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ARTIFICIAL SELECTION A STUDY LAUNCHED IN 1972 SUGGESTS TROPHY HUNTING MAY HURT THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP’S VIABILITY. ADVOCATE REPORTER MARYANN BARR EXAMINES HOW THE SPECIES IS BEING MANAGED

Almost four decades of data on bighorn sheep west of Red Deer has confirmed that artificial selection — trophy hunting animals with the largest horns — is having a negative effect on the herd.

That sends a signal that the same could apply to all Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep — a natural species found only in Alberta and B.C., and Alberta’s official mammal.

At the same time, Alberta Environment and Parks is looking at changes to the 2016 bighorn sheep hunting regulations that could see older, and fewer, animals harvested.

MARY-ANN A study established in BARR 1972 has focused on a herd of bighorn sheep on Ram BARRSIDE Mountain, a somewhat isolated area in the Rocky Mountains, located about 80 km west of Rocky Mountain House.

David Coltman, a University of Alberta biological sciences professor, co-authored the paper Intense selective hunting leads to artificial evolution in horn size with Gabriel Pigeon, Marco Festa-Bianchet and Fanie Pelletier, scientists at the Université de Sherbrooke. Last month the paper was accepted for publication in the reputable peer-review journal, Evolutionary Applications.

Coltman said researchers have been able to study Ram Mountain bighorns over a long period of time when the rams were intensely harvested, to when regulations changed and there was less harvesting, to most recently where no hunting has been allowed. Hunting was closed because the population had become quite small and there were very few trophy rams available.

While the artificial selection process is a rapid one, after it stops, the time it takes for natural recovery is very slow, Coltman and his associates note.

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TOP: A group of Ram Mountain bighorn sheep.

ABOVE: Four rams from the Ram Mountain bighorn sheep wait patiently in a temporary trap used by researchers.

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RIGHT: A group of Ram Mountain bighorn rams and ewes outside a trap used by researchers. genetic value for horn length of rams, consistent with an evolutionary response to artificial selection on this trait.”

“The decline in genetic value for male horn length stopped, but was not reversed, when hunting pressure was drastically reduced. Our analysis provides support for the contention that selective hunting led to a reduction in horn length through evolutionary change. It also confirms that after artificial selection stops, recovery through natural selection is slow.”

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TROPHY HUNTING: Rams harvested before best reproducing years Multiple previous studies reported that the large-horn rams were being harvested before they had reached their best reproducing years.

The scientists noticed that over the first 25 years of the study, data showed that the average horn size declined 20 to 25 per cent. Horn growth is largely inherited, Coltman said.

“The way trophy hunting works is as soon as a ram reaches the legal size, which most of the time is four-fifths horn curl, they’re legally harvestable … (the rams) reach that in four to seven years.”

“But what we’ve learned from looking at the data on parentage is the highly successful rams are usually eight, nine or 10 years of age,” Coltman said.

A large-horned ram may have large horns because he’s a high-quality individual, said Coltman.

“He’s likely to be an animal who can find a lot of food to eat and be Contributed photo by MARCO FESTA-BIANCHET strong, virile, and if we are removing those animals from populations, ABOVE: Bighorn ram sheep from the Ram Mountain herd temporarily in a trap used by researchers to study them.

I suspect that we are diminishing the quality of those populations. … If we Illustration by ALBERTA GOVERNMENT remove those genes … eventually we could be looking at a negative impact BELOW: 2015 Alberta Guid to Hunting Regulations for trophy sheep. on the fitness of those populations as a whole.”

This could affect their eventual survival. “These are challenging longterm studies, but my sense is that removing the highest quality animals before they reproduce is a bad idea in terms of population viability.”

Artificial selection and the fact that the large horns are inherited, is a recipe for evolutionary change, he said.

“And that looks to be what we’ve seen over the last 40, 50 years at Ram Mountain,” Coltman said.

Across the entire province, there’s been a decline in the number of trophy rams, and an increasing average age of a trophy ram in the same time period over the last 30 years, he said.

“It’s not a secret. I think the province has known about this work for some time. This particular paper … shows that the recovery takes a long time.”

“When we do something that causes artificial evolution that happens very quickly, and when nature recovers, it actually happens quite slowly. have bighorn sheep to look at in the from north of Ram Mountain all the guides who probably have between 60 way south to the U.S. border. and 70 clients annually, Corrigan said.

It’s something to keep in mind when natural environment, he said.

“We have to reduce the intensity of That would give the rams two to Professor Coltman reflects on the you’re making decisions.”

He suggests changing the legal defi- the off-take — that’s the bottom line — three years longer before they were matter. “Maybe we need to think about nition of a trophy ram to give them and find a way to do that that we can legal to hunt. In addition the recom- the long-term consequences of the all live with.” mendation is to shorten the hunting things that we do and the influence a few more Rob Corrig- season in two areas that are already on that we might have that’s not just in years to re‘WHEN WE DO SOMETHING THAT an, provincial full curl, Corrigan said. terms of the numbers of animals, but produce beCAUSES ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION THAT big game spe“Those areas right now are getting a their characteristics through evolufore they are h u n t e d , a n d HAPPENS VERY QUICKLY, AND WHEN cialist with Al- lot of pressure for full curl sheep, and tionary change.” berta Fish and if the other areas of the province go shortening the “If you’re a hunter you should care Wildlife pol- to full curl, they’ll get even more pres- because it’s your recreation, your pasNATURE RECOVERS, IT ACTUALLY hunting seaunit, said sure,” Corrigan said. son, reducing sion. You should care that it’s still HAPPENS QUITE SLOWLY. IT’S SOME- icy there is conThe recommendation is to shorten the number of there for future generations. I think cern about an the season by 10 days at the end of the THING TO KEEP IN MIND WHEN tags that are over-harvest of season when sheep are more suscepti- any member of the public should care sold, or changYOU’RE MAKING DECISIONS.’ trophy sheep. ble to hunting due to their behaviours about the quality of our wildlife and ing the timing C u r r e n t l y prior to the rut, he said. The season is preservation and conservation of our of the season.

— DAVID COLTMAN, wildlife just from a philosophical there is a rec- currently Aug. 25 to Oct. 31.

“The tradeUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES PROFESSOR point of view. ommendation Corrigan said that in the 1980s off of course “The bighorn sheep is the provinb e f o r e t h e about 250 bighorn were harvested is you are reducing recreational opportunities for Minister of Environment and Parks to each year. In 2014 it was 150. The 2015 cial mammal of Alberta. It’s a powerchange the definition of a trophy big- numbers haven’t been finalized but ful symbol. It’s a beautiful animal. I hunters.” think its something that people identibetween 150 to 175 were harvested.

Policy decisions are political and horn ram for the 2016 hunting season.

The area south of the Brazeau River About 2,500 Albertans bought fy Alberta with, and the Rocky Mounneed to take into account all of the stakeholders, including hunters as would go from four/fifths horn curl to licences to hunt bighorns last year. tains. It’s iconic.” well as those who may just want to full curl. This would include an area Non-residents have to hire outfitter barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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Gladue guilty of sexual assault SENTENCING SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF An O’Chiese First Nation man has been convicted of sexually assaulting and breaking a woman’s jaw in 2013.

A jury of eight woman and four men deliberated for about three hours on Friday before finding Kevin Roy Gladue, 38, guilty.

Gladue, who was wearing a black short-sleeved shirt showed no emotion as the verdict was read.

Sentencing is set for Tuesday. The maximum penalty for aggravated sexual assault is life in prison.

The sexual assault happened on July 14, 2013 when he and his then25-year-old victim were stranded in a truck stuck in a remote area north of the O’Chiese reserve, northwest of Rocky Mountain House.

Gladue is accused of trying to pull his victim’s pants down as she slept in the truck. When she tried to get away Gladue struck her, breaking her jaw in two places.

The victim ran off and was lost in the bush for 12 days before she was found wandering on an oil lease road about 10 km from the scene. The woman, who is from the Sunchild First Nation, can’t be named under a court-ordered publication ban protecting the identity of sexual assault victims.

In his instructions to the jury prior to their deliberations, Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Kirk Sisson said if Gladue was found guilty the jury could consider several possible offences, aggravated sexual assault,

aggravated assault, or sexual assault.

Sisson allowed Gladue to remain free until Monday afternoon when he must turn himself in.

Crown prosecutor Ann MacDonald had argued he should be taken into custody on Friday because warrants for his arrest on mischief and fail to appear in court charges had been issued in 2002 and were still in place when he was arrested in 2013.

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Driver accused of dragging police officer NEEPAWA, Man. — An Alberta man is facing several charges after an RCMP officer was dragged by a vehicle allegedly involved in a gas and dash in western Manitoba.

Mounties say they got a report Friday morning about a possible impaired driver who left a gas station in Gladstone without paying for fuel.

The complainant reported that the white SUV and was heading west on Highway 16.

As police tried to stop the vehicle, it and the police cruiser collided, and the officer tried to arrest the driver, but the vehicle drove away, dragging the officer.

A 27-year-old man from Fort McMurray is in custody and charges are pending.

AHS has 5 laptops stolen from Edmonton office EDMONTON — Police are looking for five laptops that have been stolen from an Alberta Health Services office in Edmonton.

Investigators say it appears one person took the computers during an apparent break-in at a department call centre in a west-side plaza on Jan. 25.

No one has been arrested.

AHS won’t specify what type of information is stored on the laptops, but it says the machines are passwordprotected.

A laptop was stolen from an Edmonton medical clinic in 2014.

Major drug bust at border crossing woman charged RAYMOND — A Calgary woman faces charges after a major drug bust at a southern Alberta border crossing.

The Canada Border Services Agency says border officials and RCMP seized more than 14 kilograms of suspected methamphetamine at Del Bonita.

The agency says border officers saw some inconsistencies in the panels of a sport-utility vehicle during a routine traffic stop last Sunday.

They took the panels apart and found 14 packages of suspected meth.

Season Truax, 40, is facing drug-related charges.

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Balmy, 3 degrees Celsius temperatures brought many Red Deerians outdoors and onto the trails Friday afternoon, including this jogger sporting shorts near Bower Ponds.

Temperatures are set to remain relatively warm throughout the weekend.

Nominations for Chancellor Four-year term commencing June 2016 and ending June 2020

The Chancellor is the honorary head of the University of Alberta, is chair of the university’s Senate, serves as a member of the Board of Governors, represents the institution at all ceremonial occasions, and confers degrees at convocation. The Chancellor is a sage adviser and active volunteer who represents the public interest in the university and upholds the university’s promise of “uplifting the whole people� through knowledge and service.

Nominees must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada. Nominees should possess a deep and abiding interest in public education as well as a passion for and commitment to the University of Alberta as a public institution. Nominees should also possess excellent leadership, governance, and communication skills; an ability to build relationships with diverse communities and organizations; and the energy and flexibility to devote sufficient time to the considerable ambassadorial duties involved.

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Trudeau promises flex on cash

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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising to be flexible and fair with billions in new infrastructure money as mayors from the country’s biggest cities press the Liberals for carte blanche on the new cash.

The details around how cities will be able to use the promised new infrastructure money will be unveiled in the budget.

Trudeau said the new program — valued at $60 billion over the next 10 years — would meet the needs of communities and get money “flowing in a responsible and rapid way.”

“Cities across the country have varied and diverse needs and we’re meeting with them, we’re talking with them about where their priorities are and how best we can create opportunities for Canadians and growth for the medium and long-term,” Trudeau said.

Trudeau and the mayors billed their talks on Friday as building a new deal for cities.

In their meeting with Trudeau, the mayors of Can-

ada’s largest 21 cities urged the federal government to ensure the provinces don’t hold up funds. Give the money directly to cities, they said. Let them spend the money as they see fit to meet local needs and stimulate the economy.

“Give us strict criteria that we have to abide by for what we need to build, give us stringent report-back and transparency requirements, but don’t make people in Ottawa make a decision on every roof of every arena that needs to get fixed,” said Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi. “Let the municipalities make those decisions.”

Toronto Mayor John Tory said the government and cities don’t have years to argue over the details of the new infrastructure program.

“You don’t try to do a one-size-fits-all, you don’t try to do something that’s going to get bogged down in paperwork,” Tory said. “Canadians, Torontonians, want to see stuff done now so that people can go back to work.”

The government plans to spend $5.1 billion in new

infrastructure money this year and next, for a total of $10.2 billion. The government has said it is interested in funding shovel-ready projects that will help give the economy a boost.

Raymond Louie, president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, said the government should also make the new money available to larger projects that are still in the planning phase and won’t be ready to go for some time.

“There needs to be a balance between spreading this money early out the door for projects that might be good, positive economic generators in the near term, but not forget that there are projects that are beneficial and of greater significance in scale that need funding for the plan and design phase as well,” Louie said.

More immediate is the federal government’s desire to distribute more than $8.5 billion in unspent infrastructure dollars.

Half of that money is destined for Ontario and Quebec —a combined $4.3 billion, according to figures provided to The Canadian Press — with $900 million slated for British Columbia, followed by hard-hit Alberta at $700 million.

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Police sound alarm after third girl goes missing

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MONTREAL — The mother of a teenage girl who disappeared while on a visit to the family residence from a Montreal-area group home is pleading for her safe return.

Josee Chaput said she fears Sarah Hauptman, 16, has been at risk since going missing Saturday night.

“We’re waiting for her, we will always love her, and we won’t sleep peacefully until she’s back,” she told The Canadian Press on Thursday.

While Hauptman fled her parents’ home in Laval, two other girls also vanished from the group home Monday.

One of them, a 14-year-old, was found in good health Wednesday evening but Laval police have asked the public for help in finding Hauptman and Mathilde Geoffroy Aube, 16, the other girl who left the group home.

Insp. Alain Meilleur of the Laval police major-crimes unit said there is evidence the teens may have been targeted for sexual exploitation.

The Laval centre houses at-risk youth who can be preyed upon by criminals and sex-trade recruiters.

“It’s not the institutions themselves that are targeted, but rather the vulnerability of the people who are there,” Meilleur said.

Chaput said her daughter fled Saturday night through a window of the family home.

Her husband woke up at around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, noticed a light was on and saw the door to Sarah’s bedroom was locked.

“My husband used a knife to open the door and we saw the window was open and the screen was out, so we knew already she had left,” Chaput said.

She said her daughter had run away before, which was why she was staying at the group home.

Meilleur said the highly publicized disappearances are bringing attention to a problem police have been confronting for the last few years.

“It has always been happening, but less exposed, less known by the public,” he said.

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Eric Hauptman and his wife, Josee Chaput, hold a poster of their missing daughter, Sarah Hauptman Friday at their home in Laval. The missing girl is one of several disappearances in the Laval and Montreal area in the past week.

Criminals, he pointed out, can recruit vulnerable youth through social media, through their peers or by frequenting areas they are known to attend.

Quebec Public Security Minister Martin Coiteux said addressing the problem of youth exploitation would be a “very big priority” for authorities.

“I am personally very preoccupied by this and I have a lot of empathy for the parents who are living this situation,” he said in Quebec City, adding that more action is needed at the prevention level.

“There are things that are being done right now, and we probably need to do more, notably in the area of prevention, and that will be a very important angle of attack.”

OTTAWA — Canada has formally dropped a number of the sanctions it had imposed on Iran as part of a global effort to discourage the country’s nuclear ambitions, Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion said Friday.

The changes include an end to a broad ban on financial services, imports and exports.

Dion said he wants to re-open a dialogue with Iran, which effectively ended in 2012 when the Harper government severed relations, closed Canada’s embassy in Tehran and expelled Iranian diplomats.

The easing of sanctions reflects Iran’s compliance with an international agreement to curtail its nuclear research programs, he added.

The changes do not mean a wide-open market, as some exports — including nuclear goods and technologies, as well as goods and services that could assist in the development of ballistic missiles — will still be restricted.

Dion says the government will keep an eye on exports to Iran, with all applications for export permits to be vetted on a case-by-case basis.

Canada will also maintain a revised list of individuals and entities tied to missile research, and transactions with such individuals and entities will still be prohibited.

Dion says Iran remains a country of concern, but characterizes the Conservative decision to cut off communications entirely as wrong-headed.

“Canada today lifted some sanctions against Iran in conformity with the agreement concluded by other countries and Iran,” Dion said.

“We do it in conformity with the United Nations.

We’ll keep sanctions to ensure the proliferation of nuclear will not happen in Iran, the same with ballistic missiles.”

He said the government remains cautious.

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Paramedic spokesman Peter Rotolo says four people were taken to hospital in critical condition after the Friday afternoon blaze — three have been pronounced dead.

Rotolo says the residents were taken to hospital after paramedics and firefighters pulled them from apartments on the top floor of the five-storey building.

A fire spokesman says some of the seniors were brought down ladders because the hallways were too full of smoke.

Division commander Bob O’Halloran says the origin of the fire remains under investigation, but notes that much of the damage appeared to have occurred in the fifth-floor hallway.

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Emails put DeCoutere on hot seat

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Mere hours after CBC star Jian Ghomeshi allegedly choked and slapped her, Trailer Park Boys actress Lucy DeCoutere expressed a desire to have sex with him and a few days later penned a hand-written letter to say “I love your hands.”

The stunning revelations at Ghomeshi’s heavily scrutinized sexual assault trial emerged Friday as the disgraced broadcaster’s defence lawyer confronted DeCoutere with numerous friendly and even fawning dispatches between the actress and the now 48-year-old Ghomeshi.

DeCoutere — one of three women complainants at Ghomeshi’s trial and the only one who can be identified — said that until Marie Henein presented it to her in court, she didn’t remember sending the email in which she expressed sexual desire for the radio star just hours after he had allegedly assaulted her.

She added that the email, and others that were racy, didn’t mean the alleged assault did not take place.

“It never happened,” Henein said firmly of the actress’s accusation.

“Oh, it happened,” DeCoutere fired back.

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Gillian Hnatiw, the lawyer for ‘Trailer Park Boys’ actress Lucy DeCoutere reads a statement outside court in Toronto on Friday. Hnatiw made the statement after DeCoutere spent the day defending herself under cross-examination by Jian Ghomeshi’s lawyer. the actress’s second day on the witness stand as Henein noted that DeCoutere has repeatedly said — both on the witness stand and to police — that she had no romantic interest in Ghomeshi.

Her allegations are behind one of

Feds, provinces on fast-track to set up national child care program

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal families minister says he and his provincial counterparts appear to be on the fasttrack towards a long-discussed national child care program.

The federal and provincial governments should be able to quickly come to an agreement on a framework for a national early learning and child care program because they aren’t starting from scratch, JEAN-YVES DUCLOS Jean-Yves Duclos said Friday.

He cited past agreements on the principles of a child-care system and work in the intervening years by provinces to improve services.

Duclos said the government wants to improve the quality of existing child care spaces, make those spaces more affordable for families and create new spaces for families that find it hard to access quality child care.

“We are most likely going to be going quite quickly in relative terms because … we’re not starting from nowhere,” Duclos said after meeting with his provincial counterparts in Edmonton.

The federal government, he said, is open to crafting a flexible child care framework that meets the needs of ev-

ery province.

“A one-for-all model is not possible in Canada. That would be unfair to the efforts that various provinces have made in the past,” Duclos said.

The provinces and federal government signed agreements for a national daycare plan in 2005 under Paul Martin’s Liberal government.

The Conservatives cancelled the deals in 2006 and replaced the funding to provinces with a universal child care benefit directly to families.

In the intervening years, provinces have moved ahead with their own programs: Quebec has its subsidized system that now has parents pay up to $20 a day Manitoba and P.E.I. cap how much daycares can charge Alberta has promised a $25-a-day child care system contingent on its finances being strong enough to support it and Ontario has introduced all-day junior and senior kindergarten.

“Certainly we don’t want to reinvent the wheel. Every jurisdiction has work going on…and we will build upon that work,” said Alberta Human Services Minister Irfan Sabir.

The federal government doesn’t directly fund child care — except $55 million each year for First Nations and Inuit — because child care is a provincial responsibility. Sabir said federal dollars could help provinces pay for their growing child care services, and help the Alberta NDP follow through on their promised child care plan.

“Federal support certainly is very much needed at this point when Alberta’s finances are not in the best shape due to the dropping resource revenues,” he said.

the four counts of sexual assault and the one count of overcoming resistance by choking. Ghomeshi has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

DeCoutere told the court that after meeting Ghomeshi at a conference in

Banff in the summer of 2003, they began corresponding. She soon planned a weekend trip to Toronto where she met him for dinner and then went back to his home.

While in his bedroom, DeCoutere testified that Ghomeshi suddenly started kissing her and then, without her consent, pushed her against a wall, choked her and slapped her three times in the face with an open hand.

She said she didn’t know how to react, and stayed an hour in his home to “placate the situation.”

DeCoutere also testified about subsequent interactions with Ghomeshi — including another encounter in Banff a year later, when he abruptly joined her in a karaoke session of “(Hit me) Baby One More Time.” But Henein pointed out that she only told police this week about certain details of her relationship with Ghomeshi after the alleged attack.

“Is it possible, Ms. DeCoutere, that you just seem to forget the stuff that just shows you’ve been lying?” Henein asked.

“Oh no, I’m not lying about anything,” DeCoutere said evenly, adding that she didn’t understand the importance of post-incident encounters until recently. “I’m more imprinted with the things that I found impactful, like him choking me.”

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Mayoral support crucial for pipelines Kudos to Justin Trudeau and Alberta’s Rachel Notley for taking the time to talk face to face about the province’s economic challenges on Wednesday.

The Liberal prime minister has a compelling interest in keeping the channels open with the NDP premier.

If Trudeau can’t get along with Notley, he is unlikely to get along with any Alberta government. Her two top advisers — Richard Dicerni on the public service side and Brian Topp in the more political role of chief of staff — know the federal capital inside out and have worked with the federal Liberals in the past.

D i c e r n i served in a senior role in the unity backrooms of Pierre Trudeau’s government at the time of the 1980 Quebec referendum. Topp was Jack Layton’s lead neCHANTAL gotiator in the HÉBERT talks that led to the 2008 LiberOPINION al-NDP coalition accord.

But while the prime minister can offer Notley some financial relief in the upcoming federal budget, the real test of their relationship will be the resolution of the pipeline file and the fate of Alberta’s efforts to connect the oilsands to tidewater.

It is by far the most contentious issue on the federal-provincial radar.

Yet, this is one national discussion that is unlikely to be resolved between first ministers. To date, the lead players in the debate have mostly been municipal politicians. Here are a few of them: Joanne Monaghan was the mayor of Kitimat, B.C., on whose watch a plebiscite was held on the Northern Gateway pipeline in 2014. As the end point for the pipeline bringing oil from Alberta, Kitimat would be home to a marine terminal where tankers would load up. Almost 60 per cent of her constituents voted no, driving another nail in the coffin of the moribund $6.5-billion Enbridge project.

Derek Corrigan is the mayor of Burnaby, B.C. The Trans Mountain pipeline runs through the city and its corporate owner, Kinder Morgan, wants to triple its capacity. Corrigan is hardly the only Vancouver-area mayor to oppose the pipeline but he is one of the most vocal. Last May, he told a community meeting he was prepared to be arrested and see his political career come to an end to stop the project. He called last week’s federal announcement of an expanded consultation process and an extended approval timeline a disappointment.

Marc Demers is the mayor of Laval, Quebec’s third-largest city, and one of 82 Montreal-area municipal leaders who came out against the Energy East pipeline. While most Canadians see Denis Coderre as the face of the region’s opposition to TransCanada’s current plans, Demers has been cam-

paigning hard against the pipeline since early last fall.

Gilles Lehouillier is the mayor of Lévis, across from Quebec City. He turned down TransCanada’s plan to locate a terminal for the Energy East pipeline in his city and remains ambivalent about the project as whole.

There are mayors in the pro-pipeline camp who are not from Saskatchewan and Alberta — the two provinces whose oil industry needs access to a coast — but their support tends to be more tentative than the opposition of some of their mayoral colleagues.

Quebec City’s Régis Labeaume gave

his support in principle to the Energy East pipeline last week. In the same breath though, he said TransCanada had proven inept at addressing the environmental concerns arising from the project.

Mel Norton, the mayor of Saint John, N.B., where some of the oil delivered by the pipeline would be refined, also supports Energy East but his municipal council wants more definitive answers from TransCanada as to its benefits for the region.

Canada has hit upon defining issues that have pitted regions against region in the past.

Think of the National Energy Pro-

gram in the early ’80s, the 1988 free trade agreement with the United States — opposed by Ontario but supported by Quebec and Alberta — and three divisive constitutional rounds.

But none of those discussions engaged Canada’s municipal politicians in the way that this one does.

No mayor holds a veto over a pipeline but it will be hard to secure a social licence for any project absent more support from the political leaders who are closest to the day-to-day life of so many voters.

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.

Addiction forces people into worse choices It’s Monday morning and just four or five days afAccording to one young woman who spent many ter pogy cheques came out but the numbers coming years in that cycle, a lot of money can be made in a for breakfast has not dropped one iota; as a matter week’s time, or as long as the available money lasts. of fact it’s almost like no one got paid at all. It turned Enough for a lot of highs, but like adrenalin, it only out to be a busy morning! But then that’s lasts for a few hours followed by days or become the new normal lately. weeks of downers accompanied by guilt, As the folks came to the counter to pick shame and remorse. up their breakfast, the greetings were Such was the case on Monday morning friendly and congenial so the time flew past. One of the young ladies came for by. However, there was one marked difbreakfast, and as I handed her a plate of ference; the female portion did not have food, she pointedly avoided looking at me. the same attitude.

Right away I could tell by the expression Often, there were some shared words on her face that she was too ashamed to of failed promise or jilted loyalties; some look directly at me which she was always of them requiring a gentle intervention so in the habit of doing in the last several as not to disturb our neighbours in Blackweeks. falds. I’m exaggerating of course, but they After the last time she went to detox, can get a little loud at times.

I know that she has been struggling to CHRIS Not knowing exactly what transpired, I stay away from the drugs, but after a few SALOMONS rely on information given to me by those weeks with no drugs and no work and that have been there. nothing to do, the looming payday presSTREET TALK I have written before about the changents a chance at a few highs. Just a little es that some of the female portion goes something to ‘take the edge off.’ through at month end or after paydays. This is a time Using sex to make enough to get high is abhorrent when the chasing of ‘stuff’ becomes the prime focus to most of these girls, and so like a smoker wanting and motivator. ‘Stuff’ of course is drugs of any de- to quit, many are the attempts to quit, but the lure scription. And the means of procurement is sex. So of that next cigarette or that next high is just far too their dressing habits change as does their attitude. great, and normal resistance barriers are once again The friendly persona displayed is so false, that for set aside and they indulge. me at least it’s like an advertising billboard.

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Sleeping on a tsunami of ice cold water I must have sleeping on the brain. a little water pump with a handle that Or perhaps my brain is always sleep- you ‘pumped’ to turn the light on. I ing. Either way, one or two faithful made it in Grade 9 shop, and it was readers out of my dozen or so total my finest and final crowning moment of lifetime achievement readership might rememin carpentry). We’d watch ber that last week was all Fernwood Tonight or Johnabout sleeping with heavy ny Carson and in the last blankets. And no, “heavy commercial break (only blankets” is not a code word one commercial per break for sleeping with someone in those days if you can beyou shouldn’t, it’s exactly lieve it) I’d bolt upstairs to what it sounds like. Blanmy bedroom and turn my kets with weights in them so electric blanket to “8” on that you sleep more soundthe heating dial and scramly. Like getting a hug all ble back down to the rumnight long. (Again, not code.) pus room so I wouldn’t miss Which got me thinking anything. And, of course, by about blankets, which got HARLEY the time the show was over me thinking about sleeping HAY my bed was warm enough to on water. Maybe I should fry an egg or keep a skinny explain.

HAY’S DAZE teenager warm as toast. No Long ago, when amoebas crawling into ice cold covand reptiles roamed the earth (the ’60s), I used to have some- ers for this kid.

Time-warp ahead a few decades. I’m thing fairly uncommon on my bed. No, it wasn’t a reptile or an amoeba (but newly married to the Better Half and who could tell?). It was an electric it’s her birthday and I decide to surblanket. Not many kids my age had one prise her with a special present that I don’t think, but truth be told, I loved was all the rage in those days. A present that turned out to be much larger that thing.

Even when I was a rotten teenag- and more difficult to put together than er I still coveted my adjustable elec- I had initially assumed. I decided to tronic sleeping warmth. It would be surprise her by getting a waterbed.

That meant I had to go shopping to winter and my Dad would come home from his late work downtown and we the ubiquitous waterbeds stores that would watch late-night TV down in the existed way back then, pick out a nice rumpus room. I’m not sure if people humongous king size one, somehow have “rumpus rooms” anymore, but transport the 400 pounds of lumber in ours we had a shiny four-channel and bladder and heater and 78 other RCA TV with my pump lamp on top pieces of paraphernalia that compris(which was a wooden lamp shaped like es a waterbed over to our apartment,

construct the waterbed, fill the waterbed etc. etc. — all in a Saturday when she was at work and I wasn’t.

Well, you can imagine how that went. Since I’d used up all my lifetime allotment of construction skills making a pump lamp in Grade 9, let’s just say that building a large structure in a small room was, um, a challenge, in the way that, say, climbing Mount Everest is a “challenge” for someone who doesn’t like heights. Or winter. Or effort.

However, through sheer determination and a lot of swearing, in just six short hours of non-stop sweating I managed to put together a large hunk of furniture that at least resembled a waterbed. I’d even filled it with water from a garden hose I hooked up to the washing machine faucet thingy — a rather complicated maneuver that resulted in a minor flood and another hour of mopping floors.

Turned out though, it was a lovely surprise for the B.H. (mostly a surprise that I was able to build something more complicated than a sandwich), and it was a big hit even though we nearly froze to death that night on account of I didn’t realize it takes three days for the water in the waterbed to warm up sufficiently for human inhabitation.

Those of you throw-back hippies who still remember waterbeds — or even still have a waterbed — will know of which I speak. Yes, I used to enjoy the soft warm waves, but if you happened to have a dog or cat (or both) who liked to sleep with you on the wa-

terbed and you happened to turn over too quickly you could create a minor tsunami in the bed bladder, rocking a waterbed tidal wave, sending the shih tzu or the tabby flying overboard in the middle of the night.

And of course, once the your beloved pet has been bucked off a waterbed more than once, it’s Revenge Time and unbeknownst to you Scamp or Kitty has been sneaking in and “digging” in the corner of the waterbed mattress with intentionally sharp claws. And by the time you realize your bed is leaking, your handy “Waterbed Repair Kit” isn’t nearly enough to stem the tide, and you’ve got a serious bed-wetting problem not generally associated with adults.

And what waterbed aficionado hasn’t woken up in the middle of the night chilled to the bone, feeling and looking like a human ice cream sandwich. Curse those imperfect waterbed heaters that always choose to quit at the worst possible time!

No, there’s nothing quite like the good old heating blanket. I would certainly have one now but for the fact that I really don’t need one. At this age, the hot flashes keep everyone warm enough. Come to think of it, an ice cold water bed with a broken heater is starting sound like a pretty darn good idea.

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

Tax cut won’t bridge income inequality Income inequality is clearly high on the broader political agenda, as it should be. But while much of the focus is on the disproportionate share of income going to the top 1 per cent of earners — the OECD estimates that 37 per cent of the growth in national income in Canada in the years 1975-2007 went to the top 1 per cent of income earners — this not simply an issue of income redistribution. Innovation-led economic growth also matters.

According to DAVID Statistics CanCRANE ada, between 1981 and 2011, OPINION median hourly wages for males (in 2010 dollars) rose just 5.1 per cent, from $21.18 in 1981 to $22.27 in 2011. Women did better, with a 23.2 per cent gain, as they disproportionately headed into public sector jobs where compensation has become more generous.

The Trudeau government’s middle class tax cut, though, does not even begin to solve this problem of high income inequality. According to financial adviser Gordon Pape, the tax cut is worth just $138.96 a year, or $2.67 a week on a $48,000 income. On a $72,000 income it’s worth $506.60 a year, or $9.74 a week. This is unlikely to even offset rising prices for everything from food to cell phone services.

Moreover, the fact that this will put the combined federal-provincial tax rate for those earning more than $200,000 a year above 50 per cent-plus could mean talented Canadians will leave Canada.

We need a better understanding why we have had overall wage stagnation in Canada since the early 1980s (though there have been gains in some industries and declines in others). Technological change has been important as new technologies eliminated many jobs, a trend expected to continue. While globalization and lower trade barriers created new export opportunities they also created new import competition and gave corporations greater ability to hold down wages by threatening to relocate activities

offshore. Changes in work arrangements — the shift to contract and parttime jobs rather than full-time jobs — were also important. The share of income going to workers has declined while the share going to owners has increased.

Poor productivity performance, though, is the underlying challenge since sustained gains in living standards depend on sustained gains in productivity. It is here that the Liberal platform truly fails (as did the Conservative and NDP platforms). It largely ignored the productivity challenge and had little to say on innovation, the principal source of productivity gains. In fact, one key Liberal promise is anti-innovation. This is the attack on stock options, which are a key element in attracting talent into entrepreneurial activities; they are the reward system for talented people who take high risks to create and grow new businesses. The Liberals have promised a

tiny carve-out for entrepreneurs but it is too small. Tobias Lutke and Daniel Wienand, two young immigrants from Germany who in 2002, in their early 20s, moved to Ottawa and in 2006 launched Shopify, today a successful high-tech company with global reach.

It has more than 900 employees and is still growing. Stock options are a key incentive for such a success story.

Likewise, David Kroetsch and two other Waterloo University graduates started Aeryon Labs in Waterloo in 2007 and by 2009 had launched their first drone. Since then Aeryon has become a leading drone manufacturer with 80 per cent of its sales outside North America. Last fall, the company announced a $60 million capital infusion which would enable it to double its employment from 100 to 200.

These are the kind of companies that will build Canada’s future prosperity. But they depend on the ability to attract and retain smart talent and

an ecosystem that allows talent to gain rewards from what are high-risk ventures. Most start-ups fail and the Liberal stock option plan is a disincentive for entrepreneurial risk-taking.

The Liberal platform contains other bad ideas by proposing $200 million more for incubators and accelerators for start-ups when it appears Canada already has too many, for the plan to cut the small business tax rate further when most small businesses, once established, do not create more jobs, and for the plan to restore the tax credit for labour-sponsored venture funds, a failed experiment that had been wound down.

If the Trudeau government is serious about addressing income inequality and creating the conditions for sustainable prosperity, then it needs to rethink its strategy. The one contained in the platform wont work.

David Crane is syndicated Torstar columnist.

Pulling down Russia’s facade 60 years ago

BY PAT MURPHY SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

HISTORY

It’ll be 60 years this month since Nikita Khrushchev blew the whistle on (the safely deceased) Josef Stalin’s crimes. And while the revelations were no surprise to many observers, it was a punch in the gut for many true believers and fellow travellers, particularly in the West. What they’d fondly imagined as a Marxist utopia turned out to have been a horse of an entirely different colour.

Khrushchev delivered his reckoning to the delegates at the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party on Feb. 25, 1956, and the ripples quickly spread. As historian John Lewis Gaddis puts it, the speech “pulled down the façade — the product of both terror and denial — that had concealed the true nature of the Stalinist regime from the Soviet people and from practitioners of communism throughout the world.”

Like Mikhail Gorbachev three decades further on, Khrushchev’s motivation wasn’t destructive. Rather than upending communism, he sought to preserve and refurbish it. However, for a system that proclaimed historical inevitability and freedom from error, candour wasn’t a natural fit.

There were also those who bluntly rejected the idea of de-Stalinization, China’s Mao Zedong being one of them.

While Stalin and Mao hadn’t been close, Mao saw the Stalinist model as a useful vehicle for consolidating his own revolution. Khrushchev may have denounced Stalin’s cult of personality, but Mao fancied putting his own personal version into practice. And that’s what he did, with disastrous results.

If Stalin’s forced collectivization of agriculture resulted in millions of 1930s deaths, Mao’s delusionary Great Leap Forward considerably upped the ante. In an act of ideological vanity facilitated by arrest quotas for those who were insufficiently enthusiastic, he set out to transform late 1950s China into an industrial powerhouse driven by backyard steel-producing furnaces. In the process, agricultural production fell sharply and an estimated 30 million people starved to death.

Meanwhile, Khrushchev’s tell-all generated varied reactions amongst the faithful in the West. Some were genuinely shocked to discover that utopia was an illusion and duly severed their ties with the Communist Party.

Other reactions were more mixed.

Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo — of

current Hollywood biopic fame — privately acknowledged that he’d suspected as much all along. Folk singer Pete Seeger took several decades to acknowledge that he’d been snookered

by Stalin. And noted Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm remained an unrepentant apologist to the end of his life.

The sociologist Paul Hollander has coined the phrase political pilgrims to describe the curious phenomenon whereby intelligent, and allegedly progressive, people pay homage to distant dictators. It’s as if some combination of dissatisfaction with their own society and wilful confirmation bias draw them to alternative social models. In effect, they fall in love.

Interestingly, there’s limited capacity to learn from past disappointments. When Khrushchev’s revelations tainted the Stalinist model, places like Mao’s China and Fidel Castro’s Cuba took its place.

And the timing can be downright bizarre. In the case of both the Soviet Union and China, the romance was most intense during the period of maximum regime brutality. Perhaps the pilgrims got a charge from the assertion of raw power!

Then there was the matter of Khrushchev’s challenges. Having let the genie out of the bottle, he had to scramble to remain in control of

events in Eastern Europe. And eventually, drastic measures were deployed.

Poland was the first test. After the local Communist Party displayed some independence by bringing back Wladyslaw Gomulka without first getting approval, Khrushchev threatened them with Soviet troops. Gomulka, though, was a good communist, so Moscow accepted the new government.

Hungary, however, got way out of control. Removing the Stalinist Matyas Rakosi in July, 1956, didn’t do the pacification trick, and Budapest was in open revolt by late October. For the briefest of moments, it even appeared that the rebellion was going to succeed and a newly independent Hungary would be allowed to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact.

Initially, Khrushchev hesitated, but the prospect of a neutral Hungary was perhaps too much to bear. So the Red Army, which had been previously withdrawn, re-entered Budapest on Nov. 4.

Within a week, it was all over.

Although Nikita Khrushchev may have wished to give communism a human face, he soon discovered that a system built on coercion requires regular booster shots. Stalin, on the other hand, knew that instinctively.

Troy Media columnist Pat Murphy worked in the Canadian financial services industry for over 30 years.

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Thousands of Syrians flee fighting

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — Thousands of Syrians rushed toward the Turkish border Friday, fleeing a fierce government offensive and intense Russian airstrikes near Syria’s largest city of Aleppo.

Turkey, an ally of the Syrian opposition, promised humanitarian help for the displaced civilians, including food and shelter, but it did not say whether it would let them cross into the country, already burdened with hundreds of thousands of refugees.

“The attacks and bombings by the Russian planes and the Syrian regime have left our brothers with nowhere else to go,” Turkish Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu said in a televised speech.

The UN estimated that nearly 40,000 newly displaced people have massed in recent days in several border areas of northern Syria, including about 20,000 near the Bab al-Salam border crossing. Turkish authorities increased security at the crossing and the pro-government A Haber news channel said all police and military leaves were cancelled.

The international aid group Mercy Corps said that among those fleeing toward Turkey were residents of rebel-held areas of Aleppo who feared they would soon be besieged by government forces, while others were running from troops advancing in rural areas.

The Syrian government offensive began earlier this week in rural areas north of Aleppo, the provincial capital, and appears aimed at eventually encircling the city. Forces loyal to President Bashar Assad captured several towns and villages, driving a wedge into rebel-held areas and cutting off a supply road to Turkey.

Once Syria’s thriving commercial centre, Aleppo has been divided since 2012 between governmentand rebel-controlled districts. A government siege of rebel strongholds could isolate tens of thousands of civilians and would deal a devastating blow to the morale of groups fighting to topple Assad for the last five years.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest expressed concern that government forces backed by Russia threatened Aleppo.

“It does look like a terrible humanitarian situation inside of Syria and it is poised to get worse. And that is something that we continue to be quite concerned about,” Earnest said.

“There is no denying that the efforts of the Russian military to buck up and strengthen the Assad regime’s grip on power only gives the Assad regime less of an incentive to come to the negotiating table and act constructively in conversations there,” he added.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry accused Russia of using imprecise “dumb bombs” that have killed large numbers of civilians.

“This has to stop. Nobody has any question about that,” Kerry told reporters at the State Department.

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Syrians walk towards the Turkish border at the Bab al-Salam border gate, Syria. Turkish officials say thousands of Syrians have massed on the Syrian side of the border seeking refuge in Turkey. Officials at the government’s crisis management agency said Friday it was not clear when Turkey would open the border to allow the group in and start processing them. The refugees who fled bombing in Aleppo, were waiting at the Bab al-Salam crossing, opposite the Turkish province of Kilis.

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said the “intense Russian airstrikes mainly targeting opposition groups in Syria are undermining the efforts to find a political solution to the conflict.”

A U.N.-led attempt to launch indirect talks between a government delegation and opposition representatives in Geneva was adjourned Wednesday amid acrimonious bickering. U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura said the process will resume Feb. 25.

The opposition’s chief negotiator, Mohammed Alloush, told The Associated Press late Thursday that his delegation is unlikely to return to Geneva because of what he said was a “merciless” bombing campaign by Russia and the Syrian air force this week.

At the United Nations, Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said Moscow plans to present new ideas on how to restart the talks, including a cease-fire, at a Feb. 11 meeting of key countries in Munich. He said Moscow hopes others in the 17-nation group will

“shoulder responsibility” in restarting the talks.

Tensions ran high outside the U.N. Security Council, as Britain and France blamed Syria’s offensive near Aleppo for the suspension of talks.

French Ambassador Francois Delattre said the opposition couldn’t be expected to negotiate “with a gun to their heads,” and British Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said Churkin “needs to look in the mirror and understand where the responsibility lies.”

The Syrian rebels were able to hold positions in the Aleppo area before, but the Russian bombing, along with reinforcements sent to Assad by his allies in Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, appear to have tilted the balance in the battlefield.

London-based analyst Ayman Kamel, head of the Middle East and North Africa program at the Euroasia Group, said he expects Assad’s forces to regain control of Aleppo at some point this year, barring further foreign intervention.

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Firefighters and soldiers scrambled with ladders, cranes and other equipment to the building that folded like an accordion in a pile of rubble and twisted metal and extracted dazed survivors.

The emergency response centre told The Associated Press that three people were killed, including a 10-day-old infant, a 55-year-old woman and a 50-yearold man. Taiwan’s official news agency said the infant and the man were pulled out of a 17-story Wei Guan residential building and that both were later declared dead. The agency said 256 people were believed to have been living in 92 households.

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People with their arms around firefighters were being helped from the building, and cranes were being used to search darkened parts of the structure for survivors. Newscasters said other areas of the city were still being canvassed for possible damage.

Men in camouflage, apparently military personnel, marched into one area of collapse carrying large shovels.

The Taiwanese news website ET Today reported that a mother and a daughter were among the survivors pulled from the Wei Guan building and that the girl drank her urine while waiting for rescue, which came sooner than expected.

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QUEBEC CITY’S HÔTEL DE GLACE IS AN ICE PALACE FIT FOR A QUEEN

If you b ook k an overnig ight ht stt ay i n N orth th America’s only ice hotel, you’ll receive a two-page p reparation guide with i nstructions on how to prepare for the experience and a 30-minute live training session once you check-in.

But as I slipped inside my snug mummy bag and z ipped the side zipper all the way up around my ears, I realized there was DEBBIE one thing they forgot to OLSEN tell me: always blow out TRAVEL t he candle before you zip up your sleeping bag.

Rolling on my side, I made several feeble at-

temptts att bl blowiing g outt th the candl dle on th the nigh ighttstand before I finally unzipped, releasing all my body heat and moved it closer.

Step inside the Hôtel de Glace near Quebec City and you feel like you’ve just entered a real life version of the ice palace in Disney’s animated movie, Frozen. Made from 30,000 tons of snow and 500 tons of ice, this unique hotel is an ephemeral work of art that is open for only three months and must be rebuilt every winter.

A team of ice carvers works round the clock for weeks to build the magical 3,000-square-metre hotel and carve all of the ice furniture inside it.

There’s a separate wedding chapel made of ice where they hold very brief non-denominational ceremonies and inside the hotel there’s an ice slide, spectacular crystalline

ice scullptures, t ice chand h deli liers, an ice ba barr and 44 rooms and suites — some decorated in n themes. The theme changes each year and forr the 16th season, the theme is: “Rivers.” De-signers have carved imaginary rivers in snow w and ice and created theme rooms that look k like beaver dens, hockey rinks and underwa-ter dream worlds.

Since the hotel is also a tourist attraction,, hotel guests only get exclusive use of theirr rooms from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. each night, butt most don’t go to bed very early. Starting at 9 pm there are games, ice carving and plenty off activity around the ice bar.

There are also moonlight snowshoe tourss and a busy hot tub and sauna area just out-side the hotel.

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TOP: The ice hotel is made with 30,000 tons of snow and 500 tons of ice and is only open for 3 months each year.

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LEFT: In the evenings there are all kinds of activities for overnight guests — including ice carving practice.

RIGHT: Sophie and Anneliese Peake stand in front of an ice sculpture.

ICE PALACE: Also a popular tourist attraction Since the hotel is also a tourist attraction, hotel guests only get exclusive use of their rooms from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. each night, but most don’t go to bed very early. Starting at 9 pm there are games, ice carving and plenty of activity around the ice bar.

There are also moonlight snowshoe tours and a busy hot tub and sauna area just outside the hotel.

Every stay includes a coupon for a drink at the ice bar and even though it was against my better judgement to consume any liquids before bedtime, I just couldn’t resist a fruity frou-frou drink served in an ice glass. Just before midnight, I photographed a group of people who had consumed one to many drinks making a huge human train down the ice slide inside the hotel.

A soak in the hot tubs and sauna are a must-do activity before bed and I headed there about midnight. Super heating your body before a stay in a room made of ice is something akin to carb loading for an athlete. My hot tub soak was quite a multicultural affair and I had the chance to visit with other guests from England, France and the USA while warming up my body’s core.

At about 1:30 am, I finally went to my room and unzipped the sleeping bag. Each bed in the ice hotel has an actual fur-covered mattress on it and sleeping bags are placed on top of the mattress. Though it can get quite cold outside, they say that rooms inside the ice hotel stay at about -5 Celsius.

Other than the little challenge blowing out the candle, things went well until about 5 am when the fruity frou-frou drink came back to haunt me. In the live instruction session, they had emphasized that it was important to get up and go to the bathroom when you first feel the urge, but I just couldn’t bring myself to get out of the warm mummy bag and make my way outside to the heated outhouse.

I tossed and turned until about 6:40 am when I finally climbed out of the sleeping bag, put on my snow suit and made the hike to the bathroom.

Rumour has it that the hotel cleaning staff have a special ice carving crew who deal with something they call a “code yellow” that is occasionally left by guests who don’t quite make it.

After the bathroom break, I had a difficult decision to make. It was not unreasonable to get up at 6:40 am and hang out in the heated lounge, but I decided to slip back into the sleeping bag and wait for the morning wake-up call around 8 am. I wanted to be able to say I had made it through a whole night in the ice hotel and not just part of it.

When the wake-up call came, I had the satisfaction of knowing that I was one of the last guests to leave this unique refuge of snow and ice.

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IF YOU GO ● The Hôtel de Glace is open from January 4 – March 28, 2016. At the end of the season, the hotel will be demolished and it will be rebuilt again the following winter. The Ice Hotel is in its 16th season. A night at the Ice Hotel starts at $189 plus tax and includes all bedding, evening activities and a hot buffet breakfast with eggs made to order at Café Celsius. For more information, visit: hoteldeglace-canada.com. ● There’s a heated lounge building with coaches, a television, showers and lockers that is open round-the-clock and some guests book a backup hotel room at the Quebec City Sheraton.

Shuttle buses go back and forth all night long between the Hôtel de Glace

and the Sheraton. ● Staying overnight isn’t for everyone, but anyone can tour the hotel during the daytime. Tours start at $18.25 for adults, $16.25 for seniors and youth, and $9.25 for children aged 6-12.

5 an under are free. ● For more information on visiting this unique part of Canada, visit the official tourism website of Quebec City at: quebecregion.com/en/.

Debbie Olsen is a Lacombe-based freelance writer. If you have a travel story you would like to share or know someone with an interesting travel story that we might interview, please email: DOGO@ telusplanet.net or write to: Debbie Olsen, c/o Red Deer Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, Alta., T4R 1M9.

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Rebels win, despite penalties

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Rebels 5 Ice 2 CRANBROOK — The Red Deer Rebels displayed their quick-strike ability Friday and led from start to finish.

But a 5-2 Western Hockey League victory over the Kootenay Ice came with some caveats. To be precise, Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter was displeased with the lack of discipline shown by his club.

“We had a really good first period,” said Sutter, whose crew took a 3-0 lead into the first intermission on goals from Adam Musil, who connected just 34 seconds in, Colton Bobyk (power play) and Evan Polei before 1,859 fans at Western Financial Place.

“In the second period we got off our game a bit where we started getting too cute and trying to make a perfect play before we took a shot. Then we started taking some penalties.”

With Red Deer two men short, the Ice got a goal from Zak Zborosky and the Rebels lead was 3-1 after 40 minutes.

“We didn’t have a very good second period and in the third we got back to playing some decent hockey, but then we started taking some bad penalties in the last six to seven minutes of the game,” said Sutter. “Those are penalties you can’t take. They are selfish penalties and they are unacceptable at this time of the year.”

Still, the Rebels never lost control of the contest and put the game out of reach with third-period tallies courte-

sy of Grayson Pawlenchuk and Adam Helewka. Kootenay’s Roman Dymacek closed out the scoring with a power-play marker with 2:14 remaining in the contest.

“We were always in control, but it’s just the habits … we can not afford to let bad habits creep into our game,” said Sutter. “Our focus has to be sharp for 60 minutes.”

The Rebels were one-for-three on the power play, the Ice two-for-eight.

“That’s too many power plays to give up and two of them were five-onthrees. We took two penalties 200 feet from our net, one from behind their net,” said Sutter.

“We were in control of the game, but at same time I’m not happy with elements of our game. We’re getting down to the stretch run. We have

to have good habits over the last 20 games of the season to get ourselves ready for the playoffs.

“We can not afford to take those kinds of penalties.”

Trevor Martin turned aside 23 shots in the Red Deer net and was rewarded with second-star status. The Rebels swept the three-star selections, with defenceman Haydn Fleury and forward Michal Spacek, both of whom collected two assists, honoured as first and third stars.

Wyatt Hoflin made 33 saves for the Ice. The Rebels host the Moose Jaw Warriors tonight at the Centrium. The puck drops at 7 p.m. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Kings roll over Kodiaks

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Kings 3 Kodiaks 1 The last time the RDC Kings faced the Lethbridge Kodiaks in Alberta Colleges Men`s Volleyball League regular season play they lost their only match of the season.

Things started on a similar note Friday at RDC as the Kodiaks took the first set 25-23 as the Kings gave away 17 points. Kings head coach Aaron Schulha made a slight switch to his starting roster in the second set, bringing Nic Dubinsky in on the right side and moving Riley Friesen back to the left side.

The move, coupled with much more reliable serving and passing, jump started the Kings who rolled over the Kodiaks 25-18, 25-15, 25-13 to win the set.

“With everyone healthy we have a lot of options,” said Schulha.

“That was a pretty athletic looking lineup and we did a better job of simplifying things, especially at the service line. A couple guys moved up to float serve and we made them pass the ball and our block was solid.”

Dubinsky returned for the first time since dislocating his right shoulder Jan. 16 at Medicine Hat. He returned three weeks before he was originally scheduled back.

“I feel good,” he said. “It was a little different coming in and not starting, but once I got into it it was fine. It was good that everyone was contributing and I didn’t have to do too much.”

As it was Dubinsky finished with six kills, two blocks and two digs. Friesen had 13 kills and nine digs, middle Tom Lyon eight kills, five blocks and six digs, middle Ty Moorman six kills and two blocks.

Matt Lofgren added four kills, three aces and eight digs and Regan Fathers, who played the first set, had five kills.

Setter Luke Brisbane was the player of the match with a kill, two blocks, eight digs and 37 assists.

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Ashley Fehr, left, and Whitney Zylstra of the RDC Queens try to block a hit made by Lindsay Glas of the Lethbridge Kodiaks during Friday evening game action at the RDC gym. The Queens defeated the Kodiaks 3-0.

“When we pass the ball we can be more dynamic with our offence which was nice to see,” said Schulha. “We also have three middles who can start anywhere in the country and if we pass the ball it makes other team’s life difficult as they have to key on our middles. They still tend to put the ball

away which opens things up on the outside.”

The first set didn’t sit well with Schulha.

“That was how we played in the loss at Lethbridge, although they did play well,” he said.

“After the first set we showed a lot

of character rebounding and imposing our will the last three sets. That was nice to see.

“We played at the level we expect to play at now we need to carry that over to tomorrow.”

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Karlsson snaps slumps to beat Flames

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Columbus 2 Calgary 1 CALGARY — Led by a pair of rookies, the surging Blue Jackets picked up another two points on Friday night.

William Karlsson scored twice to bust out of a slump and Joonas Korpisalo had 30 saves as Columbus won 2-1 over the Calgary Flames.

“It feels good to win and score two goals. Obviously I haven’t been too spoiled with the goals this year,” said the 23-year-old Karlsson, who entered the night with one goal in his previous 30 games. “I’d say this is a classic, greasy road win. We got the goal early in the third and after that it was all about the defence.”

Karlsson recorded the game winner 1:42 into the third period, taking advantage of a miscue by Dougie Hamilton. The Flames defenceman had the puck knocked off his stick at the Columbus blue line and on the subsequent odd-man rush, Matt Calvert set up Karlsson’s sixth goal of the season.

It was another great night for Korpisalo. Pressed into service due to injuries to Sergei Bobrovsky and Curtis McElhinney, Korpisalo is 6-1-1 in his last eight starts with an impressive .945 save percentage.

“He’s been saving (us) for a while, it seems like. It feels great with a guy like that you can really count on,” Karlsson said. “He seems very confident out there, calm. It’s kind of contagious. It goes out on all of us players.”

One of his best saves came early in the second while lying flat on the

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Columbus Blue Jackets’ Kerby Rychel, right, battles with Calgary Flames’ David Jones during first period NHL action in Calgary. ice when he stuck out his trapper to thwart Michael Frolik.

“Those kinds of desperation saves, you just try to get something in front of the puck,” said the 21-year-old Finn.

“You have to save the puck, doesn’t matter about style.”

Columbus (21-28-5) picked up of sixof-eight possible points on a stretch of four straight road games. Next up is

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the New York Islanders on Tuesday to open up a five-game homestand.

The Blue Jackets remain last overall in the league due to having played more games, but a 4-1-1 record in their last six has them even in points with five other teams — Calgary, Toronto, Winnipeg, Buffalo and Edmonton.

“We’re playing the right way right now which is the most important thing

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and we’re playing as a team. No one is trying to do it by themselves,” said Blue Jackets defenceman Seth Jones.

Jiri Hudler scored for Calgary (2225-3). The Flames, who have lost four of their last five, are back in action Saturday night in Vancouver.

“You look at the two goals we gave, two mistakes that we need to learn from,” said Flames coach Bob Hartley.

“It’s part of our process with our young group and obviously it stings but that’s the way it is right now. We can only learn.”

The Blue Jackets tying goal at 9:39 of the second also came as a result of a mistake with Calgary defenceman Ladislav Smid getting caught deep in the Columbus end.

On the ensuing rush, Jones faked a shot, held the puck patiently, then neatly set up Karlsson for a one-timer.

“Bottom line is one goal, you’re not going to win many games in this league,” said Flames captain Mark Giordano. “We have to create more, we have to score more goals.”

Ramo had 16 stops. The Blue Jackets didn’t register a shot during the final 16 minutes.

Notes: Calgary D TJ Brodie was back in action after he exited the previous game early in the second after taking a shot just above the knee… Czech D Jakub Nakladal was a scratch for the sixth time. The 28-year-old in his first season in North America has been called up from Stockton (AHL) twice but has yet to make his NHL debut…

Jones has seven assists in 13 games since being acquired by Columbus from Nashville.

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports

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

• AJHL: Sherwood Park at Olds, 7 p.m.

• Men’s basketball: Johns Manville vs.

Btown Maple Jordans, Wells Furniture vs.

NWS, 7:15 and 8:30p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Brandon 52 33 15 2 2 202 148 70 Prince Albert 52 29 17 5 1 166 160 64 Moose Jaw 53 25 21 6 1 178 174 57 Regina 51 22 22 3 4 162 181 51 Swift Current 51 18 28 4 1 127 167 41 Saskatoon 51 18 29 4 0 147 212 40 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Lethbridge 52 37 15 0 0 216 145 74 Red Deer 52 33 16 1 2 196 147 69 Calgary 51 30 19 1 1 171 161 62 Edmonton 52 22 23 6 1 145 161 51 Medicine Hat 53 20 29 3 1 166 213 44 Kootenay 52 8 40 4 0 109 230 20 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 51 35 13 3 0 182 142 73 Victoria 52 32 15 2 3 183 122 69 Prince George 54 31 20 2 1 196 167 65 Kamloops 51 23 20 5 3 168 167 54 Vancouver 53 20 28 3 2 154 191 45 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Everett 50 30 16 2 2 131 108 64 Seattle 50 28 19 3 0 154 140 59 Spokane 50 25 20 3 2 171 172 55 Portland 51 25 24 2 0 165 162 52 Tri-City 50 23 25 2 0 166 185 48 Note: Division leaders ranked in top two positions per conference regardless of points a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.

Friday’s results Prince Albert 2 Swift Current 1 Regina 5 Medicine Hat 1 Brandon 8 Prince George 3 Red Deer 5 Kootenay 2 Lethbridge 5 Moose Jaw 1 Seattle at Portland Spokane at Kelowna Victoria at Tri-City Calgary at Vancouver Kamloops at Everett

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

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

Thursday • Senior high basketball: Hunting Hills at Innisfail; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow.

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

• Men’s basketball: Vikings vs. Subaru, Lacombe All Sports Cresting vs. Bulldog Scrap Metal, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Friday • College basketball: St. Mary’s University at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow.

• WHL: Red Deer at Calgary, 7 p.m., Saddledome (The Drive).

• AJHL: Calgary Canucks at Olds, 7 p.m.

• Midget AA hockey: Cranbrook at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 8 p.m., Arena.

Soccer Pts 50 47 45 45 40 39 34 34 33 33 32 31 29 29 28 26 23 21 19 13

Tuesday, Feb. 2 Arsenal 0, Southampton 0 Leicester City 2, Liverpool 0 Norwich 0, Tottenham 3 Sunderland 0, Manchester City 1 West Ham 2, Aston Villa 0 Crystal Palace 1, Bournemouth 2 Manchester United 3, Stoke 0 West Brom 1, Swansea 1 Wednesday, Feb. 3 Everton 3, Newcastle 0 Watford 0, Chelsea 0 Saturday, Feb. 6 Manchester City vs. Leicester City, 1245 GMT Aston Villa vs. Norwich, 1500 GMT Liverpool vs. Sunderland, 1500 GMT Newcastle vs. West Brom, 1500 GMT Stoke vs. Everton, 1500 GMT Swansea vs. Crystal Palace, 1500 GMT Tottenham vs. Watford, 1500 GMT Southampton vs. West Ham, 1730 GMT Sunday, Feb. 7 Bournemouth vs. Arsenal, 1330 GMT Chelsea vs. Manchester United, 1600 GMT

Friday’s Match Brighton & Hove Albion 3, Brentford 0 Saturday’s Matches Birmingham vs. Sheffield Wednesday Bolton vs. Rotherham United Burnley vs. Hull Cardiff vs. MK Dons Charlton Athletic vs. Bristol City Fulham vs. Derby County Leeds vs. Nottingham Forest Middlesbrough vs. Blackburn Preston North End vs. Huddersfield Town Queens Park Rangers vs. Ipswich Reading vs. Wolverhampton Wanderers

Pts 56 55 53 52 50 48 47 47 44 40 39 39 36 36 36 35 32 30 28 26 25 25 24 21

Today’s games Edmonton at Kamloops, 5 p.m.

Prince George at Regina, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Brandon, 7:30 P.m.

Lethbridge at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Victoria at Portland, 7 p.m.

Everett at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.

Spokane at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.

Calgary at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Red Deer 5 Kootenay 2 First Period 1, Red Deer, Musil 15 (Fleury, DeBrusk), 0:34. 2, Red Deer, Bobyk 15 (Hagel, Musil), 7:03 (PP). 3, Red Deer, Polei 13 (Spacek), 11:28.

Penalties-R. Johnson R.d (instigator, major-fighting, 10-minute misconduct), 2:59 Murray Ktn (major-fighting), 2:59 Legien Ktn (hooking), 5:25 Rattie R.d (roughing), 8:45 Alfaro Ktn (hooking), 12:18.

Second Period 4, Kootenay, Zborosky 21 (Fleury, Wellsby), 5:52 (PP).

Penalties-Rattie R.d (tripping), 4:34 Musil R.d (inter. on goaltender), 4:52 Murray Ktn (roughing), 10:48 Musil R.d (checking to the head, major-fighting, game misconduct), 19:15 Beattie Ktn (major-fighting), 19:15.

Third Period 5, Red Deer, Pawlenchuk 19 (Spacek, Fleury), 4:45. 6, Red Deer, Helewka 29 (Hagel, DeBrusk), 11:27. 7, Kootenay, Dymacek 4 (Murray, Fleury), 17:46 (PP).

Penalties-Rattie R.d (interference), 13:24 Bobyk R.d (high sticking), 14:51 served by Spacek R.d (too many men), 17:24.

Shots on Goal-Red Deer 13-13-13-39. Kootenay 6-11-8-25.

Power Play Opportunities-Red Deer 1 / 3 Kootenay 2 / 8.

Goalies-Red Deer, Martin 9-3-1-1 (25 shots-23 saves). Kootenay, Hoflin 6-29-1-0 (39 shots-34 saves).

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Florida 51 31 15 5 67 146 Tampa Bay 51 29 18 4 62 139 Boston 51 27 18 6 60 153 Detroit 51 25 18 8 58 126 Montreal 52 24 24 4 52 140 Ottawa 52 23 23 6 52 146 Toronto 50 19 22 9 47 121 Buffalo 52 21 26 5 47 120 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF Washington 49 36 9 4 76 163

GA 113 121 137 133 142 168 139 141 GA 111

N.Y. Rangers 51 28 18 5 61 148 134 N.Y. slanders 49 26 17 6 58 137 124 New Jersey 52 26 20 6 58 119 123 Pittsburgh 50 25 18 7 57 130 131 Carolina 53 24 21 8 56 129 142 Philadelphia 49 23 18 8 54 119 132 Columbus 54 21 28 5 47 138 170 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 55 35 16 4 74 154 127 Dallas 52 33 14 5 71 171 139 St. Louis 54 29 17 8 66 131 131 Colorado 54 27 23 4 58 147 148 Nashville 52 24 20 8 56 132 138 Minnesota 51 23 19 9 55 126 124 Winnipeg 51 22 26 3 47 132 150 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 51 31 17 3 65 137 119 San Jose 50 27 19 4 58 147 133 Anaheim 49 24 18 7 55 108 115 Arizona 51 24 21 6 54 137 157 Vancouver 51 20 19 12 52 123 141 Calgary 50 22 25 3 47 131 149 Edmonton 52 21 26 5 47 134 152 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Friday’s Games Tampa Bay 6, Pittsburgh 3 Carolina 5, Winnipeg 3 Columbus 2, Calgary 1 Arizona at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Today’s Games Washington at New Jersey, 11 a.m.

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

Edmonton at Montreal, 12 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Detroit, 12 p.m.

Buffalo at Boston, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Florida, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

San Jose at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Winnipeg at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Calgary at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Philadelphia at Washington, 10 s.m.

Carolina at Montreal, 12:30 p.m.

Edmonton at N.Y. Islanders, 12:30 p.m.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Carolina 5 Winnipeg 3 First Period 1, Carolina, Di Giuseppe 4 (Rask), 1:43. 2, Carolina, Nestrasil 6 (J.Staal, Nordstrom), 3:05. 3, Carolina,

J.Staal 12 (Skinner), 4:33 (pp). 4, Carolina, Faulk 15 (Nordstrom, Nash), 10:04.

Penalties—Byfuglien, Wpg (delay of game), 3:51 Byfuglien, Wpg (high-sticking), 16:14 Armia, Wpg (tripping), 19:54.

Second Period 5, Winnipeg, Burmistrov 5 (Thorburn, Copp), 18:35.

Penalties—Perreault, Wpg (slashing), 14:02.

Third Period 6, Winnipeg, Ladd 12 (Byfuglien, Scheifele), 9:07 (pp). 7, Winnipeg, Byfuglien 16 (Ehlers, Little), 13:48. 8, Carolina, Nestrasil 7 (J.Staal, Slavin), 18:40.

Penalties—McClement, Car (tripping), 3:34 Skinner, Car (hooking), 7:53.

Shots on Goal—Carolina 12-11-6—29. Winnipeg 5-12-19—36.

Goalies—Carolina, Ward 15-11-5 (36 shots-33 saves). Winnipeg, Hellebuyck (6-3), Hutchinson 5-10-1 (4:33 first, 23-21).

Tampa Bay 6 Pittsburgh 3 First Period 1, Pittsburgh, Hornqvist 11 (Kunitz, Pouliot), 4:53. 2, Tampa Bay, Stralman 7 (Johnson, Killorn), 11:50. 3, Tampa Bay, Killorn 9 (Johnson, Kucherov), 18:34.

Penalties—Letang, Pit (roughing), 18:56.

Second Period 4, Tampa Bay, Palat 5 (Stamkos), 6:04 (sh). 5, Pittsburgh, Crosby 21 (Kunitz, Hornqvist), 8:04. 6, Tampa Bay, Johnson 7 (Kucherov, Hedman), 9:15 (pp).

Penalties—Garrison, TB (slashing), 4:26 Cullen, Pit (tripping), 9:07 Condra, TB (hooking), 10:27 Kucherov, TB (hooking), 17:41.

Third Period 7, Pittsburgh, Cullen 6 (Kessel), :55. 8, Tampa Bay, Palat 6 (Stamkos, Namestnikov), 15:55. 9, Tampa Bay, Stralman 8 (Callahan), 17:56 (en).

Penalties—None.

Shots on Goal—Pittsburgh 12-9-9—30. Tampa Bay 5-11-13—29.

Columbus 2 Calgary 1 First Period—1, Calgary, Hudler 7 (Monahan, Brodie), 7:09.

Second Period—2, Columbus, Karlsson 5 (S. Jones, Calvert), 9:39.

Third Period—3, Columbus, Karlsson 6 (Calvert), 1:42.

Shots on Goal—Columbus 7-7-4—18. Calgary 11-10-10—31.

Goalies—Columbus, Korpisalo. Calgary, Ramo.

A—19,289 (19,289). T—2:29.

Basketball NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 34 16 .680 — Boston 30 22 .577 5 New York 23 30 .434 12.5 Brooklyn 13 38 .255 21.5 Philadelphia 7 43 .140 27 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 30 22 .577 — Miami 29 22 .569 1/2 Charlotte 24 26 .480 5 Washington 22 26 .458 6 Orlando 21 28 .429 7.5 Central Division W L Pct GB Cleveland 35 14 .714 —

Chicago Detroit Indiana Milwaukee

27 22 .551 8 27 24 .529 9 26 24 .520 9.5 20 32 .385 16.5 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 42 8 .840 — Memphis 30 20 .600 12 Dallas 28 25 .528 15.5 Houston 27 25 .519 16 New Orleans 18 31 .367 23.5 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 38 13 .745 — Utah 24 25 .490 13 Portland 24 27 .471 14 Denver 20 31 .392 18 Minnesota 15 36 .294 23

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

Today’s Games Portland at Houston, 3 p.m.

Detroit at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Washington at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

New Orleans at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Philadelphia, 5:30 p.m.

Chicago at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Memphis, 6 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Golden State, 7 p.m.

Utah at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Sacramento at Boston, 11 a.m.

Atlanta at Orlando, 11 a.m.

Denver at New York, 11 am.

L.A. Clippers at Miami, 12 p.m.

Pacific Division W L Pct GB 45 4 .918 — 33 17 .660 12.5 21 29 .420 24.5 14 37 .275 32 11 41 .212 35.5

Friday’s Games L.A. Clippers 107, Orlando 93 Washington 106, Philadelphia 94 Miami 98, Charlotte 95 Atlanta 102, Indiana 96 Boston 104, Cleveland 103 Brooklyn 128, Sacramento 119 Memphis 91, New York 85 Denver 115, Chicago 110 Utah 84, Milwaukee 81 San Antonio 116, Dallas 90

Golf PHOENIX OPEN Purse: $6.5 million Yardage: 7,266 Par: 71 Partial Second Round Note: Six golfers unable to complete the second round James Hahn 67-65—132 -10 Rickie Fowler 65-68—133 -9 Danny Lee 67-66—133 -9 Hideki Matsuyama 65-70—135 -7 Shane Lowry 65-70—135 -7 Harris English 68-67—135 -7 William McGirt 69-67—136 -6 Chad Campbell 68-68—136 -6 Jeff Overton 71-66—137 -5 Scott Piercy 72-65—137 -5 Keegan Bradley 68-69—137 -5 Bubba Watson 69-69—138 -4 Brandt Snedeker 67-71—138 -4 Tyrone Van Aswegen68-70—138 -4 Jon Curran 69-69—138 -4 Colt Knost 69-69—138 -4 Ben Crane 68-70—138 -4 Alex Cejka 70-68—138 -4 Michael Kim 70-68—138 -4 Brendan Steele 72-67—139 -3 Brett Stegmaier 68-71—139 -3 Kyle Stanley 69-70—139 -3 Brooks Koepka 67-72—139 -3 Chris Kirk 72-67—139 -3 Brian Gay 70-69—139 -3 Boo Weekley 71-68—139 -3 Gary Woodland 67-72—139 -3 Charles Howell III 70-69—139 -3 Blayne Barber 68-71—139 -3 Ryan Moore 68-71—139 -3 Webb Simpson 68-71—139 -3 Zach Johnson 73-66—139 -3 Matt Every 70-69—139 -3 John Huh 69-70—139 -3 Kevin Na 68-71—139 -3 Seung-Yul Noh 70-70—140 -2 Bryce Molder 67-73—140 -2 J.B. Holmes 73-67—140 -2 Daniel Berger 68-72—140 -2 Ryan Palmer 70-70—140 -2 Anirban Lahiri 66-74—140 -2 Phil Mickelson 69-71—140 -2 Robert Streb 70-70—140 -2 Whee Kim 71-69—140 -2 Zac Blair 74-67—141 -1 Mark Hubbard 70-71—141 -1 Adam Hadwin 73-68—141 -1

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Omega Dubai Desert Classic At Emirates Golf Club (Majlis Course) Dubai, United Arab Emirates Purse: $2.65 million Yardage: 7,327 Par: 72 Second Round a-amateur Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Spain 67-67—134 Ernie Els, South Africa 68-67—135 Danny Willett, England 70-65—135 Trevor Fisher Jnr, South Africa 67-68—135 Chris Wood, England 68-68—136 Joost Luiten, Netherlands 69-67—136 Andy Sullinan, England 70-66—136 Thorbjorn Olesen, Denmark 72-64—136 Alvaro Quiros, Spain 68-69—137 Brett Rumford, Australia 67-70—137 Henrik Stenson, Sweden 69-68—137 Haydn Porteous, South Africa 72-66—138 Gary Stal, France 70-68—138 Byeong-An Hun, South Korea 71-67—138 Graeme Storm, England 68-70—138 Johan Carlsson, Sweden 71-67—138 Richard Bland, England 69-69—138 Scott Hend, Australia 71-68—139 Bernd Wiesberger, Austria 68-71—139 a-Bryson Dechambeau, US 70-69—139 James Morrison, England 69-70—139 Nathan Holman, Australia 69-70—139 Also Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Thailand 70-70—140 Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland 68-72—140 Oliver Fisher, England 69-71—140 David Lipsky, United States 68-73—141 Matteo Manassero, Italy 69-72—141

Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended Cincinnati OF Juan Duran 80 games after a positive test for Drostanolone, Stanozolol and Nandrolone, performance-enhancing substrances, in violation of Major League Baseball’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. Suspended Arizona RHP Austin Mason (Missoula-Pioneer) and Chicago White Sox RHP Lucas Shearrow (Great Falls-Pioneer) 50 games each following a second positive test for a drug of abuse, in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Agreed to terms with LHP Zach Britton on a one-year contract.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Claimed LHP Christian Friedrich off waivers from Colorado. Designated INF Taylor Featherston for assignment.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Agreed to terms with LHP Richard Bleier, RHP Tyler Cloyd, C Carlos Corporan, C Francisco Diaz, INF Jonathan Diaz, C Kyle Higashioka, INF Pete Kozma, RHP Diego Moreno, RHP Vinnie Pestano, OF Cesar Puello, C Eddy Rodriguez, INF Deibinson Romero, INF Donovan Solano, RHP Anthony Swarzak and C Sebastian Valle on minor league contracts.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Agreed to terms with RHP David Aardsma has agreed to a minor league contract.

National League PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Announced RHP A.J. Schugel cleared waivers and was assigned outright to Indianapolis (IL).

American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS — Signed RHP Tyler Parmenter and LHP Tyler Alexander.

SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Signed INF Tommy Mendonca.

WICHITA WINGNUTS — Traded INF Taylor

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Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Sold the contracts of RHP John Walter and RHP Alex Powers to Cincinnati (NL).

ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Signed RHP Bo Budkevics.

SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Signed INF Ivan Vela.

Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Signed INF Buddy Elgin.

GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Signed OF Richard Seigel to a contract extension.

NORMAL CORNBELTERS — Signed INF Brian Walker.

SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS — Traded OF Alexi Colon to Lincoln (AA) for a player to be named.

FOOTBALL National Football League NEW YORK JETS — Named Jeff Hammerschmidt special teams assistant coach. Signed K Kyle Brindza to a reserve-future contract.

HOCKEY National Hockey League DALLAS STARS — Recalled F Radek Faksa from Texas (AHL). Placed F Jason Spezza on injured reserve, retroactive to Feb. 4.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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Jayson Megna to Hartford (AHL).

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled F Paul Carey and D Connor Carrick from Hershey (AHL), Reassigned F Zach Sill and D Aaron Ness to Hershey.

American Hockey League STOCKTON HEAT — Announced F Ryan Lomberg was assigned to Adirondack (ECHL).

ECHL READING ROYALS— Acquired F Nikita Kashirsky from Fort Wayne for future considerations.

SOCCER Major League Soccer FC DALLAS — Agreed to terms with D Walker Zimmerman.

PHILADELPHIA UNION — Signed M Roland Alberg to a two-year contract.

SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES — Signed M Cordell Cato to a multiyear contract.

National Women¤s Soccer League SKY BLUE FC — Announced M Katy Freels will sit out the 2016 season.

COLLEGE BOSTON COLLEGE — Named Paul Pasqualoni defensive line coach, Rich Gunnell wide receivers coach and Ricky Brown recruiting specialist/quality control. Promoted tight ends coach Frank Leonard to assistant head coach. Announced special teams co-ordinator Al Washington will also coach the defensive line.

LOUISVILLE — Announced a post-season ban for the men’s basketball team amid ongoing investigations into a sex scandal.

NEBRASKA — Announced defensive line coach Hank Hughes will not return in in 2016.

SOUTHERN CAL — Announced the retirement of athletic director Pat Haden, effective June 30.

UNLV — Dismissed men’s junior basketball G Daquan Cook.

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Raiders strong in opener of home tourney

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

Raiders 65 Cardinals 40 With substantially more rookies than veterans on his roster, Lindsay Thurber Raiders senior boys basketball head coach Carl Light could be excused for looking past this season.

But Light has a group of first-year senior players who already know how to win, giving the Raiders a distinct advantage over more experienced teams.

The Raiders rookies are coming off a junior varsity championship and have provided the club with speed, skill and energy. Toss in returnees Jacob Higham, a centre, power forward Jonathan Goulet, point guard TK Kunaka and shooting guard Ben Pasiuk, and the Thurber squad is well-rounded.

The Raiders showed off their tal-

ents Friday, tipping off the Lindsay Thurber Invitational tournament with a 65-40 win over the Calgary Bishop Carroll Cardinals.

“We are running well, defending very, very good and we’re coming together as a team at the right time in the right season,” said Light, referring to the fact Lindsay Thurber will cohost the 4A provincials March 17-19.

“These players are very coachable.

They all work really hard.”

The Raiders are 6-1 in Central Alberta High School Basketball League regular-season play, their lone loss coming at the hands of the undefeated and provincially 3A-ranked Wetaskiwin Sabres.

“That was a tough game in Wetaskiwin. We just came up short,” said

Light, who likes his team’s speed, outside shooting skills and ability to consistently hold opposing teams under 60 points.

The Raiders’ first-year players are centres Logan Aucoin and Reece Lehman, power forward Caleb Heinrichs, point guards Vince Barbuco and Kyle Pangan, shooting guards Andrew Ma and Kade Best and strong forward Logan Howard.

Lehman led all Raiders scorers Friday with 12 points, while Kanaka, Goulet and Pasiuk each netted seven.

The Raiders opened the season with three straight losses against topflight teams in the Edmonton Ross Sheppard tournament, then finished third at the Medicine Hat tourney.

Thurber is currently the top-ranked Red Deer team and will host the Notre Dame Cougars, who also have just a single loss on their record, in a clutch league contest Tuesday. Win or lose,

the Raiders are more focused on being at their best for the zone 4A playoffs and then — if they qualify — the provincials.

“This young, fast crew will be ready to rock the first week of March,” said Light, in reference to the zones. “Our plan is to go to provincials and hopefully have a great first game and see what happens.”

The Raiders return to action today at noon. The boys championship final goes at 8:45 p.m. ● The Lindsay Thurber girls also got off to a positive start Friday, rolling over the Sherwood Park Salisbury Sabres 71-35.

Kelsey Lalor led the winners with 13 points. Elizabeth Morneault added 12 for the Raiders, who are back on the court at noon today.

The girls final is set for 7 p.m. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Manning sticks with a gloved grip

BY ROB MAADDI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — Peyton Manning has always done things few quarterbacks do, including wearing a glove on his passing hand.

Michael Jackson and O.J. Simpson had more famous gloves, but Manning has a more useful one.

Manning began wearing gloves on both hands after joining the Denver Broncos in 2012 because several neck surgeries left him with numbness in his fingertips.

The tackified gloves similar to those worn by receivers give Manning a better grip on the football.

He had three of his best seasons statistically after he started wearing them.

Manning temporarily ditched his glove in training camp this season, but put it back on before the games began.

“Obviously, for 14 years, I never wore a glove in any type of elements, rain or cold,” Manning said.

“Due to my injury, due to the nerves, I’ve been kind of forced to wear it. That’s been that whole reasoning for it.”

Quarterbacks have traditionally avoided wearing gloves on their passing hand because they feel they get a better grip on the ball barehanded. But companies are producing far better gloves. The NFL banned stickum decades ago. But advancements in

sports science have led to gloves with even stronger built-in stickiness.

Just look at all those spectacular, one-handed

grabs Odell Beckham Jr. and other receivers make.

Manning isn’t the only QB who wears a glove on his passing hand. Teddy Bridgewater also does it no matter the elements. Tom Brady and Ben Roethlisberger have worn one in certain weather, too.

Kurt Warner did it late in his career. So did Doug Flutie. Jim McMahon wore them in the 1980s. Joe Montana once threw with a glove in a cold-weather playoff game with the Chiefs.

“I don’t think they had the gloves they have nowadays,” said Broncos coach Gary Kubiak, who backed up John Elway in Denver in the 80s. “John and I tried it. I think some of things they make nowadays are very good.”

Broncos backup Brock Osweiler said he tried it, but prefers to feel the ball with his bare hand. “I can see the benefits of it, but it’s something I’m not comfortable with,” Osweiler said.

Carolina’s Derek Anderson tried them when he played in cold-weather Cleveland. The gloves were so tacky that his hand stuck to the ball and altered his release point. “It wasn’t for me,” he said. “I threw balls super low.”

When Manning ditched his glove in training camp, wideouts Demaryius Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders said it didn’t seem to affect his velocity or his accuracy. But Manning went back to the glove when the games started.

No doubt he’ll be wearing them in the Big Game on Sunday against the Panthers.

their side of the net, not worrying about what Lethbridge was doing.

“We allowed 37 points in the three sets, so we were doing something right when the ball was on our side,” said Queens head coach Talbot Walton.

“We were good mentally. We want to control play and when we had possession and the opportunity to score we did that.”

Setter Ashley Fehr, who has been fighting an injury during the second half of the season, started and turned in a solid two-way performance. She finished with 20 assists, two aces and five digs. She was able to spread the offence around with McKenna Barthel finishing with eight kills, an ace, a block and five digs and was named player of the match. Middle Whitney Zylstra had seven kills, a block and four digs, Jessica Jones six kills, two aces, a block and 12 digs, Miranda Dawe five kills, an ace and seven digs

and Hanna Delemont two kills, three aces and two digs in two sets. Libero Olivia Barnes had six digs.

“McKenna had her best match of the season,” said Walton. “Her passing and timing on the right side was spot on. She was aggressive and the best player on the floor.

“When our passing is on Ashley has great tempo and her timing and location was on the money today.”

Walton indicated it’s easy to play free and easy when they’re playing well.

Lindsay Glas had eight kills and six digs for Lethbridge.

The Queens moved into third place in the South, two points up on Olds, 11-8, who lost 3-0 to SAIT, 15-4.

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

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Peyton Manning likes the improved grip a glove provides on his passing hand.

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RODE: Playoff run The RDC teams host Lethbridge again today with the women starting at 1 p.m.

Tim Taylor had 11 kills for Lethbridge while Jamyson Dore had nine kills, four aces and 11 digs.

The Kings sit at 18-1 with Lethbridge at 12-9.

Queens 3 Kodiaks 0 The Queens were never challenged as they rolled to a 25-14, 25-11, 25-12 victory.

Although Lethbridge is sitting last in the ACAC South Division at 3-18, the Queens, 12-7, looked like a team preparing for the playoffs. They played well on

SPORTS IN BRIEF

CANMORE — It wasn’t the result she was hoping for, but Red Deer’s Zina Kocher finally had the opportunuty to race in a World Cup biathlon event at the Canmore Nordic Centre.

Kocher, a three-time Olympic veteran and leader of the Canadian women’s squad, competed in a World Cup race Friday at the national team training centre for the first time in her career. She finished 56th with a time of 22:55.1 and later admitted it was well worth the effort.

“It was a dream I always had to race here and I finally accomplished it,” said Kocher, who in 2006 became just the second Canadian ever to win a World Cup biathlon medal after claiming a bronze in Oestersund, Sweden, and will retire from the sport after this season.

“I was looking for a little inspiration last night and I started pulling out newspaper clippings and looking at photo albums of my career. I realized I will just miss all of my teammates and coaches,” added a teary-eyed Kocher in the finish area. “We worked hard at this together, and we were a family. It is nice to see the program now getting the results.”

Oilers 5 Grizzlys 2 OLDS — The Okotoks Oilers snapped a scoreless tie with two unanswered second-period goals

Friday and cruised to a 5-2 Alberta Junior Hockey League win over the Olds Grizzlys.

Scoring for the visitors in front of 668 fans at the Sportsplex were Colin O’Neill, Matt McNair, Jordan Davies, Cooper Page and Braydon Jenkins.

Wyatt Noskey and Chase Olsen replied for the Grizzlys.

Brian Wilson stopped 27 shots for the win. Olds netminder Ben Giesbrecht made 23 saves.

The Grizzlys host the Canmore Eagles tonight.

minor penalties. The clubs split two fighting majors and SAIT took the lone misconduct.

The teams meet again tonight at 7 p.m. at the Penhold Regional Multiplex.

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Trojans 5 Kings 2 CALGARY — The SAIT Trojans scored two unanswered third-period goals Friday and skated off with a 5-2 Alberta Colleges Men’s Hockey League win over the RDC Kings.

Up 3-2 heading into the final frame, the Trojans sealed the deal with goals from Chad Gans and Dean Allison.

Tyson McCallum, Brenden Forbes and Mitch Board also tallied for SAIT, which got a 31-save performance from former Red Deer Rebels goaltender Bolton Pouliot.

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2000 — The NHL officially retires Wayne Gretzky’s sweater #99, in a pregame ceremony before the All-Star Game in Toronto, Ontario 1990 — Federal competition tribunal approves $5 billion Imperial Oil takeover of

Texaco Canada.

1975 — Peter Lougheed’s government cuts the province’s personal income tax by 28 per cent, making Albertans lowest-taxed Canadians.

1968 — Canadian team attends opening of the 10th Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France with total 37 nations and 1293 competitors.

1936 — Canadian team attends opening of the fourth Winter Olympic Games in Garmisch, Germany with total 28 nations and 755 competitors.

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B7 Political? Of course it’s political

SATURDAY, FEB. 6, 2016

NATURAL RESOURCES MINISTER JIM CARR TELLS CALGARY CHAMBER THAT PIPELINE DECISIONS ARE TREATED LIKE ALL PUBLIC POLICY DECISIONS

BY LAUREN KRUGEL THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The oilpatch often laments that the decision-making process for pipelines has become too political, but Canada’s natural resources minister didn’t shy away from that description when grilled in front of a Calgary business audience on Friday.

During a question-and-answer session hosted by the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, Jim Carr said “of course” the process is a political one.

The National Energy Board, an arms-length regulator, conducts hearings and makes recommendations on whether or not to approve pipelines.

But the federal cabinet has the final say over whether a project is in Canada’s national interest.

“We interpret the national interest every day in Parliament, when we introduce a tax measure, when we introduce a piece of legislation or a policy,” said Carr.

While some may have a cynical interpretation of “political” in the context of pipelines, Carr frames it more positively.

“I see political as a word that is at the very heart of our democracy. We’re elected on a platform. We have a mandate from the prime minister. We’re held accountable for achieving those goals,” he told reporters.

“We’re held accountable by the prime minister and the government.

We’re held (accountable) by the people of Canada, ultimately. And if you’ve got a better way, let me know.”

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Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr scrums with media in Ottawa on January 25, 2016. On Friday, he told the Calgary Chamber of Commerce that one reason much-need energy pipelines haven’t been built is that the public doesn’t trust the previous government’s regulatory review process — even when oil traded at $100 a barrel.

Seated at the head table at the Calgary Chamber event were the bosses of companies behind two contentious proposals before the National Energy Board — Russ Girling with TransCanada and Ian Anderson with Kinder Morgan Canada.

Last week, Carr and Environment Minister Catherine McKenna announced changes meant to “restore trust” in pipeline reviews, including adding assessments of a project’s broader climate change impacts and enhanced consultation with affected

indigenous communities.

The move means it will take months longer for Ottawa to arrive at a final decisions on TransCanada’s proposed Energy East pipeline to New Brunswick and Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain expansion to the Vancouver area.

Carr said the streamlined regulatory process for pipelines under the previous Conservative government didn’t do pipeline proponents any favours.

“The reason nothing has been built in part is because there hasn’t been

HSBC reaches $470M settlement over banking abuses

BY ERIC TUCKER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Banking giant HSBC has reached a $470 million settlement with the federal government and nearly all states over mortgage lending and foreclosure abuses that officials say helped intensify the country’s economic meltdown, the Justice Department announced Friday.

The agreement requires the bank to pay $100 million and to provide an additional $370 million in consumer relief to borrowers and homeowners, including by reducing mortgage interest rates as well as the principal on mortgages for homeowners who are at risk of default.

The deal also requires the bank to improve standards for how it services loans and handles foreclosures.

Officials say those changes are intended to discourage past banking practices, such as robosigning and poor-quality loans, that exacerbated a financial crisis starting in 2007 in which millions of Americans lost their homes to foreclosure. HSBC had already agreed in a separate 2013 deal with Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to pay $249 million to settle federal complaints that its U.S. division wrongfully foreclosed on homeowners who should have been allowed to stay in their homes.

“This settlement illustrates the department’s continuing commitment to ensure responsible mortgage servicing,” Benjamin Mizer, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division, said in

public confidence in the regulatory process. So at a time when you had a government that was rooted in Alberta, that was led by Alberta at a time when oil prices were at US$100, we couldn’t get a kilometre of pipeline built,” he said.

“So would it be sensible for this government to say we’re going to do the same thing and hope that things will turn out differently? I don’t think so. I think that a rational approach is to say that we’re going to have to do it differently.”

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a statement. “The agreement is part of our ongoing effort to address root causes of the financial crisis.”

The settlement involves the departments of Justice and Housing and Urban Development, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Attorneys general from 49 states plus the District of Columbia signed on.

The $100 million payment will mostly be distributed among the federal government and an escrow fund administered by the states to make payments to borrowers who lost their homes to foreclosure between 2008 and 2012. The $370 million in relief to homeowners already is underway, the Justice Department said.

Even so, the settlement did little to allay public criticism that the Justice Department has been soft on banking abuses and has not targeted individuals for financial misdeeds.

Bartlett Naylor, a financial policy advocate at Public Citizen, a watchdog and advocacy group, said a “strongly written press release is no substitute for true justice.”

“There must be human beings involved,” said Naylor, who argued that the Justice Department was overinflating the impact and public benefit of the HSBC deal. “This can’t be yet another immaculate fine, where the government alleges widespread fraud and yet no individual was responsible.”

The agreement does not prevent state or federal authorities from pursuing criminal action in the future.

BY ANDY BLATCHFORD THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The bite of the oil-price shock dug deeper into the job markets of Canada’s oil-producing provinces last month, with Alberta posting its worst unemployment rate in a decade.

Significant January job losses in Alberta, as well as the fellow oil-rich province of Newfoundland and Labrador, offset Ontario’s solid net gain in employment, Statistics Canada said Friday in its latest labour force survey.

On balance, job growth sputtered in neutral across Canada, with 5,700 fewer jobs recorded. That number, however, was within the survey’s margin of error and not statistically significant.

The national unemployment rate moved to 7.2 per cent — up from 7.1 per cent in December — as more people entered the job market, the agency said.

But a starker month-tomonth picture emerged when looking at last month’s Alberta jobs data.

The jobless rate in Alberta hit 7.4 per cent in January, up from seven per cent

in December. That pushed it higher than the national unemployment rate for the first time since December 1988, the report said.

Robert Kavcic, senior economist with BMO Capital Markets, said the survey shows the weakness in Alberta is spreading to other sectors of its economy as the oilprice slump filters through.

Alberta, the agency said, suffered a net decline of 21,900 full-time positions in January, with the bulk of the decrease concentrated in agriculture and manufacturing, particularly those tied to the energy sector. The drop was offset in part by an increase of 11,900 part-time jobs.

Newfoundland showed a net month-to-month decrease in January of 2,400 jobs — knocking employment down 3.1 per cent compared to the year before.

In Saskatchewan, the unemployment rate moved up to 5.6 per cent from 5.5 per cent, as the economy shed 6,000 full-time jobs.

On the positive side, the agency said Ontario showed significant growth last month as it added 19,800 net positions, including 16,300 fulltime jobs.

Keep your resumé brief and to the point Dear Working Wise: I am applying for a job that I really want, but I think I’m up against some stiff competition.

I need a resumé that will help me stand out and get noticed.

Do you have any suggestions?

Signed, Eager Job Hunter Dear Eager: Your resumé must be both brief and compelling. Recruiters spend as little as 30 seconds reading each resumé they receive to WORKING decide who they want to meet.

WISE Your resumé should focus on your strongest quali- CHARLES STRACHEY fications so use a format that puts your most impressive strengths at the beginning.

If you want to emphasize your career progression, list your work, education or volunteer experiences in reverse chronological order. Chronological resumés are the most common type of resumé.

To emphasize your skills, use a combination format that groups your skills into categories. Be sure to include a brief chronological account of your back-

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ground and describe how your skills benefited your current and former employers, e.g., increased sales, saved money, improved efficiency, etc.

If you don’t have much work experience but your education is directly related to the work you are applying for, list your education first and stress the skills and abilities that your formal training has provided.

For more information, and sample resumés, check out the tips sheets on the Alberta Learning Information Service (ALIS) web site at alis.alberta.ca.

When drafting your resumé, remember: ● Your resumé should be two pages maximum.

Busy employers won’t take the time to read through a lot of information; ● Print it on good-quality white or off-white letter-size paper; ● Make it look professional and inviting to read; ● Be clear and concise. Every statement should emphasize a skill or ability. Drop unnecessary words or sentences to tighten up your statements; ● Ensure all the information is positive and relevant to the job requirements; ● Use action verbs “developed, created, coached, guided, produced.” Avoid passive phrases like “I was responsible for” or “my duties involved”;

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● Don’t exaggerate or misrepresent yourself — employers will check; ● Include your daytime contact information; ● Don’t include a photograph or unnecessary personal information; ● Check spelling and grammar – don’t let a simple preventable error take yourself out of the running; ● List your references on a separate page. Always ask your references if they are willing to provide a positive reference for you and ensure they can verify the skills you want to emphasize; and ● Always include a covering letter and use it to highlight your qualifications for the position.

For more tips, or for a second opinion on your resumé, visit alis.alberta.ca and take advantage of the free, secure online e-Resumé Review Service.

You can also visit your nearest Alberta Works Centre and take advantage of their library of resumé-writing books or register for a free resumé-writing workshop. A list of Alberta Works Centre locations is available at humanservices.alberta. ca/offices.

Do you have a work-related question? Send your questions to Working Wise, at charles.strachey@gov. ab.ca.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 119.84 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.77 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.16 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.87 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 0.800 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.09 Cdn. National Railway . . 74.22 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 168.56 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.04 Capital Power Corp . . . . 18.87 Cervus Equipment Corp 12.60 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 46.69 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 47.16 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 18.00 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.47 General Motors Co. . . . . 28.54 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 22.19 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.80 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 40.76 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 33.46 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 40..45 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 5.38 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 49.40 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 114.74 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.19 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.71 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 64.23 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — North American stock markets turned lower following two days of solid advances amid declining oil prices and renewed concerns over the U.S. economic recovery.

The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX index lost 10.51 points to close at 12,763.99 on Friday after job reports in both Canada and the United States came in below expectations.

Statistics Canada reported the unemployment rate rose to 7.2 per cent in January. Economists had expected it to be stable at 7.1 per cent.

South of the border, the Labor Department reported that U.S. employers added just 151,000 jobs in January, a sharp deceleration from recent months as companies shed education, transportation and temporary workers. That was below economists’ forecasts of a creation of 185,000 jobs, according to data from Factset.

On the positive side, the unemployment rate fell to 4.9 per cent from five per cent, the lowest level since February 2008 and average wages were up 2.5 per cent over the past year to $25.39 an hour. “It used to be, up until September, that with weak economic news, everybody would go ‘Hooray! The Fed’s not going to raise rates,’ and off would go the stock markets,� said Colin Cieszynski, chief market strategist at CMC Markets. “But since September, when we get soft news the markets actually go down on the realization that maybe the economy is not so strong and the outlook for corporate earnings is not so good.�

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average slumped

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 22.79 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.36 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.00 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 16.29 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 16.19 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.16 First Quantum Minerals . . 3.93 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 19.12 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 3.05 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.21 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.67 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 23.27 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.720 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 6.00 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 18.38 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 25.04 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 44.85 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.93 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 16.23 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 30.21 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 8.96 Canyon Services Group. . 3.72 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 16.38 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.120 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 6.18 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.560 211.75 points to 16,204.83, while the broader S&P 500 declined 35.43 points to 1,880.02.

Technology stocks were among the hardest hit on Friday, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq plunging 146.42 points to 4,363.14.

Shares of LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) plunged more than 40 per cent as the company released a weak outlook for the year. That’s despite the fact that the company reported what Cieszynski called “spectacular� quarterly earnings. “Strong fourth-quarter earnings are getting discounted in favour of people focusing more negatively on soft 2016 guidance,� Cieszynski said. “I think we’re going to see continued volatility in tech as we move through the later stages of earnings reports.�

In commodities, the March contract for North American benchmark crude oil slipped for a second straight day, down 83 cents to US$30.89 a barrel.

The March contract for natural gas rose nine cents to US$2.06 per mmBtu, while April gold added 20 cents to US$1,157.70 a troy ounce and March copper shed three cents to US$2.10 a pound.

Meanwhile, the Canadian dollar slipped 0.85 of a U.S. cent to 71.90 cents US. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Friday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,763.99, down 10.51 points Dow — 16,204.97, down 211.61 points S&P 500 — 1,880.05, down 35.40 points Nasdaq — 4,363.14, down 146.42 points

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 80.08 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 31.35 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.31 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 13.18 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.68 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 1.050 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.100 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 4.59 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 31.88 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.620 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 1.69 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 36.58 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.130 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 74.33 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 56.80 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89.57 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 22.96 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 34.12 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 35.29 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 82.18 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.78 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 39.83 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.200 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 71.14 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 39.30 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.40

Currencies: Cdn — 71.90 cents US, down 0.85 of a cent Pound — C$2.0167, up 1.20 cents Euro — C$1.5510, up 1.07 cents Euro — US$1.1152, down 0.54 of a cent Oil futures: US$30.89 per barrel, down 83 cents (March contract) Gold futures: US$1,157.70 per oz., up 20 cents (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.131 oz., down 2.7 cents $679.36 kg., down 87 cents ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ‘16 $0.40 higher $468.70 May ‘16 $0.50 higher $477.90 July ‘16 $0.80 higher $484.20 Nov. ‘16 $3.60 higher $488.60 Jan. ‘17 $3.70 higher $491.20 March ‘17 $3.70 higher $491.40 May ‘17 $3.70 higher $490.10 July ‘17 $3.70 higher $490.10 Nov. ‘17 $3.70 higher $490.10 Jan. ‘18 $3.70 higher $490.10 March ‘18 $3.70 higher $490.10.

Barley (Western): March ‘16 unchanged $190.00 May ‘16 unchanged $194.00 July ‘16 unchanged $196.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $196.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $196.00 March ‘17 unchanged $196.00 May ‘17 unchanged $196.00 July ‘17 unchanged $196.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $196.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $196.00 March ‘18 unchanged $196.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 777,400 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 777,400.

Job woes continue at BlackBerry

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — BlackBerry Ltd. is laying off 200 employees in Canada and the U.S. The company said in a statement that 200 employees have been impacted in Waterloo, Ont., and Sunrise, Fla. BlackBerry would not specify what departments were most affected or how many employees in each office would be losing their jobs, but it appears to be 125 Canadian positions and 75 American ones.

A worker adjustment and retraining notification posted on the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity’s website said the company plans to lay off 75 employees at its Sunrise office.

Meanwhile, in Waterloo, BlackBerry appears to have ended its relationship with Gary Klassen, its director of architecture and innovation. “My husband has walked out of BlackBerry for the last time,� his wife, Jenn Klassen, wrote in a Facebook post. “Gary you’ve been a wonderful example of integrity, faithfulness and

patience working there but I’m glad you’re out.�

BlackBerry would not say whether Klassen quit or was let go. “We can confirm that Gary Klassen has left BlackBerry. The company is grateful for his many contributions during his tenure and we wish him the best in his future endeavours.�

BlackBerry has slashed thousands of jobs from its workforce in recent years in an effort to cut costs.

The company had 6,225 full-time employees as of Feb. 28, 2015, according to its most recent annual filing.

Three years before, the company had approximately 16,500 full-time employees, according to its 2012 annual filing. By 2014, BlackBerry employed just more than 8,000 full-time workers.

Despite the cutbacks, the company said it is “actively recruiting in those areas of our business that will drive growth.�

BlackBerry has been focused on a turnaround strategy that has included cost reductions, launching new software services and forging new relationships.

Twitter suspends accounts that may be linked to terrorism

BY TAMI ABDOLLAH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Twitter is now using spam-fighting technology to seek out accounts that might be promoting terrorist activity and is examining other accounts related to those flagged for possible removal, the company announced Friday.

The effort signalled efforts by Twitter to automatically identify tweets supporting terrorism, reflecting increased pressure placed by the U.S. government for social media companies to respond to abuse more proactively. Child pornography has previously been the only abuse that was automatically flagged for human review on social media, using a different kind of technology that sources a database of known images.

Twitter also said Friday it has suspended more than 125,000 accounts for threatening or promoting terrorist acts, mainly related to Islamic State militants, in the last eight months. Social media has increasingly become a tool for recruitment and radicalization that’s used by the Islamic State group and its supporters, who by some reports have sent tens of thousands of tweets per day.

Tech companies are dedicating increasingly more resources to tracking reports of violent threats. Twitter said Friday that it has increased the size of its team reviewing reports to reduce their response time “significantly.�

The San Francisco-based company also changed its policy in April, adding language to make clear that “threatening or promoting terrorism� specifically counted as abusive behaviour and violated its terms of use.

Since late 2015, Twitter began using “proprietary spam-fighting tools� to find accounts that might be violating their terms of service by promoting terrorism, sending them to be reviewed by a team at Twitter. That group also now looks into other accounts similar to those reported to them by other users.

Twitter said it has already had seen results, “including an increase in account suspensions and this type of activity shifting off of Twitter.�

But it also noted that there is no “magic algorithm� for identifying terrorist content, which is why even humans reviewing the material are ultimately making judgment calls “based on very limited information and guidance.�

Free speech and local law in an area can also complicate matters. “Like most people around the world, we are horrified by the atrocities perpetrated by extremist groups.

We condemn the use of Twitter to promote terrorism,� Twitter said in a statement released Friday.

It said it would continue to “engage with authorities and other relevant organizations to find solutions to this critical issue and promote powerful counter-speech narratives.�

LinkedIn shares drop 44 per cent

BY BRANDON BAILEY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — Investors gave LinkedIn a poor job review Friday in the form of a dramatic sell-off that wiped out nearly $11 billion in the professional networking site’s market value.

A surprise forecast for slower growth this year sent LinkedIn shares into a stomach-turning plunge of almost 44 per cent.

After the market closed Thursday, the online company reported better-than-expected earnings for the last quarter but warned that revenue would fall short of what analysts had projected for 2016. It also said it was discontinuing a new online advertising system that hadn’t worked out.

Several analysts noted that LinkedIn has a track record of issuing conservative forecasts and later beating them, but this time investors were shaken by the company’s financial guidance. The stock closed Friday at $108.38 after its worst slide since LinkedIn went public in 2011.

LinkedIn said it expects revenue of about $3.6 billion to $3.65 billion for this year, while analysts surveyed by FactSet were projecting sales of $3.9 billion.

The company’s forecast implies the once fast-growing business expects sales to increase in the low 20 per cent

range this year, falling into the teens in 2017, according to a report by analyst Neil Doshi of Mizuho Securities.

The firm downgraded its investment rating on LinkedIn’s stock to “neutral� from “buy� on Friday.

Mizuho had been expecting LinkedIn to post 30 per cent sales growth for 2016 and mid-20 per cent growth for 2017. “Clearly, we were wrong,� Doshi said.

LinkedIn blamed economic uncertainty in Europe and Asia, in part, for slowing growth in its core job-recruiting business. Unlike other social networks that rely primarily on advertising sales, LinkedIn gets about 60 per cent of its revenue from licensing fees for software that employers and recruiters use to find job candidates.

The remaining revenue comes from advertising and subscription fees.

The Mountain View, California-based company said it will continue investing to expand around the world. Analysts say LinkedIn should see increased revenue from online training courses and new software that commercial sales representatives can use to drum up business from their online contacts.

But the company also said it was overhauling its digital ad business and phasing out one ad program launched last year, because it had not performed as expected.

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Students share their secrets THE POSTSECRET PROJECT ENCOURAGES PEOPLE TO UNBURDEN THEMSELVES ANONYMOUSLY

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Students at Red Deer College spilled their secrets Thursday night and were embraced by classmates for their courage.

Local students joined others who have laid bare their private hopes, desires and fears at PostSecret Live events held around the world where people are encouraged to reveal the secrets they cannot tell their friends and family.

American Frank Warren, the creator of The PostSecret Project, said at least a dozen students stepped forward with secrets and were received with such compassion and leadership.

“What was singular about the event at Red Deer, and I’ve given this talk hundreds of times, there were more

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“SOMETIMES THE MOST BURDENSOME PART OF KEEPING A SECRET IS NOT THE SECRET ITSELF, BUT ALL THE STRUGGLE A PERSON DOES TO HIDE IT, TO CLOAK IT, TO BURY IT.” FRANK WARREN, CREATOR OF THE POSTSECRET PROJECT students just spontaneously getting up and giving hugs and FRANK WARREN embracing and responding to fellow classmates who were sharing very painful secrets,” Warren said on Friday about Thursday’s event presented by the Students’ Association’s Mental Health Initiative.

PostSecret started out as a collection of intimately personal and artistic postcards mailed anonymously from individuals worldwide, sharing personal secrets.

The PostSecret website has become a phenomenon earning over 700 million views, the world’s largest adver-

tisement-free blog.

He said on Thursday night as soon as the microphone was live, students were in line to talk and share and it became a compassionate conversation for everyone.

“I heard some funny secrets. Some sexual secrets. Some painful secrets.

Some transformative secrets. But I think everybody there really appreciated the vulnerability and courage that was being shown by the students, their classmates. I think everybody left with a really happy heart at the end.”

Warren said releasing secrets reinforces the fact that no one is alone with their secret, which is especially important for young people.

“Sometimes the most burdensome

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part of keeping a secret is not the secret itself, but all the struggle a person does to hide it, to cloak it, to bury it. So just by knowing that other people have a similar secret, it can give you that little additional courage to tell it to the right person in your lives, whoever that might be.”

He said some people after his presentation at Cenovus Learning Common also gave him postcards with their secrets during a book signing.

“It sounds very simple to write your secret on a postcard and let it go, but I think there’s something a little profound and maybe subversive about that act because once you do it, once you really struggle to find the words, take ownership of a secret, a story of yourself you’ve never told anyone, physically let it go on a post card, I think it can change you.

“It can be transformative and people send me followup e-mails and talk about how it became the first step in a much longer journey to move themselves where they needed to be, to a healthier place.”

For more information go to www. postsecret.com. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Local group steps up for wildlife centre

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate Staff

Taylan Polat kicks up some powder as he slides down the Bower Ponds sliding hill, followed by Linaya Cuthand, on Friday afternoon. Warm weather — with temperatures rising to what felt like 3 degrees Celsius — brought many Red Deerians outdoors.

Olds RCMP search for thief Police are looking for a suspect who wielded an air gun while attempting to rob Our Flames Lounge in Olds on Thursday.

The suspect was initially reported to have used a sawed off shot gun however witness accounts suggest the weapon used is an air gun, say police.

The suspect entered the lounge demanded cash from an employee at 9:45 p.m. The employees did not comply and the suspect fled onto 50 Avenue and headed north toward Hwy 27 (46 Street). No one was harmed during the incident.

Olds RCMP continue to investigate.

If you have information about this, call the Olds RCMP Detachment at 403-556-3324. To remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-2228477 (TIPS).

Sylvan Lake to annex land Sylvan Lake has been given the green light to grow.

This week, the province formally approved an annexation plan that would see the town expand its boundary mostly to the west and northeast.

The west side land will be mostly earmarked for housing with some commercial areas. A smaller chunk of land east of Hwy 20 and south of 47th Avenue is also slated for residential and commercial.

Heavy and light industrial uses are planned for the northeast along Hwy

LOCAL BRIEFS 11A. Industrial land is in short supply in Sylvan Lake. It is seen as key to attracting investment and creating a broader tax base, as well as providing more opportunities for residents to live and work in the community.

Annexation has been in the works since 2011 when the town and Red Deer County agreed on an Intermunicipal Development Plan, mapping out future growth in the area.

Now that annexation is approved, the town will work on area structure plans providing more detailed planning direction, such as where roads, schools and parks will go.

Man facing 79 charges arrested A Red Deer man will face 79 charges ranging from stolen property to resisting arrest in several communities on Monday.

Police responded to a report of a truck driving dangerously near Gaetz Avenue and 67 Street in the early hours of Feb. 3.

The stolen truck was located at 68 Street and Taylor Drive. A driver fled in the vehicle to the Normandeau neighbourhood at a high rate of speed.

RCMP did not pursue it due to public safety concerns.

Shortly after police located the stolen truck again in a residential parking lot on Norquay Street. They

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waited until the driver had exited the truck before taking him into custody.

The 29-year-old man was also wanted for more than 70 outstanding charges out of Red Deer, Rocky Mountain House and other jurisdictions. The truck, a blue GMC Sierra, had been stolen on Feb. 2 from a South Hill residence.

Nelson Ryan Gomes of Red Deer faces the following charges related to the Feb. 3 events including possession of stolen property over $5,000, two counts of resisting arrest/obstructing police officer and two counts of failure to comply with recognizance.

He had 70 outstanding charges.

Gomes will appear in court on Monday to face the 79 charges, including those stemming from Feb. 3.

PCN set to launch trek Red Deer Primary Care Network is inviting Red Deerians to take a one-month virtual trek around the Hawaiian islands to promote a healthy and active lifestyle.

People are invited to join Red Deer city councillors on a 30-minute walk to launch the network’s latest trek at noon on Thursday outside City Hall on the west side steps.

To participate in the free trek, people need to sign up on the Red Deer Primary Care Network website — www.reddeerpcn.com. The online program will convert all of the activities they log into the distance around the virtual location of the Hawaiian Islands.

A group of Red Deer’s “movers and shakers” have stepped up to help the Medicine River Wildlife Centre build its new hospital, say the centre’s executive director.

Carol Kelly said several influential Red Deerians have formed a committee to devise a plan to raise $400,000 to build the new wildlife hospital in order to have its doors open by the spring. The members, whom Kelly would not disclose, will meet next week to strategize.

The centre has been rescuing, rehabilitating and releasing Alberta’s wildlife for 32 years. Built in 1991, the existing hospital is on its last legs with lapsed building codes, a leaking roof and a defunct heating system.

Late last year Kelly feared the centre would be forced to close its doors unless it raised the money by winter.

But a mild winter with little snow was the centre’s saving grace.

“We had a plumber come out and install two heaters on each side of the building and that plus the lack of the cold and snow,” said Kelly. “It has made it so that, yes, we’re still here.”

Since 1984 the centre has cared for thousands of animals from moose, owls, deer to birds.

Kelly said the response from the community has been outstanding. The centre has been getting calls every day to ask what are the visiting hours, which has compelled a few changes to the work plan.

“We made a few changes so we can have part of the building open to the public,” said Kelly. “We have such a demand from the public to be open again. We won’t have the public wing done this summer but we have made some changes so people can be able to come out and walk our nature trail and come into a portion of the building.”

The completely “green” hospital will feature five intensive care units, quarantine and examination rooms.

The centre has about $300,000 into the project and another $125,000 pending in a government grant.

Find out more about the centre’s fundraising campaign at www.indiegogo.com/projects/otis-s-extreme-homemakeover#/story or visit www.mrwc.ca. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Correction A photo that ran with Thursday’s What’s Happening page to promote the up coming With This Ring Bridal Gala on Sunday had the incorrect information. The model was Madisen Leer who was wearing a gown from Your Wedding Place.

Clarification A story that ran Thursday in the Advocate contained a poorly worded sentence that may confuse some readers.

The Crown Prosecution service was responding to negligence on the local Crown’s office. Jim Hunter, the Red Deer judge, called the Crown negligent during a youth court trial.

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Dear Harlan; How do I tell my sister be sleeping together. And if you find that I feel uncomfortable when she this to be too much to handle, ask yourmakes jokes about cutting and that self why you think sleeping with someit’s a trigger for me? I’ve worked hard one is the only way you can be close for years to move beyond this painful with another person. period in my life, but it still hurts. — Dear Harlan; I’m 19 and my boyPainful Past friend is 24 years old. PeoDear Painful Past; I wonple already judge me about der if she even understands my boyfriend being five triggers? years older than me, and it My guess is that she’s makes it hard to focus on completely clueless about my relationship. them. Her jokes might be I’m too distracted by her way of coping with her what everyone thinks about uncomfortable feelings this age difference. What do about something totally forI do? — Younger Woman eign to her.

Dear Younger Woman; She probably has no Make me a promise. Don’t idea that her jokes, jabs marry him until you’re at and comments stir up big least 25.

HARLAN feelings from the past. She I’ll even go as low as 24 COHEN needs your help. If you still years old if you follow these have a therapist or support guidelines: You must creHELP ME HARLAN group, bring it up with them ate a life that fills you with and get suggestions. happiness that doesn’t deMy suggestion is to make it safe for pend on your boyfriend. You have to your sister to talk to you about your do things you love with friends indepast and your recovery. Talk to her pendent of him. when you’re both in a good place (not You must work to be independently after she makes another joke). Ex- happy while being in a loving relationplain that you love her and are open to ship. You also have to promise me that talking about your past and answering you will always command and demand questions she might have about your respect. cutting. Then explain triggers. Help If he can’t respect you and your her understand that jokes or com- boundaries, then you must promise to ments can give you the urge to act out move on. again. Then see if she has any quesThe biggest mistake younger parttions. Telling her how you feel and ex- ners make in relationships is not havplaining triggers might be all it takes ing a life, being dependent on a partto clear this up. ner and making excuses when boundDear Harlan; How can I get a one- aries are violated. night stand to ask me out? — Morning If people judge you because of the After age difference, instead of getting deDear Morning After; Don’t sleep fensive, ask them what makes them with your one-night stand again. uncomfortable about your relationStand up for yourself and explain ship. Listen, thank them, and decide if what you want. If you still are sleeping they’re right or wrong. together, you can ask him or her to go If you can’t listen to their feedback, out on a date. then it tells me you know there’s a I don’t care if you’re a man or a problem. This means you should find woman - you can do the asking. If you someone else - not because of the age can’t do the asking, then you shouldn’t difference, but because you realize

there is something fundamentally wrong with this relationship.

Dear Harlan; Why are people so weirded out if you like them but they don’t like you back?

Isn’t it a compliment if someone likes you? — Aggressively Honest Dear Aggressively Honest; I love when I’m liked.

I don’t get weirded out. I’ve always been flattered. I happen to have a “never-good-enough” complex. It started when I was 13 years old and incredibly overweight (I’m finally getting over the complex). I just wanted to be wanted … by anyone.

But I totally get why people get weirded out when they have to reject you. We hate rejection. We hate giving it. We hate getting it. No one wants to hurt someone’s feelings.

When you express your feelings, you set someone up to accept or reject you.

We don’t learn how to handle rejection. We are taught that rejection is about being defective, when in reality, rejection is as normal and natural as breathing.

It’s about choosing one good thing over another good thing. Instead of learning how to face rejection, we use alcohol, dating apps and lies to avoid it. But there may be a biological reason behind the rejection of rejection.

See, the brain processes rejection the same way it processes physical pain.

When you get rejected, you feel the same kind of pain you feel when you get punched.

Therefore, when these people reject you, it’s as if they’re punching you in the gut.

This is why you need to make it OK to get rejected when sharing your feelings.

You need to make it safe for someone to say “no” or not share your feelings. Make it clear that you’re OK with whatever reaction comes next. The more comfortable you are with rejection, the more comfortable people will feel when rejecting you.

Dear Harlan; What do I do if my roommate is very promiscuous?

She keeps bringing boys in and out of the room. I can’t keep track of it. I’ve asked her to stop, but she doesn’t seem to care.

Everything about her makes me sick. I’m disgusted and need help.

What should I do next?

Dear Harlan; First of all, it’s important that you don’t call your roommate names or shame her behavior.

People don’t like to be shamed for their behavior. And who’s to say her behavior is wrong or shameful?

You may not agree with her lifestyle, but she might not agree with yours. Don’t confuse her lifestyle with the issues at hand. You’re uncomfortable in your room because there is a lot of traffic.

Why? Is it a safety issue, a privacy issue or a boundary issue? Don’t make it about her sexual appetite. Approach her from a place of respect.

You don’t have to respect her actions, but you have to respect that she has a right to do what she wants with whomever she wants. Come up with a few ideas. Ask her if she’s willing to change or modify her behavior. Suggest she spend more time at these boys’ places. Remind her that you completely understand that she can do what she wants with whomever she chooses, but you would love to find a way to live together while still feeling safe and comfortable in your own room.

If that doesn’t work, put together a plan to move out. You might want to consider a single room.

Harlan is author of “Getting Naked: Five Steps to Finding the Love of Your Life (While Fully Clothed and Totally Sober)” (St. Martin’s Press). Write Harlan at harlan(at)helpmeharlan.com or visit online: www.helpmeharlan.com. All letters submitted become property of the author.

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Young people often forced to seek help for mental health problems at hospital ER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — When Cassandra Arthur reached a crisis point as a teenager because of episodes of severe depression, she ended up at a hospital emergency department because neither she nor those trying to help her knew where else to seek help.

The first time, at age 17, Arthur’s depression had driven her to the point of suicide, but her high school psychologist got wind of her plan to take her own life and contacted her parents. She was taken to the emergency department of a Toronto hospital and admitted to the children’s psychiatric ward for 11 days.

Twice more that year, she went to the ER when she felt herself being pulled down into the black hole of depression and was again admitted, the last time for almost a month.

“I kind of felt at a loss and I was dealing with serious anxiety and I didn’t know where else to go,” said Arthur, now 20.

“It kind of felt like I was bouncing in and out of hospital rooms, essentially. I might get a little bit of help in there, but as soon as I would leave, I wouldn’t know who to contact or what resources I had.

“And even people within the community, like family doctors or the school psychologist, they weren’t educated as to what other resources there were either.”

It’s an all too common scenario for young people dealing with disorders like depression and anxiety, said Dr. Paul Kurdyak, director of health systems research at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

In a study published this week in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, a research team led by Kurdyak found that among Ontario children and youth aged 10 to 24 with mental health issues, there was a 33 per cent jump in the number of emergency department visits between 2006 and 2011.

Although hospitalizations overall were relatively rare, the rate of admissions also rose — by 53 per cent over the study period.

At the same time, visits to community-based doctors increased by on-

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Cassandra Arthur, 20, of Toronto is shown in a handout photo. ly about 15 per cent, with family physicians providing the most care, followed by psychiatrists and pediatricians.

“What we’re finding is that people are preferentially going to emergency departments,” said Kurdyak, who is also a senior scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences.

There are likely a number of reasons why young people needing urgent care are seeking help at emergency rooms, he said, including difficulty getting an appointment on short notice with their primary-care doctor. Wait times to see a psychiatrist are typically much longer.

Kurdyak, whose clinical practice includes working in CAMH’s emergency department, said many people come there because they feel they have nowhere else to turn.

“The other story I hear is people being put on a wait list (for community-based care) that’s fairly lengthy and then having their situation deteriorate, so it has become an emergency,” he said.

“And then there’s the unavoidable crises that will develop, independent of access.”

Despite providing 24-hour care, a hospital emergency department isn’t ideal for those with mental health is-

sues, Kurdyak said.

“A loud, chaotic, busy, frenetic emergency department, certainly like those in my experience in downtown Toronto, is not a very therapeutic environment for somebody to go to when they’re stressed out in the way that these people are.”

Arthur agreed, recalling what it was like on her first visit to the emerg, where she waited for five or six hours before the decision was made to admit her.

“You had people screaming and throwing up and people bleeding,” she said. It was hardly a comforting atmosphere for a scared teenager who had been planning to take her own life.

Arthur blames the lack of community mental health services for the fact that more and more young people like herself end up making multiple trips to the hospital ER to get help.

“I felt like there were not that many things that I could have done to stop myself from using the ER. “I remember asking the school psychologist and others for help and … nobody knew what to do. Every time, it was ‘Oh, go to the hospital.’

“So you’re in this weird limbo of who do I ask for help?”

Yet Kurdyak said efforts are being

made in Ontario to bolster access to community-based care for youth with mental health issues, which he called “a huge prevention opportunity.”

“If young people have access to the services they need early, the evidence would suggest that you will spare them and the system a burden down the road.”

Arthur may be proving that principle.

When she was about to turn 19 and found herself slipping into another severe depression — the illness runs in her family — Arthur and her mother started researching where she could get treatment, instead of having to opt for another trip to the ER. They discovered an in-patient program at CAMH, which provided her with individual and group counselling.

Now at George Brown College, where she is enrolled in a year-long program that helps people transition into post-secondary education, Arthur hopes to move on to a bachelor of commerce or management studies program at Humber College.

And while she acknowledges that dealing with bouts of severe depression will be a life-long challenge, “I feel like I’m definitely in a much better place now.”

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Sirens and our sacred calling

BY GALEN GUENGERICH ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES I must confess that I listen to sirens somewhat differently these days. For much of my life, sirens were rare intrusion into otherwise sonically subdued settings. The dairy farm in central Delaware where I was born, the small town in south Arkansas where I grew up, the farming country in Lancaster County, Penn. where I finished high school and went to college, and even the quaint village of Princeton where I went to seminary: for the most part, these were relatively quiet places. Once in a while I’d see a fire truck headed to a fire or a police car headed to an accident or an ambulance headed to a heart-attack victim, but not often.

Sirens and I became much better acquainted when I moved to the south side of Chicago to begin my PhD studies at the University of Chicago. Located in Hyde Park, a relatively secure enclave within one of Chicago’s most economically depressed and violent areas, the University of Chicago employs one of the nation’s largest private police forces. During my time in Chicago, I became acutely aware that many deaths on the South Side hadn’t come at the end of life or from natural causes. Sirens had been involved. Even so, they had mostly been silenced by the time they arrived in my neighborhood.

The fact that sirens and I weren’t better acquainted marks me as a child of significant cultural privilege. For people like me, the world has always been relatively safe. Nowadays, however, the sirens are sounding closer to home. Violence is no longer keeping its distance, which is why the killings in San Bernardino on December 2015 have been so unsettling. A husband-and-wife team of ISIS sympathizers killed 14 and wounded 17 of his coworkers at a department of environmental health holiday party.

My sense is that lots of people across this nation felt unsettled by this latest outbreak of violence, including many who never had to give safety much thought.

The poet Yehuda Amichai, who died five years ago, was born in 1924 to Orthodox Jewish parents living in Germany. He went on to become one of the most celebrated Israeli poets of the twentieth century. One of his most compelling poems is titled The Diameter Of The Bomb. In it, Amichai writes: The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters, with four dead and eleven wounded.

And around these, in a larger circle of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered and one graveyard. But the young woman who was buried in the city she came from, at a distance of more than a hundred kilometers, enlarges the circle considerably, and the solitary man mourning her death at the distant shores of a country far across the sea includes the entire world in the circle.

And I won’t even mention the crying of orphans that reaches up to the throne of God and beyond, making a circle with no end and no God. The circles of time in which we live and move begin with us, the poet says — with our lives: the places we inhabit, the people we love, and the things we do.

But experiences of pain enlarge the circles considerably, eventually expanding to include the entire world. A 12-inch bomb ends up having a diameter of infinite measure and thus a destructive power of infinite magnitude. You and I can feel the impact of a bomb from half a world away and a bullet from a continent away. On these terms, violence will never keep its distance.

The truth is that as long as violence exists in the world, we probably shouldn’t keep our distance from it. Otherwise we would remain oblivious to human suffering and impervious to human pain. In our worship and in our spiritual practice, we seek to move beyond our private concerns to feel connected to something greater than ourselves — the whole of which we are a small, yet vital part. If we could fully feel this experience, we would feel connected to everything: all that is present in our lives and our world, as well as all that is past and all that is possible.

This feeling of being connected to everything is what I call the experience of the divine — the experience of God. And everything includes experiences of pain. Feeling the pain of the world is essential to our spiritual practice. If we don’t feel the world’s pain, then it’s not spiritual practice, but rather the practice of denial or delusion. Bearing witness to what’s present, we open our hearts to the pain of the world and wrap our arms around its brokenness. As the poet William Blake once put it, “Every one of

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Muslim Community Prayer Vigil for San Bernardino shooting victims, in Chino, Calif. A husband and wife opened fire on a holiday banquet, killing multiple people. Hours later, the couple died in a shootout with police. every clime that prays in deep distress, prays to the human form divine.”

In addition to the distraught families of the victims in San Bernardino being in deep distress, millions of Muslims who live and worship among us are also in deep distress. Polls consistently show that most Americans know very little about Islam and have no acquaintances that are Muslim. Given the anti-Muslim threats being unleashed today, even among some of our candidates for president, I can understand why Muslims feel afraid.

Especially now, you and I need not to distance ourselves from the pain and suffering of those around us. We need to bear witness to the grief of those who suffer loss and the anxiety of those who fear violence. We need to offer comfort.

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The Feb. 12 meeting between Francis and Patriarch Kirill was announced Friday by both churches.

It will be the first-ever meeting between the leaders of the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church, which is the largest in Orthodoxy.

Francis is due to travel to Mexico Feb. 12-18. He will stop in Cuba on the way and meet with Kirill at the Havana airport, where they will speak privately for about two hours and then sign a joint declaration, the Vatican said.

“This event has extraordinary importance in the path of ecumenical relations and dialogue among Christian confessions,” said the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi.

8:00 a.m. Holy Communion 9:00 a.m. Celebration Service 10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Sunday School/Nursery Shrove Pancake Supper: Tues., Feb. 9 from 5-7 p.m.

Admission Fee Ash Wednesday Service Wed., Feb. 10 at 7:00 p.m.

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But that’s only the beginning of our work. As we bear witness to what is present, we also need to bear witness to what’s possible — the potential of the human longing for community and the promise of the human quest for justice. Things will be set right in this world only if we set them right. As Blake insists, mercy has a human heart, love takes human shape, and peace wears human garb. Where these dwell, Blake says, “There God is dwelling too.”

The next time you hear a siren, breathe a prayer for those who are suffering or in pain. Then look around for someone to help. Use the siren as a reminder of your sacred calling. Be kind to others, and take courage from others. Cherish those you love, and treasure all that is good. Embrace all that is possible.

Minister: The Rev. Wayne Reid

We invite you to join us on Sundays at 9am, 11am or 6pm Living Stones Church, 2020 40th Avenue, RD To find us, turn into the Southbrook subdivision off of 40th Ave and take the next two immediate left hand turns.

10:30 am Worship Service “Listen To Him” www.knoxreddeer.ca

WILLOW VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN 26016-HWY 595 (Delburne Road)

Sunday 10:00 a.m.

Speaker: Fred Lane Everyone Welcome

#18 Selkirk Blvd. Phone 403-346-3798

Pastor Don Hennig | Pastor Peter Van Katwyk 9:00 a.m.

Divine Service 10:00 a.m.

Sunday School & Bible Study 11:00 a.m.

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Living Faith Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m.

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UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA Gaetz Memorial United Church “Sharing Faith, Serving Community” 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer 403-347-2244 www.gaetzmemorialunitedchurch.ca

Worship Service Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Children’s Programs weekly

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● Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper at St. Leonard’s Church Hall will be celebrated on Feb. 9, 5 to 7 p.m. The menu features sausages, pancakes and beverage. Admission is $7 for adults, free for children ages six years and under, and $15 for a family. Phone 403-346-5744.

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Cast members Layne Zazalak, left, as Prospero, and Logan Shave as Ferdinand and Meegan Sweet as Miranda on the set of the Red Deer College production of ‘The Tempest.’

Tempest is thought-provoking Painted in the verdant greens of B.C.’s West Coast, with screens suggesting mist and fog, Red Deer College’s The Tempest is truly a “brave new world.”

T h e thought-provoking play that opened Thursday night at the RDC Arts Centre is “new” because director Thomas Usher has relocated Shakespeare’s LANA romance to MICHELIN a new world REVIEW setting — the Haida Gwaii archipelago (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), off northern British Columbia.

It’s “brave” because Usher, without a First Nations person in his cast or crew, has included elements of Haida culture in it.

For accuracy and to avoid accusations of cultural appropriation, Usher invited Reg Davidson, a First Nations visual artist and performer, to instruct theatre students in all things Haida.

Red Deer’s Lynn Jonason was also a cultural liaison.

The RDC students must have learned their lessons well, judging by some of the visually spectacular scenes in this production. Usher’s lush vision for the show was brought to life with costume/set designs by Carrie Hamilton and lighting by Patrick Beagan.

Native spirits wearing authentic-looking Haida masks and grass skirts appear whenever sorcerer Prospero (a braid-bearded Layne Zazalak) wants to entertain friends or dispatch foes on the island upon which he’s

been stranded.

As well, supernatural Ariel, who at Prospero’s bidding, causes a storm to shipwreck his enemies, has been transformed into a brilliantly attired Raven. In Haida culture, the black bird symbolizes mystery and represents the keeper of knowledge and secrets. The Raven is captivatingly played by Ashley Mercia, who understands bird body language.

Another character that assumes a Haida identity is “villainous” slave Caliban (played with Gollum-like wretchedness by Trysten Luck). But this is where Usher’s use of the First Nations theme becomes tricky and troubling.

For which cultural viewpoint are we to believe?

If Prospero, the usurped Duke of Milan and colonial power on the island, is as noble as Shakespeare has written him, then how can we overlook his treatment of Caliban as a “mon-

strous” slave?

On the other hand, if we trust Caliban’s assessment of Prospero as a betrayer — someone who used the native knowledge he was given of the island in order to enslave and oppress, then how can Prospero be seen as heroic?

The divergent viewpoints, which presumably spring from cultural misunderstandings, ring only too sadly true, given what we know of this country’s history.

Certainly the scenes in which Caliban is plied with alcohol and treated as subhuman by the Europeans become much more disturbing in the First Nations context. A pall is cast on slapstick encounters that, in another production, might have been funny.

At the end of the play, the sheer exhilaration Caliban feels when the Europeans leave the island becomes powerful and understandable.

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Artist introduces local Two local bands heroes into fantasy world earn top honours ALBERTA COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

Red Deer artist Mike Villasana unveils real-life “superheroes” in his first solo exhibit at The Hub on Ross.

Among the Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman paintings in Villasana’s show, Gotham in Red Deer, are some familiar faces.

Look beneath the removable masks and you will see mini portraits of Mayor Tara Veer and other members of Red Deer City Council, rendered in acrylic paint and Sharpie marker.

The Philippines-born artist said he decided to introduce some real local heroes into the DC Comics fantasy world as a way of expressing his appreciation for all that the City of Red Deer has done for the arts.

“I want to recognize city councillors for the things they do daily. They are very amazing to me… very heroic to me,” said Villasana, who moved to Red Deer with his family seven years ago.

At the time, he noticed Red Deer’s downtown was looking rather drab and uninspiring. Now it’s spruced up with flower baskets and outdoor concerts on the Ross Street Patio during the warm months — and with decorative lighting and artsy murals, year-round.

“I admire the downtown now. It’s very colourful… very interactive,” said the 28-year-old, who was among the artists hired for a couple of summers to beautify the back of the John Howard Society building.

The former visual arts student at Red Deer College who also had some advertising art training in the Philippines, decided to paint a mural of Marilyn Monroe snapping a selfie to put a “twist” on a pop-culture image.

His latest distortion is melding aspects of this city with the DC Comics world in his first solo exhibition at the Hub. This is shown most vividly in a painting of Batman silhouetted near Red Deer’s onion-shaped water tower.

Villasana, who switched from collecting Wolverine to the darker-themed Batman comic books after coming to Canada, creates artworks that look like

A couple of Central Alberta country bands scored big wins at the recent Alberta Country Music Awards.

Stettler group Domino picked up both Group/Duo of the Year and Fan’s Choice awards from the Association of Country Music in Alberta at its 2015 awards ceremony held earlier this week in Red Deer.

As well, Sylvan Lake’s The Boom Chucka Boys won Video of the Year for Can’t Take My Lips Off You, and songwriters Phil O’Donnel, Ryan Langlois and Joel Rathjen were awarded Song of the Year.

The video for Can’t Take My Lips Off You was recorded live at a kissing booth at Westerner Days last summer.

Domino’s Group of the Year win is probably overdue for a group with 13 years in the music business. “We’re calling this our lucky 13,” said the group’s lead vocalist and bassist Luanne Carl, who was nominated with Domino five previous times.

“We are absolutely overwhelmed and humbled” with the ACMA awards, she added. “We are beyond happy.

This is a dream come true!”

The other members of Domino are Kent Nixon, also lead vocals and guitar, Scott McKnight on drums, and Russ Carl on guitar and mandolin. The band released its third album Ghost, with singles One More Kiss and Big Blue Sky, which were well received by radio across Canada. The group previously released In a Small Town single and video as well as One Day at a Time and All We Need Tonight.

After winning an ACMA Award for the video for Can’t Take My Lips Off You, The Boom Chuck Boys posted an exuberant message on Facebook: “Want to send a HUGE congrats and thanks to our friends at Unveil Studios in Red Deer … It was a one day, live, and on the fly video shoot at Westerner Days Fair & Exposition. It turned out incredible.”

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Red Deer Artist Mike Villisana with his painting of Batwoman titled ‘Taking a Selfie.’ Villisana was at the HUB on Ross hanging his show titled ‘Gotham Series Heroes and Villains.’ comic panels, with flat areas of colour outlined in black.

Some of his pieces resemble large playing cards with an upside-down reversal of heroes, such as Superman or Wonder Woman, with their arch-enemies, Lex Luthor and Cheetah.

Villasana admitted his mood dictates how he hangs these pictures. If he’s feeling good, then Superman is right-side up. If he’s feeling low, then it’s Luthor.

Fellow comic buffs will also recognize Batgirl, Batwoman, Poison Ivy and

the Joker in his art. (There’s no Robin, however, because Villasana isn’t a fan of the Boy Wonder.)

He is a fan of Czech art nouveau artist Alfonse Mucha, however, and has reinterpreted Mucha’s Four Seasons as a series of four female comic characters — including Harley Quinn and Catwoman.

Villasana’s Gotham in Red Deer exhibit runs to Feb. 29. The Hub on Ross gallery is open for viewing weekdays from 9-4 p.m. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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ABOVE AND BELOW: Vanessa Mastronardi first Red Deer exhibit, ‘We Have Our Inheritance,’ is a show of digital and silk-screen prints at the Harris-Warke Gallery, upstairs at Sunworks on Ross Street.

An exhibit brimming with contradictions

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF You can turn a blind eye to scruffy back alleys or industrial subdivisions — or you can see some artiness in their deterioration.

Vanessa Mastronardi, who has a fine arts degree from the University of Alberta, has chosen to do the latter.

Mastronardi’s first Red Deer exhibit, We Have Our Inheritance, is a show of digital and silk-screen prints at the Harris-Warke Gallery, upstairs at Sunworks on Ross Street.

Her display of decaying buildings is a blatant contradiction.

As the title of her exhibit suggests, Mastronardi is critical of people who allow their structures to fall into ruin. “(My art) is born out of someone neglecting, or not maintaining their property, so in a sense (it) comes across as a value judgment against it.”

Yet she believes that urban decay can still be seen as visually beautiful.

When viewed from a purely abstract-expressionist vantage point, the textures and colours of delapidated

properties make them interesting, said Mastronardi.

Her panoramic print Wasted, for instance, combines three contrasting surfaces into one richly textured image.

The print We Have Our Inheritance shows a digital photo print of a boarded-up building’s exterior. Below it are crayon markings that were silk-screened and later printed onto Japanese rice paper. These layered, vertical crayon lines complement, yet contras with the cartoonish stonework pattern on the building.

Sacred Space shows a similar juxtaposition of images. A digital photo of a sheet-metal scrap iron building is superimposed with a second photo of a wooden fence. While the textures of the fence and metal siding differ, both vertically-lined surfaces visually mirror each other.

Mastronardi, who was drawn to the visual arts program after taking a drawing fundamentals class at university, enjoys experimenting with the collage-like effect of the digital printing/silk screening processes.

She was inspired by abstract-ex-

pressionist artist such as Mark Rothko, who deliberately used flat colour fields to create “apolitical art” during the highly politicized decades before and after the Second World War. “It was actually a very political thing to do,” said Mastronardi.

She hopes her show at the Har-

ris-Warke gallery will make viewers see urban decay in a different light.

“Sometimes we see things that don’t seem to have value anymore… and of course, they still have value — even if it’s only aesthetic value.”

Her show continues to Feb. 13. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

and crew should be commended for tackling a thorny interpretation with bold creativity.

It runs to Feb. 13. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

gle of the Year for Airwaves and Album of the Year for Pick Me Up. First time wins were given out to Drew Gregory, of Standard, Alta., for Male Artist of the Year and Calgary’s Lindsay Ell for Female Artist of the Year.

The award for the 2015 Rising Star went to Calgary-based Trinity Bradshaw. Other wins from the evening included Angie Morris for Industry Person of the Year and Calgary Stampede took home their second win for Talent Buyer of the Year.

Larry Werner, longtime producer of the Big Valley Jamboree, was inducted into the ACMA Hall of Fame. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

ACMA: Werner in hall of fame The band is made up of Langlois, Rathjen, Teddy Roy Michaylow, Ben Shillabeer and Neil MacDonald.

Besides the Central Alberta ACMA winners, Brett Kissel, of Flat Lake, Alta., walked away with two wins — Sin-

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Stettler group Domino picked up both Group/Duo of the Year and Fan’s Choice awards from the Association of Country Music in Alberta at its 2015 awards ceremony held earlier this week in Red Deer.

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TEMPEST: Verses needed trimming Although RDC’s The Tempest has visually stunning moments, this is not Shakespeare’s most dramatic vehicle. It might have helped to use a more dynamic First Nations drumming soundtrack.

Meegan Sweet and Logan Shave portray an engagingly wide-eyed Miranda (Prospero’s daughter) and Ferdinand (the son of the King of Naples).

When the naive lovers aren’t making goo-goo eyes at each other, however, there’ almost a palpable lack of action, with no sword fights, chases or much humour.

Also in the cast are: Bethany Monaghan as Prospero’s treacherous sister, Antonia, Brendan Hutchison as the King of Naples, Derek Olinek as advisor Gonzolo, Alicia Maedel as the King’s sister, Sabina, and Bronlynn Bleich and Zoe Peters (as butler Stephana and jester Trincula).

The play without an intermission clocks in at a fairly economic onehour-50-minutes, yet still contains verses that could have been trimmed, such as Prospero’s rambling explanation of how he came to the island. However, audience members will hear such famous passages as: “what’s past is prologue,” “We are such stuff which dreams are made on,” and “O brave new world, that has such people in it!”

(There’s also Caliban’s apt remark to slave-owner Prospero: “You taught me language, and my profit on’t is, I know how to curse.”

The RDC Theatre Studies students proved capable of boiling down

Shakespeare’s dense dialogue into understandable stanzas. But nearly every actor needs to slow down, speak up and enunciate for clarity. I missed some key plot points.

Although this version of The Tempest contains hitches, there’s much to admire in the colourful costumes and characterizations. Usher and his cast

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THE FINEST HOURS (PG) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI-SUN 3:50; STAR & STROLLERS SCREENING WED 1:30 HOW TO BE SINGLE (14A) (COARSE LANGUAGE) NO PASSES THURS 7:20, 10:05 DEADPOOL (14A) (SEXUAL CONTENT,NUDITY,VIOLENCE) ULTRAAVX, NO PASSES THURS 7:00, 10:15 THE FINEST HOURS 3D (PG) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI,MON-WED 6:40, 9:35; SATSUN 1:00, 6:40, 9:35; THURS 6:40, 9:30 HAIL, CAESAR! (PG) CLOSED CAPTIONED, NO PASSES FRI 4:40, 7:30, 10:15; SAT-SUN 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15; MON-WED 7:10, 10:05; THURS 7:05, 9:50 BROOKLYN (PG) (MATURE SUBJECT MATTER) FRI 3:40, 6:30, 9:15; SAT-SUN 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:15; MON-WED 6:30, 9:25; THURS 6:55, 9:40 PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES (14A) (VIOLENCE) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI 5:10, 7:50, 10:30; SAT 11:30, 2:10, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30; SUN 2:10, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30; MON-WED 7:30, 10:10; THURS 7:15, 9:55 DADDY’S HOME (PG) (COARSE LANGUAGE) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI 5:30, 8:00, 10:25; SAT-SUN 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25; MON-WED 7:35, 10:00 DADDY’S HOME (PG) (COARSE LANGUAGE) STAR & STROLLERS SCREENING WED 1:30 ZATHURA: A SPACE ADVENTURE (PG) (MAY FRIGHTEN YOUNGER CHILDREN) SAT 11:00 ZOOLANDER NO. 2 () NO PASSES THURS 7:30, 10:10

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C6 Woman waiting for the sun to shine or her life, Annie, and I am almost suicidal. I want out. It hurts so much to not be loved that I would prefer to live alone. It’s painful to sit and read, hoping that he will notice me.

I know that not all men are like this because I see others kissing and embracing their wives, and I hear their wives talk about their romantic lives.

I have been faithful, sharing and supportive for all of these years. I have never asked him for anything. What can I do except to play solitaire and cry?

— A. Dear A.: Has your husband always been like this?

His lack of affection does not necessarily mean that he doesn’t love you. But if he does, he obviously doesn’t know how to express it and seems unwilling to learn.

No one deserves to be so unhappy for the rest of her life. We know this sounds like a broken record, but counseling will help you. Tell your husband you need to find out whether the marriage is worth saving. Explain exactly why you are ready to leave.

Ask him to go with you for counseling to work on the problem, but if he refuses, go alone.

Dear Annie: I am writing to address a problem that seems to be getting worse.

As a young driver, I observed that other drivers on the road would flash their high beams at another

Saturday, Feb. 6 Sunday, February 7 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Josh Stewart, 39; Fabian, 72; Axl Rose, 53 Garth Brooks, 53; Ashton Kutcher, 37; James THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Expect an Spader, 55 eventful and unsettling day, full of intense THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Strive to get emotions. the balance right between freedom and reHAPPY BIRTHDAY: July and August are sponsibility. the best months to fall in love, propose, get HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Born on the zodiac’s married or renew your wedding vows. Lucky Day of Utopia, you long for the world to be a Jupiter could also send extra more perfect and peaceful place. money your way.

2016 is the year to dream dreams ARIES (March 21-April and then put them into practise.

19): Hey Rams — the more ARIES (March 21-April 19): you try to control others, the Steady as she goes Aries. You feel more difficult the day will be. like taking the initiative, but don’t You’re keen to impose your scare others away by being far ideas on loved ones, but maytoo impulsive and gung-ho. Group be they’re not buying what activities and innovative ideas are you’re selling? favoured.

TAURUS (April 20-May TAURUS (April 20-May 20): 20): It’s a good time to formuWith Mercury, Venus and Pluto all late your goals for the future, visiting your adventure zone, plan JOANNE MADELINE plus consolidate any travel an exciting trip away for some time plans you have in the pipeline. soon. It’s also a good time to study MOORE Look to your international cona topic that has always fascinated HOROSCOPE tacts to keep you up-to-date you. with current news.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Moon’s in You’re impatient to plan a holiday or learn Capricorn and you have much to learn from something new but if you are too hasty, you this conscientious sign. Like — less chatter, could end up booking a horror trip or enrolling and more productive work. Being super thor- in the wrong course. So do the research and ough is the way to go today Twins. take your time.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You’re keen CANCER (June 21-July 22): Expect a to show loved ones how much you care. roller coaster kind of day where youíre emoAvoid being overprotective though. All rela- tionally up one minute, and feeling down the tionships need room to breathe and there’s next. You’ve got plenty to do though, and you a big difference between loving and smoth- certainly won’t have time to be bored. ering.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Take the time to LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Close relation- be extra clear in the way you communicate ships look a tad tricky, as you say what’s on today Lions. If you are pompous, pretentious, your mind — and then step back and watch bossy or bombastic, then conversing with oththe sparks fly. A little less “honesty” and a lot ers will be strained and difficult. more tact will make the day less dramatic.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): With JupiVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Add some ter moving through your sign, aim to be as variety to your usual routine today. And, if you proactive and informed as possible Virgo. At have an ongoing problem that’s got you per- the moment, knowledge is power and taking plexed, try a completely different approach. action is non-negotiable.

Utilize your vivid Virgo imagination!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Attached LiLIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It’s time to nur- brans your partner is likely to do something ture and feather your nest, as you clean, tidy unexpected today, so keep your adaptability and decorate home and hearth. When your muscles well-flexed. Singles it’s time to be domestic environment is sorted, then you can more adventurous in your choice of partner. cope better with relationship matters.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Take a chill SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The stars pill Scorpio and resist the temptation to make highlight power issues, so you need to re- big mountains out of tiny molehills. You may lax your Scorpion-like grip on something — be worrying unnecessarily about something or someone. If you try to control everything that wonít even happen. around you, then it’s going to be a stressful SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’re day! in the mood to mix and mingle today, but SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’re you’re also inclined to overdo just about evin super curious mode and are keen to travel erything. Aim to be gregarious and generous, or learn something new today. But — when rather than bossy and belligerent. it comes to money — resist the urge to be CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): With wasteful with cash and careless with credit.

Venus visiting your sign, tune into the kind CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Consci- and caring Capricorn within. Your motto for entious Capricorn — you prefer things to hap- the moment is from birthday great Charles pen in an organized and logical way. But to- Dickens, “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” day will only work well if you throw your plans AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Nurture out the window and expect the unexpected! yourself and loved ones today, as the Moon AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re in moves through your sign. Don’t hold back the mood to rock a few boats and ruffle a few Aquarius. The more honest and direct you feathers Aquarius, as Uranus cranks up your are with others, the better the day will be. contrary side. Spend some quality time alone PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Escaping so you can cool down and re-calibrate. into a fantasy world is fun, but don’t stay there PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The empha- too long! If you take creative ideas and turn sis is off you and onto the group. How can them into practical projects, then you’ll savour you contribute to your local community — and the sweet taste of success. support those around you? Helping others is Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationone of your talents, so don’t waste it. ally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

Retired Ohio police officer gets to buy K-9 partner for $1 MARIETTA, Ohio — A recently retired Ohio police officer has been allowed to buy his K-9 partner for $1.

Officials in Marietta had created a social-media stir when they said Matt Hickey’s police dog, Ajax, had to be sold at auction because it was city property and could still work. Hickey

and Ajax worked together for three years, and the dog lived with him.

Hickey was allowed to buy Ajax from the city on Thursday.

Earlier this week, the city had said it would allow Hickey to keep the dog if Hickey continued to work for the police department on a volunteer basis after his retirement. Hickey refused, noting he retired in January over health concerns. Hickey says he’s “speechless and very grateful” that he gets to keep Ajax.

check your

driver to let that person know their high beams were on by mistake. But nowadays, it is more common for drivers to simply turn their high beams on and leave them shining in the person’s windshield until the offending driver turns their own high beams down.

This strikes me as very rude and is probably a reflection of a society that is increasingly more prone to road rage.

Please remind your readers that it is much kinder to simply flash the high beams rather than locking them in. Courtesy is not that difficult. Thank you. — Pennsylvania Dear Pennsylvania: We’re going to assume that those who shine their high beams into another car simply do not understand appropriate road etiquette.

You click them on and off a couple of times, folks, and that’s it. It alerts the other driver that their beams are on high (or their headlights aren’t on at all). Don’t belabor the point.

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Let’s get cozy DESIGNERS’ TIPS ON MAKING YOUR BEDROOM A COMFY RETREAT

BY MELISSA RAYWORTH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Decorating a bedroom is about creating a peaceful retreat, and in winter that means making it as cozy and welcoming as possible.

For some people, “cozy” requires the physical warmth of thick flannel sheets and soft quilts, says California-based designer Kathryn Bechen. For others, filling a bedroom with sentimental items can make the space feel warmer and more welcoming.

Still others find that the golden glow of soft light bulbs and the flicker of candles (real or fake) can elevate a bedroom from merely comfortable to truly cozy on winter nights.

Here, Bechen and two other interior designers — Maxwell Ryan, founder of the Apartment Therapy website (apartmenttherapy.com), and New Yorkbased Young Huh — suggest ways to create the warmest, coziest bedroom possible.

SOUNDS AND SCENTS A cozy bedroom is quiet, says Ryan. So consider adding an extra throw rug on the floor or heavier draperies on the windows to absorb sound. And if you don’t already have one, he says, get a padded, upholstered headboard.

Ryan treated himself to one several years ago and was surprised at the impact.

“Lying in bed, my head was near this big upholstered piece,” he says, and the room was noticeably quieter.

Taking that strategy a step further, Huh suggests upholstering one or several walls in your master bedroom. Like a headboard, this will absorb sound and also create a sense of warmth when you see and feel the plush, padded fabric.

Along with sounds, consider scents. Cinnamon-scented candles, for instance, can “make you feel cozy instead of gloomy” in winter, Huh says.

Don’t like cinnamon? A wide range of scents will work, says Bechen, even some you wouldn’t expect: If the smell of coconut and pineapple brings back memories of a mellow, sun-drenched vacation in the tropics, that fragrance may bring you a sense of calm and warmth.

COLOURS AND LIGHT Along with scenting the air, candles give a room

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An extra blanket and a few throw pillows make an easy start to creating a softer, more cozy atmosphere for your bedroom. a “warm, soft, inviting glow,” Huh says. She recommends lighting them every evening in winter.

If you’re worried about lighting a flame in your bedroom, consider pairing flameless LED candles with a diffuser containing scented oil.

Or swap out your light bulbs for ones that offer warm, yellow or pink-tinged light.

The newest energy-efficient bulbs give warmer light than the original compact fluorescents, and dimmers can also help create appealing, soothing light.

Colours also convey strong messages for a cozy space, Ryan suggests avoiding over-stimulating colours like bright reds or yellows in favour of calming greens, greys, eggplant, lavender and even some blues.

But Bechen points out that bedroom colours are a very personal choice. Some folks prefer a room decorated in low-key, calming colours, but others will draw warmth and coziness from deep, powerful shades. If a colour delights you, she says, then it may work as a calming, joyful influence.

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He also recommends adding a thick bed pad, feather bed or ext tra-thick mattress cover under your fitted sheet u for added warmth and f softness. s If you have a four-poster bed, he says, f consider draping fabric c over the top and down o the sides to create a t warm, enclosed space. w If you don’t have a four-poster but love the f idea of fabric draped around your bed, he suggests getting “one of s the big white, gauzy canopies that hang from the ceiling.”

Even if it’s as light as mosquito netting, he says, it gives a sense of being wrapped in something cozy.

It’s “romantic and lovely,” he says, “and not just for kids.”

BEING COZY INCLUDES FEELING A BIT PAMPERED. IF YOU HAVE SPACE, CONSIDER SETTING UP A LITTLE COFFEE OR TEA STATION IN YOUR BEDROOM, LIKE YOU’D FIND IN A HOTEL ROOM. ON A SATURDAY MORNING, DRINK YOUR COFFEE CUDDLED UP UNDER SOFT BLANKETS RATHER THAN AT THE KITCHEN TABLE.

WINTER FABRICS AND RUGS Huh says winter is the season for layering on extra soft blankets and adding throw rugs on top of your usual floor covering. Consider a faux-sheepskin or faux-fur throw rug, or a fluffy flokati rug.

Look for winter sheets that are flannel or heavy cotton, and make sure they’re soft. No one feels cozy on scratchy sheets, says Bechen.

Ryan suggests choosing sheets in dark, cool colours like deep brown, charcoal grey, even rich eggplant. Just make sure they don’t contain too much

FINISHING TOUCHES Being cozy includes feeling a bit pampered, says Bechen. If you have space, consider setting up a little coffee or tea station in your bedroom, like you’d find in a hotel room. On a Saturday morning, drink your coffee cuddled up under soft blankets rather than at the kitchen table.

Huh suggests splurging on a soft chair for reading in your bedroom.

For Ryan, a powerful but silent air purifier is a great finishing touch to make your air healthier and help you drift off to sleep feeling secure.

One detail he doesn’t recommend? Decorative pillows.

“True coziness has to be something you touch and feel and use,” he says, not something on your bed that you’ll never use.

This undated photo shows a calming and cozy bedroom designed by Young Huh that features walls upholstered with panels of wool sateen. These panels absorb sound and give a sense of warmth and softness to the entire room, perfect for warming up a space in winter.

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Art a major focal point of décor

Home Improvement Venture Helps Those Hard-to-Employ

BY STEVE MAXWELL SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE This past summer I got a call from an American guy named Marty Rolnick. Heís on a mission to help people find work while also meeting a community home improvement need. Marty’s vision is worth sharing because it’s just the kind of thing that could make a difference in many communities. It’s definitely not the usual way of helping people in need, and it has a particular lesson to teach us Canadians, too.

Marty lives in Greenburgh, N.Y., a town of 88,000 people with two problems.

The first is unemployed residents. Greenburgh has more than its share of hard to employ people with criminal records reentering the marketplace.

These people need direction, marketable skills and opportunity. They need these things badly.

A second challenge in Marty’s community has to do with home improvements. Many elderly citizens don’t have the energy or health to keep their homes painted, and that’s a problem. It’s amazing how mentally draining a dingy home can be. While the hardto-employ members of the community lose hope for their future, the physically challenged face an ugly home environment with no way to make things better. These two groups can help each other, but only if the missing ingredient is added.

Lack of skills and opportunity are the only things preventing the able bodied of Greenburgh from meeting the needs of the paint-deprived elderly and disabled, but for whatever reason the free market isn’t solving this problem on its own. Marty is what I call a social entrepreneur. He’s filling Greenburgh’s community need with something he calls The Fisherman’s Project.

“We chose this name from that old saying: Give a person a fish and feed them for a day; teach that person to fish and feed them for a lifetime,” explains Rolnick. “We want to teach hard-to-employ people how to fish.”

Instead of a steady stream of government handouts, Marty’s plan involves online training for newbie painters and a hands-on apprenticeship program. The ultimate goal is employment in the non-profit painting company that’s also part of The Fisherman’s Project.

“In addition to painting and wall patching skills, a big part of what we do is teach people the soft skills of working with the public,” says Rolnick. “We teach these new painters how to treat clients well, how to be reliable, detail oriented and trustworthy. All the technical skills in the world don’t matter without these basics.”

Rolnick has partnered with local government, clergy, existing bricks-and-mortar training providers and corporate sponsors to make the whole thing happen. He’s also making use of online video training to help people learn the painting trade. Click on BaileyLineRoad.com/screw-pops for an example of how Rolnick is using online video to teach apprentice painters.

long hall wall with either a wide, narrow painting or line up a series of smaller pictures. Don’t be afraid to fill a wall with a large painting. And keep the balance with art hung over a fireplace mantel.

To learn more about what’s on trend in the art world today, I spoke with Amitai Sasson, VP marketing and development for www.overstockart.com, a busy and informative online site that sells reproductions of the most popular masters, including Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Klimt and Degas. Their goal is to make copies of the most famous and sought after works of art that look and feel as the artist intended.

The replicas are each handpainted in oils so that the smell, texture and shine is reminiscent of the originals. Sasson believes that fine art is not just for the rich, and prices range around $250 plus framing, higher for custom pieces. Frames link the art to the wall, and best complement the room’s style.

The site has frames and a tool whereby you can pick a room and see how your painting choice will look hanging on the wall.

Shown here, a traditional, neutral living room is brought alive with French Impressionist Claude Monet’s Garden Path at Giverny. The famous setting is bursting with colour and rendered in a size that fills the space majestically. Looking at a completely different style, the colours and form of symbolist painter Gustav Klimt’s brilliant painting, Malcesine on Lake Garda

are echoed in the shapely orange chairs and floral display beneath it.

“Our living spaces change over time,” says Sasson, “and so can our art. Be daring with your art. Move it around, make a big statement.” And one final point, be sure to light your artwork so that it is seen to advantage. This can be achieved with spots or ambient light. Enjoy the process. It is exciting!

Debbie Travis’ House to Home column is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara Dingle. Please email your questions to house2home@debbietravis.com. You can follow Debbie on Twitter at www.twitter.com/debbie_travis, and visit Debbie’s new website, www.debbietravis.com.

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The art that you choose for your home will be one of the major focal points in your décor.

However, the range in styles, mediums and colours is endless and can make the task of selecting the right piece or pieces very challenging. There are guidelines that will help you to narrow down the search. My first rule is that you love what you buy.

Price is not necessarily a factor — a painting from a new artist can make as big an impression as the wellloved masters. Art is highly personal, go with what speaks to you and it will light up your home.

Take colours into consideration as they set the mood for a room. Generally you will want calm, restful shades for the bedroom, a scene that de-stresses you and prepares you for sleep.

The living room is the place to hang artwork that complements your personal life interests. More vibrant hues and quirky subjects that DEBBIE fire up your imagination welTRAVIS come guests into your world.

Think about dramatic pieces HOUSE TO HOME for the dining room that tell a story, images that beg to be discussed, as they will draw out convivial conversation with family and guests.

Before you buy, take the time to scout out art galleries and sales, other people’s homes, magazine layouts, and the Internet. This will help to educate you about what’s available, and also you will discover what excites you.

Then take the dimensions of the wall or space where you intend to hang the art. Follow the shape of that space with your art to achieve balance. Fill a

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in making his ideas work, and this personal stake translates to a much different level of drive than any government department could ever muster. And in the end, drive is often the essential ingredient behind success.

Canadians are among the most hands-on people in the world when it comes to do-it-yourself home improvements. But we’re also some of the most government dependent when it comes to solving the bigger problems of community development and social health.

Perhaps it’s time this country got better at a whole new kind of DIY. Steve Maxwell hosts Canada’s largest home improvement website.

One big difference between America and Canada is that we Canadians tend to be more dependent on government leadership to solve our problems. Does this government-focus work? Sometimes, but there are limits. Decades of overspending has reduced the ability of Canadian governments to throw money at problems like they used to. And even when they do, nobody sits awake at night worrying about the success of a government venture to the same extent that an individual entrepreneur like Rolnick does.

He has a much higher personal stake

their durability will introduce your guests to your love of the rugs if you choose a pattern that you have chosen for the living room area.

Although it’s a nice idea and one worth investigating, if you insist on “breaking up” the white tile by installing some pieces, take the time to plan a pattern carefully or the concept can go horribly wrong.

Ensure that the colour or colours you choose are not jarring, but rather are soft and pale.

A skilled tile installer will be able to advise you on the correct product to buy, will be able to remove a few tiles without damaging others and probably has seen enough tile installations to offer his or her opinion.

Generally, in decorating your entry hall, a few general rules should be followed: It is important to pay attention to scale.

That does not necessarily mean that

your furniture and accessories have to be small because sometimes largescaled furniture will make a space feel larger.

Colour and small accessories are two easy ways to transform the space.

Changing the wall colour is the most obvious thing that can contribute to a warmer feeling, even if the colour is a pale beige tone Accessories like wall-hung rugs or pictures will downplay the massive expanses of open wall.

Trees are a classic and look good in a tall space like this one.

If natural light is a problem, think about plants that don’t require much, such as a Chinese evergreen or even a silk tree.

Palm trees are very traditional and will emphasize the space’s height.

David Ferguson is a regular contributor to CBC Radio’s Ontario Today. Write to David at: david.ferguson@hotmail.ca.

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at a time.

After a brief period of “comeback” about ten years ago, they are once again viewed as a essential element in home design.

An entry hall is an important space for many reasons, despite being a space that one, generally, passes through quickly.

Regardless of how big it is or how many fancy fittings it sports, it is a room that must make a quick first impression or it has missed the opportunity.

It should welcome your guests, and serve as an introduction to the rest of your home by giving them a taste of what to expect.

In its design and decoration, it should relate to other rooms.

By their very nature entrance halls are most often transitional spaces that have multiple traffic paths crossing through them.

This minimizes the choices furniture arranging, but because some pieces are so important, entire industries have developed, with space-saving furniture that creatively accommodates things in unusually narrow or shallow cabinets.

There are many easy and relatively inexpensive ways to handle your allwhite entrance hall.

The curved of your staircase can be emphasized by painting the handrail and newel post in a contrasting colour.

The floor area at the curve lends itself nicely to an oval console table, a catch-all for keys, mail and deliveries.

In this prominent area, you might choose to display a piece or two of a favourite collection, a beautiful bouquet of flowers, or a wonderful lamp.

A convenient chair is necessary, particularly in the winter as a place to sit and change footwear.

It is ideally located near the closet, and in your home, the perfect place is directly in front of the large mirror.

Area rugs work nicely in any entrance hall because they look beautiful, wear well and tend to hide dirt.

Classic Oriental rugs chosen for

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The best word to describe the current look is “unwelcoming”, mostly because it is almost entirely white.

The flooring has white, 20-inch square ceramic tile that we like but, when combined DAVID with every othFERGUSON er white thing in the space, is CREATIVE SPACE boring.

A neighbour had suggested the wonderful idea of changing a few tiles for a contrasting colour, creating a pattern.

A sweeping curved staircase to the second floor is lovely, but entirely white.

Walls, as you have already guessed, are white.

We like the large, full-length mirror that is attached to the wall, and thought we might have a frame built around it.

The rest of our home is furnished in a classic style, but we don’t know what direction we should be heading in for this important space.

Most of our best furniture pieces are antique, and we are proud of the collection of Oriental rugs that we acquired during many years of travelling throughout the Middle East.

Your suggestions and ideas are more than welcomed because we are at a standstill until a decision is made.

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During most of the ’70’s and ’80’s, new home builders had all but eliminated entry halls from floor plans in favour of simple transitional spaces, sometimes barely big enough for two

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DEIBERT Richard “Dick” Joseph Dear friends, since you are reading this you’ll know that I have taken my last flight. I was born June 3, 1937 and died February 3, 2016. I want you to know that you have been part of the great ride I have had through my life, and part of the legacy I leave behind. The greater part of which is my wife, Carey; my children Sarah Richards (Mike), Matthew (Nicole), Erin (Shelli), Luke (Sandy), Andy (Nicky) and my 12 beautiful grandchildren! The family wishes to invite you to a reception and farewell at Red Deer Funeral Home, 6150-67 Street, Red Deer on Monday, February 8, 2016 from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm.

My family will also be hosting a celebration of life on Friday, June 3, 2016 the location will be announced at a later date. In lieu of flowers or gifts, please donate to the Lending Cupboard, 5406C 43 Street, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 1C9 or to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta T4R 3S6. Both are there to serve those who have need of them. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com “Until we meet again” - Dick Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

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GRIEMAN Keith 1964 - 2016 Keith Joseph Grieman of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away at Drayton Valley, Alberta on Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at the age of 51 years. Keith was born on October 9, 1964 to Arnold and Bernice (nee Trainor) Grieman at Humboldt, Saskatchewan.

Shortly after receiving his education in Humboldt, he moved to Saskatoon, where he started his career in Sales, beginning with Ens Toyota. Keith married Annette Gerspacher on July 28, 1990 and they recently celebrated their Twenty-fifth Wedding Anniversary. In 1991, they moved to Red Deer, Alberta, where he was employed with Red Deer Toyota and currently with Zep Inc. The couple was blessed with two beautiful daughters: Thea in October 2000 and Celina in January 2003. Keith loved and adored his three girls and family was first and foremost in his heart.

Camping, vacations, and road trips to the Humboldt area were a big part of their time together. He was kept busy with the girls’ dance and other activities. Keith took great pleasure in seeing his daughters’ achievements and academic successes. Keith was everything to the girls; he was their rock. Keith was an avid sports fan. He started young playing baseball and High School football with the Humboldt Mohawks. He enjoyed golf, although he had less time for it in recent years. As a youth, he would throw his clubs on his back and bike to the golf course after school. He played slow-pitch in Saskatoon and recently with the Knights of Columbus, the last two summers. He cheered for the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Edmonton Oilers; and he followed several other teams. He gave unselfishly of his time and talent in the community. Keith enjoyed the friendship and fellowship of the Knights of Columbus at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. He orgranized the pancake breakfasts, turkey and spaghetti suppers, basketball and golf tournaments, garage sales and other charitable initiatives. In September 2015, he was appointed Grand Knight. People were everything to him. Customers were his friends. Friends were practically family. Family was priceless to Keith.

“Rest in peace sweet angel. You are in our hearts forever.”

Keith will be lovingly remembered by his wife, Annette Grieman (nee Gerspacher) and his daughters; Thea Grieman and Celina Grieman, all of Red Deer. He will also be very sadly missed by his brothers; Kevin A. (Brenda) Grieman of Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Terry (Pat) Grieman of Rimbey, Alberta and Dean (Colleen) Grieman of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and his sister, Colleen Pylypow, also of Saskatoon. Keith was predeceased by his father, Arnold Grieman, mother, Bernice Joa, stepfather, Norbert Joa, a brother, Glenn, brother-in-law, Vern Pylypow and father-in-law, Herman Gerspacher. A Prayer Service will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Sunday, February 7, 2016 at 4:00 p.m. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta on Monday, February 8, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. with The Reverend Father Les Drewicki celebrant. If desired, Memorial Donations in Keith’s honor may be made directly to a Fund being set up for Thea and Celina Grieman at the Royal Bank of Canada, 6791 Gaetz Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta; the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta and N.W.T. at www.heartandstroke.ab.ca; or to the Alberta Diabetes Foundation at www.albertadiabetesfoundation.com/. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.

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PAYNE Robert (Bob) It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Robert (Bob) Payne on January 29, 2016 at the age of 71. The youngest son of John Redvers and Zella Payne, Bob was predeceased by his brother Don and is survived by his sister Doris Stollings (George Tkach) of Red Deer.

Bob leaves behind his beloved wife of 42 years, Shelley, children Tammy and Cory (Tara), grandsons Zach and Chaseton, nephew Bruce Stollings (Pam), and niece Lynn Manning (Dean).

Born in Trochu, Alberta, on May 22, 1944, Bob shared the limelight of his home town with a unique shoe store - perhaps the catalyst for his penchant of sandals with socks later in life. Bob had great enthusiasm for corny jokes and puns, always motivated by how big a groan he could elicit. A proud central Albertan, he would always remark when passing through Trochu that it was the place where “Zella had a little Payne”.

Achieving academic success at an early age - including a Governor General’s award Bob had his choice of career paths. He chose to article at the firm of McKenzie Sheridan in Red Deer for his Chartered Accountancy, a designation he carried through the remainder of his life. After graduation, instead of pursuing accounting immediately, he fulfilled a challenge in faith and pursued the gospel calling by enrolling in Berean Bible College in Calgary. His bible college training was supported by his accounting profession. Within a couple of years, Bob then transitioned from accounting to his first pastorate in Hanna, Alberta.

Bob continued his parallel careers, changing occasionally over the next 40 years between accounting and pastoring. No matter where he was at in his profession, he always stayed close to his passion for sharing the good news of Jesus. Bob would often recount his unusual career path by reminding a questioner of the two certainties in life - death and taxes - and that he had a foot planted firmly in both camps.

In his spare time Bob’s passion for gardening was trumped only by a stimulating game of cards, be it Bridge or Crib - a skill he took time to instill with his grandsons.

Bob died in San Juan, Puerto Rico during one of his newest-found loves, cruising.

With full confidence in his salvation in Christ, Bob’s family comes together to celebrate Bob’s passing to Jesus’ loving arms.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, February 20, 2016, at Strathmore Alliance Church (First Avenue and Wheatland Trail) at 2:00 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Bob’s memory are encouraged to be sent directly to The Mustard Seed (102 11 Ave. SE, Calgary AB, T2G 0X5). To send condolences, please visit Bob’s obituary at: www.wheatlandfuneralhome.ca

PURNELL Verna Mae (nee Edwards) April 19, 1925 - Feb. 1, 2016 With hearts full of treasured memories, it is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our wonderful mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. She is lovingly remembered by her sons, Brian (Helen) Purnell, Ken (Sherrie) Purnell and daughter, Patricia (Ed) Dyck.

Grandchildren, Richelle (Jeff) Nielsen, Pam Purnell, James (Janet) Purnell, Christopher (Chloaye) Purnell, Janelle (Andrew) Jenkinson, Jonathon Dyck, Cara Taylor, Corey (Alicia) Taylor and Andrew Taylor and nine great grandchildren.

Verna was predeceased by her loving husband, Lloyd Purnell; sister, Laura Peterson and parents, Ira and Lena Edwards. Verna was born and raised on the family farm east of Ponoka and attended Concord School.

Verna and Lloyd were married in 1947 and moved to Eckville in 1949. Verna was an active member of the St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church Ladies Evening Group for over 50 years from Oct 1949 to 2000. She served on the Church Board and was an Explorer Leader for many years. Verna and Lloyd were very involved in the planning and building of St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church and showed great pride in their church. Verna enjoyed her time as an Avon products saleslady for over 30 years.

She won and earned many trips with Avon and especially enjoyed going to the Avon plant in Montreal and a trip to Nassau, Bahamas. Verna loved her garden, especially her flowers and loved spending holidays with family, especially the special times with her Grandchildren.

Verna’s favorite place to holiday was Fairmont Hot Springs, BC. She also loved to travel. Verna and Lloyd travelled extensively which they both immensely enjoyed.

She was a devoted Wife, Mother, and Grandmother.

The Family would like to thank the staff at the Eckville Manor House and Mom’s Caregivers at Villa Marie and Aspen Ridge Assisted Living Residences. Thanks to Mom’s angels, Joyce and Marion and Nannies for Grannies for your friendship and loving support. A Celebration of Verna’s life will be held at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Eckville, Alberta on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 1:30 pm. Interment at the Eckville Cemetery, Eckville, Alberta. If friends so desire, memorial donations may be made in Verna’s name to the Eckville Manor House or Villa Marie in Red Deer. Condolences can be forwarded to www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.com.

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The sixth man on the moon

Fourty-five years ago this month, Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot for the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission, stands by the deployed U.S. flag on the lunar surface during the early moments of the first extravehicular activity (EVA) of the mission. He was photographed by astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., mission commander. Mitchell died Thursday at his home in Palm Beach, Fla. at age 85.

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It was the telepathy experiment on the ride home that would give Mitchell notoriety. Even before he left, he told The Associated Press about his fascination with psychic phenomena and extrasensory perception and that he thought humans weren’t the only intelligent life in the universe.

Those interests almost got him removed from the mission, said Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon and backup commander for Apollo 14. Cernan wrote in his autobiography that despite Mitchell’s impeccable skills and vast intelligence, flight crew director Deke Slayton and Shepard were bothered with the fascination.

Mitchell claimed the experiment was a success, but most press reports dismissed him and some colleagues shunned him.

Edgar Dean Mitchell was born Sept. 17, 1930, in Hereford, Texas, and grew up working on his father’s cattle ranch in New Mexico.

He joined the Navy and got a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining NASA. He left NASA in 1972 and founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which is dedicated to exploring the mysteries of the human mind and the universe. He also searched for ways to link the spirituality of religion with the hard facts of science.

In later years, he claimed the U.S. government covered up evidence that aliens had landed here. He also tried to prove that the supposed psychic spoon bender Uri Geller and faith healers were legit.

In 2011, he became embroiled in a legal fight with NASA over his plans to auction a 16mm camera he had brought home from the moon mission. The camera had been bolted to the l lunar module and would have been left on the moon if Mitchell hadn’t removed it.

Although Mitchell contended it was a gift, NASA sued to stop the auction and eventually Mitchell agreed to donate it to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington.

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MIAMI — Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who became the sixth man on the moon when he and Alan Shepard helped NASA recover from Apollo 13’s “successful failure” and later devoted his life to exploring physics, the mind, and unexplained phenomena such as psychics and aliens, has died in Florida. He was 85.

Mitchell died Thursday night at a West Palm Beach hospice after a short illness, his daughter, Kimberly Mitchell, said. Mitchell’s passing coincides with the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 14 mission from Jan. 31-Feb. 9, 1971.

Mitchell, one of only 12 humans to set foot on the moon, was not a typical strait-laced astronaut: In Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar later years, he said aliens visit- Mitchell ed Earth and faith healers were lic because Shepard became legit. He attempted to communicate telepathically with friends the first and only golfer on the at home during his Apollo mis- moon. Mitchell joked when Shepsion. He had an “epiphany” in ard duffed his first shot: “You got space that focused him on study- more dirt than ball that time.” ing physics and mysteries such as Less well known was that Mitchell made the only “javelin” throw on consciousness.

“What I experienced during the moon when he tossed an unthat three-day trip home was needed metal rod.

But Shepard and Mitchell alnothing short of an overwhelming sense of universal connected- most didn’t make it to the surface ness,” Mitchell wrote in his 1996 because of problems in the lunar autobiography. “It occurred to me module.

First, a loose piece of metal in that the molecules of my body and the molecules of the spacecraft a switch triggered an abort signal itself were manufactured long as they prepared to travel down to ago in the furnace of one of the the moon. Had the descent engine ancient stars that burned in the been on at the time, the module would have automatically abortheavens about me.”

In an emailed statement, NA- ed the landing. They traced the SA Administrator Charles Bold- problem’s cause by tapping on the en called Mitchell, “one of the pi- switch with a flashlight and a pen.

Computer programmers back oneers in space exploration on home wrote instructions to get whose shoulders we now stand.”

Mitchell’s passion for explora- around the abort problem and tion led him to become an astro- Mitchell entered them with just naut, and he joined NASA in 1966. minutes to spare. Shepard later He helped design and test the lu- wrote that Mitchell remained “Mr. nar modules that first reached the Unflappable” during the scare.

Once they started for the surmoon in 1969 with Neil Armstrong face, though, the landing radar and Buzz Aldrin.

Shepard, the first American wasn’t working correctly. Shepin space in 1961, picked Mitchell ard and Mitchell agreed to take to be on Apollo 13’s three-per- the dangerous and rule-breaking son crew. But they were bumped step of landing without radar, but to the next mission so Shepard didn’t have to when the device started working just in time. would have more time to train.

Apollo 13’s astronauts were nearly killed when an oxygen tank exploded as they neared the moon in 1970. They made it home safely, but nevPowered Powe ered by er set foot on the moon.

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