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Meth lab busted near Stettler

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF About 60 RCMP officers — including four specially trained teams — took down a crystal methamphetamine lab and arrested four men near Stettler on Saturday.

RCMP Stettler detachment officers Sgt. Phil Penny and Cpl. Ryan Koehli said Monday that the serious dynamics of the situation required the major re-

sponse. Crystal meth labs can be dangerous because of the chemicals involved and possibility of explosion, and the suspects had firearms.

RCMP members from Stettler, Bashaw and Killam detachments were involved, but also two Emergency Response Teams (ERT) — one each from Edmonton and Calgary, the RCMP Clandestine Laboratory Enforcement and Response (CLEAR) team, RCMP Special Tactical Operations team, RCMP Air Services, the Stettler Regional Fire Department and Stettler EMS.

A search warrant was executed at about 11:30 a.m. on a rural property about 15 kms northeast of Stettler.

Once RCMP were on the rural property, investigators located, dismantled and seized equipment and other products used to create crystal meth. Several firearms were located and seized, one being a Russian-made SKS assault rifle that was loaded with a 30-round magazine.

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Substance abuse issue takes centre stage at trial

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Picking from numerous medical reports, the Crown pointed to Mark Damien Lindsay’s lengthy substance abuse issues prior to when he killed an Edmonton mother.

Crown Prosecutor Bina Border made numerous references to drug-induced psychosis, running counter to Dr. Marc Nesca’s belief of paranoid schizophrenia psychosis .

Nesca, a psychologist and defence witness, took the stand for his second day of testimony.

Lindsay, 29, was interviewed twice by Nesca in September 2014. Nesca said he conducted two tests on Lindsay including a personality assessment and a structured interview of reported symptoms.

Lindsay is accused of killing Dana Turner, 31, in August 2011. Lindsay stabbed Turner in the eyes with a pencil, strangled her and ran her over with a vehicle.

Nesca said the first test led to unclear results, saying Lindsay’s symptom tendency exceeded the genuine category, but at the same time didn’t qualify into the malignant category. The malignant category deals with people who are faking their condition.

Nesca described Lindsay as guarded about his use of intoxicating substances. Lindsay would deflect questions about using substances during his interviews with Nesca. The doctor said he had to question him on several points and build to questioning about substance abuse.

Border focused much of her cross-examination on the potential role Lindsay’s substance abuse may have played on his mental state. She questioned why Nesca didn’t consider Lindsay’s psychosis to have been induced by illicit substances. Nesca contended he looked at the totality of Lindsay’s circumstances in reaching his conclusion.

One report outlined Lindsay’s drug use, including cocaine, marijuana, crystal meth and alcohol.

Border entered several medical reports into evidence that included passages regarding Lindsay’s substance abuse.

Nesca said the picking and choosing of elements of these reports don’t represent the totality of Lindsay’s condition.

Lindsay’s actions in the death of Turner are not at issue for the trial. His criminal responsibility, however, is the focus of the trial.

Lindsay met Turner while both were at the Alberta Hospital in Edmonton. According to Lindsay’s police statement, he believed Turner was sent by a group of serial killers called Healers to kill him.

Though the term Healer is not documented until 2012, Nesca said there were ongoing references to a group of killers intent on killing Lindsay.

Lindsay had stabbed Turner in the face with a knife earlier in 2011 and was just released from prison the day before he killed Turner.

Trial resumes today with the defence expected to close their case after calling a second witness. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Breanna Robertson, left, of the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation is loaded up with knitted blankets and hats by Redwoods Retirement Residence life enrichment co-ordinator Cherie Carlson, centre, and Redwoods resident Mae Hallett as they make a donation at the hospital on Monday. These donations made by Redwoods Retirement Residence staff and residents are destined for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Red Deer Regional Hospital. Carlson and Hallett also made a donation to the Ronald McDonald House on Monday, too. The group at Redwoods doing the knitting calls themselves the Knit-Whits and make regular donations to a variety of groups through the year. Anyone who has some extra wool they are not using are encouraged to drop it off at the Redwoods as the Knit-Whits are always looking for donations of materials.

Deficit projected at $18.4B: Morneau

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal government is projecting a deficit of at least $18.4 billion next year, a shortfall that’s nearly five times projections from just three months ago and well past the $10-billion limit promised by the Liberals.

When the government unveils its maiden budget on March 22, the deficit could well exceed $20 billion once a number of big-ticket Liberal campaign promises — including infrastructure spending — are factored in.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau staged a campaign-style town hall event Monday to deliver the bad news, and reassure Canadians who might be reconsidering their ballot-box BILL MORNEAU choice last October.

“Given the economic situation in which we find ourselves today, Canadians made the right choice” by voting Liberal, Morneau said.

“I know the cries will get louder over the next few weeks, but I won’t have budget 2016 simply become a kneejerk reaction to recent economic shifts. We’ll be acting out of reason.”

The federal Finance Department is also predicting a $15.5-billion deficit in 2017-18 — more than six times its estimate last fall of $2.4 billion.

The Liberals are banking on some of their spending vows to help revive economic growth and create jobs in Canada’s struggling economy.

The calculations are based on an average projected oil price of $40 for 2016, down from $54 in the government’s fall update, and projected growth of 1.4 per cent, down from two per cent in the fall.

Finance says the fiscal projections are about $2 billion lower per year because recent developments have been accounted for, including the Liberals’ changes to the income-tax brackets and Canada’s operations in the Middle East.

Ottawa also adjusted its deficit forecast for 201516 — a shortfall is now projected to be $2.3 billion rather than the previous estimate of $3 billion.

The government traditionally bases its fiscal predictions on the average forecasts of private-sector economists, whom Morneau met earlier this month.

The government says the fiscal downgrades are largely due to the combination of lower oil prices and weaker-than-expected growth in the United States and world economies.

“There’s no question the times are tough right now for many Canadians across the country, and in that situation a less-ambitious government might see these conditions as a reason to hide, to make cuts or to be overly cautious,”he said.

“But our government believes strongly that the economic downturn makes our plan to grow the economy even more relevant than it was a few short months ago.”

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NDP going ahead with private event to meet premier at fundraiser

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta’s governing New Democrats are going ahead with a pricey private event with the premier that was pitched discreetly to select people.

Cheryl Oates, spokeswoman for Premier Rachel Notley, confirmed Monday that the one-hour availability with the premier ahead of a general fundraiser this week was cleared by the ethics commissioner.

Oates declined to give details and said further comment would have to come from NDP party boss Chris O’Halloran.

O’Halloran told The Canadian Press earlier Monday that the private event had been cancelled. He could not be reached after the premier’s office said that was not the case.

The general fundraiser Tuesday is being held at the Art Gallery of Alberta in downtown Edmonton. It was promoted on the party’s website as offering people a chance to mingle with the premier and NDP members of the legislature at a cost of $250 a ticket.

An event costing $1,000 a ticket is giving people access to the premier and the same MLAs for an hour before the main fundraiser, but in a separate room of the art gallery. Anyone buying the pricier ticket automatically gains entrance to the $250 event.

It was not widely advertised.

The event was pitched one-on-one to select people through “phoning, e-mails, conversations,” O’Halloran said.

“It would have been more time … and give people more time to share their opinions and feelings.”

He did not say why the event was cancelled, but denied that the party was concerned it could be perceived as selling access to Notley and other NDP decision-makers.

“We decided not to move forward with it,” he said.

“That was a decision we made as a party.”

He said the decision had been made recently and that ticketholders would be offered refunds.

An hour after O’Halloran’s comments, Notley’s office said the event was on and had never been cancelled.

Oates said ethics commissioner Marguerite Trussler confirmed both fundraising events do not violate Alberta’s Conflicts of Interest Act.

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BUST: Medium-sized operation According to Health Canada, crystal meth is an illegal, addictive synthetic stimulant, known to have dangerous and unpredictable short-term physical and mental effects.

It was “absolutely” a big operation, Sgt. Penny said.

“We have to concern ourselves with the chemicals, the volatility. Meth labs are highly explosive, and when we’re dealing with anyone in the drug trade in executing a search warrant, our concern is weapons, firearms obviously. Whenever we have information that would suggest there’s firearms involved, we’re going to be pulling in our ERT teams as well.”

“I think a lot of times when you say meth lab, people want to go a Breaking Bad scenario where you have this big warehouse scenario. … That’s not the case. I would suggest that this was a medium-sized operation,” Penny said.

Breaking Bad refers to a well-known American television series crime drama about the making and selling of crystal meth.

Penny could not recall any other instances of a crystal meth lab being dismantled in the Stettler area.

“One of the challenges with meth labs is their portability. Marijuana grow ops you require space, you require energy, you have to deal with neighbours

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Bright sunshine and warm temperatures drew many people out on to the trails in Red Deer Monday many of whom chose to walk around the wetlands area in Clearview. Sunny skies and warm weather are expected to continue through the week in Central Alberta.

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Uber gets bylaw from Calgary city council, but says it won’t work Calgary city council has passed a bylaw that would allow for the operation of ride-sharing companies, but officials with Uber say the rules are too strict.

The city wants ride-sharing drivers to have a Class 4 driver’s licence an annual $220 operating licence from the city regular inspections proof of eligibility to work in Canada and a police background check and commercial insurance.

The city says the rules could be in place by April 4 but Ramit Kar, the general manager of Uber Alberta, says they are too strict.

and smell and condensation, whereas the meth lab you can do it in a very contained area, and you can have turnover that’s quite quick.

“There’s meth labs you could fit in a large cooler.

That would be a smaller one. It kind of gives you an idea of how challenging these things are,” Penny said.

“Whenever you have these labs … these things can attract their clientele. And … when the addict wants the product and they can’t afford it, that can turn into property crime in our area, break and enters, thefts, all sorts of different things.

“Obviously our goal is to eliminate basically the reason for a lot of these people to be committing these crimes,” he said.

Crystal meth is present in Stettler as it is almost everywhere. It’s not a larger problem than anywhere else, he said.

RCMP used two armoured vehicles in the operation, said Penny.

“There’s two of these showing up on your doorstep. They (suspects) were quite surprised.” The four suspects were taken into custody without incident.

The names of those charged had not been released by press time. Three of them appeared in court on Monday for bail hearings.

They are all known to police and include a 37-year-old and 67-year-old from Stettler, 30-year-old from Big Valley, and a 26-year-old from Drumheller. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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He says the fees are too high and the rules too difficult to adhere to.

Uber wants rules similar to those passed in Edmonton recently, whereby Uber pays the city $50,000 per year plus six cents per trip.

He says the bylaw will ensure that ride-sharing “will not come back to Calgary.”

“We’re going to continue to advocate to make sure that Calgarians’ voices are heard in terms of the return of ride-sharing,” he says.

Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi told reporters that reaction “is very much their (Uber’s) script.”

He said the company continues to complain about the fee even though the city has made concessions.

“We’re not going for a fee that requires taxpayer subsidy,” he said.

Earlier this year, Edmonton became the first jurisdiction to pass regulations for the new industry.

California-based Uber is an app-based business that operates in 40 Canadian communities as well as around the world. It allows people to request rides over their phones and sets them up with drivers who use their personal vehicles. Getting an Uber ride is typically cheaper than taking a taxi.

Monday’s release, less extensive than the government’s annual fall updates, comes amid numerous downgraded growth forecasts for Canada, which has been hit particularly hard by the steep slide in oil prices.

Morneau, who revealed the update at an event at an Ottawa community centre as part of his pre-budget consultations, is also scheduled to appear Tuesday before the House of Commons finance committee.

Given the circumstances, it’s more important than ever for the Liberal government to invest in the economy as a way to promote growth and help the country’s so-called middle class, he said.

Last week, the all-party committee fielded formal pitches from dozens of groups, including lobbyists, First Nations leaders and economists, on what they think should be included in the budget. Many of them called on the government to follow through with its spending commitments.

To help revive the economy, the Liberal government is counting on increased infrastructure investments, the tax-bracket changes to provide relief on the middle-income bracket and adjustments to child benefits Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently acknowledged the Liberals would no longer fulfil their promise to keep the 2016-17 deficit under $10 billion.

Trudeau also cast doubt on whether he would make good on his vow to balance the books within his four-year mandate — a headline pledge in the Liberal election platform.

His government has instead been emphasizing its other key 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.

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BRIEF Expected byelection call has opposition parties scrambling EDMONTON — Alberta’s opposition parties say Premier Rachel Notley needs to show more respect for the democratic process when it comes to calling a byelection for Calgary Greenway.

Notley is expected to announce Tuesday a byelection that would send voters in that constituency to the polls March 22.

The NDP named its candidate on the weekend and opposition parties are set to nominate theirs over the next two weeks.

Jeremy Nixon, executive director for the Wildrose party, confirmed the party will move their nomination up from March 5 to this Friday, although logistics have not been finalized.

The byelection is to elect a member of the legislature to replace Progressive Conservative Manmeet Bhullar, who was killed in a car crash last November.

Jason Nixon, the Wildrose critic on democracy and accountability, said Notley is offside with the byelection call.

“Let’s be clear. The opposition parties avoided rushing into our nomination process this time out of respect for our colleague Manmeet Bhullar’s family,” said Jason Nixon.

“For the premier to play gotcha games with this particular byelection is beneath her.”

Convicted animal abuser pleads guilty to having pets despite lifetime ban CALGARY — A convicted animal abuser has been sentenced to 34 days in prison for breaching his probation.

The court heard Nicolino Camardi, who has a lifetime ban on having pets, took in his neighbour’s cat and dog last month.

Court heard Camardi, who is 20, had agreed to take in the pets so they could spray their home for bedbugs.

The animals found in his home were in good health.

Camardi was on probation after being convicted of two counts of wilfully causing pain and suffering to an animal.

The Calgary Humane Society began an investigation in January 2014 after a dog was found dead with tape around its muzzle and a dead cat was discovered with tape covering most of its face.

The 34-day sentence for two breaches of probation includes credit for time served.

Alberta to get another telephone area code in April due to increased demand EDMONTON — Alberta will soon be getting another telephone area code.

The Western Telecommunications Alliance says starting April 9, the area code 825 will become available when people apply for new service across the province.

The alliance says there has been a dramatic increase in demand for communications services and technologies.

The new code will be introduced gradually in areas when the supply of numbers in the existing 780, 403 and 587 codes run out.

The alliance includes Shaw Communications, Telus, Rogers and Bell.

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Environmental monitoring in the oilsands needs to be better focused and turn more data into information the public can use to understand what’s happening in the region’s ecosystem, an independent review has concluded.

OILSANDS begun since the panel began its work.

“We hope to have very significant analyses being done not only looking at the three years of data we’ve collected but also looking at historical information,” he said.

“We’re embarking on a more integrated approach in terms of how we’re going to be doing our planning and the design of the program.”

Wrona said bringing together two levels of government, multiple departments and scientists from many disciplines has been a huge task.

“We need to do a much better job to produce a much more integrated plan, making it clear to everybody what the objectives of the program are and how the information will be used — and by whom The new area code was announced by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission over concerns Alberta would run out of phone numbers by the summer of 2016.

30-year-old Calgary man is named as victim in B.C. avalanche KELOWNA, B.C. — A British Columbia coroner says a 30-year-old Calgary man has been identified as the victim of an avalanche west of Golden, B.C., over the weekend.

The coroners service says Nicholas Roberts was one of four people who was travelling in the Quartz Creek area, 40 kilometres west of Golden on snowmobiles.

A large avalanche came down Saturday morning, burying Roberts.

The coroner says other members of the party found the man and managed to dig him out.

Despite efforts at resuscitation, the service says Roberts couldn’t be revived.

— in terms of making the data and conclusions much more policy relevant.”

Wrona said the program’s first report bringing together different scientific disciplines should be out in the fall.

The panel’s findings were echoed by both industry and environmental groups.

Terry Abel, director of oilsands for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, said his group has expressed concerns before about the need for more integration, analysis and coherence in monitoring.

“We actually agree with a lot of the recommendations of that panel,” he said.

Simon Dyer of the clean energy think-tank Pembina Institute said much more work needs to be done..

“Their stakeholders are hungry for synthesized information about the impacts.” observed a driver commit a traffic offence and tried to stop the vehicle.

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EDMONTON — Environmental monitoring in the oilsands needs to be better focused and turn more data into information the public can use to understand what’s happening in the region’s ecosystem, an independent review has concluded.

The review released Monday also says the federal and provincial governments need to form a better idea of what the $50-million monitoring program is intended to accomplish.

“It’s very hard to hit the target if you haven’t defined what the target is,” said Philip Hopke, chairman of the six-member panel and head of an air-monitoring centre at New York’s Clarkson University.

“For example, is the air monitoring really relevant to what the eco-toxicity people need to have in order to assess whether the oilsands is causing ecological damage? That question hasn’t, apparently, been looked at.”

Hopke gives the joint monitoring program a solid “B” grade for dramatic improvements in research on how oilsands development affects the environment.

More sampling is being done over a wider area and on an expanded set of contaminants, Hopke said. Research designs make sense and the methods used conform to international standards.

But he said scientists involved in studying air, land, water and biodiversity need to do a better job of talking with each other.

“The problem we see is that integration of the activities across the four components and within the four components is pretty limited.”

The program was set up in 2012 after intense criticism of how the Alberta government was doing the job. It was designed and implemented by federal and Alberta scientists.

Scientific studies indicated that, while overall levels remained low, contaminants in the land and water around oilsands developments were increasing.

The review — the first into the three-year-old program — also concluded it needs to convert its data into conclusions on which policy-makers can base decisions.

Referring to air pollution, it says “insufficient attention has been paid to the comprehensive analysis and interpretation of these data.”

On biodiversity: “Limited analysis or integration of results has been done. It was evident to the panel that the implementation of (the program) has been rushed.”

“They haven’t done a very good job yet of pulling the pieces together,” Hopke said.

Fred Wrona, Alberta’s chief scientist with the program, said some of that assessment and analysis has

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Liberals dismantling House of Harper As the Stephen Harper years piled turned the closing of veterans offices, one onto another, debate grew in the pledged to reverse funding cuts to the capital over how much of his Conser- CBC, overturned two pieces of legislavative legacy would become a funda- tion it considered punitive to labour mentally ingrained part of and restored funding to Canada.

First Nations that had been Would successive governfrozen under the previous ments be unwilling or ungovernment’s transparency able to lift the rocks and get act. at the philosophical underIt also suspended all pinnings of almost a decade court action against First of Harper? Turns out, a lot Nations that did not comply of the Conservative agenwith the legislation. da can be overturned, and It ended a Conservative rather quickly. court appeal of provisions While Justin Trudeau’s of Omar Khadr’s bail and Liberal government may be ended an appeal of the citspinning its wheels on some izenship niqab ruling that TIM big items, such as the size of sullied the last election.

HARPER its budget deficit, the scope It changed the way the of its missing and murdered Conservatives dealt with OPINION indigenous women inquiry sick leave for federal emor the regional tensions enployees, has given pergendered by its imminent decision on mission to federal scientists to speak a $1-billion bailout or stake in Bom- to the media and is ending an audit bardier, it is proving much more ad- of charities by the Canada Revenue ept at tearing down the Conservative Agency, which was seen to be payback house. for advocating for the environment.

It’s as if the new government stole It has changed the way senators into that old Conservative neighbour- are appointed - although it is behind hood armed with a pressure washer schedule and has a long way to go beand started cleaning that unsightly fore there can be any clarity on this graffiti off the walls. initiative.

It started early with the announceIt will fully restore health-care ment of the restoration of the long- coverage for all refugees and asylum form census. claimants to the pre-2012 levels, before The Liberal government has over- Conservative cuts. It is revamping the

environmental assessment process — a major Harper initiative — while keeping the right of cabinet to make the final decision on pipeline projects.

On the foreign policy file, the government has lifted some sanctions against Iran and will engage that country again and it has warmed relations with Washington.

Under the title of “tone,” Trudeau has made himself and his ministers more accessible to the media and has brought first ministers together for meetings, a practice Harper had ended.

More is to come: an overhaul of the C-51 domestic anti-terrorism act, changes to the Fair Elections Act, the Firearms Act and repeal of some provisions of the bill allowing the government to strip Canadian citizenship.

Some of the changes seem borne simply of election promises and not sound rationale, such as the revamped anti-Islamic State group mission. Some things that have not changed, such as the controversial Saudi arms deal, have been mired in confusion. Global Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion says he is opposed to the deal, but it is going ahead regardless.

For this, according to a Forum poll published on the weekend, the Liberals would win 70 per cent of the seats if an election were held today.

This is likely to be about as good as it gets for this government, because we

are fast approaching the point where the Conservative teardown runs out of low-hanging fruit and the Liberals will be judged on their own merits.

And their plethora of campaign promises is going to come back to bite on some files — ranging from F-35s to electoral reform — because this government has given itself a huge, and likely impossible, change file.

But the Liberal road may actually be smoothed by events south of the border.

After South Carolina on Saturday, those of us who have been dismissive of Donald Trump’s presidential aspirations are going to have to recalibrate our message.

Some of us had front-row seats to the Rob Ford debacle in Toronto, so we intuitively know that the seemingly ludicrous suddenly becomes plausible, then reality.

What will happen is that the Trump bombast — should he win the Republican nomination — will bring all discourse down to his level in an election year which will receive immense coverage in all Canadian media.

No matter what trouble awaits the Trudeau Liberals, they will look positively radiant compared to the train wreck about to unfold in the good old U.S. of A. Tim Harper is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.

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England’s petulant history with European Union What would you call a country that called for “a wants to leave the EU, of course. His 2013 promise structure under which [Europe] can dwell in peace, of a referendum was mainly an attempt to steal in safety and in freedom… a kind of United States of votes from the United Kingdom Independence Party, Europe” at the end of the Second World War (Win- which did indeed want to leave, in the 2015 election. ston Churchill, 1946), but refused to join But Cameron couldn’t walk away from that structure when its European neighhis promise after he won the election, bebours actually began building it (Europecause half of his own party wants to leave an Economic Comunity, 1957)? the European Union. Jeremy Corbyn, the What would you call that country if it new leader of the Labour Party, is at best changed its mind and asked to join the lukewarm about the the EU, viewing it esEEC in 1961, a goal it finally achieved in sentially as a capitalist plot that has some 1973 under Conservative prime minister positive side-effects. And recent opinion Edward Heath — only to demand a renepolls suggest that the referendum could go gotiation of its terms of membership and either way. hold an In/Out referendum on EEC memThese are not the best of times for the bership under a Labour government two EU. It has not responded well to the wave years later? of mostly Midde Eastern refugees that What would you say if that country began rolling across its frontiers early GWYNNE then demanded another renegotiation of last year. It is suffering from chronic low DYER the terms of membership under Consergrowth and high unemployment (although vative prime minister Margaret Thatcher the United Kingdom itself is doing quite OPINION in 1984, and insisted on opting out of the well on both fronts). It is becoming clear planned single currency when the counthat the adoption of the euro common curtries of the European Community (as it now styled rency by 19 EU countries was a major mistake. itself) signed the Treaty of Maastricht in 1992?

There is therefore a lot of disillusionment about And what would you say about that country’s be- the EU even among its core members on the Europehaviour if another Conservative prime minister, an mainland, and some people fear that “Brexit” (a David Cameron, demanded ANOTHER renegotiation British exit from the Union) would start to unravel on the terms of membership in what is now called all the other deals and compromises that went into the European Union in 2013, and promised ANOTH- the construction of this historically unlikely strucER referendum once the results were known? ture. But why are the British always the most disafThe word “ambivalent” would certainly spring fected ones? to mind. “Capricious” also has a strong claim to be All the countries on the west coast of Europe the right word. But the adjective that really sums up lost their overseas empires in the decades after the Britain’s behaviour in its 70-year love-hate relation- Second World War, and Britain is not the only one ship with the European project is “petulant.” to cling to delusions of grandeur in the aftermath.

There’s going to be another referendum on wheth- France, too, has a highly inflated view of its own er the United Kingdom should stay in the European importance. But the French understand the cost of Union on June 23. Not that Prime Minister Cameron European disunity much better than the British, be-

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It has to do with the fact that Britain is an island.

Almost every other European country except Switzerland and Sweden has seen serious fighting on its own soil in the past 100 years. Many of them have seen it several times, and about half of them have been partly or wholly occupied by foreign troops for long periods. Whereas Britain has not been successfully invaded for almost a thousand years.

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EMOTIONAL costs? Yes, and this is where the petulance comes from. There is a fantasy, still quite prevalent in England, that the country could have a much more satisfying future as a fully independent player, unshackled from the dull and stodgy European Union and living by its wits as a swashbuckling global trader. To which one can only say: Good luck with that. This romantic vision is not shared by the Scots, who would certainly break away if English votes took the United Kingdom out of the EU. But an independent Scotland might find it hard to claim EU membership after the divorce, as Madrid would not want to establish a precedent that Catalonian separatists could use to argue that breaking away from Spain would be painless.

Most British leaders have worked hard to manage the inflated expectations of English super-patriots and keep the country more or less on track. Cameron has dropped the ball, and the consequences for both Britain and Europe may be quite serious.

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OTTAWA — Mike Duffy played fast and loose with both the facts and taxpayer dollars for the sake of his own reputation, the Crown argued Monday as the controversial senator’s trial on fraud, breach of trust and bribery charges entered its final days.

Both the Crown and Duffy’s defence team have now submitted hundreds of pages spelling out their lengthy closing arguments about the 31 charges he faces.

They are using the time on their feet in the Ottawa courtroom to hammer home some key points before Judge Charles Vaillancourt considers

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the 61 days of testimony he’s heard since last April.

Crown prosecutor Mark Holmes, however, suggested Vaillancourt should review Duffy’s own testimony with some trepidation, noting the number of times the accused dodged direct questions on the stand, contradicted himself and even admitted to exaggerating facts as part of his long career as a broadcaster.

“It may work in broadcasting,” Holmes said, ” but it is outrageous for a witness to do that at a criminal trial.”

Duffy, who has pleaded not guilty to all 31 charges, has claimed throughout the trial that he was operating under a Senate expense system saddled with complex rules and lax oversight.

Ottawa eyes options to fix bail system

But his refusal to accept any blame or responsibility for his actions throughout a saga that dated back to the day he was appointed to the upper chamber in 2008 should also speak to his credibility, Crown prosecutor Jason Neubauer suggested.

Neubauer was given the task of explaining the complex bribery charges against Duffy — many observers have wondered how Duffy could be charged with accepting a bribe while those who allegedly offered it were never charged themselves.

Neubauer said Duffy controlled the process of getting the eventual $90,000 from Nigel Wright, the former prime minister’s chief of staff, by setting the conditions under which he’d repay liv-

ing expenses and housing claims.

Duffy demanded approval of the media lines, wanted assurances that he’d still be eligible to represent P.E.I. and to be kept out of a broader Senate audit, Neubauer said.

The Prime Minister’s Office just wanted it to go away.

“Sen. Duffy’s actions were driven by a desire to protect and advance his own interests,” Neubauer said.

Several of the charges Duffy faces relate to a $65,000 Senate-approved contract he had with a friend’s company and the fact that money was then used to pay for smaller contracts, rather than have those services run through the Senate approval system.

PRIDE FIRST

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — About half the people in Canada’s provincial jails on any given night have not been convicted of anything — a number that has ballooned over the years due to growing fear of letting people out on bail, says a federally commissioned study.

In the realm of criminal justice, the role of the state has become one of limiting — to the greatest extent possible — the risks to public safety that offenders represent, says the study done for the Justice Department by University of Ottawa criminologist Cheryl Webster.

“Not surprisingly, this risk-averse mentality has permeated the bail process and translates into vigorous attempts to avoid releasing accused persons who might subsequently commit crimes while on bail.”

As a result, the justice system has effectively abandoned the primary grounds for detention — ensuring the accused’s attendance in court, the study says.

Among the recommendations for reform: a new legislative framework that presumes innocence and does not detain anyone unless the Crown demonstrates a need to do so.

“While the sheer number and the seriousness of the current problems with bail in Canada are daunting, the time is ripe for action,” the study concludes.

“Broken Bail” in Canada: How We Might Go About Fixing It was completed in June and recently released by Justice under the Access to Information Act. In her mandate letter from the prime minister, Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould was directed to reform the bail regime.

The initiative continues to be a priority, said Justice Department spokesman Ian McLeod. “Bail is clearly a very important element in the justice system — from the perspective of protecting the public, fairness to the accused and justice systems efficiencies.”

Webster’s study found the problem includes both the procedure for determining whether someone gets bail as well as remand — the detention of accused people in provincial and territorial jails awaiting a bail decision or, having forgone or been denied bail, the resolution of their court case.

While the sentenced population in Canada has steadily declined over time, the remand population has grown more than threefold over the last 35 years, the study says. At about 40 for every 100,000 residents, Canada’s remand rate is higher than that of most Western European nations, Australia and New Zealand.

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Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau stands for a photo with revellers before marching in the Vancouver Pride Parade speaks in Vancouver, B.C. Toronto’s Pride organizers say Trudeau will become the first prime minister to participate in the festivities. Trudeau is expected to march in the parade on July 3.

Possible Pickton memoir prompts outrage, appeal from B.C. government

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — British Columbia will look at passing legislation to prevent offenders from profiting from their crimes after a book reportedly written by serial killer Robert Pickton was published.

Premier Christy Clark said Monday that the province will examine laws already on the books in other provinces and could copy what has been done elsewhere.

“I am at a loss for words. To think about the pain that he’s prepared to willingly cause all of the families of those people who he murdered,” Clark told reporters in Vancouver.

“I have trouble understanding it and I think people will want to know that their government is doing everything it can to want to stop him from profiting from this at the very least.”

Solicitor General Mike Morris has asked online book retailer Amazon to stop carrying the 144-page book titled “Pickton: In His Own Words.”

Amazon could not be reached for comment.

There is no confirmation that Pickton actually wrote the book, but a statement from Morris said the prov-

ince is investigating every means possible to ensure the 66-year-old, who was from Port Coquitlam, will not profit in any way.

Pickton is serving a life sentence for the second-degree murders of six women and is being held at Kent maximum security prison near Agassiz, B.C., about 120 kilometres east of Vancouver.

Advocacy group Victims of Violence In Canada says on its website that four provinces, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Nova Scotia, regulate whether an offender can profit from their crimes, such as through book revenues.

Citing privacy laws, the Correctional Service of Canada said it cannot provide details on an offender’s file, but “it has been made aware of the

book that has been published and understands the content may be offensive to some.”

It said in a statement that federal offenders aren’t allowed to profit from recounting their crimes “if it is determined that doing so would be contrary to the objectives of an offender’s correctional plan or if doing so would pose a threat to safety of any individual, including victims, or to the security of a federal institution.”

People serving sentences in federal correctional facilities have limited access to computers, but do not have access to the Internet or to email. The service said prisoners are able to communicate with members of the public in writing and are entitled to privileged correspondence.

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Safe Harbour gets medical detox beds CONVERSION OF 20 BEDS ALLOWS SOCIETY TO HELP PEOPLE WHO HEED HIGHER LEVEL OF SUPPORT

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Converting 20 non-medical detoxification beds at Safe Harbour Society into medical detox beds were among the priorities coming out of the province’s mental health review released on Monday.

The province said it will take immediate action on the six priority recommendations in Valuing Mental Health report. Priorities include: ● Adding medical detoxification beds for adults by creating six to eight new beds in Lethbridge and converting 20 beds in Red Deer. ● Expanding access to addiction treatment by opening three new social (non-medical) detoxification beds for children and youth in Calgary. ● Working in partnership with First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities to develop an opiate addictions action plan. ● Increasing technology-based solutions by launching a child and youth mental health website this spring. ● Developing a performance monitoring and evaluation framework to track results on report recommendations and benefits to Albertans. ● Establishing an Addiction and Mental Health Implementation team to work with community and health partners to coordinate implementation of the report.

Tricia Haggarty-Roberts, director

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Safe Harbour detox clients Ron Houle, left, Sid Stanyer, centre, and Garrett in the common room at Safe Harbour in Red Deer on Monday. It was announced on Monday that 20 beds at the facility will be converted into medical detox beds.

MENTAL HEALTH REVIEW of operations at Central Alberta’s Safe Harbour Society for Health and Housing, was pleased that the Red Deer facility was part of the report.

“It’s good. We’ll work with whatever comes down to get the best outcomes for our clients,” Haggarty-Roberts said.

“We know the clientele that we serve are of a higher need. The fact that we have awesome staff, but

they’re not trained medically, was a bit of a struggle. If we needed more medical assistance, the closest medical detox is the ER and then up to a unit so it’s incredibly expensive.”

Safe Harbour has run a 20-bed, non-medical detox program since 2006, with clients staying seven to 10 days to detoxify from alcohol or drugs. Those requiring prescription medication available at a medical detox had to

travel to Edmonton or Calgary facility.

Haggarty-Roberts said it takes time to get into medical detox programs in another city.

“When someone is coming to the door today to say they want to detox today, you really want to jump on that.

So it’s tough.”

She said 90 per cent of clients deal with alcohol addiction which is the hardest drug to safely kick. A medical detox helps people who require a higher level of support to detox in a safer way with less negative health outcomes.

Medical detox at Safe Harbour would be a 10 to 14 day treatment.

She said currently beds are regularly 90 to 95 per cent full.

“As of today we have a few spots, but we do intakes every day so if there are available beds and people at the door by 9 a.m., we fill them right up. If we can take some of the higher needs, from a medical standpoint, then we’d be fuller.”

More funding is needed for Safe Harbour to hire on-site medical staff, ideally a registered nurse or psychiatric nurse, who could give medication and monitor clients. Regular access to a doctor would also be needed.

Existing staff would not be replaced.

Haggarty-Roberts said the type of detox required depends on the individual and their addiction history so Safe Harbour would likely continue to provide non-medical detox.

She did not know the cost or timeline convert to a medical detox.

Valuing Mental Health report, which is available on the Alberta Health website, included 32 recommendations aimed at supporting mental health by strengthening service delivery for Albertans with mental illness and addictions. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Lacombe County cracking down on ATV trails UNAUTHORIZED RIDING HAS INCREASINGLY TORN UP SENSITIVE LAND AROUND GULL LAKE IN RECENT YEARS

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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Lacombe County is doubling efforts to protect sensitive Gull Lake shoreline areas from off-highway vehicles.

For several years, the county has been trying to limit damage from quads and similar vehicles that have carved rutted often-muddy trails from lakeshore residential developments to the beach.

With the support of many residents, the county designated an off-highway vehicle trail at New Saratoga on the east side of the lake. Letters were sent to residents asking them to stick to designated trails and 50 signs were posted warning riders of areas off limits to motorized vehicles and marking environmentally sensitive areas with maps of designated trails.

Two other designated trails have been identified along the stretch of the lake where McLaurin Beach and Wilson’s Beach communities are located.

Public meetings were also held to explain the rules.

The Gull Lake Community Association joined in last fall by erecting a fence to keep off-highway vehicles out of natural areas.

Unfortunately, despite all these efforts inspections made in the spring and fall last year found a network of resident-mowed illegal trails and other ad hoc routes churned up by vehi-

ence, a fence may be required between the lake and nearby homes.

A public meeting will take place at the Lacombe County’s offices on Hwy 12 on March 8 at 7 p.m. to explain the county’s plan.

West said trying to catch illegal off-highway vehicle riders in the act is difficult and the county does not want to add to the damage by pursuing people through shoreline areas.

Community buy-in is seen as the best approach. While there will always be those determined to break the rules, the more people the better who support the county’s plan and make it less locally acceptable to create private beach routes.

“I’m certainly not asking anyone to step up and confront anyone,” said West.

“We’re just really hoping (the action plan) changes the overall understanding that the county is not standing for this anymore.”

Besides environmental considerations, off-highway vehicles pose a safety risk.

“There are people down there with their children and their dogs.”

A moment’s loss of control by a vehicle rider could turn tragic easily, she said. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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An unapproved trail made by off-road users last year south of Gull Lake.

Lacombe County officials are out to crackdown on unapproved trails that tear up the country side this year in the Gull Lake area. cles, said Blayne West, the county’s environmental co-ordinator.

Little regrowth happened on the ripped-up routes, which often turned into water-filled mud bowls following a rainfall.

Given continuing problems, the county has developed an action plan to drive home its environmental mes-

Botha fills vacant council seat

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Village of Botha’s vacant council seat has been filled.

Nominations opened last Wednesday and closed the following day when local resident Angie Boxma put her name in for the position on the three-person council.

The position needed to be filled after a councillor resigned last December. The same month, the community of 175 chief administrative officer, the village’s only paid employee, resigned. Council voted in January to contract out administration to the County of Stettler and Shawna Benson was appointed CAO. Alberta Municipal Affairs has begun a Viability Review Study for the community. A viability team has already been set up and will spend the next year to determine whether the community should remain autonomous or be absorbed into the County of Stettler. A public meeting has been set for March 31 in Botha to update the residents on the process and get feedback.

Questions over the community’s viability were raised in 2014 when a 20-strong delegation came before council asking for a review.

Some felt the community would be better served, and would have lower taxes, if it was to become part of the county and could take advantage of its resources. Council voted in favour of asking for a formal review in October 2014.

The process moved forward slowly and was interrupted by the provincial election until last fall.

A meeting between village and County of Stettler officials and representatives for the province and various municipal organizations kick-started the process again.

sage. About $36,000 will be spent creating boulder barriers on the north and south ends of the environmental reserve land on the lakeshore.

Before and after photos will be taken in the spring and fall to determine if measures are working and to pinpoint where the trouble spots are. If the county’s efforts make no differ-

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Sylvan Lake man pleads out to group drug charges The prosecution of a group of Sylvan Lake residents has ended after one of them pleaded guilty to marijuana possession.

Chad Gunville, 36, entered the plea on Monday in Red Deer provincial court.

He was fined $1,000 and ordered to forfeit all offence related material.

Gunville was co-accused with Michael Gunville, 38, and Stephanie Shaheen, 29. The three were arrested on Dec. 17, 2014 by the Alberta Law Enforcement Team, Red Deer RCMP and Sylvan Lake RCMP. They were arrested at a residence in Bentley.

Numerous charges of possession of other drugs, firearms and proceeds of crime charges were withdrawn by the Crown with the acceptance of the guilty pleas.

The three had been scheduled for a preliminary hearing, held to test the strength of the Crown’s case. The hearing was called off after the plea was entered.

Gunville was in possession of roughly 100 grams of marijuana when he was arrested.

Murder suspect makes first court appearance in Red Deer A man accused of murder after a person was left at the hospital to die made his first court appearance.

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the prisoner’s box on Monday in Red Deer provincial court.

Sporting a scrape under his left eye and a cut on the bridge of his nose, McPhee stood silent for his short court appearance.

Defence counsel Maurice Collard, acting as agent for the day, requested an adjournment to March 14.

Judge John Holmes granted the request.

McPhee is charged with second degree murder in the death of William Blaine Baker, 47. Baker was dropped off at the hospital on Feb. 13 alive, but died shortly thereafter.

Baker’s friends and family attended the first court appearance, but did not want to comment.

Red Deer RCMP spent much of last week looking for the Jeep Grand Cherokee that was seen dropping Baker off. By mid-week it was located and by Friday, the charge had been laid against McPhee.

Lacombe County chips in for Alix play centre, Gilby Agriculture Society Lacombe County will help an Alix play centre to keep operating.

The county recently agreed to provide $5,000 in annual operating funding to Moonwalkers, an indoor play centre with tunnels and climbing features for youngsters.

Funding was based on 10 per cent of the facility’s operating deficit. That percentage is an estimate of how many county residents visit the play centre.

More funding could be made available to the centre if it can provide evidence that a biger percentage of the clientele is drawn from the neighbouring county.

Council also opened its pocketbook for the Gilby Agriculture Society.

About $8,040 was provide to cover half the cost of new lighting and a yard light at Gilby’s community hall. Gilby is located off Hwy 12, about 23 km west of Bentley.

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Defence planners take note of missiles

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The bloody, sun-baked sand of Syria is a long way from the Canadian Arctic, but Russia’s use of cruise missiles in the five-year-old civil war has defence planners in both the U.S. and Canada sitting up and taking notice.

U.S. Admiral Bill Gortney, the commander of Norad, said multiple strikes on Raqqa — the de facto capital of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant — show Russian aircraft don’t have to leave their airspace in order to deliver lethal effects.

The missiles, launched last November, came from Tu-160 and Tu-95 warplanes and warships in the Caspian Sea and travelled thousands of kilometres to hit their targets. Those attacks were followed in December by submarine-based launches of Kalibr

cruise missiles.

In an exclusive interview with The Canadian Press, Gortney said the message intended for the West was crystal clear.

“There was no tactical or operational requirement for any of those shots,” he said. “They were telling us they have this capability and can employ it globally.”

The Trudeau government is about to embark on a defence policy review, but unlike its Conservative predecessor, which emphasized military preparedness in the Arctic, the issue has barely registered in Liberal policy statements.

One of the pressing issues will be replacing the rapidly aging north warning system of radar stations over the next decade.

But defence planners in both Washington and Ottawa have in recent years been quietly warning

about the threat of a surprise cruise missile attack from the Far North. Most of their research, however, has focused on rogue nations or terrorist threats from converted ships operating in the Northwest Passage.

They have warned, however, that the absence in the Arctic of radar protection at low levels below 3,000 metres means there would be very little warning of a cruise missile launch in the region.

Gortney said Norad can track ballistic missiles coming over the North Pole, but coverage for low-flying cruise missiles remains a major challenge.

American and Canadian planners are together trying to figure out a solution, he said.

“Against this particular threat, you need the ability to look over the horizon,” Gortney said. “Does that mean it needs to be airborne — or land based? Or a combination of both?”

Teachers back to school in La Loche ACCUSED IN SHOOTING APPEARS IN COURT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LA LOCHE, Sask. — Teachers returned Monday to a northern Saskatchewan school that was the site of a deadly shooting, but the front entrance to the building remained boarded up.

Education Minister Don Morgan says the doors through which a shooter entered La Loche high school Jan. 22 is sealed off and a different entrance will be used for returning students.

Morgan said repairs have been made and parts of the school will be used by counsellors to help students cope as they gradually resume classes.

“The counsellors that they’re using have suggested not to have a specific date or a specific time and saying, ‘This is it. Ring the bell and classes start,”’ Morgan said in an interview Monday with The Canadian Press.

“They’re saying bring the people in gradually, both the staff and the students. Let them spend a day or two sort of reacquainting themselves, getting comfortable with going through the different parts of the school.”

The community is organizing a “Reclaiming Our School” walk for Wednesday.

Teacher Adam Wood and teacher’s aide Marie Janvier were killed and seven other people were wounded at the school, while teenage brothers Dayne and Drayden Fontaine were found dead in a nearby home.

A 17-year-old youth charged with four counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder appeared via video in court in Meadow Lake on Monday afternoon. He stood quietly, wearing a grey sweatshirt.

Court heard that the Crown will apply to have the teen sentenced as an adult if he is convicted.

The teen’s lawyer, Darren Kraushaar, said he’s waiting to see more evidence.

“We’ve received some disclosure, but I understand there’s going to be a fair bit of disclosure that’s going to be coming in,” Kraushaar told the court via conference call.

Prosecutor Lloyd Stang said that disclosure “is on its way.”

The case has been put over to April 12 in La Loche and the teen will appear via closed-circuit TV. About a dozen teachers from elsewhere in the province are at the high school to help returning teachers adjust, Morgan said. There are “probably some” teachers that won’t return, but Morgan added he didn’t know for sure.

Recruiting teachers to remote schools has long been tough in Saskatchewan.

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Defence to present case for mom accused of murdering disabled daughter

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Cora Morgan, First Nations Family Advocate at The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) and an unidentified indigenous 14-year-old boy who experienced racist slurs from a Winnipeg city employee, are photographed as they speak about the incident in Winnipeg, Monday.

Family wants apology, charges after worker hurls racial slur at teen

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — An indigenous teen says being the target of a racial slur from a city community centre worker made him feel less than human and he wants an apology.

The 14-year-old, who asked that his name not be used, says he was hanging out on the grounds of a community centre near his Winnipeg school earlier this month when the worker told him and a friend to leave.

When they lingered, he says, the worker called him a “stupid f—-ing Indian.”

“My heart sank,” the Grade 8 student said Monday. “He made me feel like I was worthless.

“It’s stuck with me. At school, it’s hard to concentrate because those words keep replaying in your head. It brings down your self-esteem. It makes you feel terrible.”

His mother, Lisa Harper, said police have told her they won’t investigate what happened as a hate crime because it was just “name-calling.” A victims services worker suggested she was overreacting because of the legacy of residential schools, she said.

The community centre issued a statement after the encounter that said the centre takes “these types of incidents very seriously and has contacted Ms. invasion.

“Why would I want to hurt my own child,” Ali said in a lengthy police interview that was played in court. “If I wanted to do it why wait so long, so many years.”

The jury has heard that Ali was the primary caregiver for Cynara, who was “like an infant.” The mother was alone with her daughter on the morning she called 911.

Mom who pleaded guilty to kid’s death 25 years ago set for exoneration

TORONTO — Defence lawyers for an Ontario woman accused of killing her severely disabled daughter will lay out their case for a Toronto jury this week.

TORONTO — A woman implicated by disgraced Over much of the past month, jurors have heard pathologist Dr. Charles Smith in the death of her evidence called by Crown prosecutors who argue three-year-old stepdaughter is set for exoneration Cindy Ali murdered her 16-year-old daughter Cynara more than two decades after pleading guilty to manand then spun an elaborate web of lies to cover the slaughter, The Canadian Press has learned. crime.

Ali has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of Cynara — who had cerebral palsy and couldn’t walk, talk or feed herself.

The teen died in a Toronto hospital in February 2011, two days after emergency personnel responding to a 911 call about a home invasion found her without vital signs in her is proud to support the east-end Toronto home.

“Cindy Ali laid her Advocate “Newspapers daughter down on the in Education” program by couch, put a pillow over her daughter’s face and providing newspapers for held it over her face until classroom use at she stopped breathing,” Crown prosecutor Rosemarie Juginovic told jurors earlier this month.

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Harper and offered our apology.”

But Harper said no one from the community centre or city has apologized to either her or her son.

She said she is filing a human rights complaint, but that is proving difficult without the name of the worker.

Cora Morgan, Manitoba’s First Nations children’s advocate, has been working with the family and said they spent hours at the police station looking for someone to formally investigate. The police eventually visited the home of the employee and he accepted responsibility, said Morgan.

A spokesperson for the Winnipeg police said Monday he couldn’t comment.

Morgan said the issue deserves to be taken more seriously.

“This is not just some local store owner,” she said.

“It’s the actual city of Winnipeg. If you are trying to address racism in the city, you would think that the city of Winnipeg would have looked at their own shop first.”

Mayor Brian Bowman called what happened appalling.

“I’m sickened, especially when it involves children,” he said. “I have children myself and I can only imagine how difficult this situation must have been.”

Documents filed ahead of a court hearing next week show the attorney general agrees Maria Shepherd’s guilty plea and conviction should be struck and an acquittal entered.

“Had the appellant and her lawyer known then what they know now, the plea would not have been entered,” the Crown says in its factum.

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A8 Hearts, flowers, presents and cards

Wow! Nice!

I was almost a Valentine’s Day baby and on good years it seems like I reap the rewards of an almost Valentine’s Day birthday by getting all of the above in double quantities.

I am truly blessed.

So, why do I find myself sitTREENA ting at my clutMIELKE tered desk on Feb. 16, (the day LIFE after my birthday) feeling all down in the dumps and so much older than I did on

Feb. 14 (the day before my birthday)?

It’s weird how one day can make such a difference.

I remember my 16th birthday.

I actually felt much more grown up on that day than the day before when I was only 15.

I remember walking out to meet the school bus with my long dark brown hair twisted into a French roll, feeling quite dignified and mature. I wondered if the bus driver could see how mature and dignified I had become overnight. I refused to run to the bus, but walked sedately, my steps measured and deliberate.

The bus driver did not seem to get that dignified, mature ladies do not run, even if they are late. He honked his horn in frustration.

I was a little insulted, being I had my hair in this perfect French roll, but I ran anyway. I fell breathless in-

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to an empty seat and ended up bobby pinning my French roll back into perfection while sending darts with my eyes (made up with my new kohl almost black eyeliner) into the back of that silly, old bus driver.

I was living on Vancouver Island at the time. Across the road from the bus route, the magnificent Pacific Ocean churned and rolled and the tide mysteriously moved in and out as if set by an unseen hand and an invisible clock.

But I was 16 and I cared nothing about the tide or the ocean. I only wished my hair would stay in place and I could fit into a new school, new friends and, most importantly, with my brand new family. I was, after all, an orphan now and I told myself it was time to grow up.

Five years later, I turned 21.

It was another significant birthday and I remember it well because it was

the day I had my first-born child christened. He was tiny and beautiful, and not once did he cry throughout the ceremony.

And when the minister lifted him up to show him to the congregation, I swelled with motherly pride.

And so, here it is another year and the birthdays have come and gone with alarming regularity, just like the mysterious tide that flows in and out, as if set by an unseen hand.

And every year I get older, but somehow, I notice, not that much wiser.

I’m still waiting for that part.

Who knows? Maybe next year!

Treena Mielke lives in Sylvan Lake and is the editor of the Rimbey Rivew.

She has been a journalist and columnist for more than 25 years. Treena is married to Peter and they have three children and six grandchildren.

People watching at the bus stop A FIRST TIME ADVENTURE ON PUBLIC TRANSIT There is a bus stop that sits directly outside our home. Ever since we moved into this house Sophie has been pretty much obsessed with it. She plops herself down in our front room window and simply stares out at all of the people waiting for their transport.

I have a sneaking suspicion my daughter may follow in my footsteps when it comes to spinning a story. She loves to create tales about the humans who pause in front of our home. However it gets a little awkward when said humans happen to turn around to see a big eyed, wild-haired five year old gazing intently into their soul. Some have even went as far to move on to the next stop. This infuriates the child because it has ruined her ability to finish her deeply thought out yarn.

Once she told me that the person left because he was about to “diarrhea in his pants” it was then I realized she has indeed taken after ALL of my literary skills.

So imagine Sophie’s surprise when I told her that we would be riding on that very same bus. She was elated! I may have even seen a single tear of joy roll down her cheek.

Lars on the other hand shrugged his shoulders and said, “oh yeah, that will be cool” in the most unconvincing voice I’ve ever heard. Soph didn’t take any notice however, she just skipped away with Sleepy Bear propped under her arm while speaking to no one in particular about how splendid the bus ride was going to be.

My family had come for a visit and it was with them that we ventured downtown on the bus. As we

waited at the same stop in which Sophie had been staring at for the last month I could see the anticipation growing on her face. Of course, as with most public transit the bus was a little late.

“Is it not coming!?” She cried to her Uncle Dustin after we had been waiting for a considerable amount of time.

Just as he was about to answer the sound of the buses massive air brakes came whistling down the street.

“IT’S HERE!” She screamed as the doors opened. It was from that point until we reached the downtown terminal that Sophie was the star of this specific LINDSAY bus route.

The population inside inBROWN cluding the driver could imME PLUS THREE mediately tell that we were newbies at this public transit thing. If it wasn’t me asking how much we owed him for boarding, Sophie definitely gave us away when she organized a joyful twirl while walking down the aisle and saying, “it’s so awesome Mom!” I like to believe the seven of us were more of a humorous attraction to our fellow passengers rather than a disturbance. We were quite vocal in our queries of which terminals or stops to get on and off of but everyone seemed to be very forthcoming with

information and assistance.

Meanwhile the only one of us who seemed completely at home on the large means of transportation was Lars. As my mom said it seemed like “old hat” for the seven year old. He had plopped himself down on the seat propped an arm up on the armrest and sat idly by waiting for his stop.

“Lars are you enjoying the ride?” His Auntie Ashley asked him about half way to our destination.

“Yeah it’s alright.” He replied.

“What do you mean it’s alright?!” Sophie screamed, “It’s amazing!” Her gusto made everyone smile and I had a feeling that taking the bus downtown would end up being a regular occurrence. This was fine by me since I had been swept away with nostalgia from the time I stepped onto the vehicle.

Before having the kids and moving back to our small hometown of Sylvan Lake I was a bus riding professional in the cities I wandered. It was surreal to be brought back to those times but now hand in hand with the children I never knew I’d have back then.

We had a great time exploring City Center and some of its eclectic shops and cafes but once again Sophie’s real point of delight was sparked by getting back on the bus to ride home.

There are days in this new city when I miss Sylvan Lake. I miss our friends and the easiness of hometown living. But experiencing simple yet extraordinary moments like we did on this day allow me to realize how much this new home of ours has to offer.

Lindsay Brown is a mother of two and a freelance writer from Alberta.

The pros and cons of excessive niceness “Being too nice might not gain you enemies, but it will surely gain you users and abusers.”

- Author unknown “We’ve got a problem with our hiring policy and it’s going to bite us in the butt.”

This conversation sounded a lot more interesting than the one I’d been absent-mindedly overhearing: a young lady planning her wedding reception where the emcee would communicate with guests via MURRAY text messaging.

FUHRER I had been waiting for a couple EXTREME ESTEEM friends in my favourite coffee shop when the two gentlemen sat down in the booth behind me. Obviously, the hiring comment was a continuation of an existing conversation.

“We have a lot of overly nice people working for us,” said the one, “and that’s not good.”

“What’s wrong with nice?” replied the other. “It’s better than the alternative, isn’t it?”

I was hooked. Most of my life I had been accused of being too nice. In fact, I had spent a great deal of time trying to curb my “nice guy” tendency with only moderate success.

“Nice people are fine,” declared the one. “Overly nice people are a problem.”

Genuinely nice people are fine but people-pleasing, ever deferring,

self-effacing employees who constant seeks validation and over-commit to the point of martyrdom are another story. There’s a subtle yet meaningful distinction between being nice and being kind. Being kind is a successful interpersonal style while being overly nice is often laced with unhealthy undertones. Overly nice people are often mistreated and taken advantage of in the workplace.

There was a time when I found it crushing to have someone disappointed with me so I often took on more work and responsibility than was necessary or healthy. I became overly focused on doing things for others, to the detriment of my own projects. I desperately wanted to be appreciated so was always putting my hand up to volunteer when volunteering was the last thing I wanted to do. Looking back, it was my poor self-esteem that prompted my behaviour.

People who are overly nice tend to be overly accommodating. Unlike many nice folk, people with healthy self-esteem are not looking to please others nor garner acceptance or validation from every corner. Feeling confident and comfortable in their own skin, they’re able to express kindness and compassion from a place of power.

Overly nice people may be suffering from poor self-esteem and trying desperately to avoid conflict and please others in order to feel worthy and deserving – two states-of-being that come naturally to the high self-esteemer.

Looking back, I seldom asked for what I wanted yet, oddly enough, I would often ask for allowances on behalf of others. I remember one manager taking me aside and telling me that my need for approval was making me appear weak in the eyes of my colleagues. I often felt disrespected, exploited and even bullied by colleagues

check your

and managers. One incident in particular comes to mind. It was decades ago but I can still remember a rather plainspoken mother of two young sons telling me that she hoped her boys “didn’t grow up to be anything like me.” It was my first job and I was trying so hard to please everyone that I had become a virtual doormat.

Kind and confident people expect to be treated with respect at work.

They assert themselves when necessary and pick their battles carefully.

Healthy self-esteemers know how to set healthy and appropriate boundaries. Many overly nice people unconsciously create stress and unhappiness for themselves. Their great need for approval sets them up for failure.

Think about it. Where is your power when you place the fulfillment of a need in the hands of another?

A sure-fire way to break the niceness cycle is to build your self-esteem.

The better you feel about yourself, the better able you’ll be to shift your thinking and behaviour. More able to be kind, rather than nice. That said, here are some strategies that may help with the process.

Think about why you’re being so nice. Whether at work or at home, being overly nice may be just another mask you’re wearing to hide your true self from the world. If you’re living in a place of fear, you may think that revealing “the real you” will only lead to rejection.

Stop agreeing with everyone on everything. I’m not suggesting you become disagreeable, but that you take time to honour your opinions and preferences. Not everyone will agree with you and that is as it should be. A difference of opinion will often lead to greater understanding.

Curb your people-pleasing tendencies. You don’t need to accommodate

everyone. When you do, you leave yourself out of the equation. If you’re a pleaser, you probably like to help others. That’s OK but remember, it’s healthy and appropriate to meet your own needs and goals too.

Learn to set healthy boundaries.

When asked to do something you’d rather not do, it’s OK to say no. Sure, we like to be available to our friends and assist where needed but you simply can’t say yes to everyone and everything. No one has the energy for that.

Learning to set boundaries can be challenging but is vital. Keep in mind, there are manipulative people in the world who will take advantage of your giving nature. Stand up for yourself.

You’re not a doormat.

Remember, you don’t need anyone else to be happy. Stop basing your worth on the opinions and comments of others. Base your worth on your own heartfelt actions and efforts. Remember, not everyone is going to like you and not everyone is going to accept you. That’s life and that’s fine. A big part of happiness is self-respect which comes from healthy self-esteem.

I remember my mother telling me, “When you say yes to others, make sure you’re not saying no to yourself.”

I was never quite sure what that meant until recently. If I’m overly nice to you out of fear of rejection, then I’m saying no to my potential for happiness and fulfillment.

Empathy, compassion and kindness spring forth from a well-grounded sense of self. Whether at work or at home, try practising kindness instead of niceness and watch what happens.

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His recent book is entitled Extreem Esteem: the four factors. For more information on self esteem, check the Extreem Esteem website at www.extreemesteem.ca

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A9 22-year marriage on shaky ground

Dear Annie: My wife and I have been married for 22 years and have two wonderful children. We both have college degrees and full-time jobs.

I am an optimistic introvert, and she is a pessimistic extrovert. We have never been close to each other socially. We have different interest and physical abilities.

We also don’t communicate much, even on important issues. I think conversations should be short and to the point, my wife can go on and on. She doesn’t even try anymore because she believes I have no interest. Our sex life KATHY MITCHELL is almost nonexistent. She has AND MARCY SUGAR no interest in any type of intimacy.

ANNIE’S MAILBOX We both contribute to the problems, and I want to change this. I want to be closer and find common ground. But when I suggested counseling, she refused. She says everyone she knows who has tried therapy has ended up in divorce court. She thinks if I ask for counseling, it

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means I want a divorce.

This puts me between a rock and a hard place.

What would you suggest? — Stymied Husband Dear Stymied: We wonder how you two ever ended up married for 22 years. While it is true that some couples enter counseling as a pretense to justify divorce, a good counselor will not deliberately steer you in that direction. We’ve printed many letters from people saying that counseling saved their relationships by helping each person express themselves clearly so that positive changes could be made.

Your wife has to trust you enough to believe that you want to salvage your marriage. Please show her this letter and tell her you wrote it. Say how much you want to be closer, and ask her to come with you for counseling so both of you can find a way back to each other. We hope she will cooperate.

Dear Annie: I want to respond to “Wondering Mom” about women who nurse their children without covering up. My 8-year-old son recently was exposed to a woman openly breastfeeding in my gym’s daycare. He came home and asked me if he could get a drink from my breasts. I wish these women would respect my right as a parent to be present when my child is exposed to such things so I can explain what’s happening. — Not in Front of My Kid Please Dear Not: Your son is old enough to know that

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babies nurse, especially in a daycare center at the gym, which is not the same as whipping off your top at the local coffee shop. A mother is not going to wait to nurse her child until other parents are present to explain things. Here are a couple more letters on that subject: Dear Annie: What about a child who becomes so overwhelming hot, no matter how light the cover-up, that she pushes it aside? My daughter constantly exposes me in public and there’s nothing I can do about it. — Poughkeepsie Dear Annie: I nursed both of my children. I either covered the baby with my shirttail or used a light blanket to shield myself. I nursed in church, in front of the pastor during his sermon, and he had no clue.

I agree that the “naked from the waist up” trend is pushing the right to nurse in our faces, and is not really a benefit for the child. Breastfeeding is wonderful, but not everyone has to watch. — Illinois 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.

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Family seeks snow donations to help Frosty last until spring MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. — A suburban New York family is seeking snow donations to help its 14-foot snowman last until spring — and some cold weather would help, too.

Newsday reports that members of the Fregoe family of Massapequa Park wrapped their indomitable snowman tightly in plastic before heavy rain hit Monday.

Then 51-year-old Mike Fregoe climbed a ladder and planted a beach umbrella on its head.

Fregoe says the snowman survived the rain but is looking “a little thinner.”

The Fregoes crowdsourced their snowman last year by soliciting contributions of snow through Facebook. Fregoe says donated snow helped keep the snowman standing until April 20. The family plans to rely on snow donations this year as well.

Fregoe says so many people enjoy the snowman that “it makes it worthwhile.”

Hunters find casket in wildlife refuge

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A 6-month-old female giant panda cub, an offspring of Xing Xing, formerly known as Fu Wa and Liang Liang, formerly known as Feng Yi, plays with a soft-toy panda at the Giant Panda Conservation Center at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016. Two giant pandas have been on loan to Malaysia from China for 10 years since May 21, 2014, to mark the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two nations.

HOROSCOPES Tuesday February 23, 2016 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Peter Fonda, 75; Dakota Fanning, 21; Emily Blunt, 32 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Strive to differentiate between fact and fantasy.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You are a fabulous problem-solver. July and August are the best months to join an online dating site, fall in love, propose, get married or renew your wedding vows.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Moderation and compromise are what’s needed. Being bossy will only lead to a fraction too much friction. If you patiently listen to the views of others, you’ll have a good day.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): With Mercury and Venus visiting your career zone, itís time to communicate closely with work colleagues, as you find creative new ways to get your professional message out loud and clear.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Today’s stars encourage you to spend quality time with family and friends.

It’s easy to keep in touch in a variety of ways.

But be careful you don’t misinterpret what a loved one tells you.

C A N C E R (June 21-July 22): The more organised you are, the easier JOANNE MADELINE the day will be.

MOORE You’re keen to communicate SUN SIGNS via social media as you email, post, text or

NATCHEZ, Miss. — Hunters in Mississippi found an intact casket in a wildlife refuge, and authorities returned it to its grave.

Adams County Coroner James Lee tells The Natchez Democrat that the casket apparently floated out of a family cemetery on the refuge during floods in January.

He says he was called Saturday to deal with the casket, found in the open at the St. Catherine Creek National Wildlife Refuge. He says it held the remains of someone who had been buried within the last six months.

Lee says he and the sheriff’s office identified the body, located the cemetery, notified the family, and returned the casket.

He says the main thing is that they were able to return it to the cemetery in a “in a dignified manner.”

tweet. But are you sending out an ambiguous message?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Avoid the temptation to blow the budget with some binge shopping. Jupiter inflates your extravagant streak, while Neptune confuses your understanding of your current financial situation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Moon’s in your sign which will help you shift into practical and productive mode. But, if you don’t pay close attention, then you may misinterpret a loved ones’ motives.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you accept things at face value then you could find later that you were way off the mark. If you are more astute, and do the research required, it will save you heaps of time in the long-run.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When it comes to a child, teenager or close friend, all is not as it appears so factor that into your approach. Single Scorpios look for love with someone who is charming and motivated.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

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Communication and collaboration are the buzz words. The more you discuss ideas with others, the more your world will expand. Find creative ways to contribute to your local community.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’re in the mood to accomplish tasks with precision, plus plenty of thought and preparation. But a neighbour or family member may unsettle you by making a confusing move.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): With Mercury and Venus moving through your sign, it’s time to be smart and stylish as you utilise your brain power and natural charm. With both assets working, the world’s your oyster!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Resist the urge to wear rose-coloured glasses today Pisces. If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. Pay close attention to your dreams. Are they trying to tell you something?

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Breakout star ‘ROOM’ DIRECTOR PUSHES FOR HONORARY OSCAR FOR YOUNG STAR JACOB TREMBLAY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — If you ask Room director Lenny Abrahamson, Jacob Tremblay gave one of the best performances of the year as a five-year-old who gradually learns he’s spent his entire life in captivity.

The Vancouver-bred breakout is in nearly every scene of the Oscar-nominated Canada-Ireland co-production, and the nine-year-old has become a sought-after interview on various red carpets and will be a presenter at next week’s Academy Awards.

Tremblay’s co-star Brie Larson is considered a best actress front-runner for her turn as Jack’s fiercely devoted mother, who was abducted as a teen and gave birth while locked in a garden shed.

Abrahamson says the Academy Awards should revive its bygone “juvenile award” for Tremblay, who was submitted for consideration in the best supporting actor category but failed to get a nod.

“He deserves massive credit and I do wish there was a category in which he could be recognized,” Abrahamson said, noting that it can be difficult to measure a youngster’s performance against that of an adult.

“If you have a young actor category then you can judge people against their peers in a different way.”

There would seem to be no shortage of youngsters who could compete in such a category.

In addition to Tremblay, praise has poured in for teenager Abraham Attah as a child soldier in Beasts of No Nation and Milo Parker in Mr. Holmes, while other Canadian standouts include Nick Serino in Sleeping Giant and Jack Fulton in Closet Monster.

This year seems to have produced an exceptional number of remarkable performances from youngsters, says film producer Martin Katz, also chairman of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, which runs the Canadian Screen Awards.

He boasted of the academy’s decision to hand Tremblay a best actor nomination for a Canadian Screen Award next month, a race that will pit the youngster against seasoned stage and screen veteran Christopher Plummer.

“There’s only two people in the movie, effectively, who are clearly

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Brie Larson, left, and Jacob Tremblay appear in a scene from the ‘Room.’ leads — Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay,” he says.

“For Jacob Tremblay to have been in a category of best supporting actor just because he’s younger than everyone else, I think, would not have been an appropriate way to treat his performance. Which was outstanding.”

If he wins, Tremblay would be the third child actor in five years to win an acting prize at Canada’s version of the Oscars.

Sophie Nelisse won best supporting actress in 2012 at age 11 for her turn in Monsieur Lazhar, while 16-year-old Rachel Mwanza won a best actress trophy the following year for War Witch.

Of course, the Oscars have seen their fair share of kid contenders over the years.

At age nine, Quvenzhane Wallis competed for best actress in 2013 for Beasts of the Southern Wild, Abigail Breslin sought the best supporting actress title in 2007 for Little Miss Sunshine at age 10, and Saoirse Ronan, a best actress nominee this year for Brooklyn, chased the best supporting actress crown in 2008 for Atonement at age 13.

Before them, best supporting actress winners included 10-year-old Tatum O’Neal for Paper Moon in 1974, 11-year-old Anna Paquin for The Piano in 1994, and 16-year-old Patty Duke for The Miracle Worker in 1963.

In the ’30s and ’40s, several child actors were given smaller-sized honorary Oscars, dubbed “Juvenile Awards.”

Since then, children and adults have

been nominated side-by-side in competitive categories.

But Abrahamson suggested it might not be fair to compare a youngster to an adult.

“It’s very hard for voters to know always how much is the child and how much was sort of engineered in by the filmmakers,” he says from Los Angeles, noting he had to employ a few tricks to elicit what he needed for his Oscar-nominated work as director.

“It’s a different way of working sometimes with children, especially on a film like Room where the material was challenging and where it wouldn’t be appropriate for Jake to always know what’s really going on in the scene.”

The Oscars take place Feb. 28.

The shame of Harper Lee’s muddled legacy COMMENT

The sadness of Harper Lee’s death on Friday in Monroeville, Alabama, is deepened by the painful controversies that attended the last few years of her life. Long adored as the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee found herself caught in a morass of claims and counterclaims about her competency to manage her own literary legacy.

To Kill a Mockingbird is still devoured by countless new and repeat readers around the world. Teenagers study the Depression-era story of Scout and Jem every year. Lawyers routinely say that Scout’s father, Atticus Finch, inspired them to study law. But ironically, lawyers and legal ambiguities eventually threatened to overshadow Lee’s life and work. What a shame.

There was, for decades, something ineffably pure about Lee’s singular American classic, published in 1960. The author’s reluctance to give interviews, her resistance to all the self-promotional schemes of modern publishing, and especially her refusal to write another novel contributed to the mythos of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Unfettered by any distractions except

Horton Foote’s glorious movie version, the story of Scout’s moral awakening and her father’s brave fight against bigotry remained preserved in the Mason jar of our collective consciousness.

But then came that remarkable news early last year that Lee would publish another novel. Go Set a Watchman was to be a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, but it was apparently written before that Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. It was a separate book or it was an early draft — or it was a publishing sham foisted on a public eager for anything from its most beloved living author.

Our elation curdled into confusion, then suspicion. For one thing, the timing was suspect: Lee’s sister and longtime adviser, Alice, had recently died. And the money was huge: To Kill a Mockingbird was still bringing in $3 million a year. And finally, Lee, blind and deaf and suffering the effects of a stroke, was living in a nursing home.

Reporters were forced to rely on the cheery assurances of her active involvement from her publisher and her new lawyer.

This was no way to treat an author.

This was no way to conduct literary

research. This was a tawdry Southern gothic playing out in the news between competing news releases and accusations of exploitation.

When Go Set a Watchman finally appeared in print last summer, it quickly shattered sales records. But it also shattered something more precious: our admiration for Atticus Finch. In this old/new story, set two decades after the trial of Tom Robinson, Atticus has devolved into a racist. Jean Louise (“Scout”) is shocked and disillusioned.

And so are we.

Maybe we should just grow up; after all, as close readers noticed, Atticus was never really as noble and uncomplicated as we imagined. But that’s not the point. It wasn’t Atticus’s reputation that was sullied by this second book, it was Lee’s.

“Go, set a watchman,” the prophet Isaiah writes. “Let him declare what he seeth.” And what we saw — the millions of us who bought this new book — was an inferior piece of work, an early draft of something we love, fascinating perhaps for its embryonic detail, but not a finished novel to place alongside To Kill a Mockingbird.

The tragic story of Harper Lee — and it is a tragedy — raises the question of who owns our literary heritage.

Not in a legal sense, perhaps, but in a

larger, cultural sense. Are there works of literature so beloved, so foundational to who we are, that they deserve to be classified as National Historic Landmarks, forever protected from garish rehab or wholesale demolition?

Yes, the record here is mixed. It’s hard to imagine an obsessive stylist like the late David Foster Wallace letting someone else touch his last novel, but in 2011, when his friend Michael Pietsch edited and published The Pale King, it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

On the other hand, how many times must we suffer such abominations as Seussical?

Authors, their heirs, their guardians and their agents can do what they will with notes and drafts and hard drives, but there’s a reason some writers place their papers with reputable libraries instead of with savvy lawyers. Scholars, working in public, are equipped to preserve and evaluate an artist’s work. If Lee’s manuscript for Go Set a Watchman had been published in a scholarly edition along with the rest of her papers, it would have expanded our sense of Lee as an artist, instead of muddying our sense of To Kill a Mockingbird as a novel. But, of course, it would have sold far, far fewer copies.

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TUESDAY, FEB. 23, 2016

Carey leads Alberta to two more wins ONLY UNDEFEATED TEAM LEFT AT SCOTTIES TOURNAMENT OF HEARTS

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Five Central Albertans were inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame on Monday. Blake Butterfield (representing his father Tom), Vernon Butterfield who is known as Bud, Brian Butterfield, Marilyn Chidlow, and Keith Hansen (representing 1999-2007 Red Deer College Kings volleyball team).

Alberta Sports Hall inducts class of 2016 BUTTERFIELD BROTHERS, MARILYN CHIDLOW AND THE 1999-2007 RDC KINGS VOLLEYBALL TEAM SOME OF 15 TO BE INDUCTED MONDAY

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Four Central Albertans and a local college volleyball team became Alberta sports legends on Monday.

They were among 14 individuals and one team who were inducted into Alberta Sports Hall of Fame for 2016.

Local inductees included three brothers from Ponoka — Tom, Vernon (Bud) and Brian Butterfield — who received the Rodeo Pioneer Award; figure skating volunteer and former Skate Canada president Marilyn Chidlow, of Ponoka; and the 1999-2007 Red Deer College Kings Volleyball Team.

Other inductees from across Alberta included curler Cheryl Bernard; hockey player Shirley Cameron; curling builder Warren Hansen; fencer Sherraine Schalm; soccer builder Karl Weidle; Achievement Award winners Joe, John and Tom Forzani and Basil Bark; and Bell Memorial Award winner Graham Kelly.

Red Deer College Kings Volleyball Team earned Sports Hall of Fame status by making Canadian College Athletic Association history in 2007 by winning eight consecutive CCAA National Championships.

Keith Hansen, director of athletics at RDC who represented Kings Volleyball Teams at the local inductee ceremony, said it was important to concentrate on each season during the string of wins.

“I think we did a good job through the years of really focusing on what was important right at that time. It’s incredible to look back at that legacy and win streak, but in all honesty, it was very much one day at a time,” said Hansen at Monday’s ceremony held at Alberta Sports Hall of Fame & Museum.

He credited veteran players with passing on the Kings’ legacy of hard work and standards to new players through the years.

“There’s nothing as positive and there’s nothing as powerful as players holding each other accountable. I think the veterans did an incredible job of taking the young ones when they showed up at our program — this is what it is to be a King, this is what we do, this is how we handle ourselves, this is what

it’s about.”

He said many players continued to excel when they left RDC. “I think we had more players go onto the national team than almost any university in Canada. At one time we had six players on the national team.

There’s only 12 there, and six of them had come through our program.”

Chidlow volunteered for over 30 years with skating groups that included Ponoka Skating Club, Skate Canada Board of Directors, and she was vice-president and president of Skate Canada.

Chidlow said she was thrilled and humbled by the recognition, and very proud of how Central Alberta skating clubs have grown and become strong forces in their communities.

She said you never know where future skating champions will come from.

“You think back to our days when we nurtured and trained the Caroline kid Kurt Browning from our area. You never know where that next little champion is going to come from. It’s important that we have that strong grassroots programming,” Chidlow said.

Blake Butterfield, who attended the ceremony to represent his father Tom who died in 2009, said his father dedicated a lot of his life to building the sport of rodeo.

“He’d be real proud of this. He wasn’t out for it for personal gain. This would be a real honour for him. I wish he was here, but maybe he’s watching us,” Butterfield said.

The Butterfield brothers excelled in steer wrestling, including earning top honours at the Calgary Stampede. Brian Butterfield also had a successful career in bareback riding. As Canadian rodeo legends, they devoted their time to the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association, Canadian Cowboy Protective Association, and the Ponoka Stampede Rodeo Committee.

“My two uncles, Brian and Bud, their accomplishments in the arena more than speak for themselves,” Butterfield said. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

GRANDE PRAIRIE — Krista McCarville’s year away from curling rekindled her competitive fire.

She returns to the Canadian women’s curling championship wearing colours nearer to her heart.

More Scotties McCarville took the 201415 season off to recharge her coverage.......B2 curling batteries.

She had represented Ontario at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts four times and came within two wins of the national title in 2010. McCarville also fell two wins short at the 2009 Olympic trials of representing Canada in the 2010 Winter Games.

“I felt like I was getting a little bit tired,” McCarville said Monday at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts. “I’m a full-time teacher and mother of two, so that’s part of it.

“I felt like maybe the fire was gone. Watching the provincials last year in my hometown, I just felt like I missed being out there. I knew I needed to come back and I’m glad because I feel like the fire is inside now.”

Her Thunder Bay foursome won just the second Northern Ontario women’s championship to determine a Tournament of Hearts representative.

Curling Canada added a Northern Ontario entry to the Scotties last year in order to have the women’s championship mirror the men’s. Northern Ontario and Ontario have been two separate entries at the Brier since the first in 1927.

Donning her region’s colours for the first time since her Canadian junior championship days is emotional for the 33-year-old McCarville.

“I love it,” McCarville gushed. “I’m so excited being Northern Ontario just because Thunder Bay is in northern Ontario. In the Scotties, we’re two provinces. I’m glad to wear green and yellow again.”

McCarville, third Kendra Lilly, second Ashley Sippala and lead Sarah Potts dropped their first game Monday in a battle of the unbeatens.

Alberta’s Chelsea Carey edged Northern Ontario 9-8 in the afternoon and then beat Prince Edward Island’s Suzanne Birt 5-4 to remain the only undefeated team at 5-0.

“It’s a good thing to have to scratch and claw and make some big shots and have the other team outplay you and have to come back from that,” Carey said. “You need to be game-tough to survive a week like this. Probably not going undefeated. Eventually you probably lose a game and you know that. You prepare for it. It’s not a big deal when it happens, but nice for it to not happen yet.”

Northern Ontario fell to 3-1, but has forged a reputation for tenacity among the 12 teams in Grande Prairie. The Fort William Curling Club team trailed Alberta by four points after the fourth and eighth ends, but forced Carey to throw her final stone in the 10th to avoid an extra end.

The previous day, Northern Ontario stole two points in the 10th and another deuce in an extra end to get by Nova Scotia. McCarville also made a pressure draw to the four-foot rings to score two for a victory against defending champion Jennifer Jones.

“We have to take advantage of being out here,” the skip said. “I’m sure there’s millions of teams that would love to be out here. We can’t get down on ourselves. We’re still playing pretty good.”

Saskatchewan’s Jolene Campbell and Nova Scotia’s Jill Brothers both won Monday to get to 3-2. Jones also won to pull even with Quebec’s Marie-France Larouche, Manitoba’s Kerri Einarson and P.E.I. at 2-2.

Ontario’s Jenn Hanna, New Brunswick’s Sylvie Robichaud and B.C.’s Karla Thompson were all 1-3 and Stacie Curtis of Newfoundland and Labrador was 1-4.

The top four teams at the conclusion of the preliminary round Friday advance to the Page playoff.

Ties for fourth are solved by tiebreaker games.

The winner of Sunday’s final represents Canada at the women’s world curling championship March 19-27 in Swift Current, Sask., and wears the Maple Leaf at next year’s Tournament of Hearts in St. Catharines, Ont.

Lowry’s triple-double helps Raptors rout Knicks

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Raptors 122 Knicks 95 NEW YORK — Kyle Lowry got his triple-double and DeMar DeRozan set a Raptors record.

Toronto’s All-Stars were so clearly the best guards on the floor that the New York Knicks could only settle for having the most popular one.

Lowry had 22 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists for his first triple-double of the season, DeRozan also scored 22 while becoming the winningest player in Raptors history, and Toronto beat New York 122-95 on Monday night.

Lowry said Toronto’s win and DeRozan’s achievement were more important, but thanked his teammates for letting him know late in the game that he needed one more rebound for a triple-double — helping him get it.

“It’s crazy how much these guys really support me and I support them and we just support each other. So I mean, it makes our jobs a lot easier when you have that friendship and that camaraderie,” Lowry said.

Jonas Valanciunas added 20 points for the Raptors, who won so easily that Knicks interim coach Kurt Rambis changed his mind in the final minutes of the blowout and inserted Jimmer Fredette.

Just signed to a 10-day contract, the

former college player of the year made a 3-pointer on his lone shot attempt — about the only thing Knicks fans had to cheer during the team’s 12th loss in 14 games.

DeRozan passed Chris Bosh and Morris Peterson with his 233rd win in six years wearing a Raptors uniform.

“It sounds good saying it, honestly,” DeRozan said. “I mean, it’s an honour for me, man. I’ve been here, it felt like since the beginning, and just to have that, that’s big.”

DeRozan and Lowry outclassed the Knicks’ backcourt of Jose Calderon and Arron Afflalo, which combined for 3-of-13 shooting.

Carmelo Anthony had 23 points and 11 rebounds for the Knicks on the fifth anniversary of his trade to New York.

Robin Lopez added 21 points and 13 boards.

Toronto outscored New York 60-40 across the middle two quarters and put seven players in double figures.

“When you’re not on the same page out there on the court it’s hard to communicate with one another,” Anthony said. “And for most of the game we weren’t communicating with each other.”

New York trailed by just one before the Raptors closed the first half with a 15-2 run to take a 57-43 lead. The Knicks cut that lead to seven early in the third before Toronto broke it open

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New York Knicks defenders surround Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan during the first half of their NBA game at Madison Square Garden in New York, Monday. The Raptors won the game 122-95. again, building a 20-point bulge later in the period.

“We can’t stop the ball, and a big part of our communication disappeared in this ballgame,” Rambis said.

>>>>

The only intrigue from there was whether Fredette would play. Rambis had said he had no plans to use the former BYU guard ut Fredette came in with 1:49 to go and nailed his 3-pointer.

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Bautista not taking hometown discount HAS TOLD BLUE JAYS WHAT HE IS LOOKING FOR IN NEW CONTRACT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUNEDIN, Fla. — Jose Bautista sees no reason for a lot of back and forth about his contract.

The Toronto slugger said Monday he has let the Blue Jays know what it would take to keep him, and is waiting for an answer. Bautista is entering the final year of his deal. The 35-year-old outfielder is coming off a 40-homer season in which he helped Toronto to an AL East title and its first post-season appearance since 1993.

“I don’t think there should be any negotiations. I think I’ve proved myself, and the question has been asked — what will it take — and I’ve given them an answer,” Bautista said. “I’m not going to sit here and try to bargain for a couple dollars.”

Wearing a shirt that said “HOME IS TORONTO,” Bautista spoke to reporters for about 15 minutes Monday, after the Blue Jays held their first official workout for pitchers and catchers. It was fitting that Bautista’s comments made the biggest news of the day. Toronto is still a team built around its offence after Bautista, Josh Donaldson, Edwin Encarnacion and Troy Tulowitzki powered the Blue Jays to the AL Championship Series last year.

Bautista and Encarnacion are in the final year of their contracts. Bautista said he let the team know a cou-

ple weeks ago what kind of deal he wanted, and that his agent has been involved in the process.

“I’m not trying to sound like it was adamant and I put down the law and I drew lines in the sand,” Bautista said. “They asked me a question and I gave them an answer.”

Toronto general manag-

er Ross Atkins is expected to talk to reporters later this week.

Atkins was hired to work with Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro after GM Alex Anthopoulos left the team this off-season.

Bautista said he has “nothing but praise” for what Shapiro and Atkins have done so far, even while his own future remains uncertain.

“I think they know and realize the things that I say and agree with me.

It’s just a matter of, are they willing to go there?” Bautista said. “And it’s not just necessarily Ross and Mark. I can’t

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Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Jose Bautista stretches his arms as he walks up the field in the first official workout of spring training in Dunedin, Fla., on Monday.

say that, I don’t know.

Some of that decision making, of a contract the size that I presented, has to come from ownership.”

The Blue Jays are owned by Rogers Communications.

“In a publicly traded company, everybody can track their performance fairly easy. It’s not a secret. It’s out in the public,” Bautista said. “Stock prices are monitored very closely by the whole financial world, and I think there is a direct correlation with the success of their earningsper-share after we start experiencing success. Are they going to put it out in the media and say because of the Jays,

we made all this money? No. But everybody can read between the lines.”

Bautista made $64 million over the past five years, and the Blue Jays exercised his $14 million option for 2016.

He says he feels he’s outperformed that contract, and he dismissed the idea of a so-called hometown discount.

“That doesn’t exist. Not in my world,” Bautista said. “In my eyes, I’ve given this organization a five-year hometown discount already.”

Bautista signed his long-term deal in 2011, when he was coming off a 54-homer season that more than tripled his career high in that category.

He has averaged 35 home runs a year since then.

Encarnacion’s agent has said his client would cease negotiations once the regular season begins. Bautista didn’t say anything like that, but he certainly seemed intent on leaving the issue firmly on management.

“I didn’t want to waste their time or their effort, so they can start planning ahead, and if it’s not going to happen, they have plenty of time to do so,” Bautista said.

“They asked me about two weeks ago, and I told them, and that’s it.

There’s no negotiation. I told them what I wanted. They either meet it, or it is what it is.”

Directional sweeping used with success at Scotties HURRY HARD, BUT JUST ONE AT A TIME IN CURLING’S NEW STYLE OF SWEEPING

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS GRANDE PRAIRIE — The Frankenbrooms have been banned from curling but the new sweeping technique they spawned has not.

It’s common at the Canadian women’s curling championship to hear a skip call one sweeper at a time on to a thrown stone while her counterpart slides alongside awaiting her turn.

The traditional tandem hasn’t disappeared as plenty of light draws have required both women to furiously scrub together in front of a rock to drag it into the house.

There hasn’t been enough time to test just how effective a single sweeper is with a “legal” broom using the new technique. That hasn’t stopped teams from employing “directional sweeping” at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

“It works,” Alberta third Amy Nixon stated. “There’s no question there’s results with directional sweeping.

“The question is the extent of it.”

The briefest explanation is one sweeper enhances the rock’s curl using a downward stroke with the broom, as the rock curls away from her. The other sweeper using the same downward stroke pushes opposite to the direction the rock is curling to keep it straight.

“It’s a mild sandpaper effect that creates little scratches in the surface of the ice,” Nixon explained. “Directional sweeping can work both to keep a rock straighter and to encourage a rock to curl a little bit more.”

That technique with banned brooms altered stones’ movements so dramatically the world’s top teams refused to use those brooms even before they were outlawed by the World Curling Federation. The athletes feared their game of strategy and precision was becoming a sweeping contest.

A moratorium was declared on broomheads with “artificially-textured” fabric and hard inserts. Curling Canada subsequently limited the use of hair brush heads at this year’s Scotties and Tim Hortons Brier because of the belief they score the ice with the same intensity as the banned brooms.

Directional sweeping’s influence on a rock is definitely less with “legal” brooms, but still enough that curlers are continuing to use it.

“You think it makes the difference so you kind of have to go with your gut sometimes,” said Jill Officer, who plays second for defending Canadian champion Jennifer Jones. “I can think of some shots for sure in the last couple of months that we’ve made because I think we’ve had the one sweeper versus the two.”

Even though the theory now is two sweepers together counteract each other’s efforts in terms of the stone’s path, a double-team effort is still needed to keep a rock moving if it is thrown too light.

“You’d still use two sweepers if you need it for distance or speed, but you have to factor in the line on the specific shot too,” Officer said. “If you’re talking about an open draw to the eight foot, then yeah, two sweepers is still the best.”

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Alberta skip Chelsea Carey, centre, makes a shot as lead Laine Peters and second Jocelyn Peterman sweep during the sixth draw against Northern Ontario at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, in Grande Prairie, on Monday.

The WCF and by extension Curling Canada are expected to come up with more definitive rules about sweeping equipment this summer in the wake of the rapid change in broom technology.

But unless the governing bodies decide directional sweeping is not in the “spirit of the game”, it is a significant

change in the look of the sport.

“I think sweeping changes will stay.

What those are I’m not sure yet,” Jones said. “It will depend on what is decided with some of the equipment.

“In my view, we have to take measures on equipment versus sweeping style or sweeping mechanics.”

More changes coming to Canadian men’s and women’s curling championship GRANDE PRAIRIE — The unpopular qualifying tournament to get into the main draw of the Canadian men’s and women’s curling championships will be no more after next year. Changes are coming in 2018.

But that’s of little comfort to Kerry Galusha, a Scotties Tournament of Hearts veteran. Her Northwest Territories rink fell one win short of getting into the 12-team main event for a second straight year.

B.C. and N.W.T. met in the final of the four-team qualifying tournament with Karla Thompson’s foursome earning the right to continue playing in the Scotties. Galusha was tearful when her squad’s tournament ended Saturday while others were playing their first games.

“We actually felt we were the team to beat to get through,” Galusha said.

In order to have a true national championship, Curling Canada expanded the fields of the Scotties and Tim Hortons Brier in 2015 to allow all 10 provinces and the three territories to participate. Yukon and Northwest Territories were previously represented by one team.

SNOWBOARDING

Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris breaks femur in big air competition LOS ANGELES — Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris suffered a broken femur at a competition in California over the weekend.

The Olympic bronze medallist from Regina was expected to undergo surgery Monday afternoon.

The injury occurred Sunday night

The addition of Northern Ontario to the women’s championship and a defending champion to the men’s competition so each event mirrors the other, made for an unwieldy 15 teams in each. To manage the larger field, a four-team qualifying tournament of the lowest-seeded regions starting two days before the opening draw was introduced to a tepid reception.

Provinces and territories that had played in the Scotties and Brier for years were out on Day 1. Teams flew home two days after the opening ceremonies. The provincial and territorial curling associations sent Curling Canada back to the drawing board to come up with a format for 2018 that allows full participation for all teams.

“The members don’t like the fact their provincial and territorial teams play maybe three games and they’re out,” explained Danny Lamoureux, Curling Canada’s director of championship services. “They want to compete fuller in the event.

“We can’t sacrifice the concept we have now, making sure it starts on a Saturday and ends on a Sunday.”

Getting all 15 teams through a seven-day round robin is a logistical puzzle. An even 16 teams is more workable and one solution might be adding at the Air + Style competition in Los Angeles.

McMorris is expected to make a full recovery, according to a release from sponsor Red Bull Canada.

“I want to thank my family, friends, fans and sponsors for all of the love and support,” he said in the statement.

“I’m disappointed to have to sit out for some time, but I am looking forward to getting back on snow as soon as possible.”

McMorris won gold in slopestyle and finished second in big air at the Winter X Games last month.

He won slopestyle bronze at the 2014 Sochi Olympics despite competing with a broken rib.

the Canada Cup winner to the field, Lamoureux said.

The national junior championships provide a possible template for the Scotties and the Brier. The field could be divided into two pools. The top four in each advance to a championship round and the four playoff teams emerge from it. Squads that don’t qualify for the championship round play off for seeding positions.

Whatever option Curling Canada presents this spring, the provinces and territories have to approve it for adoption.

Katherine Henderson takes over as Curling Canada’s new chief executive

officer April 1 following the departure of Greg Stremlaw for CBC. She was most recently senior vice-president of marketing and revenue for the 2015 Pan American/Parapan Am Games in Toronto. Henderson is aware continued tinkering with the organization’s marquee curling events ruffles traditionalists’ feathers.

“These aren’t jobs for the faint of heart because everybody has an opinion on a lot of things,” Henderson said.

“I don’t know any major events that don’t undergo major change. Every time you do an event, you look at how that event has gone and you try to make it better every single time.”

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Leafs get early jump on trade deadline CONTINUE TO STOCK DRAFT PICKS AFTER SHIPPING POLAK AND SPALING TO SAN JOSE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Maple Leafs general manager Lou Lamoriello isn’t waiting until the final hours before the trade deadline to make moves.

Lamoriello continued to get ahead of the trade market Monday, completing his second transaction is as many days, a week before the Feb. 29 deadline.

The Leafs sent defenceman Roman Polak and centre Nick Spaling to San Jose for second-round picks in 2017 and 2018 as well as forward Raffi Torres. Toronto landed a fourth-round pick and prospect Colin Smith when it dealt forward Shawn Matthias to Colorado on Sunday and also sent captain Dion Phaneuf to Ottawa in a nine-player swap earlier this month.

“I always felt that if you could do it a little earlier (it’s) better,” Lamoriello said on a conference call shortly after the trade was announced.

The two most recent transactions add more draft picks to a growing haul for the Leafs. Toronto could have as many as 12 selections in the 2016 draft with nine in the bank for 2017 (including three second-round picks potentially) and eight for 2018.

The Leafs want to give Mark Hunter, the team’s director of player personnel and draft leader, plenty of opportunities to land prospects for the future.

“I think the picks are the most important thing that we’ve got in these transactions,” Lamoriello said, noting the ability to move picks for players down the line.

Two second-round picks is a rich return for Toronto given that Polak and Spaling will likely fill depth roles for the Sharks, who missed the post-season last year and currently sit third in

the Pacific Division.

“We wanted to give this group the ability to compete and they deserve it.

They have really worked hard,” general manager Doug Wilson said. “We’ve put ourselves in a really good position and you make the determination on this team now with these added ingredients. It feels like they can compete.

That’s important in the room.”

Polak was acquired by the Leafs in a swap for Carl Gunnarsson in the summer of 2014, becoming a valued veteran leader for the group this season. He became a favourite of Leafs head coach Mike Babcock for his competitive nature.

“There’s no question what his characteristics are: he’s a man,” said Lamoriello. “He’s somebody you’d go in a foxhole with at any given time. He knows what we think of him.”

He had one goal and 12 assists in 55 games with Toronto this season.

“Roman is a big physical, right-shot d-man which is important,” Wilson said. “Blocks shots, certainly a great PK player. We’ve seen a lot of him over the years. A quality, quality guy, great teammate and the physical presence will be a great addition.”

Spaling was added in the Phil Kessel transaction last summer but was bothered by injuries this season. He snapped a 60-game goal drought in Toronto’s overtime loss to Philadelphia on Saturday.

The Leafs are likely to remain active on the trade front with a number of expiring contracts — P.A. Parenteau, Michael Grabner and Brad Boyes among them — still to move.

Toronto opted not to add a veteran to their AHL affiliate, the league-leading Toronto Marlies, and instead re-assigned Torres to the San Jose Barracuda.

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Toronto Maple Leafs’ defenceman Roman Polak reacts as his team trails the New York Islanders during NHL action in Toronto on December 29, 2015. The Toronto Maple Leafs continue to purge their roster ahead of the Feb. 29 trade deadline.

A day after sending forward Shawn Matthias to Colorado, the Leafs have dealt defenceman Roman Polak and centre Nick Spaling to the San Jose Sharks in exchange for second-round draft picks in 2017 and 2018 along with forward Raffi Torres.

Flames acquire forward Shinkaruk from Canucks for centre Granlund CALGARY — The Calgary Flames acquired forward Hunter Shinkaruk from the Vancouver Canucks for centre Markus Granlund on Monday.

Shinkaruk will be assigned to the AHL’s Stockton Heat.

Shinkaruk, a Calgary native, was

selected in the first round, No. 24 overall, by Vancouver in the 2013 NHL draft.

The 21-year-old had 21 goals and 18 assists in 45 games with the AHL’s Utica Comets and made his NHL debut with Vancouver on Nov. 16, 2015 against Montreal.

Granlund, 22, had four goals and three assists in 31 games with the Flames this season. He also registered five goals and four assists in 12 games with Stockton.

Players not surprised by brisk trade activity

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — P.A. Parenteau received a text message from his agent Monday morning with news of a trade.

Parenteau hadn’t been dealt — not yet anyway. Instead, the 32-year-old was receiving word on the Toronto Maple Leafs latest transaction, which sent defenceman Roman Polak (who shares the same agent as Parenteau) and forward Nick Spaling to San Jose for two draft picks and forward Raffi Torres.

Parenteau knows the next message from his agent could be regarding his own future.

“I think we’re all aware that if we weren’t going to be in the playoff run things like that were a possibility, even a guarantee,” said Parenteau, a pending unrestricted free agent who is tied for second on the Leafs with 15 goals.

“For me, it doesn’t change anything.

“I go about my business like I did all year and try not to think about it either.”

Parenteau and his teammates are well aware of what Toronto is doing

“I THINK WE’RE ALL AWARE THAT IF WE WEREN’T GOING TO BE IN THE PLAYOFF RUN THINGS LIKE THAT WERE A POSSIBILITY, EVEN A GUARANTEE. FOR ME, IT DOESN’T CHANGE ANYTHING. I GO ABOUT MY BUSINESS LIKE I DID ALL YEAR AND TRY NOT TO THINK ABOUT IT EITHER.” — P.A. PARENTEAU, A PENDING UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENT WHO IS TIED FOR SECOND ON THE LEAFS WITH 15 GOALS. in purging its roster of current assets for those that might help in the future.

That hasn’t made the past few weeks, nor the week ahead of the Feb. 29 trade deadline, any easier.

“Obviously we know what the organization is trying to do,” said Michael Grabner, another Leaf likely to be dealt soon.

Grabner is trying as best as he can to ignore all the speculation but that’s not easy with the rise of social media.

It’s not even just his own accounts that he has to ignore but the whispering of friends and family who want to know what’s what right from the source.

Grabner says the rink offers the best possible refuge. Hop on the ice

for practice or a game and questions about the future melt away.

“It’s a little unnerving, but at the same time you can’t worry about things you can’t control,” said Mark Arcobello, who played for four NHL teams last year through one trade and two waiver claims.

“What fans may not realize is a lot of guys have families and they’ve got roots and places here where they kind of settled.”

That, Arcobello’s teammates agree, is what makes this time of year extra challenging, especially when playing for a rebuilding team like the Leafs in a hockey-mad Toronto market.

Anxious partners want answers to

questions about the future, something players just don’t have. Trades, too, can be difficult to explain to young kids.

“It’s just a thing that when they get older you can tell them what happened and why they lived in four different places in one year,” said Grabner, who was dealt to Toronto on the eve of training camp and is also due to be a free agent at season’s end. “My wife is definitely thinking about it.

“It’s a tough situation when you have to move your life everywhere.”

Grabner says it’s unlikely his two kids would join him if he were to change teams. If Grabner is moved somewhere close to Toronto, his son might be able to visit during March break.

Parenteau, married with two kids himself, says his family won’t be joining him if, and more likely, when he’s traded.

“It is kind of hard, but at the same time it’s a good thing,” Parenteau said of the prospect of trades. “If I wasn’t having a good season we wouldn’t be talking about (it).”

Senators head out on important western Canada road trip would want a player with term remaining and not just a rental.

Even if Ottawa fails to get the results it wants on the road trip, it’s still unlikely Murray would make major changes.

Veteran Chris Neil, an unrestricted free agent at season’s end, could be moved to a playoff contender and Murray might also consider dealing defenceman Patrick Wiercioch or forward Shane Prince as neither has fulfilled expectations.

NOTES — Phaneuf said playing for the final time at Rexall Place will be special. As a native of Edmonton, Phaneuf grew up watching the Oilers and has many fond memories both as a child and player … The Senators aren’t expected to make any lineup changes for Tuesday’s game … Clarke MacArthur will make the trip but isn’t expected to return to the lineup. He’s recovering from a concussion and hasn’t received medical clearance to resume playing.

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Ottawa (28-26-6) left Monday for a three-game western Canada road trip sitting six points behind Pittsburgh (30-20-8) for the eighth and final Eastern Conference playoff spot. The Penguins have two games in hand.

The Senators have won three straight and for the first time in weeks seem to be playing with confidence.

They open the road trip against Edmonton (22-32-6) on Tuesday before facing Vancouver (23-24-12) on Thursday, then wrap it up Saturday against Calgary (26-29-3).

“It’s a real big trip for our team,” said new defenceman Dion Phaneuf.

“We took care of things at home.

“I think we did a lot of good things on the way we played but we want to continue to improve, continue to grow our game. We’ve got to do that Tuesday in Edmonton.”

Ottawa’s longest win streak this season is four games registered in November. Since then the team has struggled to find any consistency, that is, until recently.

The biggest difference now seems to be the Senators’ willingness to keep things simple.

Just over a week ago the team opt-

ed for meetings over on-ice practices.

Head coach Dave Cameron says a lot was hashed out during that time and it seems to have resonated with the players.

“We’ve been stubborn this year,” he said. “We’ll get rolling along and then we’ll get stubborn and think we can be creative in a situation where the numbers dictate that we should get more ice behind.

“Then you end up chasing and the other team scores and your confidence ends up a bit wobbly and fragile. For the last 10 games, even though we lost three in a row, we felt we played real good hockey. We’re making headway and we’ve got no margin for error and we’ve got to keep it going.”

Players realize this week could impact how Murray looks at the Feb. 29 trade deadline.

“Anything that will make your team better you’re always hopeful that something happens,” said forward Bobby Ryan. “At the same time we have one of the closest groups I’ve been around so I don’t think there’s a whole lot of eagerness for change in the room.”

Murray already made a huge move acquiring Phaneuf from the Toronto Maple Leafs while relieving himself of Colin Greening’s contract and trading defenceman Jared Cowen, who hadn’t lived up to expectations.

Murray has expressed an interest in another top-six forward but the price would have to be right. Ideally Murray

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports Saturday

• High school senior basketball: Camrose at Lindsay Thurber; Notre Dame at Hunting Hills; Sylvan Lake at Ponoka, Wetaskiwin at Rocky; Innisfail at Lacombe; girls 6 p.m., followed by boys.

• Senior men;’s basketball: Btown Maple Jordans vs. Silver Spurs, 7:15 p.m., Sheraton Red Deer vs. John Mansville, 8:30 p.m., LTCHS. • AJHL: Olds Grizzlys vs. Drayton Valley Thunder, 7 p.m., Olds Sportsplex.

Wednesday • High school junior basketball: Stettler at Lindsay Thurber, Hunting Hills at Notre Dame, Ponoka at Rocky, Wetaskiwin at Sylvan Lake, Camrose at Lacombe; girls 6 p.m., followed by boys.

Thursday • College volleyball: ACAC women’s championship, RDC • High school senior basketball: Lindsay Thurber at Sylvan Lake, girls at 6 p.m., followed by boys.

• College hockey: RDC Queens vs. SAIT Trojans, first game, best-of-three ACAC semifinal, 7 p.m., Arena • Senior men’s basketball: Vikings vs. D Leaguers, 7:15 p.m.; Bulldog Scrap Metal vs. Subaru Kingsmen, 8:30 p.m.; LTCHS.

Friday • College volleyball: ACAC women’s championship, RDC • College hockey: RDC Queens at SAIT Trojans, second game, best-of-three ACAC semifinal, at SAIT • College hockey: RDC King vs.

Augustana Vikings, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex.

• WHL: Red Deer Rebels vs. Portland Winterhawks, 7 p.m., Centrium.

• Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer TBS vs.

Central Alberta Selects, 7:15 p.m., Kin City.

• College volleyball: ACAC women’s championship, RDC • Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer Parkland cvs, West Central Tigers, 12:30 p.m., Kin City.

• College hockey: RDC Queens vs. SAIT Trojans, third game, best-of-three ACAC semifinal, if necessary, 1:30 p.m., Arena.

• Bantam female hockey: Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs vs. Calgary Rangers, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

Basntam AA hockey: Red Deer Ramada vs. Bow Valley, 2:30 p.m., Kinex.

• Minor Midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Northstar Chiefs vs. Lethbridge Hurricanes, 4:45 p.m., Arena.

• College basketball: RDC vs. Briercrest, women 7 p.m., men to follow.

• WHL: Red Deer Rebels vs. Victoria Royals, 7 p.m., Centrium.

• AJHL: Olds Grizzlys vs. Calgary Mustangs, 7 p.;m., Olds Sportsplex.

• Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Indy v s. Central Alberta Selects,. 8:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

Sunday • Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer Parkland vs. Red Deer TBS, 11:30 a.m., Kin City.

• Minor midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Strata Energy Chiefs vs. Lethbridge Hurricanes, noon, Arena.

• College basketball: RDC vs. Briercrest, women 1 p.m. men to follow.

• Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Steel Kings v s. Foothills, 1:45 p.m., Kin City.

• Senior men’s basketball: Grandview Allstars vs. Chillibongs Orangemen, Monstars vs. Wells Furniture, Aiken Basin Drillers vs. Rusty Chuckers, 4:15 p.m.; Carstar vs. Washed Up Warriors, Lacombe All Sports Cresting vs. NWS Axemen, Triple A Batteries vs. Henry’s Eavestroughing, 5:30 p.m.; LTCHS. • Chinook hockey: Bentley Generals vs.

Innisfail Eagles, fifth game of best-ofseven CHL semifinal, 5 p.m., Lacombe Arena.

• Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Elks vs.

Bow Valley. 5:30 p.m., Arena.

Basketball

Southeast Division W L Pct 32 24 .571 31 27 .534 29 26 .527 25 29 .463 24 30 .444

GB — 2 2 1/2 6 7

Central Division W L Pct 40 15 .727 30 26 .536 29 26 .527 28 29 .491 24 33 .421

GB — 10 1/2 11 13 17

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 47 9 .839 — Memphis 32 23 .582 14 1/2 Dallas 30 27 .526 17 1/2 Houston 28 28 .500 19 New Orleans 22 33 .400 24 1/2 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 40 16 .714 Portland 29 27 .518 Utah 27 28 .491 Denver 22 34 .393 Minnesota 18 39 .316 Pacific Division W L Pct

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF x-Brandon 60 37 18 3 2 246 Prince Albert 60 32 20 7 1 186 Moose Jaw 61 31 22 7 1 214 Regina 58 28 23 3 4 192 Saskatoon 60 23 33 4 9 188 Swift Current 59 21 31 4 3 156

GA 175 186 195 200 253 202

Pt 79 72 70 63 50 49

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF 60 40 19 1 0 241 60 36 21 1 2 214 60 34 22 2 2 197 60 25 28 6 1 163 60 22 34 3 1 178 59 10 44 5 0 125

GA 173 172 184 189 246 260

Pt 81 75 72 57 48 25

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOLGF Victoria 62 40 16 3 3 226 Kelowna 60 41 16 3 0 216 Prince George 59 32 23 3 1 210 Kamloops 60 27 24 5 4 195 Vancouver 61 23 31 5 2 175

GA 145 177 185 197 219

Pt 86 85 68 63 53

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF 59 35 20 2 2 156 58 32 23 3 0 181 59 31 25 3 0 193 59 28 23 5 3 194 58 28 27 2 1 191

GA 132 165 180 199 203

Pt 74 67 65 64 59

x-Lethbridge Red Deer Calgary Edmonton Medicine Hat Kootenay

Everett Seattle Portland Spokane Tri-City

Sunday’s results Everett 4 Spokane 1 Medicine Hat 3 Calgary 2 (OT) Prince Albert 3 Brandon 2 Moose Jaw 5 Swift Current 1 Regina 3 Edmonton 1 Vancouver 4 Kamloops 3 (SO) Monday’s result Saskatoon 6 Brandon 5 (OT) Tuesday’s games Portland at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Regina at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Prince George at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Swift Current at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.

Portland at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Regina at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Prince George at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Kelowna at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

WHL Scoring Leaders G 49 33

20 34 35 34 35 30 30 24 29 18 37 34 32 32 36 34 32 19 34

70 48 44 45 43 46 44 49 43 52 32 35 34 33 28 30 32 45 29

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Florida 59 34 18 7 75 Tampa Bay 59 33 22 4 70 Boston 60 32 22 6 70 Detroit 60 29 20 11 69 Ottawa 60 28 26 6 62 Montreal 60 28 27 5 61 Buffalo 60 24 29 7 55 Toronto 57 20 27 10 50

90 82 79 79 78 76 74 73 72 70 69 69 66 65 64 64 64 64 63

GF 164 163 185 151 172 163 144 140

GA 137 148 169 157 186 165 166 172

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Washington 58 44 10 4 92 N.Y. Rangers 59 34 19 6 74 N.Y. Islanders 57 31 19 7 69 Pittsburgh 58 30 20 8 68 New Jersey 60 29 24 7 65 Carolina 60 27 23 10 64 Philadelphia 58 26 21 11 63 Columbus 60 24 29 7 55

GF 194 171 164 154 133 148 144 155

GA 133 150 144 151 141 160 158 188

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Chicago 62 38 19 5 81 Dallas 60 37 17 6 80 St. Louis 62 35 18 9 79 Nashville 60 28 21 11 67 Colorado 62 31 27 4 66 Minnesota 59 27 22 10 64 Winnipeg 58 25 29 4 54

GF 176 194 156 156 165 156 149

GA 148 169 150 155 173 148 171

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 58 34 20 4 72 157 137 Anaheim 58 31 19 8 70 146 141 San Jose 58 32 21 5 69 174 157 Arizona 59 27 26 6 60 163 183 Vancouver 59 23 24 12 58 142 168 Calgary 58 26 29 3 55 160 180 Edmonton 60 22 32 6 50 150 184 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Thursday’s games No Games Scheduled.

Dryden Hunt, MJ Adam Brooks, Reg

Brayden Burke, Let Tyson Baillie, Kel Nolan Patrick, Bdn Parker Bowles, TC Reid Gardiner, PA Jayce Hawryluk, Bdn Ivan Nikolishin, RD Alex Forsberg, Vic Brayden Point, MJ Mathew Barzal, Sea Jesse Gabrielle, PG Tyler Wong, Let Matthew Phillips, Vic Colin Shirley, Kam Jon Martin, SC Chase Witala, PG Collin Shirley, Kam Kailer Yamamoto, Spo Tyler Soy, Vic

A 50 64

Pts 99 97

Sunday’s Games Pittsburgh 4, Buffalo 3

GB — 11 12 1/2 18 22 1/2 GB

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

50 36 23 14 11

5 19 31 42 47

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Sunday’s Games Cleveland 115, Oklahoma City 92 New Orleans 111, Detroit 106 Boston 121, Denver 101 San Antonio 118, Phoenix 111 Toronto 98, Memphis 85 Charlotte 104, Brooklyn 96 Indiana 105, Orlando 102 Dallas 129, Philadelphia 103 Chicago 126, L.A. Lakers 115 Portland 115, Utah 111 Monday’s Games Detroit 96, Cleveland 88 Miami 101, Indiana 93, OT Toronto 122, New York 95 Minnesota 124, Boston 122 Milwaukee 108, L.A. Lakers 101 Golden State 102, Atlanta 92 Phoenix at L.A. Clippers, late Tuesday’s Games Orlando at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

New Orleans at Washington, 5 p.m.

Sacramento at Denver, 7 p.m.

Houston at Utah, 7 p.m.

Brooklyn at Portland, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Charlotte at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

New York at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Golden State at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Washington at Chicago, 6 p.m.

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

Oklahoma City at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Sacramento, 8:30 p.m.

Denver at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with INF Jimmy Rollins on a minor league contract.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Agreed to terms with 1B Chris Parmelee on a minor league contract.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Claimed LHP Sean Nolin off waivers by Milwaukee.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with OF Jeff Francoeur on a minor league contract.

CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with LHP Manny Parra on a minor league contract.

American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS — Signed OF Drew Muren.

Can-Am League SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Signed OF Sean Hurley. Released OF Stefan Gartrell.

Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Signed INF Rolando Gomez to a contract extension.

RIVER CITY RASCALS — Signed RHP Francis Ramirez and 1B Alec Saikal.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association DETROIT PISTONS — Announced the trade of C Joel Anthony and a protected 2016 first-round draft pick to Houston for F-C Donatas Motiejunas and G Marcus Thornton was rescinded because medical clearance was not given on all players.

DALLAS MAVERICKS — Signed F David Lee. Waived G John Jenkins.

DENVER NUGGETS — Agreed to terms with F JaKarr Sampson on a multiyear contract.

GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS — Waived F Jason Thompson. Agreed to terms with C Anderson Varejao for the remainder of the season.

MILWAUKEE BUCKS — Signed F Steve Novak.

Waived F Chris Copeland.

NEW YORK KNICKS — Signed G Jimmer Fredette to a 10-day contract.

PHOENIX SUNS — Waived F-C DeJuan Blair.

Women’s National Basketball Association

DALLAS WINGS — Re-signed F Glory Johnson to a multiyear contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Re-signed P Drew Butler.

DENVER BRONCOS — Signed TE Richard Gordon and DL Phil Taylor.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Waived LB Jonathan Newsome. Released LB Andy Studebaker.

NEW YORK JETS — Released CB Antonio Cromartie.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Agreed to terms with S Malcolm Jenkins on a five-year contract.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Waived TE Brian Leonhardt.

Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed DB Jonte Green and OL Lawrence Martin.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES — Called up F Cal O’Reilly Rochester (AHL).

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Reassigned C Vincent Hinostroza to Rockford (AHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Signed F Colton Sissons to a three-year contract.

SAN JOSE SHARKS — Acquired D Roman Polak and F Nick Spaling from Toronto for two second-round picks and F Raffi Torres.

American Hockey League SAN DIEGO GULLS — Reassigned G Ryan Faragher to Utah (ECHL).

ECHL MANCHESTER MONARCHS — Traded F Stefan Legein to Tulsa for future considerations.

SOCCER Federation Internationale de Football Association FIFA — Banned former executive committee member Worawi Makudi three months for failing to obey a previous ban.

COLLEGE KENTUCKY — Dismissed senior DE-LB Jason Hatcher following his arrest for marijuana possession and speeding in Franklin County.

RINGETTE Central Alberta Ringette teams won both their games during the weekend.

The U19 AA Sting defeated Zone 5 AA 8-7 on Saturday with Gillian Dreger scoring three times and Ashlynn Morrison twice.

Kristin DeMale, McKenna Causey and Shae-Lyn Baxter added single markers while Baylee Schulhauser and Grace Romansky shared goaltending duties.

Meanwhile the U14 AA Sting defeated the Zone 2 Big Country 8-4 in Penhold Sunday.

Carley Cherniak scored three times with Shaelynn Law and Tory Towers potting two each and Megan Grubb one. Madison Kohut and Gracie Setters shared goaltending duties.

The Central Alberta AA Ringette Club will be hosting the AA provincials Friday and Saturday in Lacombe.

The top teams from across the province will battle it out for Provincial supremacy and spots at the Canadian U16 and U19 Ringette Championships in London Ont. and the Western Canadian U14 Championships in Richmond, BC. Provincial play begins Friday at the Lacombe Arena.

On Saturday, six Alberta players from Team Canada that won gold at the World Championship in Helsinki Finland will be on hand to sign autographs and take picture with the Presidents Trophy.

Minnesota 6, Chicago 1 N.Y. Rangers 1, Detroit 0, OT Tampa Bay 4, Carolina 2 Anaheim 5, Calgary 2 Vancouver 5, Colorado 1 Monday’s Games Nashville 2, Montreal 1, SO Columbus 6, Boston 4 Washington 3, Arizona 2 San Jose 6, St. Louis 3 Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Rangers at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Nashville at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Columbus at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

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

N.Y. Islanders at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Ottawa at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Montreal at Washington, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

San Jose at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Buffalo at Anaheim, 8:30 p.m.

NHL scoring leaders following Sunday’s games: Patrick Kane, Chi Jamie Benn, Dal Tyler Seguin, Dal Erik Karlsson, Ott Evgeny Kuznetsov, Wash Artemi Panarin, Chi Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy Sidney Crosby. Pgh Joe Pavelski, SJ Nicklas Backstrom, Wash Blake Wheeler, Wpg Alex Ovechkin, Wash Daniel Sedin, Vcr Taylor Hall, Edm Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Anze Kopitar, LA Joe Thornton, SJ Patrice Bergeron, Bos Nikita Kucherov, TB Evgeni Malkin, Pgh 23 Brent Burns, SJ Ryan O’Reilly, Buf Claude Giroux, Pha Matt Duchene, Col John Klingberg, Dal John Tavares, NYI Alexander Steen, StL David Krejci, Bos Jakub Voracek, Pha Ryan Getzlaf, Ana Brad Marchand, Bos Steven Stamkos, TB Loui Eriksson, Bos Bobby Ryan, Ott Mats Zuccarello, NYR Henrik Sedin, Vcr P.K. Subban, Mtl

G 35 30 31 11 17 22 22 25 26 17 16 38 22 20 28 17 12 22 24 26 19 17 16 26 10 22 17 14 10 8 30 25 21 20 20 10 5

A 49 37 34 54 43 35 35 31 28 37 38 15 30 32 23 34 39 28 25 49 30 32 33 22 38 25 30 33 37 39 16 21 25 26 26 36 41

PTS 84 67 65 65 60 57 57 56 54 54 54 53 52 52 51 51 51 50 49 49 49 49 48 48 47 47 47 47 47 46 46 46 46 46 46 46

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National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 37 18 .673 — Boston 33 25 .569 5 1/2 New York 24 34 .414 14 1/2 Brooklyn 15 41 .268 22 1/2 Philadelphia 8 47 .145 29

Cleveland Indiana Chicago Detroit Milwaukee

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ROUND ROBIN Team (Skip) Alberta (Carey) Northern Ont. (McCarville) P.E.I. (Birt) Canada (Jones) Saskatchewan (Campbell) Nova Scotia (Brothers) Manitoba (Einarson) Quebec (Larouche) New Brunswick (Robichaud) B.C. (Thompson) Ontario (Hanna) Nfld. & Labrador (Curtis)

W 5 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 0

L 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 3 3

Monday’s results Sixth Draw Alberta 9 Northern Ontario 8 Newfoundland & Labrador 10 Quebec 6 Nova Scotia 7 B.C. 4 Saskatchewan 7 New Brunswick 3 Seventh Draw Alberta 5 P.E.I. 4 Canada 6 Newfoundland & Labrador 4 Saskatchewan 8 Manitoba 4 Nova Scotia 8 Ontario 7

Sunday’s results Third Draw Nova Scotia 9 Manitoba 3 Alberta 6 Newfoundland & Labrador 4 Ontario 6 Saskatchewan 5 Canada 9 P.E.I. 4 Fourth Draw Alberta 8 B.C. 5 Quebec 10 Saskatchewan 4 Northern Ontario 9 Nova Scotia 7 (extra end) New Brunswick 7 Newfoundland & Labrador 4 Fifth Draw Northern Ontario 8 Canada 7 Manitoba 5 Ontario 3 B.C. 7 Quebec 6 P.E.I. 9 New Brunswick 8 (extra end) Tuesday’s games Eighth Draw, 8:30 a.m.

Ontario vs. B.C., 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, B.C. vs. Saskatchewan.

Draw 10, 4:30 p.m.

Canada vs. Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia vs. P.E.I.,

Ontario vs. Alberta, Manitoba vs. Newfoundland & Labrador.

Wednesday’s games Draw 11, 8:30 a.m.

New Brunswick vs. Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan vs.

Northern Ontario, B.C. vs. Newfoundland & Labrador, Quebec vs. Alberta.

Draw 12, 1:30 p.m Manitoba vs. Alberta, Newfoundland & Labrador vs.

Ontario, Nova Scotia vs. Canada, Saskatchewan vs. P.E.I. Draw 13, 6:30 p.m.

B.C. vs. P.E.I., Quebec vs. Canada, Manitoba vs.

Northern Ontario, Ontario vs. New Brunswick.

Thursday’s games Draw 14, 8:30 a.m.

Saskatchewan vs. Newfoundland & Labrador, Alberta vs. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick vs. Quebec, Northern Ontario vs. B.C. Draw 15, 1:30 p.m.

Northern Ontario vs. Quebec, New Brunswick vs.

B.C., P.E.I. vs. Ontario, Manitoba vs. Canada.

Draw 16, 6:30 p.m.

Ontario vs. Canada, P.E.I. vs. Manitoba, Alberta vs. Saskatchewan, Newfoundland & Labrador vs.

Nova Scotia.

Soccer English Premier League GP W D L GF GA Pts Leicester City 26 15 8 3 48 29 53 Tottenham 26 14 9 3 47 20 51 Arsenal 26 15 6 5 41 23 51 Manchester City 26 14 5 7 48 28 47 Man United 26 11 8 7 33 24 41 Southampton 26 11 7 8 34 24 40 West Ham 26 10 10 6 40 31 40 Liverpool 26 10 8 8 38 36 38 Watford 26 10 6 10 29 28 36 Stoke 26 10 6 10 27 32 36 Everton 26 8 11 7 46 35 35 Chelsea 26 8 9 9 38 36 33 Crystal Palace 26 9 5 12 27 32 32 West Brom 26 8 8 10 24 32 32 Bournemouth 26 7 7 12 30 44 28 Swansea 26 6 9 11 24 34 27 Norwich 26 6 6 14 30 50 24 Newcastle 26 6 6 14 27 49 24 Sunderland 26 6 5 15 32 50 23 Aston Villa 26 3 7 16 20 46 16 Saturday, Feb. 13 Sunderland 2, Manchester United 1

Bournemouth 1, Stoke 3 Crystal Palace 1, Watford 2 Everton 0, West Brom 1 Norwich 2, West Ham 2 Swansea 0, Southampton 1 Chelsea 5, Newcastle 1 Sunday, Feb. 14 Arsenal 2, Leicester City 1 Aston Villa 0, Liverpool 6 Manchester City 1, Tottenham 2 Saturday, Feb. 27 West Ham vs. Sunderland, 1245 GMT Leicester City vs. Norwich, 1500 GMT Southampton vs. Chelsea, 1500 GMT Stoke vs. Aston Villa, 1500 GMT Watford vs. Bournemouth, 1500 GMT West Brom vs. Crystal Palace, 1730 GMT Sunday, Feb. 28 Liverpool vs. Everton, 1200 GMT, Ppd. Newcastle vs. Manchester City, 1200 GMT, Ppd. Manchester United vs. Arsenal, 1405 GMT Tottenham vs. Swansea, 1405 GMT

England League Cup FINAL Sunday, Feb. 28 Liverpool vs. Manchester City in London, 1630 GMT England FA Cup FIFTH ROUND Saturday, Feb. 20 Arsenal 0, Hull 0 Reading 3, West Bromwich Albion 1 Watford 1, Leeds 0 Bournemouth 0, Everton 2 Sunday, Feb. 21 Blackburn 1, West Ham 5 Tottenham 0, Crystal Palace 1 Chelsea 5, Manchester City 1 Monday, Feb. 22 Shrewsbury Town 0, Manchester United 3 Tuesday, March 8 Hull vs. Arsenal, TBA

Canada shows off deeper squad in Houston but still relies on key veterans WOMEN’S SOCCER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HOUSTON — Canada leaves Houston with some questions and regrets but also a lot of positives after finishing runner-up to the U.S. at the CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Qualifying Championship.

In the wake of last summer’s World Cup, coach John Herdman identified a need for a left centre-back and additional pace and creativity on the wings and up front.

By infusing young talent into his squad, he has deepened his roster and helped address those issues. But youth needs time to blossom and when push came to shove in the Olympic qualification semifinal against Costa Rica, he started nine World Cup veterans plus Shelina Zadorsky and 16-year-old Deanne Rose.

Canada has added the enthusiasm and energy of youth to a roster rich with experience. But it still has only a few game-changers and suffers when they are not at 100 per cent.

The Americans can roll out one star after another from the bench every game.

Canada tried that Sunday, introducing an ailing Christine Sinclair plus fellow veterans Sophie Schmidt and Diana Matheson in the second half. But, much to Herdman’s regret, the U.S. scored twice before all three got on.

Sinclair, playing with a calf injury, was — as usual — inspirational. Dragging herself around the field on one leg in the semifinal, she scored a pair of glorious goals and gave her all. She submitted to an injection to be able to play 30 minutes in the final.

“Look, she’s a machine,” said an appreciative Herdman. “There’s a slogan ‘All for the anthem’ in the team and she just epitomizes that.”

MEN’S BASKETBALL Dave McComish had 17 points and Jon McComish 15 as Wells Furniture downed the D Leaguers 88-61 in Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association play Sunday.

Jesse Liske had 15 points for the D Leaguers.

In other action, All Sports Cresting Lacombe stopped Sheraton Red Deer 82-56 and Alkin Basin Drillers downed the Silver Spurs 86-43.

Jeremy Purviance had 23 points and Jay Johnson 14 for All Sports while Mark Thompson hit 25 and Brock Phillips eight for the Sheraton.

Erin McLeod, the best goalkeeper in the world according to Herdman, is also sorely missed when she is not out there.

On the plus side, Zadorsky appears to tick the box at centre back next to Kadeisha Buchanan, a world-class defender already at the age of 20.

Poised on and off the field, the 23-year-old Zadorsky has playing experience in Europe and is headed to the Washington Spirit of the NWSL. “That’s the future … These girls are doing really well together,” said Herdman.

The two do appear to be developing some good chemistry.

Rose, 21-year-old Nichelle Prince and 17-year-old Gabrielle Carle offer physicality and pace to an attack already well-stocked with experience and guile in the form of Sinclair and Matheson and brawn and power with Melissa Tancredi. Janine Beckie, a 21-year-old first-round NWSL draft choice, showed some glorious touches on the ball.

Riley McLean led the Drillers with 21 points while Jayden Anderson had 14. Adam Bullock had 14 points and Jeremy Bowler 13 for the Spurs.

As well the Washed Up Warriors downed the Grandview All-stars 92-89 and Carstar stopped the Orangemen 79-74.

Lloyd Strickland had 32 points and Clint Unsworth 22 for the Warriors with Adam Bowie hitting 28 and Chris Girvan 13 for Grandview.

Taylor Armstrong led Carstar with 22 points while Mike McCorquindale added 21. Ray Teskey dropped in 21 points and Chris Karambamuchero 18 for the Orangemen.

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T TAL HEALTH BEAT THE WINTER BLUES WITH SOME HEALTHY EATING TIPS

By Advocate Staff

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lberta Health Services registered dietitian Tanya Zimmerman said choosing foods from three of the four Canada’s Food Guide groups when planning meals is the perfect way to ensure you are staying healthy and getting all the nutrients that your body needs.

The four food groups include vegetables and fruit, grain products, milk and alternatives, and meat and alternatives.

“In the winter, fresh fruit and vegetables aren’t always in season or available,” said Zimmerman. “We do recommend frozen or canned produce is just as nutritious as fresh produce.”

Fruits and vegetables are usually canned or frozen very soon after harvesting so the vitamin and mineral content are preserved, said Zimmerman.

She said to choose unsweetened frozen fruit or fruit that is packed in juice. Canned vegetables typically have added salt to the contents. Zimmerman recommends choosing the lower sodium options or rinsing and draining canned vegetables.

This year was declared the international year of the pulses or legumes. It includes dried

beans, dried peas, chickpeas and lentils.

Zimmerman said pulses are a great source of protein and fiber and contain iron and B vitamins.

“Even adding pulses to things like soups, stews or chili is a great way to get those included in your diet as well,” said Zimmerman. “You can buy them dry or canned as well.”

One of the key tips for staying on the healthy-eating track is to use a weekly menu planner and to make a healthy grocery list.

Reading food labels is a great way for people to assess a product. It is also recommended that shoppers stick to the perimeter of the grocery store where you will find foods from the four food groups.

“In the winter months, we can still eat healthy,” said Zimmerman. “Try to incorporate foods that use three of the four food groups.

Take advantage of the slow cooker. Soups, casseroles and chili are a good way to bring in different food groups. We are going to get different nutrients from different foods so eat a variety of fruits and vegetables.”

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Cruz campaign showing signs of struggle BUT RUBIO’S BUILDS MOMENTUM AS MAIN CHALLENGER TO DONALD TRUMP IN REPUBLICAN RACE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ELKO, Nev. — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio amassed increasing support in his effort to establish himself as the main challenger to front-runner Donald Trump as Republican presidential candidates crisscrossed Nevada Monday on the final day of campaigning ahead of the Western state’s caucuses.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz lost ground in the battle to become the anti-Trump candidate as his campaign showed signs of struggle. Cruz told reporters Monday that he had asked his campaign spokesman, Rick Tyler, to resign for tweeting a story that falsely alleged Rubio had insulted the Bible.

“We are not a campaign that is going to question the faith of another candidate for president,” he said, calling Tyler “a good man” and noting that he deleted the tweet once he discovered it was false.

While five men officially remain in the race for the Republican nomination, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy billed it as a two-man contest

between Trump and Rubio. Speaking on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Monday, McCarthy said Trump’s victory and Rubio’s second-place finish in Saturday’s South Carolina primary dealt a blow to Cruz’s strategy to win the nomination.

The California congressman predicted voters in Florida, Rubio’s home state, would determine in mid-March whether Rubio continues or Trump easily rolls on to the nomination.

Polls show Trump with a huge lead in the Nevada caucuses, which would give the billionaire businessman a third-straight victory in the state-bystate contests to select delegates to the party’s national nominating convention. Cruz faces a critical test on March 1, or Super Tuesday, when primaries are held in multiple states, including his home state of Texas and other southern states.

In the Democratic race, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, vowed to fight on after a narrow loss to Hillary Clinton in Saturday’s Nevada caucuses. Clinton pulled ahead of Sanders in the delegate count late Monday, when she

eked out the final delegate from the Nevada caucuses, giving her a total of 52 caucus and primary delegates out of the 2,383 needed to win the nomination at the Democratic national convention.

Sanders has 51.

Clinton is expected to add to her delegate tally with a win in Saturday’s Democratic primary in South Carolina, where polls show her with strong support among African-Americans who make up more than half of the Democratic electorate. Sanders held a rally Monday in Massachusetts, one of the Super Tuesday primary states where he is running strongest.

Trump heads into Tuesday’s Republican caucuses in Nevada with 67 delegates after sweeping all 50 delegates at stake in South Carolina.

His closest opponents, Cruz and Rubio, have a total of 11 and 10, respectively. It takes 1,237 delegates to capture the nomination.

Rubio is trying to set himself up as the candidate of the party establishment after former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush quit the race after a disappointing fourth-place finish in South Caro-

lina. Establishment heavyweights have moved to back Rubio, with many saying they see him as the candidate who can unite a disharmonious Republican Party.

Since Friday, Rubio has added 12 new Congressional or gubernatorial endorsements, while Trump and Cruz have added none.

Former Sen. Bob Dole told ABC News on Monday that he too had been backing Bush, but he’s now supporting Rubio because “he wants to grow the party as opposed to Cruz. I don’t know what he wants to grow.” Cruz appeals to the party’s most conservative wing, but many party leaders fear his uncompromising positions would make him unelectable in the general election.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich showed no signs of quitting the race and picked up the support of one prominent Bush supporter — Tom Ridge, a former Pennsylvania governor and Homeland Security secretary. Kasich is hoping to make an impact later in March when Midwestern states hold their primaries.

Uber admits complaints against suspect KALAMAZOO SHOOTINGS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KALAMAZOO, Mich. — The Uber ride-hailing service acknowledged Monday that it received complaints about erratic driving by the suspect in the random shootings that killed six people in Kalamazoo, and a prosecutor said the man admitted carrying out the attacks.

As authorities pieced together Jason Dalton’s actions, the prosecutor said he picked up Uber fares after the first shooting and probably got more riders after the subsequent shootings.

Dalton, the 45-year-old former insurance adjuster, appeared briefly in court by video link and was charged with six counts of murder. A judge denied him bail.

During a talk with investigators, Dalton waived his right against self-incrimination and confessed his role in the Saturday night shootings, Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeff Getting said.

Dalton admitted “that he took people’s lives,” Kalamazoo police Det. Cory Ghiringhelli told the court.

The murder charges carry a mandatory life sentence.

Michigan does not have the death penalty.

An Uber passenger said he called police to report that Dalton was driving erratically more than an hour before the shootings began.

Matt Mellen told Kalamazoo television station WWMT that he hailed a ride around 4:30 p.m. Saturday. He said driver Jason Dalton introduced himself as “Me-Me” and had a dog in the backseat.

Mellen sat in front. About a mile into the trip, Dalton got a phone call, and when he hung up, he began driving recklessly, blowing through stop signs and sideswiping cars, Mellen said.

“We were driving through medians, driving through the lawn, speeding along, and when we came to a stop, I jumped out of the car and ran away,” Mellen said. He said he called police and that when he got to his friend’s house, his fiancee posted a warning to friends on Facebook.

Uber said riders complained Saturday about Dalton’s driving. When alerted to unsafe driving, company policy is to contact the driver. But Uber officials would not say whether anyone at the company spoke to Dalton, deferring to law enforcement.

Dalton passed a background check and became a

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

People gather in Bronson Park in Kalamazoo, Mich., Monday, for a candlelight vigil for the victims of a series of random shootings in the Kalamazoo area over the weekend. Jason Dalton of Kalamazoo Township was charged with six counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder in the shootings and then arraigned on the charges. driver on Jan. 25. He had given about 100 rides, the company said.

Since Dalton’s arrest, several people have come forward to say that he picked them up for Uber in the hours after the first attack. The Associated Press could not confirm those accounts.

Kalamazoo County Sheriff Richard Fuller said Uber is co-operating with law enforcement officials, and he believes the company will “help us fill in some timeline gaps.”

Investigators are particularly interested in communication between Dalton and Uber, as well as customers he might have driven, the sheriff said.

The attacks began outside the Meadows apart-

ment complex on the eastern edge of Kalamazoo County, where a woman was shot multiple times. She survived.

A little more than four hours later and 15 miles away, a father and his 17-year-old son were fatally shot while looking at cars at a car dealership.

Fifteen minutes after that, five people were gunned down in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel restaurant. Four of them died. A 14-year-old girl survived with a head wound and was hospitalized in critical condition.

Police and prosecutors have not provided a motive. The victims had no apparent connection to the gunman.

NKorea officer says Cyclone death toll reaches 29 after island levelled tensions rising on DMZ FIJI

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PANMUNJOM, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of — Tensions have increased significantly along the Demilitarized Zone since North Korea’s recent nuclear test and rocket launch, a North Korean military official said on Monday, adding that while he could not comment on operational details, “the reality is that it is touch and go.”

Though parts of the world’s most fortified border can seem like a tourist trap, drawing throngs of camera-happy visitors on both sides every year, to the military-trained eye the Cold War-style standoff along the 257-kilometre (160-mile) DMZ — established when the 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty — is an incident waiting to happen.

That’s now truer than ever, the North Korean officer said, as tensions are escalating between Pyongyang, Seoul and Washington. Thousands of U.S. troops are deployed in South Korea and units based around the DMZ have the motto “Be Ready to Fight Tonight.”

“People come here and they think it’s like a resort. But if you know it better, you know how dangerous it is,” Lt. Col. Nam Dong Ho of the North Korean People’s Army said in Panmunjom, the truce village where the armistice was signed.

Nam said tensions have increased significantly since the nuclear test in January and rocket launch earlier this month. “Something could happen at any time,” he said.

To stand on the North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone is almost otherworldly.

After crossing through military checkpoints and passing roadside concrete structures rigged to detonate and keep any vehicles from passing — defences that are also common in the South — the air is peaceful and fresh, and birds can be heard chirping as they fly over a carefully manicured landscape dotted with rock monuments and meticulously maintained historical buildings.

But closer to the Demarcation Line that marks the actual border, soldiers stand rigidly on guard, armed and intimidating, often just a few steps away from their South Korean counterparts.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Ten people have died on a single small island in Fiji as the total death toll from a powerful cyclone climbed to 29, officials said Tuesday.

Government spokesman Ewan Perrin said the death toll on Koro Island had reached double figures and that most buildings there had been heavily damaged or flattened. He said a relief vessel with about 30 people aboard arrived at the island with medical supplies, food and water, and teams are helping build temporary shelters for the 4,500 residents.

“It’s one of the worst hit,” Perrin said. “Although it’s important to stress that our priority is recovery action across the entire group (of islands).”

He said officials also have fears about nearby Taveuni Island, home to about 12,000 people, because they’ve managed to have only limited contact with people there.

Winds from Cyclone Winston, which tore through the Pacific Island chain Saturday and early Sunday, reached 177 miles (285 kilometres) per hour, making it the strongest storm in Fiji’s recorded history.

Getting emergency supplies to the group’s far-flung islands and remote communities has been the Fiji government’s top priority.

United Nations Under-Secretary-General Stephen O’Brien said in a statement he was concerned by the devastating impact

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In this Sunday aerial photo supplied by the New Zealand Defense Force, debris is scattered around damaged buildings at Susui village in Fiji, after Cyclone Winston tore through the island nation. Fijians were finally able to venture outside Monday after authorities lifted a curfew but much of the country remained without electricity in the wake of a ferocious cyclone. the cyclone was having on Fiji.

“Whole villages have been destroyed, homes and crops have been damaged, power lines have been cut and more than 8,100 people are currently sheltering in over 70 evacuation centres,” O’Brien said.

O’Brien said Fiji was leading the response and had asked for international help. Australia has so far pledged $5 million Australian in aid and New Zealand has pledged $2 million New Zealand dollars. Perrin said France, the U.S. and China have also provided or pledged support. He said relief agencies, including Oxfam and the Red Cross, have been helping with humanitarian efforts and that the Fijian government has set

up a disaster relief fund.

Home to 900,000 people, Fiji has more than 100 inhabited islands, and authorities are having difficulty communicating with some of the more remote islands in the wake of the cyclone.

Phone communications have been rapidly restored in many areas but in other areas the damage was severe and would take longer to fix, Perrin said.

He said the electricity network across Fiji remained patchy, and in some cases power had been deliberately cut to prevent further damage. He said clean water was also a challenge, and people were being asked to boil their water, treat it with chemicals or drink bottled water.

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Oil growth could grind to halt

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Growth in Canadian oil production is likely to slow down or grind to a halt five years from now once projects now under construction are built, the International Energy Agency warns in a report released Monday. The Paris-based organization said it projects Canada to add 800,000 barrels a day of production by 2021, which would bring total output to 5.2 million barrels a day. Most of that growth is expected to come from Alberta’s oilsands, with bitumen production expected to hit 3.4 million barrels a day. But a number of factors including the expense of producing crude from the oilsands threaten to curtail or put a stop to such growth, the IEA said.

“Heightened environmental concerns, a lack of

pipeline access to new markets and the unknown impact of the victory by the New Democratic Party in Alberta’s elections last year are causing companies to slow development,” it said.

“As such, we are likely to see continued capacity increases (in) the near term, with growth slowing considerably, if not coming to a complete standstill, after the projects under construction are completed.”

A number of new developments in Canada recently commissioned or nearing completion will drive growth over the next five years, the IEA said. They include Imperial Oil’s Kearl expansion project in Alberta, which was completed in June 2015, and the Hebron offshore oil site off Newfoundland set to begin production in 2018.

The IEA report, which examined global oil production forecasts up to 2021, said there was a 24 per cent

cut in oil investment around the world last year and another 17 per cent reduction is expected this year.

Jackie Forrest, vice-president of energy research at Arc Financial, agreed that oilsands development will slow down as companies look to smaller investments and faster returns.

A decline in the number of new projects would significantly change the dynamics of the oil sector’s workforce from growth to maintenance, the industry-funded Enform organization said last week. It projects that the number of construction jobs will drop by 84 per cent, or about 10,300 positions, by 2020, while the number of operations and maintenance jobs would grow by 9,870.

Since mid-2014, crude prices have plunged by 70 per cent. On Monday, oil was trading above US$33 a barrel.

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BRIEF MasterCard planning to roll out ‘selfie pay’ in Canada this summer AMSTERDAM — Starting this summer, Canadian MasterCard holders will be able to pay for their online purchases using a selfie or a fingerprint instead of a password.

After a pilot project in the Netherlands, the payment card company says it plans to roll out the new technology in Canada, the U.S. and to parts of Europe.

MasterCard says biometric payments — which use characteristics such as their fingerprints, voice or facial features to identify users — are more convenient and secure than passwords.

During the pilot project, participants in the Netherlands were required to download an app in order to use the technology.

MasterCard Netherlands says it’s now looking at ways of integrating the technology into the apps of banking and tech giants to make the process even simpler for consumers.

Details surrounding the Canadian iteration of the service are not yet available.

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Seven people named to investigate real estate flipping in B.C. VANCOUVER — Seven people have been named to an advisory panel created to respond to allegations of real estate contract flipping by some Metro Vancouver property agents.

Lawyer Howard Kushner, Central 1 Credit Union president Don Wright and British Columbia Securities Commission head Audrey Ho are among those who will sit on the panel.

The practice involves agents exploiting an assignment clause that allows them to sell a home multiple times before a deal closes, driving up the final price and stacking up their commissions.

The Real Estate Council of British Columbia announced earlier this month it would create an advisory group to investigate the allegations raised by media reports and Opposition politicians.

Superintendent of Real Estate Carolyn Rogers was appointed chairwoman of the group and tasked with naming its members.

She says the panel will examine the ways the council identifies and responds to licensee conduct that could pose a risk to consumers or that fails to meet the standards that are expected by the general public.

The advisory group members named Monday are: Howard Kushner, lawyer, Kushner Law Group.

Don Wright, president and CEO of Central 1 Credit Union.

Audrey Ho, commissioner of the B.C. Securities Commission.

Bruce Woolley, lawyer with Stikeman Elliott.

Carol Geurts, associate broker, Century 21 Veitch Realty, Creston, B.C. Tony Gioventu, executive director of the Condominium Home Owners’ Association of B.C. Ron Usher, general counsel, Society of Notaries Public of British Columbia

Oil pumps work in the desert oil fields of Sakhir, Bahrain. Global oil supply growth is plunging as drillers slash capital expenditures severely, Europe’s energy policy group said Monday, which could eventually result in an energy shock.

Montreal to proceed with ban on plastic bags

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — The City of Montreal is pushing ahead with a plan to ban thin plastic shopping bags

by January 2018.

The decision is a reflection of what Quebecers want and their increased preoccupation with being responsible consumers, Mayor Denis Coderre said Monday.

“We believe that this targeted ban will reinforce the shift toward a greener city while giving the population, businesses and industry a reasonable time to prepare,” Coderre told a news conference.

The city’s environment committee had come out in December in favour of a ban.

A bylaw, to be adopted soon and slated to come into effect on Jan. 1, 2018, would make Montreal the first major Canadian metropolis to implement such a measure.

Executive committee member Real Menard said the ban would include lightweight plastic bags handed out at grocery stores.

The city is also targeting biodegradable bags because they break up and cause problems for the

environment and contain additives that act as a contaminant in the recycling and composting process.

Menard said certain types of bags would be exempted such as those used to handle meat, fruits and vegetables, medication or dry cleaning.

Toronto tried and failed in 2012 to impose a ban, while at least five smaller Canadian municipalities have instituted such a measure beginning with a Manitoba town in 2007.

Major cities in B.C. — Vancouver and Victoria — are also currently considering such bans.

Montreal’s loquacious mayor dismissed Toronto’s failure playing out in his city.

“In a few years, these plastic bags used by billions, often for a single use, will be a thing of another era,” Coderre said confidently.

The city’s plan is one that might also be adopted by the 80-odd communities representing the Greater Montreal area.

They are studying the issue and have set April 22, 2018 — Earth Day — as a target date.

The Montreal suburb of Brossard announced last week it would introduce a ban on thin, plastic shopping bags by Sept. 1.

Canadian start-ups look to reimagined nuclear power

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Terrestrial Energy’s IMSR core and container.

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CALGARY — As the race to replace fossil fuels heats up, a few Canadian startups are betting on the nuclear option.

“We need a game-changing energy innovation,” Simon Irish, chief executive of Oakville, Ont.,-based Terrestrial Energy, said in a recent interview.

Renewable power like wind and solar aren’t able to meet the world’s growing energy demands, Irish says, so people have to rethink nuclear energy.

“This is clean energy on a massive scale,” he said.

Irish’s company plans to develop a nuclear reactor in Canada in the next decade using molten salt rather than the solid nuclear fuel and highly pressurized water of conventional designs like the Candu reactor.

The new technology results in a reactor six times more efficient, producing a third the nuclear waste while improving the safety of the system, he says.

The idea of the liquefied salt reactors have been around since the early days of nuclear power, but they’ve never been developed commercially.

Terrestrial, which raised $10 million last month in its first major financing, says it’s aiming to change that, with a design it says will be cost-competitive with fossil fuels.

“We’re not looking to build a reactor in a laboratory,” said Irish. “We’re just taking a reactor design off the shelf, taking it out of national lab, and we’re seeking to commercialize it.”

Burnaby, B.C.,-based General Fusion also says it’s also trying to develop nuclear energy, but it’s not exactly using off-the-shelf technology.

The company, as the name suggests, is trying to build the world’s first commercial fusion reactor,

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which releases energy by crushing atoms together.

Today’s reactors are based on fission, where atoms are instead split apart.

General Fusion has already raised $100 million from investors like Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and oilsands producer Cenovus Energy. But that’s a pittance compared with the many billions of dollars governments are spending to try to build a successful fusion plant in France called Iter.

Michael Delage, General Fusion’s vice president of technology and corporate strategy, predicts his company’s practical approach will allow it to succeed with far less money.

The company’s design involves 200 synchronized pistons hitting a plasma-filled metal sphere at once, sending a shock wave of force that concentrates enough energy in the centre of the ball to force the atoms together.

Delage says if anyone is successful with fusion research, it will fundamentally change the world by creating a vast new source of energy.

“It’s a big, big impact, not just in terms of the economic win or the scale of the business, but impacting the energy industry and the world.”

After some ambitious timelines came and went, General Fusion is no longer giving specific targets, saying only that success is years down the road.

Toronto-based Thorium Power Canada Inc. is also cautious about specific timing, but like Terrestrial, it’s at least banking on proven, decades-old technology.

The company wants to develop nuclear reactors powered by solid pellets of thorium rather than uranium in a design Paul Hardy, Thorium’s senior vice-president of business development, says would allow for smaller modular plants that would be cheaper than large-scale nuclear.

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COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Monday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 113.34 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.67 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.38 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.00 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 1.240 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.28 Cdn. National Railway . . 78.81 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 174.46 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 34.91 Capital Power Corp . . . . 17.93 Cervus Equipment Corp 12.18 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 47.89 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 43.68 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 18.00 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.66 General Motors Co. . . . . 29.63 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.08 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.38 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 41.02 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 31.08 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.58 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 5.93 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 50.80 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 130.92 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.25 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.03 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 67.20

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Stock markets in Toronto and New York racked up gains Monday amid higher oil prices and renewed investor confidence in global economic growth.

On Bay Street, the S&P/ TSX index closed up 32.23 points at 12,845.63 after pulling back from intraday highs.

The commodity-heavy Toronto Stock Exchange got a lift as the April contract for North American benchmark crude settled $1.64 higher at US$33.39 a barrel.

The Canadian dollar also benefited, rising 0.30 of a U.S. cent to 72.93 cents US. Part of the catalyst for the oil rally was due to a report from the International Energy Agency, which said the pace of global supply growth is dwindling as energy companies slash production to tighten their balance sheets.

“The fact that we’re continuing to see those (supply) numbers come down means production is likely going to be reined in,” said Craig Fehr, Canadian markets strategist at Edward Jones in St. Louis.

“This decline in oil (prices) has been a combination of the supply and demand factors. Slowing Chinese economy has obviously dampened the outlook for demand growth, coupled with production, not only in Canada, but in the U.S. and in parts of the Middle East (that) has continued to increase. That’s weighed heavily on markets.”

Volatility in the price of oil and in stock markets is expected continue for some time, even though investors

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 23.13 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.50 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.63 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 15.06 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 17.55 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.95 First Quantum Minerals . . 4.70 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 20.71 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 3.77 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.09 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.06 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 22.04 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.720 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 9.33 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 18.38 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 23.87 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 43.49 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.95 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 17.75 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 28.84 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 9.23 Canyon Services Group. . 4.23 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 15.01 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1300 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 4.54 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.600

have shown optimism in recent weeks compared with the lows seen in equities at the start of the year.

“This rebound is quite warranted. The economics and fundamentals globally are not spectacular but they’re not a disaster either,” said Fehr, who described the sell-off in January as “overdone.”

What will drive the market higher over the long term will be better economic data coming from the U.S. and China, which may lead to better corporate earnings.

“Those are the two key catalysts that will put a floor on this market and probably allow markets to grind higher over time,” said Fehr. “In the meantime, volatility is going to remain the key word when it comes to stock prices.”

Elsewhere in commodities, March copper shot up four cents to US$2.11 a pound, while April natural gas was virtually unchanged at US$1.86 per mmBtu. The April contract for gold bullion lost some of its shine, falling $20.70 to US$1,210.10 a troy ounce.

In New York, the widely watched Dow Jones industrial average soared 228.67 points or 1.40 per cent to 16,620.66, while the broader S&P 500 added 27.72 points or 1.45 per cent to 1,945.50.

The Nasdaq jumped 66.18 points or 1.47 per cent to 4,570.61.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,845.63, up 32.23 points

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 82.39 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 32.88 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.06 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 13.83 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 42.83 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 1.040 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.360 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 4.45 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 33.89 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.530 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 1.73 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 36.64 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 73.87 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 55.48 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89.88 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 21.62 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 34.88 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 35.32 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 86.37 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.59 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 38.32 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.200 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 70.49 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 40.26 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.23

Dow — 16,620.66, up 228.67 points S&P 500 — 1,945.50, up 27.72 points Nasdaq — 4,570.61, up 66.18 points Currencies: Cdn — 72.93 cents US, up 0.30 of a cent Pound — C$1.9398, down 3.73 cents Euro — C$1.5117, down 2.09 cents Euro — US$1.1025, down 1.06 cents Oil futures: US$33.39 per barrel, up $1.64 (April contract) Gold futures: US$1,210.10 per oz., down $20.70 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.70 oz., down 51.1 cents $697.66 kg., down $16.42 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ‘16 $1.70 higher $468.30 May ‘16 $2.80 higher $473.30 July ‘16 $2.70 higher $478.10 Nov. ‘16 $1.90 higher $477.80 Jan. ‘17 $2.00 higher $481.80 March ‘17 $2.80 higher $483.20 May ‘17 $2.80 higher $481.90 July ‘17 $2.80 higher $481.40 Nov. ‘17 $0.80 higher $477.40 Jan. ‘18 $0.80 higher $477.40 March ‘18 $0.80 higher $477.40.

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.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 776,880 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 776,880.

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Carpenters work on an apartment complex in Williston, N.D. Gravy days are waning in the oilpatch city due to depressed crude prices.

And despite a jailbreak-like exodus of oil drillers in the past year, the city is teeming with newcomers from the Congo to Idaho who are opting to stick it out in a still-strong economy instead of starting over somewhere else.

Protesting Greek farmers meet PM

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATHENS, Greece — Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and representatives of some protesting farmers failed on Monday to find an immediate solution to a month-long blockade of the country’s highways.

Farmers are protesting pension reforms planned by Tsipras’ leftled coalition government as part of commitments to international bailout lenders.

They have been blocking roads and highways across the country, including at several of Greece’s northern border crossings, notably with Bulgaria and Turkey.

After the meeting, farmers said

they would take Tsipras’ proposals to protesters who have parked tractors across several main highways.

They did not say what the proposals were, nor provide a timeframe for discussing the proposals.

The group which met Tsipras also does not represent all the protesting farmers.

Only one of the four major protesting farmers’ groups agreed to attend Monday’s talks, with other groups insisting on their demands that the pension reform be repealed.

“We will go back to the blockades to decide the further course of our struggle,” farmer Vangellis Papagiannoulis said.

It was unlikely that Tsipras would bend much on his reform plans.

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BC Hydro seeks court injunction to remove Site C dam protesters

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Protesters have no legal right to block construction of the Site C dam and their actions could cost BC Hydro $8 million, a lawyer for the utility argued Monday.

The provincial Crown corporation has asked the British Columbia Supreme Court for an injunction to remove First Nations members and Peace Valley landowners from a protest camp near Fort St. John.

“BC Hydro has the legal authority to do what it is doing, and the defendants have no legal right to obstruct it,” Mark Andrews told a judge.

The $8.8-billion dam will flood agricultural land, First Nations archeological sites and destroy hunting and fishing areas. Opponents include environmentalist David Suzuki, who said the project conflicts with climate targets set in Paris.

Demonstrators set up camp on the south bank of the Peace River in November 2015 and have been blocking crews from undertaking clearing work, even building campfires near tree-felling and excavation operations, BC Hydro lawyers told the court.

Andrews said protesters are blocking an area where waste rock was to be deposited, forcing crews to transport the rock elsewhere at a cost of about $8 million. If the alternative site doesn’t work, there’s a small risk the project will be delayed by a year at a cost of $420 million, he said.

Clearing needs to be underway by no later than the beginning of March to avoid impinging on bird-nesting months, when it becomes impractical to clear, he added.

BC Hydro recognizes that opponents have a right to protest, but there are many places they can demonstrate without stopping legally permitted work, Andrews said.

The hearing for the injunction application is expected to continue through Wednesday.

Lawyers for the eight defendants have not yet had the opportunity to respond.

Yvonne Tupper of the Saulteau First Nations is one of the defendants and she drove 14 hours to attend the hearing. She said BC Hydro did not obtain consent of the Treaty 8 Tribal Association and the dam appears to violate its treaty rights.

“I would not be alive today if that area was not present,” she said outside court. “That’s a historical path that … my grandmother travelled to meet her first husband across the Peace River.”

Tupper said the number of demonstrators at the camp fluctuates between about seven and more than 30.

The campfire is meant to keep both protesters and workers warm, as at one point it was -25C with wind chill, she said.

At a news conference before the hearing, Suzuki voiced support for the protesters. He said Canada committed to a “very serious” target at last year’s climate conference in Paris.

“By committing to that target, everything that we do changes,” he said. “It seems to me crazy to put farmland in the north underwater when that valley can be the breadbasket of the north.

Food has got to be grown much closer to where it’s going to be consumed.”

West Moberly and Prophet River First Nations said Monday that a United Nations committee was meeting in Geneva and would ask Canadian diplomats about consent of indigenous peoples regarding resource projects, including Site C. Also on Monday, hundreds lined up in Prince George for the opportunity to hand in their resumes at a job fair for the project. BC Hydro said 600 workers will be needed by this spring, with 1,500 set to work on Site C at its peak.

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