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MARY-ANN BARR BARRSIDE Two golden eagles and 15 cougars were caught in trappers’ snares in the Sundre area recently. The problem is the traps that caught them had actually been set for wolves. The cougars were all killed. Despite efforts to save the mated eagles, the female died Tuesday, and it is not certain yet if the male will survive. The trouble with snares is that they don’t discriminate when it comes to what gets caught in them, and they can be inhumane, says Dwight Rodtka. The former animal predator control specialist for Alberta Agriculture, who lives near Rocky Mountain House, was on the job 38 years before retiring in 2012. He participated in a recent scientific research paper on snaring. “The bottom line is snares are inhumane and to date we haven’t seen any modification or any changes that would make them humane. And they have a secondary problem in that they are not target-selective at all, meaning that they catch everything,” said Rodtka. Wolf and coyote trappers generally put out draw bait, and will set from 50 to as high as 200 snares around it, he said. “Consequently any moose, deer, elk, cougar, bear, pet, anything that comes by there is very apt to get caught, and of course that includes eagles that feed on carrion to some degree as these two down by Sundre were.”

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Brittany Ginter, hospital co-ordinator with the Medicine River Wildlife Centre, works with a golden eagle that was caught in snare in Central Alberta. The adult male, which was caught in a snare with an adult female golden eagle, arrived at the wildlife centre on Feb. 21. The female died Tuesday. The male suffered damage to its wing, while the female was caught with the snare around its neck.

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Mark Damien Lindsay’s clear mental illness, gestating for years led, him to murder Dana Turner, his defence counsel said to close out the trial. But the Crown said his actions around the time of the offence show he had the capacity to make a rational choice. Closing arguments brought the three-week trial to its near conclusion Thursday in Red Deer Court of Queen’s bench. Defence counsel Kent Teskey said Lindsay was profoundly ill in 2011 when the murder occurred and his schizophrenia can be traced back to its early stages in 2005. Lindsay has admitted to killing Turner, 31, by stabbing her in the eyes with a pencil, strangling her and running her over with a car. He believed Turner was a member of a group of serial killers called Healers and was sent by them to kill him. In August 2011, he was just out of jail after serving a 50-day sentence for stabbing Turner in the face with a knife. Within days of his release, he killed Turner. The main trial issue was whether or not Lindsay could be held criminally responsible for the murder. Crown Prosecutor Ed Ring said Lindsay made many rational decisions after he killed Lindsay including: driving to Walmart to get a blanket to cover Turner’s body, going to his parent’s house to get his resumé and welding documents, going to his brother’s home, going to a TD bank to take out some money and going to a Rona to get a shovel and other items aimed at concealing his intention of burying Turner’s body. Relying on his two experts and their testimony, Teskey said Lindsay was actively psychotic “in a profound way” for a decade.

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Fire destroys million-dollar home BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF A family is left homeless after a blaze tore through its multi-million dollar home in Red Deer County on Wednesday night. Neighbour Mark Stevens, who lives across the street from the house, was returning home for the evening when he noticed a glow through the woods

and unusual activity at his neighbour’s gate, which is typically closed. Stevens said he saw a vehicle drive away before he went inside his house. “It wasn’t 10 minutes later I looked out the kitchen window and it was just one big ball of flames from one end of the other instantly,” said Stevens. “It wasn’t like it started in one end and worked its way through. It really looked suspicious.” Fire crews responded to a call at

the house on Township Road 390 and Range Road 270, northeast of the River Bend Golf and Recreation Area around 10 p.m. The house was fully engulfed in fire, said Ric Henderson, Director of Community and Protective Services. The crews battled the fire overnight and were putting out hot spots on Thursday morning. There was no one home at the time of the fire. No other buildings were in jeopardy.

County eyes separate bus for Springbrook route to improve service, shorten trip BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Extending transit bus service to Gasoline Alley and Springbrook is such a success Red Deer County is looking at improving the journey. “Our ridership has grown to the point where we’re looking at an enhanced service,” said county chief administrative officer Curtis Herzberg. Since the buses began running in 2010, the number of riders has climbed from about 42,500 to as high as 78,000 in 2014. Numbers dipped slightly last year to just under 74,000 but growth has been averaging 12 to 14 per cent a year, said Jo-Ann Symington, county community services manager. Being considered is a separate bus dedicated to the Springbrook route to improve service and shorten travelling time. “It’s a very long bus trip. We’re looking at breaking that up,” Herzberg said. The longest bus journeys are about 45 minutes on the existing Springbrook loop, which runs through Gasoline Alley. Improving the transit experience for Springbrook riders is also seen as an opportunity to support Red Deer Airport’s economic ambitions. The county is still working out the logistics and expects to apply for funding under the province’s GreenTRIP (Green Transit Initiatives Program). A third round of funding worth $415 million was announced recently with a June 30 application deadline.

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A City of Red Deer bus lets off a passenger on Leva Avenue at Costco in Gasoline Alley on Thursday. If the transit expansion gets the green light from council, the new routes will likely not be in place until the second half of 2017, said Symington. One of the variables the county has been waiting on was whether Penhold wanted to go ahead with a proposal to extend service to that community. Penhold council took a look at the costs last month and voted not to go ahead now. Penhold Mayor Dennis Cooper said covering the cost of the service would

add about four per cent to local tax bills. “We couldn’t justify it at this present time,” he said. “We feel as the town grows and the need develops we’ll definitely (take another look) at this. We’re not closing the door on this. “The county gave us a very good price on that but it was beyond our ability to bring busing to Penhold at this present time.”

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Stevens said a family of three lived in the house for about a year. He said there was work being done on the house. The estimated 25,000 square-foot house was recently listed on Kijiji for $7.7 million. Henderson said it was too early to say whether the fire is being treated as suspicious. The fire is under investigation. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Friday, March 4, 2016 of some of these people, they are in trouble and they know it.” He said the majority of food bank users are unemployed. The only things on their side right now are the mild winter weather that has kept utility costs low and they aren’t facing extra costs that go along with the start of a new school year. As more people pour into the food bank, he said staff must limit the number of hamper clients they can assist on a daily basis. In the future the amount of food going into hampers may have to be reduced, which has happened at times in the past when needed, he said. Scaife was confident that Red Deerians will step up with donations to meet the needs of food bank clients. “The city, in 18 years, has never turned me down when I say we need some food. They have never said no to us and they have never disappointed us. They’ve done it time and time again.” But more volunteers willing to work at the food bank would be helpful to keep up with demand, Scaife said. “We’re very efficient and well versed in what we do so it’s just the amount, the sheer volume, we’re trying to deal with. It’s bad.” Red Deer Food Bank is holding its first fundraising barbecue of the season on March 12, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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TRANSIT: Pulls out of Penhold Ridership levels were also a question mark. More than 90 per cent of Penhold’s residences are owned meaning only a small number rent and may be more likely to use transit. Penhold’s population is at about 3,000 and by the time it approaches 4,000 it will likely make sense to crunch the numbers again, said the mayor. “As people look at the community having a bus link to Red Deer would definitely be an advantage for people making a choice whether to come and live in Penhold.”

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New standard needed in drunk driving fatalities RICK ZEMANEK OPINION What’s a life worth in the eyes of the courts these days in dealing with killer drunk drivers? If there ever was a time to set a new precedence reflecting society’s increasingly damnation of such a crime, March 29 will be that time. It’s when Marco Muzzo, 29, son of one of the wealthiest families in Canada, is to be sentenced for killing three children and their grandfather in an horrific crash Sept. 27 near Vaughan, Ont. The Supreme Court of Canada has recently noted it recognizes the growing sentiment in our society calling for harsher penalties for killer drunk drivers. Muzzo, after returning to Pearson International Airport on a private plane from his stag party in Florida, was drunk when he jumped into his SUV and headed for home — soon to become ‘the driver from hell’ in the eyes of many. He blew through a stop sign and T-boned a minivan carrying six people, all members of one family. Jennifer Neville-Lake’s three children and her grandfather were killed. Muzzo was driving close to three times the legal blood-alcohol limit of .08. “What hope is there when your entire world is gone?” Neville-Lake asked earlier last week at Muzzo’s sentencing hearing. “Every single piece of our lives has been altered because of somebody else.”

Muzzo has pleaded guilty to four counts of drunk driving causing death and two counts of drunk driving causing bodily harm. Crown prosecutor Paul Tait likened his actions to someone walking down the street with a loaded gun. Ontario criminal lawyer Russell Silverstein, not involved in the case, said of Muzzo’s actions: “This is an offence of the highest degree of negligence.” The maximum sentence for drunk driving causing death is life. It goes without saying Muzzo will not receive the maximum term. But the judge presiding over his case has the opportunity to hand down an unprecedented term to finally relay to these killer drivers society is getting sick and tired of being sick and tired of this seemingly endless carnage on our roads. Muzzo’s lawyer Brian Greenspan argues a sentence of eight years would be sufficient, considering Muzzo has already spent four months in custody. That’s unacceptable under the circumstances, and does not reflect the sentencing trend today in such cases. In the past, courts have hovered around the five- to- eight-year sentences in similar cases. But the sentences must adapt to changing attitudes. Prosecutor Tait is calling for a sentence of 10 to 12 years and a ban on driving for eight to 10 years. “It’s time to send a message,” he said last week. “Every drunk driver makes a choice, and in this case that choice resulted in catastrophic consequences for the victims’ family. An entire generation of the Neville-Lake family was wiped out in one fell swoop.” And Tate added that Superior Court Justice Michelle K. Fuerst could impose a sentence longer than the Crown’s request, noting

it would set “a strong precedent.” Indeed. Perhaps the time has come to set that precedent. Between now and March 29, Justice Fuerst will be reviewing past sentences imposed by courts for such offences. Those cases will likely include the sixyear prison term dealt Jan. 12 by the Ontario Superior Court to a 36-yearold mother of four in an Oct. 11, 2011 crash that killed a farmer driving his tractor along Katesville Road. Amanda Stevens rear-ended the tractor while travelling 112 km/h in an 80 km/h zone. The London Free Press reported that Superior Court Justice Andrew Goodman decided on the harsh sentence “to reflect the trend over the past 30 years for increased sentences.” Stevens’ defence lawyer Andy Rady had argued for a three- to-four-year term. But after the longer term was imposed, Rady observed: “Justice Goodman had certainly suggested by his decision today that the amount of time a person will get who’s convicted of this offence has increased.” And what’s interesting is the Crown couldn’t prove during the trial Stevens was driving over .08; she was convicted on her driving patterns which convinced the judge she was impaired at the time. In 2011, in what’s been called a “benchmark case” for sentencing in Ontario, Andrew Kummer, then 26, was given an eight-year term in the drunk-driving deaths of three people. The Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the sentence. Keep in mind, however, that was six years ago. Perhaps the most profound case, which will likely influence the judge in the Muzzo matter, came last Dec. 17 when the Supreme Court of Canada signalled it’s time for tough action in

sentencing killer drunks — even those with no prior records. In that case, the Supreme Court restored a six-and-ahalf-year sentence against Tommy Lacasse, 18, who caused the deaths of two passengers in his vehicle. The Quebec Court of Appeal had earlier reduced the original sentence imposed by the lower courts to four years. According to a report by the Globe and Mail, the Lacasse case “came to symbolize the notion that courts are out of touch with public sentiment after the Quebec Court of Appeal” reduced the sentence. The Supreme Court, in a 5-2 decision to restore the original sentence, “said appeal courts should be reluctant to overturn trial judges’ sentences unless they are out of proportion to the seriousness of the offence … ” The Supreme Court also noted in its decision that trial judge’s have a right to use their discretions to send a tough message. Toronto lawyer Nader Hasan, who co-wrote a book on sentencing said: “The majority (of the Supreme Court) is saying: Trial judges must have discretion to send a denunciatory message with their sentencing decisions in order to adequately reflect a community’s outrage.” Much hay has been made about Muzzo’s billionaire family. But rich or poor, it doesn’t matter. And since this man is not considered a “serious threat” as far as repeat offenders are concerned, sentencing as a deterrent is a moot point. His jail term then must reflect the community’s outrage. How Justice Fuerst interprets that outrage will make an interesting study. Rick Zemanek is a former Advocate editor.

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O’Leary not ready for leadership primetime BY MICHAEL TAUBE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Most of us assumed financial commentator Kevin O’Leary was considering a run for the federal Tory leadership in 2017. Until he unexpectedly announced that he might run for the Liberals. What’s going on? The ultimate political game of cat and mouse, with O’Leary pulling the strings. This past weekend, O’Leary spoke at the Manning Centre conference in Ottawa. He discussed the Canadian economy, his frustration with some politicians (including his favourite political punching bag, Alberta NDP Premier Rachel Notley), and claimed he would be Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s “worst nightmare.” The largely right-leaning audience would have therefore assumed O’Leary was simply going through the motions that most potential leadership candidates follow. Until this happened. Not long after his speech concluded, O’Leary conducted a TV interview with CBC News Network’s Reshmi Nair. He claimed to be a member of the “Canadian taxpayer party,” stating that “I don’t think the old political brands will matter in the next election.” “I can choose which party to actually run in,” O’Leary claimed, “because I think there will be a leadership race in the Liberal Party.” That’s right. O’Leary, who everyone thought was a

Tory, hasn’t ruled out running as a Liberal. (I guess he would be Morneau’s “worst nightmare” as a caucus member and not an opponent.) The TV personality is, therefore, caustically attempting to do a bait-and-switch with political brands like “Tory” and “Liberal.” He’s trying to show that political ideas are more important than party labels, and will park his allegiance with the political outfit most open to this strategy. Some people will be attracted to O’Leary’s rejection of the politics of old. Most will see through his smokescreen. Like it or not, party labels and political brands serve an important function in democratic elections. While the politics of left and right are often blurred by parties and leaders, there’s a basic understanding of what individuals and groups stand for. The Tories, Liberals and NDP adjust their platforms from time to time, and occasionally propose ideas and strategies that are ideologically inconsistent, but that’s how it typically works. Contrary to O’Leary’s belief, this understood political component isn’t going out of style with grassroots members. These are the people who ultimately pick the party leaders. They rarely want to hear from candidates who condemn the very nature of political branding that they helped devise, build and promote. If O’Leary wants to be taken seriously as a leadership candidate, he can’t just claim to be a “Canadian taxpayer party” member — and nothing else. Therein lies the problem. O’Leary always wants to

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Gala helps students find that special dress BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Gowns for Grads in Chinook’s Edge School Division was a hit with mostly Grade 11 students getting a jump on finding the right dress for their 2017 graduation. Central Albertans looking to sell or donate their formal dresses and students looking for dresses were invited to attend the first ever Gowns for Grads Gala last Friday featuring a fashion show of formal dresses, followed by sales and trades at the Fine Arts Centre in Olds. In the previous three years, the program helped about 100 girls purchase a dress at a much lower price and another 25 girls in need received free dresses. Jayleen Roelfsema, vice-principal at Olds High School, said the impetus for the program was to ensure that all students can celebrate their graduation with a special dress, suit or tuxedo regardless of their income. On the weekend, three dresses were gifted to Grade 12 students who couldn’t afford a new dress. But about a dozen students in total found their dresses. “The majority of girls who purchased gowns the next day were actually Grade 11 girls who were purchasing gowns for their grads next year,” Roelfsema said on Thursday. She said a lot of students already have grad dresses to wear at 2016 graduations. “The plan next year is to do it in late October to catch those kids before they shop for their dresses. Maybe they can find something perfect for them through this organization.” She said some students were also looking at buying a used gown to save money during tough economic times or in an effort to go green. About 40 students from across Chinook’s Edge modeled 150 gowns and a couple tuxedos in a variety of styles and sizes at the gala and about 120 people came out for the show.

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Students from Chinook’s Edge School Division wore masquerade makeup while modeling gorgeous gowns at the Gowns for Grads Gala held in Olds Feb. 26. “There’s so many beautiful dresses donated. The selection was incredible,” Roelfsema said. “We’re excited by the community support for the program and we’re hoping it becomes an annual tradition and builds support as we continue to carry through with the program.” Some of the money raised from the sale of gowns will be used for suits or to rent tuxedos for boys.

She said dresses will continue to be made available to local Chinook’s Edge High Schools students for those who could not attend the gala. Checking out the gowns can be arranged through school family wellness workers. Olds High School’s Interact Club is taking on Gowns for Grads as a annual project. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Provided by CentreFest. Sponsored by the Canadian Home Builders Association – Central Alberta

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If you watch HGTV, then chances are, you’ve seen the work of Kate Campbell. We’re excited to have Kate join us at the 2016 Red Deer Home Show for the first time! Her advocacy for women in the skilled trades, combined with her expertise in the industry ensure it will be worth stopping by the main stage to hear what she has to share! Kate was born and raised in Georgetown, Ontario. She has been working in television and the renovation industry for over seven years and can be seen on HGTV’s “Holmes on Homes”, “Holmes in New Orleans”, “Handyman Superstar Challenge” and “Holmes Inspection”. Most recently Kate has been featured as one of the crew on HGTV’s hot shows, “Decked Out”, “Disaster Decks”, “Deck Wars” and “Custom Built”.

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For more information call 1.403.346.5321 or visit www.RedDeerHomeShow.ca Playhouse Raffle: Canadian Home Builders Association - Central Alberta has teamed up with Women’s Outreach to help raise money to pay off the mortgage of Julietta’s Place, a second-stage housing facility for women escaping domestic violence. The playhouse will be revealed at the Red Deer Home Show. Tickets $5 each available through Women’s Outreach at the Red Deer Home Show. Thank you to our 2016 playhouse sponsor!

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the provincial premiers managed to bridge deep divides over carbon pricing Thursday en route to Canada’s first national consensus on pursuing climate policy. But the deal hammered out in Vancouver by Trudeau and 13 provincial and territorial leaders appears destined to be relitigated in the months ahead as the hard details of the agreement take shape. “The transition to a low-carbon economy will happen by a broad suite of measures, which will include pricing carbon,” Trudeau said at the conclusion of a scheduled five-hour meeting that stretched into more than six. “That is something that we’ve all committed to.” He said the first ministers will reconvene next fall, after four working groups report back on broad policy areas, “where we will finalize a pan-Canadian plan” to combat climate change. The prime minister readily conceded that the first ministers have challenges ahead. As B.C. Premier Christy Clark observed, the Vancouver Declaration’s agreement to examine carbon pricing mechanisms “can be interpreted pretty broadly.” The federal government had been quietly insisting for weeks that a national carbon price, as promised in the Liberal election platform, would be imposed from above if provinces were unable to agree. In the end, everyone appeared to get something of what they wanted. Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said the specific language in the eightpage declaration clearly includes “market transactions related to (carbon) mitigation technologies” — a

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Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Dwight Ball, left to right, British Columbia Premier Christy Clark, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil and P.E.I. Premier Wade MacLauchlan attend the First Ministers Meeting in Vancouver, B.C., Thursday. roundabout way of including Saskatchewan’s carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. “We’re doing that already, so that’s easy to agree to,” said Wall, the most vocal opponent of carbon taxation. And he promised a fight if there is “some sort of notion” that there was any agreement here to set carbon taxes. On the other side of the ledger, a senior federal official quietly grinned when asked about the compromise, saying it was enough to get everyone’s signature on a document that includes carbon pricing. Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said the deal may “sound bureaucratic” but there are tight timelines for the working groups to report and a clear consensus on the need for policy action. “Everybody was in the room and nobody was debating whether we need-

ed to take action on climate change, no one was really debating whether some form of pricing in some fashion was going to be required to take action on climate change and everybody was very committed to the timelines,” said Notley. In addition to carbon pricing mechanisms, the working groups will examine adaptation and resilience, such as clean infrastructure spending, clean tech innovation and jobs, and climate mitigation strategies. Environmental advocates and carbon policy experts called the agreement a good start. “They got a lot of the big issues right,” said Erin Flanagan of the Pembina Institute. “We’d love to have this all nailed down. But we have to put this in the context of a new federal government. They haven’t had all that much time.”

Time to rewrite Citizenship Act: advocate BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — When it comes to immigration law, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau likes to say, “A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian” — but one advocate says it’s actually not that simple. The Liberal government should be taking more steps to help law-abiding people whose road to citizenship is blocked by the existing law, said Don Chapman, a longtime champion for so-

called “lost Canadians.” It’s time for the Citizenship Act to be scrapped and rewritten, Chapman said — and he believes the upcoming 150th anniversary of Confederation is the perfect time. Those born in Canada were considered British until the definition of Canadian citizenship was established in 1947— which is where the problems began. For instance, a baby born to a Canadian woman outside the country’s borders would not have been deemed

Canadian if the mother was married to a man of a different nationality, but would be if the mother was unmarried. In 1977, an updated law created new issues. It established the concept of dual citizenship, but did not restore Canadian citizenship for those who lost theirs when they switched under the earlier law. The consequences of these two pieces of legislation were people who became known as “lost Canadians” — mostly those who believed themselves to be citizens, but by law were not.

OTTAWA — A Canada-U.S. initiative to create new, cross-border, law-enforcement teams has been “postponed” due to unresolved concerns about how to treat police officers accused of breaking the law. The so-called next-generation border project has been put off as discussions continue with U.S. officials — almost four years after pilot projects were supposed to begin, said Staff Sgt. Julie Gagnon, a force spokeswoman. The initiative — part of the 2011 Canada-U.S. perimeter security pact — would see the two countries build on joint border-policing efforts by creating integrated teams in areas such as intelligence and criminal investigations. Two pilot projects were supposed to get underway by summer 2012. But in 2013, it emerged that the effort was being held up by the difficult question of which country’s legal system would apply if a police officer were accused of breaking the law. In an interview, then-U.S. ambassador David Jacobson spelled out the challenges. “If an RCMP officer is in North Dakota, and they’re chasing a criminal and they go to shoot somebody, well what are the laws that govern the appropriate use of force? Is it Canadian rules? Is it American rules?” Jacobson said. “What happens if there’s a lawsuit in North Dakota? Does the Canadian RCMP officer want to be subject to litigation in the United States? We have slightly different rules,” he said. “The question is: which rules are going to apply to which? It is a complicated question.” Another issue: where would a citizen of one country take allegations of ill-treatment at the hands of an officer from the other country? A March 2015 RCMP briefing note, recently obtained under the Access to Information Act, said the Mounties should stick to their position that officers from Canada and the U.S. be treated equally “under a common criminal liability regime.” The Public Safety Department says there has been no change in the border policing project’s status since the initial delay. The perimeter security deal between the two countries, known as the Beyond the Border initiative, includes dozens of projects aimed at improving continental security while allowing low-risk passengers and goods to move easily across the 49th parallel.

Trump ‘playing the American public for suckers’: Romney BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Republican’s most recent presidential nominees, Mitt Romney and John McCain, lambasted current front-runner Donald Trump on Thursday, calling him unfit for office and a danger for the nation, in an extraordinary show of intra-party chaos. “His is not the temperament of a stable, thoughtful leader,” Romney declared. He called Trump “a phoney” who is “playing the American public for suckers,” a man whose “imagination must not be married to real power.” Hours later, Trump lashed back, calling Romney “a choke artist” who lost to Barack Obama four years ago only because he was such a poor can-

didate. The vicious feud marked a near-unprecedented scenario pitting the Republican Party’s most prominent leaders, past and present, against each other as Democrats begin to unite around Hillary Clinton. Underlying the clash is a b l e a k r e a l i t y MITT ROMNEY for panicking Republican officials: Beyond harsh words, there is little they see to stop Trump’s march toward the

presidential nomination. Party leaders are poring over complicated delegate math, outlining hazy scenarios for a contested national convention and even flirting with the idea of a third-party effort. Romney confidant Ron Kaufman, a senior member of the Republican National Committee, openly embraced the possibility of a contested convention: “If that’s the only way to stop Trump, it makes sense,” he said. In the most notable verbal attacks against Trump to date, Romney and his 2012 running mate, House Speaker Paul Ryan, urged voters in the strongest terms to shun the former reality television star. Arizona Sen. McCain, joined in, raising “many concerns about Mr. Trump’s uninformed and indeed dangerous statements on national secu-

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Expert testimony on honour killing tainted trial: appeal BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A father, mother and son, who were convicted of murdering the couple’s three daughters and another family member, have asked Ontario’s highest court for new trials, arguing the original one had been tainted by “highly prejudicial” testimony on so-called honour killings. Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba

Yahya and their son Hamed were convicted in January 2012 of four counts of first-degree murder — killings their trial judge described as being motivated by their “twisted concept of honour.” But the trio’s lawyers argued Thursday that testimony from a Crown expert on so-called honour killings should not have been allowed and was among several errors made by the trial judge.

“That type of evidence is flat out prohibited,” lawyer Frank Addario told a panel of three appeal court judges. “She should not have been permitted to tell (the jury) how honour killings are typically carried out or read out denunciations on honour killings.” The Shafia family was originally from Afghanistan but fled at the outbreak of war in the country and eventually immigrated to Canada. In June 2009, the bodies of Shafia

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Brittany Ginter, hospital co-ordinator with the Medicine River Wildlife Centre, works with a golden eagle. Wildlife officers, they will attempt to educate the trappers about potential ways they might avoid trapping non-target species, Cox said. Albert John (AJ) Callbeck is the Alberta Trappers’ Association’s Trapper education co-ordinator. “Most of the snares we use nowadays and the ones we advocate as a trappers association and teach in our education courses are things like break-away devices.” “Of course nothing is 100 per cent. You are always going to have the odd case like this happening but when people are doing it properly, with the proper training that we provide, these things pretty much don’t happen anymore at all.” When asked about the 15 cougars being caught and killed, he said: “But to compare that, how many cougars got caught and got released that weren’t reported either” That’s the comparison. “You can say 15 cougars and it sounds terrible but if you caught 100 cougars that were released with these devices, comparing the two without all the data, it’s really hard to give an opinion. … Are they using those breakaway devices?” The Trappers association had asked the previous PC Alberta government to make them mandatory. Callbeck said it wasn’t being addressed by the current NDP government. “There’s no economic reason why a trapper would want to catch eagles or other non-targeted species.” “Everyone compares themselves to Canada when it comes to humane trapping,” Callbeck argues. The use of kill springs on the snares “makes them extremely humane devices … puts the animal down in a matter of a minute,” he said. “Nothing is 100 per cent. … this entire season I maybe had one coyote that was caught improperly. The equipment is very very effective.” “There’s no reason for a trapper to want to catch something and make it suffer … I have to sleep at night too.” Since snares are classified as a killing device there’s no legal requirement for a trapper to check them at a certain time but its makes sense “economical, ethically and morally” to check them quickly. Most trappers don’t leave them more than a couple days, Callbeck said. The golden eagles were found trapped in the snares by Fish and Wildlife officers on Feb. 21 after a

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Rodtka said there are few regulations about snaring, which can be done on Crown and private land (with right-of-access) and adjacent to other properties. Signage does not need to be posted. Last month a dog was killed when it got caught in a baited snare trap in the Edmonton area. There have been reports over the years of dogs being killed or injured in this manner in Central Alberta as well. Rodtka said by the time he retired, he was comfortable with the way snaring of predator animals around livestock had evolved and was rigidly controlled by Alberta Agriculture. A limited number of snares are allowed and they must be checked every day. Managing livestock where there are predators has improved over the years, and the philosophy of killing predators indiscriminately has also changed. The snares used by trappers fall under Alberta Fish and Wildlife regulations. They are considered to be killing devices because wildlife can be dead in a few minutes. But Rodtka said many things can go wrong — such as an animal being caught on the wrong part of its body, or weather could cause the snare to not close properly. “I’ve seen animals snared around the stomach. It’s just a gross mess.” “Under laboratory conditions … you can kill an animal in 10 minutes. The problem under field conditions you can’t replicate, the kill time can go on for days.” Rodtka said today’s snares are made of hardened steel cable that cannot be cut with regular side cutters. He recommends people who are out with their pets buy a special pair of cutters available from trapping or tool supply stores. He said snares now have a diverter on them — the theory being for example that a moose would hit the wire and the snare would then collapse harmlessly. It can still catch the animals’s nose or foot, he said, and he believes the diverter’s effect is minimal. “The answer with snares in my opinion there’s nothing that can be done that will make them humane. It’s impossible.” He would like to see them phased out, that certified humane traps can be used in their place and they be checked every 24 hours, and that neighbours must be told snaring is in the area. Rodtka said there’ are hundreds of photographs of snared animals in obvious torturous situations. “It’s the stuff horror movies are made out of.” “It’s being ignored by the government.” Brendan Cox, spokesperson for Fish and Wildlife enforcement from Alberta Justice and Solicitor General, confirmed that the eagles and cougars were snared in the Sundre area last month. The eagles were caught about 12 kms outside of Sundre on an isolated grazing lease. “At this time we believe that these were legal wolf snares but it is still an open investigation.” There have been several incidents this year of cougars caught in wolf snares, Cox said. “No laws are broken. It’s an unfortunate thing where the non-target species are caught.” From the standpoint of Fish and

member of the public called the Report A Poacher line. Carol Kelly, executive director of the Medicine River Wildlife Centre, said they then brought the birds to a veterinarian who removed a snare from one of the male’s wings, and a snare from the head of the female eagle. Kelly said it was not common for the wildlife centre to have animals brought in that had been snared but there have been some cases. She said the birds looked good externally when they came in, however an autopsy on the female after it died showed that she had suffered stress-related organ failure. On Thursday afternoon the male was showing positive signs of being more feisty. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

TRIAL: Decision expected May 13 Comparing his witnesses to the Crown’s expert, Teskey said Dr. Marc

and Yahya’s daughters — Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13 — and Shafia’s first wife in a polygamous marriage, 52-year-old Rona Amir Mohammad, were found in a car at the bottom of the Rideau Canal in Kingston, Ont. The Crown at the trial asserted the murders were committed after the girls “shamed” the family by dating and acting out, and Amir Mohammad was simply disposed of. Nesca and Dr. Marcel Hediger had substantive conversations with Lindsay whereas Dr. Peter Rodd only spoke with Lindsay for two hours. Teskey hammered on the point that Rodd was only brought in as a consultant while Nesca and Hediger’s assessments were longer. Hediger was not cross examined by the Crown, which Teskey interpreted to mean his evidence was highly credible. Crown Prosecutor Bina Border said Nesca’s evidence relied on inadmissible and hearsay evidence, saying his testimony was not reliable enough for the court on its own. All three expert witnesses gave evidence Lindsay is schizophrenic. Teskey’s fellow defence counsel Curtis Steeves focused his remarks on the consistency of Lindsay’s evidence on how the murder took place. He highlighted the fears Lindsay had about Turner that led to the violence present in the crime. “His delusions started slowly and evolved,” said Teskey. “They didn’t come out of nowhere.” Teskey said the act was committed as a form of self-defence and Lindsay was so worried about Turner’s reanimation that he strangled her and ran her over. Border said Lindsay’s parents’ testimony was unreliable as they did not have a complete understanding of the volume of illicit substances Lindsay used. The parents’ testimony had provided some background on Lindsay’s developing mental illness from his younger days. The issue of drug induced psychosis versus psychosis originating from his schizophrenia has been an ongoing trial issue. Border pointed to a substance abuse gap in 2007 for Lindsay. He had moved back in with his parents and stopped drinking. It wasn’t until he started drinking again that Lindsay and his parent’s relationship deteriorated and Lindsay was once again out of the family home. Lindsay showed emotion for the second time during the trial as he cried during Teskey’s submissions. Justice Eldon Simpson reserved his decision until May 13. He is expected to provide a lengthy written decision and a brief oral summary. mcrawford@reddeeradvoate.com

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BRIEFS Flight attendant sues WestJet after alleged sex assault by pilot during layover VANCOUVER — A former flight attendant is taking WestJet to court, accusing the airline of failing to take proper action after she alleged she was sexually assaulted by a pilot and then fired for asking how the company responded to her complaint. Documents filed this week in B.C. Supreme Court describe how Mandalena Lewis was on a stopover in Hawaii in January 2010 when an unnamed WestJet pilot allegedly pulled her onto a hotel bed and proceeded to kiss and grope her. “(Lewis) was terrified,” reads a statement of claim filed in the case. “She resisted physically, yelling that he stop. … In her panic, (she) managed to leverage her legs into a position where she was physically able to kick out and push (the pilot) off her.” After returning to her room, the document says: “She vomited, cried, attempted to calm herself without success and barely slept.” The court document says after the alleged incident was reported, the Calgary-based company changed Lewis’s work schedule to avoid overlap with the pilot, which left her with fewer working hours. It also alleges that she was instructed to keep quiet out of respect for the pilot’s privacy. Lewis’s lawyer, Sean Hern, said his client has consented to her name being made public. None of the allegations have been proven in court and WestJet has not filed a statement of defence.

RDC instructors to discuss morality at symposium Four perspectives will discuss morality at an upcoming symposium at Red Deer College. The Red Deer College Psychology Society will host the second annual Interdisciplinary Symposium Conversation on Mind in the Margaret Parsons Theatre on March 11. Four RDC instructors — Jamie Prowse-Turner, Anomi Bearden, Randy Johnson, and Daniel Haas — will discuss morality and where it originates. They will speak from four perspectives of social psychology, cognitive neuropsychology, sociology and anthropology and philosophy. A question period will follow the presentations. Morality impacts everyday decisions, said Psychology Society president Daniel Geary. “You look at elections and politician’s promises,” said Geary, “most people know politicians do not tell the truth. So why do we vote for them? What’s the justification? What is the reasoning for right and wrong? Is there a right and wrong? Where does that come from in humans?” Geary said it is extremely important to engage in a dialogue of this magnitude, especially given the changing social climate, in a country that celebrates its diversity as does Canada. He said this forum is for everybody who wants to learn and those who are open to thinking differently and build a better understanding of issues without bias. The forum begins at 7 p.m. Refreshments will follow the discussion. The symposium is open to the community. There is no admission. Seating is limited.

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Helewka signs with Sharks BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Clearly, Adam Helewka listened to the San Jose Sharks coaches. When the Sharks’ fourth-round pick left his first-ever NHL training camp last fall to return to the Spokane Chiefs, the San Jose people suggested that he work on certain aspects of his game during his final WHL season. Mission accomplished. The Red Deer Rebels forward, acquired from the Chiefs in January, realized a dream when he signed a three-year, entry-level deal with the Sharks Thursday that includes a US $80,000 bonus. “I guess they (Sharks) liked what they’ve seen Adam Helewka so far this season,” said Helewka. “I’m very happy to be with San Jose, its a great organization. “With all the hard work over the years, it’s a good feeling to see it all kind of pay off here. I know that it’s a start to a lot of things and it’s good for my parents as well with the stuff they’ve gone through during my career and how they’ve helped me get to this point.” Helewka, a gifted offensive player, was selected by the Sharks after scoring 44 goals last season with Spokane. The San Jose training camp in September was an eye-opener for the Burnaby, B.C., product who returned to the junior ranks armed with some valuable advice. “They told me to just work on my physicality a bit, get quicker to adapt to the pro level and just be more of a two-way player,” he said. “They wanted me to focus on defence as well as play a bit heavier… throwing the body around and winning battles.” Helewka, 20, has put up 32 points — 18 goals included — in 26 games with the Rebels while adapting to the style of play preferred by the Red Deer coaching staff. “It’s been OK the last five or six (games),” he said, in reference to his performance with his new club. “I know come playoff time myself and a lot of other guys are going to have to pick it up in terms of playing faster and heavier … playing the way our coaches are trying to get us all playing together.” While the Rebels’ victims — the Regina Pats and Swift Current Broncos — are not WHL heavyweights, Helewka feels the team took some strides in a positive direction after allowing just three goals in total during a recent 2-0 road trip that concluded Tuesday. “We’re really trying to focus on the defensive side of our game right now,” he said. “That’s a good result to see— not letting in as many goals. Now we just have to keep building on it.” The Rebels entertain the Calgary Hitmen tonight in a proverbial four-pointer. The Hitmen sit five points back of the Rebels, who are third in the Eastern Conference, with Calgary having a game in hand. The clubs meet again Sunday in Calgary. “These are two of the biggest games we’re going to play,” said Helewka. “And then we have two against Lethbridge next weekend. “We needs these points because we’re neck and neck with Calgary. We know how important these games are and we’ll go out and play the way we know we can and the way we need to, which is playing fast and using our size and strength to advantage. If we do that, I think we’ll be OK.” If the regular season ended today, the Rebels and Hitmen would meet in a first-round playoff series, lending even more importance to the weekend matches. “That’s another part of it,” said Helewka. “The mental side is kind of letting them know how it’s going to be and how we want to control the games.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Notre Dame Cougar Jeb Maribojoc runs the ball up court as Hunting Hills Lightning Gabe Duckering chases during first half senior high boys basketball playoff action at Notre Dame, Thursday.

Cougars and Raiders finish sweep of semifinal series BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Cougars 77 Lightning 61 Raiders 108 Cougars 35 After the opening game of the Central zone 4A senior high boys basketball semifinal was decided by a single point, Thursday’s Game 2 was supposed to be a toss-up. Someone forgot to tell the host Notre Dame Cougars, who outscored the Hunting Hills Lightning 2812 in the second quarter en route to a 77-61 victory and a sweep of the best-of-three series. Earlier, the Lindsay Thurber Raiders ripped Notre Dame 108-35 to complete a senior girls semifinal sweep. Both zone finals will be played at Thurber on Thursday, with the Cougars meeting the Raiders in the boys contest and the girls game featuring the hosts and Hunting Hills. All four teams will compete in the 4A provincials March 17-19 at the three Red Deer schools. “It’s always a long season but this has been a fun group of guys to work with and I think there’s still more in the tank,” said Notre Dame boys coach Stephen Meredew. “We have one more game in our zone to prove it.” The Cougars, who prevailed 61-60 in Tuesday’s series opener, held a slim 22-21 lead after one quarter Thursday but were up 50-33 at the half thanks partly to their inside dominance. “One of the hardest pieces of work to do in basketball is rebounding,” said Meredew. “It’s not really a glory-filled job but when our guys put their minds to it they’re darn good at it. “In the first half we did a great job of keeping them off the boards. If it’s one-and-done, it’s easy defence after that.” Cody White led the Cougars with a 31-point performance, while Josh Ballantyne netted 15 points and Jeb Maribojoc scored 12. The Lightning, who trailed 61-44 after three quarters, got 27 points from Rohit Razzaq and 13 from Steel MacDonald. Hunting Hills closed to within 10 points with four minutes remaining in the final quarter, but the Cougars scored the next six points to all but seal the deal. “You never like to extend a series and we already

did a good job of almost seemingly handing them a chance to do just that on Tuesday,” said Meredew. “We had a big lead and we let our focus slip a little. Hunting Hills played great, they’re always a hard-working team and they’re going to come hard all of the time. “Kevin (DeJonge) is a great coach and they have some guys with never-say-die attitudes, some multisport athletes, and they proved that on Tuesday. We had a huge lead on them and they didn’t pack it in. They kept coming and I knew they were going to do the same tonight.” The Cougars were ready. “Our guys had to focus for 40 minutes and they finally did that,” said Meredew. “That’s what we’ll have to do the next two weeks. If we have any two-minute vacations out there on the court it’s going to get ugly in a hurry. We have to be focused for 40 minutes and I think our guys did that tonight. It was one of our better games.” ● Kelsey Lalor poured in 31 points to lead the Raiders to their one-sided senior girls victory. Hayley Lalor had 16 points for the winners, Kailie Loewen scored 14 and Elizabeth Morneault, Kiera Fujimoto and Nikki Thomas each hit for 10. “Notre Dame played much harder against us tonight,” said Raiders coach Kathy Lalor, whose squad prevailed 79-16 in Tuesday’s first game. “They’re battling some injuries and some sicknesses and they came out and played hard.” The Cougars got six points from each of Hayley Hollings, Heather Daniel and Lexi Kowalchuk. “This was probably one of the best games our girls have played in a long time as a team,” said Lalor. “We tried to set up and run our half-court offence and I thought we did a pretty good job of it, especially in the second half when we didn’t press as much. “That’s something we’ve been working really hard on the last month.” ● The Lindsay Thurber boys and Hunting Hills girls advanced to the zone finals — and earned berths in the 4A provincials — with respective 91-55 and 71-27 wins at Lacombe. Kelsey Kolesnik led the Lightning with 14 points. Kristen Loney added 11 and Jessie Handley scored 10. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Kings open ACAC championships with win over Lakeland BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

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Kings 106 Rustlers 89 OLDS — A year ago the RDC Kings went into the Alberta Colleges Men’s Basketball League finals as the No. 1 team in the South Division and heavy favourites to reach the final. Instead they were upset by the host Keyano Huskies in the quarter-finals and had to settle for fifth place. They weren’t about to let that happen again. Once again they went into the championships as the top team out of the South. This time they took care of business, downing the Lakeland College Rustlers 106-89 at Olds College Thursday. “We controlled play from start to finish,” said Kings head coach Clayton Pottinger. “We got out on them in the first quarter, limiting them to 17 points, and while they scored more the next three quarters we continued to score as well. So it was never a problem. ‘The pace the game was pretty high, a little high-

er than normal, but the guys did a great job. They worked hard and made them earn their points.” The Kings led 29-17 at the end of the first quarter and 62-44 at the half. “They’re a good three-point shooting team and rebound well but we did good job of controlling both,” added Pottinger. “They got a few threes in, but you can’t eliminate them all.” The Kings controlled the boards, holding a 42-28 edge in rebounds, led by Shayne Stumpf, who had 10. The Kings also spread their scoring around. Anthony Ottley finished with 27 points to go with six rebounds and three assists. Rodney Team had one of his best games of the season with 18 points while JP LeBlanc had 19 points and Matt Matear 14 points, six rebounds and three assists. The Kings bench also proved to be stronger than the Rustlers, holding a 36-23 edge in scoring. ‘We did spread our points around, which is what

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we need. Plus the second half I used a lot of our bench with several guys getting good minutes. Everyone should be ready to play two games in two days, then we’ll see about three in three.” The Kings face the NAIT Ooks in tonight’s 8 p.m. semifinal. NAIT advanced with an 99-81 victory over the host Olds Broncos. On the other side the Huskies, who will host the national finals and have a berth wrapped up, beat Lethbridge 95-79 and Medicine Hat stopped Grande Prairie 93-82. If Keyano reaches the final the winner of the RDC-NAIT contest will also advance to the national championships. “We watched NAIT and they’re good … we’ll need to defend hard,” said Pottinger. On the women’s side in Lloydminster, the host Lakeland Rustlers downed SAIT 69-54, NAIT beat Medicine Hat 91-54, Lethbridge stopped Augustana 77-44 and St. Mary’s defeated Grande Prairie 86-42. Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog.

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Time flies when you’re having fun ON THE ICE GREG MEACHEM

This week in Rebels history

INSIDER

Brent Sutter

The Red Deer Rebels, their lease on the WHL penthouse all but secured, nevertheless ran their winning streak to eight games with a 6-2 conquest of the visiting Seattle Thunderbirds on March 3 of 2001. The Rebels, with Ross Lupaschuk firing his 23rd goal of the season to tie a franchise record set by Darren Van Impe in the 1992-93 season, and Justin Mapletoft — en route to winning the league scoring title — snapping Craig Reichert’s record for most assists (67, in ‘93-94), rolled over the ‘Birds in impressive fashion. The manner in which they kept their feet to the pedal impressed GM/ head coach Brent Sutter. “That’s probably one of the best through-and-through games we’ve played for awhile,” said Sutter. “It’s not like we haven’t played well through this string of games we’ve won, but we hardly had any letdowns at all all tonight. I just thought we got stronger as the game went on.” Kyle Wanvig and Martin Erat each scored twice for Red Deer, while Jim Vandermeer had the other goal.

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Cole Sanford

“I love shooting the puck. I practise shooting the puck in the summer every day. In my 17-yearold year (with the Medicine Hat Tigers) I scored two goals and wanted to find a way to work on my shot even more. (The next year) I pumped it up to 33. I worked on my shot a lot that summer during the hot days. Shooting pucks and playing road hockey with friends, all that stuff helps.” — Regina Pats overage forward Cole Sanford, to Greg Harder of the Regina Leader-Post.

They say time flies when you’re having fun. Your faithful correspondent can identify with that axiom. It was 35 years ago this May that I hired on at the Advocate and joined a team of lovely and talented journalists, a group that changed faces many, many times but always remained a team. And now it’s time that I take my leave like so many before me. This is one of the final pieces I will pen for the Advocate before officially packing it in after cranking out one last Rebels game story Friday night. It’s been a great run, one that has stretched over 34 years and a large chunk of change, and yet one that seemingly started not nearly that long ago. It seems like just yesterday, or the day before, or … well, you get my drift. Memories? There are many, of course. My first beat of regularity was following the junior A Rustlers, a responsibility that took me west on three occasions as the AJHL championship squad took on the B.C.

champs for the right to then meet the Manitoba-Saskatchewan winner and represent Western Canada in a national championship final. There were trips to Penticton, Richmond and Vernon, the 1989 series with Richmond being the last games the Rustlers played before the franchise died. The series with the Richmond Sockeyes was the most memorable of the three. The highly-favoured Sockeyes featured several former major junior skaters, including defenceman Matt Hervey who went on to play in the NHL with Winnipeg, Boston and Tampa Bay. The Richmond squad took the first two games of the best-of-seven set at home, with Sockeye fans tossing golf balls at the Red Deer bench near the end of Game 2. The series then moved to the Red Deer Arena, with Advocate sports columnist Jack Wilson — prior to Game 3 — suggesting that Rustlers fans return the favour and welcome with Sockeyes with not fresh salmon, but canned salmon. The Richmond coaching staff and players were not impressed, but got the last laugh when the visitors finally prevailed in seven games — the final five being more than just a tad physical — and went on to capture the national championship. Other events that will never be forgotten by yours truly include the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, during which I watched Karen Percy — who had Innisfail

ties — win a downhill ski bronze, the 1990 world figure skating championships in Halifax where Caroline’s Kurt Browning won his second of three consecutive world titles, and several Battles of Alberta between the Oilers and Flames. Additional events of note that I was blessed with the privilege of covering include the 1994 Centennial Cup tournament won by the host Olds Grizzlys, the Brier that same year at the Centrium and the two Scotties Tournament of Hearts shows hosted by Red Deer. In 1992 the Red Deer Rebels entered the picture and quickly became the biggest sports story in town. The club made the WHL playoffs as an expansion side, then experienced numerous dips and dives before winning the Memorial Cup in 2001 at Regina. Covering the Rebels for Central Alberta’s newspaper has been a great honour and without doubt the most enjoyable of my many responsibilities over the years. But time is up and life goes on. My replacement at the sports desk will surely continue to provide readers with in-depth coverage of the WHL squad as well as the oodles of sports teams and athletes that are worthy of recognition. Again, its been a great run. Thirty five years, or very nearly, is indeed a long time. And yet it isn’t. Not when you’re having fun. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Red Deer’s Fisher is a coach’s dream OVERAGE FORWARD HAS BEEN BIG PART OF VICTORIA ROYALS SURGE TO TOP OF WESTERN CONFERENCE BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR He’s nothing if not dependable, and every hockey coach loves that trait. Forward Logan Fisher, a Red Deer native, has been a big part of the Victoria Royals’ recent surge that has bolted them to the top of the Western Conference, one point ahead of the Kelowna Rockets. Royals head coach Dave Lowry is a huge fan of the overage centre, who serves as one of his assistant captains. “Fish has been huge for us,” said Lowry, following Victoria’s 6-2 win over the Red Deer Rebels last Saturday at the Centrium. “He epitomizes what our team is about, what our organization is about. “He came in as an unknown at 17 and he’s really grasped an identity in this league on how to be successful. He plays against the other teams’ top lines every night. He kills penalties for us, takes critical faceoffs and provides leadership.” Fisher, who joined the Royals in the fall of 2012 after helping the Red Deer Chiefs win the Telus Cup — the Canadian midget AAA championship — a few months earlier at Leduc, relishes his role as a leader but prefers to deflect the credit. “We definitely have a young team, a lot of young guys, but they work hard every day,” he said. “A guy like Philly (34 goal, 70-point rookie forward Matthew Phillips) … he’s not a big guy but he works hard. “We also have young guys on the back end and we have a good leadership group with guys who have been here a long time and are good guys to be around. There’s nobody here that you don’t want to be around. It’s good that way, like a family. We’re honestly like a big family right now and it’s fun to be at the rink.” From a statistical standpoint, Fisher is enjoying his finest WHL season with 11 goals and 31 points in 65 games. “It’s been going really well for myself, I’ve really enjoyed it,” he said. “I’m soaking in every minute and when Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate Staff you’re winning like this and everyone’s Victoria Royals centreman Logan Fisher, who hails from Red Deer, plays against the Red playing well, it’s good to see everyone succeed. Deer Rebels at the Enmax Centrium on Saturday night. Fisher has become a leader for the “Personally, it feels good, as well. It’s an Royals and is looking forward to a long playoff run after a strong season. exciting time around our locker room and we’re looking forward to the future.” “That year we won the Telus Cup was re- said. “We really thought we were going to While Lowry is a big fan of Fisher, the ally a big year for myself as far as building probably take our lumps. feeling is mutual. confidence and playing a lot of hockey,” he “Everyone had kind of written us off as “Dave is one of the best,” said Fisher. noted. “And then succeeding and knowing being a non-playoff team and a team that “He coached Team Canada (in the 2016 what it feels like to win a championship was going to struggle for wins. I have to world juniors). I with a good group give a lot of credit to our leadership in haven’t a bad word of players I grew the room. The guys in the room have an to say about him. up with … that was enormous amount of pride and they really He’s one of the huge. respect and accept each other for what they best and he leads “That team felt are and their roles.” by example. a lot like this team Fisher, a major part of that leadership “He played 19 feels — like a fam- core, will move on to another level next years in the NHL. ily that came to- season, be it pro or Canadian university. He knows what gether. That midg- Naturally, he would prefer to play for pay. he’s talking about et year was one of “Every kid growing up wants to play pro and when he talks my biggest years, and that would be my ultimate goal,” he everyone listens. for sure.” said. “But I’m just looking forward to finThat’s a big part -Dave Lowry, Victoria Royals head coach Heading into ishing the year and seeing what happens. of having a young the current sea- CIS (Canadian university) hockey is getting group — guys who son, Lowry admit- better and better each year so that’s a good listen. We’re not a selfish team at all. We’re ted that he had no idea his rebuilding team option as well with the Dub scholarship learning from each other.” would eventually take off and get to the program. Fisher also credits former midget Chiefs point where the Royals are recognized as a “At the end of the day, if I could play pro head coach Doug Quinn and his 2011-12 legitimate WHL championship contender. that would be the ultimate dream for a kid teammates for helping him develop and “I didn’t think the team would be in the from Red Deer.” prepare for the major junior game. position we’re (currently) in this year,” he gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Flames fall in Buffalo for seventh straight loss BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Sabres 6 Flames 3 BUFFALO, N.Y. — Thanks to an influx of young talent, Sabres forward Marcus Foligno is pleased to see incremental signs of progress after Buffalo bottomed out the previous two seasons. “Last year was last year, and it’s tough to compare because we’ve improved in a lot of areas,” Foligno said, after having a goal and two assists in 6-3 win over the Calgary Flames on Thursday night. “But it’s great to see that we’re headed in the right direction.” Though Buffalo has fallen out of the playoff hunt, the scoresheet is the latest indication of improvement for a rebuilding franchise coming off consecutive last-place finishes. With 16 games remaining, Buffalo has 153 goals, which matches the team’s NHL-low total from last year. The Sabres have scored six or more three times this season, after doing so just twice over the previous two years combined. “I think we can be better,” rookie centre Jack Eichel said. “It’s really good to see that we’ve taken a step forward. … But I don’t think we should be satisfied with that.” Eichel scored his 18th of the season to snap a seven-game drought. Johan Larsson got the go-ahead goal with 9:31 left, and Nicolas Deslauriers, Rasmus Ristolainen and Evander Kane, with an empty-netter, also scored. The Sabres improved to 10-0-2 in their past 12 home games against the Flames, with their last regulation loss a 3-1 defeat on March 15, 1996. The loss extended the Flames’ skid to 0-6-1 and they dropped into last place in the Western Conference after provincial rival Edmonton vaulted ahead with a 4-0 win at Philadelphia. “It’s been the same thing the past seven games now,” defenceman Dougie Hamilton said. “We’ve been taking too many penalties and gave up a lot of momentum and they score on the power plays,” he added. “I think we’ve been talking about it and nobody’s really changed anything. So that’s probably the frustrating thing about it.” Hamilton and Sean Monahan each had a goal and an assist, and Mikael Backlund also scored for the Flames. Calgary’s winless streak is its longest since going 0-7-1 in December 2014. The Sabres took control after Monahan scored 3:56 into the third period to tie the game at 3. Brian Gionta set up Larsson’s goal by pouncing on a loose puck to the left of the Flames net. Drawing two defenders to him, Gionta slipped a past to Larsson, who was alone in front and backhanded a shot over goalie Jonas Hiller’s left shoulder. Eichel scored 3 minutes later to put Buffalo ahead 5-3 by snapping a shot through a crowd from the blue line that sneaked in just under the crossbar. “We are a very undisciplined team right now,” Flames coach Bob Hartley said. “We put ourselves in a bad spot.” The game was tied at 1 before there were three goals — one short-handed, one on the power play and the third at even strength — in a span of 77 seconds late in the second period. Foligno made a nifty move to step around Flames defenceman T.J. Brodie and score on a short-handed breakaway with 4:03 left in the frame. Hamilton scored off the next faceoff by beating Robin Lehner on the short side with a shot from the right circle. And then Zach Bogosian intercepted a weak Flames clearing attempt to set up Deslauriers, who snapped a shot from the left circle to beat Hiller on the short side and put Buffalo up 3-2.

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Edmonton Oilers’ Nail Yakupov (10) scores a goal against Philadelphia Flyers’ Michal Neuvirth (30), Radko Gudas (3) and Michael Raffl (12) during the first period of an NHL game, Thursday, in Philadelphia. ton 16-9. Philadelphia’s best opportunity may have been with 9 .5 minutes left in the period when Sean Couturier fired at a wide-open net, only to have the puck deflect off Korpikoski before Talbot pounced on the puck just as it was about to cross the blue line. Four minutes earlier, Mark Streit’s slap shot on a power play caromed off the post. Medvedev hit the post later in the period, following Gostisbehere’s first-period blast from the point that also ricocheted off the post. Gostisbehere’s turnover led to Edmonton’s fourth

goal, Korpikoski’s short-handed tally with 8:01 left in the third period. Neuvirth made his fifth straight start in front of healthy No. 1 goalie Steve Mason and had 27 saves. Notes: Willie O’Ree, the NHL’s first black player, was in attendance. . Edmonton improved to 15-3-2 when leading after the first period. . The Oilers won for the first time in Philadelphia since Nov. 2, 2008. . Edmonton returns to the ice Friday night at Columbus for the third of a four-game road trip. . Flyers RW Jakub Voracek (lower body) missed his second straight game.

RDC curling teams come away with medals from ACAC championships The RDC curling teams competed in the Alberta Colleges championships at Portage College in St. Paul and came away with silver and bronze medals. The women’s squad got off to a slow start with losses to MacEwan, NAIT and Lakeland, then after juggling their lineup due to illness, rebounded in the playoff rounds to defeat Lakeland and NAIT and advance to the gold-medal game. The RDC crew of Marla Sherrer, Julie Selvais, Sara McMann, Courtney Smith and Ashlyn Wozny — with Smith and Selvais named All Conference second and third, respectively — fell to MacEwan in the final but advanced to the nationals March 23-29 in London, Ont. The RDC mixed team of Brett Day, Shayne Copeland, Chloe Logelin, Cyril House and Calvin Kashuba — and coached by Jason Anderson — opened with

wins over Olds and NAIT and a loss to Concordia and eventually defeated NAIT in the bronze-medal match. Brett Day received the prestigious Charles Morter Award for contribution to curling and the Red Deer community. The men’s team opened with round-robin wins over Lakeland and Camrose Augustana and a loss to NAIT that was followed by a playoff loss to NAIT and a semifinal loss to Augustana. With a berth in the nationals on the line, the RDC team defeated Lakeland in an extra end to advance to London. The men’s team consists of Ryan Dahmer, Ty Parcels, Jeff Ireland and Jordan Smith. Dahmer and Parcels were named ACAC All Conference skip and third, respectively and Brad Hamilton was also named ACAC curling coach of the Year.

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Oilers 4 Flyers 0 PHILADELPHIA — Taylor Hall, Nail Yakupov, Patrick Maroon and Lauri Korpikoski all scored, and Cam Talbot made 35 saves to lead Edmonton to its third straight victory, 4-0 over the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night. Talbot, in his ninth straight start, was at his best in the first two periods on his way to his second shutout of the season and 10th of his career. Top rookie Connor McDavid had an assist in his first game versus the Flyers since being injured against them in Philadelphia’s 4-2 win at Edmonton on Nov. 3. The 2015 No. 1 overall pick missed 37 games after breaking his clavicle when he was ridden hard into the boards by Philadelphia’s Brandon Manning, who watched from the press box as a healthy scratch. The loss to the Western Conference’s worst team was a blow to Philadelphia’s playoff chances. The Flyers entered play three games behind Pittsburgh, which beat the New York Rangers on Thursday night, for the Eastern Conference’s final playoff spot. They had won their previous three games on a six-game homestand that continues Saturday against Columbus. Philadelphia was shut out for the fourth time this season, including three at home. McDavid showed off his speed when he blew past defenceman Evgeny Medvedev to set up Edmonton’s opening goal with 8:40 left in the first period. McDavid got in alone on goal and Yakupov poked home the rebound after Michal Neuvirth made the initial stop on McDavid. McDavid, the NHL’s rookie of the month for February, has 20 points in his last 16 games. Philadelphia dominated the second period everywhere but the scoreboard. Edmonton took advantage of a miscommunication between Flyers defensemen Shayne Gostisbehere and Andrew MacDonald at Philadelphia’s blue line. Hall pounced on the puck and got ahead of Gostisbehere, eventually beating Neuvirth on a breakaway to give Edmonton a two-goal lead with 5:38 left in the period. It was Hall’s team-leading 21st goal. And the Oilers went up 3-0 a little under 2 minutes later when Maroon notched his fifth goal of the season in his debut with Edmonton after being traded earlier this week from Anaheim for Martin Gernat and a fourth-round draft pick. The Flyers had a plethora of chances in the period but couldn’t convert despite outshooting Edmon-

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EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt x-Brandon 64 40 18 4 2 270 185 86 x-Prince Albert 63 34 21 7 1 195 194 76 x-Moose Jaw 64 33 23 7 1 224 204 74 Regina 64 31 26 3 4 215 225 69 Saskatoon 63 24 35 4 0 196 271 52 Swift Current 63 21 34 5 3 163 216 50 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt x-Lethbridge 64 42 20 1 1 264 192 86 x-Red Deer 64 39 22 1 2 227 184 81 x-Calgary 63 36 23 2 2 209 195 76 Edmonton 64 27 30 6 1 179 206 61 Medicine Hat 64 25 34 3 2 191 254 55 Kootenay 64 10 48 6 0 135 282 26 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt x-Victoria 65 43 16 3 3 244 150 92 x-Kelowna 63 44 16 3 0 230 188 91 Prince George 65 35 26 3 1 226 202 74 Kamloops 64 30 25 5 4 210 205 69 Vancouver 66 23 35 5 3 188 239 54 U.S. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt Everett 63 36 21 4 2 166 145 78 Seattle 63 37 23 3 0 203 175 77 Portland 63 32 27 4 0 203 198 68 Spokane 63 29 25 5 4 198 214 67 Tri-City 63 30 30 2 1 208 220 63 x — clinched playoff berth Note: winning team is credited with two points and a victory in the W column a team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the respective OTL or SOL column. Wednesday’s results Brandon 12 Saskatoon 2 Lethbridge 5 Moose Jaw 1 Regina 5 Kootenay 3 Prince George 2 Vancouver 1 Kamloops 5 Spokane 0 Thursday’s results No Games Scheduled. Friday’s games Kootenay at Prince Albert, 6 p.m. Swift Current at Regina, 6 p.m. Lethbridge at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m. Moose Jaw at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Medicine Hat at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Kelowna at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Spokane at Prince George, 8 p.m. Tri-City at Portland, 8 p.m. Victoria at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m. Seattle at Everett, 8:35 p.m. Saturday’s games Brandon at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m. Lethbridge at Prince Albert, 6 p.m. Kootenay at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m. Swift Current at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m. Spokane at Prince George, 8 p.m. Vancouver at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Tri-City at Everett, 8:05 p.m. Portland at Seattle, 8:05 p.m. Kamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Sunday’s games Brandon at Regina, 3 p.m. Red Deer at Calgary, 4 p.m. Seattle at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.

WHL Scoring Leaders G 34 50 24

Adam Brooks, Reg Dryden Hunt, MJ Brayden Burke, Let

A 73 53 75

PTS 107 103 99

Nolan Patrick, Bdn Tyson Baillie, Kel Parker Bowles, TC Jayce Hawryluk, Bdn Reid Gardiner, PA Mathew Barzal, Sea Tyler Wong, Let Brayden Point, MJ Alex Forsberg, Vic Ivan Nikolishin, RD Jesse Gabrielle, PG Chase Witala, PG Collin Shirley, Kam Tyler Soy, Vic Matthew Phillips, Vic Jack Walker, Vic Brett Pollock, Edm

38 37 37 35 37 25 37 31 24 31 39 38 33 38 34 29 25

49 49 48 50 45 57 43 46 53 45 33 34 38 32 36 39 42

87 86 85 85 82 82 80 77 77 76 72 72 71 70 70 68 67

Tampa Bay Florida Boston

NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OL GF 64 38 22 4 179 64 36 20 8 176 65 36 23 6 201

GA Pts 152 80 151 80 178 78

Washington NY Rangers NY Islanders

Metropolitan Division GP W L OL GF 63 47 12 4 208 64 37 21 6 181 62 35 20 7 178

GA Pts 146 98 163 80 154 77

Detroit Pittsburgh Philadelphia New Jersey Carolina Ottawa Montreal Columbus Buffalo Toronto

GP 64 63 63 65 65 65 64 64 65 63

GF 163 171 157 145 158 189 175 167 154 150

GA Pts 168 75 161 74 172 69 160 69 174 68 204 67 178 66 196 60 175 60 187 52

Chicago Dallas St. Louis

Western Conference Central Division GP W L OL GF 66 40 21 5 187 65 38 20 7 209 66 37 20 9 166

GA Pts 159 85 189 83 162 83

Anaheim Los Angeles San Jose

Pacific Division GP W L OL GF 63 36 19 8 161 62 37 21 4 165 63 35 22 6 191

GA Pts 147 80 143 78 169 76

Nashville Minnesota Colorado Vancouver Arizona Winnipeg Edmonton Calgary

GP 65 65 66 63 64 63 66 64

WILD CARD W L OL 32 21 11 33 22 8 29 23 11 31 27 7 29 26 10 30 28 7 30 28 6 26 30 8 26 31 8 21 32 10

WILD CARD W L OL 32 21 12 30 25 10 33 29 4 24 27 12 27 31 6 26 32 5 25 34 7 26 34 4

GF 176 172 178 152 169 164 162 173

GA Pts 166 76 163 70 189 70 181 60 203 60 190 57 194 57 203 56

Thursday’s results Buffalo 6 Calgary 3 Edmonton 4 Philadelphia 0 Boston 4 Chicago 2 Pittsburgh 4 NY Rangers 1 Minnesota 2 Toronto 1 Tampa Bay 4 Ottawa 1 NY Islanders 4 Winnipeg 3 (OT) New Jersey 5 Nashville 4 (OT) Colorado 3 Florida 2 Anaheim 5 Arizona 1 San Jose 3 Vancouver 2 Montreal at Los Angeles, late Wednesday’s results Washington 3 Toronto 2 Chicago 5 Detroit 2

Rebels vs. Calgary Hitmen Tonight, 7 p.m., Centrium The Hitmen enter tonight’s all-important contest with a 36-22-2-2 record, good for third place in the Central Division and fourth in the Eastern Conference. The Hitmen are 5-4-1-0 in their last 10 games and clinched a playoff berth with a 4-3 win at Swift Current last Saturday. Calgary currently sits three points back of the Rebels … Philadelphia Flyers draft pick C Radel Fazleev is Calgary’s No. 1 offensive weapon with 63 points (18g,45a) in just 51 games. D Jake Bean, ick in this year’s projected as a first-round pick NHL entry draft, has 59 points, including 22 goals, and fellow rearguard Travis Sanheim is third in team scoring with 53 points (10-43).

Anaheim 3 Montreal 2 (SO) Friday, March 4 NY Rangers at Washington, 5 p.m. Edmonton at Columbus, 5 p.m. New Jersey at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, March 5 Minnesota at Buffalo, 11 a.m. Calgary at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. Nashville at Colorado, 1 p.m. Anaheim at Los Angeles, 2 p.m. Washington at Boston, 5 p.m. Ottawa at Toronto, 5 p.m. Carolina at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m. Columbus at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. Montreal at Winnipeg, 5 p.m. Florida at Arizona, 7 p.m. Vancouver at San Jose, 8 p.m. Sunday, March 6 Dallas at Ottawa, 3 p.m. Pittsburgh at New Jersey, 3 p.m. NY Islanders at NY Rangers, 3 p.m. Detroit at Chicago, 3 p.m. Edmonton at Winnipeg, 5 p.m. St. Louis at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Thursday’s summaries Oilers 4, Flyers 0 First Period 1. Edmonton, Yakupov 6 (McDavid, Eberle) 11:20. Penalties — Schultz Pha (interference) 13:49 Kassian Edm (hooking) 18:09. Second Period 2. Edmonton, Hall 21 (unassisted) 14:22. 3. Edmonton, Maroon 5 (Pardy, Davidson) 16:11. Penalties — Clendening Edm (slashing) 6:08 Lander Edm (holding) 9:24 Nurse Edm (tripping) 17:03. Third Period 4. Edmonton, Korpikoski 7 (Letestu) 11:59 (sh). Penalties — Simmonds Pha, Pardy Edm, Maroon Edm (roughing) 7:16 Kassian Edm (double high-sticking) 11:17 Kassian Edm (high-sticking) 15:46 Gudas Pha, Kassian Edm (roughing) 15:46 Kassian Edm, Gudas Pha (misconduct) 15:46. Shots on goal Edmonton 14 9 8 — 31 Philadelphia 6 16 13 — 35 Goal — Edmonton: Talbot (W, 15-22-4). Philadelphia: Neuvirth (L, 16-8-4). Power plays (goals-chances) — Edmonton: 0-1 Philadelphia: 0-7. Sabres 6, Flames 3 First Period No Scoring. Penalties — Backlund Cgy (hooking) 5:46 Jooris Cgy (tripping) 7:01 Hathaway Cgy (interference) 13:36 McCabe Buf (holding) 16:40 Pysyk Buf (interference) 18:32 Hamilton Cgy (unsportsmanlike conduct) 20:00. Second Period 1. Calgary, Backlund 12 (Hathaway, Bouma) 3:18. 2. Buffalo, Ristolainen 9 (Gionta, Foligno) 10:27. 3. Buffalo, Foligno 8 (Bogosian) 15:57 (sh). 4. Calgary, Hamilton 10 (Monahan, Giordano) 16:12 (pp). 5. Buffalo, Deslauriers 4 (Bogosian) 17:14. Penalties — Nakladal Cgy (hooking) 5:32 Deslauriers Buf (interference) 14:44. Third Period 6. Calgary, Monahan 21 (Hathaway, Hamilton) 3:56. 7. Buffalo, Larsson 4 (Gionta, Foligno) 9:31. 8. Buffalo, Eichel 18 (Kane) 12:46 (pp). 9. Buffalo, Kane 18 (unassisted) 18:29. Penalties — Colborne Cgy (interference) 4:35 Hathaway Cgy (hooking) 10:28 Giordano Cgy (tripping) 10:58. Shots on goal Calgary 4 16 9 — 29 Buffalo 8 14 13 — 35 Goal — Calgary: Hiller (L, 9-10-1). Buffalo: Lehner (W, 5-7-3). Power plays (goals-chances) — Calgary: 1-3 Buffalo: 1-8.

L LW Jakob Stukel (31-19-50), R RW Jackson Houck (18-274 45) and C Jordy Stallard (182 25-43) have all exceeded 40 p points … Calgary stopper C Cody Porter is 19th among W WHL goalies with a 3.14 g goals-against average. He ssports a 21-9-1-1 record with a an .882 save percentage. Injuries — Calgary: D M Matt Dorsey (lower body, ind definite). Red Deer: C Conn ner Bleackley (lower body, 1 1-2 weeks), RW Reese Johnsson (upper body, indefinite), D Josh Mahura (lower body, iindefinite), LW Braden Purttill (upper body, day-to-day), G Rylan Toth (lower body, 3 3-5 weeks). Special teams — Calgary: Power play 21.6 per cent, ninth overall; penalty kill 81.7 per cent, fifth. Red Deer: Power play 21.4 per cent, 11th; penalty kill 76.5 per cent, 19th.

SCOUTING REPORT

Baseball Major League Baseball Spring Training AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct Houston 1 0 1.000 Minnesota 1 0 1.000 Seattle 2 0 1.000 Texas 2 0 1.000 Toronto 2 0 1.000 Detroit 2 2 .500 Los Angeles 1 1 .500 New York 1 1 .500 Tampa Bay 1 1 .500 Baltimore 0 2 .000 Boston 0 1 .000 Chicago 0 1 .000 Cleveland 0 2 .000 Kansas City 0 2 .000 Oakland 0 1 .000 NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati Los Angeles Milwaukee St. Louis Washington Arizona Atlanta Colorado San Francisco Philadelphia Pittsburgh Chicago Miami New York San Diego

W 2 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0

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

Pct 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 .500 .500 .500 .500 .333 .333 .000 .000 .000 .000

NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings games against non-major league teams do not. Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 10, Detroit (ss) 9 Detroit (ss) 10, Pittsburgh 3 Washington 6, Tampa Bay 2 Atlanta 11, Baltimore 4 Minnesota 7, Boston 4 Toronto 4, Philadelphia 4, tie Texas 6, Kansas City 2 San Francisco 4, L.A. Angels 1 Cincinnati 4, Cleveland 4, tie Arizona 6, Colorado 3 Seattle 7, San Diego 0 Thursday’s Games Philadelphia (ss) 13, N.Y. Yankees 4 Houston 3, Philadelphia (ss) 2 Washington 9, N.Y. Mets 4 Toronto 10, Pittsburgh 8 Detroit 8, Atlanta 2 St. Louis 4, Miami 3 Tampa Bay 10, Baltimore 3 Milwaukee (ss) 2, Chicago Cubs 1 L.A. Dodgers 6, Chicago White Sox 1 Cincinnati 9, Cleveland 1 Texas 10, Kansas City 0 Milwaukee (ss) 8, San Francisco 7 L.A. Angels 8, Oakland 2 Seattle 6, San Diego 5 Colorado 6, Arizona 5 Boston vs. Minnesota, late

St. Louis vs. Houston, 11:05 a.m. N.Y. Yankees vs. Detroit., 11:05 a.m. Tampa Bay vs. Boston, 11:05 a.m. Atlanta vs. Philadelphia, 11:05 a.m. Minnesota vs. Pittsburgh, 11:05 a.m. Baltimore vs. Toronto, 11:07 a.m. Miami (ss) vs. N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m. L.A. Dodgers vs. Texas, 1:05 p.m. San Francisco vs. Cincinnati, 1:05 p.m. Colorado vs. Oakland (ss), 1:05 p.m. Seattle vs. Milwaukee, 1:05 p.m. Cleveland vs. Chicago White Sox, 1:05 p.m. Oakland (ss) vs. Arizona, 1:10 p.m. L.A. Angels vs. Chicago Cubs, 1:10 p.m. Kansas City vs. San Diego, 7:10 p.m. Saturday’s Games Boston vs. N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m. St. Louis vs. Miami, 11:05 a.m. N.Y. Mets vs. Houston, 11:05 a.m. Baltimore (ss) vs. Minnesota, 11:05 a.m. Pittsburgh vs. Atlanta, 11:05 a.m. Detroit vs. Washington, 11:05 a.m. Philadelphia vs. Toronto, 11:07 a.m. San Francisco (ss) vs. Cleveland, 1:05 p.m. Cincinnati vs. Chicago Cubs, 1:05 p.m. Milwaukee vs. Oakland, 1:05 p.m. Texas vs. San Francisco (ss), 1:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox vs. Kansas City, 1:05 p.m. Arizona vs. L.A. Dodgers, 1:05 p.m. San Diego vs. Colorado, 1:10 p.m. L.A. Angels vs. Seattle, 1:10 p.m. Tampa Bay vs. Baltimore (ss), 5:05 p.m.

Today

● Bantam AA hockey: South Central League North Division round-robin playoffs at Olds — West Central vs. Central Alberta, Olds vs. Bow Valley, 9 a.m.; Red Deer Steel Kings vs. Red Deer Ramada, 11:45 a.m.; Airdrie vs. West Central, 2:30 p.m.; Olds vs. Red Deer Steel Kings, 5:15 p.m. ● Peewee AA hockey: South Central League North Division round-robin playoffs at Lacombe and Blackfalds — Red Deer Parkland vs. Central Alberta (at Blackfalds), 9:30 a.m.; Bow Valley vs. West Central, 11:30 a.m.; Red Deer TBS vs. Olds, 2 p.m.; Central Alberta vs. Airdrie, 4:30 p.m.; Olds vs. Bow Valley, 7 p.m. ● College men’s basketball: ACAC championship at Olds College — Games at 1, 3, 6 and 8 p.m. ● Senior high girls basketball: Notre Dame at Lindsay Thurber, Lacombe at Hunting Hills, third games of best-of-three 4A zone semifinals, if necessary, 6 p.m. ● WHL: Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● College men’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, first game of best-of-three ACAC quarter-final, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● AJHL: Okotoks at Olds, 7 p.m. ● Senior high boys basketball: Lacombe at Lindsay Thurber, Notre Dame at Hunting Hills, third games of best-of-three 4A zone semifinals, if necessary, 6 or 7:45 p.m.

Saturday ● Bantam AA hockey: South Central League North Division round-robin playoffs at Olds — Bow Valley vs. West Central, Red Deer Ramada vs. Airdrie, 9 a.m.; Central Alberta vs. Olds, 11:45 a.m.; Bow Valley vs. Red Deer Steel Kings, 2:30 p.m. ● College men’s basketball: ACAC championship at Olds College — Games at 11 a.m., 1 and 3:30 p.m. (final). ● Arm wrestling: Regional qualifying competition, noon to 5 p.m., Microtel Inn and Suites. ● College men’s hockey: RDC at SAIT, second game of best-of-three ACAC quarter-final, 7 p.m. ● College women’s hockey: RDC at NAIT, second game of best-of-five ACAC final, 7 p.m. ● Senior hockey: Bentley at Innisfail, sixth game of best-of-seven Chinook League and provincial AAA semifinal, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday ● Major bantam girls hockey: Edmonton at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● College men’s hockey: SAIT at RDC, third game of best-of-three ACAC quarter-final, if necessary, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Senior hockey: Innisfail at Bentley, seventh game best-of-seven Chinook League and provincial AAA semifinal, if necessary, 7:15 p.m.

Golf George Coetzee Dustin Johnson Robert Streb Billy Horschel Kevin Na Chris Wood Soren Kjeldsen Victor Dubuisson Charl Schwartzel Branden Grace Sergio Garcia Marc Leishman Rafa Cabrera Bello Graeme McDowell Bill Haas Louis Oosthuizen David Lingmerth Byeong-Hun An Scott Hend Fabian Gomez Kevin Kisner Justin Rose Justin Thomas Daniel Berger Kiradech Aphibarnrat Jordan Zunic Brandt Snedeker Martin Kaymer Ross Fisher Matthew Fitzpatrick Emiliano Grillo Yusaku Miyazato J.B. Holmes Patrick Reed Steven Bowditch Nathan Holman Kristoffer Broberg

World Golf Championships Cadillac Championship Thursday At Trump National Doral (Blue Monster) Doral, Fla. Purse: $9.5 million Yardage: 7,543 Par: 72 (36-36) First Round Scott Piercy 31-35—66 Marcus Fraser 33-33—66 Phil Mickelson 32-35—67 Danny Willett 36-32—68 Adam Scott 34-34—68 Jason Dufner 34-34—68 Charley Hoffman 34-34—68 Jordan Spieth 35-34—69 Jimmy Walker 34-35—69 Bubba Watson 36-33—69 Hideki Matsuyama 36-34—70 Jamie Donaldson 37-33—70 Anirban Lahiri 34-36—70 Rickie Fowler 34-36—70 Matt Kuchar 35-35—70 K.T. Kim 35-36—71 Andy Sullivan 35-36—71 Rory McIlroy 37-34—71 Danny Lee 36-35—71 Shane Lowry 37-34—71 Harris English 36-35—71 Zach Johnson 34-37—71 Brooks Koepka 35-36—71 Henrik Stenson 35-36—71 Smylie Kaufman 37-34—71 Russell Knox 36-35—71 Paul Casey 37-34—71 Bernd Wiesberger 37-35—72 Jason Day 37-35—72

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Curling 2016 Tim Hortons Brier OTTAWA — Schedule of play for the 2016 Tim Hortons Brier, to be held Thursday through Mar. 13 in TD Place at Lansdowne Park: PRE-QUALIFYING (top team advances to round robin) Team (Skip) W L Northwest Territories (J.Koe) 1 0 Nova Scotia (Murphy) 1 0 Nunavut (Kingdon) 0 1 Yukon (Smallwood) 0 1 Thursday’s results First Round Nova Scotia 11 Yukon 3 Northwest Territories 13 Nunavut 2 Friday’s games Second Round, 5:30 a.m. Northwest Territories vs. Nova Scotia, Nunavut vs. Yukon, Third Round, 2:20 p.m. Yukon vs. Northwest Territories, Nunavut vs. Nova Scotia. Saturday’s game Tiebreaker (if necessary), 6:30 a.m. ROUND ROBIN Team (Skip) Alberta (K.Koe) B.C. (Cotter) Canada (Simmons) Manitoba (McEwen) New Brunswick (Kennedy) Nfld. & Labrador (Gushue) Northern Ontario (Jacobs) Ontario (G.Howard)

W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

P.E.I. (Casey) Quebec (JM Menard) Saskatchewan (Laycock) Qualifier (TBD)

0 0 0 0

Saturday’s games First Draw, 12:30 p.m. Newfoundland & Labrador vs. Manitoba, Canada vs. Quebec, Ontario vs. Alberta. Second Draw, 5:30 p.m. Northern Ontario vs. Saskatchewan, P.E.I. vs. B.C., Qualifier vs. New Brunswick. Sunday’s games Third Draw, 7 a.m. Alberta vs. New Brunswick, Saskatchewan vs. Canada, Ontario vs. Manitoba, Quebec vs. Northern Ontario. Fourth Draw, noon Qualifier vs. Canada, Newfoundland & Labrador vs. Ontario, Alberta vs. P.E.I., Saskatchewan vs. B.C. Fifth Draw, 5:30 p.m. P.E.I. vs. Quebec, Manitoba vs. New Brunswick, Northern Ontario vs. B.C., Newfoundland & Labrador vs. Qualifier. Monday, Mar. 7 Sixth Draw, 12:30 p.m. Ontario vs. B.C., Qualifier vs. Alberta, Saskatchewan vs. Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada vs. P.E.I. Seventh Draw, 5:30 p.m. Canada vs. Northern Ontario, Quebec vs. Saskatchewan, New Brunswick vs. Ontario, Alberta vs. Manitoba.

Lacrosse National Lacrosse League East Division GP W L Pct. GF New England 7 5 2 .714 94 Buffalo 9 5 4 .556 126 Georgia 9 4 5 .444 125 Rochester 7 3 4 .429 77 Toronto 8 2 6 .250 89

GA 76 120 124 84 103

GB — 1 2 2 3.5

West Division GP W L Pct. GF Colorado 9 7 2 .778 111 Saskatchewan 8 5 3 .625 100 Vancouver 8 3 5 .375 92 Calgary 9 3 6 .333 97

GA 100 90 104 110

GB — 1.5 3.5 4

WEEK 10 Saturday’s games Rochester at Calgary, 7 p.m. New England at Colorado, 7 p.m. Buffalo at Vancouver, 8 p.m. WEEK 11 Friday, Mar. 11 Rochester at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m. Calgary at Toronto, 6 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 12 New England at Rochester, 5:30 p.m. Georgia at Saskatchewan, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Mar. 13 Vancouver at Toronto, 11 a.m.

Friday’s Games Washington vs. Miami (ss), 11:05 a.m.

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL National League SAN DIEGO PADRES — Agreed to terms with LHP Matt Thornton and LHP Christian Friedrich on minor league contracts. American Association LAREDO LEMURS — Signed LHP Jarret Martin. Released C Phil Pohl. LINCOLN SALTDOGS — Signed OF Brandon Landanger. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Fined Philadelphia F Jerami Grant $10,000 for throwing a water bottle into the spectator stands during a Feb. 29 game at Washington. Women’s National Basketball Association ATLANTA DREAM — Re-signed Amanda Thompson. Signed F DeLisha Milton-Jones, F Kara Braxton and G Meighan Simmons to training camp contracts. FOOTBALL National Football League BALTIMORE RAVENS — Released LB Daryl Smith and DE Chris Canty, CAROLINA PANTHERS — Released DE Charles Johnson. HOUSTON TEXANS — Released RB Arian Foster. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Made a qualifying offer to restricted free agent TE Jack Doyle. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Released G Zane Beadles and DE Chris Clemons.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS Finally healthy after a three-year battle with injuries, right-hander Gavin Floyd turned in a solid start for the Toronto Blue Jays on Thursday in a 10-8 win against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Justin Smoak hit a towering solo home run for the Blue Jays. The ball rode a light breeze and cleared the con-

Red Deer Rebels

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Released LB Donald Butler, RB Donald Brown, LB Kavell Conner and LB Chi Chi Ariguzo. TENNESSEE TITANS — Re-signed RB Antonio Andrews to a oneyear contract. Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed OL Manase Foketi. HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Fined New Jersey Fs Joseph Blandisi and Devante Smith-Pelly $2,000 each for diving/embellishment. CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Agreed to terms with F Kyle Baun on a two-year contract extension, through the 2017-18 season. American Hockey League BAKERSFIELD CONDORS — Recalled D Ben Betker from Norfolk (ECHL). SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Recalled F Alex Belzile from Fort Wayne (ECHL). SAN DIEGO GULLS — Announced RW Stefan Noesen was recalled by Anaheim (NHL). Announced F Bryan Moore to Utah (ECHL). SOCCER Major League Soccer DC UNITED — Announced the retirement of M Davy Arnaud. NEW YORK CITY FC — Signed G Andre Rawls. Acquired D Shannon Gomez on a one-year loan from W Connection (Trinidad and Tobago). PORTLAND TIMBERS — Signed Ms Diego Chara and Darlington Nagbe to contract extensions.

course in right-centre field. Floyd worked two innings and gave up one run on two hits. He walked one and struck out two. The 33-yearold had Tommy John surgery in 2013. While working his way back, he twice snapped a bone in his elbow. The Blue Jays put six straight runners on base with two outs in the second and scored four runs off Pirates newcomer Jon Niese. Michael Saunders hit a two-run single.

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SPORTS

Friday, March 4, 2016

Ooks edge Queens in ACAC final opener BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Ooks 2 Queens 1 RDC Queens captain Casey Nicholson went into the Alberta Colleges Women’s Hockey League playoffs hoping to face the NAIT Ooks in the final. “When we locked up first place I was hoping to see NAIT in the final,” she said. “To be the best you have to beat the best and they are the defending champions and I want nothing more than to beat them in the finals.” But things didn’t work out for Nicholson and the Queens Thursday when they dropped a 2-1 decision to the Ooks in the opening game of the best-of-five series before a good crowd at the Arena. “I just don’t think we came out as strong as we need to,” said Nicholson. “We needed to play the way we did in the third period. Hopefully we set the tone in that period for Saturday.” The second game goes Saturday at NAIT with the third next Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Arena. For the first nine minutes of the opening period it was the Ooks who looked tight. In fact their netminder Tehnille Gard looked shaky as she battled the puck, but the Ooks got the first goal at 8:58 when Kendra Hanson deflected a shot past RDC netminder Jen West and that changed the momentum. The Queens were outshooting the Ooks 5-0 early but were outshot 11-6 for the period. “We needed to react better to that goal,” said Nicholson. “It seemed to fire them up and we didn’t have the tenacity we needed to bring.” Queens head coach Kelly Coulter, who was named the ACAC coach of the year, agreed. “Our goal is to generate as many shots as we can and we weren’t doing that,” he said. “We have to start with a sense of urgency. It came in the third period but it has to start from the drop of the puck. “We have to execute our game plan and that’s with the forecheck, getting pucks on net and using our speed.” The Queens started to take control of the game in the second period, outshooting the Ooks 9-5. In fact the best two scoring chances were by RDC’s Jade Petrie, who was stopped by Gard in the slot and on a breakaway. The Ooks finally got to the Queens on the power

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Red Deer College Queen Kaely McMurtry cuts to the net with NAIT Ook Breanna Frasca following during first period action at the Arena in Red Deer, Thursday. The Queens fell 2-1. play to make it 2-0 at 3:52 of the third period when Erika Iglesias grabbed a loose puck in the slot, after it hit a defender in front, and beat West high to the glove side. The Queens got on the board at 7:28 of the final period when Ashley Graf tipped in a Petrie feed and from then on the ice was slanted in RDC’s favour. In the end they held a 22-5 edge in shots in the third period and 37-21 overall. “She’s a good goalie, but we have to be a bit more selective with some of our shots and make her work a bit harder,” said Coulter, who gave credit to his

coaching staff for the award. “It’s an honour when selected by your peers, but I think kudos go to my staff. I have a fantastic staff to work with, which makes it easy. As well the girls are easy to coach. They did everything I asked all year. This recognition goes to them all. It’s a team award.” Nicholson and Emily Swier were named to the first All-Conference team with Graf on the second team. Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate,com. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog.

Winnipeg skip McEwen faces loaded field in Tim Hortons Brier debut BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Winnipeg skip Mike McEwen picked a tough year to make his long-awaited Tim Hortons Brier debut. The field is stacked for the upcoming Canadian men’s curling championship at TD Place in Ottawa. Reigning Olympic champion Brad Jacobs of Northern Ontario, two-time Brier champ Kevin Koe of Alberta, topranked Brad Gushue of Newfoundland and Labrador and four-time world champion Glenn Howard of Ontario are some of the headliners. Other contenders include defending champion Pat Simmons and his Team Canada rink along with B.C.’s Jim Cotter, Quebec’s Jean-Michel Menard and Saskatchewan’s Steve Laycock. “There is probably six, seven or eight teams that have a legitimate shot,” McEwen said. Prince Edward Island’s Adam Casey and New Brunswick’s Mike Kennedy have also secured berths in the main draw, which begins Saturday afternoon at the 10,000-seat venue. The 12th and final spot goes to the winner of a qualification round-robin between Nova Scotia’s Jamie Murphy, Bob Smallwood of the Yukon, Jamie Koe of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut’s Wade Kingdon. McEwen and his team of B.J. Neufeld, Matt Wozniak and Denni

Neufeld capped an unbeaten run in the Manitoba playdowns with a 4-2 win over Canadian junior champion Matt Dunstone in the final. It was McEwen’s first provincial title after settling for runner-up finishes in five of the last six years. “I have no doubt that myself and probably some of my guys will have a bit of anxiety that first game when we step out on the ice,” McEwen said. “That’ll be there for sure and then I think we’ll get comfortable pretty quick in that environment.” McEwen, 35, has been a powerhouse on the Grand Slam circuit for years and holds the No. 3 position on the Canadian Team Ranking System standings. Jacobs, meanwhile, settled for a second-place finish last year after dropping an extra-end decision to Simmons in the final. The Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., rink won the Brier in 2013 before taking Olympic gold the following year in Sochi, Russia. Menard won the Brier in 2006 while Kevin Koe was victorious in 2010 and 2014. Howard, a national champion in 1987, 1993, 2007 and 2012, will be making his record 16th appearance at the Brier. Adam Spencer has been added to the roster as a replacement for Wayne Middaugh, who broke his leg in a skiing crash last January. Gushue has been in top form this season and holds the No. 1 spot in the CTRS standings. The 2006 Olympic

champion is hoping his 13th career Brier appearance will prove lucky and get him that elusive national title. “There are still goals I want to achieve,” Gushue said in a recent interview. “Obviously the Brier is the big one for me.” The top four teams will qualify for the Page playoffs starting March 11. The medal games are set for March 13. “It’s really going to come down to some very little things as far as who’s going to win the championship,” McEwen said. “It might not be much difference, it might literally be reading the ice a little bit better or a break here or there. You’re going to have to play well just to get into that situation where you actually have a couple playoff games to hopefully come through. “But it might come down to whoever is hotter is going to win this.” The qualifying draw kicked off Thursday evening with a pair of routs. Nova Scotia topped Yukon 11-3 and the Northwest Territories dumped Nunavut 13-2. The Brier champion will represent Canada at the April 2-10 world men’s curling championship in Basel, Switzerland. Simmons won bronze at last year’s world playdowns in Halifax. Alberta’s Chelsea Carey won the Scotties Tournament of Hearts last weekend in Grande Prairie, Alta. She will represent Canada at the March 19-27 world women’s curling championship in Swift Current, Sask.

B.C. Place to hold first ever rugby test match in June as Canada hosts Japan BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Buoyed by the interest in next week’s World Sevens Series event in Vancouver, Canada will host Japan in a first ever rugby test match at B.C. Place Stadium on June 11. The 10th-ranked Japanese were the surprise package of last fall’s World Cup where they upset South Africa. Japan is slated to host the 2019 tournament. The Canadian men, ranked 19th in the world, will host No. 18 Russia at Calgary Rugby Park on June 18 and No. 14 Italy at Toronto’s BMO Field on June 26 to complete Rugby Canada’s summer series. Canada has held test matches at Swangard Stadium in suburban Burnaby and UBC’s Thunderbird Stadium in Vancouver but not at B.C. Place. The installation of new turf in advance of last summer’s Women’s World Cup of soccer and the ticket sales for the March 12-13 rugby sevens tournament — organizers say the sevens event is a sellout, with 56,000 tickets sold over the two days — have combined to make B.C. Place an attractive venue. “We know we need to go to the next level and this allows us to do that,” Gareth Rees, Rugby Canada’s director of commercial and program relations, said. “I think it’s great news. It’s still a big challenge for us, as it was with the Canada Sevens, a big challenge to sell it out. But we’ve got to get to work. It’s a good opportunity.”

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PLASCO PROJECT DISBANDED BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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One of the last vestiges of an ambitious but ill-fated waste-to-energy dream in Central Alberta is being disbanded. The Central Waste Management Commission was formed in 2007 to pull together communities interested in feeding their waste to Ottawa-based Plasco Energy Group’s innovative project to create electricity out of garbage. Despite being led by well-known Ottawa businessman and former owner of the NHL’s Ottawa Senators Rod Bryden, the 200-tonne-a-day plant never got off the ground. To be built in Red Deer County at the Horn Hill Waste Transfer Site near Penhold, the project languished as hoped-for federal funding remained elusive. Deadlines with the commission came and went with little sign of local progress.

Finally, in early 2012 the commission agreed to pull the pin on the project. Its nine member municipalities decided then to keep it going in case some other project came forward worth pursuing. It paid for a waste composition study in 2014 to provide the background garbage data for other potential suitors. Since then, it became clear that the original purpose of the commission no longer applied. As well, annual auditing costs were estimated at $2,900 for a commission with only $2,400 in the bank. Red Deer County chief administrative officer Curtis Herzberg said the commission was a “solution” to Plasco’s specific proposal and its requirements for a long-term supply of waste from numerous Central Alberta communities.

The demise of the commission, which is being voted on by each individual municipal council, does not mean the county or surrounding communities have given up on finding innovative ways to handle garbage, said Herzberg. “We can still discuss with our neighbours any strategies to reduce landfilling. But we don’t necessarily need that big of an engine,” he said, referring to the commission. Herzberg said other technologies are always being pursued by various companies and are pitched to municipalities regularly. He will be meeting with one such company next week to see what they have to offer. In 2014, Cielo Waste Solutions Corp. (CSE: CMC) announced it had signed a letter of intent with the county to lease the Horn Hill site and buy 20 acres of adjacent county land.

The company planned to construct a waste-processing system and three diesel refineries on the site, with the refineries to use municipal waste material as feedstock. That proposal did not go forward. Meanwhile in Ottawa, the Plasco saga continues. Ottawa city council cut its ties with Plasco in March 2015, three years after signing a 20-year and $180-million contract to process 300 tonnes of garbage a day. The project never got past a small demonstration plant-scale operation. In February 2015, Plasco applied for creditor protection and terminated 80 jobs. Bryden had left the company in 2014, but in the fall of 2015 his investment company bought the rights to Plasco’s technology for $1. He plans to continue his quest to build a full-scale plant, although Ottawa is not in the plans. It is safe to assume neither is Red Deer County.

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CALGARY — Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (TSX:CNQ) is pushing ahead with $2 billion in spending on its Horizon oilsands project this year even as the company cuts a billion dollars from its 2016 capital budget. Calgary-based CNRL says completing the last two phases of the Horizon project by the end of next year is a priority. It will add 125,000 barrels a day of production and allow the company to further shift from conventional sources of oil and gas to long-life oilsands projects. CNRL says it has cut back spending plans on conventional and international operations as well as drilling completions in trimming its 2016 capital budget to between $3.5 and $3.9 billion from $4.5 billion to $5 billion. Future capital spending could be even lower, with only $1 billion in spending required next year to complete the Horizon project and no other major projects in the works. Company president Steve Laut said it’s difficult to say when CNRL

might start any new oilsands projects, but sees nothing likely in the near term. “It’s based on the cost structure and the commodity price, so I would say in this environment you’re probably going to see a slow growth or a delay in growth, and so it may go more to that maintenance side,” Laut said in an interview. Meanwhile, because of the long lead time on new projects, he doesn’t expect pipeline capacity to be a barrier to future expansion. “We’re fairly confident that pipeline access will be available by the time we were to bring on any new project,” Laut said. He said he supported the efforts of Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to advance the pipeline debate and push forward projects like Energy East. “I think they’re doing the best they can and they’re taking a strong approach to do what’s in the best interest of all Canadians,” said Laut. “It is

Business BRIEFS Calfrac Well Services cuts another 500 jobs CALGARY — Calfrac Well Services Ltd. has cut another 500 jobs as gloom continues to linger over the oil and gas sector. The Calgary-based oilfield services firm says it now has 2,300 fewer workers in North America than it did at the start of 2015.

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U.S. benchmark crude oil prices are at around US$35 a barrel — a dramatic drop from mid-2014 highs of US$108 a barrel. Calfrac CEO Fernando Aguilar says the price weakness has led to unprecedented cuts in capital spending from the exploration and production companies it serves. He says it’s been especially bad in the North American market and that the staff cuts will help Calfrac navigate through what is shaping up to be the worst industry downturn in decades.

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a good project and it’s going to create a lot of value of all Canadians.” His comments came as CNRL reported its latest quarterly results, which showed it eked out a small profit in the fourth quarter but ended 2015 with a full-year net loss of $637 million or 58 cents per share. The loss came despite the company having slashed $3.4 billion in capital spending to end with a $5.2-billion capital budget. CNRL also made significant operational budget cuts last year, including salary cuts for both management and ordinary employees, but remained one of only a few oil and gas producers not to have cut any staff in the downturn. The three months ended Dec. 31 showed $131 million of net income or 12 cents per share, which was an improvement over the third quarter but down from nearly $1.2 billion or $1.09 per share from the fourth quarter of 2014. Revenue dropped to $2.8 billion from $4.4 billion, but gains from the sale of properties increased to $690 million from $137 million.

sell-off of its gold reserves as its holdings of the precious metal now amount to just a few dozen ounces. Data from the World Gold Council suggest Canada stands apart from its industrialized peers as the only G7 country without a stockpile of at least hundreds of tonnes of gold. The federal Finance Department says Ottawa unloaded nearly 22,000 ounces of gold coins in February for about $35 million. The department says the government now holds just 77 ounces of gold — valued around $130,000. A department spokesman says the government has a long-standing policy of diversifying its portfolio by selling physical commodities like gold in order to invest instead in assets that are more easily traded.

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CALGARY — A new online poll by the Angus Reid Institute suggests 64 per cent of Canadians support the Energy East pipeline, but there are stark differences when the numbers are broken out by region. The proposal to ship Alberta crude to Atlantic Canada had the strongest backing in Alberta and Saskatchewan — 87 per cent and 78 per cent, respectively. Both are oil-producing provinces keen to get their crude to international markets — something Energy East would enable with a proposed export terminal in Saint John, N.B. In Quebec, however, the poll suggests support for Energy East is only at 48 per cent. Angus Reid also asked respondents whether they support the Montreal-area mayors who raised environmental concerns about Energy East in January. On that question, too, there were stark regional divides, with 11 per cent of Albertans and 58 per cent of Quebecers surveyed showing support. Regional tensions over the $15.7-billion plan flared up this week, when Quebec announced it intends to seek an injunction to force TransCanada, the company behind the project, to follow provincial environmental rules. When asked whether the federal government should have final say over pipelines, or if local governments should have the power to stop them, a slim majority — 54 per cent — said it should be Ottawa’s call. Again, the divide between provinces was dramatic: 72 per cent of respondents in Alberta and 79 per cent in Saskatchewan said the federal government should have the ultimate say. British Columbia and Quebec were the only regions where the majority of respondents had the opposite view — 61 per cent and 59 per cent, respectively, supported local governments being able to stop pipelines from being built through their jurisdictions. Nationally, most respondents — 59 per cent — believed the pipeline will eventually be built, even if local objections slow it down. The survey’s more than 1,500 respondents were surveyed on Feb. 2 to Feb. 5, and on Feb. 26, on a wide variety of climate and energy questions. The respondents are part of the Angus Reid Forum, a 130,000-member panel of Canadians who participate in surveys and discussions. The Angus Reid Institute says the forum comprises of people in each major demographic group, and respondents receive a small monetary incentive — from $1 to $5 — for completing each survey. The polling industry’s professional body, the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association, says online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error because they do not randomly sample the population.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 118.11 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 37.28 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.05 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 41.87 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 1.220 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.87 Cdn. National Railway . . 77.55 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 163.37 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 34.32 Capital Power Corp . . . . 18.00 Cervus Equipment Corp 11.73 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 49.60 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 47.32 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 19.55 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.87 General Motors Co. . . . . 31.07 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 22.21 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.39 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 45.51 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 29.97 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.20 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.01 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 49.29 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 131.82 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.50 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.89 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 69.81

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market finished higher for a six straight session Thursday amid growing investor confidence in gold and base metals miners as well as energy issues. The S&P/TSX composite index climbed 105.72 points to close at 13,123.65. The index is up 370 points in a little over a week, as the majority of sectors made solid gains. Gold was the leading advancer, up by more than three per cent, while energy issues got a boost of 2.82 per cent as shares in Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) soared nearly nine per cent to $32.85. The oil and gas producer says it still plans on spending $2 billion on its Horizon oilsands project this year even as the company cuts a billion dollars from its 2016 capital budget. Colin Cieszynski, a chief market strategist at CMC Markets Canada, said investors are enjoying the broadbased gains but cautioned that the market can’t go up forever. “We’re going to have a down day sooner than later,” he said. “It doesn’t hurt to see this nice recovery, these steady gains. With these kind of gains, you aren’t going to see them everyday, but a trend built on smaller increases is more sustainable. It’s actually more positive for the market in general.” On Wednesday, the Toronto market pushed past the 13,000-mark for the first time this year. Cieszynski said continued gains also show that these higher levels are warranted. “Not only did we go through it, but we didn’t just go above it and (get) pound-

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 25.79 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.67 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.14 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 18.00 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 18.64 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.93 First Quantum Minerals . . 6.64 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 20.04 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 5.11 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.12 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.08 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 24.97 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.020 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 9.76 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 18.64 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 26.33 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 46.55 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.08 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 20.51 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 32.85 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 9.33 Canyon Services Group. . 4.27 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 16.34 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1200 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 6.59 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.650

ed right down,” he said. “We’ve gone above it and we held above it. That’s good. That’s a sign of good underlying support for the market.” Cieszynski said the current run-up has been supported not only by the resource sectors, but also by financial stocks, with Canada’s biggest banks having recently reported better than expected quarterly earnings. On commodity markets, the April gold contract gained $16.40 to US$1,258.20 a troy ounce, while May copper added three cents to US$2.21 a pound. The April contract for benchmark U.S. crude oil was down nine cents at US$34.57 a barrel, while April natural gas retreated four cents to US$1.64 per mmBtu. The Canadian dollar added 0.17 of a U.S. cent to 74.65 cents US. Indexes in New York shed earlier losses and turned higher late in the session as investors awaited the U.S. non-farm payrolls report on Friday. The report is an important barometer on the U.S. economy. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 44.58 points at 16,943.90, while the broader S&P 500 added 6.9 points to 1,993.40 and the Nasdaq eased up four points to 4,707.42. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Thursday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,123.65, up 105.72 points Dow — 16,943.90 up 44.58 points S&P 500 — 1,993.40, up 6.95 points Nasdaq — 4,707.42, up 4.00 points

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 82.40 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 34.17 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.11 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 15.65 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.75 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 1.140 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.520 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.49 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 33.41 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.40 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 1.77 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 40.03 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1100 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 76.34 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 58.62 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.69 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 22.07 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 34.37 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 36.05 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 87.31 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.39 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 38.67 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.450 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 70.75 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 40.61 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.47

Currencies: Cdn — 74.65 cents US, up 0.17 of a cent Pound — C$1.9009, up 1.07 cents Euro — C$1.4684, up 0.94 of a cent Euro — US$1.0961, up 0.95 of a cent Oil futures: US$34.57 per barrel, down nine cents (April contract) Gold futures: US$1,258.20 per oz., up $16.40 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.269 oz., up 23.3 cents $683.80 kg., up $7.49 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ‘16 $0.20 higher $450.30 May ‘16 $0.20 higher $452.30 July ‘16 $0.20 higher $455.80 Nov. ‘16 $0.20 higher $463.00 Jan. ‘17 $0.70 higher $467.80 March ‘17 $1.20 higher $470.80 May ‘17 $1.80 higher $470.10 July ‘17 $1.80 higher $469.60 Nov. ‘17 $1.80 higher $463.20 Jan. ‘18 $1.80 higher $463.20 March ‘18 $1.80 higher $463.20. Barley (Western): March ‘16 unchanged $178.00 May ‘16 unchanged $180.00 July ‘16 unchanged $180.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $180.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $180.00 March ‘17 unchanged $180.00 May ‘17 unchanged $180.00 July ‘17 unchanged $180.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $180.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $180.00 March ‘18 unchanged $180.00. Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 899,520 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 899,520.

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The Manor House in the Aspen Estates in Calgary is shown in this photo.

Luxury home sales in Toronto, Vancouver to ‘continue to defy gravity,’ SOTHEBY’S REPORT BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Toronto and Vancouver will continue to lead luxury home sales in Canada this spring in both volume and price, and mostly for the same reasons they dominated last year, says a new report released Wednesday. Sotheby’s International Realty Canada cites macro-economic trends including limited inventory and strong demand from both domestic and international buyers in making its prediction. The realtor says the Greater Toronto Area will lead the $1-million-plus residential real estate market, with continued sales gains and price escalation. Notable growth is also expected in Vancouver, especially its top-tier residential market, with increases anticipated in the $4-million- plus category. “Luxury home sales in Toronto and Vancouver will continue to defy gravity this spring,” Brad Henderson, president and CEO of Sotheby’s International Realty Canada, said in a statement. “Both markets have the potential for significant gains and we expect heightened demand and insufficient inventory to drive price escalation and sellers’ market conditions.” The report said steady economic growth indicators in Quebec have contributed to market balance in Montreal, where sales of top-tier detached single-family homes, attached homes

and condominiums are expected to remain comparable to 2015 levels. But continued economic uncertainty in Calgary due to troubles in the oilpatch will increase the number of homes available and contribute to declining prices in both the top-tier and conventional markets in Alberta’s largest city, it said. The weak Canadian dollar has made real estate more attractive to domestic and foreign buyers. But Sotheby’s says other market fundamentals have had and will continue to have greater impact on the $1 million-plus real estate market across Canada this spring. In Vancouver, the first two months of the year saw sales of homes valued at more than $1 million increase 23 per cent year-over-year to 771 units, of which 557 were single-family home sales — a 16 per cent increase. While the GTA remains attractive for foreign investors and immigrants, local and domestic demand will remain the primary drivers in that market, according to Sotheby’s. Already the Toronto market has seen a 63 per cent, year-over-year increase in sales of $1-million-plus homes — up to 1,646 units, of which 1,486 were single-family homes. By comparison, the sale of homes priced $1 million or more rose 23 per cent to just 80 units in Montreal in the first two months of the year. That’s the same number as in Calgary, where the figure represented a one per cent decrease from the same period in 2015.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — George Weston Ltd. (TSX:WN), the parent company of Weston Foods and Loblaw, will raise prices on some of its food products this year to help protect it from a weak loonie. The company anticipates raising prices on products from its fresh and frozen businesses, president and CEO Pavi Binning told a conference call with investors after the company reported its fourth-quarter earnings Thursday. The increases will help to cover the impact of the low Canadian dollar, he said. The loonie has recently been trad-

ing at around 74 cents US and is anticipated to remain low throughout much of 2016. “That will hurt us and that will be pretty significant in 2016,” he said, explaining the company buys certain ingredients in U.S. dollars. The drop in the loonie has been a key driver for inflation in Canada as it has pushed the costs of imported goods like fresh fruits and vegetables higher. Overall, George Weston earned $138 million in the fourth quarter, or $1.08 per share. That compared with a profit of $151 million or $1.18 per share in the fourth quarter of 2014, which included an extra week. Excluding the extra week in the year ago quarter, the company would have earned $122 million or 95 cents per share. Sales for the quarter ended Dec. 31, totalled $11.25 billion in 2015 and

$11.73 billion in 2014 over 13 weeks or $10.92 billion over 12 weeks. Weston Foods’ frozen business reached double-digit volume gains in the last fiscal year, Binning said, led by demand for doughnuts and pies. In addition to its frozen business, Weston Foods biscuit business — led by Girl Guide cookies — helped its bakery business earn $527 million in revenue in the fourth quarter.

In the fourth quarter of 2014, the bakery business earned $469 million in revenue over 13 weeks or $438 million over 12 weeks. Excluding the impact of foreign currency and an extra week in its 2014 financial year, Weston Food sales increased by 10 per cent, primarily due to higher prices, a different mix of products and an increase in volumes.

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Tweet from your feet SOCIAL MEDIA CAN BE A MOTIVATOR OR JUST PART OF THE FUN WHILE ON THE RUN CRYSTAL RHYNO RUNNING WITH RHYNO The sun was shining and the roads were mostly clear. It was a perfect day for a run. Until I realized I left my iPhone back at the office. Instantly I went into panic mode. How could I take my runfie? Did my run count now? (Think if a tree falls in the forest …) Deep breaths. Deep breaths. Suddenly the day was not as bright and shiny as it was just a few minutes ago. Social media had killed my runner’s high. Yes I am one of those runners who shares the odd photo and commentary about the latest run on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. It’s a habit I formed a couple of years ago. Truth be told I was a little late to the ‘post everything or it didn’t happen’ game. I am typically a private person so I was reluctant to share my everything. But I gradually understood that by posting a smiling and happy runfie or a snapshot of the trail it meant something to somebody. Many times I have been approached by strangers on the street or at events to chat about my running adventures. A woman at yoga recently commented about this column. The woman was not a runner but she said she “may give it a go.” Another couple approached me while I was buying snowshoes to give some positive feedback after reading my column and liking my Facebook page. Red Deer City Coun. Ken Johnston once remarked that after reading one of my blog posts that he immediately hopped on the elliptical. I had no idea my posts were having such an impact. (In my newsroom, I get the odd, snarky remark from the old deskers and that’s about it.) Through these social networking sites, I earn my own daily kick in the

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Red Deer Advocate reporter Crystal Rhyno pauses to take a selfie (or called runfie in running circles) while out for a run in Red Deer this week. The use of social media can connect people with runners in the local community or around the world where everybody can share in success and training tips. butt. Oh yes, there are times when I just want to curl up on the couch with a good book and devour some vegan potato chips or salt and vinegar chickpeas. But a quick look on Instagram and suddenly the book and the chips are on the floor and I am on my way out the door. Nothing is more motivating than seeing a runner in my gender and age

group killing it on a training run. It also helps with my consistency, which I have struggled with as I balance my busy social life with my extracurricular stuff. I’ve made connections with runners in Red Deer, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton and around the world through Social Media. We chat about our training programs, our struggles, our successes and offer support and tips to one an-

other. In some cases, we have hooked up at races or on training runs. As social media continues to become a part of our everything, I will continue to share snippets of my life. It might just motivate someone to move his or her ass. Find Running with Rhyno on Facebook and @CrystalRhyno on Twitter. Send your column ideas, photos and stories to crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Let your boss track your fitness, get an Apple Watch BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — You know you need to exercise more, but there’s always next week, or the week after. To entice you to stop procrastinating, your company or insurer might soon reward you for wearing a fitness device to track your steps, heart rate and more. For instance, in one program announced Wednesday, some workers can buy a $350 Apple Watch for just $25 by meeting exercise goals for two years. Miss goals, and see your discount shrink. Vitality, a provider of disease-prevention and lifestyle programs, is initially bringing the offer to U.S. employees at three companies, along with John Hancock life-insurance customers. It has been testing the program in South Africa since December. Other programs let you redeem points from fitness activities for gift cards and other rewards. Submit to biometric screenings and nutrition classes, and in some cases you can earn insurance discounts. “We all live busy lives, but the truth is, if doctors could write one prescription for the world, it would be activity,” says Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer. Adrian Gore, CEO and founder of Vitality parent company Discovery Group, says that for many people, the benefits from exercise might not be apparent for a few decades. Reward programs make the payoff more immediate. Programs like these are still new, but appear to be expanding as part of broader changes in the health care marketplace. On Tuesday, health insurer UnitedHealthcare started offering up to $1,460 a year in credits toward deductibles for meeting daily goals while wearing a custom tracker. Oscar, which sells health insurance directly to consumers, has been giving out free Misfit trackers for opportunities to earn up to $100 a year in Amazon gift cards. Fitbit works with employers such as Indiana University Health and Emory University in Atlanta to subsidize fitness trackers for their staff. “I love playing sports, but doing cardio stuff isn’t my favourite,” says Brett Broviak, 43, an IU Health employee in Noblesville, Indiana. He says getting a discounted Fitbit pushed him to walk 1 million steps a month. These programs are typically voluntary, but you must be willing to share

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Mark Holloway of Clemmons, N.C., goes through part of his exercise routine at the Jerry Long YMCA in Clemmons, Tuesday. Holloway got a $350 Apple Watch for just $25 by meeting exercise goals for two years. The program was offered through three U.S. companies. data to earn the most rewards and insurance discounts. Sound creepy? Program officials say that data from fitness trackers typically go to outside administrators, such as Fitbit or Vitality. Employers and insurers get only broad totals to verify eligibility and not details on heart

rate and sleep. But participants need to trust that these systems won’t get hacked. Mike Doughty, president and general manager of John Hancock Insurance, says premiums won’t rise if a screening uncovers higher blood pressure or other risks. Rather, he says,

wellness incentives are about promoting longer lives — and collecting life-insurance premiums longer. There’s no proof that providing fitness trackers directly lowers health care costs, but there’s plenty of evidence that exercise leads to better health, which in turn can improve productivity and reduce absences. Michael Staufacker, Emory’s director of health management, describes the thinking as a “value of investment and not a hard-dollar return on investment as it relates to medical or pharmacy costs.” More importantly, reaching daily exercise goals is just the beginning of getting people to think more about their health. “If I exercise regularly, then junk food just doesn’t appeal to me,” says Mark Holloway, 55, of Clemmons, North Carolina, who participates in Vitality’s wellness program through his employer, Lockton. “French fries and hamburgers? No, thanks. It’s like putting sand in your gas tank.” Programs from Vitality and others typically won’t let you earn insurance discounts simply by exercising. You’ll need to earn additional points by completing questionnaires and getting flu shots. You sometimes get bonus points simply by staying within recommended limits for cholesterol, blood pressure and other measures. Smokers can also get points for joining programs to help them quit. “You change one thing about your behaviour, and you can be more motivated to work on these other aspects,” says Tammy Smith, who manages the employee wellness program at IU Health. DaVita HealthCare Partners says health care spending by its employees slowed significantly after it offered tracker-based incentives through Vitality. But DaVita also increased the deductible on claims and started such initiatives as Fresh Fruit Wednesday. That makes the effect of the fitness program difficult to isolate. With the Apple Watch program, you must pay back Vitality each month you miss your fitness goals, which typically call for four substantial workouts a week. The goals are meant to be achievable, but tough enough to change habits. You can get more expensive Apple Watch models by paying the difference. An iPhone is required Vitality has no current plans to offer anything similar for Android. Neither Apple nor Vitality would provide financial details on the arrangement.

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THE FUTURE OF FUELS LORNE OJA ENERGY 100 million barrels of “blue fuel” using “air mining technologies” but researchers are working relentlessly and are beginning to have some very interesting successes. The dream is simple, pull CO2 from the atmosphere and convert it into “normal fuels” in an anthropogenic cycle that maintains the current atmospheric CO2 levels. The challenge is the chemical bonds of the carbon monoxide molecule are notoriously strong. Catalysts and processes are being tweaked and cajoled into revealing their innate proclivities. To this end, researchers at the University of Southern California (USC), Dornsife College of Letters Arts and Sciences, managed to produce methanol from air using

a catalyst made from ruthenium and an aqueous solution of pentaethylenehexamine. Seventy nine percent of the carbon dioxide was converted to methanol. Methanol can be used as both a fuel for our internal combustion engines and as a base stock for the manufacture of plastics, explosives and paints Solar photothermochemical alkane reverse combustion is quite an invective, and it may become a process that is very familiar to the energy industry in the years to come. What is interesting about this process is that the scientific technologists at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) have been able to make inexpensive liquid hydrocarbon fuel in one step, using a combination of high intensity light, concentrated heat, and high pressure. The products of this breakthrough are liquid hydrocarbons and oxygen as a by-product. A titanium dioxide photo catalyst was used in conjunction with ultravi-

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A zoo attendant feeds Hanako the elephant at Inokashira Park Zoo on the outskirts of Tokyo. All Carol Buckley wishes for her first encounter with Japan’s oldest elephant is that zookeepers accompany her to Hanako’s infamous concrete enclosure and allow her to stand and peacefully observe.

Elephant, not culture at issue in B.C. woman’s campaign to save Japan’s oldest BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — All Carol Buckley wishes for her first encounter with Japan’s oldest elephant is that zookeepers accompany her to Hanako’s concrete enclosure and allow her to peacefully observe. When the elephant behaviour consultant from Tennessee travels to Tokyo on Thursday to improve the 69-year-old animal’s welfare she says she will not “go bombarding in like an American.” “Although they may not openly disagree with your approach, you will find doors closed to you if you don’t respect their culture,” said Buckley. “The bottom line is, this situation with Hanako is not a cultural issue. It’s an elephant issue.” Buckley, an expert with more than 40 years’ experience, has been hand-picked by a Vancouver woman spearheading a global campaign to make the elephant’s final years more comfortable. Ulara Nakagawa says she secured a meeting with administrators at the Inokashira Park Zoo after garnering more than 411,000 signatures in an online petition. The international attention since early February generated nearly 950 people donating more than US$29,000 for the pair to assess the famous elephant’s health and living conditions. “The clock is ticking for her,” said Nakagawa. The 35-year-old woman took on the project after an online supporter

started the petition, inspired by a blog post Nakagawa wrote last fall decrying Hanako’s “concrete prison.” Nakagawa and Buckley have arranged two meetings at the zoo using a Japanese translator. “Our approach is that we just really want to be open and humble and collaborative,” said Nakagawa. “I want to take the opportunity and I want to take it as far as I can, because I think it’s not only important for Hanako but it sets a precedent for other elephants in captivity all around the world.” The zoo did not immediately respond to request for comment. But last month its deputy director said it was “too late” to safely move Hanako and defended the exhibit as educational. Buckley, the founder of Elephant Aid International, is known as something of an elephant whisperer. She has single-handedly led about two dozen elephant rescues and persuaded Nepal’s government to become the first in Asia to end the practice of chaining. Nakagawa originally campaigned for Hanako’s transfer to a sanctuary in Thailand, but has since changed her objective. “The more elephant experts I speak to, the more it’s become abundantly clear that for Hanako’s own safety, both psychologically and physically, that we get Carol there to do an initial assessment,” Nakagawa said.

VANCOUVER — The organization that monitors undersea conditions off Canada’s coast lines will soon have more tools to sound early warnings of potentially damaging earthquakes in an area of the West Coast considered overdue for ‘the big one.’ The B.C. government has provided $5 million, allowing Ocean Networks Canada to install eight more sensors on the ocean floor west of Vancouver Island. The sensors detect the very first movements of the earth’s crust when an earthquake occurs. The funding comes just one month after Ocean Networks Canada spokesman Teron Moore said public apathy in B.C. was hampering development of a strong early warning system. British Columbia has about 100 land and undersea earthquake sensors, compared to Japan’s approximately 1,000 detection instruments. Moore said improving Canada’s capacity to detect quakes earlier would require more funding and better collaboration between the various organizations that operate sensors along the coast. Ocean Networks Canada collects data from offshore and coastal motion sensors that can link into networks of land-based sensors from other agencies including those owned by the province, Natural Resources Canada and the University of British Columbia. In addition to funding new sensors, the B.C. investment will be used to bolster that integration.

olet light in a photothermochemical flow reactor which provided the bases for the reaction. However the researchers are now looking at catalysts such as cobalt, ruthenium, or possibly iron, to provide a new catalyst which is more effective when the entire light spectrum is used. Excess heat from this process, the researchers believe, could be used for “material separation and the purification of water.” In the future solar fuels facilities may be as common as coal fired steam driven electrical generation plants are now. However it will take some time before alternate sources of energy can supply the current world’s demand for 104,426,000,000,000 KWh of energy. Lorne Oja is an energy consultant, power engineer and a partner in a company that installs solar panels, wind turbines and energy control products in Central Alberta. He built his first off-grid home in 2003. His column appears every second Friday in the Advocate. Contact him at: lorne@solartechnical.ca. Adding sensors will increase the reliability of incoming data, which can then be fed to a centralized source capable of sounding an alert about the arrival of a damaging earthquake. “Investment in earthquake early warning systems for our province is a key step in protecting British Columbians,” said Dave Cockle, Oak Bay fire chief and president of the BC Earthquake Alliance. “The seconds or minutes of advance warning can allow people and systems to take appropriate actions to protect life and property.

Meteor suspected as mystery flash lights up Scottish sky LONDON — Scientists say a meteor was the cause of a bright flash of light reported by people across Scotland and northern England. Police Scotland said the force began receiving calls about 6:55 p.m. Monday, with people reporting a loud bang, a sudden blue, green or white light or a fireball in the sky. Several drivers caught the sudden flash and streak of light on their dashboard cameras. Driving instructor Bill Addison said it looked like “a bright, electric blue spark.” “I thought it was a plane coming down at first, but it was moving too fast,” he said. The U.K. weather forecasting service the Met Office said Tuesday the incident wasn’t weather-related and the U.K. defence ministry wouldn’t comment on whether the flash was linked to military activity in the area. Steve Owens, manager of the Glasgow Science Centre planetarium, said the likely culprit was a chunk of space rock — “about the size of a tennis ball or maybe even a watermelon” — that was burning up in the atmosphere.

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The countries of the world that have to import the fuel to power their earthbound and aeronautical vehicles, heat their homes and drive their industries are pushing alternate technologies forward. The most current consumption information from 2013 indicates the world uses some 90.34 million barrels of oil per day. With the current glut driving down prices, and given the worlds storage is at capacity, some respite is being appreciated for those that have to pay for both product and delivery. Past experience with energy shortages and the subsequent high prices, as well as the environmental concerns from the burning of the energy dense fossil fuels have caused a worldwide responsiveness, resulting in a collective push for energy independence. Technologies are being actively investigated to find more cost effective processes, with high production efficiencies. It will be a while before we are to the point of being able to produce

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BACK TO EARTH YEARLONG SPACEMEN EMBRACE FRESH, FRIGID AIR BACK ON EARTH BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Ah, there’s nothing like a blast of fresh, frigid air to welcome you back to the planet after nearly a year cooped up in space. That’s the word from astronaut Scott Kelly, NASA’s space-endurance champ who returned to bitterly cold Kazakhstan on Wednesday, along with his roommate for the past year, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko. In a NASA interview before heading home to Houston, Kelly said it was “amazing” to feel the cold air when the hatch of his Soyuz capsule popped open after touchdown. “I don’t mean to say it’s not fresh on the space station,” he said, “but there’s nothing like new cold air coming into the capsule.” Both Kelly, 52, and Kornienko, 55, yearned for nature throughout their 340-day mission at the International Space Station, a dry run by NASA for eventual trips to Mars. “Just like Scott, I wanted to see Earth and I wanted to smell that fresh air. This is an unforgettable feeling,” Kornienko said. It was the longest an American ever lived in space, although nothing new for the Russians. The world record is 438 days, set back in the mid-1990s at the former Mir space station. Even before that, a pair of Soviet cosmonauts had racked up a full one-year spaceflight. “Congratulations on your record,” former cosmonaut and Kazak space agency chief Talgat Musabayev said at a welcoming ceremony. He couldn’t resist: “Of course, it was already done 28 years ago.”

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International Space Station (ISS) crew member Scott Kelly of the U.S. gestures after landing near the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday. President Barack Obama joined the chorus of praise pouring in. “Welcome back to Earth, @StationCDRKelly! Your year in space is vital to the future of American space travel. Hope gravity isn’t a drag!” Obama said via Twitter. The White House said Obama spoke with Kelly on Wednesday, thanking him for his service and for sharing his journey through social media. Kelly posted hundreds of photos of Earth. After landing, the latest one-year space subjects quickly parted company, Kelly flying back to Houston and Kornienko to Star City, Russia, near Moscow. While en route, Kelly tweeted a picture

of his first salad back on Earth, noting it will be important to grow fresh food during Mars expeditions, like his space station lettuce crop. Kelly acknowledged it was bittersweet leaving the space station — his home since last March, currently staffed by three men until the arrival of three more in two weeks. “I’d been there a long time, so I looked forward to leaving. But at the same time, it’s a magnificent place and I’m going to miss it,” he said. Neither will be saying goodbye — in Russian, do svidaniya — to medical tests anytime soon. Minutes after emerging from their

capsule, they were whisked in chairs to a medical tent where they did their best to stand, walk, jump, navigate obstacles — everything an astronaut might need to do immediately upon arriving at Mars. NASA aims to put astronauts on the red planet in the 2030s, but first wants to know how the body — and mind — will fare during the 2 ½-year expedition. Kelly ranked physical isolation aboard the 250-mile-high platform, from those he loved, as his biggest challenge. Kelly looked fit as he emerged from the Soyuz capsule on the remote steppes of central Asia, pumping his fist and giving a thumbs-up. He showed no signs of slowing down a few hours later as he waited to board the plane for the long flight back to Houston. He needed little if any assistance in walking and said there seemed to be little difference from his five-month station stint five years ago. The exams — along with blood, saliva and urine collections — will continue for weeks if not months. In the case of Kelly and his identical twin, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, the testing could last a year if not longer. The brothers served as guinea pigs — one in weightlessness, the other on the ground. Kelly’s last tweet from orbit Tuesday provided a cliffhanger: “The journey isn’t over. Follow me as I rediscover .Earth!” The brothers were reunited at Ellington Airport near Johnson Space Center in Houston early Thursday. The welcoming committee included Scott’s two daughters, ages 21 and 12 his girlfriend who’s been chronicling his mission as a NASA public affairs officer at Johnson and his sister-in-law, former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Mark’s wife.

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States. The 1990 Clean Air Act allowed power plants to buy and sell the right to emit sulphur dioxide. Since then, U.S. sulphur dioxide concentrations have gone down by more than 75 per cent. As Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times, “Acid rain did not disappear as a problem, but it was significantly mitigated.” Despite this and other successes, some experts are skeptical, arguing that cap-and-trade amounts to little more than a cash grab by government, a tax in everything but name. Others say it’s a mistake to expect climate change can be addressed through markets, when the problem actually requires changing our entire approach to economics, with a commitment to a steady-state economy and an end to the commodification of nature. Some experts have also noted that the emissions reductions it brings are often modest. A 2015 paper in Canadian Public Policy claimed Quebec’s system “is still too weak to meaningfully address the environmental imperatives as outlined in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2014 Fifth Assessment Synthesis Report, in which fully eliminating carbon emissions is

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the benchmark for long-term policy goals.” From 2013 to 2014, California’s allowance cap went from 162.8 to 159.7 megatonnes, a drop of less than two per cent. Ontario’s proposed legislation indicates its program will have some great strengths and a number of shortcomings. It will likely have wide coverage, applying limits on most of the province’s emissions, including those from transportation fuels. (California’s system did not initially include these fuels.) Ontario is expected to reduce emissions by over four per cent a year — about twice the initial rate of California — and generate $1.9 billion annually from the plan. That money will be invested in “green” projects throughout the province with the goal of reducing carbon emissions even further. Ontario’s proposal to give away many allowances to big emitters is less encouraging. The government says it will eventually phase out this free disbursement, but in the meantime millions of dol-

lars in government revenue that could be used to support renewable energy and public transit will be lost. To keep the bulk of fossil fuels in the ground — as scientific evidence says we must — we need a variety of strategies. Cap-and-trade helps reduce emissions and generates billions of dollars for other strategies to address climate change. It also embodies the polluter pays principle. But it’s not enough on its own. The David Suzuki Foundation and others have long argued that provinces and the federal government should put a price on carbon, through carbon taxes, cap-and-trade or a combination of both. The urgent need to address global warming means provinces that have adopted cap-and-trade need to strengthen it by ensuring emissions drop faster and polluters pay a price that truly reflects the damage caused by carbon pollution. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation.

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The principle that polluters should pay for the waste they create has led many experts to urge governments to put a price on carbon emissions. One method is the sometimes controversial cap-and-trade. Quebec, California and the European Union have already adopted cap-and-trade, and Ontario will join Quebec and California’s system in January 2017. But is it a good way to address climate change? The program sets an overall limit — a cap — on the amount of greenhouse gas emissions a province can emit. It then tells polluters, such as heavy industry and electricity generators, how many tonnes of carbon each can release. For every tonne, polluters need a permit or “allowance.” So, if a company’s annual limit is 25,000 tonnes, it would require 25,000 allowances. If a company exceeds its limit, it can purchase additional allowances from another firm that, because of its greater efficiency, has more allowances than it needs. This is the “trade” part of the equation. Although an individual company can exceed its greenhouse gas limit by purchasing credits, the province as a whole can’t. The overall limit is reduced every year, so if the law is followed, cap-andtrade guarantees annual emissions reductions. The declining cap is the system’s great strength and the way it protects the environment. How effective is it? Although the answer isn’t straightforward, there’s evidence cap-and-trade played a key role in reducing acid rain in the United

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what he likes and having his work appreciated as art. The fur industry’s decline began at the end of the 1980s and was caused by a trifecta of factors: a plummeting stock market, the gradual shift of manufacturing to China and the rise of the animal-rights movement. Advertising campaigns that painted the industry as blood-soaked triggered a public backlash against fur, resulting in sinking sales. By 1992, the price of a mink pelt had dropped to US$20 from $50 in the late 1980s. It would stay low for the next 10 years until demand from Russia and China began to push prices upward again, to a new historic high of more than $100 two years ago. The industry that emerged from the downturn was a changed one, according to Herscovici. Heavy fur coats were being replaced by lighter, more affordable pieces, and new designers were experimenting with techniques. Ajamian changed too, carving out a new niche as a “recycling” specialist who restyles decades-old coats. He points to a beaver fur coat, now unrecognizable after being dyed, sheared and given a new lining to make it reversible. “I gave a new life to this coat for another 30 years and once .125the owner.375 is done she can give it to her daughter or her granddaughter and they can change it and wear it for another 30 years,” he said. Although fur auction prices are down again, Herscovici says that in terms of fashion, fur is coming back on top. It appeared in more than 70 per cent of designer collections last year, creating an opening for a new generation of Montreal designers, including many who have no family connections to the fur trade. They include Rim and Rita Elias, sisters in their 20s who are finding success with a line of versatile fur pieces such as vests, purses and fur-trimmed leather jackets designed to cross over from workplace to evening wear. In the 18 months since launching Elama furs, they have gained some high-profile celebrity clients, including Montreal Canadiens defenceman P.K.

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Subban, and sold enough to quit their corporate day jobs. Rim Elias, 29, says she and her sibling fell in love with the softness, durability and luxurious feel of fur despite having no family connection to the fur trade. “It’s really out of a passion and interest for this material that we’re in this industry today,” she said. Herscovici sees designers like them as a sign of renewal in the industry. “There’s a huge opportunity for different designers right now,” he said. “I think we’re on the cusp of a very different fur trade now.”

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MONTREAL — As Sarkis Ajamian carefully slices the head off a silver fox pelt — being sure to not cut any of the silky grey hair — he’s participating in an increasingly rare Canadian tradition. Ajamian is a third-generation furrier and one of the dwindling number of people left in Montreal who specialize in transforming animal pelts into fur coats. The process is labour-intensive, with much of it still done by hand using methods that have remained largely unchanged since Ajamian’s grandfather launched the family business in Armenia in 1890. “A real furrier knows how to put the skins together so everything looks exact, because you’re bringing in something from nature,” says Ajamian, 59. But although many techniques remain the same, Montreal’s fur industry has changed profoundly since Ajamian entered the business 25 years ago. Today he is one of only a few dozen furriers left in a city once called the “fur capital of North America,” where foreign buyers flocked to buy pelts at auction and small companies galore occupied the downtown fur district. Montreal, the historic hub of Canada’s fur trade, benefited from waves of immigration that attracted skilled furriers to the city in the first half of the 20th century. By the boom period of the 1970s and ’80s, there were about 200 fur manufacturing and supply companies in Montreal, according to Alan Herscovici, executive vice-president of the Fur Council of Canada. Today, he estimates only 40 remain, with few furriers like Ajamian still practising the old skills. In the workshop above his store, Ajamian works with a pelt, cutting it into long strips which he sews together by machine. He and his workers will shape and cut the fur blocks using a pattern, sew it together and send it elsewhere to be cleaned in large drums of sawdust and chemicals. The finishing is done in shop, with details such as pockets sewed by hand. Completed products are sold in the store below under the watchful eye of Ajamian’s sister, Jacqueline. At one time, the business paid well, but nowadays Ajamian says he can’t get a bank loan because “they tell me I’m working in a dead industry.” He makes do with less tangible rewards: doing

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INNOVATION IN DEMENTIA DIAGNOSIS PADMAJA GENESH SENIORS Red Deer was the stage for the first collaborative workshop on recognizing, diagnosing, and managing dementia in primary health care in Alberta this last weekend. Organized by Seniors Health Strategic Clinical Network, in collaboration with several other organizations including Alberta Health Services, Primary Care Networks Red Deer and Wolf Creek, Alberta Medical Association, Alberta Government etc., this workshop brought together over 200 delegates from diverse backgrounds, including people living with dementia and their caregivers, to discuss innovative programs for advancing dementia diagnosis and management in Canada. As an attendee at the conference, I got an amazing opportunity to learn about the innovative geriatric programs developed within Alberta’s Primary Care Networks, and also from elsewhere. The purpose of this article is to share my newly acquired information with you. Ontario’s contribution was Primary Care Memory Clinic, a new model of care. Ontario has witnessed the establishment of 80 Memory Clinics within a span of 2 years. Developed by Dr. Linda Lee, a family physician and Director of the Center for family Medicine Memory Clinic, this initiative has drastically cut wait times for specialist appointment, cognitive assessment and dementia diagnosis from 6 months to an impressive 1.4 months. What exactly is a Primary Care Memory Clinic? A memory Clinic is a new point of access to comprehensive, integrated care not only for dementia but for other conditions as well. It is an interdisciplinary model of team-based case management that builds the capacity within primary care practice to provide early diagnosis and timely support to those dealing with disabling conditions in their senior years. Underlying the establishment of memory clinics is the realization that the present system of referring patients with suspected memory loss and other cognitive concerns to specialists, is impractical, considering that there are over 30, 000 family physicians and only about 250 Geriatricians in Canada. The composition of a typical memory clinic is 1-3 dementia-trained family physicians, 2 dementia-trained nurses or nurse practitioners, a social worker, a pharmacist, and an Alzheimer Society member. Some clinics would have a dietitian, psychologist or a Kinesiologist. Each clinic is also supported by a Specialist through email/phone. Following the training, the time commitment for

family physicians at the Memory Clinics is one day per month for 10,000 patient base. Some of the highlights of Memory Clinic Program Evaluation include high level of efficiency with 10,000 patients being seen on one clinic day, central role of family physician, highly functional interpersonal team collaboration, centralization of care, and high level of patient/caregiver satisfaction (77%). Patients accessing the Memory Clinics value the access to timely accurate information and to the multi-disciplinary team, for up to 2 years and beyond, as required . While this initiative is very impressive, before switching to an all new model, it is worthwhile to consider the local endeavors developed within Alberta. In Calgary, we have the Geriatric Assessment and Support Clinic (GAS) developed by Calgary West Central PCN. GAS clinic conducts comprehensive assessments for medically complex elderly patients. The team (Geriatric nurse consultant, social worker, pharmacist, physician with special interest in seniors care, and consultant geriatrician, psychiatrist and neurologist) meets with elderly patients who typically have multiple health problems and may have limited access to resources and help. This clinic can help patients access medical and community services, provide support for personal needs and identify care gaps that need to be addressed. After an assessment

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ALISA SCHINDLER SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE I’ve dealt for decades with my father’s many physical and mental ills, which have only become more acute as he has aged. While everyone’s situation is unique, if you are struggling with the needs of an elderly or infirm parent, there are places you can turn for expertise, help and understanding. Here are a few that have made all the difference for me: - Hello, house calls! Just like in the olden days, some physician’s practices now include nurse practitioners who make house calls. So when my father is unable to make appointments or is feeling unwell (as is often the case), we have someone who comes to him. It is an invaluable option that more providers are beginning to offer. - Accessible ride services. The town where my father now lives has a bus service specifically aimed at non-driving seniors and disabled residents. For only $3 a ride — booked with at least two days notice — the bus will pick him up and take him anywhere in town. Many communities have similar services. Photo by ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES - Senior/community centers. While so far I’ve not successfully gotten my father connected on this Barbara Tucker Parker cares for her mother, Dorothy front, that’s mostly due to his own specific issues. It’s Tucker, at her home in University Park, Md. a shame, too, because senior centers and community centers with programs for seniors offer so much — tions, guidance, support. The more social workers social interaction, mental stimulation, classes, lec- you can find to help you, the better. tures and potential friends. - Friends, coffee, wine, ice cream. Even with all - Pharmacies that “package.” For my father, med- the support out there, it isn’t easy. ication management was a huge issue until we found You need your friends to help you laugh, to feel a specific pharmacy that caters to elderly and spebad with you when you cry and to get riled on your cial needs and will create “blister packs” for customers. So instead of 25 confusing bottles, my father behalf. You are there for your parent, and they are now has dated, sealed packs delivered to him, with there for you. And if they’re accompanied by sips or sweets, easy directions on which meds he needs to take that’s even better. Good luck, and stay strong. when. A lifesaver! - Senior housing. If you have a parent who isn’t quite ready for a nursing Why is your carpet cleaning always like an X-File? home or eschews assisted living (like mine), think THE TRUTH ABOUT CARPET CLEANING about senior housing. I’ve relied on this multiple times with my father. - Charities and religious organizations. In the first weeks after my father’s latest move, I signed him up for the loM nc Ma Mancuso ncus usoo iss CCentral us entrtral en al AAlberta’s lbber erta ta’s ta ’ss oonly nlyy nl cal Meals on Wheels. I felt fullly mo full fu m mode ode d rn ccarpet arpe ar pett an pe and up and uupholstery h lsste ho t ry fully modern good knowing that he’d clea cl ea ning ni i ng p l la a nt t a nd d t rai ra i in n i in n g f faci fa a cili ci li ity ty.y. cleaning plant and training facility. have a hot meal dropped W h ave av e e es tabl ta blis bl ishe is hed he d a s stan st t anda an d da rd ooff We have established standard off daily — a wonderful service if you need it. exce ex cellllllen ence en ce tthat hatt is ha is uunrivaled nriv nr ival iv aled al e aand ed nd aare ree excellence Many churches and synaprou prou pr oudd to to hhave avee se av et th the he BE BENC NCHM NC HMAR HM ARRK proud set BENCHMARK gogues also sponsor proS AN ST ANDA DARD DA RD FFOR OR TTHOROUGH HORO HO ROUG RO UGH UG H STANDARD grams that send meals or C CL L EAN EA N NING NI I NG™ NG ™ i n Nort No rth rt h A Amer Am m eric er ica. ica. ic a CLEANING™ in North America. visitors to seniors’ homes. - Social workers. I found them everywhere — at the hospital, the senior housing center, social service offices. Almost all health professionals I encountered or agencies where I applied for services for my father put me in contact with a social worker. And they were the #8, 7428 - 49 AVENUE, RED DEER | 403.347.1845 | www.mancusocleaning.com best resource! They gave me numbers, organiza-

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The City of Red Deer is now accepting applications for Enumerators for the 2016 Census. Enumerators must be at least 18 years of age, have good interviewing skills, basic map reading skills, able to walk in various weather conditions and be available to work daytime and evening hours from April 1, 2016 to May 9, 2016. Applicants may apply in person until Friday, March 11, 2016 at the Census Office, Lower Level of City Hall (4914 – 48 Avenue) between the hours of 8:00 am and 4:00 pm. For more information please call the Census Office at 403-342-8317.

Municipal Planning Commission Decisions On February 24, 2016, the Municipal Planning Commission issued the following decision for development permit applications. Discretionary Use Approval: Eastview Estates Renuka Sanghvi – a Home Occupation for counselling services, limited to Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., until March 14, 2017, located within an existing Detached Dwelling Unit at 118 Eversole Crescent. You may appeal discretionary approvals and denials to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on March 18, 2016. You may not appeal a permitted use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8132.

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What to do when the teacher is wrong? Dear Annie: Yesterday, I tried to help my son do his third-grade homework. One question was: “If Sue runs around the track twice, and John runs around the track four times more than Sue, how many times does John run around the track?” My son submitted his answer as 8, but the teacher said the answer was 6. Do I speak up? Should I simply assume the lesson here is a “life lesson” to respect the teacher’s answer even if it’s wrong, and explain to my 8-year-old son that there is sometime more than one right answer? — Perplexed Dad Dear Perplexed: If the problem had read “four more times than Sue,” it would be an addition problem, but “four times more” makes it a multiplication problem. The teacher made a mistake (she added instead of multiplied) and should be told. She may have been using an answer sheet that was incorrect, and she certainly wouldn’t want to use it again with another class. Most teachers have email

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addresses. Write to her and say that your son cannot figure out how the answer could be 6, and neither can you, so perhaps there was an oversight when the paper was graded. Be nice. Tell her you know how easy it is for these things to happen and thought she’d want to know so she can correct the papers that were mismarked. The life lesson for your son is how to stand up for himself and register an objection without becoming objectionable. Dear Annie: My husband passed away 10 years ago, when I was 57. After a year, I began dating again. I have met many nice gentlemen. Often, I am introduced by mutual friends, but I have also used online dating. Perhaps your

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SAN FRANCISCO — Technology isn’t just for humans anymore. It’s also for their furry friends. In Silicon Valley and beyond, a growing number of startups are selling devices to keep pets safe, healthy, entertained and connected when their owners are away. “Pet tech” entrepreneurs and investors see a big opportunity as pet ownership grows and owners show a willingness to spend serious money on their four-legged companions. Nearly two-thirds of U.S. households, or 80 million homes, have pets, and Americans spent more than $60 billion on them last year, according to the American Pet Products Association. “The number of pets in the world is growing extremely fast and that opens up the market,” said Peter Harrop, chairman of IDTechEx, a technology market research firm. “I’m sure five years from now there will be all sorts of things we can’t imagine.” Already, there are devices that let your pets call you (PetChatz), play games and win treats when they’re home alone (CleverPet) and even speak with a human voice (Petspeak). But as more pet-tech gadgets come to market, experts caution owners against relying on them too much. “The technology can be useful as an adjunct, a way of enriching your relationship with your pet, but certainly not a substitute for time spent with your dog,” said Pamela Wyman, who runs the DogEvolve training school in

Oakland. The Petzi Treatcam lets Anne Ryan check on her dogs Oscar and Reggie at her Berkeley home when she’s working in San Francisco or travelling out of state. The Internet-connected device lets her see her dogs, talk to them, take photos and even dispense treats — using an app on her phone. “I turn it on, get to see them, get to talk to them and it changes my mood, and puts me back in a positive frame,” said Ryan said. “I didn’t know that I needed it, but now I don’t think that I could live without it.” The TreatCam was created by San Jose-based Petzila, which was founded by two veteran technology executives who wanted to get their pets online. The startup also created a social media app that lets owners share pet photos. “All of the most current crazes and fads in technology were touching everything but the pet,” said CEO David Clark. Whistle, a San Francisco startup, sells a GPS-enabled Pet Tracker that alerts owners when their pets have left their “safe zone” and helps find them if they get lost. The device also lets owners track how much exercise and sleep their animals are getting. Ben Jacobs, Whistle’s CEO and co-founder, said the pet-tech market is expanding fast as pets move up the household hierarchy. “From the yard to the home to the bed — the dog is no longer out as part of the farm, but they’re actually sleeping in bed with you as part of the fami-

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COLDWELL Ricky Allan Coldwell found peace February 15, 2016 in Vancouver at the age of 57. Predeceased by mother Emily and father Richard. Survived by daughter Contessa, brother Bradley, sister Brenda and her husband Jorgen, nephews Hans and Peter. Growing up as a child in Strathmore, he spent many hours riding horseback and getting into mischief. He started out working in the oil patch as a young man, helping his father in the bakery later on, eventually achieving his degree with honours in Social Work from Mount Royal College. From there he made a difference in many people’s lives in his position at the Mission Possible in Vancouver. Most recently, he was having a hoot working as an exterminator. He told his sister constantly how proud he was of Hans and Peter. However, he would tell all that it was his daughter Contessa of whom he was most proud. A source of strength and levity in difficult times for both those closest to him as well as strangers, a soft place to fall, he will be sadly missed. During one of his last conversations, he said to his sister, “People think I don’t care about them, but I care too much.” Donations can be made to Evelyn Saller Centre, 320 Alexander Street, Vancouver, B.C.

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FROST Eleanor (nee Hunter) Eleanor of Blackfalds passed away February 26, 2016 in Lacombe at 83 years. Mom is survived by her daughter Dawna, son Phil (Sandra), grandchildren Willi (Colleen), Deidre, Lara, Alyson, Dave, and great grandson J.D., brothers Bob and Don (Delores), sister Shirley, sisters-in-law Pat and Marilyn, many nieces, nephews and friends. Her husband of 50 years, Ken, son in law John, brothers Ted and Bill predeceased her. A gathering and interment for family and friends will take place at a later date.

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TEBB Alan Adir It is with a heavy heart, I Merle Tebb announce the passing of my son, Alan at age of 62, at Red Deer, Ab., on February 27, 2016.

CUTHILL Odile 1921 - 2016 Mom was born on the homestead in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan on November 12, 1921. She passed away peacefully in the Red Deer Hospital on February 27, 2016 at the age of 94. She was predeceased by her beloved husband Edwin; daughter-in-law Lynn; brothers Michel and Hubert; sisters Genevieve and Edith; and nephew Richard. She is survived by her sisters Denise of Chicago, Illinios and Gabrielle of Waco, Texas; daughters Camillia Torney (Ralph) and Edwina Guenette; son Cameron Cuthill (Judy); grandchildren Jeannine Guenette, Virgil Dixon (Michelle), Justin Dixon, Sheldon Cuthill and David Cuthill (Amber); four great granddaughters Rayna, Chelsey, Shannon, and Emma; one great grandson Brody; as well as many nieces and nephews, all of whom she loved dearly. Odile was a Veteran who proudly served in the Second World War, initially in Algiers, then France and finally Germany in Field Hospital 425. After the War she returned to Canada where she met and married the love of her life, Edwin, whom she had met through her brother Hubert. Edwin and Hubert were both Veterans who had fought side by side through Europe and became best friends. Mom and Dad had a wonderful life together raising three children and had a lot of fun on the way. She loved to bake, sew, and knit, but her main love was keeping up with the world’s current affairs; always following the news. She was totally enjoying all the “entertainment” of the current US election. The family wishes to say thank you so much to: Nancy, who was so very good to Mom over the years and was so much help and support to mom, Ralph and Camillia; it meant so much. To Nettie, who took the bus many times to visit with Mom in the hospital; she so enjoyed it. To Toni, for coming up and cutting and doing Moms’ hair in the hospital; she felt so much better. To Harry, for all the help you gave us at Moms’ condo building. To Doctor Hopfner, a very special thank you for the excellent care and concern he always showed toward her; it was so much appreciated. To Doctor McCall, for successfully getting Mom through her surgery. To the nurses in ICU who cared for her, and to the incredible, warm, and caring nursing staff of Unit 23, whom Mom called her “Angels”. In lieu of flowers Mom has requested that if anyone wishes, they make a donation to the charity of their choice. A celebration of life will follow at a later date in Red Deer, after which Mom will be laid to rest next to Dad in Foam Lake, Saskatchewan. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222

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MAJESKI Mabel Sept. 14, 1931 - Feb. 29, 2016 Mabel, of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away peacefully, with her family by her side, at the Red Deer Regional Hospital at the age of 84 years. Mabel was a devoted wife and mother who touched the lives of many through her gentle, caring nature. She leaves us with special memories and will be dearly missed. Mabel will be lovingly remembered by her husband of sixty-two years, Ted; daughters, Bev (Tom), Brenda (Stuart), Marilyn, and Carol; grandchildren, Amie (Brandon), Ian (Jodi), André, Matthew (Amber) and Danielle; and great grandchildren, Kaine, Jazlynn, Hayzlee and Axzel. Mabel was predeceased by a son, Brian and a sister, Helen. A Funeral Service will be held at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 18 Selkirk Blvd., Red Deer, Alberta on Monday, March 7, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. The family extends special thanks to all who were involved in Mabels’s care. Condolences may be sent or viewed at ww.parklandfuneralhome.com. Arrangements in care of PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.

OPHUS Lyle Peder Apr. 15, 1956 - Mar. 1, 2016 Crystal, Debra (Kelly) and Kaley are sad to announce the passing of our husband/father Lyle Ophus on March 1, 2016. Lyle was born on April 15, 1956, fifth child to Ivar and Jean Ophus of Eckville, AB. Lyle was predeceased by his parents. He leaves behind, his siblings: Geneva (Jim) Burk, Maurice Clark, Duane (Elaine) Ophus, Cherly (Isabel) Burdinsky, and Melanie Ophus, along with numerous nieces and nephews. Lyle always lived life his own way. He loved to travel and explore new destinations and he got to see many places through his career with Dowell Schlumberger working overseas. Lyle believed teaching someone how to accomplish their goals was a better way of managing then just doing it for them. Lyle leaves behind his overseas friends who became like another family to him. Throughout his travels, Lyle and Crystal came upon Ixtapa, Mexico which became their winter home. Lyle had a soft spot in his heart for all animals and will be sadly missed by his grand pets; Lucy, Molly, Toby, Harley and Emy. A special thank you to Leanne and all the staff and West Park Lodge, for being there for our family. To the nurses of Unit 32, especially Janice and Melissa in our time of grief, we thank you. For Dr. Sweeny and Dr. Holmes, thank you for going the extra mile for Lyle. Cremation entrusted to Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services. A private graveside service will be announced at a later date. In lieu of flowers, if desired, donations can be given directly to the SPCA of Red Deer.

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McDERMAND (Sharp) May Irene Sept. 26, 1918 - Feb. 28, 2016 It is with saddened hearts that the family wish to announce the passing of May McDermand. May was born in Alix, Alberta, the only child of Frank and Florence Pinnell. She married Bert Sharp in 1941 and they settled on the original Sharp homestead in the Eclipse district east of Lacombe. Bert passed away in 1987. May was then remarried in 1989 to Bill McDermand. They spent many happy years together in Lacombe until Bill’s passing. May is survived by her son Grant (Margaret) Sharp, granddaughters Nadene (Sergio) Teixeira, Suzanne (Nicholas) Burnett, Glynis (Wade) Koberstein, and great grandchildren Karli and Marco Teixeira, Matteo, Elliston and Alivienne Burnett; son Neil Sharp, and grandson Nigel Sharp; son Glenn (Sharon) Sharp, grandson Craig (Katie) Sharp, granddaughter Katie (Tyler) Kondratowicz, and great grandson Caleb Sharp; daughter Laura (Garry) Banfield, granddaughter Heather (Dustin) Jack, grandson Keith Banfield, great grandson Sawyer Jack. May was predeceased by husbands Bert Sharp and Bill McDermand and son Roger Sharp (Debbie Fletcher). The family would like to thank Dr. Keller and the staff of Lacombe Long Term Care (Unit 1) for their kind, compassionate care of Mom. A celebration of May’s life will be held at Lacombe Kozy Korner on Friday March 4, 2016 from 1:00 until 4:00 p.m. Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

OLSON It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Gerald “Wayne” Olson on February 16, 2016. Funeral Service will be held Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. at Grace Lutheran Church, Bentley, Alberta. Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone 403-782-3366, 403-843-3388 “A Caring Family, Caring For Families”

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MIX Victoria “Vicki” Jean Victoria Jean Mix (nee Semenyna) was born May 24, 1951, in Edmonton, AB. She passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Saturday, February 27, 2016, at the age of 64. She was brought up on a farm north of Evansburg, AB along with one older sister and five younger brothers. After high school she graduated from Prairie Bible Institute in Three Hills, AB. She met Henry in Banff and they were married in 1973. They briefly lived in Banff, then Calgary, and moved to Innisfail in 1978. Vicki worked as an administrative assistant at the Banff Centre, the University of Calgary, and Red Deer College. While her children were young she volunteered with the Innisfail Band Parents Association, Innisfail Minor Hockey Association, Innisfail Skating Club, and Innisfail Minor Ball. Another important aspect of her life was her faith and her involvement with her local church, where she held numerous positions. Her passions were children and missions. She is survived by her husband Henry; her three children, Brendon (Andrea) Mix of Olds, AB; Calvin (Megan) Mix of Innisfail, AB; Marlan (Nick) Clayton of Edmonton, AB; and her four precious grandchildren, Sydney, Barrett, Carly, and Camryn. She is also survived by her father Pete Semenyna of Evansburg, AB; sister Betty (Pete) Visser of Lethbridge, AB; brothers Richard Semenyna of Calgary, AB; Ernie (Judy) Semenyna of Magnolia, AB; Bill (Sandy) Semenyna of Edmonton, AB; Dennis (Lois) Semenyna of Rimbey, AB; and Gary (Patsy) Semenyna of Wasa Lake, B.C., as well as numerous nieces and nephews and great-nieces and great-nephews. She was predeceased by her mother Mary Semenyna, and sisterin-law Lloy Semenyna. A Celebration of Vicki’s Life will be held at the Innisfail Church of the Nazarene, Innisfail on Saturday, March 5 at 2:00 P.M. with Reverend Jeff Baker officiating. Cremation entrusted to the Rocky Mountain Crematorium, Rocky Mountain House. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society or to the Innisfail Church of the Nazarene. Condolences may be forwarded to www.rockyfuneralhome.ca. FLINN FUNERAL SERVICES operating as Rocky and Sylvan Lake Funeral Homes, your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements. 403-845-2626

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PUDWELL Beverley 1940 - 2016 It is with great sadness, that we announce Beverley Ann ‘Bev’ (Craig) Pudwell, passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family, on Friday, February 26, 2016 at the age of 75 years. Bev was born on July 10, 1940 at Haileybury, Ontario; and raised in the Haileybury Area. She graduated from the Ontario Hospital as a Certified Nurse’s Aide in 1959; and then headed west, landing in Grande Prairie, Alberta. There, she met and married Will Craig, the father of her children. Eventually settling in Red Deer, Bev worked at Sproule’s Mountview I.D.A. Drugs, and then spent many years working for Dr. Bannister and prior Optometrists. When an opportunity came to work at the Red Deer Public School Board, Bev began working as a secretary. However, eventually her passion for children inspired her to take the position of Teacher’s Aide. Bev was especially skilled and loved working with special needs children. She retired from the Red Deer Public School Board in 2006. “A life that touches others, goes on forever.” Bev is survived by her husband, Ron Pudwell, her daughter, Amie (Kim) Starchuk of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, her son, Jim (Aurea) Craig of Red Deer, Alberta, and two grandchildren who meant the absolute moon to her, Tiffany (Wolf) and Jake, who miss her greatly. She will be remembered by Ron’s children, Memory Roth and her children, Graham, Braden and Christina of Edmonton, Alberta, and Dean (Sharon) and their son, Nate of Calgary, Alberta; best friends, Lois and Gary Gaalaas of Red Deer and a special friend, Shelly Beck. Bev was a kind soul who touched many lives. The countless people she held as special are too numerous to mention. Bev was predeceased by her parents, Bruce and Margaret Baker, a sister, Sandra, two brothers, Brian and Ronnie, and the father of her children, Will Craig. A Funeral Service will be held at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 18 Selkirk Blvd., Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. If desired, Memorial Donations may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice at www.reddeerhospice.com. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com. Arrangements in care of PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.

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North Korea says its readying nukes BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered his country’s nuclear weapons made ready for use at a moment’s notice, the official state news agency reported Friday. Kim also said his country will ready its military so it is prepared to carry out pre-emptive attacks, calling the current situation very precarious, according to KCNA. On Thursday, North Korea fired six shortrange projectiles into the sea off its east coast, South Korean officials said, just hours after the U.N. Security Council approved the toughest sanctions on the North in two decades for its recent nuclear test and longrange rocket launch. The firings also came shortly after South Korea’s National Assembly passed its first legislation on human rights in North Korea. The North Korean projectiles, fired from the eastern coastal town of Wonsan, flew about 100 to 150 kilometres before landing in the sea, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. It wasn’t immediately known exactly what North Korea fired, and the projectiles could be missiles, artillery or rockets, South Korea’s Defence Ministry said. North Korea routinely test-fires missiles and rockets, but often conducts weapons launches when angered at international condemnation. Thursday’s firings were seen as a “low-level” response to the U.N. sanctions, with North Korea unlikely to launch any major provocation until its landmark ruling Workers’ Party convention in May, according to Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul. North Korea has not issued an official reaction to the new U.N. sanctions. But citizens in its capital, Pyongyang, said they believe their country can fight off any sanctions. “No kind of sanctions will ever work on us, because we’ve lived under U.S. sanctions for more than half a century,” said Pyong-

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS yang resident Song Hyo Il. “And in the future, we’re going to build a powerful and prosperous country here, relying on our own BILLINGS, Mont. — The federal governdevelopment.” ment is proposing to lift threatened-species North Korean state media earlier warned protections for hundreds of Yellowstone-arthat the imposition of new sanctions would ea grizzlies, opening the door to future hunts be a “grave provocation” that shows “exfor the fearsome bears across parts of three treme” U.S. hostility against the country. It states for the first time since the 1970s. said the sanctions would not result in the The proposal caps a four-decade, governcountry’s collapse or prevent it from launchment-sponsored effort to rebuild the grizzly ing more rockets. population and follows the lifting of protecThe U.N. sanctions include mandatory tions in recent years for more than a dozen inspections of cargo leaving and entering other species, including the grey wolf, brown North Korea by land, sea or air a ban on all pelican and flying squirrel. sales or transfers of small arms and light Hunting within Yellowstone National weapons to the North and the expulsion of Park would still be prohibited. But the proNorth Korean diplomats who engage in “il- posal could allow animals to be taken in licit activities.” surrounding parts of Montana, Idaho and In Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wyoming. Hong Lei said China, North Korea’s closest “By the time the curtain closes on the ally, hoped the U.N. sanctions would be im- Obama administration, we are on track to plemented “comprehensively and seriously,” have delisted more species due to recovwhile harm to ordinary North Korean citi- ery than all previous administrations comzens would be avoided. bined,” U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service DirecAt the United Nations, Russia’s ambassa- tor Dan Ashe said. “We’ve done that because dor, Vitaly Churkin, asked about the North’s of several decades of hard work, like with firing of short-range projectiles, said, “It the grizzly bear.” means that they’re not drawing the proper Grizzlies once roamed much of North conclusions yet.” America and came to symbolize the conIn January, North Korea conducted its tinent’s untamed wilderness. Hunters and fourth nuclear test, which it claimed was a trappers had nearly wiped them out across hydrogen bomb. most of the Lower 48 states by the late 1800s. Last month, it put a satellite into orbit Thursday’s announcement came as conwith a long-range rocket that the United Na- flicts between humans and grizzly bears tions and others saw as a cover for a test of have been on the rise, including six people banned ballistic missile technology. fatally mauled since 2010. A record 59 bears Just before the U.N. sanctions were unan- were killed by humans last year, often folimously adopted, South Korea’s National lowing attacks on livestock. Assembly passed a bill that would establish a centre tasked with collecting, archiving and publishing information about human rights in North Korea. It is required to transfer that infor- Powered by mation to the Justice Ministry, a step Central Alberta’s parliamentary officials say would procareer site vide legal grounds to punish rights violators in North Korea when the two of choice. Koreas eventually reunify.

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EU mulls large-scale deportations BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATHENS, Greece — Turkey is under growing pressure to consider a major escalation in migrant deportations from Greece, a top European Union official said Thursday, amid preparations for a highly anticipated summit of EU and Turkish leaders next week. European Council President Donald Tusk ended a six-nation tour of migration crisis countries in Turkey, where 850,000 migrants and refugees left last year for Greek islands. “We agree that the refugee flows still remain far too high,” Tusk said after meeting Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. “To many in Europe, the most promising method seems to be a fast and large-scale mechanism to ship back irregular migrants arriving in Greece. It would effectively break the business model of the smugglers.” Tusk was careful to single out illegal economic migrants for possible deportation, not asylum-seekers. And he wasn’t clear who would actually carry out the expulsions: Greece itself, EU border agency Frontex or even other organizations like NATO. Greek officials said Thursday that nearly 32,000 migrants were stranded in the country following a decision by Austria and four ex-Yugolsav countries to drastically reduce the number of transiting migrants. “We consider the (Macedonian) border to be closed … Letting 80 through a day is not significant,” Migration Minister Ioannis Mouzals said. He said the army had built 10,000 additional places at temporary shelters since the border closures, with work underway on a further 15,000. But a top U.N. official on migration warned that number of people stranded in Greece could quickly double. Peter Sutherland said the “inevitable consequence” of closed borders throughout the Balkans “is that Greece increasingly becomes a camp for refugees and migrants.” About a third of migrants trapped in Greece are at the village of Idomeni, on the border with Macedonia. Dwellers at a sprawling camp there hold out hope for crossing in increasingly difficult conditions. Greek police said 130 people were allowed to cross the border Thursday. Migrants said Macedonia didn’t accept computer-generated stamps issued by the Greek police, and therefore they couldn’t prove their identity documents were genuine. Adnan Abdallah from Syria had waited to cross from Greece to Macedonia for three days, but when he finally was let through, he was turned back because the stamp on his refugee document is computer-generated. “They say here (in Greece) everything is OK, but on the other side this is not acceptable,” he told The Associated Press. The EU is struggling to hold its members to plans for a Europe-wide solution in dealing with the mass migration.

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A migrant child is helped by members of MOAS, Migrant Offshore Aid Station, a Malta-based organization, to board the rescue vessel on the Aegean Sea between the eastern Greek Island of Agathonisi and the Turkish shores, Thursday. Sixty-three members of the Yazidi community, all in one dinghy were rescued and were taken to Samos.

Macedonia calls on Greece to move migrants away from border SKOPJE, Macedonia — Macedonia’s foreign minister is calling on neighbouring Greece to move thousands of migrants stuck on its side of the border away to more suitable reception centres. Nikola Poposki told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday that this would offer stranded migrants “humane and safe treatment,” instead of having them in tents a few hundred meters (yards) from the border. “This is really not a solution,” Poposki said of the tent city. “If you really care about these people they should be hosted in reception centres that can host such a large number of people.” At least 10,000 Syrian and Iraqi refugees have been waiting for days at the Idomeni crossing on Greece’s border with Macedonia, in an official shelter and in tents that they pitched in fields. Due to similar restrictions further north on the migration route, Macedonia is only letting in a trickle. Greek police say 130 people crossed the border from 6 a.m.-6

p.m. Thursday. Poposki urged closer cooperation with Greece “to avoid any kind of dramatic evolution on the ground.” He also warned that it is “very much unavoidable” that countries further north on the migrant route to central Europe will adopt stricter restrictions — which would inevitably affect the number of refugees Macedonia accepts. “We are waiting (to learn) the numbers of migrants that can be received in destination countries … and this is going to determine the daily quotas of migrants allowed to enter Macedonian territory,”

Iranian migrants sew mouths shut in French camp protest CALAIS, France — Six Iranian migrants have sewed their mouths shut to protest the mass evictions and destruction of a large swath of a migrant camp in northern France in a desperate bid to bring attention to their plight. The unusual protest Wednesday came on the third day of an operation to dismantle the makeshift camp on the edge of Calais. Most of the several thousand living there h hope to sneak across the English Channel to Britain. Some camp dwellers have stood on roofs to try to save their huts, others set them afire. The Iranians held a sign asking for a UN representative to visit the camp. Clare Moseley of the Care4Calais British volunteer group said the p protest was “a cry for help because tthey don’t know what else to do.” A court ruled last month that the destruction of the large southern sector of the camp is legal but common spaces like houses of worship must be spared.

IDOMENI, Greece — By the hundreds they come, trudging along the sides of highways and across fields, dragging tired toddlers and pushing the elderly and injured in wheelchairs — a seemingly endless stream of humanity heading north for a better life. Only their path has been blocked by border restrictions set up by European leaders balking at the sheer magnitude of the problem they face: how to care for and integrate hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants knocking at their door. The fields on the outskirts of this Greek border town have become the flashpoint in Europe’s massive refugee crisis, the size of which the continent has not seen since the Second World War. More than a million people, mostly Syrians fleeing a vicious five-year civil war, fled to the European Union in 2015. The first two months of this year have seen no letup despite the winter and its rough seas, and governments across the continent are bracing for even more with improving weather in the spring. At the border, Macedonian authorities have set up coils of razor wire, leaving a narrow passage through which they control the migration flow. Over the past few weeks, the controls have grown increasingly stringent, and now only a trickle are allowed through. The first restrictions were applied late last year to those deemed to be economic migrants fleeing poverty in their homelands. Only Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans were permitted to pass. Then last month, Afghans were stopped too. Now, Macedonia says it will only let as many refugees in as Serbia to the north will allow to cross its frontier — sometimes as few as 30 a day. Sometimes none. It didn’t take more than a day or two for the refugee camp on the Greek side of the border, with a capacity of about 2,000, to overflow. Now, hundreds of tents are pitched around it, spilling out across a railway line into the nearby fields. An estimated 10,000 people are camped here, hoping against hope that the border will open and they will be let through. For some, arriving after days or weeks of a journey that nearly cost them their lives as they fled across the sea to Greek islands from Turkey, the sight is almost unbearable: they fear this field is where their dreams have come to die. “I would love to have hope, but after you see all of this — hope can’t stay in places like this,” said Hala Haddad, a 19-year-old English literature student from Syria’s now pulverized city of Homs. “The only thing that’s here is desperation and misery.” Haddad fled Syria along with her sister Insaf, four brothers and their parents two years ago, with the family trying to make a life in neighbouring Jordan. They hoped they would be away only a month or two, and wanted to stay close to home so they could easily go back. But the war only intensified.

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Friday, March 4, 2016

Child-killer blames Putin in motive MOSCOW NANNY THAT DECAPITATED 4 YEAR-OLD SAYS IT WAS ACT OF REVENGE FOR AIRSTRIKES IN SYRIA BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW — A nanny accused of decapitating a 4-year-old girl and brandishing her head outside a Moscow subway station said during an apparent interrogation captured on video that the killing was an act of revenge against President Vladimir Putin for Russian airstrikes in Syria. Asked about the video, which was released Thursday, Putin’s spokesman said it was difficult to judge the testimony of a woman he called “clearly deranged.” Gulchekhra Bobokulova, 38, was detained in Moscow on Monday after the child in her care was killed. Video footage posted online Thursday appeared to show police interrogating her. It was not clear where the video originated, and The Associated Press could not verify its authenticity or the circumstances in which it was taken. She appeared to be wearing the same clothes she wore during a court appearance on Wednesday. In the video, she says the killing of the child was done in revenge. Asked who it was revenge against, she says “the one who has spilled the blood.” Asked who that was, she replies: “Who spilled it? Putin has been dropping bombs.” Russia has been carrying out airstrikes in Syria for five months to support Syrian President Bashar Assad’s offensive against rebels. Russian officials have flatly denied numerous reports by international aid groups that accuse it of killing not only Islamic State fighters but also Syrian civilians. The Investigative Committee, Russia’s top investigative agency, would not confirm or deny the authenticity of the video, but spokesman Vladi-

mir Markin warned that Bobokulova’s words should be treated with caution. “The motive for a crime committed by a person who was diagnosed with schizophrenia often does not coincide with the explanations that they give later,” he said, adding that investigators will look into all possible theories. Russian officials seem to be sending mixed messages about the suspect, focusing on her mental record but also suggesting that she probably did not act alone. Prosecutors told the court Wednesday that individuals who may have “incited” Bobokulova to kill the child may still be at large. Russian media have reported that Bobokulova, originally from the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan, was first diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2003. She has not yet undergone a psychiatric examination in Russia. Markin rejected reports that Russian investigators found phone numbers of Islamic extremists in Bobokulova’s contacts. In the video, she tells investigators she reads the Qur’an and prays day and night but that they can go kill her three children in Uzbekistan, who don’t read the Qur’an. Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, said it would be wrong to draw conclusions from the video. “It appears obvious to me — although I may be wrong, I’m not an expert or judge — that we are evidently talking about a woman who is clearly deranged,” he said. Russian state television has not covered the murder. As social media users scramble to get information about the grisly, Russian opposition figures have accused the Kremlin of gagging the press in order to prevent a legitimate discussion about migrant workers in Russia.

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Gyulchehra Bobokulova is escorted to attend a hearing at the Presnensky district court in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday. Gyulchehra Bobokulova from Uzbekistan was arrested on Monday, near the Oktyabrskoye Pole underground station where she had appeared dressed in black and carrying a severed child’s head and shouting. Bobokulova was the baby’s nanny. Nationalist politicians have for years campaigned to impose visas on citizens of Central Asian nations who make up the most of Russia’s migrant worker population, citing crime rates and the scarcity of jobs for Russians. Government officials have acknowledged the problem of undocumented migrants but have said imposing visas on Central Asians would cost Russia its influence in this strategic region.

“She entered Russia without work permit,” opposition politician Vladimir Milov tweeted on Thursday. “This would not have happened with the visa regime in place. The child would be alive.” Opposition leader Alexei Navalny said in a blog post Thursday that the Muslim community should be more proactive in fighting Islamic extremism.

Migrants, referendum, come to fore at summit BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — French politicians targeted the British referendum on EU membership on Thursday, warning that leaving the bloc would give London new problems regarding migrants, banking and terrorism. Ahead of the first summit of the French and British leaders since the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, two members of the Socialist government warned that a British departure from the European Union will make it harder to block migrants from crossing the Channel, threaten London’s dominance in the financial sector and complicate security co-operation. Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron told the Financial Times that

the bilateral agreement under which France keeps migrants on its side of the Channel could come into question if the U.K. leaves the EU. Macron also pointedly took aim at London’s role in banking, which relies heavily upon Europe’s open economy. “The day this relationship unravels, migrants will no longer be in Calais and the financial passport would work less well,” he said. France this week began dismantling the migrant camp in Calais, which has been a flashpoint and fed far-right sentiment in both countries, seeking to move the occupants to other sites. Harlem Desir, the French secretary of state for European affairs, echoed Macron’s concerns. “There is no blackmail or threat, but we co-operate more easily if the

United Kingdom is a member of the European Union than if it is not,” he told RFI radio on Thursday. British Prime Minister David Cameron, who is meeting Thursday in the city of Amiens with French President Francois Hollande, has also suggested France could end its border deal with Britain if the UK votes to leave. But Conservative lawmaker Bernard Jenkin, who wants Britain to quit the bloc, said the comments were the

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result of Cameron trying to get other European governments to “scare people” out of voting to leave. He noted that France’s interior minister has described opening the border with Britain as irresponsible. “I don’t think responsible European governments are going to cut off their noses to spite their faces just because we vote to leave the EU,” Jenkin told the BBC.

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German official slams police tolerance of hate speech BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN — A senior official in Saxony has criticized police for failing to act against hate speech in the east German state, a stronghold of both the anti-Islam PEGIDA movement and the anti-immigrant party Alternative for Germany. Martin Dulig, Saxony’s deputy governor, said in an interview published Thursday that police should step in when speakers use podiums at political rallies to incite hatred. “I sometimes ask myself, too, whether there’s greater sympathy for PEGIDA and AfD (Alternative for Germany) among the police in Saxony than among the average population,” he told German weekly Die Zeit. The comments prompted a sharp response from Saxony’s top security official, Markus Ulbig, a member of the conservative Christian Democrats who govern the state with Dulig’s centre-left Social Democrats. “Our police are doing successful

work, particularly when it comes to solving extremist crimes,” said Ulbig, the state’s interior minister. More than 70 per cent of the nearly 900 cases of extremist crime over the past three years had been solved, he said. Saxony — the birthplace of PEGIDA, or Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West — has seen a sharp rise in far-right attacks against migrants over the past year. In the fourth quarter of 2015 there were 50 attacks against migrant homes in the state, compared with 15 in the same three-month period of 2014. The number of migrants coming to Germany has also increased sharply over the past year. Dulig suggested police leadership in the state was partly to blame, citing a recent incident in the town of Clausnitz, where a mob blocked a bus carrying migrants and shouted “Go home!” No protesters were arrested and a local police chief told reporters that the migrants were partly to blame for the incident.

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