The motto for Red Deer’s air cadet squadron is “Fly on your own wings.”

Bhavya Arora hopes those wings will be attached to an after-burner- equipped ride that can hit Mach 1.8 and climb 15,000 metres in a minute.

“I want to be a fighter pilot,” says the enthusiastic 17-year-old air cadet with 24 Red Deer Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron. “That would be really cool.”

One of the things she loves about the air cadets is no one batted an eyelid at her lofty goal of joining Can-ada’s aviation elite.

All she got was encouragement from the squadron she joined two years ago when she spoke of her dream job.

“I think that’s what I really like about cadets. They don’t discourage your dreams.”

Arora says the prospect of join-ing a military-style organization with uniforms, ranks and regimented be-haviour was intimidating at first.

But she soon learned air cadets was more about building confidence and teaching skills, such as effective public speaking, than about rigid dis-

cipline and drilling.“I went in to become a pilot, and

I’m still working towards that. But what I really got out of it was how to present myself in a very, very profes-sional manner.”

The skills she learned can be ap-plied in so many aspects of life, from meeting new people to interviewing for jobs, she says.

One of the most important lessons she learned that leadership isn’t just about ordering people around.

“It’s about being involved with ev-eryone so you learn from each other,” says the flight corporal, who moved to Canada from India with her family about six years ago and has lived in Red Deer for the past five.

Air cadet Cpl. Lucas LaGrange’s interest in all things flying-related was inspired by a jaunt in a small four-seater plane when he was nine years old.

“I got a chance to steer the plane and stuff,” he says. “It was pretty fun.”

By the time, he was back on the ground he was hooked. Now 13, he joined the air cadets in March 2014 and hasn’t looked back.

Air cadets has been a great expe-rience, especially the summer camps, he says.

He hasn’t done any hands-on flight training yet, but he’s learned about aerodynamics and how aircraft work.

LaGrange has also been able to get back in the sky with the cadets through their annual gliding trips.

Taking the controls as a pilot is his dream.

“Id like to own my own little bi-

plane in the backyard and fly that around.

“I’d enjoy a nice open cockpit one because those seem like they are re-ally fun,” says LaGrange, who lives on an acreage just east of Red Deer with his family.

Tizita Hill, 18, says like many ca-dets she was drawn to the opportuni-ty to train as a pilot.

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ABOVE: The colours are marched on to the parade field during a full-dress parade at the Cormacks Armoury in Red Deer. During 2015, the Red Deer Air Cadets celebrated the 75th year of Air Cadets in Canada.LEFT: Red Deer Air Cadet commanding officer Ken Tucker conducts an inspection during the full-dress parade. Anyone interested in participating in the program can attend weekly drill nights that take place each Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Armoury on 55 Street at 44 Avenue, or visit www.reddeeraircadets.com.BELOW: Cadets during a training exercise in the field.

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Cadets can learn to fly gliders at 16 and apply for a scholarship to learn to fly powered aircraft at 17.

Hill chose to learn to fly privately but has stayed in the organization because of the other values it offers.

“Their leadership, for example, is excellent,” she says, adding the air cadet programs excels at turning youngsters into leaders through its mentoring pro-grams.

Sporty by nature, she loves the annual field train-ing exercises, which focuses on teamwork.

“It challenges all aspects of you. It makes you work as a team. You’re surviving, basically in the wild in the mountains, for a whole weekend.”

Those involved run the gamut from young cadets who have never been camping before to cadets on their fifth or sixth exercise, says Hill, who was born and raised in Ethiopia, and was adopted by a Cana-dian couple 10 years ago and lives in Lacombe.

Hill plans to get her pilot’s licence sometime next summer before she attends university. Top on her list is Mount Royal University, where students can get their commercial aviation licences through a two-year diploma program. From there, she can take a two-year aviation business program.

Ultimately, she’d like to find herself piloting a search and rescue helicopter.

Part of the cadet experience has been the connec-tion with other squadrons, often through sporting events. Her favourite sport is the biathlon.

“It’s cool to see how many different talents there are in the world. Cadets finds a way to kind of con-nect it all, which is neat.”

Commanding officer Ken Tucker says the air ca-

dets is all about building good citizens and strong leaders, as well as an interest in the Canadian Forc-es and physical fitness.

The cadets learn a lot about their capabilities through the various programs.

“The self confidence you see them develop is ab-solutely phenomenal,” he says.

While most of the squadrons 60 cadets yearn to fly, they also learn about the various other aviation careers, open to them such as maintenance, meteo-rology and airport operations.

Tucker said more cadets are always welcomed. For more information, drop in at the Cormack Ar-moury on Tuesday evenings 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. or check out the website at www.reddeeraircadets.com.

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STORY FROM PAGE A1 Canada’s Air Cadets were formed in 1940 during the Second World War.

The organization, which celebrated its 75th anniversary this year, was begun as a way to create a select group of youth who could one day take their place as aircrew in the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Red Deer Squadron was formed in November 1944. Today, there are 448 squadrons across Canada with 23,000 participants. In Alberta, 24 Squadron is one of 40 squadrons with 2,500 cadets.

Air Cadets is open to 12- to 19-year-olds. In Red Deer,

they meet at the Cormack Armoury on Tuesday evenings.There is no expectation of going on to join the air force

or other branch of the Canadian Armed Forces.Families of air cadets are expected to participate in

fundraising. A volunteer bond of $360 is posted at the beginning of the year and is paid off with 28 hours of vol-unteering.

Red Deer’s Air Cadets off experience in: pipe band, effective speaking, marksmanship, drill team, biathlon, re-mote control models and rocketry and sports.

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Wildrose vows to try to unite right with PCs

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

EDMONTON — Alberta Wildrose Leader Brian Jean says he’ll renew efforts in 2016 to hook up with the very Progressive Conservatives who tied a ce-ment block to his party and tossed it off a bridge.

It’s a job Jean says he is surprised to be leading.“I don’t believe I was elected to unite the PCs and

the Wildrose. I believe I was there to fight (them),” Jean told The Canadian Press in a year-end inter-view.

But the majority of Wildrosers are alarmed by the direction the NDP is taking Alberta’s fragile econo-my with soaring debt and new taxes, so the rank-and-file have given him new marching orders, he said.

“Over the last seven, eight months I’ve … travelled the province on a continuous basis and I get a lot of emails and a lot of phone calls,” he said.

“It’s clear to me that 80 per cent of the peo-ple in my membership believe that we should be open-minded to all conservative-principled people … whether it be under one banner that’s Wildrose or one banner that’s something else.”

A Wildrose-Tory union would not be a merger as much as a reunification.

The Wildrose began as a fledgling movement of disaffected PCs when Ed Stelmach was premier. The dissidents could no longer countenance what they considered to be reckless government spending, a disregard for property rights and top-down deci-sion-making.

The Wildrose won 17 seats in 2012 to form the official Opposition against then-premier Alison Red-ford. Its sitting members harangued her over prof-ligate spending and ethics scandals that ultimately hounded her from office.

New premier Jim Prentice took over in Septem-ber 2014, a former federal Conservative cabinet min-ister with leadership, oil and business credentials.

That December, he moved to wipe out the Wil-drose and enticed leader Danielle Smith and eight other legislature members to cross the floor. Two other Wildrosers had already crossed and one left to sit as an Independent. The Opposition was reduced to a five-member rump.

Albertans who had voted for a party to oppose the PCs woke up to a wedding-style front-page photo of a smiling Prentice and Smith.

Wildrose funding, tied to seat count, fell through the floor. Employees were axed a week before Christmas.

It proved to be a grave political miscalculation.Prentice was criticized for caring more about

power than democracy. Smith and her team were excoriated as venal opportunists. The floor-crossers either didn’t run, didn’t get the nomination or lost in the next election.

The party rallied under Jean and captured 21 seats in the May 5 election.

Three passengers remain in Calgary hospital from diverted flight

CALGARY — Air Canada says three passengers remain in hospital in Calgary after they were injured on a flight from Shanghai to Toronto.

The Boeing 777 hit severe turbulence Wednesday and was diverted to Calgary.

Air Canada says 18 other people who were sent to hospital have been released.

The people who were hurt suffered injuries ranging from minor sprains to serious chest and neck trauma.

The Transportation Safety Board is investigating.Air Canada says flight AC088 continued on to

Toronto last night and all but a few remaining passengers were to fly out of Calgary today.

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HANNA — A central Alberta man suspected of property crimes is bring treated in hospital for frost-bite after being arrested by Mounties.

Hanna RCMP say the suspect will face theft, pos-session of stolen property and other charges when he is released from care.

Police say a dog team tracked the man, who was on foot, overnight Tuesday and Wednesday.

They estimate the man was outside for hours in -25 C temperatures.

Police say stolen property they recovered in-cludes a truck, six guns and two televisions.

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A Calgary woman who gave a fatal dose of drugs to her 19-year-old daughter with Down syndrome can’t be charged with a crime because she has since died.

Police say Jessica Hagan was killed when she was given an intentional overdose by an older woman in the family’s home in September.

They say that woman was also found in medical distress and taken to hospital.

Christine Hagan, who was 51, died on Nov. 21 of pancreatic cancer.

Daniel Hagan wrote on his Tumblr social media account a week later about the deaths. He says his mother felt that she was the only one who could take care of his sister.

“So she took her life and attempted to take her own,” he wrote on Nov. 30. “She then spent her final days in a hospital bed with security outside her room until she became too weak and suffered from what I would assume is complete organ failure due to not eating or drinking the entire time.”

The body builder and personal trainer said he wanted to publicly write about what happened so he could move on with his life.

“Losing my sister, my biggest fan, supporter, and

greatest inspiration is a loss I know I will never truly recover from,” he wrote in another post.

He did not respond to a request for comment.Brian van Vliet said his sister was diagnosed in

May with stage 4 cancer and was extremely sick.“She was a wonderful person, very happy, fami-

ly-oriented, very lively.”He wouldn’t say why he believes she killed her

daughter. He said Christine Hagan had a husband at home and their son had also lived with them up until a few months before the killing.

“You just have a normal family and then this se-ries of tragic events takes place and it’s just surreal,” said van Vliet.

He said Jessica was home-schooled and described her as a loving child.

“Jessica was sunshine. She always brightened up the room,” he said. “Everybody around her was al-ways inspired by her.”

‘JESSICA WAS SUNSHINE. SHE ALWAYS BRIGHTENED UP THE ROOM. EVERYBODY AROUND HER WAS . . . INSPIRED BY HER.’

— BRIAN VAN VLIETUNCLE

Girl drops into net after dangling by helmet from ski hill’s chair lift

FORT QU’APPELLE, Sask. — A mishap on a chair lift at a Saskatchewan ski hill left a seven-year-old dangling from the restraining bar by her helmet.

Don Williams of Mission Ridge Winter Park in Fort Qu’Appelle says it happened on Thursday af-ternoon when the little girl slipped between the re-straining bar and the front edge of her seat.

He says she “didn’t load quite right” and ended up hanging by her helmet about six metres in the air.

Ladders wouldn’t reach her so Williams says staff had to catch her in a net.

Williams says the girl was taken to hospital and was released a short time after.

Prisoner flees guards during medical leave quickly recaptured

WINNIPEG — A prisoner is back behind bars after a brief escape in Winnipeg on Thursday after-noon.

Correctional Service Canada says Jacques Lar-ente had escaped during an escorted medical leave from the Stony Mountain Institution just before 3 p.m.

Winnipeg police were notified and they arrested Larente at about 4:40 p.m.

INBRIEF

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — When the Conservative government promised, in January 2015, to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees over three years, Liberal MP John McCal-lum didn’t buy it.

The Conservatives were under pres-sure to address the ongoing refugee crisis created by the Syrian civil war — millions of people were on the move and refugee settlements were bursting at the seams.

But pleas had fallen on deaf ears inside then-prime minister’s Stephen Harper’s office, including pitches from cabinet ministers about how the gov-ernment could and should do more than the 1,300 people it already com-mitted to bringing over.

Harper would only agree with a con-dition — the focus had to be on per-secuted religious minorities from the country.

Given it was that or nothing, cabinet signed off, and on Jan. 7, a plan was announced — 10,000 people would be brought to Canada by 2018, most by pri-vate sponsors.

Then serving as immigration crit-ic for his party, McCallum chided the government for relying on private sponsors, saying they needed to lift more of the load themselves. He was skeptical — given the Conservatives’ track record — that they’d meet the deadline.

“We could be waiting forever before 10,000 Syrian refugees arrive in Cana-da,” he told one news outlet.

Well, it isn’t going to be forever.Before the Liberals took power on

Nov. 4, about 1,263 Syrians had arrived in Canada under the Conservatives’ commitment to 10,000.

Since Nov. 4, a further 6,064 have ar-rived under a Liberal campaign com-mitment — a promise they partially expect to meet in the first two weeks of 2016 with the arrivals of nearly 4,000 more for a full 10,000.

But like the Conservatives before them, the Liberals are relying on pri-vate sponsors to hit that target.

Many of the refugees who arrived in 2015 were cases opened under the Conservatives, and some were already being fast-tracked — the Conservatives sped up their timelines when they be-gan getting blow back during the elec-tion.

A photograph of Alan Kurdi dead on a Turkish beach was the catalyst — the Syrian child and his family were trying to reach Europe. It emerged their family in B.C. had been trying to get some of them to Canada, but the paperwork was rejected.

The sudden attention to the issue saw the Liberals attach a timeline to their own Syrian refugee promise — they’d resettle 25,000 Syrians them-selves by the end of the year and work with private sponsors to do more.

The number dated back months, part of the Liberal proposal advanced in March for how Canada could con-tribute to the war against ISIL.

When asked how the Liberals ar-rived at the number, McCallum — now the immigration minister — said it was a similar level to previous large-scale

refugee commitments.“I don’t think there’s anything sci-

entific in it,” he said.“I think, relative to our contribu-

tions in the past, relative to what we thought would be a good solid contri-bution, affordable, we thought that was about the right number.”

When asked during the election how’d they achieve such an ambitious target, the answer was succinct — po-litical will. As soon as they were elect-ed, the Liberals faced questions as to whether the promise, and its deadline, were still in effect.

It was, everyone from McCallum to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau himself kept saying. Until it wasn’t.

In the immediate aftermath of ter-rorist attacks in Paris in November, initially but erroneously linked to men believed to have arrived as refugees, Trudeau said nothing was going to change for Canada’s program.

A week later, he said otherwise: pressure from the public to slow down the process had forced a change.

“We realized that the most import-ant thing is to be able to reassure Ca-nadians that absolutely everything is being done to keep Canadians safe, and therefore ensure that these refu-gees are welcomed as new Canadians and not a cause for anxiety or division within the population,” Trudeau told reporters.

But it wasn’t just those attacks. Even before, officials from the United Na-tions, the International Organization for Migration and settlement agencies in Canada all told the Liberals moving that many people by the end of the year just wasn’t feasible.

Among the problems — finding them. As of mid-October, there were only about 8,400 cases in the immigra-tion department’s inventory, 6,540 of then privately-sponsored, 1,761 govern-ment-assisted and the remainder from a blended program.

To meet their promise then, the Lib-erals need to find over 23,000 people

able to come to Canada in a matter of weeks.

So, the first iteration of the plan saw the promise broken down — rather than 25,000 government-assisted Syr-ian refugees to arrive by Dec. 31, it would be 10,000 privately-sponsored refugees, and a further 15,000 govern-ment-assisted ones by the end of Feb-ruary. Then, by the end of 2016, the full promise of 25,000 government-assisted refugees would be met.

Refugee assistance agencies — which had raised concerns about even meeting the previous Conservative commitments — breathed a little eas-ier.

Given they are responsible for the needs and requirements of all govern-ment-assisted refugees, some extra time to prepare was exceptionally wel-come.

They also needed money. The Lib-eral platform said the program would cost $250 million but didn’t explain how they’d arrived at that number.

The budget the Liberal government later released estimates the cost at as much as $678 million over six years, with $377 million earmarked for reset-tlement. But that’s not the full cost.

Earlier in December, McCallum launched an appeal to the corporate community to find a further $50 mil-lion for housing.

When asked whether the appeal was made in part to save the govern-ment money, McCallum paused.

“You could say it is, but I think the corporate sector should be there. It’s not primarily to save us money, it’s to fill a gap,” he said, explaining that housing isn’t something the federal government normally funds but that refugees need.

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ABOVE: Radi poses for a photo with his son and wife, who names are omitted for security reasons, while waiting in an airport in Amman, Jordan, to board a plane to Canada where they will be resettled,. Canadian Minister of Immi-gration John McCallum said late last month that the country’s resettlement program for Syrian refugees could double by the end of 2016.LEFT : Canad ian Min i s te r o f Immigration John McCallum, center, talks to a Syrian family soon to be resettled in Canada.

HOW RESPONSE TO SYRIAN REFUGEES WENT FROM 10K IN THREE YEARS TO MONTHS

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Greater Toronto Airport Authority employee Brittany Peddie prepares signs for a makeshift prayer room while preparing for the arrival of Syrian refugees at Pearson International Airport in Toronto.

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Canadians go for frosty New Year’s Day swim in annual polar bear plunges

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — C.J. Pentland has made it a tradition to celebrate New Year’s Day by experiencing the chilly waters of the Pacific Ocean.

Every year, the 24-year-old and his family and friends dress up as Santa and his reindeer, and join thousands of others in Vancouver’s polar bear swim.

“There’s no better way to ring in the New Year, I think,” said a soaking Pentland, homemade antlers atop his head.

His dad, John Pentland, stood in the surf wearing a wet Santa costume, complete with a hat and white beard, and said the polar bear swim is simply tradition for the family.

“It’s more important than New Year’s Eve. This is what gets us going for the year,” he said.

The oldest Polar Bear Club in the country was founded in 1920 in Van-couver, and since then the frosty tradi-tion has since spread across the coun-try.

The Vancouver event remains the largest, however, attracting a re-

cord-breaking 2,500 people in 2014.This year, nearly 2,000 people reg-

istered for the swim, but there were even more who jumped in the water — possibly enough to set a new record, said Sarah Kirby-Yung, chairwoman of the Vancouver Park Board.

“The energy down here is fantastic, and that’s kind of what brings people together,” she said.

While some opted to wear their tra-ditional bathing suits, others were clad in costumes, pyjamas or brightly-co-loured wigs.

Ken Hamilton sported a hat covered with his pins from previous polar bear swims and a red “40” headband to cel-ebrate the decades he’s been attend-ing the event.

He started in 1976 “just for fun” and now rents a bus to bring his friends and family in from Surrey, B.C.

“We used to have a small bus and now we have a bigger one,” said Ham-ilton, who came with about 30 others this year. “It just gets better and better every year.”

It was a bright, sunny afternoon un-der a cloudless sky and with the wa-ter was a balmy temperature of about eight degrees, Hamilton said it was

one of the warmest swims yet.Canadians taking the plunge else-

where in the country weren’t as lucky.Snow flurries didn’t deter several

hundred people from turning out at a Toronto beach to run en masse into Lake Ontario in the 11th annual Toron-to Polar Bear Dip.

In Oakville, Ont., Olaf the snowman, Santa Claus and at least one Star Wars stormtrooper were among the 800 to dive into Lake Ontario.

Jenna Courage has done the dip at least 10 times — but said she never gets used to the cold. She and a friend jumped up and down to keep warm, as snow fell around them, before they ran into the water.

Her father, Todd Courage, helped found the Oakville dip 31 years ago, and he’s participated every year since then.

For the past 20 years, he and his brother have partnered with World Vi-sion Canada. Swimmers donate money to register, this year raking in $130,000 to bring clean water to Rwanda.

Meanwhile, in Atlantic Canada, 10 people braved freezing temperatures to leap off a snow-covered wharf in Portugal Cove, N.L.

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Participants react to the frigid waters of English Bay during the 96th annual Polar Bear Swim in Vancouver, B.C., on Friday. The event, hosted by the Vancouver Polar Bear Swim Club, held it’s first swim on New Year’s Day in 1920.

Woman hurt defending toddler in

dog attack

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — A woman bitten more than 100 times while protecting her three-year-old nephew from a vi-cious dog is in critical condition fol-lowing the second such canine attack to take place in British Columbia with-in a week.

Officers in Richmond, B.C., respond-ed Wednesday afternoon to multiple reports of a 21-year-old woman cov-ered in blood, fending off a large Rott-weiler cross on an outdoor field. Po-lice had previously identified the ani-mal as a Rottweiler-pit bull cross.

“Our officers commented that it was a horrifying sight to bear witness to,” said RCMP spokesman Const. Dennis Hwang in a statement.

“We see and love dogs as faithful companions and now they were wit-nessing a scene from their worst night-mare.”

The toddler was unharmed but the boy’s mother and a passerby were in-jured while trying to help out. Both were taken to hospital with laceration injuries but have been released.

“Their drive to protect the boy was incredibly heroic,” said Hwang.

The boy’s aunt is undergoing sur-gery after suffering dozens of bites, a broken arm and a detached bicep. Mounties said the dog belongs to her boyfriend.

The canine ran off after being shot at by police but was eventually cap-tured and is being held, uninjured, at a Richmond animal shelter.

Whether the dog will be destroyed is a decision for the shelter and the City of Richmond, said Hwang.

The attack followed a separate Christmas Day mauling in northern B.C.

Two dogs tore into a couple’s home in Fort St. John while chasing a cat and turned on Robin Elgie, 66, and his girlfriend, Wendy Lee Baker, 51.

A frantic 911 call drew officers to the home where they found Baker suf-fering from severe bite wounds and El-gie unresponsive in a chair while the dogs mangled his arms.

“(The officers) tried everything that they could to distract the dogs, to draw their attention away, but they still kept attacking this man,” said Tyreman.

“At that point they felt they had no other alternative but to use lethal force.”

Officers shot and killed one dog but the other escaped with serious inju-ries before it was tracked and “hu-manely put down,” Tyreman added.

Elgie is in intensive care at an Ed-monton hospital and may lose his left arm as a result of his injuries, but family friend Kim Babcock said he re-mains in good spirits.

“He’s not angry. He just says: ‘We’re so lucky, we’re so lucky. If (Wendy) Lee had been by herself, they could have killed her,”’ said Babcock, who owns the Fort St. John contracting company where Elgie is employed.

“He’s just, he’s an amazing person.”Doctors are waiting to see if blood

flow can be restored to Elgie’s dam-aged limbs, she added.

By early Thursday, a GoFundMe campaign launched by Babcock on Wednesday to cover the cost of bring-ing Baker to Elgie in Edmonton and cleaning and repairing their damaged home passed its $10,000 goal.

SECOND SUCH INCIDENTIN A WEEK

Law and information groups challenge ‘far-reaching’ retroactive Conservative law

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — A retroactive Conser-vative law buried in last spring’s omni-bus budget bill fundamentally under-mines the rule of law and government access-to-information systems across Canada, according to court submis-sions in a paused constitutional chal-lenge.

Twelve of Canada’s 13 provincial and territorial information commis-sioners, as well as the Criminal Law-yers’ Association, are seeking inter-vener status in the case, which chal-lenges the former government’s un-

precedented rewrite of an old law to get the RCMP and any other govern-ment official off the hook for illegally destroying long gun registry records.

The case, brought by federal infor-mation commissioner Suzanne Legault on behalf of individual Bill Clennett, is one of the messier legal challenges the new Liberal government will have to mop up in 2016.

The retrospective Conservative changes, backdated all the way to October 2011, served to short-circuit an active investigation by the Ontar-io Provincial Police into the govern-ment-backed actions of the RCMP. Re-pealing the changes, which became

law last June, would presumably put the Mounties back under investigation.

“Should this legislation withstand this challenge, it would have far-reach-ing implications for criminal law prin-ciples,” the Criminal Lawyers’ Asso-ciation says in its submission to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, calling the retroactive legal rewrite ground-breaking.

“State actors obtained the benefit of a retrospective immunization that or-dinary citizens have never obtained.”

The new Liberal government asked for, and received, a three-month delay in the start of the trial last month as it mulls over its options.

House fire in Montrealclaims two lives

MONTREAL — Two people are dead following a New Year’s Eve house fire in east-end Montreal.

Neighbours who spotted flames called 911 at about 9 p.m.

Police spokesman Jean-Pierre Bra-bant says an elderly man and woman were found in the home.

Both were pronounced dead at the scene.

Brabant says the fire is under inves-tigation, but it appears to have been accidental.

No names have been released.

Mining magnate Munk admits to donating more than

legal limit to ConservativesOTTAWA — Mining magnate and

philanthropist Peter Munk has admit-ted he donated more than the legal limit to the Conservative party three different times.

Munk, the founder of mining giant Barrick Gold Corp., signed a compli-ance agreement with Elections Canada earlier this month, acknowledging that in 2008, 2010 and 2012 his donations exceeded the maximum allowable con-tributions in those years.

In total, he donated $2,950 more than the law allowed to riding associa-tions in Ontario and Quebec represent-ed by Conservative cabinet ministers as well as to a Conservative candi-date’s campaign in Toronto.

While breaking election donation limits could lead to criminal charges, Munk will not be charged because

he voluntarily signed the compliance agreement.

“The over-contributions were unin-tentional and Mr. Munk has acknowl-edged the oversight,” said Andy Lloyd, a spokesperson for Munk, in an email to The Canadian Press.

“He has engaged with Elections Canada to reach a compliance agree-

ment that provides full transparency for these contributions.”

Munk started his gold mining company in the 1980s and built it to become one of the largest firms in the world. He has also given away hun-dreds of millions of dollars to charita-ble causes in Canada and around the world.

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FOCUS A6SATURDAY, JAN. 2, 2016

New Year’s resolutions come in all shapes, sizes and topics — promises to quit doing bad things such as smoking, gaining weight, and even swear-ing.

Yes, swear-ing. My back-side burned for a long time one day in the mid-1960s after my-self and brother Jim taught our b a b y - b r o t h -er Michael to s a y t h e “ F ” word. What we weren’t bank-ing on was the tyke repeating the word to our parents while they were enjoying a pleasant chat in the kitchen over a cup of tea.

Dad’s belt spoke volumes that day when he tuned in Jim and myself over our questionable teachings of the En-glish language to a young, innocent child.

Brother Michael was spared the belt. Instead, his mouth was washed out with soap to cleanse him of the profanity.

Turns out Dad should have been shaking our hands as opposed to wielding the dreaded belt, according to a recent study that concludes peo-ple who swear are more articulate than those who don’t.

Spencer Woolley Kimball, the 12th president of The Church of Je-sus Christ of Latter-day Saints, once said: “Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.” But the study published in the Language Sciences Journal found those who tast-ed a bar of soap, or experienced the belt or wooden spoon for swearing, have anything but a feeble brain.

“We cannot help but judge others on the basis of their speech,” said psy-chologists Kristin and Timothy Jay in the report. “Unfortunately, when it comes to taboo language, it is a com-mon assumption that people who swear frequently are lazy, do not have an adequate vocabulary, lack of edu-cation, or simply cannot control them-selves.”

However, the psychologists contin-ued: “The overall finding of this set of (swearing) studies, that taboo flu-ency is positively correlated with oth-er measures of verbal fluency, under-mines the (normal) view of swearing.”

Apparently swearing, according to another study, is very much a part of our every-day vocabulary.

“Virtually all people swear,” says Timothy Jay in a separate article pub-lished by the Association of Psycholog-

ical Sciences in its journal Perspectives on Physiological Science.

“And people swear pretty consis-tently throughout their lifetime — from the moment they can speak to the day they die,” wrote Jay. He further notes: “Swearing is like using the horn on your car, which can be used to sig-nify a number of emotions (eg., anger, frustration, joy, surprise).”

Swearing is almost a universal con-stant in most people’s lives, says the article. Research has shown we swear on average from 0.3 to 0.7 per cent of the time — a tiny but significant per-centage of our overall speech. On aver-age, according to Wikipedia, we mutter 80 to 90 swear words a day.

Jay continued: “Swearing is not just for the uneducated or people of a low-er socioeconomic class — it knows no boundaries.”

In the study published in the Lan-guage Sciences Journal, it asked par-ticipants to say as many swear words as they could in one minute. They were then asked to name as many animals as they could in the same amount of time. “The result?” reports Yahoo News, “Those who swore the most could also name the most ani-mals.” That study also concluded foul-mouthed people are actually more confident than people who don’t swear.

“Speakers who use taboo words un-derstand their general expressive con-tent as well as nuanced distinctions that must be drawn to use slurs appro-priately,” say the researchers.

The study, comprised of 43 people (30 women) aged 18 to 22 years, chose animal names “as an indication of a person’s overall vocabulary and inter-est in language.” The team came up with 533 taboo words, but the jury’s still out on the significance of swear words vs. names of animals.

So why do we swear? Studies claim a potty-mouth can be positive. “Swear-ing is beneficial in ways that people may underestimate or take for grant-ed,” reports the Perspectives on Psycho-logical Science. “(Swearing) often frees us of the feelings of anger or frustra-tion we hold, and allows expression for them.”

Studies claim “swearing is a natural part of human speech development,” says one science writer on the Inter-net. “We also learn that not all swear words are created equal.”

Take the “F” word, for example. Children, as my brothers Jim, Michael, and myself found out, that word does not belong in a child’s vocabulary. As we age, we eventually learn there is a time and place to mutter expletives of our choice without fear of repercus-sions.

Swearing apparently can also serve as a pain killer, according to three re-

searchers from Keele University, UK. They found swearing relieves the ef-fects of physical pain. “I would ad-vise people, if they hurt themselves, to swear,” said one researcher, but also cautioned too much of a potty mouth is a no-no. Repeated swearing can ac-tually diminish the soothing effects. (The Keele team, incidentally, won the Ig Nobel Prize in 2010 for its research.)

Let’s face it. Over the course of this sometimes-frustrating walk of life most of us have muttered expletives after sudden pain, be it stubbing a toe on a rock or slamming one’s finger in a car door. Science claims it’s a natural re-sponse, and has no bearing on whether a person is, or is not, successful in life.

My dad, for example, swore more than once after hitting his thumb with a hammer while working on vehicles at his service station. He excelled as a mechanic. Brother Michael has went on to become a very successful envi-ronmental engineer despite learning swear words at an early age.

Author Samuel Clemens (aka. Mark Twain) once famously put it: “Under certain circumstances, profanity pro-vides a relief denied even to prayer.” TV’s Simpsons’ squeaky clean Ned Flanders, a non-potty mouth, would likely have responded to Mr. Clemens: “Well I’ll be fudged.”

Rick Zemanek is a former Advocate editor

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has enjoyed a happy honeymoon with Canadians so far. Canadians seem comfortable with the more open gov-ernment and a more accessible and friendlier Prime Minister. The wel-coming of Syrian refugees has triggered broad support, with many Canadian ready to act as sponsors, helping to make Canadians feel good about their country.

So far, then, it has been easy going. But the New Year could be much differ-ent. The new government will have to start making hard decisions and deliv-er on promises. The budget and the promised action plan will be two early and critical tests.

The budget has to im-plement many Liberal plat-form promises, including increased infrastructure spending, tax cuts and new child benefits but also achieve balance in four years. The cli-mate action plan will require many initiatives beyond those already on the table but allocating the challenge of significant greenhouse gas emissions reduction will be difficult.

There will be many more challeng-es and many decisions will require getting provinces, business, Aborigi-nals or others onside. It will be a year

of many negotiations.Enhancing the Canada Pension

Plan, a promise in the Liberal plat-form, is just one example. As the re-cent summit of finance ministers,

chaired by Finance Minis-ter Bill Morneau, showed, it will be a challenging task to secure the needed pro-vincial support. To change the CPP, Morneau must have the support of at least seven provinces, represent-ing two-thirds of the popu-lation.

Achieving a long-over-due New Deal with Cana-da’s Aboriginal popula-tion will be another tough negotiation. Trudeau has promised to implement the 94 recommendations of the six-volume Truth and Rec-onciliation Commission. But the implications of

these recommendations are not fully understood, nor their cost. The Liber-als did promise an extra $2.6 billion over four years for Aboriginal educa-tion.

Implementing the promise to le-galize marijuana will take more than a simple amendment to the Criminal Code. Since there are significant pub-lic health issues and concerns about the impact of marijuana use on teen brains, there will be a need for signifi-

cant safeguards. Legalization will also require provincial cooperation.

The new government has also prom-ised to renegotiate the federal-provin-cial health accord, with a long-term agreement on federal funding. To kick-start the discussions the Liberals promised $3 billion over the next four years to improve home care services for Canadians. The health accord is an urgent matter for the provinces, since health care spending looms so large in their own budgets.

The Liberals have also promised to work with the provinces and Ab-original communities for a new Na-tional Early Learning and Child Care Framework, with work to begin in the first 100 days of Liberal government — meaning February. $200 million has been set aside as part of the social in-frastructure spending.

Then there’s the Senate, with its 22 vacancies. The new government has chosen to continue to make it an ap-pointed body, with Senators still to be named by the Prime Minister. The so-called reform would have a five-per-son body compile a list of five eligible candidates for each vacancy, with the Prime Minister choosing from the list. This means the Senate will still be un-elected and unaccountable.

The Liberals have also promised to change the way we elected MPs, prom-ising that the recent election will be the last with the first-past-the-post sys-

tem. A change could have profound implications for how Parliament func-tions and how Canadians choose their MPs. A parliamentary committee will hold hearings. But there is no plan for a referendum to allow Canadians to choose the system they want. The Lib-eral Party will decide.

These are just some of the issues facing the new government. Others in-clude the need to act on physician-as-sisted dying, choosing a replacement for the CF-18 aircraft, with the Lib-erals declaring “we will not buy the F-35 stealth fighter-bomber,” what to do about the Trans-Pacific Partner-ship trade deal, whether to provide assistance to Bombardier for its C-Se-ries passenger jet, when to introduce changes on how the National Ener-gy Board deals with pipeline applica-tions, determining what Canada will do to help defeat ISIS, and amending the Anti-Terrorism Act. On an easi-er note, planning for Canada’s 150th birthday in 2017 will also have to get into full gear.

It is a very busy agenda, probably too busy.

What remains to be seen is how much will be delivered and what is left undone because some promises shouldn’t have been made while for others, there is just no time.

Economist David Crane is a syndicat-ed Toronto Star columnist.

Prime Minister must prioritize political promises

DAVID CRANE

INSIGHT

Oh the profanity

RICK ZEMANEK

INSIGHT

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Jan. 2, 2016 A7

Doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results, according to Albert Einstein, is the definition of lunacy.

The more time I spend downtown working with people in recovery or mak-ing attempts to change their lives, the more I see folks repeat the same life pat-terns over and over.

Because of years of asso-ciation with the person in the story I am about to re-late, I have come to under-stand how this type of be-haviour is developed; how this development can influ-ence and often regulate the rest of a person’s life.

As a child, adopted by cultural obligation rather than a desire for a child, this young fel-low was made to feel like a burden and a drag on normal family development, and through constant, resentful mis-treatment, rejection and punishment by the mother, this young man grew up with a burden on his back that includ-ed resentment, a rejected longing for acceptance and an unfulfilled security.

A security that normally only a training by two loving parents can bring.

A child’s usual reactions can pro-duce several different controlling

emotions as they continue to grow in this type of environment. In the case of this person, it produced a resentment

and an anger that hindered his learning in school, his attitude toward his peers, and also his feelings toward those of the opposite sex.

After many years on the street fighting, drinking, smoking pot and blaming the world and God for his own failures, he was able through the efforts of ma-ny people to make changes to his life that, even though it took several years, led to his being able to live a more normal life.

As a very intelligent adult, he had a work eth-ic that all employers desire

in an individual, so he had very little difficulty finding work. His work was done to excellence and his hands pro-duced a completed project that would be envied by many.

For several years though, he would become frustrated with individuals as-sociated with the work, and then with no trained ability to cope with frus-trations would walk away from a job and also from anything the earnings allowed him to purchase.

He thought nothing of all he had acquired and disposed of it in various

ways, and he would run away. Strange-ly enough, he always came back, and he would start all over; again thinking that this time it would be different.

What I found in all of these actions and reactions that he displayed is that they boiled down to just one common denominator.

His work was excellent, and many other talents that he had, spoke of an intelligent, caring and a giving indi-vidual.

What was lacking was his ability to cope with other people when they demonstrated their own attitudes, this included his relationships with the opposite sex.

His insecurities would in his own mind make him feel as less than oth-ers, something which would make him very frustrated; eventually leading to the desire to leave a situation or a re-lationship.

Then once that was accomplished, he would return to start all over again. But I believe that only through some loving counselling and positive en-gagements will he ever be able to over-come these frustrations and actually make changes that will last.

In this particular case, he has found very meaningful work, and his employ-ers recognize his skill and reward him, and his attitude toward others is mak-ing some headway.

Yet in all the changes that have im-

proved his life, the evidence of his up-bringing lingers much like a birthmark even though faded over the years, re-mains, and every once in a while his upbringing rears its ugly head to make negative choices in his day to day life.

Very seldom does a change come to a person that all of their upbringing can be cast aside and a new life begun.

At Potters Hands, we have seen a couple of these changes, but even with total change in a person, there always remains some of the upbringing defi-ciencies, but they are recognized by that individual and not allowed to in-terfere with their new life.

Even though all of the agencies, that try to help, know all this, it has not di-minished the efforts we put out to try. Even one in a thousand real positive change is enough to keep us going, ( much like getting a hole in one on the golf course keeps us playing) and the support we receive from the communi-ty tells me that they also care enough to continue to support us all.

As much as each of these people would prefer to be a real changeling, that in and of itself is not possible, but with the encouragement of a loving and caring community, they can come close. Something to think about, right?

Chris Salomons is kitchen co-ordinator for Potter’s Hands ministry in Red Deer.

BY WARREN KINSELLASPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

Most people — most normal people, anyway — pay little or no attention to politics.

They’re Joe and Jane Frontporch, and they’re busy. Ferrying the kids to and from hockey practice, getting stuck in traffic, worrying about pay-ing the mortgage or the rent, trying to catch up on their sleep. Busy.

They don’t have time for volumi-nous political party platforms or sit-ting through ministerial speeches or reading departmental press releases. In the digital era, they’re overwhelmed by too much information — what U.S. writer David Shenk calls “data smog” - so they just tune it all out.

That’s why the politicians who at-tract the most attention are the Donald Trump and Rob Ford types — guys so outrageous, they break through the data smog and capture everyone’s at-tention. But smoking crack or making racist statements - while indisputably newsworthy — isn’t always the best way to win elections.

So politicians and politicos instead devote most of their waking hours to dreaming up ways to pierce the smog and capture the attention of voters. They concoct ways to simplify what they’re doing, or what they want to do. Thus, back in 1992, Bill Clinton was all about the economy, stupid. At any point in his 40-year career, Jean Chre-tien was the unity guy — vive le Cana-da! And in 2008, Barack Obama repre-sented “real change.”

Justin Trudeau’s Liberals liked Obama’s 2008 slogan so much that they stole it in 2015. “Real change” was their mantra, repeated over and over, until it became their brand.

In the early days of the new Grit government, real change is taking place, to be sure — in fiscal policy, on law and order issues, on the refugee file. No question, it’s a real change from what preceded it.

But something else is happening, too. And it’s this: Justin Trudeau’s gov-ernment is the TV Government.

TV is pictures, and pictures are power. More than any prime minis-ter in our lifetime, Trudeau seems to understand that they best way to cap-tivate Canadians — the best way to pierce the data smog — is to be all about pictures.

So, there he was, greeting Syrian

refugees at Toronto’s airport in the middle of the night. Or sitting on the steps of Parliament, talking to a school kid having a bad day. Or posing for Vogue magazine or taking a Maclean’s magazine pop quiz. Or taking a bunch of hospitalized kids to see Star Wars. Or - day after day after day - cheerfully posing for selfies with average folks.

Some people are not impressed. Interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose sniffed: “While on the inter-national stage, we saw leaders of the western world come together, coalesc-ing around the fight against ISIS, the impression that was left with Canadi-ans and the international community was that our prime minister was con-sumed with taking selfies,” Ambrose said, hastening to add: “I mention this because it was mentioned to me many times by constituents.”

She added that last bit, of course, because she knows it’s working. Trudeau does, too. Asked about the selfies at town hall event run by Ma-clean’s, Trudeau verbally shrugged.

“It’s not about image, it’s about sub-stance,” he said. “You have to get to know people.”

Of course. For sure. But it’s more than that. Trudeau was pretty young when his dad rubbed shoulders with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, 30-odd years ago. But even a little kid could understand that Reagan was much more preoccupied with images than words.

One of Reagan’s most influential advisers, Michael Deaver, didn’t hide it. “I have always believed that impres-sions are more important than specific acts or issues … I believe TV is a great boon to us in judging our leaders. It lets us see all the dimensions that, in the past, people could only see in per-son: the body language, the dilation of the eye, the way they perspire. We see them when they are tired, worried, un-der great crises. If television focuses on somebody every day, it shows all the dimensions.”

So too Justin Trudeau, whom the camera loves and — to his critics —

loves the camera right back. Trudeau knows, perhaps, that leaders are mea-sured by the impressions they create, not the policies they promulgate.

There’s a risk in all of this, natural-ly. If, six months from now, Trudeau is branded as Prime Minister Selfie — if his administration is simply re-garded as a four-year-long photo op, punctuated only by state dinners and the occasional foreign trip — he’ll be in trouble. He needs to be more than the callow and shallow caricature his opponents suggest he is.

But if his visuals strategy works — and it’s working so far — he’s golden. He can end up in 2023 as Reagan did: beloved by his partisans, and remem-bered as the great communicator by all.

So far, so good. But it can all end pretty swiftly, if Joe and Jane Front-porch sense that you’re all sizzle, and no steak.

Troy Media columnist Warren Kinsella is a Canadian journalist, political adviser and commentator.

The day after the first day of the year, and already I’m sort of optimistic and sort of not.

I mean, you n e v e r k n o w what a new year might bring . For example, I may not win the lottery in 2016, and I’m real-ly counting on that. And also, I didn’t make a New Year’s Resolution List this year so how will I know when I’ve failed at something?

B u t r e a l -ly , a person shouldn’t be worried. It can always be better; it can always be worse.

I think Bob Dylan said that. Or per-haps Donald Trump.

No, on second thought it couldn’t be The Donald on account of it more or less makes sense.

Thing is, a lot of unexpected, weird, wacky and wonderful things can hap-pen in a year.

And if momentum has anything

to do with it, 2016 might be a doozy. Check out just a few of the “inter-esting” news items from the last few weeks of December, as 2015 drew to a climactic close …

News Item: Buford, Ga. Dec. 22/15. In a slightly skewed example of the Christmas spirit being alive and well in 2015, according to various newspa-per reports on Dec. 22 a bank robber gave a teller a note demanding cash. Oh, and at the end of the note he had written “Merry Christmas.” He got away with a small amount of dough. No word on whether his or the teller’s Christmas was in fact “Merry.”

News Item: Nottingham, England. Dec. 23/15.

A family clearing out a late rela-tive’s home discovered a Christmas pudding that was made in 1969.

They subsequently donated to the University of Nottingham’s microbiolo-gy department, whereupon the profes-sors ate it.

The 46-year-old comestible which contained fruit, breadcrumbs and brandy among its ingredients was steamed for five hours to ensure it was “safe” before “testing” it.

According to the internet article, Professor Christine Dodd, from the university, said: “It was a little dry, but

had a very good flavour.” No word on whether Prof. Dodd and her colleagues survived past Boxing Day.

News Item: Helena, Mt. Dec. 21/15. Court documents filed in Montana show that one Arthur Roy of Helena has been arrested on “suspicion of threatening to shoot a student for di-vulging a plot line from the newly re-leased Star Wars epic.”

It is alleged that during an internet conversation with a student Mr. Roy had befriended on the internet, the boy revealed a “subplot” to the new hit movie Star Wars: The Force Awak-ens. Roy posted a threat and a photo of himself holding a Colt 1911 (which ap-parently is a big honkin’ gun). No word on whether asshat Roy will be able to see Star Wars any time soon (unless it happens to be shown in jail).

News Item: Johannesburg, South Africa. December 2015. A Canadian man has “become the biggest couch potato.”

A Mr. Suresh Joachim set a new Guinness World Record after watch-ing movies for “120 hours straight sans sleeping.” (And Star Wars wasn’t even on the viewing list). This is just a few hours short of the average Canadian binge-watching Downton Abbey or the NHL playoffs. No word on how many

bags of buttered popcorn were con-sumed by Suresh over the five-day movie marathon.

News Item: Bareilly, India. Dec. 23/15.

And finally some monkey business to end a year that was full of all kinds of monkey business.

A week or so ago, UPI reported that “a joyriding monkey got behind the wheel of a bus while the driver was napping and crashed it into two parked buses.”

The Indian bus company stated that while the bus driver was snoozing at a bus station the monkey climbed into the bus and “managed to start the en-gine.”

As the bus drove away, the driver woke up and tried to chase the monkey away but, get this, the monkey shift-ed the bus into second gear and then jumped out the window.

The driver leapt into the driver’s seat but smashed into two other bus-es before he could regain control. SK Sharma, regional manager for the bus company said “The company has had monkey troubles in the past.”

And haven’t we all? Here’s hoping that your 2016 is relatively free of mon-key business.

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Skyscraper fire smouldersBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A towering in-ferno that engulfed a 63-story luxury hotel in Dubai on New Year’s Eve still smouldered through the first day of 2016 as firefighters worked to douse its em-bers on Friday.

Authorities said they were still working to deter-mine the cause of the fire that erupted before the city’s fireworks extravaganza and raced through the Address Downtown, one of the most upscale hotels and residences in Dubai. It came after a series of fires striking the towers that provide this megacity its futuristic skyline.

Dubai officials said only 14 people suffered minor injuries in evacuating the building late Thursday night, but the fire raised new questions about build-ing safety for those living in the United Arab Emir-ates.

The Address would have a prime spot for viewing the midnight fireworks display, centred at the near-by Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building. The Address boasts a luxury hotel with nearly 200 rooms, along with more than 600 residential units. Rentals of a one-bedroom can run $70,000 a year.

The fire started around 9:30 p.m. Thursday, racing up the sides of the building. Still authorities went ahead with the fireworks show.

More than 12 hours later on Friday morning, Dubai firefighters largely watched the fire from the ground, unable at one point to use a water hose on a ladder truck. They later regained water pres-sure and resumed spraying the building. Restau-rants nearby opened for business, but served limited menus as civil defence officials cut natural gas to the area.

By the afternoon, the blaze had largely died down, but small fires were still visible burning through some windows, sending smoke into the air.

Dubai Civil Defence said the fire appeared to have started on the 20th floor terrace, according to a statement by the government media office. Witnesses who saw the blaze start said they believed it began on the building’s ground floor.

The Civil Defence said “cooling procedures” were still underway Friday, and that the investigation was underway into the cause.

Around 1 million people had been expected to gather around the Burj Khalifa skyscraper to watch the fireworks. Dubai’s economy depends heavily on tourism, and New Year’s is one of the busiest seasons, drawing people from around the world to watch the fireworks that the emirate puts on at the world’s tallest tower, as well as the sail-shaped Burj

Al Arab and over a man-made palm-shaped island.Dubai-based Emaar Properties, which built the

Burj Khalifa, the Address Downtown and other sur-rounding developments, declined to immediately an-swer questions about the fire posed by The Associ-ated Press. It did issue a statement praising authori-ties “for their immediate and professional support.”

“An investigation is ongoing and details will be provided once they are ascertained,” the statement said.

Photo by MARCIN WZIONTEK

Fire breaks out at Address Downtown Hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Obama explores ways to beef upgun control

HONOLULU — President Barack Obama is looking for ways to keep guns out of the hands of “a dangerous few” without depending on Congress to pass a law on the fraught subject of gun control.

He’s says he’ll meet his attorney general, Loretta Lynch, on Monday to see what executive actions might be possible. Steps to strengthen background checks could come this week.

“The gun lobby is loud and well organized in its defence of effortlessly available guns for anyone,” Obama said in his weekly radio address. “The rest of us are going to have to be just as passionate and well organized in our defence of our kids.”

He said he gets so many letters from parents, teachers and children about the “epidemic of gun violence” that he can’t “sit around and do nothing.”

Obama recently directed staff at the White House to look into potential executive actions.

Currently, federally licensed firearms dealers are required to seek background checks on potential firearm purchasers. But advocacy groups say some of the people who sell firearms at gun shows are not

federally licensed, increasing the chance of sales to customers prohibited by law from purchasing guns.

Refugee, migrant flows into Europe look set to continue, response patchy

ATHENS, Greece — Bitter cold, biting winds and rough winter seas have done little to stem the seem-ingly endless flow of desperate people fleeing war or poverty for what they hope will be a brighter, safer future in Europe. As 2016 dawns, boatloads continue to reach Greek shores and thousands trudge across Balkan fields and country roads heading north.

More than a million people reached Europe in 2015 in the continent’s largest refugee influx since the end of World War II — a crisis that has tested European unity and threatened the vision of a bor-derless continent. Nearly 3,800 people are estimated to have drowned in the Mediterranean last year, making the journey to Greece or Italy in unseawor-thy vessels packed far beyond capacity.

The European Union has pledged to bolster pa-trols on its external borders and quickly deport eco-nomic migrants, while Turkey has agreed to crack down on smugglers operating from its coastline. But those on the front lines of the crisis say the coming year promises to be difficult unless there is a dra-matic change.

Greece has borne the brunt of the exodus, with more than 850,000 people reaching the country’s shores, nearly all arriving on Greek islands from the nearby Turkish coast.

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Two killed at Tel Aviv bar

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JERUSALEM — A gunman opened fire outside a popular bar in the coastal Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Friday afternoon, killing two people and wounding at least three others before fleeing the scene, police said.

The motive for the shooting spree, which took place on a busy main street, was not immediately clear, police said. Media reported the assailant was a member of Israel’s Arab minority and called it a nationalistically motivated attack but police refused to comment, saying it was still investigating.

Israeli Channel 10 TV showed CCTV footage of the incident, obtained from a health food shop next to the bar. It shows a man with short hair, glasses and a black bag over his shoulder scooping up some nuts, putting them in a plastic bag, then emptying them back. The footage then shows the man walking toward the entrance of the store, placing his back-pack on a shopping cart and taking a gun out of it. He then steps outside and starts shooting, after which he runs away.

The TV station’s defence analyst Alon Ben-David said the gunman was an Israeli Arab and that the at-tacker’s father had seen his son on television and no-tified authorities. He said the shooter’s calm demea-nour and the way he was holding and shooting the gun show he was well trained. A Qur’an, the Muslim holy book, was found later in the attacker’s bag, he said. The Associated Press could not independently confirm those details.

Channel 10 also later spoke to a man it identi-fied only as Ahmed who it said was a relative of the shooter. The man described the shooter as “trauma-tized” after a cousin was killed by police in 2006, and who had served time in Israeli prison after allegedly grabbing an officer’s gun.

Residents of the village of Arara in northern Isra-el told media they recognized the shooter and said he was from their village. They condemned the at-tack and called on him to turn himself in.

Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said five people were wounded in the attack, two of whom died in hospital. She said a massive manhunt was underway for the shooter. Large police forces were deployed at the scene.

The attack comes amid more than three months of almost daily Palestinian attacks against Israeli civil-ians and soldiers. On the Israeli side, 21 people have died, mostly in stabbings, shootings and car-ramming attacks. That’s without counting the victims in Fri-day’s attack.

At least 131 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, 90 of them identified by Israel as assail-ants. The rest died in clashes with security forces.

Record floods in Missouri, Illinois

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ST. LOUIS — The worst of the dangerous, deadly winter flood is over in the St. Louis area, leaving res-idents of several water-logged communities to spend the first day of 2016 assessing damage, cleaning up and figuring out how to bounce back — or in some cases, where to live.

Farther south, things were getting worse: Record and near-record crest predictions of the Mississippi River and levee breaks threatened homes in rural southern Missouri and Illinois. Two more levees suc-cumbed Friday, bringing to at least 11 the number of levee failures.

The flood, fueled by more than 10 inches of rain over a three-day period that began last weekend, is blamed for 22 deaths. Searchers were still looking for five missing people — two teenagers in Illinois, two men in Missouri and a country music singer in Oklahoma.

On Friday, water from the Mississippi, Meremec and Missouri rivers was largely receding in the St. Louis area. Two major highways — Interstate 44 and Interstate 55 — reopened south of St. Louis, meaning commuters who return to work next week won’t have hourslong detours. Some evacuees were allowed to return home.

I love America.The weather is

great, the scenery fantastic and the people hospitable. But the U.S. has a problem: guns. We hadn’t been in the country 24 hours before we found ourselves staring down the bar-rel of a sheriff’s semi-automatic rifle — at a camp-ground.

After a love-ly morning hike overlooking the San Juan Islands we were skipping happily back to our site when a cam-ouflaged sniper waived us to the ground. We crawled toward our motorhome — which had been comman-deered for police cover — and were ushered down by a Washington State sheriff.

Four muzzles were aimed from behind our RV toward an adjacent trailer. I heard the words, “domestic … chok-ing …firearms,” crackle over the commander’s radio.

What would kindle gun-play in a campground? Had someone made the campfire coffee too strong? Were the marshmallows charred?

We never did find out. The police escorted us out the park gate — and we returned blithely to the meandering highway. We monitored the radio to ascertain the cause of the fireworks but learned nothing. Perhaps a nearby school massacre overshad-owed the shootout at the OK Campground.

But after this first hiccup our Washington State expe-rience was gun-free, peace-

ful and marked entirely by friendly encounters. Every-

where we were greeted by kind, attentive folk with a genuine interest in how their Ca-nadian brethren were faring.

The Rain For-est Resort sits along the shores of Lake Quinault in Washington’s beautiful Olympic Peninsula. The narrow road to the resort passes through a cathe-dral of towering Douglas fir, Sitka

spruce and red cedar. The largest in the world of each of these species grows with-in spitting distance of the lake — and the quaint village provides access to one of the world’s great temperate rain forests.

The Morrison family has owned this little jewel of a resort — and everything else in town (including the coin laundry and paid showers) — since the 1960’s. The town gets four metres of rain a year. The camp store sells a lot of quarters to soggy trav-ellers trying vainly to dry hiking gear — while thawing chilled bones in a hot show-er.

In the 48 hours we were hunkered down, hiding from a brutal storm, 15 cm of rain bombarded the Rain For-est Resort campground. The lake rose and water began lapping up the wheels of our RV. There was a knock on the door. Don Morrison kept both feet safely on the run-ning board of his old pickup as he pointed to the half-sub-merged post to which our

electrical cord was plugged.“We’d better get you to

higher ground.”We evacuated uphill, and

plugged in safely at the local post office building (which, naturally, is owned by the Morrisons). So neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night can stop the post office from delivering — ei-ther the mail or electricity to a stranded RV. Over happy hour cocktails that evening at the Salmon House Restau-rant (which is owned by …

guess who?) Don and his brother traded war stories about just how high the water can get:

“Remember ’94?” said Don. “That was the year we put the cabins up on stilts.”

“Yeah, but what about ’79 when we lost power for 10 days?” responded his brother. “We threw out three freezers of elk, salmon and frozen clams.”

While they happily remi-nisced about past disasters Florence and I stared out the

window at the non-stop del-uge.

“Do you think we can get through the south shore road to Grave’s Creek campground tomorrow?” I asked.

“Hard to say,” said Don. “You’ll have to drive through Sasquatch valley, which can be slippery and there could be some trees down. There’s always the long way round, over the north shore.” He pointed across the lake.

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ABOVE: Washington’s Olympic Peninsula National Park has rain forest — and beautiful shoreline.BELOW: A banana slug sizes up a mushroom.BOTTOM: When the Washington sky unleashes, a hiking path turns into a stream 

Optimistically we struck out in the morning on the south route. On a narrow stretch 10 kilometers down a muddy gravel road we rounded a steep curve. I slammed on the brakes. Fifteen or 20 massive, freshly fallen trunks lay across the road. A swath of ancient conifers had toppled, domino-like, rendering the route impassable. The locals call this a blow-down event. Where the trees had formerly stood, a narrow window of light shone brightly through the dark canopy, illuminating the carnage.

We backed up for almost a kilometer before find-ing a safe spot to turn around. Intent on getting to the remote rain forest at Graves Creek, we drove around Lake Quinault and tested the equally tricky north shore road. We arrived at the secluded campground as darkness descended. The rain had abated from gale-force to storm watch.

In the morning we geared up for a wet tromp. An hour or so in we met Michael Butler on a remote hiking trail that had converted itself into a medi-um-sized creek. The sky was pouring buckets. The only people stupid enough to brave the elements were Mike and the Feehans. We were headed up-stream and he down.

“It gets quite a bit worse up there,” he remarked, glancing over his shoulder, soaked to the bone and smiling. Water was running out the toes of his hiking boots. A banana slug floated by. We abandoned ship and turned back, down-trail with Mike.

He was from Long Island, N.Y., sleeping in his car and subsisting on cold rice. His eyes were red. “I didn’t sleep much last night,” he said. “I have mice — two of them.”

We invited him for dinner chez Feehan for Florence’s famous Friday night homemade pizza. He acquiesced without an arm-twisting. Mike is a lanky kid, but like most 22 year olds can really pack away the groceries — particularly when served up in a dry, rodent-free establishment. Mike was travelling the entire “lower 48” carrying his grandparent’s ashes, leav-ing a trace in every state. He’d been on the road for six months but still had a bunch of places in which he’d not yet spilt his rela-tives’ remains. He’d taken a sabbatical from medical school to nurse his grand-parents at the end of their lives. After they died he quit school entirely, dis-gusted with the insurance

companies and the medical system in general. Did I say the US has a problem with guns? Apparently it also has a health-care difficulty.

When we left in the morning, Mike was still saw-ing logs, driver’s seat splayed back. Through the fog-gy windshield I spied a mousetrap, set for action. We

quietly left a note under his wiper: “I can see a pair of mice by your dashboard lights.”

As we drove out, through an ancient grove of large-leaf maple trees draped in wet club moss, the rain stopped. For the first time in days the sun began to shine.

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Travel vows trump marriage vowsBY MURIEL VEGA

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Our first trip was planned while we laid in bed reading. We were dating for only about 9 months, but I was itching to get on a plane.

“Do you want to go to Norway?” I said to him, ea-ger for a yes.

Wanderlust is my ultimate relationship require-ment. Not marriage, not kids, but travel. If we can survive for two to three weeks abroad without killing each other, I believe we can survive almost anything.

My partner, Alex, and I, now in our late 20s, aren’t planning to get married any time soon, much to the dismay of my very Catholic, Hispanic family. And while I’m supporting my friends, clapping and cry-ing at their nuptials, I don’t want to follow the same path.

For me, waking up and saying yes to another day with the person next to me — even better if it’s in a new place — means more than an overpriced white dress, a ceremony and a big party.

We don’t take our commitment to each other light-ly. We’ve formed a family with our two dogs and a mostly angry cat. And ever since that first trip to-gether to Norway in 2012, we’ve made “travel vows,” pledging to travel abroad at least once a year.

We’ve been together for five years now and have been to 10 countries together. Throughout our trav-els, we’ve become closer as a couple and stronger as individuals. We’ve held our noses amid the over-whelming fish smells at Tokyo’s Tsukiji Market; we’ve cherished each other during better meals and through worse food poisoning; we’ve bargained for Moroccan rugs in Fez and gotten swindled on cab rides in Marrakesh; we’ve navigated pharmacies in Oslo and been stranded at a train station in Kyoto.

It hasn’t all been excitement and adventure: Trav-el has a way of putting relationships to the test. The first time we got in an airplane together, we were giddy about landing in London. But once we arrived, our bags were nowhere to be found and our jackets

- much needed on a cold fall afternoon — were in them. Alex, a smoker at the time, was restless after spending eight hours without a cigarette. (His nic-otine patches were in our lost luggage.) Hunkered down at baggage claim, we traded off between yell-ing at each other and at airline workers.

But when you’re in an unfamiliar place and the only person you know is your travel companion, you lean on each other in unexpected ways. As we walked down the streets of London, holding hands, cold and without anything but each other to shelter us from the rain, part of me was glad that we were thrown headfirst into a challenge on our first stop. It forced honest and problemsolving together, rather than just walking away.

During the next two weeks in Oslo — where our

bags magically reappeared — the arguing and fight-ing was replaced by a little more patience each day. Toward the end of our trip, Alex developed a serious sinus infection. I was scared and angry that this was happening on what was supposed to be a trip of a lifetime. But as Alex struggled to breathe and I made urgent hand gestures to the pharmacist, the phrase “in sickness and in health” popped into my mind.

Shortly after we returned from that trip, Alex quit smoking.

Traveling has also made us talk frankly about money, perhaps sooner than other couples might. Every December, for the past four years, we’ve sat down and gone over our financial goals and dis-cussed where we want to travel next. This forces us to be transparent about our salaries, debt and joint

saving plans to make sure that we stay in the black. Checking in with each other as we save throughout the year helps us stay upfront about finances, which leads to fewer fights about money.

We both hold full-time jobs with decent salaries and rent a house in downtown Atlanta. Although Al-ex earns more than I do, we are both on equal finan-cial footing when it comes to our everyday budget and traveling. We break it down into four parts: air-line tickets, lodging, activities and everything else. We try to keep our everyday costs low when we’re at home so we can put a significant amount toward our travel goal. Depending on the destination, our trip fund can take up to 30 per cent our monthly budget.

If we do decide to get married later on, we’ll have a lot of practice setting a budget and sticking to it.

Traveling give us time to slow down and examine our lives from a distance. While abroad, we’re free of the pressure of emails, work schedules and social commitments, so we can spend our time challenging ourselves and asking what we want out of life.

For example, while on a six-hour train ride to Hi-roshima, Japan, Alex started rethinking his career path, weighing a move from computer systems into computer programming. By the time we were back in Tokyo nearly two weeks later, we decided to sac-rifice a few luxuries such as eating out and drinking with friends (we’ve even occasionally turned the heat off in the winter) so that Alex could save for programming school. Nearly two years later, he is in a career he enjoys.

Friends and family often ask why we put travel above other, more “adult” goals, such as saving for a big wedding or a down payment on a home. But each time we buy a plane ticket, we are renewing our vows to each other: To be patient if someone books the train at the wrong time; to hold the other’s hair if one of us gets sick from questionable street food; to reevaluate where we are in life during quieter times on the road; and to make each other laugh, no matter how tired, lost or irritable we are.

For now, it works. And we’re having an amazing time.

‘WANDERLUST IS MY ULTIMATE RELATION-SHIP REQUIREMENT. NOT MARRIAGE, NOT

KIDS, BUT TRAVEL. IF WE CAN SURVIVE FOR TWO TO THREE WEEKS ABROAD WITHOUT KILLING EACH OTHER, I BELIEVE WE CAN

SURVIVE ALMOST ANYTHING.’

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Canadiens 5 Bruins 1FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The Montreal Forum

was the Canadiens’ home for one of the most success-ful dynasties in professional sports.

The Bruins and Celtics filled the Boston Garden rafters with championship banners.

The Original Six rivals met at the home of the de-fending Super Bowl champions for the NHL Winter Classic on Friday, and it was the visiting Canadiens and their locally grown goalie who managed to mim-ic the New England Patriots’ success.

Wearing a mask decorated with a Patriots theme and autographed by their coach and quarterback, Mike Condon stopped 27 shots to help Montreal beat the Bruins 5-1 on Friday at the home of the reigning NFL champions.

“I’m pretty sure anything Tom Brady touches turns to gold,” said the Boston-bred goalie whose father is a policeman who works a security detail at Gillette Stadium during Patriots games. “Hopefully got some mojo on my helmet there. I’m a huge fan of his, huge fan of this organization, and I’m just happy to pay respect to them on the ice.”

Paul Byron scored twice, and Brendan Gallagher returned from two broken fingers to score a goal and add an assist. David Desharnais and Max Pacioretty also scored for the Canadiens, who passed Florida and moved into first place in the Atlantic Division with 47 points.

Tuukka Rask stopped 25 shots for the Bruins, and Matt Beleskey scored in the third period to avert the first shutout in Winter Classic history. The four-goal win was the largest for the event since it began in 2008.

Both goalies paid tribute to the Patriots and

Brady on their masks, and coach Claude Julien worked the Bruins bench in a hoodie straight from the wardrobe of his NFL counterpart, Bill Belichick.

Condon’s mask had pictures of Brady and Beli-chick, New England’s four Super Bowl trophies and their motto: “Do your job.” The two Patriots icons re-warded his loyalty by signing the backplate for him Belichick even listed the team’s four championships.

Condon shut out the Bruins for more than two pe-riods, gloving Ryan Spooner’s wrist shot with 0.1 sec-onds left in the second period to protect a 3-0 lead.

“Anytime a player is coming back home, it’s a spe-cial place for him,” said Montreal’s Michel Therrien, who also coached Pittsburgh to a win in the inaugu-ral Winter Classic in 2008 and is the first NHL coach to win twice. “And we all are happy about the way he performed.”

Rask had Brady and tight end Rob Gronkowski on his, along with a scowling minuteman — in black and gold, rather than the red, white and blue colours that the Patriots share with the Canadians.

But the Bruins fell to 0-1 in a building where the Patriots have lost only one meaningful game in three years.

“We definitely feel like we let everybody down,” Bruins defenceman Dennis Seidenberg said. “It was such a big buildup. I’m sure everybody in here want-ed to come out on the ice with a little bit more jump and bring a little bit better effort. But that wasn’t the case today.”

Before a crowd of 67,246 on a cloudy day with the temperature for the opening faceoff at 40 degrees, the teams dodged the slushy ice that has greeted other Winter Classic events, including the old-timers and women’s exhibitions on Thursday. Organizers compensated for the lack of snow in the Boston area so far this winter by spreading white, puffy fabric over the football field.

But they couldn’t account for such a lacklustre ef-fort from the Bruins, who were facing their longtime rival with a chance to take over first place in the At-lantic Division.

The Canadiens had beaten Boston seven straight times before a Bruins victory on Dec. 9, but Montreal had lost 11 of 13 heading into the New Year’s Day game. Gallagher’s return gave the Canadiens a boost and led to their third goal.

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Rebels add another veteranBY GREG MEACHEM

ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

The act of acquiring an elite Western Hockey League player, even one that is clearly a rental, is not a bargain-bin process.

Red Deer Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter obtained 20-year-old forward Adam Helewka from the Spokane Chiefs Friday. The cost of landing the big sniper was rather large — team captain/overage winger Wyatt Johnson, promising prospect Eli Zum-

mack, a second-round pick in this year’s WHL bantam draft and a fifth-rounder in 2017.

“Obviously, it always comes down to that if you want to get some-thing good, you have to give up assets,” said Sutter. “Unfortunately, it’s taken a player and a person like Wyatt out of our dressing room. That part stings, no question about it.

“We also gave up a very good young prospect and two picks.”

However, Sutter simply couldn’t pass on the op-portunity of acquiring a proven WHL star winger who last season contributed 44 goals and 87 points and this season has fired 16 goals and added 13 as-sists in 19 games.

Helewka, a six-foot-two, 200-pound native of Burn-aby, B.C., was selected by the San Jose Sharks in the fourth round of the 2015 NHL entry draft and is play-ing for a pro contract this season.

“We’re getting a player who, from our stand-point, is probably one of the top three players in our league … a big forward who puts up numbers,” said Sutter. “He’s a game-breaker … he can make a differ-ence in a game. To be able to acquire somebody like that you have to give up a lot and we certainly did.

“It’s a good trade for everybody. That’s how you want it to work.”

Friday’s blockbuster deal was the second in less than a week for Sutter, who last Sunday snared scor-ing forward Jake DeBrusk from the Swift Current Broncos in return for forward Lane Pederson, a first-round bantam draft pick in 2017 and a third-rounder this year.

“We look at these two trades and we’ve added two

guys who can play on our first line and be guys who can put up big numbers. They are guys who know how to play the game,” said Sutter.

With the Rebels set to host the Memorial Cup tournament in May, Sutter knew he had to further upgrade his roster to get closer to being a champion-ship-calibre team. And yet, as he noted, the Helewka deal did not transpire overnight.

“This is something that consisted of several stages and was in the process for quite some time,” said the Rebels boss. “We were finally able to get it nailed down after the game last night in Cranbrook (where Red Deer beat the Kootenay Ice 6-4).”

Johnson, who was in his fourth year with the Reb-els and has recorded nine goals and 26 points in 38 games this season, was en route to Spokane Friday and therefore unavailable for comment. Sutter ad-mitted the Saskatoon native was somewhat upset with the transaction.

“It was hard for him,” said Sutter. “He’s been a warrior for us and he’s a tremendous kid, a tremen-dous young man. It’s hard, but at the same time, like I told him, he had an opportunity to play here for three and a half years and we like to believe we do things right here and have a very good organization. Now he gets to experience another really good orga-nization.

“Spokane is a little younger team and is obviously not in the same situation as we were in regards to what we have coming in the spring. But they’re push-ing to be first in the U.S. Division so there’s lots to play for there as well. Once Wyatt gets there and gets settled in, he’ll be fine.”

Helewka was en route to Red Deer Friday and will be in the Rebels lineup tonight when the Bran-don Wheat Kings visit the Centrium.

“Adam is excited,” said Sutter. “It’s disappointing for him to leave Spokane but he’s excited about com-ing here. Again, you want it to work out for all play-ers concerned and for both organizations.

“We’re excited about acquiring a player like that. He’s a big-time player.”

While Johnson, who has nine goals and 26 points in 38 games this season, is clearly not Helewka’s equal in terms of offensive output, the 20-year-old is a proven leader and the Rebels will miss his charac-ter.

That being said, as Sutter noted, his newest acqui-sitions also possess those intangibles.

“The thing is, you’re bringing leadership into your room, too,” he said. “It’s not like these guys weren’t leaders on their (former) teams. Jake DeBrusk was a leader in Swift Current and Adam was a leader in

Spokane.“It’s not like we’re not bringing leadership back.

It’s new (leadership), but it’s still very valuable.”Johnson should fit in nicely with the Chiefs, how-

ever, from their perspective the transaction likely revolved around the five-foot-nine, 160-pound Zum-mack, a 15-year-old from Kelowna who was the Reb-els’ second-round bantam draft pick — 36th overall — last spring.

Zummack was named to the 2015 Western Cana-da U16 Challenge all-star team and has produced 27 points (5-22) in 22 games with the major midget Okanagan Rockets this season.

Surrendering such a promising young talent was tough, but as Sutter noted …

“We were in a spot where we could do it because of what we have for depth with young players inside of our organization and with what we’ve accumulat-ed in draft picks over the past two to three years. We were able to use some of those picks to finalize these deals.”

Sutter said he will consider making more moves if they make sense.

“Let’s get Adam settled in and we’ll see where it goes from there,” he said. “It’s something that we’ll just continue to monitor.”

He’s also in no hurry to name a new team captain.“We’re not going to rush into that,” said Sutter.

“We’re just going to let it unfold and see where our game goes and how things fall into place over time and then a make a decision.

“We don’t need to name a captain, either. Some-times that’s over-rated. There have been teams who have gone a whole season without someone wearing a ‘C’. It’s not something we have to do right away.”

• The Rebels were up 3-0 midway through Thurs-day’s game at Cranbrook, then watched their hosts snipe the next four goals. Red Deer, however, closed out the contest with three unanswered markers — including two from Grayson Pawlenchuk — over the final five minutes to nail down the 6-4 win.

Jeff de Wit also tallied twice for the Rebels, with both coming during first-period power plays, while Conner Bleackley and Ivan Nikoloshin also connect-ed. Jesse Zaharichuk, Noah Philp, Austin Wellsby and Matt Alfaro each had a goal for the Ice.

Trevor Martin turned aside 32 shots in the Red Deer net. Wyatt Hofflin made 26 saves for Kootenay.

Rebels forward Adam Musil sat out with an up-per-body injury and teammate Presten Kopeck suf-fered an upper-body injury during the game and won’t play tonight.

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The Boston Bruins play the Montreal Canadiens during the first period of the NHL Winter Classic hockey game at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., Friday.

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Canada 4 HC Lugano 3DAVOS, Switzerland — Canada capped a perfect

run at the Spengler Cup on Thursday by edging HC Lugano 4-3 in the championship game at Vaillant Arena.

Matt D’Agostini scored the winning goal to help Canada to its fourth straight victory and first Spen-gler title since 2012.

“We had such a special group of guys, it is some-thing I will remember for the rest of my life,” said Canada defenceman Aaron Johnson, who assisted on the game-winner. “I came in not knowing a lot about the tournament and the atmosphere was more than I

could ever imagine.“The fans were amazing and I had so much fun

playing for Team Canada with all of the families in the stands and people watching back home. What an experience, (I’m) so proud.”

Gregory Hofmann opened the scoring for the Swiss side at 8:49 of the first period when he beat netminder Jeff Glass on a wraparound. Keaton Eller-by pulled Canada even with a shot from the point at 15:59.

Derek Roy made it a 2-1 game at 3:27 of the second period and Tom Pyatt padded Canada’s lead 93 sec-onds later. HC Lugano’s Alessandro Chiesa cut into the deficit with a power-play goal at 12:50.

Hofmann tied the game at 5:08 of the third period before D’Agostini buried a one-timer past HC Luga-

no goaltender Elvis Merzlikins at 8:13 to give Canada a lead it wouldn’t relinquish.

“What an awesome opportunity to represent Can-ada and win such a prestigious tournament,” said assistant coach Rob Cookson.

“We had an outstanding group of players that fit together quickly and really bought into the chal-lenge.”

Chris DiDomenico had two assists for the Canadi-ans, who outshot HC Lugano 44-34.

It was Canada’s 13th Spengler Cup title overall. Canada has reached the final 22 times since making its first appearance at the invitational tournament in 1984.

Swiss club Geneve-Servette won the six-team com-petition last year.

Canada edges HC Lugano to win their 13th Spengler Cup

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Raptors 104 Hornets 94Toronto Raptors coach Dwane Ca-

sey credited his teams’ defensive play for their fourth-quarter turnaround on Friday night.

The Raptors erased an eight-point deficit heading into the final 12 min-utes to defeat the Charlotte Hornets 104-94.

“First half, I didn’t recognize some of those straight-line drives they were making,” Casey said. “They were going by us way too easy, but we shored it up down the stretch. I thought Patrick Patterson and Bismack Biyombo came in and changed the game defensively. They set the tone with their physicality in that third and fourth.

“Somehow, some way we’ve got to get the offence clicking where our rhythm and timing is there and our passing, and cut down on the turn-overs.”

Patterson shot 4 for 6 from three-point range and went 5 for 9 from the field for 14 points and six rebounds in the win. Biyombo, who was not ten-dered a qualifying offer by the Hornets in the off-season, added six points and 11 rebounds off the bench. Friday was Biyombo’s 14th game this season with 10 or more boards.

“I think we all did a good job find-ing away to play better defence, pro-tecting the paint, rebounding the ball,” said Biyombo, who spent four seasons with the Hornets’ organization. “Of course I have to do my part, but each and every one of us in this locker-room has to do our job.”

DeMar DeRozan led the Raptors with a game-high 23 points while shooting a perfect 7 for 7 from the line.

“We finally got into a rhythm, got a couple stops and that’s all we need-

ed,” said DeRozan of the fourth quar-ter. “We just understood that if we got some stops and some big buckets, we would be right back in the game.”

Kyle Lowry shook off a slow first half to finish with 18 points and 11 as-

sists. Lowry appeared to injure his an-kle after landing awkwardly on Kem-ba Walker in the fourth but a team spokesman said post-game that Lowry was fine.

Jonas Valanciunas, playing in just

his third game since returning from a broken bone in his left hand, had 10 points and 12 rebounds.

The Raptors (21-13) have won four of five to improve to 7-1 at home against the Eastern Conference this season.

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Canada ready for challenge from FinlandBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

HELSINKI — This has been the most trying experience of Jake Vir-tanen’s career and he couldn’t be hap-pier.

Virtanen is one of four players re-turning from Canada’s gold medal-win-ning junior team that won the world championship in Toronto last year. This year’s team has struggled in the preliminary round of the tournament and on Saturday will face the heavi-ly favoured host Finland in the quar-ter-finals.

“I think this is the most adversi-ty I’ve ever had,” said Virtanen who hasn’t earned a point in four games. “It’s pretty exciting, when you’re the first time getting into a big adversity moment for yourself. As a team, it’s pretty special.”

Finland poses a particularly steep challenge. Forwards Jesse Puljujarvi, Sebastian Aho and Patrik Laine are the tournament’s top three scorers, leading Finland to a 3-1 record to fin-ish second in Group B.

“They’ve got a really good team over there, we know that,” said Canadian forward Mitch Marner after practice on Friday.

“That first line of theirs is danger-ous on offence so we’ve got to shut them down but not focus on them too much because then you lose track of the middle lines.

“They’ve got a great four lines over there and we’ve got to be ready to play all of them.”

Canada won in regulation, in the shootout and sustained two losses in the preliminary round at Helsinki Ice Hall, the smaller of the two venues hosting the world juniors. Although that 8,200-seat arena was near capacity with boisterous Canadian fans for all four games, it will be a different story on Saturday.

The quarter-final matchup will be in Hartwall Arena, home of the Konti-nental Hockey League’s Jokerit, which seats 13,349 fans, giving Finland strong home-ice advantage.

“It can’t not be exciting,” said Vir-tanen, when asked why he thought the daunting task was exciting. “I think it’s a learning experience. When you’re down as a team it’s a learning experi-ence. You build off of (adversity) as a team. Nothing bad can happen from that.

“Through the round robin I know it was tough losing a couple of games but now we’re ready and it’s going to count from here on out.”

The biggest chink in Finland’s ar-mour is its goaltending.

Its team save percentage was sec-ond worst in the preliminary round of the tournament at .867. Finland’s goals-against average was fifth worse at 3.27. Those struggles largely fall at the feet of Veini Vehvilainen, who has started three of Finland’s games. He has a 3.36 GAA and .857 save percent-age.

By comparison, Canada — which gave two starts to Mason McDonald and two to Mackenzie Blackwood — has a .880 team save percentage and a 2.97 GAA.

Finnish head coach Jukka Jalonen refused to underestimate Canada on Friday morning, however.

“I would say that Canada is never an underdog in these tournaments,” said Jalonen as Canada practised at Hartwall Arena. “They’re always fa-vourites. I think it’s the same situa-tion now. We are underdogs, they are world champions from last season and a great team.

“We know we have a chance if we play well. When we play well.”

In Canada’s 5-2 loss to Sweden on Thursday discipline was the key is-sue with the Canadians taking 10 mi-nor penalties, giving the Swedes three

power-play goals. Head coach Dave Lowry is adamant that won’t happen again.

“Discipline is going to be key for us,” said Lowry. “If we’re taking more than three minor penalties then we’re putting ourselves in a really difficult

position. You don’t mind penalties that are preventing goals and that, but we just have to be mindful.

“I think by now we have a real good understanding what the (international) standards are and we can’t put our-selves in those positions.”

Canada faces host Finland on Sat-urday in the quarter-finals of the world junior hockey championship. The Canadian junior team struggled in the preliminary round, earning a win, a shootout win and two losses. Now it’s win or go home. Here are five things to watch for in Cana-da-Finland.

THE BLENDER — Head coach Dave Lowry has been tinkering with his forward lines throughout the tournament and often period to peri-od. Keep an eye on who top centres Dylan Strome and Brayden Point as well as dynamic winger Mitch Marner are playing with as Canada tries to find chemistry on its offence. Those rotating lines make Canada’s attack unpredictable, but may also create miscues.

BIG HITS — Although Canada had a disappointing, undisciplined 5-2 loss to Sweden in the final prelimi-nary round game, its physical game came alive. Forward Travis Konecny said after the loss that he saw it as his responsibility to energize Canada with his physical play and he deliv-ered with several thundering checks. Forwards Jake Virtanen, Lawson Crouse and defenceman Joe Hicketts are also capable of dropping a shoul-der into an unsuspecting opponent.

GOALTENDING — Canada start-ed the tournament without its pre-sumptive No. 1 goalie in Mackenzie Blackwood, who had to miss the first two preliminary games as he complet-

ed an eight-game suspension from the Ontario Hockey League. Mason McDonald started in his place, but Blackwood has seemingly reclaimed the starter’s job since a 3-2 shootout win over Switzerland and the 5-2 loss to Sweden. Finland, on the oth-er hand, has statistically the worst goaltending of any team in the playoff round.

FINNISH FLYERS — Finnish for-wards Jesse Puljujarvi, Sebastian Aho and Patrik Laine are the best line at the world junior champion-ship and, not coincidentally, the tour-nament’s top three scorers, leading Finland to a 3-1 record to finish sec-ond in Group B. Puljujarvi has five goals in four games, Laine has four goals and Aho three. Canada’s de-fence must contain these three.

HOME ICE ADVANTAGE — Vocal Canadian fans helped simulate home-ice advantage throughout the prelim-inary round at Helsinki Ice Hall. The 8,200-seat arena was at times deaf-ening with Canadian fans chanting “Let’s go Canada!” and “Maple Syr-up!” even though it was never filled to capacity.

However, the quarter-final match-up will be in Hartwall Arena, home of the Kontinental Hockey League’s Jokerit, which seats 13,349 fans. The thousands of Canadian fans will al-most certainly be drowned out by Finnish supporters unless Canada can get a few early goals to silence the hometown crowd.

FIVE THINGS TO WATCH

Raptors start new year with win over Hornets

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Charlotte Hornets’ Kemba Walker (15) lays off a pass after fighting for a loose ball with Toronto Raptors’ DeMarrre Carroll (5) during second half NBA action in Toronto on Friday.

Kings end road trip with win over Flames

CALGARY — Milan Lucic will only get credit for one goal on Thursday night, although he had a two-goal im-pact for the Los Angeles Kings.

The veteran left-winger scored once and also denied a Calgary goal as the Kings wrapped up a perfect four-game road trip with a 4-1 victory over the Flames.

Leading 1-0, the Kings opened up a three-goal cushion early in the second. Lucic swatted in the rebound of a Ty-ler Toffoli shot for his 11th goal of the season at 1:46. Andy Andreoff extend-ed the lead 78 seconds later before Lu-cic showed off his defensive abilities.

Jonathan Quick, turned aside 23 shots, picked up all four wins on the road trip, allowing only six goals. He improved to 21-9-1 on the season. Quick is second in wins behind Washington’s Braden Holtby (24).

“Obviously he bails us out all the time, so it was nice to bail him out there. If it’s 3-1 going into the third pe-riod, it could be a completely different game,” said Lucic.

Marian Gaborik and Tanner Pear-son, into an empty net, also scored for Los Angeles (24-11-2). With an assist, Toffoli extended his point streak to five games (six goals, two assists).

The Kings opened up a 12-point lead over the San Jose Sharks in the Pacific Division with the win — their biggest division lead in franchise his-

tory.Calgary (17-18-2) has lost two in a

row on home ice after winning a fran-chise record 11 straight at the Scotia-bank Saddledome.

Flames goaltender Karri Ramo made 20 saves to fall to 13-12-1.

Gibson earns shutout as Ducks blank Oilers

EDMONTON — The Anaheim Ducks have struggled to score this season, but two goals was all the offence they needed to win a pair of games in Al-berta this week.

John Gibson made 21 saves to re-cord his second consecutive shutout and fourth of the season as the Ducks extended their winning streak to three games with a 1-0 victory over the Ed-monton Oilers on Thursday.

Ryan Getzlaf scored the lone goal for the Ducks (15-15-6), who are 4-1-1 in their last six games and also recorded a 1-0 shutout in Calgary on Tuesday.

“We realize that sometimes the goals aren’t going to come in bunches and we’re playing well defensively right now and we don’t need that many goals,” Gibson said. “We kind of adapt-ed that and hopefully we can keep it going.”

Ducks head coach Bruce Boudreau also stressed the success of team de-fence lately.

“Right now we’re not putting the pucks in the net, but we’re defending well and we’re getting great contribu-tions from everybody,” he said. “It’s one of those things where we could have scored four or five every night, but we’re not putting them in.”

The Oilers (15-21-3) have lost four in a row and seven of their last eight.

NHLBRIEFS

McCaffrey sets Rose Bowl record in Stanford’s romp over Iowa

Stanford barely missed out on the College Foot-ball Playoff, and Christian McCaffrey almost won the Heisman Trophy.

McCaffrey and the mighty Cardinal didn’t miss a thing in their Rose Bowl romp over Iowa. He caught a 75-yard touchdown pass on the opening snap and re-turned a punt 66 yards for another score while setting the Rose Bowl record with 368 all-purpose yards, pro-pelling No. 5 Stanford to a 45-16 victory over the sixth-ranked Hawkeyes on Friday.

Canada’s Raonic announces addition of former top-ranked Moya to coaching staff

Canadian tennis star Milos Raonic has added for-mer top-ranked Carlos Moya to his coaching staff.

The 25-year-old from Thornhill, Ont., announced the news on Instagram on Friday shortly after defeat-ing Stan Wawrinka 7-5, 7-5 in the semifinals of the Mubadala World Tennis Championship.

“A great way to start off the New Year. With a win,” Raonic posted on Instagram.

Raonic said the former world No. 1-ranked Moya will join him in Melbourne, adding “As a great cham-pion, competitor and person I think he will be a great mentor/coach to me in achieving my dreams and com-plementing/joining the team.”

The Canadian’s victory over Wawrinka set up a meeting with Rafael Nadal in Sunday’s final. Moya was ranked No. 1 in the world in March of 1999. The Spaniard won the French Open in 1998, and was an Australian Open finalist in 1997.

Rebels vs. Brandon Wheat Kings

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The Wheat Kings, coming off a 4-3 over-time loss Friday in Edmonton, are first in the East Division with a 23-11-2-2 record and are tied with Red Deer for third in the Eastern Conference … Bran-don isn’t lacking in of-fensive power, with no fewer than five players having produced 30 points or more. Lead-ing the way is C Nolan Patrick (12-32-44). C Jade Hawryluk, a late cut of the Canadian national junior team, has 35 points (18-17), as does D Macoy Erkamps (7-28), while C John Quenneville, who’s with the Canadian squad at the world juniors, has put up 33 points

(13-20) and C Reid Duke has produced 32 (20-12) … D Ivan Provorov (7-21-28 and a league-best plus-28) is a key member of the Russian blueline at the world juniors.

Injuries: Brandon — C Tanner Kaspick (upper body, week-to-week). Red Deer — D Josh Mahura (lower body, in-definite), C Adam Musil (up-per body, day-to-day), C Prest-en Kopeck (upper body, day-to-day).

Special teams: Brandon — Power play 17.8 per cent, 18th overall; penalty killing 74.8 p e r cent, 21st .

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Football

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Today• Peewee AA hockey: Foothills Bisons at Olds Grizzlys, 1 p.m.; Red Deer TBS Chiefs at Central Alberta Selects, 2:45 p.m., Clive; Red Deer Parkland Chiefs at West Central Tigers, 5:30 p.m., Sylvan Lake.• Midget AA hockey: Bow Valley Timberwolves at Olds Grizzlys, 3:30 p.m.; Airdrie Lightning at Central Alberta Selects, 5:45 p.m., Lacombe; Medicine Hat Hounds at West Central Tigers, 8 p.m., Sylvan Lake.

• WHL: Brandon Wheat Kings at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium.• AJHL: Brooks Bandits at Olds Grizzlys, 7 p.m.

Sunday• Peewee AA hockey: Central Alberta Selects at Olds Grizzlys, 12:15 p.m..• Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Ramada Chiefs at Olds Grizzlys, 2:45 p.m.• Midget AA hockey: Airdrie Lightning at Olds Grizzlys, 5:30 p.m.

WHLEASTERN CONFERENCE

EAST DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtBrandon 38 23 11 2 2 146 111 50Prince Albert 38 22 12 3 1 123 118 48Moose Jaw 37 18 14 4 1 128 119 41Regina 38 16 16 3 3 118 134 38Saskatoon 37 14 20 3 0 115 154 31Swift Current 37 12 21 3 1 87 119 28

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtLethbridge 38 26 12 0 0 162 117 52Calgary 40 25 13 1 1 136 121 52Red Deer 38 25 13 0 0 139 115 50Edmonton 39 16 19 4 0 110 127 36Medicine Hat 37 13 20 3 1 120 146 30Kootenay 39 6 31 2 0 76 167 14

WESTERN CONFERENCEB.C. DIVISION

GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtKelowna 39 27 10 2 0 140 109 56Victoria 39 23 13 1 2 129 96 49Prince George 37 23 12 1 1 129 106 48Kamloops 36 18 14 3 1 126 110 40Vancouver 38 13 20 3 2 109 135 31

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtEverett 35 21 12 0 2 96 76 44Seattle 36 20 13 3 0 116 107 43Spokane 37 19 14 3 1 123 121 42Portland 36 18 17 1 0 123 118 37Tri-City 37 15 20 2 0 116 141 32

Friday’s resultsSaskatoon 6 Prince Albert 1Edmonton 4 Brandon 3 (OT)Kamloops 4 Victoria 1Everett 3 Kelowna 1Swift Current at Regina, 6 p.m.

Thursday’s resultsRed Deer 6 Kootenay 4Medicine Hat 6 Moose Jaw 2Spokane 5 Tri-City 2Portland 4 Seattle 1

Saturday’s gamesKootenay at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.Brandon at Red Deer, 7 p.m.Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.Everett at Kamloops, 8 p.m.Vancouver at Prince George, 8 p.m.Spokane at Portland, 8 p.m.Victoria at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.Tri-City at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday’s gamesMoose Jaw at Saskatoon, 1 p.m.Kootenay at Swift Current, 3 p.m.Prince Albert at Regina, 3 p.m.Brandon at Calgary, 4 p.m.Vancouver at Prince George, 6 p.m.Spokane at Portland, 6 p.m.

Thursday’s summaryRebels 6, Ice 4

First Period1. Red Deer, De Wit 5 (Nikolishin, Debrusk) 11:47 (pp).2. Red Deer, De Wit 6 (Johnson, Nikolishin) 15:07 (pp).Penalties — Murray Koo (roughing) 0:21, Legien Koo (hooking) 11:12, Zborosky Koo (tripping) 14:29.

Second Period3. Red Deer, Bleackley 10 (Johnson, Hagel) 9:19.4. Kootenay, Alfaro 10 (Zaharichuk) 11:20.Penalties — Bleackley RD (hooking) 1:32, Lish-chynsky Koo (slashing) 2:47, Rattie RD (slashing) 5:50, Hagel RD (holding) 11:51, Pawlenchuk RD (tripping) 13:42.

Third Period5. Kootenay, Zaharichuk 6 (Fleury, Alfaro) 1:00.6. Kootenay, Wellsby 5 (Philp, Murray) 9:38.7. Kootenay, Philp 2 (Allan) 11:18.8. Red Deer, Pawlenchuk 12 (Debrusk) 14:32.9. Red Deer, Nikolishin 21 (unassisted) 18:18.10. Red Deer, Pawlenchuk 13 (Johnson) 19:56 (-EN).Penalties — Rattie RD (interference) 6:55.

Shots on goal byRed Deer 11 10 11 — 32Kootenay 9 16 11 — 36Goal — Red Deer: Martin (W, 6-3-0) Kootenay: Hoflin (L, 4-22-1).Power plays (goal-chances) — Red Deer: 2-4 Kootenay: 0-5.

WHL Scoring Leaders G A PtsTyson Baillie, Kel 24 37 61Adam Brooks, Reg 20 36 56Brayden Burke, Let 10 45 55Parker Bowles, TC 22 29 51Devante Stephens, Spo 15 36 51Dryden Hunt, MJ 22 28 50Ivan Nikolishin, RD 21 29 50Reid Gardiner, P.A. 21 28 49Egor Babenko, Let 19 28 47Giorgio Estephan, Let 19 28 47Alex Forsberg, Vic 14 31 45Collin Shirley, Kam 23 21 44Nolan Patrick, Bra 12 32 44Tyler Wong, Let 24 19 43Cameron Hebig, Sas 19 24 43Brayden Point, MJ 18 25 43Mathew Barzal, Sea 9 34 43Justin Gutierrez, Let 18 24 42Brett Pollock, Edm 15 27 42Radel Fazleev, CAL 14 28 42Keegan Kolesar, Sea 17 24 41Jonathon Martin, SC 23 17 40Jesse Gabrielle, PG 23 17 40Andrew Nielsen, Let 9 31 40

2016 IIHF World Junior ChampionshipAt Helsinki, Finland

PRELIMINARY ROUNDGroup A

GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Ptx-Sweden 4 4 0 0 0 19 5 12x-U.S. 4 3 0 0 1 18 5 9x-Canada 4 1 1 0 2 13 12 5x-Denmark 4 1 0 0 3 4 16 3Switzerland 4 0 0 1 3 7 23 1

Group B GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Ptx-Russia 4 3 1 0 0 14 7 11x-Finland 4 3 0 0 1 23 13 9x-Czech Rep. 4 2 0 1 1 12 10 7x-Slovakia 4 1 0 0 3 8 14 3Belarus 4 0 0 0 4 6 19 0x — clinched quarter-final berth.Note: Three points for a regulation win, two for an overtime/shootout win, one for an overtime/shootout loss.

Thursday’s resultsSweden 5 Canada 2Russia 2 Slovakia 1United States 4 Denmark 1Finland 5 Czech Republic 4End of Preliminary Round———Saturday’s gamesRelegationSwitzerland vs. Belarus, 3 a.m.Quarter-finalsRussia vs. Denmark, 5 a.m.Sweden vs. Slovakia, 7 a.m.Finland vs. Canada, 9 a.m.United States vs. Czech Republic, 11 a.m.

Sunday’s gamesRelegationSwitzerland vs. Belarus, 3 a.m.

Monday, Jan. 4SemifinalsQuarter-final Winners, 7 a.m. and 11 a.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 5Relegation (if necessary)Switzerland vs. Belarus, 3 a.m.Bronze MedalSemifinal Losers, 7 a.m.Gold MedalSemifinal Winners, 11:30 a.m.

World Junior Hockey Scoring G A PtsPuljujarvi, Fin 5 7 12Aho, Fin 3 6 9Matthews, U.S. 4 4 8Laine, Fin 4 4 8Nylander, Swe 3 4 7Tkachuk, U.S. 3 4 7White, U.S. 2 4 6Juolevi, Fin 0 6 6Lazarev, Rus 2 3 5Werenski, U.S. 2 3 5Spacek, Cze 2 3 5Timashov, Swe 2 3 5Korshkov, Rus 0 5 5Milano. U.S. 1 4 5Strome, Cda 3 2 5

2015 Spengler CupAt Davos, Switzerland

Wednesday’s gamesSemifinalsCanada 6 HC Davos 5HC Lugano 3 Automobilist Yekaterinberg 0

Tuesday’s resultsQuarter-finalsHC Davos 5 Jokerit Helsinki 4 (OT)Automobilist Yekaterinberg 3 Adler Mannheim 1

Thursday’s gameChampionshipCanada 4 HC Lugano 3

Spengler Cup champions2015 — Canada2014 — HC Geneve-Servette (Switzerland)2013 — HC Geneve-Servette (Switzerland)2012 — Canada2011 — HC Davos (Switzerland)2010 — SKA St. Petersburg (Russia)2009 — HC Dynamo Minsk (Belarus)2008 — HC Dynamo Moscow (Russia)2007 — Canada2006 — HC Davos (Switzerland)2005 — HC Metallurg Magnitogorsk (Russia)2004 — HC Davos (Switzerland)2003 — Canada2002 — Canada2001 — HC Davos (Switzerland)2000 — HC Davos (Switzerland)1999 — Kolner Haie (Germany)1998 — Canada1997 — Canada1996 — Canada1995 — Canada1994 — Farjestad Karlstad (Sweden)1993 — Farjestad Karlstad (Sweden)1992 — Canada1991 — CSKA Moscow (Russia)1990 — Spartak Moscow (USSR)1989 — Spartak Moscow (USSR)1988 — U.S.A. Selects (U.S.)1987 — Canada1986 — Canada1985 — Spartak Moscow (USSR)1984 — Canada1983 — Dynamo Moscow (USSR)1982 — Dukla Jihlava (Czechoslovakia)1981 — Spartak Moscow (USSR)1980 — Spartak Moscow (USSR)

National Hockey LeagueEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAMontreal 40 22 15 3 47 116 99Florida 37 21 12 4 46 101 84Boston 37 20 13 4 44 116 102Detroit 38 18 13 7 43 96 103Ottawa 38 18 14 6 42 111 115Tampa Bay 38 18 16 4 40 97 93Toronto 36 14 15 7 35 95 102Buffalo 38 15 19 4 34 88 101

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAWashington 37 28 7 2 58 117 78N.Y. Islanders 38 21 12 5 47 105 89N.Y. Rangers 38 21 13 4 46 112 100New Jersey 38 19 14 5 43 90 92Pittsburgh 37 18 15 4 40 86 91Philadelphia 36 15 14 7 37 78 100Carolina 38 16 17 5 37 91 108Columbus 39 14 22 3 31 98 123

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GADallas 39 28 8 3 59 137 98St. Louis 40 23 13 4 50 100 96Chicago 39 22 13 4 48 108 97Minnesota 36 20 10 6 46 98 85Nashville 38 18 13 7 43 101 101Colorado 38 18 17 3 39 109 106Winnipeg 37 17 18 2 36 99 109

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GALos Angeles 37 24 11 2 50 102 82Arizona 37 18 16 3 39 104 118San Jose 36 18 16 2 38 100 102Vancouver 38 14 15 9 37 93 109Anaheim 36 15 15 6 36 68 87Calgary 37 17 18 2 36 97 121Edmonton 39 15 21 3 33 97 119NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Thursday’s GamesN.Y. Islanders 2, Buffalo 1Pittsburgh 5, Detroit 2Carolina 4, Washington 2Minnesota 3, St. Louis 1Chicago 4, Colorado 3, OTDallas 5, Nashville 1Los Angeles 4, Calgary 1Anaheim 1, Edmonton 0Arizona 4, Winnipeg 2

Friday’s GamesMontreal 5, Boston 1Anaheim at Vancouver, late

Saturday’s GamesDetroit at Buffalo, 11 a.m.Arizona at Edmonton, 2 p.m.Philadelphia at Los Angeles, 2 p.m.St. Louis at Toronto, 5 p.m.Minnesota at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Florida, 5 p.m.Dallas at New Jersey, 5 p.m.N.Y. Islanders at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.Nashville at Carolina, 5 p.m.Washington at Columbus, 5 p.m.Calgary at Colorado, 8 p.m.Winnipeg at San Jose, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesDallas at N.Y. Islanders, 3 p.m.Minnesota at Florida, 4 p.m.Ottawa at Chicago, 5 p.m.Winnipeg at Anaheim, 7 p.m.

NHL Scoring Leaders G A PtsPatrick Kane, Chi 23 33 56Jamie Benn, Dal 24 28 52Tyler Seguin, Dal 23 27 50Erik Karlsson, Ott 9 32 41Taylor Hall, Edm 15 25 40Vladimir Tarasenko, StL 22 17 39Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy 17 22 39Joe Pavelski, SJ 20 18 38Daniel Sedin, Vcr 16 21 37Blake Wheeler, Wpg 10 27 37Michael Cammalleri, NJ 14 21 35Patrice Bergeron, Bos 14 21 35Alex Steen, StL 13 22 35Alex Ovechkin, Wash 21 13 34Mike Hoffman, Ott 18 16 34Evgeni Malkin, Pgh 18 16 34Artemi Panarin, Chi 11 23 34John Klingberg, Dal 5 29 34Brent Burns, SJ 15 18 33Ryan O’Reilly, Buf 15 18 33Nathan MacKinnon, Col 13 20 33Loui Eriksson, Bos 13 20 33Evgeny Kuznetsov, Wash 11 22 33Nicklas Backstrom, Wash 11 22 33Bobby Ryan, Ott 11 22 33David Krejci, Bos 11 22 33Henrik Sedin, Vcr 9 24 33Patrick Sharp, Dal 14 18 32Bryan Little, Wpg 14 18 32Matt Duchene, Col 17 14 31Mats Zuccarello, NYR 16 15 31Mikko Koivu, Minn 10 21 31Mark Stone, Ott 10 21 31Leon Draisaitl, Edm 9 22 31Tyler Toffoli, LA 18 12 30Justin Faulk, Car 14 16 30Mikkel Boedker, Ariz 12 18 30Kyle Palmieri, NJ 16 13 29Max Pacioretty, Mtl 15 14 29Nikita Kucherov, TB 13 16 29Claude Giroux, Pha 12 17 29Roman Josi, Nash 9 20 29Steven Stamkos, TB 16 12 28

National Football LeagueAMERICAN CONFERENCE

East W L T Pct PF PAy-New England 12 3 0 .800 455 295N.Y. Jets 10 5 0 .667 370 292Buffalo 7 8 0 .467 357 342Miami 5 10 0 .333 290 379

South W L T Pct PF PAHouston 8 7 0 .533 309 307Indianapolis 7 8 0 .467 303 384Jacksonville 5 10 0 .333 370 418Tennessee 3 12 0 .200 275 393

North W L T Pct PF PAy-Cincinnati 11 4 0 .733 395 263Pittsburgh 9 6 0 .600 395 307Baltimore 5 10 0 .333 312 377Cleveland 3 12 0 .200 266 404

West W L T Pct PF PAx-Denver 11 4 0 .733 328 276x-Kansas City 10 5 0 .667 382 270Oakland 7 8 0 .467 342 376San Diego 4 11 0 .267 300 371

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PAy-Washington 8 7 0 .533 354 356Philadelphia 6 9 0 .400 342 400N.Y. Giants 6 9 0 .400 390 407Dallas 4 11 0 .267 252 340

South W L T Pct PF PA

y-Carolina 14 1 0 .933 462 298Atlanta 8 7 0 .533 322 325Tampa Bay 6 9 0 .400 332 379New\ Orleans 6 9 0 .400 388 459

North W L T Pct PF PAx-Green Bay 10 5 0 .667 355 303x-Minnesota 10 5 0 .667 345 289Detroit 6 9 0 .400 334 380Chicago 6 9 0 .400 315 373

West W L T Pct PF PAy-Arizona 13 2 0 .867 483 277x-Seattle 9 6 0 .600 387 271St. Louis 7 8 0 .467 264 311San Francisco 4 11 0 .267 219 371x-clinched playoff spoty-clinched division

Sunday, Jan. 3Jacksonville at Houston, 11 a.m.Washington at Dallas, 11 a.m.Detroit at Chicago, 11 a.m.N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, 11 a.m.New England at Miami, 11 a.m.New Orleans at Atlanta, 11 a.m.Baltimore at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 11 a.m.Tennessee at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 11 a.m.St. Louis at San Francisco, 2:25 p.m.San Diego at Denver, 2:25 p.m.Seattle at Arizona, 2:25 p.m.Oakland at Kansas City, 2:25 p.m.Tampa Bay at Carolina, 2:25 p.m.Minnesota at Green Bay, 6:30 p.m.

National Basketball AssociationEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division W L Pct GBToronto 21 13 .618 —Boston 18 14 .563 2New York 15 19 .441 6Brooklyn 9 23 .281 11Philadelphia 3 31 .088 18

Southeast Division W L Pct GBAtlanta 21 13 .618 —Miami 19 13 .594 1Orlando 19 14 .576 1 1/2Charlotte 17 15 .531 3Washington 15 16 .484 4 1/2

Central Division W L Pct GBCleveland 21 9 .700 —Chicago 19 12 .613 2 1/2Indiana 18 14 .563 4Detroit 18 15 .545 4 1/2Milwaukee 13 21 .382 10

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBSan Antonio 28 6 .824 —Dallas 19 14 .576 8 1/2Memphis 18 16 .529 10Houston 16 18 .471 12New Orleans 10 22 .313 17

Northwest Division W L Pct GBOklahoma City 23 10 .697 —Utah 14 17 .452 8Portland 14 21 .400 10Denver 12 21 .364 11Minnesota 12 21 .364 11

Pacific Division W L Pct GBGolden State 30 2 .938 —L.A. Clippers 21 13 .618 10Sacramento 12 20 .375 18Phoenix 12 23 .343 19 1/2L.A. Lakers 6 27 .182 24 1/2

Thursday’s GamesMilwaukee 120, Indiana 116Detroit 115, Minnesota 90Golden State 114, Houston 110L.A. Clippers 95, New Orleans 89Oklahoma City 110, Phoenix 106Utah 109, Portland 96

Friday’s GamesWashington 103, Orlando 91Toronto 104, Charlotte 94Miami 106, Dallas 82Chicago 108, New York 81Philadelphia at L.A. Lakers, late

Saturday’s GamesBrooklyn at Boston, 1 p.m.Phoenix at Sacramento, 3 p.m.Detroit at Indiana, 5 p.m.Oklahoma City at Charlotte, 5 p.m.Orlando at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.Milwaukee at Minnesota, 6 p.m.Houston at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.New Orleans at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.Memphis at Utah, 7 p.m.Denver at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.Philadelphia at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesChicago at Toronto, 1:30 p.m.Atlanta at New York, 1:30 p.m.Miami at Washington, 4 p.m.Portland at Denver, 7 p.m.Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 7:30 p.m.

Scouting report

Friday’s Sports Transactions

FOOTBALLNational Football LeaguePITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed S Ross Ventrone from the practice squad. Released WR Jacoby Jones.TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Placed S Chris Conte on injured reserve. Signed LB Darius Eu-banks from the practice squad.WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed DL Kamal Johnson to the practice squad.HOCKEYNational Hockey League

FLORIDA PANTHERS — Signed executive vice-president and general manager Dale Tallon to a contract extension. Named Tom Rowe associate general manager. Named Scott Allen coach of Portland (AHL).TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Recalled G Andrei Vasilevskiy from Syracuse (AHL). Reassigned G Kristers Gudlevskis to Syracuse.WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled D Ryan Stanton from Hershey (AHL). Re-assigned D Con-nor Carrick to Hershey.ECHLELMIRA JACKALS — Announced F Allan McPher-son was recalled by the Rochester (AHL).

HELSINKI, Finland – The Canadian junior team, with Red Deer’s Kelsie Caine in the lineup, downed Finland 8-5 Friday to finish a perfect 6-0 in pool play of the world ringette champion-ships.

The Canadians will take on the second-place Finns in a best-of-three championship series starting today.

Canada improved to 5-0 with a 19-0 thumping of the United States Thursday.

Meanwhile, Canada’s senior team, which includes Dailyn and Jamie Bell of Lacombe, lost 8-2 to Finland in the opening game of a best-of-three series for the Sam Jack’s senior title Friday. The second games goes Sunday.

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Jan. 21997 — Thirteen inmates and several guards

Institution.1988 — Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mul-roney signs Free Trade Agreement with U.S. President Ronald Reagan; to ease trade re-strictions between the two countries. 1957 — Locomotive conductors go on strike nation-wide.

1942 — Canada signs declaration of unity with 26 other countries at war with the Axis; allies pledge not to make a separate armi-stice or peace. 1933 — McGill student Alex Foster starts up his first full season at the Laurentian Lodge Club with an improved 2,000 foot long version

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Markets mired in redBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — The Toronto stock market ended with a thud on Thursday as it closed out what has been one of its more tumultuous years in recent memory.

As it dragged to the finish line, the S&P/TSX com-posite index ended the session 132.34 points lower at 13,009.95 — the third consecutive day that Canada’s main index has weakened since trading resumed af-

ter the Christmas holidays.For the year, the TSX has lost just over 11 per

cent of its value, primarily as a result of a decline in key commodities prices.

Much of the blame can be placed on the drop in oil prices, which have fallen 30 per cent since the end of 2014.

The February contract squeezed a small gain of 44 cents in the final session of the year, closing at US$37.04 a barrel, while February natural gas rose 12 cents to US$2.34 per mmBtu.

“From an investment standpoint, it was a year of avoiding Canada,” said Cavan Yie, an analyst at Man-ulife Asset Management.

“It will probably mirror what the coming year might bring,” he added.

The loonie showed some measure of life, closing up 0.23 of a U.S. cent at 72.25 cents US. Still, that’s well below where the dollar finished 2014, when it was worth 86.2 cents US.

GOOD LUCK IN 2016

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Sherry-Ann Abellar prepares grapes as she helps in the family-run business of selling fruits along makeshift stalls in downtown Manila, Philippines. Many Filipinos believe that having 12 round fruits of different kinds on the family table will bring good luck during the New Year.

South Korea reopens beef

importsBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — South Korea has reopened its bor-ders to Canadian beef after imposing a temporary ban over concerns about mad cow disease.

Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay and Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland made the an-nouncement Thursday.

The country imposed the ban in February after a beef cow was discovered near Edmonton with bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

Soon after Peru, Belarus and Taiwan also im-posed temporary restrictions on beef imports, but Agriculture Canada says Peru has since lifted its ban.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said in No-vember that contaminated feed was the most likely cause of the case of mad cow disease. It said no part of the Black Angus cow entered human food or ani-mal feed systems.

A case of BSE in 2003 at an Alberta farm devas-tated Canada’s beef industry as 40 countries closed their borders to Canadian cattle and beef products, although most of those markets have since reopened.

Last year South Korea was the sixth biggest ex-port market for Canadian beef, buying $25.8 million of Canada’s $1.9 billion in beef product exports.

The lifting of the ban is good news for beef pro-ducers, said Dave Solverson, president of the Cana-dian Cattlemen’s Association.

“South Korea holds huge potential for beef and especially cuts and offals that are underutilized here at home,” Solverson said Thursday in a news release.

“Korea is a market that will pay more for those select items and that helps to increase the overall value of the animal for producers.”

With the implementation of the Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement in late 2014, the association said Canadian beef exports to Korea have the poten-tial to exceed $50 million per year.

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Blizzard kills more than 30K dairy cows in Texas, New Mexico

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LUBBOCK, Texas — Dairy producers in West Texas and eastern New Mexico are continuing to assess how many animals died in the winter storm last weekend, but the number will probably climb to more than 30,000, an official with a dairy group said Thursday.

Texas Association of Dairymen executive direc-tor Darren Turley said an estimated 15,000 mature dairy cows died in the storm’s primary impact area — from Lubbock west to Muleshoe and north to Fri-ona which is home to half of the state’s top-10 milk producing counties and produces 40 per cent of the state’s milk.

An agent with New Mexico State University’s ex-tension service told Turley the area around Clovis, New Mexico, lost an estimated 20,000 dairy cows.

The number of younger animals killed by Winter Storm Goliath in each state could be just as high as the mature cows, he said.

There will be less milk coming from the region for a while, Turley said,

The snow was just one part of Goliath. It was the

wind that led to drifts as high as 14 feet, where many animals died. Wind will push animals into a fenced corner where they can suffocate in snow drifts.

“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime (storm),” Turley said. “It’s a bad deal for producers.”

The losses will affect production for about year, he said.

During the storm dairy employees and tanker trucks from reaching farms. Hundreds of loads of milk ready for processing were wasted. Some cows normally milked twice a day went almost two days without being milked, which dries up the cows’ milk supply, Turley said.

“The ripples from that are going to depend on how fast those animals’ milk production comes back,” Turley said.

The Texas producers are working with state en-vironmental officials to find ways to dispose of the carcasses. Some counties are allowing producers to put carcasses in their landfills.

Andle van der Ploeg, owner of Mid-Frisian Dairy near Clovis, said Thursday that he lost just 10 an-imals, but feels great sympathy for producers he knows who lost hundreds of milk cows.

“It was unbelievable,” he said.

Expect workplace to become more work, less place in 2016BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — The future of the workplace is more work and less place, experts say, given the impact of new technologies, an uncertain economy and the de-mands of a new generation of employees.

Those three big trends are expected to result in Canadians spending more time out of the office, but that freedom and flexibility come at a price: greater expectations.

Many Canadians are now calling in to meetings from the road, using online collaboration tools and cloud services to get work done on the weekends and — unfortunately for family harmony — checking emails at all hours, including at the dinner table.

Human resources consultant Peter Saulnier, part-ner at Vancouver-based Logan HR, said that with the technologies that exist today, there is far less reason to dictate where or when workers should get their jobs done.

Saulnier said many workers allow themselves to be available at all hours in exchange for more flex-ibility. But most don’t do enough to set boundaries, he said.

“In many ways, we do it to ourselves,” he said. “And there are far too many organizations that will say, ‘Thanks very much, I’ll take all those extra hours you’re putting in for no additional pay.”’

While the Internet and new communications technologies have been changing the workplace for years, what’s new is that companies are actually tak-ing a step back, he said.

Organizations looking to recruit and retain the best employees are cutting down on overwork, he said, by managing expectations, capping working hours and placing a greater importance on people skills among management.

“Smart organizations realize that it’s a problem, and in taking care of your people, your workers are going to be happier and ultimately the organization will do better as well.”

And while being on call outside regular hours is putting more stress on employees, their jobs are get-ting more precarious.

Contract work has surged since the 2008 financial crisis, with the number of Canadians aged 25 to 54 in temporary work growing nearly six times faster than overall employment — and those short-term work-ers could be in jeopardy as some are predicting the

economy is in for another rough patch in 2016.Saulnier said that while the rise in temporary

work means more pressure on the pocketbook for some, it also means workers have more freedom to leave their jobs in cases of bad management or poor working conditions.

Melanie Peacock, a human resources professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary, said employee happiness was often ignored under older manage-ment models focused on maximizing shareholder value or minimizing manufacturing defects, and that those top-down, hierarchical systems don’t necessar-ily foster independent, empowered workers.

Now, she said, companies are turning more to metrics such as employee turnover, the time it takes to fill jobs, and absence rates to maintain morale and productivity in an economy of increasingly part-time and short-term workers.

“The economy isn’t going to change overnight,” she said. “The question is, after things like layoffs, how to deal with the people we have and keep them motivated, make them feel valued.”

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BlackBerry to stay in Pakistan after government drops server-access request

BlackBerry (TSX:BB) says it will remain operating in Pakistan after that country’s government backed off from its request to gain access to the company’s servers.

Marty Beard, chief operating officer of BlackBer-ry, wrote on the company’s blog Thursday that the Waterloo, Ont.-based technology firm decided to stay there once the government’s decision was made.

BlackBerry previously said it would rather close its operations in Pakistan than provide the govern-ment “unfettered” access to its BlackBerry Enter-prise Servers.

Pakistani officials had wanted to monitor all traf-fic in the country, including every email and Black-Berry Messenger correspondence. BES communica-tions are routed through the company’s servers in Canada, BlackBerry had said before the resolution announced Thursday.

The company had been considering its options ahead of a Dec. 30 deadline.

“We are grateful to the Pakistan Telecommuni-cation Authority and the Pakistani government for accepting BlackBerry’s position that we cannot pro-vide the content of our customers’ BES traffic, nor will we provide any so-called back doors to our BES servers,” Beard said in the blog entry.

Exiting Pakistan would’ve put BlackBerry in a difficult position as it tries to recover a share of the international market.

INBRIEF

“The older generation too is start-ing to understand that work isn’t everything, and we’re all starting to understand that we have to build other things in and around our lives other than work,” she said.

Wayne Berger, who heads the Canadian operations for Regus, a shared and temporary office space provider, said his company’s periodic surveys of customers and other business contacts show what is important to the best young graduates and employees has shifted over the past 20 years.

“This generation is not just about moving up the company chain,” he said.

Berger said it’s easy for small businesses and startups to embrace change, but he’s now see-ing the big companies that dominate Canada’s pri-vate sector and even some government agencies us-ing new methods of work to attract and retain the younger generation.

While concerns about commuting times, child care and time off are not new, he said, what is new is the willingness of mil-lennials to change jobs and switch careers in search of a better work/life balance.

“They want an opportunity to pro-duce their result but they want to do it on their terms,” he said.

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Markets also turned lower south of the border on the final trading day of 2015 year, although U.S indexes ended mixed year over year.

The Dow Jones average closed down 178.84 points at 17,425.03 on Thursday, down some 2.2 per cent on the year.

The S&P 500 finished 19.42 points lower at 2,043.94 on the day, enough to put it about three-quarters of a per cent in the red for the year. It was the worst return for the index since 2011.

The Nasdaq lost 58.44 points to 5,007.41, but stood out as the only ma-jor Wall Street market to strengthen in 2015 — rising 5.7 per cent.

Elsewhere in commodities, the Feb-ruary gold contract was up 40 cents at US$1,060.20 an ounce, but still ended the year weaker.

Gold has now fallen for three con-secutive years, ending 2015 down 10.5

Peacock said millennials — those born after 1980 — are now bringing the more independent values of their generation into the workplace, though she emphasized that the push towards more empowered employees is taking place across all age groups.

MARKETS: May rebalance quickly

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WORKPLACE: Embrace change

per cent.March copper dropped by a penny

to US$2.14 a pound.North American stock markets will

be closed on Friday for New Year’s Day before resuming on Monday morn-ing as traders look to begin the year on better footing.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if we do see the markets rebalance quicker than expected,” Yie said, noting that traders tend to look to future events to fuel their decisions.

“I wouldn’t say I’m optimistic, but more constructive versus the (previ-ous) 12 months.”

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook’s making some of its users feel a lot old-er than they really are.

The social network sent automat-

ed messages Thursday inviting some users to celebrate “46 years of friend-ship on Facebook” with one or more of their online friends.

That’s odd, since Facebook only started in 2004. And some people who got the message are in their 20s and

30s.Facebook blamed a software bug.

It didn’t offer details, but computer experts speculate the problem stems from a quirk in Unix, an operating sys-tem used in big data centres where companies like Facebook store infor-

mation. The glitch starts the internal calendar on some computers at mid-night, Greenwich Mean Time, Jan. 1, 1970.

Facebook said its engineers are fix-ing the problem “so everyone can ring in 2016 feeling young again.”

Facebook mistakenly congratulates users on 46 years of online friendship

Make a budget a resolution for the new yearBYTHE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — If you don’t have a bud-get, then financial planners want you to add another thing to your list of new year’s resolutions.

Credit counsellor Pamela George says budgeting is important no matter what your income.

“I think it is even more import-ant for a bigger salary to have a bud-get because you need to account for it and you need to understand that $200,000 can finish as fast as $12,000,” said George, who works for the Credit Counselling Society in Ottawa.

Start with your paycheque. You need to know how much you are bring-ing in each month. Then list your man-datory expenses that you can’t really change, such as rent or mortgage pay-ments, utilities, car payments, insur-ance and debts.

George also includes savings and putting money aside for an emergency fund if you don’t already have one in the mandatory category.

“I take savings and put it under mandatory because it is mandatory that you save,” she said.

Then comes your discretionary spending for whatever you might have left over. Things that you have some flexibility with when it comes to your plan. Entertainment, dining out, a gym membership.

“These are all things you have a lit-tle more control over,” George said. “You can choose not to buy clothes one month. You can choose not to go to the movies.”

Jane Rooney, financial litera-cy leader at the Financial Consum-er Agency of Canada, says tracking spending for a couple of weeks to find out how you’re actually spending mon-ey is important when building a bud-get.

“The more formal strategy allows

people to see clearly where the in-come is coming in and where the ex-penses are going,” she said.

“Often people underplay where they’re spending the money.”

The FCAC offers several tools on-line to help plan a budget, including a comprehensive calculator, and helps detail how you spend your money.

Household debt has flirted with re-cord levels in relation to income, fu-

elled by low interest rates and a boom in the housing market.

The importance of having a budget is especially important for those who have debt, especially bad debt like credit cards.

“Knowing to pay as much as you can on a credit card bill as often as you can if you cannot pay the balance in full is a really important tip,” Rooney said.

Having a budget doesn’t mean never

buying a latte and a pastry on your way to work or always brown bagging your lunch.

But it does mean understanding what those things cost and whether or not you can afford them.

“There is a sense of freedom and a peace that I have because I work with a budget,” George said.

“The consequences of not having a budget is debt.”

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When drawing up a budget, start with your paycheque. You need to know how much you are bringing in each month. Then list your mandatory expenses that you can’t really change, such as rent or mortgage payments, utilities, car payments, insurance and debts.

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Members of Red Deer Pond Hockey, CARE volunteers and immigrant youth gather for a group Members of Red Deer Pond Hockey, CARE volunteers and immigrant youth gather for a group picture Thursday afternoon during a break in play at Westpark Elementary School. Many of the picture Thursday afternoon during a break in play at Westpark Elementary School. Many of the kids remained on the ice for the duration of the afternoon as they learned to play hockey.kids remained on the ice for the duration of the afternoon as they learned to play hockey.

Taking part in traditionTaking part in traditionStory and photos by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staffLacing up skates, grabbing a stick and

hitting the rink for a game of hockey is about as Canadian as it gets.

The crisp winter air, the welcome sound of steel on ice, and pucks against boards are simply part of life in a country obsessed with the sport the day the outdoor rinks open, one of the most highly anticipated for children countrywide.

For Red Deer’s immigrant youth, how-ever, stepping onto the ice is about more than taking part in Canada’s favourite pastime; it’s another step in settling into a brand new culture.

The Central Alberta Refugee Ef-fort (CARE) and Red Deer Pond Hockey teamed up on Thursday afternoon at the Westpark Elementary School rink to teach newcomers the basics of hockey. The event served as a wrap-up to the fifth sea-son of CARE’s “Learn to Skate” program, which saw about 60 youth try their hand at skating and hockey at the Collicutt Centre, Bower Ponds, and Westpark throughout the week.

Children from Ethiopia, Iraq, Ukraine and Africa, as well as other nations, formed friendships on the ice, learning how to pass, shoot, score. It was also a chance for participants to come together in spite of differences in language, religion and back-ground as only Canadians can.

For the sport of hockey.

ABOVE LEFT: Midad Abdulrahman, who has only been in the country for a month after immigrating from Iraq, laces up his skates.RIGHT: Abdullah Al-Ali fist pumps after scoring a goal.B E L O W L E F T : Hermon Alem, left, battles for the puck with Red Deer Pond Hockey Division II player Jannah Lim Thursday afternoon at the Westpark Elementary School rink.

Ziyad Abdulrahman Ziyad Abdulrahman goes after puck goes after puck while learning while learning to play hockey to play hockey

Thursday afternoon. Thursday afternoon. Abdulrahman Abdulrahman

has only been in has only been in Canada for a month Canada for a month after immigrating after immigrating

from Iraq.from Iraq.

L E F T : M i d a d Abdulrahman, left, and Abdullah Alithawi are al l smiles as they take off their skates Thursday afternoon a f t e r s p e n d i n g s e v e r a l h o u r s learning and playing hockey.BELOW: Red Deer P o n d H o c k e y coaches and players, CARE volunteers and immigrant youth teamed up to put the puck in the net.

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Chamber reflects on ‘steady’ 2015

LOCAL C2SATURDAY, JAN. 2, 2016

BY MARY-ANN BARRADVOCATE STAFF

The executive director of the Red Deer and District Chamber of Com-merce describes the current state of the local economy as steady.

Tim Creedon said Thursday — the final day of 2015 — that while there has been a slowdown in the oil and gas sector, “What we haven’t heard is sub-stantial job losses in Red Deer in the last few months.”

“It’s a steady-as-you-go here.”Creedon believes that many of the

local jobs lost in that sector involved administrative jobs that predominant-ly served workers who were out in the field. And those jobs were lost in the first half of 2015.

“Our oil and gas service sector is slow. The money doesn’t seem to be going into exploration. But where the money seems to be going to is a lot of the services that need to be performed on existing wells.”

“I’m hearing that there’s more mon-ey from budgets being put into existing operations because they clearly see that money isn’t going to be needed in

the exploration side.”Creedon said that the one sector of

the local economy that is doing well is agriculture and that was reflected in Agri-Trade, the large major trade show that the chamber sponsors.

“We had an absolute record-setting Agri-Trade in November.”

Companies were reporting that they did as much business selling farm equipment and machinery on the first day of the show in November than they did in the whole show in the previous year, Creedon said.

While there was concern earlier in the growing season about the quality of crops, the 2015 harvest came in real-ly well, he said.

“It all came together in the end and we got some fabulous yields, so there was money around.”

As for the retail sector, Creedon said the consensus he has heard is if businesses can do as well in 2015 as they did in 2014, it will have been a reasonably good year.

While some retail businesses may have seen a decline in sales a month here and there, “I wasn’t hearing doom and gloom.”

Red Deer’s retail market serves

nearly 300,000 people across the centre of the province with people coming for shopping and health-related visits.

“We are a destination so … we punch above the weight of just the 100,000 people who live in Red Deer.”

Creedon said that there are some concerns by Chamber members with uncertainties, such as the plan to raise Alberta’s minimum wage.

The one thing that business dislikes is uncertainty, Creedon said. Business-es could become more comfortable going forward when that uncertainly clears up.

“I think Red Deer will rely on its core strength. We will still be seeing companies like Finning repairing sub-stantial amounts of equipment out of the oilsands and returning it back into service.”

“We will still see our retail sector be busy, but it’s a very fine line be-tween being busy and doing extremely well.”

Creedon noted that Red Deer’s un-employment rate in November 2014 was 3.4 per cent compared with 5.5 per cent in November 2015. In November 2015, Calgary’s was 6.7 per cent and Edmonton’s was 5.8 per cent.

Red Deer was still a full percentage point behind Calgary and lower than Edmonton.

“5.5 per cent is not very far out of unemployment balance … four to five per cent is in balance. It just might take you awhile to find something.”

“Alberta’s economy is quite special-ized economy in relation to the rest of the country … in terms of the sub-stantial amount of manufacturing and heavy engineering that goes on in Al-berta relative to other provinces. “

“Those skills like heavy duty me-chanics and welders are so strong, par-ticularly in Central Alberta and there are a number of companies who are doing very well to this day, as the un-employment figures will tell you.”

In the long-term, Creedon said the Chamber supports the development of the Energy East pipeline project, which would move Alberta oil to East-ern Canada. Ninety per cent of the oil Quebec consumes is from outside Can-ada.

“We should be looking to grow our internal market to the point where Canada is self-sufficient in oil prod-ucts.”

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Justice Film Festival set for

eighth yearBY ADVOCATE STAFF

It’s thought-provoking, encourages understanding, creates awareness and helps people connect with one another — and it’s free.

The 8th annual Justice Film Festival in Red Deer will cover a number of interesting subjects this year, ranging from the horror of the human organ harvesting trade in China to the joy of the African Children’s Choir to the challenge of achieving zero waste.

The two days of films — ranging from 28 to 90 minutes in length — will run on Jan. 22 and 23, at the Margaret Parsons Theatre at Red Deer College.

Each film is followed by a discussion and the chance to connect with a variety of associated orga-nizations that will have displays in the NGO Village.

Tickets are available at the the door on a first come, first served basis. The film festival is orga-nized by by Hearts of Women. Sponsors so far in-clude Central Alberta Refugee Effort, HR McWil-liam Consulting, National Bank Financial and the Horsley family.

The films and schedule are:Jan. 226 p.m. — The Human ScaleFifty per cent of the world’s population lives in

urban areas. By 2050 this will increase to 80 per cent. Today we face peak oil, climate change, loneliness and severe health issues due to our way of life. But why? Danish architect and professor Jan Gehl has studied human behavior in cities through 40 years. He has documented how modern cities repel human interaction, and argues that we can build cities in a way, which takes human needs for inclusion and inti-macy into account.

The film questions our assumptions about moder-nity, exploring what happens when we put people into the center of our planning.

8:15 p.m. — Racing to ZeroThree years ago the mayor of San Francisco

pledged to achieve zero waste by 2020. Racing to Ze-ro follows San Francisco’s trail of trash behind-the-scenes to track the possibility and makes a great dis-covery. The simple substitution of the word resource for the word garbage transformed a culture, produc-ing a wealth of new industries, and an intriguing and surprising race to zero.

Jan. 2311 a.m. — African Grandmothers TribunalAfrican grandmothers are working to secure bet-

ter futures for their communities. They have stepped in to care for orphaned grandchildren, putting them through school, supporting them through the loss of their parents to AIDS, and teaching them about HIV prevention and treatment. They are advocates for their families, and are emerging as experts and lead-ers, increasingly acknowledged by governments and international NGOs. But discrimination and gender inequality impose an unconscionable price.

12:30 p.m. — (Dis)HonestyIt’s human nature to lie; we all do it. From scan-

dalous headlines to little white lies, this film ex-plores the complex impact dishonesty has on our lives and everyday society.

2:25 p.m. — In The Shadow of WarThe film tells four very different stories of trauma

and, on occasion, triumph over adversity. This is the first film which charts the long-term impact that the war in the former Yugoslavia has had on those chil-dren born during or just after the war ended.

4:15 p.m. — Not Without UsDeconstructing the complex issues at the heart

of one of the most harmful and prevalent forms of discrimination in America — the chronic abuse and stigmatization of people labeled mentally ill. Watch what happens when this group of people, often por-trayed as a problem to be solved by society, bands together to stand up for their rights by redefining the nature of the problem and reclaiming their status as integral members of society.

5:15 p.m. — Human Harvest: Davids and GoliathNobel Peace Prize nominees David Matas and

David Kilgour investigate the organ harvesting trade in China and uncover one of the world’s worst crimes against humanity.

7 p.m. — That Sugar FilmDamon Gameau embarked on a unique experi-

ment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are com-monly perceived, or promoted to be healthy.

8:45 p.m. — IMBA Means SingThe film is about the journey of 20 Ugandan chil-

dren from the slums of Uganda to the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and back again, perform-ing as the Grammy-nominated African Children’s Choir. The audience is taken on this journey, expe-riencing the joy, wonder, homesickness and longing for a better life — right along with the kids.

A BRISK RIDE

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff

A Red Deer man goes for a winter bike ride through the city’s trail system Friday afternoon.

Man in custody after found in stolen car with loaded shotgun

A Red Deer man remains in custody after he was found in a stolen car with a loaded shotgun by Mounties.

Police patrolling the Normandeau area on Dec. 30 found a suspicious red car at about 2 a.m. They said the vehicle was reported stolen a day prior. Officers then followed it.

When the vehicle pulled in to a parking lot in the 6700 block of 59th Avenue, police blocked it in and prevented the suspect’s attempt to flee.

He was taken into custody without incident.Police seized a loaded shotgun, ammunition and a

replica firearm from the vehicle.Dixon Ross Bergseth, 37, is charged with posses-

sion of stolen property, possession of a loaded pro-hibited weapon, careless use or storage of a firearm, unauthorized possession of a prohibited weapon in a motor vehicle and possession of a firearm contrary to a prohibition order. Bergseth will appear in Red Deer provincial court on Jan. 5.

Red Deer RCMP previously said they found Bergseth in a vehicle in the Red Deer Regional Hospital parking lot in September. The vehicle had numerous guns in the trunk. However, Bergseth’s charges from that incident were withdrawn at trial after the Crown’s case fell apart.

MAG wants to help people focus on the positive as they begin 2016

Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery wants to remind people to give thanks as they begin 2016.

Open Studio will feature the interactive program Thank You Cards at the MAG today, from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m., to inspire people to focus on the positive in-stead of what they want or what they want to change in the New Year.

Visitors are encouraged to write thank you cards to people in their lives, as well as posting a, “I am Thankful for, …” story starter on the gallery wall of the Stewart Discovery Studio.

It’s a free drop-in, self-directed activity for all ages. Hot chocolate and coffee will be available. Do-nations welcome.

The MAG will be closed Jan. 1.Visit www.reddeermuseum.com for information

on exhibitions, programs and events.

Building permit numbers increase but values drop in November

Though the number of building permits increased slightly, the value of those permits have dropped sig-nificantly, according to the City of Red Deer.

There were three more building permits issued in November 2015 compared to the same month in 2014, 101 from 98. However, in 2014 those permits were valued at $19.4 million while in 2015 they were worth $5.2 million.

The biggest difference between the two months was seen in the value of industrial permits issued. In 2015 three permits were issued totalling $139,000, while in 2014 four permits were issued totalling $10.6 million.

According to the city, residential permits contin-ue to lag behind last year’s value, dropping 46 per cent in November 2015 compared to November 2014.

For year-to-date, the value of permits has in-creased to $228.3 million in 2015, up from $186.8 mil-lion in 2014. However, the number of permits issued dropped from 1,493 in 2014 to 1,311 in 2015.

Among the notable permits issued in November, 2015 were renovations to the Tim Horton’s at 22nd Street and Taylor Drive and the installation of a paint booth at Break Away Hot Shot in the Burnt Lake Industrial Park.

City releases annual environmental plan online

Red Deerians can take a look at the city’s environ-mental progress with the online release of the En-vironmental Master Plan Report to the Community 2014.

The annual report highlights both achievements and improvements that need to be made in the Envi-ronmental Master Plan’s seven focus areas – water, ecology, transportation, built environment, air, ener-gy and waste.

“This report allows us to provide valuable up-dates in our efforts to meet and exceed our environ-mental targets,” said Nancy Hackett, Environmental Initiatives Supervisor. “It also helps to inspire our community to work together to achieve these goals, whether it’s making the effort to recycle more, or idle your vehicle less, it all matters to the overall health of our local environment.”

It includes tips for conserving water and energy, creating sustainable gardens and outdoor land-scapes and ways to reduce emissions. Check it out online at reddeer.ca/environmentalmasterplan.

Copies of the report are available at city facilities, including all recreation centres and public libraries, as well as City Hall, Civic Yards and Kerry Wood Na-ture Centre.

RCMP seeking public’s help in finding suspect in failed robberies

Using a plastic garbage bag as a mask, a man struck out after he attempted and failed to rob three convenience stores in one night.

Red Deer RCMP believe three attempted robber-ies between 11 and 11:45 p.m. on Dec. 30 may have been committed by the same person. They are asking for the public’s help in locating the suspect.

The male suspect first hit the Fas Gas at 4023 Ross St. at about 11 p.m. He demanded cash and threat-ened staff, but did not produce a weapon. After he was told there was no cash in the till, he left on foot heading south on 41st Avenue.

For the first robbery he wore a black garbage bag over his head and also had a black jacket over a black hoodie.

Fifteen minutes later, a man entered the 7-Eleven at 3803 40th Ave. and demanded cash from the till. The staff member refused and said he was hitting the panic button.

The suspect attempted to grab lottery tickets, but left empty-handed, heading south on foot along 40th Avenue. Witnesses said the suspect wore a dark co-loured hoodie with a black garbage bag over his face.

At 11:40 p.m., Mounties received a report that a man tried to rob the Express 24 on Erickson Drive. This time the man carried a tire iron into the store and demanded money. The staff member refused and struck the suspect with a broom.

The suspect left empty-handed again, this time south on foot along Erickson Drive. The suspect was reported to have worn a black hooded sweater pulled tightly over his face.

Witnesses described the man as shorter, about 1.65 to 1.72 metres (five foot five to five foot eight) and weighs about 68 to 81 kg (150 to 180 pounds).

Police continue to investigate and plan on releas-ing more information when it becomes available.

Anyone with information these incidents is asked to contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575 or Crime Stoppers at 1800-222-8477 or online at www.tipsubmit.com.

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LOCAL EVENTS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has asked people to pray for victims of recent storms, flooding and other bad weather in the United States, Britain and South Amer-ica.

During his public audience Wednes-day in St. Peter’s Square, Francis told the faithful the storms were, “unfortunately, causing victims, many evacuees and enor-mous damage.”

He prayed that God grant comfort to those affected and that “brotherly solidar-ity help them in their need.”

Flooding in South America forced tens of thousands of people to flee homes, in-cluding in the pope’s native Argentina.

Neighboring Paraguay was hard hit.Tornadoes in Texas last week were

blamed for at least 11 deaths, and fears of flooding this week in the U.S. Midwest caused widespread evacuations.

In northern England, flooding forced many people out of their homes.

Pope seeks prayers for dead, homeless in storms in U.S.,

Britain, S. America

Tips for cultivating the practice of reading scripture

BY JOEL B. GREENSPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

While teaching at a conference some years ago, I was startled when a participant announced that he could not imagine how any Republican could claim to take the Bible seriously.

Not long afterward, I witnessed a repeat perfor-mance in another setting, except in this case we were told that Republicans alone read Scripture correctly.

This reminds me of what I imagine to be a first-century “battle for the Bible”: Pharisees, Christ-followers, and Sadducees all reading the same Scriptures, but reading them quite differently and reaching diverse conclusions about the nature of faithfulness to God. How can this be?

Clearly, a lot has to do with our formation as read-ers of Scripture and not only with the words written on the page.

This underscores the importance of reading Scripture as a “practice,” since the idea of “prac-tice” assumes circularity: formed by our reading of Scripture, we become better readers of Scripture.

This is not because we become better skilled at applying biblical principles. The practice of read-ing Scripture is not about learning how to mold the biblical message to contemporary lives and modern needs.

Rather, the Scriptures yearn to reshape how we comprehend our lives and identify our greatest needs.

We find in Scripture who we are and what we might become, so that we come to share its assess-ment of our situation, encounter its promise of res-toration, and hear its challenge to serve God’s good news.

Paradoxically, perhaps, cultivating the practice of reading Scripture first prioritizes Christian forma-tion more generally.

This is because there is no necessary, straight line from reading the biblical materials to reading them Christianly; sharply put, one can be “biblical” with-out being “Christian.”

When Jesus criticizes two disciples on the Em-maus Road for their failure to believe what the prophets had spoken, the problem was not their in-ability to hear the prophets or take them seriously. Jesus asked, “Wasn’t it necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then enter into his glory?” (Luke 24:26, CEB).

“Of course it was necessary!” we might say. But the question remains, which prophets actually doc-ument this necessity? “Isaiah 53,” we might respond, but we would then need to acknowledge that we can say this only because we have learned to read in just this way. After all, Isaiah 53 never mentions the Mes-siah, and Jesus’ contemporaries were unaccustomed to thinking of Isaiah’s Servant as a suffering Messiah.

The problem faced by Jesus’ disciples was their lack of the cognitive categories required for making sense of the Scriptures in this way.

They needed more than a commonsense reading of a biblical text.

That Isaiah spoke of Jesus was something they had to learn.

Accordingly, Luke records: “Then he interpreted for them the things written about himself in all the scriptures . . .” (Luke 24:27, CEB).

This example speaks to the integrated nature of Christian practices, and especially to the ways those practices shape us as readers of Scripture. Christian formation helps us to read the Scriptures Christian-ly. So it is worth reflecting on the difference it makes to our reading of Scripture that we regularly recite the Apostles’ Creed.

What difference does it make to our reading of Scripture that we meet each other repeatedly at the Lord’s Table, that we speak often with people who do not share our faith, that we who share a common faith in Christ eat together regularly, and that we pray to Jesus as though he were God? (And what dif-ference does it make when we do not engage in such practices as these?)

Of course, reading Scripture is itself a central Christian practice, so we may ask how we cultivate this practice among the others — a question I take up more fully in Seized by Truth: Reading the Bible as Scripture. Here, let me make six suggestions.

1. Reading Scripture is not enough.Theological and ecclesial formation inform and

are informed by reading Scripture. Communities that put Scripture into practice through seeking the Holy Spirit, confessing sins and forgiving each other, praying for the sick, and offering good news to others find themselves being prepared to read Scripture.

2. Read and read again.It is easy to turn time with Scripture into a game

of “20 Questions”: how to have a happy relationship, learn financial faithfulness, or whatever.

A sharp line can be drawn between utilitarian ap-proaches that treat the Bible as a how-to manual or a database for addressing my questions, and the for-mation of Scripture-shaped minds that understand God and God’s creation through Scripture-shaped lenses.

The latter requires patient, deliberate reading — reading, as it were, for no good reason but for the sake of having our dispositions and reflexes shaped by Scripture.

3. Read slowly.Those of us who find ourselves moving back and

forth between blogs, email, texts, news outlets, and social networks on our smartphones and tablets need different rules of engagement for reading Scripture. This practice concerns not how fast I can get through today’s reading, but how slowly, com-bining prayer, reading, and contemplation. To crib Jesus’ words, “Let these words sink into your ears”

4. Involve yourself.If the last century or more has imagined educa-

tion as the process of stepping back to observe, as-sess, and attain knowledge, then this practice calls for different habits.

This learning is self-involving, a means by which we hear God’s address. Why do we resist this text but embrace that one? What does it mean that we are in-cluded in the community of God’s people addressed by this text?

5. Read together.Inasmuch as scriptural texts have their origins

and purpose deeply rooted in the community of God’s people, we ought to find ways to read in com-munity.

By this I refer to the importance of study groups where our assumptions and views are tested, but even more I mean to counter the temptation to imag-ine that Scripture is simply for me and about me, or that I am tasked with determining its significance apart from the larger church, historically and glob-ally.

6. Refuse to distinguish between reading the Bible for a class or sermon and reading the Bible for Chris-tian formation.

We come to Scripture for different reasons at different times, but it would be a mistake to imag-ine that preparing an exegesis paper or sermon re-quired qualitatively different protocols.

Should we leave our theological and ecclesial lo-cations behind when doing exegesis?

Should work with Scripture in sermon prepa-ration bypass the reservoir of my regular reading practices? Should the crises that arise as I encoun-ter God’s voice in Scripture not shape my reading of these texts with and for others?

As with Christian practices in general, so with developing scriptural patterns of faith and life: the destination is the journey itself.

This is a journey in which we discover that the work of scriptural reading is not about transforming an ancient message into a modern application but the transformation of our lives though Scripture.

The Bible does not present us with texts to be mastered, then, but with a Word intent on shaping our lives, on mastering us.

Joel B. Green is Professor of New Testament Inter-pretation at Fuller Theological Seminary and author of “Seized by Truth: Reading the Bible as Scripture.”

THE BIBLE IS NOT A TEXT TO BE MASTERED, BUT A WORD INTENT ON SHAPING OUR LIVES, ON MASTERING US

ENTERTAINMENT C4SATURDAY, JAN. 2 , 2016

BY LANA MICHELINADVOCATE STAFF

Some screwy things are happening in the world, but nobody needs any more complaining, said Mon-keyJunk frontman Steve Marriner.

The Ottawa-based musician, therefore, recorded some upbeat songs on his band’s latest album, Moon Turn Red.

The reggae-flavoured Love Attack, for instance, says “it’s OK. Let’s be happy,” said Marriner, who performs with MonkeyJunk on Sunday, Jan. 3 at Fratters Speakeasy in Red Deer.

The 31-year-old singer — along with lead guitarist Tony D and drummer Matt Sobb — are in a celebra-tory mood at the start of a new year. “The three of us don’t have much to complain about,” said Marriner. “We’ve worked hard and feel fortunate…”

While many musicians are having difficulties, with the music industry in flux, MonkeyJunk, signed to Edmonton’s Stony Plain Records, is selling more CDs than ever and “playing in bigger rooms than we ever have,” said Marriner.

The trio looks forward to another European tour in the spring — this time through Germany, Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia — fol-lowed by more extensive runs through Canada and the U.S.

“We’ll be playing in places where we’ve never played before, like Flagstaff, Arizona… we’re also doing a major festival in Las Vegas called the Big Blues Bender.”

Marriner attributes MonkeyJunk’s success — in-cluding getting radio play for the new single Light It Up — to a solid work ethic. But then, working hard is all anyone can do to strive for success, he said — so much else is out of our control.

“If the worst part of your day is that only a few people come to your show, you should be happy. You still get to make music.”

MonkeyJunk was formed in 2008 after the three musicians realized they had built up a fan following playing casual Sunday jams at Ottawa’s Irene’s Pub.

The band has since racked up a Juno Award, 20 Maple Blues Awards, two Canadian Independent Music Awards, and a U.S. Blues Music Award.

On Moon Turn Red, which features contributions from David Wilcox and Big Sugar’s Gordie Johnson, the group’s sound transitions a little further away

from blues and closer towards hard, driving rock.Marriner said it’s a gradual evolution — maybe

not as evident when comparing the new album to the previous one, but definitely apparent when contrast-ing new songs with ones from MonkeyJunk’s first re-lease. It goes with a more positive viewpoint.

“We realized at some point that, not just our mu-sic, but all blues-related music, is based on com-plaint,” said Marriner. And it seemed like a good time for an attitude adjustment.

There’s a $20 cover for the 8 p.m. show.lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

BY LANA MICHELINADVOCATE STAFF

After 27 years in the trenches — make that, books stacks — as children’s librarian at the Red Deer Public Library, Laural Grimes hasn’t seen the sup-posed decline in young readers.

What kids are reading is a little different — more graphic novels, comic books and online material, said Grimes. And how they’re reading is changing — more eBooks and audio books as well as regular books. But the skills remain the same, she added.

“Even when they’re texting, they’re still reading. They have to read the texts, and they have to know how to write them!”

Grimes, who’s worked in children’s services at the Red Deer library since 1989, will be retiring early in 2016 to allow time for more travel, fishing — and writing.

Having formed her own publishing company with her parents, Grimes is also a local children’s author. And she plans to add more stories to her already published books: Lolly and the Hat (1997), Peter’s Surprise (1999), Braided Pigtails (2001) and The Great Chuckwagon Race (2006), as well as More than Cob-webs and Dust, a children’s history of the Red Deer library written for its 2014 centennial.

“I have ideas, all sorts of them,” said the Del-burne native, who draws on her childhood for inspi-ration.

Grimes’ own three kids (now all adults) were her literary guinea pigs while they were children. She recalled reading her work aloud to her middle child, Scott, as he was playing with a toy truck. She’d note the passages that kept him riveted and where his at-tention strayed back to the toy.

“I’d mark it down in the margin — that part needs more work,” she said.

As children’s services co-ordinator, Grimes knows stories can make a big impact on young imagina-tions. She lists the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowl-ing, as well as the Percy Jackson, Eragon, 39 Clues, Diary of a Wimpy Kid volumes.

For boys, Grimes also recommends the Canadian Seven series, featuring a book written by Central Albertan Sigmund Brouwer. Those who like non-fic-tion can try Deluxe Classics novels that feature sto-ries such as Black Beauty that are annotated with real-life historic information about blacksmiths and other things, she added.

“They have sidebars with information from the era, like information about carriage drivers.”

Grimes advises parents to model reading for their kids, and read aloud to their children regularly — even when they’re old enough to read for them-selves. But she knows best efforts sometimes aren’t enough.

The same family might have one child who’s a veracious reader and one “who couldn’t care less… Who just stand (in the library) looking around,” she said.

Grimes doesn’t ask these tough customers what they’d like to read, but instead asks, “What do you like?” and directs them to publications that match their interests.

There have been big changes in her workplace over the years. In 1994, Grimes helped move the downtown children’s library from the building’s basement into the historic armoury next door, which was incorporated into the library complex. Red Deer’s public library has since spread to include branches in the Dawe Centre and next to the Barrie Wilson School in Timberlands.

She’s pleased to notice a growing societal focus on literacy. Grimes feels the library responds to various community needs through innovative programming. For instance, Reading Tails encourages children to practise their reading at home, then come in and

read aloud to a real-life therapy dog and his handler — who are non-judgmental.

“It’s for kids who don’t like to read; those who will read, but don’t enjoy it; kids who like to read, but aren’t good at it; kids who have anxiety and low con-fidence…”

Through Story Time and other programs, the 60-year-old has come to know three generations of some families. “I now know some grandmothers, mothers and children…”

Many familiar faces showed up to bid Grimes a fond farewell at a recent come-and-go tea.

“We’ll miss our story time,” said Sheri Smith, whose 14-month-old daughter, Scarlett, gave Grimes a hug last week.

While retirement early in 2016 is bittersweet, “it’s time,” said Grimes, who believes she will still run in-to a lot of families she’s helped over the years. “Red Deer’s not that big.”

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No more complainingSWAMP ROOTS ROCK BAND MONKEYJUNK FEEL FORTUNATE

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MonkeyJunk perform at Fratters Speakeasy in Red Deer on Sunday

A lifetime of encouraging literacyLIBRARIAN, CHILDREN’S AUTHOR RETIRING AFTER 27 YEARS TO ALLOW FOR TIME FOR TRAVEL, FISHING AND WRITING

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Laural Grimes, children’s author and Children’s Services Co-ordinator Youth Services at the Red Deer Public Library, is retiring from her position at the library.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

NORTH BATTLEFORD — The much-honoured Saskatchewan artist Allen Sapp has died at the age of 87.

Premier Brad Wall paid tribute to Sapp on Twit-ter on Tuesday, calling him one of the province’s greats.

Wall said Sapp’s brush strokes “told the story of the Cree and of Saskatchewan.”

A descendant of Chief Poundmaker, Sapp was born on the Red Pheasant First Nation in north-cen-tral Saskatchewan but most recently lived in North Battleford, where there was an art gallery bearing

his name.Sapp was an officer of the Order of Canada, a

member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and a winner of the Governor General’s Award for his illustrations in the children’s book The Song Within My Heart.

Sapp’s art depicted life on the reserve — women working in fields, men hauling logs with horses, boys playing hockey. According to a biography on the Al-len Sapp Gallery’s website, he was sickly child born to a sickly mother who died of tuberculosis.

He was raised by his grandmother, who was prom-inently featured in his work.

Sapp started out peddling his paintings on the street, but in 1966 met a doctor at a medical clinic,

Allan Gonor, who became his patron and introduced him to Wynona Mulcaster, an art professor at the University of Saskatchewan. A showing of his work at Mulcaster’s home in 1968 launched Sapp’s career. Seven months later, more than 13,000 people attend-ed an exhibit of his work at the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon. Sapp’s work went on to be shown at galleries in London, England, New York and Los Angeles, with the Daily Telegraph of London laud-ing his style as creating “illusionism so arresting as to constitute a revelation.” He was the subject of a book Portrait of the Plains”by Alberta’s then-lieu-tenant-governor, Grant MacEwan, and his life be-came the subject of both CBC and National Film Board documentaries.

Saskatchewan artist Allen Sapp dies at 87

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Let’s get one thing straight: Donald Trump is not a consul-tant to Bordertown.

To be sure, this new Fox animated comedy does target issues like immi-gration, the drug war and the embat-tled American Dream.

But it’s been in development since 2007, long before the furor sparked by Trump upon his entry last June into the presidential race.

The series’ premiere deals with a toughest-in-the-nation anti-immigra-tion bill passed by Mexifornia, the U.S. desert community where Bordertown is set.

The second episode, airing Jan. 10, is about the construction of a border wall meant to protect Mexifornia from undesirables from down Mexico way.

“It’s about time we did something about immi-gration! The Southwest belongs to retired art teachers and meth-lab en-trepreneurs,” roars Bud Buckwald, a dunderhead-ed Border Patrol guard who fears his American Dream is slipping away in an America where ethnic minorities are projected

to become the majority within a few years.

After all, next door to Bud and his family reside the Gonzalezes, whose genial patriarch, Ernesto, has a thriv-ing landscape business after less than a decade settled in the U.S.

According to creator Mark Hen-temann, Bordertown began as a mod-ern-day update of Archie Bunker, the apoplectic working man from the pio-neering 1970s sitcom All in the Family.”

Like Archie, Bud is “a white guy who feels he’s losing his place in the world.

He’s contrasted with an immigrant who’s building a life for himself in the United States.”

Growing up in Cleveland, Hen-temann was inculcated with a version of the immigration story by his father.

“Every time he had a glass of wine, he would tell my siblings and me how his dad came over from Germany in the ’20s with nothing, seeking a better life, working three jobs,” Hentemann recalls.

“It was his way to communicate the values he wanted us to embrace, and not take for granted what we have.

“Every family has their immigration story somewhere back through the de-cades,” he says.

“That’s what compelled me to write about this. This show seemed to be an opportunity to do a smart cultural

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TORONTO — Despite the success of her 2012 powerhouse pop single Call Me Maybe, Carly Rae Jepsen has never been happier onstage than she is performing her latest album, the ’80s-laced Emotion.

“I like it more than I’ve ever really enjoyed anything, to be honest with you,” says the 30-year-old Mission, B.C., native.

“I’ve always thought singing is one of those thrills that I was quite addict-ed to from the first time I tried it at age seven, but it’s a different thing to be performing these songs. I wasn’t expecting to get such a feeling of con-fidence and power and excitement. I was just wanting the show to be better and better every time that we get on-stage.

“And I don’t think I’ve ever felt that way before.”

Critics have been equally enthu-siastic about the album, which was released in late June. Time magazine placed Emotion at No. 4 on its list of the Top 10 best albums of 2015.

Meanwhile, the single Run Away With Me came in at No. 2 on New York Times reporter Ben Ratliff’s list of the Best Songs of 2015 (behind only Hotline Bling by Drake), while Vulture maga-zine had it at No. 5.

But the plaudits didn’t translate in-to commercial success, with Emotion peaking at No. 16 on the Billboard al-bum sales charts and single I Really Like You stalling at No. 39 on the Hot 100.

The album also failed to get a Gram-my nomination, which many critics de-rided as a major snub.

But for Jepsen, the critical ku-dos seem to be enough as she gears up for gigs in Las Vegas (Dec. 30, Dec. 31 and Jan. 2). She’ll then perform as Frenchie in Fox’s live TV production of Grease on Jan. 31, before going on tour.

“It was just such a nice feeling to just get some pride in something that you worked so hard on,” said Jepsen of Emotion.

“I think there’s a real freedom now, just knowing that I can let go of any worry of having to prove myself or any of that and just write from the heart in the way that I started this thing.”

Jepsen started writing Emotion right after she handed in her second album, 2012’s Kiss. However, nuggets

of some of the songs “happened way back in the day in Canada,” she said, “before Call Me Maybe and everything.”

With a team of ace producers and co-writers, she recorded and produced in Los Angeles, Stockholm and New York. The Big Apple recordings came in 2014 as she starred in Cinderella on Broadway.

“I’m going to be very aware that I’m going to sound like it’s a fairytale, but it was,” she said of her Broadway ex-perience.

“It was that old-school, like, ‘Show up in New York in the middle of win-

ter with your two bags, you’re going to be in a Broadway show,’ and I was just like, ‘How is this real life?’

“It was really refreshing and I think healthy for me to pop outside of the L.A. bubble for a bit and get myself away, meet new friends and take on a challenge that I was excited to do. It actually really helped unlock some of my guard with writing.

“I started allowing myself to just ex-periment deeper.”

Despite her live theatre experience, Jepsen admitted she is nervous about the broadcast of Grease, but is ready

for it.“I think I’ve always gotten off on

something that intimidates me,” she added.

Frenchie appealed to her because “she’s got some sass to her.”

“She’s got this whole new range of things for me versus playing that girl-next-door role that I’m used to doing,” said Jepsen.

“It was exciting to get to wear these tight pencil skirts and pointy bras and smoke fake cigarettes and just be a lit-tle bit more scandalous.”

Jepsen reaches new feelings onstage with Emotion

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Carly Rae Jepsen performs at the MTV World Stage Live in Petaling Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in September. Despite the success of her 2012 powerhouse pop single ‘Call Me Maybe,’ Jepsen has never been happier onstage than she is performing her latest album, the ‘80s-laced ‘Emotion.’

Bordertown brings laughs to the raging immigration debate

Saturday, Jan. 2CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE:

Cuba Gooding Jr. 47; Kate Bosworth, 32; Christy Turlington, 46

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Libran Moon favours com-panionship and cooperation.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: 2016 is the year to work smarter rather than harder, plus put aside time for regular relaxation — and family fun.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): With the Moon and mighty Mars — your ruling planet — now meandering through laid back Libra, it’s time to morph from a rowdy Ram into a gentle Lamb. Compassion and cre-ativity are also highlighted.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You may feel sluggish — mentally and physically — to-day Taurus. Perhaps you need to be more motivated with your exercise rou-tine? Now’s the time to establish healthy hab-its for the 2016.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’re full of ideas but the challenge is to follow through on commitments. If you make a promise — keep it; if you set a goal — work to achieve it. And, most of all — finish what you start.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Relation-ships will be tricky today Crabs, and there may be some tension between professional and personal partnerships. The main thing that will help resolve problems is compro-mise.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): With Mercury — planet of communication — moving into your relationship zone, it’s time to get talking — re-ally talking — with your nearest and dearest. Constant connection is the key.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There may be some friction — or surprises — to do with money today Virgo. With proactive Mars firing up your cash zone, it’s time to bite the bullet and fix up financial problems ASAP.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Librans love to express themselves but creativity is re-stricted today, and you may have a crisis of confidence and doubt your talents. Look to a trusted loved one for some wise reassurance.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your com-pulsive Scorpio streak is likely to go into over-drive today, as you expect 100 per cent per-formance from yourself — and others. Some people won’t appreciate your obsessive atti-tude though.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A re-lationship with a child, teenager or friend may be tested, as you discover what their real agenda is. Compromise is needed — on both sides — if you want to get things moving in a positive new direction.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A frus-trated family member could push your emo-tional buttons today. Cool down Capricorn and employ some self-control! Otherwise you are likely to over-react, and make the prob-lem worse.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Prepare for a busy and productive day, where you’ll aim to get as much done as you possibly can. It’s a suitable time to get your finances sorted, but don’t ruin your good intentions by rushing.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t un-derestimate the power of smart networking! With Venus visiting your career zone, it’s a good day to socialize with work colleagues, extend your peer group, and maximize your connections.

Sunday Jan. 3CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY:

Robert Loggia, 85; Mel Gibson, 59; Victoria Principal, 65

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Try to see a tricky current situation from both sides.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: When you become involved in some-thing, you give 110%. In 2016, strive to be a lot less stubborn and a lot more flexible.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your sharp tongue and razor wit could get you into trouble today — especially if you gossip up a storm. Don’t overdo it — if you pass on unverified news, you could end up with egg on your face.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’re keen to offer advice but your comments may be blown out of proportion today Taurus. So

think carefully before you make criticisms —no matter how ‘constructive’ they are.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Avoid being a garrulous Gemini today and don’t believe everything you hear, especially from a fam-ily member. If you think carefully before you speak, it will save you from a day of dramas.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Many Crabs will be moody today. Others will irri-tate you with their thoughtless words and actions. Don’t brood on things though. Say what you’ve got to say, clear the air, and then move on.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You may become impatient with someone’s lack of initiative but today’s not the time to push their buttons. Concentrate your attention on positive peo-ple, and focus on super smart solutions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Avoid making mountains out of molehills, especially involv-ing financial matters. Getting the balance right between your professional and personal responsibilities is a tricky juggle, but you can do it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Avoid getting carried away and talking up projects — es-pecially professional ones — until you’ve laid the groundwork. Others will soon lose interest if you don’t come up with the goods.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t get carried away Scorpio! Otherwise you may say too much; make a promise you can’t keep; or think you know all the answers. With a little caution and restraint, you’ll have a good day.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): So-ciable Venus is visiting Sagittarius, so you’re in the mood to chat. Watch what you say though - hasty words now could lead to re-grets later, so aim to be more diplomatic.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Expect some feisty exchanges with a relative, neigh-bour or colleague. You’re in the mood to tell a few home truths, but don’t expect others to like what you say. Choose your words wisely.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Communi-cation planet Mercury is now moving through your sign Aquarius, which encourages light-ning flashes of inspiration. So you’ll be at your innovative, interesting and eclectic best!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There’s no time for Pisceans to procrastinate today, as the pace picks up and decisions need to be made with lightning speed. If you dither around, you’ll just be left behind in the dust!

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internation-ally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Situation has turned sour with son’s wifeDear Annie: I realize that this is a

common issue, but I could still use some advice.

When my son first married, his wife was loving and involved with the family. When the babies were born, we con-tinued a warm relationship. Now that their children are older, however, our daugh-ter-in-law is cold and dis-tant, and she is not interest-ed in interacting with our extended family.

She grew up in a trou-bled family and seemed very happy to join ours. But not anymore.

We live nearby and other than chance meetings, oc-casional help with the chil-dren and family holidays, we seldom see my son. We were told early on that we were not to visit unannounced, and we never have. If we didn’t attend the grandchildren’s school functions, we would never see them.

It seems that our daughter-in-law just doesn’t like us and wants minimal contact.

Are we asking too much? Are we living in the past? Is there anything that can be done to improve the situation?

You’ve advised parents in our situation to find oth-er interests. I think that if the young couples would imagine our situation in their own future, they might realize the extent of their hurtful behavior. — Crying Mother

Dear Mother: You are right that this is, unfortu-nately, a problem that ma-ny parents have.

We don’t know why your daughter-in-law is behaving differently. She may have

her own emotional issues that prevent her from having a healthy relationship with you. She may have been putting on a show for the past several years and doesn’t want to do it anymore. You

may be behaving in a way that seems fine to you, but is annoying to her. You are not asking too much, but you might consider readjusting your expecta-tions.

Do not criticize or assign blame. That will only make the situation worse. You can ask your son whether there is something you can do to help smooth over the relationship, and then do it.

You can see whether your son will bring the kids over without his wife so she can get a break and you can spend time with them.

Or you can accept that this is how it is, being grateful that you get to see the family on holidays and at school events, and involving yourself in things that will bring you peace.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Fed Up,” who objected to people with buckets asking for money to help send their kids’ ecology class to Honduras.

As a teacher, I sponsored many clubs and teams.

We did do outside fundraisers for charities where my students held

buckets at the intersections in town and raised thousands of dollars. Al-though we didn’t bucket-beg for our own activities, I understand why they are so common now.

With recent tax cuts, schools have less money for optional activities, such as band trips, choral productions and academic competitions.

When you do a fundraiser through the school, like selling candy, the price of the item has to be inflated to allow a profit margin. With a bucket campaign, the group gets 100 percent of all dona-tions.

Your advice was good. If you don’t support the activity, keep your win-dows up and drive on by. — M

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime ed-itors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mail-box, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Face-book.com/AskAnnies.

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Top craft books from 2015 feature sewing and quilting

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Sewing — by machine and by hand — was prominently featured among this year’s craft books. Many titles were geared toward quilters, and oth-ers were for children who want to sew clothes, gifts and quilts. Some notable titles from 2015:

All Points Patchwork It helps quilters rediscover English

paper piecing, a process that dates to the late 1700s. Author Diane Gilleland says it takes the struggle out of cre-ating complicated patchwork quilts: “You can use (the process) to make beautiful and impressive quilts, but you can also add a bit of patchwork magic to smaller projects.”

Constantinople Quilts A gorgeous compendium of appli-

que quilts by Australian quilt-shop-owner Tamsin Harvey that were in-spired by Turkish Iznik ceramics, known for cobalt blue and intricate designs. Harvey’s quilts are highly de-tailed and prominently feature flora designs.

The Modern Medallion WorkbookBy Janice Zeller Ryan and Beth

Vassalo, it also shares intricate pat-terns for applique quilting. The 11 modern patterns, by 11 expert quil-ters, range from basic to advanced. “It was a lightbulb moment for me when I realized that the definition of a me-dallion quilt is just a quilt made up of borders surrounding a centre medal-lion — nowhere in that definition does it state that they have to be equal, per-fect or matched,” writes Vassalo.

Smash Your Precut Stash! By longtime quilters Kate Carlson

Colleran and Elizabeth Veit Balder-rama, shares 13 quilts that give pur-pose to quilters’ collections of precut squares and fabric strips.

Dreamy Quilts By self-taught designer Lydia Nel-

son, features 14 simple, quiet projects, including pillows and a table runner. “My idea of a dreamy quilt . is soft and soothing to the eyes, with a palette

drawn from nature,” writes Nelson. “It is a quilt that is not overly compli-cated by an abundance of prints and colours.”

Get Quilting By mother and daughter Angela

and Cloe Walters, walks young peo-ple through the process, from choos-ing fabric and supplies to assembling and quilting a piece. Kid-friendly projects range from a T-shirt quilt to a school-supplies holder.

Alabama Studio Sewing PatternsBy Natalie Chanin, features pat-

terns for several of the fashion design-er’s haute couture pieces and instruc-tions for how to embellish, with beads and embroidery.

Rebecca Ringquist’s Embroidery Workshops Is this hand-sewing teacher’s mod-

ern take on the traditional technique of embroidery. Ringquist encourages experimentation and an artful eye the book includes a small, printed, fabric sampler for practicing stitches.

Lotta Jansdotter Everyday Style Features five simple clothing pat-

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We Love to Sew Gifts By children’s sewing teacher Anna-

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The Mood Guide to Fabric and Fashion Features advice from the Mood

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BY KATHERINE ROTHTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Home sweet home. It seems so simple.But while the idea of “home” remains con-

stant — the epitome of the familiar and reliable — actual home life is messier and changes all the time.

So says Judith Flan-ders, author of The Mak-ing of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Hous-es Became Our Homes (Thomas Dunne Books, 2015), in which she trac-es the evolution of the home, and concepts of home, in northern Eu-rope and America from the 16th century to the early 20th century.t

She looks at changes in technology, such as plumbing and toilets, ta-bleware and furniture, windows and window dressings, light bulbs and kitchen gadgets, as well as changes in culture, such as marriage patterns, hopes and customs.

“There’s a huge disconnect between the men-tal construct of home and the reality, and it turns out that that’s been the case for centu-ries,” says Flanders, reached by phone recently in her London home.

For instance, while some might think that families and marriages used to be more stable, “broken homes were the absolute norm in most of history,” she says. “A home can’t be any more broken than if one parent is dead.”

As for appearance, “the paintings of the Dutch golden age did not depict what Dutch households of the time actually looked like,” Flanders says.

While the paintings are heavy with symbol-ism and appear sparse and sparkling, actual

homes were crowded with furniture.She likens the disconnect to the images fea-

tured in today’s interior-design magazines, which are generally devoid of toothbrushes, electrical outlets, hampers, dish racks and other basic amenities, as well as the tchotchkes that clutter many real homes.

“It really proves that our desire to be-lieve in this ideal of home overrides every-thing. We don’t like to be told or reminded that it’s not true,” she says.

Something as basic today as the fork, she says, did not appear as a standard eating implement in most places until well into the 18th century. “You had a cutting and a piercing instrument in your knife. You had a scooping implement in your spoon. You were set,” Flanders says.

But then pasta came along as a standard starch in Italy, and the earthenware plate replaced wooden trenchers. Tableware needs rapidly changed.

“Suddenly a twiddling instrument be-comes more frequently seen on tables. Ex-cept for the British Navy, which remark-

ably held out on adopting the fork until 1897,” Flanders says.

Similarly, she traces the impact on home life of glass windows, electric lighting and indoor plumbing.

“The only real stability we have in the home, if one looks at the centuries of history, is the belief that home is a stable thing. Everything changes all the time,” she says.

The shift to computers and then to individual handheld devices is similarly changing social norms at home, she notes it’s much more rare now to see everyone sitting together around a radio or TV.

“The reason the idea of ‘home’ survives is be-cause it’s so fluid that it can encompass rapidly changing social customs,” says Flanders.

“It’s a nice warm quilt to wrap ourselves in to keep out the cold that’s outside.”

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A painting by Dutch artist Jan Havickszoon Steen called The Prayer Before the Meal, recently sold at auction in London. Homes and home life are changing all the time, says Judith Flanders, author of the book, The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes, who traced the evolution of the house, and concepts of home, in northern Europe and America from the 16th century to the early 20th century. The paintings of the Dutch golden age are heavy with symbolism and appear sparse and sparkling, while the actual homes were crowded with furniture.

Home life has changed over the years,but the idea of ‘home’ has endured, says author

THERE’S A HUGE DISCONNECT

BETWEEN THE MENTAL CONSTRUCT

OF HOME AND THE REALITY, AND

IT TURNS OUT THAT THAT’S BEEN

THE CASE FOR CENTURIES.

Q: This spring, I will be moving in-to a new home and I am both excit-ed about the adventure and nervous about the many decisions that still need to be made.

The home has a beautiful open con-cept design with the kitchen, breakfast nook and Great Room treated as one space.

The Great Room has a floor-to-ceiling fireplace with a window on each side of it.

The ceiling height is nine feet, and the room is light-ed with five pot lights, one of which is centred on the fireplace.

I will purchase new fur-niture for the room and have a few pieces in mind, however, I think I may be trying to include too much.

I could certainly use some advice to decide what would work best given the constraints and dimensions of the room.

Can you suggest an appropriate fur-niture arrangement that maintains the open feeling?

I have a beautiful old cabinet that I would like to use as a base for the television and to house the peripheral electronics.

Obviously, the furniture should be arranged so that the TV can be viewed easily, but I haven’t been able to figure out how.

A: How you plan to use this space will determine what type of furniture you choose, and how it should be ar-ranged.

From the builder’s plan that you in-cluded with your letter, it appears that this Great Room is the only “public” space in the house.

From what I can see, your new home has no living room, den or al-ternate space for entertaining, so this Great Room will be the main place to entertain family and friends, as well as your personal retreat.

As such, it should be arranged to be as comfortable for one person as it is for four or five.

Open plan spaces are never easy to arrange, but because yours is a fairly spacious and architecturally symmet-rical, you have several options for a

suitable arrangement.The room will have two focal fea-

tures, the television and the fireplace, and the furniture should be arranged to take complement both.

I have shown the main and largest seating piece, a 1.8 metre (six-foot) long sofa, directly across from the fire-place facing towards the most interest-

ing part of the room.To its right, install the

television, where it will have good viewing proximi-ty from the main seating, as well as from the open kitch-en and dining area.

Enhancing the pleas-ant symmetry of the room, I have shown two large chairs, each flanking one side of the fireplace.

This will offer both a co-sy place to read and relax, as well as a conversation “island” that comfortably seats up to five people.

In any arrangement, seating should be comfort-

ably close so that people can talk eas-ily.

Ideally, people should sit no more than 2.5 metres (eight feet) apart, and it’s best when they can sit face-to-face.

The arrangement should be out of the path of traffic simply because it is annoying to have people marching in front of you when you’re trying to carry on a conversation.

Therefore, the arrangement should be large enough to have people navi-gate around the seating.

In your open plan room, the sofa back faces the entrance, but that effect can be softened by placing a sofa table behind it.

A cheerful bunch of fresh flowers or interesting accessories will give that table a pride of place.

This clean, open space is a perfect backdrop for dramatic art works on the walls, bringing colour and pattern into the space.

The temptation to placing more fur-niture in the room than is needed can be addressed by taking some time to ask yourself what pieces NEED to be in the space.

How many seating places do you have to have to accommodate a regular visitation? Is a curio cabinet neces-sary? Is a desk appropriate for day-to-

day use?Do you have heirlooms that you

would like to incorporate here?Before buying anything, be certain

that you need it and you can use it.Ultimately, the choice is yours, but

the guiding rule should be the comfort of the room’s user, you.

David Ferguson is a regular contribu-tor to CBC Radio’s Ontario Today. Write to David at: david.ferguson@hotmail.ca.

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Q: How can I get more stable room temperatures from my radiant infloor heating system?

It uses hot water running through pipes in the floor.

I really like having warm feet, but sometimes room temperatures go 3C or 4C higher than what I set it to.

A: Hot water systems some-times have a t e n d e n c y t o over-shoot ther-mostat settings, making rooms too hot.

By the time a n o r d i n a r y thermostat reg-isters that a room has risen to the set point, theres still sig-nificant thermal energy stored in the hot water in floor pipes or wall radiators, ready to move into the room and overheat it. The flip side of this is the problem of lag times.

It can take longer for hot water sys-tems to bring rooms up to set point temperatures because it takes time for heat to move from the water to the room.

Either way, the result is room tem-peratures that aren’t always right, just as you’re experiencing. Five years ago I installed two hot water heating sys-tems in two buildings on my own prop-erty.

One system used a regular wall thermostat with floor sensor (proba-bly like what you have), and another used a smart control system by a BC company called tekmar (www.tekmar-controls.com; 250-545-7749). Ive mon-itored both systems closely and the difference in temperature stability is dramatic. Room temperatures in the building with a conventional hydronic thermostat sometimes vary 3 C to 4 C beyond the set point, while the tekmar system always maintains room tem-peratures within less than 0.5∫C of the set point. Retrofitting these controls onto your system would make a big dif-ference to room temperature stability.

Attic Insulation QualityQ: Did an attic insulation contrac-

tor do a bad job at my moms century house? They blew insulation right into

the corners of the attic, with no spaces around the eaves. I don’t think they did anything to insulate the top of the attic hatch either.

A: Older homes were always built without vented softs around the eaves and very few places have vented eaves added, but thats okay. Natural air leaks elsewhere in the attic typically vent off the moisture instead. You’ll probably be fine, but you need to be sure. Inspect the attic after sub-freez-ing weather, and if no frost or moisture is present on the underside of the roof, then you’re okay. If moisture is devel-oping there, its not a panic situation. Just have rooftop ridge vents installed in the roof the next summer.

These are easily retrofitted and work well.

If you find the top of the attic access hatch is bare, insulate it with pieces

of extruded polystyrene foam glued to the top surface of the hatch.

Fasten the foam with a continuous bead of caulking around the perime-ter.

Two 2î layers will do the trick. While you’re at it, seal the edges of the attic hatch with weather stripping. A whopping amount of heat is often lost from houses by warm air getting drawn up through leaky attic hatches.

Leaky hatches are also a common source of excess moisture in the attic, leading to frost, damp wood and mold growth.

Best Basement InsulationQ: What’s the best way to finish

basement walls? None of the contrac-tors I talk to want to put up anything other than studs and batts.

A: Wall studs and batt insulation

have been used to finish basements since that started happening after World War II, but its not my favour-ite choice today. Any moisture that comes through the basement walls as liquid or vapour triggers massive mold growth.

Thats why I like foam systems best for basements. They’re better able to resist moisture, making for better air quality.

To learn more about finishing a basement so it resists mold and must-iness, check out my video mini-course at baileylineroad.com/finish_base-ment_right.

Steve Maxwell answers reader ques-tions almost every day at BaileyLin-eRoad.com. Visit Steve online to learn more about home improvements, mainte-nance and everything hands-on.

Stabilizing room temperatures

Photo by Steve Maxwell/freelance

Inside a Canadian-made smart thermostat. Electronics like this learn to anticipate heating and cooling of specific rooms, controlling room temperature much more precisely with hot water heating systems.

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HOUSE WORKS

Designing and working with a great room

DAVID FERGUSON

CREATIVE SPACE

Dear Debbie;We are planning the light-

ing for our new living dining area and would like your ad-vice. There are so many op-tions we don’t know where to start. Thanks, Benjamin

Dear Benjamin;You are very

clever to be think-ing about the light-ing requirements at the beginning of your decorating process.

Once you have an idea of where your furniture will be placed you can devise an overall lighting scheme that will enhance all the activities that take place in this busy space.

Your choices will also make the most of your colours and fabrics, bringing them to life and complementing your settings.

Begin by placing ambient light.

During the day natural light may fill your room, but think about evening lighting requirements.

Ambient light comes from different sources, pot lights in the ceiling, wall sconces, over-head lights and floor lamps.

The sum of the light shed by ambient sources should brighten up the entire space, but not in a garish way.

Dimmer switches on over-head lights allow you to con-trol the atmosphere as your needs change. Next consider accent lighting such as spot lights and shelf lights to high-light favourite objects and ar-chitectural details.

Up-lighting is very effec-tive for plants, and washes the wall with shadows that build on a mood.

You may love a particular chandelier or fascinating floor lamp that gives off little useful light.

This is decorative lighting and can become a focal point on its own.

Fire and candlelight is

about movement rather than serving a function.

The kinetic energy of the dancing flames of a fire and the flicker of candlelight will always enhance the mood and drama you wish to create in

your rooms.In one corner

of a living room shown here you can see that natural light fills the space during the day.

In the evening, ambient light spills from tiny ceiling spotlights, and the sleek and sexy wall sconce (www.viabi-zzuno.com).

A favouri te antique candela-bra takes pride of place on the floor, and a crackling fire

invites all to gather round. With advanced planning,

all the necessary wiring can be put into place and you will have the opportunity to make the most of your personal lighting choices.

Dear Debbie;Noting that gray was the

new black in decorating cir-cles, I must admit I went a bit overboard, and am now faced with a living area that is over-filled with many shades of gray.

Carpet, sofas, draperies look great but there is no re-al warmth to the room. Help please. —Cassie

Dear Cassie; This happens.

We get caught up in a trend, and when we shop there seems to be just exactly what we are looking for because the mar-keters are on top of the trend.

But your dilemma is easily fixed.

Think of that lit-tle black (or gray) dress that is trans-formed by a dazzling necklace or designer scarf.

Choose an accent colour, and there

are many that will make your grays pop.

Start small and introduce colour through sofa pillows. Turquoise metallic fabric looks great as do shades of or-ange, pink and red.

Floral or geometric pat-terns will add movement to the room as well as texture.

Find other accent pieces, a lamp, a collection of vases or ceramic bowls, or a fabulous art poster.

If your walls are white or gray, try an oversized wallpa-per print on one focal wall.

Your room will come to life immediately.

Debbie Travis’ House to Home column is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara Dingle. Please email your questions to house2home@debbietravis.com. You can follow Debbie on Twit-ter at www.twitter.com/debbie_travis, and visit Debbieís new website, www.debbietravis.com.

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Obituaries

DAVEYRobert (Bob) HaroldApril 2, 1940 - Dec. 28, 2015It is with great sadness that the family of Bob Davey announces his passing on Monday, December 28, 2015. Bob passed away at the Red Deer Hospice surrounded by his family following a courageous battle with cancer. Bob is lovingly remembered by his wife Donna, his daughter Cheryl Johnston (Jamie) and his son Greg Davey (Stacey) as well as his two grandsons Logan and Brady. He was predeceased by his father Earl in 1959 and his mother Zena in 2012. Bob was born in Moose Jaw, Sask. where he met and married his wife Donna of 55 years (1960). Bob’s career was dedicated to the rail industry - he worked for CP Rail in Moose Jaw, a rail company in North Vancouver, and returned to Moose Jaw to begin what would be a very long and devoted career with CGTX. In 1969, Bob and his young family relocated to Red Deer to join the newly opened CGTX Red Deer location. He retired in 2003 after dedicating 36 years of his career to the same company. Bob was happiest dancing, camping, driving, farming, wintering in Texas, and watching his grandsons take part in their many activities. Bob’s family will remember him for his quiet warmth, the mints in his pockets, regular phone calls to “check on the weather” and his early morning drive-bys. As per Bob’s wishes, cremation has taken place and no formal service will be held. In lieu of fl owers, donations may be made to the Red Deer Hospice, STARS Air Ambulance or the Red Deer SPCA.

FUHRERElla1934 - 2015Survived by her sister Lillian Fuhrer, Ella went to be with her Lord and Savior. Ella loved the outdoors, being active most of her life included: brisk walks, keep fi t classes, swimming and skiing. Reading and scrapbooking as well as travelling and photography were on her agenda. Europe, Hawaii, Mexico, travelling some back roads of Alberta and B.C. is as far as her wander lust took her. For these and other pursuits refl ect her strength and passion for life, which she will be remembered for. This also showed how important it is to be indepen-dent in life. In her later years owning a black labrador retriever, gave her the utmost joy, as her love of all animals knew no bounds. She took great pleasure in feeding and watching nuthatches, chick-adees, blue jays and squirrels in her back yard. She was devoted to them, put out feed on the coldest of days. A special thank you to Unit 32 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital, for the care that they provided to Ella. Memorial contributions may be made directly to the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation, 3942 - 50 A Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4N 4E3 or to the Lending Cupboard Society, 5402 - 43 Street, Red Deer, AB T4N 1C4. In following with Ella’s wishes, no service will be held. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visitingwww.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

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FLETCHERRobert Howard,May 11, 1924 - Dec 24, 2015.Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Bob was the fi fth of eleven children. From an early age he learned to work hard as the family struggled to support itself through the Great Depression. At the age of 16 Bob left home in search of opportunity and adventure, he rode the rails to Ontario where he found work in a lumber camp and later at a smelter. In 1941, at the age of 17 he joined the air force and trained to be a pilot. Bob spent the majority of the war in Saskatchewan as a Royal Canadian Air Force fl ight instructor. In 1944 he was decommissioned from the RCAF and transferred to the Navy Fleet Air Arm and he began operational fl ying in England until the wars end. After the war Bob returned to Canada and became a bush pilot in northern Saskatchewan. Bob had very fond memories of those years, the days were long but the people were wonderful, the landscape was so beautiful and fl ying was always his passion. Eventually he attended the University of Chicago and received a degree in Aeronautical Engineering. During this time Bob met a young nurse named Ivy Mercer that he fell in love with. She was an outgoing person who was kindhearted and loved to laugh. Bob was a quiet, serious man and together they seemed to bring out the best in each other. They married September 2, 1950. Together they raised a family on a slim budget as Bob completed his Engineering degree only to fi nd there were no jobs so he returned to university to become a Medical Doctor. After graduating in 1962, Bob and Ivy moved the family to Minnesota where they stayed until 1967, at which point they moved back to Canada and settled in Lacombe. Bob practiced family medicine in Lacombe until his retirement in 1994. During all the years they lived in Lacombe Bob was an active member of the Lacombe fl ying club where he made many lifelong friends. Bob will be remembered as a loving husband and father, a loyal friend and a dedicated doctor. Bob was predeceased by his wife Ivy and leaves behind 6 children (David, Cathy, Doug, Gord, Mark and Roberta), 14 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. At Bob’s request there will be no funeral.

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HUCALMichaelDec. 16, 1930 - Dec. 25, 2015Michael passed away peacefully in the home of his daughter Laurie and son-in-law Lynn at White Rock, B.C. on Dec. 25, 2015 at the age of 85. Dad will be remembered for his courage, strength and commitment to care for our mom who developed dementia despite the health issues he developed along the way. Mike was predeceased by his son David and great-granddaughter Dezerey. Close to his heart is the love of his life, Jean of almost 60 years having married on Dec. 31, 1955. Mike is survived and will be greatly missed by his wife Jean, daughters Lynda (Don) McCauley, Debbie (Doug) Luschyk and Laurie (Lynn) Storoz, 5 granddaughters, 1 grandson and 6 great grandchildren. At Mike’s request cremation has taken place and a private family memorial service will be held at a later date. In lieu of fl owers, perform a simple act of kindness in his honor. Services provided by Kearney Funeral Services, Surrey, B.C.

KARASHOWSKYEugene1928-2015It is with great sadness that Eugene’s family announces his passing on December 26, 2015 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre. Eugene passed at the age of 87, after a brief yet courageous battle with cancer. Eugene is survived by his four children (Debbie, Cindy, Tom, Larry), his grandchildren (Deseree, Amanda, April, Brandon, and Rossy), as well as his great grandchildren (Meadow, Cooper, Talon, Dove, and Braxdyn). Eugene will be fondly remembered for his amazing sense of humor and bright, contagious smile. The laughs and smiles we shared will be cherished until we meet again. “In the Breeze”. A memorial service for Eugene will be held on Thursday, January 7th, 2016 at 1pm at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45th Street, Red Deer, Alberta. In lieu of fl owers donations may be made directly to the Canadian Cancer Society, 200, 325 Manning Road NE, Calgary, Alberta, T2E 2P5. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

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MCFARLANEHelen Beth1923 - 2015Beth McFarlane passed away at Extendicare Michener Hill in Red Deer on Wednesday, December 30th, 2015 at the age of 92 years. She was born in Vancouver Washington, USA, on October 19,1923, moving to Alberta shortly thereafter. Beth led a happy, simple life and was admired for her positive attitude and helpful nature. She was blessed with many true friends. She was a great example for everyone and handled both good and diffi cult times with dignity. Our prayer for her is that she rests in peace. Beth was predeceased by her husband, Ken McFarlane, her parents; Herschell and Patricia Bryant and her siblings; Keith Bryant, Phyllis Courtright and Jack Bryant. She will be lovingly remembered by her sons; Bob (Connie) and Don (Elaine), her grandchildren; Angela (Dave) Leonard, Nicola (Jeff) Meier, Scott (Roxanne) McFarlane and Kevin McFarlane (Kathryn Horrigan), as well as her six great-grandchildren; Jackson Leonard, Ty Leonard, Chloe Leonard, Edward Meier, Charles Meier and Shae McFarlane. Twins are also on the way! A Private Family Service will take place at a later date. The family wishes to thank the staff at Rivera Aspen Ridge for their attention during her time there and also Dr. Hovan and the staff at Extendicare Michener Hill, especially Household 3700, for their care, kindness and compassion in Beth’s fi nal days. In lieu of fl owers, donations in Beth’s honour may be made directly to The Red Deer & District SPCA, 4505 77 Street, Red Deer, AB, T4P 2J1 or to the charity of one’s choice. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com

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OLINECKOrestJune 22, 1937 - Dec.27, 2015Orest Olineck was born on June 22, 1937 in Calder District, SK. He passed away on Sunday, December 27, 2015 in Red Deer, AB at the age of 78 years. Orest is predeceased by his wife, Sylvia, and father, Stephan. He leaves to mourn his mother, Anne of Saskatoon, SK, son, Mike (Corrine) of Sylvan Lake, AB, grandchildren; Brant, Kierra, and Drake, brother, Mitch (Ruth) of Prince George, BC, and brother, John (Joan) of Lethbridge, AB. Orest was a Boilermaker and his working life was spent in heavy industry that ranged from Northern Manitoba to the Tarsands and the Gulf Coast. He was proud of his trade and the life he was able to provide for his family. He took pride in the heritage of Local 146. The family would like to thank Local 146 for the recognition he’s received for his 58 years of service and membership. Orest’s retirement years were spent enjoying many activities and travel destinations. Sincere thanks go to the many staff at the Red Deer Regional Hospital and Central Alberta Cancer Centre for the care, comfort and compassion that Orest and the family have received. We acknowledge with appreciation the support Orest and us have received from our families and friends. As well as Orest’s extended family and friends at the Sierra’s of Taylor Drive and Silveridge Resort which all combined to make the fabric of his retirement years enjoyable. At Orest’s request, no memorial service will be held. Cremation has taken place. If you wish, donations may be made in Orest’s honour to a charity of your choice.

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SCOTTAudrey (Donna)Sept. 5, 1939 - Dec. 1, 2015It is with great sadness that the family of Donna Scott announces that after a very long battle with leukemia. She passed away peacefully in her sleep. Donna leaves to mourn her loving husband Walter, who spent many days and nights at her side in the hospital. The family takes comfort in knowing she has gone to the Lord. She will be sadly missed by her 4 children: Lori (Gerry) Petryga, Mark (Cindy) Nielsen, Terry (Wanda) Nielsen, Judy (Reeve) Martin; grandchildren: Gregg (Chrissy), Shelly (Greg), Tina (Darren), Carrie (Denis), Chris (Heidi), Chelsea, Kayla, Starr, Trevor, Jennie (Lawrence), Jodie (Miguel), Brooke, Aidan and Barclay; great grandchildren: Caden, Celeste, Greyson, Violette, Ruby, Jisanda, Wayne, Abigail; sister Gail Mills; step children: Chris Paulson, Marg Paulson and Allison Scott, along with their children and many dear friends and extended family. Donna was predeceased by her parents Wes and Dorothy Mills, her brother Jim Mills, her fi rst husband Dennis Nielsen the father of her children, and her second husband Ted Paulson. Deepest thanks to the many medical professionals at the UAH Hospital Hematology Division, the Cross Cancer Institute, and the Grey Nuns Hospital Palliative Care Unit. Thanks also to Canadian Blood Services and the countless donors whose selfl ess donations sustained her throughout her long illness. A Celebration of Donna’s life will be held at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037 - 84 Avenue, Edmonton on at 2:00 pm on Saturday, January 9, 2016. In lieu of fl owers, please consider a donation to the Canadian Cancer Society, University of Alberta Hospital, Canadian Blood Services or a charity of one’s choice.

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Simply Accounting (Sage 50) is required. Please

send resume to kingdom farmsinc@gmail.com or

fax; 403-748-4613 phone 403-505-2647

Professionals 810NOW HIRING

- LAB ANALYST 2(1 yr. contract) Joffre, AB.

Duties: Analyze water & organic samples using ICP, GC, HPLC, & NMR; maintain proper

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BusinessOpportunities 870FURNACE duct cleaning business. Selling due to family illness. Includes 2003 1 ton van and vacu-um compressor, etc. Paid $25,000 2 yrs. ago, asking $10,000. Equipment in great shape. Great oppor-tunity. 403-350-8977

Misc.Help 880Blue Grass Sod Farms Ltd.

Box 11, site 2, RR1Red Deer, AB

Req’s Farm labourers for 2016 season (April-Nov)

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Obituaries

WALLSShirley1938 - 2015Mrs. Shirley Joan Walls of Red Deer passed away, after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer, at the Red Deer Hospice on Sunday, December 27, 2015 at the age of 77 years. Shirley was born on September 28, 1938 at Granby, Quebec to Hugh and Violet Collins. After numerous stops across the country due to her father’s work with the Military, they fi nally ended up in Edmonton when he retired. Shirley met the love of her life, Donald Walls, and they were married for over fi fty-eight years before her passing. She will be sadly missed by her loving husband, Don; her children, Neil (Kim) Walls, Cheryl Walls all of Red Deer, Scott (Patricia) Walls of Lethbridge, Alberta; her dear seven grandchildren and eight great grandchildren which brought her such joy. Shirley will also be lovingly remembered by her sister, Kathryn Cameron of Stellarton, Nova Scotia as well as her many friends. She was predeceased by her mother, Violet Collins in 1982, and her father, Hugh Collins in 2002. A Celebration of Shirley’s Life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. If desired, Memorial Donations in Shirley’s honor may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice at www.reddeerhospice.ca.This is truly a very special place and no words could describe the support that Shirley and her family received in her days spent there. Thank you to all the staff and Dr. Hulyk; you are truly very special people and won’t be forgotten. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com

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403.340.4040.

ObituariesWARRENRoy ArneIt is with sadness Roy’s family announces his passing at Red Deer Regional Hospital on December 22, 2015 at the age of 89 years. Roy was born on September 22, 1926 on the family farm southeast of Delburne, and received his education in Delburne. He attended Vancouver Technical School where he learned to weld and then spent a year at the University of British Columbia in the engineering faculty. Returning to Delburne in April, 1947, his business life started with the founding of Delburne Machine Shop, where he repaired farm equipment. 1947 was a momentous year for Roy as he married June Beatrice Randall, his partner in love and business. In 1950 Roy and June became a Cockshutt farm equipment dealer. Roy was nominated to the Delburne Village Council and was instrumental in bringing natural gas, water and sewer to the Village. He served on Council until buying a farm and moving from the Village. In January, 1961, Roy was signed as a United Farmers of Alberta (“UFA”) fuel agent and opened the facility in April of that year. In 1965, Roy and June closed the machine shop and the Cockshutt farm equipment dealership to devote their full time to their UFA dealership and farm. In the late 1960’s, a life-long friend, Angus MacArthur, talked Roy and June into opening a Co-Operators Insurance business in Delburne. Roy and June’s devotion to their business and serving their customers earned them several awards. Roy and June sold their UFA dealership in 1982 to embark on what they considered to be retirement as farmers, where they raised cattle and grain. The family will miss this quiet, kind and unassuming man. Roy is survived by his children: Judy (Larry Watson) and their children Erin (Sheldon Portsmouth) and Chelsey (Zac Harink) and their children (Justice and Kane Portsmouth & Zoe, Hailee and Everly Harink); Chris (Sandra) and their children Mitchell and Natalie; and Kerry (Sheryl) and their children (Avery, Amy, Brett, Sheridan); his brother George and his sister-in-law, Grace Bolander. Roy is also survived by his large extended family of cousins, nieces and nephews.Roy was predeceased by his wife, June in 2007, his parents, Art and Annie, his brother Don, his sister Dorothy and her husband Dave Guynup, his sister-in-law Irma Warren and his brother-in-law Richard Randall. The funeral will be held January 2, 2016 at 2 pm at the Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, 4304-49 Avenue, Innisfail, Alberta. Roy received compassionate care from Unit 31 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital and the family wishes to note the care from Jim on that unit that exemplifi es the best in hospital care. In lieu of fl owers, the family asks that donations be made to the Red Deer Regional Hospital to benefi t Unit 31 or the Pediatric Unit.

Beverly Joy TaylorDec. 18, 1944 - Jan. 2, 2015

My Dearest Bev,I will always love you.

Never forgotten and always remembered,Your husband Eric,

children Danny, Dave and Kathy, grandchildren and

great-grandchildren

GERALD BOOMERJuly 23, 1926 - Nov. 28, 2005

Lovingly Remembered byhis family

In loving memory of ALICE MARY SIMS

Sept. 15, 1925 - Dec. 28, 2013 Days of sadness still come o’er us,

Tears in silence often fl ow, For memory keeps you

ever near us Though you diedtwo years ago.

Lovingly remembered and dearly missed by Stan (the “ole fella”) and your family

and friends.

In Memoriam

PATRICK E. MULROONEYAug. 6, 1940 - Jan. 2, 2001

Tenderly we treasure the pastMemories that will always last.When we cease to think of youWill be when God has called us too.

~Audrey & family

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Our cars, our homes, our appliances and even our toys: Things around us are going to keep getting smarter. In 2016, we’ll entrust even more of our lives and their intimate details to machines — not to men-tion the companies that run them.

Are we ready for that?You might, for instance, like the idea of turning

on your TV with a spoken command — no more fumbling for the remote! But for that to work, the TV needs to be listening all the time, even when you’re not watching. And even when you’re discuss-ing something extremely personal, or engaged in some other activity to which you’d rather not invite eavesdroppers.

How much should you worry? Maybe your TV never records any of your casual conversations. Or maybe its manufacturer is recording all that, but just to find ways to make the TV better at understanding what you want it to do. Or maybe it retains every-thing it hears for some other hidden purpose.

You may never know for sure. At best, you can hope the company keeps its promises on privacy. More important, you have to trust that its computer systems are really secure, or those promises are sud-denly worthless. That part is increasingly difficult to guarantee — or believe — as hacking becomes routine.

And here’s the chief quandary: Every technologi-cal benefit comes with a cost in the form of a threat to privacy. Yet not paying that price has its own cost: an inability to participate in some of society’s great-er achievements.

Because smart gadgets thrive on data — data about you and your habits, data about what large numbers of people do or say or appear to want in particular situations — it’s difficult not to share pretty much everything with them. Doing otherwise would be like turning off your phone’s location ser-vices, which disables many of its most useful fea-tures.

The consequences aren’t restricted to phones and TVs:

• Kids will be able to talk to more toys and get personalized, computer-generated responses. Does the “don’t talk to strangers” rule apply if the strang-er is the Hello Barbie talking doll or Dino, the dino-saur powered by IBM’s Watson artificial-intelligence system?

• Cars will work with GPS technology and sen-sors in parking meters, roads and home appliances to help route you around traffic and turn on your living-room lights as you approach the driveway. But that can also generate a detailed record of your whereabouts.

• Thermostats from Nest and others will get smarter at conserving energy when you’re away. Po-tential burglars might find that information handy.

• Home security cameras are getting cheaper and more plentiful, but they’re sometimes insecure themselves, especially if you set them up clumsily. There’s already a website devoted to showing video from cameras with no passwords. Though they are mostly outdoor or business cameras, one was trained on a baby’s crib, and another in a living room.

• Wearable health devices will track your heart rate, fitness levels and more — and share achieve-ments with friends and family. But slacking off may carry a heavier cost than those extra holiday pounds, particularly if your insurance company yanks dis-counts for meeting fitness goals.

• Software from Google and Facebook will get even more refined to help you cut through the noise. That’s great if Facebook is showing you posts from friends you already interact the most with, but will a long-lost friend’s plea for help go un-answered because you don’t see it?

The pending on-slaught of privacy trade-offs might seem trivial when it comes to a talking — and listening — Barbie. But maybe it’s less so when your phone knows enough about you to remind you it’s time to leave for an im-portant interview (if the alternative would be losing a shot at that job) or your smart home can really tell you if you turned off the oven before leaving for an international trip.

“The encroachments on our privacy are often self-inflicted in the sense that we will accept the trade-off one bit at a time,” says John Palfrey, co-au-thor of “Interop: The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems.

And these trade-offs can be quite subtle. Techno-logical advances typically offer immediate, tangible benefits that, once you’ve put enough of them to-gether, can indeed revolutionize daily life. Can you imagine living your life without a smartphone? A few years from now, you might goggle at the thought of managing your day without constant advice from Siri or “OK Google.”

As for the risks, they’ll tend to be diffuse, abstract and often difficult to ascertain even if you’re pay-ing attention — and most people won’t. In a study released Wednesday, the Pew Research Center says about half of American adults have no confi-dence that they understand what’s being done with their data, and about a third are discouraged by the amount of effort needed to get that understanding.

In short, convenience usually wins. Shiny new things are inherently attractive, and it takes a while for some of us to get uneasy about the extent to which we may be enabling our own surveillance.

Humans have made this bargain with technology for some time. When cameras were invented, legal scholars debated how far you can go snapping pic-tures of people in public. That’s no longer an issue — although the camera on a drone in your backyard is.

Over time, manufacturers will get better at put-ting in safeguards, and consumers will get better at setting boundaries and taking charge.

For instance, this holiday season’s Hello Barbie talking toy won’t listen in until your kid presses its belt buckle. Though it does store conversations between kids and their dolls to improve speech-rec-ognition technology, its maker says there’s little per-sonal information tied to those conversations — no first or last names, no ages, no gender.

“We don’t need that information,” said Martin Reddy, co-founder and chief technical officer of ToyTalk, which developed Hello Barbie with Mat-tel. “We don’t want that information. It just makes it more difficult on our end.”

Of course, kids might simply tell their toys person-al details about themselves. ToyTalk employees who

review such conversations to improve the technology are trained to immediately delete anything sensitive, but they aren’t charged with actively monitoring stored discussions.

So Step One in managing interactions with our newly smart digital companions comes down to sim-ple attentiveness. Parents, for instance, can be ac-tively involved in what their kids are doing — in this case, by taking the time to review and delete conver-sations from ToyTalk’s website.

Step Two might be learning to say no. Many ser-vices ask for birth dates, phone numbers and even income levels just because they can — and few peo-ple resist. If enough people rise up, companies will stop.

There’s precedent: Enough people fed up with online ads have turned to ad blockers, such that websites are taking steps to make ads less annoying.

There will always be a trade-off, but the balance can always shift.

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Smarter devices to risk our privacy

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This photo shows the Nest Cam at Nest Labs in Palo Alto, Calif., a home security camera that can stream video to a laptop or mobile device. Such devices can involve an inherent threat to privacy, but the best of them include safeguards, so the homeowner is the only one keeping tabs on his or her home.

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