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FROM RED DEER TO DEADPOOL CHAMPION BATON TWIRLER MICHELLE CHRISTA SMITH PLAYS STUNT DOUBLE FOR GINA CARANO IN DEADPOOL You will never see her face in that camera could get it ready. So Deadpool — the record-breaking box I did it multiple, multiple times, office hit now playing in soldout the- before she even got to camera, and atres around the world — but you will then I just stand aside and coach her certainly see this Red Deer original’s through or be there for moral support amazing death-defying moves. for her.” Thirty-one-year-old MiAn example of her chelle Christa Smith, born stunt work involves and raised in Red Deer wearing a harness, and where she learned to be a being hooked up to a world baton twirling chamwire line, a machine pion, was the stunt double that pulls a stunt perin the movie for actress Gina son with high force into Carano. Carano plays Angel obstacles like cars and Dust — the bad guy’s rightpoles, or to the ground. hand lady — in the adult So when mutants Ansuperhero movie starring gel Dust and Colossus Ryan Reynolds. Angel Dust are fighting, they are does brutal battle with suboth so strong that when per hero Colossus. they hit each other, MARY-ANN At the moment, the Lind“They go flying”, said BARR sey Thurber ComprehenSmith. sive High graduate — now “They are not goBARRSIDE acrobat, professional stunt ing to let Gina do that. woman and instructor — is There’s a couple of working on the set of anothtimes I had to. … (Angel er movie being filmed in Vancou- Dust) would get hit in the face and go ver, Scorched Earth, starring Carano. flying backwards on this wire, and Again Smith is Carano’s stunt double. crash into the ground, and another The two have become friends, sup- one where Colossus grabs her by the porting each other through the trials neck, lifting her up, she has to jump. I and tribulations of a tough industry. jump, kick my feet up and then I have “My job (on Deadpool) happened to land on my shoulders and back.” a lot in rehearsal. I was practising There’s definitely a technique to wirepulls, a lot of fight choreogra- hitting the ground, riding the wire, phy, because my actress is actually a landing on the ground, she said. “But professional fighter in real life, aside that is our job, the risk we’re underfrom being a real actress.” taking.” “I did a lot of wires, crashing in“I’m the one you call to do choto things, rehearsing the fight. And reography … wires, fires, definitely then when we get to set, I of course weapons. It came from baton. … Stick do all the hard hits, anything hitting weapons, swords, knives comes really the ground, or hitting set pieces or quite easily to me.” objects around, that’s going to be my It is no easy job. Smith said she job,” said Smith, who is also an acro- spends time weekly getting massages batics and baton instructor. and at the chiropractor. Her biggest “Usually I would do most of the issue has been whiplash. “Multiple fights in other projects I worked on whiplashes on whiplashes, and that’s but on this particular one, Gina was not fun.” very capable of doing her own fight. My job was to do all the lineups so Please see STUNT on Page A2
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STORY FROM PAGE A1 Her first stunt involved using a sword in the movie Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. Since then, she has performed stunts on quite a number of film/TV sets, acrobats at the 2010 Olympics, and taken acting along the way as well. She was a long-time member of the touring Underground Circus, a professional company based in Vancouver. Most of her work has been in Vancouver, which has a burgeoning movie industry. Until recently that’s where she lived. Now she’s making her home in Calgary where she wants to get her own business going, teaching what she knows. She also really wants to live in a place where it doesn’t rain so much. She said this from Vancouver as she watched the pouring rain come down. Smith does some teaching at studios now in Calgary, and has also instructed overseas in places like Scotland, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Her beginnings in performance go back to when she was five years old in Red Deer, where she learned to motivate herself in baton twirling. “We were in nationals when we were nine.” She remains close friends with her former Red Deer childhood baton teammates, Chelsea Henning (nee Bissonnette) and Hollie Gamble (nee Neilson). When Smith was young, as soon as she would get home from school she would head out to baton or dancing lessons until 10 p.m. Then she would train in Calgary on weekends. It amounted to 40 hours every week. “I was competing regularly, flying all over Canada to compete in nationals, all over the world.” “It used to really frustrate me when people would be like ‘Oh you march and do parades.’ And I’m like, ‘No, no, no, no. … We march when you’re young, when you’re learning to count music. But then aside from that, that’s never been what it’s about. “It’s so artistic, and such a beautiful sport. It’s really, really difficult because of fine motor skills and precision required. You do dance, you do gymnastics, all with this baton in both hands, multiple batons. It’s like rhythmic gymnastics but a little more meaty, and it’s so beautiful.” “One of my goals in life is to be able to share what it is to me, what my vision of what it can be. It’s given me so much. The reason that I’ve been so successful at circus, and dance, and stunts and marshal arts, is because I have this skill that just opens up my brain. “You’re golden. The application of it is just endless and I really wish more people could see that.” Among her many accomplishments when she was younger, Smith was World Baton Twirling Champion in 1999. She left Red Deer when she was 18 but still considers it her hometown. Her mom and step dad, Louise and Frank Watson, now live in Canmore. Her father, Harry Smith, who is disabled, still lives in Red Deer. Smith said getting into the film industry is not easy. “You have to be patient, believe and trust it will happen but you have to put the work in.” Two years ago Smith questioned herself, what she was doing, and where she was headed. So, in what seems to fit for someone who just never seems to stop, she decided to do something that turned out to be life-changing. She walked for 33 days on the Camino de Santiago in Spain — a pilgrimage route many people walk as a way of growing spiritually. “To work in this industry you put so much of yourself into it, and you don’t always get anything in return because there’s no overnight success. It is years and years of hustling and constant networking, and I sort of woke up one day … ‘I don’t think I love this.’”
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She came back with some clarity. “I changed my priorities. Now if I don’t enjoy what I’m doing, I don’t do it.” She’s had to keep quiet about her work on Deadpool until now due to a confidentiality agreement. The latest numbers estimate the movie, which opened on Feb. 12, has earned $325 million (U.S.) worldwide as of Wednesday, breaking numerous records, including 20th Century Fox’s largest opening ever. “I felt that (Deadpool) was going to be good because the energy on set was really cool. It was a really ego-less set. … Everyone was just really having a good time. I think that reads really well in the finished product. “I knew that it was going to be good. I didn’t know that it was going to be so successful.” “And watching Ryan, Ryan Reynolds, he’d be in his Deadpool suit and not have a mask on and then as soon as he put the mask on he became this cartoon character. It was quite incredible to watch. … He’s a very nice guy.” Last fall, Smith was invited to audition for Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas. She’s hoping that turns into something. “That’s been on my list since I was about 10. I feel that it’s very, very close but I’m not going to sit around and wait
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Murder charge laid in suspicious death BY ADVOCATE STAFF A murder charge has been laid in the case of a man dropped off at the Red Deer Hospital, who died shortly thereafter. Red Deer RCMP, with assistance from the Calgary Major Crimes Unit, have charged Shane Dion McPhee, 40, of Red Deer with second degree murder. William Blaine Baker, 47, has been identified as the victim. The investigation started on Feb. 13, when Baker was dropped off at the
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CBSA seizes 4kgs of heroin in frozen fish shipment TORONTO — Canada Border Services Agency says there was something fishy about a shipment inspected at Toronto’s airport — and it wasn’t just the frozen fish. CBSA says officers at Pearson International Airport were conducting a routine examination of cargo arriving off a flight from Lahore, Pakistan, on Tuesday when they discovered suspected heroin. Officials say officers found two small packages deep within a large shipment of frozen fish that were similarly wrapped and loosely placed inside the contents. The packages were cut open and the contents tested positive for suspected heroin. A total of four kilograms of suspected heroin was seized and turned over to the RCMP.
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CALGARY — The Canadian Food Investigation Agency says another company is recalling pork products in Calgary due to possible E. coli contamination. The agency says Dashing Dishes is recalling 13 types of prepared meals that contain pork sold from its Calgary store. Consumers are being warned not to eat the meals and to throw them away or return them. There was a recall earlier this week of fresh and frozen raw pork products supplied by Hillview Meat Processor to 11 stores in Calgary and in nearby Acme and Crossfield. Alberta Health Services is investigating an outbreak of 16 cases of E. coli O157:H7 in the greater Calgary area, but none has definitively been linked to the pork recall. The recalls were triggered by a probe into the food illness outbreak by
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Getting her whole body behind the shot Michelle Caplan makes a shot during a learn to curl session prior to the first draw of the Freeze The House Charity Bonspiel at the Pidherney Curling Centre in Red Deer on Friday. The 5th Annual Bonspiel runs through the weekend in Red Deer with the goal of raising $150,000 for Ronald McDonald Charities House Central Alberta. 40 teams and about 160 participants will play several draws over the weekend with help from two Olympic curling medalists. Olympic Gold medalist John Morris and World Champion and Olympic silver medalist Carter Rycroft will be on hand through the weekend to help teams make tough shots.
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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Elementary school teacher Evelyn Bissonnette asks her 14 young students to stand up, one by one, and introduce themselves. “Hello,” a confident young boy says in French. “My name is George and I am seven years old and I speak French, Arabic and English. And I come from Syria.” George moved to Canada less than two months ago and already speaks French with little to no Arabic accent. “And do you have any brothers or sisters?” asks Bissonnette, whose French-integration class includes 11 Syrian refugees aged six and seven. “I am seven years old,” is his memorized reply. While his accent is spot on, he is not yet fluent. Bissonnette said that within three months, however, most of the kids understand and speak French with ease. She is on Quebec’s front lines in the resettling of thousands of refugees the province wants to welcome as part of the federal government’s pledge to bring in 25,000 Syrians fleeing their country’s civil war. While Syrian children are being integrated into classrooms across the country, Quebec’s strict language laws force refugees settling in the province to have a sufficient knowledge of French before they can attend regular school. “They learn fast,” said Bissonnette. “I repeat things often and a lot of the learning is non-verbal at first.” She teaches one of 10 so-called “welcome classes” offered at Ecole Francois-de-Laval, in Montreal’s Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough, which has become home to a significant percentage of immigrants, not just from Syria, but also from North and Central Africa. This year’s 10 classes, for children aged five to 12, are a record and reflect how immigration to the area is rapidly changing demographics. “Twenty years ago this neighbourhood’s population was shrinking,” says Francine Caron, a social worker who acts as a link between the school and several community organizations. “Last year we added an annex to the school,” she said, standing in the new building. “This is the first time we’ve had so many welcome classes. A lot of refugees and other immigrants are coming to this neighbourhood, from Lebanon, Egypt, Algeria. Housing here is cheaper.” Bissonnette’s classroom looks like any other, with posters of capital and lower-case letters lining the walls that surround giggling and laughing children. She lets the kids colour on their own. Slowly, the steady hum of kids talking starts getting louder.
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Teacher Evelyn Bissonette, centre teaches refugee students Selina Allawa,left, from Syria, Camilo Vargas, 2nd left, from Colombia, Jamil Haddad, 2nd right, from Syria and Tony Batekh, right, from Syria, as they attend French classes at a school Wednesday, in Montreal. Bissonnette says due to the initial language barriers, the refugee children “need a lot of content” so she makes sure to teach math every day. “You don’t need language as much for math so it helps them feel competent,” she says, as some of her kids begin to sit on top of one another, the giggling getting ever louder. A young boy walks up to the front of the class and reveals how someone has drawn a red line with marker across a page in his workbook. “Did Edmon do that?” Bissonnette asks. The boy nods and walks back to his seat. “Edmon is my little disturber,” she says lovingly about the seven-year-old, who is also from Syria. “He likes to hide the water bottles.” The room’s noise has become overwhelming. George is sitting with another three kids on top of him. All are squealing in delight. Bissonnette has let things go on long enough. “OK everyone, back to your seats,” she says softly in French. It’s time for lunch. Bissonnette says non-francophone immigrants stay in welcome classes for one year on average before starting normal school, but adds the curriculum she teaches is virtually the same as in regular classes.
CHARLOTTETOWN — A Prince Edward Island professor says she has been inundated with emails from women who fear childbirth as she works to better understand what’s behind that fear as it relates to women who request a planned cesarean birth. Janet Bryanton, a professor in the University of Prince Edward Island School of Nursing, said she is interviewing women who have requested a planned cesarean because of their fears of childbirth. Bryanton said she wants to find out what’s at the root of their fears and gain an understanding of what they’re going through in the hopes of quelling some of those fears for other women. “I’m trying to bring women’s voices forward so that we can understand what they’re going through and what’s behind that fear,” said Bryanton in a phone interview on Friday. Bryanton said understanding of those fears will enhance women’s physical and mental health by lowering negative birth outcomes, such as post traumatic stress disorder or the fear of a subsequent birth. “We don’t have a clear understanding of women’s fear related to the choice for a planned cesarean birth and I think we need to fully understand this from women’s perspective so we can work towards preventing experiences leading to childbirth fear,” said Bryanton. Bryanton said she wants to give women a voice so that others know they are not alone in their fears. She said she also wants to raise awareness about the significance of the childbirth experience in general and the importance of having a positive experience. “If women have a positive experience, they’re more likely to have positive outcomes,” said Bryanton. “They feel better about themselves, they feel empowered and there’s actually research that shows there’s better maternal attachment and better parenting self-efficacy.” Bryanton said her latest study was born out of the findings of a separate study she conducted a few years ago that looked at the factors that predict whether a woman will have a positive or negative birth experience. She said she found that fear was the strongest factor related to the perception of birth experiences for women who had a planned cesarean birth. According to Canadian Institute for Health Information, Canada’s cesarean birth rate in 2013 was 27.3 per cent.
Suspect in murder locked on bus with passengers BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A police operation to arrest an alleged murderer involved leaving him locked on a Toronto region transit bus with dozens of passengers for nearly half an hour in what’s being described as a “harrowing” experience for those on board. The incident took place on a GO Transit bus that was pulled over on the side of a major highway late Thursday night. Anne Marie Aikins of Metrolinx — the agency that runs GO Transit — said passengers spent 25 minutes locked inside a GO bus with a man police later took into custody. Passengers said they heard police inform the man that he was wanted for second-degree murder, Aikins said. Durham Regional Police confirmed the fact in a statement in which they said Joseph Scott Young was charged with second-degree murder in the death of 19-year-old Tehganni Lewis. The force has not responded to multiple requests for comment. Aikins said many of the passengers on board the bus have voiced concerns about how things were handled. “I’m sure they expected a sleepy ride into the city and instead had a very harrowing experience that clearly is still upsetting them today,” she said. “That’s really quite unfortunate. Some information would certainly have been helpful to them, but decisions get made and I’m not sure of the rationale for the decision.” Police say the arrest took place on Thursday around 11 p.m. as the bus was travelling from Hamilton to Toronto’s Union Station, a major hub for travel in and out of the city. Officers from Ontario Provincial Police and Hamilton police made the arrest on behalf of the Durham force after being informed that Young was wanted on an unrelated assault charge. Aikins said the bus was driving down a major highway when a number of cruisers appeared and pulled the driver over. The driver was instructed to get off the bus and lock the door, keeping passengers inside, she said. Over the next 25 minutes, as more armed officers
arrived on scene, Aikins said passengers reported a man acting erratically on board the bus. They said the man, who they believed to be intoxicated, tried unsuccessfully to get off the bus. When that didn’t work, he reportedly sat down at the front of the bus and lit up a cigarette to the consternation of fellow passengers, Aikins said. Police said Young was ultimately arrested without incident. Some passengers on board the bus took to social media at the time of the arrest to voice their displeasure with the situation. “Why lock us in the GO bus for 25 minutes with a
man charged with murder, realizing it’s gameover..?” one person tweeted. Young is now facing charges in a slaying that took place last month in an Oshawa, Ont., rooming house. Lewis, who police said had been staying at the residence for a few nights before his death, was found in the building with undisclosed serious injuries. He lingered in hospital in critical condition for nearly a week before succumbing to his injuries. Police say they are no longer seeking any suspects in the case.
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Poverty among seniors continues to rise Back in the 1960s and ’70s, being old and being poor were pretty well synonymous. The generation that started their families during the Great Depression and then endured the sacrifices of the Second World War simply had no chance to build savings to last through retirement. The nation had only recently created the Canada Pension Plan, and as that generation’s grandGREG children, the NEIMAN baby boomers, entered adultINSIGHT hood, it became clear more would be needed to address poverty among seniors. By the early 1970s, more than one in three seniors was living in poverty. The Canada Pension Plan was never intended to be a full living income, but a huge portion of older people had little else. So Canada created the Old Age Security/Guaranteed Income Supplement programs. And the poverty rate for seniors dropped like a stone. By 1995, barely 3.9 per cent of seniors lived below Canada’s arbitrary measure of the low-income cutoff, which was the policy-level definition of poverty. At that time, child poverty, by the same arbitrary measure, was around 18 or 19 per cent — and has sadly remained that way ever since. For most people, retirement looked like it would be at least workable, if not comfortably rich. Meanwhile, in the working lives of the boomers, a myriad of schemes were invented to encourage people to save for retirement. But it’s clear the incentives we invented — registered savings plans (RSPs), a growth in company pension plans, tax-free savings accounts (TFSAs) and the introduction of pooled pension plans for people without company plans, plus an explosion in the value of home ownership — haven’t worked well at all. From that low point in 1995, poverty levels for seniors have crept back up to 11.1 per cent, says a report released this week by the Broadbent Institute. And the future looks worse, not better, says the institute’s report. Less than half of boomers really saved anything at all during their working lives. Despite living through an age of prosperity, with all the incentive and advice they had, many have saved virtually nothing. What were they thinking? The Broadbent Institute doesn’t answer that question, but it does report some sad statistics on the profligacy of this generation. Less than half of people aged 55 to 64 who are employed have a company pension plan as part of the wage
packet. Private savings? Less than a quarter of Canadians contribute each year to an RSP. Fewer than one in five Canadian boomers have savings that would last at least three years. Even if you account for the equity in people’s homes, we’re told most seniors have less than five years’ worth of assets saved. Of existing retirees, a demographic that grows annually as a result of a new wave of retiring boomers, the average income for seniors falls about $5,600 below a median income of $20,000 a year. How could this have happened? One explanation is to look at the rising curve of income inequality. Are boomers really the richest generation that ever lived? The top two-tenths of wealthy people is firmly post-war. That’s where the money is.
On Thursday, the Globe and Mail published a special section on estate planning for that group. Gotta plan for who gets the cottage, the summer home or the winter escape when the boomer parents die. Except that a large part of that demographic earned less than $50,000 a year all their working lives. The Broadbent report says they hold something like $250 in savings. In the group that earned $50,000 to $100,000 a year, the average savings is around $21,000. Go to any online retirement planner and it will likely tell you that you need a million or so in the bank to retire in the manner most people say they expect. That’s quite the gap from reality. Two generations after 1973 and the same problem looms, with the same response suggested. Boost the Guaran-
teed Income Supplement to something closer to a living income, says our new Liberal government. That notion is supported by the Broadbent Institute report. Only this time, instead of taxing the rising incomes of boomers to pay for it, we’ll be taxing the stagnant and falling incomes of millennials. Because God forbid we should tax the incomes of wealthy baby boomers, or the incomes of the boomers who actually did save diligently for retirement. The common-sense response — save for the future — applies no more to individuals than to governments. Only a few individuals — and very few governments — seem to have that kind of sense. Follow Greg Neiman’s blog at readersadvocate.blogspot.ca
We need to do more to help heal emotional scars Being a naturalized Canadian, I am in possession of a certificate of citizenship. I am ever so proud of that piece of paper! On the reverse side of that certificate, are identifying statements such as place of birth, date of birth, plus one CHRIS which is asking for “any identiSALOMONS fying marks or STREET TALES scars.” Well, it just so happens that I have one. I remember when mom and dad were filling out citizenship forms in front of a court clerk who asked that question. I also remember her saying that it had to be a scar or mark visible without removing any clothing. Even at that age, nine or 10, I had a couple of operations, so I had scars. After a few minutes we found a scar I received some time before, so after examination she wrote down “Inner
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right wrist.” I don’t know why, but that grouping of words for me was just so neat and fully descriptive — that should tell you I was an import — and I have never forgotten how proud I was of that scar or that location. It identified me in a way that no one else would be. I could even have been a little prideful because of it. You always need something to boast about, right? Especially a 10-year-old! Not sure just how much time passed before my dad asked me where did I get that scar. Being a rather rambunctious youngster, I had spent more than a few times in the hoosegow at home, so I manufactured a story that I hoped would sound reasonably authentic. It must have worked, because no more was ever said about it. The fact of the matter was that at that time we lived in Parkvale within a block of the fairgrounds. There were a couple of ball diamonds within the race track, so whenever there was a game, we would sneak into the park to watch the game. The only problem was the guards that always patrolled the park. So we would wait until a guard had passed and then quick as a wink, hurdle the barbwire fence and hide ourselves un-
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der the bleachers. But this one time it didn’t quite work the way I planned. In my rush to jump the fence, my hand slipped and a barb sliced open my wrist. It bled like crazy, but it wasn’t really so bad that it needed medical attention. In the healing process though it left a scar that is still readily visible. Every time I see it I think back to that time. So many of us have scars on our bodies to prove that we have been active or careless or both, but these are physical scars that heal over time, and are mostly forgotten. In other words they do not always hamper our ability to carry on with life in whatever way we chose. Not so the scars that are not visible to the naked eye. While some are physical and visible with no covering, many are those scars that are left from physical, mental and or sexual abuse not tangibly observable. I have written many articles that identify scars that are left on both men and women, and how that abuse has interfered with their progress in life. For instance, one man spent much of his life in jail because he slew the father that had constantly beaten him, his siblings and his mother. Now he spends all his time alone with his memories. Can you even begin to imag-
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ine the size of scar that would have left? How about the young woman who now struggles with mental issues because she was abused from age six on? Frequent are the cases, in the news, where issues from as long ago as 40 years are brought out and taken to court. Each of those cases represent a scar on someone’s life. Many hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent in an effort to surgically remove or hide physical scars. Not so much the emotional scars, except that for many, those dollars will be spent on drugs to mask the perpetual hurts, a lot of these drugs prescribed. Sadly enough, it never does cure the problem, it just lessens the pain. I guess that this is me making a case for more of our healthcare dollars to be spent helping the thousands and thousands of individuals who need psychiatric help so they can become an integral and productive part of a community, rather than a silently suffering minority. But it has to be psychological help, not drugs. Stop just pushing them out the door in a hurry, because it’s starting to make therapists look and act like legalized drug dealers. Chris Salomons is kitchen co-ordinator for Potter’s Hands ministry in Red Deer.
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Fifty shades of blue You know that feeling that you just can’t seem to shake? Kinda out of sorts, down in the mouth, bummed out. Where you feel just like the little guy from Peanuts who always has a dark cloud over his head. When all you want to do is have another nap, or at the very least depart for a two-week all expenses paid trip to the Caribbean. Hey, at this point one night in a nice hotel HARLEY near Cross Iron HAY Mills would be HAY’S DAZE a godsend. It’s usually quite the bummer this time of year — good old February to be exact — the month typically stuck deep in the bowels of long Canadian winter like a bad case of indigestion after too much of your favorite Five Alarm chili. This particular year around these parts we can’t really complain about the weather, which is an official Alberta pastime — along with complaining about the government, complaining about the Edmonton Oilers, and complaining about the government. It’s been an acceptably balmy winter weather-wise but some people like to complain about that too. The point is, even with the sun
occasionally shining and the Celsius creeping nicely above absolute zero, this month is still very often a depressing month. They call it the “February Blues” — and we all get ‘em sooner or later. In fact, I can hear that old slide guitar grinding out a February Blues soundtrack in the background right now. There’s a reason universities and colleges have a Reading Week break for their students in February. They might as well call it: “Try Not To Go Crazy Week.” There’s a reason all those bright therapy lights are sold in February. It’s called Seasonal Affective Disorder which is really SAD. They might as well call it: “I Need Some Happy Light to Survive This Bloody February” disorder. Yes, February really can become 50 shades of blue for many of us. And let’s face it, February really is quite an odd month as far as months go. Get this: • February is the only month that is confused about how many days it has. Mostly it has 28 days, which is strange for any month in the first place. Then, every four years, of course, we get an added day. How depressing is that? They call it a “Leap Year” and they aren’t even referring to bridges. • February has two zodiac signs: Aquarius and Pisces. Hippies and fish — no wonder February is so weird. • Valentine’s Day is in February. Sure, because all that snow and cold makes you want to fall in love. Or eat chocolates.
• Statistics show that February has the least amount of birthdays. Who wants to enter a world in the middle of the February Blahs. Or perhaps this says more about the month of May being a month people don’t particularly like to get together? • In February it’s a very big deal when a famous groundhog sees its shadow or not. A chubby four legged February rodent apparently only comes out of its hole in the ground to make predictions, and then scurries back underground to sleep the rest of the month away. He doesn’t like February either. We all envy him. • The official birthstone of February is the amethyst. So what’s the big deal about February having a purple rock for a stone? How about this true factoid: “the name “amethyst” comes from the Ancient Greek (“not”) (“intoxicated”), a reference to the belief that the stone protected its owner from drunkenness.” The perfect stone for the stoned in February. • In certain parts of the world February is the “Return Your Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month” (not kidding). • February is “Grapefruit Month.”Also: “Snack Food Month”, “Hot Breakfast Month” and “Canned Food Month.” A culinary winner, that good old February! So aside from chowing down on canned food, snacks and grapefruit and returning our shopping carts, what can we do to beat the February Blues? Here are some helpful suggestions:
• Learn how to play a musical instrument. The French Horn is always a good choice. Trying to get a note that doesn’t sound like a demented moose in rutting season will drive you bonkers. You’ll soon forget it’s February. • Health experts say to exercise more and cut out alcohol. This will turn the February Blues to Jet Black. At least you won’t be mildly grumpy anymore. • Take Vitamin D. So instead of alcohol, switch to pills. Lots of ‘em. A bottle a day should do it. • Avoid upsetting and dramatically negative news stories. In other words don’t read, watch or listen to any news at all. • Avoid negative people. In other words, don’t hang with naysayers, Oiler fans or people whose favourite political party isn’t currently in power. The bottom line, however, is that we are in the month of February whether we like it or not, unless someone has invented a time machine I don’t know about. So, February or not, let us take our Vitamin D, blat away on our French horns and drink lots of grapefruit juice. And be very grateful indeed that February is still the shortest month of the year. Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.
The impact of the oil downturn “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent,” said John Maynard Keynes (or maybe it wasn’t him, but no matter). At any rate, that was the eternal verity the Saudi Arabians were counting on when they decided to let oil production rip — and the oil price collapse — in late 2014. The Saudi GWYNNE objective was DYER to keep the oil price low OPINION enough, long enough, to drive American shale oil producers out of business and preserve the OPEC cartel’s market share. (The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries controls only 30 per cent of world oil production, which is already very low for what was meant to be a price-fixing cartel.) The end of sanctions against Iran and that country’s push to raise production and regain its old market share put further downward pressure on the oil price. So did the slowdown in China’s economy. High-cost shale-oil producers in the United States are really hurting (U.S. oil production this year will be down by 700,000 barrels a day), but the OPEC producers are hurting too — and it looks like the Saudis just blinked. On Tuesday, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela and Qatar announced that they would freeze their oil production at the January level. Most other OPEC members are expected to follow suit, and since Saudi Arabia and Russia (not an OPEC member) are the second- and third-largest oil producers in the world, the freeze will affect almost half of the world’s oil production. That will not be enough to rescue the economies of OPEC countries and Russia from their current crisis. (All their economies are actually shrinking, and Saudi Arabia has gone from a budget surplus amounting to 13 per cent of GDP in 2012 to a deficit of 21 per cent last year.) Freezing production will not get the oil price back up when the current global production level is at least 2 million barrels a day
higher than global demand. In fact, the oil glut is so great that the world is running out of places to store the excess production. US and European oil storage facilities are full, and people are already talking about buying tankers as floating storage. Since the beginning of this year the oil price, as high as $115 a barrel less than two years ago, has dipped down into the $20s several times. Not only will the new production freeze not solve this problem; it won’t really even freeze production. If there’s one thing that OPEC members do well, it is to cheat on their production figures and pump more oil than they admit. As for Russia, it broke the last deal it made with OPEC about freezing production, and it will probably do it again. Ineffective as this deal is, it illustrates the mounting panic in the major oil producers as the prospect of a long period of very low oil prices opens out ahead of them. Saudi Arabia and Russia are edging towards a direct military confrontation in Syria — the Russian air force backs the Assad regime, and the Saudis are talking about sending ground troops to fight it — but the oil price transcends such issues. So what conclusions may we draw from all this? First, the price of oil will stay down. In the short run it may even go lower: Morgan Stanley analysts say that oil “in the $20s” is possible if China devalues its currency further, and Standard Chartered Bank predicts that prices could hit just $10 a barrel. The production freeze might allow the oil price to return to the low $40s in the medium term, if Chinese demand does not collapse entirely and if the producers keep their promises. That price would enable most of the fracking operations in the United States to stay in business, but it would still fall far short of balancing the budgets of Russia and Saudi Arabia. They can’t really afford to have a full-scale war over Syria. Second, OPEC members with large populations and national budgets that depend heavily on oil revenues (more than 75 per cent) face the prospect of major civil unrest or even revolution. This includes Nigeria, Algeria, Venezuela and Angola. Iran and non-OPEC member Mexico face lesser political risks, but they are not negligible. Finally, a prolonged period of low oil and gas prices will hit the whole
array of climate-friendly energy and transportation technologies, from wind-farms to electric cars. Energy costs still matter, even if governments can rectify the balance to some extent with carbon pricing and other regulatory measures. But coal, the most polluting of the fossil fuels, still faces early extinction, since its main rival for power generation is ever cheaper gas. A ruthlessly rational OPEC leadership (i.e. a Saudi Arabia run by competent economists and strategists) would just end the cash hemorrhage and reduce the political risk by cutting production sharply and getting oil prices
back up. But the great gamble to break the U.S. frackers by driving them into bankruptcy was not an ownerless, free-floating policy that somehow took root in OPEC soil. It was a specific strategy that was conceived and promoted by particular powerful individuals, most notably high-ranking Saudi individuals. They would lose a great deal of face if they had to abandon it, so it will be with us for a while yet. Gwynne Dyer is a Canadian journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
End-of-life law should have free vote When the House of Commons votes on medically assisted suicide later this year, it will be making history in two controversial ways. So far, only a handful of countries have included the option of assisted suicide in their endof-life medical protocol. The upcoming legislation will be taking Canada in relatively uncharted soCHANTAL cial policy waHEBERT ters. And then INSIGHT in contrast with comparable debates pertaining to the death penalty, abortion rights and same-sex marriage, this one will see the Liberal party break with the tradition of allowing its MPs — even when it is in government — to vote freely on so-called issues of conscience. It is hard to quarrel with the notion that medically assisted suicide falls in the limited category of policies that
stand to go against the deeply held personal convictions of some MPs. When it adopted a law along similar lines, the Quebec national assembly held a free vote. At the federal level, the Conservatives will not impose a party line on their MPs. Nor will the NDP. In contrast with reproductive rights, the New Democrats have historically not championed medically assisted suicide. They, like their Conservative colleagues, will be free to make up their own minds as to whether to support the bill. But the Liberal decision to forgo a free vote is part of a broader change designed to ensure Justin Trudeau’s caucus walks the talk of the party’s professed commitment to charter rights. That was not always the case in the past with divisions surfacing on votes on abortion and gay rights. The new approach was part and parcel of the recent Liberal platform. It could also be argued that forcing the party line on the majority Liberals removes any uncertainty as to the fate of the bill in the Commons. The last time the House pronounced on the issue of medically assisted suicide an overwhelming majority of MPs — including an equally over-
whelming majority of Liberals — voted against it by a margin of 228 to 59. But that was at a time when the Supreme Court still held that the ban on the procedure was constitutional. Since then the top court has reversed itself. Based on the recent past, that reversal would be grounds for many MPs to reconsider their position, regardless of whether the vote was a free one. After the courts ruled in favour of same-sex marriage just over a decade ago, many MPs who had previously supported the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman changed their stance. To make supporting the bill even easier, MPs will not actually be asked to give the green light to medically assisted suicide. That ship sailed when the Supreme Court struck down the Criminal Code sections that prohibited it. The main purpose of the legislation currently being drafted against a court-imposed June deadline is to avoid a patchwork system of end-of-life care by putting in place a common national framework. All that being said, in its quest to present a united front on an issue involving a charter right, Trudeau’s gov-
ernment may be doing a disservice to the debate and to the legislation that will result from it. A government that cannot automatically count on its majority to get its way is more likely to be receptive to the arguments of all MPs. The opposition parties, in return, are more likely to feel they have a stake in the resulting legislation. One of the strengths of the Quebec law is that it was supported freely by a majority of MNAs of every political stripe. The four parties came away from the discussion feeling they had all had real input in the process. As a result, the Quebec law is not at the mercy of a change in government and - even as it remains controversial in some circles - it is hard to make a case that is the product of an artificially imposed consensus. And then, in contrast with their elected colleagues, all senators will be free to vote as they please on the legislation. By forgoing a free vote in the House of Commons, Trudeau is inviting the groups that are lobbying against the measure to make their stand in the upper house. Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.
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Angus takes aim at Health department’s denials for indigenous children BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — An animal-rights group in British Columbia is speaking out about a 19-month lag in prosecuting what it calls one of the worst cases of farm-animal cruelty in Canadian history. Peter Fricker of the Vancouver Humane Society said the government has failed to provide a reason for the delay in laying charges against a Fraser Valley dairy farm and eight of its employees after a video of cows allegedly being abused made headlines across the country. “Our underlying concern with all of this is just whether the Crown is taking this case … as seriously as it should be,” Fricker said. “We had expected there would be some word on charges much sooner.” In June 2014, the B.C. SPCA recommended animal-cruelty charges against Chilliwack Cattle Sales after receiving graphic video of cows being kicked, punched and beaten with rods. In one instance, a cow is hoisted up by a forklift from a chain wrapped around its neck and dragged out of its pen as a worker shouts, “Leave her like that.” The footage was collected using secret cameras as part of an undercover operation conducted by the animal-rights activist group Mercy For Animals. The humane society wrote Attorney General Suzanne Antonne late last year inquiring about the delay but Fricker said the organization has received no reply. “While we appreciate that this case may be complex, the extraordinary delay in Crown counsel’s response is concerning,” read the humane society’s letter, signed by executive director Debra Probert. The B.C. Milk Marketing Board announced days after the video went public that it would not accept milk from Chilliwack Cattle Sales until its operations had been independently audited, and that any of the company’s milk currently in its possession would be destroyed. The farm’s owner, Jeff Kooyman, said at
the time the video was “horrifying to watch” and pledged to work with the SPCA on better training for staff. Animal-rights lawyer Anna Pippus was director of legal advocacy with the Canadian branch of Mercy For Animals at the time of the group’s investigation and on Thursday called the delay shocking and concerning. “This was a very serious crime that was unearthed at Chilliwack Cattle Sales and it would be nice to see this given a real priority by Crown prosecutors,” said Pippus, now the director of farmed-animal advocacy at Animal Justice Canada. “It’s been a very long time that they’ve been saying, ‘It’s just around the corner, it’s just around the corner.”’ Justice Ministry spokesman Dan McLaughlin said in an email Thursday that a decision from the Crown was forthcoming. “We appreciate that this review has taken longer than what we would normally expect but we anticipate that we will be able to announce a decision on this matter early next week,” he wrote. Animal cruelty has become more high profile in B.C. over the past two weeks, with two instances of the province’s SPCA raiding dog and cat breeding and boarding facilities. “It will be interesting to see how quickly Crown makes a decision on any charges that are recommended in those cases, which obviously deal with domestic pets,” said Fricker of the Vancouver Humane Society. “We would hope that the Crown would not make any differentiation between cruelty to farm animals and cruelty to domestic pets.”
OTTAWA — Aboriginal children are denied critical medical and orthodontic procedures as a matter of standard government practice, says NDP indigenous affairs critic Charlie Angus, who is demanding answers from Health Minister Jane Philpott. In a letter sent to the minister this week, Angus said the minister will have a hard time claiming cases are reviewed in a manner that puts children first, based on sweeping departmental rejection rates. “We’re dealing with families that are in some ways some of the most marginalized in the country, those who don’t have access to lawyers, that don’t have access to advocates, so when they get turned down by a faceless bureaucracy, they’re left on their own,” Angus said in an interview. “To me, not just as a politician but as a father of three daughters, it really sickens me in my stomach. How can this be the standard practice?” Internal government documents outline the systemic discrimination, Angus added. “What you see from the internal documents, it almost looks like a scam,” he said. “They admit internally that they routinely deny access even in emergency cases but people don’t know where to appeal, dentists are refusing to sometimes … deal with the department anymore and when people do appeal, it is across the board.” In the House of Commons recently, Angus cited the case of a young aboriginal girl from Alberta denied coverage for dental work. Philpott said Thursday her team has
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Lifestyles of the rich and famous
ATLANTIS RESORT I have a guilty pleasure – something I like to do, but I really shouldn’t. Whenever I see a high end watch or jewelry store in an over-the-top luxurious destination, I like to pop inside and see their most expensive watch or diamond neckless and try it on if possible. Sometimes I’ll take selfies of myself wearing the items. For some reason this amuses me. Some destinations are betDEBBIE ter than others for indulging OLSEN my weird little fetish. I’ve TRAVEL tried on diamond encrusted Rolex watches in Switzerland, an emerald and diamond necklace in the south of France and a beautiful designer watch that was worth more than my house in a high end shop on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Before I try the items on, I always let the sales people know that I have no intention of making a purchase and yet they still indulge me. On a recent trip to the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island, Bahamas I hit the big time. Like the myth that gives the resort its name, this place is larger than life and the moment you enter the 2900-room resort you are bombarded with its overthe-top adornments and amenities. Inside the pink marble lobby of the Royal Towers is an imposing fountain with life-sized winged horses. The casino is filled with incredible glass art and the hallways are lined with exclusive shops where you can find everything from clothing to high end watches and jewelry. As I walked past one of the smaller kiosk-style shops, I couldn’t resist stopping to look at their watch display. Inside a glass case was a white gold watch covered with diamonds that the sales clerk said was worth over $253,000 Canadian dollars. She said it would make her day to sell that watch – a feat that came with a significant bonus commission. If I had that kind of money to blow on a watch or necklace, I like to think I’d do something better with it like feeding the hungry or sheltering the homeless. But take my word for it - just seeing this stuff and occasionally trying it on can be great entertainment. It’s a glimpse into the lifestyle of the rich and famous and a glimpse is enough to keep me
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TOP; A view from the top of Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island, Bahamas. ABOVE; One of the most unique experiences at the resort is riding a water slide through a shark tank. RIGHT; A white gold watch covered with diamonds that the sales clerk said was worth over $253,000. BELOW; Atlantis is set along a stunning section of waterfront with a beautiful 2-mile long white sand beach. satisfied.
Exploring Atlantis Resort Paradise Island derives much of its reputation as the “Vegas of the Tropics” from the glamorous Atlantis Resort & Casino, which is as much a tourist attraction as it is an accommodation option. Guests of the resort can explore the 141-acre waterpark, the outdoor aquariums, the casino and the art of Atlantis for no additional charge, but visitors can also pay to take a guided tour of the property or use some of the facilities. Here are some of the top sites to see: Marine Exhibits: Atlantis is home to the world’s largest open air marine habitat and the largest aquarium in the Caribbean. More than 50,000 aquatic animals representing over 250 marine species live in the 14 lagoons at the Atlantis Resort and you can see a variety of exotic marine life ranging from dolphins and sharks to piranha, eels and endangered alligator gar. The best time to tour the marine habitats is during feeding time and a schedule is available at the ticket centre. One-on-one dolphin experiences and other adventures can also be arranged. Aquaventure Waterpark: This 141-acre waterscape has 20 swimming areas, a kids water play fort, thrilling high speed waterslides, a river ride with rapids and waves, rock climbing, restaurants and more in an interconnected tropical environment.
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Weakened loonie putting squeeze on winter travel BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Maureen Dennis and her family had high hopes of heading abroad for March Break, but the weakened Canadian dollar has put plans for a sun-soaked getaway on ice. “We were just hoping to go somewhere warm…. But everywhere that is warm has been affected by the dollar,” said Dennis, founder of WeeWelcome. ca. “It’s an expensive time to go away,” added the Toronto-based parenting expert, whose four children range in age from four to 12. “It is a time that a lot of parents try to make the most of, but it is extra painful when you put the exchange rate on the dollar.” Canadian families and snowbirds who typically flock south during the winter are finding their wings clipped due to the falling loonie. The Canadian dollar is currently hovering in the 72 cents US range, but has traded at nearly 13-year lows in recent weeks due to several factors, including the diminishing value of major commodities and slow economic growth. Paul Phipps, chief marketing officer with Visit Florida, said the state saw a slight slowdown in Canadian travel last year, down about 1.5 per cent. But with estimates showing more than 700,000 Canadians own homes in Florida, he expects many will still make the trip while being more mindful of their spending habits. “They may come here and not stay as long, or they’ll come here and eat in more and not eat out. It may affect their shopping decisions,” said Phipps,
who said Canadians are the top international travellers in the state. Viji Bahadur and her family will be spending March Break in Miami with relatives. But their travel plans almost took a U-turn when flights from Toronto proved to be too steep. Instead of driving, they plan to save by flying out of Buffalo, N.Y. “It’s already high enough during March Break. But then when you factor in the exchange it’s even worse,” said the mother of two, who also maintains a bank account with U.S. funds. Melissa Vroon, founding partner of FamilyFunCanada.com, said a friend going to Hawaii plans to purchase discounted attraction passes at her local Costco ahead of time. “Other people are looking at other destinations where the Canadian dollar still has a bit of pull, looking at Mexico or Costa Rica rather than U.S. holidays,” said the mother of two. Vroon plans to take advantage of a hotel sale in Mexico and travel on accumulated airline points with her family. Dennis said she and her family hope to ski during March Break, and may look into resorts in Ontario or Quebec’s Mont-Tremblant. But if those options are off the table due to lack of snow, they’ll consider activities within the city. Canadian tourist destinations could indeed see a surge among homegrown visitors. There has already been a noticeable uptick at Whistler Blackcomb Resort, which is on track to have a record number of visits, according to its parent company’s latest financial report. David Wilcox of Whistler Blackcomb Holdings Inc. said they’re seeing
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The Dennis family has decided to spend winter weekends at the Mansfield Ski Resort in Ontario. growth among foreign and domestic travellers from outside the area, including Canadians who are more likely stay home due to the currency. Myrtle Beach, S.C., has launched a campaign where select hotels, live entertainment venues, attractions and restaurants are offering significant discounts to Canadians through the month of April. “We asked the businesses if they could do something that would approach or approximate taking the Canadian dollar on par that would be ideal…. But interestingly enough, some businesses went above and beyond that discount,” said Brad Dean, president and CEO of the Myrtle Beach
Area Chamber of Commerce. Dean said the coastal city expects to welcome more than a million Canadians this year, and wanted to take measures to encourage them to visit and “be able to stretch that money just a little bit further.” “It wasn’t that long ago that we were in the midst of the recession. And while it wasn’t our exchange rate that was causing the economic pain, we’ve certainly felt that in our tourism economy. It certainly will stretch the businesses a bit to do this,” he added, in reference to the discounts. “But let’s face it: Tourism is good business for Myrtle Beach … and Canadians are a huge part of that.”
Marina Village: Marina village is the place to go for an inexpensive meal at Atlantis. It’s also fun to explore the shops and see all of the sleek international mega yachts in the $15 million marina.
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• A stay at the Atlantis Resort starts at $200 USD per night during low season and about $389 USD per night during peak season. All-inclusive rates are also available. For more information on the Atlantis Resort or to make reservations, visit: www.atlantisbahamas.com. • You can visit the Atlantis resort and enjoy a tour of the aquariums for $49 USD per adult or $35 USD per child. A pass that gives access to the aquariums and the beach will cost $80 USD per adult and $49 USD per child. A day pass that allows access to the aquariums, the beach and the 130-acre waterpark will cost $161 USD per adult and $99 USD per child.
The Aquaventure waterpark has 20 swimming areas, kids water play fort, thrilling high speed waterslides, a river ride with rapids and waves, rock climbing, restaurants and more in an interconnected tropical environment.
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ATLANTIS: One of a kind water adventure park More than twenty million gallons of water flow through this one-of-a-kind water adventure park. Casino: The Atlantis Casino is the
Caribbean’s largest casino and like everything at the resort, it’s a spectacle that begs to be seen. The glass sculptures by artist Dale Chihuly are beautiful and add a touch of elegance. There are more than 75 gaming tables and 750 slot machines and complimentary gaming lessons are available every day. Paradise island Beach: Atlantis is set along a stunning section of waterfront with a beautiful 2-mile long white sand beach. It’s a lovely spot to bask in the sun – if you can pull yourself away from all of the other manmade attractions at the resort.
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Lighting up the night CITIES ACROSS THE WORLD HOST LARGESCALE LIGHT FESTIVALS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Move over, holiday lights. Largescale light installations that blend contemporary art and technology are taking off as a trend, lighting up the night from New Orleans and Baltimore to Sydney and London. Many of these free light festivals include interactive displays that turn spectators into participants who can change colours or patterns by moving or playing a game. The events are also tourism magnets, attracting locals and out-of-towners alike to waterfronts, historic districts and other neighbourhoods on dark winter nights and other periods when tourist activity may be low. London counted more than a million visitors to its first light festival over four nights in January this year. The Lumiere London event included a larger-than-life projected elephant stomping through the air, a digital painting at Westminster Abbey and sculpted human forms flying above buildings. New Orleans’ LUNA Fete attracted 30,000 visitors in 2015, its second year. The event included “The Pool” by artist Jen Lewin, in which a pool of swirling circles of light and colour changed as spectators interact with it. “The Pool” will also be part of Baltimore’s first light festival, Light City Baltimore, taking place around the city’s Inner Harbor March 28-April 3. Other exhibitions at Light City Baltimore will include digital portraits by an artist projecting lights, patterns and colours on festival-goers “Lumin,” featuring lit-up sheets of acrylic that visitors can draw on to create a glowing, collaborative mural, and a flower sculpture called “Laser Lotus” that changes based on input from interactive touchpads. Why the sudden boom in light festivals? For one thing, said Nick Stillman, acting director of Arts Council New Orleans, which organized LUNA Fete, “the technology is becoming more accessible and user-friendly and inexpensive.” Contemporary artists are also increasingly using multimedia platforms and public spaces to bring art to wider audiences, collaborating with museums, governments and other entities “to produce things on a scale that is larger and more impactful” than what can be done in a studio, gallery or even a public plaza, Stillman said.
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The Pool, a work that was part of New Orleans’ LUNA Fete light festival. The work, by artist Jen Lewin, is also going to be on display at Light City Baltimore, a light festival taking place in Baltimore March 28-April 3. Light festivals that combine contemporary art and technology, often with interactive features, are taking off as a trend. Public art, he added, is no longer just “a sculpture plopped in a plaza and left there for a couple of years until maintenance is done. We can be so much more engaging than that.” Some light festivals include performances, conferences and other cultural components. In Australia, Vivid Sydney attracted 1.7 million people last year with 70 bands and 500 speakers in addition to more than 80 light installations. The Sydney event included light projections on famous buildings like the Sydney Opera House. Vivid Sydney’s eighth light festival, May 27-June 18 of this year, will include giant, luminous animal sculptures in a display at the Taronga Zoo. In Canada, Montreal en Lumiere, a wintertime arts festival that’s running now through March 5, includes light installations in Old Montreal, the Place des Festivals and other locations. In Germany, Berlin’s Festival of Lights
uses projections and 3-D video mapping to turn buildings like the Brandenburg Gate into light art. Jerusalem drew 250,000 visitors to its light festival last year, which returns this year May 25- June 2 with 3-D light exhibits, videos and other displays using buildings in the Old City. Other light shows are more movie-like than conceptual, using largescale video projections to tell stories. Chichen Itza, the ancient Mayan complex in Mexico, started a light show last year called “Nights of Kukulkan,” named for the Pyramid of Kukulkan. Shown nightly, the show is projected on Kukulkan’s facade and tells the story of the Mayan people. Most light festivals are more sophisticated than the usual holiday displays of twinkling reindeer, snowmen and trees that light up city parks, botanical gardens and resort grounds each December. But even some of the big
artsy light festivals take place over the Christmastime holidays. Illuminate SF Festival enters its fourth season this year with light art on display in San Francisco from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day. The organizers of New Orleans’ festival cite the Fete des Lumieres in Lyon, France, as their inspiration. The long-running Lyon event typically attracts millions of spectators, but it was cancelled last year following the terror attacks in Paris. Instead, organizers in Lyon used light to create a simple but powerful one-night tribute to the Paris victims. They asked residents to place candles in their windows, and showed just one large-scale work, called “Regards.” It featured close-ups of the eyes of figures from master paintings, and was shown in conjunction with a scroll of the names of victims from the terror attacks.
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on tombs as my girlfriend and I walk back to town. Streets hum with activity. Motorbikes and cars buzz about while the sounds of live music, families, hawking vendors and even rowdy drunks fill the humid air. Many of the tourists transport themselves on golf carts. “Now it’s like Puerto Vallarta was back in the ’60s. It’s developed to that point,” Bassard said. If You Go… SAYULITA: Direct flights are available to the Puerto Vallarta airport. From there, car service is available to Sayulita. Prices earlier this season ran about $130 round-trip. ZIKA: Mexico is on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s list of areas affected by the Zika virus. Sayulita is located in a sub-tropical climate, next to lush jungle, and mosquitoes are not uncommon.
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py sounds of children playing at the central plaza. Accommodations range from camping spots (El Camaron, located by the beach, is cheap, but reviews are mixed) to isolated luxury retreats (Teitiare, $400 a night). We stayed at Playa Escondida, where accommodations range from bungalows ($200 a night during the high season) to penthouses perched on the hillside over a beach ($495 a night during high season). It was built on land Brassard used to own, and being an architect, he has designed the hotel’s rooms and furniture. The hotel was used in a season of the “Bachelor Paradise.” The hotel was booked through the low season for the first time last year, Bassard said. Back in Playa de los Muertos, the sun sets and the town cemetery behind the beach is lit up by candles placed
sitioning the town as the crown jewel of the Nayarit Riviera, the coastline of its home state. The naming also comes with the promise of federal money for upgrades, which residents say are needed. The town has grown to about 5,000 residents, plus the scores of visitors that cycle through. Sewage and electricity services have had a hard time keeping up with the growth “aguas negras,” or literally “black waters,” have spilled into the ocean. “Any additional tourism development would worsen this disastrous health situation,” said Indalecio Sanchez Rodriguez, an activist for the group Green Coast Alliance, which has criticized the area’s growth. The current main project is burying power lines under the town streets. “It’s bursting at the seams, the infrastructure,” said Richard Brassard, an architect, who first visited Sayulita around 1970 after a friend read about it in a surfing book. Sayulita’s attractions are plentiful: surfing, charter fishing, seasonal whale-watching, lush-green jungle hikes and horseback riding, baby sea turtle releases, among others. On the south end, its main beach still hosts small local fishing boats. Farther north, surfers ride waves as the town disappears into the jungle. Playa de los Muertos and Playa Carricitos provide quieter and more isolated alternatives within a few of miles. If it’s not raining, take a walk to those beaches on the dirt roads lined by the dense forest. Sayulita boasts chic restaurants to attract foodies and excellent street chow (Tacos El Ivan is top-notch and so is a cake stand named La Gorda, near the town square). Nightlife can be a dance party on the beach or the hap-
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Red Deer College Queen Whitney Zylstra attacks during the opening set against the SAIT Trojans at Red Deer College on Friday.
Queens 3 Trojans 0 The RDC Queens went into the final weekend of the Alberta Colleges Women’s Volleyball League regular season with one thing in mind – win twice over the SAIT Trojans and take second place in the South Division. They took their first step in that direction Friday with an impressive 2725, 25-13, 25-14 victory over the Trojans at RDC. The teams are tied for second place at 16-7 and meet again tonight at SAIT. Both teams will play in the provincials, running Thursday through Saturday at RDC. The early portion of the first set was all SAIT as they grabbed an 8-1 lead. However, once the Queens settled down defensively, and especially with their passing, the momentum changed. The Queens took a 24-22 lead before SAIT pulled even, then after they exchanged points the Queens took the first set, which appeared to destroy the Trojans confidence. “We were able to make much better choices on offence once we started passing the ball better,” said Queens head coach Talbot Walton. “We got the ball up to Ashley (setter Fehr) and she was able to run a good offence and make good choices. When she gets the opportunity to do something with the ball instead of being forced into a play because of a poor pass, she creates a good tempo with the hitters. “They are comfortable with the offensive sets and were swinging well at it.” Fehr, who was named the RDC player of the match, finished with 30 assists and got everyone into the flow. McKenna Barthel finished with 10 kills, two blocks and six digs, Miranda Dawe
eight kills, a block and 11 digs, Kelsey Tymkow eight kills, an ace, two blocks and 13 digs, Hanna Delemont six kills and three digs and Whitney Zylstra four kills, two blocks and seven digs. The Queens did a good job against the SAIT power hitters, including fourth-year Megan Brennan, who had seven kills and is 12 short of becoming the all-time kill leader in the ACAC. Shantelle Jonassen had eight kills. “In that first set McKenna got to No. 9 (Jonassen) with a couple of big time blocks and that really changed their hitters psyche,” said Walton. “But I’m sure Megan will be all-world again tomorrow, we just need to continue to play the way we can. “That was a big win, one we needed. We have a good opportunity to come back tomorrow and finish second.” Four members of the Queens, who will graduate – Olivia Barnes, Fauve Welsh, Tymkow and Neall Murphy – were honoured following the match Kings 3 Trojans 0 The Kings, much like the Queens, struggled with their serve receive early on, but it didn’t last long. In fact, overall they controlled the play and were never in real trouble taking a 2517, 25-18, 25-18 victory. ‘It was pretty clean for the most part,” said Kings head coach Aaron Schulha. “Nic (Dubinsky) and Tom (Lyon) helped us in that first set as did Luke (setter Brisbane) by putting the ball in the right places.” Dubinsky eight kills the first set while Lyon had two kills, a block and two aces. “When Nic is hot and some of the others get hot as well we’re a tough team to play,” added Schulha. “And Riley (Friesen) was good from the service line late, which we need from him on a consistent basis.
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BY ADVOCATE STAFF Cougars 3 Rebels 1 The Red Deer Rebels dropped their fifth straight game on Friday night, with a 3-1 loss to the Prince George Cougars at the CN Centre in Prince George, B.C. A late goal from Cougars’ blueliner Tate Olson with under four minutes remaining proved to be the game winner for the home team. Jesse Gabrielle added an insurance marker in the empty net with 70 seconds left in the game. Luke Philp scored the lone Red Deer goal midway through the third to tie the game 1-1, in his first night sporting the ‘C’ for the Rebels. Ty Edmonds stopped 34 of 35 shots to get the win for the Cougars, while Dawson Weatherill turned away 28 of
30 shots in the losing effort. The Rebels play the Cougars tonight at 8 p.m. The next Rebels home game is Friday night when they play host to the Portland Winterhawks.
Queens 4 Broncos 1 OLDS - The RDC Queens finished their Alberta Colleges Women’s Hockey League regular season with a 4-1 victory over the Olds Broncos Friday. The first-place Queens finished the season at 18-3-3 and will meet the SAIT Trojans in the best-of-three league semifinal, beginning Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Arena. Despite holding a wide edge in shots the Queens were held off the scoresheet until late in the first period when they exploded for three goals. Julia Murrell connected at 17:05, Cassidy Anderson at 18:26 and Kaely McMurtry at 18:34. After a scoreless second period Jenna Suokko scored for Olds at 1:30 of the third period with Jade Petrie scoring her eighth goal of the season at 19:41 to
put the lid on the victory. The Queens, who took four of six minor penalties, held a 40-17 edge in shots. Voyageurs 4 Kings 0 LAC LA BICHE – The Kings ran into some tough officiating as they dropped a 4-0 decision to the Portage Voyageurs in ACAC Men’s Hockey League play Friday. The Kings trailed 1-0 after 40 minutes then spent the majority of the third period in the penalty box. They were assessed 15 of 21 minor penalties, leaving Portage with eight power plays while the Kings had one. The shots were 29-28 in favour of the Voyageurs. The loss prevented the Kings from locking up a playoff spot. They sit at 13-13-0-3 wile seventh-place Portage moved to 8-13-0-7. The teams meet again tonight at 7 p.m. at the Penhold Regional multiplex.
Flames hand Canucks fourth straight loss BRODIE CONTINUES TO PRODUCE WITH THREE POINTS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Flames 5 Canucks 3 CALGARY — While Johnny Gaudreau gets all the hype for his sublime playmaking ability, teammate TJ Brodie is no slouch himself. Brodie continued his red-hot play of late with three assists on Friday night to lead the Calgary Flames to a 5-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks. With a career-high 32 helpers on the season including 11 in the last eight games, Brodie is just two back of Gaudreau for the team lead in that category. “The way that he skates, the way that he jumps in the play, he can change direction so quickly that he’s basically impossible to defend,” said Flames coach Bob Hartley, when asked about Brodie. Two of the assists came in the second period as Calgary scored three unanswered goals to take a 4-2 lead. The go-ahead goal at 5:34 came off the stick of Michael Frolik. Set up in the slot by Brodie, Frolik’s shot changed directions off the skate of Canucks defenceman Matt Bartkowski. The Flames made it 4-2 on Giordano’s 14th goal with 25 seconds remaining. Again, it was Brodie with the setup. “Lately, we’ve been trying to play more of a five-man unit. Jumping through the holes, trying to find the pockets, and get pucks to the net and it worked out for us tonight,” said Brodie. Also with big nights offensively for
Calgary (26-28-3) were Joe Colborne, Mikael Backlund and Frolik, who each had a goal and an assist. Josh Jooris also scored as the Flames snapped a three-game losing streak and kept their faint playoff hopes alive. Calgary is nine points back of the Colorado Avalanche and the second wild-card spot in the Western Conference. “Every win, you build up a little bit more confidence. We finished strong this game and the goal is to carry this momentum to this next game,” said Frolik. Adam Cracknell and Jake Virtanen scored for Vancouver (22-24-12). The Canucks have lost four in a row, each by the identical score of 5-2. “You can’t let the negativity take over. You’ve got to stick together as a team,” said Jacob Markstrom, who had 28 stops. “We’re in the same boat. Nobody wants to be in this boat, but the reality is we’re all in it. We’ve got to find a way to get out of it.” The Canucks open up a five-game homestand on Sunday against Colorado. They are winless in their last six at Rogers Arena (0-5-1). “We’re obviously going to have to step up as a team,” said Virtanen. “The younger guys are going to have to step up and the older guys are going to have to keep on playing hard.” Down 2-1 after the first period, Calgary tied it 2-2 at 2:07 of the second. From a mad scramble beside the goal crease, Backlund chipped the puck over Markstrom. After scoring five goals in the season’s first 50 games,
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Vancouver Canucks’ Jannik Hansen battles for the puck with Calgary Flames’ TJ Brodie during first period NHL action in Calgary, Friday. Backlund has five goals in his last seven games. “It’s been a tough week. You can’t afford to give any more points away,” Colborne said. “We’ll enjoy it for a little bit here in the room and when we walk out of the rink it’s on to a huge road trip in California.”
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The Flames play in Anaheim on Sunday. Making his fourth straight start since Karri Ramo’s season-ending knee injury, Jonas Hiller won for the first time. He had given up 12 goals in the first three games but bounced back with a 26-save effort.
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SCOREBOARD Local Sports Saturday
Sunday • 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.
Golf Seung-Yul Noh 70-71—141 Chad Collins 73-68—141 Padraig Harrington 71-70—141 Ernie Els 74-67—141 Fabian Gomez 72-69—141 Stewart Cink 70-71—141 Derek Fathauer 71-70—141 Paul Casey 73-69—142 Mark Hubbard 75-67—142 Brian Harman 70-72—142 Justin Thomas 70-72—142 Will MacKenzie 69-73—142 Cameron Smith 72-70—142 Harold Varner III 74-68—142 Andy Sullivan 71-71—142 Mark Wilson 71-71—142 David Toms 70-72—142 Andrew Loupe 70-72—142 Charles Howell III 67-75—142 Carl Pettersson 71-71—142 Morgan Hoffmann 70-72—142 Spencer Levin 73-69—142 Rhein Gibson 72-70—142 Failed to make the cut Danny Lee 72-71—143 Hunter Mahan 72-71—143 Robert Streb 72-71—143 Freddie Jacobson 71-72—143 Daniel Summerhays 72-71—143 Thomas Aiken 71-72—143 Bryce Molder 72-71—143 Lucas Glover 73-70—143 Chad Campbell 72-71—143 Keegan Bradley 72-71—143 Brendon Todd 74-69—143 Bill Haas 72-71—143 Jimmy Walker 72-71—143 Peter Malnati 69-74—143 Matt Jones 74-69—143 Jarrod Lyle 74-70—144 Shawn Stefani 67-77—144 Si Woo Kim 70-74—144 Andres Gonzales 73-71—144 Scott Stallings 73-71—144 Whee Kim 72-72—144 Graham DeLaet 75-69—144 Matt Every 74-71—145 Chris Kirk 73-72—145 John Senden 71-74—145 Scott Langley 72-73—145 Matt Dobyns 74-71—145 Brett Stegmaier 72-73—145 Johnson Wagner 72-73—145 Daniel Berger 73-72—145 Hudson Swafford 72-73—145 David Hearn 74-72—146 Will Wilcox 75-71—146 Blayne Barber 74-72—146 Sergio Garcia 74-72—146 Fred Couples 74-72—146 Patrick Rodgers 77-69—146 Steve Wheatcroft 74-72—146
Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB d-Cleveland 39 14 .736 — Toronto 35 18 .660 4 Boston 32 23 .582 8 Miami 30 24 .556 9 1/2 Atlanta 31 25 .554 9 1/2 Indiana 29 25 .537 10 1/2 Charlotte 28 26 .519 11 1/2 Chicago 28 26 .519 11 1/2 Detroit 27 28 .491 13 Washington 25 28 .472 14 Orlando 24 29 .453 15 New York 23 33 .411 17 1/2 Milwaukee 22 33 .400 18 Brooklyn 15 40 .273 25 Philadelphia 8 46 .148 31 1/2 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB d-Golden State 48 5 .906 — San Antonio 45 9 .833 3 1/2 Oklahoma City 40 15 .727 9 L.A. Clippers 36 18 .667 12 1/2 Memphis 32 22 .593 16 1/2 Dallas 29 27 .518 20 1/2 Portland 28 27 .509 21 Houston 28 28 .500 21 1/2 Utah 26 27 .491 22 Sacramento 22 31 .415 26 Denver 22 32 .407 26 1/2 New Orleans 21 33 .389 27 1/2 Minnesota 17 38 .309 32 Phoenix 14 41 .255 35 L.A. Lakers 11 44 .200 38 d-division leader
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• Senior high basketball: Hunting Hills senior girls/boys tournament. • 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).
Northern Trust Open Scores Friday At Riviera Country Club Los Angeles Purse: $6.8 million Yardage: 7,322 Par 71 Second Round a-denotes amateur Jason Kokrak 68-64—132 Chez Reavie 66-67—133 Dustin Johnson 68-66—134 Troy Merritt 68-66—134 Bubba Watson 66-68—134 Marc Leishman 68-67—135 Kyle Reifers 68-68—136 Justin Leonard 67-69—136 Adam Scott 68-68—136 K.J. Choi 69-67—136 Hideki Matsuyama 69-67—136 Rory McIlroy 67-69—136 Charl Schwartze l68-68—136 Luke List 66-70—136 Kevin Chappell 68-69—137 Camilo Villegas 63-74—137 Ricky Barnes 67-70—137 Justin Rose 69-68—137 Ryan Moore 69-68—137 J.B. Holmes 71-66—137 Brendan Steele 70-67—137 Cameron Tringale 72-66—138 Nick Taylor 70-68—138 Matt Kuchar 69-69—138 Harris English 68-70—138 Martin Laird 68-70—138 Jon Curran 71-67—138 Jamie Lovemark 69-70—139 Vijay Singh 70-69—139 Steve Stricker 71-68—139 Aaron Baddeley 71-68—139 Anirban Lahiri 72-67—139 Sung Kang 70-69—139 Patton Kizzire 70-69—139 William McGirt 70-69—139 Stuart Appleby 70-69—139 a-Charlie Danielson 67-72—139 Jeff Overton 72-68—140 Gary Woodland 71-69—140 Francesco Molinari 69-71—140 Charley Hoffman 71-69—140 J.J. Henry 69-71—140 Luke Donald 68-72—140 Tyrone Van Aswegen 68-72—140 Billy Horschel 68-72—140 Retief Goosen 68-72—140 Scott Brown 71-69—140 Carlos Ortiz 72-68—140 Chris Stroud 69-71—140 Adam Hadwin 70-70—140 Jamie Donaldson 69-72—141 Ben Crane 67-74—141 Jason Dufner 70-71—141 Ben Martin 73-68—141
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Thursday’s Games Washington 103, Utah 89 Cleveland 106, Chicago 95 L.A. Clippers 105, San Antonio 86 Friday’s Games Orlando 110, Dallas 104, OT Washington 98, Detroit 86 Brooklyn 109, New York 98 Chicago 116, Toronto 106 New Orleans 121, Philadelphia 114 Charlotte 98, Milwaukee 95 Memphis 109, Minnesota 104 Indiana 101, Oklahoma City 98 Miami 115, Atlanta 111 Houston 116, Phoenix 100 Portland 137, Golden State 105 Denver at Sacramento, late San Antonio at L.A. Lakers, late Boston at Utah, late Saturday’s Games Washington at Miami, 5:30 p.m. Milwaukee at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m. New York at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Golden State at L.A. Clippers, 6:30 p.m. Sunday’s Games Cleveland at Oklahoma City, 1:30 p.m. New Orleans at Detroit, 1:30 p.m. Boston at Denver, 3 p.m. San Antonio at Phoenix, 3 p.m. Memphis at Toronto, 4 p.m. Charlotte at Brooklyn, 4 p.m. Indiana at Orlando, 4 p.m. Philadelphia at Dallas, 5 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Chicago, 6 p.m. Utah at Portland, 7 p.m.
WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Brandon 58 37 17 2 2 239 166 78 Prince Albert 58 31 20 6 1 182 182 69 Moose Jaw 59 30 21 7 1 207 191 68 Regina 57 27 23 3 4 189 199 61 Swift Current 57 20 30 4 3 151 195 47 Saskatoon 58 21 33 4 0 180 247 46 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt x-Lethbridge 59 40 18 1 0 239 170 81 Red Deer 59 35 21 1 2 215 174 73 Calgary 58 33 22 1 2 192 179 69 Edmonton 58 24 27 6 1 159 184 55 Medicine Hat 58 21 33 3 1 174 236 46 Kootenay 58 10 43 5 0 123 256 25 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 59 41 15 3 0 214 173 85 Victoria 61 39 16 3 3 220 142 84 Prince George 58 32 22 3 1 209 183 68 Kamloops 58 27 23 5 3 192 190 62 Vancouver 59 21 31 5 2 167 214 49 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Everett 57 33 20 2 2 148 128 70 Seattle 56 31 22 3 0 176 160 65 Portland 58 30 25 3 0 185 179 63 Spokane 56 27 22 4 3 188 191 61 Tri-City 57 28 26 2 1 189 199 59 x — clinched playoff berth Note: winning team is credited with two points and a victory in the W column a team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the respective OTL or SOL column. Friday’s results Moose Jaw 4 Prince Albert 3 (OT) Regina 7 Kootenay 5 Saskatoon 12 Swift Current 6 Brandon 8 Edmonton 3 Portland 4 Lethbridge 2 Medicine Hat 3 Calgary 2 Prince George 3 Red Deer 1 Kelowna 6 Vancouver 5 Tri-City 2 Everett 0 Victoria 4 Kamloops 1 Spokane at Seattle, late. Saturday’s games Edmonton at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m. Kootenay at Swift Current, 6 p.m. Prince Albert at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m. Lethbridge at Calgary, 7 p.m. Portland at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m. Red Deer at Prince George, 8 p.m. Kelowna at Vancouver, 8 p.m. Seattle at Everett, 8:05 p.m. Tri-City at Spokane, 8:05 p.m. Kamloops at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Sunday’s games Swift Current at Moose Jaw, 3 p.m. Edmonton at Regina, 3 p.m. Medicine Hat at Calgary, 4 p.m. Spokane at Everett, 5:05 p.m. Kamloops at Vancouver, 6 p.m. Brandon at Prince Albert, 6 p.m. NHL
Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OL GF GA Pts Florida 58 33 18 7 161 136 73 Boston 58 31 21 6 174 160 68 Detroit 58 29 20 9 149 153 67 Metropolitan Division GP W L OL GF GA Pts Washington 56 42 10 4 187 128 88 NY Rangers 58 33 19 6 170 150 72 NY Islanders 57 31 19 7 164 144 69 WILD CARD GP W L OL GF GA Pts Pittsburgh 56 29 19 8 148 144 66 Tampa Bay 57 31 22 4 155 144 66 New Jersey 59 29 23 7 130 137 65 Carolina 59 27 22 10 146 156 64 Philadelphia 57 25 21 11 139 154 61 Montreal 59 28 27 4 162 163 60 Ottawa 59 27 26 6 169 184 60 Buffalo 59 24 28 7 141 162 55 Columbus 59 23 29 7 149 184 53 Toronto 56 20 27 9 136 167 49 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OL GF GA Pts Chicago 61 38 18 5 175 142 81 Dallas 59 37 16 6 191 162 80 St. Louis 60 34 17 9 147 140 77 Pacific Division GP W L OL GF GA Pts Los Angeles 57 33 20 4 155 136 70 Anaheim 57 30 19 8 141 139 68 San Jose 57 31 21 5 168 154 67 WILD CARD GP W L OL GF GA Pts Nashville 58 27 21 10 153 152 64 Colorado 60 30 26 4 161 166 64 Minnesota 58 26 22 10 150 147 62 Arizona 57 27 24 6 157 174 60 Vancouver 58 22 24 12 137 167 56 Calgary 57 26 28 3 158 175 55 Winnipeg 57 25 28 4 148 168 54 Edmonton 59 22 31 6 148 181 50 Note: the top three teams per division and the two next-best records in the conference qualify for the playoffs a winning team is credited with two points and a victory in the W column a team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point, which is registered in the respective OTL or SOL column. Thursday’s results Pittsburgh 6 Detroit 3 Washington 3 NY Islanders 2 (OT) San Jose 2 Florida 1 (SO) Tampa Bay 6 Winnipeg 5 (SO) Ottawa 4 Carolina 2 NY Rangers 4 Toronto 2 Nashville 2 Boston 0 St. Louis 2 Los Angeles 1 (OT) Arizona 6 Dallas 3 Minnesota 5 Edmonton 2 Anaheim 5 Vancouver 2 Friday’s results Carolina 5 San Jose 2 NY Islanders 1 New Jersey 0 Buffalo 4 Columbus 0 Montreal 3 Philadelphia 2 (SO) Calgary 5 Vancouver 2 Saturday, February 20 Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 10:30 a.m.
New Jersey at Washington, 5 p.m. Winnipeg at Florida, 5 p.m. Detroit at Ottawa, 5 p.m. Philadelphia at Toronto, 5 p.m. Boston at Dallas, 6 p.m. Los Angeles at Nashville, 6 p.m. St. Louis at Arizona, 7 p.m. Colorado at Edmonton, 8 p.m. Sunday, February 21 Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 10:30 a.m. Chicago at Minnesota, 1:30 p.m. Calgary at Anaheim, 5 p.m. Tampa Bay at Carolina, 5 p.m. Detroit at NY Rangers, 5 p.m. Colorado at Vancouver, 8 p.m. Monday, February 22 Arizona at Washington, 5 p.m. Columbus at Boston, 5 p.m. Nashville at Montreal, 5:30 p.m. San Jose at St. Louis, 6 p.m. Flames 5, Canucks 2 First Period 1. Calgary, Colborne 9 (Backlund, Brodie) 1:41. 2. Vancouver, Cracknell 4 (Hansen, Sedin) 10:41. 3. Vancouver, Virtanen 4 (unassisted) 15:47. Penalties — Ferland Cgy (slashing) 8:21 Ferland Cgy (interference) 17:44. Second Period 4. Calgary, Backlund 10 (Colborne, Frolik) 2:07. 5. Calgary, Frolik 10 (Brodie, Stajan) 5:34. 6. Calgary, Giordano 14 (Brodie, Gaudreau) 19:35. Penalties — Cracknell Vcr (face-off violation) 12:36 Sedin Vcr (tripping) 13:29. Third Period 7. Calgary, Jooris 4 (Bouma, Nakladal) 3:01. Penalties — Engelland Cgy, Dorsett Vcr (misconduct) 18:38. Shots on goal by Vancouver 14 8 6 — 28 Calgary 7 19 7 — 33 Canadiens 3, Flyers 2 (SO) First Period 1. Montreal, Weise 14 (Markov, Subban) 2:56. 2. Philadelphia, Cousins 3 (Umberger, Medvedev) 3:06. Penalties — Giroux Pha (hooking) 14:44 Andrighetto Mtl (hooking) 18:32. Second Period No Scoring. Penalties — White Pha (hooking) 3:14 Emelin Mtl (delay of game) 7:45 Plekanec Mtl (interference) 11:42 Giroux Pha (holding) 19:36. Third Period 3. Philadelphia, Raffl 8 (Gostisbehere, Laughton) 3:15. 4. Montreal, Pacioretty 21 (Subban, Weise) 8:35 (pp). Penalties — Giroux Pha (hooking) 7:02. Overtime No Scoring. Penalties — None. Shootout — Montreal wins 2-1 Philadelphia: Cousins goal, Giroux miss, Simmonds miss, Voracek miss, Schenn miss. Montreal: Galchenyuk miss, Andrighetto miss, Pacioretty goal, Eller miss, Byron goal.
Curling 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. — Schedule of play for the 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian women’s curling championship to be held through Feb. 28 in Grande Prairie, Alta.: QUALIFYING ROUND (one team advances to round robin) Team (Skip) W L x-B.C. (Thompson) 2 1 x-N.W.T. (Galusha) 2 1 Yukon (Baldwin) 1 2 Nunavut (Chislett) 1 2 Friday’s results Draw B B.C. 8 Yukon 4 Northwest Territories 13 Nunavut 2 Draw C Yukon 12 Nunavut 1 B.C. 8 Northwest Territories 6 (extra end) Thursday’s results Draw A Northwest Territories 9 Yukon 7 Nunavut 8 B.C. 7 Saturday Tiebreaker B.C. vs. Northwest Territories, 8 a.m. ROUND ROBIN
Team Alberta Canada Manitoba New Brunswick Nfld. & Labrador Northern Ont. Nova Scotia Ontario P.E.I. Quebec Saskatchewan Qualifier
(Skip) W L (Carey) 0 0 (Jones) 0 0 (Einarson) 0 0 (Robichaud) 0 0 (Curtis) 0 0 (McCarville) 0 0 (Brothers) 0 0 (J.Hanna) 0 0 (Birt) 0 0 (Larouche) 0 0 (Campbell) 0 0 (TBD) 0 0 Saturday’s games First Draw, 1:30 p.m. Quebec vs. Ontario, Alberta vs. Canada, Saskatchewan vs. Nova Scotia. Second Draw, 6:30 p.m. P.E.I. vs. Newfoundland & Labrador, Northern Ontario vs. New Brunswick, Qualifier vs. Manitoba. Sunday’s games Third Draw, 8:30 a.m. Nova Scotia vs. Manitoba, NL vs. Alberta, Saskatchewan vs. Ontario, Canada vs. P.E.I. Fourth Draw, 1:30 p.m. Qualifier vs. Alberta, Quebec vs. Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia vs. Northern Ontario, Newfoundland &
Labrador vs. New Brunswick. Fifth Draw, 6:30 p.m. Northern Ontario vs. Canada, Ontario vs. MB, P.E.I. vs. New Brunswick, Quebec vs. Qualifier. Monday, Feb. 22 Sixth Draw, 11:30 a.m. Saskatchewan vs. New Brunswick, Qualifier vs. Nova Scotia, Newfoundland & Labrador vs. Quebec, Alberta vs. Northern Ontario. Seventh Draw, 6:30 p.m. Alberta vs. P.E.I., Canada vs. Newfoundland & Labrador, Manitoba vs. Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia vs. Ontario. Tuesday, Feb. 23 Eighth Draw, 8:30 a.m. Ontario vs. Qualifier, Manitoba vs. Quebec, Northern Ontario vs. P.E.I., New Brunswick vs. Canada. Ninth Draw, 1:30 p.m. Newfoundland & Labrador vs. Northern Ontario, New Brunswick vs. Alberta, Quebec vs. Nova Scotia, Qualifier vs. Saskatchewan. Draw 10, 4:30 p.m. Canada vs. Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia vs. P.E.I., Ontario vs. Alberta, Manitoba vs. Newfoundland & Labrador.
GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Signed RHP Will Landsheft. USA Baseball USAB — Named Matt Blood director of the 18U National Team program Brad Young director, communications and national team travel Ashley Bratcher and Brooks Webb senior directors of baseball operations James Vick director, national training complex operations Amanda Baumann director, travel services Joe DiRienzo director, multimedia production Wiley McLeod assistant director, operations Russell Hartford and Ben Trachtman directors of national team championships and Kyle Valente director, amateur events. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association BOSTON CELTICS — Waived F David Lee. HOUSTON ROCKETS — Assigned F Sam Dekker to Rio Grande Valley (NBADL). NEW ORLEANS PELICANS — Signed G Bryce Dejean-Jones. Waived F Jarnell Stokes. FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Suspended Baltimore TE Nick Boyle for 10 games and Green Bay DT Mike Pennel and Dallas DE Randy Gregory four games each for violating the NFL Policy and Program for Substances of Abuse. DETROIT LIONS — Named Mark Olson regional scout. Released DT C.J. Wilson. LOS ANGELES RAMS — Released LB James Laurinaitis, DE Chris Long and TE Jared Cook. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed CB Chimdi Chekwa and WR A.J. Cruz. PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Announced the retirement of TE Heath Miller. TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms with
TE Craig Stevens on a one-year contract. HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended Toronto F Leo Komarov three games for elbowing New York Rangers D Ryan McDonagh during a Feb. 18 game. CALGARY FLAMES — Recalled D Tyler Wotherspoon from Stockton (AHL). Placed D Ladislav Smid on injured reserve. NEW JERSEY DEVILS — placed F Stefan Matteau on injured reserve, retroactive to Feb. 12. Activated D Jon Merrill off injured reserve. WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Re-signed D Taylor Chorney to a two-year contract extension. SOCCER Major League Soccer D.C. United — Signed M Paul Clowes. PHILADELPHIA UNION — Signed D Taylor Washington. North American Soccer League NEW YORK COSMOS — Announced F Yasmani Duk was loaned to the team by Sport Boys Warnes (Bolivia). United Soccer League SAN ANTONIO FC — Named Nick Evans and Juan Lamadrid assistant coaches. COLLEGE SAINT AUGUSTINE’S — Removed the interim tag from football coach Tim Chavous. THIEL — Named Jake Paviol men’s assistant lacrosse coach. WAKE FOREST — Suspended men’s basketball F Devin Thomas for two games and dismissed men’s basketball F Cornelius Hudson for violating undisclosed athletic department policy.
Transactions BASEBALL American League KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with LHP Mike Minor on a two-year contract. Placed LHP Jason Vargas on the 60-day DL. TEXAS RANGERS — Signed manager Jeff Banister to a contract extension through 2018. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Agreed to terms with C Tony Sanchez on a minor league contract. National League CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with RHP Aaron Crow on a minor league contract. LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Louis Coleman on a one-year contract. Placed RHP Brandon McCarthy on the 60-day DL. American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS — Signed OF Kes Carter and LHP Mike Mason. GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS — Signed INF Elbert Devarie and INF Marquis Riley. JOLPIN BLASTERS — Signed INF Will Soto. LINCOLN SALTDOGS — Signed RHP Evan Reed. SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Signed OF Ryan Kalish. SIOUX FALLS CANARIES — Signed OF Ethan Chapman. Traded INF RJ Perucki to Normal for OF Cameron Monger. Can-Am League OTTAWA CHAMPIONS — Released INF Matt Tenaglia. SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Signed RHP Vaughn Hayward. Traded INF Cory Morales to Fargo-Moorhead (AA) for OF Joe Dunigan and cash. Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Signed INF Josh Allen to a contract extension.
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Jones favoured to repeat SCOTTIES TOURNAMENT OF HEARTS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. — Who can topple the giant at the Canadian women’s curling championship? The team considered the greatest threat to Jennifer Jones’s bid for a second straight national title, and the sixth of the skip’s career, did not make it to this year’s Scotties Tournament of Hearts. Rachel Homan was upset in the Ontario provincial final by Jenn Hanna, who returns to the Scotties 11 years after losing to Jones in a dramatic final. The field for the 2016 Canadian women’s championship is a mix of seasoned teams and new faces. The main draw starts Saturday at the 3,200-seat Revolution Place. The top four teams among the 12 at the conclusion of the preliminary round advance to playoffs. Ties for fourth are solved by tiebreaker games. Alberta’s Chelsea Carey, Northern Ontario’s Krista McCarville and Quebec’s Marie-France Larouche are Jones’s main challengers in Grande Prairie. The three teams have previous big-game experience and at both the Scotties and in other major events such as the Olympic trials. Larouche owns a 41-25 record as a skip at the Scotties. She’s made the playoffs in five of six appearances, including the 2004 final. “For sure I think we are able to be at the end of the week in the top four,” Larouche said. “After that, we’ll see.” McCarville has skipped playoff teams twice in four Scotties and got as far as the semifinals of the 2009 Olympic trials. “One hundred per cent I want to make the playoffs,” McCarville said. “There’s lots of things to get you distracted at the Scotties, autograph sessions and all that. “We don’t want to get distracted with those little things. I really want to focus and be together as a team and do everything that has been working for us.” Carey spent years playing Jones in Manitoba before moving to Alberta and taking over Heather Nedohin’s team, which features Olympic bronze medallist Amy Nixon at third. Carey skipped Manitoba to a 9-2 record at the national championship in 2014 and was fourth in the 2013 Olympic trials. “It’s probably the most wide-open Scotties field I’ve seen in a long time,” Carey said. “We think we have a pretty good shot at it. It’s a long week and who knows what can happen? We’ve been to the Scotties
and know what it’s about.” Carey, Hanna and Saskatchewan’s Jolene Campbell are ones to watch by virtue of the teams they beat in their respective provincial finals. Carey defeated Val Sweeting, the finalist in last year’s Scotties in Moose Jaw, Sask. Campbell downed veteran Stefanie Lawton of Saskatoon to take Saskatchewan. “There’s definitely some names we haven’t seen for a while, but definitely names we’ve seen before for the most part,” Jones observed. “You see Marie-France Larouche back. Chelsea Carey is there. It’s her second Scotties and the rest of that team has been there many times before. There’s a lot of people we know for sure and we know that we’re going to have to play our very best to make the playoffs.” Jones and second Jill Officer can tie the record of six Canadian championships held by Colleen Jones with another trophy in Grande Prairie. Lead Dawn McEwen has been in on four of those titles. They and third Kaitlyn Lawes went undefeated to win Olympic gold in 2014. The Winnipeg team knows how to ride out the highs and lows of a long week and peak for when it really counts. “We really try to focus on never losing back-toback games and if you do that you’re in pretty good shape, ” Jones said. “You just want to make it into the playoffs. It doesn’t matter how you get it, or where you are ranked getting in, you want to get into the playoffs and start fresh from there.” There were two pre-tournament qualifier matches Friday evening, with a berth in the main draw on the line. Yukon skip Nicole Baldwin (1-2) easily dispatched Nunavut’s Geneva Chislett (1-2) 12-1 in eight ends. Meanwhile, Kerry Galusha (2-1) and her Northwest Territories squad dropped an 8-6 decision to B.C’s Karla Thompson (2-1) in a draw needing an extra end. Galusha and Thomspon will meet again Saturday morning in a playoff, with the winner joining the main draw. The winner of the Feb. 28 final represents Canada at the women’s world curling championship March 19-27 in Swift Current, Sask., and returns to next year’s Scotties in St. Catharines, Ont., as Team Canada. The victor also gains automatic berths in this year’s Canada Cup in Brandon, Man., and the 2017 World Financial Group Continental Cup in Las Vegas.
Cougars rally after slow start The Notre Dame Cougars got off to a slow start, but they finished strong in beating the Camrose Trojans 90-52 in Central Alberta High School Junior Varsity Boys’ Basketball League play. Isaac Colosimo led the Cougars with 18 points while Leigh Pico added 16 and Carson Schiller 10. Keith Gomez had 12 points and Eric Brausen 11 for Camrose.
Kokrak takes lead, Spieth misses cut LOS ANGELES — Jason Kokrak made birdie on all the par 5s at Riviera and shot a 7-under 64 to build a one-shot lead over Chez Reavie going into the weekend at the Northern Trust Open. There was plenty of power at the top besides Kokrak, who has never won on the PGA Tour. Dustin Johnson had a 66 and Bubba Watson played bogey-free in his round of 68. They were two shots behind. Johnson has been runner-up the last two years. Watson won two years ago. Rory McIlroy, Adam Scott and Hideki Matsuyama were four behind. The weekend will not include Jordan Spieth. He shot 68 and missed the cut by five shots.
Subban gets two assists in Habs shootout win MONTREAL — Paul Byron scored in the fifth round of a shootout as the Montreal Canadiens ended a three-game losing run with a 3-2 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Friday night. Dale Weise and Max Pacioretty scored in regulation time for Montreal (28-27-4), while the Flyers (25-21-11) had goals from Nick Cousins and Michael Raffl. P.K. Subban had a pair of assists for the Canadiens. The Flyers’ Shayne Gostisbehere picked up an assist to extend his points streak to 14 games, an NHL record for a rookie defenceman. The league’s longest active streak makes the Margate, Fla. native the first rearguard since Brian Leetch from Oct. 30 to Dec. 1, 1996 with points in 14 straight games. Shots were 34-28 in Philadelphia’s favour in regulation time and 37-32 overall. Pacioretty also scored in the shootout for Montreal while Cousins was the lone Flyer to score. The Bell Centre crowd opened the game chanting Subban’s name in support of the defenceman who was blamed by coach Michel Therrien for a loss Wednesday in Colorado. And Montreal got the first goal when Weise passed in front and the puck went off defenceman Nick Schultz and past goalie Michal Neuvirth at 2:56. Only 20 seconds later, Cousins’ long wrist shot from the left boards handcuffed Mike Condon to tie the game.
Bulls halt 5-game slide, beat Raptors Bulls 116 Raptors 106 Chicago Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg pulled Doug McDermott aside Friday between practice and their game against the Toronto Raptors. He told McDermott that he had a lot of confidence in McDermott’s shot — the one he had as the nation’s leading scorer at Creighton — and that he needed him to put the ball up. “I told him every time he shoots the ball, I think it’s going in,” Hoiberg said. “And to go out there and play his game, and play with confidence.” McDermott did just that, scoring a career-high 30 points off the bench to lead the Bulls to a 116-106 win over the Atlantic-leading Raptors, putting an end to their five-game slide. “We needed that,” said the Bulls’ Derrick Rose. “Doug came out and played aggressively … we needed that.” Rose scored 26 and Pau Gasol added 18 points and 11 rebounds for the injury-depleted Bulls, who won for just the fifth time in their last 20 games. Kyle Lowry had 27 points to lead the Raptors. Jonas Valanciunas had 25 points and 12 rebounds for Toronto and DeMar DeRozan added 22. The Raptors, playing their first game since returning from the All-Star break, led most of the first half but squandered it in the third quarter. Coach Dwayne Casey said his team’s poor defence made things easy for McDermott and the Bulls. “We had no semblance of defensive presence,” Casey said. “You give up a 37-point third quarter … give a kid a career high. If we think we’re going to go anywhere playing like that, we’re kidding ourselves.” Hoiberg said McDermott just seemed to need a confidence booster to play like the guy drafted 11th overall last year out of Creighton, where he was the leading scorer in the nation. But like the Chicago team as a whole, McDermott had struggled recently. “It just looked to me like he had lost a little bit of confidence, and you know, he’s such a good player, such a good shooter,” Hoiberg said. Toronto was up by as much as 13 before McDer-
mott sparked the run that put Chicago in control. He gave the Bulls a 70-69 lead on a pull-up jumper on a fast break with 6:14 to go in the third quarter. The Bulls seemed to come alive after that, and McDermott continued his strong play in the fourth. He finished 13 for 17 from the field, and 4 for 5 from 3-point range. McDermott said his talk with Hoiberg was short, but good. “Coach showing that he has confidence in you means a lot as a player,” McDermott said. “It was a long-time coming,” McDermott said of his performance. “There’s been a lot of ups and downs, so far, and I just stayed with it. It’s just one game so I’m not going to get too high on myself, but it’s definitely a good start for my confidence. …
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‘There were a lot of good things up and down the lineup and we were clean all the way through.” Dubinsky finished with 17 kills, a block and two digs while Friesen had 10 kills, four aces, two blocks and four digs, Lyon had five kills, two aces, a block and five digs and Kashtin De Souza five kills and three digs. Ty Moorman had four kills and Brisbane had 33 assists, a kill, an ace and 10 digs. Libero Michael Sumner was the RDC player of the match thanks to his brilliant defence and solid passing. He finished with 10 digs and two assists. Justin Delorme had 11 kills for the Trojans while libero Chris Peterson of Red Deer had seven digs. The Kings, who are ranked No. 1 in Canada, have Saturday’s match before the playoffs at NAIT next weekend. Schulha feels his team is close to being where they need to be. “Our focus the last couple of weeks was to improve ourselves.” What he still wants to see is more blocks for points. “We left some blocks on the floor. We’re blocking too high. We’re blocking like it’s CIS and giving our opponents too much respect. That’s something we will address and be better at tomorrow and going forward.” DeSouza, who played the last three years and is moving on to UBC, was honoured prior to the match. Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached atdrode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen atwww.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog.
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Fresh produce pushes inflation up LOW DOLLAR INCREASING PRICES OF IMPORTED GOODS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The consequences of the steady fall in the Canadian dollar are starting to push up inflation, with rising prices for imported goods like fresh fruits and vegetables leading the way. Statistics Canada said Friday that the country’s annual inflation rate reached two per cent last month, its highest mark since November 2014. The January year over year inflation number was up from 1.6 per cent in December. The agency’s latest consumer price index found that inflation climbed in every province last month at a time when the weaker exchange rate was contributing to higher costs for imported goods. The effects of the steep decline in oil prices have played a big part in pushing down the loonie. Last month, the overall cost of food was up four per cent compared with a year earlier, with fresh vegetable prices up 18.2 per cent and fruits up 12.9 per cent. A closer look at the data shows that lettuce prices last month were 17.9 per cent higher than the year before, apples were up 16.6 per cent and tomatoes up 11.9 per cent. “Very strong indeed — much stronger report than
what we expected,” Desjardins senior economist Jimmy Jean said of the headline inflation number. “(The increase) is largely in the usual suspects these days — fruits and vegetables.” Year-over-year prices moved upwards in every category of the index except for clothing and footwear, which saw a decrease of 0.3 per cent compared with January 2015. Lower prices in January for natural gas, fuel oil and telephone services kept downward pressure on the inflation reading. Natural gas was down 18.6 per cent, fuel oil down 15 per cent and telephone services 2.5 per cent, the agency said The overall January inflation rate also hit the Bank of Canada’s ideal target of two per cent. The central bank watches the inflation rate very closely whenever it makes decisions on whether to move its benchmark interest rate. Its next policy meeting is scheduled for early next month. Jean said he wouldn’t be surprised if inflation moved above two per cent and, if it does, it likely wouldn’t be a major preoccupation for the central bank since it maintains a target range of one to three per cent, he added. Statistics Canada’s core inflation rate, which excludes some volatile items such as gasoline, was 1.9 per cent in December.
Inflation by province OTTAWA — Canada’s national inflation rate was 2.0 per cent in January, Statistics Canada says. Here’s what happened in the provinces and territories. (Previous month in brackets): • Newfoundland and Labrador: 2.4 per cent (1.4) • Prince Edward Island: 1.9 (0.9) • Nova Scotia: 2.0 (1.2) • New Brunswick: 2.4 (1.1) • Quebec: 1.6 (1.3) • Ontario: 2.0 (1.7) • Manitoba: 2.1 (1.5) • Saskatchewan: 2.2 (1.8) • Alberta: 2.1 (1.5) • British Columbia: 2.3 (1.9) • Whitehorse, Yukon: 1.9 (0.8) • Yellowknife, N.W.T.: 2.0 (1.5) The agency also released its most recent retail sales data, which showed a drop of 2.2 per cent to $43.2 billion in December compared with November, when sales rose 1.7 per cent.
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Farm income growing to record levels AGRICULTURE CANADA’S ANNUAL OUTLOOK PAINTS ROSY PICTURE BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Al Monaco, the CEO of Enbridge, said Friday he doesn’t expect to meet a deadline to begin construction of the Northern Gateway pipeline this year and the Calgary-based company will likely seek an extension. Monaco said Enbridge is still working to satisfy the 209 conditions included in its 2014 permit to build the pipeline, as well as firm up commitments with shippers and get more community support.
Not yet for Northern Gateway CEO SAYS CHANCES OF PIPELINE BEING BUILT THIS YEAR ‘REMOTE’ BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The CEO of Enbridge said Friday he doesn’t expect to meet a deadline to begin construction of the Northern Gateway pipeline this year and the Calgary-based company will likely seek an extension. Al Monaco said Enbridge is still working to satisfy the 209 conditions included in its 2014 permit to build the pipeline, as well as firm up commitments with shippers and get more community support. “Our ability to begin construction before the end of the year is really quite remote at this point,” Monaco told investors on a conference call after the company reported its fourth-quarter results. One condition of the permit requires it to start construction on either the 1,177-kilometre pipeline
or a marine terminal in Kitimat, B.C., by Dec. 31 unless the National Energy Board directs otherwise. Enbridge is assessing what would be needed if it were to apply for a deadline extension, Monaco said. “We are really in evaluation mode,” he said. There has been strong First Nations opposition to Northern Gateway in B.C., where most land is not covered by treaties. The project, which would run from northern Alberta to a deepwater port in Kitimat, was further set back when the federal government banned tanker traffic along B.C.’s north coast. Monaco has said the company is not giving up on the pipeline despite the tanker ban, and on Friday said he’s not concerned with sticking to a defined timeline.
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OTTAWA — Agriculture Canada says 2015 could be a bumper year for farm incomes. The department says in its annual farm outlook that farm incomes reached record levels in 2015 and will remain above average this year. “Our analysis shows that 2015 and 2016 should be among the most successful years in the history of Canadian agriculture,” Rodney Myer, director of the farm economic analysis division, said in a conference call Friday. “We expect that net cash income in 2015 will reach $15 billion, which is about six per cent above the record set in 2014.” The report provides a forecast of farm income in the agricultural sector for the previous and current calendar years and looks ahead ten years to longer term trends that could impact the agriculture sector. Myer said they’re expecting a decline to $13.6 billion this year, but he says that’s still historically high. It’s 14 per cent higher than the 2010-2014 average. The average net operating income in 2015 is forecast to be $77,287. The average net worth per farm is expected to reach $2.7 million this year. “Early in the 2015 growing season, there was significant concern that widespread dry conditions in Western Canada would result in a short crop and a sharp decline in farm cash receipts,” said Myer. But Myer says “late summer rainfall rejuvenated withered crops.” The outlook says a projected increase in both crop and livestock receipts contributed to strong income levels. Livestock receipts are expected to increase two per cent to $26.2 billion in 2015, while crop receipts are expected to have also increased two per cent to reach $30.7 billion in 2015. The outlook also says lower oil prices have significantly reduced on-farm fuel expenses, while the lower Canadian dollar has improved competitiveness of agricultural commodities in export markets. “If that persists throughout 2016, Canadian producers could see further improvements in the prices they receive,” Myer said.
Cyber-threats on oil and gas up for discussion ALBERTA ENERGY REPORT NOTES LACK OF PROVINCIAL IT SECURITY MINIMUM BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Alberta’s energy department will be holding meetings in the coming weeks to discuss the threat of cyberattacks on oil-and-gas infrastructure — an issue that was flagged in a recent report by the province’s auditor general. The report noted that the Alberta government does not require provincially regulated oil-and-gas operators to meet minimum IT security standards for the systems that control pumps, valves and other key oil-andgas equipment. There are standards for utilities, but electrical operators aren’t required to comply with those until October of next year. Although the threat of an attack on the oil-and-gas industry was found to be low, the auditor general report says there’s been no government assessment of what the impact would be if a cyberattack were to occur. Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd says her department accepts the auditor general’s recommendations.
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“Our energy industry is crucial to the economic livelihood of our province and we want to help make sure it remains as protected as possible from cyberattacks,” she said in a statement. “I have asked the department to work with regulators and other areas of government to meet and determine next steps. Those meetings will begin in the coming weeks.” The auditor general’s report said if systems are not secure, “they can be misused to cause damage to critical infrastructure (e.g. oil wells, pipelines and refineries), resulting in harm to Albertans or the environment.” “We recommend that the Department of Energy and Alberta Energy Regulator work together to determine whether a further assessment of threats, risks and impacts to industrial control systems used in provincially regulated oil and gas infrastructure would benefit Alberta.” The impact of a potential cyberattack in the oilpatch could be serious, but it’s unlikely to look like something out of a Hollywood blockbuster, said Nick Martyn, CEO of RiskLogik.
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‘IT’S REALLY UP TO ORGANIZATIONS THEMSELVES TO TAKE IT ONE STEP FURTHER AND NOT ONLY FOCUS ON COMPLIANCE, WHICH IS THAT BARE MINIMUM THAT YOU HAVE TO DO, BUT REALLY APPROACH IT FROM A RISK-MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE.’ RYAN WILSON, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER AT SCALAR DECISIONS INC. RiskLogik works with clients to map out and mitigate risks, whether they’re potential cyberattacks or natural disasters. Martyn said disrupting the flow of natural gas on a pipeline during the winter, for instance, “would be a huge inconvenience, but it wouldn’t be catastrophic.” Ryan Wilson, chief technology officer at Toronto-based IT firm Scalar Decisions Inc., said the industry’s work shouldn’t stop at complying with any minimum standards the government ends up putting in place. Companies also have a duty to shareholders to do everything possible to protect their business from threats, he said. “It’s really up to organizations themselves to take it one step further and not only focus on compliance,
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which is that bare minimum that you have to do, but really approach it from a risk-management perspective.” Mark Nunnikhoven, a vice-president at global IT security firm Trend Micro, said Canadian energy firms are among the best in the world when it comes to protecting themselves from cyberthreats. However, they face a unique challenge: the infrastructure is built to stay in place for decades upon decades. “While they’re kept up to date on a somewhat regular basis, they were designed and deployed for a very different type of environment,” said Nunnikhoven. “Most of these systems are working on models that were designed conceptually 20-something years ago and the IT industry is very different now versus 20 years ago.”
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DOLLAR CLOSE TORONTO — A pullback in oil prices and disappointing retail sales data pushed the Toronto stock market to a lower close Friday after four consecutive advances. The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX index lost 117.96 points to 12,813.40. Energy stocks on the TSX took a beating, retreating 1.67 per cent as the March contract for benchmark North American crude slipped $1.13 to US$29.64 a barrel. In New York, markets were mixed, with the Dow Jones industrial average falling 21.44 points to 16,391.99 and the broader S&P 500 off 0.05 of a point at 1,917.78. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq composite index gained 16.89 points to 4,504.43 as tech stocks strengthened. In economic news, Statistics Canada reported that retail sales dropped 2.2 per cent month over month to $43.2 billion in December after having advanced 1.7 per cent in November. The last time retail sales saw a month-over-month drop of that magnitude was April 2010, when they fell 2.3 per cent, the agency said. Experts said the decrease was largely due to unseasonably warm weather and lighter than usual snowfalls in December, as well as the impact of Black Friday pre-holiday sales events that led to stronger numbers in November. Meanwhile, the annual inflation rate reached two per cent last month as the weakened loonie caused prices of imported goods like fresh fruits and vegetables to soar. Statistics Canada said January’s inflation figure was the highest since November 2014. “Normally, inflation is driven by solid growth, solid demand from the consumer,” said Cavan Yie, an analyst at Manulife Asset Management.
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“But in this case it’s driven by foreign exchange.” Yie said the combination of high inflation and negative sales growth — a phenomenon sometimes referred to as “stagflation” — bodes poorly for the Canadian economy. “You have low growth and you have high inflation,” said Yie. “When you have those two elements together it’s not good for the Canadian consumer, because their purchasing power gets eroded.” Retail stocks were also struggling south of the border after holiday-season results from department store operator Nordstrom disappointed Wall Street. The company said its sales were weaker than it expected and its profits were hurt because it had to match discounts offered by competitors. In commodity news, the March contract for natural gas fell five cents to US$1.80 per mmBtu, April gold rose $4.50 to US$1,230.80 an ounce and March copper was unchanged at US$2.08 a pound. The Canadian dollar lost 0.10 of a U.S. cent at 72.63 cents US. In Europe, stocks fell as the leaders of Britain and the rest of the 28-country European Union entered a second day of a summit on the U.K.’s membership in the bloc. Talks were stalled over a series of issues, including immigration rights. Germany’s DAX fell 0.8 per cent, while France’s CAC 40 and Britain’s FTSE 100 both declined 0.4 per cent. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Friday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,813.40, down 117.96 points Dow — 16,391.99, down 21.44 points S&P 500 — 1,917.78,
Steel plant to close after $56 million wind energy investment TRENTON, N.S. — A steel manufacturing facility in northeastern Nova Scotia that received $56.3 million in provincial money is shutting down, ending an ambitious plan to create hundreds of jobs in the wind energy sector. Business Minister Mark Furey said Friday that the board of directors for DSME Trenton, known as DSTN, had informed government the company is ceasing operations permanently. “They’ve been challenged in the past number of months to secure either an additional investor or contracts to sustain the facility going forward,” he said in an interview.
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down 0.05 of a point Nasdaq — 4,504.43, up 16.89 points Currencies: Cdn — 72.63 cents US, down 0.10 of a cent Pound — C$1.9771, up 0.68 of a cent Euro — C$1.5326, up 0.68 of a cent Euro — US$1.1131, up 0.33 of a cent Oil futures: US$29.64 per barrel, down $1.13 (March contract) Gold futures: US$1,230.80 per oz., up $4.50 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.211 oz., up 28.3 cents $714.08 kg., up $9.09 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ‘16 $2.40 higher $466.60 May ‘16 $0.70 higher $470.50 July ‘16 $1.50 higher $475.40 Nov. ‘16 $0.20 higher $475.90 Jan. ‘17 $0.60 higher $479.80 March ‘17 $0.60 higher $480.40 May ‘17 $0.60 higher $479.10 July ‘17 $0.60 higher $478.60 Nov. ‘17 $1.40 lower $476.60 Jan. ‘18 $1.40 lower $476.60 March ‘18 $1.40 lower $476.60. Barley (Western): March ‘16 unchanged $186.00 May ‘16 unchanged $190.00 July ‘16 unchanged $192.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $192.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $192.00 March ‘17 unchanged $192.00 May ‘17 unchanged $192.00 July ‘17 unchanged $192.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $192.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $192.00 March ‘18 unchanged $192.00. Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 882,060 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 882,060.
“We know there’s about a $400,000 monthly expenditure to keep that facility in its maintenance mode and the company realized it was unreasonable to continue in the manner it has.” Furey said that after more than five years in business, DSTN did not make money on any contracts or achieve job targets. He said DSTN has indicated it has several million dollars in cash, equipment and property, which could “minimize the potential cost to taxpayers for any environmental cleanup or receivership fees.” Furey said that with the province as the primary secured creditor, it will file for receivership to try to recover as much of its investment as possible. He said he doubts the $36 million in repayable loans will be dispersed, but the province needs to determine the value of the property and its equipment through the receivership process.
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Finance minister to give sense of federal deficit BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal finance minister is poised to provide Canadians a better sense of the size of the budgetary deficit for the coming year. A government official says Bill Morneau will deliver a presentation Monday to update the country on the government’s fiscal and economic situation. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity because the details were not yet public, says Morneau will avoid providing a hard number on the shortfall because the upcoming budget has yet to be completed. Morneau recently heard downgraded forecasts from private-sector economists whose projections are averaged to create a fiscal baseline for Ottawa’s budget, expected late next month. Morneau’s announcement will come as the new Liberal government tries to find ways to fulfil big-ticket spending election promises amid tough economic conditions that are slashing billions from its bottom line. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently acknowledged that his govern-
ment would no longer live up to its pledge to keep the 2016-17 deficit under $10 billion. Trudeau also raised doubts whether the Liberals would fulfil its vow balance the books within four years — a central pledge in their election platform. The government has instead been emphasizing its other promise to continue lowering Canada’s debt-to-GDP ratio during its mandate. Experts have said Ottawa could run annual deficits as high as $25 billion and still shrink that ratio. Conservative finance critic Lisa Raitt has accused the Liberals of breaking election promises. Raitt asked Morneau on Thursday in the House of Commons if a $30-billion shortfall would remain within his fiscal plan. “We aim to get to a balanced budget over time, recognizing that our economy makes that more challenging,” Morneau said in response to Raitt. “That remains a very important goal for this government.” Morneau has also reiterated the Liberals’ intention to prioritize spending measures to boost the economy and create jobs.
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PIPELINE: 14 projects completed “We are not looking at our watch here on the project,” he said. “This really will take some more time to develop, and that’s what we’re focused on.” The company said it’s also facing delays on its Sandpiper and Line 3 projects in the U.S. after the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission ordered that a final environment impact statement on the pipelines be completed before other permits can be processed. If the commission’s decision is upheld, construction and $5 billion in spending on those projects would be postponed to 2018, Enbridge said. In releasing its earnings, Enbridge said it did successfully complete 14 other projects worth $8 billion in 2015, including the reversal and expansion of Line 9B in southern Ontario. The company reported $378 million profit and $494 million in adjusted earnings in the fourth quarter. The adjusted earnings worked out to 58 cents per share after excluding certain items, up nearly 21 per cent from the fourth quarter of 2014 and beating analyst expectations of 52 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters. Looking ahead, Monaco said the company’s five-year plan has the company’s core pipeline business still making up 70 to 75 per cent of earnings but he’s hoping to diversify that and secure projects that aren’t reliant on the oilsands. “In terms of how we look at growth beyond 2019, we’ve been trying to establish opportunities around new platforms, whether it’s power generation, transmission, natural gas and other opportunities to build that inventory now for the future,” Monaco said. Monaco said he sees Alberta as a promising place for renewables invest-
Lettuce among foods with biggest price increase TORONTO — Increasingly expensive fruit and vegetable prices once again helped drive Canada’s annual inflation rate to 2.0 per cent in January. Food prices were up four per cent overall, while fruits rose 12.9 per cent and vegetable prices soared 18.2 per cent. Some foods that rose the most between January 2015 and January 2016 were:
ment thanks to both strong wind and solar resources and the NDP’s climate leadership plan. “We think this is a very good environment to invest in renewables,” he said. “You’ve got a great resource plus you’ve got a set of conditions from a policy position that would support further investment here.”
INFLATION: Retail sales drop Retail sales improved 0.1 per cent month over month in October. The last time retail sales saw a month-over-month drop of that magnitude was April 2010, when they fell 2.3 per cent, the agency said. Experts said the decrease was largely due to unseasonably warm weather and lighter than usual snowfalls in December as well as the impact of Black Friday, pre-holiday sales events that led to stronger numbers in November. “In the past couple of years we’ve kind of seen a pattern whereby (holiday) sales tend to be brought forward to November,” Jean said. Retail sales fell in almost every sub sector, with motor vehicle and parts dealers seeing the biggest decrease in dollar terms, the report said. They also went down in every province except for Prince Edward Island, where they ticked up 0.1 per cent. Brian DePratto of TD Economics said the retail trade report underscored the “softness” in the economy over the final three months of 2015. “Even when taken alongside more positive December manufacturing and wholesale reports, we nevertheless expect that the Canadian economy effectively stood still or contracted slightly in the fourth quarter,” DePratto wrote in a research note to clients. Lettuce: Salad isn’t cheap with a primary component, lettuce, costing 17.9 per cent more. Tomatoes: Another salad staple ingredient, tomatoes jumped 11.9 per cent. Apples: It could be getting harder for some consumers to have one of these each day, as the fruit rose 16.6 per cent. The average retail price last month for a kilogram of apples was $4.22. Oranges: The citrus fruit rose 11 per cent in price. Last month, a kilogram of oranges cost, on average, $3.51.
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Murder ‘An act of self defence’ LINDSAY’S DEFENCE BUILDS CASE AROUND HIS PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIC IMAGINATION IN DEATH OF TURNER BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF In Mark Lindsay’s paranoid schizophrenic imagination he was facing imminent death when he killed Dana Turner, a psychologist said on Friday. “In Mr. Lindsay’s mind, this was an act of self defence,” said Dr. Marc Nesca. To Lindsay, Turner was an assassin with a shadowy group called the Healers and was assigned to monitor and kill him. Even after he stabbed the motherof-three in the eyes and strangled her he was hearing her voice in his head and drove a car over her twice. “He was desperate to ensure she wouldn’t re-animate.” Lindsay’s lawyer Kent Teskey asked why he would spend time with Turner, 31, if she was perceived as such a deadly threat. Nesca said in Lindsay’s delusions he thought being with her allowed him to keep an eye on her and gave him an opportunity to demonstrate that the Healers were wrong to target him. Lindsay killed Turner on the morning of Aug. 15, 2011 in Edmonton. He
“SOMEHOW MR. LINDSAY’S DEVELOPMENT WAS DERAILED AT SOME POINT. HE WASN’T THE AVERAGE CHILD, IN PLAIN LANGUAGE.” DR. MARC NESCA, DEFENCE PSYCHOLOGIST later drive to a remote site west of Innisfail and disposed of her body, which was not discovered until October. Those facts have been admitted by Lindsay. The trial in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench is to determine whether he is criminally responsible for Turner’s death. Nesca was questioned in detail about how the diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia was arrived at. There were early signs of the mental illness more than 10 years ago when Lindsay was an adolescent. He was socially detached, had difficulty bonding with others and was unruly. “Somehow Mr. Lindsay’s development was derailed at some point. He wasn’t the average child, in plain language,” said Nesca. As a teen, he was already being seen by a psychiatrist and had been
prescribed anti-psychotic medication. By junior high school, Lindsay was abusing drugs, a common response among those suffering from schizophrenia. By the time he was in his late teens he was hearing voices and held paranoid delusions, such as his fears of the Healers. While signs of schizophrenia often show up earlier, full-blown symptoms typically appear in males in the late teens and early 20s. Despite his mental troubles, Lindsay was able to attend school, apprentice and hold down a job for lengthy periods. Nesca said as long as delusions and fears aren’t associated with those activities, a schizophrenic person can go about them without triggering a reaction. There were many signs over the years that Lindsay’s illness was getting worse. A suicide attempt, switching apartments and changing locks, sleeping on the floor and barricading himself in an apartment all point to growing paranoia and desperation. Evidence of psychosis was also identified during a 60-day stay at a B.C. mental health facility when he was in his early 20s. Nesca said when he examined a
hallucinating Lindsay last December he concluded there was “no better explanation for Mark Lindsay’s history than paranoid schizophrenia.” Taking massive amounts of drugs, such as cocaine, can also trigger psychosis, Nesca said in a response to questioning from Teskey. However, various psychiatric examinations of Lindsay when drugs were not available show this was not the case for him. Teskey also questioned Nesca about whether there is a possibility that Lindsay is faking the extent of his mental illness, called malingering in medical terms. Various tests done on Lindsay, and his actions, such as his frequent reluctance to talk to psychiatrists about his problems, led to the conclusion he was not making up his mental problems. Also explained in court was Lindsay’s strange habit of holding his neck with his hand as he walks with a stiff gait to and from the dock. Those are side effects of medications used to treat psychosis. Nesca will be back on the stand on Monday when he will be cross-examined by Crown prosecutors. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com
One year for Black Knight Inn drunken assault
100 YEARS YOUNG
BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF
Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff
Edith Lynch samples the frosting off her birthday cake as she and her family and staff and residents of West Park Lodge celebrated her 100th birthday in Red Deer on Friday. From the left, in the photo are her family members Pat Burnes, Doris Smith, Chantelle Brooks, Darlene Hatfield and Marjorie Hatfield. About 30 members of her family including children, grand children and great, great grandchildren attended the event. Edith was born on Feb. 19, 1916 in Grandview, Man., where she was the second youngest of 10 children. In 1940, She married her first husband, Orie Burnes. The couple had six children before Orie was killed in a traffic accident in 1950. In 1962 Edith married Homer Lynch. Edith has been living in Red Deer since 1988 spending 14 years at the Pines Lodge and residing at the West Park Lodge since 2011. Lynch now has 14 grand children, 18 great, grand children and six great, great grand children.
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Police seek suspect after shots fired Police are looking for a man who fired a shot at a passing vehicle at the 19 Street and 50 Avenue intersection on Feb. 11. No was injured and the victim did not know the suspect. Police say a motorist was turning east onto 19 Street from 50 Avenue around 11:30 p.m. when a newer-looking green Chrysler 200 or 300 pulled up beside his vehicle and a man in the front passenger seat leaned out the window and fired what appeared to be a handgun across the hood of the victim’s vehicle. The suspect Chrysler was last seen travelling eastbound on 19 Street. It ran a red light at 49 Avenue and continued eastbound. The suspect is described as Caucasian and in his mid 20s with a bald head and skinny face. If you have information about this incident, contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. To remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit. com.
Flood restoration open house in Rocky on March 1 An open house in Rocky Mountain House on March 1 will provide updated information of efforts to restore backcountry trails damaged in the 2013 floods. The Alberta government will host information sessions in three communities along the Eastern Slopes
to share progress on repairs to the damaged trails and set rehabilitation priorities for the 2016 season. So far, nearly 350 kilometres of backcountry trails have been restored through the Backcountry Trail Flood Rehabilitation Program since it began in 2014. These results have largely been driven by the efforts of volunteers, with more than 2,400 person hours volunteered in 2015 alone. The meeting in Rocky is at the Canalta Hotel, at 4406–41 Ave., from 7 to 9 p.m. The two other meetings will be held earlier — one in Cochrane on Feb. 24, and the other in Blairmore on Feb. 25 in Blairmore. Staff from the province’s Backcountry Trails Flood Rehabilitation Program will present information on completed and upcoming projects. There will be time for questions and review of project maps for the 2016 field season. More information about the trail flood restoration is available online at Alberta Environment and Parks Department, aep.alberta.ca On the home page click on “2013 Flood Recovery”
RCMP search for robbery suspect Red Deer RCMP are looking for a suspect who robbed the Aladdin Motor Inn at knifepoint shortly after 6 a.m. on Friday. Police say a male suspect entered the motel and threatened staff with a knife. He fled on foot heading northbound with an undisclosed amount of money. Police Dog Services tracked the suspect to a nearby parking lot where police later learned the suspect had parked a silver car. The robber fled in the car north on Gaetz Avenue at a high rate of speed. The car is believed to be a Toyota Corolla. The suspect is described as Cauca-
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sian and in his mid 20s, about 1.7 metres (five-foot-seven) tall with a skinny build. He was wearing a dark coat, dark colour pants, a dark touque and a mask that covered most of his face. RCMP continue to investigate. If you have information regarding this incident, please contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. To remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.
Decadent Dessert fundraiser on April 29 The 22nd annual Evening of Decadent Dessert charity fundraiser for the Aspire Special Needs Resource Centre is scheduled for April 29 at the Pidherny Centre in Red Deer. The goal this year is $130,000 and tickets are now on sale, for $100 per person or $750 for a table of eight. The centre helps children who have special needs, support programs, services and scholarships. The evening is the centre’s biggest fundraising event of the year. Guests will enjoy a champagne reception, buffet dinner, live entertainment, raffles and silent auction. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. The highlight of the evening is a live auction, featuring one-of-a-kind desserts created by chefs and bakers from across Central Alberta. These desserts may be sold individually or in combination with high-quality auction packages.Charitable receipts will be issued for $65 of the $100 tickets. To purchase tickets contact the Aspire centre at 403-340-2606 or email inquiries@aspirespecialneeds.ca The final draw of the centre’s annual raffle will also be held that evening. The big prizes are a 2016 Jeep Compass High Altitude 4x4, a blue diamond dinner ring and $2,500. For tickets visit aspirespecialneeds.ca
A drunken hotel patron who attacked two Black Knight Inn employees was sentenced to a year in prison on Friday. Joel Pierre Doctor, 31, of Edmonton, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, assault with a weapon and mischief in Red Deer provincial court. Police were called to a disturbance at the hotel at 2929 50th Ave. about 9 a.m. on April 28, 2015. Doctor had hit one employee with a metal pipe and forced another to jump down a second-floor laundry chute. Doctor was so drunk he later had no recollection of the incident. Judge Jim Hunter said this was a “serious attack” on the two men that was both random and unmotivated. One victim still suffers psychologically from being attacked and hit in the head with the pipe. The other employee shattered his leg when he landed at the bottom of the chute. The effects of his injury still linger. “Quite literally, every step he takes for the rest of his life will remind him of this,” said Hunter in sentencing. “In my view, this was a brutal and terrifying attack on these two individuals that has caused life-long injuries.” Doctor was asked if he wanted to say anything. “Just that I’m very sorry for my actions,” he said. Hunter sentenced him to one year for aggravated assault. Four-month and one-month sentences on the other charges will be served at the same time. On release from prison, Doctor will be on probation for 18 months. He must not drink alcohol and stay at least a block away from the hotel. Doctor must also provide a sample of his DNA to a national database and faces a 10-year weapons prohibition. He must also pay $2,374 in damages to the hotel. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com
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CARE hosting language day BY ADVOCATE STAFF Central Alberta Refugee Effort is hosting an International Mother Language Day Event at the Collicutt Centre today from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Families are invited to attend and learn words in other languages; play fun word games; discover the many cultures in Red Deer, and win prizes. Admission to the event is free. There will be 16 booths representing many different languages and cultures, hosted by CARE volunteers from many different countries. Participants will be able to play interactive games, answer trivia questions, test their memory and linguistic skills, and be introduced to learning different languages in a fun way.
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No plans to undo Conservative cuts to military spending BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says â&#x20AC;&#x153;whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s done is doneâ&#x20AC;? when it comes to the former Conservative governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deep cuts to defence spending in 2012. Sajjan was reacting to a fresh batch of numbers detailing spending cuts from four years ago, released Friday by the Liberal government in response to a long-standing and disputed request by the parliamentary budget office. However, the numbers made public Friday did not contain key information long sought by the federal budget watchdog: how, exactly, the cuts affected services for Canadians. The data did show $1.19 billion in defence spending was cut in 2012, the first wave in a series of reductions that eventually saw over $2.1 billion per year carved out of the militaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s funding envelope. Sajjan, a reserve force lieutenant-colonel, said he witnessed the effects of the cuts.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The previous cuts, which Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m aware of and felt myself, did have an impact, but whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s done is done,â&#x20AC;? Sajjan said Friday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m the minister of defence now and our government is looking at making sure that the planned increases are there. The military, what it needs to move forward is stable, predictable funding, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m working towards and make sure itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to happen.â&#x20AC;? The defence numbers werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t entirely new: defence analysts Dave Perry and George Petrolekas crunched the numbers a few years ago using opensourced budget data and came up with roughly the same figures. What the newly released figures did reveal was where those cuts were directed, including a $40 million per year reduction in the number of reservists â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or part-time soldiers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and $305 million annually to restrain growth in the military. Since the cuts, the bottom has effectively fallen out of the reserves with a
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19 per cent drop in the size of the force â&#x20AC;&#x201D; something defence experts attribute to a lack of money for training or other activities. In their last budget, the Conservative government promised to begin ramping up defence spending starting in 2017, a commitment the Liberals have said they plan to keep. Since coming to power, the Liberals have also vowed to be more transparent and to work more closely with the parliamentary budget office. Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s release was intended in that spirit, Treasury Board President Scott Brison wrote to Jean-Denis Frechette, the parliamentary budget officer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are guided by the principle that government data belongs to all Canadians,â&#x20AC;? Brison wrote in the letter, posted on the Treasury Boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website. Frechette said he was pleased with Brisonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gesture of openness in the letter and his offer to meet with him. But he added that while neatly packaged, most of the figures werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
new to the budget office. The office had already accumulated most of the information via other means. The batch of numbers also lacked a key component to help the PBO assess how the cuts affected services for Canadians, he said. Ex-parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page once tried to challenge the former Tory government in court to turn over details on its cost-cutting programs. The Federal Court sidestepped the question of whether the government can deny information to the PBO. Sahir Khan, a former assistant parliamentary officer, wrote in an email Friday that the release reinforces the legal position that PBO should have access to the information. The new government is willing to disclose more data to the public than its Tory predecessors, but whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been released still falls short in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;critical areaâ&#x20AC;? of service level impacts from the cuts, said Khan, now a senior visiting fellow at University of Ottawa.
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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says bringing in a carbon tax would â&#x20AC;&#x153;kneecapâ&#x20AC;? an already struggling Canadian economy. Wall was reacting to a report in the Globe and Mail that the federal government is eyeing a national carbon tax of $15 a tonne. The premier says the energy sector across Canada has already been hit hard by the falling price of oil and tens of thousands of jobs have been lost. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And the last thing we need right now is a tax increase or a new federal carbon tax or frankly a provincial carbon levy. Nowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the right time for any of those things,â&#x20AC;? Wall said Friday at the legislature in Regina. The Saskatchewan government has talked in the past about a possible carbon levy for heavy emitters with the money going back into a technology Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff fund to help find ways to reduce emisSporting a Woody the Woodpecker mask from Woodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s RV, Tycen Lal, 6, fires off a toy arrow at the Red Deer RV sions. The premier says he thinks it Show and Sale. Taking place at Westerner Park through this weekend the show features over 200 RVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s from six would be a better idea to invest in techlocal RV dealerships. The show is spread between the Stockmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Prairie and Parkland Pavilions at Westerner nology to reduce emissions. He points to a carbon capture and sequestration Park. Entry to the event is adults $5, seniors $4, children 6 and under free and a family pass for $15. project at a coal-fired power plant in southern Saskatchewan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus on technology thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll actually clean up things like coalfired generation thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still happening around the world.â&#x20AC;? Wall said he hopes the issue can be discussed when the premiers meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau next month in Vancouver. tween Tripoli and Libyaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s border with have trouble with the concept, Vance He said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll also push for an ecoISIL MISSION Tunisia, an attack that allegedly killed said â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a veiled reference to the NDP, nomic impact analysis of any proposed about 40 Islamic State recruits. which insists on characterizing the national carbon tax, which he suggestThe defence chief said the Trudeau rescoped special forces mission in ed would increase gas and power pricBY THE CANADIAN PRESS government has not given him any northern Iraq as a combat mission. es for consumers. Ontario Environment direction about how Canada might be International operations fall Minister Glen Murray said the main involved in the new campaign. under a â&#x20AC;&#x153;broad lexicon â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and some concern from his perspective is the OTTAWA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top milâ&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know whether we will people may be uncomfortable with federal government duplicating car- itary commander was dragged Fribon-pricing efforts already taken by day into the long-standing political be involved militarily, but we will the lexicon, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too bad,â&#x20AC;? Vance jurisdictions, including Ontario, Que- debate of what constitutes combat in certainly be involved somehow, told the annual Conference of Defence bec and B.C. Quebec is already in a cap- Iraq, even as the Trudeau government because Libya sits at a crossroads of Associations Institute meeting in and-trade market with California, On- comes to grips with the imploding sit- some very important and dangerous Ottawa. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are using a technique that is tario and Manitoba are set to join and uation in Libya, where U.S. warplanes things that are happening in the world,â&#x20AC;? Vance said. relatively new, borne of the lessons discussions are ongoing with Mexico, have struck extremist training camps. Outside the House of Commons, of Afghanistan. A â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;train, advise and said Murray. He argues the global move The bombings are seen, potentially, to carbon pricing will become a grow- as the opening round in a new front Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan assistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mission clearly falls into the ing problem for jurisdictions outside against the Islamic State of Iraq and repeated Friday that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too soon to non-combat realm, whereas a combat the market, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made that case di- the Levant, which has for months been say how, or even if, Canada would mission is largely distinguished by the fact we are the principal combatant.â&#x20AC;? rectly to his Saskatchewan counterpart building up its presence in the civil become involved. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As I stated earlier, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve already Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s participation in airstrikes Herb Cox. war-torn North African nation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Carbon pricing is the reality of this A year ago, Gen. Jonathan Vanceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been in discussions with my NATO against ISIL targets, a mission launched by the previous Conservative century and people who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realize predecessor struggled to explain to allies on this,â&#x20AC;? Sajjan said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And if â&#x20AC;&#x201D; when â&#x20AC;&#x201D; we have further government in 2014 and ended by the that arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t dealing with the reality of it. a House of Commons committee how On the other hand, we need the federal firefights involving special forces discussions and if thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a need and Liberals earlier this week, was indeed government to be supported, and not to troops and guiding airstrikes for Kurd- where Canada can bring in a certain a combat mission, he added. capability that can assist part of the The question of whether Canada be duplicating provincial efforts and ish forces was not considered combat. coalition, we will consider it at that has been involved in a combat mission allowing provinces the room who arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t It was Vanceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s turn on Friday, as he has been an open one, prompting heatthere yet the time to get there.â&#x20AC;? rejected categorically the suggestion time.â&#x20AC;? On Friday, the focus for Vance was ed debate after it was revealed that Murray also said delay is not a win- that his definition of combat was made ning tactic. to measure for the Trudeau govern- to explain the current mission, rather Canadian special forces trainers somethan any future ones. times engaged in firefights with ISIL â&#x20AC;&#x153;The sooner you do it, the less ex- mentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political needs. So-called â&#x20AC;&#x153;advise-and-assistâ&#x20AC;? extremists and helped Kurdish forces pensive it is for businesses. And the â&#x20AC;&#x153;I reject that totally,â&#x20AC;? Vance said. bigger the carbon market youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re part â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am the expert in what is and what is missions are new enough that some by guiding in airstrikes. of, the more stable and less expensive not combat.â&#x20AC;? it is,â&#x20AC;? said Murray. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Manitobaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s figured And what the Liberal government is that out. 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Tips for cultivating the practice of reading scripture THE BIBLE IS NOT A TEXT TO BE MASTERED, BUT A WORD INTENT ON SHAPING OUR LIVES, ON MASTERING US. BY JOEL B. GREEN SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE While teaching at a conference some years ago, I was startled when a participant announced that he could not imagine how any Republican could claim to take the Bible seriously. Not long afterward, I witnessed a repeat performance in another setting, except in this case we were told that Republicans alone read Scripture correctly. This reminds me of what I imagine to be a first-century “battle for the Bible”: Pharisees, Christ-followers, and Sadducees all reading the same Scriptures, but reading them quite differently and reaching diverse conclusions about the nature of faithfulness to God. How can this be? Clearly, a lot has to do with our formation as readers of Scripture and not only with the words written on the page. This underscores the importance of reading Scripture as a “practice,” since the idea of “practice” assumes circularity: formed by our reading of Scripture, we become better readers of Scripture. This is not because we become better skilled at applying biblical principles. The practice of reading Scripture is not about learning how to mold the biblical message to contemporary lives and modern needs. Rather, the Scriptures yearn to reshape how we comprehend our lives and identify our greatest needs. We find in Scripture who we are and what we might become, so that we come to share its assessment of our situation, encounter its promise of restoration, and hear its challenge to serve God’s good news. Paradoxically, perhaps, cultivating the practice of reading Scripture first prioritizes Christian formation more generally. This is because there is no necessary, straight line from reading the biblical materials to reading them Christianly; sharply put, one can be “biblical” without being “Christian.” When Jesus criticizes two disciples on the Emmaus Road for their failure to believe what the prophets had spoken, the problem was not their inability to hear the prophets or take them seriously. Jesus asked, “Wasn’t it necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then enter into his glory?” (Luke 24:26, CEB). “Of course it was necessary!” we might say. But the question remains, which prophets actually document this necessity? “Isaiah 53,” we might respond, but we would then need to acknowledge that we can say this only because we have learned to read in just this way. After all, Isaiah 53 never mentions the Messiah, and Jesus’ contempo-
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raries were unaccustomed to thinking of Isaiah’s Servant as a suffering Messiah. The problem faced by Jesus’ disciples was their lack of the cognitive categories required for making sense of the Scriptures in this way. They needed more than a commonsense reading of a biblical text. That Isaiah spoke of Jesus was something they had to learn. Accordingly, Luke records: “Then he interpreted for them the things written about himself in all the scriptures . . .” (Luke 24:27, CEB). This example speaks to the integrated nature of Christian practices, and especially to the ways those practices shape us as readers of Scripture. Christian formation helps us to read the Scriptures Christianly. So it is worth reflecting on the difference it makes to our reading of Scripture that we regularly recite the Apostles’ Creed. What difference does it make to our reading of Scripture that we meet each other repeatedly at the Lord’s Table, that we speak often with people who do not share our faith, that we who share a common faith in Christ eat together regularly, and that we pray to Jesus as though he were God? (And what difference does it make when we do not engage in such practices as these?) Of course, reading Scripture is itself a central Christian practice, so we may ask how we cultivate this practice among the others — a question I take up more fully in Seized by Truth: Reading the Bible as Scripture. Here, let me make six suggestions. 1. Reading Scripture is not enough. Theological and ecclesial formation inform and are informed by reading Scripture. Communities that put Scripture into practice through seeking the Holy Spirit, confessing sins and forgiving each other, praying for the sick, and offering good news to others find themselves being prepared to read Scripture. 2. Read and read again. It is easy to turn time with Scripture into a game of “20 Questions”: how to have a happy relationship, learn financial faithfulness, or whatever. A sharp line can be drawn between utilitarian approaches that treat the Bible as a how-to manual or a database for addressing my questions, and the formation of Scripture-shaped minds that understand God and God’s creation through Scripture-shaped lenses. The latter requires patient, deliberate reading — reading, as it were, for no good reason but for the sake of having our dispositions and reflexes shaped by Scripture. 3. Read slowly. Those of us who find ourselves moving back and forth between blogs, email, texts, news outlets, and
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social networks on our smartphones and tablets need different rules of engagement for reading Scripture. This practice concerns not how fast I can get through today’s reading, but how slowly, combining prayer, reading, and contemplation. To crib Jesus’ words, “Let these words sink into your ears” (Luke 9:44, NRSV). 4. Involve yourself. If the last century or more has imagined education as the process of stepping back to observe, assess, and attain knowledge, then this practice calls for different habits. This learning is self-involving, a means by which we hear God’s address. Why do we resist this text but embrace that one? What does it mean that we are included in the community of God’s people addressed by this text? 5. Read together. Inasmuch as scriptural texts have their origins and purpose deeply rooted in the community of God’s people, we ought to find ways to read in community. By this I refer to the importance of study groups where our assumptions and views are tested, but even more I mean to counter the temptation to imagine that Scripture is simply for me and about me, or that I am tasked with determining its significance apart from the larger church, historically and globally. 6. Refuse to distinguish between reading the Bible for a class or sermon and reading the Bible for Christian formation. We come to Scripture for different reasons at different times, but it would be a mistake to imagine that preparing an exegesis paper or sermon required qualitatively different protocols. Should we leave our theological and ecclesial locations behind when doing exegesis? Should work with Scripture in sermon preparation bypass the reservoir of my regular reading practices? Should the crises that arise as I encounter God’s voice in Scripture not shape my reading of these texts with and for others? As with Christian practices in general, so with developing scriptural patterns of faith and life: the destination is the journey itself. This is a journey in which we discover that the work of scriptural reading is not about transforming an ancient message into a modern application but the transformation of our lives though Scripture. The Bible does not present us with texts to be mastered, then, but with a Word intent on shaping our lives, on mastering us.
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VATICAN CITY — A spokesman for Pope Francis insisted Friday the pontiff was “in no way” launching an attack on Donald Trump, a U.S. presidential candidate, nor was he trying to sway voters by declaring someone who advocates building walls isn’t Christian. The Rev. Federico Lombardi, in an interview on Vatican Radio, stressed that Francis often speaks about building bridges, not walls, and that his remark on Thursday wasn’t “a personal attack” on the business mogul. Flying back to Rome from a pilgrimage that included Mass at the Mexican side of the border with the United States, Francis, answering a reporter’s question, had said that a person who advocates building walls is “not Christian.” Trump, who has repeatedly called for a wall to divide the U.S. and Mexico while campaigning for November’s election, quickly retorted it was “disgraceful” to question a person’s faith. On Friday, Lombardi sought to put the pope’s comments in context, saying they were “in no way a personal attack or an indication on how to vote.” The radio interviewer told Lombardi that many have seen the comment as a kind of “excommunication, if we can call it that,” of Trump. “But the pope said what we well know, when we follow his teaching and his positions: that one mustn’t build walls, but bridges,” Lombardi said. “He has always said this, continuously. And he has said it also about migration issues in Europe, very many times. Thus, it’s not at all a specific question, limited to this case,” the spokesman said. Trump appeared pleased with the comments, referencing them at a campaign rally Friday. “Yesterday, the pope was great,” Trump told an audience in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where he is campaigning. “He made a beautiful statement this morning. They had him convinced that illegal immigration was like a wonderful thing. Not wonderful for us. It’s wonderful for Mexico.” Some European countries have erected fences or raised the possibility of building fences and other barriers on their borders after hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers reached the continent by sea and land, fleeing war or poverty. “The pope said clearly that he wasn’t stepping into voting issues in the electoral campaign in the United States,” Lombardi added. He said the pope was also “giving the benefit of the doubt” on what Trump had said. Trump alluded to this context as he softened his rhetoric about the pope, saying at a town hall event on CNN that he believes Francis’ remarks were “probably a little bit nicer” than first reported.
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What you don’t see will leave you shaken The Witch 4 stars (out of 4) Rated14A Scary monsters come in all shapes and guises, but none are more terrifying than what the human mind can conjure. Our fearful reaction to the unknown fuels The Witch, a period horror story of supernatural consumption that gnaws at the edge of reason. PETER This bravura HOWELL first feature by AT THE MOVIES writer/director Robert Eggers leaves the viewer shaken and wondering, “What just happened?” The film comes wrapped in the chill of 17th-century New England, with the wild forest near Ontario’s Algonquin Park ably standing in for the alert lens of Jarin Blaschke. Eggers, skilled in production design, art direction and costuming, summons a vision of the early Puritan settlers as New World intruders, their conservative garb and now-quaint use of “thou” and “thee” barely disguising their intention to tame a land that spits back the insult of “civilization.” This is also no place for hubris, but it’s the conceit that prompts the community shunning of defiant farmer William (Ralph Ineson) and his family at the film’s start. William scornfully considers his fellow Puritans “false Christians,” so he takes his dutiful wife Katherine (Kate Dickie) and their five children away to woodland exile, there to live righteously within the encircling and welcoming trees, even as winter approaches. Reality soon sets in — or rather
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This photo shows Anya Taylor-Joy as Thomasin in a scene from the film, The Witch. something super-real. The family’s infant son Samuel vanishes one day while in the care of pubescent teen daughter Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy). A wolf is suspected, but Thomasin’s apparent carelessness — or was it sinfulness? — won’t be easily forgiven. Her twin younger siblings, Mercy (Ellie Grainger) and Jonas (Lucas Dawson), tease that Thomasin’s natural sexual bloom is ungodly, although the bratty pair is somehow convinced the devil resides within the family’s goat, named Black Phillip.
Katherine wails, William preaches — “We must find some light in our darkness” - and the family struggles on. But as crops fail and hunger looms, second-eldest child Caleb (Harvey Scrimshaw) ventures into the woods in search of meat. But someone or something else is on the prowl, too, registering just outside the line of sight. Sundance winner Eggers exhibits mastery of form and menace, as well as light and dark, as his story frightfully unwinds, enhanced by composer Mark
Korven’s creepily effective use of choral singers and strings. There is real menace in these woods, but more dangerous still are the superstition, ignorance and scapegoating that threaten to tear this family asunder. The Salem Witch Trials are still decades away, but in one small benighted corner of hell on Earth, they’ve already begun. Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic
To Kill a Mockingbird author Lee dead at 89 BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Harper Lee was an ordinary woman as stunned as anybody by the extraordinary success of To Kill a Mockingbird. “It was like being hit over the head and knocked cold,” Lee — who died Friday at age 89, according to publisher HarperCollins — said during a 1964 interview, at a time when she still talked to the media. “I didn’t expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of reviewers but at the same time I sort of hoped that maybe someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.” To Kill a Mockingbird may not be the Great American Novel. But it’s likely the most universally known work of fiction by an American author over the past 70 years, that rare volume to find a home both in classrooms and among voluntary readers, throughout the country and beyond. Lee was cited for her subtle, graceful style and gift for explaining the world through a child’s eye, but the secret to the novel’s ongoing appeal was also in how many books this single book contained. To Kill a Mockingbird was a coming-of-age story, a courtroom thriller, a Southern novel, a period piece, a drama about class, and — of course — a drama of race. “All I want to be is the Jane Austen of South Alabama,” she once observed. The story of Lee is essentially the story of her book, and how she responded to it. She wasn’t a bragger, like Norman Mailer, or a misanthrope like J.D. Salinger or an eccentric or tormented genius. She was a celebrity
who didn’t live or behave like a celebrity. By the accounts of friends and Monroeville residents, she was a warm, vibrant and witty woman who played golf, fished, ate at McDonald’s, fed ducks by tossing seed corn out of a Cool Whip tub, read voraciously, and got about to plays and concerts. HARPER LEE She just didn’t want to talk about it before an audience. To Kill a Mockingbird was an instant and ongoing hit, published in 1960, as the civil rights movement was accelerating. It’s the story of a girl nicknamed Scout growing up in a Depression-era Southern town. A black man has been wrongly accused of raping a white woman, and Scout’s father, the resolute lawyer Atticus Finch, defends him despite threats and the scorn of many. Praised by The New Yorker as “skilled, unpretentious, and totally ingenious,” the book won the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a memorable movie in 1962, with Gregory Peck winning an Oscar for his portrayal of Atticus. Mockingbird inspired a generation of young lawyers and social workers, was assigned in high schools all over the country and was a popular choice for citywide, or nationwide, reading programs, although it was also occasionally removed from shelves for its
racial content and references to rape. By 2015, sales topped 40 million copies. When the Library of Congress did a survey in 1991 on books that have affected people’s lives, To Kill a Mockingbird was second only to the Bible. Lee herself became more elusive to the public as her book became more famous. At first, she dutifully promoted her work. She spoke frequently to the press, wrote about herself and gave speeches, once to a class of cadets at West Point. But she began declining interviews in the mid-1960s and, until late in her life, firmly avoided making any public comment about her novel or her career. Claudia Durst Johnson, author of a book-length critical analysis of Lee’s novel, described her as preferring to guard her privacy “like others in an older generation, who didn’t go out and talk about themselves on Oprah or the Letterman show at the drop of a hat.” According to Johnson, Lee also complained that the news media invariably misquoted her. Other than a few magazine pieces for Vogue and McCall’s in the 1960s and a review of a 19th century Alabama history book in 1983, she published no other work until stunning the world in 2015 by permitting the novel Go Set a Watchman to be released. Watchman was written before Mockingbird but was set 20 years later, using the same location and many of the same characters. The tone was far more immediate and starker than for Mockingbird and readers and reviewers were disheartened to find an Atticus nothing like the hero of the earlier
book. The man who defied the status quo in Mockingbird was now part of the mob in Watchman, denouncing the Supreme Court’s ruling that school segregation was unconstitutional and denouncing blacks as unfit to enjoy full equality. But despite unenthusiastic reviews and questions whether Lee was well enough to approve the publication, Watchman jumped to the top of bestseller lists within a day of its announcement and remained there for months. Critics, meanwhile, debated whether Watchman would damage Lee’s reputation, and the legacy of Atticus as an American saint. Lee was in the news at other times, not always in ways she preferred. She was involved in numerous legal disputes over the rights to her book and denied she had co-operated with the biography The Mockingbird Next Door: Life With Harper Lee, by Marja Mills. Some occasions were happier. She wrote a letter of thanks in 2001 when the Chicago Public Library chose Mockingbird for its first One Book, One Chicago program. In 2007, she agreed to attend a White House ceremony at which she received a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Around the same time, she wrote a rare published item — for O, The Oprah Magazine — about how she became a reader as a child in a rural, Depression-era Alabama town, and remained one. “Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cellphones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books,” she wrote.
Amy Winehouse’s Oscar-nominated doc streams on Netflix NEXT BIG THING BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The weekly Next Big Thing column highlights what’s bubbling under the surface in entertainment with a look at rising stars in the world of music, as well as standout TV shows, movies and web series that would be a shame to overlook.
CHASING ‘AMY’
Oscar season is upon us, so why not get to watching those nominated films you always meant to see? An essential one for your list is Amy, a powerful film about singer Amy Winehouse that’s in the race for best documentary feature. Amy tracks the life and death of the performer who struggled and fell victim to her drug addiction. The story is told through her own words using clips from interviews, while old family videos and previously unheard songs chart the rise of her fame. Amy is available on disc, on Netflix and the Hoopla video service at some Canadian public libraries.
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Hollywood producer Judd Apatow is linked to some of this generation’s most popular stories of relationships in flux. Now Netflix wants a piece of the action. Apatow — who produced HBO’s Girls and the hit film Trainwreck — has paired with the streaming ser-
vice for Love, a tale of two people on the borders of forming a relationship. The series stars Gillian Jacobs, formerly of Community, as a woman trying to cut ties to a toxic relationship. Meanwhile, across town a tutor for child stars, played by Inglourious Basterds actor Paul Rust, is suffering the fallout of a longtime girlfriend who cheated on him. They meet together in a moment of desperation at a convenience store, but the stars don’t exactly align for their pairing. Love takes its time navigating the personal struggles of each character, who are presented in true Apatow fashion as flawed individuals trying to break free from their own vices.
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Dirty Radio has persisted for years on Canada’s music scene and payoff could be on the horizon. The Vancouver-based trio’s latest single Numbers recently climbed to the top of Spotify’s Viral 50 chart in Canada, helping to raise their profile across the country. And overseas, they’re grabbing attention for a collaboration with French producer Jean Tonique on the track What You Wanna Do. It’s a huge leap for Dirty Radio, which worked away in the trenches of the local music scene before opening for fellow Canadian acts like Dragonette, Lights and k-os. They mash funk, R&B and electronic music into an eclectic pop sound that’s accented by the standout falsetto voice of lead singer Shaddy.
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Simple Plan try to expand from pop-punk roots BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Montreal pop-punk rockers Simple Plan don’t mind rattling their fans a little bit. So when they paired with rapper Nelly for the single I Don’t Wanna Go to Bed last fall, the uproar that followed in some circles was pure delight for the band. A few longtime fans questioned how Simple Plan could stray so far from their roots of teenage angst, while others proclaimed it one of their catchiest tracks. “It’s making a song more exciting and it’s also getting people to talk,” says lead singer Pierre Bouvier about recruiting the rapper best known for “Hot in Herre.” “With Nelly that was a left field thing for Simple Plan. It might even upset some people.” The band’s new album, Taking One for the Team, is their fifth studio record and — along with I Don’t Wanna Go to Bed — includes another collaboration bound to rile up some listeners: Singing in the Rain, a reggae-infused pairing with R. City, who are enjoying their own radio hit with Locked Away featuring Adam Levine. Unusual collaborations keep Simple Plan interesting, Bouvier says, and it’s an approach that has proven successful many times over. Aside from safer partnerships with fellow altrock artists like Rivers Cuomo of Weezer and Joel Madden from Good Charlotte, Simple Plan has teamed up with a few others that raised eyebrows but brought major hits. Jet Lag partnered them with British pop singer Natasha Bedingfield and the track shot into the Top 40 in 2011. A number of alternate versions released globally with French-Canadian singer Marie-Mai, and popular Chinese and Indonesian performers gave the song extra attention in other regions. Hardly a year later, Summer Paradise, with Toronto-raised rapper K’naan, reached the Top 5 in Australia. An alternative version of the single with Jamaican dancehall superstar Sean Paul drew comparable success in other countries. The widespread popularity has given Simple Plan a solid fanbase around the world, but also posed a challenge to appease fans they won over with their debut, 2002’s No Pads, No Helmets … Just Balls, which
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Rock band Simple Plan poses for a photograph in Toronto on Thursday. included the hits I’m Just a Kid, and Perfect. The band says they do feel pressure to never stray too far from their original sound. “You have a history that you can’t forget and your fans are expecting certain things,” says guitarist Jeff Stinco. Opinion Overload, the opening track of the new album, directly addresses the critics of Simple Plan’s sound, but could easily double as a teen angst anthem. “From the get-go the band has always been a little bit attacked, so to speak, from the more purist poppunk scene of the Warped Tour or critics,” Bouvier
The Sutherlands bring relationship to the big screen BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Donald Sutherland, 80, and Kiefer Sutherland, 49, have nearly 275 combined credits and 85 years of experience between them, and have somehow only shared the screen three times. The first was 1983’s Max Dugan Returns. The second was in 1996’S A Time to Kill. Now, finally, in the period Western Forsaken, in theatres and on demand the Sutherlands are not only sharing scenes, but a bloodline, playing father and son for the first time. The Associated Press sat down with the storied actors to talk about the experience. AP: Did you have an unspoken agreement that you wouldn’t necessarily try to work with one another often? Kiefer: I’ve wanted to work with my dad since I started. There were three actors who I admired through school — my dad, Gene Hackman and Bobby Duvall. AP: So why now? Kiefer: When it wasn’t working out organically, I started thinking of different ideas. It wasn’t a fluke that we found something and we did it. It’s something that I’ve wanted to do for 30 years and just thought we better get it done sooner than later. Donald: I had always said to him that I wanted to play Walter Huston to his John Huston, do The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, or an equivalent of that. But that never worked out. That’s what I really wanted. And then this came and I was very happy. AP: Did you spend much time dissecting the story and your characters? Kiefer: No. Donald: Let me elaborate on that … no. Kiefer: This has been true my whole life — when we spend time together, which is not as often as I, or I believe my dad, would like, we don’t talk about work. AP: Did you learn anything about each other during this process? Kiefer: There’s a way he goes to work and it’s built for speed and it’s incredibly effective and I think it’s incredibly well thought out. I would have to say this film more than any other single experience I’ve had as an actor, I was caught off guard by how looking into my father’s eyes would effect a
scene. Donald: Wait, what did you say? Kiefer: That when I would be in the middle of a scene and when I would actually look into your eyes, I would look into your eyes from my life. They have a resonance to me and they mean something to me and so I would have a visceral reaction to that. Donald: Because it goes years back. Kiefer: I had to make a conscious choice not to get in the way of that. So things came to me in the process of making this film that would have been things that I would have had to work quite hard to arrive at. I felt like I was cheating. Donald: It’s absolutely true. You’re doing … it’s stupid to say therapy, but your DNA informs a lot of your work. And the combination, you know it’s the same DNA roughly. Kiefer: I lost the tall stick. That wasn’t one of the 21 pieces I got. AP: So in that way, does this film mean more to you? Kiefer: There are not a lot of films that I’ve been in that I can get through watching. It’s just an uncomfortable circumstance for me. Donald: I never looked at them. He went to see Six Degrees of Separation and came out to me and said ‘you really should go see this.’ And I went to go see it. It’s the first film I’d seen all the way through. I didn’t see Klute all the way through. I certainly didn’t see M*A*S*H. Ordinary People, Bob (Redford) insisted I see it and I’m in the seat in the theatre and I crawled out on my hands and knees. Kiefer: I managed to make 208 episodes of 24 and I never watched a single one of them. Donald: Really? They’re very good. Kiefer: Thanks. Donald: I would watch them and phone him the next morning. Kiefer: In fact when he didn’t call I would get really concerned that this episode was not good. But this film was different for me. And it’s something I’ll hold on to for the rest of my life. The dynamic between this father and his son is not the dynamic between me and my father, but there are moments in it, like when they’re saying goodbye. I’ve had that moment with my father for real. And to have it in that way, to have it on a disc, that’s one thing that I’ll have with me forever.
says. “That keeps us rebellious, in a way.” While Simple Plan has now been together for 17 years and the band members are all well into their 30s, Bouvier says he still identifies with the lyrical themes of the band’s early days. Bouvier says he still grapples with self-confidence issues and finding direction in life. “I’ve got kids, and I feel sometimes that I’m being pushed around and told what to do in my business and my life,” he says. “The reason it sounds genuine is because it’s our actual emotions.”
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NBC picks some key Broadway creators for its Hairspray NEW YORK — NBC has tapped some deep Broadway talent for its live production of the stage musical Hairspray. Kenny Leon, who won a Tony for the recent revival of A Raisin in the Sun, will direct the show from composer Marc Shaiman and his co-lyricist, Scott Wittman. Jerry Mitchell, who won Tonys for choreographing La Cage aux Folles and Kinky Boots, will choreograph. And Harvey Fierstein, who won a Tony playing Hairspray on Broadway, will write the teleplay. The musical adaptation of John Waters’ 1988 cult film will air Dec. 7. NBC has made something of a cottage industry with live musicals, including The Sound of Music, Peter Pan and The Wiz.
Blade Runner sequel slated for January 2018 NEW YORK — The long-awaited sequel to
Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner now has a release date. Alcon Entertainment announced Thursday that it will be land in theatres on Martin Luther King Jr. weekend in January 2018. Sicario director Denis Villeneuve is taking over for Scott in the sequel to his 1982 science-fiction classic. It will star Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford, reprising his role as
Rick Deckard. Alcon, which is producing the film, said it takes place several decades after the conclusion to the original Blade Runner. Roger Deakins, who has previously worked with Villeneuve on Prisoners and Sicario, will serve as cinematographer. The Warner Bros. release will begin shooting in July.
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Employee can’t stop burping at work Dear Annie: I am a manager of a small company. The problem is, one employee burps uncontrollably throughout the day. She seems shocked every time it happens. I find this to be unprofessional and rude, and it is horribly embarrassing when it occurs in front of colleagues. People KATHY MITCHELL laugh behind AND MARCY SUGAR her back. I’ve tried to make ANNIE’S MAILBOX a joke of it by brushing off my shirt and saying, “Glad you didn’t get any on me.” Nothing has any effect. What’s to be done? — Please Stop Dear Please: This woman probably has some gastrointestinal problem that causes the constant burping (usual-
ly acid reflux or irritable bowel syndrome, but it could also be an ulcer or infection, or worse). She undoubtedly would like it to stop. Joking may ease office tension, but it won’t help her. Instead, please say that she may have a medical problem and should speak to her doctor immediately. Dear Annie: I totally feel for “Confused and Torn,” who didn’t want to put down her 15-year-old Pomeranian, “Clover,” who was in constant pain. I had to make a decision regarding my dog two months after losing my husband. I was devastated, as the anguish was unbearable and seemed unending. It was truly a bad year. A while ago, I cam across a poem you printed called “A Dog’s Plea.” To this day, it still brings tears to my eyes. I hope “Confused” will see it and that it will help her a little bit. — Judy from Canada Dear Judy: We last printed this piece two years ago. Thank you for sug-
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today’s stars over-stimulate your Piscean imagination. You’ll feel incredibly inspired, but take care and don’t believe everything you hear. Sunday February 21, 2016 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Jennifer Love Hewitt, 36; Kelsey Grammer, 60; Ellen Page, 28 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Work with passion, but at a controlled and constant pace. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: 2016 is the year to explore new relationships. The more honest you are with yourself, the more connected you’ll feel to others. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Razzle-dazzle Rams are fired up and ready to go, as the wonderful aspects put a bounce in your step and a smile on your dial. So seize the moment and go on a grand adventure! TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Mars helps you jump out of a relationship rut. So step outside your comfort zone and try something that you’ve never done before, as you happily move from one phase to the next. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Love, conversation and laughter are highlighted so take the opportunity to romance, relax and relate. For some Geminis, a special relationship has a decidedly deja-vu feel at the moment. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Saturn helps stabilise your emotional energy. So itís a suitable day to roll up your sleeves, put your head down and get things done, as you turn creative ideas into productive projects. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leos make marvellous leaders, but you can come on too strong. Today the stars encourage you to assert yourself in a positive manner that doesn’t intimidate others, or scare them away. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Roll up your sleeves, as you tackle practical projects and complete unfinished business. So it’s a good time to tidy up paperwork, re-do your budget or tackle overdue DIY projects at home. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Have you been having trouble communicating with a loved one? It’s time to try a totally different approach. With a fresh attitude, you’ll transform the relationship in positive ways. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The focus is very much on family at the moment, as the Sun, Mercury and Venus visit your domestic zone. It’s also the perfect time to rejig your approach to an on-going personal problem. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A subtle and smart approach works wonders Sagittarius — especially when dealing with family members. The more you discuss matters and swap ideas, the better the day will be. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): If a close relationship is bothering you, strive to come up with a smart solution utilising your head and your heart. With a two-fold approach, youíll be back on track again ASAP. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There’ll be opportunities to share your dreams with others, as you discuss past experiences and make plans for the future. The power of the group is on your side so make sure you join in. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): All types of business, commerce and social networking are favoured today Pisces, as your communication skills kick in and you make promising links with prominent people.
ter, for I cannot tell you when I suffer thirst. Feed me clean food that I might stay well, to romp and play and do your bidding, to walk by your side and stand ready, willing and able to protect you with my life, should your life be in danger. And, my friend, when I am very old, and I no longer enjoy good health, hearing and sight, do not make heroic efforts to keep me going. I am not having any fun. Please see that my trusting life is taken gently. I shall leave this Earth knowing with the last breath I draw that my fate was always safest in your hands. 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 Annieon Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.
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This snowy owl was seen recently in Red Deer. There’s a potential that this may be a female due to the retained barring on the feathers. Males tend to be all white, while females do tend to retain some colour.
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gesting it as a way to comfort “Confused.” The poem is one of our readers’ favorites and we are happy to print it again. “A Dog’s Plea” by Beth Norman Harris Treat me kindly, my beloved friend, for no heart in all the world is more grateful for kindness than the loving heart of me. Do not break my spirit with a stick, for though I might lick your hand between blows, your patience and understanding will more quickly teach me the things you would have me learn. Speak to me often, for your voice is the world’s sweetest music, as you must know by the fierce wagging of my tail when the sound of your footstep falls upon my waiting ear. Please take me inside when it is cold and wet, for I am a domesticated animal, no longer accustomed to bitter elements. I ask no greater glory than the privilege of sitting at your feet beside the hearth. Keep my pan filled with fresh wa-
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Can Zika infect Canadian mosquitoes? CANADIAN SCIENTISTS CONDUCTING TESTS
Ontario has first case of Zika virus in person who travelled to South America
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A team of scientists at Brock University is poised to begin testing mosquitoes native to Canada to determine whether the insects can become infected with Zika and potentially transmit the virus to humans. The St. Catharines, Ont., university, the only academic institution in Canada with a Level 3 containment lab that includes an insectary, received a shipment of Zika virus this week from the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg — the only other Canadian facility with a similar high-security capacity where such research can be safely conducted. “Now that we’ve been working in the CL3 lab, we can now be proactive,” said lead researcher Fiona Hunter, a medical and veterinary entomologist who specializes in mosquitoes and other biting insects. “We don’t have to wait until some traveller comes back to Canada with Zika virus and gets bitten by a local mosquito and wait on tenterhooks to see whether or not there will be local transmission,” Hunter told a media briefing Friday. There has been an explosion of Zika infections in South and Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean since the first cases began showing up in Brazil last May. Most people who contract the infection have no symptoms those who do get sick experience such ill effects as fever, joint pain, rash and red eyes. The disease usually resolves in about a week. Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS However, the virus has been poten- Insect scientists at Brock University have received a shipment of Zika virus tially linked in Brazil to more than 4,400 cases of abnormally small heads that will allow them to see whether mosquitoes native to Canada can become in infants born to women who may infected with the pathogen and potentially transmit it to humans. have been infected while pregnant, as well as cases of Guillain-Barre syn- and wait until the next emerging arbo- dent mosquito species in Ontario, but drome, a neurological condition that virus comes along, because of course the team will concentrate on about a dozen of them — including the Asian can cause muscle weakness or even there are going to be others.” Arboviruses such as Zika are those bush mosquito (Aedes japonicus), a partial paralysis. Researchers are still scrambling to harboured by biting bugs like mos- local relative of A. aegypti and A. aldetermine if Zika causes both the birth quitoes and ticks, which are known as bopictus. defect — known as microcephaly — “vectors” — the agents that carry and Meanwhile, the national lab also and Guillain-Barre. transmit an infectious pathogen into will test Zika in about a dozen mosquiHunter said scientists have been another living organism. to species, about half of them unique blindsided by Zika, which was first de“Since 2012, when we got the con- to Western Canada. tected in a rhesus monkey in the Zika tainment Level 3 lab, we’re actually When the Winnipeg lab acquires forest of Uganda in 1947. Since then, able to work on live mosquitoes, in- Zika isolates from Brazil, which may the mosquito-borne disease has spread fect them with various viruses and differ genetically from the Thailand from Africa to Southeast Asia, hopped see whether or not they’re capable strain of the virus, it will provide onto some Pacific Islands, and then of transmitting by bite,” Hunter said. Hunter’s team with samples so further moved into Brazil and subsequently “That’s the important thing: the mos- testing can be done by both groups. most of South America. The disease is quito may test positive during the Hunter said Aedes japonicus, which now also endemic in Central America, outbreak, but is it actually capable of was first detected in the Niagara Remany Caribbean countries and parts of transmitting? gion in 2001 and has been steadily Mexico. “The big issue here is does the virus moving north, is of particular concern. A number of Canadian and U.S. replicate inside the female mosqui“We know that it can transmit other travellers to those areas have returned to, does it then travel throughout her viruses and it’s a mosquito — as the home infected with Zika. On Friday, body and eventually get to the salivary name suggests — that is not supposed Ontario announced its first Zika case glands so that when she spits into her to be here. It’s definitely invasive and in a resident who had visited Colomnext blood-meal host, is she transmit- it’s an aggressive day-biting mosquito bia. and it really likes to feed on humans. On Wednesday, Hunter’s lab re- ting virus?” “And so that would be a problematThere are about 67 different resiceived four vials of a strain of Zika virus that originated in Thailand. The next step will be to grow large quantities of the virus in the lab and then begin infecting colonies of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, the two mosquito species known to transmit Zika in the Western Hemisphere. “Then once the snow melts, we will move full steam ahead looking at Canadian mosquitoes,” said Hunter, who doesn’t expect definitive results of the testing until midto late summer. “I think not knowing whether or not we have species that can transmit is the issue. If we can show that the species that are normally GREAT THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU GO NORTH found here are not good vectors, then we can all breathe a sigh of relief
TORONTO — Ontario has its first confirmed case of Zika virus in a person who had travelled to Colombia. Public Health Ontario announced Friday that it had received positive test results Tuesday, but wouldn’t say if the person is a man or woman. However, Ontario’s health ministry did confirm the patient isn’t pregnant. The virus has been potentially linked in Brazil to more than 4,400 cases of abnormally small heads in infants born to women who may have been infected while pregnant, as well as cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a neurological condition that can cause muscle weakness or even partial paralysis. “The risk to Ontarians remains very low, as the mosquitoes known to transmit the virus are not established in Canada and are not well-suited to our climate,” said Dr. David Williams, Ontario’s chief medical officer of health. There has been an explosion of Zika infections in South and Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean since the first cases began showing up in Brazil last May. A small number of cases have previously been reported in Canada — in British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec — in travellers who have returned home infected. Most people who contract the infection have no symptoms, but some experience fever, joint pain, rash and red eyes. ic species and that is one of the ones we’re going to target because it has become firmly established in Ontario … and now it’s the fifth most common species we get in light traps when we’re doing West Nile surveillance,” she said. “All it needs to do is potentially bite an infected traveller who’s viremic (infected) and start transmission that way.” While not native to Canada, Aedes albopictus is also worrisome because the species has become endemic in southern New York State, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. “So it’s really just a matter of time until it gets here.” However, Hunter said Canadians have no cause for panic. “Really what we don’t want is people to be afraid, especially at this time of year when there are no mosquitoes out biting anyway,” she said. “This is definitely not to cause fear in anybody,” she said of the research. “If anything, we’d like people to be reassured that we’re looking ahead of time and being proactive. “Because it’s better to know than not.”
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Relationships should be what you want Dear Harlan, My boyfriend works half as hard at our relationship as I do. I’m always the one making plans and taking the initiative to go out. This also is what happens when there is a fight or a problem — I’m always the one making the effort to fix it. I’m completely committed, but he puts in minimal effort. When is it time to cut it off? Am I being too critical? Is this just how it’s supposed to be? Pulling the Weight Dear Pulling the Weight, “Supposed to be” sounds like an excuse to ignore your feelings. It sounds like you’re scared of facing the truth. Something is wrong here. If you want to be in a relationship where you’re doing most of the HARLAN work, resenting COHEN your partner, and trying to HELP convince yourself that this is OK, then this is how it’s supposed to be. If you want to be in a relationship where your partner is attentive to your needs, respectful of your feelings and willing to grow, this is not a healthy relationship. Choose one. While you’re choosing, answer these questions: Have you told him how you feel? Have you explained what you want? Are you willing to set boundaries if you can’t get it? If he can’t give you want you want, are you prepared to move on and find it somewhere else? Once you’ve answered “yes” to these questions, you’ll be ready to figure out what your relationship is sup-
posed to be. One final question to leave you with: If you lived in a world with 100 partners who wanted to give you what you wanted, would you ever believe that this is how it’s supposed to be? I know the answer. And so do you.
about and the silence is too uncomfortable, that’s a red flag. If you’re too afraid of not being interesting enough, stop trying so hard. Just being together can be much more than enough - even if you’re not talking,
Dear Harlan, I’m in a new relationship with a new partner. We have great chemistry and enjoy spending time together. However, sometimes I feel like we’re running out of conversation topics. Shouldn’t it flow naturally? Could this be a red flag? What do you do when you run out of things to talk about with each other? Out of Conversation Dear Out of Conversation, I’ve been married for 12 years, and we haven’t run out of conversation. When we first dated, we never ran out of conversation. When we stopped talking, it was because we just liked being together. It was a different kind of conversation. And the silence was good. The best approach is to share experiences. Sharing experiences gives you something to talk about. Share experiences both together and apart. We have our life that we share together and the life we live apart. I’m not saying I have another wife as part of my other life; I’m saying that I often do things apart from my wife. Life happens. We do things apart, and then we share stories. We work, go out and do interesting things apart. We also have kids.This gives us a lot more to talk about. I’m not saying you should have kids just to continue the conversation, but you should always have a life outside of your relationship. If you do everything together, there’s nothing to share because you already know what happened. Here’s my advice: go on dates where you have experiences. Go to the movies, bike, run, work out, double date, hang out with friends, travel and be spontaneous. If you can’t find enough to talk
Dear Harlan, I recently graduated from college and relocated to a new city. A friend of my parents gave me the name and number of a co-worker’s son who also is new here. He doesn’t know a lot of people. I feel like it’s awkward if I reach out to him out of the blue. What should I do? Is it awkward? —New in Town Dear New In Town, Of course it’s awkward. It’s supposed to be. It’s strange reaching out to your parents’ friend’s co-worker’s son. Give yourself permission for it to be awkward. This is what you do when you’re in a new place. When you talk to the guy, tell him it’s awkward. Laugh about how ridiculous it is. Use the way you got in touch to bond. The truth is that you don’t know people in town and you need friends. Take advantage of the introduction. You don’t have to be his new best friend. You can call him or reach out to him on Facebook. Ask him a few questions. Find out what he’s been doing to meet new people. Share some of your interests and ask if he knows any people or places to do things you’re looking to do. Another approach is to invite him to do something. Find a meet-up or group for young people who are new in town. It can be a dinner for young professionals, something active or an event through a religious organization. This will give you a clear purpose to the call. Again, give yourself permission for this to be awkward and a little uncomfortable. This is what you need to do when you’re in a new place surrounded by new people. Get used to it and meet some new people.
Dear Harlan, My girlfriend is the target of some unflattering rumors. The information is totally not true. The person it came from is not one of my friends. My girfriend is very upset about it. Where is the line drawn between protecting and defending your girlfriend and allowing her to fight her own fight? How do I know the difference of when to step in and help, and when to let her be her own person and deal with conflicts on her own? Conflicted Dear Conflicted, I’m not a fighter. I’m a talker, a lover and a thinker. You’re in your girlfriend’s corner. Your job is to help her, support her and encourage her - not to fight for her. If you don’t know the best way to coach her, then you need to point her in the direction of people who can help and support her. Think of yourself as the person in her corner (like a trainer at a boxing fight). You don’t need to take the punches or throw them. You need to support her. Unless your girlfriend is physically or emotionally incapable of handling her own battles, it’s not going to help for you to step in. Your job is to point out that people who spread rumors are looking to get a response. Sometimes, no response is the best response. The cream always rises to the top. You just have to believe you’re the cream and not stir the pot. You stirring the pot will create more problems. It will just make you involved in something that doesn’t involve you. If you happen to be in a situation where someone shares these rumors with you or it becomes about you, then it’s a different situation. Harlan is author of “Getting Naked: Five Steps to Finding the Love of Your Life (While Fully Clothed and Totally Sober)” (St. Martin’s Press). Write Harlan at harlan(at)helpmeharlan.com or visit online: www.helpmeharlan.com.
Indie games ‘Firewatch,’ ‘Unravel’ fall short REVIEW BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS What makes a game a game? That question has arisen around some of the most popular independent video games of the last few years — titles like “Gone Home,” “Her Story” and “That Dragon, Cancer” that steer away from traditional video-game mechanics in favour of narrative and character development. “Firewatch” (Campo Santo, for PlayStation 4, PC, Mac, $19.99) left me wondering at times if I was playing a game at all. I spent long stretches of it simply hiking around its setting, a lush national park, without much to do other than discourage a couple of drunken teenagers from shooting fireworks. The protagonist is a schmo named Henry who’s at the tail end of a marriage gone wrong. He escapes to the Wyoming wilderness and takes a job as a fire lookout, living alone in a tower and keeping an eye out for smoke. His only human contact is his boss, Delilah, who contacts him by radio a few times a day. Most of the story in “Firewatch” emerges from those conversations with Delilah, a funny, sarcastic, flirtatious yet faceless presence. The only “gamelike” obstacles occur when Henry has
to chop down a tree or climb some rocks, and those are accomplished easily enough with one push of a button. Eventually, Henry stumbles upon some nefarious doings in the forest. While Henry and Delilah try to solve the mystery, he does a lot of walking. Granted, the forest is pretty, drawn in a painterly style that evokes both calm and foreboding. Still, if I wanted to spend the weekend hiking, I might actually, you know, go hiking. “Firewatch” delivers some lovely images, but its storytelling is so laidback that I dozed off a few times with my controller in my hands. Two stars out of four.
zles in “Unravel” don’t have enough variety, even at its relatively short sixhour length. “Unravel” does look gorgeous, with vivid landscapes drawn with pains-
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IS YOUR GARAGE JUST A BIG, EXPENSIVE, CLUTTERED STORAGE SPACE?
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When you think about what your garage costs you, is this the best use for the space? Think again, about what a decluttering and simple organizing can do to boost the living value of your garage — and the total value of your home.
Make the garage a part of your living space Many homeowners would never let sports gear, tools and yard equipment clutter up the front hall where it’s the first things guests see. But they’re willing to wend their own way into the house through a garage stuffed with those things, plus patio furniture, bikes, holiday decorations and more, says Todd Carter of Tailored Living featuring Premier Garage, in Reston, Virginia. The company focuses on renovating and improving garages, and that’s a hot area in home renovation, experts say. From cabinetry and shelving to flooring and overhead storage, there are many new ways to turn a garage into an organized and attractive space for storage, entertaining or even for working out. The trend has been made possible by today’s larger garages. “The sky’s the limit,” said Greg Parsons, owner of Motor City Garages in Clarkston, Michigan. “It’s all based on the homeowner’s stuff.” He routinely outfits garages with high-end, scratch-resistant cabinetry, sinks and epoxy flooring — an easy-toclean coating that comes in numerous colours and finishes. He recently added a line of cabinetry that lets buyers customize the colour to match their car. Some homeowners end up adding televisions and seating, Parsons said. Jeff and Linda Marsack of Macomb, Michigan, hired Parsons to organize their two-car garage. They added cabinets to store shoes, sporting equipment and tools. She chose red cabinets to match their kitchen. “Every time you open your garage, you really do smile because it’s so organized,” she said. “Who doesn’t love an organized space?” Susan Rhodes of Tempe, Arizona, purged a lot of items from her garage, added nice flooring and cabinetry, and created a work bench near a window where she can do crafts or pot flowers. The space is so tidy that when tem-
peratures dropped over Christmas, she moved tables from the patio into the garage for dining. “It was just perfect,” she said. “It’s good to know, it’s not just for cars and gardening.” Professional organizer Melanie Dennis gets many calls from homeowners who want to redo their garage because it’s too cluttered to fit a car. “It’s a combination of people not wanting to get rid of their stuff and having access to buy things 24/7 and have it delivered to their house,” said Dennis, owner of Neat Streak in Columbus, Ohio. Families today have more stuff than previous generations did, she said. They decorate for more holidays, have dishes that they only use on special dinners, and hang onto photos and sentimental items with the intent of making scrapbooks, she said. Bill McDonough, senior vice-president and chief marketing officer for M/I Homes, a Columbus-based home builder, agrees. “The big trend has one word, and that is ‘storage,”’ he said. “People of all ages have an increasing amount of stuff.” Customers increasingly ask for three-car garages or bump-outs that extend the garage’s length or width, McDonough said. The National Association of Homebuilders found that 23 per cent of new homes built in 2014 had three or more garage bays. In 1994, only 13 per cent of new homes had garages that large, according to the Washington-based organization. Storage products for the garage include wall-mounted panels with slots that can hold everything from pliers to bikes to motorized lifts for hanging golf bags and kayaks. There’s cabinetry designed specifically to hold power tools. Garage renovations are also a popular do-it-yourself project, said Jason Arigoni, field divisional merchandizing manager for Home Depot’s Southern Division. “I’m definitely seeing more inter-
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You can find a bathroom vanity on sale online, which can easily be used in the garage as a stylish alternative to traditional more expensive garage organization. Plus, the sink — if you can get an easy plumbing connection — helps keep grime at bay. est in the garage,” he said. “It often starts with function and then jumps
into fun.” Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this photo provided by Tailored Living/Premier Garage, Todd Carter of Tailored Living decided to clean up the a messy garage space to make it more useful. Carter added wall storage systems and flooring to transform the space into a workout room — where you also happen to park your car.
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Staged for success
Home stagers have moved front and center in the home selling business. They provide valuable service, they bring key knowledge of what today’s home buyers are looking for, what’s on trend, and how to present your home in a way that will appeal to the majority of perspective buyers. Here’s how stager and design consulDEBBIE tant Michele TRAVIS Dotey thinks, how she plans HOUSE TO HOME and the lessons we can learn that will carry us forward into new homes. mdotey@ sympatico.ca. The plan is always the same —to transform the home to be sold into a five-star hotel suite. Accentuate the positive, allow each room to shine, and create an easy flow throughout the home. Keep in mind that the buyers are imagining how they will live in this space; they want to see themselves there, not you. Provide the space necessary to set up a different lifestyle by clearing surfaces and tidying shelves. Remove furniture that gets in the way. People will remember that they had to turn sideways to get down the hall or twist and turn en route to the kitchen from the living room. A purge is a necessary first step, but we all need to do this with some frequency whether we are moving or not. “We have too many things,” says Dotey, “clothing, sports equipment, books, CDs, kitchenware, and memorabilia get easily out of control. The result is overloaded bins tucked under the bed or in the closet, never to serve any useful purpose.” With less to deal with, your necessary possessions have room to breathe, and so do you. Entertaining at home may be a priority, so show how this can be accomplished with ease, even in the smallest space. Create a social arrangement that allows six people to sit comfortably together. Set the dining table with elegant linen and china. A white lace tablecloth sets a luxurious tone anywhere. While it is not necessary to bring in new furniture, switching up a lamp or lighting fixture can quickly update your room. A few accessories and cushions in the latest colours and patterns are also an easy fix. Do a room check. The kitchen must be clean with clear counters. Dotey sets up an inviting coffee station on a tray, with cups, coffee or tea pot, a small dish of biscotti, a welcome sight for homeowner and guests. The
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ABOVE: Now, a stylish bedroom in white and wood tones is an enticing incentive for homebuyers. BELOW: The spare room was stacked with an overflow of unappealing items that took up valuable living space. bathroom should look and feel like a spa, clean and spacious (clear away any personal hygiene products). You should feel spoiled here. Build the mood with fluffy white towels and a simple white weave shower curtain. Place a single white orchid on the counter. Bedrooms can be a disaster; rushed lives often mean we leave this personal room messy. Dotey follows her game plan shown here. Clear paths, storage behind the mirrored doors, a soothing neutral palette of white and wood, and a white fur seat on the chair have turned this unused space into an appealing getaway. What about that wall colour? Paint is the most affordable renovation tool there is. The universal go-to colour for builders and buyers is a warm white. A neutral setting makes personal options easy to consider for the perspective purchaser. Debbie Travis’ House to Home column is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara Dingle. Please email your questions to house2home@debbietravis.com. You can follow Debbie on Twitter at www.twitter. com/debbie_travis, and visit Debbies new website, www.debbietravis.com.
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Meet Sofie Blunck from Sofie B Design Presentation: “Frequently Asked Design Questions” Saturday, March 5 - 11:30am
Meet Carol Hanson from Servus Credit Union Presentation: “Buying a home is much more than a down payment” Sunday, March 6 - 12:30pm
Meet Terry Hollman from Canadian Closets
Kate was born and raised in Georgetown, Ontario. She has been working in television and the renovation industry for over seven years and can be seen on HGTV’s “Holmes on Homes”, “Holmes in New Orleans”, “Handyman Superstar Challenge” and “Holmes Inspection”. Most recently Kate has been featured as one of the crew on HGTV’s hot shows, “Decked Out”, “Disaster Decks”, “Deck Wars” and “Custom Built”.
Presentation: ““How to efficiently design & organize your garage” Saturday, March 5 – 2:00pm
Meet Otis the Owl, along with Carol Kelly from the Medicine River Wildlife Centre
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Creating a focal point for your room’s layout
room” on the lower level, you might want to consider locating your television in that more spacious area. If the lower space were to be used as a more casual space, the upper room could be reserved as a place for entertaining guests, quietly reading, or just snoozing through a lazy Sunday. Every room needs a focal point and unless yours has one, the eye will want to pass it by. Generally, a focal point should be something interesting to look at and ideally will be something colourful, or texturally and visually appealing. In some cases, a focal point can be created using artwork, floral arrangements, paint colour or shelving. You should arrange a focal point so that it is the first thing you see when entering a room and if possible, build your furniture arrangement around it. If an outdoor view is the focal point, then orient the furniture to take advantage of window areas. Focal point walls can sometimes be created by painting one wall a deeper colour than the rest, then creating an arrangement using artwork or display shelves. Lighting can be used to enhance your focal point. A picture light, track light, or wall washer on a painting or wall display makes a stunning focal point.
The plan that I have worked on begins with a prominent focal point located on the long wall, its purpose is to stop the eye and subsequently, to make the long wall visually appear shorter. In your room, that focal point cannot take up a lot of floor space, and may be a large painting or group of pictures, a beautiful but narrow cabinet, an antique table with a fresh arrangement of flowers. I have opted to show the simplest furniture layout, featuring two sofas
facing each other, with a large ottoman to one side for additional seating. Additionally, you might consider an oversized coffee table that will anchor the space. Be careful not to overcrowd the space because too many accessories will translate as clutter. David Ferguson is a regular contributor to CBC Radio’s Ontario Today. Write to David at: david.ferguson@hotmail.ca.
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Q — My wife and I have recently bought a new, two-level condominium, but we won’t be taking possession of it until the autumn. That should give us plenty of time to buy new furniture, which is a good thing because we are having a terrible time deciding on the type of furniture we need for the living room. The tiny space shown on the plan will be our main living area, a place where we will spend much of our time, including for watching television. As you have probably guessed by looking at the builder’s plan, which denotes both living and dining here, the main concern we have is that more than a quarter of the living room floor space is really a corridor between the kitchen and the rest of the home. Obviously, this significantly reduces the amount of space we have for furniture. We have concluded that we will not use the designated dining room area since there is ample space for a table in the kitchen. With that in mind, we plan to dedicate the whole space as our living room DAVID area. FERGUSON Here, we CREATIVE SPACE would like to create a comfortable place for our family to congregate when they get together. Ideally, five or six people should be accommodated and of course, we need to find a place for my 54-inch television. A — When designing any space in your home, the single most important consideration is to ensure creating a space that is appropriate for the way that you live. Because you don’t live there yet, that will be a bit tricky to answer definitively, but you must ask yourself how you will want to use that space, and choose furnishings accordingly. Your two-level has its main “public areas” on the ground level, and the bedrooms and a “great room” on the lower level. The front door enters directly into the living room, with stairs down to the right, the living room area to the left and the kitchen straight ahead. One of the big advantages of this plan is its openness, with no walls to make the spaces feel constricted. Its big disadvantage, as you pointed out, is the “corridor” that runs the full length, reducing the available space to a little more than two metres (about seven feet). Because your home has a “great
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How to dry wet winter windows HEAVILY WET WINDOWS ARE AN INDICATION OF POOR INDOOR AIR QUALITY
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Windows that get wet when the weather turns cold encourage mold and mildew, but they also indicate low indoor air quality.
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21 - RED DEER 57 Carlson Place ............... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Ivan .... Ivan Busenius............... RE/MAX................................................. 350-8102..... $314,900....... Clearview Ridge 62 Arnold Close ................ 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Kim .... Kim Argent ................... RE/MAX................................................. 357-4525..... $272,500....... Aspen Ridge 144 Kendrew Drive ......... 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Tim .... Tim Maley...................... RE/MAX................................................. 550-3533..... $274,900....... Kingsgate 295 Wiley Crescent .......... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Bryan .... Bryan Wilson ................ RE/MAX................................................. 343-3020..... $349,900....... Westlake 102 Ivany Close ................ 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Melissa .... Melissa Morin .............. CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE.............. ADVANTAGE.............. 318-5665..... $465,000....... Inglewood West 17 McPhee Street ............ 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Milena .... Milena Toncheva ........ CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE.............. ADVANTAGE.............. 304-5265............................... Morrisroe 66 Eversole Crescent ...... 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. .Tammy . Tammy Jensen............. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 346-8900..... $339,900....... Eastview Estates 59 Reighley Close ............ 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ....Gerald .... Gerald Dore .................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 872-4505..... $474,900....... Rosedale 52 Isbister Close ............... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Elaine .... Elaine Wade .................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 396-2992..... $475,000....... Ironstone 97 Lindman Avenue ....... 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Jamie .... Jamie Berg .................... ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 346-8900..... $399,900....... Laredo 372 Timothy Drive ........... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Jan .... Jan Carr .......................... ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 396-1200..... $369,900....... Timberlands 153 Van Slyke Way ........... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Norm .... Norm Jensen ................ ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 346-8900............................... Vanier East 7 Veer Place........................ 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Norm .... Norm Jensen ................ ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 346-8900............................... Vanier East 118 Oaklands Crescent .. 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Cam .... Cam Ondrik .................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 596-3909............................... Oriole Park West 176 Allwright Close......... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Darlis .... Darlis Dreveny ............. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 358-4981..... $529,900....... Aspen Ridge 236 Illingworth Close ..... 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. . Larry Hastie .................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. 550-3984............................... Ironstone 29 Charles Avenue .......... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....BENEDICT .... BENEDICT DEVLIN REAL ESTATE.............................................. ESTATE.............................................. 307-3737............................... Clearview Ridge 21 Piper Drive.................... Drive.................... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Grace .... Grace Escott ................. SUTTON LANDMARK ....................... 391-1365..... $359,900....... Pines 65 Alberts Close ............... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Simona .... Simona Tantas ............. REALTY EXECUTIVES ........................ 396-5192..... $588,900....... Anders Park 105 Lalor Drive ................. 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Kyle .... Kyle Lygas ..................... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550............................... Laredo 22 Tindale Place ............... 12:00 – 6:00 p.m. .Aaron . Aaron .............................. LAEBON HOMES ................................ 396-4016............................... The Timbers
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21 - OUT OF TOWN 4316 57 Ave ....................... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Anjali .... Anjali Evanoff............... REMAX .................................................. 848-0883..... $359,900....... Innisfail 38203 Range Road 282.. 282.. 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Len .... Len Parsons .................. REMAX .................................................. 350-9227..... $704,900....... Red Deer County #219 Poplar Ridge Estates ... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Barb .... Barb Munday .............. 2 PERCENT REALTY ........................... 598-7721..... $688,000....... Red Deer County 60 Lee Street...................... 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Jim .... Jim Escott ...................... SUTTON LANDMARK ....................... 391-1397..... $214,900....... Penhold 9 Mackenzie Avenue ...... 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. ....Chris .... Chris Forsyth ................ MAXWELL REAL ESTATE .................. 391-8141..... $399,900....... Lacombe 4273 Ryders Ridge Blvd. 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ....Jessica .... Jessica Mercereau ...... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550............................... Sylvan Lake
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Every winter, windows all across Canada develop water on the inside as cold weather moves in, and every year people are both puzzled and annoyed. Puzzled because it’s not obvious why water forms insides windows in the first place, and annoyed by the damaged paint and moldy surfaces this water causes. What’s less obvious is the way that heavily wet windows are also an indication that poor indoor air quality in your house is probably harming your health. Wintertime window water comes from the air. It’s the same source of water that causes the outside of a drinking glass to get wet in summer after you’ve filled it with iced tea. The warm, relatively moist indoor air in your home cools when it gets near cold glass. The cooler the air gets, the less moisture it can hold. STEVE Eventually, the air next MAXWELL to the windows cools enough HOUSEWORKS that it can’t hold all the moisture it used to hold when it was in the middle of your living room. This excess moisture is forced out of the air as condensation and appears out of nowhere on the glass. Annoying as this is, window condensation also shows that the air you’re breathing is stale. In fact, it’s a very reliable indicator of this fact. The solution to drying your windows and freshening your indoor air is both simple but not necessarily easy. Simple because the first thing you need to do is lower indoor humidity levels in winter. The tricky part is making this happen. All the possible options either have drawbacks or they don’t work at all. Take a dehumidifier for instance. You might think that plugging a dehumidifier in would help, but not so. Not only is there no dehumidifier on the market that can lower indoor humidity levels enough to eliminate window condensation during winter, but even if there were such a machine, you’d still have stale, toxin-laden air in your home. Remember, wet windows are not just a problem in themselves, they’re also an indication of poor indoor air quality. One option that does solve both the moisture and health problems involves opening windows and running exhaust fans more often. This will certainly bring that fresh outdoor air inside. And as this air warms up, it gets more than dry enough to clear your windows. Trouble is, of course, opening windows also means you lose heat. Heat recovery ventilators (HRVs) were invented so that we could have our fresh air and keep the heat, too. Or at least most of the heat. HRVs are stationary ventilation appliances that are permanently mounted in your house. About half the size of a dryer, HRVs draw fresh outdoor air into your home in one stream, while also forcing stale indoor air outside. Most of the heat from this outgoing air is captured and transferred to the incoming air stream. Sounds great and it is. The only trouble is that HRVs cost about $2000 to install. In the long run they do save more heat than they cost, but you do need to put up the money for installation first. At various times and in various places HRVs were required by code in new homes, but not now. I believe they’re necessary for every house built to modern standards, but lobbying by the home building industry has kept HRVs from being required. At least for now. Solving the wet window challenge is large enough that I don’t have space to cover all the options and solutions here. For a more detailed understanding of how to solve the wet window problem in your home, download my free how-to report at BaileyLineRoad.com/ wet-windows. If ever a country needed to understand how to solve the wet window problem, it’s us Canadians.
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BETTENSON Carl Douglas 1925 - 2016 Surrounded by his children, Mr. Carl Bettenson passed away at his home on Monday, February 15, 2016 at the age of 90 years. Carl was born in Red Deer on March 6, 1925, the only child of Jack and Una Bettenson. After high school, Carl joined his father in business, Bettensons Cartage Co. Ltd. In 1947, Carl married his love, Shirley Jellison and they began their life together, raising three children and growing the business. As the city grew, the cartage company evolved; and eventually Bettenson’s Sand & Gravel Co. Ltd. emerged as a separate entity, which continues to thrive. Carl loved his family, loved life and lived it to the best of his ability, both personally and professionally. He also loved Red Deer and over his lifetime contributed much to his community. In early years, he was active in church business and work projects. He was also a long time member of the Red Deer Central Lion’s Club, and was proud of his contributions to their good work. Carl will be lovingly remembered by his children, Lee Conklin, Doug (Jane) Bettenson and Carol Bettenson; grandchildren, Jeff (Danielle) Conklin, Parker (Pam) Bettenson, and Joe (Heather) Bettenson; and great grandchildren, Jessica and Payton Conklin, Emily, Kessler, Ryan and Daxon Bettenson, Jack and Lucy Bettenson. Carl was predeceased by his wife, Shirley in 2014; his parents, Jack and Una Bettenson; and a son-in-law, Ken Conklin. A Funeral Service will be held at Gaetz Memorial United Church, 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer, Alberta on Monday, February 22, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. A Private Family Interment will be held at the Alto Reste Cemetery, Red Deer, Alberta. If desired, Memorial donations in Carl’s honour may be made directly to the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta and N.W.T. at www.heartandstroke.ab.ca or to the Alzheimer Society of Alberta and N.W.T. at w w w. a l z h e i m e r. a b . c a . Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.
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HAMILTON Mary Elizabeth 1936 - 2016 It is with saddened hearts that we announce the passing of Mary Hamilton (nee’ Huculiak) of Sylvan Lake, Alberta. She passed away on Sunday, February 14, 2016 at the Bentley Care Centre, at the age of 79 years. Mary was born on May 4, 1936, and was a longtime resident of Lethbridge, Alberta. Mary was predeceased by her parents, Margaret and Nicholas Huculiak, as well as one great-grandchild. She is survived by her brother, Nick Huculiak of Delta, British Columbia. Mary is survived by her four children, Rick (Kim) Huculiak, Tom Hamilton, Jim Hamilton, and Mary (Richard) Demarsh. Mary will be lovingly remembered by her six grandchildren, Heather (Gord) Reddekop, David Huculiak, Adam (Miranda) Hamilton, Jesse Hamilton, Ashley Demarsh, and Kristin Demarsh. She was also blessed to have eight beautiful great-grandchildren. Mary loved spending time with her family. Gramie especially enjoyed watching her grandchildren participate in their many different activities. The family will deeply miss spending time with Mary and her loving presence. The family would like to convey our deepest appreciation for the kind care the nursing staff provided at the Bentley Care Centre. A private family memorial to celebrate Mary’s life will be held at a later date.
KUCHIRKA William “Wasyl” Mar. 10, 1929 - Feb. 18, 2016 William “Wasyl” Kuchirka passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Thursday, February 18, 2016 at the age of 87 years. Wasyl was a longtime resident of Red Deer, he loved Red Deer so much that he decided to raise his family here. He also enjoyed ballroom dancing and curling, and spent most of his time playing crib. His favorite teams were the Oilers and Blue Jays. Wasyl was predeceased by his wife, Jean, and his two children; Robert (Bob) and Sandra (Sandy). He is survived by grandchildren; Charlie, Mandy, Chad, and Alisa Ruby, Chris and Kerri Kuchirka, nine great-grandchildren, extended family, and two close friends; Dave and Murray. A Memorial Service will be held at Gaetz United Church, 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer, on Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 12:30 p.m. An inurnment will follow at Alto Reste Cemetery, HWY 11 east, Red Deer County. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222
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NICHOLL Lyle J. Feb. 9, 1955 - Feb. 11, 2016 Lyle Nicholl passed away at the Red Deer Hospice on Thursday, February 11, 2016 at the age of 61 years. Lyle will be greatly missed by his wife, Jackie Nicholl, Corri McLaren (daughter) and Tyler Nicholl (son), Tanisha McLaren and Jessi Nicholl (granddaughters), Holly and Gaetan Cadrin (sister and brother-in-law), aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, and great-nieces and nephews. Many thanks to the Home Care Team and all the staff at the Red Deer Hospice as well as Lyle’s doctor for the terrific care and support given. As per Lyle’s request, there will be no funeral service. Memorial donations in his honour may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4R 3S6, www.reddeerhospice.com. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222
POWERS Angelene 1939 - 2016 Mrs. Angelene Olive Powers, beloved wife of Mr. Wesley Powers of Bowden, Alberta, passed away peacefully in the arms of her loving husband of fifty-five years, on Thursday, February 18, 2016 at the age of 76 years. Angelene was an Angel to her family; and will be forever loved and very dearly missed. Angelene will be lovingly remembered by her husband, Wesley; her three children; Marlowe, Dwayne and Laurie; six grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. 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 or 1.800.481.7421.
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PHILLIPS Colleen Colleen Phillips, loving wife, mother, sister, grandmother, and friend passed away peacefully in her sleep on February 16th, 2016 following an extended battle with pancreatic cancer. She was born in Barrhead, AB on July 24, 1956 to Charles (Pete) and Jacqueline Boutin, who, along with her brother, Jamie, predeceased her. Colleen is loved and will be deeply missed by her devoted husband, Gerry Phillips, loving children; Jennifer (Corey) Sorensen, Niki Phillips, Steven Phillips (Brooke), Kourtney (Stu) Kerr, Tim Phillips (Zoe), Jenny Phillips (Michael), and Joelle Phillips (Kailum), sister, Bonnie (Kevin) Brossart, brother, Barry Boutin, cherished grandchildren; Austin and Damon Sorensen, Reice and Logan Edmunds, Owen, Emily and Ciara Phillips, numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, and dear friends who will continue the caring compassionate example she has set. In her 20 years with the Red Deer Public School District as a Substitute Teacher, Colleen won the affection of hundreds of children who fondly referred to her as “the puppet lady”. People were drawn to Colleen’s positive energy, loving spirit and unconditional kindness. These qualities brought great joy and comfort to many and will continue to do so now in the form of fond memories. We welcome everyone whose lives she touched to join us in a celebration of her life in the Marquis Room at the Harvest Centre on the Westerner Grounds in Red Deer, on Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. We ask that attendees wear bright colors as it really is meant to be a celebration. Parking is free to those who notify at the gate that they are attending the celebration of life. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made directly to the Safety City Society Designated Fund in the Red Deer and District Community Foundation (3030 55 Street, Red Deer, AB, T4P 3S6), a fund Colleen and her husband Gerry established to help reduce injuries to children and youth. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222
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WATSON (George) Kay Aug. 13, 1924 - Feb. 15, 2016 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, dad, grandad, and great-grandad, Kay Watson. Kay was born in Edmonton, Alberta on August 13, 1924, as the only son of John and Mima Watson, and grew up in the Central Alberta farm community of Evarts (Medicine Valley). Kay attended grade school in Evarts and Benalto from grades one through 11 and graduated from Olds School of Agriculture in 1943. Kay would return to continue and expand upon his family’s farm and business ventures. He took great pride and love in his dedication to his family and community and in his part in feeding the world. Kay was predeceased by: his mother, Mima, in 1949; his father, John, in 1975; and his eldest son, Stewart in 1997. He is survived by: his loving wife, Nellie, for over 68 years; his sons, Ross (Sharon) of Eckville, AB, and Tracey (Sherry) of Sylvan Lake, AB; grandchildren, Garrett (Theresa) of Calgary, AB, Jason (Sabrina) of Chestermere, AB, Matthew of Toronto, ON, Kathryn of Airdrie, AB, and Heather of Sylvan Lake, AB; and, greatgrandchildren, Maxim, Lex, Jaxxon, and Galen; brothersin-law, Doug Kneale of Sechelt, BC and Art Jarvis (JoAnne) of Red Deer, AB; as well as many nieces, nephews, and caring friends. We invite all friends, family, and neighbors to attend the celebration of his life at the CrossRoads Church, 38105 Range Road 275, Red Deer County / just west of QE2 and 32nd Street, Red Deer on Monday, February 22, 2016 at 11:00 a.m.; interment to follow at the Red Deer Cemetery. He will be forever missed and never forgotten. If desired, memorial donations may be directed toward the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada (Central Alberta Chapter), 105 4807 50 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 4A5 or the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4R 3S6. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222
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In Loving Memory of KNOPP, Marta (nee: Rozic) April 20, 1962 - Feb, 20, 2008 There’s a place in our hearts that no one can fill. We miss you, dear daughter and sister and wife and always will. How constantly we think of you with hearts and eyes that fill. We love you and miss you sadly, as it dawns another year. Mom & Dad Rozic, Ivan & Leesa, Rachel, Ryan & Faith and Don
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Rent $925/mo. 4 BDRM. house on KingFarm Work Deluxe, $20. daughter Diana Ferchuk d.d. $650. Avail. now or CLASSIFICATIONS ston Dr. $1400/mo. Ron 403-346-6539 age 45, Chris Hofer age March 1. 403-304-5337 403-304-2255 FEEDLOT in Central 1500-1990 25, wears glasses, Josh LATERAL filing cabinet, CLEARVIEW Alberta seeking F/T 4722 - 56 Street. $1000/mo. and Alex Ferchuk wood grain, exc. cond. 2 bdrm. 4-Plex, 4 appls. employee for feed truck 2006 CHRYSLER 300, See Kijiji ad titled (or Halcro) twins, age 18, $60. ****SOLD**** Rent $925. incl. sewer, operator and machinery LTD, low kms., sun roof, “Quiet Street in Waskasoo”. tall, slim, red hair, 2 dogs Auctions water and garbage. D.D. maintenance. Send leather, new winter tires. Mishka and Kush. Believed LP RECORDS, over 100. DUPLEX Michener Hill $650. Avail. March 1. resume to fax: $8000. obo 403-896-8477 to be in Red Deer area. $50. Takes All. 3 bdrm., Avail. Immed., 403-304-5337 403-638-3908 or e-mail to: Was driving red van. 403-346-6539 EXECUTIVE $1150/mo./dd same + utils. dthengs@hotmail.com Grandmother looking for GLENDALE 403-392-7044 ESTATE RETRACTABLE movie wherabouts and would like 3 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., SUV's POLICE AUCTION screen on tripod, 70x100 MOUNTVIEW to reconnect. Any info $975. incl. sewer, water & Sunday February 21 cm. $40. upper level 3 bdrm. house, garbage. D.D. $650, Avail. contact Eleanor Ferchuk Trades 10 am * Viewing 9 am 403-346-6539 5 appls., fenced yard, large 2003 SUZUKI, 4 whl. dr. 306-764-0668, text Randy March 1 403-304-5337 deck, rent $1200 incl. all 131,000 kms., equipped Ferchuk 403-980-5335, SOFA bed, Brand new, LOCATION: Ridgewood utils. $900 s.d. Avail. for towing behind motor email eblanchard@ HARVARD Broadcasting dark brown. $130. Community Hall March 1. 403-304-5337 home, very clean unit. sasktel.net Red Deer is seeking a 403-358-5568 Partial List only Suites $3000. 403-346-7462 Broadcast Engineer/ SYLVAN Lake, 3 fully furn. Technician to join our VIDEO Photo Tripod, rentals, garage, inclds. 2007 Chevy Silverado, Engineering Team. extended height, 143 cm. 1 BDRM. bsmt. suite, sepall utils., $1000 - $1500. 2008 Pacific Coach Tango, Visit $30. 403-346-6539 arate entrance & laundry, + Private room. $550/ mo. Spurs, Collector Books, www.harvardbroadcasting.com $850 inclds. utils., John- Trucks “w/cable” 403-880-0210 Mossberg Mod 146B 22 WATER cooler $50. careers section for details stone Park., immed. cal. (Valid PAL Required), 403-885-5020 WEST PARK 1995 NISSAN KingCab XE 403-392-4622, 923-1119 Victorian Sofa, Antiques, 3 bdrm. main fl ., newly 370,000 kms. $1000. FIRM WORK bench with peg Truckers/ 1 BDRM. N/S, no pets. 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Phone 403-342-2514 room, quiet, all utilities w/rim. Rims could also be Duties will include: 403-346-1458 paid, pool, underground put on winter tires. $200 Launder & mend clothing, Misc. MEN’S Bauer skates size parking, immediate, $935. ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious for all 403-346-4263 household linens; Perform Help 8 and helmet $14, boys Call 403-341-0744 suites 3 appls., heat/water Clothing light housekeeping & CCM skates, size 6 incld., ADULT ONLY cleaning duties; Plan 2 BDRM. townhouse w/5 $5 403-347-3849 ACADEMIC Express BLDG, no pets, Oriole therapeutic diets & prepare appls, avail. immed. rent VINTAGE (circa 1950’s) ADULT EDUCATION Park. 403-986-6889 meals; Shop for food and $895 403-314-0209 Hudson’s Bay fur (fox), AND TRAINING Collectors' household supplies; Drive ladies’ shrug/wrap/cape. New Blackfalds Condo. 2 AVAIL. IMMED. large 2 to various appointments & Items Mint condition. $65 firm. Bdrm/2 Bath. 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Dirty politics in Dixie SOUTH CAROLINIANS SAY SLEAZY REPUTATION NOW UNFAIR BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CHARLESTON, S.C. — The American presidential race is now being fought in a state so renowned for below-the-belt, tire-iron-to-the-kneecap politics that its most famous political operative wound up writing a death-bed mea culpa. Welcome to South Carolina. “We play hardball,” says David Woodard, a campaign veteran who now teaches at Clemson University. “But I don’t think that some of the things of the past really apply as much today.” The list of alleged dirty tricks in the current primaries amounts to child’s play, from a historical standpoint. This week’s scandals include: a cease-and-desist letter from Donald Trump over a Ted Cruz ad, a cheesy doctored photo showing Marco Rubio shaking hands with the president and a fake Facebook page that left the impression a Republican lawmaker had switched his endorsement to Cruz. Compare that to some of the low-blow lowlights of the past. The state is so self-conscious of its reputation for sleazy tactics that the Charleston Post and Courier newspaper has set up a special site for tips about dirty primary tricks. The worst in recent memory were in 2000. John McCain was pounded by rumours, spread with flyers and fake polls. Pushed by groups aligned with George W. Bush, they included made-up tales of drug use in McCain’s household an allegation that his Jewish friend hated Christians and a story that he’d had children with prostitutes. In fact, McCain and his wife had adopted a daughter from Bangladesh. “In emails, faxes, flyers, postcards, telephone calls, and talk radio, groups and individuals circulated all kinds of wild rumours about me,” McCain recalled in a memoir. “The primary became a foul brew of resentment, hate, and sleaze.” A former aide recalls feeling deflated one day when she stepped onto the campaign bus and saw flyers about illegitimate children: “The damage was very clear to us — John McCain was done in South Carolina,” Nancy Snow recalled in an interview. Conservative radio host Michael Graham says McCain was too moderate to win South Carolina anyway, and in the long run would still have lost the nomination to Bush. But he remembers callers flooding his switchboard with wild rumours: “I was calling them out — ‘Where are you getting this crap from?’ People said, ‘Oh, I dunno, I heard it at my church.”’ Bush and his aide Karl Rove had been groomed by South Carolina’s most legendary operative Lee
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Lee Atwater, then-campaign manager for Vice President George Bush is seen prior to theJuly 24, 1988 taping of CBS-TV's "Face The Nation" in Washington. The American presidential race is now being fought in a state so renowned for belowthe-belt, tire-iron-to-the-kneecap politics that its most famous political operative wound up writing a death-bed mea culpa. Atwater, who managed the original President Bush’s 1988 campaign. As he died of cancer a few years later, Atwater wrote an apology to Michael Dukakis for thinly-disguised racial dog-whistling in ads that blamed him for a rape and murder committed by Willie Horton, while out of prison on a weekend pass. An early contemporary of Atwater’s recalls disliking him at first. They eventually patched things up, but Hal Poe was irked when they met in the early ’70s — by some of his tactics, and by the fact that to Atwater politics seemed more about funny business and less about the business of government. He recalls Atwater holding press conferences to announce great new poll results for his side — with one small problem. “There’d been no poll. It was all a fabrication,” said Poe, who’d preceded Atwater as chairman of the state’s college Republicans. “Lee would do absolutely anything. He had no qualms.” Atwater’s greatest coup may have been convincing the state to move up the primary date in 1988 to make South Carolina the first-in-the-south contest, giving it enormous influence it retains today. It also just happened to give a boost to his boss. Bush had the state’s political machine with him, and
EU strikes deal on reform sought by Britain BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS — British Prime Minister David Cameron has won a hard-fought deal for a less intrusive European Union after two days of tense talks with EU leaders, a commitment he said he needed to persuade UK voters the country should stay in the bloc. The agreement is seen as a key stepping stone to the in-out referendum in Britain on continued EU membership that could come as soon as this summer. After 31 hours of negotiations, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite wrote on Twitter: “Agreement. UKinEU done. Drama over.” EU President Donald Tusk added there was “unanimous support” for the “new settlement.” The deal would only be enacted if Britain stays an EU member. The summit ran into overtime Friday as Cameron was pushing his demands for more autonomy to the limit at a dinner with the 28 national leaders. “David Cameron fought hard for Britain. Good deal for UK and EU. Congrats!” tweeted Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen. Earlier, Cameron had met with European leaders, including EU President Donald Tusk, Italy’s Matteo Renzi and Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, trying to close the gap on issues including financial governance and welfare benefits. Grybauskaite said the deal should give the British public a clear choice. “But no matter what we do here, no matter what face-lifting or face-saving we perform here, it is up to the British people to decide,” she said. The deal offers guarantees to the nine EU countries, including Britain, that do not use the shared euro currency, that they will not be sidelined, and makes tweaks aimed at giving national parliaments more power. Most of the tensions surrounded a relatively minor change: a move to Powered Powe ered by suspend or restrict benefit payments made to
Anger abounds after dolphin death in Argentina BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The apparent death of a baby dolphin after being passed around on an Argentine beach is creating a furor in the South American country. Photos and video of the incident have begun emerging of the incident, which local media say happened Feb. 5 on the popular Santa Teresita beach. In one video posted widely on local websites Friday, a beachgoer is seen lifting a baby dolphin out of the surf. The dolphin is passed around while many take pictures and touch it. It’s then seen left on the sand.
workers from other EU countries. Immigration is an especially sensitive point for British voters, because Britain has attracted hundreds of thousands of workers from Eastern Europe in the past decade, drawn by the prospect of higher-paying jobs. The EU immigrants can also claim child tax credits and other benefits in Britain, which Cameron’s government says is straining his budget. Cameron has proposed reducing one payment — the child benefit, given to all low- and middle-income families with children — to migrants from other EU nations. Cameron has also run into unexpectedly firm resistance from France on financial regulation. French President Francois Hollande insisted Friday that Britain should not be given any “right of veto or blockage” and that all EU countries should have rules limiting speculation and avoiding new financial crises. The 19 EU countries that share the euro currency worry that protections for Britain and the eight other non-eurozone nations would offer unfair advantage to Britain’s financial centre, the City of London. Hollande had also warned that too-generous concessions to Britain could prompt other countries to seek special rules, too. Despite the tensions, EU leaders ultimately wanted Britain, a major world economy, to stay in the bloc — a point argued Friday by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte. A British exit “would be bad news for the EU — but also for the U.K. It would end up as a mid-sized economy somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean,” he said. With the deal, the referendum in Britain is expected to be close and hard-fought. Opponents have said Cameron’s demands of the EU are too weak.
it gave them an early victory just before Super Tuesday, and big momentum over Bob Dole. Atwater’s own mentor was the memorable John Carbaugh. According to Poe, Carbaugh taught his young protege how to rig a poll. That’s before he moved to Washington — where he later made news for running a so-called “shadow State Department,” which covertly supported right-wing causes in Latin America. But this entire cast of characters was positively benign compared to an earlier giant of the state’s politics. Governor from 1890 to 1894, then a U.S. senator, “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman was an anti-establishment, economic-populist. There’s still a statue of him at the state house. He was also, by any objective definition, a domestic terrorist. For a while, after the Civil War, blacks could vote in the South. Many African-Americans were elected to statewide and national office. People like Tillman violently stopped that. The proudly pro-lynching politician bragged about organizing a militia that used murder and intimidation that chased blacks from the polls — so whites eventually took charge, introduced new Jim Crow laws, and established a stranglehold on the ballot box for nearly a century. Today, it’s fake Facebook pages and accusations of deceit. A political scientist here says the state’s reputation for dirty tricks was well-deserved but might be exaggerated now. “It was really very nasty in 2000,” said Robert Oldendick of USC. “But it’s unlikely that we’ll see that level of nastiness again in this campaign.” These days with cellphone-cams, caller ID and social media, he said, fake flyers and push-polls would be immediately outed and the culprits hunted down. Also, he wonders, what’s left to whisper in a whisper-campaign? The Republican frontrunner is a thrice-married trash-talker who’s frequently discussed his sex life in past interviews and books swears on stage admits he funded Democratic campaigns to win favours and publicly argues with the Pope. “And on the Democrat side,” Oldendick said, “what are you going to say about Bernie Sanders? That he’s a socialist?” In 2016 so far, whisper campaigns are out. Talking boldly is in.
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Olds College requires three (3) full-time Chairs on five-year term contracts from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2021 with the potential of an extension for an additional five years. The emphasis of the position is on administrative support to the School. Successful candidates are expected to be the champions for student retention, workload planning, budgeting, and program excellence. Please forward a resume stating the preferred position and quoting competition #16019M by February 28, 2016.
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Public Member The Board of Governors of Red Deer College Honourable Marlin Schmidt, Minister of Advanced Education, is seeking applications from individuals interested in serving as a Public Member of The Board of Governors of Red Deer College. Appointments are for a term of up to three years and members may be eligible for re-appointment at the end of the term. An honorarium is available with this opportunity. Job ID #1034196 For more information on The Board of Governors of Red Deer College please visit: http://rdc.ab.ca/about/board-governors/board-governors Visit jobs.alberta.ca to learn more about this opportunity and to apply online.
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Olds College is looking for a Training Specialist for the development of digital training assets for the Hospitality industry in the Accommodation sector. This position will work in partnership with a video production team to develop and script an extensive series of 3-5 minute training videos to be used by hotel and lodging staff. This is a one-year term position. Please forward a resume quoting competition 16024A by February 28, 2016.
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Olds College is looking for an enthusiastic and organized Video Production Coordinator for a one-year term. This role works with the production team to film and edit multimedia assets. Projects can include educational tutorials, promotional material, event coverage, recruiting videos, training videos and everything inbetween. Day-to-day responsibilities may include scripting, storyboarding, filming, and/or editing. Please forward a resume quoting competition 16025A by February 28, 2016.
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