a year before the 2011 census was mailed out and two years after an election campaign where the topic never came up. The statistics agency scrambled to get a voluntary National Household Survey in place.

When the Liberals were sworn into office in November, one of their first orders of business was to announce the reinstatement of the long-form census.

The timeline seemed very tight — the first forms are to go out to residents in the North in February.

But Marc Hamel, the census program director general, says the agency had planned for risks associated with the 2016 census. One of those risks was if a new government decided to bring back the long questionnaire.

“It had already been in the public sphere that opposition parties last year were saying, if they were

OTTAWA — The Liberals say they will extend the deadline for Canadians to donate to overseas Syrian relief efforts and have those dollars matched by the government.

International Development Minister MarieClaude Bibeau says the government will now match donations made up until Feb. 29.

The original deadline, set by the previous Conservative government, had been Dec. 31, 2015.

The Liberals committed to honouring the program, which pledged to match donations up to $100 million.

Late last month, the Red Cross — which is among those accepting donations — said it had raised $7.5 million, while a coalition of other agencies told The Canadian Press they had raised $2.5 million.

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access to palliative care for the terminally ill. The report reflects the diverse views the panel heard on other issues, such as the need to protect the vulnerable in any assisted dying regime, effective monitoring and reporting practices and the issue of institutions that refuse to help people end their lives, according to Pelletier.

LeBlanc last month blamed Conservative foot-dragging for putting the new government in a time-bind on the issue. And he railed against Bloc Quebecois MPs when they initially refused to give the unanimous consent needed to create the special joint committee on an urgent basis.

“We have very compressed timelines and they’re going to make sure, frankly, that Canadians and Quebecers can’t be heard on an issue as important as physician-assisted dying,” LeBlanc said at the time.

The motion creating the committee was ultimately approved on Dec. 11. The Senate immediately named five senators to sit on the committee but there’s been no move to appoint MPs since then.

Conservative Sen. Judith Seidman used Twitter on Thursday to complain about the delay.

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Long-time gym closes doors PEAK FITNESS SHUTS DOWN WITH LITTLE NOTICE, SOME MEMBERS OUT HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer fitness club closed its doors unexpectedly at the end of last year, leaving some members out hundreds of dollars.

Peak Fitness Athletic Training Center at 7710 50th Ave. closed around Christmas. A sign posted on the door says the gym is closed “due to unforeseen internal restructuring and maintenance,” adding that membership fees will no longer be charged.

While some members who posted comments on the gym’s Facebook page initially appeared to be holding up hope the doors would re-open, that is unlikely.

Blackfalds-based Montgomery Auctions has a fitness and exercise equipment dispersal auction set at the Peak site on Jan. 23 beginning at 11 a.m. All of the gym’s equipment and fittings are up for sale to the highest bidder.

Danny Hangartner is out close to $600 after buying a year’s membership in November.

He’s spoken to a lawyer who told him prospects were dim that he could ever recoup his money.

Hangartner, who has been a member at the club for a couple of years, believes there should be more consumer protection in place for people left out of pocket when businesses selling memberships close.

Another member posted on Facebook that she will be out $300.

Birchmans Pereira, who was one of the gym’s most well-known members, said he heard from other members that the gym had closed without warning.

Pereira normally could be found in the gym almost every day voluntarily providing weightlifting coaching to anyone who asked. A recent injury had kept him from the gym for the last few weeks so he was not aware it had closed at first.

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Peak Fitness Athletic Training Centre, pictured here on Wednesday morning, has closed for unforeseen internal restructuring and maintenance.

“IT WAS A GOOD PLACE TO RELAX AND TO WORK OUT. I KNOW A LOT OF MY FRIENDS, WHO HAVE BEEN THERE FOR 20 TO 25 YEARS, ARE DISAPPOINTED.” —BIRCHMANS PEREIRA, FORMER MEMBER He said he will miss going to the large, well-equipped gym that he went to in its various incarnations and owners for more than 25 years.

“You walk in the door and you feel like you’re at home. You socialize and

work out a little bit.

“It was a good place to relax and to work out,” he said.

“I know a lot of my friends, who have been there for 20 to 25 years, are disappointed.”

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Pereira holds numerous world powerlifting records and has trained hundreds of others to record performances at competitions around the world.

Pereira did not pay an annual membership because of all his volunteer work so he won’t lose money. But he knows of many others who fear they have lost their fees.

Efforts were unsuccessful this week to reach owner Mike Morgan by phone and email. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Appeal abandoned on 10-year home invasion sentence A man serving 10 years for a violent home invasion has abandoned his appeal.

David James Kertesz, 30, is serving his sentence in prison for 10 convictions from a May 2013 incident at a Parke Avenue apartment in Red Deer.

He was convicted by Justice Sterling Sanderman in March 2014 of break and enter, robbery, using an imitation firearm to commit a robbery, kidnapping, forcible confinement and extortion.

He had been appealing the conviction and sentence, but abandoned the appeal on Nov. 23.

Kertesz and two others entered a Park Avenue apartment to steal drugs and money from the people inside.

Kertesz entered with a firearm drawn.

Also convicted in the incident was Garnet Colby Mcinnes, 25, of Red Deer.

He was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison after a conviction in August of 2014.

Jordan Pritchard, 28, was sentenced to two years after pleading guilty to his role in July of 2014.

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AHS lightens load on ambulances

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Vehicles equipped to handle wheelchairs or stretchers are now freeing up ambulances for emergencies in Central Alberta.

Since Monday, Associated Ambulance has provided non-ambulance transport service through a new contract with Alberta Health Services.

Two wheelchair-equipped vans and one stretcher-capable, multi-patient vehicle are based in Sylvan Lake where Associated Ambulance had space at its existing station.

Non-ambulance transport is expected to move nearly 1,400 patients to facilities within 100 kilometres of Red Deer during the first year of operation.

“Right now ambulances are being used to transfer people from one facility to another for tests or procedures.

They are sometimes quite low acuity and this will be able to do that work and not have the ambulances do that work,” said Scott Holsworth, acting associate executive director for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) for AHS Central Zone, on Thursday.

“It’s going to relieve or take away some of the pressure on the front-line ambulances in and around Red Deer today and hopefully see the positive effects of that in the coming days.”

He said non-ambulance transport staff have first aide and CPR training and act as an escort rather than health care worker.

The decision to use non-ambulance transport would be a decision of health facility and dispatch staff, he said.

In 2015, non-ambulance transport

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services transported more than 12,500 patients in the North, Edmonton, Calgary and South zones of AHS. He said the service has been available in Alberta’s largest cities and is fairly new to other zones.

The transport service will likely be used a lot in Red Deer, but has already been out to Lacombe and Rimbey this week. It’s expected to make many trips out of Rocky Mountain House, he said.

“I think there is the ability to grow if we need to, but we really need to get a good understanding of what the need is today,” Holsworth said.

Associated Ambulance was awarded the $695,000, three-year contract following a request for expression of interest and qualifications issued in February 2015.

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School boards, municipalities and non-profits in the Red Deer and District Family and Community Support Services region — including the partner municipalities of City of Red Deer, Red Deer County, Town of Bowden, Town of Penhold, Village of Delburne and Village of Elnora — can apply for new funding for prevention programs as announced in the provincial budget this past fall.

Approximately $1.4 million in funding is available locally, following a $25 million announcement by the province in October.

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Applicants can choose to attend one of the following procurement orientation sessions at the Crimson Star Room, 2nd Floor, City Hall for more information on the requirements and process: Jan. 18 at 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. or Jan. 21 from 1 to 2 p.m.

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Police worried about raising suspicions of terror suspect’s wife: officer VANCOUVER — The commander of an undercover police sting says his team was wary about a terrorism suspect’s common-law partner becoming suspicious of a covert operation focusing on her husband.

RCMP Sgt. Bill Kalkat has told B.C. Supreme Court that the wives of police targets are often more “switched on” and suspicious of newcomers than the targets themselves.

Lawyers for John Nuttall and his commonlaw wife Amanda Korody are arguing that police manipulated the pair into planting what they believed were bombs on the grounds of the B.C. legislature on Canada Day 2013.

A jury found Nuttall and Korody guilty of terrorism last June, but a judge has yet to rule on whether they were entrapped by police.

Kalkat says an operation to determine the pair’s intent to commit a terrorist act differed from a traditional undercover investigation because officers gave the couple multiple chances to back out without repercussions.

But Korody’s lawyer Mark Jette has said that the two accused expressed fears they were expendable and would be “deleted” if they didn’t carry out the terrorist plan.

Family of family killed in crash speaks after accused driver in court

Crown calls Toronto cop who killed teen on streetcar ‘a hothead and a bully’ TORONTO — A Toronto police officer who shot down a teen on an empty streetcar was “a hothead and a bully” who had viable alternatives to lethal force but didn’t use them, a Crown prosecutor argued Thursday.

Const. James Forcillo has pleaded not guilty to second degree murder and attempted murder in the death of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim — an incident which triggered outrage across the city two and a half years ago.

As the trial draws to a close, Crown prosecutor Milan Rupic told jurors Forcillo wanted to assert his authority over a “mouthy, mocking teenager” without trying to make a connection with a person he knew was in crisis.

“During his standoff with Sammy Yatim the defendant was a hothead and a bully,” Rupic said in his closing address. “He wore the uniform of a police officer but he did not act like a police officer.”

Forcillo’s lawyer has argued in his own closing statement that the Crown is trying to “criminalize a judgement call” made by a first responder.

In calling for Forcillo’s acquittal, defence lawyer Peter Brauti has said the officer’s actions were justified and carried out in self-defence.

He has also placed blame for the incident squarely on Yatim’s shoulders, saying the knife-toting, unco-operative teen “got himself shot.”

But Rupic attacked that suggestion head on.

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Raccoon rabies hasn’t been seen in Ontario since 2005 and its re-emergence in early December only came to light after two dogs got into a fight with a sick raccoon in the back of an animal services van.

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Jordan Van de Vorst and his wife, Chanda, died in the crash just outside Saskatoon on Sunday.

Their five-year-old daughter Kamryn and twoyear-old son Miguire died in hospital.

Jordan’s father, Lou Van de Vorst, says their deaths were a terrible crime.

Choking back tears, he then thanked firstresponders, doctors and nurses who helped at the crash.

Catherine McKay appeared in court via video and is charged with four counts each of impaired driving causing death, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death and driving with a bloodalcohol level over .08 causing death.

“We have to live with a large hole in our hearts, she will have to live remembering what she did and the four lives that she took,” Van de Vorst said.

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No easy answer to low dollar, oil price CANADA MUST LET NEGATIVE FORCES PLAY OUT: POLOZ BANK OF CANADA

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada says overcoming the economic suffering inflicted by the commodity-price shock essentially boils down to one main option: ride it out.

Stephen Poloz, the central bank governor, said Thursday that no simple policy response will fix the problem, although damaging factors like the steep slide in oil prices can be mitigated — to a point.

“The forces that have been set in motion simply must work themselves out,” Poloz said in a speech at Ottawa City Hall.

“The economy’s adjustment process can be difficult and painful for individuals, and there are policies that can help buffer those effects, but the adjustments must still eventually happen.”

Poloz pointed to Canada’s flexible exchange rate, which closely follows the ups and downs of crude prices, as one of those “minor shock absorbers” that help soften the blow for some parts of the economy.

With oil prices expected to remain low for some time, Poloz suggested the weak loonie will persist as the crude-exporting country adjusts to the new reality.

“It’s not a coincidence that the Canadian dollar today is about where it was back in 2003, 2004. Oil prices are also about where they were back then,” said Poloz.

On Thursday, the loonie was trading around 71 cents U.S., about where it was in 2003.

Oil prices ducked under US$34 a barrel this week and are at their lowest level since 2008. Poloz noted that crude was around US$25 per barrel in 2002.

Almost like it was 2002 all over again, Poloz said the complex economic changes have led to higher consumer spending, falling employment and lower investment in the resources sector.

Since mid-2014 — when oil prices started to free-fall — Poloz said the country has lost more than $50 billion in national income, or about $1,500 per Canadian, as measured by the terms of trade.

However, the country’s economic data has detected signs of recovery, he said.

They include slowly emerging offsets of rising employment and investment in non-resources sectors.

Following his speech, Poloz told a news conference that adapting to such a shock takes time — usually three to five years.

Poloz has taken steps to dull the sting of the oil slump.

Under his leadership, the central bank lowered its trend-setting interest rate twice in the last 12 months to help limit the impact.

On Jan. 20, the Bank of Canada will make another rate announcement, though most experts expect Poloz to stand pat for the time being. The bank will also release a fresh basket of economic forecasts that day in its quarterly monetary policy report.

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Stephen S. Poloz, Governor of the Bank of Canada answers questions after delivering a speech at Ottawa City Hall Council Chambers, in Ottawa, on Thursday Poloz reiterated Thursday that the Bank of Canada also has a number of unconventional tools at its disposal to limit any significant threats to the financial system or the inflation rate. The options include lowering the bank’s trend-setting interest rate into negative territory.

The new federal government has also promised to inject some life into the economy by pumping billions into

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BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF One of Red Deer’s landmark hotels is getting a new name and a makeover.

As of last month, Red Deer Lodge Hotel and Conference Centre has been rebranded as Baymont Inn and Suites.

Ahmed Nayani, hotel sales and marketing manager, said hotel owners Salim and Amir Bharwani officially made the name change on Dec. 9 after a franchise agreement was completed with the Wyndham Group.

“It’s the same ownership but we have brought a franchise brand in,” said Nayani.

The brothers bought the hotel in November 2014 and had previously owned Travellers Inn and Travelodge hotels in the city.

Wyndham is a major hotel player that operates a number of hotels under versions of that name but also has a stable of well-known hotels such as Microtel, Howard Johnson, Days Inn, Super 8 and Ramada Worldwide among others.

Besides a name change, the hotel has seen significant upgrades. The 124 rooms in the courtyard section have been renovated and new TVs with HD channels and wifi system installed.

Botanica Garden Restaurant and the courtyard area have also been spruced up.

New TVs and some touching up has also been done in the almost 100 rooms

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Melanie Harvey works the front desk at the former Red Deer Lodge, now under the Baymont Inn and Suites banner. Changes to the front desk are among the first things people will notice in the building as it continues to rebrand. in the hotel’s tower section.

Later this year, work will begin on a major overhaul of the tower rooms.

“In the future, what we’re going to

do is the tower section will actually become a higher brand in the hotel chain,” said Nayani.

“That’s a long-term project.”

High-end housing mark declines in Calgary

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Sales of homes worth $1 million or more heated up in Toronto and Vancouver last year as the low loonie fuelled demand from foreign buyers, a new report released Thursday says.

The report from Sotheby’s International Realty Canada says 11,112 homes worth $1 million or more were sold in the Greater Toronto Area last year — an increase of 48 per cent over 2014.

In Vancouver, 4,578 homes over the $1 million mark were sold in 2015, up 46 per cent from the previous year.

The realtor says sales of homes worth more than $4 million grew the most — in Vancouver by 67 per cent, and in Toronto by 71 per cent.

But after years of growth, Calgary’s high-end housing market declined last year as the downturn in the oilpatch hurt consumer confidence.

The Sotheby’s report says sales of homes over $1 million fell 41 per cent in Alberta’s largest city in 2015 compared with the previous year.

Elaine Hung, vice-president of marketing for Sotheby’s International Realty Canada, said low interest rates, high levels of immigration and a limited supply of homes heated up the high-end housing markets in Toronto and Vancouver.

“We had a lot of buyers who were very eager to enter the market, and they were bidding on a limited number of homes, particularly in premier

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infrastructure spending over the coming years.

Poloz was also asked Thursday about the potential economic benefits of such investments.

Speaking in French, he called public infrastructure spending an “important ingredient” for economic growth, but said it’s still too early to know how quickly the federal cash could produce benefits for the economy.

CALGARY — As TransCanada prepares to launch a trade challenge over the rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, the U.S. track record in similar disputes may not appear very encouraging for the Calgary-based company.

The U.S. government has never been defeated by a company seeking damages under the North American Free Trade Agreement — but trade experts say that’s no reason to discount TransCanada’s chances this time.

TransCanada has given notice that it intends to seek US$15 billion in damages over U.S. President Barack Obama’s rejection of the pipeline in November. Jim Rubin, a Washington, D.C.-based lawyer with Dorsey & Whitney, says there’s no formal obligation for NAFTA tribunals to follow precedents set in past cases, like there would be in a more typical court case.

However, past cases could be highlighted as a means to persuade a panel — and another expert says a recent case involving a U.S company’s attempt to build a quarry in Nova Scotia may work in TransCanada’s favour.

Nicolas Lamp, an assistant professor with Queen’s University’s faculty of law, says there are many similarities between the Keystone XL saga and Bilcon’s successful NAFTA challenge against Canada over what it argued was an unfair environmental review process. He said TransCanada has a “good shot” in its challenge.

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The Manor House in the Aspen Estates in Calgary is shown in this undated handout photo. Luxury home sales in Calgary declined last year. neighbourhoods,” said Hung.

In many instances, that resulted in bidding wars, she said.

The luxury segment — comprised of homes worth $4 million or more — benefited from all of those factors, as well as weakness in the Canadian dollar.

“We did see increased interest from international buyers, so that was definitely a factor,” said Hung,

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referring to the $4-million-plus segment in Toronto and Vancouver.

In Montreal, sales of homes worth over $1 million grew by 15 per cent from a year ago.

Looking ahead to 2016, Hung predicts more of the same — continued sales growth in Toronto and Vancouver, a further slowdown in Calgary and a balanced market in Montreal.

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The CRTC says the new rules will require TV providers to give customers clearer details about the duration of promotional offers and the prices they’ll be billed once those discounts end.

Companies will also have to outline taxes and additional charges, such as those linked to TV services and fees on early contract cancellations.

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Panic selling in Asia prompted by developments in China spread across the globe and threw the Toronto stock market into a tailspin Thursday, capping off seven consecutive days of losses and thrusting the index into bear market territory.

The S&P/TSX composite index ended the day off roughly 20 per cent from its all-time high in September 2014 — a loss considered by many as a bear market.

The index lost 278.59 points, or 2.2 per cent, to close at 12,448.21, as commodity prices, including oil, continued to fall amid perceived weakness in the Chinese economy.

Oil plunged to around levels not seen since 2008, with the February contract for benchmark crude oil losing 70 cents to close at US$33.27 a barrel.

That pulled down energy stocks on the TSX by more than four per cent.

In New York, the Dow Jones plummeted 392.41 points to 16,514.10, the S&P 500 lost 47.17 points to 1,943.09, while the Nasdaq declined 146.33 points to 4,689.43.

Andrew Pyle, senior adviser and portfolio manager at Scotia Wealth Management, said it is the worst start to a new trading year for North American markets “in memory.”

But concerns about a repeat of the massive losses seen in 2008 are overblown, said Pyle.

“The U.S. economy and the global economy isn’t crumbling,” said Pyle. “We’re not in a global recession. We don’t have financial panic on Wall Street. We’re having sporadic events create this panic selling that we’ve seen this week.”

The global sell-off came after trading on China’s Shanghai and Shenzen stock markets was pre-emptively halted on Thursday for a second time this week after new “circuit breakers” were triggered when a benchmark stock index fell seven per cent.

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 22.76 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.52 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.03 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 19.96 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 12.34 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 15.48 First Quantum Minerals . . 4.38 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 17.94 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 4.69 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . . 2.8 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.44 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 22.77 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.680 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 4.50 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 15.57 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 23.00 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 42.52 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.50 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 14.52 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 27.53 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 7.50 Canyon Services Group. . 3.49 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 16.66 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1050 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 6.61 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.520

The circuit breakers also kicked in Monday, the first day of trading since they were introduced on Jan. 1. The China Securities Regulatory Commission said after Thursday’s shutdown that the circuit breaker rule had been suspended.

The latest selling was linked to weakness in the yuan, as the government’s decision to let the Chinese currency weaken was seen as a bad sign for the health of China’s economy, the world’s second largest.

Pyle said declines seen over the past few days have been “knee-jerk reactions” to changes happening in China and such losses are unlikely to continue in the coming weeks and months.

“China is going from being a production, manufacturing and exporting powerhouse to a country that is going to become more consumption-based — in other words, is going to look more like us,” said Pyle. “And that transition takes a while, and it doesn’t happen smoothly.”

The loonie remained near 12 1/2-year lows at 70.94 cents U.S., down 0.08 of a cent.

“The problem in Canada right now is that we’ve got this ongoing speculation that the Bank of Canada is not done cutting rates,” said Pyle. “It’s creating a lot more aggressive selling of the Canadian dollar.”

In other commodity news, March copper shed seven cents to US$2.02 a pound and the February contract for natural gas rose 11.5 cents to US$2.382 per mmBtu. One bright spot amid the worldwide rout was the precious metals sector, including gold, which is seen as a safe haven in times of economic uncertainty. The February bullion contract rose $15.90 to US$1,107.80 an ounce.

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

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dex — 12,448.21, down 278.59 points Dow — 16,514.10, down 392.41 points S&P 500 — 1,943.09, down 47.17 points Nasdaq — 4,689.43, down 146.33 points Currencies: Cdn — 70.94 cents US, down 0.08 of a cent Pound — C$2.0612, up 0.13 of a cent Euro — C$1.5414, up 2.23 cents Euro — US$1.0934, up 1.45 cents Oil futures: US$33.27 per barrel, down 70 cents (Record low) (February contract) Gold futures: US$1,107.80 per oz., up $15.90 (February contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.828 oz., up 39.8 cents $669.52 kg., up $12.70 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Jan. ‘16 $8.10 lower $469.90 March ‘16 $8.10 lower $478.00 May ‘16 $8.50 lower $485.10 July ‘16 $8.40 lower $488.80 Nov. ‘16 $8.40 lower $485.00 Jan. ‘17 $8.60 lower $487.60 March ‘17 $8.50 lower $487.70 May ‘17 $8.50 lower $487.70 July ‘17 $8.50 lower $487.70 Nov. ‘17 $8.50 lower $487.70 Jan. ‘18 $8.50 lower $487.70.

Barley (Western): March ‘16 unchanged $182.00 May ‘16 unchanged $188.00 July ‘16 unchanged $190.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $190.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $190.00 March ‘17 unchanged $190.00 May ‘17 unchanged $190.00 July ‘17 unchanged $190.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $190.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $190.00 March ‘18 unchanged $190.00.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 586,580 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 586,580.

Canadian named top money man at the UFC, sees more room for MMA giant to grow

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS A Canadian has been named top money man at the UFC. Nakisa Bidarian took over this week as chief financial officer of the mixed martial arts juggernaut, promoted from executive vice-president of strategy and business ventures.

The 38-year-old from Toronto joined the UFC four years ago after financial jobs in Canada, the U.S., and United Arab Emirates.

“I never envisioned myself ending up with the UFC,” Bidarian said with a chuckle Thursday from Las Vegas. “I worked for a lot of large corporations when I was in Abu Dhabi, invested in a lot of large corporations.

“This is probably the smallest place that I’ve ever had a daily interaction with but by far the most enjoyable, the most dynamic, the most entrepreneurial. It’s an absolute pleasure being here.”

Drawn by its co-op program, Bidarian earned a degree in financial economics from the University of Waterloo. He spent 3 ½ years with Toronto-based Accenture before getting his MBA at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He worked for Citigroup in New York before, in 2007, moving to Dubai and joining Morgan Stanley.

He had spent a year in the Emirates as a teenager and “fell in love with the country.”

That led to a job with the Mubadala Development Company, the sovereign wealth fund of the government of Abu Dhabi. He spent four years there, responsible for international real estate investments.

“I didn’t have any exposure with the UFC but I had a lot of exposure through time with hotels and gaming,” he said.

In the wake of an Abu Dhabi-owned entertainment promotion company making a 10 per cent investment in the UFC, he suggested contacting UFC co-owners Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta about gaming given their casino roots in Las Vegas. “(I) fell in love with them probably from the first time I met them in terms of the businessmen that they were and the ethics they had and the moral kind of compass that they operated their businesses with,” Bidarian said. “So very quickly I said these are the kinds of guys I want to work with if I make the move back to North America.

“Fortunately the feeling was mutual.”

He came on board full time in October 2011, working briefly on the casino side before moving over to the UFC. Bidarian grew up a Leafs, Lakers and then Raptors fan. But he started attending and appreciating fights after the Abu Dhabi investment in the UFC. “I would say today I’m a huge fight fan.”

He attends shows in Las Vegas, as well as some internationally depending on whether his business takes him there.

“I love being at the event but I also enjoy watching the events at home because you can be a little bit more kind of free and loose in terms of your emotions as you’re watching the fight,” he said with a laugh.

He also enjoys working with UFC president Dana White, who combines charisma and bluster.

“He is extremely knowledgeable on the fight business. He is very insightful in what fans want to consume. And I think my favourite thing about Dana is that he’s direct and to the point — so you know where he stands, you know what his thought process is. And he’s open to suggestions.”

Site C dam protesters dig in and prepare for arrests at historic site in B.C.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — First Nations protesting the construction of the $9-billion Site C dam in northeastern British Columbia are preparing for their own arrests while they implore Prime Minister Justin Trudeau intervene to stop the hydroelectric project.

Helen Knott of the Prophet River First Nation said in an interview from the protest site that she and six other demonstrators are camped at Rocky Mountain Fort, the former site of a North West Company fur-trading post established in 1794, near Fort St. John.

RCMP said they arrested three protesters on Wednesday who had been blocking an access road needed by BC Hydro crews to begin work on the dam, the third on the Peace River. The dam will create an 83-kilometre-long reservoir and flood the area where the protesters are camping.

BC Hydro and Power Authority have issued an eviction notice, warning protesters that all contents of the camp set up on Dec. 31 will be removed and delivered to the RCMP. Knott said the protesters are hunkering down while weathering snow and temperatures as low as -20 C, awaiting the possibility of arrest.

“It’s not necessarily anybody goes into it with that idea, like, yeah, we’re going to be arrested, right? It’s that, yeah, we’re committed to saving this tract of land and to, you know, actively use our treaty rights here,” she said.

Knott said she would rather not be arrested but is willing to be at the camp and take a stand on the issue.

Site C spokesman David Conway said the protest is affecting a small clearing area but all other construction work on the project continues.

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Helen Knott, shown in this undated handout photo, a member of the northeastern British Columbia’s Prophet River First Nation, is among those protesting the construction of the $9-billion Site C hydroelectric project.

Contractors had been prepared to log the area where protesters are camped.

The utility hopes to resolve the situation through ongoing discussions with protesters and local authorities in order to resume construction, he said.

“BC Hydro respects the right of all individuals to peacefully protest and express their opinions about Site C in a safe and lawful manner,” he said in an email. “Our immediate concern is to ensure the safety of both Site C workers and the protesters.”

Several First Nations and local residents have filed legal challenges over the dam, raising concerns about flooding and the impact the lake will create.

Art Napoleon of the Saulteau First Nation said in a phone interview from Victoria that the lake will flood the historic site and other sacred areas.

Shaw app signal of strategy shift

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Shaw Communications Inc. has launched a new mobile TV app, the latest in a series of moves by the cable company to diversify its business as consumers cut the cord and opt for Internet-based services such as Netflix.

For much of the last decade Shaw (TSX:SJR.B) was the odd one out among Canada’s big telecom providers, focusing on cable TV and Internet while competitors added nationwide wireless networks and diversified into content and business services.

Yet the Calgary-based company has changed course in recent years, building a broad Wi-Fi network across its footprint in Alberta and British Columbia, buying American datacen-

tre provider ViaWest in 2014 and last month announcing its plan to buy upstart wireless carrier Wind Mobile.

Chief operating officer Jay Mehr says Shaw is looking to be more relevant in 10 years than it is today, and its new, cloud-based FreeRange TV mobile app is a key part of moving towards a future where content is accessible anywhere.

“We want to deliver a ubiquitous network,” he said. “We want to provide our customers with whatever services they want in the way that they want.”

FreeRangeTV, which is free for Shaw’s 2.6 million cable TV and video subscribers, is built on a platform licensed from Comcast Corp. that allows users to watch all of the channels in their package live, as well as stream and download on-demand content from Shaw’s library.

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Propaganda war resumes

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — In response to North Korea’s latest nuclear test, South Korea on Thursday announced it would resume cross-border propaganda broadcasts that Pyongyang considers an act of war. Seoul also began talks with Washington that could see the arrival of nuclear-powered U.S. submarines and warplanes to the Korean Peninsula.

From Seoul to Washington, Beijing to the United Nations, world powers are looking at ways to punish Pyongyang for the test of what it called a new and powerful hydrogen bomb.

The loudspeaker broadcasts, which will start Friday, believed to be the birthday of young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, are certain to infuriate authoritarian Pyongyang because they are meant to raise questions in North Korean minds about the infallibility of the ruling Kim family. South Korea stopped earlier broadcasts after it agreed with Pyongyang in late August on a package of measures aimed at easing animosities that had the rivals threatening war.

Experts, meanwhile, are trying to uncover more details about the detonation that drew worldwide skepticism and condemnation.

It may take weeks or longer to confirm or refute the North’s claim that it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, which would mark a major and unanticipated advance for its still-limited nuclear arsenal. Even a test of an atomic bomb, a less sophisticated and less powerful weapon, would push its scientists and engineers closer to their goal of building a nuclear warhead small enough to place on a missile that can reach the U.S. mainland.

Statements from the White House said President Barack Obama had spoken to South Korean President Park Geun-Hye and to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan. The statements said the countries “agreed to work together to forge a united and strong international response to North Korea’s latest reckless behaviour.”

Obama reaffirmed the “unshakeable U.S. commitment” to the security of South Korea and Japan, according to the statements.

Park’s office said she also spoke with Abe over the phone and that they vowed co-operation to ensure that the U.N. Security Council imposes strong and effective measures against the North.

South Korean and U.S. military leaders also discussed the deployment of U.S. “strategic assets” in the wake of the North’s test, Seoul’s Defence Ministry said Thursday.

Ministry officials refused to elaborate about what U.S. military assets were under consideration, but they likely refer to B-52 bombers, F-22 stealth fighters and nuclear-powered submarines.

When animosities sharply rose in the spring of 2013 following North Korea’s third nuclear test, the U.S. took the unusual step of sending its most powerful warplanes — B-2 stealth bombers, F-22 stealth fighters and B-52 bombers — to drills with South Korea in a show of force. B-2 and B-52 bombers are capable of delivering nuclear weapons.

The U.N. Security Council held an emergency session and pledged to swiftly pursue new sanctions against North Korea, saying its test was a ‘clear violation’ of previous U.N. resolutions.

Four rounds of U.N. sanctions have aimed at reining in the North’s nucle-

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South Korean Defense Minister Han Min-koo, center, speaks during a press conference as U.S. Forces Korea Commander Curtis Scaparrotti, right, listens at the Defense Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday. In response to North Korea’s latest nuclear test, South Korea on Thursday announced it would resume cross-border propaganda broadcasts that Pyongyang considers an act of war. Seoul also began talks with Washington that could see the arrival of nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft and submarines to the Korean Peninsula.

Canada has little leverage as North Korea claims H-bomb test

ic, nuclear-armed Hermit Kingdom and the apparent powerlessness of Canada and its allies to face it down.

David Mulroney, former Canadian ambassador to China and a senior fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, said the simple fact that “something (is) going off 50 miles from the Chinese border” shocks, surprises and scares China — and that’s bad for Canada.

“I don’t think there’s anything we can do, but it should remind us … we do have global interests,” said Mulroney.

“China is our second-largest trading partner and a country on China’s borders is doing really destabilizing and unsettling things, so we should pay attention to that.”

Conservative foreign affairs critic Tony Clement said Trudeau should use the newfound bonhomie he cultivated in his initial meetings last fall with the leaders of China and South Korea to offer support.

“It should be part of any discussions Mr. Trudeau has with their leaderships,” Clement said.

OTTAWA — Beyond a gesture of support for China and South Korea and perhaps a renewed international push on the nuclear weapons issue, Canada has few options in the wake of North Korea’s claimed H-bomb test, analysts say.

Like most of the civilized world, Canada has little leverage to influence North Korea to curb its nuclear ambitions despite the fact it has real economic and security interests in Asia.

That view emerged Wednesday from a variety of analysts, activists and observers as Pyongyang announced it had detonated a hydrogen bomb — a claim that the United States eventually cast doubt on.

Regardless, the incident was seen as one more wakeup call about the continuing threat posed by the despot-

ar and missile development programs, but Pyongyang has ignored them and moved ahead to modernize its ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons.

When Seoul briefly restarted the loudspeaker broadcasts in August for the first time in 11 years in retaliation for land mine blasts blamed on Pyongyang that maimed two South Korean soldiers, the North threatened to attack the South.

In August, Seoul signed a package of agreements with Pyongyang on easing the standoff, which included a stop to broadcasts unless an “abnormal” situation should occur again. Senior presidential official Cho Tae-yong said Thursday the broadcast will resume because the North’s bomb test was a violation of the August agreement.

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Security officers and people walk next to damaged cars at the site where a truck bomb exploded at a police camp in the north-western coastal city of Zliten, Libya, on Thursday. At least 70 people were killed and dozens injured in the suicide bombing that occurred when a truck, packed with explosives, crashed into the gate of the camp where a crowd of policemen were gathering in the morning. Most of the casualties are believed to be policemen.

LIBYA notorious for responding with violence to any attempt to disrupt their lucrative operations, but there have been no reported incidents in which they used car bombs, suggesting that Islamic militant are more likely to have been behind Thursday’s attack. Also, it was not immediately clear whether the attack was a suicide bombing, a hall-

mark method of Islamic militants.

In recent years, thousands of migrants seeking a better life in Europe sailed from Libya on rickety, overcrowded boats. Hundreds have drowned in those crossings.

Libya slid into chaos following the 2011 toppling and killing of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. The oilrich country is torn between an Islamist government based in the capital, Tripoli, and a rival, internationally

recognized administration in the east.

Meanwhile, a UN-supported unity government sits in neighbouring Tunisia.

Residents in Libyan coastal cities have long expressed fears of the variety of smugglers and traffickers who run lucrative operations along the Mediterranean Sea. Authorities have echoed the same concerns, claiming they are unable to fully tackle these networks without international assistance.

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Ukrainian soldiers march during a training exercise under the supervision of British instructors on the military base outside Zhitomir, Ukraine. A fresh batch of Canadian military trainers is about to deploy to eastern Europe, and the outgoing commander says his soldiers took a lot of their own notes in addition to handing out assignments to Ukrainian troops.

Trainers learn lessons of their own instructing Ukrainians

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own doctrine.”

The mission, which is slated to go until March 2017, has allowed ordinary Canadian soldiers “and even senior (non-commissioned officers) to take this experience back to Canada with them.”

The first rotation of Canadians, from Garrison Petawawa, Ont., will slowly be replaced by a fresh batch of troops from CFB Valcartier, Que. Up to 200 Canadian trainers are teaching regular Ukrainian army units infantry combat skills, battlefield medical treatment and how to defuse and dispose of roadside bombs. Separately, a contingent of military police is working in Kyiv mentoring counterparts there.

Because of the unconventional nature of the conflict, Guiney said the military has taken steps to protect the identities of its trainers. National Defence was criticized last year for imposing restrictions on media photographs and video of troops departing for Ukraine.

Such restrictions are not unheard of. For instance, the military does not allow pilots and ground crew involved in airstrikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant to be seen or interviewed on camera.

OTTAWA — A fresh batch of Canadian military trainers is about to deploy to eastern Europe, and the outgoing commander says his soldiers took a lot of their own notes in addition to handing out assignments to Ukrainian troops.

Lt.-Col. Jason Guiney, who is about to end his five-month stint, says even though their training bases are 1,200 kilometres away from the fighting in the breakaway eastern regions, his troops have learned a lot about the nature of the conflict.

“It’s a very big wake-up call for us as an institution,” Guiney said Thursday in a telephone interview from Lviv, located in western Ukraine.

In dealing with Ukrainian troops, he said, they’ve had an up-close look at how Moscow-backed separatists have mixed high-tech Russian weaponry, cyberattacks, propaganda, conventional warfare and insurgency warfare into a toxic, deadly campaign.

“There’s a lot of very modern Russian equipment in there,” Guiney said, referring to armoured vehicles that have the ability to deflect anti-tank rockets.

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STARKE, Fla. — A man found guilty of murdering three women nearly 30 years ago is scheduled for execution Thursday night.

Barring a last-minute reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court, 53-year-old Oscar Ray Bolin — who was found guilty 10 times by 10 juries for three different murders — will be executed at 6 p.m. in Florida State Prison.

Bolin’s attorney, Bjorn Brunvand, said Thursday afternoon that he has filed an appeal for a stay of execution with the U.S. Supreme Court.

Gov. Rick Scott signed Bolin’s death warrant in October. The warrant is for the 1986 slaying of Teri Lynn Matthews. The 26-year-old Matthews was abducted from a post office in Pasco County, just north of Tampa.

Bolin was also sentenced to death for the killing of 17-year-old Stephanie Collins. A jury also gave him the death penalty for killing 25-year-old Natalie Holley, but that verdict was thrown out because of legal errors. Another jury eventually found him guilty of second-degree murder in that case. All three killings happened in 1986, at different times.

Each of Bolin’s cases ended in new trials. Every one of the verdicts delivered by juries in three separate trials was reversed at least twice by appeals courts, although ultimately he was convicted again in each case.

MANGUA, Nicaragua — Police in Nicaragua say they have found 15 Bangladeshi migrants wandering lost on a highway after their smugglers abandoned them.

Police Commissioner Leonidas Roque said the migrants were being taken from Costa Rica to Honduras.

That route takes them across Nicaragua on their way to the United States.

Roque told local media Thursday the migrants were found “disoriented” about 20 km south of Managua.

The migrants said the smugglers had robbed them. They said they had walked for three days from the Costa Rican border.

They had paid the smuggler between $100 and $500 for the trip across Nicaragua.

Central African Republic election results show that a runoff will be held BANGUI, Central African Republic — New presidential election results in Central African Republic show that a runoff will be held.

Two former prime ministers will now go head-to-head in a second-round vote on Jan. 31.

Thursday’s results show Anicet Georges Dologuele with 23.8 per cent of the vote. He will face Faustin Archange Touadera, who had 19.4 per cent.

Central African Republic is holding the election to replace a transitional government that came to power two years ago after a rebel leader who seized power stepped aside.

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TRIPOLI, Libya — A massive truck bomb exploded near a police base in the western Libyan town of Zliten on Thursday, killing at least 60 policemen and wounding around 200 others, officials said.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but a local Islamic State affiliate has been trying to gain a foothold in Zliten, spreading westward from its central stronghold in the city of Sirte along the North African country’s coast.

The UN special envoy to Libya, Martin Kobler, denounced the attack and urged Libyans to “put their differences aside and unite to confront the scourge of terrorism.” The bombing was yet another reminder for Libyans that “urgent progress is required” toward empowering a unity government and rebuilding state bodies, Kobler said in a statement.

Hours after the blast, rescue crews at the scene had only managed to extract 60 bodies out of the wreckage, said a hospital spokesman, Moamar Kaddi. Libyan officials said they believed there might be dozens more dead.

The police base, where about 400 recruits were training, was used by Libya’s border police, a Zliten security official said. Border police foiled numerous human smuggling attempts off the coast of Zliten last year. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

In Washington, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Thursday that the U.S. has not yet determined who is responsible for carrying out a “cowardly act of terrorism” and extended condolences to the victims and the families of those who were killed, and to the Libyan people. Earnest said the U.S. remains “deeply concerned” about Islamic State-inspired militants carrying out acts of violence in Libya.

Smugglers operating in Libya are

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Flames fall to Desert Dogs

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Coyotes 2 Flames 1 CALGARY — Six-foot-six centre Martin Hanzal showed Thursday why he’s such a big part of the Arizona Coyotes’ success.

Hanzal returned from injury and scored the game-winning goal in the Coyotes’ 2-1 win over the Calgary Flames.

Sidelined for the past seven games and 11 of the last 12 with a lower-body injury, the 28-year-old Czech broke a 1-1 tie 1:47 into the third by deflecting in Stefan Elliott’s point shot.

“He’s a big body out there. You don’t realize how much you miss him until he comes back,” said Coyotes coach Dave Tippett. “He solidifies our centre ice. It’s certainly good to have him back.”

Hanzal was also involved in the tying goal at 18:11 of the first, screening Ramo as Oliver Ekman-Larsson’s point shot changed directions off a Flames player for a power-play goal.

“We were just hoping for the win because it was such a big game tonight,” said Hanzal. “They were two points behind us. It was pretty much playoff mentality.”

Arizona (20-16-4) sits alone in second in the Pacific Division on the strength of a 6-1-2 record in its last nine games. The Coyotes have been especially solid within the division going 9-1-2.

“It’s going to come to divisional games because that’s really huge,” said Hanzal. “It’s really tight. If we keep winning against Pacific Division teams we might get in.”

Johnny Gaudreau, with his team-leading 18th goal, scored for Calgary (19-19-2).

“Very disappointed because those are the games where you need to compete, to win battles, to keep competing and we didn’t have everyone tonight,” said Flames coach Bob Hartley. “You can’t win when you have five or six forwards going. It’s sad but we were just not good enough.”

The Flames struck first at 14:37 of the first but they were stymied the rest of the way by rookie goaltender Louis Domingue.

With veteran Mike Smith injured, Domingue made his fifth straight start and he continues to play well.

He made 25 saves to improve to 5-2-2 and increase his save percentage to .930.

“His demeanour in practice and in games is the same. He just goes out there and plays and he’s playing very well,” said Tippett.

The 23-year-old’s best stop came in the third period when he denied Mikael Backlund on a two-on-one that would have tied it.

“We played a great defensive game. We’ve been talking about limiting the scoring chances from the middle of the ice and that’s what we did,” said

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Calgary Flames goalie Karri Ramo makes a save despite being screened by Arizona Coyotes’ Shane Doan during first period NHL action in Calgary, Thursday. The Coyotes won the game 2-1.

Domingue. “We didn’t feed off their rush either. We didn’t make turnovers at the blue line. We just got the puck deep, played a simple road game and got the two points.”

Ramo has also been hot lately. Starting his 11th game in a row, he had 31 stops to keep Calgary in it but fell to 15-13-1.

“Whenever you score only one goal and (Ramo)

makes over 30 saves, you feel like you let your goalie down,” said Flames centre Matt Stajan. “That was a big game for us and we know that. We needed more energy than we had. No excuses.”

The Coyotes picked up five points on their threegame Western Canada road trip and now return home where on Saturday night, they’ll host Nashville to kick-off a seven-game homestand.

Caine helps Canada capture gold at ringette worlds

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR At least one Canadian team was golden in Finland.

While Team Canada failed to reach the medal round in the world junior hockey championship at Helsinki, the Canadian junior squad captured a world ringette title, defeating the host country 10-9 in overtime last Sunday to sweep a best-of-three final series.

The Canadian squad was not only the class of the tournament in terms of skill, the players also believed in themselves, said Red Deer’s Kelsie Caine, a key player with the national team.

“To be honest, the feeling going into that overtime was that we were going to win,” said Caine, who returned to Red Deer late Tuesday.

“I can’t say how, but we just knew we were going to win.

When we finally put Kelsie Caine it away … just rushing towards everybody and knowing at that moment that we were world champions … that was probably the highlight of the tournament for us.”

Caine, 20, first represented Canada in a junior competition four years ago.

At the time she played for Team West, as the country also featured a Team East.

To earn a spot with Team Canada for the 2016 junior worlds, Caine and 39 others players attended a tryout

camp in Toronto last spring. The team was selected in short order and the successful hopefuls took in a series of training camps over the next several months.

As a member of a top-flight senior team — the Edmonton WAM! — Caine had valuable experience on her side in her quest to earn a berth on the national junior team.

The WAM! compete in the National Ringette League, which also features a recently-formed Edmonton team, one club in each of Calgary and British Columbia and 10 teams from eastern Canada.

“We’re playing three games against Calgary next weekend (Jan. 15-17), then we go out to B.C.,” said Caine. “We go down east for two games after that and then host an eastern team for two games. We play a 28-game schedule.”

Caine and three of her WAM! teammates played for the junior Team Canada, and three WAM players — including Jamie and Dailyn Bell of Lacombe — were with the Canadian senior team in Finland, which lost a best-of-three series to Finland.

Caine and her teammates were able to take in two of Team Canada’s world junior hockey championship games while in Helsinki.

“We watched a couple of their games. We were playing at the same rink as the hockey team,” said Caine, a second-year kinesiology student at Red Deer College who will transfer to the University of Alberta next fall.

The Red Deer athlete, who suited up with the RDC Queens soccer squad last fall, was amazed at the fan attendance during the world ringette championships.

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Red Deer’s Kelsie Caine defends against a Swedish player while playing for Team Canada at the world ringette championships in Helsinki, Finland. Caine was a key player for Canada in helping capture the gold medal at the tournament.

“During our first meeting with Finland there were about 2,000 fans,” she said. “There was a little less for the gold-medal game, but there was something like 1,000 computers logged on.

People were watching on-line, as well.

“Normally, that many fans don’t come out for ringette games. But we had a lot of support. Half of the stands

were full of Canadian fans.”

Clearly, Canada and Finland are the global ringette powers. As is the case with women’s hockey, there is a hope that the game will evolve to a competitive level in other countries.

“That’s kind of the main goal for us — expanding the sport,” said Caine. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Canada’s U18 women chase world championship gold on home ice

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Lindsay Agnew wants to be the one celebrating hockey gold on home ice this year.

The 17-year-old from Oakville, Ont., remembers how heartbroken she felt watching the U.S. celebrate a 3-2 overtime win over her Canadian team in the final of the 2015 women’s world under-18 hockey championship in Buffalo, N.Y. Agnew, Kristin O’Neill of Oakville and Winnipeg’s Ryleigh Houston are returning forwards on this year’s Canadian team that’s intent on claiming gold when the tournament starts Friday in St. Catharines, Ont. “I just never want to feel the feeling of failure this year in 2016,” Agnew said. “Coming that close in overtime and not coming out with a gold medal was something super-tough for me, Kristin and Ryleigh Houston as well. I

think the three of us are just super-motivated to come out here and bring the gold medal back to Canada hopefully.”

The women’s world under-18 championship returns to Canada for the first time since the inaugural tournament in Calgary in 2008. The Americans beat Canada 5-2 in the final that year.

Canada and the U.S. have each won four titles in the tournament’s history.

The host country opens the preliminary round Friday against Russia, followed by the Czech Republic on Sunday and the defending champion U.S. on Monday at the 5,300-seat Meridian Centre. Finland, Sweden, Switzerland and France round out the field. The final is Jan. 15.

Canada will be coached by Lisa Haley, who was an assistant on the Canadian Olympic team that came from behind to beat the U.S. in overtime for gold in Sochi, Russia.

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Rams knows her under-18 team wants a moment they can remember for the rest of their lives too.

“We haven’t won a gold medal on home soil,” Haley said. “We’re really hungry to do that and hopefully the pieces can fall into place to get us into that game and see if we can make that happen.”

The majority of the Canadian team went 2-1 against the U.S. in a threegame summer series in Lake Placid, N.Y. Forward Celine Frappier of Tecumseh, Ont., is the lone player making her Canadian debut in St. Catharines.

Eleven of the 23 players on the Canadian team are from Ontario.

There are also a half-dozen players born in 1999 sprinkled among the 1998s on the Canadian team “which is a little bit young, but I think offensively we’re pretty deep,” Haley said.

“When you’re selecting a team for the world championship you’re looking

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for the right chemistry and mix. Age is not the top priority. The ’99s that are here are very skilled and talented and they belong in the group. We felt each of them had something they could bring that will make a difference for us.”

Canada is coming off a weeklong training camp that included a 3-1 exhibition win over Sweden and a 5-4 shootout loss to the Montreal Les Canadiennes of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League.

“We’ve come as far as we could with the time that we’ve had,” Haley said.

“We certainly would not take anything for granted.

“Winning a gold medal, I think there’s a lot that goes into it. There’s eight teams here that all want the same. For us, we have Russia, the Czech Republic and then the U.S.A in the round robin. They’ll all test us in different ways. We have to be ready for each game.”

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WHL ON

THE ICE This week in Rebels history Assistant coach Jim Hammett identified the Red Deer Rebels’ Jim mental Hammett make-up as the key ingredient in a 4-3 overtime victory over the Portland Winterhawks on Jan. 6 of 1996. The Rebels were not only forced to kill off a five-minute penalty — assessed at 19:24 of the third period — to Lloyd Shaw, they also lost veteran rearguard Terry Lindgren to a misconduct for arguing the call. “It hurt us losing both of those guys, but the other four D-men did a great job,” said Hammett, in reference to Mike McBain, Lance Ward, Harlan Pratt and Jesse Wallin. “Overall it was a big-time character builder. We started a bit slow, but dug down and worked our way out of it.” The Rebels, who earlier overcame one- and two-goal deficits, pulled out the win when Greg Schmidt scored shorthanded at 4:04 of the 10-minute extra period.

Schmidt powered his way to the crease and slipped a rebound past ‘Hawks netminder Brent Belecki. “He had a guy draped all over him, but he persisted,” said Hammett.

Who’s a specialist Tri-City Americans overage centre Parker Bowles is tied with Parker two other Bowles players for the league lead in power-play goals with 11. Bowles, a Kelowna native, is also tied for fifth in league scoring with 54 points (24g,30a) in 40 games.

He said it “They’re very skilled guys. I thought they played David Anning very fast tonight. They were on their toes generating a lot of chances and looks. I thought we were careless with the puck playing against them and as a result they had a lot of odd-man opportunities. I thought they had a lot of time in the offensive zone and they really exposed us by finding seams and different lanes and capitalizing.” — Brandon Wheat Kings assistant coach David Anning, to the Brandon Sun, in reference to the Red Deer Rebels line of Adam Helewka, Jake DeBrusk and Ivan Nikolishin which combined for 13 points in a 10-0 demolition of the visitors last Saturday.

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Learning from the experience HAYDN FLEURY ADMITS HE DIDN’T PLAY HIS BEST AT WORLD JUNIORS BUT HOPES EXPERIENCE CAN HELP REBELS ON ROAD TO MEMORIAL CUP

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Mediocre goaltending. A lack of discipline.

Granted, the Canadian goalies weren’t exactly stellar and the team was assessed too many needless penalties, but the fact remains that there was a fine line between winning and losing in the recent world junior hockey championship in Helsinki.

Canada finished third in Pool A and drew a difficult quarter-final foe in host Finland, which overcame an early 2-0 deficit and prevailed in a thrilling 6-5 squeaker, then went on to post narrow, onegoal victories over Sweden in a semifinal and Russia in Tuesday’s championship game. The Canadians, then, weren’t necessarily out-classed.

“We had a really tough pool.

Playing the USA in the first game and then Sweden … those are some pretty highly-skilled teams,” Team Canada and Red Deer Rebels defenceman Haydn Fleury said Thursday.

“And countries like Switzerland and Denmark keep getting better each year.”

Still, it was a disappointing showing for a country that is almost always in contention for a medal.

“We didn’t put ourselves in the best spot coming out of the round-robin,” said Fleury. “But I thought we played our best game of the tournament against the Finns. The puck just wasn’t going our way that night.”

Fleury played a regular shift with Team Canada and picked up one assist in five games. He admitted, and many of his teammates would likely make the same claim, that he could have played better.

“It took me awhile to find my game … I don’t feel that I truly found my game the whole tournament,” he said. “But I’m

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Canada’s Haydn Fleury moves the puck away from Switzerland’s Calvin Thurkauf during third period action at the IIHF World Junior Championship in Helsinki, Finland on December 29. Fleury is back the Rebels and feels the team has ‘something special’ with the recent additions of players. hoping I can learn from the experience, take away the little things and use them to help our team here.

“Playing on the big (Olympic-size) ice is a lot harder than playing in North America, so that’s probably one of the reasons Canada hasn’t medalled over there (Europe) for close to 10 years or so. It’s a learning experience, for sure.”

Fleury had represented his country in previous international age-class competitions, but he admitted there was something extra thrilling about appearing and competing on a major stage.

“It’s something special,” said the 19-year-old Carolina Hurricanes prospect. “The support you get on social media at the rink, and with so many Canadian fans over there in Finland … the support you get is second to none.”

During Fleury’s absence — he left for the Canadian final selection camp in early December and was back in the Red Deer lineup for Tuesday’s 4-3

win at Prince Albert — the Rebels acquired impact forwards Jake DeBrusk, Adam Helewka and Luke Philp, who won’t join the club until later this month.

Fleury got a first-hand glance at three of the recent acquisitions — including rugged forward Taden Rattie — in Prince Albert and again during Wednesday’s 5-0 win at Saskatoon.

“Playing with those guys is pretty special, they’re all unbelievable players,” said Fleury.

“And we don’t even have Philp in our lineup yet.”

The Rebels were also minus the services of Czech forward Michael Spacek and third-year centre Adam Musil during the games in Prince Albert and Saskatoon. Spacek, who also played in the world juniors, will be back in the lineup tonight while Musil is listed as day-today with an upper-body injury.

“We’re kind of missing a full top-six line right now,” said Fleury.

“Once we have all our guys back we should have something

special here.”

He’s only been back with the club for two games, but the six-foot-three rearguard sees a higher level of confidence in the Rebels than he detected prior to his departure for the world juniors.

“For sure, even in Prince Albert I was almost in awe of what our team can do now,” said Fleury. “We’re big, we’re strong … a guy like Taden Rattie loves to hit guys. We played a couple of good games on the road and got four points, and that’s the main thing.”

The Rebels are anxious to put their new-found self-assurance to the test tonight against the visiting Lethbridge Hurricanes, who are 3-o against Red Deer this season. The clubs are tied for top spot in the Eastern Conference.

“Our whole team is going to be excited for that one, we owe these guys (‘Canes),” said Fleury.

“It should be a good game.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

Focus is on Point as trade deadline looms The countdown is on as Sunday’s WHL be a significant upgrade — or an upgrade, trade deadline looms, and the player who period — on Toth? remains at the top of the wish list for many Besides, the 19-year-old has posted two teams is still a member of the shutouts in his last three starts Moose Jaw Warriors. and is performing with the confiWho wouldn’t relish the dence of a netminder who sees an thought of acquiring dynamimproved team in front of him. ic character forward Brayden Could the Calgary Hitmen and/ Point? But then again, who can or Brandon Wheat Kings be in the afford the Warriors’ asking market for an elite player such price? as Point? Perhaps, but either way If the Rebels, say, were in it’s difficult to imagine that either the running for Point’s serteam — particularly in light of vices, the Warriors would alRed Deer’s recent moves — will most certainly be asking — stand pat prior to or at the deadfor starters — for the likes of line.

17-year-old defenceman Josh Meanwhile, Point remains a GREG Mahura in return. Red Deer hot topic and Warriors GM Alan MEACHEM GM/head coach Brent SutMillar is on the hot seat. ter would be loath to give up “There’s a lot of moving parts INSIDER Mahura, among the better in terms of deciding to keep puck-moving rearguards in his him,” said Millar on Monday’s 800 age class.

CHAB Heartland at Noon radio show from Therefore, it’s difficult to imagine Sutter Moose Jaw. “Brayden is a guy that’s going to swinging a deal to land the game-changing be one of the top-10 leading scorers in our forward. It’s also difficult to argue against franchise history, he’s going to be a Hall of the fact that he has already changed the Fame guy, he might be a retired number face — and perhaps the destiny — of his type of guy and he does a lot of things culteam with the recent acquisitions of for- turally for our team in terms of winning. wards Luke Philp, Jake DeBrusk and Adam “Brayden brings a lot to the table, but Helewka and — to a lesser extent — Taden in saying all that, you have to do your due Rattie. diligence, you have to look at what’s in your Do the Rebels need another top-four best interest of the franchise, so there’s defenceman? They could use one, sure, but positives in keeping Brayden Point and which team could not? Again, the asking there’s positives in listening (to trade ofprice for any elite, experienced bluelin- fers).” er must be overwhelming, since players “With what we’ve gone through the of that ilk are not moving as the deadline last few years (missing the playoffs three creeps ever closer. straight seasons) is that, you need to learn In regards to Rylan Toth, who has been how to win, you need to get out of that rut of inconsistent at times this season, there is a not being a very good team,” he continued. fan base that insists he should be replaced “We’ve been building towards being a good, as the Rebels starting netminder. The ques- consistent team at this level and the protion is, who exactly is available that would cess is starting this year.

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“If there’s a deal out there that keeps us competitive for this year, continues to allow us to be a playoff team this year, but can really set up the franchise for the next two or three years, you need to listen, but saying all that, it’s a real difficult trade.”

• Meanwhile, it didn’t take former Rebels captain Wyatt Johnson long to fit in with his new team, the Spokane Chiefs, scoring on his first shot of a Jan. 2 game versus Portland and adding two assists in a 6-5 loss.

Johnson, who was part of a Jan. 1 deal that brought Helewka to Red Deer, told Joe Everson, the Chiefs education advisor, that he was somewhat stunned when informed of the trade. However, he found a silver lining in the fact he was wanted by a club that is chasing first place in the U.S. Division.

“It was a surprise to me, but it was a good surprise,” Johnson said. “One thing I’ll always remember is that I scored my first WHL goal here (Spokane), in my third career game.

“The biggest adjustment for me will be getting used to a new city, new billets… things like that,” he said. “The toughest part of leaving Red Deer was that I had lots of good relationships there. My younger brother Reese is on the Rebels.”

After scoring 25 goals during the 201415 WHL campaign, Johnson recorded 26 points (9-17) in 38 games with the Rebels this season before being dealt to Spokane.

He has contributed three points in two games with his new club.

“My hockey role won’t be a lot different here,” he told Everson. “I need to be a solid two-way player and play a leadership role on a younger team, although I know I can’t just show up and start talking in the room.

The more I get to know the guys, though, the more I can offer there.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Queens rally to down Ooks in OT

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Queens 3 Ooks 2 (OT) The RDC Queens have the experience and talent not to let a little thing like a hot goaltender bother them.

Instead of folding when they trailed 2-0 after two periods and were being stoned by NAIT Ooks netminder Tehnille Gard, the Queens rallied with a pair of goals in the third period before pulling out a 3-2 overtime victory in Alberta College Women’s Hockey League play at the Arena Thursday.

Ashley Graf shovelled home a loose puck during a scramble at 3:06 of the five-minute overtime period to give the Queens the victory.

“It was a team effort,” said Graf, a fourth-year centre from Red Deer.

“We continued to do the little things and got a strong effort from the first through the fourth lines. Our experience helped a lot.”

Gard was the story of the game, finishing with 43 saves, including 13 in the first period and 17 in the second.

She stopped Jade Petrie and newcomer Chanelle Petrie on breakaways in the first period and Chanelle Petrie again in the second. Her best save was a brilliant stop off Rikki Leonard, who one-timed a cross-crease pass from Graf while killing a penalty.

“She stood on her head,” said Graf, who missed the end of the first half of the season with a concussion.

“But instead of getting down we continued to do the little things and battled hard on the penalty kill, power play and five-on-five. Perseverance was the key.”

Queens head coach Kelly Coulter agreed.

“Our girls stuck with the game plan,” he said. “We wanted to skate with them and forecheck as hard as we could and force them to turn over the puck. We did that with 46 shots, but kudos to their goalie, she kept them in it. But we were relentless and we told them to keep at them and it would come.”

Kendra Hanson scored in the first period and Erika Iglesias in the second for the Ooks.

Julia Murrell finally got the Queens on the board with a tip in of a Megan Jones point shot at 12:23 of the third period while on the power play. Kaely

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate Staff

Julia Murrell of the RDC Queens attempts to screen NAIT Ooks goaltender Tehnille Gard during ACAC game action at the Red Deer Arena Thursday night. The Queens won the game 3-2 in overtime.

McMurtry tied the score at 18:27 just as netminder Alex Frisk reached the bench in favour of an extra attacker.

The win gave the Queens a league-leading 11-2-1 record and left them nine points up on SAIT, Grant MacEwan and NAIT (6-6-2).

The Ooks did look sharper early, but then they played a pair of exhibition games last weekend while the Queens didn’t play during the monthlong break.

“We did look a bit rusty early,” said Coulter, whose squad lost 2-1 to the Ooks at NAIT Wednesday.

“It was important to bounce back today,” said Graf. “It’s also important that just because we’re on top of the

mountain we don’t get complacent. We have to take it game-by-game and not start thinking we’re hot stuff.”

Frisk finished with 16 saves, but was solid, although she would have liked the first goal back as it somehow trickled between her pads from the side of the net.

“This was her first game back and she was fine,” said Coulter. “She’s kept us in a lot of games when we’re not great, so it’s important to pick her up as well.”

The Queens also added Jessica Anderson and Chanelle Petrie during the break.

Anderson is in her fourth season with the Queens, but missed the first

half of the season because of injury.

Petrie played two years ago with SAIT. “They both add experience and energy,” said Coulter. “Jessica was injured while Chanelle was in school but wasn’t sure she could play because of her classes. She played with the (Junior A Central Alberta) Amazons and felt she had the time to come out.”

The Queens face Olds in a homeand-home series next week — Thursday in Olds and Jan. 16 at 8 p.m. at the Arena.

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

Price enjoyed time playing with Team Alberta Originally Kaedann Price wasn’t thinking of trying out for Team Alberta to compete in the Border Bowl against B.C. But after talking with several of his friends and learning the team was short of players he tried out and it was the best decision he could make.

The 16-year-old, who plays for the Lindsay Thurber Raiders, not only made the team but was named the defensive line MVP in the game played in Chilliwack.

DANNY “They have separate RODE teams for Grade 10, 11 and 12, but all my friends were LOCAL SPORT in Grade 12 so I wasn’t thinking about trying out,” explained the five-foot-11, 235-pound Price.

“But they told me they were short of players and I should tryout, even though I’m in Grade 11.”

It was an open tryout with players from all parts of the province. Price made the team, but he admitted he wasn’t sure how much he’d play, as he was only one of two players not in Grade 12.

“But I started.”

Other players from LTCHS on the team were Jonathan Goulet, David Dunbar, Brody Halverson, Paul Jensen and Riley Ackerman, all in Grade 12.

Price played defensive tackle and fullback with the Raiders, but was moved to defensive end with the Alberta team, a move he loved.

“I played a little bit there before but it wasn’t a position I thought I’d play,” he explained. “But I loved it. I got a chance to use my speed and quickness more than on the inside.”

He had to learn the odd difference in rushing the quarterback and controlling the running game, but it

didn’t take long for him to adjust.

“I had to learn how to control the blocker in front of me and push him into the gap to take that away from their running back. There were some different techniques, but it was great.”

Defensive end is a position he hopes to play in high school next season, but also hopes to continue to play some fullback.

“I enjoy playing both sides,” he said. “I think it helps me when I’m on defence in that I understand more of what the offensive players are trying to do.

But I enjoy the defensive side the most as I get to do the tackling.”

Price was born in Lethbridge and moved to Trochu when he was eight. He was there for four years before moving to Red Deer where he got into football.

“I played bantam and played both the offensive and defensive lines,” he said. “I also played some hockey, but I wasn’t that good at it … better in football so I concentrated on it.”

He was a natural at the game and played bantam and the last two years with the Raiders and the Prairie Fire midget team. He has one year remaining with both teams. This year was his first taste of provincial football as he tried out for, but didn’t make, Team Alberta last season.

“They said I was too small,” he said.

Although he’s not that tall he worked hard at building himself up and hopes to have a legitimate shot at playing in the Senior Bowl next year.

“I try to play as much football as I can and train as much as I can,” he said.

Like most players he hopes to continue his career after high school, but as of now he’s looking forward to next season with the Raiders.

“We have a lot of talent and I think we can have a good year,” he said.

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

Photo contributed

Red Deer’s Kaedann Price enjoyed getting a chance to play in the Border Bowl with Team Alberta and even learned to play a new position while with the team.

Reed begins title defence at Kapalua with a 1-shot lead

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PGA TOUR

KAPALUA, Hawaii — The first round of the new year on the PGA Tour was not an encore for Jordan Spieth — or defending champion Patrick Reed.

Spieth had said earlier in the week that an encore means the show is over, and it sure didn’t look that way at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions. He opened with seven birdies and no bogeys for a 7-under 66 that left him one shot behind when Reed finished strong and made a 15-foot eagle putt on the 18th hole for a 65.

Reed hasn’t won since he rallied to win at Kapalua a year ago, though he hasn’t been far off. He ended last year with six top 10s in five countries, and he showed his comfort level on a Plantation Course in gorgeous sunshine and only a stiff breeze that picked up in the middle of the round.

Reed and Spieth both had eagle putts on three of the par 5s.

The difference was Reed converting on the final hole. They were in the last group and part of a five-way tie for the lead when Reed smashed a 3-wood from 309 yards that trickled onto the front of the green and let the grain take it 15 feet below the hole.

“I didn’t think I could get it all the way to the green,” Reed said. “I thought if I smoked it, I’d get to the front edge and it just happened to ride the wind a little bit and kind of just kept on going. And once it gets on that green, I know it’s going to just keep feeding.”

That capped off a finish that took Reed

from the middle of the pack to the lead. He was 6 under over the last six holes with that eagle.

Spieth came up some 60 yards short and hit a great shot of his own, a flip wedge that rolled to 4 feet for birdie.

Brandt Snedeker, still battling a head cold, J.B. Holmes and Danny Lee were all at 67, while Fabian Gomez of Argentina was another shot behind.

Jason Day, who has a chance to replace Spieth at No. 1 in the world this week, has not played in three months since the Presidents Cup. And it showed. In ideal scoring conditions, Day didn’t make a birdie until the ninth hole and made only two on the back nine for a 70.

Only seven players from the 32-man field of PGA Tour winners last year failed to break par. One of them was Dustin Johnson, a past winner at Kapalua, who had to birdie the 18th for a 73. Johnson had the longest drive on six of the holes, including three of them just short of 400 yards. It didn’t help him score.

Smylie Kaufman, one of 14 players making their debut at Kapalua, hit the opening tee shot of 2016 so far left that he played his next shot from the ninth hole. He still made birdie, and wound up with a 70.

Spieth won the Masters and U.S. Open last year, along with three other titles that led to the FedEx Cup and a sweep of all the awards. He wanted this to me a continua-

tion of last year and brought that attitude to the opening tee shot.

It only took two holes from a familiar look — Spieth walking across the green as a long putt dropped for birdie. He had long two-putt birdies on the par 5s on the front and missed a 15-foot eagle on the 15th that was such a weak attempt that he said even Reed said to him, “Nice effort.”

They typically do well together, which includes a 2-0-1 record as partners in the Ryder Cup two years ago. Reed picked up his first PGA Tour victory in a playoff over Spieth in 2013 with a shot out of the trees to 3 feet. Spieth got him back last year at Innisbrook with a 30-foot birdie putt on the third playoff hole.

“Whether we want to feed off each other or we want to beat the crap out of each other, we somehow play well together,” Spieth said.

Reed wasn’t converting many chances, with two-putt birdies on the par 5s on the front. His round turned with a 15-foot birdie putt on the 13th. He followed with a pitch to tap-in range on the 14th and 15th holes, and a shot over the gorge to 2 feet on the 17th.

Snedeker has been at Kapalua for a week, playing four times before the official start of tournament week. He was ready to go, and when it counted, he looked sharp.

“I know the golf course pretty well and I think getting over here early, the greens always pose a big problem,” Snedeker said.

“You get comfortable on greens and be aggressive on putts that you know are fast or slow. You just have to know putts.”

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports • College exhibition women’s basketball: NAIT at RDC, 6 p.m.

• 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: 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.

• Junior women’s hockey: Lethbridge at Central Alberta, 4:15 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex.

• 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.

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Brandon 40 24 12 2 2 150 Prince Albert 40 23 13 3 1 133 Moose Jaw 40 20 15 4 1 139 Regina 40 17 17 3 3 125 Saskatoon 39 15 21 3 0 121 Swift Current 40 12 23 4 1 93

GA 122 125 130 144 162 131

Pt 52 50 45 40 33 29

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF 40 28 12 0 0 171 41 28 13 0 0 158 42 25 15 1 1 140 41 17 20 4 0 115 39 14 21 3 1 127 41 7 31 3 0 82

GA 122 118 129 133 152 172

Pt 56 56 52 38 32 17

Lethbridge Red Deer Calgary Edmonton Medicine Hat Kootenay

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 40 28 10 2 0 145 Victoria 42 24 14 1 3 142 Prince George 39 23 14 1 1 133 Kamloops 37 18 14 4 1 129 Vancouver 41 15 21 3 2 119

GA 113 107 115 114 142

Pt 58 52 48 41 35

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF 36 22 12 0 2 100 37 20 14 3 0 118 39 19 15 3 2 129 38 20 17 1 0 134 40 17 21 2 0 126

GA 79 111 132 124 152

Pt 46 43 43 41 36

Everett Seattle Spokane Portland Tri-City

Kootenay at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Kamloops at Portland, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Regina at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

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

Everett at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday, January 10 Moose Jaw at Swift Current, 1 p.m.

Kamloops at Portland, 6 p.m.

Everett at Spokane, 6:05 p.m.

WHL Scoring Leaders Tyson Baillie, Kel Ivan Nikolishin, RD Adam Brooks, Reg Brayden Burke, Let Dryden Hunt, MJ Parker Bowles, TC Reid Gardiner, P.A. Devante Stephens, Spo Alex Forsberg, Vic Giorgio Estephan, Let Collin Shirley, Kam Egor Babenko, Let Cameron Hebig, Sas Brett Pollock, Edm Nolan Patrick, Bra Tyler Wong, Let Justin Gutierrez, Let Andrew Nielsen, Let Chase Witala, PG Jesse Gabrielle, PG Jonathon Martin, SC Matthew Phillips, Vic Brayden Point, MJ Mathew Barzal, Sea Radel Fazleev, CAL Dominic Turgeon, Por Keegan Kolesar, Sea Lane Bauer, Edm Connor Gay, Sas

Wednesday’s results Red Deer 5 Saskatoon 0 Edmonton 3 Vancouver 1 Lethbridge 5 Swift Current 2 Prince George at Kamloops, late Victoria 6 Tri-City 2

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

G 24 24 21 11 25 24 24 16 17 22 26 19 19 17 14 24 19 9 25 25 24 21 18 9 14 19 17 20 14

A 39 35 38 47 29 30 30 37 34 28 22 28 27 29 32 21 25 35 18 18 19 22 25 34 28 22 24 20 26

Pts 63 59 59 58 54 54 54 53 51 50 48 47 46 46 46 45 44 44 43 43 43 43 43 43 42 41 41 40 40

Canadian Hockey League Top Ten Poll 1. (1) Erie Otters (OHL, 32-4-1-0) 2. (2) Rouyn-Noranda Huskies (QMJHL, 29-6-3-1) 3. (3) London Knights (OHL, 27-6-2-1) 4. (6) Val-d’Or Foreurs (QMJHL, 30-8-2-1) 5. (5) Kelowna Rockets (WHL, 28-10-2-0) 6. (4) Kitchener Rangers (OHL, 26-6-4-0) 7. (8) Lethbridge Hurricanes (WHL, 27-12-0-0) 8. (9) Moncton Wildcats (QMJHL, 27-10-4-1) 9. (10) Red Deer Rebels (WHL, 27-13-0-0) 10. (7) Gatineau Olympiques (QMJHL, 25-12-1-1) Honourable Mentions Shawinigan Cataractes (QMJHL, 25-11-3-0) Kingston Frontenacs (OHL, 23-11-2-1) Windsor Spitfires (OHL, 23-10-5-0).

Friday’s games Medicine Hat at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Prince Albert at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Regina at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Tri-City at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Victoria at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Everett at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

Saturday’s games Medicine Hat at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Saskatoon at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Swift Current at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

National Hockey League

EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts Washington 40 30 7 3 63 Florida 41 25 12 4 54 N.Y. Islanders 41 22 14 5 49 Montreal 42 23 16 3 49 N.Y. Rangers 40 22 14 4 48 Detroit 40 20 13 7 47 New Jersey 41 20 16 5 45 Boston 38 20 14 4 44 Ottawa 41 19 16 6 44 Pittsburgh 40 19 16 5 43 Tampa Bay 40 19 17 4 42 Philadelphia 39 17 15 7 41 Toronto 38 16 15 7 39 Carolina 41 16 18 7 39 Buffalo 40 15 21 4 34 Columbus 41 15 23 3 33

Scouting report

GF 128 114 114 121 118 101 94 118 116 94 101 87 103 94 92 105

GA 86 88 103 104 105 106 97 105 123 99 98 108 103 114 110 131

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 43 29 10 4 62 148 114 Los Angeles 39 25 12 2 52 105 87 Chicago 42 25 13 4 54 117 100 Arizona 40 20 16 4 44 112 125 St. Louis 43 23 14 6 52 106 107 Vancouver 41 16 16 9 41 100 115 Minnesota 40 21 11 8 50 108 96 Nashville 40 19 14 7 45 104 106 Colorado 41 20 18 3 43 117 114 Winnipeg 41 19 19 3 41 109 117 Calgary 40 19 19 2 40 105 124 Anaheim 39 16 16 7 39 73 94 San Jose 37 18 17 2 38 101 106 Edmonton 41 17 21 3 37 102 122 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s Games Washington at N.Y. Rangers, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Boston at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Toronto at San Jose, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Nashville at Arizona, 7 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

St. Louis at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s summary Coyotes 2, Flames 1 First Period 1. Calgary, Gaudreau 18 (Monahan, Giordano) 14:37 (pp).

2. Arizona, Ekman-Larsson 11 (Duclair, Boedker) 18:11 (pp).

Penalties — Brodie Cgy (high-sticking) 5:14, Grossmann Ariz (interference) 8:18, Martinook Ariz (hooking) 13:32, Raymond Cgy (high-sticking) 16:45.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Brodie Cgy (tripping) 13:10.

Third Period 3. Arizona, Elliott 3 (Duclair) 1:47.

Penalties — Tikhonov Ariz (holding) 2:09.

Shots on goal Arizona 14 12 7 — 33 Calgary 6 12 8 — 26 Goal — Arizona: Domingue (W, 5-2-2) Calgary: Ramo (L, 15-13-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Arizona: 1-3 Calgary: 1-3.

NHL Scoring Leaders

Wednesday’s Games Montreal 2, New Jersey 1 Chicago 3, Pittsburgh 1 Colorado 4, St. Louis 3, OT Vancouver 3, Carolina 2 Toronto 4, Anaheim 0

Patrick Kane, Chi Jamie Benn, Dal Tyler Seguin, Dal Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Erik Karlsson, Ott Taylor Hall, Edm Blake Wheeler, Wpg Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy Joe Pavelski, SJ Evgeni Malkin, Pgh Daniel Sedin, Vcr Artemi Panarin, Chi John Klingberg, Dal Patrice Bergeron, Bos Evgeny Kuznetsov, Wash Alex Steen, StL Bobby Ryan, Ott Mike Hoffman, Ott Patrick Sharp, Dal Michael Cammalleri, NJ Nicklas Backstrom, Wash

Thursday’s Games Dallas 2, Winnipeg 1, SO Washington 4, N.Y. Islanders 1 Florida 3, Ottawa 2 Philadelphia 4, Minnesota 3, OT Arizona 2, Calgary 1 Toronto at Los Angeles, late Detroit at San Jose, late Friday’s Games Boston at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Columbus at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Nashville at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

St. Louis at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Rebels vs.

Lethbridge Hurricanes Tonight, 7 p.m., Centrium Lethbridge is tied with Red Deer for top spot in the Central Division and Eastern Conference with a 28-12-0-0 record.

The Hurricanes have won their last two games and are 8-2-0-0 in their last 10 …

Former Rebel LW Brayden Burke leads all ‘Canes scorers with 58 points, including a league-high 47 assists. Lethbridge has an additional five players with 40 or more points — C Giorgio Estephan (2228-50), LW Egor Babenko (19-28-47), RW Tyler Wong (24-21-45), C Justin Gutierrez (19-25-44) and D and Red Deer native

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.

G 23 24 23 24 9 16 10 17 20 19 17 15 6 15 13 13 13 19 16 14 11

A 37 28 27 19 33 25 30 22 18 19 21 23 32 22 24 24 23 16 19 21 24

Pts 60 52 50 43 42 41 40 39 38 38 38 38 38 37 37 37 36 35 35 35 35

Andrew Nielsen (9-35-44) …The ‘Canes are solid between the pipes with Jayden Sittler, another Red Deer product, and Stuart Skinner. Sittler is seventh among WHL goalies with a 2.85 goals-against average. Skinner is 11th at 2.91.

Injuries — Lethbridge: None to report. Red Deer — D Josh Mahura (lower body, indefinite), C Adam Musil (upper body, day-to-day), C Luke Philp (lower body, indefinite).

Special teams — Lethbridge: Power play 29.6 per cent, first overall; penalty kill 80.2 per cent, 11th. Red Deer: Power play 23.8 per cent, third overall; penalty kill 76.9 per cent, 18th.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 22 15 .595 — Boston 19 17 .528 2 1/2 New York 18 19 .486 4 Brooklyn 10 25 .286 11 Philadelphia 4 34 .105 18 1/2 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 21 14 .600 — Atlanta 22 15 .595 — Orlando 19 17 .528 2 1/2 Charlotte 17 18 .486 4 Washington 15 18 .455 5 Central Division W L Pct GB Cleveland 24 9 .727 — Chicago 22 12 .647 2 1/2 Indiana 20 15 .571 5 Detroit 20 16 .556 5 1/2 Milwaukee 14 23 .378 12 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 31 6 .838 — Dallas 21 15 .583 9 1/2 Memphis 19 18 .514 12 Houston 18 19 .486 13 New Orleans 11 23 .324 18 1/2 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 25 11 .694 — Utah 15 20 .429 9 1/2 Portland 15 23 .395 11

Denver Minnesota Golden State L.A. Clippers Sacramento Phoenix L.A. Lakers

13 23 .361 12 24 .333 Pacific Division W L Pct 33 2 .943 23 13 .639 14 21 .400 13 25 .342 8 28 .222

FG Percentage

Miami at Phoenix, 7:30 p.m.

Golden State at Portland, 8 p.m.

Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

12 13 GB — 10 1/2 19 21 1/2 25 1/2

Saturday’s Games Charlotte at L.A. Clippers, 1:30 p.m.

Chicago at Atlanta, 3 p.m.

Washington at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Philadelphia, 5:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Miami at Utah, 7 p.m.

Golden State at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games New York 98, Miami 90 Indiana 95, Orlando 86 Cleveland 121, Washington 115 Toronto 91, Brooklyn 74 Detroit 99, Boston 94 Denver 78, Minnesota 74 Dallas 100, New Orleans 91 San Antonio 123, Utah 98 Phoenix 111, Charlotte 102 Oklahoma City 112, Memphis 94 L.A. Clippers 109, Portland 98 Thursday’s Games Atlanta 126, Philadelphia 98 Chicago 101, Boston 92 Houston 103, Utah 94 L.A. Lakers at Sacramento, late Friday’s Games Toronto at Washington, 5 p.m.

Orlando at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Indiana at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Denver at Memphis, 6 p.m.

New York at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

FGA 212 253 291 291 313 326 492 450 342 524

PCT .731 .617 .612 .564 .534 .531 .528 .524 .523 .523

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NBA Leaders Scoring G Curry, GOL 33 Harden, HOU 36 Durant, OKC 29 James, CLE 32 Westbrook, OKC 36 Cousins, SAC 27 George, IND 35 Lillard, POR 31 Davis, NOR 31 Griffin, LAC 30 DeRozan, TOR 37 Butler, CHI 33 Anthony, NYK 35 McCollum, POR 36 Thomas, BOS 35 K. Thompson, GOL 33 Leonard, SAN 35 Lowry, TOR 37 Bledsoe, PHX 31 Wiggins, MIN 35

FG 155 156 178 164 167 173 260 236 179 274

Jordan, LAC Howard, HOU Whiteside, MIA Kanter, OKC Faried, DEN Parker, SAN Vucevic, ORL Towns, MIN Favours, UTA Drummond, DET

FG 321 295 263 311 316 228 275 254 277 281 279 242 270 291 238 248 269 241 223 248

FT PTS AVG 176 968 29.3 323 1013 28.1 177 770 26.6 168 827 25.8 229 907 25.2 192 679 25.1 203 861 24.6 153 749 24.2 159 728 23.5 129 697 23.2 261 838 22.6 206 728 22.1 170 759 21.7 85 756 21.0 188 732 20.9 83 689 20.9 118 725 20.7 181 761 20.6 138 632 20.4 190 705 20.1

Drummond, DET Jordan, LAC Howard, HOU Whiteside, MIA Davis, NOR Cousins, SAC Gasol, CHI Pachulia, DAL Love, CLE Thompson, CLE

G 36 36 30 34 31 27 32 35 33 33

OFF 199 133 104 105 67 64 74 127 81 104

DEF 367 348 248 275 279 229 269 248 270 218

TOT 566 481 352 380 346 293 343 375 351 322

AVG 15.7 13.4 11.7 11.2 11.2 10.9 10.7 10.7 10.6 9.8

Assists Rondo, SAC Wall, WAS Paul, LAC Westbrook, OKC Rubio, MIN Green, GOL Jack, Bro Thomas, BOS Lillard, POR

G 33 33 31 36 30 35 32 35 31

AST 382 323 296 339 270 259 236 242 212

AVG 11.6 9.8 9.5 9.4 9.0 7.4 7.4 6.9 6.8

Golf

Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 31 At Honolulu Team Rice vs. Team Irvin, 6 p.m.

PGA Tour-Tournament of Champions Scores Thursday At Kapalua Resort, The Plantation Course Kapalua, Hawaii Purse: $5.9 million Yardage: 7,452 Par 73 (36-37) First Round Patrick Reed 34-31—65 Jordan Spieth 33-33—66 Brandt Snedeker 33-34—67

Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 7 At Santa Clara, Calif.

TBD, 4:30 p.m.

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 West Division W L Pct. 1 0 1.000 1 0 1.000 0 0 .000 0 1 .000

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J.B. Holmes Danny Lee Fabian Gomez Brooks Koepka Steven Bowditch Kevin Kisner Bubba Watson Rickie Fowler Smylie Kaufman Padraig Harrington

Matt Every Chris Kirk Justin Thomas Jimmy Walker Jason Day Peter Malnati Emiliano Grillo David Lingmerth Russell Knox Bill Haas

34-33—67 33-34—67 33-35—68 33-36—69 34-35—69 33-36—69 33-36—69 35-34—69 35-35—70 35-35—70

Scott Piercy Alex Cejka Dustin Johnson Graeme McDowell Davis Love III Troy Merritt Zach Johnson James Hahn J.J. Henry

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Transactions GA GB 0 — 0 — 0 — 0 — 16 .5 GA GB 15 — 8 — 0 .5 10 1

WEEK TWO Saturday, Jan. 9 Toronto at Georgia, 5:05 p.m.

Calgary at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.

Colorado at Rochester, 5:30 p.m.

New England at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

WEEK THREE Thursday, Jan. 14 Rochester at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 15 Calgary at New England, 5 p.m.

Vancouver at Saskatchewan, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 16 Toronto at Rochester, 5:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 17 New England at Georgia, 12:05 p.m.

JV BASKETBALL Kenia Evora netted 12 points and Bronwyn Jones scored four for the Notre Dame Cougars in a 45-11 JV girls basketball win over the Sylvan Lake H.J. Cody Lakers Wednesday.

In the boys contest, Adam Melnyk drained 16 points and Isaac Colosimo added 12 as the Cougars prevailed 70-44.

Jace Martin had 14 points for Sylvan Lake.

Thursday’s Sports Transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League LEAGUE — Fined Winnipeg F Nikolaj Ehlers and New Jersey F Bobby Farnham $2,000 each for diving/embellishment.

ANAHEIM — Traded LW Max Friberg to Montreal Canadiens for G Dustin Tokarski.

NEW JERSEY — Placed F Mike Cammalleri on injured reserve, retroactive to Dec. 30.

American Hockey League HAMILTON — Acquired G Kaden Fulcher from Sarnia (OHL) for G Charlie Graham.

ECHL ELMIRA — Signed Fs Blake Hietala and Daniel Gentzler.

READING — Announced D Christian Marti was assigned to the team from Leigh Valley (AHL).

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA — Signed OT Edawn Coughman to a reserve/future contract.

CLEVELAND — Signed OLs Conor Boffeli and Erle Ladson to reserve/futures contracts.

INDIANAPOLIS — Named Dan Emerson chief legal officer and Ted Monachino defensive co-ordinator.

MIAMI — Signed WR Tyler Davis to a reserve/future contract.

BASEBALL Major League Baseball LEAGUE — Promoted Billy Bean to vice-president, social responsibility & inclusion. Named Curtis Pride ambassador for inclusion.

American League BALTIMORE — Named Mark Quinn assistant major league hitting coach.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Claimed OF Daniel Fields off waivers from Los Angeles (NL).

KANSAS CITY — Agreed to terms with RHP ChienMing Wang on a minor league contract.

SEATTLE — Released RHP Anthony Bass.

National League L.A. DODGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Kenta Maeda on an eight-year contract.

PITTSBURGH — Agreed to terms with RHP Trey Haley to a one-year contract.

SAN FRANCISCO — Agreed to terms with OF Denard Span to a three-year contract.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association

LEAGUE — Suspended Houston G Ty Lawson three games for driving under the influence of alcohol, in violation of the law of the State of California.

MEMPHIS — Waived C Ryan Hollins.

PHOENIX — Waived G Bryce Cotton and F Cory Jefferson.

Lacrosse National Lacrosse League LEAGUE — Named Nick Sakiewicz commissioner.

SOCCER Major League Soccer SEATTLE — Announced the retirement of M Gonzalo Pineda.

KANSAS CITY — Acquired M Brad Davis from Houston for a 2017 SuperDraft second-round pick, a 2018 SuperDraft third-round pick and future considerations.

World junior stars highlight roster for CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game

Canada’s women’s volleyball team drops opener to U.S. at Olympic qualifier

Benson of the Vancouver Giants, Lucas Johansen of the Kelowna Rockets and Canadian junior team member Julien Gauthier of the Vald’Or Foreurs. Players were chosen by all 30 NHL clubs and divided into teams by NHL Central Scouting.

Team Orr features world junior gold medallist Olli Juolevi of Finland and London Knights teammate Matthew Tkachuk along with Alexander Nylander of the Mississauga Steelheads, who led Sweden in world junior scoring.

There were 20 OHL players named to the Top Prospects Game roster.

LINCOLN, Neb. — The Canadian women’s volleyball squad opened the 2016 NORCECA Olympic Qualification Tournament by falling to the United States in straight sets on Thursday. The U.S., ranked No. 1 in the world and reigning world champions, toppled No. 16 Canada 25-18, 25-18 and 25-15.

“USA is a very strong program with a lot of depth,” said Canadian captain Brittney Page. “There is a good atmosphere here and they were excited to come out and play hard. We knew we had to play solid to catch them at all. They’re a team you can’t afford to make mistakes with because they’re so solid and they don’t make mistakes.”

Lucille Charuk guided Canada with nine points while Tabitha Love contributed eight.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Ontario Hockey League goal-scoring leader Alex DeBrincat of the Erie Otters was one of 40 players named to the BMO CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game roster on Thursday.

DeBrincat helped the American team win bronze at the recent world junior hockey championship in Finland. Entering play Thursday, he has 56 points (33-23) in 30 games this season.

Joining him on Team Cherry for the Jan. 28 game at Vancouver will be Tyler

Twelve players were selected from the Western Hockey League and eight from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.

“The BMO CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game provides a unique opportunity for NHL scouts and general managers to evaluate top CHL talent for the 2016 NHL Draft in a best-on-best competition,” NHL Central Scouting director Dan Marr said in a release. “The game is also a unique opportunity for the players to take advantage of the spotlight in what is consistently an exciting and highly competitive showcase.”

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Hurricanes utilizing an All-American defence

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH, N.C. — Call it the all-American defence for the Carolina Hurricanes.

Since they reconstituted their D with six United States-born skaters, the Hurricanes have been a tougher team to beat. They’ve climbed out of last place in the Metropolitan Division and are hoping to push for their first playoff berth since 2009.

With all that red, white and blue on the blue line, Carolina has earned points in three of four games and five of seven heading into its home game against Columbus on Friday night.

“It’s kind of a coincidence,” said Brett Pesce of Tarrytown, New York.

“But at the same time, it shows how much American hockey is growing.”

They cover a wide range of ages — from 35-year-old veteran John-Michael Liles to 18-year-old rookie Noah Hanifin — and sizes — three of them are 6-foot-3, while Liles is just 5-10.

But they all have two things in common: They were born in the U.S. and played college hockey before jumping to the pros.

Three of them — Pesce (New Hampshire), Hanifin (Boston College) and Jaccob Slavin (Colorado College) — all were in college at this time last year.

Hanifin was the team’s first-round draft pick in June and made the team out of training camp, while Pesce and Slavin combined to play just 21 games for the Hurricanes’ AHL affiliate in Charlotte.

“The college game, there’s very good hockey there. … We all take pride in that,” said Slavin, a Denver native.

“We’re all American-born, and we all want to represent our country the best way we can.”

Justin Faulk played at Minnesota-Duluth, Ron Hainsey went to UMass-Lowell and Liles skated at Michigan State. They’ve all done their part to

make the Hurricanes a stronger team.

In its first 18 games, Carolina earned just 14 points — at that time tied for the fewest in the Eastern Conference, and just one point ahead of Edmonton for fewest in the league — and shared last place in the Metropolitan Division on Nov. 19.

The Hurricanes called up Slavin to make his NHL debut the next day and made him the sixth U.S.-born defenceman on the team. Coincidentally or not, from that day forward they’ve played much better, posting a 10-8-5 record while earning 25 points in 23 games to jump into a tie for 12th place in the Eastern Conference, five points back of eighth place.

The six have been able to stay healthy and develop continuity on the ice. Five of them have played in every game during that span Slavin was sent back to the minors for only one game — a 5-1 loss to New Jersey on Dec. 3.

They’ve done a good job of keeping some pressure off goalies Cam Ward and Eddie Lack. No team allows fewer shots than Carolina, which gives up just 26 per game.

“We’re all just working really well together because we all get along together,” Slavin said. “That builds chemistry on the ice as well, and we have a lot of talent on the back end.

If you look top to bottom, there’s a big age difference there but there’s also a lot of talent there.”

They hope to finally push Carolina back into the post-season after six years of missing the playoffs, the longest active drought among teams in the Eastern Conference.

But for now, the bottom line is that they’re playing well — no matter where they’re from.

“They’re all talented, they all have some unique skill sets to them, but the younger guys are all bigger and can skate,” second-year coach Bill Peters said. “It’s a mobile group, and they’re hanging onto pucks and making plays.”

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Carolina Hurricanes’ Brett Pesce (54) defends against Washington Capitals’ Jason Chimera during an NHL game in Raleigh, N.C. Since the Hurricanes reconstituted their defense with six United States-born skaters, the Hurricanes have been a tougher team to beat.

Canadian lineman Heenan gets another shot with Colts

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Offensive lineman Ben Heenan speaks with media following Saskatchewan Roughriders’ training camp in Saskatoon, Sask., in 2014.

The Canadian offensive lineman is getting another shot at cracking the Indianapolis Colts’ roster. three seasons with the Saskatchewan Roughriders after being selected first overall in the 2012 CFL draft. He made 49 starts with the Riders, helping them capture the 2013 Grey Cup. Heenan said he has no lingering affects from the meniscus injury that sidelined him last summer.

“Near the end of the season every-

Stampeders bring QB Drew Tate back with contract extension

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Quarterback Drew Tate has signed a contract extension with the Calgary Stampeders.

The 31-year-old from Baytown, Texas, returns for an eighth season with the CFL club.

Tate was the heir apparent to Calgary’s starting job when the club dealt veteran Henry Burris to Hamilton in 2012, but multiple injuries limited Tate to just 153 completions over the next two seasons.

He was Bo Levi Mitchell’s backup in both 2014 and 2015. Tate started the

last regular-season game in 2015, completing 18-of-22 passes for 231 yards and two touchdowns in a 28-7 win over the B.C. Lions.

Tate has often been used in short-yardage situations and scored a league-high 10 rushing TDs in 2014.

The six-foot-one, 191-pound Tate has a career 66.7 completion percentage for 4,415 yards and 32 touchdowns.

He’s also rushed for 609 yards and 24 TDs. “Quality and depth at the quarterback position is very important in the CFL and Drew is a big part of that for us,” Stampeder GM John Hunfagel said in a statement.

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ed to being outside his native province after playing there collegiately as well as the start of his pro career. But Heenan did keep tabs on the Riders, who struggled to a CFL-worst 3-15 record in 2015.

“I miss home as much as everyone here … but I think it was good for me to kind of step outside of my comfort zone a little bit,” he said. “Even though they (Riders) had a bit of a tough year in ‘15, I think everyone around is looking forward to them rebounding in 2016.

“Many people there are the reason I’ve been able to get this far. I am very thankful for everything the Rider organization did for me and will always be thankful for that.”

Heenan won’t have to adjust to a new coaching staff when he returns to Indianapolis. Head coach Chuck Pagano, who led the Colts to an 8-8 record despite an abundance of injuries — including to starter Andrew Luck — received a four-year contract extension at season’s end, a move Heenan said was a popular one.

“Any time you can keep as much continuity as possible, that’s obviously a good thing for the team,” Heenan said. “I mean, Coach Pagano is such a great guy and a great coach as well that everyone around here was happy to see he’s coming back.

“I really enjoy playing for him and look to continue that going into next year.”

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Ben Heenan’s first NFL season was certainly an eventful one, even if he didn’t make it on the field for a regular-season game.

The six-foot-four, 316-pound offensive linemen signed with the Indianapolis Colts as free agent Feb. 4, 2015 and went to training camp before suffering a knee ailment and being released Aug. 7 with an injury settlement.

The 25-year-old native of Grand Coulee, Sask., then rejoined the Colts on their practice roster Nov. 3 for the remainder of the season before re-signing with them Tuesday night.

So as Heenan prepared to return to Saskatchewan on Wednesday night, it was with the understanding he has a rare second chance to crack Indianapolis’s roster.

“It’s a seat at the table and when you’re in my position that’s kind of what you need more than anything,” said the former University of Saskatchewan star. “Obviously staying healthy is a huge part of it.

“Training camp didn’t end the way I wanted but in this line of work you kind of need to be able to crush things in a hurry and move on so I didn’t try to dwell on it for long. But where I am now, it’s an opportunity going into next year to show what I have and what I’m capable of.”

Heenan joined the Colts following

thing was really starting to pick up,” he said. “I was really feeling good about where I was at.”

When Heenan reported to the Colts, he not only had to adjust to a new team in a new city but also a different game. American football is played on a smaller field than in Canada with an extra down and no yard of separation on the line of scrimmage.

And although Heenan had some prior experience playing American football, it was only for a week at the EastWest Shrine game in January 2012.

“It’s something you get used to pretty quickly … it becomes the new norm,” Heenan said. “I wouldn’t say it took too long.”

It also didn’t take Heenan long to get back into the swing of things upon rejoining the Colts.

“I was here for all the off-season and throughout (organized team activities) so it was kind of a refresher,” he said.

“Obviously I was behind in terms of getting back used to it again but it wasn’t like I was getting air-dropped into an unfamiliar situation.”

Dan Vertlieb, Heenan’s Vancouver-based agent, agreed.

“Indianapolis is a good fit for Ben,” he said. “He’s very comfortable, both in the community and locker room, and we think there’s a great opportunity for him to hopefully play a bigger role there next season.”

Keenan said he also quickly adjust-

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Making televisions smarter not a great idea CES GADGET SHOW

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS — Turns out that smart TVs can be, well, pretty dumb.

Even moderately priced sets can now connect to the Internet and run Netflix and other apps — that’s the “smart” part. Yet many people are ignoring the built-in features and turning to Apple TV, Roku and other stand-alone streaming devices that often do a better job.

In an August report, the NPD Group estimates that roughly a third of smart TVs in the U.S. weren’t actually connected to the Internet. That’s down from about half two years earlier, but still not good.

Researchers at Parks Associates found that even as more Americans are using smart TV functions, streaming device usage has grown even faster.

“If you’re a streaming media box (maker), you’ve got much more ability to push new features out into the market at an affordable price,” says Barbara Kraus, Parks Associates’ director of research.

“They’re very stiff competition for smart TVs.” None of that is slowing down TV manufacturers like Samsung, though, as they continue to tout their newest and smartest models at this week’s CES gadget show in Las Vegas.

In a way, putting brains in a device that most people replace only every five to seven years isn’t the brightest idea. Chips get faster every year, so by the time you’re ready to buy a new set, its brains will be really, really old, at least in technology terms.

The software, though, can present an even bigger problem. Smart TVs are frequently plagued with confusing interfaces, buggy functions and inconsistent updates. They are sometimes mysteriously unable to run new streaming services and may never be updated to add new features to the ones they do run.

Worse, some TV makers focus on bringing new features only to their latest models in an effort to persuade people to buy new sets. Samsung’s 2016 models, for instance, implicitly inform anyone who bought last year’s sets that they’ve already been left behind. Those earlier customers won’t be able to use their Samsung TVs to set mood lighting or check security cameras in a connected home.

Among the new features in LG’s 2016 models: Magic Zoom, which will let viewers zoom in on video while it’s playing — using a digital magnifying glass — to make out small text and other details. But LG won’t say when, if ever, older TVs will get that.

The divide between smart TVs and streaming devices could become even more pronounced as the devices adopt the types of app stores common on phones and tablets. The new Apple TV offers shopping, travel and food-delivery apps, while Nvidia’s Shield Android TV device runs sophisticated games once limited to game consoles and personal computers.

A smart TV is fine if all you’re doing is watching video, says Ali Kani, general manager for the Shield business. But he believes “the living room is going to be revolutionized by apps. It’s not any more just about Netflix or Hulu.”

There’s also something to be said about letting TV makers and tech companies focus on what each does best. In other words, when you put your living room in the hands of software created by a hardware company, you may live to regret it.

“There are some TV companies that do a fantastic job of creating beautiful sets with fantastic picture quality,” says Lloyd Klarke, Roku’s director of product management. “Our focus is on ease of use, experience and content aggregation. It’s a different kind of business.”

Some TV makers, including Hisense, Sharp and TCL, have turned to Roku’s smart TV system for that reason. Because the interface shares technology with Roku’s stand-alone streaming devices, app makers can design once for many devices. Plus, Roku

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A man walks by ultra high definition TVs at the TCL booth at CES International, Wednesday, in Las Vegas. smart TVs get software updates about the same time stand-alone devices do.

But Roku isn’t bringing streaming video with sharper 4K resolution to those smart TVs until this spring, even though the Roku 4 streaming device had that capability when it came out in October — yet another way buying a smart TV can make you feel like a dunce.

So why do TV makers bother making smart TVs? Call it the business equivalent of FOMO — Fear Of Missing Out. “What they don’t want to be is just a piece of glass,” says Jim Denney, TiVo’s vice-president of product marketing.

Start with competition. It’s very difficult for a manufacturer to make a dumb TV, particularly one larger than about 40 inches, when competitors are all throwing smarts in.

Hardware manufacturers also want to avoid being marginalized the way they were in smartphones. In adopting Google’s Android system, companies like Samsung and LG effectively ceded revenue from apps, movies and search ads to Google. On TVs, seen as one of the next frontiers, they want to retain control — and the cash.

To be sure, smart TVs do offer a few economic benefits. If you’ve got several TVs in your house, it might be cheaper not to buy streaming devices for each set, and instead to rely on built-in features in some rooms.

Some smart TVs also offer seamless switching between regular TV and streaming. Samsung will do this for the first time on 2016 models. A single remote will control both the set and set-top boxes from Dish and Time Warner Cable — and even the Apple TV. Won-Jin Lee, Samsung’s executive vice-president of its visual display business, says consumers get frustrated with too many connected devices plugged into their TVs and a jumble of remote controls. “We

Yahoo closes online video hub in retreat from effort to compete against Netflix, YouTube

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SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo pulled the plug on an Shares of Yahoo have fallen by about 35 per cent online video hub that had once been envisioned as since the end of 2014 as the difficulty of reviving the beleaguered company’s answer to Netflix and company revenue growth has become evident, and YouTube. that has increased the pressure on Mayer to take The end of the Yahoo Screen is part of a purge more drastic measures. There have even been calls being directed by CEO Marissa Mayer with hopes of for Yahoo to sell all of its online operations, but generating greater profit elsewhere.

Mayer and the company’s board have rebuffed those Mayer oversaw an overhaul of Yahoo Screen 16 months ago that came in the form of a new mobile demands to far.

By building a compelling video hub, Mayer had application, thousands of clips from NBC’s “Saturhoped to lure advertising away from Google, whose day Night Live” and a wide variety of other popular operations include YouTube, and social networking TV shows.

But Yahoo Screen never attracted the vast audi- leader Facebook, which also boasts millions of clips shared by its users. ences that flock to Netflix and YouTube.

Yahoo’s stock gained 64 cents to $32.04 Tuesday Yahoo is now scattering its video across its digital magazines and other services, such as Yahoo Music. afternoon.

“We’re constantly reviewing and iterating on our products as we strive to create the best user experience,” Yahoo said in a printed statement.

Mayer has pledged to jettison technology that fails to justify the amount of money that Yahoo has been investing in them.

Yahoo telegraphed that its video expansion was faltering in October when it disclosed a $42 million charge to account for original shows, such as “Community,” that had flopped.

Mayer is expected to provide more details about her latest plans for reorganization in about three weeks when the Sunnyvale, California, company announces its fourth-quarter results.

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Meanwhile, with LG’s new smart TVs, a touch of a button adds favourite channels from an antenna to the on-screen interface. On Roku’s smart TVs, your antenna channels or cable service appears as a tile on the home screen alongside those for Netflix and games.

By contrast, streaming devices typically require viewers to change the input source with the remote, which can lead to confusion and arguments if a family member forgets to change it back.

But there’s yet another audience smart TVs continue to alienate: app makers. These software designers have little incentive to write and rewrite their apps for a multitude of incompatible TV systems, such as Samsung’s Tizen and LG’s webOS, when viewers are voting with their remotes.

The satellite TV company Dish launched an app for LG’s smart TVs two years ago, but found “very small usage,” and now it is more focused instead on improving its own set-top box, says Vivek Khemka, Dish’s senior vice-president for product management.

“We have kind of put a pause on these smart TV platforms.”

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Like any year, 2015 had its share ple, including the president, rallied of good and bad, tragedy and beauty, for an end to the insanity. And while hope and despair. the U.S. presidential race remains It’s difficult not to get discouraged mired in bigotry, ignorance and a by events like the Syrian war and ref- dumbfounding rejection of climate sciugee crisis, violent outence, many U.S. citizens, inbreaks in Beirut, Paris, cluding political candidates, Burundi, the U.S. and so are speaking out for a posimany other places, and tive approach more aligned the ongoing climate cawith America’s professed valtastrophe. ues. And in 2015, voters here But responses to these and elsewhere rejected feartragedies and disasters based election campaigns offer hope. It became that promoted continued reliclear during 2015 that ance on climate-altering coal, when those who believe oil and gas. in protecting people and The fossil fuel industry the planet, treating each and its supporters continued other with fairness, reto sow doubt and confusion DAVID spect and kindness and about the overwhelming evSUZUKI seeking solutions stand idence for human-caused up, speak out and act for SCIE3NCE MATTERS climate change and to rail what is right and just, we against solutions, but many will be heard. more people marched, signed As Syria descended deeper in- petitions, sent letters, talked to friends to chaos during 2015, people in many and family, demanded action from powealthy nations called for blocking litical, religious and business leaders, refugees. But many more opened their and got on with innovating and implehearts, homes and wallets and showed menting solutions. compassion. Governments responded The public appetite for a construcby opening doors to people who have tive approach to global warming led lost everything, including family and Canada to shift course in 2015, taking friends, to flee death and destruction. global warming seriously enough to Shootings and the inevitable absurd make positive contributions at the Pararguments against gun control contin- is climate conference in December. ued south of the border, but many peo- The resulting agreement won’t low-

er emissions enough to prevent catastrophic warming, but it’s a significant leap from previous attempts, and it includes commitments to improve targets.

If we want to heal this world we have so badly damaged, we must do all we can. Although many necessary and profound changes must come from governments, industry and other institutions, we can all do our part. For the climate, we can conserve energy, eat less meat, drive less, improve energy efficiency in our homes and businesses and continue to stand up and speak out.

Those who fear and reject change have always been and always will be with us. They’ve argued ending slavery would destroy the economy; they’ve claimed putting people on the moon would be impossible; they’ve rejected ending South Africa’s apartheid system; they’ve said the Berlin wall wouldn’t come down.

With today’s technological and communications advances, everyone with access to the Internet can be heard.

That’s good, but people who fear they have something to lose often speak loudest, and in the greatest numbers.

I tell people at the David Suzuki Foundation, “Don’t read the comments!”

It’s often disheartening to see online discourse sink to such irrational and often idiotic depths.

But many comments and efforts to stall or block necessary progress arise from fear. People who are afraid that change might remove or diminish their privilege — real or imagined — often do or say anything to block it. Unfortunately, those who benefit most from privilege or the status quo, even if only in the short term, often stoke those fears and uncertainties, taking advantage of and manipulating the frightened and ignorant for political or economic gain.

That’s not to say people must always agree.

But racism, sexism, homophobia, religious prejudice, the denial of climate science and solutions, and blindness to the need for gun control are all irrational.

We can and must speak louder than those who would keep us on a destructive path despite the overwhelming evidence that it’s past time to shift course. Events in 2015 taught us that when those of us who care about humanity and the planet’s future stand up and speak out, we can make this small, blue world and its miraculous life and natural systems a better place for all.

David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Editor Ian Hanington.

There is good that can come from carbon dioxide CO2 is not the evil deity it occasion- enough, horticulturists inject CO2 into ally is reported as being. their hothouses to increase plant outLately, it has taken on the mask of put. In a greenhouse, yields increase some gargantuan devil, by +/- 33% with a doubling of intent on destroying the atmospheric carbon dioxide. planet. Carbon dioxide is Carbonaceous rocks form in fact a vital reactant for one quadrillion tons of seplant growth and is used questered carbon from the in photosynthesis, by said earth’s atmosphere, a process vegetation, for the prothat is ongoing at a rate of 37 duction of carbohydrate 000 tons per year. With 38 trilmolecules, specifically lion tons of dissolved carbon sugars, and oxygen. It is estimated to be in the earth’s irrefutable and blatantoceans, it forms an abundant ly simple, without atmosupply for marine life to conspheric CO2, life as we struct their shells from. Natknow it would not exist on ural sequestration occurs LORNE this planet. when phytoplankton and zooOJA In fact plants grow best plankton combine carbon and at concentrations of 1200 calcium into calcium carbonENERGY - 1350 ppm (parts per milate for their hard defences, at lion) of atmospheric CO2 death they sink to the oceans and all plant life, except floor. Over the millennia this some grasses and extremophile mi- sediment is squeezed into layers of crobes, would die off at concentrations limestone, chalk, or marble, rendering of 150 - 200 ppm or less. Interestingly the carbon unreachable for plant life.

The argument is out there that our burning of fossil fuels, by releasing previously sequestered carbon, has in fact saved the world from a mass extinction and staved off the end of life by some 65 million years as CO2 is continually converted into forms not available to plant life.

Now here is where the controversy really rages. Dr. Patrick Moore, PhD, one of the original founders of Greenpeace, would suggest that we continue to allow the current atmospheric level of 399 ppm CO2 to rise as it would encourage plant growth, and thus, we could help feed the masses from this bounty. However study by different research teams have found that even though the plant growth increases food crop growth, in a natural setting, they lose nutrition.

Considering Mother Nature does not follow a tightly controlled regime of rain, fertilization, or continuous light, an increase in atmospheric carbon would only guarantee one of the

four things plants need; this “best natural solution” theory bears enquiry and further study. NASA has satellites monitoring the plant life inhabiting our world; conceivably with more data the debate can be settled.

Conversely, we can control soil fertility, atmospheric gas concentrations, water inputs, and with LED grow lights, even illumination in a greenhouse. Maybe instead of shutting down coal fired generation plants we should use the flue gases, and waste heat to operate greenhouses and grow more of our food in province, instead of trucking it in from Mexico; feasibly providing decent jobs for the growing ranks of unemployed.

Lorne Oja is an energy consultant, power engineer and a partner in a company that installs solar panels, wind turbines and energy control products in Central Alberta. He built his first off-grid home in 2003. His column appears every second Friday in the Advocate. Contact him at: lorne@solartechnical.ca.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — A major pesticide harms honeybees when used on cotton and citrus but not on other big crops like corn, berries and tobacco, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found.

It’s the first scientific risk assessment of the much-debated class of pesticides called neonicotinoids and how they affect bees on a chronic long-term basis. The EPA found in some cases the chemical didn’t harm bees or their hives but in other cases it posed a significant risk. It mostly depended on the crop, a nuanced answer that neither clears the way for an outright ban nor is a blanket go-ahead for continued use. Both the pesticide maker and anti-pesticide advocates were unhappy with report.

The issue is important because honeybees are in trouble and they do more than make honey. They are crucial to our food supply: About onethird of the human diet comes from insect-pollinated plants, and the honeybee is responsible for 80 per cent of that pollination.

Some advocacy groups target neon-

icotinoids — the chemical works on insects’ central nervous systems and are often called “neonics” — and call for bans on the chemicals. Recent scientific studies have pointed to problems and pesticide makers dispute those studies and this one from the EPA. Europe banned the pesticide class, and then lifted the ban.

Don’t expect any future action on this pesticide to solve the dwindling bee problem because it’s not just this pesticide alone, but a complicated puzzle that includes lack of food for bees, parasites, disease and the way different pesticides and fungicides interact, said bee expert May Berenbaum at the University of Illinois.

“Anything to reduce stress on bees is helpful,” said University of Maryland entomologist Dennis vanEngelsdorp.

“I am not convinced that neonics are a major driver of colony loss.”

Before it acts on a pesticide, EPA wanted more specific and targeted research. The risk report released Wednesday is the first of four on this class of chemicals. The study was done by the EPA and California’s environmental agency, with a similar one done

by Canada.

EPA analysis of detailed tests found a clear level of concentration of the pesticide imidacloprid, the most common neonicotinoid, in which things

start to go awry. If nectar brought back to the hive from worker bees had more than 25 parts per billion of the chemical, “there’s a significant effect,” namely fewer bees, less honey and “a less robust hive,” said Jim Jones, EPA’s assistant administrator for chemical safety and pollution prevention.

But if the nectar chemical level was below 25 parts per billion, it was as if there were no imidacloprid at all, with no ill effects, Jones said. It was a clear line of harm or no harm, he said.

Levels depended on the crop, Jones said. While nectar of cotton and citrus fruits were above the harmful concentrations, the levels were not harmful for corn — the nation’s top crop by far — most vegetables, berries and tobacco. Other crops weren’t conclusive and need more testing, including legumes,

melons, tree nuts and herbs.

Also, the controversial practice of treating seeds with the chemical seemed not to harm bees, Jones said.

The problem crops of cotton and citrus are No. 7 and 9 in U.S. production value in 2014, according to Agriculture Department statistics.

The study looked just at commercial honeybees because they are a good surrogate for all pollinators, Jones said. But Lori Ann Burd, environmental health director of the advocacy group Center for Biological Diversity, criticized the agency for ignoring wild bees, like bumblebees, which studies show are much more sensitive to the pesticides, calling the report “weak.”

Jones said this is a draft of a scientific report, not a regulation. After public comments and the report is finalized, then EPA may act.

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BRACONNIER 1969 - 2015 Thomas “Tom” Patrick Braconnier passed suddenly on Christmas morning, December 25, 2015. Tom will be lovingly remembered by his children Thomas, Mercedes and Courtney; granddaughter Navaeh; father Peter Braconnier; mother Toni (Garry) Stevenson; sisters Priscilla Pallin, Tannis (Glenn) Lasiuta; brothers Ian (Irina) Braconnier, Pete (Becky) Braconnier, Ron (Tyler) Tersigni and Al (Noni) Bossert as well as numerous nieces, nephews, other family members and friends. Tom was predeceased by his brother Cory. A Memorial Service to celebrate Tom’s life will be held at the Salvation Army Church, 4837 - 54 Street, Red Deer, AB on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 1:00 p.m.. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the Red Deer Food Bank Society, 12, 7429 - 49 Ave, Red Deer AB T4P 1N2.

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MCDONALD Charles Roger (Chuck) April 26, 2931 - Jan. 3, 2016 It is with great sadness that the family of Chuck McDonald announces his peaceful passing at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on January 3, 2016 at the age of 84. Chuck will be lovingly remembered by his four children; Colin McDonald of Chetwynd, BC; Valerie Bardick (Jim) of Red Deer, AB., Lisa McDonald of Lacombe, AB, and John McDonald (Carrie) of Kelowna, BC. He is also survived by his six grandchildren; Rylan, Noah, Ashton, Kaelan, Kaeden and Grayden.

Chuck was predeceased by his loving wife Velma; his parents Charles and Lottie; his three sisters, Dorothy, Margaret and Jean; his brother Robert; his infant son Ross, and his infant grandson Taylor.

Chuck married Velma in 1956 and they moved to Alix where Chuck was the District Agent for Northwestern Utilities (Atco) for 36 years until February 2, 1988 when he chose to retire. After his retirement Chuck and Velma spent many summers out at their cabin at Valhalla. Later in his life they decided to move to Red Deer and that is where he lived until the time of his passing. Chuck was an avid woodworker, gardener, and had a true love for old cars. Chuck will always be remembered for his sense of humor, not a day passed when he wasn’t trying to make someone laugh at one of his jokes. A small graveside service will be held for Chuck and Velma in Camrose at a later date. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, #1, 5550 45 St. Red Deer, AB, T4N 1L1...or to the charity of one’s choice.

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REITMEIER Wayne (Butch) Passed away December 28, 2015 at Red Deer Regional Hospital at the age of 73.

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JACKSON(Stendie), Dorothy M. Dorothy M. Jackson (Stendie) passed away on Saturday, January 2, 2016 surrounded by family.

Dorothy left her earthly home and walked peacefully into the loving arms of her Heavenly Father. Dorothy is very dearly treasured and will be deeply missed by her family and friends. She is survived by five children; Lorrie (Rob), G. Alaine, Donnell (Allona), Kristine (Hans), and Patricia, ten grandchildren, and fourteen great-grandchildren. A Funeral Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Monday, January 11, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to a charity of your choice in Dorothy’s memory.

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CHISHOLM, Bertha ‘Helen’ 1945 - 2016 Mrs. Bertha ‘Helen’ Chisholm (nee Johnstone) of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away after battling lung cancer, at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Friday, January 1, 2016 at the age of 70 years. Helen was the beloved wife of Gavin Chisholm; loving mother of Traver (Diedre nee Vince), Timothy, and Terrence (Haruna nee Hamamoto); and her five grandchildren.

She will also be sadly missed by brothers, Robert and Alfred (Shirley nee Radke); and a sister, Joyce (Urban) Harney. Helen was predeceased by her parents, James Innes and Sarah Minnie Johnstone.

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HENDRICKSON Milton James Milton Hendrickson was born September 29, 1938 in Lake Alma, SK and passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his family on Monday, December 28, 2015 at the age of 77 years. He is lovingly remembered by his wife of 53 years, Ruth Hendrickson; daughter, Natalie (Ed Shackel) Hendrickson; son, Darcy (Maryanne, Jayden) Hendrickson; grandchildren, Kyle Chenard and Faith Chenard. A Celebration of Milton’s Life will be held at the Elks Club, 6315 Horn Street, Red Deer, AB on Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 1:00 pm. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca

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KEEFE Warren Francis (Mar. 3, 1921, to Jan. 4, 2016) Warren Keefe passed away on Jan. 4, leaving behind a loving family and a lasting legacy of devotion, love and generosity. Warren and his beloved wife Deone retired to Red Deer in 1988. Deone sadly passed away in 1990.

In her absence, Warren never faltered in his devotion to their family. He was a father ahead of his time, spending countless hours with his children as they grew up, instilling in each of them a great love of life and books, and teaching them the strength of family - and the healing power of chocolate.

Later, he would be just as devoted and selfless as a grandfather and greatgrandfather. Warren was predeceased by his dear wife Deone, his son Robert, his daughter-in-law Shona, his brothers George and James, and his sister Blanche. He is survived by his sisters Joyce Pryor and Joan Chandler, his sisters-in-law Joan Keefe, and Ruth Keefe; his children Wayne, Leslie Hanrahan (Bill), Donna Stewart (John), Karen Castellan (Gino) and daughter-in-law Anne O’Keefe, ten grandchildren, nine greatgrandchildren and countless nieces and nephews. The family would like to thank Dr. Joseph Hopfner for his years of kind and professional care, and to the staff at Extendicare Michener Hill for their help and compassion over the last six months. A celebration of life will be held on Saturday, Jan. 9, at 1:30 p.m. at the Red Deer Legion, Branch 35, 2810 Bremner Avenue. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you make a donation in Warren’s name to the Canadian Cancer Society, the Canadian Diabetes Association or the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

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Manufactured Homes

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4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

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1 & 2 BDRM., apts. in quiet adult bldg. No pets, heat & hot water incld’d, laundry facilities in bldg. Rental rates rage is $800 - $1050 w/some apts. just reno’d. (flooring, lights, cupboards, countertops, bathroom).

Exp’d managers live onsite. If you are looking for a quiet party-free home, please give us a call at 403-340-1222 (sorry, no texts)

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Our ideal candidate will be responsible for the following: • Working various lead sources, contacting and visiting client families to assess pre-arrangement needs.

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• Presenting to community organizations, arranging and hosting seminars and mall shows, notifying agencies and special groups about the pre-need funeral program and reviewing all files.

• Establishing and organizing programs and seminars at the funeral home, with guest speakers and arranges co-sponsors of the seminars and programs.

• Ensuring all contracts are accurately completed, required signatures are obtained, copies are forwarded to appropriate parties and that files are maintained.

• Participating in funeral home staff and management meetings, communicates regularly with all funeral home staff to obtain and provide information on the families served or new lead sources.

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Orthodox Christian faithful mark Christmas

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW — For much of the Orthodox Christian world, Thursday is celebrated as Christmas Day. Believers in Russia, Ukraine, and parts of Eastern Europe and the Middle East flocked to churches for the holiday.

Some Orthodox churches follow the liturgical calendar observed by the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches and celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25.

A look at Christmas events throughout the world Thursday: RUSSIA As Christmas approached across the sprawling country’s nine time zones, Russians flocked to churches for long and solemn Masses. At Moscow’s enormous Christ The Savior Cathedral, the service began at 11 p.m. on Wednesday and stretched two and a half hours, led by Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, with the devout standing shoulder-to-shoulder.

President Vladimir Putin attended a midnight service at a church in the village of Turginovo, about 150 kilometres (90 miles) northwest of Moscow, where his parents were baptized.

Soldiers taking part in Russia’s airstrikes in Syria attended a nighttime service in a tent on the Russian air base. The tent’s walls were lined with icons and a few strings of purple lights were festooned at its entrance.

In his Christmas greetings to the nation, Putin said: “It is very important in these days that the Russian Orthodox Church and other Christian confessions in Russia continue the traditions of responsible service, help people find belief and give them force in life. They participate actively in upbringing of the growing generations, in development of the institutes of family, maternity and childhood.”

EGYPT Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Christians celebrated Christmas Eve across the mainly Muslim country amid tightened security for fear of militant attacks, which have exponentially increased following the military overthrow of an Islamist president.

Roadblocks were set up before churches nationwide and cars and motorcycles were temporarily banned from idling in front of them, police Maj. Gen. Gamal Halawa said. In Cairo alone, police searched over 300 churches for explosives.

Egypt’s Orthodox Coptic Christians fervently supported the 2013 ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

Ever since, Christian homes, businesses and churches have been more targeted.

“We have been late in restoring and

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

People light sparklers as they celebrate the Orthodox Christmas in St.Petersburg, Russia, Thursday. Russian Orthodox believers celebrate Christmas by the Julian calendar on Jan. 7. fixing what has been burned…. Everything will be fixed… Please accept our apologies for what happened,” President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who as military chief led Morsi’s overthrow, told the crowd on Wednesday at Cairo’s St. Mark Cathedral, the papal seat, in a rare public apology and acknowledgement of the attacks. Egyptian presidents never attended Christmas masses, making el-Sissi’s visit this year, the second of its kind, doubly appreciated.

The heightened security measures were in part a preparation for the Jan. 25 anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Officials including el-Sissi have voiced concern about attempts to mark the anniversary of the revolt with protests in recent weeks.

Egypt’s Orthodox Coptic Christians make up about 10 per cent of the country’s 90 million people.

GEORGIA In Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, the main avenue was crowded with colorfully dressed marchers in the traditional Christmas Day procession, collecting gifts and goods to donate to the needy. The tradition, called “Alilo” (Glory to God), dates back centuries, when people would go out to collect

alms for charity after Christmas Mass.

It was banned during Soviet times, and restored only in 2000.

The procession included people dressed in robes displaying Georgia’s national emblem of a red cross on white background and others in outfits symbolizing scenes of the Nativity. Some rode in carts pulled by donkeys or cattle, and other carried animal mock-ups including a camel and giraffe.

“This procession is an attempt to share the happiness with all those people who could not celebrate Christmas because of illness or poverty. We will go to all of them and bring gifts,” said Father Kakhaber Gogotishvili, a priest who took part UKRAINE President Petro Poroshenko and his family attended Christmas services at a village church in the Ivano-Frankiivsk region in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. According to the presidential press service, Poroshenko and others prayed for peace and reconciliation “on all Ukrainian land.”

Conflict between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine persists, although the inten-

sity has diminished in recent months.

Rebels said on Wednesday that they were prepared to release some of the conflict’s prisoners on Christmas, but Ukrainian authorities made no direct public response and there were reports Thursday of a release taking place.

MACEDONIA In Macedonia, where about 65 per cent of the population identify themselves as Orthodox, people gathered in churches before eating traditional Christmas dinners at home.

The country’s church leader, Archbishop Stefan, in a Christmas message urged the faithful to strive to “strengthen spiritual and national unity” — following months of political turmoil that ended with an agreement between the two largest political parties for early elections in the spring.

“As Orthodox Christians we have an opportunity to examine our faith. The Holy Church, invites us, especially on this day, to show goodwill and strive to peace with all nations,” Stefan said.

Observing tradition, children around the country went door to door singing carols Thursday, while large bonfires were lit in neighbourhoods overnight.

CALIFORNIA AND TEXAS

Two arrested on terrorism charges

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

People walk around to banner reading “Je suis Charlie”, “I am Charlie” on the Place de la Republique during a gathering that marks one year after the attacks on Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper, in Paris, France, Thursday,

Officers shoot man wearing a fake explosives vest outside a police station in northern Paris

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — A man wearing a fake explosives vest and wielding a butcher knife was shot to death by police outside a Paris police station Thursday, jolting an already anxious French capital with a new dose of fear as the nation grimly marked a year of terror that started with the newsroom massacre at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine. The assailant — who shouted “Allahu akbar!” or “God is great!”— as he waved the knife at officers, was carrying a document with an emblem of the Islamic State group and “an unequivocal claim of responsibility in Arabic,” the prosecutor’s office said.

The extremist group claimed responsibility for the Jan. 7, 2015, attack at Charlie Hebdo and on a kosher grocery store three days later that killed 17 people. The Islamic State group also claimed the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris cafes, restaurants, a sports stadium and a music hall that killed 130 people.

Thursday’s attempted attack shortly before noon in Paris’ multi-ethnic Goutte d’Or neighbourhood came almost one year to the minute after two Islamic extremists burst into the offices of Charlie Hebdo, killing 11 people. Just moments earlier, President

Francois Hollande had paid respects to fallen security forces — three of whom were killed last year in terrorist violence — saluting their valour in protecting “this way of life, the one that terrorists want to attack.”

The fallen were killed “so that we can live free,” Hollande said, describing the November attacks as “acts of war.”

But there was no reprieve for France. Scores of police descended Thursday on the northern neighbourhood that was the site of the attempted attack, blocking it off to pedestrians and ordering shops to close. Metro stations in the area, which is not far from the Montmartre district that is home to the Sacre Coeur Cathedral, were closed and buses halted, leaving scores of residents, including many elderly, to walk long distances only to find they could not get into their homes.

“It’s like the Charlie Hebdo affair isn’t over,” said Nora Borrias, a 27-year-old waiting for her barricaded street to reopen. She said she no longer feels a sense of safety.

Video shot from a window above the station and provided to The Associated Press showed the suspect’s body lying on the ground in a pool of blood

as a sniffer dog was called in to check the body, along with a bomb-detecting robot. More video aired later on iTele TV showed a police explosives specialist cutting open the dead man’s jacket to check for live explosives.

Alexis Mukenge, who witnessed the shooting, told iTele that police shouted, “Stop! Move back!” before firing twice at the man, who immediately fell to the ground.

Authorities did not publicly identify the suspect. However, a French security official said police were “working on the hypothesis” that the assailant is a 20-year-old Moroccan who was involved in a minor 2013 robbery in the southern Var region.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case, said that while the fingerprints of the dead attacker matched those of the robbery suspect, who identified himself at the time as Ali Sallah of Casablanca, the assailant in Thursday’s attack appeared older than 20.

He said Sallah, who had been in France illegally, was ordered to leave the country after the 2013 incident.

Investigators were trying to determine if and when the man had returned to Paris.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Authorities said Thursday that two people with ties to the Islamic State have been arrested on terrorism-related charges in California and Texas, including a refugee from Syria who is charged with lying to federal investigators about his travels to the civil war in that country.

The arrests feed a national debate over whether the United States is doing enough to screen refugees from Syria for terrorists from that nation.

Court documents say the men wanted to aid terrorist organizations affiliated with the Islamic State group.

However, one man is accused of assisting a group that allied with the Islamic State organization only after he had returned to the United States. He earlier said he wouldn’t join Islamic State group himself because it was killing fellow Muslims.

A criminal complaint unsealed Thursday accuses that man, Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab, 23, of Sacramento, of travelling to Syria to fight and lying to investigators about it. U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner said in a statement that while Al-Jayab was potentially dangerous, there is no indication that he planned any attacks in the United States.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Attorney’s Office based in Houston, Texas, said late Thursday that Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan, 24, of Houston, was indicted Wednesday on three charges that he tried to provide material support to the extremists.

There is no indication from prosecutors that Al Hardan was a threat in the United States, but his arrest sparked immediate criticism of the Obama administration’s refugee policies from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.

“This is precisely why I called for a halt to refugees entering the U.S. from countries substantially controlled by terrorists,” Abbott said in a statement.

“I once again urge the President to halt the resettlement of these refugees in the United States until there is an effective vetting process that will ensure refugees do not compromise the safety of Americans and Texans.”

Both men are Palestinians born in Iraq, authorities said.

The complaint in federal court in Sacramento said Al-Jayab came to the United States from Syria as a refugee in October 2012.

HEALTH This is a question I’ve been asked hundreds of times for I think all twenty three years I’ve been in the fitness industry; and people are always surprised by my response. But here’s an inspiring little detail for you, the small piece of equipment that I believe has the biggest impact on your fitness and weight loss goals costs less than twenty dollars on average.

It’s clearly not a treadmill or some piece of crazy cardiovascular equipment, it’s not rubber tubing or any of these small highly versatile resistance items (though those things can really compliment.)

It’s a simple kitchen food scale.

You see as trainer we often use a phrase, “you can’t out train a bad diet,” but it’s a lot more than that.

The single most astoundCABEL ing thing for most people is to MCELDERRY really understand their food FITNESS F/X volume.

Yes today you probably eat too many calories, usually because we live such busy lives and frequently turn to calorie dense, done-for-you, processed food options.

So we decide to eat better.

We load up on vegetables and cut out the boxes, but continue to be busy and these things take time to prepare.

Now our calories drop to extremely low levels, we lose weight at first, but become tired, sluggish, maybe sick, but worst of all hungry!

Cravings kick in, we become irritable, and sooner or later; we’re back where we began living out of boxes, Drive-thru, and high-calorie processed food.

Oh we have lost one thing, our fitness and weight loss goal.

This is where the food scale comes in. It takes a little work, but if you’re serious about reaching your fitness or weight loss goal, and making it permanent then trust me on this, it’s necessary. There is good news though; this isn’t a rest of your life experience.

If you fully commit to using your food scale for 1021 days you will have learned all you need to know about your food volume to easily transition your lifestyle habits to reach and maintain your goal forever.

So here’s what you need to do: 1) Cut out the processed food, consume whole foods only (and if you want really fast progress that will make you healthier eliminate gluten and dairy.

WARNING: This is much more difficult for most when just starting and has it’s own learning curve.)

2) Calculate your BMR and add additional calories for daily activities and digestion so you have a goal for consumption. (For sedentary people I’d recommend: Women +400/day, Men +600/day, +500 for every hour of strenuous activity.)

3) Weigh and measure everything you eat and drink that contains calories for 10-21 days straight.

4) Adjust the foods you eat to match these percentages: 25% Grains and Starches (ex. Rice and Potato), 25% Vegetables (ex. Broccoli, Spinach), 30% Protein (ex. Chicken, Eggs), 20% Fats (Most often trace fats from proteins such as red meat, egg yolks or designated fats such as coconut oil or almond butter.)

Here’s where it get’s interesting. Most people will find it difficult to consume all of the whole food they need to meet their daily caloric goal, but within 1021 days find themselves getting hungrier. If they’ve been really diligent at measuring and trying to balance where their calories are coming from, they are usually losing weight too.

I often told my personal training clients that those who commit to this 100% for the first 10 days are nine times more likely to reach their goals, those that don’t are nine times more likely to NEVER reach their goals. I’ve worked with thousands of people over the years and this continues to be true.

So there you have it, the food scale in my opinion is one of the best and most powerful pieces of fitness equipment you can own. Of course the workout equipment helps too and there’s more to nutrition than I’ve explained but this will give you a great place to start. (TIP: MyFitnessPal really is a great, free and easy calorie counting tool to use with your scale and they have an online BMR calculator as well.)

Cabel McElderry is a local personal trainer and nutrition coach. For more information on fitness and nutrition, visit the Fitness F/X website at www.fitnessfx.com.

NEWS IN BRIEF

Study shows Ebola survivors’ blood didn’t help patients, prompting calls for ditching strategy LONDON — Giving the blood of Ebola survivors to patients didn’t seem to make a difference, doctors found in the biggest study so far on the approach, prompting some scientists to say it’s time to abandon the strategy. With no licensed treatment for the devastating disease, doctors have sometimes used blood from survivors to treat the sick, hoping its infection-fighting antibodies might help patients defeat the virus. It seemed to help some patients in the past but there was no clear proof. Amid the world’s biggest outbreak of Ebola in West Africa in 2014, scientists decided to put the treatment to the test in Guinea. At a clinic in the capital Conakry, scientists found no difference in survival between 84 patients who got survivor blood compared to about 400 patients treated some five months earlier, according to the study published in New England Journal of Medicine Thursday.

“We would have liked to have seen more dramatic results,” said Johan van Griensven of the study in Guinea, the paper’s lead author. “But this doesn’t mean (blood) plasma treatment doesn’t work by definition.”

He said antibody levels are often low in patients who have only recently recovered from Ebola and that doctors might need to use blood from long-term survivors to get a better effect. Van Griensven and colleagues studied people who got two transfusions of plasma — the clear part of blood that contains antibodies — in Guinea last year. The plasma came from 58 Ebola survivors, most of whom had recovered from Ebola within six months of donating blood and are thought to have immunity to the strain.

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Making a positive change The New Year is here, ushering in possibilities 2. Having a buddy/ witness to your objectives is for positive changes and opportunities for new be- a great way to increase the likelihood of achieving ginnings. This is also the time for New Year reso- them. If you live with a spouse or close to a friend lutions. The fitness centres in town are maybe you can together decide that you bustling with enthusiastic people of all will eat vegetables at every meal, or do ages, trying to get back on track towards a ten minutes of yoga before dinner. This healthy lifestyle. Have you too been thinkway, if one of you is thinking of skipping ing of some resolutions this New Year? Or it, the other one can lift you out of that are you thinking that resolutions are only slump. for young people, and that you are too far 3. It is easier to remember to do somegone to make any changes in your life? thing new if it is closely attached to someThroughout our life we are evolving, thing old. Take your vitamins and supplewhether we realize it or not. If you comments when you brush your teeth in the pare your present self with who you were morning, or do your exercise right before a couple of years ago, you will realize that you take a shower. These “anchors” will you too have been evolving. Your outlook help you bring your new habits into sync on life has changed, and so have your with existing ones.

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Wife in denial of incontinence problem Dear Annie: My wife and I have be surprised to learn that incontibeen married for a long time. In the nence affects more than 25 million last couple of years, she has people in the U.S., and most developed an incontinence cases are treatable. There problem. are different types of inShe seems not to be continence: Stress inconaware of how bad it is. She tinence (leaking when you leaves rather fragrant uncough, sneeze, laugh); urge derwear in the hamper, incontinence (a sudden and the odor is horrible. If need to use the bathroom, I bring up the subject, she usually due to other condigets very angry. She is in detions, such as an infection); nial. overflow incontinence (the I wish I could suggest to bladder doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t completeher what her options are, ly empty when you use the what products are availtoilet); functional inconKATHY MITCHELL able for this problem and to tinence (wherein a physiAND MARCY SUGAR wash her underwear more cal or mental impairment ANNIEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MAILBOX thoroughly. The odor is so creates a problem, such as strong, guests coming into severe arthritis that makes the house can smell it. Mayit difficult to unzip fast be she simply canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell how bad it is. enough); or mixed incontinence (more What do you suggest I do? What do you than one type). suggest she do? This is a fairly urgent We know this is a sensitive subject, matter. Thank you. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Embarrassed but you absolutely must speak to your Dear Embarrassed: Your wife might wife about it. She would be mortified

to realize that others notice the odor.

She might be more willing to address it with her doctor if you tell her that incontinence can indicate a more serious underlying medical condition. And she might be reassured to know that she might be able to control the problem through medication and/or pelvic exercises. For information, you both can contact the National Association for Continence at nafc.org Dear Annie: My wife and I are elderly and no longer enjoy things like fancy candies and fruit. We have tried to subtly let family and friends know this, but they persist, on frequent occasions, in sending us expensive edibles from elegant places, which we then regift to others. (This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t easy, as most of our friends are also elderly and wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enjoy the epicurean treats.)

We feel that, to be polite, we must thank the givers. But the truth is, we would much prefer that they use the money to make a donation to charity.

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this without appearing to be rude and ungrateful? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Anonymous Dear Anonymous: We suspect these people are trying to be kind and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what else to get you. You must thank them for thinking of you. But when an occasion is coming up where you know they are likely to send you such things, inform them in advance that you no longer eat candy or fancy fruits.

Say that you are making a concerted effort to do more good in your lives, and if they insist on honoring you, a gift to such-and-such charity would mean the world to you.

Friday, Jan. 8 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Shirley Bassey, 78; Rachel Nichols, 35; David Bowie, 68 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bite off more than you can chew today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: The more professionally focused you are in 2016, the more successful youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t neglect your personal life in the process though.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your energy levels are high so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great day for physical, sporting and outdoor activities plus all types of communication. Others will find your Aries enthusiasm inspiring and infectious.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Communicating with family and

ing others around isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the best way to get what you want. Instead, help others to see your point of view via an enthusiastic approach, a persuasive argument, and clever win-win strategies.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Home sweet home is the place to be, as the stars stimulate your domestic zone. Life is busy as you entertain friends; family members come and go; plus there are plenty of DIY projects to tackle.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You may get your wires crossed with a child, teenager or close friend today. Be scrupulously honest in your dealings with others Libra â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let someone pull the wool over your eyes.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Having a sound strategy is the smart way to go Scorpio â&#x20AC;&#x201D; especially involving complicated family issues and financial matters. The more practical you are today, the more productive youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your career gets a welcome boost from lucky Jupiter, but only if you have put in the hard yards

required. If you approach work opportunities with creativity and confidence, then the skyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the limit!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The Sun and Pluto are both visiting your sign, which helps you make progress with personal and professional projects. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a focused state of mind and have a strong sense of self-discipline.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Group activities are highlighted today, as you pool talents and discover things together that would be impossible on your own. It wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t all be smooth sailing though, so pace yourself Aquarius.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): All sorts of relationships â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from marriage and business partnerships, to friends and acquaintances â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will benefit from todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stars, which encourage being positive, proactive and progressive.

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friends will be enjoyable today Taurus, as you spark ideas off each other and express your feelings openly and sincerely. Make sure you stay open to new ideas.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): With Saturn in your relationship zone, many commitment-phobic Twins will get married some time over the next three years. Attached Twins â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to work on improving your romantic partnership.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see the big picture at home or work, which is great for planJOANNE MADELINE ning future projects with plenty of MOORE passion. With the Moon and Jupiter linking up, resist the urge to HOROSCOPE promise more than you can deliver.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Boss-

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