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City budget gets thumbs up from Chamber TAX INCREASE SLASHED THROUGH SIX DAYS OF DEBATE BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF City council’s budget was right for our economic times, says the Red Deer and District Chamber of Commerce. “With the economy how it is, with the low dollar and people paying more for groceries, a big tax increase was the last thing that most people needed,” said Reg Warkentin, chamber policy co-ordinator. “It was really good to see the progress council made in getting that rate lower. “I think they did a great job at finding those savings.” Council spent more than six days crunching budget numbers before settling on a 2.9 per cent increase, whittled down from almost 3.8 per cent at one point. The tax rate increase means the owner of a $325,000 home would pay $1,985.97 in municipal taxes, up $55.97 from last year’s bill. Warkentin said the chamber was encouraged that the city kept tax increases relatively low without sacrificing continuing investment in the city. “We need to continue to invest and make sure Red Deer is a place where people want to live and people want to work and businesses want to set up shop.” Previous city councils have kept the tax rates competitive with other municipalities. Those rates are determined in the spring (when the school tax requisition is known) and the chamber hopes to see that trend continue. “Generally speaking we want to see any increase in government spending closely correlated to population growth and inflation. From what I’m seeing this budget looks like it’s right in line with that target.” Red Deer Public Library felt the impact of some of council’s tough budget decisions. Only three of the library’s six requests were approved. A $108,000 request to help pay for more staff hours at the Timberlands branch, $90,000 for a new information technology specialist and a $50,000 publicity campaign didn’t make the cut. Library CEO Christina Wilson said while she’s disappointed not everything made the cut, what council did approve is important to the library. Council approved a staff wage boost totalling $101,250, and $20,000 for safety training and security to help staff respond safely to some of the disruptive visitors the downtown branch sometimes faces. A small but important request to boost by $10,000 the money the library puts towards online resources was also approved.

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Faith Marquez takes a peek out of the window of a train built by Hannah LaGrange during the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery’s MAGnificent Saturday programming. Red Deerians are invited to drop in next Saturday, Jan. 23, for another art making session between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. and create textured monotype prints.

Downturn keeping food bank busy BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF January generally means a lull for the Red Deer Food Bank. Not this year. Food Bank executive director Fred Scaife said staff are being run off their feet, storage areas are overflowing and phones are ringing off the hook. “We’ve had to set a limit on how many hampers we can actually do in a day because we don’t have the physical space and the manpower to deal with all of the requests coming in on a daily basis,” said Scaife. “I’ve never seen it like this,” added Scaife, who has been helping feed local residents for almost 20 years and whose food bank is a regional distribution centre for a 22,000-square-km chunk of Central Alberta. “The traffic goes on non-stop. The increases in client demand are incredible,” he said. The last time he had to limit hampers was in 2008, when the world financial crisis peaked. That experience prompted the food bank to change its layout and systems to improve efficiency, moves that have paid off for many years. This time around, the warehouse has already been re-arranged again to provide more space for hampers. But there is not much else that can be im-

proved with the staff and space available. “What concerns me is the busiest month of the year is yet to come, and that’s February.” That is the month when the consequences of Christmas spending and crunch time for unpaid bills hits. Scaife said the oilpatch downturn has a lot to do with the number who are struggling to put food on their tables. While oilpatch job cuts are an obvious sign of slumping oil prices, the financial impact creeps into every sector. Lower-income households are the most vulnerable to economic downturns. They are typically walking an economic tightrope to begin with. On top of that, they hold the kinds of jobs that make them the first staffers to go when budgets are tight and last to be rehired, he said. “We knew it was coming from September on. When November hit, literally, all hell broke loose. We had lineups out the door.” Scaife said it’s obvious by their lack of familiarity with the documentation required such as ID and proof of address, that many of those coming for help have never been to a food bank before. More volunteers would be welcomed to help pack groceries, he said. “If we had a few more bodies that would make the work in the hamper room a little better.” pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Not first time Canadians faced African al-Qaeda terror BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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OTTAWA — Even though they are responsible for a string of atrocities and affiliated with the grand daddy of terrorist groups, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has flown largely under the radar in terms of public perception of extremists. But that could change in the aftermath the slaughter of at least 28 people that ended early Saturday at a luxury hotel in the west African nation of Burkina Faso, an outrage that left six Canadians among the dead. All six were from Quebec and were in Burkina Faso doing humanitarian work. It’s not the first time Canadians have been targeted by AQIM. The same faction of the group was responsible for the kidnapping of Canadian diplomats Bob Fowler and Louis Guay in 2009, and its commander — Belmokhtar Mokhtar — is wanted by the RCMP. Speaking in Peterborough, Ont. on Sunday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau led a moment of silence for the victims and condemned the attacks on the Splendid Hotel and nearby Cappuccino Cafe, which left a

estimated total of 28 dead, as a “brutal act of violent terrorism.” He spoke at a restored mosque, which was firebombed in the aftermath of deadly attacks in Paris last November. His government is facing increased political pressure as the Conservative opposition attempted to link the events in the impoverished nation with the Liberal plan to withdraw CF-18s from the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and refocus Canada’s military contribution. Opposition leader Rona Ambrose, in a statement, demanded Trudeau “end the ambiguity” about the country’s role in fighting ISIL and that the latest attack is “proof that decisive action is required to confront this threat.” Defence experts say, other than sharing an overall extremist ideology and a loathing of the west, there is little that al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and the Islamic State have in common. In fact, they can be considered rivals with some important differences. ISIL controls territory and wants to take the fight

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directly to western countries around the globe. AQIM — other than a brief occupation of northern Mali — is fractured and generally does not appear interested in governing. It is considered more a regional player interested in ousting — or influencing — Islamic governments in west Africa, according to experts at the U.S.-based Rand Corporation. “They’ll attack western interested when it suits them,” said retired colonel George Petrolekas, of the Conference of Defence Associations Institute. France, which considers AQIM a more immediate threat, has been carrying on a quiet, mostly effective campaign to identify and disrupt the group ever since beating back their advance by in northern Mali two years ago. In doing a round of interviews late last year, Harjit Sajjan, the new defence minister, said part of the new government’s consideration in its reshaping of the Iraq mission is overall picture of where extremist tentacles have spread in the region. The example he cited, at the time, was the Islamic State’s foothold in eastern Libya.

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Gay Syrian refugee relieved to be in Canada FACED DIRE THREATS AT HOME BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — If it weren’t for the castration threats, Rasheed might have believed Syrian police were only hounding him for his political views. He and his friends had begun receiving unwelcome attention from cops in his hometown of Damascus as early as 2012, and they were told that perceived opposition to Syria’s extremist government was the reason for the increasingly tense encounters. But Rasheed, who requested not to have his full name used for this story because he hasn’t told his family about his sexuality, believes the real motive came to the fore the day he and a few fellow gay men were carted off to a local jail. The police who blindfolded him and beat him with electrical cables made revealing comments after seizing his cell phone containing pictures and videos that made his sexual preferences plain. Amid derogatory taunts and homophobic slurs, he said the officers threatened him with much worse. “‘We’re going to castrate you…We’re going to rape you. You’ll never see this world again,”’ Rasheed said they told him. Such attitudes — the norm in his homeland, says the 32-year-old — were what allowed Rasheed to successfully claim refugee status in Canada and begin a new life. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has named single men identifying as gay, bisexual or transgender as among those who are most vulnerable in Syria and in need of urgent relocation to another country. Canada is following the commissioner’s guidelines in identifying 25,000 refugees for government-assisted resettlement in the next few months, and has included gay men among priority candidates. They join complete families, women at risk and members of sexual minorities. Rasheed narrowly missed his fresh

start in Toronto, where he’s been living since late last year. He happened to be spending time with family in Lebanon when Syrian authorities barged into his family home in the middle of the night looking to arrest him. Rasheed said his parents managed to contact him in Beirut and warn him against returning to Syria. He then began the process of applying to come to Canada. According to those who work with refugees from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, family support in those cases is rare. Justin Taylor, executive director of Toronto-based Rainbow Railroad, said those fleeing homophobia arrive in their new homes with even fewer resources than most of their fellow refugees. While many are privately sponsored by friends or family living abroad, Taylor said many of those fleeing countries with a deep-seeded homophobic culture don’t have such options to fall back on. “The people we help are in conflict with their families,” he said. “They are facing violence from their own community … because they’re LGBT. These are very special cases that often are still in a lot of risk while they’re waiting to be resettled.” Taylor said the lack of family resources can also lead to complications for sponsoring LGBT refugees. Most of them are sponsored by groups of strangers, many of whom Taylor said tend to disband during the months or even years it can take to process resettlement paperwork. That is problem is being alleviated for Syrians due to the federal government’s initiative, and Taylor said his organization is now offering more help than ever before. Rainbow Railroad once fielded one to three requests for assistance every month, but Taylor said the past year has seen those numbers increase to at least one per day, the majority of which have come from the Middle East.

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Rasheed, a refugee from Syria, is pictured at his Toronto home. The gay Syrian refugee is relieved to be in Canada after facing dire threats at home. Taylor said the first few refugees sponsored by his organization are due to arrive in Canada within the next few months. Once here, they will encounter many of the same challenges as traditional refugees — including finding housing and learning language skills. But their status as the LGBT refugees presents some unique challenges. Karlene Williams-Clarke, manager of direct services at Toronto’s 519 agency for the city’s gay community, said they face more limited options for medical care due to the need to find “LGBT-friendly” doctors. The centre also offers individual and group counselling options to help new arrivals cope with the trauma they may have endured, she said.

Rasheed said his first few months in Toronto have gone smoothly despite some challenges addressing his medical needs and finding affordable housing. He said he is particularly struck by the contrast in attitudes between his old and new home. His family back in Syria, whom he described as “very liberal,” either don’t know of his sexuality or hold out hope that he will some day marry a woman. He said he revels in the relative acceptance he’s found among Canadians. “I find it very respectful,” he said. “Whenever I say I’m gay or whenever I go to gay places, in the society itself, they respect you for being gay.” their adult son Charlelie Carrier and Yves’ adult daughter Maude Carrier, a teacher. A Quebec City-area school, Jean de Brebeuf, identified the fifth victim as Louis Chabot, a former teacher at the school. The identity of the sixth person could not immediately be verified, but Quebec and Burkina Faso media said all six were travelling together on a humanitarian trip.

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HOTEL: 3,000 French troops in Africa “We need to look wider than the current threats we face in Iraq and Syria, and it’s very important we get this right,” Sajjan said, referencing the government’s ongoing review. Although Sajjan didn’t mention west Africa by name, Petrolekas said he wouldn’t be surprised if the Liberals — in offsetting criticism for pulling jets out of Iraq —considered some form of contribution to the ongoing French mission against AQIM. It would, he said, be politically saleable in light of the weekend attack and a mission in northern Mali carries with it the added blessing of the United Nations — something that speaks to the Liberal desire to work with multi-lateral institutions. “This whole terrorism fight is not limited to just one patch of ground,” Petrolekas said, noting that the Dutch are already part of a western African mission and that French special forces were brought in to help end the seige in neighbouring Burkina Faso. “There’s ample room for special

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BUDGET: Books costing more for library “That’s a very significant thing for us,” said Wilson. “It’s important because the way are collecting is shifting is towards more and more online resources.” The library was facing a “double whammy” because higher rates kicked in for some online resources based on per capita when the city’s population topped 100,000. As well, since many providers are U.S.-based, the sinking Canadian dollar means higher costs for the library to maintain what they have. “This is very timely money for us, and the great thing is it is ongoing.” pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Red Deer Food Bank administrative assistant Sheila Wetherelt fills a food hamper Thursday. and conventional forces, let alone we helped the French with the C-17,” he said, referring to the Conservative government’s use of Canadian heavy-lift transports to move French troops to Mali in the early winter of 2013. The Rand Corporation, which studies conflicts around the world, has said the successful French intervention in Mali should serve as model for future U.S. expeditionary missions.

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Restaurants that source local say they aren’t affected as much by low dollar SASKATOON — Some prairie restaurant owners who source their food locally say their menus are a defence against the low loonie. Christie Peters, owner of The Hollows and Primal Pasta in Saskatoon, says her restaurant grows or locally sources up to 90 per cent of its produce yearround and can also preserve food for winter. The strategy has allowed the restaurant to nearly completely avoid importing U.S. goods aside from a few items such as chocolate, olive oil, salt and coffee. The Canadian dollar has hovered around 70 cents U.S. but economists are projecting it could fall as low as 59 cents before it starts to climb again. The result is more business for Canadian exporters, but also steeper prices for imports like produce. Prairie Harvest Cafe chef and owner Michael McKeown, who is also in Saskatoon, says an advantage with sourcing locally is the price is locked in and the growing season has already happened, so he knows what supply is available. “You just have to think what’s absolutely necessary to make the food taste good and build around that,” McKeown told CKOM radio. Peters, meanwhile, noted going local has a higher storage cost and keeping a horticulturalist on the payroll isn’t cheap. Still, she said they’ve seen their model “pay itself off time and time again.” Organic vegetable growers north of the border may also see a benefit. Graham Pusch of Pusch Bros. Organic Farm in Windthorst, Sask., said the low dollar means Canadian-produced organic produce is now more competitive. Organic food is normally more expensive than imported non-organic, but that margin is shrinking as the loonie drops.

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Carrie Berg, left, and Deb Isbister entertained some of the city’s youngest residents with puppet plays, stories, songs and crafts as part of the Yummy in My Tummy Puppet Party Saturday morning at the Red Deer Public Library’s downtown branch. More than 20 children attended the event.

Advocates say feminism missing for MMIW inquiry BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — A chairwoman of Vancouver’s annual memorial march for missing and murdered aboriginal women says she’s concerned a national inquiry will leave out a crucial issue — feminism. Fay Blaney, who co-chairs the February 14th Women’s Memorial March Committee said the starting point of an inquiry must be the barriers indigenous women face in Canadian society. Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett is touring the country to meet with families, survivors and aboriginal representatives to hear what they want from an inquiry. Blaney attended an all-day meeting in Vancouver last Wednesday and wants to meet with Bennett to discuss the inquiry’s parameters. “It needs to proceed from a feminist perspective. This is an issue of indigenous women’s equality,” she said. “I didn’t hear that coming from them.” Her fears are part of a broader concern among front-line workers and advocacy groups that they are being shut out of the process. Blaney said the consultations appear to be focused on families, and while it’s important for them to have a voice, they’re only one perspective. “Each one has a unique story to tell and it’s instructive in terms of the data and information that comes from those stories, and it can lead to healing of the families involved,” she said. “But my position is that the women in the Downtown Eastside and other urban centres across this

“EACH ONE HAS A UNIQUE STORY TO TELL AND IT’S INSTRUCTIVE IN TERMS OF THE DATA AND INFORMATION THAT COMES FROM THOSE STORIES, AND IT CAN LEAD TO HEALING OF THE FAMILIES INVOLVED.” —FAY BLANEY FEB. 14 WOMEN’S MEMORIAL MARCH CO-CHAIR country are estranged from families.” Blaney’s committee advocates year-round for women in the city’s troubled Downtown Eastside and is one of several groups, including Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter, that have sent a letter to Bennett asking for a special meeting. Rape Relief spokeswoman Hilla Kerner said approaching the inquiry using a feminist framework would mean examining the power relationships that have an impact on aboriginal women. “Aboriginal women are vulnerable to male violence first and foremost because they are women, then because they are aboriginal, and then because they are poor,” she said. “The intersection between colonialism and sexism plays a crucial role.” Dawn Lavell-Harvard, president of the Native Women’s Association of Canada, is also calling on the government to hold separate meetings with frontline workers and grassroots groups. She said she was told before the meetings started that they were for families only. “We absolutely understand and respect the need

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No comparison in refugee situations BY DOUG FIRBY SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Even the most compassionate Canadians acknowledge that with an influx of refugees there will be some social challenges. No one, however, expects to see the grief that Germany is dealing with after a spate of incidents on New Year’s Eve. A series of assaults against women — as many as 500 — in Cologne is being blamed on migrants. Police say most of the suspects in Cologne are believed to be foreigners, including at least some asylum-seekers. Many were described as being of “Arab or North African origin.” German Chancellor Angela Merkel is reportedly under pressure to revisit her liberal stance towards refugees from North Africa and Syria. Even though such perpetrators bear little resemblance to the Syrian refugees being accepted into Canada, the publicity around these incidents feeds suspicions among those who fear that we are putting our hearts before our heads. Letter-writers question whether Canadian officials can really ensure

terrorists don’t sneak in with the legitimate refugees. Even so, Canada’s relatively mild online petitions pale in comparison to the United States, where more than half of governors oppose letting Syrian refugees into their states. Those states include Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Arizona, Michigan, Illinois, Maine and New Hampshire. CNN reports that all but one of the anti-immigration states have Republican governors. Refugees are seen as both a security threat and unwanted competition for entry level jobs. Such concerns are wildly misplaced. Let’s look at the facts: Canadian officials have worked rapidly but with great diligence to ensure that all Syrian refugees approved to enter our country are properly vetted. There is little evidence to suggest shortcuts are undermining the process. As well, the policy decision to accept families but not single men was controversial because it is inherently discriminatory, but it does reduce the pressure to exhaustively screen the cohort most likely to be a threat: young, single men. Experience with the refugees from

Syria so far shows that they are motivated by desperate circumstances and are profoundly grateful to be accepted into a safe country like Canada - even though the January winds must come as a cruel shock. Immigrants have also historically been the group most willing to do the “dirty jobs” that Canadians seem to feel is beneath them. There’s a good reason why you find visible minorities serving you coffee, cleaning your room and driving your cab — many native-born Canadians simply won’t do that work. For further evidence, think of the impact of the former Conservative government’s move to restrict the supply of temporary foreign workers. Tourist destinations, fast-food outlets and other service industries complained bitterly that the choking off of workers from around the world hurt their businesses because there was no one else willing to do those jobs. Even with such assurances, there is a real possibility that there will be an incident in which some Syrian refugee commits a crime. It has happened with previous waves of refugees, including those who fled Vietnam more than 40

years ago. It is vital that refugee-skeptics don’t seize on such isolated incidents to confirm their own biases. Recent data, in fact, suggest that crime rates in urban areas actually drop with increased immigration. A 2008 spatial analysis of crime data released by Statistics Canada, looking at large urban centres like Toronto and Montreal, concluded that while various socio-economic factors increase crime, “the proportion of recent immigrants lowers the crime rate; it acts as a protective factor.” In other words, as the number of immigrants increases, the crime rates drop. There’s no question that people who have come here from desperate and terrifying circumstances may arrive with some deep emotional baggage. That’s why it is so vital for all Canadians to make them feel welcome and show them the benefits of living in a democratic and free society. Skeptics should put their fears and biases behind them. Hang out the welcome sign. Doug Firby is Editor-in-Chief and National Affairs columnist for Troy Media.

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Curious positioning of countdown systems at intersections In regards to traffic lights and busy intersections and the new count down number system, this is a wonderful thing as to giving a heads up on when the light is about to turn red. I had thought about this 35 years ago and wish I had of patented the idea then. However I have one complaint. So far I do not see the countdowns on the lights at the photo radar intersections. Could this possibly be that there would be fewer people running red lights and this would take away from the city coffers? After all the point for photo radar is to prevent people from running red lights. So is it possible that without the countdown lights at these intersections the cards are stacked in the city’s favour? If so it’s like I am now living in Vegas and the gambling odds are not in the favour for the driver. Would truly like to know the answer to this and what goes on in Vegas oops I mean Red Deer will stay in Red Deer.

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Re: “Kill several rocks with one bird” There are several issues that I would like to discuss: One, Kevin O’Leary (ex-Dragon Den financial guru); two, Tony Clement (Global Affairs critic for the Conservative Party in Ottawa); three, Gary Bettman (NHL Commissioner). Mr. O’Leary thinks, like the Koch brothers in the America, he can buy politicians. Where was he when the PCs wasted billions of dollars of Alberta’s Heritage Trust Fund? Where was he when the Conservatives under Harper wasted tens of millions on the F-35 program, on the Senate scandal, and on the travelling expenses of Harper’s cabinet members? Alberta’s politicians and voters are not for sale. If he wants to buy politicians or buy his way into political office, he should think of moving to the States. Mr. Clement is right in criticizing the Liberal government for not explaining in detail the $15 billion military weapons deal with the Saudi government.

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However, he is a hypocrite since he was in the Harper government when this deal was originally made, and Mr. Harper refused to provide detail of that deal with Saudi’s. Both the Liberals and the Conservatives are/were wrong for supporting one of the most restrictive society in the Middle East. The Saudi’s have a long record of persecuting religious minorities and for restricting women’s rights. Don’t let principles get in the way of business. Lastly, Mr. Bettman wants the good citizens of Calgary to pay for a new sports complex in that city. Here’s my take: He can put his money with where his mouth is since he earns millions from his position as czar of the NHL, or he could get the financial support of all those millionaires and billionaires who want pro teams on their resumes. Or he could also sell shares of the Calgary Flames to raise money, like the Green Bay Packers. Or he could also get the six big banks in Canada to buy in, or he could get JP Morgan/Chase Bank in America to contribute its billions since it only made $5.43 billion over the last three months of 2015, a 10.2 per cent profit. George E. Thatcher Trochu

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Provincial health ministers meet in Vancouver LIBERALS CAMPAIGN ON NEW, LONG-TERM FUNDING DEAL BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA — The federal government’s election promises are expected to be closely examined by the country’s health ministers during an annual meeting that’s expected to be more co-operative than in past years. British Columbia’s Health Minister Terry Lake, who is co-hosting the talks in Vancouver this week, said his counterparts are eager to invite federal Health Minister Jane Philpott to discuss issues such as chronic diseases, drug costs and funding formulas. “This is an opportunity to re-engage with the federal government in a broader way on health care because the previous federal government was less hands on, if you like, when it came to health care,” Lake said. “We get the impression from the federal government that they want to be more involved. So this is an opportunity.” The provincial and territorial ministers will meet Wednesday, with the federal government joining the discussions on Thursday. During last fall’s election campaign, the Liberals promised to negotiate a new health accord with provinces and territories, including a long-term deal on funding. The party said it would modernize health care, in-

cluding investing $3 billion over the next four years to improve home-care access across Canada. It also pledged to improve access to mental health services and medication while cutting the cost of prescription drugs. Philpott said she expects discussions to focus primarily on policy issues and transforming a health accord, which provides the provinces and territories with stable funding and sets national standards. “Making sure we agree on where the changes need to be made,” she said, noting the government is looking to get better value for the money it already spends. “I think that most of my colleagues will agree with me that injecting more money into the system isn’t always the way to go, and isn’t always the best way to be able to drive change.” She said “collaboration and co-operation” will be the means to achieving shared goals during the talks. Saskatchewan Health Minister Dustin Duncan said his top concern is ensuring the system’s overall sustainability. “We can’t just be pouring more money into the system and hoping for a better result.” Lake noted another issue will be trying to convince the federal government and Quebec to join a nationwide prescription drug-buying alliance, lowering the cost of prescription drugs through bulk purchasing. The ministers also want to discuss a new doctor-assisted dying law, which Ottawa must craft after getting a four-month extension on Friday from the Supreme Court of Canada. “We need to hear from the feds how they plan to move forward,” Lake said.

HAMILTON — About an hour after the sun had set on a day in early May 2013, Tim Bosma took two men for a test drive in his truck — never to return. The trial of two men accused in his death is set to begin Monday with jury selection, which is expected to last up to two weeks. Lawyers for Dellen Millard and Mark Smich have said both men will plead not guilty to charges of first-degree murder. The case of the missing 32-year-old Hamilton man — who had a wife and a two-year-old daughter — and later the discovery of his remains, “burned beyond recognition,” rocked his tight-knit Dutch community in rural Hamilton and made headlines across the country. According to police, on May 6, 2013, a man called Bosma to arrange a test drive of his black, 2007 Dodge Ram pickup that he had advertised for sale online. Around 9:20 p.m., two men showed up at his house. “I’ll be right back,” a smiling Bosma told his wife, Sharlene Bosma would recall at a news conference a few days later. Within an hour, she called her husband on his cellphone and when he didn’t answer she called police. “I ask and I beg and I plead to whomever has my husband to please let him go,” she said through tears. “It was just a truck, it was just a truck.” Police initially treated it as a missing person’s case, but due to the “unusual nature” of his disappearance, homicide investigators took over. The police response was massive. More than 150 officers took part in the search that also included K9 units, police horses, planes and helicopters. The investigation quickly spread across neighbouring jurisdictions and involved forces from Toronto, Brantford, York Region, Waterloo and Ontario Provincial Police. At the Bosma home, his friends and family set up their own command centre. Friends gathered in the family’s garage around a large map of the area, deciding search paths and making plans to plaster the area with “Find Tim” posters. Peter Lowe, who’d been an acquaintance of Bosma’s when they were teenagers, found himself in the family’s inner circle after showing up at the door a few days after Bosma went missing. Knowing his way around social media, Lowe was quickly given the task of boosting interest in the search online. The family’s newly created Facebook page exploded with interest and the hashtag .FindTimBosma made the rounds way beyond the Hamilton borders.

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Top left: Amber Solberg, the instructor of the Still Life Drawing workshop, demonstrates how to measure objects and provide accurate scaling for still life drawings. Top Right: Supplies, including these pencils of varying hardness, were included for those taking part in the class. Middle: Sinclair Cox uses a penguin toy as his still life model during the Still Life Drawing class at Alberta Art & Drafting Supplies Saturday afternoon. Bottom Left: Art Instructor Amber Solberg demonstrates hatching and cross hatching and other ways to shade using charcoal. Bottom Right: Kadie Hilario works at an easel during the Still Life Drawing workshop at Alberta Art & Drafting Supplies.

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Triumph or travesty US-IRAN TIES WARMING OVER NUCLEAR DEAL BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Diplomatic triumph or travesty, Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relationship with one of its most intractable foes took two giant leaps forward this weekend when Iran released four Americans in a prisoner swap after locking in last summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nuclear deal and receiving some $100 billion in sanctions relief. The announcements culminated a stunning few days of activity for the Obama administration and particularly Secretary of State John Kerry, who led the diplomatic outreach to Tehran at President Barack Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s direction through years of slow-grinding negotiations. Speaking from the White House, Obama on Sunday hailed the â&#x20AC;&#x153;historic progress through diplomacy,â&#x20AC;? long the centerpiece of his foreign policy vision, instead of another war in the Middle East. Three of the American detainees â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati and pastor Saeed Abedini â&#x20AC;&#x201D; arrived in Germany en route to a U.S. military hospital. They will return home after medical evaluations. The fourth, Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari, opted to remain in Iran, officials said. The Islamic Republic released the prisoners in exchange for pardons or charges dropped against seven Iranians â&#x20AC;&#x201D; six of whom hold dual U.S. citizenship â&#x20AC;&#x201D; serving time for or accused of sanctions violations in the United States. A fifth American, student Matthew Trevithick, who had been detained in Iran for roughly 40 days, was released separately. For all the celebrations, the timing of the deal, finalized hours after Saturday nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s U.N. confirmation that Iran made good on pledges to significantly back away from atomic bomb-making capacity, suggested that the Americans possibly were used as pawns by the Iranian government to win long-sought economic relief, as critics allege. The International Atomic Energy Agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s declaration unlocked some $100 billion in frozen Iranian assets overseas, and potentially even greater economic benefits through suspended oil, trade and financial sanctions by the U.S. and European Union. Critics of Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Iran policy at home and abroad pounced on the details of the prisoner exchange and the new economic opportunities being afforded Tehran while it still sup-

Female migrants to Europe face violence, Amnesty says LONDON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Women and girl migrants coming into Europe face violence and sexual harassment at every stage of their journey, according to a new report from Amnesty International. The report released Monday by the human rights group was based on interviews with 40 women and girls in Germany and Norway last month who had travelled from Turkey to Greece and then across the Balkans. Women and girls travelling alone or accompanied only by children said they felt particularly under threat in Hungary, Croatia and Greece, where they were forced to sleep alongside hundreds of male refugees. Those interviewed included female refugees from Iraq and Syria. The vast majority of the migrants streaming into Europe are men, which leaves women particularly vulnerable, aid workers say. Women at camps reported having to use the same bathroom and shower facilities as men, and some said they did not eat or drink to avoid going to the toilet. The report did not separate out incidents of sexual harassment from general violence. One 22-year-old Iraqi woman told Amnesty International that a uniformed security guard in Germany offered her clothes in exchange for spending time alone with him. Some aid workers say violence is harder to prevent because of an ad hoc system for receiving and registering refugees. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the challenges we have been facing is that it is taking a long time for the international community, and by that I mean governments, to wake up to this crisis and to realize that it is not something that they can wish away,â&#x20AC;? Jenny Becker, protection co-ordinator with the International Rescue Committee in northern Lesbos in Greece, told The Associated Press.

ports Syrian President Bashar Assadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s government and the militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This deal is a problematic deal, and it reflects a pattern we have seen in the Obama administration over and over again of negotiating with terrorists, and making deals and trades that endanger U.S. safety and security,â&#x20AC;? Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a GOP presidential candidate, said on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fox News Sunday.â&#x20AC;? Nevertheless, the back-to-back breakthroughs reflected painstaking diplomacy by Kerry and administration officials. The efforts were beset by several hitches, including the detention of 10 U.S. sailors by Iran last week in the Persian Gulf and U.S. plans in late December to impose new sanctions on Iran for ballistic missile testing. The sailors were released after Kerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intervention with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. The sanctions were delayed until Sunday, after the U.S. detainees left Iran. U.S. and Iranian officials hashed out the prisoner exchange over 11 or 12 meetings over a process that took a little longer than a year, sprouting from the even longer set of talks that led to last Julyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s landmark nuclear accord. Just before Zarif announced the final pact with his EU counterpart Frederica Mogherini, Kerry raised the issue of the detained Americans. A photograph of Kerry speaking with Zarif and Iranian President Hasan Rouhaniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brother, Hossein Fereydoun, captured the moment. Things progressed significantly by November, when Iran was included for the first time in a meeting in Vienna on Syriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s civil war. Kerry and Zarif met there to discuss the prisoners. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We actually shook hands thinking we had an agreement,â&#x20AC;? Kerry said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought it was done.â&#x20AC;? But the deal bogged down in Tehran and never went through. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So we went back to work,â&#x20AC;? Kerry told reporters on his plane back to Washington late Saturday. He described the negotiations as difficult, especially as the Iranians made what he said were unacceptable demands. Kerry said the United States made clear it wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t release an accused murderer or narcotics offender. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For a long time, this didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t move because of the people they were asking for,â&#x20AC;? Kerry recalled. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;No, and no, and no.â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;And believe me, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard when somebody says to you, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hey, you give us

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U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Flint Township, wipes away tears as President Barack Obama speaks about U.S. Marine and Flint Central High School graduate Amir Hekmati in regard to the release of American prisoners from Iran, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016, while watching the nationally televised address at his office in Flint, Mich. Hekmati was taken prisoner August 2011. Kildee will travel to Germany Sunday with members of Hekmatiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family to see him for the first time in more than four years. this guy, we let them all out.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And you have to say no. And you know youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re keeping people in a not very nice place for the next whatever number of months,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But there have to be an enforcement of our principles and our standards here. And in the end, we came out in the right place on that.â&#x20AC;? More progress was made by Kerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meeting with Zarif on Dec. 18 in New York. By then, American and Iranian teams in Geneva were working hard on the details of the swap. The U.S. team, led by Brett McGurk, the special envoy for the fight against the Islamic State group, was prepared to release individuals who violated nuclear-related sanctions on Iran, Kerry said. By Saturday night, those sanctions had been rescinded. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the end, the president made the call,â&#x20AC;? he said. One of the last hiccups that delayed the Americansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; departure was an Iranian military officialâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s misunderstanding about Rezaianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife and mother

joining him on the flight. After Kerry spoke to Zarif, permission was granted. But the various administrative holdups meant that the Swiss crew set to fly the plane ran into a mandatory crew rest. That set back takeoff several hours. The U.S. and Iran havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t had diplomatic relations since shortly after the 1979 Islamic revolution. The administration says this weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agreements wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change that situation, but relations are clearly warming. Cooperation on ending Syriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s civil war and even discussions about co-ordinating their fights against the Islamic State point to the budding ties. That has many of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s closest partners in the region, not to mention Republican and some Democratic lawmakers in the United States, fretful. Republicans have denounced the outreach as a dangerous and undeserved concession to Iran. Israel remains steadfastly opposed to the Iran deal and any rapprochement with Tehran.

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Experts to examine watering food crops with oilfield wastewater CALIFORNIA DROUGHT PUSHES NEED FOR SAFETY TESTING BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. — More farmers in drought-stricken California are using oilfield wastewater to irrigate, and a new panel on Tuesday began taking one of the state’s deepest looks yet at the safety of using the chemical-laced water on food crops. In the fourth year of California’s drought, at least five oilfields in the state are now passing along their leftover production fluid to water districts for irrigation, for recharging underground water supplies, and other uses, experts said. Chevron and the California offshoot of Occidental Petroleum are among the oil companies supplying oilfield wastewater for irrigating tens of thousands of acres in California. Almond, pistachio and citrus growers are the main farmers already using such water. California’s aging oilfields require intensive drilling methods and generate lots of wastewater. In Central California’s San Joaquin Valley, a centre of the state’s agriculture and oil businesses, oil companies in 2013 produced 150 million barrels of oil — and nearly 2 billion barrels of wastewater. Central California leads the country in food production. It’s also the main oil-producing base in California, the country’s No. 3 oil-and-gas producing state. For farmers in California’s drought, the question is “where’s the water going to come from if you want to maintain agriculture,” said Gabriele Ludwig, a representative of Almond Board of California and

lenges with confidence and creativity. Communication and travel are favoured, as you connect with family and friends at home and overseas. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Give yourself a pat on the back for JOANNE MADELINE all the things MOORE you’ve done well lately LiSUN SIGNS bra. It’s also time to boost the self-esteem of those around you, so don’t forget to compliment others as well. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The best way you can liven up your life is to extend your peer group to include some creative fresh faces. An exciting new hobby will also help you see things from a different angle. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Slow down, so you get things done at a less hectic and more enjoyable pace. If you listen to the views of loved ones and think before you speak, then your relationships will gradually improve. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The Moon is in fellow earth sign Taurus, so it’s time to balance hard work with having fun with family and friends. Good food and convivial company will add richness to your day. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Spend quality time with your nearest and

one of the members of the new panel. The state officials, academic experts and industry representatives on the panel are charged with studying the safety of irrigating food crops with oilfield wastewater that may contain chemicals and other material from hydraulic fracturing, other intensive drilling methods and oilfield maintenance. The effect of oilfield chemicals on food is “largely unstudied and unknown,” says the non-profit Pacific Institute, which studies water issues. Researchers, for example, don’t know the longterm toxicity of up to 80 per cent of the hundreds of materials used in oilfield production, Pacific Institute researcher Matthew Heberger told panel members. Testing so far has found only negligible amounts of chemicals in the recycled oilfield water, said Clay Rodgers, a manager at the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board, which assembled the panel. At least one local water district also has begun growing test crops with the oilfield water to study how much of the chemicals wind up in the produce. As of now, with so many unknowns about the hundreds of chemicals involved and their possible impact on crops, “We’re not able to answer the public definitely and say there’s no problem,” said William Stringfellow, a panel member and environmental engineer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley. The regional water board will use the panel’s findings to guide its oversight of the recycling of oilfield wastewater, Rodgers said.

dearest today Aquarius. Nurturing friendships and family relationships takes time and plenty of patience, but itís well worth the effort. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The wonderful Mars/Neptune trine will boost your confidence levels and charge up

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Ready to settle down but can’t find a partner Dear Annie: I am a 23-year-old female who recently moved to a new town. I have met a few guys, but it never seems to go anywhere. I can’t seem to find someone who wants anything more than sex. I used to sleep around, but I’m more mature now, and I value myself enough not to throw my body at every guy I meet. I’ve learned from my mistakes. Not a single man I’ve met in my age range is interested in a real relationship. They expect me to hop into bed with no commitment whatsoever. I value relationships, and commitment, and have no intention of behaving like this. It irritates me when I put myself out there and meet someone who I think is different, but as soon as they learn that I’m not going to give them sex, they forget all about me. I know I’m still young and that there are plenty of fish in the sea, but I am ready to settle down. I am far from perfect, but sometimes it seems as though I will never meet anyone worthwhile. Is something wrong with me? Or am I just attracting the wrong type of guys? — Confused in a Small Town Dear Confused: If you are in a small town, your pool of available candidates is less than it might be elsewhere. This means you need to widen your circle. Try online dating (be cautious), and ask your friends, family members and co-workers to introduce you to available, decent men. Join a church social group, choir, theater group or a volunteer organization where you will KATHY MITCHELL be doing some good and meetAND MARCY SUGAR ing new people, both male ANNIE’S MAILBOX and female. And yes, it’s possible that you are attracting the wrong type of guy. Your closest friends should be honest enough to tell you if that’s the case and what you might do about it. But most importantly, be patient. You may be looking to settle down, but your average 23-year-old man is not. You may be coming across as desperate or overly eager. A little nonchalance might serve you better. Dear Annie: My husband and I are over 70 and living on our retirement income. We are doing very well. My complaint is that every day, we receive a half-dozen requests for donations to a variety of charities. We have one charity that we support on a regular basis. But all of these other charity requests keep rolling in, and some with small amounts of money attached. I feel guilty for not sending these back with a donation, but I no longer respond to this tactic. I try to donate the small amounts of money from these charities to local thrift stores that support animal shelters or women’s shelters. How can we get these charity requests to end? I would like to be able to do more, but on a fixed income, it just isn’t possible. — Please Stop Dear Please: You can contact the Direct Marketing Association (dmachoice.org) at P.O. Box 643, Carmel, NY 10512; or the Federal Trade Commission at www. consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0262-stopping-unsolicited-mail-phone-calls-and-email. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/ AskAnnies.

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Mammograms do the most good after age 50 BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Mammograms do the most good later in life, a government task force declared Monday in recommending that women get one every other year starting at age 50. It said 40-somethings should make their own choice after weighing the pros and cons. When to start routine mammograms and how frequently to get them has long been controversial. The latest guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force stick with its advice that women should one every two years between ages 50 and 74. But they also make clear that it’s an option for younger women even though they’re less likely to benefit. Some health groups urge mammograms every year starting at 40 — although last year the American Cancer Society upped its starting age to 45. There is some common ground emerging, that mammography advice shouldn’t always be one-size-fits all. “Age 50 isn’t magic,” said task force past chairman Dr. Michael LeFevre of the University of Missouri. Here are some things to know about mammograms. WHAT THE TASK FORCE SAYS Women in their 60s are the most likely to avoid dying from breast cancer thanks to mammograms, but there’s clearly enough benefit for the average woman to start at 50, the task force found. The advisory group wants younger women to understand the trade-offs before deciding: Among every 1,000 women screened, one additional death could be prevented by starting mammograms at 40 instead of 50. But there would be 576 more false alarms and 58

additional unneeded biopsies. Also, two extra women would be overdiagnosed, treated for cancer that never would have become life-threatening. Monday’s update, published in Annals of Internal Medicine, is largely a rewording of guidelines originally issued in 2009 and reconsidered in draft form last spring. This time, the task force stresses that “we think the science supports a range of options” for 40-somethings, LeFevre said. DIFFERING GUIDELINES Mammograms aren’t perfect, and different health organizations weigh the trade-offs differently. So do women and their physicians. The American Cancer Society says to begin annual mammograms at 45 but switch to every other year at 55. After menopause, tumors tend to grow more slowly and women’s breast tissue becomes less dense and easier for mammograms to penetrate, says chief medical officer Dr. Otis Brawley. Between ages 40 and 44, when breast cancer is especially uncommon, the society also says women should make their own choice. “We’re moving away from paternalistic medicine where we doctor organizations used to tell women, ‘You must do this,”’ Brawley said. “We’re saying, ‘This woman is at higher risk, therefore maybe she should get screened at 40. This woman is at lower risk, maybe she can wait a little later.”’ The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists stands by annual mammograms starting at 40, while urging patient education and shared decision-making. THINGS TO CONSIDER More than 200,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year, and about 40,000 die from it. It is most frequently diagnosed among women ages 55 to 64, and the median age of

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A radiologist uses a magnifying glass to check mammograms for breast cancer in Los Angeles. Mammograms do the most good later in life, a government task force said Monday in recommending that women get one every other year starting at age 50, and that 40-somethings make their own choice after weighing the pros and cons. death from breast cancer is 68. Women with a mother, sister or daughter with breast cancer have a higher risk than the average 40-yearold. Other factors can play a role, too, including genetics, breast density and menstrual and pregnancy history. PERSONALIZED SCREENING Dueling guidelines mean “some people get so confused they don’t get screened at all. Some are too anxious or afraid not to do more, and it may not be better for them,” said breast cancer specialist Dr. Laura Esserman of the

University of California, San Francisco. “Maybe we should be screening in a new way.” Esserman leads the first-of-its-kind WISDOM study that soon will begin enrolling 100,000 women to test whether tailoring screening to someone’s individual risk is better than age-based mammograms. Women given annual mammograms starting at 40 will be compared with others assigned more or less frequent screenings, starting at different ages, based on in-depth risk assessments.

Mosquito-borne virus in winter getaway destinations STUDY SAYS IT MAY POSE PREGNANCY RISK TORONTO — A mosquito-borne virus possibly linked to serious birth defects in Brazil has the potential to spread within the Americas, including to holiday destinations like Florida and throughout the Caribbean, researchers who track infectious diseases suggest. Already at epidemic levels in the South American country, locally acquired cases of the Zika virus have been reported in Mexico as well as the Caribbean islands of Puerto Rico and Martinique. Zika (pronounced ZEE-kah) is native to parts of Africa and Asia and is transmitted to people by the daytime-biting Aedes mosquito. In 2007, the disease took root in the Pacific Islands, and last year it sparked a massive outbreak in Brazil, with an estimated 440,000 to 1.3 million cases. While Zika generally causes mild symptoms like fever, feeling unwell, a rash, red eyes and joint pain — or in the majority of people, no symptoms at all — the virus is being investigated as a possible cause of small heads and undeveloped brains in some newborns whose mothers may have been infected while pregnant. There has been a 20-fold increase in the number of babies born with this condition, known as microcephaly, since Zika first appeared in Brazil last May, said Dr. Kamran Khan, an infectious disease specialist at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, whose team is studying the pathogen’s potential transmission patterns. “There is an association — and I emphasize the word association. It’s not yet proven to be a causal relationship,” Khan said Thursday. However, he suggested that Canadian women who are pregnant or plan to become pregnant be wary if travelling to southern climes. “I think pregnant women should be taking significant precautions if they choose to be travelling into areas where Zika is spreading locally,” he said, including wearing skin-covering clothing and avoiding mosquito bites by using repellent. On Wednesday, researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said they have found strong evidence of a link between the virus and the spike in birth defects in Brazil: Zika’s biological footprint was found in the placentas from two women who miscarried and the brains of two newborns who died. The infants had small heads indicative of microcephaly. Brazilian health authorities said earlier this week that 3,530 babies have been born with microcephaly in the country since October. The number was less than 150 in 2014. There is no preventive vaccine or antiviral medication to treat Zika, which is not transmitted directly person-to-person, but can be passed from an infected individual to an uninfected person through bites from the same mosquito. The virus has spread across more than a dozen countries in South and Central America and north into Mexico, said Khan, adding that it has the potential to be picked up by Aedes mosquitoes in Florida and the southern Gulf states and to spread among local populations.

The CDC said some travellers returning to the United States from Zika-affected areas have been infected with the virus, including a Houston-area woman who had returned from a trip to El Salvador. “Right now we are not seeing any local transmission in the United States, but the ingredients for that to occur are present in some parts of the country,” said Khan. The Public Health Agency of Canada also said a B.C. resident who recently travelled to El Salvador had contracted the dengue-like virus, but there have been no reported cases of Zika cases acquired in Canada and the agency says the risk to Canadians is low. On its website, PHAC says the incubation period for Zika virus ranges from three to 12 days, with symptoms lasting two to seven days. An infection may go unrecognized or be misdiagnosed as another mosquito-borne viral infection such as dengue or chikungunya, which are both carried by the Aedes mosquito. While the agency has not issued any travel restrictions related to Zika-endemic countries, it recommends that pregnant women discuss any travel plans with their health-care providers to assess their risk and to get advice on how to protect themselves against mosquito bites (http://travel.gc.ca/travelling/ health-safety/insect-bite). On Thursday, Khan’s team published an analysis in the Lancet medical journal predicting where in the Americas the virus could spread, after mapping the destinations of international air travellers from Brazil between September 2014 and August 2015. Of almost 10 million travellers, 65 per cent went to other locations in the Americas, 27 per cent to Europe and five per cent to Asia. Traveller volumes were greatest to the United States, followed by Argentina, Chile, Italy, Portugal and France. China and Angola received the highest volume of travellers in Asia and Africa, respectively. The Canadian researchers collaborated with colleagues at Oxford University, who mapped the global geography of Aedes mosquitoes capable of transmitting the Zika virus and then modelled the worldwide climate conditions necessary for the virus to spread to humans. They estimated that more than 60 per cent of the populations of the U.S., Argentina and Italy live in areas conducive to seasonal transmission of the Zika virus, while Mexico, Colombia and the U.S. have an estimated 30.5 million, 23.2 million and 22.7 million people respectively living in areas conducive to year-round transmission. With the Olympics taking place this summer in Brazil, the researchers are also assessing wheth-

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Local talent shines with RDSO THREE YOUNG SOLOISTS HARD ACTS TO FOLLOW The neoclassical piece balances decorous passages with a sense of spareness, even austerity. Galipeau developed an interesting interplay with the orchestra as the composition traded her moody solos with more dramatic orchestral outbursts. Precision and a controlled emotional range is required for this graceful concerto, and Galipeau delivered an elegant, tonally rich performance. Camille Saint-Saens’s epic Cello Concerto in A Minor featured the bold, colourful playing of Red Deerborn Rylan Gajek-Leonard. The cellist has played around the world — including at Carnegie Hall with his string quartet, with the National Youth Orchestra, and on entertainer Raffi’s 2009 children’s album. But Gajek-Leonard got his start with instructor (and RDSO cellist) Janet Kuschak before moving to B.C., and now majoring in music and mathematics at the Bard College Conservative of Music in New York State. The difficult Saint-Saens piece runs the emotional gamut. RDSO conductor Claude Lapalme described it as being “happy, then there’s anxiety, and all of a sudden there’s a little lullaby in it, then it gets jolly with a touch of melancholy, then again it’s very active…” Gajek-Leonard managed all the mood swings with

gusto — he plays like a painter, throwing dashes of colour against canvas to evoke everything from joy to pathos. His expressive performance with the orchestra earned him a standing ovation from the crowd at the end of the concert. I suspect this was also meant for the other talented young soloists, including Susanna Heystek of Rocky Mountain House. The 17-year-old, who won the chance to play with the RDSO at the Red Deer Performing Arts Festival, and also studied with Stuppard, was the soloist on Ludwig van Beethoven’s Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 2. Heystek beautifully captured the wistful poetry of this dream-like work. The concert master for the Red Deer Youth Orchestra can be a delicate player, but she can also rise to the challenge of the more exuberant passages in this lilting Romance. The evening started with the RDSO’s wind section performing the upbeat Harmonie For Wind Octet by Bohemian composer Franz Krommer. While the tuneful selection involved some astounding clarinet playing, it’s just as well it was first on the program. These three young, locally trained soloists would have been hard acts to follow. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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This photo provided by Paramount Pictures shows Pablo Schreiber, from left, as Kris “Tanto” Paronto, John Krasinski as Jack Silva, David Denman as Dave “Boon” Benton and Dominic Fumusa as John “Tig” Tiegen, in the film, “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” from Paramount Pictures and 3 Arts Entertainment/Bay Films. The movie was released on Friday.

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that, in order to highlight the heroism of some, those responsible for the movie felt the need to denigrate the courage of other Americans who served in harm’s way.” Trapani called what happened in Benghazi “an amazing tale of heroism, courage under fire, leadership and camaraderie by the CIA security team, other CIA officers, State Department personnel, and those who came on the evacuation mission from Tripoli.” In the Post report, the station chief, Bob, also challenged the movie’s depiction of him as treating the security contractors —members of the so-called Global Response Staff — dismissively and derisively as “hired help,” in the words of the film script. “These guys were heroes,” he was quoted as saying by the Post. Zuckoff, who teaches journalism at Boston University, said he wasn’t surprised that the movie has sparked political discussion. “It would be naive to think that some won’t view it through a political lens,” he said. “But it’s not what we set out to do in the book or movie.” Bay, the director, has stressed that he sees the movie as non-political, because it focuses on what he calls “a great human story, that got buried. And that’s the story I’m telling: the guys who were on the ground. The men and women that were stuck in the CIA annex, and how they fought for 13 hours to get out of there alive.” Speaking in an interview last week in Miami promoting the movie, Bay also said that the filmmakers took great pains to present the facts accurately. “We worked very hard to get the facts right from the research of the book that Mitch did to the amazing access I have from working 20 years with the military, from the boots on the ground, the people who were in country to the CIA, at a high-level meeting to get just the facts right, the recently released emails. We just had to get it right.”

“Stand down,” says the actor playing the CIA station chief in Michael Bay’s new film, “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.” He’s speaking to the security team that wants to go help Americans under siege less than a mile away in a U.S. diplomatic compound under fierce attack. His order keeps the team from leaving for a crucial 20 minutes, before they decide to ignore him and go anyway. It’s the pivotal — and most controversial — scene in the new film, a movie that Bay insists steers clear of politics, but which is bound to spark much political discussion nonetheless. On Friday — the movie’s opening day — the Washington Post quoted the now-retired CIA station chief, identified only as Bob, as strongly denying he ever issued such an order or anything like it. “There never was a stand-down order,” the base chief was quoted by the Post as saying. “At no time did I ever second-guess that the team would depart.” The author of the book upon which the film is based, Mitchell Zuckoff, stood by his depiction of the scene on Friday, saying in a telephone interview with The Associated Press that he’d based it on several firsthand accounts. Zuckoff collaborated on his book, “13 Hours,” with some of the surviving security contractors. “It’s not credible what he’s claiming,” Zuckoff said of the station chief, whom he said he had tried to interview when writing the book, but his request was denied. Four Americans died in the attacks, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens. In November 2014, a two-year investigation by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee found that the CIA and military acted properly in responding to the 2012 attack on the compound. Among other findings, it determined that there was no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, and no missed opportunity for a military rescue. In Washington, CIA EGGS BENEDICT spokesman Ryan TrapaTwo eggs on a grilled English Muffin with ni referred to those findyour choice of one of the following: ham, ings and others as makbacon, sausage or tomato; topped with ing it clear that the scene hollandaise sauce plus your choices in the film is inaccurate. of hashbrowns, pancakes or fruit cup. “If one is looking for Available All Day facts on Benghazi, those reviews contain them,” he said. “No one will mistake this movie for a documentary,” Trapani added. “It’s a distortion of the events and people who served in Benghazi that night. It’s shameful

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NEW ORLEANS — The Arcade Fire and Preservation Hall Jazz Band has held a second line parade in New Orleans to memorialize music and fashion icon David Bowie. Hundreds of fans, many of who came dressed in their best Bowie outfits, marched Saturday in the street with the bands performing Bowie’s music. Bowie, 69, died after a long battle with cancer. The Times-Picayune (http://bit.ly/1RN7Av1) says the parade came about in conversations between Preservation Hall creative director Ben Jaffe and Arcade Fire’s Win Butler and Regine Chassagne. By chance, the group of musicians had been rehearsing Bowie’s “Modern Love” together. “It was a lot of fun to get together and riff on it,” Jaffe said. “That’s the way Bowie would want us to celebrate. He would want people out in the street dancing.”

Actor, lawmaker fight bogus memorabilia LOS ANGELES — Luke Skywalker actor Mark Hamill has seen it time and time again: “Star Wars” fans with movie posters and other memorabilia that they believe were signed by him. The autograph often turns out to be bogus. Weary of seeing fans victimized by unscrupulous dealers, Hamill has teamed up with California Assemblywoman Ling Ling Chang to extend protections that apply to sports memorabilia to all signed collectibles sold by dealers in the state. “The public is being swindled on a daily basis and the numbers are huge. I just can’t keep quiet when I see people I love being hurt,” Hamill told the Los Angeles Times on Saturday.

Under a pending bill, the Diamond Bar Republican would require certificates of authenticity for signed memorabilia sold by dealers, and entitle duped consumers to as much as 10 times the cost of a forged item in civil court. State law already offers those remedies for signed sports memorabilia. Hamill said it makes no sense that film fans don’t get the same protections as sports fans from faked autographs. In 1999, the FBI’s San Diego office led a massive investigation of forgery rings, which culminated in the arrest of a half-dozen forgers and the seizure of merchandise valued at millions of dollars, including a baseball supposedly signed by Mother Teresa and the autographs of George Washington, Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy. “In a way, it seems futile to try and counter what is clearly a very lucrative market,” Hamill told the newspaper.

Criticized book on Washington slave pulled NEW YORK — Scholastic is pulling a controversial new picture book about George Washington and his slaves, the publisher tells The Associated Press. “A Birthday Cake for George Washington” was released Jan. 5 and had been strongly criticized for its upbeat images and story of Washington’s cook, the slave Hercules. Its withdrawal was announced Sunday. The book had received more than 100 one-star reviews on Amazon.com and the trade publication School Library Journal had called it “highly problematic” and recommended against its purchase. “A Birthday Cake” was written by Ramin Ganeshram, whose previous works include the novel “Stir It Up” and the nonfiction “FutureChefs.” Vanessa Brantley Newton’s is the illustrator.

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If there was an applause-o-meter at the Red Deer College Arts Centre, it would have gone off the dial as three local soloists performed during the RDSO’s Red Deer’s Got Talent concert. The Red Deer Symphony Orchestra delivered an emotionally charged program on Saturday night, featuring three talented young musiLANA cians who each got their start MICHELIN in Central Alberta. First out of the gate was REVIEW Red Deer violist Stephanie Galipeau, who trained with local teacher (and RDSO violinist) Louise Stuppard before continuing her post-secondary studies at the prestigious Julliard School of Music in New York, where she’s now a senior. The Victoria Conservatory of Music graduate and recipient of many fellowships and scholarships performed Carl Philipp Stamitz’s gorgeously restrained Viola Concert in D Major

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Rebels bucked by Broncos FORMER REBEL BURMAN MAKES 38 SAVES TO DOWN OLD TEAM IN SWIFT CURRENT BY ADVOCATE STAFF Broncos 2 Rebels 1 SWIFT CURRENT — It was a familiar face that brought down the Red Deer Rebels in a Western Hockey League game Saturday night at the Credit Union i-Plex. Former Rebel Taz Burman stopped 38 shots to help the Swift Current Broncos defeat the visitors 2-1 in front of 1,933 fans. Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter gave Burman credit for the victory but also pointed to his club’s inability to get into and excel from the higher-percentage scoring areas. “I thought he (Burman) played well, but with that being said he saw a lot of the shots and we never got into the real rough areas in the offensive zone,” said Sutter. “I thought we played pretty well. We had the puck 70 per cent of the night but just never did enough offensively to get those goals you need to get in a tight game.” In addition, the Rebels didn’t take advantage of any of their four man-advantage opportunities. After a scoreless opening period, Broncos forward Jon Martin connected at 2:45 of the second frame. Michael Spacek, with his 13th of the season and just the Rebels’ second goal in three games — and only regulation-time marker — evened the count less than five minutes later. Martin, with his second goal of the night and 31st of the season, restored the Broncos’ lead on an oddman rush at 13:04 of the final frame and it held up as the winner. “It was one of those games where five-on-five we were controlling the whole play,” said Sutter. “We didn’t give up much at all defensively. The only chances they had were off the rush, including the winning goal. “We turned the puck over and didn’t have a high man. They came down on a three-on-two and capitalized on it. For the most part we played pretty well.

We didn’t score and that was the difference in the game.” While the Rebels offence dried up on the threegame trip, which included a 1-0 overtime win Wednesday in Moose Jaw and a 4-0 loss Friday at Brandon — Sutter liked other areas of his club’s game. “We were certainly a lot tighter defensively the first and third games,” he said. “We were good in Brandon … there wasn’t one forward who had a good game for us, but the defence and goaltending was good the whole three games. “We just didn’t generate offence and generating offence isn’t high-risk hockey. Generating offence is getting into the tough areas to score. I thought we played too much on the premier in the offensive zone. We have to play a harder game offensively, we have to get into the tougher areas to score on rebounds and make it harder on the opposition goal-

ie.” The Rebels were minus the services of Jeff de Wit and Grayson Pawlenchuk — both injured in Brandon and listed as day-to-day — and dressed only 11 forwards Saturday. Adam Musil returned to action Wednesday after a lengthy stretch and Evan Polei was back in the Rebels lineup Saturday after serving a three-game suspension. But with Taden Rattie hurt during a fight with Moose Jaw’s Josh Thrower, de Wit and Pawlenchuk on the mend and recently-acquired Luke Philp not available for at least another two weeks, Sutter has to be wondering if he’ll ever have a team that’s 100 per cent healthy. “From a coach’s perspective you would like to get some kind of a lineup where you can get a feel for your team,” he said. “We haven’t had that and it’s been tough. You have to keep moving lines around like we did last night. “You’re trying to get some guys going who haven’t played as well as they need to play and you’re trying to generate offence. But at the same time, you want your team to be responsible too.” While he was offended by his club’s effort — or lack of — at Brandon, Sutter liked the way his club bounced back 24 hours later. “We responded well. There’s no way we should ever lose that game and yet we found a way to lose because we were not smart the last eight minutes,” he said. “It was disappointing to lose because we certainly deserved better. But that’s the way it goes throughout the year — you win some games you probably shouldn’t win and lose some you probably should have won.” • Rebels netminder Rylan Toth made 14 saves against the Broncos … Sylvan Lake native Tyler Steenbergen assisted on both Swift Current goals … Rattie will be out for 10 to 14 days with an upper-body injury … The Rebels return to action Wednesday against the visiting Moose Jaw Warriors. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Oilers edge Flames BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Oilers 2 Flames 1 (SO) EDMONTON — Goaltending and special teams go a long way when trying to end a slump. Teddy Purcell scored the shootout winner and Cam Talbot made 31 saves as the Edmonton Oilers came away with a 2-1 victory over the Calgary Flames on Saturday. Edmonton killed off four of Calgary’s power-play opportunities early in the game and then one more in overtime just to reach the shootout. The win snapped a four-game losing streak and it was the first one at home against the Flames in its last eight attempts. “It was huge,” Edmonton coach Todd McLellan said of his team’s penalty kill. “We spent eight of the first 24 (minutes) penalty killing. That’s the game right there, they get two or three and… we’re not exactly scoring a lot of goals right now, so that’s the game. “This one in particular, because of the rivalry, because of the way we lost to them last time we played in this building, the fact we’re going on the road. It’s nice to begin a tough road trip with a big win at home.” Mark Fayne also scored for the Oilers (18-23-5). Sam Bennett replied for the Flames (20-20-3), who have won only once in their last four outings. “We sat back a little too much and didn’t shoot the puck enough tonight,”

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Calgary Flames’ Johnny Gaudreau (13) chases Edmonton Oilers’ Andrej Sekera (2) during second period NHL action in Edmonton, on Saturday. said Flames captain Mark Giordano. “We were guilty of overlooking and going for the perfect play. Their goalie made some good saves, but for the most part, we passed up on way too many chances.” Flames defenceman Dougie Hamilton felt his team wasted a 36-save performance by Jonas Hiller. “When he plays like that, you should win pretty much every game,” he said. “We owe him one next game.” Calgary got on the board first, 11

minutes into the first period when Bennett took a feed from Mikael Backlund and then made a move before beating Talbot with a backhand shot for his 11th goal of the season. The Oilers, outshot 14-8 in the first, picked up the pace in the second period and took a 22-19 lead in shots after 40 minutes, but the game remained 1-0 at the end of the period. Edmonton got a goal from an unlikely source midway through the third to tie the contest as Taylor Hall won

a faceoff back to Fayne, who sent his first of the season through traffic and past Hiller. “Whenever you can contribute it’s good, it was a big goal and we needed at that time,” said Fayne. “I thought we had strong periods in the second and third and we responded well from the first and it was a good, team win.” The Oilers begin a two-game trip in Florida against the Panthers on Monday. The Flames continue their fivegame trip in New Jersey on Tuesday.

Kitchen’s first of season leads Queens past Broncos BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Queens 7 Broncos 1 Jayna Kitchen knows a thing or two about scoring Over her first four years in the Alberta College Women’s Hockey League the RDC Queens veteran had 28 goals in 83 games. This year she’s been snake-bitten and it wasn’t until 20 seconds into the second period of the Queens 16th game of the season that she finally got the monkey off her back. Kitchen’s first of the season not only allowed her to relax but seemed to pump up the Queens, who score on their first three shots of the second period on their way to a 7-1 victory over the Olds Broncos at the Arena Saturday. “It was a good feeling,” said Kitchen. “It’s taken a while. Everyone was excited as they knew I was getting frustrated and down on myself. You could see the bench was excited and it gave us a lift.”

While Kitchen may have been getting frustrated head coach Kelly Coulter was anything but disappointed in her play. “Jayna has done all the thing we asked of her,” he said. “Tonight it was a nice goal and got us going, but she always does the little things and it’s those things that makes us successful. Not just the goals.” The Queens trailed 1-0 after 20 minutes on a goal by Chelsea Broadhead, one second after their power play ended. “It wasn’t the start we wanted,” said Kitchen. “I’m not sure if we were tired or took Olds for granted after beating them 4-0 on Thursday. We were flat, but once we exploded early in the second period we rolled from there.” Coulter gave Queens netminder Jen West credit for keeping the game close in the first period. “She was solid and kept us in the game,” said Coulter. Kitchen scored off a faceoff win by Suze Vanderlinde just seconds after a quick whistle cost RDC a goal. Kaely McMurtry, who has been hot of

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late, notched her fourth of the season on the power play at 3:52 and Ashley Graf redirected in a perfect pass from Emily Swier at 5:08. It was the second assist of the period for Swier, who flipped the puck over a stick and had it land perfectly on Graf’s stick. Graf added her sixth goal of the season on the power play at 8:18 of the third period with Swier scoring her seventh at 9:57. Vanderlinde, who is one of the top checking centres in the league, scored her first of the year while shorthanded at 15:12 and rearguard Rikki Leonard got her fourth at 19:06. “We have a lot of offence and it’s spread out,” said Kitchen. “Our top line of Graf, (Jade) Petrie and Swier carries us, but we also get a lot of secondary scoring.” “It’s nice to see the scoring and we’re happy to see the power play working,” added Coulter. The Queens ran their record to 132-1 and sit seven points up on the second-place Grant MacEwan Griffins with eight games remaining. “We set out win the league this year

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and we’re in a good spot, but being here for five years I also know the second half of the season is a real grind,” said Kitchen. “We have a target on our backs and everyone will come at us hard.” Coulter agrees. “Like the old cliché we can’t get ahead of ourselves,” he said. “It’s a real tight league and we can lose any game. We have to make sure we’re prepared and show up every night. We have to realize the toughest part of being in first is that everyone is gunning for us. If we’re not prepared shame on us. And we have to be prepared to play 60 minutes.” West finished with 25 saves while her teammates had 37 shots on Nicole Grandinetti, including 18 in the third period. The Queens, who took three of nine minor penalties, are off until they host Grant MacEwan Jan. 28. Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog.

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Basketball Queens get win, Kings fall to Rattlers that we were going to lose. This is a good feeling win or lose, and it’s way better when we win.” Dool was the RDC player of the game, finishing with 18 points and five rebounds. Emily White added 13 points, six rebounds and six blocks. Dedra Janvier had 11 points, Eva Bonde nine and Anna Houtman eight. Kennedy Werre had 22 points and eight rebounds for the Rattlers. The Queens are 5-6 with MHC at 6-5.

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Queens 67 Rattlers 60 RDC Queens head coach Ken King made a slight change in how they set up for their Alberta Colleges Women’s Basketball League meeting with the Medicine Hat Rattlers at RDC Saturday afternoon. Instead of using the bench on the north side of the statistics table and under the Kings logo he switched to the south end and under the Queens logo. And while that had little to do with the way the Queens performed on the court, it seemed to work as they downed the Rattlers 67-60 before an enthusiastic crowd. “As much as the bench thing seems minor it’s a switch in tradition, being in front of our logo,” said King. “The main thing is we played a different style than we have and it benefitted us.” The Kings could have used some of that positive thinking as they dropped their second straight game to the Rattlers, losing 80-64. In the women’s contest the main thing was the Queens played a solid game for the majority of the 40 minutes. Their only real letdown came during the first five minutes of the fourth quarter when the Rattlers went to a full court man-to-man press and cut a 14 point definite down to three points. While the Queens got caught up in the high pace of play, which resulted in several turnovers, they were able to settle down when it mattered the most. Veteran guard Morgan Dool played

a major role in that as she not only helped bring the ball up against pressure, but hit a pair of three-point baskets and dropped all four of her free throws in the final minute. “We needed to overcome that moment when they came back on us,” said King. “We talked about how we were close before and let it slip away … this was a turning point. “The girls deserve 100 per cent of the credit. They did everything to get us there. We had dips and lulls and they bailed us out. They deserved this win.” King noted that the team energy was much higher than in a 64-60 loss to the Rattlers Friday. “We used everyone and everyone had a positive energy,” he said. “The crowd certainly helped as well. We had another great crowd.” There is also a positive expectation surrounding the team this year. The players and fans alike come expecting a positive outcome. “Even when we lose the expectations from everyone is that we’re going to win,” said King. “We didn’t have that last year. We had expectations

Rattlers 80 Kings 64 For the second night in a row the Kings couldn’t match the intensity or the talent level of the Rattlers, who won 88-68 on Friday. It was a little better effort than last night,” said Kings head coach Clayton Pottinger. “But for the first time this season we faced adversity. We had some tough games in the first half but twinkle-toed through them. We were punched in mouth the last couple of days … now we’ll see what we’re made of. “As coaches we’ve been waiting for the shoe to drop for some time.” Pottinger felt the Kings set a high bar during the first half of the season when they posted a 9-0 record and averaged over 100 points per game offensively. “We set the bar and already everyone is meeting it. They (Rattlers) met and exceed it. Now we’ll see how we handle it.” Pottinger lost team scoring leader Ian Tevis at Christmas while newcomer Shayne Stumpf has yet to play and sat out along with veterans Tyler Wise and Benny Bankazo and rookie Rodney Teal.

All four would make a huge difference to the lineup. “If you look at last year, Tyler and Shayne were two of the top four forwards in the South Division and they’re on the bench,” said Pottinger. “But even if we had those guys I’m not sure we could have swept this weekend. Medicine Hat is playing well and added a couple good pieces at the break. “We’re sputtering. The first half of the season we made mistakes but shot our way out of them, Now we don’t have that scoring and we’re not getting out of those problems. We’re not running our offence. We’re not looking to run the offence, but just shooting.” The Kings may not be playing up to their capabilities, but were still in the game until the fourth quarter when they may have ran out of gas as they used only eight players and several of those were bench players the first half. “I have to point to the valiant effort of those bench guys,” said Pottinger. “They’re getting heavy minutes when they possible should be red shirts.” The Kings trailed 31-15 after the first quarter, but were only down 43-38 at the half and 59-55 after three quarters. They were within three early in the final quarter, before going cold offensively and managing just nine point over the final 10 minutes. The Kings still sit first in the South at 9-2 with MHC at 8-3. The RDC teams will have their hands full next weekend as they visit Lethbridge Friday and Saturday. Danny Rode is a retired advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog.

MINOR HOCKEY ROUNDUP Justin Travis made 34 saves and the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs employed a balanced attack in a 5-2 Alberta Midget Hockey League win over the Southeast Tigers Sunday at the Arena. The Chiefs got a single goal from each of Landon Mackenzie, Parker Smyth, Joel Ray, Levi Glasman and Matthew Froehlick. Red Deer, which trailed 1-0 after one period before scoring three unanswered goals in the middle frame, enjoyed a 41-36 advantage in shots and was assessed eight of 14 minor penalties. The Chiefs traveled to Strathmore Friday and came away with a 2-1 victory, their goals coming off the sticks of Froehlick and Tyler Graber. Outshot 34-30, the Red Deer squad got a 33-save performance from Dawson Weatherill. Major midget girls The Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs enjoyed a successful weekend with a pair of home-ice wins — 2-1 over the Lloydminster Steelers and 4-2 over the Spruce Grove Saints. Maddison Toppe, with the third-period winner, and Skylar Colonna scored for the Chiefs in Sunday’s victory over the Steelers. MacKenzie Fairbrother-Skinner made 14 saves as the winning netminder. The Chiefs beat the Saints Saturday on the strength of two goals from Shae Demale. Breanna Martin and Brandy Steinman accounted for the other Red

Deer goals and Bailey Knapp made 19 saves as the Chiefs outshot their guests 42-21. Minor midget AAA The Red Deer North Star Chiefs downed the host Southeast Tigers 5-3 Sunday to finish the weekend at a break-even 1-1. Scoring for the Chiefs at Medicine Hat were Tanner Smith, Lynden Kidd, Keaton Sawicki, Kyle Budvarson and Hunter Leslie, who also recorded two assists. Brayden Laturnus made 25 saves for the Chiefs, who held a 39-28 advantage in shots. The rugged game featured 27 minor penalties, including 13 to Red Deer, and a lone misconduct assessed to Southeast. The North Star Chiefs were 5-3 losers to the host Lethbridge Hurricanes Saturday, getting goals from Kidd, Sawicki and Zachary Zaparniuk. Justin Verveda made 37 saves for North Star, outshot 42-36. Meanwhile, the Red Deer Strata Energy Chiefs suffered a pair of home-ice defeats, falling 4-3 to the Calgary Blue and 2-1 to the Calgary Blackhawks. Marshall Wilson, Jaden Callan and Rylan Burns connected for Strata Energy in Sunday’s loss to the Blue. Steven Arthur turned made 23 saves in a losing cause. The Chiefs held a 3327 advantage in shots. On Saturday, Dawson Beck notched the lone Red Deer goal against the ‘Hawks, who outshot their hosts 41-30.

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down 5-2.” The Kings managed a pair of power play goals in the third period and got the score back to 6-4 before Charles Wells scored into an empty net with 17 seconds remaining to seal the victory. Doug Jones scored a pair of goals for the Kings with Dylan Baer and Nick Fountain adding single markers. Mike Salmon finished with 27 saves in goal while the Kings, who had 34 shots on NAIT’s Kyle Birch. The Kings host Keyano College Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 1:30 p.m.

The RDC Kings finally found their scoring touch against the NAIT Ooks, but their defence let them down as they dropped a 7-4 decision to the undefeated Ooks in Alberta Colleges Men’s Hockey League action at NAIT Saturday. “It was a high octane, end-to-end game,” said Kings head coach Trevor Keeper. “It was 1-0 after the first period for them then we had a four minute lapse in the second period and were

Canada’s Thompson wins World Cup gold in women’s skicross Marielle Thompson held off Sweden’s Anna Holmlund to win gold Sunday in the women’s skicross World Cup while Canadian teammate Brady Leman took bronze in the men’s race. Thompson, the reigning Olympic

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Goaltender Emily Hickey of the PAC Saints makes a save on Red Deer Sutter Fund Chief Kirsten Baumgardt during the second period of an Alberta Major Midget Female Hockey League game Saturday afternoon game at the Collicutt Centre. Duncan Hughes made 39 saves as the losing netminder. Major bantam Deegan Moffard scored twice and Jason Very made 34 saves as the Red Deer Rebels downed the visiting Airdrie Xtreme 4-2 Saturday.

Ronan Seeley and Josh Zinger also scored for the Rebels, who directed 39 shots at Airdrie netminder Talyn Boyko. The teams split 10 minor penalties. The Rebels host the Calgary Royals Tuesday at 7:15 p.m. at the Arena.

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Richard Kelly, Brandt Middleton, Ryan Smith and Brendan Baumgartner. Troy Trombley stopped 29 shots for the visitors while surrendering goals to Dan Nicholls and Ty Clay. Eagles netminder Dan Dunn made 31 saves and teammate Joel Danyluk stopped one of the two shots he faced. The Eagles scored on their lone power-play opportunity. The Chiefs were one-forthree with a man advantage.

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Panthers hold off Seahawks BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Panthers 31 Seahawks 24 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Four games into his playoff career, Cam Newton recognizes the key element to success. He calls it “Big Mo,” and there couldn’t have been a better example than Carolina’s 31-24 victory over Seattle on Sunday. Emphatically backing up their superb regular season with one of the most dominating halves in football history, the Panthers then hung on in the face of a furious Seahawks rally before surviving. “The playoffs bring out more than any other time the impact of ‘Big Mo,”’ Newton said after Carolina (16-1) moved into NFC title game, which they will host next Sunday against Arizona (13-3). “Momentum. “We can’t wait for no one to make plays for us.” The Panthers, winners of 12 straight at home, made all the right plays in building a 31-0 lead, then were dominated by the two-time defending NFC champs in the second half. So if Carolina wins its first NFL championship, it can credit the lesson learned from the Seahawks (11-7). “We have to find a way to complete a full game of football,” the All-Pro quarterback added. “We have been known to take our foot off the throttle and we have to find that killer instinct.” Newton noted how players, coaches and even the fans were feeling the pressure in the final 30 minutes as Seattle staged a relentless comeback. “It was a tale of execution. We needed a little more of that in the second half. You just have to find ways to get your groove back on.” Definitely. “That’s what this game is going

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Carolina Panthers running back Jonathan Stewart (top) scores a touchdown against the Seattle Seahawks during the first half of their NFL divisional playoff game at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, Sunday. The Panthers defeated the Seahawks and will host the Arizona Cardinals in the NFC Championship game. to teach us,” said All-Pro linebacker Luke Kuechly, who returned a first-quarter interception for a touchdown. “No matter how good you play in the first half, the second half is just as important. It’s crazy - you go into these games and you expect it to be like this, so it wasn’t a surprise for us. But you’ve got to be locked in the whole game. “ Jonathan Stewart, returning from a foot injury, scored two touchdowns after jumpstarting the Panthers with a 59-yard sprint on their first play. New-

ton threw for a touchdown. Then, Seattle showed its pedigree and climbed back within seven points. “We made a mess of it in the first half,” Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said. “We look at this game as a microcosm of the season. We struggled so much early in the season to get going, and it took us a long time. When we finally did, we caught fire, and got rolling. Everyone in here just feels like we ran out of time.” Not before they got two touchdowns in the first 7:20 of the third quarter. Fi-

nally with time to throw, Russell Wilson hit Jermaine Kearse for a 13-yard score and rookie Tyler Lockett for 33 yards, making it 31-14 — and making the full house at Bank of America Stadium unnerved. When the Seahawks succeeded on a fake punt from their 23, an epic comeback seemed possible. That drive stalled, but with Carolina’s offence sputtering, Seattle later got closer on Kearse’s 3-yard catch of a jump ball against All-Pro cornerback Josh Norman. With Newton waving the crowd into frenzied cheers on the sideline, the Panthers’ defence couldn’t stop a 60-yard drive capped by Steven Hauschka’s 36-yard field goal with 1:12 remaining. At 31-24, All-Pro linebacker Thomas Davis hauled in Hauschka’s onside kick — and Charlotte could breathe again. “In the second half, we had to go for it,” Wilson said. “We had to come out swinging. That was our mentality, and we did a great job of that. “ This will be the Panthers’ fourth trip to the NFC championship game, and their first time as host. Carolina, which scored an NFL-best 500 points this season, stormed into the lead thanks to Stewart. He burst through the middle on the first snap and nearly outran everyone, getting tackled at the Seattle 16 by Richard Sherman. Three plays later, Stewart surged into the end zone. His return from a foot injury that cost him three games was far more distinguished than Marshawn Lynch’s comeback from a two-month absence (abdominal surgery). Lynch, who finished with 20 yards on six carries, was nailed in the backfield for a 3-yard loss on his first touch, then turned around late for Wilson’s pass over the middle under pressure from Kawann Short.

Manning leads Broncos past gritty Steelers BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Broncos 23 Steelers 16 DENVER — Get ready for Brady-Manning XVII. Peyton Manning earned one more and possibly final game against his rival by leading the Denver Broncos to a come-from-behind 23-16 win over Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. That set up an AFC championship game next weekend in Denver against Tom Brady and the defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots (13-4). Manning and Brady have squared off 16 times before, a full season’s worth of matchups between the two quarterbacks whose careers are so intertwined that a conversation about one almost has to include the other — like Bird vs. Magic or Ali vs. Frazier. “It’ll be the Broncos vs. the Patriots,” Manning said. “We’ll enjoy this one tonight. I think you knew that answer was coming. To kind of quote Bill Belichick, we’ll be on to New England. But I’ll be talking about them on Wednesday.” His boss, John Elway, who only got to face his fellow Hall of Famer Dan Marino twice in his playing career, once said there will never be another rivalry like Brady-Manning. Brady has won 11 of the 16 meetings, but they’re 2-2 in the playoffs, including Denver’s 26-16 win in the conference championship game two years ago. This game marks just the seventh time Manning will face Brady at home. This matchup was slated for November before Manning went out with a foot injury that pushed longtime backup Brock Osweiler into the starting — and starring — role. Osweiler led the Broncos (13-4) back from a two-touchdown, fourth-quarter

deficit against New England on Nov. 29 in a game Denver won 30-24 in overtime. Manning had just gotten out of his cast and watched that game from the locker room. He returned to action in the season finale, his cameo propelling the Broncos past San Diego and into the AFC’s No. 1 seed that ensures Brady & Co. will have to play at altitude in their fifth consecutive trip to the conference championship game. Manning’s teammates dropped seven passes, but came through in crunch time. Denver is 10-3 in games decided by seven points or fewer, and Manning said being battle-tested helped them on this night. With Denver down 13-12 with less than 10 minutes left, cornerback Bradley Roby punched the ball from Fitzgerald Toussaint’s arms and teammate DeMarcus Ware recovered at the Denver 35-yard line. Then, Manning went to work, driving Denver to its only touchdown. C.J. Anderson ran it in from the 1, and Demaryius Thomas — who was playing in front of his mother for the first time in his life — caught the 2-point conversion for a 20-13 lead with three minutes remaining. That was Manning’s 55th game-winning drive in the fourth quarter or overtime, extending one of the dozen NFL records he owns. Ware’s sack ended Pittsburgh’s next drive and Brandon McManus kicked his fifth field goal, tying the NFL playoff record. Chris Boswell made a 47-yarder with 19 seconds left, but Anderson recovered the onside kick. Manning credited Denver’s NFLbest defence for thwarting a team that piled up 34 points on them last month. “Obviously, down in the fourth quarter and down the home stretch, great play by our defence,” Manning

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Denver Broncos running back Ronnie Hillman runs over Pittsburgh Steelers inside linebacker Ryan Shazier during an NFL divisional playoff game, Sunday, in Denver. said. “They gave us some good opportunities all day. Pittsburgh did a great job down there in the red zone, keeping us from touchdowns. We had to settle for field goals. “The best thing we did, we stayed patient all game. We didn’t force anything and we didn’t give them any short fields. Obviously, when we needed it, we had that big drive and we got that touchdown that really put us up.”

Roethlisberger completed 24 of 37 passes for 339 yards despite playing with a sore right shoulder and missing his top receiver — Antonio Brown (concussion) and rusher — DeAngelo Williams (foot). Martavis Bryant had nine catches for 154 yards. Manning completed 21 of 37 passes for 222 yards. Emmanuel Sanders had five catches for 85 yards, and Anderson ran 15 times for 72 yards.

Edelman’s return helps Patriots return to AFC title game BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots returned to normal just in time to return to the AFC championship game for the fifth year in a row. With Julian Edelman back from a broken foot, the Patriots shrugged off their end-of-season slump and beat Kansas City 27-20 in the divisional playoff round. New England will play either Denver or Pittsburgh on Sunday for a spot in Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara, California. Edelman, who had been the team’s No. 1 receiver before breaking his foot in Week 10, had 10 catches for 100

yards against the Chiefs on Saturday. With Edelman and tight end Rob Gronkowski back in the lineup, Tom Brady threw for more than 300 yards for just the second time since Edelman broke his foot. “It certainly makes a big difference with the rhythm and the confidence of the offence,” special teamer Matt Slater said on Sunday. “He’s a big part of what we do.” Typically one of the best end-of-season teams in the NFL, the Patriots won just two of their last six games since Edelman went out. Injuries on the offensive line also left Brady scrambling to protect himself. But Edelman’s return seemed to have the biggest impact on Saturday,

when Brady threw his way 16 times — including the second, third and fourth plays of the game. Rusty from two months without being on the field together, the two misconnected on five of the first eight tries before Brady completed seven of the next eight passes thrown to Edelman. He took the blame for the drops. “That was just me trying to be too fast,” he said. “I dropped some balls that I shouldn’t have. You can’t win ballgames doing those kinds of things, so, I’m personally going to have to get back and do a lot more.” The 29-year-old former college quarterback also ran 11 yards on a reverse early in the second half. After the game, reporters saw him going to

the X-ray room, but he said the team does not allow him to talk about injuries. “That guy has got the heart of a lion,” linebacker Rob Ninkovich said. “He’s just never going to give up on a play. I’ve been with him for a very long time now, and I respect the way that he plays and how much he gives this team. So again, tons of respect for No. 11, and I’m happy that he was able to be out there doing his thing.” Patriots coach Bill Belichick preferred to spread the credit around. “The more of those guys you have out there the harder it is to defend,” he said. “Tom knows what to do with them, he can find those matchups, that’s what we need to do.”

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Tuesday • Major bantam hockey: Calgary Royals at Red Deer, 7:15 p.m., Arena.

Wednesday • WHL: Moose Jaw at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. • Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Ponoka, 7:45 p.m.

Friday • Curling: Red Deer Oilmen’s Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre. • College volleyball: Briercrest at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow. • Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Ramada at Central Alberta, 6 p.m., Lacombe. • WHL: Swift Current at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. • College men’s hockey: Keyano at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. • Heritage junior B hockey: Mountainview at Stettler, 7:30 p.m. • Midget AA hockey: Olds at Red Deer Elks, 8 p.m., Arena; Calgary Canucks at West Central, 8 p.m., Sylvan Lake; Red Deer Indy Graphics at Central Alberta, 8:30 p.m., Lacombe. • Chinook senior AAA hockey: Bentley at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.

• Curling: Red Deer Oilmen’s Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre. • College volleyball: Briercrest at RDC, women at 1 p.m., men to follow. • College men’s hockey: Keyano at RDC, 1:30 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. • Minor midget AAA hockey: Rockyview at Red Deer North Star, 2 p.m., Arena. • Bantam AA hockey: Bow Valley at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Wheatland at Central Alberta, 8:15 p.m., Lacombe. • Major bantam hockey: Grande Prairie at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Arena. • WHL: Everett at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. • AJHL: Calgary Canucks at Olds Grizzlys, 7 p.m. • Heritage junior B hockey: Cochrane at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Stettler at Three Hills, 8 p.m.

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Football NFL Playoffs Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 24 AFC New England at Denver, 1:05 p.m. NFC Arizona at Carolina, 4:40 p.m.

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

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

Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 16 New England 27, Kansas City 20 Arizona 26, Green Bay 20, OT Sunday, Jan. 17 Carolina 31, Seattle 24 Denver 23, Pittsburgh 16

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Soccer GA Pts 21 44 26 44 21 43 18 39 20 37 26 35 22 33 24 31 28 31 24 30 32 29 24 29 30 27 34 25 37 24 38 23 39 21 30 19 45 18 38 12

Saturday, Jan. 16 Tottenham 4, Sunderland 1 Bournemouth 3, Norwich 0 Chelsea 3, Everton 3 Manchester City 4, Crystal Palace 0 Newcastle 2, West Ham 1 Southampton 3, West Brom 0 Aston Villa 1, Leicester City 1

Sunderland vs. Bournemouth, 1500 GMT Watford vs. Newcastle, 1500 GMT West Brom vs. Aston Villa, 1500 GMT West Ham vs. Manchester City, 1730 GMT England League Cup SEMIFINAL First Leg Tuesday, Jan. 5 Stoke 0, Liverpool 1 Wednesday, Jan. 6 Everton 2, Manchester City 1 Second Leg Tuesday, Jan. 26 Liverpool vs. Stoke, 1945 GMT Wednesday, Jan. 27 Manchester City vs. Everton, 1945 GMT England FA Cup THIRD ROUND Sunday, Jan. 10 Oxford United 3, Swansea City 2 Chelsea 2, Scunthorpe 0 Tottenham 2, Leicester 2 Cardiff 0, Shrewsbury Town 1 Carlisle United 2, Yeovil Town 2 in Blackpool Monday, Jan. 18 Newport County vs. Blackburn, 1915 GMT

Sunday, Jan. 17 Liverpool 0, Manchester United 1 Stoke 0, Arsenal 0 Monday, Jan. 18 Swansea vs. Watford, 2000 GMT Saturday, Jan. 23 Norwich vs. Liverpool, 1245 GMT Crystal Palace vs. Tottenham, 1500 GMT Leicester City vs. Stoke, 1500 GMT Manchester United vs. Southampton, 1500 GMT

Tuesday, Jan. 19 Aston Villa vs. Wycombe Wanderers, 1945 GMT Bradford City vs. Bury, 1945 GMT Bristol City vs. West Bromwich Albion, 1945 GMT MK Dons vs. Northampton Town, 1945 GMT Portsmouth vs. Ipswich, 1945 GMT Yeovil Town vs. Carlisle United, 1945 GMT Bolton vs. Eastleigh, 2000 GMT Reading vs. Huddersfield Town, 2000 GMT Wednesday, Jan. 20 Leicester vs. Tottenham, 1945 GMT Liverpool vs. Exeter City, 2000 GMT

Lacrosse National Lacrosse League East Division GP W L Pct. GF New England 3 2 1 .667 36 Rochester 3 2 1 .667 38 Buffalo 2 1 1 .500 24 Georgia 3 1 2 .333 33 Toronto 3 0 3 .000 19 GP Colorado 3 Saskatchewan 2 Vancouver 2 Calgary 3

West Division W L Pct. 3 0 1.000 1 1 .500 1 1 .500 1 2 .333

GF 47 21 20 26

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English Premier League GP W D L GF Arsenal 22 13 5 4 37 Leicester City 22 12 8 2 39 Manchester City 22 13 4 5 43 Tottenham 22 10 9 3 38 Man. United 22 10 7 5 28 West Ham 22 9 8 5 34 Stoke 22 9 6 7 24 Crystal Palace 22 9 4 9 23 Liverpool 22 8 7 7 25 Southampton 22 8 6 8 31 Everton 22 6 11 5 39 Watford 21 8 5 8 25 West Brom 22 7 6 9 22 Chelsea 22 6 7 9 31 Bournemouth 22 6 6 10 26 Norwich 22 6 5 11 24 Newcastle 22 5 6 11 24 Swansea 21 4 7 10 19 Sunderland 22 5 3 14 27 Aston Villa 22 2 6 14 18

GA GB 22 — 28 — 24 .5 34 1 36 2 GA GB 43 — 21 1.5 28 1.5 28 2

RINGETTE The Central Alberta U19AA Sting struck gold in the Esso Golden Ring ringette tournament at Calgary during the weekend. The Sting got a goal from each of Shae-Lyn Baxter, Gillian Dreger, MacKenzie Lindholm, Ashlynn Morrison and Brenna Parent in a 5-1 gold-medal contest victory over the Calgary U19AA Blue. Grace Romansky was the winning netminder. The Central Alberta squad opened the tournament with a 5-2 win over the Zone 5 Grit, getting three goals from Kristen Demale and singles from Dreger and Sydney Cherniak. From there, the Sting were 2-1 in round-robin play, defeating the Edmonton Elite 4-2, thumping the Calgary Red 9-3 and losing 5-3 to the Calgary Blue. McKenna Causey scored twice and Demale and Dreger also connected against the Elite, while Cherniak, Demale and Morrison each tallied twice and Baxter, Dreger and Sara Kelly also scored versus the Red, and Demale, Morrison and Parent were the Central Alberta goal-scorers in the loss to the Blue. The Sting, with Morrison

WEEK THREE Sunday’s result New England 11 Georgia 6 Saturday’s results Rochester 12 Toronto 5 Colorado 15 Buffalo 14 (OT) Friday’s results Calgary 9 New England 8 Vancouver 13 Saskatchewan 11 Thursday’s result Rochester 12 Toronto 7 WEEK FOUR Saturday, Jan. 23 Toronto at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m. Colorado at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

scoring twice, dumped the St. Albert U19AA Mission 6-2 in semifinal play. Baxter, Causey, Lindholm and Melissa Misutka each tallied once and Baylee Schulhauser picked up the win in net. • Meanwhile, the U14 AA Sting lost 8-2 to the Calgary Blue in a semifinal, with both goals coming from Julia Dawes. The Sting finished second in round-robin play with a 3-1 record. They defeated the Calgary White 10-6, doubled the Manitoba Magic 6-3, downed the St. Mission 4-2 and fell 8-1 to the Calgary Red. Dawes netted three goals against the White, with Shaelynn Law and Sydney Schnoor each sniping a pair and Ashlin Caine, Leah Desilets and Megan Grubb also connecting. Dawes, Grubb, Law, Hanna Gill, Kate Roscoe and Tory Towers were the Sting marksmen versus Manitoba and Carly Cherniak, Grubb, Roscoe and Schnoor hit the scoresheet in the win over St. Albert. Roscoe accounted for the lone Sting goal in the loss to the Calgary Red. Madison Kohut and Gracie Setters shared Sting goaltending duties through the tournament.

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF Brandon 44 27 13 2 2 167 Prince Albert 45 26 14 4 1 151 Moose Jaw 44 23 15 5 1 153 Regina 46 19 20 3 4 146 Saskatoon 45 17 25 3 0 137 Swift Current 45 14 26 4 1 110 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF Lethbridge 45 33 12 0 0 196 Red Deer 46 29 15 1 1 168 Calgary 46 27 17 1 1 153 Edmonton 46 17 22 6 1 125 Medicine Hat 44 18 22 3 1 146 Kootenay 46 8 35 3 0 93

GA 130 141 137 167 186 149 GA 132 134 146 149 171 195

Pt 58 57 52 45 37 33 Pt 66 60 56 41 40 19

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF Kelowna 44 30 11 3 0 159 Victoria 46 26 15 2 3 151 Prince George 45 27 16 1 1 153 Kamloops 44 22 15 4 3 151 Vancouver 45 17 23 3 2 136

GA 126 116 132 136 158

Pt 63 57 56 51 39

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOLGF 42 26 12 2 2 119 43 24 16 3 0 135 44 22 20 2 0 146 43 20 18 3 2 143 44 19 23 2 0 142

GA 92 127 140 147 169

Pt 56 51 46 45 40

Everett Seattle Portland Spokane Tri-City

Sunday’s results Kamloops 2 Edmonton 1 Saturday’s results Swift Current 2 Red Deer 1 Calgary 3 Edmonton 2 (OT) Prince George 6 Vancouver 4 Moose Jaw 4 Brandon 1 Lethbridge 3 Prince Albert 2 (OT) Medicine Hat 4 Kootenay 2 Saskatoon 3 Portland 1 Tri-City 5 Regina 4 (SO) Kelowna 2 Victoria 1 (OT) Everett 5 Seattle 1 Monday’s games Saskatoon at Everett, 3:05 p.m. Vancouver at Portland, 4 p.m. Tuesday’s games Moose Jaw at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Saskatoon at Seattle, 8:05 p.m. Vancouver at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m. Prince George at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Wednesday’s games Spokane at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Moose Jaw at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Everett at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Medicine Hat at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Saturday’s summary Broncos 2, Rebels 1 First Period No Scoring. Penalties — Jensen SC (holding) 15:04. Second Period 1. Swift Current, Martin 30 (Pederson, Steenbergen) 2:45. 2. Red Deer, Spacek 13 (Bleackley) 7:08. Penalties — Nogier RD (hooking) 9:16, Jensen SC (cross-checking) 14:29, Dube SC (holding) 18:42. Third Period 3. Swift Current, Martin 31 (Steenbergen) 13:04. Penalties — Lajoie SC (hooking) 2:07, Hagel RD (tripping) 16:41. Shots on goal Red Deer 13 14 12 — 39

Swift Current 2 6 8 — 16 Goal — Red Deer: Toth (L, 23-12-0) Swift Current: Burman (W, 1-6-0). Power plays (goal-chances) — Red Deer: 0-4 Swift Current: 0-2. WHL Scoring Leaders G 27 26 14 29 28 26 25 19 17 24 31 23 26 27 17 12 12 22 20 23 28 27 20 17 25 15 14

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

A 44 40 52 35 36 36 34 38 40 31 23 31 26 24 34 38 38 27 29 25 19 20 27 30 21 31 31

Pts 71 66 66 64 64 62 59 57 57 55 54 54 52 51 51 50 50 49 49 48 47 47 47 47 46 46 45

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Florida 45 26 14 5 57 Detroit 45 23 14 8 54 Tampa Bay 45 24 17 4 52 Boston 44 23 16 5 51 Montreal 46 23 19 4 50 Ottawa 45 21 18 6 48 Buffalo 45 18 23 4 40 Toronto 43 16 20 7 39

GF 119 111 119 133 128 125 105 108

GA 101 116 107 116 118 138 122 122

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts 45 34 8 3 71 45 24 15 6 54 45 24 16 5 53 44 21 16 7 49 46 22 19 5 49 43 20 15 8 48 47 20 19 8 48 46 17 25 4 38

GF 149 123 129 108 101 98 111 116

GA 97 112 120 108 110 114 129 146

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Chicago 48 31 13 4 66 Dallas 46 29 12 5 63 St. Louis 48 26 15 7 59 Minnesota 45 22 15 8 52 Nashville 45 20 17 8 48 Colorado 46 22 21 3 47 Winnipeg 45 21 21 3 45

GF 140 154 121 113 116 129 118

GA 110 124 121 106 123 129 129

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

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 44 28 13 3 59 118 99 Arizona 44 22 17 5 49 122 133 San Jose 43 23 18 2 48 124 117 Vancouver 46 19 17 10 48 111 127 Anaheim 44 19 18 7 45 88 105 Calgary 43 20 20 3 43 116 131 Edmonton 46 18 23 5 41 111 134 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Saturday’s Games N.Y. Rangers 3, Philadelphia 2, SO

Edmonton 2, Calgary 1, SO New Jersey 2, Arizona 0 Ottawa 5, Los Angeles 3 Boston 3, Toronto 2 Buffalo 4, Washington 1 Columbus 2, Colorado 1 St. Louis 4, Montreal 3, OT Nashville 3, Minnesota 0 San Jose 4, Dallas 3, OT Sunday’s Games Vancouver 2, N.Y. Islanders 1, SO Philadelphia 2, Detroit 1, SO Pittsburgh 5, Carolina 0 Tampa Bay 3, Florida 1 Washington 5, N.Y. Rangers 2 Chicago 5, Montreal 2 Los Angeles 3, Anaheim 2 Monday’s Games Edmonton at Florida, 5:30 p.m. Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 6 p.m. Colorado at Winnipeg, 6 p.m. Buffalo at Arizona, 7 p.m. Ottawa at San Jose, 8:30 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Calgary at New Jersey, 5 p.m. Vancouver at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m. Toronto at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. Washington at Columbus, 5 p.m. Boston at Montreal, 5:30 p.m. Edmonton at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m. Chicago at Nashville, 6 p.m. Dallas at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m. Saturday’s summary Oilers 2, Flames 1 (SO) First Period 1. Calgary, Bennett 11 (Backlund, Frolik) 10:41. Penalties — Nugent-Hopkins Edm (slashing) 11:47, Davidson Edm (delay of game) 13:33, Kassian Edm (kneeing) 19:52. Second Period No Scoring. Penalties — Nugent-Hopkins Edm (slashing) 2:41, Jooris Cgy (high-sticking) 19:15. Third Period 2. Edmonton, Fayne 1 (Hall) 10:37. Penalties — None. Overtime No Scoring. Penalties — Nurse Edm (holding) 1:58. Shootout — Edmonton wins 1-0 Calgary : Gaudreau miss, Monahan miss, Bennett miss. Edmonton : Eberle miss, Nugent-Hopkins miss, Purcell goal. Shots on goal Calgary 14 5 8 5 — 32 Edmonton 8 14 15 0 — 37 Goal — Calgary: Hiller (LO, 5-4-1) Edmonton: Talbot (W, 8-13-3). Power plays (goal-chances) — Calgary: 0-5 Edmonton: 0-1. NHL Scoring Leaders Patrick Kane, Chi Jamie Benn, Dal Tyler Seguin, Dal Erik Karlsson, Ott Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Blake Wheeler, Wpg Joe Pavelski, SJ Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy Taylor Hall, Edm Artemi Panarin, Chi Evgeni Malkin, Pgh Evgeny Kuznetsov, Wash Nicklas Backstrom, Wash Daniel Sedin, Vcr Brent Burns, SJ Patrice Bergeron, Bos

G 28 26 25 9 24 13 22 19 16 16 19 15 13 19 18 17

A 39 30 28 37 21 31 21 24 26 26 22 26 28 21 22 23

Pts 67 56 53 46 45 44 43 43 42 42 41 41 41 40 40 40

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 25 15 .625 — Boston 22 19 .537 3 1/2 New York 20 22 .476 6 Brooklyn 11 30 .268 14 1/2 Philadelphia 5 37 .119 21 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 24 17 .585 — Miami 23 18 .561 1 Orlando 20 19 .513 3 Washington 19 20 .487 4 Charlotte 18 22 .450 5 1/2 Central Division W L Pct GB Cleveland 28 10 .737 — Chicago 23 16 .590 5 1/2 Detroit 22 18 .550 7 Indiana 22 19 .537 7 1/2 Milwaukee 18 25 .419 12 1/2 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB

San Antonio Memphis Dallas Houston New Orleans

36 6 .857 23 19 .548 23 19 .548 22 20 .524 13 26 .333 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 30 12 .714 Utah 18 22 .450 Portland 18 25 .419 Denver 16 25 .390 Minnesota 13 29 .310 Pacific Division W L Pct Golden State 37 4 .902 L.A. Clippers 26 14 .650 Sacramento 17 23 .425 Phoenix 13 29 .310 L.A. Lakers 9 34 .209

— 13 13 14 21 1/2 GB — 11 12 1/2 13 1/2 17 GB — 10 1/2 19 1/2 24 1/2 29

Saturday’s Games Milwaukee 105, Charlotte 92 Philadelphia 114, Portland 89 Detroit 113, Golden State 95 Boston 119, Washington 117 Atlanta 114, Brooklyn 86 Memphis 103, New York 95

Utah 109, L.A. Lakers 82 Sacramento 110, L.A. Clippers 103 Sunday’s Games Minnesota 117, Phoenix 87 San Antonio 112, Dallas 83 Oklahoma City 99, Miami 74 Denver 129, Indiana 126 Houston 112, L.A. Lakers 95 Monday’s Games Philadelphia at New York, 11 a.m. Portland at Washington, 12 p.m. Utah at Charlotte, 12 p.m. New Orleans at Memphis, 12:30 p.m. Chicago at Detroit, 1:30 p.m. Orlando at Atlanta, 3 p.m. Brooklyn at Toronto, 5:30 p.m. Golden State at Cleveland, 6 p.m. Boston at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Houston at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Milwaukee at Miami, 5:30 p.m. Minnesota at New Orleans, 6 p.m. Oklahoma City at Denver, 7 p.m. Indiana at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Golf PGA Tour-Sony Open Sunday At Waialae Country Club Honolulu Purse: $5.8 million Yardage: 7,044 Par 70 (x-won on second playoff hole) Final x-Fabian Gomez, $1,044,000 69-64-65-62—260 Brandt Snedeker, $626,400 63-65-66-66—260 Zac Blair, $394,400 65-65-64-67—261 Si Woo Kim, $278,400 64-67-65-68—264 Greg Owen, $220,400 69-65-67-64—265 Kevin Kisner, $220,400 63-66-66-70—265 Jamie Lovemark, $187,050 67-69-65-65—266 Graham DeLaet, $187,050 73-62-65-66—266 Zach Johnson, $150,800 64-66-70-67—267 Jerry Kelly, $150,800 65-66-69-67—267 Hudson Swafford, $150,800 66-69-65-67—267 Jason Dufner, $150,800 67-67-65-68—267 Scott Piercy, $77,604 65-66-71-66—268 Jimmy Walker, $77,604 69-68-65-66—268 Daniel Summerhays, $77,604 67-65-70-66—268 William McGirt, $77,604 69-65-68-66—268

Morgan Hoffmann, $77,604 Harold Varner III, $77,604 Brian Harman, $77,604 David Lingmerth, $77,604 Kyle Stanley, $77,604 Ryan Palmer, $77,604 Charles Howell III, $77,604 Tim Clark, $77,604 Gary Woodland, $77,604 Matt Kuchar, $77,604 Webb Simpson, $77,604 James Hahn, $39,440 Marc Leishman, $39,440 Luke Donald, $39,440 Seung-Yul Noh, $39,440 Kevin Na, $39,440 John Huh, $28,742 Emiliano Grillo, $28,742 Robert Garrigus, $28,742 Danny Lee, $28,742 Brendon de Jonge, $28,742 Francesco Molinari, $28,742 Kyle Reifers, $28,742 Daisuke Kataoka, $28,742

JUNIOR B HOCKEY The Stettler Lightning outshot their hosts 35-27 Sunday but dropped a 5-4 Heritage Junior Hockey League shootout decision to the Blackfalds Wranglers. Layne McLean and Andrew McLennan connected for Blackfalds in the shootout. Scoring regulation-time goals for the winners were McLean, Brock Boguski, Mark Simpson and Makenzie Russell, while Nicolas Herrebrugh turned aside 31 shots. Replying for Stettler were Derek Muhlbach, Kieran Rost, Braydon Whiteford and DJ Kistner. Travis Green made 23 saves in a losing cause. It was an unsuccessful weekend for the Lightning, who were 11-4 losers to the Mountainview Colts Saturday at Didsbury. Muhlbach tallied twice for the visitors, who got singles goals from Linden Heidecker and Matt Johannson. Green and Taylor McLaughlin combined to make 33 saves for Stettler, outshot 44-23. In other Heritage League weekend contests:

RDC RUNNING LETHBRIDGE — RDC runners secured a pair of third-place finishes in an Alberta Colleges cross-country meet Saturday. Jonathan Allan placed third in the men’s 300-metre event with a time of 38.30 seconds, while Jordanna Cota was third in the women’s 600m event in 1:52.30. RDC’s Haylee Kitt finished sixth and teammate Tara McDonald was ninth in the women’s race with respective clockings of 1:59.23 and 2:14.38. Keelan Allerby was eighth in the men’s race with a time of 42.74. In the men’s 1,000m event, Nolan Dyck of RDC placed fourth in 3:12.86, while Amy Sev-

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Jeff Overton, $28,742 Daniel Berger, $18,662 Shane Bertsch, $18,662 John Senden, $18,662 Chez Reavie, $18,662 Stewart Cink, $18,662 Sean O’Hair, $18,662 Nick Mason, $18,662 Fred Funk, $18,662 Lucas Glover, $13,881 Ben Martin, $13,881 Tim Wilkinson, $13,881 K.J. Choi, $13,881 Vijay Singh $13,881 Shawn Stefani, $13,881 Padraig Harrington, $12,818 Harris English $12,818 Ricky Barnes, $12,818 Adam Scott, $12,818 Thomas Aiken, $12,818 Mark Hubbard, $12,818 Michael Thompson, $12,818 Spencer Levin, $12,818

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• The Wranglers were 5-4 losers to the host Three Hills Thrashers Friday, their goals coming off the sticks of McLennan, Tyler McCubbing, Curtis Rajotte and Spencer Otto. Scoring for the Thrashers were Ben Schierman, Ryan Spiller, Patrick Fougere, Damien Chopek and Tyler Newsham. Three Hills netminder Aiden Doel made 49 saves, while Klay Munro blocked 25 shots for Blackfalds. • The Thrashers hosted the Airdrie Thunder Sunday and came out on the short end of an 8-3 count. Scoring for Three Hills, outshot 48-25, were Spiller, Fougere and Rylan Plante-Crough, while Doel and Greg Pols teamed up to make 40 saves. • The Ponoka Stampeders twice took it on the chin from the Cochrane Generals, absorbing an 11-1 beating at home Sunday and suffering a 9-1 loss at Saturday at Cochrane. Mik Doell scored a second-period goal for the Stamps Sunday. Carter Gendreau made 36 saves for Ponoka, outshot 47-30. On Saturday, the Stamps’ lone goal was provided by Tyson Crampain. Outshot 43-20, Ponoka got a 34-save outing from Zeke Leuck. erson placed fifth in the women’s 1,500m in 5:28.85. RDC runner Melissa Ray was eighth in the women’s 1,500m in a time of 5:55.23, while teammates Lauren Mearns (6:08.68), Laura Szymanek (6:22.78) and Kaylin Ackerman (7:04.37) finished ninth, 11th and 12th. The RDC women’s 4x400m relay team of Kitt, Severtson and Cote finished third in 4:50.36 and the women’s foursome of McDonald, Ackerman, Ray and Mearns was fourth in 5:31.96. Both the RDC women’s and men’s contingents placed fourth in the team standings, with the women racking up 20 points and the men recording 12. RDC finished fourth in total points with 32.

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Gomez gets win in playoff over Snedeker BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HONOLULU â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Whether he was playing money games with the other caddies in Argentina or playing mini-tours on his long road to the big leagues in golf, Fabian Gomez couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recall ever making seven straight birdies. He wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget Sunday in the Sony Open. That amazing birdie streak -- no putt longer than 12 feet -- carried him to an 8-under 62, and the 37-year-old Argentine won with his 11th birdie of the day on the second playoff hole to outlast Brandt Snedeker. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I felt good all week long and was about to put on a great round today,â&#x20AC;? Gomez said through a translator. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I had Brandt Snedeker in front of me. I got on a streak with seven putts in a row. And it makes me feel good and feel like I could win the tournament.â&#x20AC;? Gomez won for the second time on the PGA Tour, and this one was much tougher. Starting the final round four shots behind, Gomez seized control with his seven straight birdies starting on No. 6, only to follow with back-to-back bogeys that let Snedeker and Zac Blair back into the game. Gomez closed with a 7-iron to 10 feet for birdie on the par-3 17th, and a 20-foot birdie putt from just off the 18th green. He finished at 20-under 260. Snedeker hit a delicate 55-yard pitch to 4 feet for birdie to close with 66 and force a playoff. On the first playoff hole at the par-5 18th, Snedeker missed a 12-foot birdie for the win. Going back to the 18th tee, Gomez had enough. He had not hit the 18th fairway all week, and it was the hardest fairway to hit on Sunday. He had never made birdie on the par 5 until Sunday in regulation. So he went with hybrid off the tee to stay in the short grass, drilled a 3-iron to the front of the green and lagged his long putt close for a tap-in birdie. This time, Snedeker couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t match him. His 10-foot putt had slower pace

than he wanted and it peeled off to the right. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s frustrating because I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make putts to win the golf tournament,â&#x20AC;? Snedeker said. He said leaving his 12-foot putt to win on the first playoff hole â&#x20AC;&#x153;is going to sting today and tomorrow.â&#x20AC;? Zac Blair, who shared the 54-hole lead with Snedeker, had a 10-foot eagle putt on the 18th hole to join them, but it missed on the high side. He had a 67. Gomez won the St. Jude Classic last year by four shots and already was in the Masters. This victory moves him to No. 55 in the world and greatly improves his chances of playing in the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro this summer. His 62 was the lowest closing round by a Sony Open champion. Blair nearly joined the playoff with a 3-wood he called the best of his life from 280 yards on the closing hole at Waialae. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh my gosh, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so good,â&#x20AC;? Blair said as he watched it bound forward onto the green to 10 feet. He needed the eagle to join the playoff. It stayed just above the hole. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the best putts Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve probably ever hit right there on 18,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unfortunately, it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go in.â&#x20AC;? Si Woo Kim, the 20-year-old from South Korea, was part of a five-way tie for the lead briefly. He closed with one bogey and five parts for a 68 to finish fourth. Graham DeLaet, from Weyburn, Sask., was the top Canadian. He shot a 4-under 66 in the final round to move up into a tie for seventh place at 14 under. Adam Hadwin, of Abbotsford, B.C., came in at 5 under while Abbotsfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nick Taylor finished the tournament at 1 under. Kevin Kisner, playing in the final group for the third time in his last four tournaments, ended his streak of 15 consecutive rounds under par at the worst time. His best putts were to save par until a wild tee shot on the eighth led to double bogey, dropping him five shots behind.

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Fabian Gomez, of Argentina, reacts after taking the lead on the 18th green during the final round of the Sony Open golf tournament, Sunday, in Honolulu. Gomez defeated Brandt Snedeker on the second playoff hole.

Red Deerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kocher helps Oilers sign goaltender Cam Canada to ninth in Germany Talbot to three-year extension

RDC VOLLEYBALL Kings 3 Rattlers 1 MEDICINE HAT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The RDC Kings added depth to their lineup at Christmas with the addition of outside hitters Matt Lofgren and Riley Friesen. They needed that Saturday as they downed the Medicine Hat Rattlers 26-24, 25-19, 28-30, 25-21 to complete a weekend doubleheader sweep over their hosts. The Kings ran into a major setback in the third set when right side Nic Dubinsky went down with a separated shoulder. Friesen stepped in and was solid in relief. Dubinsky had 12 kills, nine digs and two blocks before he was injured. Lofgren was the RDC player of the game with 13 kills, nine digs and a block while setter Luke Brisbane had 42 assists, 16 digs and two blocks, Tommy Lyon seven kills and two blocks, Adam Turlejski six kills and three digs and Regan Fathers six kills, three digs and three blocks. The win left the Kings, who are ranked No. 1 in Canada, with a 13-1 re-

MENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BASKETBALL The Subaru Kingsmen got 15 points from each of Enrique Vizcarra and Craig Johnston Sunday in an 84-39 Cen-

focused on truly enjoying the day, having fun competing in a team event and racing for my last ever time in Ruhpolding with these awesome crowds,â&#x20AC;? said Kocher, who also broke her pole and fell after a French athlete stepped on it midway through her final lap. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Two broken poles for the team in one race is likely a record â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to repeat. But this result motivates us for next weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relay where we are setting our sights higher.â&#x20AC;? The Canadians posted a time of 1:18.13.7 in the 4x6-kilometre event. cord while MHC slipped to 10-6. Queens 3 Rattlers 0 The Queens, who won 3-1 Friday, didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allow the Rattlers any opportunity to come back Saturday as they rolled to a 25-19, 25-20, 25-18 victory. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Two nice wins to start the second half (of the season),â&#x20AC;? said Queens head coach Talbot Walton. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We improved over yesterday by playing better positional defence, served targets better and stayed aggressive on offence.â&#x20AC;? Kelsey Tymkow was the RDC player of the match with eight kills, one ace, 13 digs and one block. Jessica Jones had 10 kills, 15 digs and two blocks while Whitney Zylstra had six kills, eight digs and two blocks, McKenna Barthel four kills and 12 digs, Hanna Delemont three blocks, setter Meagan Kuzyk 25 assists and libero Olivia Barnes 18 digs. The Queens, who are 9-5 and tied with Olds for third in the South Division, were playing without power hitter Miranda Dawe. The Queens have a tough test next weekend as they host first-place Briercrest Friday and Saturday. tral Alberta Senior Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Basketball Association romp over Wells Furniture. Eddie Ellis scored 16 points for the losers, who got an additional 12 from Brook Doam.

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CROSSIE (James) Paul 1960 - 2016 With sadness Paul’s family announces his passing on January 14. He was predeceased by his mother, Hilary; father, Pat; and daughter, Shantel. Paul leaves to mourn his daughter, Christina; son-inlaw, Jesse; wife, Karrie; and 5 cherished grandchildren, Liam, Siobhan, Aidan, Kian and Ella. A celebration of Paul’s life will be held at a later date. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-3319.

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MAGA Germaine Marie Louise May 31st, 1918 - Jan.13th, 2016 Germaine Marie Louise Maga went home to meet her Lord on January 13th, 2016 at The Lacombe Health Care Centre at the age of 97. Born May 31st, 1918 in Grande Clairiere, MB, Germaine’s family moved to Lacombe, AB in 1924, later to Bentley and then Aspelund. Germaine married Bill Maga in 1937 and moved to Poplar Ridge where they farmed until the passing of her loving husband, Bill, in 1978. In 1992 she retired from the farm and moved to Sylvan Lake. Germaine was predeceased by her granddaughter Nancy Ann Caldwell in 1997. She is survived by her two children, Louis Maga (Nita) and Louise Bowron (David), three grandsons and seven greatgrandchildren. Germaine was very active in numerous clubs and she was loved by all who knew her. She will be sorely missed by her family and many relatives and friends. Prayers for Germaine will be held on Monday, January 18th, 2016 at 7:00 pm from the Our Lady of the Assumption Church and a Mass of a Christian Burial will follow on January 19th, 2016, at 11:00 am at the Our Lady of the Assumption Church, 5033 47a Ave, Sylvan Lake, AB, with Interment at Red Deer Cemetery. As an expression of sympathy memorial donations may be made in Germaine’s name to the Sylvan Lake Lodge Foundation. Condolences can be forwarded to www. sylvanlakefuneralhome.com SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM, your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements. 403-887-2151

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Ramadi lies in ruins IRAQI CITY ONCE HOME TO 50,000 NOW IN RUINS AFTER FIGHTING WITH IS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RAMADI, Iraq — So complete was the destruction of Ramadi that a local reporter who had visited the city many times hardly recognized it. “Honestly, this is the main street,” Amaj Hamid, a member of Iraq’s elite counterterrorism forces, told the TV crew as they entered from the southwest. He swerved to avoid the aftermath of months of fighting: rubble, overturned cars and piles of twisted metal. Airstrikes and homemade bombs laid by the Islamic State group had shredded the poured-concrete walls and ceilings of the houses and shops along the road. Ramadi, once home to about 500,000 people, now largely lies in ruins. A U.N. report released Saturday used satellite imagery to assess the devastation, concluding that more than 3,000 buildings had been damaged and nearly 1,500 destroyed in the city 70 miles (115 kilometres) west of Baghdad. All told, more than 60 per cent of Anbar’s provincial capital has been destroyed by constant air bombardment and the scorchedearth practices of IS fighters in retreat, according to local estimates. Officials are already scrambling to raise money to rebuild, even as operations continue to retake neighbourhoods in the north and east. Their concern is that the devastation could breed future conflicts, recreating the conditions that allowed the Islamic State group to first gain a foothold in the province in late 2013. While the U.S.-led coalition acknowledges the importance of reconstruction efforts, the actual money pledged to help rebuild is just a fraction of the amount spent on the military effort against IS. In previous fights for the city, government buildings, bridges and key highways bore the brunt of airstrikes and heavy artillery. But during the most recent round of violence, airstrikes targeted the largely residential areas where IS fighters were based. After the Islamic State group overran Ramadi in May, storming and then largely destroying the city’s symbolically important central government complex, fighters quickly fanned out into the city’s dense neighbourhoods. Using civilian homes as bases, IS turned living rooms into operations centres and bedrooms into barracks. Brig. Gen. Muhammad Rasheed Salah of the Anbar provincial police said if civilians don’t start receiving compensation soon, tribal violence will quickly follow liberation. “Listen, I am a son of this land,” he said

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In this Jan. 14 photo, a destroyed armored vehicle sits amid the devastation in Ramadi, 115 kilometers west of Baghdad, Iraq. Ramadi, once home to 500,000 people, lies largely in ruins after months of air bombardment and the scorched-earth practices of IS fighters in retreat. The U.S-led coalition acknowledges the importance of rebuilding, but actual money for the effort falls far short. explaining he is from a village on the outskirts of Ramadi still under IS control. “My house was destroyed by someone I know. He was my friend, my neighbour. In cases like this, you need to be able to provide people with something,” he said referring to government help for rebuilding. U.S. and Iraqi officials estimate the price tag for rebuilding to be in the hundreds of millions. The Iraqi government, in the midst of an economic downturn triggered in part by the falling price of oil, has shifted almost all costs of rebuilding to the provinces, ruling that reconstruction must come from existing budget allocations. That means provincial governors will depend almost entirely on international aid. “We will never kill our way out of the Daesh problem,” U.S. Army Col. Steve Warren, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group, told a recent news conference in Baghdad following the Ramadi gains. “We cannot bomb our way to peace here. The key to defeating this enemy and making it stick

is the reconciliation and the stabilization process.” That phrasing is often repeated by U.S. and coalition officials to describe wide-reaching plans to defeat the Islamic State group in Iraq. But, so far monetary pledges don’t line up with the rhetoric. The United States has pledged $15.3 million to stabilization efforts in Iraq, according to figures provided by the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. That’s compared with the estimated $280 million that the Department of Defence spends to fight IS each month, according to figures released by department and confirmed by coalition officials in Baghdad. “We’re doing the best with the money we have, but it’s not enough, said Lise Grande, the U.N.’s deputy special representative to Iraq who is overseeing reconstruction efforts. “Anytime you have mass destruction like (in Ramadi), particularly if you have mass destruction of private houses and large-scale infrastructure, this is where the costs really start to add up.”

Financing a humanitarian crisis UN PANEL SAYS $40 BILLION NEEDED TO AID PEOPLE IN WAR, DISASTERS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An estimated $40 billion is needed annually to help the rapidly growing number of people needing humanitarian aid as a result of conflicts and natural disasters — and one possibility to help fill the $15 billion funding gap is a small voluntary tax on tickets for soccer games and other sports, concerts and entertainment events, airline travel, and gasoline, a U.N.-appointed panel said. The panel’s report on humanitarian financing, launched Sunday by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, says the world is spending around $25 billion to provide life-saving assistance to 125 million people devastated by wars and natural disasters — more than 12 times the $2 billion that was spent in 2000. The nine-member panel calculated that an additional $15 billion is needed annually to reduce suffering and save lives. It warned that if current trends continue, the cost of humanitarian assistance will rise to $50 billion by 2030. “This is an age of mega-crises,” Ban said at the launch event, which was held at a desert

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Secretary-General of United Nations Ban Ki-moon gives his speech during the launch of a special report on humanitarian aid activities around the world at the International Humanitarian City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday. Ban welcomed the launch of a new report on finding solutions to the growing gap between the increasing numbers of people in need of assistance and sufficient resources to provide relief. site in Dubai that serves as a logistical hub for U.N. emergency humanitarian supplies and international relief efforts. The 31-page report said that despite $25 billion being spent last year to provide life-saving assistance to people around the world, 1.6 million Syrian refugees had their food rations cut and 750,000 Syrian refugees could not attend school. “While record sums are being given to the noble cause of

humanitarian action, generosity has never been so insufficient. We cannot go on like this,” Ban said, adding that humanitarian assistance is now the U.N’s costliest activity, surpassing peacekeeping missions. The report focuses on three solutions for how to reform humanitarian aid: mobilizing additional funds, particularly from the private sector shrinking the need for aid through prevention and quicker resolution of prob-

lems, and improving the efficiency of assistance to reflect the needs of people rather than the needs of aid organizations. It calls for donors and aid organizations to come together in “a Grand Bargain” in which donors provide more cash, longterm, with fewer strings, and aid organizations are more transparent so that everyone can “follow the money.” The report says that today’s massive instability and its capacity to cross borders, demonstrated by the flight of people from Syria and other conflict areas to Europe, makes humanitarian aid a global public good. “What we ought to do is morally right, but it is also in our own self-interest because trouble in the world travels, and you never know when it will come and knock at your door,” panel co-chair Kristalina Georgieva, the European Commission’s vice-president for budget and human resources, said in Dubai. The report recommends that at the first U.N. humanitarian summit, to be held in Istanbul in May, governments voluntarily sign on to the concept of a “solidarity levy” to create a steady flow of aid. The report gives the example of a small levy on airline tickets, initially proposed by France, which raised 1.6 billion euros between 2006 and 2011 from just 10 participating countries — Georgieva estimated this at $2.3 billion — to help fund diagnosis and treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in low-income countries.

As sanctions are lifted, Iranian foes fear the worst BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — As the nuclear deal with Tehran goes into effect, many Middle Eastern countries fear a newly emboldened Iran, flush with cash and international recognition, will grow more aggressive with what they see as meddling in conflicts across the region. The deal, clinched last summer after intense negotiations, forced Iran to dismantle most of its nuclear program, a step that proponents say will prevent it from gaining the capability to make a bomb for well over a decade. The International Atomic Energy Agency on Saturday certified that Iran had met its obligations, paving the way for Western sanctions to be lifted and giving Iran access to $100 billion in frozen assets. While the United States, which led the negotiations, has tried to promote the deal as the

beginning of a new chapter in relations with the Islamic Republic, the agreement has been greeted with suspicion and trepidation across much of the Middle East. For Israel and Sunni states such as Saudi Arabia, Shiite Iran is seen as a destabilizing force. They fear Tehran will now redouble what they see as efforts to dominate the region by supporting anti-Israel militant groups, Syrian President Bashar Assad and Shiite Houthi rebels battling a Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. On the other hand, Iran’s hostility to the Islamic State group has since 2014 put it in effect on the same side as the U.S.-led coalition battling the group in Iraq, where Iranian-backed Shiite militias have proven to be effective ground forces against the Sunni extremists. Improved relations between Washington and Tehran could allow for greater co-ordination. Iraq’s Shiite-led government has welcomed the nuclear deal, suggesting it could help re-

solve the region’s many conflicts. Here is a look at reactions to the deal in the region: ISRAEL Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was an outspoken critic of the deal, making veiled threats to attack Iran and arguing against the agreement in a speech to the U.S. Congress last year over White House objections. He says the deal will not curb Iran’s ultimate nuclear aspirations and does not impede Iran’s longstanding support for Israel’s worst enemies, like the Lebanese Hezbollah group — which is also involved in Syria on Assad’s side — and the Palestinian Hamas. Netanyahu told his Cabinet Sunday that Israel “will continue to monitor all of Iran’s international violations” and called for “aggressive sanctions against each violation.” He said Israel remains committed to preventing Iran from making a nuclear

weapon and that “what is clear is that Iran will now have more resources to divert to terrorism and its aggression in the region and around the world.” THE GULF While Gulf states cautiously welcomed last year’s nuclear deal, they are deeply suspicious of Iran’s activities, particularly on the Arabian Peninsula. A Saudi-led coalition is fighting Iranian-backed Shiite rebels in Yemen in a conflict that Gulf countries view as a proxy battle against Tehran. Officials in Bahrain, a Sunni-ruled but Shiite-majority country, have accused Iran of attempting to smuggle in weapons in recent months. Saudi Arabia’s decision to execute a prominent Shiite cleric earlier this month has only exacerbated tensions, prompting protesters to attack the Saudi Embassy in Tehran and its consulate in Mashhad, leading Riyadh to cut diplomatic ties to Iran.

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demic hits Hobbema. 1958 — Willie O’Ree plays his first game for the Boston Bruins. The New Brunswick native is the first black person to play in the NHL. 1905 — John J. McLaughlin awarded a patent for a new beverage, ‘Canada Dry Ginger Ale.’ 1904 — Sir Wilfrid Laurier reportedly remarks to the Canadian Club of Ottawa that “The twentieth century belongs to Canada.” In another version, he said, “As the 19th century was that of the United States, so I think the 20th century shall be filled by Canada.”

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Enbridge boosting pipeline security RESPONDING TO RECENT CASES OF PIPELINE SABOTAGE BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — In a field on the outskirts of Sarnia, Ont., there’s a big blue wheel surrounded by a chain-link fence. Attached to the fence and nailed to a nearby wooden post is a warning: high pressure petroleum pipeline. Early one December morning, a trio of anti-pipeline activists managed to get to the other side of the fence. Photos show them smiling broadly as they turned the wheel, to which they then locked themselves. While the incident caused no injuries or significant service disruptions, the owner of the pipeline — the newly reversed and expanded Line 9 between southwestern Ontario and Montreal — said that incident and others have raised “serious concerns.” “Enbridge sites are locked, secured and monitored for the safety of people and the environment. As with any vital infrastructure or service, they can be made dangerous if tampered with or sabotaged,” said Graham White, a spokesman for Calgary-based firm Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB). “We are assessing and employing various additional, permanent measures to enhance our security and safety at these sites to help prevent these types of tampering activities in the future. As part of ensuring the effectiveness of these measures, we will not provide details or discuss them publicly.” Lindsay Gray, speaking on behalf of the “land defenders” in an interview on the day of the Sarnia protest, said there wasn’t much stopping them.

“Anyone could have done this,” she said. “Anyone.” Line 9 was offline for about 90 minutes while the protesters were removed from the site and Enbridge inspected the line for damage. Though the protesters took credit for the shutdown, Enbridge says the line was shut off remotely from its control room. There was a similar disruption two weeks earlier on another segment on Line 9 in Quebec. And then in early January, Enbridge’s Line 7 near Cambridge, Ont., was shut down due to sabotage. Kelly Sundberg, an associate professor at Mount Royal University who specializes in environmental crime, shakes his head at those tactics. “It’s just so dangerous,” he said. “They risk causing damage to the line. There are so many possible negative outcomes that could come both from a security perspective, but also from an environmental damage perspective.” On that score, Gray retorted: “Every second that it’s flowing, we’re in danger.” Martin Rudner, professor emeritus at Carleton University who is an expert in security and critical infrastructure, said the industry has a variety of measures in place to secure their sites and respond when they are breached — and generally they seem to be working. “It’s hard to make an overall judgment, but I think the best way to judge it is the fact that no major interruption has taken place,” he said. But, he said: “Needless to say, they can’t be everywhere all the time.” Many companies hire security guards to patrol sites, but Rudner

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Enbridge says its Line 9 pipeline was offline for about 90 minutes after three activists locked themselves to a valve site east of Sarnia, Ont., on Dec.21, 2015. Enbridge is boosting security after recent cases of pipeline sabotage. said the use of drones could be a much more effective approach — though there are regulatory hurdles to that. Warren Mabee, director of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy at Queen’s University, said he sees the rash of pipeline tampering as a “blip,” with the anti-pipeline move-

ment emboldened by recent wins like the U.S. rejection of the Keystone XL project. “It’s not a good tactic. I think that it backfires because I think that the broad public, although they may not like the pipeline, they see that as beyond the pale.”

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are struggling to grow at all. The job market appears particularly robust. Employers added an average of 221,000 jobs a month during 2015 and 284,000 a month from October through December. The unemployment rate has sunk from 10 per cent in 2009 to 5 per cent, a level associated with a healthy economy. Improved job security — layoffs have slowed to exceptionally low levels — has helped embolden many Americans to shop. Consumer spending, which drives about 70 per cent of U.S. economic activity, rose at an annual rate of more than 3 per cent in the spring and summer. Auto sales hit a record last year. Not that the U.S. economy has been left unscathed by the weakness abroad. Partly because a stronger dollar has made their goods more expensive abroad, U.S. manufacturers are suffering. Industrial production fell in December for a third straight month, the government said, and orders to factories dropped in November for the third time in four months. Last year, factories added just 30,000 jobs, the fewest since the recession year of 2009. What’s more, energy companies are reeling from sharply lower oil prices. And though falling oil prices have helped boost consumer spirits and encourage spending, they also helped slow the overall economy last year by causing energy companies to slash investment.

TORONTO — The dimming economy is not the only challenge facing Finance Minister Bill Morneau as he puts together his first federal budget. Morneau must also wrestle another major mathematical threat to Canada’s bottom line: uncosted Liberal promises made during and since the election campaign. The list is long, and many of the costs have not been made public — something Morneau has committed to rectifying when he tables the fiscal blueprint this spring. “What we will be doing is updating, in order to make sure that we have costings on every single one of our initiatives,” Morneau told reporters last week in Toronto when asked whether he was willing to run annual shortfalls bigger than $10 billion. “So that we can give Canadians a very clear and transparent understanding of our financial situation at the time of the budget.” The added costs would apply more fiscal pressure on a government that already appears poised to break its pledge to cap annual deficits at $10 billion over the next two years. The government has acknowledged it faces challenges from the fading economic outlook and the fact, it says, that it inherited a weaker-than-expected fiscal situation from its predecessors. The yet-to-be fully costed Liberal pledges include ending all boil-water advisories on aboriginal reserves within five years, delivering on all 94 recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and lifting the two-per-cent cap on federal funding for First Nations communities. It also promised a new federal-provincial health accord. The Liberal platform does take into account the party’s promise of $3 billion over the next four years to improve home-care services. However, the cost of a long-term funding deal with provinces and territories has yet to be determined. The party has also referred to the need for a national housing strategy and improvements to affordable childcare, although some of those costs may be included in a plan to set aside $20 billion for social infrastructure. During the election campaign, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation listed uncosted pledges by the major political parties. The Liberals, the group said, had yet to provide price tags for promises such as: • Increased funding for the Parliamentary Budget Officer. • Taking steps to address climate change. • Making environmental assessments more credible. • Installing electric-vehicle charging facilities in federal lots and rapidly expanding federal fleet of electric vehicles. • The creation of the Canada Infrastructure Bank, which would use the federal government’s strong credit rating and lending authority to make it easier for municipalities to build infrastructure projects. • To re-engage on the 2005 Kelowna Accord, a series of agreements between the previous federal Liberal government, provinces, territories and aboriginal groups that would have provided billions of dollars to improve the standard of living for indigenous peoples. In addition to the uncosted promises, the Liberals are also facing a common obstacle for new governments after they take power: unanticipated expenditures. Those costs include the need for Ottawa to find $3.5 billion more to pay for the new bridge at the busy border crossing between Detroit and Windsor, Ont. The information about the span, which will be named after hockey legend Gordie Howe, was included in a secret briefing note to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau obtained under the Access to Information Act.

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In this Jan. 6 photo, trader Gregory Rowe works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, as stocks are opening lower as investors fret about signs of belligerence in North Korea and more weakening of China’s economy. Last week’s harrowing plunge in U.S. stocks left investors anxious and alarmed. Some wondered if it signaled an approaching recession in the United States. The answer, most analysts say, is probably no.

Why global woes and sinking stocks don’t mean U.S. recession BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Last week’s harrowing plunge in U.S. stocks — fueled by economic fears about China and plummeting oil prices — left investors anxious and alarmed. Some wondered if it signalled an approaching recession in the United States. The answer, most analysts say, is no. The American economy is expected to prove resilient and nimble enough to avoid serious damage, at least anytime soon. For all the economy’s challenges, the job market is strong, home sales are solid and cheaper gasoline has allowed consumers to spend more on cars, restaurants and online shopping. The companies that make up major stock indexes are far more vulnerable than the economy itself is to distress abroad: Companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index derived 48 per cent of their revenue from abroad in 2014, up from 43 per cent in 2003. By contrast, exports account for only about 13 per cent of the nation’s gross domestic product — the broadest gauge of economic output. That’s one of the lowest such shares in the world. Exports to China equal just 1 per cent of GDP. “While the U.S. economy’s exposure to China is relatively small, the multinational companies that trade on the stock market are much more exposed,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. The S&P 500 sank 2.2 per cent

Friday and has tumbled 8 per cent since the year began, deflated by expectations of even lower oil prices ahead and fears that China’s once-explosive economy is slowing more than anyone had expected. On Friday, the Xinhua news agency reported that Chinese banks reduced loans last month from a year earlier. It was the latest sign that China’s economy continues to decelerate — an ominous trend for U.S. companies, like heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar, that have significant business there. (Caterpillar shares shed 2.7 per cent Friday.) “For many of these companies, the narrative behind their growth and earnings prospects is China,” Zandi said. “If you throw that narrative out, investors get nervous.” The disconnect between the actual economy and the price of stocks isn’t new. From the waning days of the Great Recession into the tepid recovery that followed, stocks managed to gradually rise despite persistently high unemployment and tepid economic growth. Now, the opposite seems true. “Main Street is better, and Wall Street is suffering,” said Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at Wells Capital. The broadest gauges of the economy look fundamentally sound. GDP likely expanded 2.4 per cent last year, according to JP Morgan Chase. Zandi foresees its growth hitting 2.8 per cent in 2016 — hardly spectacular but decent, especially at a time when many industrialized economies

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B.C. puts focus on tech into hyperdrive TECH SUMMIT BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Greg Caws calls home a cattle ranch in the East Kootenay community of Wardner and says he appreciates the perspective of rural British Columbia, where relatives have worked as miners and loggers. He’s also an entrepreneur who champions the technology sector with unsung stories of companies marrying those traditional industries with cutting-edge innovations. There are drones being designed in Nelson for prospectors, a robotic drilling rig that walks north of Fort St. John, and a tiny camera developed in Vancouver that can descend down a borehole for kilometres. “Every time you hear the bogeyman stories about, ‘Oh, our jobs are going to be taken,’ it never happens,” said Caws, president of the B.C. Innovation Council, explaining that work conventionally done by hands is instead moving to heads. “One of the things that makes people fearful is because they don’t understand or they don’t know — it’s in their peripheral vision.” He’s hoping that a made-in-B.C. technology showcase will illuminate the visionary achievements of businesses across the province and help British Columbians embrace futuristic technologies that are revolutionizing every industry. The “.BCTECH Summit,” running Monday and Tuesday in Vancouver, is a first for the province and expected to bring in about 3,000 participants, including business leaders, entrepreneurs, academics, public servants and students. Companies from clean technology, mobile wireless, virtual reality and ar-

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STOCKS: Further boost of interest rates In addition, the Federal Reserve has signalled that it expects to further boost interest rates this year after raising them from record lows in December, and some fear it will move too fast. Fed hikes were considered a trigger for three of the past four recessions. Economists don’t entirely understand the links among the world’s major economies. The International Monetary Fund has acknowledged surprise over just how much China’s slowdown has hurt other countries in the developing world. It’s also possible that damage to the United States could prove worse than direct trade ties suggest. Wells Capital’s Paulsen notes that small- and medium-sized U.S. companies supply the multinationals that do big business overseas. When exports falter, those companies can suffer in ways that don’t show up in trade numbers. Tumbling stock markets themselves can also cause economic damage, by making Americans who have money tied up in stocks feel poorer and less inclined to spend. A month ago, Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economic Advisors, predicted that the U.S economy would grow 3 per cent this year. Now he’s considering cutting his forecast. He’s not worried about the impact of economic weakness overseas. He’s worried about the toll that falling stocks may take on

tificial intelligence to forestry, energy and transportation will participate. “A whole plethora of companies that don’t typically meet,” Caws said. “That cross-pollination of ideas is where B.C. will drive its advantage.” Highlights will include holograms, 3D printing, electric cars and a 4D Portal exhibit, demonstrations by startups, a coding camp, and speakers who will be simulcast to classrooms across B.C., including keynote futurist Ray Kurzweil. The provincial government is hosting the event, not only to vault the tech industry’s profile at home and globally, but to increase the industry’s share in the B.C. economy. Technology and Innovation Minister Amrik Virk said B.C. intends to build a stronger “knowledge-based economy” that co-exists with the natural-resources sector and underpins all industries. He said the summit is as large, if not larger, as its liquefied natural gas conferences — and emphasized the two are tied, because new technology will make LNG more efficient. “Tech is one of (our) many strengths. We’re going to put it very high on our priority (list),” said Virk, who spent the past year meeting with representatives from hundreds of tech companies. “We can sell technology everywhere else across the world after we develop it. It’s something that stays after fossil fuels.” The province counts 86,000 direct jobs in the industry and aspires to grow that to 130,000 or more, Virk said. It’s B.C.’s third-largest industry, representing $15.6 billion or 7.6 per cent of the provincial GDP, according to the B.C. Technology Report Card. The 2014 report found the industry was strong provincially, but trailed other Canadian tech hubs on issues like availability of venture capital and talent pools. Recognizing room for improvement, slide and oil continues to drop to levels not seen in more than a decade.

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Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX:CP) will release its fourth-quarter and year-end results Thursday. The Calgary company has been making waves recently after launching a bid to take over Norfolk Southern, but the Virginia-based railway has so far rebuffed the offer. A merger would create the largest railway in North America.

consumer confidence. Still, he doesn’t think a recession is coming, no matter how scary the stock plunge of late. As famed economist Paul Samuelson once quipped, “The stock market has forecast nine of the last five recessions.”

CRUNCH: Extra cash is needed The document said the extra cash is needed to make up for the sinking Canadian dollar and to establish a contingency fund to absorb the shock of any interest-rate increases. The Trudeau briefing note also touched on another possible unexpected cost related to ongoing negotiations with the public service over sick and disability leave. The note said if a new plan isn’t implemented in the 2015-16 fiscal year, then $900 million in savings for the government, booked by the Tories in last April’s budget, may have to be unwound. The Liberals also face the possibility of extra costs of their plan to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees. The program is expected to cost more than $1 billion over the next six years. The Liberal platform said it would cost $150 million over the next two years. “I look forward to how Mr. Morneau is going to deal with all of those concerns,” said economist Kevin Milligan, who helped cost the Liberal platform but stopped advising the party after the election. Milligan, a professor at the University of British Columbia, said he never took a closer look at the platform’s un-

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Ray Walia, co-founder and CEO of Launch Academy, poses for a photograph at the Vancouver company on December 3, 2015, where they help early-stage tech startups. Walia believes government must develop stronger relationships with savvy millennial entrepreneurs, who “live and breath” tech, while relying less on advisers from the “dinosaur generation.” Premier Christy Clark is scheduled to unveil two more pillars of B.C.’s threepronged tech strategy at the summit, focusing on talent and markets. In December, she announced a $100-million venture-capital fund to assist early stage tech firms. Ray Walia, CEO of Launch Academy, a non-profit that’s been prolific getting startups off the ground, said politicians haven’t focused enough on tech until recently, but he believes they’re now making strides. “They’re trying to learn as much as they can and catch up to what’s been happening,” he said. Walia said governments must develop stronger relationships with savvy millennial entrepreneurs, who “live and breathe” tech, while relying less

on advisers from the “dinosaur generation.” Government should play an important but not exclusive role in growing the sector, said Don Mattrick, the summit’s industry chair, describing the transforming economy as a “renaissance.” Mattrick cited research that the population of cities worldwide will shift from 52 to 70 per cent over the next 20 years, making urban centres impractical for traditional industries. like manufacturing. “That’s really what this conference is about,” said Mattrick, who has held president positions at Electronic Arts and Microsoft. “Us building awareness and getting confident that we can grow as a community and have people become our No. 1 natural resource.”

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nual inflation rate rose to 1.4 per cent in November as the influence of the oil price plunge last year faded.

All eyes will be on the Bank of Canada when it announces its trend-setting interest rate on Wednesday. Expectations have mounted in recent days that governor Stephen Poloz will cut the overnight rate by 25 basis points, which would drag it down to 0.25 per cent.

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The country’s inflation rate in December, another important economic indicator, will be released Friday. Last month, Statistics Canada said the ancosted aboriginal-spending vows because he wasn’t asked to do so. But he said implementing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations would add to the government’s costs. Still, the government has also made pledges that it says will raise revenues. Among them is a review of spending by the Harper government and a plan to target tax loopholes that particularly benefit the wealthiest Canadians. In total, the Liberals estimated the actions will generate $6.5 billion over four years. Economist Jack Mintz said the country’s struggling economy, battered by low commodity prices, only complicates the government’s fiscal challeng-

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On Tuesday, interveners in the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project will begin presenting oral arguments before the National Energy Board. The hearing is scheduled to last nearly two weeks. The US$5.4-billion proposal to triple capacity from Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C., has stoked much controversy. es. “There were a lot of promises made that were not costed,” said the University of Calgary economist, who also referred to the Liberals’ Truth and Reconciliation Commission vow. “What does that mean and how much is that going to cost? I mean, it will be quite an exercise if you just try doing that one alone.” Mintz said it’s common for political parties to make lots of promises when they’re trying to get elected. “But you don’t need to keep every one of them,” he said. “In fact, it’s probably a good idea not to because some of them are impractical or not necessarily wellthought through.”

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