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Arens wins new trial BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF The Alberta Court of Appeal has quashed a Sylvan Lake man’s convictions for the 2010 Canada Day crash that killed one teen and injured two more people. Rodney Ross Arens, 38, will get a new trial. Jeffrey Chanminaraj, 13, was killed on July 1, 2010 in a two-car crash at the intersection of Taylor Drive and Kerry Wood Drive. Jeffrey’s brother Jamie, 18,
was airlifted to Foothills Hospital in Calgary with severe injuries. A series of surgeries and months of treatment followed. Jeffrey and Jamie were in the car with their sister Stephanie on their way to Bower Ponds to watch the Canada Day fireworks. Arens was convicted of four charges, two for impaired driving and two for dangerous driving, on June 19, 2014 by Justice Kirk Sisson in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench. He was sentenced to five years and nine months in prison. His appeal was heard on Sept. 9, 2015 by the ap-
peal court. In a decision released late last week, two Alberta Appeal Court Justices, Justice Ronald Berger and Justice Barbara Lea Veldhuis, ruled in favour of allowing the appeal and quashing the four convictions. A third justice, Justice Peter Martin, wrote a dissenting opinion, saying he would dismiss the appeal. Because of the successful appeal, a new trial has been ordered for Arens.
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Campaign raising city’s profile BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Hotels Red Deer is taking its pitch nation-wide as part of a major push to make the city a destination leader. Karen Kitchen, who was hired as the organization’s business development manager in 2014, recently attended Destination Direct Canada conference in Ottawa where she promoted the city and its accommodation offerings. It’s only one example of the kind of networking underway to advertise the Red Deer brand. “I’m actually out actively KAREN KITCHEN marketing Red Deer across Canada, which typically hasn’t been done in the past. There has not been an individual doing this,” said Kitchen. Hitting trade shows, bringing clients in for familiarization tours and sealing bookings is all part of taking local marketing to a new level. In preparation, the brand look was refocused, a marketing video created and clips prepared for social media. On Feb. 28, www.hotelsreddeer.ca will be launched. After Kitchen joined, she spent the next two years building a marketing machine ready to put Red Deer on destination maps. It’s an approach that has a proven track record in communities from Calgary and Lethbridge to Banff and Canmore. “Until two years ago, Red Deer didn’t have someone doing this exclusively,” said Kitchen. “Hotels Red Deer is about driving events towards our city. That’s our whole mandate.” Playing the long game is important in the hotel, convention and event business. “When I’m meeting with clients they’re looking at Red Deer for 2020 and 2021,” she said. “We’re always looking into the future, laying those foundation bricks down.” Local hotel owners took a major step towards self promotion in 2010 when a destination marketing fund was created, funded with a voluntary one-percent fee on bookings. Fourteen hotels and venues with 1,420 rooms, 63 per cent of all rooms in Red Deer, have joined the initiative. While the province’s economy is obviously struggling, that doesn’t mean events have dried up. “Events still happen. Associations still have to have meetings,” she said. “Sport tourism is going to happen. Parents are still going to drive their kids around for hockey no matter what the economic situation is. “Whether the economy is good, bad or otherwise events still occur.” Red Deer’s upcoming 2019 Canada Winter Games is a “huge leverage point” when pitching the city’s merits in one-on-one meetings with potential visitors, she said. “(The Games) creates some validation for our city, that we are equipped to handle that volume and that type of event.”
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A memorial table is set up at Westmount Charter School in Calgary on Monday for Evan and Jordan Caldwell, who were killed in an after-hours toboggan accident on a Calgary bobsled track this past weekend.
‘We miss you’: grief counsellors working with students at schools affected by tragedy BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A table with photos of twin brothers who died in an after-hours joyride down a Calgary bobsled run was set up Monday at the school where both spent several years of their lives. A handwritten note with the words “We miss you”, Luge operator likely not followed by the drawing of liable for teenagers’ a heart, was propped up in front of the smiling pictures deaths: lawyer . . . . . . A3 of Jordan and Evan Caldwell at Westmount Charter School in northwest Calgary. The building is not far from Canada Olympic Park where they both died early Saturday morning. The two students, both 17, were part of a larger group that police say snuck onto the grounds of the WinSport facility, jumped onto their own toboggans and headed down the icy track where Olympic and World Cup events have taken place. They hit a gate set up to divide the bobsled and luge runs and died almost instantly. Six other young men were also taken to hospital after a 911 call from a staff member. Westmount Superintendent Joe Frank told reporters he knew both of the boys who started at the charter school in Grade 5. He said Evan switched to Ernest Manning High School because of a pre-engineering program for Grades 11 and 12, but Jordan remained at Westmount. “He was our students’ council president, a very active, very popular student right from Grade 5 to 12. The little guys called him their rock star,” Frank said. A dozen grief counsellors are working with stu-
‘HE WAS OUR STUDENTS’ COUNCIL PRESIDENT, A VERY ACTIVE, VERY POPULAR STUDENT RIGHT FROM GRADE 5 TO 12. THE LITTLE GUYS CALLED HIM THEIR ROCK STAR.’ — JOE FRANK, WESTMOUNT SUPERINTENDENT, ON JORDAN CALDWELL dents at the two schools. Frank said it’s important to let the students discuss their feelings and staff members have been giving them the facts of what happened. “We try to stay strictly to factual information. We don’t want to get into the rumour-mongering and one of the comments we often make to them is things that they don’t know lend themselves to kind of negative assumptions,” he said. Both Frank and Calvin Davies, District 4 director for the Calgary Board of Education, were wearing intertwined blue ribbons in honour of the two boys. Blue is the colour of both schools and Davies said there is a sense of community with those sharing the loss. “We know there is certainly tremendous strength and comfort that comes from a sense of community and having opportunities for students to meet in small groups for staff to meet together, for us to be able to provide individual opportunities for counselling,” Davies said. All notes and tributes from students at the schools will eventually be given to the Caldwell family. Two small memorials remain at Canada Olympic Park near the bobsled run. Bunches of flowers, a teddy bear and a dark blue Ernest Manning High School debate team sweatshirt were placed carefully on the ground.
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Airdrie man jailed for sex trade offence BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF
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Emergency crews respond to a fatal collision on Hwy 20 North of Rimbey on Sunday night. A 51-year-old woman from Stony Plain died when her SUV was struck by an eastbound truck that went through a stop sign at Township Road 442.
Stony Plain woman killed in collision near Rimbey BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF A collision between two vehicles north of Rimbey on Sunday evening claimed the life of a 51-year-old woman from Stony Plain. Const. Carman Dutz said that Rimbey RCMP received a call at about 6:11 p.m. of a collision between a truck and an SUV at the intersection of Hwy 20 and Township Road 442. The woman was driving northbound when her SUV collided with an eastbound pickup truck that was travelling on Township Road 442. The truck,
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Red Deer man facing 70 charges expected to enter pleas next week Facing more than 70 charges, a Red Deer man is looking to resolve them as early as next week. Nelson Ryan Gomes, 29, was arrested on Feb. 3 in a vehicle Red Deer RCMP said was stolen. He appeared in Red Deer provincial court on Monday before judge Bert Skinner.
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ARENS: Miscarriage of justice Defence counsel Donna Derie-Gillespie argued the trial judge’s ruling was a miscarriage of justice, caused by a lack of procedural fairness related to the Charter rulings. A voir dire decision regarding Arens’ rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was central to
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driven by a man, did not stop at a stop sign, Dutz said. The woman died at the scene of the collision. The man, who suffered minor injuries, was taken to Rimbey Hospital and later released. There were no other occupants in either of the vehicles. The collision was about 20 km north of Rimbey. While Hwy 20 was bare and dry, there had been some melting and freezing on the township road due to mild temperatures. RCMP are continuing to investigate and have not yet determined the cause of the accident, said Dutz.
An Airdrie man will go to prison for two years, after being convicted of an sex trade offence created in 2014 in response to a Supreme Court of Canada ruling. Javryell Raymond Baird, 26, pleaded guilty to material benefit from sexual services on Feb. 3 in Red Deer provincial court. He was sentenced to two years in prison and fined $200. He took an Airdrie teen girl to a hotel in Gasoline Alley, where the offence occurred. Three charges were laid on June 30, 2015 including assault, living on the avails of prostitution of a person under the age of 18 and trafficking a person under the age of 18 for the purpose of exploitation or facilitation exploitation. Those charges were withdrawn after the guilty plea was accepted by the court. Baird was arrested after an investigation by the Airdrie RCMP General Investigation Section and Crime Reduction Unit. Though it started as a missing youth investigation, police believed the teen had become a victim of human trafficking. Blackfalds RCMP assisted in the investigation and Baird was arrested. The material benefit charge was added to the Criminal Code of Canada in 2014 as part of Bill C-36, passed by the Conservative government at the time. The previous legislation that dealt sex work was struck down in December 2013 by the Supreme Court of Canada. Leading up to the 2015 federal campaign, the Liberal party said they were committed to replacing the legislation. They voted against it in 2014, when they were in opposition. Baird has been held in custody since his arrest. He was given a pre-conviction credit of 327 days served in custody, leaving Baird with a little more than a year to serve on his sentence. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com
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Duty counsel Amna Quershi represented Gomes. She told the court Gomes wants to enter pleas and resolve the matters. An adjournment to Feb. 16 in Red Deer provincial court was granted. Gomes will remain in custody at the Red Deer Remand Centre. Gomes was arrested by Red Deer RCMP pursuing a truck driving dangerously near Gaetz Avenue and 67th Street. After disengaging due to public safety concerns, officers located the truck on Norquay Street and waited for the driver to exit. Police arrested the man when he got out of the vehicle. Some of the charges against Gomes include four counts of possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000, three counts of resisting arrest and uttering death threats.
COCHRANE — An Alberta man has been fined $3,000 for hunting in a wildlife sanctuary. Alberta Fish and Wildlife Enforcement said Kyle Knowles pleaded guilty earlier this month in Cochrane court to shooting at a deer in the Harold Creek wildlife sanctuary west of Calgary. The court heard that Knowles was seen leaving his vehicle and shooting twice from the roadway at a deer. There are numerous signs around the sanctuary stating that hunting is not permitted, and it is also well-documented online and in the hunting regulations. Knowles also was given a five-year recreational hunting licence suspension. No animals were harmed.
the successful appeal. A voir dire is a trial within a trial to determine if evidence is admissible. The appeal court pointed to a letter on May 8, 2014, where the Crown conceded a violation of section eight and when the Crown also conceded a section nine violation during oral argument at trial. Charter rights were violated by Red Deer RCMP when Arens was arrested, asked to give breath samples and then taken to the detachment to be held overnight. This meant certain evidence was inadmissible. The Crown withdrew a charge of failing to provide a breath sample at trial. Sisson said, at trial, there was enough evidence to convict Arens without the evidence obtained with regard to the charter violation. But, the appeal court ruled Sisson then used that evidence to support his
decision. The third appeal judge wrote Sisson only used the charter violation evidence to talk about a fifth charge of failing to provide a breath sample. That charge was withdrawn by the Crown at trial. Martin wrote he would dismiss the appeal. Arens was sentenced to an additional nine months in prison on May 12, 2015 for resisting arrest, obstruction, possession of crack cocaine, breaching his release conditions and being impaired while having care and control of a vehicle. He was arrested on Dec. 21, 2013 by Sylvan Lake RCMP who found him asleep in a truck at a Fas Gas. At the time he was on a release for the 2010 charges. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com
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make the property safe,” Collins said on Sunday. “But that general obligation and liability doesn’t extend in the same way to trespassers.” The Caldwell brothers were killed and six other teenage boys injured — one critically — after their sled crashed into a gate separating the luge and bobsled tracks early Saturday. The twin brothers had worked as “Hill Ambassadors” at the facility last winter. It’s likely they would have been familiar with security protocols and known how to evade measures used to keep people off the track, Collins said. He described the incident as tragic but said the presence of fencing and security patrols means WinSport likely took the appropriate security steps. Occupiers’ liability law in Alberta provides little protection for trespass-
ers but does require owners to secure their property if it poses a danger to a child. “It’s one thing for an eight-year-old child to see a water slide connect to a swimming pool. If you’ve got some teenagers, especially older teenagers, who have very specifically worked at the facility, it would be hard to say that they didn’t appreciate the risk,” Collins said. WinSport’s argument that the boys were trespassers is “not necessarily a slam-dunk defence,” said liability lawyer Scott Cozens, from Calgary. It’s difficult to say for certain that WinSport wouldn’t be found responsible without knowing all the facts, he said. “You can be negligent if somebody drowns in your swimming pool even if you didn’t let them in, even though you had a fence around it,” he said.
Lawyer Cozens noted that even if the company knew staff sneaked into the facility and did nothing to stop it, “that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s an invitation for all and sundry to break into the premises and use it.” WinSport President and CEO Barry Heck responded to questioning from reporters on Saturday about how easy it is to access the sliding track, saying “robust security measures” are employed to keep people out. An investigation will ultimately reveal how the teenagers were able to gain entry, he added. When asked about accounts from alleged former staff of a tradition of being reckless after hours and going down chutes, Heck said he had no knowledge of such instances.
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Edmonton may be template for legalizing ride sharing in other cities BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Cab drivers in Edmonton protested for months at city hall, some of them pulling off their shirts, as councillors debated whether to pass a new bylaw legalizing ride-sharing companies such as Uber. As similar revolts played out across Canada, the Alberta capital sped ahead late last month and became the first jurisdiction to pass regulations for the new industry. Experts say other cities are bound to follow. “Congratulations Edmonton. Well done. You’re first off the mark,” says John-Kurt Pliniussen, an associate professor of business at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont. By being first to take the leap, Edmonton is showing other cities that it can be done, Pliniussen says. He expects most jurisdictions will have regulations in place by the end of the year. “They’re going to say, ‘Well, if Edmonton can do it, we can do it. And so let’s get going.”’ California-based Uber is an app-based business that operates in 40 Canadian communities as well as around the world. It allows people to request rides over their phones and sets them up with drivers who use their personal vehicles. Getting an
Uber ride is typically cheaper than taking a taxi. Cabbies are concerned that Uber drivers have an unfair advantage because they’re not subject to licensing and insurance rules. Edmonton’s regular taxi drivers argued at testy city council meetings last fall that the service would flood the streets with drivers and make it impossible for them to make a living — taking their shirts right off their backs. Under the Edmonton bylaw, which takes effect March 1, “private transportation providers” must carry provincially approved insurance, have an annual vehicle inspection and agree to a criminal record check. They must charge a minimum of $3.25 per ride, but there is no price cap. Only taxis are permitted to pick up street hails or use taxi stands. Uber Canada said the regulations are workable and applauded Edmonton for modernizing its transportation laws. The Alberta Taxi Group said it was disappointed by the bylaw and that it still fails to address safety and consumer protection concerns. Pliniussen says it’s clear that customers like Uber and it’s here to stay, so cities need to get on board. He adds that Canada is behind the United States, where dozens
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I was a humble-but-brilliant news bank to foreclose. photographer back in 1980s Red Deer. Dollar dealing quickly became illeWith my wife at home with our young gal in Alberta, but another fine Westchildren and about three years left in ern practice still exists: jingle mail. a locked-in mortgage at 8.75 And news reports tell us per cent, I was far luckier fiwe’re seeing it again. nancially than I was smart. In Alberta and in SasMortgage rates had crept katchewan (but with a few past 15 per cent and would more restrictions), you head north of 20 per cent can still get an uninsured before dropping and evenmortgage. You need to put tually being bought down at least 20 per cent of the to a luxury rate of 12.5 per home’s value down in cash cent by then-premier Peter but if something unthinkLougheed. It was one of few able happens (like, say, a times that I was happy we business cycle) you can pop had a nice, socialist Tory the keys into an envelope, GREG government, willing to give mail it to the bank and walk us our tax money back, evaway. NEIMAN ery month. All you’d lose was your OPINION I remember being sent equity, and your credit raton assignment to nearby Ining for a few years. nisfail where the current oil Back then the saying was price crash had caused a large number that if you owed $20,000 and couldn’t of homes on a certain street to be post- pay, you had a problem, but if you ed with “For Sale” signs. owed a million dollars and couldn’t We were told that most of those pay, the bank had a problem. homes were now owned by the banks. That’s still true today, but you do Either that, or in the process reposses- have to increase the figures a bit. sion from so-called “dollar dealers” — Alberta mortgage providers surely people who bought homes with under- don’t want to see that problem again, water mortgages for a dollar, to rent because the dollar figures today are them out and collect as much money much, much higher than in 1983-84. as possible in the months it took for a In some Alberta real estate mar-
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kets, home values are in steep decline. That includes the upper end of the Calgary market and decent parts of remote oil-dependent towns like Fort McMurray. As early as last spring, the Financial Post revived the term “jingle mail” leading its story in Grande Cache. A townhouse bought four years earlier for $175,000 (how’s that for cheap?) had dropped to a resale value of $75,000, tops, in a newly-depressed market. With a mortgage of $150,000, and possible rents far cheaper than a mortgage payment, the question was asked: at what point do you simply give your house back to the bank? The answer was: it depends if you’re willing to declare bankruptcy on an insured mortgage. But if that mortgage was of the special Alberta non-recourse type, the line where it made sense to abandon ownership for renting had passed on that house long ago. Suppose you’re a welder who may need to move to where the jobs are — and you make decent money while you are employed. You might find a mortgage to be a dead-weight financial anchor on the bottom of a sea of endless bank payments. Suppose you’re a skilled professional in Fort McMurray and just got laid off. Your home cost $750,000 — you
bought near the peak, and it ain’t gonna sell for that anytime soon. The average drop in house prices there is around $125,000. If you’ve got the non-recourse mortgage, that price drop is perilously close to 20 per cent of the home’s value — the point where jingle mail becomes an option for people who can no longer make monthly payments of $4,000-plus, as would be the case on the home in this example (I got the figures on an online calculator: 20 per cent down, uninsured, 2.8 per cent mortgage over 20 years). Same deal in Calgary, but were talking about homes with an initial purchase price well above a million dollars and a mortgage in distress. Same problem, bigger figures. Which is why I don’t think a long-threatened interest-rate hike from the Bank of Canada is going to happen any time soon. Because in that scenario, the banks that over-loaned into over-heated housing markets (Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto) would be in big, big trouble. They prefer the jingle of interest payments. Not the jingle of keys in the mail. Follow Greg Neiman’s blog at Readersadvocate.blogspot.ca
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North Korea missile program rational Here we go again. North Korea launched a ballis- the most powerful nuclear deterrent.” tic missile of intercontinental range on Sunday (sayNever mind the stilted rhetoric and gutter abuse; ing it was just putting up a satellite) only weeks after North Korean propagandists always talk like that. it carried out its fourth nuclear weapons test (which Listen to the key words that are almost buried under it claimed was a hydrogen bomb). The the surrounding invective. North Korea’s United Nations Security Council strongly nuclear weapons program, they say, is condemned it, and even the People’s Remeant to “protect … the region from … public of China, North Korea’s only ally, the U.S. … nuclear war scenario” by creexpressed its “regret” at what the country ating a “most powerful nuclear deterhad done. rent.” There will certainly now be more UN Really? Do they actually fear that the sanctions against Kim Jong-un’s isolated United States might use nuclear weapregime. But there have already been four ons on them, and that they can only be rounds of UN military and economic sancsafe if they have their own hydrogen tions since North Korea’s first nuclear test bombs and ICBMs? Are they doing all in 2006, and Pyongyang just ignores them. this purely as a defensive measure? Clearly, this is something that the North Of course they are. However bad-temKorean regime wants so badly that it is pered and impulsive they sounded, the GWYNNE willing to endure considerable punishmen of the Kim family, father, son and DYER ment in order to get it. But why is this very grandson, who have ruled North Korea poor country spending vast sums in order in dynastic succession for the past 68 OPINION to be able to strike its neighbours — and years were not crazy. They never started even the United States, for that is what the a war, because they knew they would intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) are about lose it, and the current incumbent is certainly not — with nuclear weapons? going to start a nuclear war. Well, here’s a clue. What the North Korean govHe would have to be crazy to do that. North Korea ernment said after last month’s hydrogen bomb test lacks the resources to build more than a few bombs a was this: “The DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic year, and it does not have the technologies to ensure of Korea) is a genuine peace-loving state which has that the missiles it may one day have won’t get shot made every effort to protect peace on the Korean down. It will probably never be able to guarantee Peninsula and security in the region from the vicious that it can strike even South Korea or Japan with nuU.S. nuclear war scenario.” clear missiles, let alone the United States. “The U.S. is a gang of cruel robbers that has Everybody in the North Korean hierarchy (along worked hard to bring even a nuclear disaster to the with some millions of other North Koreans) would DPRK … By succeeding in the H-bomb test … the certainly be dead only hours after the regime DPRK proudly joined the advanced ranks of nuclear launched nuclear weapons at any of those countries. weapons states … and the Korean people demon- The United States has literally thousands of nuclear strated the spirit of a dignified nation equipped with weapons. It would take only a few dozen quite small
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ones to virtually exterminate the entire ruling elite, and North Korea would have no way of stopping them. A few not-very-high-tech nuclear weapons would give Pyongyang no usable ability to launch a nuclear attack against the United States or its allies. They would, however, give it a pretty credible nuclear deterrent. Launching a few nuclear weapons against a major nuclear power is suicidal, but those same few weapons can be a perfectly good deterrent against a nuclear attack by that same power, because they give the weaker party a capacity for “revenge from the grave.” Even a country as powerful as the United States will behave very cautiously when faced with the possibility that an opponent might land even one or two nuclear weapons on its territory. North Korea has lived under the implicit threat of U.S. nuclear weapons for almost seven decades, and the United States has never promised not to use its those weapons against it. It’s almost surprising that we haven’t seen North Korean nuclear weapons before now. North Korea is just doing the same thing that Pakistan did in the 1980s and 90s out of fear of Indian nuclear weapons, and that Iran was doing in fear of both Pakistani and Israeli nuclear weapons in the last 15 years. The Security Council is quite right to try to block North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, and the successful use of international sanctions to stop Iran offers some hope that it may succeed. But North Korea is not a crazy state plotting a nuclear holocaust at the cost of its own extinction. Its nuclear weapons program is a perfectly rational — although highly undesirable — policy for a small country with a big problem. Gwynne Dyer is an independent Canadian journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
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Jian Ghomeshi (left to right), Justice William Horkins, defence lawyer Marie Henein, the third complainant and Crown attorney Michael Callaghan appear at Ghomeshi’s sexual assault trial in Toronto.
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TORONTO — Two of Jian Ghomeshi’s accusers discussed their allegations of sexual assault against the former broadcaster in thousands of messages they exchanged before and after they went to police, with one of them acknowledging in court that she deliberately misled investigators by withholding information. The woman, who cannot be named, testified Monday that she was making out with the one-time CBC star in a Toronto park in the early 2000s when he suddenly bit her shoulder and put his hands around her neck making it difficult for her to breathe. She also said that while she was friends with another complainant, they never discussed the specifics of their allegations. But during cross-examination, Ghomeshi’s lawyer said that the woman — the third complainant to accuse him of sexual assault — exchanged 5,000 messages with “Trailer Park Boys” actress Lucy DeCoutere, who testified last week that the former radio host choked her and repeatedly slapped her while they were kissing in his bedroom. The woman reported the alleged sexual assault to police in December 2014, but she said she didn’t mention to investigators a sexual encounter she had with Ghomeshi in the days after the choking incident because it was consensual and she was embarrassed. “Do you accept that you were being deliberately misleading?” asked Ghomeshi’s lawyer, Marie Henein. “Yes,” the woman replied. Henein told court that the two women began exchanging messages on Oct. 29, 2014 — the same day DeCoutere went public with her allegations — and continued until September 2015. In the lead-up to the trial, Henein said, the woman would “report in” to DeCoutere after any significant exchange with detectives or the Crown. In some of the messages, DeCoutere — who waived a publication ban on her name — urged the woman to use her own lawyer and publicist. “You now accept that you did, in fact, talk about the specific allegations,” Henein said. “I did,” the woman said. “The other thing you talk about with Ms. DeCoutere is how much you hate Mr. Ghomeshi,” Henein continued, quoting messages in which the woman says to DeCoutere that she wants Ghomeshi to “pay” for what he’s done and others in which she says she hopes Ghomeshi gets fat and loses his hair. The woman later explained that she became “instant friends” with DeCoutere because they had a shared bond. “We had a support system in common. Something that happened to both of us with somebody,” she said. “It came very naturally.” Earlier on Monday, the woman testified that Ghomeshi had surprised her when he put his hands around her neck while they were “making out.” The woman, who was 32 years old at the time, said she had consented to the kissing, but she had not agreed to what followed. “He was kissing my neck and I just felt all of a sudden I felt his hand on my shoulders and his teeth. And then his hands were around my neck and he was squeezing,” she said in a trembling voice. “Some kind of switch felt like it had happened. It wasn’t the same person there. I tried to get out of it and then his hand was on my mouth, sort of smother-
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ISIL mission retooled CANADA WITHDRAWS JETS, ‘ENGAGEMENTS’ POSSIBLE BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — Canadian military trainers will likely face “engagements” with enemy Islamic militants in Iraq, but that doesn’t mean they’re taking part in a combat mission, the chief of the defence staff said Monday. Gen. Jonathan Vance offered that assessment as the Liberal government released its long-awaited and retooled strategy in the fight against Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria. The combat sorties being flown by a half-dozen CF-18 jet fighters in the U.S.-led coalition will end by Feb. 22. In offering his view of Canada’s expanded training mission, Vance went to some lengths to avoid contradicting his boss, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has insisted trainers would not be involved in combat. “The prime minister has clearly described it as non-combat” and there’s a “penchant … for people to try and parse the words,” Vance said Monday during a technical briefing that followed Trudeau’s announcement. “In my view, it’s a non-combat mission in that we are not the principal combatants here.” Canada’s bombing mission against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant will be replaced by what Trudeau called an expanded mission that will focus on training local security forces and helping to rebuild the shattered region. The number of Canadian military personnel in the region will increase to 830 people — up from the current 650 — to provide planning, targeting and intelligence expertise. The size of Canada’s “train, advise and assist” mission will also triple, including additional medical personnel and equipment including small arms, ammunition and optics to assist in training Iraqi security forces, almost exclusively in the Kurdish north. “I want Canadians to know that we will be involved in engagements as we defend ourselves or those partners who we are working with,” said Vance. That’s because the “assist function helps them plan, helps them determine how best to accomplish the missions” and by doing that, they “may very well need support in defending them — and in so doing, defending ourselves.” Vance also said Canadian troops would “mark targets” — designating enemy positions for targeting by air and artillery strikes — to both protect the Iraqi forces and their Canadian trainers. In an interview, Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion acknowledged that the circumstances of training foreign fighters on the battlefield could demand that the Canadians shoot back. “The ones who have to free their country are the Iraqis,” Dion said. The Canadians won’t be involved in “front line combat,” but “if their life is in danger in different circumstances, then they may have to fight.” Canada learned the hard way during 10 years in Afghanistan that airstrike operations, while useful in the short term for “military and territorial gains,” do not on their own result in long-term stability, said Trudeau. They can also be politically expedient, he suggested — a subtle jab at his Conservative predecessors who sent the jets into Iraq and Syria in the first place. “We are for what will be effective,” Trudeau said, “not for what will make us feel good to say at any given moment.” The reconfigured mission — to be extended until the end of March 2017 — includes strategic advisers to help Iraq’s defence and interior ministries. Canada’s CC-150 Polaris refueller and two CP-140 Aurora surveillance planes will also continue to support other coalition partners that are carrying out airstrikes.
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A Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 Hornet breaks away after refueling with a KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron over Iraq. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada’s fighter jets will end their fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria within the next two weeks.
Politics, philosophy behind shift BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Liberal government says it’s making a different choice when it comes to the ISIL mission, pulling out of bombing in favour of more training and intelligence work, more humanitarian aid, more diplomacy. But why is a different choice even necessary? What is the real reason they can’t keep six CF-18 fighter jets in the mix, in addition to doing the rest of the things they want to do? Gen. Jonathan Vance, the chief of the defence staff, told reporters Monday it’s not about finances, nor is there a tactical reason they can’t
do airstrikes and train Iraqi troops at the same time. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said he’s not morally opposed to military bombing sorties — in fact, the government is still providing refuelling aircraft for coalition allies. That leaves the conclusion that it was a political choice, informed by the philosophy of Trudeau and the people around him, but also by electoral considerations. The Liberals sought to stake their ground on the electoral stage, particularly conscious of distancing themselves from Stephen Harper’s Conservatives. Trudeau made reference to the politics at his news conference on Monday. “During the last election, Canadi-
ans had a choice between three different parties: One that wanted to get involved in any military situation at any cost, the other that didn’t think we had a role to play in the Middle East and us, the Liberal party, that presented a measured, responsible approach …,” he told reporters. Trudeau took thinly veiled jabs at the Conservatives in particular, suggesting their approach to the ISIL threat was based on overheated machismo rather than reason. “We are for what will be effective, not for what will make us feel good to say at any given moment,” Trudeau said.
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Military operation
Canada plans to extend the mission until March 31, 2017, in a non-combat role to advise, assist and equip local forces at a cost of $264 million. (Another $42 million is set aside to move personnel and equipment upon completion.) Canada will: ● Retain one Polaris refuelling plane and up to two Aurora surveillance aircraft, but withdraw six fighter jets engaged in air strikes no later than Feb. 22. ● Increase the number of military personnel to about 830, up from about 650. ● Station personnel at various coalition headquarters to support members and Iraqi security forces, specifically through expertise in operational planning, targeting and intelligence. ● Expand training to help Iraqi security forces plan and carry out military operations against ISIL, including provision of small arms and ammunition. ● Use military medical personnel to train the Iraqis to treat battlefield wounded as well as to provide medical support to Canadian forces and allies. ● Help security forces in Jordan and Lebanon prevent the spread of violent extremism and offer strategic advisers to the Iraqi ministries of defence and the interior.
● Devote $145 million over three years towards counter-terrorism, stabilization, and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) security programming.
Humanitarian aid
Canada will work with local and international partners over three years to deliver: ● $840 million in humanitarian assistance for basic needs of those hardest hit by the conflicts, including food, shelter, health care, water, sanitation and hygiene, as well as protection and emergency education. ● $270 million to build local capacity to provide basic social services, (such as education, health, water, sanitation), maintain and restore public infrastructure, help people find work and foster accountable government. ● Of that $1.1 billion in humanitarian assistance, the government says all but $130 million is new money.
Diplomacy
Canada will increase its diplomatic role in helping find a political solution to the crisis in Syria as well as assisting the Iraqi
government’s efforts to foster reconciliation. This entails “an increased presence on the ground” in Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon.
Parliament
Trudeau promised a parliamentary debate and vote on the new approach, much as his Conservative predecessor Stephen Harper did in introducing the original mission and subsequent extension and expansion. Trudeau also vowed to return to Parliament to consult on whether the military mission should be extended. “As we all know, military matters are the prerogative of the executive, but I believe in Parliament,” Trudeau said, “and I believe in the value of robust and informed debate to express Canadians’ views on issues of such import as this, and I look forward to bringing this forward to debate.”
On ISIL
The prime minister said Canada is stronger and more durable than the “murderous gang of thugs” committing atrocities in the region — a group that opposes open societies like Canada. “They want us to elevate them, to give into fear.”
U.S. faces shortcomings in coalition-building BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — To doubters of its strategy for defeating the Islamic State, the Obama administration likes to tout its coalition of 66 nations and claim strength in numbers. But a year and a half into the war, some administration officials are acknowledging that this supposed source of strength has its own weaknesses. Defence Secretary Ash Carter offered a glimpse of his own apparent frustration last week when he referred to “our so-called coalition” and suggested the slackers need to step up. “We need everybody, and that’s all the Europeans, the (Persian) Gulf states … Turkey, which is right there on the border. So there are a lot that need to make more contributions,” he said. So Carter is leaving Tuesday for Brussels, where he will convene a meeting Thursday of defence chiefs from about two dozen coalition countries, including most NATO members, Iraq and the Gulf states. He indicated he will, behind closed doors, share with them details of the U.S. strategy for recapturing the main Islamic State group strongholds in Syria and Iraq. “What I’m going to do is sit down and say, here is the campaign plan … If you’re thinking World War II newsreel pictures, you think of an arrow
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Saudi soldiers fire artillery toward three armed vehicles approaching the Saudi border with Yemen in Jazan, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia’s offer to put boots on the ground to fight Islamic State in Syria is as much about the kingdom’s growing determination to flex its military might as it is about answering U.S. calls for more help from Mideast allies. going north to take Mosul and another arrow coming south to take Raqqa,” he said last week. And then he will run through a list of military capabilities — “boots on the ground, airplanes in the air,” plus trainers and other sup-
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port personnel — that will be needed to achieve victory. “And I’m going to say, ‘OK, guys. Let’s match up what is needed to win with what you have, and kind of give everybody the opportunity to make an
assignment for themselves,”’ he said. “The United States will lead this and we’re determined, but other people have to do their part because civilization has to fight for itself.” A few coalition countries have made promises of increased support in recent days. The Netherlands, which has been carrying out airstrikes in Iraq, said on Jan. 29 that it would expand its efforts to Syria. Saudi Arabia indicated last week it could send ground troops into Syria, although it was not clear whether the offer was conditioned on U.S. ground forces participating. Canada announced on Monday that it will quit conducting airstrikes in Syria and Iraq by Feb. 22 but will expand its contributions to training Kurdish and other local forces and provide more humanitarian and developmental aid. Canada also will keep two surveillance planes in the region and conduct aerial refuelling missions. Over the course of a decade and a half of coalition warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. officials have frequently found themselves pleading and cajoling with the Europeans to contribute more, and they generally have responded with pledges to do just a little bit more. The pattern may be repeated in Brussels. Inevitably it falls to the U.S. military, with greater resources and a longer reach, to carry the biggest burden in countering terrorism.
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Dad who killed daughter gets life BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A man who drowned or starved his horrifically abused teenaged daughter to death two decades ago was handed a life sentence Monday, after court heard impact statements from three of the victim’s relatives. Everton Biddersingh, 60, of Toronto, had little to say before Superior Court Justice Al O’Marra handed down the punishment for the “horrible” crime. “It will make no difference,” Biddersingh mumbled to the court. A jury last month convicted Biddersingh of first-degree murder in the death of his 17-year-old daughter, Melonie Biddersingh. He will not be eligible for parole for 25 years. In a written impact statement, the victim’s mother described the devastation she felt after learning in 2012 that her daughter’s charred remains had finally
been identified. “There is nothing — I mean absolutely nothing — Melonie would have ever done that could have led to the dreadful outcome of her murder,” Opal Austin said in the statement read to court. “So, I am left wondering why for the rest of my life.” The Crown maintained Biddersingh drowned or starved his daughter after a period of prolonged abuse, or that she died while he confined her in the apartment they shared with her stepmother, Elaine Biddersingh. The teen, whose burned remains were found stuffed in a suitcase in an isolated industrial area north of Toronto, had come to Canada from Jamaica for a better life. Instead, by the time of her death, she weighed a skeletal 50 pounds and had 21 broken bones in various stages of healing. A piece of a vegetable was found in her vagina. She had spent countless hours chained to furni-
ture, stuffed in a tiny closet, or locked out on a balcony. Her father, according to one witness, would kick her and force the helpless victim’s head into a toilet and then flush. In another statement read to court, Racquel Ellis said no words could describe the suffering inflicted on her sister. “I remain in shock and deeply traumatized to learn of the disturbing details of my sister’s days on earth,” Ellis said in a statement read by Paulette Senior, CEO of YWCA Canada and a family friend. “It’s devastating to believe that the persons my mother entrusted with her children’s happiness, safety and life would do such a horrible thing.” Neither Austin nor Ellis, who live in Kingston, Jamaica, were present Monday. Both had been in court for much of the trial. The teen’s stepmother, Elaine Biddersingh, 54, faces her own first-degree murder trial in April.
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Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, centre, speaks with newly-arrived Syrian refugees in Toronto. Wynne says despite “challenges,” Ontario is on track to receive 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of this month.
Minister hears anger, cynicism from families of murdered women BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett met with the families of missing and murdered aboriginal women in Winnipeg on Monday and said she noticed a different tone from similar meetings in other cities. “Today we heard many things a little bit different than other places,” Bennett said halfway through the day-long meeting. “Here in Winnipeg, there seems to be tremendous anger and cynicism. People are concerned about the police. They’re concerned about the government. And … they were quite skeptical as to whether an inquiry will help at all.” Bennett is on a cross-country tour to meet with victims’ families and other interested parties so parameters can be set for an inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women that is expected to begin by summer. Bennett referred to the Manitoba capital as ground zero in the growing awareness Canadians have for the plight of aboriginal women. She cited the 2014 death of Tina Fontaine, 15, whose body was put in a bag and dumped into the Red River, and a near-fatal attack on a 16-year-old girl who was brutally beaten while she walked along the Assiniboine River. Bennett met with about 170 people in a private gathering closed to the media. Willie Starr — whose sister Jennifer Catcheway disappeared from Portage la Prairie, Man., in 2008 — said there was a lot of tension in the room. “There’s a lot of pain and hurt that people have been carrying for decades in some cases,” Starr said. He and his family tried to report the 18-year-old Catcheway as missing immediately, but they were brushed off by RCMP, he said.
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Special visitor can brighten up a day So there I was, week two of being moved into our new home and feeling so lonely I could puke. A month before I told everyone and their dog that, “I’d be fine” and, “Don’t worry about me, I’ve got the kids and we will make friends lickity split once we get there.” Turns out kids are crappy conversationalists and leave little time for socializing. As the days pressed on, LINDSAY these two small factors began SAWYER to drive me over the proverbiME PLUS THREE al edge. One evening Jamie was half an hour late making his usual bedtime phone call to the kids. I freaked. I actually may have momentarily lost my mind. I imagined him dead in a ditch somewhere because there was surely no other reasonable explanation as to why my husband had not answered any one of my twelve text messages. Not to mention why he was thirty minutes late in calling us—his loving family who missed him dearly—just no logical reason at all. After calling his brother and texting about fifty other people to assure my text messages were getting through, I saw his picture pop up on my cell. He was calling. I answered in a fit. “I thought you were dead Jamie!” He laughed. He laughed at my misery/psychosis
and told me the restaurant had got slammed during the dinner rush and he couldn’t get off the line. However by this point it was too late for excuses. Between snivels I heatedly explained that he shouldn’t laugh in this situation. I told him he wasn’t the one here in this strange place all alone with two children and knowing hardly anyone, so he just wasn’t allowed to laugh. He apologized and I got over the initial hysteria that was building up in me. However when I hung up the phone I realized that if this was going to work I had to buck up and find some way to be okay with my husband’s temporary absence. It’s funny how sometimes the most chance people decide to show up in our lives, exactly when we need them most. The next day my Auntie Deb called me out of the blue to ask how the move went. Auntie Deb and I used to be very close when I was a kid but over the years and as life tends to do we had grown apart. However she is and always will be one of those fellow humans that once you reconnect it feels as though no time has passed at all. After crying my woes to her and revealing my loneness resulting in temporary psychotic breaks my aunt told me she was planning to come down for a visit. She said that she too had once been a mother alone in a city where she knew no one, she felt my pain. Auntie Deb has always been, well, Auntie Deb. Growing up she was the person my brother and I would be thrilled to go stay with because she is so carefree and fun-loving. She is outspoken and spon-
taneous. She is a little crazy (but in the most excellent way possible). Life was always chalk full of surprises when she was around. I couldn’t wait for Lars and Sophie to get to experience the jubilation this woman brings to those around her. We all slipped easily into a routine while Deb and her funny pup Maggie were staying with us. The kids fell in love with the energetic Shih Tzu while Auntie and I stayed awake late talking about the old days and catching up on all of the moments we had missed in each other’s lives. We went walking and I fell about a hundred times on the slick ice-covered sidewalks. Have I failed to mention to you how “graceful” I am in this slippery winter weather? And Oh how Auntie laughed at me. You know it’s a special kind of camaraderie when you are flat on your derrière from a fall and all you can hear are snorts of hilarity coming from your walking companion. After that we decided to explore the city via car as to save me from another catastrophic nose-dive. We got lost and found our way again—and might I add, if you are going to get lead astray by anybody in this life you’d be lucky to by such a blithe human such as my Aunt. So despite having no clue where we were we simply laughed and ventured forward. Sometimes, life will cut us a break and send a special soul our way to help us find our bearings and let us know that everything is going to be alright. It is for that reason I will forever have faith that there is something out there leading us in the right direction. Lindsay Sawyer is a freelance writer from Alberta.
Adventures in the life of a grandparent He is six years old and his hockey jersey hangs almost to his knees. But he is so cute, it doesn’t matter. His first game was Sunday and I was there in the bleachers waving and yelling and being all silly. The cool thing was when I waved; he looked up in the stands, saw me, took off his hockey glove and waved back. How many players do that? TREENA When he actually got the MIELKE puck and fired (did I say LIFE fired?), perhaps carefully shot the puck at the net without falling over would be a better description, I was there. I was there, in the stands, yelling and saying stuff like, “oh my goodness, he has the puck, oh, oh, oh, he is shooting.” My daughter, mildly embarrassed, berated me gently, “mom, did you take your heart medication?” To say the least, it was exciting, this first game of the season. It was topped off with a visit to Tim Horton’s and finally a rousing political discussion, which lead to nowhere. However, we all felt smarter and wiser afterwards and decided we knew more than all the know-it-all
people on Facebook, who apparently know everything. She is nine-years-old and her skating costume is electric blue, which, incidentally, is the same colour as her eyes. She is an amazing little skater. I picked her out, one of the many contestants vying for a medal at Arena A, which, as it so happened, was blocked by about two million people, who also had amazing little skaters out there competing in Arena A. “Excuse me, excuse me,” I said politely trying to elbow my way through the crowd so I could be there in the stands watching her performance which lasted less than three minutes. I made it. Afterwards I stood with her mom and dad and her other grandparents and watched while she bent her little neck forward and the lady obligingly placed a silver medal around it. Grandma pride glowed once again and I felt all happy and proud and pleased with myself and life in general. She is 13-years-old and favors plaid shirts and blue jeans and is quite attached to her cell phone. I love her so much and I want to communicate with her like I’m a cool grandma that relates to teen talk because I’m all hip and awesome. I pick her up from her music lesson and attempt to be that way, all hip and awesome. “Hey,” I say. “Hey,” she says back, texting an un-
known someone on her phone. “So what’s new in your life,” I say, not ready to give up on being hip and awesome. “Nothin’,” she said, barely raising her eyes. At that moment, I forget about being hip and awesome and resort to being all grandma like. “Emilie, you have 10 minutes to spend with your grandma,” I say. “Talk to me.” She sighs and puts her phone away and I am encouraged. She chats with me a little, telling me she does like piano, but she is not good at it. “So, what’s new with your family?” I ask, thinking I am making inroads. “Nothin,” she said, looking pensive and slightly bored. “I wonder what car your mom will use to pick you up?” I venture finally. “Probably the red one,” she said. “We bought a new car yesterday.” “What?” I said. “Yeah,” she said, matter of factly. “It’s red.” “No kidding,” I say. “I love red.” “Yeah, me too,” she said and we smile at each other, pleased we have found a common ground. Grandchildren! Challenging, fun and completely wonderful, wherever they may be! Treena Mielke lives in Sylvan Lake and is editor of the Rimbey Review. She has been a journalist and columnist for more than 25 years. Treena is married to Peter and they have three children and six grandchildren.
Remove the mask to move forward in self-discovery “Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.” — Paul Tournier, Swiss physician and author “We’ve all got a secret,” Doug told me, “and we all wear a mask.” Doug was upset over something his sister had said. Apparently, she had been helping her and Doug’s mother with some spring cleaning and came across Doug’s old report cards. “Those report cards were filled with plenty of Cs, Ds and even the occasional F.” I asked Doug to explain MURRAY and was surprised by his adFUHRER mission. Despite the fact that Doug was bright, articulate EXTREME ESTEEM and incredibly astute, he hadn’t done well in school. At one point, Doug had been placed in “Opportunity” class for students requiring additional tutoring. He found mathematics especially challenging and confessed that, to this day, he still didn’t know his times tables. I wondered if perhaps Doug had suffered from an undiagnosed learning disability. The negative impact on his self-esteem had been tremendous. Based upon his poor scholastic performance, Doug had concluded that he was a failure. Terrified of being judged, he went to great lengths to create the impression that he was wise, worldly and confident. “When she found my old reports cards, I knew the jig was up.” Doug told me that his sister had discovered his secret: he was a fraud. He had always been the wise and all-knowing older brother but now that façade had begun to crumble. Doug wished he had gone back to his childhood home, found those old reports cards and burned them. He recalled having to hear her say, “You’re not nearly as smart as I thought.” “That was unfair,” I said. “Besides, there’s more to being smart than a good report card. In any case,
that was a long time ago. Look at what you’ve accomplished. That says something.” “No,” replied Doug, woefully. “She was right: I’m a fool pretending to be a wise man.” I could relate to Doug. Despite that fact that I had done alright in school (an average B and C student), I often judged myself as less than my peers. To rectify this situation, I read hundreds of books on a variety of topics, took courses, made connections with bright, educated people. I wanted to be seen in a certain way and crafted a mask to achieve it. For years, I felt just like Doug. I was afraid of being vulnerable, afraid to confront self-limiting beliefs that had held me back and stalled my progress. It wasn’t until I began my journey of self-esteem building that I found the courage to peak out from behind the mask. When we’re young and dependent upon the “masters” in our lives for insight and understanding, we easily absorb everything that we see, hear and experience, both positive and negative. We internalize the actions, reactions and judgments of others and many times find ourselves lacking. We develop a series of negative assumptions about ourselves: “I’m stupid,” “I’m a failure,” or like Doug, “I’m a fraud.” A powerful aspect of self-esteem building is increasing awareness and connecting with your authentic self — in this case, the real you who dwells behind the mask. Not the fearful you. Not the unworthy you. Your authentic self is you at your core, free from the disempowering beliefs and negative judgements that have been layered upon you. If you want to find this person, here are some steps that will help move you in that direction. Get to know your mask and spend some time thinking about the secrets you hide from the world. How do you wish to appear and why it is important? How different is that impression from the person who hides behind it?
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Spend some time pondering the reasons why you created your mask in the first place. Chances are, it was an act of survival — a way to hide the “ugly” or “unworthy” parts of yourself from the world. If you were to look at the reasons objectively, you might just discover that the rationale for keeping the mask no longer exists. In all likelihood, the mask has served its purpose and is now more of an encumbrance to your personal growth and happiness. The time has come to make a commitment to being real. Some people wear the mask for so long, they lose touch with who they really are deep down inside. Don’t waste your life pretending. If you did well at something, acknowledge it. If things like school were a struggle for you, so be it — admit the fact and move on. Fear of judgment invariably creates more problems than not. Be honest with yourself and others. Be who are you are and celebrate the fact. Now, that doesn’t mean that you cease striving to be a better person, to build your self-esteem and achieve all that you’re capable of achieving. It does mean that you stop hanging onto disempowering beliefs that leave you feeling unworthy, undeserving and frightened. “Our lives only improve when we are willing to take chances,” wrote American painter, writer and naturalist, Walter Anderson. “And the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.” When your mask come off, you may feel a little raw and naked but you’ll also feel a new inner freedom. The more honest you can be with yourself, the more honest you can be with others. Remove the mask. It’s the truest way to move forward on the path to self-discovery. Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His recent book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca.
A POWERFUL ASPECT OF SELF-ESTEEM BUILDING IS INCREASING AWARENESS AND CONNECTING WITH YOUR AUTHENTIC SELF — IN THIS CASE, THE REAL YOU WHO DWELLS BEHIND THE MASK.
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Dear Annie: I am the youngest sister “screw up” of the family in front of of 10 siblings. Over the years, five sib- everyone and not one person stood lings have died. You’d think we would up for me. My sister’s mother-in-law try to be closer after such snickered at some other nasawful losses. So when ty comment someone made does the bullying stop? about me. I have tried to be an I have decided to limit my upstanding sister and contact with my siblings and aunt, but no matter how avoid them altogether on holmuch I contribute my idays, since I become everymoney, time and empathy, one’s target. They don’t think they think it’s OK to betheir actions are wrong or little me and encourage hurtful. their kids and friends to I’m done with being the do the same. nice sister just to be thrown I never talk trash about under the bus and run over my sisters. Actually, I repeatedly. They say I’m “too MITCHELL speak very highly of them sensitive,” but if someone & SUGAR in front of and behind treated them this way, they their backs. They do not would fall to pieces. ANNIE return the favor. I thought time and maturiI’ve put up with the ty would soften this behavior, “little sister syndrome” for decades but it’s just gotten worse. Any suggesand am quite tired of it. It’s worse tions? — Sister in Situation when they get their friends to gang up Dear Sister: It’s too bad your sibon me. lings haven’t managed to grow up, but At last year’s Christmas party, my not everyone does. sister’s best friend said I was the This is the family dynamic they
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are accustomed to, and not even the deaths of five of you have altered it. Ten children is a lot, and in some families, kids feel the parents are neglecting them in favor of a younger sibling. This could be how things began, but it no longer matters. You get to decide how to handle them now. Try talking to each sibling individually. Say that you love and value them, but you are tired of being mocked and hurt. Ask them to be more aware of the way they treat you, so that your remaining years together can be happy and loving. Give them the opportunity to change. But if they are unwilling to work on this, it makes sense for you to see less of them. Dear Annie: I think your response to “Confused and Torn” was perfect. She said her boyfriend thought she should put her 15-year-old Pomeranian, “Clover,” to sleep because the dog was in constant pain and not likely to improve. I’ve had to put several pets to sleep because of old age and it’s always a
horrific decision to make. However, Clover’s owner is doing a great disservice to the dog by insisting on keeping her alive when she’s in so much agony. I would like to make a suggestion that may make the decision a little easier. She should have Clover cremated and indicate in her will that she would like Clover’s ashes to be put in the coffin with her. In that way, the little dog will be with her forever. I will do this with my one remaining cat when the time comes and just the thought of it makes the burden a little lighter to bear. — Indiana Dear Indiana: Thank you for writing. We hope “Confused and Torn” will consider your advice for Clover’s sake. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.
Tuesday, Feb. 9 VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s time to CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: foster friendships and make sure you’re carCarole King, 73; Mia Farrow, 70; Alice Walk- rying your weight in relationships. Commuer, 71 nicating with loved ones will be THOUGHT OF THE DAY: If confusing, but a pinch of payou don’t communicate clearly, tience will get you through. then there’ll be misunderstandLIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): ings. You’re not keen on tackling lots HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You’re of hard work. Leisure-loving Lian impatient person who likes to brans are in the mood for a lazy get things done. Over the comand languid day. Cultural events ing year focus your energy, pace appeal, as you appreciate the yourself, and incorporate some creative talents of others. regular relaxation into your busy SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. schedule. 21): Waiting for opportunities to ARIES (March 21-April 19): come to you usually works well The more you prioritize, prepare for perceptive Scorpios, but not JOANNE MADELINE and pace yourself Rams, the at the moment. If there’s someMOORE better the day will be. But resist thing or someoneyou really the urge to rush around, criticize want, you’ll have to be proactive. HOROSCOPE others, or complain about joint SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22financial arrangements. Dec. 21): With the Sun shining TAURUS (April 20-May 20): in your social media zone, you’re It’s a good day for business-minded Bulls, keen to get your creative ideas out to the provided you are disciplined and make an world. But if you are too impatient then you effort to communicate clearly. Plus put aside may transmit the wrong message! time in your busy life for a regular exercise CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): With routine. Jupiter jumping through your travel zone, it’s GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The stars ar- the ideal time to take a trip, or plan one for en’t terrific for important meetings, delicate the near future. Catching up with overseas negotiations or business transactions, as friends is also favoured in person and online. you’re inclined to rush, communicate poorly AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It will be or focus your attention on perceived nega- easy to say the wrong thing to the wrong tives. person today Aquarius. But if you hold out the CANCER (June 21-July 22): You’re in olive branch of peace, then mix-ups will soon the mood to compromise, as Venus bestows pass and problems will be resolved. harmonious vibes in your relationship zone PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Stop and and you strive for peace in your partnerships. smell the roses Pisces! You’re keen to help Make the most of it while it lasts! others today but make sure you put aside LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Hey Cats - the some time for solo pursuits as well. Solitude stars encourage you to come up with creative is necessary soul food for you at the moment. and proactive ways to make more money. Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationIncreasing your cash flow while decreasing ally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her spending, is the secret to future success. column appears daily in the Advocate.
TENNESSEE TOWN WILL BE ALLOWED TO USE NAME ROCKY TOP, Tenn. — The city of Rocky Top has settled a lawsuit with the copyright holders of the bluegrass song the town is named after. Rocky Top changed its name from Lake City in 2014 after developers promised the new name would entice them to build a massive tourist complex in the former coal mining town of about 1,800 people. The idea was that visitors would associate the town with the popular bluegrass standard that declares, “Rocky Top, you’ll always be home, sweet home, to me. Good ol’ Rocky Top. Rocky Top, Tennessee.” That plan didn’t sit well with House of Bryant Publications, which owns trademarks for the use of the name Rocky Top on everything from T-shirts and baseball caps to baby blankets and Christmas ornaments. Last month, the city of Rocky Top and House of Bryant agreed to a settlement in which the city can use Rocky Top trademarks for noncommercial purposes only — such as in support of
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TUESDAY, FEB. 9, 2016 FIVE THINGS TO KNOW Adrienne Clarkson considers herself one of Stompin’ Tom Connors’ biggest fans. Ahead of her performance Tuesday at Stompin’ Tom’s 80th Birthday Celebration in Toronto, Canada’s former governor general spoke with The Canadian Press about paying tribute to the Stompin’ legend, as well as a few of her favourite tunes. ● On how Stompin’ Tom became one of Canada’s musical icons: “He was totally authentic and I think that cuts across whether you like country music or classical…. His music is timeless and will always be something that people respond to.” ● On keeping her performance fresh after performing at last year’s birthday bash: “The music is so good and the lyrics are so interesting. It’s not like going up and reciting the alphabet.” ● On picking The Martin Hartwell Story for her performance: “I was a journalist when that story happened and I remember it vividly…. It is a gripping story, and it’s full of emotion, desperation and excitement. It’s beautiful.” ● On why she loves The Hockey Song: “The moment you hear The Hockey Song you feel the ice on your cheeks.” ● On the Stompin’ Tom statue unveiled in Sudbury last summer: “Even if there’s a little lull 100 years (from now) and people don’t know who he is, somebody (will see the statue), ask ‘Who is that?’ They’ll find (his music) again. So a statue is really, really important.”
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Celebrating Stompin’ Tom Connors’ legacy is starting to take on a life of its own. Marking what would have been his 80th birthday on Tuesday, a band of longtime friends — including Canada’s former governor general Adrienne Clarkson — will strum their way through Connors’ most memorable tracks for their third annual tribute concert. The event, which takes place at the folk music venue Hugh’s Room in Toronto, is one they hope will help elevate Stompin’ Tom’s reputation as the writer of Canada’s cultural songbook. “If he was around he’d still be singin’ and stompin’,” says Clarkson, taking a break from a recent rehearsal. “It’s the people who love Stompin’ Tom, and people who would come in from all over the place … to hear him while he was playing. That’s what we’re trying to replicate — something he would be doing.” Three years after his death, the man known for Bud the Spud, The Hockey Song and Sudbury Saturday Night still has many adoring fans. Clarkson, who counts herself among them, met the singer when she was a CBC producer. The two immediately clicked when they realized their birthdays were only a day apart — hers is on Feb. 10. “He was completely timeless and ageless,” she says. “It was a shock when he was dying.” Clarkson, who turns 77 Wednesday, took the stage last year alongside the Whiskey Jack band to pay homage to the singer. The performance went over well, which convinced her to make another appearance this year. Whiskey Jack’s history with Stompin’ Tom runs much deeper. The seven-piece bluegrass and country band worked with Stompin’ Tom on his 1993
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Duncan Fremlin rehearses with his band Whiskey Jack in Toronto. Celebrating Stompin’ Tom Connors’ legacy is starting to take on a life of its own. Marking what would have been his 80th birthday on Tuesday, a band of longtime friends — including Canada’s former governor general Adrienne Clarkson — will strum their way through Connors’ most memorable tracks for their third annual tribute concert. album Dr. Stompin’ Tom, Eh? which sparked a collaborative friendship that spanned two decades. “We saw ourselves as kind of the house band,” says Duncan Fremlin, co-founder of Whiskey Jack and one of the organizers of the tribute show. “Over the years if he needed a band to play at his barbecue or birthday parties, or whatever, he’d call me and say, ‘Can you bring the boys up?’ So, of course we did — we loved to do that.” When Stompin’ Tom died of kidney failure those “good, ol’-fashion Mari-
time kitchen parties” he hosted began to fade away. “We realized we weren’t going to get called up to the birthday party anymore, so we said, ‘Why don’t we host our own?”’ Fremlin remembers. The tributes were an instant success, he says, attracting Canadian performers like comedian Sean Cullen and Tragically Hip guitarist Paul Langlois who both tipped their hat to Stompin’ Tom with special appearances. This year, Fremlin promises another big Canadian performer will hit the
stage as a surprise guest. Clarkson hopes she too will be a part of future Stompin’ Tom festivities, which she sees as growing in size each year. “Certainly we hope there will be bigger ones when he’s 85,” she says. Fremlin has an even more ambitious plan. He hopes Canadians eventually celebrate a Stompin’ Tom Day just like they do for Scottish poet Robbie Burns.
graves in this funny and touching play about cherishing the past and embracing the future. “If you liked the Golden Girls, then you’ll love Ida, Lucille and Doris,” states the playbill. Cow Patti Theatre’s The Cemetery Club runs from Feb. 11 to March 6, including six benefit performances for various local charities, including The Lending Cupboard and Gramma Link Africa. For more information, or to book tickets to $70 dinner or $60 brunch shows, please visit www.cowpatti.com, or call 403-304-6329.
theatre near you. Notre Dame High School’s Fine Arts students are staging the Mary Poppins musical, based on P.L. Travers’s book and the classic Walt Disney film, starting Thursday Feb. 11 at the Memorial Centre in Red Deer. When a mysterious nanny lands on the doorstep of the Banks family, she uses a combination of magic and common sense to set everything right in the topsy-turvy household. Jane and Michael Banks, and even their parents, can learn a thing or two from a nanny that advises, “Anything can happen, if you let it.”
Join Mary Poppins and her chimney-sweep friend Bert for a delightful adventure on the rooftops of London and beyond. Spoonful of Sugar, Chim Chim Cheree, and Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious are some of the songs that will leave audience members humming along. The musical is directed by Jennifer Cocolicchio. The show runs Feb. 11, 12, and 13 at 7 p.m., as well as Feb. 13 at 1 p.m. Tickets are $20. (Pay what you can at 7 p.m. Feb. 10 preview.)
Modern Space to perform at Bo’s Bar and Grill The alternative-rock band-to-watch, Modern Space, will perform next week in Red Deer. The Canadian group, selected as part of Spotify’s 2016 Spotlight program, will play Thursday, Feb. 11, at Bo’s Bar and Grill. The five-member Toronto-based band will be heavily featured by the streaming service, and has shared stages with Lights, The Vaccines, and Arkells. Modern Space’s debut single, Pen to Paper is nearing the Top 10 lists on alternative radio stations. A new music video for the next single, Let It Out, was released just in time for the group’s 20-stop tour of Western Canada. Tickets are $10 from the venue or ticketfly.com. For more information, please call 403-309-2200.
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GOING THROUGH A LOT OF FIRSTS DURING HIS FIRST FULL SEASON BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Like any rookie, Sam Bennett’s first NHL season has been a series of firsts: first scoring slump, first hat trick, first four-goal game and now the first time facing the team he once idolized. The 19-year-old from Holland Landing, Ont., and the Calgary Flames host the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday at Scotiabank Saddledome. Bennett estimates he attended a game at the Air Canada Centre at least once a year from the age of 10. He says his emotional attachment to the Leafs went out the window once he became a Flame, but that’s not the case for his father Dave, with whom he lives in Calgary. “My dad is definitely really excited for this game,” an amused Bennett said Monday. “I hope he’s cheering for us, but we’ll see.” Bennett was tied for fourth among NHL rookies Monday with 14 goals, alongside Arizona’s Anthony Duclair and Buffalo’s Sam Reinhart. Chicago’s Artemi Panarin and Detroit’s Dylan Larkin led all freshman goalscorers with 18 apiece ahead of Reinhart’s teammate Jack Eichel with 16. Bennett has scored nine of his 14 in the last month on the heels of an 18-game drought. He worked feverishly hard around the net during a dry spell stretching from Nov. 27 to Jan. 7, but had zero luck. Flames head coach Bob Hartley was asked by reporters Dec. 30 about the possibility of moving Bennett from left wing back to his natural position of centre, and also whether Bennett deserved more ice time given how hard he was working. But Hartley stayed the course with Bennett, who broke the tension Jan. 11 with a goal against the San Jose
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Calgary Flames’ Sam Bennett, centre, celebrates one of his four goals against the Florida Panthers during NHL play in Calgary on Jan. 13. As with any rookie, Bennett’s first full season in the NHL has been a series of firsts - first scoring slump, first hat trick, first four-goal game and now facing the team he grew following for the first time. Sharks. That was followed by a fourgoal explosion, including a first-period hat trick, the next game against the Florida Panthers. “In junior, you don’t normally go a couple of games without scoring,” Bennett said. “It was definitely different, but it’s a different league and it’s a lot tougher. I knew that coming in. “I was still getting a lot of chances, so you only start to worry when you’re not getting the chances. I knew eventually it would start to come.” With 24 points, the six-foot-one,
186-pound forward ranks seventh among NHL rookies. Calgary’s highest draft pick ever at fourth overall in 2014, Bennett has a top-six role playing with centre Mikael Backlund and right-winger Michael Frolik on the second line. “Of course, I still consider myself a centreman, but I think I’ve played left wing pretty much this whole year, so now I’m just as comfortable there,” Bennett said. No one can accuse Hartley of overworking Bennett at an average of just
over 15 minutes per game, but Hartley has followed a template established when first-line centre Sean Monahan joined the Flames as an 18-year-old. “We’re treating him the same way we treated Sean Monahan in his first year and we have kind of our own recipe,” Hartley said back in December. “We’re trying to teach them the right way to play and be a good pro at the NHL level. I think Sammy is doing very good, but let’s not get too far ahead. Obviously we like the way he plays.” There were indications Monday that Hartley didn’t like the way his team was practising. Half an hour into their skate, Hartley summoned the players into the corner for a meeting and then left the ice abruptly to end practice. The coach downplayed the abbreviated session afterward, although forward David Jones admitted “we weren’t as crisp as we needed to be.” The Flames (23-25-3) are at a critical juncture in their season eight points out of a division playoff berth and nine away from a wild-card spot in the Western Conference. Coming off a 4-1 win over the host Vancouver Canucks on Saturday, the Flames need more of the same divisional success on the road against San Jose on Thursday and Arizona on Friday to gain ground. “With 50 games played, it’s time to step it up,” Hartley said. “We have no choice. We have to put on some major winning streaks.” Jones Hiller gets his second straight start for the Flames on Tuesday after his 35-save performance against the Canucks. Suspended defenceman Dennis Wideman will have a hearing with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman on Wednesday in New York. The Players’ Association has appealed his 20-game suspension for cross-checking a linesman.
Raptors keep rolling with Parity plays 14th win in last 15 games big part in NHL
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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Raptors 103 Pistons 89 AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — When Andre Drummond’s shot from about 80 feet dropped straight through the net to end the third quarter, Toronto’s lead was down to five points, and it looked like this game against the Detroit Pistons might come down to the wire. Instead, Kyle Lowry and the Raptors put it out of reach pretty quickly. “That shot could have gave them some momentum, but we had the ball coming up the court, and we had to be aggressive,” Lowry said. Lowry began the fourth quarter with a three-point play, and the Raptors went on an 11-2 run to pull away for their 14th victory in 15 games, 10389 over Detroit on Monday night. Terrence Ross added 18 points for the Raptors. Toronto led 70-65 at the start of the fourth after Drummond’s long shot, but the Atlantic Division-leading Raptors eventually turned the game into a rout, to the delight of the many Toronto fans in attendance at the Palace. Drummond had 12 points and 13 rebounds for the Pistons. “I liked the way we competed. We were just playing a great team that played extremely, extremely well and every mistake we made, they put the ball in the basket,” Detroit coach Stan Van Gundy said. “I’m not angry with my players. I’m angry with myself, because we competed that hard and I couldn’t find a way to help them.” Van Gundy said before the game that defence was a point of emphasis for his team, and the Pistons responded well initially, taking a 24-19 lead after one quarter. Toronto was up 49-43 at the half, and although the Raptors looked like they were in control at 6249 in the third, Detroit scored nine straight points to get back in it. Drummond actually had to manoeuvr around Toronto’s Patrick Patterson before flinging the ball from near his own free throw line at the end of the third quarter. The ball went in for only the third 3-pointer of his career, but the Pistons couldn’t build on that highlight. Lowry and Patterson made 3s early in the fourth to give Toronto an 81-67 advantage, and Detroit was never closer than nine after that. Toronto led by as many as 21 points. DeMar DeRozan scored 17 points for the Raptors, ending a streak of five games with at least 20. Ersan Ilyasova led the Pistons with 17 points.
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Toronto outscored the Pistons 163 in fast-break points. The Raptors had only two offensive rebounds but shot 56 per cent from the field and
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Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan (10) makes a layup between Detroit Pistons forward Ersan Ilyasova (23) and center Andre Drummond (0) during the first half of an NBA game, Monday, in Auburn Hills, Mich. did a good job getting back when they missed. “They don’t crash the offensive glass, and they didn’t miss a lot of shots, so it is tough,” Detroit guard Reggie Jackson said. “We had a few chances to run out on them, but they just made all their shots.”
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Playing just a quick drive from the U.S.-Canada border, the Raptors had plenty of supporters in Michigan. “This team is playing for playoff position, and we had just as many fans here as they did,” Raptors coach Dwane Casey said. “We have very impressive fans … not just in Toronto, all
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TIP-INS Raptors: Toronto was without F DeMarre Carroll (right knee) and F James Johnson (left ankle). … The Raptors have won 23 consecutive games when allowing fewer than 100 points. Pistons: Detroit was missing G Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (core muscle strain) and G Jodie Meeks (right foot).
UP NEXT Raptors: At Minnesota on Wednesday night. Pistons: Host Denver on Wednesday night.
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With the NHL standings legitimately crunched three weeks before the trade deadline, teams looking to add a piece for a playoff run might be left waiting to find a seller. As Dallas Stars general manager Jim Nill sees it, this is the new normal for the league. “I think it’s changed the market and I think this is the way it’s going to be going forward,” said Nill. “Parity, it’s in there now. Every team has a chance. I really think moving forward this is what our league is going to be. It’s going to be tight. The difference is going to be 3-5 wins for everybody.” Of the 16 teams in the Eastern Conference, all but three are either in a playoff spot or within five points of one. It’s even tighter out West, with bottom dwellers Calgary, Winnipeg and Edmonton still vying for a post-season position. Parity in the league, and a generous system that awards a point for an overtime or shootout loss, is keeping more teams in the thick of the playoff race for longer. That results in a trade market with few legitimate sellers leading up to the Feb. 29 deadline, and potential buyers like Nill’s Stars left waiting. There were an average of 26 trades in and around the in the five seasons that followed the 2004-05 NHL lockout, including a high of 31 in 2010. Over the ensuing five seasons that number plummeted to 19 on average, though with a spike of 24 trades at the March 2 deadline last year. Nill said the dynamics of parity are increasingly changing how the trade market operates. He said teams are waiting longer to determine their approach — buying, selling or neither — for the trade deadline. He estimates a group of eight to 10 teams in good position at the moment, those who are willing to consider just about anything. Most everyone else waits. The scarcity of sellers could mean fewer options and higher prices for buyers. “That’s going to be the unknown,” said Nill, whose Dallas squad sits comfortably in a playoff spot at the moment with 71 points. “There’s probably 3-5 teams that are saying ‘Hey we’re probably out of it’, but I think everybody else is saying ‘You know what, we’re in it.”’ Injuries and losing streaks in the ensuing weeks could quickly alter such conversations, he added.
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General managers get ready to fill wish lists MORE THAN 140 PLAYERS PREPARE TO BECOME FREE AGENTS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS It’s that time again for CFL general managers to create their wish lists and open their chequebooks. CFL free agency begins at noon ET on Tuesday with over 140 players slated to hit the open market. Once again Canadian starters will be front and centre with running back Andrew Harris — one of the league’s three 1,000-yard rushers last year — and defensive linemen Ted Laurent and Justin Capicciotti expected to garner much attention. And they won’t come cheaply. Top Canadians are coveted as CFL clubs must have at least seven in their starting lineup. The six-foot-one, 303-pound Laurent, a Montreal native, has been a league all-star the past two seasons with Hamilton while the five-foot-11, 202-pound Harris, from Winnipeg, has twice run for over 1,000 yards. The six-foot-three, 253-pound Capicciotti, a 26-year-old Toronto native, had 23 sacks the last two years with Ottawa. The abundance of free agents is largely the result of the CFL eliminating the option year from veteran contracts and allowing players to sign oneyear deals. In 2014, the salary cap went from $4.4 million to $5 million, giving some players — particularly starting Canadian offensive linemen heading into free agency — the chance to sign
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‘THE LANDSCAPE HAS CHANGED AND I’M NOT SURE TODAY EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT THE LANDSCAPE IS GOING TO BE. I WISH I KNEW … PART OF OUR BUSINESS IS KNOWING WHEN TO TAKE A RISK AND WHEN NOT TO. IT’S LIKE KENNY ROGERS SAYS (IN HIT SONG ‘THE GAMBLER’), YOU’VE GOT TO KNOW WHEN TO HOLD THEM AND WHEN TO FOLD THEM.’ — WALLY BUONO, B.C. LIONS HEAD COACH/GM lucrative deals exceeding $200,000 annually. The ‘16 cap is $5.1 million but the $50,000 increase doesn’t come close to covering the raises most free agents expect, creating difficulties for Wally Buono and other CFL general managers. “I guess for the media and fans it’s an exciting time,” said Buono, the B.C. Lions head coach/GM. “For us, it’s about making hard decisions. “The landscape has changed and I’m not sure today everybody knows what the landscape is going to be. I wish I knew … Part of our business is knowing when to take a risk and when not to. It’s like Kenny Rogers says (in hit song “The Gambler”), you’ve got to know when to hold them and when to fold them.” CFL general managers will pay handsomely to either re-sign their top pending free agents or get those on the open market. But once the elite players are gone, the big question remains just how much money will GMs have for remaining free agents? “What’s going to happen is the mar-
THUNDER COUNTRY GYMNASTICS CLUB Four Red Deer Thunder Country Trampoline and Gymnastics Club athletes snared individual gold medals in the Alberta First Cup Championships at Grande Prairie during the weekend. Kalena Soehn was golden in the junior women’s trampoline and double mini trampoline (DMT) events, while Kyle Soehn took top honours in the senior men’s trampoline, Jesse Starchuk won gold in the level 4 men’s trampoline and Spencer Kooman was the top competitor in the level 4 men’s DMT. In the synchronized trampoline division, Kalena Soehn and Alexandra Potter were golden in the national level 5 women’s class, Brenyn Chapman and Keira Hofer claimed gold in the level 2 women’s category and Casey Zubot and Jocelyn Berkech were the top athletes in the level 1 women’s competition. Ebony Campbell earned an individual silver medal in level 5 women’s tumbling and Rees Hawryscko won silver in the level 1 men’s DMT. Claiming individual bronze medalions were Kooman in trampoline and Kayden Levis in level 3 men’s tumbling. Earning silver medals in synchronized trampoline were Kooman and
Starchuk in level 4 men’s, and Levis and Taelum Henfrey in level 2 men’s. Claiming bronze were Sophia Arnusch and Amarissa Unreiner in level 1 women’s. Other top 10 Thunder Country results: Individual: Fourth— Potter, level 6 women’s trampoline; Hawryscko, DMT; Lauren Howse, level4 women’s trampoline; Gabi Clarke, level 3 women’s trampoline; Kiera Hofer, level 2 women’s DMT; Fifth — Campbell, DMT; Starchuk, DMT; Gabi Clarke, DMT; Chapman, level 2 women’s trampoline; Henfrey, level 2 men’s trampoline; Adelaide Clarke, level 1 women’s trampoline; Sixth — Potter, DMT; Laurel Arnusch, level 4 women’s trampoline; Kaeleigh Boston, level 2 womens’ tumbling; Seventh — Howse, DMT; Nadine Rajotte, level 1 women’s DMT; Taelum Henfrey, trampoline, level 1 men’s tumbling; Chapman, DMT; Eighth — Ashton Henfrey, level 5 men’s trampoline and DMT; Ninth — Kevin Missikewitz, level 3 men’s trampoline; 10th — Levi, level men’s trampoline and DMT. Syncronized: Fourth — Melissande Perron/Boston, level 2 women’s; Fifth — Madison Rudd/Rajotte, level 2 women’s; Missikewitz/Adelaide Clarke, level 1 women’s.
EXELTA GYMNASTICS CLUB Aryan Appalraju of the host Red Deer Exelta Gymnastics Club recorded the best all-around finish in the Exelta Cup men’s artistic competition Saturday. Appalraju finished fifth all around in the provincial 1 under-10 category after placing first on the pommel horse, third on the floor and rings, seventh on the parallel bars, 10th in the vault exercise and 11th on the high bar. Brandon Sundby was sixth all around in the same division. He finished second in the vault, fourth on the floor, fifth on the pommel and high bar, sixth on the rings and 10th on the parallel bars. Meanwhile, Mason Nicoll turned in an eighth all-around finish in the provincial 2 under-12 category. Nicoll was second in each of the pommel, rings and vault disciplines, sixth on
the floor, ninth on the high bar and 10th on the parallel bars. Chad Koller was sixth in the pommel and vault exercises in the provincial 2 under-10 class, as well as seventh on the floor, eighth on the rings, ninth on the parallel bars, 11th on the high bar and ninth all around. In the provincial 1 under-eight grouping, Kingston Hitchcock finished first on the floor, fifth on the high bar, seventh on the rings, 11th on the parallel bars, 13th in each of the pommel and vault exercises and ninth all around. Other Exelta results: Provincial 1 under-10 — Avery Kuhn, ninth vault, 10th floor, 12th pommel, 13th parallel bars and all around, 15th high bar, 16th rings; Gabe McCormick, eighth pommel, 12th rings, 13th vault, 15th parallel bars and all around, 17th floor, 18th high bar.
ket isn’t going to be able to afford all these free agents and some people are going to have to maybe accept offers that were lower than their expectations,” Buono said.”But more and more people are willing to go to free agency and take the risk because the gains for them might be greater.” The uncertainty of free agency creates many questions, including some for Buono and the Lions. With Harris expected to move on, B.C. could pay less for an American running back and use the difference to attract Capicciotti, a Simon Fraser alum. Winnipeg GM Kyle Walters isn’t looking to re-sign receiver Nick Moore, and shedding his reported $175,000 salary could help in the pursuit of Harris as the Bombers try to return to the CFL playoffs for the first time since 2011. Other interesting questions include: • Does Montreal pass on 33-year-old Canadian tackle Josh Bourke and use his reported $225,000 salary to chase Laurent? • Does receiver Shamawd Chambers, the top Canadian in Edmon-
ton’s Grey Cup win last November, re-sign with the Eskimos, or does the Markham, Ont., native return to southern Ontario with either Toronto or Hamilton? • Which of its 30-plus free agents — including American kicker Justin Medlock and Canadian defensive linemen Laurent, Brian Bulcke, Michael Atkinson and Hasan Hazime — will Hamilton re-sign? • Will Toronto re-sign kicker Swayze Waters, who battled injuries last year, or pursue Medlock, a former Argo? • After being active in free agency last year, which free agents, including Capicciotti, veteran defensive tackle Keith Shologan and defensive back Jovon Johnson, can Ottawa GM Marcel Desjardins re-sign? • Will quarterback Trevor Harris remain in Toronto and compete with veteran Ricky Ray for the starting job or leave? • How many of Edmonton’s free agents will follow former head coach Chris Jones, now Saskatchewan’s head coach/GM? Just because players sign lucrative free-agent deals, it doesn’t teams will honour them. Many NFL general managers create cap space by either renegotiating existing contracts or releasing high-priced veterans outright. Walters renegotiated a number of deals in Winnipeg in December to free up money for free agency, something Buono said is becoming the norm in Canada. “What you’ve seen in the NFL is a lot of teams restructure contracts to make it more cap-friendly and I’d think we’re starting to get into the same boat,” he said.
Jets sign Byfuglien to five-year extension BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. LOUIS — Big Buff is off the NHL free-agent market. NHL teams looking to add a rental defenceman before the trade deadline will have to look elsewhere as the Winnipeg Jets signed Dustin Byfuglien to a US$38 million, five-year extension. The 30-year-old Byfuglien will be part of the Jets’ long-range plan at a salary-cap hit of $7.6 million and is relieved he doesn’t have to worry about finding a new landing spot this summer as an unrestricted free agent. “It never really crossed my mind going anywhere,” Byfuglien said. “You can’t win a Stanley Cup overnight. It’s a process, and I feel they’re in the right state, so I thought I’d run with them.” Byfuglien was at the forefront of the Jets’ first playoff appearance last spring in their fourth season in Winnipeg. At six-foot-five and 260 pounds, Byfuglien is a unique two-way force who can put up points, defend and deliver big hits. That combination would have made him sought-after ahead of the Feb. 29 deadline. It also makes him a valuable piece of Winnipeg’s present and future. Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff, who was in Chicago’s front office when the Blackhawks traded Byfuglien as part of a cap crunch, believes off-ice maturation is as important as his on-ice contributions. “To see him grow into the family man that he is, he’s got a wonderful family, proud to call Winnipeg his home for the foreseeable future here — those are the things of maturity,” Cheveldayoff said. “He’s obviously a very smart hockey player that has unique abilities on the ice. But I think it’s that maturation of a person that has allowed him to understand how he can take his games to other levels, as well.” Byfuglien has 15 goals and 17 assists this season, and those 32 points
have him tied for 13th among defencemen. He leads the Jets with an average ice time of 24:14 and believes his best hockey is ahead of him. “As the years have gone by, I feel every year I’ve gotten a little bit better and better, matured more and figured out how to be a pro better,” said Byfuglien, who has been named an all-star twice since coach Paul Maurice moved him back to the blue line full time. With Byfuglien off the board, Dan Hamhuis of the Vancouver Canucks and Keith Yandle of the New York Rangers are among the top rental defencemen available. One of the top pending free agent forwards available is Jets captain Andrew Ladd. Cheveldayoff didn’t want to comment on where negotiations stand with Ladd. The Jets are last in the Central Division with 49 points but have shortand long-term playoff aspirations after making it last season, and the Ladd situation is the next big decision for the franchise with Byfuglien signed. “There’s lots of pieces to the puzzle,” Cheveldayoff said. “You don’t deal with any one thing in a singular fashion. There’s lots of moving parts behind the scenes that obviously we have got a lot of work to do ahead of us.” NOTE: Jets forward Drew Stafford was suspended one game and will forfeit $23,387 for high-sticking Colorado Avalanche defenceman Nick Holden on Saturday.
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Leduc. Catholic Central downed Calgary Bishop Carroll 75-37 in the other semifinal. Leduc defeated Bishop Carroll 6950 in the third-place game and Hunting Hills, with Madi Nimmo netting 19 points and Kristen Loney scoring 18, took consolation honours with a 99-61 win over Sherwood Park Salisbury.
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It was at about this point last year — a few weeks before the deadline — that Holland dialled up then-New Jersey Devils general manager Lou Lamoriello inquiring about the availability of Marek Zidlicky, a right-shot defender on an expiring contract that the Red Wings coveted. “Lou told me ‘Ken, I want to see where my team goes,”’ Holland recalled. A couple days before the deadline, Lamoriello called back and said he was ready to move. The two finally agreed to a trade two hours before the 3 p.m. deadline. “I think it’s great for the league,” Nill said of parity. “The competitive balance has never been better.” Good or not, it certainly stands to squeeze the market. “If I’m a buyer I’m not going to call a team that’s one point ahead of us in the standings or one point below us,” Holland said. “They’re in the same spot we’re at.” “The standings are going to have an impact on what happens at trade deadline,” he adds.” That’s just reality of our industry, of our business.”
PARITY: See what happens Detroit GM Ken Holland has never been a seller at the deadline. His Red Wings have made the playoffs in 24 consecutive seasons. What he’s hearing currently from rival general managers is “wait and see.” “They’re saying ‘I want to see what happens in the next month,”’ said Holland. “If you’re two points out of a playoff spot on the trade deadline it’s hard to pull the plug and start letting players go.” Holland said the standings give general managers of a good idea of what they’re going to try to do leading up to the deadline. But with more teams conceivably in the playoff race, it’s harder to make definitive plans until days before the cutoff.
CATALINA SWIM CLUB River Roos of the Red Deer Catalina Swim Club garnered six gold medals in the Valentine Invitational at Michener Centre during the weekend. Roos was golden in each of the 10 and under 50-metre and 200m backstroke, 100m, 200m and 400m individual medley, and 200m breaststroke events. A total of 21 Catalina members established new qualifying times. A times: Josh Young, 50m butterfly; Elle Couture, 400m I.M., 200m ‘fly; River Roos, 200m I.M.; Murray Duncan, 800m free. B times: Madisson Young, 200m back, 100m and 400m I.M.; Zoie Kachor, 100m I.M.; Dalia Morales, 50
and 100m ‘fly, 50 and 800m free; Laina Powell, 100m ‘fly; Ocean Roos, 400m I.M., 200m ‘fly; River Roos, 400m I.M.; Jayden Vale, 400m I.M., 200m breast; Jaden DeBruijn, 400m I.M.; Duncan, 400m I.M., 200m ‘fly, 200m breast; Anna Krieger, 50 and 200m free; Brooklyn Weins, 50m free; Cooper Waddle, 50m free; Delaney Lehman, 200m breast; Tait Loyek, 800m free. MQT times: Daniel Morrison, 400m free, 200 and 400m I.M.; Anna Erickson, 100m I.M.; Hayden Bettenson, 200m free; Lehman, 800m free; Tyrus Toews, 800m free; Kalen Sabasch, 100m I.M. (See Scoreboard on Page B3 for other Catalina medal winners).
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Kelsey Lalor drained 18 points in a losing cause as the host Raiders fell 89-36 to Lethbridge Catholic Central in the girls final of the Lindsay Thurber Invitational senior high basketball tournament Saturday. Kelsey and Hayley Lalor hit for 32 and 18 points, respectively, as the Raiders advanced to the championship game with a 78-59 victory over
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Lethbridge Red Deer Calgary Edmonton Medicine Hat Kootenay
CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSL 53 37 16 0 0 53 34 16 1 2 54 31 20 1 2 54 23 24 6 1 54 20 30 3 1 53 9 40 4 0
GF 216 200 178 149 168 111
WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSL GF Kelowna 54 37 14 3 0 195 Victoria 55 35 15 2 3 197 Prince George 55 31 21 2 1 199 Kamloops 54 24 22 5 3 174 Vancouver 55 21 28 4 2 157 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSL 53 32 17 2 2 53 28 22 3 0 52 26 21 3 2 53 26 25 2 0 52 24 25 2 1
Everett Seattle Spokane Portland Tri-City
GF 143 160 178 168 174
GA PTS 150 72 160 64 178 58 184 53 168 44 216 40 GA PTS 147 74 150 71 169 65 162 53 219 44 230 22
GA PTS 154 77 131 75 172 65 177 56 194 48 GA PTS 118 68 153 59 179 57 166 54 191 49
Sunday’s results No Games Scheduled. Monday results Kamloops 3 Calgary 2 Kelowna 7 Seattle 4 Vancouver 1 Edmonton 0 Victoria 6 Everett 4 Tuesday’s games Prince Albert at Brandon, 7 p.m. Saskatoon at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m. Kelowna at Seattle, 7:05 p.m. Edmonton at Victoria, 7:05 p.m. Wednesday’s games Tri-City at Kootenay, 12 noon Prince Albert at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m. Saskatoon at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Portland at Spokane, 7:05 p.m. Red Deer Rebels Scoring GP Nikolishin 53 Helewka 34 DeBrusk 42
G 27 29 17
A 42 21 29
Pts 69 50 46
PIM 14 41 28
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Spacek Bleackley Hagel Bobyk Musil Fleury Pawlenchuk Philp Polei de Wit Nogier Strand Doetzel Pratt Johnson Purtill Shmoorkoff Mahura Rattie Martin Toth Goaltending
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15 13 9 15 16 9 19 13 13 6 3 2 0 6 3 1 0 0 0 0 0
29 28 27 20 15 22 11 16 11 14 14 8 10 3 3 3 3 1 0 0 0
44 41 36 35 31 31 30 29 24 20 17 10 10 9 6 4 3 1 0 0 0
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Adam Brooks Reg Dryden Hunt MJ Brayden Burke Let Reid Gardiner PA Tyson Baillie Kel Parker Bowles TC Ivan Nikolishin RD Alex Forsberg Vic Kailer Yamamoto Spo Jesse Gabrielle PG Giorgio Estephan Let Nolan Patrick Bra Chase Witala PG
A 54 44 57 40 41 40 42 44 45 29 36 38 27
Pts 81 79 76 72 71 69 69 66 64 63 63 62 60
National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Florida 53 31 16 6 68 Tampa Bay 52 29 19 4 62 Boston 52 28 18 6 62 Detroit 53 27 18 8 62 Montreal 54 26 24 4 56 Ottawa 54 25 23 6 56 Buffalo 53 21 26 6 48 Toronto 51 19 23 9 47
GF 148 140 155 134 147 157 121 122
GA 119 126 138 134 144 170 143 145
Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts 51 38 9 4 80 53 30 18 5 65 52 27 18 7 61 51 27 18 6 60 54 26 21 7 59 54 24 21 9 57 51 23 19 9 55
GF 169 153 139 146 122 130 123
GA 115 137 135 130 128 144 138
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WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Chicago 56 36 16 4 76 Dallas 53 33 15 5 71 St. Louis 55 30 17 8 68 Nashville 53 25 20 8 58 Colorado 55 27 24 4 58 Minnesota 52 23 20 9 55 Winnipeg 52 23 26 3 49
GF 159 172 135 138 149 127 136
GA 128 144 132 140 152 128 152
Sunday’s Games Montreal 2, Carolina 1, SO Washington 3, Philadelphia 2 N.Y. Islanders 8, Edmonton 1
WHL Scoring Leaders G 27 35 19 32 30 29 27 22 19 34 27 24 33
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Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 51 31 17 3 65 137 119 San Jose 51 27 20 4 58 149 139 Anaheim 51 25 19 7 57 115 123 Arizona 52 24 22 6 54 139 162 Vancouver 52 20 20 12 52 124 145 Calgary 51 23 25 3 49 135 150 Edmonton 54 21 28 5 47 136 165 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
GP MP GA SO GAA Sv% 41 2228 99 5 2,67 .911 22 958 45 0 2.82 .902
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Monday’s Games N.Y. Rangers 2, New Jersey 1 Pittsburgh 6, Anaheim 2 Ottawa 5, Tampa Bay 1 Detroit 3, Florida 0
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Wednesday’s Games Ottawa at Detroit, 5 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m. Vancouver at Arizona, 7:30 p.m. NHL scoring leaders G 32 28 11 28 15 18 25
A 44 31 48 28 38 34 26
Pts 76 59 59 56 53 52 51
Medal winners 10 and under Gold — Dalton Powell, 100m backstroke, 200m freestyle; Laina Powell, 50 and 200m back; Kalen Sabasch, 100m I.M.; Kaillen Sumang, 400m free; Noah Thomas, 100m free; Kolton Toews, 50m butterfly, 100m breaststroke; Cooper Waddle, 50m breast, 50m free, 100m ‘fly. Silver — Anna Krieger, 200m back, 200m breast, 200m free; Laina Powell, 50 and 100m ‘fly, 100 and 200m I.M., 50m free; Reef Roos, 50m breast; Sabasch, 100m free, 200m I.M.; Sumang, 200m breast, 200m free; Noah Thomas, 50m free, 100m ‘fly, 50m back; Cooper Waddle, 100 and 200m back, 100m I.M. Bronze — Hayden Bettenson, 200m back, 50 and 200m breast; Anna Erickson, 50m back; Jerry Jia, 100m breast; Krieger, 50m free; Reef Roos, 400m free; Sabasch, 50 and 100m back, 200m free; Sumang, 50m free; Noah Thomas, 200m back, 100m I.M., 200m breast; Priya Thomas, 100m free; Finley Waddle, 50m ‘fly; Jordyn Waldo, 100m back.
breast; Young, 200m back; Jaleesa Zaparniuk, 200m free.
11-12 years Gold — Elle Couture, 400m I.M.; Murray Duncan, 50m back; Ocean Roos, 800m free; Jayden Vale, 50, 100 and 200m ‘fly, 200m free. Silver — Couture, 200m ‘fly; Jaden DeBruijn, 100m free; Duncan, 100m I.M., 800m free; Roos, 400m I.M., Vale, 400m I.M. Bronze — Couture, 50m ‘fly, 800m free; DeBruijn, 100m breast; Duncan, 400m I.m., 200m breast; Roos, 200m ‘fly; Vale, 100m I.M.
15 and over Gold — Camila Chacon, 200m ‘fly; Mikaela Duncan, 100 and 200m breast, 800m free; Hidde Geurts, 200 and 400m I.M.; Tait Loyek, 200, 400 and 800m free, 200m breast; Ryan Mah, 50m ‘fly, 100m free; Tyler Menzel, 50 and 100m breast; Rebecca Smith, 50m breast, 100m free, 100m I.M.; Daniel Stayer, 100m back, 50m free; Kristen Trepanier, 200m back; Josh Young, 100m I.M., 200m ‘fly. Silver —Isabel Adams, 50m back; Jack Barschel, 200m I.M.; Emalee Broen, 400m free; Duncan, 50m breast, 400m I.M.; Geurts, 200m breast; Loyek, 50 and 100m breast; Mah, 100m back, 200m ‘fly; Menzel, 50 and 100m free; Stayer, 200m ‘fly; Kennedy Townsend, 100 and 200m I.M., 200m free; Trepanier, 100m back; Young, 50m ‘fly, 100m back. Bronze — Adams, 200m ‘fly, 200m breast; Barschel, 50, 100 and 200m breast, 100m I.M.; Broen, 400m I.M.; Duncan, 100m I.M., 100m ‘fly; Geurts, 200m free; Menzel, 50m ‘fly; Chayce Moon, 800m free; Townsend, 50m ‘fly, 100m back.
13-14 years Gold — Lauren Bettenson, 50m back; Zoe Kachor, 100 and 200m breast; Kyla Leibel, 100m back, 50m free; Kyra McMurray, 400m I.M., Elizabeth Moore, 50 and 200m ‘fly, 100m free, 100m I.M.; Daniel Morrison, 400m I.M.; Justine Valentine, 200m I.M. Silver — Tanille Collicutt, 200m back; Nathan Delver, 400m I.M.; Leibel, 50m breast, 100m I.M.; McMurray, 50 and 200m ‘fly; Ian Tainsh, 200m back; Valentine, 100 and 200m ‘fly; Madisson Young, 200 and 400m I.M., 200m breast, 800m free. Bronze — Collicutt, 100m back, 200m ‘fly; Kachor, 400m free; McMurray, 100m I.M.; Morrison, 200m breast; Aislinn Morton, 100m ‘fly; Valentine, 100m
Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 35 16 .686 — Boston 31 22 .585 5 New York 23 31 .426 13 1/2 Brooklyn 14 39 .264 22 Philadelphia 8 44 .154 27 1/2
Miami Atlanta Charlotte Orlando Washington
Cleveland Indiana Chicago
Southeast Division W L Pct 29 23 .558 30 24 .556 26 26 .500 23 28 .451 22 27 .449 Central Division W L Pct 37 14 .725 28 24 .538 27 24 .529
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WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 43 8 .843 — Memphis 30 22 .577 13 1/2 Dallas 29 25 .537 15 1/2 Houston 27 26 .509 17 New Orleans 19 32 .373 24
Oklahoma Utah Portland Denver Minnesota
Golden State
Northwest Division W L Pct City 39 14 25 25 .500 26 27 .491 21 32 .396 16 37 .302 Pacific Division W L Pct 46 4 .920
RDC ATHLETICS Red Deer College athlete Jonathan Allan placed third in the men’s 300m event of an Alberta Colleges indoor track meet Saturday hosted by Concordia University and staged at the Edmonton Garrison Military Fitness Centre. Allan posted a time of 38.8 seconds, while RDC teammate Keelan Ellerby finished 11th in 42.2 seconds. In the women’s 600m event, RDC coach Courtney Long was fifth in 1:48.8 and Haylee Kitt was seventh — sixth among ACAC runners — with a time of 1:52.2. Other RDC results: Women’s 1,000m: Jordanna Cota, sixth in 3:20.4; Lauren Mearns, 18th in 3:50.6; Tara Mc-
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Tuesday’s Games Boston at Milwaukee, 6 p.m. San Antonio at Miami, 6 p.m. Washington at New York, 6 p.m. Utah at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Houston at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.
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Donald, 19th in 4:05.4; Ani Dingamtar, 20th in 4:24.4. Women’s 3,000m: Amy Severtson, seventh in 12:17.56; Melissa Ray, 10th in 12:36.99; Amber Koster, 11th in 12:37.63; Laura Szymanek, 13th in 13:29.21. Men’s 3,000m: Andrew Jacobs, 13th in 11:04.87; Nolan Dyck, 14th in 11:44.18; Jonathan Lam, 15th in 12:09.31. Women’s 4x400m relay: RDC A (Kitt, Szymanek, Severtson, Cota), fifth in 5:00.4; RDC B (McDonald, Dingamtar, Ray, Mearns), ninth in 5:22.38. Men’s 4x400m relay: RDC (Lam, Dyck, Ellerby, Allan), sixth in 4:09.22. Point totals: RDC women, fourth with 20 points; RDC men, sixth with 10; RDC tied for fifth overall with 30 points.
RDC ATHLETES OF THE WEEK Volleyball players McKenna Barthel and Tom Lyon are the Boston Pizza RDC female and male athletes of the week. Barthel, a second-year business administration student, played a major role as the Queens blanked Lethbridge 3-0 in each of two weekend matches, finishing with 16 kills, one ace, 10 digs and two blocks. She was named RDC player of the match Friday. Lyon, in his fifth year of open studies, led the Kings to a pair of 3-1 wins over Lethbridge, accumulating 18 kills,
12 blocks and eight digs. The middle blocker was named RDC’s top player in Saturday’s match. • The RDC hockey Queens host NAIT Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Arena and the hockey Kings entertain Grant MacEwan Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Penhold Regional Multiplex. Meanwhile, the Kings and Queens basketball squads host St.Mary’s University Friday — starting with the women’s game at 6 p.m. — and the RDC volleyball teams are home to Olds College Saturday, with the women’s match going at 6 p.m.
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• 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
Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 16 New England 27, Kansas City 20 Arizona 26, Green Bay 20, OT Sunday, Jan. 17 Carolina 31, Seattle 24 Denver 23, Pittsburgh 16 Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 24 AFC Denver 20, New England 18 NFC Carolina 49, Arizona 15 Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 31 At Honolulu Team Irvin 49, Team Rice 27 Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 7 At Santa Clara, Calif. Denver 24, Carolina 10
Bowling Heritage Lanes High scores Feb. 1-7 Monday club 55+ 1 p.m.: Bob Barmby, 275 high singles; Lorne Fowler, 703 high triple. Monday 7 p.m. mixed: Paul Pineau/Dee Pennifold, 263; Melissa Edwards, 628. Tuesday 7 p.m. mixed: Daryl Molander, 365; Lance Clark, 786. Wednesday club 55+ 1 p.m.: Bill Black, 268; Lorner Fowler, 691. Wednesday 7 p.m. mixed: Chris Bristow, 334; Bristow, 858. Thursday morning ladies: Tammy Downey, 262; Downey, 672.
Thursday afternoon Special Olympics mixed: Anthony Kubasek, 263; Brenda Schewalje, 451. Thursday 7 p.m. mixed: Ryan Weetman, 289; Jason Smith, 746. Monday scratch league 7 p.m.: Billy Warner, 345; Gary Baird, 1,175 (four games). Youth Bowling of Canada Bumpers: Brodie Ehret, 93. Bowlasaurus: Rogan Clark, 89. Peewees: Mason Skene, 141; Skene, 259 (two games). Bantams: Janae Lynn, 194; Lynn, 416. Juniors: Keaton Chrest, 306; Chrest, 73. Seniors: Jason Smith, 320; Landyn Brown, 768.
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Sunday • Major bantam hockey: Calgary Bisons at Red Deer, noon, Arena. • Major midget girls hockey: Lloydminster at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre. • Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Gold at Red Deer North Star, 2:45 p.m., Arena. • Midget AA hockey: Calgary Rangers at West Central, 3:15 p.m., Rocky Mountain House. • Bantam AA hockey: Medicine Hat at Red Deer Ramada, 1:45p.m.,Kinsmen A; Airdrie at Olds, 2:45 p.m.; Taber at Central Alberta, 4:30 p.m., Lacombe.
1997 — Green Bay (NFC) 35, New England (AFC) 21 1996 — Dallas (NFC) 27, Pittsburgh (AFC) 17 1995 — San Francisco (NFC) 49, San Diego (AFC) 26 1994 — Dallas (NFC) 30, Buffalo (AFC) 13 1993 — Dallas (NFC) 52, Buffalo (AFC) 17 1992 — Washington (NFC) 37, Buffalo (AFC) 24 1991 — N.Y. Giants (NFC) 20, Buffalo (AFC) 19 1990 — San Francisco (NFC) 55, Denver (AFC) 10 1989 — San Francisco (NFC) 20, Cincinnati (AFC) 16 1988 — Washington (NFC) 42, Denver (AFC) 10 1987 — N.Y. Giants (NFC) 39, Denver (AFC) 20 1986 — Chicago (NFC) 46, New England (AFC) 10 1985 — San Francisco (NFC) 38, Miami (AFC) 16 1984 — L.A. Raiders (AFC) 38, Washington (NFC) 9 1983 — Washington (NFC) 27, Miami (AFC) 17 1982 — San Francisco (NFC) 26, Cincinnati (AFC) 21 1981 — Oakland (AFC) 27, Philadelphia (NFC) 10
NFL Playoffs Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 9 Kansas City 30, Houston 0 Pittsburgh 18, Cincinnati 16 Sunday, Jan. 10 Seattle 10, Minnesota 9 Green Bay 35, Washington 18
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Football
Super Bowl Champions 2016 — Denver (AFC) 24, Carolina (NFC) 10 2015 — New England (AFC) 28, Seattle (NFC) 24 2014 — Seattle (NFC) 43, Denver (AFC) 8 2013 — Baltimore (AFC) 34, San Francisco (NFC) 31 2012 — N.Y. Giants (NFC) 21, New England (AFC) 17 2011 — Green Bay (NFC) 31, Pittsburgh (AFC) 25 2010 — New Orleans (NFC) 31, Indianapolis (AFC) 17 2009 — Pittsburgh (AFC) 27, Arizona (NFC) 23 2008 — N.Y. Giants (NFC) 17, New England (AFC) 14 2007 — Indianapolis (AFC) 29, Chicago (NFC) 17 2006 — Pittsburgh (AFC) 21, Seattle (NFC) 10 2005 — New England (AFC) 24, Philadelphia (NFC) 21 2004 — New England (AFC) 32, Carolina (NFC) 29 2003 — Tampa Bay (NFC) 48, Oakland (AFC) 21 2002 — New England (AFC) 20, St. Louis (NFC) 17 2001 — Baltimore Ravens (AFC) 34, N.Y. Giants (NFC) 7 2000 — St. Louis (NFC) 23, Tennessee (AFC) 16 1999 — Denver (AFC) 34, Atlanta (NFC) 19 1998 — Denver (AFC) 31, Green Bay (NFC) 24
Monday’s Games Cleveland 120, Sacramento 100 Indiana 89, L.A. Lakers 87 L.A. Clippers 98, Philadelphia 92, OT Charlotte 108, Chicago 91 Brooklyn 105, Denver 104 Toronto 103, Detroit 89 New Orleans 116, Minnesota 102 Portland 112, Memphis 106, OT Orlando 117, Atlanta 110, OT Oklahoma City 122, Phoenix 106
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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.
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• 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.
• 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.
Tuesday’s Games Los Angeles at Boston, 5 p.m. Florida at Buffalo, 5 p.m. Edmonton at New Jersey, 5 p.m. Anaheim at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Columbus, 5 p.m. Tampa Bay at Montreal, 5:30 p.m. Winnipeg at St. Louis, 6 p.m. Washington at Nashville, 6 p.m. Dallas at Minnesota, 6 p.m. San Jose at Chicago, 6:30 p.m. Vancouver at Colorado, 7 p.m. Toronto at Calgary, 7 p.m.
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Miller the perfect pick for Super Bowl MVP BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Back in the locker room after earning Super Bowl MVP honours, Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller danced and sang along to “Big Rings” by Drake and Future: “‘Cause I got a really big team! And they need some really big rings!” A few feet away, teammate Brandon Marshall explained why Miller’s first-quarter strip-sack of Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton was such a significant moment in Denver’s 24-10 victory Sunday night that earned rings for the Broncos. “We got in (Newton’s) head after that. We got in his mind. Because he hasn’t been harassed like that all season,” Marshall said. Then, pounding his right fist in his left palm, Marshall added: “That play rattled him. That did it.” Five years after being drafted No. 2 behind Newton, Miller bothered Carolina’s quarterback from start to finish Sunday, forcing two fumbles and compiling 2 ½ sacks in a showdown between a couple of shutdown defences. “I’m going for the ball every single time,” said Miller, the second defensive MVP in the past three Super Bowls. “That’s just the type of football player I am. If it was basketball, I’d definitely be a 3-point shooter.” Miller really was everywhere — and he did a bit of everything. He created Denver’s first touchdown by zooming past right tackle Mike Remmers ripping the football away from Newton, honoured as the regular-season MVP on Saturday. The fumble bounced into the end zone, where defensive end Malik Jackson landed on it to put the Broncos ahead 10-0 about 8 ½ minutes into the game. With 4 minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, Miller set up Denver’s only other TD, too. Again, he got past Remmers and, as the offensive lineman grabbed a fistful of his white jersey, Miller reached out with his left hand to grab Newton’s right arm as the QB brought the ball back to throw. This one was recovered by safety T.J. Ward, and soon thereafter, C.J. Anderson’s 2-yard run sealed the victory for Denver (15-4), which allowed the fewest yards per game in the regular season and was just as stingy against the run as the pass. Earlier, Miller laid a big hit on Newton near the sideline. He also shared a third-down sack with Derek Wolfe to get Denver the ball back at the end of the third quarter.
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Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller, right, holds the Super Bowl MVP trophy while posing for photos with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell at a news conference in San Francisco, Monday, The Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers 24-10 in Super Bowl 50. And, showing his versatility, the 6-foot-3, 250-pound Miller even made plays in pass coverage, dropping back to force an incompletion from Newton to Jerricho Cotchery. It was all part of quite a display by Denver’s defence, making the NFC champion Panthers (17-2) and the league’s top-scoring offence look decidedly mediocre. Miller actually lamented not having more sacks. “I should have had two or three more — (Newton) was able to get out of ‘em,” Miller said. Thanks to Miller and Co., Peyton Manning did not need to do much to earn his second Super Bowl ring: The Broncos’ 194 total yards were the fewest ever for a Super Bowl winner. Denver’s defence wound up with a Super Bowl record-tying seven sacks, showing off the rush that led the NFL with 52 sacks this season. Two years ago, when Manning directed the NFL’s best offence, Denver got walloped 43-8 in the Super
Broncos’ defence dismantles Panthers for Super Bowl win SANTA CLARA, CALIF.—Cam him. Carolina defenders dropped two Newton sat there, black hoodie draped soft, slow Manning passes. The Panover his head. He spoke in a monotone, thers defence, particularly defensive when he spoke at all. end Kony Ealy, was fabulous. They He was asked if that was as much gave Newton a chance. pressure as he had seen But we forget: Even though this year. His answer some rules have been changed, was inaudible. His aneven though the NFL has tried swers were short. “We to turn its game into an air war, got outplayed.” “Nothing something that looks cleaner, different.” “No.” “No.” something for your kids to play, Asked if he could put it’s still football. his disappointment inYou can dress up this game to words, he said, “We all you want, lard it with celost.” In three minutes, lebrities and money and patrihe had one answer lonotism, but the guts of the mager than five words. chine remain the same. Foot“They just played betball is still simple: Protect the ter than us,” said Newquarterback, get to the quarBRUCE ton, after the Denver terback. Football is still pain ARTHUR Broncos made him look and ferocity. Denver had that, small in a 24-10 demoliplus speed to burn. Miller, the OTHER SIDE tion in Super Bowl 50. No. 2 pick after Newton in the “They made more plays 2011 draft, is a quarterback’s than us, and that’s what it comes down nightmare. to. I mean, we had our opportunities. And some people will kill Cam. He It wasn’t nothing special that they did. didn’t handle it well. I’ve seen a lot of We dropped balls, we turned the ball athletes handle painful disappointover, gave up sacks, threw errant pass- ment; he couldn’t handle it. It happens. es . . . that’s it. They scored more points Nobody is obligated to talk to the methan us.” dia, but other Panthers did. It looks Eventually the 26-year-old just bad. People will call it bad leadershrugged and walked away. It was car- ship. Bill Romanowski, the disgraced ried live, on several networks. One re- ex-player, called Newton “boy” in a porter, as he walked away, said “Man, tweet. There will be more of that, the he made Marshawn Lynch look down- code. Some of it will be ugly. right loquacious.” But that’s probably why Newton It was a tough day, a hard day. New- shouldn’t have done that. He brought ton, the league MVP, was sacked seven up race before this week, then backed times. He threw his second intercep- away. But he knows that he carries a tion in two months. He fumbled twice. great responsibility. He knows he’s onOn Newton’s first-quarter fumble Den- ly the sixth black quarterback to play ver’s Von Miller hit him in the face, in this game. It’s not fair, what he has went helmet to helmet on the hit, no to carry. call, touchdown. He has to know that some people On the second fumble, on a drive judge him by standards that are hypothat could still have won the game, critical. Manning name-checked BudNewton tracked the ball and then weiser after the game, but Bill Belibacked away. He might have gotten chick can be a mute, too. hurt trying; he ducked away from a Now Newton will have to deal with Denver defender. Everyone has a plan, all the fair criticism, and all the garas they say, until they’re punched in bage that will arrive in rafts. This is the face. an ugly game. Lynch apparently re“We wanted to come out and hit ’em tired during the fourth quarter, and early,” said Denver cornerback Aqib hopefully he escaped the game clean. Talib, who could have been ejected The commissioner lies about concusfrom the game for a vicious early face- sions, which are the monstrous termask, but wasn’t. rifying beating heart of football. He “Tell ’em what kind of game it was deserves more criticism than Newton. going to be.” It was revealed this week that the late It was that kind of game. Newton Kenny Stabler had chronic traumatic and the Panthers came in at 17-1. encephalopathy, or CTE, when he died They’d destroyed two very good teams at age 69; he was inducted into the Hall in the playoffs. The Broncos came in of Fame four days later. It is something with the second-worst quarterback- that the Super Bowl was won by a team ing in football, but the best defence, a whose owner, for a sad and lonely great defence. change, is suffering from dementia. And they came for Cam, on his corSan Francisco’s massive, messy onation night. Newton was harried all homeless population provided a jarnight, and the second fumble sealed it. ring counterpoint to the party and the He is a great player, but he will hear money this week. It is only here in the about that play for a very long time. first place because the 49ers extracted We ask players to dive on grenades, in US$114-million in public money and football. nearly a billion in public-backed loans “All week, all y’all were talking to build a stadium an hour away, and about was Cam Newton,” said Broncos this was a reward. Crime, or at least cornerback Chris Harris. robbery, still pays. If you were waiting to turn on Cam But Cam will rule the radio waves, Newton, for whatever reason, then dominate television, carry the day. you got what you wanted. Some people Denver beat him, and he could not do didn’t like his celebrations this season, it alone, and he could not handle it. his ego, his cockiness. Some people We ask players to dive on grenades in will celebrate, now. a game that can kill them, and we kill We should remember some things, them when they don’t. though. If Peyton Manning won his secBruce Arthur is a sports columnist for ond Super Bowl by throwing for 141 the Star. He was named the 2012 sportsyards and an interception, then we writer of the year by Sports Media Canshould by now recognize that quarter- ada, and he has been named to Sports backs aren’t the lone heroes of these Illustrated’s list of the top 100 people to mythic stories. Panther receivers follow on Twitter four times. He is also dropped a pile of passes. Kicker Gra- a regular on TSN’s The Reporters with ham Gano missed a field goal. New- Dave Hodge, and appears Monday afterton’s offensive line couldn’t protect noons on TSN Radio.
Bowl by the Seattle Seahawks, owners of the league’s best defence. General manager John Elway set out to build the Broncos’ D, adding players such as DeMarcus Ware, T.J. Ward and Aqib Talib. Elway already had Miller, who missed the first six games of the 2013 season because of a drug suspension and that loss to Seattle because of an injured knee ligament. “Tore my ACL. Suspended,” he said, thinking back. “To all the guys that’s having a rough time right now, all you’ve got to do is be consistent and keep pushing, and you can be right here where I’m at.” Now comes the off-season and contract negotiations for Miller, someone the Broncos would love to lock up for the long term. “The guy is so explosive. He is extremely gifted as an athlete. His first step is really quick. He has a plethora of moves,” Marshall said. “So it’s like: How do you block him? It’s hard to stop Von.”
CALGARY STAMPEDERS Running back Jerome Messam is off the CFL market. The Calgary Stampeders announced on Monday night that they have resigned Messam. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The signing, however, keeps the 30-year-old from becoming a free agent, which was scheduled to happen on Tuesday. “I’m happy to get the deal done and not have to worry about free agency,” said Messam. “I’m excited to be back in Calgary.” The six-foot-three, 245-pound Messam, of Brampton, Ont., ran for 1,006
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STUDY SAYS LONG-TERM RISK POSSIBLY DUE TO BRAIN CHANGES BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Adults who experience a concussion appear to have a long-term suicide risk three times higher than that of the general population — and that risk rises to four times higher if the traumatic brain injury occurred on a weekend, a study suggests. The study, published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, also found that having a subsequent concussion was associated with a further increase in the risk that a person would take his or her own life. “We know that a concussion can cause lasting changes in the brain that can alter mood, perhaps resulting in behaviour changes, including impulsivity,” said principal researcher Dr. Donald Redelmeier, an internal medicine specialist and senior scientist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. “It’s possible that we’re seeing greater suicide risk linked to weekend concussions due to risk-taking associated with recreation or misadventure, whereas weekday injuries may be linked to employment hazards.” To conduct the study, researchers analyzed Ontario health records to identify more than 235,000 concussion patients between 1992 and 2012. Over that 20-year period, 667 people with a history of concussion died by their own hands. Those injured on weekdays accounted for 519 suicides, three times the population norm of about nine per 100,000 annually, while those whose brain injuries occurred on weekends accounted for 148 suicides, about four times the population norm. In absolute terms, researchers concluded that 470 of these deaths might not have occurred if patients’ risks had matched those of the general population. “Patients who experienced a concussion were at increased risk of suicide regardless of demographic factors
such as age, sex, socioeconomic status or past psychiatric conditions,” Redelmeier said. The mean age of patients at the time of suicide was 41, men and women were equally affected, most lived in cities, and the average time gap between the concussion and committing suicide was almost six years. “It may not be that the concussion was the cause,” Redelmeier noted. “It may be that they were already predisposed towards self-harm activity and in that way the concussion isn’t a mechanism it is a marker of an underlying tendency. And that certainly could be the case in our study. “But it does leave this lingering question: Were they just predisposed to begin with or was there a direct injury that disrupted serotonin pathways and led to impulsivity and depression and sleep disturbances and irritability?” (Serotonin is a neurotransmitter, or brain chemical, related to mood regulation, pain perception and other physical functions.) “The patients that I see, that’s what they talk about a lot: ‘I’ve never fully recovered from the concussion. I’m just not the same,”’ he said. “For some patients with concussion, it takes so long to get better and you kind of wonder if they fully recover.” Dr. Anthony Phillips, who was not involved in the study, called it a well-conducted research paper, which shows for the first time that weekend concussions seem to carry an even higher risk of long-term suicide than do weekday concussions. “There’s reasons for this — the fact that weekend events may be related to recreation where there might be a more severe injury. It’s a very interesting pattern that’s never been reported before,” said Phillips, scientific director of neurosciences for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. “There’s no doubt that there are changes, scars that are left in the brain that are subtle and are producing changes in perhaps neurotransmitters
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Dr. Donald Redelmeier is shown in a 2006 handout photo. Redelmeier is the lead researcher on a new study which has found that adults who experience a concussion have a long-term suicide risk three times higher than that of the general population. or neural connections,” he said Monday from Vancouver. While stressing that the research does not suggest that every person who suffers a concussion “now has a high liability of suicide,” Phillips said the increased risk needs to be taken seriously. “We’ve got to protect our brains, keep them healthy,” he said. “If you’ve had a concussion, you should take extra precautions to make sure you don’t get another one. It’s a matter of prevention and not putting yourself in harm’s way.” Interestingly, the study found that about half the patients had visited a physician for unrelated medical issues in the week prior to taking their own lives. Overall, about 80 per cent had seen their doctors in the month prior
to their suicide. “It was a missed opportunity, at face value. A doctor may not be able to make everything perfect, but is in a position to stop a situation from becoming worse,” said Redelmeier, suggesting that patients should routinely be asked about a history of concussion and suicidal thoughts. “I think an awareness of the association between concussions and suicide is informative not just for public health, but also for practising physicians,” he said. “Understanding how a history of concussion raises the risk of suicide and supporting patients with better screening, treatment and followup for recovery may be important steps in preventing these tragic and avoidable deaths.”
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‘DREAM TEAM’ PUT TOGETHER TO SEEK BETTER TREATMENTS, FOCUS ON STEM CELLS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A “dream team” of top Canadian scientists has been named to mount a new attack on aggressive brain cancers in children and adults by focusing on the stem cells that spur their growth. Dr. Peter Dirks, a neurosurgeon and researcher at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, will head the Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) team, which will employ genomic and molecular profiling technologies to analyze brain cancer stem cells. “Brain tumours in children and adults contain a small number of cells called stem cells that resist treatment and continually regenerate, driving tumour growth and recurrence after initial responses to treatment,” said Dirks, the first scientist to identify cancer stem cells in brain tumours in 2003. “Our team will conduct multiple analyses of brain cancer stem cells, profiling their biological makeup to identify drugs that are likely to block the uncontrolled growth of the tumours, and carry out clinical trials across Canada to find the safest and most effective drugs to treat these cancers,” he said in a statement Thursday. The researchers will focus on two types of brain tumours: glioblastomas in adults and children, and posterior fossa ependymomas in infants, both of which have limited treatment options
and poor survival statistics. Less than 10 per cent of adults live five years following a glioblastoma diagnosis. Malignancies of the brain and central nervous system are the No. 1 cancer killers of children. Brain tumour stem cells are similar to nerve stem cells that mature during normal brain development. However, abnormal programming in these cancer stem cells promotes tumour recurrence and drug resistance. “It’s like a Peter Pan syndrome, in which the immature cell, the stem cell, never grows up,” said Dr. Michael Taylor, a neurosurgeon and scientist at SickKids who specializes in cancer genomics. “Our objective is to take those cancer stem cells and convince them to quit multiplying and leave the rest of the brain alone.” Their objective is to understand the abnormalities in the cancer stem cells, with the goal of developing drugs to effectively attack their vulnerabilities. The 12-member team has received $11.7 million in grants over four years from a consortium of funding organizations, including SU2C Canada, Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. It is the second dream team announced by SU2C Canada. The first was a collaboration of top researchers formed last year to investigate new treatments for different kinds of breast cancer.
Alberta Health Services shuts down Calgary tattoo shop for no sterilization BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Alberta Health Services says a Calgary residential tattoo operation did not have proper sterilization or sanitation processes in place. It says anyone who got tattoos at Discount Tattoo (224 7A St. N.E.) by Ryan Kinsella may have been exposed to viruses, including hepatitis B and C and HIV. Dr. Judy MacDonald, medical officer of health for the Calgary zone, says anyone who had services done at Discount Tattoo can call Health Link at 811 to arrange for testing for the viruses. AHS ordered the residential opera-
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GREEN Norma Margaret Norma Green passed away peacefully on January 19, 2016 at Kipnes Centre for Veterans in Edmonton, Alberta. Norma Green (nee Miller) was in her 92nd year. She was the wife of the late John Wood and beloved wife of the late Richard Green. Loving mother of Ivan Wood, Brian Wood both of Penhold, Alberta, Wendy and her husband Peter Witt of Fenelon Falls, Ontario, and Craig Wood and his wife Slavka of Shelbourne, Ontario. Dear grandmother of Marlene, Clayton, Colby, Brianna, Heather, Jonathan, Matthew, Julie and predeceased by Robin. GreatGrandmother of seven greatgrandchildren. Norma was born April 2, 1924 to Archibald and Annie Miller of Roland, Manitoba. She was the second youngest of nine children. She is survived by her sister Maude McIntyre of Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta and her brother Robert Miller and his wife Patricia of Surrey, BC and is predeceased by her siblings, Ivan Miller, Opal Trammel, Florence Grexton, Lawrence Miller, Bertha Grexton, and Alden Miller. Norma spent many happy years with her second husband, Dick, in Red Lake, Ontario enjoying their cabin at Rahill Beach and their home in Balmertown. Always artistic, sometimes eccentric, Norma thrived in this northern community and made many friends. During WWII, Norma left her home in Manitoba and travelled to Hespeler, Ontario where she joined the WRENS (Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service) and was soon stationed in Halifax, Nova Scotia as a nurses aid where she remained until the war ended. She took advantage of her furloughs by getting to know her Miller relatives in Nova Scotia who welcomed her with open arms. These were years with memories she cherished and recalled in her stories and poetry for the rest of her life. Many thanks to staff at the Kipnes Centre for Veterans for all their kindness, care and patience. Also a very special thank you to her daughter-in-law, Dawn Robbins of Red Deer, Alberta, for her love, help and constant visits during Norma’s last years. Cremation has taken place and a memorial service will be planned at a later date in Red Lake, Ontario. In lieu of flowers donations to the Parkinson’s Society of Canada would be appreciated by the family.
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VRUWINK Christina Christina Vruwink passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital, after a brief illness, on Monday, February 1, 2016 at the age of 84 years. Christina was born January 16, 1932, in Borne, Netherlands, the daughter of Albert and Christina DeVries. In 1954, Christina married the love of her life, Gerrit Vruwink, in Hengelo, NL and with two young sons; Bill and Tim, they immigrated to Montreal, Quebec in 1958. Montreal was their home for 24 years, where the family grew with two more children; Christine and Peter. In 1982, Mr. Vruwink’s work with Union Carbide brought the family to Red Deer, Alberta. In addition to raising their four children, she also worked for Simpsons in downtown Montreal for a number of years. Christina thoroughly enjoyed puzzling, card making and paper toll pictures and was a proud red hatter for many years. Christina was predeceased by her husband, Gerrit Vruwink, and is survived by her three sisters; Marjean Toren of Montreal, QC, Ena Siemerink of Hengelo, NL, Rita (Willem) Borkent of Hengelo, NL, brother, Tim (Fie) DeVries of Brampton, Ont, three sons; Bill (Lisa) Vruwink of Sydney, NSW, Tim (Nancy) Vruwink of Calgary, Peter (Stacy) Vruwink of Red Deer, daughter, Christine (Gary) Bunch of Red Deer, four grandchildren; Jennifer Viviani, Stephanie Firth, Mathew Firth, Rita Vruwink, one great-grandchild, Luca Viviani, and a number of other relatives and close friends. Christina requested a private family interment and memorial service. The family wishes to thank all of those who cared for her on Unit 22 & 32 and Dr. McIntyre during her last illness. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Christina’s honour may be made directly to Whisker Rescue, Red Deer, AB. www.whiskerrescue.com Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222
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Obituaries MUIR Dorothy Ina June 10, 1916 - Feb. 4, 2016 With great sadness, the family of Ina Muir announces her passing on February 4, 2016. She was predeceased by her dear husband, Norman, one year ago. She will be lovingly remembered and greatly missed by her four children as well as her extended family and many friends. Ina was born and raised in Red Deer, Alberta, and after their marriage, Norman’s teaching career took them to the District of Cumberland, Loyalty, Stettler, and finally Edmonton. Ina devoted her life to her family and influenced countless people through her integrity, kindness, and love of the Lord. A Funeral Service will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, February 11, 2016, with a viewing one hour prior to the service at Westlawn Funeral Home, 16310 Stony Plain Road, Edmonton, AB. Interment will follow at Evergreen Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Good Samaritan Society (Dr. Gerald Zetter Centre), or a charity of one’s choice.
TUCKER Annette Lynn (nee Fuller) It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Annette Lynn Tucker at the age of 48 years. Annette passed away peacefully February 5, 2016 with Michael, her beloved husband, by her side. She is survived by her children Eric (AJ), Jessica, Mark; stepchildren Heidi, Sarah, Makayla, Kelsie, Cameron and Megan. Her father, Skip Fuller (Joyce); brother Brent (Tracey) and two grandchildren. She is predeceased by her mother Lynn Fuller. Funeral services will be held at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 5676-46 Street, Innisfail, Friday, February 12, 2016. Viewing will be held at 11:00 am followed by the service at noon. Final resting place - Delburne Cemetery. Condolences may be sent to condolences@sunsetltd.ca. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Lending Cupboard in Red Deer.
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Obituaries ELLERBY John 1934 - 2016 With hearts full of treasured memories it is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our wonderful husband, dad, grandpa and GGpa - John Williams Ellerby. He was a man who faithfully loved God, his wife of 56 years, his children and grandchildren and great grandchildren. He was our hero. John was born on December 22, 1934 on the family farm near Throne, Alberta. He was the fifth child in a family of 7 children born to Wilbur and Grace Ellerby. He is survived by his loving wife Donna Ellerby, his four children Laurel (Brian) Allan, Tim (Melody) Ellerby, Trevor (Dorothy) Ellerby and Lisa (Pat) Boomer and his 12 grandchildren - Brittany (Ryan) Krook, Rebecca Allan, Ben (Tori) Allan, Jonathan Allan, Tyler Ellerby, Tannis (Clare) Butterfly, Keelan Ellerby, Tori Lee, Morgan Boomer, Logan Boomer, Shyla Ellerby, Carson Ellerby and two great-grandchildren Tristan and Avery Krook. He is also survived by his two sisters Lillian and Mary (Mike). He was pre-deceased by his parents, his brothers Wray, Albert and Ben, sister Ruth, brother-in laws Bob and Joe and nephews Les and Kevin. John’s parents instilled in him the importance of hard work, honesty, being a man of character and to have a heart for God. John made a commitment to follow Jesus Christ as a young boy and lived that promise all the days of his life. At the age of 24 John left the farm and moved to Edmonton to be near his long-time sweetheart Donna Wenger. They were married on February 12, 1960. He worked in the city at a number of positions until he was hired in 1961 by Alberta Gas Trunkline. At that time they moved to Alix and during those years they had their first three children. After their transfer to Bentley in 1969 their family grew to include a 4th child in 1970. Many happy years were spent in Bentley raising children, playing sports, camping and going to the nearby lake almost daily during the summer months. The family were active members in a local church and developed many close friendships that have lasted a lifetime. John and Donna finished raising their family on a farm in the Sylvan Lake area and have continued to reside there until the present. Throughout John’s life he had an entrepreneurial spirit and in his spare time he enjoyed working around his farm, building enclosures for oil field facilities, maintaining a herd of cows and making time for any projects his children or grandchildren had on the go. He wanted the best for his family. John was known to keep anything that might come in handy and if you needed something he most likely had it or could make it. John and Donna freely shared their home and yard hosting many events over the years. John retired from Nova (Alberta Gas Trunkline) in 1995. Upon retirement, John and Donna travelled quite extensively and spent time in Arizona each winter. In the last few years John enjoyed maintaining a big yard, going for daily walks and puttering in his shop. John Ellerby peacefully passed away after a courageous battle with cancer at the age of 81 years on February 4th, 2016. The family wish to thank Dr. M. Kauchali and the staff at the Red Deer Hospice for their loving care in John’s last few days. A celebration of his life will be held at Living Stones Church 2020 - 40th Avenue in Red Deer on Friday, February 12th 2016 at 1:30 p.m. If friends so desire memorial donations can be made in John’s honor to Circle Square Ranch at Halkirk, Alberta and/or Sylvan Lake Community Partners Association in Sylvan Lake. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com. Arrangements in care of Heather Caseley, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040 or 1.800.481.7421.
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after being emboldened by Syrian Kurdish forces’ success against the Islamic State group in the DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — Azize northern Syrian city of Kobani. Calis is pleading for peace. The Calis family ran away from The 70-year-old Kurdish wom- Diyarbakir’s historic Sur district, an is among tens of thousands an area famed for its ancient displaced by fighting raging be- city walls — dotted with historic tween Turkish security forces and mosques and listed as a UNESCO militants in the southeast after World Heritage Site. While Baglar a peace process collapsed in the is far from the gunfire and blasts summer. that ring from Sur, the living conCalis and her family fled from ditions are spare. Apart from a their home about two months TV set and a rug, the house has ago with only the no furniture aside ‘WE ARE IN A MISER- from the cushions clothes they were wearing from one they sit on and the ABLE STATE. IF OUR district in the city mattresses they of Diyarbakir to (KURDISH) LEADER AND sleep on. the relative safeCalis longs ty of another. Be- THOSE LEADING TURKEY, to return home, sides fearing for IF THEY HAD A LITTLE b l a m i n g b o t h her life, she was and TurkMERCY, THEY WOULD Kurdish also faced with ish leaders for round-the-clock NOT BRING ABOUT THIS her misery, and curfews and being imploring them to WRATH ON US.’ left without food, seek peace. electricity or wa“We are in a —AZIZE CALIS, 70-YEAR-OLD KURDISH WOMAN miserable state. ter. “They rained DISPLACED BY FIGHTING RAGING BETWEEN TURKISH If our (Kurdish) SECURITY FORCES AND MILITANTS leader and those fire, calamity, wrath on top of leading Turkey, us,” Calis said in Kurdish from if they had a little mercy, they the shoddy rented house where would not bring about this wrath the family of eight has sought ref- on us,” Calis said. “We want uge in Diyarbakir’s low-income peace, we want peace, we want Baglar district. “We escaped to peace!” save our lives.” Fighting persists in urban arA two-and-a-half year peace eas in Turkey’s southeast, includprocess between Turkey’s govern- ing in the Sur district. Turkish ment and the Kurdistan Workers’ security forces, backed by tanks, Party, or PKK, broke down in Ju- have embarked on large-scale ly, reviving three decades of con- operations to root out Kurdish flict that has cost more than 40,000 militants and imposed round-thelives. clock curfews in several municiThe PKK has been fighting palities, displacing tens of thougovernment forces for self-rule sands of people — mostly Kurds. for Kurds in the mainly Kurdish Kurdish militants have set up southeast since 1984. Turkish gov- barricades, dug trenches and ernment officials say the Kurd- primed explosives to protect the ish militants have launched the areas they declare to be under latest violence in urban districts Kurdish self-rule. BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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The Canadian Mental Health Association-Alberta Central Region is now accepting resumes for the following positions: • Service CoordinatorABIN • Education Facilitator • Education Project Lead • Housing Support Worker Closing Date: February 15th, 2016 For a full description of these opportunities and instructions on how to apply please visit our website at: www.reddeer.cmha.ca
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DRYWALL HELPER REQ’D. Experience an asset. 403-341-7619
Truckers/ Drivers
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Promax Transport is looking for a F/T Class 1A shunt driver. Please send resumes to fax # 403-227-2743 or call 403-227-2712
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SYSGEN SOLUTIONS GROUP is a client-focused IT consulting organization. We are currently recruiting for a Business Development Manager in Red Deer. Visit our website at www.sysgen.ca or send resumes to careers@sysgen.ca You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!
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1178 SQ.FT 3 bdrm. main Áoor of house, c/w 5 appls, dble. att. heated garage, Lacombe, July 1st, n/s, $1350/mo. inclds. all utils. 403-782-2007 4 BDRMS, 2 1/2 baths, single car garage, 5 appls, $1495/mo. in Red Deer. 403-782-7156 403-357-7465 LACOMBE 2 bdrm. house w/1 bdrm. bsmt. suite, single car garage $1395 403-782-7156 403-357-7465
3 BDRM. 4 plex, Innisfail, heat included, $795 w/laundry connection. 403-357-7817
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DELUXE Innisfail 2 bdrm. n/pets, balcony, inclds. water $860 + utils. 403-348-6594 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111
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3 bdrm. townhouse, 4 appl., fenced yard, rent $1425, S.D. $900; incl. all util., avail. March 1. 403-304-5337
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KAOLACK, Senegal — Dozens of armed security forces descended on the Quranic school at night, arresting an imam suspected of having links to Islamic extremists in Nigeria. As the forces encircled the home of Imam Alioune Badara Ndao, 300 boys from his boarding school ran into the dirt courtyard, panicked at the sudden appearance of the gendarmes in this peanut-industry town. More arrests were carried out in the weeks that followed, including of three other imams accused of supporting Boko Haram, stoking fears that extremism could be sprouting in this predominantly Muslim, moderate nation that prides itself on its tolerance and co-existence with the Christian minority population. “Until now the debate on terrorism was considered a distant one, but with these new arrests Senegalese perception has completely changed,” said Bakary Sambe, an expert on radicalism and religious conflict in Africa who is based at Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis, Senegal. “People are starting to see this as a local reality.” Authorities said they found a video on the night of Ndao’s arrest at the Quranic school last October that they said “glorified terrorism” and believe the imam had been meeting regularly with a Senegalese jihadist looking to set up a Boko Haram cell here after living and training in Nigeria. Ndao vigorously denies the accusations. Recent al-Qaida attacks on hotels frequented by foreigners in two other West African countries, Mali and Burkina Faso, that killed dozens of people have elevated fears that extremist attacks are creeping further out from North Africa. Even before the Burkina Faso attack, Senegal’s president was calling for the burqa to be banned, saying the long garment worn by conservative Muslim women also could be used by suicide bombers to hide explosives. Senegal is stepping up security at possible targets, including large hotels and foreign embassies. Authorities are increasing surveillance too. Police have detained more than 500 people in Senegal this year as part of an anti-extremism effort though most offences were for counterfeit currency or not having the proper paperwork for vehicles.
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3 bdrm. 4-Plex, 4 appls., 1 1/2 baths, Rent $975. incl. sewer, water and NEW Glendale reno’d 1 & 2 garbage. D.D. $650. Avail. bdrm. apartments, rent CLASSIFICATIONS now or March 1 403-304-5337 $750, last month of lease 5000-5300 free, immed. occupancy. GLENDALE 403-596-6000 3 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $975. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail. SUV's March 1 403-304-5337 HERE TO HELP 1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, LIMITED TIME OFFER: N/S. No pets. & HERE TO SERVE One free year of Telus 403-596-2444 Call GORD ING at internet & cable AND 50% RE/MAX real estate off Àrst month’s rent! 1 & 2 central alberta 403-341-9995 Bedroom suites available. Rooms Renovated suites in central MOUNTVIEW Household Celebrate your life For Rent upper level 3 bdrm. house, location. Cat friendly. Furnishings with a Classified 5 appls., fenced yard, large leasing@rentmidwest.com BLACKFALDS rooms for ANNOUNCEMENT deck, rent $1,300 incl. all 1(888) 784-9274 2013 HYUNDAI Tucson Moving out sale ~ china rent $600 fully furnished, utils. $900 s.d. Avail. 35,700 Kms. 2.0 L engine. ORIOLE PARK cabinet, queen bed, all included 403-358-1614 March 1. 403-304-5337 A/C, PW, PL, AM,FM,MP3, 2 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $925 dresser, living room and Houses CD & more. 14,900. rent, s.d. $650, incl water kitchen furn., freezer, recliner. STETTLER older 3 bdrm. We Take Payments 2 storey, 4912-53 St. large sewer and garbage. Avail. Mobile For Sale Lots more. 403-704-4457 Call 403-358-1698 March 1. 403-304-5337 fenced yard, single car Lot rewardlease.com WANTED garage, 1 blk. from school, Amvic Licensed Antiques, furniture and 3 blks. from main street, PADS $450/mo. estates. 342-2514 $1000/mo. + utils. $500 Brand new park in Lacombe. Suites DD avail. immed. Call Boats & Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., Corrinne to see. ~ 2 bath. As Low as $75,000. Misc. for Marine RENTED. Call Don to rent. 1 BDRM. N/S, no pets. Down payment $4000. Call ~ RENTED. Sale $790 rent/d.d. at anytime. 403-588-8820 WANTED Late model Ski 403-346-1458 SYLVAN Lake, 3 fully furn. Nautique or Master Craft 100 VHS movies, $75. rentals, garage, inclds. REDUCED! 2 BDRM. bsmt. suite, Boat. Call 403-318-8282 For All 403-885-5020 all utils., $1100 - $1600. 13 Mitchell Avenue $875 + $600. d.d. West+ Private room. $550/ mo. $319,900 Looking for a place park area, large windows “w/cable” 403-880-0210 Tires, Parts 5 Bed/3 Bath Bi Level , to live? n/s, no pets, utils. incld. 1092 sq. ft. Take a tour through the 403-341-0156, 885-2287 Acces. Lrg. Lot w/det. dbl. garage CLASSIFIEDS Condos/ 2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. Fully Fenced. 6 appl. 4 SUMMER TIRES, from $875 rent/d.d. Townhouses 50 - BRAND NEW turn Freshly painted. Honda CRV, 205-70R15 403-346-1458 buckles, hook and eye, Margaret Comeau, with Alessio sports rims , 9-3/8” $2.00 each 2 BDRM. townhouse w/5 RE/MAX 403.391.3399 ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious plus 1 brand new spare tire call 403-728-3485 appls, avail. immed. rent suites 3 appls., heat/water w/rim. Rims could also be $895 403-314-0209 incld., ADULT ONLY put on winter tires. $200 ELECTRIC heater, $15. Condos/ BLDG, no pets, Oriole for all 403-346-4263 403-885-5020 Completely Reno’d Townhouses Park. 403-986-6889 3 bdrm., 2 storey, Move in TOW straps, light, medium STORAGE BINS 30 Now, don’t pay until March AVAIL. IMMED. large 2 and heavy. Call Martin PIECE wall mounted $1350 + utils, Chuck bdrm. in clean quiet adult 403-323-7702 $30, 403-357-0442 building, near downtown SOFA bed, Brand new, no pets, LUXURY Condo in Aspen Co-Op, dark brown. $130. 403-348-7445 Ridge (Easthill) for 403-358-5568 mature/retired adults, 2 A Star Makes WATER cooler $50. CITY VIEW APTS. bdrms, 2 baths, 6 appls., SERVING CENTRAL 403-885-5020 Your Ad a/c. Heat incld., n/s, no pets, Clean, quiet, newly reno’d ALBERTA RURAL adult building. Rent $925 REGION WORK boots, steel toed, underground heated parking, S.D. $800. Avail. immed.& +40 Villa For Sale A Winner! lined, NEW. Size 10-11, $1500/mo. 403-343-7485 Michener Hill $489,900 CALL: Mar.1 Near hospital. No $35. 403-358-5568 403-318-5665 New Blackfalds Condo. 2 pets. 403-318-3679 309-3300 Bdrm/2 Bath. Main Áoor & 2nd Áoor options avail. 2 Office powered parking stalls. Supplies Rent $1,400. Pets negotiable. Ask about rent 2 DRAWER metal Àling incentives. 403-396-1688. cabinet $10 SOLD NEW deluxe 2 bdrm. walkout lower suite, n/s, only $1145/mo. 403-350-7421 Pets &
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Several neighbourhoods of Sur and the nearby town of Cizre have been under siege since December, while the blockade in the town of Silopi was lifted late last month after the government declared it to be cleared of PKKlinked militants. The military says at least 175 militants have been killed in Sur and another 574 have died in Cizre since the start of the operations. The zones under curfew are off-limits to journalists and observers, leading to human rights concerns. This month, U.N. human rights chief Zeid Raad al-Hussein called on Turkey to investigate the alleged shooting of a group of unarmed people in Cizre after video he described as “extremely shocking” was posted online. The video purportedly shows people wheeling a body on a handcart behind a man and a woman who are waving white flags, before apparently being targeted by gunfire. Human rights advocates have also voiced concern over the fate of around 20 people who were reportedly wounded during the fighting in Cizre last month and allegedly stranded in the basement of an apartment. A pro-Kurdish party has accused the government of denying them medical assistance while the government says ambulances and medical teams haven’t been able to reach the wounded because of militant attacks. The Turkish Human Rights Foundation says at least 224 civilians, including 42 children, have died in combat areas under curfew since August. More than 200 soldiers and police were killed in the conflict since July, according to the government.
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JOURNEYMAN PLUMBER Exc. @ Reno’s, Plumb Pro Geary 403-588-2619
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HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777
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February 9 1996 — Canada’s Donovan Bailey sets world record for the 50-metre dash with a time of 5.56 seconds at the Reno Air Games; old record of 5.61 set by Manfred Kokot of East Germany in 1973 and American James Sanford in 1981. 1978 — Ottawa orders 11 Soviet embassy officials deported for allegedly trying to infiltrate the RCMP Security Service.
1969 — FLQ terrorists explode a bomb inside a federal government building in Montréal. 1966 — National Hockey League announces it is doubling in size with a new West Division and six new teams - the California Seals, Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota North Stars, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins and St. Louis Blues. 1931 — Vere Brabazan Ponsonby, Earl of Bessborough appointed 14th Governor-General of Canada, serving from April 4, 1931 to September 29, 1935.
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Looking beyond monetary policy INTEREST RATE SHOULDN’T BE SEEN AS MAIN TOOL FOR FINANCIAL STABILITY: TOP BANK BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada’s benchmark interest rate needs help in shoring up the financial system from growing risks like rising consumer indebtedness, deputy governor Timothy Lane said in a speech Monday. Increased government spending, also known as fiscal stimulus, and regulatory changes to curb the accumulation of household debt are other tools that can be used alongside monetary policy, Lane said. “One thing is clear: monetary policy alone cannot be responsible for maintaining financial stability,”
he said in a speech at the HEC Montreal business school. Lane said the central bank has identified the combination of climbing household debt and elevated house prices as the financial system’s most concerning vulnerability. This weak spot has been exacerbated by the use of monetary policy, which has led to an extended era of low interest rates. The bank has repeatedly warned that indebtedness, and its associated risks, have continued to inch higher. This creates a scenario where government spending can be used to stimulate the economy, particularly at a time of cheap borrowing rates, Lane said.
He warned, however, that at a certain point expanding public debt can have its own negative effects on the economy and the financial system. “But these costs need to be set against concerns that prolonged monetary policy stimulus may result in an excessive buildup of private sector vulnerabilities,” he said. “These issues are relevant to the renewed discussion of fiscal policy that is now taking place in Canada.”
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Ottawa urged to bankroll well clean up program BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — Saskatchewan wants the federal government to bankroll a program that would see oil and gas workers who have lost their jobs clean up abandoned and dormant wells. Premier Brad Wall says it would help stimulate employment in the oil-and-gas sector and accelerate environmental cleanup of wells that are no longer capable of production. Wall says he has pitched the proposal, which would cost Ottawa $156 million, to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “Here is a chance for us to actually put people back to work in the energy services sector and continue with the cleanup (of suspended wells), perhaps at a more accelerated rate,” Wall said Monday. He estimates the program would generate 1,200 jobs and speed up the decommissioning and reclamation of 1,000 non-producing wells in Saskatchewan over the next two years. The government estimates there are more than 20,500 “suspended” wells in the province that are currently not producing, many of which are waiting to be decommissioned and reclaimed. Work would include safe removal and disposal of old equipment, remediation of any spills, covering wells in concrete to eliminate venting of greenhouse gases such as methane and revegetation of the land. The federal government has indicated it is considering the proposal, Wall said. “I look forward to a favourable response.” Officials in the Prime Minister’s Office were not immediately available for comment. Saskatchewan’s proposal is the brainchild of Matt Cugnet, president of Valleyview Petroleums Ltd., a family-owned exploration and production company in Weyburn. Cugnet said the service sector has been hit hard by the economic downturn caused by low oil prices, forcing his and other companies to lay off trained workers with lots of experience. He said hiring those workers to deal with suspended wells would help the economy and the environment. “You can pay people to sit home on employment insurance or you can pay them to create value,” Cugnett said. It would also encourage workers to not move away from the region in search of other jobs, he suggested. Employees will be needed when the price of oil and the industry’s prospects bounce back, he said. “We are trying to hold on to our people as best we can. “Otherwise we lose their skillset, knowledge and experience.” Cugnett said he shared his idea with the member of the legislature for the Weyburn area, who presented it to the provincial government. The Alberta government says industry should cover costs related to remediating abandoned wells. “We would welcome federal assistance to address orphaned wells, however, our priority right now is investing in infrastructure to create jobs and stimulate the economy through the downturn, which has been the primary focus of our discussions with the federal government,” said Matthew Williamson, an official in Premier Rachel Notley’s office. Energy companies should cover the cost of cleaning up old wells, said Larry Hubich, president of the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour. Hubich declined a request for an interview.
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Construction workers work on the exterior of the Points West Living facility located at 6791 65th Ave. on Friday afternoon. The 139-suite building, which is part of a $30-million project, is set to open sometime this year.
Local daycare up for provincial business award BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A daycare is a finalist for a provincial business award. Tiny Toes Castle Ltd. has been selected as a finalist for the 2016 Business Awards of Distinction in the category of Employer of Persons with Disabilities. The family-owned business is also eligible for the Premier’s Award of Distinction. Based out of St. Albert and operating in Red Deer, Tiny Toes is owned by Faiza, Annie and Alvina
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Zaidi. Since they began the business in 2010, the family has actively integrated people with disabilities into their workforce. They have a partnership with Red Deer College’s Transitional Vocational Program, which offers employment readiness and job skills training to adults with developmental disabilities. Tiny Toes also has a volunteer and mentorship program that offers oneon-one job shadowing to prospective staffers. The awards will be announced at a gala on Feb. 26 at Renaissance Edmonton Airport hotel. For more information go to www.abbusinessawards.com. The recall affects 2016 Civics equipped with two-litre four-cylinder engines. Documents filed by Canadian safety regulators say that a circular clip around the pistons may be missing or was improperly installed at the factory. That can cause a pin on the piston to rub against the engine block and possibly cause engine failure or a fire. It was unclear if there have been crashes, fires or injuries as a result of the defect. Dealers will inspect the piston clips and fix them if necessary. In the U.S., dealers can’t sell the affected cars until they are repaired. The recall covers about 34,000 Civics in the U.S. and almost 10,700 in Canada.
Luxury clothing retailers to battle it out BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Industry watchers say Canada’s retail clothing sector is expected to slow in the coming few years even though the battle for luxury shoppers is revving up. After two years of growth approaching four per cent, sales are forecast to slow and bottom out to a mere one per cent increase in 2018, says Trendex North America, a marketing research firm specializing in the clothing industry. This year’s sales are expected to grow by 2.4 per cent this year versus 3.8 per cent last year, slipping to 1.7 per cent growth in 2017 before inching back up to 2.1 per cent growth in 2020, Trendex said in a 2016 retail apparel market forecast. But that could prove optimistic because the organization’s outlook for economic growth is much stronger than the Bank of Canada’s revised forecast of 1.4 per cent. “I don’t think this is going to be a banner year,”
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retail consultant Wendy Evans said in an interview. The low Canadian dollar is going to put pressure on retailers’ margins and force them to offset higher costs by hiking prices, perhaps by three to five per cent. But the luxury segment, Evans said, should help ease the sluggishness in the low- to mid-priced sector as Saks Fifth Avenue makes its Canadian entry this month with the opening of two Toronto stores, and U.S. retailer Nordstrom expands its presence with three new locations in Toronto this year and next. The openings will give wealthier Canadians a reason to shop at home instead of travelling to global fashion centres like New York, while also attracting Americans looking to take advantage of the low loonie, she said. Jim Danahy, CEO of retail advisory firm Customer Lab in Toronto, said the Quebec City-based Simons will increasingly be part of the competitive mix as the 175-year-old retailer continues to expand across Canada.
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“They do a heck of a good job at assortment and service and are going to compete adequately against Nordstrom, Saks and Holts,” he said. Increased competition will erode Holt Renfrew’s dominance in the luxury segment at least initially as customers visit the new retail options, said Jean Rickli, a retail consultant for the J.C. Williams Group. “If Nordstrom is true to their word on customer experience, it’s going to be tough going for Holt Renfrew,” he said in an interview. But he added that the Canadian chain has made some headway by making plans to expand its Vancouver store later this year, and opening two hr2 outlet stores on the outskirts of Montreal and Toronto that appeal to millennial shoppers. Luxury menswear retailer Harry Rosen has also prepared for beefed-up competition by enlarging four of its stores and adding three locations last year. While retail sales will be under pressure, analysts expect e-commerce will continue to flourish.
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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 117.03 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.62 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.23 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 0.770 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.50 Cdn. National Railway . . 75.15 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 169.44 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 35.38 Capital Power Corp . . . . 18.71 Cervus Equipment Corp 11.81 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 46.23 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 46.42 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 17.75 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.38 General Motors Co. . . . . 28.68 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.50 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.74 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 40.46 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 32.38 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 40.16 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 5.48 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 48.59 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 114.24 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.26 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.52 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 63.16 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Investors flocked to the safety of gold stocks Monday as the Toronto stock market closed sharply lower, pulled down by weakness in the energy and financial sectors. The S&P/TSX composite index fell 228.59 points to end the day at 12,535.40. But those losses were mitigated by the gold sector, which was the biggest gainer on the TSX, rising 4.25 per cent. The price of April gold soared $40.20 to close at US$1,197.90 a troy ounce. Craig Fehr, a Canadian market strategist at Edward Jones in St. Louis, said past declines in the TSX have been brought on by volatile commodity prices, but the gains in bullion helped offset that Monday. “Gold has been the ball and chain around the TSX’s ankle for some time,� said Fehr. “We’re actually seeing the rebound in gold today, and in recent weeks, offer a little help to the domestic market.� Fehr said investors are looking to gold, as other driving forces in the market such as concerns over global growth, falling oil prices and dismal corporate earnings reports continue to remain unpredictable. “The rebound we’re seeing in gold is more of a safe haven play by investors,� said Fehr, adding that this has also helped boost the sale of Canadian and U.S. treasury bonds in recent months. In other commodities, the March contract for benchmark crude oil fell below US$30 a barrel again as it lost $1.20 to end at US$29.69. March natural gas added 7.7 cents to US$2.14 per mmBtu while March copper dipped 1.25 cents to US$2.09 a pound. The Canadian dollar continued its struggles, off 0.13 of a U.S. cent to 71.77 cents US. In New York, major indexes also took a beating for a second consecutive session, with major
Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 22.12 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.43 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.90 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 15.93 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 16.59 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.00 First Quantum Minerals . . 3.69 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 20.52 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 2.77 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.41 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.54 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 22.19 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.710 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . . . . Energy Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 24.66 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 42.82 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.89 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 16.25 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 29.22 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 8.78 Canyon Services Group. . 3.63 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 15.63 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1200 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 5.83 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.590 losses in the financial and technology sectors. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 177.92 points to 16,027.05 after having shed more than 200 points on Friday. The broader S&P 500 was off 26.61 points at 1,853.44 while the tech-dominated Nasdaq composite index declined 79.39 points to 4,283.75. The Nasdaq is down nearly 20 per cent from its record high last year. “Volatility has certainly become the new normal and today is a good example of that,� added Fehr. A number of factors have contributed to the selling on markets since the beginning of the year, including the economic slowdown in China, along with concerns about the strength of the recovery in the United States. The losses in North America came on the heels of big drops in Europe, where Germany’s DAX fell 3.3 per cent, France’s CAC 40 lost 3.2 per cent and Britain’s FTSE 100 gave back 2.7 per cent. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 1.1 per cent, but elsewhere in Asia many markets were closed for the Lunar New Year holidays. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Monday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,535.40, down 228.59 points Dow — 16,027.05, down 177.92 points S&P 500 — 1,853.44, down 26.61 points Nasdaq — 4,283.75, down 79.39 points Currencies: Cdn — 71.77 cents US, down 0.13 of a cent Pound — C$2.0103, down 0.64 of a cent Euro — C$1.5593, up 0.83 of a cent
Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 81.16 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 30.83 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.35 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 13.00 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.54 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 1.010 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.060 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 4.28 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 31.37 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.620 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 1.59 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 36.45 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.130 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 73.53 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 55.68 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88.42 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 22.12 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 33.87 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 33.94 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 79.86 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.24 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 37.90 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.190 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 69.29 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 38.47 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.51 Euro — US$1.1191, up 0.39 of a cent Oil futures: US$29.69 per barrel, down $1.20 (March contract) Gold futures: US$1,197.90 per oz., up $40.20 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.259 oz., up $1.128 $715.63 kg., up $36.27 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ‘16 $3.60 lower $465.10 May ‘16 $3.60 lower $474.30 July ‘16 $3.90 lower $480.30 Nov. ‘16 $2.80 lower $485.80 Jan. ‘17 $2.50 lower $488.70 March ‘17 $2.50 lower $488.90 May ‘17 $2.50 lower $487.60 July ‘17 $2.50 lower $487.60 Nov. ‘17 $2.50 lower $487.60 Jan. ‘18 $2.50 lower $487.60 March ‘18 $2.50 lower $487.60. 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. Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 473,520 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 473,520.
Canadian Oil sands overhauls board, leadership team BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Canadian Oil Sands Ltd., on the brink of being taken over by Suncor Energy, has overhauled its senior leadership team and board of directors. Ryan Kubik, who was CEO during the months-long takeover fight, and Donald Lowry, who was board chairman during that time, are no longer on the roster. The new CEO is Sandy Martin, vice-president of strategy and commercial development at Suncor (TSX:SU). Harry Roberts, the new board chairman, was a senior vice-president at Suncor before his retirement in 2010 and the four other directors are also connected to the acquirer.
Suncor’s executive vice-president of strategy and corporate development, Steve Reynish, and Suncor chief financial officer Alister Cowan, are among the new COS board members. Suncor announced Friday that 73 per cent of COS (TSX:COS) shareholders had tendered their shares to the $4.3-billion offer, a level of support that’s sufficient for the deal to go ahead. The offer has been extended until Feb. 22 so that remaining shareholders can tender. After months of sniping at each other in a heated hostile takeover battle, Suncor and COS — both partners in the Syncrude oilsands mine north of Fort McMurray, Alta., — came to a friendly agreement last month.
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A Mazda CX-5 is presented at the Paris Motor Show, in Paris. Mazda is recalling some 237,000 SUVs, including about 48,400 in Canada, because the fuel filler pipe can rupture in a rear crash and cause a gas leak and possible fire. The recall covers nearly CX-5 SUVs from the 2014 and 2015 model years. The problem was discovered in crash testing when the pipe ruptured and spilled fuel that exceeded limits set by crash test standards. Mazda says it has no reports of any fires or injuries. Dealers will remove a bolt on the left side of the pipe, redirecting the rear crash impact to prevent pipe ruptures, according to documents filed by Canadian safety regulators.
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Goodwill seeks bankruptcy protection TORONTO — Goodwill Industries of Toronto, Eastern, Central and Northern Ontario says it’s seeking bankruptcy protection as it tries to restructure. CEO Keiko Nakamura said Monday in a statement the Goodwill has filed an assignment under Canada’s Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. The statement says the purpose of the filing is to preserve Goodwill’s assets for its principal creditors, who are collectively the former employees of the corporation. Nakamura says Goodwill is contemplating making a proposal to its creditors which, if approved, would annul the bankruptcy and allow the corporation to reopen some stores. She says the Canadian Airport Workers Union, which represent the majority of the workers at Goodwill TECNO, has confirmed its support for the corporation’s plan. Last month, the charitable organization announced it would close 16 stores, 10 donation centres and two offices due to cash flow problems, affecting more than 430 workers.
FAA: More registered drone operators than licensed pilots STORY FROM PAGE B9
ECONOMY: Hold off on rate cut Lane’s remarks reinforced recent arguments made by Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz. Last month, Poloz held off on lowering the central bank’s trend-setting interest rate as a way to help the struggling economy. Poloz said the decision was made after the bank factored in the Liberal government’s pledge to pump tens of billions of dollars into in-
WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration says there are now more registered drone operators in the U.S. than there are licensed pilots. FAA Administrator Michael Huerta told a legal forum on Monday that the agency passed the milestone last week when it topped 325,000 registered drone owners. There are 320,000 licensed pilots of manned aircraft. Huerta said the number of small unmanned aircraft is even larger because drone operators often own more than one drone. FAA officials launched a drone registration program just before Christmas, saying it would help them track down operators who violate regulations and also help to create a culture of accountability. Huerta said the speed with which registration has taken off is proof that government and industry can work together.
Panasonic buying Ontario company behind the iQTouch restaurant sales terminals MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Panasonic Canada has a deal to buy Quickservice Technologies Inc., an Ontario company that developed the iQTouch sales terminals and software for restaurants. Financial terms weren’t disclosed but the Japanese electronics company is expected to gain nearly 100 employees when it completes the purchase of the St. Catharines-based company at the end of February. frastructure projects over the coming years. The government is expected to unveil its infrastructure spending plans in the spring federal budget, which could be released as early as next month. Poloz has said any fiscal measures would likely help the Canadian economy, which has suffered from falling commodity prices. On Monday, Lane also highlighted other measures that can help shield the financial system, such as the tightened mortgage financing rules introduced in recent years. These “macro-prudential� measures brought changes, such as raising minimum down payments.
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