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Finance minister Jim Flaherty resigns
Jim Flaherty is leaving the federal cabinet after more than eight years to prepare for a return to the private sector.
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Michener Centre: The Closing Doors is a special Red Deer Advocate series by reporters Susan Zielinski and Myles Fish about the centre for persons with developmental disabilities. They examine its controversial past, debated present and unclear future.
BY SUSAN ZIELINSKIADVOCATE STAFF
Freedom is an unlikely word to spring to mind to describe Michener Centre.
After all, the former institution, originally called the Home for Mental Defectives, was where develop-mentally disabled children and youth were housed in 1923.
But the quiet, park-like setting of Michener, with
its paved streets and sidewalks, gave David Lough the safety to be himself when he was admitted there in the 1980s.
“David enjoyed Michener because it gave him opportunity to walk on his own. That was very criti-cal for David. He had a routine. Get up, eat, and then simply go for his walk. Come back, eat and go back out. It was a pretty good life, actually,” said his younger brother Bill Lough, 58, who chuckled at David’s enviable pace of life during his 25 years at Michener.
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Michener offered families peace of mindRELATIVES SAFE, WELL CARED FOR AT FACILITY
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Murder suspect arrestedBY ADVOCATE STAFF
Police in Vancouver have arrested a suspect want-ed in connection with the first-degree murder of a Red Deer man.
The body of Lloyd Robert Sarson, 25, was found inside a vehicle in a back alley in the Eastview sub-division in the early hours of Jan. 1, 2013.
Red Deer City RCMP allege that Sarson, who did not have a permanent address, died of a gunshot
wound as a result of a targeted attack.A week after the shooting, police began searching
across Western Canada for a 17-year-old suspect be-lieved to have gang connections in the four Western provinces.
Investigators felt their suspect may have had fled to B.C., said Red Deer RCMP Cpl. Sarah Knelsen in a press statement released on Tuesday.
A cash reward was offered on Jan. 1 of this year for information leading to the location and arrest of the suspect.
On March 13, Vancouver Police and RCMP acting on a tip located the suspect in a Vancouver apart-ment and arrested him, along with a second suspect wanted in Winnipeg for the second-degree murder of Nigel Dixon on April 14, 2013.
Both suspects have been returned to their respec-tive jurisdictions, where they are in custody awaiting court proceedings.
Although they are now 18, their names are with-held because they were youths at the times of the alleged murders.
DOWN AND OUT
Family at a loss for
words
BY JOSH ALDRICHADVOCATE STAFF
When dealing with a tragedy, sometimes the lit-tlest things make a big difference.
Ghislane Moreault — whose husband Eric Cote, 46, died when they were involved in a multi-car pile-up on Hwy 2 — has experienced a lot of caring over the last week since their tragic story came to light.
Moreault, 44, and her two daughters Patricia, 11, and Marilou, eight, have received donations of all kinds, from money to vehicles to a freezer full of food.
“I really can’t believe it, it’s unbelievable,” she said.
The story of the Cotes goes beyond Eric’s death. Moreault and the two girls all suffer from a heredi-tary disease called neurofibromatosis Type 1. Benign tumours form in the skin and throughout the body, including the eyes, brain, spine, in muscles and over nerves.
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MICHENER: A ‘win, win, win’ for families
David was born with Fragile X syndrome and functioned at the level of a three-and-a-half-year-old. He was a loner, which meant he just wanted to watch activities from a distance.
“He loved watching trucks, buses, traffic ... wave at truck drivers, and then walk back when he got bored.
“David was very aware of everything around him. He reminds me of one of those brooding eagles. The guys that sit up top and watch the world go by.”
Musical recordings, the kind that ended with a big round of applause and cheer-ing, brought out David’s play-fulness.
“He never listened to the whole thing. He would listen to the very end when the singer had the big crescendo and then he would take a deep bow and say ‘Thank you very much.’ Da-vid liked the accolades very much,” his brother said with a laugh.
David Lough died in 2009 when he was 57.
“I do not believe David would have had any better life outside Michener. I defend Michener for that. He had any opportunity put in front of him that he wanted and he was safe. He was happy. He led a good life,” said Lough, Society of Parents and Friends of Mi-chener Centre president and outspoken critic of the Red-ford government’s plans to close down all residences at Michener this year except for its group homes.
David went to live at Mi-chener Centre in 1984 when he was about 30 and his ex-plosive fits were becoming un-manageable.
“When you have a 12-year-old kid at home you can han-dle them. When you have a 220-pound individual at home in a white rage, that’s a differ-ent matter.
“David lived in a rage for the first six to eight years of his life. My mother could not go out of the house because if someone different came in he would blow up. So she was confined in an apartment at that time, in Montreal.”
Lough said their mother, who is 95, has never regretted taking David to Michener.
In most cases, parents did not abandon their loved ones at Michener. It was a place they knew their child was well cared for and the Society of Parents and Friends of Mi-chener Centre members have continued to take their re-sponsibility for children very seriously, he said.
The society created the very first group home in Red Deer located outside Michen-er. It established Camp L.G.
Barnes at Gull Lake to accommodate people with developmental disabilities. And the members fund-raised to build the Michener Curling Rink.
Robert Faulder, 50, of Calgary, said Michener provided excellent service for his brother Donald, known as Donny to staff.
Donald Faulder, born in 1965, suffered severe brain damage from a high fever when he was an infant. He was also physically disabled and lived at Michener for 41 years until his death in 2012.
Their father, George Faulder, former president of the Society of Parents and Friends of Michener Centre, always said Michener was a “win, win, win” for his family.
“(Donald) got the best care for someone in his situation. And it was a win for my parents because
they knew their son was being looked after. And it was a win for his siblings — there’s five of us. It was a miracle and it was a relief to have a place like Mi-chener that would look after their son and take that worry off of them,” Robert Faulder said.
Bill Kitch, 56, of Vancouver, said when his sister Carol Kitch, 54, left Michener about 15 years ago and moved into a group home in Red Deer, her life changed for the better.
“She just seemed to flourish, getting out of that institutional lifestyle and into somewhere she had a little more freedom,” Kitch said.
His sister, who functions at the level of a five-year-old and was born without physical disabilities, went to live at Michener when she was about 10.
He said his family would regularly take her home to Edmonton for holidays and when they brought her back, she would always cry and cry.
Initially he believed Michener was a safe place for her but he also had his doubts, partly because Carol underwent involuntary sterilization while liv-ing at Michener.
“It makes me wonder was she crying because she was going back to a bad situation or was she crying because she didn’t feel like she was going home.”
Now Carol looks forward to returning to her group home after time away, he said.
“The biggest difference is the group home feels like her home whereas Michener never felt like her home,” Kitch said.
Coming Thursday: Examining government reports related to Michener over the years.
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1954 — Parents of residents at the Provincial Training School (Michener Centre) organize and raise funds to pur-chase television sets for residences. Through the years, they buy sports equipment, outdoor furniture, physiotherapy equip-ment a bus, and more.
1955 — Parent-School Organization, eventually renamed the Society of Parents and Friends of Michener Centre, pur-chases nine lots at Gull Lake and erects an old building from the Provincial Training School as a summer camp for resi-dents. The camp is called the Dr. Randall R. MacLean Cot-tage after Alberta’s minister of health at the time.
1960s — Parents fund the construction of a curling rink on the grounds of the Provincial Training School. Staff and voca-tional trainees from the school donate labour to build the rink that officially opens in 1964.
1967 — Parents sponsor the construction of the Centen-nial Special railway at the Provincial Training School to mark Canada’s 100th birthday. A gas-powered engine and three passenger cars, which hold about 20 passengers each, run
on a loop of track less than a mile long. An abandoned rail-road station is donated and added.
1969 — Parents purchase a house in West Park that be-comes one of the province’s first group homes. It is operated by Michener Centre.
1980s — Parents secure a grant for the Gull Lake camp and begin construction of a new year-round lodge.
1982 — The camp is renamed Camp L.G. Barnes after Lem Barnes, a member of the parents society, for his many contributions to the camp.
2000 — Camp L.G. Barnes is awarded the Silver Premier’s Award of Excellence.
2011 — A cabin to support individuals with complex needs opens at Camp L.G. Barnes.
2013 — Parents group and Michener supporters campaign against the announced closure of Michener Centre. Twenty-two members of the parents group sign on as plaintiffs for judicial review of closure to be heard in 2014.
Michener Centre: The Closing DoorsCHRONOLOGY
A2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, March 19, 2014
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ABOVE: Bill Lough and his brother David, left, take a stroll at Michener Centre in 2000.RIGHT: Former Michener resident Carol Kitch poses for a photo while visiting Deep Cove, North Vancouver, in 2002.
‘(DONALD) GOT THE BEST
CARE FOR SOMEONE
IN HIS SITUATION. AND IT WAS A WIN FOR
MY PARENTS BECAUSE
THEY KNEW THEIR SON WAS BEING
LOOKED AFTER. AND
IT WAS A WIN FOR HIS SIBLINGS —
THERE’S FIVE OF US. IT WAS
A MIRACLE AND IT WAS
A RELIEF TO HAVE A PLACE LIKE MICHENER
THAT WOULD LOOK AFTER THEIR SON AND TAKE
THAT WORRY OFF OF THEM.’
— ROBERT FAULDERBROTHER OF DONALD
FAULDER
Bill Lough
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ALBERTA A3WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2014
Redford’s dissidents to be left untouched
AS THEY DECIDE WHETHER TO QUITBY THE CANADIAN PRESS
EDMONTON — Alberta Pre-mier Alison Redford’s house leader says two rookie backbench MLAs openly challenging her will be left alone for now.
“Those two members will make their decisions (on whether to quit Redford’s caucus) in a timely fash-ion, and I’ll respect those deci-sions,” Robin Campbell told re-porters Tuesday.
Campbell said while he would prefer critical comments from dis-sidents like Steve Young and Matt Jeneroux be kept in-house in cau-cus, they all respect free speech.
“Everybody has opinions, and the great thing about our caucus is that there is a diverse group of people around the table,” he said.
“We all represent our ridings and our constituencies (and) we all have different ideas about how government should function.”
Campbell said conflicting views are common to all governments.
“There are always members that aren’t happy with the pre-mier. There’s always members that have different views, and that’s just part of caucus.”
Should other MLAs now feel free to be openly critical of Red-ford?
“I wouldn’t,” said Campbell.But can they?“It’s a free country,” he replied.Redford has been struggling
in recent days to quell a caucus revolt stemming from her lavish
travel spending and accusations she is an angry, abusive boss.
In the last week, Tory MLAs Len Webber and Donna Kenne-dy-Glans have quit caucus, citing Redford’s leadership as the main concern.
At least 10 more Progressive Conservative MLAs have met to discuss whether they, too, should cross the floor. That’s a figure that would put Redford’s majority in the legislature dangerously close to a minority.
The 10 include Edmonton MLAs Jeneroux and Young.
Young was appointed to cabi-net by Redford in December, then turfed before he could even be sworn in over decade-old con-cerns of an internal investigation into his work as an Edmonton city police officer.
Last month, he criticized Red-ford for spending $45,000 to attend Nelson Mandela’s funeral.
He said he is still talking to constituents and advisers about whether to sit as an Independent.
When asked if leaving caucus is a real option, he said, “The Magna Carta tells us that leaving caucus is always an option.”
Jeneroux said he is going to take the upcoming two-week con-stituency break to touch base with his constituents to decide his best course of action.
“Any decision I make really has to reflect what’s best for Ed-monton South West and my 50,000 constituents out there,” said Jen-eroux.
“To me, that’s more important
than my personal thoughts. My personal thoughts obviously weigh into it, but that’s how I’m feeling right now.”
The allegations against Red-ford have translated into low poll numbers, with PC MLAs criticiz-ing not just her, but each other, on Twitter.
On the weekend, party officials met with Redford behind closed doors in Calgary to discuss the problems.
They emerged to say the party would deliver to Redford a new “work plan” to quell concerns about her leadership.
Neither party president Jim McCormick nor Redford have di-vulged details of the work plan.
In Calgary, McCormick told re-porters it is still a work in prog-ress, but said it would include a blueprint for better communica-tion.
“From the party’s perspective we’re not looking at a capital-W, capital-P work plan. It’s a work plan that’s really a summary of a lot of different things that we’ll be discussing with the leader,” Mc-Cormick said Tuesday.
He said he would be meeting with Redford sometime this week to hash things out further.
Opposi t ion cr i t ics have pounced on the plan, saying it shows Redford is now beholden not to Albertans but to the secret agenda of the PC party.
They have also gleefully la-belled Redford Canada’s only pre-mier in need of “adult supervi-sion.”
Banff grizzly decides spring
has arrivedTHE CANADIAN PRESS
BANFF — Officials at Banff National Park say the first bear of spring could be a sign that Al-berta’s long, cold winter may finally be on its way out.
Banff resource officer Mike Grande says the 225-kilogram male griz-zly was slowly making its way through deep snow when it was spotted by a rail crew a couple of days ago about 15 kilo-metres west of the Banff town site.
He says the animal still had plenty of win-ter fat, and, despite the heavy snow, was proba-bly lured out of hiberna-tion by warmer weather after months of below-average temperatures.
“We had that warmer weather. If it had been a little bit cooler when he first poked his head out, then maybe he would have stayed in a little bit longer,” said Grande.
“In terms of an emer-gence, this is about as early as it normally hap-pens. That’s not a bad sign for sure.”
Grande estimates the bear bedded down in late December. Since bears can usually live off their fat stores for four or five months, this one was in pretty good shape
after snoozing for only three months. The usual time to emerge from the den is early April.
Female bears with cubs usually don’t risk venturing out until early May.
There are only a hand-ful of older male griz-zlies in the park and this one probably headed out looking for familiar feed-ing grounds, Grande sug-gested.
“He may have checked a few avalanche paths looking for animals that may have been caught up in an avalanche ... and there’s a higher chance of that happening this year,” he said.
“Then he probably would have gone straight for the valley bottom and the rail line. There’s a grain spill that happens over the course of the time he’s been denning as well as rail kill.”
Grande said most people don’t realize that grizzlies are omnivores, meaning they’ll eat both plants and animals, and only about 15 per cent of their diet comes from meat.
The grizzly sighting is a reminder to the public that it’s once again bear season in the park and care must be taken, he said.
TRAGEDY: Account set up at Treasury Branch
It can cause learning disabilities and other physi-cal ailments like scoliosis. There is no cure.
They were on their way to Calgary for a doctor’s appointment for Marilou’s scoliosis on March 7 when the crash happened.
Due to a number of medical circumstances with Eric over the past decade that kept him from work-ing, and disputes with insurance companies and the Workers’ Compensation Board, they lost their house last year and spent the summer living at a camp-ground.
They are now in low-income housing in Red Deer.On the weekend, a group of local businessmen
who want to remain anonymous bought Moreault a 2013 Ford Explorer with the help of Legacy Ford in Ponoka.
There is also an account at the Alberta Treasury Branch (account No. 712-00265716300) where people have been donating money and web page not yet launched will help make donating easier.
“Money would be the only thing that we need now,
because she won’t be unable to work so we’ve got to
secure her and her family down the road,” said Mi-
chel Cote, Moreault’s brother-in-law.
One of the big goals is to come up with a long-term
solution to their housing situation.
Red Deer businessman Craig Howes, who hap-pened upon the fatal collision and held Eric as he died, brought a freezer full of food prepared by his neighbour over to the Cotes on the weekend.
“My neighbour’s cooking can make anybody feel better. It’s like the best cooking on Earth.”
He has also rallied together a large group of his friends, businessmen in Red Deer and Calgary, as they focus in on the family’s long-term financial sta-bility with a few different plans in the works.
“(The web page) will globalize the effort and push the story out there for them,” said Howes, who is the president and co-founder of Go Tire inc. “They’re go-ing to need help and support on an ongoing basis.
“(Sustainability) is the imperative component. Their health is a situational thing, it’s not that they have control of it and they’re now in a spot where the major breadwinner is no longer there and there’s three survivors left with massive health care needs that, in some cases, components of health care are not covered.”
Howe’s efforts and impact on the family has not gone unnoticed.
“I have no words for what he is doing,” said Cote.“And the fact he was with Eric in the last minute
when he passed away, and he told him that (Moreault and the kids) were safe and it was OK to go. He had his last breath and went in peace.”
STORIES FROM PAGE A1
Contributed photo
Eric Cote, 46, right, sits with his family, from left, Marilou, 8, Ghislane, and Patricia, 11. Cote was killed in a multi-car pileup on the Hwy 2 on March 6 between Carstairs and Didsbury.
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
EDMONTON — The Alberta Liber-als are asking questions about a con-tract awarded to a public relations firm after the massive floods in south-ern Alberta last summer.
The Liberals say that a freedom of information request has revealed the $240,000 contract was award to a com-pany headed by a Conservative cam-paign strategist.
The contract involved helping with communication during the flood and the recovery effort.
Liberal Leader Raj Sherman says the government’s public affairs bureau should have been able to handle that job.
During question period, Deputy Premier Dave Hancock came to the de-fence of the company, saying it moved quickly “to help Albertans who were in need and to make sure Albertans who were under stress understood the government was there and would work with them.”
Part of the firm’s job was to provide weekly activity reports, the Liberals say they will ask to see those reports.
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
CALGARY — Five people from the same family are facing at least 114 charges related to identity theft over an 18-month period.
Police say personal information sto-len from more than 15 vehicles in Cal-gary, Banff and Invermere, B.C., was used to apply online for Home Depot credit cards.
The credit cards were used to pur-chase gift certificates at various store locations in Alberta and one in British
Columbia.The gift cards were then sold online
at a discounted price.Home Depot brought the suspicious
activity to the attention of police.Investigators have estimated the
identity fraud at $56,000.Charged are Jennifer Marie Shep-
herd, 27; Andrew James Shepherd, 32; Carol Lee Shepherd, 52; Darcy Fred-erick Shepherd, 50; and Sarah Annie Savoie, 30.
The accused are all from Calgary and face court appearances later this month.
Alberta Liberals say flood PR contract awarded to Conservative party insider
Five people related to each other charged in identity theft ring
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C E N T R A L A L B E R T A ’ SD A I L Y N E W S P A P E R
When all is said and done there are, so far, more good than bad omens for Stephen Harper’s Conservatives in the entrails of the Quebec election cam-paign.
On the sov-ereignty front, polls suggest that there is m o r e s m o k e than fire to the notion of a third Quebec referen-dum.
At this junc-ture, Premier Pauline Marois’ campaign is at risk of choking on the smoke that its own sov-ereigntist rheto-ric has gener-ated.
And then, for all of Quebec’s reputa-tion as a progressive heartland, and in spite of its embrace of the NDP in the
last federal election, this campaign is essentially playing out on conserva-tive-friendly themes.
That starts with the star recruits of the campaign: Pierre Karl Péladeau for the Parti Québécois and Gaétan Barrette for the Liberals.
Each would play a leading role in a government made up by his party and each would bring to the table views that are more mainstream within fed-eral Conservative circles than they have traditionally been in Quebec.
PKP has taken on more unions than almost any other Canadian captain of industry, locking out his own employ-ees on more than a dozen occasions.
As president of the province’s med-ical specialists association and as a 2012 candidate for the Coalition Ave-nir Québec, Barrette has been an advo-cate of a greater private sector role in health care.
But the tilt to the right goes beyond a handful of personalities.
On the economy: In government af-ter April 7, the Liberals and the PQ
would similarly pursue an austerity agenda.
That reflects their common desire to woo support away from the right-leaning Coalition Avenir Québec in this campaign, but also the significant influence of ratings agencies on gov-ernment budgets.
The PQ — even as it craves a win-ning referendum — has found since its arrival in government that it cannot ignore the markets that finance the province’s debt.
On energy: After two PQ years the province’s policies are more, and not less, in line with the Conservative agenda.
Under the PQ, the Quebec govern-ment has taken a stake in oil explora-tion on island of Anticosti.
It has softened its rhetoric on the development of a more comprehensive Canadian pipeline network.
Under either a re-elected PQ gov-ernment or a Liberal one, Quebec would keep the door open to a west-to-east pipeline to link the Alberta oil-
sands to the refineries of Eastern Can-ada and essentially insist on the same environmental safeguards.
Trade: When Marois came to power there were predictions that her victory spelled doom for Harper’s trade initia-tive with the European Union.
That did not come to pass.A more recent trade agreement with
South Korea did not elicit a peep on the Quebec campaign trail.
As opposed to Ontario, Quebec is no longer deeply invested in the automo-bile industry.
Finally, if the ongoing decline in support for the CAQ translates into serious losses on voting day, the result could make a run in federal politics more attractive to some of its leading members than a marginal life in the national assembly or outside of poli-tics altogether.
On the morning after April 7, Harp-er may have his best shot at assem-bling a solid Quebec team in a decade.
Chantal Hébert is a syndicated Toron-to Star national affairs writer.
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Horse hunt has no basis in factAnother cull season has come to an end for Al-
berta’s wild horse population. Unfortunately, the danger is not over for them, as they remain under the Stray Animals Act. Next year in February, right before foaling season, they will once more be under attack as a result of antiquated management poli-cies and inaccurate, out-of-date ecological “studies” the ESRD and the pro-cull supporters cling to as a means of defending this annual trapping.
As a voting Alberta citizen, I believe it is not only my right but my duty to address this travesty of jus-tice being committed against an animal that repre-sents a huge part of Alberta’s history. These horses date back hundreds of years, and may even have DNA linking them to the original Spanish bloodlines that roamed this landscape when this country was first being settled. They also represent the horses that worked to settle this land. There are accounts of how the early North West Mounted Police had to abandon their regular horses for these stoic moun-tain ponies as their own mounts were not hardy enough to handle the terrain. We are also told of how these horses were used, again because of their natural hardiness and resistance to illness, to carry soldiers and pull wagons and artillery and pack food during the Boer War and the First World War.
And yet there are people out there, including some RCMP, who refuse to recognize these animals and choose to believe that it is OK to carry on with the mismanaged policies and practices that have been in existence for far too many years.
I would like to take a moment to have the reader consider some other practices that for years were considered acceptable, but that modern humanity would consider completely unacceptable and inhu-mane:
● For years, it was perfectly acceptable and in fact expected that anyone of any wealth and society would own slaves. Human beings who because of the colour of their skin were considered not even human. They were considered livestock that could be bought and sold on a whim, and treated with no respect.
● Until very recently, women were considered property of their husband or father. They had no rights to vote or contribute to society and were abso-lutely considered substandard to men.
● There was a period in history when it was ac-ceptable and encouraged for man to wipe out entire buffalo herds and leave them to rot on the plains, in an attempt to starve the plains Indians and gain con-trol of them as a people.
● For years the Canadian government had in practice a residential school system and it was per-fectly acceptable to remove Inuit and aboriginal children from their homes and families to send them to boarding schools, where they were to be stripped of as much of their tradition as possible and assimi-lated into a the white man’s “civilized” world.
I think if you really read and digest the examples above, you may begin to understand just how uncivi-lized all of these beliefs really were, yet at the time were perfectly acceptable and, worse, these practic-es were expected. This is what I ask this government to consider now with the wild horses of Alberta.
As a result of a steering committee that is stacked with land users who, with the exception of WHOAS, all have an economic stake in seeing the horses re-moved or at least dwindled to a state of extinction, the ESRD continues to wear blinders with respect to alternative, more humane methods of management.
The ESRD refuses to even acknowledge current, up-to-date and relevant studies that show manage-ment of these herds may not even be required at this point. Every member, other than WHOAS, sitting on this steering committee stands to gain economically from the horses being removed from the Crown land west of Sundre.
This committee was formed as a tactic to blow smoke in the eyes of Alberta citizens, people our government has been elected to represent, not con-trol. It is my opinion and the opinion of thousands of voting Albertans that this committee is nothing more than a good ol’ boys club, reminiscent of the of
the good ol’ days when a black man knew his place, and a woman was kept barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.
As an Albertan and a voting citizen, with as much right to the decision regarding the fate of these hors-es as any Albertan, I am calling for a moratorium of the annual cull until proper studies can be conduct-ed by qualified scientists, biologists and veterinar-ians to determine if management is even required.
If management is scientifically proven necessary, then it is also imperative that we explore alternative, more humane methods of management.
I am also calling for the dissolution of the feral horse advisory committee as it stands because, with the exception of WHOAS, it is nothing more than a collusion of pro-cull supporters, set up to appease the general public into believing that proper re-search was done and proper care was taken in deci-sions made regarding the horses.
I trust you will agree that serious attention is re-quired to change the current status of these horses in order to save them from future extinction, and to provide them with the protected status they have earned and that they more than deserve.
G.C. CharroisSundre
What happened to Ralph’s dream?When Ralph Klein left office, Alberta had a bal-
anced budget and was debt free.Now, a few short years later, Albertans are sad-
dled with debt of $17 billion, thanks to Fast Eddie and Alice in Wonderland.
Ralph also put laws in place whereby our finances couldn’t get screwed up too badly even if the Liber-als get in.
Well, Alison Redford, the Liberals didn’t get in!Or did they?
Lloyd WongstedtRed Deer
Fair Election Act anything butLast week, the Globe and Mail carried five editori-
als and numerous letters criticizing the Fair Elec-tions Act. Our chief electoral officer, Marc Mayrand, also spoke out against this new legislation; and a university professor, an expert in election law in Canada, was one of 150 (all legal and political sci-ence experts in Canada) to sign a letter asking the government to revise numerous clauses they say are dangerous to the election process.
Our minister of Democratic Reform, Pierre Poilievre, has dismissed criticisms of his bill, repeat-edly asserting this new bill is the product of scru-tiny and consultation. Poilievre spent one hour with Marc Mayrand last summer discussing changes to the
Elections Act of Canada — that is the sum total of the consultation process.
And as for the evidence suggesting change? Mem-ber of Parliament Brad Butt claimed he saw identi-fication cards being stolen from mail receptacles in apartment blocks. One week later, he stood up in the House of Commons and said he misspoke: he did not personally see these cards being stolen.
What does misspoke mean? Whatever it means, Butt was subsequently commended for his words by the prime minister and rewarded by Poilievre by being placed on the parliamentary committee that oversees the final wording of the new act.
Further evidence comes from the Neufeld Report, a report written by the former Chief Electoral Offi-cer, Harry Neufeld. According to Neufeld, who spoke on Evan Soloman’s program The House on March 15, Poilievre misinterpreted passages from his report to justify claims that changes are needed in the Fair Elections Act.
The changes to the election process as proposed by Poilievre are ominous. Slowly and undoubtedly, this government is changing the face of Canada. Whether it is this new legislation, the muzzling of our scientists, the new surveillance state we now have under the stewardship of CSIS and CSEC, the lack of transparency, the loss of funding for social programs and to municipalities, the abandonment of Kyoto and environmental standards, or the abandon-ment of the Law Commission and the Charter Chal-lenge Program, the list goes on ad nauseam. This list supports Stephen Harper’s previous claim in his political career (CCPA Monitor March 2014): “You won’t recognize Canada when I get through with it.” Clearly this is foreboding.
If the government is allowed to continue in this manner after the next election, the Orwellian world into which we will descend will indeed be bleak. There are not many Canadians who would welcome jack boots and brown shirts, and a Ministry of Truth instead of a Ministry for Democratic Reform.
The irony presented in the title of this legislation (Fair Elections Act) and in the ministry of its origin (Democratic Reform) alarms me a great deal, as it should many Canadians. Legislation such as this mocks our democratic rights and institutions. Scar-ier still is the knowledge that our government regu-larly consults corporations and business more than it consults its citizens, whose rights and liberties it is elected to protect. We live with a government run like a business, and a government run for business. If we continue to blindly and unquestioningly lap up the government’s talking points, and believe its claim that the economy is fine and the unemployment rate is down, and all that matters is the economy simply because they say so, then we deserve the fate we have succumbed to — like lemmings.
Larry MelnychukRed Deer
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VANCOUVER — A lawyer for a group of medical marijuana patients has told a Federal Court judge that stopping his clients from growing their own pot at the end of this month would violate their charter rights.
John Conroy is asking for a temporary injunc-tion to prevent the new Federal government reg-ulations from taking ef-fect on April 1 until the court can make a deci-sion on his constitutional challenge.
Beginning next month, the government plans to allow only select com-mercial producers to grow marijuana for medical use, and Health Canada says anyone else growing marijuana after that is breaking the law.
Conroy says the fed-eral government brought in the current medical marijuana regime more than a decade ago after a court order, and a se-ries of subsequent cases have reaffirmed the right for patients to grow their own marijuana.
Conroy says the new regime is expected to cause prices to rise and some patients have found specific strains that work
for them would no longer be available.He says the new law would effectively force pa-
tients to choose between their medicine and poten-tial jail time, since growing for personal use would be illegal under the new regulations.
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Flaherty resignsBY THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — Jim Flaherty is leaving the federal cabinet after more than eight years as finance min-ister to prepare for a return to the private sector, saying the move is unrelated to his recent health problems.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to name his replacement Wednesday.
Flaherty, who delivered his final budget last month, said he made the decision with his family earlier this year.
“As I begin another chapter in my life, I leave feeling fulfilled with what we have accomplished as a government and a country during one of the most challenging economic periods in our country’s his-tory,” he said in a statement.
An official in the Prime Minister’s Office said Flaherty would be retaining — at least for now — his seat in the House of Commons, meaning he remains an MP for the time being.
Flaherty is among Canada’s longest-serving fi-nance ministers, appointed to the key economic post when the Conservative government first came to power in 2006.
He managed the country’s economy through one of its worst economic crises in 2008-2009, running up large deficits but leaving the books virtually bal-anced after his Feb. 11 budget.
Speculation about Flaherty’s future has risen in recent years after he acknowledged suffering from a rare skin condition, requiring him to take medica-tion that led to weight gain and apparent fatigue in public appearances.
His long farewell message to Canadians, deliv-ered unexpectedly on a government website, listed accomplishments such as cooling the housing market and introducing tax-free savings accounts.
But he also made special mention of his policies
to help Canadians with disabilities. “Our govern-ment has worked hard to ensure our country benefits from the talents and abilities of Canadians with dis-abilities,” he said.
Harper, who has staked his government’s reputa-tion on steady economic management, said he regret-ted the loss of his No. 1 money man.
“It is with great reluctance that today I accepted the resignation from cabinet of Jim Flaherty, minis-ter of finance, so that he can eventually return to the private sector,” the prime minister said in a state-ment.
“In a political career of almost 20 years, minister Flaherty has exemplified the best qualities of those who enter public life: a true commitment to service, and a sincere desire to leave the country in better shape than it was when he entered politics.”
Flaherty was born in Lachine, Que., on Dec. 30, 1949. He went to Bishop Whelan High School and Loyola High School in Montreal and earned a BA at Princeton University and a law degree from York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School.
In his law career, he was a founding partner of the firm Flaherty Dow Elliott before going into politics in 1990, when he ran and lost provincially in the rid-ing of Durham Centre.
He ran again in 1995, and won a seat in the legis-lature.
The new member for Whitby-Ajax entered Mike Harris’s cabinet in 1997 as minister of labour. He also served as minister of finance, attorney general, finance minister, enterprise minister and deputy premier under Harris and his successor, Ernie Eves.
In 2006, after two unsuccessful bids to lead the Ontario Conservatives, Flaherty jumped to federal politics, winning the riding of Whitby-Oshawa in the election that gave Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservatives their first minority govern-ment.
Harper gave him the Finance portfolio.
PLANS RETURN TO PRIVATE SECTOR Children of Pickton’s victims to split $4.9 M in compensation fund
VANCOUVER — As many as 98 children of the victims of serial killer Robert Pickton will be eli-gible to split a $4.9 million compensation fund.
The federal and B.C. governments and the City of Vancouver announced the money amounts to $50,000 each.
The three parties say the compensation offer is intended to provide the children with a chance to enhance their education, housing or other circum-stances as they progress with their lives.
The fund for the children was part of the recom-mendations from the Missing Womens’ Commission of Inquiry.
B.C. Attorney General Suzanne Anton says she hopes the families will find some solace in the fact the government is responding to the recommenda-tions in advancing safety of vulnerable women.
Pickton was convicted of second-degree murder for the deaths of six women, but the DNA or remains of 33 women were found on his Port Coquitlam, B.C., pig farm.
Reports of fireball in sky over Maritimes likely meteorite: professorHALIFAX — A physics professor at Dalhousie
University says a bright fireball seen streaking across the northern skies of the Maritimes and Que-bec earlier today was likely a meteorite.
Jim Drummond says what are typically called shooting stars are actually meteorites that are heat-ing up as they burst through the Earth’s atmosphere.
Drummond says it’s a fairly common occurrence and those that are seen can be as small as a pea, de-pending upon what they are made of and how they come through the atmosphere.
Rick Parker, who lives on Mattatall Lake near Wentworth, N.S., says he woke up just before 5 a.m. and saw a bright fireball light up the sky.
He says he only got a brief view before the object fell toward the northern horizon.
Judge won’t hear evidence on previous crimes of accused former priest
IQALUIT, Nunavut — A northern judge won’t consider the previous convictions of a former priest accused of sexually abusing Inuit children.
Justice Robert Kilpatrick has ruled that he won’t allow eight convictions against Eric Dejaeger to stand as evidence in his current trial on 68 counts of abusing dozens of Inuit children more than 30 years ago.
Crown lawyers had argued that Dejaeger raised the issue of his character during his testimony.
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May 9 declared a day of honour for Afghan veterans
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — The last Canadian soldiers to leave Afghanistan arrived home Tuesday to tears, hugs from family and friends and a pledge from Stephen Harper that May 9 will be set aside to honour their contributions and sacrifices.
“On that day, Canada will recognize those who fought, remember those who fell and salute all who contributed,” the prime minister said as he wel-comed home the last 93 soldiers.
“We will stand together and honour the strength of our men and women in uniform, we will honour the strength of the Canadian families who faced heart-wrenching loss, (and) we will honour the strength of our communities that supported them.”
For some in the welcoming crowd, the homecom-ing had a sombre note.
Gail and Mark Freeman, whose son, Pte. Michael Freeman, was killed in Afghanistan on Dec. 26, 2008, drove to the morning ceremony from Peterborough.
“We just want to be here to support them,” Gail Freeman said as she fought back tears. “We lost our son in 2008 and we never got to go to a homecoming this way, and we wanted to make sure that we were here today.”
“We’re really grateful for them. We still feel that we’re part of their family as well as they’re still part of ours, too.”
The final contingent of troops from Afghanistan flew in to Ottawa aboard a C-17 transport plane, es-corted by a pair of CF-18 fighter jets.
The soldiers filed off the plane to a receiving line that included Harper, Gov. Gen. David Johnston and Gen. Tom Lawson, the chief of the defence staff.
They then moved into a cavernous hangar to hugs and kisses from loved ones and a hearty greeting
from Johnston, who praised them as “ambassadors, peacekeepers, protectors and rebuilders of civil so-ciety.”
The Canadians formally lowered their flag in Kabul last week, marking the end of a mission that began with the deployment of a handful of special forces soldiers in late 2001. Since then, thousands of Canadian soldiers rotated through Afghanistan in what Harper called “the longest active military en-gagement in Canadian history.”
They fought pitched battles against the Taliban and braved the ever-present threat of improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, while trying to build schools, roads and other infrastructure in the peril-ous southern province of Kandahar.
In addition to the 158 members of the Canadian military who died in Afghanistan since 2002, a Cana-dian diplomat, a journalist and two civilian contrac-tors were also killed.
Following the end of the combat mission in 2011, a contingent of Canadian soldiers were assigned to the capital city of Kabul to assist in training members of the Afghan military.
As they arrived, many of the soldiers and their families were already reflecting on the mission and their hopes for what it will eventually mean for the future of Afghanistan.
Brig.-Gen. Todd Balfe, who spent the last 10 months in the Afghan capital, said he was confident that Afghanistan is strong enough now to turn back a Taliban resurgence.
“Five years ago there were only a few thousand Afghan national security forces,” said Balfe, his wife Chantal and their two boys, Jake and Nick, glued to his side. “Today there are 352,000 members of the Af-ghan National Army and the Afghan National Police. That’s remarkable . . . and tens of thousands of them were trained by Canadians.”
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“Derek, everyone at work is talking about a ‘hot stock’ — should I invest in it too?”
When a stock or fund ad-vances to record highs and becomes the centre of media attention, many investors are eager to buy in right away. It’s not always the wisest choice, however.
Many outperforming in-vestments have growth that ends up levelling off or declining, causing many who invested too late in the cycle to sell at a loss. In other cases, the rumour
around an investment proves to be just that, rumour, and it eventually comes falling back to earth.
So before you chase down that hot stock with a fistful of dollars in your hand, take a minute and con-sider these points carefully.
Buy high, sell low?When you chase performance, you’re hoping to
buy high and sell higher (as opposed to the usual mantra of buy low, sell high).
But you’re taking a chance that this hot invest-ment has more upside than another stock or fund at-tractively priced with solid fundamentals and growth potential.
Is this how I usually invest?Unfortunately, the desire to make a sizable profit
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Hot or not?In some cases, hot stocks end up falling because
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An outperforming mutual fund may also fall due to increased investor activity, a condition called “as-set bloat.”
An example is when a fund manager capitalized on a type of market opportunity that is limited in scope, and can no longer find enough of those oppor-tunities when suddenly faced with massive amounts of assets to invest. In short, investors keep investing in his fund but he can no longer find the same op-portunities.
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This can particularly be true with niche invest-ments — such as natural resources, real estate and emerging markets — which are more volatile and can swing sharply.
A history lesson in chasing returns.There is good reason why investment fund compa-
nies must use the disclaimer, “Past returns are not indicative of future results.”
Here are some examples of chasing performance that do not include years of broad market down-turns:
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Commercial landscape changing in Penhold
BY HARLEY RICHARDSADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR
Penhold’s commercial land-scape is changing quickly.
Penhold Pharmacy opened for business on Monday, following on the heals of a Subway restaurant and a Re/Max Real Estate office in the same 8,000-square-foot build-ing.
A medical clinic and a dental clinic are expected to arrive on the scene in April, said pharma-cist Steven Busse, who developed the building.
Nearby, work is progressing on a 16,000-square-foot building that will house a new grocery store.
“We should be open by the end of May,” said Gerry Knebel, who owns the existing First Choice Family Foods in Penhold as well as Blackfalds Family Foods.
“We’ve got it all enclosed and heated, and the floor is all poured, so now it’s just a matter of working inside.”
Knebel plans to lease out about 3,000 square feet of the building, and has already struck a deal for a financial institution to operate an agency branch in a third of that space.
“We’re in negotiations with a restaurant for our other two spots,” he said.
Also going up in the area is an 8,750-square-foot commercial building. Delbert Shultz, a part-ner with KevRan Developments of Red Deer — the general contrac-tor and a joint venture partner in the project — said the building will have four lease bays.
Negotiations with prospective tenants for two are underway, he confirmed.
“They’ll be ready for leasehold
improvements in probably two months.”
Busse, who is a partner in Syl-van Lake Pharmacy, is splitting his time between Penhold and Sylvan Lake.
But he’s hired a full-time phar-macist for the new pharmacy.
The dental clinic will be op-erated by Isaac Day and Jacob Day of Innisfail’s Day Dental, said Busse.
The names of the doctors who will practise there are still to be released.
Penhold has experienced rapid residential growth in recent years, and Shultz thinks the town’s cur-rent commercial boom will bring more.
“Once this gets going, I can see the town really expanding from here.”
A Red Deer company is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a move into Saskatchewan.
Pumps & Pressure Inc. announced on Tues-day that it’s acquired the assets of Panther Wash Equipment Ltd., a Saska-toon company that sells and maintains high-pres-sure wash equipment and accessories.
The financial terms the deal, which closed March 15, were not dis-closed.
A release issued by Pumps & Pressure presi-dent and founder Jack Tremain said Panther’s staff will remain with the business.
That includes former owner Kelly Wilkin-son, who will serve as Pumps & Pressure’s branch manager in Sas-katoon.
Tremain said the purchase is beneficial for both operations, with Pumps & Pres-sure gaining additional
products.“This acquisition
complements our offer-ings, as we currently manufacture self-serve wash equipment and fluid-handling bench tanks,” said Tremain, adding that the company also sells commercial ve-hicle wash equipment, pressure washers, air compressors and other products.
“Our intent is to con-tinue to supply and ser-vice the car wash indus-try, as well as individual wash bays, as Panther has for over 25 years.”
Founded in 1984, Pumps & Pressure man-ufactures, sells and ser-vices a variety of equip-ment, including air com-pressors, pressure wash-ers, car washes, hydrau-lics and pumps.
In addition to its Red Deer headquarters, it has branch offices in Ed-monton, Calgary, Grande Prairie, Leduc, Langley, B.C. and Brandon, Man.
Calgary-based Whitecap Resources Inc. has struck an $855-million deal to purchase Imperial Oil Ltd. oil- and gas-producing assets in Alberta and British Columbia — including some near Rocky Mountain House.
The sale, which is expected to close in May, includes land and equipment in the Ferrier and Willesden Green area near Rocky. A gas plant and battery at Ferrier are among the assets.
Whitecap is re-selling some of the gas production and related facilities that it’s buying to Keyera Corp. for $113-million.
With the proceeds of that sale, and an estimated $50 million purchase price adjustment on the Impe-rial Oil deal, Whitecap anticipates its net cost to be about $692 million.
The affected assets produced about 15,000 oil-equivalent barrels per day in 2013, with production split evenly between oil and gas.
Whitecap Resourcesbuys Imperial assets
Poloz issues gloomy warningBY THE CANADIAN PRESS
HALIFAX — The loonie fell sharply Tuesday after Bank of Canada governor Ste-phen Poloz delivered a gloomy speech saying slow economic growth is probably the new norm, requiring central bank-ers to keep interest rates low during a long period of stagna-tion.
“The global economy may not be just suffering through a hangover from the financial
crisis,” he said in a speech to the Halifax Chamber of Commerce. “There are other, longer-term forces at work as well.”
He said some analysts have suggested the country may be facing a long period of weak economic growth.
“One specific consequence would be that even extraordi-narily low policy interest rates could prove to be less stimula-tive than in normal circum-stances,” Poloz said.
Soon after he spoke, the
Canadian dollar tumbled two-thirds of a cent against the U.S. dollar, dropping below the 90-cent mark.
The loonie ended the day down 0.68 of a cent at 89.79 cents U.S.
After his speech, Poloz said the recent weakness in the loonie hasn’t had much of an impact on Canadian exports, which tend to benefit from a slide in the dollar.
“To date, I’ve not seen any-thing that suggests we’ve actu-ally had a reaction to that,”
he told a news conference. “It’s early days ... It’s not ex-pected to be the big thing that causes our trade performance to change. I think the big thing is the U.S. recovery.”
As well, the governor said he wouldn’t rule out lower-ing rates even more if eco-nomic performance contin-ued to lag.
“No, I cannot,” he told re-porters.
“Given the risk that we have identified and the way those risks are expected to play out,
we think interest rates are at the right place ... If the bal-ance of risks were to shift ... then we would need to recon-sider that balance of risks and our position on it.”
The Bank of Canada’s pol-icy interest rate has been at one per cent since September 2010.
Poloz noted the baby boom generation — in Canada and around the developed world — is entering retirement age.
NEW BUSINESSES OPENING AS BUILDINGS COMPLETED
Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff
A Subway restaurant, an IDA Pharmacy, a medical clinic, dental office and a Re/Max Real Estate office make up the tenants in one of the buildings in a new Penhold development. Two other commercial buildings are being constructed nearby, including one that will be occupied by a supermarket.
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Pumps & Pressureacquires Pantherin SaskatchewanMARKS 30TH ANNIVERSARY
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SAYS ECONOMY UNDERSHOOTING IN Q1, SLOW GROWTH NEW NORM
Gamehost profits unchanged
Gamehost Inc. (TSX:GH) has reported 2013 profits of $21.5 mil-lion, unchanged from the previous year.
The company, which is based in Red Deer County and owns casinos and other properties in Fort McMurray, Grande Prairie and Calgary, had operating revenues of $77.6 million for the 12 months ended Dec. 31, up from $76.6 million for the same period a year earlier. Earnings per share for the year were 87 cents, down from 92 cents.
For the final quarter of 2013, Gamehost gener-ated revenues of $19.8 million, the same as the last three months of 2012; and profits of $5.4 million, as compared with $5.9 million a year earlier. Its per-share earnings for the quarter were 22 cents, down from 24 cents.
A release issued by Gamehost pointed to cold temperatures and heavy snowfall as fac-tors that hurt its perfor-mance at the close of 2013.
First-time home buyers budget
rises to $316,000Bank of Montreal re-
port on first-time home buyers says the average budget has increased to
$316,100.That’s up nearly six
per cent from an average of $300,000 in last year’s report on first-time home buyers.
The BMO study says a sample of prospective buyers in Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary had even higher budgets for their first home.
About one-third (30 per cent) of the 513 Ca-nadians interviewed online for the study said they expected assistance
from parents or family.Nearly two-thirds
(61 per cent) said they have made cuts to their lifestyle to save for their first home.
Pollara conducted the online interviews for BMO between Jan. 24 and March 6.
Trade negotiators turn to Japan
With a trade deal with South Korea just con-cluded, Canadian nego-tiators are turning their attention to another big Asian prize — Japan.
Trade Minister Ed Fast announced Tuesday
that the fifth round of talks with the world’s third-largest economy will begin Monday and continue all next week.
The timing may be coincidental, but Fast joined the two events in a news release, saying last week’s conclusion of talks with South Korea had provided added mo-mentum.
Some analysts believe Japan may now be more eager to deal with Can-ada in that it competes with Korea in the auto sector and will also be looking for a way to elim-inate the 6.1 per cent duty Ottawa imposes on auto imports.
One of the common questions among new ac-quaintances, after the obligatory weather discussion, is, “What do you do?” It’s usually an effective way to keep conversation going.
For too long, producers have often been known to answer that query with “I’m JUST a farmer.” While it’s OK to be humble, one of the speakers at the Farm Credit Canada (FCC) forums this year urged farm-ers instead to see such a ques-tion as an opportunity to show pride in their industry.
Greg Johnson is able to tell people his occupation is tor-nado hunter.
He jokes that this allows him to puff up his chest, be-cause of the “cool factor” that comes with such an intriguing label.
Storm-chasing is his pas-sion. His message to farmers was not to downplay what’s obviously their own passion — producing food.
He encouraged them to be bold and positive about their career choice, and the impact of their life’s work on people around the world.
It’s a message I saw resonate across the country, as I travelled with the FCC forum tour for several stops. Whether that was a sod grower in New Bruns-wick or a feedlot operator in Lethbridge, the chal-lenge was an important reminder after a long, cold winter.
Being positive about the profession is more than just a feel good technique to get you out the door with more enthusiasm in the morning. (Although it certainly helps with that!) It’s also critical for the future.
Image and consumer views about those who raise their food count, both at the grocery till and in at-tracting newcomers to the business.
FCC has become known for providing inspiration to the farming community in its learning programs. But the organization, led by outgoing CEO Greg Stew-art, became concerned when its survey found farm-ers’ perceptions of their own industry were even lower than the general public’s.
So FCC launched the Agriculture More Than Ever initiative to help shift the industry mindset.
It was not designed to be an FCC campaign; rath-er, the farm lender served as a catalyst for the move-ment.
“Creating a positive dialogue about agriculture” was a frontline objective. Those are trendy words, but in reality, that’s what Ag More than Ever is actu-ally doing.
Lyndon Carlson is the senior VP of marketing for FCC. He says now, with nearly two years under its belt, the effort has over 250 partners signed on to be part of the initiative.
That includes, not surprisingly, producer associa-
tions and provincial government ag departments.But then the swath widens.“The partnership is so broad,” commented Carl-
son. “It goes from a one-site retail ag supply outlet to
a global multinational corporation. We’ve got every shape and size, and I think that’s really going to be powerful for sustainability.”
It looks like the industry was ready for such a spark.
“We needed to say, ‘It’s OK to talk about agricul-ture with passion,’” added Carlson.
“I just think maybe we just opened the door a little bit and people said ‘Yeah, I’ll go through that door.’ So we’re really pleased to see this kind of mo-mentum.”
The Ag More Than Ever message is spotted on bale wraps by the side of the road, on T-shirts picked up at farm trade shows, on Twitter and Facebook with the Ag Proud banner attached to messages. And some of the best work is on the www.agriculture-morethanever.ca website.
There is a wealth of resource information, but also a great library of real farmer stories that make for motivational watching.
The visibility and awareness of agriculture as a “go to” business is growing. Sure, better economics have helped propel the message. But it was still a movement that needed to be made.
So now that there is motion, where to next?Carlson says there’s no slowing down efforts to get
the industry active, but the biggest request Ag More than Ever gets concerns how to reach the general public more quickly.
That’s the same general public that is now skepti-cal, gluten-free, anti-GMO and often unrealistic in its animal expectations.
It’s a big job, but Carlson points out that while that may be the next chapter at some point for Ag More than Ever, it’s an opportunity at farmers’ fin-gertips right now.
That’s what the newly coined term “agvocate” is all about, describing farmers who take the initiative as individuals to speak up.
That might be chatting with their doctor, or their children’s teacher, or the shopper next to them at the meat counter to see if their fact base on food is sound.
Dr. Cami Ryan of the University of Saskatchewan told the Red Deer Chamber of Commerce Agri-Busi-ness session that farmers today are considered “agri-intellectuals.”
They are the experts because they’re the ones with the firsthand knowledge of what they do. They carry a lot of weight because they’re the real deal and they care, so people will listen.
Changing minds isn’t easy, and might only be done one or two at a time. But it may be JUST the thing for a farmer to do.
Dianne Finstad is a veteran broadcaster and reporter who has covered agricultural news in Central Alberta for more than 30 years. From the Field appears monthly in the Advocate.
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PERFORMANCE: Diversify to boost exposure to top performers
● If you chased after BRIC equities that returned 64.3 per cent in 2009, the index tracking the perfor-mance of Brazil, Russia, India and China would have given you a 2010 return of 4.1 per cent.
● If you invested in Canadian small companies (small caps) after their 2006 return of 16.7 per cent, you would have had a 2.0 per cent return in 2007.
● If you bought Canadian information technology because it gained 53.5 per cent in 2009, you would have experienced a 2010 return of 4.7 per cent.
My final thoughts? By diversifying your portfolio across asset classes, geographic regions, investment styles, economic sectors and market capitalization, you increase your exposure to potential top perform-ers while minimizing the effect of underperforming securities.
You can still add individual securities in the pur-suit of higher returns, but you should always have an eye on evaluating the merits of the investment and its suitability to your portfolio — without chasing af-ter a hot stock or fund.
Happy investing!Derek Fuchs can be contacted at derek.fuchs@sco-
tiamcleod.com.
GROWTH: Money not going into investments that stimulate economy
What is making the situation worse in terms of growth, says Poloz, is that boomers in the developed world have been putting their money into real es-tate rather than investments that can stimulate the economy.
Real estate assets in Canada accounted for 40 per cent of total wealth in 2012, he pointed out, as op-posed to only 32 per cent in 1999.
“Now that that (demographic) bulge begins its in-evitable exit from the workforce, that upward move-ment (in the economy) gets reversed,” Poloz told reporters.
“It’s just to say that potential output for the world, and indeed for Canada, is not some mechanical straight line. It is something that gradually moves around because of these fundamental changes.”
Poloz said the first months of this year have shown less growth than he expected.
“We will not be alone in this, that’s for certain — nor are the forces really Canadian, they’re global.” he said after his speech.
However, Poloz said he still believes growth will be above the so-called two per cent potential and approach 2.5 per cent in both 2014 and 2015 — as the Bank of Canada said in its January forecast.
But he has left some room to trim that forecast in next month’s monetary policy report, noting that some indicators are suggesting the first quarter end-ing March 31 may be weaker than expected.
“Although we continue to expect above-trend growth in Canada this year and next, the recent data suggest that the first quarter will be on the soft side,” Poloz said in his speech.
Farmers, be proud!
High Arctic Energy Services Inc. (TSX: HWO) has announced a 20 per cent increase in its monthly dividend, to 1.5 cents per share, effective April 14.
“The increase in the dividend rewards our shareholders for the strong financial results of 2013 and reflects our expectations for a solid 2014,” said Michael Binnion, chairman of the Red Deer-based company’s board of directors.
High Arctic released its 2013 fi-nancial results last Friday. These showed a four per cent increase in revenues, to $152.7 million from $146.2 million in 2012.
Net earnings were $24.6 mil-lion, down 15 per cent from $28.8
million the previous year; and earnings per basic share slipped to 51 cents from 62 cents.
For the final quarter of 2013, the company’s revenues were up slightly from the same three-month period in 2012, to $38.7 mil-lion from $38.6 million.
Net earnings rose eight per cent to $6.4 million from $5.9 mil-lion, while earnings per share were 13 cent, unchanged from the three months ended Dec. 31, 2012.
“High Arctic posted another strong performance in 2013, led by our continued growth on PNG (Papua New Guinea),” said Den-nis Sykora, High Arctic’s CEO, in a release.
“We are excited by the oppor-tunities ahead in PNG with the country’s first LNG (liquefied natural gas) facility scheduled to come on stream this year.”
The release noted that High Arctic’s growth in revenue during 2013 was driven by increased ac-tivity in Papua New Guinea, main-ly due to a second active drilling rig there operating for a longer period, and having a larger fleet of rental equipment.
High Arctic provides special-ized oilfield equipment and ser-vices. It has operations through-out Western Canada and in Papua New Guinea.
Report says Energy East not the boon for refiners
it’s cracked up to beTHE CANADIAN PRESS
CALGARY — The pro-posed Energy East pipe-line won’t be the boon to Eastern Canadian re-fineries that supporters claim because the vast majority of the oil in it would be bound for ex-port markets, environ-mental groups argued in a report released Tues-day.
The $12-billion proj-ect would likely use the lion’s share of its 1.1 mil-lion barrel per day ca-pacity to send unrefined oilsands crude to mar-kets like India, Europe and possibly the United States, says the report, penned by The Council of Canadians, Ecology Action Centre, Environ-mental Defence and Eq-uiterre.
The pipeline would run 4,600 kilometres from Alberta to Saint John, N.B., using repur-posed pipe already in the ground for roughly two thirds of the way.
The company planning to build it, TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP), aims to file a formal regulatory application this summer and has been engaging with communities along the route in an effort to build support.
Backers in industry and government have said Energy East will help ailing refineries in the East — reliant on high-cost crude from abroad — by connecting them with a stable, low-cost supply from Western Canada. The proposal al-so includes export termi-nals in Quebec and Saint John, N.B., from which some of the oil can be sent overseas by tanker, getting producers a bet-ter price.
The report Tuesday said the three refineries along the Energy East route — Suncor Energy’s (TSX:SU) in Montreal, Valero’s near Quebec City and Irving’s in Saint John, N.B. — have a com-
bined capacity of 672,000 barrels per day.
Of that, the groups figure 550,000 barrels per day can come from elsewhere — offshore crude in Atlantic Cana-da, booming U.S. shale resources and, eventu-ally, via Enbridge Inc.’s (TSX:ENB) recently ap-proved reversed Line 9 pipeline between south-western Ontario and Montreal. That leaves just 122,000 barrels per day of refining capac-ity that can be served by Energy East, the report said.
“It’s very frustrating to watch a company try-ing to convince Canadi-ans that they should ac-cept these massive risks based on some perceived benefit that they may receive. When you dig into it, you find that it’s an empty promise,” said Adam Scott, with Envi-ronmental Defence.
“It’s just not true that Eastern Canada’s going to benefit in the way that TransCanada’s saying they are. And when you look and see that this is a project about putting vast quantities of oil on-to tankers and shipping them out of the country, people who are con-vinced that ’this is going to mean more local jobs for me’ are going to be very disappointed.”
A common lament in the pipeline debate is the loss of “value-add-ed,” high-paying jobs in cases where the crude is being sent abroad, rath-er than kept in Canada to be processed into more valuable products.
It’s on those grounds that the federal NDP has expressed a preference for Energy East over Keystone XL, another TransCanada proposal to send oilsands crude to the U.S. Gulf Coast.
But the report Tues-day, and a separate one by the Pembina Insti-tute last month, would appear to cast doubt on that view.
High Arctic has 20% jump in dividend
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Diversified and IndustrialsAgrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 104.77ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 53.31BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.78BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.26Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.18Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.38Cdn. National Railway . . 63.39Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 173.68Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 40.53Capital Power Corp . . . . 24.94Cervus Equipment Corp 23.05Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 49.67Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 49.87Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 30.69Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.42General Motors Co. . . . . 35.17Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.55Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.80SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 46.95Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 67.96Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.26Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 12.97Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 50.33
ConsumerCanadian Tire . . . . . . . . 101.87Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.66Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.81Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 46.50Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 16.91
Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.20Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.76Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 61.42Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.77WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 23.75
MiningBarrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 22.55Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 27.24First Quantum Minerals . 19.49Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 30.84Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.76Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.53Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 38.66Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.51Teck Resources . . . . . . . 23.52
EnergyArc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 29.77Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 36.00Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 61.84Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.05Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 54.17Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 40.58Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 22.07Canyon Services Group. 12.62Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 29.77CWC Well Services . . . . 0.880Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 22.90Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.66Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 94.71
Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 56.90High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.24Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 33.22Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 50.95Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.78Penn West Energy . . . . . . 9.30Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.185Precision Drilling Corp . . 12.07Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.35Talisman Energy. . . . . . . 11.00Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 13.04Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 11.48Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 65.50
FinancialsBank of Montreal . . . . . . 72.37Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 64.83CIBC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.64Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 36.00Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.09Great West Life. . . . . . . . 30.42IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 53.05Intact Financial Corp. . . . 67.32Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.99National Bank . . . . . . . . . 43.85Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.41Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 71.90Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 38.35TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.74
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TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed sharply higher Tues-day amid lessening anxiety over the Crimea crisis after Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country doesn’t want to annex more of Ukraine.
He made the comment as he signed a bill to annex Crimea, two days after the territory’s residents, many of whom are Russian speaking, voted overwhelmingly to break away from Ukraine.
The S&P/TSX composite index jumped 137.08 points to 14,368.97.
The Canadian dollar shed early gains to fall 0.68 of a cent to 89.79 cents US after Bank of Canada gov-ernor Stephen Poloz said the econo-my may miss expectations in the first few months of this year. He added that slower than normal growth may be the new norm for Canada and the world, meaning ultra-low rates could be around longer than thought.
The loonie had earlier advanced on data showing that Canadian man-ufacturing sales rose 1.5 per cent to $50.4 billion in January, the largest gain since February 2013.
Western governments, including Canada, have imposed travel bans and asset freezes on people from Russia, Crimea and Ukraine, who are seen as key players in organizing what’s considered an unlawful vote.
U.S. indexes advanced with trad-ers also feeling relief that sanctions levied against Russia for its role in the referendum have been targeted specifically against individuals as op-posed to wider measures that might disrupt Russian economic activity.
The Dow Jones industrials ran ahead 88.97 points to 16,336.19, the Nasdaq moved 53.36 points higher to 4,333.31 and the S&P 500 index rose 13.42 points to 1,872.25.
Markets had lost ground at the end of last week ahead of the Crimea vote but those losses are almost made up. Generally, there has been little negative reaction on markets to the crisis after it quickly became ap-parent that the West wouldn’t respond militarily to the Russian incursion into
Crimea.Traders also looked to Tuesday’s
start of a two-day interest rate meet-ing of the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Data out Monday showing U.S. factory production in February rose at its fastest rate in six months rein-forced expectations the Fed will go ahead with a third planned reduction of its stimulus, cutting monthly bond purchases by US$10 billion to $55 billion.
Consumer staples led TSX ad-vancers with shares in Alimentation Couche-Tard (TSX:ATD.B) up $1.79 to $86.70.
The convenience store owner re-ported that it had 96 cents per share of diluted earnings, while adjusted diluted net earnings came in at 92 cents. Analysts had forecast 93 cents per share of adjusted earnings and 88 cents per share of net income.
Couche-Tard also announced that founder Alain Bouchard is hand-ing off the role of president and chief executive officer to Brian Hannasch, who has been the chief operating of-ficer.
Most sectors were higher, with the energy sector up 1.4 per cent as the April crude contract in New York rose $1.62 to US$99.70 a barrel.
The metals and mining sector was ahead 1.7 per cent with May cop-per unchanged at US$2.95 a pound.
The TSX gold sector was the only decliner, down about 0.44 per cent as a willingness to take on further risk sent bullion in New York down $13.90 to US$1,359 an ounce.
MARKET HIGHLIGHTS
TORONTO — Highlights at close of Tuesday.
Stocks:S&P/TSX Composite Index —
14,368.97, up 137.08 pointsTSX Venture Exchange —
1,038.95, up 4.81 pointsTSX 60 — 824.29, up 8.22 pointsDow — 16,336.19, up 88.97
pointsS&P 500 — 1,872.25, up 13.42
pointsNasdaq — 4,333.31, up 53.36
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ICE FUTURES CANADA
WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Can-ada closing prices:
Canola: May ’14 $2.30 higher $465.50; July ’14 $2.30 higher $474.60; Nov. ’14 $1.90 higher $490.50; Jan ’15 $1.80 higher $497.40; March ’15 $1.60 higher $504.20; May ’15 $1.40 higher $509.40; July ’15 $1.40 higher $513.90; Nov ’15 $1.40 higher $510.10; Jan. ’16 $1.40 higher $510.10; March ’16 $1.40 higher $510.10.
Barley (Western): May ’14 un-changed $128.50; July ’14 unchanged $128.50; Oct. ’14 unchanged $128.50; Dec. ’14 unchanged $128.50; March ’15 unchanged $128.50; May ’15 un-changed $128.50; July ’15 unchanged $128.50; Oct. ’15 unchanged $128.50; Dec. ’15 unchanged $128.50; March ’16 unchanged $128.50.
Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 445,160 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) To-tal: 445,160.
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
HALIFAX — Canadians should look at the overall affect of a new free trade deal with South Korea rather than judge it by sectors because liberal-ized trade is generally good for the economy, the governor of the Bank of Canada said Tuesday.
Stephen Poloz described free trade agreements as “a win-win situation” for both sides that lead to natural growth in the economy.
“Combing through it, just look at the big picture. Liberalized trade is one of those things that kind of allows growth to happen, as opposed to forc-ing growth to happen, which is what we try to do with other policies in a crisis,” he said in a question-and-an-swer session with audience members after speaking to the Halifax Chamber of Commerce.
“So we need to transform into busi-ness-led growth, natural growth, as op-posed to policy-fuelled growth.”
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has touted the deal with South Korea as a major boost for Canadian export-ers looking for access to the lucrative Asian marketplace.
It marks Canada’s first free trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific region, which the federal government has tar-geted as essential for the country’s eco-nomic well-being.
The biggest winners from the Cana-dian side will likely be in the agricul-ture sector, particularly beef and pork, the forest industry and seafood export-
ers, all of whom face stiff tariffs for shipping into the South Korea market of 50 million people.
But the domestic auto sector has been critical of the agreement, which will see a 6.1 per cent duty on South Korean exports of Hyundai and Kia ve-hicles eliminated over two years once it is implemented, making the strong-selling brands even more competitive in the Canadian market.
Poloz said the cost of cars will not be greatly affected by the deal, while other sectors of the economy will no-tice larger benefits.
Consumers will also save money on imported goods from South Korea, such as televisions, which will give them more money to spend, he said.
“It’s the most important part of trade liberalization is that you have more income.
“Never mind that you might pro-duce a little less of this or a little more of that. Everybody is richer on both sides of the deal.”
Once in force, the agreement will eliminate virtually all tariffs between the countries, with South Korea cut-ting 81.9 per cent of duties upon the first day of the deal coming into effect and Canada removing 76.4 per cent of levies.
Some tariffs, particularly in agricul-ture, will take more than a dozen years be fully phased out.
Ottawa says the deal is expected to increase Canadian exports to South Korea by 32 per cent and expand the economy by $1.7 billion.
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
SASKATOON — A cold winter and a record crop have been blamed for a grain transportation backlog, but a union spokesman says that’s not the whole story.
Dave Able with the Teamsters union for engineers says part of the problem is a shortage of manpower at the rail companies.
The railways run shorter trains in extremely cold weather so the brakes will work.
The CEO of Canadian Pacific Rail-way (TSX:CP) has said adding more lo-comotives would only serve to further slow down the system.
But Able says more locomotives could be added if there were sufficient crews to keep freight trains running.
Able says CP cut its staff by about 300 people in the West alone and is only starting to call workers back from seasonal winter layoffs.
“Our guys are in there working day
in and day out and they’re getting fa-tigued,” he said. “Everyone needs a reset ... and there’s just not enough people to fill the crews,” he said.
Able also said CP has not replaced hundreds of people who retired in the last year. “With the attritions, they let it get down to the bare minimum.”
He also blamed recent changes to the way CP manages employees in lo-cal areas. He said it’s now less effi-cient to get crews to where they are needed the most.
“They’ve consolidated the manpow-er and it isn’t as effective.”
CP Rail has said trains are hauling more grain than ever before and that the company is doing everything it can to resolve the backlog.
Earlier this month, federal Trans-portation Minister Lisa Raitt and Agri-culture Minister Gerry Ritz announced that the government will impose pen-alties of $100,000 a day on CP and Ca-nadian National (TSX:CNR) if they fail to meet a standard of moving 11,000 grain cars a week.
More rail workers needed to solve grain transportation backlog: union
Trade deal with South Korea is good for Canadian economy: Poloz
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The RDC women’s curling team has a definite goal heading into the Canadian Colleges Athletic Associa-tion championships in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.
“The veterans on the team finished seventh at last year’s nationals (at NAIT) and definitely want to move up from that,” explained coach Brad Hamilton before leaving at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday.
“Really the women’s side is wide open and whoever makes the shots can win this. Fanshawe College (of London, Ont.) won the last two years and will go in as favourties and I feel if we play well we have a shot at making the playoffs.”
The top three teams, in the eight-team field, make the playoffs.
Two members of the team — skip Kait-lyn Sherrer and third Julie Primrose — return from last year’s team. In fact Sherrer is in her fourth year as women’s skip. Second Courtney Smith is in her first year with the team while Hamilton splits lead duties between rookie Taylor Eno and
Jessica Newman, who is a second-year RDC student, but in her first season with the curling program.
Hamilton believes the toughest aspect of the tour-nament, at least for the rookies, will be get-ting used to playing with a time clock and with officials.
“The new girls will be a bit over-whelmed at first, so it’s up to myself and the veterans on the team to explain what’s happening and tell them there’s nothing to worry about,” said Hamilton.
The games will also be 10 ends, which is new after playing eight ends in the ACAC.
RDC placed third in the ACAC playoffs, back of Grant MacEwan and NAIT. The three ACAC teams will face five teams from Ontario at the nationals.
The Queens open play Wednesday at 2 p.m. (EDT) against Sault Ste. Marie and clash with Mohawk College of Hamilton in the evening draw. On Thursday they clash with Humber College of Etibicoke in the
morning and Seneca College of North York in the
afternoon.On Friday they play three games facing NAIT,
Fanshawe and MacEwan.The semifinal and final goes Saturday.● RDC basketball Kings fifth-year guard Lloyd
Strickland made his mark across the country fol-lowing his brilliant performance in the final of the Canadian Colleges men’s basketball championship in Squamish, B.C.
Strickland did everything in his power to lead the Kings to victory, nailing four long-distance three-point baskets over the final 30 seconds in the Kings 88-86 loss to Langara College of Vancouver. He fin-ished with 34 points.
His unprecedented shooting performance went viral after being on deadspin.com. He also did a live interview on CBC sports.
Strickland, a native of Stirling, was a first-team all-star at the nationals and was named the Boston Pizza RDC athlete of the week.
Basketball Kings were the Breathing Room team of the week.
DANNY RODE
COLLEGE
Queens curling team heading to nationals with goal
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Rachel Ho-man still hadn’t thrown a final stone for a win at world women’s curling championship Tuesday.
At both the Canadian champion-ships, where her team went unbeaten in 13 games, and at this week’s Ford World Women’s Curling Champion-ship, even seeing her Canadian team in a 10th end has been akin to spying an exotic animal in the wild.
With their ability to keep the front of the house clear and throw heavy weight shots with accuracy, the Ottawa Curling Club team has been virtual-ly uncatchable when they’ve taken a lead.
Their reward is opposing teams con-ceding before the 10th end, with the exception so far in Saint John a loss to Switzerland on Sunday. Conversely, it was the Canadians shaking hands after eight ends in the face of a four-point deficit. But Homan went through the Scotties Tournament of Hearts and the first seven games of the world champi-onship without making a game-winning throw in the 10th.
Down 8-3 to Canada, Scotland’s Ker-ry Barr shook hands after nine ends Tuesday night.
The Latvians also conceded after nine ends when they trailed the Cana-
dians 8-4 in the morning draw.Canada capped the two-win day
tied for first in the preliminary-round standings at 6-1 with Sweden’s Marga-retha Sigfridsson and Switzerland’s Binia Feltscher.
“We played well, two solid games by our team,” Homan said. “We’re not playing 100 per cent, but we’re reading the lines and learning the lines when we need to.”
Russia’s Anna Sidorova, South Ko-rea’s Ji-sun Kim and China’s Liu Sijia were tied at 5-2.
The Scots dropped to 2-5. Allison Pottinger of the United States was 3-4. Germany’s Imogen Oona Lehmann, Denmark’s Madeleine Dupont, Latvia’s Evita Regza and Anna Kubeskova of the Czech Republic were all 1-6.
The top four teams at the conclusion of the round robin Thursday make the playoffs. Canada faces Germany and South Korea on Wednesday.
The only 10th end Homan, vice Em-ma Miskew, second Alison Kreviazuk and lead Lisa Weagle played in their first four days in Saint John was their opener against Russia. Again, Homan didn’t throw her final stone because Sidorova missed her last draw.
Homan, 24, wasn’t worried about be-ing battle-ready for a possible playoff
game later in the week.“I’ve had a lot of white-knuckle
games in my life. I’d be OK not throw-ing my last shot for the rest of the tour-nament,” Homan said.
“If it comes down to it, I’m ready for it. I’ve done it before. I’ve thrown some big shots this week already. Whatever happens, if we keep playing strong, I’m good with what we’re doing.”
Weagle is adept at shifting guards away from the front of the house, but not removing them which is not al-lowed until the fifth rock of the end is thrown.
Homan and Miskew are heavy hit-ters. A Miskew runback double against the Scots completely swung momen-tum back to Canada. Those skills make Canada ruthlessly efficient when they have the hammer, in both scoring more than one point in an end and avoiding steals by the opposition.
Canada scored two on Scotland in the first and third ends with hammer to lead 5-2 at the fifth-end break. They stole a point in the eighth and again in the ninth when the Scots called it a day.
“What we do so well when they have last rock is they’re able to take risks, but because we’re as good a team as there is on the planet for being able to
make runbacks and throw heavy weight accurately, we can get out of jail fairly easily if things don’t go well,” Cana-dian coach Earle Morris said. “And we tick (guards). Those are two weap-ons we have that the other teams don’t have.”
Reigning world champion and Olym-pic bronze medallist Eve Muirhead didn’t participate in Scottish women’s playdowns to prepare for the Winter Olympic in Sochi last month. Her for-mer junior teammate Kerry Barr is skipping the Scots in Saint John. They weren’t able to generate a deuce with hammer early against Canada.
“They’re never going to be a team that’s easy to come back against when you go a couple of shots down, but I think we did a good job of making them play some tricky shots,” Barr said. “I’m not too disheartened.
“We knew we were going to have to get a two earlier on in the game, but we just weren’t able to create anything and Rachel and Emma came up with some real good shots.”
Miskew outcurled Scottish counter-part Rachel Simms 86 per cent to 56 per cent, but one of her throws had the Canadian skip and third dissolving into a fit of laughter.
“I threw one shot out there that I wasn’t really all that close to the broom on my slide out, which isn’t normal,” Miskew explained.
Raiders end Rebels’ seasonBY GREG MEACHEM
ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR
Raiders 5 Rebels 3For the Red Deer Rebels,
‘Tie-breaker Tuesday’ was a case of deja vu all over again.
With the vast majority of the 5,411 fans at the Enmax Centrium solidly behind them in a must-win game, the Reb-els carried a one-goal lead into the third period before surrendering three goals and falling 5-3 to the Prince Albert Raiders.
Too many turnovers and too many shots against resulted in yet another Rebels setback on home ice, this time allowing the Raiders to snare the final playoff berth in the WHL East-ern Conference and a quarter-final date with the Edmonton Oil Kings.
“I don’t even know where to start with it because it’s some-thing that we’ve been fighting with all year at home . . . just a lack of urgency,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter.
Down 3-2 after 40 minutes, the Raiders got a power-play goal from overage forward and Red Deer native Collin Val-court 2:21 into the final frame.
Just a little over two min-utes later, Dakota Conroy, who fed Valcourt on the two-on-one tying goal, potted the even-tual winner, his sharp-angle shot from down low squeak-ing through the pads of Rebels netminder Patrik Bartosak.
It was a goal that Bartosak, who was assessed a tripping penalty prior to Valcourt’s marker, would have liked back.
But then again, he faced 47 shots and made at least a half dozen sizzling saves.
His teammates failed to push back the rest of the way as the Raiders clamped down defensively while allowing just six third-period shots.
“When you’re up a goal go-ing into the third you have to make that push,” said Sutter.
“Our goalie takes a penalty and we end up getting a pow-er-play goal scored against us. We just got scrambly after that
and never gained any momen-tum.
“Then they (Raiders) get the other one on a bad-angle shot. Patty, though, made some big saves for us.”
Raiders forward Jayden Hart opened the scoring on a two-on-two rush 7:08 into the contest. Wyatt Johnson evened the count at 11:52 when he broke down the left wide, cut hard to the net and stepped around netminder Nick McBride, and Evan Polei hauled in a stretch pass from Brooks Maxwell and gave the Rebels their first lead on a breakaway at 7:43 of the mid-dle frame.
Reid Gardiner replied for the visitors just over three minutes later, cruising in on a two-on-none break with line-mate Hart following a turnover at the Red Deer blueline.
“We gave up some odd-man rush goals, a two-on-oh break-away, a two-on-one,” said Sut-ter.
Rhyse Dieno potted a pow-er-play goal with six minutes remaining in the third, scoring from the edge of the crease after taking a corner pass from Conner Bleackley.
But that was it for the Reb-els, who were 16-17-0-4 at the Centrium this winter as op-posed to 19-16-1-0 on enemy ice.
“Mentally, we just weren’t good at home this season,” said Sutter. “We were a much better road team for whatev-er reason. The one night you want to be your best at home . . . well, it just wasn’t our best game tonight.
“Leaving here, that’s the disappointing thing . . . the fact that we weren’t good enough tonight to win and we weren’t good enough throughout the year at home. When you’re a below .500 hockey team (at home) it’s tough to say you’re a playoff team. At the end of the day, that’s the bottom line.”
Raiders captain Josh Mor-rissey, who sealed the deal with an empty-net goal in the final minute, expressed pride in the manner in which his club performed with the game
— and the season — on the line.
“It was pretty exciting to be in a Game 7, do-or-die type of situation,” said the talented defenceman and member of the Canadian junior team at the 2014 world championship.
“I was pretty proud of the way we battled out there. It kind of went back and forth for the first few goals. We had a good start, Red Deer had a good second period and we found a way in the third. We got a power-play goal and some timely saves from our goalie.”
The Raiders were forced into the tie-breaker and an ex-tra seven-hour bus trip when the Rebels — in their final regular-season game — took advantage of a depleted Oil Kings lineup and posted a 5-0 win Sunday at Edmonton.
Both clubs came into the contest with 35 victories and 75 points. The Raiders han-dled the adversity of playing the clutch contest on the road and ended the Rebels’ season.
“We could have made some excuses, but we just came in and played our game,” said Morrissey, whose club ap-
peared to be out of the post-season picture as recently as early February.
“The way we’ve played the last month or so to reach this point, sort of playing in Game 7 situations . . . I think that ex-perience helped us tonight.”
● The three stars were (1) Conroy, (2) Dieno and (3) Gar-diner . . . Rebels forward As-pen Sterzer missed the final two periods after suffering a shoulder separation. Even with a Red Deer victory, his season was over.
Canada’s Homan running with leads
PRINCE ALBERT WINS TIE-BREAKER GAME TO END REBELS CHANCE AT PLAYOFFS
WOMEN’S WORLD CURLING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff
Red Deer Rebels Grayson Pawlenchuk and Conner Bleackley collide with their goaltender Patrik Bartosack during a Prince Albert Raider drive to the net by Raider Jayden Hart during first-period action at the Centrium Tuesday.
SCOREBOARD B5WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2014
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TransactionsTuesday’s Sports Transactions
BASEBALLAmerican LeagueCLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to terms with
RHP Adam Miller to a minor league contract.LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Reassigned LHP
Clay Rapada and C John Hester to minor league camp.
NEW YORK YANKEES — Assigned Cs Fran-cisco Arcia and Pete O’Brien, OFs Tyler Austin and Mason Williams, INFs Corban Joseph and Jose Pirela and RHPs Bruce Billings Robert Coello, Brian Gordon, Mark Montgomery and Chase Whitley to minor league camp.
SEATTLE MARINERS — Reassigned OF Cole Gillespie to minor league camp.
National LeagueNEW YORK METS — Reassigned RHPs Noah
Syndergaard and Rafael Montero to minor league camp.
SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Optioned LHP Edwin Escobar to Fresno (PCL).
American AssociationAMARILLO SOX — Signed INF Josh Miller.GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS — Signed
OF Josh Romanski.LAREDO LEMURS — Signed INF Devin
Goodwin.WINNIPEG GOLDEYES — Signed RHP Alex
De La Cruz.Atlantic LeagueLONG ISLAND DUCKS — Signed RHP Fer-
nando Hernandez and INF Sergio Miranda.
BASKETBALLNational Basketball AssociationNEW YORK KNICKS — Named Phil Jackson
president and signed him to a five-year contract. An-nounced president and general manager Steve Mills will remain as general manager.
SACRAMENTO KINGS — Signed F Royce White to a second 10-day contract.
WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Signed F Drew Gooden for the remainder of the season.
FOOTBALLNational Football LeagueATLANTA FALCONS — Agreed to terms with
CB Javier Arenas.CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed S Roman
Harper to a two-year contract.CHICAGO BEARS — Agreed to terms with
DL Israel Idonije and Ss Danny McCray and Craig Steltz on one-year contracts. Terminated the con-tract of WR Earl Bennett.
CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed WR Andrew Hawkins to a four-year contract.
HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed NT Jerrell Powe.INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed PK Carson
Wiggs. Released G Zach Allen.JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Signed WR
Tandon Doss.NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Re-signed WR
Julian Edelman.NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Agreed to terms
with FB Erik Lorig on a four-year contract. Re-signed WR Joseph Morgan to a one-year contract.
NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed WR/KR Trindon Holliday and WR Mario Manningham.
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed LS Jeremy Cain.
WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Re-signed S Brandon Meriweather.
HOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueCALGARY FLAMES — Signed D Brett Kulak to
a three-year, entry-level contract.DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned RW Jordin
Tootoo to Grand Rapids (AHL).NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Recalled F Tim Ses-
tito from Albany (AHL).NEW YORK RANGERS — Reassigned F Josh
Nicholls from Hartford (AHL) to Greenville (ECHL).PHOENIX COYOTES — Assigned F Andy Miele
to Portland (AHL).American Hockey LeagueBRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — Signed F
Jesse Root to an amateur tryout contract. Released F Matthew Pistilli from his professional tryout contract.
HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Signed F Nick Latta to an amateur tryout contract.
ECHLIDAHO STEELHEADS — Released Fs Dan
DeLisle and Ryan Murphy.TOLEDO WALLEYE — Signed G Matt Cooper
and D Jimmy McDowell.UTAH GRIZZLIES — Added G Pete Gibb as
emergency backup.SOCCERMajor League SoccerSEATTLE REIGN — Traded D Niki Cross to
Washington for a 2015 second-round draft pick.
Heritage Lanes Weekly Results
Monday-Club 55 plusHigh Single: Linda Lambert 226. High Triple: Lambert 635. Monday MixedHigh Single: John Stryker 294. High Triple: Stryker 655.Tuesday MixedHigh Single: Kalie Miller 306. High Triple: Von Hollen 711.Wednesday-Club 55 plusHigh Single: Marg Dawson 309. High Triple: Neil Garbutt 680.Wednesday MixedHigh Single: Les Boot 337. High Triple: Boot 797.Thursday Morning Ladies High Single: Bev Mundle 216. High Triple: Mundle 564.Thursday Afternoon Special Olympics MixedHigh Single: Eileen Mundorf 238. High Double: Dan Critchley 386.Thursday Mixed
High Single: Bruce Hicks 324. High Triple: Holly Harris 780.Monday Scratch LeagueHigh Single: Jason Smith 338. High Quad: Gene Ziebarth 1,040.Sunday Fun LeagueHigh Single: Shelby Chrest 360. High Triple: Chrest 899.Youth Bowling of Canada (YBC) BumpersHigh Single: Rogan Clark 98.BowlasaurusHigh Single: Rylee Ehret 92.PeeweesHigh Single: Sylis Gray 144. High Double: Gray 365.BantamsHigh Single: Karys Zirk 216. High Triple: Zirk 505.JuniorsHigh Single: Jessica Achtemichuk 281. High Triple: Achtemichuk 789.SeniorsHigh Single: Anthony Streit 346. High Triple: Streit 909.
MLSEastern Conference
GP W L T GF GA PtHouston 2 2 0 0 5 0 6Philadelphia 2 1 0 1 2 1 4Columbus 1 1 0 0 3 0 3Toronto 1 1 0 0 2 1 3Chicago 2 0 1 1 3 4 1Kansas City 2 0 1 1 1 2 1New York 2 0 1 1 2 5 1Montreal 2 0 2 0 2 4 0D.C. 1 0 1 0 0 3 0New England 2 0 2 0 0 5 0
Western Conference GP W L T GF GA PtVancouver 2 1 0 1 5 2 4Salt Lake 2 1 0 1 4 3 4Dallas 2 1 0 1 4 3 4Chivas 2 1 0 1 4 3 4Seattle 2 1 1 0 2 2 3
Portland 2 0 0 2 2 2 2San Jose 1 0 0 1 3 3 1Colorado 1 0 0 1 1 1 1Los Angeles 1 0 1 0 0 1 0
Sunday’s resultsPortland 1 Chicago 1Chivas 1 Vancouver 1
Saturday, March 22Vancouver at New England, noonSeattle at Montreal, 2 p.m.Los Angeles at Salt Lake, 2 p.m.D.C. at Toronto, 2:30 p.m.Philadelphia at Columbus, 4 p.m.Portland at Colorado, 4 p.m.San Jose at Kansas City, 6:30 p.m.Chivas at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 23New York at Chicago, 1 p.m.
2014 World Women’s Curling ChampionshipSAINT JOHN, N.B. — Standings Tuesday following Draw 11 at the 2014 women’s world curling cham-pionship, to be held through Sunday at Harbour Station:Country (skip) W LSwitzerland (Feltscher) 6 1Sweden (Sigfridsson) 6 1Canada (Homan) 6 1China (Sijia) 5 2South Korea (Kim) 5 2Russia (Sidorova) 5 2U.S. (Pottinger) 3 4Scotland (Barr) 2 5Germany (Lehmann) 1 6Latvia (Regza) 1 6Czech Republic (Kubeskova) 1 6Denmark (Dupont) 1 6
Monday’s resultsSixth DrawChina 8 South Korea 6Russia 7 Germany 3Sweden 8 U.S. 5Switzerland 8 Latvia 2
Seventh DrawCanada 8 Denmark 2Scotland 6 Czech Republic 4South Korea 6 Russia 5 (extra end)Sweden 10 Latvia 3Eighth DrawCanada 9 U.S. 3China 8 Scotland 7Germany 8 Czech Republic 5Switzerland 7 Denmark 3
Tuesday’s resultsNinth DrawCanada 8 Latvia 4Russia 10 Scotland 4South Korea 8 Czech Republic 5Sweden 7 Denmark 2Draw 10China 9 Latvia 5Russia 8 U.S. 5South Korea 9 Switzerland 2Sweden 11 Germany 4Draw 11Czech Republic 8 Denmark 4Switzerland 8 U.S. 6
Canada 8 Scotland 3China 6 Germany 4
Wednesday’s gamesDraw 12, 6:30 a.m.Canada vs. Germany; China vs. Denmark; U.S. vs. Czech Republic; Switzerland vs. Scotland.Draw 13, 11:30 a.m.Scotland vs. Sweden; Czech Republic vs. Latvia; Russia vs. Denmark; Canada vs. South Korea.Draw 14, 4:30 p.m.China vs. Russia; Germany vs. South Korea; Swe-den vs. Switzerland; U.S. vs. Latvia.
Thursday’s gamesDraw 15, 6:30 a.m.South Korea vs U.S.; Russia vs. Switzerland; Ger-many vs. Latvia; Sweden vs. China.Draw 16, 11:30 a.m.Czech Republic vs. Switzerland; U.S. vs. Scotland; China vs. Canada; Denmark vs. Germany.Draw 17, 4:30 p.m.Latvia vs. Denmark; Canada vs. Sweden; Scotland vs South Korea; Czech Republic vs. Russia.End of Round Robin
MLB Spring TrainingAMERICAN LEAGUE
W L PctCleveland 14 4 .778Tampa Bay 12 4 .750Seattle 14 5 .737Baltimore 10 6 .625Detroit 11 8 .579Oakland 10 8 .556New York 11 9 .550Kansas City 9 8 .529Los Angeles 9 10 .474Minnesota 7 8 .467Chicago 7 9 .438Boston 8 11 .421Houston 7 11 .389Toronto 7 11 .389Texas 5 12 .294
NATIONAL LEAGUE W L PctMiami 13 7 .650Pittsburgh 10 7 .588San Francisco 11 8 .579Arizona 11 9 .550Washington 10 9 .526Chicago 10 11 .476Colorado 9 10 .474New York 9 10 .474Cincinnati 9 12 .429Milwaukee 9 12 .429Atlanta 8 12 .400St. Louis 6 9 .400Los Angeles 6 10 .375San Diego 6 11 .353Philadelphia 5 12 .294NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against non-major league teams do not.
Monday’s GamesN.Y. Yankees vs. Pittsburgh, ccd., RainBoston 10, St. Louis 5Atlanta 4, Houston 0, 5 inningsBaltimore (ss) vs. Philadelphia, ccd., RainWashington vs. Detroit, ccd., RainMiami 10, N.Y. Mets 7L.A. Angels (ss) 8, San Francisco 7
Cincinnati 5, Cleveland 4Oakland 6, Chicago Cubs (ss) 2Colorado 9, San Diego 7Chicago Cubs (ss) 4, L.A. Angels (ss) 2Chicago White Sox 9, Milwaukee 0Minnesota vs. Baltimore (ss), ccd., RainKansas City 6, Texas 0
Tuesday’s GamesN.Y. Yankees 8, Boston 1Detroit (ss) 18, Toronto 4Miami 8, Houston 1N.Y. Mets 5, Detroit (ss) 4Milwaukee 9, Texas (ss) 3Oakland 16, Chicago White Sox 6Tampa Bay 11, Minnesota 3San Francisco vs. Cleveland, lateSan Diego vs. Seattle, lateChicago Cubs vs. Texas (ss) late
Wednesday’s GamesN.Y. Yankees vs. Atlanta, 11:05 a.m.Philadelphia vs. Toronto, 11:05 a.m.Minnesota vs. St. Louis, 11:05 a.m.Tampa Bay vs. Baltimore, 11:05 a.m.L.A. Angels vs. Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m.Milwaukee vs. Seattle, 2:05 p.m.Oakland vs. Cleveland, 2:05 p.m.Houston vs. Washington, 4:05 p.m.Pittsburgh vs. Boston, 5:05 p.m.Cincinnati vs. Kansas City, 7:05 p.m.Chicago Cubs vs. Colorado, 7:40 p.m.
Thursday’s GamesPhiladelphia (ss) vs. Houston, 11:05 a.m.Detroit vs. Washington, 11:05 a.m.Toronto vs. Philadelphia (ss), 11:05 a.m.St. Louis vs. Miami, 11:05 a.m.Atlanta vs. N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m.L.A. Angels vs. Kansas City, 2:05 p.m.Texas vs. Cincinnati, 2:05 p.m.Seattle vs. Chicago Cubs, 2:05 p.m.Milwaukee vs. Colorado, 2:10 p.m.Minnesota vs. Tampa Bay, 5:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees vs. Boston, 5:05 p.m.Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.San Francisco vs. San Diego, 8:05 p.m.
National Basketball Association
EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division
W L Pct GBToronto 37 29 .561 —Brooklyn 34 31 .523 2 1/2New York 27 40 .403 10 1/2Boston 22 46 .324 16Philadelphia 15 52 .224 22 1/2
Southeast Division W L Pct GBx-Miami 46 19 .708 —Washington 35 31 .530 11 1/2Charlotte 33 35 .485 14 1/2Atlanta 31 35 .470 15 1/2Orlando 19 48 .284 28
Central Division W L Pct GBx-Indiana 50 17 .746 —Chicago 37 30 .552 13Cleveland 26 42 .382 24 1/2Detroit 25 41 .379 24 1/2Milwaukee 13 54 .194 37
WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division
W L Pct GBSan Antonio 50 16 .758 —Houston 45 22 .672 5 1/2Dallas 41 27 .603 10Memphis 39 27 .591 11New Orleans 27 39 .409 23
Northwest Division W L Pct GBOklahoma City 49 18 .731 —Portland 43 24 .642 6Minnesota 33 32 .508 15Denver 30 37 .448 19Utah 22 46 .324 27 1/2
Pacific Division W L Pct GBL.A. Clippers 48 21 .696 —Golden State 42 26 .618 5 1/2Phoenix 38 29 .567 9Sacramento 23 44 .343 24L.A. Lakers 22 44 .333 24 1/2x-clinched playoff spot
Monday’s GamesIndiana 99, Philadelphia 90Atlanta 97, Charlotte 83Brooklyn 108, Phoenix 95Oklahoma City 97, Chicago 85Houston 124, Utah 86Dallas 94, Boston 89Denver 110, L.A. Clippers 100
Tuesday’s GamesMiami 100, Cleveland 96Atlanta 118, Toronto 113, OTMilwaukee at Portland, lateWashington at Sacramento, lateOrlando at Golden State, late
Wednesday’s GamesChicago at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.Charlotte at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.Miami at Boston, 5:30 p.m.Utah at Memphis, 6 p.m.Toronto at New Orleans, 6 p.m.Indiana at New York, 6 p.m.Minnesota at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.Detroit at Denver, 7 p.m.Orlando at Phoenix, 8 p.m.San Antonio at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.
Thursday’s GamesOklahoma City at Cleveland, 5 p.m.Minnesota at Houston, 6 p.m.Washington at Portland, 8 p.m.Milwaukee at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.
Thursday● Central Alberta men’s basketball: Playoff games at 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.
Friday● Peewee A hockey: Provincial championship, games at 7:45, 8, 11:30 and 11:45 a.m., 2:30, 4 and 4:15 p.m., Kin City A and B● Midget D hockey: Provincial championship, game at 8:30 a.m., Castor; games 11:15 a.m., 2, 4:45 and 8 p.m., Coronation.● Curling: Jack & Jill Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre.● AJHL: Olds at Brooks, fifth game of best-of-seven South Division semifinal, if necessary, 7 p.m.● Midget AAA hockey: Lloydminster at Red Deer, first game of best-of-five provincial final, 8 p.m., Arena.● Heritage junior B hockey: Blackfalds at Okotoks, first game of best-of-five final, 8 p.m.● Senior AAA hockey: Bentley at Innisfail, fourth game of best-of-seven provincial final, 8:30 p.m.
Saturday● Peewee A hockey: Provincial championship, games at 9, 9:15, 11:15 and 11:30 a.m., 4 and 4:15 p.m., Kin City A and B.
● Midget D hockey: Provincial championship, game at 9 a.m., Coronation; game at 10 a.m., Castor; games at 11:45 a.m., 2:30, 5:15 and 8 p.m., Coronation.● Curling: Jack & Jill Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre.● Senior AAA hockey: Innisfail at Bentley, fifth game of best--of-seven provincial final, if necessary, 8 p.m., Red Deer Arena.
Sunday● Peewee A hockey: Provincial championship, semifinals at 8 and 10:30 p.m., final at 4 p.m., Kin City A.● Midget D hockey: Provincial championship, semifinals at 8:30 and 11:15 a.m., final at 5 p.m. Coronation.● Curling: Jack & Jill Bonspiel, Pidherney Centre.● Midget AAA hockey: Red Deer at Lloydminster, second game of best-of-five provincial final, 2 p.m.● Heritage junior B hockey: Okotoks at Blackfalds, second game of best-of-five final, 3:30 p.m.● Central Alberta men’s basketball: Playoff games at 4:15 and 5:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.● Senior AAA hockey: Bentley at Innisfail, sixth game of best-of-seven provincial final, if necessary, 7:30 p.m.● AJHL: Brooks at Olds, sixth game of best-of-seven South Division semifinal, if necessary, 7:30 p.m.
WHLEASTERN CONFERENCE
GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Ptx-Edmonton 72 50 19 2 1 290 179 103x-Calgary 72 48 17 3 4 287 207 103x-Medicine Hat 72 44 24 3 1 260 196 92x-Regina 72 39 26 4 3 257 247 85x-Swift Current 72 38 25 3 6 248 229 85x-Kootenay 72 39 28 2 3 235 209 83x-Brandon 72 34 29 6 3 271 269 77x-Prince Albert 73 36 32 3 2 248 261 77Red Deer 73 35 33 1 4 217 229 75Moose Jaw 72 21 42 3 6 202 283 51Saskatoon 72 16 51 2 3 207 317 37Lethbridge 72 12 55 2 3 171 358 29
WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Ptx-Kelowna 72 57 11 0 4 310 182 118x-Portland 72 54 13 2 3 338 207 113x-Victoria 72 48 20 1 3 238 181 100x-Seattle 72 41 25 2 4 238 249 88x-Everett 72 39 23 7 3 218 206 87x-Spokane 72 40 26 3 3 244 213 86x-Vancouver 72 32 29 7 4 234 248 75x-Tri-City 72 29 33 4 6 178 224 68Prince George 72 27 37 3 5 238 305 62Kamloops 72 14 53 2 3 175 305 33z-league title; y-conference title;d-division leader; x-clinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns
Tuesday’s resultsPrince Albert 5 Red Deer 3
SummaryRaiders 5, Rebels 3
First Period1. Prince Albert, Hart 1 (Brooks, Gardiner) 7:08.2. Red Deer, Johnson 1 (Feser, Dixon) 11:52.Penalties — None.
Second Period3. Red Deer, Polei 1 (Maxwell, Dieno) 7:43.4. Prince Albert, Gardiner 1 (Hart) 11:01.5. Red Deer, Dieno 1 (Bleackley) 13:57 (pp).Penalties — Andrlik P.A. (delay of game) 3:54, Lange P.A. (tripping) 13:11.
Third Period6. Prince Albert, Valcourt 1 (Conroy, Draisaitl) 2:21 (pp).7. Prince Albert, Conroy 1 (Draisaitl, Morrissey) 4:43.8. Prince Albert, Morrissey 1 (Hart) 19:45 (-EN).Penalties — Bartosak RD (tripping) 1:16, Hart P.A. (hooking) 9:06.
Shots on goalPrince Albert 17 14 16 — 47Red Deer 13 11 6 — 30Goal — Prince Albert: McBride (W, 12-7-1); Red Deer: Bartosak (L, 33-26-1).Power plays (goal-chances) — Prince Albert: 1-1; Red Deer: 1-3.Attendance — 5,411 at Red Deer.
National Hockey LeagueEASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GABoston 69 47 17 5 99 223 149Montreal 70 38 25 7 83 180 177Tampa Bay 68 37 24 7 81 198 178Toronto 70 36 26 8 80 205 214Detroit 68 31 24 13 75 178 190Ottawa 68 28 27 13 69 194 229Florida 68 25 35 8 58 169 221Buffalo 69 19 42 8 46 133 205
Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAPittsburgh 68 45 19 4 94 214 168Philadelphia 68 36 25 7 79 195 195N.Y. Rangers 70 37 29 4 78 185 174Columbus 68 35 27 6 76 196 187Washington 70 33 27 10 76 204 209New Jersey 69 29 27 13 71 168 180Carolina 69 30 30 9 69 172 195N.Y. Islanders 70 26 35 9 61 195 239
WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GASt. Louis 68 47 14 7 101 226 152Colorado 69 44 20 5 93 212 187Chicago 69 39 15 15 93 233 182Minnesota 69 36 23 10 82 171 168Dallas 68 32 25 11 75 194 197Winnipeg 70 31 30 9 71 194 204Nashville 69 29 30 10 68 165 206
Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAAnaheim 69 45 17 7 97 220 175San Jose 69 45 17 7 97 214 165Los Angeles 69 38 25 6 82 168 148Phoenix 69 33 25 11 77 192 196Vancouver 71 31 30 10 72 170 194Calgary 69 28 34 7 63 168 203Edmonton 70 25 36 9 59 176 225NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
Monday’s GamesBoston 4, Minnesota 1Tampa Bay 4, Vancouver 3St. Louis 3, Winnipeg 1Phoenix 4, Los Angeles 3
Tuesday’s GamesBoston 4, New Jersey 2Minnesota 6, N.Y. Islanders 0Pittsburgh 5, Dallas 1Carolina 3, Columbus 1Montreal 6, Colorado 3N.Y. Rangers 8, Ottawa 4Detroit 3, Toronto 2Philadelphia 3, Chicago 2, OTCalgary 3, Buffalo 1Edmonton 5, Nashville 1Washington 3, Anaheim 2Florida at San Jose, late
Wednesday’s GamesTampa Bay at Toronto, 5 p.m.St. Louis at Chicago, 6 p.m.Colorado at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.Nashville at Vancouver, 8 p.m.
Thursday’s GamesMinnesota at New Jersey, 5 p.m.Dallas at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.
Columbus at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.Tampa Bay at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.Pittsburgh at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.Buffalo at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.Florida at Phoenix, 8 p.m.Washington at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.Anaheim at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday’s summaries
Flames 3, Sabres 1First Period
1. Buffalo, Stafford 14 (unassisted) 13:22.Penalties — Galiardi Cgy (holding) 16:21.
Second Period2. Calgary, Colborne 8 (Monahan, Brodie) 18:58.Penalties — Stafford Buf (tripping) 7:03.
Third Period3. Calgary, Cammalleri 20 (Butler, Backlund) 9:16.4. Calgary, Byron 5 (Butler) 13:27 (sh).Penalties — Stajan Cgy (tripping) 11:38.
Shots on goalBuffalo 4 5 5 — 14Calgary 6 11 9 — 26Goal — Buffalo: Lieuwen (L, 0-1-0); Calgary: Ortio (W, 4-4-0).Power plays (goal-chances) — Buffalo: 0-2; Calgary: 0-1.
Oilers 5, Predators 1First Period
1. Edmonton, Gagner 8 (Marincin, Perron) 19:25.Penalties — Ellis Nash (boarding) 0:48, Nash Bench (too many men) 4:26, Fraser Edm (roughing) 11:46, Ference Edm (tripping) 17:07.
Second Period2. Edmonton, Nugent-Hopkins 16 (Eberle, Larsen) 8:18 (pp).3. Edmonton, Hall 23 (Gagner, Ference) 14:48.4. Nashville, Bourque 6 (Hornqvist, Weber) 18:39.Penalties — Nystrom Nash (tripping) 6:39, Gordon Edm (tripping) 8:29, Fraser Edm (holding) 14:48.
Third Period5. Edmonton, Eberle 22 (Lander, Nugent-Hopkins) 8:38.6. Edmonton, Eberle 23 (Nugent-Hopkins) 10:01.Penalties — Petry Edm (hooking) 3:16, Del Zotto Nash (interference) 6:38, Clune Nash (unsports-manlike conduct) 18:11, Gazdic Edm (unsportsman-like conduct) 18:11.
Shots on goalNashville 9 14 6 — 29Edmonton 12 9 9 — 30Goal — Nashville: Rinne (L, 6-9-1); Edmonton: Fasth (W, 4-2-2).Power plays (goal-chances) — Nashville: 0-5; Edmonton: 1-4.
Flyers 3, Blackhawks 2 (OT)First Period
1. Chicago, Shaw 17 (Handzus, Sharp) 2:29.2. Chicago, Keith 4 (Toews, Hossa) 3:51.3. Philadelphia, Hartnell 17 (Coburn) 5:48.4. Philadelphia, Hartnell 18 (Giroux, Read) 16:27.Penalties — Raffl Pha (slashing) 7:08, Bollig Chi (tripping) 11:33, Kruger Chi (stick holding) 13:23.
Second PeriodNo Scoring.Penalties — Brookbank Chi (fighting) 3:10, Rinaldo Pha (fighting) 3:10, Hossa Chi (holding) 14:08, Grossmann Pha (holding) 16:42.
Third PeriodNo Scoring.Penalties — Chi Bench (too many men) 0:53, Shaw Chi (tripping) 4:14, MacDonald Pha (high-sticking) 7:20, Bickell Chi (fighting) 13:52, Simmonds Pha (fighting) 13:52, Bickell Chi (slashing) 13:52, Sim-monds Pha (slashing) 13:52.
Overtime5. Philadelphia, Giroux 24 (Streit) 4:55.Penalties — None.
Shots on goalChicago 7 11 5 2 — 25Philadelphia 14 6 14 3 — 37Goal — Chicago: Raanta (LO, 12-3-4); Philadel-phia: Emery (W, 8-9-1).Power plays (goal-chances) — Chicago: 0-3; Philadelphia: 0-5.
Wild 6, Islanders 0First Period
1. Minnesota, Moulson 19 (Fontaine, Koivu) 12:23.2. Minnesota, Spurgeon 4 (Heatley, Niederreiter) 15:57.Penalties — Lee NYI (goaltender interference) 1:17, Prosser Minn (elbowing) 13:28.
Second Period3. Minnesota, Granlund 7 (Pominville, Parise) 16:02.Penalties — None.
Third Period4. Minnesota, Stoner 1 (Koivu) 4:56.5. Minnesota, Fontaine 13 (Moulson, Koivu) 7:06.6. Minnesota, Moulson 20 (Cooke, Brodziak) 16:34 (pp).Penalties — Stoner Minn (boarding) 2:48, Granlund Minn (tripping) 11:39, Czuczman NYI (hooking) 15:28, De Haan NYI (interference) 17:37.
Shots on goalMinnesota 6 11 5 — 22NY Islanders 16 8 12 — 36Goal — Minnesota: Bryzgalov (W, 6-8-6); NY Is-landers: Nilsson (L, 3-5-2).Power plays (goal-chances) — Minnesota: 1-3; NY Islanders: 0-3.
Red Wings 3, Maple Leafs 2First Period
1. Detroit, Nyquist 18 (Quincey) 12:50.Penalties — Lupul Tor (hooking) 3:40, Tatar Det (slashing) 4:35, Raymond Tor (holding) 16:48.
Second PeriodNo Scoring.Penalties — Gleason Tor (boarding) 3:05, van Riemsdyk Tor (holding) 8:16, Glendening Det (hook-ing) 14:36.
Third Period2. Detroit, Nyquist 19 (unassisted) 2:06.3. Toronto, Gardiner 9 (Rielly) 8:24 (pp).4. Detroit, Alfredsson 15 (Legwand, Kronwall) 17:27.5. Toronto, van Riemsdyk 27 (Phaneuf, Lupul) 18:47.Penalties — Quincey Det (high-sticking) 6:58, Fran-zen Det (tripping) 9:58.
Shots on goalToronto 9 12 12 — 33Detroit 12 12 7 — 31Goal — Toronto: Reimer (L, 11-10-1); Detroit: How-ard (W, 15-16-10).Power plays (goal-chances) — Toronto: 1-4; Detroit: 0-4.
Rangers 8, Senators 4First Period
1. Ottawa, Hoffman 2 (Condra, Methot) 6:57.2. NY Rangers, Nash 21 (unassisted) 8:02 (sh).3. Ottawa, Zibanejad 13 (Spezza, Karlsson) 12:44 (pp).Penalties — Hagelin NYR (hooking) 7:05, Smith Ott (high-sticking) 9:55, Pouliot NYR (tripping) 10:48.
Second Period4. NY Rangers, Brassard 14 (Hagelin, Klein) 8:56.5. NY Rangers, Pouliot 12 (unassisted) 15:48.6. NY Rangers, Moore 3 (unassisted) 18:44.7. NY Rangers, McDonagh 12 (Brassard, Girardi) 19:44.Penalties — Ryan Ott (tripping) 6:48.
Third Period8. Ottawa, Michalek 12 (unassisted) 1:27.9. NY Rangers, Stepan 13 (Zuccarello) 2:40.10. NY Rangers, Brassard 15 (Zuccarello, St. Louis) 4:45.11. Ottawa, Ryan 23 (Gryba, MacArthur) 7:11.12. NY Rangers, Nash 22 (Kreider, Moore) 17:30 (en).Penalties — Karlsson Ott (tripping) 9:13.
Shots on goalNY Rangers 9 17 13 — 39Ottawa 9 16 14 — 39Goal — NY Rangers: Lundqvist (W, 26-22-4); Ot-tawa: Lehner (L, 7-13-5).Power plays (goal-chances) — NY Rangers: 0-3; Ottawa: 1-2.
Canadiens 6, Avalanche 3First Period
1. Colorado, MacKinnon 23 (Stastny, Johnson) 18:03.Penalties — Landeskog Col (tripping) 3:24, Vanek Mtl (hooking) 7:23, Weise Mtl (fighting) 14:13, McLeod Col (fighting) 14:13.
Second Period2. Montreal, Vanek 22 (Desharnais) 7:44.3. Colorado, Talbot 8 (Duchene, McGinn) 9:33.4. Montreal, Moen 2 (Prust, Weaver) 10:21.Penalties — Pacioretty Mtl (slashing) 5:30.
Third Period5. Montreal, Prust 6 (Markov, Emelin) 3:33.6. Colorado, McGinn 18 (Duchene, O’Reilly) 10:05.7. Montreal, Vanek 23 (Pacioretty, Desharnais) 14:45 (pp).8. Montreal, Vanek 24 (Emelin, Pacioretty) 17:40 (pp).9. Montreal, Weise 5 (Plekanec) 19:00 (en).Penalties — Subban Mtl (interference) 5:46, Giguere Col (stick holding) 13:17, Hejda Col (trip-ping) 16:05.
Shots on goalColorado 8 13 7 — 28Montreal 8 16 12 — 36Goal — Colorado: Giguere (L, 10-6-0); Montreal: Price (W, 28-17-5).Power plays (goal-chances) — Colorado: 0-3; Montreal: 2-3.
Hurricanes 3, Blue Jackets 1First Period
1. Carolina, Gerbe 15 (Dwyer) 3:41.Penalties — Staal Car (tripping) 0:32, Harrison Car (roughing) 13:05, Umberger Clb (tripping) 13:53.
Second Period2. Carolina, Loktionov 5 (Harrison, Nash) 2:23 (pp).3. Carolina, Dwyer 7 (Loktionov, Harrison) 17:20.Penalties — Jenner Clb (closing hand on puck) 0:47, Foligno Clb (hooking) 8:20, Dubinsky Clb (boarding) 12:07.
Third Period4. Columbus, Jenner 13 (Johansen, Horton) 19:10.Penalties — Staal Car (cross-checking) 2:45, Jo-hansen Clb (slashing) 6:52.
Shots on goalCarolina 5 15 0 — 20Columbus 11 17 19 — 47Goal — Carolina: Khudobin (W, 15-10-0); Colum-bus: Bobrovsky (L, 26-17-4).Power plays (goal-chances) — Carolina: 1-5; Columbus: 0-3.
Penguins 5, Stars 1First Period
1. Pittsburgh, Crosby 32 (Adams) 4:17.2. Dallas, Seguin 31 (Daley) 12:30.3. Pittsburgh, Kunitz 32 (Stempniak) 15:25.Penalties — Eakin Dal (high-sticking) 1:22, Kunitz Pgh (slashing) 17:51.
Second Period4. Pittsburgh, Stempniak 9 (Kunitz, Crosby) 13:21.Penalties — Vitale Pgh (slashing) 19:31.
Third Period5. Pittsburgh, Crosby 33 (Stempniak, Niskanen) 1:56.6. Pittsburgh, Sutter 11 (Gibbons, Bortuzzo) 12:47 (sh).Penalties — Garbutt Dal (hooking) 2:10, Dillon Dal (roughing) 2:38, Eakin Dal (goaltender interference) 2:38, Kunitz Pgh (roughing) 2:38, Malkin Pgh (trip-ping) 10:52, Garbutt Dal (goaltender interference) 13:33, Roussel Dal (misconduct) 18:16.
Shots on goalDallas 8 10 15 — 33Pittsburgh 12 9 11 — 32Goal — Dallas: Lehtonen (L, 25-17-10); Pittsburgh: Zatkoff (W, 11-4-1).Power plays (goal-chances) — Dallas: 0-3; Pitts-burgh: 0-3.
Bruins 4, Devils 2First Period
1. Boston, Bergeron 20 (Smith, Meszaros) 14:33.Penalties — Clowe NJ (fighting) 14:57, Lucic Bos (fighting) 14:57, Hamilton Bos (charging) 18:35, Campbell Bos (delay of game) 19:56.
Second Period2. New Jersey, Elias 16 (Zajac, Ryder) :29 (pp).3. Boston, Marchand 22 (Bergeron, Chara) 1:23 (sh).4. Boston, Iginla 26 (Krejci, Krug) 2:22.Penalties — None.
Third Period5. Boston, Kelly 8 (Soderberg, Eriksson) 7:11.6. New Jersey, Zajac 13 (Gelinas, Jagr) 9:13.Penalties — Hamilton Bos (hooking) 0:52, Gelinas NJ (slashing) 1:38, Greene NJ (hooking) 9:45, Miller Bos (tripping) 19:46.
Shots on goalBoston 15 8 8 — 31New Jersey 5 6 13 — 24Goal — Boston: Johnson (W, 15-3-1); New Jersey: Brodeur (L, 17-13-4).Power plays (goal-chances) — Boston: 0-2; New Jersey: 1-4.
NHL Scoring Leaders G A PtsSidney Crosby, Pgh 31 57 88Phil Kessel, Tor 34 39 73Ryan Getzlaf, Ana 29 44 73
LAKELAND, Fla. — Don Kelly hit a grand slam and Austin Jack-son and Ian Kinsler also homered to lead a De-troit Tigers’ split squad over the Toronto Blue Jays 18-4 Tuesday.
Drew Smyly allowed two hits in five scoreless innings with three strike-outs.
Non-roster outfielder Ben Guez had three hits to raise his average to .714 and walked three times. Torii Hunter, Kin-sler, Jackson, and Danny Worth each had two hits for the Tigers.
Blue Jays starter Ricky Romero gave up three, three hits and five walks in 2 2-3 innings. Melky Cabrera went 3 for 3 with a double.
Manager John Gib-bons said Romero, who is due to make $7.5 mil-lion in each of the next two seasons, remains in the competition for a starter’s job.
Chiefs open league championship against
Lloydminster FridayThe Red Deer Optimist Chiefs will
host the Lloydminster Bobcats Friday in the opening game of the best-of-five Alberta Midget Hockey League cham-pionship series.
The puck drops at 8 p.m. at the Red Deer Arena.
The second game is set for 2 p.m. Sunday at Lloydminster and Game 3 will be played Tuesday at the Arena (7 p.m.).
If fourth and fifth games are re-quired, they will be played March 27 in Lloydminster and March 30 (1:30 p.m.) in Red Deer.
Grizzlys get swept by Bandits
Anthony Petruzzelli scored twice and contributed two assists Tuesday to lead the Brooks Bandits to a 6-3 win over the Olds Grizzlys and a sweep of
a best-of-seven AJHL South Division semifinal.
Austin Plevy, Alex Roberts, Patrick Chore and Maddison Smiley accounted for the other Bandits goals.
Kyle Moore, Chayden Lauber and Kyle Star replied for the Grizzlys, who led 2-1 after one period and trailed 3-2 after 40 minutes. Brooks was three-for six on the power play, while Olds was one-for-two with a man advantage.
Bandits netminder Michael Fre-drick and Grizzlys goaltender Ethan Jemieff each made 29 saves.
Wranglers face Okotoks in Heritage League
championship starting Friday
The Blackfalds Wranglers will visit the Okotoks Bisons Friday for the first game of the best-of-five Heritage Ju-nior Hockey League championship se-ries.
Game 2 is set for Sunday at 3:30 p.m. in Blackfalds, with the third game back in Okotoks Tuesday.
Fourth and fifth games, if required, will be played March 29 at Blackfalds and March 30 in Okotoks.
Both clubs will compete in the pro-vincial championship tournament April 3-6 in Grande Prairie.
Red Deer high school basketball teams go into provincials ranked 14th
Both Red Deer teams at the provin-cial 4A high school basketball champi-onships go in ranked 14th.
The Lindsay Thurber Raiders will face Spruce Grove on the girls’ side at 7p.m. Thursday at Lethbridge Col-legiate Institute while the Hunting Hills Lightning clash with Bishop Mc-Nally of Calgary at 9 p.m. Thursday at Magrath.
Chinook High of Lethbridge is the top ranked team on the girls’ side with Harry Ainlay of Edmonton No. 1 on the boys’ side.
The girls’ games are all in Leth-bridge with the boys in Magrath and Raymond. Both finals are set for the University of Lethbridge on Saturday with the girls’ game at 6 p.m. and the boys to follow.
The Ponoka Broncs go into the 3A boys’ championships in Lethbridge ranked fourth and receive a bye in the first round. They face the winner between Holy Trinity Academy of Oko-toks and Calgary Queen Elizabeth at 10 a.m. Friday. Chestermere is ranked No. 1.
The 3A girls’ championship is set for Holy Rosary in Lloydminster. The Wetaskiwin Sabres represents Cen-
tral Alberta and go in ranked fifth. They face Fort McMurray at 10 a.m. Thursday. Edmonton Christian is the top ranked team.
The Central Alberta Christian High School Knights of Lacombe go into the 2A boys’ championships in Picture Butte seeded 12th. They face Assump-tion at 12:45 p.m. Thursday. Immanu-el Christian of Lethbridge is the top ranked team.
Central High of Sedgewick is ranked 10th in the 2A girls’ division and face the host Didsbury squad at 2 p.m. Thursday.
Vikings competed in the 1A boys’ division in Glendon with Bawlf and Ryley in the 1A girls’ competition at Clear Water Academy in Calgary.
Spartans top Storm in women’s basketball playoffs
Carla Stewart netted 15 points to lead the Spartans past the Storm 45-34 in the opening round of the Red Deer Women’s Basketball League A-side playoffs.
Andrea Meding scored 12 points in a losing cause.
In another A-side contest, the Young Guns defeated the Shooting Stars 51-45. The Bank forfeited to Triple Threat in a scheduled B-side game.
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Flames down struggling Sabres
Eberle leads Oilers to blowout win over PredatorsBY THE CANADIAN PRESS
Oilers 5 Predators 1EDMONTON — Jordan Eberle had a pair of goals
and an assist as the Edmonton Oilers continued to put crimps in other teams’ playoff plans, coming away with a 5-1 victory over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday.
Sam Gagner, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Taylor Hall also scored for the Oilers (25-36-9), who have won two in a row and gone 10-4-3 in their past 17 games, and at least temporarily moved past Florida into third-last in the NHL.
Gabriel Bourque replied for the Predators (29-30-10) who have lost two in a row and are in serious jeopardy of missing the playoffs for the second year in a row as they are nine points out of the last post-season berth in the West with just 13 games remain-ing on the schedule.
The game started on a rough note just 48 sec-onds in as Predators defenceman Ryan Ellis pasted Eberle into the boards on a cross-check from behind, igniting a scrum.
The Predators came close with five minutes re-
maining in the first period as they took a bit of a surprise shot on Oilers goalie Viktor Fasth that he got a piece of with his glove before looking like an offensive lineman and preventing Patric Hornqvist from getting to the rebound in the crease.
Edmonton broke the scoreless deadlock with 35 seconds left in the opening frame as the rebound from a Martin Marincin point shot came to Gagner in the blue paint and he hooked a backhand shot past Predators goalie Pekka Rinne. It was just Gagner’s eighth goal of the season. The Preds came close to tying the game four minutes into the second, but a Nick Spaling shot rang off the post.
Edmonton made it a 2-0 game eight minutes into the second as Eberle made a long cross-ice pass through traffic on the power play to Nugent-Hop-kins, who wrested a shot that went off the tip of Rinne’s glove and in. It was the 16th goal of the sea-son for Nugent-Hopkins, breaking a 15-game score-less drought.
The Oilers took a three-goal lead on a bit of an unusual play with five minutes left in the second pe-riod as Hall took a backhand golf swing of a shot that found the top corner and quickly exited the net. Play continued for 1:17 before the Oilers took a penalty
and they were able to review the shot and determine it was a goal.
Nashville got on the board with 1:21 remaining in the second as Hornqvist took the puck behind the net before hooking it in front to Bourque, who sent a shot through traffic to beat Fasth.
Edmonton made it 4-1 eight-and-a-half minutes into the third period with another power-play goal. Anton Lander picked up his first point of the season on a nice feed to Eberle at the side of the net as he lifted a backhand shot that ticked off of Rinne and in. Eberle scored his second goal of the game just 1:23 later, breaking into the Nashville zone with speed and scoring his 23rd of the season on a low backhand shot.
Rinne was replaced by backup Carter Hutton for the remainder of the game.
The Predators play the second match of their four-game road trip in Vancouver on Wednesday night. The Oilers welcome the Buffalo Sabres for the sec-ond game of their six-game homestand on Thursday.
It was the third and final meeting of the season between Edmonton and Nashville. The Oilers also won the two previous games by a combined score of 8-1.
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
Flames 3 Sabres 1CALGARY — Mike Cam-
malleri’s 20th goal of the sea-son midway through the third period was the game-winner Tuesday night as the Calgary Flames downed the visiting Buffalo Sabres 3-1.
Calgary’s Mikael Backlund beat Matt Ellis on a face-off in the Sabres end, drawing the puck back to Chris Butler. From the blue-line, Butler’s shot towards the net was neat-ly deflected by Cammalleri past Nathan Lieuwen.
Cammalleri has been red-hot in March with seven goals in his last nine games. That came after a stretch leading up to the NHL trade deadline in which he had one goal in 14 games.
The 31-year-old, who will be an unrestricted free agent this summer if he doesn’t re-sign, takes over the team lead in goals from rookie Sean Mo-nahan.
Joe Colborne and Paul By-ron also scored for Calgary (28-34-7). Chris Butler added two assists as the Flames won for the ninth time in their last 11 games at the Scotiabank Saddledome.
Drew Stafford scored for Buffalo (19-42-8). The last place Sabres, who have dropped sev-en games in a row, entered the
night 11 points back of 29th place Edmonton.
The Flames got a key insur-ance goal from Byron at 13:27 of the third, making it 3-1 on Calgary’s league-leading 12th shorthanded goal of the cam-paign.
Byron made no mistake wristing a shot past Lieuwen after being sprung on a break-away by Butler.
After trading Ryan Miller to the St. Louis Blues at the deadline, the Sabres were poised to move forward with the goaltending tandem of Jho-nas Enroth and newly picked up Michal Neuvirth.
However, injuries to both of them resulted in the Sabres opening a five-game road trip with Lieuwen, 22, making his NHL debut while his back-up— with 13 NHL games of ex-perience— was Matt Hackett. It was just three days ago that they were the goaltending duo with Buffalo’s American Hock-ey League affiliate in Roch-ester.
After a lacklustre first pe-riod in which the Flames fell behind 1-0, they came out with more energy in the second pe-riod and took the play to Buf-falo.
However, the 6-foot-5 Lieu-wen stood tall and repelled the attack for the longest time— making a blocker save off Mikael Backlund, a glove grab off Cammalleri, and an-
other big stop on Byron on a power play.
The Flames finally broke through and drew even with 1:02 left in the second.
TJ Brodie’s slapshot missed the net and caromed sharply off the end boards. Sean Mo-nahan got a stick on it and it eventually came out to Col-borne, who buried his eight goal of the season to tie it.
Playing on a line with Mo-nahan and Cammalleri, Col-borne has been playing his best hockey of the season of late with four goals and six as-sists in his last 13 games.
Buffalo entered the night struggling mightily, amassing just five goals in six straight regulation-time losses.
Stafford had three of them and he kept up his hot hand notching the opening goal at 13:22 of the first period.
Flames rookie Ben Hanows-ki skated behind his own net with the puck before spinning to reverse the puck the other direction.
To his surprise, however, Stafford was right there on the end boards to intercept it. Stafford curled out front and on a wraparound, quickly tucked in his 14th goal behind surprised goaltender Joni Or-tio.
Lieuwen finished with 21 saves in losing his first deci-sion. Ortio had 13 stops to even his record at 4-4-0.
Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS
Buffalo Sabres’ Mike Weber looks on as Calgary Flames’ Joe Colborne celebrates his goal during second-period NHL action in Calgary, Tuesday.
TORONTO BLUE JAYS
BY PAUL COWLEYADVOCATE STAFF
Hearings wrapped up on Tuesday for a $350-million plan to upgrade electricity transmission in the Red Deer region.
The six days of Alberta Utili-ties Commission (AUC) hearings at a Gasoline Alley hotel were called to review AltaLink’s ap-plication to build substations near Ponoka, Innisfail and Didsbury, as well as about 35 km of lines in those areas.
As well, there’s a 71-km line overhaul proposed from Benalto, to the edge of Red Deer’s West Park neighbour-hood, to Nova Chemicals at Joffre.
The company says upgrad-ing transmission capacity is necessary to keep pace with growth in the Central Alberta corridor.
As the hearing began, Al-
taLink announced a proposal to build 16 km of new power line in the Lacombe area was be-ing dropped for now because of uncertainty over Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.’s position
on running the line parallel to its tracks.
There was also a surprise revelation that AltaLink was close to inking a deal to buy out a homeowner near West Park
whose home had been built under the power lines, which meant a jog in the new line was required for safety reasons.
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HOMEFRONT Aquatic centre planning to begin
BY CRYSTAL RHYNO
ADVOCATE STAFF
It’s back to the drawing board.The charting of a revised vision of a
multi-use aquatic centre in Red Deer is about to get underway.
On Monday, council gave the go-ahead to form a new Red Deer Multi-Use Aquatic Centre ad hoc committee that will decide the size, amenities, cost and location of a proposed facility.
The nine-person committee will use the work of the Central Alberta Aquatics Cen-tre group and make final recommendations to council by June 30.
The most recent price tag is $90 million for a facility with a 50-metre pool at the proposed Recreation Park site.
Mayor Tara Veer said there have been a few shifts in the community since the approval of the previous aquatic centre plan as a planning tool, including the likely imminent closure of Michener Cen-tre.
Veer said there are a lot of unknowns, including the city’s lease on the Michener site and how the closure will impact the city’s pool infrastructure.
Council also approved a new public con-sultation undertaking to determine a com-munity-driven amenity list for its 2015 Capi-tal Budget and 10-Year Capital Plan.
Council will ultimately determine where the centre makes the cut in the planned community amenity l is t .Residents have also raised concerns about the proposed closure of the out-door pool.
Veer also noted there are members of
the aquatic centre group who want the full $90-million vision while others say they would be satisfied with only the 50-metre pool.
Veer said council has never had a clear sense of the support for the pool and hopes to resolve this during the broad community amenity consultation.
Coun. Tanya Handley said during Mon-day’s debate that she has serious reserva-tions on the new ad hoc committee because she felt it was duplicating work that has already been done.
She charged the resolution is setting up the committee to fail because of its short time frame to come up with a new plan, plus the lack of parameters.
“I would like to know what new informa-tion that we’re looking for,” she said.
Hearings into AltaLink plans wrap up
Red Deer city council threw its support behind a revised AltaLink Transmission Line Rebuild route in West Park on Monday.
During the Alberta Utilities Commission hearings on AltaLink’s plans to rebuild transmission lines, as well as build new lines and substations, AltaLink proposed a modification to the route.
Last March, council rejected a short stretch of the AltaLink’s first choice of a line in the West Park area because it was close to properties and would have meant a lot of tree clearing.
Paul Goranson, director of Development Ser-vices, told council that the city heard that the West Park residents who were previously opposed are now in support, except for one resident.
AltaLink proposed a short jog in the line to by-
pass a house that had been built underneath the line decades ago. The preferred route was detoured around the lot.
Goranson said AltaLink has an agreement in principle to purchase the lot, with plans to demolish the house. He said there will be discussions with the city over the remnant piece of property.
“There will be additional tree clearing along that route, which was our prime concern with the old route that they were proposing,” said Goranson. “In essence because they have that existing right of way, they could go in at any time and clear those trees that will likely come out as part of this.”
The city does not have direct decision-making over the process and route.
City supports revised West Park route
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COMMITTEE WILL DECIDE SIZE, AMENITIES, COST AND LOCATION
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Divisions applaud funding change
SQUIRRELY ABOUT SPRING
Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff
Pausing for just a moment from its chirping a squirrel looks out from its perch in a spruce tree in Red Deer Tuesday.
BY MYLES FISH
ADVOCATE STAFF
Local school divisions are welcoming the news that the latest round of new school builds will not be done using the public-private partnership approach.
The province announced funding for three new local school projects last month — two in Red Deer and one in Sylvan Lake.
The last four rounds of school builds in Alberta have been done through the P3 method, with one single consortium tak-ing on a bundle of 10 or more schools each time.
The province says the approach has saved taxpayers upwards of $245 million; critics argue that P3s cost more than more traditional methods in the long run.
The delivery method for the 31 most re-cently announced Alberta school projects has not been finalized, according to Alberta Infrastructure spokesperson Tracy Larsen, but “it’s very unlikely” the P3 method will be used.
With the intention to have each school open in time for the 2016/17 school year, she said the method is prohibitive because it requires a lot of lead-in time before con-struction can begin.
Nineteen new schools, including one for
Blackfalds, were announced in 2013, and were bundled together under the P3 model.
But only one consortium responded to the government’s request for proposals to construct the schools, forcing a surprised government to write to school divisions to say construction may be delayed.
A subsequent Deloitte report analyzing the situation found that developers and contractors in the province would rather pursue other building opportunities, as the P3 model has become more and more price-competitive, with diminishing margins for builders disincentivizing bids.
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SCHOOLS: Bundles too big for some contractors
The report concluded that the proj-ect bundles had grown too large, leav-ing smaller contractors who may oth-erwise be interested in bidding unable to participate.
Larsen said time constraints, not the findings of the report, are the rea-son for the move away from P3s.
The Blackfalds school was an-nounced in April 2013; Larsen said the earliest ground will likely be broken is this fall, though she added that much planning work has already taken place.
Under the P3 format, industry is to design and build new schools, financ-ing at least half the cost of construc-tion before being paid out over 30 years.
Red Deer Public and Catholic school divisions will be opening new elementary schools in September that were part of a 2011 P3 bundle.
While both say the construction process has worked well under the model, they will be glad to be able to manage the next projects them-selves.
“It’ll be nice to be a little more in control of the progress and the status of the project, so that’s good news for us,” said Cody McClintock, associate superintendent with the public division, referencing the $13.6 million kindergarten to Grade 5 facility it will build in northeast Red Deer.
For the Catholic division, a new 900-capacity high school cannot open soon enough, but board chair Guy Pelletier said the 2016 target date is very ambitious, considering some servicing work still needs to be done at the site northeast of Clearview Ridge.
Pelletier said the design process for the $30-plus million project will go on for months, and autumn would be the earliest any building on the site could begin.
Also in February, a new elementary school was announced for Sylvan Lake.
The province has committed $15 million for that project, and Chinook’s Edge School Division superintendent Kurt Sacher said the district is happy it will be able to provide input into the build.
Larsen said the final
round of P3 builds will only go ahead if the single consortium bidding on the work submits a proposal that amounts to less money than it would cost the province to build all the schools itself.
AQUATIC: May come back with same plan
“My fear is we’re going to send this committee away and they could potentially come back with the same price tag and the same location pro-posed.”
Handley said she would have liked to have tasked the new commit-tee to come up with several options for a facility as opposed to one size, one location and one price for the centre.
“I think it is going to start the pro-cess all over again and we’re not going to get anywhere,” said Handley.
“Without setting some parameters ... we’re going to have the same result all over again. I don’t want to see this happen to the people who have put work into this.”
Other councillors raised questions about sponsorship opportunities and the city’s contribution to the project. Administration reasoned it is better to paint the overall amenity picture before getting into the nitty gritty of resources and revenue for one proj-ect.
Last November, council put off mak-ing a decision on putting the facility in the capital budget and plan until they had gauged public opinion and had more information.
At that time, Councillors Lynne Mulder and Paul Harris asked to put the centre into the city’s 10-year plan.
ALTALINK: Residents want views, natural areas kept
That small detour meant remov-ing many trees and nearby residents
on Wiltshire Boulevard were strongly opposed to losing their views and trea-sured natural areas.
AltaLink plans to demolish the home and garage, allowing the preferred route to run through the empty lot.
The jog remains an alternate route.
Residents of the Pines neighbour-hood voiced their opposition to the company’s preferred route, which fol-lows the path of an existing power line that has run through the area since the 1950s.
Residents want to use the opportu-nity presented by planned upgrades to the line to move it farther from homes below the escarpment.
In Red Deer, the city has agreed to spend more than $8 million to have the power line buried in the Riverlands area.
However, some property and busi-ness owners also want to see the line buried in the nearby Railyards dis-trict.
Residents in the Innisfail area and the Town of Innisfail also took issue with AltaLink’s preferred routes and asked for changes.
AltaLink representatives were also grilled by a lawyer for the Utili-ties Consumer Advocate about the cost of the project that soared from early estimates in the range of $200 million.
AltaLink said those were prelim-inary estimates meant to be used to screen various project alternatives and did not include detailed cost-ing.
Now that the hearing has wrapped up, the 11th-hour preferred route
change in West Park must be consid-ered.
That will affect the timing of the three-member AUC panel’s decision, which is typically made within 90 days of all information on an application being received.
Last Friday, the AUC filed an amendment to its application showing the route change and gave an April 7 deadline for filing notices for those who want to make further submissions in writing.
AUC spokesman Geoff Scotton said information on the amendments was delivered by courier to six affected property owners and mailed to all oth-ers within 800 metres of the proposed routes.
AltaLink will provide its initial arguments for the route change in writing by April 11 and intervenors have until April 25 to submit their ar-guments. AltaLink has until May 2 to reply.
Submissions will only be in writing unless the panel sees a need to hold a public hearing.
AltaLink spokesman Peter Brod-sky said the West Park situation was unique and no other late amendments are expected.
If approved, construction on the transmission system would begin this summer and be completed in about 14 months.
A decision is expected within 90 days of May 2.
The AUC can approve or turn down the application or order changes.
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Red Deer city council will hold off all election talk until 2016.
Coun. Lawrence Lee unsuccessfully argued to have his notice of motion limiting the number of election signs, and the timing and length of their placement, debated on Monday.
Council reasoned it is best to con-sider the sign issue in the overall context of the next municipal election report, expected to come a year before the 2017 municipal election.
Lee promised on the campaign trail to bring this issue to the table after hearing from the public about concerns of sign pollution, safety and visual blight.
Suspect in violent incident gets bail
A suspect detained after a violent robbery was granted bail in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday.
Karla Lynn Pittman, 29, was arrest-ed and charged after someone stole a shopping cart full of groceries from Parkland Mall Safeway in Red Deer on March 9.
Police allege that the suspect as-saulted one of the loss prevention of-ficers and a passerby who had stopped to help.
Witnesses alleged that the suspect pulled out a syringe and claimed she had HIV.
Pittman was charged with robbery, possession of a weapon for a danger-ous purpose and possession of con-trolled drug.
Judge Gordon Yake granted her re-lease, including $2,000 cash bail and a number of conditions.
She is banned from entering all Safeway stores and is not allowed to have drugs, alcohol or weapons.
Pittman is due back in court on April 8 to enter her plea, represented by defence counsel Kevin Schollie.
Road bans to remain in effect until further noticeRoad bans will be in place for
trucks to prevent serious damage to roads during spring thaw starting to-day in Red Deer.
The temporary bans will remain in effect until further notice, as deter-mined by the city’s Public Works De-partment.
Trucks will be allowed to carry a maximum of 75 per cent of vehicle axle weight allowance on Range Road 272 (30th Avenue) north of Township Road 384 to Township Road 390; Range Road 281, south of Hwy 11A, to approximate-ly 800 metres north of Township Road 384; Township Road 384 east of Range Road 272 to power line west of Range
Road 270 (10th Ave); 39th Street, west of Range Road 270, to Range Road 271; Range Road 270 north of 19 Street to 55th Street and Township Road 391 east of C&E Trail to west of Ipsco’s entrance.s
A maximum of 90 per cent of vehicle axle weight allowance will be permit-ted on Range Road 271 (20th Avenue) south of Township Road 384 to 55th Street; Range Road 271 south of Town-ship Road 390 to Township Road 384 and Township Road 390 east of Range Road 272 to Range Road 272.
As a reminder, there is a year-round 50 per cent weight allowance perma-nent ban for trucks on Range Road 271 from 55th Street to 39th Street and C&E Trail from Hwy 11A to Township Road 391.
Drug bust case going to trial
Two Delburne residents arrested during a drug bust last spring will stand trial in the fall.
Jerod Fedoruk, 29, and Christina Graham, 26, have pleaded not guilty to charges of possessing drugs for traf-
ficking and possessing stolen property.Fedoruk, Graham and two others
were arrested during an RCMP com-bined forces drug raid in Red Deer on May 16, 2013.
Their trial is set for Red Deer pro-vincial court on Nov. 5.
Public sector to rallyagainst pension reform
Public sector employees will rally against the proposed provincial pen-sion reforms at three sites in Red Deer on Thursday.
Alberta Finance Minister Doug Horner will introduce new rules for public sector employees in order to wipe out $7.4 billion in unfunded li-ability later this spring.
Unions in the province have spoken out against the proposed changes, in-dicating that the cuts would be bad for the province.
The lunchtime rallies have been scheduled at Red Deer College, Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre and City Hall.
Protestors will assemble at 28 sites in Red Deer, Edmonton, St. Albert,
Calgary, Hinton, Fort McMurray, Medi-cine Hat, Grande Prairie, Peace River and Camrose around noon.’’’
Gallery Concept mural undergoing repairs
The downtown Gallery Concept mu-ral has been taken down for repairs.
One of the panels came loose dur-ing one of the winter storms, exposing damage to the plywood sub-structure underneath the north wall of the Coun-try Club facility (4710 Gaetz Avenue).
The mural will be stored at the city’s Civic Yards while repairs are made.
Pat Matheson, the city’s public art co-ordinator, said the mural is a big part of the Alexander Way streetscape.
He hopes the mural will be re-in-stalled as quickly as possible.
No estimated time line was pro-vided.
Matheson said repairing the sub-structure will prevent any further damage to the mural and eliminate any risk to pedestrians or traffic in the area.
PULLING POWERLOCALBRIEFS
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Advin Omic powers along on his skateboard thanks to the pulling power of his dog Achilles Monday afternoon. Omic is looking forward to seeing the snow, ice and open water off the sidewalks and pathways around the city which will make it easier to keep rolling along behind his four-footed friend.
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Putin signs treaty for Crimea to join Russia
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOSCOW — With a sweep of his pen, President Vladimir Putin added Crimea to the map of Russia on Tuesday, describing the move as correcting a past injustice and responding to what he called Western encroachment upon Russia’s vital interests.
While his actions were met with cheers in Crimea and Russia, Ukraine’s new government called Putin a threat to the whole world and U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden warned that the U.S. and Europe will im-pose further sanctions against Moscow.
“The world has seen through Russia’s actions and has rejected the flawed logic,” Biden said as he met with anxious European leaders in Poland.
In an emotional 40-minute speech televised live from the Kremlin’s white-and-gold St. George hall, the Russian leader said he was merely restoring or-der to history by incorporating Crimea.
“In people’s hearts and minds, Crimea has always been an integral part of Russia,” he declared.
He dismissed Western criticism of Sunday’s Crimean referendum — in which residents of the strategic Black Sea peninsula overwhelmingly backed leaving Ukraine and joining Russia — as a manifestation of the West’s double standards. Often interrupted by applause, Putin said the rights of eth-nic Russians in Ukraine had been abused by the new Ukrainian government and insisted that Crimea’s vote to join Russia was in line with international law and reflected its right for self-determination.
Putin said his actions followed what he described as Western arrogance, hypocrisy and pressure, and warned that the West must drop its stubborn refusal to take Russian concerns into account.
“If you push a spring too hard at some point it will
spring back,” he said, addressing the West. “You al-ways need to remember this.”
While Putin boasted that the Russian takeover of Crimea was conducted without a single shot, a Ukrai-nian military spokesman said one Ukrainian service-man was killed and another injured when a military facility in Crimea was stormed Tuesday by armed men just hours after Putin’s speech.
A brand-new news agency for Crimea’s pro-Rus-sian authorities, Crimea Inform, disputed that ac-count, quoting an unnamed regional official who called the incident a provocation on the day of the Crimean signing. The source said unknown snipers fired at local self-defence forces, killing one man and wounding another, and also shot at the Ukrai-nian military, wounding one serviceman.
The conflicting claims couldn’t be immediately verified.
Crimea had been part of Russia since the 18th century until Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev trans-ferred it to Ukraine in 1954, a mere formality until the 1991 Soviet breakup. Both Russians and Crimea’s majority ethnic Russian population see annexation as correcting a historic insult. Putin argued that to-day’s Ukraine included “regions of Russia’s historic south” and was created on a whim by the Bolsheviks.
But despite the massing of thousands of Russian troops on Ukraine’s eastern border, Putin insisted his nation had no intention of invading other regions in Ukraine.
“We don’t want a division of Ukraine, we don’t need that,” he said.
Russia says its troops were on the border just for military training but the U.S. and Europe have called them an intimidation tactic.
Search crews scouring area the size of Australia for missing plane
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Investigators try-ing to solve the mystery of a missing Malaysian jet-liner received some belated help Tuesday from Thai-land, whose military said it took 10 days to report radar blips that might have been the plane “because we did not pay attention to it.”
A coalition of 26 countries, including Thailand, is looking for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished March 8 with 239 people aboard on a night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Search crews are scouring two giant arcs of territory amounting to the size of Australia — half of it in the remote seas of the southern Indian Ocean.
Cmdr. William Marks, a spokesman for the U.S. 7th Fleet, said finding the plane was like trying to locate a few people somewhere between New York and California.
Malaysian officials said early in the search that they suspected the plane backtracked and flew to-ward the Strait of Malacca, just west of Malaysia. But it took a week for them to confirm Malaysian military radar data that suggested that route. On Tuesday,
Thai military officials said their own radar showed an unidentified plane, possibly Flight 370, flying toward the strait beginning minutes after the Malay-sian jet’s transponder signal was lost.
Air force spokesman Air Vice Marshal Montol Suchookorn said the Thai military doesn’t know whether the plane it detected was Flight 370.
Thailand’s failure to quickly share possible infor-mation about the plane may not substantially change what Malaysian officials now know, but it raises questions about the degree to which some countries are sharing their defence data.
Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur at 12:40 a.m. Malaysian time March 8 and its transponder, which allows air traffic controllers to identify and track the airplane, ceased communicating at 1:20 a.m.
Montol said that at 1:28 a.m., Thai military radar “was able to detect a signal, which was not a normal signal, of a plane flying in the direction opposite from the MH370 plane,” back toward Kuala Lumpur. The plane later turned right, toward Butterworth, a Malaysian city along the Malacca strait. The radar signal was infrequent and did not include any data such as the flight number.
Islamic group reports death of Chechen warlord
MOSCOW — An Islamic militant group in Russia’s North Caucasus is reporting the death of its leader, who had threatened to attack Sochi Olympics and was one of Russia’s most wanted men.
The death of Chechen warlord Doku Umarov has been reported previously, but this appears to be the first time by the organization he headed.
The Caucasus Emirate announced the “martyr-dom” of Umarov in a statement posted Tuesday on the website of Kavkaz Center, which serves as a mouthpiece for Islamic militant groups. No cause was given.
Chechnya’s Kremlin-backed leader had reported Umarov’s death in January, a month before the Olympics, but his claim was not verified.
The ITAR-Tass news agency quoted Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov saying that Tuesday’s an-nouncement showed he was right that Umarov died in a special operation.
News helicopter crashes into street near Seattle Space Needle
SEATTLE — A news helicopter crashed into the street and exploded into flames Tuesday near Seattle’s Space Needle, killing two people on board, badly injuring a man in a car and sending plumes of black smoke over the city during the morning commute.
The chopper was taking off from the KOMO-TV station when it went down on Broad Street and hit three vehicles, starting them on fire and spewing burning fuel down the street.
Kristopher Reynolds, a contractor working nearby, saw the wreck. He said the helicopter lifted about 5 feet and was about to clear a building when it tilted. It looked like it was trying to correct itself when it took dive downward.
“Next thing I know, it went into a ball of flames,” he said.
When firefighters arrived, they found the helicop-ter, two cars and a pickup truck on fire, along with a huge cloud smoke, fire department spokesman Kyle Moore said.
“Not only were the cars on fire, the fuel running down the street was on fire,” he told reporters at the scene.
Senators urge Obama to be tough with Iran on nuke deal
WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats in Congress want Iran to know more economic pres-sure is coming if Iran doesn’t reach a comprehensive nuclear agreement with world powers this year.
Eighty-three senators have signed a letter to Pres-ident Barack Obama outlining their demands. They tell him to push for a final deal that dismantles Iran’s heavy water reactor at Arak and eliminates any uranium path toward a nuclear bomb.
And they say Iran must understand a diplomatic collapse would mean increased oil and trade sanc-tions.
While Obama hailed last year’s interim nuclear pact with Tehran, many in Congress were critical. Obama staved off a new U.S. sanctions push from Congress against Iran that risked undermining nego-tiations.
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rules barring any foreign ownership of Canadian uranium mining.
1937 — Commons passes bill ban-ning Canadian enlistment in the Spanish Civil War.
1914 — Toronto Blueshirts sweep Victoria Capitals in three games for the Stanley Cup.
1885 — Louis Riel seizes hostages and sets up provisional government of Saskatchewan. It is the start of the North West Rebellion. Riel is president, Gabriel Dumont adjutant-general of the army.
1871 — Minister of Inland Revenue Alexander Morris introduces act to legal-ize metric system in Canada.
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Wednesday March 19CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE:
Bruce Willis, 59; Glenn Close, 67; Rachel Blanchard, 38
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Intensity and perspicacity is what the Moon in Scorpio en-tails today. We rely on our instinctual abilities to feel our environment and to seize other people’s intentions. We thrive on knowing the mys-teries of the world and decod-ing hidden messages. A superb aspect is made to the Moon by Mercury and Neptune. This is the perfect type of energy to invent, create or use your imagination to your maximum potential! Anyone who wants to put their minds into a beautiful flow, now is the time!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If to-day is your birthday, this will be a highly emotional year for you. Despite your vulnerability and your inclination towards live or die situations, you are very much in control of your life. You may stumble upon some deeply rooted matters which you will need to scrutinize attentively and deal with. Luckily for you, celestial forces are on your side this year.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You crave uncovering your own power and your ability to get rid of limiting situations. You want to face your fears, phobias or your suspicions in a very direct fashion. Look at your past for clues about your next course of action.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Warmth and loving gestures may seem hard to receive now. It seems as though you have to work harder in order to feel accepted. You’re feel-ing a certain burden which sets pressure on your personal growth and self evolution.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): This is a typi-cal day when taking care of the mundane stuff around the house and around your physical health should be diligently taken care of. Rou-tine may feel like a burden today, but deep down inside you know that it has to be done.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): If children have become a great deal of responsibility to you, seek some help. You might have in-vested single-handedly a lot of your time and effort into their lives which now have quite burdensome. You definitely deserve some fun times.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You may tend to work and struggle more than you need to. Lightening up and experiencing life’s little
pleasures should be on your agenda for today. Stop strug-gling with your own feelings of inhibition and be open to new-ness.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): An open communication and frankness with your mate are pri-mordial for your union. Discus-sions may seem a tad too seri-ous, but healthy for the long-run. You will both feel more emotion-ally attached living in certainty.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You may find it hard to experi-ence a harmonious relationship in a light-hearted, exciting kind of way. Pleasure doesn’t come easily to you now and you may believe that love has a high price
on it which you cannot afford. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This is your
kind of day where you are able to excel most-ly by being in your own element, which is intense and passionate. Your aphrodisiacs of the day are taboo subjects, mysteries of all kinds and a hint of your own powerful trans-formative energies.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You are still feeling mostly reflective and private. You are comfortable within your own com-pany as you are temporarily in need of some seclusion. It won’t take much before you’re back to the old self.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Personal pleasures and a harmonious living environ-ment might come pricey right now. Do not let past grievances rule your actions and feel-ings. You need to change your attitude and believe that you are really worth of being loved and nurtured for.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You seek recognition and validation for being as persis-tent and as ambitious as you have success-fully strived to be. Hard work should pay off and you’re already envisioning an enhanced picture of your current life.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your empa-thy and your understanding to other people’s
emotional needs. It may be hard for you to deny in helping them out. You may experi-ence visionary dreams during this time or some telepathic intuitions of those around you.
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Best friend starts to irritate with her rude comments
Dear Annie: I am a 13-year-old girl whose best friend (I’ll call her “Blue”) has become very rude and even annoying.
I can no longer make a comment about something without her answering nastily or adding logic to imaginary scenarios that aren’t intended to be logical. It’s irritating.
We have another friend, “Vio-let,” who is very creative and loves to draw. So do I. But when I showed Blue a picture I had done, she said, “Violet is way better than you are.” This hurt my feelings, and I was an-gry. When I consulted Violet, she said Blue had been rude and annoy-ing to her, too.
We don’t want to offend Blue or lose her as a friend, but frankly, we can’t handle her anymore. What should we do? — Red in Nevada
Dear Nevada: It’s not uncommon for those entering their teen years to behave in ways that are baffling, annoying or rude.
Talk to Blue. Tell her how you feel. Explain that sometimes the things she says are hurtful. Don’t be angry or accuse her of anything. Just let her know how sad it makes you.
We hope she will be more aware of these things in the future and care enough not to hurt you, but we can’t promise.
Sorry to say, not all friendships survive this stage.
Dear Annie: I had to write about your re-sponse to “Concerned Cousin,” who worries about two grandparents who take turns shar-ing the same bed with their 5-year-old grand-daughter when they visit her home.
You should have mentioned what happens when men are sleeping: They can have a wet dream or be stimulated by any dream and touch the person in bed with them, and it can lead to sexual touching while they are asleep.
Grandpa should not share a bed with his granddaughter. Sexual molestation is rampant today, and it can start in even the most inno-cent of ways.
Please re-address this letter in your column immediately. — Wyoming Reader
Dear Wyoming: We were saddened at the number of readers who seemed certain that all grandfathers (and apparently some grand-
mothers) are molesting their grandchildren, intentionally or otherwise.
While parents need to be vigilant about these things, it is an insult to all grandparents everywhere to assume that all are pedophiles or lack self-control.
While some grandparents (and parents, cousins, uncles, aunts and friends) are indeed untrustworthy, it is terribly hurtful to accuse all grandparents of such horrible things.
Nonetheless, in today’s world, we certainly understand the par-ents’ concerns.
We mentioned having the child use an air mattress or sleeping bag, which would be the preferred solu-tion for those who want to be extra careful and worry that they cannot trust the grandparents.
Here’s one more with a different perspective:
Dear Annie: I’m so grateful my family did not think it weird or creepy for a young girl to sleep in
the same bed as her grandfather. My sister and I slept at our grandparents’
house every weekend. We would alternate beds, one of us sleeping with Grandma and the other with Grandpa.
Each child got one-on-one time with a grandparent, staying up late, giggling, talking and listening to amazing bedtime stories about growing up during the Great Depression.
Grandma was a better storyteller, but the child with Grandpa got the fun of raiding the kitchen pantry for a midnight snack.
I was about 11 when I no longer wanted to sleep in the same bed with either grandpar-ent, but that was only because it wasn’t “cool” and I would rather stay up watching television. Silly me.
I’m 38 years old now, and both of my grand-parents are gone. But those great bedtime memories will be cherished all my life. — Missing My Grandparents in Davenport, Iowa
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Rolling Stones call off tour after L’Wren Scott’s deathNEW YORK — The Rolling Stones
have called off tour dates in Australia and New Zealand following the death of Mick Jagger’s girlfriend L’Wren Scott.
The iconic band said in a statement Tuesday they “are deeply sorry and disappointed to announce the post-ponement of the rest of their 14 ON FIRE tour.”
Band members thanked fans “for their support at this difficult time.”
The Stones were scheduled to play Wednesday in Perth, Australia, and at other stops this week and next week, including Melbourne and Sydney.
Scott, a noted fashion designer, died Monday in New York City of an appar-ent suicide.
Tickets holders should keep their tickets, the statement said.
First production model Fender Stratocaster on market at $250K
NASHVILLE — George Gruhn’s guitar shop in Nashville is a kind of mecca for fine, vintage musical instru-ments, but even Gruhn is blown away by the latest addition to his inventory. He says it’s the very first production model Fender Stratocaster ever made.
You can own it for a cool quarter million dollars.
The sunburst-finish 1954 Strat bears the serial number 0100.
Gruhn says it was sold to an amateur who took good care of it. More than 30 years ago it was acquired by Richard Smith, one of the foremost experts on Stratocasters. Smith is selling it on consignment through Gruhn’s Guitars.
The Fender Stratocaster, first pro-duced in 1954, has been described as a guitar that changed the world. Gruhn says the very first production model Strat is a national treasure.
Clarissa Dickson Wright, dies at 66
LONDON — Clarissa Dickson Wright, a vivid and outspoken British television personality who found fame as half of the food-loving duo Two Fat Ladies, has died at the age of 66.
Her agents, Heather Holden-Brown and Elly James, said Dickson Wright died Saturday at Edinburgh’s Royal In-firmary of an unspecified illness.
Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson Wright grew up in an affluent London family, the daughter of a brilliant surgeon who was also a violent alcoholic.
She worked as a lawyer until her own alcoholism put an early end to a high-flying career.
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CBC cancels Cracked, Arctic AirBY THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — The cuts keep coming at CBC-TV.
The public broadcaster has can-celled its northern drama Arctic Air and mental health crime series Cracked — the latest to fall off the schedule af-ter recent announcements about the impending end of George Stroumbou-lopoulos Tonight and The Ron James Show.
Cracked star David Sutcliffe be-moaned the demise of his cop drama on Twitter this week saying he was proud of the show and “sad to see it go.”
Meanwhile, Arctic Air star Pascale Hutton tweeted “a huge thank you to the amazing cast and crew” on her se-ries.
The cuts follow CBC’s loss of lucra-tive NHL broadcast rights to Rogers. Hockey revenue has traditionally sub-sidized scripted programs and provid-ed a high-profile platform to promote homegrown fare.
A sub-licensing deal will allow Hockey Night in Canada to continue airing on CBC, but under Rogers con-
trol beginning this fall. The private broadcaster has said it plans to use the HNIC brand on networks including City, Sportsnet, Sportsnet One, Sports-net 360 and FX Canada.
Cracked follows a team of police in-vestigators and mental health profes-sionals who investigate incidents that straddle justice and psychological is-sues.
It’s currently airing its second sea-son on CBC-TV.
“Proud of what we accomplished, sad to see it go. Thanks to all who watched and supported,” said Sutc-liffe, who uses the Twitter handle (at)SutcliffeDavid.
Arctic Air stars Adam Beach as a cocky pilot who runs a small northern airline and Hutton as a headstrong pi-lot. Its airing its third season.
“It’s official @CBCArcticAir is can-celled,” tweeted Hutton, who uses the Twitter handle (at)HuttonPascale.
A CBC spokesperson was not imme-diately available for comment.
The programming shakeup fuels on-going questions about the future of CBC as several high-profile person-alities prepare to reduce their involve-ment with the network.
Teen Wolf fans vent over character’s death
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Thousands of young fans of MTV’s Teen Wolf series are turn-ing to a website set up by the network to offer a gathering place for people to collectively mourn the sudden death of one of the show’s main characters.
Twelve hours after Teen Wolf ended Monday night, more than 100,000 peo-ple had visited the TeenWolfMemo-rial.com website, with more than 4,000 posting messages about the character Allison Argent, who died after a mythi-cal Japanese demon stabbed her with her sword.
Even more dramatic, she died pro-claiming her undying love to her ex-boyfriend, the drama’s lead character Scott McCall.
“Every post and everything I see brings back a new wave of tears,” post-ed one fan, identified on the site as Jamie C.
The death of Argent, played by ac-tress Crystal Reed, wasn’t entirely a surprise; MTV has been advertising that one of the show’s main charac-ters would be killed off. The network kept that character’s identity a secret, although the announcement that some-one was doomed launched plenty of online speculation.
With the advertiser-supported web-site, MTV is looking to seize on fan interest by offering interviews with Reed and other cast members who of-fer “eulogies,” as well as a place for people to vent.
“We could equate it to digital hyper-ventilating,” said Tom Fishman, vice-president of content marketing and audience engagement for MTV.
Teen Wolf is one of MTV’s most pop-ular shows, reaching a series high of 3.5 million viewers for the third-season premiere. About six in 10 viewers are female, with a median age of 21.
Jeff Davis, the show’s executive pro-ducer, said MTV approached him be-fore this season with the idea of shak-ing up things, perhaps with an untime-ly death.
He was reluctant. “As the creator of the show, these characters were like my children,” he said.
Shortly after, Reed asked for a meet-ing and told Davis she wanted to move on and do other things. So the decision to send her character off in a coffin was set.
“You can start to feel like (it’s) a cheap ratings grab,” he said. “Our au-dience feels so passionate about the show. The characters live and breathe for them, so you don’t want to cheapen it.”
But he was pleased that Reed gave the writers a chance to come up with a solid story, and he’s glad the memorial site was set up.
For the young Teen Wolf audience, the episode also offers a lesson that first love — no matter how passion-ately felt — is rarely last love. Even though Argent and McCall had broken up, and McCall was dating someone else, many fans wanted to see them get back together.
One thing Davis is still unsure about is whether it was a good idea to tease fans ahead of time that one of their favourite characters was going to die — a surefire way to convince fans not to miss it — or just spring it on them as a surprise.
“It’s a fine line between art and
commerce,” he said. “It’s hard to say.”For all the content being offered
on the site, “the most important thing you’ll find when you log on is other fans,” Fishman said. For MTV, the pos-sibility exists that the site could back-fire, and be filled with angry messages that reflect poorly on the show.
And it did: “I will always miss you,” wrote fan Kaliegh W. “Now I hate this show.”
“My tissue box ran out and it’s 11,” wrote Natasha S. “Oh, OK. Teen Wolf doesn’t want me to sleep. Fine.”
Reed may be able to defuse any an-ger with her website interview, where she discusses her desire to move on to other work, so people won’t feel that her character was killed off against her will.
WEBSITE GIVES TEENS A PLACE TO MOURN
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Actress Crystal Reed from the MTV series Teen Wolf, at the Teen Choice Awards in Los Angeles on Aug. 11, 2013. MTV is launching a special website for angst-ridden fans of its Teen Wolf series to collectively mourn the sudden death of one of the show’s main characters in the episode that aired Monday. Immediately after the third season’s penultimate episode ended, MTV had the site TeenWolfMemorial.com ready to offer solace for people upset that the character Allison Argent, played by Reed, died.
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• Pressure control experience an asset• First Aid/CPR, H2S Trained • Valid Class 5 Drivers license
Email: [email protected] Mail: AERO Rental Services
6525-67th StreetRed Deer, Alberta T4P 1A3
Fax: (403) 356-1370Website: www.wesc.ca
We offer competitive pay, benefi ts and opportunities for advancement. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those who will be interviewed will be contacted.
Wise Intervention Services Inc. is now hiring for the following positions:
• Coil Tubing Supervisors• Coil Tubing Operators• Boom Truck Operators• Nitrogen Pump Operators• Fluid Pump Operators• Field Mechanics
Competitive Wages and Benefi ts. Extended rotations available (22/13). Priority given to applicants with relevant experience, Class 1 Drivers License and Valid Oilfi eld TicketsWise is a leading oilfi eld services provider that is committed to Quality and Safety excellence. By empowering positive attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and values, our employees care for the success of one another.
For more information seewww.wiseisi.com
Please Forward All Resumes [email protected] or by fax to 403-340-1046
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VICKERYBetty IreneDec. 20, 1921 - Mar. 15, 2014Betty was born in Birmingham England the only child of James and Elizabeth Arkell. Betty grew up helping her parents run a YMCA during those years and also spent some time working for Cadbury chocolates in England. On August 14, 1943 she married fl ying offi cer Herb Ewing from Donalda Alberta, Canada at St. Augustine Anglican church in Edgbaston England. January 3, 1944 while Betty was
pregnant expecting their fi rst child she was informed of Herb Ewing’s death in a bombing mission that he was on near Berlin Germany. On August 29, 1944 Betty gave birth to boy that she named Peter David Christopher Ewing. On August 6, 1946 Betty and Peter sailed from Liverpool England on a converted hospital ship fi lled with war widows and children of Canadian servicemen. They docked in Halifax Nova Scotia, and then boarded a train that brought them across Canada to Donalda Alberta to meet with Herb Ewing’s family. One of Herb’s sister May Pearce lived in the Wimborne-Huxley area, so on a visit to see May she was introduced to a young bachelor that lived across the road from the Pearce’s, his name was Richard (Dick) Vickery. Well as the saying goes a relationship started and on July 20, 1949 Richard William Vickery and Betty Irene Ewing where united into marriage as husband and wife and for Dick he became an instant Dad to Peter. Betty lived the rest of her life on the farm. She was a member of the Hogadone W.I. for many years and played the organ at the Arthurvale Anglican church for 45 years and a† member of St. Hilda’s Guild for many years also. She also helped cook and clean for the annual turkey suppers that where held at the Crossroads Hall. Those surviving Betty are husband Dick; children Rick and wife Judi, Barrie and wife Sandra, Dale and wife Rose; grandchildren Michelle, Rob, Lacey, Scott, Shelley, Kurt, Jocelyn, Blake, Roz, Trevor, Trina, Jennifer and Jamie; great grandchildren Trey, MacKenzie, Regan, Savannah, Carson, Ella, Lillie, Dylan Gabrielle, Addision, Brooke, Hayden and Daylen, Monroe, Mia. Betty was predeceased by her parents James and Elizabeth Arkell, all of her aunts and uncles as well as her fi rst son Peter in January 2011, and also her sister in law Beryl Gelinas and husband Paul, numerous nieces and nephews and lots of neighbours and friends. The funeral will take place on Thursday, March 20 at 1:30 pm at the Trochu Baptist Fellowship Centre in Trochu, AB. In lieu of fl oral tributes, donations can be made to St. Mary’s Health Care Centre, Trochu, AB.
PRAIRIE WINDS FUNERAL HOMEin care of arrangements. 403-442-22008
Obituaries
HARTSTOKGloria 1949 - 2014Mrs. Gloria Joan Hartstok (nee Klippert), beloved wife of Mr. Ed Hartstok of Red Deer, Alberta, entered into Rest at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre, Red Deer on Saturday, March 15, 2014 at the age of 64 years. Gloria’s family was her entire life! She loved each of them with all her heart and soul, regardless of illness or distance. Her love was greater than anything else and she cherished each child, parent, cousin and friend above all else. Gloria leaves to mourn her loss, her husband, soul mate and best friend, Ed Hartstok of Red Deer, her loving sons, Kevin and Matthew Mundell, grandchildren, Brook, Shelby, Matthew and Kaitlynn Mundell, her mother, Eva Klippert and her older sister, Gladys (Mel Woitte). She is also survived by Ed’s children, Deanna Harasinski (Sheldon), Denise Lapointe (Paul), Brad Hartstok and granddaughter, Sierra Harasinski, as well as many countless other loving family and dear friends. Gloria was predeceased by her loving son, Mark Mundell in 2012 and her father, Adam Klippert in 1975. A Funeral Service will be held at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 18 Selkirk Blvd., Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. with The Reverend Don Hennig and The Reverend Peter Van Katwyk offi ciating. A Private Family Interment will be held at the Alto Reste Cemetery, Red Deer, Alberta. If desired, Memorial Donations in Gloria’s honor may be made directly to the Canadian Cancer Society at www.cancer.ca. The Family would like to express their sincere thanks to the Doctors and Nurses at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre, Cancer Unit and Unit 23, Palliative Care for their kindness and compassion, as well as all her friends who took the time to show their love and care during her illness. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com
Arrangements in care of Gordon R. Mathers, Funeral Director at
PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM
6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.
403.340.4040.
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RICHTERVictor EdwardThe Richter and McFadden families sadly announce the sudden, but peaceful passing of Victor Edward Richter, with both families by his side, on March 14, 2014. Vic was born near Yellowgrass Saskatchewan on October 5, 1929 and spent most of his adult life in Sundre and Red Deer, where he passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital. A special Thank You to Red Deer Emergency Services, RDRH Emergency department and Intensive Care Unit, for their prompt and compassionate care. A celebration of his life will be held at Sunnybrook United Church, 12 Stanton Street, Red Deer, on Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 1:30 pm.
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CLEARVIEW and CLEARVIEW RIDGE AREAS
Crossley St., Cooper Cl., Carter Cl.,Connaught Cres. & Cody Pl.
$190/mo.
2 Blocks of Cosgrove Cres.$80/mo.ALSO
Cunningham Cres.$50/mo.
DEER PARK AREA
104 to 194 Blocks of Douglas St.$58/mo.ALSO
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EASTVIEW
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$111/mo.
GRANDVIEW AREA
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$61/mo
MICHENER AREA
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TIMBERSTONE AREA
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Call Jamie 403-314-4306
CARRIERS NEEDEDFOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE & EXPRESS
ROUTES IN:
ANDERS AREA
Addinnell Close / Allan St.
Abbott Close / Anders St.
Anders Close
INGLEWOOD AREA
Isherwood Close
Issard Close
LANCASTER AREA
Lacey Close / Lennon Close
Landry Close / Lawson Close
Addington Drive
Lamont Close
Lund Close
MORRISROE AREA
Vicar Street / McKee Close
Marion Cres / McKenzie Cres
SUNNYBROOK AREA
Sherwood Cres.
VANIER AREA
Viscount Drive
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Vanson Close / Visser St.
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Sales &Distributors 830SOAP Stories is seeking 5 retail sales reps. Selling soap & bath products. $12.10 hr + bonus & com-mission. Ft No exp. req`d. Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Red Deer. email resume [email protected]
SYNIK CLOTHING - Retail Clothing P/T, 20-30 hrs./wk Gasoline Alley apply within.
WIRELESS WORLD requires 2 Retail Sales Associates for Bower
Place Mall, 149A 4900 Molly Banister Drive.,
Red Deer, AB; FT, perm to start ASAP; Will train,
provide direct mobile phone sales and customer
support services at location & other duties;
$12.00/hr. Email Resume: retailjobs@
mywirelessworld.ca
Trades 850BRICAR CONTRACTING now hiring Heavy Equip-
ment Operators, Skid Steer Operators and
Laborers. Send resumes to: offi [email protected] or fax
403-347-6296
CARPENTERS and laborers with exp. in farm buildings. 403-318-6406
Decoking Services Company looking for experienced pigging
operators / foremen for work in refi neries cleaning fi red heaters. Northern
Alberta rates apply.Please fax resume to
403 342 7447 attention:human resources
GOODMENROOFING LTD.
Requires
SLOPED ROOFERSLABOURERS
& FLAT ROOFERS
Valid Driver’s Licencepreferred. Fax or email
info@goodmenroofi ng.ca or (403)341-6722
NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!
MECHANIC REQUIRED
Motor coach company looking for 4th year or
journeyman. Experience with motor coaches
preferred. Send resume to [email protected] or
fax 403.-347-4999
Road Train Oilfi eldTransport Ltd
is looking for JOURNEYMAN HD
MECHANIC or REG’D APPRENTICE. Ability to
complete CVIP inspections is considered an asset. Top
wages/ benefi ts. Safety tickets req’d. Fax or drop off resume 403-346-6128
No phone calls. roadtrain.com
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Trades 850SAFETY PERSON
REQUIREDRed Deer Oilfi eld
Construction CompanyEXPERIENCE with
ISN, COMPLY WORKS, C.O.R. Only people with
experience apply.Send resume either by
email or fax: [email protected]
SHUNDACONSTRUCTION
Requires Full TimeForemen, Carpenters
Apprentices & Laborers
Competitive Wages& Benefi ts.
Fax resumes & ref’s to:403-343-1248 or email to:
STAIR MANUFACTURERReq’s F/T workers to build
stairs in Red Deer shop. MUST HAVE basic car-
pentry skills. Salary based on skill level. Benefi ts
avail. Apply in person at 100, 7491 Edgar
Industrial Bend. email: [email protected]. and/or
fax 403-347-7913
Truckers/Drivers 860
BUSY Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company
looking for Class 1 Drivers and/or Lease Operators.
We offer lots of home time,benefi ts and a bonus
program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and
comm.abstract to 403-337-3758 or [email protected]
DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local &
long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person.
6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841
EXP’D CLASS 1 end dump driver for local haul. Please fax resume with driver’s abstract 403-342-6881
TRUCKERSBusy road construction
company looking for Class 1, Class 3, and winch truck drivers. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have at least 3 yr’s exp. Fax resume to
403-309-0489
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Truckers/Drivers 860
PROFESSIONAL Truck Driver
Position Available www.ads-pipe.com Advanced Drainage
Systems, Inc., the world’s largest and most innova-
tive manufacturer of HDPE drainage products isexpanding and are currently accepting
applications for a certifi ed Class 1 Driver, with a
minimum of two (2) years B-train trailer experience. ADS Drivers are required
to safely operate company equipment and provide a
high level of customer service, delivering our products within central
Alberta. ADS Drivers are required to be drug free and maintain legal trans-portation paperwork and
driving practices. This position requires a valid
Class 1 License, with previous off road forklift
experience a defi nite asset. We offer quarterly cash safety bonuses as well as a comprehensive
medical plan.Benefi ts include:Company provided Group Canadian Benefi tsVoluntary dentalLife insuranceShort-term and long-term disabilityRetirement Savings Plan (RSP) and Deferred Profi t Sharing Plan (DPSP)Paid Vacation Safety Bonus
All applicants are subject to a pre-employment
physical and MVR check.Interested Applicants may submit a resume, along
with a current drivers abstract to:
Advanced Drainage Systems Canada Inc.
4316 Gerdts Ave. Blindman Ind. Park
Red Deer County, AB. T4S-2A8 Fax:
(403) 346-5806E-mail ken.mccutcheon@
ads-pipe.com Position closing date:
March 28, 2014
Misc.Help 880
Looking for a new pet?Check out Classifieds to
find the purrfect pet.
Misc.Help 880ACADEMIC Express
ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING
SPRING START
• Community Support Worker Program
• Women in the Trades Program
• Math and Science for the Trades Program
• GED Preparation
Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.
403-340-1930www.academicexpress.ca
Misc.Help 880
ADULT CARRIERSNEEDED
For delivery of themorning
ADVOCATEin Red Deer
(Reliable vehicle needed.)
INGLEWOOD AREA
SUNNYBROOK AREA
VANIER AREA
Call Prodie:403-314-4301for more info
DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer
and area is essential.Verbal and written
communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax
to 403-346-0295
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of theADVOCATE
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KENTWOOD&
GLENDALE
Call Joanne403-314-4308for more info
AFTERNOONnewspaper carriers
needed in thefollowing areas:
BOWER
MOUNTVIEW
WEST PARK
WESTLAKE
For more informationphone Loren at403-314-4316
DRIVING INSTRUCTORS, training provided for
Rimbey, Drayton Valley, Ponoka and Red Deer.
Streetwise Driving School. 340-8848
EXPERIENCED auto glass installer wanted immedi-
ately. Wage dependent on exp. Good communication and phone skills. 8-5 Mon. - Fri. Drop resume off at
4801-78 St. No phone calls.
Looking for a new pet?Check out Classifieds to
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LABOURBusy road construction
company looking forLabours. Work is through-out Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license. Fax re-sume to 403-309-0489
Looking for reliable newspaper carrier for 1 day per week
delivery of theCentral Alberta Life
in the town of
INNISFAIL
Packages come ready for delivery.
No collecting.
Contact Quitcy at403-314-4316
MORNINGnewspaper carriers
needed in thefollowing areas:
SOUTH HILL
For more informationphone Loren at403-314-4316
NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED
To deliver1 day a week in
BOWDEN
Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307
Resident Apartment Manager - Red Deer
27 units, quiet, adult, no smoking, no petsCollect rent, clean,
building maintenance, Sidewalks and grass.
Renovation skills a plusCriminal record check.
Send resumes with experience, expectations
and references to: resumes@
wunschdevelopments.ca or fax: 780-452-8284
SAFETY PERSONBusy road construction
company looking for safety person. Work is throughout the province. Experience is an asset but willing to train
the right person. Must have a valid Class 5 driv-er’s license. Fax resume
403-309-0489
CLASSIFICATIONS1500-1990
wegot
stuff
Bicycles 1540NORCO mens 12 spd. bike, good cond., $35 403-356-9019
Children'sItems 1580
BABY SEAT, Brightstars with music & vibration.
$10. 403-356-9019
LEAPSTER L-MAX w/tv cables, game, good cond. $35 403-314-9603
Clothing 1590LADIES clothing, large
variety, size 8-10, box full $20 403-314-9603
Equipment-Heavy 1630TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, offi ce, well site or
storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.
Tools 1640CRAFTSMAN 3 hp 10” blade mitre saw $79; roll-ing tool bag, HD wheels, telescoping handles $35 403-342-7460
Misc.Help 880
Tools 1640WORKMATE Work Bench.
$40 obo. Phone 403-346-2426.
Firewood 1660LOGS
Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.
Price depends on location. Lil Mule Logging
403-318-4346Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275
HouseholdAppliances 1710CHEST Freezer, Kenmore, 5 c.f. $50 403-346-9169
WORKING WHITEGE STOVE
w/black glass front.$200 obo. 403-782-3398
HouseholdFurnishings1720
CARD TABLE & four chairs. One small tear in table top but otherwise in excellent condition and very sturdy. $20 obo. Phone 403-346-2426.
China Cabinet. $40 obo.Phone 403-346-2426.
CINA Cabinet, solid wood, buffet $99; and glass front hutch. $99. 403-346-9169
COMPUTER Desk with lots of storage space. $30 obo. Phone 403-346-2426.COMPUTER desk, large
with 1 drawer, 1 cupboard, lots of shelving. $150. obo
403-598-0540COUCH with fl oral pattern.
Custom made.Excellent condition.
$190 obo.Phone 403-346-2426.
ENTERTAINMENT CENTER with 32” TV. Exc. condi-
tion. $50 obo. Phone 403-346-2426.
KING SIZE BOX SPRING,$100.
SINGLE FUTON, wood base & mattress, $30.
403-350-9029 or403-343-7389
KITCHEN TABLEwith bench seating for
3 plus 2 chairs. Storage space under bench seats.
Excellent condition.$80 obo.
Phone 403-346-2426LIVING ROOM CHAIR
WITH HIGH BACK.Blue. Excellent condition.
$75 obo.Phone 403-346-2426.
QUEEN MATTRESS(Sealy Perfect Sleeper)
Like new, used very little.$250 obo.
Call 403-343-7389or 403-350-9029
SHEET set, afghan, cush-ions $20 403-314-9603SOLID OAK DINING TABLE.
Seats 6 and includes2 leaves to extend table to
seat 10. Comes with 4chairs. Excellent condition.
$145 obo.Phone 403-346-2426SQUARE, OPAQUE GLASS TOP TABLE
AND 2 CHAIRS.Excellent condition.
$60 obo.Phone 403-346-2426
WANTEDAntiques, furniture and
estates. 342-2514
StereosTV's, VCRs 173027” COLOUR TV w/stand.
$100.25” IN CABINET COLOUR
TV, $50.8” TRAVEL COLOUR TV,
$30.403-341-4632
TOSHIBA 50” rear projection TV, $99; Glass front media stand, $30.
403-346-9169
Misc. forSale 1760
(1) 15”x30” Painted in brilliant colors of Chief
Crowfoot’s Peace Party PowPow at sunset. $200.
403-347-7405(2) Blackfoot Holyman’s
Shield, 18”x30”. $195. for both. 403-347-7405
2 WOOL ACCENT MATCH-ING 5X7 CARPETS
& 1 matching oval. Clean, will sell separately. $45.
DAVID WINTERCOLLECTORS HOUSES in original boxes. $20/ea.CANNON K920 Copier machine w/metal stand.
Exc. cond. $75.403-352-8811
3 SAW horses 36”L x 27”H $8/ea, 6 shelf boards 5/8” thick x 16” W $40, box of
garden chemicals and powder $3, galvanized garbage can w/lid $12, hose reel cart, portable $40, aluminum scoop
shovel $10, claw bars 17”L $5, 30”L $9, ice scraper
$8, ice pick custom made for ice fi shing
$47 403-314-2026BREAD Maker, $25
DIE cast models, cars, truck, and motorcycles,
fairies, dragons and biker gifts. #14 6350-67 St. east
end of Cash CasinoKENMORE BUILT IN
VACUUM UNITincluding hose, $125.
403-350-9029 or403-343-7389
KENMORE Whitemicrowave oven 800W, $30.
KENMORE model 30dehumidifi er, exc. cond., $75.
POTTERY SOUP SET with urn & label. 4 bowls, casserole dish & salad
bowl w/4 plates, like new, $95. 403-352-8811KEURIG ONE CUPCOFFEE MAKER,never used, $75.
3 RAIN BARRELS &Pedestals, $75/ea.
403-341-4632OAKLEY Sunglasses
model D Whisker Silver/00BLK IRID, polar,never used, $95.
403-352-8811PRECISION water distiller and reservoir, PWS 8MST seldom used, new $799,
your price $150 403-755-2760
Misc. forSale 1760SET OF smoked glass pots and lids, all sizes $25; assortment of queen sheets sets, mattress cov-er $30, elec. roasting pan $20; antique bean crock pot $25 403-348-6449
OfficeSupplies 1800
(1) 3’x6 ‘ next to new General Manager’s Desk,
light caramel in color. $195. 403-347-7405
SportingGoods 1860RE-CURVE BOW, 62” with 6 arrows & storage case.& COMPOUND BOW with 6 arrows & storage case.
New archery book & lots of accessories, $199 for all.
New condition.403-986-1720
TravelPackages 1900
TRAVEL ALBERTAAlberta offers SOMETHINGfor everyone.
Make your travel plans now.
AGRICULTURALCLASSIFICATIONS
2000-2290
Tractors 2030JOHN DEERE 9400
Tractor with or w/o 16’ 6 way blade. 403-502-1091
Livestock 2100FLATLAND RANCH
has on offer yearling and2 year old Gelbvieh Bulls.
We have been selling reputable bulls for 15 years
Chuck 403-854-6270
Horses 2140WANTED: all types of
horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.
403-651-5912
Grain, FeedHay 2190TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, ap-
prox. 60 lbs. put up dry and covered, $5/bale
Sylvan area. 403-887-2798
CLASSIFICATIONSFOR RENT • 3000-3200WANTED • 3250-3390
wegot
rentals
Houses/Duplexes 3020
4 BDRM., 3 bath, 1800 sq.ft. fully furn. house.
$2000/mo. 403-302-0488
Condos/Townhouses303060 + seniors condo, avail. Apr. 1, 403-598-0503
HALMAN Heights3 level 3 bdrm. townhouse
5 appls, 1 1/2 bath,blinds, no pets, n/s,
rent $1395, SD $1000.Avail. Immed. or Apr. 1
403-304-7576 or 347-7545
KITSON CLOSEnewer exec. 3 bdrm.
bi-level townhouse 1447 sq. ft. 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, lg. balcony, fenced in rear, front/rear parking,
no dogs, rent $1395SD $1000. n/s
Avail. Immed. or Apr. 1st.403-304-7576 / 347-7545
KYTE/Kelloway Cres.Lovely 3 level exec. 3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath,
concrete patio, blinds, front/rear parking, no dogs, n/s, rent $1395 SD $1000 Avail. immed. or Apr. 1st.
403-304-7576 or 347-7545SOUTHWOOD PARK
3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses,generously sized, 1 1/2
baths, fenced yards,full bsmts. 403-347-7473,
Sorry no pets.www.greatapartments.ca
SYLVAN LAKE 3 bdrm. townhouse, 1 1/2 bath, country kitchen, $1150/mo. + utils. avail. Apr. 1, 403-341-4664
WESTPARK 11/2 blocks west of hospital!
3 bdrm. bi-level, lrg. balcony, no pets, n/s,rent $1195 SD $1000.
Avail. April 1st.403-304-7576, 347-7545
4 Plexes/6 Plexes 3050
GLENDALE2 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $1075. incl. sewer, water
& garbage. D.D. $650, Avail. Apr. 1 403-304-5337
Suites 30601 BDRM apt. to over 40
aged non partying tenant, no pets, private parking, laundry on site, security cameras, at Riverside
Meadows, 5910-55 Ave. Rent/D.D. $750.00. Ph:403-341-4627.
1 BDRM. apt. at 4616-44 St.,quiet tenant over 40 yrs old, non smoking, no pets, heat
& water incl, laundry on site, rent/sec. $720/month.
Available April 1, 2014.Ph: 403-341-4627.
2 BDRM. adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, lrg. suite, Avail now or Apr. 1.
$950/mo., S.D. $650.Call 403-304-5337
AVAIL. Apr. 1. Large 1 bdrm. on 3rd fl r w/balcony, new reno’s, 6 appls. $775/mo.
$750 DD. Free water & heat. Close to parks/trails, Call Don (780) 554-2870.
Looking for some exercise and a little extra cash?The Town of Blackfalds is currently recruiting enumerators to assist in conducting the 2014 Municipal Census to be held in May and June. Enumerators must be at least 18 years of age, have basic computer skills, be available to work 20-30 hours per week during the census (including evenings and weekends), walk in various weather conditions carrying and operating a computer tablet.
For further information on this position, please contact 403-885-4677 or email [email protected]. All interested applicants are to submit a resume no later than Friday, March 21, 2014 to:
Town of Blackfalds, Box 220, 5018 Waghorn Street, Blackfalds AB, T0M 0J0 fax: 403-885-4610 | email: [email protected]: www.blackfalds.com
Thank you to those who are interested and apply. Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Enumerators Needed2014 MUNICIPAL CENSUS
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SOUTHSIDE RV PARTS & SERVICE
DEPARTMENTis now accepting resumes for
RV TECHNICIANSRV SERVICE WRITERSRV PARTS PERSONNEL
Competitive wages and benefi ts
Fax resumes to 403-309-3860Email: [email protected]
or drop off in person, attention Matt Peterson
2804 GAETZ AVE., RED DEER
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ADVERTISE YOUR VEHICLE IN THE CLASSIFIEDS AND GET IT
DO YOU HAVE ANATV
TO SELL? ADVERTISEIT IN THE FAST
TRACK, Call 309-3300.
1989 LINCOLN Mark II, 2 door, low kms.,
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Obama looks to right old wrongs by awarding Medal
of Honor to 24 Army veteransBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Twenty-four mostly ethnic or minority U.S. soldiers who performed bravely under fire in three of the nation’s wars finally re-ceived on Tuesday the Medal of Honor that the government concluded should have been awarded a long time ago.
The servicemen — Hispan-ics, Jews and African-Ameri-cans — were identified follow-ing a congressionally mandated review to ensure that eligible recipients of the country’s high-est recognition for valour were not bypassed due to prejudice. Only three of the 24 were alive for President Barack Obama to drape the medals and ribbons around their necks.
“Today we have the chance to set the record straight,” Obama said. “No nation is perfect, but here in America we confront our imperfections and face a sometimes painful past, includ-ing the truth that some of these soldiers fought and died for a country that did not always see them as equal.”
The three surviving recipi-ents — Vietnam veterans Jose Rodela, Melvin Morris and Santiago Erevia — received a prolonged standing ovation at Obama’s side, their faces set in sombre acknowledgement of the honour.
Rodela was a 31-year-old company commander of a Spe-cial Forces strike group on Sept. 1, 1969, in Phuoc Long Province, Vietnam, when he and his company of Cambodian soldiers whom he had helped recruit came under fire from North Vietnamese Army troops.
According to his Medal of Honor citation and supporting documents, the battle lasted 18 hours and 11 men in his com-pany were killed and 33 others
wounded.The citation states that late
in the battle, Rodela “was the only member of his company who was moving and he began to run from one position to the next, checking for casualties and moving survivors into dif-ferent positions in an attempt to form a stable defence line. Throughout the battle, in spite of his wounds, Rodela repeat-edly exposed himself to enemy fire to attend to the fallen and eliminate an enemy rocket posi-tion.”
In an interview with the Ar-my News Service last Decem-ber, he said simply, “We trained for this and I would have done it again.”
Morris was a staff sergeant during combat operations on Sept. 17, 1969, near Chi Lang, South Vietnam. According to the Pentagon, Morris led sol-diers across enemy lines to re-trieve his team sergeant, who had been killed. He single-handedly destroyed an enemy force hidden in bunkers that had pinned down his battalion. Morris was shot three times as he ran with American casual-ties.
Morris received the Distin-guished Service Cross in April 1970. That same month, he re-turned to Vietnam for his sec-ond tour.
“I never really did worry about decorations,” Morris told The Associated Press last month. But he said he fell to his knees when he received the surprise call from Obama with news that he was to be hon-oured.
Erevia was cited for cour-age while serving as a radio-telephone operator on May 21, 1969, during a search-and-clear mission near Tam Ky, South Vietnam. He was a specialist 4 when his battalion tried to take a hill fortified by Viet Cong and
North Vietnam Army soldiers. The Pentagon says he single-handedly silenced four Viet Cong bunkers.
As for the medal, he told the publication Soldier Live last month, “I’m only thankful I’m getting it while I’m alive.”
Among those who received a posthumous medal was Leonard Kravitz, an assistant machine-gunner in the Korean War who is credited with saving his pla-toon by providing cover for re-treating troops. He died in the attack. He is the uncle of singer and actor Lenny Kravitz, who attended Tuesday’s ceremony.
Tuesday’s mass ceremony, the largest since World War II, was the result of an Army re-view conducted under a direc-tive from Congress in the 2002 National Defence Authorization Act. The law required that the record of each Jewish-Ameri-can and Hispanic-American veteran who received a Service Cross during or after World War II be reviewed for possible up-grade to the Medal of Honor.
The Pentagon said the Army reviewed the cases of the 6,505 recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross from World War II and the Korean and Viet-nam wars and found an eligible pool of 600 soldiers who may have been Jewish or Hispan-ic. The Army also worked with the National Museum of Amer-ican Jewish Military History, the Jewish War Veterans of the USA and the American GI Fo-rum, the largest Hispanic-Amer-ican veterans group, to pinpoint potential medal recipients.
During the initial review, investigators found that other soldiers who had received the Distinguished Service Cross ap-peared to meet the criteria for a Medal of Honor and the di-rective was expanded to permit them to be considered for the upgraded honour.
Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Barack Obama, right, holds Nancy Weinstein, before she accepts the Medal of Honor on behalf of her husband, Sgt. Jack Weinstein of Saint Francis, Kan., during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday in Washington. Obama awarded 24 Army veterans the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry in recognition of their valor during major combat operations in the Second World War, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
Police ballistics expert explains trajectory of bullets in Pistorius murder trial
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRETORIA, South Africa — Standing with his arms straight out in front of him and gripping an imaginary pistol in court, a South African police ballistics expert showed Tuesday how he esti-mated the trajectory of the four bullets Oscar Pis-torius fired through a toilet door while standing on his stumps to kill his girlfriend.
Capt. Christiaan Mangena said Pistorius shot at a slightly downward angle into the cubicle where Reeva Steenkamp was, with the bullet holes around a meter (3 feet) high in the wood door. Pistorius was about 2.2 metres (7 feet) away from the door when he shot, Mangena said.
Mangena investigated how the double-ampu-tee athlete shot Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day last year by reassembling the broken toilet cubi-cle door, re-hanging it in Pistorius’ bathroom and then tracing the direction of the bullets through the holes in the door and, in the case of one that missed Steenkamp, to marks on the walls inside the toilet cubicle. Mangena said he used thin rods and a laser beam to determine the path of the bullets that killed Steenkamp.
The testimony, which began to deal with the crux of the case, came late in Tuesday’s court proceedings. Mangena is expected to reveal his conclusions in testimony Wednesday.
By recreating the angle of the shots and match-ing that with the wounds Steenkamp suffered in the head, hip and arm, Mangena may be able to describe what position the model was in when she was hit. With Steenkamp’s mother June at-tending court, Mangena explained he had re-ferred to post-mortem photographs to understand the bullet wounds.
“I have to see the injuries sustained. I have to see the position of injuries sustained,” he said.
Mangena’s evidence could help show if Pisto-rius intended to kill Steenkamp.
If she was standing up and backed away from the door and in a corner when she was hit, it
might cast doubt on Pistorius’ version that his girlfriend had gone to use the toilet, without him knowing, in the middle of the night and he mis-took her for a dangerous intruder.
If Mangena can conclude which bullet hit Steenkamp in the head, it may also make it pos-sible for the court to decide if she was able to scream during the shots, as prosecutors say she did. Pistorius says Steenkamp did not scream and he therefore did not know he was shooting at her in the pre-dawn hours in his darkened bathroom.
Pistorius, 27, is charged with premeditated murder for killing Steenkamp, 29. He pleaded not guilty and says he shot her accidentally and then struck the toilet door with a cricket bat to get to her after realizing what he had done. Prosecu-tors charge that Pistorius, a boundary-breaking disabled athlete who ran at the Olympics, killed Steenkamp in a rage after a loud argument that caused her to flee to the toilet. Pistorius said he was on his stumps when he shot and prosecutors now do not dispute the assertion after initially al-leging he was on his prosthetic limbs.
Earlier Tuesday, defence lawyer Barry Roux argued, through a minute examination of police photographs of the blood-spattered scene, that evidence was moved around in violation of pro-cedure during the investigation. Warrant Officer Bennie van Staden, a police photographer, took photos of the scene, including of blood stains, bullet casings, the gun and the cricket bat found inside Pistorius’ bathroom. Roux has challenged previous police witnesses, seeking to uncover contradictions and reported mishaps to support his argument that officers bungled the investiga-tion, an allegation made by the defence at the start of the trial.
In a painstaking process, Roux studied many photos taken by van Staden and another police officer and pointed out that objects had been moved. Roux also used time of day records on the images to show that the two policemen taking photographs were in the same room, even though van Staden testified he was working alone.
WOMEN WAIT LONGERBY THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — Younger women experiencing a heart attack or other cardiac event wait longer for essential care in emergency rooms than men of a similar age, a new study suggests.
The research also found that both women and men who score as having more feminine traits on a standardized test wait longer for care as well.
The lead author of the study, Roxanne Pelletier, said the findings suggest younger people of both gen-ders who go to hospital with suspected heart attacks need to be clear about their symptoms.
“Both men and women need to know that the way they present themselves and the way they report their symptoms may have an important influence on their access to care,” said Pelletier, a clinical psy-chologist and post-doctoral fellow at McGill Univer-sity Health Centre in Montreal.
“And so they need to know that they should be as-sertive when expressing their needs and reporting their symptoms. And they need to be concise and precise when reporting their symptoms.”
If they are suffering from chest pain, that should be the first symptom they report, and the symptom they stress, Pelletier said.
The study was published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
It’s well known that diagnosing heart attacks in older women can be more difficult than in older men, and that those women sometimes do not get the same level of care or the same speed of care that men do.
But less is known about younger adults who have cardiac events and whether sex or gender influences the speed of care they receive.
So Pelletier and colleagues set out to look at the question, enrolling 1,153 cardiac patients aged 18 to 55 between January 2009 and April 2013.
A total of 24 Canadian hospitals, one Swiss hospi-tal and one American hospital took part in the study.
Participants were people who were hospitalized after a cardiac event, with nurses gathering health information and conducting interviews to score them for feminine versus masculine traits and roles within 24 hours of the patient’s admission to hospital.
The researchers wanted to see whether sex alone — male or female — appeared to be predictive of time to care or whether gender-related character-istics also might be influencing care. So they used a standard questionnaire to score patients on traits like shyness, gullibility, sensitivity to others and compassion.
They saw that regardless of sex, patients who presented with more typically feminine traits expe-rienced longer delays and were less likely to receive some of the invasive procedures than patients who scored higher on the masculine traits side did.
“At the triage, maybe these patients are just less assertive,” Pelletier said.
It should be noted that most of the patients did not receive standard treatments within the time frames recommended by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology.
Those organizations recommend that incoming cardiac patients receive electrocardiograms within 10 minutes of arrival, receive clot-busting drugs within 30 minutes and undergo angioplasty — open-ing clogged arteries with balloons — within 90 min-utes.
Nearly 60 per cent of men in the study received clot-busting drugs within the recommended time frame.
For women, that rate was less than 40 per cent. About 38 per cent of men got an ECG within 10 min-utes, compared to about 30 per cent of women.
There was no statistically significant difference between the time to angioplasty for men and women, but only around 50 per cent underwent the proce-dure within the recommended time.
Dr. Paul Armstrong, a cardiologist at the Universi-ty of Alberta, said there are details missing from the study that make it difficult to assess the findings.
For one thing, Armstrong said, the researchers don’t indicate whether the patients arrived in the emergency department by ambulance or under their own steam.
That typically plays a role in how quickly patients are triaged, he said, and if more male patients ar-rived by ambulance that could have had an impact on the findings.
As well, Armstrong noted that only people who survived the cardiac event were included in the study. Nothing is known about whether some pa-tients died in the emergency room or before they could be interviewed by the study nurse. If there were differences there between the breakdown of male and female patients, that could also have an impact on the outcome, he said.
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Yoga by Numbersbrings poses to the people
USED AS ADAPTIVE TOOL
BY RIK STEVENSTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOW, N.H. — Combine Twister, paint-by-numbers and the ancient Hindu practice of breath control, meditation and poses, and you get Yoga by Numbers.
The approach — complete with a numbered mat — was designed by a Boston woman whose own health scare inspired her to put yoga in reach for people with physical limitations, tight sched-ules or other roadblocks to tradi-tional practice.
The oversized yoga mat is dot-ted with big, numbered circles that look like the target in a rifle scope.
The accompanying DVD gives true yoga beginners — those who wouldn’t know an up-dog from a Chihuahua — a step-by-step road-map to learn the poses at their own pace.
Elizabeth Morrow was an ath-lete, a skier and soccer player who, two years ago, found herself hospitalized with a right lung full of blood clots, the lower lobe com-pletely collapsed.
When she was strong enough to start exercising again, she found even the easiest of yoga classes too taxing. She didn’t have the stamina for an hour, couldn’t hold the poses the way the instructor wanted.
So, the 32-year-old started thinking of ways to make it easier, more convenient and even more fundamental than the myriad DVDs already on the market.
“I was thinking about a paint-by-number kit where you don’t
need to be Picasso or van Gogh, you just follow what they tell you and you’ll come out with some-thing,” she said.
“I just wanted something that felt really accessible and doable for people. The image of the mat just popped into my head: ‘Wow, I can do yoga by numbers as well.”’
The DVD tells users exactly which circle to put their hands and feet in and allows for ad-vancement to more challenging poses.
Yoga by Numbers has been compared to Twister, the popular game with giant colored circles, spinning wheel and crazy, cross-limbed poses. But Morrow’s cool with that, even when it comes from critics.
“I think it’s awesome when they have that reaction because to me, that means they get it and they know how to use it,” said Morrow, a certified yoga instructor.
Morrow has sold to people who live far from a yoga studio, those with tight schedules who need to squeeze in practice whenever they can, and people with health conditions.
The National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Com-plementary and Alternative Medi-cine reports that recent studies of people with chronic low-back pain suggest yoga can help reduce pain and improve function.
Other research shows regular practice might reduce heart rate, blood pressure and stress and may help relieve anxiety and de-pression.
“People who are older are us-ing it because the DVD really fo-cuses you on not contorting your-self into Cirque du Soleil-style ac-robatics,” Morrow said.
She demonstrated the mat re-cently at her parent’s house in
Bow, N.H., about an hour north of Boston.
The latest “Yoga in America” study, released by Yoga Journal, reported 20.4 million Americans practiced yoga in 2012, compared to 15.8 million in 2008.
They spent $10.3 billion on classes and products, up from $5.7 billion the earlier survey.
Janet Lark teaches yoga in Ogden, Iowa, and had a bad ex-perience with a poorly cut, astrin-gent-smelling mat, so she started doing some research.
She came upon Morrow’s mat and was struck by how simple it was for novices.
“It truly was a ‘Duh! Why didn’t anyone think of that sooner?’ mo-ment,” she said. “It is fantastic to notice how quickly the clients start to focus on making sure they are properly aligned.”
Morrow, who worked in the non-profit sector for several years, also hears from purists who pooh-pooh the mats as a gimmick.
“My response is that this is not a mandate,” she said. “I think that if you’re already practicing yoga and it works for you, that’s great and I’m really excited for you. I’m interested in hearing from peo-ple for whom the system doesn’t work.”
A spokeswoman for the non-profit Yoga Alliance, which rep-resents teachers, schools and stu-dios, said the ideal situation is to learn from a master teacher in private classes, but time and cost can be barriers.
“Any tool that helps people practice yoga is a good thing,” said Katie Desmond.
“And so we applaud Eliza-beth’s ingenuity in spreading the power of yoga by helping to make the process of learning yoga as a beginner more accessible.”
Study shows gender differences in time to coronary care
Overnight dialysis showing promise
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
CALGARY — Could the nighttime be the right time for kidney dialysis?
A Calgary hospital thinks so, and has set up an overnight program that lets more than two dozen patients get their thrice-weekly treatment while they sleep.
Dr. Jennifer MacRae says traditionally, patients experiencing renal failure get four-hour daytime di-alysis sessions.
But she says that treatment causes significant-ly more discomfort than the overnight sessions, which last eight hours and take a slower approach to cleaning the blood of built-up toxins and excess fluid.
Patient Caitlin Tighe, who is 30, says the program has resulted in a significant increase in her energy level.
She says when she gets up in the morning after a treatment, she can go for a swim or do some yoga.
“Before, when I was doing four hours (of dialysis) during the day, I’d be so wiped out afterwards that I’d have to go home and sleep for another four hours. And then, not long after that, it would be time for bed.”
Currently, kidney patients face a 50 per cent mor-tality rate after five years on dialysis with cardiac failure being the leading cause of death.
“Traditionally with a typical dialysis we have difficulties with removing excess fluid,” says MacRae.
“What happens, is that results in changes to the heart, the heart gets dilated and the muscle gets thicker and these things are associated with bad car-diovascular outcomes.”
Slower-paced hemodialysis has been associated with fewer side effects and can lead to improve-ments in blood pressure.
MacRae hopes it can also help dialysis patients stay healthy and strong as they wait for a kidney transplant.
“By being able to reduce some of the symptoms they’re experiencing, ultimately we hope to see it translate to improved cardiovascular outcomes down the road.”
Overnight home hemodialysis has been available in Alberta for many years but many patients do not have sufficient space to accommodate renovations to their homes or are unable to undergo training to operate a dialysis machine.
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