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A winter phenomenon that is at-tracting sightseers and photographers to Abraham Lake comes with a caution from an experienced outdoorsman.

The artificial lake, which is a reser-voir for the Bighorn Dam on the North Saskatchewan River, is located 211 km west of Red Deer on Hwy 11. It has been a popular destination in winter because of large frozen bubbles in the ice.

The bubbles are caused by meth-ane gas released by decaying organic matter in the water. The gas freezes in the ice during winter, making for some interesting photos.

However, because water is drawn down from the reservoir, it can create conditions where there is air, not wa-ter, right below the ice surface.

Bary Shellian, from Rocky Mountain House, recently went out to the lake, in the vicinity known as Windy Point, about 40 km west of Nordegg. He had gone out to the area to ride his fat-tire bike, made for riding in winter condi-tions, because he had heard about the bubbles.

It’s not a lake, it’s a reservoir, which means it’s constantly being drained, said Shellian.

“It’s not safe at all actually because if it was a normal lake and you fell through the ice, the water would be right there. You might have a hope of getting back up.

“But boy, the reservoir, if the ice broke, you could drop several feet through space before you hit the wa-

ter.” The ice doesn’t drop as the water is depleted.

His advice is to stay off the lake.“I have a pretty high tolerance for

risk. I’ve been through the ice before and pulled myself up.” But if someone were to fall through the ice, they may not be able to reach up high enough from the water to pull themselves out.

Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre is getting new life-saving equipment to diagnose cardiac conditions thanks to a $750,000 anonymous donation to Red Deer Regional Health Foundation.

The hospital is getting its first trans-esophageal echocardiography system, known as TEE.

The state-of-the-art equipment, worth $500,000, allows doctors to pic-ture the heart’s movement, check for blood health, see clots, and any harm-ful bodies or diseases in the circulato-ry system.

“Essentially it’s an ultrasound that goes down to your esophagus and gives a better look at your heart than the conventional ultrasound,” said Iaian Park, foundation executive director on Monday.

The TEE will shorten diagnosis time, show the presence of arterial clots and further infections, assess valves for ruptures or leaks, and help prevent cryptogenic strokes, which are sudden and of unknown origin.

It will aid echo and stress testing for patients with cardiac conditions that require more detailed analysis and tailored treatment.

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Father of shooting victim prepares his son’s grave

The father of one of the victims of a mass shooting burned logs at the community cemetery where his son will be buried.

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Kylie Stockford and Donovin Langille got the chance to enjoy a little winter playtime at school Monday afternoon. The Grade 2 students in Nicole Gruntman’s class at Joseph Welsh Elementary, along with their classmates, donned their skates and took advantage of the rink on the school yard.


Red Deer Regional Hospital Foundation executive director Iaian Park, left, speaks with cardiologist Dr. Stephen Tilley in the cardiology department at Red Deer Regional Hospital on Monday. Tilley and Park are excited about new cardiac testing equipment that will be brought online in Red Deer.

Anonymous donation to hospital fits to a TEE

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKIADVOCATE STAFF

Please see DONATION on Page A2

School board to vote on

boundary changes

It would be hard to argue the Red Deer Public School District didn’t do their homework.

For more than a year, they have consulted, developed scenarios, con-sulted, engaged online and consulted some more in the redistricting of a number of schools starting in Septem-ber 2017.

T h a t ’ s t h e y e a r the new In-g l e w o o d S c h o o l opens and the need for new bound-aries there opened up the door for the district to make a larger effort to get its school areas right, said s u p e r i n -tendent Stu Henry.

“ W e wanted to look at the whole pic-ture,” said Henry. “You don’t get many chances to get it right and there was a sense that some of the neighbourhoods weren’t going to the closest schools and we had a chance to fix things.”

For example Vanier Woods and Vanier Woods East students were pre-viously attending Barrie Wilson, which is located in Timberlands. Their po-tential new school in Inglewood will be much closer to home.

The public school board will vote on Wednesday on the redistricting pro-posed by the board’s administration.

Henry said the best feedback came from online with the meetings and open houses being poorly attended. The online process had 1,000 partici-pants with 3,000 comments. That feed-back led to the proposed solution.

One of the larger adjustments is the relocation of the Spanish Bilingual program.

BY MURRAY CRAWFORDADVOCATE STAFF

‘WE WANTED TO LOOK AT THE WHOLE

PICTURE. YOU DON’T GET MANY

CHANCES TO GET IT RIGHT AND THERE

WAS A SENSE THAT SOME OF THE NEIGHBOURHOODS

WEREN’T GOING TO THE CLOSEST

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Please see SCHOOLS on Page A2

Abraham Lake’s frozen bubbles beautiful but deadly

MARY-ANN BARRADVOCATE STAFF

Contributed photo by BARRY SHELLIAN

The ice at Abraham Lake showing frozen bubbles of methane, caused by plants releasing the gas, which then gets frozen and trapped under the ice.

Please see BUBBLES on Page A2

Suspect in West Country crime spree to stand trial in May

An accused in a summer crime spree will head to trial in late May for a litany of charges.

Zane Curtis Bronson, 28, of no fixed address was arrested by the RCMP near Breton, but the alleged offences occurred in Rocky Mountain House and Rimbey in August, 2015.

He is charged with two counts each of break and enter, possession of break-in instruments, having his face masked and mischief under $5,000 and one count each of theft of a motor vehicle, mischief over $5,000, arson to a vehicle, possession of a firearm while committing an indictable offence and possession of a firearm dangerous to the public peace.

The trial will be held form May 30 to June 2 in Rimbey provincial court.

Police said the spree started early on Aug. 6 in Rimbey when two men attempted to break into an ATM outside of the Servus Credit Union at 4:20 a.m. Rimbey RCMP were alerted of a break and enter to an Esso Gas station about 20 minutes after the Servus incident.

Outside of Rimbey, police were told of a pickup truck on fire at 5 a.m. That truck was reported stolen earlier that evening and was believed to have been involved in the downtown Rimbey incidents.

At 11:30 a.m. Rocky Mountain House RCMP attempted to pull a vehicle over. The vehicle pulled over, but went into reverse and rammed the police car before leaving the scene.

The suspects were arrested near Breton after a chase that started 35 km north of Rocky Mountain House.

Penhold resident wins $1 millionWhat are the chances that there would be two

separate back-to-back big lottery wins in the same small community?

Well, whatever they are, the odds were in Axel Griesshaber’s favour when he won $1 million in a Maxmillions draw.

The Penhold resident followed a different big win by two other Penhold residents; Jeannot Desjardins and his daughter-in-law Vanessa Desjardins recently won the $1 million on a Western Millions game.

Griesshaber likes to play Lotta Max when the jackpot gets high. He won on the Dec. 11 draw but only discovered his win a few weeks after.

“I had just washed my truck and went to check some tickets I found while cleaning,” he said. “I had to get the clerk to check it for me. I couldn’t really believe what I was seeing.”

Griesshaber hasn’t made any concrete plans for his winnings, but said he will most likely start by paying some bills.

“I’m still in a little bit of shock,” he said. “I’ll

pay off my mortgage and probably book a vacation somewhere hot — maybe Hawaii.”

He purchased his winning ticket at the Fas Gas Penhold Service. The Desjardins bought their ticket at Penhold Family Foods.

Perspectives Series welcomes chairman of Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Red Deer College’s Perspectives Series returns with the chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada talking about the harrowing experiences of Aboriginal people and Residential Schools.

Justice Murray Sinclair, of the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench, will talk on March 30 on the subject

of reconciliation going forward.

Sinclair gathered personal stories and statements

of more than 6,750 survivors and witnesses of the

Indian Residential School experience and the com-

mission recently issued its final report along with 94

calls to action.

The commission sought to help Canadians un-

derstand the legacy for Aboriginal people and their

relationship with Canada, and to move to reconcilia-

tion and healing of the friendship.

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Shellian was riding along on his bike on the ice when he suddenly realized there was air, rather than water, under it. “It wasn’t normal ice.” He immedi-ately headed to shore.

People can still see the bubbles in ice that has been pushed upwards along the shore.

But there’s a bit of a slope down to the lake and because it’s icy, some people who had gone to look at the bubbles when he was there were unable to get back up the grade. Shellian said they faced a several kilometre walk.

“The bubbles are cool for sure. It’s beautiful. It’s like a lava lamp. … but be cautious because it is not a normal lake.”

“It’s a cool thing to see, but I’ve never wanted to caution people so much. … People don’t realize they could be in danger.”

The Pines School will be closed and the program will be moved to the Grandview School. The district is closing the Pines School, but retaining it to ac-commodate future growth in Northeast Red Deer. The Pines School has about 120 students and is ex-clusively a Spanish Bilingual program school from kindergarten to Grade 3.

The long-term plan is to make the Spanish Bilin-gual program go up until Grade 8. When the program switches to Grandview, it will be a kindergarten to Grade 5 program.

Making Grandview School Spanish bilingual means the English Language students will be moved to other schools. Most will go to Mountview School while those from Rosedale will move into the Barrie Wilson School, which was just opened in the fall of 2014.

Mountview will also take on French Immersion students from downtown neighbourhoods who cur-rently go to school in Oriole Park and those in Vani-er and Lancaster who go to Barrie Wilson.

Laredo area students will go to Mattie Mc-Cullough School.

Other benefits include the elimination of X-rays for pregnant women and patients already in weak health.

Currently Red Deer patients in need of TEE screening must be moved to Calgary or Edmonton and the wait time is two to four weeks.

Dr. Jitendra Singh, internist at the hospital’s car-diology unit, said the TEE will be a very important asset to the unit.

For patients with moderate to severe conditions, the TEE will analyze the heart’s state in the most de-tailed manner, the doctor said.

“It will improve diagnostic quality, allow for an effective management of the patient, and be a life-saving device,” Singh said in a press release.

The $750,000 donation to Red Deer Regional Health Foundation was made at the end of Decem-ber and the donor chose to donate money to pur-chase the TEE and five new specialized treadmills, worth a total of $200,000, to replace aging equipment for stress tests.

The new equipment has been ordered.Park said it’s not often that a donation of this

amount comes from one donor and it’s especially welcome during a sluggish economy.

“It was definitely a pleasant surprise.”[email protected]

SCHOOLS: English, French, Spanish

STORIES FROM PAGE A1

BUBBLES: People don’t realize the danger

DONATION: A pleasant surprise

The new school in south Red Deer will serve kin-dergarten to Grade 5 students in Inglewood, Vanier Woods and Vanier Woods East. It can hold up to 500 students. The school cost about $12.3 million to build.

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EMPOWERING ATHLETES


Gesturing to the audience, Shawnee Harle makes a point during her presentation at Red Deer College on Monday. The Canadian National Women’s basketball assistant coach brought a message of empowerment to the gathering of athletes and coaches from around Central Alberta in the Margaret Parsons Theatre. The session focused on teaching/coaching athletes to take risks, getting them to face their fears and accept their mistakes as a necessary part of sport and life. The evening was hosted by the Alberta Sport Development Centre.

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CALGARY — The Alberta Energy Regulator want-ed to find out what caused a major pipeline rupture last summer at Nexen ULC’s Long Lake oilsands project by October, but its investigation is still ongo-ing months later, documents show.

Five million litres of emulsion — a mixture of bi-tumen, sand and water — spilled into muskeg at the oilsands project southeast of Fort McMurray, Alta., which was also the site of a deadly explosion earlier this month.

The target date for identifying the root cause of the spill was Oct. 15 of last year, according to AER incident updates provided to the federal Natural Resources de-partment last July.

The documents were obtained by The Canadian Press through an access to information request.

However, the docu-ments noted that any le-gal or enforcement action triggered by the investiga-tion would likely extend the deadline.

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Bullets fly as police take down shooterBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — A near miss involving a transit driv-er set off a tense confrontation between a shooter in a wheelchair and police officers that led to the gun-man’s death.

Police warned residents in the northwest Calgary neighbourhood of Huntington Hills to stay indoors and in their basements on Sunday afternoon follow-ing news of a shooter. Officers in a police helicopter flying over the area used a bullhorn to reinforce the message.

“The service received a 911 call that a Calgary transit bus driver reported a shot fired into the bus that narrowly missed the driver,” police Chief Roger Chaffin said at a Monday news conference.

“It’s believed that there were five passengers in-side that bus, but fortunately no one was injured.”

Bullets being shot from a home also hit a number of surrounding residences.

More than a dozen officers, including members of the tactical team, surrounded the home before the gunman was shot and killed.

“Numerous shots were fired indiscriminately from the resident. Area residents were advised to

stay inside and seek shelter,” said Chaffin.“Officers set up containment while shots contin-

ued to be fired from the home,” he said.”Several at-tempts were made to resolve the situation peacefully however, the suspect exited the residence and the situation escalated resulting in the discharge of a service firearm … and killing the suspect.”

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, which reviews police shootings, is investigating.

A news release said the man, who was 53, was in a wheelchair and left the home through the back door. He was armed with a handgun and engaged in a di-rect confrontation with police, ASIRT said.

It said immediate medical assistance was provid-ed but he was declared dead at the scene. The hand-gun was recovered. No one else was in the home during the standoff.

An autopsy was scheduled for Tuesday.Chaffin said details about the man, the number of

shots fired and the shooting itself won’t be released until the investigation is complete.

The chief said there had been a number of visits

to the home in the past, but they were non-criminal in nature and didn’t involve “this level of violence.”

The attack was not related to any gang activity and appears to be “unique to this particular per-son,” he said.

The officers involved in the shooting are receiving support from their peers and psychological services, he added.

Alberta Liberal Leader David Swann said the man shot was David McQueen and that he was suffer-ing from a serious mental illness.

Swann said McQueen contacted his constituency office many, many times.

“He was always polite, though he was certainly agitated and paranoid of all government. David was also angry. Angry with the injury which all but par-alyzed him, angry with a system he felt failed him, and angry with those who represented that system,” Swann said in a statement.

“My thoughts and condolences go out to David McQueen’s family and friends, and to those police officers involved in the tragedy. My thoughts are al-so with those, like my staff, who interacted with Mr. McQueen and are left, today, feeling they could have done more.”

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Climate plan will mean utilities emissions cut,

higher rates: studyBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — A new study has found that Alber-ta’s climate change initiatives would result in big emission reductions but power producers would need significantly higher renewable rates to justify building wind and solar power.

The report, prepared by utilities consultant EDC Associates Ltd., looked at the impact of the NDP government’s plan to phase out coal power by 2030 and source 30 per cent of energy from renewable sources.

It found that the boost in renewables and the end of coal would mean a 45 per cent reduction in emissions, or 18.5 million fewer tonnes of carbon re-leased into the atmosphere a year.

However, under the province’s privatized utility system, prices for renewable power would have to be between $60 to $85 per megawatt hour to justify wind power construction.

And if solar power were to make up 50 per cent of the renewables mix, power producers would need prices of between $200 and $300 per megawatt hour for solar, the study found.

Those high-rate renewable prices would fall un-der a separate pricing system that would encourage renewable energy installation.

The report also found that the early closure of coal power plants would mean power producers lose out on anywhere between $3 billion and $16 billion in gross operating margin, depending on how much future earnings are valued and how many years of lost production are compensated.

The NDP government has not made a clear com-mitment to compensate producers for the early clo-sure of coal-fired power plants, but it has said it would treat producers “fairly” and not “unnecessari-ly strand capital.”

Allen Crowley, co-author of the study at EDC, said he wasn’t making any policy recommendations and was simply trying to figure out the impact of the new plan. His one recommendation was for the govern-ment to take things slow.

“The policy choices are so complicated that they really shouldn’t be going quite so fast,” said Crowley.

“It’s just too big of a thing. It’s a great, big, huge cruise ship that you’re pulling into harbour at 100 miles an hour. It’s not a good strategy.”

Dickinson to deliver keynote address at Olds College gala

Olds College has tapped a renowned business leader, marketer, entrepreneur and Dragon to headline its gala this spring.

Arlene Dickinson will give the keynote address on April 7 at the college’s 14th annual gala.

The college is a title sponsor of Dickinson’s in-novative accelerator, District Ventures, located in downtown Calgary. The accelerator helps entrepre-neurs in the consumer packaged goods industry.

“For over a century Olds College has produced graduates that are industry leaders, innovators and people who get things done,” said Dr. H.J. Thomp-son, Olds College president.

“There is no better example of that philosophy in action than Dickinson. Working with tenacious indi-viduals she has helped us get to where we are today, and will help us meet our goals as we move beyond the present and into the future.”

The “Growing the Legacy” Gala is a celebration of the courage, competence, action and determination in every entrepreneur’s heart.

Tickets are available now and cost $250 each or $2,000 for a table of eight. For more information visit www.oldscollege.ca/gala.

Inmate escapes on way to hospital in northern Alberta

PEACE RIVER — An inmate being escorted to a hospital in northwestern Alberta has escaped.

Mounties say Harley John Lay, who is 29, was being brought by guards to Peace River hospital for medical treatment this morning when an armed, masked man and a driver confronted them.

The prisoner went with the two men and they drove away in a beige Dodge minivan with no licence plate available.

The van was last seen possibly heading towards Hwy 2.

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COMMENT A4TUESDAY, JAN. 26, 2016

Political stripes of any kind do not really bother me. People have their reasons for their leanings, and if they’re willing to stand up for them, all the better.

What does bother is bla-tant hypocrisy.

When a mayor of a major city in a province that re-ceived $9.5 billion in equal-ization payments last year refuses to let a pipeline pass through his region, asking “What’s in it for us?” well Denis Coderre, you are a giant hypocrite.

You effectively are biting the hand that feeds you.

“TransCanada’s project includes important risks for our environment and too few benefits for our econ-omy,” the Montreal mayor said as he and the leaders of 82 other communities rejected the Energy East pipeline project.

It’s also rich considering he did not see the environmental harm that comes from dumping one third of Mon-treal’s raw sewage into the St. Law-rence River this past October.

The fact is, the multi-billion dollar pipeline project would create thou-sands of jobs across the country while being built — something that looks pretty good during a recession — and

make the country more self efficient in bringing its re-sources to the world mar-ket.

Coderre cemented his opposition in an op-ed on the weekend, stating:

“In a context where the Earth’s nations are talking about even more restrictive measures to limit (green-house gas) emissions, we cannot justify the construc-tion of a pipeline, which al-so delivers more risks than real profits.”

The reality is, the pipe-line is the most environ-mentally sound and safest

option to move oil across the country. The pipeline would move more than one million barrels of heavy oil a day to Atlantic Canada, where it can be shipped out. The other option is the slow process of trucking it to the coast or loading it on a train. It would also

lessen our reliance on the U.S. to get our own product to the world.

But why should we expect Quebec to come to any other result while they import most of their oil from staunch environmental and humane countries like Saudi Arabia and Algeria? The Globe and Mail reported in 2013 the province could save up to $3 billion a year by buying Alberta’s oil as op-posed to importing it from Europe or Africa.

This is akin to an anti-hunting advo-cate trying to tear down hunters who hunt for meat when they can just get it from the store like everyone else. I don’t think they really process how that equalization money is made that they so eagerly expect from Alberta and Saskatchewan.

But I believe this goes to a larger problem, and that’s leadership on the issue.

We have heard for months that the Alberta NDP government and the fed-eral Liberal government are on the cusp of getting pipelines built that the governing Conservatives never could.

I really must question this now.U.S. president Barak Obama ended

hopes of the Keystone XL pipeline. It

was just days after Prime Minister Jus-tin Trudeau made it a point of his first phone call to Obama to announce he was pulling our fighter jets out of the fight against ISIS.

In Davos, Switzerland last week at the World Economic Forum, not on-ly was natural resource minister Jim Carr not invited to join the Canadian representatives, Trudeau made this now famous statement: “My predeces-sor wanted you to know Canada for its resources, I want you to know Canadi-ans for our resourcefulness.”

A diversification of the economy is absolutely needed, especially if we can become greener along the way. It is one of the many reasons the Conser-vatives in Alberta finally were voted out, because of their seeming refusal to do this. But diversification does not mean turning your back on oil com-pletely.

Unfortunately this whole situation has the possibility of turning into an us-versus-them scenario and further increasing the divide between Eastern and Western Canada, when in times of economic uncertainty we really need to be coming together.

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Re: Cherry picking climate change statistics

I thank Mr. Gough for his response to my critique of his initial letter on climate change. To examine his arguments in depth would require a thesis, not a letter to the editor, so I’ll have to ‘cherry pick’ a cou-ple of points.

The cherry picking of disconnected and isolat-ed facts is precisely the point my initial letter ad-dressed. For example, the IPCC exists explicitly “… to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and so-cio-economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adapta-tion and mitigation ….” (a quote taken directly from the IPCC’s)

So, by the IPCC’s own admission, they exist to study ‘human-induced’ climate change, a study that can only carry scientific validity if one assumes that ‘human-induced’ climate change is already an established theory. The scientists contributing to the IPCC’s studies ran computer climate models from 1997 to 2013 and of the 117 computer models examined, 114 were completely wrong, and in the opposite sense to the recorded data for the same pe-

riod (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Met Office Hadley Centre/Climatic Research Unit, NOAA National Climatic Data Centre, Japanese Meteoro-logical Agency).

Therefore, judged by the data the contributors to the IPCC themselves published, adherents of ‘human-induced global warming’ do not yet have a theory, only a hypothesis and in any other field of scientific investigation, that would result in the hy-pothesis being either revised, or discarded. If you only consider evidence that supports the hypothesis being studied and disregard all evidence that con-tradicts the hypothesis, you have a textbook case of pseudoscience and claiming such studies constitute good ‘science’ denigrates, by association, scientific efforts in a multitude of other fields where the scien-tific method is robustly applied, hence the growing opposition by proper scientists, including Nobel Laureate Physicists.

The IPCC’s political direction is not a conspiracy, but an established fact that can easily be ascer-tained by reading the organization’s own material. That we’ve funded an organization specifically to collate pseudo-scientific research is utterly asinine. That policy decisions will be made on the assump-tion that their conclusions will match the empirical data collected, despite having been proven wrong thus far, is utterly insane but the media and political gears grind onward with little regard to real data

and accurate science, much to the chagrin of serious scientists and common sense citizens/taxpayers ev-erywhere.

Between 60 degrees south latitude and the South Pole, we have less than a dozen ground based sta-tions measuring atmospheric temperature and I’ll leave the reader to explore how many were there in 1898. In fact, we’ve got no accurate historical tem-perature data for 75 per cent of the world’s surface yet we get blanket statements about ‘global average’ temperatures? The reality is that we have absolutely no accurate data on the Earth’s average temperature 100 years ago, only local and regional data. Our un-derstanding of long term temperature trends comes out of the analysis of ice cores, geological evidence and paleontological evidence (geographical location of fossils of species known to have a narrow band of temperature sensitivity). There is absolutely no way of calculating temperature to a resolution that makes 0.8 degrees statistically significant, open-ing up a huge grey area in which politicians and the scientists competing for funding, can play their multi-billion dollar games.

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LA LOCHE, Sask. — The father of one of the victims in a northern Sas-katchewan shooting burned logs at the community cemetery Monday to thaw the ground where his son will be bur-ied.

“He was a good kid,” Gerald Moise said as he poured gasoline to ignite a fire that will burn for three days over the grave site.

He remembered his son, Dayne Fontaine, as a 17-year-old who liked to be outdoors in the remote community of La Loche that sits on the edge of a lake and in the heart of the boreal forest.

“He always (went) up north with grandparents hunting and he liked quadding.”

Dayne and his 13-year-old brother, Drayden Fontaine, were found dead in a home on Friday. A teacher and an aide were shot and killed shortly after at the high school. Seven other people were wounded.

Moise, who is not Drayden’s father, said losing his boy is especially hard as it comes on top of other losses.

“I lost my mother and before I lost my mother, my sister (to) suicide. Now this.”

He said he’s trying to stay strong for the sake of his two other children.

A teen charged in the shooting stared at the floor for much of his first court appearance Monday.

The tall, thin 17-year-old, wearing an orange jumpsuit, his legs and hands shackled, was brought into a packed courtroom in Meadow Lake — a com-munity about 350 kilometres south of La Loche.

He spoke in a soft voice as he was asked whether he understood he is not to contact anyone involved.

“There’s to be no phone calls, no letters, no getting messages to any of these people or their families,” said Judge Janet McIvor.

“There’s to be no contact at all.”The teen, who can’t be named under

the Youth Criminal Justice Act, is to be held in custody until his next court appearance Feb. 22.

He faces four counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder.

McIvor placed a publication ban on the names of the injured.

In La Loche, the school’s fate was already being debated after calls from the acting mayor and others that it be torn down and rebuilt. Schools with a similarly tragic history in the United States have been razed at the request of the community.

Donna Johnson with the Saskatche-wan Ministry of Education said no de-cision had been made and the wishes of residents will be considered.

“We’ll work with them together to determine what plan will go forward to ensure there is a school facility that meets the community’s needs,” she said in a teleconference from Regina.

The school was built in 1974 and un-derwent extensive renovations in 2006.

Both the high school and the nearby elementary building are closed indefi-nitely. The grade school is being used

as a crisis response centre.Leonard Montgrand, executive di-

rector of the La Loche Friendship Cen-tre, said he doesn’t think the school needs to be torn down.

“It’s not where it happened that’s the underlying root of all this,” said Montgrand, who runs youth interven-tion and family programs. “It’s why it happened — and it could have hap-pened anywhere.”

Montgrand’s son was in the school during the shooting.

“For him to go back there, it’s go-ing to be hard on him. And … to re-live his memories is probably going to be hard on him also. But do we have the funds? Do we have the capability? Where would the students go … in the interim?” he asked.

Montgrand suggested that perhaps the answer should be left to students.

“Some of the young people have said to me that by tearing it down, are we getting rid of everything that hap-pened? Are we not going to learn any-thing from this?”

Tashina Montgrand went to the school last year. She said she doesn’t

think destroying the building would help.

“It’s not going to go away for the stu-dents here and they’ll still remember about it.”

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A fire burns as it thaws the frozen ground in order to dig a grave for one of the shooting victims at the cemetery in La Loche, Saskatchewan, Monday. A 17-year-old was charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder in a mass shooting at a school and home in the remote aboriginal community in western Canada on Friday, officials said.

Suspect was teased, called himself ‘black

sheep:’ FriendsLA LOCHE, Sask. — A 17-year-

old boy accused of shooting to death four people in a remote Saskatchewan First Nations community described himself as an “outcast” at home and vic-tim of bullying at school, say his friends.

The teen, who made his first court appearance after the Fri-day killings, was known to hold his emotions inside and rarely spoke, even when hanging out with his high school buddies in La Loche.

“He was the black sheep of the family,” said Noel Desjar-lais-Thomas, who described the accused as one of several friends who always hung out together.

The 16-year-old said the teen suspect would message the oth-ers in his circle of friends about not being treated equally or fair-ly by his family.

“He just said he was going to do something. He never really said much after that,” he said on Monday.

“We’d ask ‘Why?’ He never really told much. After that, it would just go blank. The con-versation would just stop and something else would happen, the subject would (change.) No one ever thought this was going to happen.”

The suspect, who can’t be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, is charged with four counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of attempted mur-der.

The teen’s family members were in court, but left without speaking to reporters.

Desjarlais-Thomas and anoth-er friend, George Janvier, were both inside La Loche Community School on Friday when gunfire broke out.

Janvier, 16, said he and his friends have since been discuss-ing what could have motivated the attack that also wounded sev-en people.

Both friends said they were aware of at least one other teen who regularly picked on the accused. Neither boy could de-scribe what form the teasing took, other than recalling jokes.

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Late-night bus buses will back on the road in September.

Transit manager George Penny said the route will be reinstated at the same time as the other bus runs are re-organized in the city.

The city decided to put the bus back on the road for half-hour service after it was reduced to hourly service after 10:45 p.m. in 2012.

It was through the advocacy of bus rider Cherise Piercy who refused to let the buses remained parked.

Piercy collected 482 signatures in 2012 and another 47 signatures recent-ly over one week to bring back the ser-vice.

Although she does not take the bus late at night that often, the sin-gle-mother wanted to keep the buses on the road for the entire community.

She said there is a need for the late-night buses because not everyone can afford to take cabs. Some riders also do not feel safe waiting longer than half an hour at the bus stops, said Piercy.

Piercy said she is thrilled her ef-forts have paid off over the last two-and-a-half years.

Now she wants to get the message out to transit users about the restored service.

The city cut the service to save mon-ey in the 2012 operating budget. The service reduction saved the city an es-timated $160,000 at the time.

The city currently does not have ad-equate counts of the number of people who take the bus at this time. Later

this year the city expects to have data

that will give a clearer picture on rid-

ership including frequency, locations

and time of day on all routes.This data is expected to come some

time in the third quarter this year.The restored late night bus service

will cost $78,327 in 2016 and $156,673 in 2017.

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Eating Disorder Support Network of Alberta will be spreading the word next week during Eating Disorder Awareness Week, Feb. 1 to 7, by set-ting up information booths around Red Deer and hosting a talk featuring a lo-cal psychologist.

Red Deer College psychology in-structor Dr. Anomi Beardon will give the presentation, Being Kind to Myself: Benefits of Mindfulness & Self-Com-passion, with a focus on cultivating self-compassion as a way to counter-act negative self-talk, perfectionistic self-standards, body dissatisfaction, and self-esteem damaging social com-parisons.

The talk will be held from 2:30 to 4 p.m. on Feb. 5 at RDC. The room has yet to be determined. People can e-mail [email protected] closer to the date for the location.

Booths stocked with information will also be set up at the college, along with Red Deer Regional Hospital Cen-

tre and Red Deer Public Library’s downtown branch.

People are encouraged to enter a draw at the booths to win a prize from Clowes Jewellers at Bower Place. The draw will be made at Friday’s talk.

EDSNA held two six-week support groups in Red Deer last October. One group was for those battling a disorder and attracted 10 participants. Another group was for parents, partners and

loved-ones had five participants.Sue Huff, EDSNA executive di-

rector, said four people are already signed up for new sessions of each group that start in February.

“The feedback from Red Deer was very positive so it’s certainly needed. It’s just a matter of breaking down the stigma of going to these groups, and reaching out for help, and also know-ing that the help is there because it has not been offered in the past,” Huff said on Monday.

She said people often feel eating disorders are something they have to deal with on their own, or behind closed doors.

“You’re not alone. You don’t need to do this alone.”

EDSNA is a nonprofit that was founded in 2014 by a Edmonton mother whose daughter was battling an eat-ing disorder. Support groups run in Edmonton and Red Deer and the plan is to develop support groups in Cal-gary this fall. Creating online support groups so that people living in other areas can access support is another EDSNA goal.

Huff said support groups are capped at about 10 participants so they can share and build trust. Groups are also run by experts.

“Part of our philosophy is that we need professionals with extensive backgrounds in eating disorders to run these groups because people are so very vulnerable. It shouldn’t be run by a well-intentioned volunteer who doesn’t have the depth of knowledge.”

Last year the province contributed over $300,000 to assist in EDSNA’s ex-pansion to Red Deer.

The total cost to attend the six-week support group, that meets two hours once a week, is $60. The fee can be waived if necessary.

The support group for individu-als with an eating disorder meets at Red Deer College on Tuesdays and the group for parents and loved ones meets at Collicutt Centre on Wednes-days.

For more information or to regis-ter visit www.eatingdisordersupport-networkofalberta.com and follow the links for Red Deer.

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“IT’S JUST A MATTER OF BREAKING DOWN THE STIGMA OF GOING TO THESE GROUPS,

AND REACHING OUT FOR HELP, AND ALSO KNOWING THAT THE

HELP IS THERE BECAUSE IT HAS NOT BEEN OFFERED IN THE

PAST.”SUE HUFF,

EDSNA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

EATING DISORDERS

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

Red Deer property owners can ex-pect to receive their 2016 property as-sessment notice in the mail.

The City of Red Deer sent out as-sessments last week.

Property owners are reminded to review their assessment notice for ac-curacy.

“It is important for owners to re-view the information on their property assessment notice because we use this value to calculate their 2016 property taxes,” said Brian Lutz, city assessor.

“Each property tax notice is based on the assessed property value multi-plied by the property tax rate, which is determined by city council in May.”

Contact Revenue and Assessment Services, if you do not receive an as-sessment notice by Jan. 30.

Property tax notices that arrive in May cannot be disputed. Owners

must try to resolve any concerns they have with their assessments before the deadline on March 21.

If property owners are not able to resolve their concerns through a con-versation with an assessor, a formal appeal may be sent to the Clerk of the Regional Assessment Review Board.

Property assessment notice appeals must be received by the Clerk of the Regional Assessment Review Board no later than March 21. Property owners are encouraged to submit appeals ear-ly to ensure there is sufficient time for processing and review.

Details on submitting an appeal can be obtained through the Clerk of the Regional Assessment Review Board, on the second floor of City Hall at 4914 48 Avenue. Mail should be addressed to Box 5008, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 3T4.

For more information about prop-erty assessments and taxes, visit www.reddeer.ca/assessment.

Property assessments mailed

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

Transit riders using Red Deer’s pre-paid reloadable cards will have to wait a little longer to fill the cards.

A problem with the hardware has stalled the implementation of the MyRide reloading stations across the city.

Vendors that sold Transit passes will not be equipped with the reload stations until the issue is resolved. The cards can be reloaded at Sorensen Sta-tion and at City Hall.

The customer service office at So-rensen Station will have extended hours on Jan. 28 and 29 from 8 a.m. and

6:30 p.m.; Jan. 30 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Feb. 1 to 5 inclusive between 8 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.

MyRide cards can be used to pay fare and can be loaded and reloaded with the many fare types Transit offers on both Red Deer Transit and BOLT buses. The $5 card fee will be waived for MyRide cards purchased before Feb.12.

Cash fares are still accepted.The MyRide program launched in

December.For customer inquiries, contact Red

Deer Transit at 403-342-8225, [email protected] or visit www.reddeer.ca/myride.

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Colette Pedde and Grade 5 students Dawson Theriault, centre, and Viggo Ask make their way along the ski trails at Great Chief Park on Monday. The three Oriole Park School students joined got in a little ski practice on the newly groomed trails in preparation for the School Ski Loppet coming up in early February. This weekend Red Deer will play host to a provincial cross country ski race at River Bend Golf and Recreation Area.

Evidence in Christmas Day murder to be presented

A man and his defence counsel will soon learn the Crown’s case against him for the Christmas Day murder of Thomas Braconnier.

Braconnier was found dead in the vestibule of a downtown apartment on Dec. 25, 2015 near 50th Avenue and Ross Street.

Chad Alexander Kulba, 33, of Red Deer faces second degree murder, committing an indignity to a human

body and resisting a police officer charges.

He was arrested on Christmas Day, but was not charged with the murder until Jan. 6.

Andrew Phypers, counsel, appeared on his behalf in Red Deer provincial court on Monday. Phypers informed the court disclosure, the Crown’s evi-dence that led to the charge, was ready and he was on his way to pick it up.

Judge William Andreassen ad-journed the matter to Feb. 1, giving Phypers and Kulba the chance to re-view the case.

Stand-alone law needed on doctor-assisted death, warns legal scholar

OTTAWA — Parliament needs to craft a stand-alone law on doctor-assisted death, a prominent Canadian constitutional scholar warned a Commons-Senate committee on Monday.

In a testimony to senators and MPs, Peter Hogg stressed the need to develop safeguards at the federal level that can be applied even where provinces have not pursued a legislative path.

“There is no guarantee that all provinces will enact statutes, so you have to design a law that can be effective throughout the country, even on the assumption that there is no provincial law or no territorial law in part of the country,” Hogg said.

“So you have to produce a self-sufficient act that could be operated even if the province in question did nothing. In a way, agonizing over the exact boundaries between provincial and federal power, I think … is not really necessary.”

There may be consequences if a federal law cannot be widely applied, Hogg said.

“If Parliament does not enact a law that could be operated in a province where there is no law, the people of that province will be denied the right to physician-assisted dying which the Supreme Court has said they have.”

Conservatives demand clarity on Liberal pipeline policy as Parliament resumesOTTAWA — The politics of oil pipelines

dominated a raucous return for parliamentarians Monday as the House of Commons resumed sitting under the new Liberal majority.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government sat for a week in December following the October election — long enough for a throne speech outlining government priorities and a bill to set in motion middle-class tax cuts — but the rubber truly hits the road over the next five months as opposition MPs

work to impose themselves on the Liberals’ post-election honeymoon.

With plunging world oil prices devastating western Canada’s resource economy, the opposition Conservatives have a ready-made issue to bludgeon the new government’s blank economic record.

And when Montreal mayor Denis Coderre, a former Liberal cabinet minister and longtime organizer, fronted a group of Montreal municipal leaders last week who publicly oppose the proposed Energy East pipeline that would carry Alberta and Saskatchewan bitumen to New Brunswick, the sparks were cast for a good old national unity tire fire.

Rona Ambrose, the interim Conservative leader, held a news conference Monday morning in Ottawa where she lamented the acrid regional rhetoric that’s billowing.

“I don’t want to do anything to foment this debate, because I’m hearing very disturbing things from a mayor of Montreal and then disturbing things from people reacting to that in western Canada,” said Ambrose. “That’s not what our country is about. And this is not a (pipeline) project that should divide the country.”

Cabinet set to decide ISIL missionOTTAWA — The Trudeau cabinet is expected

to “very soon” debate the size and scope of the country’s reorganized mission against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, but precisely how much latitude those military trainers will get is going to be one of the most divisive elements of the discussion.

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan will, at the same time, present cabinet with a timetable for ending the bombing campaign and bringing the country’s contingent of CF-18 jetfighters home from Iraq, according to several defence sources.

In its place, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau committed last fall to a “more robust” training mission that would include additional special forces, over and above the 69 soldiers already on the ground.

Cabinet is set to consider a series of options and scenarios with troop numbers that could range between 150 and 300, which defence experts say is an indication that conventional army trainers would be needed.

But more important than numbers, experts say, is what the trainers will be allowed to do. Will their mandate continue to include the dirty, dangerous

work of going to the front and guiding airstrikes?Steve Day, a former special forces commander,

says he trusts Sajjan understands there is going to be the risk of firefights, but he’s less confident others around the cabinet table get that.

“He’s been there. He knows what needs to get done,” said Day. “I’m just not at all convinced that the other folks around the cabinet table will have even a remote understanding of what needs to happen.”

Ailing Liberal MP to try again to change lyrics to Canada’s national anthem

OTTAWA — Liberal MP Mauril Belanger is losing his own singing voice but that’s not stopping him from trying — for a second time — to change the En-glish lyrics to O Canada to make the national anthem more gender neutral.

The veteran Ottawa MP, whose vocal cords have been weakened by Lou Gehrig’s disease, is deter-mined to end the song’s inference that patriotism is something felt exclusively by men.

Hence, soon after Parliament resumes work to-day, he intends to table a private member’s bill that would alter two words, changing the second line of the anthem from true patriot love “in all thy sons command” to “in all of us command.”

Belanger introduced an identical bill in the last session of Parliament it was defeated at second read-ing last April by a close vote of 144-127.

At the time, MPs from all the opposition parties supported the change but almost all Conservative MPs voted against it.

With the Liberals now in the majority, Belanger should have little trouble finally ensuring that wom-en feel equally included in the national anthem.

Passage of the bill would be a fitting legacy for Belanger, who was diagnosed just a month after the Oct. 19 federal election with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

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Forcillo guilty of attempted murderBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — A Toronto police officer was found guilty of attempted murder Monday in the shooting death of a troubled teen on an empty streetcar, a ver-dict the teen’s mother called a first step in changing the way police deal with people in crisis.

After six days of deliberations, an 11-member jury cleared Const. James Forcillo of the more serious charge of second-degree murder in the 2013 death of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim, an incident that sparked public protests in the city.

“Sammy was a young man who had his whole fu-ture ahead of him,” Yatim’s mother, Sahar Bahadi, said moments after the verdict was read out. “Be-cause of what the police did we lost him forever.”

Forcillo’s lawyer indicated the defence would try to have the proceedings stayed — which would pre-vent a conviction from being registered — claiming abuse of process.

“We say the abuse of process is Const. Forcillo substantially followed the police training he was given and so if the state gave him that training, they should not be entitled to a conviction in the matter,” Peter Brauti said outside the courthouse. “This is Phase 1 of a long road for us.”

Forcillo, who remains out on bail, showed little emotion as his verdict was delivered, maintaining the same stoic expression he’s held throughout the trial.

Yatim’s mother, who was seated in the front row of the courtroom, later called the verdict an opportu-nity to change policing.

“For me, it’s the first step. I would now like to be part of the discussion to change the police training policies when dealing with people in crisis so this painful incident does not repeat again,” Bahadi said.

Forcillo’s case will be back in court in mid-May, when Brauti will argue for the stay of proceedings.

He will also bring a constitutional challenge to the mandatory minimum sentence Forcillo faces after being found guilty of attempted murder, which is four years in prison. An appeal in the case is also being considered.

“It’s early days still for officer Forcillo, he’s still got a lot of fight ahead of him,” Brauti said.

Brauti added that he believed the outcome of the verdict could have been changed if he had been allowed to present the jury with a “suicide-by-cop” theory, which the judge did not allow at trial.

That theory suggested Yatim was depressed and didn’t comply with police orders because he didn’t care about his own life and was prepared to act in a way that would lead to police actions resulting in his death.

“We thought the suicide by cop was a huge part of our defence,” said Brauti. “We were shocked and disappointed we weren’t allowed to put that to the jury and I believe it would have had an effect.”

Forcillo, 32, had pleaded not guilty to second-de-gree murder and attempted murder in Yatim’s death, which was captured on cellphone videos that went viral online.


Const. James Forcillo leaves court in Toronto on Monday. Forcillo has been found guilty of attempted murder in the 2013 shooting death of troubled teen Sammy Yatim on an empty streetcar.

“Sammy was a young man who had his whole future ahead of him. Because of what the police did we lost him forever.”

— Sahar Bahadi, Yatim’s mother

“The notion that there would be a guilty finding in re-spect of an attempt murder charge is a message loud and clear that the old days where a police officer went to trial in the shooting death of a mentally ill or an emotionally dis-turbed person and literally enjoyed an immunity at the end of a trial — those days are gone.”

— Julian Falconer, lawyer for the Yatim family

“My sense from this jury was, from the body language and what we were seeing, I felt we really had some people against us from the get-go, I really feel we had some peo-ple for us and I think we had some people in the middle. I’m concerned about a compromise verdict in this case but

I also don’t want to take anything away from this jury be-cause I wasn’t in the jury room.”

— Peter Brauti, Forcillo’s lawyer

“We are all going forward in time to see what we can do to reduce any harm to anybody we deal with who’s a person in crisis. We’re looking for anything that can help — zero harm, zero death.”

— Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders

“Clearly this sends a chilling message to our members and our goal is to keep our members engaged, keep them out there doing their job, but when you have an officer who is vindicated for the first three shots … who said, listen, my training, I made a mistake, and then he’s put in this posi-tion, it sends a chilling message.”

— Mike McCormack, president of the Toronto Police Association

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CALGARY — Fewer WestJet planes will be flying in and out Alberta’s two biggest cities as weakness in the ener-gy sector puts a damper on demand.

As of March, the airline said it will be reducing service between Calgary and Edmonton.

Several more routes to and from those two cities are either being can-celled or scaled back.

“We look at our service based on supply and demand,” WestJet vice-president Richard Bartrem said Monday.

“With the downturn in the economy, we’re seeing less demand for travel to and from the energy markets and into areas across Canada. We’ve decided that we would move some of that ca-pacity into markets where we’re seeing less of that impact so that we’re actu-ally using the fleet as effectively as possible while minimizing the effect on the guest.”

Bartrem said the decline in traffic has been “noticeable enough” to war-rant changes, but did not specify how big of a drop the airline saw in the af-fected markets.

WestJet will be removing flights be-tween Calgary and two B.C. destina-tions — Terrace and Prince George. Direct flights between Edmonton and Nanaimo and Kamloops, B.C. are also being cancelled.

Bartrem said customers can still get between those destinations by chang-ing planes elsewhere.

As well, WestJet is reducing the number of flights between Calgary and Brandon, Man. and Fort McMurray, Al-ta. And there be fewer flights between the provincial capital and Abbotsford, B.C. and Grande Prairie, Alta.

WestJet (TSX:WJA) says it’s trans-ferring more of its capacity to Eastern Canada, meaning more trips between Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal as well as to Atlantic destinations like Halifax and Fredericton.

WestJet cutting back on Alberta flights


A WestJet Airlines Boeing 767 jetliner lands in Calgary.


TORONTO — People hunting for new cellphone plans can expect to pay a little more each month if they sign up with one of Canada’s biggest three wireless providers — Telus, Rogers and Bell recently announced price hikes while pointing an accusatory fin-ger at the low Canadian dollar.

But some industry watchers are skeptical, noting the big telecoms tend to have methods to protect themselves from foreign currency fluctuations.

“If the exchange rate is such a big deal, how come we didn’t see lower prices when the dollar went up?” said David Christopher, a spokesman with the OpenMedia advocacy group.

New customers signing monthly contracts with Bell, Rogers or Telus now pay $5 more. Each company also lowered savings by between $10 and $15 for customers who already own a device. Telus raised prices partly because it has to pay more for net-work components thanks to the weaker loonie, said Emily Harner, a company spokeswoman.

She also pointed to the need to

spend millions of dollars annually to keep up with customer demand for wireless data.

The other two companies have echoed concerns over the economy. For months, the loonie has been trad-ing below 80 cents US, and has been hovering around 70 cents in the past few weeks.

The companies could have raised prices to make up for the extra cost of doing business. They pay for near-ly all of their infrastructure costs in either U.S. dollars or the euro, said Iain Grant, the managing director of SeaBoard Research, a technology re-search and strategy consulting compa-ny. But some believe consumers are being hoodwinked into believing the loonie is responsible for higher cell-phone plans and suggest, in fact, it’s a desire for higher profits.

“It’s a little suspicious that these big, sophisticated, publicly traded companies that are in the business of, you know, managing their risk and maximizing profit are blaming something that they likely foresaw on a price increase, across the board, in a relatively short amount of time,” said Geoff White, external counsel to the Public Interest Advocacy Centre.

All three companies engage in foreign exchange hedging programs, he said, based on an analysis of their

2014 annual statements and most recent third-quarter reports.

“It’s like paying premiums to lock in a certain foreign exchange rate in the future so that you’re guaranteed you’ll be paying a certain amount,” said White.

It’s impossible to know exactly how successful those initiatives have been based on the information in those re-ports, he said, but “it looks like they’ve been able to do it quite effectively.”

But Grant says that when the loonie is forecast to remain low compared to the U.S. dollar for a longer time frame, “the currency swap options are more limited” and expensive.

“The cost of these hedges has also increased dramatically with the decline in the dollar,” said Jason Laszlo, a Bell spokesman.

Telus and Rogers did not respond to questions about foreign currency protection.

The companies could have opted to

lay off workers or accept lower profits until the loonie recovers, Grant added.

Instead, they chose to pass the cost on to consumers in a move that likely benefits the company’s bottom line.

“Higher prices make for happier financial analysts, which usually translate to higher share prices,” said Grant.

These simultaneous price hikes fit a pattern that Canadians have grown accustomed to, said Christopher, regardless of where the dollar stands.

The trio of telecoms similarly increased prices for monthly plans for new customers over a two-month span in 2014.

The three big wireless providers can get away with such increases because there’s a lack of competition in most provinces and territories, he said. In Quebec, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, where a fourth carrier operates, the companies are not implementing the price increases.


OTTAWA — Canada plans to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact next week, but that procedural step doesn’t necessarily mean ratifying the controversial agreement is a do-ne deal, the federal government said Monday.

International Trade Minister Chrys-tia Freeland stressed that the govern-ment’s signature on the 12-country treaty essentially means Canada can keep its spot at the bargaining table.

Freeland said she intends to join trade ministers from the TPP’s partner countries at a signing event Feb. 4 in Auckland, New Zealand.

“Just as it is too soon to endorse the TPP, it is also too soon to close the door,” Freeland wrote Monday in an open letter posted on her department’s website.

“Signing does not equal ratifying…. Signing is simply a technical step in the process, allowing the TPP text to be tabled in Parliament for consider-ation and debate before any final deci-sion is made.”

Only a majority vote in the House of Commons would bind Canada to the deal, said Freeland. She has also re-quested a thorough, transparent study of the agreement by parliamentary committee.

In recent weeks, Freeland con-ducted public consultations on the wide-ranging accord, which — if rat-ified — would also set new interna-tional rules for sectors beyond trade. Those other areas include intellectual property, which worries some experts.

“We’ve been hearing a variety of views,” Freeland said after question period Monday. “Some people strongly critical, some voices strongly support-ive.”

The minister has already indicated the massive accord, which includes major economies such as the United States and Japan, cannot be renegoti-ated.

It remains unclear whether the gov-ernment would attempt to carve out side accords to help address concerns. Some legal experts have urged the gov-ernment to do so.

Asked whether the government could push for side deals, Freeland re-

sponded by saying it wouldn’t be very wise for her to answer such “hypothet-icals.”

“As you know, there are a number of side letters already (in the TPP) and one of the things that we will be listen-ing to people about is, you know, what (are) their concerns.”

Each country has up to two years to consider ratification before making a final decision.

She has said that while Liberals are strong supporters of trade, she’s also noted that they didn’t negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

The former Conservative gov-ernment announced an agree-ment-in-principle on the pact in Octo-ber during the federal election cam-paign.

At the time, then-prime minister Stephen Harper warned that Canada couldn’t afford to let the opportunities afforded by the agreement pass by.

The treaty, which came under heavy criticism in part because the talks took place in secrecy, can take effect if it’s ratified by half the participating coun-tries representing 85 per cent of the proposed trade zone’s economy.

It remains unclear, however, wheth-er U.S. lawmakers will ratify the ac-cord.

On Monday, interim Conservative

leader Rona Ambrose urged the gov-ernment to support the TPP to help Canada’s limping economy.

“Right now when Western Canada is hurting… the Trans-Pacific Partner-ship offers huge opportunities, partic-ularly in the business services sector and the agricultural sector,” Ambrose said in Ottawa.

New Democrat Leader Tom Mulcair warned Monday the TPP would kill thousands of Canadian jobs, weaken its supply managed dairy and poultry sector, hurt the auto industry and put innovators at a competitive disadvan-tage.

The Canadian auto-workers’ union, Unifor, has called the deal disastrous, warning it threatens some 20,000 man-ufacturing jobs in Canada.

Freeland recently said she heard from groups representing farmers in Alberta and the Port of Vancouver that were very strongly in favour of TPP, a deal that would open up new foreign markets for many Canadian firms.

On the other hand, Freeland also heard concerns from Canadian and U.S. academics at a recent event at the University of Toronto. Several trade experts who addressed the conference criticized the TPP’s provisions on in-tellectual property and warned they would be harmful for Canada.

Low loonie not connected to telecom hikes: critics

Canada will sign controversial TPP trade deal

FILE photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Ministers from 12 nations attend a press conference at the Trans-Pacific Partnership meeting in Sydney, Australia, on October 27, 2014. Canada plans to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact next week.

‘IF THE EXCHANGE RATE IS SUCH A BIG DEAL, HOW COME WE DIDN’T SEE LOWER

PRICES WHEN THE DOLLAR WENT UP?’DAVID CHRISTOPHER, SPOKESMAN WITH THE OPENMEDIA ADVOCACY GROUP.

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Clark battles B.C.’s ‘forces of No,’ on LNG, trade deal says

she’s no quitterVANCOUVER — Premier Christy

Clark has sharp words for what she calls “the forces of No” in British Co-lumbia who mount resistance efforts to government initiatives purely out of a fear of change.

Clark made the comments during a news conference where she field-ed questions about opposition to the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership, environmental concerns over lique-fied natural gas development and tax breaks for the mining industry.

She says negotiating trade pacts and resource developments involves tough, but potentially rewarding benefits and she would rather be known as an achiever than a quitter.

Clark’s comments drew the ire of First Nations leaders and the Opposi-tion New Democrats who signed a dec-laration demanding that a proposed LNG plant on Lelu Island on B.C.’s northern coast be scrapped.

Lax Kw’alaams hereditary Chief Yahaan says his people view the pro-posed Pacific Northwest LNG project as a threat to their salmon-fishing cul-ture, and Clark’s comments do not con-sider the deep connection his people have with the Skeena River.

Rio Tinto extending suspension of Quebec

titanium mineMONTREAL — Rio Tinto is extend-

ing the suspension of its titanium min-ing operations in Quebec because of weak market demand and pricing.

The mine in Have-Saint-Pierre, closed since mid-October, will remain shut for an extra two weeks, until April 10. Next summer’s planned shutdown will also be extended by two weeks to eight weeks, said spokeswoman Clau-dine Gagnon. The changes affect about 300 workers. Thirty employees will also be affected by the decision to cut scheduled maintenance in half to four weeks. Rio Tinto recently announced a global wage freeze for its non-union-ized employees to address its anticipa-tion for demand weakness in 2016.

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ConsumerCanadian Tire . . . . . . . . 107.67Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.12Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.98Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 65.25

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 22.60Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.18Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.45WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 18.94

MiningBarrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 13.24Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 15.96First Quantum Minerals . . 2.49Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 14.66Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 2.33Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.18Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.33Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 21.16Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.720Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 4.79

EnergyArc Resources . . . . . . . . 16.61Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 23.19Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 39.18Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.20Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 14.43Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 24.90Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 8.35Canyon Services Group. . 3.55Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 17.30CWC Well Services . . . 0.0950Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 5.15Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.520

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MARKETS CLOSETORONTO — The Toronto

stock market posted a triple-digit loss Monday, unable to sustain last week’s late rally as oil prices again faltered in the face of a global supply glut.

The Toronto Stock Ex-change’s S&P/TSX index ended the day down 246.42 points at 12,143.16, after Canada’s main market added almost 550 points on the final two days of trading last week.

The energy subsector of the TSX had the biggest decline on the day, falling nearly 5.1 per cent as the price of oil turned lower after jumping above $32 a barrel on Friday.

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 208.29 points to close at 15,885.22, while the broader S&P 500 fell 29.82 points to 1,877.08 and the Nasdaq lost 72.69 points to 4,518.49.

“I think what we’re getting is really volatility in its purest form,” said Craig Fehr, Canadian mar-ket strategist at Edward Jones in St. Louis.

Fehr said the up and down market is a new normal after years of overinflated returns buoyed by monetary policy stim-ulus from central banks around the world.

As the U.S. Federal Reserve has stepped back from stimulus and begun to raise interest rates, he said, the direction of the mar-ket is much less clear.

“In this current environment, we don’t have a tremendous amount of conviction one way or another in the marketplace,” he said.

The March contract for benchmark North American crude fell $1.85 to settle at US$30.34 a barrel after Iraq’s oil ministry said the country pro-duced a record amount of oil in

December and that it may raise output even further in the coming year.

Fehr said the more than 18-month slide in the price of oil has made investors focus intent-ly on any and all relevant data.

“It goes to show just how granular the market is getting at this point when every incremen-tal piece of news on production for oil or demand for oil is driv-ing these pretty wide swings,” he said.

That, in turn, drives a “herd mentality” in the marketplace, Fehr said.

In other commodities, March natural gas rose 1.4 cents to set-tle at US$2.155 per mmBtu and February gold added $9 to end at US$1,105.30 a troy ounce.

The commodity-sensitive Ca-nadian dollar broke a three-day string of gains as it lost 0.59 of a U.S. cent to settle at 70.08 cents US.

Fehr said the outlook for the loonie is a little brighter after the Bank of Canada announced Jan. 19 that it would leave its bench-mark interest rate unchanged.

“The chances of us finding a floor, some stabilization in oil prices and the loonie, is more likely now than perhaps … (it has been) over the last year or so,” he said.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTSHighlights at the close Mon-

day at world financial market trading.

Stocks:S&P/TSX Composite In-

dex — 12,143.16, down 246.42 points

Dow — 15,885.22, down 208.29 points

S&P 500 — 1,877.08, down 29.82 points

Nasdaq — 4,518.49, down 72.69 points

Currencies:

Cdn — 70.08 cents US, down 0.59 of a cent

Pound — C$2.0340, up 1.37 cents

Euro — C$1.5490, up 2.12 cents

Euro — US$1.0855, up 0.58 of a cent

Oil futures:US$30.34 per barrel, down

$1.85(March contract)Gold futures: US$1,105.30

per oz., up nine dollars(February contract)Canadian Fine Silver Handy

and Harman:$21.064 oz., up 25.9 cents$677.21 kg., up $8.33

ICE FUTURES CANADAWINNIPEG — ICE Futures

Canada closing prices:Canola: March ‘16 $0.30

higher $482.00 May ‘16 $0.20 higher $490.40 July ‘16 $0.50 higher $495.80 Nov. ‘16 $0.20 lower $494.50 Jan. ‘17 $0.50 lower $496.00 March ‘17 $0.50 lower $496.20 May ‘17 $0.50 lower $494.90 July ‘17 $0.50 lower $494.90 Nov. ‘17 $0.50 lower $494.90 Jan. ‘18 $0.50 lower $494.90 March ‘18 $0.50 lower $494.90.

Barley (Western): March ‘16 unchanged $190.00 May ‘16 unchanged $194.00 July ‘16 unchanged $196.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $196.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $196.00 March ‘17 unchanged $196.00 May ‘17 unchanged $196.00 July ‘17 unchanged $196.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $196.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $196.00 March ‘18 unchanged $196.00.

Monday’s estimated vol-ume of trade: 336,800 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (West-ern Barley). Total: 336,800.


TORONTO — It was another bleak day for Canadian news outlets on Mon-day as Rogers Media moved to trim its workforce by four per cent — or 200 jobs — while the Guelph Mercury said it would stop publishing its daily print editions this week on the heels of a B.C. newspaper closing its doors.

Rogers Media says the cuts, which will impact jobs in television, radio, publishing and administration, are part of efficiency efforts at Rogers Communications (TSX:RCI.B), one of Canada’s largest telecom companies.

A memo to Rogers Media staff says the job cuts will begin in February and will conclude as soon as possible.

“Today’s announcement impacts all areas within Rogers Media, except the Toronto Blue Jays,” said Andrea Gold-stein, the company’s senior director of communications, in an email.

Rogers Media operates 24 TV sta-tions, 52 radio stations, 57 publications and 93 websites.

Goldstein said “it is too early” to identify specifics about which pro-grams or publications will be affected. She said changes will happen at all levels in the company across the coun-try.

The latest layoffs come after the Ca-nadian Radio-television and Telecom-munications Commission was told that half of the country’s local TV stations could be off the air by 2020 without a boost in revenues to pay for local pro-gramming.

The warning comes in a study sub-mitted to the federal broadcast watch-dog as it kicked off hearings into local and community television program-ming in Gatineau on Monday.

Howard Law, director of the media sector for Unifor — a union represent-ing some Rogers Media employees — said the news of yet more layoffs in the media business is foreboding.

“We’re going down the path where journalism and the coverage of news that’s important for a functioning de-mocracy is at existential risk in this country,” he said from Ottawa.

Rogers Media to cut workforce 4%

FILE photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Police takes away one of two demonstrators that had locked themselves to a valve along Enbridge pipeline 9B Monday, December 7, 2015 in Ste-Justine-de-Newton, Que. near the Ontario border. Enbridge’s control centre detected a valve closure on Line 9 just north of Hamilton at 1:15 a.m. ET Monday.


CALGARY — There’s been anoth-er case of tampering involving an En-bridge oil pipeline in Ontario.

Company spokesman Graham White confirms the line was shut down brief-ly overnight while maintenance work-ers inspected the pipeline.

He says Enbridge’s control centre detected a valve closure on Line 9 just north of Hamilton at 1:15 a.m. ET Mon-day.

The company contacted authorities and restarted the line about four hours later.

White says there was no impact on deliveries to clients.

The latest case of pipeline sabotage follows two similar incidents in On-tario and one in Quebec over the past month or so — none of which caused injury or significant disruption.

A post on Earth First Newswire, an environmental activist website, de-scribed the latest action.

“Our hearts were bursting with

love and cheer after hearing of the many times our friends have coura-geously shut down pipelines in recent months,” it said.

“So, in the early hours of January 25, 2016 we found our own courage and took action against Enbridge and their Line 9. Slipping in to a valve station located on traditional Haudenosaunee Territory (in Hamilton, Ontario) we successfully operated an electronic valve to shut off the flow of tarsands crude. A Line 7 valve, also an En-bridge tarsands pipeline, was also tampered with and closed part way. We then disappeared back into the night.”

White has said previously that En-bridge has boosted its security mea-sures.

“These valve tampering incidents had the potential to cause real harm to the public and the environment as well as to the protesters themselves.”

Another case of valve tampering on Enbridge oil pipeline

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B.C. mulls letting mining companies defer power costs

until prices reboundVANCOUVER — British Columbia’s

premier has good news for the prov-ince’s mining industry, as the sector flounders amid ailing global commod-ity prices.Christy Clark announced her government will extend two tax-credit programs while delivering the keynote address at the annual conference into B.C. mineral exploration.

The mining-exploration tax credit is a 20 per cent refundable credit, which increases to 30 per cent for explora-tion happening in regions affected by

the destructive mountain pine beetle.Also being extended is the mining

flow-through tax credit, which is a non-refundable credit of 20 per cent.

Sunrise Propane fined $5.3M in 2008 deadly propane

explosionTORONTO — A court has imposed

$5.3 million in fines on Sunrise Pro-pane, the Ontario company convicted in a deadly explosion at a Toronto pro-pane plant, and its directors.

Sunrise Propane and its directors Shay Ben-Moshe and Valery Belahov were found guilty in June 2013 of nine provincial offences related to the deadly 2008 blast that forced thou-sands of people from their homes.

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Bleackley benched

for six weeks

BY GREG MEACHEMADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

The Red Deer Rebels’ injury woes continue.

Veteran forward Conner Bleackley was helped off the ice during Satur-day’s 4-1 WHL win over the visiting Everett Silvertips with an apparent leg injury and on Monday it was confirmed that he’ll be out of commission for six weeks with a fractured kneecap.

Bleackley experienced a slow start to the season but was impressive in re-cent weeks to the point where he had risen to third in team scoring with 13 goals and 41 points in 47 games.

“In the last two to three weeks his game was certainly starting to come around and was closer to where we expect it to be,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter.

The injury is just one of many of the long-term variety that have afflicted the Rebels this season. Josh Mahura appeared in two games before under-going knee surgery, Kayle Doetzel was out for a lengthy period with a lower body injury and Braden Purtill, Taden Rattie, Adam Musil and Evan Poeli have all been out for extensive spans with upper body ailments.

Luke Philp is also inactive, al-though the overage centre — acquired from the Kootenay Ice Jan. 3 — is ex-pected to return from ankle surgery in the next two weeks.

“It’s tough, we’re counting the days until we get Luke back and all of a sud-den Bleacks goes down,” said Sutter. “It’s been one of those years where we’ve had lots of injuries, and lots of tough injuries with guys out for a month to six weeks.

“We haven’t got a break on that side of it, but that’s the way it goes. We have to keep fighting through it … weather-ing through it.”

Bleackley will almost certainly be back prior to the playoffs in late March and Mahura could return before the beginning of the post season.

Still, …“You just wish you could have some

games with your full lineup,” said Sut-ter. “We haven’t had one game like that yet this year. That’s what’s been troublesome — that we can’t get a real strong feel for our team.

“We haven’t been healthy, but what’s getting us by is our depth. When you consider the injuries we’ve had, we certainly can’t argue with where we are in the standings.”

Sutter expects Philp to be available for duty within 10 days to two weeks, while Rattie should be back — from a fractured fighter — either by this weekend or the following week.

The Rebels conclude a five-game homestand with Friday and Saturday meetings with the Ice and Brandon Wheat Kings.

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Pair of second period goals lifts Stars over Flames

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Stars 2 Flames 1DALLAS — Jamie Benn and the

Dallas Stars were ready for some time off after a tough start to the new year. They go into the All-Star break coming off a needed victory.

Benn and Jason Spezza scored 80 seconds apart early in the second pe-riod, and the Stars held on for a 2-1 victory Monday night over the Calgary Flames, who came up empty on three consecutive power-play chances in the second period and two more after that stretch.

“It was a grind, but we got the job done. Things were going pretty good there until probably about halfway through the second, and a couple turn-overs and three straight penalties and gave them momentum,” Benn said. “Antti (Niemi) made some big saves.”

The Stars won for only the third time in 11 games this month, closing out a 3-6-2 stretch after leading the Western Conference for much of the season.

“To go into the break with a win is a good thing, you can go in with a positive mindset. Then when we come out, we know that we’ve got work to do,” coach Lindy Ruff said. “If I had to

pick a time to struggle, I would strug-gle now versus having us struggle near the end” of the season.

Dallas had allowed goals on five of its 11 previous penalty kills going into the game. But Calgary was 0 for 5 on the power play, including the final 9.4 seconds of the game when Flames goalie Karri Ramo was on the bench, giving them six skaters on the ice.

Niemi stopped two point-blank shots, among his 23 saves for the game, and the Stars survived a flurry of activ-ity in front of the net on the first power play.

“We kind of woke up too late to play,” said Ramo, who had 28 saves. “Against a team like that, you have to start pushing right away.”

Benn’s 28th goal of the season came 2:43 into the second, with a little back-handed flip just off the right post. The goal was set up by Valeri Nichushkin’s pass, after he had skated behind the net to retrieve his own pass off the boards.

Then Spezza was off the left post be-hind Ramo after the goalie had skated up for another shot that was wide. The puck ended up on Spezza’s stick on the left side of the net with a wide open gap for his 17th goal and a 2-0 lead.

“I don’t think we’re satisfied with how things went after we had a two-

goal lead, but we’ve had enough loss-es this month where we probably de-served a better fate and didn’t get it,” Spezza said.

]“Sometimes you’ve just got to hun-ker down and get saves from your goal-ie, and that’s what we did.”

Calgary, 2-5-1 its last eight games, got its only goal early in the third pe-riod when Jiri Hudler passed from be-hind the net to Joe Colborne. It was the seventh goal of the season for Col-borne, who has goals in two straight after getting two in his previous 28 games.

“We can feel good about the effort,” coach Bob Hartley. “But it’s always the final result that matters and especially in our situation we need to get back up winning and climbing in the stand-ings.”

NOTES: Calgary wrapped up a five-game road trip (1-3-1) and still has one more game before the break. The Flames host Nashville on Wednes-day night. … It was the third and final meeting of the regular season between the Stars and Flames. Calgary won the first two, including a shootout at home Dec. 1. … After a 5-1 win over Nash-ville on New Year’s Eve, the Stars had won 28 of their first 39 games. The Jan-uary rut began two days later with a 3-2 overtime loss at New Jersey.

Raonic outlasts Wawrinka to reach Australian Open quartersBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

MELBOURNE, Australia — Milos Raonic has always turned heads with his big serve. Now that he’s improved his play at the net, the Canadian tennis star is even more dangerous.

Raonic advanced to the quarter-fi-nals of the Australian Open for the second straight year, defeating 2014 champion Stan Wawrinka 6-4, 6-3, 5-7, 4-6, 6-3 Monday in a marathon match lasting three hours 44 minutes.

The 13th seed from Thornhill, Ont., improved to 8-0 this season and downed a former Australian Open champion for a second time. He tuned up for the year’s first Grand Slam by defeating 17-time Grand Slam cham-pion Roger Federer in the final of the Brisbane Open.

Raonic attributed his success this season to his improved volleying.

“I think it’s what helped me win in Brisbane,” he said. “It’s what helped me win my first three matches here, is that comfort and confidence of go-ing forward. But not even just that. In the off-season I spent a lot of time up at the net. So it’s not just about a con-fidence, it’s about an understanding of what I need to do, where you go in certain situations, how not only to fin-ish the points, how to defend a little bit better at the net and how to cover and move better to make the opponent think.”

Raonic said he had a lot of time to analyze and tweak his game while dealing with a series of frustrating in-juries last season. He worked in the

off-season with coach Riccardo Piatti on getting more comfortable at the net, and said he continues to devote more time to volleying in practice.

“I had time injured and I wasn’t so caught up in playing a lot of matches, travelling from tournament to tourna-ment, when I was sort of sitting there maybe a little bit annoyed with the physical situation I was in, asking my-self ‘What can I do to get better?’

“It was something definitely I felt was necessary for me. So I think (coach Carlos Moya) has been sort of taking the tools that me and Riccardo worked on in the winter, and he is sort of tell-ing me, ‘You’re doing well up there. Keep getting yourself up there.”’

Raonic, who lost to the fourth-seed-ed Wawrinka in their four previous meetings, improved to 18-5 in Mel-bourne and 47-19 at Grand Slams.

“I’m very happy with the way I played, the way I competed, the way I turned things around after having the momentum against me going into the fifth” he said. “At the same time, as happy as I am, my mind’s already on what’s the process for my next chal-lenge. I’m always looking for ways to get better.”

Raonic was cruising with a lead of two sets to love when his game sudden-ly derailed. Wawrinka stormed back to win the third and fourth sets but Raonic was able to close it out in the fifth, finishing the match with 24 aces, 82 winners and five breaks of serve at the showcase Rod Laver Arena.

“I felt very clear in what I needed to do and I believed that I could do it,” Raonic said. “I was trying to play in

rhythm, dictate and control the centre of the court. I was able to carry that through.”

Raonic next faces Gael Monfils, the Frenchman who beat Russian Andrey Kuznetsov 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4). Monfils withdrew from the first matchup be-

tween the players at the SAP Open in 2011, but has beaten Raonic twice since.

The two players are a contrast in style. Monfils plays a flashy, entertain-ing game while Raonic rarely betrays his emotions and strives for efficiency.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Milos Raonic returns a shot during a match against Stan Wawrinka during fourth round Australian Open action at Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia, Monday. Raonic won the match to reach the quarterfinals for the second straight year.


Calgary Flames center Sam Bennett moves the puck up ice as Dallas Stars’ Antoine Roussel gives chase in the third period of an NHL game, Monday, in Dallas.

Bad quarterbacks don’t win the Su-per Bowl anymore. It’s hard to even find mediocre ones, really. Tom Brady wins Super Bowls, and Russell Wilson, and in the last 10 years, Aaron Rodg-ers and Drew Brees and Ben Roeth-lisberger and Peyton Manning, age 30. Even Joe Flacco had 11 touchdowns and no picks the year he won it. This is the passing age, and the quickest way to get great is to have a quarterback, and protect him. Trent Dilfer is still the go-to reference for a champi-onship game manager quarterback, 16 years later, the way Ray Lewis is the go-to reference for escaping a murder trial, along with O.J. There’s a reason.

And now Peyton Man-ning, age 39, is in the Su-per Bowl. It’s his fourth trip — only two quarterbacks have made more, Brady and John Elway — and it’s the one nobody expected. Man-ning was awful this year, got benched, got accused of using Human Growth Hormone this year, and was terrible this year. It sounds like a duplication, but it’s not. Peyton Manning was at least two kinds of bad this year. Three if you include media leaks. Pres-ent-day Manning might be the worst quarterback to ever try to win the Su-per Bowl.

There were 34 quarterbacks who qualified for the league leaderboard in passer ratings this season. Peyton Manning was 34th. Only Blake Bortles of Jacksonville threw more intercep-tions — 18 to 17 — and Bortles needed an extra 275 passes to do it. Manning was 28th in yards per game, 28th in yards per attempt — ahead of Aaron Rodgers, weird — and 27th in comple-

tion percentage.He can’t feel his fingertips, and his

arm has become more and more noo-dle-like as time passes because time cooks you, slow or fast. The last few quarterbacks who fit this general sta-tistical profile included Geno Smith,

Brandon Weeden, Matt Cas-sell and John Skelton. This is like being in a police lineup with a bunch of guys who look like they slept in a hedge, or in their Wall Street CEO of-fices.

But Denver has defence lawyers that can get you out of almost anything. They had the eighth-best defence of the modern era by DVOA, the advanced calculation from Football Outsiders. It’s right there with the 2013 Sea-hawks defence that didn’t let a 55-touchdown Peyton Manning score in the Super Bowl until the end of the third quarter,

by which time it was too late.So yeah: Peyton Manning gets to go

to the Super Bowl, and he will face a team that should scare people. They were up 31-0 at halftime against a very good Seattle team, and were up 24-7 at halftime against a very good Arizona team, and while those two very good teams played as if they were drunk, maybe Carolina makes teams act like they’re drunk. Cam Newton is the new thing, the new quarterback, the new great thing that has not been seen be-fore, who laughs when he runs. He’s become a strange cultural target for daring to be black and exuberant and great. It’s going to be a long week in some quarters, in San Francisco.

And yes, Carolina will be favoured. Still, yes, Arizona’s Carson Palmer got the yips in the NFC Conference title game, but that wasn’t exactly a long journey. Denver’s defence was

so good it made Tom Brady seem like he was seeing ghosts at times, like he was spooked. On one play he hesitated, tried to pull the ball back, jiggled on one foot like someone had a Brady voo-doo doll, and then threw flat-footed, wide of Rob Gronkowski. Pressure can make anybody wobble.

So, Peyton Manning got to the Super Bowl. He was carried on the shoulder of a defence that got to Brady with four rushers, the way the Giants used to do. He got there because Von Miller ate Brady’s organic lunch. Manning got there because he didn’t make a mis-take, and Brady made a couple.

And he got there because Stephen Gostkowski missed his first extra point in 524 attempts, and it forced the Patri-ots to go for two after Rob Gronkowski got them to the end zone in the last 30 seconds, and then Brady’s last pass got batted and intercepted. The Patriots played a sloppy game, and Denver’s defence stopped them on fourth down inside the Broncos’ 16-yard line, twice. But it was the extra point that did it, as much as anything.

It will be hard to imagine Manning succeeding against the ravenous Pan-

thers, who reduced Palmer to a guy throwing his keys into a parking lot on the off chance it might start his car. The Broncos were 16th in total offence and first in defence, and that’s not crazy. The 2008 Steelers were 22nd and first, but at least they had a quar-terback who could really throw. The 2013 Seahawks were 17th and first, but, same thing. Actually, along with Dil-fer, Eli Manning in 2007 might be the closest thing to this — awful year, great defence. But he had an arm, too.

Peyton Manning doesn’t have an arm, not really, but he’s still got one last chance to match Eli, finally. When the TV guys told Newton he was play-ing Denver he seemed surprised, and he said, ‘We’re playing the sheriff.’ One last gunfight, and the old man is out-gunned by a mile.

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Red Deer Renegades Soccer Club player Ajdin Sarcevic has been invited to attend the Bosnian national team under-17/19 identification camp begin-ning Feb. 8 in Zenica, Bosnia.

Sarcevic, currently a member of the Edmonton Academy Football Club, participated in an ‘open door’ Bosnian soccer camp in Denver in May of last

year and also attended a camp in Med-jugorje, Bosnia in June.

In July of last year, he participat-ed in the showcase camp held by the Alberta Soccer Association in Cal-gary and his performance at all three events led to the Bosnian national team ID camp invitation.

“I love playing soccer and I’m very excited that my hard work and deter-mination have led to this opportunity,” Sarcevic said. “My goal is to follow my

father’s (Ado’s) footsteps to be a pro-fessional soccer player.”

The younger Sarcevic started play-ing as a three-year-old in Red Deer City Soccer Association programs. He continued participating in RDCSA pro-grams until the U10 level, then moved to the competitive stream — Rene-gades SC. He remained in the club for the rest of his youth career until his recent move to FC Edmonton where he was accepted into their Academy

program.Ajdin finished his Renegades ca-

reer by winning two indoor provincial championships at the U18 level, along with winning gold in the 2015 outdoor provincials.

“Sarcevic’s accomplishments are the result of RDCSA’s commitment to provide quality technical programs,” said RDCSA president Paul Morigeau. “We extend our best wishes to Ajdin in his upcoming soccer endeavours.”

Red Deer’s Sarcevic headed to Bosnia for soccer

Williams downs Sharapova to reach semis


MELBOURNE, Australia — Sere-na Williams attacked Maria Sharapo-va’s strength and it helped extend her complete domination of their rivalry, earning the six-time Australian Open champion a place in the semifinals.

Top-ranked Williams beat Shara-pova 6-4, 6-1 in the quarterfinals on Tuesday, her 18th consecutive victory and 19th in their 21 career meetings back to 2004.

“It was super intense,” Williams said of the replay of last year’s final. “She’s an incredibly intense, focused player who was No. 1 and has won so many Grand Slams for a reason. You have to come out with a lot of fire and intensity.”

Each of the six previous times Wil-liams has won a quarterfinal at Mel-bourne Park, she has won the title at the season-opening Grand Slam tour-nament.

Up next for her is fourth-seeded Ag-nieszka Radwanska, who beat No. 10 Carla Suarez Navarro 6-1, 6-3 to reach a Grand Slam semifinal for the fifth time.

Sharapova has won five majors, in-cluding the 2008 Australian title, and has been in three other finals at Mel-bourne Park.

In her fourth-round win against No. 12 Belinda Bencic she had a career-high 21 aces. Against Wil-liams, she had three, and seven dou-ble-faults. Williams had 13 aces, three double-faults, hit 31 winners to 11, and broke Sharapova’s serve four times.

“She played quite explosive,”

Sharapova said. “She was really explosive off the

return. Yeah.”Sharapova broke to open the match

and held for a 2-0 lead. But Williams held in the third game and broke to quickly level at 2-2.

Early in the set, points were short. As it progressed, the rallies got longer, the shrieks and grunts got louder and the emotions were fully on display.

Both players struggled with their ball toss at one end, repeatedly prac-ticing their toss to work out the best position to serve into the sun.

Williams also had to concentrate hard to hold in the ninth game, when a baby screamed loudly in the stands as she faced breakpoints.

She was able to protect her own serve, and go on the attack against Sharapova’s. It cost her in the eighth game when she had three break-point chances, taking the high-risk rather than the high-percentage option with her return.

But that approach is what has helped win her 21 major titles, and Williams’ aggressive returns finally helped her convert on her fourth set point, following a heavy ground stroke to the net and putting away a volley.

She went on a five-game roll until Sharapova held in the second set, and then finished it off in the seventh game after saving break points.

Williams had medical treatment between sets, and again in the sec-ond during a changeover, but it wasn’t clear what the problem was. She didn’t comment on it in her on-court inter-view.

Sharapova noted Williams started

the opening set with four big serves, so she didn’t think it hampered the 34-year-old American’s game.

She hasn’t beaten Williams since back-to-back victories in 2004, when she led their rivalry 2-1. Despite more than 11 years in between, Sharapova isn’t giving up hope of breaking that drought.

“It’s motivating because she’s at a

different level,” Sharapova said. “She makes you go back to the drawing board, not just for me, but for many other players. She makes you work. That’s inspiring.”

In men’s doubles action, Canadian Vasek Pospisil and American partner Jack Sock fell in three sets to Spain’s Marcel Granollers and Uruguay’s Pab-lo Cuevas in quarter-final action.


Serena Williams of the United States plays a forehand return to Maria Sharapova of Russia during their quarterfinal match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday.

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EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers have shown their support for young LGBTQ players in a colourful way.

Players hit the ice at Rexall Place on Sunday for a skills competition with their sticks wrapped in special rainbow-coloured hockey tape.

Pride Tape is an initiative spear-headed by the Uni-versity of Alberta Institute for Sexual Minority Stud-ies and Services. Oilers defenceman Andrew Ference helped launch the campaign in December.

Ference admits he never would have imagined openly discussing LGBTQ issues when he first started his career, but believes most people now realize “it’s the right thing to do.”

He says the entire National Hock-ey League team got behind the idea

right away.“It’s not something that you have

to go into the dressing room and twist guys’ arms. Basically everyone was on board immediately,” said Ference.

He said it’s im-portant kids aren’t afraid to be them-selves in front of their teammates.

“Small things like this where we can show our sup-port and be allies … hopefully kids won’t have to quit sport and quit hockey.”

“We believe that hockey should include everyone regardless of a person’s sexual orientation or gen-der identity,” said faculty direc-tor Kristopher Wells. “Pride Tape brings together two great things — hockey and human rights.”

A campaign was launched to raise money to pay for the first 10,000 rolls of tape. More than $45,000 of the $54,000 goal has been achieved.


STRATFORD, Ont. — New Brunswick skip Justine Comeau topped Northern Ontario’s Megan Smith 8-5 on Monday for her fourth straight victory at the Canadi-an junior curling championships.

Comeau is back at her second straight Canadian juniors after being the only skip to beat two-time world junior champ Kelsey Rocque at last year’s event in Cor-ner Brook, N.L.

Comeau, along with Manitoba’s Abby Ackland — who beat Nunavut’s winless Sadie Pinksen — and Alberta’s Selena Sturmay are on top of Pool A with 4-1 re-cords going into the final day of prelimi-nary round play.

The top three teams in each pool, plus two teams with the next best won-lost records, advance to the championship round for a further four-game partial round robin from Wednesday through Friday, with their earlier records carried forward.

Quebec (3-2) is close behind after a 15-4 win over Zoey Walsh of the Northwest Territories (0-4) on Monday night.

In Pool B, Nova Scotia’s Mary Fay

leads the way at 5-0, while B.C.’s Sar-ah Daniels (4-0) also is unbeaten. B.C. cruised to a 13-3 win over Newfoundland/Labrador’s Brooke Godsland and Ontar-io’s Courtney Auld (3-1) was a 14-4 winner over the Yukon’s Alyssa Meger (0-4). Nova Scotia had the bye Monday night

In men’s play, both pool leaders — Manitoba’s Matt Dunstone (5-0) in Pool A and B.C.’s Tyler Tardi (5-0) were idle Monday night.

In Pool A play, Quebec’s Felix Asselin (3-1) earned an 11-0 win over Nunavut’s Arthur Siksik (0-5), Ontario’s Doug Kee (3-2) put together a 7-3 win over Newfound-land/Labrador’s Greg Smith (1-3), and Al-berta’s Karsten Sturmay (3-2) needed an extra end for a 9-8 win over Nova Scotia’s Matthew Manuel (1-3).

In Pool B, New Brunswick’s Alex Ro-bichaud (3-1) downed Matt Miller of the Northwest Territories (0-5) 12-1, and Sas-katchewan’s Jake Hersikorn (3-1) turned back Brayden Klassen of the Yukon (0-4), 8-3.

The six teams of each gender that don’t qualify for the championship round meet in a seeding round to determine ranking for the 2017 Canadian juniors in Victoria.

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Sutter set to return for CanucksBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — Brandon Sutter is going from the press box to centre stage for the Vancouver Canucks.

The 26-year-old will return to the lineup on Tuesday against the Nash-ville Predators after a 33-game ab-sence due to a sports hernia.

With captain Henrik Sedin out un-til after the all-star break because of an upper-body injury, Sutter will slot in between Daniel Sedin and Jannik Hansen while also getting time on the first power-play unit.

“Jumping right into the fire,” Sutter said with a smile after Monday’s prac-tice at Rogers Arena.

Sutter suffered the abdominal inju-ry in mid-November, which he thought was initially just a tight groin, and waited about three weeks before going the surgical route.

“I was skating for 20 days trying to get it better, trying to avoid surgery, and it just felt like I was spinning my tires,” he said. “Once we got the sur-gery going it felt like you’re starting to see the light. Even though that was sev-en weeks ago, at least you’re working towards something.”

Sutter practised with the Canucks on their recent road trip and will help a club that’s currently thin on expe-

rience at centre with Henrik Sedin

sidelined.

“We missed him,” said Vancouver

head coach Willie Desjardins. “A lot of

guys stepped in and played well while

he was gone, especially the young guys,

but for me it will be great to have him back.”

Sutter should also be a boost for the Canucks in the faceoff circle, where they’re ranked last in the NHL, and on the penalty kill, where they sit 20th.

“He’s a big part of this team,” said Hansen. “We need a right-handed cen-tre, no question about that. His speed, his tenacity, he’ll bring a lot.”

Vancouver acquired Sutter in a trade with Pittsburgh in June before signing him to a five-year deal worth US$21.875 million in August.

He had four goals and four assists in 16 games before the injury, and is ea-ger to help the club after a long layoff that included four- or five-hour rehab sessions with trainers and a lot of time on the couch.

“I’ve got a lot of movies down, a few TV series,” Sutter said of how he spent his days. “A lot of football.”

The Canucks were in a rut when Sutter first got hurt, but have been playing better in recent months and are within shouting distance of a play-off spot at 20-18-11 with one more game before the all-star break.

“Fortunately the guys have done an awesome job,” said Sutter. “I’m not go-ing to say it’s been fun watching them, but it’s been much better than it was … It just makes you antsy to get back out there and try and help.”


Vancouver Canucks’ Brandon Sutter, left, and Luca Sbisa celebrate Sutter’s goal against the St. Louis Blues during an NHL game in Vancouver, B.C., on Oct. 16, 2015. Sutter is set to return after missing 33 games with a sports hernia.

Stone at a loss to find reasons for slumpBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — Mark Stone can’t help but shake his head these days.

The Ottawa Senators winger is mired in the longest pointless streak of his career and is at a loss to under-stand what’s going wrong. Stone has failed to get a point in his last seven games, and has just one goal and one assist in his last 13.

Senators coach Dave Cameron said the 23-year-old is creating chances and doing everything possible to score, but just can’t seem to catch a break.

“I thought the last two games he was as good a player as there was on the ice for either team,” Cameron said. “In this business we talk about resilience and balance and that there’s no guar-antees.

“You can do everything right and not score whether it’s a good goalie or a post or whatever so don’t concen-trate on the result, concentrate on the process and I’ve really liked his pro-cess the last two games.”

Stone feels he’s playing well enough, but knows he’s counted on to provide offence and can’t help but feel some pressure. He understands players go through slumps, but living through one personally is frustrating.

“Everybody goes through stretch-es where you can’t miss and then you go through stretches where you can’t score,” Stone said.

“Unfortunately right now is one of those times where I just can’t get one in. It’s frustrating when you’re strug-gling, but you just have to work your way out of it.”

Not overly superstitious, Stone says he’s not trying to do anything all that different other than using white tape on his stick these days. Stone broke two sticks in practice Monday and

his hopeful the new ones might prove lucky.

While Stone’s production seems low he’s not that far off last year’s num-bers. After 47 games Stone has 11 goals and 33 points. Last year at the same time Stone had 12 goals and 28 points, but he excelled down the stretch scor-ing 14 goals and picking up 22 assists and was one of the Senators best play-ers.

“I feel like I’m playing pretty well right now, last couple games espe-cially, I thought I created some pretty good chances not only for myself, but for my teammates,” Stone said. “If the team can continue to play like we did last game the chances will continue to come.”

The Senators host the Buffalo Sa-bres on Tuesday in their last game be-fore the all-star break, and will likely face former teammate Robin Lehner in goal.

Stone said it would feel pretty good to end his pointless streak with a goal against a good friend.

Coming off a 3-0 win over the New York Rangers Sunday afternoon in what can easily be described as the Senators most complete game of late, the team knows it would be ideal to head into the break riding back-to-back wins.

“(Sunday) we had no passengers, none, that’s what I liked,” Cameron said. “The big difference, for me, was we were moving our feet which gives you energy, which makes it tough on the other team and that’s a big differ-ence for us between good and not so good.”

Craig Anderson will get the start for Ottawa, and says he would enjoy the opportunity to face Lehner.

This will be Lehner’s first appear-ance at Canadian Tire Centre since be-ing traded to the Sabres in June 2015.


New York Islanders right wing Cal Clutterbuck (15) knocks Ottawa Senators right wing Mark Stone (61) to the ice during NHL action January 22, in Ottawa. Stone can’t help but shake his head these days. The Ottawa Senators winger is mired in the longest pointless streak of his career and is at a loss to understand what’s going wrong.

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Today• AJHL: Camrose at Olds, 7 p.m.Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Blackfalds, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday• College women’s hockey: Grant MacEwan at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena.

Friday• Senior men’s curling: Southern Alberta playdowns, Red Deer Pidherney Centre.• JV basketball: Lindsay Thurber boys/girls tournament.• College basketball: Ambrose University College at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow.• Bantam AA hockey: West Central at Central Alberta, 6 p.m., Big Valley.• WHL: Kootenay at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium.• Midget AA hockey: Calgary Stampeders at Olds, 7:30 p.m.; Okotoks Black at Red Deer Elks, 8 p.m., Arena.• Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Three Hills 8 p.m.; Medicine Hat at Stettler, 8 p.m., Castor.• Chinook senior AAA hockey: Fort Saskatchewan at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.; Stony Plain at Bentley, 8:30 p.m., Lacombe.

Saturday• Senior men’s curling: Southern Alberta playdowns, Red Deer Pidherney Centre.• JV basketball: Lindsay Thurber boys/girls tournament.• Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Blazers at Red Deer North Star, 11:30 a.m., Arena.• Major bantam hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer, 2 p.m., Arena.

• Major bantam girls hockey: Spruce Grove at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre.• Bantam AA hockey: Lethbridge at Red Deer Steel Kings, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Cranbrook at Olds, 3:45 p.m.• Peewee AA hockey: Lethbridge White at Central Alberta, 2:45 p.m., Clive.• Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Northstars at Red Deer, 4:45 p.m., Arena.• College volleyball: Ambrose University College at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow.• WHL: Brandon at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium.• Heritage junior B hockey: Mountainview at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena; Airdrie at Three Hills, 8 p.m.; Strathmore at Ponoka, 8 p.m.; Medicine Hat at Blackfalds, 8 p.m.

Sunday• Senior men’s curling: Southern Alberta playdowns, Red Deer Pidherney Centre.• Minor midget AAA hockey: Airdire/Cochrane at Red Deer North Star, noon, Arena.• Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Steel Kings at Red Deer Ramada, 1:45 p.m., Kinsmen A; Lethbridge at Central Alberta, 2 p.m., Lacombe; Bow Valley at Olds, 2:45 p.m.• Major midget girls hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre.• Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Flames at Red Deer, 3 p.m., Arena.• Peewee AA hockey: Bow Valley at West Central, 3:15 p.m., Rocky Mountain House.• Heritage junior B hockey: Okotoks at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m.• Midget AA hockey: Okotoks Black at Olds, 5:30 p.m.

NFL Playoffs

Wild-card PlayoffsSaturday, Jan. 9Kansas City 30, Houston 0Pittsburgh 18, Cincinnati 16Sunday, Jan. 10Seattle 10, Minnesota 9Green Bay 35, Washington 18

Divisional PlayoffsSaturday, Jan. 16New England 27, Kansas City 20Arizona 26, Green Bay 20, OTSunday, Jan. 17Carolina 31, Seattle 24Denver 23, Pittsburgh 16

Conference ChampionshipsSunday, Jan. 24AFCDenver 20, New England 18NFCCarolina 49, Arizona 15

Pro BowlSunday, Jan. 31At HonoluluTeam Rice vs. Team Irvin, 5 p.m.

Super BowlSunday, Feb. 7At Santa Clara, Calif.Denver vs. Carolina, 4:30 p.m.

National Basketball AssociationEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division W L Pct GBToronto 29 15 .659 —Boston 25 21 .543 5New York 22 24 .478 8Brooklyn 12 33 .267 17 1/2Philadelphia 6 39 .133 23 1/2

Southeast Division W L Pct GBAtlanta 27 19 .587 —Miami 24 21 .533 2 1/2Charlotte 21 23 .477 5Washington 20 22 .476 5Orlando 20 23 .465 5 1/2

Central Division W L Pct GBCleveland 31 12 .721 —Chicago 25 19 .568 6 1/2Detroit 24 21 .533 8Indiana 23 21 .523 8 1/2Milwaukee 19 27 .413 13 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBSan Antonio 38 6 .864 —Memphis 26 20 .565 13Dallas 25 21 .543 14Houston 25 22 .532 14 1/2New Orleans 16 28 .364 22

Northwest Division W L Pct GBOklahoma City 33 13 .717 —Portland 20 26 .435 13Utah 19 25 .432 13Denver 17 28 .378 15 1/2Minnesota 14 32 .304 19

Pacific Division W L Pct GBGolden State 40 4 .909 —L.A. Clippers 28 16 .636 12Sacramento 20 23 .465 19 1/2Phoenix 14 31 .311 26 1/2L.A. Lakers 9 37 .196 32

Sunday’s GamesHouston 115, Dallas 104Toronto 112, L.A. Clippers 94Boston 112, Philadelphia 92Brooklyn 116, Oklahoma City 106

Monday’s GamesCleveland 114, Minnesota 107Boston 116, Washington 91

Miami 89, Chicago 84Houston 112, New Orleans 111Memphis 108, Orlando 102, OTDetroit 95, Utah 92Atlanta 119, Denver 105Charlotte at Sacramento, lateSan Antonio at Golden State, late

Tuesday’s GamesL.A. Clippers at Indiana, 5 p.m.Phoenix at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.Washington at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.Miami at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.Oklahoma City at New York, 5:30 p.m.Orlando at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.Sacramento at Portland, 8 p.m.Dallas at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesPhoenix at Cleveland, 5 p.m.Denver at Boston, 5:30 p.m.Philadelphia at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 6 p.m.Houston at San Antonio, 6 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Atlanta, 6 p.m.Charlotte at Utah, 7 p.m.Dallas at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

NBA LeadersScoring G FG FT PTS AVGCurry, GOL 42 418 224 1264 30.1Harden, HOU 46 372 398 1267 27.5Cousins, SAC 35 317 259 936 26.7Durant, OKC 39 358 233 1038 26.6James, CLE 41 390 199 1026 25.0Lillard, POR 39 329 180 958 24.6Westbrook, OKC 46 388 271 1101 23.9George, IND 44 329 259 1043 23.7Davis, NOR 38 334 199 886 23.3DeRozan, TOR 44 346 302 1020 23.2Butler, CHI 43 317 286 967 22.5Thomas, BOS 45 315 255 977 21.7Anthony, NYK 42 320 197 894 21.3Wiggins, MIN 44 326 239 917 20.8McCollum, POR 44 357 92 917 20.8Lowry, TOR 44 290 212 912 20.7K. Thompson, GOL 42 311 108 863 20.5Walker, CHA 44 314 194 903 20.5Leonard, SAN 42 306 154 842 20.0Wall, WAS 41 307 143 817 19.9

Rebounds G OFF DEF TOT AVGDrummond, DET 44 237 439 676 15.4Jordan, LAC 42 152 408 560 13.3Howard, HOU 37 134 313 447 12.1Cousins, SAC 35 88 311 399 11.4Whiteside, MIA 41 128 331 459 11.2Love, CLE 42 99 357 456 10.9

Heritage LanesHigh scores Jan. 18-24

Monday club 55+ 1 p.m.: Robert Schroder, 274 high single; Claude Gagne, 668 high triple.Monday 7 p.m. mixed: Andy Silbernagel, 280; Sil-bernagel, 689.Tuesday 7 p.m. mixed: Tony Zirk, 368; Zirk, 837.Wednesday club 55+ 1 p.m.: Curtiss Lund, 277; Lund, 739.Wednesday 7 p.m. mixed: Chris Bristow, 287; Bristow, 722.Thursday morning ladies: Bev Mundle, 287,

Mundle, 662.Thursday afternoon Special Olympics mixed: Anthony Kubasek, 238; Kubasek, 404.Thursday 7 p.m. mixed: Connor Odenbach, 306; Odenbach, 710.Youth Bowling of CanadaBumpers: Brodie Ehret, 19.Bowlasaurus: Karsten Hennig, 106.Peewees: Jonathan Holford, 164; Holford, 276 (two games).Bantams: Blake Stanley, 223; Stanley, 492 (three games).Juniors: Dakota Clubine, 268; P.J. Clubine, 624.

WHLEASTERN CONFERENCE

EAST DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtBrandon 47 30 13 2 2 180 132 64Prince Albert 47 26 16 4 1 153 148 57Moose Jaw 48 24 17 6 1 163 151 55Regina 48 20 21 3 4 150 173 47Saskatoon 48 17 27 4 0 140 198 38Swift Current 47 15 27 4 1 117 159 35

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtLethbridge 48 36 12 0 0 207 135 72Red Deer 49 31 15 1 2 182 141 65Calgary 48 28 18 1 1 160 153 58Edmonton 49 19 23 6 1 129 153 45Medicine Hat 47 18 25 3 1 149 187 40Kootenay 48 8 36 4 0 100 205 20

WESTERN CONFERENCEB.C. DIVISION

GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtKelowna 47 33 11 3 0 174 132 69Victoria 49 29 15 2 3 172 119 63Prince George 48 29 17 1 1 172 144 60Kamloops 47 22 18 4 3 157 153 51Vancouver 50 18 27 3 2 144 180 41

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtEverett 46 28 14 2 2 124 99 60Seattle 46 26 17 3 0 144 132 55Portland 48 25 21 2 0 158 150 52Spokane 46 22 19 3 2 153 158 49Tri-City 47 20 25 2 0 152 178 42

Sunday’s resultsBrandon 4 Regina 0Victoria 5 Vancouver 1Lethbridge 3 Edmonton 0Portland 4 Tri-City 3

Monday’s gamesMedicine Hat at Prince George, late

Friday, January 29Prince George at Swift Current, 6 p.m.Saskatoon at Regina, 6 p.m.Prince Albert at Calgary, 7 p.m.Brandon at Edmonton, 7 p.m.Kootenay at Red Deer, 7 p.m.Moose Jaw at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.Vancouver at Kamloops, 8 p.m.Lethbridge at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.Portland at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.Seattle at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.Everett at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Red Deer RebelsScoring GP G A Pts PIM +/-Nikolishin 49 27 39 66 14 18Helewka 30 26 19 45 39 27Bleackley 47 13 28 41 37 12DeBrusk 38 14 26 40 28 0Spacek 38 13 27 40 12 9Hagel 49 9 25 34 25 16Bobyk 49 13 18 31 65 12Philp 22 13 16 29 30 -7Pawlenchuk 48 17 10 27 12 11Musil 43 13 13 26 31 7Fleury 34 9 17 26 31 12Polei 40 12 9 21 52 10de Wit 48 6 12 18 21 5Nogier 47 3 14 17 47 16Strand 49 1 8 9 41 5Doetzel 35 0 8 8 35 21Pratt 35 5 2 7 7 3Johnson 34 3 3 6 24 -2Purtill 28 1 2 3 6 4Shmoorhoff 45 0 2 2 12 9Mahura 2 0 1 1 0 1Rattie 7 0 0 0 17 -2Martin 21 0 0 0 0 —Toth 39 0 0 0 0 —Goaltenders GP MP GA SO GAA Sv%Toth 39 2107 94 5 2.68 .911Martin 20 838 41 0 2.93 .900

WHL Scoring Leaders G A PtsBrayden Burke, Let 18 56 74Adam Brooks, Reg 27 44 71Dryden Hunt, MJ 30 39 69Tyson Baillie, Kel 28 41 69Ivan Nikolishin, RD 27 39 66Reid Gardiner, P.A. 29 36 65Parker Bowles, TC 27 36 63Giorgio Estephan, Let 27 36 63Alex Forsberg, Vic 19 41 60Devante Stephens, Spo 18 42 60Egor Babenko, Let 25 32 57Tyler Wong, Let 27 29 56Jonathon Martin, SC 31 23 54Collin Shirley, Kam 27 27 54Nolan Patrick, Bra 18 36 54Mathew Barzal, Sea 13 41 54Brayden Point, MJ 21 32 53Matthew Phillips, Vic 26 26 52Andrew Nielsen, Let 12 39 51Jesse Gabrielle, PG 29 21 50Chase Witala, PG 28 22 50Brett Pollock, Edm 18 32 50

2016 CHL Top Prospects Game rosterTORONTO — The roster for the 2016 Canadian Hockey League Top Prospects game, Jan. 28 at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver (c — captain i — in-jured, will not play x — injury replacement):TEAM CHERRY

GoaltendersEvan Fitzpatrick, Sherbrooke Phoenix (QMJHL) Zach Sawchenko, Moose Jaw Warriors (WHL).DefencemenJakob Chychrun, Sarnia Sting (OHL) Kale Clague, Brandon Wheat Kings (WHL) Sean Day, Mississau-ga Steelheads (OHL) Samuel Girard, Shawinigan Cataractes (QMJHL) Lucas Johansen, Kelowna Rockets (WHL) Markus Niemelainen, Saginaw Spirit (OHL).ForwardsVitalii Abramov, Gatineau Olympiques (QMJHL) ci-Tyler Benson, Vancouver Giants (WHL) Logan Brown, Windsor Spitfires (OHL) Alex DeBrincat, Erie Otters (OHL) Dillon Dube, Kelowna Rockets (WHL) Julien Gauthier, Val-d’Or Foreurs (QMJHL) Tim Gettinger, Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (OHL) Noah Gregor, Moose Jaw Warriors (WHL) Max Jones, London Knights (OHL) Jordan Kyrou, Sarnia Sting (OHL).Michael McLeod, Mississauga Steelheads (OHL) x-Ty Ronning, Vancuover Giants (WHL) Sam Steel, Regina Pats (WHL).Coaching StaffHead Coach — Don Cherry.Assistant Coaches — Brian Kilrea, Bert O’Brien, Brian Sutter, Colby Armstrong.

TEAM ORRGoaltendersCarter Hart, Everett Silvertips (WHL) Dylan Wells, Peterborough Petes (OHL).DefencemenJake Bean, Calgary Hitmen (WHL) Luke Green, Saint John Sea Dogs (QMJHL) Libor Hajek, Sas-katoon Blades (WHL) Olli Juolevi, London Knights (OHL) Mikhail Sergachev, Windsor Spitfires (OHL) Logan Stanley, Windsor Spitfires (OHL).ForwardsNathan Bastian, Mississauga Steelheads (OHL) Will Bitten, Flint Firebirds (OHL) Pierre-Luc Dubois, Cape Breton Screaming Eagles (QMJHL) Brett Howden, Moose Jaw Warriors (WHL) Boris Ka-tchouk, Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (OHL) Jack Kopacka, Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (OHL) Pas-cal Laberge, Victoriaville Tigres (QMJHL) Alexander Nylander, Mississauga Steelheads (OHL) Taylor Raddysh, Erie Otters (OHL) Otto Somppi, Halifax Mooseheads (QMJHL).Simon Stransky, Prince Albert Raiders (WHL) c-Matthew Tkachuk, London Knights (OHL).Coaching StaffHead Coach — Bobby Orr.Assistant Coaches — Glen Hanlon, Todd Warriner.

National Hockey LeagueEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAFlorida 48 28 15 5 61 130 107Detroit 49 25 16 8 58 122 124Boston 48 26 17 5 57 145 125Tampa Bay 48 26 18 4 56 129 117Montreal 49 24 21 4 52 134 129Ottawa 49 23 20 6 52 137 152Toronto 46 17 20 9 43 113 128Buffalo 49 19 26 4 42 111 134

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAWashington 46 35 8 3 73 155 100N.Y. Rangers 49 27 17 5 59 142 129N.Y. Islanders 47 25 16 6 56 130 118New Jersey 49 25 19 5 55 114 116Pittsburgh 47 23 17 7 53 119 120Carolina 50 22 20 8 52 118 135Philadelphia 46 20 18 8 48 105 124Columbus 50 18 27 5 41 128 161

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAChicago 52 33 15 4 70 147 117Dallas 50 31 14 5 67 162 133St. Louis 52 28 16 8 64 129 128Minnesota 49 23 17 9 55 121 115Colorado 50 26 21 3 55 138 133Nashville 48 22 18 8 52 125 129Winnipeg 48 21 24 3 45 121 138

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GALos Angeles 48 30 15 3 63 126 109San Jose 47 25 18 4 54 136 128Arizona 48 24 19 5 53 129 141Vancouver 49 20 18 11 51 121 137Anaheim 46 21 18 7 49 95 109Calgary 47 21 23 3 45 125 144Edmonton 50 19 26 5 43 122 149NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Sunday’s GamesOttawa 3, N.Y. Rangers 0Carolina 5, Calgary 2Chicago 2, St. Louis 0Los Angeles 3, San Jose 2, OTPittsburgh at Washington, ppd., inclement weather

Monday’s GamesArizona 2, Minnesota 1, SODetroit 4, N.Y. Islanders 2Boston 3, Philadelphia 2Columbus 5, Montreal 2N.Y. Rangers 6, Buffalo 3Dallas 2, Calgary 1

Tuesday’s GamesAnaheim at Boston, 5 p.m.New Jersey at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.Chicago at Carolina, 5:30 p.m.Columbus at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.Toronto at Florida, 5:30 p.m.Arizona at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.Nashville at Vancouver, 8 p.m.Colorado at San Jose, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesToronto at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.Philadelphia at Washington, 6 p.m.Nashville at Calgary, 7:30 p.m.Colorado at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Monday’s summaryStars 2, Flames 1

First PeriodNo Scoring.Penalties — Frolik Cgy (tripping) 0:42.

Second Period1. Dallas, Ja. Benn 28 (Nichushkin, Goligoski) 2:43.2. Dallas, Spezza 17 (Klingberg, Sharp) 4:03.Penalties — Roussel Dal (roughing) 4:38, En-gelland Cgy (roughing) 4:38, Nichushkin Dal (high-sticking) 7:22, Jokipakka Dal (holding) 10:58, Spezza Dal (hooking) 15:57.

Third Period3. Calgary, Colborne 7 (Hudler, Engelland) 1:49.Penalties — Bennett Cgy (tripping) 11:50, Klingberg Dal (interference) 12:36, Eakin Dal (hooking) 19:50.

Shots on goalCalgary 3 12 9 — 24Dallas 10 13 7 — 30Goal — Calgary: Ramo (L, 16-16-1) Dallas: Niemi (W, 18-9-5).Power plays (goal-chances) — Calgary: 0-5 Dallas: 0-2.

NHL Scoring Leaders G A PtsPatrick Kane, Chi 30 43 73Jamie Benn, Dal 27 30 57Tyler Seguin, Dal 25 28 53Erik Karlsson, Ott 10 41 51Joe Pavelski, SJ 24 24 48Taylor Hall, Edm 18 30 48Evgeny Kuznetsov, Wash 15 33 48Evgeni Malkin, Pgh 23 24 47Vladimir Tarasenko, StL 25 21 46Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy 20 26 46Artemi Panarin, Chi 17 29 46Blake Wheeler, Wpg 13 32 45Nicklas Backstrom, Wash 15 29 44Daniel Sedin, Vcr 21 22 43Patrice Bergeron, Bos 18 25 43Alex Ovechkin, Wash 28 14 42Bobby Ryan, Ott 17 25 42Alex Steen, StL 15 27 42Nikita Kucherov, TB 20 21 41Brent Burns, SJ 18 23 41Anze Kopitar, LA 13 28 41Matt Duchene, Col 22 18 40Ryan O’Reilly, Buf 17 23 40Sidney Crosby, Pgh 16 24 40

2016 NHL All-Star Game RostersNEW YORK — The 44 players currently named to the National Hockey League all-star weekend ros-ters for the league’s new 3-on-3 tournament, Jan. 29-31 in Nashville, Tenn. (x—John Scott was traded to Montreal but for the All-Star Game will remain as captain of the Pacific team c—captain):ATLANTIC DIVISIONGoaltendersBen Bishop, Tampa Bay Roberto Luongo, Florida.DefencemenAaron Ekblad, Florida Erik Karlsson, Ottawa P.K. Subban, Montreal.ForwardsPatrice Bergeron, Boston c-Jaromir Jagr, Florida Leo Komarov, Toronto Dylan Larkin, Detroit Ryan O’Reilly, Buffalo Steven Stamkos, Tampa Bay.CoachGerard Gallant, Florida.METROPOLITAN DIVISIONGoaltendersBraden Holtby, Washington Cory Schneider, New Jersey.DefencemenJustin Faulk, Carolina Kris Letang, Pittsburgh Ryan McDonagh, N.Y. Rangers.ForwardsNicklas Backstrom, Washington Claude Giroux, Philadelphia Evgeni Malkin, Pittsburgh c-Alex Ovechkin, Washington Brandon Saad, Columbus John Tavares, N.Y. Islanders.CoachBarry Trotz, Washington.CENTRAL DIVISIONGoaltendersDevan Dubnyk, Minnesota Pekka Rinne, Nashville.DefencemenDustin Byfuglien, Winnipeg Roman Josi, Nashville Shea Weber, Nashville.ForwardsJamie Benn, Dallas Matt Duchene, Colorado c-Pat-rick Kane, Chicago Tyler Seguin, Dallas Vladimir Tarasenko, St. Louis Jonathan Toews, Chicago.CoachLindy Ruff, Dallas.PACIFIC DIVISIONGoaltendersJohn Gibson, Anaheim Jonathan Quick, Los An-geles.DefencemenBrent Burns, San Jose Drew Doughty, Los Angeles Mark Giordano, Calgary.ForwardsJohnny Gaudreau, Calgary Taylor Hall, Edmonton Joe Pavelski, San Jose Corey Perry, Anaheim xc-John Scott, Montreal Daniel Sedin, Vancouver.CoachDarryl Sutter, Los Angeles.

Volleyball athletes Miranda Dawe and Riley Friesen are the Boston Pizza RDC female and male athletes of the week.

Dawe, a third-year power hitter, came off the bench and played a major role in a 3-1 win over the Briercrest Clip-pers Friday, contribut-ing six kills, two aces and nine digs. In a 3-1 loss to the Clippers Saturday, she recorded 10 kills, three aces, 22 digs and a block.

Friesen, a six-foot-sev-en Calgary native who joined the Kings during the Christmas break, made his first start Fri-day and recorded 11 kills, one ace, four digs and three blocks in a win over Briercrest. He followed up Saturday — in anoth-er RDC victory — with 19 kills, two aces, seven digs and three blocks and was named RDC player of the match.

• The hockey Queens will host Grant MacEwan Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Arena and the RDC bas-ketball squads will enter-tain Ambrose University College Friday, with the

women tipping off at 6 p.m.The volleyball Queens and Kings will take

on visiting Ambrose Saturday. The women’s match goes at 6 p.m., with the men to follow.

RDC ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

OILMEN’S BONSPIEL

TransactionsMonday’s Sports TransactionsHOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueCHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Recalled F Mark Mc-Neill from Rockford (AHL).American Hockey LeagueAHL — Suspended Utica LW Darren Archibald one game for a boarding incident during a Jan. 24 game at Toronto.HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Reassigned F Josh Nicholls to Greenville (ECHL).ECHLECHL — Suspended Wheeling’s Anton Zlobin one game and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions in a Jan. 23 game against Kalamazoo. Sus-pended Allen’s David Makowski one game and fined

him an undisclosed amount for his actions in a Jan. 24 game against Wichita.BASEBALLAmerican LeagueCLEVELAND INDIANS — Named Koby Perez di-rector of Latin American scouting.LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Claimed INF Ronald Torreyes off waivers from the N.Y. Yankees. Agreed to terms with RHP Garrett Richards on a one-year contract.MINNESOTA TWINS — Agreed to terms with 3B Trevor Plouffe on a one-year contract.TEXAS RANGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Shawn Tolleson on a one-year contract.National LeagueCOLORADO ROCKIES — Agreed to terms with OF

Charlie Blackmon on a one-year contract.LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms with INFs Charlie Culberson and Elian Herrera and OFs Corey Brown, Alex Hassan and Rico Noel on minor league contracts.NEW YORK METS — Agreed to terms with 1B Lucas Duda and RHP Jenrry Mejia on one-year contracts.FOOTBALLNational Football LeagueATLANTA FALCONS — Announced assistant head coach Raheem Morris will become the wide receiv-ers coach. Named Jerome Henderson defensive passing game co-ordinator.DETROIT LIONS — Named David Walker running backs coach.


NEW YORK — Baseball’s strike zone could be getting a slight lift.

Major League Baseball is study-ing whether to raise the bottom of the strike zone from the hollow beneath the kneecap back to the top of the kneecap.

“I’m not in a position to predict whether it’s going to happen or not,” Rob Manfred said during an interview with The Associated Press on Monday on his anniversary as baseball com-missioner. “I think that the interest in the topic is really driven by the fact that if you look over time there has been a movement down of the strike zone, largely as a result of the way we evaluate the strike zone with um-pires.”

Strike zone data was included in a presentation given to owners last week at their meeting in Coral Gables, Florida. An agreement with the play-ers’ association would be necessary to make a change for this year, and base-ball officials said the matter is likely to be discussed during collective bar-gaining, which would delay any change until 2017.

The strike zone extended to the top of the kneecap through the 1995 sea-son, then was dropped to its current level.

“The umpires have done a great job calling the strike zone as we want it called,” Manfred said. “The question is whether we ought to make an adjust-ment.”

Consideration of an alteration comes following a decade-and-a-half decline in offence. There was an up-tick during the second half last season.

“The bottom to the top of the knees is only a matter of a couple inches, so it wouldn’t be a big adjustment for any-body,” San Francisco Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford said in an email. “But, it may help hitters mentally knowing that the zone is a little small-er (even if only by a couple inches). It could help us check off pitches that look like they might be at the bottom of the zone but are sinking even lower.”

On other topics:

FIRST REGULAR SEASON GAMES IN

LONDON IN 2017“We are very interested in play-

ing there, and we’re working hard on that one,” Manfred said. “I don’t think it will be an opener because of the weather issues. It would be later in the

season.”Baseball has been looking at the

new Olympic Stadium as a possible venue. He wouldn’t discuss the possi-bility of shifting a high-profile match-up to England, such as Yankees-Red Sox.

“We haven’t really settled on teams, and I don’t want to speculate about that,” he said. “Obviously, we want to make as good a first impression in Eu-rope as we possibly can.”

DESIGNATED HITTERManfred said that when he spoke

last week of a possible expansion of the designated hitter to the National League, he should have included an emphasis that change is not likely.

“I think the status quo on the DH has served the industry the well,” he said. “I think it serves an important purpose in terms of defining the dif-ference between the American League and the National League, and that league definition is important to us from a competitive perspective.”

INTERNATIONAL DRAFT“I have been of the view for a num-

ber of years that a single mode of en-try into the bargaining unit is proba-bly the most sustainable and effective for the industry over time,” Manfred said. “I think we were closer to getting there in certain rounds of bargaining than people may have understood, and probably it was a mistake not to push it across the finish line.”

DOMESTIC VIOLENCEMLB is investigating Yankees closer

Aroldis Chapman, Colorado shortstop Jose Reyes and Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig under the new domestic violence policy agreed to with the players’ association last sum-mer.

“These cases present a challenge in terms of witnesses, facts, criminal pro-ceedings,” Manfred said. “We’re going to try to navigate those choppy waters in a way that sends the right message from the institution.”

SHORTENED SEASONWhether to shorten the season from

162 games, its length since the early 1960s, is a topic for collective bargain-ing.

“The broadcast agreements are a really serious issue, and we’re going to sort out what flexibility we have once

the issue gets aired at the table,” Man-fred said.

While he is concerned about the demands on players, “by the same to-ken, there are certain economics built on a 162-game season. Something less than that has massive economic rami-fications, not to even mention statistics and undermining the comparability of performances of players over time. It’s not something you can undertake lightly.”

FAN NETTINGMLB recommended last month that

teams have protective netting in front of seats between the dugouts and with-in 70 feet of home plate.

“I do think this will be an issue that evolves,” Manfred said. “We’ll see what that reaction is and we will con-tinue to adjust in a way that emphasiz-es safety and gives our fans the experi-

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MONTREAL — The Montreal Impact are confi-dent that star striker Didier Drogba will return full of enthusiasm, ready to pick up the same torrid scor-ing pace he set at the end of last season.

But the 37-year-old Drogba was not on hand to give his thoughts on that topic when the Major League Soccer club opened camp Monday at Olym-pic Stadium. He is to report to camp in Florida in mid-February after a conditioning stint with his per-sonal trainer in Qatar.

Whether he comes back to the Impact willingly, or if he is merely honouring the final year of his con-tract, only the former Chelsea star can say for sure. He has made no comment on it so far.

“He’s a professional, with the right intentions, but we’ll see when he comes back,” said Impact presi-dent and owner Joey Saputo, who seemed no more attuned to the player’s state of mind than the horde of reporters surrounding him at the Olympic Stadi-um pitch. “The expectation is that he will come back as the professional he is.”

After arriving with great fanfare, Drogba lifted a stagnant team to a 7-2-2 record in the final two months of the 2015 campaign to finish third in the Eastern Conference. He had 11 goals in as many regular season games and added another in the play-offs.

He expressed optimism for 2016 heading into the off-season, but his loyalties were tested in Decem-ber when Chelsea inquired about getting him back, perhaps as an assistant coach, to help turn around a disastrous season.

Drogba pondered retirement from playing, but then opted to fulfil the final year of his contract with Montreal. Saputo had few details of what was said between them.

“He wanted some time to reflect,” said Saputo. “I wasn’t going to be the one who stood in the way of his desire to stop playing or change teams or whatever.

“I was put in a situation that was difficult because we didn’t do anything wrong. But at the end, every-thing was resolved and he’ll be back.”

Even when asked if he was sure Drogba would spend the entire season in Montreal, Saputo said: “We expect him to be the professional that he is, but I can’t answer that question. I don’t know.

“The expectation is that he’s going to continue to be a pro. I don’t have a feeling on whether he’s not going to play, or whether he’s coming back because he has to come back.”

Saputo has a lot riding on Drogba’s return. Season tickets and merchandise were sold on the under-standing that Drogba will be there. And if he left, the Impact would be scrambling for help on attack.

“Didier spoke to me, that he wanted to think

about his post-soccer career and going into coaching and whatnot, but he was aware he was committed to a contract and he just needed some time,” Saputo added.

That he was not at camp on opening day was no surprise. Drogba has his own conditioning program to get ready for a season and will rejoin the team in Tampa, Fla., for the second phase of camp. And ex-ceptions are often made for a player of his age and stature in the sport.

Coach Mauro Biello said Drogba’s playing time will be managed this season to keep him fresh for big games and for the playoffs.

He expects the six-foot-two striker to be wel-comed back with open arms by his teammates.

“I remember I was in a situation where I was thinking of retiring and coaching and it wasn’t easy — and I was nowhere near his level,” said Biello. “So I understand that part of it and that it may take a bit of time, but we’re excited and confident that once Didier is back, he’ll be the pro that he is.

“It was a delicate situation. I’m sure that once he comes back, we’ll put his mind at ease and get him back to where he was last year.”

The Impact work outs in Montreal again on Tues-day before moving to Florida to train outdoors.


Montreal Impact’s Didier Drogba celebrates after scoring against Toronto FC during first half MLS playoff soccer action in Montreal, October 29, 2015. Drogba is returning to the Montreal Impact. After weeks of speculation on whether the 37-year-old striker would go back to his former club Chelsea, the Impact announced Sunday that Drogba will return sometime during training camp, after a spell of working out in Qatar.

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World Cup winMAMMOTH LAKE, Calif. — The

2016 U.S. Grand Prix at Mammoth Mountain was hit by poor weather con-ditions, but that didn’t stop Canadi-an slopestyle skier Yuki Tsubota from winning her first World Cup.

The 21-year-old Tsubota reached the top of the podium on Sunday with a score of 84.40. Giulia Tanno of Swit-zerland was next at 77.40 while Swe-den’s Emma Dahlstrom came third

with 76.20.“It was a very long day but I couldn’t

have hoped for a better ending,” said the Whistler, B.C., native. “There were wind issues out here today so I went for a run that I knew I could nail”

Nikki Blackall, from Barrie, Ont., came sixth with a score of 67.40 while Kim Lamarre of Lac-Beauport, Que., placed seventh at 67.20.

On the men’s side, the Canadian slopestyle team was represented by Evan McEachran.

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Egypt marks anniversary of uprising with heavy security


CAIRO — Amid heavy security Monday, Egypt marked the fifth anniversary of the up-rising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak, with activists taking to social me-dia — but not the streets — to express frus-tration that their demands for freedom and democracy had not been realized.

Many activists instead posted photos from 2011 of Cairo’s Tahrir Square — the epicen-ter of the demonstrations — showing it filled with tens of thousands of protesters during the 18-day uprising.

Next to them, they posted photos of the square on Monday, showing it empty except for several dozen supporters of President Ab-del-Fattah el-Sissi.

Since 2011, when Mubarak fell after nearly three decades in power, Egypt has seen much upheaval: the rise of President Mohammed Morsi and his once-banned Muslim Brother-hood the ouster of Morsi by el-Sissi, a former general and el-Sissi’s launch of one of the harshest crackdowns in years, with the jail-ing of thousands of Islamists and scores of liberal, pro-democracy activists.

Despite the heavy police presence Mon-day, supporters of the Brotherhood held at least two small demonstrations, with partici-pants numbering in the low hundreds — both in Cairo’s twin city of Giza.

Brotherhood demonstrations of this size have taken place since 2013, but are restrict-ed to back streets of poor or middle class neighbourhoods, away from the eyes of the police in landmark squares and major thor-oughfares.

In the Mediterranean port city of Alexan-dria, police dismantled two bombs and ar-rested 15 people when they dispersed small protests by Brotherhood loyalists, according to the official MENA news agency.

In the October 6 suburb of Cairo, police killed two suspected militants in a raid. Ex-plosives and firearms were found in the raid-ed apartment, MENA reported. Later, in Bani Suef province south of Cairo, police shot and killed a suspected militant when he tried to storm a checkpoint.

The crackdown under el-Sissi has forced many who took part in the 2011 uprising, along with hundreds of Morsi supporters, to flee Egypt or abandon political activism alto-gether.

In a lone act of defiance, prominent ac-tivist Sanaa Seif retraced the steps of one of

the largest demonstrations on the uprising’s first day, walking alone on a wet and cold day from Mohandiseen in Giza and across a Nile bridge to Tahrir. The back of her sweater bore the words: “It’s still the January Revo-lution.” Seif, in her early 20s, was pardoned in September by el-Sissi after spending more than a year in prison for violating a law that effectively bans demonstrations.

The activists, demonized by the pro-el-Sissi media as foreign agents, had said they would not take to the streets to commemorate the occasion, arguing it would only increase the number of “martyrs” and detainees.

The Muslim Brotherhood had called for protests, but it is so decimated by the crack-down that it has been unable to rally large numbers.

“Why did we not take to the streets today? It’s simple, the regime is such a failure, it’s falling on its own,” prominent blogger and activist Wael Abbas wrote on Facebook.

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ahead of the anniversary, with a new wave of arrests and security checks downtown, where cafes and art galleries are popular with pro-democracy activists.

Security forces were deployed at police stations, security offices and other vital in-stallations. Riot police backed by armoured vehicles stood ready around Tahrir Square and outside the nearby Nile-side headquar-ters of state television. Streets leading to key government buildings were sealed off.

El-Sissi’s government has curbed free-doms and allowed the nation’s police force to return to some of their Mubarak-era prac-tices, including torture, random arrests and, more recently, forced disappearances.

A recently elected parliament, packed with el-Sissi supporters, is unlikely to chal-lenge his policies. For his part, el-Sissi has been struggling to revive the economy and contain a burgeoning insurgency by Islamic militants whose attacks have become much more frequent and deadly since Morsi was ousted.


Egyptian Central Security Forces gather around an armored vehicle in the Cairo neighborhood of Al-Haram, on Monday, the 5 year anniversary of the 2011 uprising. The heavy security was used to deter violence which has marred the anniversary in prior years.

U.S. East Coast digs out after snowstormBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — U.S. East Coast residents clobbered by the week-end blizzard trudged into the workweek Monday amid slip-pery roads, spotty transit service and mounds of snow that buried cars and blocked sidewalks after some cities got an entire winter’s snow in two days.

For others, the weekend ex-tended into Monday because of closed schools and government offices. The storm dropped snow from the Gulf Coast to New En-gland, with near-record snow-falls tallied from Washington, D.C. to New York City. At least 37 people have died as a result of the storm the deaths occurred in car accidents, from carbon mon-oxide poisoning, and from heart attacks while shovelling snow.

In Brooklyn, only one teach-er at the Bedford-Stuyvesant New Beginnings Charter School called out, despite more than two feet (60 centimetres) of snow in New York City.

“A lot of teachers are taking the train instead of driving,” said Wanda Morales, director of operations at the school, as she stood outside while maintenance workers spread salt and parents dropped off their children.

Amtrak operated a reduced number of trains on all its routes, serving many people who couldn’t get around otherwise, spokesman Marc Magliari said. Bus and rail service was expect-

ed to be limited around the re-gion into Monday.

Flying remained particularly messy after airlines cancelled nearly 12,000 weekend flights and hundreds more Monday. Air-ports resumed limited service in New York City, Baltimore, Phil-adelphia and in the Washington area. But delays reverberated around the country, with more than 2,500 flights delayed or can-celled Monday.

Airports resumed limited ser-vice in New York City, Baltimore,

and Philadelphia, which said it got an entire winter’s snow in two days. In the Washington area, Reagan National Airport tweeted that it saw its first flights Monday, and Dulles Internation-al Airport expected to resume flights late in the day

The snow began Friday, and the last flakes fell just before midnight Saturday. In its after-math, crews raced all day Sunday to clear streets and sidewalks de-void of their usual bustle.

But one day wasn’t enough to

clear many roads.Cars parked in neighbour-

hoods were encased in snow, some of it pushed from the streets by plows. Sidewalk en-trances were blocked by mounds of snow.

New York Mayor Bill de Bla-sio encouraged people to leave their plowed-in cars all week. Some didn’t have a choice plows clearing streets buried cars un-der a mound of ice and snow.

Broadway reopened after going dark at the last minute during the snowstorm, but muse-ums remained closed in Wash-ington, and the U.S. House of Representatives postponed votes until February, citing the storm’s impact on travel.

Overall snowfall of 26.8 inches (68 centimetres) in Central Park made it New York’s second big-gest winter storm since records began in 1869, and Saturday’s 26.6 inches (67.6 centimetres) made for a single-day record in the city.

Washington’s records were less clear. The official three-day total of 17.8 inches (45 cen-timetres) measured at Reagan National Airport was impossibly short of accumulations recorded elsewhere in the city. An official total of 22.4 inches (56.9 centime-tres) landed at the National Zoo, for example.

The zoo remained closed through Monday but a video of its giant panda Tian Tian mak-ing snow angels got more than 54 million views.


A plow truck and a pickup truck try to squeeze through a snowy side street in Towson, Md., Monday. East coast residents continued to dig themselves out after a massive weekend snowstorm.

EU police warn that more attacks by IS militants likelyBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PARIS — Europe’s top police agency is-sued a stark warning Monday: Islamic State extremists will keep attempting lethal at-tacks on soft targets in Europe as the militant group increasingly goes global.

Some 2 ½ months after suicide bombers and gunmen killed 130 people in Paris, the Europol agency said, “there is every reason to expect that IS, IS-inspired terrorists or another religiously inspired terrorist group will undertake a terrorist attack somewhere in Europe again, but particularly in France, intended to cause mass casualties among the civilian population.”

The sobering conclusions reached by ex-perts from the European Union’s chief agen-cy for law enforcement co-operation and EU member states make clear that many, per-haps virtually all in Europe, may be at risk.

“Without reliable intelligence on the in-tentions, activities and contacts and travels of known terrorists it is nearly impossible to exactly predict when and where the next ter-rorist attack will take place, and what form it will take,” the Europol report said.

Hours before the report was issued, a new video was released by the Islamic State group celebrating the killers who carried out the Nov. 13 attacks in the French capital — while also threatening fresh bloodshed.

The grisly recording ends with one mili-

tant holding a severed head, footage of Brit-ish Prime Minister David Cameron giving a speech, and an IS warning that whoever stands with the unbelievers “will be a target for our swords.”

The 17-minute video, released Sunday, shows the extent of the planning that went into the multiple attacks in Paris, which French authorities have said from the be-ginning were planned in Syria. All nine men seen in the video died in the Paris attacks or their aftermath.

All but two of the attackers were from Bel-gium and France and spoke fluent French. The two others — identified by their noms de guerre as Iraqis — spoke in Arabic.

Seven of the militants, including a 20-year-old who was the youngest of the group, were shown standing behind bound captives, de-scribed as “apostates,” who were either be-headed or shot.

The Nov. 13 attacks targeted a packed con-cert hall, a restaurant and cafe, and a soccer match at the French national stadium. The video glorifying the Kalashnikov-wielding gunmen and suicide bombers responsible for that carnage was probably also meant as a recruitment tool.

French Interior Minister Bernard Ca-zeneuve said Monday’s Europol report did not go markedly beyond previous warnings and was not intended to sow fear but “to look lucidly at reality.”

Gilles Kepel, a political scientist who

wrote “Terrorism in France,” said even if Islamic State extremists carry out new at-tacks in Europe, the video shows the group is increasingly desperate and likely on the wane — in part because of the indiscriminate killings Nov. 13.

“They emphasize their ability to be cruel, to kill all their opponents and to terrorize everyone. But what is very striking is that I do not believe that they will have a signifi-cant amount of new sympathizers after those videos,” he said. “I believe that it’s not really a display of strength. It’s rather a display of weakness. Terrorism has its political econ-omy of sorts. You have to terrorize people. On the one hand, you have to spread terror, but at the same time you have to gather sym-pathizers. If you’re not able to have the two going together, then the model fails.”

But releasing the video draws attention anew to attacks that terrorized central Paris and shows the group’s ability to turn Europe-ans against their homelands in a relatively short time, said Magnus Ranstorp, a coun-terterrorism expert at the Swedish National Defence College.

Expert reviews conducted by Europol on Nov. 29 and Dec. 1 concluded that the Islamic State “is preparing more terrorist attacks,” including copycats of the so-called Mum-bai method of co-ordinated bombings and shootings by multiple teams of assailants that claimed 164 lives in India’s financial capital in November 2008.

Tuesday, Jan. 26CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS

DATE: Wayne Gretzky, 54; Eddie Van Halen, 60; Ellen DeGeneres, 57

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The stars favour being practi-cal, pragmatic and productive.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Active and driven, it’s hard for you to relax and wind down. 2016 is the year to enjoy travelling — but also make the most of your time at home.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Have you been insensi-tive? When it comes to a friend or colleague, take the time to walk a mile in their shoes. Then you’ll have some small understanding of what they’re going through.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’re frustrated by some people’s lack of com-mitment and motivation, but today’s not the time to push buttons. Make connections with friends who focus on solutions — and stay pos-itive.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Mercury — your ruling planet — is now direct. So all forms of communication should start to improve. Time to express yourself and verbalize your feelings in direct and honest ways.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Nurture loved ones but don’t smother them Crabs — allow other people plenty of room to express them-selves. A family member looks to you for fresh ideas and creative inspiration.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your domestic situation is in a state of flux and so the more adaptable you are, the better the end result will be. Visualize ideas in your mind before you launch them in the outside world.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): With Mercury moving forwards in your creativity zone, make sure you cap-italize on your creative tal-

ents. The more energy and enthusiasm you put into projects, the more you’ll re-

ceive in return.LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

It’s time to spring into action at home and tackle chores you’ve been putting off. Mer-cury is now direct, which gives you an energy boost and puts you in the mood to get things done.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Strive to work hard to-day, especially on projects that stimulate your mind and stir your emotions. You’re also keen to talk about your feelings, but strive to do so in a tactful way.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Get ready to take

care of business, as your ruler Jupiter travels through your career zone. From now until Sept. 9 is the time to power

through projects with extra energy and enthusiasm.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The Sun shines light on a financial problem and helps you see things from a fresh perspective. Some single Capricorns wills become involved in a complicated love affair. Tread carefully.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re keen to take action at work but — with Mars in your career zone — don’t jump in and be too impulsive. Tune into your inner

voice; it will lead you in the direction that’s right for you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Avoid being a floundering Fish or a procrastinat-ing Piscean today! The stars encourage you to decide what you want — and then go after it with plenty of passion and per-sistence.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an inter-nationally syndicated astrologer and col-umnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Dear Annie: I’d like to know if this is considered spousal abuse. A young couple become born-a g a i n C h r i s -tians. The hus-band decides he wants to go back to school to be-come a minister. He quits his cor-porate job and moves his fam-ily out of state. His wife sup-ports him and the children for four years as best she can. He graduates and “just can’t find the right job.” He volunteers two days a week counseling people.

In the meantime, they are barely getting by. They don’t have enough money to send the kids to college, and they can’t afford their daughter’s wed-

ding. The husband has decided not to get a paying job because he’s do-ing “God’s work.” He sleeps late every day and spends hours on the computer writing religious blog posts. His wife works full time and does the cleaning, shopping and all household chores.

I think this is emotional abuse. What do you think? — Concerned Rel-ative

Dear Relative: We think this is not your business.

When couples make decisions about who brings in the money, it’s between the two of them.

Even if his wife doesn’t like it and is unhappy, that doesn’t necessarily mean it is abusive. Only unequal and frustrating.

Every marriage is different. What is intolerable to you may be manageable for her.

We agree it would be worrisome if she feels trapped and unable to change her situation, but you do not indicate that this is the case. There are scholarships, grants and loans avail-

able for state and community colleges, and a wedding can be punch and cake in the backyard. Please don’t project your feelings onto her. She may think her marriage is perfectly fine. If you are a close family member, talk to her. Ask how she’s doing.

See what the situation is. If you believe counseling is needed,

she may be amenable to discussing things with her clergyperson.

And if she gives you the impres-sion that her husband is controlling all the money or her access to fami-ly members and friends, please urge her to call the National Domestic Violence Hotline (thehotline.org) at 1-800-799-SAFE.

Dear Annie: What do I say to people who tell me to smile? The reason I don’t like to smile is because my smile is ugly and I look horrible — like I’m making a face. How do I get them to stop? — A Daily Reader

Dear Reader: Well, you could gri-mace and then maybe they’d stop ask-ing, but here’s a different suggestion:

If you are embarrassed by your smile, see if something can be fixed.

Often, it is as simple as seeing a dentist, or practicing in front of a mir-ror until you can manage something natural. It’s also possible that you think you have a terrible smile when, in fact, no one else is bothered by it.

Folks who are ashamed of or con-cerned about their smiles are often self-conscious to the point where it interferes with their social life.

This puts you at a tremendous dis-advantage.

There is no shame in making your life better. Please see what can be do-ne.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime ed-itors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mail-box, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Face-book.com/AskAnnies.

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One auto supplier is taking the term “ready to wear” to a whole new level.

Inteva Products commissioned a fashion designer to produce four gowns using the same thermoplastic material the maker of engineered components and systems places in the instrument panel surfaces of some General Motors vehicles.

The results were on display during a recent pop-up fashion show at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

Four models outfitted with formal dresses made from Inteva’s Inteather strutted along a carpeted area at the show..

They passed by dumbfounded auto show attendees as well as the GMC Yukon and Sierra, both of which feature instrument panel surfaces made of the thermoplastic olefin material.

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In this age of “peak TV,” when hundreds of intricate and high-qual-ity shows must fight for survival, the success of a milquetoast show like House Hunters barely makes sense: The proudly formulaic HGTV series fol-lows random homebuyers as they pat down laminate countertops and calmly discuss closet space.

But to the astonishment of rival net-works, House Hunters remains one of the most unlikely and unstoppable jug-gernauts on TV. The show last year aired a staggering 447 new episodes — far more than the typical 12-to-22-epi-sode cable season — and helped HGTV become one of the most-watched cable networks in America.

House Hunters serves as a fascinat-ing counter-example to some of the TV business’ biggest anxieties, includ-ing the growing costs and competition of scripted dramas and the rise of “cord-cutters” moving their viewing online. House Hunters producers spend next to nothing on stars or storylines, do little to groom an Internet audience — and still consistently attract 25 mil-lion viewers every month.

“It’s happy television. It’s so safe. It’s like an old sweater,” said Terri Murray, the executive producer of House Hunters and its vast array of specials and spin-offs. “You can walk away from it because the storyline is so simple, the structure is so repeti-tive, that you can come back and al-ready knows what’s missing.”

At 17 years old — more than a life-time in cable years — House Hunters has defied TV gravity, and network executives liken its cost, simplicity and timelessness to their version of Wheel of Fortune or the nightly news.

The franchise, which aired 26 episodes in 1999, has since exploded, airing an average of 406 episodes a year since the start of 2012.

The show’s simple structure — shoppers tour three potential homes, then decide on their favorite — is bra-zenly paint-by-number: Murray called it “so formatted it’s kind of a no-brain-er” to make. The blog PopSugar in No-vember compiled a list of 24 things that happen every episode,” from “A Buyer Says ‘Wow!’ in an Entryway” to “Retro Details Are Identified and Scorned.”

But the show’s special blend of “property voyeurism,” as network ex-ecutives call it, has allowed for the creation of about 20 specials and spin-offs, including Tiny House Hunters, House Hunters Off the Grid and House-boat Hunters. Tweaks to the formula have been minimal and rare: House Hunters Pop’d, which first aired in 2014, is the same show but with trivia, popping onscreen.

So what keeps viewers so thorough-ly addicted? It has game elements; it’s family-friendly; and it features ran-dom strangers virtually guaranteed to charm, surprise or annoy. Allison Page, the general manager of HGTV at Scripps Networks Interactive, the media giant that also owns the Food Network, calls it TV “comfort food”: An easy way to enjoy the otherwise baffling and convoluted business of buying a home.

“It boils down what is a stressful and dramatic experience in real life,” Page said, “to a satisfying, entertaining half-hour of television with a guaran-teed resolution, every night.”

House Hunters’ tidy storytelling may help explain why it thrived as Amer-ica’s broader housing economy col-lapsed. Viewership was strong during the housing bubble of the mid-2000s,

when easy credit allowed pretty much everyone to buy a home.

But the show really took off as mass foreclosures and the rise of renting dropped American homeownership to a 50-year low. The annual count of new House Hunters episodes tripled between the peak of the bubble, in 2005, and the Great Recession’s official end, in 2009.

That booming growth has forced producers to build an unprecedent-ed show-making machine. There are never fewer than 15 camera crews out shooting a new episode at any given time across the United States. An-other 25 teams of directors, camera chiefs, sound technicians and local fixers span the world for the show’s globe-trotting spin-off, House Hunters International.

The average episode is filmed in three days, and costs a small fraction of the $2 to $4 million spent on the typ-ical hour-long TV drama. The shows are edited to have few gaps between the end of one show and the start of the next, and episodes often run back-to-back in long stacks or marathons, designed to keep viewers glued to the TV for hours at a time.

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When WWE wrestlers stop beating each other with kendo sticks, plowing each other through tables or deliver-ing chair shots to the back, they take a moment to deliver a simple, if para-doxical, message.

Don’t be a bully.Fresh off the company’s Royal

Rumble event, the WWE announced Monday a multiyear national partner-ship with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. The new partnership focuses on bullying prevention efforts around Be a STAR, WWE’s anti-bullying ini-tiative, and its mission to encourage young people to treat each other with respect through education and grass-roots initiatives.

“This is not entertainment, this is real life,” WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon said. “We’re deal-ing with a real situation that needs to be addressed and it’s going to take all of us to change it and put an end to bullying.”

WWE and BGCA hosted Be a STAR anti-bullying with McMahon, Boys and Girls Clubs of America Vice-President of Marketing Frank Sanchez and WWE stars Monday at the Hank Kline Boys and Girls Club in Miami.

“It’s at these rallies where the su-perstars show their humanity,” San-chez said. “They share with these kids how at one point they were just one of them, and many of them had been bul-lied as young people.”

Since 2011, WWE has held more than 100 anti-bullying rallies and Be a STAR’s resources and programs have reached more than 300,000 children globally. WWE also will donate money to support BGCA and the 4,500 clubs across the United States.

WWE’s anti-bullying program pro-vides information resources for kids, parents and educators, all of whom may be primed to intervene when a bully strikes, but may not always know the best way to take action.

WWE stars try to make the point to young kids that the fighting and trash-talking in the ring is entertainment — thus, World Wrestling Entertainment — and should not be emulated in class-rooms and playgrounds.

“The question comes up all the time, well, we saw such-and-such beat up guys, do they not really like each other,” wrestler Titus O’Neil said. “I tell them that we’re playing characters on television much like movie stars play characters in movies. But in real life, we really get along like brothers and sisters and we’re family.”

WWE supports a variety of social causes, including Susan G. Komen and Make-A-Wish. WWE great John Ce-na was the first celebrity to grant 500 wishes in Make-A-Wish Foundation history.

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House hunters Jake and Brianna and real estate agent Amanda Tahayori tour a home in Portland, Ore., on ‘House Hunters.’ ‘House Hunters’ remains one of the most unlikely and unstoppable juggernauts on TV.

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Burton Cummings’s solo work gets Canadian Hall of Fame nod


Burton Cummings is headed to the Canadian Music Hall of Fame — again.

The Canadian Academy of Record-ing Arts and Sciences says the front-man for the Guess Who will be the first artist to have his name added to the Hall of Fame’s new home at the Na-tional Music Centre in Calgary on April 1.

Cummings will also be honoured with a tribute during the Juno Awards on April 3.

Cummings and the oth-er members of the Guess Who were previously in-ducted into the Canadi-an Music Hall of Fame in 1987.

Cummings left the band in 1976 to launch a solo career, which spawned a series of hits including Stand Tall, You Saved My Soul and I’m Scared.

The singer is also a five-time Juno winner and

holds the record for hosting the cere-mony four times.

“I wish my mother had lived long enough to see this. She would have been over the moon about it. I’ve re-ceived many acknowledgments through the decades, but truthfully, I cannot say that any of them outweighs this one,” Cummings said in a state-ment.

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“We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.”

– Brian Tracy, best-selling American author and motivator

“You’re in a room,” I begin. “A small room and the only furniture is a table with two wooden chairs. In the cen-tre of the table is a large piece of plate glass separat-ing the two halves – almost like a window you must look through to see the person seated in the other chair.”

I will sometimes use hyp-nosis in my self-esteem ses-sions to help clients break through emotional barriers. In this particular session, I asked a male client to vi-sualize his wife, whom he’d been having difficulty com-municating with, seated in the empty chair across from him.

“I see her,” he exclaims. “She’s seated across from me now wearing a blue dress.”

“Now look down,” I direct, “and you’ll see a wax pencil on the table – the type the deli uses when they wrap up cold cuts. Your wife is there now and she’s looking straight at you. As you pick up the pencil, you feel compelled to write or draw something important on the glass.”

“I’m drawing a smile on my wife’s face – she doesn’t smile much any-more.”

“Are there things you’d like to say to her? If so, write them on the glass.”

“Yes, there are both words and phrases like be happy, less critical, af-fectionate, less demanding and more understanding. I write, ‘Say that you love and appreciate me more often.’”

“Is she doing anything while you’re writing these words on the glass?”

“She’s writing something, too. Wait. She’s finished. She’s walking away now.”

“In your mind, get up and walk around to her side of the table. What do you see?”

“Words,” he replies and then his lip begins to tremble. “Be happy, less crit-ical, affectionate, less demanding and more understanding. Say that you love and appreciate me more often.”

I chose to share this dialogue (with permission) because I think it speaks volumes about the unvoiced expecta-tions that we place upon the people in our lives, especially life partners. Too many of us believe that in order feel happy or satisfied, we need the people in our lives to be a certain way and we become frustrated by their seeming un-willingness to comply.

In relationships, frustration can arise from what I term “unavowed ex-pectations.” These are expectations that have been set forth yet never expressed or, if expressed, never af-firmed.

How often have you figuratively written an expectation for someone without discussing that ex-pectation with the person or considering whether it’s realistic or even desir-able?

We’re not mind-read-ers, though our actions often suggest that we be-lieve otherwise. If you’re in the habit of creating un-avowed expectations, then you’re probably in the habit of making false as-sumptions about why oth-ers respond to you in the manner they do.

Awareness – a principal component to building and

maintaining high self-esteem – is born out of a desire to bring clarity and a sense of purpose to all of our interac-tions. Clarity takes courage and a will-ingness to break the assumption cycle and to speak up. When we learn to be open and honest with ourselves, it’s

easier to be open and honest with everyone else.

You may be holding in mind an idealized image of your partner – who he or she should or could be if only he or she would act in accor-dance with your wants and needs. Have you ever con-trasted your partner’s words or behaviour against this image and found him or her lacking?

Too many of us believe that in order to feel happy or satisfied, we need the people in our lives to act a certain way, and we become frustrated by their seeming

unwillingness to comply.Think about your relationships for

a moment: the ones you have at work, the ones enjoyed with friends and, in particular, the relationship with your life partner. Can you remember a time when you felt especially disappointed or frustrated – when your partner failed to deliver in a manner you expected or required? Was there clarity around the issue? Did you express in clear and certain terms your expectations and re-ceive a confirmation of understanding in return?

Clarifying expectations is an ongoing process.

If you’re constantly experiencing frustration or resentment in your re-lationships then ask yourself whether you, your partner, or the other individ-uals involved in the relationship have ever clarified the expectations.

In reality, it is not the individuals but often our own unfulfilled expecta-tions of them that create stress and re-sentment. Elliott Larsen, the civil rights activist, echoed this thought when he wrote, “Anger always comes from frus-trated expectations.”

Are you feeling frustrated or stymied in your relationships? Ask yourself whether you’ve clarified your expecta-tions. If you haven’t, ask yourself why not.

With a little open and honest dia-logue, you may find your partner ex-pects the same things that you expect. You may also find that behind the glass, free of your wants and needs, is the per-son you’re hoping to find.

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His most recent book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Fac-tors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca

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The siblings sit quietly, saying noth-ing much at all.

“It’s your birthday, Sunday,” my sis-ter said to her much older brother, as she adjusted the blanket around his frail shoul-ders.

He said noth-ing, only looked at her for a long time, his pale blue eyes locked on hers.

“ P l a y e r s Plain,” he final-ly said with a chuckle, mean-ing, of course, “buy me a pack-age of smokes and it will all be good.”

I laugh when she tells me that story. Years ago, my brother who is our oldest sibling, served in the Canadian Armed Forces. He was a handsome young man with a disarming grin and a soft gen-

tleness about him, a kind of innocence like a kid might have before harsh real-ity steals it away.

When I was a kid, myself, I loved my brother, but not really the man, just the concept of him. To me, he was the guy who sent presents. I had no idea where they came from, nor did I care much. I specifically remember a beautiful em-broidered silk bedspread from Korea, (unfortunately, the cat bore a litre of kittens on it and it never really was the same) and a beautiful jewelry box inlaid with Mother of Pearl from China.

So in my little mind, my brother and Santa kind of got all mixed up.

Anyway, it was my brother’s 83rd birthday, Sunday.

His birthday party was a small, but tastefully elegant affair, held at his new home in Michener Extended Care.

The guests were few, but each distin-guished in their own right.

First of all was my brother’s wife, his first lady. He is crazy in love with his wife, and her presence makes him all happy and when he sees her his face is wreathed in smiles.

He loves her like a love story.And then there was the rest of us,

all crowding around the little dining room in the main floor of the nursing home. His wife’s daughter who has ad-opted him as her own father, his sisters, brothers-in-law, great nieces, nephews, and bless her heart, one special nine-year-old little great niece.

Prompted by her mom, she shyly pre-sented him a homemade birthday card which she had, no doubt, laboured over intensely.

Me, being her grandma, was bursting with pride at her actions and wanted to immediately smother her slightly blushing ponytailed self with kisses, but I refrained, being I would probably embarrass her even more than she was already.

“Happy birthday, she wrote. The misspelling of his name reminding me of the letters I used to write to him when I was about her age. Who knew the name ‘Horace’ was not spelled the same as the animal ‘Horse”.

So there was cake and cupcakes and coffee and lots of cards. There was

chatter and hugs and reminiscing and smiles. It was a quiet and gentle Jan-uary afternoon and I would like to be-lieve all of us in that room were visited by an unseen presence that hovered over us all.

Love. It would have to be love. Finally, my brother was wheeled

back to his room, but not before he went out for a smoke with the guys, all of them braced against the cold chill of the January wind. Finally, we all went home and ate the leftover cupcakes.

Later my sister phoned and we talk-ed over the party.

“I think he was surprised,” she said. “I don’t think he had a clue.”

Of course, I couldn’t see her pleased smile being we were on the phone and all. But, I’m sure she was! Smiling, that is!

Treena Mielke lives in Sylvan Lake and is editor of the Rimbey Review. She has been a journalist and columnist for more than 25 years. Treena is married to Pe-ter and they have three children and six grandchildren.

So I just realized I haven’t told you about our house selling experience. By now we will have already went through the process of moving into our new home, but you will have to wait a little longer to hear about that I’m afraid.

If you’ve ev-er sold your house while living in it I applaud you. If you’ve ever sold your house while l iving in it with two small children I’d like to give you a standing ovation.

When we de-cided to put our home on the market I defi-nitely under-estimated the process of sell-ing. It didn’t occur to me that the stag-ing and appearance of the place would be such a big deal. I didn’t realize how emotional it would be for our family. And I certainly did not foresee myself becoming a raving lunatic over it all.

I’ve decided to compile a record of exactly how we got through this ten-tative real estate adventure; for your reading enjoyment of course.

First of all I had to learn to keep my expectations in check. Ones imagina-tion can most certainly get the better of them in this situation.

At times I found myself daydreaming of completely unrealistic situations.

This later resulted in massive mel-ancholy when realizing that all of my hopes and dreams were completely in-flated.

No the house will not sell the first day on the market.

And no there will probably not be a real estate war over my humble abode allowing us to receive thousands of dollars more than what was expected. These sentences eventually became my daily mantra to assure I didn’t get car-ried away when thinking about the sale of the house.

Once all of the unrealistic expecta-tions were out of the way I prepared the troops for what was next.

The pressure was on and for what was to be an undetermined amount of time our entire world revolved around these three words, “staging the house”.

There were many times (in reality it was twice) when the real estate agent called asking if we could swing a show-ing in an hour.

And of course we said, “Let’s do it!” Complete with fake smiles and desper-ate hopefulness in the pit of our stom-achs.

So there I was forcing the children to sit in the middle of the kitchen floor

assuring their grubby hands were not in arms reach of soiling anything im-portant while I frantically spit shined everything in sight.

I was actually spitting on stuff to shine it up.

I had reached a new low.Once, I forgot to tell Jamie we had

a showing which left my poor husband thrown for a complete loop when he walked in the door after work and I be-gan madly screaming a cleaning list in his general direction.

Meanwhile the kids once again were plopped on the floor and not moving a muscle—perhaps in fear I may actually eat them during my seemingly psychot-ic breakdown. Then came the emotion-al rollercoaster (as if I hadn’t already been riding it).

Ultimately I found myself in a near depression because it had been five whole days and no one had shown any interest in the house. Then BAM just like that our real estate agent called with an offer.

I was elated! Ecstatic! Overjoyed at our unbelievably good fortune! In the next breath however she told us it was under the asking price. Here we go again with the unrealistic expectations.

I felt as though I plummeted into a crater of self pity and repugnance for the real estate game.

However then she mentioned that we would begin negotiating the price and for a mere moment I felt uplifted…

But then came the negotiating.Let me just tell you negotiating is a

“B with an itch”. I’m not going to lie; I wanted to take the first offer that got thrown our way. It felt like every in-stinctual bone in my body was telling me to.

But in the corner of my logical intel-lect I knew this was the wrong thing to do. So instead Jamie and I countered.

Then we waited. It was the longest drawn out misery

of my life and I broke down into a heap of emotion more than once.

Nevertheless just as fast as it began, it was over.

Much like childbirth I feel that I must chose to mentally block the odi-ous experience of selling our home. One day (hopefully in the far far future) we will once again need to undergo this venture and to do so I ought to put these last few months as far from mind as possible.

And that my friend’s is how we made it out alive when selling our home. I think about where we are today and how much we have already accom-plished in this new place and it makes me swell with pride that we did it. It was difficult and at times almost ag-onizing, but in the end so definitely worth it.

Lindsay Brown is an Alberta mother of two and freelance columnist.

LINDSAY BROWN

ME PLUS THREE

An emotional rollercoaster

TREENA MIELKE

FAMILY

A surprise birthday party

Clarifying expectations

MURRAY FUHRER

EXTREME ESTEEM

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