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BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF The appeal for a financial advisor convicted of the bombing death of a former client continues to work its way through the Appeals Court of Alberta.

Brian Andrew Malley, 58, of Innisfail was convicted on Feb. 24, 2014 of the first degree murder of Victoria Shachtay, 23, also of Innisfail.

Malley’s appeal was scheduled to be heard on Jan. 6 in the Calgary Court of Appeal, however it was adjourned to May 4.

At this stage in the process, Malley is applying to have Brian Malley the appeal heard by a panel of three appeal court judges. The appeal was first filed in March 2015.

He was sentenced to life in prison, without the possibility of parole for 25 years, by Justice Kirk Sisson after being convicted by a jury. Malley remains in prison throughout his appeal process, as he was denied bail by the appeal court in June.

Shachtay was killed opening a Christmas gift disguising a bomb.

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Firefighters battle a blaze North of Rimbey on Saturday. The mobile home was completely destroyed in the fire and at least one person was taken from the scene by ambulance. No further details were available.

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Defence minister reaches out to Syrian “They don’t refugees in wake of pepper-spray attack see a lot of “IN THE LAST 24 HOURS I WAS ABLE TO VISIT A MOSQUE, A CHURCH AND A SIKH GURDWARA, ALL COMMUNITIES WHO ARE SUPPORTING AND WELCOMING REFUGEES. THAT’S THE REAL CANADIAN WAY.”

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — A prominent member of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet is reaching out to Syrian refugees after a group of newly arrived migrants were pepper sprayed at a welcome event in Vancouver.

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan described Friday night’s attack as an “isolated incident” and said the Syrian refugees he met with the following day were resilient and happy to be in Canada.

“In the last 24 hours I was able to visit a mosque, a church and a Sikh gurdwara, all communities who are supporting and welcoming refugees.

That’s the real Canadian way,” he said on Sunday.

“It’s so good to see communities rallying around after an event like that to be able to say that, ‘No, this is who we really are.”’

A crowd was gathered outside a Muslim Association of Canada centre during an event for government-sponsored Syrian refugees on Friday around 10:30 p.m. when a man on a bicycle rode by and pepper sprayed about 15 people, said Vancouver police spokesman St. Randy Fincham.

Police are investigating the incident as a hate crime.

Sajjan spoke with some of the Syrian refugees present for the attack during a welcome gathering in his Vancouver-area riding Saturday evening that was planned before Friday’s pepper spray incident.

“They’re so happy to be able to be here in Canada,” he said, describing the event’s atmosphere as celebratory.

“Because of the positive reaction that they’re getting from everywhere they go, a horrible but isolated inci-

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The world recognizes that Canada is very welcoming to refugees, and that message will continue to resonate, said McCallum.

Canada has been praised on the world stage for its pledge to take in 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of next month, and a photo of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau welcoming migrants at the airport was published around the world.

McCallum said his government utterly condemns the pepper spraying and says Syrian refugees have no reason to feel unsafe in Canada.

“I think that the experience that the vast majority of them have, of being welcomed at the airport, and given what they need, clothing and hats and boots, and large numbers of welcoming Canadians … I think that sent a very clear message,” he said in an interview Saturday.

“I think that experience shared by so many of the refugees is going to easily trump this one isolated incident.”

Layoffs, downsizing and a hurting economy have dominated headlines since the price of oil dropped significantly.

Local employment service companies had anticipated some increased activity in the fallout. But the expected increase of people seeking their services this fall didn’t happen, said Aaron Sheppard, managing director of Career Assistance Network in Red Deer.

“Last year around January to April we started to see the layoffs and got the sense things were going to be bad,” said Sheppard. “It’s usually six months to a year when we see the huge influx.

We thought we’d have a November influx, but there wasn’t a huge amount of people coming in.

“It’s not that I think people aren’t unemployed, it’s that I think they’re holding on for dear life on their Employment Insurance and only accessing services at the very last moment.”

Unemployment at this time last year in Red Deer was 4.5 per cent, a recent release from Statistics Canada said the current unemployment is 6.2 per cent.

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— DEFENCE MINISTER HARJIT SAJJAN dent like this can be quickly forgotten and they can get on with their life.”

Tima Kurdi, a prominent member of Canada’s Syrian community, dismissed the attack as a one-off event that doesn’t reflect how the majority of Canadians view the newly arrived migrants.

She said the support Canadians have shown to refugees is “unbelievable” and they shouldn’t be blamed for Friday night’s incident.

“To be honest, Canadian people would not do this, the majority of them,” she said.

“They are big supporters to the refugees.”

Kurdi became an overnight spokeswoman for the plight of Syrian refugees after a photo of her three-year-old nephew lying dead on a Turkish beach drew global outrage and attention to the migrant crisis in the Middle East.

Canada’s Immigration Minister John McCallum described Friday’s pepper spraying as an “isolated incident” that won’t tarnish the country’s migrant-friendly reputation.

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Spencer Wallace says he heard shots, and then a mob of screaming people rushed towards the door.

He says other staff tackled the man and held him until police showed up. Police say three men pulled up to Ten X early Sunday, and while two of the men waited in the car, the third walked up to the front door and fired several shots inside. A 38-year-old man in the club was hit by gunfire and was taken to hospital in stable condition. A police gang-sup-

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MALLEY: Money had run out The gift was left on the doorstep of her Innisfail apartment on Nov. 25, 2011. When she opened it, the pipe-bomb detonated.

Shachtay had invested $575,000 using Malley’s financial advising services through Assante Wealth Management.

Shachtay was wheelchair-bound, the result of a 2004 car collision that left her a paraplegic. In 2007, she received a settlement from the crash and invested $575,000 of her own money, plus another $264,000 loan at Malley’s recommendation.

By 2011, the money had run out. Between April and November 2011, Malley made $30,000 in payments to Shachtay from his own debit and credit card accounts, even going into overdraft. The Crown contended at trial that Malley killed Shachtay to cut his losses.

Malley was arrested on May 27, 2012, after a sixmonth extensive investigation by Innisfail RCMP, RCMP post blast national response team, explosive disposal and technology section, tech crimes, special tactical operations, criminal analysis section, special surveillance units and forensic labs.

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Police said the alleged shooter was immediately tackled by bar staff. They said a passenger who was in the vehicle tried to help him, but was able to get away before officers arrived. Mohamed Elmi, 31, and Mohamed Salad, 29, both of Calgary, face charges that include possession of a firearm with an altered or defaced serial number, discharge of a firearm with intent to endanger life and aggravated assault.

Second suspect in northern Alberta homicide turns himself in to police HIGH LEVEL — A second suspect in a death that followed the discovery of an unconscious man in Alberta last summer been arrested. RCMP say Jesse Prestly Laboucan of Atikameg, turned himself in to police on Saturday in High Level. Ryan Joseph Ellefson, 20, of High Prairie was found outside a store in the community in July and died later in hospital. ment were also at the centre of a $10 million settlement late last year. A class action lawsuit had been filed by 804 claimants alleging improper investment management, non-disclosure of conflicts of interest and disregarding client instructions. As part of the settlement, no wrongdoing or guilt were admitted.

Malley and his wife Christine were fined by the Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada on June 25, 2014 for various violations. Brian was fined $335,000 an Christine was fined $265,000. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

REFUGEES: Shameful British Columbia’s jobs minister Shirley Bond said Saturday that she was dismayed that the province will be talked about across the country because of a “shameful act.”

She said the incident is entirely contrary to what she’s seen across B.C., where people have opened their homes and offered generosity to Syrian refugees.

“British Columbia is known as a place that is inclusive, that is incredibly multicultural,” she said.

“I was heartsick, because this is not who we are. It does not reflect our values. I think British Columbians need to stand up and condemn what happened, and I think that will be the strongest message we can send.”

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Wildfires scorched a record amount of Canada’s national parks last year — the latest in a number of long, hot summers that have almost entirely depleted Parks Canada’s firefighting reserve.

“We had a very busy fire year,” said director of fire management Jeff Weir. “We had more wildfires than normal and those fires burned larger areas than normal.”

The agency’s annual fire report recorded 122 wildfires in 2015 that burned through 4,600 square kilometres — seven times the area of the city of Toronto.

The yearly average is 82, and, in 2014, the amount of park land burned in non-prescribed fires was 3,000 square kilometres.

Most of the damage in 2015 occurred in a single park. Fire licked through 3,700 square kilometres of Wood Buffalo on the boundary between Alberta and the Northwest Territories.

Parks Canada reserves about $8 million a year to fight fires. Any money not spent is rolled into a reserve to be used in busy seasons.

Lightning strikes on tinder-dry forests made 2015 the third big fire year in a row. Firefighting cost $14 million last summer and the reserve is pretty much depleted, Weir said.

“That means that next year we’ll get our $8-million allocation and, if we exceed that, we will have to look at other funding sources within Parks Canada to cover the cost.

“It’s not a job we can walk away from.”

If it becomes necessary, the money would probably come from funds earmarked for other ecological restoration projects, Weir suggested.

Climate scientists have predicted that busier fire seasons will be one consequence of global warming and that will affect the parks as well, Weir said.

“If climate change is going to result in longer and drier summers … we’re going to have a longer fire season, which will result in more ignitions and larger fires. Climate change is likely to increase our fire load across Canada.”

Parks Canada also set a record for prescribed burns in 2015 — fires set and controlled by staff to duplicate a forest’s natural cycle of burn and rejuvenation. The agency set 28 such fires in 12 national parks, from Waterton Lakes in southwestern Alberta to Louisbourg in Nova Scotia.

Prescribed burns help restore a forest’s natural mix of plant species and ages, which also helps keep normal populations of animals in the park.

SERVICES: EI Claims Though the tight labour market no longer exists, they city’s unemployment rate is still below the national average at 7.1 per cent.

With EI claims running out, Sheppard said he sees hopelessness and pessimism about the job market when people do come through the doors.

“They’re hopeless in that they don’t see a lot of options to go to,” said Sheppard.

The current labour market in Alberta does mean more competition for jobs and allows employers to be more selective in who they hire.

The Career Assistance Network in Red Deer is one of a few that offers career and employment services to people and organizations.

Sheppard said they have many workshops for career planning, resume writing, interview skill building, a job finding club and even demographic specific — single parents, mature workers or youth — workshops all for free.

Resume one-on-one consultation is also offered, drawing from a resource of about 25,000 resumes on file.

For more information on the Career Assistance Network call 403-341-7811 or visit www.rdcan.ca.

Employement Placement and Support Services also offers employment and training services aimed at assisting unemployed and underemployed people.

They can be reached at 403-343-6249 or visit www. epssreddeer.com. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Some so-called ‘suicide shirts’ appear to be removed from Amazon.ca TORONTO — Several T-shirts making fun of suicide once sold on Amazon.ca appear to no longer be available after a Toronto man’s petition gained traction online.

Mark Henick, 28, launched a petition on Change.org that garnered nearly 50,000 online “signatures” in three days.

While some of the shirts appear to have been removed from the Canadian

site, at least one of the shirts remains.

And Henick said that more are still available on the website’s French and U.K. counterparts.

The remaining shirt appears to encourage people to act on suicidal thoughts, which Henick said is unacceptable.

He said the shirts may seem like a joke, but they can trigger bad memories for people who’ve lost a family member or friend to suicide, or those who may have had suicidal thoughts in the past. The shirts were sold by a private vendor on Amazon, and it’s not immediately clear whether they were removed by that vendor or Amazon itself. The online retailer has been quiet on the issue so far, which Henick said is disappointing.

He said that even though the company doesn’t manufacture the shirts, it should be held accountable for making them available.

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A man is facing arson charges after a home northwest of Sundre in the Bearberry area was doused with gasoline and erupted into flames last week

Sundre area man faces arson charges

BY ADVOCATE STAFF A Sundre area man faces charges for pouring gasoline on a woman and a house and then trying to set the two on fire.

The woman, 45, escaped uninjured, but the house was severely damaged.

Sundre RCMP were called to a rural residence in the Bearberry area on Hwy 584, northwest of Sundre on Jan. 7 at about 9:30 p.m.

The woman had fled to a neighbouring house for safety and called 911 to report the scary incident.

When police arrived, the house was

fully engulfed in flames. Investigators said a 43-year-old Sundre man had doused the house and the female resident in gasoline. The house caught fire after gasoline had been thrown on a wood-burning stove.

Police said the man and woman were known to each other.

Derek Littlejohn has been charged with arson endangering the life of others, criminal negligence, assault with a weapon, unlawful confinement and breaching probation.

Littlejohn will appear in Didsbury provincial court on Monday for a bail hearing.

Lawyers who fought Harper’s top court appointment fight ‘paltry’ costs award

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The lawyers who challenged the Harper government’s ultimately aborted appointment of Marc Nadon to the Supreme Court of Canada go before a court on Monday to argue they should be fully reimbursed for their efforts.

In filings with the Federal Court of Appeal, Rocco Galati argues he deserves to be compensated for what he calls his “exceptional” battle to defend the integrity of the country’s Constitution and judicial system.

Citizens have a constitutional entitlement to legal-cost awards if they successfully challenge legislation or government action that goes to the “architecture of the Constitution” and where they derive no personal benefit, Galati says. Denying an award in such circumstances would amount to a “denial to the constitutional right not only to a fair and independent judiciary but also access to a fair and independent judiciary,” he argues. In 2013, the former Conservative government under then-prime minister Stephen Harper appointed Marc Nadon to the country’s top court. Galati challenged the eligi-

bility of the Federal Court of Appeal judge to fill one of the three high court seats reserved for Quebec. However, he agreed to put his challenge on hold when the government referred the issue to the Supreme Court, which then scuttled Nadon’s appointment, rendering the Galati fight moot. For his efforts, Galati asked for $51,706.54 — based on a charge of $800 an hour he says is reasonable for a lawyer with his experience. Lawyer Paul Slansky wanted $16,769.20 for work he did for the Constitutional Rights Centre in helping Galati fight Nadon’s appointment. Instead, in December 2014, Federal Court Judge Russel Zinn awarded the two lawyers a total of $5,000 to be split between them. Zinn found Galati’s challenge, while important and potentially complicated, had been short-circuited by the Supreme Court reference — a position taken by the federal government.

“The mere filing of it appears to have had the desired result,” Zinn said in his judgment.

Slansky called Zinn’s “paltry” award a “slap in the face” and said the Crown’s arguments — including that the lawyers are simply looking for a “windfall” — are simply wrong.

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OTTAWA — Canada plans to kickstart a long-stalled international effort aimed at ridding the world of the key ingredients needed for nuclear weapons, The Canadian Press has learned.

The renewed push this week by Canada’s United Nations ambassador to Geneva to spearhead the creation of a Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty or FMCT, comes as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to attend U.S. President Barack Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit.

Trudeau’s presence at the Obama summit, March 31 and April 1, would come just three weeks after his scheduled March 10 gala state dinner at the White House.

Canada’s renewed focus on nuclear non-proliferation efforts has been in the works for months, but the effort has new urgency because of North Korea’s recent claim to have conducted a test of a hydrogen bomb.

“I think it sent a chill through the world community and reinvigorates this discussion and this debate,” Rosemary McCarney, Canada’s permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, told The Canadian Press.

McCarney said she’ll be starting the first of a series of meetings this week at the Conference on Disarmament, the UN’s main arms-control body, with the aim of re-starting negotiations this year towards creating the fissile material treaty.

McCarney may have her work cut out for her, because Trudeau’s own briefing book says the UN effort towards crafting such a treaty dates back almost six decades and has been beset by “deadlock.”

“An FMCT has been on the UN’s agenda since 1957,” says the memo to the prime minister, which was obtained under the Access to Information Act. In 1995, Canada brokered an agreement on a negotiating mandate for the treaty, but in the intervening years, the effort stalled. “Since 2008, Pakistan has blocked work on an FMCT,” the memo states. But Canada has also worked with Germany, the Netherlands and Australia to make progress.

Canada got the ball rolling again in 2012, when it sponsored a resolution at the UN General Assembly establishing a commission of experts to push the matter forward. More meetings and reports followed.

Trudeau now plans to support another process — Obama’s fourth and final nuclear security summit, an effort he launched in 2010 after a landmark speech in Prague a year earlier.

In that speech, Obama highlighted

the threat posed by nuclear terrorism, as he announced an initiative aimed at securing nuclear materials and cracking down on the illicit trafficking in them.

Trudeau said last fall he wants to look for ways to work with Obama on major international issues in the president’s final year in office.

“A nuclear terror attack anywhere in the world would have catastrophic human, political, economic and environmental consequences,” Trudeau was told by federal officials who prepared the briefing documents. “While the immediate risk of such an attack may appear to be low, states and terrorist groups are known to be actively seeking nuclear or radiological weapons capabilities.”

The memo states that former prime minister Stephen Harper announced $28 million in funds aimed at nuclear security at Obama’s last summit in 2014, and that Trudeau will likely bring some money of his own to the table this year.

“A package of programming deliverables is already being prepared to inform the prime minister’s participation in the 2016 summit,” it says.

Another memo to Trudeau stresses that Canada views progress to a total ban on nuclear weapons — the yet unattainable Nuclear Weapons Convention — to be “not politically feasible” because some of the states that have those weapons refuse to negotiate. But it cites a successfully negotiated FMCT as one step towards that.

“We want to get to a Nuclear Weapons Convention without question. Section 1 of any Nuclear Weapons Convention is going to be fissile materials because if we don’t stop the production of fissile materials we can’t get to a Nuclear Weapons Convention,” said McCarney.

She also heralded the Iran nuclear deal, which the United States brokered with five other countries, as a major step in the right direction. The deal would prevent Tehran from developing the technology needed to build a nuclear weapon.

“It’s one of our success stories for 2015,” said McCarney. “So we can be cautiously optimistic that we’ll be able to say in the years to come that here’s a great example of a country that was certainly on a path to nuclear armament that has stepped away.”

On the vexing question of North Korea, McCarney had a more sanguine view. Canada will continue to work closely with its allies, and maintain the pressure of sanctions.

“Do I have an optimistic view in the immediate future on North Korea?” she asked. “I do not.”

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Pot smokers stockpiling “munchies” and cigarette rolling papers in anticipation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s election promise to legalize marijuana would be best to save their money for now.

Not to Bogart that joint, my friend, but recent reports claim legal marijuana in Canada is not even close to being on the horizon.

Then again, that depends on who you talk to.

“It’s going to take many years” before pot is legalized here, says Errol Mendes, a constiRICK tutional and internaZEMANEK tional law expert at the OPINION University of Ottawa.

In a briefing note to Trudeau, obtained by the Canadian Press through the Access to Information Act, the feds must first do substantial work on the international stage before legalizing marijuana.

“That work will have to include figuring out how Canada would comply with three international treaties to which the country is party, all of which criminalize the possession and production of marijuana,” according to CP’s findings.

Mendes says “It will be an ongoing dialogue which has to be dealt with at the highest levels, and it’s not going to be an easy one and its’ not going to be a quick one either.”

The CP report further states “Trudeau’s plan to legalize, regulate and restrict access to marijuana is already proving a complicated and controversial undertaking on the domestic front, in part because it requires working with the provinces.”

It’s been suggested Trudeau tossed

in the marijuana reprieve to attract younger voters wanting out of the Stephen Harper mindset. The former prime minister stood firm that legal pot on a recreational scale was not OK, but OK on the medicinal scale.

However, other experts say Trudeau will have few hurdles to overcome on the home front and applauded the Liberals for joining what they claim is an international movement. Ironically it was Harper who paved the way for a state-of-the-art legal marijuana distribution system in Canada when he approved pot for medicinal purposes only.

“Industry experts say (Trudeau) will have access to a world-class marijuana framework set up under the Conservative government,” according to another CP report. Chuck Rifici, co-founder of Canada’s first publicly traded marijuana manufacturer, says a renowned production and distribution system has already been established (by the former government) under the medicinal umbrella. He credits Stephen Harper for implementing such “a very robust … system” — an expansive marijuana infrastructure.

The first step in legalizing marijuana for recreational use will be to establish a provincial, territorial and federal task force to hear from public health, substance abuse and public safety experts.

Donald MacPherson, director of the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, told Canadian Press that Canada is well-positioned to tackle this issue. There’s been a vigorous discussion underway in the academic and public health community for the last decade because many believed legalization was inevitable, MacPherson said.

Brian Vicente, a Colorado-based

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lawyer and key player in the U.S. to bring pot into a regulated market system, has been watching Canadian developments with intense interest. “I think it is a landmark change for Canada and I think they’re on the cutting edge of what will be essentially an international movement,” said Vicente.

Recreational marijuana use is now legal in Colorado, Alaska, Oregon, Washington and Washington, D.C. And the Mexican government has set in motion plans to legalize cannabis.

The Canadian task force is expected to mirror what was done in Colorado, CP reports.

When Trudeau was on the campaign trail, the Liberal’s stand was: “Canada’s current system of marijuana prohibition does not work. We will remove marijuana consumption and incidental possession from the Criminal Code and create new, stronger laws to punish more severely those who provide it to minors, those who operate a motor vehicle while under the influence and those who sell it outside of the new regulatory framework.”

Back to the other side of the debate, Mendes says legalization is a growing movement among some countries, particularly in Latin America, but it still faces stiff opposition in the U.S. (Excuse me, if that’s the case why is it now legal in five States?)

The briefing note obtained by CP says Canada will have to amend its participation in three international conventions established by the United Nations. “All three require the criminalization of possession and production of cannabis. As part of examining legalization of cannabis possession and production, Canada will need to explore how to inform the international community and will have to take the steps needed to adjust its obligations under these conventions.”

But these conventions, according to Wikipedia, “appear to allow some latitude for nations to make their own judgments.”

In 2004, a discussion paper issued by the federal government on the legalization of marijuana in Canada stated such a move “would not likely result in a violation of the three international agreements (conventions). It would also probably not directly affect Canada’s foreign policy programs …”

The United Nations General Assembly is meeting in April at a special session to discuss the world’s drug problem. “At that meeting, several South American countries as well as Mexico wish to discuss what they perceive as more effective policy approaches to respond to the current realities of the drug problem, which could include decriminalization/legalization of illicit drugs, harm reduction, and/or call to renegotiate the international drug control conventions,” says the memo issued to Trudeau.

Back on the home front, legal pot is a sensitive issue among many Canadians claiming pot is a gateway drug to the harder stuff that kills.

Take the pain-killer fentanyl, for example. It’s abuse is now considered a public health crisis in Alberta and the drug is killing our young people playing Russian roulette with a substance easily available on the streets.

Crack cocaine, crystal meth, heroin, rave cocktails, you name it — many are more easily obtained by our kids than marijuana.

But there’s not a single study that conclusively links marijuana as a primer to the harder drugs. In all fairness, speculation or opinions do not present the facts. Then again, that depends who you talk to.

Rick Zemanek is a former Red Deer Advocate editor

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Increased compassion time, benefits for caregivers overdue

Is $287 fine and three demerits not enough?

While driving south on Taylor Drive at 5:30 p.m., we were slowing down for the light at 32 street. A not so bright woman driving a large club cab dodge ram decides to drive up the center between two stopped lanes of traffic miraculously not side-swiping any of us. I wasn’t surprised to see she was talking on her cell phone. I wonder if she realizes the stupidity of her choice to drive distracted. She’s lucky there was so much snow on her bumper that none of us could read her license plate, another driving offence.

Obviously the fine increase and demerits doesn’t phase drivers that still don’t care if they endanger others because they are arrogant enough to think they can operate thousands of pounds of moving metal while focusing on a phone.

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I don’t often cheer for politicians; however, I extend a well-earned “Hurray!” to Justin Trudeau.

This follows the recent announcement that Canadian caregivers are now eligible to receive up to 26 weeks of compassionate care benefits — great news for those living in our country faced with taking time off of work to care for a gravely ill family member.

This marks a significant increase from the previous six weeks available and is effective Jan. 3.

This has to be truly welcome information for the increasing number of Canadians expecting to or currently providing care to an aging parent, friend, spouse, and/or partner. As a former co-caregiver for my own aging parents, I can attest to the fact that the job is not easy. Caregivers often reduce their hours on the job or take unpaid time off of work to deal with care-giving matters (or quit their jobs entirely), therefore, affecting their own income levels. If care-

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NIPIGON, Ont. — Damage to a newly built bridge cut traffic on the Trans-Canada Highway in both directions Sunday and it wasn’t clear when it could reopen, said the mayor of a Northern Ontario community.

Nipigon Mayor Richard Harvey said engineers were examining the Nipigon River Bridge on Highway 11/17 to determine the extent of the damage and how it happened.

“We’re not sure exactly what the damage to the bridge is at this point,” he said in an interview.

Images of the bridge appeared to show a section of the structure is warped. Part of the metal decking can be seen sticking into the air, a release from the Ontario Provincial Police said it had lifted about 60 centimetres into the air.

The only option for motorists driving across northern Ontario is to cross the U.S. border, there being no alternate road routes north of the Trans-Canada, Harvey said.

Foot traffic can still cross the bridge and if the damage means a lengthy closure, the municipality will look at alternatives to allow some vehicles to cross the river, he said.

“This is something that, in our emergency preparedness in this area, we have run scenarios for and we do have options on how we would fairly quickly get traffic moving if there is a more serious issue,” he said.

“There are alternate routes that we could, with a little bit of work, open up to get at least some traffic moving again.”

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Damage to the newly built Nipigon River Bridge in Nipigon, Ont., cut traffic on the Trans-Canada Highway in both directions Sunday.

Harvey said the bridge has only been open for about two months ago and was the largest most expensive bridge project ever undertaken in Ontario.

The Municipality of Greenstone, which includes a number of small communities in the area, declared a state of emergency Sunday because of the bridge closure.

Ontario Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca issued a statement late Sunday saying engineers would work to reopen the bridge as soon as possible, but gave no estimate on when

that would happen.

MTO engineers are currently on site inspecting the bridge to identify the areas of concern and determine the measures necessary to ensure the bridge can reopen safely to traffic as soon as possible.

Ontario’s Northern Development and Mines Minister Michael Gravelle was to visit the site Monday morning, the statement said.

Area community centres in Nipigon were open for travellers who were stranded due to the closure.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is getting used to international media attention and now he is getting tabloid headlines for vacationing with his family at an exclusive resort in the Caribbean. The visit to Nevis, a small island that is part of the twin-island Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, was billed as a private family vacation, but it has become fodder for celebrity gossip website TMZ. There was also room for some diplomatic business as Trudeau met, and was bid farewell at his Jan. 8 departure, by the prime minister of the islands, Timothy Harris, and the country’s foreign affairs minister.

Local newspaper the St. Kitts and Nevis Observer published a picture of the three men posing in front of a Government of Canada aircraft.

The paper said Trudeau spent 10 days on Nevis with his wife Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau and the couple’s three children, Xavier, Ella-Grace and Hadrien at an undisclosed location.

Since Trudeau became prime minister last year he has gained considerable exposure in the international media. TMZ reported Saturday that Trudeau stayed at a swank resort. A PMO official did not give any details about the vacation, but said the prime minister would reimburse taxpayers for the cost of his and his family’s travel.

“As per long-standing government policy because of security, the Prime Minister must use one of the RCAF planes for all his air travel, whether on official or personal business,” press secretary Andree-Lyne Halle said in an email.

Ontario inquest will be echoed by MMIW inquiry: Aboriginal leader OTTAWA — An Ontario inquest into the deaths of seven First Nations high school students is raising difficult questions and themes sure to be echoed by a forthcoming inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women, aboriginal leaders say.

The inquiry, which resumes Monday in Thunder Bay, is exploring how the deaths were investigated and the level of communication between officials and families, Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler said in an interview.

Nishnawbe Aski is one of the parties with standing at the inquest.

“I think there are a couple of themes that have emerged from this inquest that we see a strong parallel with the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls,” Fiddler said.

“One is the racism that these students experienced here in Thunder Bay and the lack of proper attention by the authorities into these deaths.

There were delays in launching a fullscale search for these students once they were reported missing.”

The inquest, which is being conducted in phases in front of a jury, is exploring what happened to 15-yearold Jethro Anderson, 18-year-old Curran Strang, 21-year-old Paul Panacheese, 19-year-old Robyn Harper, 17-year-old Kyle Morrisseau, 15-yearold Jordan Wabasse and 15-year-old Reggie Bushie.

The deaths, which occurred between 2000 and 2011, all took place while the students were living in Thunder Bay, away from their First Nations communities, in order to be able to attend high school.

Many northern Ontario communi-

ties lack high schools, which forces young people to live in boarding houses that are closer to available facilities, Fiddler said.

“For the most part, you don’t have a choice but to go to high school — whether it is in Sioux Lookout or Timmins or Thunder Bay,” he said.

It’s an experience with which Fiddler has first-hand knowledge.

“For me, it was the realization I was one of those kids,” he said, recalling the memory of leaving his First Nations community to attend school in Sioux Lookout and Thunder Bay. “It hits pretty close to home. You can’t help but feel that you have to do something about what was happening — and what is happening.”

Although the jury’s conclusions are not binding, the hope is that it can make recommendations in order to prevent deaths in similar circumstances.

The inquest is expected to highlight systemic problems with First Nations child welfare and access to education — areas also flagged in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s recent findings in its exhaustive study of Canada’s now-defunct residential school system.

In an interview with The Canadian Press, Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett called the Thunder Bay deaths a “terrible tragedy.”

“Obviously the child welfare system is not working and I have already promised that we will look at it and overhaul it to make sure that we can have families stay together whenever possible,” said Bennett.

“This is truly sobering, this inquest … we want to be able to put in place concrete actions at all levels of government to prevent this tragedy in the future.”

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MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN residential schools, but the attitudes and stigmas that helped bring them about are still a factor, said NDP indigenous affairs critic Charlie Angus, whose northern Ontario riding includes a number of First Nations communities.

“I’ve spoken with young people who have left home at 14 and lived in boarding houses,” Angus said.” They talk about the residential schools they say, ‘This is what my grandparents

when through.”’

Young indigenous people are often forced to leave their tight-knit home communities behind, ending up in big cities that can be dark and dangerous alternate worlds, Angus said.

“Why is that situation happening?

It is because the federal government doesn’t supply high schools in many of these communities.”

Bennett said the new Liberal government is looking at solutions.

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Sofie Curtis of the Calgary Northwest Virta is defended by Red Deer Ricochet’s Elyssa Leedahl during U14A game action at the Kinsmen Twin Arenas Saturday afternoon during the Friends on Ice tournament.

After a Christmas break that saw many of the city’s sports teams take a hiatus, Red Deer’s ringette teams returned them to action in a big way this past weekend.

The 32nd annual Baymont Friends on Ice tournament kicked off Friday morning, and saw 64 ringette teams from across Alberta take to the ice at the Dawe, Kinex, Collicutt and Kinsmen Twin Arenas multiple times through the weekend.

Families and fans crowded the stands in support of Red Deer’s teams - a total of 20, with at least one in each of the 13 age groups, including U6, U10 (Step One, Two and Three), U12 A, U12 B, U12 C, U14 A, U14 B, U16 A, U16 B, U19 A and Open D. Elsewhere in the city, Red Deer Minor returned to action at the Red Deer Arena, while Red Deer Pond Hockey’s outdoor tournament was cancelled due to weather.

Goaltender Brielle Brown of the Red Deer Ricochet makes a save during U14A game action against the Calgary Northwest Virta Saturday afternoon.

TOP RIGHT; Parents, family, friends, ringette fans and supporters all sit at the edge of their seats during the final moments of a U-10 Ringette game at the Dawe Arena on Saturday afternoon.

ABOVE RIGHT; The Red Deer Rebelles watch their teammates take on the Calgary Raze during U-16 game action at the Kinsmen Twin Arenas for the Friend on Ice ringette tournament.

LEFT; Madison Stevenson of the Red Deer U-10 Pink Panthers collides with Angelique MacDonald of the Airdrie Stingers at the Dawe Arena on Saturday afternoon.

ABOVE LEFT; Jenna Jervis of the Red Deer Rebelles and Emily Carmac of the Calgary Raze battle for possession during U-16 game action Saturday evening.

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Police make arrest after U.S. passenger jet diverted to Vancouver VANCOUVER — Mounties in British Columbia say they have arrested a passenger from a United Airlines flight that was diverted to Vancouver on Saturday.

Richmond RCMP said they responded to Vancouver International Airport shortly after 4 a.m. after the flight crew diverted the plane due to security concerns.

United Airlines flight 1104, bound for Denver from Anchorage, Alaska, was met on the tarmac by a large contingent of officers, said Cpl. Dennis Hwang.

Hwang said a male passenger was taken into custody without incident and no injuries were reported. “Their arrival in Canada was not a scheduled stop,� he said in a news release. “Specifics about the exact nature of the security concern are under investigation but we can confirm this appears to be an isolated incident in which security protocols were enacted.�

He said the investigation was “active and ongoing� and Richmond RCMP was working with Vancouver airport and its security partners.

Police have not released any further details about the passenger or possible charges.

RCMP said passengers were escorted from the flight and security-screened and would be resuming their travels later Saturday.

United Airlines spokesman Charles Hobart said there was a crew of six and 131 passengers on board at the time.

Operations at Vancouver’s airport were not affected.

Successful detonation of bridge in Saskatoon draws large morning crowd SASKATOON — Crowds of people lined the banks of the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon to watch explosions that brought down a portion of a 107-year-old bridge.

Two of the southern spans of the Traffic Bridge collapsed onto a specially constructed earth berm when 16 charges were simultaneously detonated early Sunday.

Police and firefighters patrolled a 250-metre exclusion zone around the bridge to make sure nobody got too close.

According to police, the demolition went off without a hitch.

The century-old bridge is being replaced.

The northern spans will be taken down later as construction moves forward.

Crews piecing together details after truck crashes into Fraser, killing two CHILLIWACK, B.C. — Two men are dead after their vehicle veered off road and plunged into the Fraser River in Chilliwack.

Rescue crews responded around 1:30 Sunday morning to find a truck upside down and underwater.

Doug Fraser of Chilliwack Search and Rescue says the vehicle left a gravel road and dropped six metres over an embankment and into the frigid waters.

Fraser says it’s uncertain how long the truck was in the river and that crews are trying to determine what caused the crash.

The RCMP says weather likely played a role in the incident.

The names of the two men haven’t been released.

Vancouver police release more details on fatal party bus incident Vancouver police have released more details about this weekend’s party bus collision that left one woman dead.

Sgt. Randy Fincham says about two dozen people were celebrating a birthday inside a party bus in the city’s downtown core on Saturday night.

A 23-year-old woman inside the bus fell out through an open door as the vehicle made a lefthand turn (from West Hastings Street onto Burrard Street) around 9:30 p.m.

Fincham says she was struck by the bus, after which passengers alerted the driver and he immediately stopped.

Paramedics pronounced the woman dead at the scene but her name has not been released.

Police say the bus driver is co-operating with authorities.

Rescue team leads stranded hikers off St. Mark’s Summit VANCOUVER — A North Shore Rescue team lead seven hikers to safe-

ty Saturday night after they became stranded on St. Mark’s Summit near the Cypress Mountain ski area.

Team Leader Mike Danks said his team was deployed after the hikers lost sight of the trail, and had everyone off the mountain by midnight.

One of the hikers was a man with diabetes who was reported to be in medical distress.

But Search and Rescue manager Alan McMorty said a doctor checked the man over and determined he was never in any difficulty.

McMorty noted the group had only a single flashlight when they set out yesterday.

He advises that anyone heading into the North Shore mountains pack warm clothes, extra food, and headlamps for all members of their group.

Halifax man finds apparent military hard drive at recycling depot HALIFAX -- A 30 G hard drive found at a recycling depot that a Halifax man says contains personal information including the names and numbers of defence personnel has been taken by the military.

Pete Stevens, who works in the electronics industry, said he found the hard drive about a year ago at a recycling depot and suspected that it previously belonged to the military after running recovery software.

He said he recently decided to sift through the hundreds of files after hearing about security breaches at the military’s East Coast intelligence centre and Canadian Forces Base Halifax.

Stevens said he recovered about 10 G of data from the 30 G hard drive, including 6,000 photos, spreadsheets with the names and numbers of military personnel and their families, and completed applications for security clearance. “If that was me, I wouldn’t want somebody like me having that information,� said Stevens in a phone interview on Saturday. “I don’t think we want to see any of our people serving in uniform exposed like that.�

Stevens said military officials came to retrieve the hard drive on Friday.

Military spokesman Maj. Martell Thompson said investigators are assessing the nature of the data on the hard drive.

He said the incident is “highly unusual.� Protocols implemented in 2008 require hard drives to be destroyed once they are no longer operational, he said. “I’ve not heard of something like this happening before,� said Thompson on Saturday. “The Department of National Defence policy dictates that once hard drives are life-cycled out of operation, they are removed from Canadian Armed Forces networks and sorted prior to destruction.�

Condolences offered to family of former Manitoba Lt.- Gov. John Harvard WINNIPEG -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger are offering their condolences to the family of former Lt.-Gov. John Harvard.

The Prime Minister’s Office confirmed Harvard died. A spokesman for the federal Liberal party in Manitoba said Harvard, who was 77, died Saturday but did not immediately have further details.

Harvard was a Liberal MP who served Winnipeg from 1988 to 2004.

He was installed as Manitoba’s 23rd Lieutenant Governor shortly after leaving federal politics and held the post until his term ended in 2009.

Before politics, Harvard was a broadcast journalist and worked for CJOB radio in Winnipeg and later with the CBC. Trudeau tweeted Saturday that Harvard “served the people of Manitoba with distinction,� thoughts that were echoed by Selinger. “He had true passion for a better Manitoba,� Selinger tweeted.

Former prime minister Paul Martin appointed Harvard as parliamentary secretary to the minister of international trade, a position he held until his retirement from federal politics.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Patients who undergo liver, kidney or other solid organ transplants are up to three times more likely to die from cancer than those in the general population, a study has found, suggesting that recipients need regular screening to catch malignancies early.

The study of more than 11,000 Ontario transplant patients found that almost one-fifth of the deaths in this group over a 20-year period were cancer-related, with skin cancers among those posing the most significant risk of death.

Of 3,068 deaths among patients who had kidney, liver, heart or lung transplants between 1991 and 2010, 603 were cancer-related, the study by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital concluded.

When researchers excluded patients with pre-transplant malignancies, the overall rate of cancer deaths was still twice that of the general population. Children who had received a transplant had a higher risk of dying from cancer than organ recipients over age 60.

Principal researcher Dr. Nancy Baxter, a cancer surgeon at St. Michael’s Hospital, said drugs used to suppress the immune system to prevent organ rejection likely contribute to a higher rate of cancer, which is also often harder to treat in transplant patients.

The powerful medications “suppress the body’s response to cancer, so it can be more aggressive,” said Baxter, noting the median age of death was about five years after a transplant.

“That’s very soon after the transplant, so one wonders if the immunosuppression kicks things into gear.”

Transplant patients diagnosed with cancer also may receive less aggressive treatment because of concerns about their having frailer health and a poorer ability to withstand the toxic side-effects of chemotherapy. Fears over potential organ rejection may also play a role, researchers speculate.

Baxter said skin cancers — both melanoma and non-melanoma cancers — are of particular concern for transplant patients, who were found to have a risk of dying from the disease 30 times higher than those in the general population.

While malignant melanoma often has a more dismal outlook, non-melanoma skin cancers like basal- and squamous-cell carcinomas are typically far more curable for the average person.

That’s not the case for organ recipients who develop the disease.

“I DON’T WANT THE MESSAGE TO GO OUT TO THESE TRANSPLANT PATIENTS THAT THEY’RE GOING TO DIE OF SKIN CANCER BECAUSE CHANCES ARE THAT THEY’RE NOT.” DR. NANCY BAXTER, CANCER SURGEON “Skin cancer in this transplant patient population, non-melanoma skin cancer, it’s a different beast than it is in the general population,” explained Baxter.

“I don’t want the message to go out to these transplant patients that they’re going to die of skin cancer because chances are that they’re not,” she said. “It’s an uncommon cause of death, but still it’s a much more aggressive cancer in this patient population.

“So it’s really important for them to get that message because there are a number of things that transplant patients can do to reduce their risk of developing and having a serious problem related to skin cancer.”

They include avoiding sun exposure and getting regular skin checks, as well as embracing widely recommended cancer-prevention strategies such as not smoking, limiting alcohol consumption, eating a healthy diet and getting regular exercise.

“I think there’s a lot of things that people can do to improve outcomes from cancer and I think it’s particularly important for transplant patients to do them.”

Janet Parr, a former school vice-principal in Guelph, Ont., said Thursday she was warned by doctors after her heart transplant three years ago to be especially wary of the sun’s rays and to have her body regularly checked for signs of skin cancer.

“I now have a dermatologist, which I didn’t have before, and I have to see that person once a year,” said the 54-year-old, who avoids excess exposure to sunlight. “Certainly as a transplant patient, we’re well aware that we are at an increased risk.”

Still, she doesn’t dwell on the fact that her life-saving heart transplant has increased her odds of developing cancer.

“For me personally it doesn’t make one bit of difference. I think really what came from having the transplant is how fortunate I am that a donor was found and somebody agreed to be a donor or their family did.

“At this point, I feel that I’ve got a new life and so that’s how I live it, and I try to live it more purposefully … I think more about life than about dying.”

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New UK guidelines link alcohol consumption to cancer risk LONDON — British health officials say drinking alcohol regularly increases the risk of cancer. And they’ve issued tough new guidelines that could prove hard to swallow in a nation where having a pint is a hallowed tradition.

Britain’s chief medical officer says in recommendations published Friday that men and women should not drink more than 14 units of alcohol — about six pints of beer or four large glasses of wine — per week, and consuming below that amount still carries a low risk of liver disease or cancer.

Alcohol is a known carcinogen. In the United States, experts estimate about 3.5 per cent of all cancer deaths are alcohol-related. People who have more than about four drinks daily run up to triple the risk of contracting cancers of the head and neck than non-drinkers.

Here are questions and answers about the British guidelines and their likely effect:

WHAT’S NEW?

For women, the guidelines remain unchanged, recommending no more than 14 units a week.

Men, however, had previously been told they could drink up to 21 units a week. That now drops to the same limit as for women. The original guidance was published in 1995, before many links between alcohol and cancer were detected.

Friday’s updated guidance clarifies advice to pregnant women, rec-

ommending they avoid alcohol “as a precaution.” The recommendations say “the risk of harm to the baby is likely to be low if a woman has drunk only small amounts of alcohol before she knew she was pregnant or during pregnancy.”

In the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there is no known safe level of alcohol consumption for women who are trying to get pregnant or already in pregnancy.

WILL BRITONS GO TEETOTAL?

Almost certainly not in a nation known for its ales and its pubs. Lax control of retail sales and cheap alcohol has fueled a rise in binge-drinking, which Prime Minister David Cameron once declared a national scandal.

Even the new guidance acknowledges that people are unlikely to give up drinking and does not call for abstinence.

To help Britons avoid binge drinking, the government recommends that people spread their drinking over at least three days a week. It warns that the risk of cancers of the mouth, throat and breast increases with any amount drunk on a more regular basis.

“This is not a crackdown on alcohol,” said Dr. Niamh Fitzgerald, a lecturer in alcohol studies at the University of Stirling, who was not involved in drafting the government guidelines. “It is about supporting people to make up their own minds.”

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WHAT ABOUT THOSE SUPPOSED BENEFITS OF ALCOHOL?

While some studies suggest that drinking moderate levels of red wine is good for the heart, British officials say that applies only to women over the age of 55, particularly those who drink no more than about two glasses a week. The British report said it “concluded that there is no justification for drinking for health reasons.”

WHAT’S THE VIEW DOWN AT THE PUB?

“This won’t change a thing,” said David Evans, an engineer enjoying a pint at a north London pub.

He said he regularly exceeds the new limit of about six pints of beer a week in a single day and has no intention of changing his drinking habits. “A lot of people will let their own body tell them what’s right and what’s wrong,” he said.

U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage said the advice was “over the top” and called for a mass protest against such “nannying.”

“We all know there is a big problem with excessive alcohol consumption in this country,” he told LBC radio. “But frankly, if we choose to enjoy a few drinks four or five nights a week after a hard day at work, whether it slightly shortens our lives or not, so what?”

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Arguments affecting sex life Dear Annie: I’m 48 and have been married to my beautiful wife for 21 years. Lately, whenever we argue, she will withhold sex. This could be anywhere from a week to three months. And she won’t talk about it.

This is putting a huge strain on our relationship.

We’ve been to counseling for a year, but it hasn’t helped. She tells me that men my age don’t really need sex and that my libido is too high. Every fight we have brings back arguments from 10 or 15 years ago. It’s like she cannot forgive and move on.

Women wonder why men stray. I don’t want to leave her, but I’ve had enough. How can I explain this to her? Every time I bring it up, she shuts me down. — Cut Off in Montreal Dear Montreal: Your wife is wrong about your libido, although it’s possible that she has libido problems of her own. But that is only part of what’s happening. No matter what you may have done 10 or 15 years ago, bringing up old arguments and shutting down any discussion of current issues damages your marriage. Counseling cannot possibly work if your wife refuses to participate honestly. You can ask for a trial separation to see if that wakes her up. In the meantime, ask to see your KATHY MITCHELL counselor on your own.

AND MARCY SUGAR Dear Annie: I wrote to you a couple of years ago, signing ANNIE’S MAILBOX my letter, “Unhappy Parents.”

I said that my husband and I felt my stepson was making a big mistake by marrying much too young and we said so. Instead, my stepson repeated these hurtful words to his fiance and from that point forward, they would not speak to us. We were not allowed to attend the wedding.

My husband was an amazing father, and we were all very close until this woman wedged herself in and started saying bad things about us. Apparently, she is extremely close to my husband’s ex-wife and that woman hates my husband.

You told us to try writing them a letter and apologizing, even though there was no guarantee it would succeed. We immediately did this, but it didn’t help much. They have since had my husband’s first grandchild. We sent baby gifts, but have not been asked to see the baby. They instead sent us a book of pictures of the baby, including several with the ex-wife holding the child. It’s a beautiful book, with quotes about the importance of family, yet there is not one photo of my husband in it.

I am so hurt. They have now alienated my husband’s daughter, which in hindsight was likely a relationship only held together for financial reasons.

Annie, I helped care for these kids for 22 years.

Should I give up? Is there anything else I can try? — Still Unhappy Dear Still: If the ex-wife is poisoning the relationship and the daughter-in-law still holds a grudge, there isn’t much you can do. However, they did send photos of the baby, which is more than you might have received before. Your husband should let his children know that he will always love them, but otherwise, we urge you to focus your energies elsewhere. We’re so sorry.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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On thin ice SCIENTISTS STUDY SAFETY OF SKATING ON URBAN STORM-WATER PONDS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Mark Loewen and his research team spent the last two winters hauling around a radar machine and drilling through ice as children and adults raced around on skates and fired slapshots.

The Edmonton scientists now are crunching data in what Loewen, a University of Alberta civil and environmental engineering professor, believes is the first comprehensive study of ice on city storm-water ponds.

So far the study has confirmed what most municipalities already know — ice thickness on small suburban lakes is not as certain as ice that forms on natural water bodies. It’s constantly changing as runoff and drainage water flows through the ponds all year.

“A lot of time the ice covers can be safe,” said Loewen. “But if they’re safe on a Monday, that doesn’t mean they’re safe on a Friday.

“And it’s that unpredictability that is the cause for concern.”

Water moving through the ponds can be warmer and turbulent and melt ice faster, said Loewen.

Even if water has frozen all the way to the bottom of a shallow section, channels of water can still cut through it.

Another contributing factor is road salt, he said.

Depending on how much is applied to nearby roads and how much runs off into ponds, it can also speed up thawing.

He understands why people want to lace up for these ponds. There are about 160 in Edmonton — most in newer neighbourhoods right outside residents’ back doors.

But the ice is too iffy.

“It’s just too complicated a problem, which is why

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you’re not supposed to be on the ice cover at all.”

The City of Edmonton requested the study, Loewen said, since skating on storm-water ponds is somewhat of a touchy issue. Signs posted at city ponds warn against skating on them, but many people do it anyway.

Just two weeks ago, park rangers fined a man $100 after he shovelled off and flooded a section of a pond behind his family’s home. Because there’s no specific bylaw against skating on the ponds, the ticket was for modifying land in a way that could cause injury.

Oil-refinery worker Brian Tomlinson said his family has skated on the storm-water pond in the past without trouble. When he told his kids that it was off limits this year, his three-year-old daughter burst into tears.

Tomlinson, who says there’s nothing more Canadian that playing pond hockey, plans to fight the ticket in court next month.

It’s the first fine related to a storm-pond rink that the city has issued in the last few years, said Greg Komarniski, a city park ranger.

The pond behind Tomlinson’s home is a bit different than others, he said. Called Poplar Lake, the pond is fenced off and marked with a sign warning of thin ice. It’s also an environmentally sensitive area.

In this case, Komarniski said, rangers responded to a complaint and decided to give Tomlinson a ticket rather than a warning.

Wendy Laskosky with the city’s drainage department said warning letters are sometimes sent to residents in neighbourhoods where staff find rinks on storm-water ponds.

As the city grows and more ponds are built, skating on them will become more of a concern, she suggested.

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Aichelle (a former Red Deer College music student), and Stettler singer Kym Simon.

All four women will sing their own original tunes in The Tomato Sessions: Women in Country Music.

The Red Deer concert will be held acoustically, in the round, with banter, stories and songs.

The show will also be taken to Calgary and Edmonton, with possible future dates in Medicine Hat, Grande Prairie and Lethbridge.

Carl invites all area residents — particularly those from smaller centres that don’t get to hear many live performances — to come out and enjoy a night of new music that’s “fresh, fine and right off the vine!”

There’s a $10 cover for the 8 p.m. event. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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It’s all in the family for Levy and Schitt’s Creek CBC TELEVISION THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Expect to see more of the Levy clan on the CBC comedy Schitt’s Creek, says patriarch Eugene Levy.

The proud papa says more screen time is in store for daughter Sarah Levy, whose role as a small-town waitress was largely confined to the diner in the first season.

Her role as Twyla expands to include more interaction with other townsfolk, while son Dan Levy digs deeper into the neuroses of his spoiled character, David Rose.

Eugene, of course, returns as Johnny Rose, the head of a wealthy family who lose their fortune and are forced to move to a tiny community devoid of the luxuries they’re used to.

The comic veteran can’t help but gush about working with his children during a recent interview.

“It’s a kick for me doing scenes with both my kids. It’s hard to explain how strange it is to be working professionally with your own kids, saying, ‘Wait a minute. These are my kids!”’ the SCTV alum said during a recent round of interviews next to co-star Catherine

O’Hara.

“Thank God they’re talented. That could have been sad,” jokes O’Hara, who plays Johnny’s wife Moira.

“Are you kidding?

Yes, it could have been,” Levy groans.

O’Hara says she was glad to see her character — a former soap star who spent much of the first season in denial — break out of her bubble in the second season.

“And for me that was really fun,” she says.

“I got to work with the cool women, all the actresses who play all the women in the town, including Sarah Levy.”

If the first season was all about the Rose family’s desperate bid to escape newfound poverty, the second is all about them being forced to accept a new reality, says Dan Levy, the show’s co-creator.

“We sort of broke the characters down individually and said, ‘OK, now that we know they are staying in this town for longer than they had thought they were going to, how would each of these people react?’ Moira is not going to react the same way that Alexis would and we really took a long time thinking about, psychologically, how each of the family

New DiCaprio flick has local connection

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Look closely and you might recognize a Central Alberta cowboy in the latest Leonardo DiCaprio movie, The Revenant, playing at the Galaxy theatre in Gasoline Alley.

Former rodeo champion Ivan Daines, of the Innisfail area, appears as a horse-riding mountain man in the 20th-Century Fox picture about DiCaprio’s character surviving a bear mauling in the wilderness in 1823.

Daines is one of several Central Alberta extras in the project that’s helmed by Oscar-winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Birdman), and filmed in several locations around Alberta early in 2015.

His rodeo buddy, John Scott, told Daines that filmmakers were looking for people comfortable on horseback for some of the background shots.

Daines rode a sorrel horse in several scenes shot near Canmore last March — including one of a group of horsemen riding out of a fort.

When Inarritu instructed the riders to put more energy into their performances, Daines recalled getting a little over-zealous. “The assistant director from New York (later) told me, ‘You can’t run faster than the stars in a take!’”

Although DiCaprio wasn’t very approachable — “he was always surrounded by a security team” — Daines ended up in some photos taken by DiCaprio’s parents when they visited the set. “I thought it was pretty funny. Here everyone was interested in DiCaprio, but his parents were taking pictures of us.”

Daines, who believes Alberta does a very scenic job of standing in for Montana and South Dakota in the film, hasn’t seen the movie yet, but hopes to soon.

The Revenant is nominated for four Golden Globe Awards — for best picture, actor, director and original score. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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members would respond to this,” he says in a separate interview.

“It also made room for an emotional undercurrent to the season that wasn’t as present in the first. I think we really sort of dig in deeper with all the characters and all the stories…. We can really play with peeling back the layers a little more and exposing some of the vulnerable side of the situation and the characters.”

The second season of Schitt’s Creek begins Tuesday on CBC-TV with back-to-back episodes.

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They defiantly wore tomato T-shirts and called it ridiculous to suggest female artists were somehow less essential than males.

Carl considers Hill’s comparison rather amusing, considering how boring an all-lettuce salad would be without tomatoes.

“I think we can be the lettuce too, but we’re proud to be tomatoes!”

Over the years, the lead vocalist with the popular Stettler band Domino, who writes her own music, met some dynamic female performers on Alberta’s country music circuit.

Recently, Carl started talking with her friend, Calgary singer/songwriter Joni Delaurier (co-writer of Shane Yellowbird’s hit, Pickup Truck), about the need to showcase some of these talented women artists in the province.

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Stettler singer Luanne Carl is banding together with three other female Alberta country artists to prove they can make a tasty musical salad all on their own.

The four singer/songwriters will take the stage in The Tomato Sessions on Thursday at Fratters Speakeasy in Red Deer.

The title of their show is a tonguein-cheek poke at a comment made last year by radio consultant Keith Hill.

He advised U.S. country radio stations not to play too many female artists — and never play their songs backto-back — because he considers males singers to be the lettuce in the salad, while female artists are only the tomatoes.

Hill’s comments caused an uproar among women in country music — including Martina McBride, Jennifer Nettles and Miranda Lambert.

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HELEWKA HAT TRICK CAN’T LIFT REBELS TO WIN IN SATURDAY NIGHT SHOOTOUT

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Giants 6 Rebels 5 (OT) One solid period didn’t get it done for the Red Deer Rebels in a Western Hockey League contest Saturday at the Centrium.

The Rebels outscored the Vancouver Giants 2-1 while outshooting their guests 17-9 over the first 20 minutes, but came up short in the end, surrendering an overtime goal and falling 6-5 before 5,873 fans despite getting three goals from Adam Helewka.

“I thought our first period was good, but I didn’t think we had a good second period,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter, whose club was outscored 3-1 in the middle frame and trailed 5-3 late in the contest before rallying for a pair of goals to force overtime.

“Getting the two goals to tie it up was certainly a positive, but we didn’t play very well in the third,” added Sutter, who watched his club drop a 4-3 shootout decision to the visiting Lethbridge Hurricanes Friday. “The positive through it all is we got six out of eight points in the four games we played in five nights, with some tough travel mixed in. But again, you can’t give up six goals and think you’re going to win a hockey game. And the penalties … we took some bad penalties tonight, one that put us down five-0nthree and they capitalized on it.”

Helewka gave the Rebels a lead 3:31 into the contest, then, after Chad Lang pulled the Giants even at 11:57, Helewka connected again with just over three minutes left in the opening frame, his shot from the bottom of the circle catching the top of the net.

Lang potted his second of the evening on a two-on-one break barely a minute into the second period and teammate Alec Baur scored from a scramble six minutes later. From there, Dakota Odgers took advantage of poor defensive coverage and made it 4-2 at 12:09, and Michael Spacek pulled Red Deer back to within one with a power-play goal at 14:38, cap-

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Grayson Pawlenchuk of the Red Deer Rebels is chased behind the net by Matt Barberis of the Vancouver Giants to the puck during Saturday night WHL action at the Centrium. The Rebels fell to the Giants 6-5 in overtime. ping a three-way passing play with Conner Bleackley and Ivan Nikolishin.

“There were some turnovers where we didn’t manage the puck properly.

We gave up odd-man rushes and they capitalized,” said Sutter.

Ty Ronning ‘s power-play tally at 5:29 of the third period restored Vancouver’s two-goal lead, but with Martin on the Rebels bench in favour of an extra attacker, Helewka completed his hat trick at 19:07, his sharp-angle shot finding its way past Giants goalie Ryan Kubic.

Nikolishin then came up with a pair of big-time plays, stopping a Giants clearing attempt at the blueline and whizzing a shot past a screened Kubic with 12 seconds remaining.

Each team had two shots in overtime and Ronning pulled the trigger on the winner at 3:59, chipping the puck

over a fallen Martin.

“Credit to Vancouver, they played hard,” said Sutter. “They came in here and got what they wanted — two points.

“I wouldn’t say we played really well in either of these two (home) games. We had good and bad spurts.

“We have to understand that no matter how much skill we have in our dressing room, we still have to play a team game … we still have to make sure we play the game the right way.

Skill doesn’t win you anything if you don;’t play the right way. There’s a team game in place and we have to be a hard-working team.”

Martin finished with 26 saves through 64 minutes. The Rebels directed 48 shots at Kubic.

“We played one good period, the first, when we dominated them,” said

Helewka. “Then we got away from our game.

“For sure, there are positives.

We played four games in five nights this week and got six points, but at the same time, every point we lose we give a point to the teams we’re battling against for first in our division.”

The Rebels are idle until Wednesday when they open a three-game road trip in Moose Jaw. Red Deer is in a tight race for top spot in the Eastern Conference, trailing front-running Lethbridge by two points and leading third-place Brandon by two.

“Lethbridge is two points up on us with a game in hand. Now we have to make sure that we dig in and try and get those points back,” said Sutter.

“We have to go out and play well on the road.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Rebels make little noise at WHL trade deadline

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR There was nothing surprising about the fact that it was a light Western Hockey League trade deadline for the Red Deer Rebels Sunday.

After all, GM/head coach Brent Sutter had already done his heavy lifting, adding winger Taden Rattie and elite forwards Jake DeBrusk, Adam Helewka and Luke Philp in the days leading into the deadline.

Red Deer’s lone move at the deadline? Sending utility forward Austin Adamson to the Swift Current Broncs in exchange for an eighth-round pick in the 2017 WHL bantam draft.

“I wasn’t expecting that anything else would come up,” said Sutter. “If we could have added a bit of depth on our back end I would have done it, but there was just nothing there that made sense.”

The Rebels boss either found that the price for a depth rearguard was too steep, or that there was no one available that was much of an upgrade on any of the current defenders.

“There’s not a lot of top-end defencemen out there and it’s the same way with forwards and goaltenders,” said Sutter. “Around the league, it is what it is.”

If Sutter was attempting to track down a goaltender, clearly there were none who were significantly better than current Rebels stoppers Rylan Toth and

Trevor Martin, at least not for a fair price.

“I wasn’t out today looking for a forward,” said Sutter. “We felt we already added to our team with the talent we picked up recently.”

Sutter also wanted to hang onto his 2016 firstround bantam draft pick and he wasn’t prepared to move another top prospect after losing 15-year-old forward Eli Zummack to Spokane in the trade for Helewka.

“I wasn’t moving any of our other young prospects,” said Sutter, referring to forward Brendan Budy and defencemen Carson Sass, Ethan Sakowich, Jacob Herauf and Jace Foskey, all of whom are expected to compete for full-time employment with the Rebels next season.

Nothing made sense except dealing Adamson to the Broncos.

“We just felt that we’d be better off with moving Austin,” said Sutter. “He’s a 19-year-old who still wants to play in the league. We didn’t think he’d be very happy with not playing much here.

“We figured we’d give him an opportunity somewhere else in the league. Swift Current is short of bodies and needed forwards, so it worked out. They didn’t have to pay a lot to get him and at the same time it gives Austin an opportunity to play and it helps Swift Current with having enough bodies because they’ve been struggling with injuries.”

• Rebels defenceman Haydn Fleury left after the first period of Saturday’s game versus the Vancouver

Giants and didn’t return.

He’s not expected to be out for a lengthy period, said Sutter.

“As of today, everything is fine. We have one more test to do Monday, but we’re not expecting anything to change,” said Sutter.

“We think he’s going to be fine. At this point in time, the thinking is it might have been a muscle thing or a rib-type of injury.”

Meanwhile, forward Evan Polei sat out Saturday’s contest due to a looming suspension for a knee-onknee hit on Lethbridge player Ryley Lindgren Friday.

The Rebels are expected to learn today how long Polei will be forced to sit out, with the length of the suspension likely decided by the severity of the injury to Lindgren.

• In Sunday’s lone move of major relevance, the Regina Pats picked up overage forward Cole Sanford from the Medicine Hat Tigers in return for ‘99-born forward Gary Haden, overage forward Brian Williams and three bantam draft picks — a third this year, a fifth in 2017 and a seventh in 2018.

The Calgary Hitmen, meanwhile, dealt forward and Rocky Mountain House native Layne Bensmiller, 18, and defenceman Loch Morrison, 18, to the Prince Albert Raiders in exchange for forward Matteo Gennaro, 18, defenceman Ty Prefontaine, 16, and a sixth-round pick this year. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Panthers beat Oilers to extend win streak to 12 games

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Panthers 2 Oilers 1 EDMONTON — When you’ve won a dozen straight games, not all of them will be pretty.

Jonathan Huberdeau’s first-period goal stood up as the winner as the Florida Panthers extended their franchise-record win streak to 12 games with a 2-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Sunday.

Jaromir Jagr also scored for the Panthers, who haven’t lost since Dec. 12 — a 3-1 defeat against the Boston Bruins.

“It was a grinder-type game and we did what we had to do to win,” said Panthers centre Nick Bjustad. “We didn’t necessarily play well, but you’re going to have those games where you don’t feel the greatest but you have to sneak them out.”

The Panthers (26-12-4) have become the first team in NHL history to win 12 games in a row after missing the playoffs the previous year.

Mark Letestu replied for the Oilers (17-23-3), who have dropped back-toback outings.

Florida scored on its first shot of the game just over three minutes in when Oilers defenceman Darnell

Nurse coughed up the puck, sending Jagr in on a breakaway. The 44-yearold lost the handle on the puck while attempting a deke, but it still managed to go through the legs of Edmonton goalie Cam Talbot for his 15th goal of the season.

“The home run mistakes, those have to be eliminated from our game,” said Oilers coach Todd McLellan. “The mistake that Darnell made, they have to be eliminated. That’s an individual mistake that has to be out of the game.”

The Oilers looked to have responded three minutes later when Taylor Hall picked the corner to beat Panthers starter Al Montoya, but a replay determined Edmonton was offside on the play and the goal was overturned.

Letestu said it was going to be hard enough to score on red-hot Florida, and it didn’t help when a goal was taken away.

“We knew with this winning streak that they hadn’t been giving up much and had been defending well and getting good goaltending,” he said. “When you win 12 in a row, a lot of things are going well. To have one of our goals taken back, it was tough.”

Shortly afterwards, Florida made it 2-0 as Huberdeau took a feed from behind the net and chipped it over

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Florida Panthers’ Alex Petrovic (6) and Edmonton Oilers’ Matt Hendricks (23) fight during second period NHL action in Edmonton, on Sunday.

Talbot’s shoulder.

Edmonton got a goal back with 7:28 remaining in the first as some hard work by its third line paid off with a goal by Letestu.

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The Oilers had the bulk of the chances for the scoreless second and third periods, but couldn’t find the equalizer despite outshooting the Panthers 25-14 in the game.

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Cuba blocks Canada’s Olympic berth LOSS PUTS CANADA’S CHANCE AT OLYMPIC APPEARANCE ON FINISH AT SECOND-CHANCE TOURNAMENT EDMONTON — The Canadian men’s volleyball team’s quest for a first Olympic berth in 24 years just got a whole lot more complicated.

Canada’s best hopes of qualifying for the 2016 Rio Games were dashed after losing in straight sets to Cuba at the 2016 NORCECA Olympic Qualifying Tournament on Sunday night.

Canada, ranked No. 10 in the world and the top team in the competition, just couldn’t match its oppositions power and precision as No. 15 Cuba dominated in the 25-15, 25-21 and 25-21 result.

“They served aces, they turned points. We didn’t win any big rallies,” said captain Fred Winters. “We got a little bit of momentum but we were playing a bit tentatively. There was tons of pressure on us and it definitely showed.”

Canada’s Olympic hopes are still alive, however, as its second-place finish in the competition sees the squad advance to a second-chance tournament in Japan in May. But compared to this tournament, the field is much bigger and features much stronger teams than Canada faced the past few days. The Cuban team was really the only one that was at Canada’s level while the competition in Japan will be an eight-team tournament featuring top Asian teams and strong European teams like France and Poland.

The last time Canada was represented in men’s volleyball at the Olympics was the 1992 Games in Barcelona.

“It’s very hard. This was our best chance,” Winters admitted. “We said that earlier and now we go to Japan in May and it’s against some good Asian teams so it’s very difficult.”

Canada will be hoping to get one-of-three Olympic berths that are open from that tournament in the hopes of being one of the 12 teams in Rio. Cuba came out firing in the first set and took an early advantage with some powerful ace serves combined with an overwhelming blocking presence at

the net.

While Canada had difficulty putting much together on the attacking front, Cuba was hitting its spots early and eventually capped off the first set when Rolando Cepeda smashed down an ace.

“They started by putting on a lot of pressure with their serves and we had to stay with them and we made crucial hitting errors at the start of the match,” said head coach Glenn Hoag.

“I think that created an imbalance at the beginning.”

Prior to this game, Hoag had mentioned that Cuba’s service reception wasn’t its strength and he felt that was where the nation could be exploited.

But it was Canada’s service reception that struggled and it was Cuba that put up eight service aces over the match — five of which came from Cepeda alone.

“I think (setter Tyler Sanders) did a good job but otherwise, our serves were too easy,” Hoag said. “We tried to serve tactically and that worked somewhat but they were better than us in serve and receive and that put pressure on us and put up their block defence which usually is our strength.”

Canada came out with an improved performance in the second set and the two teams traded points for much of it.

After Canada put together a 4-1 run to go up 14-12, it started making mistakes and those were amplified later on as spikes were either put wide or long and Cuba remained steady. Cepeda eventually concluded the second set with a spike that Canada couldn’t handle.

“We stabilized our serve reception at the start of the second and third sets,” said Hoag. “But for some reason, we kept hitting balls out at crucial moments.

At this level you can’t do that.”

It was more of the same in the third set as Canada looked good early and had a number of two-point leads but each time Cuba fought back and pulled away late. Canada was ultimately undone when Javier Jimenez put a spike off the Canadian blockers and out.

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Team Canada’s John Gordon Perrin (2) spikes the ball to Cuba’s Livan Osoria Rodriguez (9) as teammate Daniel Lewis (3) looks on during the 2016 Continental Olympic Qualification Tournament in Edmonton, on Sunday.

MINOR HOCKEY ROUNDUP

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Josh Tarzwell of the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs works his way through the defence of Calgary Royals’ Liam McKay, right, and Alexander Leonidas during Midget AAA action at the Red Deer Arena Saturday afternoon. to the visiting Calgary Canucks, the lone goal for the home side coming off the stick of Rylan Burns.

Duncan Hughes made 27 saves for the Chiefs, who held a 41-30 edge in shots and picked up seven of 11 minor infractions.

JUNIOR B HOCKEY Tye Munro’s third-period power-play goal was the winner as the visiting Red Deer Vipers edged the Banff Academy Bears 2-1 in a Heritage Junior Hockey League outing Sunday.

Mitch Morrison notched the other Red Deer goal, while netminder Mack Patchett made 26 saves. Banff goalie Joel Lepper stopped 23 shots.

The Vipers were two-for-two on the weekend, Saturday’s 5-4 win over the visiting Coaldale Copperheads included.

Scoring for the Vipers, who led 3-2 after one period and trailed 4-3 after 40 minutes, were Bailey Lawson, Colton Weseen, Brett Hoppus, Spencer Yeats and Marc-Antoine Viens.

Cole Sears was the winning goalie with 28 saves. Dillan Kelly blocked 40 shots at the other end.

In other Heritage League weekend games: • The Blackfalds Wranglers, with Robin Carlson sniping two goals and adding three assists, whipped the host Medicine Hat Cubs 10-1 Saturday.

Spencer Otto and Mark Simpson also turned in two-goal performances for the visitors, who got singles off the sticks of Jaye Sutherland, Bryce Boguski, Toran Corbier and Layne McLean.

Nicolas Herrebrugh turned aside 13 shots for the win. The Wranglers bombarded Cubs goalie Cole Schafer with 72 shots.

• The Ponoka Stampeders fell 7-1 to visiting Coaldale Sunday after defeating the Three Hills Thrashers 6-4 Saturday.

Kwyn Hiebert scored the lone Ponoka goal in the Stamps’ defeat. Losing netminder Carter Gendreau made 37 saves as the hosts were outshot 44-30.

The host Stamps got five-point performances (2g,3a) from each of Mik Doell and Nate Higgins in the win over the Thrashers. Austin Ancion and Jaizen Threefingers, who also contributed two helpers, had the other Ponoka goals.

Replying for the Thrashers were Michael Lougheed, Ryan Spiller, Rylan Plante-Crough and Damien Chopek.

Gendreau blocked 39 shots as the winning goaltender. Aiden Doel made 30 saves for Three Hills.

• The Thrashers were 7-2 losers to the visiting Mountainview Colts Friday, their goals coming from Plante-Crough and Tyler Newsham.

Greg Pols made 39 saves in a losing cause. Jake Carlson turned aside 16 shots for the Colts.

• Matt Johannson sniped the lone goal for the Stettler Lightning in a 3-1 loss to the host Airdrie Thunder Friday.

The visitors, outshot 51-34, got a 49-save effort from Travis Green.

The Red Deer North Star Chiefs gained a 3-3 draw with the visiting Southeast Tigers Sunday, getting goals from Tanner Smith, Hayden Clayton and Zachary Zaparniuk and 41 saves from Brayden Laturnus.

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Kings complete sweep of Clippers Kings 6 Clippers 4 CARONPORT, Sask. – The RDC Kings scored three time on the power play on five opportunities as they downed the Briercrest Bible College Clippers 6-4 in Alberta Colleges Men’s Hockey League play Saturday afternoon.

Riley Simpson and Ben Williams both connected on the power play in the first period as the Kings grabbed a 2-1 lead after 20 minutes. Tyler Berkholtz’s second goal in the second period was also with an extra attacker and proved to be the winning goal.

Nick Fountain also scored in the middle stanza for RDC while Connor Patchett connected in the third. The Kings led 5-3 after

40 minutes.

The Clippers also scored twice with a man advantage with Jacob Baribeau connecting in the first period and Josh Dufresne in the second. Alex Bechtold and Josh Anderson had the other BBC goals.

Kraymer Barnstable finished with 35 saves in the RDC goal while Christian Mueller made 36 saves for the Clippers.

The win gave the third-place Kings a 12-60-2 record and completed a two-game sweep over the Clippers, 2-18-0-0.

The Kings next action is Friday when they host the first-place and undefeated NAIT Ooks at 7 p.m. at the Penhold Regional Multiplex.

CHINOOK HOCKEY LEAGUE

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The Bentley Generals got first-period goals from Brett Robertson and Josh Smith and a third-period marker from Adam Huxley while slipping past the Innisfail Eagles 3-2 in a Chinook Hockey League game Sunday.

Replying for the Eagles, who trailed 2-0 after the first and second periods and were zero-for-six on the power play, were Justin Cox and Tyler Beechy.

Dustin Butler made 23 saves for the Generals, who were zero-for-two with a man advantage. Dan Dunn turned aside 24 shots in the Innisfail net.

The victory capped a successful weekend for Bentley, a 4-1 winner over the visiting Fort Saskatchewan Chiefs Friday.

Todd Fiddler, with two goals, Robertson and Tyler Brenner tallied for the Generals, while Doug Auchenberg had the lone goal for the visitors.

Thomas Heemskerk turned aside 23 shots as the winning goaltender. Troy Trombley made 33 saves for the Chiefs.

The Central Alberta U16AA Sting won a pair of games over the weekend, downing the Edmonton Ringette Club U16AA team 5-4 and edging the Edmonton U19A squad by the same score.

Emily LeMasurier, with a pair of goals, Erika Driesen, Madison Pluister and Kailyn Smalley scored against the Edmonton U16AA side, while LeMasurier turned in a hat-trick performance and Brianna Abell also tallied against the U19A team.

Sting netminder McKenna Smalley faced 62 shots over the two games.

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Major midget AAA Josh Tarzwell’s third-period goal was the winner as the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs edged the visiting Calgary Royals 4-3 in an Alberta Midget Hockey League game Saturday.

Tanner Zentner, Joel Ray and Tyler Graber also scored for the Chiefs, who got a 22-save outing from Dawson Weatherill. Red Deer held a 39-25 advantage in shots and was assessed eight of 15 minor penalties.

Weatherill turned aside 45 shots in a 6-4 win over the visiting Foothills Bisons Friday. Graber scored twice and picked up an assist, while Levi Glasman, Regan Doig and affiliate players Nathan Dyck and Josh Bussard also tallied for the Chiefs.

Red Deer was outshot 49-42 and the teams split 12 minor penalties.

Minor midget AAA Elijah Johanson netted the lone goal for the host Red Deer Strata Energy Chiefs in a 6-1 loss to the Rockyview Raiders Sunday.

Steven Arthur made 30 saves in a losing cause. The Chiefs were outshot 36-34 and were assessed nine of 16 minor penalties.

On Saturday, Strata Energy fell 3-1

nor penalties and was outshot 44-36.

Major midget girls The Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs made amends for a 3-2 road loss to the Spruce Grove Saints Saturday with a 4-0 blanking of the host Edmonton Thunder 24 hours later.

Bailey Knapp turned aside 13 shots to record the shutout at Edmonton.

Jordyn Burgar, Skylar Colonna, Maddison Toppe and Emily McLennan scored for the Chiefs, who outshot the Thunder 37-13.

Burgar and Kaitlan Linnell sniped the Red Deer goals at Spruce Grove.

MacKenzie Fairbrother-Skinner made 20 saves for the Chiefs, who held a 3422 advantage in shots.

Major bantam Kyle Gerrits, Caileb Berge and Deegan Moffard scored for the Red Deer Rebels in a 3-2 win over the host Leduc Oil Kings Sunday.

Jason Very made 21 saves for the Rebels, who held a 34-23 advantage in shots. Leduc was assessed six of nine minors.

Major bantam girls The Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs got second-period goals from Sage Sansregret and Avery Lajeunesse en route to a 4-2 win over the Southeast Tigers Saturday at Vauxhall.

Dylan Norrie and Sarah Gette accounted for the other Red Deer goals, while Chantelle Sandquist made 17 saves for the win.

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Seahawks survive after late FG miss

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Seahawks 10 Vikings 9 MINNEAPOLIS — Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks needed more than three quarters to warm up at Minnesota, their quest to avenge last year’s Super Bowl loss nearly frozen before it began.

The Vikings, after gritting through this grind-it-out wild-card round playoff game, booted their chance to beat the two-time defending NFC champions. Blair Walsh’s 27-yard field goal try into the frigid wind hooked left with 22 seconds remaining, handing the Seahawks a 10-9 victory over the stunned Vikings on a Sunday in below-zero weather that tied for the third-coldest NFL game on record.

“A lot of people would’ve folded up and said, ‘That’s it,’ but we’ve got a team full of fighters,” Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman said.

The Seahawks (11-6) didn’t score until Russell Wilson’s short touchdown pass to Doug Baldwin early in the fourth quarter. Then, a fumble by Adrian Peterson for the Vikings on the next possession set up a field goal by Steven Hauschka.

The Vikings (11-6) took the ball for the deciding drive with 1:42 left at their 39 and, aided by a pass interference penalty on Kam Chancellor, drove deep into Seattle’s territory. After draining the clock for the seemingly inevitable win, Walsh simply missed the winner after making all three of his earlier attempts.

“That’s called grace,” Chancellor said. “That’s all it is.”

Seattle will play next weekend at Carolina, where the Panthers had a first-round bye in balmy mid-50s weather.

“I think we were fortunate that we got the win,” Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said. “A lot of those times, guys make those kicks. There’s a high percentage that they make them, but you’ve still got to do it.”

Walsh didn’t hide. Holder Jeff Locke had the laces turned in, not out, but there were no excuses to be made.

“You’re confident, but you never think that you have it or take it for granted,” Walsh said, subdued with glassy eyes in the locker room afterward. “I just didn’t put a swing on it

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Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson (R) is able to throw the ball away before being tackled by Minnesota Vikings defensive end Everson Griffen (L) in the second half of the NFC Wild Card Playoff game in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Sunday.

Seattle won the game 10-9. that would be acceptable by anybody’s standards.”

Huddled around sideline heaters and wearing huge capes on the shaded side of the stadium, the Seahawks were subdued themselves for much of the game.

Trailing 9-0 at the 13-minute mark, Wilson nearly took a huge loss on first down when he fumbled a shotgun snap he wasn’t ready for. But the guy Vikings coach Mike Zimmer called “Houdini” during the week darted right, dodged a sack and found Tyler Lockett wide open for a 35-yard completion to set up the score to Baldwin.

“Just tried to extend the play,”

said Wilson, who went 13 for 26 for 142 yards. “Find a way.”

Chancellor, who ripped the ball away from Peterson that Ahtyba Rubin recovered, missed a tackle on tight end Kyle Rudolph’s 24-yard reception that let the Vikings advance to the 18 with 1:26 left. But Peterson’s next three carries left the Vikings a yard short of the first down.

Walsh, whose third kick was nearly blocked by Sherman, jogged out for the defining moment. And the Seahawks were suddenly celebrating an improbable win, not unlike their rally past Green Bay in the NFC championship game last year.

“It’s a chip shot,” Zimmer said.

“He’s got to make it.”

The Seahawks left their last visit to Minnesota with a 38-7 victory, pure domination on both sides of the ball that left no doubt that Dec. 6 afternoon they’d be a legitimate contender to reach their third straight Super Bowl even without the ear-splitting advantage of their home by the bay at CenturyLink Field.

For all their skills, experience and swagger, though, the combination of these conditions and a well-prepared, embarrassed-by-the-previous-performance Vikings team proved to be quite the challenge.

Steelers have injury issues after win over Bengals

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Green Bay Packers running back James Starks carries the ball into the end zone for a touchdown during the second half of an NFL wild card playoff game in Landover, Md., Sunday. The Packers won the game 35-18.

Packers overcome slow start to take down Redskins

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Packers 35 Redskins 18 LANDOVER, Md. — For Aaron Rodgers and the rest of the Green Bay Packers’ offence, the first quarter of their playoff game Sunday looked quite similar to the stagnant way their regular season wound down.

Not a lot of progress. Not a lot of points. Not a lot of fun.

Rodgers opened the NFC wild-card game against the Washington Redskins by going 1 for 8, and the Packers’ first four drives went: punt, safety, punt, punt. They gained all of 11 yards heading into the second period, and they trailed by double digits.

And then, spurred by using the hurry-up approach he loves, Rodgers played like a two-time NFL MVP. Drawing defensive penalties with quick snaps, making adjustments at the line of scrimmage, and running the show the way few QBs can, Rodgers threw for a pair of TDs while Eddie Lacy and James Starks each ran for a score, and Green Bay came back to overwhelm the NFC East champion Redskins 35-18.

“We got the tempo up, and they couldn’t keep up,” said Rodgers, who finished 21 for 36 for 210 yards and no turnovers.

“We became a snowball, kind of going downhill, and it was tough for us to stop.”

That was missing while the Packers were losing their final two games and six of their last 10 after a 6-0 start, letting the NFC North title slip away.

And it was missing early Sunday, when Washington grabbed an 11-0 lead.

“I talked a lot the last couple weeks about being able to turn it on, and a lot of you probably thought that was lip service,” Rodgers told reporters.

“But we just needed a game like this to get our mojo back and get our confidence going. I said this week that

it just takes one. It just takes one performance to get us going back in the right direction and believing that we can make a run.”

Green Bay (11-6) will play at the No. 2 seed Arizona Cardinals on Saturday night. It’s a rematch of a Week 16 game that Arizona dominated 38-8.

“The main thing is everybody just needs to realize the taste they had in their mouth last time,” Packers receiver James Jones said.

In the other NFC game next weekend, the No. 1 seed Carolina Panthers will host the wild-card Seattle Seahawks on Sunday.

With the Packers and Seahawks joining the AFC’s Pittsburgh Steelers and Kansas City Chiefs, it’s the first time road teams went 4-0 in the wildcard round under the current NFL playoff format, which started in 1990.

Washington (9-8) had won four games in a row, but its season ends without a single victory over a team that finished with a winning record.

“I mean, it’s a little sick feeling any time you lose a game at the end of the year, not matter when it is,” Washington’s Jay Gruden said after his first playoff game as an NFL head coach.

“The opportunities we had out there today — it makes you ill.”

His quarterback, Kirk Cousins, made his first playoff start after a breakthrough season and was 29 for 46 for 329 yards.

He threw for one touchdown, ran for another, lost one fumble and was sacked six times.

Rodgers smirked when asked about chatter in the Washington area about which QB folks would want for the next five years.

“We don’t really care about any of the expectations, whether talking about picking Kirk over myself or talking about how everybody expected us to lose this game,” Rodgers said.

“We don’t care about those opinions out there.”

PITTSBURGH — There were parts of the Steelers’ playoff game that seemed surreal.

Their forced fumble that provided one last chance. Their drive in the rain that featured the franchise quarterback shot-putting passes he normally slings. The ugly meltdown by an opponent known for self-destruction.

The bandage on running back Fitzgerald Toussaint’s nose, the wrap around linebacker Ryan Shazier’s leg and the uncertain status of Ben Roethlisberger and wide receiver Antonio Brown going forward offered proof it was not.

Yes, the Pittsburgh Steelers are still around, heading to Denver for next weekend’s AFC divisional playoff after a borderline ridiculous 18-16 wild-card win over Cincinnati on Saturday night.

Yet it came at a heavy cost.

Roethlisberger’s right shoulder is aching and Brown is dealing with a concussion after absorbing a hit to the head from Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict that set off a bizarre chain of events that ended with Chris Boswell’s winning field goal with 14 seconds left.

The availability of the cornerstones of the NFL’s third-ranked offence for a rematch with the AFC West champion Broncos is unclear.

Sure, it’s less than ideal. Still, the Steelers figure it beats the alternative.

“I wasn’t ready to go home yet,” said Shazier, who got the ball loose from Cincinnati’s Jeremy Hill with less than 90 seconds left to provide the offence just enough time. “I felt like nobody was.”

While the Bengals are left with months to think about how they let a game in which they had the lead and the ball in Pittsburgh territory with

less than two minutes to go somehow slip away, Pittsburgh has a week to prepare for Peyton Manning and the AFC’s top seed.

The Steelers won 34-27 at Heinz Field on Dec. 20, but that was against Brock Osweiler and with Roethlisberger and Brown lighting up the league’s best secondary.

Osweiler has given way to the NFL’s all-time passing leader in the playoffs while the Steelers could be forced to give Landry Jones his third career start at a place that hasn’t always been kind to Pittsburgh.

The Steelers have won just twice in their past eight trips to Denver, including a 29-23 overtime defeat at the hands of Tim Tebow in the 2011 wildcard round.

Not that it mattered on Sunday.

Roethlisberger will be evaluated this week and Brown’s teammates insisted the All-Pro was “fine” after appearing to be briefly knocked out after getting drilled by Burfict with 22 seconds to play.

Jones, who played well at times while filling in for Roethlisberger during the regular season, but threw a seemingly season-ending pick in the fourth quarter against the Bengals on Saturday night, said he’ll stick to his normal routine — which he does regardless of how Roethlisberger fells.

“I don’t know what the doctors have said,” Jones said.

“I’m going to prepare and get ready to go for Denver.”

And the Steelers — whoever is in under centre — will head to Denver with momentum. Pittsburgh’s defence played perhaps its best three quarters of the season before letting the Bengals put together 16 points in the fourth quarter, a rally fueled in part by Roethlisberger’s absence.

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports Today • Senior high basketball: Lindsay Thurber at Rocky Mountain House, girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow.

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

• Heritage junior B hockey: Mountainview at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Arena.

Tuesday • AJHL: Canmore at Olds, 7 p.m.

• Men’s basketball: Johns Manville vs.

Silver Spurs, Rusty Chuckers vs. Btown, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

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

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

• WHL: Red Deer at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

(The Drive).

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

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

• Men’s basketball: Bulldog Scrap Metal vs. Sheraton Red Deer, Vikings vs.

Lacombe All Sports Cresting, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

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

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

• WHL: Red Deer at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

(The Drive).

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

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

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

• Heritage junior B hockey: Blackfalds at Three Hills, 8:30 p.m.

• College basketball: Medicine Hat at RDC, women at 1 p.m., men to follow.

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Blackhawks at Red Deer Strata Energy, 2 p.m., Arena.

• Peewee AA hockey: Okotoks Black at Central Alberta, 2:45 p.m., Clive.

• Major midget girls hockey: Spruce Grove at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

• Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Steel Kings at West Central, 5:30 p.m., Sylvan Lake.

• WHL: Red Deer at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

(The Drive).

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

Sunday • Major bantam hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer, 11:30 a.m., Arena.

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Blue at Red Deer Strata Energy, noon, Arena.

• Peewee AA hockey: West Central at Red Deer TBS, 1:30 p.m., Kinex; Airdrie at Central Alberta, 3 p.m., Lacombe.

• Bantam AA hockey: West Central at Red Deer Steel Kings, 1:45 p.m., Kinsmen A. • Major midge girls hockey: Lloydminster at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Cochrane at Ponoka, 2:30 p.m.; Airdrie at Three Hills, 3 p.m.; Stettler at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m.

• Midget AAA hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, 3 p.m., Arena.

• Men’s basketball: Grandview vs. NWS, Washed up Warriors vs. Chillibongs, Alken Basin vs. Triple A Batteries, 4:15 p.m.; Carstar vs. Monstars, Wells Furniture vs.

Subaru, Henry’s Eavestroughing vs. The D Leaguers, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber.

• Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Indy Graphics at Red Deer Elks, 5:30 p.m., Arena.

Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 31 At Honolulu Team Rice vs. Team Irvin, 5 p.m.

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 GA GB New England 1 1 0 1.000 17 7 — Buffalo 1 1 0 1.000 10 9 — Georgia 2 1 1 .500 27 23 .5 Rochester 1 0 1 .000 14 16 1 Toronto 1 0 1 .000 7 12 1 GP Colorado 2 Saskatchewan 1 Vancouver 1 Calgary 2

West Division W L Pct. 2 0 1.000 1 0 1.000 0 1 .000 0 2 .000

GF GA GB 32 29 — 10 8 .5 7 17 1.5 17 20 2

WEEK TWO

Saturday’s results Georgia 12 Toronto 7 Buffalo 10 Calgary 9 Colorado 16 Rochester 14 New England 17 Vancouver 7 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.

Transactions Saturday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL National League SAN DIEGO PADRES — Selected the contract of LHP Ryan Buchter from El Paso (PCL).

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Designated RHP Cody Hall for assignment.

FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed WR R.J. Harris to a reserve/future contract.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Named Adam Gase coach.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Signed DE Phillip Hunt to a reserve/future contract.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Placed F Jiri Tlusty on injured reserve. Recalled F Joseph Blandisi from Albany (AHL).

ST. LOUIS BLUES — Recalled G Niklas Lundstrom from Elmira (ECHL) to Chicago (AHL).

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Recalled F Brian Hart from Greenville (ECHL) to Syracuse (AHL).

American Hockey League BINGHAMTON SENATORS — Assigned F Danny Hobbs to Evansville (ECHL).

ROCHESTER AMERICANS — Assigned F Matt Garbowsky to Elmira (ECHL).

ROCKFORD ICEHOGS — Recalled F Daniel Ciampini and D Nick Mattson from Indy (ECHL).

SAN DIEGO GULLS — Recalled F Matt Berry from Utah (ECHL).

TORONTO MARLIES — Recalled F Jack Rodewald from Orlando (ECHL).

ECHL ELMIRA JACKALS — Added G Chris Bourgeois as emergency backup.

EVANSVILLE ICEMEN — Signed D Nicholas Kuqali.

READING ROYALS — Loaned F Mike Pereira to Utica (AHL).

SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Claimed F Adam Berkle off waivers from Reading.

TULSA OILERS — Added G Colten Wilson as emergency backup.

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Brandon 42 26 12 2 2 162 Prince Albert 42 24 14 3 1 142 Moose Jaw 42 22 15 4 1 149 Regina 42 18 18 3 3 135 Saskatoon 41 15 23 3 0 124 Swift Current 42 12 25 4 1 99

GA 126 135 135 151 171 139

Pt 56 52 49 42 33 29

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF 42 30 12 0 0 182 43 28 13 1 1 166 44 26 16 1 1 146 42 17 20 5 0 118 41 15 22 3 1 132 43 8 32 3 0 88

GA 126 128 137 137 161 182

Pt 60 58 54 39 34 19

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 42 29 10 3 0 154 Victoria 44 25 15 1 3 146 Prince George 42 25 15 1 1 141 Kamloops 41 21 14 4 2 142 Vancouver 43 17 21 3 2 130

GA 121 111 122 123 149

Pt 61 54 52 48 39

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF 39 24 12 1 2 108 39 22 14 3 0 124 41 19 17 3 2 132 41 20 19 2 0 138 42 17 23 2 0 133

GA 85 114 142 134 162

Pt 51 47 43 42 36

Saturday

Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 24 AFC, 1:05 p.m.

NFC, 4:40 p.m.

Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 16 Kansas City at New England, 2:35 Green Bay at Arizona, 6:15 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 17 Seattle at Carolina, 11:05 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Denver, 2:30 p.m.

MONDAY, JAN. 11, 2016

Hockey

Football NFL Playoffs Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 9 Kansas City 30, Houston 0 Pittsburgh 18, Cincinnati 16 Sunday, Jan. 10 Seattle 10, Minnesota 9 Green Bay 35, Washington 18

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Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL National League CINCINNATI REDS — Agreed to terms with RHPs Pedro Villarreal and Ryan Mattheus on minor league contracts.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association BROOKLYN NETS — Fired coach Lionel Hollins.

Reassigned general manager Billy King. Named assistant coach Tony Brown interim head coach.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Signed general manager Doug Whaley to a three-year contract extension. Named Rob Ryan assistant head coach/defence.

DETROIT LIONS — Named Ernie Accorsi special adviser to the team president.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES — Recalled F Justin Kea from Elmira (ECHL) to Rochester (AHL).

DALLAS STARS — Reassigned C Radek Faksa to Texas (AHL).

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS — Recalled F Matia Marcantuoni and D Harrison Ruopp from Wheeling (ECHL) to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (AHL).

American Hockey League GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Signed F A.J. Jenks to a professional tryout agreement.

HERSHEY BEARS — Returned F Cam Reid to Reading (ECHL).

PROVIDENCE BRUINS — Assigned F Eric Neiley to Atlanta (ECHL).

ROCHESTER AMERICANS — Recalled F Matt Garbowsky from Elmira (ECHL).

WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON PENGUINS — Assigned Fs John McCarron and Patrick McGrath to Wheeling (ECHL).

ECHL BRAMPTON BEAST — Released G McIntyre Reamey. Signed G Cody Rosen.

CINCINNATI CYCLONES — Released F Connor Toomey.

IDAHO STEELHEADS — Released G Doug Melvin as emergency backup.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL SHERWOOD PARK — The Lindsay Thurber Raiders settled for runner-up status in the Bev Facey Invitational senior high girls basketball tournament during the weekend.

The Raiders opened with a 63-32 win over Sherwood Park Archbishop Jordan, then defeated the host team 65-58 in a semifinal. Taber downed Thurber 67-46 in the championship game.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Orangemen take down Monstars Tom Judd poured in 25 points and Ray Teskey chipped in with 21 as the Chillibongs Orangemen recorded an 89-58 Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association win over the Monstars Sunday.

Adam Glover scored 20 points for the Monstars, who got an additional 13 from Darren Wright.

Lethbridge Red Deer Calgary Edmonton Medicine Hat Kootenay

Everett Seattle Spokane Portland Tri-City

19:07.

10. Red Deer, Nikolishin 25 (Bobyk, Spacek) 19:48.

Penalties — Spacek RD (closing hand on puck) 3:36, Lang Van (tripping) 3:49, Bobyk RD (high-sticking) 5:07, Menell Van (tripping) 6:12, Lang Van (checking from behind) 12:35, Barberis Van (tripping) 14:37, Bleackley RD (10-minute misconduct) 19:07, Crunk Van (roughing) 19:07, Bleackley RD (roughing) 19:07.

Overtime 11. Vancouver, Ronning 25 (Thomas) 3:59.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Vancouver 9 15 6 2 — 32 Red Deer 17 13 16 2 — 48 Goal — Vancouver: Kubic (W, 12-11-2) Red Deer: Martin (LS, 6-3-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Vancouver: 2-6 Red Deer: 1-5.

WHL Scoring Leaders

Sunday’s results Moose Jaw 4 Swift Current 3 Kamloops 3 Portland 0 Everett 3 Spokane 1 Saturday’s results Prince Albert 8 Medicine Hat 2 Moose Jaw 6 Saskatoon 2 Brandon 4 Swift Current 3 Vancouver 6 Red Deer 5 (OT) Calgary 4 Edmonton 3 (OT) Lethbridge 7 Kootenay 1 Kamloops 4 Portland 3 (OT) Victoria 4 Prince George 3 Regina 7 Spokane 2 Kelowna 7 Tri-City 5 Seattle 3 Everett 2 (OT)

G 26 23 13 25 27 26 24 17 16 22 26 22 26 15 21 20 19 17 10 27 22 11

Tyson Baillie, Kel Adam Brooks, Reg Brayden Burke, Let Ivan Nikolishin, RD Dryden Hunt, MJ Reid Gardiner, P.A. Parker Bowles, TC Alex Forsberg, Vic Devante Stephens, Spo Giorgio Estephan, Let Collin Shirley, Kam Egor Babenko, Let Tyler Wong, Let Nolan Patrick, Bra Justin Gutierrez, Let Cameron Hebig, Sas Brayden Point, MJ Brett Pollock, Edm Andrew Nielsen, Let Jesse Gabrielle, PG Matthew Phillips, Vic Mathew Barzal, Sea

NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OL Florida 42 26 12 4 Detroit 42 22 13 7 Montreal 43 23 17 3

Tuesday’s games Saskatoon at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Seattle at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Regina at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Lethbridge at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Red Deer at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Kamloops at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Regina at Portland, 8 p.m.

Seattle at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Saskatoon at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Saturday’s summary Giants 6, Rebels 5 (OT) First Period 1. Red Deer, Helewka 21 (Fleury, Nogier) 3:31.

2. Vancouver, Lang 15 (Foster, Ronning) 11:57.

3. Red Deer, Helewka 22 (Spacek, Doetzel) 16:34.

Penalties — Strand RD (kneeing) 4:50, Spacek RD (high-sticking) 8:29, Popoff Van (slashing) 12:24, Nikolishin RD (slashing) 18:55, Lang Van (slashing) 18:55.

Second Period 4. Vancouver, Lang 16 (Menell) 1:02.

5. Vancouver, Baer 14 (Osipov, Crunk) 6:58 (pp).

6. Vancouver, Odgers 6 (Flaman, Hardy) 12:09.

7. Red Deer, Spacek 12 (Bleackley, Nikolishin) 14:38 (pp).

Penalties — Hagel RD (inter. on goaltender) 5:23, Helewka RD (high-sticking) 5:48, Menell Van (slashing) 13:57.

Third Period 8. Vancouver, Ronning 24 (Barberis, Menell) 5:29 (pp).

9. Red Deer, Helewka 23 (Debrusk, Bleackley)

A 40 42 49 36 33 31 33 37 37 30 24 28 23 34 26 27 28 29 36 18 23 34

Pts 66 65 62 61 60 57 57 54 53 52 50 50 49 49 47 47 47 46 46 45 45 45

GF 116 105 122

GA 89 108 107

Pt 56 51 49

Metropolitan Division GP W L OL GF Washington 42 32 7 3 139 NY Rangers 41 22 14 5 121 NY Islanders 42 22 15 5 114

GA 90 109 107

Pt 67 49 49

GF 123 97 107 119 97 91 102 104 97 109

GA 108 102 102 131 100 108 118 112 115 139

Pt 47 47 46 46 45 43 43 39 36 34

Western Conference Central Division W L OL GF 29 11 4 149 27 13 4 126 24 14 7 111

GA 116 104 112

Pt 62 58 55

Pacific Division W L OL GF 26 12 3 108 21 16 4 116 16 16 10 102

GA 90 125 118

Pt 55 46 42

GA 99 115 123 99 121

Pt 52 45 45 41 41

Boston New Jersey Tampa Bay Ottawa Pittsburgh Philadelphia Carolina Toronto Buffalo Columbus

GP 40 43 42 43 41 40 43 40 42 43

Dallas Chicago St. Louis

GP 44 44 45

GP Los Angeles 41 Arizona 41 Vancouver 42

Minnesota Nashville Colorado Anaheim Winnipeg

GP 42 42 43 41 42

WILD CARD W L OL 21 14 5 21 17 5 21 17 4 20 17 6 20 16 5 18 15 7 18 18 7 16 17 7 16 22 4 15 24 4

WILD CARD W L OL 22 12 8 19 16 7 21 19 3 17 17 7 19 20 3

GF 111 107 125 78 111

San Jose Calgary Edmonton

39 40 43

19 18 19 19 17 23

2 2 3

109 105 105

108 40 124 40 127 37

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

San Jose at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Florida at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

Detroit at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s games Columbus at NY Islanders, 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Carolina, 7 p.m.

Buffalo at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

New Jersey at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

San Jose at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

Nashville at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Edmonton at Arizona, 9 p.m.

Sunday’s summary Panthers 2, Oilers 1 First Period 1. Florida, Jagr 15 (unassisted) 3:22.

2. Florida, Huberdeau 6 (Barkov, Campbell) 7:04.

3. Edmonton, Letestu 6 (Korpikoski, Hendricks) 12:32.

Penalties — Bjugstad Fla (fighting) 8:30, Gryba Edm (fighting) 8:30, Bjugstad Fla (instigator) 8:30, Bjugstad Fla (misconduct) 8:30.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Petrovic Fla (fighting) 15:28, Hendricks Edm (fighting) 15:28, Huberdeau Fla (high-sticking) 17:17.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Shaw Fla (fighting) 2:21, Hendricks Edm (fighting) 2:21.

Shots on goal Florida 5 2 7 — 14 Edmonton 4 14 7 — 25 Goal — Florida: Montoya (W, 7-1-1) Edmonton: Talbot (L, 7-13-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Florida: 0-0 Edmonton: 0-3.

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

G 23 25 24 9 24 16 21 18 10 19 17 15 15 13 6 24 17 16 13 13 13 19

A 37 28 27 36 20 25 19 22 30 20 21 23 23 25 32 13 20 21 24 24 23 16

Pts 60 53 51 45 44 41 40 40 40 39 38 38 38 38 38 37 37 37 37 37 36 35

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 24 15 .615 — Boston 19 18 .514 4 New York 19 20 .487 5 Brooklyn 10 27 .270 13 Philadelphia 4 36 .100 20 1/2

Atlanta Miami Orlando Charlotte Washington

Cleveland Chicago Indiana Detroit Milwaukee

Southeast Division W L Pct 23 15 .605 22 15 .595 20 18 .526 17 20 .459 16 19 .457 Central Division W L Pct 26 9 .743 22 13 .629 21 16 .568 21 16 .568 15 24 .385

GB — 1/2 3 5 1/2 5 1/2 GB — 4 6 6 13

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB

San Antonio Dallas Memphis Houston New Orleans

Oklahoma City Utah Portland Denver Minnesota

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

32 22 21 19 11

6 16 18 19 25

.842 .579 .538 .500 .306

— 10 11 1/2 13 20

Northwest Division W L Pct 26 12 .684 17 20 .459 16 24 .400 14 24 .368 12 26 .316

GB — 8 1/2 11 12 14

Pacific Division W L Pct 35 2 .946 25 13 .658 15 22 .405 13 26 .333 8 31 .205

GB — 10 1/2 20 23 28

Saturday’s Games L.A. Clippers 97, Charlotte 83 Atlanta 120, Chicago 105 Washington 105, Orlando 99 Toronto 108, Philadelphia 95 Detroit 103, Brooklyn 89 Utah 98, Miami 83

Golden State 128, Sacramento 116 Sunday’s Games L.A. Clippers 114, New Orleans 111, OT Dallas 93, Minnesota 87 Memphis 101, Boston 98 Cleveland 95, Philadelphia 85 Houston 107, Indiana 103, OT New York 100, Milwaukee 88 Denver 95, Charlotte 92 Portland 115, Oklahoma City 110 Utah 86, L.A. Lakers 74 Monday’s Games San Antonio at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Washington at Chicago, 6 p.m.

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

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

San Antonio at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

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

Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Houston at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Cleveland at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

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

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE

OLDS GRIZZLYS

Ovechkin scores 500th goal

WHITECOURT — Tyr Thompson fired three goals and assisted on another in a losing cause Saturday as the Olds Grizzlys dropped a 5-4 Alberta Junior Hockey League decision to the Whitecourt Wolverines.

Ryley Smith potted the fourth Grizzlys goal with one second remaining in the game.

Wyatt Noskey picked up three assists.

Hubert Delisle, Justin Young, Joseph Nardi, Erik Pedersen and Kevin Dominque replied for the Wolverines before 912 fans at the Scott Safety Centre. Whitecourt netminder Tanner McCorriston made 32 saves, while Ben Giesbrecht turned aside 45 shots for Olds.

The Grizzlys host the Canmore Eagles Tuesday at 7 p.m.

BECOMES 43RD PLAYER IN HISTORY TO REACH MILESTONE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Alex Ovechkin scored his 500th goal Sunday night, becoming the 43rd player in NHL history to reach the milestone.

Ovechkin reached the mark in vintage fashion, scoring from just beyond the left hash marks during a second-period power play to give the Washington Capitals a 5-1 lead over the Ottawa Senators.

Ovechkin got an extended standing ovation and took a skate around the rink, acknowledging the cheering crowd that included his parents. He later drew another roar while waving to fans from the bench.

He added No. 501 midway through third, beating a defender with a sweeping deke at the top of the zone before smacking a shot past goalie Andrew Hammond for a 7-1 lead.

At 801 games, the Russian winger is the fifth-fastest player to 500 goals, trailing only Hall of Famers Wayne Gretzky (575 games), Mario Lemieux (605), Mike Bossy (647) and Brett Hull (693).

“He is one of a kind,” Hull told the AP in a phone interview last week. “I admire what he does because he’s a pure goal scorer.”

Ovechkin has filled the net more often than anyone since he entered the league in 2005, scoring 149 more goals than the next closest player, Jarome Iginla.

Ovechkin was the first overall pick in the 2004 draft by Washington. He’s been named an All-Star in each of his 11 seasons and was voted a captain for this year’s All-Star game. He’s won three straight Richard Trophies as the league’s leading goal scorer and five overall. He’s also won three Hart Trophies as league MVP. The 30-year-old Ovechkin is the NHL leader in career goals by a Russian-born player.

Ovechkin has 26 goals this season, including five over his past three games.

CURLING BANFF — Winnipeg’s Jennifer Jones defeated Edmonton’s Val Sweeting on Sunday in the women’s final of the Pinty’s all-star curling skins game.

It all came down to the final stone in the eighth end, with Jones picking up the whopping $37,000 skin to secure the victory. Jones’ rink of Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer, and Dawn McEwen, took a total of $40,000 in the final.

Sweeting earned a total of $31,500 in prize money.

On the men’s side, Brad Jacobs defeated Brad Gushue to win the skins game for the second year in a row.

An intense seventh end, which resulted in a carry-over, put $47,000 on the line in the eighth end — and it was Jacobs who secured the skin.

Jacobs and his rink earned $54,000 for the victory.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Jan. 11, 2016 B5

Raonic tops Federer in Brisbane final WINS EIGHTH CAREER TITLE AND SECOND WIN IN 11 MATCHES OVER FEDERER

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRISBANE, Australia — Milos Raonic got one back on Roger Federer to start the new season. After losing coach Ivan Ljubicic to the Federer camp leading into 2016, Raonic achieved something nobody else born in the 1990s has managed to do against the 17-time major winner — beat him twice.

The 25-year-old Canadian broke Federer’s serve once in each set of a 6-4, 6-4 win on Sunday night in the Brisbane International decider, reversing the outcome of their meeting in last year’s final at the Australian Open warmup tournament.

Ljubicic was in Federer’s corner for the final. Carlos Moya, who will join Raonic’s coaching crew, doesn’t arrive in Australia until next week.

He’s got a good base to work off, starting with Raonic’s eighth career title and only his second win in 11 matches against Federer.

It was a boost coming off a troubled end to 2015, when Raonic missed the last three weeks with a back problem, having missed the French Open earlier in the season with a foot injury, parted company with Ljubicic and finished out of the top 10.

“It does great things — it signifies within the team how concrete and good the work we’re doing is,” Raonic said of his win. “At the same time, with the difficulties I’ve had last year, it’s maybe a good way for me to show the other guys I will face going in Melbourne, you know, I’ve got my stuff back together and I can play some good tennis again.”

Raonic attacked top-seeded Federer with his booming serve and forehand, as expected, but also went to the net 13 times in the first set and won 10 of those points to put him on course for the win.

Federer, who went 6-5 in finals in 2015 — with all five losses coming to

top-ranked Novak Djokovic — struggled earlier in the week with lingering flu-like symptoms, but improved with four matches in four days, including wins over Grigor Dimitrov in the quarterfinals and Dominic Thiem in the semis.

He started strongly, adding some power to his serve and trying to work the taller Raonic around the court, but couldn’t make the strategy pay off.

Federer said Raonic had expanded the dimensions of his game and was tactically more astute than he had been in previous seasons.

Raonic “did well. It was a tough match — (my) legs were a little bit wobbly,” Federer said. “Still, considering the week I’ve had, I’m actually quite happy. That’s why I’m not down or anything or disappointed. “If I would’ve known I would’ve made the finals five days ago I would’ve been unbelievably happy.”

Federer planned to head to Melbourne and rest for a few days before getting into his fine-tuning for the Australian Open, which starts Jan. 18.

“The good thing is the off-season was great. I have a base there,” Federer said, “so I think within three, four days I should be back at 100 per cent.”

The match was on serve until the ninth game when Federer served a double-fault to give Raonic a breakpoint chance and then netted a forehand.

Raonic served out the first set, but needed a medical timeout for treatment on his right leg three games into the second.

He fired a succession of double-faults in the next game, giving Federer a breakpoint opportunity, but managed to hold to level the set at 2-2.

In the next game, after leading 30-0, Federer gave Raonic another breakpoint chance when he skewed just wide with a forehand down the line and then conceded the break when he netted a backhand.

Raonic didn’t have any trouble

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Milos Raonic plays a shot in the men’s final match against Roger Federer during the Brisbane International tennis tournament in Brisbane, Australia, Sunday. holding from there, and wrapped up the match in 1 hour, 27 minutes.

“Hopefully, a better year this year than last,” said Raonic, who reached the quarterfinals at the last Australian Open but didn’t progress past the third round at Wimbledon or the U.S. Open after skipping the French Open with injury. “It was tough. To see myself slip a little bit, even though I knew

it was not necessarily strictly to my tennis level but outside things, those things were hard to accept … and in some ways also depressing to deal with.

“Every single year until now my ranking had been going up. That’s the thing I was most proud of. To see that slip was hard to accept and also very motivating.”

Spieth starts year off with runaway win

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jordan Spieth hits from the 10th fairway during the final round of the Tournament of Champions golf event Sunday, at Kapalua Plantation Course in Kapalua, Hawaii.

KAPALUA, Hawaii — Jordan Spieth brought his old form to the new year and had no trouble winning the Hyundai Tournament of Champions on Sunday.

Staked to a five-shot lead, Spieth made two straight birdies around the turn at Kapalua to restore his margin, and he spent the rest of the afternoon soaking up the views of surf and sun on Maui.

The view from the top is just as stunning at the moment, not so much for those trying to catch him.

Spieth made an 8-foot birdie putt to reach his target, even though he didn’t need it. He closed with a 6-under 67 for an eight-shot victory over Patrick Reed. He finished at 30-under 262, joining Ernie Els as the only players in PGA Tour history to finish a 72-hole event at 30 under or lower.

Els set his record of 31 under at Kapalua in 2003 with an eight-shot win.

“I felt like it was short three-week break and continue what we were doing last year,” said Spieth, coming off a five-win season that included the Masters and U.S. Open. “That’s the way I’ll keep on thinking about it. It worked this week. All parts were firing.”

Reed, the defending champion at Kapalua, got within three shots with a birdie on the par-5 ninth.

Spieth answered with a two-putt birdie in the group behind him, and then rolled in a 15-foot birdie putt on the 10th and was on his way.

He had talked about setting 30 under as his goal because it such gorgeous conditions, he might need it to hold off anyone making a big run.

Turns out he didn’t need it.

Reed stalled on the back nine, ended his bogey-free week on the 15th hole and closed with a 69. Brooks Koepka, playing with Spieth in the final group, had a wild start to his round but never got closer than the five-shot deficit he faced at the start.

Koepka closed with a 71 and tied for third with Brandt Snedeker (67).

Spieth won for the seventh time on the PGA Tour,

joining Tiger Woods as the only players to get that many at age 22 since complete records began in 1970.

That requires a little context.

Spieth won his seventh title in his 77th start as a pro. Woods won his seventh PGA Tour event in his 38th start, and he had 18 wins in his first 77 tournaments.

Even so, comparisons with Woods in golf can only mean great play, and no one is playing better.

“Nowhere near,” Spieth said on how his record stacks up with Woods. “I don’t think there’s any reason to compare. It’s awfully early. We’re excited about where we’re at to start our career. What Tiger has done, I can’t imagine ever being done. But it’s nice to be in that company. It’s fantastic being out here with what we’re trying to do, and doing it well.”

It was the fifth time in the last 13 months that Spieth had at least a two-shot lead going into the final round, and he was never seriously challenged. That’s not to suggest it felt like a breeze, especially early.

His approach shot on No. 1 somehow ended up just out of a steep bunker on the very edge of sand, some 50 yards to the hole. He pitched it onto the green and let the grain take it to 4 feet for a save, and then he holed a 35-foot birdie putt on the next hole.

But he missed a 3 ½-foot birdie putt on No. 3, and then three-putted the par-5 fifth for a par. And after a simple up-and-down for birdie at No. 6, he made his second bogey of the week on the par-3 eighth hole. Reed made birdie on the ninth ahead of him, cutting the lead to three shots.

That was as close as it got.

Reed, trying to join Stuart Appleby and Geoff Ogilvy as the only repeat winners at Kapalua, opened with three birdies in five holes and went out in 32. Whatever chance he had ended when he started the back nine with five straight pars. A poor drive on the par-5 15th led to his only bogey of the week.

“I knew I had to make birdies early to put pressure on him,” Reed said. “I got it to within three. The next time I saw a board it was back to five. He’s not going to shoot over par, especially the way he’s playing now.”

Clemson standing in way of unprecedented Alabama run

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Regardless of the outcome of Monday night’s College Football Playoff championship game between No. 1 Clemson and No. 2 Alabama, a case can be made that no team in the history of the sport has had a better run than the Crimson Tide under coach Nick Saban.

If Alabama beats the Tigers to win a fourth national title in seven seasons, the argument may be settled.

There was talk early in the season after Alabama lost to Mississippi that the Tide dynasty was in decline. Now Alabama (13-1) is one victory away from an unprecedented achievement.

The Tide can become just the third school in college football’s poll era, dating back to the creation of The Associated Press media poll in 1936, to win four championships in a 10-year span.

Notre Dame won four in seven seasons from 1943-49, but big-time college football is hardly comparable now to then. Those Fighting Irish didn’t play in bowl games and never needed more than nine victories to be the best in the country. Miami won four championships in nine seasons (1983-91), but none of those teams had to play more than 12 games.

Alabama’s four championships under Saban, who took over in 2007, have all come in at least 13-game seasons.

“I mean, it’s incredible,” Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said Sunday during a news conference with Saban.

Swinney heaped so much praise on his counterpart during the half-hour session with reporters that Saban looked a little uncomfortable.

“Coach Saban, what he’s done, I mean, he’s one of the greatest coaches that ever coached the game,” Swinney said.

Saban also has a BCS title from his time at LSU, giving him four overall.

Only former Alabama coach Bear Bryant with six has more.

“This is the first one I’ve sniffed as a coach, and he’s going for his fifth,” said Swinney, who is in his eighth season at Clemson. “It’s incredible.”

Clemson has one national championship to its credit. Behind Danny Ford, an Alabama native and former Tide player for Bryant, the Tigers won the title in 1981 by beating favoured Nebraska in the Orange Bowl.

The Tigers are back on the biggest stage and again being led by an Alabaman and former Tide player.

Swinney grew up near Birmingham and played for Alabama when Gene Stallings was the coach in the early 1990s. He was on the Tide team that won a national championship in 1992, upsetting Miami in the Sugar Bowl.

Alabama then went through a long dry spell until Saban arrived.

“People will say, well, anybody can go win at Alabama,” Swinney said.

“Not everybody can coach a great team. Not everybody can coach a great player, and I think he has a gift to be able to do that.”

Under Swinney, the Tigers have won at least 10 games each of the last

five seasons, just like Alabama. And Clemson has its own shot at history: If the Tigers win the national title, they would become the first team to achieve a 15-0 season.

“We want to be a program that is competing at this level on a consistent basis and I think to do that, you’ve got to be a top-10, top-15 type program year in and year out,” Swinney said.

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LARSEN Carl 1954 - 2016 Carl Richard Larsen of Red Deer passed away at the Rosefield Centre in Innisfail on Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at the age of 61 years.

There is a special place in our hearts reserved for Angels that became a little fuller with the passing of Carl. Carl was born and raised in Hussar, Alberta and then left the farm life for the oil patch. He started with Nowsco in 1973 then on to Fracmaster in Canada, the U.S. and Russia.

After returning to Canada, Carl started his dream job with Encana in 2004. Carl made many lifelong friends through the years with work, his annual golf tournaments, the “5 o’clock” club, being an avid supporter of the Pilsner Brewery, the Bruins and the New Orleans Saints. Carl will be lovingly remembered by his loving wife and partner of 29 years, Patty Gorety; son Kyle Larsen; stepdaughter Chelsey (Logan) Tannahill; brother Paul (Elaine) Larsen; sister Mona (Darrell) Vermunt as well as numerous nieces, nephews other family members and his many friends. A Celebration of Carl’s life will be held at the Red Deer Legion, 2810 - Bremner Ave, Red Deer, AB on Friday, January 22, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the Ronald McDonald House Central Alberta, 5002 - 39 St. Red Deer AB T4N 2P2.

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WERENKA Daniel Reuben “DANGEROUS DAN” 1945 - 2016 On Wednesday, January 06, 2016, Daniel Werenka, with family at his side, passed away peacefully at the age of 70 years at the Red Deer Hospice after a long stubborn fight with cancer. Dan will be lovingly remembered by his wife of 46 years Faye, sons: Jeff and children Katlynn and Kalvin, Shane (Michelle) and children Elle and Bryce, Torrey (Carmen) and children Cara, Danielle, Dryden and Shandi (Sam). Dan was predeceased by 2 twin boys Clayton and Conrad, grandson Reuben, parents Adam and Nellie, sisters Ruth & Betty and brother and sister-in-law Joe and Caron. Dan`s grandchildren always gave him an extremely big smile and feeling of satisfaction.

He always gave his heart and soul into everything he did from work to friends and family. A Celebration of Dan’s Life will be held at the Sylvan Lake Alliance Church, 4404 47 Ave, Sylvan Lake, AB on Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 2:00pm.

Cremation has taken place and burial will take place at a later date. Since the Hospice Angels provided Dan with outstanding companionship and care in his final last months, as an expression of sympathy memorial donations may be made to the Red Deer Hospice. Cremation entrusted to Rocky Mountain Crematorium, Rocky Mountain House, AB. Condolences may be forwarded to www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.ca.

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PETERS 1988 - 2016 Parker Lee Peters passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at the young age of 27 years.

Parker was born in Red Deer where he lived his entire life.

He will always be remembered as a man who had a heart of gold and was always there to help family and friends when problems or tasks needed to be done. Parker enjoyed bonfires, the outdoors, hunting, fishing and quading with his buddies. He spent the last five years with Marshall Construction where he earned his Journeyman Certificate as a Carpenter in 2015.

Parker was deeply loved and his memory will be forever cherished by his parents; Dale and Brenda Peters; sister Kelsey (Adam) Wilcott; dearest nephews Nixon and Rowan Wilcott; paternal grandmother Leona Ewing; uncles Mitch (Candy), Darrell (Ora), Duane (Tracy), Bryant (Susan), Blaine (Kathy); aunts Shirley (Wes), Sharin (Leif), Lauri (Ernie) and their respective families. Parker was predeceased by his paternal grandfather, Larry Peters; step-grandfather Newell Ewing, and his maternal grandparents, Jerry and Shirley Petkau. Parker touched the lives of many and will be greatly missed by all who knew him. Gone, but never forgotten!!! A celebration of Parker’s life will be held at the Balmoral Bible Chapel, located at the intersection of Highway 11 (55 Street) and Rutherford Drive, Red Deer, Alberta on Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 11:30 a.m.. In lieu of flowers, memorial tributes may be made to the Red Deer and District S.P.C.A., 4505 - 77 St, Red Deer AB T4P 2J1 or to Make-A-Wish (Southern Alberta) # 4, 2308 - 24 St SW, Calgary AB T2T 5H8.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN — German authorities need to quickly determine whether a string of New Year’s Eve sexual assaults and robberies in Cologne blamed largely on foreigners may be linked to similar offences in other cities, the justice minister said in comments published Sunday.

Authorities and witnesses say the attackers were among about 1,000 people, mostly men, gathered at Cologne’s central train station, some of whom broke off into small groups that groped and robbed women.

“If such a horde gathers in order to commit crimes, that appears in some form to be planned,” Justice Minister Heiko Maas told the newspaper Bild.

“Nobody can tell me that this was not co-ordinated or prepared.”

The attacks are still being investigated, but police have said their focus is on suspects of primarily North African origin, which has put pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government and its open-door policy to asylum seekers. Nearly 1.1 million migrants arrived in Germany in 2015 alone.

She announced a proposal Saturday that would make it easier to deport migrants who commit crimes, which still needs parliamentary approval.

Cologne police said Sunday that 516 criminal complaints had now been filed with them in connection to the New Year’s attacks, about 40 per cent of which involve allegations of sexual offences.

They also announced that on Saturday night they arrested a 19-yearold Moroccan man on allegations he stole a 23-year-old woman’s cellphone on New Year’s, and had identified 19 other suspects by name. Police said the Moroccan, who they said has been involved in various crimes since 2013, isn’t accused of a sexual offence but the investigation is ongoing.

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A woman carries a sign that reads ‘I want to move freely - without fear, without prejudices’ to protest against sexual violence in front of the central railway station in Cologne, Germany, Sunday. Police are reinforcing their presence at the central railway station following sexual assaults on women in the area on New Year’s Eve. In a separate development that seemed likely to provide more grist for opponents of Merkel’s policies, police in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia on Saturday raided an apartment at a shelter for asylum-seekers in Recklinghausen that they said had been occupied by an extremist who French police fatally shot on Thursday as he ran up to a Paris police station wielding a butcher’s knife and wearing a fake explosives vest.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said in remarks Sunday that the man was also believed to have lived in Luxembourg and Switzerland.

North Rhine-Westphalia state police chief Uwe Jacob described the suspect as a small time crimi-

nal known to authorities by several aliases, who had a record that included weapons charges, drug trafficking and causing bodily harm and had spent at least a month in jail.

He said there are no indications the man was part of an extremist network, but that a self-drawn Islamic State flag was found in his room, the dpa news agency reported.

At a news conference in Duesseldorf, Jacob told reporters that the man had first entered Germany in 2013 after living for five years illegally in France, and had gone by at least seven names, identifying himself as a Tunisian, Moroccan and Georgian. He lived in several German cities and moved to Recklinghausen at the beginning of last August.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY — Mexican officials say Sean Penn’s contacts with drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman helped them track the fugitive down — even if he slipped away from an initial raid on the hideout where the Hollywood actor apparently met him.

Penn’s article on Guzman was published late Saturday by Rolling Stone magazine, a day after Mexican marines captured the world’s most wanted kingpin in a raid on the city of Los Mochis near the Gulf of California.

Penn wrote of elaborate security precautions, but also said that as he flew to Mexico on Oct 2 for the meeting, “I see no spying eyes, but I assume they are there.”

A Mexican federal law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not permitted to comment on the issue, told the Associated Press the Penn interview that led authorities to Guzman in the area of Tamazula, a rural part of Durango state.

They raided Guzman’s remote hideout a few days after the interview and narrowly missed capturing Guzman, whose July escape from Mexico’s top security prison — though a mile-long (1.5-kilometre) tunnel — had embarrassed President Enrique Pena Nieto and made his capture a national pri-

ority.

Describing the capture, Attorney General Arely Gomez said that investigators had been aided in locating Guzman by documented contacts between his attorneys and “actors and producers” she said were interested in making a film about him, though she did not name them.

Two months after that close call, marines finally caught him in a residential neighbourhood of Los Mochis, where they’d been monitoring a suspected safe house. Five people died in a gun battle as troops moved in.

In the interview, Guzman defends his work at the head of the world’s biggest drug trafficking organization, one blamed for thousands of killings.

When asked if he is to blame for high addiction rates, he responds: “No, that is false, because the day I don’t exist, it’s not going to decrease in any way at all. Drug trafficking? That’s false.”

Penn wrote that Guzman was interested in having a movie filmed on his life and wanted Mexican actress Kate del Castillo, who had portrayed a drug trafficker in a television series, involved in the project.

“He was interested in seeing the story of his life told on film, but would entrust its telling only to Kate,” wrote Penn, who appears in a photo posted with the interview shaking hands with Guzman whose face is uncovered There was no immediate response

from representatives for either Penn or del Castillo to the Mexican official’s comments.

Earlier Saturday, a federal law enforcement official said that Mexico is willing to extradite Guzman to the United States — a move authorities had ruled out before his July escape.

“Mexico is ready. There are plans to co-operate with the U.S.,” said the Mexican official, who spoke on condition anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to comment.

But he cautioned it could take at least six months to approve extradition through courts, where Guzman’s attorneys can battle a move to the U.S., where he faces drug trafficking charges in several states.

“That can take weeks or months, and that delays the extradition,” he said. “We’ve had cases that take six years.”

Guzman’s attorney Juan Pablo Badillo told the Milenio newspaper that the defence already has filed six motions to challenge extradition requests.

“They can challenge the judge, challenge the probable cause, challenge the procedure,” said Juan Masini, former U.S. Department of Justice attache at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico.

“That’s why it can take a long time.

They won’t challenge everything at once … they can drip, drip, milk it that way.”

Egypt’s first legislature in 3 years, packed with supporters of president, convenes

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO — Egypt’s first legislature in more than three years, a 596-seat chamber packed with supporters of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, held its inaugural session on Sunday, signalling the completion of a political road map announced after the 2013 military overthrow of an elected Islamist president.

The assembly, elected in November and December, is the first legislature since el-Sissi, as military chief, led the 2013 ouster of President Mohammed Morsi following mass protests against the Islamist leader and his Muslim Brotherhood. The new parliament replaces one dominated by Islamists that was dissolved by a court ruling in June 2012.

The new chamber’s first task will be to ratify some 300 presidential de-

crees issued by el-Sissi since taking office in June 2014 and Interim President Adly Mansour before him. Under the constitution, these decrees must be ratified within 15 days starting from the date of the inaugural session.

Failure to do so will result in the automatic repeal of the laws.

The decrees include a law severely restricting street demonstrations and a terror law that curbs press freedoms and gives police sweeping powers.

Sunday’s session was supposed to be a mostly procedural one, with lawmakers taking the oath and electing a speaker and two deputies. But heated arguments between lawmakers broke out when an outspoken member, Murtada Mansour, strayed from the text of the oath to avoid endorsing the Jan. 25, 2011 uprising against autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

Mansour, an el-Sissi supporter and president of one of Egypt’s top soccer

clubs, changed the part of the oath where lawmakers pledge respect for the constitution, saying instead he will respect the “clauses of the constitution,” thus avoiding implicit support for the charter’s prologue. That part of the document contains praise for both the 2011 revolt as well as the so-called “June 30 revolution,” a reference to the wave of massive street demonstrations that led to Morsi’s ouster on July 3, 2013.

The dispute reflects an ongoing and divisive argument in Egypt regarding the legitimacy and legacy of the original 2011 uprising. Many pro-el-Sissi politicians and media figures, like Mansour, now brand the 2011 revolt as a mistake — fueled and funded by external powers and foreign agents seeking to weaken Egypt. Other el-Sissi supporters regard both Mubarak’s and Morsi’s ousters as legitimate revolutions.

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2016 could be big year for LNG

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — After much anticipation Canada could see final approval of the first natural gas export projects on the West Coast this year.

Proponents behind some of the 20 proposed liquefied natural gas projects in B.C. say they should be in a position to make final investment decisions this year as environmental approvals, permits and First Nations support fall into place.

And while a supply glut has pushed down natural gas prices and reduced short-term prospects, experts say projects remain viable.

“These are long-term, multi-decade projects,” said Altacorp Capital analyst Mark Westby. “Current gas prices are only one factor.”

Spot prices for LNG have dropped by more than half in Asia over the past two years. In Japan, the world’s biggest buyer of LNG, prices have dropped from over US$18 per thousand cubic feet in March 2014 to around US$7.50 per thousand cubic feet last November.

Westby sees LNG Canada, a joint venture headed by Shell that is proposing a facility in Kitimat, and the Altagas-led Douglas Channel project also planned for Kitimat as developments most likely to proceed this year.

LNG Canada’s final barriers are securing assurances from First Nations and a permit from Fisheries and Oceans Canada, while Douglas Channel still needs to settle a 25 per cent excise duty being levied on its US$300 million floating LNG facility, Westby said.

“I don’t see LNG Canada or Douglas Channel encountering any other obstacles that would push them beyond 2016,” said Westby.

LNG Canada spokeswoman Katharine Birtwistle said the company does indeed plan to make a final investment decision this year “despite being in a challenging global energy market environment.”

Last week, LNG Canada passed two milestones, securing both a facility permit from the B.C. government and a 40-year export licence from the National Energy Board.

Another development in the pipeline is the Pacific NorthWest LNG project proposed by a consortium spearheaded by Petronas. But Westby said while it remains promising, it faces uncertainty.

An environmental assessment of the project restarted in December and should be completed by March, but Petronas still has to resolve significant issues with First Nations including environmental concerns, he said.

There is also the Woodfibre LNG project, owned

by Singapore-based Pacific Oil and Gas Ltd., which is hoping to make a final investment decision this year.

Byng Giraud, vice-president of corporate affairs

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BRIEF Rise in food prices pushes China’s consumer inflation up 1.6 per cent in December BEIJING — China’s consumer inflation edged up 1.6 per cent in December year on year as food prices rose, official data showed Saturday.

The inflation rate reported by the National Bureau of Statistics was up from November’s 1.5 per cent and was driven by a 1.5 per cent increase in food prices.

The price of fresh vegetables jumped 13.7 per cent and fresh fruits went up 2.3 per cent.

Consumer inflation had been drifting down after hitting 2 per cent in August.

Relatively low inflation has given Chinese leaders room to cut interest rates six times since November 2014 to stimulate the slowing economy.

Saturday’s data showed that consumer prices were up 1.4 per cent in 2015 compared with the previous year, also pushed by higher food prices. Pork prices jumped year on year by 9.5 per cent and fresh vegetables went up 7.4 per cent.

The year’s rise was well below the official target of 3 per cent, and lower than 2 per cent growth in 2014.

Producer prices, measured as goods that leave the factory, declined by 5.9 per cent in December from a year earlier, extending a long period of declines due to excess production capacity in many industries.

Producer prices dropped 5.2 per cent in 2015 from the previous year.

FILE photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Construction workers look on at the FortisBC Tilbury LNG expansion project in Delta, B.C. at Woodfibre, said the company first needs to secure federal environmental approval and enough sales contracts as well as cut projected costs.

If everything falls into place, the company could give final approval in the second half of the year, he said.

Racim Gribaa, who leads Deloitte Canada’s LNG business, said the downturn in the resources sector presents an ideal time to start building projects.

“This is the best time to invest in infrastructure, when the prices are low, when the costs are low, when the labour is available, when the steel costs are low,” said Gribaa.

He said that despite current prices, the future demand for natural gas looks strong, giving Canada a chance to still play a role in the global LNG market.

“I certainly see all the factors in place, and the most important one being the forecasted demand being strong,” said Gribaa.

But Mary Hemmingsen, global head of LNG at KPMG, says the drop in both gas and oil prices have diminished the likelihood of multibillion-dollar LNG projects going forward.

She says low oil prices have reduced cash flow at the energy companies planning to build projects, while also making alternatives to natural gas cheaper.

“If the oil price continues to fall, you’ll see reduced activity, deferment of activity, consolidation of activity, but also an opportunity because those that have a solid consortium are continuing to progress their projects,” Hemmingsen said.

She says the “gold rush mentality” that was in place for the past couple of years has been replaced by a more sombre, realistic outlook.

“What everyone was chasing two years ago was volume, volume, volume,” said Hemmingsen. “Now it’s about value, value, value.”

But despite the gloom, Hemmingsen says in the long-term, the outlook for natural gas remains strong as countries commit to phasing out coal and adopting more stringent environmental policies like those agreed to at the Paris climate change summit.

“Countries made this commitment and gas and LNG has a really big role in fulfilling that commitment,” said Hemmingsen.

First Nation heads to top court over Line 9

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS An Ontario first nation is taking its fight against a controversial pipeline that runs through one of Canada’s most populous corridors to the country’s top court.

The legal battle over Line 9 — which runs between Sarnia, Ont., and Montreal — pits the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation against Enbridge Inc., the National Energy Board and the Attorney General of Canada.

The aging pipeline drew spirited opposition when Enbridge sought to reverse its flow and increase its capacity in 2012.

The company has since won the National Energy Board’s approval, cleared regulatory obligations and has begun operating the pipeline in its new configuration.

At the heart of its legal case is a question over the duty of the Crown to consult and accommodate first nations on concerns related to the potential effects of the pipeline on their aboriginal and treaty rights.

The first nation argues it wasn’t consulted properly over the pipeline that runs through its traditional territory.

“The case has huge implications for firsts nations across the country,” said Chief Leslee White-Eye. “The corporations running the pipeline shouldn’t be the ones fulfilling the constitutional obligations.”

After the National Energy Board approved Enbridge’s application, the first nation appealed the board’s decision at the Federal Court of Appeal but it was dismissed in October.

ENBRIDGE The Chippewas of the Thames is now asking the Supreme Court of Canada for leave to appeal that decision.

“What we have is a previous government that refused to come to the table and honour the obligations of the Crown through the Constitution,” said White-Eye. “They didn’t participate in a process that was faulty and that we had indicated was faulty and was with the wrong parties — it should have been between the nation and the Crown.”

Line 9 has operated since 1976, first pumping oil eastward. Its flow was reversed in the late 90s, in response to market conditions, to pump imported crude westward.

It now supplies Alberta crude to Suncor Energy’s Montreal refinery.

Enbridge said it would not comment publicly on the leave to appeal application but said Line 9 had been operating safety for more than 40 years.

“The line has recently undergone a series of major upgrades, including new valves, maintenance work and facility enhancements that made a safe line even safer,” said spokesman Graham White, who called the three-year consultation on Line 9’s reversal “the most extensive in the company’s history” for the reversal of an existing line.

White added that Enbridge had also conducted tests on key segments of the line to ensure it was fit for service and made “considerable enhancements” to its emergency response capabilities.

Financial literacy more crucial than ever Recent studies and reports indicate Canadians are in dangerous financial waters and seriously need to improve their level of financial literacy to better equip themselves to prepare for and survive life’s unexpected events.

Canadians’ debt-to-income ratio, for example, has hit a record of almost 165 per cent, meaning they hold $1.65 of debt for every dollar of disposable income. In the second quarter of last year Canadians borrowed $26.3 billion, an increase of $3.7 billion from the first quarter.

Studies by the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) show that three in TALBOT 10 Canadians are struggling to meet their bills and payBOGGS ments. More than six of 10 CaMONEYWISE nadian adults rate their financial knowledge as poor and nearly six out of 10 adults do not have a good idea about how much money they will need to retire with their desired standard of living.

Canadians normally were considered to be savers instead of spenders. Now, however, they have higher debt loads than their counterparts in the United States.

Financial experts find this trend toward higher spending and more debt concerning because it signals Canadians are becoming too comfortable with

low interest rates. Low interest rates have been a financial reality for some time. They are the new normal and could lure people into a false sense of security and result in more spending and higher debt.

Another frightening reality is that more and more seniors are taking debt into their retirement and declaring bankruptcy.

The federal Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy reports that 10 per cent of people who declared bankruptcy in 2014 were 65 years of age or older, a whopping 20.5-per-cent increase from 2010.

One of the reasons for this is actually a positive — people are living longer. However, longevity also raises the possibility of outliving your money.

More and more seniors are carrying more debt into their golden years and are retiring in the red. Statistics Canada’s most recent numbers in 2012 showed that 42.5 per cent of people aged 65 and over still had debt, an increase of 55 per cent since 1999.

Paying down debt in your retirement years can be particularly challenging because many retirees are on fixed incomes. The impact of unplanned setbacks like a financially-needy child or a family or personal illness can be crushing.

“A lot of people sort of drift into their financial situations,” says Blair Davidson, senior vice president and trustee in bankruptcy with BDO Canada.

“Financial literacy is a bit like preventive medicine when a doctor tells you to lose weight or change your diet or lifestyle. You have to know how to become fit before you can actually do it.”

For many Canadians basic financial terms and concepts such as debt, income, budgets, RRSPs, TFSAs, and risk management are like a second lan-

guage.

“People who have a higher degree of financial knowledge realize the importance of building up savings and operating within their means and generally are better able to manage unexpected events when they happen – and eventually they do happen to everyone,” Davidson says.

The FCAC has launched national financial literacy month in November to raise the public’s awareness about the need for financial literacy and has created a Canadian financial literary database, a self-assessment tool to help Canadians identify shortcomings in their financial knowledge.

The FCAC’s budgeting tool, for example, is quite rigorous but there are many other tools and websites available through BDO and other financial institutions designed to help the public learn the basics of financial literacy and management.

Davidson encourages people to educate themselves and if, for some reason, they can’t then go to a financial planner who can help or give you the tools and teach you how to become your own debt consultant.

“People really have to bear down and educate themselves,” Davidson says “That’s what these initiatives are really trying to do – to make people aware of the problem and motivate them to do something about it.”

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

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France’s economic minister says top priority is to woo private investment FILE photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ]SAN FRANCISCO — France’s economy minister wants global investors to know that the country known for handcrafted cheeses, wine and luxury apparel— all of which take time to make — is ready to speed up in order to embrace technology’s startup culture.

Socialist Emmanuel Macron told The Associated Press in an interview on Friday that his top priority in 2016 is to attract private investment to the country’s fledgling yet growing tech industry.

To do so, he’s emphasizing to investors and technology executives in the United States that his country has relaxed some of its famously stringent workplace protections and will do more so that companies can restructure or lay off workers in order to be more nimble and competitive.

“We have to provide more visibility, more certainty to the investors and reduce the cost of failure,” he said, speaking before a reception at the French Consul General’s home near San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district.

Macron, 38, is an unabashed admirer of tech innovation and competitiveness, making him a controversial figure within a party where opponents fear he is pushing the country toward an Americanstyle model that doesn’t do enough to protect workers.

In July, for example, the French government approved an economic reform bill championed by Macron.

Among other things, the law allows stores to open 12 times a year on Sunday instead of five and lets stores expand evening hours.

France’s 35-hour workweek law was unaffected.

But he said Friday that French workers shouldn’t worry that the country will turn into the United States, overnight or ever.

“WE HAVE TO PROVIDE MORE VISIBILITY, MORE CERTAINTY TO THE INVESTORS AND REDUCE THE COST OF FAILURE.” — EMMANUEL MACRON, FRANCE ECONOMY MINISTER France is not the United States, nor does it want to be, he said.

“At the same time, what we have to do in France is to adapt the country to globalization and we have to accelerate, because everything is about speed,” Macron said.

Macron has spent the past two days at the annual gadget extravaganza known as the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

He noted there were nearly 200 French startups at the show, the most of any European country, he said.

He said France creates about 1,500 startup companies each year, many in health care, energy and mobility. On his lapel, he wore a small red rooster pin, the official symbol of “La French Tech.”

He met with entrepreneurs and investors in Silicon Valley and San Francisco on Friday and has scheduled more meetings for Saturday, before heading home.

Asked if he had a message for people at home, Macron said he was impressed by the relentless drive for innovation and speed seen in investors and executives, even those already considered successful.

“My key message is be innovative, be ambitious, think global and big on day one,” Macron said.

“Otherwise you have people here thinking global for you.”

5 things to watch for in the business world this week

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

cerns about the falling price of crude harming their bottom line in 2016.

TORONTO — Here are five things to look for in Canadian business this week: Housing data: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. releases data Monday on the number of housing starts in the country for December.

The figures will be scrutinized by policy-makers following what has been a robust year for the real estate sector.

Oil and gas: The Conference Board of Canada hosts a two-day oil and gas summit beginning Monday in Calgary that features, among others, Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips, whose NDP government has vowed to see the industry clean up its reputation on pollution.

The economy, stupid: The Bank of Canada releases results from its latest business outlook survey on Monday summarizing the views of senior managers of about 100 Canadian corporations on where the economy is headed.

Banking conference: The CEOs of Canada’s biggest banks are expected to discuss the economy and challenges facing their industry at a conference Tuesday in Toronto.

Last year, the banks cashed in record profits, but they have aired con-

Help for the middle class: Ah, the middle class — that highly courted segment of the population will be one of the highlights in a speech Tuesday in Montreal by federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau.

Last month, the House of Commons voted to approve a package of tax changes that will cut taxes for middle-income earners while raising them for those in top earnings rackets. Morneau is also expected to outline Canada’s economic situation.

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Campbell Soup supports mandatory GMO labeling

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Campbell Soup says it now supports mandatory national labeling for products containing genetically modified ingredients, and that it will stop backing efforts opposing such disclosures. The change of heart by the maker of Pepperidge Farm cookies, Prego sauces and Spaghetti-Os marks a break from industry groups that have sought to make labeling voluntary.

About three-quarters of Campbell’s products contain GMOs. The company has opposed a patchwork of state-bystate legislation that it believes would confuse customers.

States have tried to address the issue on their own and Vermont passed legislation requiring labeling of genetically modified ingredients on certain products by July. But industry groups want to pre-empt such efforts with federal legislation that would make disclosures voluntary, said Michele Simon, a public health lawyer.

“They’re going for as little as they can,” Simon said.

If a federal labeling standard isn’t established in a “reasonable amount of time,” Campbell says it will work independently to disclose the presence of GMOs in its products. The company did not specify a timeline for doing so.

Genetically modified seeds are engineered in laboratories to have certain traits, like resistance to herbicides. The majority of the country’s corn and soybean crop is now genetically modified, with much of that going to animal feed. Corn and soybeans are also made into popular processed food ingredients like high-fructose corn syrup, corn starch and soybean oil.

The food industry says about 75 to 80 per cent of foods contain genetically modified ingredients. The Food and Drug Administration has said that GMOs are safe.

Still, the number of products stamped with a voluntary “non-GMO” label from a third-party group has proliferated as the issue has gained attention. The label, which is displayed on the front of packages, has become a marketing tool in some cases.

Campbell is also calling on the federal government to propose a national standard for “non-GMO” claims made on food packaging.

The company’s disclosure of GMO ingredients likely wouldn’t be as prominent as the “non-GMO” labels displayed on some products. An image provided by Campbell to illustrate compliance with the Vermont law showed the back of a Spaghetti-Os can with the words “Partially produced with genetic engineering” in small print at the bottom.

The change in position by Campbell comes amid dimming prospects for industry-backed legislation that would prevent states from requiring GMO labeling. Last month, the industry made an aggressive push to add the federal legislation to a massive year-end spending bill in December, but failed to win enough support. That may have been its best bet before Vermont’s law is enacted, although lawmakers say they will keep trying in the coming months. Campbell Soup CEO Denise Morrison has been outspoken about the need for big food makers to adapt to changing tastes. The company, based in Camden, N.J., has been diversifying its packaged food lineup with offerings that are seen as fresher.

Some Tesla Motors vehicles will be able to park themselves without a driver

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — Some Tesla Motors vehicles can park themselves without a driver inside with a software update beamed to customers over the weekend.

The update also puts new speed limits on Tesla’s semi-autonomous Autopilot mode and makes several enhancements, including automatically slowing when the car is approaching a curve and keeping the car in its lane even when the lane markings are faded.

CEO Elon Musk said the parking feature is a “baby step” toward his eventual goal: Letting drivers summon their self-driving, self-charging cars from anywhere using their phones.

“I actually think, and I might be slightly optimistic on this, within two years you’ll be able to summon your car from across the country,” Musk said on a conference call with report-

ers. “This is the first little step in that direction.”

For now, though, the system isn’t truly autonomous.

“It’s more like remote-control parking,” Musk said.

Owners must line up their Model S sedan or Model X SUV within 33 feet of the space they want it to drive or back into. They must then stand within 10 feet and direct the car to park itself using the key fob or Tesla’s smartphone app. The car can also exit the spot when the driver summons it. If it’s going into a home garage, it can also open and close the garage door.

Tesla says the system is helpful for tight parking spots, but cautions that it should only be used on private property since it can’t detect every potential obstacle.

The car could hit bikes hanging from a garage ceiling, for example.

The software update also puts new speed limits on Tesla’s semi-autonomous mode.

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