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‘Brutally traumatized’ SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM THOUGHT HER LIFE WAS GOING TO END: IMPACT STATEMENT

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

GLADUE SENTENCING

Not only did Kevin Roy Gladue disfigure an O’Chiese woman when he broke her jaw, his actions endangered her life as she ran away and became lost in the woods for 12 days.

The woman, who can’t be identified because of a publication ban, was trying to get away from Gladue who had attempted to sexually assault her.

Gladue, 38, was convicted last Friday of aggravated sexual assault. On Tuesday, Crown and defence counsel argued over how long Gladue will spend in prison.

The Crown is seeking a sentence of five to eight years, with six-and-a-half being their preferred sentence. Defence counsel Jason Snider suggested a sentence of two to four years, with two-and-a-half being his preferred sentence.

The woman did not want to read her victim impact statement in open court, but asked Crown Prosecutor Ann MacDonald if she would.

“I thought my life was going to end and I’d never see my family again,” said MacDonald from the woman’s statement.

“I was and am brutally traumatized.”

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The woman spent 12 days in the woods near the north end of the O’Chiese Reserve starting from her disappearance on July 14, 2013 to when she was found on July 26, 2013. In that time she had survived on stream and river water and berries. During her survival in the wilderness she lost her shoes.

She was found about 10 km from where she was last seen, having crossed the Baptiste River along the way. When she was found she had lost a significant amount of weight, her broken jaw was infected, she had blisters on her feet, a rash on her torso and exposure after almost two weeks of being lost in the wilderness.

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ARTIFICIAL NESTING STRUCTURES KNOWN AS HEN HOUSES ARE HELPING TO BOOST DUCK PRODUCTIVITY IN CENTRAL ALBERTA

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Roger Marcil installs a cylindrical duck nest at a pond on his property east of Haynes on Tuesday. Nests of this kind are placed during the winter so they are ready for ducks to use in the spring. By placing the nests over water, predators, such as skunks and foxes, are not able to reach the eggs during incubation.

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF A winter project in Central Alberta that will increase duck nesting opportunities and therefore the number of ducklings this summer is underway in Central Alberta.

Ninety-five man-made nests, called hen houses, are being installed on frozen water bodies in the

Haynes area east of Red Deer. They will complement 125 nests installed in the same area last year by a landowner contracted to do the work for the duck conservation organization Delta Waterfowl.

The hen houses are cylindrical nest structures, placed on top of poles pounded into the bottom of water bodies, such as sloughs. Mallard ducks in particular seem to like the nests, perhaps because they are safer than their typical nests in a grass field on the ground. They sit above water, away from pesky

predators like egg-stealing skunks or hungry foxes.

The project has a research aspect, which involves predator control at some of the hen houses and none at others. Delta Waterfowl is a nonprofit group that operates in Canada and the United States that promotes waterfowl conservation and the tradition of duck hunting.

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Small explosion prompts landfill safety warning

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF No one was injured after a small explosion at Red Deer’s Waste Management Facility on Saturday.

But Janet Whitesell, the city’s Waste Management superintendent, said the situation could have been much worse.

Early Saturday morning, a worker was moving scrap metal in a pile when a high-pressure canister burst open, ejecting a parachute used for small airplanes or glider, said Whitesell.

“It was early in the morning so as I understand it he was the only person over there,” she said. “Certainly it could have been different if the parachute had discharged in another direction or someone else

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had been in the area.”

The city is using the incident as a reminder to residents to be mindful of what they send to the landfill.

“While we’re thankful that no one was injured, we just want to prevent something like this from happening again by reminding residents that hazardous waste can be dangerous if it’s not disposed of properly,” said Whitesell. “Waste screening is a key component of what we do at the site … If the (person who dropped off the canister) thought it might be dangerous, he could have asked us and we would have gone through the process and store it some where it wasn’t going to be jostled and looked into it and figured out the safe way to dispose it.”

The facility offers free, year-round drop-off for household hazardous waste including items such as aerosol and single use propane gas containers,

cleaners, batteries, nail polish, bleach, paints and paint thinners, as well as any products with flammable, corrosive, explosive and toxic warning labels.

The only hazardous items that cannot be dropped off at the Waste Management Facility include motor oil, commercial or industrial hazardous waste and prescription and non-prescription drugs which can be returned to your local pharmacy for proper disposal.

“In this situation, we understand that it was a really unique item, so if you’re unsure where an item should be dropped off, feel free to give us a call or ask one of the staff at the landfill to make sure it ends up in the right place,” said Whitesell.

Environmental Services can be contacted at 403342-8750 or at reddeer.ca/waste

Critics pan plan to arm fighters The government is facing calls to reconsider its plan to arm Kurdish fighers with automatic weapons and mortars.

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“It’s a great day for a ride,” said Brian Miller, right, who was out on his bike east of Red Deer with Jo Miller and Kyle Tymchuk, left, and Daniel Woodridge, centre. The four bikers rode the “Big Loop” as it is known from Red Deer to Blackfalds and through Joffre before returning to Red Deer on the Delburne Road on Tuesday afternoon. Temperatures are forecast to be above normal values for this time of year. For these four, that will be just fine.

Man accused of tossing gator at drive-thru

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Alligators have been used as shoes, briefcases, university mascots, lunch and now, authorities say, a deadly weapon.

Joshua James, 24, was arrested Monday and charged with assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill after Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation officials say he threw a 3.5-foot alligator through a Palm Beach County Wendy’s drive-thru window in October. He’s also charged with illegally possessing an alligator and petty theft. Jail records show he was released on $6,000 bail Tuesday. He was ordered to have no contact with animals.

Wildlife officer Nicholas Guerin said in his report that James drove his pickup truck to the window at about 1:20 a.m. Oct. 11. After an employee hand-

up. Snider said Gladue continues to deny he committed the offence.

Justice Kirk Sisson adjourned sentencing to Feb. 25 in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench, to allow him to review the numerous cases presented by both Crown and defence. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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GLADUE: Sentencing adjourned to Feb. 25 It all started when Gladue, the woman and four others were off-roading in northern O’Chiese and their truck became stuck. Four people went for held.

Gladue and the woman stayed behind. While the woman slept, she awoke to Gladue pulling off her pants, exposing her buttocks.

She scrambled out of the truck and started to walk away from Gladue, telling him to stop. He followed and struck the woman in the face with a stick. This fractured her jaw in two places, detaching the lower mandible. She ran into the woods to escape and became lost.

Gladue surrendered himself into custody on Monday and appeared in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench wearing blue prison coveralls.

MacDonald called it an unprovoked, vicious attack that only stopped when the woman ran away.

Snider pointed out the sex assault was minor and said the two components of the incident were separate actions.

Gladue testified at trial he did not assault the woman, saying he left when his then-wife picked him

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ed James his drink, he threw the alligator through the window and drove off. No one was hurt. Guerin captured the alligator and released it into the wild.

Guerin said James was tracked down through video surveillance and a purchase at a neighbouring convenience store.

Guerin wrote that James admitted throwing the alligator in a December interview. He said James told him he had found the alligator on the side of the road and put it in his truck.

James’ mother, Linda James, told WPTV that her son’s actions were a “stupid prank.”

“He does stuff like this because he thinks it’s funny,” she said. She said he meant no harm and had “no problem turning himself in.” No one answered the door at homes listed to the James family. Phones listed to the family were disconnected.

HEN HOUSES: Mallards are so adaptable One of the operating principles of the organization is to replace two ducks for every one taken by hunters, biologist Joel Brice said Tuesday. He is based in Bismarck, N.D., and is Delta’s vice-president of waterfowl and hunter recruitment programs.

This year’s hen houses are being installed through a grant from the Alberta Professional Outfitters Society. Delta has been doing the hen house initiative in Manitoba since 1991. Until now, they haven’t done much in Alberta.

Out of the 125 hen houses installed last year near Haynes (about 35 kms east of Red Deer), 35 per cent were used, and of those 91 per cent had successful hatches, Brice said.

This a very typical result, he said, adding mallards are so adaptable, they’ll nest anywhere. Delta expects the use of the hen houses will increase over

CALGARY — The Calgary Police Service says it has dismissed a member who admitted his role in a high-speed collision that seriously injured a taxi driver more than seven years ago.

Police say Sgt. Anthony Braile pleaded guilty to careless driving when he was charged under the Traffic Safety Act after the crash.

He also acknowledged nine counts of professional misconduct during a lengthy police disciplinary proceeding.

Braile was on street supervision and driving a marked vehicle on Dec. 15, 2008, when he tried to pull over a suspected drunk driver in a pickup truck.

The driver sped off and, contrary to police policy, Braile pursued him through residential streets and the downtown core for almost an hour at speeds that reached 145 km/h.

It was while Braile was driving the wrong way during the pursuit that the truck T-boned the cab in an intersection.

A hearing determined that Braile provided misleading and incomplete information to a sergeant and duty inspector who were working that night.

It was also found that he had told dispatch he was not following the truck and that he messaged another unit off the air to help in the pursuit.

He was officially found responsible for multiple Police Service Regulation offences and ordered dismissed from the service last Wednesday.

Cross-country ski festival cancelled due to lack of snow and too much ice EDMONTON — A popular ski festival that has been a staple of Edmonton winters for three decades has had to be cancelled this year due to icy conditions and a lack of snow.

The Birkebeiner festival, in which participants complete a 55-kilometre, cross-country trek, usually attracts 2,000 participants from around the world.

There are only three events like the Birkebeiner worldwide.

Nordahl Flakstad, president of the festival, says the poor ski conditions and lack of opportunity to train also reflected in the number of registrations, cut in half from last year’s number of participants.

He says it would be too dangerous for skiers to proceed on a route where it’s either too icy or there are bare spots.

The Birkebeiner has been cancelled four times since 1985. It was last cancelled in 2008 due to extremely cold weather. the next two to three years. In Manitoba, they now see in excess of 80 per cent use of the nests.

The more times the hen is presented with the nest, the more likely it will use it. As well philopatry, also known as “homing” is involved. Some of the mallard ducklings that live to adulthood will return to where they were hatched, said Brice.

A study will compare production from hen houses with trapping to no trapping of predators. The hen house results will help with future management activities, Brice said.

Going forward, they will expand the number of hen houses as funds allow, he said. The nests have a lifespan of about 20 years. Delta Waterfowl has agreements with the contractors who install and maintain them.

There is concern about the loss of wetland drainage areas, which means the loss of duck habitat. And there’s more and more pressure on grassland habitat, Brice said.

Roger Marcil, the Haynes farmer contracted by Delta Waterfowl, said he will have all the hen houses placed by March 1.

The Haynes area has a lot of good duck habitat, Marcil said. “Water is the key for ducks.”

It’s “pretty neat to see them inside the nests.”

Most have been mallards but a few redhead ducks have nested, he said.

The ducks will start arriving toward the ends of March. Their ducklings start appearing in June. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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Under construction WHY DO TEENS TAKE RISKS? A PARENTING EXPERT SAYS IT’S ALL IN THEIR HEADS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — We’ve all got one — a story from our teenage years about a risky decision that we look back on with a mixture of pride and dread at the thought of what could have happened had something gone wrong.

The deaths of 17-year-old twin brothers who police say scaled a fence with six other friends to toboggan down an icy bobsled track in Calgary has raised the question of why do young people take such risks?

The answer, says Toronto-based family therapist and author Alyson Schafer, lies in part of the teenage brain.

A number of studies, including one from the National Institutes of Health in the United States and another from the American College of Pediatricians, point to teenage brains still being under construction.

The early adolescent brain has higher levels of dopamine — the hormone most responsible for feelings of pleasure — in the prefrontal cortex, but decreasing dopamine levels in the reward centre of the brain.

The low levels of dopamine in the reward centre suggest a teen requires more excitement and stimulation to achieve pleasure than an adult.

So a teenager will attempt riskier behaviours, Schafer says.

“What we have seen is the teen

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BRIEF Labour group wants province to protect night workers EDMONTON — A labour group wants the Alberta government to move quickly to protect late-night workers.

The Alberta Federation of Labour says a violent attack on an Edmonton

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Flowers are placed on a fence near the start area for the bobsled track after Saturday’s incident on the track that left two teenagers dead and six injured at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta on Sunday. brain is actually wired evolutionarily to take risk and to excitement seek. It’s sort of a Darwinian thing that says this is the age as a species you are asking the approaching adult to leave the security of the family social unit and to venture out — basically flock from the

nest,” she says.

“I’m sure every parent can probably dig back in their memory and think of something where they go: ‘There but for the grace of God go I, if I would have gone two miles an hour faster or didn’t stop three seconds earlier,” she

convenience store employee on Monday reinforces the need for action.

In December two Mac’s store employees were killed in separate armed robberies in Edmonton while working alone.

The government has not given any indication when it will introduce safety legislation.

Federation president Gil McGowan says this legislation can’t come soon enough.

The federation says Alberta should have rules that require employers to have more than one person on duty on night shifts or have them work in a

locked area, behind a secure barrier.

Former Alberta premier to pen book on energy issues at Washington think-tank EDMONTON — Former Alberta premier Jim Prentice has a new job.

The Washington-based Canada Institute at the Wilson Center says Prentice has joined the organization as a

said.

“We’ve all done boneheaded things and survived. This is just one of those cases where it didn’t work out.”

Schafer says teens are good at recognizing risks in their actions, but often take part anyway. Add in peer pressure and there’s a problem.

“I bet those eight teens made a different decision than if one teen went up there alone.”

University of Calgary Prof. Kelly Schwartz says peer pressure can play a big role in adolescent decision making.

“I think it’s that perfect storm.

Some of the research I follow along with the brain side of things also looks at the power of the peer group,” says Schwartz, an associate professor in the applied child psychology program.

“What is kind of an emotionally cool decision making process becomes what they call emotionally hot as soon as you add peers. It’s not that they necessarily downgrade the risk, but they upgrade the reward.”

And there can be other factors that influence decisions.

Schwartz says if alcohol or drugs are introduced into the equation it’s detrimental to “judgment and consequential thinking” and impacts on the “illusion of control.”

Schafer advises parents to try to find activities for their kids that involve the feeling of risk without the danger, such as sports or public performance. visiting fellow.

The think-tank works to increase awareness about Canada and Canada-U.S. relations among U.S. policymakers and opinion leaders.

The Center says Prentice will use his time to complete a book on energy and environmental issues, including climate change and pipelines.

Prentice’s book is to be published later this year.

He resigned from Alberta politics last May after the NDP swept the Progressive Conservatives from power.

Ask The Dentist! by Dr. Michael Dolynchuk, DDS

A Community Energy and Emissions Plan is in the works and The City looked to community partners on January 25 to explore what we, as a community, can do to reduce our emissions and energy use.

Oral Health and Our Sponsored Refugees Dear Dr. D: My church has sponsored some refugees from the Middle East, and we are trying to understand their challenges so that we can be responsible about assisting them wherever possible. Someone mentioned that their teeth may be in bad shape. What programs may be in place to assist their dental care?

A: When I first opened my practice doors, I saw many refugees through one of the local agencies. I'm proud to say that today some of these same families are still my patients. I've watched them become upstanding citizens in central Alberta. Many have prospered from a great work ethic. I still receive Christmas baking from a couple of families who thank me for my dental 'favours' done decades ago. What should you expect? This all depends on where they are coming from, and also how long they may have lived in refugee camps. The available diet in these camps is limited, and certainly lack of access to dental care is the rule rather than the exception. Torture is not unheard of in these camps, and the mouth is often a victim. There would likely have been no preventative care other than perhaps some dental 'kits' supplied by agencies such as the Red Cross. Many are missing teeth, but with a diet of limited refined sugar, cavities can be surprisingly low but gum disease reigns supreme. As they adapt to a more western diet, the incidence of decay becomes greater if they have not adopted a 'hygiene' regimen. Remember, the head of the family may have language challenges and if there is no encouragement with brushing and flossing the toothbrush may become a toy rather than a tool. Western dentists who have volunteered in some of these camps (some accommodating tens of thousands of refugees simultaneously) tell tales of extreme pain, overcrowding, stays exceeding 4 years before placement, and dental nightmares with both children and adults. Volunteering dentists see up to 20 patients a day and the line never gets shorter. When your families arrive in central Alberta I anticipate there will be some years of neglect. I expect there will be 'deferred maintenance' to bring them up to a healthy standard. There will be some assistance program with governmental agencies, but with private sponsors perhaps not so. The media has much to say – and there are conflicting opinions on who should pay for what. All I can safely state as a dental professional is that everyone should have a thorough dental examination. There may be significant orthodontic issues for which our society has developed early treatment options.

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A big thank you goes out to the following local organizations, businesses and representatives who came together to help us do just that.

But this is just the beginning. We will be looking to the rest of the community to help us dig even deeper into potential focus areas and determine how we can find ways to produce and use energy more wisely.

Thank you for working with us to shape a green Red Deer.

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COMMENT

A4 National economic strategy needed

BY ROBERT MCGARVEY SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Alberta last week doing what he does best – rallying support, acknowledging problems and making positive public statements. But bolder action will be required, and soon.

After meeting with Premier Rachel Notley, Trudeau announced that upwards of $700 million in infrastructure funding would be fast-tracked to help struggling Albertans.

Regrettably, the problems facing Alberta – and Canada in general – are much greater than the federal government assumes. Building or rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure is fine, but much more is needed if Albertans are to maintain any kind of forward progress.

Alberta is on the whip-end of a highly volatile resource economy.

When times are good, as they have been for most of the past decade, our biggest problems are a lack of skilled workers and stubborn capital cost inflation.

When the market goes south, as it has recently, our over-dependency on oil is exposed brutally. The Alberta

economy, once the investment and jobs powerhouse of the nation, is floundering. Capital investment and major projects are vanishing while the jobless rate soars.

This roller-coaster-like economy is bad for investors, chaotic for corporate planners and disastrous for governments and citizens.

How do we overcome these damaging cycles?

Alberta is blessed with abundant natural resources, but we also need an economy that’s able to maintain growth in all periods of the resource cycle. Clearly, it would benefit Alberta to be part of a national economy that’s broader in scope, more knowledge-driven and more deeply integrated into secondary and tertiary manufacturing.

Where to start? How about an Economic Strategy for Canada, rooted in a vision that recognizes a new future and suits the extraordinary creativity of our time and place?

Apart from setting a few stretch goals, a national strategy would create a sense of mission and help break the economic inertia gripping the country.

Having real targets in place would improve the investment climate in Canada so that capital could once again flow aggressively into all sectors of the

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national economy.

A national strategy would also help overcome regional bickering such as we’ve seen in the pipeline debate. If the national strategy included energy self-sufficiency – for instance – it would help contain the negativity around building pipelines, particularly the all-Canadian Energy East oil pipeline.

For the record, the prime minister is in favour of pipelines. In 2014 at a conference in Calgary, he criticized then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper for dragging his heals on pipelines, suggesting: “… he’s been all hat and no cattle on pipelines.” At the same meeting, Trudeau maintained: “We are no closer to getting the two main pipelines that he’s been pushing – Keystone XL and Northern Gateway – passed than we were on the very first day he was in office. Indeed, we’re further (away).”

This does not sound like a politician who’s neutral on pipelines.

Now in office, however, the prime minister, is a little more cautious. He is emphasizing environmental concerns: “… as we saw in Paris, people recognized we need to take concrete action on diversifying our energy sources and moving forward in responsible ways.”

Of course, nationally important pipelines and responsible energy development are not irreconcilable. But before concrete action can take place, the national government needs to lead.

Otherwise, another decade will pass and Canada will still be waiting for something – anything – to happen.

Nations are no different than individuals or corporations — they need to know where they’re going. A national strategy would establish a set of goals that focuses our energies and helps overcome resistance. In the absence of clarity of purpose and solid values, petty regionalism in Canada will simply bring all progress to a halt.

The honeymoon for Trudeau is coming to a close. It’s been an exciting few months for this young politician but now he and his government will be tested to the limit, in very trying circumstances.

Civilizations don’t happen by accident. Leaving our destiny to the market or coasting aimlessly would leave another prime minister open to being described as “all hat and no cattle” on the national dream.

Troy Media columnist Robert McGarvey is an economic historian and co-founder of the Genuine Wealth Institute.

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Ending ISIS airstrikes needs rationale Over his first three months in power, Justin first time.

(As an aside, none of the above means the ConTrudeau has undone many of Stephen Harper’s polservative opposition is right to claim that icies but until this week, he had not canCanada no longer has a meaningful role celled one that enjoyed more popular in the coalition. That would be news to support than the Liberal alternative.

Germany, a country that has recently unOn that score the imminent terminadertaken to play a support-only mission tion of Canada’s bombing mission against along the same lines as those sketched out ISIS — also known as Islamic State — in by the Liberals on Monday.) the Middle East is in a class of its own. It In the matter of Canada’s role in the is also a decision that remains in search anti-ISIS coalition, no one will accuse of a convincing rationale.

Trudeau of having selected the path of On Monday the prime minister implicleast resistance. itly admitted that the recall later this In opposition, his contention that it month of Canada’s six fighter jets from was wrong for the Conservatives to join the aerial battlefield has more to do with the airstrikes in Iraq and Syria was never aligning government policy with the LibCHANTAL very popular. It initially cost him support eral election platform than with changing HÉBERT in voting intentions. circumstances on the frontline of the war At the time, his stance ran counter to on Islamic extremists in Iraq and Syria.

OPINION the opinions of some of his party’s brightEven as he was announcing the end est foreign policy minds. They tended to of the country’s participation in the airstrikes, Trudeau still could not really explain why it agree with Harper’s assessment that the only way was right for Canada to support the anti-ISIS war but to eradicate ISIS was to take the fight to the Middle East. wrong to contribute fighter jets to the battle.

Since then, public support for the airstrikes has On the contrary, he acknowledged that the air war still had a place in the strategy of the anti-ISIS in- remained solid. The shootings on Parliament Hill ternational coalition. Canada — even as it is ground- and in St.-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., the more recent ing its fighter jets — will continue to refuel its al- attacks on Paris and the killing of six Canadians in lies’ planes. The number of planes to refuel has in- Burkina Faso, have ensured that.

If there ever were a promise that Trudeau would creased since Trudeau’s election victory. In the wake of the terrorist attacks on Paris, Great Britain likely get a pass for breaking it’s this one. Reversing decided to take part in airstrikes in Syria for the himself on Monday might have been less political-

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For eclipsed by the recall of the fighter jets, is the fact that Canada is sticking with this war for the long haul. On Monday, Trudeau talked of an initial commitment of at least two years.

Over that period, more Canadian military advisers and trainers will be deployed in support of local troops. They will be within closer range of combat than the pilots who have been conducting the air raids. The risk of casualties will be higher.

Back when Harper initiated the ISIS mission, former prime minister Jean Chrétien cautioned that the sheer presence of 69 military advisers stood to put Canada on the slippery slope of taking part in a ground war in Iraq. The Liberal government is tripling that number.

As of now, Trudeau owns the ISIS mission in a way that Harper never did in the case of the Afghanistan mission.

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A5 Critics pan plan to arm fighters

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 10, 2016

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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A Kurdish peshmerga fighter stands guard in fighting against the Islamic State group as the sun rises in Sinjar, Iraq. The government is facing calls to reconsider a plan to arm Kurdish fighters with automatic weapons and mortars because they could fall into enemy hands or be used to harm innocent civilians. nadian troops in Iraq have received legal training on armed-conflict laws and will report on any abuses and will be vigilant in their responsibilities, “including how to prevent and report incidents or abuses.”

Thomas Juneau, a University of Ottawa Middle East security specialist, said arming the Kurds could lead to short-term gains, but the long-term pain of the region as well.

“In the short term it makes sense, but in the long term it’s a risky move,” said Juneau.

“The Kurds in Iraq and in Syria

are among the most reliable fighting forces on the ground against Islamic State,” but they have aspirations for a country of their own, he warned, meaning Canada may be “playing against our long-term objective” of a united and stable Iraq.

Arming Iraqi Kurds could also strain Canada’s relations with Turkey, which is itself battling Kurdish rebels — the group known as the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, which Canada has listed as a terrorist organization.

The Iraqi Kurds are very close to the PKK in Turkey, said Juneau: “Are we setting up future tension with Tur-

NDP’s cautious change did not resound with voters: report

Crown in Quebec opposes bail for alleged pedophiles

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The NDP’s last federal election campaign lacked a strong and simple narrative to grab the attention of voters thirsty for change, say interim findings unearthed during a painful most-mortem.

As the Liberals campaigned on “real change,” the NDP presented “cautious change” that was out of sync with people’s desire for a dramatic break from the Conservatives, according to a note distributed Tuesday by party president Rebecca Blaikie.

“Our balanced budget pledge was, in part, responsible for presenting us as cautious change,” Blaikie’s note said.

“It allowed the Liberals to contrast themselves from the Conservatives more clearly and overshadowed our strongly progressive economic platform which included higher taxes on corporations, crackdown on tax havens and a federal minimum wage.”

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair would not concede that the balanced budget pledge was a mistake when asked about the issue on Tuesday.

“Put it another way,” he told CTV’s Power Play.

“If the NDP had started off the campaign by saying ‘you know, we’ve got this idea, we’re going to run consecu-

tive deficits of tens of billions of dollars,’ I don’t know if that would have caught on like wildfire with the electorate.

“It wasn’t so much that we decided to say that we would have balanced budgets, as we said ‘well, there’s revenue missing from the government and that’s the revenue from corporate taxes’.”

The New Democrats — once poised to replace the Conservative government and now reduced to third-party status in the House of Commons — are going through an uncomfortable examination of what went wrong during the longest campaign in modern history.

The review needs to take an unbiased look at what happened, Blaikie said.

“In accepting this task, I pledged to the party membership that this effort would be honest, avoid the temptation to gloss over shortcomings and ultimately offer us a blueprint forward where we would learn from our mistakes and do better next time,” she said.

Blaikie and eight other members of a working group, including former Ottawa MP Paul Dewar, have also heard the NDP’s platform received positive reviews but its launch failed to highlight how these ideas could help people.

MONTREAL — A bail hearing began in Montreal on Tuesday for seven of the 14 men charged in an alleged juvenile pornography ring.

The Crown opposed their release and the case is expected to resume Wednesday.

One of the 14 waived his right to a bail hearing, as did another last week.

Details of Tuesday’s proceedings cannot be released because of a publication ban.

The five other accused were freed last week under a slew of conditions.

The 14, who are aged between 27 and 74, face various charges, including possession and distribution of child pornography between 2003 and last month.

Police are also seeking a 15th suspect, Jessy Giroux, 32, who is believed to be outside the country. Giroux was living in Toronto, although his alleged crimes took place in Montreal.

Authorities allege the accused used online discussion forums to exchange information about their sexual experiences with children and to talk about what tactics to use to abuse them.

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OTTAWA — The government is facing calls to reconsider its plan to arm Kurdish fighters with automatic weapons and mortars because they could fall into enemy hands or be used to harm innocent civilians.

A number of analysts are warning that Canada’s decision could have long-term consequences, even if it does assist its best ally on the ground in the fight against the militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

Canada will triple its contingent of 69 special forces trainers working with Kurdish Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq — part of a retooled contribution that will also see CF-18 fighter jets end their bombing sorties there and in Syria.

A recent report by Amnesty International accused the Kurds of bulldozing and burning down thousands of Arab homes in northern Iraq in an apparent attempt to uproot them.

“The news that an increased contingent of Canadian troops will be involved in training and providing support to Peshmerga forces, therefore, potentially raises serious human rights concerns,” said Alex Neve, the head of Amnesty’s Canadian branch.

It’s crucial that Canadian troops receive comprehensive training in international humanitarian law so that “Canadian troops do not in any way become complicit in operations which breach international law,” Neve said.

Jordan Owens, a spokesman for Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, said Ca-

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Peggy Mason, president of the Rideau Institute, urged the government to reconsider the plan to arm the Kurds, noting there’s a spotty history of weapons caches falling into the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant throughout Libya, Syria and Iraq.

“All of the history demonstrates that supplying weapons in these circumstances is an extremely high-risk endeavour.”

Cesar Jaramillo, the executive director of Project Ploughshares, urged the government to use special care to ensure that “these weapons are not misused or diverted — both real possibilities in a deteriorating conflict situation such as this one.”

The new Liberal government has promised that Canada will sign the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, which will regulate the flow of small arms in conflict zones. Jaramillo said that could impose stricter controls on future Canadian arms transfers.

Gen. Jonathan Vance, the chief of the defence staff, said Monday that Canada would supply small arms and ammunition — “everything from rifles to machine guns to light mortars and the optics to be able to use them day and night.”

Canada has transported weapons to Kurdish fighters in the past, but has not supplied weapons.

Owens said Canada’s future contributions would be “equipment donations” from the government but he said planning was still underway so he could not discuss the “value, type and number of weapons.”

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A6 Sylvan looks to change taxi bylaw

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TOWN GOING DOWN ROAD OF CHANGING FROM FLAT RATE TO METERED SYSTEM FOR CABS

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A Sylvan Lake taxi company says drivers will pay the price if the town goes to metered rides and drops a flat rate.

But a rival cab company says going to meters will be better for customers and cabbies won’t suffer because they will see more business.

For many years, taxi journeys have been charged on a flat rate system in Sylvan Lake.

But council approved first reading of a bylaw that would go to the more usual method of charging by distance travelled.

“For us, I think it would be a bad thing,” said Aura Taxi’s Venda Cardwell, who owns the business with husband Thomas and driver-owner Paul Westhaver.

“If we were to go to meters it would be hard for (drivers) to make a living,” said Cardwell on Tuesday. The company’s nine drivers would make less

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“OUT OF THE HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS AND TRIPS WE DID EXACTLY ONE CUSTOMER BENEFITED FROM THE FLAT RATE.” DARYL FRENETTE, ASSOCIATED CAB OWNER because of the many short trips in the compact community of 14,310.

While business is good on weekends, weekdays are typically quiet with seniors taking advantage of the service mostly.

Cardwell said the flat rate works well and she doesn’t want to see more changes less than a year after the rate was changed by council. “(The public) are just used to that, and to switch again, I just don’t think it will work out very well.”

Associated Cab owner Daryl Frenette believes meters are the way to go and says he has the evidence to prove it.

Frenette’s company began serving Sylvan Lake last fall and tested the

market by comparing flat rates against the meter.

“Out of the hundreds and hundreds and trips we did exactly one customer benefited from the flat rate,” he said.

All the rest of the customers paid between 35 to 65 per cent more than the meter rate.

Frenette said the town’s proposed rates are fair and comparable to Red Deer’s.

He doesn’t share Aura’s concern that drivers will not be able to make enough money.

“I’d be worried the other way around. They’re going to be too busy. I honestly believe that.

“The flat rate scheme is not workable,” he said, adding the big increase

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last year drove customers away.

Under the new system, passengers will be charged $3.20 for the first 92 metres and 20 cents for every 121 metres after that. Passengers can keep a driver waiting up to three minutes at no charge, but then a 50-cent-per-minute charge kicks in.

Taxi drivers have the option of charging 10 per cent less for seniors or those with physical or mental handicaps.

Ron Lebsack, the town’s director of community services, said they have heard a few complaints from the public about the flat rate.

The change was considered as part of a larger review of the taxi bylaw that is underway.

The meter amendment is expected to go to second and third reading on Feb. 22. If passed, cab companies would have until April 12 to have them installed.

Sylvan Lake Taxi could not be reached for comment and is believed to have closed its doors last week. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

SYLVAN LAKE

FCSS gets big funding boost

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Sunny skies and warm weather greeted walkers and their canine companions at Three Mile Bend this week including this dog owner who was following a trail beaten into the snow and ice on the Red Deer River. More warm weather is expected for the rest of this week with daytime highs above freezing.

Graffiti task force given go-ahead

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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Sylvan Lake is forming a task force to take on graffiti vandals.

Many in the community have become frustrated by the amount of graffiti tagging and other vandalism.

To get a better handle on the scope of the problem and ways to tackle it a Community Standards Enhancement Task Force has been approved.

Interested local residents will be recruited to sit on the task force and come up with recommendations. A $5,000 budget was approved on Monday for the task force.

Town communication officer Joanne Gaudet said while graffiti was the “catalyst” for the task force its scope extends to other issues and anti-social behaviours, littering and nui-

sance properties.

Any specific initiatives proposed would have to be considered by council as part of its budget discussions.

Some ideas already suggested include providing graffiti cleanup kits to businesses and residents to get rid of the unwanted art immediately. Covering electrical and utility boxes with photograph wraps has also proven effective in reducing tagging in some communities. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Sentencing adjourned in Black Knight Inn assault

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confinement and breaching probation.

He will be tried in Didsbury provincial court on July 14.

Sentencing has been adjourned for a man convicted in a violent incident last April at the Black Knight Inn. Joel Pierre Doctor, 31, of Edmonton pleaded guilty to three charges including assault with a weapon and aggravated assault for the April 28, 2015 incident.

Sentencing was scheduled for Tuesday in Red Deer provincial court, but defence counsel Dana Carlson asked for an adjournment so his Crown colleague could review the case law he filed. The cases were filed in court on Tuesday.

Judge Jim Hunter granted an adjournment to Feb. 19 in Red Deer provincial court for sentencing.

Red Deer RCMP were called to the Black Knight Inn on April 28, 2015 to reports of an out-of-control hotel guest injuring two employees.

Police said the man hit one employee with a metal pipe and forced another to jump down the laundry chute.

Doctor was arrested and charged.

He has since been released from custody while his case reaches its conclusion.

City still looking for awards nominations Only a week remains to submit nominations for the Mayor’s Recognition Awards.

The city wants nominations of individuals who contribute to the

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community in five separate award categories.

The deadline is on Feb. 16 at 9 a.m.

The categories are athletics, distinguished voluntary service, fine and performing arts, community builder award and the Mayor’s Special Award. Recipients are selected by the Mayor’s Recognition Awards Committee, with the exception of the Mayor’s Special Award recipient, who is chosen by the mayor herself.

To learn more about the Mayor’s Recognition Awards, visit www. reddeer.ca/mra.

Nomination forms are available on the website and can also be picked up from Legislative Services, second floor, City Hall, 4914 48 Avenue.

Trial date set for Sundre arson, assault A trial date has been set for a Sundre man accused of pouring gasoline on a woman and a home and tried to set them on fire.

The house, located near Bearberry, burned to the ground. The woman managed to escape uninjured.

Derek Littlejohn, 43, pleaded not guilty to the six charges laid against him after the Jan. 7 incident. He is charged with property damage arson, arson to property occupied by others, criminal negligence with a disregard for life, assault with a weapon, forcible

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Red Deer recreation department open for bookings The city’s recreation department is now accepting booking applications for the fall and winter 2016 and 2017 seasons.

The deadline to apply is March 4.

Rental space is available for special events, sporting activities and meetings at the dry space at the Collicutt Centre Field House and Soccer Pavilion; meeting rooms and special events at the Collicutt Centre, G. H. Dawe Community Centre and Recreation Centre and pools at the Recreation Centre and Michener Aquatic Centre. Applications can be filled out on the City of Red Deer website. Email facilitybookings@ reddeer.ca for more information.

Trail to close for power line maintenance A walking trail at Three Mile Bend Recreation Area and off leash dog park will be closed this week for maintenance on a power line in the area.

The east-west trail heading from the main parking lot down towards the river is expected to be reopened for the weekend.

Residents are asked to use alternative trails within the park, obey signs and give crews room to work.

Electric Light and Power crews have been on site since Tuesday.

Mentoring and counselling services will get a boost in Sylvan Lake because of new provincial funding.

After being frozen for years, provincial Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) grants were increased last year and again this year. The provincial government’s $15 million increase for 2016 was specifically aimed at fast-growing communities such as Sylvan Lake.

Sylvan’s population has grown by 146 per cent — four times the overall provincial growth rate — between 1996 and 2011. The 2015 census counted 14,310 people, half of whom are under the age of 35.

For Sylvan Lake, that means an additional $92,040 is available for local programs, bringing the total FCSS contribution to $341,336. The town is also contributing based on a 79/21 per cent provincial/municipal funding split that would see a local contribution of about $72,000.

The town knew exactly where local service gaps were because of a Social Needs Assessment undertaken last year. It identified a need for more affordable family and mental health counselling, especially for youth; single parents or those whose spouse is often away for work; residents with mental or physical health needs, and seniors.

Rather than put the additional money to reduce the cost of existing programs, council opted to expand them, said town communications officer Joanne Gaudet.

The programs that will get extra funding have already shown their value in the community.

Council voted on Monday to boost the hours of the Volunteer Centre’s volunteer co-ordinator to 22.5 hours from 15 at a cost of $10,362.

The town will also put $52,484 towards a new program offering affordable family, marriage, grief and loss counselling.

Gaudet said the goal is being able to offer temporary help when situations arise. People may then go on to access longer-term programs and help.

A mentoring program will see a 20-hour-a-week position created to oversee youth mentoring programs with $29,194 in funding. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Maryview school wins 2015 battery drive Maryview School is the winner of the City of Red Deer’s 2015 Battery Drive.

Students and staff at the pre-kindergarten to Grade 5 school collected more than 345 kg of dead household batteries to win the contest.

The school will receive $1,000 to fund an environmental project. Nine schools in Red Deer competed in the annual competition.

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Safety, equipment, training boosted THOUSANDS OF MOUNTIES GIVEN LONG-GUN TRAINING IN WAKE OF MONCTON SHOOTINGS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONCTON, N.B. — More than 3,300 RCMP officers across Canada have been trained in the use of patrol carbine firearms and that number is expected to double over the next year as the force responds to recommendations stemming from the shooting deaths of three Mounties.

Deputy Commissioner Janice Armstrong said Tuesday the force has completed 42 of the 64 recommendations contained in a January 2015 report by retired assistant commissioner Alphonse MacNeil.

“The priority ones for us really focused on those surrounding officer safety, equipment and training,” Armstrong told reporters in Moncton.

“Those are the areas where we spent a tremendous amount of time and produced a lot of products and videos, training, and the work we are doing through our academy.”

In his review of the June 2014 Moncton shootings, MacNeil called for better access to shotguns and rifles, and training to better prepare supervisors for critical incidents.

RCMP Chief Supt. Eric Stubbs said nearly 4,000 carbines have been acquired so far, and officers will be provided with adequate ammunition for training each year.

“This includes 300 carbine rounds, 200 9-mm pistol rounds and 25 shotgun rounds,” he said.

Armstrong said they expect to have 50 per cent of officers trained on the carbines by April 2017. A revised course is being offered across the country and to cadets as they graduate.

MacNeil’s report also called for standard equipment for emergency response teams and improvements in radio communication.

The review highlighted a number of problems the Mounties faced when they were searching for Justin Bourque, who was arrested following a 28-hour manhunt.

Bourque killed constables Dave Ross, Fabrice Gevaudan and Doug Larche. Constables Eric Dubois and Darlene Goguen were injured.

New Brunswick’s commanding officer, Assistant Commissioner Roger Brown, said the force’s goal is to protect officers and the public.

“Our job is to ensure that we continue to do what we can to reduce the risk. We can’t eliminate it. It is the nature of our profession, the nature of our careers, a career that we chose,” he said.

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Former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi walks past protesters as he arrives at a Toronto court for day six of his trial on Tuesday.

Judge to look at evidence from Crown’s final witness

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The judge at Jian Ghomeshi’s sexual assault trial agreed Tuesday to look at evidence from one final witness the Crown wanted to call in the closely watched case.

Crown lawyer Michael Callaghan told court the witness would corroborate allegations made at the trial

by Lucy DeCoutere, one of the three women who have accused the former broadcaster of sexual assault.

DeCoutere, known for her role on Trailer Park Boys, testified last week that Ghomeshi choked her and repeatedly slapped her while they were kiss-

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Trying to catch a child killer: RCMP conduct DNA sweep GARDEN HILL FIRST NATION, Man. — The 11-year-old girl was last seen walking home from a birthday party.

Teresa Robinson’s remains were found in May by searchers on the Garden Hill First Nation in northern Manitoba. It was initially thought she had been attacked by a bear, but police soon ruled the death homicide.

ing in his bedroom in the summer of 2003.

Callaghan said the new witness — whose identity is protected by a publication ban — would put to rest allegations that DeCoutere fabricated the story to win notoriety and fame.

Ghomeshi’s defence team, however, opposed calling the witness, saying DeCoutere’s cross-examination showed the “the breadth and scope” of her dishonesty.

After weighing both arguments, Justice William Horkins ruled that the safest course was for him to hear the witness’ evidence and then determine “any probative value it may have.”

The witness, however, could not

travel to Toronto to testify in person due to stormy weather in her hometown, so both the Crown and the defence agreed to present the judge with a transcript of the woman’s statement to police as well as Facebook messages she exchanged with DeCoutere.

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

The 48-year-old former host of CBC Radio’s Q acknowledged in 2014 that he engaged in rough sex acts, but said it was consensual.

The trial resumes on Wednesday, with closing submissions expected on Thursday.

Now, after nine months without an arrest, RCMP have taken an unusual step to find her killer.

Officers have asked all males ages 15 to 66 in the remote, fly-in community to volunteer samples of their DNA. It’s a pool of about 2,000 people.

Mounties say it’s the largest DNA sweep they’re ever tried in the province and possibly in the country.

Toronto lawyer Enzo Rondinelli says he’s only heard of past sweeps in Canada involving hundreds, not thousands of people.

And while a DNA match can crack an unsolved case, Rondinelli says these sweeps often focus on the people who refuse to participate.

“It may be narrowing it down to those who say no. Because police then say, ‘Well, hmm, I wonder why the per-

son is saying no.’

“In the eyes of the police, you may now seem suspicious and may actually now come in the crosshairs of a much more greater surveillance than you otherwise would have.”

The lawyer says officers can follow those who refuse and legally pick up anything they throw away in public — a cigarette butt, piece of gum or Tim Hortons cup — to obtain their DNA. Rondinelli also teaches a course in forensic science and the law at the University of Toronto and has written an academic article about what he calls “DNA dragnets.”

Although there have been many cases in the United States, he only knows of a handful in Canada and doesn’t think any accused has successfully fought the technique here in court.

Dogs seized from breeder had broken bones, missing eyes

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Some of the most expensive and sought-after breeds of dogs are being nursed back to health in Vancouver after being seized from an alleged puppy mill in nearby Langley. Sixty-six animals, including the Bernese seen in this handout photo, were seized Thursday in what B.C.’s SPCA said was one of the largest puppy mill seizures in the province’s history.

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LANGLEY, B.C. — Some of the most expensive and sought-after breeds of dogs are being nursed back to health in Vancouver after being seized from an alleged puppy mill in nearby Langley.

Sixty-six animals, including 34 puppies, were seized Thursday in what British Columbia’s SPCA said was one of the largest puppy mill seizures in the province’s history.

Veterinarians and staff at the society’s Vancouver shelter have been working non-stop to care for a range of injuries including broken limbs, missing eyes or ears, malnourishment, infections, abscesses, and psychological issues, Marcie Moriarty, the society’s chief prevention and enforcement officer, said Tuesday.

“Many others show signs of fearfulness due to lack of socialization,” Moriarty said.

Breeds that were seized include standard and miniature poodles, Old English sheepdogs, Bernese mountain dogs, soft-coated wheaton terriers and Portuguese water dogs.

A member of the public who was checking the background of a dog advertised for sale on a social network-

ing site alerted authorities to the plight of the dogs.

“A key step in shutting down puppy mills is for those who are purchasing animals to be educated and aware of the signs of unscrupulous operations,” Moriarty said. “We have to make it clear to unscrupulous breeders who sacrifice animals on the altar of profit that this type of neglect and cruelty is not acceptable to British Columbians.”

Society spokeswoman Lorie Chortyk said at least two people are believed to be involved in the operation.

The SPCA is preparing a report for the Crown and is recommending charges under the Criminal Code as well the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, she said.

The highest penalty is five years in prison, a $75,000 fine and a lifetime ban on animals, Chortyk said.

“We’re hoping, given the severity of this case and the fact that this is such a sophisticated operation, that Crown counsel will approve charges and that the sentencing will reflect the degree of suffering for these animals.”

She said the SPCA received a complaint about the same property in 2009 and again last year but it’s often tough to investigate allegations because some puppy mill operators know how to evade detection.

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The report reveals that up to $100 million of the sponsorship program was awarded to Liberal-friendly advertising firms and Crown corporations for little or no work.

2000 — Lois Elsa Hole becomes the 15th

lieutenant-governor of Alberta.

1985 — Group of Canadian superstars called Northern Lights record the song ‘Tears Are Not Enough’ at Manta Sound as a contribution by Canadian pop artists to African famine relief. The song was written by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance.

1841 — The Act of Union of Upper Canada and Lower Canada, passed at Westminster July 23, 1840, comes into effect uniting Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada, a legislative union with 84 members divided equally between Canada East and Canada West. Kingston to be the first capital.

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Making too much out of social media meeting school class, and now she is on to another one.

In his last message to me, Scott told me he was seeing my sister and hoped I was OK with it.

Annie, I barely spoke to the guy in high school.

Sure, we dissected a frog together in biology class, but that was about it. He waits 30 years, adds me as a friend and sweet talks me, but dates my sister? Was he asking my permission?

I don’t understand this. I didn’t respond to his last message and I unfriended him. I felt he was fishing on Facebook for a new girlfriend, and my sister took the bait. Was I reading too much into these messages? — Totally Confused in Indiana Dear Indiana: We can understand the confusion over what seems to be mixed messages, but this isn’t worth getting your hackles up.

It’s been 30 years since high school. He can date anyone he wants, including Sis. Yes, they should have been upfront about it instead of making it seem sneaky and dishonest. But really, who cares? Wish them both well and then forget about it.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Momzilla’s Mother,” whose daughter was so overprotective that she monitored which shampoo Grandma could use on her child.

You were spot on when you said the granddaughter will eventually bring her mother’s overprotec-

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Zulu rolls down St. Charles Avenue toward Canal Street in the New Orleans CBD Tuesday. Dressed in elaborate costumes, dancing to the beat of brass bands and clamoring for beads from passing floats, thousands of people gathered in the streets of New Orleans to mark the culmination of the famous Mardi Gras celebration Tuesday.

Nuns who help homeless face eviction in costly San Francisco

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS San Francisco nuns who serve the homeless are in danger of getting kicked out of their home after a rent hike of more than 50 per cent, another example of the struggle to balance soaring living costs in a booming economy.

The sisters of the Fraternite Notre Dame Mary of Nazareth Soup Kitchen said Tuesday that they can’t afford the rent increase from $3,465 to $5,500 a month and have asked their landlord for more time to find a cheaper place to feed the hungry.

“Everywhere the rent is very high, and many places don’t want a soup kitchen in their place,” said Sister Mary Benedicte, her English accented in French.

“It’s very, very hard to find a place

for a soup kitchen where people can feel welcome and where we can set up a kitchen for a reasonable price.”

The soup kitchen is in one of the city’s poorest neighbourhoods downtown, but even the grittiest addresses in San Francisco are demanding higher rent amid a tech job boom.

The sisters’ modest kitchen sits on a derelict street in the Tenderloin neighbourhood, long associated with homelessness and drug use. But it’s also within walking distance of a revitalized mid-Market district led by the relocation of Twitter in 2012.

The still-seedy neighbourhood, in other words, is trending up.

The sisters sleep in the back of the storefront and survive on donated cash and food. In the evenings, they bake pastries — French tarts and cookies — to sell at a local farmer’s market to supplement their income.

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She deprived herself of ever knowing me as an individual and lamented the “loss” of my love until the day she died. Because I had so much going on that she was unaware of, I didn’t feel I could come to her for advice, and as a result, made mistakes that have haunted me for years.

Momzilla is setting herself up for future bitter disappointment. But if anyone has found a way to make such a person aware of the damage she’s doing to herself and her daughter, I’ve never heard of it. — Momzilla’s Daughter Dear Daughter: How sad for you and your mother.

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A month ago, I received a Facebook friend request from Scott. Of course, I accepted and found out he and his wife are separated. I also looked at his friends’ list and noticed he had friended a few other people, including my sister. I MITCHELL didn’t think much about it at & SUGAR the time. I knew that my sisANNIE ter had a new boyfriend, although she claimed I didn’t know him.

For the past three weeks, I have been receiving his Facebook messages. He said that I looked good, and I thought maybe he wanted to rekindle the crush from high school. But I noticed that whenever he would log off, my sister would also log off. It turns out he’s been seeing my sister, who lied that I didn’t know her new boyfriend. She just broke off a relationship in November with a guy from my high

ENTERTAINMENT Bee kills it in TBS debut

BY STEPHANIE MERRY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 10, 2016

ALL OF YOUR PRESSING QUESTIONS ABOUT MARVEL’S ANTIHERO ANSWERED

BY MICHAEL CAVNA ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES The long-gestating Deadpool film arrives in theaters this weekend with so many questions. Has Ryan Reynolds found the right comeback vehicle? Does 20th Century Fox need to shed all its superhero films that don’t involve mutants? Can quarter-century-old comic-book tricks feel fresh again when adapted for the screen?

And of course, do you dare take the (older) kids to this visual orgy of stylized violence punctuated by sexual one-liners?

We arrived at a Deadpool screening last week with all those fanboy questions in tow. And here, as we sit across the aisle, are the answers that emerge from our own banter: MICHAEL CAVNA: So first, we’ve gotta tackle the Ryan Reynolds question. “Deadpool” clearly is his attempt at a post- — even “anti-” — “Green Lantern” comeback. So does he succeed? What works — or doesn’t — to you about his performance?

DAVID BETANCOURT: This is a great step in the right direction for Reynolds, after the global (box office) disaster that was Green Lantern.

I thought Reynolds as Green Lantern could work. I was a fan of Geoff Johns’s comic-book run writing Green Lantern.

And Reynolds had the look, the muscles, the wit. But he sold himself short by signing on without taking a good look at the script, which was weak.

Reynolds also deserves credit for not letting go of Deadpool after the less-than-stellar treatment the character received in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I mean, after seeing him in (that), I had no desire for a Deadpool movie.

But they were smart to let that animated test footage get out and let fans decide if it was something they wanted to see. That got interest piqued.

As for Ryan’s performance? Pretty good — especially in the Deadpool suit. He almost loses himself in this one, and that’s not something he does a lot. He’s usually Ryan Reynolds in every movie. This flick, you feel like he’s Wade Wilson.

MC: That speaks to what seems to be the lesson that Ryan learned most after Green Lantern: try to take a controlling interest in your project — whether as a producer or by seeing a final script. I think he also realized that he needed to a far snarkier comics character — quipping more like Iron Man than like an old-school DC icon. To suit his comic delivery, he needed to deliver lines in the right comics suit. I can’t imagine a better pairing of Ryan’s comic sweet-spot and a comic-book title character — and the mutant face and the mask actually feel like a knowing way to subvert his good looks. Another factor that seemed to work for RR here: He had real chemistry with both his love interest (portrayed by Morena Baccarin) and his best friend (T.J. Miller). What did you think of Deadpool’s casting in the major roles?

DB: Morena brought a lot more to this role than I thought she would.

Deadpool’s determination in the entire film is based on their relationship, and I was surprised by her ability to be just as goofy as Reynolds at times.

T.J. and Ryan were just as hilarious as advertised in the trailers. Ed Skrein brought some really bad vibes as Ajax; the rivalry between he and Deadpool

Samantha Bee wasted no time winning everyone over.

In the debut of her half-hour comedy show, Full Frontal With Samantha Bee on TBS, there was no trace of her newbie status.

Granted, she was a correspondent on The Daily Show for 12 years, so it’s not like she SAMANTHA BEE hasn’t been in front of a camera before. But still, new hosts usually have to work out some kinks — see: Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert — and there was little evidence of that Monday night.

Basically, she killed it. That’s one takeaway from Bee’s debut. Here are some others: ● She’s really over the questions about being the sole woman in the latenight landscape During her intro, she staged a fake press conference where reporters asked her questions such as, “Is it hard breaking into the boys’ club?” and “What’s it like being a female woman?” She responded that creating this kind of show entails a little bit of magic — literally. Cut to Bee in the midst of some freaky, fiery ceremony with her coven of writers. “It’s true,” she admitted. “We’re all witches.” ● She’s a master of withering burns Do not make an enemy of Bee. As anyone who saw her on The Daily Show knows, she has a way with words, turning put-downs into pithy poetry. To name but a few examples, she called Donald Trump a “sentient caps lock” and accused Bernie Sanders of playing up his image as a “blustery old grandpa living off Social Security checks and stolen sugar packets.” ● There’s a lot about politics (so far) At least it was during her debut.

Bee focused entirely on political figures and mostly those running for president. Apparently the campaign trail shenanigans were just too good to pass up after months of not being able to comment on them publicly. ● But she’s also shining light on lesser-known players Her first honoree of the “Paperweight of the Month” went to Mitch Holmes, a state senator in Kansas.

Holmes enacted a dress code for women — just women — in the statehouse and Bee was nonplussed. Her takedown of Holmes was the most incisive and uproarious of the night, even though most people have probably never heard of the guy.

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Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool relaxes before leaping into battle in ‘Deadpool.’

— it’s fun watching Deadpool try to work towards taking him down. And I think my favourite casting was the additions of Colossus (voiced by Stefan Kapicic), as some sort of moral voice of reason, and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand), who has a name so hilarious even Deadpool can’t say it with a straight face.

I think this Deadpool movie shows that you don’t need the big name, A-list X-Men to make a movie like this work.

This could be a template for future X-Men films at Fox. I think the real star of this movie is the R-rating. Trying to fit the dirty humour, the sex, the blood and violence of Deadpool into a PG-13 movie wouldn’t have worked, even though the comics don’t normally take it that far. Who knew an X-Men/ Marvel character in an R-rated movie would work?

MC: Let’s look at X-rated comics adapted to an “R” film for a minute.

This movie really takes it to 11 with this gumbo of irreverent snark and stylized CGI violence and the level of sexual one-liners and jokes we were especially titillated by in middle school. How effective, and faithful, do you think the adaptation from page to screen is?

DB: What’s the one thing we can compare Deadpool to? Watchmen?

Watchmen was a dark “R.” Brutality in the shadows. If there’s a such thing as a fun/funny/violent “R,” I’m thinking Deadpool would be it. As for faithfulness to the comics? You could say the Deadpool comics aren’t rated R, but there’s a lot masked behind onomatopoeia. But even though they kick it up severely dirty notches with a well-deserved R rating, the movie doesn’t lose faithfulness to the spirit of the Deadpool comic. You want a Deadpool comic come to life? This is the movie for you.

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$3B oil lawsuit launched

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Lawyers behind a lawsuit over a long-simmering dispute concerning what two First Nations call federal mishandling of energy resources on their reserves say other bands are considering joining the legal action.

In a statement filed late Monday, the Onion Lake and Poundmaker Cree bands accused Indian Oil and Gas Canada of failing to promote and develop energy resources on their lands and of failing to protect those resources from being drained by wells adjacent to them.

Harvey Strosberg, one of two lawyers represent-

ing the bands, said he’s opened talks with other bands interested in joining.

“We want the court to make it into a class action,” said Strosberg.

“We’ve talked to at least another Five Nations and they are very supportive. Some of them are in the process of retaining us.”

Because aboriginal bands are not allowed to disburse reserve lands, energy companies seeking to develop the oil and gas beneath them must deal with Indian Oil and Gas Canada. That agency is responsible for promoting development, negotiating deals, issuing licences, collecting royalties and monitoring activity.

Because the bands can’t do the work themselves,

the agency is obliged to look after First Nations interests, said Strosberg.

“The Indian nations can’t do anything. They have to pass this off to the federal government. (The government) said, ‘You can’t do it yourself … we’ll take of you.”’

Figures in the statement of claim — which contains allegations not yet tested in court — question that care.

The claim alleges there have been 41 wells drilled on Poundmaker lands with 10 producing. That compares with 242 wells — with 86 producing — immediately adjacent to the Saskatchewan reserve.

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Railroad wants vote on Norfolk deal

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OMAHA, Neb. — Canadian Pacific plans to ask Norfolk Southern shareholders whether they want the two railroads to pursue a merger.

Canadian Pacific said Tuesday that it plans to submit a shareholder resolution on a possible deal at Norfolk Southern’s annual meeting this spring.

But it doesn’t plan to nominate its own slate of directors to press the issue.

Norfolk Southern officials didn’t immediately respond Tuesday afternoon.

Norfolk Southern has sternly rejected all of Canadian Pacific’s takeover offers even as they approached roughly $30 billion. Norfolk Southern has said the offers have been so “grossly inadequate” that there wasn’t much point in discussing a possible deal.

Canadian Pacific has said combining its railroad with Norfolk Southern would create a more efficient operation that could haul more freight and grow profits faster than either railroad could alone. CP also predicts that it could cut roughly $1.8 billion in annual costs.

“Shareholders and analysts will be watching NS closely throughout 2016 and if they continue to underperform, the pressure to work with CP will only grow,” said Harrison. “Our model performs in good times and bad, consistently driving shareholder value during the peaks and the valleys.”

Norfolk Southern executives have said they believe the railroad will fare better if it remains independent. They have released their own plan to cut about $130 million in costs this year and more than $650 million in annual cost savings by 2020.

Canadian Pacific said it doesn’t plan to ask Norfolk Southern shareholders to vote on its most-recent proposal. Instead, it will just ask them to support having the two railroads hold merger talks.

Even if the railroads agreed on a deal, the proposal would still have to clear major regulatory hurdles. The U.S. Surface Transportation Board hasn’t approved any major rail mergers since it approved tough rules for them in 2001.

Norfolk Southern officials have said they don’t believe regulators would approve such a merger, but Canadian Pacific officials remain optimistic a deal could be approved.

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Fortis Place in downtown St. John’s, N.L., is seen on Tuesday. Fortis Inc. has a friendly US$11.3-billion deal to buy U.S. electric transmission company ITC, the latest acquisition south of the border for the Newfoundlandbased utility company.

Fortis to buy ITC in US$11.3B deal

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

QUICK FACTS ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Fortis Inc. has a friendly US$11.3-billion deal to buy U.S. electric transmission company ITC, an acquisition that extends the Newfoundland-based utility company’s already vast reach south of the border.

The proposed agreement announced Tuesday — which requires various approvals — includes US$6.9 billion in cash and stock and US$4.4 billion in assumed debt. Shareholders in ITC would have a 27 per cent stake in the combined company.

Fortis president and CEO Barry Perry said the acquisition of the Michigan-based company strengthens its business in the United States, giving it access to more than 25,000 kilometres of transmission lines.

“This deal has it all for Fortis and was a bull’s-eye for us when we were looking at how it fit our company,” Perry said in a conference call with analysts.

Although Fortis (TSX:FTS) has a low public profile, it has expanded beyond its base as owner of Newfoundland Power and owns extensive operations across North America.

Founded: The company roots date back to 1885, when it was founded as the St. John’s Electric Company. That company eventually became Newfoundland Power Inc., the first wholly-owned subsidiary of Fortis.

Fortis became the parent company of Newfoundland Power in late 1987.

Big deals: In May 2004, Fortis acquired FortisAlberta and FortisBC (Electric) for $1.5 billion. In May 2007, it expanded into the natural gas distribution business with the acquisition of FortisBC (Gas) for $3.7 billion. In June 2013, it completed the US$1.5 billion acquisition of CH Energy Group, Inc. (“CH Energy Group”). A year later, Fortis acquired Arizona-based UNS Energy Corporation for US$4.5 billion.

At the helm: Native Newfoundlander Barry Perry is the company’s president and CEO. He went to Memorial University in St. John’s and is a chartered accountant.

Reach: More than three million customers are served by the company’s regulated utilities in North America.

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As an investor you are expecting the money that you have invested will grow in value. While seeing your money increase in value can be a rewarding experience, it is important to understand how your dollars and cents are taxed. In fact, understanding the rules should be part of the decision in which investments you may want to own.

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Another account to consider is anything that is non-registered. Examples of this would be money sitting in a savings account, or regular investment account. In these types of accounts, any gains or income you realize are taxable, meaning that if you buy an investment and then sell it for a gain you need to pay tax on that gain. Also, if your investment pays interest, such as a Guaranteed Investment Certificate (GIC), you have to pay tax on the interest earned.

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Generally speaking there are three ways to earn money from an investment, specifically a capital gain, dividend income, and interest income.

Interest income is earned from interest-bearing investments such as savings accounts, GICs, and bonds, among others. Interest income is fully taxed at your normal income tax rate. As such, it may make sense to ensure anything that pays interest income is held in a registered or tax-free account. The point being that there is little tax advantage to this type of income and it is best to shelter it if you can.

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The S&P/TSX composite index dropped 252.75 points to close at 12,282.65, capping off a third consecutive session of losses. The largest sector declines were seen in energy, metals and mining and financials.

The downturn accompanied yet another big plummet in oil prices as the March contract for North American benchmark crude fell $1.75 to US$27.94 a barrel — a drop of nearly six per cent.

The last time oil depreciated to such levels was in September 2003.

The loss comes after the International Energy Agency reported that crude will remain under pressure this year as supply continues to outpace demand by as much as two million barrels a day in the first quarter. Oil prices have collapsed more than 70 per cent since mid-2014.

“There is just too much supply, too many players in the game producing (oil),” said Kash Pashootan, a portfolio manager at First Avenue Advisory.

“We should not be surprised to see oil continue to go down until we see supply erode or decline — and that hasn’t happened yet.”

The oversupply issue will likely not be resolved until there are closures in the West, where crude is more expensive to produce than Saudi Arabia, said Pashootan, adding that even when the price stabilizes, investors should be wary of parking their money with oil companies.

“We’ve had some very good years in the oil industry. Many of them have strong balances, lots of cash, and many had hedges in place. They were well-posi-

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“The challenge is, no one anticipated the declines would a) be this deep, and b) last as long as they have.”

A rare bright spot was the Canadian dollar, which closed 0.28 of a U.S. cent higher at 72.05 cents US. The loonie is finding some sheen from the weakening greenback, which has been pulling back now that investors believe the Federal Reserve is set to take a more dovish approach to interest rate hikes.

“Originally, the U.S. dollar had rallied considerably pricing in these rate hikes,” said Pashootan.

“Raising rates tends to strengthen currency, but now we see the Fed has backed off and take a more neutral ‘Wait and see’ approach and we see the U.S. dollar sell off to reflect that.”

In New York, indexes bounced back from earlier lows but still ended in the red as traders looked ahead to the start of two days of Congress testimony

by Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen.

The Dow Jones industrial average pulled back 12.67 points to 16,014.38, while the broader S&P 500 lost 1.23 points to 1,852.21. The Nasdaq composite index dipped 14.99 points to 4,268.76.

On the commodity markets, the April gold contract rose 70 cents to US$1.198.60 a troy ounce, copper shed five cents to US$2.04 a pound and natural gas fell four cents to US$2.10 per mmBtu. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Tuesday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,282.65, down 252.75 points Dow — 16,014.38, down 12.67 points

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INVESTING: Focus on long-term goals Dividend income is earned when you’ve invested in shares of a company that pay a dividend. Put simply, dividends earned receive a tax credit which in turn reduces the overall amount of tax paid. As such, they tend to be more tax-efficient than interest paying investments. Because of this more efficient method of taxation, you may want to hold dividend paying investments in a non-registered account.

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Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 80.08 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 29.59 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.17 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 12.72 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 42.42 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 0.940 Penn West Energy . . . . . 0.990 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 4.00 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 29.95 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.460 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 1.52 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 33.26 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1300 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 71.53 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 54.17 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86.17 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 21.34 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 33.14 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 33.35 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 78.46 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.54 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 37.38 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.190 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 67.64 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 37.94 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.28

S&P 500 — 1,852.21, down 1.23 points Nasdaq — 4,268.76, down 14.99 points Currencies: Cdn — 72.05 cents US, up 0.28 of a cent Pound — C$2.0070, down 0.33 of a cent Euro — C$1.5672, up 0.79 of a cent Euro — US$1.1292, up 1.01 cents Oil futures: US$27.94 per barrel, down $1.75 (March contract) Gold futures: US$1,198.60 per oz., up 70 cents (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.278 oz., up 1.9 cents $716.24 kg., up 61 cents ICE FUTURES CLOSE WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ‘16 $4.80 lower $460.30 May ‘16 $5.30 lower $469.00 July ‘16 $5.60 lower $474.70 Nov. ‘16 $7.20 lower $478.60 Jan. ‘17 $6.90 lower $481.80 March ‘17 $6.90 lower $482.00 May ‘17 $6.90 lower $480.70 July ‘17 $6.90 lower $480.70 Nov. ‘17 $6.90 lower $480.70 Jan. ‘18 $6.90 lower $480.70 March ‘18 $6.90 lower $480.70.

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.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 558,240 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 558,240.

at your income tax rate, the other half isn’t taxed at all. Capital gains may offer the least amount of taxation depending on your tax rate. With this in mind, it may be beneficial to keep investments that may offer capital gains in a non-registered account.

Finally, I think it’s important to focus your investment plan on your long-term goals, rather than just on taxation. Tax may be a key aspect but it certainly shouldn’t be your only consideration prior to investing. Take some time to learn how these rules apply to you and consult a professional before making any decisions.

Happy investing, Wealth Watch is written by Derek Fuchs, senior wealth advisor with ScotiaWealth Management in Red Deer. It is provided for informational purposes only and any opinions contained in it are his own.

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Philp close to debut for Rebels

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Almost full six weeks after being acquired from the Kootenay Ice, centre Luke Philp might make his Red Deer Rebels debut Saturday versus the visiting Tri-City Americans.

Perhaps.

“He might be able to play Saturday, we’ll see how the week goes,” Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter said Tuesday without making any promises. “He just started skating and has had just one full practice with the team.”

Philp, one of the top two or three Western Hockey League 20-year-olds available for trade this season, was acquired from the Ice Jan. 3. At the time he had already been out of action for six weeks due to ankle injury and still led the Ice in scoring with 13 goals and 29 points in 22 games.

“We want to get him into a few more practices,” said Sutter, who was en route from the Edmonton International Airport after attending WHL board of governors meetings in Las Vegas.

“Luke is 100 per cent physically, as far as his ankle is concerned. It’s just his

conditioning now.”

So, for at least the next three days and perhaps longer, Philp will remain on an injury list that recently added forwards Braden Purtill (concussion) and Reese Johnson, who dislocated his shoulder during a scrap with Kootenay defenceman Troy Murry in a 5-2 Rebels win last Friday in Cranbrook.

Both are out indefinitely, as are forward Conner Bleackey and defenceman Josh Mahura, both with lower-body injuries.

“It’s been one of those years. We just haven’t been able to get our entire team together,” said Sutter.”We’re hoping that come March we can get close to icing a full team.

“But with the way the year has gone, who knows?”

The Rebels are in Calgary Friday to face the Hitmen, then, after hosting the Americans 24 hours later, will head west Monday on a four-game trip start-

ing the following day at Kelowna and including stops in Kamloops and finally Prince George for a Saturday-Sunday set.

• The board of governors granted WHL commissioner Ron Robison a five-year contract extension during the Las Vegas meetings.

Robison, who joined the WHL prior to the 2000-01 season, is currently in his 16th season as commissioner and CEO of the league. The new contract will extend Robison through the 202021 season.

“They were good meetings, we went through and discussed a lot of items, different things we have to plan for in June (during the annual general meetings),” said Sutter.

“There could be some changes. We might accept and implement more of what the NHL is doing regarding certain rules.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Devils down Oilers on Brodeur’s big night

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Devils 2 Oilers 1 NEWARK, N.J. — After retiring Martin Brodeur’s No. 30 jersey in a rousing ceremony, the New Jersey Devils sent their fans home even happier with a much-needed win over the Edmonton Oilers.

Reid Boucher set up a goal and scored the game-winner 7:13 into the third period, and the Devils edged the Oilers 2-1 on Tuesday to cap a night when the organization honoured the goalie who led them to three Stanley Cup championships.

“You don’t want to spoil that night by losing,” said Boucher, who has three game-winning goals in 13 games.

“We’re also playing to stay in the playoff race right now. Those are two big points for us.”

Indeed, they were huge points for the Devils, who lost Monday to the New York Rangers and in shootouts with Washington and Toronto last week. New Jersey has 61 points, tied with Pittsburgh for the eighth and final playoff berth in the Eastern Conference with two months left in the regular season.

“We fed off the crowd energy but this was big. We hadn’t won in three games and this keeps us in the race,” forward Lee Stempniak said. “That’s the bigger picture for us.”

Adam Henrique also had a goal and an assist as the Devils sent the Oilers to their third straight loss.

Cory Schneider made 19 saves for New Jersey, including 1-on-1 stops in the first period against Taylor Hall and Connor McDavid. Schneider also denied Leon Draisaitl in close in the final minute.

McDavid, the top pick in last year’s draft, set up Jordan Eberle’s goal for Edmonton. Cam Talbot made 24 saves.

Oilers coach Todd McLellan said his team needs to shoot more.

“We have to push the needle forward,” he added.

Special teams were the difference.

The Devils converted on two of their five power plays and killed off all three Oilers chances with the extra man.

New Jersey has killed off 19 straight

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New Jersey Devils goalie Cory Schneider (35) makes a glove save on a shot by Edmonton Oilers left wing Benoit Pouliot (67) during the first period of an NHL game Tuesday, in Newark, N.J. opponents’ power plays over the last five games.

“The penalty kill has been great since we came back from the break,” Henrique said.

“It’s an area we wanted to improve, and an area we are going to need to be strong if we are going to get in here down the stretch and get big wins.

Obviously, the power play coming through tonight was big. He (Boucher) had a huge goal for us at a big time in the game.”

Boucher’s winner came with Edmonton defenceman Adam Clendening off for delay of game.

The Devils worked the puck around and Jacob Josefson fanned on a shot in

close at an open net. New Jersey kept the pressure on, however, and Boucher took a pass from Henrique in the right circle and ripped a shot past Talbot.

“I have to play better,” Talbot said.

“I have to make those saves.”

The shot came from about the same spot where Boucher took the initial shot on Henrique’s goal midway through the first period.

“I was just trying to get pucks to the net,” Boucher said. “From that spot I didn’t see any openings to pass it and I just got pucks to the net and they found their way in.”

On the first goal, the puck seemed to hit off Stempniak and Talbot in front and landed a couple of feet in front of

the crease. Henrique pounced on the rebound and jammed it home for his 18th goal.

The Oilers tied the score 66 seconds later on a great play by McDavid. He won a faceoff, skated around two players and found Benoit Pouliot to the left of Schneider.

The forward sent the puck across the crease to Eberle for a shot into an open net and his 15th goal.

McDavid has two goals and five assists in five games since returning from an injured clavicle.

Schneider stopped Hall on a breakaway in the opening minute of the first period and turned away McDavid breaking in from the right side.

Short-handed Flames hold on for win over Maple Leafs

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Flames 4 Maple Leafs 3 Calgary centre Markus Granlund made the most of his opportunity after the benching of three of his teammates.

Granlund scored his first goal in 21 games and added an assist to lead the Flames to a 4-3 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday.

A healthy scratch the past three games, the 22-year-old Finn got back into the line-up only because coach Bob Hartley sat out all-star Johnny Gaudreau and Sean Monahan — the Flames top two scorers — along with veteran Lance Bouma for disciplinary reasons.

“We established team rules at the start of the season. We’re a very proud hockey club. We have built what we believe to be a very strong culture that goes for everyone,” said Hartley.

“It was tough because you can’t get three better young men. They’re proud of representing this community.

They’re easy to coach and everything but when you make a mistake, we have to be accountable and we have to be fair to everyone.”

It was the first multi-point game of the season for Granlund.

“It felt good. I think two weeks ago I had some good chances to score but I couldn’t score. Now it feels good,” said Granlund, whose goal on a short-handed breakaway opened the scoring.

Mikael Backlund, Michael Ferland and Dougie Hamilton also scored for Calgary (24-25-3), which won consecutive games for the first time in a month.

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Toronto Maple Leafs’ Nazem Kadri, left is pushed away from the Calgary net

by Calgary Flames’ Mark Giordano during second period NHL action in Calgary, Tuesday.

The Flames are seven points out of a wild card spot in the Western Conference. They are eight points back of Anaheim, which occupies third place in the Pacific Division.

Peter Holland, Josh Leivo, with his first of the season, and Jake Gardiner scored for Toronto (19-24-9). The Leafs have dropped the first two of a five-game road trip, which continues Thursday in Edmonton.

The Leafs were also without sev-

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More on Phaneuf trade.......B4 eral key players, the most notable being captain Dion Phaneuf, who was involved in a nine-player trade with the Ottawa Senators earlier in the day.

“It was pretty emotional for a lot of the guys. (Phaneuf) was one of our really good friends and obviously our leader on our team,” said Gardiner.

“Obviously it was tough all day long and we just tried to refocus for the game. I thought we competed well but

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just didn’t start the way we wanted to.”

Toronton was also missing recently injured Joffrey Lupul, Tyler Bozak and Shawn Matthias. James van Riemsdyk (foot) was already out.

“We gave up a short-handed goal that we shouldn’t have. I thought we gave them two gifts, but I thought we did a lot of good things. In the end we worked hard and had the puck a lot, but didn’t score enough to win,” said Leafs coach Mike Babcock.

Ahead 2-1 after the opening 20 minutes, Calgary surged in front by three on goals by Ferland and Hamilton.

Leivo got one back late in the second and Gardiner’s goal at 8:37 set up a furious finish. However, despite the encouragement of the many pockets of boisterous Toronto supporters in the sell-out crowd of 19,289, the Leafs could not complete the comeback.

A hot topic post-game was Mark Giordano’s hard open-ice hit on Nazem Kadri in the first period. Kadri was furious as he left the ice and replays appeared to show him making a throat-slashing gesture towards the Flames captain after he returned to the bench.

“I heard about the reaction but I didn’t see it so I can’t comment on this but it was a good, old time hit. Very simple. We should teach kids to hit like this,” said Hartley.

The Leafs centre said he let his emotions get the best of him after being flattened in the Calgary zone.

“It’s not something that I even remember really doing to be honest. I was kind of in and out a little bit after that hit, just furious. It was an emotional reaction and that’s about it.”

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Vipers open playoffs with victory

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Vipers 7 Stampeders 0 The Red Deer Vipers were angry with themselves but took it out on the Ponoka Stampeders.

Three nights after falling 3-1 to the visiting Stamps — a defeat that cost Red Deer top spot in the Northern Division of the Heritage Junior Hockey League and in fact knocked them all the way down to third place — the Vipers pumped Ponoka 7-0 Tuesday at the Arena.

Red Deer grabbed a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three divisional quarter-final and can close out the series tonight at Ponoka.

“We took a night off. They outplayed us in that game and kudos to them,” said Red Deer head coach JD Morrical, in reference to Saturday’s final regular-season contest loss that also cost his club a first-round playoff bye.

‘The boys were pretty mad with their effort in that game. They realized they did it to themselves. They knew what they had to do tonight and it turned out well.”

The Vipers led 3-0 after one period and then sniped two goals in the first six minutes of the middle frame to chase Stamps’ starting netminder Carter Gendreau, who was excellent in Saturday’s contest with a 36-save performance.

Gendreau made 17 saves before yanked and his replacement, Zeke

Leuck, stopped 26 of the 28 shots he faced the rest of the way, surrendering third-period power-play goals to Matt Krusky and Jon Finnigan. Colton Weseen, Declan Johnston and Finnigan each scored twice for the hosts.

Red Deer netminder Cole Sears turned aside 24 shots to earn the shutout.

While the Vipers would have preferred to sit out the first post-season round, Morrical found positives in the fact his club will have to play at least two additional games and won’t have home-ice advantage in the second round.

“That was a really good thing for us because we needed to play a different way,” he said. “Ponoka plays a different style and we needed to adjust.

“This was a good win for us. Ponoka has a good team and probably would have won a few more games this year if they had a few more bodies.”

Regardless, the Vipers were more than ready to exact some revenge Tuesday.

“They were ready to go,” said Morrical. “We had a full lineup again. We have a couple of defencemen suspended but one will be back tomorrow.”

A third game in the series, if necessary, will go Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Arena.

• The Blackfalds Wranglers got an overtime goal from Andrew McLennan Tuesday and defeated the visiting Three Hills Thrashers 4-3 in the first game of the other divisional quarter-final.

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Ponoka Stampeder goaltender Carter Gendreau makes a diving save as Red Deer Viper Matt Krusky looks to shovel in a rebound during first period action of game one playoff action at the Arena in Red Deer, Tuesday night. Game two goes tonight in Ponoka. (Wednesday) Game three if necessary is back at the Red Deer Arena at 8 p.m. on Saturday.

Brock Boguski, Robin Carlson and Curtis Rangen also scored for the Wranglers. Damien Chopek, Rylan Plante-Crough and Tyler Newsham re-

plied for the Thrashers.

The second game is set for Friday at Three Hills. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Phaneuf shipped to Senators in blockbuster deal defence.

Murray had been looking for a left-shooting defenceman to play on TORONTO — For the Ottawa Sena- one of his top two pairs, a hole that tors the help comes now, for the Toron- Phaneuf immediately fills. He’s exto Maple Leafs it comes later. pected to play alongside 22-year-old A mammoth nine-player swap be- Cody Ceci when the Senators visit the tween Ontario rivals Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday saw Leafs Wednesday night. captain, and former “He’ll just bring, we Red Deer Rebel, Dion hope, a presence to this Phaneuf land in the naorganization,” said Murtion’s capital in a trade ray. “We don’t expect him that props up a mostly to come in here to be a inexperienced Ottawa saviour. We expect him to defence while shedding come here and just be the Toronto of another core hockey player he is.” player and his long-term Phaneuf was enjoying contract, one that carries one of his better seasons a US$7-million annual as a Leaf, a redemptive salary-cap hit and expires one in many ways followin 2021. ing a challenging 2014-15 “I think both parties season which saw him ended up where they finish with just 29 points.

Dion Phaneuf want to be at this moThe Leafs, in a likely atment,” Senators gentempt to prop him up for eral manager Bryan Murray said of just such a trade, were employing their the trade. “We’ll see now how it works captain in less strenuous duties unout.” der new head coach Mike Babcock.

Phaneuf, at the very least, upgrades Phaneuf was no longer matched up the Senators’ back end as they race to against top lines, killing fewer pencatch up in the Eastern Conference alties and getting more looks in the playoff race. The 30-year-old instantly offensive zone. adds experience, penalty-killing acuOn pace for nearly 40 points and avmen and some offensive capability to eraging 22 minutes per game, Phaneuf an Erik Karlsson-led group that fea- will get a fresh start with his third tures four defenders with less than 300 NHL team, all of them Canadian. games of NHL experience.

“Dion’s ready now to win and we’re Phaneuf recently played his 800th not ready to win,” Babcock said. “It career NHL game, a total that far sur- was a hard decsion. I think it’s a good passes any of his new teammates on decision for Dion.”

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Sutter Fund Chiefs take home gold from Langley tournament Breanna Martin scored the game’s lone goal as the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs downed the Okanagan Lakers 1-0 Sunday in the final of a midget AAA girls hockey tournament at Langley, B.C. The Chiefs advanced to the championship game of the Fraser Valley Phantom tournament with a 3-1 semifinal victory over Lloydminster.

Martin, Erika Marshall and Abagael Thiessen scored for Red Deer.

Sutter Fund opened the tournament with a 5-1 win over the Kootenay Wild, their goals coming off the sticks of Marshall, with two, Martin, Paige Grenier and Kaitlan Linnell, then got a goal from Marshall in a 1-1 draw with the Fraser Valley Rush.

The Chiefs went on to shade Okanagan 3-2 and dump Vancouver Academy 6-1 prior to the playoffs.

Grenier, Martin and Shae Demale tallied against the Lakers, while Thiessen scored twice and Linnell, Grenier, Demale and Emma Thomas added single goals in the win over Vancouver.

Raiders run over Cougars in senior high boys basketball action The Lindsay Thurber Raiders downed the visiting Notre Dame Cougars 79-55 in senior high boys basketball action Tuesday to assume top spot among the four teams contending for zone 4A honours.

TK Kunaka led the way with 21 points, with Jonathan Goulet netting 17 — including two three-pointers — and third-year veteran Ben Pasiuk scoring 11. Griffin Moline paced the Cougars with eight points and also added eight rebounds, while Ryan Nielsen contributed six points and seven rebounds.

In the senior girls game, the host Raiders ran over the Cougars 67-26 as

Beyond the injected experience, the Senators have to hope that Phaneuf helps them defensively. They surrender a league-high of more than 33 shots per game and yield more than three goals nightly, the third-worst mark in the league.

Murray said he hoped the trade would help Ottawa contend for the playoffs not only this spring, but beyond.

“At the end of the day we’re in a business that is about winning and all I’m trying to do is help the Ottawa Senators be a winner,” he said.

Ottawa sits four points back of the New York Islanders for the final wild card spot in the East.

The trade ends Phaneuf’s turbulent run in Toronto, which began with a similar blockbuster swap six years ago, one that sent the former firstround pick to the Leafs from the Calgary Flames.

Phaneuf had been Toronto’s captain since the summer of 2010, a period

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during which the club qualified for the post-season only once.

The key to the deal for the Leafs was cap flexibility. Toronto is trying to clear its deck of long-term pieces that don’t fit for the future as it aggressively rebuilds through a revamped system of draft and development.

Phaneuf was in the second year of a seven-season pact worth $49 million, inked by a previous management regime on Dec. 31, 2013.

He’s the second core player with a long-term contract to be unloaded by the Leafs’ relatively new leadership group steered by team president Brendan Shanahan and general manager Lou Lamoriello. The Leafs started seriously deconstructing that core roster last summer when Phil Kessel was dealt to Pittsburgh for a package of prospects and draft picks.

Unlike the Kessel deal, which saw the Leafs retain $1.2 million annually until 2022, the Leafs kept no salary in the Phaneuf transaction.

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Kelsey Lalor poured in 27 points, Hayley Lalor scored 12 and Emma Holmes netted 10. Gemma Davis was Notre Dame’s top scorer with nine points.

Elsewhere, the host Hunting Hills senior girls Lightning got 13 points from Leah Hagel and 12 from Kristen Loney in a 76-56 defeat of the Lacombe Rams. Danielle Wilson scored 17 points for the visitors.

All U18 Kings matchup for bronze in first premier tournament The Central Alberta Kings Volleyball Club U18 Black team defeated the CAKVC U18 White squad 25-18, 25-15 in the bronze-medal match of the first Volleyball Alberta Premier tournament of the season at Calgary during the weekend.

The two-day tournament featured 28 teams from Alberta, British Columbia and the Yukon.

Exelta athlete perform well at Alberta First Cup Liam Wygeria and Jack Johnston of the Red Deer Exelta Gymnastics Club were victorious in level 1 synchronized trampoline in the Alberta First Cup competition at Grande Prairie during the weekend.

Meanwhile, Madison Wiggins and Gracelyn Lauscher settled for silver in the level 2 synchronized event and Paige Tiegs and Karys Zirk won level 3 bronze.

In the individual events, Lauscher was golden in the level 2 double mini trampoline (DMT) and placed third in the trampoline exercise and ninth in level 1 tumbling.

Also striking gold was Loami Rautenbach in level 3 tumbling.

Other Exelta individual top-10 results: Third — Johnston, level 1 trampoline and DMT; Tiegs, level 3 DMT; Fifth — Wygeria, level 1 trampoline; Artur Troyan, level 5 DMT; Sixth — Tiegs, level 3 tumbling; Karys Zirk, level 3 trampoline; Wygeria, level 1 DMT; Madison Wiggins, level 2 DMT; Seventh — Savanna Charminaraj, level 4 trampoline; Zirk, level 3 DMT; Eighth — Wiggins, level 2 tumbling; Ninth — Troyan, level 4 tumbling.

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GF 216 200 178 149 169 111

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W LOTL SL 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

Everett Seattle Spokane Portland Tri-City

U.S. DIVISION GP W LOTL SL 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

GF 143 160 178 168 174

GA 156 163 178 184 168 217

PT 72 66 58 53 44 42

GA 147 150 169 162 226 230

PT 74 71 65 53 44 22

GA 154 131 172 177 194

PT 77 75 65 56 48

GA 118 153 179 166 191

PT 68 59 57 54 51

Monday results Kamloops 3 Calgary 2 Kelowna 7 Seattle 4 Vancouver 1 Edmonton 0 Victoria 6 Everett 4

62 58 56 48 47

157 151 157 125 125

147 146 170 150 149

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts 52 39 9 4 82 53 30 18 5 65 52 28 18 6 62 52 27 18 7 61 55 27 21 7 61 54 24 21 9 57 52 23 20 9 55 55 21 28 6 48

GF 174 153 149 139 124 130 124 140

GA 118 137 132 135 129 144 142 173

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Chicago 57 36 17 4 76 Dallas 54 34 15 5 73 St. Louis 56 30 17 9 69 Nashville 54 25 21 8 58 Colorado 56 27 25 4 58 Minnesota 53 23 20 10 56 Winnipeg 53 24 26 3 51

GF 159 176 136 141 150 130 138

GA 130 147 134 145 155 132 153

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

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Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 52 32 17 3 67 146 121 San Jose 52 28 20 4 60 151 139 Anaheim 52 26 19 7 59 119 124 Arizona 52 24 22 6 54 139 162 Vancouver 53 21 20 12 54 127 146 Calgary 52 24 25 3 51 139 153 Edmonton 55 21 29 5 47 137 167 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Monday’s Games N.Y. Rangers 2, New Jersey 1 Pittsburgh 6, Anaheim 2 Ottawa 5, Tampa Bay 1 Detroit 3, Florida 0

Tuesday’s results Prince Albert 6 Brandon 3 Saskatoon 7 Medicine Hat 1 Kelowna at Seattle, late Edmonton at Victoria, late

Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 3, Columbus 2, SO Winnipeg 2, St. Louis 1, SO Los Angeles 9, Boston 2 Florida 7, Buffalo 4 Anaheim 4, Philadelphia 1 Montreal 4, Tampa Bay 2 New Jersey 2, Edmonton 1 Washington 5, Nashville 3 Dallas 4, Minnesota 3, OT San Jose 2, Chicago 0 Vancouver 3, Colorado 1 Calgary 4, Toronto 3

Wednesday’s games Tri-City at Kootenay, noon Prince Albert at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Saskatoon at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Portland at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Thursday’s games No Games Scheduled.

Friday’s games Tri-City at Lethbridge, 6 p.m.

Swift Current at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Regina at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Saskatoon at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Red Deer at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Spokane at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Everett at Portland, 8 p.m.

Kelowna at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Kamloops at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Florida 54 32 16 6 70 Tampa Bay 53 29 20 4 62 Detroit 53 27 18 8 62

Boston Montreal Ottawa Buffalo Toronto

Wednesday’s Games Ottawa at Detroit, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Arizona, 7:30 p.m.

GF 155 142 134

GA 123 130 134

Thursday’s Games Los Angeles at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Anaheim at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Colorado at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

Washington at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Boston at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Toronto at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Calgary at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Rebels vs.

Medicine Hat Tigers Tonight, 7 p.m., Centrium The Tigers enter tonight’s contest on a sixgame losing streak and are 2-8-0-0 in their last 10 outings. Medicine Hat fell 7-1 to the visiting Saskatoon Blades Tuesday and sit fifth in the Central Division and ninth in the Eastern Conference with a 2031-3-1 record … RW Chad Butcher leads all Medicine Hat point producers with 51, including 18 goals. C Mason Shaw follows with 46 points (13g,33a), while C Matt Bradley has 18 goals and 37 points. C Max Gerlach is the Tigers’ No. 1 sniper with 24 goals, including the lone marker in Tuesday’s one-sided set-

Tuesday’s summaries Flames 4 Maple Leafs 3 First Period 1, Calgary, Granlund 4 (Frolik, Brodie), 10:40 (sh).

2, Toronto, Holland 8 (Corrado, Hunwick), 11:34 (pp). 3, Calgary, Backlund 7 (D.Hamilton, Bennett), 18:03 (pp).

Penalties—Stajan, Cgy (holding), 9:56 Froese, Tor (holding), 11:54 Toronto bench, served by Parenteau (too many men), 17:57.

Second Period 4, Calgary, Ferland 3 (Colborne), 4:06. 5, Calgary, D.Hamilton 8 (Granlund), 14:08. 6, Toronto, Leivo 1 (Clune, Corrado), 17:17.

Penalties—Jooris, Cgy (face-off violation), :43 Bollig, Cgy (roughing), 4:54 Leivo, Tor (high-sticking), 5:48.

Third Period 7, Toronto, Gardiner 4, 8:37.

Penalties—Parenteau, Tor (hooking), 20:00.

Shots on Goal—Toronto 10-13-13—36. Calgary 9-10-3—22.

Goal—Toronto, Reimer 10-10-6 (22 shots-18 saves). Calgary, Hiller 7-5-1 (36-33).

Power-play —Toronto 1 of 3 Calgary 1 of 3.

Devils 2 Oilers 1 First Period 1, New Jersey, Henrique 18 (Stempniak, Boucher), 10:33 (pp). 2, Edmonton, Eberle 15 (Pouliot, McDavid), 11:39.

Penalties—Hendricks, Edm (hooking), 9:18 Helgeson, NJ (hooking), 14:09 Stempniak, NJ (slashing), 16:11 Hall, Edm (delay of game), 19:52.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties—Hendricks, Edm, major (fighting), 10:00 Helgeson, NJ, major (fighting), 10:00 Eberle, Edm (holding), 15:19 Greene, NJ (high-sticking), 19:43.

Third Period 3, New Jersey, Boucher 3 (Henrique, Kennedy), 7:13 (pp).

Penalties—Clendening, Edm (delay of game), 5:27 Hall, Edm (slashing), 8:56.

Shots on Goal—Edmonton 7-5-8—20. New Jersey 6-11-9—26.

Goal—Edmonton, Talbot 11-17-3 (26 shots-24 saves). New Jersey, Schneider 24-16-6 (20-19).

Power-play —Edmonton 0 of 3 New Jersey 2 of 5.

NHL scoring leaders following Monday’s games: Patrick Kane, Chi Erik Karlsson, Ott Jamie Benn, Dal Tyler Seguin, Dal Sidney Crosby. Pgh Evgeny Kuznetsov, Wash Artemi Panarin, Chi Joe Pavelski, SJ Taylor Hall, Edm Blake Wheeler, Wpg Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy Evgeni Malkin, Pgh Nicklas Backstrom, Wash Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Anze Kopitar, LA Nikita Kucherov, TB Patrice Bergeron, Bos Bobby Ryan, Ott Joe Thornton, SJ Brent Burns, SJ Alex Ovechkin, Wash Claude Giroux, Pgh

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A 44 48 31 28 29 38 34 26 32 35 28 26 31 21 33 24 26 26 33 26 14 28

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Injuries — Medicine Hat: D Connor Clouston (lower body, day-to-day), RW Zack Fischer (lower body, week-to-week), G Austin Lotz (upper body, indefinite), C Mason Shaw (lower body, day-today). Red Deer: C Conner Bleackley (lower body, indefinite), D Josh Mahura (lower body, indefinite), C Luke Philp (lower body, day-to-day), LW Braden Purtill (upper body, indefinite), RW Reese Johnson (upper body, indefinite).

Special teams — Medicine Hat: Power play 19.2 per cent, 15th overall; penalty kill 76.0 per cent, 20th. Red Deer: Power play 23.0 per cent, third overall; penalty kill 75.8 per cent, 21st.

Scouting report

Andrew Harris’s signing part of busy day for Blue Bombers CFL FREE AGENCY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Andrew Harris is going home while Ted Laurent is staying put.

Harris, a Winnipeg native, signed a threeyear deal with the hometown Blue Bombers on Tuesday, the opening day of CFL free agency.

The all-star running back returns to his home province following six seasons with the B.C. Lions.

Laurent, the other top Canadian available in free agency, opted to remain with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, signing a two-year contract reportedly worth $500,000. The six-foot-one, 305-pound defensive tackle from Montreal has been a league all-star the past two seasons in Steeltown.

Ticats’ quarterback Zach Collaros was quick to react to news of Laurent’s re-signing. “@tedlaurent TEDDDDDYYY! .. Bring some Haitian cookies when you get back for your press conference! ????????????” he tweeted.

Laurent tweeted back: “Bet.” Laurent’s return is big for Hamilton, which lost kicker Justin Medlock and defensive back Mike Edem in free agency and still has over 20 players on the open market. The Ticats did resign veteran slotback Andy Fantuz and added free-agent linebacker Alex Hoffman-Ellis, who spent the last two seasons with the B.C. Lions.

Prior to the start of free agency, Hamilton signed defensive end John Chick after he was released by the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

For Harris, his decision was the realization of a childhood dream.

“Any young boy that plays football in Manitoba always dreams of playing for the Bombers and that’s always been on my mind,” Harris said during a conference call. “I had some other offers but ultimately I’m at a point in my career where I’ve been in B.C. almost 10 years now and my daughter is eight and being closer to her was a big factor in deciding this.

“I just think the organization is going in the

OLDS GRIZZLYS Crusaders 4 Grizzlys 3 OLDS — Logan Franz and Wyatt Noskey scored late third-period goals but the Olds Grizzlys’ rally fell just short Tuesday before 396 fans at the Sportsplex.

The Sherwood Park Crusaders hung on for a 4-3 Alberta Junior Hockey League win despite being outshot 12-7

Today • 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.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Ponoka, second game of best-of-three Northern Division quarter-final, 7:45 p.m.

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

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

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

• Midget AA hockey: Calgary Blackhawks at Red Deer Elks, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre; Calgary Rangers at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 4:45 p.m., Arena; Calgary Gold at Olds, 7:30 p.m.; Cranbrook at Central Alberta, 8:15 p.m., Lacombe.

• Bantam AA hockey: Taber at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Medicine Hat at West Central, 5:30 p.m., Eckville; Olds at Central Alberta, 5:45 p.m., Lacombe.

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

• WHL: Tri-City at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium.

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

• Heritage junior B hockey: Ponoka at Red Deer, third game of best-of-three Northern Division quarter-final, if necessary, 8 p.m., Arena.

Sunday

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

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

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

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

• Heritage junior B hockey: Blackfalds at Three Hills, second game of best-of-three Northern Division quarter-final, 8 p.m.

• Senior hockey: Bentley at Innisfail, first game of best-of-seven Chinook League and provincial AAA semifinal, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday • Major bantam hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer, 2 p.m., Arena.

• 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.

• Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Blackfalds, third game of best-ofthree Northern Division quarter-final, if necessary, 3:30 p.m.

• 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.

Basketball Red Deer Women’s League Pink Panthers 49 Rampage 35 PP — Rebecca Daly 17 points; POG: Rachel Weppler. Rampage — Kelsey Wilson 22 points; POG: Angele Downey.

Funk 70 Express 31 Funk — Nicole Fisher 18 points; POG: Shalene Rascher. Express — Sandra Tapias 10 points; POG: Tapias.

Triple Threat 57 Age Gap 38 TT — Melanie Callihoo 22 points; POG: Calihoo.

AG — Taylor Delaire nine points; POG: Bonnie Lawrence.

Storm 62 Shooting Stars 27 Storm — Shannon Van Parys 16 points; POG: Van Parys. SS — Courtney Schmale 8 points; POG: Schmale.

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 35 16 .686 — Boston 31 23 .574 5 1/2 New York 23 32 .418 14 Brooklyn 14 39 .264 22 Philadelphia 8 44 .154 27 1/2

Atlanta Miami Charlotte Washington Orlando

Cleveland Indiana Chicago Detroit Milwaukee

Southeast Division W L Pct 30 24 .556 29 24 .547 26 26 .500 23 27 .460 23 28 .451

GB — 1/2 3 5 5 1/2

Central Division W L Pct 37 14 .725 28 24 .538 27 24 .529 27 26 .509 21 32 .396

GB — 9 1/2 10 11 17

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 44 8 .846 — Memphis 30 22 .577 14 Dallas 29 26 .527 16 1/2 Houston 27 26 .509 17 1/2 New Orleans 19 32 .373 24 1/2

Oklahoma Utah Portland Denver Minnesota

Northwest Division W L Pct City 39 14 26 25 .510 26 27 .491 21 32 .396 16 37 .302

GB .736 — 12 13 18 23

Pacific Division W L Pct 46 4 .920 35 17 .673 21 31 .404 14 39 .264 11 43 .204

GB — 12 26 33 1/2 37

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

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 Tuesday’s Games Milwaukee 112, Boston 111 San Antonio 119, Miami 101 Washington 111, New York 108 Utah 121, Dallas 119, OT Houston at Golden State, late Wednesday’s Games Charlotte at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Sacramento at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

San Antonio at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Memphis at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Denver at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Utah at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Golden State at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Houston at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Washington at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Transactions

right direction. It was good timing for a lot of drew Hayes-Stoker assistant to the head coach.

Tuesday’s Sports Transactions different reasons.”

Promoted Joe Philbin to assistant head coach-ofBASEBALL The signing of Harris highlighted a busy day American League fensive line.

NEW YORK JETS — Named John Scott Jr. assisfor Winnipeg GM Kyle Walters. He also landed BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Agreed to terms with tant defensive line coach, David Diaz-Infante assisLHPs Ashur Tolliver and Hideki Okajima and 3B Medlock, Canadian defensive lineman Keith Patrick Palmeiro on minor league contracts. tant offensive line coach and Tim Atkins defensive quality control coach.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with Shologan, Montreal-born running back Pascal OAKLAND RAIDERS — Terminated the contract of RHP Mat Latos on a one-year contract and 1B TraLochard, veteran national centre Jeff Keeping vis Ishikawa on a minor league contract.

S Nate Allen.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Released S Michael KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Extended their player and receiver Ryan Smith in free agency.

Griffin. development contract with Burlington (Appalachian) Last month, Walters signed veteran receiver through the 2020 season.

Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed WR Ryan SEATTLE MARINERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Weston Dressler after he was released by SasSmith to a two-year contract and PK Justin Medlock, Joel Peralta on a minor league contract. katchewan.

RBs Andrew Harris and Pascal Lochard and DT National League Keith Shologan.

The five-foot-11, 202-pound Harris was one SAN DIEGO PADRES — Agreed to terms with OF HOCKEY Skip Schumaker on a minor league contract. of the big names in the free-agent pool. He Frontier League National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Recalled F Tyler Gaudet ran for 1,039 yards last season to finish second EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Signed RHP Ryan from Springfield (AHL).

Minteer. overall to Montreal’s Tyrell Sutton (1,059 yards) GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Signed OF Madison OTTAWA SENATORS — Traded D Jared Cowen, Fs Milan Michalek, Colin Greening and Tobias Lindwhile adding 53 catches for 484 yards to post a Beaird to a contract extension. berg and a 2017 second-round draft pick to Toronto BASKETBALL CFL-best 1,523 yards from scrimmage. for D Dion Phaneuf and Cody Donaghey and Fs National Basketball Association Matt Frattin, Casey Bailey and Ryan Rupert.

Harris also plays a position usually handled NBA — Suspended L.A. Clippers F Blake Griffin Canadian Football League four games for punching a team staff member. by an American so the 28-year-old gives Winni- HOUSTON ROCKETS — Recalled G-F K.J. WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed OL Jeff Keeping. peg the luxury of using an import elsewhere. McDaniels and F-C Donatas Motiejunas from Rio ECHL Grande Valley (NBADL).

The Bombers also haven’t had a 1,000-yard MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Recalled F Jarell Martin ECHL — Suspended Norfolk D Samuel Noreau five games. from Iowa (NBADL). rusher since 2012 when Chad Simpson ran for SOCCER FOOTBALL 1,039 yards.

Major League Soccer National Football League D.C. UNITED — Traded F Conor Doyle to Colorado INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Released QB Ryan Harris left Winnipeg to play junior footfor a 2017 third-round draft pick.

Lindley. Named Maurice Drayton assistant special ball with the Vancouver Island Raiders. After teams coach, Lee Hull wide receivers coach and NEW YORK RED BULLS — Completed the transfer of D Gideon Baah from Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi leading the squad to three national titles (2006, Jemal Singleton running backs coach, Quadrian (HJK Helsinki).

Banks conditioning-performance analyst and An2008-09), Harris joined the B.C. Lions and developed into one of the CFL’s most prolific backs.

He helped the Lions win a Grey Cup in ‘11 and capped his first year as a starter by being named the top Canadian in the CFL title game. Twice he was a 1,000-yard rusher and leaves B.C. having run for 4,259 career yards on 825 carries (5.2-yard average) with 24 TDs. He also had 265 catches for 2,639 yards and 21 touchdowns.

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in the final frame. Scoring for the visitors were Devon McAndrews, Brett Van Os, Ryan Kruper and Brett Magee.

James Gaume netted the other Olds goal, opening the scoring at 10:26 of the first period.

Winning netminder Zach Dyment and Olds goaltender Ben Giesbrecht each made 34 saves.

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DAVIDSON KINAKIN PODOVINNIKOFF 1951 - 2016 Louella Angela Bette Lynn Davidson of Red 1945 - 2016 Louella Angela Podovinnikoff Deer, passed away at the Deer Hospice on Kinakin died unexpectedly at Red the Red Deer Regional Sunday, January 30, 2016 at Hospital Centre on Tuesday, the age of 65 years. Bette is January 26, 2016 at the age survived by her loving of 70 years. Louella will be husband Doug Hough; son sadly missed by her children; Doug (Amanda) Davidson, Sherrie and Patrick McLean, their children Josh and stepsons, Rob eight loving grandchildren, Wylde; brothers; Terry, Robert and (Lynda) Hough, Chris (Karen) their children Gordon, and a sister, Brenda, Hough, numerous nieces, nephews Vaughn, Ailsa and Tamsin and cousins, and many friends and Ryan (Elizabeth) Hough. all across Canada. Louella Also to cherish Bette memory was predeceased by her ex- is her mother Isabel Holt; husband Wesley McLean, brothers Ron (Linda) Holt, son, Gordon McLean, Jim (Darlene) Holt and David and her parents; William Holt; sisters Sharon (Phil), (Eugene), Marion Podovinnikoff and Mary Wilma as well as Bordynuik. Louella was born (Dennis) in Pelly, Saskatchewan on numerous nieces nephews, September 7, 1945. She was family members and friends. a loving wife and mother, and A Celebration of Bette’s life had many hobbies and will be held at the Pine Lake interests in life such as Hub Centre on Friday, sewing and crocheting, being February 12, 2016 at 1:00 her favorites. Louella enjoyed p.m.. In lieu of flowers, all kinds of music, dancing memorial donations may be and socializing. There will be made directly to the Red “Celebrations’ of Life” Deer Hospice Society 99 gatherings for family and Arnot Avenue, Red Deer AB friends across Canada. A T4R 3S6. Condolences to family may be Celebration of Louella’s Life Bette’s to will be held at the Airlane emailed Hotel, Madrid Room, 698 meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS Arthur Street West, Thunder Funeral Service Bay, Ontario on Sunday, Red Deer 587-876-4944 February 28, 2016 from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Many thanks go to Dr. Burland, and the staff at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre for taking In Memoriam such special care of Louella.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the Heart & Stroke Foundation at www.heartandstroke.ab.ca.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www. parklandfuneral home.com.

Arrangements in care of PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

403.340.4040 or 1.800.481.7421.

Caregivers/ Aides

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Expecting a Baby?

Planning a Wedding?

Call or visit us online!

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Lost

MISSING CAT Named Smokey; she is a grey tabby, in-door cat, tattoo in right ear & has 4 white paws. She went missing from Lord Close, Lancaster on Feb. 5, 2016.

MISSED VERY MUCH. Please call 403-346-9908 or 403-392-7059

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Found

KEY on a lanyard, found on Viscount Dr. Call to identity 403-309-7751

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Personals

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298

740

Dental

NEED someone, perhaps a golfer interested in sharing a great condo downtown Palm Springs, Feb. 26-Mar. 26 or part of these dates. For details call 403-505-2899

jobs

710

Live-in caregiver required.

Duties will include: Launder & mend clothing, household linens; Perform light housekeeping & cleaning duties; Plan therapeutic diets & prepare meals; Shop for food and household supplies; Drive to various appointments & outings; Help with pet care; Assume full responsibility for household (in absence of householder). Criminal background check & drivers’ abstract to be provided. Optional accommodation available at no charge on a live-in basis.

Note: This is NOT a condition of employment.

40-44 hours per week at 11.20 per hour. Please submit resume to kaedynmw@gmail.com The Miguel family is looking for temp. full-time In-Home caregiver for a 2 year old. Duties include child care and light housekeeping. Grade 12 education, CPR/First Aid training, driver’s license required. Wage $12.00/hr.

Optional accommodation available at no charge on a live-in basis. Note: This is not a condition of employment. Contact Roselle.Miguel@ahs.ca if interested.

Computer Personnel

730

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

BOWER DENTAL CENTER req’s a full time Registered Dental Assistant who is a motivated, committed and passionate individual. We run a high paced practice where experience is an asset, but new grads are welcome. Must be avail. on evenings and one Sat. per month. Very rewarding position. Please send resume to: ebakleh@yahoo.com or apply within office.

Professionals

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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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Trades

DRYWALL HELPER REQ’D. Experience an asset.

403-341-7619

860

Truckers/ Drivers

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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KRAZE 101.3 is looking for a FT receptionist/admin. assistant. Click on www.harvardbroadcasting.com careers section for complete details.

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KALE WILLIAMS July 20, 1995 - Feb 10, 2013

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Special Day

The Next Place that I go...

There will be no room for darkness in that place of living light, Where an ever-dawning morning, pushes back the dying night.

in the Classified Announcements

Forever in our hearts Mom, Dad, Ciara, Kobe & Ridley

Card Of Thanks Terry Morris April 16, 1947 - August 4, 2015

Over 2,000,000 hours St. John Ambulance volunteers provide Canadians with more than 2 million hours of community service each year.

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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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announcements Obituaries

Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the celebration of life dinner put on for the late Terry Morris

by Glenn, Brenda and Gord Turple. Also thank you to the staff, friends, and family for the shared stories, laughter and memories. Thank you Kelly for the memory board.

Love, The Morris Family

Announcements the informative choice!

Classifieds 309-3300

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Accounting

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Handyman Services

1200

BOOK NOW! For help on your home projects such as bathroom, main floor, and bsmt. renovations. Also painting and flooring.

Call James 403-341-0617

1100

CALL NOW! Contractors D & J HANDYMAN SERVICES (No job too big or too small) BRIDGER CONST. LTD. ~ interior and exterior work We do it all! 403-302-8550 ~ painting and repairs ~ free estimates ~ DALE’S Home Reno’s guaranteed work Free estimates for all your ~ quality work at fair prices reno needs. 403-506-4301 Call Dennis (403) 342-3846 Red Deer

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Flooring

1180

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Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA

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403-341-4445

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Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 505-4777 GARAGE Doors Serviced 50% off. 403-358-1614

Plumbing & Heating

1330

FURNACE problems?

Need new furnace?

Not enough hot water?

Call Kevin for service at Kevin’s Hot and Cold Air. Call 403-342-4380 JOURNEYMAN PLUMBER Exc. @ Reno’s, Plumb Pro Geary 403-588-2619

Seniors’ Services

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HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

Yard Care

1430

TREE / JUNK / SNOW removal. Contracts welcome. 403-358-1614

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300 ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK CLEARVIEW RIDGE CLEARVIEW TIMBERSTONE LANCASTER VANIER WOODLEA/ WASKASOO DEER PARK GRANDVIEW EASTVIEW MICHENER MOUNTVIEW ROSEDALE GARDEN HEIGHTS MORRISROE Call Prodie at 403-314-4301

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK ANDERS BOWER HIGHLAND GREEN INGLEWOOD JOHNSTONE KENTWOOD RIVERSIDE MEADOWS PINES SUNNYBROOK SOUTHBROOKE WEST LAKE WEST PARK Call Sandra at 403-314-4306

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For early morning delivery by 6:30 am Mon. - Sat. GLENDALE ROSEDALE Call Joanne at 403- 314-4308

CARRIERS NEEDED For CENTRAL ALBERTA LIFE 1 day a week INNISFAIL PENHOLD LACOMBE SYLVAN LAKE OLDS BLACKFALDS PONOKA STETTLER Call Terri at 403- 314-4303

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Firewood

Spruce, Pine, Aspen - Split. $35. 403-358-5568 Avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 Office B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail. Supplies PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 LOGS 2 DRAWER metal filing Semi loads of pine, spruce, cabinet $10 SOLD tamarack, poplar, birch.

FILING CABINET, Price depends on location 4 drawer, in exc. cond. of delivery. Lil Mule $70. 403-346-5423 Logging 403-318-4346

1800

Winter/Spring Start GED Preparation Morning, afternoon , evening classes in Red Deer and Central Alberta Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca FEMALE for cleaning, shopping, assist senior male.

Paid daily. Resume & ref’s req’d. 403-342-6545 PEST CONTROL TECHS REQ’D. cpest@shaw.ca POSITION FILLED

Household Appliances

1710

MOVING DOLLIES, swivel, NEW 30x18* $30.

403-358-5568

Household Furnishings

1720

Moving out sale ~ china cabinet, queen bed, dresser, living room and kitchen furn., freezer, recliner.

Lots more. 403-704-4457

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Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

1500-1990

Clothing

1760

Misc. for Sale

Misc. for Sale

1590

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

AFFORDABLE WORK boots, steel toed, MOUNTVIEW Homestead Firewood lined, NEW. Size 10-11, upper level 3 bdrm. house,

ACADEMIC Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

1660

1760

100 VHS movies, $75.

For All 403-885-5020 50 - BRAND NEW turn buckles, hook and eye, LADIES size 4 1/2 Italian 9-3/8” $2.00 each chocolate leather knee call 403-728-3485 high boots, soft fits like a ELECTRIC heater, $15. glove, $200 587-876-2914 403-885-5020 GREAT Valentine’s gift!

Makeup, from New York, Electronics red hot crocodile bag, 12 eye shadows, 2 blush, 1 nail polish, 1 lip gloss.

WIRELESS 360 degree NEW!!

Valued at $195.

M6 mode speaker from Asking $75 .587-876-2914 Veho. Connect with any electronic device, 1800 SMALL Curio cabinet ma, rechargeable battery, w/approx. 22 assorted built-in microphone with small Holland brass $65. auto music interrupt, o.b.o; 50 peacock feathers, $100. 403-352-8811 some white, for home decor or fly fishing hooks Looking for a new pet? $1/ea, large Currier & Ives Check out Classifieds to cookie cans $1.50/ea. find the purrfect pet. o.b.o. 403-346-2231 STORAGE BINS 30 EquipmentPIECE wall mounted $30, Heavy SOFA bed, Brand new, dark brown. $130.

TRAILERS for sale or rent 403-358-5568 Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or WATER cooler $50. wheeled. Call 347-7721.

403-885-5020

LADIES London Fog, reg.

10 size, cranberry pea coat Length $75. 587-876-2914

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Pets & Supplies

TIMBER Gray Wolf/ Alaskan Malamute/PittBull Pups. $400. 403-742-7872

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

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Items To Give Away

5 appls., fenced yard, large deck, rent $1,300 incl. all utils. $900 s.d. Avail.

March 1. 403-304-5337 STETTLER older 3 bdrm.

2 storey, 4912-53 St. large fenced yard, single car garage, 1 blk. from school, 3 blks. from main street, $1000/mo. + utils. $500 DD avail. immed. Call Corrinne to see. ~ RENTED. Call Don to rent. ~ RENTED. SYLVAN Lake, 3 fully furn. rentals, garage, inclds. all utils., $1100 - $1600. + Private room. $550/ mo. “w/cable” 403-880-0210 Buying or Selling your home?

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Condos/ Townhouses

3030

Completely Reno’d

1940

3 bdrm., 2 storey, Move in Now, don’t pay until March $1350 + utils, Chuck 403-357-0442

ELECTRIC stove, needs left front burner.

403-347-1637

Condos/ Townhouses

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Suites

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

Manufactured Homes

3060

2 BDRM. bsmt. suite, $875 + $600. d.d. Westpark area, large windows n/s, no pets, utils. incld.

403-341-0156, 885-2287 2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $875 rent/d.d.

403-346-1458

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ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., ADULT ONLY BLDG, no pets, Oriole Park. 403-986-6889

Rooms For Rent

3090

BLACKFALDS rooms for rent $600 fully furnished, all included 403-358-1614 Start your career!

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Mobile Lot

3190

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

WELL-MAINT. 2 & 3 bdrm.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., mobile homes close to Joffre 2 bath. As Low as $75,000. $825 & $850 inclds. water, AVAIL. IMMED. large 2 Down payment $4000. Call bdrm. in clean quiet adult at anytime. 403-588-8820 5 appl. 403-348-6594 building, near downtown Co-Op, no pets, 4 Plexes/ 403-348-7445

6 Plexes

3050

3 BDRM. 4 plex, Innisfail, heat included, $795 w/laundry connection.

403-357-7817 3 BDRM., no pets, $1000 mo. 403-343-6609

CLEARVIEW 2 bdrm. 4-Plex, 4 appls.

Rent $925. incl. sewer, water and garbage. D.D. $650. Avail. March 1.

403-304-5337

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

Feb 11 & 2, 2 - 5 pm Feb 3, 1 - 5 pm 6325 61 Ave. Red Deer Call Bob Pelletier 403-505-8050

Condos/ Townhouses

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Realtors & Services

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THE NORDIC

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Need to Downsize? Brand New Valley Crossing Condos in Blackfalds. Main floor is 1,119 SQ FT 2 Bdrm/2Bath. Imm. Poss.

Start at $219,900. Call 403-396-1688.

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1 & 2 bdrm., LUXURY Condo in Aspen Adult bldg. only, N/S, CLEARVIEW Ridge (Easthill) for No pets.

403-596-2444 3 bdrm. 4-Plex, 4 appls., mature/retired adults, 2 1 1/2 baths, Rent $975. bdrms, 2 baths, 6 appls., NEW Glendale reno’d 1 & 2 incl. sewer, water and a/c. Heat incld., n/s, no pets, bdrm. apartments, rent underground heated parking, garbage. D.D. $650. Avail. $750, last month of lease now or March 1 403-304-5337 $1500/mo. 403-343-7485 free, immed. occupancy.

403-596-6000 GLENDALE New Blackfalds Condo. 2 Bdrm/2 Bath. Main floor & 3 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., floor options avail. 2 $975. incl. sewer, water & CLASSIFICATIONS 2nd powered parking stalls. garbage. D.D. $650, Avail.

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 Rent $1,400. Pets nego- March 1 403-304-5337 WANTED • 3250-3390 tiable. Ask about rent LIMITED TIME OFFER: incentives. 403-396-1688.

NOW RENTING One free year of Telus 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. internet & cable AND 50% NEW deluxe 2 bdrm. walk2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Houses/ out lower suite, n/s, only off first month’s rent! 1 & 2 Newer bldg. secure entry Duplexes $1145/mo. 403-350-7421 Bedroom suites available. w/onsite manager, Renovated suites in central 3 appls., incl. heat & hot location. Cat friendly.

1178 SQ.FT 3 bdrm. main NORMANDEAU water, washer/dryer floor of house, c/w 5 3 bdrm. townhouse, 4 appl., leasing@rentmidwest.com hookup, infloor heating, a/c., appls, dble. att. heated fenced yard, rent $1425, 1(888) 784-9274 car plug ins & balconies. garage, Lacombe, July S.D. $900; incl. all util., avail.

Call 403-343-7955 ORIOLE PARK 1st, n/s, $1350/mo. inclds.

March 1. 403-304-5337 2 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $925 all utils. 403-782-2007 Opposite Hospital SEIBEL PROPERTY rent, s.d. $650, incl water 2 bdrm. apt. w/balcony, 4 BDRMS, 2 1/2 baths, sewer and garbage. Avail.

6 locations in Red Deer, adults only, no pets single car garage, 5 appls, March 1. 403-304-5337 well-maintained townheat/water incld. $875. $1495/mo. in Red Deer. houses, lrg, 3 bdrm, 403-346-5885 403-782-7156 11/2 bath, 4 + 5 appls.

403-357-7465 Westpark, Kentwood, Suites LACOMBE 2 bdrm. house Highland Green, Riverside Meadows.

Rent starting at w/1 bdrm. bsmt. suite, $1100. For more info, 1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, 1 BDRM. N/S, no pets. single car garage phone 403-304-7576 or N/S. No pets. $790 rent/d.d. $1395 403-782-7156 403-347-7545 403-596-2444 403-346-1458 403-357-7465

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1 BDRM., no pets, $850 mo. 403-343-6609

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Houses For Sale

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995

Houses For Sale

4020

2013 HYUNDAI Tucson 35,700 Kms. 2.0 L engine.

A/C, PW, PL, AM,FM,MP3, CD & more. 14,900.

We Take Payments Call 403-358-1698 rewardlease.com Amvic Licensed 1999 TOYOTA 4 Runner $600 in Red Deer 780-517-2750

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WANTED Late model Ski Nautique or Master Craft Boat. Call 403-318-8282

REDUCED! 13 Mitchell Avenue $319,900 5 Bed/3 Bath Bi Level , 1092 sq. ft.

Lrg. Lot w/det. dbl. garage Fully Fenced. 6 appl.

Freshly painted.

Margaret Comeau, RE/MAX 403.391.3399

Tires, Parts Acces.

5180

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2006 BUICK CXL Lucerne 117,000 kms, n/s, all options, winter & summer tires on wheels, $6800 obo

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2012 Dodge Gr. Caravan White, 93,000 Kms. Full Inspection $13,450.

Harvey @ Reward Lease 403-358-1698

2010 FORD FUSION SEL, 2.5L, IV engine, 6 spd., loaded.

81,000 kms. $11,800. 403-350-1608

2013 HYUNDAI Tucson 35700 Kms. 2.0 L engine A/C, PW, PL, AM, FM, MP3, CD & more. 14,900.

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2003 FORD Sport truck, exc. cond,

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2003 OLDS ALERO, good cond., 240,000 kms. $1000.

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1996 26’ PHOENIX

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German train crash kills 10

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAD AIBLING, Germany — Two commuter trains crashed head-on Tuesday in southern Germany, killing 10 people and injuring 80 as they slammed into each other on a curve after an automatic safety braking system apparently failed, the transport minister said.

The regional trains collided before 7 a.m. (0600 GMT) on the single line that runs near Bad Aibling in the German state of Bavaria. Aerial footage shot by The Associated Press showed that the impact tore the two engines apart, shredded metal train cars and flipped several of them on their sides off the rails.

The first emergency units were on the scene within three minutes of receiving the call, but with a river on one side and a forest on the other, it took hours to reach some of the injured in the wreckage. Hundreds of rescue crews using helicopters and small boats shuttled injured passengers to the other side of the Mangfall River to waiting ambulances, which took them to hospitals across southern Bavaria.

Nine people were reported dead immediately while a tenth died later in a hospital, police spokesman Stefan Sonntag said, adding that the two train drivers were thought to be among the dead and one person was still missing in the wreckage.

“We have little more than hope of finding them still alive,” he said. “This is the biggest accident we have had in years in this region.”

German rail operator Deutsche Bahn said safety systems on the stretch had been checked as recently as last week, but Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt suggested that a system designed to automatically brake trains if they accidentally end up on the same track didn’t seem to have functioned properly.

Dobrindt, however, said it was too early to draw a definitive conclusion.

“The site is on a curve. We have to assume that the train drivers had no

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

An aerial view of rescue teams at the site where two trains collided head-on near Bad Aibling, Germany, Tuesday. Several people have been killed and dozens were injured. visual contact and hit each other without braking,” Dobrindt told reporters in Bad Aibling, adding that speeds of up to 100 kph (60 mph) were possible on the stretch.

Black boxes from both trains had been recovered and are now being analyzed, which should show what went wrong, Dobrindt said.

“We need to determine immediately whether it was a technical problem or a human mistake,” he said.

Authorities had initially reported 150 injured, but Sonntag later lowered that figure to 80. Seventeen had injuries considered serious, he said.

Each train can hold up to 1,000 pas-

Intelligence officials: IS determined to strike U.S. this year

sengers and they are commonly used by children travelling to school. Fewer than 200 people in all were on board Tuesday, however, because of regional holidays to celebrate Carnival.

“We’re lucky that we’re on the Carnival holidays, because usually many more people are on these trains,” regional police chief Robert Kopp said.

About 700 emergency personnel from Germany and neighbouring Austria were involved in the rescue effort, using about a dozen helicopters.

Train operator Bayerische Oberlandbahn started a hotline for family and friends desperate to check on passengers.

“This is a huge shock. We are doing everything to help the passengers, relatives and employees,” said Bernd Rosenbusch, the head of the Bayerische Oberlandbahn.

In Munich, 60 kilometres (40 miles) away, the city blood centre put out an urgent call for immediate donations in the wake of the crash.

Germany is known for the quality of its train service, but the country has seen several other accidents, typically at road crossings. Most recently, a train driver and a passenger were killed in May when a train hit the trailer of a tractor in western Germany, and another 20 people were injured.

IS car bomb strikes police officers’ club in Syrian capital

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Leaders of the Islamic State are determined to strike targets in the United States this year, senior U.S. intelligence officials said Tuesday, telling lawmakers that a small group of violent extremists will attempt to overcome the logistical challenges of mounting such an attack.

In testimony before congressional committees, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and other officials described the Islamic State as the “pre-eminent terrorist threat.” The militant group can “direct and inspire attacks against a wide range of targets around the world,” Clapper said.

Marine Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, director of the Defence Intelligence Agency, said the Islamic State will probably conduct additional attacks in Europe and then attempt the same in the U.S. He said U.S. intelligence agencies believe IS leaders will be “increasingly involved in directing attacks rather than just encouraging lone attackers.”

Clapper also said al-Qaida, from which the Islamic State spun off, remains an enemy and the U.S. will continue to see cyber threats from China, Russia and North Korea, which also is ramping up its nuclear program.

North Korea has expanded a uranium enrichment facility and restarted a plutonium reactor that could begin recovering material for nuclear weapons in weeks or months, Clapper said in delivering the annual assessment by intelligence agencies of the top dangers facing the country.

Clapper said that Pyongyang announced in 2013 its intention to refurbish and restart nuclear facilities, to include the uranium enrichment facility at Yongbyon and its plutonium production reactor, which was shut down in 2007. He said U.S. intelligence had assessed that North Korea has expanded Yongbyon and restarted the plutonium production reactor there.

Clapper also told the Senate Armed Services and intelligence committees that North Korea has been operating the reactor long enough that it could begin to recover plutonium “within a matter of weeks to months.”

Both findings will deepen concern that North Korea is not only making technical advances in its nuclear weapons program but is working to expand what is thought to be a small nuclear arsenal.

BEIRUT — A suicide car bomber dispatched by the Islamic State group struck near a police officers’ club in the Syrian capital on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people and destroying a number of cars.

Syrian state TV reported the toll and showed footage of the blast scene in Damascus, including several damaged vehicles and a burnt-out car. The police officers’ club was next to a vegetable market.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition group that tracks the civil war, said the blast killed eight policemen and wounded 20.

The IS group claimed the bombing in a statement circulated by its followers on Twitter, saying it was carried out by a fighter known as Abu Abdul-Rahman al-Shami. It vowed more attacks.

The blast came a day after an international rights group said Syrian government forces and the Russian military have been carrying out daily cluster bomb attacks over the past two weeks in Syria, killing 37 people.

The Human Rights Watch report, released Monday, said that cluster munitions, which are widely banned, have been used in at least 14 attacks across five provinces since Jan. 26.

The attacks killed at least 37 civilians, including six women and nine children, and wounded dozens, HRW said.

Cluster bombs open in flight and scatter dozens of explosive munitions over wide areas. Some 98 States are party to a convention banning their use but several countries — including Syria and Russia, as well as the U.S., China

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Syrian policemen inspect the site of bombing in the district of Masaken Barza, in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday. A monitoring group said at least nine policemen were killed in an explosion that rocked the parking lot of the Syrian police officers’ club. and Israel — have not signed onto the ban.

Syrian troops have been on the offensive in the northern province of Aleppo under the cover of Russian airstrikes in recent weeks in an attempt to besiege rebel-held parts of Aleppo city, the country’s former commercial centre.

Last week, Syrian troops and their allies were able to lift a three-year siege imposed on the Shiite villages of Nubul and Zahra in Aleppo province.

HRW said some of the recent attacks using cluster munitions occurred near the two villages.

Opposition activists have said that Russia has been using cluster bombs since the start of its aerial

campaign in Syria on Sept. 30.

HRW previously documented at least 20 cluster munition attacks by the Russian-Syrian joint operation between Sept. 30 and Dec. 14. It called on Syria and Russia should join the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

HRW said the International Syria Support Group that will meet in Germany on Thursday “should make protecting civilians and ending indiscriminate attacks, including with cluster munitions, a key priority.”

The ISSG includes 17 regional and world powers trying to end Syria’s conflict, which has killed more than 250,000 people since March 2011.

Sanders defeats Clinton, Trump wins in New Hampshire

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MANCHESTER, N.H. — Bernie Sanders defeated Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday, and Donald Trump also scored his first victory in a triumph of two candidates who have seized on Americans’ anger at the Washington political establishment.

Both outcomes would have been nearly unthinkable not long ago. Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, defeated Clinton, the former secretary of state and first lady once seen as the all-but-certain Democratic nominee.

While Clinton remains the favourite in the national race for the Democratic nomination, the win by Sanders could be a springboard into a competitive

primary campaign.

For Trump, the brash real estate magnate and television personality who has never run for public office, the win was an important rebound after his loss to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in last week’s Iowa caucuses, the first nominating contest. Trump has led national polls for months and the New Hampshire win reinforces his position as front-runner, proving his unorthodox, populist campaign can win primaries.

With Trump’s victory, attention shifted to the runners-up in the race.

Several candidates needed a strong finish to ensure the survival of their campaigns.

Marco Rubio, a 44-year-old Florida senator, hoped to build on a solid third-place finish in Iowa and brush off a rocky performance in last week-

end’s Republican debate. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie have spent most of their time in the state in recent weeks and needed to show voters, as well as crucial financial donors, that they’re viable candidates.

If Rubio and the governors finish in a pack, it’s likely to frustrate Republican Party elites who are eager to coalesce around a single more mainstream candidate to challenge Trump and Cruz, whom they believe could be unelectable in the November general election.

At stake Tuesday were less than 1 per cent of the delegates who, at party national conventions in July, will choose nominees to succeed Obama.

But a strong showing in New Hampshire can result in a wave of media

coverage, donations and give a candidate momentum ahead of races in coming weeks, including the March 1 “Super Tuesday, when 11 states vote.

Nearly half of voters in the Republican primary made up their mind in the past week, according to early exit polls conducted by Edison Research for the Associated Press and the television networks.

Republican voters were more negative about their politicians than Democrats, with about half of Republican voters saying they felt betrayed by party officials.

In a sign of Trump’s impact on the race, two-thirds of Republican voters said they support a ban on Muslims entering the U.S., a position the billionaire outlined last year amid rising fears of terrorism emanating from the Middle East.

HEALTH

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Listen to your heart This last Boxing Day was the second anniversary of my friend’s sudden death from heart attack.

According to his family, he had none of the classical symptoms of heart attack such as chest pain, and profuse sweating, and never complained of any similar symptoms in the past. The only symptom he experienced just prior to his death was extreme tiredness.

PADMAJA Approximately 70,000 heart GENESH attacks occur every year in SENIORS Canada, which means one incident every 7 minutes. It is also estimated that 16,000 Canadians die every year as a result of heart attack.

The majority of these deaths occur outside the hospital- at home, on the way to the hospital, or elsewhere.

The good news is that 90% of individuals with heart attack who make it to the hospital usually survive.

Therefore, it is important to be aware of the symptoms of heart attack and take prompt action.

Most heart attacks begin with subtle symptoms, such as discomfort or tightness in the chest that often is not described as pain. The chest discomfort may subside with rest. Alternatively, it could present as abdominal discomfort, nausea/vomiting,

heartburn, lightheadedness, unexplained tiredness, anxiety without any reason, or shortness of breath.

In people who are diabetic, heart attack can occur silently, without any significant symptoms.

Heart attack symptoms can present differently from one person to the other. The universal rule is if you suspect you’re having a heart attack, call for emergency medical help immediately. Resist the temptation to drive yourself to the hospital.

According to Canadian Heart & Stroke Foundation, 9 in 10 Canadians have at least one risk factor for heart attack and stroke. The risk factors include smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes. Apparently most of these risk factors are modifiable, amenable to healthy life style choices.

Research points to a link between the use of testosterone supplements in men and increased risk for heart attack. Another study showed an association of reduced exposure to sun with increased risk of heart attack. Larger studies are needed to corroborate these findings.

Heart disease is preventable and manageable.

Your best defense is controlling the risk factors that could lead to coronary artery disease such as high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking, stress, excessive alcohol consumption, physical inactivity and being overweight.

How can we reduce our risk of getting a heart attack? Maintaining blood pressure, cholesterol,

The case for detoxing from our cellphones

BY EMILY SOHN ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Every year, my husband and I take our kids on a two-week trip that differs from our other vacations in one significant way: We completely unplug from the Internet. No iPhones, no email, no Facebook. We don’t even check the news.

At first it’s hard. I feel twitchy, unsettled and panicky. After a few days, though, amazing things start to happen. We talk more and dream up new ideas. We read more books. Even the boys become content to stare out windows on long car rides.

But it never lasts. No matter how much I vow to resist the smartphone when I come home, I soon find myself resuming old habits: answering texts while making dinner, reading articles while brushing my teeth and ignoring my husband while I comment on Facebook posts.

Worried that I might have a problem and wondering how to detox, I called David Greenfield, a psychiatrist at the University of Connecticut in West Hartford and founder of the Center for Internet and Technology Addiction.

I’m far from alone, he confirmed, and it’s nothing new. Since the 1990s, he says, dozens of studies have documented the addictive nature of the Internet. And access to the Internet has only intensified with the popularity of smartphones.

Brain studies, in particular, reveal how vulnerable we are to the unpredictability of what we might find with each swipe. Reward areas light up.

Our brains surge with feel-good chemicals, such as dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin. Down go levels of chemicals that signal anxiety and stress, including cortisol and norepinephrine.

Meanwhile, an endless series of beeps, dings and flashing lights reminds us that a potential reward might be waiting. It’s like carrying a casino in our pockets.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans now own a smartphone, up from 35 percent in 2011, according to a Pew study published last year. Most of those people don’t have true addictions, which interfere with life and relationships in detrimental ways and affect between 3 and 10 percent of people, Greenfield says.

But many of us wish we used our phones less. In the Pew report, more than a third of people reported that

their phones made them feel frustrated and more than half said it made them feel distracted, even as 77 percent said their phones made them happy. And while there aren’t good statistics on how often people use their smartphones, preliminary results of a new study found that college students unlock their devices 60 to 80 times a day for three minutes at a time, says psychologist Larry Rosen, co-author of the forthcoming book “The Distracted Mind: How to Focus When Technology Hijacks Your Brain.”

Smartphones don’t kill people directly, but there are reasons to be concerned about our always-connected lifestyles, especially when cars are involved. In an AT&T survey last year, more than 60 percent of people admitted to texting while driving, and cellphones are now associated with 26 percent of car accidents, according to the National Safety Council.

Other negative health consequences related to excessive Internet use include depression, elevated blood pressure and sleep deprivation. Sixteen percent of people in one survey said they woke up multiple times a night to check their phones.

The more we let our phones dominate our lives, the worse off we may be.

In one 2014 study, students who had to sit quietly in a lecture hall for an hour without access to their phones suffered in direct relation to how much they normally used their phones to begin with. The minority of the group who weren’t big phone users didn’t have much trouble with the task. For everyone else though, anxiety spiked early.

Given the pleasure they bring and the anxiety they can alleviate, reducing dependence on our phones can seem impossible. When I told Rosen that I wanted to use my phone less, I was relieved when he said going cold turkey was a bad idea and wouldn’t work.

Instead, he recommends a gradual strategy that he has seen work for many people, including himself. First, he suggests announcing what you are doing publicly so that people won’t expect immediate responses from you. Then, set a timer, starting with an interval of 15 minutes and that will increase over time. His goal is 30 minutes between checks. At the end of each interval, a minute or two of phone time is allowed. During intervals, leave your silenced phone nearby to reduce the stress of wondering where it is.

blood sugar, and body weight in the normal range; exercising for 30-45 minutes daily; avoiding smoking; limiting alcohol consumption; following a low-salt Mediterranean diet; and reducing stress are proven strategies for risk reduction.

Though the majority of individuals admitted to the ER with heart attack survive, records show that a significant percentage of these survivors return to the emergency with a repeat attack. It is postulated that once the fear factor wears off, heart attack survivors find it difficult to maintain life style changes they initiated in the rehabilitation phase.

Whether you are a heart attack survivor, or you have one or more of the risk factors for heart attack, adopting healthy life style choices is key to reducing your risk.

To make enduring life style changes, one needs discipline, ongoing motivation, and constant support from family and friends.

February is observed as heart health month in North America, and with Valentine’s day fast approaching, could there be a better time to listen to your heart?

Padmaja Genesh, who holds a bachelor degree in medicine and surgery as well as a bachelor degree in Gerontology, has spent several years teaching and working with health care agencies. A past resident of Red Deer, and a past board member of Red Deer Golden Circle, she is now a Learning Specialist at the Alzheimer Society of Calgary. Please send your comments to padmajaganeshy@yahoo.ca

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