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World War II aviation authors visit RDC

Three authors shared different perspectives with World War II aviation stories at Red Deer College on Friday.

Story on PAGE A7FORECAST ON A2

WEATHER A few flurries. High -16

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

The third time was a charm for the winner of this year’s Great Grocery Giveaway.

The grand prize — $3,000 in Central Alberta Co-op gift cards — was a welcome surprise for first-time finalist Susannah Burnett. She had entered the an-nual contest, put on by Central Alberta Co-op and the Red Deer Advocate, for the last three years with-out success until Saturday morning when the draw was made.

“It feels amazing, it feels great,” she said, all smiles and laughter following the draw at the Plaza Shopping Centre Co-op in Red Deer. “I’ve never won anything before.”

The long-time Co-op member and newspaper sub-scriber added she’ll have to wait until next week, though, to start putting the gift cards to use, having shopped on Friday for the 10 for $10 Mix and Match sale. Burnett qualified during the second week of the contest, which ran from Sept. 22 until Nov. 1, us-ing the entry forms published daily in the Advocate.

Entrants originally entered to win a grand prize of $1,500, but were told it would double if they were Advocate home delivered subscribers, and all top three winners were, confirmed by publisher Fred Gorman. Second and third place prizes handed out were $1,500 and $500 respectively.

A total of 12 finalists, all of which were required to attend the draw to be eligible for prizes, were given a re-usable bag filled with groceries as they were eliminated from grand prize contention. They had been previously awarded a $50 gift card — $100 if they were a newspaper subscriber — when they qualified.

Central Alberta Co-op has been operating for over 50 years in eight different communities in Central

Alberta. It has five food store locations, including one in Lacombe, Innisfail, Spruce View and two in Red Deer.

BY PAUL COWLEYADVOCATE STAFF

Agri-Trade Equipment Expo packed them once again this year.

One of the biggest events on the Alberta farming calendar.

A record 425 exhibitors — up from 385 last year — set up temporary shop at Westerner Park, where 360,000 square feet of indoor and 75,000 square feet of outdoor space was available.

“The show was fantastic,” said Agri-Trade man-ager Dianne Smirl.

“We had great weather co-operation and exhibi-tors were very pleased with the turnout of interested buyers at the show.”

Among newcomers to the show this year was Bran-don, Man.-based Precision Land Solutions.

Dan Aberhart, director of sales, said the event served as a “coming-out party” for the company, which is expanding west.

“We’re in a relatively new business so there was a lot of curiosity about what we do and our products. That drew a lot of people into our tent.”

Precision Land Solutions specializes in water management, from drainage to irrigation. It’s an add-on to the company’s contracting business installing tile drainage for farm fields.

The new side of the business involves providing producers with the hardware and software to pro-vide variable irrigation based on a detailed profile of the crop and land.

“Water is the single best effecter of yield out there,” said Aberhart, whose technology can be used on a wide range of equipment.

“There’s hardly a producer out there that doesn’t have some water management issues of one kind or another to be dealt with.”

Inside the Prairie Pavilion, Lacombe-based Farm-ersEdge was showing off its own high-tech approach to giving producers a competitive advantage.

The company uses sophisticated technology and soil sampling to create a precision harvest map cus-tomized to farm conditions. Farmers also receive on-farm and online support.

Grant McCormick, FarmersEdge hub manager, said it’s been a good show this year.

“We’ve made a ton of new contacts that we didn’t know before. So we’re very excited about what Agri-Trade has brought to the table,” said McCormick.

The company has been growing steadily since it started in 2007 and began exhibiting at Agri-Trade.

“We’ve grown as a company so we need these kinds of platforms to be able to talk to and communi-cate with growers on a broad base. Trade shows like Agri-Trade really help us do that.”

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“You’re going to Canada.”Those were the medic’s first words to Joe Bill as

he crouched over him tending his shattered ankle near Falaise in August 1944.

Five weeks after landing in Europe on D-Day-Plus-30, Bill’s fighting war was over.

A Red Deer boy, Bill enlisted in the army in April 1942. He was in such a hurry to join up, he fudged his age by two years.

As coincidence would have it, the doctor giving the physicals at the recruitment office in Camrose had delivered Bill when he was born in Vancouver. When Bill showed up he took one look at him and asked when he was born.

With a mixture of bravado and malarkey, Bill bluffed his way through.

“I said, ‘You should know. You delivered me in 1923 in Vancouver.’”

The ploy worked, and the lad whose birth certifi-cate read May 23, 1925, was in the army.

After a few months of training in Camrose and Petawawa, Ont., Bill and the other recruits made their way to Nova Scotia and sailed to Scotland in January 1943. A train trip later, he was in England and posted to the Calgary Highlanders.

Many months of training and exercises followed until the Allies were ready to launch their massive invasion of mainland Europe on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

While huge efforts had been made to keep the invasion day and its forces secret, everyone knew something big was brewing then. But it wasn’t until the morning of June 6, that Bill and his fellow sol-diers knew what had taken place just a few miles across the English Channel from their base in Folke-stone .

“We just woke up in the morning and they said they’ve landed in France.”

All shared the same thought.“‘We’re next,’ we said.”His group of Calgary Highlanders would be sent

over as reinforcements on July 6, and were immedi-ately in the thick of it.

While the invasion had been a big success, prog-ress ashore had been much slower than anticipated. Key landmarks that were to have been seized within a day or two of landing were still in German hands weeks later.

Being thrown into action was a test for the green soldiers.

“It was sort of confusing,” Bill recalls. Much of the action could be boiled down to “follow the leader.”

On the day he was wounded, Bill was part of a gun crew on a six-pounder anti-tank gun. He had been trained on the gun in Canada, but had later been converted to a rifleman.

It was Aug. 13, near the Falaise Gap, when 19-year-old Bill and his crew spotted a German vehicle tow-ing a multi-barrelled mortar.

This nasty weapon was dubbed the Moaning Min-nie by Allied troops because of the shrill howl of the rockets it launched.

“We got close to it and he saw us coming and he left,” recalls Bill. “We took off and went into an or-chard and set up our gun because we had seen him pull off.”

The two gun crews exchanged fire twice, diving for cover after each salvo. In the second exchange, a piece of shrapnel tore into Bills’ ankle, exposing the bone and leaving his foot dangling by shreds.

“I said, ‘I’ve been hit.” He didn’t feel much pain at the time, just numb-

ness, he says. The medics took him a first aid station, where he

was checked over and given a shot and transported to a hospital near the beach to await a hospital ship back to England.

While there, he woke up to find two injured Ger-man soldiers in beds on either side of him.

“I was scared,” recalls with a chuckle. “When I got there the doctors said they were going

to operate. They said they didn’t know if they would amputate or wait until I got to England.

“I said, ‘Wait until we get to England.’”

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Thousands of people made their way through the doors of Westerner Park this past weekend attending the annual Agri-Trade Equipment Expo.

Agri-Trade reaches Agri-Trade reaches new heightsnew heights

First time finalist wins Great Grocery Giveaway

‘Wait until we get to England’

WWII VET RECOUNTS BEING WOUNDED ON THE

BATTLEFIELD

Please see VET on Page A2

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Susannah Burnett, grand prize winner of the Great Grocery Giveaway, shows off her winnings- $3000 worth of Co-op gift cards.

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VET: Decision saved his foot

To this day, he’s sure that decision saved his foot. His ankle would mend, but is still missing a large chunk.

After a week waiting his turn, Bill was flown back to England and sent to a Colchester hospital to re-cover. Little did he know at the time his older broth-er, Dick, was in a convalescent hospital just down the road.

The brothers were two of five Bill boys and a sis-ter who would don a uniform in the war. All returned home. Dick had gone ashore on D-Day with the Sea-forth Highlanders and was wounded in the arm that day. He didn’t return to action, bringing his fighting career to an end after less than a day.

After being moved around to various hospitals, Joe Bill was put on a hospital ship in January 1945, and after a 10-day trip arrived in Halifax on Jan. 26. A three-day trip on a hospital train got him to Cal-gary where he had a month’s leave.

He was then sent to a veterans’ hospital in Victo-ria and wouldn’t come back to Alberta until June, where he underwent yet another operation. On July 26, 1945 he was released from the army.

Following the war, Bill saw the opportunity pre-sented by the province’s fledgling oilpatch. He start-ed Red Deer Power Tongs in 1958 before selling it and then forming Red Deer Oilfield Construction.

He was later a consultant with Murphy Oil, retir-ing in 1983. He and wife Elaine, whom he married in 1953, travelled extensively in retirement and live in Red Deer.

An out-of-the-blue recognition of his wartime ser-vice arrived in the mail only recently. Last month, Bill received a letter saying the French government wanted to honour him with a Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour, the country’s highest national honour.

Bill and other veterans received the honour as recognition for their role in liberating France.

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Calgary: today, 60% flurries. High -13. Low -17.

Olds, Sundre: today, a few flurries. High -13. Low -18.

Rocky, Nordegg : today, snow ending in the morning. High -14. Low -21.

Banff: today, flurries amount 2-4 cm. High -16. Low -19.

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Photo by PAUL COWLEY/Advocate staff

Joe Bill with a photo of his younger wartime self and his Legion of Honour bestowed upon him by France for his role in liberating that country.

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff

Aurelia McFarlane, 4, pins down her opponent, Jackson, in Junior Jiu Jitsu at the Heroes: Brock Myrol Memorial Martial Arts Tournament Saturday at Lindsay Thurber. Jiu Jitsu is one of the fastest growing combat sports in the world. The tournament was put on by Arashi-Do Martial Arts.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

A charity motorcade rolled across parts of south-ern Ontario on Sunday to collect money and toys for military children in the name of slain soldiers Na-than Cirillo and Patrice Vincent.

Organizer Randy Young with Friends of Veter-ans Canada says about 30 vehicles bearing Cana-dian flags made up the convoy, with small crowds of people at times clustered along highways or on over-passes to cheer them on. Young says that though the number of donations were less than he’d hoped for, he’s optimistic his charity will hit its goal of $100,000 by Christmas Eve. The donations from the Vincent-Cirillo “salute rally” will be given to kids living on military bases as a show of thanks for hardships such as changing schools and losing friends when their parents are transferred.

Young says the toys, including those bought with the money, are to be given out as Christmas presents addressed from Cirillo and Vincent, who were killed in separate incidents last month.

The ride started at CFB Trenton east of Toronto and headed to a Royal Canadian Legion branch in Hamilton.

“We want this to be a celebration of Vincent and Cirillo’s life,” he said by phone while travelling on a highway west of Toronto. “It’s kind of like an Irish wake without the booze. We’re proud of our soldiers and want to the world to know it.”

Young said his group’s second annual rally and toy drive aims to send a message of thanks to the youngsters — who feel the at-home stress of military life but get little recognition for the difficulties they can face.

“These military kids deserve it. They don’t ask for nothing, they move around this country, they move around the world, what do they ask from us? Noth-ing,” he said.

Charity convoy collects toys in name of Cirillo and Vincent

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A2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Nov. 10, 2014


WINNIPEG — Embattled Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger will face a party leadership vote at the pro-vincial NDP’s annual convention in March — the end result of an open revolt by high-profile caucus and party executive members.

Selinger’s press secretary, Sally Housser, said Sunday that Selinger made the offer to the party ex-ecutive via conference call a day earlier as a way to address a public split in the NDP that has included the resignation of five senior cabinet ministers.

Details of the vote had yet to be worked out, and Selinger refused interview requests Sunday. He told the Winnipeg Free Press Saturday night the leader-ship vote would allow his opponents to run against him.

“This will be a chance for... me to give voice to why I think I should be leader and anybody else that wishes to do that as well,” he told the newspaper.

Selinger appeared to have little choice in the mat-ter, given the number of people who oppose him, a political analyst said

“I think it’s action he had to take,” Paul Thomas, professor emeritus of political science at the Univer-sity of Manitoba, said Sunday.

Several caucus members and two people who sit on the party executive have openly called on Selinger to consider resigning in the week of con-tinued low polling numbers and controversy over an increase in the provincial sales tax last year.

Many caucus members and party officials have re-fused to say whether they support the premier. One party source told The Canadian Press last week that during a caucus retreat in September, half of the New Democrat members of the legislature wanted Selinger to step down.

Under the NDP constitution, Selinger could have faced a leadership review at the party’s convention even if he didn’t agree to one. A 2013 change to the party constitution allows for a vote on the leadership every year.

The NDP council, which meets next month and includes anti-Selinger members of the executive, can also force a leadership convention at any time.

The party’s 57 constituency associations can also force a leadership race by a majority vote.


New documents suggest that Canada’s last-minute decision to stretch its claim to the Arctic seabed all the way to the North Pole took federal bureaucrats just as off-guard as it did the rest of the world.

Hundreds of pages of records released under Ac-cess to Information legislation seem to show bureau-crats were as surprised as Canada’s allies when the Harper government announced it would delay its full submission under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to give it a chance to try and claim exclusive rights to the sea floor under the Pole.

Days before the Dec. 6, 2013, submission was due, records show Foreign Affairs lawyers were still sort-ing out the difference between the geographic, mag-netic and geomagnetic poles.

“There are apparently three North Poles,” reads a Nov. 21 email.

By that time, Canadian scientists had been work-ing for years to prepare their country’s bid for rights to the Arctic seafloor.

They had sailed on icebreakers, camped on sea ice and spent about $117 million painstakingly map-ping which parts of that area could be shown to be connected to Canada’s continental shelf.

Actual mapping was said to be complete in 2011. The submission had been widely expected to stop just short of the North Pole.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has not dis-puted published reports that Prime Minister Ste-phen Harper stepped in at the last minute to in-sist that the North Pole be included.

Harper has said in the past that his government is only concerned with getting the largest claim possible for Canada.

So when Canada made its official submission on Dec. 9, it said the Arctic component wasn’t com-plete and that it would eventually include data backing up a claim that would include the Pole.

The request from The Canadian Press for docu-ments related to that ap-plication generated, af-ter an eight-month wait, more than 500 pages of emails, documents, brief-ing notes and transcripts.

With the exception of material already public such as press releases, the material was heav-ily redacted. Most docu-ments include only the sender and the recipient, with the entire content of the message blanked out.

But enough informa-tion survived to suggest how last-minute the de-cision to try for the Pole was.

On Nov. 20, at 5:05 a.m., Foreign Affairs law-yers working on the con-tinental shelf issue were presented with a series of urgent questions from the minister’s office.

“(The minister) needs to know by 10 this morn-ing the following ...” reads the email, the rest of which is redacted.

There are a blizzard of emails in the following days between officials at the highest level of Cana-da’s Arctic seafloor map-ping program.

Old press releases about Santa Claus’s pur-ported Canadian citizen-ship were dredged up.

By Nov. 29, Baird’s office was demanding a complete list of everyone who had been previously consulted about the sub-mission. Five days later, talking points had been prepared for Baird to ex-plain the changes.

Urgent questions were being relayed from the Privy Council, the body

that provides advice and support to the prime min-ister. A media strategy was under development by Nov. 25. Eventually, someone remembered Canada’s allies.

“We will have to provide some info for our embas-sy in Denmark at some point,” reads a Dec. 4 note.

“The whole thing just reeks of amateurism,” said Michael Byers, an Arctic expert and professor of international law at the University of British Colum-bia.

“It sounds like the decision-makers had no idea as to the actual facts of the situation and were making up policy without any reference to international law or to decades of diplomatic practice on this issue.”

Byers, who argues that geography gives Denmark stronger rights the Pole and that any Canadian claim will disappear in negotiations, says the Harper gov-ernment’s move was seen internationally as playing to the home crowd.

“They all believe that this is entirely Canadian domestic politics and they are hoping that the pro-cess will get back on track after the next Canadian election,” said Byers, just back from meeting with Arctic diplomats and academics in Iceland.

“They’re hoping that even a Conservative govern-ment would put domestic politics aside and get back to the realities of international law and diplomacy.”

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C E N T R A L A L B E R T A ’ SD A I L Y N E W S P A P E R

The idea of a right to a healthy envi-ronment is getting traction at Canada’s highest political levels.

Federal Op-p o s i t i o n M P Linda Duncan recently intro-duced An Act to Establish a Canadian En-v i r o n m e n t a l Bill of Rights in Parliament. If it’s passed, our federal govern-ment will have a legal duty to protect Canadi-ans’ right to live in a healthy en-vironment.

I’m travelling across Canada with the David Suzuki Foundation’s Blue Dot Tour to encour-age people to work for recognition of such a right — locally, regionally and nationally. At the local level, the idea of recognizing citizens’ right to live in a healthy environment is already tak-ing hold. Richmond and Vancouver, B.C., The Pas, Man., and the Montreal

borough of Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie all recently passed municipal declara-tions recognizing this basic right.

Our ultimate goal is to have the right to a healthy environment recog-nized in the Constitution’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and a federal environmental bill of rights is a logi-cal precursor. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms itself was preceded by a federal statute, the Bill of Rights, enacted under Prime Minister John Diefenbaker’s Progressive Conserva-tive government in 1960.

This isn’t a partisan issue. It appeals to people across the political spectrum and has broad support among Canadi-ans. An earlier attempt to pass a Ca-nadian environmental bill of rights (also led by Linda Duncan) gained the support of MPs from various parties before its passage through Parliament was interrupted by the 2011 federal election. In France, conservative lead-er Jacques Chirac championed the idea of environmental rights during his presidency. After more than 70,000 French citizens attended public hear-ings, the Charter for the Environment was enacted in 2005 with support from all political parties.

I’ve seen so many positive chang-es in our legal systems and social safety net in my 78 years — includ-ing adoption of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982. My family was

incarcerated in the B.C. Interior dur-ing the Second World War, just for be-ing of Japanese descent, even though we were born and raised in Canada. Like other people of colour, my par-ents didn’t have the right to vote until 1948. First Nations people on reserves couldn’t vote until 1960. And women weren’t even considered “persons” un-der Canadian law until 1918, when they were given voting rights. Homosexual-ity was a crime punishable by prison until 1969! I’m convinced that legal recognition for environmental rights will be the next big change.

Progress is possible when enough people recognize its necessity and come together to make it happen. Pro-tecting our country and planet, our health and the future of our children and grandchildren is absolutely neces-sary. We can’t live and be well without clean air and water, nutritious food and the numerous services that diverse and vibrant natural environments pro-vide.

Even in Canada, where our spec-tacular nature and abundant water are sources of pride, we can no longer take these necessities for granted. More than 1,000 drinking-water advisories are in effect in Canada at any time, many of them in First Nations commu-nities. More than half of us live in ar-eas where air quality reaches danger-ous levels of toxicity. And from Grassy

Narrows and Sarnia’s Chemical Valley in Ontario to Fort Chipewyan, people are being poisoned because industrial interests and profits are prioritized over their right to live healthy lives.

It’s not about hindering industry; it’s about ensuring that companies operat-ing in Canada, as well as our govern-ments, maintain the highest standards and that human health and well-be-ing are always the priority. Evidence shows strong environmental protec-tion can benefit the economy by spur-ring innovation and competitiveness and reducing health-care costs. This is about giving all Canadians greater say in the democratic process and look-ing out for the long-term prosperity of Canada.

More than half the world’s nations already recognize environmental rights. It’s time for Canada to live up to its values and join this growing global movement.

There’s no date yet for a vote on Bill C-634, but its introduction has started a conversation among politicians in Ottawa. Let’s hope people from across the political spectrum will recognize the importance of ensuring that all Canadians have the right to a healthy environment.

Scientist, author and broadcaster Da-vid Suzuki wrote this column with Ian Hanington. Learn more at www.davidsu-zuki.org.

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SCIENCE

Does anyone speak for God?Despite my tendency to procrastinate, I would like

to respond to some fairly recent articles published by the Red Deer Advocate on the religion page, the first of which appeared Saturday, Aug. 16 entitled Wrestling with disaster, suicide and god. (Re. the lower case “g”: indicative that whoever wrote it did not as-cribe deity status to God, or a typo?)

The author of the article obviously does consider God deity, providing accurate defense of Him on many counts.

However, I found it devoid of any mention of the Bible, generally recognized as God’s Holy Spirit-In-spired Word and therefore worth paying attention to.

No reference was made to the free-will of man-kind, to whom God clearly gave dominion over the earth in Genesis 1.

Nor was there any reference to the information in Genesis 3 indicating that rather than being thankful to God for all the blessings they were free to enjoy in the Garden, Adam and Eve (to whom we are all ultimately related) immediately made use of their freedom of choice to disobey God, thus transferring dominion to Satan, later referred to in the Gospel of John 12:31 as “The Prince of this world.”

Sadly, man’s willful independence from God has exponentially increased under the influence of Sa-tan, and the world is increasingly reflecting it. God ultimately sent a remedy in the person of Jesus, and “Whosoever will may come,” but not recognizing that we will either be ruled by God or Satan, (largely be-cause of the latter’s deceptions), the tendency toward attempting to be our own ‘gods’ prevails!

God is not the author of evil disasters such as suicide and disease — Satan is. And his ability to de-ceive and remain hidden make our very evident God (nature reveals His presence every day) appear to be responsible for it all!

Satan will oppress to the point of torment, but if we turn toward God His Love will enable us to choose freedom.

Suicide, motivated by feelings of futility, worth-lessness and hopelessness, may be a way to escape the pain of dealing with Satan-oppressed living, more than a desire to die.

Many of today’s disasters are directly related to man’s love of money and rejection of God and family and community responsibilities, which have nega-tively affected our culture.

I won’t be the first to warn that money will do us absolutely no good if we carry on polluting the earth with garbage and plastic residue and continue the practice of fracking the earth’s structure to secure more oil. (A practice long suspected of precipitating earthquakes.)

Not to mention the ongoing destruction of many lives and families through abortion, divorce and dog-eat-dog lifestyle standards.

Don’t blame God. Part of our ‘dominion’ mandate is to carry out lives that are at the very least benign and at best beneficial to others.

God is Good. He created the world and all that is in it. To reject Him and His values will only ulti-mately bring about our own downfall.

Jeanette McKenzieRed Deer

Payout shows PCs haven’t learnedIt’s hard to be civil at times when you read what

goes on in politics.Former Alberta Health Services chief financial

officer Allaudin Merali listed as “terminated with-out cause” is a sick joke.

Have all our politicians and bureaucrats any mar-bles to operate with? Using public money on himself and spending lavishly should be enough to get any-one fired with cause.

I feel that this classification was given to Merali so he could get the $900,000 payout that he doesn’t deserve. Before this happened, what morons made up this crazy ridiculous contract?

Then Wildrose critic Heather Forsyth says it’s time to close the book on this chapter.

NO IT ISN’T!I agree that it’s time to move forward but also

time to go back to the decision of who hired this man when his record in Ontario was available.

It would also be nice to know who classified Mera-li as being “terminated without cause.”

Both of these yokels should be fired.Just look at that expense account: $370,000 in

questionable expenses. This man’s actions are a bunch of doggie doo doo and we are going to let him get away with it.

I thought when Jim Prentice came to be premier of Alberta, this nonsense would stop. Surprise, sur-prise— same old, same old. Just watch, Prentice may try to revive the Golden Palace and blame it on Ali-son Redford.

I know this suggestion won’t do much good, but I would like to see Albertans flood the Internet with their anger and the MLA with emails and faxes and keep the heat on until they get the message. Not just your local MLA but all Alberta MLAs. Send them the message over and over, and over along with com-ments on social media.

As I said earlier, same old same old — just buy a

bigger rug to sweep the dirt under it or get a cleaner to clean the existing one up.

We get what we vote for.A real disgruntled ex-Progressive Conservative

member, and no longer a member of any party.E.T. (Tom) Skoreyko

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OTTAWA — Government workers have cleared the National War Me-morial of the deep drifts of flowers, flags, stuffed animals — even a couple of cans of beer — in preparation for Tuesday’s nationally televised Remem-brance Day ceremony.

But the tributes keep coming.Sunday morning — less than 48

hours before the prime minister, Gov-ernor General, a member of the royal family, veterans, soldiers, mariners, airmen and nests of live TV crews were to descend on the monument — a mel-ancholy peace wrapped itself around the country’s memorial to those who fought and fight on its behalf.

More bouquets of flowers had been deposited overnight and during Sun-day morning, along with dozens of plastic poppies, and couple of small Canadian flags.

But it was the hockey stick, and a battered old football, left in tribute to Cpl. Nathan Cirillo that caused a catch in the throat for many visitors.

“I think it’s really cool how people put it there, to show how he’s Cana-dian, his interests and something per-sonal for him,” said Taylor Bourne, 13, of Ottawa, after silently observing the freshly sprouted display set against the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

The murder of two Canadian sol-diers on Canadian soil just two days apart late last month, one of them an honour guard standing sentry at the war memorial on Parliament’s door-step, has made the towering bronze and stone statue a point of pilgrimage.

It will also shine an intense national focus on Tuesday’s Nov. 11 ceremonies.

“It’s even more focused on not only the veterans but the army today that are still working,” said Bourne.

Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent was killed Oct. 20 in Quebec when he was run down by a car that police say was driven by a man with jihadist sympa-thies.

Two days later, Cpl. Cirillo was shot point blank while on guard duty at the war memorial. Cirillo died on the spot despite the heroic efforts of medically trained civilians who rushed to his aid.

His attacker, who the RCMP says harboured “ideological and political motives,” then set his sights on Parlia-ment Hill, where he died in a hail of gunfire inside the marble-floored hall under the Peace Tower.

“Certainly, it’s magnified the im-

portance of Remembrance Day,” said Kim Whalen of Tweed, Ont., moments after wiping away tears in front of the memorial.

She and her daughter Tara Whalen, of Kingston, Ont., had come to Ottawa to shop for the day.

“This is the most important part of the trip for us,” she said.

“It’s a reminder of what these peo-ple — all these people — do for us,” added Tara, nodding to include the heavily armed city police who now pa-trol the site since the deadly attack.

This year marks the centenary of the start of the First World War, the terri-ble industrial slaughter that prompted the first national day of remembrance.

Canadian war planes are once again deployed, this time to attack Islamic State militants in Iraq.

Poppy sales are up significantly, ac-cording to the Royal Canadian Legion, with more than 19 million sold com-pared to 18 million last year.

Princess Anne, whose grandfather King George VI originally dedicated the war memorial in 1939, will be on hand.

So will Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who is literally circumnavigat-ing the globe to appear at the National War Memorial.

Harper will fly back from a China visit just to be in Ottawa for the day, then immediately jet off to Australia for an international summit.

It may be the most emotionally packed Nov. 11 since 2002, when the deaths of four Canadian soldiers to friendly fire in Afghanistan were ham-mering home the true price of that combat mission.

Ruben Marques, a hockey fan in his 20s visiting from Toronto for Sunday night’s Leafs-Senators game, dropped by the memorial with a group of blue-clad buddies.

Marques said he doesn’t usually do much for Remembrance Day.

“You normally stay home, you watch all the commercials and all that Nov. 11 ’lest we forget’ type of thing. Until you come here and experience some-thing like this — something happened here,” said Marques, his voice trail-ing off. “We’ve been kind of sheltered from it.”

His friend John Moreira in a Leafs jacket jumps in: “It took something like this to open up our eyes.”

Others at the memorial on Sunday had a different emotion, focused on the attackers rather than their victims.

Homefront attacks sharpen focus on

Remembrance DayBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — Canada’s aid commu-nity is buzzing with speculation that the federal government may be poised to escalate its measures aimed at oth-erwise healthy people who had contact with Ebola patients overseas.

Aid agencies are cautioning against anything that would discourage people from travelling to Ebola-stricken West African countries, where medical per-sonnel and expertise are desperately needed to help contain and treat the deadly virus.

No announcement has been made, but multiple sources have told The Ca-nadian Press that the government has been giving serious thought to adopting guidelines similar to those announced by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

At this week’s annual meeting of the Canadian Network for Maternal, New-born and Child Health, the rumour mill was churning that Ottawa is con-sidering putting additional measures in place.

Precisely what those measures en-tail remains unclear. Talk at the meet-ing ranged from mandatory quaran-tines similar to those adopted by some U.S. states to a more modest regimen of monitoring — with the possibility of further restrictions on people’s move-ment — in line with the CDC’s guide-lines.

“These are the best and the bright-est minds in Canada on how to get on top of this, how to train effectively, how to do community mobilization on prevention,” Plan Canada head Rose-mary McCarney said in an interview.

“Any number of them said, ’I would like to go, but I can’t be locked in a quarantine that will take me through Christmas ... and I would be worried if our government decided that one of its response measures was to enforce a quarantine on people returning who may not have had any contact with Eb-ola.”’

The minister’s office has yet to com-ment on any new measures.

So far, all travellers returning to Canada from the three affected West

African countries — Guinea, Sierra Le-one and Liberia — have been referred to a quarantine officer from the Public Health Agency of Canada who checks them at the airport for fever and de-termines if any more steps need to be taken.

In the U.S., the CDC has established a tiered system that treats people dif-ferently based on how likely it is that they have been exposed to Ebola.

Anyone who has been to a country with a widespread Ebola outbreak and has treated a patient while wearing the proper protective gear, but who shows no signs of illness themselves, is considered to be at “some risk.” Most health workers who have been to an Ebola-stricken country likely fall into that category. The CDC recommends “direct active monitoring” in such cas-es. That essentially means a public health official visits once a day to take the person’s temperature and check them for any Ebola-like symptoms. The person may also have to check in by telephone at another point in the same day. Public health authorities can also go even further and restrict a person’s movement by ordering them to keep off public transit, avoid crowds and stay home from work.

Epidemiologists, contact tracers, airport screeners and laboratory work-ers are among those who would be in the “low (but non-zero) risk” category. The CDC does not recommend move-ment restrictions in such cases, but it does require people to check in daily by phone to report their temperature and any symptoms. A growing num-ber of U.S. states have gone even fur-ther and are now enforcing mandatory quarantines on travellers who have had any contact with Ebola patients in West Africa. Politics is almost surely at play. A recent poll by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal suggested more than seven in 10 Americans sup-port mandatory quarantines for health workers who have treated Ebola pa-tients in West Africa, even if they have no symptoms.

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Carolyn Martindale, City Editor, 403-314-4326 Fax 403-341-6560 E-mail [email protected] WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM


About 50 Red Deer students got a lesson in raising a little hell on Saturday.

Veteran Canadian rockers Trooper did the teach-ing in the extra-curricular lesson in rocking out at the Memorial Centre.

The multi-platinum-selling rock group welcomed the Grade 7 students to take in their sound check on Saturday ahead of an evening concert with April Wine.

It all came together thanks to teacher and big Trooper fan Kelly Goheen, who grew up with the Vancouver band’s music in B.C.

“They just bent over backwards to make things work for us. It was phenomenal,” Goheen said.

The brush with home-grown rock greatness went over well with his students.

“I was just telling Ra (McGuire, Trooper lead singer) I think he’s got a whole new generation of Trooper fans that just got hooked today.

“There’s a bunch of these kids who will never have an opportunity to get to a concert. And I don’t know anybody who’s ever gone to a sound check be-fore.

“It’s a pretty unique opportunity.”There was even some educational value to the af-

ternoon as well. Watching the many players behind a rock concert opens students’ eyes to careers they may never have considered. It also was a nice fit with the school’s current curriculum.

McGuire said the sound check mini-concert was unique for the band as well.

“I’m glad they’re interested. I mean they had to be interested to come on a Saturday,” said the genial rocker.

He’s happy to see more young fans, but adds the band has always been successful in finding new audiences. The first 15 rows of any show are 18 to 25-year-olds while their original fan core, who would have been snapping up their hit albums in the 1970s, are still there, further back in the crowd.

McGuire doesn’t hesitate when asked to explain their timelessness.

“It’s definitely the songs. I mean even these kids know (the hits). They were calling out for Raise a Little Hell, and how old are they?”

Trooper’s track record is incredible. They are one

of Canada’s top five selling bands of all time, accord-ing to their website. Their greatest hits album, Hot Shots, is six times platinum.

Student Logan Kendze was well aware of Troop-er’s music before Saturday.

“My parents love them so I kind of grew up listen-ing to it.

“It was awesome,” Kendze said. “It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience to be at a sound check.”

David O’lane also gave them an “awesome” grade.“I thought it was pretty cool,” he said, adding it

was interesting to hear how they got from being typi-

cal teenagers to where they are now.Alex Dehod, who does sound work at his school,

was interested in the work of the band’s sound crew.“It’s definitely very modern equipment and very

well run,” he said.Trooper and April Wine are performing as part of

a 100.7 CRUZ FM special free show for their listen-ers who won tickets.

Among the band’s hits are Good Ol’ General Hand Grenade, Two for the Show, We’re Here for a Good Time, Three Dressed Up As a Nine and Drive Away.

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Three western authors shared aviation stories from different perspectives from the Second World War at Red Deer College on Friday.

The afternoon reading, War Birds featured authors Anne Gafiuk, Elinor Florence and Danielle Metcal-fe-Chenail who all write about the Second World War era.

It was the first time in recent memory that RDC featured three authors at one reading. Because of the similar themes in the novels and timing of Re-membrance Day, RDC thought it would make for an interesting afternoon for history and aviation buffs.

The authors, who know one other through mu-tual friends, will make separate appearances around western Canada in the coming months.

Gafiuk’s novel Wings Over High River chronicles the life of veteran pilot and instructor Gordon Jones,

who recently died at the age of 90. Jones from High River flew a Tiger Moth 1214 during the war. The story came to life after Gafiuks attended an air show for research on her planned novel about a school teacher and a pilot. But after meeting the then 88-year-old, the Calgary-based author’s book turned into a biography of Jones.

In Birds Eye View: A Wartime Novel Florence, a former journalist and Red Deer Advocate editor, writes a fictional wartime drama about a prairie woman whose town in Saskatchewan becomes an air training base during the war. The woman joins the air force and becomes an interpreter of aerial pho-tographs.

Florence said she has been working on her novel on and off for years but it was only until 2010 when she pulled it out that she realized it was time to pub-lish it.

“I looked at it and at one point it made me cry so I thought it must be something if it can touch me after all these years,” said Florence.

After the war, Florence’s father who served in the RCAF bought one of the abandoned airfields near North Battleford, Sask.

One of the barracks buildings was cut in half and eventually became their family home. Florence said she came from a family that loves to tell stories and she has always had an interest in wartime history.

Edmonton author Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail de-votes a chapter in her novel Polar Winds: A Century of Flying the North to the Second World War. She delves into the role of aviation in north of the 60th parallel during the war. Metcalfe-Chenail is Edmonton’s of-ficial historian laureate.

For more information about the novels and ap-pearances, contact Florence at www.elinorflorence.com, Gafiuk at www.whatsinastory.ca and Metcalfe-Chenail at www.daniellemc.com

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Visiting author Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail holds the microphone for 94 year old Leslie Euinton of Red Deer as he relates his experience stationed in Burma during WWII from 1941-46. Two other authors joined Metcalfe-Chenail during the session at Red Deer College Friday afternoon including former Red Deer Advocate reporter and editor Elinor Florence and Anne Gufiuk.

Authors share WWII aviation storiesRED DEER COLLEGE

Grade 7 students take in Trooper sound check

Photo by PAUL COWLEY/Advocate staff

Trooper front man Ra Hughes signs an autograph for Logan Kendze at the Memorial Centre on Saturday afternoon. About 50 Eastview Middle School students were able to sit in on the band’s sound check before their evening show with April Wine.

Sylvan Lake man charged with dangerous driving

A 26-year-old Sylvan Lake man has been charged after getting caught driving more than 80 km/h over the speed limit in town.

A community peace officer was conducting “Se-lective Traffic Enforcement” at a 50th Avenue loca-tion on Saturday morning because of neighbourhood complaints about speeders.

About 8:20 a.m., a lead-footed pickup driver was clocked at 123 km/h in the 40 km/h residential area. RCMP were called and arrested a suspect. The driv-er was found to have only a learner’s driving permit. He was taken into custody and his vehicle was towed from the scene.

The man has been charged with dangerous driv-ing, speeding, driving with a learner permit without proper supervision.

Health Advisory Council meeting on Thursday

Central Albertans who want to share their thoughts on health care delivery and services can at-tend a meeting in Three Hills on Thursday.

The David Thompson Health Advisory Council meets in the activity centre at the Three Hills Health Centre at 1504 - 2 St. N. The event runs from 2 to 5 p.m.

The David Thompson Health Region takes in Red Deer but also extends east to Coronation, west to Rocky Mountain House, north to Drayton Valley and south to Drumheller.

Those who attend can give feedback on Alberta health services, share their input on local and re-gional health, and learn about the advisory council.

For more information call Naomi Shopland at 1-877-275-8830 or visit www.albertahealthservices.ca/hac.asp

The advisory councils are intended to provide strategic direction to Alberta Health Services by engaging members of the community to help improve quality and accountability of health services.

INBRIEF

BUSINESS A8MONDAY, NOV. 10, 2014

Harley Richards, Business Editor, 403-314-4337 E-mail [email protected] SEE MORE ONLINE AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM>>>>

Small businesses are literally the backbone of the Canadian economy.

According to Statistics Cana-da, as of Decem-ber 2012 there were 1,107,540 employer busi-nesses in Can-ada, of which 1,087,803 were c o n s i d e r e d small — which is defined as those with be-tween one and 99 paid employ-ees, and having annual sales revenues of at least $30,000.

Some 7.7 million people work for a small business, representing almost 70 per cent of the country’s total private labour force. Approximately 57 per cent of employer businesses in Canada are based in Ontario and Quebec, with the rest in the West (36 per cent), the

Atlantic region (seven per cent) and the Territories, Yukon and Nunavut (0.3 per cent). Over half of small busi-nesses are concentrated in four main industries: wholesale trade and retail (18.8 per cent), construction (11.7 per cent), professional, scientific and tech-nical services (11.6 per cent), and other services (10.6 per cent).

In other words, the success of the small business sector is of vital impor-tance to the financial well-being of mil-lions of Canadians and their families involved in a wide range of business activities right across the country.

A recent BMO report on the confi-dence level of small businesses across the country gives some positive news for this important financial sector go-ing into the coming year.

According to the report, Canadian business owners’ confidence in the state of the economy and the prospects for their businesses in 2015 is higher than it was for 2014.

“Canadian small business owners believe their organizations are in good health and are picking up momentum

in order to rebuild the solid business foundation of previous years,” said Steve Murphy, head of Canadian com-mercial banking with BMO Bank of Montreal. “Of particular interest (is that) business owners from nearly ev-ery province have an increased level of optimism compared to last year.”

Overall optimism is highest in Brit-ish Columbia, followed by Alberta, On-tario and the Atlantic provinces, the Prairies and Quebec.

Business owners across the country share a positive outlook for the coming year and believe it will be better than 2014.

More than half of Canadian busi-ness owners expect the economy to do better for the rest of 2014 and believe their businesses will grow in 2015, and one-quarter of them plan to invest more in their businesses next year.

The Canadian Federation of Inde-pendent Business’s Business Barom-eter Index in September showed that the optimism of small business owners across the country is holding steady.

“Fairly consistent readings suggest

the economy is growing at a moderate pace and we’re also seeing gradually improving conditions in other areas such as employment plans,” said Ted Mallett, CFIB’s chief economist and vice-president.

“Nineteen per cent of owners are expecting to hire more full-time staff over the next few months, which is a positive finding.”

“What’s also interesting — and indi-cates economic stability — is that the health and education, retail and manu-facturing sectors are the most optimis-tic,” Mallett said.

“Also, more than 80 per cent of busi-ness owners consider order books and accounts receivables to be better than normal — the highest proportions we’ve seen so far in the current busi-ness cycle.”

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based busi-ness communications professional who has worked with national news organiza-tions, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

Small business confidence is strong for 2015

TALBOT BOGGS

MONEYWISE


TORONTO — You’ve heard of paying retailers with the tap of a smartphone, but Royal Bank thinks shoppers are ready to take another big step: wearing payment options on their wrist.

The bank has paired with Toronto-based technology developer Bionym to test a wristband called Nymi (pro-nounced Nim-ee), which identifies owners through their unique heartbeat and then lets them charge purchases to their credit card.

The device looks like a watch, and will soon grace the wrists of 250 RBC clients and staff under a pilot project in Toronto that runs through February.

Eventually, the bank hopes to roll out its RBC PayBand across the coun-try.

Royal Bank (TSX:RY) is focusing more on payment technology in an ef-fort introduce more options, said Jer-emy Bornstein, head of the bank’s pay-ments innovation operations.

“We’ve been keenly looking at the wearable space for quite some time,” he said in a recent phone interview from the Money 2020 financial innova-tion convention in Las Vegas.

“We’re quickly going to move past

(the test period) to giving clients true choice — not only in what they pay with — but also how they’re paying.”

For now, the Nymi band will only work with MasterCard, though even-tually the Royal Bank hopes to allow debit transactions.

The technology offers a higher level of encryption that will appeal to more than just the banking industry.

The wristband has sensors that are programmed to recognize the unique electrical signals emitted by the user’s heart, also called an electrocardio-gram. Without the heartbeat identifier the Nymi band shuts down, making it useless it someone steals the device and tries to access your account

Bionym sees the product catching on as a unique identification device that would work as an alternative to keys for your automobile, the password for your computer and a way to check in to your hotel room.

Royal Bank expects the popularity of mobile payment options to rise in the next few years as more Canadians ditch physical currency in favour of digital wallets.

Several products are in various test stages at the bank, including a higher standard of encryption technology for credit card payments that uniquely identifies every transaction on a credit card — rather than just the uniquely marking the credit card itself — in an effort to block complex forms of fraud.

The bank is also working on a ser-vice that would create a digital home base on your smartphone for debit and credit cards, as well as giftcards from popular retailers.

The goal is to eliminate the plastic in your wallet and migrate those gift-cards in your drawers at home, Born-stein said.

Royal Bank also partnered with wireless carrier Bell Mobility in Janu-ary to test smartphone tap payments and plans to draw more attention to the technology next year.

“It’s not broad enough yet to bring out the billboards,” Bornstein said.

One of the challenges is that old-er models of BlackBerry and Apple’s iPhone are not advanced enough to support tap payments, which he said means bringing it to the masses has been difficult.

“We’re not able to deliver this to anyone with a smartphone, and so we’re working on that,” he added.

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BEIJING — Stephen Harper and Chinese officials signed a flurry of trade and currency deals on Saturday worth as much as $2.5 billion while tensions seemingly lingered between the two countries about the detention of a Canadian couple accused of espio-nage.

The prime minister raised his con-cerns about the three-month imprison-ment of Kevin and Julia Garratt with Premier Li Keqiang during a closed-door meeting at the ornate Great Hall of the People, a spokesman for Harper said.

Harper didn’t reiterate those con-cerns publicly when Li, the second most powerful man in China, was asked about the fate of the Garratts during a post-meeting news conference.

“We have discussed a full range of issues in our bilateral relationship in a frank, open and friendly manner,” Harper said in remarks to the media.

Li, meantime, said they “talk-ed about the rule of law and human rights.”

As for the Garratts, the premier added: “As for individual cases, I want to reiterate that as China continues to build a country under the rule of law, I believe that judicial authorities should be able to handle cases in accordance with the law.”

The Garratts have lived and worked in China for 30 years and were running a coffee shop near the North Korean border when they were detained in August on suspicion of spying. They haven’t been charged but have been repeatedly interrogated.

Their son, Simeon, was in China in recent days, timing his visit to Harp-er’s. He has demanded the Chinese release his parents, but said he hasn’t been able to glean much new informa-tion about their plight, nor has he been allowed to visit them.

“If there’s anybody out there that’s going to be able to help my parents, it’s him,” Garratt told CTV, referring to Harper.

The Canadian government hasn’t formally demanded the release of the Garratts.

But the couple’s detention was among a series of irritants between Canada and China that almost scrubbed Harper’s third visit to the country. The Chinese detained the Garratts just days after Canadian of-ficials publicly accused them of cyber-espionage.

At the 11th hour less than two weeks ago, Harper opted to travel to China in a visit that has focused largely on trade and economic issues.

On Friday, the prime minister con-fessed one of the reasons he travelled to China was simply because Chinese officials “really wanted me to be here” for the APEC summit kicking off Mon-day.

In keeping with the economic theme of his latest visit, Canada and China signed dozens of commercial deals — including pacts on blueberries, anti-air pollution technology and potash — valued at more than $2 billion on

Saturday.Among the biggest agreements

signed includes a deal for Bombardier to sell more than $1 billion in aircraft to China Express Airlines. An Air Can-ada-Air China joint venture is also val-ued at more than half a billion dollars.

And a hotly anticipated reciprocal currency deal between Canada and China marks a significant turning point in relations between the two countries, experts said.

The agreement will foster far easier trade between the Canadian dollar and the Chinese yuan, also known as the renminbi. It makes Canada the first country in the Americas to have a deal to trade in the renminbi.

Authorized by China’s central bank, it will allow direct business between the Canadian dollar and the Chinese yuan, cutting out the middle man — in most cases, the U.S. dollar.

Canadian exporters forced to use

the American currency to do business in China are faced with higher cur-rency exchange costs and longer waits to close deals.

Jason Henderson, head of global banking for HSBC Canada, lauded the deal.

“China is the second largest econo-my in the world and is growing faster than any of the world’s large econo-mies, so if Canada is going to maintain the standard of living that we have today, we need to tap into that econo-my,” he said. “It’s important for Cana-da and it’s a great symbol for Harper to have gone to China to strike this deal; it means we support the international-ization of China’s capital markets and recognize its importance to Canada.”

Perrin Beatty, head of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, agreed, but suggested Canada has been too slow to recognize the importance of the Chi-nese market.

Harper inks flurry of trade deals in China

Flight attendants at world’s largest airline vote down

proposed contractWASHINGTON — Flight atten-

dants at American Airlines rejected a five-year contract Sunday, forcing the world’s largest carrier and its union for cabin-crew workers into binding arbitration.

Just 16 votes blocked the contract — with 8,180 voting for and 8,196 voting against, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants said in a statement.

The rejection of the contract affects roughly 24,000 workers and compli-cates the integration of American Air-lines and US Airways. The two merged last year to form the world’s biggest airline operator. The proposed con-tract included guaranteed raises but ended a profit-sharing plan.

American Airlines said in a state-ment that it was “disappointed” by the vote.

“This tentative agreement includ-ed industry-leading pay and benefits, and would have provided considerably more economic value and much better work rules than the contract that will be determined by arbitration,” it said in a statement.

Last month, American Airlines Group Inc., based in Fort Worth, Texas, reported an all-time best $942 million profit in the June-through-September quarter, nearly double the amount that American and US Airways earned sep-arately last year.


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WASHINGTON — His influence at home fading, President Barack Obama is looking abroad to China, the opening stop of a three-country trip that will test his ability to play a commanding global role during his final two years in office.

Once Obama was treated like a superstar on the world stage. But the president will arrive in Beijing on Monday under far different conditions, with his most powerful days behind him.

At home, Republicans are still rejoicing at having pummeled Obama’s party in the midterm elections, relegating Democrats to the minority in both cham-bers of Congress. His counterparts in Asia surely have noticed.

The trip also marks one of Obama’s final chances to deliver on his goal to amplify America’s influence in Asia and the Pacific. In China, Myanmar and Aus-tralia, leaders may render a judgment on whether Obama’s lofty ambitions in the region have been sidetracked by crises in Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

“This is going to be a tough trip for the president,” said Ernest Bower, an Asia expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. He said Asian leaders were viewing Obama’s visit with this question in mind: Who is the president af-ter the midterm elections?

“They’ll be trying to discern whether he has the commitment and political capital to follow through,” Bower said.

Even before the election, Obama’s commitment to the region and his ability to boost U.S. clout there was in doubt in many capitals. U.S. allies such as Japan and South Korea have pressed for a great-er American presence, partly to counter China’s growing influence. Yet Obama’s mission against the Islamic State group and his government’s Ebola response have diverted U.S. military and financial resources elsewhere.

“The president remains deeply committed to his Asia rebalancing strategy, and its implementation will remain a top priority throughout the second term,” said his national security adviser, Susan Rice.

During his three days in China, Obama planned to give a speech about U.S. ties to Asia at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit and meet with President Xi Jinping.

U.S. presidents often immerse themselves in for-eign affairs during their last years in office, when the focus on the next presidential race saps the en-ergy from their domestic efforts. After last week’s elections, White House officials spoke optimistically about Obama’s prospects for clinching trade deals in

Asia and elsewhere now that Republicans are set to control Congress.

Under Obama, U.S. trade negotiators for years have been pursuing the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a major trade pact being negotiated with 11 na-tions. The talks repeatedly have blown past their deadlines, and other nations have been wary about Obama’s ability to push a deal through Congress, where Democrats are sensitive to the concerns of labour unions.

But with Republicans in charge, Obama’s pros-pects may have increased — so the argument goes. Republicans tend to support trade deals as a way to boost the U.S. economy, and GOP leaders have spoken positively about giving Obama the power to submit a final deal to an up-or-down vote, preventing last-minute amendments that could sink it.

China is not part of the talks, and is pursuing its own free trade deals in the region. What’s more, Chinese leaders have viewed Obama’s focus on Asia with suspicion, fearing an attempt to contain China’s growth and influence in the region.

In a sign of the political climate facing Obama in China, state-run media have been mocking him in the days before his visit.

“Obama always utters ’Yes, we can,’ which led to the high expectations people had for him,” read an editorial in the English-language Global Times. “But he has done an insipid job, offering nearly nothing to his supporters. U.S. society has grown tired of his banality.”

Another reminder of the tensions in the region came hours before Obama left on Saturday when North Korea released two American detainees after Obama’s spy chief made a secret mission to Pyong-yang to secure their release.

In his meetings with Xi, Obama plans to address human rights issues, officials said, including the treatment of journalists as well as pro-democracy

protests in Hong Kong. Climate change, a big con-cern in smog-filled Beijing, and China’s aggressive behaviour toward its neighbours are also on Obama’s agenda.

Douglas Paal, who headed Asia policy under Pres-ident George W. Bush at the National Security Coun-cil, said Chinese leaders have signalled that this visit will determine whether to keep working with Obama or just wait him out.

“If he comes in and tries to be tough with them, they’ll see that as putting a period on co-operation with Obama,” said Paal. He added, “They see Hillary Clinton coming.”

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Kudlow says the amount of pub-lished medical research is growing and is spread throughout an estimat-ed 27,000 medical journals, making it nearly impossible to keep up with the latest developments.

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In 2012, Kudlow, grappling with the traditional ways to publicize his research, came up with the idea of TrendMD, an online tool that gives readers a way to find content relevant to their interests, while giving publish-ers, institutions, industry and authors the ability to target their audience.

TrendMD’s business model is based on clicks, and there are two streams of revenue — publishers and sponsors.

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The “eureka” moment for Kudlow and his partner Dr. Gunther Eysen-bach came in 2012 when they stum-bled upon a widget that personalized web content, generated by a company called Outbrain.

As soon as they saw the widget, they knew it would be a perfect fit for schol-arly publishing. In 2013, Kudlow’s ap-plication to UTEST — a joint software testing venture between the University of Toronto and MaRS Innovation — received $30,000 in seed funding in exchange for five per cent of the com-pany.

After months of testing, TrendMD launched in May 2014.

The company has received more than $530,000 in funding from investors such as the Ontario Centres of Excel-lence, MaRS Innovation and outside interests. Dr. Scott Lear, a Health Sci-ences professor at Simon Fraser Uni-versity, says that trying to keep up with the torrent of new medical research is overwhelming.

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TORONTO — The Toronto stock market could be in for further gains this week, feeding off last week’s fourth consecutive advance on the TSX amid economic data that showed steady em-ployment growth in the United States and a rebound in oil prices off three-year lows.

Otherwise, it looks to be a relatively quiet week for economic data as Can-ada’s quarterly earnings season also starts to wind down after a string of well-received reports that helped the Toronto market claw itself partway back from the worst of the October sell-off.

The TSX ended last week up 0.5 per cent or 78 points, leav-ing the mar-ket up 7 .85 per cent for the year. The Dow industri-als jumped 184 points or 1.05 per cent.

T h e g a i n c a m e a m i d a muted re-s p o n s e t o American jobs data that narrowly missed expectations as 215,000 posi-tions were created in October, a bit shy of the 235,000 that had been forecast.

The TSX energy sector was a star performer, rising about three per cent at the end of a volatile week where oil prices hit the lowest levels since 2011 as buyers reasoned the recent sell-off of energy companies had been over-done.

“I am surprised that oil has sold off as hard as it has,” said Chris King, portfolio manager at Morgan, Meighen and Associates. “The pendulum always swings too far and that’s certainly the case here.”

King said consumers shouldn’t get too comfortable about oil prices mov-ing below US$80 a barrel.

“We’re definitely not in for an era for that. Oil really should be back in the $95 level based on supply and de-mand.”

The pendulum had swung hard the other way last the summer when prices hit around US$105 a barrel, leaving the energy sector up about 20 per cent year

to date before stocks started to sell off in Canada and the U.S. in September.

The energy sector is still down year to date, with prices depressed by a U.S. dollar that has strengthened con-siderably amid significant economic deterioration in Europe and the end of the latest quantitative easing program by the Federal Reserve.

“As the dollar goes up, it (oil) be-comes much more expensive in the emerging markets that have been the source of a lot of demand growth,” ob-served King.

King thinks this is a good opportu-nity for investors to add to their energy sector holdings for the simple reason that supply and demand fundamentals are sound.

“As long as you have positive glob-al economic g r o w t h y o u will grow your demand every single year,” he said.

On the eco-nomic front, the main Cana-dian items are housing starts for October, which come out on Monday,

and Statistics Canada’s September sur-vey of manufacturing shipments, out Friday. In the U.S., the consumer will be in focus with October retail sales and November consumer sentiment data, both coming out on Friday.

On the TSX, investors will digest earnings from home improvement re-tailer RONA (TSX:RON) on Tuesday, energy giant Encana (TSX:ECA), miner Iamgold (TSX:IMG) and grocer Loblaw Cos. (TSX:L) on Wednesday and insur-er Manulife Financial (TSX:MFC) on Thursday.

Positive corporate earnings from the likes of Canadian Natural Resourc-es (TSX:CNQ), auto parts giant Magna International (TSX:MG) and Air Cana-da (TSX:AC) helped boost the TSX last week.

Craig Jerusalim, portfolio manag-er at CIBC Asset Management, noted that “it’s been a solid quarter revenue wise.”

“Revenues have been growing in the high single digits and earnings have been growing almost double that,” he said.

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DHX Media Ltd. enters co-operation agreement with

China National TelevisionHALIFAX — DHX Media Ltd. (TSX:

DHX), announced Saturday that it’s launching a new streaming service to offer its children’s entertainment content across multiple platforms in China.

The Canadian company said it has entered into a co-operation agree-ment with China National Television (CNTV), the new-media broadcast di-vision of China’s state broadcaster, CCTV.

DHX will provide more than 700 half hours of children’s content ini-tially for the new service.

Some of the series DHX will provide in Mandarin include, Teletubbies, In-spector Gadget, Madeline and Sonic the Hedgehog, to be followed by additional DHX titles such as Caillou, Super Why!, Monster Math Squad and others.

The as-yet-unnamed service will be available nationally in the People’s Republic of China (excluding Hong Kong S.A.R., Macau S.A.R. and Tai-wan). A launch date has not yet been set.

The deal was announced at a sign-ing ceremony attended by Prime Min-ister Stephen Harper at the Asia-Pa-cific Economic Co-operation Summit, in Beijing.

“Launching a new children’s stream-ing service with China’s official state broadcaster represents a tremendous opportunity to deliver DHX brands to a massive, emerging market,” said DHX President and CEO, Steven DeN-ure, who was in Beijing for the signing.

Maureen O’Hara, Harry Belafonte, Hayao Miyazaki,

Jean-Claude Carriere to accept early Oscars

LOS ANGELES — The first Oscar statuettes of the season are being pre-sented Saturday night at the film acad-emy’s Governors Awards.

The Hollywood ceremony honours this year’s recipients of honorary Academy Awards: Actress Maureen O’Hara, filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carri-ere. Actor and activist Harry Belafonte is receiving the Jean Hersholt Human-itarian Award.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences established the Gover-nors Awards in 2009 as an untelevised celebration of its honorary Oscar win-ners.

“It’s special because it’s an intimate evening,” academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs said in a recent inter-view. “It’s a chance for the academy to recognize the diverse talent that it takes to realize the dream of movi-emaking.”

She said the annual event is a fa-vourite of the academy and the film industry because it allows a personal look into the professional lives of ex-ceptional talents. All four honorees

are expected to attend the Governors Awards ceremony in the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland.

Stevie Wonder mixes political messages, powerful music as he revisits a classic

in tour openerNEW YORK — Stevie Wonder

has always blended his musical ge-nius with social activism, and as he launched his new tour, he stayed true to form, advocating gun control, plead-ing for an end to racism and promoting equality for those with disabilities.

“I challenge America, I challenge the world, to let hatred go, to let rac-ism go,” Wonder told the sold-out au-dience at Madison Square Garden on

Thursday night. “That is the only way we will win as

a nation and the world.”Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life tour

was dedicated to the music from that groundbreaking double album, which included classic hits like Sir Duke, I Wish, As and Isn’t She Lovely.

A legendary album celebrated as much for its musicality as its message, the 1976 project won multiple Grammy Awards and further cemented Won-der’s brilliance.

The music still resonates, as Won-der proved during an electrifying con-cert that ran for almost three hours (including intermission) and had the audience roaring and standing on its feet in approval.

There were lighthearted moments, such as when Wonder confessed to a flub mid-song — “I forgot my own words,” he said, laughing early on.

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LOS ANGELES — A team of ani-mated Marvel characters rocketed past a group of wormhole-bound astronauts at the weekend box office.

Disney’s animated adventure Big Hero 6, featuring the inflatable robot Baymax and his prodigy pal Hiro from the Marvel comic book, debuted in first place with $56.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Paramount’s space saga Interstellar, starring Mat-thew McConaughey and Anne Hatha-way as astronauts, took off in second place with $50 million, estimates said.

Before launching in more than 3,500 theatres this weekend, writer-director Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar played Wednesday and Thursday in about 250 theatres equipped to project the movie on film — The Dark Knight filmmaker’s

preferred method of showcasing his creations.

Interstellar opened below Nolan’s last film, the mind-bending thriller Inception, which conjured up $62.8 mil-lion when it debuted in 2010. Nolan’s sci-fi odyssey also wasn’t in the orbit of last year’s $55.8 million opening for Paramount’s previous space epic, Grav-ity. Interstellar has a hefty running time of 169 minutes, while Gravity clocked in at 91 minutes.

“The difference is Interstellar isn’t in 3D, and certainly the running time on our film does change the play pattern in that you lose an evening show,” said Megan Colligan, Paramount’s head of domestic marketing and distribution. “Given those factors, we did spectacu-larly well. Gravity also opened by it-

self. We had another big film in the marketplace.”

If the estimates hold up, this week-end will mark the fourth time in box office history that a pair of films both opened with $50 million or above. The previous matchups were Monsters Uni-versity vs. World War Z in 2013, Mad-agascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted vs. Prometheus in 2012, and WALL-E vs. Wanted in 2008. In each instance, the animated option came out on top.

“Both movies were able to do well without cannibalizing each other’s au-diences,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Rentrak. “By opening a diversity of product against each other, the industry can expand the marketplace. It’s a perfect example of counterprogramming. It paid off for the industry, and it just doesn’t happen that often.”

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fice total was down about 7 per cent compared with the same weekend last year, when the Disney superhero se-quel Thor: The Dark World opened with $85.7 million.

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1. Big Hero 6, $56.2 million.2. Interstellar, $50 million.3. Gone Girl, $6.1 million.4. Ouija,$6 million.5. St. Vincent, $5.7 million.6. Nightcrawler, $5.5 million.7. Fury, $5.5 million.8. John Wick, $4 million.9. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible,

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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today will be the day to get that task, or your to-do-list accomplished. You will have this fierce energy that will help you achieve all that you set out to do. Just donít let your ego get involved today. The truth will emerge about what is truly motivating you now and it might not be pleasant. You will finally un-derstand the truth of others today, al-low for your emotions to catch up now.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year will prove to be a year when you will exhibit a strong, driving force to accomplish your dreams and aspirations. It will be a year to implement all long standing goals and finally bring them to a res-olution with strong deter-mination. With that being said, you will also under-stand the psychology be-hind these ambitions and something will be let go of. It could be your ego attach-ment towards recognition or simply a need to prove yourself worthy.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Today there will be a strong driving force for you to accomplish the ca-reer plans you’ve set out for yourself. If others are jeal-ous of you, this truly is none of your business. Do not let power struggles derail you. Learn your lesson now, and work harder if needed.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You will find that others in your life will have a strong sense of empowerment or en-titlement today. Do not let power strug-gles with them interrupt the work you have to do now. Learn your lesson and just work harder, if needed. Lay low till their display passes.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Today is the last day your ruling planet is with-in its shadow period. Finally, you will feel that you can move forward with your daily life and build closer bonds with those important relationships in your life. Just watch out for those you consult, trust yourself more today.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You should be feeling excellent. You are more able to express just what’s been bothering you for quite some time. You are now willing to make the changes to create greater harmony for yourself. By leading by example and sorting things out, others will follow suit.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You will be working hard to implement your per-sonal philosophy and put theories to the test at work. Be aware of ego con-flicts. If you are not in an authoritative role, donít jump the gun to prove you are right. You’ll be quick to under-stand what you can and can’t do today.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Today will be the day that you will start to feel better. You will be able to sort

through confusion and mis-understandings. However, keep in mind that others perhaps may have taken your passionate nature as a threat. Simply allow for open dialogue to cool down any upsets.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): There will be some ego conflicts either today or tomorrow, with those at home or simply those with-in daily routine. There is a tendency, or knee jerk reaction, from you to ex-press your values to them. The other individuals will have the upper hand, just be careful.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Today will be one of those days when you will understand what is actu-ally motivating you. You will work hard to accomplish your personal goals, but donít let your ego get involved. Allow for others to share their views. It will help you more than hinder you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): To-day is the day to put your plans into action, build those resources and em-power yourself. Donít trample on oth-ers on your way to the top. You will be in fine form today, as you instinctually will know just what to do in order to accomplish all that you set out for.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You will have absolutely incredible ambi-tion and strength of character today. Do not, under any circumstance, let

anyone set you aside or have power struggles with you. They will lose, but you might lose a friend in the process. Be keen to help others empower them-selves.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): This is not the day to doubt anything you have started on a professional level. Allow for greater ambition to surface and hidden enemies to appear. Others will always want to have something for nothing. You are entitled to your earned strength. Display it to keep

your position.PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You will

finally feel like you have made some headway with your aims today. There could be some power struggles with friends or with individuals within groups that will leave you slightly less than empowered. Speak only of that which you know is true today.

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Dear Annie: I was in a long-distance relationship with “Jerry” for six years. He frequently spoke about commitment, but when he still wasn’t ready to do anything after all that time, I broke things off. That was a month ago.

Although our breakup wasn’t particularly acri-monious, it has been diffi-cult emotionally. I used to spend summers with Jer-ry and his now 9-year-old daughter, and took care of her while he worked. We developed a close bond.

I’ve only spoken to Jerry once since our breakup, but I’m wondering what I should do about his daugh-ter. I still love her and would do anything for her, but I don’t want to overstep my ex-status. How do I say goodbye from a distance? I don’t want to hurt her. – Miss Her, Not Him

Dear Miss: This is not an uncommon problem when couples split up. There is still an attachment to the children, and more importantly, the children

often feel the loss. Please talk to Jerry about this. Ask whether his daughter is having difficul-ties with your breakup and what you can do to help. Perhaps you could write her an occasional letter or email, maintaining a distant friendship so she knows you have not abandoned her. While you should do nothing to encourage a be-lief that you and Dad are getting back together, make sure she understands that she will always have a place in your heart and she can call or write you any time. We trust Jerry won’t get in the way of something that is in his daughter’s best inter-est.

Dear Annie: It is almost Thanksgiv-ing, and my boyfriend has asked wheth-er I would like to go to his daughter’s home for Thanksgiving. I thought that was nice of him, as my family does not live near me.

He called his daughter to let her know I accepted the invitation. But

he also said he told his daughter I am “stout.” I felt insulted. I called him the next day and made an excuse that I would be unavailable for Thanksgiving after all.

I am 20 pounds overweight, but I have no bulges. His comment hurt me so much that I haven’t gone out with him since. Do you think he was rude to say this to his daughter? – Not Stout

Dear Not: Yes. And just as rude to repeat it to you. We can think of no reason to justify his saying this to his daughter. Nonetheless, if this is the worst thing he has ever done in your relationship, please try to forgive him. Explain that you found his comment insulting (he probably doesn’t think so) and that you want him to stop dis-cussing your appearance with other people.

Dear Annie: I’m writing in response to “His Wife,” whose husband’s per-sonality changed and he was later di-agnosed with depression. In my case, the one in depression was me. I had a hysterectomy and thought I was fine. That was 14 years ago.

Now, after 41 years of marriage, my husband has decided he wants a di-

vorce and needs to move on without me.

He said something happened to me and that our marriage has been over for a long time. I had no idea I had changed in any way.

After reading the letter from “His Wife,” I realized I had gone into a de-pression. Loss of hormones and pain-ful intercourse did change my moods, creating anger and the loss of affec-tion. My husband never addressed the problems. His usual way of handling anything is to ignore it, walk away and hide. So instead of making me see how I’d changed, he found a girlfriend, va-cationed with her and gave her dia-mond earrings.

I want to let couples know that the way to resolve things is to talk about them before it’s too late. And never rule out a medical diagnosis like de-pression. – On the Way to Divorce

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Rebels end road trip with lossBY ADVOCATE STAFF

Americans 3 Rebels 2 (OT)The Red Deer Rebels closed out

their six-game Western Hockey League road trip on a losing note Saturday night at Kennewick, Wash., but got a great review from GM/head coach Brent Sutter.

The Rebels bench boss was particu-larly impressed with his club’s third-period performance in a 3-2 overtime loss to the Tri-City Americans, an ef-fort that spoke volumes about the nine-day trip in general.

The Rebels outshot their hosts 12-8 in the scoreless third period Saturday after giving up a tying goal with just five seconds remaining in the second stanza.

“The coaching staff talked after the game about how our work ethic and compete level was as good in the third period of the sixth game of the trip as it was in the first period of the first game,” Sutter said Sunday.

“It was a 2-1 game when we took a penalty in the offensive zone when we never had the puck. It happens, and we

weren’t able to kill it off. They scored with just a few seconds left in the pe-riod and could have gotten momentum from that, but the kids got right back at it and had a real good third period.

“I thought we did a lot of good things in the third.”

Maxwell James staked the Amer-icans to a 1-0 lead after 20 minutes. From there, Rebels forward Scott Fes-er potted his fifth of the season at 1:48 of the second period and Tyler Sand-

hu, with his fifth, gave the visitors a 2-1 lead just over 11 minutes later.

With Rebels captain Conner Bleack-ley off for slashing, Tri-City winger Taylor Vickerman scored the last reg-ulation-time marker at 19:55 of the sec-ond frame. Beau McCue scored the winner, beating Red Deer netminder Rylan Toth at 2:34 of overtime.

Toth finished with 25 saves. Ameri-cans netminder Eric Comrie blocked 23 shots.

Despite the setback, Sutter couldn’t find any negatives during a trip that included visits to Cranbrook, B.C., and five U.S. cities and yielded three wins and a single loss in regulation time, plus a shootout loss and an overtime defeat, each of which produced a sin-gle point.

“To go on a road trip like that, with the amount of travel involved, and to get eight out of 12 points . . . that’s a pretty successful trip,” he noted. “The kids stayed with it all the way. We went through some adversity in games and we just kept playing and trusted our structure and our systems. We did a really good job, I’m pretty pleased with how we played on the road.”

Sutter’s positive overview also in-cluded Saturday’s contest.

“We played well last night,” he said. “There wasn’t a single game on the trip that we were out of, every game was right there for us. And to have us play as well in the third period last night as we did in the first game was encourag-ing.”

The Rebels returned home without any major injuries.

“We have some guys who are banged up and bruised and still didn’t miss any time,” said Sutter. “We don’t play again now until Friday (versus the vis-iting Lethbridge Hurricanes) so we’ll give some guys some days off this week.”

Two players who won’t likely be at practice until Thursday are Bleackley and defenceman Haydn Fleury, who will suit up with Team WHL versus Team Russia in Subway Super Series games tonight and Tuesday at Sas-katoon and Brandon. Bleackley and Fleury flew to Saskatoon after being dropped off at Calgary International Airport Sunday morning as the Rebels were en route to Red Deer.

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Kings can’t find way to take down TrojansBY JOSH ALDRICH

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Trojans 5 Kings 1PENHOLD — The only way for Red

Deer Kings head coach Trevor Keep-er to look at Saturday’s 5-1 loss to the SAIT Trojans (12-2-0-0) is as a missed opportunity.

RDC (6-5-0-1) became the second team to hand the Alberta Colleges Ath-letic Association men’s hockey first place team a defeat this season with a 2-1 win on Friday. On Saturday at the Penhold Regional Multiplex, they outshot the Trojans 40-29 but still were blown out on the scoreboard.

The biggest culprit was a power play that was 0-for-7 and a tough night in net for Kings goalie Mike Salmon, who was given the hook after five goals on 25 shots.

“We had an opportunity to play like we did last night tonight and we didn’t,” said Keeper. “I know when we’re playing like we’re capable of that we’re going to be rewarded like we were last night instead of this eve-ning.”

Brenden Forbes had two goals for SAIT while Corey Tyrell, Trevor Cam-eron and Mikeal Jung also scored and Austin Smith had 39 saves for the win.

Tyler Berkholtz had the lone goal for the Kings.

The power play was a sore point all night for RDC, despite a penalty kill that was a perfect 3-for-3.

Missing three of their power-play mainstays to injury — first line right-winger Greg Lamoureux and offensive defencemen Nick Bell and Shamus Graham — the Kings had difficulty set-ting up in the Trojans’ zone, and were kept to the perimeter.

“It’s a tough situation for (the guys filling in),” said Keeper, who is hop-ing to have all three players back this week. “They practice it a little bit in practice, but when you’re missing three of your top players on the power play, you tend to not score as many goals or generate as many quality scor-ing chances.”

It was also the first game where Salmon has struggled this year, and still carries a .923 save percentage through four games, though his goals against average has ballooned to 3.01.

On the first goal at 9:30 of the first period, he was unable to corral a shot with his glove and the rebound popped out to an open Tyrell with the whole net to shoot at. On the second goal,

at 11:42 of the second period, Salmon was caught scrambling and unable to find the loose puck which came out to Forbes who buried it. On the third goal at 18:54 of the second, he tripped as he was backing up in his crease, leav-ing Cameron with the a gaping cage to shoot at. The next time back down the ice, Jung made it 4-1.

The one goal he really did not have

a chance at was the fifth, as Forbes scored on a terrific solo effort, some-how managing to beat Salmon as he was being pulled down from behind on a breakaway.

“It was an uncharacteristic game for him, he was over aggressive, over playing things, out of his net too much, hesitating to make some decisions, that’s a tough situation,” said Keeper.

“When the players are in that situation and some one might have a bad game no one might notice. For goaltenders when you have an off day, everyone notices.”

Kryamer Barnstable played the fi-nal 8:10 and stopped all four shots he faced.

Pouliot pushes Oilers to victory over RangersBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Oilers 3 Rangers 1 NEW YORK — Benoit Pouliot made

the most of his return to Madison Square Garden.

Pouliot scored the go-ahead goal against his former team midway through the second period and back-up Viktor Fasth made 20 saves as the Edmonton Oilers beat the New York Rangers 3-1 on Sunday night.

Pouliot scored his second goal of the season off a nifty pass from linemate Ryan Nugent-Hopkins at 8:29 of the middle period to put the Oilers ahead, 2-1. Pouliot was a key member of the Rangers as they reached the Stanley Cup finals last spring before he signed a five-year, $20-million deal with Ed-monton in July.

“It was fun to be back and great that we came out with a win,” Pouliot said. “Last year was awesome for me. Of course playing against guys I had a great time with, I wanted to do well.”

Nugent-Hopkins opened the scoring

at 3:19 of the first with his team-leading fifth this season with assists to Pouliot and Jordan Eberle. Carl Hagelin tied it for the Rangers with 7:26 remaining in the period with his fourth goal.

Teddy Purcell’s empty-net goal at with 1:27 remaining in the game sealed the Oilers’ second straight win. Edmon-ton snapped a four-game losing streak with a win at Buffalo on Friday.

“Those are the types of games that we want to get the result in because it goes a long way to the learning pro-cess for our guys,” Oilers coach Dallas Eakins said. “We had success through-out the game playing aggressive.”

The Rangers lost for the second time in two nights, coming off a 5-4 loss at Toronto on Saturday night.

With an unusual 6 p.m. local start time, the Oilers played better from the start, outshooting the Rangers 11-8 in the first period. The trend continued in the second as the Rangers put forth a minimal attack, with six shots on Fasth while Edmonton had 13 more on Lundqvist.

The Rangers continued their unin-

spired play in the third, bringing a few jeers from the Madison Square Garden crowd. It took 11 minutes into the final period for New York to register its first shot on goal by Tanner Glass.

“Our effort was unacceptable,” Rangers defenceman Marc Staal said. “We were out of sorts all over the ice and we were losing battles. It’s tough to win a hockey game that way.”

The 32-year-old Fasth started op-posite fellow Swede Henrik Lundqvist for the first time. It was Fasth’s third start in four games in place of Ben Scrivens.

“The boys were great blocking shots and making good plays in front of me, especially when they had a push at the end,” Fasth said. “It feels really good as a team.”

Lundqvist, who finished with 30 saves, kept the Rangers in the contest, especially in the middle period with saves on Justin Schultz and rookie Le-on Draisaitl. The loss left the Rangers’ goalie searching for answers.

“When the energy isn’t there, it’s hard to play this game,” he said. “We

need to raise our level. There’s no way around that.”

The Oilers were without leading scorer Taylor Hall who missed his fourth straight game with a sprained knee. However, they welcomed captain Andrew Ference back after the de-fenceman missed three games because of a suspension for an illegal check to head of Vancouver’s Zack Kassian.

The Rangers continued to play with-out injured defencemen Ryan McDon-agh (shoulder) and Dan Boyle (hand). They also missed John Moore, who completed a five-game suspension for a high hit on Minnesota’s Erik Haula.

Moore can return for Tuesday’s home game against Pittsburgh. Boyle has been out since the season-opener but has resumed practicing with the team and could return this week.

Rangers coach Alain Vigneault hint-ed roster moves could be looming for his inconsistent squad.

“We are going to evaluate our team, see where we are, see if we can make some adjustments and go from there,” Vigneault said.

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RDC Kings forward RIley Point drives in on SAIT Trojans goalie Austin Smith as SAIT defenceman Lucas Grady holds him back during ACAC men’s hockey action at the Penhold Regional Multiplex on Saturday. SAIT won 5-1.

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Red Deer Fencing Club members Gavin Etmanski and William Langille won epee gold medals in the Priori Cup meet at Calgary during the week-end.

Etmanski was victorious in the U15 men’s category and Langille struck

gold in the U13 men’s class of the na-tional circuits event.

Meanwhile, Karen Lyver settled for silver in the women’s division and Petar Toshkov (men’s), Robert Foor-strom (veteran men’s) and Etmanski (U13 men’s) picked up bronze medals.


Roughriders 24 Eskimos 17REGINA — The Saskatchewan

Roughriders and Edmonton Eskimos can agree on one thing — they do not like each other.

That was certainly clear Satur-day night at Mosaic Stadium where the Riders edged the Eskimos 24-17 in a game that featured plenty of trash talk and heavy hitting. When the dust settled, the Riders had learned their playoff future. Saskatchewan will trav-el to Edmonton next Sunday to take on the Eskimos in the West semifinal.

To stoke the fire, it’ll mark the fourth time these teams will have met in the past seven weeks.

“I don’t like those guys over there,” said Saskatchewan running back An-thony Allen, who rushed for game-high 81 yards. “And I’m sure they don’t like us too much either. I can’t wait to see them again and tell them that.”

Eskimos players echo those senti-ments.

“We feel the same way,” Edmonton receiver Fred Stamps said. “There’s a bad taste in our mouth. Nobody likes to lose. There’s always some bad blood between Edmonton and Saskatchewan. I don’t think we like each other very much. Both teams are fighting for the same thing.”

The loss ended the Eskimos’ three-game winning streak. Meanwhile, the Riders snapped a five-game losing skid and won for just the second time since starting quarterback Darian Durant was lost to injury on Sept. 7 in Win-nipeg.

Kerry Joseph started at quarter-back for the Riders and completed just five of 16 pass attempts for 71 yards. He rushed twice for 23 yards and one touchdown all in the first half. But it was the Riders’ rushing attack that pro-pelled the defending Grey Cup cham-pions to victory. Allen and newcomer Steven Miller combined for 152 yards on the ground. Receiver Korey Wil-liams scored Saskatchewan’s second first-half touchdown on an 18-yard run, one that gave the home team a 16-4 lead at halftime.

A Rob Bagg touchdown from Tino Sunseri opened the scoring in the third quarter and put the Riders comfort-ably ahead 23-4. But Edmonton rallied late and Matt Nichols scored on a two-yard run to make things interesting at 24-17 with three minutes to play.

Stamps said he expects next week’s contest to be as tight as the fourth quarter was on Saturday.

“It’s playoff time and it’s going to get a little harder,” Stamps said after his five-catch, 59-yard performance. “Nothing is going to come easy for ei-ther team. Whatever we did at the be-ginning of the season is over with. We have to put that behind us now and start a new season.”

It may be a new season, but it’ll boast the same kind of intensity and animosity that has been building over the last couple of matchups.

“You can tell we don’t care for each other,” Allen said. “There’s all kinds of trash talk, guys getting in each other’s faces, lots of big hits. And there’s going to be 10 times as much next week when we see them. I can’t wait to get to their house.”


Corey Chamblin and the Saskatche-wan Roughriders are heading into the CFL playoffs on a positive note.

The defending Grey Cup champions capped the regular season with a 24-17 home win over Edmonton on Saturday night. The Eskimos had already se-cured second in the West but Saskatch-ewan clinched third with the victory, and more importantly snapped an ugly five-game losing streak.

The Riders and Eskimos will get to do it all over again, this time at Com-monwealth Stadium on Sunday in the West semifinal. The winner will travel to Calgary to face the first-place Stam-peders on Nov. 23.

“There are two sets of guys in the locker-room right now,” Chamblin said. “There is one set of guys who want to defend last year’s title and there’s an-other set of guys who want this year’s title to be their first.

“There’s a healthy blend in there and I’m really looking forward to get-ting back to the drawing board to get ready for another game that we know will be ready for us and that we will be ready for.”

The big question with the Riders is if incumbent Darian Durant will start Sunday? Durant suffered an elbow in-jury in a win against Winnipeg on Sept. 7 and recently returned to practice. Veteran Kerry Joseph was Saskatch-ewan’s starter in the victory over Ed-monton.

Edmonton won the season series 2-1.

Also on Sunday, the Montreal Alou-ettes (9-9) will host B.C. (9-9) in the East Division semifinal. The Lions finished fourth in the West but secured the third Eastern playoff seed by posting a better record than the Toronto Argo-nauts (8-10).

The Lions will attempt to become the fourth straight team to win the Grey Cup on home soil. B.C. and Mon-treal split their season series 1-1.

The East Division semifinal winner will face the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at Tim Hortons Field on Nov. 23. The con-ference champions square off in the Grey Cup game Nov. 30 at B.C. Place.

Ottawa (2-16) ended its inaugural season losing 23-5 in Toronto on Fri-day night. It was the fifth straight loss for the expansion Redblacks, who be-came just the third CFL club to suffer 16 losses in a season, joining the ’88 Rough Riders and ’97 Ticats.

When Calgary’s Jon Cornish takes

to the field Nov. 23, he will do so with a third straight CFL rushing title un-der his belt. The Stampeders’ star ran for 1,082 yards despite playing in just nine games this season, becoming the league’s lone 1,000-yard rusher in 2014.

Cornish, who averaged 7.8 yards per carry, had six 100-yard games this year and broke the 150-yard mark four times, including a season-high 174 yards against Toronto on Sept. 13. Cor-nish averaged 120.2 yards per contest, compared to the 114.7 yards Hall of Famer Mike Pringle averaged in ’98 when he ran for a league-record 2,065 yards.

Cornish joins a very select group of CFL players to have recorded at least three rushing titles. The others include Johnny Bright (’57, ’58, ’59), George Reed (five straight from 1965-’69) and Pringle (four consecutive ’97-2000).

Not surprisingly, Cornish has been nominated for the CFL’s outstanding player and Canadian awards, honours he captured last season.

But it was B.C. linebacker Solomon Elimimian who had a record-break-ing campaign. Elimimian registered a league-record 143 tackles, 54 more than runner-up Bear Woods of Mon-treal. Elimimian was also the only CFL player to register more than 100 tack-les this season.

Despite missing Toronto’s season-ending win over Ottawa with a con-cussion, Argos quarterback Ricky Ray finished the season as the league’s top passer. Ray threw for 4,595 yards, the only player to crack the 4,000-yard pla-teau.

Ray also led the CFL in touchdown passes (28) and was its most accurate starter (68.5 per cent).

Adarius Bowman led the league in receiving (112 catches, 1,456 yards and six TDs) and yards from scrimmage (1,470). Bowman was one of just three players to surpass the 1,000-yard pla-teau, the others being Winnipeg’s Clar-ence Denmark (65 catches, 1,080 yards, three touchdowns) and Montreal’s Du-ron Carter (75 receptions, 1,030 yards, seven TDs).

Saskatchewan’s John Chick led the CFL in sacks with 15. He anchored a Riders’ defence that posted a league-leading 61 sacks, six ahead of second-place Edmonton.

Toronto’s Swayze Waters had two solid accomplishments. He finished the season as the CFL scoring leader with 192 points and connected on 47-of-52 field goals (90.4 per cent). Waters was also the league’s top punter with a 47.7-yard average.

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Saturday, Nov. 8Liverpool 1, Chelsea 2Burnley 1, Hull City 0Manchester United 1, Crystal Palace 0Southampton 2, Leicester City 0West Ham 0, Aston Villa 0Queens Park Rangers 2, Manchester City 2

Sunday, Nov. 9Sunderland 1, Everton 1Tottenham 1, Stoke 2West Brom 0, Newcastle 2Swansea 2, Arsenal 1

HSBC ChampionsSundayAt Sheshan International Golf ClubShanghaiPurse: $8.5 millionYardage: 7,261; Par: 72Final(x-won on first playoff hole)x-Bubba Watson, $1,400,000 71-67-69-70 — 277Tim Clark, $850,000 69-70-69-69 — 277Rickie Fowler, $381,667 69-70-69-70 — 278Hiroshi Iwata, $381,667 73-65-68-72 — 278Graeme McDowell, $381,667 67-67-71-73 — 278Thorbjorn Olesen, $213,667 72-68-69-71 — 280Ian Poulter, $213,667 70-67-72-71 — 280Martin Kaymer, $213,667 69-72-66-73 — 280Marc Leishman, $158,000 72-71-69-69 — 281Jason Dufner, $135,500 72-70-72-68 — 282Brandt Snedeker, $135,500 69-74-69-70 — 282George Coetzee, $108,000 72-73-69-69 — 283Adam Scott, $108,000 70-72-71-70 — 283Pablo Larrazabal, $89,833 75-72-69-68 — 284Alexander Levy, $89,833 74-68-71-71 — 284Wu Ashun, $89,833 74-70-69-71 — 284Jonas Blixt, $89,833 71-68-71-74 — 284Chris Kirk, $89,833 69-74-69-72 — 284Louis Oosthuizen, $89,833 70-70-72-72 — 284Kevin Na, $81,000 71-68-79-67 — 285Lee Westwood, $81,000 70-73-69-73 — 285Ryan Palmer, $77,000 74-72-72-68 — 286Patrick Reed, $77,000 71-73-71-71 — 286Jamie Donaldson, $73,500 71-77-68-71 — 287Tommy Fleetwood, $73,500 69-75-74-69 — 287Stephen Gallacher, $73,500 72-72-71-72 — 287Henrik Stenson, $73,500 70-71-81-65 — 287Sergio Garcia, $68,500 74-72-73-69 — 288J.B. Holmes, $68,500 70-71-73-74 — 288Anirban Lahiri, $68,500 74-70-74-70 — 288Joost Luiten, $68,500 77-71-69-71 — 288Hunter Mahan, $68,500 74-68-71-75 — 288Ryan Moore, $68,500 74-71-72-71 — 288Shane Lowry, $65,000 78-69-74-68 — 289Russell Henley, $61,500 71-75-74-70 — 290Haotong Li, $61,500 75-72-76-67 — 290John Senden, $61,500 73-73-72-72 — 290Jordan Spieth, $61,500 70-74-72-74 — 290Jimmy Walker), $61,500 73-69-75-73 — 290Marc Warren, $61,500 75-72-69-74 — 290

Thomas Bjorn, $56,000 72-75-72-72 — 291Luke Donald, $56,000 74-72-74-71 — 291Thongchai Jaidee, $56,000 71-76-75-69 — 291Hideki Matsuyama, $56,000 74-69-73-75 — 291Dawie van der Walt, $56,000 70-72-75-74 — 291Ernie Els, $52,500 74-70-74-74 — 292Mikko Ilonen, $52,500 75-76-71-70 — 292Felipe Aguilar, $49,300 76-74-71-72 — 293Bill Haas, $49,300 70-74-72-77 — 293WC Liang, $49,300 75-74-73-71 — 293Justin Rose, $49,300 72-71-76-74 — 293Marcel Siem, $49,300 72-72-76-73 — 293Matt Jones, $47,000 75-76-71-72 — 294Hennie Otto, $47,000 74-72-75-73 — 294Scott Stallings, $47,000 74-76-77-67 — 294

Sanderson Farms ChampionshipSundayAt The Country Club of JacksonJackson, Miss.Purse: $4 millionYardage: 7,354; Par: 72FinalNick Taylor, $720,000 67-69-70-66 — 272Boo Weekley, $352,000 70-68-70-66 — 274Jason Bohn, $352,000 68-71-66-69 — 274Peter Uihlein, $165,333 70-71-69-65 — 275Justin Thomas, $165,333 71-68-69-67 — 275John Rollins, $165,333 68-66-68-73 — 275William McGirt, $134,000 68-70-66-72 — 276Robert Streb, $124,000 67-70-70-70 — 277Blayne Barber, $100,000 71-71-70-66 — 278Garrett Osborn, $100,000 70-69-71-68 — 278Carlos Sainz Jr, $100,000 70-70-69-69 — 278Mark Wilson, $100,000 71-69-68-70 — 278David Toms $100,000 68-66-72-72 — 278David Hearn, $66,000 69-72-71-67 — 279Cory Whitsett, $66,000 72-69-70-68 — 279Charles Howell III (30), $66,000 71-69-70-69 — 279Will Wilcox, $66,000 69-71-68-71 — 279Fabian Gomez, $66,000 71-68-69-71 — 279Kyle Reifers, $66,000 71-70-67-71 — 279Jason Kokrak, $50,000 69-70-71-70 — 280Vaughn Taylor, $50,000 72-66-71-71 — 280Greg Owen, $41,600 72-69-69-71 — 281Jerry Kelly, $41,600 70-73-72-66 — 281Lucas Glover, $41,600 71-67-67-76 — 281Shawn Stefani, $31,900 70-68-73-71 — 282

CFLEast Division

GP W L T PF PA Ptx-Hamilton 18 9 9 0 417 395 18x-Montreal 18 9 9 0 360 394 18Toronto 18 8 10 0 450 456 16Ottawa 18 2 16 0 278 465 4

West Division GP W L T PF PA Ptx-Calgary 18 15 3 0 511 347 30x-Edmonton 18 12 6 0 492 340 24x-Sask. 18 10 8 0 399 441 20x-B.C. 18 9 9 0 380 365 18Winnipeg 18 7 11 0 397 481 14

Week 20Friday’s resultsToronto 23 Ottawa 5Calgary 33 B.C. 16Saturday’s resultsHamilton 29 Montreal 15Saskatchewan 24 Edmonton 17

CFL PlayoffsSunday, Nov. 16Division SemifinalsEastB.C. at Montreal, 11 a.m.WestSaskatchewan at Edmonton, 2:30 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 23Division FinalsEastMontreal-B.C. winner at Hamilton, 11 a.m.WestEdmonton-Saskatchewan winner at Calgary, 2:30 p.m.

102nd Grey CupSunday, Nov. 30At VancouverEast Champion vs. West Champion, 4 p.m.

Canadian Football League Scoring Leaders TD C FG S PtWaters, Tor 0 40 47 11 192Medlock, Ham 0 38 44 11 181Whyte, Mtl 0 30 41 13 166Hajrullahu, Wpg 0 31 40 8 159Paredes, Cgy 0 53 33 3 155McCallum, BC 0 34 38 4 152Milo, Sask 0 34 30 5 129Maher, Ott 0 27 25 10 112Shaw, Edm 0 21 23 7 97O’Neill, Edm 0 26 20 9 95Grigsby, Wpg-Ham 10 0 0 0 60

Tate, Cgy 10 0 0 0 60x-Allen, Sask 8 2 0 0 50x-Reilly, Edm 8 2 0 0 50Arceneaux, BC 8 0 0 0 48D.Carter, Mtl 8 0 0 0 48Owens, Tor 8 0 0 0 48Banks, Ham 7 0 0 0 42Ford, Sask 7 0 0 0 42Marsh, Mtl 7 0 0 0 42x-Cornish, Cgy 6 2 0 0 38Bowman, Edm 6 0 0 0 36A.Harris, BC 6 0 0 0 36Fuller, Cgy 5 0 0 0 30K.Lawrence, Edm 5 0 0 0 30Slaton, Tor 5 0 0 0 30Steele, Tor 5 0 0 0 30Tasker, Ham 5 0 0 0 30Barnes, Tor 4 0 0 0 24Gable, Ham 4 0 0 0 24Green, Mtl 4 0 0 0 24J.Johnson, Tor-Ott 4 0 0 0 24LeFevour, Ham 4 0 0 0 24Marve, Wpg 4 0 0 0 24McDaniel, Cgy 4 0 0 0 24Miles, Ott 4 0 0 0 24Mitchell, Cgy 4 0 0 0 24Parker, Cgy 4 0 0 0 24Walker, Ott 4 0 0 0 24P.White, Edm 4 0 0 0 24x-Dressler, Sask 3 6 0 0 24

National Football LeagueAMERICAN CONFERENCE

East W L T Pct PF PANew England 7 2 0 .778 281 198Buffalo 5 4 0 .556 191 182Miami 5 4 0 .556 227 171N.Y. Jets 2 8 0 .200 174 265

South W L T Pct PF PAIndianapolis 6 3 0 .667 290 211Houston 4 5 0 .444 206 197Tennessee 2 7 0 .222 144 223Jacksonville 1 9 0 .100 158 282

North W L T Pct PF PACleveland 6 3 0 .667 209 172Cincinnati 5 3 1 .611 197 211Pittsburgh 6 4 0 .600 261 239Baltimore 6 4 0 .600 261 181

West W L T Pct PF PADenver 7 2 0 .778 286 202Kansas City 6 3 0 .667 217 151San Diego 5 4 0 .556 205 186Oakland 0 9 0 .000 146 252

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PAPhiladelphia 6 2 0 .750 234 177Dallas 7 3 0 .700 261 212N.Y. Giants 3 6 0 .333 195 247Washington 3 6 0 .333 197 229

South W L T Pct PF PANew Orleans 4 5 0 .444 251 225Carolina 3 5 1 .389 177 236Atlanta 3 6 0 .333 219 238Tampa Bay 1 8 0 .111 167 272

North W L T Pct PF PADetroit 7 2 0 .778 182 142Green Bay 6 3 0 .667 277 205Minnesota 4 5 0 .444 168 199Chicago 3 6 0 .333 194 277

West W L T Pct PF PAArizona 8 1 0 .889 223 170Seattle 6 3 0 .667 240 191San Francisco 5 4 0 .556 195 202St. Louis 3 6 0 .333 163 251

Thursday’s GameCleveland 24, Cincinnati 3

Sunday’s GamesSan Francisco 27, New Orleans 24, OTKansas City 17, Buffalo 13Detroit 20, Miami 16Baltimore 21, Tennessee 7N.Y. Jets 20, Pittsburgh 13Atlanta 27, Tampa Bay 17Dallas 31, Jacksonville 17Denver 41, Oakland 17Seattle 38, N.Y. Giants 17Arizona 31, St. Louis 14Green Bay 55, Chicago 14Open: Houston, Indianapolis, Minnesota, New Eng-land, San Diego, Washington

Monday’s GameCarolina at Philadelphia, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 13Buffalo at Miami, 8:25 p.m.

NFL Odds(Odds provided by Western Canada Lottery; favou-rites in capital letters) Spread O/UMondayCarolina at PHILADELPHIA 6.5 48.5

National Basketball AssociationEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division W L Pct GBToronto 6 1 .857 —Brooklyn 4 2 .667 1 1/2Boston 3 3 .500 2 1/2New York 2 5 .286 4Philadelphia 0 7 .000 6

Southeast Division W L Pct GBMiami 5 2 .714 —Washington 5 2 .714 —Charlotte 3 4 .429 2Atlanta 2 3 .400 2Orlando 2 5 .286 3

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 5 2 .714 —Milwaukee 3 4 .429 2Cleveland 2 3 .400 2Detroit 2 4 .333 2 1/2Indiana 1 6 .143 4

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBMemphis 6 1 .857 —Houston 6 1 .857 —New Orleans 3 2 .600 2Dallas 4 3 .571 2San Antonio 2 3 .400 3

Northwest Division W L Pct GBPortland 4 3 .571 —Utah 3 4 .429 1Minnesota 2 4 .333 1 1/2

Oklahoma City 2 5 .286 2Denver 1 5 .167 2 1/2

Pacific Division W L Pct GBGolden State 5 1 .833 —Sacramento 5 2 .714 1/2L.A. Clippers 4 2 .667 1Phoenix 4 3 .571 1 1/2L.A. Lakers 1 5 .167 4

Saturday’s GamesL.A. Clippers 106, Portland 102Washington 97, Indiana 90Atlanta 103, New York 96Miami 102, Minnesota 92Boston 106, Chicago 101Golden State 98, Houston 87Milwaukee 93, Memphis 92New Orleans 100, San Antonio 99

Sunday’s GamesBrooklyn 104, Orlando 96Utah 97, Detroit 96Oklahoma City 101, Sacramento 93Toronto 120, Philadelphia 88Miami 105, Dallas 96Phoenix 107, Golden State 95Portland 116, Denver 100L.A. Lakers 107, Charlotte 92

Monday’s GamesUtah at Indiana, 5 p.m.New Orleans at Cleveland, 5 p.m.Atlanta at New York, 5:30 p.m.Detroit at Chicago, 6 p.m.San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Monday● Women’s basketball: Hoosier Daddy vs. Storm, Young Gunns vs. TBC, 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber; Rampage vs. Triple Threat, 7:15 p.m., Lindsay Thurber new gym.

Tuesday● Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills at Blackfalds, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday● Senior high volleyball: Sudden-death semifinals at Hunting Hills — Girls at 6 p.m., Hunting Hills vs. Notre Dame; boys to follow, Lindsay Thurber vs. Hunting Hills.● Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Ponoka, 7:45 p.m.

Thursday● Senior high volleyball: Game 1 of best-of-three zone girls and boys finals, 6 p.m. start, teams TBA.● College women’s hockey: Grant MacEwan at RDC, 7 p.m., Arena.● Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Indy Graphics at Lacombe, 7:15 p.m.

Friday● World Curling Tour: Red Deer Curling Classic, Pidherney Centre.● Soccer: Red Deer City Soccer Association Hampton Inn & Suites at the Collicutt Centre.● College basketball: Lethbridge at RDC, women at 6 p.m., men to follow.● Senior high volleyball: Game 2 of best-of-three zone girls and boys finals, 6 p.m. start, teams TBA.● JV volleyball: Boys and girls finals, 6 p.m., teams TBA.● WHL: Lethbridge at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium.● AJHL: Calgary Canucks at Olds, 7 p.m.● Boxing: Rumble in Red Deer 6, 7 p.m., Westerner Harvest Centre.● Heritage junior B hockey: Red Deer at Three Hills, 8 p.m., Trochu.● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Rangers at Sylvan Lake, 8:15 p.m.● Chinook senior hockey: Okotoks at Innisfail, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday● Soccer: Red Deer City Soccer Association Hampton Inn & Suites at the Collicutt Centre.● World Curling Tour: Red Deer Curling Classic, Pidherney Centre.● Peewee AA hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer TBS, 12:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre.● College basketball: Lethbridge at RDC, women at 1 p.m., men to follow.● Midget AA hockey: Calgary Blue at Red Deer Elks, 2 p.m., Arena; Letbridge at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 4:45 p.m., Arena.● Junior women’s hockey: Calgary Warriors at Central Alberta, 3:45 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex.● Major midget girls hockey: Rocky Mountain at Red Deer, 5 p.m., Collicutt Centre.● Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Ramada at Sylvan Lake, 5:15 p.m., Caroline.● Senior high volleyball: Game 3 of best-of-three zone girls and boys finals, if necessary, 6 p.m. start, teams TBA.● WHL: Saskatoon at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium.● College men’s hockey: Grant MacEwan at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex.● Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie at Ponoka, 8 p.m.; Mountainview at Three Hills, 8 p.m., Trochu.

Sunday● Soccer: Red Deer City Soccer Association Hampton Inn & Suites at the Collicutt Centre.● World Curling Tour: Red Deer Curling Classic, Pidherney Centre.● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer TBS at Red Deer Parkland, 11:30 a.m., Collicutt Centre.● Midget AA hockey: Okotoks at Red Deer Indy Graphics, noon, Arena.● Major midget girls hockey: Calgary at Red Deer, 12:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre.● Chinook senior hockey: Okotoks at Bentley, 2 p.m.● Bantam AA hockey: Medicine Hat at Red Deer Ramada, 2 p.m., Kinsmen A.● Midget AAA hockey: Edmonton Canadians at Red Deer, 3 p.m., Arena.● Heritage junior B hockey: Medicine

WHLEASTERN CONFERENCE

EAST DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtBrandon 20 16 3 1 0 100 60 33Swift Current 22 11 8 0 3 62 61 25Regina 18 8 9 1 0 56 51 17Prince Albert 19 8 11 0 0 55 62 16Moose Jaw 19 7 10 1 1 49 66 16Saskatoon 19 6 13 0 0 50 86 12

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtMedicine Hat 18 14 3 1 0 72 38 29Calgary 20 10 8 0 2 70 56 22Edmonton 20 10 8 0 2 55 49 22Red Deer 20 9 8 2 1 70 71 21Lethbridge 19 5 10 3 1 49 79 14Kootenay 19 6 13 0 0 45 81 12

WESTERN CONFERENCEB.C. DIVISION

GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtKelowna 19 17 1 1 0 94 41 35Prince George 20 11 9 0 0 59 81 22Victoria 21 10 9 2 0 65 71 22Kamloops 21 9 9 2 1 67 74 21Vancouver 18 7 11 0 0 54 57 14

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtEverett 17 12 2 2 1 67 41 27Tri-City 20 12 8 0 0 56 50 24Spokane 16 8 5 3 0 47 48 19Seattle 18 8 7 2 1 48 48 19Portland 21 8 11 0 2 65 84 18

Saturday’s resultsSaskatoon 4 Seattle 2

Brandon 2 Calgary 1 (SO)Kootenay 3 Swift Current 2 (SO)

Edmonton 4 Lethbridge 0Medicine Hat 4 Moose Jaw 2Portland 4 Kamloops 3 (OT)Victoria 6 Prince George 2Tri-City 3 Red Deer 2 (OT)

Kelowna 5 Vancouver 0Spokane 6 Everett 4

Tuesday’s gamesKelowna at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s gamesSeattle at Moose Jaw, 6 p.m.

Regina at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.Tri-City at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Americans 3, Rebels 2 (OT)First Period

1. Tri-City, James 2 (Topping, Comrie) 17:51.Penalties — Williams TC (hooking) 1:18, Strand RD (delay of game) 9:54, Johnson RD (fighting) 18:16, Hamonic TC (fighting) 18:16.

Second Period2. Red Deer, Feser 5 (Polei, Musil) 1:48.3. Red Deer, Sandhu 5 (Strand, Cote) 12:05.4. Tri-City, Vickerman 1 (Purtill, Thrower) 19:55 (pp).Penalties — Fafard RD (high-sticking) 4:13, James TC (tripping) 9:00, Strand RD (holding) 14:49, Bleackley RD (slashing) 18:39.

Third PeriodNo Scoring.Penalties — None.

Overtime5. Tri-City, McCue 8 (Nickles) 2:34.Penalties — None.

Shots on goalRed Deer 8 5 12 0 — 25Tri-City 11 7 8 2 — 28Goal — Red Deer: Toth (LS, 8-5-2);Power plays (goal-chances) — Red Deer: 0-2; Tri-City: 1-4.

WHL Scoring Leaders G A Pts

Nick Merkley, Kel 7 27 34Rourke Chartier, Kel 18 14 32Cole Sanford, MH 13 15 28Rihards Bukarts, Bra 10 18 28Cole Ully, Kam 9 19 28Austin Carroll, Vic 13 13 26Madison Bowey, Kel 7 19 26Jayce Hawryluk, Bra 12 13 25Coda Gordon, SC 10 15 25Joe Hicketts, Vic 5 19 24Trevor Cox, MH 2 22 24Nikita Scherbak, Eve 11 12 23Chase De Leo, Por 11 12 23Chad Butcher, MH 11 12 23Colby Cave, SC 8 15 23Adam Helewka, Spo 10 12 22Jack Rodewald, MJ 10 12 22Matt Needham, Kam 8 14 22Brayden Point, MJ 8 14 22Ivan Provorov, Bra 8 14 22Jansen Harkins, PG 5 17 22Tyson Baillie, Kel 13 8 21Jake Debrusk, SC 10 11 21Tim McGauley, Bra 8 13 21Parker Bowles, TC 7 14 21Peter Quenneville, Bra 4 17 21Jari Erricson, PG 11 9 20Oliver Bjorkstrand, Por 11 9 20Deven Sideroff, Kam 10 10 20Carson Stadnyk, Eve 9 11 20Adam Tambellini, CAL 11 8 19Justin Kirkland, Kel 8 11 19Steven Owre, MH 8 11 19Adam Musil, RD 7 12 19Brett Cote, RD 2 17 19

National Hockey LeagueEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GATampa Bay 15 11 3 1 23 58 41Montreal 15 10 4 1 21 37 42Detroit 15 7 3 5 19 40 37Boston 15 9 6 0 18 43 35Toronto 15 8 5 2 18 47 42Ottawa 14 7 4 3 17 38 34Florida 12 4 4 4 12 20 30Buffalo 16 3 11 2 8 20 54

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAPittsburgh 13 10 2 1 21 55 27N.Y. Islanders 14 9 5 0 18 42 42Philadelphia 14 7 5 2 16 45 43Washington 14 6 5 3 15 45 42New Jersey 14 6 6 2 14 38 45N.Y. Rangers 14 6 6 2 14 39 46Carolina 13 4 6 3 11 31 43Columbus 14 4 9 1 9 36 51

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GANashville 14 9 3 2 20 35 28St. Louis 14 9 4 1 19 35 28Winnipeg 15 8 5 2 18 30 32Chicago 15 8 6 1 17 41 28Minnesota 13 7 6 0 14 37 29Colorado 16 4 7 5 13 40 50Dallas 14 4 6 4 12 40 50

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAAnaheim 16 10 3 3 23 41 32Vancouver 16 11 5 0 22 49 44Calgary 16 9 5 2 20 49 41Los Angeles 15 8 4 3 19 37 30San Jose 16 8 6 2 18 50 46Arizona 14 6 7 1 13 34 47Edmonton 15 6 8 1 13 38 51NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s GamesWinnipeg 2, Ottawa 1, SOCalgary 6, Florida 4Pittsburgh 6, Buffalo 1

Toronto 5, N.Y. Rangers 4Montreal 4, Minnesota 1Philadelphia 4, Colorado 3Tampa Bay 7, Columbus 4Washington 4, Carolina 3, OTNashville 2, St. Louis 1San Jose 5, Dallas 3N.Y. Islanders 1, Arizona 0Los Angeles 5, Vancouver 1

Sunday’s GamesTampa Bay 4, Detroit 3, SOVancouver 2, Anaheim 1, SOEdmonton 3, N.Y. Rangers 1Toronto 5, Ottawa 3Chicago 5, San Jose 2

Monday’s GamesNew Jersey at Boston, 5 p.m.Calgary at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Tuesday’s GamesMinnesota at New Jersey, 5 p.m.Colorado at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.Columbus at Washington, 5 p.m.Winnipeg at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.San Jose at Florida, 5:30 p.m.Buffalo at St. Louis, 6 p.m.Edmonton at Nashville, 6 p.m.Tampa Bay at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.Dallas at Arizona, 7 p.m.Ottawa at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s summary

Oilers 3, Rangers 1First Period

1. Edmonton, Nugent-Hopkins 5 (Pouliot, Eberle) 3:19.2. NY Rangers, Hagelin 4 (Hayes, Stempniak) 12:34.Penalties — None.

Second Period3. Edmonton, Pouliot 2 (Nugent-Hopkins) 8:29.Penalties — Eberle Edm (hooking) 0:34, Staal NYR (tripping) 10:19, Zuccarello NYR (high-sticking) 19:11.

Third Period4. Edmonton, Purcell 2 (Hendricks) 18:33 (en).Penalties — Kreider NYR (goaltender interference) 15:54.

Shots on goalEdmonton 11 13 9 — 33NY Rangers 8 6 7 — 21Goal — Edmonton: Fasth (W, 2-2-1); NY Rangers: Lundqvist (L, 6-4-1).Power plays (goal-chances) — Edmonton: 0-3; NY Rangers: 0-1.

NHL Scoring Leaders G A PtsSidney Crosby, Pgh 7 17 24Jakub Voracek, Pha 6 16 22Tyler Seguin, Dal 10 9 19Phil Kessel, Tor 8 11 19Patric Hornqvist, Pgh 9 9 18Mark Giordano, Cgy 5 13 18Claude Giroux, Pha 4 14 18Vladimir Tarasenko, StL 9 8 17Tyler Toffoli, LA 7 10 17Evgeni Malkin, Pgh 6 11 17Tyler Johnson, TB 4 13 17Chris Kunitz, Pgh 8 8 16Logan Couture, SJ 7 9 16Ryan Johansen, Clb 6 10 16Henrik Zetterberg, Det 4 12 16Corey Perry, Ana 11 4 15Nick Foligno, Clb 7 8 15Brent Burns, SJ 6 9 15John Tavares, NYI 6 9 15Filip Forsberg, Nash 6 9 15Patrick Marleau, SJ 5 10 15Henrik Sedin, Vcr 5 10 15Ryan Getzlaf, Ana 4 11 15Rick Nash, NYR 11 3 14

RDC: DisappointingIt was a disappointing result after the Kings

had played so well the night before in Calgary. On Friday, they were not only able to match the Trojans’ physical style of play, they also forechecked hard and used their speed to their advantage. On Saturday, they were only really able to match SAIT’s physicality.

When they fell behind by three goals, they did not have enough left in the tank to rally.

“That’s like running up hill, trying to come out of that hole, you spend a lot of gas and it’s very exhausting, physically and mentally,” said Keeper.

This week they’re in Edmonton to play the MacEwan Griffins (7-2-0-3) on Friday at 8:15 p.m. and then host the Griffins on Saturday at 7 p.m. in Penhold. Keeper is expect a similar hard hitting style from the team they elimi-nated in the first round of last year’s playoffs, winning the best-of-three series 2-1.

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Minor midget AAThe Red Deer Northstar Chiefs, with Daegan

MacDonald, Jerryd Wold, Kobe Williams and Eric Pecharsky each scoring a goal, edged the host Calgary Blazers 4-3 Sunday.

Canon Whitbread made 30 saves as Red Deer held a 51-33 advantage in shots.

Major midget girlsThe Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs split a

pair of weekend games with the host Lloydmin-ster Steelers.

The Chiefs prevailed 5-2 Saturday, getting two goals from Carly Wlad, singles off the sticks of Gina Sosnowski, Erika Marshall and Mad-dison Toppe and a 31-save outing from Sarah Murray. The visitors held a 44-31 advantage in shots.

On Sunday, Bailey Knapp made 25 saves in a losing cause as Red Deer fell 1-0. The Chiefs outshot their hosts 31-26.

Midget AAThe Red Deer Indy Graphics Chiefs swept

the Olds Grizzlys in a midget AA weekend se-ries.

Declan Johnston, Josh Bussard and Lane Sim each scored twice in a 9-0 victory Friday. Also scoring for the Chiefs were Mack Differ-enz, Tanner Zentner and Jared Wright, while Geordan Andrew made 27 saves for the shut-out.

On Sunday, the Chiefs rallied for a 6-3 victo-ry as Bussard recorded a hat trick and Zentner, Sam Danchek and Logan Linnell also scored. Justin Anderson stopped 12 shots for the win-ners.

Major bantamThe Red Deer Rebels Black dropped both

ends of a weekend home-and-home set with the Rocky Mountain Raiders.

Josh McNeil fired three goals and Hayden Clayton picked up four assists as the Rebels Black lost 9-5 to the Raiders Saturday at the Arena. Elijah Johanson and Wyatt Gelinas also scored in a losing cause.

Wyatt Argent made 36 saves for the hosts, who were outshot 45-34.

On Sunday, the Rebels Black were outshot 68-22 in a 9-3 loss to the Raiders at the Max Bell Centre in Calgary. Clayton, Loclyn Kabatoff and Brendon McBride accounted for the other Red Deer goals, while Steven Arthur stopped 59 shots.

MINOR HOCKEY ROUNDUP


Packers 55 Bears 14GREEN BAY, Wis. — Aaron Rod-

gers had a record-setting night for the Green Bay Packers. The Chicago Bears’ season is quickly turning into a nightmare.

Rodgers threw six touchdown pass-es to tie the franchise game record and match the NFL record for a half, and the Packers routed the reeling Bears 55-14 on Sunday night.

Rodgers was 18 of 27 for 315 yards, throwing touchdown passes of 73 and 40 yards to Jordy Nelson. The Pack-ers (6-3) led 42-0 at halftime. Rodgers watched most of the second half from the sideline in knit cap with the win well in hand.

The 190th meeting of the NFL’s old-est rivalry turned into an old-fashioned blowout.

He tied the team touchdown pass record that he shared with Matt Flynn and matched the NFL mark for a half set by Oakland’s Daryle Lamonica in 1969.

A night full of milestones included Rodgers’ 16th scoring pass of 70 yards or more to break the record he shared with Denver’s Peyton Manning and Rodgers’ predecessor in Green Bay, Brett Favre.

Rodgers looked just fine two weeks after tweaking his left hamstring in a loss to New Orleans.

The 55 points tied a Packers record at Lambeau Field.

Both teams were coming off byes. The down time didn’t help the Bears, who have lost five of six to drop to 3-6.

Their defence has fallen completely apart.

Two weeks after giving up 38 points in the first half in a 51-23 loss to the Patriots, the Bears set a dubious fran-chise record by giving up 42 points in a half.

Embattled quarterback Jay Cutler was on his way to having another night to forget at Lambeau Field with two first-half turnovers. He has thrown 12 interceptions in four career games in Titletown.

Cutler was 22 of 37 for 272 yards. His performance surely won’t ease the withering criticism the quarterback has faced back home in Chicago.

Rodgers could seemingly do no wrong.

He connected with tight end An-drew Quarless on a 4-yard scoring strike with 3:53 left in the quarter for a 14-0 lead.

But the misery was only just begin-ning for the Chicago secondary.

Rodgers found Nelson for a 40-yard touchdown pass with 12:17 left in the second quarter. A screen pass to Eddie Lacy on Green Bay’s next possession turned into another catch-and-run for a 56-yard score and a five-touchdown lead.

About the only thing that went wrong for the Packers was when Cobb fumbled near the goal line after a 4-yard catch. The Bears recovered in the end zone — but even that play went awry for Chicago after Kyle Fuller was whistled for unnecessary roughness.

Nelson had six receptions for 152 yards, while Cobb had 72 yards on four catches.

He caught a touchdown for the sixth straight game.

‘Ponoka Pride’ might be bursting a button or two, after two of Canada’s newest rodeo champions are connect-ed to the cowboy minded community.

The 41st Canadian Finals Rodeo at-tracted more than 90,000 fans to watch pro contestants in their season play-offs, with more than $1.5 million at stake. The championships were hand-ed out Sunday afternoon.

Jake Vold, who was raised in Pono-ka, actually cinched up his first Cana-dian bareback title Saturday night.

He came into his fifth CFR with a more than $15,000 lead on the field, fol-lowing a season where he won twelve rodeos. Then he managed to capture first at two of the rounds at Rexall Place, marking an 88.75 on Mucho Dinero Friday night, and then taking first place money again Saturday night with an 86.5 on Mile Away.

The $23,619 padded his lead to an untouchable position, and despite be-ing disqualified Sunday for slapping his horse, he finished the year with $63,623.

“My week started slow,” commented Vold. “It was hot, cold, hot and then just cold again, but that’s just how it goes. That’s rodeo. I’m disap-pointed in my last day, but that’s why it’s such a humbling event.”

“But to have the domi-nant performance I had all summer, and coming here, to win a couple rounds felt pretty good. Definitely I accomplished my goals this year in Canada.”

Vold’s talent was evident early on in his career, but just when he’d get some momentum rolling and be in a position to capitalize on it, he suffered injuries. It would be easy to get discouraged, but Vold persevered, which made this victory extra sweet.

“This is huge. It makes all the time in the gym, the physio, the money I’ve got invested in myself, this makes it all go away. It is pretty sweet the way it all ends up. It was meant to be that way.”

Vold’s rodeo season isn’t yet over, because he’s one of the three Canadi-ans headed to the National Finals Ro-deo in Las Vegas next month.

In the team roping, it was a shoot out to the finish, but when the dust cleared, season leaders Levi Simpson and Ryon Tittel rode away with the honors. It’s the second time Simpson, who lives in Ponoka, has claimed the header honors, but the first time his Colorado partner has won the heeling buckle.

“Actually for the past few years, I don’t think anyone who’s actually come in first has ended up winning it,” noted Simpson.

“Kolton (Schmidt) and Rocky (Dal-lyn) came on strong all week, putting the pressure on us. It’s been a little frustrating. But we just knew we had to catch the last cow and let it play out, and see how it worked.”

Simpson and Tittel roped their last draw Sunday in 4.6 seconds, but a slipped heel gave them an extra five seconds, so the 9.6 didn’t place. How-ever, header Kolton Schmidt failed to catch his steer, dropping his team in the average, while Simpson and Tittel finished second there.

They each collected $14,686, for al-so splitting first in the opening two rounds.

“I darn sure wanted to take a consis-tent shot today, and I did, and I’m just thankful that my partner spins them fast enough,” smiled Tittel.

“It’s been a great journey. Meeting Levi was quite a blessing for me this winter, and I just enjoyed the whole summer with him and his family. They’re great people and it’s been real fun.”

“It means the world to me,” added Simpson, about his second champion-ship. “I’ve been waiting since 2011 to try and do this again, and to be able to do it with Ryan is awesome.”

Bowden cowboy Ky Marshall was able to walk away from Edmonton with his first rodeo title, as he claimed the All-Around honors.

Marshall had the lead heading into the final Sunday, after placing three times and earning $10,447 in the bare-back riding. But it wasn’t until three-time champion Kyle Thomson bucked off his saddle bronc that Marshall

clinched the award. “It’s always been my goal to be a Ca-

nadian champion in the All-Around,” stated Marshall, who also competes in tie-down roping.

“Coming in here Sunday, it’s ner-vous because you know there’s still a lot of money up for grabs, but it all worked out in the end, and it feels great.”

Donalda’s Curtis Cassidy made a big haul out of Edmonton, where he competed in both tie-down roping and steer wrestling. Not only did he earn his eighth High Point championship, he also finished first in the average for the roping.

That gave him $38,154 in that event, and he was runner-up for the title, but he also cashed in another $20,421 in

the steer wrestling, where he ended the year in third place.

“My main goal when I come here is to win a championship in either one of my events,” said Cassidy. “But to win the High Point is still great.”

Cassidy wound up the sea-son with earnings of just over $101,000, and that was signifi-cant in his books.

“That was one of my goals for a long time was to win $50,000 in the regular season, and to win a hundred thou-sand after the CFR between the two events. To win a hun-dred after it’s all said and done is pretty cool.”

“To come into Sunday af-ter a whole season and still have a chance at a championship, or two, is darn good.”

Cassidy is also Las Vegas bound, where he made the top 15 in the steer wrestling.

For the second time in his career, Tanner Milan of Cochrane grabbed the Canadian steer wrestling champion-ship. But it took a round-winning 3.5 second run Sunday in order to clinch the honor in a tightly packed race. His CFR account had $42,393 at the end of the day, which was quite a triumph considering he was kicked in the knees by a horse in the back alley opening night.

The 2014 saddle bronc champion-ship was decided by the closest mar-gin. Tyler Corrington of Minnesota took the honors by a mere $238. He, too, sealed the deal by finishing first in the final round, with an 86 mark.

He walked away with $48,146 of Ca-nadian Finals earnings, for a $78,668 season. Edged out was his travelling partner Cort Scheer, but don’t feel too sorry for the Nebraska rider. He picked up the Ram Top Gun award as the top money winner of the CFR, with earnings of $62,984. Both bronc rid-ers are on the NFR roster, along with Dustin Flundra of Pincher Creek.

Another first time winner came in the barrel racing, when Steffanie Mather of Medicine Hat turned a sol-id performance all week long into a championship buckle. She picked up a cheque in all six rounds on her horse Bucky to win the average, and a total of $38,442 in Edmonton. But it was also a big week for Innisfail’s Sydney Daines. The RDC Soccer and Basketball team member raced to three firsts and a second place finish, setting the fastest time of the week Sunday, and collect-ing $44,210.

“We’ve saved eighteen years for her college education,” joked her father Duane Daines. “And she earned that in just one week at Edmonton!”

Dakota Buttar of Kindersley, SK turned 22 on Friday, and he celebrated by riding his way to his first Canadi-an bull riding buckle. He rode five of his six bulls, winning the average, and $47,684 at the CFR. He was season leader coming in, and wound up with an $82,810 year. Matt Shiozawa of Idaho was the top tie-down roper coming into Edmonton, and he also parlayed that into his first championship, by winning two go-rounds, and tying for second Sunday. He made $39,668 at the CFR, for a $65,062 season. Ponoka’s Tyler Pankewitz had his best week ever in Edmonton, riding five of his six bulls and finishing second in the average, to collect $31,492.

Dantan Bertsch of Eastend, SK won the novice bareback title, with the nov-ice saddle bronc buckle going to Lane Cust of Ardmore. Coy Robbins of Cam-rose won the boys steer riding.

Dianne Finstad is a Red Deer rodeo freelance writer


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Optimist Chiefs take another tough lossBY JOSH ALDRICH

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Storm 4 Optimist Chiefs 2Red Deer Optimist Chiefs head

coach is the first to admit the results the midget AAA team has had this year are not what he was hoping for, how-ever, he sees their hard work and per-sistence starting to pay off.

Despite a 4-2 loss to the Grande Prairie Storm on Sunday at the Red Deer Arena, it was their third straight solid effort in a row, now they just have to find a way to have those efforts transfer over to the win column.

“It takes patience,” said Chiefs head coach Brandin Cote.

“We’re preaching things that we want them to do and at the end of the day we’re not happy with the results, by any means, but at the same time I’m encouraged, I still totally believe in

this team that when it comes to crunch time we have a team that can contend and compete.”

It has been a trying two months for the new head coach as the Chiefs have stumbled out of the gate to sit in the Alberta Midget Hockey League’s basement. Cote has committed to the process all season, and with their re-cent string of games — including an 8-0 shutout over the Maple Leaf Athletic Club on Saturday in Red Deer and a 1-0 loss to the Canadian Athletic Club last Sunday — the tide finally appears to be turning.

“We are seeing growth, and that’s all that I can say,” said Cote. “We have a plan as a coaching staff and we are seeing improvement ...

“In terms of the way we are playing and the details and our defensive play that was not so good at the start of the year, that’s been a lot better.”

On Sunday, the Storm and Chiefs

entered the third period tied at 2-2, but a goal by Nolan Yaremko 48 seconds into the frame put Red Deer in chase mode and they were unable to get the tying score.

Logan Mazerolle iced the game for Grande Prairie with an empty netter, his second goal of the contest. Brett Roberts also scored for the Storm while David Testawich made 28 saves for the win.

The Chiefs got goals from Ryley Smith and Tyler Graber while Luke Coleman assisted on both markers.

“We need our best players to be bet-ter consistently and there’s always one or two mental mistakes that have cost us games,” said Cote.

Brandon Bilodeau made 30 saves in his third-straight start — he made 19 stops to pick up the shutout the night before against MLAC.

Cote, however, insists they are still in a platoon situation with Bilodeau

and Cole Sears, he was just riding the hot hand, hoping to build on some pos-itive momentum.

“Brandon’s earned the right to play right now, Cole has struggled at times, but that doesn’t mean we’re giving up on Cole,” said Cote. “Cole Sears is a guy who has been here before and he’s a guy we expect to be just as valuable as the other guy.”

The Chiefs are in Calgary on Sat-urday to play the Calgary Royals and then host CAC again on Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Red Deer Arena.

NOTES — In Saturday’s 8-0 win over CAC, Chase Olsen led the Chiefs with three goals and an assist, Brad Mafof-ka had two goals and two assists, Smith had two goals and Regan Doig potted the other ... Smith (10 goals, three ass-sits) and Mafofka (5-8-13) were tied for the team lead in points with 13 head-ing into the weekend.

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Generals 6 Eagles 0Cam Maclise scored twice and Travis Yonkman

stopped all 17 shots he faced as the visiting Bentley Generals blanked the Stony Plain Eagles 6-0 in Chi-nook Hockey League action Saturday.

Giffen Nyren notched a goal and added an assist for the winners, who got additional markers from Torrie Dyck, Colin Dueck and Brett Robertson. The Generals, who didn’t score a power-play goal, were assessed six of 10 minor penalties. Stony Plain net-minder Wade Waters faced 33 shots.

Drillers 7 Eagles 6The host Okotoks Drillers scored two late goals to

edge the Innisfail Eagles 7-6 in another CHL game Saturday.

Jesse Todd pulled the hosts into a 6-6 tie with a goal at 11:19 of the third period and Alex Pron-chuk potted the winner 62 seconds later. Mike Wirll sniped two goals and contributed three assists for the Eagles, while Mark Bomersback had a goal and two helpers and Chad Ziegler, Matt Hunter and Jeff Young also scored for Innisfail.

Curtis Billsten paced the Drillers with a pair of goals. Adrian Foster, Kyle Reed and Tommy Mikrut rounded out the Okotoks attack.

Adam Melon, the winning netminder, and Todd La Fontain combined to made 29 saves for Okotoks. Ste-ven Stanford turned aside 44 shots for the visitors.

Generals 4 Eagles 1Bentley pelted Stanford with 46 shots Friday in a

4-1 win at Innisfail.Scoring for the Generals were Maclise, Jade Gal-

braith, Josh Smith and Kyle Sheen. Kelly Fulmer notched the lone goal for the Eagles, who trailed 1-0 after the first period and 2-1 after 40 minutes.

The Generals, who were two-for-nine on the power play, got a 26-save outing from Dustin Butler before 625 fans at the Innisfail Arena. The Eagles were zero-for-seven with a man advantage.

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Cougars can’t pull off upsetBY JOSH ALDRICH

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Warriors 55 Cougars 12Cinderella was not going to

show up for the Notre Dame Cougars tier I high school foot-ball provincial game, but their graduating seniors were deter-mined to go out on their terms.

The Cougars never had much of a chance against the veteran Henry Wise Wood Warriors out of Calgary on Sat-urday at Great Chief Park, los-ing 55-12, but their Grade 12s came within a finger-tip grab of ending their high school football careers in style.

They got the ball back af-ter a shanked punt at the War-riors’ 45-yard line with two minutes to go. On the second last play Grade 12 quarter-back Keegan MacDonald hit receiver Justin Fedun for 39 yards to get them down inside the Warriors’ 10-yard line with four seconds to go. On the next play, the last of the game, Mac-Donald rolled out to his right and saw Payton LaGrange sprinting out with him in the end zone, but with a defender in close pursuit the pass just sailed out of reach.

“The last drive was just us playing for ourselves,” said MacDonald, 17. “(Head coach Gino Castellan) let us call our own stuff, so we basically asked everyone in the huddle ‘What do we want to run?’ and we all went together and just played and had fun the last couple of minutes.”

MacDonald is not sure if this was his last game, he may end up looking to the junior or CIS levels if those opportuni-ties arise. The possibility that football is over is not some-thing that has really sank in for him yet.

“I think this might be the last but if I can get (an oppor-

tunity) I will take it,” said Mac-Donald. “It kind of sucks, but I played with a lot of great guys and had some good coaching.”

He will be joined by grad-uating players Eric Meraw, Taylor Lawrence, Marc Lach-mann, Richard Bergeron and Jesse Kowalchuk in limbo sta-tus.

Castellan, however, says MacDonald and Kowalchuk, at least, should have opportuni-ties elsewhere if they wanted to pursue them.

Kowalchuk led the Central Alberta High School Foot-ball League regular season with 409 yards receiving on 16 catches with four touchdowns and added a league-high four interceptions.

MacDonald had a solid year under centre with 535 passing yards while going 25-for-60 on attempts, and lead the their Tier I/Tier II division in punt-ing with a 31.6 yard average on 37 kicks.

MacDonald finished with two touchdown passes on Saturday, a 36-yard screen to Reiss Flunder and a 41-yard bomb to Kowalchuk on a cor-ner route.

“They’re all good,” said Cas-tellan of his Grade 12s. “Kow-alchuk and Keegan, they had a great year, they were our team leaders all year and today they showed it again.”

Saturday, however, was all about the future for the Cou-gars.

Playing No. 3 Henry Wise Wood allowed them to see what the top teams in the province look like in the teir I level.

The Warriors were led by quarterback Peter Zajdel who was unstoppable in the first half, hardly missing an at-tempt and finishing with five touchdowns passes in the first half before the Warriors went to the run for the second half.

They were big, they were strong and they overpowered the Cougars.

Most of Notre Dame’s top players were in Grade 10 this year, including running back Johannes Smith, who led the league with 884 yards on 151 carries with seven touch-downs.

“That was a good team, that’s something our kids have got to look at and say ‘OK, how do we become that good?’ It

takes a lot of hard work,” said Castellan.

Other top players coming back include Jacob Plamon-don, LaGrange and Fedun, while Devin Desormeau will likely take over at quarter-back.

They will form a core that will have the potential to make them more than just a one-and-out team come playoff and provincials.

“They see now what it

takes,” said Castellan. “Hope-fully that carries forward next year and they work hard in the off-season and come into spring camp ready to play and have that hunger to win and be there. That’s why we play these games. That’s a No.3 ranked team and we de-served to lose, but we play it because that’s what we want to be like.”

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Keegan MacDonald of the Notre Dame Cougars tries to escape a tackle from Brendon Hensen of the Henry Wise Wood Warriors during the high school football provincial quarterfinal at Great Chief Park Saturday. The Cougars were defeated by the Warriors 55-12.

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JUNIOR TENNIS Sylvan Lake marches past Cold Lake, into next round of provincials

BY GREG MEACHEMADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

Lakers 22 Royals 9SYLVAN LAKE — The

weather conditions and the Cold Lake Royals defence left the Sylvan Lake Lakers with one option in Saturday’s pro-vincial Tier 3 North Regional high school football semifinal.

So, like most good team do, the Lakers used their out card as quarterback Skylar Selk passed for 227 yards and one touchdown in a 22-9 victory over the visitors.

“We’ll take it. I guess it was kind of an ugly win,” said Lak-ers head coach Jeremy Brait-enback.

Except that Selk’s passing yardage was anything but un-attractive on a cold, windy day that featured snowflakes be-fore the contest was complete.

“I think that’s kind of what the game dictated, that we had to throw,” said Braiten-back. “They (Royals) stopped our running game so we had to pass and we completed enough to get some points. And the de-fence did a great job and held on for us.”

The Lakers never trailed in the game, and in fact grabbed a permanent lead when Landon Rosene returned the opening kickoff 80 yards for a touchdown.

“We should draw that up ev-ery game,” Braitenback joked.

But seriously . . . “We’ve worked on that all

year, but nobody we’ve played has been able to kick the ball deep enough,” said the Lak-ers sideline boss. “This was the first time it all came to-gether and it didn’t hurt that

Landon Rosene was returning, as well.”

Rosene was also a major threat through the air, haul-ing in six passes for 96 yards. Tyrese Hamilton led a Sylvan Lake ground game with 28 yards on four carries.

The Lakers coughed up a punt single in the first quarter, then recovered a Cold Lake fumble at the Royals’ 31-yard line 3:08 into the second quar-ter and got into the end zone four plays later on a five-yard run by Hamilton.

Royals quarterback Justin Hodinsky got his team back into the game two minutes later, running 40 yards for a touchdown that didn’t include a convert.

“We didn’t really know much about their team. We kind of knew that their quar-terback could run and that #36 (Ivan Boychuk) was a good linebacker,” said Braitenback. “Their quarterback wasn’t a great passer today, though. He was more of a threat with his feet and if he had run more I think we might have been in trouble.”

As it was, Hodinsky ran for 124 yards on nine carries and completed eight of 30 pass at-tempts for 100 yards, but didn’t produce another score for his team.

The Lakers jumped out to a 22-7 lead when Selk, from the one-yard line, hit Chase Elwood in the end zone late in the third quarter.

The Royals scored a safe-ty six minutes into the fourth quarter and then worked down to the Lakers’ two-yard stripe with just over two min-utes remaining. But Elwood intercepted Hodinsky’s throw

into the end zone and the win-ners ran out the clock.

Elwood, a defensive end/re-ceiver, also knocked down a pair of passes and recorded a sack.

“We kind of use him around the goal line because of his height,” said Braitenback. “He’s a big-play kind of guy. He was last year’s league rook-ie of the year so we have him next year as well.”

The Lakers will travel to Whitecourt to face the Cats in this Saturday’s Northern Tier 3 final.

“We don’t know much about them, either,” Braitenback said Sunday. “Expect that their record (7-3) and their game yesterday (52-7 North semifinal win over St. Albert) says they’re going to be a pret-ty tough opponent.”

● The Hunting Hills Light-ning were 28-7 losers to the host Okotoks Foothills Fal-cons in a Tier 2 South semi-final Saturday. Details were unavailable.

● The Olds Spartans de-feated the Drumheller Titans 34-19 in a Tier 4 South semifi-nal and will take on the host Willow Creek Cobras this Sat-urday.

● The Rimbey Spartans thumped the Edson Holy Re-deemer Rebels 59-27 in six-man regional action and will face the Ecole Desroscher Gla-ciers of Jasper in the North final Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at Lacombe.

● The Sylvan Lake Bears mauled the visiting Bonnyville Renegades 64-0 in the provin-cial Tier 3 peewee champion-ship game Saturday.

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Red Deer’s Ella Collins returns a ball during a Saturday game against Grace Bell of Calgary in the U12 Junior Challenger at the Red Deer Tennis Club. Collins went on to a 6-0, 6-0 win, then rolled to three more victories en route to winning the girls title. She followed the win over Bell with a 6-0, 6-1 victory over Christine Ana Stipanov of Calgary and a 6-2, 6-2 win over another Calgarian, Natasha Scarlett, before edging Edmonton’s Martyna Ostrzygalo 3-6, 6-3, 10-8 in the championship final. Meanwhile, Isaac Aspinall of Red Deer posted a 0-2 record in boys play. He was defeated 6-4, 6-1 and 6-3, 6-3 by Calgary players Aiden Rypien-Nazar and Artemy Gavrilov, who won the boys consolation title. William Atkins of Calgary captured the boys crown.

Copperheads 7 Vipers 2The Red Deer Vipers fired 37 shots at Coaldale

Copperheads netminder Dillan Kelly Saturday night at the Arena but came away with just a pair of goals in a 7-2 Heritage Junior B Hockey League loss.

Justin Corbett and Justin Van Tetering were the only Vipers to beat Kelly. Connor Gross and Colby Murray led the visitors with two goals apiece.

Rylan Bardick and Lane Congdon, who took the loss, combined for 27 saves in the Red Deer net. The Vipers, who trailed 3-0 and 5-0 by periods, were one-for-four on the power play, while the visitors were three-for-six.

In other weekend Heritage League action:• The Blackfalds Wranglers rolled to a pair of

wins, 9-3 over the host Mountainview Colts Friday

and 7-2 over the visiting Airdrie Thunder Sunday.Trent Hermary recorded a hat trick in Friday’s

win, while Wally Samson and Bryce Marshall each tallied twice and Garrett Glasman and Robin Carl-son also connected.

Kyle Baumgardner made 45 saves for the winners, while Thomas Della Siega and Jake Carlson com-bined to stop 55 shots for the Colts.

On Sunday, Samson and Carlson each tallied twice and Glasman, Cole Laing and Bryce Boguski also scored for the Wranglers, who fired 47 shots at Thunder netminders James Fisk and Kade Taplin. Thomas Isaman made 22 saves as the winning goalie.

● Connor Ablett and Luke Scheunert sniped shoo-tout goals for the Three Hills Thrashers in a 6-5 win over the visiting Thunder Saturday.

Ablett and Scheunert also tallied for the hosts in regulation time, as did Spencer Fournier with a pair, and Russell Olsen. Tyler Perkins had three goals for Airdrie.

Brady Hoover turned aside 41 shots for Three Hills. James Fisk and Taplin teamed up to make 31 saves for the Thunder.

● The host Ponoka Stampeders nipped the High River Flyers 3-2 Saturday, getting goals from Tyson Crampain, Chandler Knib and Kwyn Hiebert. Zane Steeves turned aside 34 shots, as did High River goaltender Ryan Fisher. The Stamps lost 7-2 to visit-ing Coaldale Sunday. Details were unavailable.

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Canucks 4 Grizzlys 3CALGARY — Landon Kletke re-

corded a power-play hat trick Saturday but it was in vain as the Olds Grizzlys dropped a 4-3 AJHL decision to the Calgary Canucks before 197 fans at the Max Bell Centre.

Scoring for the Canucks were Matt Rypien, Tyler Benko, Brendon Benson and Josh Betinol, who potted the even-tual winner at 5:29 of the third oeriod. Chris Gerrie and Kodi Schwartz each picked up a pair of assists for the Griz-zlys, who trailed 1-0 after one period and 3-2 after two.

Olds was thee-for-eight with a man advantage; Calgary was one-for-seven. Canucks netminder Colin Cooper and

Billy Gorn of the Grizzlys each made 32 saves.

Grizzlys 4 Dragons 3Ty Mappin scored twice as the Griz-

zlys doubled the host Drumheller Dragons 4-2 Friday.

Mappin opened and closing the scoring, connecting at 9:04 of the first period and adding an empty-net, insur-ance marker with 1:03 remaining in the contest. Alex Brewer and Chase Olsen, with the eventual winner — snapping a 2-2 tie at 4:18 of the third period — also tallied for the Grizzlys in front of 683 fans at the Drumheller Memorial Arena. Replying for the Dragons were Tristan Thompson and Chad Harrison.

Gorn turned aside 19 shots as the winning goalie. Curtis Skip made 28 saves for the Dragons.

Olds returns to action Wednesday versus the host Brooks Bandits.

BY DANNY RODESPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

Kings 3 Rattlers 1The Red Deer College Kings didn’t

win 11 national men’s college volley-ball championships over the years without overcoming a bit of adversity at times.

They won not only because of their starting roster, but their talent on the bench.

This year’s edition of the Kings (5-1, 16-5) is no exception. Earlier this sea-son they lost fifth-year middle Chris Osborn, who left to join the work force, leaving outside hitter Tim Finnigan as the team’s leader on and off the court.

On Saturday afternoon when Finni-gan went down in the third set against the Medicine Hat College Rattlers (6-2, 19-7) with a thigh injury, the Kings bench stepped up and never missed a beat as they downed the Rattlers 3-1 (25-23, 15-25, 25-17, 25-18) at RDC.

Rookie right side Scott Irvine out of Lindsay Thurber stepped in and fin-ished with three kills, two stuff blocks and four digs.

“Scott is very athletic with a lot of upside,” said Kings head coach Aaron Schulha.

“His consistency hasn’t been there yet, but when Tim went down Scott showed what he can do.”

As did the rest of the team. They didn’t letdown one bit.

“There was some concern about that, but they (Rattlers) missed a lot of serves which helped us build some momentum,” said Schulha. “We also got our middles involved more which spread things out a bit.”

Rookie middle Adam Turlejski of Melbourne, Australia, was especially strong in the fourth set, accumulating four of his five kills and three stuff blocks.

The win gave the Kings a weekend sweep of their ACAC doubleheader against the Rattlers, 6-2, who came in ranked second in Canada, behind RDC.

“They’re a very talented team, but made a lot of errors, which you see from an aggressive team,” added Schulha.

The Rattlers missed 28 serves over the four sets while RDC missed 10.

Anthony Finnigan had a solid match and was named the RDC player of the game with seven kills and five digs.

Tim Finnigan had five kills before leaving while Kashtin De Souza had two kills and eight digs. Libero Pat McIntyre had eight digs.

Isak Helland-Hansen had 15 kills for MHC while Red Deer native, and setter, Aaron Pierick had a kill, one block, an ace and 11 digs.

The Kings face Ambrose College (2-4, 7-13) and Olds (0-6, 1-18) over the next two weeks, which should give them a chance to get healthy. Besides Tim Finnigan, Tanner Rehn is out with a concussion and backup setter Tegan McGraw had a shin problem.

Queens 3 Rattlers 0RDC Queens head coach Talbot

Walton didn’t have the injuries, but was able to use a large portion of his bench in a 3-0 (25-19, 25-12, 25-22) vic-tory over the Rattlers.

“We had some people who needed to play,” he said.

“They have been showing good prog-ress the last couple of weeks, and dem-onstrated at practice they can play at a high level.

“This was a bit of an opportunity for them to get rid of some nerves and trust themselves, realizing their skill level is good enough.”

Backup setter Ashley Fehr played the complete match and was named the player of the game with three kills, an ace, two blocks and five digs. She also did a great job of spreading the ball around. She consistently got mid-dle Megan Schmidt involved in the of-fence, which was something Walton was glad to see.

“Megan did some things we’ve been looking for her to try to do,” said Wal-ton.

“The same with Miranda (Dawe).“The abilities of those three are

high; they just needed some confidence to try some things.”

Lauren Marshall, a first-year power hitter out of Calgary, came on in the second set and finished with six kills and two digs.

Dawe led the Queens with 13 kills, an ace and nine digs while Schmidt had 12 kills, two blocks and a dig. Kelsey Tymkow finished with four kills, four aces and seven digs.

Sarah Burris had 13 kills and five digs for MHC.

Danny Rode is a retired Advocate re-porter, who can be reached at [email protected]. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog


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Defensive effort helps Kings get win back

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Kings 82 Broncos 71The Red Deer College Kings looked

more like themselves Saturday and it showed on the scoreboard.

On Friday the Kings got into a road shootout with the Olds Broncos and came out on the wrong end of a 103-98 score in Alberta Colleges Athletics Conference men’s basketball play.

The Kings (4-2) returned home Sat-urday and returned to a more defen-sive games and finished with an 82-71 victory over the Broncos (3-3).

“It was a solid defensive effort, more our style of basketball,” said Kings head coach Clayton Pottinger. “Last night’s game was an anomaly. When we get in shootouts we don’t do well. We need to defend and control the tempo and we did a better job of that tonight.”

The Kings held the high-scoring Broncos to just nine points in the first quarter, taking a 23-9 lead. RDC led 39-24 at the half but Olds narrowed the gap to 58-48 after three quarters.

One of the reasons for the Kings’ success on the defensive end was be-ing able to control South Division scor-ing leader Kaleel Faiz. Benny Bankazo went head-to-head with him the ma-jority of the time and held Faiz to 10 points.

“Benny did a great job on him,” said Pottinger. “We made some adjustments on him and (Anthony Heintzman), who had seven threes on Friday. Thank-fully we got them a little more out of rhythm today.”

Heintzman did manage three three-pointers and 11 points overall.

The Kings were the better team on the evening holding a 54-44 edge in re-bounds and connected on 47.7 per cent of their field goals while limiting Olds to 31.0 per cent.

“We had a lot of resolve in our lock-er room after last night,” said Potting-er. “It was a bit of an embarrassment ... We came back tonight to prove some-

thing to ourselves in that we can play our style of basketball when the chips are down. That was huge for this young group of guys trying to come together.”

Bankazo was named the Kings play-er of the game, finishing with 16 points, 15 rebounds and three assists to go with his solid defence. Jacob Cusuma-no and Marcelus Clay added 14 points each and JP Leblanc 13.

Philips Jalalpoor led the Broncos with 20 points, nine rebounds and four assists. Giovanni Shettler had 11 points and 14 boards.

Broncos 63 Queens 40The RDC Queens (0-6) also played

a stronger defensive game than they did in an 84-57 loss at Olds Friday, but their offence was missing for most of the game, and as a result fell 63-40 to the Broncos (6-0).

The Queens trailed 18-12 after the first quarter, but managed to score on-ly five points in both the second and third quarters. They trailed 36-17 at the half and 49-22 after three quarters.

“The issue right now is that we take plays off and we have to stop,” said Queens head coach Ken King. “We play great defence for 20 seconds, then take a second off and get burned. It’s the same thing on the offensive end. We decide not to cut, or make a good pass, or take a good shot and it kills us.”

The Queens are also not getting any scoring from their inside players, man-aging just four points from their for-wards.

“Our shots weren’t falling like we hoped,” said King. “In fact overall, it was as bad as it has been all year.”

Dedra Janvier led the Queens with 14 points and six rebounds while Cassi-dy Hollingsworth and Morgan Dool added six points each. Renetha Burton had 20 points and 15 boards for Olds with Marie Lupe adding 10 and nine.

RDC host Lethbridge College Friday evening and Saturday afternoon.

Danny Rode is a retired advocate re-porter, who can be reached at [email protected]. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog

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JACKSON, Miss. — Nick Taylor overcame a four-shot deficit to win the Sanderson Farms Championship, shooting a 6-under 66 on Sunday for a two-stroke victory over Boo Weekley and Jason Bohn.

The 26-year-old Taylor, the first Ca-nadian-born winner on the PGA Tour since Mike Weir in 2007, played the front nine in 4 under to pull even with the leaders and took control with bird-ies on Nos. 13, 14 and 15.

A former University of Washington player from Abbotsford, B.C., Taylor three-putted for bogey on No. 18 after taking a three-shot lead into the final

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John Rollins had a two-shot lead coming into Sunday, but faded with a 73 to tie for fourth.

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He was terrific on the greens throughout the final round, making four birdie putts from at least 15 feet. Even though it was just his 13th PGA Tour start — and seventh as a profes-sional — he handled the final holes with little drama.

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Raonic falls to Federer at ATP FinalsBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

LONDON — Milos Raonic says it was the quality of his opponent that contributed to his opening loss at the ATP Finals, and not the nerves from making his debut at the prestigious year-ending tournament.

Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., could not duplicate his upset win of just over a week ago against Roger Federer as he lost his opening match to the Swiss star 6-1, 7-6 (0).

Raonic denied that he might have been spooked by the unrelenting and overwhelming crowd support for his iconic Swiss opponent and the pres-sure of the big moment. He said he was simply outplayed by the man he beat nine days ago in a Paris quarter-final, his first win over Federer in seven meetings.

“It’s obviously disappointing, very disappointing actually, the way I fin-ished that second set off,” said Raonic, who plays Tuesday against Andy Mur-ray.

“It took me more a set to find my way into the match because of playing Roger, not because of being here for the first time.

“Every time you play Roger, the crowd’s on his side, even if he’s playing a local favourite. It’s hard for people to cheer against Roger.”

Earlier, Japan’s Kei Nishikori beat home favourite Murray 6-4, 6-4, and in doubles action Toronto’s Daniel Nestor and partner Nenad Zimonjic lost their first match 6-3, 7-5 to Croatia’s Ivan Do-dig and Brazil’s Marcelo Melo.

Raonic went down to Federer, a six-time year-end champion, in just under 90 minutes.

Federer dominated the first set, then had to fight off Raonic as he saved a set point in the second set before wrapping up the win with a love tie-break.

Raonic, who finished with 10 aces, took his total for 2014 past the 1,100 mark. Raonic remains one victory short of his 50th win of the season.

He ended with 20 winners, 17 un-forced errors and went 0-4 on break

point chances.“There is always the difficulty of a

different atmosphere, different every-thing in the first round,” said Raonic, who served as a London alternate in 2013 but never got onto court.

“You have to play against one of the best players of all time in that situa-tion. That was the biggest difference, trying to demand a high level right from the get-go.

“But other than that, it really didn’t feel too different than other situations I’ve been in.”

Raonic said it was a different Feder-er on Sunday than the one he upset in Paris.

“He was a lot more consistent on his return games,” Raonic said. “In Paris, I’d get free points when I hit aces, but today, when he got his racquet on the ball, he would make me play all the time.

“I believe he played better today. I believe I started off not playing nearly as well, but I think I sort of found that Paris level in the second set. That’s why I was able to create some opportu-nities for myself.”

Meanwhile, Murray is now facing an uphill task to reach the elite tourna-ment’s semifinals.

The fourth-seeded Nishikori — the first Asian player to qualify for the year-end championship — was in com-plete control and secured important points in a tough Group B that also in-cludes Federer and Raonic.

After the round-robin stage, the top two finishers in each group advance to the semifinals of the indoor tourna-ment at the O2.

“Obviously now I need to win my next two matches more than likely, and win them well if I want to go through,” said Murray, who missed last year’s tournament after undergoing surgery on his back.

“That’s going to be tricky because Milos obviously played fantastic last week in Paris, and Roger always plays well at this event. So I’m definitely go-ing to have to play better if I want to get through.”

Murray, who had never lost a set to Nishikori in their three previous

matches, only sealed his spot at the season finale last week in Paris follow-ing an impressive run that saw him win 20 of his previous 23 matches.

But the former Wimbledon champi-on never looked capable of turning the

match around. He dismissed the idea that fatigue finally took its toll on him.

“I felt OK on the court today,” he said.

“I don’t think that was the reason why I lost the match.”

MUNICH, Germany — Canada fin-ished its run at the Deutschland Cup hockey tournament on a winning note Sunday with a 4-2 victory over host Germany.

Steve Reinprecht, Kevin Clark and Bud Holloway each had a goal and an assist for Canada, while Brandon Buck also scored.

Denis Reul and Patrick Hager had first-period goals for Germany.

Chris Mason made 25 saves for Can-ada. German goaltenders Dennis En-dras and Timo Pielmeier combined for

23 saves.Canada finished 1-2 at the four-team

tournament after opening with losses to Slovakia and Switzerland.

It looked like Canada might go win-less at the tournament after Reul and Hager scored to give Germany a 2-0 lead after 20 minutes.

Canada came back with second-pe-riod goals from Clark and Holloway, then Reinprecht scored the winner at 13:51 of the third period.

Buck’s goal with less than one min-ute left cemented the win.

Canada’s Taylor rallies for first PGA Tour win

Red Deer’s Mason leads Canada over Germany in Deutschland Cup final


Canada’s Milos Raonic plays a return to Switzerland’s Roger Federer during their ATP World Tour tennis finals match at the O2 arena in London, Sunday.

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announcementsObituariesWARNERStephen John1972 - 2014Steve passed away surrounded by his family on Thursday, November 6, 2014 in Calgary, AB at the age of 41 years. Steve was born in Porthcawl, Wales and moved to Canada as an infant. He always enjoyed his time in the kitchen and working as a cook at the Red Deer Hospital. Steve will be lovingly remembered by his sisters, Lynne (Cam) Madsen, Sue (Brent) Sage; Keith (Doreen) Warner; lifelong friend, Ron McTeer; as well as many extended family and friends. Steve was predeceased by his parents, Mary and Roy Warner. A Celebration of Steve’s Life will be held at the Red Deer Hospital Cafeteria in the Private Dining Room on Monday, November 10, 2014 at 2:45 pm. In lieu of fl owers, donations may be made in Steve’s memory to the Renfrew Recovery Centre, c/o Calgary Health Trust, #800, 11012 Macleod Trail SE, Calgary, AB, T2J 6A5. A special thank-you to Laurie and staff at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Food Services for their kindness and support. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca.

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Truckers/Drivers 860

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Notice to Creditors and ClaimantsEstate of

KEITH JOSEPH LEIER who died on

September 8, 2014

If you have a claim against this estate, you must fi le your claim by Tuesday, December 9, 2014

withLee Inglis Albrecht at

4801 - 49 Street, Red Deer,

AB T4N 1T8,and provide details of your claim.

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LAS VEGAS — This year’s World Series of Poker final table is a young man’s game.

When nine players take their seats around a studio-lit poker table at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas starting Monday night to vie for a $10 million top prize playing Texas Hold ’em, they will be among the tour-nament’s youngest and greenest in re-cent history, with none having won a title before.

One is a foosball champion who had never competed in the World Series of Poker. Another gets a second chance in a rare back-to-back appearance af-ter an early knockout last year. The rest of the table is made up of poker players from all over the world — none older than 32.

The average age is 28, not as young as in 2010 but even that year, the oldest player was 37.

Not a one of them has a gold brace-let, the signature award for the top winner in any of the individual World Series of Poker events.

The tournament spans seven weeks in June and July and has attracted close to 80,000 people who played (and paid with hefty buy-ins) to win in 65 events.

The World Series of Poker of today is a far cry from its original incarna-tion back to 1970. That’s when Ben-ny Binion set up a single table at his Horeshoe Casino and invited players who ultimately voted on a winner at the end.

The main event, culmi-nating this week, is just one of the series events but certainly the most watched.

Dubbed the “November Nine,” the finalists have returned after a four-month break since they outplayed nearly 6,700 other players who paid $10,000 each up front to play, among them some of poker’s biggest names. In addition to the $10 million pot of winnings, the last player standing also wins one of the World Series of Poker’s coveted gold bracelets.

The final field’s youth can be tied to the growing popularity of online pok-er, where younger players have the luxury of playing many more hands, gaining the experience in far less time than a 60-year-old poker player might have gained sitting at the green felt for years, said Seth Palansky, spokesman for the World Series of Poker.

There are a few firsts heading into Monday.

It’ll be the first time viewers watching at home

will see every player’s cards at the start of the hand. In past years, ESPN would only reveal everyone’s cards af-ter the hand was completed.

It’s also the first time a Brazilian has made it to the tournament’s final round. Bruno Politano, 32, has received characteristically enthusiastic support from his native country, Palansky said. The player starts with the lowest chip count, though.

“He’s got the toughest climb ahead of him,” Palansky said.

Billy Pappaconstantinou is easily the first foosball champion to make it to the final table after entering the World Series of Poker for the first time. Now he’s eight opponents away from $10 million, the only amateur at a table of pros.

Sitting a few seats away from Pap-paconstantinou will be 29-year-old Mark Newhouse, the only player who has experienced the final table before and, to add to the distinction, did so in back-to-back years — a feat unheard of since 2004. He was the first player knocked out last year.

Norwegian Felix Stephensen, 24, got to the tournament after making an un-likely — and lucky — bet, putting down $1,000 at 60-to-1 odds that Netherlands would beat Australia 3-2 in a World Cup match. After becoming $60,000 richer, he and a friend who joined the bet left London for Las Vegas to enter the World Series.

The nine final players will compete to be one of two or three players vying for the top prize Tuesday evening.

THE CANADIAN PRESS

UBERLANDIA, Brazil — Ovince Saint Preux earned the most impres-sive win of his career to date, needing just 34 seconds to dispose of Brazilian MMA legend Mauricio “Shogun” Rua on Saturday night in the main event of UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Saint Preux.

Rua came out quickly to start the fight, landing a few chopping leg kicks in the early going. But as Saint Preux (17-6) began to push forward, he land-ed a short left hook to the chin that landed on the button and sent Rua (22-10) crashing to the floor. Saint Preux quickly followed, jumping on top and punching away.

“He came in a little aggressive and threw a lot of looping punches, and when he did that, I stepped back and caught him clean on the chin,” Saint Preux said.

Referee Mario Yamasaki gave Rua ample time to recover, but he was trapped on the floor, and the bout was waved off just 34 seconds after it be-gan, with Saint Preux the winner by TKO.

“I was really well-trained, and I al-ways feel obligated to do my best,” Rua said.

“Fights in this division are like this, and he got the win. Now it’s time to come back home and stay with my fam-

ily.”In the night’s co-feature, “The Ulti-

mate Fighter: Brazil 3” winner Warlley Alves (8-0) kept his professional record unblemished, but it came as a result of a controversial decision win over Alan Jouban (10-3).

While Alves came out in his trade-marked aggressive style, Jouban sur-vived the early flurries to battle back and impose his own will over the final two rounds. Jouban flashed impressive combinations as he moved forward, while a tiring Alves settled for single shots, hoping to land a knockout blow. At the close of the fight, an exhausted Alves struggled to remain on his feet to hear the judges’ decision, yet he was awarded the fight 29-28, with all three officials giving him the first two rounds.

“I want to apologize for not perform-ing the way I would like to, but I’m not ashamed of it,” Alves said after the win.

“Next time I will give a show. Alan is a tough opponent and I would like to thank him for this fight.”

Meanwhile, Jouban disagreed with the call.

“”Obviously I don’t agree with the result,“ Jouban said. ”He got the first round, I got the second round, and I dominated in the third. He couldn’t even stand up for the decision. I’m a little heartbroken.“


MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELLOROur Mental Health Counsellors are excited about being part of an innovative organization that puts patients fi rst. Continuous quality improvement is in our DNA.

A day in the life of a Mental Health Counsellor at the Red Deer Primary Care Network includes

helping people to design a self management plan that works in one on one appointments in physician clinics

collaborating with a team of RDPCN family physicians and other health care professionals

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Canada tops U.S. in Four Nations Cup final shootoutBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canada 3 United States 2 SO

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Cana-da’s Brianne Jenner is mak-ing a habit of scoring big goals against the United States.

Nine months after kick-starting her country’s memo-rable comeback victory in the gold-medal game at the Sochi Olympics, Jenner had the only goal of the shootout Saturday as Canada defeated the U.S. 3-2 in the final of the Four Nations Cup women’s hockey tournament.

After an exciting 4-on-4 overtime that included power plays and plenty of chances for both teams, Jenner roofed a backhand in the second round of the shootout before Genevieve Lacasse sealed it with saves on Brianna Decker and Hilary Knight.

“It’s always extremely in-tense,” said Jenner. “We take every game against them re-ally seriously. They’re our ri-vals and we don’t want to drop a game to them. To see it go to shootout doesn’t surprise me.”

The game marked the first final between the two squads since Canada’s dramatic 3-2 come-from-behind overtime victory at the Games in Febru-ary, and came on the heels of another 3-2 win in round-robin play on Wednesday.

“I guess it’s becoming a typical Canada-U.S. game in women’s hockey — just a real exciting game,” said Canadian head coach Doug Derraugh. “A real tough, hard-fought game. Back and forth, both teams had great chances. What more can you ask for?

“The players were phenom-enal. It was a real energetic, passionate group.”

Jennifer Wakefield scored twice in regulation for Cana-da, while Lacasse stopped 33 shots through 80 minutes of

action.Knight and Decker replied

for the U.S., which got 26 saves from Molly Schaus.

“What a hell of a game. What an awesome thing for women’s hockey,” said U.S. head coach Ken Klee. “It was a fantastic hockey game. Both teams played well, both teams had chances, both teams moved. It was just an awesome hockey game.

“There’s some disappoint-ment. Losing’s no fun and we’re not satisfied with it but we played our hearts out. At the end if you play your hearts out you have nothing to hang your head about.”

Canada has now won the Four Nations Cup a total of 14 times — including last year’s event in Lake Placid, N.Y. — while the U.S. owns the other five titles.

“I’m really proud of the group and what we accom-plished here. This was our goal,” said Canadian captain Haley Irwin. “We got better each game and I think there’s a lot we can take from this.

“It’s a bounce here, a bounce there and you just have to make sure you’re leav-ing everything out there.”

The two giants of the wom-en’s game brought vastly dif-ferent rosters to Kamloops than the ones that took to the ice in Russia for the Olym-pics as both programs look to develop younger players with an eye towards the 2015 women’s world hockey cham-pionship and beyond. Hayley Wickenheiser, Jayna Hefford, Caroline Ouellette and Gillian Apps were among the veter-ans that didn’t take part in the tournament for the Canadians, while 11 Olympians stayed home for the American team.

But the new faces didn’t lessen the importance or in-tensity of the final at the sold out Interior Savings Centre.

Tied 2-2 after two periods,

the U.S. came close to tak-ing the lead three minutes into the third when captain Alex Carpenter fired a shot off the post behind Lacasse that stayed out.

Canada looked to have grabbed a 3-2 edge of its own at 9:07 when Natalie Spooner buried a rebound, but the play had already been whistled dead on a delayed penalty.

Canada’s Bailey Bram then had other great chance with under two minutes to go off a

scramble in front as her shot from the side of the net slid through Schaus and just wide of the opposite post.

The hosts then had another opportunity when Irwin was hauled down by Megan Bozek with 25 seconds left in regula-tion, but they were unable to capitalize in the dying seconds of regulation or early in the extra period.

Down 1-0 after the first, the Americans tied the game just 50 seconds into the second

when Decker moved down the right side and fired a shot that snuck inside Lacasse’s post for her second goal of the tourna-ment.

“Every time we play the Ca-nadians it’s going to be a one-goal differential,” said Deck-er. “It didn’t go in our favour tonight (but) we’re learning from it.

“Coach just said there’s no such thing as moral victo-ries, but it’s a learning experi-ence.”

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Team Canada celebrates its gold medal win over the United States following a shootout at the Four Nations Cup women’s hockey tournament in Kamloops, B.C. Saturday.


Harvick pulls off must-win in Phoenix


AVONDALE, Ariz. — Kevin Harvick dominated a race he had to win to advance to the final round of NASCAR’s play-offs, while Jeff Gordon was knocked out when Ryan New-man completed a last-lap pass.

Harvick led 264 laps at Phoenix International Race-way on Sunday to earn an au-tomatic spot next week in the four-man Chase field in the fi-nale at Homestead. He has the Phoenix fall race three years in a row, also won at the track in March and has a record six victories on the mile oval.

Now he takes Stewart-Haas Racing into the cham-pionship race next Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway, where the four championship contenders will all be seek-ing their first Sprint Cup ti-tle. Harvick came into Sunday ranked eighth in the eight-driver Chase field.

“Wow, I guess that’s what it feels like to hit a walkoff in the extra innings,” Harvick said.

Gordon finished second, but lost his bid for a fifth Sprint Cup championship when New-man knocked Kyle Larson in-to the wall on the final lap to finish 11th — and one point ahead of Gordon.

Denny Hamlin, the points leader after finishing fifth, and Joey Logano also advanced. The title will be decided by finishing order among the fi-nal four at Homestead.

Failing to advance with Gordon were Brad Keselows-ki, Matt Kenseth and Carl Ed-wards.

Logano finished third, Ke-selowski was fourth and Ed-wards 15th.

Newman’s move on Lar-son in the final turn made

for a stunning shakeup in the points. Winless on the season, his first with Richard Chil-dress Racing, he was aggres-sive with his pass of Larson to knock Gordon out of the fi-nale.

“I didn’t take him out,” Newman said. “In a day or two, he’ll understand. It’s hard to rationalize that, but I did what I had to do. I don’t like racing that way.”

Gordon, a four-time win-ner this season and the points leader for most of the year, was denied a chance to race for his fifth title.

“I’m disappointed, I thought if we came out of here second, even if it was to Kevin or Brad, I thought we’d still make it in,” Gordon said. “That’s pretty disappointing to do all of that and it just makes last week that much more disappointing. I’m going to be thinking about that one for a while.”

Gordon was in position to win at Texas last week un-til a late caution forced the field into a restart that went bad when Keselowski tried to wedge his car into a small hole and ended up making contact with Gordon. He got a flat tire, spun and finished 29th to fall from first to fourth in the standings.

Still, he doesn’t blame New-man for doing what he had to do to get into the finale.

“That’s the system we have,” Gordon said.

It was a devastating blow for Keselowski, who leads the series this season with six wins and won a race in each of the first two rounds of the Chase. But he fell into a hole because of a mechanical prob-lem at Martinsville in the first event of this three-race round that he couldn’t recover from despite strong finishes at Tex-

as and Phoenix.His mettle was definitely

tested, too, as his aggressive driving style angered his com-petitors and led to two fights in four races. He was fined $50,000 for his post-race behav-iour at Charlotte last month — actions that caused Kenseth to jump him from behind in the garage — and he and Gordon were both bloodied when the drivers and the teams brawled on pit road after last week’s race at Texas.

“We gave it all we had, it was a strong run, it just wasn’t enough to advance,” Kesel-owski said. “We did every-thing but win. We broke down in Martinsville and it was a huge hurdle to overcome and it was probably going to take a win. Fourth wasn’t going to

be enough, and we knew that coming in.”

Hamlin, who came to Phoe-nix tied with Logano for the points lead, won the pole and needed only to finish 11th or better to guarantee himself a spot in the finale.

But a broken valve stem caused his right rear tire to go flat under caution immediate-ly after the first round of pit stops. Hamlin had to pit a sec-ond time, went from fourth to 35th on the restart, and sound-ed panicky as he struggled to regain his lost positions.

“I’m trying, man, I’m try-ing,” he radioed.

“Ten-4 buddy, you don’t have to get it all back this run,” crew chief Darian Grubb replied.

He went a lap down with

236 laps remaining in the race.Logano took a hit when he

was penalized for pulling out of his pit stall with the fuel can still attached to his car. He went from second to 26thon a restart with 185 laps remain-ing.

“We’ll recover from this,” crew chief Todd Gordon said.

It put him and Hamlin in the middle of the pack at the same time, and the two waged a furious battle to put them-selves in position to be the driver to earn a free pass back onto the lead lap. Hamlin ag-gressively went three-wide on a restart to pass Logano and take the position, but Logano eventually passed him and was rewarded when the cau-tion came out with 111 laps re-maining.

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Driver Joey Logano (22) battles Kevin Harvick in turn one during the Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Phoenix International Raceway, Sunday, in Avondale, Ariz.

Bubba Watson captures HSBC Champions with late theatrics

Rosberg holds off Hamilton to

win Brazilian GPBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAO PAULO, Brazil — This time, Nico Rosberg wasn’t go-ing to let victory slip away.

A week after seeing Lew-is Hamilton overtake him to win the United States Grand Prix, Rosberg fended off an-other strong challenge by his Mercedes teammate to secure the victory at the Brazilian GP and close in on his rival in the Formula One title race.

“It was a great weekend all in all,” Rosberg said. “Just didn’t do a good enough job in the race in Austin, today I managed to do that. I learned from Austin and did better, so that’s a big step in the right di-rection. One race too late, (but) there’s still all to play for.”

The German cut his points-deficit to 17 but Hamilton will keep the upper hand going into the season-ending race in Abu Dhabi, where the Brit-on can clinch his second title with another second-place fin-ish. If Rosberg misses out on a podium spot, Hamilton can finish eighth or better and still lift the trophy.

Hamilton has 334 points to 317 for Rosberg. The champi-onship could not be decided at Interlagos because the race in Abu Dhabi on Nov. 23 will be worth double points.

“Now I’m just hoping for (Abu Dhabi) and need to try and keep this going now,” he said.

Hamilton also started be-hind Rosberg in Texas but outpaced him during the race. Rosberg said it took too long for him to find his rhythm at the Circuit of Americas. It wasn’t going to happen again this time.

“I always needed to make sure that the gap was always such that there was no chance of him to go for the overtake, unlike Austin, and managed to do that, so that was good.”

It was Rosberg’s fifth win of the season and his first since the German GP in July. Hamil-ton was trying to win his sixth race in a row.

Felipe Massa of Williams finished third in front of his home crowd, ahead of Jenson Button of McLaren and Sebas-tian Vettel of Red Bull. Vettel, the winner last year in Bra-zil, was fifth, while Fernando Alonso of Ferrari finished sixth, ahead of teammate Kimi Raikkonen, the only front driv-er to use a two-stop strategy instead of a three-stop one.

It was the 11th 1-2 finish for Mercedes, one more than the previous record set by McLar-en in 1988. The team’s 15th vic-

tory of the season also allowed it to match the record held by McLaren and Ferrari.

“We used to be always hunt-ing and now we’re the hunt-ed, and that’s a big change,” Rosberg said. “It’s great to see how the team has adapted and not slackened off, because that is always difficult, when you get to the front to then stay there. It seems that we’re really going strong and that’s fantastic.”

Hamilton was quickly mak-ing up ground to Rosberg near the mid-point of the race but his chances of getting close enough to attempt a pass were hurt when he went off the track and nearly spun at the end of the back straight — a mistake that put him more than seven seconds behind Rosberg.

“I was much quicker at the point,” Hamilton said. “I locked the rears and it just spun me around. No one’s fault but mine.”

Hamilton kept charging and got within a second in the fi-nal laps but was never able to make a move on Rosberg, who crossed the line 1.4 seconds in front.

“In the first stint I could see that I could control the gap and could just make sure that Lewis didn’t come into the re-gion where he could launch an attack,” Rosberg said.

“Once I saw that, I was very confident that I could keep controlling the gap for the whole race.”

Massa, who started third and ran close to Mercedes all weekend, almost threw away his chance to finish on the podium at home after a five-second stop-and-go penalty for speeding on the pit lane dur-ing his first pit stop. He also lost some time by entering the wrong pit stall in his final stop.

“I’m happy with the race, not happy with my mistakes,” he said. “I thought I could lose the podium.”

There were huge cheers from the crowd as Massa crossed the finish line in third place. The fans loudly chanted his name at the podium cer-emony.

“It’s really exciting to be here after everything that hap-pened to me in this race,” the Brazilian said. “This crowd re-ally deserved it. The whole en-ergy that I had this weekend, it’s difficult to explain.”

There were only 18 cars on the grid for the second race in a row.


SHANGHAI, China — Even in the midst of a meltdown, Bubba Watson never lost hope Sunday in the HSBC Champi-ons.

He stood on the 16th tee with a two-shot lead. He trudged off the 17th green fac-ing a one-shot deficit behind five players suddenly tied for the lead. And right when it looked as though Watson had blown it, he delivered a finish that not even the creator of “Bubba golf” could have imag-ined.

From some 60 yards away in a bunker left of the green on the par-5 18th hole, Wat-son blasted out of the sand and watched his ball roll 25 feet before it dropped for ea-gle. Watson was so stunned that his eyes widened and he screamed. He didn’t know what else to do.

Moments later, he rolled in a 20-foot birdie putt on the 18th in a playoff to beat Tim Clark and capture his first World Golf Championship.

“You never know what he’s going to do,” said Rickie Fowl-er, who watched it all unfold at Sheshan International.

Watson closed with a 2-un-der 70, a score that doesn’t even begin to describe his wild ride — an eagle, birdie, par, bogey and double bogey filled his scorecard over the last five holes.

The two-time Masters cham-pion looked like a lost cause when he stood in the bunker on the 18th in regulation, wait-ing his turn to play. That’s when he turned to his caddie and told him, “It’s been a mis-erable couple holes here, but this will change everything if it goes in.”

Talk about a Shanghai sur-prise.

“You always joke about hol-ing it,” Watson said. “And then it actually went in. I didn’t know how to react and so I just kind of screamed, and I lost my voice a little bit. It was one of those shots, a one-in-a-lifetime kind of shot. And so it was pretty neat.”

The 10th edition of the HS-BC Champions was the most memorable one yet.

Clark made a 5-foot birdie on the final hole for a 69 to join Watson at 11-under 277. Fowler’s hopes of joining them ended when he tried to hit a 5-wood from 228 yards over the water to a back pin position. The ball didn’t make it over the front bank and rolled back into the water. He scrambled for a par and a 70.

All three players in the final group had a chance at birdie to join the playoff.

Graeme McDowell, who led

after each of the three rounds, missed a 12-foot putt and shot 73. Hiroshi Iwata of Japan, the mystery guest on a world-class leaderboard, narrowly missed from 8 feet. U.S. Open champi-on Martin Kaymer hit a wedge that bounded off the green and into the water, leading to double bogey and a 73.

In the playoff, Clark had a 25-foot birdie putt that stopped a few inches short.

“I knew I needed to birdie that playoff, especially with him being able to reach,” Clark said. “I’m pleased over-all. Obviously, disappointed to be that close.”

Watson wound up in the same bunker in the playoff, and while he blasted out 20 feet short, the birdie putt was on the same line as the bunker shot he holed in regulation. He knew the speed and the break. The only difference was when he holed the winning putt, he didn’t have a voice to scream. He bent his knees and repeat-edly pumped both arms.

Watson became the 14th player to win a major and a World Golf Championship. Watson moved to No. 3 in the world, making him the high-est-ranked American, and it was his seventh career win. Sweeter yet, he picked up a trophy far away from home.

“Being able to win outside

the U.S., I just want to be able to travel and get through the jet lag, get through all the things and still perform at a high level,” Watson said. “So for me to win out here, this is very big. This is very special for me.”

That the other five players even had a chance was a bo-nus.

Watson was 89 yards away from the 16th green when he hit a lob wedge heavy and missed the green, such a bad spot that he did well to keep his chip on the green about 20 feet away. He two-putted for bogey. Then, he found a bunker left of the green on the par-3 17th and couldn’t ne-gotiate the soft sand. Using a 56-degree wedge, he left the first shot in the sand. His next one went off the green and onto the fringe, and he two-putted for double bogey.

When the final group be-hind him walked onto the 16th green, they were so stunned to see a five-way tie for the lead, they asked to make sure it was accurate.

“That’s why I went for the green on 16,” Kaymer said. “I thought if I can make 3 there, I can square with Bubba. And I saw that he made double bo-gey on 17, so all of a sudden, there were five guys in the lead.”

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Bubba Watson celebrates after making an eagle from a bunker on the 18th hole during the final round of the HSBC Champions golf tournament at the Sheshan International Golf Club in Shanghai, China, Sunday. Watson captured his first World Golf Championship.


BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials said Sunday that the head of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was wounded in an airstrike in west-ern Anbar province. Pentagon officials said they had no immediate informa-tion on such an attack or on the mili-tant leader being injured.

Iraq’s Defence and Interior minis-tries both issued statements saying al-Baghdadi had been wounded, without elaborating, and the news was broad-cast on state-run television Sunday night.

The reports came at a time when President Barack Obama said the U.S.-led coalition was in a position to start going on the offensive against the Is-lamic State militants.

Al-Baghdadi, believed to be in his early 40s, has a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head. Since taking the reins of

the group in 2010, he has transformed it from a local branch of al-Qaida into an independent transnational military force.

He has positioned himself as per-haps the pre-eminent figure in the global jihadi community. His forces have seized large parts of Syria and Iraq, killed thousands of people, be-headed Westerners and drawn the U.S. troops and warplanes back into the region, where Washington is leading a campaign of airstrikes by a multina-tional coalition.

An Interior Ministry intelligence official told The Associated Press that al-Baghdadi was wounded by an Iraqi airstrike that came during a meeting Saturday with militants in the town of Qaim. The official, cited informants within the militant group. A senior Iraqi military official also said he learned in operational meetings that al-Baghdadi had been wounded.

The operation was carried out by

Iraqi security forces, both officials said, although they did not know how seriously al-Baghdadi was hurt. The of-ficials spoke on condition of anonym-ity because they were not authorized to discuss confidential material.

A statement posted Sunday on the official Facebook page of Defence Min-ister Khalid Obeidi also said al-Bagh-dadi was wounded, but added that he was targeted in the northern city of Mosul, currently the group’s biggest stronghold in Iraq. A senior U.S. de-fence official said Saturday that the co-alition conducted a series of airstrikes targeting a gathering of Islamic State leaders near Mosul, but he could not confirm whether al-Baghdadi was part of the gathering.

Reports circulated Saturday that al-Baghdadi may have been wounded in an airstrike, but there was no confir-mation at that time from either U.S. or

Iraqi officials.The U.S. Central Command said Fri-

day it conducted two airstrikes near Qaim that destroyed a militant ar-moured vehicle and two checkpoints of the militant group, which is also known by the acronyms ISIL and ISIS. On Nov. 1, the U.S. military conducted four strikes in the town.

When asked about the Iraqi reports, Air Force Col. Patrick Ryder, spokes-man for U.S. Central Command in Tam-pa, Florida, said Sunday: “We have no information to corroborate reports that ISIL leader al-Baghdadi has been injured.”

Rami Abdurrahman, director of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said some Islamic State militants wounded in the air-strike near Qaim were taken across the frontier to the Syrian border town of Boukamal.

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Lessons learned from NKorea prisonBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SEATTLE — Kenneth Bae arrived home after two years of imprisonment in North Korea, expressing his grati-tude to the U.S. government for secur-ing his release and revealing that his time there offered lessons.

And his sister said that he had one stipulation for his first meal back home: No Korean food.

“He said, ’I don’t want Korean food, that’s all I’ve been eating for the last two years,”’ Terri Chung said Sunday outside her Seattle church. “We had a late night eating pizza.”

Bae and Matthew Miller, another American who had been held captive in North Korea, landed Saturday night at a Washington state military base after a top U.S. intelligence official se-cured their release.

“It’s been an amazing two years, I learned a lot, I grew a lot, I lost a lot of weight,” Bae, a Korean-American missionary with health problems, said at Joint Base-Lewis-McChord Saturday night. Asked how he was feeling, he said, “I’m recovering at this time.”

Bae, surrounded by family mem-bers, spoke briefly to the media af-ter the plane carrying him and Miller landed. He thanked President Barack Obama and the people who supported him and his family. He also thanked the North Korean government for re-leasing him.

“I just want to say thank you all for supporting me and standing by me,” Bae said. His family has said he suffers from diabetes, an enlarged heart, liver problems and back pain.

Chung said Bae was in better shape when he arrived than his family ex-pected. She said he had spent about six weeks in a North Korean hospital before he returned.

“That helped. As you know, he had gone back and forth between the la-bour camp and hospital,” she said.

She said he was checked out by a doctor on the flight back to the United States.

His plans for the near future in-clude rest and food and reconnecting with friends and family. Neither his wife nor his children could make it back to Seattle in time for Bae’s home-coming, his sister said.

They plan to gather the whole fam-ily together for the Thanksgiving holi-day in late November, she said.

Members of Bae’s family, who live near the sprawling military base south of Seattle, had met him when he land-ed. His mother hugged him after he got off the plane. Miller stepped off the U.S. government aircraft a short time later and also was greeted with hugs.

U.S. officials said Miller of Bakers-field, California, and Bae of Lynnwood, Washington state, flew back with James Clapper, the director of national intelligence. Clapper was the highest-ranking American to visit Pyongyang in more than a decade.

Their release was the latest twist in the fitful relationship between the Obama administration and the young North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, whose approach to the U.S. has shifted back and forth from defiance to occa-sional conciliation.

A senior Obama administration of-ficial said the president approved the

mission last week and U.S. officials spent the next several days planning the trip. Clapper spent roughly a day on the ground and met with North Ko-rean security officials — but not with Kim, the official said aboard Air Force One as Obama prepared to head to Beijing.

Clapper went with the sole purpose of bringing home the two detainees, al-though the U.S. anticipated that other issues of concern to the North would come up during Clapper’s discussions,

the official said.“It was not to pursue any other dip-

lomatic opening,” said the official, who wasn’t authorized to comment by name and demanded anonymity.

The U.S. had considered sending someone from outside the government to retrieve the detainees, the official said, but suggested Clapper after the North Koreans indicated in recent weeks that they would release the de-tainees if the U.S. sent a high-level of-ficial from Obama’s administration.

Iraqi officials say airstrike wounds Islamic State leader

ONE OF LAST TWO AMERICANS FREED AFTER TWO-YEAR IMPRISONMENT


Kenneth Bae, right, who had been held in North Korea since 2012, talks to reporters after he arrived Saturday, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., after he was freed during a top-secret mission. At left is his sister Terri Chung.

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