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Dias accepted $50,000 payment NATO plans

to increase
from supplier, union alleges battlegroups
in Eastern
Former Unifor leader says in statement that substance-abuse issues impaired his judgment Europe
VANMALA SUBRAMANIAM for substance-abuse issues. He said he had members to promote the supplier, she EMMA GRANEY BRUSSELS
FUTURE OF WORK REPORTER been coping with the nerve problem said.
through pain killers, sleeping pills and al- On Jan. 20, Mr. Dias allegedly gave a Uni-
cohol, all of which had “impaired” his for employee half of those funds, or U.S. President Joe Biden and
Former Unifor leader Jerry Dias has been judgment in recent months. $25,000, telling the employee it came from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
accused of breaching the union’s code of At a news conference, Unifor national the supplier. The employee filed a com- will join other world leaders at
ethics by accepting $50,000 from a suppli- secretary-treasurer Lana Payne said Mr. plaint under Unifor’s code of ethics and NATO headquarters in Brussels
er of COVID-19 rapid-test kits in exchange Dias accepted the $50,000 from the suppli- gave the money to Ms. Payne, upon which Thursday for an emergency sum-
for promoting the products to employers er of the test kits at some point before Jan. the investigation was launched. mit where delegates will discuss
of union members, Unifor’s national exec- 20, 2022. “No one is above our constitution,” Uni- plans to strengthen the Western
utive board said on Wednesday. Ms. Payne said an external investigation for Québec director Renaud Gagné said at military alliance, particularly
Mr. Dias, who announced his retirement determined that “on the balance of prob- the news conference. ”Dias’s actions as along its eastern flank, and con-
as national president on March 11, citing a abilities,” he had breached the union’s outlined in the findings are disturbing, and tingencies in case Russia uses
“debilitating sciatic nerve issue,” will face a constitution by promoting the test kits in if confirmed by the hearing, were a clear nuclear or chemical weapons in
hearing before the board as early as April. December, 2021, and January, 2022, to vari- betrayal of the duties of office and the trust its invasion of Ukraine.
In a statement on Wednesday, his first in ous Unifor employers. Mr. Dias allegedly that each of us as members put into our NATO Secretary-General Jens
more than five weeks, Mr. Dias said he recommended the supplier’s test kits di- union.” Stoltenberg said Wednesday af-
would check into a rehabilitation facility rectly to employers and got Unifor staff DIAS, A9 ternoon, in the first of two days
of meetings in the Belgian cap-
ital, that the leaders were expect-
ed to agree to deploy four new
battlegroups to Bulgaria, Hun-
gary, Slovakia and Romania, an-
nounce new sanctions against
Russia and tighten those that al-
ready exist.
Mr. Stoltenberg demanded
that Russia “stop its nuclear
sabre-rattling.”
[ TENNIS ] While the North Atlantic Trea-
ty Organization has plans in
place in case of nuclear and

NO. 1 PLAYER chemical strikes, he said such at-

tacks would threaten not just
Ukraine but also the country’s
ASHLEIGH neighbours, who would be hit by
the fallout.
Meanwhile, the United States
BARTY and its Western allies are assess-
ing whether Russia should re-
RETIRES AT 25 main within the Group of 20
countries.
China, which has not con-
demned Russia’s invasion and
Three-time Grand Slam winner criticized Western sanctions, de-
fended Moscow on Wednesday,
sends shockwaves through calling Russia an “important
the tennis world B11 member” of the G20.
NATO, A4

Legault warns
“I’m fulfilled, I’m happy,” Ms. Barty said in a retirement announcement
from Brisbane, Australia, on Wednesday, which she shared in a video
Liberal-NDP
released on social media. REUTERS deal intrudes
on provincial
affairs
Moderna first out of the gate with positive results BILL CURRY OTTAWA
DUSTIN COOK TORONTO
of low-dose vaccine for children younger than 6
Quebec Premier François Legault
LAURAN NEERGAARD the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will higher efficacy against severe infections.” is condemning this week’s Liber-
have to determine if that important mark- Competitor Pfizer currently offers kid- al-NDP deal as an intrusion in
er means the youngsters are as protected size doses for school-age children and full- provincial affairs, predicting the
Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine works in ba- against severe illness as adults. strength shots for those 12 and older. And proposals won’t fly with Canada’s
bies, toddlers and preschoolers, the com- “The vaccine provides the same level of the company is testing even smaller doses premiers.
pany announced Wednesday – and if regu- protection against COVID in young kids as for children under 5 but had to add a third Echoing concerns he ex-
lators agree it could mean a chance to fi- it does in adults. We think that’s good shot to its study when two didn’t prove pressed during last year’s federal
nally start vaccinating younger children. news,” said Stephen Hoge, Moderna’s pres- strong enough. Those results are expected election campaign, Mr. Legault
Moderna said in the coming weeks it ident. by early April. described the federal Liberals
would ask regulators in the U.S. and Eu- But that key antibody finding isn’t the If the FDA eventually authorizes vacci- and NDP as two “very centralist”
rope to authorize two small-dose shots for whole story. COVID-19 vaccines aren’t as ef- nations for small children from either parties that are interfering in pro-
youngsters under 6. fective against the super-contagious Om- company, there still would be another hur- vincial areas such as health care.
The announcement is positive news for icron variant – in people of any age – and dle. The Centers for Disease Control and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
parents who have anxiously awaited pro- Moderna’s study found the same trend. Prevention recommends who should get and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh
tection for younger children and been con- There were no severe illnesses during the them – and Dr. Goodman said there may be unveiled a detailed agreement
tinuously disappointed by setbacks and trial but the vaccine was only about 44 per debate about shots for higher-risk children Tuesday that will see NDP MPs
confusion over which shots might work cent effective at preventing milder infec- or everyone under 5. vote to keep the Liberals in pow-
and when. Children under 5 are the only tions in babies up to age 2, and nearly 38 Vaccinating the youngest children “has er until June, 2025, in exchange
age group in Canada not yet eligible for per cent effective in the preschoolers. been somewhat of a moving target over for action on NDP policy priori-
vaccination. It’s “not a home run,” but the shots still the last couple of months,” Bill Muller of ties, including billions in in-
Moderna says early study results show could be helpful for the youngest children, Northwestern University, who is helping creased health care spending in
younger children develop high levels of vi- said Jesse Goodman of Georgetown Uni- study Moderna’s pediatric doses, said in an areas such as pharmacare and a
rus-fighting antibodies from shots con- versity, a former FDA vaccine chief. Dr. interview before the company released its new national dental-care pro-
taining a quarter of the dose given to Goodman said the high antibody levels findings. gram for lower-income Cana-
adults. Once Moderna submits its full data, seen in the study “should translate into MODERNA, A4 dians.
Other premiers, including Al-
berta’s Jason Kenney and Sas-
katchewan’s Scott Moe, have also
harshly criticized the deal. B.C.
OBITUARIES R E P O RT O N B U S I N E S S FO L I O Premier John Horgan, however,
Madeleine Ontario approves Ukrainian expressed support and Doug
Ford’s Ontario government has
Albright, first rules for titles refugees so far been muted in its response.
female U.S. used by financial capture images Mr. Legault was adamant that
the deal would infringe on pro-
secretary of state, planners, advisers of devastation left vincial authority. “I listened to
dies at 84 B17 B1 behind A10-11 what Mr. Trudeau had to say yes-
terday, and there will be a close
confrontation with Quebec and
all the provinces, including with
Ontario,” he told reporters
REUTERS/JOSHUA ROBERTS Wednesday in French.
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MOMENT IN TIME
 

MARCH 24, 1958

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Elvis Presley is shown in uniform at the barracks in Friedberg, Germany, where he

served with the U.S. Army, in this 1958 file photo. ASSOCIATED PRESS

ELVIS IS SWORN INTO

THE U.S. ARMY
R
eporting to the Memphis Draft Board early
on the rainy morning of this day in 1958,
Elvis Presley was one of 13 recruits for the
U.S. Army. Sure, he was the world’s biggest
pop star, but he put on his grey-and-white check-
ered sports jacket one arm at a time just like every-
body else. Then again, the other inductees hadn’t
received a two-month deferment because of the
filming schedule attached to their latest motion
picture – King Creole, in Presley’s case. “If I seem
nervous,” he told the large press gathering, “it’s

 
 "$
because I am.” He had every right to be anxious. A
two-year army hitch would not only disrupt his
career but possibly sink it altogether. At Kennedy
Veterans Memorial Hospital, the All Shook Up sing-
er was pronounced fit – no sign of leg tremors –
and officially sworn in. Private Presley was as-
signed to a tank battalion and given serial number
53 310 761. He underwent basic training at Fort
Hood, Tex. King Creole, co-starring Walter Matthau,
was released on July 2. Presley was sent to West
Germany on Sept. 22. BRAD WHEELER

Taliban postpones school reopening for girls

beyond the sixth grade, despite earlier pledges
KATHY GANNON KABUL

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers un-

expectedly decided against re-
opening schools Wednesday to
girls above the sixth grade, reneg-
ing on a promise and opting to ap-
pease their hard-line base at the
expense of further alienating the
international community.
The surprising decision, con-
firmed by a Taliban official, is
bound to disrupt efforts by the Ta-
liban to win recognition from po-
tential international donors at a
time when the country is mired in
a worsening humanitarian crisis.

 
$#$ The international community has
urged Taliban leaders to reopen
schools and give women their
right to public space.
The reversal was so sudden
that the Education Ministry was
caught off guard on Wednesday,
the start of the school year, as
were schools in parts of the Af-
ghan capital of Kabul and else-
where in the country.
Some girls in higher grades re-
turned to schools, only to be told
to go home.
Aid organizations said the
move exacerbated the uncertain-
ty surrounding Afghanistan’s fu-
ture as the Taliban leadership
seems to struggle to get on the
same page as it shifts from fight-
ing to governing. It also came as
the Taliban leadership was con-
vening in Kandahar amid reports
of a possible cabinet shuffle.
U.S. Special Representative
Thomas West tweeted his “shock
and deep disappointment” about
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of public commitments to the Af-
ghan people and the internation-
al community.”
He said the Taliban had made it
Girls leave their school in Kabul on Wednesday after learning it would
not be reopening. Even the Education Ministry was caught off guard by
the Taliban’s decision. AHMAD SAHEL ARMAN/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
Waheedullah Hashmi, external The decision also came as the
relations and donor representa- movement’s leadership has been
tive with the Taliban-led adminis- summoned to southern Kanda-
tration, said the decision was har by the reclusive Taliban lead-
made late Tuesday night. “We er, Haibatullah Akhunzada, amid
don’t say they will be closed forev- reports of a cabinet shakeup, ac-
er,” Mr. Hashmi added. cording to an Afghan leader who
UN special representative Deb- is also a member of the leadership
orah Lyons will try to meet Thurs- council. He spoke on condition of
day with the Taliban to ask for a anonymity because he was not
reversal of the decision, UN spo- authorized to talk to the media.
kesperson Stephane Dujarric said. The official said it was possible
Earlier in the week, a statement that some senior interim cabinet
by the Education Ministry urged positions could be changed.
“all students” to return when Since the Taliban swept to pow-
classes resumed Wednesday. er in August, 2021, there have
been persistent reports of differ-
ences among the senior leader-
Aid organizations said ship. According to these reports,
more hard-line members are at
the move exacerbated odds with pragmatists, who want
the uncertainty to see a greater engagement with
the world. While staying true to
Afghanistan’s future as their Islamic beliefs, they want to
be less harsh than when they last
the Taliban leadership ruled Afghanistan, banning wom-
seems to struggle to get en from work and girls from
  clear that all Afghans have a right
to education, adding, “For the
  

sake of the country’s future and
its relations with the internation-
al community, I would urge the
Taliban to live up to their commit-
ments to their people.”
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  The Norwegian Relief Council,
which spends about US$20-mil-
lion annually to support primary

$ $  $ education in Afghanistan, was
still waiting for official word
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girls above the sixth grade.
Berenice Van Dan Driessche,
advocacy manager for the com-
mittee, said their representatives
had not received official word of
the change as of Wednesday
night, and that girls in the 11 prov-
inces where they work had gone
to school but were sent home.

 

  The committee’s staff in the The decision to postpone the
provinces “reported a lot of disap-

 
on the same page as it
shifts from fighting to
governing.
On Tuesday, ministry spokes-
man Mawlvi Aziz Ahmad Rayan
had told AP that all girls would be
allowed back to school, although
the Taliban administration would
not insist on it in areas where par-
ents were opposed or where
schools could not be segregated.
He was reluctant to give details
but promised if schools can meet
these conditions, “there would no
issue for them” to begin classes for
girls in the higher grades. “In prin-
ciple, there is no issue from the
ministry side, but as I said, it is a
sensitive and cultural issue,” he
added.
country, but since taking power
return of girls at the higher grade
schools, the reports say.
Television is now permitted in
Afghanistan, unlike in the past,
and women are not required to
wear the all-encompassing burqa.
but must wear the hijab, covering
their heads. Women have also re-
turned to work in the Health and
Education ministries and at Kabul
International Airport at passport
control and customs.
The Taliban were ousted in
2001 by a U.S.-led coalition for har-
bouring al-Qaeda leader Osama
bin Laden. They returned to pow-
er after the U.S.’s chaotic depar-
ture last year.
Girls have been banned from
school beyond the sixth grade in
most of the country since the Tali-
ban’s return. Universities opened
earlier this year in much of the
the Taliban edicts have been er-






pointment and also a lot of uncer- levels appeared to be a concession ratic. While a handful of provinces

  
 
 
  tainty” about the future, she said. to the rural and deeply tribal back- continued to provide education
It said that in some areas, teachers bone of the hard-line Taliban to all, most provinces closed insti-
said they would continue to hold movement that in many parts of tutions for girls and women.
classes for the girls until the Tali- the countryside are reluctant to
ban issued an official order. send their daughters to school. ASSOCIATED PRESS
T H U R S DAY, M A RC H 2 4 , 2 0 2 2
China may think twice of invading: Taiwan
Top diplomat suggests
Russia’s setbacks in
Ukraine could give
Communist Party
pause about attempting
a similar assault on the
self-governing island
ROBERT FIFE
STEVEN CHASE OTTAWA
Taiwan’s top diplomat predicts
the Western economic backlash
over Russia’s military assault on
Ukraine, combined with the fierce
resistance Kyiv has mounted
against the invaders, may force
China to rethink any plans to seize
the self-governing island by force.
Foreign Affairs Minister Joseph
Wu said in an interview that Tai-
wan has been taking notes on
how underdog Ukraine has
thwarted Russia’s superior mili-
tary forces from quickly conquer-
ing the country.
Russia has suffered a series of
military failures in a land battle
with Ukraine that is geograph-
ically less challenging than what
Beijing would face in an amphib-
ious assault on Taiwan, an island
located about 160 kilometres off
the coast of China.
Taiwan also possesses techno-
logically advanced U.S. weapons
that Ukraine’s forces lack.
The fighting spirit of Ukrai-
nians and severe Western eco-
nomic sanctions against Moscow
should give pause to President Xi
Jinping’s determination to use
military force to regain control
over Taiwan, Mr. Wu said.
He said China’s leadership has
to take into account that it could
face similar economic sanctions
from Western democracies if the
People’s Liberation Army
attempted to invade Taiwan, a
vibrant democracy that was
formed by Chinese Nationalist
forces that fled the mainland
when the Communist Party swept
to power in 1949.
| T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L O
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen oversees a military drill in Penghu in 2017. Beijing has militarized the
South China Sea in recent years, and stepped up its military threats against Taiwan last October.
TAIWAN PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE VIA REUTERS
“I am sure that is going to be a
very strong deterrent against Chi-
na’s leaders from thinking about
using military force against Tai-
wan,” he said.
Mr. Wu said he thinks the stea-
dy flow of weapons and support
to Ukraine from other democra-
cies is also giving China pause.
“I think they might think twice
because of possible sanctions
against China or the possible sup-
port that would come to Taiwan,
and it may not work in their
favour.”
However, Steve Tsang, a profes-
sor of Chinese studies and direc-
tor of the University of London’s
SOAS China Institute, said Beijing
will also be learning lessons from
the poorly prepared invasion by
President Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
“Unless Russia will be com-
pletely crippled by Western sanc-
tions and Putin falls from power
as a result, China will mostly draw
the wrong lessons from the war
and not give up its plan to take
Taiwan,” Prof. Tsang said. “So,
Beijing is likely to defer the time
frame to seize Taiwan, in order to
get better prepared, but it will not
change the overall plan and
objective.”
Mr. Wu said Taipei must always
be on guard for a possible Chinese
invasion, and that’s why Taiwan’s
military commanders are study-
ing how effective Ukraine has
been in countering Russian
forces.
He declined to divulge what
lessons Taiwan has taken from
the Russian war against Ukraine
but said his country will be ready
to face off against China. Taiwan
has sophisticated anti-ship mis-
siles, modern fighter jets and is
building eight diesel-electric sub-
marines.
“We understand that we need
to look at our weaknesses by view-
ing what is going on in Ukraine
and try to improve our own de-
fence capabilities. So when China
unfortunately has to take military
action against Taiwan, we are ca-
pable of defending ourselves,” he
said. “I am sure the Chinese oper-
ation against Taiwan is going to be
difficult and complicated, and it is
not going to be easy.”
Beijing’s authoritarian govern-
ment considers Taiwan a break-
away province, even though the
Chinese Communist Party, which
seized power in China more than
70 years ago, has never ruled the
island. China’s leadership has not
disavowed using force to take
control of Taiwan, which peace-
fully transitioned to democracy
from martial law in the late 20th
century.
Prof. Tsang said he expects
after watching Ukraine that Tai-
wan’s armed forces might shift
“even more” to buying relatively
light and mobile anti-ship and an-
ti-aircraft weapons, rather than
investing heavily in conventional
big-ticket items such as large war-
ships, jets or heavy tanks.
Mr. Wu said Taiwan is strategi-
NEWS | A3
cally more important than Uk-
raine because it is a world leader
in manufacturing semi-conduc-
tor computer chips, essential for
modern economies. A Chinese
takeover of Taiwan would give
China control over the produc-
tion of chips for automobiles,
smartphones, artificial intelli-
gence and high-performance
computing.
So far, he said Taiwan has not
had to put its forces on high alert,
even though Mr. Xi and Mr. Putin
signed an agreement before the
Feb. 24 invasion promising unlim-
ited support. In recent years, Beij-
ing has militarized the South Chi-
na Sea and, over the past few
months, has stepped up military
sorties against Taiwan. On Oct. 1
and 2 last year, Beijing sent 80 mil-
itary aircraft, including fighter
jets and bombers, toward Taiwan,
prompting the Taiwanese mili-
tary to scramble fighters in
response.
Because of the close bond be-
tween the Chinese and Russian
leaders, Mr. Wu said he does not
believe Beijing will be willing to
play much of a diplomatic role in
ending the war. Beijing has
blamed the conflict on NATO ex-
pansion into Eastern Europe and
criticized Western economic
sanctions.
China is also profiting from the
punishing economic sanctions
imposed on Russia, he said. “They
have already signed huge deals to
purchase grain from Russia, to
purchase energy from Russia at a
price that is below the market
price,” he said of Beijing.
Mr. Wu said Canada can help
Taiwan by concluding negotia-
tions on a foreign investment pro-
motion and protection agree-
ment, or FIPA, with the island to
boost trade ties, by sending war-
ships through the sensitive Tai-
wan Strait, and sharing insight on
how to combat Chinese cyber and
disinformation operations. Taipei
also wants Canada’s support for
its application to join the Trans-
Pacific Partnership trade pact
signed in 2018. China has also
applied to join.

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Canada urged to increase role in Baltics
Latvia’s Deputy PM
uses meetings in Ottawa
to plead for a greater
NATO presence in Riga
STEVEN CHASE
SENIOR PARLIAMENTARY
REPORTER
The Deputy Prime Minister of Lat-
via says he would like to see Cana-
da take on an additional NATO
leadership role in his country’s
capital.
Artis Pabriks, who is also Lat-
via’s Defence Minister, was in Ot-
tawa Wednesday for meetings
with Deputy Prime Minister
Chrystia Freeland and Defence
Minister Anita Anand as allies
map out their response to Rus-
sian President Vladimir Putin’s
military assault on Ukraine.
Latvia is already the site of
Canada’s biggest military deploy-
ment right now: By the end of
March, Canada will have nearly
700 troops near the country’s
capital, Riga, as part of a five-year-
old NATO effort to deter Russian
aggression. Canada leads a multi-
national NATO battle group
there.
Mr. Pabriks said he’s pitched
Canada on taking on a second
role: joining the command of NA-
TO’s Multinational Division
North, which is charged with
planning and preparation in the
event of war. Based in Riga, it co-
ordinates allied land forces de-
ployed in Estonia, Latvia and
Lithuania and prepares for collec-
tive defence. A Danish major-
general commands the head-
quarters.
“We need Canadian support to
build up the northern division
NATO: Trudeau tells EU that war in Ukraine must result in ‘ruinous costs’ for Moscow
FROM A1
Mr. Stoltenberg told reporters
that China’s decision to spread
“blatant lies and disinformation”
about the conflict would be an-
other point of discussion during
Thursday’s summit.
He added that NATO members
were worried about Beijing’s
move to join Moscow in ques-
tioning the right of independent
countries to choose their own
path.
“I expect leaders will call on
China to live up to its responsib-
ilities as a member of the UN Se-
curity Council, refrain from sup-
porting Russia’s war effort, and
join the rest of the world in call-
ing for an immediate, peaceful
end to this war,” he said.
Australian Prime Minister
Scott Morrison on Thursday said
he has been raising concerns
about Russian President Vladi-
mir Putin’s plans to attend the
next G20 summit in Indonesia,
later this year.
“The idea of sitting around a
table with Vladimir Putin, who
the United States are already in
the position of calling out [for]
war crimes in Ukraine, for me is a
step too far,” Mr. Morrison said
during a media briefing in Syd-
ney.
In Kyiv, Ukraine’s leader called
for solidarity on Thursday, a
month since Russia’s invasion
began, warning that he would
see who sells out at summits in
Europe where restrictions on en-
ergy could prove divisive.
The humanitarian toll in the
conflict continues to rise and has
driven a quarter of Ukraine’s
population of 44 million from
their homes. President Volody-
myr Zelensky asked people
around the world to take to the
Moderna: U.S. has limited company’s vaccine to adults over side-effect concerns
FROM A1
“There’s still, I think, a lingering
urgency to try to get that done as
soon as possible.”
While COVID-19 generally isn’t
as dangerous to youngsters as to
adults, some do become severely
ill. The CDC says about 400 chil-
dren in the U.S. younger than 5
have died from COVID-19 since
the pandemic’s start. The Omi-
cron variant hit children especial-
ly hard, with those under 5 hospi-
talized at higher rates than at the
peak of the previous Delta surge.
The younger the child, the
smaller the dose being tested.
Moderna enrolled about 6,900
kids under 6 – including babies as
young as six months – in a study
of the 25-microgram doses.
While the study wasn’t large
enough to detect very rare side ef-
fects, Moderna said the small dos-
headquarters and presence,” the
Latvian minister said in an inter-
view.
“We would like that Canadians
join. We trust Canadians,” he said,
adding that, ideally, Canada’s mil-
itary would take on a co-leader-
ship role. He said this commit-
ment would require posting a
Canadian general in Riga.
The Globe and Mail asked Ms.
Anand’s office whether Canada
would take on this role. Spokes-
person Daniel Minden said: “Can-
ada will be contributing to the
Multinational Division North and
is currently considering what that
contribution would look like.”
The three Baltic states, which
were Soviet republics as recently
as 30 years ago, fear they may be
Mr. Putin’s next target if Ukraine
falls to Russian forces. Their only
land connection to the European
Union and NATO is a strip of terri-
tory known as the Suwalki Gap,
where Lithuania meets Poland.
This corridor is also the shortest
point between Belarus, a close al-
ly of Russia, and the Russian port
of Kaliningrad, a separate piece of
Moscow’s territory on the Baltic
Sea.
The gap is a major concern for
NATO. If Russia were to take it, the
Baltics’ land connection with
mainland Europe would be se-
vered. If that were to happen, Bal-
tic leaders worry, Lithuania, Lat-
via and Estonia would be cut off
like West Berlin, the Cold War-era
Western enclave within East Ger-
many.
Like his Baltic counterparts,
Mr. Pabriks is seeking allied help
in beefing up air defences. He said
the revised military strategy in
his country is to deny Russian
forces a chance to seize territory –
ground he fears they might not
relinquish. “We must immediate-
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so far driven a quarter of
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from their homes.
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while the study
wasn’t large enough
to detect very rare
side effects,
Moderna said the
small doses were
safe and that mild
fevers, like those
associated with
other common
pediatric vaccines,
were the main
reaction.
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ly stop them at the border,” he
said.
Mr. Pabriks said he expects a
meeting of NATO leaders in Brus-
sels this week and a June summit
in Madrid will result in a decision
by June to transform a massive
defence buildup in the Baltics
and Eastern Europe into a more
permanent presence to hold Rus-
sia at bay. Several years ago, NATO
member countries deployed
about 5,000 troops, plus equip-
ment, to NATO’s eastern flank af-
ter Moscow annexed Crimea. In
recent months, this force has
been doubled.
He expressed hope that one
day NATO might become a global
organization that includes Pacific
Rim countries.
streets and demand an end to the
war.
“Come from your offices, your
homes, your schools and univer-
sities, come in the name of
peace, come with Ukrainian sym-
bols to support Ukraine, to sup-
port freedom, to support life,” he
said in a video address.
Mr. Trudeau, in a speech to the
European Parliament in Brussels
on Wednesday evening, said Rus-
sia’s unprovoked war on Ukraine
must come with “ruinous costs”
for Moscow, spurred by European
and global leaders uniting with a
“deliberate, mindful effort” to
safeguard democracy.
This is Mr. Trudeau’s second
visit to Europe in the past month.
During his address, he stressed
the importance of transatlantic
co-operation to defend democra-
es were safe and that mild fevers,
such as those associated with oth-
er common pediatric vaccines,
were the main reaction.
Hudson Diener, 3, only briefly
cried when getting test doses at
Stony Brook Medicine in Com-
mack, N.Y. His parents welcomed
the study results and hope to
learn that Hudson received the
vaccine and not dummy shots.
“We are really hoping to get the
answer we’re looking for soon so
we can take a deep breath,” said
Hudson’s mom, Ilana Diener.
Wednesday’s news should “hope-
fully be a step closer for his age
group to be eligible for the vac-
cine very soon.”
Boosters have proved crucial
for adults to fight Omicron, and
Moderna currently is testing
those doses for children as well –
either a third shot of the original
vaccine or an extra dose that
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The Latvian minister said deci-
sions will be made at the NATO
Madrid summit and will have im-
plications for future military
spending. Canada currently falls
far short of a NATO commitment
to spend 2 per cent of its annual
economic output (gross domes-
tic product) on defence. Ottawa
devotes only about 1.4 per cent of
GDP to military expenditures.
Asked about Canada’s defence
spending record, Mr. Pabriks said
he would not want to criticize Ot-
tawa because his country is ex-
tremely grateful for Canadian bat-
tle group leadership in Latvia.
“On the other hand, if you are a
NATO member, we should be
ready to spend more.” Latvia has
hiked defence spending to 2.5 per
cy in the face of the invasion, as
well as humanitarian and mili-
tary aid, and developing plans to
rebuild the country after the war.
He also told the Parliament
that the bloc has Canada’s full
support as it squeezes Russia ec-
onomically and politically in a
bid to end the conflict.
He made his speech after a
broader debate in the Parliament
about the importance of further
European sanctions on Russia.
It’s a point Mr. Trudeau echoed,
saying, “We must ensure that the
decision to invade a sovereign,
independent country is under-
stood to be a strategic failure that
carries with it ruinous costs.”
Global energy players, mean-
while, continue wrestling with
what to do in the face of uncer-
tainty over oil and gas supplies.
combines protection against the
original virus and the Omicron
variant.
U.S. parents may find it confus-
ing that Moderna is seeking to
vaccinate the youngest children
before it’s cleared to vaccinate
teens. While other countries in-
cluding Canada already have al-
lowed Moderna’s shots to be used
in children as young as 6, the U.S.
has limited its vaccine to adults.
The FDA hasn’t ruled on Mod-
erna’s earlier request to expand
its shots to 12- to 17-year-olds be-
cause of concern about a very
rare side effect. Heart inflamma-
tion sometimes occurs in teens
and young adults, mostly males,
after receiving either the Pfizer or
Moderna vaccines. Moderna is
getting extra scrutiny because its
shots are a far higher dose than
Pfizer’s.
The company said Wednesday
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cent of GDP.
He said larger military budgets
are needed because of Mr. Putin’s
actions.
“Our assessment of Russia was
wrong,” he said of expectations
that Mr. Putin would not launch
an unprovoked war on a Europe-
an country. “The consequences of
our misjudgment was that our
budgets were not fit.”
The Latvian lawmaker said he
would like Western leaders to fol-
low the example of Eastern Eu-
ropean prime ministers and show
solidarity with Ukraine by travell-
ing to Kyiv, currently under siege
by Russian forces, to meet with
Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelensky. The prime ministers of
Poland, the Czech Republic and
Slovenia made a hazardous jour-
ney by train to meet Mr. Zelensky
in Kyiv on March 15.
“If the Prime Minister of Po-
land can do it, why shouldn’t oth-
ers be there,” Mr. Pabriks said.
The Latvian leader said all the
sanctions Western countries have
slapped on Russian politicians,
oligarchs and businesses are not
enough. “The job is only half
done,” he said.
The West should go after ex-
tended family holdings of
wealthy Russians close to Mr. Pu-
tin, Mr. Pabriks said. These elites
support the war while they or
their families live in Western
countries.
He urged Western leaders to
press any companies still doing
business with Russia to exit com-
pletely, and to set a timetable to
end European reliance on Rus-
sian energy.
“We have to de-Putinize the
West,” he said. “We cannot ap-
proach this aggressive authoritar-
ian regime in Russia with soft
gloves.”
Swaths of Europe are hugely
reliant on Russian fossil fuels.
That’s particularly true in Germa-
ny, which has repeatedly resisted
calls to put sanctions on Mos-
cow’s energy businesses, citing
economic concerns. Chancellor
Olaf Scholz did so again Wednes-
day, just as Mr. Putin announced
that his country would accept
only rubles for payment for the
crucial gas it ships to Europe.
As NATO leaders discuss joint
action to enhance energy securi-
ty in Europe on Thursday, the
topic will also be on the table for
energy ministers 320 kilometres
away at a two-day International
Energy Agency summit in Paris.
The agency’s executive direc-
tor, Fatih Birol, has said he would
use the meeting to persuade en-
ergy ministers to reduce the
world’s reliance on Russian crude
(which accounts for about 8 per
cent of global supplies), helped
in part by accelerating the transi-
tion off fossil fuels to clean ener-
gy.
Oil markets will also be watch-
ing Thursday’s NATO meeting
closely, with tough measures
against Moscow raising the
spectre of a global supply crunch.
Louise Dickson, the senior oil
analyst at data company Rystad
Energy, said in a research note
that if the EU shuns oil originat-
ing from Russian ports and pipe-
lines, it will put a dent of more
than two million barrels a day in
the market, keeping prices ele-
vated near US$120.
Russia has threatened to turn
off gas supplies to Europe in the
case of an EU oil embargo, Ms.
Dickson added, which has only
added to short-term market vola-
tility.
with a report from Reuters
that, armed with additional evi-
dence, it is updating its FDA appli-
cation for teen shots and request-
ing a green light for six- to 11-year-
olds, too. Dr. Hoge said he’s opti-
mistic the company will be able
to offer its vaccine “across all age
groups in the United States by the
summer.”
Moderna says its original adult
dose – two 100-microgram shots –
is safe and effective in 12- to 17-
year-olds. For elementary school-
age kids, it’s using half the adult
dose.
The heart risk also seems link-
ed to puberty, and regulators in
Canada, Europe and elsewhere
recently expanded Moderna vac-
cinations to kids as young as 6.
“That concern has not been
seen in the younger children,”
Northwestern’s Dr. Muller said.
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Black students placed
in language program
without parents’ consent
According to advocates,
Ottawa school only let
families know about
children’s enrolment in
language support two
months into school year
CAROLINE ALPHONSO
EDUCATION REPORTER
The children of more than 30
Black families in Ottawa were
placed in a language proficiency
support program without their
parents’ consent, advocates say.
The families only learned two
months into the academic year
that the Conseil des écoles pu-
bliques de l’Est de l’Ontario (CE-
PEO), a French public school
board in Ottawa, had placed their
elementary school-age children
in the program, Actualisation lin-
guistique en français, which is
meant to develop language skills
so students can follow the regu-
lar curriculum.
Charline Grant, the chief advo-
cacy officer at Parents of Black
Children, said the families re-
ceived a note about their chil-
dren’s enrolment attached to
their progress report cards.
Some parents, she said, discov-
ered that their children had been
in the program for years, and
they believe it uses a watered-
down curriculum for French-lan-
guage classes.
“Every call we got is they didn’t
know and they found out in the
progress report, which is the up-
setting part about it,” said Ms.
Grant, whose organization is one
of several advocating for the fam-
ilies and has met with the board.
“Without saying the words, you
are telling them you don’t think
they’re capable of making a deci-
sion for their children.”
The advocacy groups are call-
ing for an independent investiga-
tion into why Black students
were placed in the program with-
out the consent of their families.
“If their intentions are good,
why wouldn’t they give the par-
ents that respect and sit down
with them and have it be a col-
laborative decision between par-
ents, school and students?” Ms.
Grant asked.
It is unclear just how many
children have been placed in the
Ottawa planned to remove residential school
memorial months earlier, documents show
STEPHANIE TAYLOR OTTAWA
The federal government had orig-
inally hoped to remove a Parlia-
ment Hill memorial dedicated to
Indigenous children who died
and went missing from residen-
tial schools months earlier than
actually happened last year, ac-
cording to newly released docu-
ments.
Hundreds of tiny shoes, stuffed
animals and flowers began ap-
pearing around the Centennial
Flame in front of Parliament’s
Centre Block last spring, after the
Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Nation
announced ground-penetrating
radar had found the possible re-
mains of about 200 children on
the site of a former residential
school near Kamloops.
The Parliament Hill memorial
was one of many that popped up
across the country as Canadians
were confronted with the horrors
Indigenous children faced when
removed from their families and
forced to attend these institu-
tions over more than a century.
It became a place where Indig-
enous elders and tourists alike
would stand in silence.
FEDERAL CARBON-PRICE REBATES TO RISE IN ONTARIO, MANITOBA
OTTAWA The value of carbon-
price rebate cheques from the
federal government will jump
more than 66 per cent in Ontario
and Manitoba this year to make
up for too-small rebates the past
two years.
And, for the first time, the
payments will come quarterly,
rather than hidden as a lump
sum in annual tax-return
deposits.
Carbon-price backers say that
will make the money more
visible to Canadians.
program without their parents’
consent or knowledge and how
many are Black students.
In an e-mailed statement,
CEPEO declined to make its
board’s staff available for an in-
terview. The board said the pro-
gram is for children whose first
language is not French or who
have limited knowledge of the
language. It is meant “to achieve
a level of French language profi-
ciency sufficient to follow the
regular curriculum and succeed
in school.”
The board said educators do
not require parents’ permission
and that enrolment is noted in
report cards, although the fam-
ilies and their advocates said
they were never told and
wouldn’t have known what to
look for.
The board added that a “par-
ent communication form” was
created this year “to provide
more transparency in the deliv-
ery of the service and to foster
collaboration with parents.”
It did not directly answer a
question about what prompted
the new form.
Ms. Grant and other advocacy
groups say the practice puts a
spotlight on streaming in public
education, which separates stu-
dents based on their abilities and
has negatively affected low-in-
come, racialized and special-
needs students.
The Ontario government plans
to end streaming for all Grade 9
courses in the next school year.
The province is the only jurisdic-
tion that divides students as they
enter high school into a hands-
on applied stream or an academ-
ic track that sets them on the
path for postsecondary studies.
Research has shown that Black
students and those from low-in-
come families, with Indigenous
backgrounds or with special
needs are more likely to be en-
rolled in the applied stream and
are 4½ times more likely not to
earn a diploma than their peers
in the academic stream.
Critics of streaming, however,
argue that it starts as early as kin-
dergarten.
“We’re trying to put our kids in
a more marketable position,
education-wise. There are barriers
to prevent them from getting in,
and when they’re in, they are
targeted and being made to feel
unwelcome and made to feel that
Tiny shoes, stuffed animals and flowers surround the Centennial Flame
on Parliament Hill last June. JUSTIN TANG/THE CANADIAN PRESS
According to the documents,
officials with Crown-Indigenous
Relations and Northern Affairs
initially wanted to hold a ceremo-
ny to remove the display last
summer, before the widely antici-
pated election campaign.
The document outlines offi-
cials were consulting with the Al-
gonquin Anishinabeg Nation,
whose traditional territory in-
cludes Ottawa, and national In-
digenous organizations on how
“I think it’s surprising that
more Canadians aren’t aware of
the climate rebates,” said Stewart
Elgie, director of the Environ-
ment Institute at the University
of Ottawa.
“But as people start getting
actual payments every three
months, I think it will be much
more visible and people will
become much more aware that
they’re getting money back and
they’re getting more back than
they’re paying in most cases.”
The second annual report on
they don’t belong,” Ms. Grant said.
One parent, Hassan Ahmed,
learned this past fall that his son,
who is in Grade 6, has been in the
Actualisation linguistique en
français program since Grade 2.
He grew curious about what his
son was learning when he told
him at dinner one night that he
would regularly complete his
schoolwork faster than other stu-
dents in his class and that it was
easier.
Mr. Ahmed is a fluent French
speaker and was a teacher in Afri-
ca before moving to Canada. In
Ontario, students can enroll in
French-language schools if a fam-
ily member has studied at a
French elementary school in
Canada. School boards also ac-
cept students based on their
French-language proficiency.
Mr. Ahmed approached the
principal but has yet to hear why
his son was put in the program or
how he has progressed.
“I was flabbergasted. I was an-
gry. It was ridiculous,” he said.
“They never approached me that
they’re putting my kid in there.”
He added: “They stole the fu-
ture of my kid. He is a watered-
down French speaker now.”
Similarly, Haweya Farah, a
graduate of the school board,
said her family requested docu-
ments as to why her youngest
brother, in Grade 4, was placed in
the program. She has received no
explanation. Ms. Farah spear-
headed the advocacy on behalf of
the families.
“None of the families received
a reason why they were put in the
program,” she said. “There’s no
transparency.”
Alice Audrain, a parent advo-
cate at Parents for Diversity in Ot-
tawa, said parents feel their chil-
dren are “streamed out of the
regular curriculum.” Some of the
parents she represents received
no indication that their children
were struggling in school.
Ms. Audrain said many Black
children already feel they don’t
belong in the school environ-
ment. So placing them in a spe-
cial program, she said, even if
they’re sitting in their own class-
room, will only add to their chal-
lenges.
“There’s no transparency.
There’s no equity lens. There’s no
inclusion. They don’t take into
account the needs of the com-
munity they serve,” she said.
to proceed. The preferred option
among the three presented was to
hold a ceremony the week before
Aug. 15.
Ultimately, the memorial re-
mained for two more months,
until the end of October, when,
under the direction of Algonquin
elders, it was quietly taken down
by about 20 people, including
department officials.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
federal carbon pricing, which
was tabled in the House of Com-
mons this week, shows Canada
collected more than $4.2-billion
in carbon levies on consumers
and small businesses in 2020-21.
So this year, as the carbon
price rises 25 per cent, the pay-
ments in Ontario and Manitoba
are going up 66 per cent and 71
per cent, respectively.
For a family of four, the pay-
ments will hit $745 in Ontario
and $832 in Manitoba.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Stellantis NV expects its plant in Windsor, Ont., to be fully
operational by 2025 and will provide batteries for electric cars
made in factories across North America. CARLOS OSORIO/AP
Stellantis, LG to build EV
battery plant in Windsor
JEFF GRAY
QUEEN'S PARK REPORTER
Hundreds of millions in government subsidies will help build
Canada’s first large-scale electric-vehicle battery plant in
Windsor, Ont., a $5-billion joint venture between global auto
giant Stellantis NV and South Korean battery maker LG Ener-
gy Solution.
The investment is the largest in Canada’s auto sector in his-
tory, federal Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry
François-Philippe Champagne told an event in Windsor on
Wednesday with company executives, Ontario Premier Doug
Ford and Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens.
The massive injection of cash, which the companies and
governments say will create 2,500 jobs, was committed after a
concerted push by the federal and provincial politicians to at-
tract electric-vehicle and battery manufacturing to Canada
and Ontario amid a global race to win new investment as the
industry transforms.
The Ontario Premier said the governments could not dis-
close the precise amount of government money going toward
the new facility as it could affect negotiations under way with
other companies on similar deals. But he said the govern-
ment subsidies would be in the “hundreds of millions.”
In a news release, the federal government said the amount
was “subject to commercial confidentiality” but that more in-
formation would be unveiled “once due diligence is complet-
ed.”
In similar deals, the two governments have each pledged to
cover up to 10 per cent to 20 per cent of this kind of new auto-
sector investment.
“This game-changing battery plant will help guarantee
that Ontario is at the forefront of the electric-vehicle revolu-
tion and ensure we remain a global leader in auto manufac-
turing,” Mr. Ford said.
Industry observers also have called the long-anticipated
move transformational for Canada’s auto sector. However,
major car makers have already announced even larger multi-
billion-dollar battery and EV facilities in the U.S. and else-
where. Stellantis’s chief operating officer for North America,
Mark Stewart, also said Wednesday that the company plans to
build another new battery plant south of the border.
Stellantis, created by a merger last year of Fiat Chrysler Au-
tomobiles and France’s Peugeot SA, says its 4.5-million-
square-foot Windsor plant is expected to be fully operational
by 2025 and will provide batteries for electric cars made in fac-
tories across North America. But the company did not say pre-
cisely where it plans to build its new generation of electric ve-
hicles, which it says will account for 50 per cent of its car and
light-truck sales by 2030 in Canada and the United States. Ot-
tawa’s target is to see 100 per cent zero-emission vehicle sales
in Canada by 2035.
Both Queen’s Park and Ottawa have been working to woo
car makers and battery companies as the industry looks to
transform itself, with billions of dollars and thousands of jobs
at stake for the country’s vital auto sector.
In an interview, Mr. Ford’s Economic Development Minis-
ter, Vic Fedeli, said he expects more auto-sector announce-
ments in the coming weeks. He also said talks were under way
with several other manufacturers and that he expects anoth-
er battery plant announcement before the end of the year.
Both he, Mr. Champagne and other officials have been meet-
ing with Stellantis executives for months.
Mr. Fedeli said his government’s efforts to reduce taxes and
costs for business, along with the province’s talent base and
its green energy grid that draws largely on nuclear and hydro
power, helped make the case.
He also defended his government’s decision to cancel its
rebates for Ontario consumers who actually buy electric cars,
which remain more expensive than comparable gas-burning
vehicles. (The federal government and some other provinces,
such as Quebec, still offer incentives.) Mr. Fedeli said Ontario
has instead decided to spend its money securing manufactur-
ing jobs.
“We are all-in, our chips are all-in, on the manufacturing
side of this equation,” Mr. Fedeli said.
Canada’s auto industry is getting the massive investment
despite the threat of a proposal from U.S. President Joe Biden,
now stalled on Capitol Hill, which would offer incentives of up
to US$12,500 to Americans who buy U.S.-made and union-
made electric vehicles.
Mr. Ford and Mr. Fedeli were in Washington on Monday
making their case against the idea. They also sought to reas-
sure U.S. companies that the six-day protest blockade of
Windsor’s key Ambassador Bridge to the U.S. last month
would not happen again. Ontario introduced a bill on Mon-
day that threatens stiff penalties for those who block borders.
Asked about both the blockade and the Biden measures on
Wednesday, Mr. Stewart, the Stellantis COO for North Amer-
ica, noted that minivans built in Windsor have flowed across
the border to U.S. customers for decades, and he expects no
different with batteries.
“We have been long-standing partners for nearly 100
years,” he said.
Both Ontario and Ottawa routinely link their efforts to at-
tract battery plants to longer-term hopes that most of the
minerals used in Ontario-made batteries could be sourced in
the province’s North.
“Canada is the only nation in the Western hemisphere with
the capacity and the materials to transform cobalt, graphite,
lithium and nickel into the next generation of batteries which
will be needed to power electric cars,” Mr. Champagne told
Wednesday’s event.
The new plant follows a series of similar announcements
from governments and industry, including a $500-million
General Motors Co.-affiliated plant to produce cathode active
material, used in EV batteries, in Bécancour, Que. German gi-
ant BASF announced similar plans there.
Last week, Mr. Ford and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau an-
nounced $131.16-million from each government for Honda
Motor Co. Ltd.’s plant in Alliston, Ont. In 2020, Ontario and the
federal government put $295-million each toward a Ford Mo-
tor Co. of Canada Ltd. plan for a $1.8-billion global battery
electric-vehicle production hub at its complex in Oakville,
Ont.
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Pharmacists seek bigger role in COVID-19 drug access
Associations pushing
for power to prescribe
Paxlovid and other
antiviral medications
CARLY WEEKS HEALTH REPORTER
Many pharmacy associations in
Canada say they should be play-
ing a bigger role in prescribing
and dispensing a new COVID-19
antiviral medication to ensure pa-
tients get the drug during the five-
day treatment window.
Paxlovid, the brand name of
the first oral antiviral medication
approved by Health Canada to
treat COVID-19, is in short supply
in much of the country and can be
difficult to find. In many prov-
inces, people who meet the nar-
row criteria for access to the drug,
which was approved in January,
often have to navigate a complex
process requiring visits to multi-
ple physical locations in order to
get the medication.
For these reasons, the associ-
ations are pushing for greater in-
volvement in providing access to
Paxlovid and other COVID-19 an-
tivirals that may be approved.
“We’re really advocating for
that role of pharmacist as a medi-
cation expert who would provide
the full testing, assessment,
screening, prescribing and dis-
pensing and monitoring,” said Jen
CANADIAN TROOPS ORDERED TO STAY AWAY AS FOREIGN FIGHTERS FLOCK TO UKRAINE
OTTAWA Members of the Cana-
dian Armed Forces have been
banned from joining the thou-
sands of foreigners who have
flocked to Ukraine in recent
weeks to help fight Russia’s
invasion.
Vice-Chief of the Defence
Staff Lieutenant-General Frances
Allen told the House of Com-
mons defence committee on
Wednesday that the order came
from General Wayne Eyre, Chief
of the Defence Staff, and it ap-

 

 

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Belcher, a practising pharmacist
and vice-president of strategic
initiatives and member relations
at the Ontario Pharmacists Asso-
ciation.
Each province and territory has
different rules and guidelines for
how pharmacists operate and the
type of duties they can perform,
called the scope of practice. Alber-
ta, for instance, gives pharmacists
more range, allowing them to pre-
scribe any drug, except for narcot-
ics and other controlled substanc-
es. But in most other provinces,
pharmacists can only prescribe a
select few drugs.
To be effective, Paxlovid, which
plies to both full-time service
members and part-time re-
servists.
“So for current CAF members,
they are not permitted to be in
the area, even if they were to be
on leave,” Lt.-Gen. Allen told the
committee as she appeared
alongside Defence Minister
Anita Anand.
The only exception is if their
presence in Ukraine is specific-
ally approved by Gen. Eyre,
Lt.-Gen. Allen added. She did not
is manufactured by Pfizer, has to
be administered within the first
five days of symptom onset,
meaning that convenience and
ease of access play important
roles. The medication, a combina-
tion of antiviral drugs nirmatrel-
vir and ritonavir, stops the SARS-
CoV-2 virus from replicating,
which significantly reduces a per-
son’s chances of becoming se-
verely ill. Those eligible to receive
Paxlovid include immune-com-
promised adults and unvaccinat-
ed seniors, although the criteria
are expected to widen as supplies
increase.
The drug can also have serious
indicate whether any Canadian
troops are currently in Ukraine.
Canada had 250 military
trainers in Ukraine, but the
federal government said they
were withdrawn to neighbouring
Poland shortly before Russian
forces invaded the country.
The government said those
troops were retasked with pro-
viding humanitarian support,
but Ms. Anand did not give the
committee an update, citing
operational security.
interactions with dozens of other
common medications, so people
who get a prescription will likely
need assistance from pharma-
cists, who have expertise in ma-
naging such issues.
Danielle Paes, chief pharmacist
officer with the Canadian Phar-
macists Association, said this sit-
uation highlights why a national
scope of practice would be bene-
ficial, allowing pharmacists to
play a consistent role and be part
of the conversation when policy
decisions about drugs and related
issues are made.
“There’s a need for a thoughtful
approach to make sure we are us-
ing this very valuable tool and
treatment option in a way that
helps as many Canadians as pos-
sible,” she said.
“I think it is possible,” she said.
When it comes to Paxlovid,
provinces each have their own
system, with some similarities.
But some within the pharmacy
profession say it’s often not an ide-
al set up for patients, who may
have to go to an assessment centre
or health care provider and then
make a separate visit to a pharma-
cy dispensing the antiviral.
Availability in pharmacies va-
ries by province. In Ontario, for in-
stance, only a select few hospital
pharmacies are dispensing the
drug.
Sandra Hanna, the CEO of the
Neighbourhood Pharmacy Asso-
ciation of Canada, said part of the
Last month, Ukrainian Pres-
ident Volodymyr Zelensky called
for the creation of an “inter-
national brigade” to help fend
off a Russian invasion that be-
gan Feb. 24.
Thousands of foreigners have
since answered that call to arms,
including many Canadians,
despite warnings from the feder-
al government against all travel
to the country.
Foreign Affairs Minister Méla-
nie Joly and Ms. Anand repeated
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problem is a limited supply of the
drug in Canada, given the global
demand.
Ms. Hanna said pharmacists
are uniquely positioned to help
make access to Paxlovid easy, con-
venient and fast. For instance, in
many parts of Canada, pharma-
cists have been administering CO-
VID-19 tests and giving vaccines.
“We want to minimize contacts
with the health care system so we
can shorten that time to treat,”
Ms. Hanna said. “We are in every
community. A lot of pharmacies,
we are already distributing and
administering COVID tests.”
Gregory Marchildon, Ontario
Research Chair in health policy
and system design with the Uni-
versity of Toronto’s Institute of
Health Policy, Management and
Evaluation, said there’s a case to
be made for increased use of phar-
macists’ expertise to make the
health care system function more
efficiently.
“It’s very clear that pharma-
cists have much more education,
training and experience, knowl-
edge [in] pharmaceuticals than
physicians,” he said.
But he also said rather than
simply expanding the scope of
practice of pharmacists, it makes
sense to integrate them into
family health clinics so they can
work with physicians and other
health care professionals at the
time of prescribing medications
to patients.
those warnings Wednesday
when asked what support the
government will give Canadians
captured by Russian forces.
Russia has reportedly threat-
ened criminal prosecutions
against any foreigners captured
fighting in Ukraine.
Lt.-Gen. Allen, meanwhile,
raised the spectre of Moscow
attempting to use captured
foreign fighters for propaganda
purposes.
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Hajdu urges [ ROYALS ]

‘ambitious’
Indigenous
housing aid
Minister says issue of shelter
is approaching ‘state of crisis’ in many
communities, noting large funding gap

KRISTY KIRKUP OTTAWA

Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu says she has put for-
ward an “ambitious” funding request for Indigenous housing
to Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland ahead of the budget.
Ms. Hajdu told The Globe and Mail on Wednesday that
Dry run
housing is approaching a “state of crisis,” noting there are
long waiting lists in many communities and huge strains on
families. She did not specify what her budget request to Ms. Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge,
Freeland includes. “I will just say this: The AFN [Assembly of meet Jamaica’s national bobsleigh team during a visit
First Nations] has estimated that there is about a $60-billion
gap,” she said. “Safe to say that obviously I have an ambitious to Kingston’s Trench Town on on Tuesday. The royals are
ask in to the Finance Minister.” on the Platinum Jubilee Royal Tour of the Caribbean
Ahead of the tabling of the fiscal blueprint, chiefs at the
AFN and other Indigenous leaders are also making a major
push for significant spending they say is required to address CHRIS JACKSON/REUTERS
the housing backlog. The issue is expected to be a major
theme in the budget, expected in April, and is among shared
priorities outlined in the new agreement between the Liberal
government and the New Democrats.
Under the heading of reconciliation, a document on the
agreement says there is a need to make a “significant addi- Dias: Former union head told executives about
tional investment in Indigenous housing in 2022.” It also says
it will be up to First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities to medical leave a week after he learned of probe
determine how housing investments are designed and deliv-
ered. FROM A1
Housing has been a major concern throughout the pan-
demic, with overcrowded lodging presenting challenges for Unifor did not disclose the name
individuals looking to self-isolate to help prevent the spread of the supplier because it did not
of the coronavirus. Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam participate in the investigation,
said in 2020 that First Nation, Inuit and Métis communities but the union acknowledged sev-
faced a higher risk of severe outcomes, owing to health ineq- eral employers bought the test
uities and the higher prevalence of underlying medical condi- kits.
tions, as well as the unique challenges of remote and fly-in Mr. Dias was asked to partici-
communities. pate in the investigation but did
Ms. Hajdu pointed Wednesday to the example of Bearskin not, the union said. In his state-
Lake First Nation in Northern Ontario that grappled with a ment, which was released as Uni-
COVID-19 outbreak this year. She said individuals who had for was holding its news confer-
the virus were often living in households with several others. ence, Mr. Dias said he was unable
“You can well imagine that if you’re sharing that tight of a to take part in the investigation
space that disease can circulate,” she said. on the advice of his physician.
Ms. Hajdu told an AFN housing forum Wednesday that the Mr. Dias told union executives
connection between health and housing is clear. She noted on Feb. 6 that he was going on
tuberculosis, COVID-19 and many other health outcomes are medical leave, a week after he
worsened when housing is crowded, poorly constructed or in learned he was being investigat-
bad shape. The AFN, which represents more than 900,000 ed by Unifor. He had previously
First Nations people in 634 communities across the country, is said he would retire in August,
encouraging chiefs to press Ms. Freeland, along with other after the union’s constitutional
parliamentarians and senior officials, on housing. convention in Toronto, at which
The organization says there is a need for $44-billion in fed- a new leader would be elected.
eral investments to address current needs, and an additional “My physician has told me, It’s uncertain what Globe, former New Democratic
$16-billion to accommodate population growth to 2040. The straight up, that I need help,” he penalty former Unifor Party MP Peggy Nash, a long-time
housing crisis has been created by decades of “federal neglect said in his statement. “That’s president Jerry Dias union activist, said she felt “sad”
and underfunding,” the AFN said. why I am entering a residential could receive, and “disappointed” upon hear-
It has also pointed to statistics showing approximately 60 rehabilitation facility.” Mr. Dias given that he has ing the allegations against Mr.
per cent of First Nations housing is in need of repair, with 10 also said he would step away resigned from the union. Dias.
per cent requiring replacement. The AFN said overcrowding is temporarily from all advisory po- TIJANA MARTIN/ Ms. Nash, who worked along-
a problem, with approximately 30 per cent of housing used by sitions. THE CANADIAN PRESS side former national president of
multigenerational occupants. The Globe and Mail reported the Canadian Auto Workers
Manitoba AFN Regional Chief Cindy Woodhouse said she last week on an e-mail dated Feb. union Basil (Buzz) Hargrove dec-
hopes First Nations housing will figure prominently in the 27 that said Mr. Dias was under ades ago, also said she knew Mr.
budget, while she described housing and infrastructure as be- investigation by the union. The Dias well and he had done a lot
ing at “crisis levels.” She said anything short of the $60-billion e-mail was from Dave Cassidy, a of good things for workers.
requested will result in the further widening of the housing senior union member, to mem- It is unclear what penalty Mr.
gap between First Nations and non-First Nations people in bers of the national executive Dias would face from Unifor, giv-
Canada. board, which includes Ms. Payne. en that he has resigned. He still
“It is tough for families and communities,” Ms. Woodhouse The union did not make any holds union membership, so any
said, adding First Nations have lived with the effects of this public statements about the in- The union will hold kind of punishment for the
problem for generations. vestigation until after The Globe breach could involve revoking
There have been many deaths with house fires in commu- asked about the e-mail and a special convention his membership, Ms. Payne said.
nities, she added, noting she wants policy makers to consider whether it was accurate that Mr. in the coming weeks The union will hold a special
this. She said she wants to believe there is a willing partner in Dias was being investigated. to elect a new convention in the coming weeks
the federal government to ensure life improves in communi- Unifor released a statement on president. Scott to elect a new president. Scott
ties. March 14 confirming the investi- Doherty, Mr. Dias’s executive as-
Earlier this month, the Office of the Parliamentary Budget gation. Ms. Payne said the union Doherty, Mr. Dias’s sistant, is contending for the top
Officer released a report on the government’s expenditure had always intended to bring the executive assistant, job and has been endorsed by
plan. It said Indigenous-related budgetary spending has in- results of the investigation to the is contending for the national executive board. Mr.
creased significantly over the past six years. national executive board and did Cassidy is also running.
The report also noted that proposed spending in the main not mention the investigation
the top job and Mr. Dias was elected to his first
estimates for Indigenous Services Canada and Crown-Indige- publicly prior to that because it has been endorsed of three successive terms as na-
nous Relations are $39.6-billion and $5.8-billion, respectively, was a confidential matter. by the national tional president of Unifor, Cana-
representing a 214-per-cent increase over Indigenous-related “Because our constitution re- executive board. da’s largest private-sector union,
budgetary expenditures compared with 2017-18. quires confidentiality on these in 2013. The union represents
Indigenous Services Canada says the government has kinds of claims, you can appre- 315,000 workers across multiple
spent more than $3.7-billion since 2016 on Indigenous and ciate why if we don’t provide sectors, including the auto indus-
Northern housing, and this is in addition to about $149.5-mil- that, no one will come forward try, and many employees at The
lion provided every year to First Nations to support housing with a complaint,” she said. Globe and Mail and the Toronto
needs. In an interview with The Star.

Agreement: Ontario Liberal Leader says he’s open to working with provincial NDP
FROM A1
“It’s not true that Doug Ford will
accept that Justin Trudeau de-
cides how he administers the
health budget.”
“I’m sorry but the federal gov-
ernment has no expertise to di-
rect how much money we should
be spending on long-term care,
how much we should spend on
mental health, how much we
should devote toward hiring
more nurses,” he said.
“I know there is a very strong
common front from the prov-
inces to say that health care is a
provincial jurisdiction. But now
we have two very centralist par-
ties – the Liberal Party of Canada
and the NDP – that want to im-
pose this on all of the provinces. I
think they will run into a wall.”
The Premier’s comments were
promptly quoted on the floor of
the House Wednesday by Conser-
vative and Bloc Québécois MPs
from the province as they criti-
cized the deal.
Liberal Minister Pablo Rodri-
guez, the federal cabinet’s Quebec
lieutenant, defended the deal,
saying critics can’t comprehend
some parties want to work togeth-
er. “The fact that we want to sit
down and talk about social hous-
ing, that’s good for Quebec. Fight-
ing climate change is good for
Quebec. Helping workers is good
for Quebec. But unfortunately, it’s
bad for the Bloc,” he said.
Mr. Kenney called the Liberal-
NDP agreement an effort “to keep
Trudeau in power through 2025,
being backstopped by the anti-
oil-and-gas NDP.”
“This is bad news for Alberta.
There’s no sugarcoating it,” he
said in a video posted Tuesday on
social media.
Mr. Kenney has used the alli-
ance to attack the opposition New
Democrats in Alberta and tie the
provincial party to the federal car-
bon tax. “In case anybody is mis-
understanding this: The Alberta
NDP is a branch plant of Jagmeet
Singh’s federal NDP, which is a
branch plant of Justin Trudeau’s
Liberal Party. And they’re all in ca-
hoots to make life more expen-
sive for Canadians,” Mr. Kenney
said in the provincial legislature
on Wednesday.
Mr. Horgan applauded the
agreement, which mirrors the
deal that allowed him to secure a
minority government in 2017 with
the support of the provincial
Green Party. “Glad to see political
co-operation designed to help
people,” he tweeted, adding the
premiers are ready to negotiate
health funding with Ottawa.
Mr. Ford hasn’t publicly re-
sponded to the deal since it was
announced. Ontario House Lead-
er Paul Calandra said the Progres-
sive Conservatives would need to
see the federal dental and phar-
macare plans before committing
support. “We’ll pay attention and
we’ll see what the federal govern-
ment has to offer,” Mr. Calandra
said during Question Period
Wednesday. “But, of course, we
would not sign anything that isn’t
in the best interests of the tax-
payers of the province of Ontario.”
Mr. Calandra expressed con-
cern about cross-party deals,
pointing to a 1985 agreement be-
tween the Ontario Liberals and
NDP to form government after the
PCs won the most seats in the
election. He said this partnership
led to increased debt and taxes in
the province.
Ontario NDP Leader Andrea
Horwath praised the federal deal
as a way to provide dental care
and prescription drugs to Cana-
dians in need. Both the Ontario
Liberal and NDP parties haven’t
ruled out working together in the
case of a minority government af-
ter a provincial election sched-
uled for June and said they
wouldn’t support another term
for Mr. Ford. Ontario Liberal Lead-
er Steven Del Duca said he hasn’t
had a conversation with Ms. Hor-
wath but is open to working
across party lines.
Michel Breau, the Canadian
Dental Association’s head of ad-
vocacy and governance, said his
organization was surprised by
Tuesday’s announcement of a na-
tional dental-care plan. He said
there are still very few details
about the pledge and that the
CDA strongly recommends Otta-
wa simply transfer funding to the
provinces to improve their exist-
ing dental programs.
With reports from
James Keller in Calgary
and Justine Hunter in Victoria
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Olena Yurchak and her husband had planned to move into a freshly renovated apartment on Feb. 24, the day the war began. That very building was struck. Standing outside on a cold night
after crossing into Slovakia, Ms. Yurchak, who is from Irpin, showed a video and photos that were shared in a group chat of a neighbour trying to extinguish the fire ignited by the blast.
“If we were there, we would be dead,” she said, adding it was “just luck” they weren’t. Ms. Yurchak, 60, said that she and her 58-year-old husband are physicians and that he is in Ukraine,
volunteering with a local army. She feels as though she’s lost the world from under her feet, saying her soul is hurt and her heart is breaking.

Sitting at a picnic table under a large tent at a refugee welcoming centre in Michalovce, 19-year-old Zhanna Shchablova was tired after spending a lot of time on the road travelling to Slovakia
from Kharkiv. But as she and her family prepared to continue onward to Germany, the teenager thought about those left behind: her dad, her boyfriend, her friends and her best friend’s dog.
“My dad is at home with my dog and I’m nervous about him. … I think people have to know that they have to appreciate life and appreciate safe skies. It’s good when there’s peace in the
world.” She shared a photo of her dad with their dog.

ON THEIR CELLPHONES, Refugees in Slovakia took out their

devices to show The Globe and Mail what
UKRAINIANS KEEP MOBILE memories of home they’re hanging on to
MEMENTOES OF HOMES AND LIVES
RUINED BY RUSSIAN INVASION JANICE DICKSON MICHALOVCE, SLOVAKIA
PHOTOGRAPHY BY DOROTA HOLUBOVA/THE GLOBE AND MAIL

Valeria Terekh, her husband, Sergey, and their two boys, Stanislav and Maksim, were afraid as they huddled together in the bomb shelter below their home. The worst part was the sound of
Russian airplanes. Ms. Terekh said it took her five attempts to make soup because each time she made some progress upstairs in her kitchen, she would have to go back down to take cover.
Just days after they left their home, the other side of their building was struck, killing an elderly woman who was asleep and couldn’t make it to the underground shelter. “I’m physically here,
but my soul is in Kharkiv,” Ms. Terekh said through tears. She shared photos of her family and neighbours sheltering below their home.

Anna Shatniaya, her mom, Tatiana, and Anna’s two kids, Igor and Masha, kept each other company on green mattresses that lined the main room of a rest area for refugees. They will travel
to Germany, for no reason other than receiving some advice that it would be a good idea. Ms. Shatniaya said she now shakes when she hears loud sounds, adding that she is worried about
how her children will be affected by the war. “We learned this history. We never thought it could happen again,” she said, sharing a picture from last year when they were resting at the
seaside in Odesa. “We were happy.”
T H U R S DAY, M A RC H 2 4 , 2 0 2 2 | T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L O NEWS | A11

Yulia Yudina, who now helps other refugees arriving in Slovakia, was brought to tears when she opened her phone to a selection of art she drew and painted back at home. She’s not a
professional, but she tried to put some of her soul into her work, she said. “I can’t take it with me and I know it can be bombed, and it was my sweet little home with these drawings, with
these paintings.” Each painting takes a week, she added. Ms. Yudina arrived a little more than a week ago from Kharkiv and wanted to volunteer so she can be of use instead of simply
waiting for the war to end.

Even as their country was being bombed by Russian forces, Elena Kolbatieva, her husband and her mom came together for International Women’s Day. Days passed in which they could not
leave their homes and, not living far from each other, they decided to celebrate on March 8 – to “just sit together,” she said, accompanied by her mom, Klavdia Sheptun, her mom’s dog,
Bond (named after James Bond), and her sister, Ludmila Sheptun, in a waiting area for refugees. They eventually left because the bombs came too close to home, Klavdia said. Ms. Kolbatieva
showed a photo from that get-together on IWD.

What are the lasting images of home for refugees as they leave it behind? Ukrainians who fled to neighbouring Slovakia carry with them photos of the destruction
Russian forces have brought to their country. With a quick swipe through their cellphones, many instinctively share images of destroyed apartment buildings, parks
or schools. Those who don’t have pictures of their own homes often have photos of devastated neighbourhoods or places they used to go.

At Slovakia’s largest border crossing, and at a sports hall that has been converted into a welcoming centre, The Globe and Mail asked Ukrainians to share photos
and memories of home – whatever it meant to them in the moment.

Veronika Denshchyk, 26, held her daughter’s hand and led the one-year-old around the reception centre. She came here with her sister, cousins and their children, and will stay in Slovakia
because “there’s no difference” where they go, and it’s the safest place close to home. Bombs were falling on their city of Dnipro before they left, she said. She shared a photo of herself with
her husband and daughter at a mall that was ruined after a night of Russian shelling. “It’s shock,” she said, looking at the photo. It was taken Feb. 14, 10 days before the war began.

Anna Savko and her husband, Viktor, sat together with their little 11-year-old dog, Bosynka, between them. The couple, in their 60s, are from Donbas, and their trip to Slovakia took days.
Anna shared a selfie with her dog that she snapped at home one week before the Russian invasion. “She’s so scared we have to give her medicine,” she said. They were waiting for their
children to arrive before deciding where to go next. Where that is does not matter much to them. “We want to return home and have peace,” Viktor said.
A12 O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L | T H U R S DAY , M A RC H 2 4 , 2 0 2 2

PHILLIP CRAWLEY

EDITORIAL PUBLISHER AND CEO

DAVID WALMSLEY
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

The subject who is truly loyal to the chief magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures - Junius

The main way

to solve the
housing crisis
A
year ago this week, this page began an editorial with
a colloquial observation: “Canada’s housing market
is bonkers.”
Since then, the stew of factors prompting that observation
have only intensified. Low interest rates, escalating pur-
chases by investors, and a general mania convinced the hot
market will just get hotter have exacerbated the long-term
lack of supply.
Today, bonkers is ever more so the right word to describe
Canada’s housing market. The latest data show the MLS
home price index climbed 3.5 per cent in February from Janu-
ary, the biggest-ever monthly gain. The index is up almost
30 per cent in a year – also a record.
A year ago, this page and others argued that interventions
were necessary to dampen demand, something that had
worked in the recent past.
In 2016-17, during the last housing mania that centred on
Vancouver and Toronto, officials jumped in with new rules –
from levies on empty homes, speculators and foreign buyers,
to tighter mortgage requirements. The Bank of Canada, after
stoking housing with lower interest rates in the mid-2010s,
more than tripled its policy rate to 1.75 per cent by late 2018,
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
up from 0.5 per cent in mid-2017.
GIVE A BOOST dent of the Business Council of case, particularly after both
It worked. Price growth slowed to a dribble. Canada, is doing Canadians a world wars. In essence, a Western
Then came the pandemic, which first saw a stampede for Re Welcome To The Pandemic’s disservice in his pitches to the “no-fly zone” has always been in
DIY Phase (March 22): “We’ve United States. place because Ukraine is geopol-
detached homes. A widespread boom followed. This time,
gone from failing the vulnerable Such attitudes keep the Cana- itically beyond the pale.
governments didn’t intervene and the Bank of Canada kept to forsaking them,” them being dian economy dependent on While the West anxiously
“people who are immunocom- others. We remain “hewers of watches, hoping for a positive
its finger off the interest-rate trigger (until this month), and
promised and/or have chronic wood and drawers of water,” but outcome and welcoming refu-
now we have moved way past bonkers to something else. health conditions such as cancer consistently fail to add value to gees, Ukrainians are effectively
This has led to a polarized debate around what’s the cause and heart disease.” I’m in one of our natural resources. We instead on their own. And given Mr. Pu-
those categories but am not ask- sell to the highest bidders and tin’s long-standing revanchism,
and what’s the solution. There are two camps. One cites ing for anyone to continue mask- buy products back at inflated who can predict what is in store
supply and one points to demand. Both are correct. ing or otherwise inconvenience prices. for, say, NATO’s Baltic republics?
themselves on my account. Our leaders should look after Listening is easy – responding
Look at what two of the big banks are saying. Scotiabank By all means, get back to liv- Canadian consumers first. After is another matter entirely.
says Canada has underbuilt for decades and has fewer homes ing. But give me access to one all, it is our oil and we should be Alan Scrivener Cornwall, Ont.
thing that’ll help me do the benefiting first from any “bar-
compared with other Group of Seven countries. The Bank of same: the vaccine. I’m so pro- gains.” Re Canadians Support Further
Montreal says “we need to support supply” but argues “that’s vaccine that I’d get a shot every M. Terry Ashcroft Cobourg, Ont. Sanctions, But Are Hesitant To
Sunday. But so far in Ontario, on- Go To War With Russia: Nanos
like bringing a squirt gun to the ranging inferno of demand.” ly the immunocompromised Poll (March 23): Rather than
LISTEN UP
Both things are true. Solving the long-term supply short- and those in assisted-living set- equipping Ukraine with more
tings have been offered second weapons, I firmly believe we
age does not address the short-term mania. Housing starts in boosters. Re If We’d Only Listened (Opin- must advocate for a Ukrainian
2021 reached a high. That did not slow prices. It seems to me that Canada is ion, March 19): Vladimir Putin is surrender.
flush enough with vaccines to condemned for being furious Volodymyr Zelensky’s leader-
But long-term problems are not quickly resolved. No one is about his country being encir- ship in defence of his country is
both help other countries and its
arguing that increasing supply is some sort of magic bullet; own vulnerable population. cled with nuclear weapons; for seen as noble and heroic. Who
Rudy Buller Toronto believing that his country has a doesn’t cheer on the righteous
that a rewrite of ancient municipal zoning restrictions, which
unique civilizing destiny; for be- underdog against the evil aggres-
prevent densification and perpetuate scarcity, will suddenly ing concerned about Russian mi- sor? But this is not a feel-good
WHO GETS WHAT? norities in hostile countries; for movie.
make housing affordable.
being committed to a “Russia Vladimir Putin will not stop
And it is absolutely true that taking on demand – starting Re NDP To Back Military Spend- first” policy – as though these his clumsy efforts. This is a war
with interest rates – could make a difference now. But cooling ing In Exchange For Social Pro- concerns are unknown in West- of egos, patriotism and self-inter-
grams (March 23): At 75, this is ern countries. This feels like est. How many more children are
demand doesn’t solve the central problem. the first time that I am ashamed sheer hypocrisy. to be orphaned, maimed or
Sure, prices could fall. Say, as rates rise, prices drop 25 per to call myself Canadian. I believe humiliation is key to killed?
Canadians should remember understanding Mr. Putin. By dis- I respectfully recommend
cent this year. That’s a lot. Yet that only eliminates gains dur- that the Liberals did not win the missing him as having nothing Canada do what it is best at: Call
ing the pandemic. The problem of housing prices being out popular vote, but now will gov- worthwhile to say, we energize for reason.
ern as if they have a majority. his disposition for domination John Taliano Port Colborne, Ont.
of reach for many people existed before that. The party also seems to have and cruelty. Western arrogance,
The reality is Canada, and the Western world in general, moved so far to the left that it then, provides a major contri-
ON THE DIAL
has rendered the NDP irrelevant. bution to this destabilizing glob-
created this bind over decades. The building of housing in As for the NDP backing mil- al crisis.
cities has been too heavily restricted. Most land is reserved itary spending in exchange for Mervyn Russell Oakville, Ont. Re Russia’s RT Television Chan-
this “deal,” consider that all par- nel Illegal In Canada, CRTC Rules
for the least density possible – the detached home. ties have expressed support for One important attribute of Rus- (Report on Business, March 17):
Suburban sprawl is one result of that, and that’s bad for the this increased spending. Even for sia’s empire: It is a colonial state. The Canadian Radio-television
all those Canadians who voted Countries such as Britain, and Telecommunications Com-
economy. If people can’t afford to live in cities, where the
Liberal or NDP, this is not an France and Germany had colo- mission is concerned that pro-
economy is most productive, our collective gains are muted. event that should be celebrated. nies in different parts of the gramming from Russia’s RT
Brian Walsh Brant, Ont. world. The only difference is that channel “seeks to … demean
The demand argument, while valid, is too often wielded
Russia’s colonies are contiguous people of a particular ethnic
against an increase in density. Some have recently pointed to Groups of MPs may work togeth- to the European mainland. background.” This feels like inad-
the 2021 census. In one example, the Toronto region’s pop- er to promote common goals. The war in Chechnya was an vertently refreshing candour
This is not a formal coalition example of a colony trying to from the regulator.
ulation grew 4.6 per cent from 2016, but dwellings grew unless declared such. Candice free itself. The Baltic states and Fox News, still accessible in
“more” at 7 per cent. What supply problem? Bergen may not like this Liberal- the territories in Turkestan were Canada, is known to many for
NDP agreement, but it is not a brought into Russian territory anti-Muslim and anti-immigra-
The actual math is this: The population rose by 274,000 coalition government. unwillingly. tion propaganda. Facebook is
people to 6.2 million while dwellings rose 159,000 to 2.39 mil- Peter Davison Hamilton European powers tried using still accessible as well, despite re-
force to keep their colonies; the ports of its alleged role in perpet-
lion. The housing deficit remains. What is all the fuss about? The result was merciless wars and ul- uating genocide in Myanmar, for
The reality in the City of Toronto is that the population solution seems simple: The Con- timately failure. Vladimir Putin which Rohingya refugees are su-
servatives and Bloc Québécois is trying the same tactics and ing the social-media giant for
across many neighbourhoods has fallen by 220,000 over two just need to gather a majority of this will likely fail, too. US$150-billion.
decades, because of exclusionary zoning. That’s the opposite seats and arrange an agreeable Paul Silverstone West Vancouver I firmly believe in free speech,
coalition. regardless of how disagreeable it
of what should happen. There is nothing wrong if po- I doubt whether things would be may be. However, the CRTC re-
Ontario last month published a landmark report on hous- litical parties co-operate and different had more attention veals to me that censorship will
compromise on important poli- been paid to Vladimir Putin’s be exercised only when a (very)
ing policy. It called for “immediate and sweeping reforms,” past declarations and actions. particular ethnic group is de-
cies.
starting with allowing four units of housing with no prior Dragan Kljenak Mississauga Despite multitudinous outpour- meaned.
ings of deepest concern and Karim Fazal Oakville, Ont.
approval on any city lot.
sympathy, modern history illus-
The province has yet to act. Yes, new zoning won’t solve CANADA FIRST trates the West’s near-total indif-
ference to the fate of Ukraine. Letters to the Editor should be
the problems of today. And yes, demand is a serious factor.
Re Canada’s Commodities Can Even the country’s pre-inde- exclusive to The Globe and Mail.
But it’s obvious that supply is the real, long-term issue. As Cover Shortages, U.S. Lawmakers pendence name – “the Ukraine” Include name, address and daytime
Canada’s population rises, building more housing – a lot Told (March 23): It is typically – suggests that it was always part phone number. Keep letters under
Canadian to want to help our of Russian hegemony. A refusal 150 words. Letters may be edited for
more – is the best answer. neighbours in times of trouble. to become militarily involved in length and clarity. E-mail:
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OPINION
Singh brings integrity back to politics
He might not score
political points with a
confidence agreement,
but the party leader
has put the public
above partisanship
LAWRENCE
MARTIN
OPINION
T
he reaction to the deal be-
tween Justin Trudeau and
Jagmeet Singh has typified
the politics of our time.
While the NDP Leader wanted
to focus on how his agreement
with the Prime Minister would
bring better dental care, health
care and more affordable hous-
ing to Canadians, what most ob-
servers wanted to talk about were
the political consequences. The
horse race. Who won? Who lost?
By this yardstick Mr. Singh was
deemed – and I tend to agree with
the assessment – the big loser.
After decades of timidity, can Canada’s allies still take us seriously?
CHRISTIAN LEUPRECHT
BRUNO CHARBONNEAU
OPINION
Christian Leuprecht is a professor at
the Royal Military College and
Queen’s University, senior fellow at
the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and
the author of Intelligence as
Democratic Statecraft.
Bruno Charbonneau is a professor
and director of the Centre for
Security and Crisis Governance at
the Royal Military College Saint-Jean
and the director of Centre FrancoPaix
at the Chaire Raoul-Dandurand at the
Université du Québec à Montréal.
T
he deficiencies in Canadian
defence policy and diplo-
macy can be summed up as:
words speak louder than action.
In the years after Russia’s 2014
annexation of Crimea and during
Donald Trump’s presidency, Can-
ada paid its commitment to NA-
TO forward, especially with its
lead contribution to the En-
hanced Forward Presence in Lat-
via and a major commitment to
the NATO-organized training
mission in Ukraine. Still, in the
current fraught circumstances,
more is needed.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
has forced the issue. We need to
invest more in international af-
fairs to show that Canada is a seri-
ous and credible ally, or we will be
ignored as a discretionary ally by
the United States and Europe and
end up having to invest a lot more
later for vastly diminished re-
turns.
Multilateral institutions have
long given Canada disproportion-
ate bang for its buck on its inter-
national-policy investments.
Canada helped build a transatlan-
tic security architecture to keep
the North Atlantic region secure,
If Russia is truly concerned about denazification, it should address the problem at home
DAVID MATAS
OPINION
Human rights advocate and senior
counsel to B’nai Brith Canada
R
ussia justifies the invasion
of Ukraine as an effort in
denazification. The justifi-
cation is so obviously unreal that
there may be a tendency to dis-
regard it. Yet, internet blockage
within Russia means that there
the unreal can hold sway. As well,
we must be concerned with the
delusions of the invaders, no
matter how unreal they are, be-
cause of the very real results that
flow from these delusions.
The Holocaust was a tragedy in
which the whole world shared, ei-
ther by killing the victims or de-
nying them refuge or giving
haven to those complicit in mass
murder. Before, during and after
the Holocaust, antisemitism was
pervasive. Today all too few have
come fully to grips with the lega-
cy of hatred and murder that
their ancestors inflicted.
Ukraine, to be sure, is not in-
| T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L O
Joining hands with an unpopular
Liberal PM to extend his tenure is
not a good look.
But as the Peggy Lee number
put it, “Is that all there is?” Only
the political calculation? Or
could it be that Mr. Singh was do-
ing something entirely uncom-
mon in the context of what we
see in politics today? Could it be
that he was putting the interests,
as he saw them, of the people and
the country before those of nar-
row political partisanship?
Could it be that he really
meant it when he said the most
important thing for his party, its
raison d’être, was getting “help to
people” and that this deal with
Mr. Trudeau advanced that objec-
tive? In a time of mind-numbing,
reflexive hyper-partisanship that
creates distrust and disgust to-
ward politicians, and that has
turned American politics into a
cesspool, what a refreshing and
ennobling change that would be.
You get the sense that Mr.
Singh is a bit different from your
standard bargain-basement poli-
tician. As an opposition leader,
he’s not viscerally antagonistic to
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Defence Anita Anand join NATO Secretary-General Jens
Stoltenberg, right, during a visit to Latvia’s Adazi military base on March 8. TOMS NORDE/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
prosperous and democratic. At
times, NATO membership has al-
lowed federal governments to un-
derinvest in defence by harness-
ing economies of scale. Canada
could thus “punch above its
weight” despite missing alliance
members’ spending commit-
ments of 2 per cent of GDP on de-
fence.
By design rather than conse-
quence, Europe has become our
most important strategic rela-
tionship after the United States.
The European Union bolsters
Canadian interests in moderating
the U.S. penchant for unilateral-
ism. But with the invasion of Uk-
raine, Europe is both welcoming
the return of strong U.S. leader-
ship and coalescing as a much
more cohesive and independent
defence actor. German Chancel-
lor Olaf Scholz seized the initia-
nocent. Of the six million Jews
killed in the Holocaust, 1.5 mil-
lion were Ukrainian. Those kill-
ings were done mostly by Ger-
man roving killing squads, the
Einsatzgruppen. But, to know
who to kill, the Germans relied
on local collaborators to identify
the Jews.
Among the local Ukrainian Na-
zi collaborators, Stepan Bandera
and his Organization of Ukrai-
nian Nationalists stood out. They
blamed Communism and the ab-
sorption of Ukraine into the Sovi-
et Union on the Jews and enthusi-
astically joined in the killings.
Former Ukrainian president Vik-
tor Yushchenko, shortly before
he left office in 2010, to his dis-
credit, awarded Bandera the title
Hero of Ukraine. The neo-Nazi
Azov regiment is part of the
forces today combatting the Rus-
sian invasion. The political party
Svoboda has a neo-Nazi past.
Yet, there is another side of the
story. There are close to 1,500 Uk-
rainians in the Jerusalem mu-
seum Yad Vashem’s Righteous
Among the Nations Database,
which lists those who tried to
help Jews escape the Holocaust.
everything a government does.
Not scoring political points
doesn’t seem to bother him as
much as it does others in the cyn-
ical enterprise. He appears to re-
alize his party does not have a
reasonable chance at forming
government and that his primary
role, therefore, is moving those in
power as close as he can to his
NDP priorities.
That said, his arrangement
with Mr. Trudeau is less than
meets the eye. The two parties
were already aligned on many of
the issues in the agreement. Mr.
Singh didn’t nail down Mr. Tru-
deau with enough specifics on
dental care, pharmacare and is-
sues such as climate change.
Much of the document is aspira-
tional. Given his big gift to Mr.
Trudeau, he could have exacted
bigger concessions.
In making the deal, Mr. Tru-
deau may well have been think-
ing back to 1972 when, in the
wake of a minority victory over
the Robert Stanfield Tories,
Pierre Trudeau and NDP leader
David Lewis worked out an agree-
ment that kept the Liberals
tive with a historic policy U-turn:
an immediate infusion of €100-
billion to modernize its armed
forces, a promise to raise defence
spending to more than 2 per cent
of its GDP and the export of mis-
siles and anti-tank weapons to
support Ukraine.
Germany also announced two
new liquid natural gas import ter-
minals to reduce its dependence
on Russian energy imports; the
EU, meanwhile, has accelerated
plans to phase out Russian gas.
Yet the only European and U.S. al-
ly with untapped potential to
make an immediate difference
here is proving predictably unre-
liable: Canada.
During Mr. Trudeau’s recent
trip to Europe, there was jarring
dissonance between his talking
points on jobs, the middle class
and climate change, and the grav-
Former Ukrainian president Vik-
tor Yanukovych, almost immedi-
ately after succeeding Mr. Yush-
chenko, stripped Bandera of his
Hero of Ukraine title. The Ukrai-
nian President today, Volodymyr
Zelensky, is Jewish, as is his min-
ister of defence.
The Russian story is also
mixed. The Russian-led Soviets
during the Second World War
fought bravely and hard against
the Nazis, losing almost nine mil-
lion combatants and a further 18
million civilians. Yet, the Soviets
helped to trigger the Second
World War by the Molotov-Rib-
bentrop Pact, a non-aggression
agreement that divided up Po-
land between Germany and the
Soviet Union shortly before Ger-
many invaded Poland. The num-
ber of Jews killed in the Holo-
caust by the Einsatzgruppen with
local collaboration was 800,000
in Belarus and 500,000 in Nazi-
occupied Russia.
The Soviets and then the Rus-
sians have obscured, covered up
and failed to disclose the fate of
Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish dip-
lomat who managed to save
thousands in Hungary from the
afloat. Significant legislation
pleasing to the NDP was passed
over the next two years. Political-
ly, the arrangement worked out
splendidly for Justin Trudeau’s
father, who won back a majority
in the 1974 election, but poorly
for the New Democrats, who lost
15 seats.
Today’s deal comes at an even
more tumultuous period than
the early 1970s. With two elec-
tions creating minority parlia-
ments in the past three years, and
with the pandemic, the trucker’s
rebellion and now the calamity
of war in Europe, Mr. Singh and
Mr. Trudeau saw a need to stabi-
lize the political environment. In
this regard, the NDP Leader
might be excused for feeling as
though he acted in the public in-
terest as well.
Conservatives were under-
standably apoplectic. “God help
us all,” said interim party leader
Candice Bergen. Pierre Poilievre
tweeted that the deal amounted
to a “socialist coalition power
pact.”
But long-time political strate-
gist Rick Anderson saw benefits
ity in the tone of European lead-
ers. He was just the latest prime
minister to once again put electo-
ral self-interest ahead of Canada’s
national interest – but this time,
the ramifications are far-reac-
hing.
After decades of willful neglect,
Canada’s international policy
cupboard is bare. To regain its
standing in both NATO and Wash-
ington, Canada has to deliver on
real capabilities: robust expedi-
tionary capacity, ballistic missile
defence, the renewal of the North
American Aerospace Defence
Command, specifically the re-
placement of the North Warning
air defence system and ballistic
missile defence, and a standalone
foreign intelligence agency. In re-
turn, European allies must recog-
nize that this spending is not just
for the security of Canada and the
Holocaust. The Soviets seized
Wallenberg when they took over
Hungary. His fate remains an un-
necessary mystery to this day.
A 1950s Stalinist antisemitic
conspiracy theory, the doctors’
plot, led to unwarranted prosecu-
tions. The Soviet Jewry move-
ment, advocating for the rights of
Soviet Jews to emigrate because
of the repression of Judaism, con-
tinued until the collapse of the
Soviet Union.
Vladimir Putin’s Russia, de-
spite its general repression, toler-
ates the Russian Imperial Move-
ment, a neo-Nazi, antisemitic,
armed white supremacist organi-
zation, designated by the U.S. as a
terrorist entity. In their current
invasion, the Russians have
bombed, in Kyiv, Babi Yar, a site
memorializing the mass killing of
Jews there.
Fringe neo-Nazi, extreme right
wing, racist organizations and a
sordid Nazi or Nazi-like past can
be found almost everywhere. If
insufficient denazification were a
sufficient justification for inva-
sion, virtually every country on
this planet would be justified in
invading every other country. De-
NEWS | A13
for governance in the Singh
move. “Four-year terms are es-
sential to get anything meaning-
ful done,” he tweeted. “Those
who play full-time electioneering
games do not serve the public in-
terest.”
The Conservatives will now
probably have to wait three years
before having another crack at
the big prize. But what’s hap-
pened may benefit them. The
Liberals lumping themselves in
with the NDP puts up a large “so-
cialist” target for the right-siders
to fire at.
Mr. Singh’s move has raised
doubts within his own 25-mem-
ber caucus, with MP Jenny Kwan
noting that some of her fellow
Dippers lack faith in the Liberals:
“They’re worried that they won’t
actually act on the agreement,”
she told reporters.
But the party has a leader in
Jagmeet Singh who appears to
prioritize the public interest over
the political one. If that is indeed
the case, he need be saluted. If
more politicians showed that de-
gree of integrity, faith in the sor-
did business could be restored.
U.S., but for all of NATO. If North
America is increasingly vulnera-
ble to air attack, including with
hypersonic missiles, the U.S. secu-
rity guarantee that makes NATO
possible in the first place will be
undermined.
Canada must also revisit its en-
ergy policy and ensure European
energy security, while decarbo-
nizing and accelerating the global
energy transition. Russian gas ex-
ports to Europe are subsidizing
President Vladimir Putin’s thug-
gish attrition strategy in Ukraine:
targeting critical infrastructure to
make localities unlivable and un-
governable; demoralizing civil-
ians with thermobaric bombs,
non-conventional weapons and
air strikes; besieging cities until
they surrender; and outsourcing
urban warfare to irregulars and
local militias.
Finally, instead of performative
announcements, Canada actually
needs to deliver on sanctions,
starting by making good on the
Canadian Financial Crime Agency
announced back in 2019. The Cul-
len Commission on Money Laun-
dering in B.C. is making apparent
that Canada, with its lax laws and
lack of meaningful enforcement,
is a haven for dirty money from
around the world, including from
Russia.
The federal government’s cur-
rent course is quickly becoming a
serious liability. But the forth-
coming federal budget and this
week’s NATO summit afford Mr.
Trudeau an opportunity to
change tack and invest resources
that match a commitment to
global leadership and foresight.
It’s time to signal that Canada can
continue to be counted upon as a
reliable ally – one that is adept at
pragmatic crisis management, yet
strategic in its international poli-
cy. The alternative is a world
where Canada finds itself irrele-
vant and alone.
nazification, like every other wor-
thy deed, should begin at home.
If the Russians are sincere
about denazification, they
should stop mimicking the Nazis
by invading a foreign country.
They should instead do more to
memorialize the Jews in their
own country killed in the Holo-
caust. They should disclose all
Holocaust related records and, in
particular, those requested by re-
searchers engaged in determin-
ing the fate of Raoul Wallenberg.
They should acknowledge the So-
viet responsibility for the Nazi
advance through the Molotov-
Ribbentrop Pact rather than, as
they do now, try to justify the
agreement. They should ban the
Russian Imperial Movement.
The Russian invasion of Uk-
raine is a crime against the pre-
sent. Justifying that invasion as
an effort of denazification is a
crime against the past. We like to
think that Russia is serious in
wanting denazification. If that is
so, Russia should withdraw from
Ukraine and turn its attention to
denazification at home.
KONRAD YAKABUSKI will return
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LIFE & ARTS
Celebrations for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s centennial year begin next month with a previously
announced homecoming concert featuring conductor Gustavo Gimeno and former TSO music directors Andrew
Davis, Gunther Herbig, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Peter Oundjian. JAG GUNDU/TSO
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
returns to ancestral home stage
Ensemble will perform
Symphony No. 5 at
Massey Hall next spring
to mark centennial year
BRAD WHEELER
O
n April 23, 1923, the Toron-
to Symphony Orchestra
gave its inaugural concert.
It happened at the city’s Massey
Hall, where the 58-musician con-
cern, then known as the New
Symphony Orchestra, performed
a program that included Tchai-
kovsky’s Symphony No. 5, under
the direction of the Serbian-Can-
adian conductor Luigi von Ku-
nits.
Next spring, on the occasion of
the TSO’s century of music, the
orchestra returns to its ancestral
home to once again perform
Tchaikovsky’s fifth symphony.
This time the piece will be con-
ducted by Gustavo Gimeno, the
TSO’s current music director.
The orchestra last performed
at Massey Hall in 2017. The com-
ing concert is part of the orches-
tra’s 2022-23 season, as an-
nounced Wednesday. “I cannot
fully express my delight and hon-
our to be celebrating such an aus-
picious anniversary with the To-
ronto Symphony Orchestra and
our incredible Toronto commu-
nity,” Gimeno said in a press re-
lease.
Because of the COVID-19
pandemic, the schedule repre-
sents the TSO’s first complete sea-
son of concerts in more than two
years. Other than the one-off af-
fair at Massey Hall, the rest of the
performances will take place on
the orchestra’s home stage at Roy
Thomson Hall.
I cannot fully express
my delight and honour
to be celebrating such
an auspicious
anniversary with the
Toronto Symphony
Orchestra and our
incredible Toronto
community.
GUSTAVO GIMENO
MUSIC DIRECTOR,
TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
The TSO recently announced
that masks and proof of vaccina-
tion are no longer required for its
concerts and other events.
Other 2022-23 season high-
lights include the following:
In September, Bruce Xiaoyu
Liu, the Montreal-based Chinese-
Canadian phenom who won the
18th International Fryderyk Cho-
pin Piano Competition in Warsaw
last year, opens the TSO season
with Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.
2.
The Chinese piano virtuoso
Yuja Wang guests with the TSO
this fall for the Canadian pre-
miere of Magnus Lindberg’s Piano
Concerto No. 3 and returns in June,
2023, to play Rachmaninoff’s Pi-
ano Concerto No. 3, a keyboard
challenge in D minor.
Yo-Yo Ma performs his 50th
concert with the symphony for a
gala fundraiser this November.
Joining the superstar cellist will
be Canadian Indigenous musi-
cian, composer and musicologist
Jeremy Dutcher to reprise their
collaborative Honor Song.
On May 4 and 5, 2023, the TSO
under the baton of music director
Gimeno will record live perform-
ances of Olivier Messiaen’s Turan-
galila-Symphonie. In 1968, the or-
chestra released a recording of
the work on the RCA label that
boosted the TSO’s international
reputation at the time.
The orchestra’s centennial cel-
ebration actually begins next
month with a previously an-
nounced homecoming concert
featuring Gimeno and former
TSO music directors Andrew Da-
vis, Gunther Herbig, Jukka-Pekka
Saraste and Peter Oundjian – a
sort of Mount Rushmore for To-
ronto maestros.
In his review of the TSO’s first
concert in 1923, Globe and Mail
music and drama editor E.R. Park-
hurst noted that the performance
excited the genuine enthusiasm
of those in attendance and that
the presenters were “pleased with
the reception of their enterprise.”
One hundred years later, to-
day’s TSO hopes for nothing less.
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Dutch publisher pulls
Anne Frank betrayal book
amid criticism of theory
MIKE CORDER THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS
A
group of Dutch historians has published an in-
depth criticism of the work and conclusion of a
cold-case team that said it had pieced together the
“most likely scenario” of who betrayed Jewish
teenage diarist Anne Frank and her family.
The cold-case team’s research, which was published early
this year in the book The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case
Investigation, by Canadian academic and author Rosemary
Sullivan, immediately drew criticism in the Netherlands.
Now, in a 69-page written “refutation,” six historians and
academics describe the cold-case team’s findings as “a sha-
ky house of cards.” The book’s Dutch publisher repeated an
earlier apology and announced Tuesday night it was pulling
the book from stores.
The book said that the person who revealed the location
of the Frank family’s secret annex hiding place in an Am-
sterdam canal-side building was likely a prominent Jewish
notary, Arnold van den Bergh, who disclosed the location to
German occupiers of the Netherlands to save his own fam-
ily from deportation and death in Nazi concentration
camps.
The Dutch historians reviewed the team’s work and con-
cluded that the “accusation does not hold water.”
The historians said the book
“displays a distinct pattern in
which assumptions are made by The historians said
the CCT (Cold Case Team), held
to be true a moment later, and the book ‘displays a
then used as a building block for distinct pattern in
the next step in the train of logic. which assumptions
This makes the entire book a are made by the CCT
shaky house of cards, because if
any single step turns out to be (Cold Case Team),
wrong, the cards above also col- held to be true a
lapse.” moment later, and
In response, the cold case
team’s leader, Pieter van Twisk,
then used as a
told Dutch broadcaster NOS the building block for
historians’ work was “very de- the next step in the
tailed and extremely solid” and train of logic. This
said it “gives us a number of
things to think about, but for the
makes the entire
time being I do not see that Van book a shaky house
den Bergh can be definitively re- of cards, because if
moved as the main suspect.” any single step turns
Since the book’s publication
in January, the team has publish-
out to be wrong, the
ed detailed reactions to criticism cards above also
of its work on its website. collapse.’
Dutch filmmaker Thijs Bayens,
who had the idea to put together the cold-case team, con-
ceded in January that the team did not have 100-per-cent
certainty about Van den Bergh.
“There is no smoking gun because betrayal is circum-
stantial,” Bayens told the Associated Press at the time.
The Frank family and four other Jews hid in the annex,
which was reached by a secret staircase hidden behind a
bookcase, from July, 1942, until they were discovered in
August, 1944, and deported to concentration camps.
Anne and her sister died in the Bergen-Belsen concentra-
tion camp. Anne was 15. Only Anne’s father, Otto Frank,
survived the Holocaust. He published her diary after the
Second World War and it quickly became an enduring sym-
bol of hope and resilience, read by millions around the
world.
The Anne Frank House museum, which is based in the
building where the Frank family hid, had no immediate
comment on the historian’s research. In January, museum
director Ronald Leopold called the cold-case team’s conclu-
sion “an interesting theory” but said he believed that “there
are still many missing pieces of the puzzle. And those piec-
es need to be further investigated in order to see how we
can value this new theory.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A photo of Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank stands on a
replica of a writing desk she once used in her family’s former
apartment in Amsterdam. Her father published her diary after
the Second World War and it quickly became an enduring
symbol of hope and resilience, read by millions around the
world. MICHAEL C. CORDER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Atlanta, Donald Glover’s

FIRST PERSON
distinctive television
masterpiece, returns
MY OUTDOOR ‘OFFICE’ JOHN

BROUGHT ME BALANCE DOYLE

OPINION

TELEVISION

H
aving to re-explain one of television’s
most critically acclaimed shows might
seem ridiculous, but in the case of Atlanta,
it’s necessary. First, its mood and tone are
unique. Second, it is finally back for its third season,
four years after the second season arrived. The re-
turn was delayed by creator/star Donald Glover’s
hectic schedule (a music career, a Spider-Man mo-
vie, a Star Wars movie) and then by the pandemic.
Atlanta (Thursday, FX Canada 10 p.m., two epi-
sodes) doesn’t feature the city of Atlanta much in
the early going. Besides, the city is more of an idea
that the core characters carry around. When the
series first began, Earnest (Earn) Marks (Glover)
was a young man drifting along, trying to scrape
together enough to stay alive. He was living with
Vanessa (Zazie Beetz), his daughter’s mother, who
wanted him to help pay the rent, but he couldn’t.
Working a dead-end job, he saw a possible way out
in turning his cousin Alfred (Brian Tyree Henry),
known as Paper Boi, into a hip-hop star. But Paper
Boi already had a sort-of manager in Darius (La-
Keith Stanfield), who was usually stoned. Drugs,
money, side-hustles and the vagaries of life were
part of the texture.
That’s how it continues. The series has evolved
on a strange path to here, with standalone episodes
that seemed disconnected from the main plot and
characters (only FX would have allowed this wan-
dering), but were not. Some have been parable,
subtly pushing forward Glover’s main theme – the
capriciousness of racism, the fickleness of Black ex-
istence in a white world. It is all connected, always
startling in its storytelling assuredness, turning hu-
morous, surreal and quietly poetic. It is one of the
most astonishing creations of this TV era.
The first new episode is a standalone and grace-
fully stunning. Called Three Slaps, it features none
of the ensemble cast, apart from a brief appearance
by Glover at the end. We meet Loquareeous (Chris-
topher Farrar), a young teen who behaves badly at
school. He likes to dance at any opportunity, you
see. This is seen as disruptive, and his mother and
ILLUSTRATION BY DREW SHANNON grandfather are called into the school. A moment of
casual punishment leads to the boy being put into
foster care. His new home is run by two white wom-
Building my Modern Shed was a shoulder-destroying experience, en who rename him Larry. This new world for him
is strangely privileged and sinister. “We pickle our
but I wouldn’t be able to work without it, Julia Williams writes own veggies from our organic garden,” his new
“mom” tells him with pride. There isn’t much to
eat, except pickles. What happens is unnervingly

I
f frozen shoulder sounds old fashioned, that’s even me. How was I expected to do my work if I had like a horror story told casually, but watch until the
because it is. The term was first used in the 1930s no space in which to do it? What did they think: that very end to grasp its full meaning. It is made even
to describe a condition where the shoulder joint I’d do Google Meets from the kitchen table forever, more chillingly strange by the knowledge that it is
slowly and painfully loses mobility. Almost a trying not to be in the way? loosely based on a real incident.
century later, everyone still calls it frozen shoulder. It wasn’t their fault. It was my fault for existing in The second episode on Thursday, Sinterklaas is
Like my joint, the term stuck somehow. a constant state of neglecting obligations to family Coming to Town, catches up with the show’s core
If you want to get scientific, which my physio- or to work or both. Or at least, that’s how I felt. May- ensemble in Europe. Paper Boi has hit it big. That is,
therapist does, you can call it adhesive capsulitis, be it was stress. Maybe it was my age. And it’s more he’s got a cult following in several European coun-
which implies my right shoulder is full of glue. If you common in women. tries where he plays mainly for a young white audi-
want to get basic, the condition is described as in- There is only work-life balance if packing a lunch, ence. He’s the centre of the action but Atlanta, as
flammation. It’s also idiopathic, which means its managing child care, laundry, grooming, commut- ever, goes down sideroads and takes tangents that,
origin is unknown and unknowable. ing and setting wake-up alarms is considered not- remarkably, make total sense.
I can’t hang a shirt on a rail that’s higher than my work. There is only work-life balance if we don’t Europe is fantastically alien to this crew, they ap-
ribs, shampoo my hair or grab a pot from the back of think work is part of life and vice versa. proach everything wide-eyed and curious, and Am-
the cupboard. I can’t wear pullovers, lie down with At the start of the pandemic, I was out of work for sterdam feels especially odd seen through their
my arms at my sides, pour a cup of coffee or slip my three months and the balance went absolutely hay- eyes. There’s a lot of drugs, a fair amount of sex and
wallet in my back pocket. When I type, nervy little wire. Suddenly, there was too much life. I didn’t while some of them embrace the implied hedo-
sparks shoot to my thumb. When I sit still for a know what to focus on. Work had always required nism of the adventure, all of them are taken aback
while, my hand goes numb. me to push life to the edges. If life was now in the by how, while they’ve escaped the city of Atlanta
This problem is small, in the grand scheme. It’s a centre, who was I? What was the point of me? and the United States, they haven’t really escaped
part of my whole system that still pretty much I knew enough to know thinking this way wasn’t at all. There is sublime humour in this journey,
works just not quite, like everything right. I knew enough to know work- some of it pessimistic and rather sad, and at times it
these days. Like a trip to the grocery life balance was a false premise be- is deadpan, laugh-out-loud hilarious. There is noth-
store, like seeing friends, like raising There is only cause work-life is a false dichotomy. ing like it, for ambition and its full-throttle inten-
kids, like work itself. This is my new But I couldn’t do a thing about it. tion of challenging the viewers. Sometimes an epic
shoulder normal. But why me? Why work-life balance if So I built Modern Shed. Without it, I of disillusionment and sometimes fastidiously pos-
now? Nobody really knows, says the packing a lunch, tell everyone, I don’t know how I’d be itive, it remains a masterpiece of unconventional
doctor. Maybe stress. Maybe your age. managing child care, able to work. What’s one shoulder storytelling and all the critical acclaim, plus Emmy
And it’s more common in women. laundry, grooming, compared with that? awards, are deserved.
Well. I’d shrug my shoulders if I These days, I have a job again and Finally, don’t forget that Canada’s men’s national
could. Anyway, it was probably my commuting and my set-up in Modern Shed is pretty soccer team plays Costa Rica in World Cup qualify-
own fault. setting wake-up great. Modern Shed is where I make ing (Thursday, Sportsnet, also streaming on One-
I built a backyard shed office. It was alarms is considered money. This is good ROI! I want all my Soccer, 10 p.m.). A win, and Canada has definitely
a construction project for which I had professional success wrapped around qualified for this year’s World Cup. Before that, two
not-work. There is
no experience or inclination. its uneven rafters and patched holes other key qualifying matches are available here:
Before COVID, I’d worked from only work-life and bent nails, under that shoulder- Italy vs. North Macedonia airs on TLN, 3:30 p.m.,
home for years. Now, with the hus- balance if we don’t destroying cedar ceiling. and Portugal vs. Turkey is on Univision Canada,
band and kids, the dog and cat, the ev- think work is part of Plus, people are impressed with 3:30 p.m. TLN and Univision Canada are on major
er-present cloud of oddness and pre- what I made. No one expected it of me. cable carriers nationally, and stream on vivatv.ca,
carity, inside began to feel airless. Out-
life and vice versa. The compliment I get the most is that I which offers a free week-long trial right now.
side there was a lot more air. For an should start a shed business. As in:
hour or an afternoon, I could put a closed door be- You have done something that might be worth
tween me and all the unmet needs. money. As in: The point of cultivating any skill is to
What if there was a roof out here to keep off the monetize it. That’s not what they mean, of course. TODAY’S SUDOKU SOLUTION
rain, I began to think. What if there were walls and a It’s not their fault the only way to express admira-
chair. What if there was a desk where I could put tion is to put it in terms of valuation.
down a pen and find it in exactly the same place the Illustrated diagrams of frozen shoulder present a
next day. What if I could just work. pair of shoulders: one normal and one frozen. In
For $20 I downloaded plans for a 6-foot-by-8-foot each, you can see the scapula, the clavicle and the
structure called Modern Shed. I whacked tent pegs tapering stick of the humerous, with the shoulder
into the ground and set up plumb lines. I ripped out capsule at the centre. The normal capsule is white
sod and dug parallel trenches in the backyard and or very pale pink, a plump cushion keeping the
filled them with rocks and put down a pair of treat- bones comfortably housed. The frozen capsule is
ed railroad ties. I congratulated myself for figuring shot through with bloody streaks and puffed up like
out what crushed stone was, what galvanized nails a rotten gum.
were, how big a 2x6 board actually was (smaller In the end, how much can I really complain if
than described). I’d be done in no time. within the box I’m confined to, I had the means to
The day I knew for sure the shoulder had gone create another box? What’s one shoulder compared
wrong, it was five months later and 40 degrees col- with that kind of productivity?
der. I was holding my arms over my head to drive Anyway, these days the pain is getting smaller
screws into cedar boards. A nice salvaged ceiling. and the range of motion larger. Every so often I feel
The cedar boards belonged to my kids’ abandoned something give, and all of a sudden I can reach a lit- TODAY’S KENKEN SOLUTION
playhouse, which my husband built a dozen years tle farther.
ago and which I dismantled to make way for Mod- It’s fine. I’ll be okay. I’ll just keep doing the work.
ern Shed. I overrruled the kids’ objections to this
dismantling with a ferocity nobody expected, not Julia Williams lives in Calgary.

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BRIDGE Some plays in bridge are so It was at this point that West diamond ace and was also likely
BY STEVE BECKER rare that it is not worth the ef- made a most remarkable play. to hold three or four diamonds.
THuRSDAY, MARCH 24, 2022 fort to try to remember them, He returned the king of dia- West therefore could visualize
so you’ll know what to do the monds! This left South with no that after he regained the lead
next time they arise. You would way to make the contract, re- with the trump ace, East would
be better advised to hope that if gardless of how he continued. be able to ruff dummy’s queen of
the rara avis presents itself again, In practice, he won the king of diamonds, most likely resulting
South dealer. you’ll be able to find the winning diamonds with the ace and led in defeat of the contract.
East-West vulnerable. play by relying on your own another trump. West took his Note that West had to lead spe-
common sense. ace and returned the jack of dia- cifically the king of diamonds to
Take this case where South monds to dummy’s queen. East stop the contract. If he returned,
reached four spades on the bid- ruffed and exited with a heart, say, the jack instead, declarer
The bidding: ding shown and West led the 10 and declarer later lost another would win with dummy’s queen
of hearts. Declarer won with the diamond trick to go down one. and return a trump to West’s ace.
South West North East queen, East following with the West’s king-of-diamonds re- When West now played the king
2 NT Pass 3 [C] Pass deuce, led a club to dummy’s turn was not just a wild shot. of diamonds, East could ruff or
3 [S] Pass 4 [S] queen and returned the nine of He had deduced from the bid- discard, but either way, South
Opening Lead – 10 of hearts. spades, losing to West’s queen. ding and play that South had the would make four spades.

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INSTRUCTIONS Fill in the grid so that each row of nine sqUares, each colUmn of nine
and each section of nine (three sqUares by three) contains the nUmbers 1 throUgh 9
in any order. There is only one solUtion to each pUzzle.

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CRYPTIC CLUES QUICK CLUES colUmn mUst contain
ACROSS DOWN ACROSS the nUmbers 1 throUgh
6 withoUt repeating.
1 Has pined for 1 Double act no 1 Loud and harsh (8)
clerical office (8) longer seen (4) 5 Highest point (4)
5 Bills passed for 2 City that sent missionaries 2. The nUmbers within
9 A country house (5) the heavily oUtlined
religious work (4) out to China (7) 10 Narrow opening (7) boxes, called cages,
9 It’s said in France to 3 How a man disagreed in 11 Exorbitant (12) mUst combine Using
be the same (5) a capital way (5,3,4)
13 Book for accounts (6) the given operation (in
10 The first head of 4 Threaten a mischief-maker any order) to prodUce
14 Firmly fixed (6) the target nUmbers in
government (7) with death perhaps (6)
17 To court disaster (4,3,1,4) the top-left corners.
11 Task force combining 6 He called to give
business with pleasure (7,5) the news (5) 20 Affectedly refined (7)
21 Excuse to avert blame (5) Freebies: Fill in
13 To a doctor a hospital 7 Watering plants always 3. single-box cages with
atmosphere is material (6) in season (8) 22 Limited period (4)
the nUmbers in the
14 Street name changed – 8 Local types I’d reformed in 23 Theoretical (8)
top-left corner.
that’s a bit of a bloomer (6) a domineering way (12)
17 Confidentially, pop 12 Tax or cheat (8) DOWN
music often is (3,3,6) 15 Swallow one drink (7) 1 Keep for future use (4) ©2022 KENKEN PUzzle LLC. KENKEN is a registered trademark of Nextoy, LLC. Dist. by Andrews McMeel
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21 All that is required for from such a testing 3 Be deliberately slow to act (4,4,4) YESTERDAY'S CRYPTIC
a girl’s name (5) experience? (6) 4 Subtle distinction (6) ACROSS: 1 Mayflower, 8 Abuts, 9 Massage, 10 Divert, 11 Aegean, 12 Decrease,
22 Support for the others (4) 18 What pacifists have 6 Porcelain (5) 15 Tumblers, 18 Treats, 20 Reload, 21 Ordinal, 22 Liege, 23 Signorina.
23 Gamble on occasion but don’t use (5) 7 First name of Scrooge (8) DOWN: 2 Adage, 3 Faster, 4 Organdie, 5 Rapier, 6 Funeral, 7 Isotherms, 11 Austerely,
for recreation (8) 19 Run of the mill currency (4) 8 Become uncontrollable (3,3,2,4) 13 Cast iron, 14 Implies, 16 Leaves, 17 Senior, 19 Twain.
12 Satisfactory (3,5) YESTERDAY'S QUICK
15 A European monarchy (7) ACROSS: 1 Red carpet, 8 Homer, 9 Boorish, 10 Savage, 11 Bedlam, 12 Blah-blah,
16 Gambol (6) 15 Cashmere, 18 Resign, 20 Meagre, 21 Liqueur, 22 Raise, 23 Lily-white.
18 Giver (5) DOWN: 2 Elope, 3 Curdle, 4 Resemble, 5 Thrash, 6 Amiable, 7 Greenhorn,
Solutions to today's Sudoku and Kenken can be found in the Life & Arts content 19 Silvery-white metal (4) 11 Black mark, 13 Acerbity, 14 Islamic, 16 Marvel, 17 As such, 19 Gaunt.
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Misconduct in military affecting recruitment: official

Women, Indigenous
people and LGBTQ
members among those
still underrepresented in
Canadian Armed Forces
KRISTY KIRKUP OTTAWA
Sexual misconduct in the mili-
tary is making it difficult to
recruit new members because of
the Canadian Armed Forces’ tar-
nished reputation, the acting
head of military personnel says.
During a media briefing on
Wednesday, Major-General Lise
Bourgon said the issue has affect-
ed recruitment.
“Sadly, I wish I could tell you
that we’ve not, but we’ve seen an
impact,” she said. “We are work-
ing on this, the image has been
tarnished a bit. The more action
that we can take on culture
change will help.”
Maj.-Gen. Bourgon said 71 per
cent of the CAF is still comprised
of white males, while she noted
that they account for only 39 per
cent of the rest of the country’s ci-
vilian work force. Women, minor-
ity groups, Indigenous people
and LGBTQ members continue to
be underrepresented within the
organization, she added.
Maj.-Gen. Bourgon said the or-
ganization must attract, recruit,
retain and develop individuals
who are representative of Cana-
dian society, adding that “the sit-
uation requires serious attention
and clear leadership.”
The military has been trying to
grapple with a mounting crisis of
sexual misconduct in the ranks
over the past year, although this a
long-standing problem that was
documented by former Supreme
Court justice Marie Deschamps in
2015.
In 2021, there were a number of
allegations of sexual misconduct
in the CAF and it became a major
issue of discussion in the House
of Commons and before parlia-
mentary committees.
Last April, concerns over the
matter led to the appointment of
former Supreme Court justice
Louise Arbour, who is conducting
an independent review of the De-
partment of National Defence
and the CAF. The federal govern-
ment said a report from Ms. Ar-
bour and a departmental re-
sponse to it would be made pub-
lic once complete and the process
was expected to take 12 to 15
months.
Lieutenant-General Jennie Ca-
rignan, the military’s chief of pro-
fessional conduct and culture,
said Wednesday that change will
be informed by Ms. Arbour’s
forthcoming report.
“I would like to emphasize that
change is a must-have rather than
a nice-to-have, and not only for
our current, but also for our fu-
ture defence team members,” she
said. “Lack of inclusion is a major
barrier to both retention and
recruitment.”
Maj.-Gen. Bourgon said about
15 per cent of those who enrolled
in 2021-2022 were women, noting
that the target is 25.1 per cent. She
said the CAF was successful at re-
aching 27-per-cent women in its
regular officer training program,
which mainly populates Canada’s
military colleges. There is work
under way, such as through
recruitment campaigns, with a
specific focus to attract women
and Indigenous applicants, she
added.
Brigadier-General Krista Bro-
die said the CAF’s recruitment
target for Indigenous people is 3.5
per cent and 11.9 per cent for mi-
norities by 2026.
Maj.-Gen. Bourgon also said
Wednesday that one big change
coming soon is an update to dress
requirements.
Members have said the exist-
ing dress instructions are not in-
clusive, she said, adding that op-
tions will be given for individual
appearance. She said an announ-
cement would be coming with
additional details.
“Professional skills and com-
petence are not defined by the
length or the colour of your hair,”
Maj.-Gen. Bourgon said. “This will
be the first visual display of our
culture and honestly a very clear
single that the CAF is evolving in-
to a more inclusive organization.”

Canada urged to better

support arriving Ukrainians
SAFIYAH MARHNOUJ OTTAWA

Ukrainian community groups and settlement agencies are

During the United Nations Security Council meeting on Wednesday, U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield,
front right, said Russia was ‘attempting to use this council to provide cover for its brutal actions.’
MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS
UN council overwhelmingly defeats
Russian humanitarian resolution on Ukraine
EDITH M. LEDERER
JENNIFER PELTZ
UNITED NATIONS
The UN Security Council on
Wednesday overwhelmingly de-
feated a Russian resolution that
acknowledged Ukraine’s growing
humanitarian needs – but didn’t
mention the Russian invasion
that caused the escalating crisis
which has left millions of Ukrai-
nians in desperate need of food,
water and shelter.
To be adopted, Russia needed a
minimum of nine “yes” votes in
the 15-member Security Council
and no veto by one of the four oth-
er permanent members – the U.S.,
Britain, France and China. But
Russia got support only from its
ally China, with the 13 other coun-
cil members abstaining, reflect-
ing Moscow’s failure to get wide-
spread backing for its war in Uk-
raine, which marks its one-month
anniversary Thursday.
The Russian defeat came on
the same day the General As-
sembly started considering a reso-
lution drafted by Ukraine and two
dozen other countries and co-
sponsored by nearly 100 nations
which clearly states that Russia’s
aggression is responsible for the
growing humanitarian emergen-
cy. The assembly was also to con-
sider a rival South African resolu-
tion that doesn’t mention Russia
and is similar to Moscow’s defeat-
ed council resolution.
Action on those resolutions
was delayed until Thursday be-
cause of the huge number of
speakers.
Russia’s UN ambassador, Vassi-
ly Nebenzia, told the council be-
fore the vote that its resolution “is
not politicized,” just like other Se-
curity Council humanitarian res-
olutions, and he categorically re-
jected a U.S. claim that his country
had no right to submit such a res-
olution.
U.S. Ambassador Linda Tho-
mas-Greenfield countered that
Russia was “attempting to use this
council to provide cover for its
brutal actions.”
“It really is unconscionable
that Russia would have the audac-
ity to put forward a resolution ask-
ing the international community
to solve a humanitarian crisis that
Russia alone created,” she said.
“Russia does not care about the
deteriorating humanitarian con-
ditions. … If they cared, they
would stop fighting. Russia is the
aggressor, the attacker, the invad-
er, the sole party in Ukraine en-
gaged in a campaign of brutality
against the people of Ukraine, and
they want us to pass a resolution
that does not acknowledge their
culpability.”
Mr. Nebenzia took the floor
again after the vote saying it ex-
posed all countries “for whom
politicization of the humanitar-
ian dossier” is more important
than helping to get aid to Ukrai-
nians. If diplomats go on to la-
ment the lack of a ceasefire and
provisions for evacuations, “we
will remind you that they were be-
fore you, but you refused to vote
in favour of them for political rea-
sons,” he said.
But France’s ambassador, Nico-
las De Riviere, called the resolu-
tion “a manoeuvre from Moscow
to justify its aggression against
Ukraine.” Albanian envoy Ferit
Hoxha called it “a mountain of hy-
pocrisy,” and Mexican Ambassa-
dor Juan Ramon De La Fuente said
the Russian draft didn’t respond
“to the reality on the ground” or to
“the pressing needs of the civilian
population.”
Russia introduced its resolu-
tion on March 15. A day earlier,
France and Mexico decided to
move their proposed humanitar-
ian resolution blaming the Rus-
sian invasion for the humanitar-
ian crisis out of the Security Coun-
cil, where it faced a Russian veto.
The are no vetoes in the 193-mem-
ber General Assembly.
Earlier Wednesday, Russia’s Mr.
Nebenzia told the assembly that
by considering the Ukraine-
backed French-Mexican resolu-
tion, it was engaging in “another
political anti-Russian show, set
this time in an allegedly human-
itarian context.”
Ukrainian Ambassador Sergiy
Kyslytsy urged all nations that
stand against Russia’s war on his
country to vote for the UN resolu-
tion on the humanitarian conse-
quences of its aggression, saying
this would send a powerful mess-
age aimed at helping people
caught in the conflict and ending
Moscow’s military action.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
expressing concern over the lack of federal support and pro-
grams in place for Ukrainians escaping the war and hoping
to land in Canada.
Ukrainian Canadian Congress chief executive officer Ihor
Michalchyshyn said in an interview that some who do make
it here are unclear where to turn for help.
“Our communities are seeing people come and wander
airports,” he told The Globe and Mail.
Ukrainians coming to Canada through the Canada-Uk-
raine Authorization for Emergency Travel program arrive as
temporary residents, not refugees, and do not have access to
federal services. They have virtually no support, Mr. Michal-
chyshyn said.
Women and children who are escaping Ukraine have lim-
ited access to funds, he said, but there is an assumption that
they will be able to self-finance their flight to Canada. Once
they arrive, there are no official programs in place to help
Ukrainians find jobs, housing or other services they might
need, he added.
“We think it’s cruel to offer people an emergency way
here, but then offer them nothing in terms of support when
they get here.”
The UCC released a statement on March 22 outlining pol-
icy recommendations and calling on increased federal sup-
port for Ukrainians facing displacement.
The organization’s proposals include implementing de-
parture and arrival plans to assist with travel to Canada, pro-
viding financial support for a transitional period and encou-
raging provincial governments to recruit and sponsor dis-
placed people.
“As it stands today, the plan put forward by Minister Fras-
er and the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citi-
zenship falls far short of the requirements to meet their
needs,” the Ukrainian Canadian Congress said in their state-
ment.
Under the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency
Travel program, announced by the federal government on
March 17, Ukrainians can stay in the country as temporary
residents for up to three years.
Mr. Michalchyshyn said the UCC is still waiting for a “clear
answer” on who will be co-ordinating housing and commu-
nications between Canadians who have offered their homes
and arriving Ukrainians.
“While our community is eager to help and organizing to
help, we’re not professional settlement agencies. We don’t
have the resources or experience to deal with thousands of
people in a systematic way.”
In their recommendations, the UCC also called on the fed-
eral government to provide funding for settlement agencies,
who could help Ukrainians co-ordinate transport, housing
and health care, and assist with work permit applications.
Such agencies are facing major issues in preparing for the
arrival of Ukrainians, said Katie Crocker, co-chair of Path-
ways to Prosperity, an alliance that promotes the integration
of immigrants in Canada. Unlike in the case of refugee settle-
ment initiatives, there is no way for agencies to know how
many Ukrainians will be arriving, leaving them unable to
plan accordingly.
“We don’t know how many people are coming and where
they’re going to go,” Ms. Crocker said.
Finding housing and determining how Ukrainians will ob-
tain services is an added challenge, Ms. Crocker said. She
added that the immigration sector is committed to support-
ing Ukrainians when they arrive.
The arrival of Ukrainians as temporary residents is not the
same as previous refugee initiatives, including when Canada
welcomed Syrians and Afghans through the Government-
Assisted Refugees Program. Ms. Crocker said refugees arriv-
ing through that program automatically have permanent
resident status, along with access to federal services and the
resettlement assistance program.
Immigration Minister Sean Fraser’s office did not immedi-
ately respond to a request for comment.

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Ontario approves new rules Battery plant

just the first
for financial planners, advisers step in creating
a full EV supply
Qualifications, credentials will become mandatory for people who refer to themselves by either title chain in Canada
CLARE O’HARA sionals Title Protection Rule will be pro- due and offers something consumers have ADAM RADWANSKI
WEALTH MANAGEMENT REPORTER claimed into force in Ontario on March 28. been asking for: clarity and confidence
“Until now, there has been no regulation when working with their financial profes-
of the usage of Financial Planner or Finan- sional.” OPINION
Ontario’s Finance Ministry has given the cial Advisor titles,” Huston Loke, executive Financial advisers typically help clients

green light for a new set of rules governing
employees in the financial services indus-
try who use the titles “financial planner” or
“financial adviser,” standards designed to
protect investors from doing business with
unqualified individuals.
On Tuesday, the Financial Services Regu-
latory Authority of Ontario (FSRA), which
has spearheaded the rule changes since
2019, announced that the Financial Profes-
BUILDING ON SUCCESS
Bernd Christmas turned an East Coast First Nation into a business powerhouse.
He’s now seeking opportunities for B.C.’s Squamish Nation B3
vice-president of market conduct at FSRA,
said in a statement. “This has contributed
to confusion among consumers, and ques-
tions about the expertise of individuals of-
fering financial planning and advisory ser-
vices.”
The statement added that, “Deciding
how to invest your money is complicated
and emotional and requires expertise and
good judgement. This change is long-over-
[ ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ]
manage their investments, while financial
planners help people devise strategies to
meet goals such as saving for retirement or
a child’s education.
In 2019, Ontario passed legislation to
pave the way for the Financial Profession-
als Title Protection Act, which provides
oversight of qualifications and credentials
used in the financial services industry.
ADVISERS, B6
C
anada’s automotive indus-
try is no longer facing an ex-
istential threat from the
transition to electric vehicles, as it
was just a year or two ago.
Wednesday’s announcement
that the automaker Stellantis NV
will partner with South Korea’s LG
Energy Solution to build a $5-bil-
lion EV battery-assembly plant in
Windsor, Ont., is proof enough of
the sector’s resilience. Billed as
the single largest investment in
Canadian automaking since the
1980s, if not ever, it should not on-
ly provide an estimated 2,500 jobs
at that new facility but help pro-
tect many existing ones, includ-
ing in parts manufacturing and at
Stellantis’s existing vehicle-as-
sembly plants in Ontario.
Combined with other, smaller
recent commitments – from auto-
makers converting some of their
conventional vehicle-assembly
lines in Ontario to produce EVs, to
a pair of planned facilities to pro-
duce cathode active material in
Quebec – it means Canada will at
least continue to have a signifi-
cant place in an integrated conti-
nental manufacturing sector.
RADWANSKI, B6

Quebec’s cash to
counter inflation
makes for good
politics, but bad
economic policy
DAVID PARKINSON

OPINION

Bernd Christmas spent 11 years as CEO of Membertou First Nation in Nova Scotia. He’s now leading the development arm of
the Squamish Nation, which is pursuing ventures that include a real estate project in Vancouver. TAEHOON KIM/TAEHOON KIM
Fallen Bay Street star Mark Valentine faces new penalties
from OSC for serving as a corporate director
DAVID MILSTEAD
INSTITUTIONAL INVESTMENT REPORTER
Regulators say a fallen Bay Street super-
star who agreed in 2004 to a ban on serv-
ing as a corporate director has instead
served on more than three dozen boards
in the nearly two decades since.
The Ontario Securities Commission has
scheduled an enforcement proceeding
against Mark Valentine, who came to
prominence in the go-go 1990s by leading
brokerage firm Thomson Kernaghan &
Co. Ltd. through the tech-stock boom.
According to a 2004 OSC settlement
agreement, Mr. Valentine tried to arrange
a series of loans to rescue the firm, but
also engaged in several trades that put his
own interests first. The firm collapsed in-
to bankruptcy in 2002.
In August, 2002, Mr. Valentine was one
of 50 people arrested by the FBI following
a two-year undercover sting operation
code-named “Bermuda Short.” In his
guilty plea, Mr. Valentine admitted that
he agreed to sell US$8-million worth of
shares in Softquad Software, a defunct To-
ronto computer company that traded
over the counter on Nasdaq, to an under-
cover FBI agent.
He also agreed to send 30 per cent of
LO G I ST I C S
After CP Rail
work stoppage,
industry calls
for permanent
supply chain
solution B2
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THE CANADIAN PRESS
the proceeds of the sale to the agent as a
“hidden commission.”
Mr. Valentine pleaded guilty to one
count of securities fraud in the United
States in 2004, was sentenced to four
years’ probation and then deported. He
returned to Toronto.
The 2004 settlement with the OSC
barred Mr. Valentine from ever being a
broker in Ontario and prohibited him for
life from serving as an officer or director
of any “issuer” – an Ontario company that
has issued stock. The agreement also in-
cluded restrictions for 15 years on his abil-
ity to trade shares he personally owned.
VALENTINE, B6
WA R I N U K R A I N E
‘Unfriendly countries’ must
pay for Russian natural gas
with rubles, Putin says B5
I N V E ST I N G
If a hot stock can get even
hotter, there’s a bullish case
for Nutrien B9
C
anada’s political leaders
must know that they can’t
solve our inflation problem
simply by throwing money at it.
But that’s not going to stop some
from trying.
In what stands as the most un-
subtle government counterinfla-
tion gesture to date, Quebec’s
new budget includes a $500 pay-
ment to each and every adult
with an income below $100,000,
“to help Quebeckers cope with
the rising cost of living.”
“The increase in prices has an
impact on households, particular-
ly those with lower incomes,” Fi-
nance Minister Eric Girard said in
his budget speech – before point-
ing out that the payments cover
6.4 million Quebeckers, or about
90 per cent of the adult popula-
tion. So, not exactly a policy sup-
port aimed at aiding low-income
people. More a helicopter drop of
$3.2-billion to almost every voter
who has noticed that things are
more expensive this year.
Quebec is not alone in looking
for ways to lean the government
coffers against inflation. Earlier
this month, for example, Alberta
announced it would temporarily
remove its 13-cents-a-litre tax on
gasoline and diesel.
PARKINSON, B6
COMPANIES
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY B2
CORUS ENTERTAINMENT ...... B9
DOLLARAMA ......................... B9
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JOURNEY ENERGY ................. B9
NUTRIEN ................................ B9
STELCO HOLDINGS ................ B9

SPORTS S O CC E R Canada on verge of World Cup qualification, but coach sees room for improvement B11

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RU G BY Independent review paints damning, dysfunctional picture of Rugby Canada B12
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New Brunswick moves to cap

rent increases two years into pandemic
Retroactive limit The vacancy rate for purpose- CIW BRUP


 
 
 
would see some tenants
reimbursed by landlords
for excess payments
MATT UNDY
ECONOMICS REPORTER
New Brunswick plans a variety of
changes to cool its frenzied hous-
ing market, including a retro-
active limit on rent increases that
would see landlords reimburse
some tenants for excess pay-
ments.
New Brunswick changed its
built apartments in New Brun-
swick was 1.7 per cent in 2021, the

lowest since at least 1990, accord-
ing to figures from the Canada
Mortgage and Housing Corp.
Furthermore, the province has
seen rent inflation of 9.5 per cent
over the past two years, second
only to Prince Edward Island,
where rents have soared 19 per
cent, as measured by Statistics
Canada’s consumer price index.
The governing Conservatives
have opposed bringing in rent
control – that is, annual limits on
rent increases – saying it would
slow the construction of needed
tenancy legislation in December
to allow all tenants to dispute rent
increases they felt were excessive.
 Previously, only tenants who had
lived in a unit for at least five con-
secutive years could do so.

Once the 2022 rent cap expires,
any increases must be at the same
percentage for comparable units
in the same building, or the rent

hike must be “reasonable” com-
pared with similar units in the
“same geographical area.”

Housing advocates say that
language is open to interpreta-
tion and falls short of the stan-

           dards in provinces that prescribe
The provincial government,

                     
   a maximum percentage increase
which projected a small surplus
of $35-million in Tuesday’s bud-
get, said that rent hikes would be
capped at 3.8 per cent for 2022,
dating to the start of the year.
After updating its tenancy leg-
islation in December, the prov-
ince is planning to do so again,
barring landlords from ending a
lease without cause, among other
changes. New Brunswick will also
phase in a 50-per-cent reduction
in property tax rates for rental
housing, a previously announced
move that was delayed by CO-
VID-19.
The Maritimes have been ex-
periencing a pandemic-fuelled
influx of new residents, leading to
its strongest population growth
in decades – but also, considera-
ble stress on its housing infras-
tructure.
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Businesses call for ‘permanent’
supply chain solution after CP dispute
AMANDA STE HENSON CALGARY
Business groups advocating for
rail to be declared an essential
service in the wake of this week’s
temporary work stoppage at
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.
say a “permanent solution” is
needed to ease this country’s
supply chain woes.
In an interview Wednesday,
Fertilizer Canada president and
chief executive Karen Proud said
that since 2019, her industry has
dealt with strikes at Canadian
National Railway Co. and the
Port of Montreal, in addition to
the most recent labour dispute at
CP.
That’s on top of other supply
chain disruptions that have re-
sulted from COVID-19, natural di-
sasters such as wildfires and
flooding and recent border
blockades and protests.
“We every few years seem to
get stuck in the same situation.
Sometimes a couple of times a
year,” she said. “In the long-term,
we’re really hoping that the gov-
ernment will look at this.”
While CP employees are back
at work now after the Teamsters
Canada Rail Conference and the
Calgary-based company agreed
Tuesday to final and binding ar-
bitration to end a 48-hour work
stoppage, Ms. Proud said many
business groups are jittery about
the prospect of future labour-re-
lated supply chain disruptions –
especially as a number of impor-
tant collective agreements, in-
cluding contracts between CP ri-
val Canadian National Railway
apartments. Its stance had dif-
fered from that of jurisdictions
which froze rents early in the
pandemic or brought in temp-
orary rent controls to protect ten-
ants.
However, the province
changed its tune on Tuesday, rec-
ognizing the continuing stress in
rental housing.
“While we are confident that
the market will catch up with de-
mand … our government ac-
knowledges that more needs to
be done for renters,” Finance Min-
ister Ernie Steeves said in pre-
pared remarks.
“Failure to address these chal-
lenges will also put pressure on
our labour force,” he added.
The rent cap should allow
some renters to recoup money.
For instance, if a tenant’s monthly
rent was increased to $1,200 from
sues that have plagued Canada’s
supply chain in the past two
years have been beyond anyone’s
control, “man-made issues” such
as labour disputes can be ad-
dressed.
“I think looking at rail is an es-
sential service is a viable solu-
tion,” Ms. Proud said. “The ques-
tion is whether the government
is willing to go there.”
In an interview earlier this
week, federal Labour Minister
Seamus O’Regan said that when
the dust from this recent nego-
tiation and work stoppage at CP
settles, it may be time for the
government to look at finding a
way to bring more certainty to
future contract talks.
But he said he’s not bullish on
the idea of making rail an essen-
tial service because that takes
away the rights of workers to bar-
gain.
The Western Grain Elevator
Association, which represents
the country’s grain shippers, said
in a recent statement that rail-
ways are the “economy’s life-
blood” and must be treated as so.
“We cannot afford to face an-
other massive disruption to our
economy where everyday Cana-
dians will pay the price,” the
group said in its statement.
While there’s no doubt that
rail is a vital piece of the Cana-
dian economy, said University of
Manitoba supply chain manage-
ment expert Barry Prentice, for
the federal government to desig-
nate rail workers as essential and
take away their right to strike
would represent a “slippery
slope.”
             
   
$1,000 on Jan. 1, her rent would be
rolled back to $1,038. She could
then deduct $486 – three months
of excess payments – from future
rent. If that individual moved out
on March 1, the landlord would be
required to reimburse her for two
months of excess payments, or
$324.
Tuesday’s measures drew a
mixed reaction from tenant
advocacy groups. While they ap-
plauded the move to curb rent
growth this year, they also said it
was a temporary move that ar-
rived after years of escalating
costs.
“This is a government that has
been playing from behind in this
crisis,” said Matthew Hayes, a
founding member of the NB Coa-
chain? What about the grain in-
spectors?” Dr. Prentice said.
“There’s also containers, the
truckers who handle the contain-
ers off the docks. Where do you
stop with this thing?”
However, Dr. Prentice agreed
the federal government needs to
take action, adding there is a very
real risk of labour-related disrup-
tions intensifying along with the
rate of inflation as workers seek
wage increases that keep up with
the spiralling cost of living.
“What [governments] can do
is give people some security that
they’re not going to let inflation
get out of hand. Because if they
send the wrong message on that,
then we can be assured that
there’s going to be more disrup-
tions,” he said.
Michael Gullo, vice-president
with the Business Council of Can-
ada, declined to go so far as to say
that rail should be designated an
essential service. But he said the
number of supply chain related
disruptions that Canadian busi-
nesses have dealt with in recent
years are a threat to this coun-
try’s reputation as a good trading
partner. “There really needs to be
a strong affirmation from our
governments that our trade cor-
ridors are secure and that Cana-
da’s a reliable investment part-
ner,” Mr. Gullo said. “Part of that
may mean infrastructure invest-
ment, but we also need to think
long and hard about how we re-
spond to disruptions. … Frankly,
we can’t wait for a national emer-
gency to happen before we act.”
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for rents each year, often tied to
broader inflation.
lition for Tenants Rights. The proposed rules around
Many New Brunswickers have evictions are too little, too late for
been hit with sizable rent hikes in Nichola Taylor and her family,
the pandemic, usually with little who live in Fredericton. Ms. Tay-
recourse to challenge them. The lor was served with an eviction
Globe and Mail has spoken with notice in February, not long after
several tenants in the province the building was purchased. (The
this year who saw their rents notice did not provide a reason –
raised by hundreds of dollars a which would be illegal under the
month, often shortly after owner- incoming rules – although the
ship of the building changed. property manager said it was for
Apartment buildings have be- renovations.)
come a sought-after asset class in Ms. Taylor quickly pounced on
Canada, because of decades of a new apartment – albeit, one
meagre construction and robust that costs her family an extra
population growth, putting up- $300 a month.
ward pressure on rental rates. In “There’s nothing we can per-
many provinces, it is fairly easy to sonally do” about the eviction,
evict tenants for the purpose of she said. “On the other hand, it’s a
renovation, which can be used to small step in the right direction
raise rents even more. for tenants.”
Institutional investors
allocate more money
to private equity amid
volatility in public markets
ANDRE I IS
Institutional investors plan to keep putting capital into pri-
vate equity, despite rising prices for new acquisitions, to beat
the returns from public markets facing significant head-
winds from inflation and the Ukraine war, according to a
study by law firm Torys LLP.
After a record-setting round of private-equity deal-making
in 2021, Torys surveyed 52 of Canada’s largest asset managers
and private-equity funds. The study found 90 per cent of in-
stitutions said private-equity valuations on acquisitions are
now either slightly or very overvalued.
The majority of these large investors, including pension
plans, said current owners of businesses now have lofty ex-
pectations of what their company will fetch when put up for
sale. “These indicators point to a frothy deal market,” Torys
said.
However, Torys partner Guy Berman said in an interview
the outlook for private equity remains upbeat, with the ma-
jority of investors expecting future performance to match or
exceed historic returns.
“Private equity now has a 30-year track record for strong
performance,” Mr. Berman said. “When performance from
public markets is expected to be weak, that shapes invest-
ment decisions.”
Owning a few, high-quality business in a private-equity
fund can eliminate the risks that come from holding a broad
selection of companies in a public-market portfolio. In re-
cent months, benchmark indexes such as the S&P 500 have
sold off sharply because of geopolitical concerns, dragging
down returns.
Last year, Canadian private-equity and venture-capital
funds set records by investing $14.7-billion across 752 deals,
more than double the previous high-water mark set in 2019,
when fund managers put $6.2-billion to work in 539 trans-
actions, according to data from the Canadian Venture Capital
& Private Equity Association.
The Torys survey found most private-equity managers ex-
pect raising new funds will be more difficult than in the past,
owing to “world events and other factors, including the pros-
pect of rising interest rates.”
The study said: “In particular, recent events related to the
Russia-Ukraine conflict as well as sanctions on Russia, may
have broad global implications.”
Private-equity fund managers plan to increase their in-
vestments in technology businesses, with 63 per cent of in-
stitutions predicting the sector will see the most takeover ac-
tivity this year, up from 55 per cent of respondents last year,
according to the study.
“As businesses continue to focus on digital transforma-
tion, the technology sector remains a key sector of choice for
private-equity deal-making,” Torys said.
The survey showed private-equity funds are focusing on
the intersection of financial services and technology as a ma-
jor investment theme. The study said deal activity was partic-
ularly strong in asset management, payments fintech, insur-
ance, banks, loyalty partnerships and international bancas-
surance. Bancassurance refers to sales partnerships between
banks and insurance companies.
In contrast, institutional investors predicted a decline in
investments in entertainment, industrial and agricultural
businesses compared with last year.
As the private-equity industry matures, institutional in-
vestors are increasingly open to owning businesses for longer
than the traditional 10-year commitment of an investment,
using approaches such as continuation funds. This approach,
first seen in Canada about two years ago, sees existing inves-
tors offered the chance to cash out of a business or continue
to own it in the new funds.
The Torys survey found that over the past year, 58 per cent
of institutions have considered or participated in an contin-
uation fund, compared with just 43 per cent of respondents
in 2020.
Mr. Berman said institutional investors are keen on oppor-
tunities to maintain or increase their stakes in high-quality

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Squamish Nation wants to build ‘economic beacons’
Bernd Christmas, who leads
Nch’kay, the nation’s economic
development arm in B.C.,
says evolving attitudes toward
Indigenous-owned businesses
open up great opportunities
WENDY STUECK
F
or much of his working life, Bernd
Christmas was based in Eastern
Canada, where his roles included 11
years as chief executive officer of
Membertou First Nation in Nova Scotia,
during a period when Membertou be-
came an economic powerhouse, with in-
terests in fisheries, tourism and casinos.
He then worked as a lawyer and negotia-
tor for several First Nations bands.
In 2021, he shifted to the West Coast
when he was named chief executive offi-
cer of Nch’kay Development Corp., the ec-
onomic development arm of the Squam-
ish Nation. Formed in 2018, Nch’kay is
pursuing big ventures ranging from a pro-
posed LNG project near Squamish, B.C., to
Senakw, a high-profile real estate devel-
opment in Vancouver.
The past two decades have also
brought a sea change in attitudes toward
Indigenous-owned business and that,
along with the size and scope of projects
on Nch’kay’s radar, added up to an oppor-
tunity Mr. Christmas didn’t want to miss.
“Back in Membertou days, you were
kind of asking people, ‘Do you want to do
stuff with us?’, versus here, where you’re
getting people coming to you on a regular
basis,” Mr. Christmas said in an interview.
Part of his role will be assessing those
pitches – some 1,500 to 3,000 a year, Mr.
Christmas says – to determine which ones
align with Squamish Nation’s desire to
create income and opportunities for its
members while protecting its traditional
territory, which consists of about 6,700
square kilometres in British Columbia’s
Lower Mainland.
The nation has a registered population
of about 4,000 people, with nearly half of
those members living on reserves in and
around Vancouver and Squamish, north
of the city, and it is involved in businesses
that include forestry and real estate devel-
opment. Along with the neighbouring
Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh and Lil’wat
nations, the Squamish Nation is also part
As CEO of Nch’kay Development Corp., Bernd Christmas is working on several major
ventures, including a proposed LNG project near Squamish, B.C., and Senakw, a high-profile
real estate development in Vancouver. TAEHOON KIM/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
of a potential bid with Vancouver-Whis-
tler for the 2030 Winter Olympics.
Through Nch’kay, the nation is posi-
tioning itself for growth, which is where
Mr. Christmas comes in. He was CEO of
Membertou from 1995 to 2006, when
Membertou positioned itself as a business
partner, owner and investor through ini-
tiatives that included opening a corporate
office in Halifax and pursuing ISO certifi-
cation.
John Risley, co-founder of Halifax-
based Clearwater Seafoods Inc.. recalls
meeting Mr. Christmas in the 1990s, in the
years leading up to the Supreme Court of
Canada’s landmark Marshall decision.
That 1999 ruling, stemming from the
prosecution of Membertou member Do-
nald Marshall Jr. for catching and selling
eel without a licence, affirmed First Na-
tions’ treaty rights to hunt, fish and gath-
er in pursuit of a moderate livelihood.
After the decision was released, one of
Mr. Christmas’s first calls was to Mr. Risley,
to discuss how Membertou and Clearwa-
ter could work together.
“I remember Bernd calling me and ask-
ing me to come and see him – which I was
happy to do,” Mr. Risley said in an in-
terview, adding that Membertou was “way
out ahead of the game” in forging busi-
ness ventures and relationships.
Those talks set the stage for ever-bigger
transactions, including a 2021 deal in
which a coalition of Mi’kmaq First Na-
tions, including Membertou, and partner
Premium Brands Holdings Corp. acquired
Clearwater Seafoods Inc. in a transaction
valued at about $1-billion, including debt.
Mr. Christmas had moved on by that
time and Membertou’s long-time chief,
Terry Paul, closed the deal. But Mr. Risley
said Mr. Christmas had an important role
in Membertou’s growth, describing him as
a “fair-minded guy, who wants to do deals
that work for both sides.”
Legislation and governance trends
have evolved considerably since Mr.
Christmas worked with Membertou. The
B.C. government, in 2019, and the federal
government, in 2021, passed legislation to
implement the United Nations Declara-
tion on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
On the governance side, environmen-
tal, social and governance (ESG) stan-
dards are changing the way corporations
do business, including how they negotiate
with Indigenous peoples, Mr. Christmas
said.
“Economic reconciliation is definitely
one of the reasons I came here, among
others. … The mentality of a corporation
has changed,” he said.
“You have the whole notion of ESG in
the corporate business world, and compa-
nies like BlackRock saying you have to
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deal with it. It’s a facet that in Canada, at
least, or wherever Indigenous peoples are,
cannot be ignored.”
Starting in his 2020 annual letter to CE-
Os, Larry Fink, chairman of BlackRock
Inc., the world’s largest asset manager,
has been telling corporate leaders they
need plans to operate in a low-carbon
economy to avoid potential proxy votes
against management or disinvestment.
On the social and governance side, there
is increased scrutiny of how corporations
deal with Indigenous peoples.
For Nch’kay, that trend is playing out in
its relationships with companies such as
Woodfibre LNG, which has acknowledged
the Squamish Nation, as well as the B.C.
and Canadian governments, as a regulator
on its project.
Woodfibre is a proposed LNG export
facility near Squamish on the site of a
former pulp and paper operation. If the
project goes ahead, the Squamish Nation
expects to have a significant role, includ-
ing a potential equity stake, Mr. Christmas
said.
“There’s so many deals where you saw,
‘Okay, we’ll hire [Indigenous people] as
security guards, we’ll hire them as flag
people’ … and the project’s worth $3-bil-
lion, and the nations or the people that it
affects directly are making, you know,
maybe a million dollars from it,” Mr.
Christmas said.
“It’s just so sad – I can honestly say,
with Woodfibre, it’s a different story.”
Woodfibre has gone through several
delays but hopes to start construction in
2023.
Mr. Christmas is also focused on Sen-
akw, which his nation is working on with
Westbank Corp., a Vancouver developer.
Senakw is a proposed 12-tower residen-
tial-commercial development that would
be clustered near the south end of Bur-
rard Bridge and include 6,000 residential
units.
The mixed-use project will be impos-
sible to overlook, given its prominent wa-
terfront location. That is by design.
“We think that at the end of the day,
over the life of the deal, it will be very,
very successful for Nch’kay – and it’s not
just monetary. I think it’s the fact that it
becomes like a beacon for the nation.
“We’re always looking for ways to show
the world that we’re here … to create
these economic beacons that will shine
the light and say, ‘Come to us, we have
lots of things we want to work on with
you.’ ”
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Digital currencies present risks: Powell

U.S. Fed chair
says stablecoins
and bitcoins will
require new regulations
CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
WASHINGTON
U.S. Federal Reserve chair Jerome
Powell said new forms of digital
money such as cryptocurrencies
and stablecoins present risks to
the U.S. financial system and will
require new rules to protect con-
sumers.
Mr. Powell, speaking Wednes-
day on a panel organized by the
Bank for International Settle-
ments, a global organization of
central bankers, also said new
technologies will likely make
electronic payments cheaper
and faster. But they could also
destabilize existing financial in-
stitutions, he said.
“Our existing regulatory
frameworks were not built with a
digital world in mind,” he said.
“Stablecoins, central bank digital
currencies, and digital finance
more generally will require
changes to existing laws and reg-
ulation or even entirely new
rules and frameworks.”
Stablecoins are a type of cryp-
tocurrency usually tied to the
dollar or a commodity such as
gold. Central bank digital curren-
cies are digital forms of dollars or
other currencies, issued by gov-
ernments. The Fed is researching
digital dollars but has not yet
made a decision on whether to
issue one. It released a study on
stablecoins in January.
Mr. Powell did not provide any
details of what kind of regula-
tions might be needed. He did
say they should follow the prin-
ciple of “same activity, same reg-
ulation,” meaning transactions
outside the traditional banking
system should be regulated the
same as they are when executed
by banks.
Earlier this month, U.S. Presi-
dent Joe Biden signed an exec-
utive order directing the Treasu-
ry Department and other federal
agencies to study the impact of
cryptocurrency on financial sta-
bility and national security.
His order came as several
Democratic senators, including
Elizabeth Warren from Massa-
chusetts, have raised concerns
that crypto could be used to
cent of adult Americans – or 40
million people – have invested in
cryptocurrencies. And 43 per
cent of men 18 to 29 have put
their money into cryptocurrency.
The Fed is also trying to figure
out how digital assets such as
Bitcoin may affect financial mar-
kets, particularly during down-
turns or market crashes. “We
don’t know how some digital
products will behave in times of
market stress, which could lead
to large destabilizing flows, nor
do we know how stresses in
crypto markets could potentially
spill over into the traditional fi-
nancial system,” Mr. Powell said.
One concern regarding stable-
coins is that, while many prom-
ise to maintain a value of $1, it’s
U.S. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, speaking Wednesday to a not always clear if stablecoin is-
panel organized by the Bank for International Settlements, outlined suers have sufficient cash to re-
several risks that stem from the growth of digital finance to both deem each stablecoin they issue
consumers and the broader financial system. SAMUEL CORUM/GETTY IMAGES for $1.
Mr. Powell added crypto assets
evade U.S. sanctions on Russia. understand the extent of their have been used for “illicit activ-
In his remarks, Mr. Powell out- potential losses, or that these in- ity,” such as money laundering,
lined several risks that stem vestments generally lack the and “we need to prevent this so
from the growth of digital fi- government protections that ac- that the innovations that do sur-
nance, including to consumers company many of the traditional vive and do attract broad adop-
and the broader financial sys- financial instruments and servic- tion are those that provide value
tem. es that they’re used to,” Mr. Po- over time” for legal uses.
Americans who buy stable- well said.
coins or crypto “may not fully Surveys show roughly 16 per ASSOCIATED PRESS

Canada’s plan to hike Ferry operator’s mass firing of crew

oil exports will not members likely broke law, Britain says
compromise long-term DANICA KIRKA LONDON after P&O received millions in pany’s “shameful acts.”
climate goals, source says British government aid during
the pandemic – have caused out-
The ferry operator, a unit of
Dubai government-owned logis-
The British government said rage and sparked protests by tics giant DP World, said the dis-
STEVE SCHERER OTTAWA Wednesday that a Dubai govern- trade unions at U.K. ports. P&O missed crew members worked
NIA WILLIAMS CALGARY ment-owned ferry operator at cancelled all its ferry crossings on eight ships registered in the
the centre of a bitter labour dis- between Britain, Ireland and Bahamas, Bermuda and Cyprus.
pute likely broke the law when it continental Europe after the They were employed by three
Canada on Thursday will outline plans to increase oil exports fired 786 crew members without announcement last week, dis- P&O units incorporated in Jersey,
to help alleviate the tight global market following Russia’s in- notice to replace them with rupting the movement of both a self-governing Crown depend-
vasion of Ukraine, but the hike will not undermine Ottawa’s cheaper contract staff. travellers and goods. ency that isn’t part of Britain.
long-term climate commitments, a government source said. Prime Minister Boris Johnson Trade unions have long ob- Crew members employed by
Federal Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson condemned the “callous” beha- jected to “fire and rehire” poli- two other subsidiaries based in
will detail Canada’s plans at the International Energy Agency viour of P&O Ferries and said the cies that let companies fire staff France and the Netherlands we-
(IEA) meeting in Paris, the source said. company appeared to have bro- members and re-employ them ren’t fired, P&O said.
Mr. Wilkinson told Reuters earlier this month the govern- ken British labour laws. on worse terms. Under British la- P&O gave advance notice of
ment is working with industry to find ways to increase pipe- “We will be taking action,” Mr. bour laws, such extreme action the firings to authorities in the
line utilization and boost crude exports, and pipeline com- Johnson said, adding that the is only meant to be done after countries where the ships are
pany Enbridge Inc. said it is prepared to do “what it can.” company could “face fines run- extensive employee consulta- registered, Mr. Hebblethwaite
Canada, holder of the world’s third-largest oil reserves, is ning into millions of pounds” if tions. said. As a result, P&O doesn’t be-
keen to help shore up long-term energy security as countries it is found guilty. P&O chief executive Peter lieve it violated British laws.
that previously relied on Russian oil and gas look for replace- P&O Ferries, which operates in Hebblethwaite said that “restruc- P&O has announced that it
ments amid sanctions aimed at punishing Russia for its as- Britain and is owned by a subsid- turing our work force in this way will pay workers 13 weeks’ salary
sault on Ukraine. But the government has no plans to com- iary of Dubai company DP World, was not a course of action that to compensate for the lack of ad-
promise its climate goals. claimed the move was legal be- we ever wanted to take.” vance notice, and another 13
“There’s no real desire to shift away from the focus on emis- cause the staff worked on ships The letter came in response to weeks’ salary in lieu of consulta-
sions reductions and the environment. We’re not throwing registered outside the U.K. Business Secretary Kwasi Kwar- tion. In addition, P&O says dis-
out the climate rule book,” added the source, who declined to The ferry operator acknowl- teng’s request for information missed crew members will re-
be identified owing to the sensitivity of the information. edged that the way the dismiss- amid outrage from workers and ceive 2½ weeks’ salary for every
That sentiment was echoed by Krystyna Dodds, a spokes- als were carried out caused dis- allegations that P&O violated year of service, instead of the le-
woman for the Environment Ministry. “The current energy tress for workers and said it had British labour laws. Mr. Kwarteng gally required 1½ weeks.
situation has not resulted in any significant changes to Cana- offered “generous compensa- last week said it appeared the About 575 of the dismissed
da’s climate policies,” Ms. Dodds said in a statement. tion” to those involved. company hadn’t followed the re- workers have accepted the sever-
A spokesman for Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage But the company also said it quired process for dismissing ance package, P&O said.
said Canada could ship an extra 200,000 barrels a day (b/d), couldn’t have survived without large numbers of workers and But the RMT union said the
roughly 5 per cent of current exports to the United States and a “fundamentally changed crew- notified it that failure to do so package amounted to “blackmail
fraction of the three million b/d of Russian supply expected to ing arrangements” and that it was a criminal offence that could and threats” because workers
be missing from April. Many producers, particularly in north- took the action to save 2,200 oth- lead to an unlimited fine. will only receive a fraction of the
ern Alberta’s oil sands, where new multibillion-dollar pro- er jobs. The dismissed seafarers The National Union of Rail, payout unless they give up their
jects take years to build, are reluctant to increase spending to are being replaced by cheaper Maritime and Transport Workers legal right to file an action with
significantly boost output. workers employed by a third- reacted angrily to the P&O letter, the employment tribunal.
Critics say Canada is failing to meet its climate goals. party crew provider. saying the “disgusting state-
In 2018, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government The staff cuts – which came ment” sought to justify the com- ASSOCIATED PRESS
bought the Trans Mountain oil pipeline to help producers
struggling to get their crude to market.
Carbon emissions from the oil and gas sector have risen 20
per cent since 2005 and contribute 26 per cent of Canada’s DILBERT
total emissions, making it the country’s largest emitting
industry.
The government has pledged to cut carbon emissions 40 to
45 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, and is expected to
outline a detailed emissions-reduction plan by the end of
March.
“What the Ukraine crisis has done is increase the attention
being given to energy security,” said George Hoberg, a profes-
sor of public policy at the University of British Columbia.
“There’ll be lots of pressure from the oil and gas sector [to
expand the industry], but to do so would be inconsistent with
Canada’s climate commitments.”

REUTERS
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‘Unfriendly countries’ must
pay for gas in rubles, Putin says
NINA CHESTNEY LONDON
Russia will seek payment in ru-
bles for gas sales from “unfriend-
ly” countries, President Vladimir
Putin said on Wednesday, sending
European gas prices soaring on
concerns the move would exacer-
bate the region’s energy crunch.
European countries’ depend-
ence on Russian gas to heat their
homes and power their econo-
mies has been thrown into the
spotlight since Moscow sent
troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24 and
the subsequent imposition of
Western sanctions aimed at isolat-
ing Russia economically.
With the financial noose tight-
ening and the European Union
split on whether to impose sanc-
tions on Russia’s energy sector,
Mr. Putin hit back with a clear
message: If you want our gas, buy
our currency.
“Russia will continue, of
course, to supply natural gas in ac-
cordance with volumes and pric-
es … fixed in previously conclud-
ed contracts,” Mr. Putin said at a
televised meeting with top gov-
ernment ministers.
“The changes will only affect
the currency of payment, which
will be changed to Russian ru-
bles,” he said.
Russian gas accounts for some
40 per cent of Europe’s total con-
sumption and EU gas imports
from Russia have fluctuated be-
tween €200-million and €800-
million (US$880-million) a day so
far this year. The possibility that a
change of currency could throw
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that trade into disarray sent some
European wholesale gas prices up
as much as 30 per cent on Wednes-
day. British and Dutch wholesale
gas prices had jumped by Wednes-
day’s close.
The Russian ruble briefly leapt
to a three-week high past 95
against the U.S. dollar and, despite
paring some gains, stayed well be-
low 100 after the shock announce-
ment. The currency is down
around 20 per cent since Feb. 24.
“At face value this appears to be
an attempt to prop up the ruble by
compelling gas buyers to buy the
previously free-falling currency in
order to pay,” said Vinicius Roma-
no, senior analyst at consultancy
Rystad Energy.
Mr. Putin said the government
and central bank had one week to
come up with a solution on how
to move these operations into the
Russian currency and that gas gi-
ant Gazprom would be ordered to
make the corresponding changes
to gas contracts.
With major banks reluctant to
trade in Russian assets, some gas
buyers in the European Union
were not immediately able to clar-
ify how they might pay for gas.
Several firms, including oil and
gas majors Eni SpA, Shell and BP
PLC, RWE AG and Uniper SE – Ger-
many’s biggest importer of Rus-
sian gas – declined to comment.
In gas markets on Wednesday,
eastbound gas flows via the Ya-
mal-Europe pipeline from Ger-
many to Poland declined sharply,
data from the Gascade pipeline
operator showed.
Moscow calls its actions in Uk-
raine a “special military oper-
ation” to disarm and “de-nazify”
its neighbour, Ukraine. Western
allies call those baseless pretexts
that have raised fears of wider
conflict in Europe.
According to Gazprom, 58 per
cent of its sales of natural gas to
Europe and other countries as of
Jan. 27 were settled in euros. U.S.
dollars accounted for about 39 per
cent of gross sales and sterling
around 3 per cent.
The European Commission has
said it plans to cut EU dependency
on Russian gas by two-thirds this
year and end its reliance on Rus-
sian supplies of the fuel “well be-
fore 2030.”
But unlike the United States
and Britain, EU states have not
agreed to impose sanctions on
Russia’s energy sector, given their
dependency. The Commission,
the 27-country EU’s executive, did
not immediately respond to a re-
quest for comment.
German Economy Minister
Robert Habeck said on Wednes-
day that he would discuss with
European partners a possible an-
swer to Moscow’s announcement
about the gas payments.
“It is unclear how easy it would
be for European clients to switch
their payments to rubles given
the scale of these purchases,” said
Leon Izbicki, associate at consul-
tancy Energy Aspects.
“However, there are no sanc-
tions in place that would prohibit
payments of Russian gas in ru-
bles,” he said.
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NESTLE TO SUSPEND SALE OF SEVERAL
NON-ESSENTIAL PRODUCTS IN RUSSIA
LONDON Nestle SA said on Wednesday it will halt the sale of
several non-essential products including KitKat candy bars
and Nesquik chocolate mix in Russia, in an unprecedented
move amid pressure on the world’s top consumer goods
company after criticism from Ukrainian President Volody-
myr Zelensky.
Nestle shares closed down 1.4 per cent, after hitting a
session low shortly after the news. The statement was
unusual for the maker of Maggi bouillon and Nescafe
coffee, which has for decades continued to operate in war
zones around the world.
The brands Nestle is suspending make up the “vast
majority of volume and sales” in Russia, which were 1.7
billion Swiss francs ($2.3-billion) in 2021, a spokesperson
said. Production of these items will also come to a halt.
Mr. Zelensky on the weekend called out several compa-
nies for staying in Russia after its invasion of Ukraine and
accused Nestle of not living up to its “Good Food, Good
Life” slogan. In the days leading up to his comments, Nes-
tle had already been fielding online criticism from shop-
pers, activists, investors and political figures.
The company previously said it had halted non-essential
exports and imports from Russia, stopped all advertising
and suspended capital investment. It also said it was not
making a profit in Russia.
“We stand with the people of Ukraine and our 5,800
employees there,” Nestle said. It said it would continue to
pay Russian employees.
Western companies that maintain a presence in Russia
to provide essential goods such as food and medicine have
been trying to strike a balance between President Vladimir
Putin’s government and advocates for Ukraine pulling
them in opposite directions.
More than 400 companies have withdrawn from Russia
since the launch of its attack on Ukraine on Feb. 24, leaving
behind assets worth hundreds of billions of dollars in
aggregate.
Nestle was not alone in saying it would continue to
provide basic items for nutrition and hygiene, such as milk
and diapers. PepsiCo Inc., Unilever and Procter & Gamble
have also said they would retain a presence in Russia to
provide essential goods.
Nestle has for decades been a target of criticism by
activist groups and governments over issues including the
company’s bottled-water manufacturing, its decision to
stay in South Africa during apartheid and its baby formula
marketing practices.
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Advisers: Ontario’s new credentialling rules to be phased in
FROM B1
Ontario’s announcement will also help
spur change in other jurisdictions and pro-
mote consistency among people across the
country who use the titles, FSRA chief exec-
utive Mark White said in an interview with
The Globe and Mail.
Mr. White has been working to harmo-
nize Ontario’s rules with those in other
provinces – including Saskatchewan and
New Brunswick – that are proposing simi-
lar title protection frameworks.
The coming rule changes, which will be
phased in over time, will make qualifica-
tions and credentials mandatory for peo-
ple who work in the industry and refer to
themselves by either title.
Financial planners will have a four-year
transition period, while financial advisers
will be given a two-year time frame. Indi-
viduals who were using these titles prior to
and on Jan. 1, 2020, will be given “ample
time to comply with the framework follow-
ing its implementation,” FSRA said in a
statement.
People who began using the titles after
Jan. 1, 2020, will “have to get credentials
from a FSRA-approved credentialing body
immediately,” it added.
The rule change comes two years after
industry groups advocated for stricter stan-
dards for individuals who provide financial
advice to Canadian investors.
There are about 100,000 financial advis-
ers working across the country. But Canada
Radwanski: Despite political differences, Ontario and federal
governments seem to have been working together in lockstep
FROM B1
But it’s not time for a victory lap just yet.
There is a chance here to get closer to the
auto sector’s glory days, not just preserve
the shrunken version to which it was re-
duced in recent decades.
The question is whether Canada can
leverage the big new investment to devel-
op a full supply chain, from mining of crit-
ical battery components all the way
through battery recycling. Governments
have talked a lot about that but not yet
developed a comprehensive, quickly ac-
tionable strategy around it. That’s not to
take anything away from what Canadian
politicians have done lately to secure vari-
ous new building blocks for that supply
chain and especially an anchor invest-
ment like the one announced this week.
The competition from the United States
has been stiff, as global auto giants rapidly
put down North American roots for EV
manufacturing, in anticipation of a large
spike in demand. And the prospect of pro-
tectionist EV purchase rebates sought by
U.S. President Joe Biden, which would be
partly contingent on the vehicles being
made in America, has added to the chal-
lenge.
Canadian governments’ willingness to
subsidize some of automakers’ costs has
naturally played a role in that. That in-
cludes many hundreds of millions of dol-
lars each from Ottawa and Queen’s Park
toward the Stellantis-LG venture, al-
though the exact contributions have not
yet been specified. But it’s not as though
other jurisdictions haven’t been offering
comparable sums; that’s long been part of
the game in this sector, and the U.S. has
often played it more enthusiastically than
Canada.
More than that, there has been a new-
found urgency with which governments
here have courted investments. François-
Philippe Champagne, the federal Industry
Minister, has by all accounts been partic-
ularly energetic on that front since taking
over that job early last year – bouncing
around the world to aggressively wheel
and deal with the automakers.
And although Doug Ford’s Ontario gov-
ernment was initially slow to warm to the
EV transition’s economic potential – with
Quebec outpacing that province on some
fronts, despite much less automaking in-
frastructure to begin with – it has signif-
icantly scaled upped its efforts.
Crucially, despite any political differ-
ences, the two levels of government seem
to have been working together in lockstep.
Valentine: OSC alleges director duties violated 2004 order
FROM B1
At the time of the settlement, Kelley
McKinnon, the OSC’s chief legal counsel,
called Mr. Valentine’s penalties “possibly
the most serious sanction the commission
has ever meted out on a matter. … Those
are the ones that are going to keep him out
of the market in the future.” She told The
Globe and Mail his conviction in the U.S.
and the OSC action would effectively “shut
him down” in the U.S. and Canada.
The new OSC allegations unveiled on
Wednesday, which have not been tested in
court, suggest the 2004 settlement order
has failed spectacularly. The OSC says Mr.
Valentine failed to resign as a director from
two companies – Q Capital Corp. and Wis-
dom Capital Partners Inc. – he created be-
fore the OSC agreement. Since then, ac-
cording to the OSC, he became a director
and/or officer of 36 Ontario companies.
None of the 38 companies are “reporting
issuers,” which are companies that file pro-
spectuses, trade on an exchange and sub-
mit periodic reports to the OSC.
The OSC said Mr. Valentine also engaged
in a trade of $1.36-million of stock of a To-
ronto company, Flyp Technologies Inc. Al-
has no legislated national standards for
those who offer financial planning or ad-
vice. Outside Quebec, which has its own
rules, anyone can call themselves a finan-
cial planner or adviser, regardless of certifi-
cation, designation or educational back-
ground.
Mr. White said he is in discussions with
four organizations that have applied for
authorization to certify people to use the
new credentials. FSRA will publicly an-
nounce the final list of approved creden-
tialling bodies after the new rules take ef-
fect on March 28.
One of the most widely known creden-
tials is the certified financial planner (CFP)
designation, administered by the profes-
sional body FP Canada. About 17,000 peo-
ple in Canada hold it, with 9,000 of them in
Ontario. FP Canada also administers the
Qualified Associate Financial Planner
(QAFP) certification, a designation
launched in 2019 for people who serve a
broader population of Canadians with less
complex financial needs. Currently, there
are 1,900 QAFP professionals in Canada,
about 900 of them in Ontario.
FP Canada CEO Tashia Batstone said the
CFP and the QAFP have been submitted to
be approved as approved credentials, and
that she anticipates both will be selected by
FSRA.
“Our organization has been champion-
ing this kind of legislative framework for
many, many years and today’s announce-
ment is a big win for consumers,” Ms. Bat-
From left: Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Ontario Minister of Economic Development Vic
Fedeli, federal Innovation Minister François Phillipe Champagne and Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau visit a Honda plant in Alliston, Ont., last week. CHRIS YOUNG/THE CANADIAN PRESS
That’s made for a more compelling pitch
than previously about the advantages that
places such as Windsor offer. Those in-
clude a skilled work force, clusters of near-
by parts suppliers, ideal geography and lo-
gistics for supply chains on both sides of
the border, potential nearby access to crit-
ical minerals and a clean supply of elec-
tricity relative to most U.S. jurisdictions.
That kind of hustle will continue to be
much needed. Among other possible near-
term investments, there are a few other
battery-assembly plants involving major
automakers up for grabs – any of which
would provide another huge boost.
The more anchors there are, though,
the more there will also need to be sophis-
ticated plans to build around them.
The most glaring need in that regard is
on mining and refining critical minerals,
where there has been less progress thus far
than on the manufacturing side.
That could change now that large
would-be clients for the minerals are mov-
ing in. But those clients will initially be
sourcing most minerals from overseas.
To have much chance of domestically
supplying them within a decade or so,
work needs to move swiftly on building in-
frastructure around mineral reserves; on
balancing environmental protections and
regulatory expedience; on building strong
partnerships with Indigenous communi-
ties; on figuring out how much to subsi-
dize projects and promote domestic own-
ership. It also means determining which
so, the OSC alleges, two companies he con-
trolled received $4.3-million in compensa-
tion from 2015 to 2017 for helping to arrange
loans to borrowers who pledged stock as
collateral. The OSC cites both arrange-
ments as examples of Mr. Valentine engag-
ing in trading in securities in breach of the
trading ban and the commission’s order.
The OSC is asking that Mr. Valentine
again be barred from serving as a director
or officer and again be subject to a trading
ban. In Wednesday’s complaint, the OSC
asks Mr. Valentine to repay “any amounts
obtained as a result of non-compliance
with Ontario securities law.” The OSC is also
asking for administrative penalties of “not
more than $1-million for each failure to
comply with Ontario securities law.”
The Globe and Mail’s attempts to reach
Mr. Valentine through LinkedIn and a resi-
dential phone listing were unsuccessful.
Janice Wright, a partner at Wright Teme-
lini LLP, who is representing Mr. Valentine,
told The Globe, “As this matter proceeds
there will be serious issues raised in Mr. Val-
entine’s defence, including legal advice he
received and relied on at the time.”
The OSC declined to comment on the
case beyond the documents it released.
O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L
stone said in an interview. “Clients are go-
ing to have the ability to put confidence in
the individuals who are calling themselves
financial planners and financial advisers,
and know that those individuals will have
the skills and training necessary to put
their best interests first.”
The Financial Advisors Association of
Canada – known as Advocis – has also ap-
plied to become a FSRA- approved creden-
tialing body. It is submitting its existing
professional financial advisor (PFA) cre-
dential to be eligible for both the financial
adviser and financial planner titles, and its
Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) creden-
tial to be eligible for the financial planner
title in Ontario.
“This is an important step forward in
raising the bar for our members and our cli-
ents,” Advocis chief executive Greg Pollock
said in a statement. “Now only will this help
strengthen consumer confidence in choos-
ing who to partner with, but will also help
promote consistency and professionalism
among those individuals using the titles.”
Two organizations that have not yet ap-
plied to be included, said Mr. White, are the
Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Cana-
da (MFDA), a self-regulatory organization
(SRO) that oversees about 90 mutual fund
companies and distributors, and the In-
vestment Industry Regulatory Organiza-
tion of Canada (IIROC), which supervises
170 investment dealers. The two SROs are
currently in the process of merging to es-
tablish a new single one.
reserves of key minerals – among them
nickel, cobalt, lithium and graphite – offer
the most competitive advantage and mer-
it prioritization.
While the manufacturing side is mov-
ing along more swiftly, there are intrica-
cies there as well. That includes determin-
ing what supports may be needed to en-
able parts manufacturers, accustomed to
supplying for traditional internal-combus-
tion engines, to make components of elec-
tric batteries instead.
There needs to be some thought, too, to
parlaying sectoral growth around multi-
national investments into the rise of
homegrown EV manufacturers – especial-
ly for electric vehicles and trucks, where
there are several burgeoning players, such
as Quebec’s Lion Electric, making waves.
And it means being diligent about pre-
serving existing advantages. That applies
especially to the available supply of clean
electricity, which requires a lot of planning
to meet demand that will greatly rise amid
electrification of transportation, buildings
and industry.
All of this becomes a little less abstract
with each new EV-making deal that’s in-
ked – and a lot less so, when it’s something
as significant as this week’s.
But it’s not all just going to come to-
gether because a few big pieces are in
place. There’s a great deal of work to be
done, if Canada wants to not just survive
but thrive in the transition to zero-emit-
ting vehicles rapidly taking shape.
Mr. Valentine is the son of Canadian dip-
lomat Douglas Valentine, a former ambas-
sador to Saudi Arabia, Colombia and Ye-
men. He joined Thomson Kernaghan in
1994 and by 1997 was making so much
money trading red-hot internet stocks that
a majority of Thomson Kernaghan’s part-
ners backed his plans to reinvent the com-
pany as a specialized technology brokerage
and investment banker. He quickly became
chairman and 25-per-cent owner of the
firm. Mr. Valentine was able to afford a
sprawling home in Toronto’s Forest Hill, a
beach house in Florida, a cottage at Lake
Simcoe and a Falcon jet.
According to former Thomson Kernagh-
an officials, his partners were so grateful for
their earnings that the firm bought him a
Ferrari in 1998 as part of his compensation.
The licence plate adorning the sports car
read “giddyup,” an echo of Mr. Valentine’s
frequent rallying call to his small trading
team: “Giddy-up, let’s get going.”
His lawyer in the 2004 OSC case, Edward
Greenspan, said at the time the OSC agree-
ment meant Mr. Valentine “can now get on
with his life. … He’s a very young man and
he’s got a long future ahead of him and I’m
sure he’ll be very successful.”
| T H U R S DAY , M A RC H 2 4 , 2 0 2 2
Parkinson:
Handing money
to consumers
merely helps
defray inflation
FROM B1
The federal Conservatives are call-
ing for a “holiday” on the goods
and services tax (GST) on the
same fuels.
Those approaches don’t match
the simple appeal of Quebec’s di-
rect cash handouts, but they nev-
ertheless amount to turning tax
money over to voters to compen-
sate them for their inflation trou-
bles. Good politics? Probably.
Sound economic policy? Not so
much.
Handing money to consumers
does not fight inflation, it merely
helps defray inflation. It treats the
symptom, overlooks the disease.
It does nothing to expand supply
or remove barriers slowing it,
which is at the root of our current
problem. Worse, such consumer
supports act as a de facto stimulus
for demand at a time when de-
mand is already strong, the Cana-
dian economy is already running
at near full speed and supplies al-
ready can’t keep up.
“While we understand that it is
difficult for governments to resist
the temptation to act in this way,
there is reason to wonder whether
running deficits for this purpose
in a context of full employment
might not put additional pressure
on prices, especially since other
levels of government might fol-
low suit,” National Bank of Cana-
da economists Darren King and
Matthieu Arseneau said in a re-
search note.
To be fair, these leaders are
merely responding to the de-
mands from constituents that
governments do something –
anything – to address the situa-
tion, cries that have grown louder
and broader as inflation has accel-
erated. It’s odd that some of the
political leaders most receptive to
those cries are of a conservative
bent. Traditionally, conservatives
aren’t fans of interfering with
market forces. They aren’t strong
advocates of government step-
ping in to shield us from all bad
economic outcomes.
Frankly, the current inflation
is, in no small part, the price we
are now paying for governments
shielding us from very, very bad
outcomes over the past two years.
We ran up public debts, propped
up household incomes and sus-
tained consumer demand to av-
ert an economic depression and
set the stage for a strong recovery.
Few would dispute that this was
necessary. But a consequence has
turned out to be higher inflation.
Earlier in the pandemic, many
policy commentators had advo-
cated for governments to raise
taxes, at least temporarily, as a
specific means to start paying
down the bills incurred in pro-
tecting Canadians from econom-
ic disaster. That’s pretty much
where we expected governments
to be by now: looking at ways to
reverse those big spends and
clean up the mess, knowing Can-
adians are employed and growth
is on solid footing.
Perhaps inflation is, effectively,
serving as that “tax.” (Yes, I know
that inflation is not actually a tax,
but hear me out.) A consequence
of higher inflation has been high-
er-than-expected nominal gross
domestic product (i.e. GDP in-
cluding the effects of price in-
creases) – and by extension, high-
er government revenues. This is
even more the case for govern-
ments in Canada, which benefit
from taxation of income generat-
ed by surging prices for energy
and other commodities. So, in ef-
fect, governments are now seeing
the boost in revenues that will
help pay the pandemic bills while
voters pay the price, in the form
of inflation. It’s not a tax increase,
but it has a similar effect, on both
sides of the ledger.
And it has come at a time
when, let’s be honest, the econo-
my can best bear it. We no longer
need governments to be bailing
us out en masse (as much as we
might like it).
We need them to bring their
fiscal footprint back down to size,
withdraw stimulus and focus
spending on investments that
will expand supply capacity and
create an environment for non-
inflationary growth. Any short-
term supports to ease the impact
of inflation should focus on low-
income households most vulner-
able to high inflation. (Consider
that Quebec’s $3.2-billion hand-
out is five times as much as it bud-
geted to improve supply of, and
access to, low-income housing.)
It wasn’t easy getting to where
we are today with inflation, and it
won’t be easy getting out. Let’s
stop looking for quick fixes.


 

  

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Portfolio reconstruction:
Innovation in a post-pandemic world
n many ways, the pandemic
I has turned the world upside
down. The new reality for investors
is an inflation rate that has surpassed
bond yields, creating negative yields,
while stock markets face continuing
uncertainty.
For years, pension funds have
thrived in challenging environments
by investing in private markets that
boosted performance and enhanced
stability. If you were part of a large
corporate or public servant pension
plan, you were gaining access
to private markets without even
knowing it. But over the years, many
of these plans have been replaced
with group registered retirement
savings plans that are limited to
investing in public markets.
Now, more than ever, all
investors need to consider gaining
access to the private, alternative
investments that have been the
exclusive domain of pension funds
and high-net-worth individuals.

THE CURRENT MARKET

ENVIRONMENT CALLS FOR MORE
THAN JUST REBALANCING—IT
CALLS FOR PORTFOLIO
RECONSTRUCTION
As much of the world loosens
pandemic restrictions, Michael
Schnitman, head of alternative
investments at Mackenzie Invest-
ments believes that every investor
should have at least 10 to 20 per cent
of their overall portfolio allocated
to alternatives, depending on their
investment objectives, and that
alternatives should be considered
core holdings.
For many investors, a well-bal-
anced portfolio is built with the
familiar asset classes of stocks,
bonds and a little cash. But with
the recent return of both stock
market volatility and higher inflation,
Canadians may need to expand their
investment universe.
“A truly diversified modern
portfolio should include more
complex assets that can help provide
steady returns when traditional
markets decline. Alternatives provide
valuable diversification as they
tend not to move in tandem with
traditional markets,” Schnitman says.
Only a small percentage of the
companies in the world are publicly
traded. Private markets represent
a broader opportunity, which is
typically only available to institu-
tional investors.
“We’re on a mission at Mackenzie
to change that, and to democratize
access to private markets,” Mr.
Schnitman says.
PRIVATE ASSETS ARE AN
INDISPENSABLE PIECE OF
THE PORTFOLIO
Among the fastest-growing
segments of alternatives are private
assets: private equity, private credit
and private infrastructure. These
have become more attractive in
recent years, owing in part to the
declining number of publicly traded
companies, a result of corporate
mergers and a slowing pace of initial
public offerings (IPOs).
“As public markets have con-
tracted, private markets have grown
immensely,” says Mr. Schnitman.
“Recognizing this challenge, we’ve
developed innovative ways for
more investors to access the private
market opportunity.”
FIRST IN CANADA TO
UNLOCK PRIVATE CREDIT
FOR ALL INVESTORS
Mackenzie has been aggressively
building its capabilities since
launching Canada’s first accessible
alternatives strategies mutual fund
in 2018. In 2020, the firm entered a
strategic partnership with Northleaf
Capital Partners, a Toronto-headquar-
tered leader in institutional private
markets investment.
In February 2022, Mackenzie
launched the Mackenzie Northleaf
Private Credit Interval Fund, a
prospectus-based vehicle that allows
non-accredited investors access to
the private credit space. The interval
fund structure has been in use in
the United States for a few decades;
Mackenzie offers the first of its kind
in Canada.
The fund provides exposure to
private loans to global mid-market
private companies, as well as an
allocation to fixed-income exchange-
traded funds (ETFs) to facilitate
NINE WAYS TO RECONSTRUCT
PORTFOLIOS WITH ALTERNATIVES
As public markets
have contracted, The new interval fund brings the
firm’s roster of alternatives to nine
private markets have investments funds, plus three ETFs,
grown immensely. covering areas such as private
Recognizing this equity replication, enhanced yield,
global macro, credit absolute
challenge, we’ve return, and global infrastructure.
developed innovative As an industry pioneer, Mackenzie
has an established track record in
ways for more what is still a new space in Canada,
investors to access Schnitman says.
the private market He believes the Canadian market
will begin to scale rapidly in the
opportunity. coming years as investors realize
the opportunity to modernize their
Michael Schnitman portfolio construction.
Head of Alternative Investments “I think, over the next five years,
we could see $100-billion flow
into Canadian alternative assets
quarterly redemptions. and strategies from individual
“It offers access to institutional investors.”
private credit strategies for all retail Together, Mackenzie and
investors in a structure that has very Northleaf are breaking down
attractive features,” Schnitman says. barriers for all Canadian investors
These features include monthly and encouraging advisors and
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GLOBE INVESTOR
Mortgage rundown: Are home prices inflation-proof?
Real estate has made
automatic millionaires
of thousands of
Canadians. Inflation
could keep boosting
their net worth, for now
ROBERT
McLISTER
OPINION
I
nflation is doing a moonshot
and that can’t be good for
home prices. Or can it?
If you’re sitting on the edge of
your seat, wondering if your
windfall home equity will go up
in smoke, know this: Real estate
is a strong inflation hedge histor-
ically, and people believe that it
will continue to be. But there’s a
“but.”
Let’s break it all down.
WHAT’S GOOD FOR HOME PRICES?
The stagflation-stained 1970s
were a posterchild for inflation.
Canada’s consumer price in-
dex rocketed 109 per cent be-
tween the first oil embargo of Oc-
tober, 1973, and September, 1981,
the month mortgage rates set an
all-time record.
During that very same period,
home prices gave inflation the
bird and shot up 146 per cent.
Now, think about that for a
minute. In one of the most devas-
tating economic eras since the
1800s, people took refuge in real
estate.
Stanford University research
concludes that prices rose be-
cause “the Great Inflation led to a
portfolio shift … making housing
more attractive than [stocks].”
Whatever the case, real estate is a
scarce hard asset that’s proven it-
self when the cost of living spirals
higher. It’ll likely prove itself
again.
And despite all the bubble-
talk, which shouldn’t be dismis-
sed, there’s more that could sup-
port home values, including:
1. A refusal to list: Resale
housing supply is at record lows,
leaving homeowners too scared
to list before they can secure a
new home. Millions of Canadians
would love to cash in on their eq-
uity bonanza. The problem is,
most people don’t want to down-
size or move far away. That ma-
jority are resigned to not sell at all
unless they have to, and that
doesn’t help supply.
2. Employment momentum:
Canada’s labour market is on fire.
More jobs and higher incomes
mean more homebuying de-
mand. And free-spending politic-
ians could continue fuelling job
growth.
3. Net migration: Statistics
Canada doesn’t have current net
migration forecasts, but the Min-
With bond funds sinking, there are few places for an investor to hide
SCOTT BARLOW
MARKET STRATEGIST
T
he fixed-income portion of
a balanced portfolio is sup-
posed to provide stability,
but lately bond markets are not
holding up their end of the bar-
gain.
The largest domestic and di-
versified bond exchange-traded
funds, the BMO Aggregate Bond
Index ETF (ZAG) and the iShares
Core Canadian Universe Bond In-
dex ETF (XBB), are both down 8
per cent year-to-date. Even the
more conservative iShares Core
Canadian Short Term Bond In-
dex ETF (XSB) has dropped 2.8
per cent. Meanwhile, the S&P/
TSX Composite Index is up 4.6
Mortgage Investment Fund
Materials, wages, machinery, land and cost overruns are incentivizing builders to construct more expensive homes. But higher rates, worsening
consumer debt ratios and a weakening economy make competition and demand fiercest for lower-priced homes. FRED LUM/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Lowest nationally available mortgage rates
TERM UNINSURED
1-year fixed 2.69%
2-year fixed 2.94%
3-year fixed 3.14%
4-year fixed 3.14%
5-year fixed 3.19%
10-year fixed 3.64%
5-year variable 1.64%
5-year hybrid 2.42%
HELOC* 2.55%
* Home equity line of credit
Source: Robert McLister; data as of March 23.
ister of Immigration plans to ad-
mit more than 1.3 million new
permanent residents through
2024, and they all need a roof.
4. Equity windfall: Soaring
rates make qualifying for a mort-
gage tougher, but not if you can
bag a bigger down payment. Sky-
rocketing home values have
armed parents with gobs of equi-
ty. They’re all too willing to gift or
loan that equity to reduce their
kid’s mortgage balance. This will
soften the rate blow to some de-
gree.
5. New-home building: If
builders slow home construction
as rates soar, like they did in the
late 1970s, that, too, could limit
supply and support prices. So
could the fact that building costs
keep rising. That pulls up resale
prices, too, given they’re a new-
home substitute.
6. Debt devaluation: As infla-
tion soars, incomes rise. But most
mortgage payments stay relative-
ly fixed. So not only does your
mortgage balance drop, your rel-
ative debt expense drops, all
while you build tax-free equity on
your primary residence – a com-
pelling reason to hold for the long
run.
WHAT’S BAD FOR HOME PRICES
1. Rate increases: Mortgage
rates are still cheap versus infla-
tion, but five-year fixed rates un-
per cent for 2022 despite high
levels of volatility.
It’s important to note off the
top that investors in individual
bonds don’t lose money if they
hold them to maturity, unless
the issuer defaults. They get
what’s on the label – interest pay-
ments and their principal back at
the end.
The experience is different for
holders of bond funds. In a rising
interest rate environment, the
value of bonds held in a fund
fluctuate from what is usually a
$100 face value. For instance, the
Government of Canada bond is-
sued last year at a $100 price, ma-
turing in 2031 and paying 1.5-per-
cent annual interest, is trading
Wednesday at $92.50. The 1.5-per-
cent coupon payment is less at-
PROVIDER INSURED PROVIDER
RBC 2.59% True North
HSBC 2.79% Radius Financial
Alterna Bank 2.99% True North
Alterna Bank 3.09% QuestMortgage
HSBC 2.94% HSBC
HSBC 3.64% Nesto
HSBC 1.24% HSBC
HSBC 2.84% Scotia eHOME
HSBC n/a n/a
der 2 per cent are long gone and
won’t be back for years. People
now worry that everyone who
said rates could never go up a lot
may be wrong. In March, 1988, the
prime rate surged five percentage
points in two years. If today’s
Bank of Canada moved even half
that much, as the market now
forecasts, it would slash people’s
home-buying power almost 20
per cent.
2. Unemployment: It usually
takes a job to buy a home and re-
cessions don’t help with that. Fol-
lowing Canada’s late 1980s rate
increases, unemployment surged
almost five points, coinciding
with Toronto’s famous housing
crash. With the rate hikes we’re
facing, a recession within 18 to 36
months is now a serious risk.
3. Weak-handed investors:
Most smart rental property inves-
tors invest primarily for cash flow.
Looking back at history could
make them nervous. Data from
the Organization for Economic
Co-operation and Development
show that average rents rose 54
per cent in the above-mentioned
1973 to 1981 period, for example.
That’s about half as much as the
cost of living. That and more cost-
ly leverage aren’t great news for
income-generating assets, a wor-
risome prospect for investors
who’ve fuelled Canada’s sky-
scraper-high valuations.
4. Policy “fixes”: Our govern-
tractive because rates are rising.
A new 10-year bond issue would
have an annual interest in the 2-
per-cent to 2.5-per-cent range,
based on current conditions.
Virtually all bond prices have
fallen in the past year and this
has pushed the net asset value of
bond funds lower.
Bonds are down, stock mar-
kets are choppy and this is char-
acteristic of an inflationary in-
vesting backdrop. There are few
places for an investor to hide.
In a recent research report,
Scotia Capital strategist Hugo
Ste-Marie detailed the asset class
performance during the infla-
tionary 1970s. Mr. Ste-Marie first
noted a number of differences
between then and now – devel-
oped world growth today is far
O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L
ment has proposed everything
from banning foreign buyers, to
vacant home taxes, to house-flip-
ping taxes. Who knows what
bearish ideas they’ll come up
with next.
THE VALUES MOST IN DANGER
If home prices eventually get
hammered, it won’t happen ev-
erywhere. Despite Toronto prices
crashing from 1989 to 1996, for ex-
ample, prices in most other re-
gions remained relatively stable.
Cities with scarce inventory,
stable economies, positive net
migration, fast-rising rents and
low vacancy could noticeably
outperform. Halifax, Gatineau
and the Niagara region are just a
few such examples.
Home type matters, too. Mate-
rials, wages, machinery, land and
cost overruns are incentivizing
builders to construct more ex-
pensive homes. But higher rates,
worsening consumer debt ratios
and a weakening economy make
competition and demand fiercest
for lower-priced homes, which
could also outperform.
THE RABBIT HOLE
OF PRICE FORECASTING
If Canada’s housing agency can’t
consistently predict home prices,
I won’t pretend to. But the fact is,
inflation has been bullish for
home values, at least until high
rates hurt mortgage qualifying
and joblessness soars. At that
point, borrowing costs and un-
employment become poison for
real estate.
But, while nominal home pric-
es may keep rising this year, real
(i.e., inflation adjusted) home
prices are a different story.
They’ve typically flatlined or
trended lower for at least five
years following inflation spikes
that led to rate spikes.
Market timing is always a gam-
less resource intensive for one –
but still found the relative re-
turns instructive.
From 1969 to 1979, the S&P
500 produced a mediocre aver-
age annual return of 1.6 per cent
while, thanks to rising energy
prices, the Canadian equity
benchmark climbed 5.9 per cent
annually. U.S. equities trailed in-
flation by a huge margin – the
S&P 500 lost a cumulative 40 per
cent in value over the period, af-
ter inflation adjustments.
Commodities were the clear
winner in the seventies. The
Bloomberg Commodity Index
leapt 764 per cent for the decade,
an average annual return of 24.1
per cent. Domestically, energy,
gold and economically sensitive
industrial stocks formed the
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ble but if you want to gauge the
health of the market, keep an eye
on housing inventory as mea-
sured by the months of supply fig-
ure that the Canadian Real Estate
Association puts out. Until that
key metric shoots up by more
than a month, there is no correc-
tion.
That said, history is not the fu-
ture. Given real estate valuations
now resemble 1720 share values
in the South Sea Company, we
may be in for a different outcome.
I sure wouldn’t run out and start
flipping houses right now.
Real estate has made automat-
ic millionaires of hundreds of
thousands of Canadians. Infla-
tion could keep boosting their
net worth, for now.
But, let’s talk again once surg-
ing rates and unemployment
break up the party. Buyers won’t
be as vivacious 12 to 24 months.
And if inflation does push prices
higher in the next 12 to 18
months, the correction may be all
the more unpleasant.
THE RATE PAIN CONTINUES
Fixed mortgage rates continued
north this week, with the best
five-year climbing another 25 ba-
sis points. I’ll be a broken record
and say it again: If you need a
mortgage in the next four
months and don’t have a rate
hold already, get on that.
Rates in the accompanying
chart are as of Wednesday from
providers that advertise rates on-
line and lend in at least nine prov-
inces. Insured rates apply to those
buying with less than a 20-per-
cent down payment, or those
switching a pre-existing insured
mortgage to a new lender. Unin-
sured rates apply to refinances
and purchases more than $1-mil-
lion and may include applicable
lender rate premiums. For provid-
ers whose rates vary by province,
their highest rate is shown.
market leadership.
There are some investors who
were born in the 1940s and 1950s
and have practical experience in
inflationary environments, but
the vast majority of us have be-
come accustomed to much dif-
ferent conditions. Interest rates
have been falling, and bonds ral-
lying, since 1982. Banks and tech-
nology stocks have come to
dominate the benchmark while
resources, until very recently,
have declined in importance.
I’m not entirely convinced
we’re set for another decade of
inflation, but as long as this era
of rising rates last, investors in
both bonds and equities are like-
ly to be frequently surprised and
uncomfortable with their portfo-
lios.
T H U R S DAY, M A RC H 2 4 , 2 0 2 2
Can a hot stock get hotter?
The bullish case for Nutrien
Blistering rally for
potash producer could
continue even if there’s
a resolution to Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine
DAVID
BERMAN
OPINION
INSIDE THE MARKET
M
any analysts are con-
vinced that the blistering
rally in the share price of
Saskatoon-based Nutrien Ltd.,
the world’s largest potash pro-
ducer, has further to run – even if
there is a resolution to Russia’s in-
vasion of Ukraine.
Jacob Bout, at CIBC World Mar-
kets, is the latest analyst to ratchet
up his enthusiasm for the stock.
He raised his target price (or
where he sees the stock trading
within 12 months) by 35 per cent
this week, to US$120, which lines
up with targets from analysts at
RBC Dominion Securities and
BMO Capital Markets.
The rationale: The typical
threats to commodity rallies –
supply rises as producers ramp up
output, and demand falls as con-
sumers recoil from soaring prices
– will not hurt the fundamentally
bullish underpinnings for the fer-
tilizer market.
“North American producers
should benefit from strong pric-
ing, while incrementally ramping
up production levels to the extent
possible,” Mr. Bout said in a note.
It’s a persuasive take for any-
one who missed the rally in fertil-
izer stocks or is wondering wheth-
er the impressive gains will hold,
given the volatile nature of most
commodities.
Nutrien’s share price has
soared 38 per cent over the past
month, making it one of the top
performers within the S&P/TSX
Strategy focuses on growth among beaten-down stocks
IAN TAM
NUMBER CRUNCHER
CFA, is director of investment
research for Morningstar Canada
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
Canadian stocks with year-to-
date price declines that have
shown growth characteristics.
THE SCREEN
It’s been a choppy few weeks for
Canadian equity markets.
Though the S&P/TSX Composite
is higher than it was since the
start of the year, the path to get
here was far from smooth. Today,
we seek Canadian-listed compa-
nies that, for whatever reason, ap-
pear beaten down in terms of
price action, but continue to ex-
hibit positive, long-term earnings
and cash flow growth.
To find these companies, I
used Morningstar CPMS to screen
the 704 companies in our Cana-
dian database that have shown a
EYE ON EQUITIES DAVID LEEDER
STELCO HOLDINGS (STLC-TSX)
CLOSE $52.82, UP $1.26
Despite increasing his steel price
forecast for 2022, RBC Dominion
Securities analyst Alexander Jack-
son downgraded Stelco Holdings
Inc. to a “sector perform” recom-
mendation from “outperform,”
citing a recent run-up in its share
price and the expectations for a
“more balanced” market exiting
the year. “The shares are relative-
ly fairly valued in our view,” he
added.
Target: Mr. Jackson raised his tar-
get to $60 from $51. That exceeds
the $54.64 consensus on the
Street.
| T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L O
Composite Index.
The gains come as Western
sanctions against Russia have dri-
ven skyward a huge array of com-
modity prices, from crude oil and
natural gas to wheat and copper.
Russia and Belarus, which is al-
so subject to sanctions, together
control about 40 per cent of the
global supply of potash, Nutrien’s
mainstay. Uncertainty over ex-
ports from these two countries
has driven global fertilizer prices,
in some cases to record highs.
The decision to stick with a hot
stock comes with risks, of course.
In particular, Western fertilizer
producers can increase produc-
tion and a resolution to the war in
Ukraine could relax sanctions,
potentially easing supply con-
cerns and pushing down fertilizer
prices.
Russia and Belarus,
which is also subject
to sanctions, together
control about
40 per cent of the
global supply of potash,
Nutrien’s mainstay.
But analysts expect that these
risks aren’t enough to hold back
Nutrien’s share price, even over
the longer term, for a number of
reasons.
For one, the supply of fertilizer
will likely remain diminished
regardless of the geopolitical
backdrop.
Belarus lost access to Lithua-
nian ports on Feb. 1 – weeks before
Russia invaded Ukraine – ham-
pering the landlocked country’s
ability to export 90 per cent of its
potash. Access to the ports is un-
likely to be reinstated if Russia
calls off its invasion, given that
sanctions against Belarus relate to
its crackdown on protesters fol-
lowing a disputed presidential
election last year.
What’s more, Mr. Bout expects
that the geopolitical turmoil will
Canadian-listed stocks
RANK COMPANY TICKER
1 Canfor Corp. CFP-T
2 Goeasy Ltd. GSY-T
3 BRP Inc.* DOO-T
4 Westaim Corp. WED-X
5 Colliers Int'l Group CIGI-T
6 FirstService Corp. FSV-T
7 TerraVest Industries TVK-T
8 AutoCanada Inc. ACQ-T
9 Leon's Furniture LNF-T
10 Stantec Inc. STN-T
11 Brookfield Business BBU-UN-T
12 Sleep Country Cda. ZZZ-T
13 Open Text Corp. OTEX-T
14 CGI Inc. GIB-A-T
* BRP Inc. shows exhorbitantly high ROE owing to the very low or negative book value of equity. This extreme value was accounted for in
the ranking process.
Source: Morningstar CPMS; data as of March 22
year-to-date price change worse
than minus 7.7 per cent (a figure
meant to find stocks that have
underperformed the top two-
thirds of Canadian-listed compa-
nies on a year-to-date basis). I
then ranked these companies on
the following factors:
Five-year average return on
equity (a profitability metric,
CORUS ENTERTAINMENT (CJR.B-TSX)
CLOSE $4.97, DOWN 11¢
Seeing “muted” advertising trac-
tion and higher-than-anticipated
costs, National Bank Financial
analyst Adam Shine thinks the
Street’s expectations for Corus
Entertainment Inc.’s second-
quarter results are “looking high.”
Previewing the April 8 release, he
predicted the company’s televi-
sion segment is “likely to disap-
point,” given the current market
backdrop.
Target: Keeping an “outperform”
rating for Corus shares, Mr. Shine
reduced his target by $1.50 to
$6.50. Consensus is $8.06.
push global buyers to shy away
from Eastern Europe and em-
brace more stable North Ameri-
can producers, suggesting that ex-
ports from Belarus and Russia will
remain diminished regardless of
whether the war ends.
Can Nutrien fill the gap? The
company announced last week
that it will increase its potash pro-
duction by nearly one million
tonnes in the second half of the
year, bringing output to a total of
15 million tonnes.
But analysts said that the in-
crease can’t make up for the 13
million tonnes at risk from cur-
tailed exports from Russia and Be-
larus, even if some of this potash
makes its way to India or China.
“The scale of these potential
losses is almost unfathomable, in
our view, with little-to-no ability
to backfill this cavernous gap,”
Steve Hansen, an analyst at Ray-
mond James, said in a note last
week.
Strong demand for fertilizer
should also support Nutrien’s
share price.
Robust crop prices give farmers
an incentive to use fertilizer to in-
crease yields – and crop prices are
soaring. U.S. corn futures are near
10-year highs and wheat futures
have risen more than 40 per cent
since the start of February.
In some parts of the world,
such as Brazil, higher fertilizer
prices are pushing farmers to cut
back on use. However, Ben Isaac-
son, an analyst at Bank of Nova
Scotia, noted this week that Nutri-
en’s chief executive officer has
seen no so-called demand de-
struction yet.
And Mr. Bout said that profits
generated by North American fer-
tilizer producers get a bigger lift
from higher prices than from
greater sales volume.
In any case, he added, supply
lost from Eastern Europe pro-
ducers is more important than
volume lost to demand destruc-
tion. That, he believes, makes
Nutrien look like a solid bet in an
uncertain world.
MKT. CAP. YTD PRICE 5Y AVG. EPS GRTH.
($ MIL.) CHG. (%) ROE (%) RATE (%)
3,602.8 -9.7 24.8 101.0
2,272.7 -21.7 24.0
3,604.7 -16.7 35,647.6
315.3 -11.6 1.7
7,192.4 -11.1 44.3
7,983.8 -27.3 36.3
446.8 -9.3 19.2
868.8 -23.8 9.3
1,492.1 -12.7 14.2
7,121.6 -10.0 12.1
5,296.4 -9.9 3.5
1,127.0 -18.7 21.4
14,863.8 -8.7 19.6
22,233.9 -8.4 18.7
higher figures preferred);
five-year earnings per share
and cash flow growth rates (both
growth metrics, measuring how
much bottom line earnings and
operating cash flows have grown
annually, on average, over the
past five years);
three-month EPS estimate re-
vision (a sentiment indicator
DOLLARAMA (DOL-TSX)
CLOSE $68.71, DOWN 19¢
Canaccord Genuity’ analyst De-
rek Dley expects Dollarama Inc.
to benefit from “strong” holiday
season sales, delivering “solid”
fourth-quarter financial results.
“We believe the softer near-term
outlook, particularly as it relates
to margin growth, is likely to
leave the stock range-bound over
the coming quarters,” he noted.
Target: Mr. Dley raised his target
to $65 from $57 with a “hold”
recommendation. Consensus is
$67.69.
R E P O RT O N B U S I N ES S | B9
Markets summary
CANADIAN STOCKS
Canada’s main stock index fell after hitting a record high in
the previous session as weakness in the technology and
financial sectors countered gains in commodity-linked
shares.
The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX Composite Index
ended down 0.64 per cent, at 21,932.18, its first lower close
since March 14.
The index climbed to fresh record highs in recent days as
investors placed bets on beaten-down technology stocks,
while higher metal and oil prices boosted commodity-linked
sectors.
The technology group fell 2.3 per cent, tracking weakness
in the U.S. tech-heavy Nasdaq index, while financials ended
nearly 2 per cent lower.
The energy sector advanced 1.9 per cent to notch a two-
week high as disruptions to Russian and Kazakh crude ex-
ports via the Caspian Pipeline Consortium pipeline added to
worries over tight global supplies.
U.S. STOCKS
U.S. stocks ended sharply lower as Western leaders began
gathering in Brussels to plan more measures to press Russia
to halt its conflict in Ukraine and oil prices jumped.
Responding to Western sanctions that have hit Russia’s
economy hard, President Vladimir Putin said Moscow will
seek payment in rubles for natural gas sales from “unfriend-
ly” countries, while its forces bombed areas of the Ukrainian
capital Kyiv a month into their assault.
Oil prices jumped 5 per cent to more than US$121 a barrel,
and U.S. natural gas futures edged up to a seven-week high.
While higher oil prices benefit energy shares, they are nega-
tive for consumers and many businesses. The S&P 500 energy
sector rose along with utilities.
Among the day’s biggest drags, Adobe’s stock slid after the
Photoshop maker late Tuesday forecast downbeat second-
quarter revenue and profit and sees an impact on fiscal 2022
revenue because of the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
The S&P 500 lost 1.21 per cent, while the Nasdaq Composite
lost 1.32 per cent. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.30
per cent.
FOREX AND BONDS
The Canadian dollar was little changed against the green-
back, with the currency holding near a two-month high as
recent dialling back of financial market volatility led to in-
vestors focusing more on the upswing in commodity prices.
The U.S. dollar climbed while the euro weakened as oil
prices shot higher again with U.S. President Joe Biden poised
to announce, alongside European leaders, new sanctions
against Russia during his trip to Europe.
Canadian government bond yields eased across a flatter
curve, tracking the move in U.S. Treasuries. The 10-year rate
fell 7.9 basis points to 2.340 per cent, after earlier touching its
highest intraday level since November, 2018, at 2.443 per cent.
A sharp sell-off in U.S. Treasuries eased as the market tries
to come to grips with how the Federal Reserve might address
rising inflation without hiking interest rates at such a clip it
spins the economy into recession.
REUTERS
WHAT WE FOUND
5Y 5Y 3M I used Morningstar CPMS to back-
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50.6 61.7 0.9 2.6 16.5 140.30 equally weighted 15-stock portfo-
49.1 36.2 0.2 0.6 -10.2 92.31 lio with no more than four stocks
65.5 37.0 0.0 n/a -17.5 2.21 per economic sector. Once a
16.2 8.9 14.2 0.2 31.9 167.53 month, stocks were sold if they
fell below the top 35 per cent of
21.6 13.4 2.4 0.6 -4.3 180.66
33.4 25.1 0.0 1.6 43.8 24.92 the index based on the above
41.5 11.7 14.8 n/a 10.6 32.53 metrics, or if estimate revisions
21.8 24.8 14.5 3.0 2.3 21.69 fell by more than 15 per cent.
9.0 35.3 4.0 1.1 21.1 63.93 When sold, stocks were re-
3.4 55.6 0.0 0.6 5.1 34.88 placed with next qualifying stock
9.9 22.5 2.5 2.6 -2.8 30.53 not already held in the portfolio,
12.0 9.2 0.3 2.1 -9.4 54.81 considering the aforementioned
9.8 9.6 1.5 n/a -0.9 102.50 sector limits. On this basis, the
strategy produced an annualized
total return of 13.1 per cent, while
the S&P/TSX Composite Total Re-
turn Index advanced 8.8 per cent.
comparing the current Street esti- Only 14 stocks meet require-
mate on earnings with what it ments to be purchased into the
was at month-end three months strategy today and they are listed
ago, higher figures preferred). in the table.
Only stocks with a market cap- This article does not constitute
italization greater than $170-mil- financial advice. Investors are
lion were considered, a figure encouraged to conduct their own
meant to exclude the bottom independent research before pur-
one-third of stocks by size in our chasing any of the investments
database. listed here.
E AUTOMOTIVE (EINC-TSX) JOURNEY ENERGY (JOY-TSX)
CLOSE $12.75, DOWN 74¢ CLOSE $5.20, UP 26¢
While E Automotive Inc. topped Acumen Capital analyst Trevor
his revenue expectation for the Reynolds resumed coverage of
fourth quarter of its 2021 fiscal Journey Energy Inc. with a “spec-
year, Canaccord Genuity analyst ulative buy” rating after the close
Aravinda Galappatthige warned of its $12.1-million financing, see-
supply chain challenges and ing it “well positioned at current
related inventory issues are likely commodity prices to meaningful-
to persist well into late 2022 after ly reduce leverage while growing
previously expecting normal- production this year.”
ization by the second half of the Target: His target for Journey
year. shares rose to $5.75 from $3.75,
Target: Citing “the broader mar- above the $4.17 consensus.
ket selloff over the past few
months,” he cut his target to $20
from $28, maintaining a “buy”
recommendation. Consensus is
$25.84.
B10 MARKETS O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L | T H U R S DAY , M A RC H 2 4 , 2 0 2 2

S&P/TSX COMPOSITE INDEX S&P 500 DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE S&P GLOBAL 100 INDEX
PAST 12 MONTHS PAST 12 MONTHS PAST 12 MONTHS PAST 12 MONTHS

21932.18 | -142.17 | -0.64 % | 3.34 % YTD |280579 VOL(000) 4456.24 | -55.37 | -1.23 % | -6.50 % YTD 2184940 34358.50 | -448.96 | -1.29 % | -5.45 % YTD | 349592 VOL(000) 3032.25 | -17.24 | -0.57 % | -4.19 % YTD

TSX INDEXES AND SUB INDEXES TSX VOLUME TSX 52-WEEK HIGHS
TOP 20 FOR STOCKS $1 OR MORE STOCKS $1 OR MORE

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
TSX COMPOSITE IND 21932.18 -142.17 -0.64 280579 3.34 TRP TC ENERGY COR 70.72 0.35 0.50 14964 20.21 ARX ARC RESOURCES 16.67 0.41 2.52 5244 44.96 KEL KELT EXPLORAT 6.94 0.12 1.76 834 43.98
TSX 60 INDEX 1325.82 -10.94 -0.82 139278 3.02 SU SUNCOR ENERGY 41.41 0.65 1.59 13232 30.84 RBN-UN BLUE RIBBO 8.52 -0.06 -0.70 6 -1.84 MDI MAJOR DRILLIN 12.21 0.20 1.67 283 47.82
TSX COMPLETION IN 1275.22 0.78 0.06 141300 4.63 TD TORONTO-DOMINI 101.06 -1.85 -1.80 9165 4.21 BAM-PF-I BROOKFIE 26.45 0.11 0.42 4 4.79 MRD MELCOR DEV 17.11 0.12 0.71 15 20.15
TSX SMALLCAP INDE 841.57 3.88 0.46 77189 8.72 CVE CENOVUS ENERG 20.30 0.24 1.20 8487 30.88 CNQ CDN NATURAL R 79.47 1.86 2.40 6168 48.68 MX METHANEX CORP 70.65 0.91 1.30 253 41.19
TSX VENTURE COMPO 876.20 4.52 0.52 61752 -6.71 ENB ENBRIDGE INC 56.62 -0.18 -0.32 7073 14.59 CCO CAMECO CORP 36.50 -0.18 -0.49 2078 32.34 NIF-UN NORANDA IN 1.52 0.06 4.11 39 13.43
TSX CONSUMER DISC 246.82 -4.12 -1.64 3631 -9.83 BTE BAYTEX ENERGY 5.77 0.14 2.49 6743 47.57 CNR CANADIAN NATI 167.64 0.04 0.02 1084 7.89 NTR NUTRIEN LTD 132.49 1.16 0.88 1616 39.35
TSX CONSUMER STAP 776.04 -3.17 -0.41 3872 1.70 CNQ CANADIAN NATU 79.47 1.86 2.40 6168 48.68 EIT-UN CANOE EIT 13.98 0.06 0.43 268 5.51 OVV OVINTIV INC 65.89 2.49 3.93 486 54.82
TSX ENERGY CAPPED 223.99 4.17 1.90 72836 36.75 CM CANADIAN IMPER 159.08 -5.02 -3.06 5876 7.89 CHW CHESSWOOD GR 14.75 0.23 1.58 8 2.50 POU PARAMOUNT RES 30.57 0.40 1.33 436 24.32
TSX FINANCIALS CA 413.13 -8.30 -1.97 46982 2.48 BBD-B BOMBARDIER 1.48 -0.04 -2.63 5876 -11.90 CRWN CROWN CAPITA 7.84 0.33 4.39 1 4.53 PRQ PETRUS RESOUR 2.00 0.25 14.29 677 127.27
TSX HEALTH CARE C 39.97 -0.31 -0.77 10638 -13.03 BNS BANK OF NOVA 90.94 -2.79 -2.98 5695 1.55 CXI CURRENCY EXCH 17.45 0.25 1.45 5 29.26 PNE PINE CLIFF EN 1.05 0.04 3.96 956 54.41
TSX INDUSTRIALS C 391.20 -1.31 -0.33 18430 2.70 CPG CRESCENT POIN 9.40 0.18 1.95 5331 39.26 DIV DIVERSIFIED R 3.30 0.20 6.45 1333 17.02 PD PRECISION DRIL 86.65 2.95 3.52 73 93.89
TSX INFORMATION T 172.05 -4.01 -2.28 12271 -18.94 ARX ARC RESOURCES 16.67 0.41 2.52 5244 44.96 DFN DIVIDEND 15 S 8.57 -0.01 -0.12 188 7.12 SGR-U SLATE GROCE 13.18 -0.15 -1.13 2 15.61
TSX MATERIALS CAP 398.37 5.34 1.36 48942 21.34 HOD BETAPRO CRUDE 2.57 -0.29 -10.14 4983 -67.43 ETG ENTREE RESOUR 1.13 0.01 0.89 32 39.51 SLR SOLITARIO ZIN 1.17 -0.02 -1.68 43 82.81
TSX REAL ESTATE C 381.07 -4.49 -1.16 7748 -4.10 ATH ATHABASCA OIL 2.26 0.04 1.80 4869 89.92 TECE EVOLVE ENHAN 10.30 0.39 3.94 N-A 5.64 SII SPROTT INC 62.01 2.46 4.13 62 8.64
TSX GLOBAL GOLD I 353.62 8.05 2.33 72409 21.11 WCP WHITECAP RESO 10.43 0.31 3.06 4738 39.25 FFH-PR-J FAIRFAX 21.40 -0.10 -0.47 5 6.73 STLC STELCO HOLDI 52.82 1.26 2.44 266 28.14
TSX GLOBAL MINING 126.44 2.16 1.74 169579 21.65 BMO BANK OF MONTR 148.01 -5.71 -3.71 4568 8.68 FIL FILO MINING C 18.95 0.58 3.16 337 48.39 STEP STEP ENERGY 2.74 0.18 7.03 282 70.19
TSX INCOME TRUST 268.68 -2.01 -0.74 7923 1.87 MFC MANULIFE FIN 26.14 -0.20 -0.76 4251 8.42 GMX GLOBEX MINING 1.48 0.00 0.00 92 34.55 TOU TOURMALINE OI 53.88 1.07 2.03 1237 31.93
TSX PREFERRED SHA 678.39 1.21 0.18 2203 -3.18 TVE TAMARACK VALL 5.26 0.06 1.15 3816 36.62 IFC-PR-K INTACT F 25.25 0.18 0.72 67 0.68 TCN TRICON CAPITA 20.79 -0.53 -2.49 786 7.39
TSX COMMUNICATION 205.58 -1.11 -0.54 10520 5.35 BTO B2GOLD CORP 5.80 0.21 3.76 3784 16.47 IPCO INTERNATIONA 11.46 0.55 5.04 143 62.09 TRQ TURQUOISE HIL 37.30 0.50 1.36 402 79.33
TSX UTILITIES CAP 347.99 -0.70 -0.20 12094 1.35 ABX BARRICK GOLD 30.87 0.44 1.45 3664 28.36 JFS-UN JFT STRATE 23.16 0.09 0.39 N-A 9.87 WCP WHITECAP RESO 10.43 0.31 3.06 4738 39.25

TSX GAINERS TSX LOSERS TSX 52-WEEK LOWS

TOP 20 FOR STOCKS $1 OR MORE TOP 20 FOR STOCKS $1 OR MORE STOCKS $1 OR MORE

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
MOGO MOGO INC 3.62 0.54 17.53 1580 -16.01 NPF-U NEXTPOINT F 1.90 -1.10 -36.67 22 -62.75 FAP ABERDEEN ASIA 2.80 -0.06 -2.10 140 -8.50 PMB-UN PICTON MAH 7.71 0.00 0.00 N-A -0.52
PRQ PETRUS RESOUR 2.00 0.25 14.29 677 127.27 CARE DIALOGUE HEA 5.30 -0.70 -11.67 270 -27.30 BAM-PF-D BROOKFIE 23.34 0.15 0.65 53 -7.75 PIX-UN PIMCO MULT 9.93 0.18 1.85 2 1.33
XTG XTRA GOLD RES 1.13 0.13 13.00 3 15.31 HOD BETAPRO CRUDE 2.57 -0.29 -10.14 4983 -67.43 CU-PR-J CANADIAN 24.00 0.16 0.67 88 -5.66 PWF-PR-Z POWER FI 25.11 0.10 0.40 2 -7.00
BYD BOYD GROUP SE 166.01 18.41 12.47 277 -16.84 GRID TANTALUS SYS 1.35 -0.15 -10.00 7 -27.03 CCS-PR-C CO-OPERA 24.75 -0.07 -0.28 4 -2.29 GRID TANTALUS SYS 1.35 -0.15 -10.00 7 -27.03
CKI CLARKE INC 11.65 1.10 10.43 20 12.89 VLNS THE VALENS C 2.89 -0.27 -8.54 246 -7.07 EMA-PR-E EMERA IN 22.85 -0.15 -0.65 1 -8.42 TSAT TELESAT CORP 22.15 -1.41 -5.98 4 -38.40
HOU BETAPRO CRUDE 29.28 2.62 9.83 1305 128.93 MRV NUVO PHARMACE 1.41 -0.13 -8.44 5 -2.08 FTN-PR-A FINANCIA 10.33 -0.23 -2.18 792 -1.81 TH THERATECHNOLOG 3.05 -0.03 -0.97 150 -20.16
KRN KARNALYTE RES 1.03 0.08 8.42 157 151.22 EAGR LEAF MOBILE 2.62 -0.23 -8.07 30 -26.40 GWO-PR-H GREAT-WE 23.61 0.09 0.38 1 -6.57 VBNK VERSABANK 13.50 -0.35 -2.53 2 -10.12
CXB CALIBRE MININ 1.64 0.12 7.89 2051 22.39 ARIS ARIS GOLD CO 1.75 -0.15 -7.89 336 15.89 GTMS GREENBROOK T 3.64 -0.15 -3.96 12 -32.47 WBR WATERLOO BREW 4.89 -0.08 -1.61 54 -15.83
RBY RUBELLITE ENE 4.04 0.29 7.73 175 80.36 APY ANGLO PACIFIC 2.76 -0.23 -7.69 3 15.48 NPF-U NEXTPOINT F 1.90 -1.10 -36.67 22 -62.75
GTE GRAN TIERRA E 2.10 0.15 7.69 2891 118.75 TCS TECSYS INC J 32.67 -2.26 -6.47 29 -37.90
ESGY-F BMO MSCI U 34.87 2.47 7.62 4 -6.74 TSAT TELESAT CORP 22.15 -1.41 -5.98 4 -38.40
EDGE-U EVOLVE INN 20.00 1.40 7.53 1 -11.50 ADW-B ANDREW PELL 9.32 -0.57 -5.76 N-A -14.89
TCW TRICAN WELL 3.51 0.24 7.34 1290 26.71 NVEI NUVEI CORP 88.64 -5.39 -5.73 620 8.10
STEP STEP ENERGY 2.74 0.18 7.03 282 70.19 EINC E AUTOMOTIVE 12.75 -0.74 -5.49 23 -29.83
TV TREVALI MINING 1.53 0.10 6.99 418 -11.05 CFX CANFOR PULP P 5.44 -0.31 -5.39 39 -18.68
NPK VERDE AGRITEC 8.97 0.57 6.79 348 220.36 GDL GOODFELLOW IN 12.31 -0.70 -5.38 6 28.90
FCGB-U FIDELITY G 19.82 1.25 6.73 45 1.38 CARB HORIZONS CAR 8.53 -0.46 -5.12 6 -14.96
GIQU-B GUARDIAN I 22.38 1.40 6.67 5 -13.89 NBLY NEIGHBOURLY 31.30 -1.65 -5.01 67 -21.63
ASTL ALGOMA STEEL 15.20 0.94 6.59 184 11.93 YCM COMMERCE SPLI 5.79 -0.30 -4.93 4 13.09
CPH CIPHER PHARMA 2.45 0.15 6.52 22 38.42 SXI SYNEX INTL J 2.97 -0.15 -4.81 3 2.41

S&P/TSX COMPOSITE INDEX STOCKS

LARGEST STOCKS 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
AAV ADVANTAGE OIL 8.03 0.19 2.42 862 8.37 CCA COGECO COMMUN 103.02 -0.34 -0.33 54 2.27 ITP INTERTAPE POL 39.47 0.02 0.05 559 49.96 REI-UN RIOCAN REA 25.66 -0.26 -1.00 614 11.86
ARE AECON GROUP I 16.52 -0.45 -2.65 486 -2.13 CIGI COLLIERS INT 163.66 -3.87 -2.31 93 -13.12 IVN IVANHOE MINES 11.74 0.23 2.00 1490 13.76 RBA RITCHIE BROS 73.97 -0.38 -0.51 93 -4.44
AEM AGNICO EAGLE 78.67 1.67 2.17 1797 17.09 CSU CONSTELLATION 2163.60 -28.64 -1.31 33 -7.81 RCI-B ROGERS COMM 66.71 -0.63 -0.94 1590 10.76
AC AIR CANADA 23.75 -0.61 -2.50 3077 12.40 CTS CONVERGE TECH 10.25 -0.41 -3.85 661 -5.70 JWEL JAMIESON WEL 35.36 -0.87 -2.40 32 -11.91 RY ROYAL BANK OF 140.39 -2.57 -1.80 2567 4.57
AGI ALAMOS GOLD I 10.56 0.20 1.93 622 8.53 CJR-B CORUS ENTER 4.97 -0.11 -2.17 1739 4.41 RUS RUSSEL METALS 33.46 -0.44 -1.30 201 -0.51
AQN ALGONQUIN POW 19.06 -0.03 -0.16 2547 4.32 CPG CRESCENT POIN 9.40 0.18 1.95 5331 39.26 KNT K92 MINING IN 8.41 0.23 2.81 440 16.97
ATD ALIMENTATION 52.37 -0.42 -0.80 1419 -1.19 CRR-UN CROMBIE RE 18.78 -0.09 -0.48 133 0.86 KEY KEYERA CORP 30.98 0.20 0.65 849 8.59 SSL SANDSTORM GOL 10.28 0.23 2.29 210 30.96
AP-UN ALLIED PROP 46.77 -1.01 -2.11 275 6.42 CRON CRONOS GROUP 4.58 -0.03 -0.65 347 -8.03 KMP-UN KILLAM APA 21.93 -0.24 -1.08 281 -7.04 SAP SAPUTO INC 30.50 -0.13 -0.42 428 7.02
ALA ALTAGAS LTD 27.82 -0.33 -1.17 989 1.87 KXS KINAXIS INC 167.10 -2.98 -1.75 83 -5.77 SEA SEABRIDGE GOL 24.60 0.52 2.16 144 17.70
AIF ALTUS GROUP L 48.31 -0.04 -0.08 44 -31.93 DML DENISON MINES 2.13 -0.03 -1.39 3135 22.41 K KINROSS GOLD CO 7.13 0.05 0.71 3451 -2.86 SES SECURE ENERGY 5.40 0.01 0.19 758 2.66
ARX ARC RESOURCES 16.67 0.41 2.52 5244 44.96 DSG DESCARTES SYS 96.52 -2.45 -2.48 220 -7.74 SJR-B SHAW COMMUN 38.50 0.04 0.10 2550 0.29
ATZ ARITZIA INC 49.27 -0.72 -1.44 206 -5.88 DCBO DOCEBO INC 62.17 -1.02 -1.61 74 -26.75 LIF LABRADOR IRON 42.08 0.43 1.03 994 12.12 SHOP SHOPIFY INC 884.38 -28.12 -3.08 495 -49.22
AX-UN ARTIS REAL 13.28 -0.07 -0.52 263 11.22 DOL DOLLARAMA INC 68.71 -0.19 -0.28 437 8.53 LB LAURENTIAN BAN 43.22 -0.96 -2.17 786 7.59 SIA SIENNA SENIOR 15.31 -0.14 -0.91 617 1.86
ACO-X ATCO LTD CL 42.09 0.01 0.02 272 -1.43 DIR-UN DREAM INDU 16.25 -0.24 -1.46 754 -5.63 LWRK LIFEWORKS IN 20.61 -0.14 -0.67 91 -19.27 SVM SILVERCORP ME 4.94 0.05 1.02 344 4.44
ATA ATS AUTOMATIO 43.30 -0.03 -0.07 79 -13.81 D-UN DREAM OFFICE 29.01 -0.20 -0.68 127 17.78 LSPD LIGHTSPEED C 38.38 -1.48 -3.71 1774 -24.86 SIL SILVERCREST M 11.80 0.06 0.51 300 18.00
ACB AURORA CANNAB 4.58 -0.05 -1.08 2275 -33.14 DPM DUNDEE PRECIO 7.87 0.18 2.34 719 0.64 LNR LINAMAR CORP 56.37 -1.37 -2.37 207 -24.77 ZZZ SLEEP COUNTRY 30.58 0.05 0.16 84 -18.52
DND DYE & DURHAM 29.64 0.05 0.17 326 -33.96 LEV LION ELECTRIC 10.86 -0.16 -1.45 277 -13.12 SRU-UN SMARTCENTR 33.05 -0.29 -0.87 213 2.67
BTO B2GOLD CORP 5.80 0.21 3.76 3784 16.47 LAC LITHIUM AMERI 40.51 -0.04 -0.10 1049 10.02 SNC SNC-LAVALIN S 30.00 -0.76 -2.47 503 -2.94
BCE BCE INC 67.64 -0.17 -0.25 1461 2.78 ECN ECN CAPITAL C 6.64 -0.06 -0.90 247 24.34 L LOBLAW CO 110.44 0.35 0.32 716 6.56 TOY SPIN MASTER C 45.74 -0.11 -0.24 29 -4.59
BDGI BADGER INFRA 29.18 1.32 4.74 96 -8.21 ELD ELDORADO GOLD 14.50 0.38 2.69 560 22.26 LUN LUNDIN MINING 12.78 0.27 2.16 1830 29.35 SII SPROTT INC 62.01 2.46 4.13 62 8.64
BLDP BALLARD POWE 15.22 0.41 2.77 1324 -4.22 EFN ELEMENT FLEET 12.02 -0.13 -1.07 577 -6.68 SSRM SSR MINING I 27.27 0.52 1.94 366 21.80
BMO BANK OF MONTR 148.01 -5.71 -3.71 4568 8.68 EMA EMERA INCORPO 60.28 0.03 0.05 877 -4.65 MAG MAG SILVER CO 21.38 0.57 2.74 168 7.82 STN STANTEC INC 63.70 -0.23 -0.36 303 -10.37
BNS BANK OF NOVA 90.94 -2.79 -2.98 5695 1.55 EMP-A EMPIRE COMP 43.25 -0.23 -0.53 169 12.22 MG MAGNA INTERNAT 79.32 -1.40 -1.73 838 -22.50 STLC STELCO HOLDI 52.82 1.26 2.44 266 28.14
ABX BARRICK GOLD 30.87 0.44 1.45 3664 28.36 ENB ENBRIDGE INC 56.62 -0.18 -0.32 7073 14.59 MFC MANULIFE FIN 26.14 -0.20 -0.76 4251 8.42 SJ STELLA JONES I 38.98 -0.12 -0.31 294 -2.57
BHC BAUSCH HEALTH 29.64 -0.60 -1.98 878 -15.17 EDR ENDEAVOUR SIL 6.23 0.14 2.30 466 16.45 MFI MAPLE LEAF FO 29.70 -0.51 -1.69 103 1.50 SMU-UN SUMMIT IND 23.05 -0.12 -0.52 637 -1.91
BTE BAYTEX ENERGY 5.77 0.14 2.49 6743 47.57 EFR ENERGY FUELS 12.43 -0.33 -2.59 679 28.67 MRE MARTINREA INT 9.12 -0.06 -0.65 192 -20.70 SLF SUN LIFE FINA 70.03 -0.61 -0.86 1063 -0.54
BIR BIRCHCLIFF EN 7.43 0.11 1.50 2103 15.02 ERF ENERPLUS CORP 16.52 0.39 2.42 1957 23.84 MEG MEG ENERGY CO 18.65 0.10 0.54 2114 59.40 SU SUNCOR ENERGY 41.41 0.65 1.59 13232 30.84
BB BLACKBERRY LTD 9.50 0.10 1.06 3355 -19.63 ENGH ENGHOUSE SYS 39.83 -0.65 -1.61 99 -17.76 MX METHANEX CORP 70.65 0.91 1.30 253 41.19 SPB SUPERIOR PLUS 11.87 0.14 1.19 665 -8.69
BEI-UN BOARDWALK 57.60 -1.13 -1.92 139 5.05 EQX EQUINOX GOLD 10.72 0.37 3.57 809 25.23 MRU METRO INC 69.22 -0.18 -0.26 450 2.82
BBD-B BOMBARDIER 1.48 -0.04 -2.63 5876 -11.90 EQB EQUITABLE GRO 74.86 -2.20 -2.85 70 8.63 MTY MTY FOOD GROU 54.25 -0.78 -1.42 57 -14.27 TVE TAMARACK VALL 5.26 0.06 1.15 3816 36.62
BLX BORALEX INC 37.71 -0.66 -1.72 249 8.74 ERO ERO COPPER CO 17.95 0.03 0.17 291 -6.99 MTL MULLEN GROUP 13.25 0.06 0.45 392 13.93 TRP TC ENERGY COR 70.72 0.35 0.50 14964 20.21
BYD BOYD GROUP SE 166.01 18.41 12.47 277 -16.84 EIF EXCHANGE INCO 42.10 0.51 1.23 94 -0.09 TECK-B TECK RESOU 50.41 1.32 2.69 1842 38.37
BAM-A BROOKFIELD 69.71 -1.49 -2.09 1177 -8.74 NA NATIONAL BANK 98.99 -2.09 -2.07 2488 2.64 T TELUS CORP 32.04 -0.19 -0.59 2363 7.55
BBU-UN BROOKFIELD 36.50 1.62 4.64 124 -37.12 FFH FAIRFAX FINAN 620.19 4.24 0.69 51 -0.33 NGD NEW GOLD INC 2.33 0.08 3.56 1080 23.28 TIXT TELUS INTERN 31.68 -0.69 -2.13 138 -24.21
BIP-UN BROOKFIELD 79.02 -0.80 -1.00 309 2.64 FTT FINNING INTL 39.41 0.05 0.13 297 23.62 NXE NEXGEN ENERGY 7.26 -0.08 -1.09 1482 31.05 TFII TFI INTERNAT 138.49 -1.67 -1.19 171 -2.38
BEP-UN BROOKFIELD 51.53 0.67 1.32 190 13.73 FCR-UN FIRST CAPI 18.23 -0.06 -0.33 444 -3.34 NFI NFI GROUP INC 16.50 0.05 0.30 251 -18.56 NWC THE NORTH WES 37.27 -0.03 -0.08 107 8.85
DOO BRP INC 89.12 -3.19 -3.46 258 -19.57 FR FIRST MAJESTIC 17.48 0.16 0.92 483 24.24 NPI NORTHLAND POW 41.58 0.00 0.00 472 9.57 TRI THOMSON REUTE 132.77 -1.41 -1.05 262 -12.23
FM FIRST QUANTUM 41.45 0.26 0.63 1373 36.93 NWH-UN NORTHWEST 14.27 -0.11 -0.76 325 3.33 TLRY TILRAY INC 7.18 0.05 0.70 3016 -19.51
CAR-UN CDN APARTM 54.57 -1.13 -2.03 426 -8.99 FSV FIRSTSERVICE 181.45 0.79 0.44 106 -27.01 NG NOVAGOLD RES I 9.75 0.05 0.52 131 12.46 X TMX GROUP LTD 130.18 -0.88 -0.67 127 1.50
CNQ CDN NATURAL R 79.47 1.86 2.40 6168 48.68 FTS FORTIS INC 60.06 0.03 0.05 765 -1.59 NTR NUTRIEN LTD 132.49 1.16 0.88 1616 39.35 TPZ TOPAZ ENERGY 20.16 0.15 0.75 235 12.94
CWB CDN WESTERN B 37.78 -0.70 -1.82 260 4.08 FVI FORTUNA SILVE 5.25 0.05 0.96 855 6.28 NVEI NUVEI CORP 88.64 -5.39 -5.73 620 8.10 TXG TOREX GOLD RE 16.29 0.32 2.00 470 23.88
GIB-A CGI GROUP I 100.26 -2.24 -2.19 592 -10.36 FNV FRANCO-NEVADA 199.28 3.41 1.74 430 13.91 TIH TOROMONT IND 118.62 -0.49 -0.41 147 3.73
CIX CI FINANCIAL 20.05 -0.60 -2.91 976 -24.17 FRU FREEHOLD ROYA 14.86 0.11 0.75 1036 27.55 OGC OCEANAGOLD CO 2.90 0.07 2.47 1690 31.82 TD TORONTO-DOMINI 101.06 -1.85 -1.80 9165 4.21
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Newest Leaf takes to the ice

Maple Leafs defenceman Mark Giordano skates with the puck, while Devils forward Jack Hughes chases, during
Wednesday’s game at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. The Leafs recently acquired Giordano in a trade with the Seattle Kraken.
Helped by two short-handed goals, the Leafs won 3-2. For Paul Attfield’s game story go to B14

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Barty, a low-profile legend, has a puncher’s chance of staying retired

CATHAL pre-emptively pull that rug out from un-
KELLY der himself.
“Barring poverty, the ring has seen the
OPINION last of me,” Marciano said.
And it had. He never fought again (and
then, just in case you thought this was a

W
hen people talk about Rocky
Marciano these days, it has
nothing to do with his qual-
ities as a boxer. It’s entirely
down to how he left boxing.
Marciano was the world heavyweight
champion when he called a news confer-
ence on a random Friday in 1956 and an-
nounced he was retiring. He hadn’t boxed
in six months – an eternity at the time. He
was still just 31. He’d never lost a profes-
sional fight.
Marciano’s reasoning – that he’d made
enough money and wanted to spend time
with his wife and kids. He may have been
the first public figure to use that excuse –
back when it wasn’t yet an excuse.
Good boxers had “retired” before in
order to goose the purse of their next
fight, so Marciano made sure to
happy story, he died young in a plane
crash).
A lot of great athletes have done a lot of
great things. But this – voluntarily going
out on top and staying out – remains a feat
so rare that people who don’t know the
first thing about boxing remember Mar-
ciano for it.
It helps that no one of similar stature
has managed it since. Michael Jordan
tried (he was fixed well enough for a
hundred Marciano families) and failed.
Bjorn Borg quit at 26, but ruined it with a
miserable comeback a decade later.
Mario Lemieux, Kim Clijsters, Michael
Phelps, Justine Henin, Roger Clemens.
They all took their Marciano shot and
couldn’t follow through. Once they got
Ashleigh Barty, the world’s No. 1-ranked women’s tennis player, announced her retirement healthy and bored, they were back.
on Wednesday at 25. ‘I am spent,’ she said. ANDY BROWNBILL/AP KELLY, B13

As Canada nears World Cup qualification, Herdman still sees room for improvement
SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA “So we’ve worked hard this week on the think every man knows what’s in front of an intercontinental playoff to see who
process, the process of improving. And him. They’re in the front-row seat. Their joins them.
those improvements will car- hands are on the steering After Costa Rica, the Canadian men host

C
anada may be on the verge of World ry us through the game hope- wheel. They can do this. They No. 62 Jamaica on Sunday at Toronto’s BMO
Cup qualification but coach John fully.” can actually do more than Field before wrapping up qualifying play
Herdman is still looking for im- But while wanting to make They’re in the that, just qualify. And that’s March 30 against No. 63 Panama in Panama
provements. sure his players focus on get- the exciting bit. And I think City.
In the leadup to Thursday’s match ting better – with Herdman front-row seat. Their that’s the real motivator.” “We’ve got three missions, we’ve got
against No. 42 Costa Rica, Herdman said he citing game management as a hands are on the Canada (7-0-4, 25 points) three separate groups of guys that are clear
spoke to the team leadership group about possible area of growth – steering wheel. They has been the surprise pack- on this game, the game in Toronto and the
“staying away from the occasion.” And rather than pondering the can do this. They age in CONCACAF qualifying, game in Panama. Each one of them has
while the 33rd-ranked Canadian men have “enormity of an occasion,” he topping the final round-rob- massive significance for this program,”
won six straight in qualifying, which in- made it clear that this Cana- can actually do more in table ahead of Mexico and Herdman said.
cludes victories over the 12th-ranked U.S. dian team has bigger goals than that just qualify. the U.S. (both 6-2-3, 21 The Canadians want to finish first in
and No. 13 Mexico – he believes there is than just getting to Qatar And that’s the points) with Panama fourth CONCACAF qualifying, showing they truly
more in the tank. 2022. exciting bit. And I (5-4-2, 17 points) and Costa belong. And a continued rise up the rank-
“We’ll enjoy the game together but we’ll Herdman said he showed Rica fifth (4-3-4, 16 points). ing ladder – Canada was ranked 94th when
not get carried away,” Herdman told report- the team a two-minute video think that’s the real The top three teams at the Herdman took over in January, 2018 – could
ers. “So [we] come back to a bit of humility from his first camp at the motivator. conclusion of the current in- help when it comes to the World Cup draw.
in the training sessions this week where we helm in Murcia, Spain, in ternational window will rep- A win Thursday and Canada is in. A draw
identified some areas from January we we- 2018. JOHN HERDMAN resent North and Central will also suffice if Panama fails to beat Hon-
CANADIAN MEN’S TEAM
ren’t happy with, areas where some of our “[It] brought them right HEAD COACH America and the Caribbean duras or Mexico wins or ties the U.S. on
stats had dropped below a line that we back to that moment where in Qatar. The fourth-place Thursday.
thought was acceptable for our team. as a group we said we would qualify and I finisher will take on a side from Oceania in QUALIFYING, B15
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Independent review of Rugby Canada

paints damning, dysfunctional picture
Report says a lack of
long-term strategy
has organization in a
‘constant state of crisis’
NEIL DAVIDSON
An independent review into Rug-
by Canada’s high-performance
programs paints a damning pic-
ture of a dysfunctional organiza-
tion at odds with its athletes, staff
and supporters.
The review depicts a governing
body too busy fighting fires to
have any long-term strategy and
athletes “shocked” at how poorly
they are treated when joining the
high-performance program and
feeling undervalued and ignored.
“The culture of Rugby Canada
and the high-performance pro-
gram is described as ‘empty’ or
‘non-existent,’ ” the report states.
“In this vacuum of culture and
leadership, bad behaviours take
hold across all areas of the pro-
gram. The high-performance pro-
gram is described as unhealthy or
unsafe by many.
“Current players and high-per-
formance program alumni con-
fess that they are not proud to
wear the Rugby Canada jersey.”
The review was commissioned
by Rugby Canada in the wake of
complaints raised by past and
present members of the women’s
sevens team and the men’s 15s
team’s first-ever failure to qualify
for the World Cup.
The 17-page report is full of gut-
punches.
“Without a strategy to guide it,
Rugby Canada appears to be in a
constant state of crisis and overall
performance suffers as a result,” it
says.
Rugby Canada is no stranger to
reviews, with a history of commis-
sioning them after failure to
achieve on-field goals – with
coaches usually shunted to the
side as a consequence.
And for many in a Canadian
rugby community reeling on and
off the field owing to the pandem-
ic, poor international results, in-
adequate funding, infighting and
irritation at Rugby Canada’s pro-
gress or lack thereof, the negative
view of the landscape will come as
no surprise.
But this report pulls few
punches.
“The dysfunction of the system
is ultimately a failure of leader-
ship,” it says. “Either through acts
of ‘omission or commission’ the
leadership of the organization –
board, executive, operations and
coaches – have not effectively
managed the short-term and
long-term needs of the high-per-
formance program. Leadership
has also failed to cultivate and
nurture an environment that tru-
ly supports and enables high-per-
formance athletes.
“As it currently stands, Rugby
Canada’s high-performance ath-
letes, support staff and even
coaches are effectively revolting
against the program’s system,
leading to growing organizational
dysfunction and a continued
worsening of high-performance
results.”
It’s never a good sign in a high-
performance review when one of
its first “key insights” is “Rugby
Canada does not have a high-per-
formance strategy.”
Laura Russell plays for Canada’s women’s 15s team which, despite being Canada’s highest ranked team, gets
the least funding of the four high-performance rugby clubs overseen by Rugby Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Among the other conclusions:
Development pathways are
inconsistently effective;
Rugby Canada’s “unclear na-
tional governance role” limits
high-performance program effec-
tiveness;
Rugby Canada’s current orga-
nizational structure and resourc-
ing are unable to support four
high-performance teams;
Ineffectiveness of corporate
and organizational governance
exposes Rugby Canada to signifi-
cant risk;
Rugby Canada has failed to
create a healthy and effective
high-performance culture;
Athletes do not view the high-
performance program as a safe
and inclusive environment;
Rugby Canada’s poor relation-
ship with the Canadian rugby
community is a constraint on the
high-performance program.
Of the report’s 12 key insights,
only one is positive. “Change is
possible and many hope to be a
part of it.”
The report cites the push-and-
pull tension within Rugby Canada
between the sevens and 15s pro-
grams, which comes with differ-
ent funding masters (World Rug-
by for the 15s and Own The Podi-
um for the sevens) as well as de-
bate over the need for distinct
pathways for the two distinct
forms of the game.
The women’s 15s team, Cana-
da’s most competitive high-per-
formance unit currently ranked
fourth in the world, receives the
smallest share of funding.
“Rugby Canada appears to be
avoiding decisions on what its
high-performance priorities are,”
the review says.
The review states Rugby Cana-
da’s high-performance program
“is at a critical crossroads,” with ri-
val Tier 2 and 3 nations contin-
uing “to evolve and improve.”
“The organization has arrived
at this moment because of both
on-field and off-field challenges:
failure of the men’s 15s team to
qualify for the 2023 World Cup,
disappointing results at the 2020
Tokyo Olympics and multiple re-
cent public-facing internal team
issues.”
Review recommendations in-
clude hiring a high-performance
director distinct from coaching
roles and establishing a high-per-
formance strategy and clear na-
tional governance role. It also
cites problems with Rugby Cana-
da basing its operations and ath-
letes in Langford, B.C., on Van-
couver Island.
“Langford is not viewed as a
positive place to live with it being
framed as expensive and isolat-
ed,’ ” it says.
In a five-paragraph news re-
lease on the report, Rugby Canada
chair Sally Dennis said: “The find-
ings have confirmed the validity
of a number of the concerns
about our high-performance en-
vironment and culture that trig-
gered the review.”
“Some have already been ad-
dressed but the picture painted by
the report confirms that signifi-
cant changes must be made. We
have listened and will now use
this report as a springboard to-
ward a stronger, better organiza-
tion.”
Rugby Canada will “set in mo-
tion an inclusive and collabora-
tive process to address the re-
port’s findings with representa-
tion from staff, athletes and key
external stakeholders,” she add-
ed. “I’m looking forward to com-
ing together as a rugby communi-
ty to implement transformational
change. The report’s findings are
just the first stage in that process.”
There is plenty of work to be
done for the yet-to-be hired new
CEO. But the review concludes
Rugby Canada can change for the
better.
“The review has uncovered
some difficult truths about the
current state of the program, but
the fact remains that there is
broad interest across the Cana-
dian rugby community in con-
tributing to setting the program
on the right path.
“With the right leadership and
committed action, this communi-
ty can be rallied to support the
writing of a new positive chapter
in Rugby Canada’s proud history.
The review urges Rugby Cana-
da “to communicate this report
fully and transparently in both re-
sponse and respect for the time
given by its stakeholders across
Canada.”
“This first step is intended to
demonstrate Rugby Canada’s wil-
lingness to take accountability, its
willingness to change and its
commitment to moving forward
with inclusive intentions. The
journey ahead will be difficult
and will likely get worse before it
gets better but with consistent ef-
fort Rugby Canada can chart a
brighter future for the high-per-
formance program.”
The study was conducted by a
review panel consisting of repre-
sentatives of Straad Consulting, a
Calgary-based management con-
sulting firm, as well as Own The
Podium high performance advis-
er Mel Davidson (former Hockey
Canada women’s coach and ad-
ministrator) and high-perform-
ance consultant Mike McGovern.
The panel conducted more
than 50 interviews/focus groups,
with some 80 individuals partici-
pating and received 108 survey re-
sponses.
A review committee – consist-
ing of Dennis, Rugby Canada
board members David Fortier and
Bill Webb, former CEO Allen Van-
sen, University of Ottawa director
of varsity athletics Sue Hylland
and Penn State professor Robert
Boland – was formed “to assist
with the flow of information to
the review panel and ensure it has
access to relevant stakeholders
A LOOK AT RUGBY
CANADA AND ITS TEAMS
MEN’S 15s: Ranked 21st in
the world and in rebuilding
mode after the failure to qualify
for the (2023) World Cup for the
first time ever after losing qual-
ifying series to the 18th-ranked
U.S. and No. 23 Chile. Coach
Kingsley Jones is looking to
develop a young roster largely
playing in Major League Rugby.
Team is 5-17-0 since the start of
2019.
WOMEN’S 15s: Ranked
fourth in the world, the women
have played just four matches
(3-1-0) since November, 2019.
Coach Sandro Fiorino was just
let go, with Rugby Canada citing
the closing (because of financial
constraints) of its Ontario-based
academy he was affiliated with.
Former assistant coach Kevin
Rouet will lead the team through
the World Cup this October in
New Zealand.
MEN’S SEVENS: Team stands
13th in the HSBC World Rugby
Sevens Series standings after
four of the nine events
this season. There was consid-
erable player turnover after an
eighth-place finish in the team’s
Olympic debut in Tokyo last
summer with coach Henry Paul
looking to blend in new talent.
WOMEN’S SEVENS: Team
has gone though turmoil in
recent years, with long-time
coach John Tait stepping down
last April after complaints from
past and former players. Despite
a review that found he had not
breached Rugby Canada’s bully-
ing and harassment policy, Tait
quit believing his position was
untenable. The dispute, in part,
prompted Rugby Canada to
commission the independent
high-performance review re-
leased Wednesday. The team
has struggled since, finishing
ninth in Tokyo after winning
Olympic bronze in 2016 at Rio.
Several players have retired or
shifted to the 15s side. The
women currently stand eighth
after four events on the six-stop
World Series. Jack Hanratty is
the current interim coach, com-
ing after Mick Byrne and Kelly
Russell.
FRONT OFFICE: Rugby
Canada is looking for a new CEO
after Allen Vansen stepped
down at the end of January.
BUDGET: The 2020 annual
report reported pandemic-
affected revenue of $9,221,237
through Dec. 31, 2020, down
from $14,908,912 in 2019.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
and participants while ensuring
the entire process remained in-
clusive and independent.”
Interim Rugby Canada CEO Ja-
mie Levchuk said the report was
written by Straad “with input
from the subject matter experts
on the review panel.
“The independent members of
the review committee had the op-
portunity to provide comments
to the review panel on a previous
draft, but all decisions on its final
content were made by Straad,” he
added.
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Canada’s Einarson beats Sweden 10-8 at worlds BLUE JAYS COME UP
SHORT AGAINST PHILLIES

DONNA SPENCER PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.
Canada’s Kerri Einarson cleared a tall hur-
dle in her bid for a women’s world curling
championship with a 10-8 win over Swe-
den on Wednesday.
Anna Hasselborg’s Swedish foursome
won Olympic gold in 2018, bronze last
month in Beijing and was twice a world
runner-up.
So the host country’s victory over a
team ranked third in the world was a mas-
sive assist in Einarson’s quest for a playoff
berth.
“They’re one of the best in the world, so
that was a huge win for us and huge confi-
dence booster going forward,” Einarson
said.
Canada record was 6-2 by day’s end be-
cause of a win forfeited by Scotland. After
two losses, the Scots withdrew Sunday be-
cause four players tested positive for CO-
VID-19.
The top six teams at the conclusion of
the preliminary round Friday advance to
playoffs.
The top two get byes to Saturday’s semi-
finals with third to sixth playing off that
day to join them. The medal games are
Sunday.
Defending champion Switzerland
topped the standings at 7-0 with two draws
left Wednesday.
South Korea lost in an extra end to Den-
mark to fall to 6-1. The Swedes were 6-2
with a game to play at night against South
Korea.
The Danes and United States were even
at 5-2 ahead of Japan at 4-3, and Germany
and Norway at 3-4.
The Czech Republic and Italy were both
1-7 with Turkey winless in seven games.
Canada led 5-0 after three ends and 8-2
after five against the Swedes, but Hassel-
borg wouldn’t go quietly and scrapped her
way to a 10th end.
With the hammer coming home, Einar-
son didn’t need to throw her final stone
when Hasselborg came up light on a draw.
“We definitely had to play well to beat
them,” Canadian lead Briane Meilleur said.
“They played really great in the last half, so
I’m glad we hung on there.
“It was good to have a little lead to start
just to have a little buffer.”
Each team throws two pregame draws
to the button, which are measured to not
only determine which team gets hammer
in the first end.
Instead of tiebreaker games, accumulat-
ed measurements also determine seedings
should teams be tied Friday.
A measurement mistake on
Hasselborg’s pregame draw initially indi-
cated she was closer to the button’s centre CLEARWATER, FLA. Orelvis Marti-
pinhole than Einarson. nez and Trevor Schwecke hit
The Swedish skip knew she wasn’t and back-to-back home runs in
didn’t contest Einarson earning hammer. eighth inning but the Toronto
But Hasselborg wasn’t satisfied with a Blue Jays still lost to the Phila-
remeasurement done using officials’ delphia Phillies 8-7 on Wednes-
charts and video to determine where her day in Grapefruit League action.
rock ended up in the rings, and asked for Gosuke Katoh and Santiago
another after the game. Espinal both had homers in the
“They measured it wrong from the be- fourth inning for the Blue Jays
ginning. We didn’t have the 14.4 centi- (4-2). Espinal’s two-run shot to
metres that was up on the scoreboard, but deep left cut Philadelphia’s lead
they kicked [the stone] off and they had to to just 6-5.
remeasure where they thought it was,” she Jose Berrios (0-1) took the
explained. “We were not happy with that loss for Toronto, giving up seven
placement. hits and six runs in an inning
“Since LSD [last-stone draw] is so im- and two-thirds.
portant here, we don’t want to lose any Jean Segura hit a two-run
centimetres that were wrong.” single up the first-base line for
Even though Canada didn’t play Scot- Philadelphia (3-2). It was part of
land later, they still had to show up and a four-run inning for the Phillies,
throw their pregame draws before a 30- who never relinquished their
minute practice. lead.
“The draw to the button matters big- J.T. Realmuto had a solo
time in this championship,” Canadian homer and drove in another run
coach Reid Carruthers pointed out. for the Phillies.
Hammer in the first end was pivotal in Cristopher Sanchez (1-0)
Canada’s victory. Einarson scored three threw two runless innings,
playing an artistic split. allowing no hits and striking out
three.
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Raptors look to lock in with playoffs in sight

Coach Nurse says a postseason “I really hope this team gets in the playoffs.
I really, really think we need to experience
series would be terrific for that, like a series, the prep and the tough-
the growth of his young team ness and all that stuff that I think would be
a really big building block for this team to
be able to go through that, however we get
LORI EWING to it.”
Nurse hopes to have some players back
healthy by then. He said VanVleet, who is

T
he Toronto Raptors’ postseason
hopes have come down to 10 final
regular-season games.
Eight of them will be at what
should be a noisy, jam-packed Scotiabank
Arena after playing much of the home
schedule in front of virtually a handful of
family and friends because of COVID-19 re-
strictions.
For a youngster such as Scottie Barnes, a
front-runner for NBA rookie of the year,
these games will be the most important of
his career so far.
The Raptors host Cleveland on Thursday
in a key matchup with Toronto sitting a
game behind the Cavaliers for the sixth
playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.
Coach Nick Nurse is eager to see how his
team responds to the crunch of this stretch
run.
“It’s such a funny time of year,” Nurse
said after practice Wednesday. “I think
there’s some teams that are playing like
they need to win every game because they
need to make the playoffs or get something
sorted out for home court or something
and then there’s some teams that aren’t.
“So it’s a funny time of year to try to put
too much stock into it.”
The Raptors (40-32) are coming off a
“hell of a run,” Nurse pointed out, that saw
them win six consecutive road games
against some tough opponents despite
missing key players such as Fred VanVleet
for some of it and OG Anunoby for all of it.
“If you would have looked at that going
into it, you would have been ‘Oh boy,’ ”
Nurse said. “And we came out of it I think
beyond anybody’s wildest dreams. Beat lit-
erally all the top teams in the league the last
time we faced ’em.
“I just want to keep building and keep
playing and not get too caught up in what’s
coming. I would say this again. If the play-
offs started tomorrow, I feel like we’re ready
I don’t want to sit here and say, ‘Oh my god,
we gotta cram for this. Oh my god.’ I’m not
into that. I’m ready to just keep trying to
play good each night as it comes.”
A top-six finish would mean an auto-
matic berth, while teams that finish sev-
enth through 10th face play-in games.
“I don’t see [top-six] as vital,” Nurse said.
hampered by a knee injury, won’t play all 10
the games left. Anunoby (broken finger)
hasn’t played since Feb. 16. He practised on
Wednesday, but Nurse said he’s unlikely to
play Thursday. He’d like to see him get in
five games before the postseason tips off.
Neither Malachi Flynn (hamstring) nor
Gary Trent Jr. (toe) practised, although
Nurse said Trent’s X-rays were negative.
“So that turned out to be better news
than we were possibly thinking,” Nurse
said. “It’s still very, very sore.”
Pascal Siakam and Barnes have been
largely holding down the fort. Siakam is av-
eraging 22 points, 8.3 rebounds and 5.1 as-
sists for Toronto, while Barnes is averaging
17.7 points over the past 10 games.
Siakam said he’d prefer to avoid a play-in
scenario.
“Obviously why do you want to play an-
other game instead of just being in the
playoffs? Just win every single game and
climb as much as we can,” he said.
He hopes having a full house of fans at
Scotiabank Arena, which reopened at full
capacity on March 1, will help.
“I think that we’ve definitely got to use
our fans and [their] energy and use it as an
advantage, we have to, because again,
come playoff time, that’s something that’s
super important,” Siakam said.
Precious Achiuwa was asked whether
crunch time of a season is fun.
“It’s always fun to play for me,” he said.
“But understanding the importance of
these next games coming up, we under-
stand we have to really, really dial in to
these last couple of games because that is
going to basically tell us where we stand
come playoff time, whether that’s fifth
place or sixth place or we are going to be in
the play-in.
“We, as much as everyone else, are trying
to avoid that play-in game so we’re just go-
ing to be a lot more locked in, a lot more fo-
cused. Put ourselves in a better position
come playoff time.”
Thursday’s game is the first of four
straight at home. The Raptors host Indiana
on Saturday, Boston on Monday and Min-
Scottie Barnes, in the running for the NBA rookie-of-the-year award, has been a steady nesota on Wednesday.
presence for the Toronto Raptors with 17.7 points per game over the past 10 games.
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Kelly: Barty’s less-is-more declaration feels radical in current culture

FROM B11
It doesn’t matter how good you
are when you return (though it’s
never quite the same). What peo-
ple remember is that you
couldn’t accept becoming a regu-
lar person. It’s a letdown for both
sides of the equation.
Ashleigh Barty just became
the latest aspirant to Marciano’s
cultural throne.
Barty is possibly the most
anonymous great tennis player in
history, and I say that admiringly.
She did her job as well or better
than anyone else, was enormous-
ly pleasant while doing it and
didn’t feel the need to spend all
her downtime shouting about it.
She was the pro athlete you’d
most like to have as a next-door
neighbour.
On Wednesday, Barty gave a
random interview to a random
interviewer in which she an-
nounced she’s quitting tennis.
Just like that.
“I am spent,” she explained.
Right now, Barty has fabulous
Marciano bonafides. She is the
world No. 1. She’s only 25. She
won the last tournament she
played in – the Australian Open.
She has a kajillion dollars.
If that’s really it, this was a leg-
endary stroke. Barty will be bet-
ter remembered in 50 years for
how she left the game (which
never happens) than for what
she did in the game (which is
happening to someone all the
time).
But history doesn’t augur well
– neither generally nor specifical-
ly.
A less advertised part of the
Marciano story is that he did con-
sider a return to boxing. But after
some training, he decided he
wasn’t up for it.
This is the difference between
a tennis comeback and a boxing
comeback. A bad tennis come-
back leaves you humiliated. A
bad heavyweight boxing come-
back might leave you dead.
Let’s just say the lure is strong,
even for the most committed.
Barty is also an unusual appli-
cant for Marciano-dom on a cou-
ple of levels.
She put tennis on pause once
before to play professional crick-
et for a while. She’s also a scratch
golfer. It’s conceivable she could
go on to play either sport profes-
sionally.
Quitting one pro sport to play
another isn’t a true Marciano. It’s
a loophole Marciano.
Then there’s the age. Twenty-
five is awfully young to quit any-
thing. Especially something that
If happiness is can make you a million bucks a
year for average effort.
commitments – After you’ve gone on a few
that’s as good a yacht vacations and opened a tiki
definition as I’ve bar in your hometown, what else
heard – there aren’t is there?
Few of us are born to do any-
many simpler joys in thing, but if you were born to be
life than getting up an accountant, would you quit it
every day to do at 35 because you’d made enough
money? Probably not.
something you’re If you did, you’d most likely
talented at for a run off the rails in six months.
living. High achievers don’t adjust well
to becoming zero achievers.
If happiness is commitments –
that’s as good a definition as I’ve
heard – there aren’t many sim-
pler joys in life than getting up
every day to do something you’re
talented at for a living.
Why does Roger Federer keep
muscling through at 40 years old,
knowing he will probably never
win another major tournament?
Because he’s still a talented ten-
nis player.
One assumes he gets a charge
out of the rhythms of tennis,
showing up to the grounds early
in the morning, seeing all the
other guys on the practice court,
saying ‘Hey’ to the officials you’ve
known for a million years. After
you’re done scrambling through
your 20s and 30s to get yourself
professionally situated, it’s the
faces not the places that give you
pleasure.
Federer’s nowhere close to
what he once was, but he’s still
good enough to go out there and
put on a show. Even when he los-
es, he’s doing his job – entertain-
ing an audience – as well as any-
one ever has.
There’s no shame in wanting
to be useful. We don’t give useful
nearly enough applause.
Still, in a milieu where the bar
for ‘remarkable’ is getting higher
all the time, it’d be fun to see
someone reach for the most un-
reachable ring, get hold of it and
not let go. It’d be a greater tri-
umph of the will than winning
more things after you’ve already
won a bunch.
It would be a declaration that
more does not automatically
equal better. In our culture, that’s
a radical act.
Can Ash Barty manage it?
Based on everything that’s
happened before, probably not.
But having never really cared if
she (or any other particular play-
er) won a big tennis match, it’s
hard not to pull for her on this
one.

World No. 1 retires with no regrets and heaps of adulation from tennis world
Ash Barty’s decision to retire at
the very top of her game, on her
own terms and with absolutely
no regrets stunned the world of
tennis, but the overwhelming re-
actions were of support and ad-
miration for the 25-year-old Aus-
tralian.
While the likes of Serena Wil-
liams and Rafa Nadal continue to
chase Grand Slam titles, defying
age and injuries, Barty’s declara-
tion that she has achieved every-
thing she set out to in the sport
stands in sharp contrast.
She leaves tennis as world No. 1
and a three-times major cham-
pion with titles at Roland Garros
and Wimbledon alongside her
Australian Open triumph in Janu-
ary, just when the discussion had
moved on to how many more
Slams she could win.
“There was a perspective shift
in me in the second phase of my
career that my happiness wasn’t
dependent on the results,” Barty
said.
“Success for me is knowing I’ve
given absolutely everything I can.
I’m fulfilled, I’m happy. I know
how much work it takes to bring
the best out in yourself … I don’t
have that in me any more.”
She did not pick up a racquet
again, even to practise, after win-
ning the title in Melbourne. She
pulled out of the prestigious
hardcourt events in Indian Wells
and Miami, and then retired on
Wednesday, delivering the news
in a prearranged conversation
with her friend and former dou-
bles partner Casey Dellacqua that
was released on social media.
Athletes rarely retire at 25 and
in the case of the Williams sisters,
Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak
Djokovic, playing into their 40s
does not seem beyond the realms
of possibility.
But Barty, who made no secret
of her dislike for being on tour,
had no interest in punishing her
body year after year and always
prioritized her own mental and
physical well-being over the in-
cessant demands of her sport.
As tennis limped back to nor-
mality amid the COVID-19 pan-
demic, Barty chose to stay in Aus-
tralia for nearly a year, her longest
hiatus from the professional tour
since her indefinite break in 2014.
For someone to retire at
25, it really speaks to
the way our sport
empowers women.
DANIELLE COLLINS
TENNIS PLAYER
She returned in January, 2021,
winning Wimbledon the same
year before becoming the first
Australian to triumph at Mel-
bourne Park since Chris O’Neil in
1978 in what would be the last
match of her career.
“For someone to retire at 25, it
really speaks to the way our sport
empowers women,” said Danielle
Collins, who lost to Barty in the
Australian Open final.
“I think this sport empowers
us in a way financially that is real-
ly unique to other sports. … I
think the sport empowers us in
ways that is so unique to other
fields. [Retiring at 25] is some-
thing to really celebrate and real-
ly acknowledge.”
If Barty remains retired, she
will never win a U.S. Open singles
title, never win the Billie Jean
King Cup team event for Austra-
lia, never win an Olympic gold
medal, never achieve the calen-
dar-year Grand Slam that her
Australian predecessors Rod La-
ver and Margaret Court won more
than 50 years ago.
Barty has long seemed like
someone whose gift took her far-
ther than she wanted to go.
“I’m shocked and not
shocked,” Rennae Stubbs, an
Australian player, coach and
ESPN analyst, said of Barty’s re-
tirement. “Ash is not an ego-dri-
ven person wanting more. She’s
happy and now comfortable and
never has to leave her town and
family again. And she’s content
with her achievements now.”
Thirty-seven women have won
more Grand Slams than Barty
while three have spent more con-
secutive weeks as the world’s top-
ranked player.
But Martina Navratilova, who
appears on both lists and has won
more Grand Slams – singles and
doubles – than anyone who has
held a racquet, said Barty would
go down as one of history’s greats.
“You are leaving the tennis and
sports world quite speechless and
full of praise at the same time,”
Navratilova said. “We will miss
you, your smile and your beauti-
ful game. Be happy champ, the
Hall of Fame is waiting!”
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New-look Leafs leave Devils black and blue

Giordano, Blackwell help team
with victory in first game
playing for Toronto
PAUL ATTFIELD
As traditional Toronto Maple Leafs debuts
go, Wednesday was probably not exactly
how Mark Giordano dreamed it. In place
of the iconic, Conn Smythe-inspired blue-
and-white jerseys, the former captain of
the Calgary Flames and Seattle Kraken
found a Justin Bieber-inspired black-and-
blue alternate sweater residing in his stall.
And with his usual No. 5 hanging in the
Scotiabank Arena rafters under the name
Barilko, Giordano – who originally chose
the number in tribute to Red Wings great
Nicklas Lidstrom – had to contend with 55
instead.
Not that he was complaining,
particularly after his new team registered
two short-handed goals to make hard
work of a 3-2 victory over the New Jersey
Devils. The win allowed the Leafs to move
past the idle Tampa Bay Lightning into
second place in the Atlantic Division, at
least until the two-time Stanley Cup de-
fending champions play in Boston on
Thursday.
As a 38-year-old Toronto native, Gior-
dano has taken the long way round to suit
up for his hometown team. Undrafted out
of junior hockey, the defenceman was all
set to go to York University back in 2004
before an invite to Calgary Flames train-
ing camp permanently altered his career
trajectory.
John Tavares, another Toronto native
who was waylaid in another NHL outpost
before finding his way home, having
famously grown up sleeping in Maple
Leafs-themed bedsheets, paid tribute to
the unusual route taken by his new team-
mate.
“[He] took really a non-traditional
path to become you know, an elite player
and Norris Trophy winner and just a high-
end impact defenceman,” the Leafs cap-
tain said.
Maple Leafs defenceman Ilya Lyubushkin hits the New Jersey Devils’ Nathan Bastian
during Wednesday’s game in Toronto. The Leafs won 3-2.
FRANK GUNN/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Much like head coach Sheldon Keefe –
who praised the “options” he now has
with the arrival of Giordano – Tavares
welcomed the arrival of the accomplished
blueliner. On the occasion of another
Next Gen game – celebrating the next
generation of Leafs fans – the newcomer
should complement the likes of Morgan
Rielly and Jake Muzzin – once he returns
from his concussion – on a roster that can
no longer look for outside help with Mon-
day’s trade deadline now in the rear-view
mirror.
Thankfully for a Leafs team that gave
up six goals in its previous outing, against
Nashville on Saturday, the Devils allowed
Giordano to gently feel his way into his
first game as a Bud, generating just three
shots through the first 20 minutes. The
home side responded with 11 of its own,
but was unable to solve Nico Daws in the
New Jersey net.
The impasse proved short-lived, how-
ever.
With 5:03 gone in the second period,
the Devils, fresh off of Tuesday’s 7-4 upset
of the New York Rangers, jumped in front.
With Pierre Engvall in the box for trip-
ping, Damon Severson inadvertently beat
Petr Mrazek with New Jersey’s seventh
shot of the game, the puck deflecting off
Ilya Lyubushkin and through the embat-
tled goaltender’s five-hole.
The home side knotted the score at the
12:30 mark with a short-handed effort
from Ilya Mikheyev, the Russian winger
taking a pass from Alex Kerfoot and
racing past a half-hearted challenge from
P.K. Subban to deke the puck past Daws.
Nico Hischier, who registered an assist
on New Jersey’s first goal, restored the
Devils’ lead with 6:04 to play in the sec-
ond, netting a rebound for his 18th of the
season to mark a fourth successive multi-
point game.
But Mitch Marner got the Leafs back on
terms with just over five minutes remain-
ing in the period, as Auston Matthew and
Michael Bunting combined to set up the
winger for his 27th goal of the season,
establishing a career high for No. 16. Mat-
thews picked up his 80th point of the
campaign on the play, tying his career
high from the 2019-20 season.
With both teams largely cancelling
each other out throughout much of the
third period, the game looked to have
tilted in New Jersey’s direction when
Mikheyev was called for a double minor
for high sticking with 7:37 remaining. But
after Marner spurned a chance early in
the short-handed situation, Engvall broke
through on a two-on-one with William
Nylander, with the former opting to shoot
instead of pass, giving the Leafs their first
lead of the game with his 11th of the
season 4:42 before the final buzzer.
Giordano, who was paired with Tim-
othy Liljegren for much of the night, had
18 minutes 13 seconds of ice time and got
the last touch of the puck to clear the
Leafs’ zone and help preserve the victory.
Meanwhile Colin Blackwell, who also
came over from Seattle in Sunday’s trade,
wore No. 11 and played 8:21 on the fourth
line.
Mrazek, playing his first game since
giving up four goals in the loss against
Buffalo at the Heritage Classic, stopped 20
of 22 shots, while Daws made 28 saves for
New Jersey.
The Leafs now turn their attention to
Saturday’s game in Montreal against the
Canadiens, before a showdown with the
first-place Florida Panthers on Sunday.

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Springfield at Hartford, 7 p.m. COVID-19 tests. All of their remaining Arsenal 1 VfL Wolfsburg 1
Colorado 63 45 13 4 1 244 175 95 Dallas 44 28 .611 14 Dallas 4 2 1 1 7 3 7
Charlotte at Cleveland, 7 p.m. games will be forfeited and automatic Juventus 2 Lyon 1
St. Louis 62 35 18 6 3 222 175 79 Denver 43 30 .589 15 / 1
2 Colorado 4 2 1 1 6 4 7
Minnesota 61 37 20 0 4 228 196 78 Minnesota 42 31 .575 16 / 1 W-B/Scranton at Belleville, 7 p.m. wins for their opponents will be regis- L.A. Galaxy 4 2 2 0 4 4 6
PACIFIC DIVISION
2
Toronto at Rochester, 7:05 p.m. tered after the draw of scheduled match. TueSday
L.A. Clippers 36 38 .486 23 Houston 4 1 1 2 3 3 5
Calgary 63 38 17 8 0 218 153 84 L.A. Lakers 31 41 .431 27 Hershey at Providence, 7:05 p.m. WedneSday Portland 4 1 1 2 5 7 5
Los Angeles 65 35 22 6 2 188 182 78 Milwaukee at Texas, 8 p.m. DRAW 12 Paris Saint-Germain 2 Bayern Munich 1
New Orleans 30 42 .417 28 Seattle 4 1 2 1 4 5 4 Barcelona 3 Real Madrid 1
Edmonton 64 35 24 5 0 217 204 75 Rockford at Iowa, 8 p.m. Canada 10 Sweden 8
San Antonio 28 44 .389 30 Nashville 4 1 2 1 3 5 4
WILD CARD Manitoba at Chicago, 8 p.m. Switzerland 10 Czech Republic 3
Portland 27 44 .380 30 / 1
2 San Jose 4 0 3 1 4 9 1
Nashville 64 37 23 2 2 211 184 78
Sacramento 26 48 .351 33 Abbotsford at Stockton, 9 p.m. Denmark 8 South Korea 7 (extra end) Vancouver 4 0 3 1 2 9 1 FA WOMEN’S SUPER
Dallas 62 35 24 1 2 184 185 73 Tucson at Henderson, 10 p.m. United States 12 Turkey 5
Vegas 66 34 28 3 1 205 201 72 Oklahoma City 20 52 .278 38
DRAW 13
SatuRday LEAGUE
Houston 18 54 .250 40 Grand Rapids at Bakersfield, 10 p.m. All TimeS EaSteRn
Winnipeg 64 30 24 6 4 201 198 70 Germany 7 Italy 5
x-clinched playoff spot WedneSday
Vancouver 64 30 26 5 3 183 186 68
y-clinched division
OHL Japan 8 Denmark 1 Cincinnati at Charlotte, 5 p.m.
Anaheim 65 27 27 6 5 186 210 65 Switzerland 8 United States 7
San Jose 63 28 27 6 2 167 198 64 WedneSday TueSday Salt Lake at Kansas City, 7 p.m. Manchester City 4 Everton 0
New York 121, Charlotte 106 Norway def. Scotland (forfeiture) Chelsea vs. Tottenham Hotspur (ppd.)
Chicago 63 22 32 7 2 167 219 53 Windsor 7 Kitchener 5
Seattle 64 20 38 5 1 168 228 46 Detroit 122, Atlanta 101 DRAW 14
Owen Sound 5 Sarnia 0
Arizona 63 20 39 0 4 164 228 44 Sacramento 110, Indiana 109 Niagara 2 Peterborough 1 (OT)
Sweden vs. South Korea TELEVISION
WedneSday Brooklyn at Memphis Italy vs. Turkey
Toronto 3 New Jersey 2 Golden State at Miami Scotland vs. Canada THURSDAY (ALL TIMES EASTERN)
ThuRSday — All TimeS EaSteRn Czech Republic vs. Japan
Pittsburgh at Buffalo Utah at Boston Erie at Niagara, 7 p.m. BASEBALL PGA: WGC - Dell Technologies Match
Vancouver at Colorado Orlando at Oklahoma City Hamilton at North Bay, 7 p.m. Play, Day 2, Golf Channel, 2 p.m.
Chicago at Anaheim Phoenix at Minnesota TueSday
Mississauga at Peterborough, 7:05 p.m. NINTH DRAW MLB: Atlanta vs. Toronto, SN Ontario,
TueSday Houston at Dallas Saginaw at Windsor, 7:30 p.m. East, West, Pacific, MLB Network, 1 p.m. HOCKEY
Carolina 3 Tampa Bay 2 Philadelphia at L.A. Lakers Denmark 11. Turkey 10 (extra end)
Sweden 6 Italy 2 MLB: Chicago Cubs vs. L.A. Angels, MLB
Dallas 5 Edmonton 3 San Antonio at Portland QMJHL South Korea def. Scotland (forfeiture) Network, 4 p.m. NHL: Tampa Bay vs. Boston, SN Ontario,
Detroit 6 Philadelphia 3 East, 7 p.m.
Los Angeles 6 Nashville 1 TueSday WedneSday DRAW 10
Canada 10 Japan 4 BASKETBALL NHL: Florida vs. Montreal, TSN 2, 7 p.m.
New Jersey 7 N.Y. Rangers 4 Blainville-Boisbriand 4 Val-d’Or 2 NHL: Ottawa vs. Winnipeg, TSN 3, 5, 8 p.m.
N.Y. Islanders 3 Ottawa 0 Orlando 94, Golden State 90 Drummondville 6 Shawinigan 3 Denmark 8 Czech Republic 6 (extra end)
Switzerland 8 Norway 5 Men’s NCAA: Regional Semifinal, NHL: Vancouver vs. Minnesota, SN
Pittsburgh 5 Columbus 1 Atlanta 117, New York 111 Rouyn-Noranda 3 Gatineau 2 (OT) Arkansas vs. Gonzaga, CBS, 7 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m.
San Jose 4 Calgary 3 Milwaukee 126, Chicago 98 Sherbrooke at Chicoutimi United States 8 Germany 7
DRAW 11 Men’s NCAA: Regional Semifinals, TSN NHL:SanJosevs.Edmonton,SNWest,9p.m.
Seattle 4 Arizona 2 Denver 127, L.A. Clippers 115 4, 7 p.m.; TSN 1, 7:30 p.m.
St. Louis 5 Washington 2 TueSday Germany def. Scotland (forfeiture)
Norway 10 Turkey 5 NBA: Cleveland vs. Toronto, SN 1, 7:30 p.m. SOCCER
Winnipeg 4 Vegas 0 ThuRSday Charlottetown 4 Cape Breton 2 NBA: Phoenix vs. Denver, NBA TV
ThuRSday — All TimeS EaSteRn All TimeS EaSteRn Saint John 6 Moncton 2 South Korea 7 Italy 4
Sweden 8 Japan 4 Canada, 9 p.m. FIFA World Cup Qualifying: Italy vs.
Dallas at Carolina, 7 p.m. ThuRSday — All TimeS EaSteRn Men’s NCAA: Regional Semifinal, Texas North Macedonia, TLN, 3:30 p.m.
Florida at Montreal, 7 p.m. Cleveland at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. Cape Breton at Moncton, 6 p.m. Tech vs. Duke, CBS, 9:30 p.m. FIFA World Cup Qualifying: Jamaica vs.
Tampa Bay at Boston, 7 p.m. Chicago at New Orleans, 8 p.m. Saint John at Charlottetown, 6 p.m. ThuRSday
All TimeS EaSteRn El Salvador, OneSoccer, 7:05 p.m
Detroit at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 p.m. Indiana at Memphis, 8 p.m. Acadie-Bathurst at Halifax, 6 p.m. CURLING FIFA World Cup Qualifying: Panama vs.
Ottawa at Winnipeg, 8 p.m. Washington at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. Rimouski at Victoriaville, 7 p.m. DRAW 15, 12 P.M.
United States vs. Canada, Norway vs. Honduras, OneSoccer, 9:05 p.m.
Philadelphia at St. Louis, 8 p.m. Phoenix at Denver, 9 p.m. Rouyn-Noranda at B.-Boisbriand, 7 p.m. World Women's Curling Championship: FIFA World Cup Qualifying: Mexico vs.
Vancouver at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Sherbrooke at Baie-Comeau, 7 p.m. Czech Republic, Denmark vs. Switzer-
land, Turkey vs. Germany United States vs. Canada, TSN 1, 4, 12 p.m. United States, OneSoccer, 10 p.m.
San Jose at Edmonton, 9 p.m. FRiday World Women's Curling Championship: FIFA World Cup Qualifying: Costa Rica
Chicago at Los Angeles, 10 p.m. WHL DRAW 16, 5 P.M.
Italy vs. Scotland, Germany vs. Sweden, Canada vs. South Korea, TSN 1, 10 p.m. vs. Canada, SN 360, 9:30 p.m.; SN 1,
Nashville at Vegas, 10 p.m. Utah at Charlotte, 7 p.m. East, Ontario, OneSoccer, 10 p.m.; SN
WedneSday Japan vs. Norway, South Korea vs.
FRiday Washington at Detroit, 7 p.m. GOLF Pacific, 11 p.m.
Winnipeg at Saskatoon Switzerland
Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m. Golden State at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. Kelowna at Victoria DRAW 17, 10 P.M.
Washington at Buffalo, 7 p.m. Dallas at Minnesota, 8 p.m. DP World Tour: Commercial Bank Qatar TENNIS
TueSday Czech Republic vs. Turkey, Canada vs.
Columbus at Winnipeg, 8 p.m. New York at Miami, 8 p.m. Masters, First Round, Golf Channel, 5 a.m.
Swift Current 5 Regina 3 South Korea, United States vs. Sweden,
Arizona at Calgary, 9 p.m. Houston at Portland, 10 p.m. PGA: Corales Puntacana Championship, WTA: Miami Open, TSN 5, DAZN, 11 a.m.
Winnipeg 3 Prince Albert 2 (OT) Denmark vs. Italy
Philadelphia at Colorado, 9 p.m. Philadelphia at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m. First Round, Golf Channel, 10:30 a.m. ATP: Miami Open, TSN 3, 11:30 a.m.
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Sports in brief
JAMES AND RADFORD FIFTH,
SCHIZAS 10TH AT FIGURE
SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS
MONTPELLIER, FRANCE Canada’s
Vanessa James and Eric Radford
were fifth in the pairs short
program on Wednesday in what
could be their one and only
world figure skating champion-
ships together. James, from
Toronto, and Radford, from
Balmertown, Ont., who came out
of retirement last April to com-
pete together, opened with a
perfect triple twist that set the
tone for a score of 66.54 points.
Alexa Knierim and Brandon
Frazier are the leaders with
76.88, while American team-
mates Ashley Cain-Gribble and
Timothy Leduc scored 75.85 for
second. Riku Miura and Ryuichi
Kihara of Japan are third (71.58).
James, who’s 34, and Radford,
who’s 37, were 12th at last
month’s Olympics, where Rad-
ford was the oldest skater com-
peting. The two are undecided
whether they’ll retire after the
worlds. Evelyn Walsh of London,
Ont., and Trennt Michaud of
Trenton, Ont., were eighth in the
short program.
Olympic bronze medalist
Kaori Sakamoto of Japan took a
comfortable lead over Loena
Hendrickx of Belgium and
American figure skater Mariah
Bell in the women’s short pro-
gram. Madeline Schizas of Oak-
ville, Ont., was 10th.
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WOODBINE ENTERTAINMENT
TO PROVIDE LAND FOR
SOCCER STADIUM,
TRAINING FACILITY
TORONTO Woodbine Entertain-
ment is partnering with private
investors to build a soccer train-
ing facility and soccer-specific
stadium. Woodbine confirmed
Wednesday it will designate a
portion of its land for construc-
tion of the venues with the goal
of creating a national training
centre for Canadian soccer. The
project is still in the planning
stages however the area in ques-
tion is currently available and
construction could potentially
be completed sometime in 2023.
The soccer venues would be
located on Woodbine’s property
within walking distance of
Woodbine Racetrack. The project
would include a soccer-specific
stadium and 38,000-square-foot
training facility with a world-
class grass surface that would
meet the professional standards
established by FIFA, soccer’s
world-governing body. Wood-
bine is situated on about 684
acres of land located just over 30
kilometres north of downtown
Toronto. Roughly 250 acres is
already earmarked for horse-
racing (synthetic, grass and dirt
racetracks as well as stables for
horses and employees).
THE CANADIAN PRESS
UEFA COULD THWART
RUSSIA’S BID TO HOST
SOCCER’S EUROS
LONDON UEFA is exploring fresh
sanctions to thwart Russia’s
attempt to host soccer’s Europe-
an Championship after the
country launched a surprising
bid on Wednesday, one month
after invading its neighbour and
seeing its teams suspended from
international competitions over
the war in Ukraine. A meeting of
the Russian Football Union
executive committee decided to
submit an initial bid to UEFA for
the 2028 and 2032 tournaments
ahead of the deadline for expres-
sions of interest. The late decla-
ration of interest by Russia is a
challenge to the joint Britain-
Ireland entry, which expected to
be unchallenged to host the
UEFA showpiece in 2028 until
Qualifying: Costa Rica in desperate need
of a win to keep World Cup dreams alive
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Another clinching scenario
would be if Panama ties or loses
to Honduras and Mexico beats
the U.S.
The Canadian men have qual-
ified for just one World Cup – in
1986 in Mexico.
Herdman consistently refers to
his team as “new Canada,” saying
“It’s not about two or three play-
ers.”
Asked about key moments for
the team, Herdman reeled off a
list – beating the U.S. 2-0 in Toron-
to in CONCACAF Nations League
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Turkey also entered the contest
on Wednesday. Italy is the only
declared bidder for Euro 2032
apart from Russia. Russia’s feder-
ation was not suspended by
UEFA despite the ban on its
teams from playing, although its
bid for the Euros seemed
doomed to fail. UEFA said its
executive committee can “reas-
sess the legal and factual sit-
uation as it evolves and adopt
further decisions as necessary,
including in light of the declara-
tion of interest expressed by the
Football Union of Russia for
hosting the UEFA Euro.”
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MARINO OUSTED IN
MIAMI OPEN FIRST ROUND
MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. Naomi
Osaka was greeted by some
cheers when she walked onto
the court, then got significantly
louder ones when her work for
the day was done. Flashing the
level of play that vaulted her to
No. 1 in the world not too long
ago, Osaka had little trouble in
beating Astra Sharma of Austra-
lia 6-3, 6-4 on Wednesday – the
first full day of play at the Miami
Open. Later, Katerina Siniakova
of Czechia beat Rebecca Marino
of Vancouver 3-6, 6-2, 6-1. Marino
had led 6-3, 2-0, but Siniakova
steadied and turned the tables.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KC SENDS HILL TO DOLPHINS
FOR DRAFT PICKS
KANSAS CITY Kansas City traded
Tyreek Hill to Miami for a pack-
age of draft picks Wednesday,
and the Dolphins are giving the
three-time all-pro wide receiver
a US$120-million, four-year
contract extension that makes
him the highest-paid player at
his position. KC will get the
Dolphins’ first- and second-
round picks and their fourth-
rounder in this year’s draft, and
fourth- and sixth-round picks
next year, along with some
much-needed salary cap relief in
the latest major NFL trade. Hill’s
agent, Drew Rosenhaus, said the
extension from Miami includes
US$72.2-million guaranteed. The
value of the deal surpasses the
five-year contract that Davante
Adams signed after he was trad-
ed from Green Bay to Las Vegas
last week, which averages
US$28.5-million and includes
US$67.5-million guaranteed.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
YANKEES’ FEMALE
MINOR-LEAGUE MANAGER
HIT IN FACE BY BALL
TAMPA Rachel Balkovec, hired by
the New York Yankees as the first
woman to manage a minor
league affiliate of a Major League
Baseball team, was hit in the face
by a batted ball during a drill and
will be sidelined for up to a
week. Balkovec was struck Tues-
day. She will not be available for
her first scheduled spring train-
ing game Thursday with Class A
Tampa. The 34-year-old Balkovec
didn’t sustain a concussion but
has facial swelling, the Yankees
said Wednesday. She was in-
volved in a hitting drill in an
indoor cage at the minor league
complex when she was hurt.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FORMER SPORTS REPORTER
SENTENCED TO 21 MONTHS
IN DOMESTIC ABUSE CASE
MONTREAL Former sports writer
Jonah Keri has been sentenced
to 21 months in jail for repeated
abuse against his ex-wife. Que-
bec court Judge Alexandre Dal-
mau delivered his decision
Wednesday at the Montreal
play in October, 2019 in Toronto,
posting a 1-0 win in Haiti in a
qualifying match last June, show-
ing the squad’s depth at the Gold
Cup last summer and Alphonso
Davies’s highlight-reel goal in a
4-1 qualifying win over Panama
last October in Toronto.
“I think it got the country to
believe that we can do this,” he
said of the Davies goal, which
showed off the Bayern Munich’s
star’s pace, strength and determi-
nation.
As for Costa Rica, Herdman
noted its domestic league has
been suspended for the past two
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courthouse. The Crown had
sought at least one year in jail for
Keri, while the defence had
called for a sentence that didn’t
include jail time. Keri, 47, plead-
ed guilty last August to seven
charges including assault, assault
with a weapon and uttering
threats against his ex-wife and a
young child whose identity is
covered by a publication ban.
Before his arrest, Keri was a
well-known sports writer in
North America who was publish-
ed on a variety of platforms
including Sportsnet and The
Athletic as well as appearing as
an analyst on radio and televi-
sion. THE CANADIAN PRESS
GRINER SEEN BY U.S.
CONSULATE IN RUSSIAN
DETENTION FACILITY
The U.S. State Department said
Wednesday that a U.S. Embassy
official has visited with WNBA
star Brittney Griner, who has
been detained near Moscow, to
check on her condition. State
Department spokesperson Ned
Price told CNN the official found
Griner “to be in good condition.”
Price did not identify the official
who had been granted consular
access to Griner, something the
United States had been demand-
ing. Griner was detained after
arriving at a Moscow airport,
reportedly in mid-February, after
Russian authorities said a search
of her luggage revealed vape
cartridges that allegedly con-
tained oil derived from cannabis,
which could carry a maximum
penalty of 10 years in prison.
Russian state news agency TASS
reported last week that a court
had extended Griner’s pretrial
detention to May 19.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRITISH GOVERNMENT
ALLOWS CHELSEA TO SELL
SOME TICKETS AGAIN
LONDON The British government
will allow Chelsea to sell some
tickets again after easing the
terms of its sanctioning licence,
meaning Real Madrid supporters
can attend the Champions
League quarter-final at Stamford
Bridge. Chelsea had been
banned from selling tickets after
owner Roman Abramovich was
sanctioned last month for his
ties to Russian President Vladi-
mir Putin amid the continuing
invasion of Ukraine. The club is
also now allowed to receive
£30-million ($49.77-million)
from its parent company, Ford-
stam, to provide cash to meet
costs. Chelsea has been granted a
licence to continue operating as
a club but with strict limitations
on its commercial ventures.
However, an updated govern-
ment document shows the terms
of the licence now allows Cham-
pions League tickets to be sold
again. Chelsea hosts Madrid in
the first leg of the quarter-finals
in April. The easing of the re-
strictions means Chelsea can sell
tickets but won’t receive the
cash. UEFA is set to collect the
proceeds.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
RUSSIAN, BELARUSIAN
SWIMMERS BANNED FROM
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND Rus-
sian and Belarusian swimmers
were banned Thursday from
competing at the world cham-
pionships because of the war in
Ukraine. The sport’s governing
body, known as FINA, had bro-
ken with most other organiza-
tions by continuing to allow
Russians and Belarusians to
compete, though as “neutral
athletes” without national sym-
bols.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
weeks to allow the national ream
to prepare for Canada.
“The Costa Rica I saw in No-
vember [when Canada won 1-0 in
Edmonton], I think is going to be
very different to the one we’re go-
ing to experience in San Jose,”
Herdman said. “And they’ve only
lost one match in San Jose.
“They’ve got a massive pur-
pose, which is to stay alive [in
qualifying],” he added. “My
group of men, they know they
can qualify in this game and
that’s what we came to do.”
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HUGH LEYS COULSON
1940 – 2 022
It is with deep sorrow that we
announce the passing of Hugh
Coulson on March 17. Hugh left
this world peacefully, surrounded
by his family, at his home in
Campbellford, ON. He will be
forever missed by his beloved
wife of 45 years, Anne; his
children David, Carey, Peter,
Daphne (deceased), Shoshannah,
Douglas and Robin; his many
KELLY ELIZABETH grandchildren along with his
BUCKINGHAM brothers Jock (deceased), Gordon
and his sisters Panny, Vickie & Jill.
We are profoundly heartbroken Hugh was a man of many
to announce the sudden passing interests. He started his working
of our beloved Kelly Elizabeth life as a stockbroker in Montreal,
Buckingham (née Drinkwater) on later moving to Toronto where he
Thursday, March 17, following a became a well-known and much-
brief battle with mental illness. loved figure on Bay Street. He then
Born December 10, 1981, in ventured into the mining industry
Toronto, Kelly enjoyed formative where he spent four eventful
childhood years in England, years prospecting in the Thunder
excelling in ballet and on skis Bay / Nipigon area. His semi-
during family trips to the Alps. retirement years were enjoyed at
Always an animal lover - even the farm in Campbellford where
stuffed animals - family dogs he could often be seen riding
through the fields on his tractors
Bagshot and Boomer, were
her consummate companions. or hosting his “men only” Sunday
Kelly graduated from Branksome NFL parties at the Barn. Hugh also
Hall, where she thrived and opened a real estate firm and, for
forged lifelong friendships. Kelly a time, served as a member of the
also connected with her Celtic local Rotary Club.
roots during study programmes Over his long and active life,
in Dublin and St. Andrews, Hugh participated in many
majoring in international relations, sports including skiing, flying,
links golf and pub gatherings. marathons, squash, handball and
She graduated from McGill golf. He was an honorary member
University in 2004 with a degree of the Cambridge Club of Toronto,
in Political Science. Montreal Racquet Club and
Nicholson Island Shooting Club.
Kelly had an instinct for
entrepreneurial opportunities, Hugh and Anne have enjoyed 21
pursuing mortgage brokering, winters at the Lost City Golf Club
serving as president of her in Atlantis, FL.
Toronto business club, and Hugh had a most unpretentious
following a passion for health and and affable nature. He was a
wellness ventures. Most recently, generous and kind man which
she and her husband, Matt, were earned him many enduring
realizing their dream of restoring friendships.
and renovating a Victorian
house into a hotel in Wellington, Your family and friends thank you
Hugh for being you; we will all
Prince Edward County. Always
in her element on Lake Joe and treasure our memories forever.
Georgian Bay, we will forever A private family service to
picture her driving the whaler, celebrate Hugh’s life will be held,
relaxing on the dock, and with interment to follow at Mount
swimming with her kids. Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, in
A natural, effortless beauty, it the early Summer.
was Kelly’s genuine and honest In lieu of flowers, for those
character that most endeared who wish, a donation may be
her to strangers and loved made to Hugh’s favorite charity,
ones alike. Quick with a warm, The Salvation Army. Memories,
dimpled smile, and generous stories and condolences
with her time and empathy, Kelly can be shared online at
maintained deep relationships www.weaverfuneralhomes.com
with a tight but large circle of
friends and family. The youngest
of the Drinkwater children, she
was her family’s bright and joyful
harmonizer, always up for a
good laugh and a model of living
purposefully with style.
Honour a
Kelly’s greatest joy was being
a mother to Isabelle and Will,
loved one
whose world she filled with
wonder, creativity, and immense Memorialize and
love. She is survived by Matt celebrate a loved one in
and their children; her parents,
Susie and David (Adele); her The Globe and Mail.
siblings Jennifer Jones (Kevin)
and Michael (Cameron); and
her seven nieces and nephews,
Eleanor, Gwenyth, Tate, Hugh,
Boyd, Jacob and Kaitlin. Her large
extended McClelland-Drinkwater-
Buckingham family will all miss
her dearly.
The family will receive friends
in Kelly’s honour on Friday,
March 25, from 2 p.m. to 5
p.m. at Rosedale Golf Club,
1901 Mount Pleasant Road,
Toronto. Please follow your
personal COVID preferences.
Entry will be staggered.
For family and friends in the
County and surrounding area,
a celebration of life will be held
Monday, March 28, from 4 p.m.
to 6 p.m. at Slake Brewery, 181
Mowbray Road, Picton, Ontario.
We hope our devastating loss will
help other families shine light on
the mental health challenges that
affect so many.
In lieu of flowers, please consider
a donation to the Mental
Health Program at Women’s
College Hospital in Toronto in
Kelly E. Buckingham’s memory.
You can donate online at
https://wchf.akaraisin.com/ui/
KellyBuckingham or by calling
Women’s College Hospital
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DR. ROBERT JAMES
“RJ” CREIGHTON
Dr. Robert James “RJ” Creighton
of Walkerton, passed away
Sunday, March 20, 2022, at
South Bruce Grey Health Centre,
Walkerton, in his 89th year.
Beloved husband of Karen and
father to Debbie Lou (Fred)
Ludolph of Waterloo, Peggy
Jo (Jack) Scott of Toronto, Bill
(Beth) of Waterloo, Ruth Anne
(Paul) Hamel of Waterloo, Robert
“Bob” (Whitney) of Buffalo, N.Y.,
Sarah (Steve) King Brohman of
Waterloo, and Stephanie King of
Hoboken, N.J. Proud grandpa
of 17 grandchildren and 6 great-
grandchildren. RJ will be missed
by many nieces and nephews.
Predeceased by his first wife, Joan
(née Dow); daughter, Mary Beth;
sister, Joan (Don) McFarland; and
brother, Paul.
Friends and relatives are invited
for visitation from 2:00 p.m.
to 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. to
8:00 p.m. on Friday, March 25,
2022, at Cameron’s in Walkerton.
A memorial service will be
held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday,
March 26, 2022, at St. Paul’s
United Church, Walkerton.
A livestream of the service
will be available through
RJ’s memorial page at www.
cameronfuneralhomes.com.
Interment at Walkerton Cemetery
will be held later in 2022.
As expressions of sympathy,
donations to the Walkerton &
District Hospital Foundation - “Dr.
RJ Creighton Birthing Centre”
Walkerton, or St. Paul’s United
Church, would be appreciated by
the family.
To donate, or leave condolence,
please visit RJ’s memorial page at
www.cameronfuneralhomes.com.
“Lord, make us truly thankful
and grateful.”
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GRANT LAWRENCE DUFF
1927 – 2 022
Grant Duff was a great guy with
a big voice, a bigger laugh, and
a huge heart. He made everyone
feel special. He passed away on
Tuesday, March 22, 2022, at the
age of 95.
Grant is survived by his wife,
Catharine Wilson Duff, and
his loving family, Dr. Virginia
(Ginny) Duff (predeceased by
John Wilson), David Duff (Mary
Liston), and grandson, John-Alex
Duff Wilson. Grant was adored
by Cathy’s family, Jackie Moss
(Brian Shaw), Jamey Fitzgibbon
(Rhonda), Jeffrey Fitzgibbon
(Penny) and grandchildren, Teddy
and Alistair Moss, Katie and Chris
Fitzgibbon, and Chloe and Julian
Fitzgibbon. He is also survived by
his older sister, Connie Stokes and
her family. Grant’s first wife, Jean,
predeceased him in 2000.
Grant was born in Cochrane,
Ontario, and grew up in northern
Ontario and Toronto, where he
attended Jarvis Collegiate. After
studying engineering at the
University of Toronto, Grant and
a good friend cycled throughout
Europe, collecting adventures
and stories that lasted the rest of
their lives. Returning to Toronto,
Grant met his first wife, Jean, with
whom he had two children. After
Jean passed away in 2000, Grant
had the good fortune to meet and
marry Cathy and join his second
family whom he cherished as
much as his first. Grant was a lucky
man to have had two families
who loved him enormously.
Grant had a successful career as
an urban developer and an even
more successful retirement,
spending summers in Muskoka
and Stouffville and winters in
Florida, and travelling the world
with Cathy, including a trip to
Europe in 2017 at the age of 90.
Grant sailed at the Royal Canadian
Yacht Club in Toronto, skied at
Alpine Ski Club in Collingwood,
played tennis at the Granite
Club in Toronto, played golf at
Granite Golf in Stouffville and
the Classics in Naples, and took
up windsurfing in his 60’s. He
was a founder and a lifelong
advocate for the Foundation
Fighting Blindness (https://www.
fightingblindness.org), to which
donations can be made.
Grant bravely fought five cancers
and was working on the sixth.
His family would like to thank
Dr. Berinstein and the staff at
Sunnybrook Hospital for the care
that they provided.
A celebration of Grant’s life will
take place at the Granite Club at a
date later this spring.
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TOSHIKO J EAN TOKIWA
Toshiko Jean Tokiwa (nee
Kanemoto), passed away
peacefully on Thursday, March
17, 2022, at Wentworth Lodge
in Dundas, Ontario. Preceded in
death by her loving husband Paul
Yoshiharu Tokiwa. Loving mother
to Paul, George (Michele), and
Michael (Christine). She is also
survived by her grandchildren,
Amy, Kyle, Sarah, Bridget, and
Jameson; and by her sisters-in-
law Claire Tokiwa and Lily Gibson;
and fondly remembered by her
nieces and nephews and their
families. Predeceased by sister-in-
law Helen Tokiwa and brother-in-
law Sam Tokiwa. Jean had many
friends, and those who knew her
were all touched by her kindness,
gentleness, and generosity.
Jean was born on June 18, 1931,
to Suenobo John Kanemoto and
Tai Mary Kanemoto in Vancouver,
British Columbia, where she spent
much of her childhood. In March
1941, her family was relocated to
the Tashme Japanese Canadian
internment camp where they
endured challenging conditions.
The time they spent there was
difficult, but Jean managed to
still find hope in her situation.
Following the war, her family
was released from the camp and
made new lives for themselves
in Hamilton, Ontario, living in a
house located where City Hall
now stands.
Jean graduated from Westdale
Secondary School and obtained
her teaching certificate. She
was a graduate of McMaster
University, obtaining her degree
through part-time studies and
night school. She worked for
the Hamilton-Wentworth School
Board and she taught elementary
school and English as a Second
Language (ESL) to children and
adults in both her home and
at student homes and at the
Salvation Army. She continued to
teach ESL after her retirement. She
coached and played girls’ softball,
studied Japanese, practiced Tai
Chi, and was an avid reader and
animal lover, having many cats
and dogs. She also loved to travel
to destinations such as Japan,
Italy, France, and across the U.S.
She helped out at the Hamilton
Japanese United Church, where
she taught a Sunday School
class and helped and supported
the Canadian Japanese Cultural
Centre of Hamilton (CJCC).
Jean spent many enjoyable years
at the Caroline Place Retirement
Residence in Hamilton and more
recently was cared for by the
kind and dedicated staff at the
Wentworth Lodge in Dundas.
Visitation services will be held
at Turner Family Funeral Home,
53 Main Street, Dundas, Ontario
905-628-6412 on Sunday, March
27, 2022, 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m.
Funeral service on Monday,
March 28, 2022, at 10 a.m. at the
same location and burial will
take place after the service at
White Chapel Memorial Gardens
on 1895 Main St. W, Hamilton,
Ontario. For those who wish
to livestream the service, a
live link will be available at
www.turnerfamilyfuneralhome.ca.
The family would appreciate it if
those who attend the visitation
and/or service and burial, wear
masks. In lieu of flowers, please
consider a donation to The Heart
and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Wijk aan Zee, The
Netherlands, on December
24, 1923; she left us in her
99th year, in St. Mary’s,
Ontario. Hers was a
remarkable life, spanning two
continents and filled with
compassion, family, love,
laughter, and just a bit of sass.
She spent 51 years with her
best friend and husband Karel
Brandenburg, whom she met
in the Netherlands during the
Second World War. She was
just 16 when the Netherlands
was invaded, and while she
did not talk about the
challenges, she faced many.
Tina and Karel left the
Netherlands in the mid-1950s
with their children - Carla,
Martina (Tina), and Laura - to
settle in southwestern
Ontario. Her son Carl was
born shortly after they arrived
in Canada.
Eventually, after scrimping
and saving, Tina and Karel
bought a dairy farm, worked
hard, made many friends, and
put down roots. A nurse by
training, Tina was often called
to neighbouring farms to help
in medical emergencies,
being far closer than the local
doctor, and likely in
possession of a far greater
sense of humour.
Over time, she and Karel
helped their children raise
families of their own. A great
sorrow of her life was the
passing of Karel in 1998. The
choice of poem at his service
was "Miss Me, But Let Me
Go".
Heeding his advice, she did
get married again; to Tony
Usher, in 2002. They spent 10
happy years together, until he
passed in 2012. Sadly, this
was followed by the deaths of
two of her daughters, Laura
Coughlin (Al), who died in
2014, and Tina Jarzebiak in
2016. It was a heartbreaking
period for her, yet one that
she survived. All the while
crocheting, quilting, and
knitting, despite worsening
arthritis.
In addition to many relatives
in the old country, she is
survived in Canada by two
beloved children, Carla Davis
and Carl Brandenburg; as well
as Carl’s wife Linda, whom
Tina very much considered a
daughter. She leaves behind
18 grandchildren and 15 great-
grandchildren, as well as
many dear friends.
Tina’s legacy is large and
warm. Her family have been
left with memories, stories,
and many pieces of arts and
crafts that were made for
them with the utmost of love.
Most of all, they cherish the
example of a tremendously
strong (and often headstrong)
woman who was selfless,
caring and compassionate.
Her memory will be a
blessing.
The family is grateful for the
care of the staff of Kingsway
Lodge in St. Mary’s, Ontario.
A celebration of life will be
planned for this summer.
SUSAN WI EDER
Susan Wieder (née Leibovici)
passed away peacefully at
MALCOLM JOHN AVEY
1 9 47 – 2 02 1
Malcolm John Avey passed on
November 30, 2021. He would
have turned 75 this March 23,
2022. He loved a party and
would have wanted to celebrate
with his friends. Born in St. Paul,
Minnesota to Elna (nee Forsell)
and Edward Avey, a nursing
missionary and a Baptist pastor,
Malcolm moved to Toronto as a
young man.
A graduate in political economy
from the University of Toronto,
Malcolm made a living between
two careers. He was an early
computer programmer who
worked for the New Democratic
Party when their fortunes allowed.
He was a kind, gentle and
intelligent man with a strong life
force. A life-long activist, he loved
a political discussion, being with
friends and family, enjoying the
good things that are all around
and seeing the world.
Malcolm is sadly missed by his
wife, Chris Daly of Toronto and
Vancouver; his sister, Margot
Avey of St. Louis Park, Minnesota;
his cousin, Dr. Keith Jones of
Winnipeg; and his nephew,
Warren Bush of Vancouver.
Malcolm’s family wishes to thank
the health care team at Brock
Fahrni Pavilion, Providence
Health Care, Vancouver, for the
care Malcolm received in the last
two years of his life. The bonds
that team members formed with
him and the care he received,
particularly in the last few days of
his life, were a blessing. Special
thanks also to Tina Meredith and
his other exceptional caregivers
who transitioned with him from
care at home to Brock Fahrni and
made his difficult journey a bit
easier to bear.
Memorial donations in
Malcolm’s name may be made
to the St. Paul’s Foundation,
(attention Brock Fahrni) at
donate.helpstpauls.com/goto/
MalcolmJohnAvey
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DIPLOMAT BECAME FIRST WOMAN
TO SERVE AS U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE
She rose to power and fame as a brilliant analyst of world affairs in the Clinton administration and learned in the 1990s
about her family’s Jewish heritage, obscured by her parents as a protective measure during the Second World War
ROBERT D. McFADDEN
M
adeleine K. Albright, a
child of Czech refugees
who fled from Nazi invad-
ers and Communist oppressors
and then landed in the United
States, where she flourished as a
diplomat and the first woman to
serve as secretary of state, died on
Wednesday in Washington. She
was 84.
The cause was cancer, her
daughter Anne said.
Enveloped by a veil of family
secrets hidden from her for most
of her life, Ms. Albright rose to
power and fame as a brilliant ana-
lyst of world affairs and a White
House counsellor on national se-
curity. Under president Bill Clin-
ton, she became the country’s
representative to the United Na-
tions (1993-97) and secretary of
state (1997-2001), making her the
highest-ranking woman in the
history of American government
at the time.
It was not until after she be-
came secretary of state that she
accepted proof, long suspected,
that her ethnic and religious back-
ground was not what she had
thought. She learned that her
family was Jewish and that her
parents had protectively convert-
ed to Roman Catholicism during
the Second World War, raising
their children as Catholics with-
out telling them of their Jewish
heritage. She also discovered that
26 family members, including
three grandparents, had been
murdered in the Holocaust.
With her father, a diplomat,
likely facing execution, the fam-
ily’s odyssey from a Europe on the
brink of the Second World War to
safety in America took 10 years
and two escapes to London. The
first came as Nazi troops invaded
Czechoslovakia in 1939, and the
second came after the family’s
postwar repatriation, when Czech
Communists with Soviet support
overthrew the government of
Czechoslovakia in 1948.
In the United States, Madeleine
Korbel was a brilliant student,
married into the wealthy Al-
bright-Medill newspaper family
and wrote many books and arti-
cles on public affairs. She also
climbed the ranks of the Demo-
cratic Party to pinnacles of suc-
cess as a counsellor to president
Jimmy Carter and as a foreign-pol-
icy adviser to three presidential
candidates: former senator Wal-
ter Mondale of Minnesota in 1984,
governor Michael Dukakis of Mas-
sachusetts in 1988 and Mr. Clinton
in 1992.
She was largely unknown until
Mr. Clinton took office as presi-
dent in 1993 and named her chief
delegate to the United Nations.
Over the next four years, she be-
came a tough advocate for the
global interests of the United
States. But she and Mr. Clinton
clashed repeatedly with sec-
retary-general Boutros Boutros-
Ghali over peacekeeping oper-
ations in Somalia, Rwanda and
the Bosnian civil war.
Mr. Clinton had heartily en-
dorsed humanitarian and peace-
keeping operations when U.S.
troops entered Somalia in 1992 to
feed starving victims of civil war.
But when 18 U.S. troops were slain
by the forces of a Somali warlord
in 1993 and the nation saw televi-
sion images of a dead helicopter
pilot dragged through the streets
of Mogadishu, Mr. Clinton retreat-
ed from politically risky UN mis-
sions.
Thus the United States, like
most other member states, held
back from aiding a small force of
UN peacekeepers when Rwanda
descended into genocide and
rape in 1994. As many as one mil-
lion people were killed. Ms. Al-
bright put the onus on Mr. Bou-
tros-Ghali, calling him “disen-
gaged.” But Mr. Boutros-Ghali said
he had been rebuffed when he
tried to see the president to seek
support.
Years later, Mr. Clinton apol-
ogized for the United States’ inac-
tion in Rwanda. In a 2003 memoir
| T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L O
Named the United States’ chief delegate to the UN in 1993, Madeleine Albright, seen in Pristina, Kosovo, in June, 2005, and president Bill Clinton
clashed repeatedly with secretary-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali over peacekeeping missions in Somalia, Rwanda and Bosnia. ATDHE MULLA/AP
titled Madam Secretary, Ms. Al-
bright wrote, “My deepest regret
from my years in public service is
the failure of the United States
and the international community
to act sooner to halt these crimes.”
It was a regret she repeated, in
much the same words, in an inter-
view for this obituary.
Days after beginning his sec-
ond term, Mr. Clinton nominated
Ms. Albright as secretary of state.
She was unanimously confirmed
by the Senate (99-0) and soon
made her first official trip not to a
foreign capital but to Texas, where
she spoke at Rice University, de-
termined, she said, to take U.S. for-
eign policy straight to the Ameri-
can people.
“As secretary, I will do my best
to talk about foreign policy not in
abstract terms, but in human
terms and bipartisan terms,” she
said. “I consider this vital because
in our democracy, we cannot pur-
sue policies abroad that are not
understood and supported here
at home.”
She then embarked on a nine-
nation world tour, with stops in
Rome, Paris, London, Brussels,
Bonn, Moscow, Tokyo, Seoul and
Beijing, a getting-to-know-you
circumnavigation that showed off
her grasp of issues, her language
skills and her centrality as Mr.
Clinton’s chief foreign-policy
maker and spokeswoman.
She generated excitement ev-
erywhere, and appeared to have a
wonderful time.
“Everybody has their own
style, and mine is people to peo-
ple,” she said on a walk in Rome.
“I’m trying mine, and I am enjoy-
ing it.”
As Mr. Clinton’s top diplomat
during relatively peaceful years,
Ms. Albright dealt with regional
conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovi-
na, Kosovo, Haiti, Northern Ire-
land and the Middle East, but no
wide wars. She promoted the ex-
pansion of NATO into the former
Soviet bloc nations of Eastern Eu-
rope and defended continued ec-
onomic sanctions against Iraq.
A crisis on Ms. Albright’s watch
developed in late 1997 and early
1998, after Iraq’s president, Sad-
dam Hussein, blocked the access
of UN inspectors to sites where
Iraqi chemical and biological
weapons of mass destruction
were believed to have been hid-
den in violation of a Security
Council resolution passed at the
end of the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
After months of warnings and a
U.S. military buildup in the re-
gion, Ms. Albright and Mr. Clinton
threatened to launch devastating
aerial attacks on Iraq unless the
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POLITICIAN, 84
sites were reopened to inspection.
“Iraq has a simple choice,” Ms.
Albright said in a public warning
to Mr. Hussein. “Reverse course or
face the consequences.”
In an eleventh-hour move to
prevent war, UN secretary-gener-
al Kofi Annan, carrying final
terms drawn up by Ms. Albright,
flew to Baghdad and secured the
Iraqi leader’s agreement to re-
store unrestricted access to the
sites by UN weapons inspectors
and diplomatic chaperones.
In December, 1998, the United
States and Britain bombed scores
of Iraqi military targets and re-
search installations to degrade
Iraq’s ability to manufacture
weapons of mass destruction.
Her performance as
secretary of state won
high marks from career
diplomats abroad and
ordinary Americans at
home. Admirers said
she had a star quality,
radiating practicality,
versatility and
a refreshingly
cosmopolitan flair.
Ms. Albright championed NA-
TO bombings in Kosovo that halt-
ed attacks on ethnic Albanians by
Yugoslavian forces in 1999. She al-
so promoted ratification of the
Kyoto Protocol on climate
change. But American diplomats
in Africa said she had failed to
heed warnings that foreshad-
owed truck bombings in 1998 that
killed 224 people at the U.S. em-
bassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar
es Salaam, Tanzania.
Throughout her tenure, Ms. Al-
bright opposed the proliferation
of nuclear weapons in rogue
states. But on a visit to North Ko-
rea’s leader, Kim Jong Il, in Octo-
ber, 2000, she was unable to strike
a deal to limit his country’s ballis-
tic-missile program before Mr.
Clinton left office.
Still, her performance as secre-
tary of state won high marks from
career diplomats abroad and or-
dinary Americans at home. Ad-
mirers said she had a star quality,
radiating practicality, versatility
and a refreshingly cosmopolitan
flair. She spoke Czech, Polish,
French and Russian.
Unlike her immediate prede-
cessor, Warren Christopher, a re-
served foreign-policy wonk who
saw his role as Mr. Clinton’s diplo-
matic lawyer, Ms. Albright was an
aggressive advocate of Clinton
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policies. Conscious of television
cameras but remarkably natural
in public, she strolled through
crowded capitals (with discreet
security guards) like a tourist with
free time on her hands.
She was a diminutive presence
with an assured style: impeccably
tailored and perfectly coifed, with
touches of gold or pearl in her
brooches, an amused smile for
the cognoscenti and eyes that
missed nothing. In meetings with
foreign diplomats, colleagues
said, she was firm but flexible,
prepared to move beyond her
talking points and to engage her
counterparts in frank oval-table
bargaining.
“So often in diplomacy, it’s all
set pieces,” an aide told The New
York Times. “You say this and I say
that and the meeting ends and
nothing happens. But she engag-
es. And in contrast to nearly all
her predecessors, she doesn’t
hide policy differences, but brings
them out, and speaks very direct-
ly of them, saying things like,
‘Here’s what we agree on, here’s
what we don’t. Let me tell you
what the real problem is.’ ”
She was born Marie Jana Korbe-
lova in Prague on May 15, 1937, the
oldest of three children of Josef
and Anna (Speeglova) Korbel.
Her father was a press attaché in
the Czech embassy in Belgrade,
Yugoslavia, and had worked for
Czechoslovakia’s first democratic
president, Tomas Masaryk, who
retired in 1935, and his successor,
Edvard Benes.
Hitler’s annexation of the Su-
detenland and later invasion of
Czechoslovakia forced Benes to
flee to London. After 10 days in
hiding, Mr. Korbel, targeted for ex-
ecution by the Nazis, followed
with his family. Mr. Korbel worked
for the Benes government-in-ex-
ile. He and his wife had two more
children, Katherine and John.
Like millions of Londoners, the
family endured the Luftwaffe air
raids of 1940-41. Ms. Albright re-
called nights in shelters and hid-
ing under a steel table at home as
bombs fell.
With the outcome of the war in
doubt and the fate of Jewish fam-
ilies in a postwar Nazi Europe too
horrifying to contemplate, the
Korbels, in a wrenching decision,
converted to Roman Catholicism
in 1941. They had their children
baptized, observed Catholic rites
and holidays and, to preserve
their assumed identities, and pos-
sibly their lives, fabricated a fam-
ily history of Christian memories.
“My parents talked about how
they met, and how they were
high-school sweethearts,” Ms. Al-
B17
bright recalled decades later, after
learning the truth. “They talked
about getting ready for various
holidays, for Easter and Christ-
mas.”
She recalled being “a very seri-
ous Catholic” who loved the Vir-
gin Mary and “played a priest – I
was already playing male roles.”
After the war, the Korbels re-
turned to Prague. Mr. Korbel be-
came the Czech ambassador to
Yugoslavia, and his family joined
him in Belgrade. Ms. Albright re-
called her first diplomatic experi-
ences at the age of 8, when she ac-
companied her father to the Bel-
grade airport to meet visiting dig-
nitaries.
“I was a little girl in Czech na-
tional costume when foreign vis-
itors came to Belgrade,” she said
in the obituary interview. “I greet-
ed them and gave them flowers.”
Worried about exposing their
daughter in Belgrade state
schools to Marxist indoctrination,
however, the Korbels sent Marie
to a private school in Switzerland
and changed her name to Made-
leine.
When Communists seized
power in Prague in 1948, Mr. Kor-
bel was forced to resign and again
became a wanted man. Unwilling
to return to Prague, he joined a UN
commission and sent his family to
London and then on to the United
States. The family was reunited in
New York, given political asylum
and settled in Denver, where Mr.
Korbel became a professor at the
University of Denver.
At the Kent Denver School, Ma-
deleine Korbel founded an inter-
national relations club and gradu-
ated in 1955. At Wellesley College,
she studied political science, edit-
ed the school newspaper and
graduated with honours in 1959.
She also became a U.S. citizen in
1957.
On a summer internship at The
Denver Post, she met Joseph Me-
dill Patterson Albright, the grand-
son of Joseph Medill Patterson,
who founded The Daily News of
New York, and the nephew of Al-
icia Patterson, the founder and
editor of Newsday on Long Island.
In 1959, Madeleine Korbel mar-
ried Joseph Albright and convert-
ed to Episcopalianism. The couple
had three daughters, twins Alice
and Anne, and Katie, and were di-
vorced in 1983.
In addition to Anne, she leaves
her other two daughters, along
with her sister, Kathy Silva; her
brother, John Korbel; and six
grandchildren. She lived in Wash-
ington.
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