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Metro | Edmonton Edmontonians love their shopping malls — and one in particular, according to a new study. The Retail Council of Canada analyzed the revenue per square foot malls across Canada generate, and ranked Southgate Centre as the fifth biggest moneymaker — and the biggest outside of Toronto or Vancouver. According to the study, Southgate brought in $1,155 per square foot over a 12-month period ending in August 2016. Southgate’s marketing director Claire Kolmatycki said the mall is partly popular for its mix of high-end and mid-end retailers and destination shops — like Edmonton’s only Lego store — but that public transit access has also made a big difference.

“We had an expansion in 2009, and with the Southgate LRT opening in 2010 we did see a spike in traffic to the centre,” she said. “The LRT access combined with the expansion of 30 additional premium retailers helped elevate our traffic levels, as well as our sales per square foot.” While the mall’s national ranking might surprise some, it doesn’t faze the Council’s prairie director Lanny McInnes, who said Edmonton “is very much a retail hub in Canada.” McInnes attributed Edmonton’s hub status largely to West Edmonton Mall, which also remains a tourist attraction, with 50 per cent of its visitors coming from out of town. West Ed did not fare quite as well in the study, however, making $777 per square foot to place second in Edmonton and 29th in Canada. While shopping malls are struggling in the United States, McInnes said Canadian malls remain healthy, and it might have something to do with our cold winters. “Certainly with our climate, we can understand why going to the mall to socialize is an important part of our everyday life,” he said.

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Crown claims pump patent was Garland’s motive Lucie Edwardson

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A dispute over a pump patent is the likely motive for the killing of a Calgary couple and their grandson, the Crown prosecutor told a jury Monday morning. Douglas Garland, 56, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Nathan O’Brien and Alvin and Kathy Liknes in June 2014. He pleaded not guilty to all three counts Monday. In an opening statement, Crown prosecutor Vicki Faulkner said the murders were a result of a “petty grudge” held by Garland against the Likneses, stemming from a patent filed by Alvin for a pump. “A pump that never made any real money, a pump that didn’t make anyone famous,”

Douglas Garland is escorted into a Calgary police station in connection with the disappearance of Nathan O’Brien and his grandparents in Calgary on July 14, 2014. Metro

said Faulkner. The Crown alleges that Garland meticulously planned the murders of Alvin and Kathy Liknes, and that five-year-old Nathan O’Brien was tragic collateral damage after staying at his grandparents’ for an “impromptu sleepover.” It’s alleged that Garland

eventually acted on his grudge, after compiling indepth research on the Liknes couple as well as torture methods and how to kill without emotion. “A plan that stopped all footprints of life of Alvin, Kathryn and Nathan,” said Faulkner.

Nathan’s mother, Jennifer O’Brien, took the stand Monday describing her son as an active little boy who loved superheroes, and her mother as her “best friend.” She said she discovered the bloody murder scene when she returned to her parents’ home on June 30, 2014 to pick

up her son. “My family’s been murdered and he’s taken the bodies,” she told her husband before calling police. They told her to lock herself in the car for fear someone might still be in the home. Their bodies were never found, but the court heard Monday that DNA from all three was discovered at Garland’s family farm, including pieces of bones and a tooth in a burn barrel. Allen Liknes, Alvin Liknes’ son, took the stand second. During his testimony it was established that he and his father worked on a natural gas pump with Garland. According to Allen, Garland was fired by Alvin in 2007 after their working relationship turned sour and Garland failed to help Alvin with a project. At first, Allen said he never suspected Garland as he thought of him as nonconfrontational. “If anything he’s sneaky,” he said. It wasn’t until he saw a photo of the rusted green Ford F150 that he pointed police in Garland’s direction.

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The University of Lethbridge says it is lodging a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission about a longtime professor accused of espousing anti-Semitic views. Anthony Hall was suspended without pay in October following comments he made in online articles and videos suggesting there was a Zionist connection to the 9/11 attacks and that the events of the Holocaust should be up for debate. The university says its board of governors reviewed whether a complaint was warranted and justifiable. “From the findings of that assessment, the board has decided to proceed with a complaint to the Alberta Human Rights Commission against Dr. Hall for publishing statements, alone and in collaboration with others, that could be considered hateful, contemptuous and discriminatory,” it said in a statement. The administration is also reviewing complaints by members of the university community. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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working. Jeremy “It’s been an interesting two Simes years,” she said. “We increased Metro | Edmonton our penalties, we addressed landscaping requirements — Carla Stolte says Edmonton’s these are things that came Westmount neighbourhood is up we knew we needed to act split 50-50 when it comes to upon.” supporting infill. Administration is also geared “Our neighbourhood is to start moving from infillchanging a lot. Some people homes to infill-apartments — or think it’s for the good and some mid-rise developments — along people think it’s for the bad,” major routes and transit hubs. said Stolte, president of the “It would be select areas in Westmount Community League. the city, not dispersed through“Even on block to block, it’s out the neighbourhoods,” Bavery varied.” lone said. “It would be in key The city’s infill plans — areas along LRT stations and which sees new homes, or transit routes.” But infill development isn’t multiplexes, replace older residences in heritmaking Queen age neighbourMary Park resihoods — have dents happy, acreached their cording Randy two-year mark, Shuttleworth, We’re looking and planners who sits on the forward to our are going to the planning and urban planning next stage. Public development committee Wedcommittee with engagement is nesday to upthe Queen Mary date councillors going to be critical. Park CommunLivia Balone on progress. ity League. So far, plan“Some people ners have comhave experipleted 15 out of 23 action items, enced problems with the buildwhich contain a variety of ers and the developers, though projects that include creating some have been good, but that’s neighbourhood guides and a the exception,” he said. “Everycommunications strategy, and one talks about privacy conensuring development signs are cerns, shade, monster homes, posted on infill sites, among or cases where a fiveplex is proothers. posed for a space where there But Livia Balone, the city’s was only one house. I think director of development and that’s fallen on deaf ears from zoning, said the city had to city council.” create 30 new “detour items” The city is also thinking of to address resident concerns developing infill homes or combecause some things weren’t plexes on city-owned land.

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Bachelorette parties keep buff butlers in ‘high demand’ Kevin Maimann

Metro | Edmonton Monty Hope has been serving drinks in the buff in Edmonton since July. “It’s a really good gig,” he said, adding wide eyes and dropped jaws are common reactions upon his arrival. Hope works for Butlers in the Buff, earning $50 an hour plus “excellent” tips outside of his Monday-Friday job as a shipper/receiver. Now the U.K.-based company is expanding, seeking buff Edmonton guys to play party games and serve drinks, sans pants. Applicants must be charming, physically fit — and willing to wear nothing but an apron and bowtie. The company has put out a call to double its Edmonton team, saying local demand for bachelorette and birthday parties is outstripping its supply of butlers. “Demand is very high in Edmonton,” said the company’s recruitment head, Jennifer Didcott. She told Metro 10 men are needed by the end of March, in time for wedding season. Aside from serving drinks, Hope takes part in party games like “Dress the Butler,” which

ABOVE: Butlers in the Buff is on the lookout for ten new hires in Edmonton. BELOW RIGHT: “It’s a really good gig,” says Monty Hope, a butler on staff. contributed

They’ve got to be not only great looking guys, but they’ve got to have that right attitude. Jennifer Didcott

sees partiers wrap him in a toilet paper wedding dress. The woman who makes the best dress gets to drink a shot off his nearly-naked body. “You’re there having fun and everyone’s enjoying it, you’re putting smiles on everyone’s faces. It’s a nice feeling,” he said. Butlers in the Buff will conduct Skype interviews with Ed-

monton candidates every Friday through the end of February — but they’re going to be picky. “They’ve got to be not only great looking guys, but they’ve got to have that right attitude,” Didcott said. “They’ve got to be proactive and responsible and have that really fun, kind of cheeky nature that our brand is all about.”

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Heritage Council taking more risks Jeremy Simes

Metro | Edmonton Suraj Khatiwada moved to Edmonton three years ago only to discover its deep cultural communities. “Compared to other cities, I feel it’s better to settle down in Edmonton,” Khatiwada said. “It’s multicultural and people might not feel as isolated when there are more supports and

groups for them.” Khatiwada’s ‘150 Stories of Reconciliation’ project is to share tales — in print and ebook form — of people leaving their home reserves or home countries for Edmonton. It’s one of 31 organization seeking city money, one some say is an unprecedented explosion. In fact, eight new organizations have stepped forward for some cash, Edmonton Heritage Council Program Manager

(and ward 5 candidate) Miranda Jimmy said. “We’re seeing an increase of request from multicultural communities, where we’re seeing lots of opportunities,” Jimmy said, at the community and public services committee Monday. The projects come on the heels of council denying money for the Heritage Council’s plans to establish an “out-of-the-box” city museum, which Jimmy said has sat dormant since last year.

But she said the Heritage Council is taking more risks when it comes to supporting new projects. “Not all of them are going to succeed, and that’s OK,” she said. “The traditional way museums and archives work is struggling.” The Heritage Council is requesting about $348,000 for all 31 projects, which would help cover the implementation of the programs and operation costs.

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IN BRIEF Home sales rebound Home sales are not going to be as big of a boost to the Canadian economy this year as they were in 2016, the Canadian Real Estate Association said Monday as it released its latest batch of figures. The real estate association says home sales were up 2.2 per cent in December from the previous month, rebounding partially from a big drop following the introduction of new mortgage rules. The number of homes trading hands posted the biggest monthly retreat in more than four years from October to November, CREA said.

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Watchdog to investigate use of Aga Khan’s helicopter Canada’s ethics watchdog plans to take a closer look at Justin Trudeau’s recent family holiday at the Aga Khan’s private island in the Bahamas, fanning the flames of a controversy the government has so far been unable to snuff out. Trudeau’s holiday with the Aga Khan — a family friend, noted philanthropist and hereditary spiritual leader to the world’s approximately 15 million Ismaili Muslims — bears closer scrutiny, ethics commissioner Mary Dawson confirmed Monday. In a letter to Blaine Calkins, one of two Conservative MPs who filed formal complaints, Dawson said she will examine both Trudeau’s stay at the island and his use of the Aga Khan’s private helicopter to get there. Dawson wrote that she has “commenced an investigation” to determine if Trudeau broke two sections of federal ethics laws “in connection with his recent stay at and travel to the Aga Khan’s privately owned island.” The vacation included Trudeau, his wife and three kids, Liberal MP Seamus O’Regan and Liberal party president Anna Gainey, all of whom took part in helicopter flights between the capital city of Nassau and the secluded island.

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Justin Trudeau and Aga Khan in May 2016. Sean Kilpatrick/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Though not a registered lobbyist, the Aga Khan is on the board of directors of the Aga Khan Foundation, which receives tens of millions of dollars in government contributions to international development projects. “The ethics commissioner is quite right to investigate this,” Conservative MP John Brassard said in an interview. Such potential violations of ethics rules and laws raise questions about whether government spending decisions could ultimately be influenced, he added. “This is one example where the rules ... have potentially been broken,” Brassard said. “What other rules have been broken that Canadians aren’t aware of? If you do it once, they can certainly do it again. Canadians need to be mindful of this.” the canadian press

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Two Canadians were among at least five people killed Monday in a shooting attack at an electronic music festival in Mexico’s Caribbean coast resort of Playa del Carmen, Mexican authorities said. And Canadian government officials added that at least two other Canadians were wounded in the deadly incident at a popular night club. The attorney general of Quintana Roo state said three of the dead appear were part of the security detail at the

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10-day BPM electronic music festival. Miguel Angel Pech said the shooting occurred about 2:30 a.m. at the Blue Parrot nightclub, one of the BPM Festival’s venues in Playa del Carmen, just south of Cancun. Pech said a lone gunman apparently tried to enter the nightclub, but was denied access because he had a gun. The gunman began to exchange fire with another person inside, he said, and

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festival security personnel tried to stop the shooting and came under fire. Pech said it was not a terrorist attack and that three people had been detained nearby, but it was unclear if they had been involved in the shooting. “ We k n o w o f a n o t h e r shooting incident that occurred near the nightclub, but we are investigating whether that is related” to the nightclub shootings,” Pech said. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Family finds pills in tub of ice cream Niagara regional police are advising residents to be alert after discovering Advil capsules in a container of ice cream. Police say they got wind of the issue on Saturday after being called to a home in St. Catharines, Ont. They say a resident opened a sealed container of Iceberg French Vanilla ice cream and began serving it to family members before discovering about eight pills in the container. Police later identified the pills as Advil brand ibuprofen gel capsules. No one ingested the pills found inside the ice cream. the canadian press

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Poutine meets politics at Trump tailgate party Inauguration

Canada’s event at its embassy a hot ticket for U.S. bigwigs No, Donald, not Putin. Poutine. Canada’s embassy in Washington, D.C., is celebrating Donald Trump’s Friday inauguration with an invitation-only “tailgate” party featuring delectable Canadian cuisine — “including but not limited to poutine, British Columbia salmon, Canadian beef and tourtière,” embassy spokeswoman Christine Constantin said in an email. There might be tasty surprises. The 2013 party for Barack Obama’s second inauguration involved Tim Hortons coffee, Molson beer, Crown Royal whisky and BeaverTails. The embassy shindig is always one of the most soughtafter tickets of America’s celebration of democracy. Partly because Americans like Canadians, sure, but mostly because of its unsurpassed view of the parade route. The Arthur Erickson building on Pennsylvania Avenue is the only embassy located between the White House and the Capitol.

The view of the U.S. Capitol from the Canadian Embassy in Washington on Jan. 20, 2009 — the day Barack Obama took the Oath of Office to become president. Aaron Harris/Torstar News Service

The party has been held since Bill Clinton’s inauguration in 1993, though it hasn’t always been a “tailgate.” Canadian diplomats this time expect 1,800 guests, including big shots in politics, diplomacy and business. Newt Gingrich, a prominent Trump ally and the former speaker of the House of Representatives, has shown up for three inaugurations in a row. Most of the guests will hang out in the embassy courtyard and indoor Canada Room and theatre, watching Trump’s swearing-in and inaugural address on television screens.

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The elite among the elite will get to have brunch with Ambassador David MacNaughton on the 6th floor, which offers majestic views of the Capitol. Like most of official Washington’s social events, this one serves a political purpose. Canada’s schmoozing with U.S. power brokers may be especially critical at a time when the incoming president is vowing to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, impose new import taxes, pursue “Buy American, Hire American” economic policy and change the U.S. relationship with its military allies. Torstar News Service

BOYS & BANDS Military bands, Boy Scouts to join parade Military bands and units from all branches of the service, high school bands and even the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts will join newly sworn-in President Donald Trump in Friday’s Inaugural parade. More than 8,000 people are expected to follow the new president as he proceeds to the White House. the associated press

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Ottawa’s Jim Watson is Canada’s most popular mayor when stacked up against the mayors of 10 major Canadian cities, according to a new Mainstreet/Postmedia poll. Here’s how Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson measures against his counterparts in five other cities. Data courtesy Mainstreet/ Postmedia; graphic by andres plana/metro

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Suspect in Istanbul New Year’s attack captured Terrorism

Massacre claimed 39 lives, including one Canadian

The Reina club attack suspect after being caught by Turkish police in Istanbul on Monday. Depo Photos via the associated press

A gunman suspected of killing 39 people including a Canadian woman during a New Year’s attack on an Istanbul nightclub has been caught in a police operation, Turkish media reports said early Tuesday. The suspect was captured in a special operations police raid on a house in Istanbul’s Esenyurt district, private NTV television reported. The broadcaster said he had been staying in the house belonging to a friend from Kyrgyzstan. Daesh has claimed responsibility for the nightclub massacre, saying the attack in the first hours of Jan. 1 was in reprisal for Turkish military operations in northern Syria. The man identified as the suspect had been on the run since the attack.

Hurriyet newspaper and other media have identified the gunman as Abdulkadir Masharipov, an Uzbekistan national. The suspect was to undergo medical checks before being taken to police headquarters for questioning, the paper said in its online edition. Dogan news agency published what it said was the first image of the attacker. It showed a bruised, black-haired man in a grey, bloodied shirt being held by his neck. Private NTV television said the gunman had resisted arrest. NTV reported that the suspect’s Kyrgyz friend and three other people also were detained. His four-year-old child, who was with him at the home, was taken into protective custody. Hurriyet newspaper said the alleged gunman’s wife and oneyear old daughter were caught in a police operation on Jan. 12. Police established his whereabouts four or five days ago, but delayed the raid so they could monitor his movements and contacts, NTV reported. The associated press

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Survey finds parents main culprits of abuse It would often happen late at night. A father, respected as a professional and family man, would awaken his two toddler daughters and take them to his back office, away from the bedrooms where their mother and siblings slept. Groggy and confused, the girls would follow his instructions and pose naked against a studio backdrop or with props such as boas and coconut bras and hula skirts. As they grew older, strange men would arrive when their

mother was away. Under their father’s guidance, the girls would reluctantly agree to do what they were told. “I would see him over me and we were both naked,” recalls Odette, now 23, one of three sisters speaking publicly for the first time about the abuse their father inflicted. “He would tell me it was a special bond for us.” The father would post their special bond with parents and abusers across the U.S. and Europe as a central player in an international child exploitation ring involving more than a mil-

lion images. Odette and her sisters Rosemary and Lucy (pseudonyms they chose) are among the victims of what a new international survey conducted by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection suggests is a widespread tragedy — child exploitation rings led by parents of the abused. Responses from 128 child abuse survivors across North America and Europe found 52 per cent were victimized by a network of abusers, overwhelmingly involving their own parents, who shared images and

even their children themselves with others. In most cases — nearly 70 per cent — images were then shared with millions more strangers online. Most survivors are haunted by the online life of the imagery. More than 70 per cent surveyed said that the imagery never ends and makes them feel vulnerable to being recognized. About 90 per cent said their abuse affected both their education and professional success, in part because they know their victimization continues online. Torstar news service

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Global digest Northern ireland Unity government falls Northern Ireland’s shattered unity government will be dissolved next week to make way for an early election demanded by the coalition’s main Irish Catholic party, the secretary of state for the British territory announced Monday. Secretary of State for Northern Ireland James Brokenshire said the election to re-elect the Northern Ireland Assembly would be held March 2, six weeks after its dissolution. South korea Samsung scion accused In a departure from the leniency typically given South Korean big businesses, prosecutors on Monday requested the arrest of the de facto head of Samsung Electronics, the country’s most valuable company, in an influence-peddling scandal that has toppled the country’s president. Lee Jae-yong, the vice-chairman at Samsung Electronics, faces allegations of embezzlement, of lying under oath during a parliamentary hearing and of offering a bribe of 43 billion won ($36 million US) to a long-time friend of impeached President Park Geun-hye. Kyrgyzstan Cargo plane crash kills 37 A Turkish cargo plane crashed Monday in a residential area just outside the main airport in Kyrgyzstan, destroying half of a village and killing at least 37 people in the plane and on the

ground, the Emergency Situations Ministry said. The Boeing 747 crashed at 7:40 a.m. local time while approaching Manas airport, south of the capital, Bishkek, in this Central Asian nation. Footage from the scene showed the plane’s nose stuck inside a brick house and large chunks of debris scattered around. Nigeria Bombers kill professor, child Three suicide bombers, including a child, exploded at dawn Monday at Nigeria’s northeastern University of Maiduguri, killing a university professor and another child, witnesses and police said. The bombers also died. One blast ripped through the mosque where professors were saying dawn prayers and at least one is among victims, police and rescue officials said. The second explosion occurred when police patrolling the back of the university shot a 12-year-old girl strapped with a suicide vest, setting off the explosives. IRAN Obama warns nuclear deal is better than going to war U.S. President Barack Obama is marking the first anniversary of the Iran nuclear deal by warning the Trump administration that the accord can’t easily be undone and is preferable to war. Obama says the agreement is the product of years of work between Iran and six world powers. He says a diplomatic solution is better than an “unconstrained” Iranian nuclear program or another war in the Middle East. THE Associated PRESS

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ON PROGRESSIVES LOSING THEIR OWN GAME

Direct action is not an exclusively left phenomenon. In fact, it was activism, in various forms, that won the U.S. election for Donald Trump. With the publicity of activist movements like Idle No More, Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street, it’s easy to say that activism failed to win the American election. In fact, activism elected Donald Trump. Activism, too, will be necessary in the next few years. After the election of Barack Obama, two ongoing phenomena strengthened in volume and vigour. First, there was the Republican strategy of engineering the boundaries of electoral districts to its own advantage. Having won governorships and legislatures in key states like Pennsylvania and Michigan after redistricting campaigns, the GOP began winning at the national level where Democrats had usually won or traditionally had a fighting chance. With millions of dollars in funding, such efforts changed the electoral map. In politics, malfeasance is the name of the game. Done artfully, it’s strategy. This was at time when resistance to the ideas that elected Barack Obama began to coalesce online. In spaces once devoted to gaming and picking up women, men (and some women) shared their frustrations with being alienated by the gains of feminism and identity politics. Thus, they organized. These activist streams

found common cause across the Obama years on issues like abortion, and equal marriage. In Trump, however, the net effect: a society that has more readily accepted the racist, sexist and xenophobic politicians who now enjoy broad governing power across the

Focus on people’s economic anxiety. Get out of your bubble. Stop talking about race. It’s very liberal to dull the edges of one’s harshest criticisms. It is a crazymaking proposition. The solution shouldn’t be to back off. The left needs to

GOOD for GOOSE, GOOD FOR GANDER President-elect Donald Trump raises his fist, a gesture that since ancient times has signified resistance, at a rally in Alabama in December. getty

federal branches and in almost two-thirds of states. Clearly this amounts to a virulent and intolerant brand of activism. And it has radically altered politics. And yet, in the aftermath of the election, left-leaning people have been told to dilute their messaging.

become louder and more forceful in its criticism and its co-ordination. There are a breadth of activist groups, from the water defenders of Standing Rock to the organizers of Black Lives Matter, advancing a cultural conversation around human rights. The liberal majority that

DAILY ACTIVIST AFFIRMATION Heed Joe Hill! “As 2017 kicks off, labour organizer and singer Joe Hill’s centuryold words as he faced a Utah firing squad (“Don’t waste any time in mourning. Organize!”) have taken on a renewed meaning. In the face of what can seem like overwhelming odds, time and time again, people have shown that successful organizing against injustice, building power through building and strengthening organizations and community depends on lots of vital but unseen everyday ‘grunt work.’“ - Prof. Aziz Choudry, author of Learning Activism

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voted for Hillary Clinton is ready and willing to be mobilized. Within this broad coalition, however, lies the problem of going high when others go low. After a firebombing at a local North Carolina GOP office in October, liberals crowd-funded in sympathy. Mind you, this is a party that was already in power and had passed some of the country’s most restrictive voter-ID laws such that large numbers of black voters were disenfranchised. After all that do-gooding, Trump won the state. In this way, the focus on winning over hearts and minds was divorced from political pragmatism. The Canadian political equivalent is, in our fashion, much more laughable. Members of the left-ofcentre parties — Green, NDP, Liberal — have been enrolling in the Conservative party in order to ensure Kellie Leitch won’t win the leadership race. Again, rather than doing any number of activities to bolster the liberal cause, voters on the left are handing their money to the literal opposition. (At a cost of $15 for a year, that’s three elitist lattes they could be sipping on.) The fight for human rights, against oppression and towards equality isn’t easy and it never ends. And, right now, the forces on the other side are showing, by their willingness to organize and act collectively, that they simply want it more. Whether he’s a tyrant or simply a toddler, millions of lives and livelihoods are at the mercy of Trump’s whims. Protecting them — and one another — will require activism with clarity and courage.

In November, I wrote gleefully in this space about a feminist revival in Edmonton. It was after Calgary MLA Sandra Jansen crossed the floor from the PC Party to the NDP, thanks to gender-based abuse, but before I knew President Donald Trump was going to be a real thing. But I still don’t think my optimism was folly. Indeed, while I’ve heard many compare 2016 to a dumpster fire, the thing about a fire is that we can now see what it has lit to flame in 2017. There’s activism ramping up across Edmonton and it’s taking many flavours. One of those is women in politics. Jansen’s experience illuminated harassment. The former PC leadership candidate performed a local version of mean tweets targeting her on the floor of the legislature. Many of the tweets contained the words “bitch” or the Cword. It’s time to see the support for Jansen lead to progress. One place could be at the ballot box. The countdown to Edmonton’s municipal election this October is on and Equal Voice North is hosting a campaign school for women interested in running. Of the 12 councillors overseeing Edmonton, there’s currently just one woman. Are there women out there who are capable of being on city council? Of course. It’s a chicken-and-egg thing, though: In order for women to see themselves in the role of elected officials, they need

to see women in those positions. This year also promises to be big for environmental activism in Alberta. The federal cabinet has approved the Kinder Morgan Pipeline expansion and Enbridge’s Line 3 from Alberta to the U.S. Midwest. Don’t expect people to be quiet. A Lakota prophecy talks about a black snake that slithers across the ground. And as Standing Rock Sioux tribal chairman Dave Archambault told media, when the snake goes underground it will devastate the Earth. This prophecy was at the heart of the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The protests worked: the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied permission for the pipeline to cross Lake Oahe. This small victory has energized environmentalists and indigenous activists. Jane Fonda made national headlines when she visited Alberta to agitate against the pipeline approvals and the oilsands at large. Of course, Canada has its own history of indigenous activism. Many are comparing the DAPL pushback to the 1990 Oka crisis, a monthslong standoff where a Mohawk group objected to land development in Quebec. Expect more of the same in 2017. Issues like climate and gender parity have never seemed more crucial than now. With ostensibly progressive governments at all three levels fumbling to take the lead on many of these issues, it’s going to be the people of Edmonton who make important voices, including indigenous people and women, heard. I expect it to happen. Philosopher Cat by Jason Logan

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The separation of dog ‘parents’ can be tough on the pooch too As Tiana Leonty and Jarret Wright’s relationship was ending their biggest concern was “What do we do with Rex?” The 72-pound German shepherd mix was a handful. Almost five years old and racked with separation anxiety, a condition they expected would only be aggravated by losing a “parent” in a leash tug of war. They bought him together, trained him together, and adored him together. “We both loved Rex right away,” says Leonty, who, like Wright, grew up with a dog. Rex came into their lives in 2015 as a three-year-old rescue. The Toronto-based actors, who had been living together for two years, broke up just four months after getting the dog and faced the question of what to do with Rex. “I could not take him from Jarret. It would break my heart,” Leonty says. Wright too couldn’t part with Rex or take him from Leonty, so the ex-couple decided to “co-parent.” instead. This arrangement could become more commonplace as millennials opt to adopt pets rather than have babies as they delay marriage and home ownership. Breakups involving pets don’t always end this well. A judge in Saskatchewan recently rebuked a childless couple in family court over an application to determine where two of their dogs would

Sharing Rex with the ex Tiana Leonty and Jarret Wright have shared custody of their five-year-old dog Rex for a year since their split. torstar news service

stay while the divorce is finalized. The wife asked that the case be treated with a “custody approach” as with kids in a divorce, but the judge decided a “dogs are property” approach was best. In a 15-page decision, the judge recommended the dogs stay with the wife’s parents in the interim. “In Canada, we tend not to purchase our children from breeders,” wrote Justice Richard Danyliuk, noting that, while “there is a distinction between animals and inanimate objects, it is also true that both are prop-

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erty and are not dealt with under child custody principles.” At the Toronto Centre for Canine Education, Caryn Liles has counselled clients during pet custody negotiations. She has successfully co-parented a three-legged dog with an ex for 10 years. The dog, Parker, died last year at the age of 14. “He was a really sensitive dog in a lot of ways but really bombproof in others. He was comfortable going back and forth; he didn’t feel uprooted every time,” says Liles, who lived a 20-minute streetcar ride from her ex when

they shared Parker. Liles often suggests a “trial period” where the “co-parents” try shared custody for a couple of months and

When Jill Sockwell’s marriage came apart, her plan was to binge read her way through the selfhelp section at the bookstore. What the mom of two from Maplewood, N.J., found, however, is that those shelves offered mostly dry, clinical books on “surviving” divorce, usually penned by therapists. “On the flip side there were the memoirs like Eat, Pray, Love,” says Sockwell, “but I didn’t have the time or the budget to go find myself in Bali. I had to find myself on my couch while my kids were asleep in bunk beds.” She did, however, have time to find a new friend in Suzanne Riss, also recently separated. Together they founded a network of single moms called the Maplewood Divorce Club and co-authored a new book called The Optimist’s Guide to Divorce: How to Get Through Your Breakup and Create a New Life You Love.

You’ve said you wanted to challenge the notion that divorce is one of the worst things that will ever happen to you. How so? I remember reading this quote: “The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning,” by (former U.S. treasurer) Ivy Baker Priest. I was like, “That’s it! This will be challenging, undoubtedly. It’ll be hard for me, it’ll be hard for my ex — it’s going to be hard for the kids. But I’m going to find purpose from this.”

pet pre-nup Animal lawyer Suzana Gartner recommends couples formulate some kind of “pet pre-nuptial” agreement and a postbreakup “pet co-ownership agreement” to avoid mediation.

How do people start down that path when at the beginning they’re so devastated? Part of creating a new life when you’re going through a separation and divorce — the first part really — is acceptance. So it’s kind of getting unstuck from the “coulda,

then reassess. “If the dog is experiencing behaviour challenges like reactivity or aggression or general anxiety or separation anxiety, shared custody — the back and forth, the uprooting — can be really traumatic for them,” she says. That’s what made Leonty nervous about co-parenting Rex with Wright, who was more adamant that they try joint custody. “I was worried about Rex because he’s a rehab dog and the ideal situation is for the dog to have one owner,” says Leonty, repeating the advice of multiple shoulda, woulda-ing” of the past. To say, “This is really happening.” And then once you’ve accepted that, you have to choose how to move forward. Maybe you don’t want to stay (where you’re living). Maybe you won’t have to. Maybe you never went on a beach vacation because he didn’t like the beach. There’s little things like that that you get to choose differently now, and then there’s big things, like maybe you’re going to have a new career. It’s guaranteed that your life is going to look different and be different. So once you have accepted that, you can move to the place of being empowered to create a whole new life. There’s such a good message in your book about using the end of a relationship to introduce positive changes in your own life. You changed

dog trainers. But ultimately, they decided they’d need each other’s support in caring for Rex. “We didn’t want to give him up, so we thought we’d do this and see how this works,” says Jarret. “It’s like sharing a kid.” When they moved out, they decided to live just three blocks apart to make the swapping easy. They didn’t draw up any “custody” papers, but soon developed a flexible “3-4/4-3” system: she has Rex for 3 days; he gets Rex for 4, then she for 4 and so on. After one year of co-parenting the arrangement has been a success. When sharing doesn’t work, some people get litigious. That often gains media attention but disputes over animals rarely make it before a judge, says Mike Saini, University of Toronto social work professor and custody evaluator for the Office of the Children’s Lawyer. “Most people can resolve their disputes without the courts,” he says. “Family courts are already overtaxed by too many cases. I would rather see these cases be triaged in a different way.” Animal lawyer Suzana Gartner recommends couples formulate some kind of “pet pre-nuptial” agreement and a post-breakup “pet co-ownership agreement” to avoid mediation. Leonty and Wright aren’t thinking about paperwork. After a year of sharing Rex, they’ve passed the “trial period.” “If a partner comes into the mix, they have to accept the arrangement and the dog,” says Wright. “Beyond that they have to accept who my friends are and my ex is one of my closest friends.” torstar news service career. How have you seen that playing out for the other members of the Maplewood Divorce Club? I think what’s interesting is that we put ourselves in little boxes, as humans, and everybody does it. And I think when you get divorced, it’s a great time to get a box cutter and say, “I’m going to give myself a lot more freedom to take stock of who I am right now and what I might want.” So what we see a lot in the group is that people make some dramatic changes. They buy new houses. They switch careers. We see people really delve into their past relationship patterns and do a lot of hard work on themselves with the hope and the intention of really switching it up, changing their lives and making the best of every day. torstar news service

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Doctors Without Borders — known outside North America as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) — has had a tough several years. The organization was left holding the world’s (barf) bag as the major clinical provider on the ground during the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa. It’s still reeling from the 2015 U.S. airstrike on an MSF hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan that killed scores of patients and 14 staff. Meanwhile, the charity that has been the world’s hospital for 40 years has taken on the role of the world’s ambulance, too, by manning three ships tasked with rescuing desperate, drowning migrants from the Mediterranean. Metro spoke to Joanne Liu, a Canadian pediatrician and MSF’s international president, about her worries and hopes for global health in 2017, and how, despite being neutral, the group has been forced into an activist role. How bad was 2016 from your vantage point? It was a tough year. Flouting of international humanitarian law happened over and over again. We pushed for UN resolution 2286 — it was

Joanne Liu, international president of Médecins Sans Frontières, treats patients in South Sudan in 2015. contributed

actually passed unanimously and backed by 85 countries — but we didn’t have much of a change in the field. As well 2016 has been a really, really, scandalous year for people who are in forced displacement. States have been flouting their commitment to giving protection to refugees. Which countries specifically need to shape up? Collectively, something needs

to happen. But the European Union with the EU-Turkey deal is one of the big issues. They have externalized the management of their border to Turkey, which already has three million refugees. They gave (Turkey a deal worth 6 billion Euros) and said “We don’t care, just take care of them.” Only 70,000 refugees will have access to Europe. This is really outrageous. As you look into 2017, is the

migrant crisis going to be your top issue? My top priorities are the attack on the medical mission (in Kunduz); the follow-up of that. Second is the forced displacement crisis. Third is legacy of Ebola, and fourth is the antimicrobial resistance crisis. What are the challenges around Ebola today? About 15,000 people survived (the 2014-16 outbreak). Survivors are patients. They still

carry the virus in their body fluids for a time. The other part of the legacy is developing tools to fight Ebola if it were to come around again. Ebola was discovered in 1976. (In 2014) it had no vaccine, really, no specific treatment, and no rapid diagnostic test. This showed us the failure of the research and development model, which, today, is driven by market potential. So now a lot of people, we’re saying we need tools to respond

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On a recent episode of Black-ish, the Johnson family reacts with shock to Donald Trump’s win. ap file

Months after the U.S. elected Donald Trump, Dre Johnson’s (Anthony Anderson) ad-agency colleagues can’t stop arguing about it. Stevens (Peter Mackenzie) blames black voters. Daphne (Wanda Sykes) blames white women. Dre snorts. “Why do you not care about our country?” Stevens asks. “I love this country,” Dre replies, “even though at times it doesn’t love me back.” In the background, Nina Simone begins singing Strange Fruit. Photos of segregation and urban blight fill the screen.

There’s increasing rhetoric that refugees and asylum seekers are not legitimate, that they’re queue jumpers… Today, someone who is fleeing for his life is treated as a criminal when he arrives somewhere. Even if we don’t think someone is entitled to the label of refugee, they still should be treated with dignity. I think in the 21st century we should be giving dignity to every single human being on earth.

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When people thought of MSF ten years ago, they weren’t thinking of people being rescued from the Mediterranean. What has that been like? I’m glad that MSF has been able to morph and adapt to the needs of the population in need. This isn’t the first time we’ve done this. When HIV came, we didn’t know how to treat it. We developed the know-how as we went along. And I think that’s what we’re doing as well right now with the forced displacement crisis.

“The system has never worked for most black people,” Dre says in voice-over. “But we still tried to do our best, even though we had to live in neighbourhoods you wouldn’t drive through. Send our kids to schools with books so beat up you couldn’t read them. Work jobs you wouldn’t consider. “I’m used to things not going my way,” he sums up. “I’m sorry that you’re not and it’s blowing your mind.” From the opening shot — the Johnson family reacting with shock to Trump’s election — you knew this was a Very Special Episode, the sort of cultural commentary Norman Lear did on All in the Family (rape) and Maude (abortion).

Black-ish creator Kenya Barris is stepping up to be the new Lear — see his prior episode about police shootings of unarmed black men. Here, he dives deep. I don’t have room to quote Dre’s whole speech, but it’s powerful, culminating in a cri de coeur about slavery. The episode ends on a call to come together. But Barris has most certainly thrown down a gauntlet about where he’s coming from. Black-ish airs Wednesdays on ABC and City. Johanna Schneller is a media connoisseur who zeroes in on pop-culture moments. She appears Monday through Thursday.

Ivanka ready to ditch style biz for politics She may not be working in the White House, but that doesn’t mean Ivanka Trump is staying out of politics. Although she has said she will have no official role in her father’s administration, Ivanka Trump has been quietly laying the groundwork for an effort that could make her perhaps the best-connected policy advocate in Washington. In a Facebook post detailing her next moves, the lifestyle brand mogul thanked people who had reached out on issues and added that she is determining the “most impactful and appropriate ways for me to serve our country.” the associated press

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Your on-campus resolutions are crashing down. Here's how to get 'em back on track Whether it was to stay away from second helpings at the campus cafeteria or set aside two hours a day for study time, you burst into 2017 with a resolution you were sure you’d stand behind for the whole semester. But the unpredictable events of adult life have come into play, and the solemn oaths you took for the new year are already slipping away. Should you throw in the towel altogether or reset, reframe and re-resolve? “Breathe, don’t panic and bring yourself back to the goal that was important to you,” says Laura Mitchell, director of the student success centre at Concordia University. “You’ve fallen behind but you can get back on track and it won’t help to keep being angry at yourself.” Mitchell emphasizes that when rethinking your resolution, the most important thing is setting goals that are ultimately achievable. “The new year can give us that motivational rush to make changes, but thinking through your goals more carefully and setting smaller milestones can prevent discouragement and giving up soon after.” Dr. Simon Sherry, registered psychologist and associate professor at Dalhousie University, agrees that there is no need to hang all your hopes on that particular January 1st date. “Pick another temporal landmark and start again. Birthdays, anniversaries, holidays or even Mondays all represent opportunities to start anew,” he says. “Compassion is key. Be kind to yourself and be accepting of slip-ups. Changing behaviour is hard. And nobody pitches a perfect game. Anna-Lisa Ciccocioppo, counsellor in the student wellness centre at the University of Calgary, points to the benefit of determining ‘SMART’ resolutions, or rather, goals that are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time-limited. “Saying, ‘I resolve to bring up my grades this semester’ isn't helpful,” she says. “But if you apply SMART goal criteria, a student might say instead as a long-term SMART goal, ‘I would like to achieve a B+ in my Economics class by the end of the semester’ and then develop smaller SMART goals for each week and each day.” Dr. Simon Sherry emphasizes above all that if a student chooses to engage in an on-campus resolution, no matter the time or specifics, the wherewithal to see it through will likely be determined by the personal nature of the objective itself. “Don't live out someone else's goal for you,” he says. “Ignore naggers and haters and select a goal that ref lects your interests and your values. Be true to yourself and pick a resolution that fits with who you are and what you want.” —LIZ BEDDALL

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Jays ‘working hard’ to keep hold of Jose Outfielder Jose Bautista and the Toronto Blue Jays are “working really hard” to bring him back to the club, a person with knowledge of the negotiations told the Associated Press on Monday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because negotiations are ongoing. The sides are discussing one-, two- and threeyear agreements. Bautista, 36, hit 22 homers with 69 RBIs last year while batting .234 in an injury-slowed season. Bautista (265) ranks second behind Carlos Delgado (336) on Toronto’s career home run list. After Toronto ended a 22-year playoff drought with an AL East title in 2015, Bautista hit a memorable three-run homer in Game 5 of the AL Division Series against

Texas, punctuating his shot with a bat flip. He did not accept Toronto’s US$17.2 million qualifying offer. Jose The Blue Jays’ Bautista failure earlier getty images this off-season to re-sign fan favourite Edwin Encarnacion did not go over well in Toronto, which led the AL in attendance. Encarnacion signed a $60 million, three-year deal with Cleveland after the Jays withdrew their $80M, four-year offer and reached a $33M, three-year agreement with Kendrys Morales. Encarnacion hit 42 home runs and tied Boston’s David Ortiz for the AL RBIs lead at 127. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

IN BRIEF Warriors cruises past Cavs Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors looked ready to trade some more blows with LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers come June. The two-time reigning MVP hit five 3-pointers

and had 20 points while matching his season best with 11 assists in Golden State’s 126-91 rout of the defending champs Monday. Klay Thompson scored 26 points while Kevin Durant netted 21. the associated press

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Pair netted five goals between them in Pens comeback win Conor Sheary scored 34 seconds into overtime and the Pittsburgh Penguins ended the Washington Capitals’ nine-game winning streak with a wild 8-7 victory Monday night that included nine second-period goals. Sheary had two goals and an assist for the Penguins, who snapped a three-game losing streak. Evgeni Malkin picked up his 11th career hat trick during a frenetic second period, and Sidney Crosby collected his NHL-leading 27th goal to go with three assists. Bryan Rust and Nick Bonino also scored for Pittsburgh, and Matt Murray got the win despite allowing seven goals on 28 shots. The Penguins trailed 3-0 before scoring six goals in less than 11 minutes in the second period, more goals than the Capitals had allowed in a game all season. Pittsburgh led 6-5 after 40 minutes. Lars Eller scored twice for Washington, and T.J. Oshie, Brett Connolly, Nicklas Backstrom, Justin Williams and Andre Burakovsky also found the net. Philipp Grubauer made eight saves after coming on in relief of Braden Holtby, who was pulled during Pittsburgh’s second-period deluge. The Capitals came in with the NHL’s best defence, leading the league in goals against while rocketing to the top of the hyper-competitive Metropolitan Division.

Sidney Crosby and the Penguins celebrate Connor Sheary’s overtime goal against the Capitals on Monday night in Pittsburgh. Gene J. Puskar/The Associated Press

Malkin’s 19th of the season, a second period one-timer from the right circle, put the Penguins on the board at 3-0 down 6:28 into the second, sparking a span of 10:51 in which the goalies on both sides found themselves fishing the puck out of the net a combined eight times. It looked like a hockey video game with the setting set to “rookie.” Some were pretty, like Sheary’s backhand deflection by Holtby that came after a perfect cross-ice feed from Crosby that split the legs of Washington’s Karl Alzner. Some were odd, like Rust’s innocent flip from behind the

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net that ricocheted off Alex Ovechkin’s skate and by a surprised Holtby. The Capitals hadn’t allowed more than five goals in a game this season. Pittsburgh put up six in less than 11 minutes, the last coming as Malkin jammed the puck by a sprawled Grubauer. The fans, perhaps a bit stunned, waited a beat before

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tossing their hats onto the ice after the Russian star’s third goal. Referees spent several moments reviewing it to see if Hornqvist — sliding on his stomach — interfered with Grubauer. When it was confirmed, another handful of hats flew from the stands to celebrate Pittsburgh’s first sixgoal period since March 21, 2000 against the New York Islanders. And neither team was done. Crosby gave the Penguins a 7-5 lead 5:55 into the third, but Oshie and Eller beat Murray to tie it and assure each team of at least a point.

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Pittsburgh will need star QB at his best to topple Pats The New England Patriots got a break by not having to face Ben Roethlisberger during their regular-season win over the Steelers in October. The Patriots’ coaching staff is expecting to get his best this time around with a trip to the Super Bowl at stake. The 27-16 home loss to New England was the only game the Steelers’ 34-year-old quarterback missed due to injury this season. He was away less than a month after undergoing surgery to repair the meniscus in his left

Roethlisberger right now is) very mobile, very healthy. Matt Patricia, Patriots defensive coordinator

CFL Eskimos sign ex-Argo receiver Hazelton The Edmonton Eskimos have signed Vidal Hazelton, who joined the team’s practice roster last year after being part of a wide receiver purge by Toronto. The New York native had 27 receptions for 361 yards and three touchdowns in eight games for the Argonauts last season when he was cut along with Kevin Elliott, Tori Gurley and Phil Bates after a loss to Montreal. Hazelton had a strong 2015 with Toronto with 70 receptions for 803 yards and six touchdowns and was the East Division finalist for CFL Rookie of the Year. the canadian press

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knee Oct. 17. He was also among several Pittsburgh players that sat out the regular-season finale against the Browns to rest. Backup quarterback Landry Jones was serviceable in just his third career start in Roethlisberger’s absence. The Steelers outgained the Patriots 375-362, but were 1 for 4 in the red zone and Jones finished with only one touchdown and an interception. Pittsburgh is expecting, and will need a stronger performance from the quarterback position this time around. Coach Bill Belichick said Monday that Big Ben’s return makes the Steelers’ primary offensive options — running back Le’Veon Bell and receiver Antonio Brown — only that much harder to contend with. Bell rushed for 81 yards in the first meeting and Brown had seven catches for 106 yards. “They’re a tremendous offence. Kansas City was able to make some plays in the red area, but I mean (the Steelers) could’ve easily been up in the 40s,” Belichick said. “They do a lot of things well; can run it, can throw it. Brown’s the main guy, but all of the re-

ceivers, tight ends, backs, I mean they’re all a problem.” The Chiefs may have planted the seed for how to keep Roethlisberger out of the end zone, however. The Steelers were held without a touchdown in Sunday’s 18-16 divisional-round win over Kansas City. They also ranked 12th in the NFL during the regular season in red zone efficiency, scoring a touchdown on 59 per cent of the trips inside the 20-yard line. They were 0 for 5 in their trips against Kansas City. Roethlisberger had 13 touchdowns and only three interceptions in the red zone in 14 regular-season games. But so far in the playoffs, Big Ben has just two total passing touchdowns and three interceptions. Still, the Steelers coaching staff’s trust in him to throw the deep ball is something that will be a point of emphasis this week, Patriots defensive coordinator Matt Patricia said. In particular he said Roethlisberger’s calm in the pocket and his offensive line’s ability to protect him helps him buy time to improvise. “If those plays can get ex-

Ben Roethlisberger led the Steelers to an 18-16 win over the Kansas City Chiefs in a divisional round playoffs on Sunday. Matthew Stockman/Getty Images

tended or prolonged, that’s when it becomes really difficult,” Patricia said. “I think Roethlisberger right now (is) very mobile, very

healthy, a guy that showed even again (Sunday night) that just a slight bit of movement or a slight bit of ability to maybe evade the

rush, or stand in there just a little bit longer gives his guys enough time to get open in those situations.” the associated press

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Falcons’ Jones to play in conference final “We’ll limit him throughout Don’t fret, Atlanta Falcons fans. Julio Jones will be ready to go the week, and then as the week in the NFC championship game. progresses, we’ll get him a little Coach Dan Quinn insisted more at the end,” the coach said. Monday that his All-Pro receiver “That’s the plan from last week. will be in the lineup when That will be the plan movthe Falcons play for a spot ing forward for us. He’s in the Super Bowl against excited to play.” Aaron Rodgers and the Jones dealt with foot Green Bay Packers, despite issues through much of the a lingering foot injury that regular season, even sitlimited Jones in the second ting out a couple of games. half of a divisional-round Quinn initially called the victory. condition “turf toe” — a Jones wasn’t in the lock- Julio Jones potentially serious condier room for media avail- Getty Images tion involving a sprain of ligaments around the big ability following the 36-20 triumph over the Seattle Sea- toe — but later said it was just hawks, leading to speculation a simple sprain. that the injury might be more The Falcons (12-5) will be hostserious than the Falcons were ing the NFC championship game letting on. for only the second time in the But Quinn did his best to put franchise’s 51-year history. all that to rest. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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