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Residents step up to support victims BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Bashaw residents are rallying around a local family whose hotel was destroyed in a weekend fire. By Tuesday afternoon, a GoFundMe. com campaign had raised more than $7,000 towards its $10,000 goal. “That was really wonderful to see,” said Jackie Northey, who organized the fundraising drive to help the Tiwana family, who lived in the hotel they owned. “They’ve lost their home and their business so we’re just stepping up to do what we can to support them,” said Northey.
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By Tuesday afternoon, a GoFundMe.com campaign for a family whose hotel was destroyed in a weekend fire had raised more than $7,000 towards its $10,000 goal.
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Security beefed up at council meetings after disturbance BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF A security officer at city hall will now patrol council meetings following a brief disturbance at city council’s meeting on Sept. 26. A commissionaire popped in and out of Tuesday’s council meeting and
also stayed for a portion of meeting. Security was reviewed after a man who was angry about his taxes disrupted council’s meeting before leaving an envelope near one of the councillors and walking out of the chamber followed by city manager Craig Curtis and Coun. Buck Buchanan. Curtis said there has been no increase in security staff.
“We asked the security from downstairs to patrol here from time to time,” Curtis said on Tuesday. He said every year security adjustments are made and a security plan that looks at city facilities will be part of capital budget discussions. Mayor Tara Veer said corporate security measures were in place before Sept. 26 and were put to use at that
meeting. “Of course there are some areas where we can further enhance (security) and having the commissionaires present in council chambers was one of them,” Veer said.
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City crews mobilized to deal with early snowfall BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF
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Winter driving conditions over Thanksgiving weekend saw the City of Red Deer’s snow and ice control program kick into action several weeks earlier than normal. Greg Sikora, public works manager, said Tuesday the snow that began on Friday was at least 20 days earlier than it has been in a few years. But
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City lobbies feds, province for courthouse BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer reminded the province that the city still needs answers about Michener lands, infrastructure funding and when the city will get a new courthouse. City council met with both Minister of Infrastructure Brian Mason and his federal counterpart at last week’s Alberta Urban Municipalities Association conference in Edmonton. Mayor Tara Veer said the city wants “timely answers” that can be passed on to the community, and to allow the city to prepare for its upcoming capital and operating-budget meetings. “We identified specifically the need for an answer on the courthouse. We know that it’s identified in the provincial capital plan, but it’s unfunded,” said Veer after Tuesday’s city council meeting. Recent funding announcements of $120 billion over 10 years from the federal government will result in municipalities receiving funds through an agreement between the federal and provincial governments. At the AUMA conference, Red Deer put forward a resolution for tri-lateral agreements between municipal, provincial and federal governments to ensure municipal priorities are part of the funding conversation when the agreements are built and criteria is developed. Veer said at the very least municipalities have to be consulted at the front end of negotiations on agreements between the federal and provincial governments. “By the time it reaches a municipality of our size, it’s been filtered through two orders of government and it puts challenges on us in terms of us being able to leverage those dollars for local priorities.” She said the city’s tri-lateral resolution was adopted by the AUMA. The city also advocated for infrastructure needs including north highway connector funding, high speed rail, polytechnic university status for Red Deer College and clarification on the province’s intention for the Michener grounds. “We recognize the historical, environmental, social and cultural significance of that site. We had commitments from the province that we would be undertaking a joint planning exercise with the provincial government.” Other Red Deer resolutions adopted by the AUMA included: ● Advocating to continue the auxiliary constable program. Auxiliary members are trained to mitigate risks and work alongside the RCMP. Earlier this year changes to the program put a halt to all ride-alongs and firearms training for auxiliary constables. More changes are proposed to remove their peace officer status and have them focus on non-enforcement duties like attending community events and assisting in training. ● Advocating that all municipalities be equally responsible for the costs of policing in their municipality. A municipality with more than 5,000 residents is responsible to pay 90 per cent of policing costs with 10 per cent subsidization from the province, but municipalities with a population under 5,000 do not pay for policing. ● Asking the province to establish provincial standards for vehicle noise to define an objectionable noise, establish a consistent method of determining or measuring noise, and allow for stronger enforcement of the use or operation of a vehicle that emits a noise above an established and regulated level. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com
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Work is taking off at the site of the new Asooahum Crossing in Red Deer. Framers are installing roof joists this week to the second floor of the buildings. The Red Deer Native Friendship society will be based out of the building.
City administration to look at request to build temporary parking lot BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF City council asked administration to explore more options to deal with a request to build a temporary 20-stall commercial parking lot on a residential street in Riverside Meadows. The proposal went before council on Tuesday for a site exception because a parking lot was not a use listed for the district, nor was it consistent with the long-term vision or the land use designation of Riverside Meadows Area Redevelopment Plan or Riverside Meadows Community Plan & Residential Design Criteria. In a letter to the planning department, Riverside Meadows Community Association said it was opposed to a parking lot at 5917 51st Ave. Council heard that in June the applicant got a permit to demolish and remove a single-family dwelling and detached garage at the site and construction began on a parking lot without the proper permits or approvals. A stop work order was issued June 24. Currently the site is fenced to prevent its use. The applicant, who owns the nearby Occu-Dent Professional Centre, wants to eventually build a 12-suite residential building with two levels of secured parking with the intention of making some parking spaces available to staff at Occu-Dent. Developing a parking lot on the site for up to five years would provide temporary parking for staff at Occu-Dent. Occu-Dent currently has 36 parking stalls that include 20 stalls for customers which is not a city requirement, but rather the choice of the landowner. The owner said more parking is needed for the more than 50 staff at the centre that attracts about
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City council asked administration to explore more options to deal with a request to build a temporary 20-stall commercial parking lot on a residential street in Riverside Meadows. 100 customers each day. The city’s planning department recommended city council defeat the proposed amendment of the Land Use Bylaw to allow the parking lot at first reading. City planners said a parking lot is not a suitable use for the middle of residential block. Additional noise, lighting and traffic would impact residents. Additional parking was also not a city requirement for Occu-Dent. The number of parking spaces is consistent with the Land Use Bylaw requirements. Instead of defeating the amendment, council unanimously requested the issue be tabled for up to four weeks to look at more options. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com
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Police investigating rash of vehicle break-ins in Lacombe Lacombe police are investigating a rash of vehicle break-ins on the weekend. Police said that within a 24-hour period from Oct. 9-10, seven thefts from motor vehicles were reported. Thieves smashed out windows to get at belongings inside. Police are asking residents in all areas of the city to be extra vigilant and to report any suspicious people or unusual activity. Residents should ensure that vehicle doors are locked and wallets, purses, cellphones, sunglasses, spare change, and any other items of value are removed. While windows were smashed on the weekend, usually unlocked doors are how belongings get stolen, said police. Anyone with any information on these recent thefts should call the Lacombe Police Service at 403-782-3279 or if they witness what appears to be a crime in progress, they should call 911.
Pickup collides with roundabout, rolls in fog A driver was lucky to escape serious injuries when his pickup hit the centre of the Sylvan Lake roundabout and rolled in thick fog on Tuesday morning. Advocate driver Brant Perry was returning from delivering newspapers in the Rimbey area when he saw the collision unfold about 9 a.m. Roads were frost-covered and the fog was dense when the driver of the westbound pickup apparently didn’t realize the roundabout was ahead and went straight through. “He just appeared and hit the rocks in the centre. He couldn’t stop. There were ice crystals on the road and he just flipped when he hit the rocks,” said Perry. “There was no way you could see the circle. I just know the circle was there, that’s why I slowed down and stopped.” Perry jumped out of his vehicle to help. Fortunately, the driver was wearing his seatbelt and his air bags deployed, saving him from serious injuries. The truck was carrying several barrels of chemicals of some kind, which the fire department cleaned up. Sylvan Lake RCMP continue to investigate.
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Canadian Ski Patrol Red Deer Zone is looking for volunteers for the upcoming season. A new recruit information session is being held on Wednesday and Thursday at Firemaster Oilfield Services (4728 78A Street Close). “The more coverage we can provide at the ski hills allows us to respond quicker. If we know there is an incident on one side of the hill, chances are, if we have more people on the hill, we’ll have someone who’s closer to that incident opposed to having to send somebody across the hill,” said Hannah Tulloch, Canadian Ski Patroller. Volunteers will be responsible for advanced first aid and snow patrol at Valley Ski Hill, Canyon Ski Resort and Medicine Lodge Ski Hill. For more information visit www.skipatrol.ca/ reddeer or email skipatrol.rd@gmail.com
Retired social studies teacher leading tour of European battlegrounds Lacombe’s Corvin Uhrbach will be leading European battleground tours for the second year in a row. The retired social studies teacher and member of the Lacombe Royal Canadian Legion received such good feedback from the community members who toured sites in Northern France, Belgium and Netherlands with him in 2015 at he’s doing it again. The Lacombe Legion is sponsoring another European Battlefield Trip from April 28 to May 6. Highlights will include tours of Rhineland, Ypres, Flanders, Menin Gate, Arras, Vimy Ridge, Caen, and Juno Beach. To break up the battle site tours, the group will also be spending two days in Paris and a day in Amsterdam. “We’ll be touring and shopping in the cities,” said Uhrbach, who has plenty of experience as a tour guide. The former teacher used to take high school students to these sites. Now that the Lacombe Legion is offering these tours for its own members as well as members of the community, he believes it’s a great way for any adult (over 18 years) who is interested in war history to get a personal overview. The registration deadline is Dec. 31. For more information, please call Uhrbach at 403-357-0377.
Tickets still available for some Festival of Trees events Tickets for Mistletoe Magic sold out in six minutes while the Festival of Wines sold out in just over two days. But Festival of Trees project officer Alaine Martin said there are still a lot of tickets left for other events. “We’re pretty happy,” she said. “I think the ones that are selling a little slower is an indication of our economy based on who typically buys those tickets. Some families are probably watching and being careful with how they spend their money, but we are still hoping it ends up in strong sales.” Martin said tickets for Breakfast of Santa are also going fast. The Festival of Trees runs from Nov. 24 to 27 at Westerner Park. Tickets went on sale for all events on Oct. 3. Money raised from the 2016 Festival of Trees will go to enhance client care and services in the Medical Specialty Clinic at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre. For more information visit www. reddeerfestivaloftrees.ca.
Olds College has received a global award for entrepreneurship. The college was recently awarded a silver Award of Excellence of Entrepreneurship from the World Federation of Colleges and Polytechnic Schools. The award recognizes institutions that demonstrate excellence in integrating A couple of meetings to discuss rural crime in entrepreneurship into academic curriculum and/or Central Alberta are scheduled this month. implements innovative entrepreneurial activities. A Zone 2 Rural Crime Watch meeting will be held “At Olds College we work hard to create a in Lacombe at the Lacombe Memorial Centre on Oct. culture of innovation, as a result entrepreneurship 29 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. is embedded into everything we do,” said Tom Included on the guest list are Red Deer/Lacombe Thompson, Olds College president. “We take Rural Crime Watch president Becky Wylie Jardine, pride in being a leader in entrepreneurship and Lacombe Mayor Steve Christie, Red Deer County are honoured to be recognized by the WFCP. Innovations lives in here.” Olds College provides students with support in starting their own business through assistance in business planning, access to commercialization expertise via the Central Alberta Regional Innovation Network and the ATREK business incubator, a fund created to provided grants up to $5,000 for access to Olds College expertise, facilities and equipment. Olds College was awarded the 2014 Gold Award of Excellence by the World Federation of Colleges and Polytechnics in the category of Governance for their approach to policy GREAT THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU GO NORTH governance and shared leadership.
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Mayor Jim Wood, Lacombe County Reeve Paula Law, MP for Red Deer-Lacombe Blaine Calkins, as well as others. Rural crime has been a growing concern in Central Alberta. Crime watch groups focus their work towards crime prevention, such as getting to know neighbours, reporting suspicious activity to police and other measures such as marking possessions. Delburne residents and the surrounding community have been looking at forming their own rural crime watch group. There will be a meeting on Oct. 19, at 7 p.m. at the Delburne Community Hall to discuss the idea.
Red Deerians reminded to replace smoke alarms Red Deer Emergency Services wants to remind residents to replace smoke alarms. Fire Prevention Week runs from Oct. 9 to 15 and aims to make citizens more aware of fire prevention practices. The theme of this year’s campaign, “Don’t Wait – Check the Date! Replace Smoke Alarms Every 10 Years,” serves as an important safety reminder. “Having working smoke alarms in your home reduces the risk of dying in a fire in half,” said Shane Dussault, Fire Prevention Officer. “As with all electronic devices, smoke alarms wear out, and are designed to have a 10 year life.” Fire Prevention Week was established to remember the destructive Chicago fire on October 9, 1871 that killed more than 250 people and left 100,000 homeless. Fire Prevention Week was officially proclaimed in Canada in 1919 to commemorate the Chicago blaze, as well as the major fire that destroyed the Centre Block of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa on February 3, 1916.
Kurt Browning to help Westerner Park celebrate its 125th anniversary Figure skating champion Kurt Browning will be returning to his Central Alberta roots in December to help Westerner Park in Red Deer celebrate its 125th anniversary. Browning, who was raised in Caroline, was a Canadian figure skating champion and world champion four times. He also competed in 1988, 1992, and 1994 Winter Olympics. Browning will appear in Holiday Festival on Ice at the Centrium on Dec. 2 at 8 p.m. As well, a meet and greet experience is available, with a limit of 100 tickets to have dessert with Browning and friends after the show. Tickets go on sale on Friday at 10 a.m. They can be purchased at ticketmaster.ca or by phone by calling 1-855-985-5000.
Kerry Wood Nature Centre hosting pumpkin carving contest Red Deerians will have the chance to show off their pumpkin carving skills on Oct. 23. The Kerry Wood Nature Centre is hosting a pumpkin carving contest for a chance to win some exciting prizes. Attendees can bring their own small carving hand tools, but there will be carving tools provided. Paint and markers will also be provided to young children. The event runs from 1 to 4 p.m. Call 403346-2010 for more information.
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Cost of tax should be trivial, annoying at most PAUL WELLS OPINION Thanks to everyone for all the kind notes after my column about Lisa Raitt’s friend, Marie, who is worried she will have to pull one of her kids out of hockey next year because Justin Trudeau wants to start imposing a carbon tax a year later. Perhaps Marie can send the kid to math camp, just to be on the safe side. Let us think about all of this some more. This is not the first time the Conservatives have sought to make innumeracy their ally in the fight against doing anything at all to reduce carbon emissions. In the 2008 election campaign, Conservative campaign workers dropped flyers at doorsteps across Canada with a photo of Stéphane Dion and the words, “This man will cost you money.” The flyer quoted Peter A. Nelson, executive director of the Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association.
“The average consumer” would pay for Dion’s proposed carbon tax, Peter A. Nelson said, “by paying $8 for a head of lettuce at your local grocery store.” That would be a heck of a trick. It’s hard to quadruple the price of lettuce by tweaking an input cost. But Peter A. Nelson, it turned out, had a long history of predicting $8 lettuce every time he didn’t like something. A toll road in Maine. A fuel surcharge on Atlantic ferries. I’m not even making this up. The Conservative operative who found him and put his quote on the campaign literature was gleeful when he told me about discovering Peter A. Nelson. But there really will be a carbon tax, so it is fair to wonder about it. The tax won’t just increase the cost of gas – by a smidge over two cents a litre in the first year, rising to about 11 cents in the fifth. It’ll increase the cost of home heating, in places where hydro or nuclear doesn’t heat homes. The Conservatives were not lying in 2008 when they called carbon taxes “a permanent tax on everything.” If it costs money to dig most fuels up, burn them and drive around, that’s a tax that touches most human activity. But the Conservatives were vague about scale. And scale matters.
At $50 per tonne of carbon emissions after five years, the Liberal carbon tax isn’t designed to wipe out human life on this planet or send Canada hurtling backward to Robert Borden’s time. It’s designed to be trivial in most daily activity; annoying at the level of a typical household’s total annual consumption; and a nasty new burden for people, business and sectors that send a hell of a lot of carbon into the air. If the price of gas gets so high it stings, you know what to do: Use less gas. There are many ways to do this. Carpool, cutting not only your carbon-tax cost but every other cost associated with driving by half or more. Use the bicycle lanes that are proliferating in my city, Ottawa, and many others. Take transit. And, in a few years when you need a new car, pay more attention to more fuel-efficient cars. That’s kind of the point. Some readers reproached me for ignoring Marie’s home-heating costs. Unless she’s keeping her little hockey team warm at night by shovelling coal into a basement furnace, the incremental cost should be manageable. It can, indeed, almost certainly be managed by getting a home energy-efficiency checkup, and then by keeping
an eye on fuel use when buying new home equipment. Here again, once you aim for efficiency it is usually possible to way overshoot the cost of the tax that aggravated you into action in the first place. Energy efficiency often pays for itself quickly. The bill gets saltier for really big energy users. A farmer’s combine is a huge gas guzzler. He has no choice but to combine his crops. The Liberals are facing serious questions about the cost of their tax on farmers. But here again, there are highly efficient combines on the market, and their relative value just increased. This is the point of a carbon tax: It encourages choices because it is usually easy to find one’s way out of a situation where the cost is high enough to hurt. Real people, the kind whose lives extend beyond a 35-second question or a quote on a doorstep brochure, make those kinds of choices all the time. That’s the sort of thing a party that prides itself on its grasp of economics should be able to understand. Paul Wells is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.
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Society can be inspired to rise from its ashes BY ROBERT MCGARVEY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Travelling is a wonderful pick-meup. It reminds us in these turbulent times that everyone basically has the same problems. This is an anxious time. If you’re an adult, you undoubtedly worry about the future of the economy. If you’re young, you’re probably concerned about the environment or if you’ll ever afford a house. Many are nervous about phenomena like Brexit and Donald Trump, the growing sense that our governing elites are out of touch with reality. Given that misery loves company, you’ll be pleased to know that the rest of the world is struggling with many of the same anxieties. Berlin, the capital of Germany, is a wonderful city, full of history, grandeur and complexity. Naturally the Germans, being German, are suffering a particularly nasty case of this modern anxiety. Although this anxiety generally resides under the skin in German life, it’s very up-front in the arts. Consider the work of videographer Julian Rosefeldt. His latest exhibit Manifesto (showing at the Hamburger Bahnhof RED DEER
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gallery in central Berlin) is both beautiful and horrifying in its sense of impending doom. Manifesto is a selection of 13 short, very intense, art films starring actress Cate Blanchett. Blanchett is in full flight in these films, transforming into diverse figures – a radical hobo, an irritating punk rocker, a super prim elementary school teacher, an evil puppeteer and a financial broker, to name but a few. In the central role in each of these visual stunners, Blanchett’s strident monologues lay waste to the comfortable status quo, condemning capitalism, consumerism, our obsession with superficiality and just about ever other ‘ism’ imaginable. I could not take my eyes off the screen or quite believe the scope of her acting genius. I emerged from Manifesto inspired and depressed - and convinced that although our problems are more than obvious, no one seems to have the slightest idea what to do about them. The arts raise questions but don’t necessarily have answers. They are mired in feelings, obsessed with exposing humanity’s dark reality. Music is often discordant, literature can be terrified of happiness. Only the visual arts seem to be moving beyond the abstract to rediscover drawing, form and News News tips 403-314-4333 Sports line 403-343-2244 News fax 403-341-6560 Sports reporter 403-314-4338 editorial@reddeeradvocate.com
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real human emotions. But although they plumb the emotional depths of our despair, they’re neither capable of nor predisposed to advance positive futures. And what of academia? Surely they’re doing the hard slugging to enlighten us on how to save civilization. Regrettably, no. Economists exist in a theoretical universe so distant from Earth we need Star Trek-like abilities to connect with them and special telepathic powers to interpret their mystical hieroglyphics. Sociologists, psychologists and others in the humanities, when asked about positive solutions, fall back on the tired neo-romantic notion that, short of revolution, nothing can be done. They don’t have positive solutions; their job is to catalogue the systemic forces of evil and champion the oppressed. Meanwhile, the downward drift and the sense of loss grow stronger every day. But perhaps there are some lessons in the back pages of our cultural life that provide guidance. Look deeply enough and you’ll discover that every age has been anxious. All these periods of grief share a set of exhausted ideas, a commonly-held be-
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lief system that had reached the end of its useful life. Hope was only renewed when a new belief system overthrew the old. Real progress was possible only when a more relevant set of governing ideas emerged. Our world accepts as fact that the majority culture oppresses the rest. Colonialism in the political realm, and economic and cultural bias have created misery. Women, minorities, gays, transgendered individuals and native peoples are crippled victims of oppression. But none of this contributes to a positive future. Particularism and the cult of victimhood separate individuals, cultures and peoples, rather than uniting them in common purpose. If history is any guide, we need a new intellectual frame to take full advantage of the astonishing good will, talent, capital and brilliance that exists in the modern world. If we share problems, we can certainly share solutions. The battles we need to fight must be based on the worthy cause of new ideas, for only they will provide a pathway to glory. Troy Media columnist Robert McGarvey is an economic historian and former Managing Director of Merlin Consulting, a London, U.K.-based consulting firm.
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Snow brings harvest to standstill BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
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REGINA — Fields are saturated, combines have come to a halt and harvest is at a standstill across Saskatchewan and in southern Alberta because of snow. Murray Taks farms near Crossfield, Alta., northeast of Calgary, and says he recently got about five to 7.5 centimetres of snow, which came after rain. He hasn’t been out in the field for at least 10 days, he says, and even then it was only for a couple of hours. “We’re way behind. I think last year, on today, we were just finishing up,� Taks said Tuesday. Taks added that he got half of about 2,400 hectares of crop off — mostly wheat and barley, but his canola is still out and it’s wet.
Some neighbours aren’t even that far along, he said. “I just got a bad feeling that a lot of crop in this area is going to lay out. I’ve never seen so much crop at this time of year either standing or, there’s places you go by, there hasn’t even been a combine in some fields,� said Taks, who has farmed for 45 years. “I don’t know how it’s going to all turn about really, unless we get a real weather change.� But Taks said the long range forecast is not good and that’s what concerns him most right now. The Alberta government crop report said that, as of Oct. 4, harvest was up to 69 per cent complete “before wet weather again enveloped the prov-
First-degree murder charge stayed after lengthy delay for trial BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A judge has stayed a first-degree murder charge after it took the case more than five years to get to trial in Edmonton. A jury trial was to begin next week for 29-year-old Lance Matthew Regan. Regan was accused of stabbing to death fellow inmate Mason Tex Montgrand at Edmonton Institution in August 2011. An Alberta Justice spokesman says the charge was stayed on Friday because of the long delay. He could provide no further comment, saying the Crown has yet to decide whether to appeal. Alberta Justice could not immediately provide The Canadian Press with a copy of Friday’s ruling. Global News got the ruling and reported Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Stephen Hillier said that the delay violated Regan’s constitutional right to be tried within a “reasonable time.�
The judge cited a potentially groundbreaking ruling by the Supreme Court in July that set out a new framework for determining whether a criminal trial has been unreasonably delayed, Global reported. In setting aside drug convictions in British Columbia for Barrett Richard Jordan, the top court said the old way of determining whether a person’s right to a timely trial had been infringed was too complex and unpredictable. Under the new framework, the Supreme Court said an unreasonable delay should be found in cases that take 18 months in provincial court or 30 months in a superior court to get to trial from the time an accused is charged. The Supreme Court said the Crown could challenge a delay under “exceptional circumstances.� But Global reported that Hillier, in staying the murder charge against Regan, found that his case did not qualify as exceptional.
Faculty group speaks out against prof’s suspension BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LETHBRIDGE — The University of Lethbridge’s faculty association is speaking out against the suspension of a professor whose online comments about the Holocaust and Israel have angered Jewish groups. Association president Andrea Amelinckx says the move violates provincial law and contravenes the contract between faculty and the university. She says the contract sets out a process for investigating complaints in a fair, speedy and thorough fashion. Jewish groups like B’nai Brith Canada and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs have commended the suspension of Anthony Hall, a tenured professor in liberal education and globalization studies. The groups have cited online videos in which the professor suggests the events of the Holocaust should be
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open for debate and that there was a Zionist connection to the 9-11 attacks. The university said in a statement last week that Hall has been suspended without pay pending an internal review into possible violations of the Alberta Human Rights Act. “The University of Lethbridge Faculty Association does not condone violations of the Alberta Human Rights Act in any form. We also protest the actions on the part of president (Michael) Mahon and the board in violation of the Post Secondary Learning Act,� Amelinckx said in an emailed statement Tuesday. “We call on the board of governors of the University of Lethbridge to ensure that the allegations that have been made against professor Hall are investigated with the speed and thoroughness they deserve, using the legal and contractual procedures already in place in the Post Secondary Learning Act and the contract with the Faculty Association.�
2009. “A lot of that did get combined,� she said. “It’s not under ideal conditions, of course, and a lot of that grain got taken off tough and damp, but it did get taken off.� Arlynn Kurtz, a director with Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, was helping a neighbour combine in the Stockholm area, north of Whitewood, until about a week ago. He said that since then “there hasn’t been a wheel that has turned.� Kurtz said he’s still optimistic. “I still think there’s a good chance, but the weather has to change drastically,� he said. “If we have two weeks of cloudy, overcast with some snow showers or rain showers for another two weeks, then it is going to become very doubtful.�
Calgary police shoot and kill man after going to a call where screaming heard BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Calgary police say they shot and killed a man who confronted them with a weapon at a home. Police say it happened Tuesday morning in the Sundance neighbourhood in the southern part of the city. Officers went to a home after getting a phone call in which screaming could be heard before the call was disconnected. When police arrived they found a man in his 20s on the front lawn with serious head injuries. They say a second man confronted them with a weapon in the home’s garage and an officer fired his pistol. “Officers issued directions to the man, however, he advanced around the car toward towards the officers with what it is believed to be a large edged weapon,� said Police Chief Roger Chaffin.
“Our officers and EMS attempted to provide emergency medical assistance to the 76-year-old man, however, he was declared deceased by EMS a short time later.� The other man was taken to hospital in non-life threatening condition. Chaffin said in the garage police found a vehicle running with a hose attached. Police cordoned off a large part of the street to investigate and neighbours said there appeared to be a fight at the home before police arrived. “I phoned my neighbour who lives right across the street and she said that she had just witnessed the grandson running out, all bloodied and yelling that his grandfather had just tried to, had just hit him with a hammer,� said one woman. An Alberta Justice department unit that reviews shootings that involve police has been called in to investigate.
Reserve worried after band member charged with attack BY THE CANADIAN PRESS STAND OFF — The chief and council of a southern Alberta reserve were meeting Tuesday with the mayor of Lethbridge to discuss fears of a public backlash following the arrest of one of its members for a horrific attack on a woman in the city. Blood Tribe spokesman Rick Tailfeathers said the meeting with Mayor Chris Spearman was to get a dialogue going after Lethbridge police charged a man with attempted murder last week. Police have said the woman was randomly attacked while walking to work. She was struck with a weapon then dragged into an alley and sexually assaulted. The 25-year-old was in a medically-induced coma to help control bleeding in her brain and also has extensive head injuries. Police said the scene was one of the worst they have ever come across. Denzel Dre Colton Bird, 20, also faces charges of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault with a weapon, aggravated assault and break and enter.
Bird has been identified as a resident of the reserve. The Blood Tribe issued a statement on the weekend regarding the attack. “We do not condone violence of any kind and are working hard in our community to address social issues,� said the statement. “We are also concerned about what appears to be backlash from some sectors of the Lethbridge community when the person arrested in relation to this crime was identified as being from the Blood Tribe.� The statement said there will be zero tolerance for any retaliation. Tailfeathers said some Blood Tribe members have alleged harassment but wouldn’t provide details. Tailfeathers said that the chief and council are concerned. “They don’t want to see it escalate into something that results in any kind of violence or harassment by either the Blood Tribe members or by the Lethbridge community,� he said. “The message is keep the peace.�
officer Dr. Richard Stanwick says the person has been transferred from an intensive care unit in Victoria to a hospital in Alberta. He says the male’s family has not released his name or age but wants others to know they too could be poisoned from eating so-called death caps. Stanwick says the male and a companion were picking mushrooms on Oct. 3 when he ate one of them.
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ince.� A similar situation has sprouted in neighbouring Saskatchewan. Daphne Cruise, a crop specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture, said farmers have not been able to get into their fields for about a week because of rain that turned to snow. And it’ll likely take another week or more before they can go back. “So that puts us into probably the end of October before, I think, most of our guys are going to be back in the field, if the weather co-operates,� Cruise said. Saskatchewan Agriculture reports that 80 per cent of crops had been combined as of Oct. 3, down from the fiveyear average of 86 per cent. Cruise said it’s not a first to harvest late into fall. About 20 per cent of crops was still in the fields on Nov. 1,
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General fined for accidental gunshot BY THE CANADIAN PRESS GATINEAU, Que. — Canada’s top special forces soldier has been fined $2,000 after accidentally firing his weapon near another military officer last year. A military judge handed down the punishment after Maj.-Gen. Mike Rouleau pleaded guilty at a court martial on Tuesday to one count of conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline. The case stemmed from an incident in northern Iraq last December, where 170 Canadian special forces are training Kurdish forces in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. According to a statement of facts
read during the court martial, Rouleau and another officer were getting ready to visit a forward operating base after presenting several soldiers with medals when his rifle fired one round. The bullet hit the ground less than two feet from the other officer. One of his s u b o r d i n a t e s MIKE ROULEAU had earlier warned Rouleau that the rifle was loaded, according to the
statement. After the shot was fired, Rouleau expressed surprise, saying: “I can’t believe that just happened.” A few minutes later, according to the statement, Rouleau told several soldiers: “Fellas, that was totally me, and I’ll be sure to present myself to the CDS,” referring to chief of the defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance. During the trial, prosecutor Maj. Chavi Walsh said Rouleau could have faced a maximum punishment of dismissal from the military with disgrace. He noted Rouleau, as a senior commander, had a responsibility to act as an example for his troops and hold himself to a higher standard. But Walsh said he and Rouleau’s defence lawyer, Maj. Luc Boutin, had agreed that a $2,000 fine sent a sufficiently strong message about the prop-
er handling of weapons. It was also in line with the punishments handed out in a number of similar cases, he said. During sentencing, Judge Lt.-Col. Louis-Vincent d’Auteuil said Rouleau’s experience and position as a senior officer were aggravating factors. But he also said Rouleau was quick to report the incident and that he looked favourably upon Rouleau’s reputation as a leader as well as his unblemished record. In a statement released Tuesday evening, Vance said the ruling “not only reaffirms the value in having a strong justice system, but also the requirement to hold everyone in the Canadian Armed Forces accountable for their actions.”
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Court shuts down bid to deport Jaballah BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — An appeal court has rejected the federal government’s latest legal salvo in a long-standing bid to deport a Toronto man over alleged terrorist ties. In a new ruling, the Federal Court of Appeal says there are no grounds to contest a judge’s decision to strike down a national security certificate against Egyptian-born Mahmoud Jaballah. “The apMAHMOUD JABALLAH peal cannot proceed and I would order that the court file be closed,” Justice Johanne Gauthier wrote on behalf of a unanimous court. As a result, Jaballah, 54, is a step closer to remaining in Canada permanently. The government alleges the former teacher is a member of terrorist group al-Jihad, an accusation he denies. It has been trying to deport him through a security certificate — a tool for removing suspected terrorists and spies from abroad — but the case has plodded through the legal system for 17 years. Security certificates were long the government’s tool of choice for dealing with foreign-born terror suspects, but it has proven very difficult to deport several individuals and other cases have fallen apart in court. Many civil libertarians say certificates are an affront to justice because the subject is given only an unclassified summary of the case — unlike a criminal trial in which there must be full disclosure. However, a special security-cleared lawyer is appointed to protect the interests of the person named in the certificate. The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the process as constitutional. There was no immediate word on whether the government would appeal the latest ruling. Jaballah arrived with his family in Canada in 1996 using a false Saudi passport. He sought refugee status on the basis he was wanted by Egyptian authorities on charges of inciting violence and that he would be killed if sent back. A Canadian Security Intelligence Service investigation led to the first of three security certificates being issued against him, the most recent dating from early 2008.
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A washed out road and damaged guard rail is shown in Sydney, N.S., Tuesday. Thousands were still without power in Nova Scotia and some communities in Newfoundland and Labrador were under a state of emergency Tuesday after torrential rain and strong winds blasted the region.
Focus housing money on poor, aboriginals: advocacy group BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal government is under quiet, but growing pressure to focus housing spending on the neediest, instead of forging ahead with a national plan aimed at the entire housing spectrum. The lobbying comes as the government works towards a national housing strategy that will map a path forward on everything from homeless shelters to the housing market and decide the fate of billions in federal funds earmarked for social infrastructure, such as affordable housing. The latest push came Tuesday, when the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association argued in a public submission that particular attention needs to be paid to urban aboriginals and youth, who face higher poverty rates, and to the North, where housing and repair costs are higher than in the rest of the country. The group argues there is a need to focus on affordability in the rental market and not just on reducing housing prices as part of a targeted approach to help those who face extra barriers to break the cycle of poverty.
‘WE NEED TO FOCUS AS PART OF THE STRATEGY ON THOSE CANADIANS FOR WHOM THE NON-PROFIT, THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING SECTOR, THE SOCIAL HOUSING SECTOR, IS REALLY THEIR ONLY OPTION.’ — JEFF MORRISON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CANADIAN HOUSING AND RENEWAL ASSOCIATION
“The fact is that there are a lot of Canadians for whom house prices simply don’t mean anything, because that’s just completely out of reach,” association executive director Jeff Morrison said. “We need to focus as part of the strategy on those Canadians for whom the non-profit, the affordable housing sector, the social housing sector, is really their only option.” A spokesman for Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said the government believes it’s important to cover the full spectrum of housing to have a strategy that meets the needs of all. Mathieu Filion said the goal is to ensure all Canadians have access to affordable housing that meets their needs. “We think that looking at all the aspects of housing under this strategy is the best way to address housing issues for all Canadians,” Filion said.
“It will meet the needs of all Canadians. And it must improve the lives of those in greatest need. The (strategy) will provide a vision, outcomes and priorities to help guide housing investments and policy responses in the future.” The Liberals have made housing strategy a key policy of their term that would form the backbone of their efforts to reduce poverty and bring down the cost of home ownership and rents. The national strategy is expected to be released by early 2017 at the latest. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., which is overseeing work on the plan, has tried to temper expectations about the amount of funding the government will make available, even before Canada’s big-city mayors asked the Liberals to set aside $12.6 billion in the coming decade to help build thousands of affordable housing units.
Student loan program mistakenly forgives loans to doctors, nurses BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal government is keeping closer tabs on a student loan program targeting doctors and nurses after many of them had loans mistakenly forgiven over the past two years. The federal government launched the doctors and nurses loan forgiveness program in 2013 to act as an incentive for medical school graduates to practice in underserved areas of the country, or communities that had a hard time attracting family doctors. But documents show 30 of them should never have received the help during the program’s first two years of existence. Documents from Employment and Social Development Canada, which oversees the student loans program, show the mistake was first noticed in September 2015 when provincial officials in Saskatchewan alerted their federal counterparts. The Saskatchewan government set up its own loan forgiveness pro-
gram for nurses the same year the federal program launched. The documents suggest the private company contracted to administer both programs, DH Corporation (also known as D+H), made the errors that saw about $113,000 in loans mistakenly forgiven. A March briefing note to Labour Minister MaryAnn Mihychuk, a copy of which The Canadian Press obtained under the Access to Information Act, shows that between February and August of this year ESDC officials verified every decision by D+H to forgive a loan during system upgrades. The briefing note says all 30 loan recipients were told they didn’t have to pay back any of the money, but warned they wouldn’t be eligible to have more of their loans written off unless they work in eligible communities. ESDC didn’t say precisely how the error happened. A spokeswoman said errors could occur when workers enter postal codes into the system that are used to verify the doctor or nurse is in an underserved rural or remote community and eligible to have their student loan forgiven.
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Trump unleashes fury on own party BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The “shackles” gone, Donald Trump stepped up his fierce attacks on his own party leaders Tuesday, promising to teach Republicans who oppose him a lesson and fight for the presidency “the way I want to.” “I’m just tired of non-support” from leaders of the party he represents on the presidential ticket, Trump said Tuesday evening on Fox News Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor. He saved special ire for House Speaker Paul Ryan, who told Republicans Monday he’ll no longer campaign for Trump with four weeks to go before Election Day. “I don’t want his support, I don’t care about his support,” Trump said. “I wouldn’t want to be in a foxhole with a lot of these people that I can tell you, including Ryan. By the way, including Ryan, especially Ryan.” With his campaign floundering and little time to steady it, the businessman reverted to the combative, divisive strategy that propelled him to victory in the GOP primary: attack every critic — including fellow Republicans. Those close to Trump suggested it was “open season” on every detractor, regardless of party. “It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to,” Trump said in a tweet that brought new concern — near panic in some cases — to a party trying to stave off an all-out civil war before Nov. 8. In another series of tweets, the Republican nominee called Ryan “weak and ineffective,” Sen. John McCain “very foul-mouthed” and “disloyal” Republicans “far more difficult than Crooked Hillary.” “They come at you from all sides,” Trump declared. “They don’t know how to win — I will teach them!” At a night rally in Florida hours later, Trump made no mention of the apparent Republican civil war, instead training his fire on his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. Rage against fellow Republicans from the face of the 2016 GOP exposed a party slipping from mere feuding into verbal warfare with advance voting already underway in roughly half the states. Polls suggest Trump is headed toward a loss of historic proportions if he doesn’t turn things around. His scorched-earth approach, days after his sexually predatory language caught on tape triggered a mass Republican defection, threatened to
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Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump listen to him speak during a campaign rally, Tuesday, in Panama City, Fla. alienate even more supporters. “Fighting for the sake of fighting is not really very helpful,” said former Trump adviser Barry Bennett. Trump has acknowledged the possibility of defeat in recent days, but on Tuesday he tried to shift the blame for his struggles on Republican defections and an election system that may be “rigged” against him. On Monday, he warned of potential voter fraud in heavily African-American Philadelphia, a claim for which there is no evidence but one that could challenge Americans’ faith in a fair democratic process. At the same time, Trump’s campaign is considering whether to feature Bill Clinton accusers at his upcoming rallies. Trump shocked the political world before Sunday’s debate by appearing with several women who had accused the former president of sexual impropriety decades earlier. The aggressive shift is in line with
North Carolina braces for more flooding in downstream towns BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GREENVILLE, N.C. — A state trooper shot and killed an armed man during a search for flood victims in a tense and dispirited North Carolina, and thousands more people were ordered to evacuate as high water from Hurricane Matthew pushed downstream Tuesday, two days after the storm blew out to sea. Matthew’s death toll in the U.S. climbed to 34, more than half of them in North Carolina, in addition to the more than 500 feared dead in Haiti. In Greenville, a city of 90,000, officials warned that the Tar River would overwhelm every bridge in the county by sundown, splitting it in half before the river crests late Wednesday. Evacuations were ordered there and in such communities as Goldsboro and Kinston, as rivers swelled to some of the highest levels ever recorded. Tens of thousands of people, some of them as much as 125 miles inland,
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FIRE: Community shaken Bashaw Fire Department will also accept donations on behalf of the family during a Food Bank Drive running from 5 to 8 p.m today . Mayor Penny Shantz said the fatal fire has shaken the community. “I think probably the word to use would be shock,” she said. “Once we find the circumstances … we’ll be able to start healing.” Shantz said the outpouring of support has been “just wonderful. I think that’s what Alberta does. When there’s a need they step up to the plate and help however they can.” Firefighters were called to the hotel early Sunday morning with reports of a large explosion and fire. Bashaw’s volunteer firefighters were supported by firefighters from Maskwacis and Mirror as well as police and EMS. Two family members remain in hospital and one has been released. A body was recovered by firefighters at the scene. An autopsy is to take place this week to determine the victim’s identity and cause of death. RCMP’s Major Crimes Unit and other support services have been brought to the site to assist in the investigation. “The RCMP is taking the precaution of considering this to be a crime scene until proven otherwise,” say police in a statement released on Monday.
have been warned to move to higher ground since the hurricane drenched the state with more than a foot of rain over the weekend during a run up the East Coast from Florida. An angry Gov. Pat McCrory asked people to stop ignoring evacuation orders and driving around barricades on flooded roads: “That is unacceptable. You are not only putting your life danger, you are putting emergency responders’ lives in jeopardy.” In the hard-hit town of Lumberton, along the bloated Lumber River, sporadic looting was reported, and a North Carolina trooper searching for people trapped by the floodwaters killed a man who confronted officers with a gun Monday night, police said. Authorities gave few details, but McCrory said the shooting happened in “very difficult circumstances,” adding: “Tension can be high when people are going through very, very emotional circumstances.” In Lumberton, patience was wearing thin. “At this time, the RCMP will not speculate on how the fire may have started, or any of the evidence they may have collected thus far.” RCMP said on Tuesday they are still investigating and the site has not been released yet. An autopsy for the victim is scheduled for today. Besides being well-known owners of the Bashaw Motor Inn, the Tiwanas have been actively involved in the community. One of the boys graduated from the local high school last year and his brother graduated earlier. “They were really connected with the youth in our community, as well as mentoring younger ones in the sports programs and that kind of thing,” Northey said. To donate go to www.gofundme.com/ tiwanafamily pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com
SECURITY: Incident made folk uncomfortable Buchanan said the incident on Sept. 26 made some folks a little bit uncomfortable. He said he was surprised by the man’s outburst that occurred behind councillors and near the door, but he’s heard grumblings from people on their way out of council chambers in the past. “In public hearings there are people who are happy and people who are not happy,” Buchanan said.
the philosophy of recently hired campaign chaiman Steve Bannon, whose conservative website has long fueled attacks on Republican leaders and perpetuated popular conservative conspiracy theories. The approach has done little to endear Trump to anxious party leaders. At least 40 Republican senators and congressmen have revoked their support for the embattled Republican nominee — with nearly 30 of them urging him to quit the race altogether. Ryan, in a Monday conference call with congressional Republicans, said he would no longer campaign with Trump. He said he would focus instead on ensuring Clinton doesn’t get a “blank check” with a Democratic-controlled Congress, all but conceding that Trump would lose the presidential contest. Trump’s running mate Mike Pence said in an interview with NBC Tuesday that he was “disappointed” by the de-
fections and “respectfully” disagreed with Ryan. Yet Trump’s aggressive shift is popular among his most loyal supporters, who continue to flock to his rallies by the thousands. Allison Ellis, 30, deemed Ryan “a traitor” and shrugged off Trump’s sexually aggressive comments in the 2005 video. She pointed at Democrat Hillary Clinton’s shortcomings. “I have daughters and I don’t like what he said but I also wouldn’t want to be held responsible for everything I said 11 years ago,” Ellis said at Trump’s Panama City Beach, Florida, rally. “And it’s nothing compared to what she did — she should be in jail.” But some of Trump’s supporters admitted their confidence was shaken. “I still think he can do it, but he has to play mistake-free the rest of the way,” said Mike Novoret, 59. “If something else comes up, he’s toast.”
Obama pushes U.S. goal to send humans to Mars by 2030s BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sought Tuesday to reinvigorate his six-year-old call for the U.S. to send humans to Mars by the 2030s, a mission NASA has been slowly and quietly trudging away at. The White House was calling attention to government contracts awarded to six companies to build prototypes for “habitats” that could sustain human life in deep space. One such privately developed habitat — an inflatable room —is already attached to the International Space Station. Obama also said that within two years, private companies like SpaceX and Boeing will taxi astronauts to the space station with NASA as a customer. “These missions will teach us how humans can live far from Earth, something we’ll need for the long journey to Mars,” Obama wrote in an op-ed on CNN’s website . He said the ultimate “For me personally, the configuration of the room is wrong and has been. I don’t like people coming in behind me, but that’s an old habit,” said the retired RCMP officer. He said the city does have a security department to address safety issues for all city staff. “It isn’t just this facility. There are other city facilities. People that are accepting money and dealing with the public are putting up with all kinds of stuff all over the place. People are yelling at them, screaming at them. We’ve had snowplow drivers that have been punched.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com
SNOW: Staff checking ice formation The Red Deer Airport weather station reported 2.6 cm of snow on Friday and 7.8 cm on Saturday. Day-time temperatures hovered around 0 C. Sikora said as the shoulder season moves from construction into snow, Public Works has staff monitoring ice formation, the weather and changing temperatures. They call in forces as required, which they did on the weekend. “We watch and monitor weather, including radar, at strategic points in the day and night.” Last year was a light year from a plowing perspective because of the mild winter but from a freeze-thaw perspective, it was a difficult year, Sikora said.
goal is for humans eventually to stay on the red planet “for an extended time.” NASA officials and outside space experts said there is little new in what’s coming out of the White House on Mars, something NASA has taken to calling its “Journey To Mars .” “There’s nothing big here at all, unless you haven’t been paying attention,” said former George Washington University space policy chief John Logsdon. “It’s a re-focusing of the fact that he set these goals and NASA has been pursuing them.” Alan Ladwig, a former top NASA official in the Obama and Clinton administrations, said he likes the intent, “but it’s a bit late in the term to shine a light on the humans to Mars exploration.” The president planned to discuss the initiative further when he meets with scientists, engineers and academics at an innovation summit Thursday in Pittsburgh. When snow melts, it freezes and roads and sidewalks can turn into a skating rink. In areas where there is high pedestrian traffic, the city is proactive in working to remove snow so it won’t melt and freeze later when temperatures drop, he said. “Drive for the conditions please.” Sikora said full information about the city’s snow and ice control program is available on the city’s website reddeer.ca Al Trainor at Don’s Tire and Auto said they had been busy putting winter tires on customer vehicles prior to the weekend. And when it snows “then the panic sets in,” he said. A good set of winter tires on a car can cost about $1,000, he said, so people are leery about putting them on too early because they don’t want them to get damaged. As long as the pavement doesn’t retain heat, go ahead and put them on, Trainor said. Eric Kryderman at Kal Tire on 67th Street said they had been busy for the past two weeks as well. Then with the snow, they became really busy on the weekend, he said. It’s recommended drivers run winter tires as soon as it drops down to about 7 C, he said. Kryderman said a new type of tire, an all-weather with a tread-life guarantee that can be used all year long, is starting to be more popular with drivers. The snow kept police busy on Central Alberta highways and they are still tallying the number of driving incidents that occurred over Thanksgiving. barr@reddeeradvocate.com
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Walloons threaten trade deal LEAKED DRAFT STATEMENT AIMED AT CANADA-EU FREE TRADE CRITICS: SOURCES BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A joint statement on the free trade deal between Canada and the European Union is aimed at mollifying its opponents, sources say — including restive Walloons in Belgium who are threatening to block the agreement. The leaked draft of the five-page summary, now widely circulated, is supposed to accompany the transatlantic deal’s final signing later this month in Brussels. Stamped “Final Draft,” the statement addresses contentious portions of the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement — including the investor-state dispute resolution mechanism — that were rewritten to save the deal from being rejected in Germany and France. Now, opposition to the deal is festering among Belgium’s French-speaking Walloons, the French-speaking inhabitants of one of three regions of the country that must ultimately approve the deal. A senior European diplomat, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told The Canadian Press that the threat posed by the Walloons is the greatest obstacle to getting CETA done. The diplomat, who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, says the statement was written in a way that explains the deal in reassuring, easy-to-read terms. “We hope that this could help the Belgian government to convince its parliament that the deal is really a good one and the concerns are not really founded,” the diplomat said, adding that it was also aimed broadly at politicians and members of civil society who oppose the deal. “It covers a wide range of issues and it tries to put in simple words what is already in the agreement — but just
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Activists demonstrate in front of French Agriculture ministry to protest against the EU trade deal with Canada, known as CETA, in Paris, Tuesday. The agreement is expected to be signed at the EU-Canada summit in Brussels on Oct. 27-28. to clarify.” EU trade ministers are to meet next week and their approval of the deal is needed for a planned Canada-EU summit to take place later in the month where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his EU counterparts are expected
to sign the deal. “We are in active conversation and there is no final joint declaration at this time,” said Alex Lawrence, spokesman International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, said of the fivepage addition.
Housing starts up in most regions BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canadian residential construction was hotter than expected in September as the pace of housing starts picked up nationally, despite a decline in Ontario. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said Tuesday the seasonally adjusted annual rate of starts was 220,617 in September, up from 184,201 units in August. Economists had expected an annual pace of 190,000 on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to Thomson Reuters. CMHC said construction of urban
multiple-unit dwellings such as townhouses, condominiums and apartments were the main reason for the increase in most regions, particularly Quebec. The agency said the moving sixmonth trend also rose to 199,503 units in September, from 196,465 in August. CIBC economist Nick Exarhos said the September numbers were the strongest in a year, driven by healthy gains in both multiple-unit and single family homes. “It was a warm September, but a scorcher for housing starts in Canada,” Exarhos wrote in a note to clients. Toronto was an exception, with the seasonally adjusted rate dropping to 30,232 units from 40,406 units in August
— mainly as a result of fewer apartment starts. Canada’s most populous city helped pull down Ontario’s overall activity to 67,426 housing starts in September, from 70,262 units in August. Several smaller Ontario cities also recorded but others showed gains. Quebec saw the largest gain in housing starts last month, due to the development of new rental apartments for seniors. There were also increases in British Columbia, the Prairies and Atlantic Canada. However TD Bank economist Diana Petramala said she expected the pace of housing construction to ease through the rest of the year.
Dakota Access pipeline work resumes BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. ANTHONY, N.D. — Construction on the four-state Dakota Access pipeline resumed Tuesday on private land in North Dakota that’s near a camp where thousands of protesters supporting tribal rights have gathered. In turn, protesters said they’re discussing nonviolent opposition measures, including chaining themselves to equipment. And nine people were
arrested Tuesday attempting to shut down pipelines in other states as a show of solidarity with the Dakota Access protesters. Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners resumed digging trenches and laying pipe, Morton County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Rob Keller said, a move that comes in light of Sunday’s federal appeals court ruling that allowed construction to resume within 20 miles of Lake Oahe. That Missouri River reservoir is the water supply for
the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s reservation. “We reiterate our commitment to protect cultural resources, the environment and public safety,” the company said in a statement earlier Tuesday. The $3.8 billion, 1,200-mile pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois is otherwise largely complete. The work area is a few miles from two protester camps, where scores of people have gathered and say they intend to stay through the winter.
Freeland has been to Belgium twice to sell the deal, and her parliamentary secretary, David Lametti, is focusing specifically on the Walloons, he said. Please see TRADE on Page A10
Business BRIEFS Molson Coors set to increase beer selection in Canada with Miller deal MONTREAL — Molson Coors wants to offer Canadians a wider selection of imported beers after closing its US$12-billion acquisition of Miller brands that makes it the third-largest global brewer. Several craft and mainstream brands from the United States and Europe — including Leinenkugel, Miller High Life, Sharp’s, Staropramen and Franciscan Well — could make their way onto store shelves next year, Molson Coors CEO Mark Hunter said. Meanwhile, Canadian craft beers like Creemore and Granville Island could be exported to the large American market. “It’s potentially going to be a two way street,” Hunter said in an interview. “We’re doing all of our planning right now for 2017 so you’d expect to see some of these emerge in our portfolio once we get probably into the spring of 2017 so they’re there for peak selling time.”
Unifor sets sights on Ford after reaching tentative deal with Fiat Chrysler BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Unifor President Jerry Dias speaks during the Unifor Convention in Ottawa. A tentative agreement has been reached between Fiat-Chrysler’s Canadian operations and Unifor. Unifor said if approved, the union would immediately hold talks with Ford.
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TORONTO — As the union representing auto workers turns its attention to its final target, Unifor president Jerry Dias says that securing investment for Ford’s engine plant in Windsor, Ont., is his top priority. “Their operations are getting pretty old,” Dias said in an interview Tuesday. “We haven’t had investment for quite a while, so we need a new engine program.” Now that agreements have been struck with two out of the three automakers, Dias is gearing up for what he predicts will be an “interesting” set of talks with Ford. Unifor hammered out a tentative deal with Fiat Chrysler just ahead of a strike deadline Monday that will see the automaker invest $554 million in its Ontario plants. If approved, the four-year deal will also see wages and benefits boosted in line with the pattern established with General Motors last month. That deal, which has been approved by GM workers, includes a two per
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cent wage increase this year, another two per cent increase in September 2019 and a $6,000 signing bonus plus lump sum bonuses. GM also promised to invest $554 million in its Canadian operations, meaning that the lights will stay on at the Oshawa assembly plant that was destined for closure in 2019. But the union also agreed that new employees will start with a defined contribution pension plan, rather than the hybrid plan for current employees. “With the investment we now have in Oshawa, we are going to be the only plant in North America that is now going to be able to build pickup trucks and cars,” Dias said. “So in Oshawa we went from the outhouse to the penthouse — so we really are changing things. We’re reversing the trend.” Dias is hoping for a similar outcome from the negotiations with Ford. Those talks are expected to begin on Oct. 17, after Fiat Chrysler workers have voted on their deal. The strike deadline for the Ford negotiations is Oct. 31, Dias said.
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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 118.41 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 45.72 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.71 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.15 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.73 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.70 Cdn. National Railway . . 88.11 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 201.89 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.11 Capital Power Corp . . . . 20.74 Cervus Equipment Corp 12.24 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 53.52 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 57.30 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 25.47 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.56 General Motors Co. . . . . 31.89 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 30.80 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.72 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 51.83 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 31.13 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.34 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 5.69 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 60.45 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 130.67 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.03 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 16.26 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto Stock Exchange fell flat Tuesday, as crude oil retreated from its highest level in more than a year and Wall Street slid on disappointing corporate news that put a damper to the start of earnings season. The S&P/TSX composite index shed 16.66 points to 14,549.60, after the market was closed on Monday for the Thanksgiving holiday. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average lost 200.38 points, or 1.09 per cent, at 18,128.66, while the broader S&P 500 composite index declined 26.93 points, or 1.24 per cent, to 2,136.73. The Nasdaq composite pulled back 81.88 points to 5,246.79. Health-care companies led the retreat on Wall Street. Shares in genetics research company Illumina tumbled 25 per cent after announcing revenue that fell short of analysts’ forecasts. Stocks ended down US$45.86 to US$138.99. Metals company Alcoa shed 11 per cent, or US$3.62, to US$27.91 after it reported softer than expected earnings results. While some companies have lowered investors’ expectations heading into the third-quarter earnings season, Alcoa’s results raise concerns that many other companies might be reporting weaker sales, said JJ Kinahan, chief strategist at TD Ameritrade. “You hate to see companies missing on sales,” he said. “It’s just a bad tone to get us started.” The Canadian dollar was up 0.25 of a cent at 75.52 cents US, while the November crude contract fell 56 cents at US$50.79 per barrel. Oil had closed at US$51.35 a barrel on Monday — its highest level since July 2015 — after Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia supports OPEC’s efforts to cut oil production.
Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 66.07 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 30.11 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.39 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 22.42 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 20.55 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 10.52 First Quantum Minerals . 10.68 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 18.53 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 5.06 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.76 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.20 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 21.39 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.82 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 24.27 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 24.16 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 28.37 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 52.52 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.40 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 26.21 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 43.12 Canyon Services Group. . 5.71 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 20.40 CWC Well Services . . . . . 0.17 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 14.69 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 0.63 Russia is not a member of the 14-member Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, which includes Venezuela, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Last month, the group met informally at an energy conference in Algiers and agreed to a preliminary accord to limit oil production as a way to deal with a global supply glut. No details of the deal will be announced until the next official OPEC meeting in November in Vienna. The price of crude oil has fallen sharply since mid-2014, when it was over US$100 a barrel, dropping below US$30 at the start of this year. “I’m going to say that the market is cozying up to the fact that there will some quota limiting production by the OPEC members and Russia,” said Ian Nakamoto, director of research at 3MACS. “There is still skepticism but it is probably the best hope we’ve had so far.” Nakamoto anticipates oil prices will continue to climb and be closer to the US$60 a barrel mark by this time next year. In other commodities, November natural gas dropped four cents to US$3.24, the December gold contract was down $4.50 to US$1,255.90 an ounce, and December copper contracts fell a penny to US$2.19 a pound. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Tuesday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,549.60, down 16.66 points Dow — 18,128.66, down 200.38 points S&P 500 — 2,136.73, down 26.93 points Nasdaq — 5,246.79, down 81.88 points Currencies: Cdn — 75.52 cents US, up 0.25 of a cent
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TRADE: Assuage growing unease Lametti met in Canada with a delegation of Walloon legislators this past weekend, and he will go back to the region later this week for more meetings with politicians there, said Lawrence. Lawrence Herman, a Toronto-based trade lawyer with Herman and Associates, said the five-page addendum has been under negotiation for months and even though it is a political statement, it could have legal force later on. “I’m not sure it is final but I believe it’s very close to what will be released before Trudeau goes to Brussels for signing,” said Herman. “It’s to assuage growing unease and opposition in Europe — largely over any deal (in the) future with the Americans based on the CETA template,” he added. “Hopefully it will allow the EU Council and Parliament to at least
Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 87.74 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 46.64 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.50 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 16.37 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.12 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 2.30 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.51 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 6.31 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 37.40 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.15 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.67 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 53.41 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.095 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 83.93 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 69.87 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.54 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.59 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 33.16 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 35.27 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 92.63 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.22 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.62 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.80 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 82.03 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 43.19 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.92 Pound — C$1.6058, down 4.69 cents Euro — C$1.4639, down 2.36 cents Euro — US$1.1056, down 1.41 cents Oil futures: US$50.79 per barrel, down 56 cents (November contract) Gold futures: US$1,255.90 per oz., down $4.50 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $24.107, up 42.7 cents $775.04 kg., up $13.73 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov. ‘16 $4.20 higher $474.00 Jan. ‘17 $4.10 higher $481.40 March ‘17 $4.20 higher $486.90 May ‘17 $4.50 higher $491.50 July ‘17 $4.40 higher $493.10 Nov. ‘17 $4.40 higher $495.30 Jan. ‘18 $4.60 higher $496.80 March ‘18 $4.60 higher $498.10 May ‘18 $4.60 higher $499.20 July ‘18 $4.60 higher $499.20 Nov. ‘18 $4.60 higher $499.20. Barley (Western): Oct. ‘16 unchanged $132.50 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $132.50 March ‘17 unchanged $134.50 May ‘17 unchanged $135.50 July ‘17 unchanged $135.50 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $135.50 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $135.50 March ‘18 unchanged $135.50 May ‘18 unchanged $135.50 July ‘18 unchanged $135.50 Oct. ‘18 unchanged $135.50. Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 681,240 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 681,240.
agree on provisional implementation for starters.” Provisional implementation means that as much as 90 per cent of the deal would come into force early next year — even without the ratification of each of the EU’s 28-member countries, as well 10 regional governments, including the Walloons of Belgium. That approach has often been cited as an end run of sorts around the possibility of some member EU states blocking the deal if their parliaments don’t ratify it. Romania and Bulgaria have been upset with Canada in past because Ottawa continues to impose a visa on its travellers coming to Canada, an impasse that still hasn’t been resolved. Internal opposition within Austria has also caused angst in Canada. The visa talks “are really going in the right direction to find a mutually acceptable compromise. So we are quite confident that Bulgaria, Romania and Austria will be one board,” said the European diplomat. “Our main concern now really is Belgium.”
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Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, centre, stands with girls representing G(girls)20 FitSpirit/Fillactive and Plan International Canada after opening the market at the TSX in Toronto to celebrate International Day of the Girl, on Tuesday.
Samsung stops making Galaxy Note 7s as fresh problems emerge BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — Samsung Electronics said Tuesday that it is stopping production of Galaxy Note 7 smartphones permanently, a day after stopping global sales of the ill-fated devices amid reports that batteries were catching fire. The South Korean company said in a regulatory filing that it decided to stop manufacturing Note 7s for the sake of consumer safety. Samsung is struggling to regain consumer trust after a first round of recalls that prompted criticism both for the faulty devices and for the company’s handling of the problem. After the earlier recall, the company said it had identified a manufacturing defect in the batteries of its top-ofthe-line smartphone. It started shipping new Note 7 phones that were supposed to be safer. But reports that even the replacements were catching fire led Samsung to announce it was stopping sales of the devices. Authorities in the U.S. and South Korea are still investigating why even the replacement Note 7 phones that Samsung equipped with a safer battery are catching fire. An official at the South Korean safety agency said the replacement phones may have a defect that is different from the problem with the original Note 7s. Samsung’s shares plunged 8 per cent Tuesday in Seoul, their biggest fall since the 2008 financial crisis. And that was before it announced it was discontinuing the Note 7. Also Tuesday, China’s product safety regulator said Samsung will recall all Galaxy Note 7 smartphones sold in mainland China, amounting to around 191,000 units. The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and
Canadian says he will keep using his phone MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — An Ottawa man who received a replacement Galaxy Note 7 smartphone on Tuesday morning says he plans to keep using it despite a notice from manufacturer Samsung that it was halting sales after reports of fires in both original and exchange models. Samsung Canada issued a statement late Monday asking all retail outlets to stop sales and exchanges of the Galaxy Note 7 while the investigation is taking place. The company, based in Mississauga, Ont., says Canadian consumers with either an original Galaxy Note 7 or replacement Galaxy Note 7 device should power down and stop using the device. But Marc Stevens of Ottawa said he needs his phone too much and will likely “risk it” given the low likelihood of his phone bursting into flames. “It’s just too handy. I love the pen, I love the features that come with it like the iris recognition. I can get into my phone a lot faster than I used to with password protection,” he said. Quarantine said it was investigating for defects in the devices Samsung will either provide a full refund at the original price or replace Note 7 units with any other model of Samsung phone, and give refunds of the difference in prices, along with a 300 yuan ($45) voucher. Samsung’s brand has already been battered by complaints it is doing too little to reassure Chinese owners their handsets are safe.
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Jays turn to Estrada for Game 1 BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Toronto right-hander Marco Estrada set the early tone for the American League Division Series in his start last week in Texas. The Blue Jays are hoping for a repeat performance in the AL Championship Series on Friday in Cleveland. Manager John Gibbons confirmed Tuesday that Estrada will be the Game 1 starter at Progressive Field. “I think he was the logical choice,” Gibbons said. “We could have gone with anybody and felt good. But he’s been so good in that role and then we’ll just shape it after him in these next couple days.” Estrada, who had a 9-9 record and 3.48 earned-run average in the regular season, was dominant over 8 1/3 innings in a 10-1 Game 1 victory last Thursday. He held the top-seeded Rangers to one earned run and four hits and didn’t issue a walk. The 33-year-old native of Sonora, Mexico was also strong in the playoffs last year. He posted a 2-1 mark and 2.33 ERA over three starts. The Blue Jays enjoyed an off-day Monday after capping their 3-0 ALDS victory with a 7-6, 10-inning win on Sunday night. They had a light workout Tuesday afternoon and some players took batting practice. The break before the next series gives the team a chance to recharge and allows some injured players to rest. It also allows for some potential tinkering of the starting rotation. The rest of the series hasn’t been confirmed after Estrada, but Marcus Stroman is a good bet to start Game 2 on Saturday. He came through with a quality start in Toronto’s wild-card game victory over Baltimore on Oct. 4. Chances are good that 20-game winner J.A. Happ would get the nod when the series moves to Toronto for Game 3 on Monday with Aaron Sanchez the likely choice for Game 4 on Tuesday. “Our real big strength for us this year is our rotation,” Gibbons said. “Any of them could do the job and
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Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Marco Estrada throws to the Texas Rangers in the first inning of Game 1 of the American League Division Series, in Arlington, Tex. Estrada will get the start for Toronto on Friday when the Blue Jays visit Cleveland for Game 1 of the American League Championship Series. do it well. They’ve been doing that. There’s no automatics, no guarantees, but they’re all pretty good.” The Indians also swept their way to the ALCS, wrapping things up Monday night with a Game 3 victory in Boston. “A tough ball club to shut down and they’re hot like us too,” Gibbons said. “They ended up finishing really strong in winning the home-field advantage and then they swept Boston so they’re
playing really good too right now.” If a fifth game in the best-of-seven series is necessary, it would be played Oct. 19 at Rogers Centre. Cleveland would host Game 6 on Oct. 21 and Game 7 on Oct. 22 if required. Blue Jays left-hander Francisco Liriano, who suffered a concussion last Friday, is improving and hopes to be ready to return Saturday once he completes Major League Baseball’s
seven-day concussion protocol. However, Gibbons said right-handed reliever Joaquin Benoit will not play in the ALCS. He’s still recovering from a torn calf muscle. Second baseman Devon Travis said his sore right knee is feeling better and he expects to be ready for Game 1. See JAYS on Page B2
CALGARY FLAMES
Gaudreau back in time for season-opener BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Pittsburgh Penguins’ Sidney Crosby talks with reporters at his locker after skating at the Penguins’ practice facility in Cranberry Township, Pa., Tuesday. Crosby was diagnosed with a concussion by team doctors Monday.
Crosby sidelined indefinitely with concussion NO TIMELINE FOR RETURN BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Sidney Crosby collided with a Pittsburgh Penguins teammate last Friday at practice and thought nothing of it. Just one of those things. When the two-time MVP woke up Saturday, though, the headache he experienced felt familiar and he was hardly surprised by the concussion diagnosis that will keep the Penguins captain out indefinitely. It’s well-worn territory to be sure for a player who missed the better parts of two seasons following a blindside hit to the head in January 2011. That doesn’t mean, however, that what Crosby’s dealing with now will linger as long — or as frustratingly — as those interminable two years when he wondered when he’d get right. If anything, what he endured then will only help him going forward. “I think going through it, you understand the process and I think that progress is a good thing,” he said. Crosby felt good enough on Tuesday to spend nearly an hour on the ice skating alongside injured teammates Bryan Rust and Matt Murray, but he declined to set any sort of timeline on when he may return. Call it the residue from the aftermath of the hit by Washington’s David Steckel during the 2011 Winter Classic that forced Crosby to hit pause on his spec-
tacular career. “I just go day by day,” Crosby said. “You don’t look too far ahead.” Both Crosby and the team declined to get into specifics about what exactly happened, though he insisted the injury is a result of getting “tangled” with a teammate at practice and not something that occurred during the recently completed World Cup of Hockey. Crosby was the tournament’s MVP after leading Canada to gold. “I’m not making this up,” Crosby said. “It was pretty clear I think.” Crosby will remain in the concussion protocol for now, a series of procedures he knows well, ones that continue to evolve as more research comes to light. “We’ve learned so much in a short period of time,” Crosby said. “I think there’s a really good structure in place on how to get back and that kind of thing. I feel confident and comfortable with everything.” The Penguins open the season Thursday night at home against Washington and during a pregame ceremony will raise the banner for the franchise’s fourth Stanley Cup title. Crosby almost certainly will be out of the lineup, but he harbours no concerns about how this latest head injury will affect him in the long term. “(Concussions) happen,” he said. “They happen in a lot of different sports and guys have multiple concussions and they’re fine. Just have to treat them the right way and make sure they handle it right and you’re honest. See CROSBY on Page B2
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CALGARY — There wasn’t time to bring Johnny Gaudreau all the way up to speed in his first practice this season with the Calgary Flames. Glen Gulutzan settled for incorporating Gaudreau into the power play, which is one of the new head coach’s improvement projects in Calgary. “To be quite honest, it’s the best our power play has looked probably in the season and he’s had one little tour at it,” Gulutzan observed Tuesday. Gaudreau returned to the Flames on the eve of Wednesday’s season-opener in Edmonton armed with a six-year contract extension worth US$40.5 million. Calgary’s leading scorer last season with 30 goals and 48 assists sat out training camp while the deal that was announced Monday evening was negotiated. “I wanted it to get done as quick as possible, but my agent and my family felt it was necessary to try to get a fair deal for myself,” the 23-year-old said. “I knew I wasn’t going to miss any games. “It’s a tough spot to put the team in. It’s tough to start a training camp without one of your players. I know it’s definitely a distraction for them. I’ve got to apologize for that. “The team believes in me and believes in me for the next six years. I’m going to have to perform the way I always have.” Gulutzan must also incorporate another forward who has spent zero time at Flames training camp. Kris Versteeg signed a one-year contract Tuesday. A two-time Stanley Cup winner with Chicago (2010, 2015), Versteeg turned down an offer from the Edmonton Oilers, with whom he’d spent the pre-season. In other moves Tuesday, the Flames signed defenceman Nicklas Grossmann to a one-year deal. Calgary assigned forwards Linden Vey, Brandon Bollig and Daniel Pribyl to their American Hockey League affiliate in Stockton, Calif. Defenceman Ladislav Smid (neck) is on injured reserve to start the season. Gulutzan resisted the temptation to pile on a lot of information in Gaudreau’s first skate with an entirely new coaching staff and a few new teammates. “It’s not going to be system overload for him,” Gulutzan said. “We want him to be dynamic and instinctual in the game. We’ll give him the rough outline and then let him play.” Gaudreau wasn’t idle in September when he had two goals and two assists in three games for Team North America at the World Cup of Hockey. His last game in that tournament was Sept. 21. The five-foot-nine, 160-pound winger says he’s kept in shape skating with a junior team and hitting the weight room daily since then. “Obviously I haven’t been playing at this speed for a couple of weeks now since the World Cup ended, but I did a good job getting game speed for the World Cup,” Gaudreau said. See FLAMES on Page B2
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BRIEFS Shmoorkoff sent down, Verhelst, Johnson injured The Red Deer Rebels cut their defence down by one, reassigning Austin Shmoorkoff to the Sherwood Park Crusaders of the Alberta Junior Hockey League The 19-year-old Shmoorkoff played in only two games this season, recording no points. The six-foot-three, 177-pound native of Edmonton got into 64 games last season, finishing with three assists, a plus-10 rating and 16 penalty minutes. In other news goaltender Tyler Verhelst remains out with a upper body injury and forward Reese Johnson is likely out for the season as he’s scheduled for shoulder surgery. Verhelst, who was picked up from the Spokane Chiefs in a trade, has yet to play a game for the Rebels, who have two goaltenders in Riley Lamb and 20-year-old Trevor Martin. The Rebels are in action Friday when they host the Moose Jaw Warriors at 7 p.m. at the Centrium. They travel to Cranbrook on Saturday for a meeting with the Kootenay Ice.
Grizzlys licking wounds after back-to-back weekend losses
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FLAMES: Key pieces locked up “I think I did a pretty good job these last two weeks getting ready for games for this upcoming season. I’m ready.” Gaudreau’s contract counts $6.75 million annually against the league salary cap that was set at $73 million for 2016-17. Gaudreau’s average annual salary equals captain Mark Giordano’s and is slightly above that of assistant captain and top centre Sean Monahan at $6,375,000 annually. Monahan’s extension signed in August was for eight years, however. Flames general manager Brad Treliving said Gaudreau’s return “comes with lots of time to spare before the opening of the season.” “The way he’s being compensated is for who he is and what we think he can get to,” Treliving continued. “He’s just got to go out and play now. Don’t worry about the burdens that come with it. The contract cannot be a noose. “Now, to whom much is given, much is expected. There are certain things that come along with that in terms of responsibility. He’s ready for that.” Gaudreau’s nonattendance was a persistent question mark through training camp and an issue Giordano was relieved to have resolved. “Obviously when one of your top players gets back with the team, it’s a good day,” Giordano said. “I think you notice right away on the power play today … he just makes plays that other guys don’t make. Those in-tight plays and his ability to retrieve that puck. His lateral movement is second to none.”
The Olds Grizzlys Alberta Junior Hockey League record sits at 3-5-2 after a pair of weekend losses. The Grizzlys lost 5-4 on the road to the Okotoks Oilers Friday and 6-3 at home to the Canmore Eagles Saturday. Chase Olsen had two goals and Josh Michener and Ryley Smith one each against the Oilers with Ben Giesbrecht making 19 saves.
Average of 4.73 million watch Jays win ALDS TORONTO — An average of 4.73 million viewers watched Sunday’s pivotal Game 3 of the American League Division Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and Texas Rangers. Rogers Sportsnet, the official broadcaster of the series in Canada, announced the figures on Tuesday night. no one compares to somebody else,” forward Chris Kunitz said. “The good thing is he understands what he’s going through, and he’ll be the best one to be able to come back from it.” NOTES: The Penguins claimed goaltender Mike Condon off waivers on Tuesday and assigned Tristan Jarry to their AHL affiliate. Condon will back up Fleury while Murray recovers from a broken hand.
JAYS: Spirits high Toronto is unbeaten in October and will take a six-game winning streak into Cleveland. The Blue Jays survived an 11-16 September and closed out the
On Saturday, Austin Holmes scored twice and James Gaume once for the Grizzlys, who led 2-0 after the first period and trailed 3-2 after 40 minutes. Giesbrecht finished with 35 saves. The Grizzlys return to action Saturday when they host the Camrose Kodiaks at 7 p.m.
Hughes set to make debut as full-fledged PGA member Patience is paying off for Canadian golfer Mackenzie Hughes. Thing are falling into place for the 25-year old from Dundas, Ont., who will be making his debut as a full-fledged PGA Tour member this week at the Safeway Open in Napa, Calif. Next week he’ll marry his long-time partner Jenna Shaw in a ceremony in his adopted home of Charlotte, N.C. “To be where I am now is kind of surreal when I think about it,” Hughes said over the phone en route to the West Coast. “Even though things were dragging along this summer, early on, everything’s happened relatively quickly from last year to where I am now. I’m grateful, but by no means do I think I don’t deserve it. More than anything, I’m just excited to get going.” Hughes has learned to temper that excitement while looking for his path to the PGA Tour. His approach paid dividends when he captured the Price Cutter Charity Championship on the Web.com Tour in August and finished 17th on that Tour’s money list. The top 25 finishers earn a spot on the PGA Tour for the following season. Hughes’ maiden victory came after he rolled in an 18-inch birdie put on the final hole to win by one shot. “It’s probably one of the hardest things to do as a professional golfer, not get too far ahead of yourself,” he said. “There were tons of times when I got ahead of myself, about what the win would mean for me and my family, and then brought myself back.” The two-time Canadian Men’s Amateur Champion (2011 and 2012) captured the Order of Merit title in 2013.
Toronto’s climactic 7-6 10th inning win to sweep the best-of-five series with Texas became Sportsnet’s most-watched program of 2016 and third most-watched broadcast of all time. More than 10 million viewers watched some part of Sunday’s Game 3 broadcast. Audience levels peaked at 7.03 million at 11:02 p.m. ET in the bottom of the 10th inning immediately following Josh Donaldson crossing home plate with the game-winning run, securing a spot for the Blue Jays in the American League Championship Series. regular season with two key victories in Boston, the wild-card win and then a series sweep. Pitching has been key but the bats have returned with a vengeance. Slugger Edwin Encarnacion has led the way with three homers in four games and he’s been supported with contributions up and down the lineup. “Everybody is in a good mood, everybody is feeling good and confident,” Gibbons said. “It was a battle there at the end just to get in and really I think that’s helped us to this point. “But as far as the mindset and the confidence and all that, that’s never wavered in these guys. Even through our struggles through September. But that’s kind of the makeup of this group anyway.”
CROSBY: Notorious workaholic “Like I said, I’m comfortable and confident that things will be OK.” The timing is eerie when it comes to the level of Crosby’s play. He was leading the NHL in scoring and in the middle of perhaps the best hockey of his career in 2011. This time, he’s coming off a stretch in which he captured the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoff MVP while leading the Penguins to a title and backed it up with a sublime performance in the World Cup. “That’s the first thing I thought when I saw the headline,” said Buffalo Sabres coach Dan Bylsma, who coached Crosby in Pittsburgh from 2009-14. “I’d like to compete against him and beat him, no question. But at the same time, I hope he’s able to get back to playing, and get back to playing the way he can.” Crosby, a notorious workaholic, needs hockey. There’s little doubt the NHL needs him. “You want the top players in the game,” said Washington Capitals defenceman Matt Niskanen, a former teammate in Pittsburgh. “That’s best for everybody. When everyone’s best players are in the game, that’s what everyone wants to see. But most importantly for the individual, you just hope that it’s nothing serious.” The Penguins have been able to survive without Crosby in the lineup, at least during the regular season. Evgeni Malkin won the Hart Trophy (MVP) and the Art Ross Trophy (leading scorer) after the 2011-12 season, a year in which Crosby was limited to 22 games as he continued to battle concussion-like symptoms. “We know how we can play better with Sid, but we can play better without him, too,” Malkin said. “We have great teammates and great leadership group here.” And a core that is only too aware of the toll concussions can take. Defenceman Kris Letang has dealt with multiple concussions during his career, and goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury suffered one late in the regular season that kept him out so long his job was eventually taken by rookie Matt Murray, who helped guide the Penguins to the Cup. As encouraging as it was to see Crosby in the dressing room on Tuesday, the Penguins are taking nothing for granted. “It makes your mind think maybe he’s close, but these types of things are on their own timeline and
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League, Coaldale at Stettler, 8 p.m.; Cochrane at Three Hills, 8 p.m.
Thursday
● AMHL: Red Deer Optimist Chiefs vs. Edmonton Gregg Distributors, 4:30 p.m., Kinex. ● College volleyball: ACAC, RDC vs. SAIT, Women at 6 p.m., men at 8 p.m., at RDC. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Kootenay. ● College men’s hockey: RDC Kings vs. Innisfail Eagles, exhibition, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Junior B hockey: Heritage League, Banff at Red Deer Vipers, 8 p.m., Collicutt; Okotoks at Ponoka, 8 p.m.
● Junior B hockey: Heritage League, Blackfalds at Ponoka, 7:45 p.m. ● High school JV volleyball: Notre Dame at Lindsay Thurber, Lacombe at Hunting Hills.
Friday
● High school football: City Division: Hunting Hills at Notre Dame, 4:30 p.m.; Lacombe at Lindsay Thurber, 7:30 p.m. Lacombe MEGlobal Athletic Park. Rural Division: Rocky at Stettler, Drayton Valley at Sylvan Lake, Camrose at Ponoka. ● College volleyball: RDC at SAIT, women at 6 p.m., men at 8 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels vs. Moose Jaw, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● College men’s hockey: RDC Kings vs. Augustana Vikings, ACAC exhibition, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Junior B hockey: Heritage
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● Junior B hockey: Heritage League, Banff at Ponoka, 2:30 p.m.; Medicine Hat at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m. ● AMHL: Red Deer Optimist Chiefs vs. Fort Saskatchewan Rangers, 4 p.m., Kinex.
Baseball WILD CARD Tuesday, Oct. 4: Toronto 5, Baltimore 2, 11 innings Wednesday, Oct. 5: San Francisco 3, N.Y. Mets 0 DIVISION SERIES (Best-of-5; x-if necessary) American League Toronto 3, Texas 0 Thursday, Oct. 6: Toronto 10, Texas 1 Friday, Oct. 7: Toronto 5, Texas 3 Sunday, Oct. 9: Toronto 7, Texas 6, 10 innings Cleveland 3, Boston 0 Thursday, Oct. 6: Cleveland 5, Boston 4 Friday, Oct. 7: Cleveland 6, Boston 0 Sunday, Oct. 9: Cleveland at Boston, ppd., rain Monday, Oct. 10: Cleveland 4, Boston 3 National League Chicago 3, San Francisco 1 Friday, Oct. 7: Chicago 1, San Francisco 0 Saturday, Oct. 8: Chicago 5, San Francisco 2 Monday, Oct. 10: San Francisco 6, Chicago 5, 13 innings Tuesday, Oct. 11: Chicago 6, San Francisco 5 Washington 2, Los Angeles 2 Friday, Oct. 7: Los Angeles 4, Washington 3 Saturday, Oct. 8: Los Angeles at Washington, ppd., rain Sunday, Oct. 9: Washington 5, Los Angeles 2 Monday, Oct. 10: Washington 8, at Los Angeles 3 Tuesday, Oct. 11: Los Angeles 6, Washington 5 Thursday, Oct. 13: Los Angeles at Washington, 6:08 p.m. (FS1) LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) American League All Games on TBS
Toronto vs. Cleveland Friday, Oct. 14: Toronto (Estrada 9-9) at Cleveland, 6:08 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15: Toronto at Cleveland, TBA Monday, Oct. 17: Cleveland at Toronto, TBA Tuesday, Oct. 18: Cleveland at Toronto, TBA x-Wednesday, Oct. 19: Cleveland at Toronto, TBA x-Friday, Oct. 21: Toronto at Cleveland, TBA x-Saturday, Oct. 22: Toronto at Cleveland, TBA National League Chicago vs. Los Angeles-Washington winner Saturday, Oct. 15: Los Angeles-Washington winner at Chicago (Fox or FS1) Sunday, Oct. 16: Los Angeles-Washington winner at Chicago (Fox or FS1) Tuesday, Oct. 18: Chicago at Los Angeles-Washington winner (Fox or FS1) Wednesday, Oct. 19: Chicago at Los Angeles-Washington winner (Fox or FS1) x-Thursday, Oct. 20: Chicago at Los Angeles-Washington winner (Fox or FS1) x-Saturday, Oct. 22: Los Angeles-Washington winner at Chicago (Fox or FS1) x-Sunday, Oct. 23: Los Angeles-Washington winner at Chicago (Fox or FS1) WORLD SERIES (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) All games televised by Fox Tuesday, Oct. 25: NL at AL Wednesday, Oct. 26: NL at AL Friday, Oct. 28: AL at NL Saturday, Oct. 29: AL at NL x-Sunday, Oct. 30: AL at NL x-Tuesday, Nov. 1: NL at AL x-Wednesday, Nov. 2: NL at AL
Soccer MLS EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF x-New York 32 14 9 9 56 x-N.Y.C. 32 14 9 9 57 x-Toronto 32 13 9 10 46 Montreal 32 11 10 11 47 D.C. 32 10 9 13 48 Philadelphia 32 11 12 9 52 N.E. 32 10 13 9 40 Columbus 31 8 12 11 45 Orlando 32 7 11 14 49 Chicago 31 6 16 9 36 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF x-Dallas 32 16 8 8 48 x-Colorado 31 14 5 12 36 x-L.A. 32 11 6 15 53 Salt Lake 32 12 11 9 43 Seattle 31 13 13 5 41 Kansas City 32 12 13 7 40 Portland 32 11 13 8 46 San Jose 31 8 10 13 31
GA 42 53 35 48 42 51 52 49 58 52
Pt 51 51 49 44 43 42 39 35 35 27
GA 39 29 39 44 40 41 49 36
Pt 56 54 48 45 44 43 41 37
Vancouver 32 9 15 8 41 51 35 Houston 31 7 13 11 38 43 32 x — clinched playoff berth. Note: Three points awarded for a win one for a tie. Saturday’s result Colorado 3 Houston 2 Wednesday’s game Houston at Seattle, 8:30 p.m. Thursday’s games Columbus at Chicago, 6:30 p.m. San Jose at Colorado, 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16 New England at Chicago, 1 p.m. New York City at D.C., 1 p.m. Toronto at Montreal, 1 p.m. Columbus at New York, 1 p.m. Orlando at Philadelphia, 2 p.m. Seattle at Dallas, 3 p.m. Los Angeles at Houston, 3 p.m. Colorado at Portland, 3 p.m. Kansas City at Salt Lake, 3 p.m. Vancouver at San Jose, 3 p.m.
Transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League NHLPA — F Ruslan Fedotenko has announced his retirement. BUFFALO SABRES — Signed D n Rasmus Ristolainen to a six-year contract. CALGARY FLAMES — Assigned F Linden Vey to Stockton (AHL). CAROLINA HURRICANES — Acquired F Connor Brickey from Florida for F Brody Sutter and assigned Brickey to Charlotte (AHL). Claimed D Klas Dahlback off waivers from Arizona. Assigned F Lucas Wallmark, D Trevor Carrick and D Haydn Fleury to Charlotte. CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Assigned Fs Brandon Mashinter and Mark McNeill to Rockford (AHL). DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned RW Anthony Mantha and C Ben Street to Grand Rapids (AHL). Placed D Niklas Kronwall on injured reserve. Recalled G Edward Pasquale from Grand Rapids. Reassigned F Zach Nastasiuk to Grand Rapids from Toledo (ECHL). MINNESOTA WILD — Claimed F Teemu Pulkkinen off waivers from Minnesota. NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Claimed F Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau off waivers from the New York Islanders. Placed F Sergey Kalinin and D Kyle Quincey on injured reserve. NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Sent D Ryan Pulock and Adam Pelech to Bridgeport (AHL). Placed F Eric Boulton on injured reserve. NEW YORK RANGERS — Placed F Nathan Gerbe on waivers. PITTSBURGH PENGUINS — Claimed G Mike Condon off waivers from Montreal. TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Re-signed F Nikita Kucherov to a three-year contract. Assigned F Erik Condra, F Joel Vermin and F Cory Conacher to the Syracuse(AHL). TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — F Claimed Seth Griffith off waivers from Boston. American Hockey League CHARLOTTE CHECKERS — Assigned G Daniel Altshuller and F Mike Ferrantino to Florida (ECHL). Released Fs Mike Kirkpatrick and John McCarron from their tryout agreements. STOCKTON HEAT — Assigned F Mikkel Aagaard and D Roman Dyukov to Adirondack (ECHL). Released D Mikhail Grigorev from his tryout agreement. ECHL CHARLOTTE CHECKERS — Signed F Patrick Dwyer. READING ROYALS — Announced D Nick Luuk-
ko was added to the training camp roster. BASEBALL National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Named Brian Snitker manager and Bo Porter special assistant to the general manager, Chuck Hernandez pitching coach and Ron Washington third base coach. Exercised the 2017 contract options on bench coach Terry Pendleton, first base coach Eddie Perez, hitting coach Kevin Seitzer and assistant hitting coach Jose Castro. COLORADO ROCKIES — Announced hitting coach Blake Doyle, catching and defensive positioning coach Rene Lachemann, bench coach Tom Runnells and baserunning/outfield and first base coach Eric Young will not return. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NEW YORK KNICKS — Signed F Damien Inglis. FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Suspended Philadelphia OT Lane Johnson 10 games for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing substances. ARIZONA CARDINALS — Re-signed RB Kerwynn Williams. BUFFALO BILLS — Signed K Marshall Morgan to the practice squad. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed QB Kevin Hogan and DL Gabe Wright from the practice squad. Terminated the contract of QB Charlie Whitehurst with an injury settlement. Signed WR Mitch Mathews to the practice squad. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Released OL Dallas Thomas and Billy Turner. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed OT Jake Long. Placed OT Andre Smith on injured reserve. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Re-signed OL Ian Silberman to the practice squad. NEW YORK JETS — Claimed WR Jeremy Butler off waivers from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Released WR-KR Jeremy Ross. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed DL Joey Mbu to the practice squad. Released LB Jason Fanaika and CB Robertson Daniel from the practice squad. Indoor Football League SPOKANE EMPIRE — Signed DB Norris Wrenn. SOCCER Federation Internationale de Football Association FIFA — Named Sarai Bareman chief women’s football officer.
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WHL Eastern Conference East Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pts Swift Current 9 6 2 0 1 34 25 13 Regina 6 4 0 2 0 28 17 10 Moose Jaw 7 4 1 2 0 26 23 10 Saskatoon 7 4 2 1 0 16 18 9 Brandon 6 2 3 1 0 22 25 5 Prince Albert 7 2 5 0 0 19 25 4 Central Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pts Medicine Hat 8 5 3 0 0 32 26 10 Lethbridge 7 4 2 0 1 29 30 9 Red Deer 8 3 3 1 1 26 32 8 Edmonton 8 3 4 1 0 17 24 7 Calgary 5 3 2 0 0 10 13 6 Kootenay 8 1 5 1 1 20 29 4 Western Conference U.S. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pts Portland 9 6 3 0 0 42 31 12 Everett 6 4 1 1 0 22 13 9 Tri-City 7 4 3 0 0 27 26 8 Seattle 4 2 2 0 0 12 18 4 Spokane 4 1 3 0 0 14 20 2 B.C. Division GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pts Prince George 8 8 0 0 0 34 19 16 Victoria 8 4 4 0 0 18 20 8 Kamloops 8 3 5 0 0 26 21 6 Kelowna 8 3 5 0 0 16 27 6 Vancouver 10 3 7 0 0 30 38 6 Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns. Saturday’s Games Victoria 4 Spokane 1 Saskatoon 3 Portland 1 Regina 5 Brandon 2 Red Deer 5 Kelowna 0 Prince George 5 Vancouver 4 Moose Jaw 6 Kootenay 2 Kamloops 5 Medicine Hat 1 Tri-City 6 Lethbridge 5 (SO) Swift Current 4 Prince Albert 3 Sunday’s Games Edmonton 3 Saskatoon 2 (OT) Monday’s results
Vancouver 5 Calgary 3 Swift Current 4 Kootenay 3 Tuesday’s Games Spokane at Seattle, late Everett at Prince George, late Victoria 5 Medicine Hat 1 Vancouver 2 Edmonton 0 Portland 7 Brandon 6 Today’s Games Victoria at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Spokane at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Portland at Regina, 7 p.m. Everett at Prince George, 8 p.m. Friday’s Games Saskatoon at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Victoria at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Prince Albert at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Kamloops at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m. Everett at Spokane, 8:05 p.m. Prince George at Seattle, 8:35 p.m. Moose Jaw at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Calgary at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m. Vancouver at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Regina at Kootenay, 7 p.m. Saturday’s Games Prince George at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m. Portland at Spokane, 8:05 p.m. Brandon at Prince Albert, 7 p.m. Vancouver at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m. Regina at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Red Deer at Kootenay, 7 p.m. Swift Current at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Seattle at Everett, 8:05 p.m. Sunday’s Games Moose Jaw at Calgary, 2 p.m. NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Boston 0 0 0 0 0 0 Buffalo 0 0 0 0 0 0 Detroit 0 0 0 0 0 0 Florida 0 0 0 0 0 0 Montreal 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ottawa 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tampa Bay 0 0 0 0 0 0 Toronto 0 0 0 0 0 0 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF
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Football Canadian Football League East Division GP W L T PF PA Pt Ottawa 14 6 7 1 377 387 13 Hamilton 14 6 8 0 388 375 12 Toronto 15 5 10 0 342 467 10 Montreal 14 4 10 0 307 346 8 West Division GP W L T PF PA Pt y-Calgary 15 13 1 1 525 331 27 x-B.C. 14 9 5 0 416 370 18 x-Winnipeg 15 9 6 0 419 379 18 Edmonton 15 8 7 0 454 421 16 Sask. 14 4 10 0 283 435 8 x — clinched playoff berth y — clinched division. WEEK 16 Bye: Hamilton Monday’s results Calgary 48 Toronto 20 Edmonton 40 Montreal 20 Saturday’s result Winnipeg 37 B.C. 35 Friday’s result Saskatchewan 32 Ottawa 30 (OT) WEEK 17 Bye: Edmonton Friday’s games Ottawa at Hamilton, 5 p.m. Winnipeg at B.C., 8 p.m. Saturday’s games Saskatchewan at Toronto, 2 p.m. Montreal at Calgary, 5 p.m. National Football League
East L T Pct PF New England 1 0 .800 114 Buffalo 2 0 .600 117 N.Y. Jets 4 0 .200 92 Miami 4 0 .200 88 South W L T Pct PF Houston 3 2 0 .600 82 Tennessee 2 3 0 .400 92 Indianapolis 2 3 0 .400 137 Jacksonville 1 3 0 .250 84 North W L T Pct PF Pittsburgh 4 1 0 .800 139 Baltimore 3 2 0 .600 94 Cincinnati 2 3 0 .400 92 Cleveland 0 5 0 .000 87 West W L T Pct PF Oakland 4 1 0 .800 142 Denver 4 1 0 .800 127 Kansas City 2 2 0 .500 83 San Diego 1 4 0 .200 152 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Dallas 4 1 0 .800 129 Philadelphia 3 1 0 .750 115 Washington 3 2 0 .600 115 N.Y. Giants 2 3 0 .400 89 South W L T Pct PF Atlanta 4 1 0 .800 175 W 4 3 1 1
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Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Boston 2 1 .667 — New York 2 1 .667 — Brooklyn 1 2 .333 1 Toronto 1 2 .333 1 Philadelphia 1 3 .250 1 1/2 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 2 1 .667 — Miami 2 1 .667 — Washington 1 2 .333 1 Charlotte 1 3 .250 1 1/2 Orlando 0 2 .000 1 1/2 Central Division W L Pct GB Milwaukee 2 0 1.000 — Cleveland 2 1 .667 1/2 Indiana 2 1 .667 1/2 Chicago 1 2 .333 1 1/2 Detroit 0 2 .000 2 WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division W L Pct 2 0 1.000 2 1 .667 2 1 .667 2 2 .500 1 2 .333 Northwest Division W L Pct Portland 2 0 1.000 Denver 2 1 .667 Utah 2 1 .667 Minnesota 1 1 .500 Oklahoma City 0 1 .000 Pacific Division W L Pct Golden State 2 1 .667 L.A. Lakers 2 1 .667 L.A. Clippers 1 2 .333 Phoenix 1 2 .333 Sacramento 0 2 .000 Monday’s Games Charlotte 98, Minnesota 86 Atlanta 99, Cleveland 93 Houston Memphis San Antonio Dallas New Orleans
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Cubs rally for four runs in 9th, beat Giants to win NLDS Cubs 6 Giants 5 SAN FRANCISCO — Javier Baez’s tiebreaking single capped a four-run rally in the ninth inning, and the Chicago Cubs beat the San Francisco Giants 6-5 on Tuesday night in Game 4 to win their NL Division Series. Chasing their first World Series title since 1908, the Cubs will open the NL Championship Series at home Saturday against the Los Angeles Dodgers or Washington Nationals. That matchup is tied 2-all heading into the deciding Game 5 on Thursday. Held to two hits over eight innings by Matt Moore, the Cubs trailed 5-2 before coming back against a beleaguered bullpen that sabotaged San Francisco one last time.
Treinen, Nats not discouraged after dropping tight Game 4 Dodgers 6 Nationals 5 LOS ANGELES — Even after Blake Treinen gave up the Los Angeles Dodgers’ tiebreaking run in the eighth inning of Game 4, the Washington reliever wasn’t discouraged by his per-
CALGARY — The Calgary Flames have signed forward Kris Versteeg to a one-year contract. Versteeg, who was in training camp with the rival Edmonton Oilers, split the 2015-16 campaign between Carolina and Los Angeles and had 38 points (15 goals, 23 assists) over 77 games. The 30-year-old native of Lethbridge, 313 points (131 goals, 182 assists) and 322 penalty minutes over 550 NHL games with Chicago, Toronto, Philadelphia, Florida, Carolina and Los Angeles. He helped the Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup in 2010 and 2015.
a talented nucleus intact, beginning with re-signing captain Steven Stamkos to an eight-year, $68 million contract. Defenceman Victor Hedman received an eightyear, $63 million deal. Backup goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy got a new deal worth about $3.5 million per season after filling in admirably for an injured Ben Bishop during the playoffs. Kucherov lead Tampa Bay in playoff scoring last season with 11 goals and 19 points in 17 games. Over the past two postseasons, Kucherov has 21 goals and 41 points in 43 games. The 23-year-old scored more playoff goals than any player in the NHL over the stretch.
Lightning re-sign leading scorer Kucherov
Ristolainen signs six-year deal with Sabres
TAMPA, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Lightning have re-signed forward Nikita Kucherov to a three-year contract worth an annual average of $4.766 million. Kucherov had 30 goals and a team-best 66 points last season. The team announced the deal Tuesday, two days before the regular-season opener against Detroit. Tampa Bay general manager Steve Yzerman kept
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Buffalo Sabres have signed defenceman Rasmus Ristolainen to a sixyear, $32.4 million contract. Ristolainen was a restricted free agent whose rights were retained by the Sabres, and the signing was completed Tuesday, two days before Buffalo opens the regular season hosting the Montreal Canadiens.
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San Antonio 86, Detroit 81 New York 90, Washington 88 Sacramento 135, Maccabi Haifa 96 Utah 96, L.A. Clippers 94 Tuesday’s Games Miami 121, Brooklyn 100 Memphis 121, Philadelphia 91 Dallas 114, Oklahoma City 109 Portland at L.A. Lakers, late Today’s Games San Antonio at Orlando, 5 p.m. Milwaukee vs. Indiana at Evansville, Ind., 5:30 p.m. Houston vs. New Orleans at Beijing, 5:30 a.m. Denver vs. Minnesota at Lincoln, Neb., 6 p.m. Phoenix at Utah, 7 p.m. Thursday’s Games Philadelphia at Washington, 5 p.m. Boston at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m. Detroit at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m. Memphis vs. Oklahoma City at Tulsa, Okla., 6 p.m. Toronto at Cleveland, 6 p.m. Portland at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m. Sacramento vs. L.A. Lakers at Las Vegas, 8:30 p.m.
formance or the Nationals’ painful loss. Win or lose, Treinen and the Nationals recognize the stellar quality of baseball being played in this NL Division Series. “I didn’t make a bad pitch,” Treinen said of the down-and-in slider that Chase Utley smacked for a single to drive in the go-ahead run. “He just made a really good swing. We got a groundball. It just wasn’t where we wanted it. Tip your cap.” Two division champions with reputations as post-season underachievers have been largely outstanding in this series. Although the Nationals lost 6-5 on Tuesday in their first shot to clinch, they claim they’re actually looking forward to the grand finale. “The emotion here is so high,” said Max Scherzer, who will start Game 5 on Thursday at Nationals Park. “This is such a competitive series, and both sides are playing extremely well. Every little thing matters. Everything can go to one pitch, one play, one call. That’s why the post-season is the best. Everything matters.” The Nationals will have their ace on the mound when they try again to win a playoff series for the first time since the team relocated to Washington before the 2005 season. The franchise has won one post-season series — the Montreal Expos beat Philadelphia in 1981. Washington nearly got it done on the West Coast, but the Nationals realized they didn’t lose Game 4 as much as the Dodgers won it. Los Angeles got to inexperienced Nats starter Joe Ross for four early runs, but Washington pounded out a thrilling rally to tie it.
In just three NHL seasons, the 21-year-old Ristolainen has become Buffalo’s top defenceman since being selected in the first round of the 2013 draft. Last year, Ristolainen led the team in averaging more than 25 minutes of ice time per game, and led Buffalo defencemen with 41 points (nine goals, 32 assists). Ristolainen represented Finland in the World Cup of Hockey and then reported to Sabres training camp. He practiced with the team but was not allowed to play in preseason games.
Canes trade Sutter to Panthers RALEIGH, N.C. — The Carolina Hurricanes have acquired forward Connor Brickey from the Florida Panthers in exchange for forward Brody Sutter. The swap of prospects was announced Tuesday. Brickey is a 24-year-old who made his NHL debut last season and had one goal and four assists in 23 games with the Panthers. The Hurricanes say he will report to their AHL affiliate in Charlotte. Sutter — the 25-year-old son of former Panthers coach Duane Sutter and a member of one of hockey’s most celebrated families — has played in 12 games over two seasons with the Hurricanes but has yet to record a point.
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Avoiding aging effects of AGEs DRS OZ & ROIZEN YOU DOCS You may think grilling season is over now that autumn has officially arrived, but for 56 per cent of the 200 million Americans who live in a home with a grill (charcoal or gas) barbecuing is a year-round passion. And that means YOU may be getting endlessly dosed with potentially cancer-, diabetes-, heart disease- and wrinkle-causing AGEs, or advanced glycation end products. (They age you for sure!) The ABCs of AGEs AGEs are compounds that are produced when proteins and fats are grilled, broiled, seared, roasted or fried. Ingesting them ups inflammation throughout your body that damages your circulatory system, promotes insulin resistance and feeds cancer cells. When these foods are cooked at high temperatures, a chemical reaction happens that forms AGEs. And although AGEs are found naturally in your body, levels are hugely increased
by eating AGE-laden foods, such as beef, pork, lamb, chicken, even fatty fish like salmon, that are cooked with high and dry heat. Studies show that this increases AGEs in foods by 10 to over 100 percent. About 3 ounces of raw, skinless chicken contains 692 AGEs; broil a 3-ounce chicken breast with skin and the level zooms up to 4,364 AGEs! One roasted then barbecued chicken thigh has 7,922 AGEs! Three ounces of raw beef dishes up 636 AGEs, but grill or broil it and you hit 6,674. Even 3 ounces of oh-so-good-for-you salmon has 475 AGEs when it’s raw, but delivers 3,012 when dry-broiled. Research indicates that many folks take in 20,000 or more AGEs a day, and that number is strongly correlated with all kinds of chronic health problems that you want to avoid! Cutting what you consume in a day by HALF has enormous benefits, easing heart disease risk, insulin resistance and all kinds of conditions that are triggered or made worse by excess inflammation. So, you can have some AGEs — if they don’t come from the saturated-fat bombs found in red and processed meats and high-fat dairy (we say skip
those foods anyway!). But you’ll probably want to do whatever you can to reduce your intake. Luckily, that’s pretty easy, and you don’t have to sacrifice flavor or the joys of grilling! AGE-Reversing Cooking Techniques 1. Marinate Mucho. When you grill proteins (stick with skinless chicken or fish), marinate them for at least two hours and use ample amounts of lemon juice or vinegar. Daphne Oz (co-host of “The Chew”) offers this tasty marinade for chicken thighs: orange juice and zest, grapefruit juice and zest, garlic, parsley and EVOO! 2. When Grilling, Go for Veggies and Fruits. If you crave that grilled flavor, opt for grilling asparagus, eggplant, squash, broccoli and mushrooms (doused with garlic and lemon juice or balsamic vinegar). About 3 ounces of eggplant raw has 116 AGEs; 3 ounces grilled with balsamic vinegar has 256; and 3 ounces of grilled broccoli comes in at 226 AGEs. (Grilling nonfatty foods helps you avoid another grilling-related toxin, too: When meat is cooked at high temperatures and charred, it forms hydrocarbons that fuel DNA changes and cancer risk.) 3. Dig Into Baked, Stewed, Poached
and Simmered Entrees. Particularly tasty: poached salmon with a white wine, lemon, dill and vegetable broth liquid; chicken cacciatore; baked salmon burgers; chicken steamed en papillote (in foil on the grill) with artichoke hearts, tomatoes, red bell peppers and a lemon sauce. 4. On the Stove, Cook Low and Slow. A scrambled egg cooked over medium-low heat has about half the AGEs of a hot-griddle or hot-pan cooked egg. It’s time to reconsider that diner breakfast special with browned, dryheat-cooked eggs, super-browned toast (more AGEs) and that not-as-virtuousas-you-think side of super-crispy (often deep-fried) turkey bacon. 5. Avoid processed foods. Cut down on prepared foods and packaged meals. They usually are made using high temperature cooking to make sure all lurking bacteria are slain before packaging. That lengthens the processed foods’ shelf life, but not yours! Mehmet Oz, M.D. is host of “The Dr. Oz Show,” and Mike Roizen, M.D. is Chief Wellness Officer and Chair of Wellness Institute at Cleveland Clinic. To live your healthiest, tune into “The Dr. Oz Show” or visit www.sharecare.com.
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Professor Mats Brannstrom poses besides a photo showing the birth of a baby of a mother with a womb transplant at Stockholm IVF fertility clinic in Stockholm, Sweden. Brannstrom has made medical history by becoming the first doctor to deliver babies, five so far, from women with donated wombs, in a stunning advance that could lead to new insights into reproductive medicine and beyond.
A patient’s ‘crazy’ request for a new womb makes history BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STOCKHOLM — When the young Australian cervical cancer patient learned she had to lose her womb in order to survive, she proposed something audacious to the doctor who was treating her: She asked if she could have a womb transplant, so she could one day carry her own baby. This was nearly two decades ago, when the Swedish doctor Mats Brannstrom was training to be a physician abroad. “I thought she was a bit crazy,” Brannstrom said. But Brannstom didn’t dismiss her idea. Instead, after he returned to Sweden he began a series of painstaking research projects to learn whether it might be possible to transplant a womb, despite criticism that the unheard of procedure was dangerous, medically unnecessary, and impossible. Brannstrom went on to become the first doctor to deliver babies — five so far — from women with donated wombs. No other doctor in the world has succeeded, despite attempts in the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and ongoing efforts in China, Britain, France, the Czech Republic and elsewhere. The first of Brannstom’s patients’ babies was born in 2014 and the fifth arrived in January another is due in early 2017. Brannstrom is working with doctors at Harvard Medical School and the Mayo Clinic to help women beyond Sweden get access to the procedure. Doctors at Baylor University in Texas, including two former members of Brannstrom’s team, announced this week they performed four womb transplants. One was successful, but not yet ready to attempt a pregnancy. And scientists, many of whom were both doubtful and critical before, now believe Brannstom’s work could help them extend the use of organs for those who need transplants and learn how embryos implant in the uterus after conception, a poorly understood but critical stage in pregnancy. To figure out if womb transplants were even feasible, Brannstrom first asked Rana Akouri, then one of his doctoral students, to start experimenting in rodents in 1999.
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He picked Akouri because of her delicate surgical skills — a mouse uterus is only less than an inch long (about 2 centimetres). The surgery was so complex Akouri needed four custom-made tools to perform the microscopic operations. After nearly two years, Akouri noticed one day that the belly of one of her mice a slight bulge. Too impatient to wait, she performed a cesarean section that evening — and found two tiny babies inside. “I called Mats at 10 p.m. and told him, ‘one of our mice is pregnant!”’ she said. That night, Brannstrom said, was the first time he thought that a womb transplant in humans might actually be possible. “If it hadn’t worked in mice, we would have quit,” he said. Over the next decade, Brannstrom and his team performed hundreds of uterus transplants in rats, sheep, pigs and monkeys. Because Sweden forbids experiments in non-human primates, Brannstrom and 10 other doctors and nurses flew to Kenya nearly 20 times to perfect things like their surgical technique and the use of immune-suppressing drugs in baboons. Brannstrom described the less-than-ideal conditions in Nairobi — no regular showers and power failures during surgery — as “team-building” experiences. Wooden carvings of African birds picked up during those trips now adorn several shelves at Brannstrom’s fertility clinic in Stockholm. In 2012, it was time to try the surgery in humans. He obtained ethical permission to perform womb transplants in nine Swedish women. He then held an information session one evening in the southern city of Gothenburg, where the operations were to take place. “We were quite frank in telling them, ‘This is not an infertility treatment, you’re participating in a scientific trial,”’ he said. “We’re going into the unknown.” Of the nine women who had the transplants, two had their wombs removed when complications arose. Five women had healthy babies and the last two are trying to get pregnant. At the time, many fertility experts considered it an outlandish pursuit.
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If you’re angry or upset, you might want to simmer down before heading out for an intense run or gym workout. A large, international study ties heavy exertion while stressed or mad to a tripled risk of having a heart attack within an hour. Regular exercise is a healthy antidote to stress and can help prevent heart disease — the biggest problem is that too many people get too little of it. But the new research suggests there may be better or worse times to exercise, and that extremes can trigger harm. “This study is further evidence of the connection between mind and body. When you’re angry, that’s not the time to go out and chop a stack of wood,” said Barry Jacobs, a psychologist at the Crozer-Keystone Health System in suburban Philadelphia and an American Heart Association volunteer. He had no role in the study , led by the Population Health Research Institute at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Results were published Monday in the Heart Association journal Circulation. Earlier studies have looked at anger and exertion as heart attack triggers but most were small or in one country, or included few women or minorities. The new study involved 12,461 people suffering a first heart attack in 52 countries. Their average age was 58 and three-fourths were men. They answered a survey about whether they were angry or upset, or had heavy exertion, in the hour before their heart attack or during the same time period the previous day. That way researchers could compare risk at different times in the same people and the effect of these potential heart attack triggers. Being angry or upset doubled the risk of suffering heart attack symptoms within an hour heavy physical exertion did the same. Having both at the same time more than tripled the risk for a heart attack. The risk was greatest between 6 p.m. and midnight, and was independent of other factors such as smoking, high blood pressure or obesity. Big caveats: Patients reported their own stress or anger, and people who just had a heart attack may be more prone to recall or think they suffered one of these triggers than they otherwise might have been. Also, strenuous exertion is whatever the patient perceives it to be — for some people that could be climbing stairs and for others, running a marathon. The study also is observational, so it cannot prove cause and effect. But it’s likely to be the best kind of information available — it’s not possible to randomly assign people to be angry and exercise, then see how many have heart attacks. “This is a large enough sample size that we can put stock in the findings,” Jacobs said. “We all need to find ways of modifying our emotional reactions and to avoid extreme anger,” such as distracting ourselves, walking away from the stressful situation, trying to see it from a different perspective, talking it out and getting support from other people, he said. The study’s findings also are biologically plausible. Emotional stress and exertion can raise blood pressure and heart rate, change the flow of blood in the vessels and reduce the heart’s blood supply, said the study leader, Dr. Andrew Smyth of McMaster University. In an artery already clogged with plaque, a trigger could block blood flow and lead to a heart attack. “From a practical perspective, there will be times when exposure to such extremes is unavoidable,” Smyth said.
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NIBOURG, Jase After a courageous battle with cancer, Mr. Jase Nibourg passed away peacefully in the Red Deer Hospital on Friday, October 7, 2016 in Red Deer, AB at the age of 35. Jase will forever be remembered by his children, Peyton and Damien; his parents, Kathy and Ted Nibourg; his sisters, Amy Nibourg (Troy) and Shandra (Matt) Tymchuk; his niece and nephew, Joelle and Isaac; his grandmother, Min Nibourg; many aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, and friends that were like family. Jase was born on September 22, 1981 in Stettler, AB. He was the first born child and only son to Ted and Kathy Nibourg. Together, they raised Jase to stay humble, love deeply, and continually strive to do his best. His family moved to Red Deer when he was a young child and he became passionate about the roots he planted and the life that he built in this city. He graduated from Notre Dame high school in 1999, where he made life-long friendships. In 2005 and 2012, Jase welcomed his children into this world. He was a caring father and had a passion for teaching his children strength, bravery, and independence. He was a loyal friend and active in the local Red Deer small business community. Jase believed strongly in supporting unique, local talent. He understood the grit and determination required to build something successful, as he himself owned a personal fitness company. Jase was passionate about the relationships constructed through the support of these local businesses, often generating close, meaningful friendships. A Celebration of Life party will be held at Canyon Ski Resort, Red Deer, AB on Sunday, October 16, 2016 at 11:00 am. All are welcome to attend. In lieu of flowers, Jase has asked that a donation be made to the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation, 800 College Plaza, 8215 -112 Street, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2C8 (charitable donation# 12207 3158 RR 0001) in his honour. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca.
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BENZ, Beverly Ann June 5, 1950 to Oct. 7, 2016 The family of Beverly Ann Benz are sad to announce her unexpected passing at home, on October 7, 2016. Bev was an honest, hardworking and loyal woman. She had integrity and was our beloved mother, grandmother, daughter, sister and auntie and we were proud to call her family. Bev was the centre of our family and she was always there for us, she was our rock, and our foundation. She loved us no matter what, and she always told it like it was. She will be deeply missed. Bev leaves to mourn her children; Kim (Ron) Gagne, her beloved son Charles Ponto; her grandchildren, Jordan and Alex Ponto, Kenton and Tegan Gagne, and her mother Dorothy Bussey; her sisters and their families, Heather (Brian) Weeks, Terry (Gordon) Schlaht, Sherry (Gordon) Keith, June (Harry) Magee and her many nieces and nephews. She will also be missed by her two best friends Lois Coulson and Nadine Enns. Bev was predeceased by her sister Lynn, her father Harold Benz and her step father John Bussey. Rest in peace Mom, we will always remember. Bev’s celebration of life will be held at Sacred Heart Church, 5508-48A Ave, Red Deer, AB 1:00 pm, on Saturday, October 15, 2016.
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PERM., full-time, day, evening, 40 hours/wk., $11.30/hr., employer’s home. Optional accommodation avail. at no cost on a live-in basis. Note: This is not a condition of employment. Additional skills: assume full responsibility for household in absence of parents, supervise and care for children, prepare and serve nutritious meals. Apply by e-mail: mlcastillo0624@yahoo.ca
COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds
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Dental
LOOKING For P/T Dental Hygienist Mondays and Thursdays. Send resume to: info@ innisfaildentalcentre.ca or fax: 403-227-5116 Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS
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You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!
860
Truckers/ Drivers
SHIFT YOUR CAREER INTO HIGH GEAR! Steve’s Livestock is currently accepting applications for
JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: #3, 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Food Service Supervisor Req’d F/T & P/T permanent shift, early morning, morning, day, eves. shift weekend day night. 40 - 44 hrs/wk 8 Vacancies, $13.75 /hr. + medical, dental, life and vision benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Experience 1 yr. to less than 2 yrs. Education not req’d. Apply in person or fax 403-314-1303
Trades
850
RECCO Roofing is looking for hard working, exp. roofers and laborers. Call 403-887-8449 or e-mail: eric@reccoinc.com
Misc. Help
880
GREENHOUSE Laborers are req’d for our greenhouse operation located near Blackfalds, AB. Resp. incl’d. transplanting, watering, handling & caring for plant material & preparation of customer orders. This position is labor intensive & entails working in both hot & cold environments. Laborers are required to work a min. of 40 hours/wk. Laborers must be avail. to work different shifts, 7 days/wk. positions are avail. starting mid Jan. & last til late June. No previous work exp. or qualifications are req’d. Starting wage is $12.20/hr. Please email l resumes to Kevin@ cagreenhouses.ca or fax resume to 403-885-4147 (Attn. Human Resources.) Resumes may also be mailed to Box 100, Blackfalds, Alberta, T0M 0J0
Children's Items
1580
HALLOWEEN Costume, custom made Where the Wild Things Are, size 4 - 6. $15. *** SOLD *** HALLOWEEN Costume, Indiana Jones, size 8 - 10, $15. 403-314-9603 WINTER Jacket, youth size M. Sessions Brand, Very good Cond. $40. 403-314-9603
Clothing
1590
Ladies London Fog, size 10 reg. cranberry wool, Pea Coat. $75. 587-876-2914 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds
EquipmentHeavy
1630
TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.
Firewood
1660
B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail. PH. Lyle 403-783-2275
Household Furnishings
1720
FUTON for sale, good condition. Price reduced to $150. Call Viki @ 403-346-4263 LARGE Patio arm chair, high quality, dark wicker with black/brown waterproof cushions. 50% off at $150. 587-876-2914 TV Stand, glass, good cond. $15; desk, notty pine, $45. 403-342-1980
WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514
Misc. for Sale
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100 VHS movies, $75 for all. 403-885-5020 2 ELECTRIC LAMPS, $20. 403-885-5020 3 KITCHEN counter bar stools $65 for (all); home gym $50; girl’s bedroom and rod, $20; and 2 CLASSIFICATIONS curtain brass lamps, $50 for both. (403) 340-1347. 1500-1990 BOX Spring, twin $80; misc. knitting yarn, $10; Christmas tea pot, $10; Bicycles china tea cups with saucers, $20; 403-343-1266 WOMEN’S 12 speed WOODEN shelving, $75. mountain bike, 24” wheels. 403-885-5020 $35. 403-391-4088
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RODRIGUE, Roger Henri July 23, 1936 - Oct. 12, 2014 Honored to hold Roger in our hearts, To share our love and keep wonderful memories.
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Carol and Family
Celebrations
Announce your
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DORIS McLELLAN 90th BIRTHDAY Tea at Golden Circle Oct. 16, 2- 4 pm All friends & former students Welcome. No cards or gifts.
Cleaning
1070
HONEST, reliable house cleaner, 3 - 4 hrs. 403-598-1906 after 7 pm
Contractors
1100
BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542 DALE’S HOME RENO’S Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301
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Wonderful Things
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Entertainment
DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606
Handyman Services
1200
BOOK NOW! For indoor/outdoor projects such as reno’s, painting small tree cutting, sidewalk blocks & landscaping Call James 403-341-0617
Health Care
1210
STRESS and Pain Relief with Lyla Yip, DTCM Alternative Lifestyle coach and Therapist. For appointments or house calls contact 403-597-4828
Massage Therapy
1280
FANTASY SPA
Elite Retreat, Finest in VIP Treatment. 10 - 2am Private back entry
403-341-4445
Misc. Services
1290
A-1 GARBAGE PICK-UP and Recycling avail. weekly or occasional basis. (403) 505-4777. Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!
Painters/ Decorators
1310
JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. Free Est. 403-872-8888
Roofing
1370
PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail. WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured. 403-896-4869 QUALITY work at an affordable price. Joe’s Roofing. Re-roofing specialist. Fully insured. Insurance claims welcome. 10 yr. warranty on all work. 403-350-7602
Seniors’ Services
1372
HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777
Snow Removal
1380
SNOW removal. Contracts welcome. Blackfalds, Lacombe only. 403-358-1614
Yard Care
1430
SECOND 2 NONE Fall Clean-up ~ Trim brush, clean eavestroughs, odd jobs. Free est. 403-302-7778 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!
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Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016 The opposition-held part of Aleppo has been battered by an intensive aerial campaign since last month, when the truce collapsed after just a week. Syrian pro-government forces are also conducting a ground offensive into the rebel-held districts, advancing slowly in the north, east and south of the city.
World BRIEFS Airstrikes in Syria’s Aleppo and shelling in south kill 20 BEIRUT — Airstrikes on rebel-held parts of the northern city of Aleppo killed at least 14 people Tuesday, while the shelling of a government-held neighbourhood in southern Syria hit a school, killing at least six, including children, opposition activists and state media said. Syria’s official news agency SANA also reported rare shelling of neighbourhoods in the capital, Damascus, including several mortar shells fired by opposition groups based on the edge of the city that landed in the residential Qasaa district and close to the Umayyad Mosque, wounding an unspecified number of people. Fighting on a number of fronts across the country has intensified in recent weeks following the collapse of a U.S. and Russian-brokered cease-fire. The northern city of Aleppo, Syria’s largest and its former commercial centre, has seen particularly fierce fighting, as pro-government forces try to capture neighbourhoods in besieged opposition-held parts of the city. The activist-operated Aleppo Today TV station and Qasioun news agency say bunker-busting bombs were used in an attack on the Bustan al-Qasr neighbourhood in rebel-held eastern Aleppo. Other activist groups and a member of the Aleppo local council, Zakaria Amino, said rescue workers were searching for people under the rubble. Amino said bombs fell on a number of other rebel-held neighbourhoods.
Misc. for Sale
1760
FUTON, like new, $50; Danby dryer, top shape, $50; and Eureka vacuum, upright, bagless, like new, $50. Please leave message ~ 403-843-6325 or 403-877-0768 SOLID wood book shelf with sliding doors, $20; microwave stand, $20; Christmas decorations and crafts, $30 for all; household and misc. items, $40 for all; 2 sets of twin size sheet sets, $10 each; misc. and 2 uniquely crafted music boxes, $20 each. 403-343-1266
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Sporting Goods
Items To Give Away
WHO urges countries to raise taxes on sugary drinks GENEVA — The U.N. health agency on Tuesday recommended that countries use tax policy to increase the price of sugary drinks like sodas, sport drinks and even 100-per cent fruit juices as a way to fight obesity, diabetes and tooth decay. The World Health Organization, in a statement timed for World Obesity Day, said that the prevalence of obesity worldwide more than doubled between 1980 and 2014, when nearly 40 per cent of people globally were overweight. In a 36-page report on fiscal policy and diet, WHO also cited “strong evidence” that subsidies to reduced prices for fresh fruits and vegetables can help improve diets. It said that tax policies that lead to a 20-per cent increase in the retail prices of sugary drinks would result in a proportional reduction in consumption. Drawing on lessons from campaigns to fight tobacco use, WHO says imposing or increasing taxes on sugary drinks could help lower consumption of sugars, bringing health benefits and more income for governments such as to pay for health services. The health agency has long recommended that people keep intake of sugar to less than 10 per cent of their total energy needs. “Consumption of free sugars, including products like sugary drinks, is a major factor in the global increase of people suffering from obesity and diabetes,” says Dr. Douglas Bettcher, who heads WHO’s department for preventing non-communicable diseases. “If governments tax products like sugary drinks, they can reduce suffering and save lives.”
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Condos/ Townhouses
AIR HOCKEY table, by Sportscraft air powered, was $900 new, exc. cond, $195. 403-352-8811
CRAB Apples to give away - you pick. 403-887-5731
CANADIAN Kettle Bells, (1) 8 kg, $40; (1) 16 kg. $60. Blue Mountain Pottery, rearing horses, bookstand. $25. 403-352-8811
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THERA-BAND professional exercise ball. 55 cm. $35. 587-876-2914
rentals CLASSIFICATIONS
FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390
3030
SEIBEL PROPERTY ONE MONTH FREE RENT
6 locations in Red Deer, well-maintained townhouses, lrg, 3 bdrm, 1/2 1 bath, 4 + 5 appls. Westpark, Kentwood, Highland Green, Riverside Meadows. Rent starting at $1095. SD $500. For more info, phone 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545
Suites
3060
2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, Avail. now or Nov. 1 $850/mo., S.D. $650. 403-304-5337 ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incl’d., ADULT ONLY BLDG, no pets, Oriole Park. 403-986-6889
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WHO officials say that the U.S. is no longer the leading consumer of sugar-sweetened beverages — Chile and Mexico are now in front. They also noted rapid increase in consumption like China and subSaharan Africa. At least three in five adolescents in countries like Chile, Argentina and Algeria consume soft drinks daily, compared to between 20 to 40 per cent in the U.S. and much of Europe.
Mistrial declared in New Mexico police shooting case ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The case against two former New Mexico police officers charged in the death of a homeless man ended in a mistrial Tuesday when jurors told the judge they were hopelessly deadlocked on the counts of second-degree murder. Judge Alisa Hadfield declared the mistrial after more than two days of deliberations in the case against Keith Sandy and Dominique Perez. Nine jurors wanted to acquit the men, and three were holding out for a guilty verdict. Hadfield asked the jurors one by one if further deliberations would be fruitful and they responded: “No, your honour.” Special Prosecutor Randi McGinn said it would be up to the district attorney in Albuquerque to decide whether to retry the case. Defence lawyer Sam Bregman said he hopes prosecutors consider the 9-3 split in favour of acquittal and decide to not pursue another trial. The courtroom was silent as the judge announced the mistrial, and the defendants left court without making a comment. Albuquerque police union members were seen tapping other officers on the shoulder and hugging each other after the news. The trial in Albuquerque marked a rare effort by prosecutors to bring murder charges against officers, coming at a time when police shootings have rocked cities nationwide. Sandy and Perez shot mentally ill, homeless camper James Boyd in 2014 after receiving complaints he was acting erratically on a rocky hillside.
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NOW RENTING SELECT 1 BDRM. APT’S. starting at $795/mo. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 3 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, inÁoor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies. Call 403-343-7955
3 BDRM. townhouse in Red Deer, 1.5 bath, 4 appl. 403-887-4670 or 403-350-6194 AVAIL., 3 bdrm. townhouse close to schools and all amenities, 4 appls., rent $1100 + utils. + DD. 403-506-0054
ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $875./mo. d.d. $650. Avail. now or Nov. 1. 403-304-5337
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FOR SALE Of RENT Beautiful open concept end unit townhouse in Sylvan, 4 bath, single att. garage, 4 bdrm., (2 master suites), all appl., Àreplace, huge back deck, Àre pit, $1500/ mo., incl. town util. Avail. Nov. 1. 1-403-295-8909, 923-6570
Travel Packages
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Dogs
1900
TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone. Make your travel plans now.
BLUE heeler lab cross to give away. Good farm dog, 403-877-5678
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OPEN HOUSE SERGE’S HOMES Oct. 13 & 14, 2 - 5 6323 61 AVE RED DEER
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LACOMBE, 2 bdrm., house, 1 car garage, huge yard, avail. Nov. 1, $815 + utils. 403-352-1865
Condos/ Townhouses
3030
MORRISROE 2 storey townhouse, 3 bdrm., 11/2 bath, large kitchen, no pets, n/s, fenced yard. 403-342-6374, 396-6610
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3050
2 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $925. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Available now or Nov. 1. 403-304-5337
MORRISROE MANOR
WESTPARK 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls. Rent $875/mo. d.d. $650. Available now or Nov. 1 403-304-5337
Buying or Selling your home? Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds
Rental incentives avail. 1 & 2 bdrm. adult bldg. only, N/S, No pets. 403-596-2444
TWO furnished rooms in quiet home. Larger room has ensuite ~ N/S, no drinking, working persons. $495 + $300 s.d. Larger $610 + $350 s.d. 403-309-4155
NEW Glendale reno’d 1 & 2 bdrm. apartments, rent $750, last month of lease free, immed. occupancy. 403-596-6000
THE NORDIC
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3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $975. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage. Available now or Nov. 1. 403-304-5337
Rental incentives avail. 1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S, No pets. 403-596-2444
Warehouse Space
3140
WAREHOUSE or SHOP SPACE
2 bdrm in Clean, quiet, newly reno’d adult building. Rent $900 S.D. $700. SOUTHWOOD PARK Avail. immed. Near hospi3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, tal. No pets. 403-318-3679 PENHOLD deluxe 3 bdrm., generously sized, 1 1/2 Incld’s heat & water, COMPLETELY reno’d baths, fenced yards, sunny 2 bdrm. suite in $950/mo. 403-348-6594 full bsmts. 403-347-7473, adult bldg. at Parkview Sorry no pets. Place in Innisfail. New www.greatapartments.ca kitchen incl. appl., and new Rooms bathroom. Well-maintained For Rent bldg. with on-site manager. 4 Plexes/ BLACKFALDS, $600, Extra storage, free parking, 6 Plexes heat incl. in rent. $950/mo. all inclusive. 403-358-1614 Call Jac @ 403-227-1049. ROOM TO RENT, very 2 BDRM. 4 plex, Àreplace, LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. large, $450. 403-350-4712 incld’s water, sewer, garbage. $925. rent, $650. SUITES. 25+, adults only TWO fully furn. rooms, all n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 util. incl., Deer Park, AND sd. Avail. now or Nov. 1. 403-304-5337 Rosedale, 403-877-1294
Houses/ Duplexes
Offices
Opposite Hospital 2 bdrm. apt. w/balcony, adults only, no pets heat/water incld. $875. 403-728-2331
3110
Downtown Office
Large waiting room, 2 ofÀces & storage room, 403-728-2331 Tired of Standing? Find something to sit on in Classifieds
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for lease Riverside Light Industrial, 4614 - 61 St., Red Deer (directly south of Windsor Plywood), 2400 sq. ft. warehouse space with 1,200 sq. ft. mezzanine 55’ x 85’ fenced compound. Chuck 403-350-1777
CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190
Realtors & Services
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SINGLE CAR, RED DEER $150/mo. 403-348-6594
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Mobile Lot
PADS $450/mo. Brand new park in Lacombe. Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000. Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820
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Condos/ Townhouses
LEGACY Estates Seniors Complex, $199,900, 2 bdrm, 2 bath, all appliances. For sale by owner, (403) 318-1839.
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MICHELIN X-Ice winter tires, 205/65R-15”, $195. 403-352-8811
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$5800.
DO YOU HAVE A MOTORHOME TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.
2011 SPRINGDALE by Keystone 31’ travel trailer in mint cond., slide, $19,000 obo. lwschroh@hotmail.com or 403-347-9067
2004 MAZDA 6, black, 240,000 kms., new performance tires & rims, 1 yr. old winter tires. $2500. 587-377-5275
DO YOU HAVE A BOAT TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.
2009 29 ft. Chaparral Lite by Coachmen, 1/2 ton towable, solar panel,
power awning. Must see. $16,500 obo. 403-227-4206
2012 BURGMAN 650, heated seat/handles, 6000 kms. $8500. 403-348-8171
2005 CROWN Vic LX, full load, leather, 96,000 kms. $5700. 403-358-3721
2006 FORD Crown Victoria LX Sedan, leather, 70,000 km, $12,000 obo. 403-573-3298
DO YOU HAVE A HOLIDAY TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.
24 FT. Food Trailer, new, equipped. Trade value $24,000 or partnership in venture or cash offer. Ph. only.
1976 DODGE motor home, new tires and brakes, sleeps 6, good cond., 85,000 kms, safety inspected, $2500 obo. 403-782-4504
good cond., 4 new tires. $1,200. 403-342-5844
1997 OLDS 88 LS,
2003 MAZDA MX5, exc. cond. 78,000 kms., hardtop & roll bar incl’d. loaded. $11,400.
1978 Uniflite 28 ft. cabin cruiser live aboard, comes with new trailer. Will sell or trade for value. Ph. only. 403-304-3612
DO YOU HAVE A TENT TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.
2002 PATHFINDER 4x4, Chilkoot Edition, auto., 251,000 kms. $3000. obo 403-729-3247, 844-6939
1981 CANADIAN BLUEBIRD Ex, Forestry camperized, bus, propane, 445ci., auto. $4000. obo 403-729-3247
2006 Buick Lucerne, 4 dr. full load, blue tooth, remote start, Harold @ 403-350-6800
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OCTOBER 12 1872 — John A. Macdonald defeats Alexander Mackenzie in 2nd Dominion election; 104 seats to Liberal 96. 1917 — Robert Borden sworn in as Unionist PM; 10 Liberals and 13 Conservatives in Cabinet. 1927 — Conservatives choose R. B. Bennett as party leader replacing Arthur Meighen. 1957 — Lester Pearson awarded 1957
Nobel Peace Prize for setting up United Nations Emergency Force. 1970 — Canadian Army troops from Camp Petawawa deploy in Ottawa to meet FLQ terrorist threats. 1989 — Sydney Altman wins Nobel Prize for Chemistry with colleague Thomas Cech. 1991 — Quarterback Doug Flutie of the CFL BC Lions breaks Warren Moon’s Canadian Football League record for yards passing 1994 — Bertie Brockhouse wins Nobel Prize for Physics with colleague Clifford Shull. 2008 — Bomber damages an Encana sour gas pipeline to the east of Dawson Creek, B.C.
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SUDOKU Complete the grid so that every row, every column and 3x3 box contains every digit from 1 through 9. SHERMAN‛S LAGOON
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THE ADVOCATE B9
ENTERTAINMENT WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12, 2016
Not worried about pleasing everyone BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF
DOC WALKER
Doc Walker musicians have seen two decades of country radio trends come and go. At one time, the Manitoba-based group was considered too hard-driving for many stations. “We were told we were ‘too rock’ with (the songs) This Show is Free and Get Up. They said we didn’t have enough fiddle,” recalled the group’s lead singer and electric guitar player, Chris Thorsteinson. Now that the group recorded a new tune, complete with violin accompaniment, for its 20th anniversary bestof album, Echo Road, “we’re getting: ‘That’s too traditional.’ “It goes to show that you can never really please everybody,” concluded Thorsteinson, who performs with his band on Friday, Oct. 28, at the International Beer Haus in Red Deer. Since country music has donned and shed various influences over the years — from pop to rock to disco — and intermittently swung between outlaw country, honky tonk and alt-country, Thorsteinson said, “It’s a good thing that we try to make music that crosses boundaries.” The band formed by Thorsteinson and his school buddy Dave Wasyliw (acoustic guitarist and backup vocalist) in the mid 1990s has been releasing songs that weren’t quite on trend, yet were still embraced by listeners. “Rocket Girl was like nothing else on radio,” he recalled. “And That Train and Driving With the Breaks On also
dealt with subject matter that didn’t fall into the context of what was being played on radio at the time…” The 20 tracks selected for the new Echo Road album, which celebrates the band’s two-decade anniversary, include such hits as Rocket Girl and Beautiful Life — but also presents lesser known songs the band is partial to. Thorsteinson said the title track of Echo Road was originally recorded for the Beautiful Life album. It was supposed to get released as single, but didn’t, so Echo Road never got the attention it deserved, “but it’s still one of my favourites.” The musicians wanted to also give fans a couple of new songs. They wrote an homage to country living, Heaven on Dirt (which contains the fiddle accompaniment), and also finally recorded a unique cover of the Dan Seals song, They Rage On. The tune performed in four-part harmony has long been a favourite of live audiences, said Thorsteinson. Looking back, he can’t believe it’s been 20 years of touring and recording for Doc Walker. “I’ve got three kids, and when they were babies, people would tell us, ‘You’d better enjoy it because soon they’ll be walking and talking and going to school,’ and the kids are all in school now.” In the meantime, Doc Walker has collected Canadian Country Music Awards, more than 20 Top 10 hits from nine albums, and has been from one
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Doc Walker musicians celebrate 20 years as a band by performing on Oct. 28 at the International Beer Haus in Red Deer. end of the country to another. “Definitely it seems to have happened fast,” said Thorsteinson. “I still remember the first time we drove to Halifax and played the boardwalk there… we saw all these people
singing our lyrics. And, being from Manitoba, I remember thinking: Wow! This is a really cool thing!” For more information about the show, please contact the venue. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com
Improvising key to Guests’ mockumentary Mascots: Lynch
Craig would miss Bond role ‘terribly’ NEW YORK — Daniel Craig apparently isn’t ready to retire as James Bond. The actor told the crowd Friday at the New Yorker Festival that playing 007 is “the best job in the world.” He said if he were to stop playing the role that he “would miss it terribly.” Craig played coy about returning to the long-running spy franchise while promoting his last Bond installment, Spectre. The British actor told Time Out magazine last year that he would only make another Bond movie “for the money.” However, when he was later asked by Britain’s Press Association about reprising the role, Craig joked: “Do I have a choice?” Craig blamed his previous willhe-or-won’t-he comments at the New Yorker Festival on being away from his family and the physical strains of the role.
Bieber, Mars, Spears to perform Jingle Ball NEW YORK — Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars and Britney Spears are some of the acts set to perform during the
— JANE LYNCH
For Lynch, preparation was key. “The great thing about these movies is there’s no obligation to get to the point. (Guest) really wants you to linger and don’t feel obliged to talk or make anything happen. Just be firmly rooted in your character, so that’s why our work is done before we even start shooting,” says the veteran comic. “We create these characters and their soul in their bodies … because you can’t improvise if you haven’t made up your mind about who the character is. You have to really be specific and get it into your body and your heart and your mind and then you show up.”
NEW YORK — An appeals court says producers of a now-closed Broadway play can use Abbott and Costello’s famous Who’s on First routine over objections by the comedy duo’s heirs. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled Tuesday. The heirs had sued Hand to God producers. A lower-court judge ruled last December that the play’s use of the routine was so transformative that it con-
Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully, who recently ended his 67-year career, is returning to the air with an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday night. The 88-year-old will be making a rare appearance on a non-baseball show for his first television interview since concluding his career at a Dodgers game in San Francisco on Oct. 2, 80 years to the day he said he first fell in love with baseball as an 8-year-old in the Bronx. Other guests on the ABC late-night show are actors Colin Farrell and Laverne Cox.
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stituted fair use of a copyrighted work. The 2nd Circuit disagreed. But it said the heirs could not win their claim because they could not prove they owned a valid copyright. In the play, an actor uses a sock puppet to perform part of the famous routine almost verbatim. Attorney Jonathan Reichman, representing the heirs, said he will ask the three-judge panel to reconsider its ruling.
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‘WE CREATE THESE CHARACTERS AND THEIR SOUL IN THEIR BODIES ... BECAUSE YOU CAN’T IMPROVISE IF YOU HAVEN’T MADE UP YOUR MIND ABOUT WHO THE CHARACTER IS. YOU HAVE TO REALLY BE SPECIFIC AND GET IT IN TO YOUR BODY AND HEART AND YOUR MIND AND THEN YOU SHOW UP.’
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TORONTO — Consider comic actress Jane Lynch a weekend warrior. The former Glee star says she logged scenes for the new Christopher Guest mockumentary Mascots on the weekends, in the same way she shoots her hosting gig on Hollywood Game Night. It was because she was also working on her shortlived sitcom Angel From Hell at the time, and much of the rest of the sprawling Mascots cast similarly had competing jobs. Perhaps that’s why it took 10 years for writer-director Guest to again assemble his regular collaborators — including Lynch, Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, Parker Posey and Fred Willard — who also featured in the farces A Mighty Wind, Best in Show and most recently For Your Consideration? “I have no idea,” Lynch says during a whirlwind stop to preview the film at the Toronto International Film Festival last month. “That’s always Chris’s call. Every time we do a movie, he’s always said at the end, ‘Ah, that’s it, I’m done. I’m not going to do it again.’ And then two or three years later you’d hear from him. But we went 10 years this time. So I thought it was really over. I’m very happy we did another one.” In Mascots, which premieres Thursday on Netflix,
the action centres on the outlandish world of sports mascots, a surprisingly competitive arena of sweaty fur suits and giant wobbling heads. Guest trains his lens on a series of top mascots from around the world as they prepare to compete for the World Mascot Association’s prestigious top honour — the Golden Fluffy. Lynch plays Gabby Monkhouse, whose alter ego Minnie the Moose was lead cheerleader for a junior college baseball team. Gabby has retired from the sport, but remains in the spotlight thanks to a bestselling inspirational book and a regular gig judging the high-profile championship. There are some new faces in the pack, including Silicon Valley star Zach Woods and Louie’s Sarah Baker as a married mascots couple who squabble on and off the field, and Bridesmaids comic Chris O’Dowd, who plays an Irish lout now working in Winnipeg as a boorish hockey mascot known as the Fist. Canadian regulars Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara are notably absent from the cast, but that’s only because they were busy working on their CBCTV sitcom Schitt’s Creek, says Lynch. Guest and longtime collaborator Jim Piddock provided the cast with a detailed outline of the story and characters — but no dialogue, says Lynch. It’s always risky to improvise dialogue, says Lynch, who adds that she and co-star Ed Begley Jr. did not speak before shooting their scenes.
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Fear of flying keeping family apart DEAR ANNIE ANNIE LANE Dear Annie: My wife is terrified of flying. Always has been. Back when we were deciding on a honeymoon destination, I convinced her we should try Hawaii — and she spent the flight so on edge that it must have taken years off her life. I felt terrible. It was the last time she went on a plane. That was 15 years ago. Her phobia hasn’t interfered too much with our lives up until now. We live within driving distance of all her extended family members. The issue has to do with my parents, who live out of state. They used to come visit us once a year, and I’d usually fly out to see them once a year on my own or with one of our kids. But they’re getting older, and traveling is becoming more difficult for them. I would really like my wife to visit them with me at
least once a year. She loves my parents, but she’s so petrified of flying that she doesn’t even consider it an option. Do you have any tips to help calm the nerves of an anxious flier? Or should I give up trying to convince her? — Grounded Dear Grounded: It’s time to ground your wife’s nerves. Try to talk to her about what it is she is so afraid of. Is it the actual flying or that she might have a panic attack on the plane? Inquiring about her fears will help her feel supported and more connected to you. After she opens up, she might consider trying hypnotherapy, which some formerly anxious fliers swear by. Cognitive behavioral therapy, which asks people to examine their thoughts and the evidence (or lack thereof) that they have for their thoughts, is another option. If you still can’t get her to agree to planes, there are always trains and automobiles. Although a road trip requires more time off work, who knows? Maybe the traveling time would be a great bonding experience for you and your wife. Dear Annie: I get so many return address labels in the mail that I could wallpaper my whole house with them! I did not ask for them, and I don’t need them.
They are such a waste. Could you please print the contact info for the office that people can call to get their names off these lists? You will be doing a lot of us a great service. — Spammed Dear Spammed: The Direct Marketing Association is a trade organization comprising thousands of businesses that send direct mail. In the interest of placating the public, DMA built a website, DMAchoice. org, that lets you adjust settings to receive less or different promotional mail. In addition, register with CatalogChoice (https:// www.catalogchoice.org), whose stated mission is “to stop junk mail for good.” Another such nonprofit is 41pounds.org, named for the amount of junk mail the average American receives each year. There is no central database with which you can register to stop receiving all junk mail forever, but by dovetailing these free services, you can cancel a good amount of unwanted mail, reclaiming your inbox and sanity. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com. To find out more about Annie Lane and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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Police in Kansas town use Facebook in hunt for owner of meth CHERRYVALE, Kan. — Police in the tiny town of Cherryvale, Kansas, looking to track down the owner of an abandoned gram of crystal meth have taken their case to social media. A bag with methamphetamine was found Sept. 29 at a convenience store in the southeast Kansas community of about 2,300 people. So Cherryvale police politely posted about it on the department’s Facebook page. The post reads: “We are very concerned and would like to find the owner so please notify us and describe the packaging and we will see what we can do for you.” It’s been shared nearly 1,700 times. But Police Chief Perry Lambert says no one has come forward as the owner of the illegal stimulant — though he says he’s hopeful.
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perhaps it’s time to experiment with an adventurous new approach? VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You can expect a positive and pleasurable day. As long as you relax and donít let minor matters get to you. No one wants to be around a very stressed Virgo! Plus aim to be more spontaneous. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Seize the day! Your motto for the moment is from actress Sarah Bernhardt, who had Mercury and Mars in Libra. “Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.” SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Strategic Scorpios love to organize everything and everyone. But, with calm and cooperative Venus visiting your sign, it’s time to slip out of control- freak mode and take things as they come. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’ll quickly become bored with your usual routine so plan something special for later today Sagittarius. When it comes to a friend or acquaintance, hold onto your hat and expect the unexpected! CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Relations with a relative or neighbour will be pleasant and productive today — as long as you resist the urge to criticize. Plus find more ways you can be of service within your local community. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s time to expand your world via exciting new friendships and international contacts. If you link up with like-minded people, then it will open up new doors of opportunity for everyone. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Mars and Neptune continue to help you power through the day with plenty of compassion and a creative plan. The combination of physical endurance and emotional energy is a winning double. Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.
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