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Papua New Guinea calls Huawei-built
data centre a ‘failed investment’
Report commissioned
by government says
facility’s final layout
differed from plans,
included security gaps
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
ASIA CORRESPONDENT
BEIJING
A Huawei-built data centre in Pa-
pua New Guinea is a “failed invest-
ment,” that country’s govern-
ment says, after a technical review
found serious security vulnerabil-
ities in what was designed to be an
important piece of the country’s
digital infrastructure.
Dated encryption technology
and the placement of some de-
vices in the centre meant that “da-
ta flows could be easily intercept-
ed,” according to a review com-
missioned by Papua New Gui-
nea’s National Cyber Security
Centre and obtained by The Globe
and Mail. The security centre re-
ceives funding from Australia’s
Department of Foreign Affairs
and Trade. Canberra was given a
copy of the report, whose findings
were first reported by the Austra-
lian Financial Review.
The report details numerous
technical deficiencies in the Na-
tional Data Centre, including fire-
wall devices “with basic settings
for defence”; the use of 3DES, a
1995-era encryption standard
“considered openly broken since
2016”; and the installation of core
switches outside firewalls, which
means “remote access would not
be detected.” The physical config-
uration of the data centre was dif-
ferent from the schematics for its
design, and the differences made
it more vulnerable to hacking.
The data centre was financed
by a US$53-million loan from the
Export-Import Bank of China and
designed by engineers from Hua-
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wei Technologies Co. Ltd. Its defi-
ciencies have renewed questions
about the trustworthiness of Hua-
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ISRAELI 5G NETWORKS are mulling whether to allow
equipment from the Chinese
Israel and the United States are company in 5G networks.
nearing a deal whereby Israel “To some extent, we can con-
would commit not to use Chi- clude that it truly is a failed invest-
nese technology for its next ment,” Timothy Masiu, Papua
generation 5G mobile telecoms New Guinea’s Minister for Infor-
networks, a U.S. official said. mation and Communication
The official told Reuters on Technology, said in a statement on
Friday that a memorandum of Thursday. He suggested looking
understanding would likely be instead to cloud storage from com-
signed “within weeks” and panies such as Amazon.com Inc.
confirmed quotes in an earlier and Microsoft Corp., before cau-
Jerusalem Post report. tioning against geopolitical point-
The newspaper quoted an scoring over digital infrastructure.
unnamed U.S. official as saying “Our national issues are our busi-
that the United States was ness, and must not be used to fit
“optimistic that Israel will … any other narrative,” he said.
choose to only allow trusted Outside Papua New Guinea,
vendors in its 5G networks.” however, the problems with the
Israel, Australia, Canada, data centre add to concerns about
Japan, Taiwan and European the security of technology made
countries are partners in The by a company headquartered in
Clean Network initiative. China, where the law compels or-
REUTERS ganizations and citizens to “sup-
port, assist and co-operate” with
the country’s intelligence appara-
tus.
The United States, Britain and
Australia have to varying degrees
banned Huawei’s 5G technology.
Last year, Britain’s Huawei Cyb-
er Security Evaluation Centre
oversight board faulted Huawei
more broadly for problems with
“basic engineering competence
and cyber security hygiene that
give rise to vulnerabilities that are
capable of being exploited by a
range of actors.” In April, 2019, Ian
Levy, the technical director of the
National Cyber Security Centre in
Britain, told the BBC that “the se-
curity in Huawei is like nothing
else – it’s engineering like it’s back
in the year 2000 – it’s very, very
shoddy.”
Huawei was also the main dig-
ital supplier to the Chinese-built
African Union headquarters,
where, for five years, data were
transferred to servers in Shang-
hai, according to reports in Le
Monde Afrique and the Financial
Times. Officials have denied such
problems existed, and Huawei
has said that if any data leaked, it
wasn’t from the company’s equip-
ment.
Still, such problems point to “a
relatively immature … security
culture in the company,” said
Christopher Parsons, a senior re-
search associate at The Citizen
Lab, which specializes in commu-
nications and security studies at
the Munk School of Global Affairs
and Public Policy.
In Papua New Guinea, “some of
the issues being raised are not
particularly advanced problems
to have identified and then reme-
diated,” Mr. Parsons said. “The
fact they weren’t is unfortunate,
and speaks poorly of the security
culture that Huawei has.”
Huawei did not offer an on-re-
cord response to detailed ques-
tions about the Papua New Gui-
nea data centre from The Globe. It
told the Australian Financial Re-
view: “This project complies with
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appropriate industry standards
and the requirements of the cus-
tomer.”
Huawei has a deep foothold in
Papua New Guinea. The company
built 4G networks for the country,
a high-speed broadband network,
and a network of submarine ca-
bles to connect coastal settle-
ments. At least one local commu-
nity complained that excavators
used to lay underwater cable
broke reefs.
Huawei was also the contractor
for a national identity project that
includes an electronic identifica-
tion (e-ID) system backed by a da-
tabase. That database, service for
which has occasionally been in-
terrupted for days, is at the Na-
tional Data Centre.
The company’s importance to
Papua New Guinea means trouble
with the data centre is “a very sen-
sitive issue,” the Ministry of Infor-
mation and Communication
Technology said in a chat mess-
age.
In Beijing, Foreign Ministry
spokesman Zhao Lijian said the
“Chinese government always re-
quires Chinese companies, in
their overseas operations, to
strictly follow international regu-
lations.” But, he said, Beijing firm-
ly opposes “some foreign media’s
malicious discussions about the
data centre.”
In Papua New Guinea, security
vulnerabilities have become less
of a concern than disrepair. The
data centre has a slow internet
connection and some of its com-
ponents – including backup bat-
teries and an e-mail server – are
broken. Software licences have
expired, and the report says local
authorities do not have enough
funds to properly maintain the
centre.
As a result, it “is not currently
used by a significant portion of
the government of PNG,” the re-
port found. “It is assessed that a
full rebuild would need to occur
to modernize the facility.”
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Scientists probe the mysteries of immunity

Data from studies will body [for the coronavirus], it
doesn’t mean you’re protected …
help inform decisions and because you don’t have an
such as how to prioritize antibody it doesn’t mean you’re
distribution of vaccines not protected,” he said.
To help cut through the uncer-
tainty, the Canadian Blood Ser-
IVAN SEMENIUK vices project plans to use new
SCIENCE REPORTER test devised by Anne-Claude Gin-
gras and colleagues at Mount Si-
nai Hospital in Toronto. Earlier
“I’m actually hoping what
we’re doing now will be very use-
ful later on, when vaccine trials
are under way and we can com-
pare the vaccine-induced im-
mune response,” to what is ob-
served in those whose immune
systems have already been trig-
gered by COVID-19, she said.
Jennifer Gommerman, anoth-
er University of Toronto immu-

M
arc-André Langlois, a vi-
rologist at the University
of Ottawa, is looking for
cab drivers. He’s interested in
teachers and daycare workers
too, as well as health care work-
ers, staff in long-term care facil-
ities and cabin crews on com-
mercial flights.
If he can round up 500 such
individuals, whose jobs put them
at higher than average risk of
catching COVID-19, Dr. Langlois
hopes to unlock two related and
urgent mysteries surrounding
the pandemic: To what degree
are people who have had CO-
VID-19 immune from reinfection,
and for how long?
Those who recover from CO-
VID-19 develop immune agents
in their blood called antibodies
that are specific to the virus and
indicate who has been infected,
whether they had symptoms or
not. But what has yet to be dis-
covered is the extent to which
those antibodies provide protec-
tion from the virus.
Initial studies of antibody re-
sponse to COVID-19 offer a mixed
picture. One report, published in
June in the journal Nature Med-
icine, suggests that the antibod-
ies can disappear after two
months for some individuals
who had the virus but did not
experience symptoms.
This could mean that for a sig-
nificant proportion of people,
immunity to the disease is short-
lived. Yet, some other research
groups have not seen the same
effect, and the latest guidelines
from the U.S. Centres for Disease
Control and Prevention suggest
immunity is maintained for at
least three months after an ini-
tial case of COVID-19. Further
complicating matters, experts
caution that the behaviour of the
immune system is not deter-
mined by antibodies alone.
The federally funded project
at the University of Ottawa is just
one example of how researchers
A woman donates blood in May. One study happening right now involves
monitoring blood serum from 1,500 anonymized blood donors every
month to check for antibodies produced in response to COVID-19.
across Canada are mobilizing to
address fundamental unknowns
about COVID-19. And while the
general pattern of COVID-19 in-
fections is similar around the
world, data on immunity that is
specific to the Canadian popula-
tion are needed to inform a host
of public-health decisions relat-
ed to disease vulnerability, in-
cluding how to prioritize the dis-
tribution of vaccines.
Dr. Langlois’s plan is to mon-
itor his surveillance group of 500
for a 10-month period using
blood and saliva samples to see
whether they contract COVID-19
– in which case they will be noti-
fied – or discover if they’ve had it
already. This will help shed light
on what immune factors may
contribute to disease resistance.
“If someone was asymptomat-
ic, was their immune system al-
ready primed to resist the virus
or are there other genetic factors
that didn’t allow the virus to
cause severe disease?” Dr. Lan-
glois said.
He will also follow a second
group of 500 individuals who
have already had COVID-19 and
recovered from it. That group
would be expected to have some
immunity to the virus. Dr. Lan-
glois will watch for signs of rein-
fection in this group and explore
whether the severity of an infec-
tion has an effect on subsequent
immunity once the virus has
cleared. Because the study is de-
signed to track the same set of
individuals over time it will com-
plement larger population sur-
veys aimed at understanding
broad shifts in immunity as the
virus ebbs or surges.
“It’s really important for us to
understand what the level of
protection is in Canada, and how
that protection might vary,” said
Steven Drews, a clinical micro-
biologist and associate director
at Canadian Blood Services in Ed-
monton.
Dr. Drews is leading the largest
such effort, which involves mon-
itoring blood serum from 1,500
anonymized blood donors every
month to check for antibodies
produced in response to CO-
VID-19 infection. This research
differs from Dr. Langlois’s study
in that it does not track immuni-
ty in specific individuals but in-
stead gathers snapshots of the
general population.
Based on those snapshots, re-
searchers have estimated that
roughly 1 per cent of Canadians
were exposed to the virus last
spring, which is about four times
the reported case count. But Dr.
Drews notes that tracking the
prevalence of the disease based
on antibodies doesn’t necessarily
indicate whether immunity to
COVID-19 is now growing or wan-
ing in Canada.
“Because you have an anti-
this year, Dr. Gingras developed a
system that could screen thou-
sands of blood samples for the
presence of COVID-19 antibodies
for large-scale surveys.
The new test involves two mo-
lecular components that can be
synthesized in the laboratory.
One of those components is the
tip of the spike protein that the
virus uses to fasten onto cells.
The other is the ACE2 receptor,
the part of the cell that the virus
attaches to like a key into a key-
hole in order to gain entry. When
a donor’s blood sample is com-
bined with those two compo-
nents, the test can determine to
what extent antibodies in the
sample are effective at keeping
the two components apart – the
equivalent of blocking an infec-
tion.
“We’re looking to see if anti-
bodies are capable of a specific
function, which is to disrupt the
interaction between the host and
the viral protein,” Dr. Gingras
said.
Because the test does not re-
quire the COVID-19 virus to de-
termine whether it produces im-
munity, it can be performed in
research settings that do not
have the high-level biosafety des-
ignation needed for dealing with
a live virus. That means the test
can be scaled up more easily to
monitor immunity across thou-
sands of individuals.
Meanwhile, in a separate
study, Tania Watts, an immunol-
ogist at the University of Toron-
to, and her colleagues are work-
ing to better characterize the full
spectrum of the body’s immune
response to COVID-19.
Working with blood samples
from a smaller group of individu-
als who have recovered from CO-
VID-19, the team is investigating
the role of various immune cells
that can seek out and kill the vi-
rus or that retain a record of it to
marshal the body’s defences if
the virus returns.
nologist, said the more detailed
picture of immunity emerging
from such studies is likely to
show that immunity to COVID-19
in those who have been exposed
is more robust than their blood
antibodies alone might suggest.
“This isn’t some kind of weird
monster virus that we lose im-
munity to at the drop of a hat,”
Dr. Gommerman said.
In a recent study with Dr. Gin-
gras and other collaborators, Dr.
Gommerman compared saliva
and blood samples from individ-
uals who were infected with the
virus. They found that some
types of antibodies are more pre-
sent in saliva and could therefore
be playing an important role in
how some individuals respond to
the virus at the place where in-
fection starts – the upper respira-
tory tract.
“That make sense because
that’s the first barrier that virus
has to get through,” she said.
Dr. Gommerman said that her
next step is to better understand
what saliva can reveal about
asymptomatic cases and wheth-
er, in those individuals, the im-
mune response is faster and
more effective than in others. To
do this, she is working with a
study team based at St. Michael’s
Hospital in Toronto to test indi-
viduals who have been exposed
to the virus and identified
through contact tracing, which
should yield some asymptomatic
cases of the disease.
She added that the results will
not only provide a clearer sense
of what to expect in terms of in-
fection patterns as the virus con-
tinues to circulate, but reveal
fundamentally new information
about how the human immune
system works when confronted
with a new pathogen.
“The more we can capitalize
on this experiment that’s unroll-
ing on our doorstep, the more we
can be prepared for the next pan-
demic,” she said.

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Tam lays out pair of infection-rate scenarios,
warns of COVID-19 cases continuing into 2022
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Canada’s Public Health Agency
has warned of a potential fall
peak in COVID-19 cases that could
reach higher numbers of new in-
fections than ever before and
overwhelm the health care sys-
tem.
In a news conference on Friday,
Chief Public Health Officer Ther-
esa Tam presented new projec-
tions of infection rates in which
the “reasonable, worst-case sce-
nario” showed a large peak in the
fall and “peaks and valleys” con-
tinuing into 2022 that would at
times exceed the public-health
system’s capacity to manage.
Dr. Tam also presented an al-
ternative scenario she described
as a “slow burn,” with continuous
low rates of infection into 2022
that hospitals and health-care
centres could manage. She said it
is too early to predict which path
Canada is on.
“The take-home message is
that the fate is still within our
hands, and what we do now will
influence the probability for that
fall peak,” Dr. Tam said.
Short-term modelling projec-
tions based on current case num-
bers indicate that by Aug. 23, the
number of cases could be as high
as 127,740, up from the current to-
tal of 121,650. Deaths are predict-
ed to be as high as 9,115.
Dr. Tam said that as restric-
tions are lifted, she expects a re-
surgence in cases until treat-
ments or vaccines become avail-
able, but that the goal will be to
keep rates low and manageable.
She stressed that while some
restrictions are loosened, others
need to be tightened to prevent
increases in infections. The rapid
detection and isolation of cases,
and adherence to physical dis-
tancing and protective measures
among the public are the most
important factors in limiting the
spread, she said.
“Lifting restrictive public-
health measures like school and
business closures without streng-
thening these other controls will
likely cause the epidemic to re-
bound.”
Dr. Tam also said the fall flu
A nurse in Vancouver season is expected to occur along
watches as health care with the pandemic, and health
workers tend to a patient officials plan to manage a poten-
suspected to have tial “convergence” of viral activ-
COVID-19 in April. Chief ity.
Public Health Officer The data released by the feder-
Theresa Tam says that al public health agency also
as restrictions aimed at showed a high rate of cases in
combatting the disease young adults aged 20-39 since
are relaxed, others will mid-July, supporting previous da-
need to be tightened ta from provincial agencies that
to prevent an uptick indicate many outbreaks were
in infections. linked to indoor gatherings of
JONATHAN HAYWARD/ young people who did not prac-
THE CANADIAN PRESS tise adequate physical distancing.
On Friday, Toronto Public
Health warned that up to 550 peo-
ple could have come into contact
with the virus at the Brass Rail
strip club, which had an employ-
ee who tested positive the previ-
ous weekend.
However, the federal data also
showed that the highest number
of outbreaks continues to be link-
ed to long-term care homes and
seniors’ residences, followed by
restaurants, bars and retail estab-
lishments.
Some experts warn that if
cases surge, more restrictions and
more closings of businesses,
schools and community spaces
could be required.
Isaac Bogoch, an infectious dis-
eases physician at Toronto Gener-
al Hospital, said regional public
health units should “absolutely”
consider reimposing restrictions
if numbers climb.
“If there’s an unacceptable
number of new cases, the public
health units could certainly
clamp back down,” he said.
Dr. Bogoch said restrictions
would likely be decided at the re-
gional or provincial level, based
on local numbers and projec-
tions. Factors that could influen-
ce the decision might include
challenges with tracing people’s
contacts quickly, evidence of
widespread community trans-
mission, or a high percentage of
tests coming back positive in a re-
gion.
But he added that many of the
countries that have been most
successful at keeping cases low
have tightened restrictions after
an initial phase of reopening.
“Every country that Canada
points to that has been successful
managing this – Japan, Germany,
Australia, South Korea – all of
these countries have had a rise in
cases after they got their epidem-
ic under control, and all of these
countries reimposed many pub-
lic-health restrictions to some ex-
tent to get their infection under
control,” Dr. Bogoch said.
NON-ESSENTIAL TRAVEL
TO CANADA AND MEXICO
The United States will extend a
ban on non-essential travel at
land borders with Canada and
Mexico for another 30 days as
several states struggle to contain
a coronavirus outbreak, a top
U.S. official confirmed Friday.
Acting U.S. Homeland Securi-
ty Department Secretary Chad
Wolf confirmed the action on
Twitter. Reuters reported earlier
Friday the planned extension at
the U.S.-Canada border.
“We continue to work with
our Canadian and Mexican
partners to slow the spread of
#COVID19. Accordingly, we have
agreed to extend the limitation
of non-essential travel at our
shared land ports of entry
through September 21,” Mr. Wolf
wrote.
The month-long ban – which
does not cover trade or travel by
air – was first imposed in March
and has been rolled over several
times as cases in the United
States spike. The current range
of restrictions runs out on Aug
21.
A U.S. official briefed on the
matter said the measures could
last several more months de-
pending on the progression of
the coronavirus, which has killed
more than 165,000 Americans.
The premiers of several major
Canadian provinces say they
want to keep out U.S. tourists
until there is clear evidence the
coronavirus outbreak south of
the border is under control.
A July 17 poll by Ipsos-Reid
said 85 per cent of Canadians
think the land border should
stay closed until at least the end
of 2020.
Last month Canada tightened
its rules for foreign travellers
who must transit to get to Alaska
after several U.S. citizens were
fined for making detours to
sightsee.
The United States and Mexico
agreed to a similar clamp down
on the border. Mexico has told
the U.S. government that it
supports extending restrictions
for an additional month, Mex-
ican Foreign Minister Marcelo
Ebrard said on Thursday.
Mexico has recorded over half
a million official coronavirus
cases. REUTERS
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U.K. tourists rushing home before new quarantine rule

About 160,000 Britons
were still in France on
holiday as of Friday, just
hours before 14-day
rule set to be reimposed
PAUL WALDIE
EUROPE CORRESPONDENT
LONDON
Thousands of British travellers in
France spent much of Friday
scrambling to find a way home af-
ter their government reimposed
a 14-day quarantine on anyone
arriving from France.
The announcement, made late
Thursday and effective at 4 a.m.
Saturday, was the latest in a series
of moves by Britain and other Eu-
ropean countries to tighten quar-
antine rules as fears of a second
wave of COVID-19 escalate. But
the disparate government mea-
sures have left many travellers
confused and angry, as quaran-
tine rules change almost daily
and vary from country to coun-
try.
“I am disgusted,” Géraldine Al-
lot, a British schoolteacher visit-
ing relatives in France, told the
BBC after learning about the
quarantine. “We have had to
change all our plans. We are try-
ing to get our money back for ho-
tel bookings and change appoint-
ments. … It will be very, very
tense.”
Everything seemed so much
clearer in early July, when the
British government reopened in-
ternational borders and encour-
aged people to travel abroad.
On July 3, the government re-
leased a list of 73 countries where
people could go and not face a
quarantine when they returned
home (Canada and the United
States were not on the list). The
response was euphoric, and peo-
ple rushed to book vacations.
Bookings at travel service TUI
Group soared 50 per cent the
week after the announcement,
while Lastminute.com said it saw
an 80-per-cent jump in sales. An
This ferry dock in Calais, estimated 1.8 million people
France, was a scene of booked trips to Spain alone,
anger, frustration and which is by far the most popular
desperation Friday, destination for Britons. While the
as thousands of Britons number of overseas travellers has
scrambled to get back fallen roughly 50 per cent since
to the U.K. before new the pandemic struck in March,
government restrictions there were still 160,000 Britons
on travellers from France, on holiday in France as of Friday,
the Netherlands and according to government figures.
Malta went into effect. As the number of infections
OLIVIER MATTHYS/AP began rising in recent weeks, Bri-
tain and other countries started
pulling back. On July 27, the Brit-
ish government suddenly an-
nounced that Spain would be re-
moved from the no-quarantine
list and that travellers had just
hours to return home before the
self-isolation rule took effect. Bel-
gium was taken off the list a few
days later, and on Thursday
France, the Netherlands and Mal-
ta were among several countries
dropped. Anyone violating the
quarantine requirement faces a
fine of as much as £1,000 ($1,735).
“I appreciate there is no per-
fect way to do this,” Transport
Secretary Grant Schnapps said
Friday in defending the constant
changes to the list. He added that
while he had sympathy for those
caught up in the chaos, everyone
should have expected that chang-
es to quarantine rules were pos-
sible. “People this year will have
gone away knowing that there
was a significant risk, and be-
cause of that people will have
gone with their eyes open,” he
said.
Other countries have taken a
different approach to quarantin-
es, leaving Europe with a patch-
work of rules. Germany has tar-
geted regions instead of entire
countries; for example, travellers
arriving from Antwerp in Belgi-
um face a quarantine but not
people coming from Brussels.
Sweden has no quarantine rules
at all. Italy has put restrictions on
arrivals from just two countries,
Bulgaria and Romania, although
people coming from Spain,
Greece, Malta and Croatia must
provide a certificate indicating
they have tested negative for CO-
VID-19. The length of quarantine
also varies – from 14 days in the
U.K. and other countries to 10 in
Norway and Switzerland.
And there is always plenty of
politics involved in drawing up
the list. In response to Britain’s
action, officials in France and the
Netherlands have said they are
considering imposing quarantin-
es on all arrivals from Britain.
Mr. Schapps said his govern-
ment’s trigger for imposing a
quarantine occurs when a coun-
try has surpassed 20 infections
per 100,000 people on a seven-
day rolling average. By that mea-
sure, France hit 32.1 this week,
while the Netherlands reached
40.2 and Spain has been above 30.
The U.K. is hovering at about 18
cases per 100,000.
Based on that guide, there is
now concern that Denmark, the
Czech Republic, Croatia and Tur-
key could soon be added to the
U.K.‘s quarantine list, as infection
rates in those countries close in
on 20 per 100,000.
The haphazard approach has
left airlines and travel companies
seething. “It’s another devastat-
ing blow to the travel industry al-
ready reeling from the worst cri-
sis in its history,” said Tim Alder-
slade, chief executive of the in-
dustry association Airlines UK, in
response to the new quarantine
order. He and others say that, in-
stead of quarantines, the govern-
ment should focus on testing ar-
riving passengers. That would
avoid the “broad-brush, weekly
stop-and-go changes to travel
corridors at a national level,
which have proven so disruptive
to airlines and passengers alike,”
he said.
Health experts largely backed
the government’s decision to
reimpose quarantines. “The pan-
demic is accelerating globally,
and the many U.K. COVID-19
deaths were ultimately the result
of initial importing of new cases
with significant local transmis-
sion,” said Michael Head, a senior
research fellow in global health at
the University of Southampton.
“We have to ensure the U.K. does
not get anywhere near this situa-
tion again.”

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A6 QUEBEC
Lack of labour weighs on Quebec farmers
Agriculture businesses
see production cuts as
few people in province
answer call to replace
migrant workers unable
to come to Canada
JULIAN MCKENZIE MONTREAL
N
ineteen-year-old Florence
Lachapelle was among
hundreds of Quebeckers
who tried their hand at planting
seeds and harvesting produce
this summer, replacing migrant
workers who were unable to leave
their countries because of the
COVID-19 pandemic.
And while Ms. Lachapelle
spent long days working the
fields on François D’Aoust’s farm
in Havelock, Que., too few other
Quebeckers took up the call to
help the province’s struggling
agricultural industry.
Despite a recruiting drive by
the provincial government in
April, the lack of labour this sea-
son has forced farmers to cut pro-
duction or leave food rotting in
the fields.
Unfortunately for Ms. Lacha-
pelle, she fell ill with mononucle-
osis after two months and re-
turned home to Montreal. She
said the work was very demand-
ing with so few migrant workers
available. “They’re professionals
and we’re simply not,” Ms. Lacha-
pelle said in a recent interview.
Mr. D’Aoust said he hired a
handful of people to work along-
side Ms. Lachapelle, who were out
of work in other sectors such as
communications, film and the
restaurant industry. But once
their opportunities returned, he
said, they left for their better-pay-
ing jobs.
“Not a lot of people are used
to [physical] work all day,”
Mr. D’Aoust said in a recent inter-
view. “It’s just not the kind of
work that we do. It’s rare that peo-
ple are in shape and can [work]
all day in the field.
“People that are farmers,
themselves, in their country,
surely they are at an advantage.”
Mr. D’Aoust and his wife,
Mélina Plante, have hired the
same four Guatemalan seasonal
workers year after year. But this
year, the farmhands were stuck
at home at the beginning of
Most Quebeckers agree
Indigenous communities
face discrimination: survey
MONTREAL
The vast majority of non-Indige-
nous Quebeckers recognize that
First Nations members in the
province are subject to racism or
discrimination, survey results re-
leased Wednesday suggest.
The survey, conducted by poll-
ing firm Leger for the Assembly of
First Nations Quebec-Labrador,
found that 92 per cent of respon-
dents agreed that Indigenous
communities face racism or dis-
crimination.
Eight out of 10 Quebeckers
have a positive opinion of First
Nations, but 58 per cent say they
don’t have an understanding of
the issues facing those communi-
ties.
More than half believe rela-
tions between non-Indigenous
Quebeckers and First Nations are
poor, and 91 per cent believe the
provincial government has an
important role to play in repair-
ing and maintaining relations.
Ghislain Picard, Chief of the
Assembly of First Nations Que-
bec-Labrador, says he was sur-
prised by some of the results,
which he says demonstrate a
greater understanding of the
plight faced by First Nations.
“I think the fact that we have
such a high number of people
thinking that First Nations are
victims of racism and discrimina-
tion is, to me, good news,” Chief
Picard told a news conference an-
nouncing the results. “I feel the
public opinion is more aware of
our situations and realities, and
the kind of challenges that we
have and obstacles that we have
when dealing with governments.”
Eighty per cent of respondents
believe First Nations people face
additional obstacles, and 70 per
cent believe First Nations mem-
bers are not treated the same as
non-Indigenous Quebeckers in
social structures.
“It bodes well for the future,”
Chief Picard said. “The opinion of
Quebeckers has changed a lot
and the survey confirms they are
Even though François
D’Aoust, left, and his
wife, Mélina Plante,
centre, were able to hire
some Quebeckers to
work on their farm –
including Florence
Lachapelle, right – they
still had to cut production
by 60 per cent this year.
PAUL CHIASSON/
THE CANADIAN PRESS
much more sensitive than their
political representatives and they
are also more open to dialogue
and to finding real solutions.”
The assembly intends to devel-
op a plan to improve how govern-
ments deliver services to First Na-
tions, to be presented by the end
of September.
Chief Picard said the assembly
wants to put a plan together be-
cause it doesn’t have much faith
in a recently formed committee
of government officials tasked
with coming up with ways to fight
racism in Quebec society. That
committee is composed of seven
members of the Coalition Avenir
Quebec government and will re-
port back in the fall.
I think the fact that we
have such a high
number of people
thinking that First
Nations are victims
of racism and
discrimination is,
to me, good news.
GHISLAIN PICARD
CHIEF OF THE ASSEMBLY OF
FIRST NATIONS QUEBEC-LABRADOR
“We have a government de-
signing a process under its own
conditions – where are we?” Chief
Picard asked.
“Where are the groups that
face racism? Are they represent-
ed? To me it’s a process that is re-
ally flawed to start with.”
The online poll surveyed 1,002
respondents across Quebec ran-
domly drawn from Leger’s inter-
net user panel, with First Nations
members excluded from the
sample. Data was collected be-
tween July 17-23, and the results
cannot be assigned a margin of
error because internet-based
polls are not considered probabi-
listic.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
O TH E G LO B E AND M AIL | SATU R DAY, AUG UST 15, 2020
Quebec’s farming season because Guatemala haven’t been able to than usual. Despite the UPA’s
of travel restrictions their country arrive. By the end of August, Mr. efforts to lure Quebec workers
imposed to limit the spread of Ricard said he expects to lose ap- through a recruiting drive, just
COVID-19. proximately $100,000 worth of less than 1,400 were assigned to
He said it takes inexperienced cucumbers because he has no Quebec farms this year.
Quebecers up to three times as one to pick them. “It didn’t replace, really, the
long to do farm work compared Experienced foreign workers foreign workers,” UPA president
with a migrant worker. That are “essential for the future, for Marcel Groleau said in a recent in-
meant he had to pay locals to do me and for the majority of grow- terview. “It helped on some issues
less work, eating into his profit. ers of vegetables,” he said in a re- … but those workers are not
Mr. D’Aoust slashed produc- cent interview. trained and can’t really replace
tion at his farm, Les bontés de la “The people from Guatemala the foreign workers that are
vallée, by 60 per cent this year be- are able to work from 6 a.m. to trained and have experience on
cause he and his wife figured they 6 p.m. It’s not a problem. Some- farms.”
would only have migrant workers times I need to stop them because Farmers such as Mr. D’Aoust
later in the harvest season. Two they want to continue, but some- and Mr. Ricard say migrant farm-
Guatemalan workers eventually times I say ‘that’s enough for hands are willing to work longer
made it on Mr. D’Aoust and today.‘” hours, even for minimal pay.
Ms. Plante’s farm – but the finan- Local workers haven’t been Mr. Groleau said the federal
cial damage to the business was much help to him, he said. government’s emergency res-
done. “What we hope is to pass Mr. Ricard had his daughter ponse benefit, which offers up to
through this difficult period with- post a message on Facebook to $2,000 a month to many people
out too much loss and start again reach out to prospective farm- who have lost jobs, has encour-
next year,” he said. “We just want hands, but he said only eight aged Quebeckers to stay away
to stay alive.” came through for him. from the gruelling field work.
For Michel Ricard, who owns “It was impossible,” Mr. Ricard “When you can get $2,000 a
60 hectares of farmland in Saint- said. month sitting at home,” Mr. Gro-
Alexis-de-Montcalm, about 60 The Union des producteurs leau said, “it’s not really interest-
kilometres north of Montreal, he agricoles, which represents about ing to go on a farm and work a
said he’s going to lose a lot money 42,000 Quebec farmers, says little bit for minimum wage.”
and food this year because mi- there are close to 2,000 fewer mi-
grant workers from Mexico and grant workers on Quebec farms THE CANADIAN PRESS
The historic Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal expects to be short roughly $12-million in revenue this
year as cultural events and guided visits remain suspended. GRAHAM HUGHES/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Montreal’s Notre-Dame Basilica anticipates
funding crunch as pandemic curbs tourism
JILLIAN KESTLER-D’AMOURS MONTREAL tegrity of the towers in peril and [could] even
become dangerous,” said Ms. Morissette, add-
ing that delays on the work could also lead to an
One of Canada’s best-known religious land- increase in overall costs.
marks, the Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal, is Notre-Dame is not the only church in Quebec
seeking urgent government assistance to with- facing economic challenges due to COVID-19,
stand a budget shortfall caused by COVID-19. which has hit the province hard.
Claudia Morissette, director of the historic Across the province, where the Catholic
church in Old Montreal, said Notre-Dame ex- Church historically played a central role but has
pects to be short about $12-million in revenue seen a decline in recent decades, many church-
this year as cultural events and guided visits re- es have struggled to pay rent and maintain their
main suspended due to the pandemic. aging buildings as the pandemic forced them
“It’s huge. It represents 85 per cent of our total this spring to suspend in-person services.
revenue,” Ms. Morissette said in an interview. Quebec’s Culture Department announced
She said that money is “absolutely neces- last month that it would invest $15-million to
sary” to preserve and restore the stone church, preserve religious heritage, targeting 62 build-
which was constructed in the 1820s in the Goth- ings and three organs. Culture Minister Nathalie
ic Revival style and remains one of the main Roy said the investment also would help stim-
tourist destinations in the city, welcoming ulate the economy and create jobs for artisans
around one million visitors a year before the and labourers.
pandemic. Ms. Morissette said Notre-Dame received $1-
A first phase of restoration work is already million last year from Quebec’s Religious Heri-
under way on its facade, but Ms. Morissette said tage Council, a non-profit organization that
the church is concerned it will not be able to fi- supports the conservation of historic buildings,
nance the second and third phases of restora- to help finance part of phase one of its restora-
tion on the building’s east and west towers. tion. But the church did not get any of the new
These first three phases are expected to cost funding. “We understand that [the money] goes
$9.2-million out of a total of nearly $30-million quickly, and we also understand that we’re not
of work needed to preserve and restore the the only ones. We know that COVID-19 affected
building over the next decade, the church esti- many people,” Ms. Morissette said. “But we’re a
mates. major attraction.”
“We can’t press pause [on phases two and
three] because that would risk putting the in- THE CANADIAN PRESS
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McKnight case: ‘I feel kind of sick about it’

Former co-workers, spond to further requests for
comment.
employees and even The website for Urban Sparq is
victims wonder what now blank, and it’s not clear
they could have done whether the ownership group
still exists. Knoxville’s is closed
to stop Edmonton and out of business.
sex assaults sooner Andrew Cormier, who was at
one time head of security at
Knoxville’s, says he recalls at least
JANA G. PRUDEN EDMONTON a dozen confrontations and inci-
dents between Mr. McKnight and
female patrons. In each case, Mr.

M
ark Grenier had barely
begun working the door
at Knoxville’s Tavern
when he heard the stories – and
warnings – about one of its own-
ers, Matthew McKnight.
“Guys were telling me about
McKnight and to watch out for
him,” says Mr. Grenier, who
worked as a bouncer at the pop-
ular Edmonton country bar from
2014 to 2016. “Like, ‘He’s going to
do some greasy things, but
there’s nothing really we can do
about it because he’s McKnight.’ ”
Mr. Grenier was one of two for-
mer Knoxville’s security employ-
ees and several staff members
who came forward to The Globe
and Mail to talk about their expe-
riences, in the hope it can help
make change or protect others
from being victimized in the
future.
Mr. McKnight, 33, is currently
serving an eight-year prison sen-
tence for five sexual assaults
committed against young wom-
en in the Edmonton bar scene be-
tween 2010 and 2016. At one
point, he was facing 26 charges of
sexual and physical assault
against 21 women, but went to
trial on 13 sexual-assault charges
involving 13 women. He was
found not guilty in eight of the
cases.
Reaction to the high-profile
case has continued to roil in the
community and on social media
since the sentencing last month,
with people questioning not only
the verdicts and sentence, but al-
so wondering how Mr. McKnight
was able to assault so many wom-
en over such a lengthy period,
and if anything could have been
done to stop him sooner. In some
cases, former co-workers, em-
ployees and even victims are ask-
ing whether they could have
done more.
“Everyone knew that Matt was
doing something,” says Emily
Lloyd, who started working as a
“shooter and beer-tub girl” at
Knoxville’s in 2013, the week after
her 18th birthday. “But none of us
knew how to prove it.”
Mr. McKnight was, at one time,
an extremely powerful figure in
the Edmonton bar scene, having
made his way up from working
on party buses into the manage-
ment fold of Urban Sparq, a hos-
pitality group that owned a series
of popular bars around the city
and was expanding across the
country, billing itself as “one of
North America’s premier hospi-
tality companies.” His influence
was never clearer than at Knox-
ville’s, which he helped build into
one of the busiest nightclubs in
the city and where he would ulti-
mately become a part owner.
But as Mr. McKnight’s profes-
sional influence and success in-
creased, so did stories and con-
cerns about his inappropriate,
questionable and, in some cases,
assaultive behaviour toward
women, including inside Knox-
ville’s.
“These guys don’t exist in a
bubble,” says Kristin Raworth, a
A court evidence photo shows Matthew McKnight, left, with an unidentified man on the bar at Knoxville’s
Tavern in Edmonton at some point before Mr. McKnight’s arrest on sexual-assault charges in 2016.
sexual-assault survivor and advo-
cate who has been tweeting and
writing about the case. “They ex-
ist in a world that allows them to
continue, that allows them to ac-
celerate. Along the road there
were probably hundreds of peo-
ple who saw [problematic beha-
viour] and didn’t do anything.”
But while it’s clear many peo-
ple wondered about Mr.
McKnight’s interactions with
women, knowing what to do
about it wasn’t quite so simple. In
the youthful bar scene at Knox-
ville’s, Mr. McKnight was older
and significantly more establish-
ed than most of those around
him, and his position with man-
agement proved a powerful pro-
tection. It was also easy to brush
past Mr. McKnight’s lewd and
lecherous behaviour within the
bar’s wildly sexualized atmo-
sphere, and though stories circu-
lated about more serious inci-
dents, nobody knew anything for
sure.
Ms. Lloyd says Mr. McKnight
said inappropriate things to her
on multiple occasions, and also
touched and grabbed her. But she
was young and inexperienced
and, since he was an owner, she
didn’t want to upset him and get
fired. She says she was warned by
several women to stay away from
Mr. McKnight, and taking the
warnings seriously, did her best
to warn other women in return.
“I would go up to girls when I
was passing and I would go,
‘Don’t take a drink from him,’ ”
she says. “It was known, but I
didn’t know what more I could do
other than warn people, because
I didn’t have any evidence. And
what’s the word of an 18-year-old
girl who’s been working there
two months?”
In her testimony, the first
woman Mr. McKnight was con-
victed of assaulting said she
didn’t come forward after Mr.
McKnight raped her in 2010 for
the same reasons. She was 19 and
new to working in the bar indus-
try, and even then, Mr. McKnight
was more prominent and power-
ful than her. (The night of her as-
sault began at the Oil City Road-
house, another Urban Sparq bar,
in the location that would later
become Knoxville’s.)
Mr. McKnight was a part owner of Knoxville’s Tavern in Edmonton.
The once-popular country bar is now closed and out of business.
AMBER BRACKEN/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
“I didn’t want to be this one
person making these claims and
have people pointing fingers at
me for whatever reason,” testified
the woman, whose name cannot
be published because of a court-
ordered publication ban. “I guess
I didn’t think I was important. I
didn’t think people would believe
me.”
She said she only came for-
ward later to back up the other
women, because she felt “they
were more significant than me.”
In the years that followed, Mr.
McKnight’s power and influence
continued to grow.
By the time he was arrested in
August, 2016, Mr. McKnight was
so central a figure at Knoxville’s
that former employees describe a
special VIP room known as “Mat-
ty’s playroom” that was guarded
by security and off-limits to ev-
eryone except Mr. McKnight and
the Edmonton Oilers. They say it
had a beaded curtain, leather
couches, its own fridge stocked
with alcohol and, on one wall, a
custom floor-to-ceiling mural of
actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
“The biggest thing about the
bar industry is that you can do
whatever you want as long as
you’re bringing people in,” says
Mr. Grenier, who has since left the
industry. “Matt brings people in.
My job is to kick people out. So
he’s going to win. In the bar in-
dustry, unfortunately, that’s how
it works. If you are bringing peo-
ple in, if you are making the club
money, you win.”
In an e-mailed statement, the
general manager of Knoxville’s at
the time, Marty Melnychuk, de-
clined knowledge of any inci-
dents involving Mr. McKnight’s
treatment of women at Knox-
ville’s, including multiple inci-
dents of groping that were de-
scribed to The Globe by other for-
mer employees.
“I am not aware of these in the
bar that I ran,” Mr. Melnychuk
wrote.
Mr. Melnychuk, who was also
part of the Urban Sparq owner-
ship group, says he does “not sup-
port Mr. McKnight’s personal ac-
tions or crimes whatsoever,” and
now says he regrets writing a
glowing letter of reference for Mr.
McKnight’s sentencing, in which
he describes Mr. McKnight as
“one of the best people I have
worked with in over a decade in
the hospitality industry.”
“If anyone could possibly learn
from this experience and go on to
become a positive contributing
member of the community, it’s
Matt,” he wrote in the letter dated
June 15, 2020, to the judge consid-
ering Mr. McKnight’s sentence. “I
humbly ask that you give him a
chance to do so.”
Mr. Melnychuk did not re-
Cormier says security personnel
were expected to kick the women
out the bar, with no debate.
He says in one incident, in
which Mr. McKnight dumped a
milkshake over a woman’s head,
there was a meeting with manag-
ers, and Mr. McKnight was forced
to apologize to Mr. Cormier for
causing problems for security.
But in other cases, no follow-up
occurred.
“He was a part owner, as we
were told all the time, so we’d
treat him as an owner. It’s his es-
tablishment, right? So if he needs
you removed, you gotta go,” Mr.
Cormier says. “Whether we
thought it was legitimate or not,
she was leaving. There was no
talking to other managers, like,
‘Hey this is a bad call.’ There was
none of that. It was just, no, they
gotta go, and that was the end of
it. We never talked about it ever
again.”
He says he heard rumours
about more serious incidents
outside the club, but didn’t know
it was anything more until the
charges were laid. If he’d known,
Mr. Cormier says, “I would have
gone right to the cops.”
Mr. Grenier says he wishes he
“dug a little deeper” into the ru-
mours about Mr. McKnight’s be-
haviour or had spoken up more,
even if it meant losing his job. He
also wonders if he should have
mentioned the rumours to the
beat cops in the area, even
though he didn’t have anything
solid.
“I feel kind of sick about it,” Mr.
Grenier says.
Both Mr. Cormier and Mr. Gre-
nier say they’re speaking out in
the hope something positive can
come from it.
Among those looking back at
what transpired is one of the
women Mr. McKnight was ac-
cused of raping, who says she,
too, is questioning whether she
did enough. “What’s mainly on
my mind is how to protect other
women and make sure this never
happens again, especially for as
long as it did,” says the woman,
who has been speaking and
tweeting about the case but can-
not be identified by The Globe be-
cause her name remains under a
court-ordered publication ban.
The woman, who went for-
ward to police after the other
charges became public in 2016,
says she “basically begged” the
Crown not to proceed with her
charge before the preliminary
hearing, because she was suicidal
at the time.
But she says she’s struggled
with how the trial might have
changed if her charge went ahead
with the others, and her feelings
are motivating her to speak out
on behalf of victims who can’t or
don’t want to address it publicly.
“I almost feel like it’s my re-
sponsibility to the other girls to
say something. I just feel like I
need to do it for them,” she says.
“I think what I’m doing now is me
desperately trying to make up for
not doing more earlier.”
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Parents everywhere face the school question
Time is running out
for people to decide
whether to send their
children back to the
classroom, but many
say the choice isn’t easy
WENCY LEUNG HEALTH REPORTER
T
here is one question on the
lips of nearly every parent
Jeffrey Schiffer encounters
these days: Are you sending your
kids back to school?
As a father of two boys entering
Grade 4 and junior kindergarten,
Mr. Schiffer, who leads an agency
that delivers social services to In-
digenous children and families,
has been wrestling with his an-
swer for weeks. The idea of send-
ing his children, especially his
youngest, who is prone to viral-in-
duced asthma, into large classes
in which physical distancing is dif-
ficult to maintain, feels too risky
to him. And while he and his wife
are considering pulling them out
of school to form a small “educa-
tional pod” with other families,
this option has them feeling con-
flicted too.
“It’s a struggle because we’re
both strong supporters of the
public education system,” he said,
noting he has spent hours re-
searching all the possible scena-
rios. “It’s really stressful.”
With less than four weeks left
in most parts of the country be-
fore the start of the new school
year, time is running out for par-
ents to choose whether to send
children to class or keep them at
home. For many, the decision is an
agonizing one, requiring them to
weigh their values, their finances,
their personal tolerance for risk
and the chances of exposing their
children to a virus that has unpre-
dictable and serious consequenc-
es.
As schools and businesses reo-
pen, the onus is on individuals to
determine how much risk they
are willing to take, yet people are
generally not great at assessing
Leaders must stop wasting valuable time in planning to reopen schools
ANDRÉ
PICARD
OPINION
‘N
attering nabobs of nega-
tivism” is the skewering
descriptor speechwriter
William Safire famously pinned
on members of the media. But the
legendary wordsmith would need
to crank the rhetoric to describe
Ontario’s hapless back-to-school
planners.
Negativism doesn’t begin to
describe. Nattering in lieu of ac-
tion is the norm. The buck-pass-
ing, excuse-making, the foot-
dragging are endless.
In the process, school attend-
ance has been made to appear far
more dangerous than it is, filling
parents with fright, guilt and rage.
Getting kids back to school
safely is important for their devel-
opment and for the resumption
of economic activity.
It’s also a question of equity.
Not everyone has the luxury of
Ontario to let boards stagger first week of classes amid calls to delay start of year
LAURA STONE
MUGOLI SAMBA
Ontario school boards that have
polled parents on their plans for
the fall are projecting that 15 per
cent to 30 per cent want to do
online learning as calls grow for a
delayed start to the academic
year to allow classrooms to pre-
pare for COVID-19.
Education Minister Stephen
Lecce said Friday that Ontario
will allow boards to stagger the
start of the first week of classes,
such as having different grades
start on different days. He said
schools are already staggering
start times, bus times and recess
to allow for physical distancing.
This week Mr. Lecce said that
school boards would be able to
“unlock” $500-million in reserve
funds to help them lower class
sizes or lease additional spaces.
But teacher unions argue the
province’s plan falls short and
more time is required. Classes
are set to resume in the province
on Sept. 8.
Toronto Public Health has also
raised concerns, saying in a new
letter to the city’s boards that
Jeffrey Schiffer says sending his children to schools where physical distancing would be difficult to maintain
feels too risky, but he also says he feels conflicted about pulling them out of class to form an ‘educational pod’
with other families. CARLOS OSORIO/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
risk. While experts typically as-
sess risk based on thorough analy-
ses of the available data, statistics
and probabilities, most of us do
not think that way, said Paul Slov-
ic, a professor of psychology at the
University of Oregon and co-foun-
der of Decision Research, a non-
profit organization that investi-
gates human judgment.
“The more common – over-
whelmingly common – way to as-
sess risk is by our feelings,” he
said, adding that most of the time,
this serves us well, since our gut
feelings are guided by our past ex-
periences. But in novel situations
such as the pandemic, “our feel-
ings can be misled or deceived in
many ways and perhaps are not so
reliable and trustworthy as we
would like.”
That is why in these types of sit-
uations, we should recognize we
cannot trust our gut, and instead,
listen to the experts, he said.
Parents’ perception of risk
tends to be heightened when chil-
dren are involved – and perhaps
more so when it involves their
being able to use remote learning.
Delaying the resumption of
school harms the marginalized
and those with more child-care
duties than usual, namely work-
ing moms.
Let’s dispense with the ques-
tion of whether school will re-
sume and focus on the when and
the how. It’s pretty clear what’s
needed: small classes to enable
physical distancing; bubbles or
cohorts of students and teachers
to limit interactions; classrooms
with decent ventilation; sanitary
measures such as handwashing
and mask-wearing.
But all parents hear from the
province, school boards, teachers
and unions is an endless chorus of
“it can’t be done.”
We can’t have smaller class siz-
es. We can’t hire more teachers.
We can’t seat students two metres
apart. We can’t improve ventila-
tion. We can’t change the curricu-
lum.
The province blames the
school boards, the school boards
blame the teachers’ unions, the
they should consider starting
school later in September or
have staggered start dates, “in or-
der to allow for sufficient time
for public health measures to be
incorporated.”
School boards across the prov-
ince are conducting surveys to
gauge families’ intentions to re-
turn to school in-person this fall.
While most have yet to be com-
pleted, some school boards say
they can already anticipate en-
rolment numbers.
At the Dufferin-Peel Catholic
District School Board, prelimina-
ry data suggest between 25 per
cent to 30 per cent of parents are
opting for online learning, al-
though the survey is still open,
spokesperson Bruce Campbell
said.
The Halton District School
Board projects that more than 16
per cent of its students will be
learning entirely online this fall.
The Hamilton-Wentworth Dis-
trict School Board (HWDSB) is
anticipating that approximately
15 per cent of its students will be
doing the same. In Ottawa, the
Conseil des écoles catholiques du
Centre-Est estimates that about
one out of five of its students will
own children, said Daniel Krew-
ski, professor and director of the
McLaughlin Centre for Popula-
tion Health Risk Assessment at
the University of Ottawa. But the
key to protecting ourselves and
our families from COVID-19 is not
to tackle all the various factors
that can influence our individual
perceptions of risk, he said. Rath-
er, it hinges on clear public-health
messages, such as maintaining
hand hygiene, keeping a two-
metre distance from others, and
wearing face masks and shields.
Yet in spite of expert consensus
on the need for these measures to
prevent the spread of COVID-19,
there is a lot of disagreement, in-
cluding among experts, about
how to make trade-offs between
people’s safety and economic,
educational and other needs, Dr.
Slovic said. “There’s no right an-
swer as to how that trade-off
should go. Everything depends on
your own values,” he said.
Having a low level of transmis-
sion of COVID-19 in the communi-
ty dramatically reduces the
unions blame the province, and
round and round it goes point-
lessly.
Can we please dispense with
the “can’t do” attitude?
We can find infinite ways to fail.
Leadership means setting a goal,
rallying people to your cause and
then achieving it.
The worries of parents, teach-
ers and unions about safety are le-
gitimate. So are the economic or
political concerns of government.
Yet, in these extraordinary times,
everyone needs to put a little wa-
ter in their wine, and a little less
volume in their whining.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is
the worst of the lot. “If it was up to
all of us, we’d have five kids in a
classroom,” he said at a press
briefing last week.
Who exactly is it up to?
If you want five kids per class-
room – although the consensus is
that 15 to 20 is probably a practi-
cal, doable target – sit down, cost
it out and do it.
Instead of throwing up our
arms in surrender, let’s innovate.
opt-out of in-person learning.
The three boards’ predictions are
also based on preliminary data.
The Toronto District School
Board (TDSB), Canada’s largest
school board, and the Ottawa Ca-
tholic School Board said figures
would be available once their
parent surveys are complete.
The heads of Ontario’s educa-
tion unions, who have threat-
ened to go to the labour-rela-
tions board over what they say
are unsafe conditions, said the
government is not taking re-
sponsibility to mandate smaller
classes.
“The government has landed
these changes just weeks before
school starts,” said Sam Ham-
mond, president of the Elemen-
tary Teachers’ Federation of On-
tario.
“In order for school boards to
make every attempt to reduce
class sizes, ensure physical dis-
tancing and put in appropriate
ventilation, we urge them to con-
sider a staggered start to the
school year or to delay the return
to school to ensure the safety of
students and educators.”
Harvey Bischof, president of
the Ontario Secondary School
O TH E G LO B E AND M AIL
chances of it entering a school en-
vironment or any other setting,
said Ashleigh Tuite, assistant pro-
fessor of epidemiology at the Uni-
versity of Toronto’s Dalla Lana
School of Public Health.
But it is difficult to answer what
that level of community trans-
mission should be, other than “as
close to zero as possible,” Dr. Tuite
said.
She noted she recently posted
an online tool on Twitter, which
uses a model created by U.S. re-
searchers to calculate the likeli-
hood of having someone with CO-
VID-19 appear at a school on any
given day, based on the number of
reported cases in the community
and on the size of the school.
While the tool provides a useful
way of thinking about risk, it does
not measure the likelihood of an
outbreak occurring, since that de-
pends on how well the school is
set up to detect a case and prevent
transmission, she said. Moreover,
it is possible for individuals, espe-
cially children, to be infected
without showing recognizable
There aren’t enough class-
rooms for classes of 15? Then let’s
have some elsewhere, such as in
community centres. Let’s stagger
the school day and create two
“shifts.”
Not enough teachers? Maybe
the chemistry teacher can do four
classes at once by livestreaming
to several rooms. Teachers’ aides
can help, or substitutes can work
full-time.
Scheduling, we’re told, is a lo-
gistical nightmare, particularly
for high school. But the curricu-
lum is not carved into tablets of
stone. Modify it, at least tempora-
rily.
Lots of schools have crappy air
quality. We’re not going to fix dec-
ades of infrastructure neglect
overnight, but let’s improve what
we can and find workarounds.
Bear in mind, too, that we’re not
putting children and teachers in-
to rooms with dangerous levels of
disease.
Ontario currently has fewer
than one case of COVID-19 per
100,000 population.
Teachers’ Federation, said the
Ministry of Education’s plan pre-
sents an “extreme degree of
vagueness.”
“The school start should occur
no sooner than we can ensure
that we have appropriately miti-
gated risk. And we’re not at that
point right now,” he said.
The Ontario Public School
Boards’ Association (OPSBA)
said boards “are frustrated and
concerned” with the govern-
ment’s plan to use reserve funds,
which they say have “already
been designated for other high-
priority initiatives or unantici-
pated expenses.”
Meanwhile a $50-million gov-
ernment investment for HVAC
(heating, ventilation and air con-
ditioning) upgrades, is a “posi-
tive step.” But with schools set to
reopen in three weeks, “it will be
extremely difficult for schools to
put any additional funding to use
prior to the first day of school,”
said Cathy Abraham, president
of the OPSBA.
The TDSB has roughly $130-
million in its reserve fund, but it
is spoken for, for benefits and
long-term-disability insurance,
according to board spokesperson
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symptoms or showing only mild
symptoms. So even with low com-
munity transmission, cases can
still appear in school settings, she
said.
Whether parents decide to
send their children to school or
keep them at home, they still
need to be vigilant and consider
who they and their children inter-
act with, as well as who those indi-
viduals interact with and what
they do outside of the time they
spend together, Dr. Tuite said.
“The decisions that one person
makes affects other people be-
cause it is a communicable dis-
ease,” she said.
As businesses reopen, people
also need to keep in mind that just
because they are now allowed to
do something does not mean that
it is safe to do so, said Greta Bauer,
professor in the department of
epidemiology and biostatistics at
the University of Western Ontario.
Especially with the school year
approaching, it is important that
everyone, regardless of whether
they have school-aged children or
not, is “extra cautious – that we
scale back on what we’re doing to
make some space within public
health” to ensure cases of CO-
VID-19 can be detected and kept
low, Dr. Bauer said.
In Vaughn, Ont., Stefanie Kran-
jec and her husband are preparing
to keep their two oldest children,
who are entering senior kinder-
garten and junior kindergarten, at
home to do virtual learning.
Her husband has a compro-
mised immune system, and Ms.
Kranjec, who is a paramedic, is
concerned about the potential for
COVID-19 cases to rise as students
return to school. Even so, they did
not make their decision until this
week.
“We were just trying to wait it
out as long as possible to see
which kind of pieces of the puzzle
would fall into place,” she said,
adding they still plan to send the
children to school as soon as pos-
sible when they feel it is safe to do
so. “At this point, I think really all
anybody can do is cross their fin-
gers and hope that they made the
right decision.”
It’s about as safe as it’s ever go-
ing to be to send kids to school
during a pandemic – at least until
there is a vaccine.
There will almost certainly be
infected children at school, just as
there are in the community. Some
will spread it to their loved ones,
just as they do now.
That’s why we need some Plan
Bs.
If a class has a COVID-19 case,
do you quarantine that class or
the school?
If COVID-19 cases climb again,
at what point do we shut down
schools? Is that two cases per
100,000 population, or five?
Whatever the cutoff, make it clear.
Let’s not waste this opportuni-
ty to have children learn, and live
a bit again. But let’s not rush it ei-
ther. Done right must trump done
quickly.
Last week, Mr. Ford said, “Let’s
give it a shot,” and “pray to God
that everyone’s safe.”
We don’t need prayers, we need
a good plan. Ideally, one reached
by consensus.
Ryan Bird.
“That is not a rainy-day fund
as they say, much of that is em-
ployee benefits,” he said. “That is
not an amount of money that is
sitting there without any obliga-
tion to it.”
TDSB trustees will be discuss-
ing how much of the reserve
funds can and will be used at a
Tuesday board meeting.
The HWDSB’s reserves stand
at $35-million, but most of those
funds are already assigned, ac-
cording to Shawn McKillop, a
spokesperson for the board. Only
$11.8-million will be available for
use over the 2020-21 school year.
“Hiring teachers to reduce
class size is on the table,” Mr.
McKillop said about use of the re-
serve funds, “but the board will
decide if and how much on the
Aug. 24 board meeting.”
Last school year, the HWDSB
used $2-million of its reserves to
purchase PPE and iPads for stu-
dents.
The Toronto Catholic District
School Board says it now has ac-
cess to about $23-million of its
reserve fund, which it says could
potentially be used in “challeng-
ing areas of the system.”
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Mississippi officers indicted TRUMP VISITS YOUNGER BROTHER,

ROBERT, IN NEW YORK HOSPITAL

in 2019 death of Black man
Three officers accused
of removing 62-year-old
from his vehicle and
repeatedly striking him
in the head and chest
JACKSON, MISS.
Three Mississippi police officers
have been charged with second-
degree murder in the death of a
Black man last year, according to
a recently unsealed indictment.
A Hinds County grand jury in-
dicted the officers in the 2019
death of George Robinson, 62,
according to the Aug. 5 indict-
ment.
It accuses the officers – Des-
mond Barney, Lincoln Lampley
and Anthony Fox – with “wilful-
ly, unlawfully and feloniously”
causing Mr. Robinson’s death,
the Clarion Ledger reported.
All three worked for the Jack-
son Police Department at the
time.
The indictment alleges that
the three officers removed Mr.
Robinson from his vehicle, body-
slammed him on the pavement
and repeatedly struck him in the
head and chest.
Mr. Robinson died from bleed-
ing on the brain caused by blunt
force trauma to the head, Hinds
County Coroner Sharon Grish-
am-Stewart said shortly after his
death.
Neighbour Connie Bolton
told Mississippi Today that offi-
cers hit Mr. Robinson
and slammed him down while
seeking suspects in the fatal
shooting of a pastor who had
been shot in a robbery in front of
his church.
Francis Springer, one of the
lawyers representing the officers,
said that “evidence will show
that the officers are not guilty.”
“These officers did exactly
what they are trained to do and
used an appropriate level of
force,” Mr. Springer told the Clar-
ion Ledger on Friday.
The three officers were placed
on administrative leave as
the department’s Internal
Affairs Division and the FBI in-
vestigated the case, the Clarion
Ledger said.
The officers were later rein-
stated, though Mr. Fox and Mr.
Barney currently work for the
Clinton Police Department.
After the officers posted bond
at a court hearing and were
released Thursday, several police
officers met them outside
and prayed with them on the
courthouse lawn, WLBT-TV re-
ported.
Mr. Robinson’s relatives said
they were grateful that charges
were brought against the offi-
cers.
“For us, the charges prove that
George’s life mattered and no
one deserves to die the way he
did,” the family said in a state-
ment obtained by news outlets.
“We are grateful that the Dis-
trict Attorney has taken this ac-
tion.
“We have co-operated with
the investigation in every way
and will continue to do so until
we finally get justice for our be-
loved George.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday paid a
visit to his younger brother, Robert Trump, at the New
York hospital where he has been hospitalized.
The President entered New York-Presbyterian/Weill
Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan wearing a face mask
on Friday afternoon.
“I hope he’s okay,” Mr. Trump said shortly before arriv-
ing at the hospital. “He’s having a tough time.” The hospi-
tal visit came ahead of Mr. Trump’s scheduled weekend
trip to his private golf club in Bedminster, N.J.
The White House did not immediately release details
about why Robert Trump, who is 72, had been hospitalized,
but officials said that he was seriously ill.
“I have a wonderful brother. We’ve had a great relation-
ship for a long time, from day one,” Mr. Trump told report-
ers before departing for New York. “He’s in the hospital
right now, and hopefully he’ll be all right.”
Robert Trump, one of the President’s four siblings, re-
cently filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Trump family seek-
ing to stop publication of a tell-all book by the President’s
niece Mary titled Too Much and Never Enough. She is the
daughter of the eldest Trump sibling, Fred Trump Jr., who
struggled with alcoholism and died in 1981 at the age of 43.
The President has said that Mary Trump’s book was a
violation of a non-disclosure agreement she signed in
connection to a financial settlement she received from the
Trump family.
In her book, Mary Trump claimed that no family mem-
bers joined Fred Jr., who was known as Freddy, at the hos-
pital on the night he died, adding that Donald Trump went
to the movies with another sibling instead.
Robert Trump had previously worked for his older
brother as a top executive at the Trump Organization. He
has kept a lower profile in recent years.
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Trump promotes conspiracy theory
about Kamala Harris’s eligibility
U.S. President’s comments
on Biden’s VP pick fuel
online misinformation
campaign that echoes one
he pushed against Obama
AAMER MADHANI
SARA BURNETT
AMANDA SEITZ
JILL COLVIN WASHINGTON
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday
gave credence to a false and racist conspir-
acy theory about Kamala Harris’s eligibil-
ity to be vice-president, fuelling an online
misinformation campaign that parallels
the one he used to power his rise into poli-
tics.
Asked about the matter at the White
House, Mr. Trump told reporters he had
“heard” rumours that Ms. Harris, a Black
woman and U.S.-born citizen whose par-
ents were immigrants, does not meet the
requirement to serve in the White House.
The President said he considered the ru-
mours “very serious.”
The conspiracy theory is false. Ms. Har-
ris, who was tapped this week by Joe Bi-
den to serve as his running mate on the
Democratic ticket, was born in Oakland,
Calif., and is eligible for both the vice-pres-
idency and presidency under the constitu-
tional requirements. The question is not
even considered complex, according to
constitution lawyers.
“Full stop, end of story, period, excla-
mation point,” said Jessica Levinson, a
professor at Loyola Law School.
Mr. Trump built his political career on
questioning a political opponent’s legiti-
macy. He was a high-profile force behind
the so-called “birther movement” – the lie
that questioned whether president Barack
Obama, the country’s first Black presi-
dent, was eligible to serve.
Only after mounting pressure during
his 2016 campaign did Mr. Trump disavow
the claims.
Mr. Trump’s comments landed in a bliz-
zard of other untrue, racist or sexist
claims unleashed across social media and
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Watchdog
to probe U.S.
postal delays
as concerns
mount about
mail ballots
ANDY SULLIVAN
DAVID SHEPARDSON WASHINGTON
The U.S. Postal Service’s internal
watchdog is investigating cost
cutting that has slowed delivery
and alarmed lawmakers ahead of
a presidential election when up to
half of U.S. voters could cast bal-
lots by mail, a congressional aide
said Friday.
The Postal Service’s inspector-
general also will examine possi-
ble conflicts of interest involving
new Postmaster General Louis
DeJoy, who has donated US$2.7-
million to President Donald
Trump and his fellow Republi-
cans, according to Saloni Sharma,
a spokeswoman for Democratic
Senator Elizabeth Warren, who re-
quested the investigation.
Mr. DeJoy owns millions of dol-
lars in stock in Postal Service ri-
vals and customers, according to a
financial disclosure form filed by
his wife.
The Inspector-General’s Office
is “conducting a body of work to
address concerns raised,” spokes-
woman Agapi Doulaveris said
The investigation comes as the
Postal Service is warning states
conservative websites after Mr. Biden was written by a “very highly qualified that there is “significant risk” vot-
picked Ms. Harris, the first Black woman and very talented lawyer.” ers will not have enough time to
and the first Asian American woman on a After Mr. Trump’s remarks, Republican complete their ballots and return
major party ticket. The misinformation National Committee spokesman Michael them under current state laws.
campaign is built on falsehoods that have Ahrens said the national party has no The Washington Post reported
been circulating less noticeably for plans to challenge Ms. Harris’s eligibility that the Postal Service has warned
months, propelled by Trump supporters, for the Democratic ticket. a total of 46 of the 50 states and the
and now the President himself. “I have no Mr. Eastman, the former dean of Chap- District of Columbia.
idea if that’s right,” said Mr. Trump, who man University’s Fowler School of Law, The letters highlight the possi-
said he had read a column on the subject where he is a professor, is also a senior bility that a meaningful number
earlier Thursday. “I would have thought, I fellow at the conservative Claremont In- of mail votes in the Nov. 3 presi-
would have assumed, that the Democrats stitute. According to his bio on the insti- dential election might go un-
would have checked that out before she tute’s website, he also served as a law clerk counted if they are returned late.
gets chosen to run for vice-president.” to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Tho- “State and local election offi-
Mr. Trump made the comments in an- mas. cials must understand and take
swer to a reporter’s question and ap- He also ran in the Republican primary into account our operational
peared to be referencing an op-ed written to serve as California’s attorney general in standards and recommended
by John Eastman, a conser- 2010. Mr. Eastman was de- timelines,” Postal Service spokes-
vative attorney who argues feated by a candidate who woman Martha Johnson said.
that the U.S. Constitution went on to lose to Ms. Harris. Election officials are bracing for
doesn’t grant birthright citi- Ms. Harris, who was Newsweek, which pub- a deluge of mail ballots as many
zenship. Mr. Eastman sowed lished the controversial East- states have made it easier to vote
doubt about Ms. Harris’s eli- tapped this week by man op-ed questioning Ms. by mail to address concerns about
gibility based on her par- Joe Biden to serve as Harris’s birthright qualifica- public gatherings during the cor-
ents’ immigration status. Ms. his running mate on tion, defended the piece, ar- onavirus pandemic.
Harris’s mother was born in the Democratic guing that Mr. Eastman “was Mr. Trump, meanwhile, said
India and her father was focusing on a long-standing, Thursday that he opposes addi-
born in Jamaica. ticket, was born in somewhat arcane legal de- tional funding to make mail vot-
But constitutional law ex- Oakland, Calif., and bate” about the 14th Amend- ing easier.
perts say Ms. Harris’s parents is eligible for both ment and not trying to “ig- Mr. Trump, who is trailing
are beside the point. The the vice-presidency nite a racist conspiracy theo- Democratic rival Joe Biden in
14th Amendment grants citi- ry around Kamala Harris’s opinion polls, has said without
zenship to all people born in and presidency candidacy.” evidence that widespread mail
the U.S. and Article II Sec- under the Online rumour and con- voting could lead to fraud. How-
tion 1 of the Constitution constitutional jecture that Ms. Harris is in- ever, public records show that he
says that to be eligible for eligible to serve first sur- has requested mail ballots for
the vice presidency and
requirements. faced when she announced himself and his wife, Melania,
presidency a candidate must her campaign for the White ahead of Florida’s Tuesday pri-
be natural-born U.S. citizen, at least 35, House in 2019. A viral post with the mis- mary election.
and a resident of the United States for a leading information was revived again, Election experts say mail vot-
minimum of 14 years. days before she was announced as Mr. Bi- ing is as secure as any other meth-
“No, there’s no question about it,” said den’s running mate, as pro-Trump Face- od. Mr. Biden and other Demo-
Christopher Kelley, a political-science pro- book users spread the message in groups crats say Mr. Trump is trying to in-
fessor at Miami University in Ohio. “It’s and on their pages. terfere with the election, and for-
been recognized since the people drafted Ms. Harris has been a top target of mis- mer Democratic president Barack
it back in the 39th Congress that (the 14th) information since launching her own bid Obama said he was worried that
amendment would cover people not just for the White House last year. Women’s Mr. Trump was trying to “knee-
born to American citizens but born on groups, which have banded together to cap” the Postal Service.
American soil.” call out sexism, racism and misinforma- The issue has taken on added
The President’s re-election campaign’s tion about Ms. Harris and other female urgency in recent weeks, as cost-
senior lawyer, Jenna Ellis, shared the con- candidates, pointed to other examples of cutting measures put in place by
troversial Eastman column on Thursday conservative figures focusing on her race Mr. DeJoy have led to widespread
morning, hours before Mr. Trump was and gender in recent days. mail delays.
asked about it at a White House news con-
ference. Mr. Trump noted that the column ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS
S AT U RDAY , AUGUST 15, 2020 | T HE GLO B E AN D MAI L O
Belarus protests swell over election, crackdown
Government frees 2,000
jailed demonstrators in
bid to defuse demands
that President resign
YURAS KARMANAU MINSK
Tens of thousands of people
flooded the heart of the Belarus
capital of Minsk on Friday in a
show of anger over a brutal police
crackdown this week on peaceful
protesters that followed a disput-
ed presidential election, and au-
thorities sought to ease rising
public fury by freeing at least
2,000 who were jailed after earlier
demonstrations.
Factory workers marched
across the city shouting “Go
away!” in a call for authoritarian
President Alexander Lukashenko
to resign after 26 years of iron-fist-
ed rule that was extended in an
election Sunday that protesters
denounced as rigged.
Friday’s crowds grew to more
than 20,000, filling central Inde-
pendence Square.
About a dozen soldiers guard-
ing the nearby government head-
quarters lowered their riot shields
in what the demonstrators saw as
a sign of solidarity, and women
rushed to embrace and kiss the
guards.
As the protesters rallied on the
square, Mr. Lukashenko dismis-
sed them as puppets manipulated
from abroad. During a meeting
with top law enforcement offi-
cials, he defended the crackdown
as a justified response to violence
against police by some of the pro-
testers. The Interior Ministry said
121 police officers were injured.
He told officials, however, to
avoid excessive force.
“If a person falls down and lies
still, don’t beat him!” Mr. Lukash-
enko said.
The Belarussian leader cau-
tioned people against turning out
for protests, saying the country is
facing foreign “aggression.”
“Don’t get out into the streets.
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as cannon fodder,” Mr. Lukashen-
ko said, alleging that people from
Poland, the Netherlands, Ukraine
and some members of Russia’s
opposition were fomenting the
unrest.
“Do you want me to sit and wait
until they turn Minsk upside
down?” he said. “We won’t be able
to stabilize the situation after-
wards. We must take a break, col-
lect ourselves and calm down.
And let us restore order and deal
with those who have come here.”
Earlier, police didn’t interfere
as the protesters marched across
the city, reflecting Mr. Lukashen-
ko’s apparent attempt to assuage
the opposition by stepping back
from the violent police crack-
downs seen across the country
earlier this week.
The release by the Interior Min-
istry of about 2,000 of the nearly
7,000 people detained was seen
as another move to defuse pop-
ular outrage. It said more would
be freed.
Many who were released spoke
of brutal beatings and other
abuse by police, and some
showed bruises on their bodies.
Some of them wept as they em-
braced waiting relatives.
“The authorities are obviously
trying to de-escalate the situation
and ease the tensions, fearing that
the furious industrial workers will
take to the streets all across Bela-
rus,” said Valiantsin Stefanovich
of the Viasna rights centre.
Demonstrators have swarmed
the streets since Sunday’s elec-
tion in which officials reported
that Mr. Lukashenko taken al-
most 80 per cent of the vote to win
a sixth term in office.
His main challenger, Sviatlana
Tsikhanouskaya, who fled on
Tuesday to neighbouring Lithua-
nia, posted a new video in which
she disputed the results of the
vote and demanded that the gov-
ernment start a dialogue with
demonstrators.
The ferocious crackdown has
left hundreds injured since Sun-
day as police have dispersed the
largely peaceful demonstrations
with stun grenades, tear gas, rub-
As the interface between business and banking systems,
ber bullets and severe beatings. At
least one person has been killed.
The brutal suppression of pro-
tests drew harsh criticism in the
West. European Union foreign
ministers said they rejected the
election results and tasked offi-
cials with drawing up a list of peo-
ple in Belarus who could face
sanctions over their role in the
crackdown.
Thousands of factory workers
who previously formed the core
of Mr. Lukashenko’s base have
joined the protests, denouncing
the police crackdown and de-
manding a new election, raising
the prospect of a nationwide
strike.
“Our entire shop voted against
Lukashenko and then we sudden-
ly learned that he won by a land-
slide,” 42-year-old assembly
worker Dmitry Glukhovsky said
outside the Minsk Automobile
Plant, or MAZ. “They not only
have cheated us but also beaten
us up, and no one is going to ac-
cept that.”
He said that his assembly shop
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went on strike Friday to demand a
new election. More than 1,000
workers could be seen in the fac-
tory’s yard, shouting “Down!” in a
call for Mr. Lukashenko to resign.
At the Minsk Tractor Plant, or
MTZ, about 1,000 workers also
rallied to demand Mr. Lukashen-
ko’s resignation and then
marched toward the government
headquarters. As they reached
the centre of the capital, the
crowds grew and people stood ap-
plauding and motorists honked
in support.
“We want a new election, a new
government and a new life,” said
44-year-old engineer Mikhail
Marchuk as he marched along
with other plant workers toward
central Minsk. “We will protest
until we win.”
Workers also rallied at many
other major factories in an un-
precedented challenge to Mr. Lu-
kashenko, who has been in power
since 1994 and earned the nick-
name “Europe’s last dictator” for
his relentless suppression of dis-
sent.
The demonstrations have
spread even though they lack
leaders. Ms. Tsikhanouskaya
urged her supporters to stop pro-
tests in an earlier video that her
associates said was recorded un-
der pressure from law enforce-
ment officials while she was still
in Minsk. The 37-year-old former
teacher had joined the race to re-
place her husband, an opposition
blogger, who has been jailed since
May.
In the video released Friday,
Ms. Tsikhanouskaya again chal-
lenged the election results, saying
that copies of protocols from pre-
cincts where the vote was count-
ed fairly show her winning 60 per
cent to 70 per cent. She urged the
government to end violence and
engage in dialogue with protes-
ters.
“The Belarussians will never
want to live under the current
government,” she said. “The au-
thorities have turned peaceful
demonstrations into a blood-
bath.”
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LEBANESE PROTESTERS FIGHT
TO BRING DOWN THE SYSTEM
Citizens of all religious sects are coming together to demand that the country’s entire political elite –
whom they blame for allowing the Port of Beirut explosion to happen – step down and face justice
PHOTOGRAPHY BY RAFAEL YAGHOBZADEH/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
MARK MacKINNON
SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT
BEIRUT
I
n a previous era, Andrew Hraiz, a Maro-
nite Christian, and his girlfriend Lynn
Modallal, a Sunni Muslim, might have
been on opposite sides of Lebanon’s
political divide. They certainly wouldn’t
have been on the same side of the struggle
as Bane Fakih, a Shia Muslim who says “half
her family” is in Hezbollah.
But in the wake of the Aug. 4 explosion
that devastated entire neighbourhoods of
the city they all call home, all three have
joined the same protests, trying to bring
down a system – a post-civil war pact that
divides power among the country’s three
main religious groups – that they blame for
allowing the catastrophe to happen.
They’re furious at all of those who knew,
and did nothing, about the 2,750 tonnes of
ammonium nitrate that sat unattended in
a warehouse in the Port of Beirut for more
than six years before erupting in a mush-
room cloud that left at least 172 people
dead and made 300,000 homeless. Fingers
of blame are pointed at both President Mi-
chel Aoun and Prime Minister Hassan Diab,
who announced his resignation this week.
But the protesters want much deeper
change than simply replacing Mr. Diab, or
even the more entrenched figure of Mr.
Aoun, whose resignation they intend to de-
mand next. They say they want to see Leba-
non’s entire political elite stripped of the
formal and informal power they and their
families have held since a 1990 peace agree-
ment that ended a 15-year civil war by effec-
tively dividing the country up between the
same warlords who had torn it apart.
The pact has kept a semblance of peace
for most of the past three decades in this
country, long the field where more power-
ful, countries – the United States, Syria, Iran
and Israel – come to fight their battles. But
it’s a peace that has fostered a culture of
corruption and impunity that has now
overwhelmed the state.
The protesters hope to see the end of not
only Mr. Aoun and his Christian rival Samir
Geagea, but also Sunni leader Saad Hariri,
Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, and Nabih
Berri, the long-serving Shia speaker of par-
liament. And yes, Hassan Nasrallah, leader
of the powerful Hezbollah militia, too.
“All of them means all of them,” is one of
the most common chants at the near-daily
protests – a slogan that captures the protes-
ters’ demand for their entire political elite
to stand aside and, ideally, face justice. It’s a
revolutionary idea in a country where
many older Lebanese identify more with
their political leader and their religious af-
filiation, than by their nationality.
“It’s a rebellion against our father figures
– and the biggest father figures are Aoun
and Nasrallah,” said Mr. Hraiz, a 32-year-old
founder of a comedy club that – if not for
the coronavirus pandemic – was supposed
to be holding a show on Aug. 4 right beside
the now-devastated Port of Beirut. Sitting
beside him at a café in the city’s hard-hit
Gemmayzeh district, Ms. Modallal, a 28-
Film director Bane Fakih was on the front line of some of the protests in Beirut
last weekend. Ms. Fakih says she doesn’t expect Lebanon’s sectarian leaders,
or the foreign powers that back them, to step aside of their own accord.
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year-old art director, said many Lebanese
had “a disease” that made them willing to
blame the other oligarchs for the country’s
problems, but unable to see the faults with
their own sectarian leader. “I don’t need a
father figure.”
Some go further and blame their par-
ents’ generation, those who lived through
the civil war, for allowing a cabal of militia
bosses to take over the country.
“It’s like the civil war happened, and
then they collectively decided not to talk
about it,” said Ms. Fakih, a 28-year-old film
director who was on the front line of some
of the fiercest clashes last weekend.
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Ms. Fakih said she doesn’t expect that
the sectarian leaders, or the foreign powers
that back them, will step aside of their own
accord. But, she points out, the men that
rule Lebanon are getting older. Mr. Aoun,
the president, is 85. Mr. Berri, speaker since
1992, is 82.
“My hope is that they will die. The day
that Berri dies, there will be a celebration.
When our parents’ generation dies, the war
trauma will dilute, and maybe we can
change things.”
Ten days on from the port explosion, Beirut
is still digging out, still finding more dead
bodies in the rubble. In Gemmayzeh, the
groan of construction cranes lifting pieces
of fallen cement mingled unmelodically on
Friday with the tinkle of broken glass being
swept off sidewalks and balconies.
The scale of the destruction is almost too
much to grasp, in places recalling war
zones such as Kabul or Aleppo. The port ar-
ea – a critical lifeline for import-reliant Le-
banon – is now a vast field of twisted metal
interrupted only by the battered husk of
the country’s main grain silo, the sole
building that remains standing in the area.
On a street near the port, a brown taxi still
sits with its roof caved in by a giant piece of
cement. Someone has taped a picture of
the dead driver, Ahmad Ibrahim Kaadan,
to the hood of the car, but no one has towed
the vehicle away.
A few blocks away, a nurse was killed
when the blast wave slammed into the Sis-
ters of the Rosary hospital, an institution
that became a casualty itself. The force of
the blast blew out every window, bent the
metal elevator doors inward, and catapult-
ed patients out of their beds. Volunteers are
everywhere – cleaning the streets, handing
out food, tending to the wounded – but the
state is absent. The only visible institution
is the army, which was given additional
powers under a state of emergency de-
clared on Thursday. A day later, soldiers
wandered the streets with assault rifles at
the ready, but did nothing to help rebuild.
The resignation of Mr. Diab, a relatively
unknown academic until he was hired into
the prime minister’s job earlier this year,
marked a victory for the protesters, while at
the same time changing little about how
the country is run. The most-often men-
tioned potential replacement is Mr. Hariri,
who has twice before served as prime min-
ister, and whom protesters forced to resign
just last fall.
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NGO volunteers distribute boxes of supplies to aid those affected by Beirut’s port explosion in the hard-hit Gemmayzeh district on Friday.
The Aug. 4 blast destroyed entire neighbourhoods, has left at least 172 people dead and made 300,000 homeless.

Above: A caved-in car bearing a photograph of its driver, who died during the explosion, sits in the streets of Beirut days after the blast.

Left: A family looks at a devastated Port of Beirut on Friday. The explosion occurred after 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate sat
unattended in a warehouse for more than six years.

A group of victims of the port explosion
held a news conference Friday in the shad-
ow of another of Gemmayzeh’s shattered
buildings to announce they were sending a
letter to United Nations Secretary-General
Antonio Guterres, calling for the formation
of an international tribunal to investigate
the port blast. Lebanon’s powers-that-be
collectively stand accused, they argued,
and thus can’t be trusted to investigate
themselves.
“We thought we were governed by cor-
rupt people, but in fact we were governed
by murderers,” said Nawal Elmeouchi, a 67-
year-old Lebanese-Canadian who said she
was representing her four children, whose
homes had all been damaged in the blast.
“Every person who could have known and
should have known – we want them tried.
We have to topple all of them.”
“The issue at this point is not who is
prime minister, it’s the whole system of
governance,” said Nadim Khoury, a Leba-
nese-Canadian who runs the Arab Reform
Initiative, a Paris-based think tank. “The
system today is manifested by six oligarchs.
Lebanon is run by a mafia of six. They are
the ones who make all the decisions.”
Lebanon has tried to say “khalass” – the Ar-
abic word for “enough” before. Tens of
thousands took to the streets demanding
change in 2005, after the assassination of
former prime minister Rafik Hariri, Saad
Hariri’s father, in another massive blast
that shook Beirut. They protested again in
2015 when – in a small-scale harbinger of
the port explosion – an overflowing dump,
and the lack of a government plan for what
to do about it, left garbage uncollected for
months on the stinking streets of the cap-
ital.
While those protests made some gains –
the 2005 protests succeeded in ending the
Syrian army’s 29-year presence in Lebanon
– they ended with deals that left Lebanon’s
political system intact. That system – an in-
tricate quilt of patronage that sees entire
villages economically and politically re-
liant on sectarian leaders who are them-
selves dependent on the support of foreign
sponsors – became the target of the 2015
protesters, who saw the garbage crisis as a
symbol of the corruption and incompe-
tence of the country’s ruling class.
Those same factors brought furious
crowds back onto the streets again in Octo-
ber of last year. This time the trigger was a
growing economic crisis, and the govern-
ment’s stunning plan to raise revenues by
taxing calls made on WhatsApp. Those
demonstrations, which were paused by the
pandemic, have resumed with vengeance
since the port explosion. What’s changed is
that the old formula for defusing political
crises – a settlement reached behind closed
doors by the various sectarian leaders – is
no longer acceptable to the angry crowds
on the streets. The sectarian leaders are
themselves now seen as the problem.
“Khalass. It’s over. I think we’re somewhere
completely different now. We’re beyond
the point of anger. Lebanon is going to-
wards a political transition,” said Carmen
Engineer Nassim Zoueini, part of a team of young volunteers sweeping the
streets of Gemmayzeh on Friday, says aid from foreign countries shouldn’t
come with strings attached like it has in the past.
Geha, a veteran political activist who teach-
es public administration at the American
University in Beirut. “It’s us or these peo-
ple,” she added, referring to the sectarian
leaders. “We have to get rid of them or we’re
going to die.”
The tragic irony is that the system of sectar-
ian power-sharing was created to protect
Lebanon from disaster. After a 15-year civil
war, which killed 120,000 people and was
fought largely along sectarian lines,
the country’s warlords agreed in 1990 to
end the bloodshed – essentially by dividing
the spoils.
The pact, known as the Taif Accords,
seemed meritorious at the time: A Maro-
nite Christian would always be president, a
Sunni Muslim the prime minister, and a
Shia Muslim the speaker of parliament.
Each would make sure their sect’s interests
were protected. Nco religious group would
be allowed to dominate the others.
But protecting the interests of each
group came to mean protecting the inter-
ests of the sectarian leaders. The best way
to get a top government job was to demon-
strate loyalty to your sectarian leader, rath-
er than a relevant skill set.
And the sectarian leaders became de-
pendent, in turn, on their international al-
lies. Of the six oligarchs, three – Mr. Hariri,
Mr. Jumblatt and Mr. Geagea – are broadly
pro-Western, receiving support at various
times from the United States, France and
Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, Mr. Nasrallah,
Mr. Aoun and Mr. Berri are allied with Syria
and Iran.
It was this combustible mix of nepotism,
corruption, foreign interference and in-
competence that contributed to the de-
struction of the Port of Beirut. While sever-
al government departments raised the
alarm about the looming disaster that was
the ammonium nitrate stockpile in Ware-
house 12 of the port – most recently in a July
20 letter from the country’s National Secu-
rity Agency that was seen by both Mr. Aoun
and Mr. Diab – none took meaningful ac-
tion to resolve the issue. The port author-
ity’s board of directors is divided, like ev-
erything else in Lebanon, along sectarian
lines, with each faction receiving a set
number of seats on the board. With the
port used by the various sects to move
weapons and other illicit cargo in and out
of the country, those who were supposedly
responsible for overseeing safety and secu-
rity at the port knew better than to ask too
many questions about what was in Ware-
house 12.
Mr. Diab hinted at the scale of the prob-
lem in his resignation speech. “I said before
that corruption is rooted in every juncture
of the state, but I have discovered that cor-
ruption is greater than the state.”
The members of the board of the Port
Authority look likely to bear the blame for
the catastrophe. All 16 were placed under
house arrest 48 hours after the blast, short-
ly after gross negligence, and not a foreign
attack, emerged as the most likely cause of
the blast.
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But the port is far from unique in how it’s
misgoverned. Each sect appoints one of
the six members on the board of directors
at Electricité du Liban (EDL), which strug-
gled to keep the lights on in Beirut for
more than a few hours a day even before
the economic crisis, let alone the port ex-
plosion, which destroyed EDL’s head of-
fice. The country’s Central Bank – which
reacted to the economic downturn by first
restricting cash withdrawals, then printing
money in such volumes as to cause the
country’s currency to plunge to a quarter
of its precrisis value – is governed along
the same lines.
“It’s not just the Port of Beirut – at all
other Lebanese institutions you find the
same story repeated, where there is no au-
thority, no chain of command,” said Habib
Battah, a journalist who founded the Bei-
rut Report investigative website. “No one’s
really in charge of Lebanon at any mo-
ment. How could we expect that a country
that could not even pick up its garbage,
that could not keep its lights on, would be
able to deal with a Hiroshima-like mound
of munitions?”
In good times, Lebanon often feels like it’s
about to leave the Middle East behind. In
the moments when conflict, or the possi-
bility of conflict, fades into the back-
ground, the country that emerges is a tou-
rism magnet and trading hub. It produces
some of the region’s best food (and wine),
and a freewheeling anything-goes atmo-
sphere that makes it an escape hatch – and
an investment destination – for residents
of the region’s more repressive regimes.
Despite those blessings, the scale of Le-
banon’s problems has become almost in-
conceivable. The port explosion damaged
an uncounted number of businesses. Peo-
Workers use cranes to clean up Gemmayzeh on Friday. French President Emmanuel Macron
visited the area shortly after the blast.
ple can’t rebuild because they can’t get
their money out of the banks. Food prices
have soared 250 per cent in the past 12
months – and that was before the blast
damaged the silo holding most of the
country’s grain supply. Half the country
lives below the poverty line, more than
half is unemployed.
The government is US$100-billion in
debt, the economy is expected to contract
26 per cent this year, and Western donors
are wary of bailing out a government they
see as dominated by Hezbollah and its
supporters in Tehran. The last point is crit-
ical as the country’s searches for a new
prime minister and cabinet.
On Tuesday, an international tribunal is
expected to deliver its verdict on four Hez-
bollah members charged in absentia with
the 2005 murder of Rafik Hariri. If they are
found guilty, as is widely expected, the U.S.
is expected to call for new sanctions tar-
geting Hezbollah and its allies.
French President Emmanuel Macron
drew cheers by visiting the devastated
Gemmayzeh district shortly after the blast,
and he has promised to return to Lebanon
on Sept. 1 to lay out a new vision for how
the country could be governed. But real
change may not be what Mr. Macron has in
mind either – several pro-Western MPs,
who say they were planning to quit in re-
sponse to the protests, claim they were ad-
vised not to by Mr. Macron.
Mr. Macron likely doesn’t want to see
the West’s allies in Lebanon quit their
posts until Iran’s allies do the same. And
the latter appears unlikely: A recently
erected banner in the Shia suburbs of
south Beirut warned it was “a red line” to
demand Mr. Berri’s resignation as speaker.
“We will break the neck of whoever crosses
it.”
Even more complicated is the status of
Hezbollah, which is a key ally of Iran in its
standoff with Israel. The Islamist militia
has demonstrated in the past that it has
the ability to seize control of Beirut in a
matter of hours if it wants to. The West,
and many of the protesters in Gemmay-
zeh, may want to see the group disarmed,
but Tehran has little reason to agree so
long as it perceives a threat from the U.S.
and Israel.
“Lebanon is an international produc-
tion. We have the Western powers, Iran
and Saudi Arabia all organizing for their
interests here – and the Lebanese people
have paid the price,” said Mr. Battah, the
journalist. “I think the whole world bears
responsibility for Lebanon’s current sta-
tus.”
The protesters say they now want the
world’s help rebuilding after the explosion
– but they hope the international commu-
nity will lend a hand while also ostracizing
their country’s government and political
elites. “If you want to help the Lebanese
people – we are the people, not them,”
said Nassim Zoueini, a 28-year-old engi-
neer-turned political activist who was
sweeping the streets of Gemmayzeh on
Friday with a team of young volunteers.
Mr. Zoueini said the aid – whether it
comes from the West or from Iran – also
shouldn’t come with strings attached, like
it has in the past, when Iranian money was
marked for fighting Israel, and Western aid
often targeted at pushing back Iran. “[For-
eign countries] have to fulfill their com-
mitment to democracy and truly leave us
alone. They can’t buy us by giving us weap-
ons and money. We are not like those el-
derly warlords.”

Art director Lynn Modallal, who is Sunni Muslim, stands inside an apartment in Gemmayzeh in Beirut on Friday. Ms. Modallal says many Lebanese had ‘a disease’ that made them willing
to blame other oligarchs for the country’s problems, but unable to see faults with the leaders of their own religious sects.

Canadian girl among youngest victims of Lebanon explosion

TU THANH HA
Alexandra was a bright, vivacious
girl who grew up with the chaos
of Lebanon as a backdrop to her
brief life.
She was with her parents last
fall when they joined thousands
of Lebanese marching in the
streets to protest government
corruption.
The evening of Aug. 4, a mas-
sive explosion from tonnes of
abandoned chemicals burst
through Beirut. Alexandra, who
was three years and six months
old, was one of the youngest of at
least 172 people who died in the
latest calamity to hit Lebanon.
She was one of two Canadians
killed by the blast.
She has become the face of the
tragedy and united Lebanese so-
ciety in grief.
Alexandra was the only child
of Paul Naggear and Tracy Awad
Naggear, the only grandchild of
Michel Awad.
She had Canadian citizenship.
Her mother and her maternal
grandfather, Mr. Awad, once lived
in Quebec but had returned to
their country of origin.
Her grieving family members
are now considering moving back
to Canada, Mr. Awad said, Alex-
andra’s death marking the end of
her family’s future in Lebanon.
“For the sake of my daughter,
my daughter will never have an-
other child in this country,” Mr.
Awad said in a telephone inter-
view.
Mr. Awad had hoped to live in a
conflict-free Lebanon. “It turned
out to be a deadly trap,” he said.
He added that five or six of his
neighbours, who also had Cana-
dian nationality, were leaving, a
pattern among members of the
diaspora who had tried to renew
their ties with their ancestral
land.
He and his family fled Lebanon
in 1989, during one of the final
chapters of the country’s long civ-
il war. Several missiles had direct-
ly struck their building. They left
for Cyprus, then settled in Que-
bec, where they became Cana-
dian citizens.
Although he loved living in
Montreal, Mr. Awad said they
moved back to Lebanon after a
few years. They wanted to be clos-
er to their relatives and his wife,
Vicky, wanted a break from the
Canadian winter.
For a while, the situation in Le-
banon was more peaceful, until
things unravelled again after the
Three-year-old Alexandra Naggear stands with her grandfather, Michel
Awad, in Lebanon before the blast in Beirut. COURTESY OF FAMILY
2005 assassination of Prime Min-
ister Rafik Hariri, Mr. Awad said.
After Alexandra’s birth, Mr.
Awad spent much time with her,
to help his daughter and her hus-
band start their digital marketing
consultancy.
“She was a fabulous child,” he
said of his granddaughter. “She
was very smart. She was full of
life.”
In recent months, Lebanon fell
in a worsening spiral of prob-
lems, with the arrival of refugees
from Syria’s civil war, an econom-
ic crisis and the COVID-19 pan-
demic.
Then came the explosion. It
was so powerful that Mr. Awad,
living in Broummana, a hillside
town 20 kilometres east of the Le-
banese capital, saw cedar trees
bend under the shock wave.
His daughter lived on the sixth
floor of a building overlooking
the port, where the chemicals
had been warehoused. She
grabbed her daughter and tried to
move away from a window but
the blast threw them in the air
and knocked her unconscious.
Alexandra died in hospital the
next day.
Ms. Awad-Naggear suffered
broken ribs, broken fingers and
injuries to her legs.
In 2014, just at the time their
daughter was getting married,
Mr. Awad’s wife, Vicky, died of
heart problems. “Twice in six
years. It’s too much for humans.”
He and his daughter want a
new start in Canada. His son-in-
law does not have Canadian citi-
zenship and they hope they can
sort out the paperwork for him.
But even as Mr. Awad looks
forward to a new life, he remains
haunted by the impact of the ex-
plosion. He recalls visiting his
daughter in hospital and seeing
victims who had lost limbs or
eyes.
He appealed to foreign powers
to help with the relief effort, and
to deliver the population from its
political leaders. “They cannot
leave us at the mercy of these war
criminals … we cannot survive
like this.”
S AT U RDAY , AUGUST 15, 2020 | T HE GLO B E AN D MAI L O NEWS | A15

Palestinians say Israel-UAE deal hinders Mideast peace

United Arab Emirates’
move widely viewed as
weakening Palestine’s
bargaining position
JOSEPH KRAUSS JERUSALEM
Israel’s agreement to establish
diplomatic ties with the United
Arab Emirates marks a watershed
moment in its relations with Arab
countries, but the Palestinians
say it puts a just resolution of the
Middle East conflict even farther
out of reach.
The UAE presented its decision
to upgrade long-standing ties to
Israel as a way of encouraging
peace efforts by taking Israel’s
planned annexation of parts of
the occupied West Bank off the ta-
ble, something Israeli Prime Min-
ister Benjamin Netanyahu swiftly
rebuffed by insisting the pause
was “temporary.”
From the Palestinian perspec-
tive, the UAE not only failed to
stop annexation, which would
dash any remaining hopes of es-
tablishing a viable, independent
state. It also undermined an Arab
consensus that recognition of Is-
rael only come in return for con-
cessions in peace talks – a rare
source of leverage for the Palesti-
nians.
“I never expected this poison
dagger to come from an Arab
country,” Saeb Erekat, a senior
Palestinian official and veteran
negotiator said Friday. “You are
rewarding aggression. … You
have destroyed, with this move,
any possibility of peace between
Palestinians and Israelis.”
U.S. President Donald Trump
has presented the U.S.-brokered
agreement as a major diplomatic
achievement and said he expects
more Arab and Muslim countries
to follow suit. Israel has quietly
cultivated ties with the UAE and
other Gulf countries for several
years as they have confronted a
shared enemy in Iran.
In Israel, the agreement has re-
newed long-standing hopes for
normal relations with its Arab
Palestinians gather in Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Friday, to protest against the United
Arab Emirates’ agreement with Israel to upgrade long-standing ties. RANEEN SAWAFTA/REUTERS
neighbours. Mr. Netanyahu has
long insisted, contrary to genera-
tions of failed peace negotiators,
that Israel can enjoy such ties
without resolving its conflict with
the Palestinians. For now, he
seems to have been proved right.
“It’s hard to claim right now
that the 53-year-old occupation is
‘unsustainable’ when Mr. Neta-
nyahu has just proved that not
only is it sustainable, but Israel
can improve its ties with the Arab
world, openly, with the occupa-
tion still going,” wrote Anshel
Pfeffer, a columnist for Israel’s
Haaretz newspaper.
But the Middle East conflict
was never between Israel and the
United Arab Emirates, which
have fought no wars and share no
borders. And the nature of the
agreement will likely force the
Palestinians to harden their
stance and redouble their efforts
to isolate Israel.
The Palestinian Authority is-
sued a scathing statement in re-
sponse to the move, calling it a
“betrayal of Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa
Mosque and the Palestinian
cause,” language clearly aimed at
inflaming Arab and Muslim senti-
ment worldwide.
The Palestinians have called
for an urgent meeting of the Arab
League and the 57-member Orga-
nization of Islamic Cooperation
to condemn the move. But in
those forums they will be pitted
against the oil-rich UAE, which
has deep pockets, allies across the
region and even more influence
in Washington following the
agreement with Israel.
The international campaign is
“meant to isolate the Emiratis so
that other countries will not take
the same step,” said Ibrahim Da-
lalsha, a Palestinian analyst.
“Whether it will succeed in this or
not, it remains to be seen.”
Iran and Turkey lashed out at
the UAE, a regional rival, accusing
it of betraying the Palestinians,
Arabs and Muslims.
But the agreement, and the de-
cision to pause annexation, was
welcomed by much of the inter-
national community, including
Egypt and the Gulf Arab countries
of Bahrain and Oman. Many
countries expressed hope it
would revive the peace process.
The Palestinians want an inde-
pendent state in the West Bank,
east Jerusalem and Gaza, areas
seized by Israel in the 1967 war.
Mr. Trump’s plan would allow Is-
rael to keep nearly all of east Jeru-
salem, including holy sites sacred
to Christians, Jews and Muslims,
and annex up to a third of the
West Bank. The Palestinians have
angrily rejected the proposal.
Germany’s Foreign Minister
Heiko Maas reiterated his coun-
try’s support for a two-state solu-
tion when he called to congratu-
late Israel on the “historic” agree-
ment with the UAE.
“We stand by our position that
only a negotiated two-state solu-
tion can bring lasting peace to the
Middle East,” Mr. Maas said in a
statement. “Together with our
European partners and the region
we have campaigned intensively
in past months against an annex-
ation and for the resumption of
direct negotiations.” France and
Italy issued similar statements.
That strikes many Palestinians
as a return to a similarly unbear-
able status quo, in which Israel
rules the West Bank and expands
Jewish settlements while the in-
ternational community calls for
peace talks that never material-
ize.
Any serious negotiations, or
lasting solution to the conflict,
will require the Palestinians, who
feel they have been brushed
aside.
“We’re now in a situation
where everybody is talking about
us and no one is talking to us,”
said Diana Buttu, a former legal
adviser to the Palestinian Author-
ity. It’s a “colonial approach,” she
said, “as though we are just some
problem that needs to be ad-
dressed without ever speaking to
us.”
Palestinian President Mah-
moud Abbas suspended all con-
tacts with the U.S. after it recog-
nized disputed Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel in 2017. In May,
the Palestinians cut all ties with
Israel, including security co-ordi-
nation, in response to the threat
of annexation, and said they
would no longer abide by any
past agreements with Israel or the
United States.
In recent weeks, as the threat
of annexation faded amid inter-
nal political disputes in Israel,
some had speculated the cash-
strapped Palestinian Authority
would quietly back down, if only
to restore the transfer of hun-
dreds of millions of dollars in tax-
es collected by Israel.
Now, in the wake of the UAE
agreement, many say that’s out of
the question.
“This is not a way for them to
climb down from the tree,” Ms.
Buttu said. “It’s quite the oppo-
site, I think it keeps them there.”
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Democrats chart united path forward as convention looms

With party set to gather
virtually, presumptive
nominee Biden faces
challenge of rallying and
energizing voters in a
campaign like no other
STEVE PEOPLES
BILL BARROW NEW YORK
would be normal either,” said At-
lanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bot-
toms, who was under considera-
tion to serve as Mr. Biden’s run-
ning mate and will speak at the
convention. “I hope wherever
people are that they’re excited
about the moment and the op-
portunity that lies before us.”
The online gathering comes as
Democratic officials work to en-
ergize supporters behind Mr. Bi-
den’s candidacy – not simply
against President Donald
One of the far left’s champions,
New York Representative Alexan-
dria Ocasio-Cortez, is scheduled
to speak for just 60 seconds to
help introduce Mr. Sanders the
day after Mr. Kasich. Prominent
liberal activist Ady Barkan, who
previously backed Mr. Sanders, is
scheduled to deliver remarks the
next day.
“I’m glad that John and other
moderate-type Republicans un-
derstand that it is wrong to be
supporting Trump,” Mr. Sanders
Nothing about 2020
has been normal. So
I don’t think anyone
expected that this
convention would be
normal either. I hope
wherever people are
that they’re excited
about the moment
and the opportunity
when they extended party rules
through 2024 that ban superdele-
gates from voting for the party’s
presidential nominee on the first
nominating ballot. But without
the opportunity for the approxi-
mately 4,800 Democratic dele-
gates from across the U.S. to gath-
er on the same convention hall
floor, as is tradition, the opportu-
nity for a genuine convention de-
bate over the direction of the par-
ty has been eliminated.
Larry Cohen, a prominent

J
oe Biden is poised to unveil his
vision for the modern Demo-
cratic Party in the first presi-
dential nominating convention
of the coronavirus era, an all-vir-
tual affair that will test the former
vice-president’s ability to over-
come unprecedented logistical
challenges in an urgent mission
to energize a winning coalition.
The Democratic National Con-
vention, which formally begins
Monday, is not a convention in
the traditional sense. There will
be no physical gathering place,
no cheering audience, no bal-
loons. The program will consist
instead of a series of online video
addresses – half of which will be
pre-recorded – that play out for
two hours each night until Mr. Bi-
den formally accepts the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination in
a mostly empty Delaware ball-
room on Thursday.
Along the way, Mr. Biden’s par-
ty will make history by unveiling
the nation’s first Black vice-presi-
dential nominee, Kamala Harris.
The speaking program also fea-
tures two former presidents, two
past presidential nominees, a for-
mer Republican governor, a New
York ultrabillionaire and various
working-class Americans.
“Nothing about 2020 has been
normal. So I don’t think anyone
expected that this convention
Trump’s. While Mr. Trump is a
huge motivator for many Demo-
crats, there is some concern with-
in the party that lower-informa-
tion voters who lean Democrat
and swing voters aren’t locks to
cast ballots for Mr. Biden this fall,
especially as the pandemic cre-
ates barriers to voting.
At the same time, Mr. Trump
and his allies are fighting to scare
away would-be Biden-Harris
backers by describing the Demo-
crats’ 2020 ticket as the most ide-
ologically extreme in American
history. While widely considered
a political moderate – at least
compared with the likes of Ver-
mont Senator Bernie Sanders and
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth
Warren – Mr. Biden has plans to
implement a Medicare-like sys-
tem for those who want it, sweep-
ing environmental protections
and higher taxes on the rich.
Still, Mr. Biden attracted the
support of former Ohio governor
John Kasich, a Republican, who is
scheduled to speak Monday. The
Biden campaign hinted that Mr.
Kasich would not be the only
high-profile Republican featured
at the convention, but refused to
say more.
The inclusion of Mr. Kasich,
who opposed abortion rights and
fought labour unions while in of-
fice, rankled some progressives.
told the Associated Press. “But
what John says has nothing to do
with what I will say. My speech
has everything to do with the
need to defeat Trump, elect Bi-
den and move the country into a
government that works for all of
us and not just the 1 per cent.”
There appears to be far less
tension among the Democrats’
often-competing factions head-
ing into the 2020 convention
than many predicted earlier in
the year. Just six months ago, po-
litical operatives were openly
contemplating the prospect of a
contested convention in which
none of the Democratic candi-
dates had a clear delegate major-
ity going into the convention.
That possibility quickly faded
in early March. After Mr. Biden’s
commanding South Carolina pri-
mary victory, several competitors
suddenly rallied behind him as
the pandemic began to explode.
Even if there was leftover re-
sentment among wings of the
party, the convention’s online fo-
rum doesn’t provide any oppor-
tunities for public infighting. Key
votes on the party platform al-
ready will have taken place by
mail ballot. The details, which are
expected to be approved over-
whelmingly, were hammered out
in Zoom meetings.
Progressives got their say
that lies before us.
KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS
ATLANTA MAYOR
Rules Committee member and
Sanders confidant, lamented the
loss of an in-person convention,
but not because it limits debate.
“The key of a convention, real-
ly, is the party building that
comes with 57 different delega-
tions,” he said, noting the in-per-
son daily meetings that would oc-
cur in hotels across a host city.
“You shape the party in those
breakfast meetings, where you
argue over what it means to be a
Democrat in Wyoming, what
does it mean in Georgia.”
With less focus on policy de-
bates, convention officials are
highlighting the historic racial di-
versity on the ticket as the U.S.
experiences a national awaken-
ing on race. Ms. Harris, who is al-
so of Asian descent, is scheduled
to address the country Wednes-
day night as the first woman of
colour on a major party’s presi-
dential ticket. The high-profile
Black speakers also on the pro-
gram include former first lady Mi-
chelle Obama, former president
Barack Obama, New Jersey Sen-
ator Cory Booker and Ms. Bot-
toms, who will introduce a video
tribute to the late Georgia con-
gressman John Lewis on Thurs-
day night, ahead of Mr. Biden’s
speech.
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A pandemic rite of passage: getting a COVID-19 test
Millions of Canadians
have experienced a
plastic swab going
way up their nose
IAN BROWN
This summer Ian Brown explores
how Canadians are reclaiming their
lives from quarantine, whether it’s
the thrill of a haircut, the risk of a
hug or a chance – finally! – to jump
in a pool again.
T
he most popular outing of
the pandemic summer of
2020 isn’t a bike ride or the
beach, the hair salon or the golf
course. The hot thing to do in the
summer of 2020 as we emerge
from pandemic lockdown is get
tested for COVID-19. Now that
4,635,105 of us have done so, the
pattern of preresult anxiety is
well-established.
It begins with planning: How
long will I have to wait in line for
a test? Then physical worry: How
much does it hurt? A longer but
milder stretch of nervousness
then ensues, while you wait for
the results: Do I have it? Where
will I quarantine if I do? Could I
be a goner nine days from now?
All of which ends in a brief
splurge of relief, in 97.5 per cent
of cases, when the test reveals
you’re clear. It’s only a snapshot
of a moment; you could still
catch COVID when you stop for
gas on your way home. But at
least it’s some kind of answer.
I know the pattern of test wor-
ry because I’m discussing it with
Joan Gauthier, the woman be-
hind me in line at Women’s Col-
lege Hospital in downtown To-
ronto. I want to be tested specifi-
cally because I’m sharing a car on
a vacation to Montreal; and
more generally because I want to
know if my distancing tech-
niques are working. But Joan has
notched four tests, so she can vis-
it her husband, David, in his
long-term care home where he’s
succumbing to Parkinson’s faster
than she likes.
Joan is 88, forthright and well-
informed. She speaks in precise
sentences. David moved into
long-term care four weeks before
lockdown last March, whereup-
on Joan didn’t see him in person
for four months. Now that visits
are allowed again, provided she
has been tested, she makes her
way to the hospital from her la-
keside condo every second
Wednesday morning. This is
something we do now to be with
people we love.
The one part of the experience
she doesn’t like is the 10-inch
plastic wand up her nose, if the
nurse is the type who counts to
five out loud while she probes.
“That makes it seem longer,”
Joan says.
Last spring, in the dark early
days of lockdown, tests were
available only to those literally
gasping for breath. Now anyone
who wants a test can get one al-
most anywhere in the country –
a development that troubles
some epidemiologists as much
as it pleases others. Tests are es-
sential to understand the spread
of the virus. They are also fancy
props in the theatre of the pan-
demic. One thing is certain: No
one predicted COVID-19 tests
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  negotiation with a gun to our
LAST CHANCE
would be the source of a moral
quagmire.
At the outset of the pandemic in
March, the Women’s College
Hospital’s COVID-19 assessment
centre conducted a few hundred
tests a week.
These days it swabs 450
schnozzes a day. The hospital’s
walk-in clinic has conducted
14,000 tests; its fast-track cousin,
which requires online registra-
tion and phone screening, has
processed 17,000 more. Another
4,500 patients have been tested
by the hospital’s mobile unit at a
long-term care home and 25
homeless shelters.
Wednesdays and Thursdays
are busiest, in time for the week-
ends. After a 15-minute physical-
ly distanced wait in line outside,
a nurse in full protective armour
with her name, Eunice, written in
magic marker on her face shield,
invites me into a sealed-off space
in the vestibule between the
(open) outer and (closed) inner
doors to the hospital: technically,
we’re still outside, therefore non-
contaminating. Eunice smiles
and asks me to tip my head back.
The white plastic wand goes
in. It goes in quite a long way. I
can’t say it hurts, or even stings;
it’s just momentarily uncomfort-
able. Describing the feeling has
become a competitive amateur
sport in Canada: one woman I
know likens it to “a twirly Pap
smear,” while another says it’s
“like a fly flew up your nose.” The
whole process takes three min-
utes, tops.
In fact, administering the test
requires special training, to make
sure the swab is inserted aggres-
sively enough to reach prime CO-
VID-gathering swampland in the
nasopharyngeal cavity. Some
nurses won’t do them. “We ad-
vance until we meet resistance,”
Dr. Tania Di Renna, a no-non-
sense anesthesiologist who is al-
so deputy director of the hospi-
tal’s assessment centre, tells me
one afternoon. Then the tester
twirls the tip of the wand. “It’s
not hard to do,” Dr. Di Renna in-
sists. “We just don’t like to make
people uncomfortable over and
over and over again.”
The work is relentless: “These
are people working in full PPE,
every day, all day, since March,”
northwest of St. John’s.
Three men were on board the Robinson
R44 light utility helicopter that had left
Springdale Airport in Newfoundland on
one leg of a cross-country pleasure flight.
The pilot had planned to refuel at a
maintenance facility on the northeast side
of the lake and completed a circuit
around the gravel parking lot surrounded
by trees, where he wanted to land.
O TH E G LO B E AND M AIL
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Dr. Di Renna adds: eight-hour the new school year. “We all ex-
shifts, with an hour for lunch. “If pect it’s going to go up as more
you don PPE, you can’t drink wa- people get colds, coughs, runny
ter. You can’t go to the bathroom. noses. But it’s always a predic-
Because then you have to doff, tion, rather than knowing.”
and that takes 10 minutes.” Don, My swab gets logged and
doff: medieval words, the lan- placed in a $150,000 machine
guage of armour. that performs a “real-time re-
All this, which so far has cost verse transcription polymerase
Ontarians $160-million, to reas- chain reaction.” The machine is
sure approximately 98 out of 100 artificially intelligent but comes
testees that they don’t have CO- with 82 pages of instructions for
VID-19, and to reveal to the re- the lab’s technicians, another
maining two that they sadly do. commodity still in short supply
across the country. The machine
needs four hours to find zero CO-
The goop from the back of my VID-19 in my snot.
sinusoidal cavity leaves the as- “If you were infected today,”
sessment centre and heads three Dr. Mazzulli says, “and you came
blocks south to the Mt. Sinai Hos- this afternoon to be tested, your
pital/University Health Network test would almost certainly be
microbiology laboratory. negative. You have to allow it
time to start growing. That usu-
ally takes 48, more likely 72
This week in Canada, hours.”
The new barrage of testing
The Globe has learned, costs a lot of money and the sup-
a group of ply of tests still isn’t secure. “At
infectious-disease this very moment,” Dr. Mazzulli
doctors plans to circulate says, “two of Mt. Sinai’s five sup-
pliers aren’t supplying tests be-
a letter to Canada’s cause they don’t have the raw
health ministers calling materials.” At one desperate
for a halt to the point last spring the hospital
unrestrained testing of paid a Chinese supplier (none of
its test makers are Canadian) $1-
people with no million for 200,000 plastic
symptoms and no swabs, at $5 a poke – cash, up
pressing reason to be front. James Yantzi, the Canadian
representative of Seegene Inc., a
tested beyond their own Korean test maker, sells them to
nervous whims. The U.S. hospitals for anywhere from
doctors maintain $150 and $300 a test. Here in Can-
unbridled testing will ada, Mt. Sinai pays him up to $20
for each one; swabs and dispos-
pull focus from able tips are extra. Meanwhile his
genuinely sick patients, business has grown fifteen-fold
overwork labs and in five months.
further strain the But the pandemic always
seems to swim ahead of us. In
resources of the the spring, everyone wanted
public-health system. more testing. Now we’re too par-
anoid to lay off. Ontario has
During the worldwide test logged fewer than 100 new CO-
shortage last March, the lab proc- VID cases a day since July 28. Cur-
essed 200 COVID samples a day. rent testing levels in Ontario
Today, 60 lab technicians assay range between 17,000 tests on a
4,500 tests daily, gathered from slow day and 35,000 on a nerv-
24 different Toronto-area hospi- ous one. “I don’t know if there’s
tals – a temporary plateau. an actual Ontario testing target,”
“Clearly, we don’t know what’s Christine Bruce, Mt. Sinai’s ad-
going to happen come Septem- ministrative director, says. “It
ber, October, when the so-called certainly hasn’t been shared.
flu season starts,” Dr. Tony Maz- Right now, we’re hovering at a
zulli, the director of the Mt. Si- 40,000-a-day target, with some
nai/UNH microbiology depart- predictions of growth to 50,000.
ment tells me when I ask about But I think the modelling of
TSB investigators said that as the hel-
icopter began to climb vertically from
treetop level, the pilot lost control and the
aircraft crashed into the ground.
RCMP said a 69-year-old Gambo man
died at the scene. Police have said the two
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what we truly are going to need
in the fall is still a little bit in
flux.” One thing is certain, ac-
cording to Michael Gardham, the
hospital’s medical director of in-
fection control. “The govern-
ment does not want to be ac-
cused of sleep-walking.”
Which is why the news in COVID-
testing has a distinctly bipolar
feel these days.
Some public-health experts
claim we each have a moral obli-
gation to get tested, because that
proves we’re all in this together.
Others say it is morally reprehen-
sible to indulge people with no
symptoms when there’s a short-
age of assays.
This week in Canada, The
Globe has learned, a group of in-
fectious-disease doctors plans to
circulate a letter to Canada’s
health ministers calling for a halt
to the unrestrained testing of
people with no symptoms and
no pressing reason to be tested
beyond their own nervous
whims. The doctors maintain un-
bridled testing will pull focus
from genuinely sick patients,
overwork labs and further strain
the resources of the public-
health system.
Michael Gardham doesn’t
agree, but thinks the letter writ-
ers may have a point. Early in the
pandemic, he says, “the criteria
necessary to get tested were
quite strict. And so that leads to
all sorts of potential biases in the
information that we are report-
ing.” Canada was lulled into
thinking our main COVID prob-
lems were travellers and health
care workers, because that’s
mostly who we tested with the
tests we had. “I personally be-
lieve that our focus on travellers
– which was appropriate early on
–made us keep focusing on trav-
ellers when we should have been
focusing on local transmission.”
That might have reduced the car-
nage in long-term care.
So am I wrong to use up a val-
uable test when I have no symp-
toms? “Right now,” Dr. Gardham
says, “testing asymptomatic peo-
ple makes a lot less sense than it
did two months ago. Because we
had a lot more COVID two
months ago.” But no one wants
to infect someone else, especially
the vulnerable. “There’s no sin-
gle right answer to these ques-
tions. We need to be agile and
flexible. We need to change as
the epidemiology changes.”
That is rational and sensible
and true. I just keep thinking of
Joan Gauthier, lined up in the
heat to be tested so she can visit
her ailing husband. He’s a retired
professor of philosophy, a Hob-
besian realist who believes hu-
man beings invent moral values
not because we’re high-minded,
but because they’re a fancy way
of striking a deal between what
we want and what we’re willing
to do to get it.
“I continue to test negative,
and I would be very surprised if I
did not,” Joan said to me that hot
morning. She’s conscientious –
wears a mask, washes her hands,
avoids crowds. “I don’t pat my-
self on my back,” she said. “I just
feel I have an obligation to keep
healthy so I can be some kind of
support for my husband.” A pan-
demic tests your love in the most
literal way.
NEW BRUNSWICK LIBERALS
REJECT PREMIER’S DEAL
TO AVOID ELECTION
FREDERICTON New Brunswick’s
Opposition Liberals have reject-
ed a proposal from Tory Premier
Blaine Higgs for an agreement
aimed at avoiding an election
until 2022.
Liberal Leader Kevin Vickers
said Friday Mr. Higgs wielded the
threat of a snap election in a bid
to have his minority govern-
ment remain in power for an-
other two years.
“[We were] continually re-
minded that if we did not come
to an agreement he would call
an election by the end of …
today, Friday,” Mr. Vickers told a
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[ INDONESIA ]
Watchdog
says Winnipeg
officer was
‘justified’
in shooting
armed teen
KELLY GERALDINE MALONE
WINNIPEG

An investigation by Manitoba’s
police watchdog has found an
officer was justified when he shot
and wounded a 16-year-old boy
wielding a machete.
“The actions of the subject offi-
cer were appropriate to the situa-
tion, and the use of potentially le-
thal force was necessary, justified
and unavoidable,” Zane Tessler,
the Independent Investigation
Unit’s civilian director, said in a
report released Friday.
The report said Winnipeg po-
lice responded to a call of an
armed robbery at a west-end
7-Eleven in November, 2019.
The unit’s investigators inter-
Ash dance viewed nine witnesses and 10 offi-
cers who responded to the scene.
They also went through security
Farmers harvest their onion crops as Mount Sinabung spews volcanic ash during an footage from the store, a nearby
traffic camera and video upload-
eruption seen from Sukandebi village in Indonesia on Friday. The country is home to ed by a witness to Facebook.
about 130 active volcanoes, due to its location on the ‘Ring of Fire,’ a belt of tectonic plate Witnesses said that soon after
boundaries encircling the Pacific Ocean where frequent seismic activity occurs the teen entered the store, he
walked up to the counter and,
holding a machete above his
head, demanded cash from em-
IVAN DAMANIK/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES ployees. Staff opened the register
and ran to a back office, locking
themselves inside and calling 911.
A father who was with his two
young sons getting hot chocolate
in the store told investigators that

RCMP defend use of violence in arrest they desperately ran from the
store, fearing for their safety.
When police arrived, the re-

of Inuk man found on Nunavut road
Incident caught on
video follows similar
case in June, drawing
further criticism of
police arrest methods
SEAN FINE JUSTICE WRITER
The RCMP in Nunavut have been
recorded on video for a second
time since June carrying out a vi-
olent arrest of an Inuk man, and
this time are defending their offi-
cer’s actions, saying he was justi-
fied in kneeing the man.
But a senior lawyer accuses
the force of attempting to “nor-
malize” police violence against
Inuit.
“Either they cannot or will not
control their officers,” Benson
Cowan, the chief executive of Nu-
navut Legal Aid, told The Globe
and Mail.
Amanda Jones, the RCMP’s
commanding officer in the re-
gion, called that statement un-
fair, saying the officers acted law-
fully, and were attempting to en-
sure the safety of a man who had
been passed out on a roadway
and responded to the interven-
tion by grabbing an officer’s
hand.
The officer “provided knee
strikes to the side of the body in
order to get the subject to release
his hand, but only enough strikes
to get his hand released,“ she said
[Benson Cowan,
chief executive of
Nunavut Legal Aid]
said the two
incidents reflect a
continuing problem
of police violence
against Inuit, and
that the RCMP’s
senior leaders are
refusing to take
responsibility
to address
that problem.
in an e-mail.
The video of the Aug. 9 inci-
dent, which surfaced this week
on Facebook, shows an Inuk man
lying on the ground with two
Mounties crouching over him.
The video is shot from a distance,
and it is difficult to see what the
man on the ground did that
prompted a reaction from one of
the officers.
It appears, though, that the
man grabbed the officer’s hand
or wrist, and the officer, after try-
ing to free his hand, kneed the
prone man three times. From the
video’s perspective, the officer’s
knee appears to make contact
closer to the head or neck area
than the side of the body.
The incident, like the one in
June, occurred in the same small
community, Kinngait (formerly
Cape Dorset). In the June video,
an officer is seen knocking a man
down with the open door of his
moving vehicle. That incident
prompted a rare public protest in
Nunavut against police violence.
Both videos come at a time of
intense scrutiny of police brutal-
ity, after the Minneapolis police
killing in May of George Floyd, an
unarmed Black man, also record-
ed on video.
The RCMP put the officer from
the first incident on administra-
tive duties and announced that
the Ottawa Police Service would
conduct a criminal investigation
of his conduct, but released a
statement this week justifying its
officer’s actions in the second
incident.
It said that officers responded
to a report at 4 p.m. on Aug. 9 of
an intoxicated man lying on a
road near a beach area in Kinn-
gait. When they tried to wake the
man, “he became agitated” and
swore at them.
“Given his intoxicated state,
officers arrested the male for vio-
lation of the liquor act and being
intoxicated in public,” the RCMP
says in its statement, dated Aug.
12, from Corporal Jamie Savika-
taaq.
As they tried to arrest the man
and place him in handcuffs, he
hid his arms under his body,
while twisting an officer’s hand,
the statement says. The officer
“used strikes with his knee to the
side of the suspect to get him to
stop assaulting and prevent inju-
ry to his hand.” The man was tak-
en into custody, held until sober,
and released without charge, the
statement says, adding that no
one was injured.
Mr. Cowan, the legal aid CEO,
said the two incidents reflect a
continuing problem of police vi-
olence against Inuit, and that the
RCMP’s senior leaders are refus-
ing to take responsibility to ad-
dress that problem.
“The RCMP statement on this
act of violence is self-serving,
one-sided, and it attempts to nor-
malize and justify unnecessary
violence,” he said. “It shows
clearly that the organization
does not take these incidents se-
riously.”
port said, the teen tried to leave
but struggled with the door. He
eventually forced the door open
and walked out holding the
machete.
Police and witnesses said they
saw the boy walk toward an offi-
cer with the machete, the report
said. They also told investigators
that officers yelled for the teen to
drop the weapon. Police fired a
Taser at him, but it had no effect.
In police notes filed for the in-
vestigation, the officer who fired
his gun said he was fearful that
the boy was “intent on directing
this machete forcefully at me.”
The officer fired four to five
shots, but the teen kept walking
in his direction, the report said.
The officer fired another round
and the teen fell against a wall.
He was taken to hospital,
where he had surgery. He was
released about a month later.
The boy did not meet with the
unit’s investigators but his med-
ical information was handed
over. It showed he was shot five
times, including in his neck, ab-
domen and thigh.
Mr. Tessler said in the report
that the threat posed by the teen
was “real, substantial and re-
quired to be neutralized.” There
were no grounds to justify charg-
es against the officer, he said.
Winnipeg police recently faced
criticism after officers shot and
killed four people this year. Three
of those people, including a 16-
year-old girl, died within a 10-day
span. Two people were killed in
police shootings in Winnipeg in
2019 and there were none in 2018.
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René Otero, centre, and dozens of others appear in Boys State, which follows an annual program in which 1,000 teen boys gather at the Texas State Capitol to form a mock government.
Boys State is political filmmaking on a grand scale
For anyone wondering
just how the U.S.
government has thrown
its populace into its
current state of unrest,
here is your answer
BARRY HERTZ
FILM REVIEW
Boys State
C L AS S IFICAT IO N : P G ; 109 M IN UTES
Directed by Amanda McBaine
and Jesse Moss
★★★
I
n the documentary world, tim-
ing is everything. Oh, and re-
sources. And energy. And pure,
dumb luck. Really, producing a
doc that speaks to the moment –
that precisely captures the cul-
ture without feeling gimmicky or
slapdash – requires a chain of
events lining up just exactly right.
Some documentarians seem to
have a knack for conjuring this ir-
regular formula, or have possibly
sold their souls to some cinema-
minded Satan, so fortunate have
they been to push out produc-
tions with just the right amount
of zeitgeist flavour (hello, Alex
Gibney). Maybe Amanda
McBaine and Jesse Moss should
be investigated for witchcraft,
then. Or maybe they just happen
to be immeasurably lucky.
As his new video shows, Drake’s a wannabe athlete in pop star clothing
BRAD WHEELER
OPINION
CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK
I
f it wasn’t clear already, a new
video from Drake nails it
down: Arguably the world’s
most popular music artist would
give it all up in a second just to be
a jock.
The video for his just-out sin-
gle Laugh Now Cry Later was shot
at the Nike World Headquarters.
He rolls up in a sports car and
breaks into the sportswear facil-
ity at night and, among other
frolics, plays one-on-one with all-
star hoopster Kevin Durant.
Every kid has their candy
store.
Robert MacDougall and Steven Garza appear in Boys State. The film’s release seems ideally timed for this precise political moment.
However the pair’s new film
Boys State managed to spring into
existence, audiences should be
grateful. Following the American
Legion-sponsored Boys State, in
which 1,000 teenage boys gather
at the Texas State Capitol to form
a mock government, McBaine
and Moss’s film is a doc for this
precise moment of 2020. For any-
one wondering just how the Unit-
ed States government has
plunged its populace into the cur-
rent state of national unrest – if
only the country was dealing with
a pandemic, and not a hundred
other equally pressing crises –
here is your answer.
Though the new song, video
and deeply committed product
placement represent the hip-hop
titan’s first significant single
since Toosie Slide in April, it also
represents the latest in a flurry of
Drake-associated product that
includes the mixtape Dark Lane
Demo Tapes, released in May.
We’ve lost count of the songs
the sociable superstar has been
featured on this year, but his col-
laborations include tracks with
DJ Khaled, DaBaby, Lil Yachty,
Popcaan, Future and PartyNext-
Door. Rumours have it that Drake
will partner with Bruno Mars on a
future single. On Instagram this
week, the Torontonian posted
that his follow-up album to
2018’s Scorpion would be called
Certified Lover Boy, with no re-
lease date set yet.
But any doc director worth
their grant money can find a good
subject to cover. Plus: McBaine
and Moss were the beneficiaries
of a critical signal boost when in
2017, the year before they filmed,
the Boys State caucus sparked na-
tionwide headlines when the
young men decided to have their
faux-government secede from
the state of Texas. Yet merely doc-
umenting such an event is easy –
finding compelling characters
and crafting a propulsive narra-
tive is something altogether dif-
ferent.
By employing a seemingly
endless number of videographers
Momentum may be an over-
rated concept in sports, but in the
music industry, it is everything
(unless you’re a surprise-album-
releasing Taylor Swift).
The song Laugh Now Cry Later
itself is so unadventurous and
ho-hum Drake that it takes a
back seat to the video. Against a
sparse, mellow backdrop, he’s in
Auto-Tuned crooner mode. The
horns are noticeably fake; the
beats, laid-back. He sings about a
ghost town and says “baby” more
times than Barry White and Jus-
tin Bieber combined.
While Drake sings, “I took a
half and she took the whole
thing, slow down, baby,” in the
video a beautiful woman is opu-
lently shown with dozens of
shopping bags full of Nike mer-
chandise. The gist is that women
O TH E G LO B E AND M AIL
and by luckily honing in on just
the right participants, McBaine
and Moss cover the entire ground
of Boys State with an unparalleled
passion and fervour. If it feels like
the filmmakers are just as much
part of the event, it’s probably be-
cause they are. This is documen-
tary filmmaking on a grand, im-
mersive scale.
Still, despite McBaine and
Moss’s impressive resources and
reach, the stories and themes that
surface here should strike most
audiences as obvious. Namely:
Yes, the political system is so bro-
ken because we continue to allow
it to be run by broken people. Pol-
love to shop – such an evolved
characterization.
The Nike World Headquarters
where the video was shot is locat-
ed in the bucolic suburbs of Port-
land, Ore. That city’s downtown,
of course, was a recent place of
George Floyd protests and police-
fired tear gas. In the video, Drake
rides Jet Skis with rapper Lil Durk
(who is featured on the song),
hits some baseballs and plays
football with NFLers Odell Beck-
ham Jr. and Marshawn Lynch.
Audaciously, an iconic photo
of Muhammad Ali training in a
swimming pool in 1961 is re-
created for the video, with Drake
in place of the boxer (then
known as Cassius Clay). It’s ei-
ther an homage to Ali or just an-
other way for Drake to proclaim
himself the greatest.
| SATU R DAY, AUG UST 15, 2020
iticians are craven and driven by
all the wrong reasons, and
though the pair uncover a hand-
ful of hopeful voices – especially
Ben Feinstein, a compassionate
and committed idealist – you will
likely exit the world of Boys State
as cynical as you entered it.
At least McBaine and Moss
have a built-in sequel ready to go,
if they should so desire: Every
summer, just across the hall from
where the boys set up shop, the
American Legion hosts a Girls
State, too.
Boys State is available to stream on
Apple TV+ starting Aug. 14
Speaking of walking in the
footsteps of giants, the streamed-
music king tries on what looks to
be a famous white suit once worn
by basketball superstar LeBron
James.
These are all the dreams of
Drake, who, suffering from either
delusions of grandeur or an in-
feriority complex, needs to see
himself as on a level with sports
heroes. But, as Ali once said to an
opponent, “If you even dream of
beating me, you’d better wake up
and apologize.”
For Drake, his walled Toronto
compound, his court-side seat at
Raptors games and the NBA
championship ring he owns for
his ambassadorial role with the
team will never be enough. Ali is
the Greatest. James is the King.
And Drake? He’s just a pop star.

     


  
     



  
  
    
   
       
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Scotland train hit

landslide before
derailing: officials
LONDON

A passenger train hit a landslide before derailing in Scotland

earlier this week, killing three people, United Kingdom rail
investigators confirmed Friday.
A train track obstruction had been suspected of playing a
role in Wednesday’s derailment near the coastal town of
Stonehaven, about 160 kilometres northeast of Edinburgh,
because it happened after heavy rain and flooding in the ar-
ea.
“Thankfully, fatal derailments are a rare occurrence on the
U.K.’s national network,” Simon French, chief inspector of
rail accidents, said. “However, landslips and other earth-
works failures remain a risk to trains that needs to be con-
stantly managed – and this is becoming even more challeng-
ing for the rail industry due to the increasing incidence of
extreme weather events.”
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch, which Mr. French
oversees, said that after the train derailed, it kept going in a
straight line as the track curved to the right. The lead power
car struck a bridge parapet and fell down a wooded embank-
ment with the third passenger car.
Prince Charles is visiting the accident site Friday to thank
emergency workers who came to help others in rugged ter- Emergency services inspect the scene after a train derailment
rain. near Stonehaven, Scotland, on Thursday. Investigators say the
train encountered a landslide before derailing and killing three
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Afghanistan releases more Taliban prisoners ahead of expected peace talks

KATHY GANNON
TAMEEM AKHGAR KABUL
Afghanistan has released the first
80 of a final 400 Taliban prisoners,
paving the way for negotiations
between the warring sides in Af-
ghanistan’s protracted conflict,
the government said Friday.
Javid Faisal, spokesman for the
Afghan National Security Coun-
cil, made the announcement. Ta-
liban officials, speaking on condi-
tion of anonymity because they
are not authorized to speak to the
media, said 86 prisoners were
freed. It wasn’t immediately
known when the remaining pris-
oners would be released.
Prisoner releases on both sides
are part of an agreement signed in
February between the United
States and the Taliban. It calls for
the release of 5,000 Taliban held
by the government and 1,000 gov-
ernment and military staff held
by the insurgent group as a good
will gesture ahead of intra-Afghan
negotiations.
Talks are expected to be held in
Qatar where the Taliban maintain
a political office. Several Afghan
leaders told the Associated Press
talks could begin by Aug. 20.
The negotiations are to lay out
a framework for a postwar Af-
ghanistan. Washington’s peace
envoy Zalmay Khalilzad spent a
year and a half negotiating the
peace deal aimed at allowing
American troops to return home
and end America’s longest mili-
tary engagement.
U.S. troops have already begun
leaving, and by November less
than 5,000 troops are expected to
still be in Afghanistan, down from
nearly 13,000 when the agree-
ment was signed Feb. 29.
American and NATO troop
withdrawal is contingent on the
Taliban keeping their commit-
ment not to allow militant groups
to use Afghanistan against the
United States or its allies. The
withdrawal is not tied to success-
ful talks between the warring
sides.
Last weekend, Afghan Presi-
dent Ashraf Ghani held a tradi-
tional council meeting known as
Loya Jirga to get a consensus on
the release of a final 400 Taliban
he said were accused of serious
crimes, saying without explana-
tion that he could not unilaterally
decide to release them.
Some of the 400 have been im-
plicated in devastating bombings
in the capital Kabul. During a tele-
vised talk Thursday with the U.S.-
based Council on Foreign Rela-
tions, Mr. Ghani warned of dan-
gers they could present to lasting
peace in Afghanistan.
But for some in Afghanistan,
the talks with the Taliban mirror
earlier negotiations with other in-
surgents, including warlord and
U.S.-designated terrorist Gulbud-
din Hekmatyar, who many say
has a reputation for violence that
exceeds the Taliban.
In 2016, Mr. Ghani negotiated a
peace deal with Mr. Hekmatyar,
whose Hezb-e-Islami group took
responsibility for several bomb-
ings in Kabul, including one at a
grocery story in the capital that
killed a young family. The deal in-
cluded removing Mr. Hekmatyar
from the United Nations terrorist
list. His group was also responsib-
le for a 2008 attack on French sol-
diers – the largest international
loss in a single battle in Afghanis-
tan.
Also on Friday, a small bomb
hidden in a motorcycle exploded
The negotiations are near a mosque in Kabul just as
worshippers were finishing their
to lay out a prayers, wounding a police offi-
framework for a cer. No one immediately took re-
postwar sponsibility but the Islamic State
Afghanistan. group has in the past targeted
mosques in Afghanistan.
Washington’s peace The Islamic State affiliate in Af-
envoy Zalmay ghanistan has been targeted by
Khalilzad spent a Afghan security force, U.S. troops
and the Taliban. A Department of
year and a half Defence official previously said
negotiating the the peace deal with the Taliban is
peace deal aimed at also intended to recruit the insur-
allowing American gent group into a co-ordinated
fight to rid the region of the Islam-
troops to return ic State.
home and end Meanwhile, the Afghan De-
America’s longest fence Ministry said it is investigat-
military ing a video circulating on social
engagement. media purporting to show Afghan
army staff mutilating Taliban
corpses.
The United Nations Mission in
Afghanistan, known as UNAMA,
tweeted that the footage “is deep-
ly shocking … investigation needs
to be swift and open. If crimes are
proven the criminals must be
identified and held responsible.”
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Former FBI lawyer to plead guilty to making

false statement in Trump-Russia probe review
ERIC TUCKER
MICHAEL BALSAMO WASHINGTON
A former Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation lawyer plans to plead
guilty to making a false statement
in the first criminal case arising
from U.S. attorney John Durham’s
investigation into the probe of
ties between Russia and the 2016
Trump campaign, his lawyer said
Friday.
Kevin Clinesmith is expected
to plead guilty to one count of
making a false statement related
to the altering of a government e-
mail about a former Trump cam-
paign adviser who was a target of
FBI surveillance, attorney Justin
Shur told the Associated Press.
The case against Mr. Clines-
mith is likely to be cheered by
President Donald Trump and his
supporters as they look to the
Durham investigation to lift Mr.
Trump’s wobbly re-election pro-
spects and to expose what they
see as wrongdoing as the FBI
opened an investigation into
whether the Trump campaign
was co-ordinating with the Krem-
lin to sway the outcome of the
2016 election.
The Durham investigation,
which is also examining the intel-
ligence community’s assessment
about Russian election interfe-
rence, has caused deep concern
among Democrats, who view it as
a politically charged exercise
meant to relitigate an already
closed investigation and fear
criminal charges or public reports
issued so close to the 2020 elec-
tion could be timed to affect No-
vember’s vote.
The investigation has proceed-
ed alongside a parallel effort by
Senate Republicans to discredit
the Russia probe and as Attorney-
General William Barr has escalat-
ed his own criticism of the FBI’s
probe.
Mr. Barr foreshadowed the le-
gal action in a Fox News Channel
interview on Thursday night in
which he said there would be a de-
velopment Friday that was “not
earth shattering” but would be an
indication that the investigation
was moving along.
Mr. Durham, the U.S. attorney
for Connecticut, had no com-
ment, a spokesman said. It re-
mains unclear what additional
charges, if any, Mr. Durham might
bring or to what extent his investi-
gation will validate Mr. Trump’s
allegations that the FBI investiga-
tion was tainted by political bias –
claims for which the Justice De-
partment watchdog found no evi-
dence.
Justice Department policy di-
rects prosecutors not to take in-
vestigative steps for the purpose
of affecting an election and
frowns upon taking public ac-
tions in the weeks before an elec-
tion. But Mr. Barr has said he did
not feel constrained by that policy
in part because the presumptive
Democratic presidential nomi-
nee, former vice-president Joe Bi-
den, is not a target of Mr. Dur-
ham’s investigation, and Mr. Barr
has signalled that he will look to
make Mr. Durham’s findings pub-
The investigation lic before the election.
Mr. Clinesmith was referred for
has proceeded potential prosecution by the de-
alongside a parallel partment’s inspector-general’s
effort by Senate office, which conducted its own
Republicans to review of the Russia investigation.
He resigned from the FBI last year.
discredit the Russia That review found that the
probe and as Russia probe was opened for a le-
Attorney-General gitimate reason and did not find
proof of political bias, but it also
William Barr has concluded that the FBI made sig-
escalated his own nificant errors and omissions as it
criticism of the FBI’s applied for secret national securi-
probe. ty warrants to eavesdrop on for-
mer Trump campaign adviser
Carter Page.
Specifically, the inspector-gen-
eral accused Mr. Clinesmith,
though not by name, of altering
an e-mail about Mr. Page to say
that he was “not a source” for an-
other government agency and
forwarding it along. Mr. Page has
said he was a source for the CIA.
The Justice Department relied
on that assertion as it submitted a
third and final renewal applica-
tion in 2017 to eavesdrop on Mr.
Page under the Foreign Intelli-
gence Surveillance Act.
Mr. Clinesmith told the inspec-
tor-general that from his conver-
sations he did not understand Mr.
Page to be a source, or a “recruited
asset,” or to have a direct relation-
ship with another government
agency. But that relationship was
seen as something important to
disclose to the FISA court, espe-
cially if Mr. Page was being tasked
by the government to have inter-
actions with Russians.
“Kevin deeply regrets having
altered the email,” Mr. Shur said.
“It was never his intent to mislead
the court or his colleagues, as he
believed the information he re-
layed was accurate, but Kevin un-
derstands what he did was wrong
and accepts responsibility.”
Mr. Durham is a veteran prose-
cutor with a history of special as-
signments from Washington. For-
mer attorney-general Eric Holder
selected him during the Obama
administration to investigate the
CIA’s harsh interrogation tech-
niques of terror suspects and the
destruction of videotapes docu-
menting that interrogation.
Mr. Barr appointed Mr. Dur-
ham just weeks after special
counsel Robert Mueller conclud-
ed his nearly two-year investiga-
tion. Mr. Mueller found signifi-
cant contacts during the 2016
campaign between Russians and
Trump associates but did not al-
lege a criminal conspiracy be-
tween them.
Mr. Mueller also examined
multiple episodes in which Mr.
Trump sought to affect or choke
off the Russia investigation, but
he did not reach a conclusion on
whether Mr. Trump had obstruct-
ed justice.
Mr. Barr signalled his skepti-
cism with the Russia investiga-
tion right away, concluding that
Mr. Trump had not obstructed
justice even though Mr. Mueller
had pointedly left that question
unresolved.
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EU holds urgent talks on Greece-Turkey dispute
Athens seeks backing
from bloc, commitment
to potential sanctions
as Ankara stakes claim
on drilling rights in
eastern Mediterranean
NICHOLAS PAPHITIS
SUZAN FRASER ATHENS
European Union foreign minis-
ters were holding urgent talks Fri-
day on military tensions between
Greece and Turkey as the neigh-
bouring countries’ navies contin-
ued a game of brinkmanship over
eastern Mediterranean drilling
rights.
Turkish President Recep Tayy-
ip Erdogan said Turkey would
press ahead with its search for oil
and gas in the disputed waters
until Aug. 23 as planned. But after
a phone call with Germany’s lead-
er, he signalled that Ankara and
Berlin had agreed to a “softening”
of positions after that date.
There was no indication from
Athens whether it had been con-
sulted, or agreed, on the matter.
Mr. Erdogan warned, however,
that Turkey would strongly re-
spond to any “harassment” of its
vessels by Greece. Turkey has a re-
search ship accompanied by two
warships prospecting between
Cyprus and the Greek island of
Crete, and Greece deployed its
own naval vessels to the area.
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos
Dendias travelled to Vienna to
meet U.S. Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo and Austrian Foreign
Minister Alexander Schallenberg.
Mr. Dendias said he and Mr.
Pompeo had “an open explana-
tion of what’s happening.”
“I hope there will be no conflict
if everybody keeps his mind and
everybody acts according to in-
ternational law, international law
of the sea,” the minister said, re-
ferring to Greece’s tensions with
Turkey. “Everything can be re-
solved, but this is a question that
you have to put to the Turks.”
The State Department said Mr.
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Pompeo and Mr. Dendias dis-
cussed “the strong U.S.-Greece bi-
lateral relationship and the ur-
gent need to reduce tensions in
the Eastern Mediterranean.”
The emergency EU meeting,
which has the political crisis in
Belarus as the main item on the
agenda, was being held by video
conference.
German Foreign Minister Hei-
ko Maas, whose country holds the
rotating EU presidency, said
ahead of the talks that “the prov-
ocations” that are happening in
the eastern Mediterranean “can’t
continue.”
“Nor can the Turkish drilling,”
he said. “We are working toward a
direct dialogue between the par-
ties that would contribute to find-
ing a solution for this issue.” Mr.
Maas added that there should be
no drilling during any negotia-
tions.
Although the meeting was not
expected to produce any deci-
sions, Athens is seeking backing
from its partners in the 27-coun-
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try bloc and a commitment for
potential EU sanctions in the dis-
pute with Turkey, which comes
weeks after a similar confronta-
tion was defused with German
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s inter-
cession.
The governments in
Athens and Ankara have
spoken of the need for
peaceful dialogue,
although it’s unclear
how that could happen
with each insisting that
they will defend their
rights.
Ahead of his meeting with
Greece’s Mr. Dendias, Austria’s
Mr. Schallenberg said he was “ve-
ry concerned about the danger-
ous and alarming situation,
which we believe could escalate.”
“Actions taken by certain
states in the eastern Mediterrane-
an … should lead the European
Union to re-evaluate its relations
with Turkey,” he said.
So far, only France has respon-
ded, pledging to boost its military
presence in the eastern Mediter-
ranean and sending two warships
to the area Thursday for joint
drills with the Greek navy. France
also deployed two fighter planes
to Crete. French relations with
Turkey, which is not an EU mem-
ber, are already bad over Ankara’s
involvement in Libya’s civil war.
Relations between historic re-
gional rivals – and nominal NATO
allies – Greece and Turkey have
hit a more than two-decade low
after Turkey sent a seismic re-
search ship, escorted by warships,
to prospect Monday for potential
offshore oil and gas in waters Ath-
ens claims as its own.
Greece placed its armed forces
on high alert and sent warships to
the spot, south of Turkey between
Crete and the island country of
Cyprus, demanding the vessels’
withdrawal. Turkey claims it has
NEWS | A23
every right to prospect in the ar-
ea, as well as in neighbouring wa-
ters Cyprus considers its own, af-
ter the discovery of large offshore
gas deposits in recent years off Is-
rael, Egypt and Cyprus.
The governments in Athens
and Ankara have spoken of the
need for peaceful dialogue, al-
though it’s unclear how that
could happen with each insisting
that they will defend their rights.
Meanwhile, with the warships
dancing about each other in a rel-
atively small patch of the eastern
Mediterranean, there’s a real dan-
ger of rapid escalation in the case
of an accidental collision or hos-
tile act.
Mr. Erdogan said that during
his call with Ms. Merkel late
Thursday, the German Chancellor
requested a “softening of the is-
sue and to proceed in a more pro-
tective understanding.”
“We agreed,” Mr. Erdogan told
reporters, adding that he hoped
the Greek leadership would “re-
ach the same point.”
Mr. Erdogan added: “We will
not leave unanswered the slight-
est attack against our civilian
ships.”
The Turkish leader also said his
country had responded to an in-
cident involving the Turkish re-
search ship Oruc Reis. Greek offi-
cials said they were unaware of
any incident Thursday, and the
Foreign Ministry said Mr. Dendias
would brief his EU partners from
Vienna on “the true events dur-
ing recent days concerning oper-
ational incidents in the area.”
In Switzerland meanwhile,
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut
Cavusoglu said Turkey does not
seek an escalation and called on
the EU to convince Greece to act
with “reason.” He also accused
France of engaging in “bullying”
in the eastern Mediterranean.
“Instead of indulging Greece
and giving unconditional sup-
port, the EU should invite [Ath-
ens] to act with reason,” Mr. Ca-
vusoglu told reporters during a
news conference with his Swiss
counterpart.
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AMD Medicom Inc. The facility had shut
for the Lunar New Year break, but with the
A little-known Canadian mask manufacturer has executed a global COVID-19 pandemic spreading fast, offi-
expansion over the past eight months. And even when the pandemic cials issued a directive: crank up the ma-
chines immediately. They even bused in
fades, it has a plan to keep business booming substitutes for vacationing workers to start
making masks.
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Ontario courts’ digital push boosts public access Entertainment

veterans
Thomson Reuters acquires CaseLines, which is part of the province’s pilot project team up to build
massive e-sports
ters Corp. for an undisclosed sum. Courts in during court appearances. This reduces the
CHRISTINE DOBBY
CORPORATE LAW REPORTER Britain have been using the company’s doc- need to exchange the material in person, platform
ument- and evidence-sharing platform for and facilitates virtual proceedings. The
years, and Toronto-headquartered Thom- trial started with a downtown Toronto ANDREW WILLIS
In a push to modernize the province’s court son Reuters said the deal is part of a strategy court that handles primarily commercial
system spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, to offer legal solutions internationally. cases, and the court plans to roll it out
Ontario is conducting a pilot project with a The Ontario Superior Court of Justice, across the province by the end of the year. A collection of entertainment ex-
provider of digital court services, and plans Canada’s largest trial court, with more than A wide range of legal stakeholders have ecutives, including the owner of
to make a web-based search portal availa- 50 locations, last week began a two-week long called for Ontario’s court system to the Vancouver Canucks, are
ble to the public. test phase with the platform, which allows join the digital era, but the goal took on combining forces to build North
CaseLines, the U.K.-based digital court parties in legal proceedings to share mate- heightened urgency as the pandemic dras- America’s largest
platform, was acquired last week by news rials of all formats online and lets judges tically limited physical access to courts. e-sports platform, Enthusiast
and information provider Thomson Reu- and court staff access files electronically CASELINES, B4 Gaming Holdings Inc. And
the Trump and Biden presiden-
tial campaigns are taking
notice of Toronto-based Enthusi-
ast’s growing audience of gam-
Corporate profits on mend ers.
Enthusiast, which features
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U.S. retail sales
slow in July
as economists
brace for drop
in August
LUCIA MUTIKANI WASHINGTON
U.S. retail sales increased less
than expected in July as consum-
ers cut back on purchases of mo-
tor vehicles, and could slow fur-
ther in the months ahead amid
spiralling new COVID-19 infec-
tions and a reduction in unem-
ployment benefit checks.
Despite the moderation in re-
tail sales reported by the U.S.
Commerce Department on Fri-
day, sales have recouped losses
suffered when businesses were
shuttered to slow the spread of
the coronavirus. The third
straight monthly gain lifted retail
sales to their highest level since
the government started tracking
the series in 1992. It supported
the view that consumer spend-
ing would rebound this quarter
after a record collapse in the sec-
ond quarter.
Economists attributed the in-
crease in retail sales over the
past three months to a US$600
weekly unemployment benefits
supplement from the govern-
ment, which amounted to al-
most US$75-billion in July. The
supplement ended July 31, leav-
ing economists expecting a de-
cline in retail sales in August.
“It looks like the skies are
darkening once again as the
second-wave shutdowns clamp
down harder on economic activ-
ity and the federal government
stops sending $600 weekly
checks to the unemployed,” said
Chris Rupkey, chief economist at
MUFG in New York.
Retail sales rose 1.2 per cent
last month after advancing 8.4
per cent in June. Economists
polled by Reuters had forecast
sales would rise 1.9 per cent in
July. Sales increased 2.7 per cent
from a year ago in July.
U.S. President Donald Trump
on Saturday signed a number of
executive orders, including one
that extended the supplement,
although he reduced the weekly
payout to US$400.
States are required to cover
US$100 of the benefits under the
order, but they are under im-
mense financial pressure owing
to the pandemic. The remaining
US$300 will be funded from a
limited emergency disaster relief
program, which economists esti-
mated could be depleted as early
as September.
A top White House adviser
said this week that Mr. Trump’s
plan would provide an extra
US$300 a week. Republicans and
Democrats are bickering over
new aid for the economy even as
signs mount that activity is stall-
ing as coronavirus infections
continue to spread across the
United States.
Job growth slowed in July.
About 28.3 million people are on
unemployment benefits.
The slowdown in retail sales
in July was led by a 1.2-per-cent
decline in receipts at auto dealer-
ships. That followed a 6.1-per-
cent acceleration in June.
Purchases at electronics and
appliance stores soared 22.9 per
cent last month, likely reflecting
strong demand as many Amer-
icans work from home.
Receipts at restaurants and
bars increased 5 per cent, al-
though the pace slowed from the
26.7 per cent notched in June.
Online and mail-order retail
sales rebounded 0.7 per cent.
Furniture store sales were flat.
Receipts at clothing stores in-
creased 5.7 per cent.
Excluding automobiles, gaso-
line, building materials and food
services, retail sales increased 1.4
per cent in July after soaring 6
per cent in June. These so-called
core retail sales correspond most
closely with the consumer
spending component of the
gross domestic product report.
Consumer spending collapsed
at a 34.6-per-cent annualized
pace in the second quarter. That
led GDP to plunge at a 32.9-per-
cent rate last quarter, the deep-
est decline in output since the
government started keeping re-
cords in 1947.
Although motor vehicle sales
fell last month, manufacturers
continued to ramp up produc-
tion, boosting output at the
country’s factories, a third re-
port from the Federal Reserve
showed. Manufacturing produc-
tion rose 3.4 per cent in July af-
ter surging 7.4 per cent in June.
Still, the third straight monthly
gain left factory output about 8
per cent below its level in Febru-
ary.
REUTERS
Cineplex CEO Ellis Jacob says he is focused on welcoming guests back to theatres as they reopen, with the company now offering cheaper
movie tickets, reserved and distanced seatings, and increased cleanings. CARLOS OSORIO/REUTERS
Cineplex loses $98.9-million
on shuttered theatres
CEO says chain is taking
several measures to combat
rising costs and draw
audiences back to the movies
TARA DESCHAMPS TORONTO
Cineplex Inc.’s chief executive is hoping
that ending an agreement with a virtual-
reality golf company, films opening in
Canada before the United States and a slew
of COVID-19 measures will right his busi-
ness as it struggles with mounting costs for
movie theatres that sat closed for months.
Ellis Jacob said Friday that his Toronto-
based entertainment company had decid-
ed to mutually call off a deal with TopGolf
that would have brought its sports com-
plexes to Canada because it’s “simply not
an opportune time” to invest in large pro-
jects.
He was simultaneously rejoicing at stu-
dios allowing the country to debut new re-
leases such as Spongebob: Sponge on the
Run, Unhinged and Christopher Nolan’s
Teen works to deliver food packages to local heroes
PAUL WALDIE
The organizer: Divya Sharma
The pitch: Supporting Local Heroes
W
hen the COVID-19 pandemic
closed her Winnipeg high
school, Divya Sharma spent
time reflecting on the unsung
heroes in her community.
“I wanted to honour them and their
selfless work,” said Ms. Sharma, a 15-year-
old student at Fort Richmond Collegiate
in Winnipeg.
She’d already been active in a number
of causes at school, including pushing
provincial officials to rename a high-
school course to make it more inclusive
and working on several environmental
initiatives. The pandemic led her in a new
direction.
She decided to put together food pack-
ages for front-line health care workers
and police officers.
She approached the Assiniboine Credit
Union to see if it would sponsor the pro-
gram, called Supporting Local Heroes,
and the credit union came through with
enough funding to make 16 packages con-
taining a small mix of non-perishable
items such as pasta, cookies and choco-
late bars.
With the help of a friend, Ms. Sharma
delivered the packages to the child-abuse
unit at the Winnipeg Police Department.
FRESHII SEES SIGNS OF RECOVERY AS MOST RESTAURANTS REOPEN, SALES HIT 70 PER CENT OF PREPANDEMIC LEVEL
TORONTO Freshii Inc. says its core lunch
business remains in “recovery mode”
even though overall company sales have
started to recover with the reopening of
most of its restaurants that were tempo-
rarily closed to help prevent the spread of
COVID-19.
The health-food chain’s sales levels
have recovered to more than 70 per cent
of their prepandemic levels for the two-
week period ended Aug. 9, chief exec-
utive Matthew Corrin said during a con-
ference call with analysts Friday. The
company released its quarterly results
Thursday after markets closed.
“Our more suburban locations, which
make up a material portion of our net-
work, are even closer to their pre-COVID
levels,” he said.
O TH E G LO B E AND M AIL
Tenet ahead of the U.S., which he hoped
would draw audiences back to the movies.
“This is a very unusual occurrence,” Mr.
Jacob said. “Given what we have done in
terms of keeping the guests safe during
the pandemic, we got the international re-
lease dates and we are really proud of
that.”
His remarks came as Cineplex reported
a loss of $98.9-million or $1.56 per share in
its second quarter, compared with a profit
of $19.4-million or 31 cents per share in the
same quarter last year.
Revenue for the quarter ended June 30
totalled $22-million, plummeting 90 per
cent from $438.9-million, while its cash
burn rate fluctuated between $15-million
and $20-million every month.
The company was hurt when it was
forced by governments to keep its theatres
closed for months during COVID-19, re-
sulting in temporary layoffs, slashed sala-
ries and tussles with landlords over rent.
Mr. Jacob warned analysts on a call Fri-
day morning that the company would
take more “bold action” if necessary, but
for now, he is focused on welcoming
guests to theatres.
Divya Sharma, 15, puts together a food package in Winnipeg in April. As part of her
Supporting Local Heroes program, she has been delivering such packages to
front-line workers throughout the pandemic. JOHN WOODS/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Further funding from staff at a Bank of
Montreal branch and a local youth orga-
nization allowed her to make 30 packages
for a group of truck drivers, which was
particularly important to Ms. Sharma,
since her father drives for a living. That
was followed by 200 packages for health
care workers at two city hospitals.
Ms. Sharma is searching for more fund-
ing to keep the service going through the
More than 90 per cent of Freshii res-
taurants in North America and 80 per
cent of its restaurants globally are now
open, the company said.
The majority of stores still closed are
in non-traditional locations, such as
airports and postsecondary institution
campuses.
The company has seen strong growth
in its dinner and delivery business, Mr.
Corrin said, while lunch remains chal-
lenged. Freshii rolled out delivery
through third-partner companies at 90
per cent of its serviceable locations in
North America.
Freshii has been working on growing
beyond the lunch crowd and now be-
lieves its goal of driving at least half of
sales through dinner and delivery is
| SATU R DAY, AUG UST 15, 2020
To get them back, Cineplex is offering
cheaper movie tickets, reserved and dis-
tanced seating, increased cleanings and
screenings of NHL and NBA games.
Mr. Jacob said the plan is already work-
ing.
“It is clear that Canadians miss the big
screen and want to come back,” he said,
adding that he was planning to head to the
movies tonight.
The slate was far from the highly antici-
pated films, including Black Widow and
Mulan, that were once planned for this
summer, but were pushed back amid CO-
VID-19.
Mulan-backer Disney has since decided
to skip a theatre debut and bring the mo-
vie straight to its streaming platform with
a premium price of about $30 for viewing.
Mr. Jacob, who has long argued that mo-
vie watchers prefer the experience of vis-
iting a theatre to watching at home, said
he was “disappointed.”
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rest of the summer and into the fall. She’s
thinking of starting a club at school to get
more people involved and she dreams of
taking Supporting Local Heroes national.
“I’ll keep doing this as long as I can do
it,” she said. “I really believe that youth
have the power to change the world and
we constantly have to take action.”
pwaldie@globeandmail.com
within reach.
Freshii has also been working to con-
tain costs during the pandemic. It’s also
testing a new cost-efficient operating
model in some restaurants that includes
a simplified menu, Mr. Corrin said.
It has closed 40 restaurants, including
13 internationally, as part of a plan to
shut underperforming locations.
The company reported a $525,000 net
loss for its second quarter, compared
with a profit of $433,000 in the same
quarter the previous year. Its adjusted net
loss for the 13 weeks ended June 28 was
$56,000, down from a profit of $892,000
in the second quarter of 2019.
Revenues fell from $5.1-million to
$2.4-million in the quarter.
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CPP falls behind booming stock markets

Pension plan
underperforms with
5.6-per-cent return after
dodging pandemic’s
first-quarter impact
DAVID MILSTEAD
INSTITUTIONAL INVESTMENT
REPORTER
Roaring stock markets left the
Canada Pension Plan in the dust
in the second quarter, as the re-
tirement plan reported a 5.6-per-
cent return – a dozen percentage
points behind many major stock
indexes.
The results come one quarter
after the plan’s broad blend of in-
vestments – stocks, bonds, real es-
tate, private equity and infras-
tructure, among many things –
blunted the impact of the CO-
VID-19 stock market meltdown in
February and March and allowed
it to outperform markets.
“We designed and actively exe-
cute a ‘steady Eddie’ approach
through the years,” spokesman
Michel Leduc said Friday. “We
work hard to avoid the sharp
whipsaw swings you see in March
or in June.”
The Canada Pension Plan In-
vestment Board, the fund’s man-
ager, evaluates its performance
compared with a “reference port-
folio” of global stocks and bonds
that it believes represents a pas-
sive approach to investing, versus
the active management it has
used since 2006.
CPPIB discloses that compari-
son annually, not in its quarterly
results. However, based on disclo-
sures in its annual report, The
Globe and Mail estimates the in-
dexes it uses returned about 16.5
per cent in the second quarter,
more than 10 percentage points
better than CPPIB’s return.
In the quarter ended March 31,
the reference portfolio lost 17.9
per cent, The Globe estimates, but
CPPIB posted a loss of just 3.7 per
cent, outperforming by more
than 14 percentage points.
CPPIB uses the S&P Global
LargeMidCap Index, made up of
We designed and
actively execute
the vast majority of the public
companies in developed and
a ‘steady Eddie’ emerging markets, for 85 per cent
approach through of its reference portfolio. The re-
the years. We work mainder is the FTSE Canada All
Government Bond Index.
hard to avoid the Mr. Leduc says “our strategy de-
sharp whipsaw liberately, intentionally and me-
swings you see in thodically seeks to depart from”
March or in June. the reference portfolio. “Of
course, the idea is to track above
MICHEL LEDUC the index over the medium and
CANADA PENSION PLAN long term, but resilience is price-
SPOKESMAN less, as we showed [during the
market decline].”
CPPIB closed the quarter with
31 per cent of its portfolio in stocks
– Canadian and international.
Bonds made up 22 per cent,
while private equity and real as-
sets made up nearly half of the
portfolio. (Portfolio-mix num-
bers exceed 100 per cent because
of the quirks of pension plan fi-
nancial reporting.)
From March 31 to June 30, the
S&P/TSX Composite Index re-
turned slightly less than 16 per
cent, while the S&P 500 rose near-
ly 20 per cent.
A strengthening loonie hurt
CPPIB’s returns in the quarter, be-
cause it expresses its numbers in
Canadian dollars, even though it
invests primarily outside of Cana-
da.
In raw dollars, plan assets in-
creased $24.8-billion in the quar-
ter, to $434.4-billion at June 30. It’s
the biggest single-quarter dollar
increase in assets so far, Mr. Leduc
said.
CPPIB’s 10-year and five-year
annualized net returns now stand
at 10.7 per cent and 8.9 per cent,
respectively.
The Canada Pension Plan,
founded in 1966, is the primary
retirement-security program for
working Canadians. The govern-
ment created CPPIB in 1999 to
professionally manage the plan’s
money. The past two decades
have seen the board shift first
from bonds to stocks, then to oth-
er assets such as real estate, infras-
tructure and private equity.

MANUFACTURING SALES
INCREASED 20.7% IN JUNE
IN SECOND MONTH OF GAINS

OTTAWA Canadian manufactur-

ing sales rose by a record 20.7 per
cent in June as many factories
operated at a much higher capac-
ity than in May, although total
sales were still well below pre-
pandemic levels, Statistics Cana-
da said on Friday.
It was the second month of
record gains as Canada’s manu-
facturing sector continued to dig
out from deep declines in April
amid coronavirus shutdowns.
The gain beat analyst expecta-
tions of 16.4 per cent.
Statscan also revised May’s
gain up to 11.6 per cent from 10.7
per cent.
Sales were up in all 21 industri-
es monitored by Statscan, led by
the motor vehicle and parts
industries as most plants return-
ed to full production, the agency
said. Excluding those two indus-
tries, manufacturing sales were
still up 10.3 per cent.
A flag flies outside Amazon’s warehouse in Balzac, Alta., on May 4. With a market capitalization of US$1.6-trillion, the U.S. e-commerce In volume terms, manu-
giant is one the world’s most valuable companies. JEFF MCINTOSH/THE CANADIAN PRESS facturing sales rose by 18.4 per
cent. But sales still remain 13.2
per cent below prepandemic

Competition Bureau probing Amazon in Canada
over potential anti-competitive behaviour
JOSH O’KANE merchandise with razor-thin
YEJI JESSE LEE profit margins through a world-
wide supply chain. It has also
come under fire for allegations it
The federal Competition Bureau treats workers unfairly, according
says it is investigating Ama- to accounts from current and for-
zon.com Inc. and asking Cana- mer employees reported by
dian retailers to share experi- media in many countries.
ences that might constitute an As Amazon has grown, it has
“abuse of dominance” by the e- become the target of several in-
commerce giant. vestigations worldwide over po-
The bureau revealed Friday tential anti-competitive beha-
that it has been probing the com- viour, including inquiries by the
pany since early 2020, and is seek- U.S. Federal Trade Commission
ing to learn whether the Ama- and the European Union’s anti-
zon.ca marketplace in Canada has trust commission.
restricted fair competition to the Canada’s Competition Bureau
detriment of consumers and busi- said it is examining Amazon pol-
nesses. But in a news release, the icies that might discourage third-
bureau said “there is no conclu- party sellers who use Amazon’s
sion of wrongdoing at this time.” marketplace from selling their
Amazon has risen to become wares for lower prices elsewhere.
one of the world’s most valuable It is also examining whether
companies, with a market capital- third-party sellers who choose
ization of US$1.6-trillion. It has not to use Amazon’s proprietary
spent the past two and a half dec- warehouse-fulfilment system or
ades becoming the global hub for its advertisement system face bar-
e-commerce, in large part by pro- riers to making sales.
moting consumer convenience And the bureau is seeking to
and selling enormous volumes of learn whether Amazon employs
Waterous Energy Fund consolidates oil and gas holdings
JEFFREY JONES Mr. Waterous said his fund in-
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS vested $1.5-billion in six transac-
REPORTER tions to create the producer. The
CALGARY last acquisition was Cona’s pur-
chase of debt-hobbled Pengrowth
Energy Corp. early this year,
Waterous Energy Fund is merg- which brought with it the Lind-
ing its heavy oil and natural gas bergh steam-driven heavy oil pro-
companies and has bought a large ject near Cold Lake, Alta.
stake in a privately held oil sands WEF’s ultimate aim to consoli-
producer to gain economies of date the two companies was “the
scale and maintain access to cap- oil patch’s worst kept secret,” Mr.
ital in a limited market for many Waterous said in an interview. In-
industry players. deed, Strath’s condensate and gas
Waterous Energy Fund (WEF), production act as a hedge against
run by former investment banker input costs for Cona’s heavy oil
Adam Waterous, is merging business.
Strath Resources and Cona Re- Meanwhile, WEF has acquired
sources, a move it says will create 45 per cent of Osum Production
the continent’s largest private-eq- Corp. from private equity firms
uity-owned oil and gas producer. Blackstone Group, Warburg Pin-
The new Calgary-based compa- cus LLC and Singaporean sover-
ny, called Strathcona Resources eign wealth fund GIC for an undis-
Ltd., produces about 60,000 bar- closed sum.
rels of oil equivalent a day, about Osum produces about 20,000
two-thirds of that in the form of barrels a day of heavy crude from
condensate and and heavy oil. another Cold Lake-area project
The rest is natural gas. called Orion, and Mr. Waterous
strategies that might push con-
sumers to buy its own products
Canada’s rather than those of competing
Competition Bureau sellers. The bureau is asking retail-
said it is examining ers operating in Canada to share
details confidentially by e-mail.
Amazon policies that Canadian Federation of Inde-
might discourage pendent Business head Dan Kelly
third-party sellers said he couldn’t comment on
who use Amazon’s whether Amazon had engaged in
anti-competitive behaviour, but
marketplace from added that “many, many small
selling their wares firms are finding their margins
for lower prices just eroding fast, because they’re
having to keep up, they’re having
elsewhere. to compete price-wise with Ama-
zon, which is very challenging to
do.”
An Amazon spokesperson said
by e-mail the company is comply-
ing with the investigation, and it
supports the growth of Canadian
retailers that sell through its site.
The Competition Bureau de-
clined an interview request, say-
ing it is obligated by law to keep
investigations confidential.
AMAZON (AMZN)
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said WEF was attracted by the
proximity and similarity to Lind-
WEF has acquired bergh. As part of the deal, WEF
45 per cent of Osum representatives have four of the
Production Corp. nine board seats.
He said bulking up is important
from private equity because the industry is increas-
firms Blackstone ingly capital intensive and, as
Group, Warburg companies discovered as the CO-
Pincus LLC and VID-19 crisis triggered a melt-
down in energy markets, only
Singaporean larger players have maintained
sovereign wealth access to capital to fund oper-
fund GIC for an ations.
undisclosed sum. “As a consequence, there’s nev-
er been such an important need
for the industry consolidate itself,
for companies to merge to gain
scale. So that’s what we’re doing –
getting bigger to have operational
economies of scale and better ac-
cess to capital,” he said.
Mr. Waterous said in June that
WEF is also seeking acquisition
targets in the United States, as the
shale-oil sector south of the bor-
der contracts under falling cash
flows and mountains of debt.
levels and were down a record
22.8 per cent for the second
quarter, dragged down by April’s
plunge.
And the recovery will likely be
more gradual going forward,
particularly if the recovery in the
United States, Canada’s largest
trading partner, stalls amid rising
COVID-19 cases, said Andrew
Grantham, a senior economist at
CIBC World Markets. REUTERS
STAFF AT GERMAN REGULATOR
TRADED WIRECARD SHARES
BEFORE FIRM’S COLLAPSE
FRANKFURT German regulatory
officials bought and sold Wire-
card shares in ever higher vol-
umes as the payments company
edged toward collapse, the
German government has re-
vealed, prompting fresh crit-
icism of the agency that polices
finance.
Responding to questions
posed by Green party lawmakers
investigating what authorities
did to avert Germany’s biggest
stock market fraud, the govern-
ment said staff in BaFin, which
monitors banks, had invested in
Wirecard shares.
The implosion of what was
seen as a rare German tech-
nology success story once worth
$37-billion has caused major
embarrassment, with experts
and politicians criticizing what
they see as a hands-off approach
on the part of the authorities.
Allegations of fraud at Wire-
card had been made for years,
although German prosecutors
long focused on investigating
investors and journalists who
had highlighted irregularities
rather than the company itself.
In its answer, the Finance
Ministry said one-fifth of BaFin
staff had engaged in some kind
of investment activity in 2019
and 2020, with an increasing
interest in Wirecard in the
months ahead of its collapse.
In the six months to the end
of June, 2.4 per cent of invest-
ment activity by BaFin staff
related to buying and selling
Wirecard stock or derivatives, up
from 1.7 per cent in 2019 and 1.2
per cent in 2018.
Last month, German prosecu-
tors arrested three former top
executives of Wirecard, saying it
suspected them of mastermind-
ing a criminal racket. REUTERS
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Enthusiast
FROM B1

Blue Ant is a Toronto-based company headed by Michael

MacMillan, co-founder and former chief executive of broad-
caster Alliance Atlantis Communications.
The transaction will see Blue Ant take an 18-per-cent stake
in Enthusiast. Mr. Aquilini and Enthusiast CEO Adrian Mont-
gomery – former CEO of Aquilini’s Canucks Sports and Enter-
tainment – each have 4-per-cent stakes.
Toronto Stock Exchange-listed Enthusiast will be home to
more than 100 online sites and 1,000 YouTube channels if the
deal closes as scheduled this fall – destinations for millions of
gamers who want to watch and discuss their favourite CO-
VID-19 pandemic-passing pastimes: games such as Call of Du-
ty and Overwatch. The company also fields seven profession-
al e-sports teams, including a top-ranked Overwatch team,
the Vancouver Titans, and runs live gaming tournaments.
Combining forces with Los Angeles-based Omnia is expect-
ed to create a platform that reaches 300 million gamers every
month, and attracts 4.2 billion monthly clicks. Enthusiast
makes most of its money by selling advertising to entities that
want to get in front of that audience. The two businesses had
combined sales last year of $110-million.
Over the next few months, those advertisers are expected
to include the U.S. Republican and Democratic presidential
campaigns, as gaming provides a young audience that tradi-
tional media and established social networks such as Face-
book cannot reach, according to Mr. Montgomery, Enthusi- Canadian e-commerce company Shopify, with a market capitalization of $157-billion, saw its revenue double in
ast’s CEO. the second quarter this year. JUSTIN TANG/THE CANADIAN PRESS
In an interview, he said half of Enthusiast and Omnia’s fol-
lowers don’t use Facebook, preferring to put together their
own online networks around gaming. Approximately 70 per
cent of Enthusiast’s audience is male, and the company says Earnings: Smaller Canadian tech companies
65 per cent of its followers spend 15 hours a week or more en-
gaged in e-sports. have capitalized on the shift to e-commerce
For backers who made their fortunes in old-school enter-
tainment – Mr. Aquilini’s hockey team makes money selling FROM B1 executive of Richard Bernstein is far too small to sustain the en-
tickets and broadcast rights, Mr. MacMillan used to run spe- Advisors, a New York-based in- tire market, as in the U.S. Instead,
cialty TV channels and produce hit shows such as CSI – a gam- The speed of the earnings come- vestment manager, said in a re- the mining industry has been the
ing platform represents a new way of doing business. For ex- back can be traced to the lavish cent note. MVP of Canadian earnings sea-
ample, after acquiring Omnia, Enthusiast will be home to stimulus with which countries A little over a month ago, the son.
more than 500 social-media influencers, experts on gaming confronted the pandemic. consensus forecast was for a 43- Amid the best run in gold pric-
who are followed by more than 500 million subscribers. Facing a depression-order hit per-cent hit to U.S. earnings. An es in a decade, Canadian pre-
Mr. Montgomery said influencer marketing is fastest grow- to GDP, governments and central upside revision that big is like cious metals miners have led
ing channel when it comes to reaching an audience of three banks unleashed spending pro- stock market rocket fuel, and both the earnings rebound and
billion “Gen Zs and millennials” around the world, with You- grams and asset purchases de- this earnings season roughly co- the rally in Canadian stocks over
Tube the dominant platform for reaching these consumers. signed to prevent a collapse of incided with an 8-per-cent gain the past few months.
“The addition of Omnia Media positions Enthusiast Gam- consumer and investor confi- in the S&P 500, putting the Of the biggest North Ameri-
ing as the largest gaming media platform in North America, dence. benchmark on the verge of a re- can-listed gold miners, only one
with more touchpoints to connect gamers to unique content Corporations captured much cord high. – Kinross Gold Corp. – failed to
experiences than any other gaming company,” he said. of that stimulus, through direct Big Tech has been at the fore- meet or beat earnings forecasts.
E-sports companies have been strong stock market per- transfers and subsidies, and in- front of both the U.S. stock mar- That outperformance was all the
formers this year, with a surge in investor interest during the directly through consumer ket rally and the recovery in prof- more remarkable considering
novel coronavirus pandemic boosting the 40-company Solac- spending. its. Both Facebook Inc. and the pandemic-related jurisdic-
tive Video Games & Esports Index by 58 per cent, year to date. “This does not feel like past re- Amazon.com Inc. posted a dou- tional lockdowns, which resulted
That global index includes established game makers such as cessions,” said Lorne Steinberg, bling of second-quarter earnings, in an overall production decline
Nintendo and Electronic Arts, and newer players such as president of Montreal-based in each case amounting to of about 16 per cent, according to
Twitch, a gaming platform acquired by Amazon.com Inc. in Lorne Steinberg Wealth Manage- US$5.2-billion. Scotia Capital analyst Tanya Ja-
2014 for US$970-million. ment. “Governments are paying kusconek.
Enthusiast is a rarity: one of the few publicly listed Canadian people to stay home. And banks “Given the rapid changes that
e-sports companies. That caught Mr. McMillan’s attention. are giving people a break on Canadian consumer have occurred in the world as a
Blue Ant acquired Omnia in 2011, but the parent company making mortgage payments.” result of the pandemic, the gold
is mainly focused on producing content for broadcasters in The U.S. consumer has re- spending also hit a companies have adjusted very
sectors such as natural history and animation. Blue Ant’s gained the desire to spend, with milestone in July, well,” Ms. Jakusconek said in a
gaming division struck an advertising partnership with En- three straight months of gains in surpassing levels it note.
thusiast last year, a relationship that led last week’s merger. In the retail sector taking total reached in the same And it’s not just gold that’s on
a news release, Mr. MacMillan said combining forces “will so- spending back to what it was in a tear. Across the spectrum of
lidify Omnia’s bright future with the scale and access Enthusi- February. month last year, commodities, there has been a
ast provides as a publicly traded company.” Canadian consumer spending according to RBC global price resurgence as the
Enthusiast paid $11-million in cash for Omnia and Blue Ant also hit a milestone in July, sur- Economics. Chinese economy has bounced
also took 18.25 million Enthusiast shares as payment. To raise passing levels it reached in the back and manufacturing activity
money for the transaction and expansion, Enthusiast sold same month last year, according The Canadian technology sec- has picked up.
$15-million of stock last week in a bought deal financing led by to RBC Economics. tor has also taken on a higher Resources sectors have essen-
Canaccord Genuity Group Inc. and Paradigm Capital Inc. “A nascent recovery in Cana- profile in the pandemic econo- tially kept the Canadian market
dian consumer spending solidi- my. Shopify Inc., with a market rally going, especially as the big
fied through the end of July, as capitalization of $157-billion, saw banks have been hit with a wave
more sectors of the economy re- its revenue double in the second of credit risk and the impact of
opened and government benefits quarter. low interest rates. (Canada’s
CaseLines continued to support consumer Smaller Canadian tech names banks report quarterly earnings
spending,” RBC economist Colin have also capitalized on the shift later this month.)
FROM B1 Guldimann wrote in a report. to e-commerce and digitized A commodity boom in the
Retail spending alone, howev- payments. Lightspeed POS Inc., months ahead would go a long
Judges and court staff scrambled to adapt with virtual hear- er, can’t rescue the economy. The the cloud-based retail and res- way toward fuelling Canadian
ings, accepted court documents filed online, and responded recession is still very much alive, taurant point-of-sale service pro- equity returns.
to information requests from media and the public by e-mail. measured by either GDP growth vider, said revenue rose 51 per “We could see some version of
Ontario authorized $1.3-million in April for costs such as the or by corporate profits. cent in the quarter ending June the cycle we had from 2003 to
purchase of 600 laptops, digital recording devices and tele- Second-quarter earnings for 30. mid-2008 – the financialization
conference phone lines. The Superior Court of Justice says it S&P 500 Index companies de- “Lightspeed has been a clear of commodities as an asset class,
conducted about 35,000 remote hearings (over telephone or clined 34 per cent year over year, beneficiary of these digitization which could lead to another sus-
Zoom) from mid-March to the end of July. according to Refinitiv data. Still, tailwinds,” CEO Dax Dasilva said tainable commodity cycle,” Re-
Now, the courts and the Ministry of the Attorney-General it was not quite as bad as Wall on an earnings call last week. “It Solve’s Mr. Butler said.
are planning long-term changes to add onto or replace the Street was anticipating. is a moment to be seized on, fa- “Canadian investors should be
emergency measures. The government has awarded consult- “Markets don’t care about the cilitated only by the right tech- praying for that, because there
ing firm PwC a contract for about $470,000 to conduct a study absolutes of good or bad. Rather, nology.” aren’t any other obvious cataly-
of the Superior Court’s operations, and while the report is ex- markets care about better or Still, the publicly traded tech sts for a major resurgence of Can-
pected by Sept. 11, the province has begun putting new dig- worse,” Richard Bernstein, chief sector in Canada beyond Shopify adian equity strength.”
ital-focused programs such as CaseLines in place.
In an interview on Friday, Attorney-General Doug Downey
told The Globe and Mail the province will also launch an on-
line search service next week to provide public access to in- GM’S BID TO REOPEN RACKETEERING CASE AGAINST FIAT CHRYSLER REJECTED BY U.S. JUDGE
formation about court files. Previously, people wanting to
look up court records had to use computers at courthouses,
which often had long lineups and were available during busi- A federal judge in Detroit on many guilty pleas from the allegations.”
ness hours only. Friday rejected a bid by General ongoing federal investigation,” When it first filed its lawsuit
Mr. Downey said people have wanted some of these tools Motors Co. to reinstate a racke- the largest U.S. automaker said in last year, GM alleged that FCA
for 20 years. “The appetite for change and the problems with teering lawsuit against its small- a statement. “GM’s suit will bribed UAW officials over many
the system were exacerbated through COVID,” he said. “So er rival Fiat Chrysler Automo- continue – we will not accept years to corrupt the collective
the appetite to fix it was phenomenal.” biles NV (FCA). corruption.” bargaining process and gain
After completing a free registration on the website, he said, GM claimed it had new in- FCA said, “Judge Borman’s advantages, costing GM billions
members of the public will be able to search for records of formation on foreign accounts ruling this morning once again of dollars. GM was seeking “sub-
civil and criminal court files at the Superior Court of Justice. used in an alleged bribery confirms what we have said from stantial damages” that one
The system won’t provide access to the actual documents, scheme involving FCA and lead- the beginning – that GM’s lawsuit analyst said could have totalled
but will display information such as the case name, file num- ers of the United Auto Workers is meritless – and its attempt to at least US$6-billion. In July,
ber, names of the parties and lawyers, the most recent order (UAW) union. But U.S. District submit an amended complaint Justice Borman threw out the
made in the case, and dates of forthcoming court appearanc- Justice Paul Borman said GM’s under the guise of asking the racketeering lawsuit, saying GM’s
es as well as whether the case is subject to a publication ban. “newly discovered evidence is court to change its mind was alleged injuries were not caused
Mr. Downey also said the CaseLines platform can provide too speculative to warrant reo- nothing more than a baseless by FCA’s alleged violations.
public access to electronic documents while allowing judges pening this case.” attempt to smear a competitor FCA said that as it operates
or court staff to limit information that is not public or subject GM said it would appeal the that is winning in the market- facilities in Italy and more than
to a publication ban, for instance. ruling. place.” 40 other countries, the existence
Family law cases will not be searchable at this point; Mr. “Today’s decision is disap- FCA previously compared of foreign bank accounts is “un-
Downey said the courts are considering how to balance pub- pointing, as the corruption in GM’s filing to a “third-rate spy remarkable, and certainly not
lic access with protecting privacy. The search functions could this case is proven given the movie, full of preposterous illegal.” REUTERS
also expand to files at the Ontario Court of Justice, which han-
dles provincial offences and family law matters that fall un-
der provincial law.
Woodbridge Co. Ltd., the Thomson family holding compa- DILBERT
ny and controlling shareholder of Thomson Reuters, also
owns The Globe and Mail.
Thomson Reuters said it hopes other provinces will follow
Ontario’s lead and adopt the CaseLines product. “We are in
discussions with other jurisdictions across Canada,” spokes-
man Dave Moran said, adding that it would be premature to
disclose which ones.
Thomson Reuters sold a majority stake in its financial and
risk division in 2018 and the business was spun out into a new
company, Refinitiv. Its remaining core business lines serve
professionals in the legal, corporate and tax sectors, and it has
recently pursued small acquisitions to complement those di-
visions. The legal business generates more than half of the
company’s revenue.
S AT U RDAY , AUGUST 15, 2020 | T HE GLO BE AN D MAI L O
Fortnite maker
Epic Games
sues Apple,
Google after
ban from
app stores
KELLEN BROWNING
JACK NICAS
ERIN GRIFFITH
Apple Inc.’s and Google’s spats
with app developers over their cut
of revenues exploded into a high-
stakes clash Thursday when the
tech giants kicked the popular
game Fortnite out of their app
stores and the game’s maker hit
back with lawsuits.
The fight began Thursday
morning with a clear provocation.
Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite,
started encouraging Fortnite’s mo-
bile-app users to pay it directly,
rather than through Apple or
Google parent Alphabet Inc. The
companies require that they han-
dle all such app payments so they
can collect a 30-per-cent commis-
sion, a policy that has been at the
centre of antitrust complaints
against the companies.
Hours later, Apple responded,
removing the Fortnite app from its
App Store.
“Epic enabled a feature in its
app which was not reviewed or
approved by Apple, and they did
so with the express intent of vio-
lating the App Store guidelines,”
Apple said in a statement. “We will
make every effort to work with
Epic to resolve these violations so
they can return Fortnite to the App
Store.”
Within an hour, Epic opened a
multifront war against Apple that
appeared months in the making.
First, it sued Apple in federal
court, accusing the company of vi-
olating antitrust laws by forcing
developers to use its payment sys-
tems.
“Apple’s removal of Fortnite is
yet another example of Apple
flexing its enormous power in or-
der to impose unreasonable re-
straints and unlawfully maintain
its 100-per-cent monopoly over
the” market for in-app payments
on iPhones, Epic said in its 62-
page lawsuit.
Then, Epic rolled out a sophisti-
cated public-relations campaign
that depicted Apple, one of the in-
dustry’s most image-conscious
companies, as the stodgy old
guard trying to stifle the upstart.
To do so, it used Apple’s own im-
agery against it, mimicking Ap-
ple’s iconic 1984 ad from its own
fight against IBM 36 years ago.
This time, Fortnite characters were
defying Apple’s totalitarian re-
gime. Within hours, #FreeFort-
nite was the top trend on Twitter.
Later Thursday, Google also re-
moved the Fortnite app from its of-
ficial Android app store, the Goo-
gle Play Store, saying the app vio-
lated Google’s policies. Epic re-
plied with a similar lawsuit.
Apple’s confrontation with Ep-
ic has much higher stakes than
Google’s because Fortnite remains
available for Android devices.
Google’s Android software allows
people to download apps outside
Google’s app store, unlike Apple’s
approach with iPhones, and Epic
had added Fortnite to the Play
Store only in April.
In Epic, Apple has met arguably
its toughest adversary in years.
The game maker has calculated
exactly how to hit Apple where it
hurts: by making iPhones less at-
tractive and Apple less cool.
Epic, a North Carolina compa-
ny that is valued at roughly US$17-
billion and is partly owned by Chi-
nese internet giant Tencent, now
appears poised to sacrifice mil-
lions of dollars in revenue in a
fight that will keep Fortnite off
iPhones. That immediately
makes Apple’s flagship devices far
less attractive to millions of peo-
ple across the world – just ahead
of Apple’s most prominent
iPhone introduction in years.
Apple, on the verge of a US$2-
trillion valuation as its stock has
soared in recent weeks, now faces
a battle with one of its most lucra-
tive partners over a crucial issue
for antitrust regulators investigat-
ing the power of Big Tech.
How Apple polices the App
Store has drawn intense scrutiny
over the past year. App developers
have complained that Apple is
taking an unfair cut of their busi-
ness while, in many cases, also
competing with their apps with
its own offerings.
European regulators, U.S. Jus-
tice Department officials and
state attorneys-general are inves-
tigating Apple’s control over the
App Store, and congressional law-
makers interrogated Apple’s chief
executive, Tim Cook, on the issue
in a hearing last month.
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
R E PO RT ON BUSINESS | B5
A combine harvester cuts sugar cane in a field at a sugar mill in Pradopolis, Brazil. The country’s sugar and ethanol industry has urged
the government to let its tax-free ethanol import quota, used entirely by U.S. producers, to expire. pAULO WHITAKER/REUTERS
Bolsonaro faces tough decision
on U.S. ethanol trade quota, tariffs
MARCELO TEIXEIRA owing to the pandemic, which drove plant “I think that, as far as Brazil is concerned,
STEPHANIE KELLY closings and slashed demand for corn. if they do tariffs, we have to have an equal-
ROBERTO SAMORA Mr. Bolsonaro, meanwhile, was elected ization of tariffs,” he said. “And you may be
CAROLINE STAUFFER with strong support from his country’s seeing something on that very soon.”
powerful farm lobby. The local sugar and A Brazilian Economy Ministry spokes-
ethanol industry, also hurt by the pandem- man said the government is still “building
Brazil is facing a difficult choice between ic, urged the government to let the quota its position” on the issue, declining to com-
going up against a powerful local sugar lob- expire, ending any tax-free imports. ment further. The U.S. Trade Representa-
by and angering a key ally, U.S. President Evandro Gussi, head of Brazil’s sugar and tive did not respond to request for com-
Donald Trump, as a major decision on in- ethanol industry group Unica, said that any ments.
ternational ethanol trade looms. liberalization on ethanol trade should be The two leading global ethanol pro-
A Brazilian tax-free ethanol import quo- followed by a U.S. move to reduce its import ducers regularly sell and buy from each
ta used entirely by U.S. producers is set to tax on Brazilian sugar. other.
expire Aug. 31, unless the government re- Unica believes there is otherwise no gain Brazil has a market niche in California
news it. Allowing 750 million litres a year, it for Brazil to renew the quota or to eliminate because its cane-based ethanol is consid-
is a welcome volume for U.S. ethanol mak- the tariff. ered by the state as having a smaller carbon
ers as the pandemic hit their business. Geoff Cooper, head of U.S. ethanol group footprint compared with corn-based U.S.
U.S. ethanol producers and the White RFA, said Brazil faces no taxes on its etha- fuel, so it gets a price premium.
House expect a renewal of the tax-free quo- nol sales to the United States and that it U.S. sells ethanol to Brazil’s Northeast re-
ta and Mr. Trump has asked Brazilian Presi- would be only fair to have similar rules on gion, owing to favourable ocean freight
dent Jair Bolsonaro’s government to elim- the trade between the two biofuel pro- from the Gulf.
inate any tariff, currently at 20 per cent, on ducers. In 2019, Brazil sold US$628-million of
imports above that quota. Mr. Trump hinted at a possible retalia- ethanol to the U.S. The U.S. exported
Mr. Trump would like to please ethanol tion if Brazil decides to reinstate tariffs on US$543-million worth of the fuel to Brazil.
producers and corn farmers before the U.S. ethanol trade during a White House news
election at a time when fuel sales are down briefing on Monday. REUTERS
ALIBABA, PHONE MAKER XIAOMI TO JOIN HONG KONG’S HANG SENG INDEX
HONG KONG E-commerce conglomerate listings in May. Sept. 7. About US$19.7-billion of assets
Alibaba, handset maker Xiaomi and China’s largest financial hubs are under management in exchange-traded
WuXi Biologics will enter the Hang Seng revamping key indexes to give more products were linked to the Hang Seng
next month, broadening Hong Kong’s weight to internet companies, which are Index with another US$5.4-billion tied to
traditionally financial services-dominated increasingly important to its economy. the H-share index as of July, the index
index. Alibaba and Xiaomi, along with deliv- provider said.
The change announced by the Hang ery platform Meituan Dianping, will also The Hang Seng Index will drop Sino
Seng Indexes Co. on Friday was made join the “H-share” Hang Seng China Land, Want Want China and China Shen-
possible after the 50-year-old bench- Enterprises Index, which represents hua Energy, while Sinopharm, BYD and
mark’s publisher changed the rules on Chinese companies listed in the city. Citic Securities will leave the H-share
shareholder structure and secondary Changes to both indexes are effective index. REUTERS
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Medicom: Company will spend $100-million
this year on capital expenditures
FROM B1
With the factory under temporary Chi-
nese control, all output was diverted to
meet domestic needs. While China paid
for the products, the move left the com-
pany with a big problem: That plant man-
ufactured more than half of Medicom’s
annual global output of 1.1 billion to 1.2
billion masks – and the majority of those
made in Shanghai were intended for ex-
port.
Medicom had faced a similar situation
in China during the 2003 SARS outbreak,
but this time things got worse. Within
days, authorities in Taiwan also banned
the export of masks made at Medicom’s
local plant. Then, in early March, the
French government requisitioned all pro-
duction from the company’s factory in the
Loire region, Western Europe’s largest N95
respirator-making facility. Masks couldn’t
leave the country, even for other EU coun-
tries. Company executives weren’t al-
lowed to transport so much as one box of
masks out of France.
“They were one after the other,” Med-
icom chief executive Ronald Reuben re-
calls. “I sat back and said, ‘Our entire cus-
tomer base has no product’ … you’re just
frozen.”
Around the world, trade norms gave
way to every-country-for-itself as the pan-
demic spread, allowed by an exemption in
the General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade permitting protective health mea-
sures. Germany banned exports of person-
al protective equipment (PPE). So did In-
dia, South Korea, Russia, the Czech Re-
public and Kenya. U.S. President Donald
Trump moved to stop N95 mask exports
to Canada in April before backing down;
Medicom’s Georgia plant was its only fa-
cility ultimately unaffected by govern-
ment intervention.
The onset of the biggest pandemic in a
century left a world economy built on
globalized supply chains unprepared and
geopolitically fraught. While export bans,
including China’s, have now eased, short-
ages of masks and other PPE globally are
expected to last months – and the rever-
berations longer still.
“Masks have become the new oil … full
of politics and complexity,” said Stanley
Bergman, chairman and CEO of Henry
Schein Inc., the world’s largest provider of
health care products and services to of-
fice-based dentists and doctors, and a
Medicom customer. Countries “scarred by
what happened with masks” will recon-
sider how they source other products, he
said. “Free trade is more at risk today
than” before COVID-19.
In the past seven months, Medicom –
which also sells gloves, gowns, disinfec-
tants, sterilized packaging and other in-
fection-control products for medical and
dental markets – has gone from being at
the heart of the global tug-of-war for PPE
to launching an unprecedented expan-
sion. The little-known company from
Pointe Claire, Que., has opened or an-
nounced factories in Canada – where it
had no manufacturing facilities as of Janu-
ary – as well as France, Britain and Singa-
pore on the strength of long-term supply
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agreements with their governments. It has
launched massive expansions of existing
facilities in the United States, Taiwan and
France. It is talking to other countries that
also want domestic PPE plants, but “we
can’t do everything and we can’t be every-
thing for everyone,” Mr. Reuben said.
Nobody has lived through a pandemic
like COVID-19, but the PPE industry’s past
experience with SARS, H1N1 and Ebola vi-
ral outbreaks has gone like this: An out-
break happens. Countries scramble for
PPE. Manufacturers add equipment to
meet demand … only to be left with ex-
cess capacity when the crisis abates. With
Russia claiming it has a COVID-19 vaccine
and others racing to follow suit, who
knows how long Medicom’s moment
might last. U.S. mask maker Prestige Ame-
ritech Ltd. almost went bankrupt a decade
ago after over-investing to service H1N1-
related demand that abated sooner than
expected. Medicom, too, was hit twice by
making ill-timed investments. “The real-
ity is that post-COVID there will be a
graveyard of mask machines,” said Ouriel
Levy, Medicom’s executive vice-president,
commercial.
But Medicom’s leadership believes this
time is different. “Things are going to
stick,” Mr. Reuben said of life after CO-
VID-19. “Masks, disinfectants, wipes, infec-
tion-protection protocols – all will have a
bigger role to play in everyone’s lives.”
As a private company, Medicom shares lit-
tle financial data – but what it did disclose
to The Globe and Mail shows the signif-
icant scope of its current bet. It usually
invests less than $10-million a year on
capital expenditures. In 2020, it will spend
‘Masks have
become the
new oil ...
full of
politics and
complexity’
Stanley Bergman, chairman and CEO of Henry Schein
| SATU R DAY, AUG UST 15, 2020
From left: Ouriel Levy, Medicom’s executive
vice-president, commercial; founder and CEO
Ronald Reuben; and president Guillaume
Laverdure. The company from Pointe-Claire,
Que., is launching an unprecedented
global expansion. PHOTOS BY
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$100-million, funded mostly from its “sol-
id” balance sheet, said Mr. Reuben, the
company’s majority shareholder. That will
increase its mask-making capacity by two
to three times. It aims to build multiple
factories and complete expansions in a
few months each, half the normal time,
while increasing employment by almost
40 per cent, to 1,500 people. The surge in
demand for masks will boost Medicom’s
annual revenue, trending at about $400-
million pre-pandemic, by hundreds of
millions of dollars this year.
The expansion has raised questions.
Medicom got a $4-million loan from Que-
bec and is in talks to receive support from
Ottawa’s Strategic Innovation Fund, said
Innovation, Science and Industry Minister
Navdeep Bains earlier this year. As Ottawa
news site Blacklock’s Reporter first report-
ed, Opposition MPs have asked why Otta-
wa awarded Medicom a single-source or-
der – an unprecedented length for a deal
of this sort – this spring to make 20 mil-
lion N95 masks and 24 million surgical
masks annually over the next decade
when it didn’t have a Canadian factory.
(Medicom subsequently secured a
60,000-square-foot facility on Montreal Is-
land, flew in equipment from abroad and
began production in July.)
Mr. Reuben said Medicom could have
added the capacity elsewhere, but chose
Canada “because we wanted to bring pro-
duction here and take care of our own
backyard.” In an April memo to Public
Services and Procurement Minister Anita
Anand, department officials estimated
the 10-year deal carried a $381.7-million
value; a government source said the par-
ties have only agreed on a firm $94-mil-
lion price for the first three years, with the
balance subject to further negotiation
based on Medicom’s costs and profit lev-
els established in the original agreement.
While the per-unit prices have not been
disclosed, the source said it is “compet-
itive” with pre-pandemic levels and
cheaper than other options available to
Ottawa. (The Globe is not identifying the
source because the individual was not au-
thorized to discuss the deal.)
The world will look much different in
three years – at least we all hope so. But
Mr. Reuben is betting the private and pub-
lic sectors will continue to need higher
levels of PPE and will support “resilient”
supply chains where they have greater
certainty of delivery from domestic or
nearshored plants – even though it means
higher manufacturing costs – and there-
fore higher prices – compared with relying
on lower-cost China, where most of the
world’s PPE manufacturing happens.
Support for shorter supply chains is a
growing trend as worsening China-U.S. re-
lations force economies to reassess their
reliance on low-cost offshore production,
no more so than for PPE. Pointing at his
copy of The World is Flat, Thomas Fried-
man’s 2006 book about globalization, dur-
ing an online interview, Mr. Reuben said:
“The world doesn’t seem flat any more.”
So Mr. Reuben is upending how masks
flow from factories to customers, antici-
pating Medicom will retain much of its
pandemic business. But he’s also aware of
the risk involved.
“The market is fickle. You’re dealing
with governments and policies could
change when things quiet down. That’s
the biggest concern – we’re going to have
a lot of capacity in the market, and how
do we deal with that.”
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Morris Goodman was on his way to Flor-
ida in early 1992 when he called Mr. Reu-
ben from an airport payphone in Mon-
treal. The CEO of generic drug maker
Pharmascience Inc., one of Montreal’s
most prominent entrepreneurs, had nev-
er met Mr. Reuben, then 26. But he knew
from a mutual contact that Mr. Reuben
was a hard-working, driven entrepreneur
with integrity – a mensch. He also needed
money.
Mr. Reuben had co-founded Medicom
four years earlier during the HIV/AIDS
pandemic. Health care providers were ad-
vised by the World Health Organization
and other bodies to wear gloves when
treating patients, prompting shortages.
Gloves “were liquid gold,” he said.
Sensing an opportunity, Mr. Reuben,
who had dabbled in entrepreneurship as
a teenager, opened the Yellow Pages and
found a British company that made
gloves in Canada. He quit his economics
studies at McGill University. Along with a
buddy, he began exporting gloves to the
U.S., benefiting from a strong exchange
rate. Medicom picked up large U.S. clients
including hospitals and medical equip-
ment dealers. But the business was under-
capitalized and while Mr. Reuben sought
expansion, he said his partner was satis-
fied just supplying existing accounts. By
early 1992, Mr. Reuben wanted to buy out
his co-founder and another minority part-
ner. Having grown up poor as the son of
divorced immigrants originally from Iraq,
he lacked the funds. His deeper-pocketed
co-founder wanted him out instead.
“He tells me a story, how desperate he
is,” Mr. Goodman recalled. “The man was
crying from the depths of his heart. He
got to me.” Mr. Goodman, trusting his gut,
had his office wire $200,000 for a loan to
Mr. Reuben – enabling him to buy out his
partners. Upon returning he discovered
Medicom’s books were a mess. It was los-
ing money on every order. Mr. Goodman
berated his staff in front of Mr. Reuben for
letting him invest. The young man was
near tears, believing his credibility was
shot.
And then, Mr. Goodman invited him to
Passover dinner. Mr. Reuben said he was
determined to repay Mr. Goodman’s kind-
ness and earn his trust.
Mr. Goodman, his controller and secre-
tary moved into Medicom’s offices for a
year, helping Mr. Reuben prepare a proper
set of books, teaching him “a little arith-
metic.” Mr. Goodman was his overseer
and became a 50-50 partner (Mr. Reuben
later bought part of his stake) and a fa-
ther figure to the young man, the Phar-
mascience CEO said. “I’m not sure Med-
icom would have made it had it not been
for this intervention,” said Mr. Levy, an
early employee.
When rivals started buying up its sup-
pliers in the 1990s, Medicom decided to
manufacture its own products. Mr. Reu-
ben found an industrial machine-builder
in Augusta, Ga., named Herschel Pitts
who sold Medicom his business in 1997
and stayed to develop its manufacturing
operations.
By Medicom’s 20th anniversary in 2008
it had 400 employees and $100-million in
sales in North America, Asia and Europe,
supplying a range of infection-prevention
productions to giant medical and dental
products distributors including Paterson
Companies Inc. and McKesson Corp. It
built its first plant in China in the early
2000s and then bought and turned
around a struggling state-of-the-art med-
ical packaging manufacturer in Taiwan.
It also learned some costly lessons by
scaling up for outbreaks. The company in-
stalled extra capacity at its U.S. plant for
H1N1 only to later mothball the unneeded
machines. Medicom also overpaid for its
French facility in 2011, buying a company
that was coming down from epidemic-
level H1N1 sales and about to shed busi-
ness as governments opted for low-cost,
offshore product. The French operation
struggled with high costs. By late 2019,
Medicom was considering exiting France
and shifting production to North Africa –
a move Mr. Reuben is happy he didn’t
make.
Another what-if situation went differ-
ently: Medicom walked from an opportu-
nity to buy a Mexican mask factory in
2019, which would have helped this year.
By the eve of the pandemic, Medicom
had gained a reputation as a market-lead-
ing supplier of quality medical products
with strong management, said Omar Al-
lam, CEO of Ottawa-based global trade
consultancy Allam Advisory Group. “It’s
an incredible Canadian company that’s a
leader across a lot of different products,”
Mr. Allam said. “One thing you hope is
that they don’t get it wrong.”
After several viral outbreaks and warn-
ings about the inevitability of another
scourge on par with the 1918-19 Spanish
Flu, countries were supposed to be pre-
pared for a pandemic.
Instead, many including Canada were
caught out. The federal government-run
emergency stockpile management system
had thrown out millions of expired masks
without replacing them. (It also shut its
pandemic early warning system in 2019.)
In February, the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services needed 300
million N95 respirators. It only had a
stockpile of 12 million – and five million
of them were expired. “Prevention
doesn’t sell,” Mr. Reuben said. “It’s an af-
terthought. We learned over the past 32
years there are patterns and trends that
repeat themselves.”
The global PPE shortage was exacerbat-
‘The reality
is that
post-COVID
there
will be a
graveyard
of mask
machines’
Ouriel Levy, vice-president, commercial, at Medicom
ed by Lunar New Year celebrations, which
had shut down production and forced
China to appeal to other countries for
supplies – which those countries would
later need themselves. Canada shipped 16
tonnes of PPE to China early this year in
what now seems an ill-timed and fruitless
attempt to improve diplomatic relations.
As governments bid against each other
for scarce PPE, opportunists and profi-
teers emerged everywhere. Thousands of
mask producers opened in China – but
the quality was often “garbage,” Mr. Reu-
ben said.
3M Co., a giant maker of N95 masks,
said in July it was dealing with 4,000 cases
of fraud, counterfeiting and price goug-
ing. Medicom, which typically uncovers
one counterfeiting case annually, has
dealt with 15 to 20, including an order of
six million fake Medicom masks bought
by the Hong Kong government.
One of Medicom’s first moves as the
pandemic took hold was appointing an
emergency response team of senior exec-
utives around the world including Mr.
Reuben. Calling themselves “The Break-
fast Club,” they met daily online at 7 a.m.
for 30 minutes to accommodate differing
time zones.
As export bans took hold, Medicom ex-
panded production in the U.S. and France
and put its biggest customers on alloca-
tion, drawing down from inventories it
stored in several countries.
Mr. Levy said Medicom “made sure we
took care of existing customers” with an
emphasis on those with long-term buying
patterns. Those it couldn’t fully supply
were okayed to buy from its rivals. That
played well with long-standing accounts.
“They knew that their product was good,
high quality and they could trust that we
would remain a loyal customer even if we
bought … from others during this peri-
od,” Henry Schein CEO Mr. Bergman said.
The company also stuck to long-stand-
ing principles by resisting the temptation
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to hike prices or opportunistically divert
supplies from long-standing accounts to
higher-paying newcomers. By contrast, ri-
val mask maker Segetex-Eif of France was
caught sending supply intended for Brit-
ish and French agencies to higher Chinese
bidders. The company was subject to a
French judicial investigation for flouting
the country’s requisition order, according
to reports. “I’m very happy we did not do
that [and] that we stayed true to who we
are,” said Medicom president and chief
operating officer Guillaume Laverdure.
Medicom’s expansion plan hatched in
January, originating in discussions with
Singapore’s government. The city-state
didn’t want to rely on Chinese-based ship-
ments anymore and agreed to a long-term
supply agreement if Medicom would
build a factory on the island. Securing a
multiyear contract was key for Medicom,
which didn’t want to repeat past mistakes
by investing in capacity that wouldn’t be
needed postpandemic.
“I decided, let’s talk to our own govern-
ment and see if they’d [also] be interest-
ed,” Mr. Reuben said. “We started looking
in different markets where we could
work, where we had a presence and en-
gaged with local governments.”
The Canadian government “was very
responsive, very quick,” he said. The Brit-
ish government also signed a multiyear
purchase order for 100 million N99-equiv-
alent respirators (masks that filter 99 per
cent of airborne particles) and more than
500 million surgical masks believed to be
valued at about $500-million. The U.K.
deal enabled Medicom to build a plant
there. In France, Medicom will move sur-
gical mask production to a new facility
while focusing on N95s at its existing
plant.
The expansion will see Medicom’s Chi-
nese output shrink to one-third of its total
mask production from more than half.
Chinese-made masks will increasingly
service the local market. The plants in
Canada, Britain and Singapore will each
serve their home markets; Medicom’s
Canadian facility has a capacity to make
four times as many surgical masks and
twice as many N95 masks as Ottawa is
ordering, allowing the company to serve
other customers in the country. A second
French plant ensures enough supply for
that country and other EU countries.
The U.S. plant is picking up business
from existing American private-sector cli-
ents plus new customers “who all want to
inshore production and have a U.S. op-
tion,” Mr. Laverdure said. “Our customers
will de-risk their supply by not relying
that much on China. We’re listening to
what [they] require.”
With its long-term supply deals in
hand, Medicom figures it can whistle past
the overcapacity woes that will inevitably
hit the industry and pick up business in
new markets such as Ukraine, the Philip-
pines and South America.
“Many [rivals] will disappear,” Mr. La-
verdure said. “If you’re not set up to be
efficient, organized, structured, when the
market scales back to normal, it will be
very difficult.”
Medicom’s plan has the support of a
key lender, the Caisse de dépôt et place-
ment du Québec. “Yes, there’s a risk, but
they are in various geographic markets
and verticals,” said Geneviève Bouthillier,
managing director, private mid-market
companies with the pension giant. “It’s a
pretty manageable risk.”
But it’s still a bold strategic bet for Med-
icom. Like many decisions made by busi-
nesses amid the economic fog of the pan-
demic, it has everyone involved holding
their breath.
“When he started doing all this expan-
sion I told Ron, ‘I want you to think about
this,’ ” said Mr. Pitts, the Georgian machi-
nist who is now semi-retired from Med-
icom. “Just be aware, if everything goes
away what are we going to do? He’s very
smart [to sign long-term supply deals]
but he’s brave. He’s spending a lot right
now. I told him we want to be doggone
sure we keep those machines busy after
this crisis is over.”
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GLOBE INVESTOR
Reader seeks exit plan from DIY investing
Man looking to
hand off his portfolio in
retirement has a choice
between a robo-adviser
and sticking with more
traditional approach
ROB
CARRICK
OPINION
A
t age 88, Darrell McDonald
is done with DIY investing.
“This will be my second
retirement, the first being almost
exactly 30 years ago when my em-
ployer offered an early retirement
package that I was happy to ac-
cept,” the Welland, Ont.-based Mr.
McDonald said in an e-mail. He
has hearing issues, so that’s how
we corresponded.
Mr. McDonald currently han-
dles his own portfolio through his
bank’s online brokerage. He’s de-
cided to look at two alternatives –
a robo-adviser and a traditional
investment adviser. Let’s work
through both options to help not
only Mr. McDonald, but all retired
DIY investors who want to hand
off their portfolios.
A quick investing profile of Mr.
McDonald to start: He has a pen-
sion through his old employer,
Ford of Canada, plus Canada Pen-
sion Plan and Old Age Security
benefits. He primarily invests in
stocks, but has recently included
ETFs among the portfolios he
manages. They include a regis-
tered retirement income fund
and tax-free savings accounts for
him and his wife, Yvonne. Togeth-
er, these holdings are worth
roughly a mid-six-figure amount.
Mr. McDonald has been invest-
ing in stocks for almost 70 years.
“A lifelong believer, I bought
shares in the company I worked
for the first time I had $100 I didn’t
need,” he wrote. “That was in the
1950s. After a 20-year break for
matrimony, children and a first
house, investing began again in
the mid-1970s.”
His current investments are
What does Brookfield Renewable’s
unit split mean for investors?
JOHN
HEINZL
OPINION
INVESTOR CLINIC
When I checked my portfolio
recently, I discovered 195 BEPC
shares along with my original 780
BEP.UN units. Where did these new
BEPC shares come from?
On July 30, Brookfield Renewable
Partners LP (BEP.UN) completed
a special distribution – or unit
split – in which investors received
one share of a new company,
Brookfield Renewable Corp.
(BEPC), for every four BEP.UN
units held.
The purpose of the unit split –
similar to one completed in
March by Brookfield Infrastruc-
ture Partners LP (BIP.UN) – is to
increase demand from retail and
institutional investors who are
unable or unwilling, for tax or
other reasons, to hold limited
partnership units. The BEPC
shares give investors, including
exchange-traded funds, a way to
access Brookfield Renewable’s
global portfolio of hydro, wind
and solar facilities through a tra-
ditional corporate structure.
Will the BEPC shares pay
a dividend?
Yes. BEPC shares and BEP.UN
units will pay the same quarterly
dividend/distribution of 43.4 US
cents, with the next payment
scheduled for Sept. 30.
The key difference is that
BEPC’s quarterly payments will
consist entirely of eligible divi-
dends that qualify for the Cana-
dian dividend tax credit (DTC),
whereas BEP.UN’s distributions
have typically included a mix of
eligible dividends, foreign in-
come and return of capital. This
makes BEPC’s new shares attrac-
tive for non-registered accounts,
where the DTC reduces tax paya-
ble.
Will my BEP.UN units pay the same
distribution as before or is the
Darrell McDonald, 88, says part of what’s driving his decision to turn away from DIY investing is a desire to
ensure his investments are in ‘a manageable setup that would be functional’ for his wife and family should
something happen to him. CHRISTOPHER KATSAROV/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
focused in the technology, health
care and banking sectors, and he
owns some broad-based ETFs as
well. Asked for his favourite
stocks, he mentioned Apple,
Shopify, Amazon, Nvidia and
Alimentation Couche-Tard.
There are practical reasons for
Mr. McDonald’s turn away from
DIY investing. “My thinking is
that physical disability is a possi-
bility at this stage of life that
would leave my wife and family
floundering,” he said. “I would
rather they found a manageable
setup that would be functional.”
The choice of robo versus
human adviser seems a no-
brainer for an 88-year-old, right?
Machine versus human – cold
technology versus warm human
contact.
A limited number of seniors
are using robo-advisers, though.
At CI Direct Investing, formerly
called WealthBar, 1 per cent of cli-
ents are 80 and older and 10 per
cent are 60 and up. The average
account size for 60-plus clients is
$155,126
David Dyck, head of client ser-
vices at CI Direct, said he came to
payout reduced?
To reflect the unit split, BIP.UN’s
payout is being reduced by 20 per
cent. However, including divi-
dends from your BEPC shares,
you will receive the same pretax
quarterly income, in aggregate.
What is the adjusted cost base
(ACB) of the BEPC shares? And
what happens to the cost base of
my BEP.UN units?
If you hold BEPC or BEP.UN in a
registered account, the ACB of
your investment is irrelevant.
However, if you’re investing in a
non-registered account, you’ll
need to know the ACB of your
BEPC shares and BEP.UN units in
order to calculate your capital
gain or loss when you eventually
sell.
The BEPC shares give
investors, including
exchange-traded funds,
a way to access
Brookfield Renewable’s
global portfolio of
hydro, wind and solar
facilities through a
traditional corporate
structure.
According to information pro-
vided by Brookfield Renewable,
the ACB per share of the BEPC
shares is $58.28, as determined by
the volume-weighted average
price of BEPC on its first five trad-
ing days on the Toronto Stock Ex-
change. To calculate the new ACB
per unit of your BEP.UN units,
subtract the total cost base of
your BEPC shares – and any cash
received in lieu of a partial share
– from the total cost base of your
BEP.UN units before the split,
then divide by the number of BE-
P.UN units you hold.
The BEPC shares are “exchange-
able.” What does that mean?
BEPC shares are exchangeable on
the company in 2015 with the
assumption that it was mainly for
tech-savvy millennials. He
quickly came to know an eighty-
something client he referred to as
George, who had left DIY invest-
ing for reasons similar to those of
Mr. McDonald.
“Despite being from an older
generation and having some
learning curve issues because of
the technology platform, he was
open to working with us on solv-
ing those challenges,” Mr. Dyck
said. “Now he’s a client who uses
our platform regularly.”
As with any veteran DIY inves-
tor, low fees are important to Mr.
McDonald. With a portfolio in the
mid-six-figure range, his costs
mainly consists of stock-trading
commissions priced at $9.95 per
buy or sell transaction. He esti-
mates he has been making no
more than 60 trades a year, which
suggests annual fees could
amount to a modest 0.12 per cent
or so of his assets.
Mr. McDonald said he’s okay
with paying a fee to a robo-adviser
to manage his portfolio, but he
feels that his wife might prefer
a one-for-one basis for BEP.UN
units, but I don’t recommend it.
BEPC shares are trading at an 8.3-
per-cent premium to BEP.UN
units – the shares and units
closed at $62.28 and $57.50, re-
spectively, on Friday – so you
would be throwing money away
by making such a swap now. Un-
fortunately, the exchange option
only goes one way: You can’t ex-
change your BEP.UN units for
BEPC shares. There is nothing to
stop you from selling BEP.UN and
buying BEPC, or vice versa, but be
mindful of any capital gains tax
that would apply.
Which is better, BEPC or BEP.UN?
If you are investing primarily for
income – and doing so in a regis-
tered account where the dividend
tax credit is moot – BEP.UN might
look more appealing, as it is
yielding about 4 per cent com-
pared with BEPC’s yield of about
3.7 per cent. However, it’s possi-
ble that BEPC could widen its
price premium over BEP.UN, in
which case BEPC might be the
better pick because of its poten-
tial for greater capital gains. Note
that when Brookfield Infrastruc-
ture completed its split, BIPC
shares initially traded in a tight
range with BIP.UN. But BIPC
shares soon began to pull away;
they now trade at a 13.5-per-cent
premium to BIP.UN.
Evidently, there has been
strong investor demand for the
corporate shares.
Regardless of which vehicle
you choose, I expect that you will
be rewarded over the long run
with capital growth and rising in-
come. Brookfield Renewable has
a deep pipeline of growth pro-
jects, a track record of successful
mergers and acquisitions and the
backing of parent Brookfield As-
set Management (BAM.A).
Brookfield Renewable is aiming
to raise its dividend/distribution
at an annual rate of 5 per cent to 9
per cent, so whether you choose
shares or units, your income will
almost certainly grow for many
years to come.
Special to The Globe and Mail
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through phone and videoconfer-
encing. It’s similar at CI Direct,
where Mr. Dyck said advisers talk
to clients by phone, by e-mail, by
online chat or video conference.
CI Direct has differentiated it-
self from many competing robo-
advisers in part by offering a high-
er level of human contact, some-
times even letting clients work
with a specific person. “It’s not
unusual that, over time, one of
our clients will interact and build
a relationship with one adviser on
our team,” Mr. Dyck said. “When
that happens, we try to accommo-
date that.”
Mr. McDonald wondered if he
could keep some of his favourite
stocks with a robo account, but
that’s not the robo-investing way.
Clients at CI Direct choose from
among five ETF portfolios or three
private investment fund portfo-
lios, each with a different risk pro-
file.
Each portfolio is a self-con-
tained mix of funds – clients add
money and CI Direct distributes it
proportionally into the funds in
having a human adviser to speak the portfolio. A human adviser
with. Let’s see how the fees for would likely be more willing to
robo and human advice compare. help Mr. McDonald keep certain
CI Direct Investing’s pricing for stocks that have done well for
mid-six-figure portfolios is typical him.
of robo-advisers at a bit less than One of the advantages of tradi-
0.5 per cent a year, with trading tional investment advisers is that
costs included. Mr. Dyck said addi- many offer financial planning as
tional fees for investments would well as portfolio management.
come in at 0.26 per cent for a bal- Someone such as Mr. McDonald
anced ETF portfolio and 1.55 per could get advice on minimizing
cent for a balanced portfolio built taxes and estate planning, for
with private investment funds example.
holding a more exotic mix of in- Robo-advisers are primarily
vestments. investment managers, rather
A full-service investment ad- than planners, but CI Direct does
viser from a bank-owned firm offer financial planning to clients
would likely suggest a fee-based as part of the services they pay for
account, where fees for portfolio with their regular fees.
management and trading are cov- To minimize disruption and
ered through an annual fee of maximize convenience, Mr.
roughly 1 per cent to 1.5 per cent of McDonald should move his ac-
the total assets in an account. count to the full-service broker-
Additional fees would be paid to age arm of his bank. But if he’s
own investing products such as willing to persevere through the
ETFs and mutual funds. momentary challenges of moving
In the COVID-19 pandemic, a account to a robo-adviser,
there’s a surprising parallel to there’s a payoff of lower costs
human and robo advice. To meet combined with the potential for
physical-distancing require- as much human support as he
ments, human advisers have and his wife need over the phone
been working with clients and online.
Putin may hold the key
on how investments in
shaky Belarus pan out
MARC JONES LONDON
I
nvestors face a classic “dictator dilemma” in Belarus –
hold on to securities that benefit from the status quo in a
brutal regime, or sell them and sever their ties – but
which way they go may depend largely on Vladimir
Putin’s Russia.
Belarus’s President Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed
“Europe’s last dictator” and in power since 1994, claimed
victory in a presidential election last weekend with around
80 per cent of the vote.
The announcement has triggered days of widespread pro-
tests and brought threats of stringent Western sanctions.
While an end to Mr. Lukashenko’s rule could be a long-
term benefit for the country, it would also come with the risk
of an immediate debt crisis that would hurt major investors.
Despite a violent crackdown on thousands of protesters,
foreign money managers have so far shown little inclination
to sell their Belarus bonds. And as recently as June, they
flocked to buy the country’s new dollar issues that paid juicy
5.7-per-cent to 6.4-per-cent yields.
On Thursday, however, the pressure on Mr. Lukashenko
appeared to intensify, and BlueBay’s veteran emerging mar-
ket strategist Tim Ash wrote that the situation felt similar to
Ukraine in 2014 at the time of its “Colour Revolution.”
With workers from state-run Belarus factories now joining
protests and Russia’s Foreign Ministry saying it thought for-
eign forces were destabilizing Belarus, Mr. Ash said Mr.
Lukashenko’s days could be numbered.
“The question now is what [Mr.] Lukashenko does – does
he double down on the use of force, or head to the exits in a
helicopter?”
Belarussian authorities released detained demonstrators
on Friday after issuing a rare public apology in a bid to quell
the protests, while European Union foreign ministers meet
later on Friday to discuss possible new sanctions.
While no respectable investor would condone brutal po-
lice crackdowns, election rigging or political intimidation,
supersized firms such as Ashmore, JP Morgan Asset Manage-
ment, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Fran-
klin Templeton all own Belarus bonds according to Refinitiv
data. None of them would comment on their positions.
Some investors said the upheaval has only added to Bela-
rus’s woes. The IMF already forecasts a 6-per-cent economic
slump this year and with more than 90 per cent of its interna-
tional debt in dollars, a currency collapse may open the door
to default – especially with US$2.5-billion of bond payments
due by the end of the year.
Another major risk is that Mr. Lukashenko could throw in
the towel and Russian President Mr. Putin could pull his sup-
port and financial backing that remains in place despite
worsening ties of late between the two leaders.
Russia buys around 40 per cent of Belarus’s exports, pro-
vides it with billions in bilateral loans and has traditionally
given substantial subsidies through preferential oil prices,
estimated by the Centre for European Reform to have been
worth US$100-billion between 2005-15.
REUTERS
S AT U RDAY , AUGUST 15, 2020
How a teacher’s retirement can make the grade
Jane may need
to work a bit longer or
downsize her property
in order to pay for travel
costs as well as her
daughter’s education
DIANNE MALEY
I
n two years, Jane plans to re-
tire from her $124,000-a-year
job in the education system
with a full teacher’s pension of
$71,800 a year, fully indexed to
inflation. She’ll be 58.
When she does, she wants to
spend time outdoors – playing
golf, skiing in the Rockies and
travelling abroad. With more
time for the things she enjoys,
Jane aims to double her travel
and leisure budget to $20,000 a
year. She also wants to help her
daughter, who is 16, with univer-
sity costs.
Once she has put the working
world behind her, Jane is mulling
selling her suburban Toronto
house and moving to a smaller
city or town where she can live
simply and enjoy nature. In the
meantime, she wonders whether
she should focus on paying off
the remaining mortgage on her
city home or direct more savings
toward investing.
Jane says she is willing to work
a little longer if it would put her
on a more solid financial footing.
She’s not sure how much money
she will need but has set her goal
at $90,000 to $100,000 a year af-
ter tax. She manages her own in-
vestments and wonders whether
she should consolidate her as-
sets.
We asked Karen Hennessy and
Nushzaad Malcolm, financial
planners at T. E. Wealth in Mon-
treal and Toronto, to look at
Jane’s situation.
WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY
First, her daughter’s education.
Jane has $80,000 in a registered
education savings plan and
$120,000 in a trust account for
her daughter’s studies.
These investments should be
adequate for future tuition costs
estimated at $20,000 to $30,000
a year, plus expenses, the plan-
ners say.
To take full advantage of the
federal education savings grant,
they recommend Jane continue
to save in the RESP until her
daughter turns 17.
Next, the mortgage versus in-
vesting question. The planners
look at Jane’s income needs now
and when she retires under two
scenarios, one where she pays
off her mortgage and one where
she keeps it to maturity in 15
years.
“Jane’s total cost of living will
be reduced when she retires,”
the planners say, so her spending
target is probably higher than
necessary.
Jane’s basic expenses total
$67,750 a year.
Mortgage payments add an-
other $15,600 a year and she is
saving $22,500 a year, for total
current outlays of $105,850.
Even if she retires with the
mortgage in place, she will no
longer be saving $22,500 a year,
so her cash needs will fall to
$83,350.
STARS AND DOGS JOHN HEINZL
STAR Will dirt-cheap seats lure
virus-wary customers back to
movie theatres? AMC Entertain-
ment is about to find out. In a
move that drove up AMC’s share
price, the largest U.S. cinema
chain said it plans to begin reo-
pening theatres on Aug. 20 and
will mark its 100th anniversary by
offering a limited number of 15-
cent movie tickets – a throwback
promotion it’s calling “Movies in
2020 at 1920 prices.” There is no
truth to the rumour that all 15-
cent movies will be presented
without sound.
AMC (NYSE), US$5.54,
up 79 US cents or 16.6% over week
| T HE GLO BE AN D MAI L O
CLIENT SITUATION
The people: Jane, 56, and her
daughter, 16.
The problem: Can Jane afford
to retire in two years and still
meet her goals?
The plan: Weigh the alterna-
tives. Retire in two years and
spend less, work two more
years and meet her spending
goals, or retire in two years,
downsize her house and
surpass her goals.
The payoff: Gaining clarity
Jane says her
investments are all
in stocks, allocated
50 per cent to
Canada, 30 per cent
to the United States
and 20 per cent
internationally,
in a variety of
technology,
consumer and
utility stocks.
STAR Tesla’s five-for-one stock
split announced this week
doesn’t, in and of itself, create any
value. But Tesla investors will use
any excuse to drive up the stock.
Having already more than tripled
this year, the electric car maker’s
shares surged after Tesla an-
nounced the split “to make stock
ownership more accessible to
employees and investors.” Unfor-
tunately, with sticker prices rang-
ing from $52,990 for the entry-
level Model 3 to $137,990 for a top-
of-the-line Model X SUV, Tesla’s
vehicles aren’t exactly accessible
to most car buyers.
TSLA (Nasdaq), US$1,650.71,
up US$198 or 13.6% over week
about her financial future.
Monthly net income: $9,165.
Assets: Non-registered portfolio
$150,000; RRSP $50,000; TFSA
$47,000; RESP $80,000; trust
account $120,000; estimated
present value of defined benefit
pension $1.325-million; princi-
pal residence $1.2-million.
Total: $2.97-million.
Monthly outlays: $1,300; prop-
erty tax $460; home insurance
$135; utilities $325; home
Once her mortgage is paid off
in 15 years, she’ll have basic
spending of the same $67,750 a
year (with no savings and no
mortgage payments).
She’ll add another $10,000 a
year for travel, for cash needs of
$77,750 a year after tax.
Most of Jane’s retirement in-
come will come from her work
pension and government bene-
fits, supplemented by her invest-
ment portfolio.
Jane’s portfolio consists of
$47,000 in her registered retire-
ment savings plan, $50,000 in
her tax-free savings account and
$150,000 in her non-registered or
taxable investment account, for
a total of $247,000.
Jane says her investments are
all in stocks, allocated 50 per
cent to Canada, 30 per cent to
the United States and 20 per cent
internationally, in a variety of
technology, consumer and utility
stocks. She deals with four finan-
cial institutions.
In preparing their forecasts,
STAR Business quiz! Horizon
North Logistics is: a) a distribu-
tor of road salters, snowplows
and other winter maintenance
vehicles; b) a trucking company
based in northern Ontario that
delivers Amazon.com parcels to
isolated villages; c) a company
that provides housing and sup-
port services to remote work
forces and which reinstated its di-
vidend this week after announc-
ing strong gains in second-quar-
ter revenue and earnings follow-
ing a recent merger. Answer: c.
HNL (TSX), $4.82,
up $1.27 or 35.8% over week
maintenance $290; garden $85;
transportation $400; groceries
$835; clothing $210; gifts,
charity $250; vacation, travel
$835; dining, drinks, entertain-
ment $625; personal care $40;
club membership $20; golf
$125; pets $165; sports, hob-
bies $85; subscriptions $25;
vitamins, supplements $100;
life insurance $375; phones,
TV, internet $265; RRSP $165;
TFSA $540; pension plan contri-
butions $1,165. Total: $8,820.
Liabilities: Mortgage $183,000.
the planners assume a 2-per-cent
inflation rate, maximum Canada
Pension Plan benefits at 70
($26,383), giving Jane a 42-per-
cent increase in her lifetime CPP
benefit, and Old Age Security
benefits of $8,799 at 65. Life ex-
pectancy is 96.
Jane’s pension will be $71,797
a year before tax if she retires at
58 and $81,920 a year at 60.
The planners used two rates of
return in their forecast: 5 per
cent after fees with Jane’s exist-
ing growth portfolio, and 3.26
per cent after fees based on a bal-
anced portfolio of equities and
fixed income.
In their base plan, where Jane
retires in two years, she falls
short of her spending goal re-
gardless of whether she switches
to a balanced portfolio or stays
with the more aggressive one.
Her savings are depleted by 69,
after which she still has her
teacher’s pension and govern-
ment benefits.
In the alternative plan, where
DOG You win some, you lose
some. Just ask a Cisco Systems
shareholder. The networking
equipment giant posted fiscal
fourth-quarter revenue and ad-
justed earnings that were down
from a year earlier but still topped
analysts’ expectations. Unfortu-
nately, with the coronavirus pan-
demic continuing to hurt its busi-
ness and the company soon fac-
ing tough comparisons with
strong year-earlier results, Cisco’s
first-quarter fiscal 2021 forecast
came up short of expectations,
causing the stock to short-circuit.
CSCO (Nasdaq), US$42.50,
down US$4.93 or 10.4% over week
R E PO RT ON BUSINESS | B9
TIJANA MARTIN/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Jane works a couple years longer,
she comes much closer to her
goal, with $74,670 a year using a
balanced portfolio and $76,325
with the more aggressive one.
(Her cash needs are $77,750 a
year after tax.)
Jane has been musing about
selling her house, so the plan-
ners offer a scenario in which
Jane retires in two years, sells her
city home, buys a less expensive
place in a smaller centre for
$700,000 and invests the re-
maining $500,000.
In this forecast, Jane surpasses
her $77,750 a year spending tar-
get regardless of which portfolio
she chooses: by $5,000 a year in
the balanced portfolio and by
$9,600 a year in the growth port-
folio.
“Retiring at age 58 and down-
sizing her property will allow
Jane to achieve her retirement
goals without any concerns,” the
planners say.
The planners recommend that
Jane continue to contribute the
maximum each year to her TFSA
and, if possible, top it up to the
maximum now. After she has re-
tired, she can transfer funds
from her non-registered account
to her TFSA each year.
As well, they suggest Jane en-
sure her investments are in line
with her risk tolerance, especial-
ly since their projections suggest
she can achieve her goals with-
out the higher return – and the
higher risk – that an all-stock
portfolio entails.
Special to The Globe and Mail
Want a free financial facelift?
E-mail finfacelift@gmail.com.
Some details may be changed to
protect the privacy of the persons
profiled.
DOG Stein Mart? Is that, like, a
store that sells beer mugs? No,
but its shareholders could prob-
ably use a drink. Hammered by
the coronavirus pandemic and a
shift to online shopping, the U.S.
department store chain that sells
off-price fashions filed for Chap-
ter 11 bankruptcy protection and
expects to close “a significant
portion, if not all, of its brick-and-
mortar stores,” the Florida-based
company said. With at least two
dozen other major U.S. retailers
also filing for Chapter 11 this year,
Stein Mart investors have plenty
of company down at the local wa-
tering hole.
SMRT (Nasdaq), 10.94 US cents,
down 19.06 US cents or 63.5% over week
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TSX 60 INDEX 990.34 -0.64 -0.06 81219 -2.42 HEXO HEXO CORP 1.01 -0.06 -5.61 6234 -51.21 ACQ AUTOCANADA IN 17.70 0.12 0.68 365 42.86 RCH RICHELIEU HAR 34.16 0.01 0.03 81 25.91
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TSX CONSUMER DISC 192.66 1.41 0.74 4768 -4.18 AQN ALGONQUIN POW 18.06 -0.21 -1.15 3391 -1.69 CWX CANWEL BUILDI 6.90 0.09 1.32 318 28.73 SIS SAVARIA CORP 16.14 0.66 4.26 388 15.70
TSX CONSUMER STAP 660.75 2.47 0.38 3207 6.72 TD TORONTO-DOMINI 63.43 -0.05 -0.08 3315 -12.91 CS CAPSTONE MININ 1.20 0.06 5.26 551 57.89 SRX STORM RESOURC 1.80 0.14 8.43 310 9.76
TSX ENERGY CAPPED 85.18 0.79 0.94 27868 -41.64 MEG MEG ENERGY CO 4.17 0.22 5.57 3024 -43.57 CRRX CARERX CORPO 4.80 -0.20 -4.00 14 2.13 TOU TOURMALINE OI 17.09 0.41 2.46 1244 12.29
TSX FINANCIALS CA 272.98 -0.22 -0.08 25393 -13.47 AC AIR CANADA 16.85 -0.23 -1.35 2996 -65.26 CFF CONIFEX TIMBE 1.23 0.05 4.24 150 75.71 TSL TREE ISLAND S 2.31 -0.06 -2.53 1 6.94
TSX HEALTH CARE C 52.25 0.11 0.21 8078 -31.63 APHA APHRIA INC 5.98 -0.16 -2.61 2973 -11.80 DC-A DUNDEE CORP 1.52 0.03 2.01 90 27.73 VGCX VICTORIA GOL 17.52 0.52 3.06 256 106.85
TSX INDUSTRIALS C 298.13 0.21 0.07 9878 4.25 CPG CRESCENT POIN 2.61 0.02 0.77 2935 -54.92 GLXY GALAXY DIGIT 3.76 0.18 5.03 253 254.72 WELL WELL HEALTH 4.83 0.13 2.77 818 209.62
TSX INFORMATION T 166.02 -0.96 -0.57 3727 40.78 K KINROSS GOLD CO 11.57 -0.09 -0.77 2925 87.82 GUY GUYANA GOLDFI 1.81 0.00 0.00 43 158.57 WFT WEST FRASER T 69.09 3.45 5.26 406 20.62
TSX MATERIALS CAP 334.76 -0.96 -0.29 34735 24.72 HND BETAPRO NAT G 7.71 -1.14 -12.88 2874 -24.34 III IMPERIAL META 3.52 0.04 1.15 128 70.87
TSX REAL ESTATE C 276.44 -2.76 -0.99 9188 -20.20 BTO B2GOLD CORP 8.90 0.01 0.11 2867 70.83 ISV INFORMATION S 18.35 0.35 1.94 4 19.47
TSX GLOBAL GOLD I 369.23 -0.37 -0.10 54428 41.31 CVE CENOVUS ENERG 6.81 0.03 0.44 2743 -48.41 IFP INTERFOR CORP 16.62 0.43 2.66 376 13.29
TSX GLOBAL MINING 99.25 0.00 0.00 97515 20.49 BMO BANK OF MONTR 78.03 0.24 0.31 2396 -22.47 LAC LITHIUM AMERI 10.44 0.75 7.74 359 150.96
TSX INCOME TRUST 194.44 -1.20 -0.61 8983 -16.06 HNU BETAPRO NAT G 15.19 1.67 12.35 2232 -51.24 NA-PR-C NATIONAL 22.60 0.15 0.67 104 4.63
TSX PREFERRED SHA 567.33 -0.31 -0.05 1395 -7.92 SLF SUN LIFE FINA 56.71 0.19 0.34 2178 -4.22
TSX TELECOM SERVI 163.27 0.66 0.41 9196 -8.89 YRI YAMANA GOLD I 7.80 -0.12 -1.52 2156 51.75
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FTU-PR-B US FINL 6.49 0.63 10.75 1 -20.85 ICE CANLAN ICE SP 3.00 -0.25 -7.69 27 -41.18
BPF-UN BOSTON PIZ 7.86 0.73 10.24 108 -41.68 HZU BETAPRO SILVE 22.33 -1.76 -7.31 1124 71.77
MAV MAV BEAUTY BR 3.07 0.28 10.04 128 -20.99 HEXO HEXO CORP 1.01 -0.06 -5.61 6234 -51.21
SES SECURE ENERGY 1.90 0.17 9.83 1609 -61.86 TML TREASURY META 1.70 -0.10 -5.56 302 88.89
FEC FRONTERA ENER 3.16 0.27 9.34 275 -67.76 BU BURCON NUTRASC 2.09 -0.12 -5.43 158 115.46
IDG INDIGO BOOKS 2.25 0.19 9.22 197 -48.51 MXG MAXIM POWER C 1.99 -0.11 -5.24 N-A 9.34
AAV ADVANTAGE OIL 2.18 0.18 9.00 959 -21.45 GAU GALIANO GOLD 2.18 -0.12 -5.22 395 28.99
PEY PEYTO EXPLORA 2.74 0.22 8.73 907 -27.63 HSE-PR-E HUSKY EN 12.66 -0.69 -5.17 2 -33.37
SRX STORM RESOURC 1.80 0.14 8.43 310 10.98 AND ANDLAUER HEAL 40.02 -2.13 -5.05 9 99.60
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AQN ALGONQUIN POW 18.06 -0.21 -1.15 3391 -1.63 CPG CRESCENT POIN 2.61 0.02 0.77 2934 -54.58 KL KIRKLAND LAKE 66.13 -0.48 -0.72 739 15.29 SIA SIENNA SENIOR 10.50 -0.08 -0.76 337 -42.61
ATD-B ALIMENTATIO 45.43 0.25 0.55 702 10.12 CRR-UN CROMBIE RE 13.11 0.03 0.23 100 -17.88 GUD KNIGHT THERAP 6.74 -0.01 -0.15 125 -10.95 SVM SILVERCORP ME 10.16 -0.09 -0.88 758 38.47
AP-UN ALLIED PROP 39.10 -0.75 -1.88 215 -24.91 CRON CRONOS GROUP 7.49 -0.09 -1.19 824 -25.08 SIL SILVERCREST M 12.02 0.03 0.25 304 37.06
ALA ALTAGAS LTD 18.00 0.06 0.33 539 -9.20 LIF LABRADOR IRON 27.65 -0.03 -0.11 67 12.31 ZZZ SLEEP COUNTRY 20.40 -0.20 -0.97 30 0.79
AIF ALTUS GROUP L 47.49 5.98 14.41 304 24.95 DSG DESCARTES SYS 72.33 -1.03 -1.40 97 30.22 LB LAURENTIAN BAN 28.11 0.07 0.25 140 -36.82 SRU-UN SMARTCENTR 20.70 -0.20 -0.96 253 -33.80
APHA APHRIA INC 5.98 -0.16 -2.61 2973 -11.95 DOL DOLLARAMA INC 49.05 0.48 0.99 360 9.70 LSPD LIGHTSPEED P 39.29 -0.12 -0.30 213 8.90 SNC SNC-LAVALIN S 24.68 -0.36 -1.44 413 -17.70
ARX ARC RESOURCES 6.60 0.07 1.07 1687 -19.19 DIR-UN DREAM INDU 11.10 -0.11 -0.98 204 -15.45 LNR LINAMAR CORP 42.50 0.47 1.12 59 -13.62 TOY SPIN MASTER C 29.50 1.66 5.96 348 -25.44
ATZ ARITZIA INC 17.76 -0.14 -0.78 71 -6.72 D-UN DREAM OFFICE 19.92 -0.08 -0.40 171 -36.04 L LOBLAW CO 70.79 0.06 0.08 552 5.67 SSRM SSR MINING I 25.99 -0.08 -0.31 534 4.08
AX-UN ARTIS REAL 8.65 -0.03 -0.35 196 -27.56 DPM DUNDEE PRECIO 9.26 -0.11 -1.17 378 65.95 LUG LUNDIN GOLD I 11.69 -0.08 -0.68 178 40.22 STN STANTEC INC 43.17 0.34 0.79 231 17.71
ACO-X ATCO LTD CL 40.59 -0.33 -0.81 177 -18.34 LUN LUNDIN MINING 7.70 -0.04 -0.52 709 -1.03 SJ STELLA JONES I 45.52 0.24 0.53 89 21.14
ATA ATS AUTOMATIO 20.27 -0.10 -0.49 230 -5.60 ECN ECN CAPITAL C 5.15 -0.15 -2.83 1125 7.52 SMU-UN SUMMIT IND 12.06 0.15 1.26 329 -0.66
AUP AURINIA PHARM 18.56 -0.14 -0.75 87 -29.40 ELD ELDORADO GOLD 14.71 -0.23 -1.54 524 41.13 MAG MAG SILVER CO 21.03 -0.12 -0.57 194 36.70 SLF SUN LIFE FINA 56.71 0.19 0.34 2178 -4.27
ACB AURORA CANNAB 14.07 0.57 4.22 1994 -57.77 EFN ELEMENT FLEET 11.15 0.01 0.09 725 0.63 MG MAGNA INTERNAT 69.72 0.47 0.68 1944 -2.11 SU SUNCOR ENERGY 22.57 0.10 0.45 5369 -47.16
EMA EMERA INCORPO 53.35 -0.03 -0.06 485 -4.18 MFC MANULIFE FIN 19.98 -0.41 -2.01 5295 -24.17 SPB SUPERIOR PLUS 12.24 0.04 0.33 763 -2.39
BTO B2GOLD CORP 8.90 0.01 0.11 2866 71.02 EMP-A EMPIRE COMP 35.77 0.70 2.00 489 17.50 MFI MAPLE LEAF FO 29.60 0.00 0.00 172 14.34
BCE BCE INC 56.76 0.04 0.07 2089 -5.77 ENB ENBRIDGE INC 43.53 0.10 0.23 10913 -15.69 MRE MARTINREA INT 10.57 -0.04 -0.38 278 -26.35 TRP TC ENERGY COR 64.83 0.04 0.06 1124 -6.00
BAD BADGER DAYLIG 36.36 -0.22 -0.60 126 3.76 EDV ENDEAVOUR MIN 35.13 -0.54 -1.51 356 43.17 MEG MEG ENERGY CO 4.17 0.22 5.57 3011 -43.44 TECK-B TECK RESOU 15.00 -0.07 -0.46 932 -33.48
BLDP BALLARD POWE 19.04 -0.47 -2.41 441 104.85 ERF ENERPLUS CORP 4.18 0.11 2.70 554 -54.81 MX METHANEX CORP 28.65 0.36 1.27 207 -43.03 T TELUS CORP 24.24 0.14 0.58 1257 -3.54
BMO BANK OF MONTR 78.03 0.24 0.31 2396 -22.41 ENGH ENGHOUSE SYS 73.05 -0.19 -0.26 51 51.83 MRU METRO INC 60.33 0.67 1.12 444 12.52 TGZ TERANGA GOLD 14.24 -0.14 -0.97 270 102.71
BNS BANK OF NOVA 57.68 -0.50 -0.86 2086 -21.39 EQX EQUINOX GOLD 16.18 -0.05 -0.31 486 62.16 MSI MORNEAU SHEPE 28.96 -0.50 -1.70 79 -14.26 TFII TFI INTERNAT 57.27 -0.17 -0.30 325 30.75
ABX BARRICK GOLD 35.79 -0.13 -0.36 3593 48.47 EQB EQUITABLE GRO 81.90 0.16 0.20 18 -25.27 MTL MULLEN GROUP 9.67 0.00 0.00 274 4.53 NWC THE NORTH WES 29.81 -0.09 -0.30 54 9.07
BHC BAUSCH HEALTH 23.14 0.43 1.89 630 -40.55 ERO ERO COPPER CO 18.09 -0.12 -0.66 113 -23.59 TRI THOMSON REUTE 99.64 0.22 0.22 313 7.19
BB BLACKBERRY LIM 6.37 -0.10 -1.55 1276 -23.95 EIF EXCHANGE INCO 32.73 0.70 2.19 198 -26.65 NA NATIONAL BANK 66.41 0.51 0.77 752 -7.76 X TMX GROUP LIMIT 136.50 1.71 1.27 72 21.28
BEI-UN BOARDWALK 30.92 -0.32 -1.02 652 -32.92 NFI NEW FLYER IND 16.34 -0.31 -1.86 210 -38.84 TXG TOREX GOLD RE 21.27 -0.48 -2.21 206 3.36
BLX BORALEX INC 33.09 0.00 0.00 667 35.32 FFH FAIRFAX FINAN 414.27 3.49 0.85 40 -31.96 OSB NORBORD INC 43.90 0.08 0.18 159 26.17 TIH TOROMONT IND 73.60 -0.04 -0.05 77 4.14
BYD BOYD GROUP SE 215.85 0.31 0.14 33 6.14 FTT FINNING INTL 20.60 0.00 0.00 160 -18.62 NPI NORTHLAND POW 36.22 -0.71 -1.92 384 33.31 TD TORONTO-DOMINI 63.43 -0.05 -0.08 3315 -12.92
BAM-A BROOKFIELD 44.59 0.57 1.29 1534 -10.88 FCR-UN FIRST CAPI 14.40 -0.11 -0.76 228 -30.33 NVU-UN NORTHVIEW 34.70 -0.15 -0.43 205 17.07 TOU TOURMALINE OI 17.09 0.41 2.46 1244 12.29
BBU-UN BROOKFIELD 42.64 0.03 0.07 47 -20.64 FR FIRST MAJESTIC 15.48 -0.20 -1.28 1045 -2.64 NWH-UN NORTHWEST 11.38 -0.02 -0.18 157 -4.53 TA TRANSALTA CORP 8.47 -0.12 -1.40 976 -8.84
BIP-UN BROOKFIELD 58.94 -0.38 -0.64 151 -9.36 FM FIRST QUANTUM 12.10 0.19 1.60 1076 -8.28 NG NOVAGOLD RES I 11.40 -0.14 -1.21 294 -1.81 RNW TRANSALTA REN 15.62 0.01 0.06 270 0.90
BPY-UN BROOKFIELD 15.95 0.08 0.50 576 -32.79 FSV FIRSTSERVICE 149.61 -3.19 -2.09 33 23.71 NTR NUTRIEN LTD 50.93 -0.13 -0.25 650 -18.11 TCL-A TRANSCONTIN 15.54 -0.10 -0.64 92 -2.21
BEP-UN BROOKFIELD 57.50 -0.30 -0.52 405 -4.53 FTS FORTIS INC 53.38 -0.51 -0.95 1037 -0.45 TCN TRICON CAPITA 9.87 -0.13 -1.30 204 -7.34
DOO BRP INC 63.25 1.82 2.96 275 6.90 FNV FRANCO-NEVADA 195.62 -0.41 -0.21 251 45.86 OGC OCEANAGOLD CO 3.35 -0.02 -0.59 1135 31.37
ONEX ONEX CORP 65.23 -0.16 -0.24 128 -20.68 VET VERMILION ENE 6.17 0.18 3.01 1444 -70.98
CAR-UN CDN APARTM 46.79 -0.72 -1.52 303 -11.77 MIC GENWORTH MI C 37.51 0.20 0.54 164 -34.23 OTEX OPEN TEXT CO 57.79 -0.14 -0.24 353 0.94
CNQ CDN NATURAL R 27.03 0.20 0.75 1679 -35.76 GEI GIBSON ENERGY 24.57 -0.03 -0.12 362 -7.60 OR OSISKO GOLD RO 14.50 -0.21 -1.43 390 14.74 WSP WSP GLOBAL IN 86.79 -0.52 -0.60 124 -2.28
CWB CDN WESTERN B 24.27 -0.05 -0.21 142 -23.96 GIL GILDAN ACTIVE 26.00 0.41 1.60 366 -32.14 WCN WASTE CONNECT 132.41 0.22 0.17 109 12.19
GIB-A CGI GROUP I 91.65 -0.75 -0.81 529 -15.64 GRT-UN GRANITE RE 76.30 0.34 0.45 123 15.50 PAAS PAN AMERICAN 44.47 -0.82 -1.81 459 44.57 WDO WESDOME GOLD 13.68 -0.15 -1.08 414 34.51
CIX CI FINANCIAL 19.20 -0.30 -1.54 461 -11.42 GC GREAT CANADIAN 28.47 0.37 1.32 140 -33.92 PXT PAREX RESOURC 19.17 0.06 0.31 284 -20.70 WFT WEST FRASER T 69.09 3.45 5.26 406 20.51
CRT-UN CT REAL ES 13.92 -0.05 -0.36 82 -13.88 GWO GREAT-WEST LI 27.06 0.05 0.19 570 -18.61 PKI PARKLAND FUEL 40.53 0.36 0.90 165 -15.07 WN WESTON GEORGE 99.58 -0.13 -0.13 134 -3.33
CAE CAE INC 21.14 0.00 0.00 470 -38.54 PSI PASON SYSTEMS 6.45 0.04 0.62 162 -50.65 WTE WESTSHORE TER 18.24 -0.11 -0.60 91 -3.85
CCO CAMECO CORP 13.84 0.01 0.07 398 19.76 HR-UN H&R REAL ES 10.34 -0.02 -0.19 849 -51.00 PPL PEMBINA PIPEL 35.29 0.05 0.14 781 -26.76 WPM WHEATON PRECI 67.01 -0.19 -0.28 575 73.68
GOOS CANADA GOOSE 31.51 0.21 0.67 160 -32.95 HCG HOME CAPITAL 24.17 0.07 0.29 68 -26.70 POW POWER CORPORA 26.11 -0.18 -0.68 1245 -21.94 WCP WHITECAP RESO 2.80 0.06 2.19 1655 -49.37
CM CANADIAN IMPER 97.17 0.20 0.21 887 -10.11 HBM HUDBAY MINERA 5.29 -0.03 -0.56 1023 -1.67 PSK PRAIRIESKY RO 9.71 0.10 1.04 443 -36.11 WPK WINPAK LTD 47.29 0.07 0.15 48 0.30
CNR CANADIAN NATI 135.90 0.31 0.23 1943 15.66 HSE HUSKY ENERGY 4.78 -0.04 -0.83 1710 -54.22 PBH PREMIUM BRAND 98.88 0.00 0.00 59 8.66 WIR-UN WPT INDUST 17.81 0.08 0.45 51 -6.67
CP CANADIAN PACIF 389.28 0.92 0.24 114 17.43 H HYDRO ONE LIMIT 27.53 -0.14 -0.51 1362 9.81 PVG PRETIUM RESOU 15.59 -0.31 -1.95 454 7.82
CTC-A CANADIAN TI 129.19 -0.33 -0.25 334 -7.35 PRMW PRIMO WATER 19.58 -0.12 -0.61 97 -1.80 YRI YAMANA GOLD I 7.80 -0.12 -1.52 2153 51.75
CU CANADIAN UTILI 32.89 -0.26 -0.78 512 -15.83 IMG IAMGOLD CORP 5.61 0.02 0.36 2111 15.67
CFP CANFOR CORP 16.41 0.45 2.82 384 35.09 IGM IGM FINANCIAL 33.15 -0.33 -0.99 101 -11.11 QBR-B QUEBECOR IN 33.12 -0.08 -0.24 446 -0.03
WEED CANOPY GROWT 22.82 -0.07 -0.31 838 -16.48 IMO IMPERIAL OIL 22.63 0.03 0.13 1252 -34.29
CPX CAPITAL POWER 28.85 -0.33 -1.13 259 -16.23 IAG INDUSTRIAL AL 49.17 -0.35 -0.71 262 -31.09 REAL REAL MATTERS 29.65 -0.65 -2.15 397 140.50
CJT CARGOJET INC 180.51 -2.64 -1.44 30 75.17 INE INNERGEX RENE 22.30 0.09 0.41 236 32.33 QSR RESTAURANT BR 72.11 0.25 0.35 400 -12.77
CAS CASCADES INC 15.04 0.41 2.80 168 33.99 IFC INTACT FINANC 142.33 -0.15 -0.11 241 1.27 RCH RICHELIEU HAR 34.16 0.01 0.03 81 26.13
CCL-B CCL INDUSTR 50.18 0.23 0.46 322 -9.27 IPL INTER PIPELIN 13.99 -0.28 -1.96 1593 -38.38 REI-UN RIOCAN REA 15.52 -0.15 -0.96 1147 -42.04
CLS CELESTICA INC 10.92 -0.20 -1.80 135 0.84 IFP INTERFOR CORP 16.62 0.43 2.66 376 13.16 RBA RITCHIE BROS 82.50 0.96 1.18 262 47.99
CVE CENOVUS ENERG 6.81 0.03 0.44 2741 -48.48 IIP-UN INTERRENT 13.00 -0.46 -3.42 671 -16.62 RCI-B ROGERS COMM 55.79 0.36 0.65 1125 -13.46
CG CENTERRA GOLD 16.29 -0.23 -1.39 438 57.89 ITP INTERTAPE POL 15.99 0.25 1.59 384 -3.73 RY ROYAL BANK OF 97.46 -0.19 -0.19 1356 -5.15
CSH-UN CHARTWELL 10.20 -0.05 -0.49 263 -26.91 IVN IVANHOE MINES 5.15 -0.05 -0.96 1199 21.18 RUS RUSSEL METALS 19.10 0.15 0.79 233 -13.89
CHP-UN CHOICE PRO 12.76 0.00 0.00 398 -8.27
CGX CINEPLEX INC 8.69 0.50 6.11 1493 -74.15 JWEL JAMIESON WEL 36.11 -0.07 -0.19 80 40.12 SSL SANDSTORM GOL 11.69 -0.06 -0.51 342 20.54

ETFS BONDS CURRENCIES

STOCKS $1 OR MORE CANADA FOREIGN EXCHANGE CROSS RATES

CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD TERM YIELD CHG CAD USD AUD EUR GBP JPY CHF
CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG
2-YEAR 0.31 0.02 CAD - 0.7536 1.0509 0.6364 0.5758 80.327 0.6850
DLR-U HORIZONS US 10.11 0.01 0.10 256 0.10 HZU BETAPRO SILVE 22.33 -1.76 -7.31 1124 71.62 5-YEAR 0.43 0.02 USD 1.3267 - 1.3943 0.8444 0.7641 106.59 0.9090
DLR HORIZONS US D 13.40 0.04 0.30 347 2.06 VGRO VANGUARD GRO 27.12 -0.02 -0.07 148 1.76 10-YEAR 0.64 0.04 AUD 0.9514 0.7170 - 0.6055 0.5479 76.431 0.6518
HGD BETAPRO CDN G 7.79 0.06 0.78 499 -73.03 XEG ISHARES S&P T 5.48 0.05 0.92 615 -41.43 30-YEAR 1.14 0.05 EUR 1.5710 1.1841 1.6513 - 0.9046 126.22 1.0764
HGU BETAPRO CDN G 32.61 -0.25 -0.76 335 73.87 XFN ISHARES S&P T 34.47 0.02 0.06 241 -12.90 GBP 1.7359 1.3084 1.8246 1.1048 - 139.46 1.1893
HND BETAPRO NAT G 7.70 -1.15 -12.99 2874 -24.34 XGD ISHARES S&P T 23.02 -0.03 -0.13 414 41.31 JPY 0.0124 0.0094 0.0131 0.0079 0.0071 - 0.8527
HNU BETAPRO NAT G 15.19 1.67 12.35 2232 -51.24 XIU ISHARES S&P T 25.08 0.02 0.08 1366 -1.92 RATES RATE CHG CHF 1.4594 1.0999 1.5339 0.9288 0.8405 117.24 -
HQD BETAPRO NASDA 7.19 0.01 0.14 228 -55.70 XRE ISHARES S&P T 14.99 -0.12 -0.79 164 -23.14
HQU BETAPRO NASDA 31.68 -0.09 -0.28 188 42.83 XSP ISHARES CORE 36.54 -0.01 -0.03 208 2.70 BOFC OVERNIGHT TARGET 0.25 UNCH
HSD BETAPRO SP500 7.19 0.01 0.14 550 -33.82 ZAG BMO AGGREGATE 16.74 0.00 0.00 137 5.61 CANADIAN PRIME 2.45 UNCH
HXD BETAPRO S&P T 13.31 0.00 0.00 153 -26.81 ZEB BMO S&P TSX E 25.44 0.05 0.20 975 -13.24 Source: wires
HXT HORIZONS S&P 37.58 0.01 0.03 203 -0.35 ZPR BMO LADDERED 9.02 0.05 0.56 135 -8.43
HZD BETAPRO SILVE 3.15 0.17 5.70 858 -68.84 ZSP BMO S&P 500 I 49.20 0.14 0.29 233 6.64

U.S.

COMMODITIES TERM YIELD CHG

2-YEAR TREASURY 0.14 -0.02

PRICE NET PRICE NET PRICE NET 5-YEAR TREASURY 0.29 -0.03
CHG CHG CHG 10-YEAR TREASURY 0.71 0.00
30-YEAR TREASURY 1.45 0.03
GOLD 1949.80 -20.60 LEAD 2348.50 0.00 CORN 325.25 10.75
SILVER 26.09 -1.63 ZINC 2297.00 0.00 SOYBEAN 903.50 -3.75
NATURAL GAS 2.36 0.17 ALUMINUM 1732.75 -28.75 CANOLA 484.80 -0.90 RATES RATE CHG
CRUDE OIL WTI 42.01 -0.23 HKFE NICKEL CNH 98220.0 190.00 S&P 500 COMM SRVS 312.50 -0.15
CRUDE OIL BRENT 44.80 -0.16 WHEAT 500.00 3.25 FEED WHEAT 163.70 0.75 FED TARGET RATE 0-0.25 UNCH
HIGH GRADE COPPER 2.86 0.05 LUMBER 726.50 1.50 BITCOIN CME FUTURES 11935.00 345.00 U.S. PRIME 3.25 UNCH
Source: wires
Gold, Silver (USD/oz), Nat gas (USD/mmbtu), Oil (USD/barrel), Copper (USD/lb), Bitcoin (USD)
Lead, Zinc and Aluminum (USD/tonne), HKFE Nickel (in Renminbi-Yuan/tonne), Lumber (USD/1000 board ft),
Wheat, Corn and Soybeans (in U.S. cents/bushel), Canola and Barley (in Cdn dollars/tonne), Feed Wheat (in Br. pounds/tonne) DATA PROVIDED BY BARCHART, EXCEPT WHERE NOTED
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TSX CAPPED SECTOR INDEX OVERVIEW

CAPPED SECTOR INDEX CLOSE WEEKLY WEEKLY 52-WEEK 52-WEEK CAPPED SECTOR INDEX CLOSE WEEKLY WEEKLY 52-WEEK 52-WEEK
CHANGE % CHG HIGH LOW CHANGE % CHG HIGH LOW

TSX COMPOSITE IND 16514.61 -29.87 -0.18 17970.51 11172.73 TSX INFORMATION T 166.02 -8.32 -4.77 179.50 90.86
TSX CONSUMER DISC 192.66 4.40 2.34 211.53 101.65 TSX MATERIALS CAP 334.76 -14.27 -4.09 365.36 166.18
TSX CONSUMER STAP 660.75 2.81 0.43 666.97 507.56 TSX HEALTH CARE C 52.25 -0.21 -0.40 96.30 35.64
TSX ENERGY CAPPED 85.18 2.95 3.59 149.82 38.81 TSX REAL ESTATE C 276.44 -2.26 -0.81 381.18 196.62
TSX FINANCIALS CA 272.98 6.47 2.43 333.29 198.42 TSX TELECOM SERVI 163.27 1.13 0.70 187.89 132.36
TSX INDUSTRIALS C 298.13 4.31 1.47 310.46 208.53 TSX UTILITIES CAP 291.96 -2.00 -0.68 328.58 200.90

CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

CLOSE WEEKLY P/E DIV ACTUAL 52-WK 52-WK WEEKLY YTD MKT CAP CLOSE WEEKLY P/E DIV ACTUAL 52-WK 52-WK WEEKLY YTD MKT CAP
CHANGE YIELD ANN DIV HIGH LOW % CHG % CHG (BLNS) CHANGE YIELD ANN DIV HIGH LOW % CHG % CHG (BLNS)

ATZ ARITZIA INC 17.76 -0.09 41.63 N-A N-A 26.37 9.20 -0.50 -6.77 1.96 ABT ABSOLUTE SOFT 15.28 -1.04 49.08 2.04 0.24 16.89 6.70 -6.37 75.63 0.67
DOO BRP INC 63.25 3.60 54.36 N-A 0.30 75.37 18.56 6.04 6.91 5.36 BB BLACKBERRY LIM 6.37 -0.13 N-A N-A 0.00 10.27 3.94 -2.00 -23.71 3.60
GOOS CANADA GOOSE 31.51 -0.48 26.75 N-A N-A 59.74 18.27 -1.50 -32.97 3.45 GIB-A CGI GROUP I 91.65 -4.06 20.86 N-A N-A 114.49 67.23 -4.24 -15.66 23.96
CTC-A CANADIAN TI 129.19 6.42 11.64 3.51 4.01 157.36 67.15 5.23 -7.56 8.20 CLS CELESTICA INC 10.92 -0.23 N-A N-A N-A 12.27 3.83 -2.06 1.39 1.44
DOL DOLLARAMA INC 49.05 -1.08 28.08 0.36 0.18 52.12 34.70 -2.15 9.90 15.10 CSU CONSTELLATION 1518.58 -34.12 71.28 0.35 4.00 1637.22 1076.34 -2.20 20.41 32.17
GIL GILDAN ACTIVE 26.00 1.48 N-A N-A 0.42 50.22 13.64 6.04 -32.27 5.07 DSG DESCARTES SYS 72.33 -5.04 112.47 N-A N-A 78.21 38.65 -6.51 30.32 6.20
GC GREAT CANADIAN 28.47 -0.12 20.22 N-A N-A 45.80 18.05 -0.42 -33.85 1.55 DCBO DOCEBO INC 49.24 -2.96 N-A N-A N-A 58.83 10.30 -5.67 189.82 1.43
LNR LINAMAR CORP 42.50 0.01 14.59 0.57 0.42 49.81 24.57 0.02 -13.49 2.73 ENGH ENGHOUSE SYS 73.05 -3.20 48.83 0.74 0.44 78.53 34.77 -4.20 51.62 4.03
MG MAGNA INTERNAT 69.72 3.90 N-A 3.09 1.53 75.25 33.22 5.93 -2.08 20.68 ET EVERTZ TECHNOL 12.43 -0.13 14.06 2.85 0.72 18.70 9.69 -1.04 -30.40 0.97
MRE MARTINREA INT 10.57 -0.03 N-A 1.89 0.14 14.75 5.64 -0.28 -26.14 0.85 KXS KINAXIS INC 194.07 -15.13 146.40 N-A N-A 224.98 75.25 -7.23 94.03 5.18
QSR RESTAURANT BR 72.11 0.28 25.34 3.84 2.04 105.93 36.48 0.39 -12.89 21.78 LSPD LIGHTSPEED P 39.29 -1.79 N-A N-A N-A 46.54 10.50 -4.36 8.93 3.66
ZZZ SLEEP COUNTRY 20.40 0.33 19.07 N-A 0.58 22.56 7.75 1.64 0.94 0.76 OTEX OPEN TEXT CO 57.79 -3.49 50.60 1.60 0.70 64.00 42.30 -5.70 1.00 15.75
TOY SPIN MASTER C 29.50 2.82 67.46 N-A N-A 44.43 9.73 10.57 -25.39 2.84 PHO PHOTON CONTRO 1.74 -0.02 16.15 N-A 0.00 2.45 0.65 -1.14 26.09 0.18
QTRH QUARTERHILL 1.89 -0.07 24.62 2.62 0.04 2.29 1.30 -3.57 13.17 0.22
SHOP SHOPIFY INC 1308.36 -99.68 N-A N-A N-A 1472.98 372.01 -7.08 153.41 158.95
SW SIERRA WIRELES 17.89 0.65 N-A N-A N-A 19.19 6.25 3.77 44.39 0.65

MATERIALS
CONSUMER STAPLES

CLOSE WEEKLY P/E DIV ACTUAL 52-WK 52-WK WEEKLY YTD MKT CAP
CLOSE WEEKLY P/E DIV ACTUAL 52-WK 52-WK WEEKLY YTD MKT CAP CHANGE YIELD ANN DIV HIGH LOW % CHG % CHG (BLNS)
CHANGE YIELD ANN DIV HIGH LOW % CHG % CHG (BLNS)
AEM AGNICO EAGLE 104.78 -5.32 37.96 1.01 0.70 112.37 43.25 -4.83 31.01 25.27
ATD-B ALIMENTATIO 45.43 -0.58 16.24 0.62 0.19 47.49 30.40 -1.26 10.24 50.37 ASR ALACER GOLD C 8.38 -1.19 11.80 N-A 0.00 10.82 3.50 -12.43 21.45 2.50
EMP-A EMPIRE COMP 35.77 0.20 16.31 1.48 0.48 37.43 23.88 0.56 17.43 9.44 AGI ALAMOS GOLD I 13.30 -0.39 71.02 0.63 0.05 15.52 4.43 -2.85 69.86 5.23
JWEL JAMIESON WEL 36.11 -1.76 45.22 1.38 0.42 39.26 21.53 -4.65 40.23 1.43 BTO B2GOLD CORP 8.90 -0.46 16.70 2.44 0.04 9.99 3.12 -4.91 70.83 9.29
L LOBLAW CO 70.79 0.98 23.34 1.78 1.26 77.00 59.01 1.40 5.66 25.31 ABX BARRICK GOLD 35.79 -2.77 10.76 1.19 0.23 40.62 17.52 -7.18 48.38 63.87
MFI MAPLE LEAF FO 29.60 1.00 68.84 2.16 0.61 33.41 17.04 3.50 14.37 3.67 CFP CANFOR CORP 16.41 0.16 N-A N-A 0.00 16.65 6.11 0.98 35.17 2.00
MRU METRO INC 60.33 1.79 19.50 1.51 0.82 61.74 49.03 3.06 12.58 15.02 CAS CASCADES INC 15.04 0.40 15.40 2.19 0.32 16.19 9.94 2.73 34.17 1.39
PBH PREMIUM BRAND 98.88 -0.68 54.33 2.34 2.20 102.68 62.79 -0.68 8.71 3.90 CCL-B CCL INDUSTR 50.18 1.30 19.44 1.44 0.70 60.50 34.57 2.66 -9.29 8.94
PRMW PRIMO WATER 19.58 0.44 N-A 1.63 0.24 20.76 9.23 2.30 -1.85 3.15 CG CENTERRA GOLD 16.29 -1.74 N-A 1.21 0.06 19.59 5.52 -9.65 57.70 4.87
SAP SAPUTO INC 35.34 -0.15 23.93 1.96 0.68 42.22 29.31 -0.42 -12.09 14.58 DPM DUNDEE PRECIO 9.26 -0.54 234.62 1.15 0.04 10.73 3.20 -5.51 65.95 1.70
NWC THE NORTH WES 29.81 -0.01 21.36 4.41 1.32 32.01 16.06 -0.03 9.07 1.46 ELD ELDORADO GOLD 14.71 -1.49 13.52 N-A 0.00 17.46 6.29 -9.20 41.04 2.60
WN WESTON GEORGE 99.58 -1.18 18.57 2.11 2.10 113.94 84.01 -1.17 -3.34 15.32 EDV ENDEAVOUR MIN 35.13 -0.18 N-A N-A 0.00 38.98 15.68 -0.51 43.21 5.82
EQX EQUINOX GOLD 16.18 -0.22 N-A N-A N-A 16.88 6.60 -1.34 61.96 3.91
ERO ERO COPPER CO 18.09 0.04 97.71 N-A N-A 23.93 8.40 0.22 -23.38 1.57
FR FIRST MAJESTIC 15.48 -1.90 N-A N-A N-A 19.41 5.30 -10.93 -2.82 3.36
ENERGY FM FIRST QUANTUM 12.10 0.21 N-A 0.08 0.01 14.12 4.71 1.77 -8.12 8.21
FNV FRANCO-NEVADA 195.62 -9.97 131.48 0.71 0.75 222.15 105.93 -4.85 45.89 37.36
HBM HUDBAY MINERA 5.29 0.70 N-A 0.38 0.01 5.59 1.66 15.25 -1.67 1.39
CLOSE WEEKLY P/E DIV ACTUAL 52-WK 52-WK WEEKLY YTD MKT CAP IMG IAMGOLD CORP 5.61 -0.55 N-A N-A 0.00 7.07 2.00 -8.93 15.67 2.65
CHANGE YIELD ANN DIV HIGH LOW % CHG % CHG (BLNS) IFP INTERFOR CORP 16.62 0.70 N-A N-A N-A 16.87 4.75 4.40 13.29 1.09
ITP INTERTAPE POL 15.99 -0.11 15.56 4.99 0.58 18.70 7.02 -0.68 -3.79 0.93
ARX ARC RESOURCES 6.60 0.18 N-A 3.68 0.48 8.39 2.42 2.80 -19.32 2.31
IVN IVANHOE MINES 5.15 0.27 N-A N-A N-A 5.25 1.80 5.53 21.18 6.24
CNQ CDN NATURAL R 27.03 0.30 894.33 6.34 1.60 42.57 9.80 1.12 -35.64 31.69
K KINROSS GOLD CO 11.57 -1.01 12.34 N-A 0.00 13.50 4.00 -8.03 87.82 14.67
CVE CENOVUS ENERG 6.81 0.29 N-A N-A 0.17 14.31 2.06 4.45 -48.41 8.33
KL KIRKLAND LAKE 66.13 -4.17 16.90 1.02 0.35 76.43 25.67 -5.93 15.53 18.38
CPG CRESCENT POIN 2.61 0.18 N-A 0.39 0.03 6.30 0.75 7.41 -54.92 1.37
LIF LABRADOR IRON 27.65 0.60 8.84 3.61 1.00 28.20 13.25 2.22 12.31 1.77
ERF ENERPLUS CORP 4.18 0.20 N-A 2.95 0.12 11.16 1.62 5.03 -54.81 0.91
LUG LUNDIN GOLD I 11.69 -0.17 N-A N-A N-A 13.49 5.82 -1.43 40.34 2.71
HSE HUSKY ENERGY 4.78 0.15 N-A 1.04 0.39 10.80 2.21 3.24 -54.13 4.84
LUN LUNDIN MINING 7.70 -0.03 83.06 2.07 0.10 8.59 4.08 -0.39 -0.77 5.68
IMO IMPERIAL OIL 22.63 0.93 N-A 3.89 0.88 36.99 10.27 4.29 -34.12 16.59
MAG MAG SILVER CO 21.03 -0.93 N-A N-A N-A 24.21 5.33 -4.23 37.09 1.98
MEG MEG ENERGY CO 4.17 0.11 N-A N-A N-A 8.07 1.13 2.71 -43.57 1.20
MX METHANEX CORP 28.65 2.50 N-A 0.72 1.12 55.54 13.24 9.56 -42.87 2.16
PXT PAREX RESOURC 19.17 0.42 12.93 N-A N-A 25.11 9.22 2.24 -20.62 2.65
OSB NORBORD INC 43.90 0.29 274.31 2.74 0.64 44.69 13.01 0.66 26.40 3.54
PSI PASON SYSTEMS 6.45 0.45 14.24 3.12 0.76 17.94 5.56 7.50 -50.80 0.54
NG NOVAGOLD RES I 11.40 -0.75 N-A N-A 0.00 18.00 6.40 -6.17 -1.89 3.80
PSK PRAIRIESKY RO 9.71 0.50 43.68 2.50 0.64 19.70 6.24 5.43 -36.24 2.23
NTR NUTRIEN LTD 50.93 3.48 26.27 4.72 1.80 69.52 34.80 7.33 -18.08 29.06
VII SEVEN GENERAT 4.59 0.34 N-A N-A N-A 9.57 1.15 8.00 -45.81 1.46
OGC OCEANAGOLD CO 3.35 -0.15 N-A N-A 0.00 4.01 1.16 -4.29 31.37 2.10
SU SUNCOR ENERGY 22.57 0.95 N-A 3.74 1.51 45.12 14.02 4.39 -46.97 34.27
OR OSISKO GOLD RO 14.50 -0.92 N-A 1.36 0.20 17.47 6.35 -5.97 14.90 2.44
TOU TOURMALINE OI 17.09 0.78 72.52 2.88 0.48 17.21 6.73 4.78 12.29 4.52
PAAS PAN AMERICAN 44.47 -4.62 200.13 0.59 0.17 53.30 14.22 -9.41 44.57 9.52
VET VERMILION ENE 6.17 0.18 N-A N-A 1.96 24.47 2.20 3.01 -70.94 0.95
PVG PRETIUM RESOU 15.59 -0.98 34.13 N-A N-A 18.30 6.25 -5.91 7.89 2.97
WCP WHITECAP RESO 2.80 0.22 N-A 6.24 0.30 5.71 0.73 8.53 -49.55 1.12
SSL SANDSTORM GOL 11.69 -0.71 220.67 N-A N-A 14.22 4.64 -5.73 20.64 2.24
SEA SEABRIDGE GOL 23.24 -2.19 N-A N-A N-A 27.50 7.37 -8.61 29.40 1.58
SVM SILVERCORP ME 10.16 0.29 35.00 0.33 0.03 11.34 2.12 2.94 38.61 1.79
SIL SILVERCREST M 12.02 -0.83 N-A N-A N-A 14.88 4.50 -6.46 37.06 1.62
SSRM SSR MINING I 25.99 -3.53 N-A N-A N-A 33.69 12.12 -11.96 4.00 3.22
SJ STELLA JONES I 45.52 1.54 17.28 1.33 0.58 46.19 23.34 3.50 21.32 3.06
TECK-B TECK RESOU 15.00 0.14 N-A 1.33 0.20 25.74 8.15 0.94 -33.39 8.03
TGZ TERANGA GOLD 14.24 -0.96 N-A N-A N-A 16.80 3.86 -6.32 102.85 2.41
TXG TOREX GOLD RE 21.27 -1.67 74.27 N-A N-A 25.52 8.79 -7.28 3.65 1.86
WDO WESDOME GOLD 13.68 0.12 38.42 N-A 0.00 14.64 5.74 0.88 34.51 1.92
WFT WEST FRASER T 69.09 0.69 N-A 1.22 0.80 69.52 21.60 1.01 20.62 4.51
WPM WHEATON PRECI 67.01 -3.78 64.06 0.79 0.38 76.69 26.99 -5.34 73.42 30.17
WPK WINPAK LTD 47.29 -0.02 21.37 0.25 0.09 52.65 33.11 -0.04 0.66 3.07
YRI YAMANA GOLD I 7.80 -0.89 21.25 1.19 0.05 9.29 3.11 -10.24 51.75 7.54

REAL ESTATE
FINANCIALS

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CLOSE WEEKLY P/E DIV ACTUAL 52-WK 52-WK WEEKLY YTD MKT CAP CHANGE YIELD ANN DIV HIGH LOW % CHG % CHG (BLNS)
CHANGE YIELD ANN DIV HIGH LOW % CHG % CHG (BLNS)
AP-UN ALLIED PROP 39.10 -1.04 6.48 4.14 1.62 60.14 31.49 -2.59 -24.91 4.91
BMO BANK OF MONTR 78.03 2.78 10.39 5.45 4.18 104.75 55.76 3.69 -22.47 49.76 AIF ALTUS GROUP L 47.49 4.24 113.18 1.20 0.60 51.04 33.18 9.80 25.11 2.00
BNS BANK OF NOVA 57.68 0.78 9.57 6.19 3.57 76.75 46.38 1.37 -21.36 70.48 AX-UN ARTIS REAL 8.65 0.21 N-A 6.22 0.54 13.67 5.41 2.49 -27.31 1.18
BAM-A BROOKFIELD 44.59 1.34 43.06 1.45 0.44 60.48 31.35 3.10 -10.86 69.24 BEI-UN BOARDWALK 30.92 -0.13 520.67 3.20 1.00 51.84 15.80 -0.42 -32.68 1.59
CWB CDN WESTERN B 24.27 1.48 8.13 4.77 1.12 36.61 15.70 6.49 -23.89 2.12 BPY-UN BROOKFIELD 15.95 0.27 N-A 11.89 0.99 27.25 10.05 1.72 -32.79 14.74
CIX CI FINANCIAL 19.20 0.01 8.33 3.69 0.72 25.81 10.53 0.05 -11.56 4.15 CAR-UN CDN APARTM 46.79 -1.12 7.99 2.90 1.38 61.29 36.40 -2.34 -11.73 8.11
CM CANADIAN IMPER 97.17 2.42 10.66 6.02 5.74 115.96 67.52 2.55 -10.08 43.16 CRT-UN CT REAL ES 13.92 -0.21 13.48 5.75 0.77 17.22 9.14 -1.49 -13.75 3.20
ECN ECN CAPITAL C 5.15 0.44 42.74 1.89 0.07 6.19 2.67 9.34 7.52 1.28 CHP-UN CHOICE PRO 12.76 -0.01 12.34 5.80 0.74 15.14 10.58 -0.08 -8.27 3.96
EFN ELEMENT FLEET 11.15 -0.28 111.40 1.62 0.18 13.47 6.96 -2.45 0.54 4.88 CIGI COLLIERS INT 82.55 1.69 35.29 0.16 0.10 122.01 49.11 2.09 -18.35 3.38
EQB EQUITABLE GRO 81.90 0.79 7.50 1.81 1.42 121.87 44.57 0.97 -25.10 1.37 CUF-UN COMINAR R 7.05 0.05 13.86 10.18 0.72 15.40 6.77 0.71 -50.21 1.29
FFH FAIRFAX FINAN 414.27 3.10 N-A 3.21 10.00 637.11 319.37 0.75 -32.06 11.15 CRR-UN CROMBIE RE 13.11 0.05 N-A 6.80 0.89 16.71 9.26 0.38 -17.75 2.07
MIC GENWORTH MI C 37.51 1.49 8.00 5.76 2.10 61.39 24.02 4.14 -33.98 3.24 DIR-UN DREAM INDU 11.10 -0.15 10.94 6.24 0.70 14.31 6.89 -1.33 -15.53 1.71
GWO GREAT-WEST LI 27.06 0.74 10.25 6.49 1.70 35.60 18.88 2.81 -18.64 25.06 D-UN DREAM OFFICE 19.92 0.22 6.15 5.00 0.83 36.80 15.21 1.12 -36.01 1.10
HCG HOME CAPITAL 24.17 0.62 9.72 N-A 0.00 35.49 13.67 2.63 -26.67 1.25 FCR-UN FIRST CAPI 14.40 0.33 14.84 5.93 0.64 22.09 11.09 2.35 -30.33 3.18
IGM IGM FINANCIAL 33.15 0.07 10.80 6.72 2.25 40.38 20.96 0.21 -11.08 7.98 FSV FIRSTSERVICE 149.61 -6.40 61.06 0.58 0.63 161.82 83.36 -4.10 23.76 6.64
IAG INDUSTRIAL AL 49.17 1.28 9.20 3.92 1.87 76.23 30.38 2.67 -31.07 5.30 GRT-UN GRANITE RE 76.30 -2.41 11.09 3.82 2.83 80.06 40.77 -3.06 15.64 4.40
IFC INTACT FINANC 142.33 -2.57 26.93 2.33 3.18 157.65 104.81 -1.77 1.36 20.38 HR-UN H&R REAL ES 10.34 0.00 N-A 6.66 1.21 23.55 7.39 0.00 -51.00 2.97
LB LAURENTIAN BAN 28.11 0.88 10.20 5.71 2.66 46.99 26.25 3.23 -36.73 1.20 IIP-UN INTERRENT 13.00 -0.63 4.29 2.30 0.30 19.05 10.39 -4.62 -16.88 1.85
MFC MANULIFE FIN 19.98 0.39 10.40 5.49 1.06 27.78 12.58 1.99 -24.20 39.55 KMP-UN KILLAM APA 17.72 0.14 7.77 3.79 0.67 23.37 13.90 0.80 -6.44 1.83
NA NATIONAL BANK 66.41 1.50 10.97 4.31 2.78 75.01 38.67 2.31 -7.87 22.10 NVU-UN NORTHVIEW 34.70 -0.22 9.15 4.68 1.63 36.70 25.15 -0.63 17.07 2.41
ONEX ONEX CORP 65.23 1.70 N-A 0.61 0.30 89.92 37.00 2.68 -20.62 6.33 NWH-UN NORTHWEST 11.38 0.03 10.06 7.02 0.80 13.35 6.27 0.26 -4.61 2.01
POW POWER CORPORA 26.11 0.67 9.88 6.81 2.11 35.15 17.47 2.63 -21.94 18.03 REAL REAL MATTERS 29.65 -3.07 54.19 N-A N-A 33.01 7.74 -9.38 140.67 2.56
RY ROYAL BANK OF 97.46 2.06 12.50 4.42 4.20 109.68 72.00 2.16 -5.15 138.97 REI-UN RIOCAN REA 15.52 0.27 58.04 9.19 1.44 27.92 12.41 1.77 -42.00 4.98
SLF SUN LIFE FINA 56.71 1.71 14.46 3.89 2.17 66.44 35.43 3.11 -4.22 33.05 SRU-UN SMARTCENTR 20.70 0.30 N-A N-A 1.84 33.10 14.58 1.47 -33.68 3.55
X TMX GROUP LIMIT 136.50 0.23 31.06 2.08 2.60 144.97 84.50 0.17 21.39 7.58 SMU-UN SUMMIT IND 12.06 -0.25 5.87 4.53 0.54 14.09 6.59 -2.03 0.00 1.65
TD TORONTO-DOMINI 63.43 2.23 11.14 4.98 3.01 77.72 49.01 3.64 -12.91 114.48 TCN TRICON CAPITA 9.87 -0.18 27.82 2.80 N-A 12.11 5.45 -1.79 -7.15 1.93
WIR-UN WPT INDUST 17.81 -0.31 7.29 N-A N-A 20.30 8.85 -1.71 -6.46 1.48

TELECOM
HEALTH

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CLOSE WEEKLY P/E DIV ACTUAL 52-WK 52-WK WEEKLY YTD MKT CAP
CHANGE YIELD ANN DIV HIGH LOW % CHG % CHG (BLNS)
CHANGE YIELD ANN DIV HIGH LOW % CHG % CHG (BLNS)
BCE BCE INC 56.76 0.03 20.85 5.87 3.25 65.45 46.03 0.05 -5.65 51.29
APHA APHRIA INC 5.98 -0.01 N-A N-A N-A 9.38 2.65 -0.17 -11.80 1.77
CGX CINEPLEX INC 8.69 0.76 N-A N-A 1.50 34.39 6.30 9.58 -74.33 0.52
AUP AURINIA PHARM 18.56 -1.03 N-A N-A N-A 28.59 4.70 -5.26 -29.40 2.36
CCA COGECO COMMUN 101.92 -1.52 13.51 2.28 2.27 120.20 87.57 -1.47 -9.96 4.90
ACB AURORA CANNAB 14.07 0.42 N-A N-A N-A 102.84 7.50 3.08 -57.97 1.52
CJR-B CORUS ENTER 2.85 0.45 N-A 8.73 0.24 6.00 1.78 18.75 -46.43 0.57
BHC BAUSCH HEALTH 23.14 -0.97 N-A N-A 0.00 42.15 16.30 -4.02 -40.47 8.06
QBR-B QUEBECOR IN 33.12 0.33 14.76 2.41 0.63 34.27 25.00 1.01 -0.06 8.35
WEED CANOPY GROWT 22.82 0.54 N-A N-A N-A 39.43 12.96 2.42 -16.44 8.50
RCI-B ROGERS COMM 55.79 0.80 14.25 3.61 2.00 68.49 46.81 1.45 -13.48 28.38
CSH-UN CHARTWELL 10.20 0.40 N-A 5.97 0.60 15.18 6.25 4.08 -26.62 2.19
SJR-B SHAW COMMUN 24.79 0.06 19.02 4.79 1.18 27.69 17.77 0.24 -5.92 12.72
CRON CRONOS GROUP 7.49 -0.03 2.71 N-A N-A 17.16 5.82 -0.40 -24.87 2.65
T TELUS CORP 24.24 0.09 20.60 4.83 1.15 27.74 18.55 0.37 -3.58 30.94
GUD KNIGHT THERAP 6.74 -0.06 135.00 N-A N-A 8.88 4.73 -0.88 -11.08 0.88
SIA SIENNA SENIOR 10.50 0.09 N-A 8.85 0.93 19.91 8.85 0.86 -42.50 0.71
UTILITIES

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INDUSTRIALS CHANGE YIELD ANN DIV HIGH LOW % CHG % CHG (BLNS)

AQN ALGONQUIN POW 18.06 -0.30 18.55 4.62 0.56 22.39 13.84 -1.63 -1.69 10.69
CLOSE WEEKLY P/E DIV ACTUAL 52-WK 52-WK WEEKLY YTD MKT CAP ALA ALTAGAS LTD 18.00 0.30 12.63 5.35 0.96 22.74 8.71 1.69 -9.00 5.01
CHANGE YIELD ANN DIV HIGH LOW % CHG % CHG (BLNS) ACO-X ATCO LTD CL 40.59 -0.25 12.51 4.25 1.68 54.97 27.72 -0.61 -18.44 4.68
BLX BORALEX INC 33.09 -1.91 N-A 1.99 0.66 36.48 17.91 -5.46 35.28 3.19
ARE AECON GROUP I 14.68 0.54 21.99 4.34 0.61 19.32 10.94 3.82 -16.21 0.88 BIP-UN BROOKFIELD 58.94 1.52 N-A 4.34 2.05 74.66 37.45 2.65 -9.13 17.51
AC AIR CANADA 16.85 1.12 N-A N-A N-A 52.71 9.26 7.12 -65.26 5.06 BEP-UN BROOKFIELD 57.50 -2.87 N-A 4.06 2.12 76.80 43.74 -4.75 -4.64 10.58
ATA ATS AUTOMATIO 20.27 2.48 40.74 N-A N-A 23.07 14.27 13.94 -5.41 1.88 CU CANADIAN UTILI 32.89 0.08 15.00 5.25 1.72 42.97 25.25 0.24 -16.03 9.05
BAD BADGER DAYLIG 36.36 0.16 26.90 1.64 0.58 45.18 18.00 0.44 3.47 1.27 CPX CAPITAL POWER 28.85 -0.16 N-A 7.03 1.92 38.88 20.23 -0.55 -16.11 3.08
BLDP BALLARD POWE 19.04 -0.71 N-A N-A N-A 29.20 5.36 -3.59 105.17 4.77 EMA EMERA INCORPO 53.35 -1.07 14.95 4.59 2.40 60.94 42.12 -1.97 -4.37 13.06
BYD BOYD GROUP SE 215.85 12.20 56.80 0.25 0.54 231.52 125.01 5.99 6.33 4.36 FTS FORTIS INC 53.38 -0.42 20.34 3.54 1.88 59.28 41.52 -0.78 -0.93 25.04
BBU-UN BROOKFIELD 42.64 3.57 N-A 0.78 0.25 62.09 27.00 9.14 -20.64 3.42 H HYDRO ONE LIMIT 27.53 -0.21 9.32 3.67 0.98 29.53 20.25 -0.76 9.77 16.53
CAE CAE INC 21.14 0.77 41.45 N-A 0.33 42.00 14.26 3.78 -38.51 5.62 INE INNERGEX RENE 22.30 -0.07 N-A 3.24 0.71 23.42 13.97 -0.31 32.27 3.87
CNR CANADIAN NATI 135.90 2.00 26.85 1.70 2.22 137.59 92.01 1.49 15.69 96.24 NPI NORTHLAND POW 36.22 -1.14 19.34 3.25 1.20 37.73 20.52 -3.05 33.16 7.45
CP CANADIAN PACIF 389.28 11.90 22.97 0.98 3.32 396.92 252.00 3.15 17.60 52.64 SPB SUPERIOR PLUS 12.24 0.67 N-A 5.90 0.72 13.04 5.97 5.79 -2.55 2.14
CJT CARGOJET INC 180.51 -11.96 N-A 0.51 0.94 195.44 67.87 -6.21 74.69 2.86 TA TRANSALTA CORP 8.47 0.07 29.62 1.98 0.17 11.23 5.32 0.83 -8.73 2.36
EIF EXCHANGE INCO 32.73 5.01 15.18 7.12 2.25 46.10 12.57 18.07 -26.76 1.12 RNW TRANSALTA REN 15.62 0.00 40.03 6.02 0.94 18.25 10.82 0.00 0.64 4.16
FTT FINNING INTL 20.60 0.51 16.89 3.98 0.82 25.85 10.59 2.54 -18.58 3.34
MSI MORNEAU SHEPE 28.96 -1.55 40.92 2.65 0.78 35.54 24.42 -5.08 -14.29 1.96
MTL MULLEN GROUP 9.67 0.11 17.58 3.72 0.45 9.95 3.85 1.15 4.31 0.96
NFI NEW FLYER IND 16.34 1.84 N-A 5.11 0.95 33.94 9.12 12.69 -38.69 1.04 OTHER
RCH RICHELIEU HAR 34.16 0.23 28.46 0.78 0.19 34.60 20.51 0.68 25.91 1.92 STOCKS IN COMPOSITE BUT NOT IN A CAPPED SECTOR INDEX
RBA RITCHIE BROS 82.50 7.86 44.07 1.43 0.80 83.04 37.76 10.53 48.06 8.86
RUS RUSSEL METALS 19.10 1.19 45.12 8.02 1.52 23.35 10.97 6.64 -13.85 1.18 CLOSE WEEKLY P/E DIV ACTUAL 52-WK 52-WK WEEKLY YTD MKT CAP
SNC SNC-LAVALIN S 24.68 0.73 1.92 0.32 0.08 34.36 15.47 3.05 -17.60 4.40 CHANGE YIELD ANN DIV HIGH LOW % CHG % CHG (BLNS)
STN STANTEC INC 43.17 -0.85 26.12 1.45 0.60 44.85 27.80 -1.93 17.63 4.78
TFII TFI INTERNAT 57.27 -1.86 14.58 1.81 1.00 59.75 23.21 -3.15 30.84 5.05 CCO CAMECO CORP 13.84 -0.03 125.73 0.58 0.08 16.71 7.69 -0.22 19.93 5.47
TRI THOMSON REUTE 99.64 -0.47 23.86 2.03 1.48 109.99 75.91 -0.47 7.27 49.37 ENB ENBRIDGE INC 43.53 -0.64 N-A N-A 3.10 57.32 33.06 -1.45 -15.69 87.95
TIH TOROMONT IND 73.60 0.65 23.45 1.68 1.16 74.68 52.36 0.89 4.26 6.05 GEI GIBSON ENERGY 24.57 0.21 21.03 5.53 1.34 28.34 10.96 0.86 -7.60 3.60
TCL-A TRANSCONTIN 15.54 0.14 9.25 5.75 0.88 17.60 9.50 0.91 -2.08 1.36 IPL INTER PIPELIN 13.99 0.52 18.06 3.36 1.40 25.42 5.35 3.86 -37.93 6.12
WSP WSP GLOBAL IN 86.79 -0.40 39.33 1.72 1.50 98.12 59.83 -0.46 -2.12 9.86 KEY KEYERA CORP 24.35 1.61 18.80 7.74 1.91 36.56 10.04 7.08 -28.42 5.48
WCN WASTE CONNECT 132.41 -4.04 127.31 0.74 0.71 140.95 100.55 -2.96 12.26 34.82 PKI PARKLAND FUEL 40.53 2.25 39.77 3.02 1.20 49.22 17.57 5.88 -15.05 5.99
WTE WESTSHORE TER 18.24 1.37 8.57 3.49 0.64 24.23 11.88 8.12 -3.75 1.19 PPL PEMBINA PIPEL 35.29 1.74 20.02 7.15 2.46 53.79 15.27 5.19 -26.68 19.38
TRP TC ENERGY COR 64.83 0.68 14.21 5.00 3.12 76.58 47.05 1.06 -6.26 60.90

DATA PROVIDED BY BARCHART

ALL DIVIDEND AMOUNTS HAVE BEEN ADJUSTED (IF APPLICABLE) TO CANADIAN CURRENCY. ACTUAL AMOUNT IS TRAILING 12 MONTHS, YIELD USES FORWARD METHOD.
WEEKLY CHANGES ON THIS PAGE ARE BASED ON A ROLLING FIVE DAYS OF ACTIVE TRADING. IN THE EVENT OF A MARKET HOLIDAY DURING THE PAST WEEK, THIS CALCULATION WOULD
INCLUDE THE PREVIOUS FRIDAY SESSION.
B 12 MARKETS O TH E G LO B E AND M AIL | SATU R DAY, AUG UST 15, 2020

FOREIGN MARKETS CLOSE NET 52 52 5-DAY YTD CLOSE NET 52 52 5-DAY YTD
TOKYO CHG WEEK WEEK % % CHG WEEK WEEK % %
HIGH LOW CHG CHG HIGH LOW CHG CHG

AEX INDEX 560.62 -9.11 584.80 517.12 0.42 8.41 OMX SWEDISH INDEX 1787.00 4.50 1796.25 1474.84 2.75 14.98
Japan’s Nikkei share average
eked out gains on Friday, but
stopped short of a final step
toward a complete recovery
+0.17% BEL 20
BMF BOVESPA MINI
CAC 40
CFFEX CSI 300 IND
DAX INDEX
3445.50 -19.50 3552.00 2932.00 2.49 13.35
101435.00 907.00 123170.00 64228.00 -1.58 -14.99
4961.00 -80.00 5169.50 4403.50 1.52 11.28
4687.00 73.40 4888.00 4004.80 0.00 16.38
12898.00 -112.00 13781.00 8222.00 1.96 -2.64
PSI 20
RTS INDEX
RUSSELL 2000 E-MI
S&P 500 E-MINI
S&P 500 VIX
4474.00

3361.40
23.27
-2.00 5222.00

-5.30
-6.35
0.05
1710.20
3396.50
41.00
3281.00 1.74
115910.00 -620.00 120060.00 103070.00 -1.39
1573.20 959.90 0.45
2165.50 0.50
16.91 -5.48
-11.14
10.24
-6.09
4.04
28.06
from its decline triggered by the coronavirus crisis. DOW FUTURES MINI 27792.00 -31.00 29467.00 17992.00 1.68 -2.14 S&P GSCI 349.15 0.30 354.85 289.70 1.11 20.52
EURO STOXX 50 3304.00 -40.00 3764.00 2213.00 1.91 -9.06 S&P MIDCAP E-MINI 1947.60 -3.50 2115.90 1185.30 0.61 -6.15
The Nikkei ended 0.17 per cent higher at 23,289.36, briefly HANG SENG INDEX 25074.00 -54.00 26682.00 24050.00 2.80 3.50 SGX STRAITS TIMES 2575.00 0.00 2747.00 2451.00 1.98 5.06
hitting a six-month high for two straight sessions, but did IBEX 35 MINI 7258.40 -29.40 7790.00 6517.00 4.44 8.84 SWISS MARKET INDE 10142.00 -115.00 10960.00 7420.00 0.71 -1.55
KOSPI 200 323.10 0.60 326.25 194.25 3.71 9.16 TOKYO TOPIX INDEX 1625.50 2.50 1725.00 1179.00 4.84 -4.49
not rise enough to close a major chart gap between 23,378 NASDAQ 100 E-MINI 11133.75 -41.50 11283.25 6626.00 0.10 26.61 VSTOXX FUTURES 23.90 1.10 34.60 15.45 -2.45 41.84
and 22,950 made in February, when signs of global spread NIKKEI 225 MINI 23280.00 70.00 23850.00 15815.00 3.97 -0.47
of COVID-19 caught investors off guard.
Foreign indexes listed in this table are futures contracts. Data provided by Barchart

SPENDING AND SAVING

MORTGAGES OTHER LOANS SAVINGS VEHICLES

Mortgage rate, monthly Average house prices of major cities June 2020 What $10,000 would have been worth if…
5-year fixed Floating Five-year change in thousands of dollars June 2015
You invested 10 years ago
7 $1,200
6 National average, 2020 $10,129 1-year GIC end of term
1,000
National average, 2015
5
800 $11,433 5-year GIC end of term
4 3.6%
600
3 2.6% You invest at current rates
400
2
200 $10,088 1-year GIC end of term
1
0
0 Vancouver Ham-Burl. Montréal Halifax Saskatoon Quebec $10,720 5-year GIC end of term
I 2016 I 2017 I 2018 I 2019 I 2020 Toronto Ottawa Calgary Edmonton Winnipeg

BASED ON A NATL NATL MONTHLY TOTAL INTEREST NATL NATL MONTHLY TOTAL INTEREST NATL NATL MONTHLY TOTAL INTEREST
$100,000 MORTGAGE AV. RATE BEST RATE PAYMENT COSTS (LIFETIME) AV. RATE BEST RATE PAYMENT COSTS AV. RATE BEST RATE INCOME INCOME
VARIABLE, CLOSED 2.647 1.890 $455.31 $36,597.14 NEW CAR LOAN 8.022 4.990 $405.73 $4,343.80 30 DAYS (PAID AT MATURITY) 0.306 1.550 N/A $2.55
1 YEAR, OPEN 6.135 3.290 $647.85 $94,357.04 ($20,000 PAID DOWN AFTER 5 YEARS) 90 DAYS (PAID AT MATURITY) 0.440 1.800 N/A $14.67
1 YEAR, CLOSED 3.042 2.140 $475.40 $42,621.45 SECURED LINE OF CREDIT 4.907 2.950 $941.43 $6,485.80 1 YEAR (PAID AT MATURITY) 0.885 1.850 N/A $88.50
3 YEARS, CLOSED 3.253 1.990 $486.32 $45,897.02 ($50,000 PAID DOWN AFTER 5 YEARS) 3 YEARS (PAID AT MATURITY) 1.133 2.050 N/A $343.77
5 YEARS, CLOSED 3.607 1.960 $504.93 $51,481.25 UNSECURED LINE OF CREDIT 8.750 8.750 $1,031.86 $11,911.60 5 YEARS (PAID AT MATURITY) 1.401 2.300 N/A $720.40
7 YEARS, CLOSED 5.010 2.490 $582.17 $74,653.80 ($50,000 PAID DOWN AFTER 5 YEARS) 3 YEARS (PAID MONTHLY) 0.836 1.950 $6.97 $250.92
5 YEARS (PAID MONTHLY) 1.099 2.200 $9.16 $549.60
Calculations are based on monthly payments with a 25-year amortization. Monthly Payments and Total Interest Costs for all tables are based on the average rate. N/A = paid at maturity.
Table and chart source: Cannex Table source: Cannex; Chart source: Canadian Real Estate Association Table and chart source: Cannex

WEEKLY BIG MOVERS S&P/TSX COMPOSITE STOCKS

GAINERS CLOSE WEEK AVG DLY 52 52 WEEK YTD LOSERS CLOSE WEEK AVG DLY 52 52 WEEK YTD MOST ACTIVES CLOSE WEEK AVG DLY 52 52 WEEK YTD
NET VOL FOR WEEK WEEK % CHG % CHG NET VOL FOR WEEK WEEK % CHG % CHG NET VOL FOR WEEK WEEK % CHG % CHG
CHG WK(00S) HIGH LOW CHG WK(00S) HIGH LOW CHG WK(00S) HIGH LOW

CJR-B CORUS ENTER 2.85 0.45 19208 6.00 1.78 18.75 -46.43 ASR ALACER GOLD C 8.38 -1.19 15855 10.82 3.50 -12.43 21.45 ENB ENBRIDGE INC 43.53 -0.64 94661 57.32 33.06 -1.45 -15.69
EIF EXCHANGE INCO 32.73 5.01 2232 46.10 12.57 18.07 -26.76 SSRM SSR MINING I 25.99 -3.53 7917 33.69 12.12 -11.96 4.00 SU SUNCOR ENERGY 22.57 0.95 86109 45.12 14.02 4.39 -46.97
HBM HUDBAY MINERA 5.29 0.70 15423 5.59 1.66 15.25 -1.67 FR FIRST MAJESTIC 15.48 -1.90 15073 19.41 5.30 -10.93 -2.82 MFC MANULIFE FIN 19.98 0.39 80576 27.78 12.58 1.99 -24.20
ATA ATS AUTOMATIO 20.27 2.48 6678 23.07 14.27 13.94 -5.41 YRI YAMANA GOLD I 7.80 -0.89 31481 9.29 3.11 -10.24 51.75 ABX BARRICK GOLD 35.79 -2.77 57761 40.62 17.52 -7.18 48.38
NFI NEW FLYER IND 16.34 1.84 4056 33.94 9.12 12.69 -38.69 CG CENTERRA GOLD 16.29 -1.74 10768 19.59 5.52 -9.65 57.70 AC AIR CANADA 16.85 1.12 50212 52.71 9.26 7.12 -65.26
TOY SPIN MASTER C 29.50 2.82 2242 44.43 9.73 10.57 -25.39 PAAS PAN AMERICAN 44.47 -4.62 7300 53.30 14.22 -9.41 44.57 BTO B2GOLD CORP 8.90 -0.46 49495 9.99 3.12 -4.91 70.83
RBA RITCHIE BROS 82.50 7.86 3177 83.04 37.76 10.53 48.06 REAL REAL MATTERS 29.65 -3.07 4154 33.01 7.74 -9.38 140.67 K KINROSS GOLD CO 11.57 -1.01 47549 13.50 4.00 -8.03 87.82
AIF ALTUS GROUP L 47.49 4.24 2195 51.04 33.18 9.80 25.11 ELD ELDORADO GOLD 14.71 -1.49 8712 17.46 6.29 -9.20 41.04 CNQ CDN NATURAL R 27.03 0.30 44498 42.57 9.80 1.12 -35.64
CGX CINEPLEX INC 8.69 0.76 7133 34.39 6.30 9.58 -74.33 IMG IAMGOLD CORP 5.61 -0.55 22149 7.07 2.00 -8.93 15.67 TD TORONTO-DOMINI 63.43 2.23 44402 77.72 49.01 3.64 -12.91
MX METHANEX CORP 28.65 2.50 2933 55.54 13.24 9.56 -42.87 SEA SEABRIDGE GOL 23.24 -2.19 1082 27.50 7.37 -8.61 29.40 CVE CENOVUS ENERG 6.81 0.29 37605 14.31 2.06 4.45 -48.41
ECN ECN CAPITAL C 5.15 0.44 8466 6.19 2.67 9.34 7.52 K KINROSS GOLD CO 11.57 -1.01 47549 13.50 4.00 -8.03 87.82 RY ROYAL BANK OF 97.46 2.06 37478 109.68 72.00 2.16 -5.15
BBU-UN BROOKFIELD 42.64 3.57 707 62.09 27.00 9.14 -20.64 TXG TOREX GOLD RE 21.27 -1.67 4144 25.52 8.79 -7.28 3.65 BMO BANK OF MONTR 78.03 2.78 37234 104.75 55.76 3.69 -22.47
WCP WHITECAP RESO 2.80 0.22 24469 5.71 0.73 8.53 -49.55 KXS KINAXIS INC 194.07 -15.13 972 224.98 75.25 -7.23 94.03 CPG CRESCENT POIN 2.61 0.18 32659 6.30 0.75 7.41 -54.92
WTE WESTSHORE TER 18.24 1.37 1751 24.23 11.88 8.12 -3.75 ABX BARRICK GOLD 35.79 -2.77 57761 40.62 17.52 -7.18 48.38 YRI YAMANA GOLD I 7.80 -0.89 31481 9.29 3.11 -10.24 51.75
VII SEVEN GENERAT 4.59 0.34 13871 9.57 1.15 8.00 -45.81 SHOP SHOPIFY INC 1308.36 -99.68 2049 1472.98 372.01 -7.08 153.41 MEG MEG ENERGY CO 4.17 0.11 27517 8.07 1.13 2.71 -43.57

WEEKLY BIG MOVERS S&P 500 STOCKS

GAINERS CLOSE WEEK AVG DLY 52 52 WEEK YTD LOSERS CLOSE WEEK AVG DLY 52 52 WEEK YTD MOST ACTIVES CLOSE WEEK AVG DLY 52 52 WEEK YTD
NET VOL FOR WEEK WEEK % CHG % CHG NET VOL FOR WEEK WEEK % CHG % CHG NET VOL FOR WEEK WEEK % CHG % CHG
CHG WK(00S) HIGH LOW CHG WK(00S) HIGH LOW CHG WK(00S) HIGH LOW

RCL ROYAL CARIBBE 60.50 8.40 136871 135.32 19.25 16.12 -54.69 CSCO CISCO SYSTEM 42.50 -4.93 367884 50.30 32.40 -10.39 -11.38 AAL AMERICAN AIRL 13.33 0.30 839528 31.67 8.25 2.30 -53.52
WYNN WYNN RESORTS 84.98 10.88 66977 153.41 35.84 14.68 -38.81 OXY.W OCCIDENTAL 3.75 -0.41 38070 8.55 3.63 -9.86 -46.43 GE GENERAL ELECTR 6.66 0.26 722867 13.26 5.48 4.06 -40.32
MGM MGM RESORTS I 21.81 2.78 309966 34.63 5.90 14.61 -34.45 ANET ARISTA NETWO 212.67 -18.13 11057 267.30 156.63 -7.86 4.56 AMD ADV MICRO DEV 81.30 -3.55 673454 87.29 27.43 -4.18 77.28
FDX FEDEX CORP 208.60 25.07 62670 209.64 88.69 13.66 37.95 NEM NEWMONT MININ 63.85 -5.06 69502 72.22 33.00 -7.34 46.95 BAC BANK OF AMERI 26.47 0.36 628611 35.72 17.95 1.38 -24.84
NCLH NORWEGIAN CR 15.75 1.76 369163 59.78 7.03 12.58 -73.04 MU MICRON TECHNOL 45.60 -3.15 227657 61.19 31.13 -6.46 -15.21 F FORD MOTOR COMP 7.04 0.18 567974 9.65 3.96 2.62 -24.30
HAL HALLIBURTON C 16.63 1.74 164956 25.47 4.25 11.69 -32.04 TYL TYLER TECHNOL 335.57 -21.31 3303 382.92 245.00 -5.97 11.85 AAPL APPLE INC 459.63 15.18 470499 464.17 199.67 3.42 56.52
ULTA ULTA BEAUTY 225.42 21.54 9746 342.00 124.05 10.57 -10.95 PEAK HEALTHPEAK P 27.01 -1.60 29118 37.93 18.63 -5.59 -21.64 UAL UNITED AIRLIN 36.18 1.85 408431 95.16 17.80 5.39 -58.93
CTVA CORTEVA INC 27.87 2.55 71998 32.08 20.38 10.07 -5.72 CLX CLOROX COMPAN 224.25 -13.24 12387 239.87 144.12 -5.57 46.05 WFC WELLS FARGO & 25.30 0.23 405038 54.75 22.00 0.92 -52.97
TPR TAPESTRY INC 15.93 1.42 75325 30.40 10.18 9.79 -40.93 BIIB BIOGEN INC 289.45 -16.26 11020 374.99 215.77 -5.32 -2.45 BA BOEING COMPANY 174.73 7.67 385881 391.00 89.00 4.51 -45.45
SPG SIMON PROPERT 68.18 5.99 99120 163.60 42.25 9.63 -54.23 OXY OCCIDENTAL PE 14.64 -0.81 300078 48.85 9.00 -5.24 -64.47 NCLH NORWEGIAN CR 15.75 1.76 369163 59.78 7.03 12.58 -73.04
LVS LAS VEGAS SAN 48.37 4.17 90070 74.29 33.30 9.43 -29.94 DUK DUKE ENERGY C 82.15 -4.46 35001 103.79 62.13 -5.15 -9.93 CSCO CISCO SYSTEM 42.50 -4.93 367884 50.30 32.40 -10.39 -11.38
NOV NATIONAL-OILW 13.12 1.13 45574 25.81 8.00 9.42 -47.62 PNW PINNACLE WEST 78.00 -4.16 10185 105.51 60.05 -5.06 -13.27 CCL CARNIVAL CORP 15.47 1.25 348603 51.94 7.80 8.79 -69.57
ALB ALBEMARLE COR 92.39 7.95 11319 99.40 48.89 9.41 26.49 DRE DUKE REALTY C 37.89 -1.86 17011 40.84 25.19 -4.68 9.29 MGM MGM RESORTS I 21.81 2.78 309966 34.63 5.90 14.61 -34.45
CCL CARNIVAL CORP 15.47 1.25 348603 51.94 7.80 8.79 -69.57 JNPR JUNIPER NETW 24.82 -1.12 31671 26.49 15.20 -4.32 0.77 INTC INTEL CORP 48.89 0.86 301097 69.29 43.63 1.79 -18.31
FANG DIAMONDBACK 45.51 3.50 21144 105.95 14.55 8.33 -50.99 AEP AMERICAN ELEC 82.95 -3.65 39377 104.97 65.14 -4.21 -12.23 OXY OCCIDENTAL PE 14.64 -0.81 300078 48.85 9.00 -5.24 -64.47

WHAT THE CHARTS SAY BY MONICA RIZK AND RON MEISELS WHO IS BUYING AND SELLING BY TED DIXON

Canadian National Railway Co. (CNR-TSX): Technical Analysis Corus Entertainment Inc. (CJR.B-TSX): Insider trading
C
$130 $6.00
A Buying Selling
120 4.75

110 3.50
B
100 2.25

90 40wMA 1.00
Report Feb. March April May June July A.
80 $114.16
Volume: (CJR.B-TSX) total daily volume, in thousands
Report 6,000
70
$85.09
14/08/2020 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
0.75 3,000
0.50 MACD
0.25
0
Feb. March April May June July A.

Canadian National Railway (Friday’s close $135.90) has been in a major up- While Corus Entertainment Inc. has enjoyed increased viewership and engage-
trend since 2016 (solid line). We reported higher targets on a couple of occa- ment across all of its platforms since COVID-19 hit, its share price has been lag-
sions throughout these years. Our most recent report (December 1, 2018 - ging as investors flock to bonds and technology stocks. Insiders are typically con-
$114.16) provided targets of $125 and $135. The first target was reached in early trarians, and Corus provides a good example where insiders have been buying
2019 (A) and the second is on the verge of being reached. the dips. In fact, over the past 6 months, insiders who are officers or directors
Since early 2019, CNR traded mostly between $115 and $125 for about one year, have spent $2.7-million buying shares in the public market. The most recent
dipped temporarily below the rising trend-line (B) and now resumed the up- purchase was Aug. 5 when CEO Doug Murphy bought 10,000 shares at $2.36.
trend toward higher targets (C). There is good support near $118-119; only a
sustained decline below this level would be negative.
Point & Figure measurements provide targets of $140 and $160. Higher targets
are visible. Ted Dixon is CEO of INK Research, which provides insider news and knowledge to investors. For
more background on insider reporting in Canada, visit the FAQ section at inkresearch.com. Securi-
Monica Rizk is the senior technical analyst and Ron Meisels is the president of Phases & Cycles ties referenced in this profile may have already appeared in recent reports distributed to INK
Inc. (www.phases-cycles.com). And he tweets at @Ronsbriefs. They may hold shares in compa- subscribers. INK staff may also hold a position in profiled securities. Chart reflects public-market
nies profiled. Chart source: www.decisionplus.com transactions of common shares or unit trusts by company officers and directors.

U.S. STOCKS
100 LARGEST STOCKS IN THE S&P 500 BY MARKET CAPITALIZATION

CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD
CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG
MMM 3M COMPANY 166.10 0.24 0.14 1606 -5.85 CVS CVS CORP 65.67 0.97 1.50 4918 -11.60 INTC INTEL CORP 48.89 0.33 0.68 22296 -18.31 PG PROCTER & GAMB 135.10 -0.68 -0.50 5843 8.17
T AT&T INC 30.01 0.10 0.33 22520 -23.21 CAT CATERPILLAR I 139.96 -0.71 -0.50 2037 -5.23 IBM INTERNATIONAL 125.27 0.24 0.19 2951 -6.54 PLD PROLOGIS INC 102.32 -0.32 -0.31 2689 14.79
ABT ABBOTT LABORA 99.99 -1.11 -1.10 2739 15.12 CHTR CHARTER COMM 604.99 0.77 0.13 664 24.72 INTU INTUIT INC 305.54 -1.17 -0.38 592 16.65 QCOM QUALCOMM INC 113.74 0.33 0.29 6633 28.91
ABBV ABBVIE INC 95.07 0.39 0.41 5487 7.38 CVX CHEVRON CORP 90.35 0.53 0.59 6328 -25.03 ISRG INTUITIVE SU 684.52 -6.04 -0.87 295 15.79 RTX RAYTHEON TECH 63.64 0.34 0.54 5121 -27.97
ACN ACCENTURE PLC 230.25 -1.48 -0.64 1130 9.35 CI CIGNA CORP 183.40 2.52 1.39 1211 -10.31 JPM JP MORGAN CHA 102.41 0.04 0.04 12102 -26.54 REGN REGENERON PH 612.57 1.68 0.28 298 63.14
ADBE ADOBE SYSTEM 447.60 -2.42 -0.54 1108 35.71 CSCO CISCO SYSTEM 42.50 -0.22 -0.51 31210 -11.38 JNJ JOHNSON & JOH 148.24 0.24 0.16 4238 1.62 SPGI S&P GLOBAL I 352.27 -3.86 -1.08 530 29.01
AMD ADV MICRO DEV 81.30 -0.54 -0.66 42298 77.28 C CITIGROUP INC 52.93 0.04 0.08 13839 -33.75 LIN LINDE PLC 248.50 -0.74 -0.30 979 16.72 CRM SALESFORCE.CO 193.46 -1.68 -0.86 2821 18.95
APD AIR PRODUCTS 289.82 1.51 0.52 1017 23.33 KO COCA-COLA COMP 48.45 0.07 0.14 10072 -12.47 LMT LOCKHEED MART 391.42 2.18 0.56 643 0.52 NOW SERVICENOW IN 435.73 -2.69 -0.61 1250 54.34
GOOGL ALPHABET CL 1504.63 -12.02 -0.79 1095 12.34 CL COLGATE-PALMOL 77.05 0.07 0.09 2491 11.93 LOW LOWE’S COMPAN 154.34 -1.36 -0.87 3385 28.87 SBUX STARBUCKS CO 78.37 -0.65 -0.82 3764 -10.86
GOOG ALPHABET CL 1507.73 -10.72 -0.71 1354 12.77 CMCSA COMCAST COR 43.77 0.38 0.88 15207 -2.67 MA MASTERCARD INC 326.80 0.61 0.19 1443 9.45 SYK STRYKER CORP 188.37 -2.59 -1.36 1008 -10.27
MO ALTRIA GROUP 42.54 -0.03 -0.07 4880 -14.77 COST COSTCO WHOLE 336.28 0.58 0.17 1522 14.41 MCD MCDONALD’S CO 207.03 0.54 0.26 2060 4.77 TMUS T-MOBILE US 115.49 0.12 0.10 2027 47.27
AMZN AMAZON.COM I 3148.02 -13.00 -0.41 2740 70.36 CCI CROWN CASTLE 164.63 0.27 0.16 1344 15.81 MDT MEDTRONIC INC 100.71 -0.58 -0.57 2923 -11.23 TJX TJX COMPANIES 57.87 0.76 1.33 4907 -5.22
AXP AMERICAN EXPR 100.41 -0.01 -0.01 1954 -19.34 DHR DANAHER CORP 204.86 -2.33 -1.12 1280 33.48 MRK MERCK & COMPA 83.48 -0.06 -0.07 7050 -8.21 TGT TARGET CORP 136.53 1.72 1.28 3172 6.49
AMT AMERICAN TOWE 250.12 -0.61 -0.24 734 8.83 D DOMINION RESOUR 78.85 -0.46 -0.58 2066 -4.79 MSFT MICROSOFT CO 208.90 0.20 0.10 17925 32.47 TXN TEXAS INSTRUM 137.35 0.20 0.15 2062 7.06
AMGN AMGEN INC 239.71 -0.75 -0.31 1224 -0.56 LLY ELI LILLY AND 150.09 -0.37 -0.25 1537 14.20 MDLZ MONDELEZ INT 56.12 0.11 0.20 3934 1.89 TMO THERMO FISHER 413.76 -2.84 -0.68 898 27.36
ANTM ANTHEM INC 283.23 0.90 0.32 567 -6.22 EQIX EQUINIX INC 762.01 -8.11 -1.05 361 30.55 MS MORGAN STANLEY 52.30 0.12 0.23 5721 2.31 UNP UNION PACIFIC 191.92 2.20 1.16 2499 6.16
AAPL APPLE INC 459.63 -0.41 -0.09 41166 56.52 EL ESTEE LAUDER C 212.09 -1.28 -0.60 851 2.69 NFLX NETFLIX INC 482.68 1.35 0.28 2932 49.17 UPS UNITED PARCEL 160.74 1.45 0.91 3422 37.31
BAC BANK OF AMERI 26.47 0.12 0.46 50834 -24.84 XOM EXXON MOBIL C 43.20 0.19 0.44 13530 -38.09 NEE NEXTERA ENERG 280.50 -3.90 -1.37 1199 15.83 UNH UNITEDHEALTH 323.70 2.18 0.68 1787 10.11
BDX BECTON DICKIN 258.17 -4.16 -1.59 1099 -5.07 FB FACEBOOK INC 261.30 1.41 0.54 17373 27.06 NKE NIKE INC 106.43 -0.09 -0.08 2976 5.05 VZ VERIZON COMMUN 58.79 0.27 0.46 8528 -4.25
BRK.B BERKSHIRE H 210.96 -1.02 -0.48 3435 -6.86 FIS FIDELITY NATI 143.88 -1.32 -0.91 1749 3.44 NVDA NVIDIA CORP 462.56 4.84 1.06 9120 96.58 VRTX VERTEX PHARM 267.29 0.14 0.05 996 22.08
BLK BLACKROCK 588.46 -1.10 -0.19 316 17.06 FISV FISERV INC 99.77 0.29 0.29 2182 -13.72 ORCL ORACLE CORP 54.20 0.18 0.33 5453 2.30 V VISA INC 196.64 -0.94 -0.48 5011 4.65
BA BOEING COMPANY 174.73 -0.71 -0.40 22958 -45.45 GILD GILEAD SCIEN 68.50 0.32 0.47 9149 5.42 PYPL PAYPAL HOLDI 191.46 -1.61 -0.83 4754 77.00 WMT WAL-MART STOR 132.60 0.75 0.57 6679 11.58
BKNG BOOKING HOLD 1778.87 -14.10 -0.79 262 -13.38 GS GOLDMAN SACHS 207.97 -0.42 -0.20 2284 -9.55 PEP PEPSICO INC 137.56 -0.54 -0.39 2450 0.65 DIS WALT DISNEY C 130.53 -0.43 -0.33 6504 -9.75
BMY BRISTOL-MYERS 63.16 -0.08 -0.13 5606 -1.60 HD HOME DEPOT 280.55 -1.11 -0.39 2487 28.47 PFE PFIZER INC 38.06 -0.11 -0.29 12233 -2.86 WFC WELLS FARGO & 25.30 0.28 1.12 26630 -52.97
AVGO BROADCOM LTD 327.82 -1.60 -0.49 1013 3.73 HON HONEYWELL INT 160.28 1.30 0.82 2844 -9.45 PM PHILIP MORRIS 77.71 -0.43 -0.55 2734 -8.67 ZTS ZOETIS INC CL 157.05 -1.82 -1.15 1780 18.66

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McDavid says poor defending was Davies shines in Bayern’s Champions
a factor in Edmonton’s playoff loss League win over Barcelona
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2020 | GLOBEANDMAIL.COM

Canadiens’ Alex Belzile celebrates teammate Joel Armia’s goal on Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Carter Hart during the second period of Friday’s game at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.
Montreal won 5-0 to even the best-of-seven series at 1-1. FRANK GUNN/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canadiens win one for Julien

As their head coach
recovers in Montreal,
the Habs come out
firing to thump Flyers
MARTY KLINKENBERG
The Montreal Canadiens won one
for Claude Julien on Friday, dis-
mantling the Philadelphia Flyers
5-0 to even their first-round Stan-
ley Cup playoff series at one vic-
tory each.
The Habs’ head coach was
back home in Montreal resting
after having a stent placed in his
coronary artery in a Toronto hos-
pital on Thursday. He had been
admitted late Wednesday night
after experiencing chest pains
following his team’s loss in Game
1.
Shea Weber, the Canadiens
captain, kept the puck after the
lopsided defeat of the top seed in
the Eastern Conference and will
present it to the 60-year-old
Julien later.
“It’s hard anytime someone
who is part of your team is sick or
in the hospital,” Montreal defen-
ceman Ben Chariot said. “Claude
steers the ship for us. We are
wishing him well and hope he is
recovering. We’ll play for him as
hard as we can.”
The Canadiens jumped all over
the Flyers from the start, built a
2-0 lead in the first period, led 4-0
after two and tacked on the final
goal in the last 20 minutes. Tomas
Tatar, who had not scored in five
previous games in the postsea-
son, had two goals, as did Jesperi
Kotkaniemi. Carey Price had 30
saves in the shutout and has stop-
ped 59 of 61 in the first two games.
“Carey is our best player every
single night,” Chariot said. “He’s a
rock for us and is continuing to
do that.”
Associate coach Kirk Muller re-
placed Julien on the bench. Mull-
er previously was a head coach
with the Carolina Hurricanes, but
Friday’s victory was his first in the
playoffs.
He said Julien was one of the
first people to send him congrat-
ulations on the win via text mess-
age.
“Hey Claude, this one’s for
you,” Muller said.
The Canadiens were so dom-
inant that the Flyers’ players were
frustrated.
At one point, Travis Konecny, a
Philadelphia forward, went back
to the bench and tried to break
his stick. When Carter Hart was
pulled after allowing four goals
on 26 shots, the goalie slammed
the door shut in obvious disap-
pointment.
Montreal pulled off the biggest
upset of the qualification round
by eliminating the Pittsburgh
Penguins. The Canadiens would
not have reached the postseason
at all had the field not increased
to 24 teams from 16. The NHL
took that step because some
playoff positions were undecided
when the regular season was sus-
pended on March 12 because of
the spread of COVID-19.
Julien and the team welcomed
the opportunity to vindicate
themselves after winning only 31
of 71 games during the regular
season.
The Canadiens came out flying
on Friday and scored barely a
minute into the game.
Tatar fired a wrist shot past
Hart after the Flyers goalie had
stopped a backhand from Bren-
dan Gallagher only seconds earli-
er.
Montreal spent most of the
first period in Philadelphia’s end,
winning puck battle after battle,
and set the Flyers back on their
heels. Kotkaniemi put the Cana-
diens ahead 2-0 with 7:24 left in
the first on a wrist shot from in
close while Hart was without his
stick.
The play was so lopsided that
Philadelphia only registered its
first shot on the net more than 16
minutes after the puck drop.
After 20 minutes, it was outshot
16-6.
“We were flat-footed a lot,” Jus-
tin Braun, the Flyers defenceman,
told Rogers Sportsnet in an inter-
view during the break between
the first and second periods. “We
have to be a lot better to get back
into this.”
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The Blue Jays are still mediocre,
but lucky for them, no one’s watching
CATHAL No, 2020 has become baseball’s sea-
KELLY son that never was.
That’s great for Toronto because – let
OPINION me just look through a few printouts
here to see if … yes, here it is – the Jays
are still not good. Again.
raptors end regular season
on a high note
RACHEL BRADY
The Toronto Raptors have posted the
best win percentage in team history –
an accomplishment never envisioned
doesn’t mind the early start times in
Orlando. It helps fend off the bubble
blahs.
“Especially in this set-up, I think it’s
better than sitting around all day,”
Nurse said. “There’s not a lot to take up

L
et’s check in with the Toronto
Blue Jays, who are one-quarter of
the way through their season.
This doesn’t mean baseball is
one-quarter done. Baseball’s all over the
shop.
The Tampa Bay Rays have played a
third of their 60-game season. The St.
Louis Cardinals have played five games.
At this rate, the Cardinals will be play-
ing their home opener while the Yan-
kees and Dodgers are playing in the
World Series.
This is one of those instances where
everyone told you it was a bad idea and
you agreed it was a bad idea, but secretly
thought to yourself that bad ideas some-
times have this wonderful way of turn-
ing out to be sneaky, amazing ideas. Like
the light bulb.
And then it was an even worse idea
than anyone had guessed. That’s the
2020 Major League Baseball season.
Is anyone watching this? Does anyone
take it seriously? Based on the amount
of free-floating baseball talk in the ether
… tilts head toward the silence; hears a rac-
coon screeching in the distance … that
would be a no.
And people will care far less once the
NBA playoffs begin on Monday.
As of this writing, the team is 6-9,
headed toward last place in the Ameri-
can League East. If you have registered
them at all, it has probably been watch-
ing them blow leads in creative ways.
They are the Picassos of walk-off losses.
This is Year 3.5 of the Jays’ rebuild. Sort
of.
It’s hard to pinpoint when the rebuild
started because it never really did. In-
stead, the Jays settled on a baseline of
mediocrity some time in 2017, then did
nothing to improve the situation be-
yond praying to the Gods of Player De-
velopment.
Whenever some apostate began to
wonder what the team was doing in the
free-agent market or via trade, he’d be
told to get down on his knees and reaf-
firm his faith in the holy beneficence of
the draft. The draft will provide.
Well, what has the draft provided?
As of now, the Jays have one bonafide
star – Bo Bichette. He’s come out of the
box as advertised.
Every other Blue Jay is somewhere be-
tween okay, vaguely worrying and not
worth the effort. In particular, the shine
is coming off last year’s baseball saviour,
Vlad Guerrero Jr.
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when the reigning NBA champs lost
Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green to
free agency last summer, or when in-
juries ravaged their roster earlier this
year.
The long-awaited playoffs are here.
After wrapping up the last of their eight
seeding games inside the NBA bubble
on Friday with a 117-109 win over the
Denver Nuggets, the Raptors closed out
the regular season with a 53-19 record.
They won a club-record 73.6 per cent of
their games.
“A lot of guys stepped up. A lot of
growth for a lot of players. I think our
defence was great,” Raptors head coach
Nick Nurse said. “There was a lot of re-
siliency considering we had a lot of in-
juries, too. It’s a joy to be around this
team.”
The best-of-seven series between the
No. 2-seeded Raptors and the No. 7
Brooklyn Nets opens Monday at 4 p.m.
Eastern Time, with games every other
day. Work productivity could take a dip
for many Raptors fans next week, as
their team plays three weekday after-
noon games.
While many supporters will com-
plain about the Raps not getting any
primetime TV spots next week, Nurse
your time, sometimes. I kind of think
it’s good.”
One perk of bubble life is that coach-
es can attend other teams’ games in
person to do their playoff scouting.
To stay healthy, the Raps sat many
key players in their final game, one that
meant nothing to either team because
both had already locked in their playoff
seeds.
OG Anunoby, Serge Ibaka, Kyle Low-
ry, Fred VanVleet and Pascal Siakam all
rested. Their only action was animated
dancing and celebrating on the bench
to cheer on their teammates’ dunks and
three-point buckets.
Nurse said Ibaka and Anunoby, who
were both experiencing knee pain, had
clear MRIs and they expect to play
Monday.
The Raptors went with the never-be-
fore-used starting lineup of Terence Da-
vis, Matt Thomas, Norman Powell, Ron-
dae Hollis-Jefferson and Marc Gasol for
their matinee. Toronto trotted out ev-
ery guy it could use, and Stanley John-
son led the team with 23 points while
Paul Watson added 22. It was the
chance for role players to prove they
deserve playoff minutes.
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Hoge in four-way tie for Wyndham lead after two rounds

GREENSBORO, N.C.
Tom Hoge maintained a share of
the lead Friday at the Wyndham
Championship, this time along-
side Si Woo Kim, Talor Gooch and
Billy Horschel.
Hoge, tied for the first-round
lead with Harold Varner III and
Roger Sloan, kept in front with a
steady two-under 68 to get to 10-
under par.
Hoge, whose best-ever tour
finish was a second at The Green-
brier this season, was asked what
it would take for his first PGA
Tour win.
“There’s a lot to that ques-
tion,” he said. ing the final two holes to move and had multiple rounds that The four were a stroke ahead
The answer could be as simple on top. low in the same event. He had six of Harris English (67), Varner
as regaining his first-round form Kim’s approach shots down birdies, including two of his final (69), Andrew Landry (65), Doc
when he had seven birdies, an ea- the stretch were on target – his three holes, to move up. Redman (64) and British Open
gle and one par. This time, Hoge final five birdie putts were all “Anytime you shoot 65, it champ Shane Lowry, who shot a
was more up and down with five from 12 feet or closer. doesn’t matter who, what, when, 63 to tie for Friday’s low round
birdies and three bogeys. He said the rough at Sedge- where, why, you’ve done some with Jason Kokrak.
Kim, whose first tour victory field Country Club was “more good,” he said. Lowry did not get to defend
came here in 2016 and made his- sticky and deep” this year. Horschel shot 64 and had bird- his major when the tournament
tory a year later as the youngest “It helps more to hit fairway, ies on four of his last six holes, was cancelled due to the global
winner of the Players Champion- that’s really important,” Kim including a tricky seven-footer pandemic. He also entered the
ship, shot a 65 to move up. said. “That’s why I hit it more, try on his final one, the ninth, to join week at 131 in FedEx Cup points,
Canada’s Sloan shot a second- to focus on … the fairway.” the lead group. Horschel won the outside of the upcoming play-
round 70 to sit in a tie for 10th at Like Hoge, the 28-year-old 2014 FedEx Cup and said this offs.
eight under. Gooch is seeking his first tour vic- time of year charges him up. After a bogey on his second
Kim got it going on the front tory. Like Kim, Gooch shot 65 to “I like it when the pressure’s hole, Lowry had six birdies and
nine (his final nine) after starting get into the foursome on top. on and everyone’s looking at you an eagle to move into contention.
with nine consecutive pars. He It was the first time on tour for and you need to step up and do-
had six bogeys coming in, includ- Gooch, who opened with a 65, ing something special,” he said. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL NHL NBA

AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE FIRST ROUND EASTERN CONFERENCE WESTERN CONFERENCE
W L Pct GB W L Pct GB SCORING LEADERS W L Pct GB W L Pct GB
EAST DIVISION EAST DIVISION (Best-of-7) z-Milwaukee 56 17 .767 — z-L.A. Lakers 52 19 .732 —
G A Pts
New York 12 6 .667 — Miami 8 4 .667 — Sebastian Aho, Car 3 7 10 y-Toronto 53 19 .736 2 / 1
2 x-L.A. Clippers 48 23 .676 4
Tampa Bay 12 8 .600 1 Atlanta 11 9 .550 1 EASTERN CONFERENCE Connor McDavid, Edm 5 4 9 x-Boston 48 24 .667 7 / 1
2 y-Denver 46 27 .630 7
Baltimore 10 7 .588 1/
1
2 New York 9 11 .450 3 Pierre-Luc Dubois, Clb 4 4 8 x-Indiana 45 28 .616 11 x-Oklahoma City 44 27 .620 8
Toronto 6 9 .400 4/
1
2 Washington 6 9 .400 3 /
1
2
PHILADELPHIA (1) VS. MONTREAL (12) Jonathan Toews, Chi 4 4 8 y-Miami 44 29 .603 12 y-Houston 44 27 .620 8
Boston 6 13 .316 6/
1
2 Philadelphia 5 9 .357 4 (Philadelphia leads series 1-0) Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Edm 2 6 8 x-Philadelphia 42 30 .583 13 / 1
2 x-Utah 44 28 .611 8 / 1
2

CENTRAL DIVISION CENTRAL DIVISION Friday Andrei Svechnikov, Car 4 3 7 x-Brooklyn 35 37 .486 20 / 1
2 x-Dallas 43 32 .573 11
Minnesota 12 7 .632 — Chicago 13 3 .813 — Montreal vs. Philadelphia x-Orlando 33 40 .452 23 Portland 35 39 .473 18 /1
Dominik Kubalik, Chi 4 3 7 2

Detroit 9 7 .563 1 /
1
2 St. Louis 2 3 .400 5/
1
2 Reilly Smith, VGK 3 4 7
Chicago 10 9 .526 2 Cincinnati 8 11 .421 6/ Sunday Charlotte 23 42 .354 29 Memphis 34 39 .466 19
1
2 Miro Heiskanen, Dal 2 5 7
Cleveland 10 9 .526 2 Milwaukee 7 10 .412 6/ Philadelphia vs. Montreal, 8 p.m. Washington 25 47 .347 30 / 1
Phoenix 34 39 .466 19
1
2 Quinn Hughes, Vcr 1 6 7 2

Kansas City 8 11 .421 4 Pittsburgh 4 13 .235 9/

1
2 Not including last night’s games Chicago 22 43 .338 30 San Antonio 32 39 .451 20
WEST DIVISION WEST DIVISION Tuesday, Aug. 18 New York 21 45 .318 31 / 1
2 Sacramento 31 41 .431 21 / 1
2

Oakland 13 6 .684 — Colorado 12 6 .667 — Philadelphia vs. Montreal, 3 p.m. Detroit 20 46 .303 32 / 1
New Orleans 30 42 .417 22 / 1

Texas 8 9 .471 4 Los Angeles 13 7 .650 —

MLS Atlanta 20 47 .299 33
2

Minnesota 19 45 .297 29 / 1
2

Houston 8 10 .444 4 /
1
San Diego 11 9 .550 2 Wednesday, Aug. 19 Cleveland 19 46 .292 33 Golden State 15 50 .231 34
2
Montreal vs. Philadelphia, TBA Team GP W L T GF GA Pt
Los Angeles 7 12 .368 6 Arizona 8 11 .421 4 /
1
2
EASTERN CONFERENCE x-clinched playoff spot; y-clinched division; z-clinched conference; e-not part of
Seattle 7 13 .350 6 /
1
2 San Francisco 8 12 .400 5
TAMPA BAY (2) VS. COLUMBUS (9) Columbus 5 4 0 1 9 1 13 restart in Orlando, Fla.
Friday Friday
(Series tied 1-1) Toronto 5 2 0 3 9 7 10
Thursday Orlando 5 2 1 2 7 5 8 Friday Utah 118, San Antonio 112
Baltimore at Washington, 1st game Baltimore at Washington, 1st game Portland 134, Brooklyn 133
N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia Columbus 3 Tampa Bay 1 Philadelphia 5 2 1 2 7 7 8
Tampa Bay at Toronto Montreal 5 2 2 1 8 8 7 Toronto 117, Denver 109 Orlando 133, New Orleans 127
Boston at N.Y. Yankees Atlanta at Miami
Saturday NY Red Bulls 5 2 2 1 5 7 7 Indiana 109, Miami 92 END OF REGULAR SEASON
Cleveland at Detroit Pittsburgh at Cincinnati
Washington at Baltimore, 2nd game Tampa Bay vs. Columbus, 7:30 p.m. Atlanta 5 2 3 0 4 5 6 Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers
Washington at Baltimore, 2nd game Cincinnati 5 2 3 0 6 9 6 Philadelphia at Houston NBA PLAYOFFS
Kansas City at Minnesota Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs
Texas at Colorado Monday, Aug. 17 New England 5 1 1 3 4 4 6
Texas at Colorado Tampa Bay vs. Columbus, 3 p.m. D.C. 5 1 2 2 6 7 5 Thursday
L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels TORONTO (2) VS BROOKLYN (7)
Seattle at Houston Chicago 5 1 3 1 4 8 4
San Diego at Arizona Monday, August 17
L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels Oakland at San Francisco Wednesday, Aug. 19 Nashville 3 1 2 0 2 3 3 Washington 96, Boston 90 Toronto vs. Brooklyn, 4 p.m.
Oakland at San Francisco Columbus vs. Tampa Bay, TBA New York City 5 1 4 0 2 6 3 Sacramento 136, L.A. Lakers 122
Thursday Miami 5 0 5 0 3 8 0 Phoenix 128, Dallas 102 Wednesday, August 19
Thursday WASHINGTON (3) VS. N.Y. ISLANDERS (7) WESTERN CONFERENCE Memphis 119, Milwaukee 106 Toronto vs. Brooklyn, 1:30 p.m.
N.Y. Mets 8, Washington 2 (N.Y. Islanders leads series 1-0) Team GP W L T GF GA Pt
Baltimore 11, Philadelphia 4 Baltimore 11, Philadelphia 4 Friday Kansas City 5 4 1 0 13 5 12
Tampa Bay 17, Boston 8 Pittsburgh 9, Cincinnati 6 N.Y. Islanders vs. Washington Minnesota 5 3 0 2 12 6 11 TELEVISION
St. Louis at Detroit, ppd., 1st game Chicago Cubs 4, Milwaukee 2 Portland 5 3 1 1 8 7 10 SATURDAY (ALL TIMES EASTERN)
St. Louis at Detroit, ppd., 2nd game L.A. Dodgers 11, San Diego 2 Sunday Los Angeles FC 5 2 0 3 15 10 9
St. Louis at Detroit, ppd., 1st game Washington vs. N.Y. Islanders, 12 p.m. Seattle 5 2 1 2 7 4 8 GOLF BASEBALL
Saturday St. Louis at Detroit, ppd., 2nd game San Jose 5 2 1 2 10 10 8
All Times Eastern Tuesday, Aug. 18 Colorado 5 2 2 1 8 9 7 LPGA: Aberdeen Standard Investments MLB: Tampa Bay vs. Toronto, SN 1, 6:30
Saturday Washington vs. N.Y. Islanders, 8 p.m. Vancouver 5 2 3 0 7 10 6 Scottish Open, Third Round, Golf p.m.
St. Louis (Hudson 0-1) at Chicago White All Times Eastern Salt Lake 5 1 1 3 3 3 6 Channel, 7 a.m. MLB: Boston vs. N.Y. Yankees, FOX, 7
Sox (Giolito 1-1), 2:10 p.m., 1st game Thursday, Aug. 20 Dallas 3 1 1 1 4 3 4 PGA: Wyndham Championship, Third p.m.
St. Louis (TBD) at Chicago White Sox St. Louis (Hudson 0-1) at Chicago White x-N.Y. Islanders vs. Washington, TBA Houston 5 0 2 3 6 11 3 Round, CBS, Golf Channel, TSN 1, 5, 3
Sox (Giolito 1-1), 2:10 p.m., 1st game LA Galaxy 5 0 3 2 5 11 2 p.m.
(TBD), 5:30 p.m., 2nd game MIXED MARTIAL ARTS
St. Louis (TBD) at Chicago White Sox BOSTON (4) VS. CAROLINA (6) Note: No games currently scheduled for
Cleveland (Bieber 3-0) at Detroit (Turn- Bridgestone Senior Players
(TBD), 5:30 p.m., 2nd game (Series tied 1-1) Montreal, Toronto or Vancouver; Three
bull 2-0), 6:10 p.m. Championship, Golf Channel, 3 p.m. UFC 252: Miocic vs. Cormier 3, Prelims,
N.Y. Mets (Matz 0-3) at Philadelphia Thursday points awarded for a win, one for a tie.
Tampa Bay (Yarbrough 0-2) at Toronto PGA Korn Ferry Tour: Albertsons Bosie
(Nola 1-1), 6:05 p.m. Sunday TSN 1, 3, 4, 5, 7 p.m.
(Anderson 0-0), 6:37 p.m. Carolina 3 Boston 2 Open, Third Round, Golf Channel, 5 p.m.
Atlanta (Fried 3-0) at Miami (TBD), 6:10 All Times Eastern
Boston (Eovaldi 1-1) at N.Y. Yankees p.m.
Saturday AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL SUNDAY
(Paxton 0-1), 7:07 p.m. Pittsburgh (Brault 0-0) at Cincinnati
Boston vs. Carolina, 12 p.m. Nashville at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Oakland (Luzardo 1-0) at San Francisco (Bauer 2-0), 6:10 p.m.
(Gausman 0-1), 7:07 p.m. Oakland (Luzardo 1-0) at San Francisco AFL: Fremantle Dockers vs. Carlton AUTO RACING
Monday, Aug. 17 Thursday, Aug. 20 Blues, TSN 1, 6 a.m.
Kansas City (Duffy 0-2) at Minnesota (Gausman 0-1), 7:07 p.m.
(Berrios 1-2), 7:10 p.m. Washington (Corbin 2-0) at Baltimore Boston vs. Carolina, 8 p.m. Formula 1: Aramco Spanish Grand Prix,
New York City F.C. at N.Y. Red Bulls, 7 p.m.
Seattle (Margevicius 0-0) at Houston (Ja- (Wojciechowski 0-2), 7:35 p.m. AUTO RACING TSN 1, 4, 5, 9:05 a.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 19 Chicago at Columbus, 7:30 p.m.
vier 1-1), 7:10 p.m. San Diego (Perdomo 0-0) at Arizona Indycar Racing: Indianapolis 500,
Washington (Corbin 2-0) at Baltimore (TBD), 8:10 p.m. Carolina vs. Boston, TBA Formula 1: Aramco Spanish Grand Prix: Qualifying, NBC, 1 p.m.
(Wojciechowski 0-2), 7:35 p.m. Texas (Gibson 0-2) at Colorado (Marquez CANADIAN PREMIER LEAGUE Qualifying, TSN 1, 4, 5, 9 a.m. NASCAR Cup: Go Bowling 235, TSN 3, 5,
Texas (Gibson 0-2) at Colorado (Marquez 2-2), 8:10 p.m. WESTERN CONFERENCE FIA Formula 2 Championship: Barcelona, NBC, 3 p.m.
2-2), 8:10 p.m. Milwaukee (Houser 1-1) at Chicago Cubs THE ISLAND GAMES Feature Race, TSN 1, 4, 5, 10:40 a.m.
L.A. Dodgers (Buehler 0-0) at L.A. Angels (Mills 2-0), 8:15 p.m. VEGAS (1) VS. CHICAGO (12) Indycar Racing: Indianapolis 500, GOLF
L.A. Dodgers (Buehler 0-0) at L.A. Angels (Vegas leads series 2-0) At Charlottetown Qualifying, NBC, 3 p.m.
(Heaney 1-1), 9:40 p.m.
(Heaney 1-1), 9:40 p.m. Thursday Team GP W L T GF GA Pts NASCAR Xfinity: UNOH 188 at the LPGA: Aberdeen Standard Investments
Vegas 4 Chicago 3 (OT) Calgary 1 0 0 1 2 2 1 Daytona Road Course, TSN 2, 3 p.m. Scottish Open: Final Round, Golf
Sunday
Sunday Hamilton 1 0 0 1 2 2 1 Channel, 7 a.m.
Saturday Edmonton 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 RUGBY PGA: Wyndham Championship, Final
Washington at Baltimore, 1:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 1:05 p.m. Roud, CBS, TSN 1, 4, 2:30 p.m.
Cleveland at Detroit, 1:10 p.m. Vegas vs. Chicago, 8 p.m. Halifax 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Washington at Baltimore, 1:05 p.m. Ottawa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Super League: Wakefield vs. Catalans, Bridgeston Senior Players
Kansas City at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m. Atlanta at Miami, 1:10 p.m. Championship: Final Round, Golf
Sunday Victoria 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SN World, 11 a.m.
Seattle at Houston, 2:10 p.m. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 1:10 p.m. Channel, 2:30 p.m.
Vegas vs. Chicago, 6:30 p.m. Winnipeg 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Super League: Huddersfield vs.
St. Louis at Chicago White Sox, 2:10 p.m. St. Louis at Chicago White Sox, 2:10 p.m. PGA Korn Ferry: Albertsons Boise Open,
York 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Warrington, SN World, 1:30 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Toronto, 3:07 p.m. Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m. Final Round, Golf Channel, 5 p.m.
Tuesday, Aug. 18 Note: Three points awarded for a win, Super Rugby: Crusaders vs. Blues, TSN
Texas at Colorado, 3:10 p.m. Texas at Colorado, 3:10 p.m. U.S. Amateur Championship:
x-Chicago vs. Vegas, TBA one for a tie. 5, 11:30 p.m.
Oakland at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m. Oakland at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m. Thursday Championship Match, TSN 2, 7 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, 4:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, 4:10 p.m. Hamilton 2 Calgary 2
COLORADO (2) VS. ARIZONA (11) SOCCER
Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 7:08 p.m. San Diego at Arizona, 4:10 p.m. RUGBY
(Colorado leads series 2-0)
Friday Saturday
AL LEADERS NL LEADERS All Times Eastern CPL: The Island Games: York9 vs.
Colorado 3 Arizona 2 Premiership Rugby: Northampton vs.
G AB H R Pct. G AB H R Pct. Atletico Ottawa, CBC, 1 p.m. Wasps, SN World, 10 a.m.
LeMahieu NYY 17 65 14 28 .431 Blackmon Col 18 72 18 34 .472 York vs. Ottawa, 12 p.m. CPL: The Island Games: HFX Wanderers Super Rugby: Blues vs. Crusaders, TSN
Saturday Halifax vs. Victoria, 3 p.m. FC vs. Pacific FC, CBC, 3 p.m.
Bichette Tor 12 54 9 19 .352 Solano SF 16 59 9 27 .458 4, 12:30 p.m.
Colorado vs. Arizona, 3 p.m.
Alberto Bal 17 77 16 27 .351 S.Marte Ari 18 65 13 24 .369 Super Rugby: Wigan vs. Leeds, SN
Lewis Sea 19 74 13 25 .338 D.Murphy Col 15 53 6 19 .358 Sunday HOCKEY World, 1:30 p.m.
Monday, Aug. 17
Severino Bal 15 48 5 16 .333 B.Harper Phi 14 45 15 16 .356
Colorado vs. Arizona, 5:30 p.m. Winnipeg vs. Calgary, 12 p.m.
Correa Hou 18 66 6 22 .333 Winker Cin 19 49 8 17 .347 NHL Playoffs: Boston vs. Carolina, SN HOCKEY
S.Perez KC 19 79 10 26 .329 K.Marte Ari 19 77 12 26 .338 Hamilton vs. Edmonton, 3 p.m. Ontario, East, West, Pacific, NBC, 12 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 19
Cruz Min 19 70 13 23 .329 Conforto NYM 20 72 11 24 .333 NHL Playoffs: Colorado vs. Arizona, SN NHL Playoffs: Dallas vs. Calgary, CBC, SN
x-Arizona vs. Colorado, TBA
Trout LAA 15 61 13 20 .328 Happ ChC 16 46 10 15 .326 Ontario, East, West, Pacific, 360, 3 p.m. Ontario, East, West, Pacific, 360, 2 p.m.
Nunez Bal 17 65 16 21 .323 Betts LAD 19 72 14 23 .319
UEFA NHL Playoffs: Vegas vs. Chicago, CBC,
DALLAS (3) VS. CALGARY (8) NHL Playoffs: Washington vs. N.Y.
HOME RUNS HOME RUNS CHAMPIONS LEAGUE NBC, SN Ontario, East, West, Pacific, 8 Islanders, SN Ontario, East, Pacific, 360,
(Series tied 1-1)
Judge, New York, 9; Trout, Los An- Tatis Jr., San Diego, 8; Realmuto, p.m. 12 p.m.
Friday
geles, 8; Moreland, Boston, 6; Olson, Philadelphia, 7; Castellanos, Cincinnati, NHL Playoffs: Tampa Bay vs. Columbus, NHL Playoffs: Philadelphia vs. Montreal,
Dallas vs. Calgary QUARTERFINALS
Oakland, 6; Rosario, Minnesota, 6; 7; Betts, Los Angeles, 7; C.Moran, SN 360, 7:30 p.m. CBC, NBC, SN Ontario, 8 p.m.
Pittsburgh, 6; Arenado, Colorado, 6; All matches at Lisbon, Portugal
Chapman, Oakland, 6; 10 tied at 5. Thursday Friday NHL Playoffs: Vegas vs. Chicago, SN 1,
BATTING Story, Colorado, 6; 4 tied at 5. HORSE RACING 360, 6:30 p.m.
Dallas 5 Calgary 4
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Clock ticks for abbreviated CFL season

League continues
to pursue funding,
work on health protocol
as enthusiasm to play
dwindles among teams

DAN RALPH

Canada’s deputy chief public

health officer remains encour-
aged about the CFL’s health-and-
safety protocols, but can’t say
when approval for a shortened
season might come.
“We’ve had very good discus-
sions with the Canadian Football
League in terms of their propos-
al,” Howard Njoo said Friday
from Ottawa during a video-con-
ference. “From my perspective,
from a public-health perspective,
we’re quite encouraged.
“But there are certainly other
elements, I’d say what we call the
overall Government of Canada
decision-making process, so I
can’t give you a timeline in terms
of the whole process.”
Approval from the Public
Health Agency of Canada is the
biggest consideration in the CFL’s
request last week for a $30-mil-
lion, interest-free loan from Otta-
wa. The league has maintained it
requires government funding to
stage an abbreviated season.
The CFL sent Ottawa its $30- Howard Njoo, Canada’s deputy chief public health officer, has spoken highly of the CFL as it attempts to gain approval for a shortened football
million loan request Aug. 3. It season, but says he can’t provide a timeline of when that will occur. SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
was a reduction of the $44-mil-
lion amended requisition it pre- ment. I can’t speak to the ma- training camps before a six-game settled upon playing their home VID-19 in their own jurisdictions.
sented last month. chinery of government, I can on- season could begin. And with a contests in nearby Buffalo, N.Y. Then they’ll be tested on their
The CFL first approached the ly speak to what myself and oth- three-week playoff, the league is But the NHL has resumed play first day, sixth day and 13th day
government in April for up to ers at the Public Health Agency running out of time if it hopes to with Edmonton and Toronto as in Winnipeg.
$150-million in assistance owing of Canada have done in terms of finish the season by early De- its hub cities. The general public will not be
to the COVID-19 pandemic. what our role has been in this cember. The CFL must also finalize a allowed inside dedicated CFL
The league had no comment process.” While Public Health Agency of deal with broadcast partner TSN. host hotels or IG Field. Only play-
Friday about the expected longer That certainly paints the pic- Canada approval is imperative in Commissioner Randy Ambro- ers, staff, league officials and
wait for approval. ture for more waiting for the CFL. the CFL’s quest for government sie has stated the earliest an ab- media can enter the stadium.
Njoo said the time required for And with time being of the es- money, it’s not the only hurdle breviated season could begin is Violations will result in strict
approval isn’t a sign of trouble or sence, a further delay only di- the league faces. early next month. But he’s also penalties, including players be-
concern with the CFL’s protocols. minishes the chances for a sea- In order to stage a shortened said a cancelled campaign re- ing sent home for the remainder
He added the Public Health son to be played. season, it must also reach an mains a possibility. of the season.
Agency of Canada has been in Especially considering it agreement with the CFL Players’ The $30-million, interest-free A shortened campaign would
talks with the league and Mani- seems not all nine CFL teams are Association on an amended col- loan request is essentially the see CFL teams play six regular-
toba health officials regarding crazy about playing an abbreviat- lective bargaining agreement – league’s last-ditch effort to secure season games apiece – a third of
the return-to-play safety plans. ed season. Arash Madani of something that hasn’t happened government support for an ab- a traditional campaign. The gen-
If there’s a 2020 CFL season, it Sportsnet tweeted Friday that yet. breviated 2020 season. eral sentiment is the league
will be played in Winnipeg, the the Toronto Argonauts didn’t Njoo spoke positively last If CFL games are staged this would adopt a one-division set-
league’s tentative hub city. want to participate in a short- week about the CFL’s health-and- year, players would be required up rather than the traditional
“We’re going to prepare a ened campaign and weren’t safety protocols, but added there to isolate for 14 days at home be- East-West format.
package and have it go to our alone. was still work to be done. fore coming to Winnipeg. Upon Eight of nine teams would
health minister certainly with Both the Argos and CFL de- Last month, the Canadian gov- their arrival in the Manitoba cap- make the playoffs. The last two
our recommendations in terms clined to comment about the ernment rejected the Toronto ital, players would self-isolate for squads would meet in the Grey
of what we think should be done tweet. Blue Jays’ plan to play home another seven days. Cup game, which would be
with the proposal,” Njoo said. Players would need to fulfill games at Rogers Centre over Brent Roussin, Manitoba’s played in Winnipeg.
“There are other ministers in- quarantine requirements and fears of spreading the novel coro- Chief Public Health Officer, has
volved, other parts of the govern- make their way to Winnipeg for navirus. The Blue Jays ultimately said players will be tested for CO- THE CANADIAN PRESS

raptors: Bench players given a

chance to show what they can do NURSE KNOWS THE NETS

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Watson, in particular, has im-
pressed coaches since the team
arrived in Florida. “He’s pretty
good. He can play. Talking about
comprehending our defensive
schemes, he’s done great; really
good passer; worked on some of
the mechanics of his shooting,”
Nurse said. “He’s going to be part
of our future from what I can see.”
Friday was the first opportuni-
ty for Nurse to comment on his
lead assistant coach, Adrian Grif-
fin, who got the head-coaching
duties on Wednesday when Nurse
stepped aside for a night. A day
later, Griffin faced allegations of
domestic abuse via a post on
Twitter by his former wife. The as-
sistant coach released a state-
ment the same day denying the
accusations.
“First of all, he’s a class individ-
ual: hard-working guy, obvious-
ly,” Nurse said. “I’ve known him
for a long time and wanted to give
him this opportunity to help his
career professionally. The rest of
that, as you know, he categorical-
ly denies all that, and we stand
with him, and so does our orga-
nization.”
The Brooklyn Nets might have
seemed an easy opponent two
weeks ago, but they’ve been one
of the big surprises of the NBA
restart at Walt Disney World. The
Nets went 5-3 in the bubble and
lost 134-133 to a desperate Trail
Blazers team Friday.
“I watched them play a really
good Portland team last night in
a heck of a game and they
played great,” Toronto Raptors
head coach Nurse said. “They’re
really playing with a lot of confi-
dence, they’re playing fast, coach
[Jacque] Vaughn has obviously
got ‘em dialled in. And I think
there’s a lot of opportunity there
for some guys that are pretty
good players.”
Nurse singled out Caris LeVert,
who scored 37 points against
Portland, and is a “super, super
scorer and player.”
LeVert has veteran players to
complement him and provide a
calm voice in the locker room
such as Garrett Temple and Jamal
Crawford.
“They’ve got a lot of guys who
are playing with a lot of energy
and a lot of confidence right
now,” Nurse said. “They certainly
earned and deserve this playoff
berth and we will respect them,
for sure. We will have to prepare
and play really well to beat
them.”
Nurse was an assistant to
Dwane Casey when the Raptors
lost to Brooklyn in seven games
in the first round of the 2014
playoffs. In their first playoff
appearance in six seasons, the
Raptors lost 104-103 in Game 7
when Kyle Lowry’s shot at the
buzzer was blocked by Paul
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Horvat scores in overtime for Canucks

Vancouver wins 4-3,
takes solid lead
in series against
St. Louis
DEAN BENNETT EDMONTON
Bo Horvat scored on a break-
away in overtime to give the
Vancouver Canucks a 4-3 win on
Friday in NHL playoff action.
Horvat took a stretch pass
from Quinn Hughes and zipped
the puck through the legs of St.
Louis goalie Jordan Binnington
less than six minutes into the ex-
tra frame.
The Canucks have a 2-0 lead
over the Stanley Cup defending
champions in their best-of seven
first-round series with Game 3 on
Sunday.
It was Horvat’s second goal of
the game and his sixth of the
post-season.
Elias Pettersson, and Tanner
Pearson also scored for Vancouv-
er. Ryan O’Reilly, Sammy Blais
and David Perron replied for the
Blues.
Jacob Markstrom made 34
stops in the Canucks net. Bin-
nington turned back 21 of 25 for
his second loss of the post-sea-
son.
St. Louis was chasing the
game from the get-go.
Horvat had the opening goal
on a jaw-dropping end-to-end
rush while shorthanded in the
first period.
Wheeling and picking up
speed in his own face-off circle,
Horvat hit high gear through the
neutral zone, blew past Brayden
Schenn, turned Jaden Schwartz
inside out, then fired a wrist shot
low blocker side past Binning-
ton.
In the second period, Pearson
scored his third of the playoffs,
standing in the slot and one-tim-
ing a cross-seam saucer pass
from Pettersson through Bin-
nington’s pads.
The Blues replied on the pow-
er play with just over a minute
left in the second period. O’Reil-
ly, standing beside Vancouver’s
net, took a pass from Perron
through traffic and picked the
far corner with a wrist shot.
The Canucks went up 3-1 in
the third on the power play. Pet-
tersson, in the crease, bunted a
rebounding puck in mid-air into
the net for his third of the play-
offs. Blais brought the Blues to
within one, jumping on a turn-
Brayden Schenn of the Blues checks Troy Stecher of the Canucks in Game
2 of their series in Edmonton on Friday night. JEFF VINNICK/GETTY IMAGES
over and beating Markstrom
with a nifty backhand move.
St. Louis tied the game with
seven seconds left in regulation
time with Binnington pulled for
the extra attacker. Alex Pietran-
gelo shot the puck from the
point, and Perron redirected it
past Markstrom. It was initially
waved off as a high stick but
ruled a goal on review.
In the third period, Schenn hit
Canuck defenceman Tyler Myers
from behind, and he fell awk-
wardly head-first into the
boards. Myers stayed down for a
few minutes and went to the
dressing room under his own
power.
BURAKOVSKY SCORES LATE,
AS AVALANCHE BEAT COYOTES
EDMONTON Andre Burakovsky
scored late in the third period,
Philipp Grubauer stopped 30
shots and the Colorado Ava-
lanche beat the Arizona Coyotes
3-2 on Friday to take a 2-0 lead in
their Stanley Cup playoff series.
The Coyotes were far more ag-
gressive after being tentative
against Colorado’s offensive fire-
power to in the opener. The Ava-
lanche still found ways to score
early in the opening two periods
on goals by Nathan MacKinnon
and Tyson Jost.
Arizona responded each time,
tying it on a goal by Clayton Kell-
er in the first and Michael Grabn-
er in the second.
Burakovsky scored with 2:53
left in regulation when a shot by
Kazem Kadri hit Arizona defen-
ceman Jakob Chychrun’s shin
pad and left goalie Darcy Kuem-
per out of position.
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McDavid reflects on Oilers’ early exit: Kelly: Toronto’s youthquake

‘Teams that win are teams that defend’
DONNA SPENCER
Edmonton Oilers captain Connor
McDavid still wasn’t ready to sift
through the ashes of an early ex-
it from the NHL postseason a
week later.
However, McDavid did agree
with general manager Ken Hol-
land’s assessment that Edmon-
ton’s defence wasn’t stout
enough against the Chicago
Blackhawks in the best-of-five
qualifying round.
The Oilers scored 15 goals over
four games, but gave up 16. A
season interrupted by the CO-
VID-19 pandemic ended Aug. 7 in
a 3-2 loss.
“Teams that win are teams
that defend,” McDavid said Fri-
day during a media conference
call.
“We haven’t seemed to figure
that out yet. … It’s not where it
needs to be.”
Edmonton (37-25-9) was the
Western Conference’s fifth seed.
Chicago (32-30-8) was 12th.
Under a new GM and new
head coach Dave Tippett this
season, the Oilers were less po-
rous owing to a penalty kill that
vaulted from 30th in the NHL in
2019 to No. 1. Edmonton was also
marginally better defending five-
on-five, averaging 2.16 against a
game compared with 2.18.
But the hub-city hosts allowed
three power-play goals in a 6-4
loss to the Blackhawks to start
the series at Rogers Place.
Edmonton was up a goal each
game. The Oilers led 3-2 heading
into the third game’s final period
that ended 4-3 in favour of Chica-
go.
“I think we took a step in the
right direction knowing what we
have to do to be successful,”
McDavid said.
“We did it most [during] the
regular season and obviously
when it came time, when it mat-
tered most, we dropped the ball.”
The 23-year-old led all scorers
in the NHL’s restart with five
goals and four assists in the qual-
ifying round, including a hat
trick in Game 2.
Teammates Ryan Nugent-
Hopkins and Leon Draisaitl pro-
duced a combined five goals and
nine assists between them.
Habs: Domi sparks offence with three assists
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The Canadiens began the second
period on a power play that was
drawn by Max Domi in the wan-
ing seconds of the first. Tatar
made Philadelphia pay when he
rattled a puck off the post and
into the upper left corner after 1
minute 25 seconds. Tatar’s second
goal made it 3-0.
The Flyers missed an opportu-
nity to cut into the lead when
Montreal was called for two pe-
nalties, leaving Philadelphia with
a two-man advantage for 98 sec-
onds. The Flyers got off six shots
on the 5-3, but all were thwarted
by Price.
Joel Armia scored his first goal
of the postseason on a wrist shot
with 2:03 left in the second to
make it 4-0 and end any possible
Edmonton Oiler Connor McDavid led all scorers in the NHL’s restart,
with five goals and four assists in the qualifying round, including a hat
trick in Game 2. ANDY DEVLIN/USA TODAY SPORTS
Holland told media earlier
this week goaltenders Mike
Smith and Mikko Koskinen
didn’t perform as well as the duo
did in the regular season, but the
GM also felt defence was a team
responsibility.
“At the end of the day, we gave
up too many goals,” Holland
said.
McDavid requires more time
to fully analyze a season he and
the franchise anticipated would
be longer than it was.
“When it’s so sudden, it’s very
easy to be frustrated and you’re
just not thinking clearly,” McDa-
vid said.
“You need to clear your head
first. Take the positive and the
negatives, and figure out what
went wrong.
“I wish I had an answer for
you, but obviously we’re missing
something. I’m not sure what
that is. And I’m sure everyone’s
going to go back and regroup
and try to figure out that exact
question.”
McDavid, from Richmond Hill,
Ont., is a generational player
who won the NHL’s scoring race
at ages 20 and 21. He’s seen the
suspense over the outcome. It
ended a rough day for Hart after
celebrating his 22nd birthday on
Thursday.
Kotkaniemi scored for the sec-
ond time on a power play with
9:35 remaining to end the scoring.
The 20-year-old centre has four
goals in the playoffs. During the
regular season, he had six in 36
games and was demoted at one
point to the Laval Rocket of the
AHL.
“Nobody wants to go down [to
the minors], but he learned from
it,” Muller said. “It made him a
better player and you can see it.
He deserves all kudos.”
Domi had three assists.
“I know it is one game, but it’s a
huge step in the right direction,”
Domi said. He said the team’s
thoughts and prayers were with
postseason just twice in his five
years in the league.
The Oilers reached the second
round in 2018 and fell short of
the first round in their own are-
na this summer.
“There’s a taste in everyone’s
mouth that no one likes,” Oilers
defenceman Darnell Nurse said.
“You need to find a way to not
have that taste and we’ve had it
four out of the five years here.
“It was great to get to a point
where we were in this bubble
and playing for our lives every
night, but we weren’t at the level
that we needed to be to extend
it.”
McDavid offered Tippett a
vote of confidence in the latter’s
first season behind the Oilers
bench.
“Everyone thinks he’s got that
stereotype of being a defensive-
minded coach, and he is, but he
still promotes offence as well. I
really like where systems are at.
“On a personal level, I think
he does a great job of building
relationships with his players.
Definitely like working with Tip.”
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Julien.
“I know we are all happy he is
doing better,” Domi said. “I’m
sure he is proud of our group and
the coaching staff. I know he
would want us to focus on the
task at hand and that’s what we
did.”
The next game in the series
will be played at Scotiabank Are-
na on Sunday night. The Cana-
diens have said that Julien will
not be able to rejoin the team for
the remainder of the series – or
perhaps longer if Montreal gets
past the Flyers.
They certainly gave Philadel-
phia something to think about
Friday.
“The players just stepped up
and made my job easy,” Muller
said. “Everyone played well to-
day.”
has been mostly lacklustre
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Guerrero showed up at this year’s spring training in the best
shape of his life. Then he showed up at summer training in
the best shape of some other guy’s life. This other guy being
the sort of person who is not a big believer in portion con-
trol.
A year ago, the Jays waved off the idea of moving Guerrero
away from the physical rigours of third base as hysterical
negativity. Today, Guerrero is a permanent (and not partic-
ularly good) first baseman.
Next year, he’ll be a full-time designated hitter. And the
year after that, he will begin taking his plate appearances
while sitting on the bench, using a really long bat.
Guerrero isn’t a bust. Not yet. But based on the amount of
hype that accompanied him on the way up to the bigs, he is
headed at speed in that direction.
The other member of Toronto baseball’s youthquake, Ca-
van Biggio, is becoming a serviceable major-league second
baseman.
That’s nothing to wave at. Dependable second basemen
are hard to come by. Ask poor Devon Travis. But this is not
exactly shaking down as the Murderer’s Row lineup people
were expecting.
Every other outfield player works only in service of the
development of these three younger men. The only one dis-
tinguishing himself is Teoscar Hernandez, a journeyman
thrown in to a deadline deal a few years ago. All of a sudden,
in his late-20s, Hernandez may have figured something out.
Lineup wise, that’s what the
Jays have got – one blossoming
Derek Jeter, one even-more-blos- The Jays have made
soming Prince Fielder, an affor-
dable Aaron Hill, a knockoff Jose some changes,
Bautista and a bunch of people were given a
who do not rate comparisons. On mulligan year to
a nightly basis, you’d be hard- test them out and
pressed to remember who they
all are. remain pretty much
On the pitching end, two guys the same team they
matter. Hyun-Jin Ryu was the were last season.
baseball equivalent of announc-
ing that you are buying a round of the best bubbly, and then
pulling out a bottle of prosecco. I mean, it is bubbly. But it’s
not champagne.
If the point of getting Ryu was announcing to the baseball
world that the Jays have arrived, it hasn’t worked out that
way. Like so many of his teammates, Ryu is the sort of player
who bleeds into the background. Even when he’s pitching
well, he doesn’t dominate opponents.
That is meant to be Nate Pearson’s job. It is unfair to judge
a 23-year-old when he’s been in the majors for two weeks, so
let’s do that.
Pearson showed up in his debut like he’d ridden into
town on a lightning bolt. Then he pitched again (not so
well). And again (very not so well).
Now it’s beginning to dawn on him that major-league
baseball teams have video equipment and the intention to
use it. Pearson may in the end be the star everyone has
hoped for, but not the sure thing everyone was sold.
So, so far, so mediocre. The Jays have made some changes,
were given a mulligan year to test them out and remain
pretty much the same team they were last season.
Lucky for them, nobody’s paying attention. The few fans
who do are as docile as old dogs. These are the same people
who nodded along as the team gutted its high-end talent,
put all the money it was saving in its own pocket, raised
ticket prices and then explained how hoarding cash is in-
tegral to dynasty building.
When you wonder why the Jays won’t change, that’s why.
Those fans will buy this, “We’ll get ‘em next year fer
shure,” nonsense from now until eternity. Which, in the end,
it may be.
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Bo Bichette hit a three-run home run in a five-run bottom
of the sixth inning to snap a tie, Teoscar Hernandez added
two homers and the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the visiting
Tampa Bay Rays 12-4 in Buffalo on Friday night. The homer
extended Bichette’s hitting streak to eight games, and
extended his streak of games with a home run to four. The
Jays hit six homers. Hernandez hit a three-run homer and a
solo shot for four RBIs, Rowdy Tellez added a two-run blast
while Cavan Biggio and Randal Grichuk hit solo homers.
Brandon Lowe hit a two-run homer for Tampa. Rays starter
Trevor Richards allowed three runs, four hits and three
walks in 41⁄3 innings. Reliever Ryan Thompson (1-1), who
came on in the fifth, was tagged with the loss after giving
up two runs on two hits in one inning. Toronto starter
Tanner Roark allowed three runs, four hits and four walks
with four strikeouts over four innings. REUTERS
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Aug us t 15, 1960
On August 15, 1960, Joanne
Theobald and Alan Cobham were
married.
We celebrate these two, and their
60 wonderful years together, with
love and best wishes for many
more happy years ahead.
Much love, from your family.
Happy 50th Anniversary
JO HN & DALE LAYTO N
When they met
Valentine’s Day 1969
HE was a 2nd year law student.
SHE was in 4th year Modern History.
HE was persuaded to leave the U
of T law library on Friday night to
go to a party.
SHE was dissuaded from staying in
to wash her hair in the deaconess
residence.
THEIR PROGENY
Melanie (Greg), Erica (Mark), Charles
(Deb), and 6 grandchildren: Mason,
Keira, Evan, Oliver, Will and Baby
Winston.
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welcome this beautiful bundle
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GAURI
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J OAN MAY AIKEN
Passed away peacefully on the
evening of Thursday, August 6, at
age 90. Joan was predeceased by
her sister Jean Driver (Aiken).
Joan was born in Toronto in
1930. She began her career in
accounting while in her teens.
Her practice grew to serve a
diverse clientele of art galleries,
doctors, lawyers and restaurants
throughout the Toronto area, and
continued well into her eighties.
In 1971 she met her life partner,
Herbert G. Richter, who owned
and operated a garden equipment
business in Markham. Later in
life, while continuing to serve her
accounting clients, she and Herb
became owners of commercial
property in Markham which she
managed until earlier this year.
She joined Alcoholics Anonymous
in 1977 when she realized that
alcohol had slowly taken a hold
of her. She remained a committed
member, earning a 40 Year
medallion in 2017, a moment of
great pride for her. She avidly
attended meetings in Toronto and
when travelling the world, and
she served as chairperson of the
Toronto AA Greeter Committee
for 12 years. Living life “One Day at
a Time” was a guiding motto, one
which Joan readily shared with
her AA sponsees.
Joan loved adventure, and
traveled with Herb to far flung
places such as Machu Pichu,
the Galapagos, Cuba and Costa
Rica. She loved flowers, animals,
antiques, and classical music,
was a frequent patron of the arts
in the Greater Toronto area, and
was committed to health and
organically grown food. Joan and
Herb were almost inseparable in
pursuit of their shared interests.
Friends still fondly remember
the “B 140 BB” birthday bash
held in 2010 at the Richter farm
in Goodwood to celebrate Joan’s
80th and Herb’s 60th.
Being around Joan was always
stimulating. She was never shy
to speak her mind, yet the words
came from her heart. With passion
and intimacy she easily gained
one’s trust and often became
a mentor, particularly to young
people with whom she freely
shared her hard won street smarts.
Joan will be sadly missed by
Herb, her partner of 49 years, by
her extended Richter and Caligiuri
families, especially her sister-in-
law, Aku Richter, whom Joan
endearingly called “sister”.
Public visitation will be held
at Highland Funeral Home,
3280 Sheppard Avenue East,
Scarborough, on Tuesday, August
18 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and at
6 p.m. to 8 p.m. A service will
be held on Wednesday, August
19th at 2 p.m., but because of
current restrictions, the service
is limited to immediate family
members and those very close
to Joan. However the service will
be livestreamed over the internet
(details at www.h12.ca).
Special thanks to the caring and
attentive staff at Scarborough
Grace Hospital, especially in the
emergency department and the
intensive care unit. Also thanks to
Mrs Ho and Sophie who lovingly
helped care for Joan at home.
Memorial donations may be
made to Doctors Without
Borders, 551 Adelaide Street
West, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 0N8
(www.doctorswithoutborders.
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MARY MARGARET BARNES
(née Green)
Passed away at Shepherd Lodge
Long-Term Care Home on July 20,
2020 at the age of 93. Predeceased
in 2011 by her beloved husband of
sixty years, Bill. Loving mother of
Michael Barnes (Heather), Susan
Barnes (Michael), Dr. Christopher
Barnes (Grace), Gregory Barnes
(Francine), and Sarah Simpson
(Rob). Cherished grandmother
of Emily, Spencer, Madeline,
Morgan, James, Lauryn and Alex.
Dear sister of Louise and Anna,
predeceased by Dorothy, Ethel,
Jack and Stan. Mary Green, the
daughter of Maude Bastedo and
John Green, was born on a farm
on the Saskatchewan prairie on
August 10, 1926. Growing up
in a big farm family during the
Depression years gave her some
of her fondest memories, a tough
resourcefulness, and a deep
love of nature. After graduating
from high school, she came east
by herself to study nursing at
the Hospital for Sick Children in
Toronto. She loved nursing, and
soon became Head Nurse on
Infant Ward A; there she met Bill
Barnes, a medical intern, whom
she married on June 9, 1951. Mary
continued her nursing work at
the Mayo Clinic in Rochester,
Minnesota while Bill pursued
his surgical fellowship; there
they had the first two of their
five children. Upon moving to
the Hamilton area in 1957, Mary
devoted herself to working as
a homemaker, creating a warm
and loving home for her growing
family. Mary and Bill shared a
passion for the landscape of
northern Ontario, and in 1966 built
a cottage on the French River.
They spent many happy summers
there with their children, and even
more time during their retirement
until failing health restricted
their northern visits. Mary had a
sparkling imagination and was
renowned from childhood on for
making others laugh; she was a
passionate lifelong reader and
storyteller, with a gift for wordplay
and fanciful coinages; she was an
indefatigable worker, energetic
from dawn till late at night; she
had a musical gift, delighting in
singing anything from hymns to
popular songs and accompanying
herself by ear on the piano; and
she cherished nature, down to
its most humble creatures, like
the spiders she would capture
with her bare hands and release
outside. She was a gregarious,
giving person, with a large spirit
and an open heart. She met the
ordeal of Alzheimer’s, which was
diagnosed in 2009, with incredible
fortitude and resilience, retaining
to the end, even while the disease
had taken almost everything
from her, the ability to lift others’
spirits with a smile. Mary’s smile,
and the farmgirl strength within
it, nourished and uplifted those
who knew her, and will be long
remembered. In accordance with
Mary’s wishes, cremation without
a public ceremony has occurred.
As expressions of sympathy,
donations in Mary’s name to the
Hospital for Sick Children or the
Alzheimer’s Society would be
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MICHAEL BURKE
Retired Executive -
Bank of Montreal
WWII Veteran,
RCAF Radar Mechanic
Attached RAF 106
Lancaster Squadron
Awarded mention in
Despatche’s June, 1944
Passed away peacefully at
Michael Garron Hospital,
Toronto having resided at the
Veteran’s Wing, Sunnybrook
Hospital where he received
excellent care and attention. JAM E S NEIL CARTER
September 19, 1934
Predeceased by his loving
wife, Gloria, his parents August 8, 2020
Michael T. and Hilda M.,
brother Jack and sister Sheila Raconteur, Bon Vivant, Astute, a
Watson. Survived by son Font of Knowledge, Salesman par
Michael (Doreen), daughter excellence!
Karen Trites (Rick) and son
James ‘Jimmy’ Carter was
Daniel. Also survived by
born in Christiana, in the
grandson Scott and
granddaughter, Dara Tugwell Parish of Manchester, Jamaica.
(Jamie) and 2 great- He attended Jamaica College in
grandchildren, as well as Kingston, where he excelled in
several devoted nephews and academics and sports. With his
neices. family, he migrated to Toronto,
Canada in January 1968, opening
Born and raised in Montreal.
After High School Graduation a new personal and professional
from St. Leo’s Academy, he life chapter.
joined Bank of Montreal in
Jimmy leaves behind, his wife
November 1937. He
of 61 years, Patricia ‘Pat’; son,
proceeded on leave of
absence to join the RCAF in Shane (Linda); daughters, Michele
(Ralph), Deborah; grandchildren,
September 1941, resuming his
banking career November Jana (Steve), Dylan, Evan, Elysia,
1945 upon discharge from Brad (Solcie); and great-grandsons,
RCAF having served 40 Ewan and Matthew. Also left
months oversease in RAF to grieve are sister, Jean and
Bomber Command. He nephew, Stephan; sister, Faye
managed branches in St. and nieces, Lisa, Celia and Noelle;
Laurant PQ, Trail BC, and numerous family members.
Winnipeg, Manitoba before Predeceased by his mother,
being selected as a Project
Nesta Isadora (Bodden) Carter;
Leader of BMO’s 1966 father, Charles Stewart Bovell
Domestic Banking
Carter; brother, Peter Carter;
Reorganization. Following sister, Florent Harleston (nephews,
staff jobs in Personnel, he
Alan, Carl; niece, Shirley).
returned to Branch
Management at Drummond Jimmy will be sorely missed
and St. Catherines Sts., by scores of extended family,
friends and business colleagues in
Montreal (1972/1977). Then he
was appointed Vice President Canada and Jamaica.
and Manager of Toronto, Jimmy loved gatherings of family
Ontario Main Office (1978/
and friends, reinforced by good
1982) at First Canadian Place. food, single malt scotch, and
Due to another reorganization
mellow wines. It was his stage
in 1982 he was assigned to
research, recommend and - a grand opportunity for loud
laughter, expansive conversation,
upon approval help
implement the Bank’s initial arguments, and domino games, all
launch of private banking. His with a dash of Jamaican audacity.
retiring years were spent with Celebrations, and indeed life itself,
Gloria doing volunteer work, will never be the same without
especially for St. Timothy’s Jimmy. We miss you already,
church in North York. In his Rest in Peace.
latter years Mr. Burke would
say "I have had a good life, In lieu of flowers, donations can
better than I would have be made to the Jamaica College
planned it." Hence was able Old Boys Association of Canada to
to cope with diminishing support their fundraising efforts.
capabilities in his final years. Donations can be made through
Due to these pandemic times their website: jcobaca.org, by
the family has elected to have
a Private Family Cremation. In
e-Transfer payable to: treasurer.
jcobaca@gmail.com or by cheque
lieu of flowers, donations to
Share Life, St. Michael’s
to: Mark Delfosse, President,
JCOBACA, 48 Eliottglen Drive,
Foundation, Sunnybrook Ajax, L1Z 0H2.
Veterans Hospital or Covenant
House would be appreciated.
Arrangements entrusted to
the Kane-Jerrett Funeral
Home, North York. Online
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( nee O ’N ei l )
Ma y 1 0, 1 930 - Jul y 27, 2020
The family of Helen Costello sadly announces the passing of our mother on
Monday July 27, 2020. She was predeceased by her husband William (Bill)
John Costello in 1994 and her son Donald Charles Costello in 2017.
Helen was born in Toronto, Ontario on May 10, 1930 to Mabel Leona O’Neil
(nee Doyle) and Louis Vincent O’Neil.
In the spring of 1949, Helen won the Miss Beautiful Toronto contest,
showcasing her talent by singing Ave Maria at Maple Leaf Gardens.
In the fall of 1949, Helen began a three year nursing program at Toronto East
General Hospital. Helen graduated in 1952 as a registered nurse. The years
spent obtaining her nursing degree were a very special time in her life where
lifelong friendships began. She met and marries William John Costello in
1953 and by 1956 welcomed a daughter Maureen.
In 1959, Helen delivered triplet boys, David, Donald and Douglas and their
family was complete.
The family moved to Markham, Ontario then to Calgary, Alberta, finally
arriving in Delta, BC where she would spend the rest of her life.
Helen is survived by Maureen (Tony) Lazzarotto, David Costello and Doug
(Lyn) Costello. She was blessed with 5 grandchildren; Tiffany, Amanda (Tyler),
Shannon (Johnny), Greg (Karina) and Katie (Jordan). Helen was also blessed
to be able to spend many happy times with her great-granddaughters Lydia
and Quinn.
To Mom, her greatest accomplishment was her family whom she deeply
loved. We love you, Mom, and you will live on in our hearts and memories
and the stories that we share.
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KENNETH WALTER DYBA VIVIANE F. LAUNAY

May 9, 1942 - July 6, 2020
Ken was a devoted son,
loving brother, doting uncle,
loyal friend, and Sheltie dog
lover, as well as a Canadian
author, playwright, actor,
stage director, and archivist.
Ken was born on May 9, 1942
in the coal mining town of
Nordegg, Alberta to
immigrant Polish parents. At
the age of seven, the family
moved to Calgary where he
was raised and completed his
schooling. He attended
Western Canada High School
where, as a devotee of the
renowned drama teacher,
director and producer Dr.
Betty Mitchell, he honed his
love for all things theatre.
Following graduation Ken
continued to study with Dr.
Mitchell, producing and
directing plays as part of
Workshop 14, one of the
country’s finest amateur
theatre companies. Ken was
part of the amalgamation of
Workshop 14 with MAC 14
which later, under his artistic
stewardship, became Theatre
Calgary, Calgary’s first
professional theatre
company.
Ken worked at the Calgary
Herald as a news reporter,
feature writer, and book
reviewer before moving to
Toronto in 1980. He worked
at the CBC Radio Archives for
eleven years before leaving to
devote himself more fully to
his writing projects and other
aspects of Canadian theatre.
Ken’s body of published work
includes: the novels Sister
Roxy, Lucifer and Lucinda,
and The Long and Glorious
Weekend of Raymond and
Bingo Oblough; a biography
of his drama mentor Dr. Betty
Mitchell; the stage plays The
Sun Runner and Lilly, Alta.,
which is based on his
birthplace of Nordegg and is
his best known work; and
numerous short stories and
one-act plays.
Among the awards he
received are the Alberta
Achievement Award (twice)
and the Ford of Canada
Achievement Award.
Ken quietly slipped away on
July 6th. He was predeceased
by his parents, Walter and
Stefania; siblings, Stella and
Chester; and Sheltie dogs,
Lilly and Gracie. He is survived
by his niece, Christine
Baribeau and great-nephew,
Tyler Brown, both of
Vancouver; as well as many
cherished friends.
Ken was empathic and
encouraging to his friends
and family. His sharp mind,
keen wit, biting sense of
humour, descriptive flourish
with words, and rich
resonating voice will be
greatly missed.
The family offers heartfelt
appreciation to the staff of
Kensington Hospice for their
tender care of Ken during his
last days.
Due to Covid-19 virus
concerns, there will be a
written Celebration of Life.
Those who would like to
share a memory of Ken are
asked to email it to
RememberingKen@shaw.ca
or mail a typed copy to
Remembering Ken, 3490
Dartmoor Place, Vancouver,
B.C., V5S 4G3. The
submission deadline is
September 30th. To receive a
copy of the finished booklet,
send your name and full
mailing address either to the
email or street address.
TERESA GOLLA
JOA N ROY HAR R INGTO N
At home peacefully on Monday,
August 10, 2020, Joan Roy
Harrington, née Hastings, of
Montreal, QC, in her 101st year.
Predeceased by her beloved
husband, Conrad F. Harrington,
her wonderful son, Conrad
H. Harrington, siblings T. Roy
(Ann), William, and Hazel (J. Eric
Harrington), and sister-in-law
Janet (Frederick Cowie); Survived
by her devoted daughters Jill and
Susan, (the late Stephen Godfrey)
and daughter-in-law Sally (Jan
Philippo). “Nanny” will be deeply
missed by her grandchildren -
Clare (Michael Vivier), Conrad R.
(Marilyn Lill) and George (Helen
Spicer) Harrington; Joan and
Margot Porter; Kathleen and
Robert Godfrey; and her great-
grandchildren - Chelsey and
Nicholas Vivier; Elizabeth, Conrad
J., and Catherine Harrington - and
by the many other friends and
family who loved her.
Joan (Mrs H., Nanny) lived
a long life of love, grace,
faith, unwavering strength,
encouragement, and kindness
to all. Born on September 8,
1919 to the late Hazel Marguerite
Ekers and John Ogilvie Hastings,
she was educated at Miss
Edgar’s and Miss Cramp’s and
McGill University. Joan was
accomplished, charming, and
widely respected. Joan and Con
were married on August 6, 1940 in
Ste-Agathe and treasured their 58
years together - a truly inspiring
partnership of love devoted
to the larger community and
their family.
Most especially, their summers
spent in Metis Beach surrounded
by grandchildren and lifelong
friends of all ages make up
the memories cherished by
all for decades to come. Her
grandchildren will remember
her impishly competitive nature,
her never-ending supply of
homemade cookies, her laugh,
and her stalwart support and
gentle wisdom: “It’s all milk under
the bridge!”
The family wishes to thank
her care-giving family for their
dedicated attention and love:
Rowena, Malou, Darlene, Jane,
Bibi, Yolande, Dada, and the
staff at Place Kensington. Due to
COVID restrictions, a memorial
will be held at a later date. In lieu
of flowers, donations in Joan’s
memory may be made to the
Joan and Conrad Harrington
Scholarship Fund at McGill
University or to the charity of
your choice.
“So greet the New Year! Never
cease to pray each day when
we arise, for courage, strength,
and endless peace, and deeds to
match their sacrifice.” - J.R.H, 1944
E. ANN KELLY J. MURRAY KELLY
(née Ke nnedy)
February 13, 1930 December 10, 1926
August 6, 2020 August 6, 202 0
Ann and Murray passed away peacefully surrounded by family and an
abundance of love in London, ON. Married for 66 years, their deep love for
each other and zest for life spread much joy to their family and many friends.
Beloved parents to Janet (Brian) Cram, Margo, Sheila and Stephen (Yvonne)
Kelly. Exceptional grandparents to Natalie and Danielle Cram, Sam, Henry
and Kate Levitt. Great grandparents to Jacob Manklow. Daughter of Grace
(nee Bayly) and Ted Kennedy, son of Marion (nee Sullivan) and Harry Kelly.
Ann leaves her adored sister Mary Thomson (Mark Lowenstine) and was
predeceased by brother Tom Kennedy. Murray leaves his cherished sister
Gwynn Meden and was predeceased by sister Joanne Thomson.
Ann was known for her remarkable kindness, terrific sense of humour
and unwavering support of family and friends. After graduating in English
Literature from UWO as a young mother, she dedicated herself to improving
the lives of others. She sat on the Boards of the Boys & Girls Club of London,
the Vanier Institute of the Family, and Foundation London, and co-founded
the Neighbourhood Centre for low-income mothers. She loved tennis, skiing
and swimming.
Murray loved golfing, curling, bridge and above all, music. He played the
saxophone for 70 years and said playing music with others was like “living in
a dream world.” After a Business degree at Western he started Murray Kelly
Printing. A progressive thinker, he introduced a four-day work week and profit
sharing with his employees. But Murray’s biggest achievement was marrying
Ann and having four children. He built them skating rinks, go-carts, and played
riotous games. Murray never lost his inner child and taught us all to have fun.
Donations in their memory can be made to the Boys & Girls Club of London.
May the wind always be at your back. Rest in peace. We love you.
OPINION
ROBERT JO HN
HUNTLY KENNE DY
1932 – 2020
It is with deep sadness that the
Kennedy and Doona families
announce the passing of Robert
John Huntly Kennedy on August
3, 2020. Born in Kitchener, Ontario
on November 5, 1932 to Peter
and Vera Kennedy, Robert spent
his early years in Montreal, later
attended the University of Alberta
and McGill University and earned
his professional accounting
designation. Robert went on to
enjoy a long career in the printing
industry, beginning in Montreal
with Ronald’s Printing and later
assuming executive roles with
Quebecor Printing in Montreal
and Toronto.
Nothing pleased Robert more
than to be surrounded by
those he loved, marking special
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a trip to the Stratford Festival.
All in all, he was a classic and
true gentleman.
Robert is predeceased by his wife,
Merle Kennedy (nee Wrong) and
brother, David Kennedy. He is
survived by his partner Margaret
Doona, daughters Janet (Brook
Bangsboll), Christine (Andrew
July 30, 1947 -
July 27, 2020
With great sadness, the
children of Viviane F. Launay
announce her recent
unexpected passing. After
many years at the Canadian
Federation for the Humanities
(1979 - 1990), Viviane
continued a successful career
with UNESCO in Ottawa (1991
- 1996), Paris (1996 - 2003) and
finally New York (2003 -
2004). In 2005, she retired to
Montreal to be closer to
children Arielle Elbaz, Michaël
Elbaz (Hannah Claus) and
grandchildren Noémie and
Simon. Despite a diagnosis of
Berger’s Disease in 2014,
Viviane’s incisive spirit and
generous nature always
remained intact. A celebration
of her life will be held once
larger gatherings are
permitted. Donations: Native
Women’s Shelter of Montreal.
E LIZABETH CAROL
A NN LESAGE
(Mendiuk)
On Sunday, August 2, 2020,
Carol LeSage passed away at
Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto, at
the age of 77. She was preceded
by her father, Joseph and mother,
Mary (Sawicki) Mendiuk. She
is survived by two sons, John
of Wanganui, NZ and Peter of
Squamish, BC and their father,
Patrick LeSage; grandchildren,
Christopher, Sarah, and Jorja all of
Wanganui; sister, Patricia (Tudy)
and nephew, Michael Ostapchuk
of Port Dover.
Carol was born on March 27,
1943, in Hamilton and spent her
early years growing up in the
community of Brightside. She
remained faithful to her roots and
her Brightside pals. An avid sports
fan all her life she couldn’t wait for
the restart of the covid delayed
sports season. She golfed often
when she could, never taking
herself too seriously. She enjoyed
a political debate and played a
wicked game of bridge.
She received her R.N. in 1963 from
St. Joseph’s Hospital School of
Nursing, and worked for over
30 years at Sick Kids as an OR
head nurse participating in some
pioneering cardiac surgery,
she was an “in charge” nurse
by nature.
She used her many interests and
talents to run a small catering
business when her boys were
young, knitted unique sweaters
for sale, helped her neighbours
with their summer gardening, she
had an eye for colour. She took
up painting later in her life and
was influenced by the paintings of
Maude Lewis.
She will be remembered for her
creativity, generosity, fun loving
nature, superb dinners for family
and friends, and happy hour on
her front patio on Avenue Rd.

It is with great sadness that we

announce the sudden passing of
Teresa, on Monday, August 10,
2020. Beloved wife of James,
loving mother to Joanne, Laura
(Bruno), James, and Peter (Robin).
Adored grandmother to Steven
(Mary), Sara (Mike) and Alena and
great-grandson, Oliver. Teresa
was born on October 25, 1934, to
Charles and Loretta McAleer. Jim
and Teresa were married on Jim’s
birthday, June 7, 1958, and spent
most of their lives raising their
children in Mississauga. Teresa
was a sister to Barbara Whiston
(deceased) and sister-in-law to
Roy. She will be missed by her
many nieces and nephews, and
their families.
Teresa and Jim loved to travel.
They travelled all over the world
including Europe, Singapore,
South America and family visits to
Ireland. Teresa enjoyed playing
bridge, reading the newspaper
cover to cover, going to Sherway
and most of all, spending time
with her family.
Cremation has taken place. A
Funeral Mass and Celebration of
Life will take place at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, a donation may
be made to The Heart and Stroke
Foundation or a charity of your
choice.
Ford), and son, David John. He
is also survived by his sister, In your
Elizabeth (David Fraser) and her
family, with whom he had a special
relationship, stepmother, Kathryn
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Kennedy, and daughter-in-law,
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Passed away peacefully in the home of her daughter, Dr. Alison Hillman (Matthew Pacaud), Jane (Derek
in Newfoundland. Her memory will be cherished by children, Alison, Boate) and Tim, who figured
Jamie (Joanne Scarlett), Don (Ruth Kipp), Alan, Elizabeth (Paul Coxworthy); prominently in Robert’s later
grandchildren, Adam Coxworthy and James Purvis; sister, Toby Rainey years, and will be remembered
and sister-in-law, Elizabeth Waterston; plus many nieces, nephews, great- very fondly by Margaret’s
nieces, great-nephews, friends and mentees around the world. Predeceased grandchildren, Charlotte and
by husband, Donald; parents, Cela and Fred; and siblings, Bill, Joan (Reid)
Lucy Pacaud, as well as by his
and Margaret. many nieces, nephews and
Always a trailblazer, she became the first female president of the Medical extended family.
Council of Canada in 1981. She and her husband were appointed Officers of Heartfelt thanks to the nurses,
the Order of Canada in 1994 for having “consistently used their talents and
healthcare professionals and
energy to improve the welfare of children throughout the world.” doctors at Sunnybrook Health
Liz Hillman devoted her life to promoting the health and well-being of Sciences Centre. No funeral
children and to inspiring others to do the same. She mentored several service will take place, but a
generations of young doctors around the world, encouraging a balance of celebration of Robert’s life will be
family and professional life, often with fun and laughter. And daughter Alison announced at a future date.
followed her parents into the medical field. Liz summed up the challenge of
Global Child Health work, saying: “There is always more to be done and
never enough time to do it all - which is why we must teach others.”
In honour of her late husband, Liz Hillman established the Hillman Medical
Education Fund to support health education and to foster future leaders in
medicine, particularly in East Africa. Donations in memory of Liz Hillman Have The
may be made to https://www.rosecharities.ca/category/hillman-fund/.
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It is with great sadness that we
announce the passing of John
Thomas Long, loving husband
of Gillian, father of Jane, Sarah
(Tom Crichton) and Rachel (Derek
Newton) and Poppa to Amelia,
William, Sam, Ethan and Jonah.
John was born in Birmingham,
England. He was predeceased by
his two sisters, Pat Gupwell and
Ann Jukes.
John was a loyal friend who loved
celebrating holidays and special
occasions with the Canadian
Family, a group of ex-patriate
Brits who became far more than
friends when John and Gill moved
to Canada in 1966. They describe
him as someone you could always
count on, in good times and bad.
John trained as a civil engineer
in England and qualified as a
Professional Engineer after he
moved to Canada. He loved his
work and rose to the head of
the company that is now known
as LEA Consulting Ltd. He was
instrumental in establishing the
LEA India operation, which grew
to over 2,000 employees, and was
very influential in the way transit
has developed in the GTA over the
past 25 years. In addition to having
high professional standards, he
focused on social activity and
employee engagement to build
a positive culture in the firm. He
was a strong supporter of keeping
the firm employee owned. When
he had to retire as CEO of the
LEA Group upon turning 65, he
immediately set up a consulting
company and continued to work
with LEA until very recently.
When asked to describe his
passions by a tour guide in
New York City, he said: “Public
transportation and India.” He
spent many years travelling to
India and other international
destinations sharing his expertise
and passion for transportation
projects. He thoroughly enjoyed
matching wits with lawyers
when he frequently appeared as
a witness at Ontario Municipal
Board hearings. He was a mentor
to many young professionals and
loved solving problems, whether
it be conducting a massive transit
study in Mumbai, or advising on
the construction of a cottage tree
house for his grandchildren.
John had an insatiable curiosity for
exploring the world and instilled
his love of travel in his children
and grandchildren. He and Gill
travelled extensively and took
great pleasure in arranging family
vacations and renting houses
large enough to accommodate all
twelve members of his family.
The family would like to thank
the medical professionals who
cared for him during his illness
including Dr. Sam Babak, Dr.
Angelo Vivona, the nursing staff
at the Markham Stouffville Cancer
Care Centre, and his home care
support team, Mehdi and Andrea.
The family will hold a private
funeral in light of the current
COVID-19 circumstances. In lieu
of flowers, please consider a
donation to either the Markham
Stouffville Hospital Foundation
or YMCA John Island Camp
where John’s five grandchildren
have learned to explore
Canada’s north.
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at www.dixongarland.com.
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GERALD MACDONALD
Gerald Patrick MacDonald
passed away peacefully
surrounded by his family on
Wednesday, August 12, 2020,
at the age of 93 years young.
Beloved husband of Regina,
loving father to Robert
(Catharine MacDonald), Ellen
(Vic Beacock), and Doug
(Karen Gleeson). Cherished
grandpa and papa to Sarah
Hlady (Todd Hlady), Erin
MacDonald, Amy MacDonald,
Ian Beacock, Spencer Beacock
(Kate Hale-Wilkes), and Emily
Beacock and great-
grandfather to Addison and
Emmett Hlady. Predeceased
by parents, Patrick (1937) and
Anne (1951); Sister Betty
(1990); brother, Alex (1944);
and infant brother, John
(1918).
Gerry was born in Welland,
Ontario on December 19,
1926, to Patrick MacDonald
and Anne McLaren. Gerry
grew up in the family home
on River Road and was a
proud native of Welland. He
attended Central School, the
Welland High and Vocational
School, and the University of
Buffalo. He was a proud and
long-time employee of Atlas
Steels in Welland - following
the death of his brother, Alex,
in 1944 in the Battle of
Normandy, Gerry left school
and began his career at Atlas
in the drawing office and
progressed through many of
the company’s departments
as foreman and retiring in
1989 as Utilities Engineer.
Gerry met a smart,
independent and lovely lady
named Regina Kraus in 1951 at
the Welland Tennis Club, who
became the love of his life.
They married in 1953 and
shared 67 wonderful and
happy years together, at both
their little apartment on
McAlpine Avenue in Welland
and their house on Haist
Street in Fonthill. Their first
child, Rob, was born in 1955,
followed by Ellen in 1958 and
Doug in 1966.
Gerry had a great many
interests and was a great fan
of sports, especially his
beloved Toronto Maple Leafs
and Blue Jays. He liked
nothing more than settling in
on a cold Saturday winter
night with a fire in the
fireplace and watching the
Leafs. Gerry had a very keen
interest in history and a very
special interest in the history
of the Canadian troops in the
Second World War.
He was a charter member of
the Kirk-on-the-Hill
Presbyterian Church in
Fonthill and was instrumental
in helping to start the new
church in Fonthill in 1957; he
served as its Clerk of Session
for many years. Gerry served
as councillor on the Village of
Fonthill Council in the 1960s
and ran for Reeve. He was a
long-time member of the
Fonthill Masonic Lodge.
Outside of his family and
church, Gerry’s greatest love
was time spent at the cottage
on Jo Lee Point at Lake of
Bays, where he spent many
days and weeks enjoying
time with family and friends,
and "puttering" around the
place.
Son, Brother, Husband,
Father, Scholar, Engineer,
Politician, Youth Baseball
Coach, Swimmer, Fisherman,
Waterskier, Prize Rose
Gardener, Proud Canadian, A
Great Friend to so many
throughout his life, and the
best Dad ever was Gerry.
Cremation has taken place in
keeping with Gerald’s wishes.
Visitation for family and
friends will be at the Pelham
Funeral Home, 1292 Pelham
Street, Fonthill, Ontario on
Monday, August 17, 2020,
from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. As per
the Province of Ontario
COVID-19 regulations,
visitation attendance is limited
to 30% of building capacity.
Attendance will be monitored
to maintain capacity and
social distancing will be
practiced for the health and
safety of guests and staff. A
private interment will take
place at the Fonthill cemetery.
As an expression of
sympathy, donations may be
made to either the Juravinski
Cancer Centre or the Kirk-on-
the-Hill Presbyterian Church.
If a life is measured not by
riches amassed but by
kindness to others, then Gerry
lived a full and rich life. He
was compassionate,
generous, and a man of great
integrity.
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WALLACE “WALLY” DO NALD A DA IRINE MAUD MILES
RONALD MACLEAN ARTHUR MCGRATH “Doreen”
February 21, 1935 1933 – 2020 ( née Peilow)
July 28, 2020
Peacefully at Sunnybrook Hospital Passed away peacefully at
During his long and full life, Wally on July 25th, Don was predeceased Chartwell Lakeshore Retirement
had two things that were most by his wife Carol and leaves in Burlington on Tuesday,
important to him: his family, behind his children Christopher August 11, 2020, in her 99th year.
and time spent in service to (Debbie) and Ellen (Sam), and his Predeceased by husband, Harold
his community. four adored grandchildren, Jake
Thomas Miles (August, 2003).
Wally was so loved by Ruth, his and Brooke McGrath and Carter Also predeceased by brothers,
wife of 63 years; his children, and Max Lewis, and his sister Norman and Victor. Doreen will
Nancy Kerr.
Kim (John), Angela (Paul), James be greatly missed by extended
(Nancy) and Jennifer; and his Don was born in Swansea, members of the Miles and Peilow
grandchildren, Sarah (Graeme), Toronto in 1933 and attended families as well as numerous
Emma (Alexander) and Alec; and Humberside Collegiate before friends. The memories of Doreen
finally, his great-granddaughters, attending Queen’s University, will forever remain in the hearts of
Isla and Shannon of whom he was where he made his life-long all who loved her dearly.
extremely proud. friends and lived the stories he As per her wishes, Cremation
During his working years, Wally would spend the rest of his life has taken place. Scattering to
happily retelling. After graduating be held privately at a later date.
was most fulfilled by the 25 years
he spent as a member of the with a degree in Commerce in If desired, and in lieu of flowers,
1957, he spent one day at Osgoode
Toronto Real Estate Board. He also donations in memory of Doreen
Law School before deciding that
served as President of the Orillia to the Alzheimer Society would
and District Real Estate Board. group insurance was where the be sincerely appreciated.
While still working, Wally began real action was. As a management
consultant for employee benefits www.smithsfh.com
volunteering at the Sharing Place
Food Bank, a role he kept up for 16 and pension plans, Don spent
close to 20 years as a VP at
years. After retirement, he joined
the Champlain Seniors Service Towers Perrin, where if he did
not invent it, he surely perfected
Club and volunteered at Orillia
the art of the 2-martini lunch. In
Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital for
10 years. retirement Don and Carol moved
to Wellington, Ontario where they
Wally’s last days were spent at enjoyed country life on the water
St. Peter’s Hospital in Hamilton for 13 years. Don believed his
where he passed. The Family presence there caused the boom
wishes to thank staff in the in tourism and increased cache of
Palliative Care Unit for the great Prince Edward County.
care they took of him. Donations
may be made to St. Peter’s Don had an encyclopedic
knowledge of history, enjoyed
Hospital Foundation or to CityKidz
Hamilton https://hamiltonhealth. quoting obscure bon mots and
was unbeatable in Jeopardy. He
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https://citykidz.ca/branches/ of humour and valued above all,
hamilton/. a good audience. You could set a
clock to Don’s daily routines and a
Wally chose to leave this world
without ceremony or service. We timer to his daily cigars.
respect his wishes and will miss When kidney failure brought him
him deeply. PAUL MOFFAT
near the end, he acknowledged
with great pride that he had May 8, 1938
Condolences, memories and August 13, 2020
photos may be left at indeed had a very good run, and
in the ICU he charmed his way to
www.circleoflifecbc.com. In loving memory of Paul who
a final glass of Whiskey.
died peacefully surrounded by
Don never lost his sharp wit and his family, an excerpt of a poem
humour, and he will be missed; written by his mother-in-law.
however, as he passed his Ph.D. in
puns on to his children, especially “It was a beech tree, real alive. It
stretched on upward toward the
his son, the groans from the rest
sky. One day we learned it soon
of the family will live on.
would die. Insidious rot meant it
Our family would like to thank must go, tree men came and told
his wonderful caregivers, Catalina us so. How could it die? Why? It
and Cora, the nurses at Forest had gone through dreadful storm
Hill Place, and the staff at C4, from dusk ’til dawn. That guardian
Sunnybrook Hospital. A private beech was our true friend, it stood
family interment will be held - majestic - to the end. With faith
at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery on and fortitude may we stand fast,
August 22nd. just like that noble tree.”
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BALLANTYNE MATTHEWS
(Dossé)
Dossé died August 7, 2020, at
Belmont House in Toronto, where
she lived for many years. She was
93. Born in 1927, Dossé was the
second eldest and last surviving
of the Ballantyne sisters: Pat,
Joan, and Burleigh. Dossé grew
up in Windsor, ON, Niagara Falls,
ON, London, UK, and Toronto.
She was predeceased by first
husband, Royal Canadian Navy
pilot, Michael Philips, who died
in an aircraft crash soon after
they wed in 1950, and Douglas
Matthews, who she married in
1954. She is survived by her three
children: Llewellyn Matthews
(Fiona) of Castlegar, BC, Kevin
Matthews (Andrea) of Clarington,
ON, Gail McKenna (Barrie) of
Ottawa, and grandchildren, Katie
Matthews (Matthew Lipinski),
Emily MacDonald (Jarret),
Matthew and Morgan McKenna,
and Amanda Matthews.
Dossé was a graduate of Havergal
College. She went on to the
University of Toronto, where she
earned a BA as a well as bachelor
and master’s degrees in social
work. She had a long career as a
social worker at the Children’s Aid
Society and the Hospital for Sick
Children’s kidney transplant and
dialysis unit, as well as volunteer
posts at CAS and Bond Street
Nursery School.
Her true love was spending time
in Georgian Bay; summers with
her family at Go Home Bay, later
building her own cottage at Wah
Wah Taysee. She was passionate
about animals, of which she
raised many, including dogs
Puck and Lara, plus a menagerie
of rescued ducklings, birds and
raccoons. She cherished her years
at the Matthews family home in
Roches Point, ON, where she rode
and trained horses, and made
maple syrup.
Dossé and her family are grateful
for the compassionate care of
staff and the good friendships she
made at Belmont House.
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Augus t 14, 2020
At the age of 91, Enzo passed
away peacefully at his home. He
left surrounded by the love of
his family and with Frank Sinatra
crooning in the background.
He will be happy to be re-united
with his beloved wife of 51 years,
Verna, and always remembered
by his three sons Larry (Caren),
Gary (Kerry) and Paul. He also
leaves behind his grandchildren
Jordan (Maki), Taylor (Jenn),
Jacqueline and Sam, and his great
grandchildren, Max and Arabella,
and Charlotte and Penelope. He
will also be greatly missed by
sister-in-laws Marie Ferracuti and
Gloria Guest and many nephews
and nieces. He will also miss
Clare’s hockey exploits.
Enzo followed in the footsteps
of his father, a bricklayer/builder
from Friuli, Italy and began
building houses as a young man.
Those humble beginnings grew
and the Morassutti real estate
DNA was later transferred to his
sons and grandsons. His early
passions included waterskiing at
Wasaga Beach (with ski’s he and
his friends made from lumber and
inner tubes) and cars. His love
of cars culminated with his last
purchase, at age 90, of a sports
car. Albeit, one with a trunk big
enough for his walker.
He loved golf. After his beloved
Verna was taken from him, the
highlight of each year became
his annual golf trips with his three
sons - Ireland, Italy, US, Canada.
One particularly memorable trip
featured torrential downpours
every day. Biblical downpours.
Enzo bought his sons head
to toe raingear and, ignoring
the incredulous looks from
the groundskeepers, the four
of them played, laughing like
lunatics through each round.
The locations and courses were
beautiful but for Enzo that was
all secondary. He just loved being
with his sons. And he loved to
point out to everyone that his
sons were taking good care of
him. This tradition later included
his grandsons who had the great
pleasure of playing with their
Nonno at Pebble Beach on his
80th birthday.
Always impeccably dressed and
always with a joke, Enzo was
happier at Crème de la Crème,
his neighbourhood breakfast
restaurant which he visited
daily, than in the fanciest of
Toronto eateries.
He was defined not by buildings or
deals, but by his love of family. His
home was filled with photographs
- all of them of his wife Verna,
his children, his grandchildren
and great grandchildren. He
loved nothing more than to be
surrounded by family.
His family meant the world to
him and he meant the world
to his family. He was a loving
and devoted husband, father
and Nonno. At close to 90, he
began to text and the emoji’s
soon followed.
He had everything that all too
often seems to be missing in
our world - dignity, integrity,
honesty and just plain decency. A
true gentleman.
He will be missed terribly but in
our hearts forever.
The Morassutti family would
like to sincerely thank Breannen
Hobbs for bringing joy and
comfort to Enzo’s final months
and to caregivers Beza Mergia and
Abiola Bello for their wonderful
care and grace. The family also
thanks the entire team at St.
Elizabeth’s Health Care and the
Dorothy Ley Hospice.
A private family funeral service
will be held on August 17th at
Ward Funeral Home at 2035
Weston Road, Toronto.
In lieu of flowers, donations may
be made in Enzo’s memory to
Princess Margaret Hospital.
Please visit Enzo’s
Book of Memories at
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EVA PICKETT
(née BILLE)
Eva passed away peacefully
on Sunday, August 2, 2020,
at 86 years of age.
Beloved wife of Clarke, who
predeceased her in 2015.
Survived by her sister,
nephew, and niece in
Denmark.
Eva moved to Canada from
J OHN COCHRAN O SLER Denmark in 1962. She was
(Jock) always a joy to be around.
Octob er 3, 1936 - Winnipeg, Manitoba Eva lived an active life,
JUNE MARIA N worked, travelled and
August 6, 2020 - Calgary, Alberta (SHAW) PHE LP S
enjoyed her many friends and
Jock Osler died peacefully on Thursday, August 6, 2020, from complications family. She hated what
Born June 12, 1939 in Barrie, Parkinson’s did to her body
due to kidney disease. Jock was born in Winnipeg and moved with his family Ontario, passed away on
but carried on with grace and
to Bearspaw, west of Calgary, where they established the family ranch in the August 3, 2020. dignity until the end.
1940s. Jock attended Crescent Heights High School in Calgary and Carleton
College in Ottawa. While in fine health and enjoying Cremation has taken place
life and family, June suffered a and a memorial/celebration
In his working life, he started out as a reporter with the Calgary Herald and sudden and untreatable stroke of life service will take place in
after 10 years moved to senior editorial roles with the Financial Times of in her beloved garden near the Danish Lutheran Church
Canada in Toronto and Montreal, before settling back in Calgary with his Creemore. Together with Bill, her when the circumstances allow
family in the early 1970s. After 16 years in the newspaper business, Jock husband and beloved life partner us to gather again.
moved into corporate communications in the oil patch to begin the next of 57 years, they raised three Online condolences and
chapter of what would be a long and successful career. After various senior wonderful children, Stephanie memories may be shared at
PR roles he established in 1995 his own consulting business, Jock Osler Phelps (Toronto), Debbie Ford www.humphreymiles.com.
Communications, which he ran successfully and happily until his retirement. (Denver) and Glen Phelps
Jock was also active in local, provincial and federal politics with the PC (Calgary), and then embraced
Party of Canada. He was a true and proud “Red Tory.” Jock’s involvement their spouses, Paul Ford and
in politics led to him becoming in 1979 Press Secretary to Prime Minister Julia Phelps. “Grammy” shared
Joe Clark in Ottawa. Later, in 1987, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney appointed cottaging, sports, games, crafts
him Minister (Public Affairs) at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC. and other family activities with
While Jock loved the time spent in Ottawa and Washington, Calgary was her grandchildren, Alexandra and
always home. Michael Ford and Benjamin and
Maggie Phelps.
Jock believed in contributing towards making his city, province and country
stronger. He was a tireless volunteer, and the causes, charities, events and June, with Bill, enjoyed her
initiatives were many - too many to list. He was a dedicated supporter of the extended family and many
arts, especially live theatre, in Calgary. In particular, he was proud to be one friends in Creemore, throughout
of the founders of Alberta Theatre Projects, which he affectionately called Ontario, and in Maple Leaf
his “spiritual home.” He was a Calgary Stampede volunteer for many years Estates, Florida. In addition to
and especially enjoyed his involvement with the Grandstand Committee as gardening, her favourite pastimes
the stage announcer of the Grandstand show and the “Voice of the Young included cottaging, pottery,
Canadians,” a role he held for the last 25 years. The 10 days spent every July painting, travelling, renovating,
on the Stampede tarmac with his “other family” were some of his happiest entertaining, and planning. She
times. He was also a lifelong Calgary Stampeders fan - and if they had only was an accomplished skier at
listened to him more, they would have won more Grey Cups. Devils Glen Ski Club and golfer at
Mad River Golf Club.
During his lifetime Jock was recognized with many awards for his service as a
volunteer, board member and leader. To name just a few: in 2002, Recipient, After high school in Orillia,
Harry and Martha Cohen Award for distinguished contribution to the arts June graduated from Nursing at
in Calgary; in 2005, Recipient, Alberta Centennial Medal; in 2012, Recipient, Toronto East General Hospital AGNE S TH OMPSON RODEN
Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal; and in 2016 appointed Life Member of the in 1960 and completed post (Tommi)
Calgary Stampede. graduate studies at the University
of Western Ontario in 1961. June Of her own choosing and with
Above all, Jock was a caring and devoted husband, father, grandfather,
and Bill married on July 6, 1963 the aid of “MAID,” passed away
brother, uncle and friend. He rarely missed a grandchild’s hockey game,
and established their home in peacefully with family by her side
meet, race, recital, or event. A loyal, lifelong friend to many. He loved and
Toronto. June practiced nursing on Thursday, August 13, 2020 at
will be missed by the special group of “LH” friends from time spent over
at Toronto General Hospital and the age of 92. Mother of Allan
60 years at the cabin at Sylvan Lake. He will also be missed by friends from
then, while raising a family, made (Dianne) and Donna Able (David).
many ski trips to Aspen, CO over the years. He especially enjoyed, right up
major contributions to parent- Grandmother of Andrew (Angel)
until recent weeks, his regular coffees or lunches with “the boys” and many
teacher associations, Eglinton and Jennifer (Maggie). Great-
dear friends. Jock and Diana also enjoyed spending time with their friends in
St. George’s United Church, and Grandmother of Jody, Daniel,
Scottsdale, AZ. Finally, Jock was, and we are all, grateful beyond words to
The Junior League, the Toronto Devonte, Emmaline and Hanna.
son and brother Will who in 2005 donated a life-saving kidney to Jock - and
Garden Club, and chaired the Tommi will be greatly missed by
he packed a lifetime of love and living into those extra 15 years.
Board of Victoria Day Care. Joe Talaska (Debbie) and Marie
Jock is survived by his wife of 58 years, Diana; children, John (Madge Barr), Barnsdale (Greg). Predeceased
Will (Lisa), Ted (Elizabeth) and Suzy (Andrew Judson); and grandchildren, She was pre-deceased by her
by her husband, Donald and their
Keegan, Tara (and their mother, Kerry Smyth), Elizabeth, Hugh, Harry, brother, Lawrence Shaw, and is
son, Larry.
Annie, Katie, Sam and Ellie. He is also survived by his brother, Hugh (Tracye) survived by her brothers, Martin
and many nieces and nephews. Shaw (Antoinette) and Gerald Tommi graduated from John
Shaw (Barbara) and sister-in-law Hopkins in 1949 with a nursing
The family would like to thank the dedicated Foothills Medical Centre staff Eleanor Shaw of Orillia. She was degree. She then came to Canada
on Units 82, 64 and especially Units 36 and 37. As well, we would like to
pre-deceased by her brother- to work at Sick Kids where she
thank the dedicated team at the Helios Wellness Centre. Lastly, a special in-law, Tom Phelps, and will be met her husband.
thanks to Dr. Paul Pashniak, Jock’s physician and friend. Jock was forever
missed by her brother and sisters The family would like to thank the
grateful for the many health-care professionals he encountered over the in law, Ross and Joanne Phelps,
years. Thanks to you all. staff at Highland Manor, especially
Mary Girard and Isabell Phelps. Pam, Meghan and Tom. A
Despite health challenges in recent years, Jock never lost his appreciation for A family funeral and internment Celebration of Life will be held at
life, family and friends. Kind, decent, fair-minded, hardworking, honest and
was held in Orillia on August 10th a later time, when the family can
level-headed, he will be missed. in Orillia. The family hopes to hold cross the U.S Border. Donations
A Private Mass with immediate family was held at St. Pius X Catholic Church a Celebration of June’s Life as may be made to the Fergus/Elora
in Calgary, Alberta. A celebration of Jock’s life will be held at a later date. If restrictions on gatherings lift next Rotary Foundation or Groves
friends so desire, in lieu of flowers, memorial tributes can be made to the year. We will miss June and keep Memorial Hospital Foundation.
Kidney Foundation of Canada (Southern Alberta Branch) at www.kidney.ca her in our hearts forever. www.grahamgiddyfh.com
or to an arts and culture organization of your choice. Donations in June’s memory
Expressions of sympathy may be forwarded to the family via the website can be made to Collingwood
www.fostersgardenchapel.net. Marine and General Hospital,
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E LI ZABETH RIEHM
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ALFRED H AROLD
Elizabeth (fondly called “Dip” by many who loved her) passed away August DOUGLAS ROGERS
11, 2020. She was predeceased by her husband, Bill, in 2016. Both she and Bill
died at home as they had wished and were able to do so with their family by Died peacefully at home on July
their sides. 20, 2020 in Steveston, British
She leaves her three children, David (Ans), Janet (Salim) and Peter (Roxanne) Columbia at the age of 79.
and her brother, Fred (Laurie) of Caribou Island, NS and Olympia, WA and leaves
Doug is survived by his wife of 50
her family and many nieces and nephews in BC, Ontario, and Nova Scotia - and
years, Jane (née Hughes); and his
of course, her cat Lucy! She was the daughter of Dr. Christine A. M. (MacKinnon)
children Michelle Reining (Michael)
MacInnes (1985) and Rev. John Knox MacInnes (1945). She was predeceased by
and grandchildren Felix, Luka and
her brother, Donald (1957); sister, Margaret (1998); and her son, Andy (1977).
Sonja; Hugh Rogers (Anji) and
Elizabeth was born in Upper Stewiacke NS, on May 8, 1924. She spent her grandchildren Anila and Priya;
early childhood in Maitland, NS until her family moved to Saint John, NB so Helen Rivers-Bowerman (Michael)
that she and her sister could attend better high schools. She excelled in her and grandchildren Jack, Anna and
Truro, NS high school, later winning a scholarship which she used to complete Hugh; and Lee Rogers (Emily); and
4 years of university in 3 at Mount Allison University and graduated in 1944 his sisters Helen MacRae (Peter)
with a BSc in Chemistry. and Roslyn MacDonald (Bill) and
their children and families.
Since it was wartime, she immediately started working at Defence Industries
Limited (later called CIL) in a munitions plant lab in Nobel, ON. That is where Doug was born January 26, 1941
she met Bill, also a chemist, and soon they were a couple. As the war was at the Colchester County Hospital
winding down, they married on June 23, 1945. in Truro, Nova Scotia to Reverend
Alfred Allison Rogers and Anna
As Bill was promoted into more senior positions at CIL, they were transferred May Rogers. He spent his early
to different locations where there were CIL high explosives plants - Sarnia years during the war in Wolfville,
ON, Nobel ON, McMasterville QC, back to Nobel, Calgary AB, then finally to Nova Scotia, and eventually
McMasterville again in 1964. They lived in nearby Beloeil, QC from 1964-1992. his father’s profession took the
She returned to university in the mid-sixties to obtain a BA (Honours Eng. family to St. Catharines, Ontario
Concordia) and her BEd (McGill). With her teaching degree, she was a high- and Montreal, Quebec. Doug had
school English teacher at Richelieu Valley Regional High School (RVRHS) from fond memories of playing ice
1970-1989. She loved teaching, her fellow teachers, and especially her students. hockey, which remained a lifelong
passion, and being introduced to
Elizabeth was involved with Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW)
her entire life. She continued the legacy started by her mother (Christine A. M. his other passion, judo.
His interest in judo sent him on an
Macinnes - Dalhousie 1918 with great distinction) by joining CFUW when she
adventure of a lifetime. In 1960, he
lived in Sarnia. She was one of the founders and the inaugural President of
boarded a ship in Vancouver and
the Parry Sound Club. While living in Beloeil, she served on many committees
and was the President for 2 terms. When they moved to Victoria, she again sailed to Tokyo, Japan to further
was involved in the club, convening a neighbourhood group and book club his judo training. He recalled his
for many years. That legacy was passed down to her daughter, Janet, who five years in Japan fondly, training
has also been a CFUW member for many years. with some of judo’s greatest
teachers and making many
She was an incredible reader, had a vast knowledge of many subjects, was the
lifelong friends along the way.
family historian (even for Dad’s side!), had a great sense of humour, and was a
Upon arriving in Tokyo, he trained
strong feminist. She often said the book Betty Friedan’s The Feminist Mystique
at the Kodokan and made an effort
spoke to her and echoed what she was feeling in the early sixties with 4 kids,
to practice with some of the best
no career, and a changing social environment. She always said it was important
competitors coming out of the
for a woman to know how to drive and have her own source of income.
police academy and Takushuoku
Mom was the prime instigator of many trips: cottaging on Okanagan Lake and Univerisity (Takudai). Eventually
Lake Memphremagog plus camping at Lake George, the Maritimes, Hermit he met Masahiko Kimura, widely
Island, Maine and touring around Europe in a VW bus. Later years included considered one of the greatest
famous family holidays in the Caribbean and various BC Gulf Island houses. judokas of all time, and head
coach at Takudai. Kimura became
Their last and best move was to Victoria, BC in 1992. They bought a beautiful
home with a wonderful back garden where they entertained family, friends, a mentor to Doug, and Doug
eventually trained with him full-
and visitors. They loved the temperate climate; Dad played golf all year and
Mom loved her garden. time at Takudai.
The family would like to thank the caregivers - Beth, Edna, Aria, Matilda, Dee, Doug had an exceptional career
Juliet, and Gina who supported Elizabeth and her children in her final days. in judo and highlights include
the 1964 Olympic Games (silver),
We are planning a garden party soon for family and friends (in Covid-style). If 1965 Pan American Games
you wish, a donation can be made in her honour to either Victoria Hospice (gold), 1965 All Japan University
Society or Our Place, Victoria BC. Notes and stories gladly accepted by email Championship (gold), 1965 World
to jriehm@sympatico.ca. Judo Championships (bronze),
1967 Pan American Games
(gold), and 1972 Olympic Games
(fifth). Doug was also a five-time
Canadian National Champion.
At the 1972 Olympic Games in
Munich, Germany, Doug was
Canada’s flag bearer in the
opening ceremonies; and in 1977,
In your thoughts he was inducted into the Canadian
Sports Hall of Fame.
Doug’s other passion in life was
aviation. When he was 16 years
Memorialize and celebrate a loved old, he paid for his own flying
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license even before obtaining a
driver’s license. Upon returning to
Vancouver in 1965, he embarked
on a successful 35-year career as a
commercial airline pilot. He spent
the final part of his career as a
747 Captain with Air Canada and
retired in 2001.
Family was also incredibly
important to Doug. One day,
when he was at the University
of British Columbia, he met
fellow Olympic athlete, Jane
Hughes. They married on July
11, 1970 in Vancouver and raised
four children together. Doug
delighted in watching his four
kids grow over the years and
pursue their own interests in
sports, academics, work, and
travel. He was particularly happy
to welcome new family members,
including his eight grandchildren.
In January of this year, he felt
blessed to attend the wedding of
his youngest son, Lee.
Annual family camping trips to
Heron Rocks campsite on Hornby
Island, British Columbia were a
particular family highlight, with
many hours spent fishing in our
beloved zodiac boat. He spent
most of his adult life on the West
Coast of Canada, but the East Coast
held a special place in his heart,
with frequent trips back to Nova
Scotia to visit family and friends.
Doug lived life to the fullest, and
his stories and laughter will be
missed greatly by his friends,
family and all who knew him.
Due to COVID-19, no service
will be held at this time.
Should family and friends so
desire, memorial donations can
be made to Judo Canada (www.
judocanada.org/donation/) or
the BC Cancer Foundation (www.
bccancerfoundation.com/ways-
donate)
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DR. EDWARD A LBERT
ROEMME LE
“Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds
of earth...
Dr. Edward Albert Roemmele
passed away peacefully at his home
at age 96 on Friday, August 7, 2020
in Windsor, Ontario, surrounded
by loving family members. Ed
was born in Steveville, Alberta
on September 28, 1923 and, while
he was still a baby in a family of 5
children, moved to Windsor where
he lived the remainder of his life.
He was predeceased by his parents
Fred and Edna, and in 1986 by his
first wife, Anne Steele Roemmele.
He is survived by his current wife,
Jean Isobel Roemmele; and by his
daughters Beth (Harold Hemstad)
and Susan (Terry Peach); and their
children, Megan (Ian Haessler),
Andrew and Katie (Iain Lounsbury);
and great-granddaughter, Lachlyn
Haessler. He is also survived by
stepdaughters, Anne (Matt Keeley),
Pam (Randy Leavitt), and Joan
(Shane Ostrom); grandchildren
Jenny (Matt), David (Kelly), Kristy
(Scott), Shari (Travis), Allie and
Julie; and by great-grandchildren
Edi, Wells and Carly. Ed was
predeceased by his siblings, Ivan,
Phyllis, Fred and Lois.
Ed attended King George Public
School and Walkerville Collegiate
(where he was Head of Cadets and
quarterback of the football team),
but his education was interrupted
by WWII. As soon as he was 18, he
enlisted with the RAF and became
a Spitfire and Mustang pilot. Ed
loved to tell stories about the
war, but the tales he told were
more often of the friendships and
hijinks of young men rather than
of the horrors of war. He came
home from the war determined to
become a doctor and help people.
He attended University of Western
Ontario, part of a special class of
veterans known as Meds ‘50. The
Med students at ‘Anatomy Table
One’ became lifelong best friends
and golfing buddies. Though
dispersed through Ontario, family
vacations, regular golf games and
parties kept them close.
He practised medicine in Windsor
as a Family Doctor, Physician and
Surgeon for over 50 years. He was
doctor to many generations of
families - in fact, the grandchildren
are sure he delivered half of
Windsor! He established the
Chronic Care unit at Hotel Dieu
Hospital, was Chief of Staff at Hotel
Dieu, oversaw the transformation
of the nurses’ residence into
doctors’ offices, was president of
Windsor Medical, president of PSI
(Physicians Services Incorporated)
- an Ontario-wide precursor to
OHIP. He was recognized as a life
member by the Ontario Medical
Association and by the Canadian
Medical Association. In addition to
his medical accomplishments, Ed
found time to be on the Board of
Windsor Symphony, was an elder at
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, a
bowler, curler and life member of
Essex Golf and Country Club.
But Ed’s greatest source of pride
was his family. He was a role model
to his children and grandchildren,
showing them through example
the values of duty, decency,
reliability, honour, dignity, respect,
integrity and care. Ed loved to
host family dinners at which he
would hold court and tell stories.
He took great pride in his family,
and especially enjoyed following
the achievements of his many
grandchildren.
Special thanks go to the staff at
Amica Riverside, the healthcare
professionals and the many
family members who rallied to
care for Ed during his final days.
Donations in Ed’s memory can
be made to his favourite charity
Medecins sans Frontiers (Doctors
without Borders) at http://www.
doctorswithoutborders.ca . Due
to Covid-19 restrictions, a private
family funeral was held at the
Walter D. Kelly Life Celebration
Centre. The funeral service
will be available to watch on
the funeral home website and
condolences and memories
can be shared with the family at
www.walterdkellyfuneralhome.com.
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A NNE ROSWELL
With great sadness, the Rowsell
family announces the passing
of Anne Rowsell. She was born
in Toronto, Ontario the August
10,1924 and passed away at Ross
Memorial Hospital in Lindsay,
Ontario on the evening of August
4, 2020 after a very short illness.
Predeceased by her parents, Mary
and Leslie Bradshaw. The family
traveled to England late in the
1930’s. As the war started, they
evacuated England and returned
to Canada. Their convoy included
a shipment of the gold reserve
of the Bank of England. She
remained close to her English
relatives throughout their lives.
She grew up in a family of sisters,
who all predeceased her. She met
the identical Rowsell twins, Harry
and Roy, in school. After they
came back from naval service,
Harry and Anne were married.
Harry became a veterinarian
and university professor. They
lived in Minnesota then Guelph,
Ontario. Later the family moved
to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and
then settled in Kanata, Ontario. In
Ottawa, Anne had many friends.
It was there that she learned
how to rug hook and with some
friends started a store supplying
rug hooking supplies. There
were wry comments about the
Happy Hookers. Those hooked
hangings are cherished by her
family. In retirement, Harry and
Anne turned the family cottage
near Fenelon Falls, Ontario into
their home. There they kept up
with family and friends. They
had many relatives who also
had places on Sturgeon Lake,
and so there were many family
gatherings. Anne was particularly
close to her sister Dorothy and
her husband Jack and they often
enjoyed times together at the
lake. Anne nursed Harry through
his last illness until he passed
away in 2006. Anne loved doing
volunteer charity work. Late in
life, Anne moved into Sugar Bush
in Fenelon Falls. Anne was active
with her church, Fenelon Falls
United Church, with the UCW, the
Salvation Army, the P.E.O, and her
frequent social activities with her
friends. She loved jigsaw puzzles
and mystery novels: she and
Craig would swap their favourite
mysteries. She loved Downton
Abbey and Midsomer Murders.
Above all, she loved her family.
Her great sadness was to lose her
son Craig in 2019. She is survived
by her children, Carole (Lars), Paul
and John (Kristi), Craig’s wife Lin,
her grandsons Philip and Graham,
her granddaughters Bronwyn
(Paul) and Claire (Luke), her great-
grandsons Max and Tasman, and
her great-granddaughter Nadia.
Cremation has taken place. A
celebration will be held at a later
date. If so desired, a donation
may be made to the Fenelon
Falls Salvation Army (PO Box
819, Fenelon Falls, ON K0M 1N0,
phone# (705) 887-3031) or to your
preferred local charity.
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a story or photo, or make a
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G ABRI E LE PI E TRO
“G ABE ” SCAR DE LLATO
Scholar, teacher, editor, gardener,
cook, furniture-maker, pet-lover,
father, nonno, partner, friend.
Died at home with family at his
side on August 8, 2020, after a
short and brutal round with cancer.
Survived by his partner, Kathy;
children, Matteo (Kristin) and
Stephanie (Alex); grandchildren,
Rosalie and Camilla; sister
(Teresa) and family; mother-in-
law, Vonnie and the extended
Dixon family; and his extended
family in Italy. Predeceased by his
parents, Arcangelo Scardellato
and Celina Busatto; his sister,
Claudia Taylor; and his father-in-
law, Dr. Keith Dixon.
Gabe was born in Treviso, Italy,
educated in BC and England,
and worked in Vancouver, Rome
and Toronto. Most recently, he
held the Mariano A. Elia Chair
in Italian Canadian Studies at
York University. Focused on the
history of Italian immigration to
Canada, he especially loved
talking with people of all
backgrounds about the Canadian
immigrant experience.
He was a gentle, hands-on
parent, wonderful cook, loved
the outdoors, especially beach-
combing and forest-walking,
made furniture, nurtured his
garden and his pets, and, like his
father and mother, loved singing.
He had good friends in Canada
and Europe whom he greatly
valued. Thanks in great part to
them, he really enjoyed his life
in all these places. Reflecting in
the past weeks, and still audibly
enraged by news of the avoidable
suffering of others, he observed
many times that he had “lived a
very privileged life.”
Thanks to his PMH oncologist
Dr. Charles Catton, his TGH health
care team, and his home palliative
care team (Gimjad, Tatiana,
Alyssia, and Leea). At his request,
there will be a cremation. A happy
celebration of his life will be held
sometime soon.
JO HN CHARLE S SPE NCER
Nove m be r 6, 193 6
Augus t 4, 2020
Sadly, after a long battle with
cancer, on Tuesday, August 4,
2020, John Charles Spencer
passed away peacefully in
Manzanillo, Mexico. Born in
Mimico, Ontario, son of Jack and
Mary Spencer. He will be dearly
missed by his beloved siblings,
David (Eileen), Mary Lou and Jane.
Lovingly cherished by his three
children, Ric, Donna (Ian), Brenda
(Dave); (their mother Jean); and
his grandchildren, Megan, Haley,
Trent, Georgia and Josie. His late
wife, Lana Spencer; step-children
Michael (Vanny) and Teri (Mike)
and grandchildren Laura, Jesse,
Tara, Matthew and Melanie.
John worked for Bell Canada,
Ryder, Nedco and Orillia Precast
Concrete; he was exceptionally
disciplined and had great
organizational skills. John’s
hobbies included a bee apiary
and flying his Cessna 172. He
enjoyed many years up north in
Washago. Once retired he lived it
up in Mexico playing golf, cards,
learning Spanish, being social with
friends and served as President
of the El Faro Committee. His
charismatic personality and good
sense of humour will be greatly
missed by his family and friends.
Being mindful of Covid-19, a
celebration of life will be held at
a future date in Ontario. Heartfelt
thanks to friend and companion
Shirley Campbell and Dr. Tom for
their caring attention and close
bond they had with our Dad.
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B RIAN D OUGLAS SUNG EDWA RD JO HN CUTHBE RT VA LENTINE
May 20, 1942 – August 10, 2020 “ Ted”
Februa ry 24, 1 930 - Aug ust 9, 2020
Our family is saddened to announce that Brian passed away peacefully
at home surrounded by his family on Monday, August 10, 2020. Beloved “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race,
husband to Nicole (Nicky) and loving father to Danielle (Matt), David I have kept the faith.” 2 Timothy 4:7-8
(Tassan) and Mimi (Jeff). Grandfather to Emma, Phoebe, Madison, Dane,
Calgary lost a bit of its moral strength Sunday evening with the death of
Danika, CassieAnne, Mackenzie, Cody. Brother to Stuart (Teresa), Bob, Dee
Edward (Ted) John Cuthbert Valentine. Ted was born February 24, 1930 at
Dee (Brenda). He was predeceased by his parents, Bruce and Vera and
the Holy Cross Hospital in Calgary to Evelyn (LaMarche) and Cuthbert John
brother, Raymond.
Valentine (Bert). After attending Holy Angels and St. Mary’s Boys School,
Third generation Chinese, Brian was born and raised in Vancouver. He met he received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British
Nicky at University of British Columbia over 57 years ago and they shared Columbia where he was a member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. After
a beautiful life full of love and adventure. Many of their close friendships graduation, Ted returned to Calgary to join the family business, Halford &
were formed at UBC and Brian, aka Sunger, was a mainstay in a group of Valentine. Under his leadership, it became the largest and most successful
friends known as the Summer Fun Club. After UBC, he obtained his MBA at Volvo dealership in Canada; Valentine Volvo. His business motto, attributable
the University of Oregon and then articled for his CA at Arthur Anderson in to his long tenure as a Rotarian, was to ensure every deal was “fair to all
Toronto. In 1973, Brian and Nicky made the bold decision to move their young concerned.” Ted forgot to retire, going into the office regularly to type
family to Tanzania as Brian was offered a job with the Canadian International notes, mentor his son Paul, manage his philanthropy and volunteerism, and
Development Agency. They spent two years soaking up the experiences quip with staff and customers.
Africa offered and formed friendships that remain strong even today.
Ted had many great passions, including faith, family, the Calgary Flames,
Returning to Vancouver in 1975, Brian enjoyed a varied and interesting career
the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and the Calgary Stampeders
and his proudest professional accomplishment was building Waterstreet
(a season ticket holder for 67 years). His one true love was his wife Shirley.
Wealth Management with his son David. In 2004 David and Brian merged
Ted met Shirley at a church youth group meeting in Calgary where he beat
their company with Nicola Wealth and Brian retired in 2007.
his brother in a coin toss, thereby earning the right to ask her out. Ted and
Full of curiosity and passion, Brian created many lasting memories with Shirley married in 1958 and built a beautiful life for their 6 children, loving
his family such as: acquiring his pilot’s license flying a small plane into an in-laws and 18 grandchildren. Their family home was large and welcoming.
African game resort on the Rufiji River, riding Harleys through El Paso, road Ted and Shirley shared the belief that they should show hospitality to
trips with their beloved Porsche through Europe and North America, camel strangers…” for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” Hebrews
riding in the Empty Quarter Desert UAE (Sultan ‘Bin’ Brian) and the Sahara 13:2. This led the couple to open their doors to dozens of house guests over
Desert Morocco, boating up the Mekong River into Cambodia, hunting in the years - athletic billets, exchange students, lonely travellers, and the
the Yukon above the Arctic Circle, canoeing down the Nahanni River and occasional Calgary Stampeder.
enjoying the mists of the Tea Plantations in Northern Sri Lanka. As exotic as
Ted spent his life in service to others: as President of the Calgary Tourist and
these trips and many more were, Brian cherished his beachside vacations
Convention Bureau, the Canadian Automotive Dealers Association, the Motor
with his family and grandkids tossing them in the hotel pool and ocean for
Dealers’ Association of Alberta, the Calgary Motor Dealers’ Association; and
hours of fun.
as District Governor of Rotary. He served on several boards, including St.
Brian demonstrated his love for family, friends and his church through Mary’s University and the Calgary Catholic Education Fund. His volunteerism
cooking. His daily routine included looking for new recipes and sharing touched many: he delivered meals to the infirmed; overnighted at shelters;
them with his loyal group of digital followers. Over the years, he amassed served meals to the hungry; travelled to India to immunize against Polio; and
an epic sized recipe collection which his grandchildren fondly referred to as received recognition awards for blood donation. The years brought many
“Papa’s Bible.” As a dear friend noted, “St. Peter and all his hungry angels accolades, including awards for work (Alberta’s Time Quality Dealer of the
will now be fed forever by Chef Brian. Dishwashing staff needed - Apply at Year), giving (Rotary’s Paul Harris Fellow), and community contribution (the
the Pearly Gates!” City of Calgary, Grant MacEwan Lifetime Achievement Award). Ted was the
ultimate ambassador for our city, a Calgarian through and through. He never
Brian’s greatest pride and joy was his family. He loved them unconditionally
and he lived true to his belief that when parents choose to bring a child into missed a Stampede and loved donning his vintage western wear to host
family and friends at the Rangeland Derby and Grandstand Show. During
the world, they have a responsibility to help them thrive in life. Brian never
stopped nurturing his children. As a devoted Papa, he loved to dream of the ‘88 Olympics Ted was posted at the airport as a volunteer to welcome
guests to the city. After his first shift, he arrived home with travellers who
what the future would hold for each one of his grandchildren. His devotion
to his faith allowed him to live with grace, truly appreciate the beauty of life could not find accommodation - generously offering shelter, food, and
premium tickets to some of the events.
and transition to afterlife in peace. Brian will live in our hearts forever and his
memories will weave into our future moments. Shirley was a runner and she eventually convinced Ted to join her in fitness.
The family is grateful to the Pacific Spirit Community Health Centre Here, as in all aspects of his life, Ted set his sights high, eventually completing
with special thanks to Terri, Dante, Florence and Zach who provided the prestigious Boston Marathon at the age of 66. In addition to running, Ted
filled his time supporting kids and grandkids in their many, varied pursuits,
compassionate home hospice care to Brian. We also wish to thank Dr.
Bernhard Eigl at BC Cancer, Dr. Hans Frykman at UBC, Dr. Thomas Okech working for social justice through Rotary International, volunteering, and
travelling the world with Shirley - together they visited 84 countries.
in Tubingen Germany and Dr. Saskia Biskup, founder of CeGat a laboratory
specializing in genetic diagnosis. A devout Catholic, Ted often attended daily mass, volunteering as a reader,
A private Funeral Mass for Brian was held at St Mark’s Parish at UBC on a Sacristan, and a member of the St. James Parish Council. He also was
Friday, August 14th. The family invites you to share with them your fond a longtime attendee of the Mount St. Francis Retreat Centre in Cochrane
memories of Brian at: bdsmemories@gmail.com. where he enjoyed a brief respite from his commitments each January, to
pause and renew his faith.
Ted loved sports. He played hockey for the first Calgary Buffaloes team, then
football while attending St. Mary’s High School and the University of British
Columbia. Though he had suites at McMahon Stadium and the Saddledome,
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ANN WE I SSE NG RU BE R
RN
(né e Ire l and)
Born in Burlington, Ontario,
November 9, 1940. Sadly, on
August 7, 2020 our beloved Ann
passed away due to respiratory
failure. She had been seriously
ill for a number of months. She
is survived by her husband Max.
They enjoyed a unique marriage
of almost 55 years. She also
leaves her three devoted sons,
Erik (Robin and granddaughter
Tabitha), Jon (Tara) and Adam
(Gail) plus her three remaining
Ireland brothers Jake (Debbie),
Robert (Sue) and Michael (Jackie).
Her elder brother Jim (Irene) pre-
deceased the sister he loved and
in whom he took great pride.
Ann chose cremation and a safe
private ceremony in lieu of a
funeral service.
Because she was raised with
four energetic brothers, Ann was
well equipped to ride herd on
three sons and an often-hapless
husband, Max.
After graduating from Hamilton
General Hospital’s School of
Nursing in 1961, Ann worked in
Labour and Delivery at Toronto
General Hospital. She then
attended University of Western
Ontario to study advanced
nursing instruction. Later, at
Toronto Sick Children’s Hospital,
she worked ten-hour days as a
nursing instructor.
Ann retired from nursing in 1968
to concentrate on raising three
sons, which was always her
significant life’s desire.
She was high-spirited, funny,
outgoing and someone whose
laughter and smile lightened any
room that she entered. Although
she was a most private person,
Ann was very sympathetic and
sensitive towards the needs of
others. Ann was profoundly
unselfish by nature, one whose
obvious physical beauty was
matched by the beauty of her
soul. Ironically, although she
was well-loved by many, she
had difficulty accepting genuine
compliments from others. This
was an unfortunate personal loss.
One person who did tangibly
demonstrate his high regard
for Ann was the award-winning
Vancouver composer, Michael
Conway Baker. He was someone
Ann’s husband had come to
know quite well. Michael had
written a piece called Rhapsody
for Rachmaninoff, the Russian
composer of beautiful melodies.
Meanwhile, Ann had always
insisted that music must have
a discernable melody or tune,
something that allows one to
sing, whistle or even hum. Once
Michael learned of their shared
love of melody, he dedicated
the piece to Ann W. Her modesty
was such she didn’t want her
actual identity to be revealed,
despite the great honour of such
a personal dedication.
Ann’s husband is a serious
student, collector and blogger of
classic American popular song.
He called her Ann of a Thousand
Songs because he had discovered
her amazing ability to recall the
lyrics of over a thousand songs of
all kinds. Once she heard a word
or a phrase, it would trigger a
song involving that thought. At
least 10-15 times a day, she would
burst into song, complete with
lyrics and sung with perfect pitch.
Two days before Ann’s passing,
she and Max entertained St.
Mike’s patients and doctors with
several songs from the musical
Guys & Dolls: If I were a Bell,
Luck Be a Lady Tonight and Take
Back Your Mink (whereupon she
cracked “You never gave me
a mink.”)
For those of the many who knew
her, the world will be a less
welcoming place but we are able
to take heart from the words of a
song by Irving Berlin,
The song is ended,
but the melody lingers on
You and the song are gone
But the memory lingers on.
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J.A. WILLIAM W HITEACR E
UE MM CD QC BA LLB
S eptemb er 24, 1923
August 11, 2020
Bill lived life large with a
voracious appetite for adventure,
knowledge, the Arts, gourmet
food, and fine wines. Born and
raised in Ottawa, he was the
middle child of Allen and Ellen
(nee Blakely) Whiteacre. He was
predeceased by his parents, older
sister Patricia Herman, younger
brother Robert (Bob) and nephew
David Whiteacre. Bill fought
with the Stormont, Dundas and
Glengarry Highlanders with the
Canadian Highland Brigade in
the Second World War, including
the Rhineland Offensive, the
Crossing of the Rhine River
where he was awarded the
Military Medal for Bravery in the
Field, and the Liberation of the
Netherlands where he received
gunshot wounds to both arms.
Post-war he quickly rose to the
rank of Major with the 48th
Highlanders. Bill obtained a BA
in English at McGill University
before attending Osgoode Hall
Law School. He practiced civil
litigation well into his seventies
and was appointed a Queen’s
Counsel. An active member of the
Progressive Conservative Party
and an ardent supporter for small
business, he was one of the key
authors of the BIA movement and
founding Chairman of Bloor West
Village BIA, the first of its kind.
A life-long gastronome, Bill was
Governor Emeritus and President
for the Canadian Foundation of
the International Wine and Food
Society, winning several awards
for his service and discerning
palate. Bill was known for his
quick wit and ability to create a
limerick for any occasion. He had a
passion for the theatre, ballet and
opera, and had the opportunity
to exercise his creativity and
leadership skills as an active
member of The Arts and Letters
Club of Toronto. Always seeking
the full flavour life has to offer, Bill
travelled the world and explored
every continent even marching
with penguins in Antarctica at age
89. He downhill skied well into his
eighties and dared the CN Tower
EdgeWalk for his 90th birthday.
Bill passed away peacefully
Tuesday night after spending the
day with, and hearing from family
members near and far. He will be
missed by his loving wife Lorna
Kelly, his children Laura, Alison
Billie, Kathleen and Andrea, his
grandchildren Davide, Margherita
and Isabella Cina, Asia Whiteacre,
Sarah and Andrew Jarvis, and
Alexandra and Katherine Welsh,
his devoted nephew and nieces
James and Indira Herman and
Ellen Shaffer as well as his
stepchildren and grandchildren
in the Kelly family. Tremendous
gratitude goes out to Nurain Alix
for years of loving care and to the
incredible team at Belmont House
in Toronto. A family memorial
will be arranged at a later date. In
lieu of flowers, please consider a
donation to the IWFS Foundation
of Canada Scholarship Program
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KYRA WOUDSTRA
March 21, 1970
August 4, 2020
With sadness, we announce that
Kyra Woudstra passed away on
August 4, from uveal melanoma.
She worked incredibly hard
over the last three years to do
everything she could to get
better, but, in the end, it was not
enough. Kyra was surrounded
that day by some of the people
who loved her most, and she died
very peacefully in the arms of her
husband, Gerard McDonald.
Kyra led an interesting life, with
a wealth of experiences. She
lived in New York City for 6 years,
graduating with a master’s in
public policy from the New School
and working as a child advocate
and on economic development
in the South Bronx. She travelled
around the world, backpacking
through Europe for 3 months in
1989 (with her best friend, her
sister Marnie). Then in 2001, spent
another 3 months backpacking
through Asia, with her husband-
to-be, before returning to Toronto
to work for the Government of
Ontario where she spent the
last few years working in the
Behavioural Insights unit, nudging
Ontarians to better outcomes in a
myriad of areas.
Kyra’s heart was in Toronto,
with her family and many, many
friends, where she grew up and
spent most of her too short life. In
Toronto, Kyra built a home filled
with love, joy and laughter-with
her two children, Avery and Evan,
and her husband, Gerard. And a
few years ago, she enthusiastically
welcomed her in-laws, John
and Margaret McDonald, to the
household. Living with her in-
laws was no problem for Kyra,
since they seem to like her
better anyway!
Kyra leaves behind a large
extended family who will miss
her-her sisters, Janine, Andrea,
Else, Kristie, Dia, and Marnie, and
her brother Andy, as well as her
brother Yvo, who also passed
away from cancer. Given the size
of her family, she had innumerable
nieces and nephews, but was
particularly close with those who
were not much younger than
her, like Andrew and Adrienne,
and Derek and David. Her in-laws,
Catriona and Stephen McDonald,
and their families, will also
miss Kyra.
We will not be having a service
or a visitation, given COVID
restrictions. Given how COVID-
vulnerable Kyra was, out of
respect, the family would like
to wait until it is safer for people
to gather. We are hoping to
have a celebration of Kyra’s
life in the fall (as public health
restrictions allow).
We would also like to thank
the amazing team at Princess
Margaret Hospital, who did
everything they could to help
Kyra, including several leading-
edge clinical trials, giving Kyra
more time, and improving the
quality of that time as well. Thanks
to Dr. Marcus Butler, Dr. Sam
Saibil, and Dr Alexandra Saltman,
as well as trial nurses, Nick Feugas
and Sarah Boross-Harmer.
In lieu of flowers, memorial
donations may be made to
The Princess Margaret Cancer
Foundation at www.thepmcf.ca
or 416-946-6560 or 1-866-224-6560
(option 1), directed to the Melanoma
Immunotherapy Research Fund.
Online condolences may be made
through www.turnerporter.ca
Kyra was an enormous music
fan and music was an important
part of her life, from singing
to the kids as they grew up, to
attending shows, to dancing like
crazy at 80s nights over the past
few years! So, we will leave you
with the words from one of her
favourite songs from one of her
favourite bands, The Waterboys,
which express our feelings about
Kyra pretty well:
How long will I love you
As long as stars are above you
And longer if I can
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B 23
Davies shines
in Bayern’s
beatdown
on Barcelona
Canadian teenager Alphonso Davies had a night to remem-
ber Friday as Bayern Munich put Barcelona to the sword in a
lopsided 8-2 Champions League quarter-final win.
In a week when forward Jonathan David’s move to Franc-
e’s Lille erased Davies’s Canadian-record transfer fee to
Bayern, Davies reminded the soccer world of his star quality
on a big stage.
The 19-year-old fullback set up Bayern’s fifth goal in the
63rd minute with a sensational run down the left flank.
Davies beat three Barca players, befuddling Portuguese in-
ternational Nelson Semedo before racing past several more
defenders into the penalty box and sending a perfect pass to
Joshua Kimmich to slot in from close range.
“Best left back in the world!” Canadian international Ash-
ley Lawrence tweeted.
The wide-open game gave the young Canadian an up-
close and personal look at Barcelona talisman Lionel Messi,
with the Argentine star spending most of his time on Da-
vies’s side of the pitch.
Prior to the match, Davies said
he had had a laugh with his par-
ents on the phone – saying they The wide-open
couldn’t believe he was going to game gave the
play against one of his idols
growing up. young Canadian
The 33-year-old Messi took Da- an up-close and
vies down in the 11th minute, re- personal look at
warding the young Canadian Barcelona talisman
with a pat on the head after help-
ing him back to his feet. Lionel Messi, with
Davies whipped in a fine cross the Argentine star
a minute later that the Barcelona spending most of
defence had to clear. his time on Davies’s
The Bayern fullback got a taste
of Messi’s skills on the ball in the side of the pitch.
20th minute, when he was one of
three players Messi dribbled through before firing a shot on
goal.
Up 4-1 after 31 minutes, Bayern had another chance soon
after, but no one spotted an unmarked Davies on the left.
Davies, the Bundesliga rookie of the year, has excelled in
Champions League play, turning heads with a fine perform-
ance in late February in Bayern’s 3-0 win at Chelsea in the
first leg of their round-of-16 tie.
The Canadian was booked in the 52nd minute Friday for a
robust challenge on Chilean Arturo Vidal. And he went
down in the 66th minute after a clash of heads going for the
ball.
Seeking its first title since 2013, Bayern will next face ei-
ther Manchester City or Lyon, who meet on Saturday in the
last quarter-final.
Paris Saint-Germain and Leipzig will play in the other
semi-final of the mini-tournament being staged without
fans in Lisbon amid the coronavirus pandemic.
THE CANADIAN PRESS, WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda raises his fists as he celebrates his
victory in the men’s 5,000 metres at the Monaco Diamond
League on Friday. MATTHIAS HANGST/GETTY IMAGES
UGANDA’S CHEPTEGEI SMASHES 5,000-METRE
WORLD RECORD AT MONACO DIAMOND LEAGUE
MONACO Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei produced a brilliant
display of solo running to break Kenenisa Bekele’s 16-
year-old 5,000-metre world record by almost two seconds
at the Monaco Diamond League meeting on Friday.
Cheptegei, 23, had predicted a world record run in the
first Diamond League meeting of the season and duly
delivered as he clocked 12 minutes, 35.36 seconds, de-
stroying the 12:37.35 that Bekele set in the Netherlands in
2004.
The 2019 world champion in 10,000 metres was in hot
form before lockdown, setting world records in 10,000
metres and 5,000 metres on the road.
Kenya’s Nicholas Kimeli, who was just approaching the
final straight as Cheptegei crossed the line, finished a
distant second in a lifetime best of 12:51.78. REUTERS
BOUCHARD FALLS TO MERTENS AT PRAGUE OPEN
PRAGUE Eugenie Bouchard’s run at the Prague Open has
come to an end.
Bouchard gave Elise Mertens a tough time in a quarter-
final match Friday, but in the end, the No. 3 seed from
Belgium defeated the wild-card from Westmount, Que., 6-4,
1-6, 6-4. Mertens won her previous two meetings with
Bouchard without dropping a set.
“She hit the ball pretty well today, she made me run a
lot,” Mertens said.
Bouchard was playing in an official tournament for the
first time since January, when she suffered a wrist injury.
Just more than a month later, the WTA Tour suspended
play because of COVID-19.
This is the second week of play in the WTA Tour’s res-
tart. No fans are at the facility.Bouchard is projected to rise
58 spots to No. 272 in the WTA rankings following her run
to the quarter-finals.
In other quarter-final results, top seed Simona Halep
defeated Magdalena Frech 6-2, 6-0, and Ana Bogdan ad-
vanced past Kristyna Pliskova after Pliskova retired down
5-2 in the first set.
Jil Teichmann faced Catherine Bellis in the other quar-
ter-final. THE CANADIAN PRESS
B 24 OBITUARIES O TH E G LO B E AND M A IL | SATU RDAY, AUG UST 15, 2020

BRENT CARVER

ACTOR, SINGER, 68

TONY-WINNING PERFORMER
COMMANDED THE STAGE
IN MUSICALS AND SHAKESPEARE
He was a favourite at Stratford, sometimes astonishing audiences with the energy he devoted to his characters,
and his acclaimed performance in Kiss of the Spider Woman made him the toast of Broadway

SUSAN FERRIER MacKAY

C
anadian actor and singer Brent
Carver inhabited many roles
with a masterful presence that
could, at times, appear other-
worldly. Between 1980 and 2017, he ap-
peared in 20 productions at Ontario’s
prestigious Stratford Festival, where he
interpreted iconic characters like Ham-
let and made them his own. Both at
home and internationally he consis-
tently wowed audiences and critics.
In 1979 he played Ariel to Anthony
Hopkins’s Prospero, directed by John
Hirsch in Los Angeles. It was notewor-
thy but it didn’t shoot Mr. Carver’s star
into the U.S. stratosphere. That would
happen more than a decade later when
his portrayal of Luis Molina in Kiss of
the Spider Woman made him the toast
of Broadway. In the musical, Molina, a
gay Argentine window-dresser, eases
the pain of his mostly heterosexual
Marxist cellmate by re-enacting scenes
from favourite movies. Mr. Carver sings
at the beginning of the show, followed
by a scene in which he emotes as Moli-
na.
During previews, singer Barbra
Streisand was overheard whispering to
her companion, “Geez! He can act as
well!”
New York audiences were astound-
ed by the virtuosity of this Canadian
“newcomer.” The New York Times
noted that the American press greeted Brent Carver appears with Chita Rivera in the New York production of Kiss of the Spider Woman, circa 1993. The performance
Mr. Carver’s arrival with the amaze- earned him the coveted Tony award for lead actor in a musical that year.
ment reserved for someone found mi-
raculously singing and dancing under
a cabbage leaf. Its powerful theatre
critic Frank Rich, not one to dispense
praise lightly, described the 41-year-old
Mr. Carver’s performance as “riveting.”
It won him the coveted 1993 Tony
award for lead actor in a musical.
It was remarkable that he was able
to perform at all. A recent personal
trauma had left an indelible mark that
would haunt him the rest of his life. In
December, 1991, a fire of unknown ori-
gin broke out at his house in Stratford.
At the time an adored friend, actor Su-
san Wright, was staying at the home
along with her parents. All three per-
ished in the blaze. At his acceptance
speech for the Tony, Mr. Carver
thanked “my dear, dear Susan. This is
for you. And I can say: ‘Death be not
proud.’ ”
Mr. Carver left Kiss of the Spider
Woman three months after that. His
contract was up but he explained, in
an interview, that he found himself un-
able to play any role for too long. The
energy he devoted to characters, fre- Mr. Carver appears in two of his noted roles at Ontario’s Stratford Festival: as Hamlet, left, in 1986, and as Pontius Pilate in
quently anguished ones, was debilitat- Jesus Christ Superstar in 2011. LEFT: ROBERT C. RAGSDALE; RIGHT: DAVID HOU
ing. One regular theatregoer who saw
Mr. Carver performing as Pontius Pilate He used to talk to me about under- through all sorts of thresholds to find ination, as Edgar in King Lear (2004)
in Jesus Christ Superstar at Stratford standing the audience, people who’d the heartbeat of what’s going on.” and in Romeo and Juliet as Friar Lau-
said, “He acted everyone else off the made a journey to get to the theatre. The Carver household, overseen by rence (2014).
stage. I thought, the poor man. Does he He said everyone came with different Kenneth Carver, a lumber truck driver, One award Mr. Carver received dur-
have anything left over for himself?” moods and expectations. He wanted to and his wife, Lois (née Wills), was a ing the early 1980s was a Dora Mavor
Few entered Mr. Carver’s private meet those expectations to the best of working-class family of eight children Moore Award for his portrayal of a gay
world but those who did remarked on his ability. I never saw him wanting to who lived in Cranbrook, a small city in man in Martin Sherman’s play Bent.
his gentility and kindness. He once ad- be Brent Carver, the star,” Ms. Thom- southeastern British Columbia. One of The play revolves around the persecu-
mitted that “emotional guardedness” son said. the children, a boy named Danny, tion of homosexuals in Nazi Germany.
caused him some regret as it had dis- Another friend and neighbour from drowned at age 2 when he fell into a After his success in Kiss of the Spider
tanced him from love. He also ex- Niagara-on-the-Lake water-filled ditch while Woman, the Los Angeles Times asked
plained his reluctance to divulge per- dropped by Mr. Carver’s Lois had her back turn- how his family reacted to him playing
sonal details. “I always felt that if I said house one day to tease ed. Brent Christopher a gay character. “They were very
anything it would just be a label they him about a clue en- He used to Carver, born on Nov. 17, moved by the show,” he replied.
put on me. I also felt it was nobody’s countered in a crossword 1951, was a baby when “They’re quite understanding. Even
business. As Hamlet says, ‘You would puzzle: Canada’s most talk to me about the tragedy occurred. He when they saw me in a pretty wild pro-
pluck out the heart of my mystery.’ ” prestigious actor, 11 let- understanding the said he learned to sing duction of Tartuffe. It was set in the
Aside from Molina and Hamlet, Mr. ters down. The actor’s audience, people before he could talk. The West and in one scene, I had to wear a
Carver cited Tevye in Fiddler on the boyish face broke into a who’d made a first song he ever learned pair of backless leather chaps with
Roof, and Robert Ross in Timothy Find- delighted grin. “That’s was Danny Boy, forever a nothing on underneath. After that,
ley’s The Wars as being some of his fa- me,” he said. He then journey to get to the reminder of the brother they came backstage and said, ‘Yes,
vourite roles. The Wars was adapted in- asked if he could have theatre. He said he never knew. dear, that was fun.’ ”
to a TV movie. He also appeared in the the crossword when it everyone came with Patriarch Kenneth Home, whether actual or metaphor-
films Shadow Dancing (1988), a thriller was done so he could different moods and Carver played guitar and ical, painful or pleasurable, was never
with Christopher Plummer; Millenni- show it to his mother. sang for fun but no one far from Mr. Carver’s thoughts. De-
um (1989), a sci-fi drama with Kris Kris- After winning Cana- expectations. He else in the family, other spondent over the inability to work
tofferson; and the made-for-TV movie da’s 2014 Governor-Gen- wanted to meet than Brent, had an inter- due to COVID-19, he recently returned
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, in which he eral’s Performing Arts those expectations est in show business. to his birthplace, a place he called “the
played the lead character, Ichabod Award for Lifetime “They’re all sane,” Mr. most beautiful on Earth.” He once told
to the best of his
Crane. Achievement, a recogni- Carver once quipped. He The New York Times: “It constantly
While comfortable in front of a cam- tion that thrilled him, ability. graduated from Cran- calls me back, the pine smell, the lakes,
era, the stage was where Mr. Carver Mr. Carver was the sub- brook’s Mount Baker the trees, the mountains. It’s a tough
JANICE THOMSON
drew raves. “No one ever delivered the ject of a short National LONG-TIME FRIEND Secondary School in place to make a living but it’s a great
Seven Ages of Man [speech] from As Film Board production 1969. For the valedictory place to live.”
You Like It with as exquisite a melanch- titled simply Brent Carver. Accompa- address of his graduating class, he sang He died in Cranbrook on Aug. 4, at
oly as Mr. Carver did under the direc- nied by a solo cellist, within the melan- a Broadway show tune. Eager to get on age 68. His family did not disclose the
tion of Des McAnuff,” wrote Globe and choly setting of a rusting, paint-peeled with things, he dropped out of the Uni- cause of his death. He leaves his sisters
Mail theatre critic J. Kelly Nestruck. A warehouse, Mr. Carver’s wiry figure versity of British Columbia, where he Vicki and Frankie, and brothers Randy
former artistic director at Stratford, Mr. steps with slow, feline precision from had been studying theatre, and hit the and Shawn.
McAnuff also had high praise for Mr. shadows toward a single light. The road. The stage was set for his stellar To honour the life and ferocious tal-
Carver. “His work was at once sensitive song he’s about to sing is All Through career to begin. ent of Mr. Carver, Mirvish Productions
and dangerous. He was a shy rock star.” the Night, a 1700s Welsh ballad that In the 70s, Mr. Carver moved to To- dimmed the marquee lights of two
An animal lover and vegetarian, Mr. connects Mr. Carver to his Celtic family ronto where he shared a house with theatres in Toronto on Aug. 7 – the
Carver dressed conservatively, prefer- roots. In voice-over, before his ethereal comedian Martin Short and his wife. Royal Alexandra, where he performed
ring to remain inconspicuous in pub- tenor fills the air, and before he em- Almost 15 years later they would com- a solo show of his stories and songs in
lic. “He never set store in being fa- barks upon a soliloquy from Hamlet, pete for the same Tony, which Mr. 1995; and the Princess of Wales, where
mous,” said Janice Thomson, a long- and before his blue eyes overflow with Carver won. he starred as Gandalf in the world pre-
time friend from Niagara-on-the-Lake, tears, he reveals a rare personal sliver He would return to Broadway three miere production of The Lord of the
where Mr. Carver maintained a home of himself. “What I do is perform. In more times: in 1998’s Parade as Leo Rings in 2006.
for many years. “He truly believed he many ways it’s like a sensation of com- Frank, a doomed factory manager, for
was just doing work like anyone else. ing home. It’s the sensation of moving which he received a second Tony nom- Special to The Globe and Mail
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Flux is in the DNA of the Democrats, David Shribman writes.

But as Joe Biden takes centre stage amid leftward winds,
how much change can this historic party take?
OPINION
David Shribman is the former executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of U.S. politics. He teaches at
McGill’s Max Bell School of Public Policy.
John Kerry, the Democrat’s 2004 presidential nominee, said in an in-
terview. “And I hope we have changed in some respects. But this
numb-skull nonentity in the White House won votes that are Demo-
cratic votes that we had taken for granted.”
The great defection of those very Democratic voters – grandchil-
dren of the union members and immigrants who flocked to the party

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s the Democrats prepare for their quadrennial convention,
the world’s oldest active political party – the philosophical
home of Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy – is undergoing vast changes.
Again.
Those changes go beyond the fact that, for the first time, this mid-
summer conclave is being held entirely remotely, with delegates con-
fined to their dining-room tables, living-room sofas and basement
bunkers. These transformations are happening in the character of the
party, the content of its ideals and the coalition of its various interests.
They are going on as the party leans left, even as it girds itself to nomi-
nate a standard bearer whose instincts reside resolutely in the political
centre. They are in train as the party seeks an awkward, almost cer-
tainly artificial sense of unity in a desperate effort to wrest power from
a President whose instinct is to divide.
“Parties change. The moment changes,” former secretary of state
and its New Deal program to combat the Great Depression, and the
children of the voters who stuck with the party during the tumult of
the Vietnam War years – is what helped make Donald Trump Presi-
dent.
And so the great, consequential question the Democrats face in
their rump convention in the delegates’ homes, scattered from coast
to coast: Can they win back those voters while still retaining the ur-
ban and university elites, minorities and women who increasingly
have become the face of the new Democratic Party?
“Oh my God, there have been great changes,” said former governor
Michael Dukakis, who was the party’s 1988 presidential nominee.
“Those of us who were big reformers in the 1960s and 1970s are the
distant past for the whole new generation of new activists who are
taking us in different directions, and taking us further. This is a time of
change and we are looking at a very different party.”
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Laugh UFOs off as a delusion, but if nothing else, they are a risk to air safety, MJ Banias writes.
And with the U.S. government taking the threat seriously, Canada’s inaction is all the more glaring
OPINION reported that the “target ap- continued to gain altitude and Canadians see about two or three more public oversight on un-
peared momentarily to them crossed into controlled airspace unidentified flying objects a day, known aerial incursions, the Can-
MJ Banias is a Winnipeg-based then disappeared.” without radio contact or clear- and while many will laugh UFOs adian government seems to be
journalist and the author of Two months later, in June, an ance from air traffic control. off as being a silly fringe delusion, doing nothing.
The UFO People: A Curious Culture. airliner on final approach to the A month later, air traffic con- several sighting events reported It is easy to dismiss UFOs, or as
St. Hubert airport near Montreal trollers in Langley, B.C., reported to Transport Canada present in they are called today, unidenti-

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n April, 2019, a Sunwing air- was notified by air traffic control to Transport Canada that “radar the 2019 survey, such as those fied aerial phenomena (UAP).
liner was on approach into To- of “unidentified traffic.” The air- targets were coasting in and out outlined above, involve pilots Nearly a century of mass media
ronto’s Pearson International liner’s collision avoidance system to the [northwest] of the airport” coming into close proximity with has turned a curious phenom-
Airport when it was ordered by confirmed the object was roughly and “Random targets popping unknown aerial objects, and indi- enon into a tinfoil-hat-wearing
air traffic control operators to 3.5 nautical miles ahead of the air- up, radar tags swapping, targets cate a clear risk to air safety. enterprise filled with extraterres-
climb in altitude because an un- craft and climbing in altitude to jumping to random locations.” But while the U.S. government trials, martian invasions and far-
known aircraft had entered into 2,700 feet. The pilots eventually The recently released 2019 is actively investigating UFO re- future technology.
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The message of the Biden-Harris ticket:
This is the new normal
By tapping the California Senator as his running mate, Joe Biden aims to draw voters’ attention to the idea
that the extraordinary choice is altogether ordinary – just as a post-Trump era might be
ANDREW
COYNE
OPINION
T
he best word to describe the
Republican reaction to Joe
Biden’s choice of Kamala
Harris as his running mate is
“confused.”
Was she, as Donald Trump
tweeted, the standard-bearer of
the “Radical Left,” a hard-line ide-
ological warrior? Was she, as a
Trump campaign ad charged, a
“phony,” a political opportunist
untethered to any solid convic-
tions? Or was she, as a Trump
spokeswoman intimated, a the mood of the country, or at
harsh, law-and-order conserva-
tive, who as a former prosecutor
“fought to keep inmates locked
up in overcrowded prisons”?
That confusion was mirrored
in media coverage, the tenor of
which was captured by The New
York Times’s description of her as
a “pragmatic moderate.” Yet she
has among the most liberal vot-
ing records of any current mem-
ber of the U.S. Senate, with a 93-
per-cent rating from the ACLU, a
100-per-cent rating from the Na-
tional Education Association and
a 100-per-cent rating from
Planned Parenthood.
How to reconcile these con-
flicting impressions? As with any
attempt to place someone on the
ideological spectrum, it depends
what benchmark you are using.
Before you can say whether she is
left, centre-left or what have you,
you have to ask: Compared with
what? It’s fair to say she’s to the
left of Mr. Biden – on health care,
for example, where as a candidate
for the nomination she support-
The phony war being waged against
Kamala Harris is all too predictable
ELIZABETH
RENZETTI
OPINION
O
nce Joe Biden had chosen
Kamala Harris to be his
running mate on the Dem-
ocratic presidential ticket, a fasci-
nating detail arose about the gru-
elling vetting process: The 11 can-
didates for the job were asked
what nickname they thought
President Donald Trump might
give them. “Sleepy” was already
bestowed on Mr. Biden, while the
perfectly good adjectives
“Crooked” and “Crazy” had been
affixed to Hillary Clinton and
Nancy Pelosi.
The world didn’t have to wait
long to find out. Shortly after the
announcement, the President
tweeted out a campaign ad slam-
ming “Slow Joe and Phony Kama-
la. Perfect together.” We will leave
aside for the moment the rich iro-
ny of Mr. Trump, the Barry Bonds
of hitting whoppers out of the
park, calling anyone else “pho-
ny.”
Instead, let’s move to the
fundraising e-mail the Trump
campaign sent out accusing
Ms. Harris of flip-flopping dur-
ing her own presidential bid:
“And then voters REJECTED
her because she’s a PHONY.”
(Imagine being the style guru
in charge of rANdom cApitali-
zAtioN on the Trump cam-
paign.)
Clearly, Republicans are
afraid of the Senator from Cali-
fornia. They are afraid of her
for the reasons that many
Democrats embrace her: She is
tomorrow’s woman, and the
Republicans are yesterday’s
party. She is a historic choice, a
fantastically accomplished bi-
racial woman, the daughter of
immigrants from Jamaica and
India. And because they’re
afraid of her, they turn to the
most common, cheap insult
aimed at women who dare to
run for public office: That she
is inauthentic, an opportunist,
an untrustworthy flip-flopper.
Mr. Trump’s surrogates
stepped in to help. Ari Fleisch-
er, former press secretary to
George W. Bush, called Ms.
Harris “a fake, empty-suit.” Fox
News host Tucker Carlson,
whose fratboy fatuousness de-
serves to be called brotesque,
ed a version of what is known in
the United States as “Medicare-
for-all.”
But to be to the left of Mr. Bi-
den, or even of most senators,
does not put her all that far to the
left – of Democratic voters, cer-
tainly, or even of voters generally,
amid the social and economic
wreckage of the Trump presi-
dency. Ms. Harris’s presidential
campaign foundered, it is true –
unable to stake out ground be-
tween the Democratic left, repre-
sented by Bernie Sanders and El-
izabeth Warren, and the centrist
candidacies of Amy Klobuchar
and Pete Buttigieg.
But she may just have caught
least of the voters the Democrats
need to reach: anxious for
change, but as anxious about
what change might bring. It is not
uncommon, in such moments,
for voters to prefer the candidate
or party with one foot on the
brakes, seemingly pulled by
change rather than leading it. The
77-year-old Mr. Biden, nobody’s
idea of a radical, had been reca-
librating the broad message of his
campaign even before this, from
“transitional” to “transforma-
tional.”
Ms. Harris adds further nuance
and depth to this position, reas-
suring the base (if not the hard
left, which views her with unal-
tered suspicion) without fright-
ening the middle. It says a lot
about where American politics
has landed that a Black, liberal
woman would be viewed as the
“safe” choice. But it also says a lot
about Ms. Harris personally.
Most voters, it is worth remind-
ing ourselves, are not particularly
interested in or even informed
said: “There are timeshare sales-
men you would trust more than
Kamala Harris. You could find
payday lenders who are more sin-
cere.” The right-wing TV host
Mark Levin resurfaced a criticism
that Ms. Harris is not the right
type of African-American to ap-
peal to voters, because her father
is from Jamaica.
In other words, there’s just
something not quite right about
her. Could it be, perhaps, that she
has ambitions to be president?
Voters’ ambivalence about wom-
en who seek power for them-
selves, and not in the service of
some man-boss, is well docu-
mented. So it’s not surprising, but
still disheartening, that the mere
pursuit of this goal makes a fe-
male candidate seem wrong, in-
authentic and untrustworthy.
The Center for American Wom-
en and Politics’s analysis of the
2016 U.S. presidential campaign
drew this conclusion: “While ex-
pectations of gender and candida-
cy are often complementary for
men, they are often contradictory
ILLUSTRATION BY HANNA BARCZYK
O TH E G LO B E AND M A IL
about a candidate’s ideology. The
moderatism they are looking for
For all her star power, is less to do with particular poli-
cies than temperament and tone.
she seems recognizably
human – neither the Republicans can try all they like
to seize on this or that Senate vote
overly programmed
as evidence that Ms. Harris is
career pol nor the flinty, “outside the mainstream,” but I
look-at-me ‘maverick,’ doubt it will wash, set against the
reassuring level-headedness of
but someone who talks her persona.
like other people do, Indeed, for all the trailblazing
feels what other people attributes of her candidacy – the
feel. Watching her first Black woman ever on any na-
tional ticket, as earlier she was
speak, you could almost only the second Black female sen-
believe that she was ator ever and the first Black fe-
speaking off the cuff, male attorney-general of Califor-
even when you know it nia – what was most striking
about the unveiling was the sense
is from a prepared text. of … normality.
Ms. Harris is an extraordinarily
talented, impressively assured
candidate – calm yet expressive,
dignified yet warm – possessed of
a rare mix of experience and
promise. Most VP picks fall into
one category or the other: either
grizzled old hacks like Dick Che-
ney or Lloyd Bentsen, or frighten-
ingly unqualified newcomers like
Dan Quayle or Sarah Palin. Or else
they are forgettable plodders, like
whoever it was that ran with Hill-
ary Clinton. No one is likely to for-
get Ms. Harris’s candidacy.
Yet for all her star power, she
seems recognizably human – nei-
ther the overly programmed ca-
reer pol nor the flinty, look-at-me
“maverick,” but someone who
talks like other people do, feels
what other people feel. Watching
her speak, you could almost be-
lieve that she was speaking off the
cuff, even when you know it is
from a prepared text.
Above all, you can imagine her
as president, surely the first pre-
for women, who face distinct
challenges in proving they are
Clearly, Republicans both man enough to do the job
and women enough to appear au-
are afraid of the Senator
from California. thentic.”
In Ms. Harris’s case, the calls are
They are afraid of her
coming from inside the house,
for the reasons that too. That is, some Democrats have
many Democrats also expressed reservations about
her, specifically around her sharp
embrace her: She is upbraiding of Mr. Biden’s historic
tomorrow’s woman, stands on issues of racial justice.
and the Republicans Osita Nwanevu wrote in the New
are yesterday’s party. Republic, “Her lack of remorse
over the criticisms she leveled at
She is a historic choice, Biden during the primary has re-
a fantastically portedly convinced some in the
accomplished biracial campaign that she’s an inauthen-
woman, the daughter tic striver more interested in suc-
ceeding Biden than supporting
of immigrants from him.”
Jamaica and India. As is often the case, even an at-
tempt to be more “authentic”
ends up being perceived as con-
trived. When Ms. Harris laughing-
ly told The Breakfast Club radio
show that she had smoked weed
“a long time ago,” and that she
was also a fan of Tupac and Snoop
Dogg, critics accused her of lying
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requisite of any candidate for
vice-president – but especially
given Mr. Biden’s advanced age.
People are making much too big a
deal out of Mr. Biden’s willingness
to forgive Ms. Harris’s attacks on
him during the primaries – as if,
after 50-plus years in politics, he
were still crying into his pillow
about the mean things a rival can-
didate said about him on the
campaign trail. But it does say
something about him that he is
willing to risk being overshad-
owed by his running mate. Mr. Bi-
den could have “ticked all the
boxes” with a much lower-watt-
age pick. A Black American might
have been expected to increase
Black turnout in battleground
states such as North Carolina and
Georgia; a woman would be cal-
culated to lock in the Democrats’
advantage among female voters.
But in Ms. Harris, Mr. Biden has
chosen a running mate who not
only ran against him, but whom
many voters would prefer at the
top of the ticket. But wait: Is that
all that extraordinary? Or have
we just been conditioned by four
years of Mr. Trump to expect that
a candidate would be too inse-
cure to tolerate anyone else shar-
ing the spotlight, too vain to sur-
round himself with any but place-
holders and sycophants?
This is the central challenge of
Mr. Biden’s campaign: not only to
offer the prospect of a return to
normality after the Trump aber-
ration, but to remind Americans
what normality looks like – to
raise expectations that Mr.
Trump had successfully battered
to the ground. As unprecedented
as his choice of Ms. Harris may be,
what is most appealing about it is
how unextraordinary it seems.
to look cool: Those artists’ first re-
cords hadn’t come out when
young Kamala was hitting the
bong! This dumb controversy led
one (male) commentator to ar-
gue that “Kamala Harris has yet to
demonstrate Barack Obama’s
ability to be human.” Maybe that
question came up during the vet-
ting process: “Senator Harris, can
you prove that you are in fact a
carbon-based life form a voter
might enjoy having a beer with?”
It cannot be pleasant to have to
defend your basic humanity to
people who do not want to see you
as fully human. This occurred to
me four years ago, as I stood at a
Donald Trump rally listening to
the crowd chant “Lock her up,”
while one individual tried to con-
vince me that Ms. Clinton was both
a literal demon and a murderer.
Later, I would read in Ms. Clin-
ton’s memoirs: “As the campaign
went on, polls showed that a sig-
nificant number of Americans
questioned my authenticity and
trustworthiness. A lot of people
said they just didn’t like me.” This
seemed a weak-sauce descrip-
tion of what I’d heard myself,
but maybe even Ms. Clinton
didn’t want to look too deeply
into the heart of the beast.
Ms. Harris is perhaps in a
better position to become the
first female president than Ms.
Clinton ever was.
While she’s already being la-
belled as fake, she still is not as
laden with what has been
quaintly called “baggage”
(though there is certainly legit-
imate reason to question her
record on criminal justice pol-
icies when she was a prosecu-
tor and California’s attorney-
general). Ms. Harris is the run-
ning mate of a man who will be
78 if he’s inaugurated, and who
may be a one-term president.
The Oval Office is not that far
away.
That must terrify corners of
the population who believe
the future occupants of that of-
fice should all look like most of
the previous ones. One way
they can sow anxiety is to sug-
gest that this deceitful woman
– this phony – is not really con-
tent with being a sidekick after
all.
Hope won the elections in
2008 and 2012; then fear slunk
back and dragged it away in
2016. Let’s pray that hope
makes a comeback.
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DOES ANYBODY REALLY KNOW
WHAT TIME IT IS?
If it feels like the pandemic’s first months were a crawl and the clock’s since sped up, you’re not alone, Bruce Grierson writes.
The elasticity of our sense of time is a fairly new discovery, potentially affected by everything from age to the media we consume
OPINION
Bruce Grierson is an author
and journalist living in Vancouver.
H
ave you noticed you’ve
been perceiving time dif-
ferently since the world
turned upside down in March?
Many people report that the
first month of lockdown felt like it
lasted about a year. But then, the
clock started speeding up. And
now it’s whirring like a propeller.
If that’s been your experience,
too, the question is why.
The short answer: because
time isn’t real. It’s a social and psy-
chological construct, a “rubbery
thing,” as the Stanford neuro-
scientist David Eagleman puts it.
There’s often a pretty signifi-
cant disconnect between the sub-
stantial “truth” of time – as mea-
sured by atomic clocks – and how
it feels. Time seems to race or drag
according to what’s going on
around us.
What transpired in the early
months of the pandemic was un-
precedented in our lifetimes. Ev-
erything was novel. And novelty,
psychologists have found,
stretches time. Things that sur-
prise us seize our attention, and
gobble neural energy as the me-
mories are processed. And that
makes the weird episodes in our
lives, as we reflect on them later,
seem to have lasted much longer
than they actually did.
Our brains are lazy – er, effi-
cient. When they encounter
something familiar, they kind of
stop taking notes. Been there,
done that. “See yesterday,” the
brain jots in the margin, thereby
preserving space for the next bit
of real news – i.e., something
different.
Those crazy, anxious early days
of COVID-19 – the alarming num-
bers out of Iran and Italy, the
chaos of everyone’s plans
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suddenly collapsing – were in-
tense. And intensity of feeling, it
turns out, pumps even more mo-
lasses into the temporal gears. It
may have felt like a Michael Bay
movie while it was happening,
but in the brain’s director’s cut, it’s
more like a Merchant Ivory film,
the whole thing unfolding at the
speed of a lazy river.
No wonder life “B.C.” – before
COVID-19 – seems like eons ago.
But around late April or early
May there was that shift. We start-
ed getting used to the weirdness.
The shock of working from home
and tracking the infection spikes
and banging a pot in the evening
began to wear off. Routine took
hold (at least for those of us lucky
enough not to be on the health
care front lines). There were fewer
unusual events to snag our atten-
tion and slow time, so the days
started zipping by again.
This is all a fairly new discovery,
this elastic property of the sense
of time.
In the 1930s, an American phys-
iologist named Hudson Hoagland
was attending to his wife as she lay
sick in bed with the flu. He nipped
away from her bedside for a few
moments and then returned,
whereupon she remarked:
“Where have you been? You’ve
been away for ages!” Something
was distorting her sense of time.
Dr. Hoagland suspected the fever.
Could it be there was some kind of
clock in the human central nerv-
ous system – a chemical pacemak-
er that can be nudged by outside
factors, like, in this case, heat?
(Subsequent studies support Dr.
Hoagland’s hunch that time slows
as our core body temperature ris-
es. So if you thought that Bikram
yoga class would never end, now
you know why.)
Today, it’s clear there’s not just
one internal clock governing our
judgment of time; multiple
systems work in concert. Dr.
There is a new word in
circulation, hatched not
from the neuroscience
labs, but from the jittery
zeitgeist. The word
is ‘shadowtime.’
As defined by its
creators, it is ‘a feeling
of living in two distinctly
different temporal scales
simultaneously.’ It’s as
if two clocks are ticking
at once – real time
and existential time.
Hoagland’s original sleuthing
sent us down a rabbit hole that is
vastly deeper and windier than
anyone suspected.
What’s interesting is that, while
much of the variation in how we
judge time is situational, some of
it is not. One constant appears to
be our age. Per the cliché, time ac-
tually does fly as we get older,
studies suggests. This has always
made me a little bit envious of
kids, in their unleaky little boats.
They never seem to lose whole
days, let alone accidentally start
writing the wrong decade on a
cheque. It has been wild, during
the pandemic, to think of our nu-
clear family holed up under the
same roof, riding out this histori-
cal event together but experienc-
ing it – the pace of it – quite differ-
ently.
Science cannot fully explain
the generational discrepancy, but
a few things may be going on.
One is, again, that novelty
factor. Kids are relative newcome-
rs to this planet, so they are still
routinely surprised by stuff, and
their brains work hard to sort it
out. And since each passing hour
is a larger proportion of a child’s
short life, it may feel longer and
more significant. Plus, kids’ atten-
tion and memory circuits are still
growing, so the transmission of
information may actually be
physically slower, drawing time
out even more.
Another possible ingredient in
the mix: digital media. Gen Z is
not exactly waiting on the pier for
the next instalment of Charles
Dickens’s new novel to arrive by
boat. They have lived their whole
life, as the writer Venkatesh Rao
put it, “inside a cage of time made
up of 32 satellites orbiting Earth.”
What the young want – TV shows,
songs, commodities – is available
any time, and always has been. So:
Less time spent reminiscing plus
less time spent anticipating
means more time moored in the
present. We might guess – from
other research – that this too puts
the brakes on time.
In the early going of the pan-
demic, my wife and I got a wee in-
kling of what it might feel like to
be a kid. We were jacked in to their
time signature. Too bad it was
mostly because we were overload-
ing our circuits being stressed out
and rolling the dice on what to do
and which experts to believe; the
lazy river was full of crocodiles.
But as the weeks passed, and nor-
malcy set in, the gulf between the
generations began to open again.
Time sped up as we calmed down,
while they continued on their un-
hurried course. The kids seemed
chill, for the most part – although
much more was going on inside
their heads.
There is a new word in circula-
tion, hatched not from the neu-
roscience labs, but from the jit-
tery zeitgeist. The word is
“shadowtime.” As defined by its
creators, it is “a feeling of living in
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two distinctly different temporal
scales simultaneously.” It’s as if
two clocks are ticking at once –
real time and existential time.
To use it in a sentence: “Kane
was intently working on his pre-
sentation that was due the next
morning, but as he looked up and
saw the moon it occurred to him
that the moon had been rising
and setting for 4.5 billion years,
moving ever farther away. He felt
shadowtime for the rest of the
evening.”
The word was coined by the Bu-
reau of Linguistical Reality, a Cali-
fornia-based conceptual art pro-
ject, so it’s definitely more felicity
than science. But it does capture
the real and uncomfortable dis-
connect of having to navigate life,
in its humdrum detail, while an
environmental sword of Damo-
cles dangles overhead. There’s
some evidence that younger peo-
ple sense the anxious doomsday
countdown more acutely. They
have more skin in the game, after
all; it’s their future.
But there’s nothing like
approaching one’s own personal
expiry date to inject each passing
moment with meaning. Gerontol-
ogists have found that older peo-
ple, so long as they aren’t suffer-
ing, tend to positively cherish
time. “The elders view time like a
member of a desert tribe views
water,” Karl Pillemer, a gerontolo-
gist at Cornell University, told me.
“They can’t believe we would ever
squander such a precious re-
source.” To younger people they
counsel: “Think small.” Pay atten-
tion. Take delight in the
hummingbird suspended outside
your window. Relish your enchila-
das – and the person who just laid
them on the table in front of you.
To the extent that it stretches
time, paying attention becomes a
kind of investment plan.
Maybe the last reliable one we
have left.
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Objects: Sightings in Canada fell
in 2019, but are surging this year
FROM O1
It is unlikely that pilots are being ha-
rassed by pop culture aliens in flying
saucers. However, our southern
neighbour seems to be concerned
with the fact that something is zip-
ping around North American air-
space and no one seems to know
how to deal with it.
A recent congressional report in-
dicates that the U.S. Office of Naval
Intelligence has an active task force
that investigates incursions of UAP
into U.S. airspace. Recently, Senator
Marco Rubio, who chairs the Senate
intelligence committee, introduced
a congressional bill giving this intelli-
gence-gathering operation 180 days
to disclose its findings regarding
these incursions. The Americans
seem to consider this an important
issue that needs more attention.
Canadian science writer and re-
searcher Chris Rutkowski, who dili-
gently collects nearly all of Canada’s
UAP reports from civilian research
organizations and those reported to
Transport Canada, told me that Can-
ada is experiencing a “possible pub-
lic safety issue.” While Canada has
had 849 reports in 2019, somewhat
lower than the usual yearly average,
Mr. Rutkowski disclosed that a more
in-depth look into Transport Cana-
da’s Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence
Reporting System, known as CA-
DORS, seems to portray that pilots
have been reporting unknown ob-
jects frequently within Canadian air-
space for decades. While many of
those sightings can be attributed to
misidentification or commercial
drones and quadcopters, some re-
ports defy prosaic phenomena.
One 2012 air incident report indi-
cates that a Chinese Eastern Airlines
Airbus was flying over Alberta when
the pilot spotted an unknown object
40 nautical miles to the south, at
41,000 feet. Most commercial drones
cannot even get close to that kind of
altitude.
Another incident in 2015 occurred
over Saskatoon’s international air-
port, where the pilot notified air traf-
fic control that they witnessed a
bright white light above their aircraft
at roughly 34,000 feet. Two flight at-
tendants were injured in 2016 when a
Porter flight landing in Toronto near-
ly collided with an unknown object
over Lake Ontario at 9,000 feet. The
Transportation Safety Board was un-
able to identify what caused the inci-
dent.
In 2019, several aircraft over the vi-
cinity of Medicine Hat reported mul-
tiple unidentified objects above their
aircraft. In September, 2019, at
roughly 2:00 p.m. EST, an unidenti-
fied aircraft buzzed the Kitchener/
Waterloo radar control zone at 2,100
feet without clearance.
Several other similar cases have
occurred over the past decade. These
incidents beg an important ques-
tion: What is the Canadian govern-
ment doing about them? Seemingly,
very little.
“We have no idea if UFO reports
are investigated,” explained Mr. Rut-
kowski. Transport Canada investi-
gates air incidents, such as near mis-
ses or crashes. However, when pilots
witness unknown aerial objects and
radar operators are unable to identi-
fy them, Transport Canada told me
that cases such as these are consid-
ered “only advisory” and “not inves-
tigated.”
A still from a 2004 video released by the U.S. Defence Department displays an encounter between two Navy fighter jets
and an unidentified object. A recent congressional report indicates that the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence has a task
force to investigate such unexplained incursions into U.S. airspace. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Transport Canada explained that
all sightings or encounters concern-
ing unknown aircraft are under the
jurisdiction of Nav Canada.
When pilots witness “unidentified
flying objects,” they are requested to
make “aviation occurrence” reports
to the regional Flight Information
Centre in “the interests of national
security,” according to regulations
published by Nav Canada, a private
non-profit organization that handles
all Canadian air navigation services.
These reports are known as “Com-
munication Instructions for Report-
ing Vital Intelligence Sightings.” In
an e-mail, Nav Canada’s media rela-
tions manager Brian Boudreau said
examples would include “sightings
of aircraft violating operating pa-
rameters, unidentified aircraft, un-
authorized aircraft or any activity
that may impact flight safety or pose
a security threat.”
Depending on the details of the in-
cident, Nav Canada may send a re-
port to the Department of National
Defence, the North American Aero-
space Defence Command (NORAD),
Transport Canada or the American
Federal Aviation Administration.
Governments and
militaries are not
comfortable with
unknowns. They are
potential threats to
a nation. When the role
of the government and
the military is to protect
that nation, pretending
something does not
exist is more politically
palatable than admitting
there has been an
intelligence failure.
A spokesperson from the Depart-
ment of National Defence said all re-
ports of unknown aerial vehicles are
reported through Nav Canada’s pro-
cedure, including sighting reports
made by military personnel. In a diz-
zying turn of double-speak, al-
though Nav Canada collects UFO re-
ports to assess potential security
threats, an e-mail from the DND
read:
“We wouldn’t really comment on
speculative matters such as this. The
Canadian Armed Forces concerns it-
self with credible threats, and this
falls outside the scope of our oper-
ations.”
In an attempt to gain more an-
swers, this journalist filed a formal
Access to Information Request con-
cerning access to all reports involv-
ing “incursions made by foreign un-
known aircraft” into Canadian air-
space for the past two decades.
“Speculative matters” aside, the DND
responded that it “neither confirms
or denies records exist …” and that
“if documentation did exist, it is ex-
empted in its entirety” from Access
to Information Requests owing to
national defence.
“The government was mostly un-
interested in UFOs; they really want-
ed the whole thing just to go away,”
explained Matthew Hayes in an in-
terview. Dr. Hayes is a filmmaker and
researcher whose 2019 PhD disserta-
tion, “A History of Canada’s UFO In-
O TH E G LO B E AND M AIL
vestigation, 1950-1995,” stated that
while some individuals within the
government take the issue seriously,
“most efforts were put toward de-
bunking the subject.”
Dr. Hayes was not surprised by the
military’s response to my UAP ques-
tion. In 2017, a DND spokesperson
sent the CBC an image of a flying sau-
cer when responding to their press
query concerning the phenomenon.
“There were many attempts over
the years and decades to ignore the
UFO phenomenon and requests for
information about UFOs, as some-
thing outside the scope of the depart-
ment or agency,” Dr. Hayes stated.
The U.S. military has publicly ad-
mitted that unknown aerial objects
are making incursions into sovereign
airspace. In 2017, begrudgingly, it was
forced to provide three pieces of vid-
eo footage of unknown objects film-
ed by naval aviators piloting F-18 Su-
per Hornets. They were attempting,
albeit unsuccessfully, to engage
these aircraft.
The U.S. Navy has also changed its
policies for its personnel and is mov-
ing to reduce the stigma around re-
porting sightings of unidentified ae-
rial phenomena. Jokes over aliens
and flying saucers do not seem to be
on their minds when their best pilots
and aircraft cannot keep up with
whatever these unidentified aircraft
are. The concern is far more severe.
American politicians and intelli-
gence experts have publicly ex-
pressed their opinions that a foreign
adversary may have developed a su-
perior system of propulsion or tech-
nology that can trick complicated ra-
dar and video recording systems.
Alternatively, this phenomenon
may be something else entirely. Re-
gardless, the United States is taking
this issue seriously. Looking into the
various assortment of reports pre-
sent in the CADORS flight safety sys-
tem indicates Canada ought to take it
seriously as well.
“In the past, the Canadian govern-
ment has certainly tried to take its
lead from the U.S. when it comes to
UFO information,” Dr. Hayes ex-
plained. “There are several docu-
mented instances of minutes from
committee meetings, or interdepart-
mental memos, of Canadian officials
uncertain about what to do, and de-
ciding to wait to see what the Amer-
icans do.”
Mr. Rutkowski said that while Can-
ada has seen a reduction in sightings
in 2019, 2020 has seen a dramatic in-
crease in the first few months. While
the various Canadian governmental
agencies attempt to make light of
unidentified aerial phenomena, the
data indicate this issue is not going
away. Perhaps now that the U.S. is be-
ginning to look at the issue of UAP
more seriously, Canada will follow
suit. Governments and militaries are
not comfortable with unknowns.
They are potential threats to a na-
tion. When the role of the govern-
ment and the military is to protect
that nation, pretending something
does not exist is more politically pal-
atable than admitting there has been
an intelligence failure.
That being said, if anything can be
drawn from the Department of Na-
tional Defence’s response to inqui-
ries regarding this subject, perhaps
they do not consider the implica-
tions of unknown aircraft making in-
cursions into Canadian airspace as
being a “credible threat.”
| SATU R DAY, AUG UST 15, 2020
Police reform will
be a drawn-out and
difficult fight against
entrenched systems
RICHARD FADDEN
OPINION
Former national security adviser to the prime minister,
director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service,
deputy minister of national defence and deputy clerk of
the Privy Council
I
t is now beyond reasonable debate that the issue
of systemic racism in our law-enforcement in-
stitutions must be seriously addressed. This is
not to suggest that every police service is equally
flawed, or that every officer acts unacceptably, con-
sciously or not; indeed, we must avoid ascribing all
of society’s ills to the police who serve us, lest we
throw the baby out with the bathwater, and ignore
how other social institutions also contribute to sys-
temic discrimination. But clearly, the current model
of policing needs to change.
Political leaders, legislators, police board mem-
bers, city councils and police chiefs in Canada and
the United States have acknowledged as much, and
with various degrees of specificity, have said that
something must be done. What that might look like
remains difficult to discern.
Some have suggested the abolition of some po-
lice forces altogether; that is a non-starter, and will
only divert attention away from more effective ways
of dealing with the issue.
Defunding is a more complicated proposal; most
police forces are already underfinanced, but a care-
ful look at how public funding is being used would
be a worthwhile undertaking. Some police practices
likely need to be more strictly limited or forbidden,
including chokeholds and carding, while new ones
should be mandated. And police-training curricula
should be reformed so that they’re about more than
just firearm requalification and criminal-law up-
dates; it must be disseminated repeatedly over the
course of all levels of a police career, and must send
the message that the coercive power of the state
should always be the last resort.
But whatever the solution is, it will be important
to understand that change will be profoundly diffi-
cult – indeed, far harder than any simple message
being delivered – because of the closed-personnel
nature of these police services.
Closed-personnel organizations are ones in
which young men and women join as recruits, plan
to stay for their entire careers and work toward pro-
motion within that force (some entry at mid-level is
possible, but is relatively rare). Such systems aren’t
the exclusive domain of
police forces; they can
also be found in intelli-
gence agencies, foreign To suggest that
services, the military police boards, city
and in many religions. councils, responsible
All organizations de-
velop a culture that de- ministers, Crown
termines not so much counsel and criminal
what they do, but rather law courts knew
how they carry out their nothing of these
work, and police servic-
es are no exception, with appalling practices
the culture pervading is to suggest either
widely across this closed gross negligence
loop. or incompetence,
But while police cul-
ture varies from jurisdic- when neither view
tion to jurisdiction and is warranted.
is a function of many
factors, a crucial commonality is that officers spend
the majority of their time dealing with a small part
of the population that the rest of us would often
rather not hear about. This gives rise to a we-versus-
them mentality – one that’s amplified by the closed-
personnel systems and their practical requirement
that members strongly support one another, often
against any outsiders. The pressures of this culture
of conformity and mutual support also make it diffi-
cult to operate within the structure. Policing’s hie-
rarchical, command-and-control approach to ma-
naging and standardizing behaviour – as is required
by the considerable power held by individual police
officers – should make it easier to discipline “bad
apples.” Instead, police culture tends to counterbal-
ance the ability of chiefs to act.
Over the course of my career, I’ve worked with
police officers from many forces. Virtually all of
them impressed me with their dedication, work
ethic and belief that their role was central to peace,
order and good government. But I remember that
most only ever wanted to discuss their good qual-
ities; areas where improvement might be possible
were rarely ever raised. With some notable excep-
tions, usually at the chief level, they were profes-
sionally very conservative and resistant to any sug-
gestions from outsiders such as myself, my col-
leagues, or cabinet ministers.
Without a shadow of a doubt, statements to press
for change by political leaders, legislators and police
chiefs are necessary, but they’re far from sufficient.
Consider the challenges in dealing with sexual
abuse among the Roman Catholic clergy despite the
views of the Pope, or the Canadian Armed Forces’
sexual-harassment crisis despite the efforts of the
Chief of the Defence Staff. Indeed, it is telling that
front-line officers and their unions or associations
are often missing from the list of those agitating for
change.
To get officers on board, organizations that work
with the police should, at minimum, transparently
acknowledge their own complicity in policing’s
problems. To suggest that police boards, city coun-
cils, responsible ministers, Crown counsel and crim-
inal law courts knew nothing of these appalling
practices is to suggest either gross negligence or in-
competence, when neither view is warranted. This
broader insensitivity to systemic racism is part and
parcel of the issues in our police.
Systemic discrimination or racism anywhere is
an assault on what most Canadians believe and
what the Charter demands. Because of how police
services are organized, however, transformation is
going to be arduous and slow. Police chiefs working
inside their organizations cannot do this alone: a
considerable amount of political capital, structural
untangling and society-wide patience is going to
have to be expended if the long mission ahead has
any hope of succeeding.
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BASKING IN THE ‘ANTHROPAUSE’
While COVID-19 has separated us from co-workers and classmates, it’s also helped bring people closer to their neighbours,
Peter Kuitenbrouwer writes. The world may be quiet now, but our sense of community has seldom been more pronounced
OPINION
Peter Kuitenbrouwer is a journalist
and forestry consultant.
T
he other morning at sun-
rise, I looked out the win-
dow and saw a couple who
live across the street pull a bad-
minton net into the middle of
our road. They then used a tape
measure to mark out the bound-
aries of the court. The husband
served to his wife, and the game
was on – not just as an idle volley
of the birdie, but a fierce compe-
tition for points.
“There’s no wind early in the
morning,” they explained to me,
when I went out to watch their
game. As for the net, “$50 at
Canadian Tire.” It helps that, with
most people working from home
and summer camps closed, there
is scant traffic.
I like our Toronto neighbour-
hood during this COVID-19 pan-
demic. The sense of community
has never been stronger. Another
couple has taken to walking the
sidewalks in strong strides with
great purpose. They wear T-
shirts, shorts and matching ball
caps. They have a circuit; they
pass our house several times in
an hour before breakfast. My wife
and I call them “the power cou-
ple.” For months, when gyms
were closed, two young women
rolled out their mats in our park
and fired up a laptop to lead
them on their workout routine.
The world is quiet right now.
Give Black employees the freedom to be Black
DORI TUNSTALL
OPINION
Dean of the Faculty of Design at
OCAD University
N
ina Simone once said: “I’ll
tell you what freedom is to
me. No fear.” Freedom
from fear is the ultimate goal of
Black people around the world. It
is enshrined in The Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.
And yet, there is the fear that you
feel on the streets as a Black per-
son. The fear that the failure to
“tone down your Blackness” will
get you killed by the police, or ne-
glected by a doctor, or denied
housing by a landlord.
And then there is the fear that
you feel every day on the job as a
Black person – the fear that if you
bring your full Black selves into
the workplace, not only will you
be rejected, but you will be fired.
It is an insidious fear that leads to
greater economic inequality, pre-
carious employment and the
continuation of systemic racism.
Over the past few weeks, Black
employees and business owners
across Canada have described the
fears that come with bringing
Blackness into their workplaces.
It has not been a conversation ev-
eryone wants to have. As the CBC
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PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: THE GLOBE AND MAIL.
How quiet? We now have some
idea: The equipment that re-
searchers use to detect earth-
quakes can also rate less dramat-
ic events, such as the “seismic
noise” we humans make in our
cities. In July, Thomas Lecocq, a
seismologist at the Royal Observ-
atory of Belgium, and 65 other re-
searchers, including William Mi-
narik from McGill University, co-
authored a paper in Science mag-
azine titled Global Quieting of
High-Frequency Seismic Noise
Due to COVID-19 Pandemic Lock-
down Measures.
As the world shut down to bat-
tle the virus, Dr. Lecocq’s group
found the “length and quies-
cence of this period represents
the longest and most coherent
global seismic noise reduction in
recorded history.” The University
of Auckland, who helped in the
study, calls this peaceful period
the “anthropause.”
The anthropause is great news
for kids who want to learn to ride
a bike on our street. Cars are rare.
I often work in the backyard
near our WiFi modem. Parents
walk by with their offspring. Our
dog barks when other dogs pass.
Laughter trickles over the fence.
It helps that the aroma of sugar,
milk and toffee wafts from the
chocolate factory across the way.
An invasive renovation of a
house nearby, leaf blowers and
transport trucks filled with cocoa
butter sometimes blemish the
serenity.
The coronavirus has upended
personality and cultural com-
mentator Amanda Parris recently
wrote: “If history has taught us
anything, it’s that Canadian insti-
tutions and companies do not
welcome the truth when it comes
to the realities of systemic racism.
They often do one of two things
in response: 1) they systematical-
ly shut down those who disrupt
the status quo, or 2) they symbol-
ically acquiesce, but make only
surface-level changes.”
Fortunately, this has not been
my experience at OCAD Universi-
ty, where I am the first Black, and
Black female, dean of a faculty of
design – not just at OCAD U, but
anywhere. And rather than see-
ing this anomaly as an example of
tokenism – or supertokenism, as
the utility of my exceptional tal-
ents are designed to overcome
the institutional aversion to my
presence as a Black cis-gendered
woman within systems of white
supremacy – what is happening
at OCAD University is a possible
model for other institutions to
mimic to ensure enough Black
representation that people feel
free to be Black.
OCAD University is achieving a
critical mass of Black employees
at effective levels to transform
the institution. It’s not just talk,
but action. Here’s how to do it:
Like OCAD U, institutions need to
think about hiring Black employ-
routines. Typically, during the
summer, I would hop on my bike
I often work in the and fight traffic on my way to an
backyard near our WiFi office near Union Station – and
modem. Parents walk not really think about my street
until after work. Now, I am here
by with their offspring. all the time with everyone else.
Our dog barks when We get to know one another a
other dogs pass. little bit.
Micro-performances in front
Laughter trickles over yards break up the quiet. A
the fence. It helps that young couple moved into a
the aroma of sugar, milk house across the way, and the
and toffee wafts from man dragged his table saw onto
the front lawn. Every afternoon
the chocolate factory for weeks they toiled there,
across the way. building the perfect front porch.
The scent of cut pine filled the
air.
Another day, as I worked in-
side, the power went off. My wife
and I went out the front door. All
the neighbours appeared on
their porches and we exchanged
the news – everyone had been in-
side on their devices. The power
returned, and people disap-
peared.
In the evening, our neighbours
shut their laptops and go outside.
In a phenomenon repeated
across Canada, almost every fam-
ily on our block has acquired a
puppy. There’s a stretch of lawn
and trees in front of a police sta-
tion down the street that we call
“Police Park.” There, every night,
locals assemble for an hours-long
romp we call the Puppy Party –
Mac, Ruby and Pepper, the
youngsters, meet older dogs such
as Coco and Flint and Oscar, the
big floppy Newfoundland.
ees in “sets of three” and entrust-
ing them with power at the top
Over the past few level, influence in the middle lev-
el and growth at the entry level.
weeks, Black employees
and business owners My school recently announced
a successful Black Cluster Hire of
across Canada have five full-time Black faculty in De-
described the fears that sign – its first in 144 years, which is
come with bringing both thrilling and shameful. This
was achievable because OCAD U
Blackness into their had established critical mass in
workplaces. It has not the sets of three. At the entry lev-
been a conversation el, Black students consistently ad-
everyone wants to have. vocated for faculty who repre-
sented their lived experiences so
that they could grow. At the mid-
dle level, professors, such as Lil-
lian Allen and Andrea Fatona,
wielded great influence on the in-
stitution through their activism
and scholarship. They also served
on the hiring committees to influ-
ence decisions, including the one
to hire me. It took 144 years be-
cause the institution needed
someone at the top with power.
Nearly four years ago, I was hired
as a (Black) dean with the real
power to determine and nego-
tiate faculty budgets, write posi-
tion descriptions, support Black
community initiatives and rede-
sign the qualifications standards
to account for systemic exclusion.
Many big and small freedoms
in being Black are possible be-
cause we have built critical mass
by turning five full-time Black
faculty into 10. This also adds to
OPINION | O5
COVID-19 has taken the lives
of thousands of victims across
Canada. Front-line workers have
died from the virus. Unemploy-
ment has skyrocketed. Parents
juggle kids and jobs at home.
(My wife and I got lucky, since
our kids are older. Our son gradu-
ated high school in a virtual cere-
mony that, despite the students
being apart, had its sweet mo-
ments, too.) For most, this pan-
demic has brought challenges.
Still, it feels okay to celebrate the
anthropause.
The coronavirus has separated
parents from their co-workers
and kids from their classmates.
The generations now spend
more time among one another.
Dave McGinn noted in The Globe
and Mail last month that this
pandemic has had the effect of
returning us to the summers of
the 1980s, when kids played with
the other kids in their neighbour-
hood. That’s nice.
One evening I took the dog to
the park. Couples worked, at a
reasonable physical distance, to
erect a volleyball net and mark
out the perimeter in flagging
tape. Their kids played in a wood-
ed thicket, blissfully free, for a
few minutes, from the hawk-like
parental eye. As the net rose,
women began a friendly argu-
ment about whose team an Aus-
tralian dad on our block would
join. He is tall and sculpted like a
model from GQ. He just laughed.
Everyone is on stage right now,
and some enjoy the attention.
our complement of Black admin-
istrative staff, who are represent-
ed in the president’s and pro-
vost’s offices, within facilities, the
library, IT and student services.
Another positive development
was the Speak to Power student
forums we held not long ago.
Black students overcame their
fears to share with the new presi-
dent, Ana Serrano, and the lead-
ership team at OCAD U all the
ways in which the institution has
failed them by not supporting
their lived experiences of Black-
ness in their education.
What do I mean by “big and
small freedoms in being Black?”
Those freedoms manifest them-
selves in wearing our hair in locs
or braids, dressing in Kente cloth
or Trinidadian tricolours, bring-
ing jollof or patties to a potluck,
and openly saying Black lives
matter and having colleagues
agree.
Many institutions have de-
clared the intent to hire more
Black employees. These declara-
tions are welcome, but intention
is just the first step. Black employ-
ees must be hired in numbers –
think in multiple sets of three –
and entrusted with power, influ-
ence and growth. Companies and
institutions that do this will only
benefit. We perform miracles
when free from the fear to be
Black.
O6 | OP I NI ON O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L | S ATU R DAY, AUG UST 15, 2020

We stand to lose our

free and open internet
amid rising tensions
between the U.S., China
ROBERT MUGGAH
RAFAL ROHOZINSKI

OPINION

Robert Muggah is a principal of SecDev Group and

founder of the Igarape Institute.

Rafal Rohozinski is a principal of the SecDev Group.

T
he U.S.-China dispute just took a dan-
gerous turn. Late last week, the U.S.
government issued three separate
measures – two executive orders im-
posing sanctions on social-media networks We-
Chat and TikTok, and another to set up a “clean
network” program – that, come mid-Septem-
ber, would prohibit any U.S. citizen or company
from conducting business with those apps’ Chi-
nese parent companies, Tencent and Byte-
Dance respectively.
While these efforts take aim at legitimate se-
curity concerns, the hawkish measures were
surely intended, at least in part, to strengthen
U.S. President Donald Trump’s chances of
winning re-election in November. Given the bi-
partisan support for national-security pressure
on China, the orders may well prove helpful in
that regard.
But the three measures’ wider effects are far
more consequential, including for Canada. If
fully implemented, they could eviscerate the
foundations of a free and open internet, streng-
then authoritarian governments and hasten
the unravelling of the economic interdepend-
encies that powered the most successful half-
century in human history. And while it will be
virtually impossible to enforce these orders,
which are already facing legal challenges, the
damage is already being done. Indeed, by sign-
ing these orders, the U.S. government has effec-
tively ended its long-standing role as guarantor
of a free, interoperable and neutral global in-
ternet.
Mr. Trump’s political pyrotechnics – part of a
years-long strategic campaign against Beijing
that includes tariffs on hundreds of billions of
dollars worth of Chinese products, restrictions
on Chinese technologies, and sanctions against
Hong Kong and Beijing officials – may not even
achieve their intended ends. Paradoxically, this
latest crackdown threatens to actually hurt U.S.
corporations and speed up deglobalization. Af-
ter all, China makes up roughly 19 per cent of
global GDP in a deeply interconnected global
economy, so e-commerce companies such as
Amazon will need to rethink how to source the
hardware and software that power their global
cloud infrastructures, while companies that
partner with ByteDance and Tencent could ex-
perience devaluation and retaliation.
Tencent is one of the world’s largest tech
firms, with stakes in video-game studios, social-
media apps and music companies around the
world. U.S. companies, including Visa, Master-
card and Starbucks, also use WeChat’s
e-commerce functions in China, and they may
Democrats: Fissures in party have
be forced to reconsider their footprint there.
The executive orders might also normalize FROM O1 they are voting for Democrats now.”
governmental control over the flow of informa- Several key moments of change
tion into and out of their jurisdictions. In recent Indeed, the Democrats are in the The party that relied stand out. One was in 1924, when, in
years, autocratic governments in North Korea, throes of an enormous transition, in on white voters from a marathon 17-day convention that
Russia, India and Belarus, among others, have some ways mirroring the transitions the lower strata of required 103 ballots to select a presi-
hived off their citizens’ access to the internet, in the broader American society; dential nominee, the party dead-
and this “splinternet” will have dangerous im- when the party’s putative nominee, 19th-century America locked on whether to condemn the
plications for digital and human rights. former vice-president Joe Biden, se- is today struggling to win Ku Klux Klan. Four years later, with
Further, Chinese President Xi Jinping stands lected Senator Kamala Harris as his back the support of what the first Catholic presidential nomi-
to benefit from U.S. sabre-rattling. Regardless of running mate this week, he chose a political professionals nee, the Democrats won the 10 big-
whether ByteDance and Microsoft make a deal woman who is both Black and South gest cities in the country; they had
to acquire at least some part of TikTok before Asian and is married to a Jewish man call ‘non-college whites.’ lost all 10 in the 1920 election. By
next month’s deadline (unless Twitter beats – a vivid portrait of a changing coun- 1964, when Congress was debating
them to it), Mr. Xi will almost certainly feel em- try. the Civil Rights Bill, the Southern
powered to take reciprocal actions, including Moreover, Mr. Biden, 77, has ac- mastodons of the Democratic Senate
stepping up interference efforts in the coming knowledged that he would be a – avowed racists – discovered they
U.S. elections (as some believe is already “transitional” president – an could not muster the filibuster need-
occurring). As the second-largest holder of U.S. inadvertently poignant self-descrip- ed to kill the legislation.
debt, China could also dump bonds, increasing tion of a political figure who himself “It was a slow evolution, driven in
interest rates for the battered U.S. economy. has undergone substantial change in part by demography – by the growth
This might negatively affect China’s trade bal- an age of vast waves of change. In of diversity in the country – and by
ance in the short term, but also hurt Mr. important ways, the Biden-Harris the changing nature of the econo-
Trump’s prospects for re-election. ticket is the personification of the my,” said Bruce Schulman, a Boston
Perhaps most worryingly, Mr. Trump’s orders transitions that have transpired in University historian. “By 1936, the
undermine the role of the United States as the the party and in the country. Democratic coalition as we know it
lead defender of digital freedoms, open innova- Mr. Biden was born into the New through the last half of the 19th cen- had taken shape, identified with lib-
tion and the wider digital economy. The contest Deal voting bloc writ large, growing tury and sporadically in the 20th. The eralism and with activist govern-
over the future of the internet will not just be up with FDR as president in the blue- Democratic Party that is now rooted ment.” That was the year of FDR’s 46-
between the U.S. and China; other countries collar rail and coal-mining centre of in the cities and in the North was the state landslide, the first time a Demo-
will likely join the chorus to overhaul the in- Scranton, Pa. He graduated law party of the South until the crat had enough support nationwide
ternet. China is unlikely to sit idly by and could school in 1968, the annus horribilis mid-1960s. The Democratic Party to win the White House without a
work with allies to enact similar restrictions on that included the assassinations of that was the vanguard of racial single Southern electoral vote.
foreign operators. And the potential ascend- Martin Luther King Jr. and senator change in the civil-rights era and
ance of this techno-nationalism will devastate Robert F. Kennedy and the riots out- again in the age of Black Lives Matter
political, social and economic relations just side that year’s Democratic National was the party that fought integration The fissures in today’s Democratic
about everywhere. Convention. He was elected to the – indeed, was unabashedly the party Party have been bridged in part by
Canada can help combat this trend by de- Senate in 1972, the year the Demo- of white supremacy – after the Civil time, and in part by the Trump phe-
fending an internet that benefits everyone. This crats overhauled their convention War and as late as the early 1960s. nomenon.
is not just a political imperative; it is an eco- system to invite more women and The Democratic Party that today It has been six months since the
nomic priority. Today, we rank as one of the Black Americans to power in the par- speaks of increased Washington in- most recent multiple-candidate
most digitally advanced countries in the world, ty. He presided over the bitter 1991 tervention in the economy and Democratic debate. Since then, Mr.
and yet Canada’s IT sector is still dependent on Clarence Thomas Supreme Court health care was the party that fought Biden has vanquished his rivals.
technologies and cloud resources whose ori- confirmation hearings that served as big government for decades. Meanwhile, the coronavirus – as well
gins and operators lie beyond its borders. Mr. a precursor to the #MeToo move- The party that relied on white vot- as the protests and revival of aware-
Trump’s latest gambit exposes the vulnerabil- ment. ers from the lower strata of 19th-cen- ness of Black pain prompted by the
ity of Canadians to tariffs on data transit across Two numbers underscore the tury America is today struggling to killing of George Floyd in Minneapo-
Chinese-owned fibre-optic cables, and to sanc- changes in the Democratic Party and win back the support of what politi- lis – have dominated the news, blunt-
tions that could cut off access to critical cloud in American politics. In the election cal professionals call “non-college ing the effect of the differences
providers. Such scenarios seem far-fetched, but after the birth of Mr. Biden, his native whites.” And the party that is today among Democrats, but not eliminat-
that was once the view of U.S. sanctions on Can- Pennsylvania county sided with the congenial to elites was the ultimate ing them.
adian exports under national security auspices, Democratic ticket, led by Roosevelt, enemy of the nation’s elites at the But the Democratic debates – 11 in
too. And Canada’s Nortel, once a global leader by an 11-point margin. Just four years end of the 19th century and into the all, the first coming 14 months ago
in telecommunications, collapsed in part be- ago, Mr. Trump came within four per- early years of the 20th century, when with 20 candidates tangling in a two-
cause of Chinese cyberespionage. centage points of winning there – three-time presidential nominee Wil- night format – put the party’s divi-
The next chapter of the internet will be writ- and captured Pennsylvania’s 20 elec- liam Jennings Bryan inveighed sions in sharp relief. And in every
ten in 2020. As the U.S. and China battle over toral votes. Today, the Scranton area against privilege and spoke of “the one of those sessions, Mr. Biden
internet supremacy, middle powers risk being – along with the suburbs around avenging wrath of an indignant peo- stood at the centre of the proceed-
roadkill along the information superhighway. Pittsburgh and Philadelphia – may ple.’’ ings, not by virtue of his strength as a
For better or worse, the internet has propelled be the most important battleground “We used to run against the elites,” candidate – in truth, through most of
unparalleled advancements in science, educa- in U.S. politics. said former vice-president Walter the primary season it was his weak-
tion, political expression and economic pros- Mondale, who was the Democratic ness, not his strength, that attracted
perity – values that Canada has embraced. If the presidential nominee three-quarters the most attention – but by virtue of
world truly needs more Canada, then standing The Democratic Party that is under- of a century after Mr. Bryan’s last his Goldilockian political porridge:
up for a free and open internet is not just in going such fundamental change was campaign. “Ivy League faculties not too hot, not too cold. The battle
Canada’s interest, but the world’s. itself the party that fought change didn’t vote for us. We didn’t fit. But lines swiftly took on an overarching
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Joe Biden speaks at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colo. SHANNON STAPLETON/REUTERS
e been bridged by time and Trump
theme: How much change did the
modern party of change want, and
how much could it stomach?
That debate can be distilled into
one sentence, uttered by Senator El-
izabeth Warren of Massachusetts and
directed at a moderate with views
not so different from Mr. Biden’s, for-
mer Representative John Delaney of
Maryland: “I don’t understand why
anyone goes to all the trouble of
running for President of the United
States,” she said, “to tell us what we
can’t do and shouldn’t fight for.”
Ms. Warren – along with Vermont
Senator Bernie Sanders, who was the
last of Mr. Biden’s rivals for the nomi-
nation when he dropped out of the
race in April – saw the Trump phe-
nomenon as an opening for major
change in the party and, if successful,
in the country. Understanding that
the party eventually would unite
against just about anyone – lawn
signs Democrats placed throughout
the country urged the election of
“Any Functioning Adult 2020” – the
pair calculated that this was the year
to work for fundamental change: a
broad centralized health-insurance
scheme to cover all Americans, far-
reaching environmental structures to
fight global climate change, dramatic
changes in the tax code to battle the
wealth gap.
The two New England lawmakers
spoke of revolution, and they meant
it. “If there is going to be class war-
fare in this country,” Mr. Sanders said
at the AFL-CIO union’s convention
last year, “it’s time that the working
class of this country won that war
and not just the corporate elite.”
At the same time there was fer-
ment in the Democratic grassroots –
ferment that continued throughout
this summer.
Last month, Jamaal Bowman, a
progressive insurgent, upset Repre-
sentative Eliot Engel of New York, the
powerful 16-term incumbent who
was chairman of the House foreign
affairs committee, in a Democratic
primary. It was the third example in
two years when a progressive candi-
date of colour toppled an urban es-
tablishment liberal in a Democratic
primary.
His victory, combined with Alex-
andria Ocasio-Cortez’s 2018 unex-
pected win over former fourth-rank-
ing House Democrat Joseph Crowley
in New York and Ayanna Pressley’s
defeat of Michael Capuano of
Massachusetts, laid bare the growing
The virus has drained
the colour from customary
political activity, and
the level of antagonism
against the President has
prompted Democrats to
focus on their differences
with Mr. Trump, rather
than their hesitations
about Mr. Biden.
ideological and generational tensions
in the party.
This new rebellion has all the po-
tential power of the liberal insurgen-
cy of the 1960s, which G. Calvin
Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot de-
scribed as “The Liberal Hour” in a
landmark 2008 book of that title.
“Today there’s an agenda that re-
sembles the 1960s in some ways – the
Green New Deal and Medicare-for-
all,” said Mr. Mackenzie, an emeritus
political scientist at Maine’s Colby
College.
“But the forces of resistance – the
vise-hold that special-interest groups
and social media have – are far stron-
ger than the resistance in the 1960s.
Getting the magnitude of legislation
that we had in the 1960s is extremely
difficult and unlikely today.”
For months, Mr. Biden resisted the
entreaties from the left. He calculat-
ed that he was the “remainder man,”
the candidate who would be left
standing after Mr. Sanders and Ms.
Warren cancelled each other out and
as the other moderates in the field –
former mayor Pete Buttigieg of South
Bend, Ind., and Senator Amy Klobu-
char of Minnesota – faded.
That worked, but not without a
large boost from Black voters in
South Carolina and in the state pri-
maries that followed. And as Mr. Bi-
den moved closer to his apparent
nomination, it became clear that he
had to court the contenders to his
left and, perhaps more importantly,
their supporters.
Part of that was hard; Mr. Biden
had to inch left on health insurance
(he is now supporting Medicare for
those at the age of 60, five years earli-
er than current law) and climate
change (his is a Pale-Green New
Deal). But part was not so difficult at
all. Mr. Biden’s blue-collar roots and
the party’s post-1932 profile make
that a natural.
“Coronavirus and the economic
meltdown have cast the Green New
Deal and Medicare-for-all in a differ-
ent light,” said Democratic Senator
Edward Markey of Massachusetts.
“These things don’t seem so radical
any more.”
Democratic strategists are arguing
that, with Mr. Biden at the top of the
ticket, the party’s leadership is no
more elite than that of the Repub-
lican Party, and they’re emphasizing
the party’s heritage as representa-
tives of those at the bottom of the
economic ladder.
“The party is interested in helping
out people in the middle and lower
classes,” said Molly Michelmore, a
Washington and Lee University histo-
rian. “Very few people are paying
much attention to the very poor, but
if anybody is, it’s the Democrats.”
Ordinarily, a struggle like the one
that the two-dozen 2020 Democratic
candidates engaged in would have
played out in raucous midsummer
platform hearings and in a colourful
convention scene. But the virus has
drained the colour from customary
political activity, and the level of an-
tagonism against the President has
prompted Democrats to focus on
their differences with Mr. Trump,
rather than their hesitations about
Mr. Biden.
“We need a united front in this
emergency and against this presi-
dent,” said Edward Widmer, a Bill
Clinton speechwriter who teaches at
the Macaulay Honors College of City
University of New York. “But
progressives have qualms about cen-
trist policies, and centrists have
qualms about the progressives. The
party will unite to defeat the Presi-
dent, but if Biden wins there will be
fights among Democrats about
which way to go next.”
That is, to borrow the title of an
influential 1963 James Baldwin book
about the sort of racial injustice that
Americans are examining 57 years
later, the fire next time. For now, and
at this convention, it is only smoul-
dering.
OP IN ION | O7
Too often, even
on the sacred hajj,
Muslim women must
fear the sad and sordid
FERRUKH FARUQUI
OPINION
Ottawa writer and community activist
C
OVID-19 has redefined every facet of our
lives, and the hajj – the mandatory,
once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage for Mus-
lims – is no exception. Typically, 2.5
million pilgrims converge on Mecca in Saudi
Arabia every year to fulfill this fifth pillar of Is-
lam. But the pandemic dictated that only 1,000
people who already live in the country would be
allowed to perform this year’s five-day ritual,
which ended Aug. 2.
For me, though, there was something else ex-
traordinary about this year’s hajj. I was over-
come by the sight of women circumambulating
the coveted inner circles nearest to the Kaaba,
the most sacred site in Islam, in the heart of
Mecca’s Grand Mosque. In a YouTube interview
with Mufti Menk, a popular Zimbabwean cleric,
one of these fortunate pilgrims marvelled: “I
thought it would be like when women pray be-
hind the men … but here I was, in the first row
closest to the Kaaba.”
Her strange but beautiful experience unfortu-
nately belies the recent troubling phenomenon
of hostility toward female pilgrims. Though we
comprise half the world’s two billion Muslims,
many women are still forced to chafe under gen-
der restrictions. In the past, there would be sol-
ace in Mecca’s egalitarian rules, but now, even
the holiest of holies is less welcoming – perhaps
not even safe.
Last fall, my daughter Nishat flew to Mecca
with her new husband for umrah, the lesser,
year-round pilgrimage seeking reconnection
with God. But on the night of her arrival, she
called me, sobbing. Her pilgrimage had been
“ruined” by officious strangers who tugged at
her hijab and shouted at her. Something in me
withered and died. I recalled my own 1988 um-
rah, when my scarf slipped intermittently off my
head. Yet I wasn’t accosted by outraged, gimlet-
eyed pilgrims; I was left in peace to contemplate
God.
Disillusioned women shared similar stories
with me. Hoping for a transformative journey,
they were instead hectored and betrayed by
fellow believers. Being reprimanded by strang-
ers for dressing “improperly” was just the begin-
ning; some detailed sexual harassment, even
assault – violations that stain this sacred space.
Such gender-based discrimination has be-
come a part of the Canadian Muslim experience,
too. My father designed Winnipeg’s first mosque
in the 1970s, and our family found a spiritual
home in its bright, barrier-free prayer hall. When
women stood at the pulpit to address the mixed
congregation there, no one tried to silence them.
We weren’t forced in-
to segregated rooms
through back en-
trances. But sadly, Women of all
that halcyon era is ages now report
history. strangers hissing
A battle over sa-
cred spaces has imprecations on
played out in North their pilgrimages,
American mosques impatiently adjusting
since the 1980s, their hijabs or
when the Saudi Ara-
bian government demanding that they
launched an oil- cover their faces –
funded campaign to which is forbidden
homogenize Islam during these rituals.
overseas. Strict Sau-
di interpretations of the faith drove the import-
ed fundamentalism that gripped our communi-
ties. One day we arrived at our mosque to find a
physical barrier separating the men in the front
from the women in the back. The unmosquing
of Muslim women had begun.
Ironically, the only place where men and
women remained free to pray together was in
the very heart of the Saudi kingdom. But soon,
the conservative sheiks whose support legiti-
mizes the House of Saud wrested control of the
Grand Mosque, too, by allowing freshly “radical-
ized” Muslim pilgrims to police each other.
Women of all ages now report strangers hiss-
ing imprecations on their pilgrimages, impa-
tiently adjusting their hijabs or demanding that
they cover their faces – which is forbidden dur-
ing these rituals. As former New York Times
correspondent Diaa Hadid chronicled during
her hajj in 2016: “As I tried to find room between
worshippers, a security guard shouted that I was
taking space where men needed to walk … I felt
safe. But also, too often, second-class.”
Some men even cynically commit assault un-
der the cover of faith, grabbing buttocks or
breasts. In a 2018 Facebook post, Pakistani Sab-
ica Khan described the multiple assaults she en-
dured near the Kaaba, a story amplified by Egyp-
tian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy, who
then launched #MosqueMeToo by sharing the
story of her own assault in Mecca at the age of 15.
The campaign unleashed emotional
accounts from women who’d suffered similar
molestation. Even in Mecca, the real world in-
trudes to shame women and put them in their
place. As Ms. Eltahawy wrote: “The men who
assaulted me abused the sanctity of a sacred
space to ensure the silence of their victim.”
At its core, Islam is a feminist religion. George-
town University historian Margot Badran tire-
lessly celebrates the forgotten tenets of Islamic
feminism, declaring that in the Koran, “men and
women alike are enjoined to obey Islamic pre-
cepts and are exhorted to engage in taqwa or
righteous behaviour.” And in her revolutionary
book Believing Women in Islam, scholar Asma
Barlas shows how centuries of patriarchal read-
ings of Muslim scripture have sown misogyny.
Let’s cleanse our hearts and remember the
Koran’s forgotten message of radical equality.
Maybe then we can halt the exodus of women
from the sacred spaces that belong to us all, so
that images of women touching the Kaaba be-
come the new normal.
O8 | O P I NI O N
What will rise from the ashes of Beirut?
The people of Lebanon have long endured entrenched corruption, but the catastrophic explosion last week
underscores the need for significant international engagement with the country to ensure meaningful, lasting change
SARAH MORITZ
OPINION
Canadian writer based in Beirut
I
moved to Lebanon in March,
2019, to pursue my graduate
degree, which means I have
experienced the thawra (revo-
lution), economic crisis, CO-
VID-19 and now the explosion,
which has torn apart my home of
Beirut. Through this I have
learned to understand the magni-
tude of the resilience of the peo-
ple in Lebanon, and why it is an
attribute that has rightfully
served as a point of pride. There is
a reason why Beirut’s favoured
symbol is the phoenix – some-
thing that dies and is reborn, ris-
ing in its beautiful splendour
again, from its own ashes. This
power is made much more as-
tounding, though, when you real-
ize the resilience is a result of a
population living under a regime
that seems to do everything it can
not just to stymie progress, but to
prevent comfortable basic exist-
ence. The care those in Lebanon
have for one another is genuine,
but it is also necessary for survival
– because it is understood by
many that it is better to support
and help one another, than to rely
on the government for anything.
I witnessed this during the rev-
olution, which is still continuing
and has now been fired up by the
indescribable fury triggered by
the explosion. People take care of
one another in person and vir-
tually, organizing and providing
everything from medical aid, food
and protective gear, to mental-
health support. After the explo-
A cleaning crew made up of student volunteers passes a damaged building in Beirut on Tuesday. After an explosion at the city’s port last week,
local businesses and civilian groups are working to provide support for residents amid a lack of governmental assistance. HUSSEIN MALLA/AP
Grace under fire: Learning from an essential worker
ALEC BRUCE
OPINION
Halifax-based journalist and author
T
he walking trail we’d been
using since the pandemic
had transformed our neigh-
bourhood gym into a sterile pris-
on was broad and flat, and I’d be-
gun this particular March morn-
ing’s stroll by sprinting like a tod-
dler, leaving my wife behind and
feeling free and blissfully noncon-
tagious, when her phone rang.
“Come back,” she shouted,
ending the call. “I’ve decided.”
This was not a good sign. I knew
her boss had planned to confront
her with the same tough choice
countless other Canadians had
been forced to make recently.
“Maybe you should think about
this a bit more,” I suggested as I re-
joined her. “We haven’t had our
coffee yet.”
She smiled slightly, but the
look on her face told me to pre-
pare. It said I was about to discov-
er, up close and personal, what
happens to a happily unremarka-
ble, largely untroubled life when
one’s significant other becomes
an essential worker in an existen-
tial fight nobody saw coming.
sion, self-initiated mobilization
from local businesses and civilian
groups, such as Muwatin Lebnene
and Rebuild Beirut, involves tak-
ing surveys regarding the needs of
individuals and families, and pro-
viding support in the form of first
aid units, relief funding, equip-
ment for anyone who wants to
help clean destroyed streets,
homes and local businesses, and
generally connecting affected in-
dividuals with those who can
help. This is while the govern-
ment has not only done nothing
to help clean and rebuild or offer
services to their people, but has in
some cases refused to release the
bodies of those who died in the
explosion to their families until
the fines held by the deceased,
such as unpaid traffic tickets, have
been paid.
When it comes to post-
explosion realities beyond the
government’s astounding histori-
cal and current disregard for their
own people, I could talk about the
dire situation with regards to pov-
erty prior to the explosion, and
how the explosion has exacerbat-
ed these realities. I could talk
about what the loss of the grain si-
los and damage to the port, cou-
pled with a government-imposed
dependence on imports, means
for the rapid growth of food inse-
curity in the economically devas-
tated country with its hyper-in-
flated currency. I could talk about
the garbage crisis that has been
continuing unaddressed for
years, which the rubble from the
destruction will increase, or about
how the general lack of electricity
will now only get worse with the
destruction of the country’s pri-
mary electricity provider. But
they are related to an overarching
Since the beginning of the CO-
VID-19 crisis, public figures across
Canada have extolled the courage
and dedication of those who put
themselves in harm’s way to keep
the rest of us fed, clothed, shel-
tered and as healthy as possible.
And rightly so. But the examples
they’ve selected are, for the most
part, seasoned professionals who
are trained to deal with this sort of
thing: paramedics, doctors, nurs-
es.
My wife, Ruth, was none of
these. She’d been two months in-
to a part-time, semi-retirement
gig at a Halifax grocer when she
picked up that call from work. She
had no special skills to offer, and
no one would blame her if she
quit. Still, her boss entreated,
could she remain a little longer?
Would she consider sticking
around to “make things right” for
folks?
I could think of a dozen reasons
why she should not. There was the
constant handwashing, clothes-
laundering, the countertop-
bleaching, for three. And that was
just for openers.
“You think civilians have it
rough,” I railed. “Just wait till
you’re a bona fide foot soldier on
the front lines of the COVID wars.
What about your children, grand-
children, sister, nieces? While
Since the explosion,
the people have been
manually cleaning up
the city their own
government destroyed,
they have been rallying
to feed those who need
it and they are working
to find shelter for the
300,000 who have been
left homeless –
by themselves.
and grave reality. Whether the
ammonium nitrate was set off on
purpose or not, or by whom, is al-
so not the focus here – it is the fact
that not only did the political elite
know about the massive quanti-
ties being stored, they did nothing
to remove it, and have refused to
take any responsibility for what
happened. All of this can be
boiled down to the severity of the
corruption, and serves as a reflec-
tion of the astounding arrogance
that has developed as a result of
what the elite clearly see as their
invincibility.
This is why I believe a post-
explosion Lebanon must include
very significant international en-
gagement with the country’s
corrupt government and banking
systems. Without addressing
what has gotten the country to
the horrific place it now finds it-
self in, and without meaningful
international help to disassemble
The look on her face
told me to prepare.
It said I was about
to discover, up close
and personal,
what happens to
a happily unremarkable,
largely untroubled
life when one’s
significant other
becomes an essential
worker in an existential
fight nobody
saw coming.
we’re at it, what about me? How
ready do you imagine I am to con-
tract one of the most perniciously
virulent diseases in all of human
history? What’s more, you don’t
have to do this.”
She smiled again: “Yes. I do.”
There are 175,000 seconds in
four months. Since March, I’ve
counted every one of them as the
country’s regions, provinces, ci-
ties, towns and institutions have
O TH E G LO B E AND M AIL
the cascading, iron grip of the
elite, a future that the people of
this country deserve will not be
possible. The newly appointed
“technocratic” government and
its new Prime Minister, Hassan
Diab, resigned, but the long-term
political heads who have been re-
sponsible for, and profiting from,
the people’s degrading situation
for decades still predictably refuse
to budge. Governments every-
where must refuse to engage with
the political elite (including bank-
ers) domestically and abroad.
They have to insist on the resigna-
tion of every Lebanese ambassa-
dor and other political represen-
tatives in their respective coun-
tries. The offshore accounts of the
political elite must be frozen
immediately. Their assets, such as
their luxurious homes, need to be
seized, and an independent inves-
tigation into the explosion at the
port (or, as it is also called, the
“Cave of Ali Baba and the 40
Thieves”) needs to be held.
The explosion is not just cata-
strophic, it was avoidable, and a
terrifyingly accurate embod-
iment of how entrenched corrup-
tion is within the government and
its clientelist networks that run
(or run into the ground) every
part of the country. This is not a
case of “Middle Eastern excep-
tionalism” but is a result of a colo-
nial-created system that has been
enthusiastically carried by the po-
litical elite, some of whom are
warlords or war entrepreneurs.
And the power structure has been
left unchecked for decades, not
because consociational sectarian
systems successfully result in fair
and effective long-term govern-
ance (studies and history show
they don’t), but, perhaps, because
progressed through various
stages of self-isolation, physical
distancing and outright lock-
down. Grocery stores do not, and
never will, enjoy that option. They
are, for lack of a more novel word,
essential, and so are the people
who work for them.
Naturally, then, I began my CO-
VID-19 sojourn pretty much as I
had expected: in nearly constant
fear for my wife’s health, safety
and well-being. But as day
marched into night, and the vari-
ous precautionary routines we
had deployed seemed to hold up, I
began to breathe again. Even
more unexpectedly, I began to see
the benighted world through my
wife’s tender, tolerant eyes.
When pollsters phoned, I asked
them how they were doing. When
my lawyer demanded his money, I
told the truth: It’s in the mail. I
smiled at the Ford pickup truck
with the lousy muffler. I talked to
strangers.
I don’t recall the exact moment
when I fully realized that I had
been utterly wrong-headed about
all of this. It might have been the
time Ruth came home after a long
shift to tell me the story about the
customer who, after observing a
woman ahead of her in line strug-
gle with loose change, pulled out a
credit card and paid the entire bill.
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the level of human suffering in Le-
banon caused by it has not been
enough to warrant pressure to
change (a system, according to
the 1989 Taif Agreement, that was
supposed to be temporary).
It took one of the biggest non-
nuclear explosions in history for
the suffering of the people of Le-
banon to get international atten-
tion, and, while the people in Le-
banon are resilient, they have
been making it clear since Aug. 4
that they are beyond exhausted of
having to be. Since the explosion,
the people have been manually
cleaning up the city their own
government destroyed, they have
been rallying to feed those who
need it and they are working to
find shelter for the 300,000 who
have been left homeless – by
themselves. So just imagine what
this country would be capable of if
the people had a government that
did not hold their feet down on
the backs of their necks and force
them to breathe underwater.
It is my possibly idealistic hope
that this catastrophic event will fi-
nally push the international
community to force the elite from
their seats and seek justice in
courts that will punish them for
the true criminals they are. And,
as I write this, we wait for the par-
liamentary meeting on declaring
a state of emergency, which, if it
happens, will mean further
oppression of anyone who speaks
out against the corrupt regime.
International interference that
acts in the best long-term interest
of the people is what is necessary
to create the opportunity for a
positive future the people of Le-
banon deserve, and one,
2enshallah, the current genera-
tions will be alive to see.
It might have been after I heard
tales of the store’s staff rallying be-
hind their colleagues faced with
especially recalcitrant shoppers,
or anecdotes about patrons flash-
ing warm smiles and cracking
jokes just to raise the level of civil-
ity in the joint.
It might have been after learn-
ing about these flashes of
common virtue and any number
of other tiny generosities – this
way to a clean public toilet; that
way to a better price; over there
for a cash-only checkout – that the
truth about my wife finally
dawned on me. She really is con-
tagious, if patience, attentiveness,
usefulness and compassion are
communicable. I should be so
lucky.
As Canadians, we may need to
appreciate this more now as our
children prepare to return to
school and various provincial
“bubbles” of relaxed social inter-
action inflate and test the limits of
our thoughtfulness, but these are
lessons in grace that have always
been with us, waiting to be
learned in whichever times we
find ourselves.
Tomorrow, we’ll walk the trail
again. This time, I’ll hang back a
bit and see if I can catch a little
more of what’s going around, of
what’s essential.
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NEVER BE THE SAME
AGAIN
As Canada reopens after months in lockdown, it’s hard to shake the feeling that the world we knew
is gone, Lori Fox writes. COVID-19 has reshaped routines, halted plans and underscored societal
OPINION
Lori Fox is a writer based
in Whitehorse.
I
know what you’ve been going
through these past five
months; it’s the same thing
we’ve all been going through.
Stripped both of structure and
spontaneity, a day could feel like a
week and a week like a month, yet
two hours could evaporate in a
puff of anxiety as you googled CO-
VID-19 symptoms and compul-
sively streamed The Great British
Bake Off. It was always 7 p.m. on a
Sunday, no matter what day of the
week it actually was. Confined in-
side for days on end, you came to
loathe the colour of your bath-
room, the texture of your carpet,
the sound of your upstairs neigh-
bour walking above you. No mat-
ter how essential the errand, leav-
ing your home made you feel both
anxious and guilty.
Now, the game is changing
again. For better or for worse,
things are reopening; Toronto,
one of the hardest hit cities in the
country, recently entered “Stage
3,” meaning bars, movie theatres
and restaurants are open. Al-
though everything still has a faint,
palpable air of dread – the lull in a
horror movie where the plucky
teens foolishly believe they’ve es-
caped the monster and the view-
er, helpless, is just waiting for it to
come crashing back on screen –
the stranglehold of total social
isolation is loosening for many
people. The fear and worry and
loneliness are still there, but
blunted by changing circum-
stances and normalization.
But that other thing, that quie-
ter ache – that smouldering coal
deep in your chest you fear would
ignite and devour you if you dug it
out and examined it – that’s still
there. If anything, that pain might
be sharper, more acute than be-
fore.
That feeling is grief.
We can go out and get a coffee,
we can walk in the park, we can
drink a beer on the patio, but it
doesn’t really matter.
The world we knew is gone.
The life you thought you were
going to have is gone.
The lives we all thought we
disparities – now, it’s time to forge a better life for all of us
were going to have are gone.
And, maybe, that’s a good
thing. A good – and very hard –
thing.
Since COVID-19 first emerged
sometime toward the end of 2019,
more than 741,000 people have
died and 20 million have been in-
fected, with 121,000 infections in
Canada alone. With people locked
into their homes, sick or afraid of
getting sick, the economy came to
a grinding halt, a shockwave of
lost jobs and reduced or redistrib-
uted consumer spending. Canada
lost around two million jobs in
April, with the hardest hit – out-
side of people who were already
un- or underemployed – being
low-wage workers, of which wom-
en and younger people comprise
a large portion, groups that were
already at an economic disadvan-
tage in the Before.
Those jobs aren’t just going to
just magically reappear as we reo-
pen; COVID-19 has reshaped con-
sumer demand and will continue
to do so into the future. Many
small businesses – restaurants in
particular – are permanently
closed, and it will take time for
something to replace them, if
such a thing will even be possible
in the near future.
Things aren’t going to go back
to “normal.” There’s no “normal”
to go back to.
More importantly, this pan-
demic has kicked open the factory
doors of our culture and allowed
us to see how the sausage is made:
on the backs of the people whose
labour, time and bodies we deem
to be worth at or around mini-
mum wage, but without which we
absolutely could not – cannot –
make it through this crisis.
Current conversations around
the “safety” of going back to work
right now are simply not for the
lower classes. While many middle
and upper class people worked
from home, working class wage
earners – grocery store clerks, de-
livery drivers, food and agricul-
ture folk – continued on as “essen-
tial workers,” dispensing and pro-
ducing the goods and services on
which our entire culture runs, all
the while risking continuous pub-
lic exposure. They went to work –
We have lost a world.
You’ve got permission
to grieve. But in doing
that, we might ask if the
world we have lost is
really as good as we
remember, if it was
serving the life we
hoped we would have.
and continue to go to work – be-
cause they have to, and will con-
tinue to have to, even as we see in-
fections spike, something we
should prepare to happen, given
what we are seeing in other na-
tions, such as Germany and Aus-
tralia.
For the working class who have
lost their jobs due to the pandem-
ic, discussions around CERB –
which some claim is a disincen-
tive for people to return to work –
and how some people, particular-
ly millennials, spend that money,
only serves to make the deep-
seated class divide in this country
more apparent. If $2,000 a month
– about $12.50 an hour, or around
$24,000 a year before taxes for a
full-time worker – means that
people are making more money
than they were before, the prob-
lem is not CERB, but that workers
are not fairly compensated for
their labour with a living wage.
Anyone who would weigh in crit-
ically on how that money is spent,
moreover, should ask themselves
if they believe that only the
wealthy deserve financial autono-
my, and the pleasure and dignity
of human comforts, or if CERB is
really just a subsidy for landlords.
That these are even conversa-
tions to be had demonstrates a
tremendous failure of under-
standing – and compassion –
about the realities of working
class life, and the message it sends
is clear: Get back to work, plebes.
The destabilizing effect of this
pandemic has laid bare the eco-
nomic inequality on which our
society functions. Class disparity,
the resistance to universal in-
come, systemic racism, the milita-
rization of the police and the rhet-
oric of the current political cli-
mate are not the result of the pan-
demic; they are the endgame of
capitalism. We’ve merely paused
the machine long enough to see
them clearly.
This is my own tiny, selfish dream:
I want to meet a nice femme
and get married and have a mod-
est house with a little yard. I want
to make my future wife coffee in
the morning and kiss her good-
bye, and go off to work writing ar-
ticles and books, because it’s a
useful occupation that makes me
happy. I want to take my breakfast
in a diner on Sundays while I read
the paper, and make my wife
laugh, and put butter on hot, fresh
bread, and throw a ball for my
dog. I want a couple fingers of
whisky, clean sheets and a book
when I go to bed at night.
My dream, in short, is to have
enough, with the time to enjoy it.
To have a life that has love and dig-
nity.
It’s so small, when you say it
like that, but for so much of my life
it has seemed impossibly out of
reach. At the beginning of March,
things were finally starting to look
up for me; that dream felt a little
bit closer. When the pandemic hit,
every certainty I had worked so
hard to build for myself was swept
from the table.
Now, here in August, that
dream feels even further away
than before. I don’t know what
your own little dream is, but it
probably feels distant – perhaps
even unreachable – now, too.
I’m really sad about it, and I
think we should be allowed to be
sad right now.
Grief is a chance to get a hold of
that hurting thing, to look at it ful-
ly and carefully, to take what’s left
of what you’re grieving for and
make it into a part of yourself you
can take with you.
Grief isn’t about expulsion and
denial. It’s about consumption
and reflection.
Things are scary. We are al-
lowed to be anxious and afraid
right now.
We have lost a world. You’ve got
permission to grieve.
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But in doing that, we might ask
if the world we have lost is really
as good as we remember, if it was
serving the life we hoped we
would have. I’m working class.
I’ve experienced homelessness
and poverty. I’m queer. I’m non-
binary. I’m female. I know – have
known for most of my adult life –
that in this world some bodies are
worth more than other bodies.
Some lives are worth more than
other lives. Some happiness is
worth more than other happi-
ness.
What we are seeing, now, in this
crisis, is a perfect distillation of
that, of the ways the world before
did not serve – did not care about
– everyone equally. This is a
chance to rethink that; perhaps
not only can we not return to the
world before this, but maybe we
don’t really want to.
Capitalism demands constant,
accelerating growth; a black mag-
ic trick that flies in the face of na-
ture, in which no such thing ex-
ists. Even SARS-CoV-2 – itself a
phenomena of nature – must ad-
here to these rules, and in many
ways the virus is a metaphor for
capitalism itself. It seeks perpetu-
al increase without regard for the
host organism, and eventually it
will reach a point where it can no
longer continue its present rate of
infection; either it will use up all
its resources (all the host orga-
nisms are all already infected or
dead) or it will be contained or
even eradicated by adaptations
on the part of the host (that’s us).
That we see, plainly, how frag-
ile and unfair our way of life really
is, is part of the collective grief.
Even if we did all agree to go back
to the way things were, they can
never actually really be that way;
the illusion has been dispelled.
So go ahead and grieve now.
Think carefully. Fill in the holes
the world before has left.
Adapt.
Be good to your neighbours
and friends. Take care of them as
best you can. Don’t let them go
without, if it’s possible. We’re go-
ing to need each other more than
ever.
It will take a lot of hands to
build a new and better world
with new and better lives for
each of us.
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DAVID WALMSLEY
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To beat the
virus, Own
the Podium
I
n a time of pandemic and recession, a nation that tends to
pride itself on doing relatively well, all things considered,
under the circumstances, has to aim much higher. Cana-
da needs the public-health equivalent of Own the Podium.
At the Montreal Olympics in 1976, Canada became the first
host nation to fail to win a gold medal. It repeated the feat 12
years later, in Calgary. After that, the country’s amateur
sports program took a hard look at itself. A generation later,
in Vancouver in 2010, Canadian athletes won 14 gold medals –
a record for most first-place finishes, ever, by any country at a
Winter Olympics.
Canada today has to shoot for something similar, only on a
much more important field.
Round 2 against COVID-19 begins now. Canada’s goal for
the coming months should be to make this country the world
leader at returning to a high level of economic activity, while
maintaining a low level of COVID-19. Getting Canada back on
its feet, while keeping the pandemic on the floor, will not be
easy, but it is possible. A new study published this week in the
Canadian Medical Association Journal suggests how.
Researchers with the Public Health Agency of Canada
modelled four different “interventions” aimed at preventing
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
new waves of infections. They concluded that, if Canadians
SO LONG, SCHEER using them, which this individu- bour population policy.
continue to practise prudent physical distancing, and if gov- al was clearly not. The RCMP are If there really won’t be enough
ernments simultaneously up their game on testing and con- Re Scheer Offers Advice For His supposed to ensure such regula- young people to go around when
Replacement (Aug. 13): I would tions are followed. the global population starts to
tact tracing, it should be possible to keep infection levels low.
like to thank Andrew Scheer for I believe this episode had decline, then the only true solu-
Studies like these are always to some extent guesstimates, his service to the Conservative nothing to do with the type of tion would be to adapt our sys-
Party and to Canada. gun and everything to do with tems so they don’t depend on
since what is being modelled – millions of people having bil-
Hopefully he will remain in the failure of the store clerk, who youth. From that point of view,
lions of interactions – is so exceptionally complex. What’s politics, as I find he has perform- should have been properly immigration can only ever be a
more, as the researchers note, “key epidemiologic character- ed nobly as House Speaker and trained by management. It’s temporary stopgap.
Conservative Leader. clear to me that store policies The real argument for immi-
istics of SARS-CoV-2 remain unknown.” It cannot have been an easy were not followed, as they would gration is that free movement
Nevertheless, based on what is known, the researchers es- time for him, filling in while a not have been able to sell fire- should be a right. No state
new leader is to be declared, but arms without having these pol- should be permitted to tie peo-
timate that if Canada were to do nothing, 64.6 per cent of he soldiered on. icies front and centre. ple to its soil – even when the
Canadians would become infected with COVID-19 over the His conduct made me think of The PAL is an excellent tool, soil in question is as expansive
a line from Robert Burns’s A when properly used, and I doubt as Canada’s. But, to deal with de-
next year and a half. If Canadians continue to practise phys- Man’s A Man For A’ That: “The any law-abiding gun owner clining global fertility, we need to
ical distancing to the same degree as today, and if govern- honest man … is king o’ men for would disagree with its main change our societies so they
a’ that.” In short, Mr. Scheer suf- purpose. don’t depend on exponential
ments continue to test, contract trace and isolate cases with fered his lumps and took it on Michael O’Brien Langley, B.C. population growth.
the same degree of success as now, then the spread of the the chin. Chris Borst Montreal
His actions, as I see them,
virus will be reduced, but only slightly. serve a sharp contrast to Justin
UNIVERSAL DANGER
WORD ON THE STREET
However, the study says that, if governments up their Trudeau.
Bob Erwin Ottawa Re How Broken Systems Allowed
game, the expected infection rate will plummet. Matthew McKnight To Get Away Re The Artful Flogger (Arts &
Canadian public-health authorities currently detect and With Sexual Assault For Years Pursuits, Aug. 8): After spending
CIRCLING BACK (Opinion, Aug. 8): The account 50 years in enemy territory in the
isolate only 20 per cent of people infected with COVID-19, ac-
of the offences of Matthew book publishing business, I have
cording to the researchers, and are only able to track down 50 Re Three Years Ago, Gun-Law McKnight against his victims is rarely read such a compelling
Loopholes Paved The Way For A indeed horrific. However, con- portrait of a would-be novelist as
per cent of those people they came into contact with. That’s
Rampage in B.C. Why Has Noth- tributor Karlee Kobasiuk refers reporter Ian Brown’s of Crad
because many infected people have mild symptoms or none, ing Changed? (Aug. 8): The crux to white male privilege no fewer Kilodney, the late outlaw of Can-
and they consequently never know that they are infected. of this story seems painfully ob- than four times. Are we to as- adian letters.
vious: a mentally ill individual sume that only privileged white The pain and depth of his ex-
Our testing and contact-tracing systems are only seeing – and was able to purchase a firearm men are getting away with sex- ile from any recognized publica-
quarantining – the tip of the iceberg. and hundreds of rounds of am- ual assault due to our “broken tion is remarkable. Behind his
munition in Canada, then goes systems?” desperate search for establish-
But what if they saw more? The study estimated what berserk. Sexual violence is and always ment endorsement, I see a lone-
would happen if public-health authorities were able to con- To attribute the ensuing ram- has been a crime that knows no ly soul trying to make a place for
page to a legal technicality – one boundaries in terms of race, eth- himself, in an unsuccessful way,
sistently identify 50 per cent of the infected, and track down that enables 10-round pistol nicity or economic background. I in the CanLit world.
100 per cent of their contacts. With “enhanced case detection magazines to be used in five- believe it does no one any ser- I think he may have been our
round rifles – feels disingenuous. vice to point a finger at white own Willy Loman. If you remove
and contact tracing,” the expected infection rate would fall to In fact, pistol-calibre firearms men as being the only ones who all the bluster, I think Crad
just 0.4 per cent of Canadians. have significantly less power, benefit from our failure to pro- Kilodney was a nice guy who
lower accuracy and shorter range tect women. wanted to be loved and appre-
And if better gumshoe sleuthing by public-health author- than conventional rifles. Susan Cochrane Toronto ciated, perhaps for the wrong
ities were paired with millions of individual Canadians con- This person could have affect- reasons. Finally, we have an anti-
ed more mayhem with a perfect- hero who we can all appreciate.
tinuing to practise physical distancing, the projected infec- BYE, BYE, BABY
ly legal 25-round magazine in a Tony Hawke Toronto
tion rate falls to just 0.2 per cent. .22 rimfire rifle.
And the potential for lethal Re The Coming Baby Bust (Opin-
Again, this is just a model; these predictions come with no SHORT-TERM STAY
carnage would have increased ion, Aug. 8): While I agree with
money-back guarantees. Nevertheless, they represent a rea- had he used a five-round capa- columnist John Ibbitson and
sonable take on the current state of an evolving understand- city, full-bore military surplus or contributor Darrell Bricker on Re That Je Ne Sais Quoi (Letters,
commercial hunting rifle. As the significance of accepting Aug. 13): It seems people have to
ing of how best to prevent the spread of this virus. well, the shooter could have newcomers into Canada, I can’t be reminded that Kamala Harris
The study suggests that Canadians must still do their part, caused multiple vehicle wrecks help but think of the countries is as Canadian as Meghan Mar-
and injuries had he chosen to they are leaving behind. kle.
by keeping their distance, wearing masks (the impact of wield a shotgun with buckshot Whether a person is coming to Eric Mendelsohn Toronto
which is not considered by this study) and not getting togeth- or slugs. Canada for economic reasons, to
All in all, I find his choice of a flee persecution or to reunite
er in large groups. CANADIAN CAPACITY
legislative “loophole” rifle to with family, we should also un-
But beyond that, returning life to something close to nor- wreak havoc was far from the derstand what their country of
most advantageous strategy. origin is losing, not just what Re We Should Limit Crowds In
mal, without reinvigorating the virus, is up to governments. Bert van Ingen Nepean, Ont. Canada is gaining. In a global so- Provincial Parks (Aug. 10): I’m
They’ve got to make the right choices, and among those is ciety, wouldn’t it be better if all reminded of an observation by
The perpetrator of this rampage countries had a chance to pros- famous sociologist Yogi Berra:
devoting sufficient money, intelligence and obsessive atten- purchased a firearm from a store per? I’m not sure how that hap- “Nobody ever goes there any
tion to detail to enhancing the nation’s capacity for testing without a valid Possession and pens if the best and brightest more; it’s too crowded.”
Acquisition Licence and was minds of so many countries Sam Rainboth Vancouver
and contact tracing. move here.
likely not qualified to renew it.
If public-health authorities do not up their game, by find- The RCMP investigation It seems immigration solves
“deemed that all store policies some of our problems, but adds Letters to the Editor should be
ing and isolating a much higher share of future COVID-19
were followed and no charges long-lasting ones elsewhere in exclusive to The Globe and Mail.
cases and contacts, then the study suggests that the health of were laid.” This is outrageous to the world. Include name, address and daytime
me. Nathan Stoffman Toronto phone number. Keep letters under
the economy, and of Canadians, will again be in jeopardy.
The PAL was designed precise- 150 words. Letters may be edited for
Unless and until there is a vaccine, beating COVID-19 will ly to prevent the sale of firearms I am a strong proponent of im- length and clarity. E-mail:
not be about one big thing. It will be about many little things, to persons that are not consid- migration, but what John Ibbit- letters@globeandmail.com
ered by the RCMP to be capable son and Darrell Bricker argue for
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Kamala Harris is a win for sanity
The senator’s selection
won’t please everyone,
but it’s a reassuring
sign for Joe Biden’s
vision of America
KONRAD
YAKABUSKI
OPINION
I
f you had tried to follow the Re-
publican reactions to the selec-
tion of Kamala Harris as Joe Bi-
den’s running mate this week,
you might have wound up with
whiplash. The GOP’s lines of at-
tack were all over the map.
For weeks, Republicans had
been warning that the Democrat-
ic Party had been taken over by a
radical-left mob that would abol-
ish the police and private health-
care plans if Mr. Biden won the
White House. But Mr. Biden’s de-
cision to tap Ms. Harris ran con-
trary to that narrative, leaving the
GOP flat-footed. How could it
If Lebanon is to emerge from this disaster, there must be accountability
JOHN ANDREWS
OPINION
Former editor and foreign
correspondent for The Economist,
and the author of The World in
Conflict: Understanding the World’s
Troublespots
H
aram Lubnan. Poor
Lebanon.
As if sheltering more
than a million refugees from the
Syrian war next door, an econo-
my in free fall and COVID-19
weren’t enough, now the cata-
strophic destruction of the port
of Beirut has left more than 150
dead, more than 6,000 injured
and some 300,000 people – 5 per
cent of the population – home-
less. What can end this tale of
woe for a country whose capital
once saw itself as the Paris of the
Middle East?
Sadly, that image is long gone,
destroyed by the 1975-90 civil
war, corruption and regional tur-
moil. The hapless government
called for a state of emergency in
the wake of the port blast, only to
be confronted by demonstrators
chanting the slogan that almost a
decade ago sparked the Arab
Spring: “Ash-shab yurid isqat an-
nizam.” Which, in essence, trans-
lates to: “The people want the
overthrow of the regime.”
Although the government has
now resigned, popular fury is set
to increase. On Aug. 18, the Spe-
cial Tribunal for Lebanon in the
Hague will issue its verdict on the
2005 assassination of former
Lebanese prime minister Rafik
Hariri. Four members of Hezbol-
lah – the Shia militia and politi-
cal party backed by Iran and Sy-
ria – have been tried in absentia
for the bombing of Mr. Hariri’s
motorcade.
Whatever the Special Tribu-
nal’s verdict, political tensions
will rise. Hezbollah, classified as a
terrorist organization by the
The Bloc Québécois says it plans to force an election. Yeah, good luck with that
ROBYN
URBACK
OPINION
B
loc Québécois Leader Yves-
François Blanchet has is-
sued an ultimatum: the
Prime Minister’s Office must see
to the never-going-to-happen, or
else Mr. Blanchet will trigger the
extremely-unlikely. How’s that
for a threat? Surely Justin Tru-
deau is somewhere quaking.
Mr. Blanchet has insisted that
Mr. Trudeau, Finance Minister
Bill Morneau and Katie Telford,
the Prime Minister’s chief of staff,
all resign for their handling of the
WE Charity scandal. If they re-
fuse, Mr. Blanchet says he will at-
tempt to trigger an election in the
fall.
“We say they must go,” Mr.
Blanchet told reporters Wednes-
day. “We say that even more
intently than we did before.”
Mr. Blanchet is referring to the
fact that he demanded Mr. Tru-
deau’s resignation all of six weeks
ago, when both he and Conserva-
tive Leader Andrew Scheer insist-
ed the Prime Minister and
Finance Minister “step aside for
the good of the country.”
have been so unprepared?
As much as the Biden cam-
paign tried to create the impres-
sion that the party’s presumptive
nominee was vetting several
women to serve as his vice-presi-
dential candidate, there is not
much evidence that he seriously
considered anyone other than
Ms. Harris, Susan Rice or Eliza-
beth Warren. Of the three, Ms.
Warren, a white Massachusetts
Senator and favourite of progres-
sives, would have been the risk-
iest choice. As for Ms. Rice, a for-
mer national security adviser, she
had never run for office.
Republican National Commit-
tee chair Ronna McDaniel tried to
cast the choice of Ms. Harris on
Tuesday as proof that “the left-
wing mob is controlling Biden’s
candidacy.” Yet, a few hours later,
the RNC’s own blog was high-
lighting tweets from progressive
activists who felt Mr. Biden had
given them the middle finger.
Over at Fox News, host Tucker
Carlson opened his show with a
blistering monologue that at-
tacked Ms. Harris for being not a
radical-left ideologue, but a cra-
Protesters in Beirut
wave Lebanese flags on
Tuesday near the site of
an explosion at the city’s
port last week. The
blast injured upward
of 6,000 people and
killed more than 150.
GORAN TOMASEVIC/
REUTERS
Since then, Mr. Morneau, Mr.
Trudeau and Ms. Telford all testi-
fied before the House finance
committee, where they revealed
details about the WE arrange-
ment that made an already shady
agreement appear even more
grubby and incestuous. La Presse
also reported that the WE Charity
paid another firm to assist in de-
livering the program in French-
speaking regions – the implica-
tion being that the Liberals didn’t
bother to check if WE could prop-
erly serve the country’s franco-
phone students before handing it
a massive contract.
The only problem left for Mr.
Blanchet, who surely wants to
stretch out this fresh Quebec an-
gle, was that he and Mr. Scheer
had deployed their “resign” calls
prematurely. (In fact, Mr. Scheer
demanded Mr. Trudeau step
down twice before, during the
SNC-Lavalin scandal, perhaps un-
aware that the only effect was to
make his party seem weak when
Mr. Trudeau, of course, stuck
around.)
So, Mr. Blanchet had to refresh
his resignation call, this time
with something of a serious-
sounding addendum: Resign, he
said, or I’ll force an election.
The threat of tabling a motion
ven politician who believes in
nothing but her own advance-
ment. “Harris may be the single
most transactional human being
in America,” Mr. Carlson said.
“There are time-share salesmen
you would trust more than Ka-
mala Harris.”
U.S. President Donald Trump
and his campaign team tried to
spin the twin narratives that Ms.
Harris is both a member of the
radical left and a “phony.” A
Trump supporter could have
been forgiven for not knowing
what to make of the California
senator. Within only hours of be-
ing named as Mr. Biden’s running
mate, she already had the GOP in
knots.
Ms. Harris is, fundamentally, a
moderate, which is why her own
presidential bid foundered. Mr.
Biden had locked up support
from the centrist Democratic es-
tablishment before Ms. Harris
had even announced her candi-
dacy. And the progressive opposi-
tion coalesced around Vermont
Senator Bernie Sanders and Ms.
Warren.
As a former prosecutor and
United States and the European
Union, enjoys widespread Shia
support. Its militia is more pow-
erful than the Lebanese army
and it has a powerful bloc in par-
liament.
Just as the presence of Palesti-
nian guerrillas and their “state
within a state” was a factor in
Lebanon’s civil war, so Hezbol-
lah’s “state above the state” will
provoke still more calls – by Le-
banese and outsiders alike – to
end a system in which political
and economic power is allocated
not by merit, but by religious
sect.
But is that what “the people,”
with their banners calling for
thawra (revolution), really want?
Lebanon, carved out of the Mid-
dle East a century ago by the
Sykes-Picot accord between Bri-
tain and France, is a mosaic of
Christians, Muslims, Druze and
others (some 18 sects are official-
ly recognized). In 1943, when
France ended its League of Na-
of non-confidence in a minority
Parliament is a weighty one most
of the time. But consider the con-
ditions now: The Bloc will need
the support of the entire Conser-
vative caucus, plus the NDP or
the Greens and independents, to
successfully bring down the
Liberal government.
By the fall, the Conservatives
Voters who are in no
mood for an election
may take out their angst
on the parties that
pushed for it.
will have just chosen their new
leader, who will have had next to
no time to carve out the party’s
direction, establish a rapport
with caucus and become known
to the wider electorate. If Peter
MacKay wins, he will not have a
seat in the House of Commons.
And recent polling suggests the
Conservatives still have plenty of
work to do if they want to unseat
the Liberals in a snap election.
Indeed, a Leger poll earlier this
month found that 39 per cent and
38 per cent of decided respon-
California attorney-general, Ms.
Harris has a well-documented
history of siding with law enforce-
ment, which puts her at odds
with Democrats who have em-
braced the Black Lives Matter
movement and its demands to
defund the police. This could
prove a challenge in mobilizing
minority voters to get behind a
Biden-Harris ticket to prevent a
repeat of the Hillary Clinton fias-
co in 2016.
The bottom line is that Ms.
Harris is not a flame-thrower –
unlike Ms. Warren, whose posi-
tions on breaking up the banks
and technology giants are as rad-
ical as they are unrealistic. But
nor is she a lackey who toes what-
ever line her big-money donors
tell her to. She has shown consis-
tently throughout her career that
she will not be cowed.
“She thinks what’s good for
business should be and can be
good for the country,” Charles
Phillips, co-chair of the Black Eco-
nomic Alliance told The Wall
Street Journal.
“She wants to figure out a way
for the system to work for every-
tions mandate, independent Le-
banon’s political leaders declared
an unwritten “National Pact” un-
der which the president would
be a Maronite Christian, the
prime minister a Sunni Muslim
and the speaker of parliament a
Shia Muslim.
As the first prime minister
Riad al-Solh put it, the aim was to
“Lebanonize Lebanese Muslims
and to Arabize Lebanon’s Chris-
tians.”
The Christians were to dis-
tance themselves from the West
and the Muslims were to aban-
don the idea of Lebanon as part
of a larger Arab nation.
The original premise was that
Christians and Muslims were
more or less equal in number.
But the most recent census in Le-
banon was conducted in 1932,
and it is clear that Christians now
comprise just a third of Leba-
non’s citizens.
But why adjust the system to
reflect demographic reality if the
dents said they would vote Liber-
al if, respectively, Erin O’Toole or
Mr. MacKay became leader – a full
10 percentage points or more
than those who said they would
vote Conservative.
Then there’s the NDP, which
was in rough financial shape after
the 2019 election, only to be deliv-
ered another blow by the
COVID-19 pandemic. The party
saw donations slow down in the
first quarter of 2020 to slightly
more than $972,000, compared
with $1.4-million over the same
period in 2018, the previous non-
election year. Fundraising has
picked up since then – $1.3-mil-
lion in the most recent quarter –
but the party is still in no position
to run another expensive cam-
paign. Even before COVID-19, the
NDP made the decision to post-
pone its national convention in
the interest of paying off its
campaign debt.
On top of that is the whole
people-struggling-to-survive
thing, with Canadians across the
country just trying to keep it to-
gether mentally, physically and
financially.
Despite polling that shows the-
oretical support for an election
should Mr. Trudeau be found in
violation of the Conflict of Inter-
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one and expand the pie.”
That is a trait she shares with
former president Barack Obama,
and it is not the only one. Both are
the biracial eldest offspring of di-
vorced, high-achieving parents.
Both possess the same even-
keeled temperament. Both took a
septuagenarian-dominated Sen-
ate by storm, winding up on a
presidential ticket within four
years of arriving in Washington.
But 2020 is not 2008. The Unit-
ed States is an even more polar-
ized country now than it was
then. The global financial crisis
was a minor market correction
compared to the economic de-
spair and dislocation that the cor-
onavirus pandemic will leave be-
hind. The world is far more dan-
gerous and the United States is far
less powerful.
Yet, Mr. Biden’s choice of Ms.
Harris is a reassuring sign. It
shows that, despite the over-
whelming hate and resentment
that characterizes U.S. political
discourse these days, Mr. Biden
believes that most Americans
really do still want to get along
with each other.
result would be another bout of
sectarian warfare? The Taif agree-
ment that led to the end of 15
years of civil war only tinkered at
the edges, giving Muslims parity
with Christians in parliament
and enhancing the power of the
prime minister.
Lebanon’s demonstrators
have long demanded an end to
confessional power-sharing and
an end to meddling by a host of
foreign powers, from America
and Israel to Syria and Iran. Their
one success was that domestic
and international revulsion at
the murder of Mr. Hariri forced
Syria to withdraw its troops in
2005, 29 years after they began
“safeguarding” Lebanon.
Lebanon has always been a
fragile construction. When I lived
in Beirut in the 1970s, the city
was indeed the cosmopolitan
“Paris of the Middle East,” until
the civil war, abetted by outside
powers, fragmented it into heavi-
ly armed neighbourhoods in
which the religion listed on one’s
identification card could mean
life or death.
Given the sophistication and
entrepreneurial energy of the Le-
banese, it is conceivable that
ending the confessional system
would turn fragility into
strength. But I doubt it.
The real challenge is to enforce
accountability. It is shameful that
the warlords of the 1970s and
1980s have become not states-
men but mobs in charge of pro-
tection rackets (power cuts, for
example, provide easy money for
suppliers of diesel generators). It
is shameful that selfish bankers
and official reluctance to guaran-
tee urgent economic and finan-
cial reform have stalled negotia-
tions with the International
Monetary Fund.
The Lebanese deserve better.
In the wake of the disaster in
Beirut, the open question of how
they will achieve it has become
more difficult than ever to
answer.
est Act, the practical realities of a
return to school, the end of safe
(er) outdoor summer activities
and possible rising infection
numbers could make an election
call in the fall seem like an ill-
timed expense and distraction.
(Partisans will insist that ac-
countability for WE can’t wait,
but it’s that sort of myopic think-
ing that keeps a party 10 points
behind.)
Voters who are in no mood for
an election may take out their
angst on the parties that pushed
for it.
In fact, the party that might
benefit the most from a snap
election – other than the Bloc,
with approval of Mr. Trudeau on
the decline in Quebec – is the Lib-
eral Party, even with its persistent
and recent ethical lapses. All of
these factors taken together
make the prospect of a fall elec-
tion appear rather unlikely, and
renders Mr. Blanchet’s threat lit-
tle more than impotent political
theatre.
Perhaps he’ll have better luck
with his third or fourth resigna-
tion calls. With nothing much
else to lose, he might as well
throw in a “please.”
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THE DANGERS OF
DOOMSCROLLING
Have months of difficult news left you feeling burnt out? Maybe your
approach to information needs adjusting, Adrienne Matei writes

H
ave you ever picked up your phone to aimlessly
browse social media, only to find yourself sucked
into a vortex of terrifying information that captures
your attention but destroys your nerves? There’s a
word for that: “doomscrolling.”
The precise neologism describes the act of compulsively
consuming an endless procession of bad news online. And
while antecedents of the term have bounced around Twitter
for a couple of years, it’s hardly surprising that it has really
taken off in 2020. After all, to use another relevant-to-our-
times internet adage: *gestures broadly at everything*.
While it’s true that there is always bad news, and that we can
logically rationalize that, in the grand scheme of history,
right now has its relative charms – life isn’t as short, sick and
poor as it was in the Dark Ages – the year has still been, well, a
doozy. There’s a lot of doom and gloom out there.
A breakout buzzword of 2020 – Merriam-Webster named it
“one of the words we’re watching,” while Dictionary.com
included the term on its list of “new words we created be-
cause of coronavirus” – doomscrolling has entered the lex-
icon largely thanks to Karen Ho, a journalist (and former
Globe and Mail reporter) who has tweeted out variations of
“Stop doomscrolling” almost every evening since early April.
Initially, Ho says, these tweets were her “talking out loud”
to herself on Twitter – little notes reminding her to resist
bingeing online information about everything from police
brutality to “layoffs and how workplaces are changing, to re-
ally serious discussions regarding what work from home will
be like long term, and the ongoing response in the States and
other countries like Canada to the pandemic before a vaccine
is found,” especially right before bed.
Her followers quickly let her know they appreciated these
reminders, too. “People were telling me that it was helping
them think much more actively about their own passive
scrolling, and log off,” Ho says.
MATEI, P2

ISTOCK

SCTV pioneer says it’s time to tear down the storied comedy troupe
J. KELLY
NESTRUCK comedy theatres in Toronto, Chi-
cago and Los Angeles and, of
OPINION course, for producing its legend-
ary TV spin-off SCTV, starring
John Candy, Eugene Levy, Andrea
been subject to multiple open
letters from Black, Latinx and
queer alumni – calling for inves-
tigations into everything from
microaggressions and tokenism,
The improv impresario sound-
ed torn in a phone interview with
The Globe and Mail from Los An-
geles, where he is now based. In
fact, he was even torn about
diversity initiatives he cham-
pioned, dating back to the L.A.
riots in 1992. At others, he want-
ed to make clear that he isn’t
dodging responsibility and that

K
nowing when to step down
and move on in the arts is
an art itself – and if you
want a clear illustration of the
perils of staying in a position of
power just a couple of years too
long, look no further than An-
drew Alexander.
Two summers ago, the Bramp-
ton, Ont.–raised comedy, film
and television producer was sur-
rounded by loved ones at Rideau
Hall as he received a lifetime art-
istic achievement award from
the Governor–General. He was
honoured for his work as chief
executive officer and executive
producer of The Second City
Martin and Catherine O’Hara.
Flash forward to this summer,
however, and Alexander, 76, has
stepped down from overseeing
Second City’s operations in the
wake of charges of institutional-
ized racism aimed at the great
comedy institution, charges that
Alexander did not refute in a rue-
ful resignation letter.
“The Second City cannot begin
to call itself anti–racist,” he wrote
on June 5, promising to divest
himself of his 46-per-cent stake
in the private company. “This is
one of the great failures of my
life.”
Since then, Second City has
to verbal abuse and sexual mis-
conduct.
“We are prepared to tear it all
down and begin again,” Second
City’s president and managing
partner Steve Johnston and
chairman D’Arcy Stuart wrote
in response, pledging that an
independent human resources
firm will look into all the allega-
tions.
So what is Alexander’s life leg-
acy in the end – building Second
City up into one of the world’s
top comedy brands, with reve-
nue reaching almost $80–mil-
lion, or leaving it in a tear–down
state?
giving an interview – sending a
short statement first, then chang-
ing his mind the next day and
deciding to talk.
“It is hard – it wasn’t what I
anticipated, as I was gonna exit
the company at some point,” he
says. “But I hope my legacy
will be that, you know, it will
move into a new phase – and the
new generation will really re-
spond.”
At times, Alexander – who
saved the Toronto franchise in
1973, then took full ownership of
Second City with his late busi-
ness partner Len Stuart in 1985 –
was eager to mention comedy
he didn’t do enough in evolving
his soon–to–be former company
from its white roots.
But while Alexander has
taken the fall for widespread
problems at Second City, he also
believes that the comedy
company might have been able
to avert this crisis if he had
been more hands-on and picked
up on “issues” that built up
into a “powder keg.” “If I have
one big regret, it is that over
the last nine years, I was spend-
ing not nearly enough time ei-
ther in Toronto or in Chicago,” he
says.
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Matei: You’re not the only
one who’s been doomscrolling
FROM P1
Social media’s inherent addictiveness is
well documented. The kinds of pull-to-re-
fresh and infinite scroll features used by
the likes of Twitter and Facebook are noto-
rious for affecting the human brain in
much the same ways as casino games and
cocaine.
The 24-hour news cycle also keeps us
tethered to our screens: Important infor-
mation could break at any time, so we feel
like we have to keep checking lest some-
thing significant slip past us.
Between anxiously staying abreast of
the news and desperately seeking some
kind of entertaining diversion from it,
we’re glued to technology. In spring, news
sites saw their readership surge, while Twit-
ter reported a record high of 186 million
daily active users between April and June –
a 34-per-cent year-over-year rise.
According to New York-based clinical
psychologist Dr. Ali Mattu, the underlying
reason we keep doomscrolling is that “un-
certainty fuels anxiety.”
“As you read bad news online your mind
wants to get more certainty – when there’s
a danger, your mind wants to do some-
thing to alleviate that danger or learn more
information,” he says. And if clear answers
to your questions and comforting solu-
tions to your fears just don’t exist, “all you
find is more uncertainty, which keeps you
trapped in the cycle of checking, looking,
feeling worse.”
Yet, the solution to all this anxious
scrolling is not putting our screens away
completely. Rather, it is developing a strat-
egy for how, why and when we engage. It is
about cutting down on those zombie-ish,
passive times we expose ourselves to news
and social media – such as grabbing our
phone before bed only to look up and real-
ize it’s 2 a.m. and we’ve been scrolling for
hours. When we wade into an endless tor-
rent of information on autopilot, we’re
prone to getting carried away.
“It’s about having intention,” Mattu
says. “Is my intention here that I want to
read all the major stories from this news
outlet I trust, or is it I want to make sure I’m
ISTOCK plugged into the big things happening
across a few sources? Whatever your plan
is, go for it and be intentional.”
Further, Mattu recommends setting
time limits on internet use, relaxing in
ways that don’t involve social media and
finding people to talk to about any anxiety
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the news stirs up. “All of us have to develop
a coping strategy for dealing with the news
in 2020. It’s as important as brushing your
teeth.”
One of the best things we can do to re-
duce the impact of doomscrolling on our
well-being may be divesting ourselves of
the belief that we have moral imperative to
engage with hard news as much as possi-
ble. That’s not because the news is unim-
portant – but rather because our energy
and attention are finite.
It is crucial to stay informed. Yet, if we
are not efficient and purposeful with how
we are consuming information – that is, if
we passively doomscroll – we risk burning
out and feeling useless, hopeless and para-
lyzed by an onslaught of problems we
seemingly cannot affect.
To engage with difficult issues produc-
tively, we must engage with them sustain-
ably. In the case of the pandemic, engage-
ment could look like organizing aid for
those affected in our communities. When
it comes to anti-racism work, it could be
donating to activist organizations and
speaking out
“
about injustice
and inequality
where and
All of us have when we see it.
to develop a Regardless of
coping strategy what we do,
“someone
for dealing with wouldn’t be in-
the news in 2020. centivized to
It’s as important keep doing that
work long term
as brushing if they were
your teeth. doomscroll-
ing” and feeling
DR. ALI MATTU demoralized
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST and exhausted,
Ho says.
For her part, Ho has deleted the Twitter
app from her phone, so she has to access
the site on her phone’s web browser, which
she describes as a “really terrible” experi-
ence.
“I always want to remind people that
there are lots of things that are still within
people’s control,” she says. “That’s the
whole point of the doomscrolling remind-
ers, is that it could feel really chaotic and
overwhelming right now. But there are still
things that we can do to help ourselves,
and to help other people.”
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their way into the fashion industry at
various academic and professional levels.
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RITUAL Despite the fact that there are no hand sanitizers that have been approved by
Health Canada to have any specific COVID-19-related benefits, these on-the-go
cleansers are a must-have for most people navigating the pandemic. Many
Health Canada-approved formulas have been proven to help reduce the risk of
infection by micro-organisms – look for the Natural Product Number (NPN) or
Drug Identification Number (DIN) on the product label to verify the efficacy of
the liquid or gel – and there’s no doubt that some formulas can seriously dry out
your mitts.
Isabelle Villeneuve, a biochemist, dermocosmetologist and the vice-presi-
dent of strategy, quality and innovation at Laboratoire Dr Renaud in Laval,
Que., says that it’s the germ-busting alcohol in hand sanitizers that’s to blame
for irritation. “The alcohol actually dissolves the natural lipids on the skin sur-
face. With regular use, it disrupts the skin barrier at some point,” she says. “It
can be painful.” To lessen these side-effects, the brand developed a new formula
What should that uses ethanol, which Villeneuve says has been found to cause less irritation
than the alternatives. She also included glycerin, which helps reduce that dry-
I look for in a ing effect of the alcohol. “It acts as like a water magnet,” she says. Finally, they
added a dash of vitamin E, an antioxidant that can help calm inflammation.
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STYLE ADVISOR

Beauty by the glass

Can you drink your way to a better complexion?
Caitlin Agnew looks at how the smoothie became
the centrepiece of skin-care regimens

T
he notion that we are what we eat
is nothing new. But these days, it
seems, we are also what we drink.
The beauty smoothie, a concoc-
tion of fresh ingredients and supplements,
is being touted as the perfect way to boost
your skin-care routine.
Beloved by social-media influencers for
their photogenic quality, these colourful
blended drinks are the latest symbol of the
pursuit of wellness. Clean-living celebrities
such as models Cindy Crawford and Karlie
Kloss, who share their favourite smoothie
recipes with the likes of Vogue and Har-
per’s Bazaar, suggest that while skin care
can only go so deep, smoothies represent a
nourishing form of self care that holds the
key to a lit-from-within glow.
And it’s not just beauty tastemakers
jumping on the smoothie bandwagon.
We’re seeing the reverse, too, as beverage
brands such as Moon Juice cross over into
the beauty space by offering skin-care
products. With three juice bars in Los An-
geles, Moon Juice is best known for its
powdered supplements with names in-
cluding SuperYou and SuperBeauty, which
promise reduced emotional fatigue and
protection from accelerated aging. The
claims of its cleansers and creams are even
more intangible, touting “skin magic” and
“heavenly hydration.”
I started making my own smoothies this
past winter, after Montreal skin-care guru
Jennifer Brodeur explained how my deli-
cious habit of frites and cinsaut wasn’t do-
ing my skin any favours. It was a rude
awakening, if not entirely unexpected. For
years, aestheticians and dermatologists
have been telling me that my skin is dehy-
drated. Lately, no matter how much cream
I slather on before bed, the pink flush on
my cheeks has gone from rosy to a diag-
nosis of rosacea.
Stocking up on smoothie ingredients in-
cluding leafy greens and chia seeds – both
of which have anti-inflammatory proper-
ties – I reminded myself that, all vanity
aside, surely there were plenty of other
benefits to be had from drinking a glass of CAITLIN’S
pulverized kale. CONCOCTION
“Because the ingredients in smoothies ISTOCK
are blended, your body expends less ener- What my personal beauty
gy on digestion and at the same time is smoothie lacks in flavour, it
able to absorb even more nutrition from biotics, live bacteria that promote healthy the fiery, cayenne-fuelled Master Cleanse. I makes up for in skin-supporting
the ingredients inside,” American nutri- inner flora. “I think that anyone who has a can’t say I noticed much change in my ap- nutrients courtesy of cashew
tionist Kimberly Snyder says. The founder persistent skin issue, whether it’s eczema pearance, but the upped veggie intake did milk (rich in copper), blueber-
of supplement and skin-care line Solluna, or acne, should really look into the gut- leave me feeling bright and energized. ries (antioxidant), hemp hearts
Snyder advises Hollywood stars on holistic skin connection,” she says. To be honest, this newfound sense of vi- (heavy in omega 3 to improve
wellness, has her own smoothie bar at the Aura is part of the billion-dollar global tality may have had more to do with the hydration and the skin’s barrier
Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., beauty supplements market, a growing fact that COVID-19 cut me off from my fa- function) and cilantro (detox-
and wrote a book with Deepak Chopra crossover product category stocked in the vourite wine bar. According to Desiree ifies the body of heavy metals).
titled Radical Beauty. aisles of both Sephora and your local gro- Nielsen, a registered dietitian in Vancouv- I drink one daily.
Snyder’s Glowing Green Smoothie reci- cery store. Sometimes used to pump up er, it’s all connected. “When we move to-
pe, which she developed more than 15 smoothies, these pills, potions and powd- ward healthy and positive things, we have MAKES 1 SERVING
years ago, is the blueprint on which many ers contain ingredients such as herbs and a better mindset about it,” she says, adding
beauty smoothies are built. mushrooms selected for their potential to that you should be consistent with any die- 1 cup cashew milk
“It is always the first thing I recom- deliver shiny hair and glowing skin. tary change for 12 weeks before deciding
mended when working with all my clients They’re often part of the personal re- whether it’s working for you. “And the ½ cup blueberries
because it’s so powerful and you can see gimens and product offerings of wellness healthier we are, the more we crowd out 3 tablespoons hemp hearts
and feel the benefits it has on and within entrepreneurs including Gwyneth Paltrow, those behaviours that are less healthful for 1 teaspoon turmeric
your body in a very short period of time,” who says she drinks her GoopGlow Morn- us.” 1 cup cilantro
she says. Along with her signature melan- ing Skin Superpowder mixed with water I’ve yet to muster the courage to swap
ge of spinach, romaine lettuce and celery, every day, and Elle Macpherson, whose my French press coffee for one of Elle Mac- 2 cups spinach
Snyder recommends I add coconut water, WelleCo Super Elixir retails for about $125 pherson’s morning beauty tonics, but I’m Handful of ice
turmeric and cilantro to my smoothies to for 300 grams (at the recommended 10 not giving up my smoothies any time soon.
respectively hydrate, reduce inflammation grams for each serving dose, that breaks “You can’t necessarily say that eating this Add all of the ingredients to
and cleanse. down to about $4 a smoothie). or not eating that will instantly improve your blender in the order
For Aura Inner Beauty founder Avalon Over the past few months, I’ve worked your skin health,” Nielsen says. “But I do they’re listed, along with any
Lukacs, adjusting your diet for your skin’s my trusty Vitamix overtime in pursuit of believe that what we eat is foundational to supplements you wish to in-
sake goes beyond chasing an elusive, age- my own ideal beauty smoothie formula, how every single cell in our body operates, clude (try Aura’s Radiance,
less glow; it’s an effective means of im- grinding up apples and pineapples and including our skin.” Consider me a believer which contains a blend of
proving some very persistent medical skin even pressing my own cashew milk. I’ve – and feel free to use my own smoothie rec- botanical extracts, antioxidants
conditions. When Lukacs developed cystic recreated a smoothie of blueberries, al- ipe, at right, as a starting point for devel- and pre- and probiotics, or
acne in her 20s, the Calgarian struggled mond milk and protein powder recom- oping your own beautifying mix. WelleCo’s The Super Elixir, a
with different skin-care products until she mended by Meghan Markle before her fo- supermodel favourite contain-
finally found relief through ingesting pro- ray into royal life and one that resembled Special to The Globe and Mail ing more than 40 natural in-
gredients). Blend until smooth.
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PERSONAL DESIGNER Aesthetically speaking, many of us have love-hate re-
lationships with our televisions. Turned on, a TV is the
captivating focal point of the living room – especially
when the new season of your favourite series is ready
for streaming. But when the black box is turned off,
you wish it would make like a magician and disappear.
Now that we’re all spending more time at home, to
put it mildly, finding ways to create harmony between
our space and this entertaining piece of equipment
feels like a priority.
I wrote about accent walls several weeks ago (yes,
they’re still a thing!) and here I am recommending
them again. One inexpensive and easily DIY-able way
How can we to hide your TV in plain sight is to paint the wall be-
hind it a shade of black in a matte finish. Soot by Benja-
min Moore is a grey-black that’s dramatic without be-
decorate around ing too dark, and Off-Black by Farrow & Ball has a rich,
velvety appearance. Wallpaper with a dark back-
our TV so it ground works equally well, if you’re so inclined.
Next, treat the TV like one piece of art in a gallery
doesn’t look like a wall and hang other pieces around it. Select several
large-scale frames to mimic the size of your TV and
big black box? balance out its scale, and then layer in smaller frames
and objects to add personality. In terms of the art and
style of frames, you can try one of two tactics: Either
stick with a restrained black-and-white palette to
make the TV blend in, or shake things up with colour-
ful art in a mix of bold frames to distract the eye and
pull focus away from the TV.
Another approach for those who, like me, don’t
plan to mount the TV to the wall, is to place it atop a
piece of furniture, such as a vintage teak cabinet or
console table with handsome legs, and dress the table
with stacks of art books, candles and flowers. If your
TV is on the smaller side, you could also tuck it inside a
taller freestanding piece of furniture, like an armoire
or secretary. And if built-ins are in your budget, ask
your designer or contractor to conceal the TV behind
sliding or hinged doors.
Finally, for complete blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cam-
ouflage, check out Samsung’s The Frame TV. It has a
super-slim picture-style frame and allows you to dis-
play your own photography or choose from a selection
of museum-quality artwork when the TV is turned off.
– BETH HITCHCOCK
Special to The Globe and Mail
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your questions to personaldesigner@globeandmail.com.
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Set your Argentine wineries are best

known for malbecs, but Mascota
Vineyards in Mendoza produces an

sights south excellent cabernet sauvignon.

These eight wines showcase

the changing face of
Argentina’s wine scene

CHRISTOPHER
WATERS

WATERS ON WINE

U
ntil recently, it’s been relatively easy to
pigeonhole the wines from Argentina. All you
really needed to know was the malbec grape
and the Mendoza region and you had a solid (if
overly simplistic) handle on a country that ranks as
the world’s fifth-largest producer of wine.
Despite a 400-year-old tradition of winemaking,
Argentina is a relative newcomer to exporting its
wines. Local thirst was sufficient to consume the
majority of production coming from local vineyards
until the 1990s, when the country faced a steady de-
cline in national wine consumption. Suddenly,
there was a serious need to find alternate sales chan-
nels.
Wineries in Argentina proved to be a quick study
and effectively used their signature grape, malbec,
to open global markets. Those plush, ripe and often
oaky mass-market red wines made such an impres-
sion, it was a challenge to engage consumers on an-
other level. That didn’t matter, as malbec pushed
aside Australian shiraz to become the world’s “It”
grape in the 2000s.
Today, as consumer tastes continue to evolve,
there’s been considerable effort to showcase what
Argentine wine is truly about.
A major spotlight at LCBO outlets across Ontario,
which wraps up this weekend, and promotional ef-
forts in other provinces show increasing interest in
the bigger picture of what’s happening across Ar-
gentina, including in wine-growing areas to the
north and south.
Mendoza remains the country’s largest and most
prolific wine-making region, accounting for more
than 85 per cent of the country’s wine production.
There’s a large amount of malbec planted across
Mendoza’s dramatic range of vineyard districts, but
there are also bonarda, cabernet sauvignon, syrah,
tempranillo and merlot grapes that add to the ready
supply of enjoyable red wines.
The focus is shifting from affordable table wines
to high-quality reds that showcase a specific vine-
yard or growing region.
The Mendoza region is also home to a range of
white varieties, led by chardonnay and torrontes
riojano, the latter of which is considered the best
clone of the aromatic grape variety that’s unique to
Argentina. The extreme altitude of the vineyards,
combined with abundant sunny days and cool
nights, allow winemakers to successfully ripen a
range of grapes for complex and compelling white,
red and rosé wines.
This week’s recommended wines are some of the
standouts from a recent tasting of 30 selections
from Argentina. The focus here is to show afforda-
ble wines that you can enjoy now or throughout the
year. Most of these wines hail from Mendoza, with
some well-made examples of classic malbec in the
mix. But it’s the unexpected bottles, including note-
worthy cabernet sauvignons and a provocative
white blend, that go to show what else wine lovers
can expect from Argentina going forward.
ALAMOS MALBEC 2018 (ARGENTINA)
SCORE: 88 PRICE: $16
This full-bodied and fruity red wine ze-
ros in on the crowd-pleasing nature of
malbec from Argentina. It has an easy-
to-appreciate smooth texture, with
ripe fruit and spicy aromas and fla-
vours. Drink now. Available in Ontario
at the above price ($14 until Aug. 16),
$14.99 in British Columbia, Saskatche-
wan and Manitoba, various prices in
Alberta, $17.99 in Nova Scotia, $18.99 in
Newfoundland and Prince Edward Is-
land.
ARGENTO SELECCION PINOT GRIGIO
2019 (ARGENTINA)
SCORE: 87 PRICE: $11.50
This is an enjoyable dry white wine
that’s fruity and enjoyable. It offers
pleasant floral, peach and melon notes
that make it a solid everyday sipping
wine. Drink now. Available in Ontario
at the above price ($10 until Aug. 16),
$13.99 in British Columbia, various
prices in Alberta, $14.99 in Newfoun-
dland and Prince Edward Island.
EL ESTECO 1947 OLD VINES CABERNET
SAUVIGNON 2018 (ARGENTINA)
SCORE: 93 PRICE: $24.95
This aromatic and nicely structured ca-
bernet is made from pergola-trained
vines in the winery’s Las Mercedes
vineyard in Cafayate Valley, located in
the north of the country’s wine regions.
Its aromas and flavours suggest spice,
herbs and dark fruit notes. Fermented
and aged solely in concentrate, the fla-
vours aren’t overwhelmed or obscured
by oak barrel notes. The finished wine
is balanced and complex with nice
smooth texture that’s approachable
BOTTLES TO TRY
now but promises to age gracefully.
Drink now to 2027. Available in Ontario
at the above price, various prices in Al-
berta.
LA MASCOTA CABERNET SAUVIGNON
2017 (ARGENTINA)
SCORE: 90 PRICE: $15.95
Made in an appealingly ripe and en-
joyable style, this is a great example of
how good cabernet sauvignon grown
in Mendoza can be. This delivers classic
cabernet character, with plum, berry
and herbal aromas accented by cedar
and spice notes from oak-barrel aging.
Drink now to 2026. Available in Ontario
at the above price, $16.99 in British Co-
lumbia, various prices in Alberta,
$14.99 in Manitoba, $16 in Quebec,
$17.99 in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia,
Newfoundland and Prince Edward Is-
land.
SALENTEIN PORTILLO PINOT NOIR UCO
VALLEY 2018 (ARGENTINA)
SCORE: 87 PRICE: $13.99
Consumers might be surprised to see a
pinot noir coming from vineyards in
Mendoza’s Uco Valley, but it’s a timely
reminder that the region is capable of
more than just malbec. Made in a soft
and fruity style, this wine’s ripe berry
and cherry notes make it an attractive
summer red. Drink now. Vegan-friend-
ly. Available in British Columbia at the
above price, $16.95 in Ontario, available
as a case of 12 direct from azureau.com.
SANTA JULIA RESERVA MALBEC 2018
(ARGENTINA)
SCORE: 88 PRICE: $13.95
This consistently captures the bold
fruit and concentrated character of
malbec from the Uco Valley. Its core of
blueberry and plum fruit is rounded
out by chocolate and spice notes. The
texture is creamy and smooth with
freshness and acidity to balance. Drink
now to 2023. Available in Ontario at the
above price, $16.99 in British Columbia,
various prices in Alberta, $18.99 in Sas-
katchewan, $15.99 in Manitoba.
SUSANA BALBO SIGNATURE WHITE
BLEND 2018 (ARGENTINA)
SCORE: 93 PRICE: $21.95
Winemaker Susana Balbo is responsib-
le for a number of well-known brands,
including Crios and BenMarco. Her Sig-
nature portfolio represent some of the
most innovative and exciting wines be-
ing produced in Argentina, like this
provocative and compelling barrel fer-
mented blend of semillon, sauvignon
blanc and torrontes. This white suc-
cessfully manages to be both rich and
refreshing in nature. Complex and
mouthwatering. The end result is stun-
ning. Drink now to 2023. Available in
Ontario.
TRAPICHE RESERVE CABERNET
SAUVIGNON 2018 (ARGENTINA)
SCORE: 88 PRICE: $12.95
This seriously structured and enjoya-
ble red is one of the best-value caber-
nets available right now. Its mix of juicy
dark fruit and spice notes are nicely en-
hanced by a smooth texture and a re-
freshing finish. Drink now to 2023.
Available in Ontario at the above price,
various prices in Alberta, $13.60 in Que-
bec, $14.79 in New Brunswick, $14.99 in
Newfoundland.
Special to The Globe and Mail

Bowled PEACH AND

over PROSCIUTTO SALAD
INGREDIENTS (SERVES 1)
A new cookbook from
1 cup arugula
Montreal-based Mandy’s
1 cup shredded frisée lettuce
Gourmet Salads is perfect for
1 peach, cut into 6 to 8 segments
making the most of summer’s 2 tablespoons red onion, thinly sliced
fresh fruits and vegetables ¼ ball fresh burrata, at room temperature
2 tablespoons pine nuts, toasted
2 tablespoons basil leaves, torn
2 thin slices prosciutto

T
he Wolfe sisters, Mandy and Rebecca,
started their salad business 16 years
ago in a 200-square-foot space at the
back of a Montreal clothing shop in Vic-
toria Village. They bought their fridge at a
used appliance store, their cash register at
Staples and set a couple of IKEA stools in
front of a tiny counter. Then they prayed
for customers who, like them, think that
salad all on its own can be a fulsome and
hearty meal.
“We had a lot of people telling us it’s
risky,” Mandy says. “You have to do sand-
wiches. You have to do wraps. But there
was always something inside of us that
said, if you do one thing well with the
freshest ingredients, people will come.”
“It took us a couple of years before lines
began to snake outside the store, but snake
they did,” Rebecca says.
Mandy’s Gourmet Salads now has eight
locations in Montreal, including a gor-
geous flagship store in the Old Port (the
sisters describe the decor there as “old Pa-
risian bistro with a beach feel”), as well as
their little nook at the back of women’s
clothing store Mimi & Coco.
“We wanted to change people’s percep-
tions of what salad is,” says Rebecca, who
designs their locations and heads brand
marketing. “When we started the business
it was looked down upon as rabbit food,
not very exciting, and considered a side
dish. We knew it could be a decadent and
delicious meal on its own.”
Their first cookbook, Mandy’s Gourmet
Salads: Recipes for Lettuce and Life, includes
some of their classics, such as Endless
Summer, the Shanghai, R&D Extraordi-
naire, the Lumberjack, and of course, the
Wolfe Salad.
There are also recipes for smoothies,
bowls, and desserts.
Mandy, who is creative food director of
the salad chains, is constantly switching up
the menu, based on the seasons and cus-
tomers’ preferences. Her inspiration often
comes from places she or her sister have
visited. “Our salads reflect our own life ex-
periences, our travels and the various cul-
tures we’ve been lucky enough to learn
about and appreciate.”
– GAYLE MACDONALD
ITALIAN SUMMER DRESSING
(MAKES 2 CUPS)
1½ cups olive oil
½ cup high-quality balsamic vinegar
1 tablespoon Maldon salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
For the dressing, combine all the ingre-
dients in a jar and then seal and shake to
combine. This dressing will keep in an air-
tight container, at room temperature, for
up to seven days.
For the salad, combine all of the ingre-
dients except the prosciutto in a large
stainless-steel bowl. Top with the dressing
and, using tongs, toss until well-mixed and
dressed. Serve on a large plate or small
platter, and top with the prosciutto slices.
Note: If you want to make use of a whole
ball of burrata, this salad will serve four
people. Just be sure to multiply the other
ingredients by four also.
Excerpted from Mandy’s
Gourmet Salads by
Mandy Wolfe, Rebecca
Wolfe and Meredith
Erickson. Copyright
© 2020 Mandy Wolfe,
Rebecca Wolfe, and
Meredith Erickson.
Published by Appetite
by Random House®,
a division of Penguin Random House Canada
Limited. Reproduced by arrangement with
the Publisher. All rights reserved.
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Why Monkman matters more than ever

Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience features works that recall Western history paintings,
while dealing with the cruelties the Canadian government inflicted upon Indigenous people

MARSHA LEDERMAN VANCOUVER

T
hree-and-a-half years, one
pandemic and several anti-
racism uprisings ago, Kent
Monkman’s exhibition
Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Re-
silience opened at the University of
Toronto’s art gallery. It was January,
2017, and Canada was launching into
a year marking 150 years of Confeder-
ation. This exhibition, focusing on the
effects of colonialism on Indigenous
people, was Monkman’s response to
the anniversary. The artist, who is of
Cree descent on his father’s side,
wanted to ensure there was critical
contemplation to go along with all
the celebration.
Since then, the exhibition has trav-
elled across the country, a provoca-
tive contribution to the evolving con-
versation about Canada’s treatment
of Indigenous people. The show is a
corrective: inserting Indigenous peo-
ple into the Canadian history narra- Kent Monkman’s work often features his gender-fluid alter-ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, including The Daddies, above,
tive and into the art canon. in which she poses nude on a Hudson’s Bay blanket, revealing herself to the Fathers of Confederation.
This month, it opened at its ninth
and final location, the Museum of An- in Canada.
thropology at the University of British Without being naive – there is a lot
Columbia. Its opening, delayed by CO- of work to do, of course – it feels like
VID-19, takes on new resonance in the there has been progress in recogniz-
context of recent events challenging ing systemic racism against Indige-
systemic racism, beginning with the nous people in Canada, in conjunc-
Black Lives Matter uprising. tion with a wave of political uprisings
The exhibition itself hasn’t that have taken place since the kill-
changed – although the installations ing, in May, of George Floyd in the
are a little different at each stop – but United States. The emphasis on this
the experience of it surely has trans- issue feels like it alters – even elevates
formed. – the experience of walking through
As you move through the galleries, Shame and Prejudice.
it is impossible not to consider cur- Monkman’s work – two of his
rent events. Monkman’s works are in- paintings today grace the Great Hall
genious: wise and sometimes cheeky, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in
his beautiful large-scale paintings re- New York – often features his trick-
call classic Western history paintings, ster-like, gender-fluid alter-ego Miss
but do not shy away from this coun- Chief Eagle Testickle. At MOA, there
try’s fraught history in terms of Indig- she is in The Daddies (2016), posing
enous people. nude on a Hudson’s Bay blanket, re-
“My intention was to shake up the vealing herself to the Fathers of Con-
colonial institutions with this pro- federation. In another painting, The
ject,” Monkman said in an interview Subjugation of Truth (2016), she ap-
this week. “So the fact that there is pears as Queen Victoria in a portrait
this big shift happening now and this on the wall. In the installation Nativity
big push to have different perspec- Scene (2017), the baby Jesus bears a
tives on our shared history, it’s very striking resemblance to her – as do
rewarding for me. Because I feel like the adult figures in the scene. One of
I’ve been working in the trenches do- them wears a sparkly Chicago Black-
ing this for so long.” hawks jersey whose logo – surprise –
He has been particularly pleased once again resembles Miss Chief.
that museum practices are being re- Some of this work hit like a poi-
examined to incorporate the perspec- gnant punch to the gut, in particular
tives of Indigenous people and other the painting The Scream (2017) in
people of colour. Chapter V: Forcible Transfer of Chil-
The exhibition at MOA was a mov- dren. The painting – of children being
ing experience for me on several lev- torn from desperate mothers by
els. It was the first time I had been to a Mounties and church officials – is in-
public museum since COVID-19, and stalled in a dark gallery, flanked by
that in and of itself felt like a gift. Only cradle boards. Some are beautifully
30 people can be in the exhibition at a decorated; others are empty and
time, and this creates a completely un-
hushed kind of intim- adorned, resembling
acy. But Monkman’s The pandemic, gravestones or chalk
work is so glorious and outlines for murder
cutting, so striking and Monkman says, victims. It is a very
smart – and the subject has been very powerful thing to en-
matter so relevant and productive for him, counter.
crucial – that this show as he has been able to “This is the one I
would be unmissable cannot talk about,”
in any circumstance. spend most of his time the wall plaque reads.
“It will be perhaps at his studio in Prince “The pain is too deep.
perceived a little bit dif- Edward County, Ont., We were never the
ferently now,” Monk- and focus on his work. same.”
man says. “It’s been the The wall panels for
same work I’ve been doing for many this show are written in the voice of
years and I think the timing is great. Miss Chief. Monkman is now collab-
Still, three years later it’s saying many orating on a set of full-length mem-
of the same things. But I think people oirs with writer Gisèle Gordon.
might be more receptive to it.” I asked Monkman what Miss Chief
Monkman began putting together would think about what is happening
the exhibition in 2014. Told in nine now in terms of Indigenous rights.
chapters, it deals with the cruelties “This is what she’s pushing for; she’s
the Canadian government has inflict- been pushing for the revolution,” he
ed on Indigenous people: starvation, said.
incarceration, illness, the reserve sys- The pandemic, Monkman says, has
tem, forced removal of children from been very productive for him, as he
their families. has been able to spend most of his
These are things that were missing time at his studio in Prince Edward
from the school curriculum when County, Ont., and focus on his work.
Monkman, 54, was growing up in He became embroiled this spring
Winnipeg and for many years since. in a controversy over a painting that
“I stepped into a role of an educa- is not in this show. Hanky Panky was
tor with Shame and Prejudice more interpreted by many as depicting
than I ever had as an artist before, be- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau being
cause the things I was looking at and sexually assaulted as a group of Indig-
examining … were dark, dark chap- enous women look on, laughing. The
ters of Canadian history that have image provoked a lot of outrage on
been kept under the rug and kind of social media, some of it directed at Second from top: Le Petit dejeuner sur l'herbe, featured in Monkman’s Shame and
buried,” Monkman said in the inter- the women who modelled for the Prejudice: A Story of Resilience, is an acrylic painting on canvas from 2014.
view. “Shame and Prejudice was an ef- painting. Centre: Monkman’s The Scream, which shows children being torn from desperate
fort to bring them into the light and to “I didn’t foresee that the models mothers by Mounties and church officials, is installed in a dark gallery surrounded
share perspectives of Indigenous ex- would be attacked for being accom- by cradle boards.
perience across North America that plices,” says Monkman, who issued Above: In Monkman’s Nativity Scene, the baby Jesus is watched over by an
was really a result of the colonial ex- an apology back in May that “categor- adult figure in a sparkly Chicago Blackhawks jersey.
perience.” ically” removed any responsibility
In 2015, as he worked on it, the from anyone else on his team, includ- image that he intended as an allegory looking forward to having more con-
Truth and Reconciliation Commis- ing the models. so literally “and not fully grasp what I versations about that painting in the
sion issued its final report and calls to “I’ve got a pretty thick skin, I’ve was trying to achieve.” He says he has future.”
action. In 2016, Colten Boushie, 22, been an artist my whole life and peo- gained perspective thinking about Monkman says the painting will be
was shot and killed by a white farmer ple can say whatever they want about this since the episode – and has shown publicly at a Canadian institu-
in Saskatchewan; the country erupt- me. But they went after the models on learned a lot. tion within a year.
ed in 2018, when the farmer was ac- social media. And social media can be “I think it was an incredible thing For now, if you are in Vancouver,
quitted. In 2019, the final report of the quite toxic. So there’s something that to experience. With that painting I Shame and Prejudice, at MOA until Ja-
National Inquiry into Missing and was happening beyond what I antici- definitely put my finger on the nerve nuary 3, is a must-see: for its lessons,
Murdered Indigenous Women and pated. And so I tried to mitigate that of many things and the conversation for the craft, for the experience of
Girls was issued, sparking an often damage as best I could and so remove went through all stratas of Canadian looking at art and having it inform
heated and ugly debate over the use any responsibility from them.” society. It certainly achieved some- your world view, and having your per-
of the term “genocide,” which the re- Beyond that, he says, he was not thing in terms of getting people talk- haps evolving world view inform the
port concluded had been committed prepared for people to interpret the ing about a lot of different issues. I’m artworks themselves.
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How a Montreal band got big
stars to appear on its album
BRAD WHEELER
W
ith its song Baggy Eyed Dopeman,
not only does the young Montreal-
based modern soul octet Busty and
the Bass got the funk, it got the
Funkmaster General. If that’s not enough, the
guest singer on the group’s hit single Out of Love
is a five-time Grammy nominee. In the high
stakes battle of landing big-name featured art-
ists, Busty and the Bass is punching well above
its weight.
Songs starring “featured” artists are routine
on the pop charts today. Of the Top 10 tunes on
last week’s Billboard Hot 100, four involved
more than one artist on a single song. And
that’s not including the just-out scandalous
WAP from Cardi B (with help from fellow Amer-
ican rapper Megan Thee Stallion).
Those are chart-baiting cameos though – al-
gorithmic associations and star-power dou-
bling-downs designed for maximum market-
ing effect. What smaller fry Busty and the Bass
has done by getting legacy artists George Clin-
ton and Macy Gray to contribute to its new
songs is less corporate, initiated by nothing
more than wishful imaginations.
“The thought of getting Macy and George to
sing on our album was a pipe dream when we
first brought it up,” Busty and the Bass singer-
saxophonist Nick Ferraro says. “But to get them
is validating for us.”
The Busty band members met during their
first week as students in the jazz program at
McGill University in 2011. The group, which re-
leased its debut album Uncommon Good in 2017,
got a boost a year earlier when a video of its live
performance of Macy Gray’s 1999 hit I Try was
noticed by Gray, who tweeted her endorsement
of the cover.
When it came time to record its new album
Eddie (out now), the band floated the idea of
recruiting Gray to sing on the song Out of Love.
Because Busty’s producer Neal Pogue had
mixed Gray’s 2018 album Ruby, the band had an
in. Pogue submitted a demo tape to Gray’s
management and, eventually, got Gray into a
Los Angeles studio to record her singing the
song’s second verse.
“I assumed Macy would want to write her
own lyrics,” says Pogue, a prominent American
producer-engineer who has worked with every-
one from OutKast to Earth, Wind & Fire. “But
she loved the demo version and sang it as is.”
Why did A-level Gray lend her inimitable
voice to a song by a B-level band? The mutual
association with Pogue was important but,
mostly, she liked the track.
“Macy’s unique vocal style and her authentic
raspy, bluesy touch is always in high demand,”
the singer’s manager Larry Frazin says. “We
choose guest projects based on if the material
compliments her and, ultimately, if the song in-
volved hits a nerve.”
Nerve is what a smaller-name artist needs in
asking for vocal help from a higher-status one,
but connections are usually key to making it
happen. When Busty members wrote a song
with George Clinton in mind – he’s the titular
baggy-eyed dopeman – they once again enlist-
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The members of Montreal band Busty and the
Bass met as students during their first week in
McGill University’s jazz program in 2011.
ed their producer to make it happen.
“George and I both endorse JBL Audio, so I
reached out to my JBL rep who in turn reached
out to George’s management,” Pogue says.
“They were receptive to it.”
Even if an artist and their management is
agreeable to a collaboration, logistics often
complicate matters. Because Clinton was so bu-
sy last year, it took a while to get him to record
his part. Same thing with country-pop queen
Shania Twain, who duets with up-and-coming
Canadian alt-country crooner Orville Peck on
his song Legends Never Die off his new EP Show
Pony.
“We went back and forth on it with her man-
agement for a while, and it felt like it wouldn’t
be possible,” Peck says. “But then I met her at
the Grammys and she told me how much she
loved me and how much she loved my last al-
bum and my voice and how much she loved the
song I wrote for her.”
Things were smoother for Toronto singer-
songwriter Jerry Leger, who enlisted Don Ste-
venson of the legendary sixties rock group Mo-
by Grape to sing with him on his new single
Halfway ‘Til Gone. The two met a few years ago –
Stevenson lives in Toronto – and are now
friends. When Leger approached him about the
song, Stevenson agreed to it immediately.
“He said, ‘Fine, count me in,‘ even though he
hadn’t heard it yet,” says Leger, who wrote Half-
way ‘Til Gone as an Everly Brothers-style duet.
“But he trusted me enough to know the song
would be up his alley.”
Ultimately, music is industry. The beneficial
promotional aspects of a collaboration with a
star cannot be dismissed. Macy Gray singing on
Busty’s Out of Love raised the song’s profile im-
mediately. Still, unlike a Drake teaming up with
a DJ Khaled, when a Busty and the Bass works
with someone above its station, there’s some-
thing more altruistic involved.
“With the artists who have been there,
there’s a certain generosity amongst them,”
Busty’s Ferraro says. “I think someone like Ge-
orge Clinton feels a sense of reciprocity toward
younger artists. They’re open to it, and I think
that’s not only wild, it’s beautiful.”
PRODUCED BY:
O TH E G LO B E AND M AIL
Nestruck: Second City president
says ‘all of the systems’ that make
up the company will be reviewed
FROM P1
What ignited Second City’s powd-
er keg was, like so many similar
reckonings over institutional rac-
ism currently taking place at cul-
tural organizations from theatre
companies to museums, a spark
of hypocrisy in the wake of the
killing of George Floyd by police
in May.
In this case, the official @The-
SecondCity Twitter account sent
out a Black Lives Matters mess-
age that added: “To say nothing is
to be complicit.”
On June 4, the Black comedian
Dewayne Perkins, a writer on
Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Second
City Chicago alumnus, took up
the implied challenge – using
that corporate tweet to kick off a
Twitter thread listing alleged rac-
ist incidents, from white direc-
tors saying the n-word, to Black
actors being sent to speech ther-
apy to appeal to white audiences.
It was not exactly a secret that
there were race-related problems
at Second City, however, and es-
pecially in the United States since
Donald Trump’s rise to president
in 2016.
In his farewell apology, Alex-
ander made reference to a Chica-
go sketch show from that year
called A Red Line Runs Through It
– which saw an exodus of per-
formers of colour due to heckling
that veered into hate speech.
“Trumpers, you know, made
their way into the audience and
were pretty emboldened, partic-
ularly when there were interac-
tive parts of the show,” Alexander
says. “We brought in security –
the first time in history we’ve ev-
er had to do anything like that. …
But I think that the actors felt
that was not enough.”
Toronto hasn’t had a similar
headline-making flash point. But
Second City’s current bi-national
leadership, in a group Zoom in-
terview, is eager to make clear
they are working on systemic is-
sues across the company. A lis-
tening session has been held with
the Canadian talent, staff and
alumni in which grievances were
aired – and an independent HR
firm will investigate any allega-
tions received via hotline set-up
stemming from this side of the
border, too.
“Chicago, L.A., Toronto are all
part of the same company and
same family,” says Anthony Le-
Blanc, now interim executive
producer as the company search-
es for a permanent replacement
who, it has promised, will be BI-
POC (Black, Indigenous or a Per-
son of Colour). “So the changes
that we’re doing, it applies to ev-
erywhere.”
Johnston, based in Chicago but
originally from Oakville, Ont.,
says the company is going to “get
inside of all of the systems and
the processes and everything
that has been part of our way of
doing things for 60 years in Chi-
cago and coming up to 50 in To-
ronto.”
“DEI [diversity, equity and in-
clusion] should be the centre of
everything that we’re doing mov-
ing forward,” says Parisa Jalili, re-
cently promoted to chief operat-
ing officer.
For those comedy fans who go
to Second City to laugh at its clas-
sic mix of sketch and improv,
rather than for its HR practices –
and perhaps, equally, for other
comedy fans who have gone else-
where due to a feeling the brand
has dated – the area of most in-
terest in these discussions is how
the comedy will approach the au-
dience from a DEI perspective.
Second City Toronto saw
around 117,000 attendance in
2019 – but the impression is those
spectators were mostly white in a
city that is mostly not. “I think
the [Toronto] casts have been
pretty diverse for the least the
last 10 years, but the audience is
not as much,” Alexander says.
(Internal numbers from Second
City say 40 per cent of Toronto
casts were BIPOC prepandemic.)
This is an underlying chal-
lenge, LeBlanc says: “If your audi-
ence is mostly a homogeneous
group of people, then that starts
to determine what is funny,
which starts to determine what
makes the show, which deter-
mines who we hire to be in that
show.”
While the messaging has been
that Second City is prepared to
tear it all down, in Toronto, the
organization has been quietly
planning changes since last year
– aiming to expand its audience
as it prepares to expand into a
new 28,700-square-foot space
that will feature three comedy
theatres, classroom space, a
“games-driven” bar and restau-
rant.
To that end, it has been ab-
sorbing leadership from the city’s
| SATU R DAY, AUG UST 15, 2020
vibrant indie comedy scene on
Bloor Street West centred around
The Comedy Bar and Bad Dog
Theatre.
Gary Rideout Jr. and James
Elksnitis – who co-founded Com-
edy Bar in 2008 – joined Second
City as executive producer and
vice-president of business oper-
ations in early 2020, while Julie
Dumais Osborne – who was the
artistic director of Bad Dog – has
been taking over leadership of
the local Second City Training
Centre.
The new theatres are neces-
sary for the Toronto team to ful-
fill one of Second City’s pledges
here – to create shows by and spe-
cifically for BIPOC communities.
Second City Toronto has al-
ready been experimenting with
secondary offerings in anticipa-
tion of the move, Rideout says,
pointing to She the People, an all-
female sketch show, and its re-
cent partnerships with Extrava-
ganza Eleganza, a “queer-for-
ward” sketch comedy group, and
Tita Collective, an all-Filipina
troupe. “We know we have to go
beyond that,” Rideout says. The
additional hope is that audiences
invited into the Second City
space to see a culturally specific
show will then grow comfortable
it in, trust it and try other offer-
ings; Rideout has seen that hap-
pen at Comedy Bar, where he
says there’s a “cross-pollination”
of audiences.
If your audience is
mostly a homogeneous
group of people, then
that starts to determine
what is funny, which
starts to determine what
makes the show, which
determines who we hire
to be in that show.
ANTHONY LEBLANC
SECOND CITY INTERIM EXECUTIVE
PRODUCER
Making sure the Second City
brand is inclusive is important
beyond the box office, in selling
its other products: Its training
centre’s improv and sketch class-
es, which have an average enrol-
ment of 11,000 annually, and its
various corporate services that
count, among their clients, phar-
maceutical companies and Sili-
con Valley giants.
While the pandemic has led to
furloughs on the sketch-show
side, those other aspects of of the
business have pivoted fairly suc-
cessfully online as people and
companies yearn for different
ways to connect. All of which
means that Second City, with rev-
enue still coming in, is in a better
position to implement the chang-
es being demanded compared to,
say, Chicago’s iO comedy theatre,
which recently shut down per-
manently in response to the twin
challenges of COVID-19 and its
own charges of racism.
Second City won’t release fi-
nancial information about how
much of its income comes from
training and corporate work –
but ex-CEO Alexander says it has
experienced “rapid growth” this
century because of these
streams, going from about 40 to
many hundreds of employees.
“When it came to diversity, my
primary interest was the voice on
stage, making sure that our
stages were diverse and gender
equal,” he says. “As the company
grew, I don’t think I personally
was paying attention to the rest
of company, where you have
more employees. We could have
invested more in getting more
POC on our admin staff and pro-
ducing staff.”
As that reflexive “we” sug-
gests, it’s clearly going to be hard
for Alexander to let go of Second
City. “I’m not dead, by the way,”
he says, but the personal plans
for the future he mentions are
Second City adjacent, from get-
ting Martin Scorsese’s SCTV doc-
umentary to the finish line, to
spearheading more fundraising
for the Second City Alumni Fund,
which he hopes to broaden to the
wider comedy community.
The producer has hired a in-
vestment banker to find an entity
to acquire his Second City equity
in the company, but wants to
make sure it’s the right owner-
ship.
“I want the company to con-
tinue to last for another 60
years,” he says. “You know, it’s a
living, breathing organism that is
sort of reflective of the world we
live in.
“I think what’s going on right
now is we’re kind of right in the
middle of it, right? It’s all very
messy.”
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SAT URDAY 92 “... assuming there’s

C RO S SWO RD even one”
CON N EC T I N G FL I GH TS 94 Business bigwigs
95 Rope on the range
ACROSS 97 *Reason for roadside
1 Lightweight wood service (4 to 6)
6 Wrap after a 101 Obnoxious kid
mud wrap? 102 Atmosphere in a
10 Beyond self-confident restaurant?
14 Preschool basics 104 Deli subs
18 Run ___ of the law 105 Fail to include
19 Deserves 107 Woodard of
21 Get trounced “Juanita”
22 Part for Constance Wu 109 Alligator’s habitat
23 *Certain good luck 110 “Mind blown!”
charm (see letters 113 *Michigan, e.g. (4 to 6)
7 to 9) 115 Each starred answer
25 *Pianist who plays hides one
with Yo-Yo Ma (7 to 9) 118 Fruit whose shape
27 Says again resembles a lightbulb’s
28 Fridge forays 119 Katy Perry, to KatyCats
30 In first place 120 Range above bass
31 Aware of 121 “Geez Louise!”
32 Chatting with 122 Garment worn
online with a choli
33 Apiece 123 Late comedian
34 Out of danger Reiner
37 *Newsroom fixture 124 “Soldier of Love”
(5 to 7) Grammy winner
40 Roller skate strings 125 Site with a Living
44 Dryer brand Healthy section
46 Really bad
47 Vindictive Greek DOWN
goddess 1 Place for a
49 ___-weekly screwdriver
50 “Just chill!” 2 Miles away
51 Bursts open 3 One may support
52 Mexican coins a hoop
53 Spot on a card 4 Court summons
54 Stubborn equine 5 Visitor from space
55 Picture 6 Lean against
57 Desperate 7 Clumsy ones
request 8 Frat bud
59 Join, as film 9 Mammoth
61 Studio stand 10 Heavy hammer
63 “I’m innocent!” 11 Some homework
65 Squabbling helpers
66 Quick letters? 12 Simone Biles’
68 *Drink often Olympic team
taken with salt (6 to 8) 13 Italian city where 38 Sink blockage 63 Scaredy-cat 92 Mental spark
71 Review on pesto originated 39 Tight-fitting dress 64 “Water Lilies” 93 Mathematician
HomeAdvisor, 14 “Respect” singer 41 *Profit from a stock painter Pierre de ___
say Franklin sale (7 to 9) 66 Attractive quality 96 Serengeti excursion
72 Vaulting rod 15 Skinny tie type 42 Draw forth 67 Discontinued Camry 98 “Such is life”
73 Foodie 16 Thunderous sound 43 Tampa neighbor, 69 Former Vice 99 “That’s enough!”
74 Mount Everest’s 17 “___ and the City” familiarly President Dan 100 Dubai dignitary
country 20 You may take them 45 Line on a graph 70 Contents of address 103 Historic artifact
76 Blood blank fluid down 48 Drink to make with bars 106 Tagging along
78 Chamonix’s 24 Meghan Markle’s your buds? 75 Paid athletes 107 Square footage
mountains “Bye!” 51 Diet heavy 77 “Angela’s Ashes” 108 King who disinherited
79 Mascara mishap 26 Remove, as an anklet in meat author Cordelia
81 Popular meme 29 Memorial Day 52 Homes for pigs 79 iTunes purchases 109 Heath bar
format weekend race, 56 Annual fashion 80 “Would you let me?” alternative
84 Play it by ___ familiarly fundraiser 82 Digging 110 Device with playlists
85 Potters’ materials 32 “Fingers crossed!” 57 Shows fright 83 It may deliver a punch 111 Starter home?
87 Layer of nail polish 33 Just gets by, 58 Aspiring J.D.’s 86 Alan of “Marriage 112 Cheese in red wax
88 Typical Sultan with “out” exam Story” 113 Route-finding device
Qaboos University 34 TV host Haines 60 Spencer of “Good 87 Shade providers at 114 Org. on a
student 35 City in central Iowa Morning America” farmers markets mouthwash bottle
90 Elbow’s place 36 *Firefighters’ 62 Jane Goodall’s 89 Word after milk or 116 Messenger molecule
91 Poker action nuisances (4 to 6) subjects pencil 117 Bring to a close

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is only one solution to each puzzle.

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1 Bang on air conditioning next to cleric (8)
5 Skillful tailor at Dior (6)
10 Dim, overweight guards at the office (5)
11 Alison repeatedly prepared site for
mani-pedis (4,5)
12 Sunburned, sore skin on the back in
another sketch (7)
13 Clearly, luck ends abruptly without much
thought (7)
14 Recalled web story describing cold piece
of squid (8)
16 Mess up starter of dumplings in Japanese
soup (5)
19 Austria takes to jam ingredients? (5)
21 Like the authentication seal on certain
documents in Helvetica or Courier? (8)
24 Betray short individual, one with poor
manners (4,3)
26 Put forth location inside spacecraft
compartment (7)
27 Smoker’s end turned calamitous,
overwhelming still (5,4)
28 In a way, preserve a large artificial
waterway (5)
29 Made fun of doctor holding shaken-up
Coke (6)
30 Shares the rights to standard
settlements (4-4)
1 Provide what makes Old Olaf? (6) CHALLENGING
EASY
2 Converse about slide: “Wrong place for
a kid” (5,4)
3 Disavow former president reversing
suggestion of Trump (7)
4 Backed musical group fitting piece (5)
6 Coming up: Physicist’s commercial
recorder for drivers (7)
7 Gawked at original gangster taken by
the hand (5)
8 Poet composed sonnet embodying
New York (8)
9 Most absurd disinformation included in
bank deposit? (8)
15 Interpret deceptions “undeniable” (8)
17 Go back to square one: Stitch around
edge of kilt pattern (5,4)
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20 Power glitch restricts Colorado plague (7)
22 Easy win, capturing second kind of
diamond (4-3)
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poems (6)
25 Reason soldier is clasped by colonel ACROSS
turning up (5) 1 R(ARE)R, 4 AEGEAN SEA (letter bank), 9 CHAUCER (hidden on exterior), 10 EPI + TO ME
26 A pop checks temperature before a (pie anag.), 11 ED + DIED, 12 STE(N O P)AD, 14 CONTRACTOR (letter bank), 15 ST-LO (anag.),
tourist site in Jordan (5) 18 (f)ETCH, 20 FIN(AL PHAS)E, 23 QUI(PS)TE + R, 24 SCALED (2 defs.), 26 ON (AL-ER)T,
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25 FL(E)A

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Eleven great literary podcasts to listen to now

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T
he pandemic has many of
us reading, walking and lis-
tening to podcasts more
than we ever have before. So why
not combine all three things?
Here’s a roundup of some of the
best book and literary podcasts
currently available.
THE BOOK REVIEW
The declarative title, the theme
music – busily sombre classical
strings – are your cue that this is
the podcast of record, as far as
books (and the show’s pro-
ducers) are concerned. Begun in
2014, The New York Times’ week-
ly show has book section editor
Pamela Paul doing in-depth in-
terviews with big-name authors,
followed by a “What I’m Reading”
roundup with Paul and section
associates. With the full weight of
the English-speaking world’s
most influential books section
behind it, this is an obvious and
worthy place to go if you want to
hear directly from the writers be-
hind major new releases.
Also consider: Guardian Books
BACKLISTED
Not in the mood for those self-se-
rious New York Times strings?
Then consider the crackling car-
nival music that opens this de-
lightfully warm British podcast
your antidote. Backlisted’s aim is
“giving new life to old books” –
“old” meaning, in this case, not
antiquarian or obscure, but de-
serving of a wider readership.
Rarely has a promise been so well
kept. Hosts Andy Miller and John
Mitchison and their well-in-
formed guests bring an enthusi-
astic giddiness to each bimonthly
instalment. A recent episode sees
the panel reduced to infectious
laughter while discussing the
food writer M.F.K. Fisher’s How to
Cook a Wolf, while another has
Andy explaining how his late-
blooming passion for Anita
Brookner led him to devour all 24
of her novels.
Also consider: Vintage Books
THE HISTORY OF LITERATURE
Don’t let the scholarly sounding
title or baroque strains (strings
again!) of its opening put you
off. This “history” isn’t delivered
in the form of lectures, but rather
anecdotally via host Jacke
Wilson’s unpretentiously wry, di-
gressive style. During a recent Al-
ice Munro week, for example,
Wilson compares Munro’s form
to Stephen King’s, then segues in-
to the brilliance of various Rob
Reiner films before returning to
the subject at hand: “She’s so
generous and insightful with the
smallest of observations and at
the same time, just when you
think she’s going to give you
something, she pulls back, and
you’re left alone with a haunting
image, and the memory of your
own expectations.” Touché.
Also consider: KCRW Bookworm
THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES
In this wildly popular horror
anthology podcast, the new head
archivist of the (fictional) titular
institute, Jonathan Sims (the
real name of the show’s terrifical-
ly talented writer/narrator),
transcribes reports of the weird
and uncanny – about which he is
often haughtily dubious – as a
cassette-tape player gently
whines in the background. The
tales themselves, standalone
but also ingeniously interlocking,
are, thanks to Sims’s coolly
sinister delivery and the pod-
cast’s crackerjack sound design
(think The New York Times’ pod-
cast-intro string quartet under
collective possession), genuinely
unsettling. I binged it outdoors
on a hot summer’s day and still
ISTOCK
got chills.
Also consider: Phoebe Reads a
Mystery
FICTIONAL
Now in its fourth year, Fictional is
a classic literature spinoff of host
Jason Weiser’s highly entertain-
ing podcast Myths and Legends, in
which he performs cheekily con-
temporary readings of everything
from King Arthur to Slavic folk-
lore. As with its predecessor,
Weiser pulls off the impressive
feat of making his hilarious,
snark-laced retellings (from
Dante’s Inferno: “Dante blinked
awake. Something was off. He
didn’t remember falling asleep in
a dark forest that was an allegory
for his own separation from God.
Few do”) as suspenseful and com-
pelling as the originals (e.g., Weis-
er’s take on W.W. Jacobs’s short
story The Monkey’s Paw). Addic-
tive, and a sly way to introduce
the teen in your life to the classics
while sharing a laugh.
Also consider: Myths and Legends
YOU’RE BOOKED
The lure of this podcast is a snoop
around famous authors’ book-
shelves, but the hook is the
irresistible, bookish-sex-kitten
accent of its host, the serendip-
itously named literary journalist
Daisy Buchanan. Though pod-
casting economics dictate that
most of the authors are within
a stone’s throw of Buchanan’s
London base (which, granted,
isn’t exactly limiting), she’s also
filmmaker John Waters gives Bu-
chanan an in-depth tour of his
vintage porn-book collection
(Cesspool! Carnival Sin Girl! I, Per-
vert!).
Also consider: Smart Podcast;
Trashy Books
NEW YORKER: FICTION
Listening to the high-calibre chat
in this long-running podcast, in
which a writer chooses and reads
a story from The New Yorker’s
vast archive before discussing it
with the magazine’s fiction edi-
tor, Deborah Triesman, makes
you realize how rare nuanced lit-
erary analysis is these days. And
there’s plenty of top-notch Can-
Con on offer too: Mavis Gallant, a
long-time contributor to the mag-
azine, has been read four times,
including by fellow Canuck Mar-
garet Atwood (who gets border-
line scolding with Triesman in
another episode, on pal Alice
Munro’s Corrie). Atwood herself
gets read by A. M. Homes, and
Sheila Heti by novelist Ottessa
Moshfegh.
Also consider: Between the Covers
THE PARIS REVIEW
The self-styled “world’s most leg-
endary literary magazine” has
put together a sumptuous,
dreamlike podcast whose gor-
geous soundscape, which often
incorporates commissioned mu-
sic and flowing segments sets it
well apart from shows of similar
ilk and aspiration. Drawing, like
The New Yorker, on the maga-
zine’s impressive historical vault
of material, the podcast artfully
combines archival interviews
with authors such as Tennessee
Williams and Toni Morrison with
star-studded short-story and po-
etry readings (Marc Maron reads
Sam Lipsyte, Dick Cavett James
Salter). Sublime.
Also consider: Selected Shorts
HAVE YOU HEARD GEORGE’S
PODCAST?
This justifiably lauded two-sea-
son (so far) BBC podcast (it won,
among other awards, a Peabody)
helmed by British-Ugandan mu-
and social and political commen-
tary mesmerically conveyed
through verse and music. Early
episodes touched on the Grenfell
Tower tragedy, while the final in-
stalment of the second season
has George explaining to “Bri-
tain” (Anne Isgar) why he briefly
accepted, then rejected, an offer
to become a Member of the Brit-
ish Empire (“the gesture is deeply
appreciated; the wording is not”)
and how you can love your coun-
try while being horrified by its co-
lonial past.
Also consider: New Yorker Poetry
SEMI-PROSE
The few standalone Canadian lit-
erary podcasts out there (exclud-
ing those that originated as radio,
such as CBC’s Canada Reads, The
Next Chapter, or Writers and Com-
pany) have a low-fi, direct-from-
the-garage feel, which isn’t a bad
thing. Semi-Prose is produced by
Penguin Random House Canada,
with all four of its hosts (Evan
Munday, Max Arambulo, Allie
McHugh and Kristina Chin) being
past or present employees, so
don’t expect acerbic criticism of
the books covered. Still, repartee
between the quartet and their
writer-guests is consistently live-
ly, intelligent and probing, and
the show, laudably, often ven-
tures outside PRH’s vast stable of
writers, with a particular focus on
Canadian writers of colour.
Also consider: Can’t Lit
FATWA
It is, unbelievably, more than
30 years since Iran’s Ayatollah
Khomeini issued his fatwa, or
death sentence, against Salman
Rushdie for the perceived blas-
phemy of his novel The Satanic
Verses. This smartly paced, 10-part
BBC podcast reassesses the so-
called Rushdie Affair, placing it in
vivid social/historical context
and speaking to those on multi-
ple sides, including erstwhile lib-
eral, mainstream Muslims who
found themselves radicalized by
the debacle. Revealed also are the
edict’s little-known British ori-
gins.
Special to The Globe and Mail

HOROSCOPES SALLY BROMPTON LAST SATURDAY’S ANSWERS

SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2020
IF TODAY IS
YOUR BIRTHDAY
Don’t be surprised if you miss
out on the promotion you were
expecting on the work front. It
may be a letdown to begin with
but over the next 12 months
there will be many other
opportunities to shine. It could
even be a blessing in disguise.
ARIES MARCH 21 – APRIL 20
The fact that someone seems
hypercritical of you at the moment
suggests they fear you are pulling too
far ahead of them – and they’re right,
you are. There is no reason why you
should rein in your ambitions. Give
them something else to worry about
today.
TAURUS APRIL 21 - MAY 21
Creative activities are under increas-
ingly good stars, but because
changes planet Uranus begins one of
its retrograde phases today – in your
own sign – you cannot afford to take
anything for granted. Be confident
that you will succeed, but keep your
guard up too.
GEMINI MAY 22 – JUNE 21
Do you ignore what your rivals are
saying about you, or do you hit back
and tell the world a few choice facts
about them as well? On this occasion
it might be wiser to keep a low pro-
file. It’s unlikely that their misdeeds
are lesser than yours!
CANCER JUNE 22 – JULY 23
You may be full of energy and en-
thusiasm, but the planets warn you
must not rely too much on other
people, even those who have never
let you down in the past. Just because
someone is a friend does not guaran-
tee they know what they are talking
about.
LEO JULY 24 – AUG. 23
You have so much going for you at
the moment, but don’t get sloppy and
make silly mistakes. The planets warn
if you overlook an important detail,
especially on the work front, it could
cost you dear before the end of the
month. Do some serious research.
VIRGO AUG. 24 – SEPT. 23
Focus all your energy in one direction
and don’t let other people persuade
you to start something new before
your current project has been com-
pleted. No task or obstacle will be too
much for you, but that does not mean
you must do everything.
LIBRA SEPT. 24 – OCT. 23
You may look calm and collected
to the world at large but actually
you fear the worst. No doubt there
are good reasons for that but just
because everything around you is in
turmoil does not mean your life is go-
ing down the drain. You’ll be fine.
SCORPIO OCT. 24 – NOV. 22
Physically and emotionally this could
CROSSWORD
be a rough and tumble sort of week-
end, but chances are you will enjoy
every minute of the challenges the
universe sends your way. You are nev-
er more alive than when dealing with
situations that terrify other people.
SAGITTARIUS NOV. 23 – DEC. 21
Anyone who thinks you will compro-
mise on a point of principle is going
to be disappointed. You don’t care
how much it might cost you financial-
ly, you have never been one to back
down when you know you are right,
and you are not about to start now!
CAPRICORN DEC. 22 – JAN. 20
A sudden setback may catch you by
surprise but the fact is you should
have seen it coming. It is a universal
law that the more expansion there is
in one direction the bigger the defla- SUDOKU KENKEN
tion when the bubble finally bursts.
You’re at that point now.
AQUARIUS JAN. 21 – FEB. 19
What happens over the next 48 hours
will come as a reminder that the
moment you reach a point where
you think you are in full control the
universe will start taking that control
away from you. Change is the only
thing that is certain in life.
PISCES FEB. 20 – MAR. 20
Resist the temptation to make a big
deal of something that is of quite FRIDAY’S QUICK ACROSS: 1 Bucolic, 5 Still, 8 By-product, 9 Mar,
minor importance. The only reason 10 Leap, 12 Alliance, 14 Prayer, 15 Chancy, 17 Coleslaw, 18 Pert,
it seems so dramatic is because you 21 Fan, 22 Real McCoy, 24 Creed, 25 Suggest. DOWN: 1 Babel, 2 Cap,
are feeling with your heart when you 3 Loom, 4 Couple, 5 Sit tight, 6 Imminence, 7 Larceny, 11 At a glance,
should be thinking with your head. 13 Measured, 14 Pacific, 16 Harass, 19 Tryst, 20 Smug, 23 Cue.
Hopefully, common sense will prevail. FRIDAY’S CRYPTIC ACROSS: 1 Minimum, 5 Brief, 8 Barometer, 9 Tea,
10 Line, 12 Soft spot, 14 Pathan, 15 Endear, 17 Equality, 18 Crab,
21 Ail, 22 Venerable, 24 Layer, 25 Annexed. DOWN: 1 Mabel, 2 Nor,
3 Memo, 4 Meteor, 5 Baritone, 6 In top gear, 7 Flatter, 11 Not guilty,
Discover more about yourself at 13 Fall over, 14 Prevail, 16 Stanza, 19 Breed, 20 Iron, 23 Box.
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BRIDGE BY STEVE BECKER There are many simple-look-
SATURDAY, AUG. 15, 2020 ing hands where it is very easy
for declarer to go astray. Such
hands appear with no advance
East dealer. notice, and before declarer real-
Neither side vulnerable. izes what has happened, he finds
he has painted himself into a
corner.
The bidding: For example, consider this
seemingly innocent-looking deal
East South West North where West leads a spade against
Pass 2 NT Pass 3 NT three notrump. Let’s say South
Opening Lead – six of spades. wins with the queen and plays
a low club to the jack, on which
West shows out. East takes the
jack with the ace and returns a
spade. Eventually, South goes
down one, losing two spades,
two diamonds and a club – even
though he shifts his attack to
diamonds at trick four.
Declarer also goes down if he
leads a diamond at trick two,
assuming best defence by East-
West. In that case, South loses
two hearts, two diamonds and
a club.
The winning line of play – guar-
anteed to succeed regardless of
how the missing cards are divid-
ed – is to lead the queen of clubs
at trick two! In the actual case, if
East takes the ace, declarer wins
any return and allows East to win
the next round of clubs with the
eight. This assures scoring four
club tricks, three spades, and
two hearts.
If East ducks the queen of
clubs at trick two, South is still
on solid ground. He simply turns
his attention to diamonds, forc-
ing out the A-K, and scores nine
tricks consisting of three spades,
two hearts, three diamonds and
a club.
Choosing whether to lead the
queen or five of clubs at trick
two may seem unimportant,
but the fact is that playing the
queen guarantees the contract,
while playing the five does not.
When one play is sure to win and
cannot lose, and another play is
likely to win but may lose, there
can be no question as to which is
the better play.
S AT U RDAY , AUGUST 15, 2020
Nine new books your children can
enjoy before heading back to school
There are plenty of
wonderful options
to inspire, captivate
and excite younger
readers in the waning
days of summer
JEFFREY CANTON
W
hether your young read-
ers are in the city or at
the cottage, here are
some great new books to enjoy
before they head back to school.
Farm Crimes: Cracking the Case
of the Missing Egg, Sandra Du-
mais, (Owlkids Books, 6-9)
When Hen’s egg goes missing, the
animals on the farm know exact-
ly who to turn to – the world’s No.
1 (and only) goat detective, Bil-
liam Van Hoof. Dumais’s hilari-
ous graphic novel for younger
readers is a delightfully silly mys-
tery. Will the bumbling hero solve
the crime, discovering who per-
petrated this dastardly deed?
Find out in the first book in a sen-
sational new series.
It Happened on Sweet Street, Car-
oline Adderson, illustrated by
Stéphane Jorisch (Tundra Books,
4-8)
Home can be a very sick place
JADE COLBERT
BOOK REVIEW
Home Sickness
BY C H IH -Y IN G L AY,
T RAN S L AT E D
BY D ARRY L S T E RK
L IN D A L E IT H P U B L IS H IN G ,
188 PAG ES
| T HE GLO BE AN D MAI L O
If you have a sweet tooth, this is
the book for you. Monsieur Oli-
phant makes mouth-watering
and magnificent cakes, but he’s
not pleased when cookie concoc-
tor Mademoiselle Fée moves in
next door. What happens when
this duelling duo find themselves
challenged by the talents of pie-
maker Madame Clotilde? Sweet
Street is caught up in a “Great
Sweet Street Bake Off” that ends
deliciously. Adderson’s playful
text is perfectly paired with
Jorisch’s zany illustrations.
The Nut that Fell from the Tree,
Sangeeta Bhadra, illustrated by
France Cormier (Kids Can Press,
3-7)
Inspired by the classic nursery
rhyme, The House that Jack Built,
Bhadra takes young readers on a
madcap journey where they’ll
discover what happens when an
acorn falls from a tree (where Jill
has her tree house) and how it
affects the lives of a plethora of
forest denizens. Bhadra’s lively
cumulative text is beautifully
matched by France’s delightful
pencil illustrations.
Alice & Gert: An Ant and Grass-
hopper Story, Helaine Becker,
illustrated by Dena Seiferling
(Groundwood Books, 3-7)
Ever-industrious Alice spends the
W
hen I started reading
Chih-Ying Lay’s first
book, translated into En-
glish early this year, it was under
very different circumstances
from when I now review it. Can’t
be helped: No writer controls
their reader’s context, though a
global pandemic is an extreme
case.
At first, I noticed some wistful-
ness – not quite nostalgic – to
how Lay’s narrators remembered
the past, but it was impossible to
ignore the overriding melanchol-
ic tone. Now when I reflect on
that earlier reading, the isolation
that haunts these characters feels
like a strange precursor to our
present circumstances. The play
on words in the book’s title – not
Homesickness one word, but
Home Sickness, two – has become
loaded with new resonances dur-
ing our pandemic life.
As it turns out, the title is the
creation of Darryl Sterk, who
translates here from Lay’s origi-
nal Mandarin. Translation is al-
ways more than transliteration,
though it likely remains invisible
to most readers just how much of
a co-creator the translator is. In
the case of Home Sickness, Sterk
draws attention to how active he
has been, in the book’s English ti-
tle and in the epigraphs that
open each story, explaining Lay’s
summer gathering food for the
winter while her grasshopper
friend and companion Gert sings
songs, makes up rollicking stories
and creates a dance that moves
Alice to tears. But what happens
when winter comes and Gert isn’t
just cold, but hungry as well? Al-
ice offers to share her seeds and
grain with her friend whose cre-
ative efforts lightened her work-
load. Seiferling’s lovely graphite
illustrations are just perfect for
this exquisitely tender story. It’s
also a wonderful homage to Ger-
trude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
So Imagine Me: Nature Riddles in
Poetry‚ Lynn Davies, illustrated
by Chrissie Park-MacNeil (Nim-
bus Publishing, 4-9)
This book is a wonderful chal-
lenge for young readers. Each of
Davies’s lyrical nature poems
poses a riddle that offers clues
both in the poems themselves as
well as in Park-MacNeil’s vibrant
illustrations. What is particularly
powerful is the way that Davies
uses poetry to make readers
think about the different ways we
talk about the natural world.
Some of the poems are definitely
challenging, but this is a book the
whole family can enjoy.
One Earth: People of Color Pro-
tecting Our Planet, Anuradha Rao
(Orca Book Publishers, 12-plus)
many allusions to Chinese and
Taiwanese literature. For a reader
with limited knowledge of Tai-
wan’s literary scene – I’ve read
Wu Ming-Yi’s The Stolen Bicycle
(incidentally, also translated by
Sterk), but not much else – this is
helpful.
All of the stories are set in Tai-
wan, where Lay was born and has
won several literary prizes. But
Lay is also Canadian, having lived
in Montreal since 2008. It’s fitting
that a writer who calls two places
home would decide to tackle the
subject of how we define just
what “home” means.
What makes a home a place
you want to stay? How do we find
that human connection? Lay’s
focus is on his characters’ unease
with these topics, rather than any
answers. In the title story, a man
recounts how his grandfather
opened an inn in a country town:
“Grandpa said this had been his
dream as a student in Japan. He’d
been a stranger in a foreign land
and knew what it was like to feel
homesick.” The customer most
enthusiastic in his praise about
the inn’s hominess ends up kill-
ing himself, though – hardly a fa-
vourable review. The narrator
comes to view the countryside as
funereal. When he’s drawn back
into town by his friends’ craze for
“homestays” – country bed and
An outstanding collection of pro-
files of 20 Black, Indigenous and
People of Colour (BIPOC) who are
involved in the fight to save our
planet. Rao includes activists of
all ages from around the globe,
including Canada, and her writ-
ing makes clear the passion
of these extraordinary people
and how truly global this move-
ment is. Most of these environ-
mental defenders were inspired
to act as children, and Rao stress-
es it’s key to provide young peo-
ple with the knowledge and pow-
er to take action. An excellent
glossary and list of online re-
sources will help young readers to
explore these inspirational sto-
ries in more depth.
What Grew in Larry’s Garden,
Laura Alary, illustrated by Kass
Reich (Kids Can Press, 4-7)
Grace’s neighbour Larry has
a wonderful garden and
she spends the summer helping
him look after the different vege-
tables he grows, but when his
next-door neighbour puts up a
high fence, Larry’s tomato plants
start to wilt. Luckily, Grace has an
idea to save the day. Based on a
true story, Alary perfectly cap-
tures Larry’s passion and Reich’s
illustrations help this lovely pic-
ture book bloom.
Grandmother School, Rina Singh,
breakfasts – he avoids engaging
anyone who knows him there.
That push-pull Lay’s characters
feel, the desire for home but
dis-ease with it, feels akin to at
least some of our present anxie-
ties.
The reasons to stay home right
now are undeniable, but that
doesn’t mean we’re doing well
with it. I work from home in nor-
mal times, and I live alone. It’s a
solitary existence, but usually not
a lonely one. I’ve watched others
fumble with the transition to
working remotely (my best ad-
vice: differentiate between sleep
pyjamas and work pyjamas).
Lay’s characters are also dis-
connected from those they want
to be close to, and this is a source
of anguish. Several are gay or, as a
Western reader would interpret
it, queer-coded, but this isn’t the
source of their loneliness. Taiwan
was, after all, the first country in
Asia to legalize same-sex mar-
riage. Nor is their alienation the
direct result of Taiwan’s modern
history: more than 50 years un-
der Japanese and Chinese rule,
followed by martial law, which
ended in 1987. The one notable
exception is the first story, set
during the White Terror, during
which an estimated 140,000 citi-
zens were tortured, imprisoned
and executed by the state for
ARTS & PUR SUITS | P 11
illustrated by Ellen Rooney (Orca
Book Publishers, 6-8)
Every day a little girl watches her
Aaji putting on her bright pink
sari before they walk to Grand-
mother School in the village
where they live. Based on a true
story, it’s a wonderful and poi-
gnant story about the need for lit-
eracy and how vital learning to
read is. And Aaji doesn’t just learn
to read and write – literacy em-
powers her. Not only can she sign
her name when she goes to the
bank but, more importantly, she
dreams of the day when she can
read to her grandchildren and
share stories with them.
War at the Snow White Motel and
Other Stories, Tim Wynne-Jones
(Groundwood Books, 9-12)
A delightful collection of stories
from one of Canada’s best writers
for children and teens. It’s full of
Wynne-Jones’s wonderful sense
of humour and ability to make
characters come to life. The high-
light was Ant and the Praying Man-
tis – who else but Tim Wynne-
Jones could tell a story about bul-
lying, unsympathetic school prin-
cipals, friendships, Greta Thun-
berg and #FridaysForFuture, and
make us laugh and cry and laugh
again?
Special to The Globe and Mail
their perceived pro-Communist
sympathies.
Or maybe this political history
is pertinent to the characters’
alienation, and I’m just missing it
because it’s not expressed in po-
litical terms, but in fraught fam-
ilial relations. Men who are called
“Grandpa” and “Daddy” are not
necessarily deserving of these ti-
tles. Young children puzzle over
the words “mother” or “father,”
because these figures are absent
from their lives. A grown man
breastfeeds his mother. A boy
gives birth to a worm.
Nowhere is the brokenness of
the family unit more apparent
here than in several stories that
suggest the presence of pedophi-
lia. Many readers will not want to
read this material at all, which is
fair – it is uncomfortable reading
– though it does explain the char-
acters’ sense of malaise if they in-
habit a world in which adults can-
not be trusted in this most funda-
mental way. Lay is showing us
this tension between a desire for
home and the reality that a per-
son’s experience of home might
be a sick place. Psychologically,
this is as high stakes as you can
get. These stories can be hard to
look at sometimes, but it is also
hard to look away.
Special to The Globe and Mail
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Why it’s important to discuss sex with boys
Author Peggy Orenstein
explores what’s going on with
male sexuality and digs deeper
into toxic teen masculinity
JOSEPH ROSEN
A
fter six months of social distanc-
ing and the suspension of physical
contact, teenagers are going back
to school and hook-ups are on the
horizon. As #MeToo continues to ripple
through Canada, it’s an important moment
to talk to our boys about sex.
But before we start lecturing them, it’s
worth getting a clearer picture of what’s ac-
tually going on with boys’ sexuality. Peggy
Orenstein’s recent book, Boys & Sex, pro-
vides a rare glimpse into the experiences of
boys today. Based on extensive interviews
with racially diverse (but mostly middle-
class) U.S. boys, the book contains many
surprising revelations.
“Dick School,” her opening chapter,
shows how depressingly little has changed
since I went to high school in the eighties:
The jocks are still toxic and locker-room
rape jokes and sexism are rampant. “Catch-
ing feelings” – developing an emotional
connection to a partner – is talked about
like an STI. But beneath toxic teen mascu-
linity lies a rarely discussed world of sensi-
tivity, vulnerability and emotional needs.
Internet pornography, ubiquitous long
before COVID-19 plunged our teens into
even more screen time, is accelerating da-
maging expectations of girls. But Oren-
stein’s conversations show how porn also
messes with boys’ sense of self. Many are
aware that they are caught in a compulsion
that promotes insecurity about perform-
ance and size, leaving them afraid to be
seen naked, and sometimes unable to get
erections. They want to quit, but can’t.
Mason, a sophomore at a big U.S. univer-
sity, realized he had a problem when he
found himself watching extreme fetish vid-
eos. For years, Mason was afraid to kiss a
girl, and when the chance for sex arose, he
couldn’t get an erection. What finally
worked was conversation: Talking with a
girl about his anxieties, his nerves disap-
peared and he realized “if I can’t be fully
vulnerable, mentally and emotionally, it
stops me from being able to be vulnerable
physically.”
These are the lessons boys won’t find in
the toxic bravado of high school or on Porn-
hub. What’s most surprising about Mason’s
story is that he wishes his dad had talked to
him more openly about the pitfalls of por-
nography.
Teen hook-up culture has become a
ruthless competition between boys for so-
cial status. But Orenstein reveals an impor-
tant fact: Boys are often deeply unsatisfied
with their experiences. Many find them-
selves depressed after one-night stands.
One sexually experienced sophomore an-
swers Orenstein that the most intimate
thing he’d ever done was “holding hands.”
They get an ego boost from “scoring,” but
intuit that this doesn’t fulfill some deeper
desire – for which they have no words. In
part, this is our own cultural failing.
Orenstein cites sociologist Amy Scha-
let’s finding that parents in the Nether-
lands assume their boys want emotional
connection, while U.S. parents view their
boys as motivated only by hormones.
Hook-up culture does not provide boys (or
girls) with the experiences needed to learn
how to be intimate and to develop emo-
tional connections.
And, as Orenstein observes, it doesn’t
even provide joyous casual sex. And we
can’t just blame pornography and Tinder:
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THREE MORE READS
TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND
THE BOYS IN YOUR LIFE
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and
Love by bell hooks, Washington Square
Press, 2004
Way ahead of its time, this book looks at
how patriarchal culture blinds boys to their
emotional needs and offers an alternative
vision that will help them live more ful-
filled lives.
Boys by Rachel Giese, HarperCollins, 2018
Weighing in on contemporary debates,
Giese debunks various myths about
masculinity and asks a fundamental
question: “How do we create more liber-
ating and expansive forms of masculinity
for boys and men?”
Manhood in America by Michael Kimmel,
1996, revised 2017
This resource provides a longer historical
perspective on how cultures of masculin-
ity have developed and shifted in the
United States from the 1770s until now.
We are not giving boys any information
about their own needs for emotional con-
nection.
“It’s uncomfortable to talk to your par-
ents about sex,” says Liam, pointing out
that his parents gave him no sexual guid-
ance, “but it’s also one of those things that I
wish they had forced me to do.” Orenstein
observes that boys are “eager to have their
fathers talk to them about their own expe-
rience with sex, love, even regret.” As fa-
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own emotional-sexual experiences: the
fears, failures, joys and lessons learned.
What do we actually want from sex? How
does sex connect us emotionally? And
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what is the healthy way to have casual sex?
Perhaps we don’t pass on this knowledge
because we haven’t asked ourselves the
same questions.
My generation of men was raised in the
same “Dick School” as boys today. I only got
two pieces of sexual advice from my father:
first, in high school: “If you know it’s gonna
rain, wear gumboots.” I assumed that was
code for condoms. And then, when I left for
a year in Israel: “Don’t come back with any-
thing you didn’t leave with.” I wasn’t sure if
he meant a disease, or a baby, or both.
Some boys will learn these lessons on
their own – as some of their fathers did.
Orenstein doesn’t investigate how the pro-
liferation of pornography gives easier ac-
cess to bi-curious and queer desires, or how
contemporary hook-up culture and in-
creased LGBTQ+ acceptance contain pos-
sibilities for more liberated sexualities. But
while we could let them figure it out them-
selves, there’s another reason we need to
talk to boys: girls. The same cultures of
masculinity that disconnect these boys
from their own emotional lives lead to an
objectification of women that can blind
them to the emotional needs and physical
boundaries of girls.
Orenstein’s book has a continual eye on
the damage boys do to girls. “In so many of
the encounters boys described to me,” she
writes, “it seemed like the shadow of a girl
hovered behind them, a girl who was fu-
rious or traumatized or rolling her eyes,
one who would have told the same story
very differently. The question was how to
get the boys to see that too.”
The penultimate chapter of Orenstein’s
book documents a tragically ordinary case
of college date rape. Sameer is not an ill-in-
tentioned monster: When he realizes that
Anwen is traumatized he feels terribly
guilty and does his best to repair the situa-
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this chapter to see how non-consensual sex
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Liam, the boy who wished his parents
had forced him to talk about sex, realizes in
conversation with Orenstein that he too
had coerced a girl into non-consensual sex.
“I suppose there was something in the back
of my head that I wasn’t fully listening to,”
he admits.
So how do we help boys listen to this
voice in their heads – when Dick School and
Pornhub have trained them to ignore it? In
part, through listening to the voices of oth-
er boys.
Minoritized groups understand dom-
inant cultures of masculinity in ways that
all boys can learn from. Orenstein’s conver-
sations with trans boys illuminate the way
masculinity is constructed, practised and
performed.
Interviews with gay boys provide a cri-
tique of consent culture: Instead of making
yes/no proposals, they learn to ask, “What
are you into?”
Her discussions with Asian- and African-
American boys show how white masculin-
ity limits various boys in different ways.
Asian boys – hyposexualized in the white
imagination – wonder if they’ll ever be
loved. Black boys – hypersexualized – talk
about feeling objectified (especially when
minorities in white colleges). Discussing
these experiences with boys will help them
understand the real effects of Dick School
on others.
By their teens, most boys have devel-
oped a healthy immunity to the older gen-
eration’s moralizing. Perhaps a more effec-
tive route to getting boys to listen to the
voice in their head – and to empathize with
others – is to connect them to the emotion-
al realities that Dick School has silenced in
them.
In the chapter “All Guys Want It. Don’t
They?” Orenstein undoes a pervasive
myth: that all boys want is sex, all the time.
Some boys admit to feeling “used” after
hook-ups. Some only accept oral sex be-
cause they’re afraid of insulting the girl.
Some fake orgasm to avoid hurting girls’
feelings. Some only have sex because they
are pressured – by threats like “I’ll tell ev-
eryone you’re gay.”
Many of these experiences are similar to
girls’ – though they are not usually backed
up by the spectre of physical violence,
which explains why boys end up less trau-
matized than girls. These stories are impor-
tant for boys to hear: They will help devel-
op empathy for girls, while simultaneously
enabling boys to connect to their own emo-
tional desires and sexual boundaries. If
boys don’t know how to say no, how can
they hear it?
Dylan recounts a story of finding out
that a girl had had intercourse with him
while he was passed out. Upset, he con-
fronted her, because he had been a virgin
and wanted his first time to be special.
“Don’t give me that. … All guys want it,” she
retorts. When Dylan finally overcame his
fears and was able to have sex again, “it was
exactly as he’d hoped his first time would
be,” Orenstein reports. But afterwards, he
broke down in tears. Discussing these ta-
boo experiences is important, because as
Orenstein observes, “the inability to recog-
nize or process negative experiences ulti-
mately robs boys of choice and, potentially,
of empathy.”
Educating our boys requires more than
telling them “not to be jerks” and “not to
rape.” Let’s take COVID-19, and the upcom-
ing return to school, as an opportunity to
talk with boys about the things they’re
trained not to talk about. Sharing our own
experiences – both good and bad – we can
help them learn to listen to themselves,
and to their desires for intimacy, connec-
tion and pleasure.
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