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Albertans killed in avalanche

17-YEAR-OLD WILL DISCUSS WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT AND GENDER EQUALITY AT LIONS DAY

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF

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A helicopter flies past a mountain near McBride, B.C., on Saturday. Five snowmobilers died Friday in a major avalanche in the Renshaw area east of McBride

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MCBRIDE, B.C. — All five snowmobilers killed in an immense avalanche in eastern British Columbia were from Alberta, authorities said Saturday as the local community reeled from the tragedy.

The B.C. Coroners Service released the identities of the men, ranging in age from 41 to 55, shortly after RCMP held a news conference in McBride, B.C. Cpl. Jay Grierson offered his condolences to the families and said the small village on the Alberta-B.C. boundary was deeply affected by the deaths. “This community is very supportive and welcoming of snowmobilers. We rely on these people to enjoy our community,� he said. “People attend the area from all over the world.

We develop relationships with them. We see the same people repeatedly because it’s a beautiful spot.�

The men killed were: Vincent Eugene Loewen,

52, of Vegreville Tony Christopher Greenwood, 41, of Grand Prairie County Ricky Robinson, 55, of Spruce Grove Todd William Chisholm, 47, of St. Albert and John Harold Garley, 49, of Stony Plain.

A statement on behalf of Chisholm’s family said he had a passion for sledding in the mountains. “He died too young doing what he enjoyed with his sledding buddies. Thanks to the four friends who were with Todd for their efforts,� it said. “Todd will be sadly missed by his wife of 18 years, children, mother and father, brothers and sister, extended family, friends and community.�

Chisholm enjoyed fishing, hunting, camping and playing games with his children and wife, as well as music, the statement said.

Grierson said four separate groups of snowmobilers from Alberta, totalling 17 people, were caught in the avalanche path or buried to some degree, but they have all been accounted for.

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When Sundre High School Katie Jackson sits down in New York with United Nations diplomats next month, she will be the one person representing youth from around the world.

The 17-year-old student admits she is nervous, but based on all accounts, she’s up to task.

Jackson was chosen recently by Lions Clubs International to join their roundtable discussions at United Nations Headquarters on March 12. She will be part of the discussion about women’s empowerment and gender equality.

Lions Day at the UN is a meeting of 700 international members of the club, diplomats Kate Jackson and others international representatives. The Lions have been working co-operatively with the United Nations since 1945, offering input about the challenges facing the global community.

A lot of countries don’t have the rights that women in North America have, Jackson said. “But Canada and the U.S. have some areas to work on themselves, like equal opportunity for women.

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Knitting a little warmth for the most vulnerable SISTERS MAKING QUILLOWS FOR HOMELESS

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF When they moved to Red Deer years ago as children, they didn’t know anyone, so they spent the summer working on something comforting — making quillows.

Katrina Russel, 28, and her older sister Courtney Jasper, 31, are now trying to turn the art of making the small quilted blanket with a pocket for a pillow into something comforting for the less fortunate in Red Deer.

They have organized Warm Bodies Warm Hearts, an 8- to 10-week program for Notre Dame High School students, who will can learn the basics of quilting in their free time, while at the same time help out the community.

Russell is a stay-at-home mom who has a knack for quilting, and Jasper is a teacher at Notre Dame.

Russell hadn’t been sewing for quite a few years but when she was expecting her second son, she picked up

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quilting again because she wanted to make a blanket for his crib.

Last year she made quillows for her nieces and nephews “because we had them when we were kids. ‌ You can fold up the quilt into a pillow, use it as a pillow or a quilt or you can tuck your feet into it. It’s nice and cozy.â€? “I kind of got the idea that I would love to be able to donate some to the community.â€?

But she wasn’t sure she would have enough time to do it on her own, and got talking with Courtney about teaching it at Notre Dame. “We’ll be keeping it a simple quilt for those with not too much experience.�

The classes start this month. They are currently accepting donations of quilting cotton, batting and thread. “It’s a great hobby and especially awesome if you can also do it to contribute to our community as well,� said Russell.

The quillows will be donated to a charity in Red Deer, possibly one that helps out young people.

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Sisters Katrina Russell, left, and Courtney Jasper along with help from students from Notre Dame High School will be turning donated material into Quillows for Loaves and Fishes, Safe Harbour and Vantage Community Services to hand out to clients. A Quillow is a quilt with a built in pocket and straps for carrying.

Donations of quilting materials can be made by contacting Russell at katrinarussell@shaw.ca or for more in-

formation, go to their Facebook page: Warm Bodies, Warm Hearts. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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Pedestrian killed on QEII after leaving vehicle A woman from Morinville sustained serious injuries after she ran out onto the QEII Hwy near Blackfalds and was struck by a vehicle.

The Ponoka Integrated Traffic Unit received a call Thursday evening about a possible impaired driver travelling southbound on the QEII. While responding, a second call at 6:43 p.m. was received that a vehicle matching the description of the earlier vehicle had gone off the highway and into the centre median, approximately three km north of Blackfalds.

The driver, and lone occupant of the vehicle, exited the car and ran onto a driving lane of the highway and was struck by a southbound SUV. The 29-year-old woman was transported via STARS to an Edmonton hospital where she was in critical condition.

The driver and three occupants of the southbound SUV were uninjured.

A Red Deer RCMP collision analyst continues to investigate the incident.

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Delila Osmanovic assembles a colourful 3D sculpture in the Discovery Room at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery as part of their MAG Saturdays drop-in art making programming. MAG Saturdays is held every Saturday from 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. On Sat. Feb. 6, Red Deerians are invited to create “Shadowy Silhouettes”.

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UN: ‘It hasn’t even sunk in yet’ “Third World countries have a lot of work to do and education is super important there.”

She calls herself a feminist but said men and boys are just as impacted by issues such as body image and mental health.

Jackson is strong in academics and is involved in high school sports and other activities. She is also president of the students union and on a student committee that works with Chinook’s Edge School Division. She wants to study political science and law after high school.

For the past several years Jackson has spent part of her summer on a tall ship based Victoria, B.C., learning the ropes about sailing on the ocean. “I love sailing. It’s just so different from all the cows and the horses.”

With teacher Ryan Beck and others, Jackson helped found the Sundre High School Leo Club, the Lions’ youth division.

Last year the Leos donated $4,000 worth of care packages to the Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter. They also held a compassion week at her school, talking about people who might feel marginalized and giving support to them, Jackson said.

They also did a presentation to Grade 9 students about domestic abuse, and held a women’s self-defence course.

This year the club visited a Calgary drop-in centre where they volunteered and donated care packages. It’s helping the community to better understand homelessness, Jackson said.

She is excited about visiting the United Nations,

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which she will attend with her parents and a teacher.

“It’s really crazy. It hasn’t even sunk in yet. Really nervous. … I hope all of my thoughts will be collected and I’ll be able to get my point across.

“Being the only youth at the table, with the task of representing my generation and my gender, is kind of daunting.”

While there, she has also been invited by Lions Clubs International President Jitsuhiro Yamada as a special guest to attend a VIP dinner marking the club’s 70th anniversary partnership with the United Nations.

AVALANCHE: ‘Too close to home’ At least one person suffered a non-life-threatening injury and 11 people were flown out at the time of the rescue efforts, he said.

He said the B.C. Coroners Service has taken over the investigation and RCMP will continue to assist.

The slide happened Friday afternoon in the Renshaw area near McBride, about 210 kilometres southeast of Prince George. The avalanche risk was “considerable” and warning signs were posted.

Search and rescue manager Rod Whelpton had been snowmobiling in the area at the time. His snowmobile broke down and he called for a helicopter, Grierson said.

Other members of Whelpton’s group went to a ridge nearby and saw that an avalanche had just occurred. A satellite phone was used to call Dale Mason, manager of Robson Valley Search and Rescue.

Mason had just received notification from RCMP of two activations of GPS beacons, which are carried by backcountry enthusiasts in case of emergency, Grierson said.

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ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — The Newfoundland and Labrador government says a police watchdog from Alberta will conduct an independent review of the RCMP investigation into the fatal police shooting of a Newfoundland man.

Justice Minister Andrew Parsons said he asked the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team to the conduct the review after the RCMP concluded its investigation into the shooting of Donald Dunphy earlier this week. Parsons said the independent review, which his Liberal government called for while in Opposition, will provide more accountability.

“We have to have public confidence in the justice system in this province and this matter in particular has received national attention since it happened,” said Parsons in a phone interview on Sunday.

“There are a lot of questions, whether it’s the political side of it or the investigative side of it. We think it’s a necessary thing and we do think it’s a case of ensuring that the public can have confidence and have full answers as to what happened and why it happened.”

Fifty-nine-year-old Dunphy, of Mitchells Brook, was killed last April by a member of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary who has not been named.

The officer, a member of then-premier Paul Davis’ protective detail, was investigating perceived threats against provincial politicians on Twitter, said Parsons.

Another helicopter was called and Whelpton and his group responded to the scene.

“Many of the individuals involved had self-rescued and four of the deceased had already been dug from the snow,” said Grierson. “The fifth was located and removed as well.”

Whelpton said the avalanche was 700 metres across and about 700 metres long.

“There were people in different groups digging people out,” he said. “It was fast, simple. Everybody did the right thing.”

Whelpton said the snowmobilers appeared “very prepared.” He rejected the idea that they went out that day despite the considerable avalanche risk, pointing out that he also believed it was safe for snowmobiling.

“It was a very normal day, a nice day,” he said.

“There was no avalanche activity in every area that I was playing around … That was the only one I (saw).”

Avalanche Canada had issued a warning for the region a day before the slide. Karl Klassen, who handles public warnings for the organization, has said it appears the avalanche was human-triggered but he did not elaborate.

Pascal Haegli, Simon Fraser University’s research chair in avalanche risk management, said the window to rescue someone whose been buried is about 10 minutes, as the fallen snow hardens like concrete, and it’s nearly impossible to dig yourself out.

“Once the avalanche comes to a stop, it sets like concrete, very quickly,” he said. “It’s not the fluffy powder snow you have in mind.”

McBride council member Rick Thompson has said the incident is “devastating.”

The tragedy has also prompted an outpouring of support from the snowmobiling community. Ron Willert, who runs an online forum called snowandmud. com, offered condolences in an email.

“This tragic event has hit too close to home,” he said. “McBride is my backyard.”

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No end in sight for ‘spike unit’ MAJOR BACKLOG OF SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFIT APPEALS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Marijuana plants are pictured during a tour of Tweed Inc. in Smiths Falls, Ont. Some of Canada’s biggest producers of medical marijuana want Ottawa to implement advertising regulations similar to those that govern the sale of alcohol, as they await the Liberal government’s long-promised legal recreational market.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Some of Canada’s biggest producers of medical marijuana want Ottawa to implement advertising regulations similar to those that govern the sale of alcohol, as they await the Liberal government’s long-promised legal recreational market.

A concerted policy push is underway from Tweed Inc., Mettrum Ltd. and Bedrocan Canada Inc. — three licensed producers that operate under Health Canada’s medical marijuana program.

Bedrocan and Tweed are subsidiaries of Canopy Growth Corp., a combined company that was formed in a merger.

The group wants the government to move quickly to create and implement legislation for a future recreational market in order to avoid a “Wild West� scenario.

The companies have also been working with lob-

byists from Ensight Canada to push their message to government and in the media as the Liberal government prepares to move forward on its promise to regulate and legalize recreational use.

The government’s first step in that process will be to establish a provincial, territorial and federal task force to hear from public health, substance abuse and public safety experts.

Health Minister Jane Philpott has indicated the panel will be established soon, but so far the timeline remains unclear. The government has also placed Toronto MP and former police chief Bill Blair, the parliamentary secretary to Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, in a leading role as it prepares to move forward on the file.

Advertising regulations should be a central part of the dialogue once it is underway, said Tweed Inc. president Mark Zekulin. “The system that we are operating in right now is set up for a controlled substance,� Zekulin said.

A special group assigned to help deal with a massive backlog of appeals around employment insurance and other social security benefits isn’t winding down anytime soon.

The so-called spike unit was set up in the fall of 2014 to triage the cases that began piling up after the Conservative government launched the Social Security Tribunal of Canada in April 2013.

The tribunal was supposed to streamline the appeals process for Canadians who argued they had been wrongly denied employment insurance, Old Age Security and Canada Pension Plan payments.

The Tories also argued the tribunal would save taxpayers $25 million a year.

The 50-member spike unit — comprised of doctors, lawyers and medical adjudicators — has since gone through more than 11,000 tribunal appeals and come to settlements on almost 3,000 of them. Still, the new government has yet to wind down the unit.

Employment and Social Development Canada said the team is still reviewing new cases to help the tribunal “maintain a manageable caseload.� “There are no plans at this time for this work to discontinue,� spokesman Josh Bueckert said in an email.

Documents tabled in Parliament this week in response to a written question from NDP MP Cheryl Hardcastle say the government hasn’t made a decision on “the end date of the unit.�

The response from Employment and Social Development Canada noted the unit didn’t cost the department any extra dollars.

But the department did provide a dollar figure in a July 2014 briefing note to then employment minister Jason Kenney: $600,000, found within existing budgets, to have the unit in place from September 2014 until March 2015.

The NDP obtained a copy of the document under the Access to Information Act and provided it to The Canadian Press.

Hardcastle, the party’s disabilities critic, said Friday that she’s heard from advocates and those who have gone through the system. She said that if the tribunal remains understaffed and overwhelmed, any resources directed to the spike unit should be invested in the tribunal itself.

Until then, “it’s vulnerable Canadians that pay the price,� she said. “These are Canadians living without income.�

Arctic council wants support for heavy fuel oil ban

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Environment, an environmental group that works with aboriginal communities to protect the Pacific Rim. As well, burning heavy fuel oil creates so-called “black carbon,� a fine soot that falls on snow and ice and hastens its melt. Cleaning up black carbon has been identified as one of the easiest and quickest ways to slow the retreat of Arctic sea ice.

Reducing black carbon has been a top priority for the Arctic Council both during Canada’s time as head of the group and the current U.S. chairmanship.

However, the group that sets the rules for international shipping recently declined to ban heavy fuel oil

Environmental groups want the eight countries that ring the North Pole to take a stand on banning the use of heavy fuel oil, considered one of the greatest threats to the Arctic ecosystem. “We believe that measures are desperately needed to reduce the environmental impacts from Arctic shipping, and that a logical place to focus attention is vessel fuel quality,� said the letter from 15 international environmental groups to the Arctic Council. “The risks to the marine environment, the climate, and public health are too great to permit the continued use of (heavy fuel oil) in Arctic shipping.�

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It’s time for the Arctic Council to take the lead, Harun said. “There’s enough information on this to act right now. The question is, will the Arctic Council stand up and do something?�

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Albertans riding out the storm The standard synopsis on Alberta’s elling. decline makes for pretty sad reading.

Alberta is far more than just the But if you look beyond the obvious, oil-drenched, profit-driven beast that there are reasons for optimism — or at others imagine. There is a fibre and a least faith that Albertans’ resilience that the rest of strengths will endure in the the country, and much of face of hardship. the world, should envy.

The list of signs of doom We have weathered these is long and disheartening. storms before and we are Oil prices are in the tank. more aware than ever how Employment Insurance we must adapt to come out claims have doubled as the other side. the jobless numbers rise.

We just need to embrace House sales are slumping a little more fully the goodand average prices are fallness, and the resounding ing fast. Alcohol consumppotential, that endures in tion is on the rise. Retail this province. sales are in decline. Our It comes in many forms, JOHN pipeline initiatives face from our willingness to do STEWART opposition at every turn. good to our adaptability in Gambling is increasing. Tax tough times to our tendenOPINION truancy is likewise escalatcy to create and encourage ing, as are loan defaults and new ideas when old notions personal and corporate bankruptcies. falter.

Drug abuse is escalating and fentanyl In Red Deer, the social response in deaths are rampant. Oil royalty chang- the face of need is profound. Christes cast a dark spectre. The act to bring mas charities faced unprecedented new safety standards to agriculture is demand, and received overwhelma botched mess. ing donations from the community It’s easy to wallow in self-pity in the to match the need. The United Way face of the pervasive signs of econom- just closed an ambitious campaign by ic decay and social upheaval. I’m as raising more than $2.2 million, only guilty as the next Albertan — it’s dif- slightly less than last year’s record $2.3 ficult to lift your head above the muck million. The annual Festival of Trees right now. raised $1.06 million in November, But a look beyond the dire head- down just $10,000 from the previous lines suggests we are not truly unrav- year.

All across the province, similar community initiatives have been met with similar heartfelt response, despite the economic turmoil. Across the province, Albertans are unearthing new economic initiatives in the face of that turmoil.

The Alberta Federation of Independent Business says that many small businesses are looking for staff and anticipating growth. And the number of self-employed Albertans is on the rise, as people seek new money-earning options.

Despite horrendous job losses in the oil industry, a Globe and Mail report recently said that Albertans launched more than 40,000 new businesses last year. And that has kept the province’s unemployment levels at the national average.

ATB Financial says it authorized almost 5,500 loans to small and midsized Alberta businesses in the third quarter of its current fiscal year, an increase of almost 30 per cent over the same period a year earlier.

“A loan doesn’t just sit there,” said Wellington Holbrook, ATB’s executive vice-president of business and agriculture. “That money does stuff, it creates activity, whether in people or jobs or equipment.”

Funding is coming from other sources as well. The province intends to invest more than $9 million to encourage high-tech ideas in Alberta. More than

$4 million had already been injected into small and mid-sized companies doing development work when the government announced another $5 million investment last week.

Albertans know the worst is not over, but we can take some small solace in the unprecedented drop in world oil prices. In most places in the province, prices at gas pumps are at or near seven-year lows. That means Albertans who are minding every dollar are getting relief.

Alberta Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd said last week that the new energy sector royalty regime will not shackle the industry.

She promises a more transparent system that will include incentives.

And she says the new royalties, which won’t take effect until 2017, will not deepen the misery already felt in the industry.

Is this all just desperately grasping at straws? Perhaps, but the alternative — to wallow in self-pity rather than respond to the need to replace what’s gone — seems not only counter-productive but also counter-intuitive.

Albertans should know better than to cave in the face of hardship.

Troy Media columnist John Stewart is a born and bred Albertan who doesn’t drill for oil, ranch or drive a pickup truck — although all of those things have played a role in his past.

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Why buy locally owned?

During this crunch time I feel it is important to support our local small business owners.

Several studies have shown that when you buy from an independent, local business, more of your money is used to make purchases from other local businesses, service providers and farms. The majority of community support and donations come from the small business.

Red Deer is a wonderful place to live. Some of the reason for that is our unique, one of a kind businesses. We have many places to shop in Red Deer that is not a big box, nothing against the big box, but how much of the profit stays local? A person can buy what you want and different items ordered with care from the local owner, with you in mind.

In case you are wondering, no I am not a business owner. Many amazing shops have closed over the past few months in Alberta. I really don’t want that to happen in Red Deer. I love my favourite little places that carry unique items, and they remember my name.

The character of a city is measured a lot by it’s special places, charming shops and public spaces surrounding small business. Can we in Red Deer, this great city, shop small businesses so we don’t

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RE: “Mayor of Rocky Mountain House hoping to revive debate about viability of Howse Pass” ‘Twill be a black day if the Central Alberta Economic Partnership (CAEP) gets its wish for a new highway across Howse Pass. Our national parks are compromised enough already.

While shaving an hour off travel time may appeal to some, total traffic volume through the parks will increase. With local and global ecosystems under stress, we need to shrink our footprint, not grow it.

Another highway means more carnage from collisions, greater habituation to humans, and increasing traffic, litter, and pollution. Barriers to movement fragment the ecosystem, making it harder for animals to find food and mates.

The last of Banff’s caribou herd perished in 2009.

Grizzly bears run a gauntlet of man-made perils. If national parks are not safe for wildlife, where are

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they to live? That wildlife species are endangered in our national parks is Canada’s shame.

Many regard national parks as either opportunities or obstructions to commerce. Playgrounds for people instead of refuges for wildlife. As wilderness disappears, the greater our disconnect — a vicious circle.

When will this mindless expansion stop? If everybody lived like us, we would need four-and-a-half planet Earth’s to supply our needs. What about living within our limits?

We are presiding over the sixth mass extinction.

We shall not go out of business if we stop growing.

But our fate is certain if we fail to live sustainably.

As the ruins of past civilizations warn us, societies that live beyond their means fail. A healthy economy and a healthy environment go hand-in-hand. The difference between us and dead civilizations is that we cannot plead ignorance.

If we fail to preserve our national parks, we may as well do away with them. If we carve up our parks and destroy their wildlife, we are a sorry lot. If we sabotage our life support systems, we deserve our fate.

To give other species the space they need to survive, we need to set limits: This far we will go, but no further.

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Experts say sex assault convictions difficult

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The Parliament Buildings in Ottawa are shown before the1916 fire. It’s difficult to imagine the scale of the trauma, the wartime anxiety, the shock, the anger, that would have engulfed the nation 100 years ago when the seat of the federal government went down in flames. Seven people died that bitterly cold night on Feb. 3, 1916, when the old Centre Block burned down — the building that saw figures like Macdonald, Bowell, Tupper and Laurier pass through its halls and sit in the Dominion’s first House of Commons.

Parliament Hill fire mystery remains unsolved 100TH ANNIVERSARY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — It’s difficult to imagine the scale of the trauma, the wartime anxiety, the shock, the anger, that would have engulfed the nation 100 years ago when the seat of the federal government went down in flames.

Seven people died that bitterly cold night on Feb. 3, 1916, when the old Centre Block burned down — the building that saw figures like Macdonald, Bowell, Tupper and Laurier pass through its halls and sit in the Dominion’s first House of Commons.

“The grand old tower put up a magnificent fight for survival. Standing while the support seemed to have burned away, it sent a solid pillow of twisting, billowing gold up into the winter night,” Ottawa Citizen reporter Charles Bishop wrote.

“Finally, it came down, crashing into the concourse in front and with it, carrying the huge, old clock which had stayed illuminated and kept on striking to the last.”

On Wednesday, the House of Commons will mark the tragedy by displaying the wooden mace that was first used as a replacement after the fire.

The House will also hear the names of the victims read out, including Nova Scotia MP Bowman Brown Law. “At one time Sir Wilfrid’s voice faltered and entirely broke,” reads an Ottawa Journal account of Laurier’s speech the day after the 1916 blaze, as the Commons sat at the Victoria Me-

morial Museum.

“The veteran white-haired statesman whose eloquence re-echoed through the halls of the Commons in ruins was overcome with depth of feeling.”

Laurier would die before the new buildings opened.

The Parliament Hill fire is one of the enduring mysteries of Canadian history.

It happened in the middle of the First World War, and there were many at the time who believed it had been deliberately set by German saboteurs.

Just weeks before the fire, an unsavoury American businessman told a newspaper editor that Germans were planning an attack on Ottawa’s capital buildings — the U.S. was not yet at war. American justice officials had received the tip, but the message apparently never made it to Canadian authorities.

Still, an official inquiry came up with no firm conclusion on whether it was arson, a careless smoker, or maybe faulty wiring.

“You can look at all the facts, and fit them into these theories as best you can, and come to your own conclusion,” said Don Nixon, a retired Parliament Hill engineer who explores the arguments in his book “The Other Side of the Hill.”

“I think it probably was deliberate, I say probably because we don’t know.

The things we know about the fire, it seems to me point in that direction.”

The Commons had been sitting that night, when fire broke out in the nearby, wood-lined reading room chocked with newspapers.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

JIAN GHOMESHI TRIAL

TORONTO — As the trial of disgraced broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi puts the issues of consent and sexual harassment in the national spotlight this week, legal experts caution that convictions in cases of historic sexual assaults are not easy to secure.

Ghomeshi, the former host of CBC Radio’s cultural affairs show “Q,” faces four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcoming resistance by choking at his judge-alone trial.

The alleged offences date as far back as 2002, and legal experts say the passing of time often poses a significant challenge to winning a conviction in such cases.

“The obvious answer is just the degradation of evidence,” said Karen Bellehumeur, a former Crown prosecutor who dealt frequently with sexual assault cases. “Not only has the memory of the survivor of the abuse degraded so that peripheral details are not as clear, but also there is no longer the corroborating evidence to be investigated by police.”

Such evidence could include DNA, observations about injuries or damaged clothing, and witnesses, Bellehumeur said, noting that with little physical evidence, such cases typically boil down to a “he said, she said” scenario, especially when the accused and complainants know each other. The issue

of consent in those cases, she said, becomes a key element.

“The main problem is that when you have a case that’s just one word against the other, which tends to happen more in historic cases…then a criminal case has just such a high standard of proof that it becomes very difficult,” Bellehumeur said. “Unless there’s a reJian Ghomeshi al disparity between the believability of the complainant over the accused then it’s going to be very difficult for the Crown to prove a case beyond a reasonable doubt.”

One positive aspect of dated sexual assault cases, however, is that the announcement of charges against an accused can prompt other complainants to come forward, which in turn can help the prosecution, Bellehumeur added.

Over $200M intended for veterans unspent

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Veterans Affairs under-spent its budget by $200 million last year, raising questions about the Liberal government’s plan to pump even more cash into a system that seems perpetually unable to get money out the door.

The figures are contained in the latest plans and priority report for the federal budget year that ended last March, which shows many of the federal government’s marquee disability and entitlement programs had surpluses of tens of millions of dollars.

Janice Summerby, a spokeswoman, says it is largest difference between planned and actual spending at the veterans department in the last decade.

The Conservatives, while they were

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in power, were accused by the Liberals and New Democrats of deliberately under-spending at the same department — to the tune of $1.13 billion over seven years — in an attempt to balance the budget on the backs on veterans, an assertion the Harper government denied.

The last election campaign saw the Liberals promise to spend an additional $300 million a year to improve benefits and support, including a return to life-long pensions, as opposed to lumpsum injury compensation payments.

The department’s report says the current pot of unspent funds is the result of veterans not taking advantage of available benefits, and adds it’s difficult to forecast how many will actually apply. Summerby added the difference between planned and actual spending has no impact on the level of care and support.

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Story and photos by ASHLI BARRETT/ADVOCATE STAFF While the NHL’s All-Star Game celebrated some of hockey’s biggest names and talents during the All-Star Game, a truer celebration of the game and its roots took place in Red Deer this past weekend.

The sixth annual Tommy Gun’s Outdoor Winter Classic tournament saw eight midget teams hit the ice at the Bower community rinks throughout the weekend. Four teams from Red Deer were joined by squads from Foremost, Kneehill, Calgary and Spruce Grove.

This year, teams sported jerseys from the 1987/88 era of the NHL. Previous years have seen players take home custom-made jerseys from the Original Six, 1920’s era, 1967/68 expansion era, and “defunct NHL teams.”

Novice teams, representing Team Canada and Russian CCCP, also faced off in three different summit series games in the annual tribute to the 1987 Canada Cup. Live music and a silent auction were also part of the festivities. A skills competition was also scheduled for Saturday, but was cancelled due to time and warm weather.

Clockwise from top left: Advocate CCCP and Pro Com Insurance Canada faced of in the second of three summit series games during the Tommy Gun’s Winter Classic at the Bower Community rinks Saturday afternoon.

Team captains, all sporting jerseys from the 1987/88 NHL era, pose for pictures during the Tommy Gun’s Winter Classic at the Bower Community rinks Saturday afternoon.

Advocate CCCP and Pro Com Insurance Canada faced off in the second of three summit series games during the Tommy Gun’s Winter Classic at the Bower Community rinks Saturday afternoon.

Elijah Chauvet, goaltender for the Red Deer Kings, makes a blocker save during a game against the Kneehill Capitals at the Tommy Gun’s Winter Classic at the Bower Community rinks Saturday afternoon.

Ousten Larter of the Red Deer Canucks and Colton Cutrell of the Spruce Grove Penguins collide with each other at centre ice during the Tommy Gun’s Winter Classic at the Bower Community rinks Saturday.

Keaton MacDonald of the Red Deer Kings checks Jake Robertson of the Kneehill Capitals against the boards during the Tommy Gun’s Winter Classic at the Bower Community rinks Saturday.

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Clinton gets mad in final Iowa blitz

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AMES, Iowa — Hillary Clinton has begun channeling the economic indignation of her rival Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose unapologetically liberal campaign has tightened the Democratic race ahead of Monday’s leadoff caucuses and given him a lead in the New Hampshire primary contest that follows.

Making her closing argument to Iowa caucus-goers, Clinton now cloaks her detailed policy plans in Sanders’ outraged rhetoric. Pharmaceutical pricing “burns” her up. Companies that take advantage of the tax loopholes get her “pretty riled up.” And she promises to “rail away” at any industry that flouts the law.

“I’m going after all of them” she declared in Davenport, her tone escalating to a shout. “When I talk about going after those companies, those businesses, those special interests, I have a much broader target list than my opponents.”

The former secretary of state’s fiery new tone underscores a strategic decision to co-opt some of the political style from the insurgent candidate who has galvanized Democratic supporters and put her long-held lead in jeopardy. It comes as a new poll released Saturday night by the Des Moines Register and Bloomberg News showed the two candidates locked in a neck-andneck race in Iowa.

Though Clinton remains likely to win the nomination, a loss in Iowa would complicate her path and heighten Democratic concerns about her campaign. Already some Democrats have voiced concerns about her message and campaign management, worries that will only grow if she faces dual losses in the first two states holding nominating contests.

While Clinton’s effort is aimed at

winning the primary campaign, her strategists are also trying to figure out how to tap into the deep vein of national frustration that’s driving real estate mogul Donald Trump’s rise in Republican primary polls. Should she capture the Democratic nomination, Clinton will need to find a way to mobilize Sanders supporters to fuel a White House victory.

Sanders casts the contest as a clash between establishment politics and his promise to bring forth a political revolution, asking Iowa voters to send a message to the rest of the nation. He will need a large turnout among college students, independents and firsttime caucus-goers to upset Clinton.

While Clinton has campaigned as the rightful heir to President Barack Obama’s two terms, Sanders has portrayed himself as the successor to Obama’s political movement, launched more than eight years ago in Iowa.

Echoing Obama, Sanders tells audiences that fundamental changes in the nation “never come from on top” but only happens with “millions of people standing up for justice.” He points to Iowa as the place where a majority-white electorate voted for a black candidate in Obama, focusing on his ideas instead of his skin colour. And he frequently fires up crowds by asking attendees to shout out their student loan interest rates and debt levels.

It’s a tactic Clinton has begun deploying at her events, pausing her remarks to ask attendees to share the details of their debt.

“You will not be paying for this forever if I become president,” she promised a woman in Newton, who told the audience that her husband now owed more than he originally borrowed.

Clinton’s fresh outrage comes after months of casting herself as a more practical — and electable — alternative to Sanders, a strategy her cam-

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, accompanied by her daughter Chelsea Clinton, reacts to applause as she arrives for a rally at Abraham Lincoln High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Sunday. paign believed would undercut the grassroots Democratic enthusiasm for his candidacy.

When she campaigned at Iowa State University in Ames two weeks ago, Clinton suggested Sanders was making big promises he could never fulfil, saying she too wished for a “magic wand” to achieve a Democratic agenda.

“That ain’t the real world we’re living in!” she said.

Back on campus Saturday for another speech focused on gun control, her remarks had a notably different tenor.

“What is wrong with us? How can we continue to ignore the toll that this is taking on our children and our country?” she shouted, pushing for stricter gun control measures, a goal that has little chance of passage in a Republi-

can-controlled Congress.

Republicans are already looking to paint her anger as disingenuous posturing. In her traditional campaign speeches, Clinton often slams the planned merger between auto supplier Johnson Controls and Tyco as an abuse of the tax code. The deal, known as a corporate inversion, is expected to save the companies at least $150 million in taxes annually.

Republican strategists pointed out that Johnson Controls had donated as much as $250,000 to the Clinton Foundation, the philanthropic organization run by her husband former President Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea. The auto parts maker has also partnered with the foundation on energy efficiency and education initiatives.

Dozens killed by bombs in Syria UN PEACE SESSION CLOUDED BY DEADLY BLAST

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Turkish paramilitary police officers place the dead body of a migrant into a funeral car near the Aegean town of Ayvacik, Canakkale, Turkey. A boat carrying migrants to Greece hit rocks off the Turkish coast on Saturday and capsized, killing at least 37 people, including five children, officials and news reports said.

37 migrants killed in shipwreck disaster

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AYVACIK, Turkey — A witness to the drowning of 37 people including babies and other young children off Turkey’s coast described the horror and screams in the moments after the boat carrying the migrants slammed into rocks, saying it was like “somebody was being murdered.”

Gulcan Durdu, who lives on the beach in the Aegean resort of Ayvacik, cried Sunday while recounting for The Associated Press the tragedy that happened at dawn the previous day.

She described being awakened by screaming and wailing after the boat struck rocks and capsized.

“I thought somebody was being murdered,” Durdu told the AP. Durdu said that she and her husband rushed to try to help survivors and brought a boy to their home to try to warm him up.

“We wrapped him up (in blankets),” she said. “I brought the hair dryer to ‘warm.’ The boy became limp in my arms” before losing consciousness.

The boy was still alive when she handed him over to paramedics who had arrived, Durdu said, adding that she would be haunted by the tragedy forever.

“I will never stop hearing those cries for the rest of my life,” Durdu said. “I will never forget. It was terrible. They died screaming. It was dark.

“We were only able to save those who were able to swim ashore.”

On Sunday, the overturned boat was still sitting on rocks offshore and visible from the construction site where Durdu lives.

The beach was littered with grim reminders of the disaster, including lifejackets, a child’s sandal, clothing and other personal belongings that had washed onshore.

The migrants were trying to make the short journey from Turkey to Greece.

Europe has endured a huge influx of migrants, most of whom undertake a dangerous journey in search of a better life.

Images of dead children on a beach on Saturday were another soul-searing reminder that Europe’s migrant crisis keeps destroying lives and families by the day.

The body of one boy was lying on

large rocks on the beach, his face covered by a cloth, while the faces of other bodies scattered nearby were covered with lifejackets.

They recalled the photo of 3-yearold Aylan Kurdi lying face down on a Turkish beach last year. His story put an intimate face on the Syrian refugee crisis for people across the world, prompting many to finally grapple with the magnitude of the suffering caused by the war in the Middle East and the treacherous journeys many risk seeking shelter in Europe.

European countries have been strained by the influx of migrants, leading to disagreements over what to do with the large number of new arrivals and how to share the burden.

In Germany, the vice chancellor called for a nationalist party to be put under observation by the government agency that tracks extremists after its leader suggested that police should be allowed to shoot refugees trying to enter the country.

Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel told Bild newspaper that “there is massive doubt that (the Alternative for Germany party) stand by the free democratic order of the republic.”

Frauke Petry, the head of the party also known by its German initials AfD, told the Mannheimer Morgen daily on Saturday that a border police officer “must stop illegal border crossings, and also make use of his firearm if necessary.”

Pushed by the newspaper for more, she continued that “no policeman wants to fire on a refugee and I don’t want that either.

But the last resort includes the use of armed force.”

Germany saw nearly 1.1 million asylum-seekers enter the country last year and the AfD has been gaining in support as more people question whether the government will be able to deal with the influx.

Joerg Radek, vice chairman of the GdP police union, slammed Petry’s suggestion, saying no German police officer would shoot at a refugee.

“Whoever proposes such a radical approach apparently wants to overturn the rule of law and exploit the police,” he said in a statement.

Chancellor Angela Merkel, meanwhile, received support from an unlikely source for her handling of Germany’s refugee crisis.

GENEVA — A triple bombing killed at least 50 people in a predominantly Shiite suburb south of the Syrian capital of Damascus on Sunday even as a U.N. mediator held his first meeting with members of the main opposition group that seeks progress on humanitarian issues before it will join formal talks on ending the five-year civil war.

The attacks were claimed by militants from the Islamic State group, and Syria’s delegate to the U.N.-sponsored peace talks said the violence confirmed the connection between “terrorism” and “some political groups” — a reference to those who oppose President Bashar Assad.

The blasts went off in the Damascus suburb of Sayyda Zeinab, about 600 metres (yards) from one of the holiest shrines for Shiite Muslims. Syria’s state news agency SANA said the attackers detonated a car bomb at a bus stop and that two suicide bombers then set off more explosives as rescuers rushed to the area.

State TV showed several burning cars and a scorched bus, as well as blown out windows, twisted metal and large holes in the facade of a nearby apartment building. The golden-domed Shiite shrine itself was not damaged. At least 50 people were killed, the Syrian Foreign Ministry said, with more than 100 wounded.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based opposition group that monitors the conflict, said at least 63 people were killed, including 25 pro-government Shiite fighters.

It said the dead fighters included Syrians and foreigners.

The suburb is one of the first areas where Lebanon’s Hezbollah group

sent fighters in 2012 to protect it from Sunni extremists who vowed to blow up the shrine. Hezbollah and Shiite groups from Iraq are known to have fighters in the area.

A website affiliated with the Islamic State group said the attacks were carried out by members of the Sunni Muslim extremist group, which controls large areas in both Syria and Iraq. The bombings cast a shadow over the Geneva talks, the first U.N. effort since 2014 to try to end the conflict that has killed at least 250,000 people, forced millions to flee the country, and given an opening to IS militants to capture territory.

In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry appealed to both sides “to make the most of this moment, to seize the opportunity for serious negotiations, to negotiate in good faith with the goal of making concrete measurable progress in the days immediately ahead.”

“Now, while battlefield dynamics can affect negotiating leverage, in the end there is no military solution to this conflict,” Kerry said. “Without negotiations, the bloodshed will drag on until the last city is reduced to rubble and virtually every home, every form of infrastructure, and every semblance of civilization is destroyed.”

The talks got off to a rocky start Friday when U.N. special envoy Staffan de Mistura met only with a Syrian government delegation. The main opposition group, the Saudi-backed Higher Negotiations Committee or HNC, boycotted the session, saying it won’t take part until preliminary demands are met: the release of detainees, the end of the bombardment of civilians by Russian and Syrian forces, and the lifting of government blockades on rebel-held areas.

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Zika ‘spreading explosively’ UN HEALTH CHIEF WARNS ABOUT RISE IN NUMBER OF CASES OF MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GENEVA — The Zika virus is “spreading explosively” in the Americas, which could see up to 4 million cases over the next year, international health officials said Thursday, announcing a special meeting next week to decide if they should declare an international health emergency.

The warning from the World Health Organization came amid a call to arms by officials on both sides of the Atlantic over the mosquito-borne virus, which has been linked to a spike in a rare birth defect in Brazil.

Brazil’s president — noting there is no medical defence against the infection — called for a crusade against the mosquitoes spreading it.

“As long as we don’t have a vaccine against Zika virus, the war must be focused on exterminating the mosquito’s breeding areas,” said President Dilma Rousseff.

The U.N. health agency called the special session in part to convey its concern about an illness that has sown fear among many would-be mothers. It may also have acted quickly because the agency was criticized for its slow response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

Meanwhile, U.S. health officials said Thursday while they have not yet seen spread of the disease in the 50 states, the number of U.S. travellers infected over the last year in the Caribbean or Latin America has climbed to 31.

The Zika virus was first discovered in Africa in 1947. But until last year, when it was found in Brazil, it had never been a threat in the Western Hemisphere.

The virus causes no more than a mild illness in most people. But there is mounting evidence from Brazil suggesting infection in pregnant women is linked to abnormally small heads in their babies — a birth defect called microcephaly.

Earlier this month, U.S. health officials advised pregnant women to postpone visits to Brazil and other countries in the region with outbreaks.

“For the average American who’s not travelling, this is not something they need to worry about,” said Dr. Anne Schuchat, of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But “for people who are pregnant and considering travel to the affected areas, please take this seriously,” she added. “It’s very important for you to understand that we don’t know as much as we want to know about this yet.”

In Geneva, WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan noted it had been less than a year since the virus arrived in the Americas, “where it is now spreading explosively.”

Although there is no definitive proof that the Zika virus is behind the spike in brain defects in Brazil, “the level of alarm is extremely high,” she added.

“The possible links, only recently suspected, have rapidly changed the risk profile of Zika from a mild threat to one of alarming proportions,” Chan said.

Researchers are also looking into a potential tie between Zika infections and cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome, which can cause temporary paralysis.

According to the CDC, the Zika virus is now in more than 20 countries, transmitted by the same mosquito that spreads other tropical illnesses such as dengue and yellow fever.

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A health worker fumigates against the Aedes aegypt mosquito, a vector of the Dengue, Chikunguya and Zika viruses, inside a house in Lima, Peru, Friday, Jan. 29, 2016. The Zika virus causes only a mild illness in most people. But there’s mounting evidence linking it to a birth defect, especially in Brazil.

Sylvain Aldighieri, head of WHO’s epidemic response team in the Americas, estimated there could be 3 million to 4 million Zika infections in the region over the next year.

He said the agency expects “huge numbers” of infections because of the widespread presence of the Aedes mosquitoes that spread Zika and because people in the region have no natural immunity.

The same mosquito species spreading Zika in Latin America is also found in the southern United States. However, U.S. health officials reiterated Thursday they don’t think the United States is vulnerable to a widespread outbreak of the Zika virus.

WHO warned China and all other countries that have dengue fever to be on the lookout for Zika infections. The agency said it could be many years before a vaccine is available and it might take six to nine months before there’s any data showing a causal relationship between Zika and the babies born with malformed heads.

Monday’s special session does not guarantee that a global emergency will be declared — WHO has held 10 such meetings to assess the Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome coronavirus and no emergency has been announced.

Declaring a global emergency is akin to an international SOS signal and usually brings more money and action to address an outbreak. The last such emergency was announced for the devastating 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which eventually ending up killing over 11,000 people. Polio was declared a similar emergency the year before.

Marcos Espinal, WHO’s director of infectious diseases in the Americas region, said Brazil is conducting studies to determine if there is scientific evidence that Zika virus causes birth defects and neurological problems.

More than 4,000 suspected cases have

Five things about the Zika virus The World Health Organization will hold an emergency meeting of independent experts Monday to decide if the Zika virus outbreak should be declared an international health emergency. Here are five things you should know about the virus: WHAT IT IS: The Zika virus, named after a forest in Uganda where it was first identified in rhesus monkeys in 1947, is transmitted by two types of the day-biting Aedes mosquito, A. aegypti and A. albopictus.

WHERE IT’S FOUND: Cases of Zika have been reported in more than 20 countries in South and Central America and the Caribbean, as well as parts of Mexico, following its spread from Africa to Asia and the Pacific Islands. Brazil has been particularly hard hit. As many as 1.5 million Brazilians may have been infected with the Zika virus since its been reported in Brazil since October.

However, tests so far have shown hundreds of them were not microcephaly.

Brazilian authorities estimate the country could have up to 1 million Zika infections by now. Most infected people don’t get sick and those who do mostly suffer mild symptoms such as fever, rash, joint pain and red eyes.

The outbreak has mostly been in the poor and underdeveloped northeast, but the prosperous southeast, where Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are located, is the nation’s second hardest-hit region.

Rio de Janeiro is of special concern, since it will host the Aug. 5-21 Summer Olympic games that are expected to be attended by millions from around the world.

arrival in the country last spring.

WHO’S AT RISK: Most people infected by Zika virus do not get sick. Those who develop symptoms, including fever, rash, joint pain and red eyes, recover within about a week. However, Zika virus has been linked to microcephaly in infants born to women infected while pregnant. Newborns with the birth defect have small heads and underdeveloped brains.

HOW IT’S TREATED: There is no effective antiviral drug to treat Zika infection and a vaccine to prevent the disease is estimated to take years to develop.

HOW TO AVOID IT: The Public Health Agency of Canada is advising pregnant women and those who plan to get pregnant to consider postponing travel to Zika-affected countries or regions unless absolutely necessary. If travel cannot be postponed, then strict mosquito-bite prevention measures should be followed, including wearing clothes that fully cover exposed skin and applying a mosquito repellent like DEET. International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said the fact the Olympics will be held in August — during Brazil’s winter — could limit Zika’s impact on the games. Cooler weather tends to cut down mosquito populations.

Earlier this week, officials in Rio ramped up their fight against the mosquitoes that spread Zika, dispatching fumigators to the Sambadrome, where the city’s Carnival parades will take place next month.

There is no treatment or vaccine for Zika, which is in the same family of viruses as dengue. Scientists have struggled for years to develop a dengue vaccine the first such shot made by Sanofi Pasteur was licensed last year in Brazil.

Canadian blood services to defer donations TRAVELLERS FROM ZIKA-ENDEMIC AREAS LIKELY TO BE TURNED AWAY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The agency responsible for most of Canada’s blood supply will soon turn away donors who have travelled to countries where the mosquito-borne Zika virus is rampant.

More than 20 countries in South and Central America and the Caribbean, as well as parts of Mexico, have reported widespread cases of Zika virus infection, which is transmitted by the day-biting Aedes mosquito. That mosquito is present throughout the Western Hemisphere, except in Canada and continental Chile.

Following discussions with Health Canada and its counterpart Hema Quebec, Canadian Blood Services will decide in the next few days which travel destinations are considered a high enough risk that visitors to those countries would be temporarily stopped from donating blood, and for how long.

“We think that the chance of Zika virus showing up in the Canadian blood supply is very remote, but we don’t want to sit here and do nothing, knowing that Zika virus is spreading around in areas where Canadians are potentially going to be travelling,” said chief medical and scientific officer Dr. Dana Devine on Thursday from Ottawa.

So far, three cases of Zika infection have turned up among Canadians travellers, two from B.C and one from Al-

berta two had been visiting El Salvador and one was in Colombia. All three have since recovered.

Most people with Zika never know they’ve been infected because they experience no symptoms. Those who do develop symptoms — fever, malaise, skin rash, joint pain and red eyes — typically get better after a short-lived illness.

But the most pressing worry is for pregnant women and those who plan to become pregnant. Since Zika became endemic in Brazil last year, about 4,000 infants have been born with small heads and underdeveloped brains, a condition known as microcephaly.

While Zika hasn’t been proven to cause the birth defect, the Public Health Agency of Canada is advising pregnant women and those who plan to become pregnant to consider postponing travel to areas where Zika has taken root.

The reason women who are thinking about getting pregnant need to take precautions is because scientists don’t know if Zika remains in the body after blood tests indicate the active virus has disappeared.

“It’s a critically important question, and the reality is we don’t really know at this point in time,” said Dr. Andrew Simor, an infectious disease specialist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.

“There are some potential concerns that it may persist in certain protected sites, the same way that we discovered Ebola virus does,” Simor said. There have been at least one or two cases of what appears to be sexual transmission of the virus, suggesting Zika may remain dormant in semen, as it can with Ebola.

“But I want to emphasize that it’s not well-documented and the information that we have is really very limited,” Simor said.

As for Zika being a potential cause of microcephaly in newborns, he said there’s a theory that the virus is able to cross the placenta, based on one study that detected evidence of Zika in the placental tissues of babies born with the birth defect.

“So that would lend to some biologic plausibility that it’s Zika virus responsible for the microcephaly,” said Simor, adding that women who are pregnant or plan to get pregnant should think twice about travelling to areas rife with cases of infection, unless they have no choice.

“I think if it’s just going for a vacation, I would encourage them to look for a different vacation spot.”

The planned deferral of donations from travellers to disease hotspots isn’t a first for Canadian Blood Services.

The agency already temporarily prohibits donations from travellers

who have returned from countries where malaria, which is also spread by mosquitoes, is endemic.

“If you have travelled to a place that has malaria, we would currently be deferring you for 12 months,” Devine said. “If you’ve been in a Zika-risk area, you’re going to be deferred and it will be a much shorter period of time because it doesn’t hang around like malaria does.

“It would be weeks, not months,” she suggested. “But we haven’t quite decided yet what exactly the length of time will be.”

Devine said there could also be some overlap: certain countries or regions where malaria-carrying mosquitoes are present may now also be home to the Zika virus, which originated in Africa and spread to southeast Asia, then made its way to the Pacific Islands, and last year to the Western Hemisphere.

It’s not clear how easily Zika virus could be transmitted through a blood transfusion, although two other viruses spread by the Aedes mosquito — dengue and chikungunya —“are highly likely to be transfusion transmissible,” she said.

“So we’re making these plans based on the assumption that there is a risk, without the clear evidence that that risk is present.”

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A9 House sitters pick cupboards bare

Dear Annie: I was going out of town on business for a week, and a couple I know jumped at the chance to house sit. I offered to let them stay at my place in exchange for taking care of my cat. I asked in advance what staples they would want, so they wouldn’t have to shop immediately after their arrival. I was happy to provide these items. I even bought extra treats.

When I returned a week later, my kitchen pantry was bare, my fridge was totally cleaned out and there was no toilet paper, shampoo, moisturizer or laundry detergent. I don’t know how they could have used so much in seven days.

I live alone and know what I keep on hand, and it is a little annoying to run out of things in the middle of cooking or taking a shower.

What am I expected to provide?

Should they replace items they use up? When an item is ruined and no mention of it is made, should I say something? Is it acceptable to ask the sitters to leave a list of the items they

used? Would it have made a difference if they house sat for a longer period of time? — Just Wondering.

Dear Wondering: Although there is no hard-and-fast rule, it makes sense to put certain things in KATHY MITCHELL writing.

AND MARCY SUGAR Create a ANNIE’S MAILBOX folder with the important information, including how to reach you, a contact number for a neighbor or friend in case of emergency and details about how to take care of pets and plants. Then print up a basic agreement stating whether or not they can bring people into your home; what items you do not want them to touch (including things

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like moisturizer, etc.); which rooms are off-limits; where to put the trash and recycling; whether or not they can use your car; how to access the laundry machines and any other specific instructions, including replacing usedup necessities if you so choose, and that they are responsible for broken or damaged items.

If they stay longer, you may need to work out the details regarding mail delivery, heating and air-conditioning, etc. Each of you should sign this and keep a copy.

Be sure the sitters have clean linens and towels, space in the closet and dresser for their things, and enough food for at least a day or two. Lock up your valuables and keep a list of the things in your house. Make sure other people know that you will be out of town and that these people are house-sitting. And yes, if they ruined something, you can ask them to compensate you.

Dear Annie: I love your advice and almost always agree with you. But

PEAK-A-BOO

“Tired of Sex, So Blame Me” said her husband is sexually selfish and was like that in his 20s and 30s. She says sex is still all about him.

If he was sexually selfish in his 20s, why did she marry him? And if she was willing to marry him knowing this, what on earth makes her think he would change? Your advice was sound, but I also think she needs to accept some of the responsibility for her current situation. — B. Dear B.: We agree that too many spouses marry with the unrealistic expectation that the partner will change.

But we also know that it serves no purpose to chastise someone for a poor decision made 30 years ago.

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.

Goat-tiger odd couple may be over MOSCOW — A romance that enchanted Russia may be over: Timur the goat and Amur the tiger have had a fight and aren’t together anymore.

In November, the goat was placed in the tiger’s compound in a wildlife park near Vladivostok with the expectation that the big cat would eventually kill and eat him. But the two not only tolerated each other, they appeared to become friends. The odd couple became a popular topic on social media, and T-shirts celebrating them went on sale. But Timur started pushing it, constantly annoying and butting the tiger.

“Finally, the tiger couldn’t hold back, grabbed the goat by the withers and tossed him,” park director Dmitry Mezentsev told state news agency Tass on Friday. “We decided to put them in different enclosures for a while.”

Three charged after lioness prowled Dubai neighbourhood

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Satu, an endangered Sumatran tiger cub that was born at Zoo Miami on Nov. 14, 2015, plays with a palm frond, Friday, in Miami. Satu, which means “one” in Malay, was being given access to the exhibit for feedings and some play time to experience the sights and smells of what will eventually be his home.

Monday, Feb. 1 SAGITTARICELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS US (Nov. 22-Dec. DATE: Lisa Marie Presley, 47; Harry 21): Money matStyles, 21; Rachelle Lefevre, 36 ters look mighty THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Mental unpredictable energy and nervous tension are high so today Sagittarpace yourself. ius, so hold off HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You are making an imstrong-willed, but you can also be in- portant financredibly stubborn. 2016 is the year to cial decision or be more realistic about your goals and signing on the dreams for the future. dotted line until ARIES (March 21-April 19): Socializthings have seting with loved ones or work colleagues JOANNE MADELINE brings many benefits — but resist the tled down.

CAPRICORN MOORE urge to be too blunt. If you blurt out something inappropriate today, you ( D e c . 2 2 - J a n .

SUN SIGNS 19): The Sun is may regret it tomorrow!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your as- shining in your pirations for the future may be at odds s e l f - e s t e e m with what your intuition is telling you. zone, so find creative ways to nurture Time for some new dreams? Bulls are your inner confidence. Remember — also in the mood to socialize with a you are more than your job, how much you earn or what you own. new circle of creative friends.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The stars AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When favour catching up on routine chores, communicating with loved ones today, domestic pursuits and family con- try to stick to the facts Aquarius. Othnections. But leave making decisions erwise you are likely to get carried about money until you’re thinking away and blurt out something silly that more calmly and clearly. you immediately regret.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The stars PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): With the encourage you to nurture yourself with Sun transiting through your mystery some of life’s little luxuries. Whether zone, youíre keen to uncover a secret it’s gourmet food, fine wine or prestige or two. But money matters are unprepersonal-care products, you’re keen to pamper yourself.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leos love to express themselves but creativity is restricted this morning, as you have a crisis of Cat confidence and doubt your talents. Don’t despair — things will improve as the day develops.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22): If there are problems in your primary relationship, slow down and take the time to sort them out.

Don’t assume you know what your partner is thinking. Ask questions — and then listen closely.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It will be challenging to balance work and family today Libra, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. With the Moon in Scorpio, your emotions are much more intense than usual.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Compulsive thinking UP is a danger today but worTO rying about things won’t help matters. Strive to be Offer expires February 14, 2016 less obsessive and more proactive. True security and peace of mind come from within.

dictable at the moment, so keep your urge to splurge under control.

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tionally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Diversity on display at SAG awards

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In a flurry of wins at the Screen Actors Guild Awards and the Sundance Film Festival, diversity made a comeback.

Over just a few hours Saturday night, the SAG Awards and Sundance showered their honours on a parade of performers and films that presented a stark contrast to the crisis that has plagued the Oscars. Shortly after the screen actors handed out awards to Queen Latifah, Uzo Aduba, Viola Davis and Idris Elba (twice), Nate Parker’s Sundance sensation “The Birth of a Nation,” a drama about Nat Turner’s slave rebellion, swept the festival’s awards.

The two ceremonies, in Los Angeles and Park City, Utah, offered a night of reprieve from weeks of rancour over systemic inequality in the movie business and a second straight year of all-white Academy Award acting nominees.

“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to diverse TV,” said Elba in his third trip on stage as a presenter at the SAG Awards. His first two were to accept awards for his supporting performance in the Netflix child soldier drama “Beasts of No Nation” and for his lead performance in the BBC miniseries “Luther.”

Soon thereafter, at Sundance, Parker took the festival’s grand jury prize and its audience award.

“Thank you, Sundance, for creating a platform for us to grow, in spite of what the rest of Hollywood is doing,” said Parker, whose directorial debut sold for a record sum to Fox Searchlight Pictures.

The SAG Awards top honour, best ensemble in a film, went to the newspaper drama “Spotlight,” which came into Saturday badly in need of some momentum. The ensemble award had seemingly come down to “Spotlight” or Adam McKay’s high finance tale “The Big Short,” which last week took the Producers Guild’s top award. The win assures a competitive and unpredictable Oscars finale, with “The Martian,” “The Revenant” and “Mad Max: Fury Road” also in the mix.

“No way,” said Mark Ruffalo, one of the stars of “Spotlight.”

He praised the writer-director Tom McCarthy and co-writer Josh Singer for their purposeful accuracy in penning the journalistic procedural about the Boston Globe’s reporting on sexual abuse by Catholic priests. T he two, he said, “took every single opportunity to tell the truth. They didn’t take any cheap way. It was always the truth.”

Elba made no direct reference to the uproar that has swept through Hollywood in the last two weeks,

LOCAL BOOK BRIEFS

Local author contributes to Rushinspired book The Canadian rock band Rush inspired a Red Deer author to put pen to paper.

Tim Lasiuta is one of 18 writers who contributed a short story to 2113, Stories Inspired By the Music of Rush. The compendium includes tales written by best-selling author Kevin J. Anderson, Canadian screenwriter John McFetridge and many other literary fans of the prog-rock group.

Lasiuta’s story Hollywood Dreams is about a secret that results in murder.

“It’s a tremendous honour” to be included in the project, said Lasiuta, who was asked by Anderson to write a story for 2113. “It’s one of those that you have to try to be part of.”

Rush is one of the most successful rock bands in Canada and the world. Over the past 40 years, the group has produced music with fantastical stories and evocative, thought-provoking imagery about the future.

The collection, edited by Anderson and McFetridge, will be published by small Toronto publisher ECW Press and released on April 1st.

Memoir brings Prairie upbringing to life The harrowing war-time experiences of the late Rocky Mountain House author Hank OpdenDries is recounted in his posthumously published memoir.

Footprints in the Sands of Time chronicles OpdenDries’ eventful life, starting from his Dutch childhood.

As OpdenDries was born into a family with 10 children in 1924, he was old enough to remember the “hungry 1930s” and witness the invasion of Holland in 1940.

The author tells of being forcibly transported to the Ruhr region of northwest Germany to help the German war effort. He later escaped back to the Netherlands by going underground with a number of his friends.

OpdenDries also recounts helping shelter a downed British airman, who eventually escaped by using the Dutch rail network. His memoir tells of the Nazi’s sadistic treatment of the Jews, the experience of seeing Hitler’s V-2 rockets — the world’s first longrange guided missiles — crossing the sky towards

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Idris Elba accepts the award for outstanding male actor in a supporting role for “Beasts of No Nation” at the 22nd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016, in Los Angeles. which might have been less severe had he been nominated by the Academy Awards, as many expected.

But it was on the minds and tongues of seemingly everyone in Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium.

Accepting the most outstanding ensemble award in a comedy series for Netflix’s “Orange Is the New Black,” co-star Laura Prepon gestured to the cast of the prison comedy standing behind her.

“Look at this stage,” said Prepon. “This is what we talk about when we talk about diversity.”

SAG winners for individual performances the last three years have corresponded with eventual Academy Award winners. Thus Leonardo DiCaprio (“The Revenant”), Brie Larson (“Room”) and Alicia Vikander (“The Danish Girl”) all cemented their status as

Oscar favourites. Each won, as expected.

But supporting actor will differ this year. The category’s perceived favourite is Sylvester Stallone for the Rocky sequel “Creed.” Stallone, though, wasn’t nominated by the screen actors.

Actors make up the largest branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, which is why the SAG Awards are a closely watched harbinger of the Oscars.

But the Screen Actors Guild is massive by comparison: some 160,000 members to the academy’s 6,000-plus. Voting for the SAG Awards, which concluded Friday, also overlapped with the widespread debate over the industry’s inclusiveness that followed Academy Awards nominations.

Belgium, and the liberation of Holland by Canadian soldiers in 1945.

The self-published account was written “to capture the lives of ordinary people… during a time of unprecedented violence and treachery.”

OpdenDries immigrated to Canada to build a new life in the country that gave him his freedom. He became a husband and father, working as a bricklayer, autobody mechanic, dairy farmer and painter. He died last May after 63 years of marriage.

His 464-page book is available in hardcover, softcover and as an ebook from Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

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Ware is inviting readers to submit their own work in any artistic medium to her website, www.susanwaretrilogy.com. She intends to compile the submissions into the second book of the trilogy that will be featured on her website.

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Wheaties steal win from Rebels

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Wheat Kings 2 Rebels 1 Thanks almost exclusively to netminder Rylan Toth, the Red Deer Rebels were less than four minutes away from recording a WHL victory they did not fully deserve.

But in the end justice was served.

Nolan Patrick beat Toth with a bullet to the top of the net to erase a 1-0 Red Deer lead at 16:18 of the third period and then set up Tyler Coulter’s winner just over two minutes later. Just like that, the Brandon Wheat Kings had stormed back to post a 2-1 win before a recorded gathering of 6,122 at the Centrium.

The Wheat Kings, coming off a 4-3 loss the night before at Edmonton, were the superior squad through the majority of Saturday’s outing but were stoned by Toth time and time again. The Rebels’ stopper turned aside 16 shots in the opening period and finished with 35 saves.

Rebels GM/coach Brent Sutter was particularly disappointed with most of his go-to players.

“We weren’t very good here tonight,” Sutter understated.

“Again, your best players have to be your best players — it’s that time of year — and ours weren’t tonight, outside of Jake DeBrusk. I didn’t think that (Michael) Spacek, (Ivan) Nikolishin and (Adam) Helewka were very good.

“We made some key mistakes, some turnovers that we can’t make. When you’re in a 1-0 game you have to be smart and play the game the right way. I just didn’t think we had a full load here tonight. We never pushed like we needed to.

“The disappointing part of it for me is we’ve only played two games in eight days and our effort tonight wasn’t like Brandon’s. At the end of the day we got what we deserved. They were the better hockey team.”

Forced to make seven saves in the first four minutes of the contest, Toth was the busier goaltender.

He took a goal away from Macoy Erkamps in the opening period and slid over to rob Ty Lewis in the middle frame … just two of his numerous difficult saves.

With Red Deer on the power play following a checking-to-the-head major and game misconduct assessed to Brandon’s Garrett Armour, Spacek tapped home a loose puck in the crease after Jordan Papirny made a stop on DeBrusk, giving the Rebels a lead 8:57 into the contest. The Wheat Kings goaltender didn’t surrender another goal and turned aside a total of 22 shots.

Sutter was appreciative of Toth’s performance.

“Tother was outstanding,” said the Rebels boss.

“Like I told the kids after the game, if it wasn’t for Tother we could have easily been down five goals after the first 30 minutes. He made some fantastic saves.”

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Defenceman Kayle Doetzel of the Red Deer Rebels attempts to steal the puck from centreman Jayce Hawryluk of the Brandon Wheat Kings during Saturday night WHL action at the Centrium. The Rebels fell to the Wheat Kings 2-1.

Toth was the victim of a back-door play on the winner, as Patrick, from behind the Red Deer net, threw the puck out front and found an unchecked Coulter. The net was open as Toth, under the impression the play was coming the other way, left his post.

Wheat Kings GM/head coach Kelly McCrimmon wouldn’t comment on whether his team was hands down the dominant side.

“I can’t say that, but I will say that win, lose or draw, I was happy with how we played,” he said.

“We were ready to play after last night’s loss. I was encouraged with how we responded after a game in which we weren’t as good.

“It was interesting. We had some great chances right off the bat and he (Toth) made some tremendous saves. Then we were down 1-0 and for the next

50 minutes we were chasing it a bit. But I thought our guys hung in good.”

Sutter, with a roster that compares favourably to Brandon’s, didn’t see the same persistence from his squad.

“From a coach’s perspective, I just can’t accept our team playing like that,” he said. “It’s unacceptable when you have a group like we have to not play like we have to play, and that starts with our best players.

“Tonight we never got that push from our top guys and it hurt us at the end of the game.”

The Rebels are idle until Friday when they face the Kootenay Ice in Cranbrook. Red Deer is at home to the Moose Jaw Warriors Saturday. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Scott top star at NHL All-Star game FAN VOTE AS CAPTAIN GETS MVP AFTER PAIR OF GOALS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE — John Scott sat on his teammates shoulders while fans chanted “M-V-P! M-V-P!” and the NHL finally got out of the way.

The people spoke up for Scott once again Sunday night, making the career journeyman enforcer an All-Star MVP as a write-in candidate after voting him into the new 3-on-3 All-Star tournament as captain of the Pacific Division.

Scott scored twice during the tournament, bringing cheers from fans and smiles from teammates who relished every moment along with the gentle giant and his goofy grin. Scott captained the Pacific to a 1-0 win in the championship.

“It’s just another one on the list of stuff that I cannot believe is happening,” Scott said of being picked as MVP. “I never in a million years would have believed I was at an All-Star Game, the fans would be behind me like that and score two goals in a game.

You can’t put it into words. You can’t write this stuff. It’s unbelievable.”

Now Scott’s helmet is headed to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, and his name was trending on Twitter in the United States after a night when he wasn’t listed among the three MVP candidates for a social media vote late in the final game.

The NHL did not release details, but fans took it upon themselves to select him once again, in an overwhelming vote for the 6-foot-8 forward with five goals in 285 career games.

“I’m sure he won over a lot of peo-

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Pacific Division captain John Scott is named most valuable player after the NHL All-Star championship game Sunday, in Nashville, Tenn. The Pacific Division beat the Atlantic Division won 1-0. ple, and got even more fans,” Chicago forward Patrick Kane said of Scott.

Fans at Bridgestone Arena booed the MVP options when announced and yelled for Scott, who wrote last week that someone with the NHL tried to talk him out of coming. He seemed a bit stunned as he soaked everything in, from teammates lifting him on their shoulders while fans chanted “MVP!” before Scott was announced as the winner and presented with a Honda

Pilot Touring SUV. He also posed with teammates behind their $1 million check.

Scott only got nervous when Sharks defenceman Brent Burns, a former teammate and friend, caught him off guard and helped hoist the reluctant fighter into the air.

“I’m not a very light guy, almost 275 pounds, soaking wet about 300 pounds,” Scott said. “Yeah, nerve wracking, especially (since) Burnzie

is such a spaz. Again, just another moment on this weekend I just cannot believe. You really can’t put into words.”

The NHL changed the format after last year’s All-Star Game featured 92 shots and a combined 29 goals for the biggest offensive display in the showcase’s 60-year history. This time, these All-Stars combined for 116 shots and 23 goals.

This event looked much more like the hockey the league plays the rest of the season. Their inspiration was the 3-on-3 overtime approach for a tournament pitting the four divisions against each other in 20-minute games.

The winners of the first two games advanced to a third-period championship.

“I broke a better sweat than last year for sure,” Philadelphia Flyer and Metropolitan Division forward Claude Giroux said.

Goalies split the work with a 10-minute portion each and actually got the chance to stop shots rather than be targets in the net. Florida’s Roberto Luongo and Jonathan Quick of the Kings each made great saves to keep the first 10 minutes of the championship game scoreless, and Quick stopped Jagr in the final seconds before intermission.

Scott, the personable enforcer toiling for now in the minor leagues, stole the show.

A fan campaign made Scott captain of the Pacific Division before the Arizona Coyotes traded him Jan. 15 to Montreal, which assigned him to the AHL. He will return to the AHL to Newfoundland in Canada with lots of prizes after fans chose Scott over the finalists offered by the league’s hockey operations — Luongo, Calgary forward Johnny Gaudreau or Edmonton forward Taylor Hall.

Kings fall to Lions in back-end of weekend basketball set Lions 118 Kings 100 CALGARY – RDC Kings head coach Clayton Pottinger knows he has to find a way to play better defence if the Kings hope to win the Alberta Colleges Men’s Basketball League title.

So Saturday, following a 99-89 win over the Ambrose University Lions Friday at RDC, Pottinger made several changes to the defence for a return match at Ambrose Saturday.

They obviously didn’t work as the Lions downed the Kings 118-100.

“We made a few adjustments and as you can see they didn’t work,” said Pottinger.

“They shot well and were hot in their gym, but still this was on us.

“I can count on one hand the number of times a team has scored a 100

points on us since I came here. There was no commitment to defence and a lack of hustle.”

You could see the Kings giving up points in the fourth quarter as they tried to put pressure on the Lions, but that wasn’t what bothered Pottinger.

“We were bleeding from the start.”

The Kings fell behind 23-18 in the first quarter then were outscored 3330, 31-28 and 31-24 in the final three quarters.

Anthony Ottley led the Kings with 32 points and 13 rebounds while Matt Matear added 17 points and 13 boards and Khurram Sultan had 14 points.

Kyler Shula had 38 for Ambrose.

The Kings remain in first place in the South at 11-4 with Medicine Hat dropping to 10-5 with two losses to

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SAIT, 6-10. Olds is at 10-3.

Queens 68 Lions 60 After a slow start the Queens took control in the second quarter and went on to a 68-60 victory over the Lions.

RDC trailed 12-7 after 10 minutes, but outscored the Lions 23-9 in the second quarter to take a 30-21 lead. They were outscored 22-21 in the third quarter with the teams hitting 17 points each in the fourth.

Eva Bonde was the RDC player of the game with 15 points, six assists and five rebounds and committed just one turnover in close to 39 minutes of play.

Dedra Janvier added 18 points and five rebounds in 32 minutes.

The Queens played without outstanding forward Emily White (flu)

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then lost Kennedy Burgess with a minor ankle injury in the first quarter and Maddi Whiting in the third when she tweaked her ankle injury.

One of the negatives for head coach Ken King was a technical foul.

“There was no need for me to take that and I’d like to apologize to the team and fans,” he said. “However, the girls did a great job of picking us up right after.”

RDC has next weekend off before facing St. Mary’s in a home-and-home series, beginning Feb. 12 at RDC. They clash with Olds and Briercrest to finish the season.

The Queens have a 7-8 record and are tied with Olds, 7-6, two points back of SAIT, 8-8, and Medicine Hat 8-7.

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RDC teams sweep Lions on volleyball court

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Queens 3 Lions 1 The one thing the RDC Queens need to find before the Alberta Colleges Women’s Volleyball League championships is a little more consistency.

They showed that this weekend as they split a doubleheader against the Ambrose University Lions, losing 3-0 on the road Friday and winning 25-10, 20-25, 25-13, 25-15 at RDC Saturday.

“It was weird to watch on Friday as every set we started strong then partway through we had an accumulation of errors which we couldn’t shake,” explained Queens head coach Talbot Walton. “Tonight the girls played much better and came away with three very dominating sets. The Queens were much better trusting their training, which allowed them to find a higher compete factor.”

Outside of the second set, when they ran into some serving and serve receive problems, the Queens dominated, getting a strong performance from a number of players.

Veteran power hitter Miranda Dawe continued her strong play, both

on offence and defence. She finished with 12 kills, an ace, a block and 17 digs. Middle Whitney Zylstra was the player of the match with nine kills, two aces, three blocks and six digs.

“When Whitney said she was coming here (from Briercrest) this year we were excited as we knew we were getting a dynamic player who can control play at the net with her speed,” said Walton. “We need to find ways to get her involved offensively. When we do that her blocking picks up.

“Overall we have fast, quick middles and as a group we need to make an effort to get the ball to the setter so she can get it to our hitters so we can take advantage of our speed.”

Kelsey Tymkow added 10 kills, two aces, a block and five digs for RDC while McKenna Barthel had three kills, an ace, a block and 13 digs and libero Olivia Barnes 10 digs. Ashtyn McKenzie led Ambrose with 12 kills, four aces and 12 digs The win left the Queens with an 11-7 record and in a tie for third place in the south with the Olds Broncos. RDC faces Lethbridge at home Friday and Saturday, then clash with Olds and SAIT to end the regular schedule.

RDC hosts the women’s provincials,

Feb. 25-27.

Kings 3 Lions 0 Outside of a slight letdown in the second set the Kings rolled to a 25-13, 26-24, 25-20 victory over the Lions to sweep the weekend twin bill.

The Kings actually trailed 24-21 in the second set before charging from behind.

“After putting the boots to them in the first set we let down,” said Kings head coach Aaron Schulha. “They have a team with a lot of pride and are scrappy and we got caught off guard.

“As a coach that’s frustrating. We talk about consistency and focusing on playing at a high level and not playing down to the opposition. We’re trying to ramp up for the championships and it shouldn’t matter who is on the other side of the net, but we’re not there yet.”

The Kings didn’t dominate at the net like they did in a 3-0 win Friday.

“We had a lot of touches, but we didn’t turn the ball around. We left some blocks on the floor. It’s a bit irritating in that we have to make sure we follow the game play.”

Schulha was pleased with what he saw from Regan Fathers, especially

when he went back to serve late in the second set.

“He has put in a new jump serve and he used his float serve late in that second set which was part of the reason for our comeback. He missed a few serves in the third set, but overall it looks better.”

Riley Friesen had another strong performance with 10 kills, three aces and two digs while setter Luke Brisbane was the player of the match with three kills, three blocks, three digs and 26 assists. Fathers had six kills, four aces and four digs and middle Adam Turlejski added six kills and two digs.

Graham Schmuland had seven kills and four digs and Graeson Berger seven kills for Ambrose.

The Kings were playing without regular right side Nic Dubinsky (shoulder) and new left side Matt Lofgren (family matter). Both are expected back next weekend against Lethbridge, which is the lone team to beat RDC this season.

The No. 1 ranked Kings are 17-1 while Ambrose slipped to 8-12.

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/atheticsblog.

MINOR HOCKEY The Red Deer Optimist Chiefs gave up sole possession of first place in the Alberta Midget Hockey League South Division Sunday with a 2-1 loss to the visiting Calgary Flames.

Adam Sandstrom notched a first-period goal for the Chiefs, but the Flames connected for a goal in each of the second and third frames to post their 19th win of the season and move into a first-place tie with Red Deer.

The Chiefs, who have 18 wins and have played one less game than the Flames, directed 21 shots at the Calgary net. Dawson Weatherill was the losing netminder.

On Saturday, the Chiefs settled for a 3-3 draw with the visiting Calgary Northstars.

Josh Tarzwell fired two goals for the Optimist squad, with Landon Siegle also scoring and Weatherill making 28 saves. The Northstars were outshot 34-31 and took eight of 14 minor penalties.

The Red Deer squad will conclude their regular-season schedule with four road games.

Minor midget AAA Both Red Deer teams were shut out Saturday, with the North Star Chiefs falling 4-0 at home to the Calgary Blazers and the Strata Energy Chiefs losing 6-0 to the host Calgary Rangers.

Jusin Verveda made 33 saves for North Star, which was outshot 37-27 and was assessed nine of 13 minor penalties. Duncan Hughes turned in a 49-save performance for Strata Energy. The visitors were outshot 55-22 and took eight of 12 minor infractions.

Major midget girls The Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs, with goaltender MacKenzie Fairbrother-Skinner kicking out 23 shots, downed the first-place Rocky Mountain Raiders 3-1 Sunday at the Collicutt Centre.

Shae Demale, Paige Grenier — with the eventual winner in the second period — and Maddison Toppe scored for the Chiefs, who outshot their guests 27-24 and were assessed five of 14 minor infractions.

Major bantam The Red Deer Rebels were outshot 40-21 by the

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Madison Rutz of the Red Deer Chiefs steals the puck from Alena Thompson of the PAC Chiefs during Alberta Major Bantam Female Hockey League action Saturday afternoon at the Collicutt Centre. The Chiefs beat the Saints 5-0. visiting Lethbridge Hurricanes Saturday but got a 39-save performance from Bretton Park in a 2-1 victory.

Jace Paarup and Walker Stevenson supplied the Rebels goals. Red Deer took four of the seven minor penalties called in the contest.

The Rebels fell 4-0 to the host Calgary Flames Sunday. Details were unavailable.

Major bantam girls

Madison McLaren posted an eight-save shutout Saturday as the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs were 5-0 winners over the visiting Spruce Grove Saints.

Dylan Norrie and Sage Sansregret paced the Chiefs with two goals apiece. Kelli-Rai Sieben also scored for Sutter Fund, which directed 38 shots at the Saints net.

The visitors were assessed seven of 10 minor penalties.

Red Deer teams to meet in semifinal at senior men’s playdowns CURLING

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR The merger was a long time coming, but so far, so good.

Wilf Edgar recently hooked up with the Rick Hjertaas Red Deer foursome and has been skipping the rink during the Southern Alberta Curling Association senior men’s playdowns at the Pidherney Centre.

On Sunday, he helped the foursome, which also includes front-enders Eldon Raab and Randy Hjertaas, to a 6-1 win over Red Deer’s Lowell Peterman to advance to the C-event semifinals of the triple-knockout southerns.

“It’s been a lot of fun,” said Edgar.

“I had never played with these guys before, this is our first weekend. We were always going to years ago but it never happened.”

Sunday’s win gave Edgar and company a 3-2 record for the weekend, although the skip admitted they could just as easily won all five games.

“We lost one in an extra end and the other we were one up coming home with the hammer,” said Edgar, who opened the playdowns with an 8-7 loss to Duncan Chisholm of Calgary. “Our best game was our first game, but we had one bad end. Otherwise all our games have been about the same.

“It’s a tough field here and the ice is tricky. But being this is our home club we should have it figured out better than the other guys.”

Edgar and his supporting cast takes on Rob Armitage of Red Deer in a C semifinal today at 9 a.m., while Scott Hellwig of Calgary will face Paul Gowsell’s Airdrie rink in the other semi. The final goes at 1:30 p.m.,

with the winner — along with A- and B-event qualifiers Ed Lukowich and Lloyd Hill, both of Calgary — advancing to the provincials Feb. 17-21 at Coaldale.

Edgar is more than familiar with Armitage, having tossed lead stones for the foursome while winning the 2012 Alberta and Canadian championships and a world title a year later.

“I had a hernia operation in June and I can’t do the sweeping,” said Edgar of his decision to leave the Armitage rink and take on skip duties with his new team. “I stepped out of there and these guys asked me to play with them. The sweeping was just bugging me so I didn’t want to aggravate it. It doesn’t matter when you’re playing on the back end.”

Armitage dumped Chisholm 8-1 Sunday to advance to today’s C semifinal. Gowsell defeated Terry Meek of Calgary 7-3 to advance against Hellwig, who lost the B-event final 8-5 to Hill.

Lukowich downed Armitage 6-2 in Saturday’s A final.

• In the senior women’s SACA playdowns, also at the Pidherney Centre, Red Deer’s Heather Caseley put herself into a position to play in a second event final after falling 7-6 to Terri Loblaw of Medicine Hat in the A qualifier Saturday.

The Caseley foursome, including third Brenda Stickel and frontenders Barbara Wilfort and Shelley Bolin, opened the six-team women’s playdowns with an 11-2 thumping of Springbank’s Cinthia Zeer Friday, lost to Loblow and then fell 6-5 to Michelle Ewanchuk of Calgary in a B-event semifinal Saturday.

On Sunday, the Red Deer rink defeated Zeer 6-1 to move into today’s 9 a.m. C final.

The senior women’s provincials are also at Coaldale.

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Other weekend scores:

Men Saturday, A event semifinals — Armitage 7 Lloyd Hill 5; Lukowich 6 Peterman 2.

Saturday, B event 10 a.m. — Hjertaas 5 Tarance Zak, Calgary 4; Meek 5 Rick Bishop Calgary 3; Gowsell 9 Chisholm 3; Hellwig 8 Bryan Hill Airdrie 4.

Saturday, B event 3 p.m. — Lloyd Hill 7 Meek 5; Peterman 6 Gowsell 5; Hellwig 8 Hjertaas 6.

Sunday, B event semifinals 9:30 a.m. — Lloyd Hill 7 Peterman 6; Hellwig 8 Armitage 2.

Sunday, C event 9:30 a.m. — Hjertaas 8 Ian Wolsey, Lethbridge 4; Chisholm 5 Bishop 4; Meek

8 Bryan Hill 1; Gowsell 7 Zak 3.

Women Friday, A event 2 p.m. — Barb McDonald, Calgary 7 Janet Biagioni, Springbank 4; Loblaw 8 Ewanchuk 4.

Friday, A event 7 p.m. — Loblaw 7 McDonald 4.

Saturday, B event 10 a.m. — Zeer 4 Biagioni 3.

Saturday, B event 3 p.m. — McDonald 6 Zeer 4.

Sunday, B event final 9:30 a.m. — Ewanchuk 7 McDonald 3.

Sunday, C event 2:30 p.m. — McDonald 7 Biagioni 4.

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Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman of Team Irvin attempts to stiffarm Kansas City Chiefs safety Eric Berry of Team Rice in the third quarter of the NFL Pro Bowl, Sunday, in Honolulu.

“Any time you have the opportunity to play the great game of football, you take advantage of the opportunity,” Wilson said.

“Playing in the Pro Bowl is a special thing because to be able to see all the amazing players across the league, who are the best players in the world and to be able to play on one field together is a really, really cool thing.”

SPORTS

RDC CURLING The RDC curling teams all qualified for the Alberta Colleges championship during the Winter Regionals at the Edmonton Avonair Club during the weekend.

The RDC mixed squad posted a 4-1 record, giving them an overall record of 6-4 this season and creating a three-way tie for second place. The cast — including alternates — of Brett Day, Shayne Copeland, Chloe Logelin, Calvin Kashuba, Sara McMann and Cyril House, beat Lakeland, Portage, Olds and NAIT and lost to Concordia while nailing down a berth in the ACAC finals Feb. 26-28 at St. Paul.

Olds College also qualified for the provincials.

“The mixed team played great the entire weekend and came through with a clutch win over NAIT in their last game to avoid a tiebreaker.” said RDC coach Brad Hamilton.

Meanwhile, the RDC women’s rink got off to a slow start with losses to MacEwan and NAIT, but rallied to post four straight wins — over Olds, Camrose Augustana, Portage and Lakeland — and finished at 4-2 to give them a overall 9-3 slate for the season.

The men’s team went 3-2 to improve to 6-4 overall, good for third place heading into the ACAC finals. The RDC crew defeated Lakeland, Olds and Portage and dropped games to NAIT and Augustana.

“All three divisions should be very competitive at provincials,” said Hamilton.

RINGETTE The Central Alberta U16AA Sting posted a pair of wins in the Friendship ringette tournament at Bashaw Sunday.

Kailyn Smalley netted two goals in a 4-0 win over the Zone 2 Big Country Blaze. Emily LeMasurier and Hannah Morrison each scored once and McKenna Smalley earned the shutout.

LeMasurier fired three goals in an 8-5 victory over the Zone 5 Pack, while Morrison, Madison Pluister, Saxon Anderson, MaKenna Tonery and Kianna Doyle rounded out the Central Alberta scoring.

JUNIOR B HOCKEY The Red Deer Vipers enjoyed a perfect Heritage Junior Hockey League season, edging the visiting Mountainview Colts 3-2 Saturday after posting a 3-0 win over the host Three Hills Thrashers 24 hours earlier.

Colton Weseen’s third-period goal snapped a 2-2 tie Saturday. Kale Lapointe and Conner Veroba notched first-period goals for the Vipers, while Cole Sears made 31 saves. Mountainview netminder Thomas Della Siega turned aside 30 shots.

On Friday, the Vipers pelted Thrashers netminder Greg Pols with 42 shots while getting goals from Anthony Neurauter, Brett Marsollier and Spencer Yeats. Sears stopped 17 shots for the shutout.

In other Heritage League weekend contests: • The Blackfalds Wranglers dressed only 13 skaters but still hammered the

Bennett was busy on defence, but played one snap at quarterback late in the game and picked up 7 yards on a rush. The 6-foot-4, 274-pound defensive said it was his first experience under centre in his career.

“Only in my dreams,” Bennett said with a laugh.

Two other Seahawks players mixed it up midway through the third quarter the Pacific, and this was as tough as it gets.

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Snedeker closes with 69, waits to see if it’s enough at Farmers Insurance Open SAN DIEGO — Brandt Snedeker called it one of the best rounds he ever played, one he doubts he could repeat if he had to start over. Still to be determined was whether his 3-under 69 in a raging wind and occasional rain Sunday at Torrey Pines would be good enough to win the Farmers Insurance Open.

He has to wait until Monday to find out.

Not long after Snedeker finished, the final round was suspended for the third and final time because of unplayable conditions. The wind was so fierce that the South Course was evacuated as the gusts started to push out windows in tents.

In gusts that frequently topped 40 mph, he delivered a major performance. Snedeker played the final 17 holes without a bogey. Of the 23 players who finished the round, 11 of them shot in the 80s and their average score was 78.9.

The next best score to Snedeker was a 73 by Shane Lowry of Ireland.

Neither Canadian in the field was able to finish his round. Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford, B.C., was 5 over through 13 holes and is 8 over for the tournament. Graham DeLaet, from Weyburn, Sask., was 4 over through 11 hole and 13 over in total.

There already were 11 rounds in the 80s, and there was certain to be many more.

The South Course is a beast in reasonable weather. Throw in the wind and rain, especially on the holes exposed by the bluffs along

host High River Flyers 10-0 Friday.

Tyrell McCubbing, Andrew McLennan, Bryce Boguski and Layne McLean each sniped two goals for the winners, who got additional markers from Wally Samson, who added four assists, and Makenzie Russell.

Nicolas Herrebrugh turned in a 25-save shutout performance. Flyers netminders Griffen Segboer and Tyler Fornwald teamed up to block 43 shots.

• Three Hills dropped a 3-2 homeice decision to the Airdrie Thunder Saturday, with both of their goals coming off the stick of Patrick Fougere.

Pols made 40 saves for the Thrashers, outshot 43-34.

• Dylan Houston, with two goals, and Linden Heidecker scored for the host Stettler Lightning in an 8-3 loss to Mountainview Friday.

The Lightning, who trailed 4-2 after one period and 6-2 heading into the final frame, were outshot 53-17 as Taylor McLaughlin made 45 saves in a losing cause.

Hyo Joo Kim wins LPGA Tour opener in the Bahamas PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas — Hyo Joo Kim won the seasonopening Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic on Sunday, relegating Stacy Lewis to yet another second-place finish.

Kim rebounded from a bogey on the 16th hole with a 9-foot birdie putt on the par-3 17th and closed with a par for a two-stroke victory over Lewis, 2015 champion Sei Young Kim and Anna Nordqvist.

Hyo Joo Kim shot a 7-under 66 at the breezy Ocean Club to finish at 18-under 274. The 20-year-old player has three LPGA Tour victories, also winning the 2014 Evian Championship and 2015 Founders Cup. She has nine victories on the Korean LPGA. Needing an eagle to force a playoff, Lewis parred the par-5 18th for a 68. She has nine runner-up finishes in a 40-event victory drought that dates to June 2014. The 11-time tour winner has 22 career secondplace finishes.

Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., had five birdies but double-bogeyed the 15th for a round of 3-under 70, leaving her in a tie for 21st at 9 under. Maude-Aimee Leblanc of Sherbrooke, Que., finished tied for 31st at 7 under after a final round of 1-under 72, while Hamilton’s Alena Sharp tied for 38th at 6 under after a round of 70.

Dickson scores four goals as Roughnecks beat Stealth CALGARY — Curtis Dickson scored four goals and two assists as the Calgary Roughnecks beat the Vancouver Stealth 15-13 on Saturday

• The Ponoka Stampeders pulled out a 5-4 shootout win over the Strathmore Wheatland Kings Saturday despite outshooting the visitors 50-28.

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Jeff Shattler and Dane Dobbie added hat tricks for the Roughnecks (2-2). Tyson Bell, Jon Harnett, Tyler Digby, Wesley Berg and Greg Harnett had the others.

Logan Schuss had five goals for Vancouver (1-3), which got a hat trick from Rhys Duch. Garrett Billings and Joel McCready both struck twice and Corey Small rounded out the attack.

Frankie Scigliano kicked out 37 shots for the win in net as Eric Penney made 33 saves in defeat.

Calgary was 2 for 6 on the power play while the Stealth scored four times on seven chances.

Manitoba wins men’s junior curling title, Nova Scotia takes women’s crown STRATFORD, Ont. — Matt Dunstone started the streak in 2013. He returned in 2016 to extend it.

Dunstone and his team from Winnipeg claimed Manitoba’s fourth consecutive men’s gold medal at the 2016 Canadian junior curling championships on Sunday by beating Northern Ontario’s Tanner Horgan 11-4 in the final.

Dunstone won gold in 2013 and watched from home as fellow Manitoban Braden Calvert prevailed in 2014 and 2015.

Also, Mary Fay’s clutch eighthend draw clinched the women’s title for Nova Scotia at the Canadian junior championships. Fay’s shot broke open a 5-5 tie as Nova Scotia, rounded out by third Kristin Clarke, lead Janique LeBlanc and second Karlee Burgess, went on to a 9-5 win over British Columbia’s Sarah Daniels in Sunday’s final.

The foursome from Chester stole two in the ninth to seal the victory after B.C. came back to tie the game with back-to-back steals in the sixth and seventh ends.

Scoring for the Stamps in regulation time were Mik Doell, with three goals, and Justin Van Tetering. Carter Gendreau stopped 24 shots for the win.

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Russell Wilson threw three firsthalf touchdown passes to lead Team Irvin to a 49-27 victory over Team Rice on Sunday and earn offensive MVP honours at Aloha Stadium. Seattle teammate Michael Bennett was the defensive MVP after having the game’s only sack and deflecting a pass.

“To see us Seahawks out there is a real special thing,” Wilson said. “It’s a testament to our hard work and to see two Seahawks out there as MVPs is really cool.”

The Seahawks quarterback, who was the first player picked in the allstar game’s draft, went 8 of 12 for 164 yards. He led scoring drives on three of Team Irvin’s first four possessions.

Wilson threw touchdown passes of 14 and 2 yards to Atlanta Falcons teammates Julio Jones and Devonta Freeman, respectively, in the opening quarter. Early in the second quarter, Wilson connected with Los Angeles Rams running back Todd Gurley for a 10-yard score.

The teams were drafted and captained by Hall of Fame wide receivers Michael Irvin and Jerry Rice. Winston Moss, Green Bay’s assistant head coach and linebackers coach, filled in for the ill Mike McCarthy and coached Team Irvin. Kansas City’s Andy Reid led Team Rice.

A record 47 players declined to participate in this year’s Pro Bowl, either due to injury or for personal reasons, or couldn’t play because their teams are in the Super Bowl. Carolina had 10 players selected, including quarterback Cam Newton, while Denver had four, including defensive stars Von Miller and DeMarcus Ware.

Wilson was the lone quarterback originally selected to participate in the game.

when Team Irvin’s Richard Sherman — a cornerback — was dropped for a 22-yard loss on a reverse by Team Rice linebacker Bobby Wagner.

“He said that he knew what he was going to do,” Sherman said. “He knew I was getting the ball and he knew he was making the tackle.”

Minnesota’s Teddy Bridgewater and Tampa Bay’s Jameis Winston each added two TD passes for Team Irvin.

Jacksonville’s Allen Robinson, Tennessee’s Delanie Walker, Philadelphia’s Darren Sproles and Houston’s DeAndre Hopkins had scoring receptions.

Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce caught two scoring passes for Team Rice. Miami’s Jarvis Landry also had a TD catch, and Tampa Bay’s Doug Martin ran for a score.

Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie of the New York Giants had two of Team Irvin’s six interceptions.

After Kelce’s 4-yard reception from Manning gave Team Rice a 7-0 lead, Jones tip-toed the left sideline just after hauling in Wilson’s pass near the back corner of the end zone for a 14-yard score.

Kelce caught the second of his two TDs on a 10-yard pass from Oakland’s Derek Carr to cut Team Rice’s deficit to 21-14. The Chiefs star, who signed a five-year, $46 million contract extension on Friday, tied Martin with a game-high five catches for 91 yards.

Team Irvin added a score late in the second quarter on a 2-yard touchdown pass from Bridgewater to Sproles to hold a 28-14 lead after two quarters.

The halftime festivities included a parade of local high school football players. Tennessee Titans rookie quarterback Marcus Mariota, a Honolulu native, led his alma mater, Saint Louis School, onto the field during the procession and was greeted by loud cheers from the sellout crowd of 50,000. It was the 35th time the NFL’s annual all-star game was played at Aloha Stadium dating to 1980, and the third consecutive season that it has used an “unconferenced” format.

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports • Senior men’s curling: Southern Alberta Association playdowns at Red Deer Piderney Centre, C-event qualifier to provincials at 1:30 p.m.

• Women’s basketball: Storm vs.

Spartans, Dynamo vs. Pink Panthers, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber; Rampage vs. Age Gap, Ball Hawks vs. Funk, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Central Alberta Christian.

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

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

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

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

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

Lake, 8 p.m.; Bow Valley at Central Alberta, 8:30 p.m., Lacombe.

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

Saturday • Senior high basketball: Lindsay Thurber girls/boys tournament.

• Grade 9 basketball: Hunting Hills tournament.

• College volleyball: Lethbridge at RDC, women at 1 p.m., men to follow.

• Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at Central Alberta, 1:45 p.m., Lacombe.

• Midget AA hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 2 p.m., Arena; Airdrie at Red Deer Elks, 4:45 p.m., Arena; Calgary Blazers at Central Alberta, 5:45 p.m., Lacombe.

• Bantam AA hockey: West Central at Red Deer Ramada, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Airdrie at Central Alberta, 8:15 p.m., Lacombe.

• Major bantam girls hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

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

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

• AJHL: Canmore at Olds, 7 p.m.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.; Ponoka at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Coaldale at Three Hills, 8 p.m.

Sunday

Friday • Senior high basketball: Lindsay Thurber girls/boys tournament.

• Grade 9 basketball: Hunting Hills tournament.

• College volleyball: Lethbridge at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow.

• Bantam AA hockey: West Central at Central Alberta, 6 p.m., Lacombe; • WHL: Red Deer at Kootenay, 7 p.m. (The Drive).

• AJHL: Okotoks at Olds, 7 p.m.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Strata Energy at Red Deer North Star, 8 p.m., Arena.

• Midget AA hockey: Foothills at Sylvan

• Major bantam girls hockey: Southeast at Red Deer, 10 a.m., Collicutt Centre.

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

• Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer Parkland at Central Alberta, 1:45 p.m., Stettler; Airdrie at West Central, 2:45 p.m., Sylvan Lake.

• Major midget girls hockey: Sherwood Park at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

• Midget AA hockey: Airdrie at West Central, 3:15 p.m., Rocky Mountain House; Oktoks Green at Central Alberta, 4:30 p.m., Lacombe; Olds at Red Deer Elks, 5 p.m., Arena.

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

Denver vs. Carolina, 4:30 p.m.

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

Super Bowl Champions 2015 — New England (AFC) 28, Seattle (NFC) 24 2014 — Seattle (NFC) 43, Denver (AFC) 8 2013 — Baltimore (AFC) 34, San Francisco (NFC) 31 2012 — N.Y. Giants (NFC) 21, New England (AFC) 17 2011 — Green Bay (NFC) 31, Pittsburgh (AFC) 25 2010 — New Orleans (NFC) 31, Indianapolis (AFC) 17 2009 — Pittsburgh (AFC) 27, Arizona (NFC) 23 2008 — N.Y. Giants (NFC) 17, New England (AFC) 14 2007 — Indianapolis (AFC) 29, Chicago (NFC) 17 2006 — Pittsburgh (AFC) 21, Seattle (NFC) 10 2005 — New England (AFC) 24, Philadelphia (NFC) 21 2004 — New England (AFC) 32, Carolina (NFC) 29 2003 — Tampa Bay (NFC) 48, Oakland (AFC) 21 2002 — New England (AFC) 20, St. Louis (NFC) 17 2001 — Baltimore Ravens (AFC) 34, N.Y. Giants (NFC) 7 2000 — St. Louis (NFC) 23, Tennessee (AFC) 16

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 Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 24 AFC Denver 20, New England 18 NFC Carolina 49, Arizona 15 Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 31 At Honolulu Team Irvin 49, Team Rice 27

Golf 66-71-70—207 68-67-72—207 69-71-68—208 68-67-73—208 70-69-70—209 77-66-66—209 69-69-71—209 69-69-71—209 70-71-69—210 72-69-69—210 69-73-68—210 71-68-71—210 70-68-72—210 69-69-72—210 69-68-73—210 70-66-74—210 73-69-69—211 75-67-69—211 67-73-71—211 69-71-71—211 74-65-72—211 70-73-68—211 67-70-74—211 68-73-71—212 71-69-72—212 70-72-70—212 69-72-72—213 71-71-71—213 70-71-72—213 73-69-71—213 73-70-70—213 72-66-75—213 70-68-75—213 75-68-70—213 71-71-72—214 70-71-73—214 72-70-72—214 70-70-74—214 69-71-74—214 69-74-71—214 71-70-78—219 72-71-82—225

Leaders 1. Jimmy Walker 2. Brandt Snedeker 2. K.J. Choi 4. Kevin Streelman 4. Fredrik Jacobson 6. J.B. Holmes 7. Jonas Blixt 7. Scott Brown 9. Aaron Baddeley 9. Martin Laird 9. Hiroshi Iwata 9. Ben Crane 9. John Huh 9. Hudson Swafford 9. Gary Woodland

SCORE -7 -6 -6 -5 -5 -4 -3 -3 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2

THRU 10 F 10 13 11 13 11 10 14 13 12 12 11 11 11

Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic Sunday At Ocean Club Golf Course Paradise Island, Bahamas Purse: $1.4 million Yardage: 6,625 Par: 73 Final Hyo Joo Kim, $210,000 70-70-68-66—274 Stacy Lewis, $96,957 73-68-67-68—276 Sei Young Kim, $96,957 71-68-69-68—276

Anna Nordqvist, $96,957 Pornanong Phatlum, $47,939 Paula Creamer, $47,939 Ilhee Lee, $47,939 Brittany Lincicome, $31,224 Min Seo Kwak, $31,224 Charley Hull, $31,224 Ha Na Jang, $25,245 Megan Khang, $25,245 Haru Nomura, $22,147 Hee Young Park, $22,147 Mika Miyazato, $19,639 Alison Lee, $19,639 Brittany Lang, $16,993 Jane Park, $16,993 Candie Kung, $16,993 Lexi Thompson, $16,993 Minjee Lee, $13,849 Jessica Korda, $13,849 Brittany Altomare, $13,849 Cristie Kerr, $13,849 Austin Ernst, $13,849 Brooke Henderson, $13,849 Catriona Matthew, $13,849 Jacqui Concolino, $11,375 Jaye Marie Green, $11,375 Angela Stanford, $11,375 Gaby Lopez, $9,322 Sandra Gal, $9,322 Mina Harigae, $9,322 Ryann O’Toole, $9,322 Lee Lopez, $9,322 Tiffany Joh, $9,322 M A Leblanc, $9,322 Chella Choi, $7,257 Amy Anderson, $7,257 Carlota Ciganda, $7,257 Alena Sharp, $7,257 P.K. Kongkraphan, $7,257

70-69-68-69—276 71-72-69-65—277 68-72-71-66—277 71-72-66-68—277 70-71-72-65—278 69-70-72-67—278 68-70-69-71—278 72-72-68-67—279 70-68-71-70—279 68-70-74-68—280 72-72-66-70—280 68-74-72-67—281 68-73-69-71—281 73-72-71-66—282 72-72-71-67—282 71-77-66-68—282 74-69-71-68—282 73-70-74-66—283 72-74-70-67—283 71-73-72-67—283 77-65-72-69—283 73-69-72-69—283 71-72-70-70—283 68-71-71-73—283 75-72-69-68—284 71-76-69-68—284 73-73-70-68—284 71-72-76-66—285 75-72-71-67—285 74-72-70-69—285 74-71-70-70—285 73-73-68-71—285 73-71-70-71—285 73-70-70-72—285 71-74-73-68—286 74-73-70-69—286 76-71-69-70—286 73-74-69-70—286 70-75-71-70—286

Commercial Bank Qatar Masters Saturday At Doha Golf Club Doha, Qatar Purse: $2.5 million Yardage: 7,400 Par: 72 Final Round Branden Grace, South Africa 70-67-68-69—274 Rafael Cabrera-Bello, Spain 67-68-71-70—276 Thorbjorn Olesen, Denmark 67-69-69-71—276 Bradley Dredge, Wales 71-67-70-69—277 Andrew Johnston, England 66-69-72-70—277 Lee Slattery, England 69-69-69-70—277 George Coetzee, South Africa 67-70-73-70—280 Sergio Garcia, Spain 70-66-74-70—280 L. Oosthuizen, South Africa 65-73-71-71—280 Richard Bland, England 72-69-67-72—280 Ricardo Gouveia, Portugal 67-71-70-72—280 Tommy Fleetwood, England 67-69-70-74—280 SMBC Singapore Open Sunday At Sentosa Golf Club (Serapong Course) Singapore Purse: $1 million Yardage: 7,300 Par: 71 Final Round Song Younghan, South Korea 70-63-69-70—272 Jordan Spieth, United States 67-70-70-66—273 Liang Wen-chong, China 71-67-67-69—274 Miguel Tabuena, Philippines 69-67-71-68—275 Shintaro Kobayashi, Japan 66-69-69-71—275 Wang Jeunghun, South Korea 73-67-67-69—276 Hideto Tanihara, Japan 68-67-71-70—276 Lee Wonjoon, Australia 71-69-67-70—277 Chapchai Nirat, Thailand 69-70-71-67—277 Brett Munson, United States 71-67-70-69—277

Lacrosse National Lacrosse League East Division GP W L Pct. GF New England 4 3 1 .750 51 Georgia 5 3 2 .600 66 Rochester 4 2 2 .500 47 Buffalo 4 2 2 .500 47 Toronto 5 0 5 .000 42

Colorado Saskatchewan Calgary Vancouver

GP 5 3 4 4

West Division W L Pct. 4 1 .800 2 1 .667 2 2 .500 1 3 .250

GF 71 33 41 38

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PGA-Farmers Insurance Saturday San Diego Purse: $5 million Par: 72 Fourth round suspended Scott Brown K.J. Choi Jimmy Walker Gary Woodland Michael Kim Jonas Blixt John Huh Freddie Jacobson Hudson Swafford Jhonattan Vegas Hiroshi Iwata Ben Crane J.B. Holmes Kevin Streelman Martin Laird Dustin Johnson Aaron Baddeley Jason Kokrak Patton Kizzire Paul Dunne Derek Fathauer Colt Knost Billy Horschel Scott Stallings Bud Cauley Jason Gore Ollie Schniederjans Tony Finau J.J. Henry Greg Owen Brandt Snedeker Chad Campbell Si Woo Kim Charley Hoffman Erik Compton Charles Howell III Hunter Mahan Angel Cabrera Jim Herman Carlos Ortiz Adam Hadwin Graham DeLaet

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GA GB 33 — 60 .5 41 1 45 1 68 3 GA GB 60 — 31 1 41 1.5 57 2.5

WEEK FIVE Saturday’s results New England 15 Buffalo 11 Georgia 13 Rochester 9 Calgary 15 Vancouver 13 Friday’s results Georgia 20 Toronto 17 Saskatchewan 12 Colorado 10 WEEK SIX Friday, Feb. 5 Calgary at Saskatchewan, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 6 New England at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.

Georgia at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Colorado at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Brandon 50 31 15 2 2 188 Prince Albert 50 27 17 5 1 161 Moose Jaw 51 25 19 6 1 175 Regina 50 21 22 3 4 157 Saskatoon 50 18 28 4 0 147 Swift Current 49 17 27 4 1 124

GA 143 158 163 180 205 164

Pt 66 60 57 49 40 39

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF 50 36 14 0 0 210 51 32 16 1 2 191 50 30 18 1 1 170 51 21 23 6 1 139 51 20 27 3 1 164 50 8 38 4 0 104

GA 142 145 157 158 206 219

Pt 72 67 62 49 44 20

Lethbridge Red Deer Calgary Edmonton Medicine Hat Kootenay

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF Kelowna 50 34 13 3 0 180 Victoria 51 31 15 2 3 179 Prince George 51 30 18 2 1 185 Kamloops 49 23 18 5 3 164 Vancouver 52 20 27 3 2 152

Everett Seattle Spokane Portland Tri-City

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF 49 29 16 2 2 128 49 27 19 3 0 151 49 24 20 3 2 165 50 25 23 2 0 163 49 22 25 2 0 161

GA 141 121 156 159 185 GA 106 139 170 159 182

Pt 71 67 63 54 45 Pt 62 57 53 52 46

Saturday’s results Prince George 6 Moose Jaw 2 Saskatoon 7 Regina 3 Brandon 2 Red Deer 1 Prince Albert 5 Medicine Hat 3 Vancouver 4 Lethbridge 2 Kamloops 4 Portland 2 Everett 2 Seattle 1 Tri-City 7 Spokane 3 Victoria 4 Kelowna 1 Sunday’s results Moose Jaw 9 Medicine Hat 3 Swift Current 3 Prince Albert 2 (OT) Calgary 6 Brandon 3 Edmonton 6 Kootenay 2 Spokane 4 Everett 1 Seattle 2 Kelowna 0

Clague Bra (hooking) 5:39, Polei RD (holding opp. stick) 9:49, Helewka RD (Embellishment) 10:39, Coulter Bra (interference) 10:39, Hagel RD (too many men) 16:34, Thomson Bra (holding) 19:52.

Third Period 2. Brandon, Patrick 19 (unassisted) 16:18.

3. Brandon, Coulter 13 (Patrick, Hawryluk) 18:39.

Penalties — Shmoorkoff RD (boarding) 7:07, Erkamps Bra (tripping) 9:06.

Shots on goal Brandon 16 11 10 — 37 Red Deer 7 7 9 — 23 Goal — Brandon: Papirny (W, 0-13-0) Red Deer: Toth (L, 0-13-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Brandon: 0-5 Red Deer: 1-7.

WHL Scoring Leaders

Wednesday’s games Prince George at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Spokane at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Calgary at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Kamloops at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Saturday’s summary Wheat Kings 2, Rebels 1 First Period 1. Red Deer, Spacek 14 (Debrusk, Helewka) 8:57 (pp).

Penalties — Spacek RD (tripping) 1:00, Armour Bra (game misconduct) 6:22, Armour Bra (Major - Checking to the Head) 6:22, Rattie RD (cross-checking) 6:22, Shmoorkoff RD (cross-checking) 6:22, Hawryluk Bra (high-sticking) 14:30.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Hawryluk Bra (high-sticking) 0:48,

A 57 43 47 41 37 39 40 36 42 44 33 26 30 33 43 23 25 28 37 27 35 40 32 25 26 33 34

Pts 75 74 74 70 68 67 67 63 63 62 58 57 57 57 57 56 56 56 56 55 54 52 51 50 50 50 50

NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OL GF 49 29 15 5 135 49 27 18 4 130 49 25 16 8 122

GA 108 117 124

Pt 63 58 58

Metropolitan Division GP W L OL GF Washington 47 35 8 4 158 NY Rangers 49 27 17 5 142 NY Islanders 47 25 16 6 130

GA 104 129 118

Pt 74 59 56

Florida Tampa Bay Detroit

Tuesday’s games Brandon at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Prince George at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Swift Current at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

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

G 18 31 27 29 31 28 27 27 21 18 25 31 27 24 14 33 31 28 19 28 19 12 19 25 24 17 16

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

WILD CARD W L OL 26 18 5 24 17 7 25 20 5 23 20 8 24 22 4 23 21 6 21 18 8 20 26 4 17 22 9 19 27 5

Boston Pittsburgh New Jersey Carolina Montreal Ottawa Philadelphia Buffalo Toronto Columbus

GP 49 48 50 51 50 50 47 50 48 51

GF 147 121 114 123 136 139 109 114 114 133

GA 131 120 118 135 134 155 127 136 134 163

Pt 57 55 55 54 52 52 50 44 43 43

Chicago Dallas St. Louis

Western Conference Central Division GP W L OL GF 53 33 16 4 147 50 31 14 5 162 52 28 16 8 129

GA 122 133 128

Pt 70 67 64

Los Angeles

Pacific Division GP W L OL 49 30 16 3

GA 113

Pt 63

GF 129

San Jose Arizona

Colorado Nashville Minnesota Anaheim Vancouver Winnipeg Calgary Edmonton

48 49 GP 52 50 49 47 50 49 48 50

26 24

18 20

4 5

142 131

129 146

56 53

WILD CARD W L OL 27 22 3 24 18 8 23 17 9 22 18 7 20 19 11 22 24 3 21 24 3 19 26 5

GF 143 129 121 101 122 126 126 122

GA 142 131 115 111 139 140 146 149

Pt 57 56 55 51 51 47 45 43

Tuesday’s games Minnesota at NY Islanders, 5 p.m.

Montreal at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Boston, 5 p.m.

NY Rangers at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Florida at Washington, 5:30 p.m.

Dallas at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

St. Louis at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at Arizona, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Buffalo at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

Carolina at Calgary, 7:30 p.m.

NHL Scoring Leaders Patrick Kane, Chi Jamie Benn, Dal Tyler Seguin, Dal Erik Karlsson, Ott Joe Pavelski, SJ Evgeny Kuznetsov, Wash Taylor Hall, Edm Blake Wheeler, Wpg Evgeni Malkin, Pgh Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Artemi Panarin, Chi Nicklas Backstrom, Wash Daniel Sedin, Vcr Patrice Bergeron, Bos Brent Burns, SJ Bobby Ryan, Ott Alex Ovechkin, Wash Matt Duchene, Col Alex Steen, StL Anze Kopitar, LA Nikita Kucherov, TB Nathan MacKinnon, Col Sidney Crosby, Pgh Joe Thornton, SJ Ryan O’Reilly, Buf Patrick Sharp, Dal

G 30 28 25 11 25 15 18 13 23 20 25 17 16 21 19 18 18 28 23 15 13 20 18 17 9 17 16

A 43 30 28 41 24 34 30 35 24 27 21 29 29 23 25 25 25 14 19 27 29 21 23 24 32 23 24

Pts 73 58 53 52 49 49 48 48 47 47 46 46 45 44 44 43 43 42 42 42 42 41 41 41 41 40 40

NHL-All Star game Sunday, January 31 Atlantic 4 Metropolitan 3 Central 6 Pacific 9 Pacific 1 Atlantic 0 All-Star game final Pacific 1, Atlantic 0 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 1. Pacific, Perry 1 (Sedin, Burns) 3:38.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Atlantic 10 7 — 17 Pacific 12 4 — 16 Goal — Atlantic: Bishop (L, 1-1-0) Pacific: Gibson (W, 2-0-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Atlantic: 0-0 Pacific: 0-0.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 32 15 .681 — Boston 27 22 .551 6 New York 23 27 .460 10 1/2 Brooklyn 12 36 .250 20 1/2 Philadelphia 7 41 .146 25 1/2

Miami Atlanta Charlotte Washington Orlando

Cleveland Chicago Indiana Detroit Milwaukee

Southeast Division W L Pct 27 21 .563 27 22 .551 23 25 .479 21 24 .467 21 25 .457

GB — 1/2 4 4 1/2 5

Central Division W L Pct 34 12 .739 26 20 .565 25 22 .532 25 23 .521 20 29 .408

GB — 8 9 1/2 10 15 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB

San Antonio Memphis Dallas Houston New Orleans

Oklahoma City Portland Utah Denver Minnesota

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

39 28 28 25 18

8 20 22 25 28

.830 .583 .560 .500 .391

— 11 12 15 20

Cleveland 117, San Antonio 103 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2

Northwest Division W L Pct 36 13 .735 23 26 .469 21 25 .457 18 30 .375 14 35 .286

GB — 13 13 1/2 17 1/2 22

Pacific Division W L Pct 44 4 .917 32 16 .667 20 27 .426 14 35 .286 9 41 .180

GB — 12 23 1/2 30 1/2 36

Saturday’s Games Golden State 108, Philadelphia 105 Toronto 111, Detroit 107 New Orleans 105, Brooklyn 103 Indiana 109, Denver 105, OT Memphis 121, Sacramento 117 Washington 123, Houston 122

Sunday’s Games L.A. Clippers 120, Chicago 93 Miami 105, Atlanta 87 Orlando 119, Boston 114 Dallas 91, Phoenix 78 Golden State 116, New York 95 Portland 96, Minnesota 93 Charlotte 101, L.A. Lakers 82 Monday’s Games Cleveland at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Memphis at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Washington at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

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

Chicago at Utah, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Denver, 7 p.m.

Milwaukee at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Boston at New York, 5:30 p.m.

Miami at Houston, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Milwaukee at Portland, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

CHINOOK HOCKEY LEAGUE

RDC HOCKEY

The Bentley Generals blasted their hosts 8-2 Saturday to sweep a Chinook Hockey League weekend series with the Stony Plain Eagles.

The clubs were tied at two after 20 minutes, but the Generals took control with four unanswered second-period goals, two by Jesse Todd.

Eric Schneider, who also contributed two assists, Mike Kneeland, Josh Smith, Curtis Austring, Nathan Deck and Kyle Sheen also tallied for Bentley. Scott Aucoin, Scott Elkow and Bryce Williamson scored for the Eagles.

Thomas Heemskerk stopped 24 shots as the winning netminder. Travis Yonkman and Wade Waters combined to make 31 saves at the other end.

The Eagles were assessed nine of 17 minor penalties and two of three misconducts.

The Generals pulled out a 2-1 win in a hard-fought, rugged contest Friday at Lacombe.

Burke Gallimore staked the Eagles to a 1-0 lead after the first period, Graeme Craig pulled Bentley even in the middle frame and Kyle Bailey fired the winner with 8:21 remaining in the contest.

Dustin Butler blocked 20 shots for the Generals, who were zero-for-seven on the play. The Eagles, who got a 24-save outing from Sean Cahill, were zero-for-eight with a man advantage.

• Ty Clay scored the decisive goal at the 12-minute mark of the third period as the Innisfail Eagles downed the visiting Fort Saskatchewan Chiefs 3-2 Friday.

Clay scored twice for the Eagles, whose other goal came off the stick of Justin Cox. Mac Roy and Brant Middleton responded for the Chiefs, who got a sensational 51-save performance from Troy Trombley.

Joel Danyluk stopped 25 shots for the Eagles, who were zero-for-two on the power play. Fort Saskatchewan was zero-forthree with a man advantage.

EDMONTON – The RDC Queens missed an opportunity to wrap up first place in the Alberta Colleges Women’s Hockey League, dropping a 3-2 overtime decision to the Grant MacEwan University Griffins Saturday.

The Queens led 1-0 and 2-1 in the game with GMU eventually tying it with 6:28 remaining in the third period.

All three GMU goals were on the power play as the Queens were assessed 11 minors and the Griffins eight.

“I’ve never seen that many penalties in a women’s game, there was absolutely no flow to the game … very frustrating,” said Queens head coach Kelly Coulter, who saw his team kill off two five-on-three penalties. The Griffins won the game 42 seconds into overtime on a four-on-three power play.

Jen West, who replaced starter Alex Frisk four minutes into the game, took the loss. Julia Murrell and Casey Nicholson, who also had an assist, scored for the Queens.

The Queens sit with a 14-2-2 record and are six points up on GMU, who have four games remaining. The Queens have six games left and meet SAIT in a home-and-home series beginning Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Arena. A win will wrap up first place.

OLDS GRIZZLYS LLOYDMINSTER — The Olds Grizzylys put an ugly cap on a miserable three-game Alberta Junior Hockey League road trip with a 12-1 loss to the Lloydminser Bobcats Sunday.

Tyr Thompson was the lone Grizzly to solve Bobcats netminder Pierce Diamond, who faced only 16 shots. The hosts got two-goal outings from Kris Spriggs and Austin O’Rourke and singles courtesy of Ryan Chynoweth, Zac Giroux, Christian Lloyd, Stefan Wood, Eric Benshadle, Kevin Darrar, Brett Smythe and Taylor Mulder.

Ben Giesbrecht and Kurtis Chapman combined to make 44 saves for the Grizzlys, who trailed 5-0 after one period and 8-1 after 40 minutes. The

Bobcats were three-for-11 on the power play; the Grizzlys zero-for-six.

The Grizzlys opened their trip with a 2-1 loss Friday at Fort McMurray, then fell 6-2 Saturday to the Bonnyville Pontiacs.

Thompson and Chase Olsen accounted for the Olds markers at Bonnyville, where the Pontiacs got a goal from each of Bryan Gerstenfeld, Josh Borynec, Chandler Klein, Chad Hurtubise, Brinson Pasichnuk and Steenn Pasichnuk.

Gunnar Nelson made 20 saves as the winning netminder. Giesbrecht stopped 56 shots for Olds.

The Grizzlys return to action Friday versus the visiting Okotoks Oilers.

FENCING Petar Toshkov and Shawn Rowland of the Red Deer Fencing Club settled for silver in the Edmonton Open during the weekend.

Toshkov was runner-up in the open men’s epee and Rowland claimed similar honours in the under-17 men’s epee.

Meanwhile, bronze medals were claimed by Red Deer teammates Megan Ostrikoff (open women’s epee), Michelle Ostrikoff (veterans mixed epee) and Rowland, in the under-20 men’s epee.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Feb. 1, 2016 B5

Djokovic downs Murray for sixth title AUSTRALIAN OPEN

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Novak Djokovic returns a shot at the Australian Open men’s final against Andy Murray, Sunday at Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia.

Raonic rises up the rankings after Australian Open MELBOURNE, Australia — Angelique Kerber’s upset win over Serena Williams at the Australian Open and Milos Raonic’s second Grand Slam semifinal appearance will ensure they’re the biggest movers among top players in projected rankings to be released this week.

Seventh-seeded Kerber’s three-set win on Saturday, which prevented Williams from securing her 22nd major title, is expected to result in the German player moving to No. 2 on the WTA Tour.

The rankings, expected to be released Monday, should show Williams at No. 1, Kerber at No. 2 and Simona Halep, who lost in the first round at Melbourne Park, dropping one spot to No. 3.

“She’s had a great month,” Williams said of Kerber. “She got to the finals in Brisbane. She won here. So, yeah. I was surprised and really happy for her. I’m like, ‘Whoa, No. 2.’ What’s after 2 is 1, so I guess I better be careful.”

Agnieszka Radwanska, who lost to Williams in the semifinals, remains at No. 4, while Garbine Muguruza drops two places to fifth.

Maria Sharapova, the 2015 finalist who lost to Williams in the quarterfinals this year, moves to sixth, followed by Flavia Pennetta, Carla Suarez Djokovic had won 10 of his previous 11 matches against Murray and was 21-9 in their career meetings — including four finals at the Australian Open.

Again, he was just too good.

Djokovic broke Murray twice in a 30-minute opening set, and twice again in the second and once in the third, and only had his serve broken twice.

He took a 6-1 lead in the tiebreaker, setting up five championship points, and finished it off with an

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While Djokovic extended his perfect streak to six in Australian finals, Serena Williams’ streak of 6-0 in Melbourne Park deciders ended in an upset loss to Angelique Kerber on Saturday night. Kerber went for a dip in the Yarra River on Sunday morning after a night of celebrations after prolonging Williams’ bid to equal Steffi Graf’s record 22 majors in the Open era.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS KOENIGSSEE, Germany — Canada claimed a bronze medal in the team relay event Sunday on the final day of the luge world championships.

Coming off a disappointing Saturday, the new look Canadian relay team featuring 20-year-old Mitch Malyk, Alex Gough along with Tristan Walker and Justin Snith captured their first ever medal together.

The Calgarians clocked a combined time of two minutes 45.907 seconds on one of their favourite tracks, which includes long straightaways, tight and long free flowing corners.

“It (bronze medal) definitely takes a little of the sting away from yesterday, but not all of it,” said Snith, who along with teammate Tristan Walker were in medal contention in the doubles race Saturday before letting it slip away on their final run. “We could have had a run like that yesterday. This shows it is completely within our ability. I’m glad we were able to do it on command today when it matters.”

The relay is a one-run bomb race consisting of one women’s, one men’s and one doubles sled. Athletes hit a pad hanging over the track after crossing the finish line, which opens the start gate for the next team member.

It was the first career medal for Malyk who replaced three-time Olympian, Sam Edney, on the men’s singles sled for Canada’s relay team this year.

Edney took the year off to recover from a nagging injury.

“It is absolutely unbelievable and really hasn’t sunk in yet,” said Malyk. “I knew I had big shoes to fill this year, and I’ve been working really hard to try and fill them. There is obviously a little extra pressure on me in the relay. I just tried to focus on having clean runs. We’ve been so close all season, but little mistakes have cost us. It was nice to get the monkey off the back and do it today.”

The Germans captured the World Championship title on their home track with a time of 2:44.062. Latvia finished with a time of 2:45.614 to win the silver.

Also Sunday, Olympic champion Felix Loch completed a near-perfect weekend for Germany by claiming his fifth men’s world championship title.

Loch was quickest in both runs of the men’s singles, shooting down the track in 49.173 and 49.691 seconds. His combined time of 1:38.864 seconds edged compatriot Ralf Palik by 0.423.

Wolfgang Kindl of Austria was third, 0.689 behind, ahead of American Chris Mazdzer.

“It’s simply brilliant. Here at home in front of the crowd, it’s so awesome,” Loch said.

Malyk finished 12th.

Olympic champion Natalie Geisenberger claimed the women’s title and Olympic champions Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt won the doubles race on Saturday.

Navarro, two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova and Lucie Safarova.

Safarova did not play in Melbourne due to a bacterial infection.

On the men’s side, Raonic, the 25-year-old Canadian who lost in the semifinals to Andy Murray, was expected to be biggest mover among the top 15 on the ATP Tour, improving three places to No. 11.

It was Raonic’s second major semifinal after losing to Roger Federer in the final four at Wimbledon in 2014.

Quarterfinalist David Ferrer moved to sixth place in a straight switch with Tomas Berdych, who slips down to eighth.

The top five remained unchanged. Six-time champion Novak Djokovic and five-time losing finalist Murray would have remained 1-2 regardless of the result of their Sunday night final, which Djokovic won in straight sets.

Federer, who lost to Djokovic in the semifinals, remains at No. 3, Stan Wawrinka at 4 and Rafael Nadal, a first-round loser to Fernando Verdasco in Melbourne, rounds out the top 5.

Following Ferrer is Japan’s Kei Nishikori, unchanged at 7 after losing to Djokovic in the quarterfinals.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga moves to No. 9, replacing fellow Frenchman Richard Gasquet, who drops to 10.

Following Raonic is No. 12 John Isner of the United States.

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MELBOURNE, Australia — In five previous Australian Open wins, Novak Djokovic had never felt so much love.

After maintaining his perfect record in six finals at Melbourne Park — and extending his old friend Andy Murray’s streak to five losses from five championship deciders Down Under — Djokovic had hundreds of Serbian fans singing and chanting his name so loudly he could barely hear questions in a TV interview.

While Djokovic was still celebrating his 6-1, 7-5, 7-6 (3) victory on Sunday night, equaling Roy Emerson’s record of six Australian titles, Murray was rushing for the airport to catch a flight back to Britain to reunite with his pregnant wife.

“I never experienced this much crowd and this much love,” Djokovic said. “I’ve had the fortune to win this trophy now six times, but I never experienced such support.”

Djokovic has won the last three Grand Slam titles, and four of the last five, to lift his career haul to 11 — equaling Rod Laver and Bjorn Borg in fifth place on the all-time list.

“I don’t take anything for granted, even though I won last four out of five Grand Slams, played five finals, it’s phenomenal,” said Djokovic, reflecting on a period of time in which he was married, became a father and only lost one match in five major championships — the final of the French Open. “No doubt that I’m playing the best tennis of my life in the last 15 months.

“Everything is going well privately, as well, so I feel like I’m at the point in my life where everything is working in harmony. I’ll try to keep it that way.”

His next objective is a first Grand Slam title on clay to complete his collection. Djokovic has reached three finals at Roland Garros, but never won the French Open.

After getting on his hands and knees and kissing the court at Rod Laver Arena, and going to the stands to hug Boris Becker, his coach since 2014, Djokovic paid tribute to Murray in his post-match speech.

“You’re a great champion, great friend, a great person who is very professional and committed to this sport,” he said. “So I’m sure in the future you’ll have more opportunities to fight for this trophy.”

As a father himself, he didn’t want to delay Murray’s departure.

The 28-year-old Scotsman had his share of distractions in Australia. His wife, Kim, is due to have their first child in February and didn’t travel with him. Kim’s father, Nigel Sears, was in Australia as coach for Ana Ivanovic, but became ill and had to be rushed to a nearby hospital by ambulance while Murray was on court in his third-round match. After a night in hospital, Nigel Sears was well enough to return home, which meant Murray could stay in Australia and try to refocus on winning the title.

“It’s been a tough few weeks for me away from the court,” Murray said in his post-match speech, before turning his attention to his wife.

“You’ve been a legend the last two weeks. Thank you so much for all your support,” he said, choking back tears and waving as he walked away from the microphone. “I’ll be on the next flight home.”

A little more than a half-hour later, at 11:15 p.m. local time, Murray said he was aiming for a 1 a.m. flight.

“It’s been hard, regardless of today’s result,” he said. “I’m proud I got into this position — just quite looking forward to get home now.”

Murray became only the second man to lose five finals at one major — Ivan Lendl lost five and won three U.S. Open finals in the 1980s.

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ROTH H. John Roth of Red Deer, Alberta passed away peacefully, with his family at his side, on Monday, January 25, 2016, at the age of 60 years old. John was born on January 18, 1956 in Dawson Creek, BC and moved shortly afterwards to Southern Alberta where he was raised by his parents, Jack and Norma.

John grew up the oldest of six, with his siblings Debra, Curtis, Sandra, Roseann and Kathy always looking up to their ‘big bro’. As a young adult, he made the move to Edmonton, where he met the love of his life, Lisa. Together with Lisa, John had three children of his own, Vincent (Julia), Katherine (Matthew) and Daniel. Having children would eventually lead to his ultimate joy in life, his three beautiful granddaughters, Annika, Elaina and Juniper.

John and his family made the move to Red Deer in 1987 and decided to stay. It was here that he started Roth Radiography and Inspection Services, a career move that would put him in a position to touch many lives. John will always be remembered for his sense of humour, his genuine care, his honesty, integrity and his magnificent blue eyes. In his passing, this world loses a man who knew the value of a hard day’s work, and who never forgot why the work needed to be done. A man who was always happy to lend a hand up to anyone who needed it.

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An intimate Memorial Service for family and close friends will be held at Unity Baptist Church, 139 Northey Ave, Red Deer, AB on Friday, February 12, 2016 at 1:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation, 3942 50A Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 4E7 to help show appreciation for the wonderful staff on Unit 32.

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Raptors 111 Pistons 107 TORONTO — Eleven wins in a row, and a perfect seven on homecourt.

The Toronto Raptors beat the Detroit Pistons 111-107 on a night that not only padded their historic winning streak to 11 in a row, but capped a spectacular seven-game homestand, and tied baseball’s Toronto Blue Jays for the longest pro sports streak in the city’s history.

Then they packed up and prepared to head on the road, where they hope the winning continues.

“Taking care of business at home, taking care of home, that’s very important,” said coach Dwane Casey. “As much as the winning streak and everything, we’ve got to make sure we value home and treat our fans to quality basketball … but that last quarter? It wasn’t quality.”

DeMar DeRozan led the way with 29 points for the Raptors, while Kyle Lowry added 18 points and eight rebounds — but zero assists. Cory Joseph had 16 points, and Bismack Biyombo had 12 points, 13 rebounds and three blocks for Toronto (32-15).

Casey was angry about the Raptors’ inability to put the Pistons away.

The night began on a touching note, when Casey presented Lowry and DeRozan their Eastern Conference all-star jerseys at centre court.

But once the whistle blew, it was a messy affair. The Raptors allowed Detroit to hang around for most of the night. Despite leading 81-72 going into the fourth and stretching their advantage to 20 points midway through the fourth, the Pistons pulled to within single digits in the final 1:48.

“You give up 35 points, the turnovers, lack of focus,” Casey said.

“Human nature takes over down the stretch, it’s not winning basketball and I think our guys understand that now, they appreciate the win but understand that’s not how you close out a game.”

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Toronto Raptors’ James Johnson (3) makes a pass as Detroit Pistons’ Anthony Tolliver, centre, and Andre Drummond (0) defend during NBA action in Toronto on Saturday. ous Caldwell-Pope had 15.

Two nights earlier, against the New York Knicks, the Raptors had broken a franchise win-streak record that had stood for 14 years.

Saturday’s victory was the Raptors’ last at the Air Canada Centre before the Feb. 12-14 NBA all-star game in Toronto, and came in front of a sellout crowd of 19,800 that included rapper Drake, who sat courtside in a red OVO sweatshirt, and former UFC light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans.

Drake guest-starred on the television commentary, saying “The guys are rolling, man.”

DeRozan said this is the most tightly knit group he’s been a part of.

“The last couple of years we have been relatively close,” he said. “This time around everybody wants everybody to succeed. It doesn’t matter if

one guy plays less. Everyone is happy for one another.”

DeRozan said the chemistry translates to the court.

“We do everything together, all the guys. We joke around on the road. We try to have fun and try not to be so uptight and think about basketball 24/7,” he said. “With that we go out and have fun and then you just try to pull out a win every single night.”

The Raptors shot 46 per cent on the night and outrebounded the Pistons 45-39.

Toronto had 16 turnovers for 20 points, while Detroit coughed up 18 points on 12 giveaways.

The Blue Jays, meanwhile, won 11 straight on two occasions last year, and have done it five times in total.

The Raptors would beat that with a win Monday in Denver.

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NEWARK, N.J. — Anthony “Rumble” Johnson scaled the octagon and beckoned at the fans to cheer for him even louder.

With a dominant performance behind him, he’s calling for a title fight next.

Johnson pounced on Ryan Bader and finished the light heavyweight bout with a series of ground strikes to win by knockout in the main event of UFC’s Fight Night on Saturday night.

Johnson (21-5) was almost perched atop the fence longer than his actual bout.

Up next is a likely title match by the end of the year.

“I will be waiting for whoever has that belt,” Johnson said.

Johnson was choked out by current division champ Daniel Cormier last May. Jon Jones, who had his title stripped following a string of personal issues, could be on deck for Cormier.

UFC said it should have an announcement on a potential bout within days.

Jones beat Cormier by unanimous decision in January 2015.

“Jon and I will fight one day,” Johnson said. “I think we definitely want to challenge each other and see what we’re made of.”

Bader (21-5) came right at Johnson but his offence wouldn’t last long.

Johnson sat on Bader’s back and swung away with powerful punches to the back of the head to win the match

at 1:26 of the first.

Bader’s attempt at a quick takedown backfired and he was soon getting pummeled with the most potent punches of the night.

“People can say whatever they want to say about me, I always train hard, I always do my best,” Johnson said.

“I just want to have fun when I’m out here, I’m not trying to prove anything to anybody.”

Ben Rothwell (36-9) choked out former UFC heavyweight champion Josh Barnett (34-8) in the second round of their heavyweight bout at the Prudential Center.

Both fighters in the heavyweight bout stalled and heard boos in essentially a warm-up round where the lone highlight was Barnett’s jab to Rothwell’s nose that left him bloodied.

Rothwell soon left Barnett in a heap next to the cage.

Rothwell grabbed Barnett out of nowhere by the neck, cinched in the choke and won at 3:48 of the second.

Barnett, who beat Randy Couture in 2002 for the heavyweight belt, submitted for the first time in his career.

“My No. 1 priority is laying waste to this entire division,” Rothwell said.

With his fourth straight win, the 265-pound Rothwell may soon be in line for a heavyweight title bout.

“If they stay in my way for a belt, I’m going to crush them,” Rothwell said.

The rest of the division may have heard the shoutout from a physical therapy centre.

Heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum and former champ Cain Velasquez are both injured and had their

planned rematch set for next week scrapped. Without a heavyweight headliner, UFC 196 in Las Vegas was pulled from pay-per-view and moved to cable on Fox Sports 1.

The canned main event wasn’t the only blow this week for the world’s leading MMA promotion.

New York again slapped a “no shirt, no shoes, no service” sign on the state’s biggest arenas that had clamoured to hold a UFC card. UFC remained stuck an off-Broadway production — the Prudential Center is roughly 14 miles west of Madison Square Garden —and remains banned in New York.

Republican Sen. Joseph Griffo said this week the Senate will vote to legalize the sport this year for the seventh time and will put it in its budget proposal. Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle, a Democrat, said they’re getting “very close” to having enough Assembly votes to pass legislation to regulate the sport. UFC targeted the fall for its debut should the legislation pass.

Assembly critics blocked the bill in the past, saying the mix of boxing, wrestling, kick boxing and jiu-jitsu is too violent.

The thrill of that violence is what earned UFC a primetime spot on Fox as part of a large deal with the network.

Sage Northcutt, at 19, the youngest fighter on the roster, and Bryan Barberena were both bloodied in the first round of their lightweight bout that opened the main card. Barberena choked out Northcutt in the second round and the crowd erupted.

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STAVANGER, Norway — Calgary’s Gilmore Junio won bronze in Sunday’s men’s 500-metre race at a stop on the ISU World Cup long-track speedskating tour.

Junio skated to a time of 34.86 seconds two days after missing the podium by one hundredth of a second in Friday’s 500 race. Russian skaters Pavel Kulizhnikov (34.52) and Ruslan Murashov (34.78) collected gold and silver, as they did in Friday’s 500.

The result earned Junio a spot at the World Single Distance Championships, which will take place Feb. 11-14 in Kolomna, Russia.

Winning a medal was kind of bittersweet today, because I had to do it against teammates and friends,” Junio said.

“It’s a shame we can’t take our entire team to the World Single Distance Championships, because I know we have a great team, with a lot of depth.”

Calgary’s William Dutton finished seventh in 34.97. Laurent Dubreuil of Levis, Que., was eighth, Alex Boisvert-Lacroix of Sherbrooke, Que., was ninth and Alexandre St-Jean of Quebec City was 15th.

Kaylin Irvine of Calgary registered the fastest Canadian time in the women’s 1,000 metres over the weekend, which earned her the sole spot available to Canada at the World Single Distance Championships.

Ottawa’s Isabelle Weidemann qualified for the 3,000 with an 11th place finish.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE — Gary Bettman said his relationship with the union has never been better.

Perhaps that’s why he is willing to stick around as NHL commissioner into the next decade.

Bettman signed a contract through 2022, he confirmed in an interview Sunday on the NHL Network before the AllStar game. The deal was first reported by Sports Illustrated earlier in the day.

“This happened many, many months ago,” Bettman said.

He has been the league’s leader since 1993 when it had 24 teams. Now, it has 30 franchises and there may be one or two more in a couple of years.

After Bettman’s state-of-theleague news conference Saturday, he said the World Cup of Hockey and the 3-on-3 format for overtime and the All-Star game are “great examples” of how well he and NHL Players’ Association Executive Director Don Fehr are getting along.

“Don has brought stability and strength to the union, and that’s a good thing,” Bettman

said. “He’s been a good working partner. That doesn’t mean we agree on everything, but we’re communicating well and working things out.”

Clearly, that has not always been the case. The NHL has had three labour-related work stoppages under Bettman. A lockout eliminated the 2004-05 season and labour strife shortened the 2012-13 and 1994-95 seasons. The current collective bargaining agreement with the NHLPA expires in 2022, the same year Bettman’s new contract ends. Both sides, though, can opt out in 2019. The NHL can exercise its option to end the deal Sept. 1, 2019, and if the league doesn’t, the NHLPA can opt out of it two weeks later.

Bettman said what pleases him most about how the NHL is operating is that the players in the league have helped it strike a better competitive balance than any other one in professional sports.

He would not, however, talk about what he likes and dislikes most about a job he will now have for several more years.

“I don’t boil those things down, or think that way,” Bettman said.

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A battle brewing over bull semen

BY SUSAN DECKER AND LYDIA MULVANY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES When it comes to breeding cows, Oakfield Corners Dairy in upstate New York would rather not let nature take its course.

To ensure his prime milk-makers produce daughters, Oakfield partner Jonathan Lamb is willing to pay as much as $200 a vial for bull semen that has been processed so that it contains only X chromosomes.

One reason for the high price, according to competitors, is that a single company, Sexing Technologies, controls more than 90 percent of the sexed-semen market, which has annual sales of $50 million in the U.S. and $220 million abroad. They’ve mounted a flurry of actions that could bring down the cost for farmers: filing an antitrust lawsuit, challenging the company’s patents and, in a battle that began Jan. 25 in a Denver court, fighting over contractual rights to the technology.

“As dairy farmers, what we’re trying to do constantly is become more efficient to feed the world population,” said Lamb, who uses sex selection in only 5 percent of the 2,000 breedings per year he oversees. “It is expensive now, and we would definitely use it” more if the price came down.

The dairy industry embraced artificial insemination after World War II. Gender-sorted semen has been used for only about the last decade, according to the National Association of Animal Breeders.

Farmers use gender selection not only to propagate the milkers but to expand herds and avoid having to buy replacement cows. It’s also safer for heifers having their first calf, since female calves are smaller than males.

In an industry built wholly on female animals, sex- selection would be more widely used if the technology got better and the price came down, said Matt Gould, Philadelphia-based analyst for the Dairy & Food Market Analyst newsletter. For example, conception rates are lower for semen that has undergone the process, he said.

“Heifers are more valuable than bull calves throughout the industry,” said Erick Metzger, manager for herd

services at American Jersey Cattle Association, which has about 2,400 active members. “If you can create more females, that can be a source of revenue for producers.”

Sexing Technologies -- its legal name is Inguran LLC -- sets up labs at stud farms and processes semen as soon as it’s collected. It also owns bulls. Farmers select a sire from the company’s online catalogue with such listings as that for “Magnum,” a Jersey bull known for fathering cows with high milk production.

Sexing Technologies says on its website the sex-sorting technique is 93 percent accurate.

Its technology uses a machine that applies a fluorescent dye to cells that reacts differently on female X chromosomes than male Y chromosomes. As

the dyed cells flow past a laser beam, the amount of fluorescence is detected and an electrical charge is applied, which deflects the cells into different containers. The sorted semen is then sold in vials known as straws.

For Paul Paddock, co-owner of Paddock’s Breeding and Dairy Services in Warsaw, New York, which serves around 300 dairies in the region, sexed-semen straws account for about 10 percent of sales volumes and 20 percent of revenues. A straw from the likes of “Modesty,” a top-performing bull, costs $200 a pop, Paddock said.

Prices for run-of-the-mill bull semen start at about $25.

The beef against Sexing Technologies is its dominance of the market obtained by patents and contracts. Genus Plc’s ABS Global of Wisconsin, a

stud company that wants to enter the sex- sorting business, filed an antitrust lawsuit in 2014 accusing Sexing Technologies of monopolizing the market.

That case goes to trial in August. ABS is also in a fight at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with Sexing Technologies over the validity of each others’ patents.

Meanwhile, a trial started last Monday in Denver involving Trans Ova Genetics, an Iowa company. It is being sued by a company Sexing Technologies bought, XY LLC, for breach of contract and patent infringement.

Trans Ova’s defense is that XY wrongfully terminated the contract and obtained the patents by misleading the patent office.

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Banks reach Facebook announces settlement stricter policy on gun sales on “dark pool” fraud

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BARCLAYS AND CREDIT SUISSE TO PAY $154.3 MILLION

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Two major global banks, Barclays and Credit Suisse, will pay a combined $154.3 million to settle state and federal investigations that they misled clients about the safety of trading on their “dark pool” financial exchanges, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Sunday.

The banks left their customers on these private exchanges vulnerable to “predatory, high-frequency traders” that could intercept their financial trades, despite assurances by Barclays and Credit Suisse to the contrary, according to a draft statement from the New York Attorney General obtained by The Associated Press.

“These cases mark the first major victory in the fight to combat fraud in dark pool trading,” said New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in the statement.

“We will continue to take the fight to those who aim to rig the system and those who look the other way.”

The SEC and New York Attorney General had planned to announce the joint settlement Monday before it was reported by The Wall Street Journal Sunday morning.

Zurich-based Credit Suisse, a major firm on Wall Street, said it was “pleased to have resolved these matters.”

Dark pools are private financial exchanges for trading securities such as stocks and bonds. Unlike a traditional exchange where the pricing is public, trades on dark pools are generally confidential, a benefit for companies engaging in large transactions.

The investigations and books — including Michael Lewis’ bestseller “Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt” — found that high-speed traders could get early access to the trades on dark pools and gain an unfair advantage.

“Dark pools have a significant role in today’s equity marketplace, and the firms that run these venues must ensure that they do not make misstatements to subscribers about their material operations,” said Andrew Ceresney, director of the SEC’s enforcement division.

As part of the settlement, the statement says Barclays admitted that it misled investors and violated securities laws. The London-based bank, which has extensive operations in the United States, was unavailable for comment.

Barclays will pay $70 million in penalties to be split evenly between the SEC and New York state, according to Schneiderman’s office.

The New York Attorney General’s office said its investigation found that Credit Suisse misrepresented the protections offered to clients on its dark pools. The bank will pay a $60 million penalty with half going to New York and the other half to the SEC, which will collect an additional $24.3 million related to other violations.

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook says it’s cracking down on online gun sales, announcing Friday a new policy barring private individuals from advertising or selling firearms on the world’s largest social network.

The new policy applies also to Facebook’s photo-sharing service Instagram. It comes after gun control groups have long complained that Facebook and other online sites are frequently used by unlicensed sellers and buyers not legally eligible to buy firearms.

Facebook “was unfortunately and unwittingly serving as an online platform for dangerous people to get guns,” said Shannon Watts of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a group that launched a public campaign to convince the social network to change its policies two years ago.

Watts said her group has found numerous cases of felons and minors who were able to buy guns on the site, including two cases in which the buyers used the guns to slay others. Representatives of two gun-owner rights groups, including the National Rifle Association, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Facebook had announced some restrictions on gun sales and advertising in 2014, saying it would block minors from seeing posts that advertised guns. But the social network did not ban private sales at that time.

Licensed firearms retailers can still promote their businesses on Facebook, but they aren’t allowed to accept orders or make sales on the site.

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Newly made AR-15 rifles stand in a rack at Stag Arms in New Britain, Conn. Facebook says it’s cracking down on online gun sales, with a new policy that bars private individuals from advertising or selling firearms on the world’s largest social network, Friday.

A Facebook Inc. spokeswoman said the new policy arose from the company’s review of its rules following its recent efforts to encourage new forms of commerce on the site. Facebook expanded its digital payments service last summer, allowing users of its Messenger service to send electronic payments to other individual users.

“Over the last two years, more and more people have been using Facebook to discover products and to buy and sell things to one another,” Monika Bickert, who oversees Facebook product policies, said in a statement. “We are continuing to develop, test, and

launch new products to make this experience even better for people and are updating our regulated goods policies to reflect this evolution.”

Watts, however, said her group had urged Facebook to take stiffer measures, during a series of lowkey contacts.

“They were very, very open to our thoughts on policy and to the research we have been compiling,” Watts said. “I think they definitely saw this was an issue, but an incredibly complicated issue.

I think that’s why it’s taken two years.”

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Daily fantasy sports losing major payment processor

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — An Ohio company that processes payments for daily fantasy sports sites says it will no longer handle their payments and will pull away from the $2 billion industry in February, according to a newspaper report.

FanDuel, DraftKings and other daily fantasy sports sites have been under assault in recent months as attorneys general in several states find the games illegal.

Losing a payment processor would be the latest blow to the businesses because they do not handle players’ deposits and withdrawals, leaving that to proces-

sors.

The New York Times reported Saturday that Vantiv Entertainment Solutions told daily fantasy clients this week that it would “suspend all processing for payment transactions” related to daily fantasy sports in the United States and its territories on Feb. 29.

The Cincinnati-based company referenced opinions by “an increasing number of state attorneys general” that daily fantasy games are a form of gambling or illegal under their state laws. Jonathan Ellman, chief transaction and marketing counsel for Vantiv, said in a letter obtained by the newspaper that operators’ argu-

ments in their defence “have been unsuccessful and/or rejected.”

Neither Ellman nor a spokesman for Vantiv returned phone calls from the newspaper for comment.

New York-based FanDuel and Boston-based DraftKings, the two dominant daily fantasy sports sites, argue their contests are games of skill allowed by law and have mounted legal challenges to preserve their activities.

David Boies, a lawyer for DraftKings, said in a statement that Vantiv must continue to fulfil its contractual obligations to DraftKings. He said Vantiv hasn’t told DraftKings that it plans to stop processing payments Feb. 29.

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Food banks fearing food price increase

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Canadian food banks hope that the pinch they’re feeling from rising food prices isn’t snowballing into a full-fledged crisis.

While each agency has unique circumstances, many say higher prices during the peak winter period are limiting how much food they can purchase and having an impact on donations while also spurring a greater demand for their services.

“The difficult thing for any food bank is trying to prepare for the year ahead and what might happen in a situation like that,” said Michael Maidment, executive director of the Ottawa Food Bank.

Fresh produce prices began to surge after Christmas as adverse weather in U.S. growing regions and a weaker Canadian dollar caused the cost of imports to soar. Some food banks shifted what they handed out, turning more to canned and frozen goods. Most tried to access locally grown produce, particularly root vegetables.

But Maidment said vegetable vendors have warned to expect higher prices for those items too due to the greater demand.

A case in point — the price of Ontario-grown carrots, a common replacement for higher priced alternatives, has surged 18 per cent in two weeks, Maidment said.

That will put a strain on his food bank’s $50,000 fresh produce budget, which is designed provide enough food for spring, when the facility begins to grow its own vegetables with the help of volunteers.

“We expected the price would increase after the Canadian stock was depleted and then we were importing … but we’ve obviously seen it much sooner than that.”

That’s not good news for the head of the Edmonton Food Bank, who has delayed putting in an order for carrots because the total bill has doubled — right when there are more mouths to feed.

The economic downturn in Alberta due to the global oil price plunge has resulted in a whopping 60 per cent increase in the number of people turning to the food bank — 19,000 people used the Edmonton facility in December, many of whom have lost their jobs in recent months.

“When the economy is tight and people are losing their jobs, it’s not a good scenario when costs of some very basic things like nutritional food go up,” Marjorie Bencz said in an interview.

She expects the challenges will only worsen with more children, seniors, working poor and scores of new refugee families arriving weekly.

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BULLS: Patent infringement XY dropped one of its patent-infringement claims because a board within patent office said Jan. 11 that the patent is invalid, based on a challenge by ABS. The Department of Agriculture developed the sex- selection process in the early 1990s. XY, then a standalone company, gained control of the government patent and improved the system so it worked more quickly and improved fertility rates. XY’s contribution — and a hugely important one by all accounts — was to modify the machines and the system so it destroyed fewer cells.

XY licensed the USDA patent and its own patents to other companies, including Trans Ova, ABS and Sexing Technologies, based near Houston.

In 2006, XY and Sexing Technologies were in the midst of a contract dispute; a year later, Sexing Technologies owned XY. That’s when the trouble began, according to court documents filed by both Trans Ova and ABS. Sexing Technologies, which also has been buying patents from other companies including Monsanto Co., “was able to use its monopoly power to exact onerous terms from ABS, including unreasonably high prices, an ‘evergreen’ provision that makes the contract effectively perpetual,” and limit research by a would-be competitor, ABS contends.

The food bank relies heavily on donations, but it’s now seeing less produce coming in from grocery stores due to the high costs — the stores themselves are being more judicious about their purchases of fresh produce from the U.S. amid climbing prices and the low loonie.

Montreal’s Moisson food bank says donations of fresh fruit and vegetables in the last month were five times lower than normal as wholesalers and food chains struggle to find affordable produce. Quality has also suffered, said executive director Julie Bourbonniere.

It’s all happening as high food prices drive more

and Alberta’s major airports by March 5 as the downturn in oil prices weighs on travel demand.

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The Calgary-based airline, which like other airlines had a banner year in 2015, reports its fourth-quarter and year-end earnings on Tuesday. WestJet recently announced it’s cutting or reducing flights between six B.C. cities

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Artem Mousessian wraps a shipment for delivery at the distribution centre for Moisson Montreal, the largest food bank in Canada, January 28, in Montreal. Canadian food banks hope that the pinch they’re feeling from rising food prices isn’t snowballing into a full-fledged crisis.

Auditor Michael Ferguson, Canada’s auditor general, is set to release his fall report Tuesday on a number of federal departments. Among those audited was Shared Services Canada and its so-called transformation plan on IT security, launched under the previous government.

Sexing Technologies contends the ABS antitrust suit was filed “to pressure Inguran into renegotiating the contract’s terms,” while Trans Ova is just trying to avoid being found liable for using the technology without a license.

Officials with the three companies declined to comment for this story, citing the pending litigation.

and more people to its 250 local food bank partners.

“January just hit us like a ton of bricks,” she said.

With prices so unstable, wholesalers won’t even quote prices until shortly before delivery, says Toronto’s Daily Bread Food Bank.

“We’ve been told we’re going to pay more so it’s going to affect us,” said executive director Gail Nyberg.

The food bank said it didn’t meet its Christmas donation campaign goal for the first time in five years as food donations fell by one-third.

“Even people buying food to donate to the food bank are feeling the pinch,” she said.

TPP International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland is in Auckland, New Zealand on Thursday to join 11 other trade ministers from the Trans-Pacific Partnership at a signing event.

Valeant Howard Schiller, interim CEO of Montreal-based Valeant Pharmaceuticals, testifies to a House of Representatives committee on Capitol Hill on Thursday. American legislators are

looking into pricing practices by big drug companies.

Oilpatch deal The friendly takeover offer by Suncor Energy for Canadian Oil Sands expires on Friday, two days after Suncor releases fourth-quarter results. The company, Canada’s dominant oilsands player, is looking for at least 51 per cent of COS shares to be tendered to its revised offer, which now has the support of the COS board and major shareholder Seymour Schulich.

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GUNS: Balance free expression Facebook, which is based in Menlo Park, California, cited the need to balance free expression with public safety when it announced the 2014 policy change in a blog post. At the time, some gun-control advocates complained Facebook didn’t go further, while news reports quoted a spokesman for the National Rifle Association who declared victory over what he called a campaign to stifle constitutionally protected speech.

The latest policy drew praise Friday from Everytown for Gun Safety, a group formed by the merger of Watts’s organization with another group started by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and from a leader of the Brady Campaign and Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

“It is simply too easy for virtually anyone to buy any gun they want online without a Brady background check,” said the Brady group’s president, Dan Gross. “Facebook just took an important step in addressing that challenge and we call on others to follow suit.”

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