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Braden Lauer, who grew up in St. Albert, competes on the CBC series Canada’s Smartest Person. Lauer won the title during the finale, which aired on Sunday evening. The series tested contestants in six different shades of intelligence, including visual, logical, physical, linguistic, musical and social. See story, page 4.

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That’s how many times the Canada’s Smartest Person app was downloaded over the course of the series’ nine-week run. The app allowed viewers to play along and take part in intelligence challenges alongside the contestants on the show.

Through the app, it was found that Albertans had the highest musical intelligence in the country, while Waterloo, Ont., emerged as the smartest city.

Queen of Hugs reigns at U of A

GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

The Queen of Hugs is reigning once again thanks to an exhibit at the University of Alberta.

Until March 22, 2015, the U of A’s Department of Human Ecology is hosting an exhibit entitled Lois Hole: The Queen of Hugs, featuring some of the late lieutenantgovernor, U of A chancellor and St. Albertan’s clothes, jewelry and archival photos.

Vlada Blinova is a lecturer in the Department of Human Ecology and cocurator of the exhibit along with fellow lecturer Lori Moran. She said that putting the exhibit together gave her a better understanding of who Hole was and how much she was loved.

“It was a pleasure to work with her things.

You learn about her personality and you get to know this person better,” she said.

“Although I never met her ... after working with this material for the past two years, you kind of feel like you did know her.”

The exhibit coincides with the U of A Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences’ 100th anniversary.

Both of Hole’s sons, Jim and Bill, graduated with degrees from the faculty.

Human ecology, according the U of A, is the study of “the dynamic relationships people have with their near environments: clothing, family, home and community.”

Of the pieces in the exhibit, Moran felt the most significant is a single string of pearls that Hole was given by her husband Ted and that she wore on many special occasions.

“She must have selected these (outfits) to show off the pearls,” Moran said, looking at a black outfit Hole wore when she was installed as lieutenant-governor and had official portraits taken. “It’s just perfect, the way it fits into the neckline.”

Also in the exhibit are two talisman stones Hole always kept in her purse, one inscribed with the word “Health” and other with the word “Hug.”

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Blinova said the idea was to show garments that people would recognize from Hole’s many public appearances, as well as others that represent other activities in her life.

About 90 pieces were donated to the university by the Hole family after Lois passed away in January 2005.

The exhibit has been open for about a month now, and Blinova said the response thus far has been great.

“One of the goals of this exhibit was to tell young people — people who just came to Canada or were too young when she was still around — about her and remind them about a person who gave so much for Alberta and

Albertans,” she said.

The Department of Human Ecology has put together other exhibits in the past, mostly of historical clothing, quilts or student projects, but Blinova said this is the first time one has focused on one person. It’s something the department would like to do more of in the future, though.

“When they have a story or a personality attached, I think it really is a draw for people. They have some context,” Moran said.

Lois Hole: The Queen of Hugs is on display in the main gallery at the Human Ecology building, located at the corner of 116 Street and 89 Avenue on the U of A campus.

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Vlada Blinova (left) and Lori Moran, lecturers at the University of Alberta’s Department of Human Ecology, stand next to the U of A chancellor’s robes once worn by the late Lois Hole. Hole is the focus of a new exhibit in the department’s main gallery, which runs until March.

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GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

A man who grew up in St. Albert used his big brain to capture a coveted title over the weekend.

Braden Lauer, 22, is a secondyear law student at the University of British Columbia, but he spent much of his childhood in St. Albert, attending Keenooshayo Elementary School, Lorne Akins Junior High School and Paul Kane High School. He beat out seven other contestants to win Canada’s Smartest Person on CBC Television, which culminated with the finale on Sunday evening. “It’s surreal,� Lauer said. “It was filmed a while back, in the summer, so I’ve been keeping it’s a secret from my friends for a long time. But it really great to finally it unfold and celebrate the feeling again, this time with everyone out here in B.C. It was awesome.�

The intelligence tests used on Canada’s Smartest Person were based on the Theory of Multiple Intelligences, and tested contestants in six different areas, including: • math and logic intelligence; • visual and spatial intelligence; • body and kinesthetic intelligence;

• linguistic intelligence; • musical intelligence; and • interpersonal intelligence. “It played to everyone’s strengths, but it also hit a lot of people’s weaknesses,â€? Lauer said of the format. “I always got dead last in every single visual intelligence test, because I found I’m terrible at mapping things and having visual intelligence generally. But I found I could excel at times in the other (areas) — logical, linguistic, social,

these situations. But it’s totally different.�

When Lauer first signed up for the show, though, he didn’t realize how many different intelligence tests would be involved. “Not to make a fool of myself on national television was goal number one,� he said. “But after I made it through qualifying and got to the finale, that’s when I had a bit more confidence in myself and thought maybe I

“If you’re not proud of what you’re doing, what’s the point?�

Braden Lauer, Canada’s Smartest Person musical and physical. I shined at one point throughout the process at least once (in each area).�

Of course, performing those tests in front of a studio audience and TV cameras didn’t make it any easier. “That’s the extra angle to the tests that you can’t really bring to the people at home. You’re in this studio; it’s a completely unique environment. I thought, having done some trial advocacy before and getting my B.Comm at the U of A, I could deal with

could get in the top couple of spots or even take it all.�

Over the course of his education in St. Albert, Lauer said he had many great teachers, but one that stood out in his mind is Barry Schula, a recently retired math teacher at Lorne Akins. “He always made math — a subject people tend to loathe — really interesting. People loved going to his classes. He had kind of a dry, deadpan humour that made math so much more fun.�

“There are a lot of really great people in the school system in St. Albert, and in Alberta, I’m sure, as well,� he added. “You’re always encouraged to find your own path, and people are celebrated for acting, for sports — rugby was something I took part in — and being really academically inclined. It’s not an exclusive environment. It has always fostered what the show is about, which is, ‘Let’s celebrate all sorts of aspects of applying your brain.’�

Now that the show has wrapped, Lauer is focusing on his upcoming exams at UBC and breaking into the law world, with an internship lined up at a national firm this summer. But he hopes that his win inspires other people — especially his 11-year-old brother Bryce, who lives in Vernon, B.C., with his parents. “He was my number one fan, so I wanted him to see me and get inspired that school is cool, and that he can apply himself in lots of different ways,� said Lauer, whose brother Brandt and sister Megan still live in St. Albert. “It’s just important that people ... whatever you do — if you’re a lawyer or a janitor — take pride in what you do and do your absolute best. If you’re not proud of what you’re doing, what’s the point?�

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Cooper wins race for Tory nomination

GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Michael Cooper is one step closer to possibly becoming St. Albert’s next representative in the House of Commons.

The 30-year-old lawyer and lifelong St. Albert resident won the Conservative Party of Canada nomination for the newly redrawn riding of St. AlbertEdmonton on Saturday, defeating challenger Ryan Hastman in a vote that saw more than 1,000 party members cast ballots.

The St. Albert-Edmonton CPC Riding Association is not releasing the final vote tally, but Cooper did say the vote was “clear and decisive.”

And the fact more than 1,000 votes were cast was an encouraging sign.

“It’s the biggest nomination we’ve seen in the St. Albert riding in some time, so it certainly bodes well for the party’s prospects come 2015,” Cooper said.

Cooper first announced his candidacy for the

nomination in October 2013, meaning he’s been knocking on doors for more than a year. But he is proud of the work he did over the past 13 months.

“We reached out, we met a lot of people at their doors, we signed up a lot of members. And as a result, the Conservative base in St. AlbertEdmonton has never been stronger than it is today,” he said.

Cooper was also able to secure endorsements from several high-profile politicians, including Spruce GroveSt. Albert MLA Doug Horner, St. Albert MLA Stephen Khan, Edmonton-Castle Downs MLA Thomas Lukaszuk, former MLAs Myrna Fyfe and Mary O’Neill, and former St. Albert mayor Richard Plain.

Now, Cooper and his team will shift their focus to preparing to campaign in the next federal election, which is expected to be called for sometime in 2015.

“We’re going to move to the next phase, which is to organize a campaign team

to hit the ground running and win the seat back for Stephen Harper and the Conservatives.”

That race will pit Cooper against the current MP, Brent Rathgeber, who ran under the Conservative banner when he was elected in 2008 and 2011, but quit the Tory caucus to sit as an independent in July 2013.

“The policies and priorities of the Conservative government are where people are at in the St. Albert-Edmonton riding,” Cooper said. “And with respect to Brent, it’s difficult to move issues forward and difficult to be effective when you’re standing on your own as an independent.”

For his part, Rathgeber congratulated Cooper on Facebook Saturday night, saying: “I look forward to a competitive election in October 2015, outlining our differing visions of representation and letting the voters decide.”

Neither the Liberal Party of Canada, the New Democratic Party nor the Green Party had candidates listed for Edmonton-St. Albert on their websites as of this week.

MICHAEL COOPER

Missing St. Albert woman found safe and sound GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

E JACQUELIN LEAVINS

A woman reported missing in St. Albert for several weeks turned up safe and sound Sunday evening.

St. Albert RCMP first issued a news release asking for tips on the whereabouts of Jacqueline Leavins, 36, on Nov. 7. But, on Sunday, police found her while conducting a traffic stop in the city.

At around 6:05 p.m., St. Albert RCMP stopped a car in the parking lot of the Target store at St. Albert Centre. There, they located Leavins in the back seat of the vehicle.

Leavins was taken into custody on outstanding warrants and released later in the

evening.

Const. M-J Burroughs, community policing officer with the St. Albert RCMP detachment, said that Leavins was safe and in good health when she was found. Leavins was also believed to be pregnant when she went missing, but Burroughs said she had not yet given birth when she was found.

Prior to Sunday, Leavins was last seen at the Provincial Building at the intersection of Grandin Road and Sir Winston Churchill Avenue in St. Albert on Oct. 22. She had not been in contact with her family since then.

Leavins’s family had set up a Facebook page in the hopes of gathering more information and tips on her whereabouts. Burroughs couldn’t say if RCMP investigators were able to use any of the

information from that page as they attempted to locate for Leavins, but she felt social media pages like do have a lot of value for family members.

“When cases like this arise, any kind of information that we can follow up on is beneficial to police,” she said. “I wouldn’t say it hinders or aids; it’s just another avenue for us to explore if it is available, like Crime Stoppers or other things.”

“The big thing with missing persons,” Burroughs added, “is that we have to actually physically see the person to confirm they’re safe. Any calls or posts on Facebook saying, ‘We talked to her,’ or ‘We saw her,’ we can investigate that. But as a police force, we have to actually physically see her or him to determine they’re actually safe and it’s not hearsay.”

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OPINION

WHERE IS THIS?

Now the real fun begins

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Can you figure out where it is?

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n Saturday, Michael Cooper emerged victorious in the race for the Conservative Party of Canada nomination in the federal riding of St. Albert-Edmonton.

Now, the real fun begins.

Normally, here in Alberta, the federal Conservative nomination races have wound up being more

by Glenn Cook important and more lively than the actual election races themselves.

But with Cooper flying the Conservative banner while former Tory and current independent MP Brent Rathgeber is still in the picture, it should make for a very interesting race when the next federal writ is dropped, likely for sometime in 2015.

When it all boils down, that race will be a battle between voting for the party and voting for the individual.

The way Cooper name-drops Stephen Harper and waxes poetic about the advantages of having a voice at the government caucus, it’s clear he’s more than willing to toe the Conservative party line. And with those three magic letters — CON —behind his name on the ballot, he has to be looked at as the presumptive front-runner at this point in time.

Meanwhile, though, Rathgeber has made a strong showing for himself since quitting the Tory caucus in July 2013. He has stood up for his principles, as well as those of his constituents, without the shackles of party politics. That was reinforced last week when he won the Best Represents Constituents award from Maclean’s magazine’s Parliamentarian of the Year awards.

He has kept up his profile in the community, and has managed to maintain the respect of many of his constituents, not to mention elected officials at other levels of government.

But without the big blue election machine behind him, Rathgeber will be hard-pressed to keep his momentum going into the 2015 vote.

As an independent candidate, he won’t have the money and the organization behind him that he did in 2008 and 2011, and that Cooper will have this time around.

If we’ve learned anything about Rathgeber, though, it’s that he won’t go down without a fight. Even to a neutral observer, watching him and Cooper scrap it out next year should be very interesting.

EDITORIAL

Last Week: Sturgeon Valley Golf & Country Club

All good things must come to an end

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ine years is a lot of time to try to recap in a space like this that only words roughly 425 words. Even the last three years here at the Leader would be a lot to try and cram in here.

Yet, here I am trying to do just that, trying to reflect on the time I’ve worked at various newspapers here in St. Albert as it draws to an end.

I was a fresh-faced, starry-eyed kid when I first moved to St. Albert in September 2005 to take a job as a reporter at the Saint City News, which was where I first met my current publisher, Rob LeLacheur. I wasn’t fresh out of college, but I was pretty close, having only spent about 16 months at another small

Glenn

COOK St. Albert Leader My City weekly newspaper in Fernie, B.C. I missed the staff meeting where I was to be formally introduced because I was out taking photos of a bad crash at Cardiff Corner.

I owe so much of the education and experience that I got here in St. Albert to Rob. He gave that chance at Saint City News, and he gave me another opportunity that I couldn’t say no to when he offered me the chance to get in on the ground floor at the Leader.

It was January 2008 when I became editor of SCN. It

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was a big jump for me, my first time in a managerial role. That’s one thing they don’t teach you in journalism school: how to manage a department. But I found my way through, and I don’t think I fumbled the ball too many times.

Then came the Leader in October 2011, which was different challenge altogether. It wasn’t so much about managing people; it was about building a paper from the ground up. Everywhere else I had worked, things were already in place — style, fonts, tone, etc. At the Leader, it was up to me to put those things in place. In the end, though, we came up with a product that, to this day, I take a lot of pride in.

I have grown so much

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here in St. Albert; this city has shaped me in so many ways and given me so much experience that I know I will draw upon for the rest of my career. I’ve made many friends, and I sincerely hope those friendships will carry on for years to come. I’ve made a few mistakes, too, but I’ve learned from those and emerged stronger and wiser.

All good things, they say, must come to an end. And my time in St. Albert was most certainly a good thing.

But I have new challenges and new opportunities waiting for me on the horizon, and I have to seize them, lest they slip away.

No matter where I go, though, or what I do, St. Albert will always have a special place in my heart.

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Off-Site Levy Policies

Mobile Vendor Guidelines

Sturgeon County MOU – Principles For Subregional Planning And Boundary Discussions

Council Motion – Council Remuneration Review Committee

BACKGROUND

City council voted to receive and provide feedback on a group of changes to the city’s Off-Site Levies, which is a system that allows municipalities to collect funds for infrastructure and municipal growth and share the cost of projects with the developers. The changes to the policy are meant to increase the transparency of council’s activities with Off-Site Levies and bring in better procedures when dealing with Off-Site Levies.

City council voted to allow Administration to begin developing the Mobile Vendor Guidelines based on other established guidelines in the region. These guidelines will give a framework for businesses such a food trucks to legally and efficiently operate in St. Albert.

City council voted on the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Sturgeon County, a document that sets the boundaries between the two municipalities and allows St. Albert to continue a strong working relationship with Sturgeon County.

City council voted to establish a Council Remuneration Review Committee who would oversee the expense claims and reimbursements.

As part of establishing this committee, members of council will also have to undergo a review of all remuneration and expense reimbursements every term, rather than every second term.

THE VOTE

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“We’ve been working with Sturgeon County on this for pretty much a year now... This is a set of principles for planning on the regional level, a relationship for any boundary adjustments, and something for our joint residents in the greater community.�

“Over the past few months, a few issues have arisen over how councillors are compensated.

I think it’s clear the role of council is evolving. One of the challenges is we have some inconsistencies between the council policy and the administrative policy.�

“One strong piece of feedback we keep receiving is that we need more transparency and processes for off-site levies... It’s easy to manage one person at a party, but once you get more, you need more rules to manage everyone.�

NOTABLE QUOTES

“There are no speciďŹ c regulations for mobile vendors in any land use bylaws... There are one-off practices for requests during special events... Right now, mobile vendors are allowed to operate as long as current bylaws are followed.â€?

– Guy Boston, Executive Director of Economical Development

– Tracey Allen, Director of Engineering

– Councillor Tim Osborne “The problems we have faced over the past few months has not been over lack of policy, it’s been people following the policy.�

– Councillor Gilles Prefontaine City council will provide feedback on the policy change recommendations by Dec. 8, and administration will resubmit new drafts of the policies based on council’s recommendations by January 2015.

WHAT’S NEXT FEEDBACK

“Having these policies in place will add clarity to St. Albert’s developments and help developers understand the levy system... This will help bring more developments to St. Albert.�

— Jason Fjeldheim, Urban Development Institute

— Councillor Sheena Hughes

Administration will research and develop a draft set of guidelines for review by council on March 31, 2015.

Mayor Crouse attended a signing event in Sturgeon County on Tuesday, and once signed the Memorandum of Understanding will stand as the guideline for any business and development interactions between the two municipalities.

The Council Remuneration Review Committee’s set of functions and duties will be established by Jan. 12, 2015.

Council will then appoint members for this committee by April 20, 2015, who will then report back to council

by Nov. 16, 2015. The first review of policy amendments for the Council Remuneration Review Committee will be put forward to council by Dec. 14, 2015.

“What we recognize is that we would be served well by having a mobile vendor guideline... We want to be welcoming but do it in an appropriate way for our community.�

“Compliments to this entire council in bringing forward a relationship that is strong, to the Inter-municipal Affairs Committee for role modelling a great relationship, and to Patrick Draper for setting the tone for staff. If we keep building on this relationship over the years, we’ll do just ďŹ ne.â€?

“It would be completely unacceptable for any other industry not to look at something for eight years... It’s timely that we look at reviewing how timely and current we need to be in reviewing these policies.�

— Councillor Gilles Prefontaine

— Mayor Nolan Crouse

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U of A researchers isolate enzyme that causes tumour growth SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – Researchers at the University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Department of Biochmistry found the enzyme autotaxin is to blame for tumour growth, spread and resistance to treatment in breast and thyroid cancers.

Professor David Brindley says by cutting down on the autotaxin’s activity, growth in breast tumours can be cut by 70 per cent.

While the research is in the early stages, it has potential, he said.

The autotaxin enzyme makes lysophosphatidate or LPA, which helps cancer cells survive, grow, move and invade. It also causes resistance to chemotherapy and radio therapy by inhibiting autotaxin.

“Autotaxin causes a lot of serious problems in the treatment of breast and other cancers. Essentially, the body hijacks this enzyme to help a tumour grow, survive treatment and spread to other areas of the body,” said Brindley, senior author of a series of related studies.

“By inhibiting it, we found we could block the growth of breast and thyroid tumours and break the cycle of treatment resistance.”

Autotaxin is normally involved in wound repair and tissue regeneration. It also drives inflammatory conditions such as colitis, arthritis and cancer. Brindley believes it is this inflammationassociated event that is especially problematic and could fuel breast and thyroid tumour growth.

Brindley’s team used a drug developed by Ono Pharmaceuticals

in Japan to inhibit autotaxin activity.

Daily doses of the drug reduced the initial phase of breast tumour growth in experimental models. The inhibitor compound also cut tumour metastasis to the lungs. Later tests enabled the team to block breast and thyroid tumour growth and spread by up to 80 per cent.

Brindley said his team was surprised when Benesch discovered that autotaxin is not produced by breast cancer cells themselves, but largely by the surrounding breast fat tissue. As the tumour develops

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“With this drug we are cutting this vicious cycle,” he said. The research team is now trying to promote the testing of the compound in human clinical trials in Edmonton — the first autotaxin inhibitor to make it to the clinic after more than 10 years of research.

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Alcohol study provides hope SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – Kirk Haakensen is living proof of the damage that alcohol abuse can have on a person’s life. After a lifetime of being what he calls “a drinker,” Haarkensen found himself in a two-year downward spiral of alcoholism and depression.

“It only fed my depression, which I believe existed anyway, so alcohol was pouring gas on the fire,” he said. “When it became too much, I just couldn’t deal with it on my own any more so I needed to get help. This is where I came and it was great.”

The place he came is Henwood Treatment Centre, a facility in Edmonton’s northeast that offers help to people battling addictions of all kinds.

For the past year and a half, the centre has been involved in an international effort to not just repair the social fabric of people with addictions, but their brains as well.

“There’s a lot of documentation, a lot of literature, on how alcohol affects the brain; so brain damage. There’s not a lot of literature on how the brain recovers when you quit drinking,” said Dr. Tim Gillese, psychiatrist specializing in addiction medicine with Alberta Health Services. “This is really a first good attempt to try and look at that.”

The TRANSALC project involves

alcoholics from around the world who have entered treatment. The only Canadian studies are being done in Edmonton.

On the fifth day after the client is admitted, after acute withdrawal settles down, they are put into a University of Alberta-based research-dedicated MRI machine where they undergo a brain scan.

At the end of the first month of sobriety, they are put through the scanning machine once again to see how their brains have recovered on their own. Some of the patients then receive a drug called Naltrexone — commonly used to manage alcohol dependence — and the scans are done again a month later to see if the drug has helped.

Only those people able to go through the MRI because they have no metal on their bodies like tooth fillings, for example, so getting available candidates has taken time.

So far, 14 people have gone through the program and the centre is hoping to find about five or six more to add to the data being collected around the world.

“We expect to see that the brain is functioning differently. We expect that there’s going to be better function, at least in some areas,” said Gillese.

“One of the big damages that happens to people with alcohol addiction is that the brain can be severely damaged, rational

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Dr. Tim Gillese holds an MRI image during a press conference at the Henwood Treatment Centre in Edmonton.

thought, all those types of things, can be impaired,” explained Jasmine Falks, clinical supervisor at Henwood. “So by increasing the connections, the damage that’s done during the addiction can be less impactful, which will often lead to long-term sobriety, less chance of relapse.”

The hope is, by compiling results from the project’s worldwide clients, a more efficient approach to treatment can be developed.

“It’s like virgin territory and we’re explorers,” said Gillese, adding working out of Henwood allows them to deal with people

with decades of abuse, making the tests more usable.

“We’d like to be able to individualize patient care plans, we’d like to be able to have more effective plans, we’d like to be able to help our patients recover from what we think is a pretty darn serious illness.”

For Haakensen, even the slightest of progress is welcome.

“We need as much help as we can so this is just another opportunity for people with these problems to have a fighting chance,” he said.

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Members of the St. Albert Community Band’s concert band trumpet section go through their paces at rehearsal on Tuesday evening at Paul Kane High School.

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The weather is getting cold outside, but the St. Albert Community Band is ready to heat things up in the Arden Theatre The band is busy preparing for its annual Winter Concert, taking place at the Arden on Wednesday, Dec. 10, starting at 7 p.m.

SACB president Colleen Dec said the concert is a holiday tradition in St. Albert that many people look forward to every year.

“Not only the band members themselves, but our audience members too,” said Dec, who also plays the trumpet in the concert band. “We’re not calling it our Christmas concert, as we have in the past, because we don’t play entirely Christmas music.”

The SACB is made up of the concert band, under the direction of Dr. Angela Schroeder, and the Saint City Big Band, directed by J.F. Picard.

The latter band will take care of the lion’s share of the Christmas music for the evening, breaking out such holiday

standards as “Winter Wonderland” and “Sleigh Ride.”

“I can’t tell you how awesome it sounds.

They’re going to kill it, for sure,” Dec said.

Meanwhile, the concert band will play the classic “Silent Night,” but will also focus on some more challenging pieces like “Entrance of the Gladiators” and “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.”

Both bands will be paying tribute through their music to Bill Carroll, a trumpet player with the concert band who passed away in July 2014 at the age of 88 and who played for 16 years with the SACB. “Bill really did exemplify our motto of ‘Music is for Life.’ ... He was just such a huge inspiration to us,” Dec said. “Age

“Angela always like to put forward that one piece that really goes outside the box for us.”

Colleen Dec, St. Albert Community Band president “We always do one piece that showcases our abilities, and this year, it’s going to be ‘Incantation and Dance,’” Dec said. “It’s a piece that challenges us. Angela always likes to put forward that one piece that really goes outside of the box for us, and brings our audience along with us on this journey.”

was nothing to Bill. He just had a young spirit and was a kind, gentle soul. He was always striving to find new ways to perfect playing the trumpet.”

Between the two bands, the SACB currently has 89 members, and Dec said they are succeeding in attracting new, younger members to keep the band going.

“It’s always nice to see some new faces out there, all ages and all abilities,” she said. “We still have a big, huge family here.”

Meanwhile, the SACB is going full steam ahead on plans to travel to Schladming, Austria, next summer to participate in the Mid Europe Music Festival.

More than 50 band members are signed up to make the trip already, and Dec said there will be a special announcement regarding the trip at the Winter Concert from the Royal Commonwealth Society of Edmonton.

“It’s a nice little surprise that’s coming forward,” she said. “I hope the members are going to be excited about that. I know I am.”

Tickets for the SACB’s annual Winter Concert are $12 for adults and $8 for seniors and students, as well as for members of the Canadian Forces and their families. Music students can get in free when accompanied by an adult.

Tickets are available from any SACB member or from the Arden Theatre box office.

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Lady Antebellum takes off on tour supporting new CD 747 SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – When Lady Antebellum’s last album, 2013’s Golden, didn’t quite “take off” the way the country trio would have liked, they wasted no time making another one.

Thus the more uptempo, 747, was released a mere year later by lead singers Charles Kelley and Hillary Scott and multiinstrumentalist-background vocalist Dave Haywood.

It’s already gone gold in Canada since it dropped Sept. 30.

“We had taken a little time off when Hillary had her baby and we really felt like we didn’t really get to get the Golden record out there much,” said Kelley in an exclusive Canadian print interview with Sun Media News Services.

We caught up with Lady Antebellum in Toronto recently where they spoke about making 747, touring in 2015 and why Scott will never fly on stage.

You’re known for your ballads like “Need You Now,” but I read that you wanted 747 to have more uptempo tracks?

Scott: We’ve learned over the years of touring and watching headliners and then being headliners ourselves it’s like, you want those slower moments, those more dramatic duets, or just the ballads, to have a really a strong impact. And you need to have a lot of energetic songs around it to really make it

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Lady Antebellum performs “Bartender” during the 48th Country Music Association Awards in Nashville, Tenn., on Nov. 5. single) “Freestyle” alone add to this set be impactful. And so we went in really with that focus and we didn’t really veer from it. list in so many ways because it adds such a dynamic layer to position songs around So can you hardly wait to present these them. It helps you structure the show new songs live then? differently.

Haywood: We’re even working on a big Do you feel any pressure to amp up the North American tour for next year that live show production-wise? we’re putting together and we’ll be able to Scott: We’re in those conversations right announce in the future. But now that we now... So there’s always those fun bells and have this material to add into what we’ve whistles and extra elements that you can already have been touring with, I mean add. I think it would be fun to have, at some (747’s first single) “Bartender” and (second

point, pyro. Fire would be awesome, but we’ll just have to sculpt it around the set list and the experience we want to give the fans.

But it will be high energy, no doubt.

What’s your relationship like with your Canadian fans?

Kelley: The country fans here they always seem really jacked, they’re always on their feet the whole time, which I love. I don’t know what it is, they just appreciate you coming, making a trip, but they’ve always been really loyal to us.

Scott: And they love the singles but they also go deeper into the albums and know the album cuts, which as artists is the ultimate compliment because so many times you get out and perform and you can tell people just really know the singles and so to see that they took the time to really dive into the whole project is really awesome.

Haywood: To come up here, Western Canada, Calgary and Edmonton, and Saskatoon, those are always really fun to play too. It’s a little bit more cowboy country. But here in Toronto, honestly, we’ve have some of our favourite shows. I mean we’ve done a lot in Toronto. We have a long history with this town, shooting our video for “Need You Now” here, hearing “Need You Now” on the radio for the first time around Toronto, and we’ve always had a blast and met some really great fans here.

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Bachelor Canada couple reveal their relationship SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – After keeping their relationship secret for close to half a year, Tim Warmels and April Brockman should look for work in the spy industry.

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Of course, Tim, there’s nothing to stop you from wearing a wig, too, if you’re so inclined.

“Um, you might be right,” Tim said. “But it has never come to that, thankfully.”

In the second-season finale of The Bachelor Canada, which aired last week on City, Tim proposed to April. But it was filmed many months ago, so Tim and April had to keep their relationship under wraps as viewers caught up, week by week.

“It has been five months of secrecy, so we’re dying to get out in public,” said April, a realtor from Wasaga Beach, Ont. “We’re so excited to do the little things, like grocery shopping or Christmas shopping.

“But then also, it’s interesting to watch it all back on TV, because sometimes you’re so nervous on camera or in a situation that you forget maybe how the whole situation went down.”

The most notable “situation” in the finale involved April becoming so overwhelmed by the enormity of what was occurring that she threatened to go home. Now, the finale was filmed in Tahiti, so it would have been a hell of a swim. But in the televised version, it seemed as if she just got a good night’s sleep and all was well again.

“I think the hardest thing to understand about it for an outsider is that it’s not, one second there’s drama and then the next second the drama is resolved,” explained Tim, who originally is from Campbellville, Ont. “The prime example is when April was really flustered after meeting my parents.

“She came back to me the next day and it wasn’t a five-minute conversation. She took a long time to explain how stressed out she was because she was taking this so seriously. That’s one of the reasons I love her. She doesn’t take stuff like this lightly, because you shouldn’t.”

April pointed out that while the snapshots you see on TV are truthful, they don’t tell the whole story.

“In terms of being very genuine and very honest, that was me,” April said. “But

as Tim said, that happened over a week.

What you guys see is in an hour, so it’s very condensed and it looks maybe a lot worse. And also, they don’t show you some of the good stuff that happens, too.”

We all know the success rate for couples coming out of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette is very low. In the After the Final Rose segment that followed the finale on Tuesday, Tim and April said there are wedding “plans” being made, but that can mean a lot of things. I’m “planning” to be ridiculously wealthy someday, too.

But speaking to them just after the finale aired, they seemed able to separate The Bachelor as a TV show from their relationship moving forward, no matter what happens.

“We probably wouldn’t have gotten together if it wasn’t for this show,” April said. “Actually we do have mutual friends, but if we had met under any other circumstances — we talked about it — we just don’t think we would have ended up dating.”

So if nothing else, The Bachelor can serve as a televised matchmaker.

“I feel like the luckiest guy in the world that I got to do this and now am engaged

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“We are going to do everything we can to make this work. The show doesn’t have any bearing on it after this. The show’s done. It’s gone. This is just our lives now.”

SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – Hundreds of fans waiting outside for Foo Fighters tickets Saturday proved they were no pretenders.

Foo fanatics showed up earlier than 6 a.m. outside Rexall Place hoping to score front-row tickets to the band’s Aug. 12 concert.

The Dave Grohl-fronted rockers arranged for “beat the bots” pre-sales at show locations to stymie scalper-bots, which are programmed to clog online queues and snag piles of tickets through Internet sales that can later be re-sold for a profit.

Fans were generally more than happy to stand in line under the falling snow.

“I think (bands) all should do it. Because I’ve never been able to get anything below the 200 section for any concert,” said Jason Brooks, who was dressed in a hoodie and a light jacket.

Brooks was one of the first to arrive Saturday, but he was still waiting halfway down the line at 11 a.m. due to a lottery system that randomly picked fans to move to the front of the line. Despite his love for the Foos and their anti-scalping efforts, he was not so crazy about the lottery.

“This lottery thing isn’t fair. My first ticket was No. 5, and they called the number at 110, which meant the first 110 people had to go to the back of the line. Even though I’ve been here since six and there were people here

before me,” he said. “It should be first come, first serve.”

It seemed most of those in line had seen the Foos at least once before.

“I’ve seen them every time they’ve been here in the last seven years. And Royal Blood is opening for them this year, so it’s even better,” said Tim Wilson, who hoped to finally score his dream seats.

“I like the idea that anybody who really wants to go that bad should have the better seats. It makes it better for the artist, it makes it better for the people going.”

Miller Robson, meanwhile, said he’s seen the Foo Fighters in three different cities.

For those who really wanted to prove they weren’t fazed by the cold, radio station Sonic 102.9 FM was giving away free ice cream at its booth near the entrance.

In times like these, hot chocolate would have been more appropriate for fans like Kristyn Hannah, who prepared as well as she could for the occasion.

“Long underwear, thermal socks, no ice cream — don’t eat the ice cream,” she laughed.

Still, Hannah preferred shivering outside to being scooped by scalper-bots.

“Best idea ever,” she said. “I just wish Mother Nature was co-operating a little more.”

Saturday’s pre-sale tickets were limited to four seats and two floor tickets per person.

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British actor in high demand with three upcoming movies SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – With three movies due out before the end of the year, a bunch more in development (including a possible role as Marvel’s Doctor Strange), a stage gig playing Hamlet and the lead part on Sherlock, Benedict Cumberbatch (a.k.a. ‘the Internet’s Boyfriend’) is certainly comfortable wearing a lot of hats.

“I get criticized for that,” he says over coffee on a late summer afternoon having just arrived in Toronto to promote his voice work in this week’s Penguins of Madagascar. He pauses for a beat.

“Wait, I thought you physically meant I wear a lot of hats ... I took that question straight on. ‘Yup, I’m messy, I’m all over the place and I wear a lot of hats.’ ” In addition to voicing Agent Classified in Penguins (a spinoff of the popular Madagascar films), Cumberbatch reprises his role as Smaug the dragon in next month’s final instalment of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, The Battle of the Five Armies. He also stars as famed WWII code-cracker Alan Turing in the Oscar-touted Imitation Game.

“Last year, I was a fresh-pressed schoolboy,” he joked, referring to his portrayal of Julian Assange in the WikiLeaks biopic The Fifth Estate.

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selfishly, for myself. I think if I can keep myself amused, I’ll be able to keep other people amused. You can’t take things for granted if you’re just getting started, which is what I’m doing.”

Cumberbatch is particularly happy about his role as the superspy wolf in Penguins since it’s a film his friends with children can watch as a family.

“I have young children in my life — not mine, friends’ — and I’m getting a huge kick out of the idea that they will go and see this.”

Of course, the big question is: Can characters that have appeared in glorified cameo roles in the previous Madagascar films sustain their own feature-length movie?

To this, Cumberbatch mounts a vigorous defense. “I wouldn’t say anything disparaging about other animals, but I do think the penguins are brilliant,” he says with a smile. “They have a tiny proportion in the epic, three-part trilogy that is Madagascar, it’s something like nine minutes. But it’s incredible that they’ve made that kind of impact, and rightfully so — they are brilliantly realized characters. It’s like the cat in Puss in Boots.”

Penguins castmate Tom McGrath (who voices Skipper and directed the previous Madagascar movies) says Cumberbatch

has great comedic timing that leant itself perfectly to an animated feature.

“People don’t know his comedy roots,” he says name-checking Cumberbatch’s cameo on The Simpsons.

“His imitations are hilarious. People should know more about those.”

Thanks to a recently released MTV video interview, the Internet is now acquainted with Cumberbatch’s spot-on impressions of fellow British thesps Tom Hiddleston, Michael Caine and Tom Hardy, as well as singer Taylor Swift. (For the record, in our interview, he did a hilarious riff on John Malkovich.)

“I have done The Simpsons. It was a teeny-weeny part. I did an Alan Rickman impression and a Hugh Grant impression, but I basically stole their work.”

Cumberbatch’s schedule is booked solid well into the future. He has completed his voice work as Shere Khan in Andy Serkis’ Jungle Book: Origins and a role opposite Johnny Depp in next year’s Whitey Bulger biopic, Black Mass. His stage run as Hamlet isn’t for another 10 months, but it’s completely sold out.

“I’m really spoiled, and I’m kind of making sure that I do things right,” he says.

“So far, the characters are very different and I get such a joy out of that.”

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British actor Benedict Cumberbatch poses backstage with his actor award for The Imitation Game during the Hollywood Film Awards in Hollywood, Calif., on Nov. 14.

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Workers venture west to seek careers SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – Mamady Camara hails from a French-speaking west African country, and his first port of Canadian call was Quebec.

But the educator never really planned on lingering long in a province that overwhelmingly speaks his native tongue.

“My plan was to be able to speak English. It was my motivation even though I had an employment position in Quebec,” said Camara.

In 2001, he headed west to attend the University of Alberta, then lived in Saskatchewan for two years before returning to Wild Rose Country in 2008, settling in Calgary.

His wife, also originally from Guinea, is employed as a nurse after gaining an education in Alberta.

He and his family are among a decade-long exodus from Quebec and Ontario that has bolstered Alberta and Saskatchewan’s ranks of career-minded emigres.

Between 2003 and 2012, Alberta attracted a net influx of 60,855 people aged 24-35 from other provinces, according to the Fraser Institute study Go West, Young Adults: The 10-year Western Boom in Investment, Jobs and Income.

By 2013, the percentage of that age group in Alberta rose by nearly 17%.

Every other province during those years lost people of that age group — Quebec giving up 24,355 and Ontario 27,451.

When he comes to work at his newcomer aid agency, Camara said he sees the reality of that influx.

“The number is always growing ... it’s always the same reason, the economy,” said Camara, executive director of the Centre d’Accueil des Nouveaux Arrivants Francophones (CANAF).

In 2010-11, CANAF dealt with 68 Quebec-born clients. From April to October of this year alone, that number swelled to 125.

The main challenges facing his clients, said Camara, is finding affordable housing and the language barrier for Quebecois or landed immigrants from Quebec.

“To access any job, you have to be able to speak English ... 80 to 90% say they can communicate, but really they can’t,” he said.

They come for the promise of higher incomes driven by a far greater level of private investment, said Mark Milke, the author of the Fraser Institute report that relies heavily on Statistics Canada

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“We always think about unemployment and income levels, but what drives it is private sector investment,” said Milke.

In 2012, he points out, investment in Alberta totalled $60.5 billion compared to $43.1 billion in Ontario and $25.7 billion in Quebec — both province to the east with much larger populations.

“Ontario’s been beating private investment in Ontario for a decade,” said Milke, acknowledging the energy industry’s prime role in Alberta’s status.

“When you look at these numbers, the surprise is that Ontario and Quebec now look a lot like Atlantic Canada.”

If that trend continues, enabled with the return of higher oil prices, Alberta is projected to bump Quebec as the nation’s second-largest economy by 2016, though Quebec’s population is almost twice the size.

From 2004 to 2013, the average rates for unemployment among that 25-34 age group in Alberta was 4.2% compared to Ontario’s 7.1% and 7.3% in Quebec.

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“What matters to most people is if they have a job and income,” said Milke, adding numbers even show those without a high school education are more likely to be employed and paid better in Alberta than down east.

“Alberta’s the friendliest place in the country if you don’t have a high school education.”

The province was also the only place in Canada to attract more people than it lost in all younger groups, even during the 2008-09 recession.

But StatsCan data also points out Alberta is the only jurisdiction where inequality exceeds the widening gap in the U.S. In 2012 Alberta, 50.4% of pay was taken home by the top 10% of earners, compared to 48.2% in the U.S. It’s the less-shiny side of province’s financial coin, said Bill MooreKilgannon, executive director of lobby

group Public Interest Alberta.

“Economics is a relative thing and those who come here unable to land those high-paying jobs are really struggling,” he said, adding the boom has resulted in higher costs, particularly for lodging.

“One-fifth of our workers are making less than $15 an hour.”

He said a lack of government child care program is deterring young people from coming to Alberta and starting a family.

“When you’re spending more than $1,000 a month on child care, it eats into the Alberta advantage,” said Moore-Kilgannon.

Alberta Labour Minister Ric McIver said that income gap simply means there are big bucks to be made here.

“It’s an indication that a lot of highvalue economic jobs exist in Alberta,” he said.

For his part, Alberta Labour Minister Ric McIver makes no apologies for Alberta’s benefitting at Ontario’s expense.

McIver himself is an Ontario economic emigré, having come to Alberta for greener pastures in 1981.

“I’m that guy ... my life has been better ever since I came, not that life in Ontario was bad,” said McIver.

He said the arrival of younger career-seekers has undoubtedly been a long-term blessing for the province, but a lot more of them are needed.

“We’re going to need 96,000 more workers over the next 10 years and that’s even with migration and natural growth,” said McIver.

He said drooping energy prices are a concern but predicted that engine of Alberta’s economy will endure and continue to attract workers.

“People will continue to consume energy — people need to heat their homes and be mobile,” he said.

“But we need people also for things like agriculture and tourism, tradespeople and nurses — every industry needs people.”

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Iconic takeover needs approval SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – The Canadian government will decide before Dec. 25 on whether to approve the takeover by U.S.based Burger King Worldwide Inc of Canada’s iconic coffee-anddonut Tim Hortons Inc, Industry Minister James Moore said on Friday.

“Soon, soon,” the minister said, when asked by Sun Media News Services when a decision could be expected. “Before Christmas,” he added.

Canada’s Competition Bureau had last month already given its stamp of approval to the cashand-stock deal worth C$12.64 billion ($11.25 billion). Moore has to decide on whether the foreign takeover is of net benefit to

Canada.

A source familiar with the process told Reuters last week that Industry Canada had asked the companies for a 30-day extension on the review, beyond the initial 45-day review period.

Competition and anti-trust law experts, however, say that a request for an extension on a deal of this magnitude and size is quite typical and not necessarily indicative of any hurdles or issues with a deal.

In August, Burger King agreed to buy Tim Hortons in a transaction which would create the world’s third-largest fastfood restaurant group. Burger King plans to headquarter the new combined-entity in Canada, following the close of the deal.

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Pints to be served at breweries SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – Breweries in Alberta are now able to serve a pint.

The province’s liquor control board has eased the rules that previously wouldn’t let breweries sell a frosty one without a licenced restaurant on site.

Tatjana Leskovic, spokeswoman with the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission, said the change will allow for more opportunity and innovation in the marketplace.

Neil Herbst, co-owner of the Alley Kat Brewery in Edmonton, said it could make for

a more pleasant experience for those taking a tour.

“When somebody comes for a tour, right now we can pour them a little tiny sample, they taste it and that’s the end of it,” he said.

“This would allow us to sell a pint and we often get requests for that.”

Like many smaller breweries, Alley Kat primarily sells to bars, pubs and liquor stores, so Herbst says he does not expect the new licencing to change business drastically.

“It’s just going to make for a little more pleasant experience as a tourist.”

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