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Murder of mother of three admitted TRIAL ON CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY OF ADOPTED SON OF FORMER EDMONTON POLICE CHIEF

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Mark Damien Lindsay has admitted to the gruesome killing of Dana Turner in 2011.

The trial began in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Tuesday to determine whether the Edmonton man, who suffers mental health issues, should be held criminally responsible.

Lindsay, 29, is charged with second-degree murder, obstruction of justice and interfering with human remains.

In an agreed statement of facts read by Crown prosecutor Ed Ring the court heard that Lindsay contacted Turner, with whom he had an on-again, off-again relationship, shortly after he was released from prison on Aug. 12, 2011.

He had served a 50-day sentence for stabbing Turner in the head with a paring knife in June, 2011.

Lindsay contacted Turner, 31, a day after his release and by Aug. 14 they had met up again, booking a room at an Edmonton hotel.

The two were in her rental car on the morning of Aug. 15 when he stabbed her with a pencil, first in one eye, then the other. He then strangled her with his shoelaces.

Lindsay drove to a construction site where he ran over her body twice to make sure she was dead.

Lindsay, who is the adopted son of former Edmonton police chief John Lindsay, later drove south and disposed of Turner’s body off an oil lease road about eight km west of Innisfail. The remains of the mother of three boys were not found until October.

At the scene was found a work glove that had traces of Turner’s and Lindsay’s DNA. Turner’s mother Wendy Yurko was among about a dozen friends and family of the victim who came to court.

Yurko said the justice system failed her daughter.

“My daughter, if she had received justice the first time he drove a knife into her head, he wouldn’t have been released in 50 days, giving us four hours notice, and my daughter would now be alive,” she said outside court.

“The only thing that can possibly happen is that someone might be able to stop him from doing this to someone else.”

Yurko said the criminal justice system offers justice only to criminals, not their victims.

She believes Lindsay deserves to die the same way her daughter did. At the very least, given Canada has no capital punishment, he should be locked up for as long as he lives.

Someone as dangerous as Lindsay should never have been released from Edmonton’s Alberta Hospital, where he was being treated for his mental problems, in the first place, she said.

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PROVINCIAL SUBSIDY PROGRAM

Energy Minister tours Nova’s Joffre site MEETS WITH LOCAL BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVES

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF

had snow rammed down my throat and down my mouth. I coughed up and spit out all the snow.”

He said the slide continued and he went over a cliff.

“As the slide continued down, it started to slow down,” said Wyatt. “Right when it started to slow I got lifted up from the bottom. I remember just being pushed up. Things got brighter and brighter above me. I was on my back so I could see clearly and got more and more light. At the last minute as things came to a stop, I took a deep breath to try and expand my lungs because I knew it was compressing me and I wanted to make sure I had room to move my chest so I could breathe. As I took that last breath I pushed my right hand in front of me and miraculously I was on the surface.”

Wyatt said he had not choice but to stay calm and focused to stay alive. He has about 20 years of backcountry skiing experience and has taken avalanche training courses.

“You had to keep your head,” he said. “You are at the mercy of the snow. You had no choice. It was go with the flow or fight it and run out of oxygen.”

Once he stopped, he used his hand to signal for help.

His tour leader skied down and dug him out of the snow. Soon he learned there were two others that were buried. Wyatt said he was the worst off between the three of them. The other skiers used beacons to locate the buried skiers.

Energy Minister Margaret McCuaig-Boyd said Tuesday there has been lots of interest in the province’s new $500-million subsidy program for companies building new petrochemical plants in Alberta.

Fresh off a visit to Nova Chemicals Corp.’s Joffre site on Tuesday, the minister was in Red Deer on her first official meeting. She met with business representatives from the Red Deer and District Chamber of Commerce and also toured a few oilpatch service industries in the area.

The Petrochemicals Diversification Program announced Feb. 1 would apply to companies building new plants that would use methane or propane as raw energy resources to create value-added products such as plastics and fertilizers.

The companies would be able to trade or sell royalty credits to oil and gas producers, which in turn would be able to reduce their royalty payments to the province.

Nova Chemicals, presently undergoing a $1-billion expansion, uses ethylene as its primary feedstock to produce polyethylene, a value-added product used to make things like bottle caps, food packaging, containers and toys.

“We’ve been getting quite a bit of interest, so we’ll see what turns into applications,” McCuaig-Boyd said.

“We had identified at least eight to 10 companies that may be interested, and I know there’s companies beyond that have been contacting our department to get more information. I think we’re going to get good competition out of this project.”

The province is expecting to see two or three new plants — $3 billion to $5 billion in investment — that would create up to 3,000 construction jobs and about 1,000 full-time jobs. The royalty credit would be over a 10-year period.

Approvals are expected to come in April. Work on the new plants could start later this year.

McCuaig-Boyd said Nova Chemicals’ Joffre operations are a great example of Alberta diversification.

“It’s a pretty optimistic story out there. They certainly put a lot back into the economy locally here, and really, in Alberta and Canada.”

She said she is quite interested in the petrochemicals industry, any kind of business that doesn’t experience the ups and downs like other sectors.

The minister said what she was hearing in Red Deer is similar to all of Alberta.

“People are concerned about the price of oil.

When are we going to recover?

“We all have concerns about Albertans out of work.”

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Todd Wyatt underwent surgery at the Mineral Springs Hospital in Banff to repair a badly broken and dislocated ankle over the weekend after being swept up in an Avalanche during a backcounty skiing accident last Friday. Wyatt of Lacombe, was skiing into the Alpine Club of Canada’s Bow Hut located just east of the Wapta Icefield near the Icefields Parkway north of Lake Louise when the avalanche struck. Wyatt and two other skiers from Red Deer’s Parkland Ski Club were knocked down and carried away in the slide which buried each of them.

Lacombe man survives avalanche, night trapped on a mountain

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Lacombe’s Todd Wyatt is lucky to be alive.

Wyatt was a part of group of eight skiers from Red Deer’s Parkland Ski Club who were backcountry skiing in Banff National Park when they were swept up in an avalanche last weekend.

“It was one of the most traumatic things you have gone through whether you were buried or not,” said Wyatt on Tuesday. “It was not fun.”

Wyatt remembers every detail of the horrifying experience.

It was around 4:45 p.m. on Feb.12 when the skiers, who were scattered, were coming out of the valley on its way to the Alpine Club of Canada’s Bow Hut near Lake Louise.

“I heard what sounded like a gunshot,” said Wyatt. “It was a just a loud crack. I looked up and I saw the snow drop. The snow dropped and I just thought this is not happening. Time just stopped for a second. I was right in the line of fire. I tried to turn my skis and try to get turned around to get a bit of a turn. It was on me before I even had a chance to move. I got maybe two steps.”

Wyatt said it dropped from underneath him and took his right leg and swept it from underneath as the snow bowed him over.

Wyatt screamed as he fell because he knew his leg had just “snapped.”

“I yelled as I fell into the snow,” said Wyatt. “I

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Needle-point robber charged Police have laid charges after a downtown pharmacy in Red Deer was robbed by a man who threatened staff with a needle he said was infected.

Michael Wayne Demas, 41, was arrested on Saturday, three days after the Feb. 10 robbery at the IDA Pharmacy.

Demas was to appear in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday morning charged with robbery, failing to comply with a probation order and possession of a prohibited substance.

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Home invasion attempt foiled, suspects sought Police are trying to track down two armed men who tried unsuccessfully to force themselves into a Red Deer home early Tuesday morning.

At about 2:40 a.m., RCMP received a 911 call that two men wielding a handgun had attempted to force their way into a home on Arnold Close in the Anders neighbourhood.

The suspects were not known to anyone in the house, and neither person in the house was injured.

One of the residents in the house forced the suspects back, closed the door and called police. The suspects then fled on foot heading west on Averill Street.

RCMP responded immediately and contained the area, searching for the suspects. Police Dog Services tracked them as far as the East Hill Shopping Centre but were unable to locate them.

The first suspect, wielding a black pistol, is described as Caucasian, about 1.8 metre (six feet) tall, slender build, short brown hair, wearing a black soft shell jacket and black pants.

The second suspect is described as Caucasian, about 1.7 metres (5-foot-10)

NOVA: Energy industry well positioned McCuaig-Boyd said the government is taking actions, including the recent Alberta royalty review that left royalties unchanged given the current conditions, having “one conversation at a time” with the various parties about needed pipelines to get Alberta oil to markets, and climate change leadership.

She believes Alberta’s energy industry will be positioned well when the price of oil goes up.

“I think Alberta continues to be a good place to invest for people.”

With reports on Tuesday that Russia and Saudi Arabia oil exporters had agreed to freeze output levels contingent on others doing the same, McCuaig-Boyd said she did not have any details yet but she was “cautiously optimistic.”

A freeze could mean that the glut of oil supplies would begin to stabilize the continuing decline in oil prices.

“Maybe we can be optimistic that we’re going to get out of this sooner than not,” McCuaig-Boyd said. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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Hundreds of local, young skiers took to the trails in Red Deer today in what is one of the largest school loppets in Alberta. Skiers from Red Deer Public elementary schools, middle schools and high schools raced in either 3 km. or 5 km. distances around the trails under bright sunny skies at the River Bend Golf and Recreation Area Tuesday afternoon. 490 racers were registered for the race this year.

The middle-aged man was dropped off at the hospital at about 9:30 p.m. and pronounced deceased soon after.

An autopsy was scheduled for Tuesday. Red Deer RCMP and the Calgary Major Crimes Unit are investigating.

Police are seeking assistance for information in relation to the location of a 1998 grey Jeep Grand Cherokee with Alberta licence BNW 1124. Police are also looking to identify who was driving the vehicle on Saturday and any passengers in the vehicle.

Anyone who has any information about this incident is asked to contact Red Deer RCMP at 403-406-2589 or contact your local police detachment.

If you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com

tall, small pot belly, wearing a black tuque, black pullover hoodie with the hood up, and dark pants.

RCMP continue to investigate.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. If you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com

Mounties looking for van that left dead man at hospital Police are investigating the suspicious death of a man who was dropped off at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Saturday night.

It was there he first met Turner, who suffered from manic depression.

Lindsay was arrested for Turner’s murder in B.C. in 2012, where he had been on trial for two charges of aggravated assault. He would be found not criminally responsible of those charges by reason of mental disorder.

He was arrested in Port Coquitlam, B.C., where he was being treated in the Forensic Psychiatry Hospital.

Lindsay showed little emotion as the fact of the case were read into the record. He mostly leaned his back on the wall in the court dock with his eyes closed.

In the morning, the lead investigator produced a detailed reconstruction of Turner’s time with Lindsay using receipts and closed-circuit video images from convenience stores and the hotel.

Two interviews with police were played in court. The first, about 45 minutes long, happened on Aug. 29, 2011 in Edmonton, early into the investigation. He denies killing her during the talk with plainclothes police officers in an unmarked car.

A more-than five-hour video interview with Lindsay on March 16, 2012, after he was charged with Turner’s death was shown in part and will be completed today. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

AVALANCHE: ‘It was a long, long night’ The group used a satellite phone to contact Parks Canada.

Because of the fading light, the group was forced to spend the night,

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More clarity is needed on the carbon tax for municipalities, says the City of Red Deer.

Council adopted an advocacy resolution asking the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association (AUMA) to advocate for a carbon tax position that would be revenue neutral for municipalities but accepts the environmental responsibilities on Tuesday.

City manager Craig Curtis said this is a proactive suggestion to AUMA. If the carbon tax is applied directly to municipalities, the city’s bill could be roughly $2.8 million in 2017 and $4.2 million in 2018 based on the city’s current green house gas emissions per capita.

Curtis said the suggestion is for AUMA to develop an appropriate solution with the government.

“We need to get the message that we do not want to just be paying $3 to $5 million in tax,” he said.

The province has not released the complete details on the carbon tax.

The provincial budget is expected to be released in April.

More details are expected at that time.

AUMA will be preparing a position for the provincial government.

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Alberta Energy Minister Margaret McCuaig-Boyd met with the Red Deer Chamber of Commerce Tuesday. Here she talks with the media as Red Deer North MLA Kim Schreiner looks on. about 13 or 14 hours, on the mountain in sleeping bags until daylight for a rescue helicopter around 8:30 a.m.

“We just got through the night,” said Wyatt. “It was a long, long night with no sleep. It was uncomfortable night physically and emotionally.”

Help arrived the next morning.

“They put slings under my arms and two of them dragged me with skis on and the other person walked beside me holding up the sleeping bag and dragged me a long way out,” said Wyatt.

He spent two nights in the Banff Mineral Springs Hospital and under-

went surgery to fix his leg and ankle.

Now resting home in Lacombe, Wyatt said this has definitely changed his perspective on where he skis and the type of skiing.

“I don’t think everybody in the group has processed the human element of it and how close we were to losing people,” said Wyatt. “I think we are going to deal with our physical injuries. I think it will be hard on the group psychologically because that kind of trauma can trigger all kinds of stuff. You might not feel it until the next time you go up.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Province battling Levant’s Alberta wildfire season The Rebel over access starts a month early

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The Alberta government is battling an online news outlet over access to the legislature and has asked a recently retired journalist to review its media policy.

The conflict began two weeks ago when two contributors from The Rebel, a highly conservative web platform driven by political commentator Ezra Levant, were barred from a government announcement in Calgary about new rules for oil royalties.

Sheila Gunn Reid and Holly Nicholas say the premier’s staff denied them access to the news conference because they were with The Rebel.

Three days later, Reid tried to enter the legislature to cover a joint news conference with Premier Rachel Notley and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Reid said security staff denied her entrance because the premier’s office had directed that The Rebel was on a “no-go” list.

Government spokeswoman Cheryl Oates denied the accusations.

Oates said the pair had not signed up ahead of time for the royalty review news conference — as required from all media — and therefore couldn’t attend.

As for the Trudeau visit, the legislature was under tight security and only mainstream media organizations and accredited legislature press gallery members were allowed, she added.

“The legislature was closed to the public that day,” Oates told The Canadian Press.

“The Rebel was not singled out.

There were other people who were turned away because they were not accredited media sources.”

She also disputed Reid’s assertion that The Rebel was on a no-go list.

“The premier’s office, the communications office, does not have a no-go list,” Oates said.

She also said that such events are

Former premier named chair of Catholic health organization EDMONTON — Former Alberta premier Ed Stelmach is now leading a Catholic health organization with an $800 million budget.

Stelmach, who served as Progressive Conservative premier from 2006 to 2011, is the chairman of the board of Covenant Health.

intended for working media and pointed to court testimony in which Levant had denied being a reporter.

“If you have testified under oath that you are not a journalist, then we don’t consider you a journalist.”

In a 2014 defamation hearing, Levant told a judge: “I’m a commentator.

I’m a pundit. I don’t think in my entire life I’ve ever called myself a reporter.”

Levant, a former Sun media columnist, started The Rebel with some former colleagues about a year ago. The site has been sharply critical of Notley’s NDP government.

Levant directed requests for comment to Reid, who did not return calls.

The Rebel has released a video which it says shows its reporter being turned away from the legislature. It shows a security guard asking Reid for accreditation as she stands in the entrance of the building. When she fails to satisfy the request, the guard asks for her to be removed.

No politicians or political staff are visible in the video.

Darcy Henton, president of the legislature press gallery, said he had spoken to The Rebel about legislature access.

“Journalists are not required to have accreditation from (the legislature) press gallery in order to cover media conferences at the legislature,” Henton wrote on Twitter. “It has long been the practice that reporters simply present their credentials to security to access news conferences.

“The press gallery supports the right of journalists to provide vigorous and diverse coverage of the Alberta legislature.”

The government has asked Heather Boyd, former Western Canada bureau chief for The Canadian Press, to review its accreditation guidelines.

“I’ve been asked to review policies elsewhere and come up with a policy on the issue,” said Boyd. “It’s an intriguing problem.”

She is expected to report back to the government in two to three weeks.

Covenant Health operates 17 facilities in 12 communities, including hospitals and continuing care homes.

Stelmach says Covenant Health is a vital part of Alberta’s health-care system and he wants to help it provide more acute and continuing care and mental health services.

He says he remembers when nurses in a Catholic hospital cared for him for months when he was a young boy.

Covenant Health appointed Stelmach to the post in October and he began his duties last month.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta is starting its wildfire season a month early after flames last year torched almost 5,000 square kilometres.

Forestry Minister Oneil Carlier says the extra time provided with the March 1 launch will ensure that crews are recruited, trained and positioned to respond quickly to any wildfires that break out in early spring and through the year.

Carlier said the province is already considering how the mild, dry winter will affect the fire threat in the forest zone.

“While it is difficult to predict what weather conditions will be like in the weeks and months ahead, we know right now that there has been below-average snow and rainfall across much of Alberta over the past few months,” Carlier said Tuesday.

“We will continue to monitor the situation and be ready to respond if and when we are needed.”

Alberta’s get-ready-early approach comes from painful experience.

The province has been starting its wildfire season a month early since the year after the May 2011 fire that destroyed part of the town of Slave Lake

COUNCIL: City not exempt from environmental responsibilities Mayor Tara Veer said the challenge is that municipalities do not have details on the carbon tax. She said the city is not exempt from the environmental responsibilities.

“We support and recognize our own environmental responsibilities and we want to continue on that track,” said Veer. “The challenge municipalities are faced with are the financial implications … This is isn’t just a financial discussion but Red Deer is accepting its environmental responsibilities.”

Coun. Tanya Handley said she would have preferred the province

and forced thousands of people from their homes.

Last year, there were 1,786 wildfires in Alberta — more than twice the 25-year average. Crews managed to contain 93 per cent of them within about a day and prevented flames from entering any communities.

The cost wasn’t cheap. Alberta spent $474 million on firefighting last year. Carlier said it is prudent to be prepared.

“It really gives us a leg up on what we anticipate might be again a very busy fire season.”

Hot, dry weather also made 2015 a bad year for wildfires in Saskatchewan and British Columbia.

Fires north of Prince Albert, Sask., forced about 13,000 people from their homes and burned 17,000 square kilometres of timber. The government’s response to the fires cost about $100 million. Saskatchewan normally starts its wildfire season on April 1. This year the province plans to bring some aircraft and crews into service earlier than usual to ensure full preparation for the 2016 season.

“The Ministry of Environment will be ready to respond to wildfires when the season starts,” said Denis Renaud of Saskatchewan’s wildfire management branch. had a plan when it announced this tax to the public.

“But they didn’t,” she said. “Now we’re dealing with guessing. I support moving forward and pressing for some answers. This could potentially have a big impact on our municipality. I like that we are being proactive and ahead of it … and avoiding … double taxation.”

In other council news: Council approved a series of enabling borrowing bylaws totalling $45.5 million for several projects including the 67th Street corridor improvements, recreation projects, a snow storage site, River Bend improvements, water trunks and other projects. The funding sources were approved in the 2016 capital and operating budgets.

A public hearing on the proposed Vanier Woods Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan amendment on March 14, after council gave first reading. The proposal is to rezone a 1.17 ha parcel to commercial from residential. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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NDP would be breaking promises Had this week marked the 100th day within 100 days of taking office. in office of a NDP government, Prime Restoring the rate of increase in the Minister Thomas Mulcair would have federal transfers to the provinces for had to pay a visit to the graveyard of health care to a level well above that campaign good intentions. of the growth of the GDP. Three months in a majority manA one-point reduction in the small date, a New Democrat fedbusiness tax rate effective eral cabinet would either Jan. 1. be contemplating a major An immediate down payround of spending cuts or, ment on Mulcair’s promise more likely, would already to create one million afhave buried deep the sigfordable ($15 a day) childnature promise of a budget care places in the shape of surplus in each and every funding for 60,000 of those year of a four-year mandate. spots as well as funding for It is already a given that an unspecified number of next month’s first Liberal shovel-ready infrastructure budget will feature a defiprojects. cit significantly higher The NDP had also than the $10 billion Juspledged — among other CHANTAL tin Trudeau talked about things — to raise the minHÉBERT on the campaign trail. The imum wage for employees prime minister is no longer working for federally reguOPINION guaranteeing that the budlated businesses to $15 an get won’t still be in the red hour and to leave in place by the time he campaigns for federal the Conservative universal child-care re-election in 2019. In contrast with the supplement. Like the Liberals, the Liberals, the NDP spent the campaign New Democrats planned to substanarguing that it could both balance the tially increase spending on the aborigbooks and execute a platform replete inal front. with big-ticket items.

On the campaign trail, Mulcair said Here is a sample of what Mulcair’s he would finance his promises by raisparty was committed to delivering ing corporate taxes. But here again,

the first 100 days of a NDP government would have involved a reckoning with the reality of a deteriorating global economy. One needs only to look at Alberta and its rookie NDP government to know that.

Before being elected, Rachel Notley had vowed to raise the royalties the province collects from the energy industry. The notion that Albertans were not getting their fair share of the natural resources revenues was a New Democrat mantra. But last month her government put that plan on ice.

“It is not the time to reach out and make a big money grab. That just is not going to help Albertans over all right now …” Notley explained.

Over its first 100 days, a federal NDP government would have been hard-pressed to come to a different conclusion. It would already have been dealing with an up-in-arms corporate Canada over its decision to reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership — the free-trade deal negotiated among Pacific Rim nations in the dying days of the previous government.

Mulcair had also promised not just to end Canada’s participation in the airstrikes against Islamic State extremists in the Middle East, but also to withdraw from the U.S.-led interna-

tional military mission in the region.

U.S. President Barack Obama has cast the TPP as a legacy project of his administration. A decision by Canada to not ratify it, combined with the rapid transition to a strictly humanitarian role on the anti-ISIS front, would have made for a challenging start to the Canada-U.S. relationship under a NDP government.

Three months after its defeat, the NDP leadership — including Mulcair himself — has determined that the party let its best-ever shot at federal power slip through its fingers because it played it safe last fall.

In a public memo summing up the interim findings of an internal campaign review earlier this week, party president Rebecca Blaikie concluded that a critical mass of non-Conservative voters wanted a more decisive break from the Conservative past than the “cautious change” the party was putting on offer.

But looking at how the NDP’s plans — as laid out over the campaign — would have fared if it had been in office for the past 100 days, Mulcair’s platform was neither all that cautious nor particularly credible.

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.

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Turkey’s choice to enter conflict in Syria “We will defend Aleppo: all of Turkey stands Erdogan’s main ally in the task of turning Syria behind its defenders” — Turkish Prime Minister into a Sunni-ruled Islamic state (although 30 per Ahmet Davutoglu, Wednesday, Feb. 10. cent of Syrians are not Sunni Muslims) is Saudi Ara“Turkey and Saudi Arabia may launch an opera- bia. Together these countries and some smaller Gulf tion (into Syria) by land” – Turkish Foreign Minister states worked to subvert the original non-violent Mehmed Cavusoglu, Saturday, Feb, 13. movement in Syria that was demanding a “There is no thought of Turkish solsecular democracy, and then armed and diers entering Syria” – Turkish Defence supplied the Sunni-dominated armed reMinister Ismet Yilmaz, Sunday, Feb. 14. bellion that replaced it.

Between Wednesday of last week and The U.S. government also wanted to Sunday night, the Turkish government, see Assad’s regime destroyed (for strain league with Saudi Arabia, made a tentegic reasons, not religious ones). So for tative decision to enter the war on the years Washington turned a blind eye to ground in Syria — and then got cold feet the fact that its allies, Turkey and Saudi about it. Or more likely, the Turkish army Arabia, were actually supporting the exsimply told the government that it would tremists of Islamic State (ISIS) and the not invade Syria and risk the possibility Nusra Front, al-Qaeda’s franchise in Syrof a shooting war with the Russians. ia.

The Turkish government bears a large Largely as a result of that support, GWYNNE share of the responsibility for the devasthese two extremist organizations now DYER tating Syrian civil war. From the start Recompletely dominate the Syrian revolt OPINION cep Tayyib Erdogan, then prime minister against Assad’s rule, accounting for 80-90 and now president, was publicly commitper cent of the active fighters. Turkey and ted to overthrowing the Syrian regime of Saudi Arabia finally broke their ties with Bashar al-Assad. For five years he has kept Turkey’s Islamic State last year, but they still back the Nusra border with Syria open so that arms, money and vol- Front, which has camouflaged itself behind an array unteers can flow across to feed the rebellion. of minor “moderate” groups in the so-called “Army Erdogan’s hatred of Assad is rooted in the fact of Islam.” that he is a militant Sunni Muslim while Assad leads When the Nusra Front, with increased Turkish a regime dominated by Shia Muslims. Both men rule and Saudi support, overran much of northwestern countries that are officially secular, but Erdogan’s Syria last spring, Russia finally went to the aid of its long-term goal is to impose Islamic religious rule on long-standing ally, the Syrian government. Russian Turkey. Assad is defending the multi-ethnic, multi- air power helped the Syrian army push back the faith traditional character of Syrian society — while troops of both the Nusra Front and Islamic State, also running a brutally repressive regime. Neither and Erdogan was so irked by this that he actually man gives a fig for democracy. had Turkish fighters shoot down a Russian bomber

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It was clear at the time that the Turkish army was very unhappy about the prospect of a military clash with Russia. It does not share Erdogan’s dream of an Islamist-ruled Syria either. So the Russian bombs kept falling, the Syrian army went on advancing, and now it has cut the main supply line from Turkey to the rebels in and around Aleppo.

This angered Erdogan greatly, and he now has an equally reckless ally in Prince Muhammad bin Salman, the Saudi deputy Crown Prince and defence minister. Over the past week these two men appear to have talked themselves into a limited military incursion into Syria to push the regime’s troops back and reopen the supply lines to the rebels.

On Saturday the Turkish army began shelling Syrian Kurdish forces, and on Sunday Assad’s government objected to the UN about 100 “Turkish soldiers or mercenaries” who had crossed the border into Syria. At which point the grown-ups took over, and the Turkish defence minister denied that there was any intention to invade Syria.

France publicly warned Turkey to end its attacks on Saturday, and there were doubtless secret but frantic warnings to the same effect from Turkey’s other NATO allies. Turkey (and Saudi Arabia) have almost certainly been put on notice that if they choose to start a local war with Russian forces in Syria, they will have to fight it alone.

So that is probably the end of that, and everybody can get back to the business of partitioning Syria — which is what all the talk of a “cessation of hostilities” is really about.

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Inquiry must go beyond statistics: Bennett ‘LOOK TO THE ROOT CAUSES’ OTTAWA — The issue of violence against aboriginal women goes beyond the ranks of murdered and missing, Canada’s indigenous affairs minister said Tuesday as she explained her claim that the tally of victims is far higher than believed.

Carolyn Bennett made headlines earlier this week when she said the number of missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada is likely much higher than the 1,200 total put forward in reports by the RCMP. After Tuesday’s cabinet meeting, she was at pains to explain herself.

A mere roster of victims ignores the family members who have been touched by tragedy, and fails to capture the extent to which the phenomenon has affected an entire culture, Bennett said.

“I think what we’re saying is that the issue that has been described as missing and murdered indigenous women is a tragedy much greater than that.”

Bennett insisted she has no data to indicate the score of the problem, but said ministers have heard enough anecdotal evidence to believe the depth and breadth of the tragedy is greater than initial reports have suggested.

“The RCMP did their very best with other levels of policing to come up

Nunavut calls for inquiry into murky death of baby IQALUIT, Nunavut — Nunavut has called an inquest into the murky circumstances surrounding the death of a threemonth-old boy in a remote Arctic community.

The probe into the 2012 death of Makibi Timilak could reveal more about a health system that has been heavily criticized in a previous review into the tragedy.

Although it was ultimately determined the baby died of sudden infant death syndrome, the review found that nurses and health of-

with the number of 1,200,” she said.

“I think it’s really important that we … do look to the root causes and look to this greater issue of the vulnerability… of indigenous women.”

It is also important to hear from survivors in the inquiry process, such as those who managed to escape from their attackers, Bennett said.

“I think that when you realize that some people who know it could have been them, it was almost them, that … they actually woke up in an emergency department with bruises around their neck, that this is a much bigger problem.”

Bennett said she’s heard anecdotally about some cases that were classified as suicides despite obvious indications otherwise.

“So when you hear the kinds of stories that we’ve been hearing — someone who died by a shot through the back of her head is called a suicide, somebody whose arms are tied behind their back is called a suicide — you have to say that this is much greater.”

Bennett has vowed the inquiry will take place at arm’s length from the government once it is up and running, hopefully by this summer.

A number of questions still need to be answered, including how many commissioners will be enlisted and whether the Liberal “placeholder budget” of $40 million for a two-year study will be sufficient for the inquiry.

ficials failed to follow procedures the night the baby died.

It concluded the death was hushed up and found a climate of fear within the health department that prevented problems from being addressed.

On the night of April 4, 2012, Makibi’s mother Neevee Akesuk called the health centre in Cape Dorset on the southern tip of Baffin Island to say her baby wouldn’t settle and go to sleep. She was advised to bathe Makibi and bring him in the next morning.

Akesuk did so and Makibi appeared to fall peacefully asleep. Several hours later he was rushed unconscious to

OTTAWA — One of Canada’s most famous former soldiers says the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant cannot be defeated without a strategy to deal with legions of child soldiers being indoctrinated into the violent, extremist cause.

Retired lieutenant-general — and former Liberal senator — Romeo Dallaire recently introduced a program of recruiting veterans to help train local security forces in the world’s hot spots in anti-radicalization techniques and recovery efforts.

His goal is to have at least 200 former soldiers trained and ready to give instruction anywhere in the world and to that end last week received $175,000 in seed money from Wounded Warriors Canada to get a cadre of veterans trained in a pilot program.

But separately, he says, some of the training regime may be adopted as doctrine by the Canadian Army and possibly even delivered on the ground to Kurdish fighters by special forces.

Unlike Africa, where child soldiers have long been an issue, Dallaire says ISIL represents a more insidious problem because of the ruthless tactics the group employs and the fact the children are more isolated from the rest of the world.

A series of reports, including one from the United Nations, say children have been hauling weapons, acting as human shields and even becoming suicide bombers. Videos posted online show them watching beheadings as a part of their training to become jihadis.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said late last year that between January and August 2015, 1,100 children under the age of sixteen were recruited by the Islamic State — something Dallaire says cannot be allowed to continue.

“There is no doubt in my military mind that the sustainment of that conflict is based on the early recruitment and massive use of young people,” said Dallaire, who has been meeting senior members of the Trudeau government, and the country’s top military commander to persuade them to get behind the effort.

The Liberal government’s retooled anti-ISIL strategy last week did not touch on the issue of child soldiers, despite a commitment of hundreds of millions of dollars in humanitarian and development aid.

Dallaire met officials at the White House and elsewhere last week in Washington, where the perception of the issue is evolving.

“The Americans are concerned because they have now finally captured the fact that child soldiers — and the use of children — in these conflicts is far more than a humanitarian problem,” he said.

“It is far more than a social-economic problem. It is a threat, and that is starting to sink in.”

Since leaving the Senate, Dallaire, who encountered child soldiers in his ill-fated 1994 Rwanda peacekeeping mission, has focused on the issue through The Romeo Dallaire Child Soldier Initiative.

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Questions were raised about the death and the Nunavut government eventually called an external review into it.

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McGill University astrophysicist Dr. Victoria Kaspi is awarded the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering by Governor General David Johnston during a ceremony at Rideau Hall, in Ottawa on Tuesday.

Montreal astrophysicist first woman to win science prize

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A McGill University astrophysicist became the first woman to receive one of the country’s top science prizes on Tuesday, marking what was called a “significant watershed moment” for women in science.

Victoria Kaspi, a Montreal-based professor, was handed the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering in Ottawa, becoming the first woman to receive the award in its 25-year history.

“I am profoundly thrilled and humbled,” Kaspi said in a statement.

“It is truly overwhelming to think that I am in the same category as some of its previous recipients. I accept this award on behalf of my research group and all of the talented students, postdocs and collaborators who’ve played major roles in the research successes and discoveries that are being recognized with this honour.”

The medal, awarded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, recognizes top researchers in the fields of natural sciences and engineering.

It means Kaspi, one of the world’s leading experts on neutron stars — the ancient remnants of the most massive stars in the Milky Way — will receive $1 million over five years for her work.

“It’s a significant watershed moment for us,” NSERC president Mario Pinto said of Kaspi’s prize.

“It really does signal to girls and young women either entering science, contemplating entering science or in science that it is possible to achieve NSERC’s highest honour.”

Pinto noted that women are under-represented among scientists in general, with NSERC working to recruit and retain more women.

Still, he noted, only 27 per cent of the assistant professors funded by NSERC are women, while that number falls to 14 per cent when it comes to full professors supported by the council.

“There’s an attrition rate in moving up through the ranks,” Pinto said. “It certainly is an issue for us that we’re not using 50 per cent of the intelligence in Canada because women are under-represented. Especially at the higher ranks.”

While the causes for the low numbers are complex, Pinto cites woman being more self-critical of their abilities and hesitant to put themselves forward as readily as their male counterparts as factors.

In Kaspi’s case, however, Pinto noted that the 48-year-old is not only the first woman to win the Herzberg medal, but is also tied with one past winner as the youngest to take the prize.

“She’s made an impact at a very young age,” said Pinto. “It’s work that has had a tremendous impact in the field of astrophysics.”

Kaspi’s work, which employs the largest and most powerful radio and X-ray telescopes in the world, looks at how stars evolve and how they die, analyzing the nature of matter under extreme conditions.

Through her work, Kaspi discovered the fastest rotating star, confirming Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, Pinto noted.

The funding Kaspi will receive through the Herzberg prize will now allow her to pursue “very bold ideas” in her research, he said.

“She can focus on pushing the boundaries, be asking some more audacious questions and really probing things that have never been probed before,” he said, noting that a past Herzberg prize winner, Arthur McDonald, won a Nobel prize in physics last year.

“It certainly bodes well for the future.”

OTTAWA — As the pre-budget sprint gets underway, the Liberal government finds itself squeezed between calls to invest more public cash and spreading jitters about the wobbly economic outlook.

With the budget expected late next month, a parliamentary committee started fielding formal pitches Tuesday from lobbyists, First Nations leaders and experts on what they think should be included in the plan.

Some witnesses called for a bump in government spending this year for projects such as improving public transit and ensuring clean water starts to flow in more aboriginal communities.

Others used the forum to stress the importance of fiscal restraint during tough economic times.

Caught in the middle is the Liberal government, which faces the challenge of drawing up their first budget in an economy dragged down by stubbornly low commodity prices, especially oil.

The budget prep work is further complicated by the billions of dollars in spending commitments — some of them as yet uncosted — the Liberals made during the fall election campaign.

For example, Dale LeClair of the Assembly of First Nations gave the hearings a sense of the potential cost of Liberal promises to lift the two-per-cent cap on federal funding for First Nations communities and ending all boil-water advisories on aboriginal reserves within five years.

The AFN estimates a total of about $25.5 billion in federal money has failed to flow to First Nations communities since funding was capped in 1996 — not including another $3.3 billion in the upcoming budget, LeClair said.

The potable water pledge, meanwhile, will require an additional initial investment that is going to be “quite large,” he added.

All of the Liberal vows are supposed to fit within promised deficit ceilings designed by the party to reassure voters that expenditures would not spin out of control. Last week, however, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged in an interview with Montreal’s La Presse newspaper that his government would no longer fulfil its pledge to keep the 2016-17 deficit under $10 billion.

In that same interview, Trudeau also raised doubts whether the Liberals would live up to its other vow to balance the books within four years — a central pledge in the election platform.

On Tuesday, Finance Minister Bill Morneau appeared to back further away from a commitment Trudeau had called “very” set in stone.

“We still have the goal to balance the budget, but we also recognize that the task will be difficult in our economy,” Morneau told the House of Commons during question period.

Instead, the government has been emphasizing its other, more flexible “fiscal anchor,” which is to continue lowering Canada’s debt-to-GDP ratio during its mandate.

Morneau reiterated the government’s intention to prioritize spending measures that will help boost the economy and create jobs. To generate growth, the government is banking on increased infrastructure investments, tax-bracket changes to provide relief on the middle-income bracket and changes to child benefits.

“We are going to make investments in the short term that are going to help our economy, but we’re going to focus on investments that, over the long term, will ensure a more productive Canada,” Morneau said as the hearings took place down the hall.

Those investments, he said, “will help Canadians today and Canadians tomorrow and will get us, over the long term, back into budget balance.”

Red Deer-born death MP Panel to examine row inmate finds hope in local news crisis new Liberal government TOPICS INCLUDE CANADIAN CONTENT,

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — An apparent change in federal policy regarding Canadians facing execution in other countries could benefit an Alberta man who has been on death row in Montana for more than 30 years.

Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion issued a statement Monday following a meeting with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

“If the government of Canada does not ask for clemency for every Canadian facing the death penalty, how can we be credible when we ask for clemency in selective cases or countries?,” said Dion’s statement.

“We must end this incoherent double standard. Canada opposes the death penalty and will ask for clemency in each and every case, no exceptions.”

That statement is a far cry from the former Conservative government, which offered what was described as “tepid support” for Ronald Smith in his clemency hearing in Helena, Mont., in 2011.

The clemency board recommended against commuting Smith’s sentence and the request is now sitting on the desk of current Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, who has yet to make a final decision.

One of Smith’s lawyers wasn’t surprised at the Canadian government’s chance of heart.

“I assumed with Trudeau getting in that there was going to be a change in policy,” said one of Smith’s long-time lawyers, Don Vernay, who now practis-

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DON VERNAY, RONAL SMITH’S LONG-TIME LAWYER es law in Albuquerque, N.M. “I mean he’s legalizing dope so it’s obvious he’s a bit more Liberal in his point of view.”

Smith, who is originally from Red Deer, Alta., has been on death row since 1983 for fatally shooting two cousins while he was high on drugs and alcohol near East Glacier, Mont.

He refused a plea deal that would have seen him avoid death row and spend the rest of his life in prison.

Three weeks later, he pleaded guilty.

He asked for and was given a death sentence.

Smith had a change of heart and has been on a legal roller-coaster for decades. An execution date has been set five times and each time the order was overturned.

Vernay said it’s a shame that the new philosophy wasn’t in effect prior to the clemency hearing, but he said it’s good news and hopefully will hold sway with Bullock.

“As usual, hope springs eternal from this end,” said Vernay.

“We’ll see. It’s up to Gov. Bullock now and hopefully he will take Canada’s wishes into consideration.”

All executions in Montana have been stayed since a 2008 challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union.

A Montana judge rejected a request from the state last year to change one of the drugs used to execute prisoners on death row. The decision could still be appealed.

OTTAWA — Davey, Kent, Lincoln, Bacon.

Now Liberal MP and heritage committee chair Hedy Fry is about to add her name to the list of Canadians who have led federal studies into the state of the country’s news media.

The dismal record of action on those previous reviews notwithstanding, Fry said she’s convinced that this time around, any recommendations will lead to concrete changes.

“I know that our government has a strong will to deal with this now,” Fry said in an interview Tuesday.

“The thing about politics is that the time comes one day when stuff is facing you so hard that you have to do something about it. That time has come.”

The Commons committee will embark on an expansive study of “how Canadians, and especially local communities, are informed about local and regional experiences through news, broadcasting, digital and print media,” according to a motion passed Tuesday.

It will also delve into media concentration, and its impact on local news reporting, and how digital media fits into the whole picture. The MPs have committed to no less than 10 meetings for the study.

The latest raft of local newsroom closures and the financial struggles of large national media outlets have again raised interest in how lawmak-

ers can help Canadian journalism survive — especially local news.

Here’s some of the recent grim headlines: the 149-year-old Guelph Mercury shuttered its print edition last month, the Postmedia chain has laid off dozens of reporters across the country, and the broadcast regulator has warned that half of local TV newsrooms are in peril.

The fear is that with the decline of a strongly Canadian news industry, any shared sense of national identity is also in peril.

Fry says the study will take a close look at the shifting information consumption habits of Canadians, and whether they are getting enough Canadian content online. The role of the public broadcasters will be examined — already the CBC has prioritized its digital offerings over its radio and television platforms. The government had said it will increase the CBC’s budget, but has not specified when or by how much.

“With Shomi and Crave and things like Netflix, what we’re having is a whole lot of non-Canadian content coming into our homes, and we have a whole generation that’s not really able to see Canadian content,” said Fry. “When newspapers and magazines are closing down, that adds to that.”

The Royal Commission on Newspapers, led by Tom Kent, was also “born out of shock and trauma,” with venerable old newspapers the Winnipeg Tribune and Ottawa Journal suddenly closing.

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Pope Francis arrives for Mass in a golf cart at Venustiano Carranza stadium in Morelia, Mexico, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. On his one-day trip to the capital of troubled Michoacan state, the Pope will also meet with youth and pay a visit the Morelia cathedral.

Pope tells priests: Don’t be resigned to status quo

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MORELIA, Mexico — Pope Francis urged Mexico’s priests on Tuesday to fight injustice and not resign themselves to the drug-fueled violence and corruption around them, issuing a set of marching orders to shake up a Mexican church known for its cozy ties to the rich and powerful.

Francis travelled to a hotbed of Mexico’s drug trade for a Mass with the country’s priests and nuns.

It was the first event of a daylong visit to Morelia, the capital of Michoacan state, that includes a meeting with young people, a fixture of papal trips that often produces some of the most memorable and spontaneous moments.

Francis’ visit was also a symbolic vote of confidence for the city’s archbishop, Alberto Suarez Inda.

Like Francis, Suarez Inda has called for Mexican bishops to be closer to their people and not act like bureaucrats or princes. Last year Francis made him a cardinal — an unambiguous sign that Francis wants “peripheral” pastors like him at the helm of the church hierarchy.

In his homily, Francis admonished the priests and nuns to not become resigned to the problems around them or give in to paralysis, which he called the devil’s “favourite weapon.”

“What temptation can come to us from places often dominated by violence, corruption, drug trafficking, disregard for human dignity and indifference in the face of suffering and vulnerability? What temptation might we suffer over and over again when faced with this reality, which seems to have become a permanent system?” Francis asked.

“I think we can sum it up in one word: resignation.”

It was a clear reference to the situation in Michoacan, a major methamphetamine production hub, as well as the nation at large, where gangs and drug lords have thrived thanks in part to the complicity of police and other public authorities. That corruption came to light most recently in the case of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who escaped for a second time from a maximum security prison in July, and was recaptured after an October meeting with actor Sean Penn.

Rather than give up in the face of such corruption, Francis urged the clerics to look to the model of Vasco de Quiroga, a 16th-century Spanish bishop who came to New Spain and founded Utopian-style indigenous communities where agriculture and handi-

crafts were taught.

A Franciscan, he was affectionately known as “Tata Vasco,” or “Father Vasco” in the Purepecha language.

Francis said that when Vasco de Quiroga saw Indians being “sold, humiliated and homeless in marketplaces” due to colonial exploitation, he did not resign himself to inaction but rather was inspired to fight injustice.

Since beginning his Mexico trip Friday night, Francis has repeatedly taken to task the Mexican church leadership, many of whom are closely linked to Mexico’s political and financial elite and are loath to speak out on behalf of the poor and victims of social injustice.

“Sometimes the violence has made us give up, either out of discouragement, habit or fear,” said Fausto Mendez, a 23-year-old seminarian who attended Tuesday’s Mass. “That’s why the pope comes to tell us not to be afraid to do the right thing.”

On Saturday in Mexico City, Francis scolded what he called gossiping, career-minded and aloof clerics, and admonished them to stand by their flock and offer “prophetic courage” in facing down the drug trade. In an inscription in a seminary guestbook, he urged future priests to be pastors of God and not “clerics of the state.”

“Although on Saturday he spoke strongly to the bishops, it was also directed at us,” said Uriel Perez, 20-year-old seminarian at Tuesday’s Mass. “Because the pope is demanding and he wants us to be prepared and on the streets shoulder to shoulder with our flock.”

Suarez Inda clearly backs Francis’ program, echoing the pope’s admonition that “pastors should not be bureaucrats and we bishops should not have the mentality or attitude of princes.”

In 2013, at what was perhaps the height of the violence in Michoacan, Suarez Inda led eight other bishops in signing an unusually outspoken letter accusing government authorities of “complicity, forced or willing,” with criminal gangs. It urged priests to “do whatever is in your power” to help people in an atmosphere of kidnappings, killings and extortion and to “carry out concrete actions in favour of peace and reconciliation.”

He has called for Mexico’s church leaders to put aside their comfortable lives and become pastors with the “smell of their sheep.”

It’s a famous phrase of the pope’s about the need for bishops to accompany their flock closely through life’s ups and downs.

WASHINGTON — White House lawyers are scouring a life’s worth of information about President Barack Obama’s potential picks for the Supreme Court, from the mundane to the intensely personal.

In trying to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, the president could alter the balance of the court for decades — but only if he can get his nominee through Republicans in the Senate.

Prospective justices are put through the nation’s most thorough background check, an invasive process where nothing is off-limits. After all, a surprise dredged up later could scuttle confirmation. So candidates’ taxes, writings, childhoods, business dealings, medical histories and, yes, love lives, are all scrutinized for potential red flags.

“The idea that you miss something that later torpedoed the nomination — that’s a nightmare,” said Jack Quinn, former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.

Just ask Judge Douglas Ginsburg. Nine days after President Ronald Reagan Justice Antonin Scalia nominated him for the high court, it was revealed he had smoked marijuana as a law professor at Harvard and he was forced to bow out.

For Obama, who has successfully nominated two justices, the vetting process is even more critical this time as he works to push a nominee through in his final year in officein what is shaping up to be one of the biggest political fights of the year. Already, Republicans are threatening to not even hold a vote.

If hearings get mired in a squabble over some late revelation, Republicans could find a fresh rationale for dragging the process out until Obama’s term ends in January 2017.

Traditionally, vetting takes weeks if not months, depending on how many candidates are being checked. But Obama isn’t expected to wait more than a couple of weeks to announce his pick.

The White House was jolted into action after learning of Scalia’s death, officials said, summoning administration lawyers over Presidents Day weekend to begin searching for a suitable replacement.

Obama, travelling in California, has been working with top advisers on his list while aides feel out senators about their willingness to hold a vote.

Millions of Americans with security clearances or government jobs are asked probing questions about their loyalty, reliability and character in FBI background checks. But for Supreme Court contenders, the inquiry goes far deeper.

Justice Anthony Kennedy sat through 10-plus hours of FBI interviews — and a three-hour session with the attorney general and White House counsel in which all “conceivable no-holds-barred questions were asked,” according to a memorandum archived in the Reagan Library.

Among the questions Kennedy was asked: Have you ever engaged in kinky sex? Did you shoplift as a kid? What about any associations with groups like the Klu Klux Klan? Ever abuse a girlfriend? Engage in cruelty to animals? And tell us about sex in college: How often, how many women, and did you ever contract a venereal disease?

Typically, such a deep dive doesn’t take place until the “short list” has been winnowed to a few candidates being seriously considered. Some presidents keep a close hold on the names, wary of allowing opponents to start building a case against them.

EU businesses, workers brace for return of border controls MIGRANT CRISIS LEADING TO DISCUSSION OF 26-NATION PASSPORT FREE AREA

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SOPRON, Hungary — The Hungarian city of Sopron, population 50,000, boasts an abundance of beauty shops and 200 dentists — one for every 250 residents. Most businesses don’t target the locals, though they’re looking at the Austrians streaming across the nearby border to shop for bargains.

Such cross-border traffic could soon suffer, as the European Union considers re-introducing border controls for up to two years between some of the 26 nations in the Schengen passport-free area to deal with the migrant crisis.

If the border controls return, “we might as well close shop,” says seamstress Eva Grubics. “Austrians make up 80 per cent of our business.”

In Luxembourg, a thousand kilometres (600 miles) to the west, Schengen Mayor Ben Homan also has reason to hope the free-border agreement will remain in place. Its signing there in 1985 heralded a new era of passport-free travel, speedy transport and expanded commerce over much of a continent that had before been a patchwork of borders against hostile neighbours, competitive business and competing ideological blocs.

With locals’ vineyards situated both in Germany and France just a few minutes’ walk away, residents of his “little town of wine-makers” are more conscious than most of the agreement’s advantages, says Homan.

Since the signing, thousands of businesses big and small have flourished on the guarantee of free travel. EU statistics show people making 1.3 billion crossings over the union’s internal borders each year, while 57 million trucks transport goods worth hundreds of billions over those same boundaries annually. The free passage has also allowed some 1.7 million people to live in one country and commute to work in

another.

Cities such as Malmo in southern Sweden and the Danish capital Copenhagen have in effect fused, reflecting how the EU has turned from a community of nations separated by borders to one of regions. But in the wake of the refugee crisis, the whole idea of open EU borders has been called into question. Each country in the zone is allowed to unilaterally put up border controls for a maximum of six months.

France did so after the Nov. 13 terror attack, and following the influx of more than 1 million migrants into Europe last year, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden and Norway have done the same. Now, policymakers are poised to invoke an emergency provision that allows for an extension of such controls for up to two years, citing Greek problems in properly protecting the bloc’s external borders from the flow of migrants fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Asia or Africa.

That could open the gates to broader border restrictions. EU Council President Donald Tusk has described the outcome of the debate as “decisive … for the future of the EU” and EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has warned of a collapse of the Schengen zone’s domestic market.

Meanwhile, new checkpoints are already going up. Austria on Tuesday announced controls on its boundary in Tyrol province to Italy’s South Tyrol region in anticipation that refugees will use that as a new route as restrictions elsewhere increase.

Officials spoke of setting up “construction measures,” bureaucratese for fences, at the new control points — previously an unthinkable concept because of its connotation of separation between two regions many Austrians still view as one.

Even if full disintegration of border-free travel among the 26 Schengen members does not seem imminent,

some governments already are bracing for the possibility. Under such a scenario, a French government study sees an 8-per cent reduction in economic activity in the zone over the next decade amounting to 110 billion euros— nearly $124 billion Alexander Klacska, whose Austrian company runs more than 500 tanker trucks across Europe, cites a study based on three hours of waiting time for trucks a day on Austria’s borders

to and from its seven neighbours. He says the extra costs per day would total nearly 8.5 million euros (over $9.5 million) for truckers doing business in and out of the country.

A suspension of Schengen would mean “massive limitations for our company,” he says. “We’re very interconnected with Germany, with Slovakia, with Italy, all places where whole economic regions have grown together — where borders have disappeared.”

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TODAY IN HISTORY February 17 1998 — Statistics Canada releases results of its census question on race. Of non-aboriginal and non-white Canadians identifying themselves as visible minorities, 27% are Chinese, 21% South Asians and 18% Blacks.

1982 — Gordon Kessler wins Alberta provincial by-election for separatist Western Canada Concept party.

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1932 — Albert Johnson aka Arthur Nelson, “the Mad Trapper of Rat River,” cornered and killed by RCMP in shoot-out after 48-day, 240 km manhunt in 40 below weather. He was charged with killing one Mountie, Constable Edgar Millen and wounding two others. The Mounties enlisted World War I air ace/bush pilot Wop May and the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals to help them track Johnson in Rat River, Yukon.

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Money woes Dear Annie: My wife of 44 years and I have two adopted children. Our son was perfect — no trouble, a college diploma, a good job, etc. We bought him a car at 16, and another when he graduated college. We helped with the furniture for his first apartment. We loaned him the down payment on his house and he paid us back.

Our daughter, however, was a challenge. She abused drugs, had no interest in school, ran away, had multiple out-of-wedlock pregnancies, couldn’t hold a job and ended up in jail for shoplifting. Over the years, we spent thousands of dollars on counseling, purchased multiple apartments of furniture when she was trying to get re-established, and have given her a dozen cars so that she could get to her job interviews. Fortunately, she seems to have finally turned the corner and has been married several years to a guy who treats her and her children well.

In an effort to equalize the disproportional amount spent on the daughter, we specified in our will that our son would get 60 percent of our estate, putting 40 percent in a trust, so our daughter would get the interest and the rest would go to her children at her death. She still doesn’t work, and I am concerned that she would go through a lump sum inheritance in short order.

That split seemed reasonable when we made our wills 15 years ago, but my business has continued to grow and today that split would result in one child receiving $2.4 million more than the other. I don’t want a rift between siblings and I don’t particularly want to be remembered by one as a Grinch.

Any suggestions on a split that is a little closer to fair? — Your Opinion Please Dear Opinion: We know you spent more on your daughter, but children’s expenses rarely end up being equal, so the split now seems as though you are punishing her for past mistakes. And her money is in a trust, so it is essentially going to your grandchildren.

Too many people think of wills as a way to punish or reward their relatives. Please don’t.

The amount is generous enough that neither child is going to suffer. We also recommend you discuss these KATHY MITCHELL things with your AND MARCY SUGAR son and daughANNIE’S MAILBOX ter in advance, so that there are no unpleasant surprises.

Dear Annie: “Stressed on the Line” said her mother has hearing problems, among other things. For a long time, I refused the idea of hearing aids, and my husband and children were insistent. Well, I finally broke down and got them. I have to say, they are wonderful.

I can hear again, and as a big plus, they are so small that very few people notice them, even though I have short hair.

I hope their mother will get hearing aids. She will wonder why she waited so long. — Happy in Wisconsin Dear Happy: Good for you. Often, people refuse hearing aids for reasons of vanity, which is ridiculous since they now offer ones that are barely noticeable. However, a more justifiable reason is the cost. We hope folks will consider them to be an investment in their future physical, emotional and mental health.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.

HOROSCOPES Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Michael Jordan, 52; Paris Hilton, 34; Rene Russo, 61 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Venus shifts into Aquarius which favours friendships and group activities.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You have an indomitable spirit that sees you succeed at most things you take on. 2016 is the year to be less secretive and much more open.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The stars encourage you to talk about your future goals and broaden your vision.

Group activities and social media are also favoured, as you communicate with a wide range of people.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Venus is in your career zone, until March 12, so it’s the perfect time to spruce up your work space. Socialising with colleagues will improve workplace relations and your social life.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): With Venus visiting your travel zone, plan to take a trip sometime in the next three weeks. Whether you travel near or far, make sure it’s somewhere special that

you’ll really enjoy.

C A N C E R (June 21-July 22): Don’t let other people undermine your self-confidence today Crabs.

Just remember with strong self-esteem you can climb any mountain, JOANNE MADELINE weather any MOORE storm and sail SUN SIGNS any stormy sea.

LEO (July 23Aug. 22): Peace planet Venus shifts into your relationship zone, until March 12. Which bodes well for all types of partnerships - whether of the romantic, platonic or business variety.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): With Venus shifting into your wellbeing zone, it’s time to choose a diet and exercise plan that you actually enjoy. If it’s too hard or restrictive, then you won’t fol-

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Heart, a Labrador, and her owner/handler, Linday Brennan, of Columbia, N.J., walk off the main ring after picking up her trophy for winning the obedience portion of the 140th Westminster Kennel Club dog show, Monday, at Madison Square Garden in New York low it for very long.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your communication skills and creative talents are strong, so use them wisely. Close friendships are also highlighted, as you form long-lasting connections with like-minded souls.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Mars is in your sign so your motto for the moment is from birthday great Michael Jordan “Some people want it to happen, some people wish it could happen, others make it happen.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Venus shifts into your social networking zone so strive to boost your social media presence ASAP. Talk, text, tweet and post away; the world is waiting to hear what you have to say.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Have

you been worrying about money? Venus is moving through your cash zone — until March 12; which is fortunate for financial matters. It also favours nurturing a creative joint venture.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): With Venus in your sign until March 12 — you’re at your beautiful, bewitching Aquarian best. Make the most of it as you charm the birds out of the trees, and call in a few old favours.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Pace yourself Pisces, slow down and enjoy looking within, as Venus shifts into your spirituality zone. Solo time via yoga, meditation or contemplation — is essential for you at the moment.

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Eagles of Death Metal performs in Paris for attack survivors

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — California rock band Eagles of Death Metal performed Tuesday at a highly charged Paris concert filled with fans who survived a terrifying massacre and siege at their last Paris show — and filled with memories of those who didn’t.

“Bonsoir Paris, we’re ready for this!” frontman Jesse Hughes told the crowd at the Olympia concert hall, before heading straight into their first song.

Later, between two songs, he added: “Peace, Love and Rock and Roll!”

The band’s performance Nov. 13 at the Bataclan concert hall turned into a bloodbath when Islamic extremist suicide bombers stormed in, as near-simultaneous attacks hit cafes and a stadium around Paris. Scores of concert-goers at the Bataclan were killed, while others hid or lay motionless for hours until a police raid ended the siege.

Armed police guarded entrances to the Olympia for Tuesday’s performance, and concert-goers went through three bag and body searchers before entering. Viewers seemed in good spirits ahead of the show, some drinking outside, and little nervousness in the crowd.

One survivor, Alexis Lebrun, described himself

as “very scared” and said he would go to the Olympia venue but would only attend the concert if he deemed the security adequate.

He and other survivors opened up to a French terrorism commission ahead of Tuesday’s concert, questioning how the French government failed to stop the attacks that claimed 130 lives, most of them at the Bataclan.

The violence came just 10 months after deadly jihadi attacks on a satirical newspaper and a kosher supermarket pushed the country into high alert, and forced French lawmakers to look for ways to further protect citizens.

Lebrun questioned why there was scant security around one of Paris’ biggest music venues given the heightened alert in the city.

“No security measures were seen. No military or police presence in front of the hall. No particular searches at the hall entrance,” Lebrun noted.

“How come the national security alert was at its highest level, yet there were no provisions to mobilize some guards in front of venues welcoming hundreds or thousands of people?” he asked.

Speaking to i-Tele television ahead of the concert, Eagles of Death Metal singer Hughes broke down in tears, saying: “I don’t know why God picked us to be the band.”

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Jesse Hughes frontman of California, USA, rock band Eagles of Death Metal makes a heart sign as the rock band performs Tuesday Feb. 16, 2016, at the Olympia concert hall in Paris, France.

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Lady Gaga performs a tribute to David Bowie at the 58th annual Grammy Awards on Monday.

Grammys feature nearly as many tributes as new music

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift and Alabama Shakes were the biggest winners at a Grammy Awards ceremony that, due to the recent deaths of some seminal stars, felt as much a tribute to music’s past as its present.

Monday’s ceremony included performances honouring David Bowie, Glenn Frey, B.B. King, Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire and Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead, along with an extended clip of Natalie Cole. All died within the past year.

Lamar scored five Grammys for his breakthrough album “To Pimp a Butterfly,” the night’s biggest haul. But he was shut out of Grammy’s Big Four.

Swift won top album for “1989,” Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars earned top record for “Uptown Funk,” Ed Sheeran won song of the year for “Thinking Out Loud” and Meghan Trainor was named best new artist.

LAMAR’S BREAKOUT Besides his five Grammys, Lamar had one of the night’s most intense, riveting performances. A week after Beyonce’s Super Bowl show saluted the black power movement, Lamar opened his “The Blacker the Berry” performance in chains, dressed in a prison uniform along with several dancers. A fire burned behind him as he rapped “Alright,” and a backdrop included a map of Africa with the California city “Compton” written on it.

Actor Don Cheadle noted that Lamar’s disc “daringly incorporated jazz, funk, soul and pure poetry into a hiphop masterpiece.” He earned a shoutout from President Barack Obama’s

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He won best rap album, rap performance, rap song, rap/sung performance and music video. But his disappearance from CBS’ broadcast after the first hour is sure to renew debate over Grammy voters’ attitudes toward rap.

“Each of the categories has its own flavour and its own experts who are in the academy who have a particular passion and knowledge about it,” said Neil Portnow, recording academy president, adding that the largest number of academy members vote in the big categories.

TAYLOR’S TOUCHE Swift’s show-opening performance of “Out of the Woods” was marred by sound problems of the sort that later bedeviled Adele and Alice Cooper.

Yet her album of the year win — the second of her career in that category — was a particularly timely triumph.

She addressed fellow women artists in her acceptance speech.

“There are going to be people along the way who try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame,” she said.

She urged others not to be sidetracked by the naysayers and know that when they succeed, it will be the people who loved you who put you there.

The clear but unspoken reference was to Kanye West, who several years ago grabbed a microphone from Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards and last week released a song with a crude comment about her and suggestion that he made her famous.

Swift’s “1989” also won best pop vocal album, and she won a video award for “Bad Blood.”

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PHILADELPHIA — Bill Cosby’s criminal sexual-assault case appears to be headed toward an evidence hearing after a judge denied his latest effort to throw the charges out.

In a ruling Tuesday, the judge who refused to dismiss the case earlier this month denied Cosby’s appeal of that decision.

The 78-year-old TV star is accused of drugging and violating an ex-Temple University employee at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004 and could get 10 years in prison if convicted. The defence insists Cosby had a promise from a previous district attorney that he would never be charged over the 2004 encounter.

Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill, though, found the evidence of such an agreement lacking after hearing from the ex-prosecutor and others at a two-day hearing.

He said the issue doesn’t warrant an immediate appeal that would delay

the scheduled March 8 preliminary hearing.

“An immediate appeal from these orders would not materially advance the ultimate termination of the matter,” the judge wrote in a brief order.

A spokesman for Cosby’s lawyers said it was unclear if they would appeal to the state Superior Court.

Cosby’s lawyers have argued that the charges stem from a political feud between former District Attorney Bruce L. Castor Jr., who had declined to arrest Cosby a decade ago, and Kevin Steele, who invoked the case as he campaigned against Castor last fall.

Steele won the race for district attorney and filed charges against Cosby in December, days before the filing deadline expired.

Dozens of women in recent years have come forward and accused Cosby of sexual impropriety spanning decades. Cosby, who played Dr. Cliff Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” from 1984 to 1992 and has been married for decades, has denied the women’s accusations. The statute of limitations has expired in most of the cases against him.

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Powerhouses put freeze on oil output RUSSIA, VENEZUELA, SAUDI ARABIA PLEDGE TO CAP CRUDE OUTPUT IF OTHERS DO THE SAME

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Oil powerhouses Russia and Saudi Arabia joined Qatar and Venezuela in pledging Tuesday to cap their crude output if other producers do the same, aiming to halt a slide that has pushed oil prices to their lowest point in more than a decade.

The decision followed an unexpected closed-door meeting involving the four countries in the Qatari capital, Doha, and reflects growing concern among big producers about the effects the slump poses to their domestic economies.

Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said in a statement issued after the meeting that the four countries would be ready to cap production based on last month’s output levels if others join.

“We are ready to maintain on average in 2016 the level of oil production of January 2016 and not exceed it,” he said in a subsequent statement.

Whether the plan is enough to put a floor under prices is uncertain. The proposal depends on co-operation from a range of producers with differing budget priorities all scrambling for market share since prices began falling in summer 2014.

Among the hardest to bring on board will likely be Iran. It was noticeably absent from Tuesday’s gathering even though it shares control of a major underwater natural gas field with fellow OPEC member Qatar.

Iran is eager to ramp up its exports now that sanctions related to its nuclear program have been lifted, saying recently it aims to put another 500,000 barrels a day on the market. Figures from the International Energy Agency show it pumped 2.9 million barrels daily in December, before sanctions were lifted.

Iran’s petroleum minister, Bijar Namdar Zangeneh, signalled the Islamic Republic has no intention of giving up its share of the market. He acknowledged that global markets are “oversupplied,” but said Iran “will not overlook its quota,” according to comments carried by his ministry’s Shana news service.

Venezuelan Oil Minister Eulogio Del Pino heads to Tehran next for talks with his Iranian and Iraqi counterparts Wednesday.

“The key OPEC members that need to take part are Iran and Iraq, where the big increases are likely this year, but there are big doubts over whether this can be achieved,” Barclays analysts Miswin Mahesh

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Oil pumps work in the desert oil fields of Sakhir, Bahrain. Russia’s energy minister, Alexander Novak, said, Tuesday, that it has agreed with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Venezuela to freeze oil production at January 2016 levels if other producers do the same following a closed-door meeting in the Doha, Qatar. The meeting reflects growing concern among major oil producers about the effects a prolonged slump in crude prices will have on their domestic economies. and Kevin Norrish said in a research note.

Efforts to make the plan work are complicated by deep levels of distrust between regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran, which has built close ties to Iraq’s government in the years since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. The two countries are in opposing camps in regional disputes from Yemen to Syria. Last month, Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic ties with Shiite powerhouse Iran after the Saudi embassy and a consulate were torched by Iranian protesters angry over the kingdom’s execution of a prominent Shiite cleric.

Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Saudi Oil Minister Ali Naimi said producers would continue to assess the state of the market in the months ahead.

He described freezing output at January levels as an “adequate” step for now.

All of the countries at Tuesday’s meeting except Russia are part of OPEC. Saudi Arabia dominates policy-making within the 13-member bloc of oil producing countries, which has refused to cut its official

production targets. Doing so could bolster faltering prices.

The aim of OPEC’s keep-pumping strategy has been to attempt to ride out the 12-year lows in prices and force higher-cost producers, including shale drillers in the U.S., out of the market.

The bloc collectively pumped 39 million barrels of crude and natural gas liquids a day in December, or about two out of every five barrels globally. Russia pumps around 11 million barrels a day.

Analysts at London-based Capital Economics were skeptical of Tuesday’s announcement, saying that even without a deal Saudi Arabia and Russia — which along with the U.S. are by far the world’s biggest producers — would have been unlikely to boost production further.

“For the deal to have any teeth, Saudi Arabia in particular needs to be willing to cut output, not least to offset the increased supply still to come from Iran,” said the analysts, Julian Jessop and Thomas Pugh.

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• Improve accountability by demanding better reporting and more data transparency from startup OTTAWA — The federal government is closely assistance groups — like business incubators and studying recommendations on how to help Cana- accelerators. It’s seen as a way to shed more light on dian tech startups grow into global success stories the actual return on public investments.

—transformations that could eventually provide a • Attract more large corporations to participate in boost for the ailing economy. the success of Canadian incubators and accelerators.

The findings of a recent report are under analy- These partnerships are much more common in the sis by the Liberal government, which has also been United States. told internally that building small and medium tech • Boost the quality of mentor programs by confirms into billion-dollar players remains a key chal- necting more high-potential companies with busilenge. ness leaders who have experience building bilThe review comes amid debate on how best to re- lion-dollar tech firms. vive the economy, which is struggling with low com• Increase the exposure of startups to internationmodity prices. al markets.

The study, commissioned by • Explore new models to in‘IN AN ENVIRONMENT OF the federal and Ontario governcrease the role of investors in ments, outlines possible strate- STAGNANT DOMESTIC GROWTH startups. gies to help budding entrepre“Canada’s continued underAND CONTINUED GLOBAL neurs become high-growth operperformance on the creation of ations. high-growth firms, and limited ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY, Some startups pack the potentransactional activity within its CANADA HAS A NUMBER OF startup community, speaks to retial to eventually drive national prosperity and become “signifal weaknesses in the entrepreicant employers of tomorrow,” CRITICAL ECONOMIC PRIORITIES neurial support ecosystem,” said said the September document TO ADDRESS IN THE MONTHS the report, commissioned under produced by the Centre for Digthe previous Conservative govAND YEARS AHEAD.’ ital Entrepreneurship and Ecoernment. nomic Performance, an economic The new government con— STUDY DONE BY THE CENTRE FOR DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP think-tank. firmed it will study the document AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE to further its understanding of The analysis of the findings comes as the Liberals prepare how incubators and accelerators their first budget, expected late next month. Some can “drive innovation, entrepreneurship and the anticipate the fiscal blueprint to include measures global competitiveness of Canadian companies,” to boost the tech and startup sectors.

Hans Parmar, a spokesman for Innovation, Science “In an environment of stagnant domestic growth and Economic Development Canada, wrote in an and continued global economic uncertainty, Canada email. has a number of critical economic priorities to adThe government, he added, is committed to develdress in the months and years ahead,” the study says. oping policy based on sound evidence.

Along with diversifying the economy and expandInternally, a federal memo prepared last fall for ing trade and exports, the document highlights the the deputy minister of Industry Canada, said the six need to turn research and technological innovation priority areas in the findings “can be taken by govinto high-growth Canadian firms that compete on the ernments and the BABI industry (business acceleraglobal stage. tors and business incubators) to help address weakTo get there, it explored six “priority areas” for nesses in Canada’s entrepreneurial support system.”

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada is working with the European Union to revise controversial investor protection provisions in their landmark free trade deal at the direction of the new Liberal government.

But Canada’s chief negotiator Steve Verhuel said Tuesday the ongoing work with the EU does not mean the pact has been reopened to negotiation.

The comprehensive deal in goods and services, known as CETA, has been plagued with delays since negotiations were publicly declared finished in the summer of 2014 after what was then five years of talks.

“We’re not re-opening the negotiations at all,” Verhuel told the House of Commons trade committee.

The government wants to see if improvements can make the dispute-resolution mechanism more favourable to Canada, he said.

The Europeans first raised the matter after political opposition arose in Europe in 2014 over the chapter that deals with settling disputes between companies and governments, known as ISDS. Some European politicians and anti-trade activists have raised concern that the investor-state dispute settlement chapter would give big companies the power to sue governments for creating regulations that affect their profits. They say it could undermine the ability of countries to regulate environmental and health policies, among other things.

European officials, including most recently the EU ambassador to Canada, have said they don’t see ISDS as an impediment to the deal being implemented. Verhuel was responding to a question from the NDP trade critic Tracey Ramsey, who asked whether the new Liberal government wants him to “to take CETA in a new direction” on ISDS or any other part of the deal.

“I wouldn’t call them instructions at this point.

We’ve certainly had a dialogue about potential improvements that could be made,” Verhuel said.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 115.28 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 37.90 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.12 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.67 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 0.900 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.25 Cdn. National Railway . . 77.13 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 173.98 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 34.25 Capital Power Corp . . . . 17.43 Cervus Equipment Corp 11.89 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 46.83 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 45.27 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 18.19 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.50 General Motors Co. . . . . 28.58 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 20.49 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.29 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 41.27 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 31.90 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.80 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 4.99 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 48.96 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 114.14 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.95 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.70 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 64.33

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 23.06 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.42 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.90 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 15.05 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 16.11 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 15.99 First Quantum Minerals . . 3.91 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 20.55 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 3.01 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.77 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.67 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 21.74 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.640 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 7.10 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 18.23 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 23.98 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 41.20 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.83 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 17.16 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 27.85 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 8.67 Canyon Services Group. . 3.61 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 14.55 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.110 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 4.99 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.590

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 81.22 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 29.94 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.01 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 12.55 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 41.17 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 1.00 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.190 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 4.23 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 31.01 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.460 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 1.55 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 33.73 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0900 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 73.18 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 55.07 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89.01 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 21.56 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 34.15 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 33.61 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 85.06 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.63 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 37.60 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.130 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 69.41 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 39.60 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.88

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Investors kicked off holiday-shortened trading weeks in both the U.S. and Canada in buying moods Tuesday, sending indexes in New York and Toronto sharply higher.

The S&P/TSX composite index climbed 173.74 points or more than one per cent to 12,554.98 at the close, adding to a nearly 300-point gain on Friday. “It’s a fairly healthy day,� said Colum McKinley, a portfolio manager and vice-president of Canadian equities at CIBC Asset Management.

The Toronto stock market was lifted by gains across most sectors, particularly an almost nine per cent bump in metals and mining stocks, but dragged down by gold issues.

McKinley said recent big ups and downs in the market have become the new norm. “We’re definitely going to have volatility in the short term, and we’re seeing that across all markets,� he said In New York, enthusiasm was even stronger as the Dow Jones industrial average shot up 222.57 points to 16,196.41, while the broader S&P 500 composite rose 30.80 points to 1,895.58 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite jumped 98.45 points to 4,435.96.

The TSX was closed Monday for Ontario’s Family Day and American markets were shut down for Presidents’ Day. The commodity-sensitive Canadian dollar slipped as oil and precious metals prices weak-

ened, easing 0.10 of a U.S. cent to 72.04 cents US. The March contract for benchmark North American crude oil fell 40 cents to US$29.04 a barrel after a big run-up on Friday. The retreat came despite word of an agreement between Russia and Saudi Arabia to freeze their oil output, but only if other OPEC countries agree to do the same. Analysts believe Iran is unlikely to go along because it wants to ramp up production now that economic sanctions have been removed.

Last Friday, oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. reported that the number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. declined by 30 to 541, down from 1,358 rigs a year ago.

Meanwhile, March natural gas shed six cents to US$1.90 per mmBtu, while April gold plunged $31.20 to US$1,208.20 a troy ounce and March copper added two cents to US$2.05 a pound.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Tuesday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,554.98, up 173.74 points Dow — 16,196.41, up 222.57 points S&P 500 — 1,895.58, up 30.80 points Nasdaq — 4,435.96, up 98.45 points Currencies: Cdn — 72.04 cents US, down 0.10 of a cent Pound — C$1.9842, down

2.69 cents Euro — C$1.5466, down 1.34 cents Euro — US$1.1142, down 1.13 cents Oil futures: US$29.04 per barrel, down 40 cents (March contract) Gold futures: US$1,208.20 per oz., down $31.20 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.107 oz., down 76 cents $710.74 kg., down $24.43 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ‘16 $1.10 higher $468.50 May ‘16 $0.70 higher $476.90 July ‘16 $0.50 higher $481.20 Nov. ‘16 $0.20 higher $483.50 Jan. ‘17 $0.70 higher $486.80 March ‘17 $1.00 higher $487.40 May ‘17 $1.00 higher $486.10 July ‘17 $1.00 higher $485.60 Nov. ‘17 $1.00 higher $485.60 Jan. ‘18 $1.00 higher $485.60 March ‘18 $1.00 higher $485.60.

Barley (Western): March ‘16 unchanged $188.00 May ‘16 unchanged $192.00 July ‘16 unchanged $194.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $194.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $194.00 March ‘17 unchanged $194.00 May ‘17 unchanged $194.00 July ‘17 unchanged $194.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $194.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $194.00 March ‘18 unchanged $194.00.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 609,400 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 609,400.

U.S., Cuba sign deal on commercial flights

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAVANA — The United States and Cuba on Tuesday signed a deal restoring commercial air traffic for the first time in five decades, allowing of dozens of new daily flights to bring hundreds of thousands more American travellers a year to the island as early as this fall.

Immediately after the signing, the U.S. Department of Transportation opened bidding by American air carriers on as many as 110 U.S.-Cuba flights a day - more than five times the current number. All flights operating between the two countries today are charters.

Barring other major announcements, the restart of commercial flights will be the most significant

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TRADE: Improvements “We have had an interest on our side in seeing whether we can make some improvements in light of that and that’s been supported by the government.�

Part of ongoing discussion with the EU includes, “clarifying some of the provisions in the agreement with respect to the obligations to ensure that the government’s right to regulate is not interfered with by investor claims that could affect that ability to regulate.�

Verhuel said he expects the deal to be ratified and fully implemented next year.

That’s essentially the same timeline that the EU ambassador to Canada, Marie-Anne Coninsx, offered in a recent interview. Like Coninsx, Verhuel said the deal is now in the legal “scrubbing� phase and is in the process of being translated into French and more than 20 official European languages.

But Ramsey said in an interview that it is unclear from what Verhuel told the committee whether the deal is actively being negotiated rather than simply translated and legally vetted.

development in U.S.-Cuba trade since Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro announced in late 2014 that they would begin normalizing ties after a half-century of Cold War opposition. The Obama administration is eager to make rapid progress on building trade and diplomatic ties with Cuba before the president leaves office. The coming weeks are seen as particularly crucial to building momentum ahead of a trip he hopes to make to Havana by the end of March. “Today is a historic day in the relationship between Cuba and the U.S.,� U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said after he and Transportation Minister Adel Yzquierdo Rodriguez signed the deal in a ceremony at Havana’s Hotel Nacional. “It represents a critically important milestone in the U.S. effort to engage with Cuba.�

The U.S. Department of Transportation expects to award the new routes by the summer. The winning airlines then must negotiate their own deals with Cuba.

Yzquierdo declined an interview request but Foxx said after meeting with the Cuban minister that he believed Cuba was eager to restore commercial air service as quickly as possible. “Every indication I have in the conversations we’ve had today is that the Cubans want to move as fast as we’re able to move,� Foxx said. “People will actually be able to go buy a ticket and fly to Cuba on a commercial airline. That’s a pretty big step. We haven’t been able to do that in 50 years.�

The agreement allows 20 regular daily U.S. flights to Havana, in addition to the current 10-15 charter flights a day. The rest would be to other Cuban cities.

“We have the chief negotiator saying they are working on rewriting sections of the deal,� said Ramsey.

She said the Liberals have not brought any more clarity to the trade talks than the previous Conservative government, which negotiated the deal. “All of this is happening in secret,� said Ramsey. “I’d like the Liberals to level with Canadians — let us know what’s on the table and also what they’re up to.�

said the “hot issues� memo.

Since coming to power last fall, the Liberals have emphasized the country’s knowledge-based economy. Last month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used a high-profile international speech to promote the idea that Canada has more to offer than just commodities, although he acknowledged they were still a crucial part of the economy. “My predecessor wanted you to know Canada for its resources,� Trudeau told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

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The settlement in the Canadian and U.S. cases will be fully funded by the company’s insurance, meaning its cash resources and financial position won’t take a hit.

In July 2014, Penn West’s (TSX:PWT) new

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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 17, 2016

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Ducks 5 Oilers 3 EDMONTON — The Anaheim Ducks are soaring to new heights after a rough start to the season.

Andrew Cogliano’s short-handed empty-net goal proved to be the winner, as the high-flying Ducks continued their winning ways with a 5-3 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday.

David Perron, Jakob Silfverberg, Hampus Lindholm and Corey Perry also scored for the Ducks (29-19-8), who have won three in a row and 10 of their last 12 games to vault into second place in the Pacific Division, now three points back of the L.A. Kings.

“I think the last couple of times we’ve been tied in the second, they’ve been able to step it up a little bit and get enough for the win,” Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau said of his squad.

“When you can do that, that’s a real positive sign going forward. I think we couldn’t do that at the beginning (of the year) once a team got a goal up on us we weren’t very good.”

The game featured a few lengthy delays that Perron felt threw both teams off.

“I think in the end we’re just happy to be leaving with two points,” he said. “It was kind of a weird game. We couldn’t get into a rhythm and it’s a little frustrating on the bench with all those delays. That’s why we’re happy, we’ll take the two points, move on and in the end, those are huge points for us.”

Leon Draisaitl, Taylor Hall and Benoit Pouliot responded for the Oilers (22-30-6), who have lost five of their last six.

“Eventually we have to start learning to win those types of games,” said Oilers forward Connor McDavid. “You look at the number of one-goal games that we have had and empty-net games, I think it is well over 50 per cent. It is kind of frustrating not being able to close out those ones.”

Edmonton head coach Todd McLellan said discipline was a problem for his team, with the Oilers taking four penalties.

“Dumb penalties,” he said. “It’s unacceptable. We can’t keep marching to the penalty box time and time again because of those penalties.”

The Ducks took a 1-0 lead on the power play with 52 seconds left to

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Anaheim Ducks’ Hampus Lindholm (47) scores on Edmonton Oilers’ goalie Cam Talbot (33) during third period NHL action, in Edmonton on Tuesday. The Anaheim Ducks won 5-3. play, although it took longer to determine if Perron had indeed scored his 10th of the season. The play was first reviewed to see if he had kicked the puck in and then whether or not he had interfered with Oilers goalie Cam Talbot on a coach’s challenge before being allowed.

A soft shot by Draisaitl somehow got through the legs of Ducks goalie Frederik Andersen to tie it up 1-1 for Edmonton two minutes into the second.

Anaheim went up 2-1 with five min-

utes left in the second frame as Ryan Kesler stole a puck and put it on to the stick of Silfverberg, who beat Talbot with a quick shot glove-side.

Hall pounced on a rebound to snap out of a 10-game scoring slump and once again draw the Oilers even a minute-and-a-half later.

The Ducks regained the lead five minutes into the third as Lindholm deflected a Rickard Rakell shot over the Oilers netminder.

Edmonton tried to tie it up with the goalie out on a late power play, but

ended up allowing a shorthanded empty-netter to Cogliano.

Talbot remained out and the Oilers got one more as a Pouliot shot rebounded off of the head of Cam Fowler and into the net to make things interesting with 1:07 to play.

However, Perry added another empty-netter to put the game away.

Both teams return to action on Thursday, as the Ducks wrap up a seven-game road trip in Vancouver and the Oilers play host to the Minnesota Wild.

Chiefs hold on for win in marathon playoff opener

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Chiefs 6 Buffaloes 5 (2OT) It wasn’t the style of play the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs are used to but they’ll take a victory any way they can get it.

The Chiefs, who are used to playing a low scoring, close checking game, overcame an early 3-0 deficit and needed double overtime to pull out a 6-5 victory over the Calgary Buffaloes in the opening game of their best-of-three Alberta Midget Hockey League quarter-final series at the Arena Tuesday.

Tanner Zentner played the role of hero, scoring his second goal of the game on the power play at 1:28 of the second extra period.

“They’re a high-flying team and are involved in a lot of high scoring games, while we’re the opposite,” said Chiefs head coach Brandin Cote. “We like playing a tighter game, but it happens.”

The Buffaloes stormed out of the gate, scoring three times in the first 12:52 — twice by Alex Loewen and once by Joshua Patrician. Zentner got the Chiefs

on the board at 16:15 of the first period on the first of four power play goals.

Regan Doig made the game interesting connecting at 8:36 of the second period.

The Chiefs then took advantage of some shaky goaltending to grab a 5-3 lead in the third period.

Landon Siegle scored at 3:10 and 6:55 and Tyrees Goodrunning made it 5-3 when goaltender Quinn Yeager came out to clear the puck and put it on Goodrunning’s stick.

The Chiefs, who found themselves bottled up in their end for long periods during the game, looked as if they would hold on for the victory until picking up a pair of late penalties.

Owen Guenter scored at 14:31 and Ayden Roche-Setoguchi connected at 18:57 on a screened shot from the point.

After a scoreless 10-minute overtime the ice was cleaned and it wasn’t hardly dry when Zentner broke in on a two-on-one and put a high shot off backup goaltender Matthieu Fawcett who had the puck drop

behind him where Zentner pushed it in for the victory.

“I liked the way we battled back,” said Cote. “We could have mailed it in after getting down so early and been satisfied to get back in it Saturday (in Calgary). But the kids knew the urgency as this is a bestof-three and there’s not a lot of room for error.

“They stuck to the game plan and a did a real good job continuing to battle. It would have been nice to win in regulation, but even then the guys kept believing and kept pushing and got lucky to get one in the end.”

Justin Travis was in goal for the Chiefs who are without goaltender Dawson Weatherill who is with the Red Deer Rebels on a west coast road swing.

Weatherill is backing up Trevor Martin and replacing Rylan Toth, who was injured last game.

Travis finished with 46 saves while his mates had 25 shots.

The third game, if necessary, goes Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Arena.

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

Rebels fall to Rockets in road trip opener

Canada moves into semis at Olympic qualifier

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada 10 Guatemala 0 HOUSTON — Rebecca Quinn and Nichelle Prince each scored three goals as Canada crushed its third straight opponent, beating Guatemala 10-0 on Tuesday to set the stage for the one game that matters at the CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Qualifying Championship.

The Canadian women, ranked 11th in the world, will meet No. 34 Costa Rica in the tournament semifinal Friday with an Olympic berth on the line.

Canada won bronze four years ago at the London Games.

In the earlier game Tuesday at BBVA Compass Stadium, No. 48 Trinidad & Tobago defeated No. 89 Guyana (51) to advance to the other semifinal against the top-ranked U.S. That result meant Canada would have to lose to Guatemala by 12 goals to fall out of first spot in Group B. Instead it was one-way traffic with the field seemingly tilted towards the Central Americans’ goal. The outcome was so secure that Canada could afford to send in attacking midfielder Sophie Schmidt at centre back in the second half.

Melissa Tancredi scored twice and Gabrielle Carle and Janine Beckie added singles for a young Canadian side missing many of its top players including captain Christine Sinclair.

“It was sort of mission accomplished tonight,” said Canadian coach John Herdman.”We challenged the group of players going out there tonight to

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maintain that intensity and focus. And it was wonderful just watching some of those young players coming alive. You put a different group of players on and the chemistry’s still there and they’re working hard for each other.”

Winless Guatemala, ranked 76th in the world, was game but totally outmatched after minimal tournament preparation. Canada outshot Guatemala 33-0, with 17 of the Canadians shots on target.

Quinn’s hat trick came in seven min-

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utes — in first-half stoppage time, the 49th and 52nd minutes. Quinn and Carle scored their first goals at the senior level, raising the number of Canadians to score at the tournament to 11.

Canada was bigger and better than the Guatemalans and spent most of the game playing keepaway with the ball.

When players matched up with each other during set pieces, the size difference was sometimes akin to the start of pro matches when players walk out with child escorts.

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Rockets 3 Rebels 1 KELOWNA, B.C. -- The Red Deer Rebels got their road trip off to a bad start after falling to the Kelowna Rockets 3-1, Tuesday.

Cal Foote had the eventual winner in the second period for the Rockets who were able to hold on despite being outshot in the game 35-27.

Ivan Nikolishin was the lone scorer for the Rebels with a first period tally. The Rebels (35-19-6) have now dropped three games in a row. Trevor Martin stopped 24 shots in goal for the Rebels.

Gordie Ballhorn opened the scoring and Cole Linaker added an insurance goal in the third period for the Rockets (40-15-3), who have won three straight. Michael Herringer made 34 saves for the win in net.

Kelowna went 1 for 4 on the power play, while Red Deer couldn’t score on its six man advantages.

Before the game, the Rockets announced that forward Nick Merkley, a prospect with the NHL’s Arizona Coyotes, would miss the rest of the season and playoffs with a torn ACL. The 18-year-old Merkley has 17 goals and 31 assists in 43 games this season.

The Rebels will now move on to Kamloops in hopes of breaking their winless skid over the Blazers tonight.

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports • Junior varsity basketball: Camrose at Notre Dame, Hunting Hills at Ponoka, Rocky Mountain House at Stettler, Lacombe at Sylvan Lake, Lindsay Thurber at Camrose; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow.

• WHL: Red Deer at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

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• Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer, second game of best-of-five Northern Division semifinal, 8:15 p.m., Arena.

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

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

• Men’s basketball: Alken Basin vs. Triple A Batteries, Bulldog Scrap Metal vs.

Henry’s Eavestroughing, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Blackhawks at Red Deer North Star, 11:30 a.m., Arena.

• Peewee AA hockey: Taber at Red Deer Parkland, 12:30 p.m., Kinsmen A; Red Deer TBS at Olds, 2:15 p.m.

• Major bantam girls hockey: Calgary Outlaws at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

• Bantam AA hockey: Wheatland at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Central Alberta at Olds, 4:45 p.m.

• Midget AA hockey: Central Alberta at West Central, 5:30 p.m., Eckville; Red Deer Indy Graphics at Olds, 7:30 p.m.

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

• Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer, fourth game of best-of-five Northern Division semifinal, if necessary, 8 p.m., Arena.

• WHL: Red Deer at Prince George, 8 p.m.

(The Drive).

• Senior high basketball: Hunting Hills senior girls/boys tournament.

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

• Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Indy Graphics at Central Alberta, 6 p.m., Lacombe.

• Bantam AA hockey: Bow Valley at West Central, 8 p.m., Sylvan Lake.

• WHL: Red Deer at Prince George, 8 p.m.

(The Drive).

• Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Airdrie, third game of best-of-five Northern Division semifinal, 8 p.m.

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

Saturday • Senior high basketball: Hunting Hills senior girls/boys tournament.

Southeast Division W L Pct 31 24 .564 29 24 .547 27 26 .509 23 28 .451 23 29 .442

GB — 1 3 6 6 1/2

Central Division W L Pct 38 14 .731 28 25 .528 27 25 .519 27 27 .500 22 32 .407

GB — 10 1/2 11 12 17

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 45 8 .849 — Memphis 31 22 .585 14 Dallas 29 26 .527 17

Oklahoma City Portland Utah Denver Minnesota

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

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Northwest Division W L Pct 40 14 .741 27 27 .500 26 26 .500 22 32 .407 17 37 .315

GB — 13 13 18 23

Pacific Division W L Pct 48 4 .923 35 18 .660 22 31 .415 14 40 .259 11 44 .200

GA 160 163 174 176 234 238

Pt 81 73 67 55 44 25

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF Kelowna 58 40 15 3 0 208 Victoria 59 37 16 3 3 211 Prince George 57 31 22 3 1 206 Kamloops 56 26 22 5 3 183 Vancouver 57 21 29 5 2 160

GA 168 139 182 180 203

Pt 83 80 66 60 49

U.S. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF 56 33 19 2 2 148 56 31 22 3 0 176 56 27 22 4 3 188 57 29 25 3 0 181 57 27 26 2 1 187

GA 126 160 191 177 199

Pt 70 65 61 61 57

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Third Period 4. Kelowna, Linaker 15 (Baillie, Johansen) 9:40 (pp).

Penalties — Fleury RD (tripping) 9:28 Kirkland Kel (holding) 10:11 Bobyk RD, Baillie Kel (roughing) 12:49 Doetzel RD (high-sticking) 14:29 Bobyk RD, Thurkauf Kel (roughing) 15:12 Thurkauf Kel (closing hand on puck) 19:23.

Shots on goal Red Deer 13 14 8 — 35 Kelowna 10 6 11 — 27 Goal — Red Deer, Martin 9-4-1-1 (27 shots-24 saves). Kelowna, Herringer 20-9-1-0 (35 shots-34 saves).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Red Deer: 0-6 Kelowna: 1-4.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Florida 57 33 18 6 72 Boston 57 31 20 6 68 Detroit 57 29 19 9 67 Tampa Bay 56 30 22 4 64 Montreal 57 27 26 4 58 Ottawa 58 26 26 6 58 Buffalo 58 23 28 7 53 Toronto 55 20 26 9 49

GF GA 160 134 174 158 146 147 149 139 157 158 165 182 137 162 134 163

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Washington 55 41 10 4 86 N.Y. Rangers56 32 18 6 70 N.Y. Islanders55 30 19 6 66 New Jersey 58 29 22 7 65 Pittsburgh 55 28 19 8 64 Carolina 57 26 21 10 62 Philadelphia 56 25 21 10 60 Columbus 58 23 28 7 53

GF GA 184 126 163 143 161 141 130 136 142 141 139 150 137 151 149 180

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 58 37 15 6 80 188 156 Chicago 60 37 18 5 79 170 139 St. Louis 59 33 17 9 75 145 139 Nashville 57 26 21 10 62 151 152 Colorado 59 29 26 4 62 158 164 Minnesota 56 24 22 10 58 140 142 Winnipeg 56 25 28 3 53 143 162

Wednesday’s games Victoria at Vancouver, 1 p.m.

Kootenay at Brandon, 6 p.m.

Regina at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Swift Current at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Red Deer at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 56 33 20 3 69 154 134 Anaheim 56 29 19 8 66 136 137 San Jose 55 30 20 5 65 164 148 Arizona 56 26 24 6 58 151 171 Vancouver 56 22 22 12 56 133 157 Calgary 55 25 27 3 53 150 168 Edmonton 58 22 30 6 50 146 176 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Thursday’s games No Games Scheduled.

Friday’s games Moose Jaw at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Kootenay at Regina, 6 p.m.

Saskatoon at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Portland at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Red Deer at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Vancouver at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

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

Kamloops at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Spokane at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

Monday’s Games Florida 2, Pittsburgh 1, SO N.Y. Islanders 4, Detroit 1 Anaheim 6, Calgary 4 Dallas 3, Nashville 2, OT Chicago 7, Toronto 2 Arizona 6, Montreal 2 Minnesota 5, Vancouver 2

Tuesday’s summary Rocket 3, Rebels 1 First Period 1. Kelowna, Ballhorn 3 (Thurkauf, Kirkland) 1:40.

2. Red Deer, Nikolishin 28 (Philp, Helewka) 13:54.

Penalties — Soustal Kel (tripping) 4:37 Dube Kel (hooking) 9:55 Helewka RD (elbowing) 15:20.

Second Period 3. Kelowna, Foote 6 (Soustal, Dube) 12:03.

Penalties — Foote Kel (hooking) 7:25 Stephens Kel (delay of game) 15:30 Helewka RD (boarding)

Tuesday’s Games Ottawa 2, Buffalo 1, SO Philadelphia 6, New Jersey 3 Washington 3, Los Angeles 1 Carolina 2, Winnipeg 1 Boston 2, Columbus 1, OT San Jose 4, Tampa Bay 2 St. Louis 2, Dallas 1, OT

Anaheim 5, Edmonton 3 Wednesday’s Games Chicago at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.

Montreal at Colorado, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Calgary, 8 p.m.

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

Detroit at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Carolina at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

Winnipeg at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.

San Jose at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Boston at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Arizona, 7 p.m.

Anaheim at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Tuesday’s summary Ducks 5, Oilers 3 First Period 1. Anaheim, Perron 10 (Getzlaf, Vatanen) 19:08 (pp).

Penalties — Ritchie Anh (holding) 4:57 Nurse Edm (cross-checking) 9:47 Pouliot Edm (slashing) 18:37.

Second Period 2. Edmonton, Draisaitl 15 (Korpikoski, Schultz) 02:16 (pp).

3. Anaheim, Silfverberg 8 (Kesler) 14:54.

4. Edmonton, Hall 19 (Eberle, McDavid) 16:29.

Penalties — Santorelli Anh (hooking) 0:39 Edmonton bench (too many men, served by Pouliot) 10:55.

Third Period 5. Anaheim, Lindholm 8 (Rakell) 5:35.

6. Anaheim, Cogliano 7 (unassisted) 18:29.

7. Edmonton, Pouliot 13 (Letestu, Sekera) 18:53 (pp).

8. Anaheim, Perry 23 (Andersen) 19:47 (en).

Penalties — Pouliot Edm (slashing) 0:57 Perry Anh (goaltender interference) 1:58 Bieksa Anh (high-sticking) 16:55.

Shots on goal Anaheim 8 13 10 — 31 Edmonton 9 11 7 — 27 Goal — Anaheim: Andersen (W, 14-8-6) Edmonton: Talbot (L, 12-18-3).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Anaheim: 0-1 Edmonton: 0-2.

NHL scoring leaders following Monday’s games: Patrick Kane, Chi Jamie Benn, Dal Tyler Seguin, Dal Erik Karlsson, Ott Evgeny Kuznetsov, Was Johnny Gaudreau, Cal Artemi Panarin, Chi Sidney Crosby, Pit Nicklas Backstrom, Was Joe Pavelski, SJ Blake Wheeler, Wpg Taylor Hall, Edm Anze Kopitar, LA Alex Ovechkin, Was Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Evgeni Malkin, Pit Ryan O’Reilly, Buf Nikita Kucherov, TB Brent Burns, SJ Joe Thornton, SJ John Klingberg, Dal Patrice Bergeron, Bos Daniel Sedin, Van John Tavares, NYI Bobby Ryan, Ott Claude Giroux, Phi

G 34 29 30 11 15 22 19 24 17 25 15 18 16 35 27 23 17 23 18 12 10 21 22 21 20 16

A 48 35 33 52 41 32 35 29 36 27 37 32 34 14 22 26 32 25 30 36 38 26 24 25 26 30

Pts 82 64 63 63 56 54 54 53 53 52 52 50 50 49 49 49 49 48 48 48 48 47 46 46 46 46

Transactions Tuesday’s Sports Transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Recalled G Niklas Treutle from Springfield (AHL).

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Recalled G Daniel Altshuller from Charlotte (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Reassigned LW Ben Johnson from Albany (AHL) to Adirondack (ECHL).

American Hockey League ALBANY DEVILS — Returned D Joe Faust to Adirondack (ECHL).

SAN DIEGO GULLS — Recalled G Ryan Faragher from Utah (ECHL). Released C Michael Pelech from his professional tryout contract.

SPRINGFIELD FALCONS — Signed G Alex Vazzano to a professional tryout contract.

ECHL ELMIRA JACKALS — Announced D Nick Tuzzolino was assigned to the team by Binghamton (AHL).

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Monday’s Games No games scheduled Tuesday’s Games No games scheduled Wednesday’s Games No games scheduled Thursday’s Games Utah at Washington, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Parkland Zone 4 captured 40 medals, including seven gold, 16 silver and 17 bronze at the Alberta Winter Games in Medicine Hat during the weekend.

The team of Ben Eggink of Camrose and Zachary Kosack and Ethan McDonald of Red Deer won the 15-16 juvenile men’s cross-country relay while Amelia Murray of Red Deer won the 12-14 Cub compound female archery title.

Kia Risling of Red Deer captured the figures title in synchronized swimming with first place going to Devin Saunders of Red Deer in the dev-2 male super sprint biathlon.

Kaitlyn Wiley of Red Deer won the 15-17 cadet compound female archery crown while Nicole Magaj of Calgary won the 60kg wrestling title.

Other medal winners were: Silver: Ryan Adkins, Red Deer, 15-17 cadet compound male archery; Blake Anderson, Innisfail, 15-17 cadet recurve male archery; Josh Canning, Sylvan Lake, 15-16 Jr C 60-63 kg boxing; Jakob Dormaar, Millet, all-around team wrestling; Maxwell Krabben, Rocky, Dermot MacDougall, Red Deer County, Jackson Schultz, Red Deer, 11-12 (T2T1) male relay speed skating; Ben Leblanc, Red Deer, male singles badminton; Sydney Morris-Eros, Grande Prairie, 72kg female wrestling; Carson Pelletier, Edmonton, male 83kg wrestling; Owen Pimm, 13-14 midget male sprint; Teagan Rombough, Alliance, JO6 beam artistic gymnastics; Simon Marchinko, Red Deer, Charlie Nelson, Red Deer County, Faith Taylor, Camrose, 11-12 mini midget mixed relay cross country; Kristopher Wiley, Red Deer, 12-14 Cub compound male archery; Cory Wilson, Sylvan Lake, male epee fencing; Robyn Fisk, Calgary, 55kg wrestling.

Bronze: Elizabeth Barnett, Rocky, Charlotte Cutts, Lacombe, Rachel O’Connell, Red Deer, 11-12 (T2T1) female speed skating relay; Eric Clayholt, Red Deer, Rene Grise, Red Deer, male doubles badminton; volleyball women; volleyball men; Emily Downey, Red Deer, female singles badminton; Ella Havkin, Calgary, female foil fencing; Alyssa Henderson, Bashaw, Jenna Hollman, Penhold, female doubles badminton; Josephine Barnett, Rocky, Jorja Budd, Benalto, Mara Jenkins, Red Deer, 13-14 (T2T2) female speed skating relay; Maxwell Krabben, Rocky, 11-12 (T2T1) male individual speed skating; Simon Marchinko, Red Deer, 11-12 mini midget male classic cross-country skiing; Megan Ostrikoff, Red Deer, female epee fencing; Amy Peters, Delburne, 15-17 cadet compound female archery; Ashley Rodger, Red Deer, female over 44-48kg judo; Shawn Rowland, Red Deer, male sabre fencing; James Yiu, Calgary, male 37-40kg wrestling.

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF 57 40 16 1 0 235 57 35 19 1 2 208 56 32 21 1 2 184 57 24 26 6 1 156 57 20 33 3 1 171 56 10 41 5 0 117

Tuesday’s result Kelowna 3 Red Deer 1

GB — 13 1/2 26 1/2 35 38 1/2

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Pt 74 68 66 57 47 42

Monday’s results Moose Jaw 5 Prince Albert 0 Portland 2 Victoria 1 (OT) Regina 4 Swift Current 3 (SO) Tri-City 3 Edmonton 1

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Gold at Red Deer Strata Energy, noon, Arena.

• Bantam AA hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer Steel Kings, 1:45 p.m., Kinsmen A; Okotoks at West Central, 3:15 p.m., Rocky Mountain House; Medicine Hat at Olds, 5:30 p.m.

• Peewee AA hockey: Airdrie at Olds, 3 p.m.

• Men’s basketball: Grandview vs.

Washed Up Warriors, Lacombe All Sports Cresting vs. Sheraton Red Deer, Silver Spurs vs. Alken Basin, 4:15 p.m.; Carstar vs. Chillibongs, The D Leaguers vs. Wells Furniture, Triple A Batteries vs. Rusty Chuckers, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber.

• Major midget girls hockey: St. Albert at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

• Senior hockey: Bentley at Innisfail, fourth game of best-of-seven Chinook League and provincial AAA semifinal, 5 p.m.

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GA 162 174 188 192 179 238

Everett Seattle Spokane Portland Tri-City

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 35 17 .673 — Boston 32 23 .582 4 1/2 New York 23 32 .418 13 1/2 Brooklyn 14 40 .259 22 Philadelphia 8 45 .151 27 1/2

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF Brandon 56 35 17 2 2 220 Prince Albert 56 31 19 5 1 177 Moose Jaw 58 29 21 7 1 203 Regina 55 25 23 3 4 178 Swift Current 55 20 28 4 3 142 Saskatoon 56 19 33 4 0 164

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land LHP Brandon Mann (Nashville-PCL) 80 games and Atlanta RHP Richie Tate (Carolina-Carolina) 100 games following violations of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League BOSTON RED SOX — Agreed to terms with RHP Carlos Marmol on a minor league contract.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Agreed to terms with DH Evan Gattis on a one-year contract.

National League CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with RHP Jake Arrieta on a one-year contract and OF Matt Murton on a minor league contract.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Agreed to terms with OF Tony Campana on a minor league contract.

Can-Am League OTTAWA CHAMPIONS — Signed RHP Daniel Cordero and INF Robert Garza.

ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Signed RHP Luis Sanz.

SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Released INF Ty Forney and RHP BJ Hyatt.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHARLOTTE HORNETS — Acquired G-F Courtney Lee from Memphis for F P.J. Hairston.

MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Acquired F Chris Andersen and two second-round draft picks from Miami.

MIAMI HEAT — Acquired G Brian Roberts from Charlotte.

DETROIT PISTONS — Traded G Brandon Jennings and F Ersan Ilyasova to Orlando for F Tobias Harris.

NBA Development League RIO GRANDE VALLEY VIPERS — Activated F Jordan Hamilton.

Women’s National Basketball Association SEATTLE STORM — Signed G Sue Bird to a multiyear contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Re-signed S Chris Clemons to a one-year contract. Signed CB Joel Wilkinson.

Lemieux, Heaney latest players to join Order of Hockey in Canada

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — Pittsburgh Penguins great Mario Lemieux and women’s hockey star Geraldine Heaney headlined Tuesday’s announcement of the 2016 class of the Order of Hockey in Canada.

A winner of two Stanley Cups with the Penguins and now co-owner and chairman of the club, Lemieux left a mark on hockey in Canada and internationally.

Lemieux recorded 49 points in 36 games as a member of Team Canada and captained the country to victory at the 2002 Olympics and the 2004 World Cup. He also helped Canada to gold at the 1987 Canada Cup and silver at the 1985 world championship.

The Hockey Hall of Famer had 1,723 points in 915 games with the Penguins, and his career average of 1.883 points per game is second only to Wayne Gretzky.

Heaney helped Canada win gold at the 2002 Olympics as well as seven world championships in women’s hockey. She was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2013, doing her part to put women’s hockey on

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Blue Jays built for long ball with a 2.58 ERA. But the January trade that saw reliever Drew Storen join the Blue Jays has created competition for the ninth-inning role. In early February, Atkins said Toronto likely will use at least half of spring training, and maybe more, to decide whether Osuna or Storen will be the go-to guy in save situations.

SPRING TRAINING

BUT CAN THEY PITCH?

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Once again, the Blue Jays are built to slug.

The core of the offence that topped baseball with 891 runs last season is back in 2016, a batting order led by AL MVP Josh Donaldson, Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion.

Behind that powerful trio are slugging shortstop Troy Tulowitzki and catcher Russell Martin.

Yet while Toronto’s lineup looks sturdy, the starting rotation is another matter. Lefthander David Price, who went 9-1 in 11 starts after joining the Blue Jays last July, was allowed to leave as a free agent and joined AL East rival Boston. Left-hander Mark Buehrle also departed, leaving knuckleballer R.A. Dickey as the only Blue Jays pitcher with a 200-innings season.

The presumptive ace is right-hander Marcus Stroman, who missed most of 2015 while recovering from a knee injury but returned to go 4-0 in four September starts. Behind him will be righty Marco Estrada, who signed a $26 million, twoyear deal to stay with Toronto after a career-best 13 wins last season. The Blue Jays have high hopes for J.A. Happ, who signed a $36 million, threeyear contract after going 7-2 in 11 starts for playoff-bound Pittsburgh.

Only 24, Stroman is set to be a star for years to come.

Still, if Toronto’s other starters can’t deliver, it won’t mat-

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Toronto Blue Jay Jose Bautista watches after hitting a home run against the the Texas Rangers during last season’s American League Divisional Series. Bautista and the rest of the core of the offence that topped baseball with 891 runs last season is back but will they be able to get enough pitching to get them back into the postseason. ter how many home runs their slugging lineup hits.

Here are some other things to watch as the Blue Jays get set for spring training:

FIGHT FOR FIFTH STARTER’S SPOT

Candidates for the fifth spot include right-hander Aaron Sanchez, who began 2015 in the rotation but returned to the bullpen following a midseason muscle strain righthander Jesse Chavez, another former Blue Jay who was acquired from Oakland last

November oft-injured righty Gavin Floyd and right-hander Drew Hutchison, Toronto’s opening-day starter in 2015.

NEW DEALS FOR SLUGGING DUO?

Bautista and Encarnacion both have one year remaining on their contracts before becoming eligible for free agency. The new executive team of president Mark Shapiro and general manager Ross Atkins have held preliminary talks with Bautista (35) and Encarnacion (33) about new deals,

and more substantive talks are possible during spring training. At the winter meetings, Encarnacion’s agent said his client would cease negotiations once the regular season begins.

WHO’LL HANDLE THE NINTH?

Roberto Osuna rose from Class A to the major leagues after a strong showing at spring training in 2015. By late June, the unflappable rookie had emerged as Toronto’s closer, saving 20 of 23 chances

To acquire Storen from Washington, the Blue Jays gave up speedy outfielder Ben Revere, who served as Toronto’s leadoff hitter throughout the playoffs. Before Revere moved to the top of the order, Tulowitzki briefly batted in the leadoff spot after his trade from Colorado. Manager John Gibbons has indicated he’d rather not have Tulo reclaim the role. With second baseman Devon Travis (left shoulder surgery) set to begin the season on the disabled list, the job could be won by centre fielder Kevin Pillar, one of several Blue Jays players who arrived early at spring training for extra work.

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Revere’s departure created Toronto’s only position battle, with Canadians Michael Saunders and Dalton Pompey set to compete for the left-field job. Saunders sustained a knee injury in spring training last year and never fully healed, playing just nine games. Pompey (23) spent much of the season at Triple-A but saw action as a pinch-runner in the post-season, stealing four bases.

Campbell finds a home at Kelowna gym Shane (Shaolin) Campbell has trained with former UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo at his renowned Nova Uniao gym in Brazil as well as at Kings MMA and Team Alpha Male in the U.S. and Montreal’s Tristar Gym. But the 29-year-old lightweight from St. Catharines, Ont., found a home at David Lea’s Toshido MMA in Kelowna, B.C., — the gym that sent Rory MacDonald to the UFC. “At the time I was living in Edmonton and I made the decision to not spend another winter there,” said Campbell.

“And David Lea brought me down to spar (with) Matt Dwyer for I believe his first UFC fight,” he added. “After seeing how David Lea coached and the connection we made, I chose to move here.”

On Sunday, Campbell (12-3-0) steps into the cage for his third UFC fight when he takes on American James Krause (22-7-0) on a televised card in Pittsburgh. Donald (Cowboy) Cerrone, moving up to welterweight, faces Alex

(Cowboy) Oliveira in the main event at the Consol Energy Center.

The card also features Kelowna bantamweight Sarah (Cheesecake) Moras, another Shane (Shaolin) Toshido MMA fighter, and welCampbell terweight Alex (The Dominican Nightmare) Garcia, a Dominican who fights out of Montreal.

For the six-foot Campbell, who cuts from around 185 pounds to fight at 155, it’s a rare outing against a taller opponent. The 29-year-old Krause, a submission expert whose UFC record is 3-3-0, is six foot two.

Campbell’s move to Kelowna came just before his World Series of Fighting victory over Derek Boyle in February 2015. Campbell won in spectacular fashion, hurting Boyle with a body kick

and then pausing to throw a Hadouken at him — a move from the “Street Fighter” video game in which the character thrust his palms forward to send a surge of spirit energy flying towards his opponent.

The video of the fight, which Campbell won by third-round TKO, has been viewed more than one million times on YouTube.

“I use it to hurt them,” Campbell said somewhat mysteriously about the video game move.

The former Muay Thai world champion graduated to the UFC next time, as an injury replacement on short notice against fellow Canadian John (The Bull) Makdessi at UFC 186 in Montreal last April. Campbell was stopped with seven seconds left in the first round but not before punishing Makdessi’s legs with a string of punishing kicks.

Campbell won next time out, via unanimous decision over former Jungle Fight champion Elias Silverio last August in Saskatoon.

While this marks his first UFC fight outside of Canada, Campbell is no

stranger to travelling the world. As a kickboxer, he competed in the U.S., China, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Netherlands and Belarus.

He got into combat sports via a friend who was training at Iron Tiger Muay Thai in Stoney Creek, Ont. Campbell joined him twice a week — “I was doing nothing else with my time when I was 16.”

Several months later, coach Alin Halmagean asked him if he wanted a fight.

“An amazing coach. He always had the next fight booked for me and I just kept going with it.”

Campbell went on to train at different gyms, recalling vividly his time at Nova Uniao in Rio de Janeiro.

“Brazil is such a nice play but the gym itself, you have 50 killers — all fighters — trying to train for their fight. It’s a big room but the room is packed full and the fighters have to wait on the sideline just to get their sparring in.

“It was definitely an eye-opener at the time, to really see so many killers and active fighters in one spot.”

Campbell teaches at Toshido when not fighting these days.

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lost her bantamweight title to Holly Holm in Australia last year, her first defeat since joining UFC. “Honestly, my thought in the medical room, I was sitting in the corner and was like, ‘What am I anymore if I’m not this?”’ Rousey said Tuesday during an appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”

“Literally sitting there thinking about killing myself. In that exact second, I’m like: ‘I’m nothing. What do I do anymore?”

Rousey told DeGeneres that her relationship with UFC heavyweight Travis Browne helped get her through.

“I looked up and saw my man, Travis, was standing there,” Rousey said.

“I’m looking up at him and was just like: ‘I need to have his babies. I need to stay alive.”’

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GRIEMAN Keith 1964 - 2016 Keith Joseph Grieman of Red Deer, AB, passed away at Drayton Valley, AB on Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at the age of 51 years. Keith was born on October 9, 1964 to Arnold and Bernice (nee Trainor) Grieman at Humboldt, SK. Shortly after receiving his education in Humboldt, he moved to Saskatoon where he started his career in Sales, beginning with Ens Toyota. Keith married Annette Gerspacher on July 28, 1990 and they recently celebrated their Twenty-fifth Wedding Anniversary. In 1991 they moved to Red Deer, AB, where he was employed with Red Deer Toyota and currently with Zep Inc. The couple was blessed with two beautiful daughters: Thea in October, 2000 and Celina in January, 2003. Keith loved and adored his three girls and family was first and foremost in his heart. Camping, vacations and road trips to the Humboldt area were a big part of their time together. He was kept busy with the girls’ dance and other activities. Keith took great pleasure in seeing his daughters’ achievements and academic successes. Keith was everything to the girls; he was their rock. Keith was an avid sports fan. He played baseball, and High School football with the Humboldt Mohawks. He enjoyed golf, although he had less time for it in recent years. As a youth, he would throw his clubs on his back and bike to the golf course after school. He played slow-pitch in Saskatoon and recently with the Knights of Columbus, the past two summers. He cheered for the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Edmonton Oilers; and he followed several other teams. He gave unselfishly of his time and talent in the community. Keith enjoyed the friendship and fellowship of the Knights of Columbus at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. He organized the pancake breakfasts, turkey and spaghetti suppers, basketball and golf tournaments, garage sales and other charitable initiatives. In September, 2015, he was appointed Grand Knight. People were everything to him. Customers were his friends. Friends were practically family. Family was priceless to Keith.

“Rest in peace Sweet Angel. You are in our hearts forever.”

Keith will be lovingly remembered by his wife, Annette Grieman (nee Gerspacher), and his daughters Thea and Celina Grieman, all of Red Deer, AB. He will also be very sadly missed by his family Kevin A. (Brenda) Grieman of Humboldt, SK, Terry (Pat) Grieman of Rimbey, AB, Colleen Pylypow and Dean (Colleen) Grieman both of Saskatoon, SK, and Annette’s family, mother-in-law Dorothy Gerspacher, 90, of Humboldt, SK, Ken (Barb) Gerspacher of Englefeld, SK, Len (Carol) Gerspacher and Louise (Ivan) Kowalski, both of Saskatoon, SK, Lloyd (Joan) Gerspacher of St. Gregor, SK, Melvin (Kristina) Gerspacher of Saskatoon, SK, Walter (Debbie) Gerspacher and Eugene (LeeAnn) Gerspacher, both of Humboldt, SK, Ramona (Kevin) Reinelt of Port Coquitlam, BC, Donna (Maurice) Moellenbeck of Englefeld, SK, Carol (Lyle) Brons of Lake Lenore, SK, and numerous nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews. Keith was predeceased by his father, Arnold Grieman, his mother, Bernice Joa, his stepfather, Norbert Joa, his brother, Glenn Grieman, his brother-in-law, Vern Pylypow, and his father-in-law, Herman Gerspacher. A Prayer Service was held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium in Red Deer, AB on Sunday, Feb. 7, 2016.

Funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, in Red Deer, AB on Monday, Feb. 8, 2016 with the Reverend Father Les Drewicki celebrant. If desired memorial donations in Keith’s honour for his children may be made directly to Royal Bank of Canada, account #08319-5106935 at Unit 1, 6791 Gaetz Ave., Red Deer, AB, T4N 4C9, or cheques payable to “Annette Grieman” with description memo “Thea and Celina Grieman” for deposit into this account, or to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of AB and NWT at www.heartandstroke.ab.ca, or to the Canadian Diabetes Association at www.diabetes.ca or directly to the local branches. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street, (Taylor) Drive, Red Deer. 403-340-4040.

HAMILTON Shannon Shannon was born March 31, 1967 in Timmins, Ontario to Betty Jaap (Ross) from Winnipeg, Manitoba and Dennis Warren Hamilton from Owen Sound, Ontario.

He was predeceased by his grandparents, several uncles and father Dennis Hamilton.

He passed away suddenly and unexpectedly February 9, 2016 in his home. He is survived by one son Dylan Jared Hamilton, his mother Betty Mae Jaap, one sister Diane Lee Hamilton and two brothers: Robert George Jaap and Billy (William) Rowan Jaap; aunts, uncles and several cousins.

Shannon was a loving, caring father, son, brother, uncle, nephew and cousin. As a single parent he did an amazing, wonderful job parenting and teaching his son all about life and living.

Shannon moved frequently throughout Canada before settling in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. Shannon`s last job was in long haul trucking with Ventures West. He loved driving the north country and did a stint on the ice roads.

He also drove for Associated Taxi and for Alberta Gold Taxi in Red Deer for a long period of time. There will be a celebration of life held on Thursday, February 18 at 10 a.m. at Evergreen Funeral Chapel. 16204 Fort Road Edmonton, AB. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the charity of your choice.

Heimann Klaus 1936 - 2016 Mr. Klaus Heimann of Red Deer, Alberta, formerly of Innisfail passed away at the Red Deer Regional Health Care Centre on Thursday, February 11, 2016 at the age of 79 years. Klaus is survived by his devoted wife Laura; children: Robert (Barb) Heimann, Louise (Barry) Wilks; two grandchildren: Karis and Logan Heimann; and his brothers: Ralph (Linda) Meyer and Egon Meyer as well as numerous nieces and nephews. A Funeral Service will be held at Peace Lutheran Church (4027 - 48 Ave.) Innisfail , on Friday, February 19, 2016 at 10:30 a.m. Memorial tributes may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or the Kidney Foundation.

Heartland Funeral Services Ltd., Innisfail entrusted with arrangements. 403-227-0006. www.heartlandfuneralservices.com

LEIPER Ernest Alexander It is with a heavy heart the family of Ernest Alexander Leiper announces his passing at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Saturday, February 13th, 2016 at the age of 84 years.

Ernest was born on November 21st, 1931 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is survived by his daughter Tracy (Michael Kambeitz) and their children, Bryce, Lexi and Tucker; and his daughter Barbara (Shawn).

He will be deeply missed by the many family and friends he met during his long and adventurous life. Ernie was a hardworking, honest man that lived every day to the fullest. He spent his youth sailing the Great Lakes with the Merchant Marines and his working career with CN Railway, retiring after 40 years of service. Ernie spent his summers with many of his friends on the greens of Elmhurst Golf and Country Club near Winnipeg and his winters at a hockey rink.

Ernie loved to tell stories and hear the stories of others. He was never afraid to speak his mind, tell the truth that you needed to hear and when you needed to hear it. He was a passionate man that was always the life of any party and believed that age was only a number not something to slow you down.

A Memorial Service will be held at the Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Friday, February 19th, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made directly to the Heart & Stroke Foundation, 202, 5913 50 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 4C4.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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GILLILAND Ada Maxine (nee Dundas) Nov. 3, 1934 - Feb. 12, 2016 Maxine Gilliland passed away peacefully surrounded by her immediate family at the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Memorial Hospice House, “Heaven On Earth,” in Kamloops on February 12, 2016 at 81 years of age. Maxine was born on November 03, 1934 in Trochu, Alberta to Mac and Ada Dundas. Maxine was a gifted Registered Nurse, Real Estate Agent, Gourmet Cook, Interior Decorator, Gardener and Dog Groomer amongst many other things. She married Frederick Gilliland on February 04, 1958 in Manhattan Beach, California and was blessed with three loving children, Blaine, Beth, and James. Maxine will be remembered as a loving and compassionate wife, mother, grandmother, mother-in-law, aunt and cousin. She was an avid gardener, had a strong fashion sense and a loving, caring heart for the numerous pets she surrounded herself with. She brightened our lives with a great sense of humor and love of life, inspiring those around her on a regular basis. Maxine was predeceased by her father Mac, mother Ada, sisters Heather and Joey, and brother James. She is survived by her husband Fred, daughter Beth Hanham, her two sons Blaine and James, daughters-in-law Melinda and Leesa, son-in-law Robert Hanham, her 5 grandchildren Tait, Jack, Connor, Errol Hanham, Alec Hanham, special grandkids Jon and Mandi Sharkey, nieces and nephews, many dear, life-long friends, and her loyal dog Augustus (Augie). Her family wishes to thank the caring staff at the Royal Inland Hospital, the Oncology Department, Ponderosa Lodge and the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Memorial Hospice for their loving care.

They would also like to express their appreciation to Dr. Proctor, Dr. Van Heerden, Dr. Howie, Dr. Reid, Dr. Farren and Dr. Ackerman, Dr. Holman and Dr. Kip. For those who wish, donations may be made to the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Memorial Hospice or the Cancer Society. A Memorial will be announced at a later date. Condolences may be expressed to the family from www.kamloopsfuneralhome.com KAMLOOPS FUNERAL HOME 285 Fortune Drive, Kamloops, BC V2B 2H7 T: 250-554-2577 F: 250-554-2117

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Bush, Cruz look to South Carolina APPEAL TO LARGE MILITARY AND VETERAN POPULATION

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLESTON, S.C. — Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz on Tuesday appealed to South Carolina, a state with a large military and veteran population, with promises to strengthen U.S. defence as the next Republican primary approaches. Democratic rivals Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders sought support from black voters in upcoming nominating contests.

South Carolina residents will cast their votes for a Republican nominee for president on Saturday. For the Democrats, the Nevada caucuses are next.

Polls show Donald Trump leading with about a third of the vote in South Carolina, holding a double-digit lead over Cruz, a Texas senator. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is trying to rebound from a disappointing fifth place finish

in the New Hampshire primary.

Bush, the former Florida governor, is desperately trying to save his campaign by finishing ahead of Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. They are locked in a race to emerge as the more mainstream alternative to Trump, the brash billionaire, and Cruz, an outspoken conservative Cruz. On Monday, Bush had his brother, former President George W. Bush, on the campaign trail for the first time.

Jeb Bush’s comments Tuesday focused heavily on gun rights. He also addressed the Supreme Court vacancy following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, saying that he would choose someone who, like Scalia, was a “lover of liberty.”

Cruz called for increasing the number of active-duty troops, airplanes and battleships. He did not put a price tag on his plans, but pointed to former President Ronald Reagan’s approach as a model for how he would get it done.

Cruz said he will pay for it by cutting federal spending by at least $500 billion, selling federal assets and properties and auditing the Pentagon to find savings.

Judge says Apple must help hack San Bernardino killer’s phone

Cruz came under fire from his rivals over what they call a pattern of unethical campaign tactics and inaccurate statements by the Texas senator who has shaped his White House bid around trust. Trump and Rubio have accused Cruz of distorting their records with increasing frequency, openly calling him a liar.

The Texas senator shrugged off the criticism Tuesday while campaigning in South Carolina.

Trump and Rubio have accused Cruz of distorting their records with increasing frequency.

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The fiery conservative’s ability to navigate questions about his integrity could well decide his fate in the crowded 2016 contest, where he remains a top-tier contender.

“He’s lying. And I think it’s disturbing,” Rubio said in Beaufort. “I think this is very disturbing when you have a

Gas explosions in Dominican Republic injure 40, level homes

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WASHINGTON — A U.S. magistrate ordered Apple Inc. on Tuesday to help the Obama administration hack into an encrypted iPhone belonging to one of the shooters in the December attack in San Bernardino, California, in a first-of-its-kind ruling that pits digital privacy against national security.

The ruling by Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym, a former federal prosecutor, requires Apple to supply highly specialized software the FBI can load onto the county-owned work iPhone to bypass a self-destruct feature, which erases the phone’s data after too many unsuccessful attempts to unlock it. The FBI wants to be able to try different combinations in rapid sequence until it finds the right one.

The decision gives the Justice Department a significant victory in an entrenched technology policy battle, as more-powerful encryption services threaten the ability of federal agents to uncover important evidence in criminal or terrorism cases. The Obama administration, which has embraced stronger encryption as a way to keep consumers safe on the Internet, had struggled to find a compelling example to make its case.

The ruling Tuesday tied the problem to the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people in a Dec. 2 shooting at a holiday luncheon for Farook’s co-workers. The couple later died in a gun battle with police.

Federal prosecutors told the judge in a court application Tuesday that they can’t access a work phone used by Syed Farook because they don’t know his passcode and Apple has not co-operated. Under U.S. law, a work phone is generally the property of a person’s employer. The judge told Apple to provide an estimate of its cost to comply with her order, suggesting that the government will pay for the work.

Apple has provided default encryption on its iPhones since 2014, allowing any device’s contents to be accessed only by the user who knows the phone’s passcode.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Early morning explosions rocked an LPG distribution station in a densely populated neighbourhood of the Dominican Republic’s capital Tuesday, destroying several homes and injuring at least 40 people, officials said.

Soldiers and Civil Defence workers used dogs to find survivors in the ruins of the buildings but determined everyone was accounted for as crews started clearing debris from the area in the Los Rios community in the northern part of Santo Domingo.

Fire Chief Oscar Garcia said the 40 victims were hospitalized and officials were investigating what caused the explosion at the Solgas station. Six people taken to one nearby hospital had burns on up to 50 per cent of their body, said Eddy Bruno, burn unit director at the Luis Eduardo Aybar hospital.

Onlookers stood on rooftops to observe blown-out doors and windows, downed power lines and crumpled cars, including one that had a woman’s sandal on its hood.

Neighbours had streamed out of their homes around dawn because they smelled gas, and the first explosion occurred shortly afterward, around 6 a.m.

“It was horrible. We took off running,” said Maria Casilda Bonilla, who was in her second-floor apartment with a 22-year-old son.

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Clinton spent all of Tuesday in New York City focused on solidifying the African-American support her family has long enjoyed and that her campaign is counting on to act as a firewall against the surprisingly insurgent campaign of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

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Zika not the only concern for travellers OTHER MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUSES ARE ALSO OF INTEREST FOR PEOPLE GOING TO CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Zika isn’t the only mosquito-borne bug that poses a health risk to Canadians travelling to vacation hotspots, even though the virus is raising the most alarm due to a possible link with microcephaly in newborns whose mothers may have been infected during pregnancy.

Dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever can also be harboured by the Zika-carrying Aedes mosquitoes that are endemic in Central and South America, many Caribbean countries, Mexico and parts of the southern U.S. Dengue — also known by the cringe-worthy descriptor “break-bone fever” — is caused by one of four related strains of the virus, which can be transmitted to a human through the bite of an infected mosquito.

Only about a quarter of those infected experience symptoms, but they can be nasty — high fever, severe headache and eye pain, joint and muscle and/or bone pain and a rash.

“From a global perspective, the burden of dengue is huge,” said Dr. Mark Loeb, an infectious disease specialist at McMaster University in Hamilton.

“It’s been estimated relatively recently that there’s about 400 million cases of dengue globally per year.”

Up to about 500,000 of those cases are severe enough to require hospitalization, and the disease kills about 25,000 people each year, many of them children, he said.

That’s because the virus can cause dengue hemorrhagic fever, a severe and potentially deadly disease that Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS can occur when a person is infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes float in a mosquito cage at a laboratory in Cucuta, Colombia. Zika isn’t the only mosquito-borne with one strain of dengue, then subsebug that poses a health risk to Canadians travelling to vacation hotspots, even though the virus is raising the most alarm quently exposed to a second strain.

A vaccine to protect against dengue due to a possible link with microcephaly in newborns whose mothers may have been infected during pregnancy. The Aedes has recently been developed, but in aegypti mosquito is the vector that transmits the Zika virus, and also dengue and chikunguna. clinical trials it’s been shown to be “Although the disease usually caus- said Ogden, who advises visiting only about 60 per cent effective — the lion cases had been reported to the es only sporadic cases and small out- PHAC’s website “to know if you’re seasonal influenza vaccine has about Pan American Health Organization.

In 2014, Canada recorded a spike breaks, nearly all major urban cen- travelling to a particular country the same efficacy — and has not yet in cases among residents who had re- tres in the American tropics have been where there are health risks and been approved by regulators.

Loeb said dengue hemorrhagic fe- turned from endemic regions. As of re-infested with Aedes aegypti and how to take appropriate precautions ver, which can lead to fatal shock, is early December 2014, 320 confirmed most urban dwellers are vulnerable against them.”

“Do you need to carry bed nets? Do unlikely to be a concern for most Cana- and 159 probable cases had been di- because of low immunization coverdian vacationers because the chance agnosed in Canada, PHAC says on its age. Latin America is now at greater you need to carry the appropriate mosrisk of urban epidemics than at any quito repellent? Do you need a yellow of getting a secondary infection with website.

“The difference between 2013 and time in the past 50 years,” the WHO fever vaccine?” another strain is unlikely.

Loeb said that while no one wants “We know that travellers can get 2014 was quite stark,” said Ogden. “It says on its website.

Yellow fever, which initially caus- to contract dengue, chikungunya or dengue, but they’re very unlikely to get was associated with its emergence in severe illness from dengue … it’s like the Caribbean and Central America, es such symptoms as fever, headache yellow fever, the risk of severe illness places where Canadian travellers go.” and muscle aches, can in some people or death for Canadian travellers from having a very bad flu.”

There is no vaccine against chikun- enter a potentially fatal toxic phase those diseases pales with Zika’s risk In recent years, chikungunya (pronounced chick-uhn-guhn-ya) has al- gunya, although scientists are working marked by yellowing of the skin and of possibly causing unusually small eyes, abdominal pain and vomiting, heads in children born to women inso become an issue for travellers to to develop one.

Then there is yellow fever. bleeding from the nose, mouth and fected while pregnant. southern climes, particularly to counWhile the vast majority of cases eyes, liver and kidney failure, deliri“Zika, if this holds true and the risk tries in the Caribbean and Central and deaths from yellow fever occur in um, seizures and eventually coma. is substantial enough, one has to do America.

There is no treatment for yellow fe- the best one can to protect pregnant The majority of people infected sub-Saharan Africa, the virus borne with chikungunya develop some symp- by the Aedes aegypti mosquito should ver, but it can be prevented with vacci- women from this sort of birth defect, toms, most commonly fever and joint also be of concern to people travelling nation, which many endemic countries because it’s potentially a terrible pain, although effects can include to some South and Central American require travellers to obtain prior to thing,” he said.

“Something like dengue, it can be a headache, muscle pain, joint swelling countries and several Caribbean is- their visit.

“I think that people should be very bad case for a traveller, it can be and rash. While most people feel bet- lands, where the disease is either enter within about a week, symptoms can demic or on the rise, says the World aware of the risk of mosquito-borne like a very bad case of the flu. But you Health Organization. diseases when they are travelling,” get over it. be severe and disabling.

“It is an unpleasant disease when you get it, but it’s very, very rarely fatal,” said Dr. Nick Ogden, a senior research scientist at the Public Health Agency of Canada’s (PHAC) national microbiology lab in Winnipeg.

Yet in about 20 per cent of cases, those infected with chikungunya experience arthritis-like joint pain that can persist for months, or even years.

In December 2013, local transmission of the virus was reported for the first time in the Americas. The island of St. Martin was the first to log cases of chikungunya, which spread like wildfire to other locations in GREAT THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU GO NORTH the Caribbean and beyond — including to the United States. As of July 2015, more than 1.5 mil7418215A26-29

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