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BY JOSH ALDRICHADVOCATE STAFF

Girls hockey will have the spotlight on it like never before in Red Deer when the city hosts the Esso Cup, the female major midget national cham-pionship, in April.

The hope is that this will not be the pinnacle for the sport in the region, but rather the boost that pushes it to the next level.

Girls hockey has come a long way in the last 20 years in Central Alberta, going from an exception with girls only able to play on boys teams to gaining equal footing with male counterparts. Now the goal is to try to match participation numbers of boys.

“Hosting the Esso Cup, we’re hoping that can give girls hockey a lot of exposure in Central Al-berta and here in Red Deer,” said Red Deer Minor Hockey general manager Dallas Gaum. “All of the local schools are going to be invited to games, so we’re hoping that will kick-start us again.”

The end goal is to have at least two girls teams at each age level. The association has done that for bantam and midget, but is short of the goal at nov-ice, atom and peewee levels.

Getting girls attracted to the game early is the

key to future growth. In boys hockey, there are more players at young ages and even given attri-tion, the program still has a deep pool to select from for elite teams in the older age groups.

Red Deer’s top girls teams like the midget AAA Sutter Fund Chiefs have a recruitment territory that stretches from Ponoka in the north to Olds in the south and from Stettler in the east to the B.C. border. Still, tryouts drew only a few dozen girls, where the boys midget AAA Optimist Chiefs get well in excess of 100 players at tryouts.

“To have that size of area and have 40 girls try out for a midget AAA team is a little disappoint-ing,” said Sutter Fund Chiefs assistant coach Curtis Scutchings, whose team is out to a 10-1-0-3 start in the Alberta Major Midget Female Hockey League.

At the younger levels, one of the major issues is that if girls don’t make their desired A team, they often drop out altogether.

The local association is examining several ini-tiatives to attract new people to the game. Among them is allowing kids to test drive the sport for free with equipment supplied for them.

Nevertheless, after almost two decades of seri-ously pushing for equality on the ice, participation and the level of play continue to improve.

The overall ability of female players is at an all-time high. There are a number of reasons.

First is the changing attitude toward female athletics. Organizers and athletes are making more concerted efforts to develop on-ice skill and every-thing that goes with it. For example, local minor hockey has joined with an academy program out of Saskatchewan’s College of Notre Dame that preaches everything from skill development to dry land training to nutrition.

Please see HOCKEY on Page A2

‘HOSTING THE ESSO CUP, WE’RE HOPING THAT CAN GIVE GIRLS

HOCKEY A LOT OF EXPOSURE IN CENTRAL ALBERTA AND HERE

IN RED DEER. ALL OF THE LOCAL SCHOOLS ARE GOING TO BE

INVITED TO GAMES, SO WE’RE HOPING THAT WILL KICK-START US

AGAIN.’

— DALLAS GAUMGENERAL MANAGER, RED DEER MINOR HOCKEY

SHE SHOOTS, SHE SHOOTS, SHE SCORESSHE SCORES

RED DEER MINOR HOCKEY IS HOPING HOSTING THE ESSO CUP

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File photos by JEFF STOKOE and JOSH ALDRICH/Advocate staff

TOP: Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs Breanna Martin burns past Edmonton Thunder defenceman Kennedi Schorpegge during their 2-1 win over the Thunder at the Collicut Centre in Red Deer during Alberta Major Midget Female Hockey League action.FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Red Deer College Queen Keinyn Nordell falls to the ice as SAIT Trojan Denomie Vockeroth Fisher eyes the loose puck during first period action; Red Deer College Queen Kaley McMurtry brings the puck around the goal with SAIT Trojan Katie Wardell in pursuit as SAIT goaltender Laticia Castillo guards the net; Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs goalie Sarah Murray stops a shot.

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HOCKEY: Girls still lagging behind boys in some areas

The development of all-girl leagues from the youngest ages to AAA levels at bantam and midget also encourage the girls to stay with it and develop together.

“A lot of them are more comfortable being them-selves when they get to be with the girls,” said Scutchings. “They don’t have to fit in with the boys, they can actually be themselves.

“A lot of them will stay with hockey and be more relaxed and enjoy more success when they can be with the girls. When you’re with the boys, there’s a different dynamic that develops.”

Another big reason for continued development is the options available to players after minor hockey.

Scholarships to American and Canadian post-secondary programs are a major draw as players seek an education or to just continue playing at the next level.

But the system is not perfect, and girls still do not enjoy the same equality or chance to play as boys.

In the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference, for example, there are nine men’s teams and just four women’s teams. Olds College plans to start a women’s program for the 2015-16 season. That’s a critical addition to the league, given the possibility that Edmonton’s MacEwan University will jump to the Canadian Interuniversity Sport competition once their new downtown arena is built.

It’s an issue that Red Deer College athletic direc-tor Keith Hansen takes very seriously. He is espe-cially concerned about institutions that have more women than men in their student population, but have only a men’s hockey team.

“To be honest with you, I have a pretty big prob-lem with that,” said the father of three daughters. “I know I have made that clear with some of my col-leagues around the league and I think that’s some-thing we have to work really hard on as a league to really push to get that increased.”

In the U.S., Title IX legislation makes it manda-tory for schools to offer the same number of athletic scholarships for women as they do men. There is no such regulation in Canada.

“I also think, honestly, the public opinion and the students and people within the hockey community should be putting some pressure on some of these administrations to get some more gender equity,” said Hansen, pointing out that while RDC lost its men’s team for several years, it was important to keep their women’s team going.

“This is Canada, and if there is one place I do think gender equality is not just given lip service, it would be in our country. It’s something that is im-perative.”

The players have noticed this discrepancy and

they’re not impressed.“It’s really frustrating,” said RDC Queens captain

Rachael Hoppins. “As much as girls hockey is de-veloping, it’s still nowhere near men’s hockey, obvi-ously. But Olds is getting a team next year, which is awesome ... hopefully people will see it’s developing and people will want to buy in to help expand this league, because it is a great league — we just need more teams.”

The next step is the development of female hock-ey beyond the college level.

It’s not uncommon to hear people talk about how much they loved watching the women at the Olym-pics and how entertaining the hockey was, but then quickly dismiss the sport for another four years.

But people do not have to travel far to watch these same players compete during the years in between Olympics. The Canadian Women’s Hockey League has five teams, including one in Calgary.

However, fans are either largely unaware of the league or aren’t interested. Games draw no more than 500 and 700, according to a Canadian Press re-port a year ago.

At the college level, the Kings draw about twice as many fans per game as the Queens, even though the men play in Penhold and the women play at the Red

Deer Arena.Scutchings believes for the female game to be

successful in the mainstream, former players must return as fans.

Hoppins, now in her fifth and final year of eligi-bility at RDC, just wants people to give it a chance.

“People think ‘Oh you guys don’t hit, it’s not real hockey,’ there’s such a stereotype around it,” she said. “If people just lose that and come and watch, it’s still a fast-paced game. Yeah we’re not throw-ing huge hits and we don’t shoot as hard maybe, but we’re still entertaining to watch.”

College marks the end of the line for competitive hockey for most players. However, Hansen says they are counting on many of those players becoming fu-ture coaches, right down to the grassroots level.

It’s the next step in the full development of the game.

It is where Hoppins sees her future in the game.“I love this program, I want to give back any way

I can and give back to Red Deer minor hockey, too, because it was part of my life,” she said. “I want women’s hockey to grow, so if I can give back in any way to help that, that’s my plan.”

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Alberta pays $900K to fired health executiveBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

EDMONTON — Alberta taxpayers will be shell-ing out $900,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a former health executive fired over lavish expenses.

Alberta Health Services says former chief finan-cial officer Allaudin Merali will receive the sever-ance owed under his contract.

“AHS is satisfied that the termination of Mr. Mer-ali’s employment is properly characterized as hav-ing been without cause,” an AHS news release said Friday.

“AHS has honoured its contractual severance obligation. A total of $900,000 will be paid to Mr. Merali.”

Tahneen Luedee of Alberta Health Services said the agency is not providing further details on the set-tlement, such as whether taxpayers are also covering Merali’s court costs.

“On the recommendation of legal counsel, gov-ernment has participated in a settlement that is believed to offer the least possible burden to tax-payers,” Health Minister Stephen Mandel said in a statement.

AHS operates under the Alberta Health Depart-ment. It is in charge of delivering front-line care while the department sets policy.

In recent years, AHS has been stung by reports of extravagant and inappropriate staff spending along with generous severance payouts to senior manag-ers.

The Merali case is a symptom of a much larger problem, said NDP member Deron Bilous.

“Albertans are paying for the PCs’ knee-jerk reac-tion,” Bilous said in an interview.

“Why was (Merali’s) contract as big as it was, along with this massive severance?

“AHS just seems to be this massive bureaucracy for this PC government to hide behind.”

Liberal member David Swann suggested the PCs knew at the time that they would have to pay up, but fired Merali anyway.

“Essentially, the PCs fired Mr. Merali in order to make a bad news story go away. It was a PR move,” Swann said in a news release.

“How much more of Albertans’ hard-earned mon-ey was wasted in this botched attempt at PC damage control? How much was spent on government law-yers and court costs to fight what was clearly a losing case?”

Wildrose critic Heather Forsyth took a moderate tone.

“It’s time to close the chapter on this story of mismanagement and begin focusing on positive solu-tions to end this type of waste and improve access and outcomes for patients,” she said, also in a news release.

Merali was hired by AHS in 2011 as chief financial officer. A year later, he was let go after reports of questionable spending. An audit later determined he had racked up almost $370,000 in questionable expenses.

The money paid for lavish dinners and outings,

a butler and the cost of putting a phone in his Mer-cedes Benz.

Merali could not be reached for comment Friday, but in December 2012 he publicly defended himself.

He said the hosting expenses were skewed be-cause they should have been spread around among other executives, but he was often the one left hold-ing the bill.

He also said the butlers hired for some of the events were in keeping with common practice.

Merali said $2,303 to install a Bluetooth phone in his Mercedes Benz and $525 to fix a car window were valid charges for an executive in a $3-billion organi-zation who needed to be available at all times.

“The imputation that I simply lived a high life at the taxpayers’ expense is an invention of sheer mal-ice,” he said at the time.

In March, Merali sued AHS and then-health min-ister Fred Horne. He claimed they first supported his spending, then later made him a scapegoat to dis-tract from similar issues with other AHS executives.

Merali had a history of controversial spending.Prior to working at AHS, he worked for the On-

tario government giving advice on how to implement an electronic health-records system. In 2009 his con-tract was not renewed.

Documents released to the public showed he had been billing taxpayers about $76,000 a month for flights, pricey meals and hotel accommodations.

AHS officials said they knew about Merali’s track record when they hired him in the spring of 2011, but he had promised to adhere to strict spending rules.

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKIADVOCATE STAFF

Alberta Health Services is not protecting its work-ers from Ebola with gowns that are before the courts in the United States for allegedly failing industry tests.

American media have reported a $500-million lawsuit was filed this week against multi-national Kimberly-Clark Corp. alleging the company falsely claimed its surgical gowns protected against Ebola and other infectious diseases.

At the heart of the lawsuit is the MICROCOOL breathable high performance surgical gown.

The lawsuit alleges that the company knew for at least a year that the gown had failed tests for imper-meability to blood and microbes, but continued to claim the gown provided the highest level of pro-tection against diseases including Ebola.

The lawsuit was filed by a Los Angeles sur-geon.

Kathy Kiel, Alberta Health spokesperson said in an e-mail that Alberta Health Services does not use the “Kim-berly-Clark MICROCOOL gowns nor has AHS or-dered any for future use.”

The gown that Alberta is using for Ebola pre-paredness is the Cardi-nal Health impermeable operating room Smart-Gown, the same gown routinely used as part of day surgeries in Edmon-ton and Calgary.

On Tuesday, Alberta Health showcased the personal protective gear — gowns, gloves, face masks and guards — health workers in Alber-ta are using against the transmission of Ebola.

Ebola personal pro-tective gear has been sent to the four acute care facilities in Edmon-ton and Calgary desig-nated to care for suspect-ed or confirmed cases, as well as regional and ur-

ban hospital emergency departments, urgent care centres and several additional facilities.

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Bowden teacher honoured by ATA Special Education Council

A Bowden teacher has won an Alberta award for her dedication to students with unique learning needs.

Danielle Ringheim has received the Sharon Arm-strong Early Years of Practice Award from the ATA Special Education Council.

The award recognizes an Alberta teacher in the early years of their career who demonstrate out-standing practice and innovation in support of stu-dents.

This is Ringheim’s fourth year of teaching at Bowden Grandview, where she teaches high school English, Social and CALM classes. She is also the student services co-ordinator on the school’s learn-ing support team.

“My hope for all students is that they achieve their individual goals and reach success as lifelong learners. I’m so honoured to receive this award, but I am more honoured to be working with these students,” Ringheim said in a news release from Chi-nook’s Edge School Division.

“My older brother had unique learning needs but, unfortunately, when we were in school there wasn’t an emphasis on inclusion and I think the conse-quences of that are everlasting,” said Ringheim.

“It is so gratifying to see how much we have dis-covered about inclusive education, assistive technol-ogies, and community supports that help all students succeed,” Ringheim said.

“Every school in our division has a learning sup-port team that is highly engaged with what each stu-dent needs to be successful in school.”

The Learning Support Team approach was intro-duced into each Chinook’s Edge school several years ago. The teams meet regularly with community re-sources that may be required, such as speech pathol-ogy or mental health professionals. The teams work together to ensure students receive the continuum of supports that will lead to success in school — and in life.

“It can be hard work, but it is incredibly gratify-ing. Because we are a K-12 school, I work with stu-dents of all ages. I support families whose pre-school children are in our community playschool, right through to graduates who are preparing to transi-tion into post-secondary TVP programming.”

Chinook’s Edge in-cludes public schools within Red Deer County and Mountain View County.

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more informationBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

EDMONTON — Alberta’s opposition parties say the public needs more details about an RCMP in-vestigation into spending by former premier Alison Redford and her staff.

Liberal Leader Raj Sherman says it’s important to know if current legislature members are being inves-tigated as well.

If so, Sherman says, Premier Jim Prentice must ask them to leave the government caucus until the probe is complete.

“There have been far too many distractions from the proper business of governing. Albertans are tired of it. They have a right to expect laser focus from their MLAs on the issues that matter,” he said in a news release Friday.

“If any current PC MLAs are under investigation by the RCMP, then the government cannot operate free from distraction.”

NDP critic Deron Bilous, in an interview, said there still needs to be a public inquiry to determine what happened under Redford.

He noted that a criminal probe by its very nature looks at a narrower range of information compared with a public inquiry.

“There are going to be questions left unanswered because they just don’t fit into an RCMP investiga-tion,” said Bilous. “(Information such as) which cabi-net member knew what and didn’t act on it, and who was implicated in this beyond Redford.

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A spokeswoman for the Alberta RCMP confirmed Friday that a review of an auditor general’s report into Redford’s spending has escalated into an inves-tigation. Sgt. Josee Valiquette declined to divulge any other information.

“We’re just confirming we’re conducting an inves-tigation at this time,” she said.

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Professional dog handler Brian O’Reel of Calgary usually wears a business suit when he gets down to the business of showing dogs but Friday O’Reel donned his superman suit to add some levity to the Red Deer Kennel Club Fall Show at the Westerner. Here he attempts to take flight with Relik the miniature Bull Terrier Wonder Dog owned by his friend Andrea McEwen. This weekend about 480 dogs will be shown at the Westerner competing in various categories. Both Saturday and Sunday the dogs and handlers hit the ring at 8:30 a.m., with the best of show usually running at about 5:30 p.m. The show is open to the public.

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Maverick Hunt is the centre of attention here as his mother, Jodie Hunt, of Blackfalds, and his grandmother, Joyce Schmidt, of Red Deer, work to get him into a winter coat Friday at the Victory Church at 98 Oberlan Ave. in Red Deer. Hundreds of coats have been donated to the Coats For Kids campaign this year and are now available for anyone needing a coat to keep warm this winter. The coats can be picked up at the church Wednesdays, 1 to 4 p.m., Thursdays. 9 to noon, and Fridays from 1 to 3 p.m. This year Classic Cleaners, Mustang Laundry, Parkland Coverall Cleaning and the Coverall Shop, Sterling Cleaners, Ultra Cleaners and the Delburne Laundry participated in the campaign.

Development moratorium

going to second public hearing

BY PAUL COWLEYADVOCATE STAFF

A controversial proposed development morato-rium in Mountain View County will go to a second public hearing.

The hot-button issue drew a standing-room-only crowd of about 100 to the first public hearing in council chambers in Didsbury on Oct. 9. About two-dozen people spoke out against the proposal to bar new development temporarily from a 9,600-acre flood-prone area upstream of Sundre.

Recurring criticisms of the moratorium were that it encompassed too large an area and included parts of the county that had not flooded previously.

Council closed the hearing after five hours on Oct. 9, but voted at its most recent meeting to hold anoth-er hearing to allow residents another say.

“In essence it will be a continuation (of the first public hearing),” said Tony Martens, county chief ad-ministrative officer. Legislation requires at least one public hearing, but more can be held.

In the meantime, Alberta Environment and Sus-tainable Resource Development is hosting a public open house to review and get public feedback on a flood hazard map and draft report created by consul-tants.

Information provided at that meeting will be con-sidered by council before it votes on the moratorium.

Halting development is favoured by the county because of the number of questions swirling around flood-related issues since catastrophic flooding in southern Alberta in 2012. There was more minor flooding in Mountain View County.

In response to the disaster, the Alberta govern-ment proposed new restrictions on development in flood plains and flood fringes. That same legislation requires municipalities to update their own plans to ensure they meet provincial requirements.

However, until a formal flood hazard map for the county is adopted by the province, it is unclear which areas should be considered at risk.

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Red Deer man wanted on 51Canada-wide warrants

Red Deer RCMP are searching for a Red Deer man wanted on 51 Canada-wide warrants.

Chance Aaron Shaw, 23, is wanted for allegedly breaching numerous probation orders imposed by the courts in connection with a long list of fraud con-victions.

Police believe Shaw recently travelled to B.C. and allegedly committed more frauds in the Kootenay and Creston areas. It is thought he still lives in Red Deer.

If anyone sees Shaw, they are asked to call police. Although he is not considered dangerous, RCMP warn residents not to approach him.

Anyone with information about dubious or suspi-cious transactions involving Shaw should call their local police detachment.

Shaw is described as Métis, about 1.73 m (five-foot-eight), 86 kg (190 pounds) with short, dark brown hair and brown eyes.

Red Deer RCMP can be reached at 403-343-5575.

RCMP searching for fraud suspectRed Deer RCMP have released surveillance pho-

tos of a suspect in a recent fraud incident.A senior was defrauded after a well-dressed man

approached her when she was loading groceries in her car and said he was the store manager.

He took her debit card, saying there was a prob-lem with it, and did not return. The senior later real-ized he had taken money out of her account.

Police believe the suspect watched her enter her PIN number and then followed her, claiming he was the store manager.

RCMP remind people that legitimate business people will not ask anyone to give up their debit card.

Anyone with information is asked to call Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. If you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com

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BY STEPHANIE LEONAND DR. MARIO CAPPELLISPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

Two high profile youth suicides in the Ottawa region in the last few years garnered tremendous media attention and, as a new study suggests, resulted in increased emergency room visits by youth for mental health distress.

First was the suicide in 2010 of Daron Richardson, the daughter of Ot-tawa Senators assistant coach and ex-NHL player Luke Richardson. Many friends, her own hockey teammates and family members were interviewed by the media and her memorial re-ceived extensive media coverage. School friends launched the Do It for Daron challenge, which became the well-known DIFD Foundation — a youth-driven initiative focused on raising awareness about youth mental health.

The community was then hit with another tragedy: Jamie Hubley, son of Ottawa city Coun. Allan Hubley, died by suicide in 2011. His death also re-ceived extensive media coverage and his parents openly discussed his sui-cide with the media.

What was the impact of such pro-nounced media attention?

Our recent study, published in Healthcare Policy, looked at the number of youths visiting the emergency room 14, 28 and 90 days following these two highly-publicized suicides. The study

was completed at the Children’s Hos-pital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Re-search Institute in Ottawa, and inves-tigated 6,700 youth visits to the emer-gency room between 2007 and 2012.

We found that there was a signifi-cant increase in the number of men-tal health visits to the local pediatric emergency department (CHEO) 28 and 90 days after Daron and Jamie’s sui-cides compared to the same time in previous years.

But what at first sounds like an alarming link may serve as an impor-tant positive lesson.

While there was a significant in-crease in the number mental health visits, our study found no differenc-es in terms of the severity of mental health symptoms or suicidal status of the visits. This suggests that the media attention may have created a higher awareness of mental health issues in the community but not more suicidal thoughts.

In other words, the right kind of me-dia attention may actually play a posi-tive role in increasing mental health awareness and help-seeking behav-iour.

Two phenomena are frequently used to describe the association be-tween suicidal behaviour and media exposure.

First, the Werther effect has been well established by research and de-scribes the increase of suicides fol-lowing media attention of a suicide. Suicide clusters are more frequent in

teens and young adults and suicide risk increases with the number of shared characteristics with the victim, as well as the popularity of the suicide victim.

For this reason, numerous countries have voluntary reporting guidelines to decrease the potentially negative effect of media attention surround-ing suicides. In Canada, the guidelines urge the media to avoid perpetuating the myth that suicide is unexplainable, identification with the victim through the use of pictures, descriptions of method and location, front page cover-age and sensational headlines.

Secondly, and conversely, the Pa-pageno effect occurs when the media has a suicide-preventing influence.

For example, one study determined that the suicide of Kurt Cobain, lead singer and guitarist of Nirvana, did not yield the expected Werther effect. On the contrary, the number of suicides one-week following Cobain’s death de-creased compared to the same week in the year prior and the year follow-ing. Some have hypothesized this was because crisis community outreach in-terventions were put in place immedi-ately, and the media coverage focused on providing contact details for crisis centres.

Other studies have shown that news blackouts, reductions in the quantity of reporting on suicide and improve-ments in the quality of media coverage are successful in preventing spikes in suicides.

So what can we learn from these im-portant examples?

Media reporting of suicide does not necessarily have negative consequenc-es — it all depends on the quality of the coverage.

Media reports of Richardson and Hubley’s suicides were, on the whole, careful, thoughtful and accompanied by a list of resources where youth in distress could get help.

The parents were involved and sup-portive and those interviewed pro-vided important suicide prevention information to families and educators — what signs to look for, where to go and what to do, and how to get help.

It may also be important for commu-nities to put in place immediate out-reach interventions for mental health crisis support following news coverage of youth suicides. Simply talking about suicide does not cause suicide — but accessing timely mental health sup-ports and resources can be life-saving.

Stephanie Leon is a PhD student in clinical psychology at the University of Ottawa and is completing her doctoral thesis at the CHEO’s Research Institute. Dr. Mario Cappelli is the director of psy-chiatric and mental health research at CHEO, chair of the Research Action Com-mittee of the Ottawa Community Suicide Prevention Network and a clinical and adjunct professor in psychology and psy-chiatry at the University of Ottawa. They are both advisors to EvidenceNetwork.ca. This column was supplied by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

Coverage of youth suicides linked to ER visitsBUT THE RIGHT KIND OF MEDIA ATTENTION MAY PLAY A POSITIVE ROLE IN INCREASING MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS

The European Union’s decision-making processes lend new depth to the word “incoherent,” and the current British government’s default mode is nastiness, but they have both outdone themselves this time.

The subject at hand is the Italian Navy’s Mare Nostrum opera-tion, which has rescued 150,000 refugees and migrants from leaky , over -loaded boats in the Mediter-ranean since it was launched a year ago.

An estimat-ed 3,000 others have drowned since January: you can’t save them all.

But the Ital-ian Navy has done an excellent job, with no help at all from other EU coun-tries — which was very unfair, since Italy is simply the nearest part of the European Union to the North African coast that the boats start out from.

Finally, after endless pleas from It-aly, the other EU members gathered in Brussels earlier this month and agreed to replace the Italian ships with a joint EU mission code-named Triton.

But there was a catch. In fact, there were several.

Triton will only have one-third of the financial resources that Mare Nos-trum had. It will have precisely six small ships, two fixed-wing aircraft, and one helicopter, instead of the Ital-ian Navy’s ample supply of ships and aircraft.

It will have no search-and-rescue function at all, and it will only operate up to 30 nautical miles (50 km) from Italy’s coasts.

Further out, they’ll just have to drown.

It’s quite an efficient way of ensur-ing that fewer refugees actually reach the EU, but it is so stunningly callous that even the British Foreign Office’s official spokesman felt obliged to spin it as a humanitarian initiative in heavy disguise.

“Ministers across Europe have expressed concerns,” he said, “that search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean have acted as a pull factor for illegal migration, encourag-ing people to make dangerous cross-ings in the expectation of rescue. This has led to more deaths as traffickers have exploited the situation using boats that are unfit to make the cross-ing.”

So letting lots of them drown will

presumably discourage others and save more lives in the end.

Nobody is actually expected to be-lieve this nonsense. It’s just a “talking point” that lets the speaker deny the obvious fact that the policy is designed to appeal to the wave of anti-immi-grant, anti-refugee opinion that has been drummed up by populist politi-cians and media in Britain and a num-ber of other EU countries. Drowning refugees is good politics.

Enter Admiral Filippo Maria Foffi, commander-in-chief of the Italian Na-vy, who promptly torpedoed the whole “drown them to save them” argument.

The refugees, fleeing from Syria, Er-itrea or even further afield, travel for up to three months before they reach the shores of North Africa, he said.

They suffer hardships that kill up to half of them — and then they board the boats.

“If someone is speaking about a ‘pulling factor,’ he doesn’t know what he is speaking about.”

Foffi had more to say. He had received no orders from the

Italian government to shut down Mare Nostrum, he said, and so long as he did

not he would continue the search-and-rescue operations.

What about the recent statement by Angelino Alfano, the leader of a small right-wing party and interior minister in the Italian coalition government, that Mare Nostrum would indeed be closed down?

Foffi replied that he received his orders from the prime minister through the defence minister.

Responding to some random state-ment by another minister was “not the way that military men conduct their activities.”

There is clearly a struggle within the Italian government about whether to just let the refugees die or to contin-ue funding Mare Nostrum alone in the absence of an acceptable substitute paid for by the EU.

But Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti both seem to be on the side of the an-gels, so there is still hope that the op-eration may continue.

The EU, of course, is acting with its usual combination of cowardice and confusion. The British government is playing dog-whistle politics again: it

expects the target audience, those who are being seduced away from their Conservative roots by the anti-immi-grant UKIP Party, to understand that it really wants to drown the refugees, not save them.

And lots of other European govern-ments really want to drown the refu-gees, too: the amount of money at stake is not large enough to serve as an alter-native explanation for this decision.

It may yet be thwarted, at least for the moment, by admirable Italians like Filippo Maria Foffi, but the EU is re-ally talking about killing people here. Or letting them die, if you prefer, but it comes down to much the same thing.

How long before they start actively killing refugees fleeing from war, hun-ger and climate change along Europe’s Mediterranean sea frontier (and along Australia’s northern sea frontier, and the U.S. border with Mexico, and prob-ably South Africa’s northern border, too)?

Ten to fifteen years, at a guess. We’ll all have got used to the prin-

ciple by then.Gwynne Dyer is a freelance Canadian

journalist living in London.

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Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi was only half right when he told a Toronto audience recently that the political party that is the first to come up with a credible national funding plan for public transit will win next year’s federal election.

But where he is clearly right is that cities and how the federal government deals with the challenges facing cit-ies will be an important issue. A 21st century vision for Can-ada has to include world-class communities.

Ensuring the funding for the infrastructure that our cit-ies need to attract new jobs and investment is essential. And given its responsibility for the economic health of the country, the federal govern-ment has an important role to play.

But with this funding, cit-ies can become leaders in in-novation, aiming high for leading edge technologies and enhancing the growth of Canadian firms that can provide new technologies and services they can sell globally.

Think of the different investments that cities make or regulate. Cities are responsible for public transit, clean water and wastewater treatment plants, social housing, public safety, waste management (garbage), public buildings, libraries, and many other facilities. Cities regulate land use, major development proj-ects, and the types of buildings that are constructed in their communities. They can set all kinds of stan-dards in the contracts they award or in what they let

others build.Cities are also branching into new areas — for ex-

ample, an alliance of cities across southwestern On-tario is seeking to deliver an open access broadband network at speeds of up to one Gigabit per second at less than $100 a month.

And cities help build hubs of innovation — from the massive high-tech city being built by Water-front Toronto, with the goal of 100,000 residents and 40,000 jobs, to London’s innovation park, housing the Fraunhofer Institute on materials science, and Ham-ilton’s support for McMaster University’s innovation park.

The cost of these investments is huge and beyond the fiscal capacity of cities, which is why federal in-frastructure funding is so important.

But in making public investments or using their regulatory powers, cities also have the capacity to be leaders in innovation and catalysts for Canadian companies developing ‘smart’ technologies. For ex-ample, the Internet of Everything, which combines much faster wireless broadband and an exponential use of sensors, can revolutionize the way in which cities manage transit and transportation, public safety, water systems and many other applications and develop much greater capacity for informed analysis and decision-making. By pursuing the Inter-net of Everything, cities can create opportunities for new businesses.

Water is one example of where there is great need but also great opportunity to advance new technolo-gies. A 2012 Canadian Infrastructure Report esti-mated that to upgrade existing water systems found to be in ‘fair’ to ‘very poor’ conditions would cost $80 billion. Another $20 billion would be needed to bring municipal water systems up to new federal standards. With adequate funding, and innovation-

friendly regulations and incentives, Canadian cities could help develop a market for new technologies developed by Canadian companies.

Likewise, Canadian cities could help the move to a low-carbon economy. There is a growing focus on densification in cities, which reduces the need for automobiles, enabling more people to walk or cycle to work or utilize public transit. Traffic congestion and the need for transit is a huge public issue, one that is common to all metropolitan regions.

At the same time, municipalities are shifting from high-carbon to lower-carbon fuels, helping curb greenhouse gas emissions.

One example is the use of natural gas instead of diesel in city bus or other fleets, such as garbage col-lection. Calgary recently announced plans to build a compressed natural gas facility to power 400 buses, with significant cost savings. Federal funding was needed. Cities can also speed up the infrastructure for electric vehicles and pave the way for the hydro-gen economy.

Building projects also offer great opportunities for ‘smart’ development — from providing social housing or designing and developing public institu-tions such as libraries, school buildings and even parks and recreational areas, to setting density lev-els and zoning and requirements for commercial and other buildings.

Canada’s future depends on attracting both in-vestment and talent and investing in our cities is one of the best ways to do this.

Investment and talent are attracted to dynamic communities. This is why we need to hear from our political leaders before the next election to see whether they really get it and what they would do.

Economist David Crane is a syndicated Toronto Star columnist. He can be reached at [email protected].

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I’ve been thinking about New York City lately. Not by choice, mind you, but on account of my Rot-ten Kid, the daughter one, is currently in the Big Apple all by herself. So of course, N.Y.C. is currently etched upon my mind, especially the worried part of my mind.

Oh, the proud and excited part of my mind is there too in a humongous way, seeing that the RK has been cast as one of five dancers and the only Canuck to perform in the re-mounting of a modern dance classic performance thingy in the City That Never Sleeps.

I just hope she gets enough sleep. And food. Food would be good for a hard-working dancer.

And bodyguards. Body-guards would be even bet-ter. For when she’s out and about, checking out the Statue of Liberty and Broadway and the famous pizza joint were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles always get their New York-style pie when they aren’t hanging around in the sewers.

She’s been there several times already in her young life, all for dance-related adventures and has a good place to stay, and knows her way around more or less, but still — hey, it’s New York and the Better Half and I, as registered parents of said daughter, are legally entitled to join the Official Association of Parental Worrywarts. Heck, we are practically obli-gated to engender a significant degree of extended fretting.

You see, I’ve been to New York. Only once, mind you, but I almost lost my head there. Literally.

This was quite some time ago, and my friend Don and I were there making a video for the University of British Columbia of all things, and I was perpetually beside myself with wonder, disbelief and a severe case of tourist-itis. For me, New York City was the most iconic place I could be at the time. I was so busy looking around with my mouth open in awe, bumping into things like Times Square, the Flatiron Building and Rockefeller Center, that I almost forgot I was supposed to film some of it for our project.

We got there late in the evening and it was pitch dark. But once we checked into the famous old Es-sex Hotel on Central Park, we threw our stuff in our room and headed out for a walk. Down the block, I stopped on the dark street and leaned against an elderly brick building to tie my running shoe, and when I looked on the wall above me, it said “Carn-egie Hall”! I just about fainted, that’s how into N.Y.C. I was.

I’d always wanted to appear at Carnegie Hall someday, and now I could say I did just that! Well, technically, one minute I wasn’t there, and the next I “appeared” at Carnegie Hall. Right?

We found out soon enough that it doesn’t matter what time it is in Manhattan. And also, there is abso-lutely no shortage of things to do, day or night. Let’s just say we got back to the hotel at 4 a.m. And for the rest of our trip, aside from work, we managed to see a show (Rent), go to a Yankee’s game at (where else?) Yankee Stadium, get yelled at by hawkers over 1,000 times at Times Square, and ride the subway where

a quartet of street kids suddenly stood up and sang some excellent a cappella songs and passed around a hat. We had a hot dog from a vendor at Central Park, waved at the Statue of Liberty from afar, and rode the elevator with tennis star Serena Williams, who exclaimed that she had her sweater on backwards and proceeded to swivel it around the right way.

But for me, the ultimate New York experience? The top of the Empire State Building.

I got special permission to film up there and all I could think of was the movie An Affair to Remember with Gary Grant and Deborah Kerr where they make a pact that if their love was meant to be they’d meet in six months at the top of the Empire State Building and she was in a car accident and he went and she wasn’t there, although she really wanted to be there, and their hearts were broken, and I must admit I’m so schmaltzy and wimpy when it comes to movies and New York that I was so emotional I had tears in my eyes at the top of the Empire State Building.

Either that or my sheer terror of heights and the thin air up there in the clouds caused a minor aneu-rism that made my eyes water.

But real scary part was when I darn near knocked my melon clean off whilst riding a topless double-decker bus.

We boarded a tourist hop-on-hop-off bus that was two storeys high and had no roof. A perfect place to

film moving shots of New York streets, we figured. So we’re rattling along at the pace of a New York bus (very rapid) and I’m standing up from my seat (which apparently you’re not supposed to do) and the talk-ative tourist guide dude on the microphone doesn’t notice, and I’m looking through my shoulder camera, merrily shooting way, getting great stuff, when sud-denly my buddy Don is yelling at me. And then the guide dude is yelling at me through the mic. They sound positively hysterical.

I’m not paying much attention to them because I’m getting good stuff, but through the camera out of the corner of the top of the frame I suddenly glimpse a flash of something looming towards me at a high rate of speed.

Instinctively, I slam my butt back down on the seat, just as the large traffic light hanging from the steel beam whooshes past my noggin. I swear I can feel it clip my New York Yankees ball cap!

I came this close to munching my melon in the Big Apple that day. So when the Rotten Kid phones home, I’m going to tell her to have a wonderful ad-venture in N.Y.C. And never, ever stand up on a doubledeck bus.

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

“I am, therefore give to me”.“I have earned the right to. ...”“You owe it to me.”“I’m worth it.”Sound familiar? It should because we all do it.

From the least to the greatest, we all have grown up with an expectation demanding rec-ognition of our importance to the society we live in, if not to the entire world; therefore we are entitled to the best of whatever we envision to be ours by right.

As we now know, that was the expectation from our pre-vious premier.

That expectation was pro-cured at the expense of all Albertans; she felt it was her right.

We in many ways are be-ing taught greed by the gov-ernment elected to serve us. As well as an enviably decent salary, they get all kinds of expenses paid and then, with a minimum number of years of service, can re-tire with a pension not even allowed in the dreams of the rank and file citizen. Our courts are now busy with political cases where expected entitlements were abused.

In any fraternal organization or societal group, we

find almost exactly the same sense of entitlement. Members of any such group often are miffed when they are overlooked for any reason, whether acci-dental or not.

At the soup kitchen, I find it to be absolutely no different. While the large majority of those who fre-quent our services are very grateful and undemand-ing, there are those who see it differently.

Different people have different expectations, so we sometimes are verbally assaulted by those who feel it is a right to services they should have because of who we are and who we represent. It is not uncom-mon for an individual when denied a specific service to ask us if we are Christian or not, because a “Chris-tian would bend over backwards to give anything and everything they demand.”

Although we find it quite humorous at times, it shows how people can use anything they choose to try to fill their unearned expectations.

Twice in the last 15 years, I have been reminded that as a white man I was part of a people who took away this country from the indigenous residents, and therefore I was obligated to feed and otherwise give anything demanded of me; we owed it to them.

The most common word used to facilitate entitle-ment is ‘rights.’ Like many things in this life, once a word enters the common vocabulary, it is used often, mostly out of context.

“It is my right” is used so often that it is now asso-ciated with whatever that individual is demanding to achieve or obtain. It is used in all sorts of ways that it was never part of, such as in labour negotiations

where we hear things like, “It is our fundamental right to receive all these different benefits, or a sal-ary increase because of the inflation rates.” Or, “I should earn exactly the same as this other person, even if that other person has been here longer and does the job better than I ever intend to.” How about, “I am homeless, therefore have a right to be looked after.” I think you get the picture.

What exactly is a right as we understand the word? As I understand it, a right is a privilege that is granted or bestowed either through an earned un-derstanding, given as a gift or endowed through gov-ernment legislation. Anything other than that is not a right — it is a wrongfully perceived entitlement.

From what I have experienced in life, the only rights I have are those that have been given to me either through my labours, legislation or an outright gift.

As I was reflecting on this subject, the following statement kept going through my head: “We are at the mercy of whomever or whatever we subject our-selves to.” Any rights or entitlements we have come out of that mercy. They can be, and often are, just as easily revoked especially by law courts in an effort to appease a minority.

Rather than live with the expectation of rights or entitlements, maybe we should live in such a way that we can extend them. Then we would not always be disappointed and angered when we don’t receive what we think we should.

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

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STREET TALES

Expectations, rights and entitlements

The value of investing in cities

You can lose your melon in the Big Apple

HARLEYHAY

HAY’S DAZE


MONCTON, N.B. — Justin Bourque, the disturbed young man who fatally shot three Mounties and wounded two others in what a judge described as a “blind rage,” has been sentenced to an unprecedent-ed 75 years in prison.

The penalty is the harshest Canada has seen since the last state-sanctioned executions in 1962.

Judge David Smith, chief justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench in New Brunswick, said Friday the 24-year-old labourer showed little remorse after he stalked and shot the officers four months ago in Moncton, actions the judge said were motivated by hatred for authority.

“The crime committed is one of the worst in Ca-nadian history,” Smith told the packed courtroom. “The murders were carried out as ambushes. ... He only stopped because he was thirsty, tired and out-gunned.”

Outside the courthouse, the wife of one of the slain RCMP officers thanked her family, friends and the community for their support before speaking of the bond she had with her husband.

“I spent the 17 happiest years of my life with you,” said Nadine Larche, wife of Const. Douglas Larche. “It’s now time for us to start the healing process as we piece our lives together as best we can.”

Smith noted that Bourque has no criminal record and was raised in a strict Roman Catholic family. But the judge also said Bourque had trouble holding down a job, played an inordinate amount of video games, had few friends and was obsessed with guns since he was 14.

Describing Bourque as immature and socially awkward, Smith said he was “the perfect storm in terms of social adaptability,” a young man who “pro-gressed from video games to acting them out in real life.”

The judge said Bourque drew his inspiration from heavy-metal lyrics, which fed his disdain for govern-ment institutions.

“He was convinced that police were intimidat-ing everyone,” Smith said. “He had had enough of authorities” when he dressed in camouflage and set

out from his trailer home on June 4 to murder police officers in a “blind rage.”

An agreed statement of facts filed with the court says Bourque’s actions were both planned and deliberate when he used a Poly Technologies M305, 308-calibre rifle to kill constables Dave Ross, 32, Fabrice Gevau-dan, 45, and Larche, 40.

C o n s t a b l e s E r i c Dubois and Darlene Goguen were wounded and later released from hospital.

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TORONTO — Former CBC star radio host Jian Ghomeshi is under criminal investigation after two women came forward to complain, police said Fri-day.

Word of police involvement followed a day in which the public broadcaster said the emergence of “graphic” evidence that Ghomeshi had caused physi-cal injury to a person is what prompted his firing last Sunday.

Late in the day, Toronto investigators said they were now involved after days in which complain-ants had gone public with stories about physical or sexual assaults but said they had never complained to police.

“Two women have come forward with allega-tions,” Mark Pugash said. “They are being investi-gated.”

He had no further details.None of the allegations has been proven and nei-

ther Ghomeshi nor his lawyers immediately respond-ed.

A spokesman for CBC had no comment on the po-lice announcement.

Earlier Friday, in a memo to staff, executive vice-president Heather Conway said it wanted to provide some information on the situation involving the co-founder and host of the Q program.

“On Thursday, Oct. 23, CBC saw for the first time graphic evidence that Jian had caused physical in-jury to a woman,” Conway said.

“We determined that Jian’s conduct was a funda-mental breach of CBC’s standard of acceptable con-duct for any employee.”

Conway said Ghomeshi advised the corporation in the spring that the Toronto Star was looking into al-legations by an ex-girlfriend that he had engaged in non-consensual “rough sex.”

Ghomeshi has insisted having only consensual “rough sex” with women and said he was the victim of a disgruntled ex.

As many as nine women — two named — have since come forward to allege he attacked them physi-cally and sexually without warning. Ghomeshi said Thursday he would meet the allegations “directly,” but said he won’t discuss “this matter” further with the media.

According to the CBC memo, he also had a letter from two journalists that made allegations about his private life. The Star never contacted the corpora-tion directly about them, she said.

“When directly confronted, Jian firmly denied there was any truth to those allegations,” Conway said.

In early summer, a Q employee received a letter from a reporter asking about Ghomeshi’s behaviour, she said. The letter suggested his conduct may have “crossed over” into the workplace.

Conway said an investigation involving CBC’s hu-man resources department followed that included direct interviews with employees and management but did not uncover any complaints of the alleged nature about his behaviour in the workplace.

“We also spoke to Jian at that time and asked him directly if there was any truth to the allegations,” Conway said.

Ghomeshi was adamant that he and his lawyers would be able to prove he had done nothing wrong should the Star pursue the allegations and the news-paper did not print a story, she said.

“Based on Jian’s denial, we continued to believe Jian.”

The unspecified “graphic evidence” persuaded the corporation that it could no longer accept that position.

However, the Star quoting unnamed sources re-ported on Friday that Ghomeshi, 47, showed his bosses videos depicting bondage and beating during sexual activities in an effort to show bruising could happen and still be consensual. The paper said it had not seen the video.

Ghomeshi has launched a $55-million lawsuit against the CBC for breach of confidence and defa-mation. He has also filed a grievance alleging dis-missal without proper cause that damaged his repu-tation.

Also Friday, Penguin Canada said in a statement it had decided against publishing Ghomeshi’s next book “in light of recent events.”


KUWAIT CITY — Canadian warplanes have con-ducted two combat sweeps over Iraq, but bad weath-er continued to prevent them from striking any Is-lamic State targets, the task force commander said Friday.

Two CF-18 jet fighters conducted the first patrol on Thursday, with another mission taking place Friday. In both cases, the aircraft returned with full bomb loads.

A CP-140 Aurora conducted a surveillance mis-sion over the northwestern part of the country at the same time. Canada’s aircraft refueller was also in the air, topping off the fuel tanks of coalition aircraft.

“They were prepared to do bombing,” said Col. Daniel Constable, the commander of Joint Task Force Iraq.

“We had a combination of poor weather in the ar-ea where they were operating. That affected us, and they were in a mission area that didn’t develop into any targets. They didn’t drop, but they could have.”

Between late September and November, Iraq is also known to experience heavy southern winds known as sharqi, which can wreak havoc on the country’s dry, dusty landscape, impairing visibility for air operations.

The air force apparently has no GPS-guided muni-tions in theatre, which would be able to penetrate the clouds; only laser-aimed bombs that require the target to be illuminated — or “painted” — are on hand.

Constable said the recent murders of two Cana-dian soldiers — including one at the foot of the Na-tional War Memorial that culminated in an attack on Parliament Hill last week — served to motivate the more than 600 personnel who are part of Canada’s mission and underscore the importance of what they were doing.

“Having it hit home like that really affected us. It steeled our backs, just like it did to other Cana-dians,” the career fighter pilot said in a telephone interview. The Canadian military has not allowed media access to the air-fields, citing the security concerns of their Ku-waiti hosts.

A total of six CF-18s, two Auroras and one C-150 refuelling jet are operating out of undis-closed airfields in Ku-wait and will launch fur-ther missions in the com-ing days.

Whether they develop into actual bombing runs depends on a number of factors, including the ability of coalition spy planes and local forces on the ground to spot enemy fighters from the group known as the Is-lamic State of Iraq and the Levant, as well as their command centres, vehicles and artillery.

Most of the enemy hardware is U.S-made equipment that was seized from fleeing Iraqi army forces earlier this summer.

Some analysts in the U.S. have complained that in comparison to previous air campaigns, the U.S.-led coalition ef-fort in Iraq and Syria is small and has carried out far fewer missions.

Constable said the ad-dition of Canadian jets should give coalition commanders added flex-ibility.

The warplanes re-ceive their strike orders and targets from the U.S.-led coalition and join aircraft from a num-ber of different coun-tries, including the U.S., Britain, Australia and

several Gulf states.A number of fresh reports are circulating that

coalition jets could face an increased anti-aircraft threat from Islamic State fighters who are said to be armed with sophisticated shoulder-fired missiles.

U.S. officials, speaking on background to the New York Times earlier this week, described the appear-ance of the Chinese-made FN-6 heat-seeking mis-siles as “game changers.” It is believed the weapons were originally provided to moderate Syrian rebels by Qatar and possibly Saudi Arabia, according to the report.

The missiles are a major threat to low-flying air-craft, such as attack helicopters. ISIL reportedly shot down an Iraqi Army Apache gunship using the weapons.

Prior to the beginning of the campaign, Canadian military commanders acknowledged the anti-aircraft threat, but noted that both the CF-18s and the Auro-ras can fly higher than the effective range of the mis-siles, known as Manpads.

A bigger concern, according to defence experts, is that Islamic State fighters might get their hands on an SA-24, the latest generation of Russia-made anti-aircraft weapons. The Iraqi government recently acquired such a system and those missiles have a longer range and the ability to manoeuvre in a more nimble fashion to avoid the counter-measures of their targets.

Threats are a “primary consideration” and some-thing Canadian pilots are constantly assessing, Con-stable said.

“We take no chances and use defensive mea-sures,” he said. “We use our tactics, techniques and procedures. If you know where they are, you can avoid them — or potentially fly at an altitude above where they are capable of operating.”

The Canadian contribution to the air campaign is mandated to last six months, but is likely to be ex-tended.


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Canada won’t issue visas to residents of countries with widespread EbolaTORONTO — Canada is following in Australia’s

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In a move that puts Canada at odds with the World Health Organization, the federal government said Friday it is suspending the issuance of visas for resi-dents and nationals of countries with “widespread and persistent-intense transmission” of Ebola virus disease. As well, work on permanent residence ap-plications for people from the affected countries is also being suspended.

The stress on countries with widespread transmis-sion provides an out for the United States, which currently still has at least one active Ebola case within its borders. At present only three countries meet the definition of widespread and persistent Eb-ola transmission: Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

An international law expert denounced the move, saying it was a violation of the International Health Regulations, which Canada helped to draft in the aftermath of the 2003 SARS outbreak. And David Fidler, of Indiana University, said the decisions of Canada and Australia to close their doors to the citi-zens of the affected countries threatens to further undermine the IHR, as the treaty is called.

“The whole thing that so many years and so many efforts and so much money was spent on just seems to be disintegrating in this Ebola panic,” Fidler said of the treaty.

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“Now they are back to allowing fear and politics drive responses to a disease threat. And we know that only ends up in a bad place.”

Magnotta’s father testifies at murder trial; talks of troubled childhood

MONTREAL — Luka Rocco Magnotta’s father suf-fers from paranoid schizophrenia and suggested his son go see a psychiatrist because he was concerned about his mental well-being more than a decade ago.

The polite, soft-spoken 50-year-old man was the first defence witness to be heard at Magnotta’s first-degree murder trial, describing his son on Friday as a “very mixed-up” child who was isolated and had no friends growing up. He suggested his son was abused by his mother’s family.

Magnotta, 32, is charged in the slaying and dis-memberment of Jun Lin in May 2012 in Montreal be-fore he fled to Paris and then Berlin.

He has admitted to killing the Chinese engineer-ing student, but has pleaded not guilty by way of mental disorder.

That defence began to take shape on Friday with the accused’s father, who was diagnosed with schizo-phrenia and manic depression and saw traits in his son that raised concerns so he put him in touch with his psychiatrist in Magnotta’s early 20s.

“In my opinion, he had problems for which he should seek help,” said the father, whose name is subject to a publication ban.

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The father noted he was estranged from Magnot-ta’s siblings — a younger brother and sister he hasn’t seen in about a decade.

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The father said Magnotta was home-schooled un-til he was in Grade 6 or 7 but was poorly taught by his mother. He testified he didn’t agree with home schooling.

“She was very clingy, she wanted to have total control over them,” he said of the woman. “In my opinion, she didn’t do a very good job.

“He (Magnotta) had no friends, he was being home-schooled, no interaction with anyone . . . nei-ther son did.”

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After the ruling, a calm but defiant Del Mastro insisted that he would continue to sit in the House of Commons — even though anyone convicted of break-ing the Canada Elections Act is barred from doing so for at least five years.

“This is obviously not a final decision,” said Del Mastro, a former parliamentary secretary to Prime Minister Stephen Harper whose role during question period was to defend the government against claims of dirty electoral tricks.

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In Hawaiian tribal mythology, Mauna Kea, which means “white mountain” in English, is one of the most sacred places on the islands and there was a time when only high-ranking tribal chiefs were allowed to visit its peak.

As I sit above the clouds watch-ing the setting sun colour the sky with breathtaking shades of pink and orange, I can see why ancient Hawaiians believed this spot to be one of the most sacred places on the planet.

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Ancient Hawaiians believed that Mauna Kea was a sacred place.

The best views of Kiauea are seen from above.

The lava moves slowly, but at 900C, it destroys everything in its path.

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You can get up close to steam vents in Volcanoes National Park.

You can walk along trails beside steam vents. It’s an eerie kind of trail.

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Nahuku, known as the Thurston Lava Tube, a 500-year-old lava cave.

Food trucks in food-crazed Belgium cook up a difference

ANTWERP, Belgium — One sells a cheeseburger whose patty is 100 per cent cheese, another sells meatballs the size of baseballs and a third tempts palates with insects on a skewer.

Belgium takes its food seriously — and adventurously — so when the American-style food trucks rolled in, there was little doubt the result would be a bit different.

“Our crickets on a stick are our bestseller,” said Bart Smit, co-owner of the food truck Microbar. “They aren’t really crickets, they’re grasshoppers, but it sounds better to say cricket on a stick.”

At a recent food truck festival in the port city of Antwerp, young entrepre-neurs cooked up a multi-ethnic storm. The wafting aroma of everything from Indonesian satays to barbecue pork and stone-oven pizza drifted into the city centre, drawing throngs of foodies to the Antwerp quayside.

A brick-and-mortar locale was once the only place most aspiring restaurateurs could start a business. Losses were great when it didn’t work. Recently, food trucks have radically changed the equation: With a working vehicle and a small amount of capital, it’s possible to operate a one-person eatery.

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LAS VEGAS — MGM Resorts Inter-national and the organizers of Rock in Rio USA announced additions to the music festival’s lineup and offered a glimpse of what to expect when the event comes to Las Vegas next year.

Bruno Mars and Ed Sheeran will join Taylor Swift, Metallica and No Doubt performing on the main stage during the festival, which takes place May 8-9 and May 15-16. Singer Joss Stone also is slated to perform.

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The best time to go is after 5 p.m., so you can be near the top to watch the sunset. You can’t drive rental cars to the very top of the mountain, but if you stop at the visitors’ centre (www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/vis/), they will direct you to a small hill near the parking lot where you will get great views of the setting sun.

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For the past few weeks, molten lava from the Kilauea volcano has been inching its way towards the tiny town of Pahoa on Hawaii’s Big Island. The internal temperature of molten lava is more than 900C and it is burning everything in its path. With no way to stop the lava flow, education officials have closed five area schools and have evacuated residents from the town.

Kilauea is one of the most active volcanoes on Earth and some experts estimate the volcano to be 300,000 to 600,000 years old. It has been continu-ously erupting for more than three decades.

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Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (www.nps.gov/havo/index.htm) is one of the most unique national parks in the world, offering visitors the oppor-tunity to see and learn about two of the world’s most active volcanoes — Kilauea and Mauna Loa. Mauna Loa is the larger of the two and is the planet’s most massive single mountain. While both volcanoes are considered to be active, Kilauea is currently the more active of the two and has been continu-ously erupting since 1983.

The United Nations has named Vol-canoes National Park both an interna-tional biosphere reserve and a World Heritage Site. Park interpreters run great programs that help visitors ap-preciate the science behind volcanic eruptions and there are many great hiking trails where you can experience the fascinating geology of this park.

Exploring dormant lava tubes, standing at the edge of spewing steam vents and seeing the different forms of hardened lava are just a few of the activities that can be enjoyed inside the park.

The park also plays an important role in protecting native species of plants and animals that are threatened by invasive species, volcanic activity and human carelessness.

The only rainforest in the U.S. Na-tional Parks system is found here.

It costs $10 per vehicle or $5 per in-dividual to enter the park.

Many visitors enjoy seeing the vol-canoes after dark when it’s easier to observe the red hot lava spewing from the volcano. It’s always a good idea to check where the lava is flowing before making a night visit, though. Some-times the lava flows in such a way that it is not visible after dark from secure areas. Visitors can contact the County of Hawai’i Civil Defense hotline at 808-935-0031 or visit their website for updates on the lava flow at www.ha-waiicounty.gov/active-alerts.

Did you know?Since Kilauea began actively erupt-

ing on Jan. 3, 1983, more than 500 acres of new land have been added to the Big Island of Hawaii.

Debbie Olsen is a Lacombe-based free-lance writer. If you have a travel story you would like to share or know someone with an interesting travel story that we might interview, please email: [email protected] or write to: Debbie Olsen, c/o Red Deer Advocate, PO Bag 5200, Red Deer, Alta., T4N 5G3.

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LEFT: Ranger-led hikes and programs help visitors understand the science of volcanology.RIGHT: The helicopter tour also provided great views of waterfalls.

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BY ANNE CALCAGNOSPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

The waiter delivers our bottle of chilled Grillo with aplomb. We sip slowly, gazing at the caramel- and va-nilla-colored canyons of an abandoned-quarry-turned-upscale-hotel. And then he reappears, serving caprese salad, bruschetta with various olive tap-enades and warmed spicy chips.

“No, no,” we say, “We didn’t order these.”

“Madam,” he replies, “they come with the wine.”

Of course they do. In the Egadi Is-lands, such unexpected delights are part of the terrain.

In the tourist-trammeled idyll called Italy, the islands are an anomaly — off the beaten track, without bus tours or hawkers, flung into land and sea as ancient as it is unpretentious, and as elite as it is rugged. Yachts flow here in the summer, avoiding the rocky beaches where families in sturdy wa-ter shoes spread bright towels.

The Egadi Archipelago (Favignana, Marettimo, Levanzo, and the uninhab-ited Formica and Maraone), off Sicily’s northwest coast, is one of the largest marine preserves in Europe — mean-ing fish in breathtaking abundance. It’s a sun-scorched territory I have traveled to for 30 years, since my par-ents went rogue and relocated here. I pointedly journey in May-June or Sep-tember-October, low seasons of mag-nificent isolation.

With three teens in tow, my hus-band and I fly into Palermo, board a reserved Siciltranfert van and ride for an hour through olive groves and grain fields to Trapani, where the funicular soars to the medieval town of Erice and provides a glorious panorama of the Egadis’ flanks dipping into the in-digo sea. Fast hydrofoils and slow, car-ferrying ships go back and forth be-tween the islands daily.

Morning, and we’re off to Favig-nana. Largest of the islands at only 7.6 square miles, it’s called “butterfly on the sea” because of its aerial-view shape. Monte Santa Caterina’s bulk swells nearly 1,000 feet skyward from flat ground.

Twenty minutes later, we disem-bark among fishermen noisily hawk-ing the morning’s catch. I insist on a reconnaissance of the pedestrianized town and its lace-curtained Santa An-na neighborhood. Supermarkets have sprouted. I beeline to the half-day pro-duce market behind Piazza Europa. It still brims with plump candy-sweet tomatoes, garlic strands, piles of egg-plant, the morning’s eggs, juicy yellow melon.

“No basil?”“Not for you!” the vendor winks,

whipping a bundle, magician-like, from a bucket at his feet.

Next, scrumptious pane giallo (yel-low bread) from Piazza Madrice’s bakery, cans of registered local ton-no rosso (bluefin tuna), Donnafugata wine and briny capers from La Casa del Tonno. Prices are marked; no need to haggle. A shopkeeper chases a cli-ent who forgot her receipt; everyone watches. During this week of World Cup play, our teens convert stares into grins and invitations by blurting “Vai Azzurri!” (the national soccer team cheer) or “Salve!” (for “Heya!”). Little English is spoken, but story-gathering is locally revered. Everyone impro-vises to communicate.

When I’m startled by the prolifera-tion of souvenir shops, Roberto Cos-sa, one of the Favignana’s original hoteliers, chides me: “Sicily is being launched. All to the good. Yet the old, slow wonder of living has not been erased here.”

That evening’s walk reveals taste-ful boutiques: il Mare, KoiKoiKoi. Memijo sells hand-screened Colori del Sole beach cloths. They’re part of the 21st century’s Addiopizzo (Goodbye Graft) movement promoting Mafia-free products. Their slogan: Critical con-sumption. There’s also a crammed fish tackle shop selling T-shirts, which the owner painstakingly brushes and folds, proffering them like a sheaves of gold.

A trip to the hardware store for a cheap plastic colander is no simple transaction; it devolves into a heated debate between husband and wife. Drawers fly open, sprouting multiple handwritten ledgers, before the right invoice is lifted victoriously. So much fandango, but I’m moved by the ardent honesty in getting my colander price absolutely right. The scuttlebutt is that since the Prada family purchased a villa in Favignana, and two more on Levanzo, the Egadi are poised to break into international consciousness. May they retain their tender inefficiencies.

Over dinner at Le Bettola, a favorite slow-food haunt, we develop a proto-col that endures. As curious as we are famished, we filch from each other’s plates: Spaghetti with tuna roe bottar-ga! Linguine with fried sardines! Curly busiate in a mound of orange-lipped mussels! Grilled swordfish!

Francesco Balzani, a Florentine, runs two hip, outdoor eateries with dif-ferent menus, Camarillo Brillos (fresh octopus salad and tuna carpaccio) and Sotto Sale (tuna flank with eggplant caviar and tuna roe mayonnaise in caper powder). I ask him why he chose Favignana. “It’s the Mediterranean center, culling centuries of ingredients and flavors: Greek, North African, Sar-acen, southern Italian.”

Out of town, we eat at La Playa, run by the Lom-bardi family on a beach notable for its sunsets. Dinners start late and last long. Sicily’s coastline lights up across the water.

In the morning we re-view wind conditions for the calmest beach. Oh, the blessed cooling wind and the challenge it pos-es, ruling which bays are

too choppy to dock at or dive into on any given day. Cala Rossa wins. Favig-nana divides those who cotton to san-dy, child-friendly, more crowded bays (Lido Burrone, Praia, Cala Azzurra and Playa) and those enticed by wilder rocky coves (Bue Marino, Pirreca, Pre-vito, Calamoni and Cala Rotonda). With Levanzo pinioned on the horizon, Cala Rossa’s vast turquoise bay shimmers below cliffs carved by eons of sea and centuries of human labor. Favignana’s high-quality sandstone quarries have long been a bedrock of the economy.

A brutal, if precise, labor by hand divided men into diggers, movers and cart transporters. Their instruments — the pointed pick mannara and the flat-edged zappune — not only carved Cala Rossa, they built the islands’ cubist homes. We clamber down a path, navi-gate boulders in required water shoes and plunge into the cerulean sea. Mask and snorkel reveal competing schools of darting fish.

Sun- and salt-fatigued, we still can’t resist sidetracking, pulling over to ex-amine Favignana’s famed Giardini Ipogei. The defunct open-air quarries have been resurrected into lush, wind-protected gardens with grape vines and rosemary; olive, almond, lemon and fig trees; violet bougainvillea and wild caper bushes spilling white flow-ers.

Some days the boys split; other days we share adventures. Together, we undertake the zigzag path up Monte Santa Caterina to the abandoned fort, once a Saracen then a Norman look-out and finally a brutal Bourbon pris-on for patriots of Italy’s unification. Below, the town shrinks into a white crescent. We circle the summit, point-ing. To the west, the lavender main-land rises through summer haze; the island Levanzo is a blue-black triangle due north; the spine of mountainous Marettimo rears to the east. Anoth-er highlight is the boys’ “baptismal” scuba dive off Punta Longa’s penin-sula, guided by dive master and world

traveler Ivan Roveri. “From a diver’s point of view, it’s one of the most beautiful spots in the entire Mediter-ranean,” he says of the islands, “but it’s the altogether of the place that works.”

The Egadi have been blessed and betrayed by the sea; for millen-nia, residents were sustained by thousands of bluefin tuna that tri-angulate the islands on their seasonal run, prompting fishermen to slaughter them in what’s called mattan-za. The abundant tuna eventually led to the es-tablishment of the most prolific tuna cannery in the Mediterranean.

This story lives on in the beautifully re-stored Ex-Stabilimento Florio ethnographic museum. Lucrezia, our guide, leads us through the 19th and 20th cen-turies, under the rule of the progressive Flo-rio family: “Vincenzo

Florio is credited with being the first to preserve fish in olive oil rather than dried in salt.”

We tour the complex matrix of net-ting cages, fish preparation areas, caul-drons and canning tables. “No part of a tuna was ever wasted. It’s our a sea pig!,” our guide notes proudly.

As Natale Castiglione’s boat speeds past barren gray cliffs, I realize that time has paled my memory of tiniest Levanzo’s prized Paleolithic and Neo-lithic remains. We moor at the ascent to the cave where, in 1949, rabbit hunt-ers led a visiting student to a stunning discovery. Eight of us semi-crawl into the spotlighted chamber. It’s breath-taking.

Reproductions can’t do justice to the refined single-stroke Neolithic incisions of a mare turning her head to-ward her foal, the heft of a fast-pounding bull and the keenly alert deer. Or the somehow modernist Pa-leolithic paintings’ stark symbolism: Women are depicted as headless wine jugs, males dangle a sure fifth limb.

The town offers two ho-

tels and few stores. Sheep and goats graze on Levanzo’s largely harsh ter-rain. After a dip at a pebbly cove, I me-ander into the dry interior, high above the Mediterranean, skirting thistles, prehistoric-looking shrubs and dozing goats. I’m seeking the third lodging op-tion, Lisola Residence, once the Florio workmen’s compound, where laborers worked vineyards and orchards. It’s a green oasis. The manager explains: “We grow almonds, vegetables, herbs, bake our own bread. Chickens provide eggs; guests forage for lunch.” And lounge by the pool, or sunbathe in the wooden boat filled with pillows.

We’re on a hydrofoil, headed for a half-day tour of Marettimo’s grottos: the turquoise Way of the Ox, booming Thunder Grotto, stalactite-filled Cam-el’s Grotto and others.

At Cala Manione, we can’t get our snorkeling gear on fast enough as a fisherman points at fish such as occhi-ate (to be boiled with lemon) and arri-cioli (to be roasted with tomatoes), and mentions that last week a pod of dol-phins commandeered the bay. Later, we gorge at the restaurant Il Veliero with its sign boasting in Italian: “We cook what we fish.”

Hikers and naturalists relish Maret-timo’s extensive trails — upward to Punta Troia’s promontory or down-ward to Cala Bianca or Cala Nera, and others. Three young boys fall silent before us. But when I ask them about the poop-scattered land, they shout, “Signor Nino brings the asinelli:” For about 25 dollars, donkeys transport visitors along the trails.

We opt to go on foot to the ruins of a Roman garrison by a tiny Byzantine church. Marettimo was considered sa-cred by the Greeks, became a port of call between Carthage and Rome, and later supplied falcons captured for Emperor Frederick II’s pleasure.

Two hours on the Carcaredda trail, we encounter no one else through dense pine forest, rigorous inclines and dizzying descents. We wonder how Marettimo’s trees don’t slide into the sea.

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Terra-cotta rooftops of a former tuna cannery that’s now a museum on Favignana are seen from a mountain trail.

Italy’s Egadi archipelago, an accordion player fills the street in front of a church with music in Trapani.

BY JOSH ALDRICHADVOCATE STAFF

Rattlers 71 Kings 65The Red Deer College Kings have some work to do

to get back into national champion contender shape.The Kings (2-1) blew an 11-point fourth quarter

lead to lose 71-65 to the Medicine Hat College Rat-tlers (5-0) in Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference men’s basketball action in Red Deer on Friday.

Michael Farion keyed the comeback with a series of three pointers early in the fourth quarter, finish-ing 6-of-10 from beyond the arch for a game-high 28 points while Desmond Slack knocked in 19 points and forward Pietro de Andrade was a beast on the defensive end with 10 points, 13 rebounds, two blocks and three steals.

Matt Johnson led RDC with 12 points with grab-bing four rebounds while Marcelus Clay had 10 points and eight rebounds and Jacob Cusmano 11 points and a game-high four assists.

It is a game Kings head coach Clayton Pottinger is not happy with.

“I’m going to put that on the coaching staff, we need to prepare these guys a little bit more for these tight game situations,” he said. “This is a team that is fairly new together and they still have a lot to learn.”

RDC held a 52-41 lead early in the fourth quarter when Farion caught fire, hitting three-pointers at will.

At 2:30 of the frame, he put the Rattlers up 55-52. RDC came back down the court and Cusmano an-swered with one of his own to tie it, but Medicine Hat still had all of the momentum.

MHC led 68-65 with 19 seconds to go. Coming out of a time out, Cusmano was given some space early and took a long three that missed and Medicine Hat recovered with 11 seconds remaining. RDC fouled and Slade sank both attempts to ice the game.

“We needed a little more execution at the end there, but in fairness to Jacob, he sees daylight, he believes he can make it so he tries to take the shot to tie the game up which wasn’t exactly what we drew up,” said Pottinger. “Can’t fault him, he was set and he’s a gamer. Last year he made that shot down in Lethbridge to win the game”

The Kings lost a little bit of their composure late, seemingly panicking in the offensive zone on several possessions which led to turnovers and missed op-portunities.

It all sets up a big rematch at 3 p.m. this afternoon at RDC.

“We’re going to go back to the drawing board and see if we can fix a few things,” said Pottinger. “Medi-cine Hat ... we believe they’re one of the best, if not the best team in the league. I’m not surprised it was this type of game tonight. We’re going to get better.”

Rattlers 62 Queens 47The RDC Queens have played three games this

ACAC season and have suffered three double-digit losses.

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Rebels put Kootenay on IceBY ADVOCATE STAFF

Rebels 7 Ice 3CRANBROOK — The Red Deer Rebels opened

a six-game Western Hockey League road trip with some offensive fireworks Friday, burying the Koote-nay Ice 7-3 for their seventh win of the season.

“We got some offence. We capitalized on some op-portunities,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sut-ter, following the contest played in front of 1,901 fans at Western Financial Place.

The visitors stormed out to a 4-0 lead by the 2:17 mark of the second period. Adam Musil and Meyer Nell (power play) struck in the opening period and Brooks Maxwell and Scott Feser (short-handed) con-

nected in the first two minutes and change of the middle stanza.

The Ice got back into the contest with a second-period marker from Levi Cable and Rinat Valiev’s goal 1:50 into the final frame.

“We had control of the game and then we started getting into some penalty trouble,” said Sutter. “We were taking penalties in the offensive zone and al-lowed them to get momentum on their power play and get the game to 4-2.

“Then we got back at it. We started doing things right again and capitalized on some opportunities.”

Nell potted his second goal of the evening — and sixth of the season — at 8:59 of the third to give the Rebels a 5-2 lead. From there, Vince Loschiavo replied for Kootenay at 9:44 and Rebels forwards

Grayson Pawlenchuk and Evan Polei closed out the second with an even-strength tally at 11:58 and a man-advantage goal at 17:13.

“We wanted to come in here and get two points tonight and start off the road trip the right way,” said Sutter, who gave netminder Rylan Toth a thumbs-up for his 28-save performance.

The Rebels fired 29 shots at Kootenay goaltender Wyatt Hoflin.

Red Deer defenceman Brett Cote picked up four assists and was named first star of the game. The sec-ond and third stars were Nell and Ice forward Austin Vetteri, who had two helpers.

Kings, Queens falls to Rattlers


Red Deer College Queen Gillian Griffin drives past Medicine Hat Rattler Cierra Matsalla at Red Deer College Friday.

Flames score three in third period to beat PredatorsBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Calgary 4 Nashville 3CALGARY — Johnny Gaudreau sparked a third-

period comeback with a goal an and assist Friday night as the Calgary Flames scored three times in a span of just over four minutes to win 4-3 over the Nashville Predators.

Trailing 2-1, Jiri Hudler got the rally started with the tying goal 2:36 into the third period. It came on a set-up from rookies Markus Granlund and Gaudreau.

After TJ Brodie’s pass deflected in off Predators defenceman Shea Weber to give the Flames the lead at 4:23, Calgary went ahead by two goals two minutes after that.

Gaudreau darted down the left wing and after the 5-foot-9 rookie showed good strength in fending off the stick check of Craig Smith, he then whipped a shot from a bad angle that beat Pekka Rinne over his shoulder.

After beginning the season with no points in his first give games, a stretch that culminated in him being a healthy scratch, Gaudreau has two goals and four assists in his last six games.

Sean Monahan also scored for Calgary (6-4-2). The Flames finish 2-1-2 on a five-game homestand. They begin a five-game road trip Sunday night in Mon-treal.

James Neal paced the offence for Nashville (6-2-2) with two goals — his sixth and seventh of the season. Craig Smith also scored. The Predators have split the opening two games of a season-long six-game road trip, which continues Sunday in Vancouver.

The banged up Flames were without three of their top centres for the season in Mikael Backlund (ab-dominal strain), Matt Stajan (knee) and Joe Colborne (upper body). They joined Mason Raymond (shoul-der), who is also sidelined.

Tied 1-1 in the second period, Neal gave Nash-ville its first lead of the night at 11:09. Mike Ribeiro beat Monahan on a face-off, pulling the puck back to Neal at the top of the face-off circle. His quick shot

through several sets of legs beat Jonas Hiller, who didn’t appear to see it.

Neal and Ribeiro, who leads the team in points, were both acquired in the summer by Predators general manager David Poile in an attempt to gener-ate more offence for his team, which finished 19th in scoring a year ago while missing the playoffs by

three points.Scoreless after 20 minutes, Monahan opened the

scoring at 4:23 of the second by banging in a Dennis Wideman rebound for his third of the season.

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Nashville Predators’ James Neal, centre, is checked to the ice by Calgary Flames’ Mark Giordano, left, as goalie Jonas Hiller, from Switzerland, looks on during first period NHL hockey action in Calgary, Friday.

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REBELS: Spokane up nextOther Rebels enjoying a multiple-point night were

Feser (1-2), Austin Strand (0-2), Maxwell (1-1) and Pawlenchuk (1-1).

The 7-7-1-0 Rebels are in Spokane tonight to face the Chiefs, then have two days off before taking on the Seattle Thunderbirds, Everett Silvertips, Port-land Winterhawks and Tri-City Americans over the following five days.

● The Ice will regain the services of forward Sam Reinhart in short order after the Buffalo Sabres reassigned their first-round pick — second overall — in the 2014 NHL entry draft Friday.

● The Prince Albert Raiders fired head coach Cory Clouston Friday. Associate coach Dave Manson was the interim head coach during the Raiders’ 6-3 win over the host Moose Jaw Warriors Friday night.

Clouston joined the Raiders on June 1, 2013 and was in the second year of a two-year contract with the team. He had an overall record of 41-41-3-2 with the Raiders.

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COLLEGE: Can’t throwmomentum away

Following their 62-47 loss to the MHC Rattlers (2-3) on Friday night, Queens head coach Ken King made it clear that their excuse of a roster filled with first year play-ers was no longer good enough.

“It’s a momentum game and when you have momentum you can’t be throwing it away by throwing up a bad shot or making a silly mistake on a pass or missing a help side and allowing a lay up, and that’s youth,” said Queens head coach Ken King. “I think I’ve reached my limit on us-ing the first-year excuse, now ere at the point where that stuff just has to be there.”

Kennedy Werre led the Rattlers with 20 points and 17 rebounds while Alexandra Dooley added 12 more points.

The Queens respond-ed with 12 points from Kennedy Burgess and 10 more from Morgan Dool while third year guard Dedra Janvier had nine points and seven assists.

They came out in the first quarter and actu-ally took the play to the Rattlers, leading for most of the 10-minute frame and using their speed to break the Rat-tlers press.

But the veteran Medi-cine Hat squad settled in during the second quarter and out classed the Queens the rest of the way.

RDC was plagued by two issues, defensive zone break downs and poor shot selection. They allowed the Rattlers to shoot 43.5 per cent from the field in the game, including 46.2 per cent in the second half. RDC, meanwhile, shot just 25.4 per cent, including 18.4 per cent in the final 20 minutes. Worse yet was their three-point shooting, as they were a dreadful 3-for-18 from behind the arch — Jan-

vier alone was 1-for-7.“When we’re only hitting three threes, we can’t be

taking 18 of them,” said King.The biggest thing they can build on is they took far

better care of the ball, cutting their turnovers almost in half from last week to just 20 this game, while re-ceiving solid games from the likes of Burgess, Dool and Aneca Fretts.

The two teams face each other again this after-noon at 1 p.m.

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NHL: Hiller made second straight start

The lead lasted only 67 seconds before Smith cor-ralled a loose puck in front of the Calgary net and beat Hiller.

Hiller, who finished the night with 28 saves, im-proves to 3-2-1 on the season. The veteran goalie was making his second straight start for Calgary, which was significant in the fact that until tonight, coach Bob Hartley had been rotating Hiller and Karri Ramo.

In giving up a season-high four goals on 30 shots, Rinne sees his record fall to 6-2-1.

Notes: Brodie’s four goals matches his career-high... Prior to the game, a moment of silence was held for ex-Stampeder and prominent businessman John Forzani. The 67-year-old Calgary native passed away from a heart attack... The game marked the NHL debut of Flames LW Michael Ferland and the season debut for C Markus Granlund... Ferland (up-per body) left the game late in the second period and

did not return after being shaken up after a hit by Anton Volchenkov... Back in the Flames line-up for the first time in a while were RW Devin Setoguchi and RW Brian McGrattan. They had been healthy scratches for the last four and five games respec-tively.

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Hamilton 34 Ottawa 25OTTAWA — It wasn’t the way the Ottawa Red-

Blacks wanted their final home game of their inau-gural season to play out, but it ended in very similar fashion to most other games at TD Place this season.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats had a special team’s touchdown and two defensive touchdowns Friday night in a 34-25 win over the RedBlacks, who finish the year with two wins in nine home games.

“This is the way it’s been all season and you don’t want to get complacent or be happy about losing. They all sting,” defensive lineman Keith Shologan said.

“We had some mistakes that cost us big time but there were some positives. The offence moved the ball and scored, we just had some plays that didn’t go our way on both sides of the ball.”

Both Ottawa quarterbacks, Henry Burris and Dan-ny O’Brien, threw a pick six while their counterpart Zach Collaros tossed a touchdown pass and no inter-ceptions.

The Tiger-Cats (8-9) needed the win because they close out the regular season next week against the Montreal Alouettes (8-8) while the Toronto Argo-nauts (7-9) host the RedBlacks (2-15).

With the West Division having already claimed the cross-over playoff berth, only two of the teams in the East Division will make the playoffs.

“We need Toronto not to win out. We’re pulling for a loss this weekend, honestly,” Tiger-Cats coach Kent Austin said.

“All we can do is take care of what we can take care of and now that’s winning next week regardless of what happens in Toronto and Montreal’s game this weekend. We needed to put ourselves in a position to possibly challenge for the division and get the bye week, so we’ll see what happens this weekend.”

The teams traded field goals in the first half of the fourth quarter with Justin Medlock connecting from 28-yards to put the Tiger-Cats up 27-22 before Brett Maher hit from 42-yards to pull the Renegades to within two points at 27-25.

Then, with less than five minutes to play, while pinned deep in his own end, Burris threw an inter-ception that Delvin Breaulx returned 26-yards for a touchdown.

That gave the Tiger-Cats a 34-25 lead and the rest

was left up to their defence, who intercepted another Burris pass — this one in the end zone with less than two minutes to play.

“Our defence held strong when we had all the turnovers. Offensively we’re moving the ball but we can’t have that many turnovers. It’s tough. We put ourselves in a hole and just couldn’t get out of it,” RedBlacks guard Jon Gott said.

“We battled the whole way but we’ve got one more game. We’ll come out and compete because we want

to win. We’re not here to give games away so we’ll come out and put up a good fight.”

Early in the third quarter the Tiger-Cats took their first lead as Medlock kicked a 22-yard field goal at 4:52 to put Hamilton up 17-15.

Jeremiah Johnson was quick to respond for the Redblacks, though, as his 26-yard touchdown run eight minutes into the third quarter put the Red-blacks back on top 22-17.

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Ottawa RedBlacks Jeremiah Johnson (27) runs the ball against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats during first half CFL action in Ottawa on Friday.


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CALGARY — Calgary lost a promi-nent businessman while the Stamped-ers lost a former offensive lineman. But John Hufnagel lost a friend.

John Forzani, who spent six sea-sons with the CFL club and later built a chain of successful sporting goods stores, died Friday. He was 67.

The Stampeders confirmed For-zani’s passing in a statement Friday morning. The Calgary native had been on life support in a California hospital after suffering a heart attack.

“John was a teammate, a friend, one of the funniest guys I ever knew,” said Hufnagel, the Stampeders’ head coach and general manager. “John was in-strumental, along with Ted Hellard, Doug Mitchell and Bob Vickers, in my hiring in 2008, which I’m very appre-ciative of.

“Even though John is not with us, his legacy and his mark that he made in the sports world and in the business world in the community of Calgary will survive.”

The Stampeders have become a

model franchise under Hufnagel, fin-ishing atop the West Division four times since his return. Calgary has reached the Grey Cup twice in that time, winning in ’08.

Hufnagel has amassed a superb 87-36-1 record as Calgary’s head coach heading into Saturday’s home game against Winnipeg. The Stampeders have the CFL’s best record this season at 14-2.

“He was pivotal in getting coach Hufnagel up here and for that reason alone, he’s directly contributed to our success on the field,” Stampeders run-ning back Jon Cornish — the CFL’s outstanding player last year — said of Forzani. “He’s definitely a guy who took some of his football habit and kept on living with them throughout his life.

“He’s always worked hard and played hard.”

After attending Utah State, Forzani won a Grey Cup in 1971 in his first sea-son with Calgary.

He played alongside his brothers Tom and Joe.

Forzani’s nephew, Johnny, was also with the club from 2010 to ’12.

John Forzani dies at 67

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PARIS — Milos Raonic perfectly timed his maiden win over Roger Federer.

The seventh-seeded Raonic, who had never beaten the 17-Grand Slam champion in six previous meetings, hit 21 aces and lost only 15 points on his serve to complete a 7-6 (5), 7-5 win to reach the semifinals of the Paris Masters on Friday. It was a must-win match for the big-serving Canadian, who kept alive his chances of qualify-ing for the ATP Finals after finding his best tennis at the right time. He will be guaranteed a birth in London if he wins the title in Paris or David Ferrer loses to Kei Nishikori later Thursday in the final quarterfinal.

“Considering all the circumstances around it, I think this was the biggest win for me,” said the 23-year-old Ra-onic.

The Wimbledon semifinalist brutal-ly ended Federer’s 14-match winning streak as the Swiss took a hit in his bid to overtake the top-ranked Novak Djokovic in the race for the year-end No. 1 spot. Djokovic, a two-time cham-pion in Paris, defeated eighth-seed-ed Andy Murray 7-5, 6-2 to advance to the semifinals. Murray, who sealed his spot at the finals in the previous round, played 23 matches over the past six weeks and could not prevent the Serb from winning the final 5 games of the match as fatigue took its toll.

“I started rushing points at the end, that’s for sure. I tried to finish points quite quickly,” said Murray, who claimed his third title in five weeks last Sunday in Vienna.

Federer, who arrived in Paris on the back of consecutive titles in Shang-hai and Basel, only had a few openings against Raonic. He created his sole break point in the 10th game of the sec-ond set but the Canadian saved it with an ace.

“It hurts to lose that way, but he deserves credit for serving the way he did and doing those passing shots the way he had to do it,” said Federer.

Raonic managed to break Federer in the 11th game with two consecutive sumptuous shots.

The Canadian first hit a stunning forehand return to create a break op-portunity and converted it with a cross-court backhand pass.

Federer, who is looking to clinch the year-end top spot for a record-equaling sixth time, will now take some time off before chasing more points at the finals, then with Switzerland in the Davis Cup final against France next month.

Djokovic now leads Federer by 670 points in the year-to-date rankings and could add another 640 points to his total with a win in Paris, but Federer has not given up his hopes of finishing at the top.

“I always thought it was going to get solved in London,” Federer said. “Whether I am No. 1 at the end of this year, or one or two weeks later next year, it doesn’t really matter.

Novak seems to be fit, anyway. Now I will have a good preparation for Lon-don. It’s not that I didn’t want to win here, but I knew it was going to be tough from the start.”


Calgary Flames president Ken King, left, and Calgary Stampeders chairman John Forzani shake hands during news conference in Calgary, on March 29, 2012. Forzani, 67, who has been on life support after suffering a heart attack, has died.

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Lightning fall to Raiders in tournament playoff

The host Lightning fell 25-27, 19-25 to the Lindsay Thurber Raiders in a Hunting Hills senior volleyball tourna-ment boys playoff game Friday.

The Raiders were 3-1 in round-robin games, defeating Okotoks Foothills 25-18, 25-11 and Grande Prairie Charles Spencer 25-19, 25-21, and falling 22-25, 19-25 to the Notre Dame Cougars.

The Cougars were 3-0 in round-rob-in action, with additional wins of 25-20, 25-20 over Charles Spencer and 25-21, 30-32, 15-8 over Foothills. Notre Dame will return to action in today’s playoffs.

The Lightning opened with a 19-25, 25-23, 20-18 round-robin victory over Charles Spencer, then lost 22-25, 25-23, 13-15 to Grande Prairie. Also advanc-ing from Friday’s playoffs were Leth-bridge Chinook, Sherwood Park Bev

Facey and Foothills.On the girls side, Hunting Hills and

Lindsay Thurber each posted a 4-1 record.

The Lightning defeated Foothills 25-19, 25-15, Charles Spencer 25-21, 24-26, 15-11, and Lethbridge Chinook twice — 26-24, 24-26, 15-8 and 25-18, 19-25, 15-9. Hunting Hills lost 22-25, 22-25 to Edmonton Harry Ainlay.

The Raiders, meanwhile, downed Notre Dame 25-23, 21-25, 15-9, Harry Ainlay on two occasions — 25-23, 25-21, and 25-12, 25-20 — and Calgary Western Canada 25-20, 25-13. Lindsay Thurber was defeated by Chinook 25-22, 25-21.

Notre Dame was 1-4 Friday, the lone win coming over Western Canada by a score of 25-27, 25-22, 15-8. The Cougars also lost to Western Canada, Harry Ainlay and Charles Spencer.

The tournament resumed this morn-ing and concludes with the boys and girls championship finals at 5:30 p.m.

HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL

Mustangs 3, Grizzlys 2OLDS — Matthew McDonald made

43 saves to backstop the Calgary Mus-tangs to a 3-2 Alberta Junior Hockey League win over the Olds Grizzlys Fri-day before 212 fans at the Sportsplex.

Bryan Huck and Vincent Paquette scored first-period goals for the visi-tors and Adam Berg broke a 2-2 tie with the eventual winner at 11:05 of the middle stanza. Colton Sheen and

Landon Kletke replied for the Grizzlys,

who got a 25-save outing from Jordan

Piccolino.

The Grizzlys were zero-for-nine on

the power play; the Mustangs were ze-

ro-for-seven.

The Grizzlys are idle until next Fri-

day, when they face the Dragons in

Drumheller. Olds’ next home game is

Nov. 14 versus the Calgary Canucks.

Queens 6 Trojans 4CALGARY — Racheal Hoppins and

Ashley Graf each scored twice Friday to lead the RDC Queens to a 6-4 ACAC Women’s Hockey League win over the SAIT Trojans. Rikki Leonard and Keinyn Nordell also tallied for the vis-iting Queens, while Megan Jones and Taylor Hall each picked up two assists. Winning netminder Moriah Andrews made 18 saves as RDC held a 35-22 ad-vantage in shots.

“This was a great win as we worked

hard in our past three games and con-trolled most of the play but didn’t get the results we wanted,” said RDC head coach Bob Rutz.

“We showed great resiliency be-ing down two goals tonight and we got some luck around the net.

“I believe that we still can get bet-ter and I’m excited about the potential of this team.”

The Queens return to action Thurs-day in an exhibition game against Edge Academy at 7 p.m. at the Arena.

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SCOREBOARD B7SATURDAY, NOV. 1, 2014

Local SportsToday

● Senior high volleyball: Hunting Hills girls/boys tournament.● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Bruins at Red Deer Northstar, 11 a.m., Arena; Calgary Stampeders at Red Deer Aero Equipment, 4:45 p.m., Arena.● College basketball: Medicine Hat at RDC, women at 1 p.m., men to follow.● Major bantam hockey: Red Deer Black and Red Deer White, 2 p.m., Arena.● Bantam AA hockey: Olds at Sylvan Lake, 3:30 p.m., Caroline; Foothills at Lacombe, 5:45 p.m.● High school football: Central Alberta League City Division final — Hunting Hills vs. Lindsay Thurber, 5 p.m., Great Chief Park.● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Blackhawks at Lacombe, 6 p.m., Blackfalds; Cranbrook at Olds, 7:30 p.m.● Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.; Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena● WHL: Red Deer at Spokane, 8:05 p.m. (The Drive)

Sunday● Peewee AA hockey: Wheatland at Red Deer TBS, 11:30 a.m., Kin City A; Red Deer Parkland at Olds, 12:15 p.m.; Bow Valley at Sylvan Lake, 2:30 p.m., Innisfail Blue.● Major bantam girls hockey: Edmonton at Red Deer, noon, Kin City A.● Major midget girls hockey: Sherwood Park at Red Deer, 12:45 p.m., Collicutt Centre.● Chinook senior hockey: Okotoks at Bentley, 2 p.m.● Bantam AA hockey: Airdrie at Olds, 2:45 p.m.; Airdrie at Olds, 2:45 p.m.; Foothills at Sylvan Lake, 4:45 p.m., Innisfail Blue.● Heritage junior B hockey: Mountainview at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m.● Minor midget AAA hockey: Edmonton Southside at Red Deer Northstar, 4:15 p.m., Arena.● Men’s basketball: Grandview Allstars vs. Orangemen, Kingsmen vs. Triple A Batteries, Johns Manville vs. Rusty Chuckers, 4:15 p.m.; Carstar vs. Monstars, All Sports Cresting Lacombe vs. Silver Spurs, Alken Basin Drillers vs. Driven, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Lindsay Thurber.● Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Elks at Olds, 5:30 p.m.

Curling

TransactionsBASEBALL

American LeagueBALTIMORE ORIOLES — Reinstated LHP Jo-

han Santana from the 60-day DL. Claimed LHP Pat-rick McCoy off waivers from Detroit. Declined 2015 options on OF Nick Markakis and C Nick Hundley.

BOSTON RED SOX — Reinstated RHP Ryan Dempster from the restricted list and OF Shane Victorino from the 60-day DL. Declined 2015 option on LHP Craig Breslow.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Declined 2015 option on RHP Felipe Paulino.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Exercised 2015 op-tion on INF Mike Aviles. Promoted Ross Atkins to vice-president-player personnel, Carter Hawkins to director of player development and Paul Gillispie to director of pro scouting.

DETROIT TIGERS — Reinstated RHP Joel Hanrahan from the 60-day DL. Exercised 2015 option on RHP Joakim Soria. Assigned RHP Evan Reed and INF/OF Don Kelly outright to Toledo (IL). Selected the contract of OF Wynton Bernard from West Michigan (MWL).

HOUSTON ASTROS — Reinstated RHPs Matt Albers and Jesse Crain from the 60-day DL.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Reinstated RHPs Luke Hochevar and Michael Mariot from the 60-day DL.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Reinstated RHP Mike Pelfrey from the 60-day DL.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Reinstated 1B Kyle Blanks and RHPs Jarrod Parker and A.J. Griffin from the 60-day DL. Claimed OF Andrew Brown off waivers from the N.Y. Mets. Selected the contract of 2B Tyler Ladendorf from Nashville (PCL).

SEATTLE MARINERS — Reinstated OF Frank-lin Gutierrez from the restricted list.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Exercised 2015 option on INF/OF Ben Zobrist.

TEXAS RANGERS — Named Steve Buechele bench coach, Hector Ortiz first base coach/catch-ing instructor and Jayce Tingler major league field co-ordinator. Assigned RHPs and Alfredo Figaro and INF Ed Lucas outright to Round Rock (PCL). Announced Adcock refused assignment and chose free agency.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Reinstated OF Melky Cabrera from the 60-day DL. Claimed OF Andy Dirks off waivers from Detroit. Agreed to terms with LHP Jeff Francis on a minor league contract.

National LeagueARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Reinstated

RHPs David Hernandez and Bronson Arroyo and LHPs Patrick Corbin and Matt Reynolds from the 60-day DL.

ATLANTA BRAVES — Reinstated RHP Gavin Floyd from the 60-day DL.

CHICAGO CUBS — Fired manager Rick Rente-ria. Named Joe Maddon manager. Assigned 1B Chris Valaika and OF Josh Vitters outright to Iowa (PCL).

CINCINNATI REDS — Reinstated RHP Homer Bailey, LHP Sean Marshall and 1B Joey Votto from the 60-day DL.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Exercised 2015 option on RHP LaTroy Hawkins. Assigned INF/OF Matt McBride outright to Colorado Springs (PCL).

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Reinstated LHP Paul Maholm and RHP Josh Beckett from the 60-day DL. Declined 2015 option on RHP Chad Billingsley. Announced RHP Brian Wilson exercised his 2015 option.

MIAMI MARLINS — Reinstated RHP Kevin Gregg and 2B Rafael Furcal from the 60-day DL.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Exercised 2015 op-tion on RHP Yovani Gallardo and their half of 2015 mutual option on 3B Aramis Ramirez. Declined 2015 option on 2B Rickie Weeks.

NEW YORK METS — Reinstated RHP Bobby Parnell and RHP Matt Harvey from the 60-day DL. Sent LHP Scott Rice, RHP Dana Eveland RHP Bud-dy Carlyle and INF Josh Satin to Las Vegas (PCL).

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Announced RHP A.J. Burnett and the team have declined their mu-tual option.

FOOTBALLNational Football League

NFL — Fined Oakland S Brandian Ross $22,050 for his actions during last week’s game.

ATLANTA FALCONS — Released DB Kimario McFadden from the practice squad. Signed DB Sean Baker to the practice squad.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed RB Darrin Reaves to the practice squad.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Released TE Konrad Reuland from the practice squad. Signed LB Carlos Fields to the practice squad.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released DE Ben Bass and WR Jonathan Krause from the prac-tice squad. Signed G Chris Barker and LB Deontae Skinner to the practice squad.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Signed LB Todd Davis from the practice squad.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed LB Justin An-derson to the practice squad.

ST. LOUIS RAMS — Signed QB Case Keenum to the practice squad.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Released DBs Aaron Hester and Marcus Cromartie from the practice squad. Signed CB Kendall James to the practice squad.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Released TE Rashaun Allen from the practice squad. Signed TE Brett Brackett and WR Chris Matthews to the practice squad.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

NHL — Suspended Vancouver F Alexandre Burrows three games for a late, illegal check during Thursday’s game.

BUFFALO SABRES — Reassigned F Sam Re-inhart to Kootenay (WHL).

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Reassigned G Scott Darling to Rockford (AHL).

DALLAS STARS — Assigned F Branden Troock from Texas (AHL) to Idaho (ECHL).

EDMONTON OILERS — Assigned G Tyler Bunz from Oklahoma City (AHL) to Wichita (ECHL).

HockeyWHL

EASTERN CONFERENCEEAST DIVISION

GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtBrandon 17 13 3 1 0 88 57 27Swift Current 18 10 7 0 1 54 51 21Regina 16 7 8 1 0 51 45 15Prince Albert 16 7 9 0 0 46 50 14Moose Jaw 16 6 9 0 1 42 57 13Saskatoon 15 5 10 0 0 41 69 10

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtMedicine Hat 14 11 2 1 0 62 28 23Edmonton 15 9 4 0 2 47 38 20Red Deer 15 7 7 1 0 56 54 15Calgary 15 7 7 0 1 55 46 15Lethbridge 16 5 9 1 1 41 65 12Kootenay 16 3 13 0 0 32 71 6

WESTERN CONFERENCEB.C. DIVISION

GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtKelowna 14 13 1 0 0 73 32 26Kamloops 17 9 7 1 0 59 58 19Victoria 16 8 7 1 0 48 55 17Prince George 16 8 8 0 0 47 70 16Vancouver 14 6 8 0 0 49 42 12

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtEverett 13 9 1 2 1 49 31 21Spokane 13 7 3 3 0 38 38 17Tri-City 15 8 7 0 0 41 38 16Seattle 14 6 5 2 1 37 39 15Portland 17 5 10 0 2 51 73 12

z-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

Friday’s resultsBrandon 5 Lethbridge 4 (OT)

Swift Current 3 Calgary 0Prince Albert 6 Moose Jaw 3

Regina 5 Saskatoon 2Red Deer 7 Kootenay 3

Saturday’s gamesCalgary at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.Lethbridge at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.Swift Current at Regina, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.Kelowna at Portland, 8 p.m.

Kamloops at Prince George, 8 p.m.Edmonton at Everett, 8:05 p.m.Red Deer at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Tri-City at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.Vancouver at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday’s gamesTri-City at Victoria, 2:05 p.m.

Kamloops at Prince George, 3 p.m.Edmonton at Portland, 6 p.m.Kelowna at Vancouver, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, November 4Calgary at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.

Swift Current at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.Red Deer at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday, November 5Calgary at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.Red Deer at Everett, 8:05 p.m.Edmonton at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.Victoria at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIESRebels 7, Ice 3

First Period1. Red Deer, Musil 6 (Cote, Strand) 2:38.2. Red Deer, Nell 5 (Feser, Cote) 8:36 (pp).Penalties — Valiev Koo (interference) 7:03, Doetzel RD (hooking) 9:21, Valiev Koo (hooking) 15:47.

Second Period3. Red Deer, Maxwell 3 (Cote, Pawlenchuk) 1:01.

4. Red Deer, Feser 4 (Maxwell) 2:17 (short-handed-SH).5. Kootenay, Cable 3 (Descheneau, Vetterl) 7:12.Penalties — Doetzel RD (roughing) 1:19, Bleackley RD (slashing) 5:12, Fafard RD (high-sticking) 12:37, Fafard RD (high-sticking) 12:37, Alfaro Koo (board-ing) 15:07.

Third Period6. Kootenay, Valiev 1 (Philp, Vetterl) 1:50.7. Red Deer, Nell 6 (unassisted) 8:59.8. Kootenay, Loschiavo 2 (Cable, Faith) 9:44.9. Red Deer, Pawlenchuk 6 (Johnson, Strand) 11:58.10. Red Deer, Polei 6 (Feser, Cote) 17:13 (pp).Penalties — Fleury Koo (tripping) 16:20, Fafard RD (fighting) 17:49, Faith Koo (fighting) 17:49, Doetzel RD (holding) 19:08.

Shots on goal byRed Deer 8 12 9 — 29Kootenay 5 15 11 — 31

Goal — Red Deer: Toth (W, 6-5-1); Kootenay: Hoflin (L, 3-9-0).

Wheat Kings 5, Hurricanes 4 (OT)First Period

1. Lethbridge, Wong 6 (Walters, Folk) :29.2. Brandon, Hawryluk 11 (Provorov, Waltz) 5:38 (pp).3. Lethbridge, Bricker 3 (Kitt, Skumatov) 6:13.4. Brandon, Provorov 8 (McGauley, Bukarts) 10:37.5. Lethbridge, Watson 6 (Jones, Jensen) 13:47 (pp).

Second Period6. Brandon, Quenneville 5 (Gabrielle) 1:35.7. Brandon, McGauley 6 (Quenneville) 16:11.

Third Period8. Lethbridge, Watson 7 (Jensen, Sayers) 16:54.

Overtime9. Brandon, Bukarts 9 (Provorov, Roy) 1:41 (pp).

Shots on goal byBrandon 14 12 7 3 — 36Lethbridge 11 8 8 0 — 27

Goal — Brandon: Thompson (W, 3-0-0); Lethbridge: Robidoux (LS, 1-4-1).

Broncos 3, Hitmen 0First Period

1. Swift Current, Rigby 9 (unassisted) 18:14.Second Period

2. Swift Current, Cave 3 (Lajoie, Gordon) 13:48 (pp).Third Period

3. Swift Current, Debrusk 10 (Cave) 19:09 (-EN.PP).Shots on goal by

Calgary 10 12 8 — 30Swift Current 3 5 8 — 16

Goal — Calgary: Shields (L, 5-5-0); Swift Current: Bow (W, 10-5-0).

Pats 5, Blades 2First Period

1. Regina, D’Amico 7 (Gay, Harrison) 6:09 (pp).2. Regina, McAmmond 2 (Smith, Williams) 16:03.

Second Period3. Regina, Gay 5 (D’Amico, Williams) 3:05 (pp).4. Regina, D’Amico 8 (Klimchuk) 10:18 (short-hand-ed-SH).5. Saskatoon, Forsberg 7 (Millette, McKechnie) 11:49 (pp).

Third Period6. Saskatoon, Zajac 3 (Stovin, Nogier) 12:59.7. Regina, Padakin 3 (Klimchuk, Brooks) 19:59 (-EN).

Shots on goal bySaskatoon 4 10 11 — 25Regina 16 14 9 — 39

Goal — Saskatoon: Amundrud (L, 2-3-0); Regina: Wapple (W, 5-7-1).

Raiders 6, Warriors 3First Period

1. Moose Jaw, Eberle 7 (White, Olynek) 7:15.2. Moose Jaw, Eberle 8 (White, Point) 7:56.3. Prince Albert, Leverton 7 (Quinney) 15:25 (pp).

Second Period4. Prince Albert, Stransky 2 (Montgomery) 9:34.

5. Prince Albert, Lange 2 (unassisted) 10:07.6. Prince Albert, Leverton 8 (Zaharichuk) 16:28.7. Prince Albert, Hart 7 (Tkatch) 19:50.

Third Period8. Moose Jaw, Rodewald 7 (Point, Brown) 3:09.9. Prince Albert, Morrissey 4 (Stewart, Vanstone) 6:59.

Shots on goal byPrince Albert 13 11 15 — 39Moose Jaw 11 8 4 — 23

Goal — Prince Albert: Parenteau (W, 1-3-0); Moose Jaw: Sawchenko (L, 6-5-0).

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUEEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAMontreal 11 8 2 1 17 29 29Tampa Bay 11 7 3 1 15 38 29Detroit 10 6 2 2 14 27 21Ottawa 9 5 2 2 12 26 22Boston 12 6 6 0 12 32 30Toronto 10 5 4 1 11 29 26Florida 8 3 2 3 9 12 17Buffalo 11 2 8 1 5 13 36

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAPittsburgh 9 6 2 1 13 36 22N.Y. Islanders 10 6 4 0 12 35 36New Jersey 10 5 3 2 12 30 34N.Y. Rangers 9 5 4 0 10 27 30Washington 9 4 3 2 10 27 23Philadelphia 10 4 4 2 10 32 36Columbus 10 4 6 0 8 26 34Carolina 8 0 6 2 2 15 33

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GANashville 9 6 1 2 14 23 17Chicago 10 6 3 1 13 27 19Minnesota 9 6 3 0 12 31 17Dallas 10 4 2 4 12 33 35St. Louis 9 5 3 1 11 22 18Colorado 11 3 4 4 10 27 32Winnipeg 10 4 5 1 9 20 26

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAAnaheim 12 9 3 0 18 33 22Vancouver 10 7 3 0 14 34 29Los Angeles 11 6 3 2 14 26 23San Jose 12 6 4 2 14 38 34Calgary 11 5 4 2 12 27 24Edmonton 10 4 5 1 9 27 36Arizona 9 3 5 1 7 22 34

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Friday’s GamesToronto 4, Columbus 1Detroit 5, Los Angeles 2Anaheim 2, Dallas 1, OT

Calgary 4 Nashville 3Saturday’s Games

Ottawa at Boston, 5 p.m.Chicago at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Washington at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.Philadelphia at Florida, 5 p.m.

Columbus at New Jersey, 5 p.m.Winnipeg at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.Arizona at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Colorado at St. Louis, 6 p.m.Dallas at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Edmonton, 8 p.m.N.Y. Islanders at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesDetroit at Buffalo, 3 p.m.

Los Angeles at Carolina, 3 p.m.Calgary at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Arizona at Washington, 5 p.m.Anaheim at Colorado, 6 p.m.Winnipeg at Chicago, 7 p.m.

Nashville at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIESFlames 4, Predators 3

First PeriodNo Scoring.

Second Period1. Calgary, Monahan 3 (Wideman, Glencross) 4:23 (pp).2. Nashville, Smith 4 (Ellis, Ekholm) 5:30.3. Nashville, Neal 6 (Ribeiro) 11:09.

Third Period4. Calgary, Hudler 3 (Granlund, Gaudreau) 2:36.5. Calgary, Brodie 4 (Monahan, Giordano) 4:23 (pp).6. Calgary, Gaudreau 2 (Engelland, Smid) 6:37.7. Nashville, Neal 7 (Cullen, Forsberg) 10:47 (pp).

Shots on goal byNashville 8 9 13 — 30Calgary 10 10 10 — 30Goal —

Ducks 2, Stars 1 (OT)First Period

No Scoring.Second Period

1. Anaheim, Perry 10 (Beauchemin) 16:45.Third Period

2. Dallas, Roussel 4 (Daley, Garbutt) 14:33.Overtime

3. Anaheim, Thompson 1 (Perry, Fowler) 2:30.Shots on goal by

Anaheim 11 5 7 1 — 24Dallas 8 1 11 2 — 22

Goal — Anaheim: Andersen (W, 7-1-0); Dallas: Lehtonen (LO, 4-0-4).

Maple Leafs 4, Blue Jackets 1First Period

1. Toronto, Kessel 6 (Winnik, Kadri) 15:28.Second Period

2. Toronto, Clarkson 3 (Phaneuf, Holland) 12:13 (pp).

Third Period3. Toronto, Kadri 3 (Kessel, Winnik) 2:38.4. Columbus, Atkinson 5 (Johansen, Johnson) 10:40 (pp).5. Toronto, Winnik 1 (Kessel) 16:27.

Shots on goal byToronto 9 16 2 — 27Columbus 9 9 11 — 29

Goal — Toronto: Bernier (W, 3-3-1); Columbus: McElhinney (L, 0-2-0).

Red Wings 5, Kings 2First Period

1. Detroit, Nyquist 6 (Zetterberg, Kronwall) 5:51 (pp).2. Detroit, Datsyuk 3 (unassisted) 9:42.3. Detroit, Nyquist 7 (Kronwall, Datsyuk) 11:44 (pp).4. Detroit, Tatar 2 (Nyquist, Sheahan) 15:28.

Second Period5. Los Angeles, Martinez 1 (Richards, Lewis) 10:41.

Third Period6. Los Angeles, Toffoli 6 (Regehr, King) 1:48 (sh).7. Detroit, Datsyuk 4 (Zetterberg, Abdelkader) 18:50 (en).

Shots on goal byLos Angeles 7 12 11 — 30Detroit 12 8 15 — 35

Goal — Los Angeles: Quick (L, 5-2-2); Detroit: How-ard (W, 5-1-2).

FootballCFL

East Division GP W L T PF PA PtMontreal 16 8 8 0 328 351 16Hamilton 17 8 9 0 388 380 16Toronto 16 7 9 0 413 434 14Ottawa 17 2 15 0 273 442 4

West Division GP W L T PF PA Pty-Calgary 16 14 2 0 465 313 28x-Edmonton 16 11 5 0 438 313 22x-B.C. 16 9 7 0 361 295 18x-Saskatchewan 17 9 8 0 375 424 18Winnipeg 17 6 11 0 379 468 12

x — clinched playoff berth. y — clinched divi-sion title.WEEK 19

Bye: SaskatchewanFriday’s result

Hamilton 34 Ottawa 25Saturday’s games

Winnipeg at Calgary, 2 p.m.B.C. at Edmonton, 5 p.m.

Sunday’s gameToronto at Montreal, 10 a.m.

WEEK 20Bye: WinnipegFriday, Nov. 7

Ottawa at Toronto, 5 p.m.Calgary at B.C., 8 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 8Montreal at Hamilton, 2 p.m.

Edmonton at Saskatchewan, 5 p.m.End of 2014 CFL Regular Season

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES

Tiger-Cats 34, RedBlacks 25First Quarter

Ott — Single Maher 39 8:49Ott — TD Johnson 9 run (Maher convert) 13:18

Second QuarterHam — TD Banks 13 pass from Collaros (Medlock convert) 3:40Ott — TD Carter 33 pass from Burris (Maher con-vert) 6:32Ham — TD Banks 75 kickoff return (Medlock con-vert) 7:09

Third QuarterHam — FG Medlock 22 4:52Ott — TD Johnson 25 run (Maher convert) 7:54Ham — TD Stewart 30 interception return (Medlock convert) 11:11

Fourth QuarterHam — FG Medlock 28 3:31Ott — FG Maher 42 7:39Ham — TD Breaux 27 interception return (Medlock convert) 10:30Hamilton 0 14 10 10 — 34Ottawa 8 7 7 3 — 25

Attendance — 24,101 at Ottawa.

National Football LeagueAMERICAN CONFERENCE

East W L T Pct PF PANew England 6 2 0 .750 238 177Buffalo 5 3 0 .625 178 165Miami 4 3 0 .571 174 151N.Y. Jets 1 7 0 .125 144 228

South W L T Pct PF PAIndianapolis 5 3 0 .625 250 187Houston 4 4 0 .500 185 166Tennessee 2 6 0 .250 137 202Jacksonville 1 7 0 .125 118 218

North W L T Pct PF PACincinnati 4 2 1 .643 161 164Baltimore 5 3 0 .625 217 131Pittsburgh 5 3 0 .625 205 196Cleveland 4 3 0 .571 163 152

West W L T Pct PF PADenver 6 1 0 .857 224 142San Diego 5 3 0 .625 205 149Kansas City 4 3 0 .571 176 128Oakland 0 7 0 .000 105 181

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PADallas 6 2 0 .750 213 167Philadelphia 5 2 0 .714 203 156N.Y. Giants 3 4 0 .429 154 169Washington 3 5 0 .375 171 200

South W L T Pct PF PACarolina 4 4 1 .500 177 236New Orleans 4 4 0 .500 227 198Atlanta 2 6 0 .250 192 221Tampa Bay 1 6 0 .143 133 223

North W L T Pct PF PADetroit 6 2 0 .750 162 126Green Bay 5 3 0 .625 222 191Chicago 3 5 0 .375 180 222Minnesota 3 5 0 .375 139 173

West W L T Pct PF PAArizona 6 1 0 .857 164 139San Francisco 4 3 0 .571 158 165Seattle 4 3 0 .571 172 150St. Louis 2 5 0 .286 136 210

Thursday, Oct. 30

New Orleans 28, Carolina 10

Sunday, Nov. 2Arizona at Dallas, 11 a.m.Philadelphia at Houston, 11 a.m.N.Y. Jets at Kansas City, 11 a.m.Washington at Minnesota, 11 a.m.Tampa Bay at Cleveland, 11 a.m.Jacksonville at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.San Diego at Miami, 11 a.m.St. Louis at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.Oakland at Seattle, 2:25 p.m.Denver at New England, 2:25 p.m.Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m.Open: Atlanta, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Green Bay, Tennessee

Monday, Nov. 3Indianapolis at N.Y. Giants, 6:30 p.m.

NFL Odds(Odds provided by SportsBetting.ag; favourites in capital letters) Spread O/USundayWashington at Minnesota Pick 43.5NY Jets at KANSAS CITY 9.5 42Arizona at DALLAS 4 48Tampa Bay at CLEVELAND 6.5 43.5PHILADELPHIA at Houston 2 48.5San Diego at MIAMI 2.5 45Jacksonville at CINCINNATI 11 44Oakland at SEATTLE 15 43DENVER at New England 3 54.5BALTIMORE at Pittsburgh 2 48St. Louis at SAN FRANCISCO 10 43.5MondayINDIANAPOLIS at NY Giants 3 50.5

Figure Skating

BasketballNBA

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

W L Pct GBBoston 1 0 1.000 —Toronto 1 0 1.000 —New York 1 1 .500 0.5Brooklyn 0 1 .000 1Philadelphia 0 2 .000 1.5

Southeast Division W L Pct GBMiami 1 0 1.000 —Charlotte 1 0 1.000 —Washington 1 1 .500 0.5Atlanta 0 1 .000 1Orlando 0 2 .000 1.5

Central Division W L Pct GBCleveland 1 1 .500 —

Indiana 1 1 .500 —Milwaukee 1 1 .500 —Chicago 1 1 .500 —Detroit 0 2 .000 1

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBHouston 2 0 1.000 —Memphis 2 0 1.000 —San Antonio 1 0 1.000 0.5New Orleans 1 0 1.000 0.5Dallas 1 1 .500 1

Northwest Division W L Pct GBPortland 1 0 1.000 —Denver 1 0 1.000 —Minnesota 1 1 .500 0.5Utah 0 2 .000 1

1/2Oklahoma City 0 2 .000 1 1/2

Pacific Division W L Pct GBGolden State 1 0 1.000 —Phoenix 1 0 1.000 —L.A. Clippers 1 0 1.000 —Sacramento 0 1 .000 1L.A. Lakers 0 2 .000 1.5

Friday’s GamesMemphis 97, Indiana 89Cleveland 114, Chicago 108, OTMilwaukee 93, Philadelphia 81San Antonio at Phoenix, 8 p.m.Portland at Sacramento, 8 p.m.L.A. Clippers at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games

Dallas at New Orleans, 5 p.m.Miami at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.Milwaukee at Washington, 5 p.m.Toronto at Orlando, 5 p.m.Memphis at Charlotte, 5 p.m.Indiana at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.Brooklyn at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.Denver at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.Boston at Houston, 6 p.m.Chicago at Minnesota, 6 p.m.Phoenix at Utah, 7 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesSacramento at L.A. Clippers, 1:30 p.m.Toronto at Miami, 4 p.m.Charlotte at New York, 5:30 p.m.Golden State at Portland, 7 p.m.

SKATE CANADAKELOWNA, B.C. — Results Friday from the

Skate Canada figure skating competition at Pros-pera Place:

MenShort Program

1. Javier Fernandez, Spain, 86.36; 2. Mura Takahito, Japan 82.57; 3. Konstantin Menshov, Russia, 81.70; 4. Stephen Carriere, U.S., 80.33; 5. Max Aaron, U.S., 76.50; 6. Kozuka Takahiko,

Japan, 75.85; 7. Michal Brezina, Czech Rep., 73.29; 8. Florent Amodio, France, 72.14; 9. An-drei Rogozine, Canada, 70.95; 10. Liam Firus, Canada, 64.94.

11. Adam Rippon, U.S., 62.83.

PairsShort Program

1. Meagan Duhamel & Eric Radford, Canada, 72.70; 2. Wenjing Sui & Cong Han, China, 65.22;

3. Evgenia Tarasova & Vladimir Morozov, Russia, 64.14; 4. Madeline Aaron & Max Settlage, U.S., 57.20; 5. Vanessa James & Morgan Cipres, France, 56.47; 6. Kirsten Moore-Towers & Michael Mar-inaro, Canada, 53.79; 7. Brittany Jones & Joshua Reagan, Canada, 49.80; 8. Mari Vartmann & Aaron van Cleave, Germany, 48.43.

Ice DanceShort Dance

1. Kaitlyn Weaver & Andrew Poje, Canada, 68.61; 2. Ksenia Monko & Kirill Khaliavin, Russia, 59.62; 3. Madison Hubbell & Zachary Donohue, U.S., 59.29; 4. Piper Gilles & Paul Poirier, Can-ada, 57.35; 5. Alexandra Aldridge & Daniel Eaton, U.S., 56.13; 6. Nelli Zhiganshina & Alexander Gazsi, Germany, 55.35; 7. Sara Hurtado & Adria Diaz, Spain, 52.43; 8. Elisabeth Paradis & Francois-Xavier Ouellette, Canada, 50.35.

2014 MASTERS OF CURLINGSELKIRK, Man. — Standings and schedule Friday from the Masters of Curling, an event on the 2014-15 Grand Slam of Curling series (event runs through Sunday; all times Eastern):

ROUND ROBINMEN

Group A W LKoe 3 1Laycock 3 1Edin 2 2Jacobs 2 2Cotter 0 4

Group B W LMichel 3 1McEwen 3 1Morris 2 2de Cruz 1 3Murdoch 1 3

Group C W LGushue 3 1Epping 3 1Howard 2 2Stoughton 2 2Ulsrud 0 4

Friday’s resultsEighth Draw

Gushue 7 Epping 3

Michel 6 Morris 5Ninth Draw

de Cruz 7 Murdoch 2Jacobs 8 Cotter 1

Draw 10Epping 6 Howard 5Morris 5 McEwen 3

Stoughton 8 Ulsrud 5Draw 11

Jacobs 7 Edin 6 (extra end)Koe 10 Laycock 1

Thursday’s resultsFifth Draw

McEwen 4 Michel 3Laycock 6 Cotter 5

Gushue 5 Howard 2Edin 7 Koe 3

Murdoch 7 Morris 6Sixth Draw

Epping 5 Ulsrud 4Seventh Draw

Howard 7 Stoughton 3Koe 8 Jacobs 5

McEwen 6 de Cruz 3Edin 6 Cotter 5

End of Round Robin

PLAYOFFSSaturday’s games

Quarter-finalsEpping vs. Michel; Laycock vs. McEwen; Gushue

vs. TBD; Koe vs. TBD, all 3:30 p.m.Semifinals

Quarter-final winners, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s gameFinal, 1 p.m.

WOMENGroup A

W LSweeting 3 1Jones 3 1Sidorova 2 2Flaxey 1 3Nedohin 1 3

Group B W LHoman 3 1Middaugh 2 2Paetz 2 2Tirinzoni 2 2Carey 1 3

Group C W LFeltscher 4 0Sigfridsson 2 2McDonald 2 2Anderson 1 3Muirhead 1 3

Friday’s resultsNinth Draw

Sweeting 9 Flaxey 3Draw 10

McDonald 5 Anderson 2Sidorova 8 Nedohin 5

Middaugh 6 Carey 5Draw 11

Feltscher 5 Sigfridsson 4Paetz 9 Tirinzoni 5

Draw 12Muirhead 6 Anderson 4

Homan 5 Carey 1Jones 6 Sidorova 4Thursday’s results

Sixth DrawHoman 7 Middaugh 4

Anderson 6 Sigfridsson 5 (extra end)Nedohin 3 Flaxey 2

Sweeting 7 Sidorova 4Seventh Draw

Feltscher 6 McDonald 5Paetz 8 Carey 3

Jones 7 Sweeting 3Tirinzoni 8 Homan 5

Eighth DrawSigfridsson 7 Muirhead 3

End of Round Robin

PLAYOFFSSaturday’s games

Quarter-finalsJones vs. Middaugh; Sweeting vs. Paetz; Feltscher

vs. TBD; Homan vs. TBD, all 11:30 a.m.Semifinals

Quarter-final winners, 8 p.m.Sunday’s game

Final, 9 a.m.


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1952 — Toronto Mayor Lamport debates with opponent Nathan Phillips in the first political debate on Canadian TV.1950 — Charles Cooper becomes the first black man to play in the National Basketball Association.1939 — Trans-Canada Air Lines starts daily coast-to-coast flights between Montreal and Vancouver.1813 — The American invasion of Lower Canada begins, as James Wilkinson sets out with 8,000 men from Sackets Harbor to attack Canada down the St. Lawrence.

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OTTAWA — Canada’s economy slowed unexpectedly in August, the first month to show a decline this year.

Economists had expected the econo-my to remain flat in August, according to Thomson Reuters data, but Statis-tics Canada reported that gross do-mestic product declined 0.1 per cent compared with July, which was flat compared with June.

Several economists said the July-September quarter will probably show annualized growth of 2.0 per cent, which would be below the Bank of Canada’s estimate of 2.3 per cent and the May-June quarter’s strong 3.1 per cent growth rate.

“The Canadian economy pretty much took the summer off, with overall output dropping in July and August combined, and managing less than a one per cent annualized growth rate in the past three months,” said Doug Por-ter, chief economist at Bank of Mon-treal (TSX:BMO).

“The good news, such as it is, is that the weakness was largely due to a pull-back in oil and gas output, partly re-lated to maintenance, and the rest of the economy is still plugging ahead,” said Porter.

Statistics Canada said overall goods production, including the resource and manufacturing sectors, fell 1.0 per cent in August.

The service industries grew 0.2 per cent overall in August, the agency said, with gains in the public sector, whole-sale trade and the finance and insur-ance sector.

Statistics Canada said oil and gas extraction contracted 2.5 per cent in August, following a 1.6 per cent de-cline in July.

The agency pointed out, however, that oil and gas extraction is still at a high level and had risen in seven of the eight months before the July and August drops.

It also said mining and quarrying increased 2.0 per cent in August on the strength of copper, nickel, lead and zinc mining.

Manufacturing output fell 1.2 per cent in August, after gains in the previ-ous three months.

Durable-goods manufacturing fell 1.0 per cent while non-durable goods manfacturing dropped 1.3 per cent.

Nick Exarhos, an economist with CIBC World Markets, said August’s economic softness was foreshadowed by weak auto manufacturing data ear-lier this month.

“Manufacturing output declined by 1.2 per cent on the month, reversing the prior month’s healthy gain, as un-usually low auto factory shutdowns in July cut the other way in the seasonal adjusted figures for August,” he wrote in a note.

BY HARLEY RICHARDSADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR

Red Deer will become a heritage livestock hot spot Nov. 22 and 23, when the annual Urban Farm Show returns to Westerner Park.

The event, which is organized by the Canadian Heritage Breeds Asso-ciation, showcases the types of ani-mals that were once common on farms but have given way to the commercial breeds favoured by large industrial ag producers. Some of those heritage breeds existed centuries ago.

Kathy Stevenson, a director with the non-profit association, said there will be a “vast array” of heritage chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese at the Urban Farm Show, as well as sheep, goats, cattle and pigs.

“With Canadian Heritage Breeds we’re trying to incorporate and build interest in all of the breeds of livestock that were common 100 years ago.”

This year’s Urban Farm Show is of particular significance because it’s be-ing held in conjunction with the Cana-dian National Poultry Show. It marks the first time the Canadian National Poultry Show, which is governed by the American Poultry Association, has been held in Alberta. Exhibitors from British Columbia, Manitoba and even farther way are expected to take part.

Attendees at the Urban Farm Show will see a broad range of heritage breeds, especially when it comes to poultry, said Stevenson.

“There is going to be row upon row

of cages with different types of poultry: chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese — little ones and big ones, and all the colours you can imagine.”

The Canadian Heritage Breeds As-sociation came into existence four years ago. It has members from across the province and beyond, but Cen-tral Alberta has been particularly ac-tive when it comes to raising heritage breeds.

“I think the interest is really grow-ing in this area and there are a lot of people interested in getting back into some of those original, traditional breeds for their farms and acreages,” said Stevenson. “It’s really encourag-ing to see that happening.”

Preserving heritage breeds is im-portant for more than reasons of nos-talgia, she said. Unlike many of their successors on today’s farms, heritage breeds tend to thrive outdoors, are less reliant on humans for their survival and have long reproductive lifespans.

“It’s all about preserving those spe-cial characteristics of health and vigor and disease tolerance — the things that we don’t see in the commercial breeds nowadays,” said Stevenson. “We still need to have those breeds to go back to.”

In addition to displays of heritage animals, the Urban Farm Show will feature a trade fair, as well as a petting zoo and other activities for children. With admission just $5, and free for children under 12, the goal is to draw lots of people and increase the public’s awareness of heritage breeds and their importance, said Stevenson.

“That’s what we’re hoping is to get the public coming and learning that there are more than just brown and white chickens”

Hours will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on

Sunday. The Urban Farm Show takes place in the Agricentre Pavilion.

For more information or to book a place at the trade fair, go to www.cana-dianheritagebreeds.com.

[email protected]

BY HARLEY RICHARDS

ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR

There will be plenty of farm talk at Westerner Park when the Agri-Trade Equipment Expo kicks off on Wednes-day. But if you listen carefully, you might also hear Spanish, Turkish and other languages.

Red Deer’s annual farm show, which runs from Nov. 5 to 8, will again draw international exhibitors and attend-ees, as well as a pair of delegations composed on foreign visitors.

Matt Cornall, an investment at-traction officer with Central Alberta: Access Prosperity, said a half-dozen people from Turkey — including a gov-ernor from the Province of Erzurum — will tour Agri-Trade on opening day. They’ll travel to Red Deer after taking in the Farmfare International show in

Edmonton, he said.That same day, Alberta Agriculture

and Rural Development will bring to the city a group of 23 people from Aus-tralia, Brazil, Mexico and the United States. This multi-country contingent will be touring the province, said Cor-nall.

In both cases, the ag-focused groups will have the opportunity to see one of Western Canada’s biggest farm shows and network with members of the in-dustry here.

“It’s just a nice chance for them to get a sense of what’s going on in Cen-tral Alberta, and also what’s going on on the equipment side,” said Cornall.

And there’s no telling where a hand-shake and exchange of business cards on the Agri-Trade floor could lead, he said. It might give a local business a foot in the door of an international customer and a competitive advantage.

“It builds relationships and then

there’s a great trade potential there.”Central Alberta: Access Prosperity

— which grew out of an economic alli-ance involving Red Deer County, the City of Red Deer, Red Deer College, the Red Deer Chamber of Commerce and Central Alberta Economic Part-nership (CAEP) — is again sponsoring Agri-Trade and will participate in Red Deer County’s booth.

Cornall said representatives of Cen-tral Alberta: Access Prosperity will visit international visitors at the show and host a networking reception Fri-day evening.

It will also stage a luncheon at Agri-Trade on Thursday. There, Wendy Schneider of Northline Angus will de-scribe how the purebred cattle com-pany evolved from its Alberta roots to become an international business.

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Heritage livestock headed to Red DeerURBAN FARM SHOW RETURNS TO WESTERNER PARK


Steven Vincent holds one of his 50 French Faverolles heritage chickens on his farm south east of Red Deer. Vincent will be participating in the National Poultry Show at the Westerner in Red Deer November 22-23.

Agri-Trade will have an international flavour

GDP down 0.1 per cent in August

ECONOMY


VANCOUVER — Lawyers for Trans Mountain pipeline will

be back in B.C. Supreme Court next Wednesday to seek an injunction against protesters who have blocked survey work in a conservation area in Metro Vancouver.

The subsidiary of energy giant Kind-er Morgan filed two separate court actions against protesters, after dem-onstrators confronted Trans Moun-tain crews on Burnaby Mountain last Wednesday. One person even crawled under a survey crew’s SUV and re-fused to leave.

The company is asking for an in-junction preventing protesters from blocking its crews from doing work on the expansion project on Burnaby Mountain. The company is also asking for damages and costs in a civil lawsuit over what it claims is trespass, assault and intimidation by protesters who chased away workers.

Justice Miriam Gropper heard Friday that the lawsuits were served against the defendants less than a day before. She said holding a hearing on Monday on the injunction would not give the defendants enough time to prepare.

But she also said pushing the hear-ing back a full week to Nov. 10 was un-justified, too, because the defendants likely anticipated the company’s ap-plication.

Gropper also turned down a request by Neil Chantler, who is representing one of the defendants, to issue a stop work order.

“I don’t have any basis at this point to issue, or jurisdiction for that matter, to issue a stop work order, and don’t

have any evidence to support such an order,” she said.

Chantler told Gropper that he strug-gled to respond to her decision.

“This entire situation arose last night,” he said. “I am a sole practitio-ner of a busy practice.”

Lawyer Casey Leggett, who repre-sents two defendants named in the court proceedings, Lynne Quarmby and Stephen Collis, said outside of court he respected the ruling.

“We’ve got a little bit more time, which is what we wanted so now it’s time to move ahead and look ahead and not look back at this relatively mi-nor application,” he said.

Kinder Morgan’s lawyer Bill Kaplan told reporters he understands why the judge would want to give the other side time to respond, calling the issue a “se-rious matter.”

“They were aware that the reaction of Trans Mountain would be to seek injunctive proceedings, and those will proceed on the fifth and they’ll have a right to make their submissions at that point and so will I,” he said of the de-fendants named in the lawsuits.

Court documents say the company’s inability to conduct the field stud-ies because of the protesters’ actions means its plan to expand the Trans Mountain pipeline will be delayed and cost both the firm and investors mon-ey.

Trans Mountain is authorized by the National Energy Board to conduct the field work, and the company accuses protesters of trespassing at three sepa-rate work sites and verbally abusing work crews.

“The protesters, including the de-fendants or some of them, physically obstructed Trans Mountain and its

agents by blocking their access to the site, and intimidated Trans Mountain and its agents through physical con-frontation, and yelling and screaming abusive words,” said the court docu-ments.

“An individual chained himself to a vehicle used by Trans Mountain and its agents and prevented them from safely withdrawing that equipment from the site.”

The company said it marked out work zones with signs, but some pro-testers pulled the signs out and dam-aged them. Other protesters erected tents and used vehicles to bar workers, making it clear that “if they attempted to perform the tasks for which they came to the site ... there would be a physical confrontation and that they would be physically prevented from doing so,” the court documents state.

At the end, the workers turned around and left.

SFU English professor Stephen Col-lis, who is listed in the statement of claim as one of the defendants, was on Burnaby Mountain Wednesday speaking on behalf of a group calling themselves the Caretakers. He said he didn’t witness the incidents described by Trans Mountain, but he finds some of the company’s claims “absurd.”

“So this U.S.-based company can take away my Canadian constitutional rights? It’s a public park,” he said in a phone interview on Friday. “I’m a public person, I can make statements, I can be in public space, be in a public park, but now I’ve been told I can’t do any of those things.”

Collis also said Burnaby Mountain is on municipal land, and it’s not up to Trans Mountain to declare protesters were trespassing.

Kinder Morgan to file court action against pipeline protesters

Diversified and IndustrialsAgrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 110.27ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 45.80BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.05BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 11.84Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.71Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.17Cdn. National Railway . . 79.46Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 234.43Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 38.96Capital Power Corp . . . . 25.58Cervus Equipment Corp 18.35Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 49.40Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 53.33Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 29.10Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.72

General Motors Co. . . . . 31.40Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 22.05Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.99SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 48.56Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 71.41Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 40.39Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 10.96Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 55.55

ConsumerCanadian Tire . . . . . . . . 123.57Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.65Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.38Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 58.72Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 19.50Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.75

Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 91.32Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.27WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 31.94

MiningBarrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 13.38Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.57First Quantum Minerals . 17.00Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 21.15Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.63Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . . .41Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.60Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 38.47Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.80Teck Resources . . . . . . . 17.81EnergyArc Resources . . . . . . . . 26.58Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 29.69Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 52.96Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.59Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 50.67Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 39.33Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 17.66Canyon Services Group. 10.89Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 27.89CWC Well Services . . . 0.7200

Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 21.00Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.02Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 96.71Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 55.14High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.92Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 27.21Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 54.23Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 4.55Penn West Energy . . . . . . 5.10Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.035Precision Drilling Corp . . . 9.39

Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 40.02Talisman Energy. . . . . . . . 7.19Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 10.10Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 7.34Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 63.96

FinancialsBank of Montreal . . . . . . 81.73Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 69.02CIBC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.89Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 37.75

Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.09Great West Life. . . . . . . . 31.58IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 45.08Intact Financial Corp. . . . 75.57Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.39National Bank . . . . . . . . . 52.68Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.76Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 80.01Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 40.09TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.47

MARKETS CLOSE The Toronto stock market

ran ahead sharply Friday on re-lief that another major central bank is stepping up to help keep the global economic recovery on track.

The S&P/TSX composite index jumped 154.63 points to 14,613.32 after the Bank of Ja-pan unexpectedly expanded a key stimulus program.

It will increase its purchases of government bonds and other assets in the world’s third-largest economy by between 10 trillion yen and 20 trillion yen (US$91 billion to $181 billion) to about 80 trillion yen (US$725 billion) in total annually.

Bank governor Haruhiko Kuroda said the increase was re-quired to prevent a reversal into a “deflationary mindset” that the country’s leaders contend has held back growth for many years. The bank judged the move nec-essary in the wake of weakening consumer demand following a consumption tax hike and the recent substantial decline in oil prices, which have been exerting downward pressure on inflation.

“At the very least it says cen-tral bankers are going to do ev-erything they can to try to get growth going,” said Philip Peturs-son, director of institutional equi-ties at Manulife Asset Manage-ment.

“And that’s what it seems like in Japan — this is everything and the kitchen sink.”

The Canadian dollar fell 0.6 of a cent to 88.72 cents US as Statistics Canada reported that gross domestic product dipped 0.1 per cent in August against

the flat showing that economists had expected.

In New York, the Dow Jones industrials shot up 194.9 points to 17,390.32, and the S&P 500 index gained 23.4 points to 2,018.05 — both indexes end-ing the session at new highs — while the Nasdaq climbed 64.6 points to 4,630.74.

The move by the Japanese central bank comes at a point when the U.S. Federal Reserve is winding up its marquee stimu-lus program.

It announced Wednesday that quantitative easing would end at the end of October.

Meanwhile, the TSX found support from the financial, tech and industrials sectors.

The energy sector was also positive, up 2.1 per cent even as December crude fell 58 cents to US$80.54 a barrel.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTSHighlights at the close of

Friday at world financial market trading.

Stocks:S&P/TSX Composite Index

— 14,613.32, up 154.63 pointsDow — 17,390.32, up 194.90

pointsS&P 500 — 2,018.05, up

23.40 pointsNasdaq — 4,630.74, up

64.60 points

Currencies at close:Cdn — 88.72 cents US, down

0.60 of a centPound — C$1.8030, up 1.22

centsEuro — C$1.4123, up 0.11

of a centEuro — US$1.2530, down

0.74 of a cent

Oil futures:US$80.54 per barrel, down

58 cents(December contract)

Gold futures:US$1,171.60 per oz., down

$27.00(December contract)

Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman:

$18.62 oz., down 41.8 cents$598.63 kg., down $13.44

ICE FUTURES CANADAWINNIPEG — ICE Futures

Canada closing prices:Canola: Nov. ’14 $1.30 high-

er $452.90; Jan ’15 $4.40 higher $439.00; March ’15 $6.60 higher $439.80; May ’15 $6.40 higher $440.80; July ’15 $6.70 higher $441.60; Nov ’15 $3.20 higher $436.00; Jan. ’16 $3.60 higher $443.50; March ’16 $3.60 higher $447.30; May ’16 $3.60 higher $447.30; July ’16 $3.60 higher $447.30; Nov. ’16 $3.60 higher $447.30.

Barley (Western): Dec. ’14 unchanged $140.00; March ’15 unchanged $143.00; May ’15 unchanged $143.00; July ’15 unchanged $143.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $143.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $143.00; March ’16 unchanged $143.00; May ’16 unchanged $143.00; July ’16 unchanged $143.00; Oct. ’16 un-changed $143.00; Dec. ’16 un-changed $143.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 610,000 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Bar-ley) Total: 610,000.


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OTTAWA — An agreement to cut the fees charged to merchants for accepting credit card payments likely won’t save consumers money, say Canada’s banks and opposition critics.

The non-binding deal, now expected to be un-veiled by the Harper government next week, would see so-called interchange fees cut, and then effec-tively capped, for an extended period.

The Conservatives pledged in their budget of last February to reduce credit card processing fees as part of their consumer-first agenda. But the Cana-dian Bankers Association, which was not directly in-volved in discussions, points to a study from last year that found savings were not passed on to consumers after Australia imposed a cap on interchange fees in 2003. And NDP consumer critic Glenn Thibeault says the reduction in processing fees is so slight that con-sumers probably won’t feel the impact.

“We still have the highest (interchange) fees in the world,” and likely will even after the cuts are an-nounced, Thibeault said, renewing his call for man-datory regulations.

“The only way the businesses can recoup the costs from these high fees is by increasing the price on goods,” he said.“If we’re only seeing a 10 per cent reduction, that 10 per cent reduction might not be passed down onto the consumers because small busi-ness owners are still being gouged.”

The Retail Council of Canada, on the other hand, said a study last year showed a majority of the sav-ings from recent debit card fee reductions in the U.S. were passed on by merchants to their customers.

There are roughly 76 million credit cards issued in Canada, more than five per household, which are used to pay for about half of the overall purchases made by Canadians.

Sources familiar with the negotiations say the agreement reached this week is voluntary.

Not that the key players — Visa and Mastercard — had much choice but to make cuts, given the back-lash from consumers and retailers over recent in-creases in swipe fees, says Karl Littler of the Retail Council of Canada.

“This is voluntary in the way that a shotgun wed-ding is voluntary,” said Littler, the council’s vice-president of provincial government relations and strategic issues.

“Banks and networks don’t offer up fee cuts out of a wellspring of the goodness of their hearts. This is something that has been reluctantly agreed to by the (interchange) networks.”

The agreement also upholds credit card company rules forbidding retailers from imposing surcharges on customers who use premium cards.

Lower credit card fees for retailers

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Sellout crowds helped raise more than $35,000 to support scholarship for girls’ education

in Africa at Shine!Tools for Schools Africa Foundation

(TFSA Foundation), a Red Deer-based registered charity, hosted the event on Sept. 25.

Each year at Shine!, more than 350 women enjoy shopping, wine and

dessert, live music, and visiting with friends in support of improving edu-cational opportunities for girls in Da-mongo, a northern region of Ghana.

Shine! is a huge sale of new and gen-tly used jewelry, scarves and purses. At the silent auction, guests bid on one-of-a-kind items such as diamond rings, art, gold and silver jewelry — even fur coats and an antique chair!

Guests waiting for the doors to open were entertained by a cappella chorus, Hearts of Harmony.

Ladies shopped while Namibian singer Garth Prince entertained with

his band.Special guest Gabriella Wumnaya,

a former headmistress from Damongo, compared the life of an uneducated and an educated girl in Damongo. Ga-briella helps TFSA Foundation by working with mentors at five schools where girls are sponsored.

TFSA has been supporting girls’ ed-ucation in Damongo for more than 10 years.

Less than one per cent of funds raised go to administrative costs.

How far does the money go? One hundred dollars will provide a year

of junior high education and $200 will pay for a year of high school. Post-secondary education for a promising young woman costs as little as $1,000 a year!

In July, Sophia graduated with such high marks that she is now a teaching assistant at Sunyani University.

Thank you to the generous donors, volunteers and guests who helped make Shine! such a big success.

Working together, we are making a difference: imagine being told that your daughter can go to school!

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The iconic downtown brick building was once an armoury and a firehall. Now it is home to the Piper Creek Op-timist Children’s Department of the Red Deer Public Library.

Historic facts and musings about the building will be revealed in More Than Cobwebs and Dust, a book that will be launched at the library on Nov. 8 to mark the library’s 100th anniversary in Red Deer.

“The book is a delightful tale of a young boy in search of a history proj-ect for school,” said Jill Griffith, youth services librarian.

The boy finds himself transported back in time when he enters what he thinks will be a boring dusty old build-ing full of books. To his surprise as he

journeys into the past, he meets fas-cinating characters and many adven-tures, said Griffith.

The book is written by library staff member Laural Randall and is illus-trated by Lorlie Vuori.

Randall and Vuori have collabo-rated on four other children’s picture books about rural life in Alberta.

Randall has worked for the library for 27 years, 20 of those in the old fire-hall. When the city fire department va-

cated the building for newer quarters, the old brick building became part of the library next door.

“Being able to document the past 100 years of this beautiful, historic building in More Than Cobwebs and Dust has been one of the highlights of my experience as an author,” said Randall.

The story caps a year of centennial celebrations for the Red Deer Public Library.

The launch of the story will be on Nov. 8 at 2 p.m. in the children’s de-partment of the downtown public li-brary. Copies of the book will be on sale that day at all city public library branches.

The downtown library is located at 4818 49th St. The Dawe branch is lo-cated at 56 Holt St. The Timberlands branch is located at 300 Timothy Dr.

For more details or library hours, go to www.rdpl.org/.

Sylvan police arrest robbery suspectSylvan Lake RCMP say a police drawing of a man

described in a liquor store robbery has netted a sus-pect.

On Monday, a man armed with a screwdriver en-tered the Plaza Liquor Store on 50th Street in Sylvan and took an undisclosed amount of cash and liquor. Police released a drawing of the suspect on Wednes-day. Peter Elvin Hofer, 44, of Sylvan Lake has been charged with one count of robbery and one count of possession of a weapon for dangerous purposes.

Hofer has been released on bail with conditions to appear in Red Deer provincial court on Nov. 7.

Crash-related charges move aheadA Maskwacis woman charged in connected with

an alleged impaired driving crash that killed two people in 2013 returns to court in January for a pos-sible resolution.

A preliminary hearing did not go ahead as planned on Thursday in Wetaskiwin provincial court for Cree Roan Omeasoo, 23, who faces more than 20 charges. The charges include two counts of impaired driving causing death and five counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm.

A preliminary hearing is held to determine if there’s enough evidence to warrant an accused be tried in Court of Queen’s Bench. Omeasoo returns to court on Jan. 17 for summary disposition.

Red Deer photo radar sitesHere are the Red Deer photo radar sites for the

period running from today to Nov. 15:School zones: 60th Street, 42A Avenue, 55th Av-

enue, Oleander Drive, 43rd Avenue, 40th Avenue, 39th Street.

Playground zones: Nolan Street, 59th Avenue, Glendale Boulevard, Oak Street, Lockwood Avenue, Avison Drive, Cornett Drive.

Traffic corridors: 49th Street, 50th Avenue, 30th Avenue, 40th Avenue, Taylor Drive, 22nd Street, 50th Street, Lockwood Avenue, Riverside Drive.

Police reserve the option to change sites.

Hearing set over stabbing deathA preliminary hearing will be held for a Samson

Cree Nation man charged in a stabbing death.

Casey Lee Lightning, 49, was charged with second-degree murder after RCMP responded to a report that a man was suffering from stab wounds at a fast-food restaurant in Wetaskiwin at about 6 p.m. on May 6. Jonathan Greene, 33, of Samson Cree Nation, died later that night.

Lightning returns to Wetaskiwin provincial court on Dec. 12 for the preliminary inquiry held to deter-mine if there’s enough evidence to warrant that he be tried in Court of Queen’s Bench.

Police seek missing manRCMP are looking for help

locating Ryan Posti.The 40-year-old was last seen

on Oct. 12. Police say the miss-ing man’s family is concerned about his mental well-being and physical health.

He is described as 1.73 me-tres (five-foot eight) , 68 to 77 kg (150 to 160 pounds) with brown unkempt hair. He has blue eyes and wears a large black stone ring on his right hand.

Anyone with information is asked to call Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575.

Area forest fires claim 22,240 acresThe Rocky Mountain House Wildfire Management

area saw 76 fires this season.Friday marked the official end of the wildfire sea-

son in Alberta, although fires can start at any time in the year. A total of 22,240 acres burned this season in the management area.

Across the province, there were 1,414 new fires that consumed a total of 57,112 acres in the fire sea-son that started on April 1. The fires in the Rocky forest included 48 that were caused by humans, 25 by lightning, and five are still under investigation.

Employer safety records availableEmployer safety records on an Alberta govern-

ment database have been updated to the end of 2013.Since 2009, workers have been able to check the

safety record of potential bosses by using an online search. Employers can be sorted by their lost-time claims, disabling injury rates and fatality numbers.

More than 155,000 employers insured by the Work-ers’ Compensation Board can be found on the site.

Lost-time claims and rates, disabling injury rates, fatalities and whether employers hold a Certificate of Recognition can be found through online search-es. To access the site, go to www.work.alberta.ca/EmployerRecords.

Two Red Deerians charged in OkotoksOkotoks RCMP have arrested two suspects from

Red Deer on more than 40 charges involving prop-erty stolen from jurisdictions throughout Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

Const. Ferida Balic of the Okotoks RCMP said members from her detachment were called to inves-tigate on Sunday when someone stole a pickup truck that had been left running at a gas station.

Police then received information that the stolen vehicle and a second pickup truck were seen driving away in a manner dangerous to the public.

Members responding to the complaint later stopped a brown pickup truck near the Okotoks courthouse, said Balic.

A woman alleged to have been driving the truck was apprehended at the site while a man who was with her fled on foot and was located a few blocks away.

Police allege that the pickup truck had been sto-len in Manitoba and bore a licence plate stolen in Saskatchewan.

It is further alleged that a search of the vehicle produced a variety of stolen items, including identi-fication and credit cards.

Mitchell Karwandy, 30, and Vanessa Roberts, 28, remain in custody pending their next court appear-ance, set for Monday.

The investigation continues and further charges will be laid, said Balic.

Red Deer student wins design awardAn architecture student from Red Deer has won

an international design competition.Tanner Allred, studying now at Dalhousie Univer-

sity in Halifax, was one of 40 emerging or student ar-chitect teams from around the world that submitted design areas to reimagine Calgary’s Hillhurst United Church annex in Kensington.

The annex, or church hall, is aging and inad-equate.

Allred designed Hillhurst Community Close, fea-turing open community access through a courtyard complete with a communal oven to bring people to-gether to share food and ideas.

An international expert adjudication panel said Allred’s design restored the church to its original state while providing a courtyard and flexible com-munal space, inspired by traditional beam struc-tures.

Second place went to Paul Alexander Cohoon, from London, England, and third place to Jeffrey Clancy, from Scottsdale, Ariz.

Hillhurst United Church will be looking at all the design submissions and getting feedback before moving toward development and the ultimate design.

The panel of judges for the competition were from Canada, New York and Hong Kong.

INBRIEF

Littlechild wins national awardA Maskwacis man has earned one of

the highest honours bestowed upon an indigenous person.

Willie Littlechild, 70, has earned a 2015 Indspire award for law and jus-tice.

He is a member of the Ermineskin Cree Nation and one of 14 Canadians who are being celebrated with Ind-spire awards that will be presented in Calgary on Feb. 27, 2015.

“Over the course of their profes-sional careers, these individuals have made distinct, enduring contributions to their communities and the entire country,” said Roberta Jamieson, pres-ident and CEO of Indspire.

The Indspire Awards have been presented for 22 years .Littlechild is a lawyer, a former mem-ber of Parliament, an award-winning athlete and a champion of indigenous

people. He co-chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which travelled across Canada to allow sur-vivors of residential schools to share their stories.

Littlechild organized a coalition of indigenous nations that sought and gained consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. He also served as North American representative to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Littlechild was the first Treaty First Nation person to earn his law degree from the University of Alberta (1976). He also holds bachelor and master’s degrees in Physical Education, an hon-ourary doctor of laws degree from the University of Alberta, and the Indig-enous Peoples’ Counsel (IPC) designa-tion. An avid sportsman and athlete,

he has won more than 70 provincial, regional, national and international championships.

He was a founder of the North American Indigenous Games, and was selected as a torch bearer and ambas-sador for the 2010 Olympics. He has been inducted into seven sports Halls of Fame.

Littlechild served as a member of Parliament from 1988 to 1993 for the riding of Wetaskiwin-Rimbey, served on several senior committees in the House of Commons, and served as a parliamentary delegate to the United Nations.

He was named honourary chief for the Maskwacis Crees and also hon-oured by the Chiefs of the Confederacy of Treaty 7 and 8 First Nations as the International Chief for Treaty 6.

Littlechild is a dedicated advocate

of the implementation of treaties be-tween indigenous peoples and the Crown, and a pioneer of the global indigenous rights movement. He was recently honoured with the Alberta Order of Excellence.

The Indspire awards recognize the success of individuals who have the discipline, drive and determination to set high standards ,and accomplish their goals. They promote self-esteem and pride for the indigenous communi-ty, and provide outstanding role mod-els for indigenous youth.

The jury chooses 10 career achieve-ment award recipients, three youth award recipients and one life achieve-ment recipient.

For more information about Ind-spire or for biographies on its current laureates, go to https://indspire.ca/ind-spire-awards/

Much more thana history

bookSTAFF MEMBER

WRITES CHILDREN’S ADVENTURE

USING PUBLIC LIBRARY’S

HISTORY AS A JUMPING OFF

POINTPhoto by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Red Deer author Laural Randall holds her new book More Than Cobwebs and Dust. Randall, also known as Laural Grimes, works as the children’s services co-ordinator at the Red Deer Public Library. Her fourth children’s book, More Than Cobwebs and Dust delves into the 100-year history of the library and the building where the children’s department of the downtown branch now resides.

Ryan Posti.

TORONTO — Bell Media is launching a new video streaming service that will include the entire HBO scripted off-air library.

The company says the subscription service, code-named “Project Latte,” will feature premium pro-gramming, including “The Sopranos,” “The Wire” and “Sex and the City.”

“The Wire” streaming will mark the first time the series is presented in HD.

Other HBO programs in the service include “Six

Feet Under,” “Band of Brothers,” “Curb Your En-thusiasm,” “Big Love,” “Entourage” and “In Treat-ment.”

The service will also offer the complete HBO Films catalogue, the HBO Documentaries library and HBO standup comedy specials. Bell Media (TSX:BCE) says “Project Latte” will be launched soon and offer more than 10,000 hours of TV content, from HBO and “many world-class content partners.”

The service will be made available to all TV sub-scribers in Canada, pending agreements with partici-pating TV providers, through their set-top box.

It will also be available via apps, online and other platforms.

Hey Harlan; I’m overweight and in college.I can relate to your struggles with weight and ap-

proaching women. I really don’t know how to talk to girls or even approach them. I feel like they would reject me right away, or laugh in my face.

I don’t know how to overcome this fear. I’ve never felt like any girl would be inter-ested in me. — Heavy

Dear Heavy; Honest question. Do you like being overweight?

I absolutely hated it. I felt awful. I was so painfully scared of being vulnerable when I was heavy because I knew how easily I could be hurt. I hated that feeling. And I’ve worked for the past 20 years to never feel that way again.

Every single day, I log my calories so that I can manage my weight. Every week, I work out at least three days to make sure my brain feels as good as possible.

I’ve figured out why food is my emotion-al crutch when I’m stressed. I’ve worked to change the things I don’t love about my-self for one reason — so I can love myself. It’s not about other people. It’s about me loving me. I figured it out — when I love myself, I can give people permission to love me or not love me.

When I love myself, I can talk to people. And I’m much more lovable.

The fear you have will go away when you work to be your best. If that means losing weight, start there. Put yourself in places where you can be supported. Find people who can support you.

If you can’t lose weight because of a medical con-dition, then trust that women will love you for all of your other amazing qualities. Appreciate that wom-en who don’t want you are missing out.

Lots of women will want to love you. If you don’t believe me, look around. Two-thirds of the popula-tion is overweight. Love is available. But it all starts with you loving yourself.

Dear Harlan; I’m 19-years-old and in my first real relationship.

I’ve been dating this guy for a couple of years, and I’m madly in love. I cheated in the beginning of my relationship and felt awful afterward. Now, I’m as faithful as can be, but I still feel bad. What do I do? — Cheated

Dear Cheated; You learned that cheating makes you feel terrible. That’s a good lesson.

Don’t forget that feeling. Use this feeling to make you a stronger, better and a more loving partner. Use that feeling to understand why you did it and why it will never happen again.

Use that feeling to get tested for a sexually trans-mitted infection to protect your partner — just in case. Once you know why you did it and why it will never happen again, you can live with yourself.

If you need to confess, find a spiritual leader and

a therapist.Dear Harlan; If a girl hits me, can I smack her

back? By the way, I’m a man. — CuriousDear Curious; No. Do not hit a woman. Get away. If

you can’t get away, restrain her. Call the police.Unless your life is in danger, there’s no

reason to hit a woman. The moment you hit a woman is the moment you are guilty of striking a woman. It’s something you can never undo.

Hey Harlan; I’m expecting my first child in the next few months.

My pregnant wife believes that I’m not excited to tell people about our pregnan-cy. Thus far, I’ve been supportive through many efforts, giving up strenuous exercise because she can’t elevate her heart rate over 140, giving up drinking, cleaning the house, doing laundry and making meals so she can sleep later.

I’m fine with doing those things (well, not the exercise part). I’ve bought clothes, participated in doctor’s appointments and am refinishing old furniture in order to repurpose it for our nursery.

My question is, How can I show her that I’m there for her emotionally and excited for our baby, and to tell others soon. I’m definitely excited, but not really sure the best way to not be a “doer” and try to switch gears and show her that I’m there for her in other ways, too. — Expecting Dad

Dear Expecting; Listen, man, you’ve got to start taking care of yourself.

Take your heart rate up to 150 and get that dop-amine flowing. Go out with the guys once in a while. Make sure you fill your tank while being attentive to your wife’s needs.

If you’re not balanced, you’re going to be an awful partner. When you neglect your own self-care, you can’t take care of other people.

One day, you will realize you’ve lost yourself. It’s all about balance. Right now, you have none. And honestly, it’s not going to get much better once the baby is born.

As for showing your emotions the right way, there is no right way. Explain how you feel about the baby and give your wife permission to feel however she feels. Ask her what you can do to support her and be there for her.

She might have other ideas. In the meantime, sur-prise her with a note explaining how you feel about her and the future. Get her flowers. Give her a foot rub. Plan a date night (but not a lot of walking). Find a pregnancy book and read a page a night with her. But make sure you start taking care of yourself. Find balance in your world. You’re an amazing, loving and supportive partner.

She’s lucky to have you.Dear Harlan; I’m interested in a guy I know

through mutual friends.

He is constantly flirting with me. The problem is that he also flirts with other girls. Not only does he flirt, he is hooking up with other girls.

I don’t want to be one of these girls, but I find him attractive. How should I approach this situation? — Big Flirt

Dear Big Flirt; Right now, you’re just another girl. Want to be different? Tell him that you find him at-tractive. But also tell him that you only want to date a guy who is monogamous.

Set some boundaries. Tell him when he’s ready to have a real relationship, you’ll go on a date with him. If he decides to ask you on a date, do not jump into bed with him for a long time.

Get to know him. Trust that a man who waits to be intimate with you actually is interested in you — not just having sex with you.

If he wants to sleep around, he can sleep with someone else.

But if he wants something meaningful, he’s going to have to slow down and respect your boundaries. Then you won’t be just another girl.

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Two fantasy plays involving disembodied voices and an Angel of Death will open Central Alberta Theatre’s newly revived dinner theatre season in Red Deer.

The one-acts My Narrator and The Death of Me by Canada’s favourite playwright, Norm Foster, will also mark the non-profit company’s 45th anniversary.

Lasting close to a half century is an amazing feat for any amateur theatre troupe, said Val Closson, the plays’ producer.

“I don’t think there’s anyone else in Canada who’s done that.”

CAT has rebounded after its financial difficulties a few years ago, and is resurrecting its popular din-ner theatre format at the Quality Inn North Hill after a couple of years absence.

“It’s a new space and a brand-new stage and ev-erything is spectacular. We look forward to working with them,” added Closson of Quality Inn staff.

The two short comedies open on Thursday, Nov. 6, and are being directed by veteran CAT member Debra O’Brien.

Both productions will not only involve a few long-time CAT members, but several younger community members who are injecting new ideas, energy and enthusiasm to the group. “It’s a breath of fresh air,” said Closson — and a boon to O’Brien, who is work-ing with some innovative new actors and production people.

My Narrator is about what happens when strug-gling artist Lacy meets bumbling sales clerk Miles.

Both characters have narrators in their head (played by two other actors) who tell them what to do in matters of the heart.

These wisecracking inner voices provide a run-ning commentary and occasional advice on this awk-ward romance. “They’re like paternal figures. Some of the things they say remind me of what your mother might tell you,” said O’Brien.

Of course, whether Lacy or Miles follow their sug-gestions is another matter.

The play sees the couple’s relationship through to the third date, when things begin to fall apart. The problem is that the characters’ inner voices have already fallen in love, so it’s in the narrators’ best in-terests to get things back on track, said O’Brien.

The second play, The Death of Me, also has four characters and a quirky plot: the protagonist John discovers he has died unexpectedly. In order to tidy up his affairs on Earth, he must bargain with the An-gel of Death for a brief reprise of life.

To earn more hours of existence, the angel re-quires mousy John to “make waves” by confronting his formidable ex-fiance.

John discovers through his second chance at life that fixing mistakes from the past is difficult — espe-cially when there are new mistakes to be made.

O’Brien, who’s working with two actors she knows

very well on The Death of Me — her husband Den-nis O’Brien and her stepdaughter Kira O’Brien — doesn’t want to let too much out of the bag because there’s a plot twist.

But she believes the audience will enjoy both plays that veer into surrealist territory, but still have something to say about real life.

The plays runs to Nov. 29. Dinner is at 6 p.m., the show is at 7:30 p.m. (Sunday brunch is at 12:30 p.m., show is at 2 p.m.) Tickets are $65 from the Black Knight Ticket Centre.

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The first inkling that Autumn Hill’s debut country album was taking off faster than you can name the duo’s latest hit, Fire, came via social media.

“One of the things I noticed was that people were tweeting our lyrics back to us,” said Mike Robins, who performs with Calgarian Tareya Green in the Toronto-based duo.

“It seemed like people were really relating to ... the things we had written about. And that’s all you can hope for, that (fans) take these story songs we’ve created and make them their own,” added Robins.

When Autumn Hill entertains on Saturday, Nov. 8, at Cowboys Bar in Red Deer, along with featured artist Kira Isabella, you can bet Fire, Anything At All and Can’t Keep Waiting — Top 20 hits from the duo’s 2013 album, Favourite Mistake — will be on the play list.

The songs are getting a “phenomenal” re-action, said Green. “I was not expecting that kind of overwhelmingly positive response.”Robins and Green co-wrote the tunes with songwrit-

ing mentors in Nashville. And their road trip south through five states was a “unforgettable adventure,” especially for Green, who had never left the country before.

“It was a 15-hour trip,” she recalled. “I remember feeling it was really hot.”

Arriving in another climate zone to write with renowned songwriters was definitely surreal — but then Green feels the whole country music process has been a dream come true.

Not long ago, she was creating animation for other people’s websites, as a graphic design graduate. “I can remember doing a holiday card for (country singer) Tim McGraw ... and feeling like I was on the wrong side of this glass wall,” she said.

Since Green always aspired to be a singer/song-writer, she would record home videos and post them on Youtube. One time, she created a mash-up of songs by Heart and Roxette, recorded with equip-ment set up on a ping-pong table at her sister’s house.

She posted the video among thousands of others on the site. And as luck would have it, Wax Records co-founder Jamie Appleby heard her online vocals, and was impressed enough to track Green down and

ask her to come to Toronto.She packed up her guitar and keyboard, and took

a leap of faith — which is how she met Robins.Robins grew up just outside Toronto and aspired

to be a new Jimi Hendrix, after listening to his fa-ther’s classic rock CDs.

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Moose, wolves and bears, oh my!The possibility of driving into one of North Amer-

ica’s larger wildlife species rattles Aussie rockers The Lazys.

As the band from Down Under motors across the wide expanse of forest and lake between Barrie, Ont., and Winnipeg, the musicians are keeping a wary eye out for any big mammals that might wander into their path.

“So far, no moose, no bears, thank goodness,” said lead vocalist Leon Harrison.

When it’s pointed out Canadians would consider box jellyfish or the bevy of poisonous creepy-crawl-ies on his continent to be much more hazardous, Harrison laughs, agreeing the fright value of various species is relative, depending on what creatures you’re used to.

The Lazys might be brand new to this country, but are making big waves after coming to perform at Ca-nadian Music Week in Toronto, where they played to packed houses.

The Australian band has become a particular favourite of Canadian musicians The Lazys have performed with — including The Trews and One Bad Son (the Aussies will play with the latter band from Saskatoon at the International Beer Haus and Stage in Red Deer on Saturday, Nov. 8).

The Trews’ Colin MacDonald calls the New South Wales natives “the best band I’ve seen in 10 years.”

Musicians from Billy Talent are also high on The Lazys. Bassist Ian D’Sa calls the group “the best new live band” after co-writing the tune Shake It Like You Mean It from The Lazys latest self-titled album.

Harrison appreciates the supportive reception, which he believes is based on his group’s high-ener-gy live shows.

The Lazys’ frenetic stage performances stand in

sharp contrast to the band’s lackadaisical name, which harkens to its garage band days “when we were still doing all the things that teenagers do,” said Harrison.

Since the musicians have adopted a hard-work ethic, The Lazys has become an ironic moniker that’s “so different from what we’re all about, it works.”

The band’s latest full-length album, put out by Pheremone Records in Canada, is a collection of

loud, raucous party songs. “We don’t like to get into a lot of melodramatic stuff,” said Harrison. “We like to rock out.”

A couple of ballads were thrown into the mix to show The Lazys have some range.

There’s also an anti-gun song with a message that

Dinners with Norm Foster


Clockwise from the left, Ian Sheppard as Miles, Michael Sutherland as Bob, Cynthia Edwards as Barb, and Jessica Summers as Lacy rehearse a scene from the Central Alberta Theatre play My Narrator in the CAT studios at the Memorial Centre.

CAT’S DINNER THEATRE SEASON OPENS WITH MY NARRATOR AND THE DEATH OF ME

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Aussie rockers The Lazys perform at the International Beer Haus and Stage on Saturday, Nov. 8

Aussie rockers making waves across Canada

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Autumn Hill bringing their story songsto Cowboys Bar

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Mike Robins and Tareya Green make up the country duo Autumn Hill, who perform in Red Deer next week.

Please see AUTUMN on Page C5

NightcrawlerThree stars (out of four)Rated: 14A

Jake Gyllenhaal says he dropped 20 pounds to play predatory TV news-hound Leo Bloom in Nightcrawler, and there’s no rea-son to doubt him.

The cadaver-ous figure as-saulting both L.A. streets and t h e v i e w e r ’ s senses is like the media’s own Grim Reaper, with a protrud-ing camera sub-stituting for a beckoning bony finger.

B l o o m a p -pears whenever blood is flowing, life is ebbing and someone is willing to pay for the ghastly footage.

“I like to say that if you’re seeing me, you’re having the worst day of your life,” he brags to a cop.

Versions of Bloom have oozed across the screen before. He’s like a cross between two of Robert De Niro’s most memorable and sociopathic char-acters from Martin Scorsese movies: Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver’s “I can’t sleep nights” rolling time bomb; and Rupert Pupkin, The King of Comedy’s delusional narcissist, who stops at nothing to get on TV.

Obsessive, invasive and downright dangerous behaviour is the common link.

Gyllenhaal has the chops to take this pathology even further.

He creates a figure so removed from common morality, it’s as if some of that lost poundage leaked out of his soul. Bloom is really something to behold, his overnight transformation from pet-ty thief into rapacious news gatherer shocking even other cynical denizens of the night, such as a rival cameraman played by Bill Paxton.

Downright gobsmacked is his timid navigator (Riz Ahmed) whom Bloom hires (and exploits) to get to crime scenes even before the police show up. Bloom begins to create as much or more mayhem than he’s reporting on.

The danger with this scenario is that Bloom is so extreme, he’ll start to seem not just fictional, but downright pre-posterous.

Rene Russo’s character is familiar, too. As Nina, news director for a rat-ings-desperate local TV station, she’s a down-market local version of Diana, Faye Dunaway’s nationwide harpie in Network, which came out in1976, four years before Gyllenhaal was born. You know the cynical journalism maxim, “If it bleeds, it leads,” which is also said in Nightcrawler. Nina takes it a big step further, instructing raw recruit Bloom how best to get his increasingly graphic crime stories onto the small screen and into her chequebook.

“Think of our newscast,” she tells him, “as a screaming woman running down the street with her throat cut.”

The film is full of such clenched-teeth wisdoms, not to mention graphic violence, which clearly delights writer/director Dan Gilroy, co-screenwriter with his brother Tony of The Bourne Legacy.

For his directing debut, Gilroy is out

for the contact high of that Mean Streets vibe (there’s Scorsese again), and Gyl-lenhaal and Russo deliver it to him in spades. So does cinematographer Rob-ert Elswit, a Paul Thomas Anderson regular who makes Tinseltown seem like Dirtytown, with some of the most forbidding L.A. streetscapes this side of Blade Runner.

The problem here, ironically, is that Nightcrawler doesn’t get dirty enough. Having set up a situation where the sky — or rather the gutter — is the limit, the film settles for a shallow depiction of an amoral character, rather than go-

ing in deep to see just how emotionally and spiritually vacant he is.

Gilroy sets up a queasily fascinat-ing situation where Bloom starts to demand sex as a bargaining chip for his avaricious ambitions, but that road leads nowhere.

“I want something people can’t turn away from,” Nina says, but we don’t always get that from Nightcrawler — although what we do get could well guarantee that you, too, won’t be able to “sleep nights.”

Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

AUTUMN: More powerful together

He worked as a backup guitarist touring North America and Europe for a while, before trying to start a solo career.

Robins was also working at To-ronto’s Wax Records when he began harmonizing with Green at a company party.

It was instant stage chemistry and their song Favourite Mistake, which was intended for Green’s solo album, in-stead became the title track on the duo’s debut album as Autumn Hill.

Robins believes it’s hard to pinpoint exactly what makes the two performers a more powerful force together than apart. “People tell me we create some-thing special.”

“I think there’s a lot of support there,” said Green. “We support each other’s ideas and basically put (our-selves) out there.”

The two are already collaborat-ing on a second Autumn Hill album, which is expected to be released in the spring.

With his rock background, Robin feels it’s a fine time to be making coun-try music because it has become a melting pot of different musical genres. “Every time a new door opens it’s exciting.”

Several tunes writ-ten for the next record will be tested out on the Red Deer audience, said Green, who admitted it will be nice to get fan feedback on the new ma-terial.

Tickets for the 8 p.m. show are $20 from Cow-boys, the Bell Fever Lounge, Wei’s Western Wear or the Black Knight Ticket Centre.

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LAZYS: Anti-gun song

There’s also an anti-gun song with a message that Harrison believes was reinforced by what happened on Parliament Hill last week, when a Canadian soldier stand-ing at the National War Memorial was shot and killed by a loner with Is-lamist leanings.

“That was terrible,” said Harrison, who fa-vours tight gun control laws. But that’s about as political as it gets.

The singer met his five fellow band members in 2007 while they were all in their early 20s, playing in the Terrigal, New South Wales, music

scene.The group that includes Matt Morris

on lead guitar, Jay Braslin on drums, Glenn Williams on bass and Liam Shearer on guitar won an audience-voted Australian TV station award in Melbourne in 2008, then went on to re-cord debut album Prison Earth in 2010, followed by several well received EPs.

Harrison hears a “different under-tone” in Canadian versus Australian rock music, but that’s only because he’s tuned his ear for it. “There’s a bit of a discernible difference, but rock ’n’ roll is largely the same universal lan-guage. We’re here to rock out and take our music to the stage so that our fans have a good time. ...

“We’d love for people to come out and see us live. They won’t regret it,” said Harrison.

In the band’s long drive westward, the most eye-catching sights Harrison has noticed along the Trans-Canada Hwy are the numerous cobbled togeth-er inuksuks that motorists (with too much time on their hands) have erect-ed after stopping to stretch their legs. “There sure are tons of them,” he said, marvelling.

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RELIGION C6SATURDAY, NOV. 1, 2014

Today

St. Cyprian’s An-glican Church Annual Fall Tea and Bazaar, Nov. 1, 2 to 4 p.m. in Lacombe.

There will be lots of cookies, baking, crafts and more. Phone 403-782-3633.

Tuesday

Heartland Cowboy Church is on the first and third Tuesday of each month, 7 p.m., in the Stettler Agriplex.

Dates are Nov. 4 and 18. Call 403-742-4273.

Upcoming events

Visions Country Gospel Christmas Concert will be pre-sented at Mount Calva-ry Lutheran Church on Nov. 28 at 7 p.m.

Tickets cost $15 from the church, 403-346-3798, or from Johanna at 403-342-4729, or at the door.

COMING EVENTS


VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has made some of the most important policy speeches of his pontificate in recent days, catching up for lost time following months of attention to bureaucratic reform and the turbulent meeting of bishops on family is-sues that just ended.

Often speaking in his native Spanish, Francis has focused on issues close to his heart, pontificating at length about the plight of the poor and unemployed, the en-vironment and even evolution, seemingly emboldened to speak his mind on topics that must make even some of his closest collaborators squirm.

He hasn’t changed church doctrine. But he has pushed the envelope on some issues, raised eyebrows with his blunt speaking style on others, and made clear where his progressive social priorities lie.

Here are some highlights from a busy week at the Vatican, with issues that Fran-cis might raise again when he makes a ma-jor policy speech to the European Parlia-ment next month.

Silent death penaltyIn his most explosive speech to a group

of penal lawyers, Francis went well beyond the Vatican’s previous opposition to capi-tal punishment by denouncing life prison terms as a “hidden death penalty.” Francis’ outreach to prisoners is well-known:

He famously washed the feet of juvenile delinquents — Muslims and women among them — at a Rome detention centre during his first Holy Thursday as pope.

In his speech last week, Francis de-nounced prison systems as “out of control” for depriving people of their dignity, cit-ing recourse to the death penalty, detain-

ing people without charge or conviction and holding inmates in isolation, which he called a form of “physical and psychologi-cal torture.”

Putting him squarely at odds with the United States, where he is going next year, Francis also denounced extraordinary ren-ditions, which the CIA used after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks to take terror suspects to third countries for interrogation.

Big bangFrancis raised some eyebrows with his

remarks on creation and evolution, saying the Big Bang theory doesn’t contradict the Christian belief in creation.

While his words were very Franciscan in their bluntness — “When we read the story of Creation in Genesis we risk imagining that God was a magician” — Francis was merely restating what the Catholic Church has long taught: that there is no contradic-tion between creation and evolution.

Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI spent his entire pontificate elaborating on the com-patibility of faith and scientific reason, in-sisting that the cosmos isn’t a system of ran-dom chaos but rather an organized system where the hand of the Creator is obvious. St. John Paul II and Pope Pius XII voiced similar conclusions before him.

Francis put the church’s thinking in his own words: “Evolution in nature doesn’t contradict the notion of creation because evolution presupposes the creation of be-ings who evolve,” he said.

UnemploymentFrancis also grabbed headlines when

he acknowledged that his concern for the poor, the unemployed and the environment would lead some to label him a communist. “They don’t understand that love for the poor is at the centre of the Gospel,” he said.

The remarks were delivered to a meeting of representatives of popular movements at the Vatican. In the audience were farmers, miners, fishermen and Argentine “cartone-ros,” who sift through garbage looking for recyclable goods.

Also on hand to hear one of the longest, most heartfelt speeches of Francis’ pon-tificate was Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first in-digenous president known for his socialist rhetoric. In an off-the-cuff speech in Span-ish, Francis denounced the injustices of the poor that the world wants to forget, the “scandal” of hunger and the lost generation of young people who are unemployed.

The devilFrancis has demonstrated an unusually

vivid concern about the devil, more than his predecessors, in a reflection both of his Jesuit spirituality and his Latin American roots.

This week he sent a message to the In-ternational Association of Exorcists, prais-ing the work of exorcists for “showing the church’s love and welcome toward those who suffer from the devil’s work.”

Earlier this year, the Vatican granted the association legal recognition in a sign of Francis’ belief that the world needs more exorcists for the increasing number of people seeking to be liberated from their demons.

Two months after he was elected, Fran-cis caused a huge stir when he laid his hands on the head of a Mexican man said to be possessed by four different demons.

The man’s reaction — he heaved, deeply shook, and then slumped in his wheelchair — led Italy’s most well-known exorcist to insist that Francis had helped liberate him from the devil.

The Vatican insisted no such exorcism took place.

Pope maps out personal policy in speeches

Saturday, Nov. 1CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS

DATE: David Foster, 65; Jenny McCarthy, 42; Lyle Lovett, 57

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: On this day, there will be many rea-sons to have a positive turn-around to being within relationships you currently have.

You will most likely see the larg-er perspective on life. This alone will help you to deepen bonds with friends and perhaps meet new in-dividuals and form romantic rela-tionships with them. Be with others who share the same joy for life as you today!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year will prove to be one whereby you will fight for a good cause. It could be as important as standing up for your children or fighting for a romantic interest.

There is reason to believe that emotions will deepen with these causes and individuals in your life. You have the capac-ity to work hard, either leading others by example or by your direction.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will want to accomplish a lot today but your energy levels will be lowered. You will be more in tune with the general public and will be able to sense their vibe and what’s happening. Even globally, you will be in touch with the current trends and energy.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There will be some deep in-teractions with others now. Foreigners that you are socializing

with will have deeper emotions for now. There is an opportu-nity for you to develop good business contacts today that will be solid and long lasting.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Through discussions with ro-mantic interests you are more able to see the larger perspec-tive on where the relationship is going. You will most likely be drawn to setting future goals and starting to implement them on a daily basis. It’s a good day to strengthen ties with others.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are very focused to get on your true path going forward. You will be more inclined to not share your feelings with others and just get the job done. Your creative voice will flourish once it is guided towards a better direction. Have a bit more faith today, it will all work out.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You are in the mood to discuss your personal plans for the future. Relationships you have will listen and will try to get their opinion in, but most likely you both have the same vision and goals in mind now. You’ll start by adding more romance into your everyday life now.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Today you are focused on thinking up your plans going forward, especially in relation to your financial situation. I strongly suggest that if you have been thinking about starting a creative project, then do spend some time focused on just that today.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Today is about deepening those bonds with your spouse or with family members. Per-haps you are spending a little more time today to get some project on the home front completed. It is also possible that something will come up this week that will simply need your

TLC. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There is such great oppor-

tunity available for you today. First, you will be more than able to lead others towards greater prosperity by helping them see the larger perspective on what is truly going on. Second, the truth you are sharing is truly priceless.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You will be full of ideas today. You will want to implement a new project, perhaps an art project that you have kept secret from others. Today will be the day to explore those options. You are pumped to get your work out and will exude a lot of energy to do that now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You are very much in tune with others today. You will even be able to read between the lines, coming up with intuitive insight into what is truly going on with them even if they don’t express that verbally. Deeper bonds with friends can be formed today.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): At the start of the day, you are more than likely able to keep things to yourself. After mid-day rolls around, you will want to exert your energy towards building your finances and this will be prosperous for you. Deeper bonds with those you meet will leave you amazed.

OPERATIONS ANALYST Revenue & Assessment Services

The City of Red Deer is always on the hunt for talented and success driven people. We offer a great work environment with the opportunity to work with a dynamic and dedicated team of likeminded professionals. We are currently seeking the right person to fill the position of Operations Analyst in our Revenue & Assessment Services Department. This position provides analytical, systems, business process and financial support. The ability to utilize past exposure to business environments to successfully manage multiple priorities is required, which includes the review, research and analysis of existing processes, systems and procedures, the development and implementation of new initiatives and business processes, the evaluation and development of internal controls and corporate policy and procedure and the ability to interpret, apply and draft complex bylaw/legislation. Reconciliation, analysis and decision making based on complex corporate financial and taxation data is necessary. Project development and leadership, reporting and presentations to senior management, committees and City Council is required. This is largely a self-directed position and requires the incumbent to take initiative, seek opportunities, exercise professional judgment, develop strong working relationships and work independently. As our preferred candidate you will have:

• Professional accounting designation (CGA, CMA, CPA, CA) and a university degree with a focus in business, accounting or project management.

• Six years’ progressively related experience in a sophisticated and integrated system environment preferably in a large organization, with a strong knowledge of business models, decision making tools, accounting principles, financial and management systems and business processes.

What we offer: In addition to a very competitive salary and an excellent benefit package, we offer a great work environment with a dynamic and dedicated team of likeminded professionals. If you think this is the job for you; come build your career with The City of Red Deer. We are committed to a healthy, vibrant, and sustainable community. Our employees are the cornerstone of our organization and working with us will provide you with the opportunity to work in an ever growing environment and to work with an awesome group of people.

We welcome applications until November 28, 2014.

For more information and to apply online, please visit us at www.reddeer.ca or email your application to

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You will be responsible for partnering with regional leadership to create business and marketing plans, direct winning proposals and presentations, and manage a talented marketing team.

Having team spirit, a flair for details, and exceptional prioritization skills, will ensure success in our busy, dynamic environment. If you’re a gifted communicator, superb at developing relationships, and a star at motivating an energetic team, we’d love to talk to you!

Stantec is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran.

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Having team spirit, a fl air for details, and exceptional prioritization skills, will ensure success in our busy, dynamic environment. If you’re a gifted communicator, superb at developing relationships, and a star at motivating an energetic team, we’d love to talk to you!

LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSESunset Manor is a Supportive Living Facility that teams with Alberta Health Services to provide a home-like experience for our residents in the community of Innisfail. We are currently accepting applications for Part-time (FTE 0.56 and 0.52) and Casual Licensed Practical Nurses.Qualifi cations:

- Graduate of a recognized Practical Nursing Program

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HEALTH CARE AIDESunset Manor is a Supportive Living Facility that teams with Alberta Health Services to provide a home-like experience for our residents in the community of Innisfail. We are currently accepting applications for Part-time (FTE 0.52 – 0.76) and casual Health Care Aides to join our team. Under the direction of a Licensed Practical Nurse, you will provide safe, quality personal care to residents. All shifts are unionized and scheduled for 8 hours.Qualifi cations:

- Graduate of a recognized Health Care Aide Program or Foreign trained health professional (RN)

- Current Criminal Record Check /working with vulnerable sector

- Good communication skills- Able to work independently

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People don’t know how to express sympathyDear Annie: This is in response to “Confused and

Hurting,” whose 18-year-old son had taken his life.The family felt the community was snubbing them,

as well as their sixth grader.When my brother died from AIDS 20 years ago,

few people in our small town acknowl-edged his death. My parents were from a generation that didn’t openly discuss their gay children. But I wrote a letter to the editor of our local paper explain-ing that, yes, my brother was gay, and no matter the cause of his death, we still loved him and mourned his death.

When the paper came out, my parents and I received dozens of phone calls and sympathy cards from friends and even strangers expressing sorrow for our loss.

My parents were so grateful for all the support. I think a lot of good people truly didn’t know what to say.

I also think the loss of a young man by suicide is so tragic that people have no idea how to comfort his family. The par-ents of those other children may even have told their kids not to say anything to the little boy about his brother, so they don’t say anything at all.

So, readers, if you know this family or any fam-ily in this situation, please express your love, caring

and sorrow for the loss of their family member. The cause of death doesn’t matter. — Feeling Your Pain

Dear Feeling: Our readers have been so kind in their compassionate responses to this grieving fam-ily.

Most agree that they aren’t being shunned. People simply do not know how to behave and are worried that expressing sympathy will only remind them of their loss. Read on:

From Jacksonville, Fla.: My family has been there. Please find the charity to real-ize that people just don’t know what to say.

There are no Hallmark cards for this sit-uation. Perhaps you will find the strength to say to someone, “I remember when you and our son did such-and-such together.”

When you can remember and speak of good times, others around you will realize it’s important that your son lived, not how his life ended.

Sending Hugs: Our son died of cancer at the age of 24. After the funeral, we noticed that many people avoided us.

We realized that we needed to make the first con-tact and assure others that we were OK. This seems counterintuitive, but people don’t know what to say after an unspeakable tragedy. It stigmatizes the par-ents and the siblings.

When someone in your community suffers the loss of a child for whatever reason, please take the time to reach out to them — not just at the funeral, but ever after. A smile, a kind word, conversation about normal things brings comfort, solace and normalcy into the bereaved parent’s world.

Encourage your children to reach out to the sib-ling who is still living. Teach them compassion.

New York: Could you suggest an appropriate open-ing comment for those of us who don’t know what to say?

Dear New York: Everyone handles grief differ-ently. Some families want to talk about their child; others aren’t quite ready.

Simply say, “I’m so sorry for your loss.” Ask wheth-er they want to talk about it, and then listen. If you have a story about their child, ask whether they’d like you to share it. (If not, write it down and share it later.) Then offer to help in a concrete way. Perhaps you could get groceries, make phone calls, drive car-pool. The important thing is to be there.

Dear Readers: Don’t forget to replace the batteries in your smoke alarms when you set your clocks back one hour.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers col-umn. Please email your questions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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ANNIEANNIE

LARISA MAIRAOZOLINS

SUN SIGNS

HOROSCOPES

Please see PISCES on Page C8

PISCES: PerspectivePISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Today, you

will be able to see the larger perspective on all business activities happening for you. Your spouse might also offer you some interesting insight into their business as well. All in all, it will be a great day to create closer bonds with others — enjoy!

Sunday, Nov. 2CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE:

K.D. Lang, 53; David Schwimmer, 48; Lauren Velez, 50

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today will highlight lovely energy between you and al-most everyone you meet. Yes, emotions will be deeper than normal, but this will simply highlight that you will not care for superficial encounters. You will be more focused on find-ing out the truth, and solving a mystery than ever before. Enjoy today, your vitality will be high and interactions will favour deeper un-derstanding.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birth-day, this year will prove to be the year when you will express just what you need to create more balance for yourself. Dialogue with oth-

ers will allow you to see the truth. You will no doubt be able to share this knowledge on an open platform, which could cause some is-sues with some individuals. Your vitality will be high, so direct towards the greater good.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): If ever there was a time for the phoenix to rise from the ashes, today is that day for you, dear Aries. Your energy levels will be high, you’ll have a new understanding on what truly trips you up and your inner most thoughts will be more sophisticated.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Interactions you have earlier in the day will lead to great-er spunk later on. You will be motivated to dream bigger when it comes to your aspira-tions now. Interactions with others in your life, friends, work-colleagues, your spouse, will be wonderful today — Enjoy!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’ll be able to express yourself more easily now. Your ruling planet is still in its shadow period, so do try to understand that interactions with those at work, or simply learning new skills, are still a work in progress. You will see some truth emerge that will be helpful.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You should be feeling good today. Although, you will have to contend with some not so pleasant truths coming out from significant others in your life, you are more willing to hear them out. The more you plan ahead, the more advice will be

given to you. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You are more

willing to clear the air when it comes to issues you are having within significant relationships in your life today. It will not be bad, but defi-nite truth will emerge which will create a need for you to take more action at home. There’s a serious tone to the day.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your ruling planet is still within its shadow period for now. You are still learning about your personal worth, even your financial concerns are being processed further today. It will be a serious day, but it will be pleasant. Whatever comes to light now can only be helpful.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You are look-ing for more stability when it comes to your work and health now. This truth will emerge and you will be able to easily understand what it is that could possibly create these im-balances for you now. All in all, a great day to go out and socialize!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Today your energy levels will be high. You will want to express your truth to all you meet. This will cause some intense moments, but you will be fine with that, as you will not want to deal with the superficial aspects of life. It will be a pleasant day nonetheless.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Today

will be a day to address what is of value, and what is not. You will more than likely express this with family. Perhaps there is a need for you to see the darker aspects in order to bet-ter help those going through a difficult time. Truth will come to light now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): When communicating with friends and those within your local environment, discussions will be anything but superficial. You easily discuss your aspirations and dreams and the value you place onto those goals today. Indulge in the truth — it will be a good day!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Commu-nications with your mother might highlight what you value about your career. There is a deeper sense that some aspect needs to be changed, or transformed, in order for you to fully accept more value or worth onto what you provide the world at large.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You will be feeling great today! Your focus will be on your work, health and daily life, but also about divulging the truth to all. Your greatest aspira-tions and wishes will come to light and you will happily learn more to encourage greater prosperity for all!

Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her col-umn appears daily in the Advocate.

C8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014

MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELLOROur Mental Health Counsellors are excited about being part of an innovative organization that puts patients fi rst. Continuous quality improvement is in our DNA.

A day in the life of a Mental Health Counsellor at the Red Deer Primary Care Network includes

helping people to design a self management plan that works in one on one appointments in physician clinics

collaborating with a team of RDPCN family physicians and other health care professionals

facilitating state of the art mental health groups

If you: are a Registered Psychologist or Master’s level Social Worker; practice using a variety of frameworks such as, CBT, Solution Focused Therapy, or Positive Psychology are interested in .8 – 1.0 FTE

Act now. APPLYSubmit your curriculum vitae to [email protected] or by fax to 403.342.9502

Only selected candidates for an interview will be contacted. Open until suitable candidate selected.

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CHILDREN & ADULT PROPRIETORS NEEDED! Apply now to provide value in the Human Services Industry

Parkland C.L.A.S.S. has grown over fi ve decades to become one of the largest disability based service providers in Alberta. Parkland C.L.A.S.S. exists to improve the quality of life of children & adults with developmental disabilities through individual choice, dignity and rights. We strive to empower the people we serve, measuring our success against the goals they set for themselves.

Individuals or couples willing to open up their home have the opportunity to make an incredible difference in the life of someone in need. As a Full Time Proprietor you will provide a caring, safe & structured environment with fun activities and dependable routines. Part Time Proprietors offer support & care 1-2 times per month. This commitment involves the inclusion of the child/adult in your regular family life.

Proprietors will provide a very individualized service that is based on the needs of the individual Experience with young children, youth and/or adults with developmental disabilities would be ideal. Knowledge of First Nations culture & some related post-secondary education would be an asset. Individual must have a private room & be in a non-smoking environment. Driver’s license & transportation are required.

Full time Proprietors receive a (tax free) monthly remuneration & part time Proprietors are paid per days worked. We provide extensive mandatory training for all Foster Care Providers.

Please send a cover letter & resume confi rming you are interested in Proprietorship to: HR Fax: 403-342-2677 e-mail: [email protected]

If you would like to inquire more information please contact Donita Stewart, Children Proprietor Coordinator or Nicole Shultz, Adult Proprietor Coordinator at 403-347-3333.

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Sussex Insurance. We are bringing insurance to the people! Conveniently located in Walmart’s throughout Alberta, we are an exciting and innovative organization that believes in delivering an exceptional customer experience. Our offices have the latest technologies and run paperless letting you focus on the customer. Representing the largest insurance companies in Canada gives you the ability to provide the best coverage and price for your clients. We are open 7 days a week form 9 to 9, providing full and part time positions with fl exible evening and weekend shifts available.

We are looking for experienced, enthusiastic, motivated individuals who share our passion for delivering exceptional customer service. Join our team of Personal Lines experts at our brand new insurance brokerages opening inside Walmart. We are bringing our winning formula as BC’s fastest growing insurance brokerage to Alberta. We offer fl exible hours, competitive salary, commision and benefi ts package. Apply to fi nd out how you can make a positive change.

Skills: Experienced in Auto, Home and Travel with an enthusiastic and positive attitude and a passion for providing exceptional customer service. The right candidate will be detail oriented with good technology skills. Experience with Power Broker and Power Quote an asset but not required.

Apply today to be a part of this exciting new opportunity:

Personal Lines Insurance Brokers

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BUSINESS MANAGERJOB OPENING

Weidner Motors Ltd is currently accepting applications for a full time opening in our Business Offi ce.

The successful candidate for the Business Manager position will be/have:

• Performance driven and self motivated

• Outgoing and enthusiastic

• Excellent customer service skills and enjoys working with the public

• Comfortable dealing with banks and securing loan fi nancing

We offer an excellent family run work environment, competitive salary with great earnings potential and a competitive benefi ts package. Professional training will be available.

Previous experience or a banking background would be an asset however is not required.

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Fire HD 6 a good deal for solid tablet


TORONTO — At first glance, Ama-zon’s new Fire HD 6 tablet looks like something you would not want to buy.

The six-inch screen seems tiny com-pared to the display on a full-size iPad. It even makes the iPad mini look pretty large.

It’s also surprisingly thick and heavy to hold for a device released in 2014.

But all is forgiven when you see the price: just $134 (it sells for the magic $99 price point in the U.S.).

There are cheaper tablets than the Fire HD 6. Montreal’s Datawind sells a very, very basic one for $38 and Future Shop offers more than half a dozen dif-ferent tablets for $80 or less.

But you get far more value for your money with the Fire HD 6.

The Fire HD 6’s screen is small but Amazon didn’t scrimp on display qual-ity.

It boasts a rating of 252 pixels per inch, which is better than the original iPad mini but not quite as high as the Retina Display screens on recent mod-els.

It’s still plenty sharp for everything from reading ebooks — this is an Ama-zon device, after all — to browsing the web to watching video.

Especially for a device that costs a little over $100, it’s more than ad-equate.

The tablet has a quad-core proces-sor, which is more power than you’d expect for a device at this price point.

But it only has eight gigabytes of storage built in, and almost half is tak-en up by the operating system and oth-er software, leaving just 4.5 gigabytes for users to access. The device also lacks any expandable storage with no card slot.

Amazon’s tablets and phones run a tweaked version of Google’s Android operating system, but don’t allow ac-cess to the Google Play marketplace of apps.

Instead, users can download from Amazon’s streamlined Appstore, which offers a much smaller selection and has some major omissions, including Instagram and Google apps such as Maps, Translate and Chrome.

Yes, there are more than 260,000 apps available on Amazon’s Appstore but a great many are junk.

That’s true of every app market-place, but it’s more glaring when so many of the most popular and newer big-name apps are missing.

It’s all the more frustrating because Amazon could make Google Play avail-able to its users, but chooses not to.

Amazon claims the Fire HD 6 will run for up to eight hours of mixed use, which rang true during testing.

In a way, Amazon has one-upped Google in its attempt to win over the low end of the tablet market.

In 2012, Google released the first version of its Nexus 7 tablet, a seven-inch device that undercut the compe-tition — particularly the iPad mini — with its US$199 price tag.

Reviewers raved that it was just

about as good as the iPad mini but $120 cheaper.

A newer version of the Nexus 7 was released in 2013 at a slighter higher price but with even better hardware. It’s still available in some retail stores but Google no longer sells it.

Google recently unveiled a new Nexus-branded tablet but it has an 8.9-inch screen and is priced at $429.

The Fire HD 6 is Amazon’s answer to the Nexus 7, but even cheaper.

While it’s not as technically competi-tive as the Nexus 7 was, it will offer good enough performance for most — particularly those looking to get a new tablet for well under $200 all-in.

You could actually buy three Fire HD 6 tablets for the cost of one new iPad mini 3.

If you can get past the small screen, the somewhat heavy weight, and the lack of some top apps, the Fire HD 6 is a pretty good deal for a solid tablet.

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The Fire HD 6 is Amazon’s answer to the Nexus 7, but even cheaper. While it’s not as technically competitive as the Nexus 7 was, it will offer good enough performance for most — particularly those looking to get a new tablet for well under $200 all-in.

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HOMES D1SATURDAY, NOV. 1, 2014

As much as we enjoy lavishing cli-ent homes with indulgent spend when budget permits, we also enjoy dramatic results when our paymasters’ wallets are restrained, and today’s before and after is perfect testament to the latter.

Before settling at our drawing boards, howev-er, we listened to the wishes of our clients, a lovely young couple who as-pired to an em-inently lighter and f resher life. Being that t h e y d i d n ’ t have access to a cottage, they hoped we could somehow imbue their r a m s h a c k l e city abode with a spot of rustic flair.

So why stripes?Well, aside from the fact we love

them, stripes have almost universal appeal. To some they conjure up im-ages of bright, jaunty deck chairs, set out on warm sunny beaches. To others they typify the sartorial restraint of business suits; all professional reserve and orderly decorum. To kids, stripes suggest candy and fun.

Whenever we compose our schemes, there’s generally a stripe somewhere; in a bold wallpaper, for example, or in a single toss pillow launched onto an accent chair as a final embellishment.

Style explanations aside, let’s look again at the economics of this scheme. We didn’t remove any walls. We laid a natural sea grass floor instead of ex-pensive lumber. We bought a ‘gently used’ bed frame. And we farmed lin-ens from affordable fields. Oh yes, and we used paint; lots of it.

Make good the badCome on guys; slow down. Don’t

throw yourselves at a job unless you’re 100 per cent ready to tackle the under-taking with gusto; it makes more sense to wait until budget and time are in tandem.

Stopping and starting, mid-project, makes little sense. Be under no illu-sion — in the world of C&J, even the simplest jobs are afforded the most critical scrutiny.

In this instance, our team carefully removed the dated wood wall panel-ing, then the textured finish from the ceiling.

This done, new drywall and white paint were applied to provide a clean palette upon which to impose our new look.

Get the layout rightBeds look best when centrally posi-

tioned rather than stuffed in a corner like our clients’ previous box spring.

Opting for ‘centre stage’ provides immediate focus and enough space to

flank, either side, with nightstands and lamps.

Positioning a comfy sofa and a gnarly table in the solarium delineate a tempting seating nook, beset with ho-tel like comfort.

If your space is tighter, scale down to a loveseat or perhaps a comfy chaise longue. The Ektorp three-seater fea-tured here is from Ikea.

Low cost, high stylePine, as a genus, is more affordable

than oak or mahogany and, as such, the naughty, sorry, knotty second-hand bed frame made a perfect starting point.

To provide new identity, we sand-ed the frame to remove the factory-sprayed lacquer, then recoloured it with two coats of white satin.

The next stage in our reinvention was the addition of yellow banding in selected areas. To achieve this, we used masking tape and a small foam roller.

Ah — cool, summery looks without breaking the bank.

Stripe it outUsing inexpensive yellow bedding,

we embarked upon a simple project. Buying a total of three sets, we kept one to dress the bed and took the oth-ers to a seamstress who used them to create Roman blinds, measured neatly into our clients’ window apertures.

If you scan our back catalogue, you’ll observe that we don’t generally match window coverings to bed cover-ings; however, as the simple striped pattern is sufficiently low key and be-cause the sets were so affordable, we decreed it a sensible route.

Feel itTextures like coir, sea grass and

jute immediately impart a whiff of Ralph Lauren beach style atmosphere, especially when teamed with signature stripes to bolster the look.

What’s more, their beautiful style notes add an extra tactile dimension.

For further inspiration, browse the celebrated RL Magazine online at http://entertainment.ralphlauren.com/maga-zine and prepare to swoon and lust.

Add coastal motifsAs is often the case, it’s at the final

layering stage that projects start to

properly breathe.When detailing this scheme, we

spelled out our decorative objec-tives with simple artwork, shell pic-tures (matted in yellow to match the bedding) driftwood sculptures and a chunky wooden table, all of which pro-vide a nod to everything coastal.

Hopefully you’ll be inspired by our zesty project but, if yellow’s not your bag, don’t panic; here are some simple alternatives.

Perhaps our coastal vibe might bet-ter float your boat were you to substi-tute our sunny tone for baby blue? Or perhaps soft washy green?

If you fancy amplifying drama, it would be similarly easy: replace our yellow specification with pillar-box red.

To complete the look, add a few shots of cobalt blue via toss pillows and throws and hey presto; Ralph Lau-ren eats your heart out.

Design flexibility? Even with sum-mer a distant memory, you can rely on us to keep temperatures high!

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You’d never know this wasn’t a cottage. But with some new wood and drywall and a striped theme, Colin and Justin transformed this city space into a modern and rustic abode. The room before is below.

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Never ending summerNever ending summer

These days, there’s more to heating control sys-tems for your home than just a thermostat that turns the heat on when a room is too cold and off when it’s warm enough.

The best controls are also smart enough to deliver more comfort from less energy, and a Canadian firm called tek-mar Control Systems (www.tekmarcontrols.com; 250-545-7749) is at the leading edge of control technology for hot water heating systems.

Hot water rads and radiant infloor heating installations are what they call hydronic systems because they both use hot water to deliver heat. Hydronic heating systems are also growing in popularity be-cause they deliver a superbly comfortable, silent heating experience with none of the airborne dust of forced air heating systems.

The one recurring challenge with hydronic heat-ing of all kinds is the tendency for them to sometimes heat a room hotter than it’s set for.

By the time a regular thermostat senses that room temperature has risen to the set point and shuts off the flow of hot water, there can still be heat in the hot water stored in the rads or floors to drive room temperatures higher.

Solving this problem is where smart controls can help.

At its most basic level, smart heating controls harness two powerful ideas — outdoor temperature reset and indoor temperature feedback. Outdoor temperature reset gathers input from an outdoor temperature sensor to adjust the temperature of a hot water put out by a boiler.

Traditional heating systems are activated by a thermostat to operate at full temperatures only, and this leads to lower combustion efficiencies, greater energy losses from the distribution system and wider indoor temperature swings than ideal.

But if an outdoor temperature reset system senses an outdoor temperature of, say, -3C, it triggers a moderate heating water temperature to match. If the thermometer drops to -25C outside, the system knows it and makes heating water hotter.

There’s one other thing that smart control systems do to lower heating costs, and it’s quite interesting to watch.

Thermostats from different rooms talk to each oth-er as a network, balancing the various calls for heat depending on what the system has learned about how quickly rooms heat up and cool off. By slightly delaying or advancing calls for heat to minimize the number of times a boiler comes on, greater efficien-cies are gained.

All this might sound complicated, but living with smart hydronic heating controls is as easy as enjoy-ing exceptionally smooth temperature levels in win-ter. But if you watch thermostats closely you’ll see the system actually learning how to make this hap-pen in your particular home.

For the first day after I installed the tekmar sys-tem in my own home, room temperature overshot the thermostat set point by 2C or 3C, as is often the case with conventional thermostats controlling hot water heating systems.

But over a period of a day or two, after the smart system gathered information about how fast par-ticular rooms heated up and cooled off given various

outdoor air temperatures, surprising things began to happen.

It wasn’t long before room temperatures became amazingly stable, regardless of outdoor conditions. It’s now typical for temperatures to remain within a 0.5C range, even in the spring as outdoor tempera-tures rise significantly higher over the course of a few hours after sunrise.

No overheating means more comfort and less wasted heat.

It’s impressive to see how smart hydronic heating controls operate in the real world, and to think about the level of intelligence embodied in the circuit boards and algorithms of these systems.

Just don’t get the mistaken impression that all this sophistication is for people obsessed with technol-ogy. Living with it is super-simple, and it’s really for anyone who likes to save money and enjoy an excep-tionally comfortable home.

And isn’t that all of us?Steve Maxwell is comfortably braced for winter in his

home on Manitoulin Island. Read his articles, watch his videos and ask Steve questions for free at www.steve-maxwell.ca.

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Dear Debbie: About six months ago, we moved into a small home and are furnishing it in stages.

My partner and I like the rustic look, but I have noticed that too much wood makes the house feel even smaller.

Our latest challenge is finding a din-ing table. It seems simple enough, but we have a small budget. Any ideas? — Jerry

Dear Jerry;: In fact, shopping for tables of any size can be challenging. There are so many variables, from height, length and width, to the ma-terial or mix of materials that contribute to the table’s style.

If you are looking for a bargain, shop the local flea markets and second-hand stores.

Don’t be deterred by a less than perfect finish. You can transform any piece of furniture with paint or stain. Do make sure that the table is in good repair, or easily fixable. Cosmetic changes won’t correct a wobbly table.

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The dining room vignette shown here features the Dark Steel base and Reclaimed Wood top. The open weave

dining chairs, and raised buffet al-low for plenty of light and a feeling of space in a small room. Walls are white and the multi-hued weave carpet light-ens the wood floor. All the natural ele-ments come together to create a rustic style with today’s modern sensibility. Brilliant.

Dear Debbie: Have you any advice on how to blend a man’s bachelor fur-niture — leather couches and 1980s

bedroom furniture, with a woman’s antique wood/classic style to decorate a brand new townhouse without hurting feelings? We are in our 50s, and I am having a hard time convinc-ing my new husband some things need to go and how to mix and where to start. Please help. — Shelley

Dear Shelley: Compro-mise is the only way around this situation. I am sure that there are pieces of fur-niture and accessories that you both like from each other’s past homes.

The leather couches are timeless and suit any style. Keep your classic lamps and carpet, and shop for a coffee table that is a blend of both. An antique buffet

or armoire is both practical and beau-tiful.

Mix with plain white crockery and glassware that has a bold, masculine shape.

The bedroom furniture might be the biggest stumbling block. Restyle with paint, change the hardware, or switch up to a new bed and keep the rest.

Your new home will take shape gradually to encompass items new and old that you both cherish. Enjoy the journey.

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DETROIT — Owners of electric vehicles have already gone gas-free. Now, a growing number are powering their cars with sunlight.

Solar panels installed on the roof of a home or garage can easily generate enough electricity to power an electric or plug-in gas-electric hybrid vehicle. The panels aren’t cheap, and neither are the cars. A Ford Fusion Energi plug-in sedan, for example, is $7,200 more than an equivalent gas-powered Fusion even after a $4,007 federal tax credit.

But advocates say the investment pays off over time and is worth it for the thrill of fossil fuel-free driving.

“We think it was one of the best things in the world to do,” says Kevin Tofel, who bought a Chevrolet Volt in 2012 to soak up the excess power from his home solar-energy system. “We will never go back to an all-gas car.”

No one knows exactly how many electric cars are being powered by so-lar energy, but the number of electric and plug-in hybrid cars in the U.S. is growing. Last year, 97,563 were sold in the U.S., according to Ward’s AutoIn-foBank, up 83 per cent from the year before. Meanwhile, solar installations grew 21 per cent in the second quar-ter of this year, and more than 500,000 homes and businesses now have them, according to the Solar Energy Indus-tries Association.

Tofel, 45, a senior writer for the technology website Gigaom, installed 41 solar panels on the roof of his Tel-ford, Pennsylvania, home in 2011. The solar array — the term for a group of panels — cost $51,865, but after state and federal tax credits, the total cost was $29,205.

In the first year, Tofel found that the panels provided 13.8 megawatt hours of electricity, but his family was us-ing only 7.59 megawatt hours. So in 2012, Tofel traded in an Acura RDX for a Volt plug-in hybrid that could be charged using some of that excess solar energy. In a typical year, with 15,243 miles of driving, the Volt used 5.074 megawatt hours.

Tofel used to spend $250 per month on gas for the Acura; now, he spends just $50, for the times when the Volt isn’t near a charging station and he has to fill its backup gas engine. Charging the Volt overnight costs him $1.50, but the family makes that money back dur-ing the day when it sends solar power to the electric grid. He estimates that adding the car will cut his break-even point on the solar investment from 11.7 years to six years.

Powering a car with solar energy

isn’t for everyone. Among things to consider:

SiteA south- or southeast-facing roof is

a necessity, and there can’t be shady trees around the house. Sam Avery, who installs solar panels in Kentucky through his company, Avery and Sun, says dormers, chimneys and other de-sign features can hamper an installa-tion.

“If people do have a good site, it’s usually by chance,” he says. “I have to retrofit a lot.”

CostThe cost of installing solar panels

has come down, from $8 to $10 per watt eight years ago to $3 a watt or less now. But it’s still a huge investment.

Bill Webster, 39, a graphic designer at a non-profit in Washington, D.C., paid $36,740 for his solar array in Fred-erick, Maryland, three years ago, or around $3.60 per watt. Tax credits re-duced his net cost to around $20,000.

Before the installation, his family was paying $1,500 per year for electric-ity.

Now, he pays $5.36 per month, the administrative fee for connecting to the grid. That fuels his home and his all-electric Nissan Leaf, which uses around a third of the energy that his solar panels generate. Webster thinks he’ll break even on his investment in six years.

Some solar companies offer leasing programs, which let customers pay a fixed monthly cost for panels.

There are also some incentive pro-grams; Honda Motor Co. offers $400 to-ward the installation of panels through SolarCity, a company that installs them in 15 states.

Buyers also could consider a small-er system just to power a car. A Leaf needs around 4.5 megawatt hours of electricity per year to go 15,000 miles. Eighteen 250-watt panels — a $13,500 investment at $3 per watt — would pro-duce that much electricity.

The carFor Webster, who has a predict-

able roundtrip commute of less than 50 miles and lives near a lot of electric charging stations, an all-electric car like the Leaf makes sense. But for Av-ery, who lives in rural Kentucky, the Volt was the better choice because he needs the security of a backup gas engine.

The U.S. Environmental Protec-tion Agency’s fuel-economy website — www.fueleconomy.gov — lists the number of kilowatt hours that a car us-es to travel 100 miles, which can help potential buyers calculate their energy needs.

Investment in home solar panels

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CROSS1921 - 2014Mr. Gordon William Cross of Red Deer, went to be with his Lord and Saviour on Wednesday, October 29, 2014 passing peacefully at the Red Deer Hospital Centre at the age of 92 years, just short of his 93rd birthday. Gordon was born in Olds, AB but raised on the farm at Amisk AB. At the age of 14, Gordon built a windmill and generator which supplied lighting to the farmhouse. At age 16 was appointed foreman of a construction company to construct roadways in the

Amisk area. Gordon enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force during WW11 where he was an aircraft mechanic but was not called overseas. During this time Gordon met Josephine Henry who he married in 1945. After the war Gordon and Jo lived in Olds where he worked in the furniture business before moving his family to Red Deer in 1951. In 1953, Gordon and Ben Roth incorporated Cross and Roth Real Estate Ltd. in Red Deer and was well respected in the real estate and business communities. Gordon eventually formed his own construction company specializing in residential housing with treated wood basements. He also used his exceptional engineering ability to build his own prototype temperature control system for residential and commercial use. Gordon was a long-standing member of First Baptist Church in Red Deer where he served faithfully for many years. Following his retirement, Gordon pursued his hobbies involving electronics. Gordon leaves to mourn and will lovingly be remembered by son Steve (Lorraine) of Red Deer; daughters Jennifer Cross of Penhold, Susan (Gary) Oosterhoff of Red Deer, and Catherine Cross of Red Deer; brother Ken (Stella) Cross of Edmonton; sister Betty Cwicklewich of Red Deer; and sister-in-law Charlotte Doerksen of Red Deer. Gordon will also be lovingly remembered by his eight grandchildren, Lindsay (Paul) Gustafson, Scott (Ayumi) Romans, Eric Oosterhoff, Michelle Romans, Christine Romans, Lesley Oosterhoff, Mike Young, Emily Young (Shaun Wielinga); as well as his great grandchildren Ewan and Mila, Rylee, Evan, Kye and Shaun. Also mourning Gordon’s passing are numerous nieces and nephews. Gordon was predeceased by his loving wife Josephine in 2010. He loved and was greatly loved by his family and will be deeply missed. A Memorial Service to celebrate Gordon’s life will be held at the First Baptist Church, 4310 - 39 Street, Red Deer, AB on Tuesday, November 4, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of fl owers, memorial donations may be made directly to the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation, 1502, 8215 - 112 St NW, Edmonton AB T6G 9Z9 or to the Kids with Cancer Society, 11135 - 84 Ave, Edmonton AB, T6G 0V9 (on-line at www.kidswithcancer.ca).

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BAHLERMrs. Lila Bahler (nee Longacre) of Sylvan Lake passed away suddenly on Friday, October 24, 2014 at the age of 94 years. Lila and her husband, Sam, farmed east of Sylvan Lake from 1948 until 1991 when they moved into Sylvan Lake. She was an avid gardener and an awesome cook, and spent many hours cooking for farm crews and running lunches to the fi elds. Since 2003 Lila has lived at the Sylvan Lake Lodge where she loved to play cards, do her jigsaw puzzles and entertain others on the piano. She will be sadly missed and fondly remembered by her one son Sam, and daughter-in-law Sandy of Red Deer, grandson, Bradley Bahler (Jennifer) of Sylvan Lake, granddaughter, Daina Sparling (Darryl) of Edmonton and great grandchildren Isaac, Abbi, Nate, Ben (Bahler), Jacob and Audrey (Sparling); three sisters, Lily Longacre , Helen Drader of Red Deer and Ethyl (Roy) Foster of Wetaskiwin; and numerous nieces and nephews. Lila was predeceased by her husband Sam in 1996; brothers Fred, Leonard, Lewis, Jim, Norman and sisters Blanche, Flora and Eldora. Relatives and friends are invited to meet with the family to pay their respects at a Memorial Tea to be held from 1 pm - 3 pm, Nov 3, at the Lions Hall, Sylvan Lake, Alberta if desired. (Program will be held at 2:00 P.M.) As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations in memory of Lila may be made to the Charity of choice. Condolences may be forwarded to: www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.caSYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY

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BLOCKSOMEvelyn JoyceSept. 19, 1933 - Oct. 26, 2014Evelyn passed away quietly with family by her side at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on October 26, 2014, following a brief period of failing health. A celebration of Evelyn’s life will be held on Saturday, November 8, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. at Red Deer Funeral Home, 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer, Alberta. In lieu of fl owers, memorial donations in her honour may be made directly to the Alberta S.P.C.A., 10806 - 124 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T5M 0H3 or to a charity of your choice. Condolences may be forwardedto the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com

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COATES (nee Forbes)Joan Bayntun 1922 - 2014Joan Coates, at 92, having made a deliberate decision to end all life-maintaining sustenance and medication for quality of life reasons, drew her last breath at 3:30 pm Sunday, October 26th with friends and family present. The last request of this amazingly resilient, life-loving, independent thinker was that her friends and family campaign for the option of legalized physician-assisted death in Canada. Joan is survived by her two children and four grandchildren, of whom she was immensely proud. For friends and family alike, Joan has been an inspiration. She particularly relished her times as a nurse, cattle rancher, Pony Club organizer, world sailor/traveller, and political organizer. She embraced adventure, but always remained a “no nonsense” pragmatist. Joan believed passionately in the Canadian democratic process, the importance of children and youth feeling valued and meaningfully involved, and the Pearson College philosophy of “education as the force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future”. She will be dearly missed by friends, family and colleagues from all walks of life. In her fi nal months, Joan spent extended time at VGH and Sunset Lodge. Our thanks go to the many health care professionals and staff, who provided exceptional care and support. In lieu of fl owers, donations to Pearson College or Dying with Dignity Canada would be appreciated. A celebration of her life will be held at the Royal Colwood Golf Course, 629 Goldstream Ave, Colwood, BC on November 25th from 2 - 4 pm.

Obituaries

MCDOUGALLGeorge Thomas McDougall (Tom) passed away peacefully in his sleep October 30, 2014 after a short but courageous battle with cancer. Tom was born in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba on October 8, 1936. It was there that he met the love of his life Joan when they were only fi fteen. Tom and Joan were married in 1958 and shortly thereafter moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan where Tom worked for CN railroad and Davies Electric. In 1960 they welcomed a daughter, Sherry Lee, and in 1966 a son, Blaine Thomas. In 1974 Tom began working for Kramer Tractor in Saskatoon, and had a long and rewarding career until his retirement. In 2005 Tom and Joan moved to Red Deer to enjoy retirement closer to their youngest grandchildren. Tomwill be remembered as a warm, loving father and grandfather. Like any good Saskatchewan boy he loved the Roughriders, was an avid outdoorsman, as well as a talented photographer. He was a fi xture at his children and grandchildren’s games, and could always be counted on to cheer the loudest. Tom is survived by his loving wife of 56 years, his daughter Sherry (Ted), son Blaine (Nadine) and grandchildren Deanna, Teddy, Keegan, Konnor and Konrad, and his sister Elizabeth. He is predeceased by his parents, Fred and Anne and brother Lionel. The family wishes to extend their sincere gratitude to the Palliative Care Department at Red Deer General Hospital as well as the staff and volunteers at Red Deer Hospice. In lieu of fl owers the family asks that donations be given to Red Deer Hospice at 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4R 3S6. A viewing will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67A Street (Taylor Drive) on Monday November 3 from 6-8 pm, and the celebration of Tom’s life will be at Mighty Fortress Lutheran Church November 4, 2014 at 1:00 PM at 51 Alford Ave, Red Deer. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com

Obituaries

FRANKMr. Alexander Frank passed away peacefully on October 2, 2014 at the age of 87 years. He was born in the German village of Neudorf in Russia on November 20, 1926, the second youngest in a family of 10. He came to Canada in 1950, moved to Edmonton in 1951, where he met and married the love of his life, Irene. They raised their family in Edmonton, and lived there until he retired from the Alberta Government in 1987 after 32 years of dedicated service. He moved to Rimbey, then to Lacombe and later to Red Deer. In the early years, he played the saxophone in a dance band in Edmonton. When he retired, they enjoyed camping and fi shing in the West Country. He loved to discuss the events of the day with his neighbours and friends. He was predeceased by his loving wife Irene and all but one sibling who lives in Germany. He will be sadly missed by two sons, Alex (Barb) of Camrose and Ralph (Helen) of Penhold, grandchildren Ian (Kristine), Glen (Natalie), Eric (Sara), Jason (Krystal), Leanne (Mitchel), Miranda and Krystal and numerous relatives and friends. A Memorial Service will be held on Monday, November 3, 2014 at 11:00a.m. at Wilson’s Funeral Chapel, 6120 Hwy 2A, Lacombe, AB. If desired, memorial contributions may be made to The Kidney Foundation of Canada, 202-11227 Jasper Avenue N.W., Edmonton, AB T5K 0L5. Condolences to the Frank family may be made by visiting:www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca

WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM

of Lacombe and Rimbey,in charge of arrangements.

Phone 403-782-3366 or 403-843-3388.

Obituaries

HUGGINSMargaret1930 - 2014Margaret Evelyn Huggins (nee Selk) of Red Deer was called home to the Lord on Friday, October 24, 2014 at the age of 84 years. Margaret was born on September 3, 1930 at Woodley, Saskatchewan to Herman and Hulda Selk. Margaret spent her youth and childhood on the family farm in the Woodley area. In 1956, she married Frank Huggins and together they raised their family of one son (Jeff) and a daughter (Nicole). Margaret and Frank lived in a number of places across Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta while moving with Frank’s oilfi eld job. They moved to Red Deer in 1986 where they put down roots for good. Margaret was active in the community and volunteered for a variety of church and charity organizations. Both her and Frank were members of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Red Deer. Margaret kept busy by participating in the Oilwives Club, doing various crafts (knitting, crocheting, sewing, paper tole) and loved baking. During these years, they took many vacations together and with friends and family. Margaret will be remembered by Frank, her loving husband of fi fty-eight years, two children; Jeff Huggins (Karen) of Carbon, Alberta, Nicole Huggins-Rawlins (Sean) of Red Deer, three grandchildren; Adam, Jeff and Michael. Margaret is also survived by sisters-in-law, Agnes Selk, Ethel Selk, Leona Selk, and Irene Selk, as well as numerous nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her parents, Herman and Hulda and her fi ve brothers; Ben, John, Arthur, Louis and Albert. A Celebration of Margaret’s Life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, November 8, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. with The Reverend Glenn Fretz offi ciating. A private family interment will be held at the Estevan City Cemetery, Estevan, Saskatchewan at a later date. If desired, memorial donations in Margaret’s honor may be made directly to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta at

www.alzheimer.ab.ca. Condolences may be sent or

viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com

Obituaries

ROTHDaleDale Roth of Red Deer, Alberta passed away in Calgary, Alberta at the Foothills Hospital on October 29, 2014 at the age of 69. Dale was born on May 9, 1945 in Red Deer, Alberta to George and Hazel Roth. Dale attended St. Thomas High School in Red Deer and then went on to join the Royal Canadian Navy at 17 years old. Dale married Janet Robert in 1963 and had two sons and a daughter. Dale worked at various jobs over the years including a career with the Co-operators Insurance in Red Deer, Drumheller, Wetaskiwin and Chilliwack. Dale retired from the insurance business and started his own oilfi eld contracting company. Dale is lovingly remembered by his family, wife Janet; sons, Tom and Karen Roth, Todd and Penny Roth; daughter, Tricia and Kelly Hutchison; grandchildren, Brittany and John, Kaitlin and Eddie, Matt, Mitch, Jake, Jenn and Sean, Alex, Luc and Tommy; great-grandchildren, Ava, Brooklyn and Molly; many nieces, nephews, extended family and friends; and by his faithful furry friend, Meg. Dale was predeceased by his mother and father and sister, Maxine Laughlin. A memorial mass will be celebrated on Monday, November 3, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta with Reverend Les Drewicki presiding. In lieu of fl owers, donations may be made directly to either STARS or to the Alberta Cancer Foundation’s Patient Financial Assistance Fund.Condolences may be forwarded

to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.comArrangements entrusted to

RED DEER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORIUM

6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.Phone (403) 347-3319.

In MemoriamJUDY M. STEWART

Aug. 1, 1949 - Nov. 1, 2010

Our little family has missed your strength, advice, wisdom,

just knowing what to do!You will always be dearly loved and never forgotten.

~Stewart Family

Card Of Thanks

THANK YOUFrom Shotokan Karate

Club of Red Deerfor all the donations to our

2014 Children’s Tournament

R & E Elevator Ltd.Cunningham Electric

QA Structures Inc.A&W Blackfalds

Cripstar Enterprises Ltd.S&L Meats

Truemark Energy Services Ltd.Redcore Enterprises Ltd.

Indy GraphicsNational Transmission

Phone ExpertsEastveiw IGA

Village SobeysCentral AB. Co-op

Sobeys Gaetz SouthPenhold Subway

Daryl SudgenDe Castro Family /

Cook-Hummel FamilyMagill Family /

Trpevski Family / MetcalfeGerry & Rita Kemp /Ron & Val Meinema

Offi ce/Phone Hours:8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Mon - Fri

Fax: 403-341-4772

2950 Bremner Ave. Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

Circulation403-314-4300

DEADLINE IS 5 P.M. FOR NEXT DAY’S PAPER

TO PLACE AN AD

403-309-3300classifi [email protected]

wegotjobsCLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

wegotrentalsCLASSIFICATIONS 3000-3390

wegotservicesCLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

wegothomesCLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4310

wegotstuffCLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1940

wegotwheelsCLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5240

CLASSIFIEDSRed Deer Advocate

wegotads.ca

announcements

Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014 D4

Just had Just had a baby boy?a baby boy?

Tell Everyone with a Classified Announcement

309-3300309-3300


WHAT’S HAPPENINGCLASSIFICATIONS

50-70

ComingEvents 52FREE FLU SHOTSHighland Green Value

Drug Mart 6315 Horn St.

The Red Deer Chamber Singers presents its annual

production of the Renaissance Feast,

November 27 and 28, 2014, at the Western

Chalet. Doors open at 6:00 pm. Tickets available

($65.00) by contacting Diane at 403-347-6567.

Found 56FOUND: set of keys with

large keychain, by theVillage Mall TD Bank.

Call 403-347-5744to identify

PLYWOOD BOX of carpentry tools found in

Inglewood. Must identify. 403-356-9067

Personals 60COCAINE ANONYMOUS

403-396-8298

Clerical 720

You can sell your guitar for a song...

or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Oilfield 800

Oilfield 800

CLASSIFICATIONS700-920

wegot

jobs

Caregivers/Aides 710

P/T F. caregiver wantedfor F quad. Must be reliable

and have own vehicle. 403-505-7846

Dental 740RDA, F/T permanent posi-

tion to start Jan 2015. Please send resume with references to tammy@

daydental.ca

ClassifiedsYour place to SELLYour place to BUY

Central Alberta’s LargestCar Lot in Classifieds

Looking for a new pet?Check out Classifieds to

find the purrfect pet.

You can sell your guitar for a song...

or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Medical 790LICENSED

PRACTICAL NURSE

Chinook’s Edge School Division No. 73 invites

applications for a part-time (.5 FTE) Licensed Practical

Nurse at Horizon School (Grades K-12) in Olds.

The successful candidate of this special needs

school will provide nursing support to students, liaise

with Teachers, families and medical professionals as well as assisting in the delivery of health-based programs. This position

will require the successful candidate to be able to do

heavy lifting (over 100 lbs.). Preference will be given to individuals who

have knowledge and experience working with

children/youth. Applicants are required to hold current

registration with CLPNA and CPR certifi cation. Pay will range from

$25.41-$32.29 per/hour depending on experience. Applicants must have good assessment skills and the ability to function as part

of a multi-disciplinary team. Horizon School operates on the Year

Round Calendar.

Cover letter and resume, complete with the names

and telephone numbers of three current work related references are accepted by email only and should

be forwarded to:Shawn Russell, Associate

Superintendent- People Services

Chinook’s Edge SchoolDivision No. 73

Email:[email protected]

For information onChinook’s Edge School

Division No. 73,please check our website

(www.chinooksedge.ab.ca).Applications will be accepted

until 12:00 midnightThursday, Nov. 13, 2014. The successful applicant will be required to provide

a criminal record check and Child Intervention Check.

While we thank allapplicants for their interest,

only those individualsselected for interviews will

be contacted.Resumes of individuals not

granted an interviewwill not be kept on fi le.

Oilfield 800

BEARSPAW is a moderately sized oil and gas company operating

primarily in the Stettler and Drumheller areas. We are

currently accepting applications for a

JUNIOR OIL AND GAS OPERATOR in our Stettler Field.

Applicants need to be mechanically inclined, motivated to work hard

and learn quickly. Associated industry

experience eg. instrumen-tation or facilities

construction experience would be an asset but is not necessarily required.

This position offers adiverse and challenging work environment with

competitive pay, attractive benefi ts and the ability to grow within the organiza-tion. Applicants must live or be willing to relocate to

within a 20 minute commute of the work

place location (Stettler).Please Submit Resume’s

Attention HumanResources

Email: [email protected]

Fax: (403) 258-3197Mail: Suite 5309, 333 96th Ave NE Calgary, Alberta T3R 1H1

DEX Production Testing req’s exp. day night

supervisors, assistants, and boiler hands. Must

have boilers ticket.Competitive wage & benefi t pkg. Email

resume to: offi [email protected] or fax

403-864-8284

EXP’D winch tractor operator req’d for trucking

company in Red Deer. Need clean Class 1 license and have experience in rig moving and service work. Pre-employment testing is

req’d. Email resume to: pat@classicoilfi eldhauling.ca

LOCAL SERVICE CO.in Red Deer REQ’S EXP.

VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR

Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfi eld tickets.

Fax resume w/driversabstract to 403-886-4475

NOW HIRING Well Testing Personnel

Experienced Supervisors& Operators

Must have valid applicable tickets. Email: lstouffer@

testalta.com

TREELINEWELL SERVICES

Has Opening for all positions! Immediately. All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement,and First Aid. We offer competitive

wages & excellent benefi ts. Please include 2 work reference names and

numbers.Please fax resume to:

403-264-6725Or email to:

[email protected] phone calls please.www.treelinewell.com

ZUBAR Production Services

is currently taking resumes for experienced

Production TestingPersonnel

Email resume to: rdzubaroffi [email protected] or fax to (403)346-9420.

ClassifiedsYour place to SELLYour place to BUY

Professionals 810WE are seeking a F/T

accounting professional to be responsible for our en-tire bookkeeping process and offi ce admin. Exp. in Simply Accounting a must

w/minimum 2 yrs. exp. Email resume to: [email protected]

Restaurant/Hotel 820

RAMADA INN &SUITES

req’s PermanentROOM ATTENDANTS

Attendants. Exp. not nec. will train. Approx. 35 - 40

hrs/wk. Performance based bonus program.

Must be fl uent with verbal & written English, be

physically fi t. Applicants may apply in person at 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer

T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 or email:

[email protected]

Oilfield 800

Oilfield 800

Restaurant/Hotel 820JJAM Management (1987)

Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’sRequires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations:

5111 22 St.37444 HWY 2 S37543 HWY 2N700 3020 22 St.

FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift

weekend day and evening both full and part time.

16 Vacancies, $10.20/hr. +benefi ts. Start ASAP.

Job description www.timhortons.com

Education and experience not req’d.

Apply in person or faxresume to: 403-314-1303

THE RUSTY PELICANis now accepting resumes

for experiencedF/T SERVERS

Must have Ref’s & Pro-Serve. Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri.

Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.


THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for

F/T Exp’d LINE COOKS at all stations. MUST HAVE:

• 2-3 yrs. post secondary education.

• 2-3 yrs. on-the-job exp.• Provide references

The hourly rate will be $13.25 - $15. per hour

dependant on experience.Mail to: 2079 50 AVE.

Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4or Call 403-347-1414

or Fax to: 403-347-1161

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS


THE RUSTY PELICANis now accepting resumes

for an EXPERIENCEDBARTENDER. MUST HAVE REFERENCES.

Able to work evening shift. Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri.

Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

The Tap House Pub & Grill req’s full and part time

COOKS AND DISHWASHERS.

Apply with resume at 1927 Gaetz Avenue between 2-5 pm.

4664

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Invites applications for

HEAD SECRETARYat Joseph Welsh ElementaryFor more information visit our website at:

www.rdpsd.ab.ca

4507

26I18-K15

4657

97K1,8

How to apply: online: canyontech.ca/careers fax: 888 249 3895

Premium compensation package RRSP matching program Career advancement opportunities

New Equipment Scheduled days off Paid technical and leadership training

To apply for the above positions, in confidence, please email or fax your resume and a copy of a current drivers abstract. We thank all applicants; however only those selected for an initial interview will be contacted.

WE’RE HIRING

We have the right customers We have the right jobs

We have the right equipment Are YOU the right fit?

Canyon Technical Services is a leader in the oilfield service industry, providing customized fracturing and pressure pumping solutions to oil and gas producers across the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. At Canyon, our employees are ‘Champions’, dedicated to fulfilling our Vision of “improving the industry one job at a time” - our ‘Champions’ have made Canyon one of the most sought-after providers in our industry. If you are looking for a career within a leading organization that promotes Integrity, Relationships, Innovation and Success, then Canyon is looking for you! Canyon is preparing for an extremely busy 2014/2015 and are looking for qualified employees.

Why Canyon?

Class 1 Driver / Operators Frac - Pump Operators, Frac Supervisors Coiled Tubing - Operators Cement & Acid - Fluid Pump Operators

Nitrogen - Operators Crew Bus Drivers Heavy Equipment Technician (3 positions)

4657

89K1

4663

74K1,8

EASY!The easy way to f ind abuyer for items you want tosell is with a Red DeerAdvocate want ad. Phone309-3300.

FOR fast results: Red DeerAdvocate Want Ads. Phone309-3300.


CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Sales

Maternity Leave Position

The Classifi ed Department has a one year Maternity leave position available. This is a part time position averaging 3 days / 22.5 hours per week. Monday, Thursday & Friday 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. The person selected will also occasionally be required to work full time for staff holiday relief.

This is a Sales Position, responsible for the sale of classifi ed advertising in the Red Deer Advocate and associated community papers, both over the phone and at the front counter. You will provide assistance to customers’ inquiries; as well as close of day balancing procedures, sale of newspapers general customer service duties; as well as any additional tasks assigned.

This position requires computer skills, knowledge of Word and Excel programs and excellent command of the English language with above average spelling. The ability to multi-task, work well on a team and be self-motivated is essential. We are looking for someone to join our team in November 2014 for paid training until the maternity leave commencing early December (possibly earlier).

If interested, please send your resume by November 7, 2014 to:

[email protected] or drop off at the Red Deer Advocate Front Counter, Attention: Patricia Stamm, Classifi ed Manager

2950 Bremner Ave. Red Deer

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDEDFor delivery of

Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in

DEER PARK AREA

Denison Cres and 1 block of Davison Dr.$45.44/mo.

Dunning Cres, Cl., and Depalme St.plus 3 blocks of Douglas Ave.

$136.24/mo.

EASTVIEW AREA

Eastman Cres & Edge Close.$130/mo.

MOUNTVIEW

44 and 44 A Ave between 37 st. &Springbett Dr, and Spruce Dr.

$108/mo.

WOODLEA AREA

47A Ave, & part of 55, 56 & 57 St.

$134./mo.

For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate

403-314-4306

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDEDFor Afternoon Delivery

3 Days/Week(Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)

GLENDALEGrimson & Goodall Ave.

69 & 70 St. Dr.

WASKASOO43 & 44 Ave.

PINES

Pearson Cres.Also

Payne & Parsons CloseAlso

Piper Dr. & Pallo Cl.

For more information or to apply callJoanne

at the Red Deer Advocate403-314-4308

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDEDFor Afternoon Delivery

Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

BOWER AREA

Bunn Cres. Baile Close Boyce Street Byer Close Barrett Drive Bell Street Baker Ave. Broughton Cres. Brookes Cres. Beatty Cres.

For more information or to apply,please call Prodie

at the Red Deer Advocate403-314-4301

Sales &Distributors 830

FIREPLACESALES PERSON

Top salary, commission& benefi ts. Call or emailJohn, 1-780-993-2040fi [email protected]


CELEBRATIONSHAPPEN EVERY DAY

IN CLASSIFIEDS

Celebrate your lifewith a Classified

ANNOUNCEMENT

TOO MUCH STUFF?Let Classifiedshelp you sell it.


Trades 850

Trades 850GOODMEN

ROOFING 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!

Looking for a new pet?Check out Classifieds to

find the purrfect pet.

Trades 850EVRAZ

Red Deer Works is now accepting applications for Journeyman Millwrights,

Electricians, and Machinists.

Individuals must be safety conscious, physically fi t,

able to work overtime and shift work.

Wages start at $40.00 per hour and offer an

excellent benefi t and pension package.

Please send resume to [email protected]

or deliver in person to 27251 391 Township Road

SEEKING an experiencedSEWING MACHINE

OPERATOR: Applicantsshould have experienceoperating an industrial

strength sewing machineand designing patterns.Please contact 403-342-7015 Boat Mart or ray@

boatmart.net.

SIDING INSTALLER with or without trailer & tools. F.T. year round

work, must have truck and 2 yrs. exp. $1 -$1.10 per

sq.ft. 403-358-8580

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]

CENTRAL AB based truck-ing company requiresOwner Operators

& Contract Drivers in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558


DO YOU: - Want extra income - Know the city well - Possess a clean, valid drivers license - Have a friendly attitude - Enjoy customer service - Want part-time work (12 to 22 hrs/week)

As part of our service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to deliver

newspapers and fl yers to customers or carriers.A delivery vehicle provided by company!

Work 3 to 4 shifts a week.Hours of shifts are morning shifts of

Monday through Friday 5:00 AM to 9:00 AM.Saturday starting at 7 AM.

Wednesday to Friday Shifts starting at 1 PM.*All Shifts based on 4 hours and likely to run longer.

Please apply with resume to:[email protected]

or call 403-314-4302 and speak with Grant.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only selected candidates will be contacted.

CARRIERS REQUIRED

To deliver theCENTRAL AB LIFE

& LACOMBE EXPRESS1 day a week in:

LACOMBEBLACKFALDS

Please call Rick for details403-314-4303

SUNNYBROOK&

MORRISROE

Adult Newspaper Carriers NeededFor Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE

6 Days a week!Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am

For More Information, Please call Prodie

Phone 403-314-4301

Truckers/Drivers 860CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d

for moving equipment.Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St.

Cres. Red Deer.

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

F/T TRUCK drivers req’d. Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

FLUID Experts Ltd.Of Red Deer is seeking

experiencedClass 1 Operators

to join our team of drivershauling clean fl uids for the

Oil & Gas Industry.Home most evenings, scheduled days off,

company benefi ts with exceptional pay structure that includes guarantied

salary + hourly when hauling. Must be able to work on their own with minimal supervision.

Fax resume w/all tickets and current drivers

abstract to:403-346-3112 or email to:roger@fl uidexperts.com

BusinessOpportunities 870

START YOUR OWN COMMERCIAL

CLEANING BUSINESSRevenue between

$24,000 - $120,000Initial cash required

as low as $6,000In Business for over 20 years

*Guaranteed Cleaning Contracts Incl.*Training Incl.

*Ongoing Offi ce Support

Ph: 780-468-3232 or 403-290-0866

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Misc.Help 880

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

Trades 850

Misc.Help 880

Misc.Help 880ACADEMIC Express

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

WINTER START

GED Preparation

Would you like to take the GED in your community?

• Red Deer• Rocky Mtn. House• Rimbey• Caroline• Castor• Sylvan Lake• Innisfail• Stettler• Ponoka• Lacombe

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930www.academicexpress.ca

Central AlbertaGreenhouses LtdGreenhouse Laborers

required for our greenhouse operation

located near Blackfalds, Alberta. Responsibilities

include transplanting, watering, handling and caring for plant material

and preparation of orders. This position is labor intensive and entails working in a cold/hot

environment. Laborers are required to work a

minimum 40 hours per week and must be

available to work different shifts, 7 days a week. Positions are available

starting Early February and last till late June. No

previous work experience or qualifi cations are

required. Starting wage is $10.20/hr.

Please email resume to [email protected]

or fax resume to 403-885-4147(Attn. Human Resources).

Resumes may also be mailed to Box 100,

Blackfalds, AB. T0M 0J0

GAETZ SOUTHF/T P/T MEAT CUTTER.

Apply within5111 22nd St. Red Deer

Tired of Standing?Find something to sit on

in Classifieds

Misc.Help 880

Misc.Help 880

GAETZ SOUTHFT/PT CASHIERS


GAETZ SOUTHP/T Bakery Evening Staff


GREEN CLEAN REDDEER Ltd. is looking for

cleaners for ourRESIDENTIAL division!

Hours of work are Mon-Fri,9am-4pm. Applicants canexpect to work approx.30

hrs/week and be paid above industry average.Applicants must have areliable vehicle, a clean

criminal record check, behighly motivated and

reliable! Apply by emailingyour resume to [email protected].

LARGE fi replace store expanding in Western

Canada. Seeking experienced personnel for admin, data entry, schedul-

ing etc. No phone calls please. Send full resume

jim@thefi replaceexperience.com

AdvocateOpportunities

Misc.Help 880NEEDED F/T Service PersonGeneral Carpenter/handy-man type for service and set up of manufactured

and modular home. Exp. in trim, roofi ng, siding, fl oor-ing, paint etc. Competitive

wages and health plan avail. Apply to James at M & K Homes, 403-346-6116

SHRUMS MEATSHIRING EXP’D.

BUTCHER, $20-$30/hr. Phone 1-403-742-1427

or fax 403-742-1429

SOURCE ADULT VIDEOrequires mature P/T help Sat. & Sun. 7 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Fax resume to:403-346-9099 or drop off to:

3301-Gaetz Avenue

UFA/BAR Whas an opening for:

WAREHOUSE SHIPPER/RECEIVER& PARTS PERSON

The successful candidate will have warehouse

experience, preferably with electrical and mechanical

background as well as forklift exp. Strong

computer skills is an asset.Please fax resumes to 403-347-9301 or email:

[email protected]

Central Alberta’s LargestCar Lot in Classifieds

Misc.Help 880

We are seeking a Full-Time Supervisor

at our Sobeys LiquorVillage Mall location

As the ideal candidate,you feel comfortable dealing

directly with customers and will provide effective leadership to staff.

Requirements:Previous retail supervisory

experience.Profi cient in Microsoft

Offi ce and knowledge of computer systems.

Proserve Certifi cation is an asset.

Must be available days, weekends and evenings

up to Midnight.Please submit resume to [email protected]

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Community HallPartial List Only

2004 Ford F150 – 2006 Chrysler 300 – 2003 Ford Ranger – 1997 Ford 1 Ton Cube Van – Mercury 50 hp

Boat Motor – Power Wheelchair (Like New) –

Pram – Antiques – Collectables – Furniture

– Tools –Misc and much more

Complete list andDirections visit www.cherryhillauction.comTerms of Sale: Cash,

Cheque, C/C, Everything must be paid for &

removed on sale day (NO EXCEPTIONS), 15%

buyer’s premium.Sale subject to Additions,

Deletions, Errors and Omissions.

Cherry Hill Auction &Appraisals

Phone 403-342-2514 or 403-347-8988

Clothing 1590JACKET, leather, size 40 Tall, $20. 403-347-5316

Equipment-Heavy 1630TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, offi ce, well site or

storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Firewood 1660AFFORDABLE

Homestead FirewoodSpruce & Pine -Split. Firepits avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

FIREWOOD, birch, spruce & pine. North of Costco

403-346-7178, 392-7754

LOGSSemi loads of pine, spruce,

tamarack, poplar. Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

HouseholdAppliances 1710STOVE, Kenmore, electric,

white, 6 yrs. old. $145. 403-347-5316

HouseholdFurnishings1720

46” SINGLE BED w/side rails, headboard, foot-board, FREE, mattress

and box spring $100 403-347-3849

HEADBOARD, for queen bed, 60” wide, $40; (3)

clean wool accent matching 3x5 oval carpets, $40. for all 3; David Winter

Collector’s houses in original boxes, $25. ea.

403-352-8811

WANTEDAntiques, furniture and

estates. 342-2514

Misc. forSale 1760FOOD PROCESSOR, $25;

Rice cooker $25Slap Chop Food Processor

& Cheese Grater, $15.Electric blanket, double, $50.

Everything works. 403-347-0325

MANURA Trainer, Indoor stationery bike stand, re-sistance for your outside bicycle. Made in Japan. Exc. cond. $85; Ammo magazine clip for British Lee Enfi eld 303, $35. 403-352-8811

Cats 18302 BALINESE KITTENS

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403-782-3031

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Award Winning, High Volume, Ford Dealership in Central Alberta is seeking motivated applicants for:

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Sales ConsultantOnce in a lifetime opportunity to join the

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Be an integral player on our award winning sales team. Previous

experience preferred, but we are willing to train the right person.

Excellent pay plan,

benefits and opportunity to grow.

Apply by fax to:

Dez Lorencz (403) 227-4544or email:

[email protected]

AMAZING OPPORTUNITY!

Sheraton Red Deer is now accepting applications for all departments

including:

Human Resources Manager,Evening Guest Services Supervisor,

Banquets Services,Security, Doorman,Culinary Positions

We offer competitive salary packages, an engaging work environment, and career advancement opportunities

quali ed applicants should forward a cover letter and resume to:

Charlene Watson [email protected] 46

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STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. is one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies. We are an industry leading Electrical & Instrumentation Contractor that prides itself in having committed and dedicated employees.

We are currently hiring for the position of:

ESTIMATORFor our Red Deer Offi ce

The ideal candidate will require the following for this position:• Journeyman Electrician • Estimating experience a defi nite asset• Ability to read, understand, and interpret blueprints

effectively• Exceptional interpersonal skills to communicate

effectively with clients, vendors, and all levels within the organization

• Strong computer skills • Problem solving and organizational skills• A working knowledge of the McCormick Estimating

software a defi nite asset• Highly organized with a strong attention to detail

STUDON offers a competitive salary, and an opportunity to apply your skills in a challenging and rewarding environment.Please forward your resume to the address below. We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates interviewed will be contacted.Please note: This job posting closes on November 7th, 2014

STUDON Electric & Controls Inc.

ATTN: Andrea Mercer

Fax # 403-342-6505

Email [email protected] 4651

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Red Deer College now has a Shift Supervisor position which is open to all qualifi ed candidates to apply for.Expected duties are:

• Assist with site training and payroll reconciliations

• Provide administrative support for the site supervisor

• Provide operation support to the site supervisor

• Coaching and motivating staff• Assist with fi lling open shifts/ vacations• Other duties as assigned• Candidates must be able to work fl exible/

rotating shifts.• Must possess a valid driver’s license

Interested candidates are requested to submit resume and cover by email or fax to:

[email protected]

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Nov. 1st. 403-304-5337

Suites 3060 2 BDRM apt. for over 40 yr. old working tenants, no pets, no partiers, no drugs. Free laundry, heat, water,

private parking at 5910-55 Ave. in Riverside Meadows.

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2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult bldg, free laundry, very

clean, quiet, Avail Nov. 1. $1050/mo., S.D. $650.

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location. Heat & waterincluded. Cat friendly.

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Cottage/Seasonal 3070

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Motels/Hotels 3100

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4000 sq. ft, seating ca-pacity 100 people approx.

403-782-2424 or email lacombemotorinn@

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Condos/Townhouses4040

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Farms/Land 4070

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Cars 5030BUICK

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w/grey leather, 3.8L, V6, auto, loaded w/factory

remote start, OnStar, 156,453 kms, windshield, tires and

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Cars 50302009 HONDA Fit hatch-back, 4 cyl, 5 spd, pw, pdl, air, silver, 103,000 kms, $7400 403-341-0603

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LEBANON, Ohio — An American who is back home after being detained for nearly six months in North Korea said Friday that he left a Bible in a nightclub hoping it would get into the hands of what he called the country’s underground Christian church.

Jeffrey Fowle said he travelled to the country as a tourist but saw the oppor-tunity as a way to follow the Christian mission “to carry the Gospel to all corners of the oath.”

“I knew it was a risk, that I was taking a gamble, but I felt compelled to do that to aid the underground church in some small way,” Fowle said in an interview in his lawyer’s office.

“I felt once I left the Bible somewhere that God would take it the rest of the way into the hands of some kind of Christian or-ganization, and I’d be able to waltz out of country fat, dumb and happy, no prob-lem,” he said. “But God had other plans.”

Fowle, 56, arrived in North Korea on April 29. The married father of three returned home last week after negotiations involv-ing retired diplomat and former Ohio Congressman Tony Hall. Fowle, who con-ducted several interviews Friday about his detention, was relaxed and comfort-able during a 45-minute in-terview.

He said he went to North Korea to experience the country and that spreading the Gospel was a secondary motivation.

He’d previously travelled to Bosnia and Mongolia, he said, saying he liked “out-of-the-way places.”

He was aware of warn-ings about travel to North Korea but went anyway, knowing that American tourists had gone and re-turned over the past de-cade.

Fowle, an equipment op-erator in the city of Moraine street department, said he paid about $3,900 for the tour, plus about $700 for a flight to Beijing.

He said criticisms that going on such a tour would help the North Korean government continue its oppressive ways was a “le-gitimate question,” but he doubted his money went far.

“My fees wouldn’t have bought a tank, that’s for sure,” he said.

Fowle said he left the Bible — with his name in it — in a bathroom under a trash bin at a nightclub in the northern port city of Chongjin and hoped a Chris-tian would find it. He chose that city and the nightclub in the belief there would be less security. He bought the Korean-language Bible before his trip.

Instead, his tour guide asked the next day if any-one had left a Bible there and he owned up to it. He was detained a few days later while going through customs before departure.

Fowle was taken to a ho-tel for about three weeks and questioned, then moved to another facility. He wrote a confession and answered questions about his motiva-tions. He said authorities couldn’t believe he had act-ed on his own, but he made clear it was his own deci-sion. He was treated well and was comfortable but was in his locked quarters 23 ½ hours a day, he said.

He was allowed to speak in September to Western news organizations, includ-ing The Associated Press, in five-minute interviews. He said he was given “talk-ing points” for those inter-views, meant to convey his “desperate situation.”

The intention, in his mind, was “to have the U.S. government or some other entity step in to help re-solve that situation.”

He said he never con-sidered going off script, although he did reject re-quests that he try to be more emotional and more demanding of the U.S. gov-ernment. Fowle said he felt that would make his situa-tion worse at home.

Fowle said his release came as a surprise — he thought he was about to be taken to prison — and he was told by an Ameri-can who helped escort him home that the North Kore-an government was respon-sible for his return.

Fowle said he knew there was a risk but be-lieved it was worth taking to get the Bible into the hands of North Korean Christians. In hindsight, he said, he wouldn’t do it again.

His family suffered in his absence, especially af-ter the city of Moraine was forced to terminate him when his leave was ex-hausted. His wife, Tatyana, works only part time.

But some good has come of the incident, he said, in-cluding a deeper apprecia-tion for his family.

American detained in North Korea left bible

for ‘underground’ church


JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — A suspect has been arrested and charged with murder in the shoot-ing death of Senzo Meyiwa, South Africa’s national soc-cer team captain, authori-ties said Friday.

The suspect, 25-year-old Zenokuhle Mbatha, will be held in custody until his next court appearance on Nov. 11, South African po-lice said.

Police said Mbatha was placed in a lineup and “positively identified” by witnesses to the killing of Meyiwa, who was shot in the upper body during an apparent house robbery on Sunday night while visiting his girlfriend.

The suspect also faces a charge of armed robbery, said Nathi Mncube, spokes-man for the National Pros-ecuting Authority.

Police said they are hunting two more suspects and investigations are at a “very sensitive stage.”

Meyiwa, a goalkeeper for South Africa and club team Orlando Pirates, was fatally shot in the township of Vosloorus near Johan-nesburg.

The death of the popular player and national team captain led to an outpour-ing of dismay and anger in

South Africa, which has a high murder rate.

Authorities said three suspects were involved in the break-in that led to Meyiwa’s death.

South African police launched a manhunt and offered a reward of near-ly $23,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of 27-year-old Meyiwa’s killers.

“Whilst we are pleased with the progress we are making and the overwhelm-ing support from members of the public, there is still a lot of work to be done to finalize the investigation and ensure that we can link all suspects to the murder,” police said in a statement.

South African officials on Thursday called for a strict new gun law as a trib-ute to Meyiwa.

The calls were made at a memorial service to hon-our Meyiwa and two other South African sports fig-ures, who all died in the space of a few days.

Former 800-meter world champion runner and Olym-pic silver medallist Mbu-laeni Mulaudzi was killed in a car crash on Friday, and female boxer Phindile Mwelase died Saturday af-ter being in a coma follow-ing a bout.

All three will be buried in their hometowns over the weekend.

Man charged with murdering soccer team captain

SOUTH AFRICA



MATAMOROS, Mexico — Authorities were inves-tigating on Friday a possible police connection to the killing of three U.S. citizens visiting their father in Mexico who were found shot to death along with a Mexican friend more than two weeks after going missing.

Parents of the three siblings, whose bodies were identified Thursday, have said witnesses reported they were seized by men dressed in police gear call-ing themselves “Hercules,” a tactical security unit in the violent border city of Matamoros wracked by cartel infighting. Nine of the unit’s 40 officers are be-ing questioned, Tamaulipas state Attorney General Ismael Quintanilla Acosta said.

It would be the third recent case of alleged abuse and killings by Mexican security forces.

The country is already convulsed by the case of 43 students from a teachers college in the southern state of Guerrero, their disappearance blamed on a mayor and police working with a drug cartel. Fifty-six people are under arrest, including dozens of po-lice officers.

In a separate case in June, soldiers killed 22 sus-pected gang members in Mexico state, then altered the scene and intimidated witnesses to hide the fact that most of the dead were executed after they sur-rendered, a National Commission on Human Rights report said last week. Three soldiers face murder charges.

“We will apply the full force of the law and zero tolerance,” Tamaulipas Gov. Egidio Torre Cantu said of the latest case, lamenting the death of the three Americans and a Mexican citizen, even though their identities had yet to be confirmed by DNA.

Presidential spokesman Eduardo Sanchez de-clined to comment when asked about the newest case. The U.S. Embassy said it was aware of the reports but had no information to share “due to pri-vacy considerations.”

The father of the three Americans, Pedro Alva-rado, identified his children from photographs of the bodies showing tattoos, Quintanilla told Radio For-mula. Clothing found with the bodies also matched that of Erica Alvarado Rivera, 26, and her brothers, Alex, 22, and Jose Angel, 21, who disappeared Oct. 13 along with Jose Guadalupe Castaneda Benitez, Erica Alvarado’s 32-year-old boyfriend.

Each was shot in the head and the bodies were burned, most likely from lying in the hot sun for so long, Quintanilla said.

Tamaulipas authorities said it could take 24 to 48 hours for DNA tests to further confirm that the bod-ies were those of the Alvarado siblings, who were last seen in El Control, a small town near the Texas border west of Matamoros, about to return home to Progreso, Texas.

“They were good kids,” said an aunt, Nohemi Gon-zalez. “I don’t know why they did that to them.”

The three siblings shared their mother’s mod-est brick home on a quiet street in Progreso less than three miles from the border. Erica, who has four children between the ages of 3 and 9, had been scheduled to begin studying next month to become a nursing assistant.

Brothers Jose Angel and Alex had been set to make their annual pilgrimage to Missouri as migrant farm workers more than a week ago, Gonzalez said. When they weren’t on the road, they divided their time between their mother’s house in Texas and their father’s in Mexico.

On Sunday, Oct. 12, Erica drove her black Jeep Cherokee across the border to El Control. She dropped it at her father’s house and went to visit with her boyfriend.

Her mother, Raquel Alvarado, had told her to be back in Progreso by early Monday morning, because Raquel had to work and Erica’s kids had to get to school. Raquel put the kids to bed Sunday night and awoke at 4 a.m. to see Erica was not home. She be-gan calling her daughter’s cellphone and continued through the morning. “I’m always worried about her when she goes over there,” the mother said.

UN expresses ‘deep outrage’ at Islamic State group’s actions

The UN Security Council is expressing its “deep outrage” at the killings, kidnapping, rapes and tor-ture by the Islamic State group in Iraq.

A press statement Friday evening notes that some of the actions “may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity.”

The statement urges the international community to increase its support of Iraq’s government and se-curity forces.

The council also welcomes the appointments of Iraq’s defence and interior ministers and the swearing-in of Kurdish ministers, “which completed the formation of an inclusive Government that repre-sents all segments of the Iraqi population.”

The Islamic State group has alarmed the interna-tional community with its recent seizure of a third of Iraq’s territory and parts of neighbouring Syria.

Iraq now faces its worst crisis since the 2011 with-drawal of U.S. troops.

A blast in Egypt’s Sinai injuries 7 soldiers

EL-ARISH, Egypt — Egyptian security officials say a roadside bomb explosion struck an army ve-hicle, injuring seven soldiers in the northern region of the Sinai Peninsula.

The Friday blast near the city of el-Arish, near the Gaza border, came a week after a deadly attack in the same are killed 31 soldiers. Authorities declared a state of emergency and a curfew in the area.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity be-cause they were not authorized to speak to the press.

The army recently forcibly evacuated hundreds of Egyptian families living along the border with the Gaza Strip in order to create a buffer zone, designed to stop the smuggling of militants and weapons through underground tunnels.

Spanish gov’t urges top court to block Catalonia’s plans for alternative

independence voteMADRID, Spain — Spain’s government is asking

the country’s constitutional Court to block plans by the powerful northeastern region of Catalonia to hold an informal independence poll Nov. 9.

Catalan authorities called off an official referen-dum on the issue for the same date after the govern-ment challenged its legality before the court, which tentatively suspended the vote. Catalonia then opted to hold the informal ballot.

Deputy Prime minister Soraya Saenz de Santa-maria said Friday that the alternative poll was also unconstitutional.

If the court agrees to study the challenge, the al-ternative poll will also be suspended.

Catalan authorities have said the vote will be held regardless of what the court decides.

Polls indicate most Catalans want a referendum but are roughly equally divided over independence.

Uganda’s president praises North Korea for opposing imperialism amid

doubts on democracyKAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda’s president

praised a visiting North Korean official at a state dinner, where he commended the Pyongyang govern-ment as a symbol of the fight against what he called Western imperialism.

Kim Yong Nam, the head of North Korea’s par-liament, is visiting Uganda as part of a rare tour of Africa, where the increasingly isolated country has actively tried to find allies.

North Korea has been training Ugandan security forces, rankling local critics who see Uganda’s se-curity ties with North Korea as a sign of President Yoweri Museveni’s move away from democratic rule.

Museveni, in power for 28 years, is increasingly accused of trying to rule this East African country for life.

A statement from Uganda’s presidency described North Korea as “friends who have helped Uganda for a long time.”

Heavy security as Israel reopens Jerusalem holy site for Friday prayers

JERUSALEM — Israel reopened a contested Je-rusalem holy site on Friday and deployed more than 1,000 security personnel following clashes the previ-ous day between Palestinians and Israeli riot police that had ratcheted up already heightened tensions in the city.

Small groups of Palestinian worshippers made their way through a series of Israeli checkpoints to the site — known to Jews as the Temple Mount and Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary — under leaden grey skies and heavy pouring rain.

No clashes were reported after prayer services ended around mid-day.

However, the Israeli military reported that five Palestinians were injured in a running battle be-tween Israeli security personnel and Palestinian demonstrators at the Qalandiya checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah. AP video footage showed the security personnel firing barrages of tear gas canisters at dozens of rock-throwing Palestinians near the site.

The military also said there were clashes in at least five other West Bank locations, though no inju-ries were reported.

Virgin Galactic space tourism rocket explodes in test flight, 1 dead

MOJAVE, Calif. — A Virgin Galactic space tour-ism rocket exploded after taking off on a test flight in Southern California’s Mojave Desert, a witness said Friday.

At least one was dead and another was injured, California Highway Patrol said. The SpaceShipTwo rocket is typically flown by a crew of two pilots and has been under development at Mojave Air and Space Port in the desert northeast of Los Angeles.

“During the test, the vehicle suffered a serious anomaly resulting in the loss of SpaceShipTwo,” Vir-gin Galactic tweeted Friday.

Ken Brown, a photographer who witnessed the crash, said the space tourism craft exploded after it was released from a plane that carries it to a high altitude.

The company founded by British billionaire Rich-ard Branson would not say what happened other that it was working with authorities to determine the cause of the “accident.”

Mexico police questioned in kidnap, killing of 3 Americans

INTERNET TAX PROTEST IN HUNGARY

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A protestor holds a poster showing a montage of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and late communist dictator Matyas Rakosi as thousands of demonstrators gather in front of the Ministry of National Economy to protest against an Internet tax that had been planned to be introduced by the Hungarian government in Budapest, Hungary, Friday. After two major protests earlier this week PM Orban has announced the draft on Internet tax cannot be introduced in the proposed form and the economy ministry has made steps to withdraw the draft.


MONROVIA, Liberia — Remembering those who have died in the world’s deadliest Ebola outbreak, Liberia’s president opened one of the country’s larg-est Ebola treatment centres in Monrovia on Friday amid hopes that the disease is finally on the decline in this West African country.

American and U.N. officials as well as Cuban doc-tors were in the crowd as President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf opened the treatment centre, which is set up to hold 200 patients and can eventually treat as many as 300. With the opening of the centre, an Ebola treat-ment unit at JFK Medical Center has been closed. Many people with other diseases had been nervous about going to the nation’s largest referral hospital, and officials hope they will now come back.

The opening of the centre, built out of white plas-tic sheeting with USAID written across it, comes as fewer people are showing up for treatment at vari-ous centres. Officials are not sure how to interpret that. Some believe it’s a sign that the Ebola outbreak is finally on the wane in Liberia.

“It is heartening to see that we are finally perhaps catching up with that boulder if not in front of it. It was rolling down the hill at a speed that we were never going to catch, we thought, two months ago, but we’re starting to make progress,” said U.S. Ambassa-dor Deborah Malac.

Others believe Sirleaf’s order that the bodies of Ebola victims in the capital be cremated has led to people with symptoms hiding at home, because cre-mation violates traditions.

Doctors Without Borders, known as MSF, said that as of Tuesday there were around 80 patients in its 250-bed facility.

“MSF teams are looking into the reasons for this; a widespread aversion to the government’s manda-tory cremation policy, poor ambulance and referral systems, changes in behaviour, and other factors may play a role,” the aid group said.

Assistant Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah, who heads the government’s Ebola response, told The Associated Press the JFK Ebola medical team and a team of Cuban doctors will be in charge of the new centre, located in Congo Town in eastern Monrovia.

The World Health Organization said this week that the rate of infection in Liberia appears to be

falling but warned that the response effort must be kept up or the trend could be reversed.

The international community’s response was late and figures were mostly wrong, Peter Maurer, pres-ident of the International Committee of the Red Cross, told reporters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He said he is concerned about the “huge discrepancy” between announcements and the situation on the ground in the Ebola-affected countries.

More than 13,500 people have been sickened by the disease, and nearly 5,000 have died, the World Health Organization said Friday. That toll has about 130 fewer cases than the one released by WHO two days ago, mostly because a number of suspected cases in Guinea were determined to not be Ebola, the agency said.

The outbreak has hit Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea hardest and all three countries have resorted to extraordinary measures to combat it.

Sierra Leone has had a state of emergency in place for three months that bans public gatherings and, at one point, the entire country was locked down for three days to seek out hidden cases. There have been rumours that the emergency measures would be lifted, but Attorney General and Justice Minister Franklyn Bai Kargbo told AP on Friday that they are still in force. By law, they can last for 12 months and parliament put no time limit on them, he said.

While the disease is beginning to let up in some of Sierra Leone’s eastern districts, infections are con-tinuing in the capital and surrounding areas.

Despite some signs of hope in Liberia, many offi-cials warn that the fight cannot be let up. Sirleaf said the memory of sick and dying people with no place to go is still too fresh.

“We can all imagine those early days when jour-nalists .. went into the streets and into the communi-ties and took those pictures that were put on all the television screens all over the world of the dying, the sick, the dead who could not be picked up on time,” she said.

Despite those dark days, Liberia health workers fought on, she said.

“To our health workers,” she said, “we owe you a lot for the courage you continue to bring forth.”

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