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Westpark Elementary School teacher Brianne Lindsay does a guided reading program with students Paiton Hodge, Nevaeh Norton, Maria Ilina and Haleigh Brando during class this week.

THE RED DEER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT IS BEING DRAGGED KICKING AND SCREAMING INTO THE NEW PROVINCIAL BARGAINING MODEL, WHICH CHALLENGES ITS INDEPENDENCE BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF You won’t see all 18 students in Mrs. Lindsay’s Grade 3 class sitting in their desks, pouring over the same story book during their language arts session. Scattered around the West Park Elementary School classroom at tables, on the floor and at desks, students are involved in a variety of literacy activities. Each week students get to chose most of their reading activities. On Wednesday, one student read aloud to a classmate at a small table; a group of four practiced their writing by making homemade Pokémon cards; a few wore headphones to listen and read along to a story on their laptop; some did a

reading exercise with an education assistant; four others gathered with their teacher to talk about a book on baby beavers Nipissing and Nipigon. Students either quietly concentrated on their computer screens, chatted together, answered questions, wrote or read. “When I started there were still a lot of traditional ideas towards teaching. Students in desks, in rows, all the time. Everyone doing the same activity,” said Brianne Lindsay who has been teaching for 10 years. Anyone would recognize the printed and cursive alphabet sequence posted on the Grade 3 classroom wall, and possibly the mini library tucked into the corner of the room with plastic tubs filled with books. But shaking up classroom activities

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has grabbed the attention of students. Lindsay said giving students more choice in the tasks they do in class is very important. They came up with the idea to create their own Pokémon cards which allowed them to be creative while working on their writing skills. It does take some time in September to get students familiar with the literacy system and classroom expectations, but it has plenty of advantages, she said. “I get to have very specific time with students to work on their instruction and everyone is engaged in an activity they want to do.” She said students learn in different ways and progress at different rates and the system allows her to meet each student at the reading level he or she

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is at. “Students flourish in this environment. I see success every day from them, which is awesome. It makes me want to keep doing it and find better ways to help them in others areas.” Sharing ideas with other teachers is one technique used in Red Deer Public Schools to build momentum in the classroom. “We are so much better together than if we are a silo in our classroom. We learn from each other. You see so many great ideas that are happening around the school. It’s contagious. Collaboration time we have is invaluable to our programming and our planning,” Lindsay said.

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Sundre facility will offer longterm care: minister

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BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Health Minister Sarah Hoffman says two Sundre residents in need of long-term care will continue to get long-term care in the town’s new supportive living facility that opens this summer. Last week, Alberta Health Services announced it was closing the 15 long-term care beds at Sundre Hospital and Care Centre. The beds will be replaced with 40 level-four supportive-living beds — the highest care level in supportive living — at Mountain View Seniors’ Housing. Twenty of those beds will be for dementia care. The Wildrose opposition said the unexpected closure jeopardizes rural health care in the Sundre area. All 15 long-term care beds at the hospital are currently filled. Hoffman said all of the residents will be able to transition to the new facility. “For the two who do need the highest level of care, we’re certainly going to make sure that they get the support when they move over, and for any additional needs that people might acquire, we’ll continue to monitor those,” Hoffman said on Friday. The hope is that other residents can also continue to stay at the new facility if they need long-term care in the future, she said. “I won’t be able to say definitively today, but that certainly is the hope that you move the least number of times.” The province has a plan to build 2,000 long-term care and dementia beds over the next three-and-a-half years. “Not everybody should be in an auxiliary hospital or a nursing home. But if you need it, we want to make sure that level of care is available.” In 2013, the non-profit Mountain View Seniors’ Housing received $3.8 million in Affordable Supportive Living Initiative capital grant from the provincial Progressive Conservative government to help build the $22-million, 104-unit facility that will also include 46 lodge units at level one and two supportive living, and 18 independent living units. “It’s going to be a bright, brand new facility and we look forward to opening it and it being able to meet the needs of the community for many years to come,” Hoffman said. “At different points in your life, you might need long-term care, or you might continue to need level four (supportive living), or you might need a dementia bed. And the great thing about the new design, is that it’s able to accommodate all three of those types of care.” And contrary to Wildrose rumours, she said Sundre hospital, which has 14 acute care beds, will remain open. “The hospital will stay open. I want to make sure that’s crystal clear.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Melissa Devlin, fund development co-ordinator with the SPCA in Red Deer adds some puzzle pieces to a large mosaic at Parkland Mall after a $2,000 donation came in on Friday. The Mosaics of Hope fundraiser is continuing through this weekend and all of next week at the mall where three charitable organizations have combined efforts with Parkland Mall to raise some much needed funding. For every $5 donation a mosaic puzzle piece will be added to either the SPCA, The Boys and Girls Club or the Red Deer Health Foundation mosaic poster. Parkland Mall is also matching all donations during the fundraising event.

Mayor reserves judgment after meeting with Uber, taxi officials BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF More ride options for getting across the city may soon be on the road. Mayor Tara Veer and city manager Craig Curtis met with officials from the local taxi industry and Uber to learn more about the controversial issue of ride-sharing this week. Uber has not announced an official launch date for service in Red Deer. Veer said both meetings were simply about information gathering. Uber had hosted an information session for drivers in Red Deer in January. Veer met with Ramit Kar, Uber’s Alberta general manager, and Michael van Hemmen, policy manager, on Friday. “Much of the information was familiar to me as I have been watching closely with what has been transpiring in Edmonton and Calgary,” said Veer. “I have indicated that I have reserved judgment because obviously ride sharing is part of a more significant conversation.”

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UBER: Interest from rider, driver perspective Veer had questions about municipal regulations and approaches to public safety and consumer protection. She said the city will continue to stay on top of what other municipalities are doing and what is transpiring in the region. There will be more conversations with Uber, she said. Veer said the local cabbies had shared concerns about local regulations, expectations on meeting driver and public safety, consumer protection and market regulations. The issue is not currently scheduled on the official council agenda. Kar said there is interest from both a rider and driver perspective for the service in Red Deer. He said thousands of Red Deerians have opened the Uber app since January looking for transportation options. Uber will continue to assess the market for the ride-sharing service before making any decisions. “Obviously in these tough economic times, this is a great opportunity for drivers to make a little more money,” said Kar. “For riders it’s just another great transportation option that takes the hassle out of getting around the city. Lastly the major benefit that we bring is on impaired driving. When people really

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Celebrate World Water Day by introducing easy water conservation techniques into your own home. The City of Red Deer will mark World Water Day on March 22 as part of its effort to minimize our potable water use as set out in the Environmental Master Plan. Some water saving tips and initiatives: ● Check your toilets and faucets for leaks. Put five or six drops of food colouring in the toilet tank. There is a leak if without flushing, the colour begins to appear in the toilet bowl within 30 minutes. ● Instead of running water from the tap until it’s cold enough to drink, fill a pitcher with water and put it in the fridge for drinking. ● Replace your old toilets with low-flow toilets and receive a rebate through the city’s Toilet Rebate Program. Visit reddeer.ca/toiletrebate for more. ● Use a rain barrel. Save treated water by using a rain barrel to collect and store rain that can be used for lawns and landscaping. The city is offering rebates this spring to residents who purchase rain barrels. More information can be found at reddeer. ca/rainbarrels. The city is working on a water conservation plan with targets and details on initiatives to reduce water usage. World Water Day is a global event that advocates the importance of protecting one of our most vital resources. For more household water-saving tips and information on the city’s water conservation initiatives, visit reddeer.ca/water.

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More surgeries will be performed at hospitals in Olds and Innisfail starting next week as restoration on five operating rooms at Red Deer Regional Hospital continues. Construction-related flooding on March 1 closed five out of nine operating rooms at Red Deer hospital. “We’re in the process just this week of finalizing some more regularized scheduled procedures in Olds and Innisfail, orthopedic surgery being the primary focus for Olds, and plastic surgery and some elective general surgery in Innisfail,” said Kerry Bales, chief zone officer for Alberta Health Services Central Zone, on Friday. “We do those types of surgeries now in both of those places. What we’re going to be doing now is just trying to schedule even more. Those will be up and running next week.” He said the approximate number of surgeries that will be done should be known early next week and will be some combination of surgeries already scheduled and surgeries that were cancelled due to the flood. As of Friday, 182 surgeries have been cancelled and deferred since March 1. “We recognize this has been a difficult thing for some people that have had their surgical dates impacted. We apologize for that. It’s certainly regrettable and we’re doing everything we can to get back up and running as soon as possible,” Bales said. Normally, an average of 48 surgeries per day are performed at the Red Deer hospital. Operating rooms still in use are three theatres used for general surgery, and a smaller operating room that has always and will continue to be used only for urology surgery.

Health Minister Sarah Hoffman said she has been staying up to date on the restoration of Red Deer’s operating rooms. “Certainly accidents do happen. That’s one of the reasons why we have insurance and why we also have an infrastructure budget that has some flexibility to make sure that we don’t lose out on opportunities to use our facilities to the fullest,” Hoffman said. Once the five operating rooms have reopened, the theatres will open beyond regular hours, she said. “They will be going into the evenings and we’ll be able to get about an extra 20 or 25 in every week so hopefully we’ll be able to catch up on some of this lost opportunity,” the Health Minister said. Water from a second-floor flood poured down into the main floor operating rooms. Bales said a more in-depth review is required, but the flooding occurred while construction crews worked on the water system. They thought they had isolated the water system, but it turned out they hadn’t. He said restoration work is underway around the clock. It’s going faster than first predicted. “We’re anticipating we’ll have three of the ORs back on line as early as the second week in April and then the other two we’re expecting the third week in April.” Twelve patient rooms on the second floor are also still closed due to water damage from the construction area where two operating rooms are being built for scheduled cesarean sections and emergency obstetrical procedures. Bales said the quick response of staff and physicians who were at the hospital at the time of the flood helped limit the amount of damage. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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The man accused of causing a fatal collision in Red Deer last May has been ordered to stand trial on charges including impaired driving causing death. Kelowna resident Chad Ryan Connatty, 32, who had been working in Red Deer, was arrested after a collision at about 6:30 p.m. on May 20, 2015 at the intersection of 30th Ave. and 19th St. in Red Deer. Police allege that Springbrook resident Kevin Lee Pearson, 44, died when the motorcycle he was riding collided with Connatty’s pickup truck. Connatty was charged with impaired driving causing death and causing death while driving with a blood alcohol content exceeding .08. Represented by Edmonton lawyer Jordon Stuffco and second counsel Phil Stuffco, Connatty asked to be tried in the Court of Queen’s Bench with the benefit of a preliminary hearing to examine the Crown’s case against him. The preliminary hearing opened on Thursday morning before Judge Jim Hunter in Red Deer provincial court and finished on Friday morning.

A recent break-in has cost the suspect his lawyer. Red Deer defence counsel Kevin Sproule had the awkward duty of dropping one of his criminal clients in Red Deer provincial court on Friday due to a conflict of interest. Danielle Harrison, 34, was arrested earlier this week on charges of possessing cocaine, breaking and entering a building with intent to commit an offence, evading arrest and breaching release conditions. Harrison’s trouble is, the building he is accused of entering is a storage facility for the Sproule Gordon law firm. Sproule had recently accepted Harrison as a client and was able to get him released from remand on earlier charges. Judge David Plosz therefore allowed Sproule to withdraw as Harrison’s counsel, meaning he could not enter pleas or run a bail hearing for him. Harrison’s case was put over to April 1 to give him time to find a new lawyer.

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Suspect in two armed robberies arrest St. Patrick’s Day wasn’t so lucky for a Red Deer man when city RCMP caught up with and arrested him on Thursday as a suspect in two armed robberies. The North Hill Store was robbed last Sunday, and the Express 24 Foodmart on Erickson Drive was robbed on Monday. Police said at the time they suspected the same person in both incidents. Red Deer RCMP said in a release that tips from the public helped them identify the suspect and they began searching for him. He was located shortly after 3 a.m. in a vehicle in the parking lot of a Ross Street gas station and taken into custody without incident. He had also been identified as a suspect in a theft from a liquor store on Wednesday after being caught on camera stealing a bottle of rye, and was further wanted on a number of unrelated warrants for offences including assault with a weapon, sexual assault, and use of an imitation firearm. Tyler Alexander Coombs, 32, now also faces robbery and firearms charges as well as four counts of breaching

Saturday, March 19, 2016 release conditions arising from the earlier charges. Coombs made his first appearance in Red Deer provincial court on Friday by live feed from the Red Deer Remand Centre. He was allowed to reserve his election and plea on the new charges until March 29 to give him time to find a lawyer.

Celebrate Earth Hour on Saturday Flick off your lights and go dark for Earth Hour on Saturday. Between 8:30 and 9:30 p.m turn off unnecessary lights and appliances to reduce electricity consumption in support of the global initiative to raise awareness about climate change. Swim for a toonie per person at the G.H. Dawe and Collicutt Centre from 8 to 10 p.m. The city will turn off unnecessary lights to create a fun atmosphere, conserve energy, and raise awareness of climate change, while still maintaining a safe recreation environment. Red Deerians have been participating in Earth Hour since 2008. Last year city residents reduced electricity consumption by 6.77 per cent compared to the previous Saturday. Earth Hour is a global environmental initiative in partnership with the World Wildlife Fund.

Man killed in rollover near Ponoka A single-vehicle rollover near Ponoka claimed the life of a 20-year-old man early Friday morning. Ponoka RCMP said that at approximately 12:25 a.m. they responded to the incident, which occurred on Range Road 261 near Township Road 425, southwest of Ponoka. The man was found deceased at the scene. He was lone occupant of the vehicle. His identity is not being released. Police said it did not appear that alcohol was a factor in the collision. RCMP, a collision analyst, and the medical examiner continue to investigate.Bhullar-Belongings

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Alberta Food Banks get largest-ever donation from CIBC as demand soars CALGARY — Alberta Food Banks says it has received its largest-ever donation as the worst economic downturn in decades causes demand to soar. The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is contributing $250,000 to the charity as food banks across the province struggle to keep pace with the need. The organization says food bank usage has spiked since late 2014, when oil prices began their steep descent, eventually leading to tens of thousands of job losses. It says 10 per cent of Alberta food banks ran out of food at one point last year — causing some to shrink the size of the hampers offered and others to even close temporarily. This year is already setting records for increased demand and Alberta Food Banks says the strain may not ease until mid-to-late 2017.

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Meet the press, Alberta style PRESS GALLERY SHOULD CONTROL ACCESS TO ALBERTA LEGISLATURE MEDIA EVENTS: REPORT BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A review into who should be allowed to ask questions at Alberta legislature news conferences says reporters should be the ones to make the call. Heather Boyd, retired Western Canadian bureau chief for The Canadian Press, cautions that a reporter’s political slant or point of view shouldn’t be considered in determining access to media events. The issue is becoming more prevalent as online outlets and social media blur distinctions between reporters and the public they serve. “Nobody can define a journalist anymore,” Boyd said after her report was released Friday. “I suspect, over time, the rules are going to have to change.” The provincial government said it will accept all of Boyd’s recommendations. But Ezra Levant, whose conservative online publication The Rebel sparked the review, called Boyd’s

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major recommendations unacceptable and unconstitutional. “This is a big-government solution in search of a problem that does not exist,” he said. Questions arose last month after the NDP government refused to admit a reporter from The Rebel to a joint news conference with Premier Rachel Notley and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the legislature. Boyd recommends that decisions about accreditation should be made by the legislature’s press gallery, which consists of reporters who regularly cover politics. “This protects government from the perception of bias,” Boyd wrote in her report. “This is not a perfect solution, and several journalists have made it clear they do not believe they should be subject in any way to control by their peers, but it appears to be the best compromise.” The arrangement is common in other provincial legislatures as well as in the Parliamentary Press

Gallery in Ottawa. It has also been the practice in the Alberta press gallery. Boyd acknowledges in her report that the Alberta press gallery told her it doesn’t have the resources to vet and police gallery applicants. She recommends resources be provided by the independent Office of the Speaker. Such assistance is provided in Ottawa and in Quebec’s National Assembly. Boyd said it would be up to the gallery to ensure it maintained control. “If you’ve got a strong press gallery and it’s interested in preserving its integrity, it would work with the Speaker to do that. It works well in Ottawa and Quebec City.” Levant said such a relationship would amount to allowing the government a voice in defining its watchdogs. “The pretence of arm’s length is abandoned,” he said. “If someone tried to vet my qualifications, I would sue them before the day was out.”

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EDMONTON — The prosecution at the trial of Travis Vader says the testimony of one of its own witnesses is inconsistent with what was told to investigators looking into the disappearance of an elderly Edmonton-area couple in 2010. Crown prosecutor Ashley Finlayson spent Friday questioning William Nicolyuk, a long-time acquaintance of Vader’s, about the two-day period before Vader was arrested as a person of interest in the deaths of Lyle and Marie McCann. Asked if he had gotten groceries for Vader, if Vader had told him he was on the run, and if he’d ever seen Vader get into a white truck, Finlayson answered no. Finlayson said those answers are not the same ones Nicolyuk gave in earlier statements, and he may seek to treat Nicolyuk as a hostile witness.

CALGARY — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she is looking for at least $1 billion in infrastructure funding for her province in next week’s federal budget. She says she is also looking for changes to employment insurance for laid off workers that carry pretty large price tags. Notley made the comments after being asked about Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall’s demand for $570 million in new money from Ottawa. Wall, who is in the middle of a provincial election campaign, argues that’s the amount his province will EDMONTON — A judge has ruled that three pay into equalization this year. Thorhild County councillors who were fired by the Notley’s government has already indicated it Alberta government can stay on the job at least until will be dealing with a spending deficit that could be as high as $10 billion when it tables its budget next month. Thousands of workers whose jobs depend on the energy industry have been laid off due to a downturn in oil prices. “That’s what drives our ask — supporting families and creating jobs,” Notley said Friday. “Those are the first items that we have identified, because those are focused on immediately supporting families who have lost their jobs and immediately supporting the ability to create new jobs through infrastructure.” Finance Minister Joe Ceci said a recent uptick GREAT THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU GO NORTH in oil prices to around US$40 a barrel has him sleeping a little easier.

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Trudeau RCMP charge teen with murder names seven of 11-year-old girl on reserve senators BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The evolution of the discredited Senate into a supposedly more reputable, less-partisan chamber of sober second thought picked up steam Friday as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named seven new senators — including a former senior bureaucrat, a judge, a journalist and a Paralympian. They are the first appointments in three years and the first to be based on the recommendations of a new arm’s-length advisory board, established by Trudeau in a bid to reduce partisanship in the Senate. Peter Harder, a former federal deputy minister who led the transition team when Trudeau took power last fall, was named government representative in the Senate — as opposed to the traditional government leader in the Senate. His role will be to steer government legislation through the upper house but, even so, he said he’ll sit as an independent, as will the other six new senators. “I think it’s important that we are clear that the Senate is both a separate chamber and that the independent members of the Senate are being called upon to exercise their judgment on pieces of legislation as they come through, without being whipped by partisan interests,” Harder said in an interview. Trudeau said his picks will help “transform the Senate into a less-partisan and more independent institution that can perform its fundamental roles in the legislative process more effectively — including the representation of regional and minority interests.” But opposition parties wasted little time dismissing the new appointments as little more than lipstick on a pig. “Regardless of the merits of those appointed, the new senators were still appointed from secret short lists, created by an unelected, unaccountable board that reports to the prime minister himself,” Tory MPs Scott Reid and Blake Richards said in a joint statement. New Democrat MP Nathan Cullen echoed that: “The Liberal appointment process was as secretive and unaccountable as it has always been.” Harder’s role is murky. He will be sworn into the Privy Council so he can attend cabinet meetings when necessary, but he is not a cabinet minister and still considers himself non-partisan. “I’m a bit of a buckle that joins the government, which is represented in the House of Commons, with the other chamber,” Harder said. “And as the representative of the government, I will work with all senators to appropriately advance the legislative agenda that comes to the Senate of Canada.”

Ontario man dies in ‘peace and dignity’ with doctor help BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

WINNIPEG — RCMP have charged a 15-yearold boy with first-degree murder in the death of an 11-year-old girl on a reserve in northern Manitoba. Supt. Paulette Freill said Friday that the killing of Teresa Robinson was “absolutely senseless and horrific.” “As a parent and as a mom, I can only imagine how incredibly difficult the past 10 months have been for this family,” said Freill. “And I want to thank them for their continued courage and strength throughout this ordeal.” Teresa disappeared last May after leaving a birthday party on the Garden Hill First Nation, a fly-in community about 500 kilometres northeast of WinniPhoto by THE CANADIAN PRESS peg. It was initially believed that the girl was killed by Dino Flett, right, chief of Garden Hill First Nation, a bear. speaks to media as Derek Nepinak, grand chief of Her remains were found by searchers in the days the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, listens in after that followed and Mounties ruled her death a homiRCMP announced at a press conference in Winnipeg cide. Six weeks ago, RCMP took the unusual step of that they arrested arrested a 15-year-old male from asking about 2,000 males between 15 and 66 on the Garden Hill First Nation for the murder of 11-yearreserve to volunteer samples of their DNA. Mounties old Teresa Casandra Robinson. said it was the largest DNA sweep in the province and possibly the country. big thank you to the RCMP, to all the people who Staff Sgt. Jared Hall said he couldn’t reveal if the sweep led to the arrest or if the boy charged provid- worked on the case.” Sheila North Wilson, grand chief of MKO — a ed his DNA. “Logic is there that forensics and DNA have a group that represents First Nations across northern place in this case,” Hall said. Manitoba — said the accused and his family needs He also wouldn’t say if the accused and victim support, too. knew each other. The boy, who can’t be named under provisions of the Youth EXCLUSIVE Criminal Justice Act, is a member of the First Nation and was arrested on the reserve Thursday. AMAZING The arrest brings relief to Garden Hill’s 5,000 residents but healing will take time, said Chief Dino FRESHEN UP YOUR Flett. LIVING SPACE FOR “There has been fear SPRING WITH (for) almost a year in GarBEAUTIFUL NEW den Hill. People were UPHOLSTERY STYLED fearing because they had no idea what was going JUST FOR YOU. on, if this person was still out there,” Flett said. “We are going to pull together and do this together, to help the family members and help the community.” Flett said residents co-operated with the RCLook for our MP investigation and Upholstery wanted to help Robinson’s Flyer at family. Cottswood.com, The girl’s mother, Sanfeaturing some dra Robinson, told TV of our favourite network APTN that she design inspirations. was relieved at hearing of the arrest. “It’s like a brand-new day, that’s what I felt when I got up this mornComplimentary Interior Design Service ing, knowing that the per10940 Mayﬁeld Rd, Edmonton 780.453.3447 son has been caught,” she www.Cottswood.com said. Interest Free Financing Available She also expressed “a

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NEWS EDUCATION: School board supports work of teachers Bev Manning, school board chair with Red Deer Public Schools, said the district’s teachers work hard and it’s the job of the school board to support the work of teachers. “If you believe you can do it, then you ‘I HAVE TO can do it. You have to believe that every CONTINUE TO child in that classroom POUND MY FIST is teachable and can learn. We need to AND SAY — LOCAL work with teachers. BARGAINING, We need to give them the support they need LOCAL to help them to unBARGAINING, derstand this is a job LOCAL that’s important and they can do it,” ManBARGAINING . . ning said. . . WE’VE LOST Her endorsement comes as educaSOMETHING VERY tors must adjust to PRECIOUS AND rock-bottom oil prices and brace for the imVERY VALUABLE pact that will have on TO US.’ funding for education in the upcoming pro— BEV MANNING vincial budget. SCHOOL BOARD CHAIR, “We’re certainly not RED DEER PUBLIC SCHOOLS expecting an increase, but we’re just hoping we’ll be able to maintain operations as they currently are,” Manning said. “It’s going to be a difficult road no matter what, but teachers are still working hard in the classrooms.” Contact negotiations for teachers will also start down a new path. Instead of each of Alberta’s 61 school jurisdictions negotiating with its own teachers, now the Teachers’ Employer Bargaining Authority (TEBA) made up of provincial government and school board representatives will negotiate with the Alberta Teachers’ Association. TEBA is made up of six school board trustees — none of them from Central Alberta — and eight government representatives. TEBA will negotiate the big ticket items like salary and other provincial issues. Individual school boards will only be allowed to negotiate local issues which have yet to be determined. “It will likely not be anything of great significance. When the government takes the money part of out it, what is there left to bargain?” Manning said Red Deer Public Schools is not alone in its stand against the new provincial bargaining model. “Our board has been pretty clear that we support local bargaining. It has helped us work through problems together and just made for a better district all around. When your teachers and district is working well together, kids flourish.” She said some school boards were more agreeable to relinquishing negotiating power. But local bargaining was developed to address unique jurisdictional issues. “What we need in Central Alberta is so different than what we require in Northern Alberta. “I have to continue to pound my fist and say — local bargaining, local bargaining, local bargaining. But having said that, we are being dragged along kicking and screaming into the provincial bargaining realm,” Manning said. She said Red Deer Public feels like it has lost a huge part of its local autonomy. “We’ve lost something very precious and very valuable to us.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Daycare operators get jail time, fine after toddler’s death BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The penalty handed down to three people who ran a daycare north of Toronto where a toddler died nearly three years ago is too little, too late, the lawyer representing the child’s parents said. Ruslan Panfilova, his wife Olena Panfilova and her daughter Karyna Rabadanova were sentenced Friday to 30 days in jail, to be served intermittently on weekends, and given two years to each pay a $15,000 fine with a victim surcharge. The trio was found guilty in February of operating an illegal daycare and were convicted under Ontario’s Day Nurseries Act. “This type of penalty doesn’t even come close to punishing these people for what they did,” said Patrick Brown, who represents Eva Ravikovich’s parents. The province had the information it needed to lay charges at least a year before Eva died in July 2013, Brown said in a phone interview after the sentencing. “They should have been prosecuted long before,” he said. The lawyer for the Panfilovas and their daughter said his clients have no record of similar or criminal offences and “there is no precedent for this type of sentencing or charge.” “Both Ruslan and Olena expressed their sorrow and were very apologetic,” he said in a phone interview. Asked how his clients were feeling about their sentence, J. Richard Forget said: “They were expecting a lot worse.” He noted the intermittent jail time will allow the trio to continue working and keep up with medical appointments. Provincial rules say unlicenced daycares can only care for a maximum of five children under the age of 10, but there were 27 children at the daycare in Vaughan, Ont., on the day Eva died. Education Ministry officials later admitted they had failed to follow up on two of three complaints lodged against the daycare. The trio’s sentences were issued a day after Olena Panfilova, 49, was criminally charged with manslaughter in connection with Eva’s death. She and Rabadanova, 26, were also charged with obstruction of justice last year. Police allege the pair, both from Vaughan, interfered with the investigation and destroyed evidence.

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TORONTO — A man charged in a double stabbing at an armed forces recruiting centre in Toronto was remanded in custody Friday as his lawyer scrambles Calgary police say staff at a convenience store to find potential bail sureties. found something strange while unpacking a Ayanle Hassan Ali, 27, said shipment of pre-made food. nothing as he appeared briefIt’s alleged that two clear, heat-sealed bags ly in court dressed in a white discovered in the shipment contained two kilograms T-shirt on his second such apof a substance believed to be heroin. pearance since the incident Investigators say the bags had the word “Navi” on Monday in which two Canawritten on the outside. dian Armed Forces soldiers Police asking anyone with information to contact were slightly injured. them. He will appear again March 24. “We’re still in the process of examining possibilities for bail (and) checking out sureties,” lawyer David Burke said AYANLE HASSAN ALI outside court. “It will be a EDMONTON — Police have charged an Edmonton very difficult bail.” man with child pornography offences after he was Ali, who was born in Monallegedly caught accessing images on a computer in treal but moved to Toronto in 2011, faces a total of a public library. nine charges, including three counts of attempted The Internet Child Exploitation team nabbed the murder and aggravated assault. Police said a man suspect at his home in north Edmonton last week. holding a knife walked into a government building Police say the man was sitting in front of a comand attacked two unformed soldiers. Other military puter at the Woodcroft branch on Feb. 19, when he personnel were able to subdue him. was confronted by a staff member. Burke said he had no issue with comments from Toronto’s police chief Mark Saunders, who cited witnesses as saying the man said after the stabbing: “Allah told me to do this Allah told me to come here and kill people.” “That’s right now what the chief of police is sayFrom the cobblestone streets of the French Riviera and the ing and I have no particular reason to disbelieve rolling hills of Italy’s Piedmont region to Portugal’s lively him, but I haven’t seen Lisbon and Spain’s Catalonia to the spicy streets of India any exact evidence of that all the way down under to the wine soaked regions of myself,” Burke said. “At Australia, Chef Emmenuel David take your taste buds on a some point, it will come culinary adventure around the world. out what was said and what wasn’t.” Bring your appetite. Leave your passport. An ongoing police investigation involves anINDIA – NOSH ON NAWABI – JAN. 24, 2016 ti-terrorism officers from ITALY – PIEDMONT PERFECTION – FEB. 28, 2016 the RCMP and other security agencies, but so far, AUSTRALIA – DISCOVER DOWNUNDER – MAR. 27, 2016 what sparked the stabbing FRANCE – A TASTE OF PROVENCE – APR. 24, 2016 remains unclear. “I understand there’s PORTUGAL – LIVE IT UP IN LISBON – MAY 22, 2016 a certain amount of anxSPAIN – CATALAN CUISINE – JUN. 26,2016 iety in society these days when anything of this nature happens,” Burke said. “We may find there CALL 403-314-BLVD has been to some degree Nestled in the Holiday Inn, w www.boulevardrestaurant.ca an over-reaction, but that 33 Petrolia drive, Gasoline Alley remains to be seen.”

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Rebels vets not ready to hang em up OVERAGERS NOT LOOKING AT REGULAR SEASON FINALE AS THEIR LAST GAME, PRIMED FOR LONG PLAYOFF RUN BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Together they have played 797 games in the Western Hockey League. Tonight they lace up the skates one last time in the regular season, bringing that number to an even 800 games. Overagers Kayle Doetzel, Adam Helewka and Luke Philp will play their final regular season game in the league against the Edmonton Oil Kings. Though they aren’t done playing in the league yet, playoffs and a Memorial Cup tournament await them. But for the three, tonight’s game closes a chapter in their hockey playing lives. “It’s been the best five years of my life,” said Doetzel. “It doesn’t feel like my last regular season game, it has gone by that quick. “I know its not my last game, I know there’s going to be a long playoff run and the Mem Cup too. There’s still a lot of hockey to be played.” Doetzel has played five seasons in Red Deer starting as a 16-year-old. The Rosetown, Sask. native played 43 games in his first season, 2011-12. “I remember looking up at a lot of the older guys and thinking ‘these guys are big guys. What have I

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gotten myself into?’” said Doetzel. Now he’s working with the younger guys coming to the team for the stretch run. Helewka didn’t play his entire junior career with the Rebels, after three full seasons in Spokane he was acquired for 20-year-old Wyatt Johnson, 15-yearold prospect Eli Zummack and a second and fifth round bantam draft picks. Helewka played opening night in his first season with the Spokane Chiefs. “It was a shock going from midget straight into the

Western Hockey League when I was 17,” said Helewka. “It was a special night. “It’s not the end, it’s the start towards the playoffs and a run towards the Memorial Cup. That’s how I’m looking at it.” Helewka had 44 goals and 87 points last year for the Spokane Chiefs. This season he’s scored 41 goals and 81 points. “The best thing a 20-year-old can ask for is getting a chance to compete for the Memorial Cup,” he said. Philp had to recover from an injury for most of the season and work his way back into his lineup in his final WHL season. He said it took some time to get into the groove with the Rebels, but feels he is there now. He too came over in a trade this season, but from the Kootenay Ice. “You don’t really think about it and the season goes by so fast, then all of a sudden you come down to your last regular season game,” said Philp. “I’m extremely fortunate to have the opportunity to play in this league and it’s been a lot of fun.” The Rebels close out their regular season against the Oil Kings tonight at the Centrium. Puck drop is at 7 p.m. The first two playoff games for the Rebels are scheduled for March 25 and 26. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Avalanche slide past Flames in shootout BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Avalanche 4 Flames 3 CALGARY — Mikkel Boedker has been everything Colorado was hoping for. Acquired from the Arizona Coyotes at the trade deadline, Boedker scored the only goal of the shootout on Friday night to give the Avalanche a 4-3 comeback win over the Calgary Flames. As the second shooter for Colorado, Boedker made a nifty deke to beat Joni Ortio. That left it up to Semyon Varlamov and he ended it with a stop on Sean Monahan. “Just coming in with speed and hoping the goaltender bites on your fake shot and brought it to the backhand,” said the Danish left-winger. “It was one of those things that felt really good and it’s going to go a long way confidence wise.” To go along with Friday’s shootout winner, Boedker has six points (three goals, three assists) in eight games since joining Colorado at the trade deadline. “We knew he was going to help our power play, I think we knew he was going to help our team speed. We’re a fast team as it was, but he’s really fit in well,” said Erik Johnson, whose first-period goal was set up by Boedker. On Wednesday, Boedker had the tying and game-winning goals against Vancouver. “Scored a big one against Vancouver, scored another big one here tonight,” said Avalanche coach Patrick Roy. “It’s a good addition for our team.” The visitors cut their deficit to 3-2 on Tyson Barrie’s goal at 8:33 of the second. From a scramble, Carl Soderberg’s goal at 9:09 of the third tied it. Winners of four of their last five, Colorado (37-31-4) moved three points up on Minnesota for the second wildcard spot in the Western Conference. The Wild hold a game in hand. Matt Stajan, Mark Giordano and Freddie Hamilton scored for Calgary (30-35-6). The Flames finished 3-1-2 on their season-long six-game homestand and open a three-game road trip in Montreal on Sunday. “A real gutsy effort,” said Calgary coach Bob Hartley. “I really liked our energy. I felt this

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Colorado Avalanche’s goalie Semyon Varlamov tries to stop a goal from Calgary Flames’ Freddie Hamilton during second period NHL action in Calgary on Friday. The Flames fell 4-3 in a shootout. homestand, we played some very good games.” The first penalty of the game didn’t come until 4:36 of the second period when Deryk Engelland was sent off for delay of game. But with the game tied 1-1 at the time, it would turn out to be an eventful penalty kill. Giordano gave the Flames the lead at 5:17, firing his 19th past Varlamov after being set up neatly by Josh Jooris. The second assist went to Lance Bouma, who remained on the ice off the next faceoff and 30 seconds later, set up Freddie Hamilton’s first of the season. “They had a great shift right before

that, a great goal, and we just tried to keep the momentum going,” said Hamilton, whose only other NHL goal came as a member of the Avalanche. “That was a huge part of the game. It felt awesome, but it would have felt a lot sweeter if we got the win.” After scoring only two short-handed goals in the season’s first 67 games, the Flames 30th-ranked penalty kill has erupted for five in the last three games. “Our PK has been a lot better lately. We’ve been aggressive and we’re getting chances offensively because of that,” Bouma said. Varlamov had 30 saves to improve to 26-18-3. Ortio, who had 25 stops, fell

to 4-7-4. Colorado lost defenceman Eric Gelinas (shoulder) in the second period. Roy said, “He hurt his elbow when he got hit. He’s going to be out for a while.” Notes: Flames record for fastest short-handed goals is four seconds (Doug Gilmour, Paul Ranheim) on Oct. 17 1989… TJ Brodie (41 points) and Giordano (48 points) both tied their career high…. Brodie (upper body) returned after missing three games… Matt Duchene (knee) did not play for Colorado. Serving the final game of a three-game suspension was Gabriel Landeskog.

Talbot stops 40 in Oilers’ shutout win over Canucks BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Oilers 2 Canucks 0 EDMONTON — Cam Talbot is living up to expectations in Edmonton. Talbot, who was acquired from the New York Rangers at last summer’s NHL Entry Draft, made 40 saves to record his third shutout of the season and the Oilers won their second game in a row, emerging with a 2-0 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Friday. “Every time there was a chance he was there to answer,” said Oilers forward Jordan Eberle, who scored the game winner. “If there’s a mistake it’s not always in the back of your net. In the latter part of the season, he’s been the hero in most of the games.” Talbot said his comfort level is at an all-time high. “I feel more confident than I have pretty much my whole career, giving the guys a chance to win,” he said. “And they’ve been playing some pretty solid hockey in front of me.” Oilers head coach Todd McLellan said that wasn’t the case for the majority of Friday’s matchup. “There was not a lot of support,” he said. “There would be one man and four guys watching. As a result we played in our own end a lot and didn’t have the puck much and our goaltender needed to be superb and he was.” Matt Hendricks also scored for the Oilers (29-38-7), who have won seven of their last 11 games. Jacob Markstrom stopped 23-of-25 shots for the Canucks (27-31-12), who have lost three in a row. “I thought we had some really good chances to

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Edmonton Oilers’ goalie Cam Talbot (33) celebrates the team’s shutout win over the Vancouver Canucks with teammates following third period NHL action in Edmonton on Friday. score, but with 40 shots, we should have created some more Grade-A chances,” said Vancouver captain Henrk Sedin. “It was a good game chance-wise for us, but with the amount of puck possession we had, I think we should have created more traffic in front of him.”

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There was a no scoring in the first period, with eight shots registered by both teams. Edmonton caught a bit of a break five minutes into the second as a puck slipped under Talbot while defender Darnell Nurse and Canuck Brendan Gaunce crashed into the net, but the goal didn’t survive a video review due to incidental contact with Talbot. The Oilers broke the deadlock 11 minutes into the second period as Connor McDavid fed it to Eberle, whose quick wrist shot seemed to handcuff Markstrom. Vancouver came close to tying the game 30 seconds into the third, but Christopher Tanev rang a shot off the post. The Oilers made it 2-0 six minutes into the third when Hendricks pounced on a rebound in front of the net to score his fourth of the season. The Canucks return home to face the St. Louis Blues on Saturday, while the Oilers close out their current homestand against Colorado on Sunday. Notes: It was the third meeting of the season between the two teams, with each recording a 2-1 victory in overtime in the previous encounters. The Canucks and Oilers face off two more times this season… Out with injuries for the Canucks were Alex Biega (upper body), Markus Granlund (upper body), Luca Sbisa (upper body), Yannick Weber (upper body), Jannik Hansen (ribs), Brandon Sutter (broken jaw), Alexander Edler (fractured tibia) and Derek Dorsett (upper body)… Absent from the Oilers lineup were Oscar Klefbom (foot), Andrew Ference (hip), Brandon Davidson (knee), Benoit Pouliot (shoulder), Eric Gryba (knee) and Adam Pardy (hand).

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RAIDER GIRLS REBOUND AT PROVINCIALS BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Raiders 79 Cougars 71 Raiders 72 Falcons 43 After a dissappointing opening game, the 12th ranked Lindsay Thurber girls basketball team bounced back in the consolation bracket of the 4A provincials reeling off two wins. The victories over the ninth ranked Cardston Cougars, 79-71, and 13th ranked Foothills Falcons, 72-43, put the girls into the consolation final Saturday morning. After getting past the Falcons Friday morning, the Raiders were in a tough battle Friday evening against the higher ranked Cougars. Both games were played at Hunting Hills. “We’ve been a pretty good team all year and we’ve played some great games, but obviously Thursday was disappointing,” said Raiders coach Kathy Lalor. “We played a good team, they’re big and they played bigger than they even are. “We knew we were a better team than that and today, coming back, winning two games and getting to the consolation final. We’re pretty happy with that.” After jumping out to an early lead, 26-19 after the first quarter, the teams traded the lead in the second quarter before the Raiders edged ahead and carried a 39-31 lead into half time. The second half saw sustained pressure from the Cougars, but the Raiders matched the pressure and pulled ahead. A dagger three-pointer from Hayley Lalor with less than two minutes to go iced the victory for the Raiders. Hayley led the team with 28 points while Kelsey Lalor had 22 points of her own. “We shot well when we had to shoot well,” said Kathy Lalor. “It was a good team effort, we played tough defence and made some key shots at key times.” The Cougars will face 10th ranked St. Mary’s today at 9 a.m. in the consolation final. Falcons 76 Cougars 61 Within eight points at the half, the 13th ranked Notre Dame Cougars couldn’t make up enough ground and fell to the 12th ranked Foothills Cougars, 76-61 Friday afternoon in the Hunting Hills gym. “A couple of our forwards played really well, we had a good defensive effort at times and our shooting came

around in the second half,” said Cougars coach Stephen Merredew. “In the first half we were pretty cold, but we had a bit of a better effort in the second half. “It’s a game where we were flat and not able to get any momentum against their tough zone defence.” The Cougars close out their season in the 13th place game against 16th ranked Charles Spencer today at 11 a.m. “For some of the guys its their last game,” said Merredew. “You always want to go out with a win.” Blues 75 Lightning 47 After trading baskets early in the first quarter, the 11th ranked Paul Kane Blues pulled ahead and never looked back, cruising to a 75-47 win over the 14ht ranked Hunting Hills Lightning girls. Down 65-38 at the end of the third quarter, the Lightning went on a 7-0 run to start the fourth quarter. But it was too little too late. Madi Nimmo led the Lightning with 11 points while Kristen Loney scored 10 points. The Lightning will play 15th ranked Charles Spencer in the 13th place game today at 11 a.m. Voyageurs 80 Raiders 64 For the Lindsay Thurber boys basketball team, a disappointing loss to the 11th ranked M.E. Lazerte Voyageurs relegated them to the 13th place final. The 14th ranked Raiders fell 80-64 on Friday afternoon at Camille J. LeRouge School. In other boys action: Eighth ranked Notre Dame (Calgary) upset top ranked Archbishop O’Leary 88-65 and then upset fourth ranked Lethbridge Collegiate Institute 75-69 to punch their ticket to the gold medal game. They will face third ranked Raymond. Tip off is at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Lindsay Thurber. Raymond won both of its games on Friday, defeating sixth ranked Lester B. Pearson 90-82 and then second ranked Harry Ainlay 98-89. LCI will face Harry Ainlay at 3 p.m. at Lindsay Thurber in the bronze medal game. In other girls action: Top ranked St. Francis rattled off two wins Friday to earn their way into the gold medal game. They beat eighth ranked Bishop Grandin 69-59 and then bested fourth ranked Catholic Central 88-82.

Bautista powers Blue Jays past Astros BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUNEDIN, Fla. — Jose Bautista and Troy Tulowitzki each hit towering home runs to lead the Toronto Blue Jays past the Houston Astros 7-2 on Friday. Making his first exhibition start in right field, Bautista connected off Doug Fister in the third for a three-run shot that landed in a patch of trees far beyond the left-field fence. Fister gave up a single to A.J. Jimenez and walked AL MVP Josh Donaldson to set up Bautista’s second drive of the spring with one out. “Those guys are good hitters,” Fister said. “They do what they do and take the bad pitches and hit them out. It was a bad pitch. It wasn’t a badcalled pitch, it was a poorly-executed one.” Tulowitzki went deep against reliever Jandel Gustave in the fifth, driving a solo shot past the scoreboard in left-centre field. Toronto starter Aaron Sanchez, vying for a spot in the starting rotation, gave up one run in 4 2-3 innings on a sacrifice fly by prospect Tyler White. Sanchez struck out five and walked two. “I said this since I got to spring training, I’m going to go out there and execute pitches, worry about what I need to do to get better,” he said. “At the end of the day, I feel like if I continue to do those things, everything is going to shake out the way it should and that gives them the best read on what they feel is the right decision.”

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“Obviously, (there is) a lot of room for growth,” Fister said. “That kind of keeps me in line for my spring. I have to go through it every day and face those hiccups every day, be able to come back tomorrow and know that I’ve got some work to do and get back in the bullpen a couple days later.”

TRIMMING DOWN Toronto reassigned OF Dalton Pompey, LHPs Scott Diamond and Wade LeBlanc and INF Matt Dominguez to minor league camp before the game. The 23-year-old Pompey won the starting job in centre field out of spring training last year, but struggled with a .193 average in 91 plate appearances before being moved to Triple A. “(He) could probably be on this team, but he needs to be playing every day,” manager John Gibbons said. “He needs to be down there every day, he needs to force his way back in here and once he gets here, he never looks back.”

EASY DOES IT Veteran left-hander Randy Choate quickly retired Luis Valbuena on a grounder to first baseman Justin Smoak to close out the sixth in his Toronto debut. The 40-year-old Choate signed a minor league contract with the Blue Jays last Friday and is competing for a spot in the bullpen. If he makes the big league roster, Choate is due a $1 million salary and $105,000 if assigned to the minors.

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Astros: Fister, who signed a oneyear, $7 million contract in January after spending the last two seasons with Washington, was roughed up for five runs and six hits before being lifted with two outs in the fourth. He walked one and struck out three.

Astros: Wandy Rodriguez will get his second start Sunday against the Phillies in Clearwater. Blue Jays: Gavin Floyd will make his third start Saturday against the Phillies in Dunedin.

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Notre Dame Cougar Cody White finds a way to get past Foothills Falcon player Reece Chapin during Alberta high school provincial basketball action at Hunting Hills High School on Friday. They will face second ranked Jasper Place. Tip off is at 5 p.m. tonight at Lindsay Thurber. Jasper Place topped third seed Western Canada 77-66 Friday evening to get to the final. Earlier in the day,

Jasper Place defeated seventh ranked St. Albert Catholic 81-69. Catholic Central will face Western Canada at 1 p.m. at Lindsay Thurber in the bronze medal game. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Canadian rink focused on itself at women’s worlds CURLING BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — It doesn’t matter who Canada plays at the women’s curling world championships. Skip Chelsea Carey and third Amy Nixon know little about Denmark, Canada’s opponent on Saturday in the first draw of at the international event. Instead, the Canadians’ focus throughout the tournament is on what they can control: their own play. “We honestly aren’t very familiar with them,” said Carey of the Danes on Friday afternoon after practice. “They don’t play the tour a whole lot. We’ve seen them at the odd event but we haven’t played against them. “That doesn’t really matter, we’re just going to go out and play our game regardless. It doesn’t really matter who we’re playing against.” Nixon, who won bronze at the 2006 Olympics and bronze at the worlds in 2012, echoed her skip’s assessment of the Danes when asked what she knew of Canada’s first opponents. “Very little,” said Nixon with a laugh. “I can basically tell you that in 2012 at the worlds I came in halfway through the game and played second against some of these players. That’s all I’ve got.” Added Carey: “I’ve watched (Denmark skip Lene Nielsen) at the Olympics and that kind of thing so we know that they’re a good team but we haven’t played against them that much.” It’s not a lack of respect for their opponents. Carey, Nixon, second, Red Deer’s Jocelyn Peterman and lead Laine Peters are instead concerned with meeting their own goals on the ice.

Canada has not won gold in the event since Jennifer Jones’s rink was crowned in 2008. It will be tough to end that drought this season with former world champions Eve Muirhead of Scotland and Binia Feltscher of Switzerland in this year’s field, among other tough opponents. On top of that, this is Carey’s first season with the Calgary-based rink, taking over for former two-time Canadian champion Heather Nedohin. As a result, Canada is trying to shrug off the weight of any expectations from fans or media and instead focusing on chemistry, strategy and the intricacies of their own play as they continue to find their rhythm as a team. “We don’t have any expectations, I wouldn’t say,” said Carey, who won the Scotties Tournament of Hearts and the right to represent Canada on Feb. 28. “We have goals and we have things that we personally want to do that don’t necessarily line up with results. “We just want to go and do the same things we were doing at the Scotties and put ourselves in the best possible position to play as well as we can and if we do that then hopefully we get a good result, but we can’t control the result.” Canada plays Denmark in Draw 1 on Saturday afternoon, then returns to the ice on Sunday morning to face reigning world champion Switzerland in Draw 3. The Canadians will then face the United States in the fifth draw Sunday afternoon. Carey and her rink saw the ice at Swift Current’s Credit Union i-Plex, home of the Western Hockey League’s Broncos, for the first time on Friday and they were impressed with its quality. “The ice looks great,” said Carey. “We’re excited to get going. It wasn’t as green as it sometimes is at practice, which is good, it’s already worn in and ready to go.”

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Lowry pushes Raptors past Celtics BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Raptors 105 Celtics 91 TORONTO — Luis Scola scored on a fast-break dunk in the first quarter of Toronto’s win Friday night, and shot a grin at the Raptors bench, where every player was on his feet in wild celebration. The 35-year-old Argentine forward set the tone for a solid 105-91 victory over the Boston Celtics, that capped a gruelling stretch of four games in five nights. The sizzling Raptors are 8-2 in March, and have gone 12-4 since the NBA all-star break, and with just 14 games left in the regular-season, are bent on heading into the playoffs at their very best. “This perception of this switch in the NBA… a lot of players and teams think when the time comes we’ll flip the switch and: I’m going to play well. It doesn’t really work that way,” Scola said. “It might work that way for Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant in his prime. “When you do things right every day and we’re ready to play and we approach the game the right way every day, hopefully when the time comes, you’re ready.” Kyle Lowry scored 15 of his 32 points in the fourth quarter to top Toronto (47-21), while Scola scored all 17 of his points in the first quarter. DeMar DeRozan finished with 15, while Bismack Biyombo had 11 rebounds. Asked about Scola’s performance, DeRozan had the post-game locker-room roaring. “That’s what the old man do,” he joked. “The engine runs well in the beginning, but hey… he’s like an oldschool (Oldsmobile) Cutlass. He gets you where you want to go, but don’t rely on him for any road trips.” Isaiah Thomas scored 20 points to lead the Celtics (39-30), in their fourth consecutive loss. Canadian Kelly Olynyk, playing his

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Toronto Raptors’ Kyle Lowry, centre, takes a defensive rebound in front of Boston Celtics’ Kelly Olynyk, third from right, as Raptors’ Bismack Biyombo, left, attempts to grab the rebound as well during first half NBA action in Toronto on Friday. second game after missing 12 with a shoulder injury, had five points and four rebounds for Boston. The Raptors, who continue to chase the Cleveland Cavaliers for first place in the Eastern Conference, raced out to a 19-point lead and looked headed for a rout of their Atlantic Division rival, which dropped two spots to sixth in the East with the loss. But the Celtics clawed their way back to within five points to end the

third quarter. Asked what prompted the Raptors defence to lock down in the fourth, coach Dwane Casey said “Getting your butt kicked. I thought our guys did a good job of turning around and fighting back after they made the run.” Lowry came up big in the fourth, scoring 10 points in the first five minutes. His second consecutive three-pointer put the Raptors back up by 17 points with 7:08 to play. The all-

star guard hollered in the direction of the Boston bench, but said he was talking to a Celtics fan. “I would never disrespect a bench. I have the ultimate respect for those guys,” Lowry said. “It was definitely not towards them and I went and told them that. It was to a fan who was talking trash the whole game.” Lowry drilled another three with four minutes left to put the game out of reach, to the delight of the capacity crowd of 19,800 at the Air Canada Centre. “This is a good win for us. It’s a good test. Four tough teams, two on the road, two at home. It was fun,” Lowry said. The Raptors, who were swept by Washington in last season’s playoffs, are intent on a better performance this year, and DeRozan echoed Scola’s words. They don’t want to wait for the post-season to perform well. “We have to get better, this is the time of the year when we have to get better,” DeRozan said. “What we did in the beginning of the season really don’t mean nothing. We’ve really got to figure out and understand who we are now, especially going into the post-season.” The Raptors roared out of the gate, and backed by Scola’s early scoring extravaganza, took a 30-14 lead into the second quarter. Boston’s 14 points were a season-low for first-quarter scoring by a Raptors opponent this season. The Raptors stretched their lead to 19 points early in the second, and took a 55-41 advantage into the third. The third quarter was a nightmare for the Raptors, who looked nothing like they did in the first half. Turnovers proved costly, and when RJ Hunter hit a three-pointer with threetenths of a second on the clock, it cut the Raptors’ lead to just 79-74 with a quarter left. The Raptors host Orlando on Sunday.

Day builds on lead at Bay Hill, Hearn moves up leaderboard BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ORLANDO, Fla. — Jason Day felt like he was bearing down on each shot. He made it look much easier Friday in the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Day made a pair of long birdie putts and otherwise put on a clinic at Bay Hill for a 7-under 65 that gave him a two-shot lead over Henrik Stenson going into the weekend. “It was great,” he said. “I felt like I couldn’t do anything wrong out there.” Day was at 13-under 131 and was five shots ahead of Jamie Lovemark (68) when he finished. Stenson faced a daunting task — eight shots behind when he teed off in the afternoon — and he shot 31 on the back nine for a 66 to stay in the game. Justin Rose also had a 66 and was three shots behind. “It’s motivating,” Stenson said of the deficit he faced. “You can’t let it be frustrating that you’re eight shots back. He played great, and you’ve just got to go and do the same, and I managed to do that.” Day, Stenson and Rose will play together Saturday because tee times have been moved forward to avoid the threat of storms. Rose wasn’t bothered to see Day so far ahead. His objective was to take care of the par 5s and keep a clean card, and he did both. Rose is now 9 under on the eight par 5s he has played this week. And he was bogey-free on Friday.

CIS HOCKEY FINALS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — Anthony Repaci scored twice as the host Saint Mary’s Huskies upset the No. 1 ranked UQTR Patriotes 3-2 in quarter-final action on Friday night at the CIS men’s hockey championship. Ben Duffy added the eventual winner in the third for the Huskies, who were ranked No. 8 entering the University Cup. “For a freshman, he (Repaci) certainly held his own quite well. He scored big goals for us,” said Saint Mary’s head coach Trevor Steinburg. Jeremy Beaudry, on the power play, and Guillaume Asselin supplied the offence for UQTR, which went 7-0 in the conference playoffs. Cole Cheveldave made 27 saves

“Yesterday was a colorful scorecard,” Rose said of an opening round that included two eagles and a double bogey. “Today, a little bit more solid.” Day was driving it long and straight, hitting his irons well and making big putts. It’s a great combination for anyone, particularly a player who reached No. 1 in the world last year by winning four out of six tournaments, including his first major. David Hearn is the top Canadian through 36 holes. The Brantford, Ont., native had a 5-under 67 and is in 11th spot at 6 under for the tournament. Adam Hadwin, from Abbotsford, B.C., dropped 19 places down the leaderboard to 36th with an even 72. He’s 3 under overall. Rory McIlroy was able to watch the whole show. McIlroy, who opened with a 75, was in the group behind Day and saw the Australian start to pull away from the field. McIlroy had his own issues on Friday, starting with a chance to play for two more days. He handled that with ease, making four birdies on the back nine to get above the cut line and posting a 67. But he was all but ready to concede that the tournament was out of his reach. “I was looking at Jason in front of me and I was thinking if I could maybe get within six going into the weekend,” McIlroy said. “And now it’s 11. … Even playing well, I’m not sure that’s quite going to be enough that far behind Jason. At the same time I can get confor the win in net as Sebastien Auger kicked out 30 shots in defeat. The Huskies will face rival University of New Brunswick in one of Saturday’s semifinals after the Varsity Reds beat the Western Mustangs 5-1 earlier in the day. Philippe Halley scored three goals to pace the UNB offence. Matt Petgrave, while shorthanded, and Cameron Brace also scored for the Varsity Reds. Cody Brown had a short-handed goal for the Mustangs late in the third period. Etienne Marcioux stopped 14 shots for the win. Western’s Greg Dodds made 40 saves in the losing effort. The StFX X-Men will face the Saskatchewan Huskies in the other semifinal on Saturday. In the women’s championship Rebecca Clark stopped all 26 shots she faced as the Saint Mary’s Huskies shut out the reining champion Western Mustangs 1-0 in quarter-final action on

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Adam Scott, of Australia, hits out of a bunker onto the 15th green during the second round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational golf tournament in Orlando, Fla., Friday. fidence from that and bring it on to the next week and ultimately into the Masters.” Stanford junior Maverick McNealy, chosen to play by his colleagues at the Palmer Cup, had a 71 and was at 4-under 140. It’s the second straight week that an amateur has made the cut Georgia senior Lee McCoy finished fourth last week in the Valspar Championship. U.S. Amateur champion Bryson DeChambeau shot another 72 and made the cut on the number at even-par 144. Day, however, appeared to be in his own world on the immaculate Bay Hill course. A pair of two-putt birdies on the par 5s on the back nine helped him extend

his lead, and he added a 35-foot birdie putt on the 17th. It was after Day had to scramble for par on the par-5 fourth hole, making a 10-foot putt, that he took off. He rolled in a 10-foot birdie on the next hole, got up-and-down from a bunker for birdie on the par-5 sixth and finished his round with a 35-foot birdie on the ninth hole. “The total that he’s on now, 13 under, I thought that was going to have a great chance at the end of the week,” McIlroy said. “I thought something around 12 under was going to be right there. For him to do that after two days is pretty spectacular. I think everyone has got their work cut out to try and catch him.”

Friday. Caitlyn Schell scored 29 seconds into the third period for the Huskies, who were ranked No. 3 entering the weekend. “We knew knocking off the reigning champs would be a great way to start the weekend,” said Saint Mary’s head coach Chris Larade. “I am proud of what the girls have accomplished so far.” Kelly Campbell took the loss after kicking out 25-of-26 shots in 57:49.

Western was ranked sixth after finishing as finalists in its conference. The Huskies will play the Carabins in one of Saturday’s semifinals after Montreal blanked the Calgary Dinos 4-0. Ariane Barker struck twice and Marie-Pier Chabot made 25 saves for the Carabins. Audrey Gariepy had a goal and two assists, with Casandra Dupuis also chipping in for Montreal, the tournament’s No. 2 seed.

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Age is just a number for Thornton VETERAN HOPES TO PLAY AS LONG AS JAGR, 40 DEFINITELY IN THE CARDS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Joe Thornton knows he would look a lot younger if he shaved his bushy, grey-streaked beard. But why should he worry about looking younger when he already plays and feels that way? By far the oldest player among the NHL’s leading scorers, the 36-year-old San Jose Sharks centre is getting better with age at a time when the league is trending younger. With nearly a point per game this season, he’s on pace to become just the 13th player 35 and older to amass 80 points in a season since 1990. “He’s playing as well as I’ve ever seen him play, he really is,” said Sharks general manager Doug Wilson. “To me, he is a young 36-year-old and a lot of it is attitude and spirit. This guy is a special, special guy.” Exuberant in his passion for the game, Thornton sees no end in sight to his Hall of Fame career. Could he play as long as the now-44-year-old Jaromir Jagr? “Ohhh man, what a question,” said a relaxed, yet energetic Thornton during a phone interview from San Jose. “It would be great if I could, but that’s still eight years away. That’s a long, long time. If I feel good I’d love to play that long, but right now it’s hard to say if I could.” Playing until the age 40 seems more likely, said Thornton, who has one year remaining on his contract with the Sharks. “I feel good. My body feels good. My mind feels good. I love going to the rink every day. I love the fellowship with the guys, the competition,” Thornton said. “Realistically, I can definitely see playing till 40 at least, yeah.” Like Jagr, Thornton is that rare player to remain productive with age. Only 25 players in the game today are older than Thornton and none, including Jagr, are putting up his numbers. He entered play on Thursday night with 67 points in 70 games, including 51 assists, a mark bettered by only Chicago’s Patrick Kane and Ottawa’s Erik Karlsson this season. No player has more points (1,326) or assists (952) than Thornton since he entered the league in 1997 and only superstars Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby have more points since the start of the 2005-06 season. Thornton keeps rising up the all-time scoring ranks, too. He is likely to sit among the top-30 in career points by the time this season ends and could rise even higher if he ends up playing until 40 or beyond. Wilson was near certain that Thornton could play as long as Jagr for one simple reason.

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San Jose Sharks’ Joe Thornton (19) is chased by Colorado Avalanche’s Erik Johnson (6) during NHL action Jan. 26, in San Jose, Calif. The soon-to-be 37-year-old Sharks centre is on pace to become just the 13th player aged 35 and older to amass 80 points in a season since 1990. “I just love everything about going to the rink and competing.” Thornton started the year quietly which led to inevitable questions of decline, but he’s surged since mid-December, racking up 51 points in his last 40 games. He’s had at least a point in all but five games in that span. Thornton credits teammate Joe Pavelski, who has more goals than anyone but Ovechkin since the start of the 2013-14 season, and 22-year-old winger Tomas Hertl for the surge. The Sharks are also rolling, tied with the Ducks for the most points in the league since Jan. 8 and suddenly in contention for the Pacific Division title. If not day-dreaming about winning his first Cup, it remains a goal for Thornton, who’s come as close as the Western Conference final with San Jose.

“Because I have not seen a person that loves the game as much as him,” Wilson said during an interview at the GM meetings in south Florida. “Everything about the game he loves.” Thornton is in phenomenal physical shape, Wilson added. The St. Thomas, Ont., native says his body indeed feels superb. His legs are strong and he hasn’t been injured. He finds it strange to suddenly be one of the older guys who knows exactly what the Sharks younger players are going through in handling the grind of an 82-game season. “I know that I’m lucky to be playing this long,” said Thornton, who will start his 19th season next fall. “It rarely happens (that) you play 17, 18 years. I love it. I love talking to the guys. It’s a big brotherhood and I love coming to the rink.

Canadian skipper confident ahead of Mexico matchups BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — On the eve of two World Cup qualifying games against mighty Mexico, captain Julian de Guzman looks at the Canadian squad and likes what he sees. “The confidence we have coming into this camp, just looking at the names we have on our side, there’s no fear,” de Guzman told a media conference call Friday. “It’s a different feel versus the way it has been in the past. We’re definitely confident to step up to this challenge.” Adding to that warm feeling is the knowledge that B.C. Place Stadium will be rocking next Friday when the Canadian men, ranked 87th in the world, host No. 22 Mexico. More than 46,00 tickets have been sold already, a record number for a Canadian home World Cup qualifier. De Guzman says he gets goosebumps just thinking of the crowd. Mexico will have home-field advantage when the two teams meet again March 29 in Mexico City. Azteca Stadium has been a graveyard for Canada, which has been outscored 21-2 by Mexico there while going 0-5-1. An 8-0 Gold Cup loss before 100,000 fans at Azteca in 1993 remains one of the ugliest blemishes on Canada’s soccer resume. A more recent humiliation was the 8-1 thrashing in Honduras in October 2012 that knocked Canada out of contention for the last World Cup. De Guzman, who turns 35 on the day of the B.C. Place game, wasn’t born when Canada last scored at Azteca (Gerry Gray, in a 1-1 tie Nov. 16, 1980). Canadian coach Benito Floro has summoned a strong squad to face Mexico. It includes newcomer Scott Arfield, a midfielder with Burnley which currently leads England’s second-tier Championship division. The 27-year-old Arfield, who was born in Scotland but qualifies to play for Canada through his Toronto-born father, joins recent converts Steven Vitoria and Junior Hoilett on the 23man squad. Arfield, who played for Scotland at the under-19, under-21 and B levels, just got his Canadian papers this week, with FIFA signing off on his change in international allegiance. “It’s just great to see guys finally commit to the national team … It’s something Canada has been missing for such a long time,” said de Guzman, who has Canadian record 85 caps. De Guzman is joined by fellow veterans Atiba Hutchinson and Will SATURDAY Johnson on the squad. TH There is youth in the form of 22-year old Doneil Henry, 21-year old Samuel Piette and 20-year old Cyle Larin. ENMAX Mexico leads Pool A with six points from two CENTRIUM matches. Canada is secTickets at Ticketmaster ond with four points while El Salvador has one and 1.855.985.5000 Honduras has none.

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After the Mexico series, Canada plays in Honduras and hosts El Salvador to wrap up the round. The top two teams in the pool advance to the final round of qualifying in the region. The Canadian men are 7-8-10 since Floro took over in 2013, including 6-2-6 in their last 14 outings. It’s been a steady climb since falling to No. 122 in the October 2014 FIFA rankings, which tied Canada’s all-time low. Canada’s all-time record against Mexico is 3-167. The wins came in 2000 in San Diego (2-0), 1990 in Burnaby, B.C. (2-1) and 1976 in Vancouver (1-0).

On the plus side, Canada has tied its last three home meetings with the Mexicans. A win, de Guzman suggested, would be difficult “but it’s not impossible.” And success in Vancouver next week would have long-ranging implications, the Ottawa Fury FC midfielder added. “Just one game at home could change futures for Canadian soccer, future careers,” he said. “It could change the respect we’ve been getting in the past. “And it will open up opportunities for Canadian players in the future.”

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Local Sports Today ● High school 4A boys and girls basketball provincials at Hunting Hills, Lindsay Thurber and Notre Dame High Schools. Games start at 9 a.m. Finals at 5 and 7:30 p.m. Major midget female hockey: Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs at PAC Saints

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● WHL: Edmonton Oil Kings at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium.

Sunday ● Major midget female hockey: PAC Saints at Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre Arena

x-Lethbridge x-Red Deer x-Calgary Edmonton Medicine Hat Kootenay

Baseball Major League Baseball Spring Training AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct Toronto 11 4 .733 Detroit 12 6 .667 Houston 11 6 .647 Texas 10 6 .625 Minnesota 9 7 .563 Chicago 8 7 .533 Los Angeles 8 7 .533 Seattle 9 8 .529 Tampa Bay 8 9 .471 Oakland 6 7 .462 Kansas City 9 11 .450 Cleveland 7 10 .412 New York 6 9 .400 Boston 6 12 .333 Baltimore 5 12 .294

Friday’s Games Philadelphia 15, Pittsburgh 12 Atlanta 6, Miami 5 Detroit 2, St. Louis 0 Tampa Bay 5, Boston (ss) 1 Minnesota 8, Boston (ss) 6 Toronto 7, Houston 2 Chicago White Sox 3, Chicago Cubs 2 Cleveland 10, Oakland 8 Kansas City (ss) 7, L.A. Angels (ss) 4 Cincinnati 7, Milwaukee 6 L.A. Angels (ss) 6, Colorado 6, tie Arizona 11, L.A. Dodgers 8 Seattle 7, Texas (ss) 1 Washington 12, N.Y. Mets 7 Baltimore 11, N.Y. Yankees 2 Texas (ss) 7, Kansas City (ss) 5 San Diego vs. San Francisco, late

NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct Washington 12 3 .800 Arizona 13 4 .765 Philadelphia 12 5 .706 Los Angeles 10 5 .667 Colorado 8 7 .533 Milwaukee 8 7 .533 Cincinnati 9 9 .500 New York 7 7 .500 St. Louis 7 7 .500 San Francisco 7 10 .412 Miami 5 10 .333 Pittsburgh 5 11 .313 Chicago 5 12 .294 Atlanta 5 13 .278 San Diego 4 11 .267 NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings games against non-major league teams do not.

Saturday’s Games Baltimore vs. Tampa Bay, 11:05 a.m. Detroit vs. Miami, 11:05 a.m. St. Louis vs. Boston, 11:05 a.m. N.Y. Mets vs. Washington, 11:05 a.m. Atlanta vs. N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m. Minnesota vs. Pittsburgh, 11:05 a.m. Philadelphia vs. Toronto, 11:07 a.m. Kansas City (ss) vs. Texas (ss), 1:05 p.m. Cincinnati vs. Oakland (ss), 2:05 p.m. Seattle (ss) vs. Kansas City (ss), 2:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers vs. Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m. Oakland (ss) vs. San Francisco, 2:05 p.m. Milwaukee vs. L.A. Angels, 2:10 p.m. Colorado vs. San Diego, 2:10 p.m. Texas (ss) vs. Arizona (ss), 2:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs vs. Cleveland, 8:05 p.m. Arizona (ss) vs. Seattle (ss), 8:10 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Washington 9, Atlanta (ss) 7 Boston 9, Baltimore (ss) 5 Houston (ss) 5, Atlanta (ss) 3 Tampa Bay 6, Philadelphia 1 N.Y. Yankees 7, Pittsburgh 2 Detroit 5, St. Louis 4 N.Y. Mets 6, Miami 5 Houston (ss) 7, Toronto 5 Kansas City 5, L.A. Dodgers 1 Cincinnati 8, Cleveland 6 Oakland 11, Seattle 11, tie Colorado 4, L.A. Angels 4, tie Baltimore (ss) 4, Minnesota 1 Chicago Cubs 15, Arizona 4 Milwaukee 5, Texas 2 San Francisco 8, San Diego 4

Sunday’s Games Houston vs. Philadelphia, 11:05 a.m. Miami vs. St. Louis, 11:05 a.m. Washington vs. Detroit (ss), 11:05 a.m. Tampa Bay vs. Baltimore, 11:05 a.m. Detroit (ss) vs. Atlanta, 11:05 a.m. N.Y. Yankees vs. Minnesota, 11:05 a.m. Pittsburgh vs. Toronto, 11:07 a.m. Boston vs. N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m. L.A. Angels vs. Texas, 2:05 p.m. Kansas City vs. Chicago Cubs, 2:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox vs. Oakland, 2:05 p.m. San Diego vs. L.A. Dodgers (ss), 2:05 p.m. Arizona vs. Cincinnati, 2:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (ss) vs. Milwaukee, 2:05 p.m. Cleveland vs. Seattle, 2:10 p.m. San Francisco vs. Colorado, 2:10 p.m.

GF 302 253 240 195 219 150

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF z-Victoria 71 49 16 3 3 277 x-Kelowna 71 47 20 4 0 259 x-Kamloops 71 37 25 5 4 235 x-Prince 71 36 30 3 2 240 George Vancouver 71 23 39 5 4 198

GA 214 203 214 231 285 314

Pt 94 91 86 65 63 30

GA Pt 165 104 217 98 218 83 223 77 263 55

U.S. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt y-Seattle 70 43 23 4 0 220 182 90 x-Everett 71 38 25 5 3 181 168 84 Spokane 71 33 29 5 4 220 240 75 Portland 70 34 30 6 0 224 219 74 Tri-City 71 34 34 2 1 231 250 71 x — clinched playoff berth y — clinched division z — clinched conference Note: winning team is credited with two points and a victory in the W column a team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the respective OTL or SOL column. Friday’s results Brandon 6 Moose Jaw 2 Calgary 5 Kootenay 2 Kamloops 4 Prince George 1 Kelowna 5 Vancouver 3 Lethbridge 9 Medicine Hat 3 Prince Albert 6 Saskatoon 4 Spokane 5 Portland 4 (OT) Regina 5 Swift Current 4 (OT) Tri-City 2 Seattle 1 (OT) Victoria 4 Everett 2

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Florida 71 40 22 9 89 Boston 72 39 25 8 86 Tampa Bay 71 40 26 5 85 Detroit 71 35 25 11 81 Ottawa 72 33 31 8 74 Montreal 71 33 32 6 72 Buffalo 72 29 33 10 68 Toronto 70 24 35 11 59

GF 202 215 194 179 206 191 172 165

GA 172 195 171 187 223 200 194 206

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts 70 51 14 5 107 71 40 23 8 88 69 38 22 9 85 70 38 24 8 84 69 34 23 12 80 71 34 30 7 75 71 31 27 13 75 70 28 34 8 64

GF 225 202 196 194 181 161 173 181

GA 162 186 174 176 185 182 192 218

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Dallas 72 42 21 9 93 St. Louis 72 41 22 9 91 Chicago 72 42 24 6 90 Nashville 72 36 23 13 85 Colorado 72 37 31 4 78 Minnesota 71 32 28 11 75 Winnipeg 71 29 37 5 63

GF 233 191 201 197 195 188 182

GA 211 185 176 185 202 182 213

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Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 70 43 22 5 91 194 159 Anaheim 70 39 22 9 87 179 162 San Jose 70 39 25 6 84 207 184 Arizona 70 31 32 7 69 188 212 Vancouver 70 27 31 12 66 167 202 Calgary 71 30 35 6 66 196 222 Edmonton 74 29 38 7 65 179 216 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. x-clinched playoff spot Thursday’s Games New Jersey 7, Minnesota 4 Pittsburgh 4, Carolina 2 Detroit 3, Columbus 1 Florida 4, Toronto 1 Nashville 4, N.Y. Islanders 2 Dallas 4, Tampa Bay 3 Arizona 3, San Jose 1 Los Angeles 4, N.Y. Rangers 3, OT

Thursday’s result Red Deer 4 Edmonton 1 Saturday’s games Regina at Brandon, 7:30 p.m. Swift Current at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m. Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Prince Albert at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m. Lethbridge at Medicine Hat, 7:30 Pp.m. Kamloops at Prince George, 8 p.m. Everett at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Portland at Seattle, 8:05 p.m. Vancouver at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Spokane at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Friday’s Games Colorado 4, Calgary 3, SO Buffalo 3, Ottawa 1 Washington 4, Nashville 1 Chicago 4, Winnipeg 0 Edmonton 2, Vancouver 0 Anaheim 4, Boston 0 Saturday’s Games Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 11 a.m. Carolina at Minnesota, noon N.Y. Rangers at San Jose, 2 p.m.

Sunday’s games Kootenay at Calgary, 1 p.m.

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Lacrosse National Lacrosse League East Division GP W L Pct. GF Buffalo 11 7 4 .636 152 New England 9 5 4 .556 120 Rochester 11 6 5 .569 124 Georgia 11 4 7 .350 137 Toronto 10 3 7 .300 108 GF 125 114 120 106

GA 138 107 122 149 124

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WEEK 12 Friday’s game Rochester 11 Georgia 4 Saturday’s games Colorado at Calgary, 7 p.m. Saskatchewan at Vancouver, 8 p.m. WEEK 13 Friday, Mar. 25 Rochester at New England, 5 p.m. Vancouver at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m. Calgary at Georgia, 5:35 p.m. Saskatchewan at Toronto, 6 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 26 New England at Rochester, 5:30 p.m. Calgary at Colorado, 7 p.m. Toronto at Saskatchewan, 7:30 p.m.

SENIOR MEN’S AAA HOCKEY Generals 5 Eagles 2 Coming back to their barn served the Bentley Generals well as they rebounded from a game 2 loss to the Stony Plain Eagles. Curtis Austring led the Generals with two goals for a 5-2 win over the Stony Plain Eagles. The Generals now take a 2-1 series lead in their best-of-seven Chinook League Final. Kyle Sheen had two helpers of his own in a supporting role for the Generals. Teegan Moore got the Generals on the board eight minutes into the first. Austring, Kyle Bailey and Ian Schultz each had goals in the second to put the Generals up 4-0. Eagles forward Ryan Smyth had two goals in the third period, putting the first puck of the game past Generals goalie Thomas Heemskirk 30 seconds in. The series resumes on Wednesday in Stony Plain. Puck drop is at 8 p.m.

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB x-Cleveland 49 19 .721 — Toronto 47 21 .691 2 Atlanta 40 29 .580 9 Miami 39 29 .574 10 Charlotte 39 29 .574 10 Boston 39 30 .565 10 Indiana 36 32 .529 13 Chicago 34 33 .507 14 Detroit 35 34 .507 14 Washington 33 35 .485 16 Milwaukee 30 39 .435 19 Orlando 29 39 .426 20 New York 28 41 .406 21 Brooklyn 19 49 .279 30 Philadelphia 9 60 .130 40

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Sunday’s Games Anaheim at Winnipeg, 1 p.m. Columbus at New Jersey, 3 p.m. Washington at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m. Calgary at Montreal, 5 p.m. Minnesota at Chicago, 6:30 p.m. Colorado at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m. Arizona at San Jose, 8 p.m. Friday’s summaries Oilers 2, Canucks 0 First Period No Scoring. Penalties — Hamhuis Vcr (hooking) 9:09 Kassian Edm (slashing) 18:50. Second Period 1. Edmonton, Eberle 22 (McDavid) 11:10. Penalties — None. Third Period 2. Edmonton, Hendricks 4 (Oesterle, Pakarinen) 6:03. Penalties — Fayne Edm (hooking) :58 Clendening Edm (goaltender interference) 10:47 Baertschi Vcr, McCann Vcr, Reinhart Edm, Nurse Edm, Maroon Edm (roughing) 17:40 Bartkowski Vcr (holding) 19:34. Shots on goal Vancouver 8 16 16 — 40 Edmonton 8 9 8 — 25 Goal — Vancouver: Markstrom (L, 11-10-4). Edmonton: Talbot (W, 19-24-4). Power plays (goals-chances) — Vancouver: 0-3 Edmonton: 0-2. Avalanche 4, Flames 3 (SO) First Period 1. Calgary, Stajan 5 (Jokipakka, Brodie) 9:20. 2. Colorado, Johnson 11 (Boedker, MacKinnon) 17:19. Penalties — None. Second Period 3. Calgary, Giordano 19 (Jooris, Bouma) 5:17 (sh). 4. Calgary, Hamilton 1 (Bouma) 5:47 (sh). 5. Colorado, Barrie 12 (Grigorenko, Iginla) 8:33. Penalties — Engelland Cgy (delay of game) 4:36 Matthias Col (hooking) 9:51. Third Period 6. Colorado, Soderberg 12 (Matthias, Bigras) 9:09. Penalties — Comeau Col (high-sticking) :29. Overtime No Scoring. Penalties — Ortio Cgy (tripping, served by Frolik) 3:28 Hamilton Cgy (misconduct) 3:28. Shootout — Colorado wins 1-0 Colorado: Johnson miss, Boedker goal. Calgary: Colborne miss, Gaudreau miss, Monahan miss. Shots on goal by Colorado 9 5 12 2 — 28 Calgary 8 13 11 1 — 33 Goal — Colorado: Varlamov (W, 26-18-3). Calgary: Ortio (SOL, 4-7-4). Power plays (goals-chances) — Colorado: 0-2 Calgary: 0-2.

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WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB y-Golden State 62 6 .912 — y-San Antonio 58 10 .853 4 x-Oklahoma City 47 22 .681 15 1/2 L.A. Clippers 43 24 .642 18 1/2 Memphis 39 30 .565 23 1/2

Cleveland 109, Orlando 103 Toronto 105, Boston 91 Detroit 115, Sacramento 108 Portland 117, New Orleans 112 Houston 116, Minnesota 111 Golden State 130, Dallas 112 Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, late

1/2 Saturday’s Games Denver at Charlotte, 4 p.m. Oklahoma City at Indiana, 5 p.m. Brooklyn at Detroit, 5 p.m. New York at Washington, 5 p.m. Cleveland at Miami, 5:30 p.m. Houston at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m. Utah at Chicago, 6 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Memphis, 6 p.m. Golden State at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

1/2 Thursday’s Games Toronto 101, Indiana 94, OT Washington 99, Philadelphia 94 Charlotte 109, Miami 106 Chicago 118, Brooklyn 102 Milwaukee 96, Memphis 86 Atlanta 116, Denver 98 San Antonio 118, Portland 110 Utah 103, Phoenix 69

Sunday’s Games Portland at Dallas, 2 p.m. Orlando at Toronto, 2:30 p.m. L.A. Clippers at New Orleans, 4 p.m. Boston at Philadelphia, 4 p.m. Utah at Milwaukee, 5 p.m. Sacramento at New York, 5:30 p.m.

Friday’s Games Oklahoma City 111, Philadelphia 97

Curling 2016 World Women’s Curling Championship Schedule of play for the Women’s World Curling Championship, to be held Saturday through Mar. 27 in Swift Current, Sask.: ROUND ROBIN Country (Skip) Canada (Carey) Denmark (Nielsen) Finland (Kauste) Germany (Driendl) Italy (Apollonio) Japan (Fujisawa) Russia (Sidorova) Scotland (Muirhead) South Korea (Chi Gim) Sweden (Sigfridsson) Switzerland (Feltscher) U.S. (E.Brown)

W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Saturday, Mar. 19 First Draw, 2 p.m. United States vs. Switzerland, Japan vs. Finland, Russia vs. Italy, Canada vs. Denmark. Second Draw, 7 p.m. Italy vs. Japan, Scotland vs. Sweden, Germany vs. South Korea, Russia vs. Finland. Sunday, Mar. 20 Third Draw, 9 a.m.

Denmark vs. United States, Canada vs. Switzerland. Fourth Draw, 2 p.m. Sweden vs. Germany, Finland vs. Italy, Japan vs. Russia, Scotland vs. South Korea. Fifth Draw, 7 p.m. Switzerland vs. Denmark, Germany vs. Scotland, South Korea vs. Sweden, United States vs. Canada. 2016 Women’s World Curling Championship rosters (in order of team, skip, third, second, lead, alternate and coach): CANADA Glencoe Curling Club, Calgary Chelsea Carey, Amy Nixon, Jocelyn Peterman, Laine Peters, Susan O’Connor and Charley Thomas (coach). DENMARK Lene Nielsen, Stephanie Risdal, Isabella Clemmensen, Charlotte Clemmensen, Madeleine Dupont and Ulrik Schmidt (coach). FINLAND Oona Kauste, Milja Hellsten, Maija Salmiovirta, Marjo Hippi, Jenni Räsänen and Tomi Rantamaki (coach). GERMANY Daniela Driendl, Analena Jentsch, Marika Trettin, Pia-Lisa Schöll, Maike Beer and Thomas Lips (coach). ITALY Federica Apollonio, Stefania Menardi, Chiara Oliv-

ieri, Maria Gaspari, Claudia Alvera and Brian Gray (coach). JAPAN Satsuki Fujisawa, Chinami Yoshida, Yumi Suzuki, Yurika Yoshida, Mari Motohashi and J.D. Lind (coach). RUSSIA Anna Sidorova, Margarita Fomina, Alexandra Raeva, Nkeiruka Ezekh, Alina Kovaleva and Svetlana Kalalb (coach). SCOTLAND Eve Muirhead, Anna Sloan, Victoria Adams, Sarah Reid, Rachel Hannen and David Hay (coach). SOUTH KOREA Un Chi Gim, Seul Bee Lee, Min Ji Um, Yoon Jung Yeom, Ji Sun Kim and Dong Ho Shin (coach). SWEDEN Margaretha Sigfridsson (skip, throws first rock), Maria Prytz (throws fourth), Christina Bertrup, Maria Wennerström, Agnes Knochenhauer and Fredrik Hallström (coach). SWITZERLAND Binia Feltscher, Irene Schori, Franziska Kaufmann, Christine Urech, Carole Howald and Al Moore (coach). UNITED STATES Erika Brown, Allison Pottinger, Nicole Joraanstad, Natalie Nicholson, Tabitha Peterson and Ann Swisshelm (coach).

Transactions Reassigned LHPs Scott Diamond and Wade LeBlanc to minor league camp. Friday’s Sports Transactions National League HOCKEY ATLANTA BRAVES — Optioned OF Mallex Smith to Gwinnett (IL). Reassigned National Hockey League RHPs Aaron Blair and Lucas Sims and INFs Ozzie Albies and Dansby Swanson NHL — Suspended Philadelphia F Chris VandeVelde two games for elbowing to their minor league camp. Chicago F Jonathan Toews during a March 16 game. CHICAGO CUBS — Optioned RHPs Carl Edwards Jr. and Pierce Johnson LHP ARIZONA COYOTES — Recalled D Philip Samuelsson from Springfield (AHL). C.J. Riefenhauser INF Arismendy Alcantara and C Willson Contreras to Iowa CAROLINA HURRICANES — Recalled D Trevor Carrick from Charlotte (AHL). (PCL) and INF Jeimer Candelario to Tennessee (SL). Assigned RHPs Stephen CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Assigned D David Rundblad to Rockford (AHL). Fife, Felix Pena and Drew Rucinski LHP Edgar Olmos and C Taylor Davis to DALLAS STARS — Signed D Stephen Johns to a two-year contract extension. their minor league camp. DETROIT RED WINGS — Reassigned G Jake Paterson to Grand Rapids (AHL) CINCINNATI REDS — Optioned RHP Robert Stephenson, RHP Stephen Johnfrom Toledo (ECHL). son and OF Kyle Waldrop to Louisville (IL). Reassigned RHP Tim Adleman,RHP NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Recalled F Brian O’Neill from Albany (AHL). Zack Weiss, C Joe Hudson and OF Jesse Winker to their minor league camp. American Hockey League Released LHP Jonathan Sanchez. CHARLOTTE CHECKERS — Signed D Nick Trecapelli to an amateur tryout COLORADO ROCKIES — Optioned RHP Eddie Butler, RHP Carlos Estevez contract. and OF Raimel Tapia to Albuquerque (PCL) and RHP German Marquez, RHP SAN DIEGO GULLS — Reassigned RW Matt Berry to Utah (ECHL). Antonio Senzatela and C Tom Murphy to Hartford (EL). Reassigned RHP Shane BASEBALL Carle, LHP Sam Moll, OF Noel Cuevas and OF Jordan Patterson to their minor American League league camp. BOSTON RED SOX — Optioned INF Marco Hernandez to Pawtucket (IL). ReasPHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Optioned RHP Jimmy Cordero and C Jorge Alfaro signed RHP Kyle Martin to their minor league camp. to Reading (EL). Reassigned C Andrew Knapp to their minor league camp. CLEVELAND INDIANS — Optioned OF James Ramsey to Columbus (IL). ReSAN DIEGO PADRES — Agreed to terms with 3B Mike Olt on a minor league assigned OF Michael Choice, C Jeremy Lucas, C Anthony Recker and INF Eric contract. Stamets to their minor league camp. DETOIT TIGERS — Optioned RHP Michael Fulmer to Toledo (IL). HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned C Alfredo Gonzalez to Corpus Christi (TL). Reassigned RHP Jordan Jankowski to their minor league camp. LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Announced the retirement of LHP Rob Rasmussen. MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned RHP Alex Meyer, 1B Kennys Vargas and INF Jorge Polanco to Rochester (IL). Reassigned RHPs Jose Berrios and Nick Burdi, LHP Aaron Thompson, Cs Stuart Turner and Mitch Garver, and OF Joe Bensonthe to their minor league camp. NEW YORK YANKEES — Re-acquired LHP Evan Rutckyj from Atlanta and assigned him to Scranton-Wilkes-Barre (IL). SEATTLE MARINERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Justin De Fratus on a minor league contract. Optioned RHP Cody Martin, C Mike Zunino and OF Boog Powell to Tacoma (PCL). TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Announced the retirement of RHP Brad PenTyson Czuy ny. Optioned OF Dalton Pompey and INF Matt Dominguez to Buffalo (IL). Owner At the junction of Hwy 20 & 11A, Sylvan Lake

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CENTRAL DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL 71 46 23 1 1 71 44 24 1 2 71 41 26 2 2 71 29 35 6 1 71 29 37 3 2 71 12 53 6 0

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Low gas prices cool inflation BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Lower prices at the pump helped cool Canada’s annual inflation rate to 1.4 per cent last month, down from 2.0 per cent in January, while offsetting increases in food prices. Gasoline prices dropped a whopping 13.1 per cent year-over-year and 6.9 per cent from January, Statistics Canada reported Friday. Excluding gasoline, the annual inflation rate would have been 1.9 per cent in February. The core inflation rate, which also excludes fuel and some other volatile items, was 1.9 per cent.

Statistics Canada says food was a major inflationary factor in February, as it has been for several months. Consumers paid 3.9 per cent more for food last month compared with February 2015. But there were signs that some grocery prices had levelled off or softened. Meat prices showed their smallest gain since January 2014, rising by 1.6 per cent from a year earlier. The meat index also declined by 0.1 per cent between January and February. Similarly, the fresh vegetable index was up 17.2 per cent for the year but down 0.1 per cent from the previous month. Other food components, including fresh fruit and dairy products, were up both on a

yearly and monthly basis. Several analysts noted that the February inflation report gave the Bank of Canada little reason to change its key interest rate from 0.5 per cent, given that core inflation was close to the central bank’s ideal target of 2.0 per cent. “But with crude oil now higher, headline inflation will be marching to a different drum and likely head higher over the course of the year,” CIBC economist Royce Mendes wrote in a commentary.

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Company pitches system to link vets with jobs BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A U.S-based technology company is pitching the Trudeau government on an innovative idea to link veterans — who are either out of uniform or about to leave the military — with jobs in the private sector. Monster Government Solutions has been showcasing its so-called military skills translator software, hoping the Canada will follow the lead of the Obama administration and buy into the program. The software allows military members to customize job searches through an algorithm that helps match highly technical military skills with potential civilian jobs. It not only presents former soldiers with a list of job openings but allows them to submit applications instantly. Terry Howell, director of editorial operations for the company, says it would require the participation of private-sector companies, but the package has a track record of success in the U.S. “We’re looking for the opportunity to provide this to the Canadian government and by extension to the Canadian employers who are looking for veterans to employ,” Howell said in a recent interview. The program offers a couple of different avenues of support, but the main one would work as a tool for military counsellors preparing soldiers for civilian life, he added. During last fall’s federal election, the Liberals promised to examine so-called transition tools and the party president, Anna Gainey, wrote to the company to say “a military skills translator can be a valuable and effective tool.”

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Terry Howell, director of editorial operations for Monster Government Solutions, demonstrates the company’s military skills translator software in Ottawa. The US.-based company the Canadian government will follow the lead of the Obama Administration in the U.S. by utilizing the program through Veterans Affairs, and possibly National Defence. In opposition, the Liberals pushed the Harper government to adopt such a system. The House of Commons veterans committee, in a June 2014, report called on the federal government to either buy such transition software or create its own for use at both National Defence and Veterans Affairs. The cost of Monster’s proposal would be US $1.7 million for start-up and US $400,000 annually in support and upgrades. In the last three years, a growing number of sol-

diers have complained that they are ill-prepared to return to civilian life, whether physically, emotionally or even vocationally. Many have never had to write a resume and have no idea how their training and expertise might be useful in the commercial world.

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LNG approval deadline next week ‘premature’ as documents reviewed BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA — A deadline in the approval process for a proposed $36 billion liquefied natural gas project planned for British Columbia’s northern coast is now being called premature as federal officials review a glut of new documents. Statements from the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna say it’s likely too early to expect an answer for the proposed Pacific NorthWest LNG plant at Lelu Island near Prince Rupert by the March 22 deadline. But the prospect of another delay for the project billed as the largest private-sector investment in B.C. history is starting to wear thin on local residents who have been waiting almost three years for an answer. “I’ve been dealing with this since the first day they came to Port Edward and that’s been a few years,” Port Edward Mayor Dave MacDonald said Friday. He said the community of 600 people, about 15

kilometres north of Prince Rupert, would be located within spitting distance from the plant and residents have been waiting on promises of jobs, new roads and bridges. “The sooner we get a decision of yes or no, the better we all are,” said MacDonald. B.C.’s Natural Gas Development Minister Rich Coleman said he expects the decision will be referred to the federal cabinet next month. He said the project has huge economic potential for the Canadian economy. “All in, it’s $36 billion. That’s about two points of the entire gross domestic product of the country. It’s probably 7,000 to 8,000 construction jobs and another 3,000 and 4,000 on the pipeline.” The March 22 date is when McKenna can make an environmental approval decision herself or refer the plan to cabinet, but both the minister and the environmental assessment agency are signalling more work needs to be done to consider the potential greenhouse gas emissions connected to the development.

Business BRIEFS SNC-Lavalin shedding another 950 positions, including 600 in Canada MONTREAL — SNC-Lavalin is eliminating 950 jobs around the world, including 600 in Canada. The Montreal-based engineering and construction firm says all of the employees affected have been notified, with most having already left. The company says the downsizing in Canada mainly involves employees in Ontario and Alberta, followed by Quebec, and follows the elimination of 4,000 positions in 2014. The latest cuts are part of a larger restructuring announced last November by CEO Neil Bruce to adapt to a weaker economy. SNC-Lavalin (TSX:SNC) expects to save $100 million per year from a series of efforts, including workforce reduction.

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grams including many that range in length from a month to a year. Some of these courses are available online-, parttime or through distance-learning, which allows you to work while you upgrade your skills. There are also many private vocation schools and colleges that offer short-term training for specific careers. You might also want to consider a career in one of Alberta’s 50 registered trades. Registered Apprentices spend about 80 per cent of their time earning a paycheque while they learn on the job. For more information on the wide variety of career options in the trades, check out tradesecrets.alberta.ca. Alberta Occupational Profiles (OCCinfo) is a searchable database of more than 500 careers listed by job title, industry, subject and interest. You can also use the advanced search feature and filter by anticipated demand, physical strength required, and required training. Earning a certificate or a diploma on top of your high-school education opens the doors to 180 different careers. You can try searching the database yourself at alis.gov.ab.ca/occinfo. Here are just a few examples of careers that require a year or less of formal training:

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● Accounting Technicians require a high school diploma and earn $24.57 per hour on average ● Bus Drivers with a high school diploma earn $24.76 per hour on average, and often receive their driver training from their employer. ● Unit Clerks usually have a high school diploma plus a one year Unit Clerk Certificate and earn $27.64 per hour on average. One final suggestion is to check the Canada-Alberta Job Bank jobbank.gc.ca and your local help-wanted ads for job postings that interest you. You can then use the Occinfo database to find out what the position salary and educational requirements are. For more information on career planning: ● Call the Alberta Career Information Hotline toll-free at 1-800-661-3753; or ● Visit your nearest Alberta Works Office and ask to speak to a Career and Employment Consultant. You can find your nearest Alberta Works Office by clicking on humanservices.alberta.ca/offices. Good luck! Do you have a work-related question? Send your questions to Working Wise, at charles.strachey@gov.ab. ca. Charles Strachey is a manager with Alberta Human Services. This column is provided for general information.

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BUSINESS 76 cents at US$39.44 a barrel, while the much more heavily traded May contract fell 52 cents to $41.14. May natural gas shed two cents to $1.99 per mmBtu, April gold lost $10.70 to US$1,254.30 an ounce and May copper slipped one cent to US$2.28 a pound. It was a different story in New York, where investors remained buoyed by Wednesday’s statement from the U.S. Federal Reserve Board that it would likely slow the pace of interest rate increases this year. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 120.81 points to 17,602.30, while the broader S&P 500 added 8.99 points to 2,049.58 and the Nasdaq advanced 20.66 points to 4,795.65. The Fed had originally planned to hike its key interest rate four times this year, but on Wednesday said it now foresees only two increases in 2016. In European trading, Germany’s DAX rose 0.5 per cent and France’s CAC 40 gained 3.4 per cent, while Britain’s FTSE 100 fell 0.2 per cent. Asian markets were mixed, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 falling 1.3 per cent, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index rose 0.8 per cent and China’s main Shanghai composite index rose 1.7 per cent. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Friday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,497.07, down 124.23 points Dow — 17,602.30, up 120.81 points S&P 500 — 2,049.58, up 8.99 points Nasdaq — 4,795.65, up 20.66 points

Women outnumber men on Ottawa’s influential council of economic advisers BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

— Jennifer Blanke, chief economist, World Economic Forum — Kenneth Courtis, chairman, Starfort Investment Holdings — Brian Ferguson, president and CEO, Cenovus Energy Inc. — Suzanne Fortier, principal and vice-chancellor, McGill University — Carol Anne Hilton, CEO, Transformation — Carol Lee, CEO and co-founder, Linacare Cosmotherapy Inc. — Christopher Ragan, associate professor of economics at McGill University and chair of the Ecofiscal Commission — Angela Strange, partner, Andreessen Horowitz — Ilse Treurnicht, CEO, MaRS Discovery District “I look forward to working with the council members, whose diverse backgrounds and impressive expertise will inform our work as we develop and implement a strategy that will build on the foundation we will lay with budget 2016,” Morneau said in a statement. Internal federal documents show that Barton, a Canadian, has been called upon in the past to advise the government. He was scheduled to deliver a presentation last May to a deputy ministers’ committee on economic trends and policies. Barton’s talk was to address the “drivers of change in the global and economic context,” particularly as they relate to innovation, according to a memorandum.

OTTAWA — Women will outnumber men on what could turn out to be the most-influential group of people around Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau. Morneau on Friday unveiled the federal government’s new advisory council — a team that will help draw up a plan designed to get the economy out of a rut. The lineup of business and academic leaders includes eight women and six men. The advisers, who will be paid an annual salary of $1, are responsible for helping the government prepare a long-term growth strategy to be released by the end of the year. The council members’ names were made public just days before the release of the Liberal government’s first budget. The budget, to be tabled Tuesday, is expected to spell out much of Ottawa’s plans to spend billions of dollars on measures — such as infrastructure — aimed at boosting productivity and economic growth. Last month, Morneau announced that the advisory council would be chaired by Dominic Barton, the global managing director of consulting giant McKinsey & Company. At the time, Morneau said council members would meet him regularly and provide advice “on concrete policy actions to help create the long-term conditions for economic growth focused on the middle class.” The council also includes prominent business figures such as Mark EGGS BENEDICT Wiseman, president and Two eggs on a grilled English Muffin with CEO of the Canada Penyour choice of one of the following: ham, sion Plan Investment bacon, sausage or tomato; topped with Board and Michael Sabia, hollandaise sauce plus your choices CEO of the Caisse de deof hashbrowns, pancakes or fruit cup. pot et placement du QueAvailable All Day bec, the province’s largest pension fund manager. Other members: — Elyse Allen, president and CEO, General Electric Canada — Katherine Barr, general partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures

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INFLATION: Opposing impacts Future contracts for North American benchmark crude recently rose this week above US$40 a barrel and the Canadian dollar traded above 77 cents US on Thursday for the first time in months. “The recent pickup in oil prices and attendant Canadian dollar appreciation, if sustained, will have opposing impacts on inflation,” RBC economist Josh Nye wrote. A stronger dollar will limit inflationary pressures from imports while gasoline will be more of a contributor to inflation. In total, six of the eight major components of the consumer price index were up from a year earlier. The transportation index that includes gasoline was down 0.5 from February 2015 and down 1.1 per cent from January. The clothing and footwear index was down 1.3 per cent from a year earlier but up 1.4 per cent from January. Economists had expected Canada’s overall inflation rate to be 1.5 per cent and core inflation to be 2.0 per cent last month. In a separate report, Statistics Canada reported unexpectedly strong retail sales for January, led by motor vehicle and parts dealers. Overall, retail sales rose 2.1 per cent to $44.2 billion in January, compared with $43.2 billion in December.

Economists had estimated an increase of 0.6 per cent. The motor vehicle and parts dealers accounted for about one-quarter of January’s retail sales, rising 4.8 per cent from December to $11.6 billion the following month. Retail sales were up in eight provinces in January, with Alberta showing a decline of 0.2 per cent and Prince Edward Island edging down 0.1 per cent from December.

VETERANS: Need to do better Some organizations have sprung up to offer post-uniform career counselling. The former Conservative government put in place a helmets-tohard-hats program, hoping to retrain veterans for the construction sector and also introduced legislation to help fast-track vets into public service jobs. Even so, the complaints mounted. The country’s top military commander, Gen. Jonathan Vance, identified the transition to civilian life as a key area where the federal government as an institution can do better. “It’s in that transition period where we are looking very closely,” Vance said in a year-end interview with The Canadian Press in December. “These people who successfully make it through that transition period and are able to work successfully and achieve what they want to achieve in life after uniform … we want to reinforce that.”

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Arden not afraid of a challenge BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF When Jann Arden hosts the Juno Awards, she knows everything about her will be viewed through a public magnifying glass. “It’s really scary — especially with social media. You know people will be sitting there, going after what you look like, your make-up, your shoes… what you say and how you say it,” said Arden, who will also perform for Red Deer-area fans on Good Friday, March 25, at the Memorial Centre. The last time she hosted the Junos, 19 years ago, the Twitter-verse didn’t exist and neither did Facebook. Most of the feedback Arden would have received would be in media reports the next day. Hurtful comments from home viewers would have stayed off her radar. While this is too much to hope for today, Arden still looks forward to the “riskiness” of hosting a nationally broadcast music awards show on March 28 because she can stretch herself in a different direction. Detractors on social media won’t dent her self confidence, she added, because “I simply don’t care about it.” Arden regularly blocks on-line bullies from her Facebook page. “I have zero tolerance and I report people who post things of a racist, sexist or derogatory nature.”

The candid Calgary-area resident, who’s known for singing about heartbreak and vulnerability, has a special affinity for people who have suffered and survived. This is reflected in several songs from her 2014 album Everything Almost, including, Hard to Be Alive, I Ain’t Sinkin’ Yet and You Were Never Broken. The latter was inspired by the strength shown by former Red Deerbased journalist Amanda Lindhout who overcame torture and confinement in Somalia. “I think everyone’s an underdog,” said Arden. “It isn’t easy being a young person, and it isn’t easy being an old person… It’s very easy to be marginalized…” Arden has spoken out on issues such as bullying in schools and wishes more parents would question their children about the roles they play. “They (might be) the bullies!” While she revealed being molested by a cousin at age 10, and growing up with an alcoholic father in her 2011 memoir, Falling Backwards, schoolyard bullying wasn’t part of her childhood. With only 40 students at her high school, “we were kind of forced to be friendly with each other,” recalled the 53-year-old, who was raised in the small centre of Springbank, west of Calgary. Contributed photo

Jann Arden performs in Red Deer March 25 at the Memorial Centre.

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Spotlight shows value of news It isn’t enough that Spotlight won Best Picture at the Oscars. It should have won the Most Authentic Newsroom Depiction in Any Hollywood Movie, Ever, Award — at least if the journalists I know had a say. I was among those who delighted in the drab styles sported by actors Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams and Michael Keaton in their portrayals of Boston Globe staffers investigating the Catholic priest scandal of the early 2000s. Their button-down clothes and bad hair rang so refreshingly true — especially compared to the glamour-puss portrayals of journalists in films such as Up Close and Personal. I could relate to everything, from the soccer-dad vehicles Spotlight reporters drove, to their average homes and work spaces stacked with vertical

LANA MICHELIN REVIEW columns of paper and other clutter. As my teenage son said, “They sure got that right!” — and he would know. He’s been in and out of the Advocate’s newsroom since he was a toddler — and it could still use a paint job. I can also vouch for the veracity of the top-down conversations that happen between editors and reporters. The sometimes heated newsroom debates were highly realistic. And the editors, of course, got the last word. Among the things I most appreciate

about Spotlight is that reporters were not depicted as a pack of hyenas, snapping questions at their victims/sources, while shoving microphones in their faces. The reporters interviewing abuse victims were shown to be empathetic. In real life, we care enough about the people we interview to try to get their views across as accurately and compassionately as we can. Most of the time, we succeed. While the Globe staffers were often frustrated by the bureaucratic roadblocks they encountered, they conducted themselves ethically — unlike the female scribe who jumped into bed with her source in the Netflix series House of Cards. It sounds goofy, even sanctimonious to say it, but real reporters are passionate about exposing injustices.

Although we go into journalism to make a positive change, the work ends up changing us. This was memorably shown in a scene in which Ruffalo’s character, Mike Rezendes, reveals the underlying reason he flew into a rage when his editor delayed printing stories about the church cover-up. Walter Robinson (played by Keaton) wanted to gather more evidence about pedophile priests being systematically moved to other parishes, where they could re-offend. Rezendes, a lapsed Catholic, later admits to a colleague that he always thought he would return into the church fold. But now he’s lost faith in a fallible institution. See SPOTLIGHT on Page C2

Part time blues, part time country, part time folk BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF A good ol’ old-time variety show will be staged at Fratters Speakeasy next week by Red Deer band Tyler Allen & The Part Timers. Allen is only 24 years old, but has a deep regard for working-class roots music from the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s. “I think it’s a lot more honest and raw than modern music, said the singer, who will also play guitar, banjo and mandolin with his strings trio on Thursday, March 24. He likes the songs of Robert Johnson, Hank Williams, Nina Simone and Flatt and Scruggs and feels they “speak across generations” in a way that today’s music does not. “It doesn’t have the same staying power as some older roots music has.” Allen has performed with The Part Timers — local guitarist/percussionist Paeton Cameron and stand-up bass player Lorne Malaka — since September. But Cameron and Allen were formerly in the band Waskasoo. Allen said he loved playing bluegrass with Waskasoo, but felt hemmed in by one genre. His new band, Tyler Allen and the Part Timers, play all kinds of roots music, including blues, swing jazz, country, bluegrass and folk. “I wanted to make it a variety show — not just perform one specific style. I guess I’m not able to just stick to one thing,” Allen added, with a chuckle. “I like making music that’s an amalgamation of styles.” His trio plays standards that are in the public domain. Allen also writes original music based on life experiences. His song Ten More Miles, for in-

stance, was sparked by a dangerous incident — Allen fell asleep while driving. He veered his vehicle into a ditch, narrowly missing a parked piece of construction equipment. It was a real wake-up call, he said. ”I’ve never driven tired since.” His tune Shape Me Up is about “wanting to be anywhere but where you are,” said Allen, who admitted he has wanderlust. He recently returned from a trek through Southeast Asia, and plans to spend the summer in Dawson City, Yukon, with his girlfriend. Allen isn’t worried about talking this short hiatus from the band, saying Cameron and Malaka both have other musical projects to occupy their time. He grew up in Olds listening to his guitar-picking grandfather playing songs by Roger Miller, The Beatles and Hank Williams. “I enjoyed the simple effectiveness of a lot of the lyrics.” The stories about loss and love never grow old, said the singer. “People back then led simpler lives, but they also dealt with more difficult times…” Allen has enjoyed Red Deer’s supportive music scene since moving here three years ago. “Sometimes it’s hard for people who only see Red Deer as this industrial city to fathom that there’s a real entertainment scene here. It’s become a hub for bands from all over the place,” thanks to live-music clubs like Bo’s Bar and Grill and Fratters, added Allen. He’s grateful to anyone who’s seen him perform — and invites those who haven’t to come out for the Fratters “variety show.” There’s a $5 cover for the 8:30 p.m. all-ages concert by Tyler Allen & the Part Timers. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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The best student musical performances of the year can be seen at Red Deer College’s That’s Entertainment showcase next weekend. Classical, jazz and contemporary music students will perform solos and ensemble pieces on Sunday, at the RDC Arts Centre. Come see some possible stars-oftomorrow as they are just starting out at the 2 p.m. show.

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Tyler Allen & The Part Timer perform on Thursday, March 24 at Fratters Speakeasy.

MAJOR MIDGET FEMALE HOCKEY PLAYOFFS If Game 5 of their best of five opening round series is needed between the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs and the Spruce Grove Saints it will happen on Sunday at the Collicutt Centre at 2:15 p.m.

MAGSPARKS: BUNNIES AND BOWS Head to the Museum and Art Gallery on Monday for an afternoon of art making in our studio. MAGsparks is a community art program tailored to individuals with developmental disabilities, but is open to all members of the community. Annual memberships are available to persons with disabilities. Admission for this event is $3.

FIND OUT WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING IN OUR EVENT CALENDAR AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM/CALENDAR.

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ARDEN: Grateful She likes the foothills area so much she still lives there… “I’m so grateful my parents moved us out here…” However, her family life has changed drastically over the last few years. Arden’s dad, who worked in construction for four decades, passed away last August. Her mother is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, while one of her brothers continues to serve a life sentence in prison for first-degree murder of a woman in Creston, B.C. (Arden believes he’s innocent, dedicating the song Hangin’ By a Thread to him). While coping with these personal ordeals, Arden still craves professional change. And 2016 is sure to provide it, with more tours, and recording plans for the singer who rose to fame with her breakthrough 1993 album Time for Mercy. Its single I Could Die For You was followed by a series of other hits: Could I Be Your Girl?, Will You Remember Me? Good Mother, Unloved, Wonderdrug, and and her biggest chart-topper (it went to No. 12 in the U.S.), Insensitive. Arden hopes to have a new album out 2017. Fans who have appreciated Arden’s quick wit on her TV appearances on Rick Mercer Report or The Social, will get a chance to experience it live, in concert. And Arden is glad to be making a personal connection with audiences at concert halls and arenas across the country. “We’re not doing this to promote anything… I’ve put out 14 records over 25 years in music. This is going to be a retrospective,” said Arden, who particularly enjoys more intimate venues, like Red Deer’s Memorial Centre. With eight Junos, a MuchMusic Video Award and other honours under her belt, including a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame, Arden believes real success still springs from treating people with decency. “There’s strength in kindness and tolerance,” she said. “Your character is your fate. It negotiates your path in life.” Tickets to her 7:30 p.m. concert are $99.24 from the Black Knight Ticket Centre. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Admittedly, reporters are cynical creatures who delve into sticky issues many establishment figures would prefer to leave alone. But if our news stories are perceived as negative — they are necessarily so. To run only positive articles would be to accept the authority line that everything is hunky-dory. Applying critical thought requires examining all sides of a story, which inevitably leads to talking to those with opposing opinions. Perhaps the best thing about Spotlight is that it shows newspaper people are as human as anyone. The Boston Globe was not timely in breaking the story of the church’s concealment of pedophile priests. The paper had heard for five years previously, rumblings of a scandal but did not follow up. Some sources were written off as not credible. An early story fell between the cracks, not because there was a news agenda to uphold the Catholic church’s reputation, but because reporters got busy and editors had their attention diverted by other projects. What’s considered priority news is subjective. F or as important as the church investigation proved to be, it was shelved for over a month as Globe investigators were sent to cover stories about terrorism in the wake of the 9/11 attacks in 2001. The longer I work in this industry, the more I realize that the public doesn’t really understand newspapers — or reporters. That’s why I believe it’s becoming increasingly important to try to better explain what we do — especially at this transitional time when most large media corporations can no longer afford to have teams spending a year or more investigating a story for the public good. Anyone who watches Spotlight has to believe there’s a higher purpose in maintaining a free press — even for the everyday coverage of local school boards, the business community and city council. If your rights and freedoms aren’t directly affected, your taxes might be. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

BRIEFS Police release photos of Cobain gun SEATTLE — Police in Seattle have released photos of the shotgun Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain used to kill himself more than two decades ago. Seattle police cold case Detective Mike Ciesynski is shown holding Cobain’s gun at different angles in five photos posted to the police department’s website Wednesday. Police say the photos were taken in June 2015, added to the city of Seattle’s computer system March 3 and since then have been added to the investigative file.

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LOS ANGELES — Frank Sinatra Jr., who carried on his famous father’s legacy with his own music career and whose kidnapping as a young man added a bizarre chapter to his father’s legendary life, died Wednesday. He was 72. The younger Sinatra died unexpectedly of cardiac arrest while on tour in Daytona Beach, Florida, the Sinatra family said in a statement to The Associated Press. The statement said the family mourns the untimely passing of their son, brother, father and uncle. No other details were provided. His real name was Francis Wayne Sinatra — his father’s full name was Francis Albert Sinatra — but he went professionally by Frank Sinatra Jr. Sinatra Jr. was the middle child of Sinatra and Nancy Barbato Sinatra, who was the elder Sinatra’s first wife and the mother of all three of his children. Sinatra Jr.’s older sister was Nancy Sinatra, who had a successful musical career of her own, and his younger sister was TV producer Tina Sinatra. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1943, just as his father’s career was getting started, and he would watch his dad become one of the most famous singers of all time. But he usually watched from a distance, as Sinatra was constantly away on tours and making movies. He did, however, sometimes get to see him from the wings of the stage, especially when his father performed for long stints in Las Vegas. Sinatra Jr. got to see many other storied performers too, like Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Count Basie. “I saw all the top stars perform,” Sinatra Jr. told the AP in 2002. He said one of his favourite memories of his father was a show in the late 1960s at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. “He was sitting on a little stool, and he sang the Beatles song ‘Yesterday’ and ‘By the Time I Get to Phoenix’ and ‘Didn’t We,”’ Sinatra Jr. said. “We were all crying and singing.” Sinatra Jr. followed his father into music as a teenager, eventually working for the senior Sinatra as his musical director and conductor. The elder Sinatra died of a heart attack May 14, 1998, at 82. Sinatra Jr. was able to provide a link to his father’s music after his death, performing his songs and arrangements on tours and especially in Las Vegas.

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The siren and our sacred calling BY GALEN GUENGERICH SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE I must confess that I listen to sirens somewhat differently these days. For much of my life, sirens were rare intrusion into otherwise sonically subdued settings. The dairy farm in central Delaware where I was born, the small town in south Arkansas where I grew up, the farming country in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania where I finished high school and went to college, and even the quaint village of Princeton where I went to seminary: for the most part, these were relatively quiet places. Once in a while I’d see a fire truck headed to a fire or a police car headed to an accident or an ambulance headed to a heart attack victim, but not often. Sirens and I became much better acquainted when I moved to the south side of Chicago to begin my PhD studies at the University of Chicago. Located in Hyde Park, a relatively secure enclave within one of Chicago’s most economically depressed and violent areas, the University of Chicago employs one of the nation’s largest private police forces. During my time in Chicago, I became acutely aware that many deaths on the South Side hadn’t come at the end of life or from natural causes. Sirens had been involved. Even so, they had mostly been silenced by the time they arrived in my neighborhood. The fact that sirens and I weren’t better acquainted marks me as a child of significant cultural privilege. For people like me, the world has always been relatively safe. Nowadays, however, the sirens are sounding closer to home. Violence is no longer keeping its distance, which is why the killings in San Bernardino have been so unsettling. A husband-andwife team of ISIS sympathizers killed 14 and wounded 17 of his coworkers at a department of environmental health holiday party. My sense is that lots of people across this nation have felt unsettled by this latest outbreak of violence, including many who never had to give safety much thought. The poet Yehuda Amichai, who died five years ago, was born in 1924 to Orthodox Jewish parents living in Germany. He went on to become one of the most celebrated Israeli poets of the twentieth century. One of his most compelling poems is titled “The Diameter Of The Bomb.” In it, Amichai writes: The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters, with four dead and eleven wounded. And around these, in a larger circle of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered and one graveyard. But the young woman who was buried in the city she came from, at a distance of more than a hundred kilometers, enlarges the circle considerably, and the solitary man mourning her death at the distant shores of a country far across the sea includes the entire world in the circle. And I won’t even mention the crying of orphans that reaches up to the throne of God and beyond, making a circle with no end and no God. The circles of time in which we live and move begin with us, the poet says — with our lives: the places we inhabit, the people we love, and the things we do. But experiences of pain enlarge the circles considerably, eventually expanding to include the entire world. A 12-inch bomb ends up having a diameter of infinite measure and thus a destructive power of infinite magnitude. You and I can feel the impact of a bomb from half a world away and a bullet from a continent away. On these terms, violence will never keep its distance. The truth is that as long as violence exists in the world, we probably shouldn’t keep our distance from it. Otherwise we would remain oblivious to human suffering and impervious to human pain. In our worship and in our spiritual practice, we seek to move beyond our private concerns to feel connected to something greater than ourselves — the whole of which we are a small, yet vital part. If we could fully feel this experience, we would feel connected to everything: all that is present in our lives and our world, as well as all that is past and all that is possible. This feeling of being connected to everything is what I call the experience of the divine — the experience of God. And everything includes experiences of pain. Feeling the pain of the world is essential to our spiritual practice. If we don’t feel the world’s pain, then it’s not spiritual practice, but rather the practice of denial or delusion. Bearing witness to what’s present, we open our hearts to the pain of the world and wrap our arms around its brokenness. As the poet William Blake once put it, “Every one of every clime that prays in deep distress, prays to the human form divine.” In addition to the distraught families of the victims in San Bernardino being in deep distress, millions of Muslims who live and worship among us are also in deep distress. Polls consistently show that most Americans know very little about Islam and have no acquaintances that are Muslim. Given the anti-Muslim threats being unleashed today, even among some of our candidates for president, I can understand why Muslims feel afraid. Especially now, you and I need not to distance ourselves from the pain and suffering of those around us. We need to bear witness to the grief of those who suffer loss and the anxiety of those who fear violence. We need to offer comfort. But that’s only the beginning of our work. As we bear witness to what is present, we also need to bear witness to what’s possible — the potential of the human longing for community and the promise of the human quest for justice. Things will be set right in this world only if we set them right. As Blake insists, mercy has a human heart, love takes human shape, and peace wears human garb. Where these dwell, Blake says, “There God is dwelling too.” The next time you hear a siren, breathe a prayer for those who are suffering or in pain. Then look around for someone to help. Use the siren as a reminder of your sacred calling. Be kind to others, and take courage from others. Cherish those you love, and treasure all that is good. Embrace all that is possible. Galen Guengerich is Senior Minister of All Souls Unitarian Church, a congregation located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. He was educated at Franklin and Marshall College (BA, 1982), Princeton Theological Seminary (MDiv, 1985), and the University of Chicago (PhD, 2004). His doctoral dissertation is titled “Comprehensive Commitments and the Public World: Tillich, Rawls and Whitehead on the Nature of Justice.”

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Russians in Syria: Mission accomplished GWYNNE DYER INSIGHT He wasn’t standing on an aircraft carrier with a banner saying “Mission Accomplished” behind him, but Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was a lot more credible than former U.S. president George W. Bush when he declared his country’s military intervention in the Middle East a success. And most of the Russian forces in Syria are going home after only five months, not the eight years that American troops stayed in Iraq. “The effective work of our military created the conditions for the start of the peace process,” said Putin on March 14. And it has indeed been a remarkably intelligent and successful intervention. The Russians said right from the start that it would be a limited operation both in scope and in time, and that their goal was not to help the Assad regime reconquer Syria but to restore the military stalemate in the civil war as the necessary preliminary to a ceasefire and peace talks. And that is exactly what they did. Western media were surprised by Putin’s announcement on Monday, but only because they had come to believe their own governments’ propaganda. If you have convinced yourself that the evil Russians are backing the evil Syrian regime in order to extend its evil rule, and that the preferred Russian tactic is the deliberate bombing of hospitals and schools, then you are bound to be bewildered when reality intrudes. The real reason for the Russian air campaign in Syria was not to “reestablish Russia as a major player” in the great power game, or to demonstrate the effectiveness of their new-generation weapons to potential buyers overseas, or to maintain their access to a small naval base on the Syrian coast. All these petty explanations were offered by Western politicians and journalists who diligently ignored the obvious reason for the intervention. Last summer, the Syrian army was at the breaking point. If it cracked then the whole Assad regime would go under, and all of Syria would fall under the control of the Islamist extremists of the loathsome “Islamic State” and of the Nusra Front, a branch of al-Qaeda. (By 2015 the “good” rebels fighting Assad were only a small fraction of the opposition forces.) A triumphant and vastly expanded “Islamic State” was definitely not in the national interest of Russia, which has an eight per cent Muslim minority and is not that far away from Syria. So the Russian air force was sent in to save Assad from defeat — but not to win him a decisive victory. Even with Russian air support, the Syrian army was too weak to destroy all the rebel forces and retake the whole country. Moscow just wanted to make sure that the Islamists didn’t

win, and to push the other rebels back far enough to make them understand that they couldn’t win either. Then it would call for a ceasefire and a peace conference that specifically excluded the Islamists. Russian aircraft carried out more than 9,000 combat sorties in five months, according to Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, and helped the Syrian army to regain control over 10,000 sq. km. of lost territory. That done, Moscow started pushing hard for ceasefire talks between the Assad regime and the non-Islamist rebels. Both sides needed to be pushed, so Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov enlisted the aid of U.S. Foreign Secretary John Kerry to put pressure on the rebels. Meanwhile he started twisting the arm of Bashar al-Assad, who sometimes fantasized aloud that with enough Russian help he might one day reunite Syria by force — and

Lavrov’s main tool of persuasion was the prospective withdrawal of the Russian air force. Each great power delivered its Syrian partners to the ceasefire talks, and the ceasefire was agreed to two weeks ago. Both great powers agreed that the two parts of Syria controlled by the Islamists (al-Nusra in northwest Syria, “Islamic State” in the east) would be excluded from the talks, and would remain legitimate targets for attack. And both parties also agree that Assad will not be allowed to stonewall and simply refuse to discuss the question of his own departure from power as part of a compromise peace settlement. That is why Moscow has made an early announcement of Russia’s troop withdrawal (without any published timetable): to make Assad understand Moscow’s real position. Russia doesn’t care whether Assad stays in power personally in Syria, al-

though they would clearly like to see a friendly government in Damascus that continues the long-standing alliance with Moscow. In fact, they see Assad as a brutal and inflexible man who should be replaced by a more acceptable figure when it is safe to do so. But it will probably not be safe to do that until the Islamist-controlled territories are isolated, blockaded and besieged, so Assad will remain in power for a while yet. It has been an elegant diplomatic operation backed by a very precise and effective military strategy. There is still a chance that it could all go wrong, but the Russians may have actually given Syria a chance for a decent future. Gwynne Dyer is an independent Canadian journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

Street people often have untapped artistic talents Recently, I had the privilege of participating in the Andrew Kooman production called After Hymn. It was a musical that involved great hymn writers from the past coming back to life in order to help a 15-year-old rock star wanna be discover his real talent. It’s not so much that I have a lot of talent in that area, but I love to sing and have not done so for several years, and having smoked for many years, I realize I did not do myself too many favours. But I was invited to participate, so I did. So, while rehearsing this play and watching all these people with so much ability, I kept thinking about the incredible amount of talent that walks into the kitchen every day. Early on we recognized that fact, but our aim at the beginning was to feed and keep them alive, but it was not very long before we realized the large number of resourceful people we are feeding that had really no way to express themselves. There are musicians, people with incredible voices, artists, sculptors, actors (believe me they are very good actors), folks with organizational skills, communication skills; just too many to name. The sad fact is, the greater majority of these talents go unused or used for

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the street community could come and do their sketch and paint art to their hearts content. This program has produced some incredible art works. One of the greatest benefits for folks with addictions, is for every hour they are in the studio, they are off the street; their body rests from that constant strolling, and while doing art work, they are not constantly focussed on looking for ‘stuff.’ At the same time, the interaction between fellow artists can be a beautiful time to learn different things. But there is so much more that could be done. It’s not about offering these folks free stuff or activities, it has more to do with focusing on the awakening of the gifts within to the point that they can find their own form of expression and to develop it. Plus they create their own freedom bubble — a space where they can explore themselves without outside influence. Many are the agencies or community groups that will contact me with questions about what can be done “for these poor unfortunate folks.” In different words, I always start by saying, first change your perception of these people; acknowledge the fact that they are where they are because of choice or health (both physical and mental). Search for and find some common

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activity that could help them to either make better choices or alleviate the stress and anxiety of the street. Hang out in places are definitely not the answer, but activity centres can and will make a huge impact. Whatever is done will cost — some little and some more — and if we are not willing on our own to lay out some of these costs, then read no further, but if you are then it’s a matter of finding out exactly what to do. What about: music, pottery, sewing, any kind of craft work; the list is endless. There are agencies that will help to promote, and in some cases, facilitate some of these endeavors, just as long as there are people willing to work at them. We cannot expect to turn street people, addicts, alcoholics, prostitutes and other afflicted folks into productive citizens by finding ‘out of sight’ places for them to ‘hang;’ it is only through interactive, non-judgemental teaching and encouraging that we are able to show them that in spite of whatever problems they might have, they can still express themselves in a progressive manner. Just maybe we can turn a ’blight’ on our downtown into an active vibrant portion of a caring progressive city. Chris Salomons is kitchen co-ordinator for Potter’s Hands ministry in Red Deer.

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Time to get serious about a BIG idea In the past weeks, the federal government and the government of Ontario have both mused aloud about bringing the idea of a basic income guarantee (BIG) to the front burners in their next budgets. Opposition parties in other provinces have also promised to put this in their next election platforms, and even the mayors of both Edmonton and Calgary have expressed support for testing BIG. It’s become a make-work program for economists and pundits of all stripes to weigh in on both sides of several complicated questions: • Would a guaranteed annual income for every Canadian adult significantly reduce poverty in Canada? • Would it be a cheaper, fairer redistribution of tax revenue than the paintbox of welfare, disability support, senior support, child support, student support, employment insurance and minimum wage policy that requires massive federal and provincial bureaucracies across the country? • Would BIG become a disincentive for people to look for better work than part-time minimum wage — or to look for a job at all? There are enough studies out there and enough economic projections both for and against BIG to warrant a field trial. And if Ontario wants to

GREG NEIMAN OPINION host a pilot project on that, then all of Canada should watch. My bet (more on gut instinct than anything else) is that we can do more good and less harm for more people, with less money, through BIG, than with any amount of tinkering with the status quo. We can pretty well take it as read that current supports like welfare, tax credit programs, EI, GIS, student loans/grants and all the rest add up to a bureaucratic nightmare. Here in Alberta, we are well aware how long wait times and the burden of paperwork for assistance for newly laid-off workers has become a huge stress both on the people affected and the offices that are supposed to help them. We also know that there’s opposition in small business and the service trade to raising the minimum wage to a living level. We’re also no strangers the the disincentive for the levels of advanced training Canada needs, in ever-rising tuition and living costs for students.

And we know the current welfare system across Canada is costly, and isn’t reaching its goals. So why not test the idea of the basic income guarantee, to see if it’s an improvement on all of the above? Right now, the accepted poverty rate in Canada is about nine per cent. Let’s just include the bottom decile of incomes in that category. The number most people bandy about for BIG is a guaranteed income of $18,000 a year — just to start the discussion. What would be the administrative cost savings if we eliminated welfare, the child tax credit, the working income tax benefit, the GST refund, the GIS for seniors — the whole menu of income-tested government supports that require regular reporting and constant tinkering to function? Do you meet the mandate of the particular program, is every line of the application done perfectly? Can you wait weeks or months to find out if you are accepted, or have to go back and apply all over again? Nationally, admin costs for these systems must be in the high tens of billions a year. Instead of paying an army of bureaucrats large salaries to monitor it all, we direct a few platoons to issue monthly cheques, based on tax or pay-

roll returns so that nobody slips below $18,000 a year. If you find employment, you don’t lose all your benefits — you should always be better off working than not working. Additional tax savings could be found in reduced public expenditures like emergency ward visits, mental health care costs prescription drug expenses, costs and crime, which are all strongly linked to poverty. Canada’s decades-old experiment in Manitoba reported that BIG did not create a class of welfare layabouts. Only two groups of people took BIG exclusively rather than work: women with infants who used BIG to “buy” their maternity leave; and older teen males who decided in greater numbers to graduate high school rather than drop out for a low-skill job. But it’s true, all the talk about a guaranteed income as a means of reducing poverty — and the total tax cost of our attempts at reducing poverty — are speculative. Economic projections are still theory, and you can buy any kind of economic projections your political views might support. All the more reason to test the idea over a period of several years. The potential gains right now seem much greater than the losses. Follow Greg Neiman’s blog at Readersadvocate.blogspot.ca

Give hats off to hats HARLEY HAY HAY’S DAZE I’m sure you’ve heard about it. There was this local guy who made the national news when he refused to get his driver’s license picture on account of they wouldn’t let him wear his Oilers ball cap. For him, being forced to remove his hat was akin to asking people who wear turbans and pointy Pope hats to take them off for official photos. He said his fanaticism for his favourite hockey team, the Edmonton Oilers, was like a religion to him, therefore the hat stays on his dome, photo or no photo. This, of course, is not just a can of worms; it’s a whole barrel of poisonous snakes. A barrel good old Hay’s Daze certainly isn’t going to poke around in without a very long stick. Suffice to say that for many people the real issue here is that the guy insists on wearing an OILERS hat, and who on Earth would want to be even seen supporting that lame team! (These people were Calgary Flames fans.) But all of this got me to thinking. About hats. Where to begin? How about this: What did the hat say to the tie? “You hang around here and I’ll go on a head.’ (Cue groan) From little beanies like the green and white felt LTCHS high school Pep rally beanie (which I still have) to pop star Lady Gaga’s outrageous headgear, which are not so much hats as they are furniture, hats are so much more than mere noggin warmers. When you think of detectives, you immediately think of fedoras or perhaps deerstalkers unless you were born sometime after 1990 in which case you have no idea what I’m on about. When I say “top hat” you probably picture Jean Kelly or Abraham Lincoln or that weird guy you always see wandering around downtown. If I say “Mountie” you might say “Where?!” and slam on your brakes. But you might also conjure up the iconic image of the tall brown boots, the red serge uniform and the famous Mountie Hat. I had my very own Mountie Hat. Except we called it a Boy Scout Hat and it was the single most uncomfortable thing I’ve ever had on my head (except that time that pigeon got me). It was like wearing a wooden salad bowl. There are berets worn by mimes and revolutionaries. The Fez, those red cones with black tassels worn by Shriners in parades driving tiny little

Model T cars in circles. Viking helmets with large curved cow horns on them. Straw boaters topping the craniums of barbershop quartets. Sombreros for siestas in the hot sun in Mexico. And ball caps – you could write an entire book on baseball type hats (but no one would read it). There are curved brim ball caps, flat brimmed ball caps for rappers and people with many tattoos, sideways ball caps, backwards ball caps. Actual ball caps worn by people who play baseball. It never ends! I can remember one summer myself and my buddy (who shall remain nameless except to say he was called Ken Hayes) somehow ended up wearing identical ball caps which were actually brimmed welder’s hats with polka dots on them. We were under the delusion that members of the opposite much fairer sex would be so impressed and captivated by our headgear that they would immediately go out on dates with us. Let’s put it this way: never overestimate the power of a polka dot hat. There is the wonderful tall striped topper worn by the Cat in the Hat. Jackie O.’s famous pillbox hats. Charlie Chaplin’s bowler. Carmen Miranda’s headdresses made entirely of piles of fruit (look it up, kids). Santa’s hat. Cowboy hats. The magic Sorting Hat from Harry Potter. Oddjob’s deadly Frisbee hat from the James Bond movie Goldfinger. The red plastic flower pots that the weird band Devo wore on their heads. Queen Elizabeth’s countless famous hats that by Royal Decree she must change every three hours. And what about those god awful things that princesses recently wore on their heads during the wedding of Kate Hottie and William the Lucky? I believe they called them “Fascinators” because the moniker “Ridiculous Head Prongs” was already taken (by Lada Gaga). How about this one: I just bought a new hat. Fedora? No, for me. (Cue groan again) Still, when I think of hats, which, surprisingly isn’t very often, I always think of one of my favorite Bugs Bunny cartoons. The back doors of a large truck from the Acme Theatrical Hat Company going uphill rattle open and the wind carries hundreds of chapeaus into the air and different hats keep landing on the heads of Bugs and Elmer Fudd and every time that happens they take on the character of the hat. Bugs becomes a Five Star general when an Army helmet lands on his head. Elmer becomes pilgrim and tries to shoot Bugs, when an old lady’s bonnet lands on Bugs and he’s suddenly

southern belle. And on like that. It’s a brilliant take on how simply wearing a hat can affect a person’s personality. And that, really, is the true power of the lid. So the next time you want to have a better day, try a new cover for your melon. And remember: Who wears the

biggest hat in the army? The one with the biggest head. Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

New Democrats must consider sad truths As the New Democrats ponder the future of their federal party and its leadership, here are a few inconvenient truths they might have to face up to. 1. Yes, the NDP lost the last federal campaign on a fiscal and social platform that the Liberals could have written. The key planks of yearly balanced budgets and a national child care program were lifted from outdated red books. It was a decidedly middle-ofthe-road document. But the party has also never won an election on a platform that was not centrist. That was true in Saskatchewan in the days of Alan Blakeney and Roy Romanow, and in Manitoba under Howard Pawley, Gary Doer and Greg Selinger. Over the last decade Nova Scotia’s NDP hugged the centre all the way to a solo term in government. And Rachel Notley did not win power in Alberta last spring on the promise of a socialist revolution. Overall, the NDP has tended to do best in provinces where it could substitute itself for a weak Liberal party. But a stronger New Democrat presence has not translated into more pro-

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gressive governance in those provinces than the Canadian average. In the big picture, the NDP’s finish last October was its second-best ever. By comparison, the last time voters had coalesced behind the Liberals to usher out the Conservatives was 1993 and the New Democrats were left with nine seats, three short of the minimum required to hold official party status in the House of Commons. From the outside, one of the glaring weaknesses of the last NDP platform was not that it leaned too far to the right but that it was risk-averse to the point of being eminently forgettable. But then, the same could be said of Jack Layton’s 2011 platform. 2. The next federal election is almost four years away and the prospect of a national victory for the NDP is possibly even more remote. But the party does not live or die on the sole

basis of its federal performance. British Columbia, Ontario and Alberta — to name just those three — will all be going to the polls before 2019. Some NDP activists would have the federal party adopt the so-called LEAP manifesto. It would, among things, commit a New Democrat government to reject trade deals, oppose new pipelines and ensure fossil fuels stay in the ground. For the record, the Greens have promoted some of the LEAP ideas for a while and found only modest traction for them. And in the last British Columbia election, NDP fortunes went in decline after the party firmed up its anti-pipeline rhetoric. It was a strategic move designed to make a dent in Green support but ultimately a call that cost more votes than it attracted. The NDP would be more likely to implode than to ever unite behind the LEAP manifesto. 3. It is an urban legend that the 2012 leadership campaign saw the federal New Democrats choose the quest for power over party principles. In fact, the winner, the runner-up and the third-place candidate in that race were all political pragmatists.

Thomas Mulcair had spent his provincial political career on the Liberal benches of the national assembly in Quebec. But Brian Topp — who finished second — had cut his teeth in the backrooms of Romanow’s centrist Saskatchewan governments and helped steer the federal NDP in the same direction under Layton. Nathan Cullen finished a strong third on a platform to seek a formal alliance with the Liberals. When some defeated MPs opine that they no longer recognize the NDP in the party that Mulcair leads, one can only wonder what they think it would have looked like under the men who were the second and third choices of the membership three years ago. Most New Democrats would not be terribly unhappy to see Mulcair bow out. He might not even earn enough support on a confidence vote next month to stay on. But those who believe he is all that stands in the way of a less centrist NDP are taking their dreams for reality. If the New Democrats’ choices boiled down to keeping their current leader or going hard left, my money would be on Mulcair. Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.

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Woman tired of bailing out kids cards. No matter how many times I have helped her out, she keeps going into debt. She calls me and cries and tells me her husband will divorce her if he finds out how much she owes. She has medical problems and I feel guilty not helping her. But I’m getting so tired of my kids borrowing from me that it’s awkward being around them. I am fortunate that I am comfortable financially, but I worked hard and planned for my future. I have never charged a dime that I could not pay. I recently inherited a small amount of money from a brother, and I’d like to share it with my other siblings. I have given my children a little of this money, but I don’t think it’s right to give them more. I told my daughter that she needs to discuss her debt problem with her husband, and she won’t. She says she can’t afford counseling. I feel guilty that I can’t keep helping her, but I know it is just prolonging the problem. What can I do? — Morose Mom

Dear Mom: You already know that the best way to help your children is to insist they stand on their own two feet. Tell both of them that any future “loans” will be strictly for medical or family emergencies. Business investments and repaying credit card debt do not qualify. Your children count on your guilt to keep the cash flowing. Straighten your backbone and keep in mind the longterm picture. Your daughter can find free help through Debtors Anonymous (debtorsanonymous.org). Dear Annie: You were spot on telling “Grossed Out” to call the humane society, because his wife accumulates animals whenever she gets upset. However, you missed an important point. This lady’s behavior is called hoarding. Hoarding, whether it be of stuffed or live animals, is a mental illness. He should get his wife the appropriate help, because simply getting rid of the animals will not fix the problem. — Seen This Before

Dear Seen This: Several readers pointed out that the woman has a mental health problem and needs help. We completely agree and should have mentioned it. While the humane society deals with animal hoarding, they are primarily interested in the well-being of the animals. Here are some resources for the humans: The Anxiety Disorders Association of America (adaa.org) and the International OCD Foundation (iocdf. org). The National Alliance on Mental Illness (nami.org) offers information and support for those with anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive issues, including hoarding. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.

Saturday March 19, 2016 JOANNE CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Ursula Andress, 79; Glenn Close, 68; MADELINE Bruce Willis, 60 MOORE THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Todayís HOROSCOPES planetary aspects encourage being proactive and productive. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You are incred- mood to help a loved one through a rough ibly persuasive and persistent. 2016 is patch or cheer up a close friend who is the year to get the balance right between down-in-the-dumps. Children, creativity, being strong and sensitive; courageous sport and international connections are and kind. also favoured. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Personal CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): projects are favoured, as you make the There’s fun and laughter to be had at most of the terrific fire trine aspect. Cre- home, as the fire trine lights up your doativity and motivation are also high so mestic zone. If things have been tense get going Rams - with plenty of passion, with a family member, nows the time to energy and enthusiasm. swallow your pride and get talking. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’re AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Toimpatient to get things moving financially day’s fiery energy gives tired Aquarians but don’t proceed until all parties agree to a welcome energy surge. So use your the changes. If you are concerned about imagination to boost productivity — and money matters, then voice your concerns your intuition to help solve a domestic or partnership problem. to those involved. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): BusiGEMINI (May 21-June 20): Open and honest communication is the secret to a ness ventures are favoured, as you wonderful day. There’ll be plenty of op- combine common sense with intuition to portunities to expand your peer group, but achieve a positive result. Don’t wait for don’t neglect your long-term friends in the opportunities to appear Pisces - be proactive about chasing your dreams. process. CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s a Sunday March 20, 2016 terrific time to initiate a financial, business CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: or work project as the fire trine helps you tackle tasks with extra energy and enthu- William Hurt, 65; Spike Lee, 58; Ruby siasm. Travel and foreign connections are Rose, 29 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: It’s the also favoured. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): There’s a fab- Equinox today so the emphasis is on harulous fire trine, so Cats are keen to social- mony and balance. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Sometimes you ise and circulate; mix and mingle; imagine and create. And the Leo Moon encourag- are very logical, and at other times you es you to let your hair down and overdo can be totally unrealistic. In 2016 balance is the key, as you aim to live somewhere just about everything! VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): With Mer- in the middle. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Rams cury and Venus both visiting your relationship zone, it’s time to get talking with your make great leaders, but you can come on nearest and dearest. Single Virgos ñ look too strong. Today’s stars encourage you for a lover who you can really communi- to assert yourself in a positive manner that doesn’t intimidate others — or scare cate with. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Matters them away. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Avoid involving education, social media or logetting stuck in a Taurus rut. Step outcal community connections have been frustrating but things should improve today as the fire trine energizes your communication zone. SCORPIO (Oct. 23- Page 10, due to circumstances beyond Nov. 21): The main quality our control, the Gazillion 1 Litre you need to cultivate today Premium Bubble Solution (sku 735617) is patience — especially where money is concerned. is not available in all stores. You’re raring to go but the We apologize for any inconvenience message of the moment is this may have caused. “Good things come to those who wait.” SAGITTARIUS (Nov. Toys “R” Us Flyer March 18th-27th, 2016 22-Dec. 21): You’re in the

side your comfort zone and try something exciting that you’ve never done before. Make sure you take an adventurous loved one along for the ride. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Avoid being too autonomous Gemini! Friendships and acquaintances are highlighted today, and you’ll find there’s much to be gained from joint ventures and shared interests. CANCER (June 21-July 22): A spontaneous approach works wonders — especially when dealing with professional projects and friends. The more you discuss matters with loved ones, the better you’ll feel. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Moon’s in enthusiastic Leo so you’re fired up and ready to go. It’s not a good time to make long-term decisions though, as your thoughts and feelings are in a state of flux. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Virgo motto for today is from Harry Truman “A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities, and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.” LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Have you been having trouble communicating with a loved one? It’s the perfect day to try a totally different approach. With a fresh attitude, you’ll get the conversation flowing again. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio

is the sign of extremes, and Scorpios can have trouble relaxing. As we celebrate the Equinox - when day and night are of equal length - strive to bring more balance into your life. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Don’t fence me in! Your adventure gene is activated, as the Moon moves through your travel zone. If you are cooped up at home today, try not to drive everyone crazy with your restless ways! CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Put aside some solo time today Capricorn, where you can relax and wind down, plus contemplate your strategy for the coming week. The more prepared you are, the better. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): As the Moon moves through your relationship zone, it’s time to pamper your partner with some extra TLC. Are you sick and tired of being single? Look for a lover who is also a friend. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The spotlight’s on you at home or work, as you surprise others with an adventurous idea or spontaneous action. If you’re looking for a job, spend today researching all your options. Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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ABOVE: This photo shows an oversized island with ample seating in a super kitchen. The era of the “super kitchen’’ has arrived, say interior designers and trendwatchers: People are building or remodeling kitchens that include work and entertainment space, too. BELOW: This photo provided by courtesy of transformhome.com shows a detail of a pantry. The latest kitchen must-have? A super pantry, big enough to walk in, set out (and plug in) appliances, or just store all those value-size packages from big-box stores

SUPER KITCHENS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS American kitchens have always served as more than cooking and eating spaces. Generations of kids have done homework at kitchen tables. Parents claim counter space to organize family miscellany, tap out work emails on laptops or install a television. But now those work and entertainment uses are part of kitchen design from the get-go. The era of the “super kitchen” has arrived. “Our findings show that homeowners expect kitchen renovations to go far beyond improving flow, storage or esthetics,” said Nino Sitchinava, principal economist at Houzz.com, in announcing the site’s 2016 Kitchen Trends Survey. “The ‘super kitchen’ has literally become a living room, family room and office, with finishes, layouts and decor that challenge us to define where the kitchen ends and the rest of the home begins.” Interior designer Mikel Welch calls the kitchen “the new epicenter of the house.” “Everybody’s working from home,” and they often prefer doing that in an open kitchen rather than a sequestered home office. What are the features of a true “super kitchen”?

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Designer Tiffany Brooks, host of HGTV’s Most Embarrassing Rooms in America, says homeowners want technology within easy reach, but protected from food and drink spills. Some add a built-in iPad docking area or laptop station on a counter, while others choose the less expensive option of adding a tablet dock mounted under a cabinet, with an arm that swings out. People also want power. Pop-up outlets are being installed directly into countertops, says Sarah Fishburne, director of trend and design for the Home Depot. Wireless “charging countertops” are also available, including LG’s Tech Top and Dupont Corian. And homeowners are adding extra power outlets throughout the kitchen, and designing dedicated charging areas with power strips. The goal, says Fishburne, is to have

“many outlets readily available for anything you might need to plug in, from computer to glue gun.” Another tech choice: dishwashers that run almost silently, so they won’t distract you while you’re working in the kitchen. And full-size televisions are being added to the main cooking area so you can do your binge-watching in the same place where you try to avoid binge-eating. The traditional focus of kitchen planning — a stove-sink-refrigerator triangle — has become a square, Welch says, with the TV added as a core necessity. Occasionally, new kitchen technology does involve food: “Warming drawers are huge,” Brooks says. Because many people work nontraditional hours, “somebody is cooking at 2,” she says, “but then somebody is eating at 5, and somebody is coming home at 9.” And some people, Welch says, “want to essentially bring Starbucks to them.” Restaurant-quality drink facilities are being added to home kitchens, including elaborate built-in tea and coffee stations, built-in soda systems, faucets with a sparkling water spigot and temperature-controlled wine refrigerators.

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“An emerging trend is two islands being incorporated into a kitchen, if there is space,” says Fishburne. “This allows for a prep island and an island to accommodate other family functions like work or homework while you are preparing dinner.” Several of Welch’s design clients have requested oversize countertops that “allow six to eight people to comfortably sit with barstools,” he says. Lounging-friendly seating is a priority, whether or not guests will be eating. If a kitchen doesn’t have space for a sectional sofa or other large seating, some homeowners are knocking down walls to merge the kitchen with other rooms. Houzz says half of its survey respondents reported making their kitchens more open to other indoor spaces. And along with opening up the kitchen to the rest of the house, many homeowners are decorating the kitch-

en to match other rooms. “The kitchen is becoming a lot prettier,” Brooks says. “It is what the living room was” years ago. The kitchen backsplash area can be a creative showcase, the designers say, using custom-made tiles or even antique mirrored glass. Kitchen storage, too, is becoming more stylish and more organized. Closet-design systems originally conceived for bedroom closets are now being used to organize kitchen cabinets and pantries, Brooks says. And rather than cramming work papers or family files into a cabinet de-

signed for dishes, designers are building office and crafts storage into the kitchen. Many kitchens now have desks or computer workstations, and the days of bringing in “horrible, chunky rolling cabinets” to store files is over, says Welch. Non-kitchen items are stored in “built-ins that match the rest of the kitchen.” Whether they’re asking for the most flattering lighting or details like highend brass cabinet pulls, clients want everything to be beautiful, Welch says. More than ever, they want “that visual ‘wow’ factor.”

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One of the surprising things about being a parent is that you inherit the concerns your kids have. At least that’s the way it is for me. And in my case a whole new realm of second-hand concerns extend to matters of home ownership. My son Robert and I are just completing a little house we built together for him on a shoestring budget, and watching him face his own utility bills for the first time has shown me something you might find valuable. While it’s no surprise that electricity is expensive, it’s using electricity for any kind of heating that really hits you. Since Robert’s house sits in the middle of a forest, we installed a woodstove as part of the overall plan. He found a good used stove for $50, cleaned it up, gave it a new coat of high-temperature paint and it works as good as new. But since we were finishing the interior of the house this winter, and no one was living in the place, we relied on electricity to keep pipes from freezing when we weren’t there. That’s where the surprise came in. Robert’s place is tiny — only about 800 square feet. It’s also well insulated. And even though we heated it to less than 10∫C, his electrical bills were more than half of what I pay for a 3,000 square-foot house, plus a 1,200 square-foot workshop next door, including all the lights, cooking, washing, computer use, tool use and ventilation needed by 7 people. Why the difference? I don’t use electricity for any kind of heating in my house, just wood. While it’s surprising how a small bit of electrical heat in a tiny house racks up so much on the hydro bill, what’s more surprising is how little heat from other sources it takes to change that. When we’d work at Robert’s place, we always fired up his woodstove, and you could see electricity use drop off to almost zero on the power usage meter we installed. Using nothing more than an armload of not-sogreat firewood each day, we replaced what amounted to $5 or $6 daily needed for electricity needed just to keep his place slightly above freezing. And this wood easily warmed the place to 20C in no time. All this said, this was no ordinary stove. Woodstoves heat by convection. They warm up the air around them, then this air circulates throughout the room passively. But as we discovered, a little bit of fan action yields a whole lot more woodstove heating power. That’s one of the things a guy named Tom Tjernlund makes happen. Tom is one of the people behind the most innovative family business I know. His grandfather started it in 1938 (www.tjernlund. com; 800-255-4208), focusing on ventilation products beginning in 1973. Today the company makes more than 200 different kinds of fans that you won’t find anywhere else. Fans to boost clothes dryer air flow, fans to move warm air from one floor level to another, fans to ventilate basements and even fans to draw air out of chimneys so they don’t let smoke indoors. One of the most interesting Tjernlund fans is made to sit on a woodstove. We used one all winter on Robert’s woodstove and it made a huge difference. Using just a tiny amount of electricity, it probably increased woodstove output by 50 per cent. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that all electrical items are expensive to operate. Most are not. Widespread heating with electricity is the real culprit. The take-away for me is clear. A bit of simple, appropriate technology of the right kind can make a huge difference to the cost of maintaining a household. An old woodstove and a simple fan proves it. Steve Maxwell has been helping Canadians make the most of their homes since 1988. Visit Steve online at BaileyLineRoad.com

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This stovetop fan uses a tiny bit of electricity to boost the heat output of a woodstove. As electricity gets more expensive, firewood makes more and more sense.

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Getting the blues DEBBIE TRAVIS HOUSE TO HOME Dear Debbie: We have purchased an older home, a real fixer-upper. We will be renovating the kitchen in a few years, but for now what would you suggest we do with the drab wood cabinetry? Pat Dear Pat: A small kitchen can be instantly renovated at little cost with paint. Here is a great fix without having to replace the cabinets. Choose a colour that has a light, bright quality. This year’s colour trends show pastel shades of blue that are calm and reflective. These blues combine with whites, or more vibrant shades, to create the right mood for you. For this small apartment kitchen, I chose a robin’s egg blue, which has touches of blue and green reminiscent of a quiet sea. Colour uniformity prevents a space from looking too choppy, so I extended the sandy beige wall paint to cover the ceiling. The gentle pairing of pastel shades is enlivened by a white tile backsplash and white appliances. To make an ordinary tile look special I applied turquoise grout that links to the cabinetry and adds a neat design detail. To give the cabinets a professional finish, take the time to remove all the doors and hardware. Repair any holes or cracks with wood filler. Sand smooth. If the cabinets have a coat of varnish, sand to rough up the surface, and then apply a high hide paint primer designed for slippery surfaces. Allow the primer to dry completely before painting. The glossier the paint sheen you apply, the easier it is to clean the surface. For a busy kitchen, semi-gloss is the most practical, but I used a low luster paint and was happy with the results. The painted surface does wipe clean easily and the low luster adds a feeling of space. The original vinyl kitchen floor was in very poor shape, so I replaced it with a rubber floor. Associated more with commercial use in hospitals and gymnasiums, a rubber floor is very comfortable underfoot, non-slip, hygienic, and extremely durable. It is available in a range of shades and textures, but smooth is best for the kitchen. This floor has the look of slate but is less costly, and more forgiving in a kitchen. Dear Debbie: I remember seeing an episode of one of your decorating shows where you created a collage of

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LEFT: Dated cabinets feel heavy and drab in this uninspiring kitchen. RIGHT: Robin’s egg blue lifts and freshens the mood. pictures and flowers to update the top of a coffee table. What did you apply over the pictures so that they stayed in place? It was a clear liquid. Thanks for your clever ideas. —Tara Dear Tara: The product you are describing is epoxy varnish. It is a pouron epoxy finish that is equal to 60 coats of regular varnish. Itís popular for commercial spaces, such as restau-

rant bar counters. Epoxy varnish is also used in art and craft projects to embed pictures, theatre, plane and train tickets, flower petals and other memorabilia that you choose to display on your table top. It can be applied to trays, ceramics, oil paint and most other materials, to produce a smooth, high gloss finish that is waterproof and durable. Check your hardware store, art

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CLARK It is with very deep sadness that the family of Judith Ann (Judi) Clark (Toivanen) announces her sudden passing on Tuesday, March 15, 2016. A funeral will be held in Drumheller on March 19, 2016 at the Stampede Barn at 2:00 p.m. A Memorial Service will be held in Red Deer at a later date. Further details will follow as arrangements are made, so that many of Judi’s friends from Red Deer will be able to pay their last respects.

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TARVES Blair 1925 - 2016 Mr. Blair Dalton Wesley Tarves of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away at his home on Friday, March 4, 2016 at the age of 90 years. Blair was born on July 24, 1925 at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He has been a long time resident of the Michener Centre and will be dearly missed by his caregivers and many friends. Cremation entrusted to the Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, Red Deer, Alberta. 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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Brent (Nev) NEVILLE Oct. 5, 1984 - Mar. 17, 2006 It’s been 10 years since Brent’s life and future was stolen. Every day in some small way memories of Brent come our way. Though absent, Brent, you are always near, still missed, loved and forever dear. A part of us died with Brent on that dark Friday morning. Our hearts will bleed forever. On March 17th, 2006 (his Mom’s birthday) Brent was killed by an impaired driver in Calgary. Brent was 21. Brent’s death put our family into a spiral of grief that countless other victims’ families can relate to. For all the families suffering the loss of someone you love, you don’t get over it; you just get through it. You don’t get by it, because you can’t get around it. It doesn’t “get better”; it just gets different. For those who understand, No explanation is needed, for those who do not understand, No explanation is possible. For those who knew Brent “Take a Moment” to reflect on his memory and who he might be today. In time we found the strength to put one foot in front of the other and keep going forward knowing that we will one day meet again and always “Keep the Faith”! The Neville family has created a registered charity for Brent to keep his memory alive and to make sure his short life is not in vain. Nev Foundation has a “NEV SUITE” to honour Brent at the Ronald McDonald House Central Alberta, Brent’s charity supports MADD Canada programs and Educational Scholarships. www.nevfoundation.com. Mom, Dad, Shelley, Ryan, extended family & friends.

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WEGNER-CRAMER Dawson 1992 - 2016 Dawson James ‘D.J.’ Wegner-Cramer of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away suddenly on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at the age of 23 years. D.J. will be deeply and sadly missed but lovingly remembered forever in the hearts of his loving family and many dear friends. D.J. leaves to mourn his parents, John and Lynn Cramer; his brother, Brandon WegnerCramer (Ashley Dixon) and their child, Kratos, brother, Curtis Cramer; and his grandparents; Paula Cramer, Margaret Simonson, Lea Wegner and Jim Klone. He will also be sadly missed by his aunts and uncles; Jim and Willa Cramer, Lorinda Dykstra and Murray Bartlett, Gene and Lisa Willms and Sean and Paige Willms; as well as numerous cousins and dear friends. D.J. was predeceased by his grandfathers; Gordon Wegner and Joseph Cramer. A Celebration of D.J.’s Life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. 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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BAJEMA James It is with great sadness, we announce the sudden passing of James Bajema. Our dear husband, father and grandfather went to his heavenly home on March 16, 2016 at the age of 74 years. James and Janet were married in 1968, resided in Calgary for 10 years, during which time he worked at Standard General. He moved his family back to Lacombe and began his 29 dedicated years with Border Paving in Red Deer. He retired at the age of 65. James and Janet enjoyed their retirement traveling, golfing and spending time with their children, grand children, friends and family. James leaves to mourn his wife, Janet (Salomons); his sons Darren and Laura Olson (Jordyn, Myah, Joshua, Elijah), Brian and Elaine (Colsen, Kaysey, Kyler), his daughter Christine and Joe Letourneau - (Lucas, Carly); brothers Gerald and Shirley, Robert and Mary, Edward and Janice; sisters Evelyn and Paul, Rita (Bruce), Marion and John, Rose and Dave; many nephews, nieces and extended family. Funeral service will be held at Woodynook Christian Reformed Church on Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 1:00 pm. If friends desire, memorial contributions may be made to the Lacombe Christian School or Central Alberta Christian High School. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca. WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM, of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements. 403-782-3366 403-843-3388 “A Caring Family, Caring For Families” For 40 years

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Misc. for Sale

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100 VHS movies, $75. For All 403-885-5020

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Misc. for Sale

ELECTRIC heater, $15. 403-885-5020

15” TV working order $20 obo, 30 Peacock feathers, some white, $1/ea, 6 large Currier & Ives cookie cans $ .50/ea. 403-346-2231 2 electric lamps $20 403-885-5020

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Travel Packages

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BLOW OUT SALE, die cast models, cars, trucks, and motorcycles, biker gifts, replica guns, Wanted tin signs, framed pictures, clocks, fairies, and dragons. To Buy Two stores to serve you WANTED Laminate wood better, Man Cave and (Golden Select), honey Gold Eagle, entrance 2, oak, one package (23 sq. Parkland Mall. ft.) new or used. Phone Rene 403-346-5132

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

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Houses/ Duplexes

1/2 DUPLEX, 2 bdrm. c/w stove/fridge, no pets, n/s, Adult bldg. $800 + utils., $800 s.d., 403-348-0241 4 BDRM. house on Kingston Drive, $1400/mo. Ron @ 403-304-2255 4 BDRMS, 21/2 baths, single car garage, 5 appls, $1695/mo. in Red Deer. 403-782-7156 403-357-7465

For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday SYLVAN: 2 fully furn. rentals, incld’s all utils., ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK $550 - $1300. 403-880-0210 CLEARVIEW RIDGE Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much! CLEARVIEW TIMBERSTONE Condos/ LANCASTER Townhouses VANIER 2 BDRM. Sylvan Lake WOODLEA/ Shore Dr. balcony, fireplace, n/s, no pets, WASKASOO $1000/mo., 403-350-4230 DEER PARK 3 BDRM. townhouse in GRANDVIEW Lacombe, 11/2 baths, single car garage, $1495/mo., EASTVIEW 403-782-7156 / 403-357-7465 MICHENER MOUNTVIEW ROSEDALE GARDEN HEIGHTS MORRISROE

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

BY OWNER OPEN HOUSE SUN. Mar. 20, 1-4. 55 Visser St. 1200 sq. ft., 4 bdrm. Bungalow, 3 bath, pet free, $385,000 403-347-9783 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

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wheels

Warehouse Space

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SUV's

309-3300 CLASSIFIEDS

30 x 50 heated shop Penhold $900/mo. 403-886-5342 357-7817

Storage Space

Out Of Red Deer

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OPEN HOUSE Mar 20, SUN - 1 - 5 49 VINTAGE CLOSE BLACKFALDS SERGE’S BUILT

10’ X 26’ INDOOR space $175/mo, 403-348-0241

Mobile Lot

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

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2011 DODGE Caliber, only 56,000 km, exc. con., $8,900. 403-406-7600

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Trucks

2006 FORD 350 Lariet PADS $450/mo. Brand new park in Lacombe. 4x4, diesel, crew cab, topper, 403-887-4670 Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000. 1997 FORD F-150 in exc. Down payment $4000. Call cond. 403-352-6995 at anytime. 403-588-8820

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Vans Buses

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Contractors

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BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

QUALITY taping, drywall and reno’s. 403-350-6737

For CENTRAL ALBERTA LIFE 1 day a week INNISFAIL PENHOLD LACOMBE SYLVAN LAKE OLDS BLACKFALDS PONOKA STETTLER

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Flooring

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Eavestroughing

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VELOX EAVESTROUGH Cleaning & Repairs. Reasonable rates. 340-9368

Electrical

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COSBY ELECTRIC LTD. All Electrical Services. 403-597-3288

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Entertainment

DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606

Painters/ Decorators

2009 Grand Caravan, exc. cond, extra set winter tires, DVD, extras, $12,500 obo 403-505-5789

Motorcycles

5080

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NEED FLOORING DONE? JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. Don’t pay the shops more. Free Est. 403-872-8888 Over 20 yrs. exp. LAUREL TRUDGEON Call Jon 403-848-0393 2013 HONDA PCX 150CC Residential Painting and scooter, show room cond., Colour Consultations. 1,700 km, $2,000. Handyman 403-342-7801. 403-346-9274 Services

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BOOK NOW! For help on your home projects such as bathroom, main floor, and bsmt. renovations. Also painting and flooring. Call James 403-341-0617

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

CARRIERS NEEDED

MORRISROE MANOR

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

COUNTERTOP replacement. Kitchen reno’s. Wes 403-302-1648

Call Joanne at 403- 314-4308

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services

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

For early morning delivery by 6:30 am Mon. - Sat. SPRINGBROOK VANIER

homes

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ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED

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