OT TAWA/ Q U E B EC E D I T I O N
CO M
Children’s
hospitals
overwhelmed
as flu season
has ‘exploded’
KELLY GRANT
HEALTH REPORTER
Many more children are being ad-
mitted to hospitals with influen-
za than at any other time in at
least a decade, according to sur-
veillance data that show how an
aggressive early start to the flu
season is straining Canadian pe-
diatric hospitals that were al-
ready near a breaking point.
In the last full week of Novem-
ber, there were 223 children ad-
mitted for influenza-related ill-
ness to 12 pediatric hospitals that
are part of IMPACT, a network
that tracks vaccine-preventable
diseases in children. That’s con-
siderably more than in any other
week in years. Normally, there
would be an average of 11 such
hospital admissions a week at
this time of year.
“Our flu season has just ex-
ploded,” said Jesse Papenburg, a
pediatric infectious-disease spe-
cialist at Montreal Children’s Hos-
pital and a data captain for IM-
PACT.
“Last season – the entire influ-
enza season – we had roughly 400
hospitalizations. That gives you a
sense of the intensity of the activ-
ity, at least in terms of severe dis-
ease in children.”
The soaring number of flu
cases is having a cascading effect
on a pediatric health system that
was already struggling with pan-
demic-related staffing shortfalls
and a surge of respiratory syncy-
tial virus, or RSV, a virus that
front-line experts said is now
plateauing in Canada.
HOSPITALS, A15
Iran to shut
down morality
police after
protests,
official says
VIVIAN YEE
FARNAZ FASSIHI
A senior Iranian official said this
weekend that Iran had abolished
the morality police, the state
media reported, after months of
protests set off by the death of a
young woman who was detained
by the force for supposedly violat-
ing the country’s strict Islamic
dress laws.
The morality police “was abol-
ished by the same authorities
who installed it,” Attorney-Gen-
eral Mohammad Javad Montazeri
said Saturday during a meeting at
which officials were discussing
the unrest, according to state
media reports.
It was unclear whether the
statement amounted to a final
decision by the theocratic gov-
ernment, which has neither an-
nounced the abolition of the
morality police nor denied it.
But if the force is abolished, the
change will be unlikely to ap-
pease protesters who are still
clashing with other security
forces and have become so em-
boldened that some are calling
for an end of Iran’s Islamic Re-
public.
The morality police is overseen
by the Iranian police, not the at-
torney-general, and there were
suggestions on Sunday that the
government might be trying to
play down the significance of Mr.
Montazeri’s remarks.
One state television channel,
the Arabic-language Al Alam,
said that the comments had been
taken out of context, and other
state channels said the govern-
ment was not backing down from
the mandatory hijab law.
IRAN, A15
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NUNAVUT’S PREFAB PROBLEM SOLVER
In Arviat, a facility set to open in 2025 would put Inuit tradespeople
to work building modular housing units tailored to the North’s needs
KELLY GRANT Hudson Bay. “If housing could be solved, that
HEALTH REPORTER would solve a lot of other issues – almost like a
ARVIAT, NUNAVUT domino effect.”
Mr. Savikataaq Jr. is under no illusion that
one factory can fix something as daunting as
O
n the outskirts of the Nunavut ham- the housing crisis that underlies the poor men-
let of Arviat, past the polar bear alert tal and physical health of many Nunavummiut.
signs and the packed-to-the-rafters In his own community, the person at the top of
schools and the community freezer the waiting list for a one-bedroom public-hous-
full of caribou meat, lies a gravel pad on which ing unit has been in the queue since 2007. Sixty
an Inuit company is building something un- per cent of Nunavut Inuit live in crowded hous-
precedented. ing.
The pad is the future site of a factory that will But Arviat’s mayor and other supporters of
produce modular homes for a territory where the modular housing factory – which, when it
the housing shortage is so acute that multigen- opens, will be the only factory in Nunavut if you
erational families sometimes sleep in shifts on don’t count the fish and meat-processing
mattresses on the floor. plants – hope it will be a step toward building
“We’re in dire need of housing,” said Joe Savi- Arctic-worthy houses faster and perhaps
kataaq Jr., the mayor of Arviat, a community of
about 2,800 people on the western shore of
cheaper than traditional methods.
NUNAVUT, A8
Why visiting Richard Serra’s unique steel sculpture in the
Qatari desert requires real commitment, and a rock-solid vehicle
CATHAL KELLY ZEKREET, QATAR pipeline. “Desert cats. Very dangerous.”
We stop at a couple of guys in reflective You know what’s actually dangerous?
vests hunkered down in the shade of a pile Driving in the desert in a compact car.
T
o get to Richard Serra’s East-West/ of material. Our driver, Shakir, talks to Beside me in the back seat, our col-
West-East, you drive west out of them in Hindi. They point us one way. league, Neil, digs his hands into the uphol-
Doha, hit the Gulf shore near the After we get lost, we flag down a pickup stery as the car begins to go sideways over a
village of Zekreet, and then turn truck, which seems miles away. They come rise. You know how you can sometimes
right into nothingness. toodling right over. More pipeline workers, hear a person holding their breath? I can
“Slide right,” says the automated Waze Egyptians. hear that now.
voice. Sliding is not a problem, but going The pair pile out so that everyone can “You know Shakir, if you’re not comfort-
right would mean heading directly into a shake hands before any conversation can able driving in …”
ditch. commence. Shakir talks to them in Arabic. “Oh, no, no, I’m very comfortable,”
The guide books tell you to come out They offer to lead us to the correct path. Shakir says. The chassis shudders and
here in a vehicle “with some clearance.” Without them, we’d be out there feeding moans as if it’s being pulled apart one rivet
We’re in a four-door Kia compact. You can lizards as you read this. Assuming lizards at a time.
feel every rut, rock and squidgy patch of can survive here. What lives on this end- Who would put a piece of art by argua-
sand, and there is nothing but those less doomscape? bly the world’s greatest living sculptor in a
things. “Are there bugs?” says Nathan, the pho- place that you cannot access without a lo-
The road isn’t a road. There’s no road. tographer. cation finder, a very serious vehicle and a
It’s a series of interconnecting tracks left by “Oh, definitely,” says Shakir. “And cats.” lot of spare time? The Qataris.
the 4x4s of workers installing a nearby “Cats?!” says Nathan, head swivelling. KELLY, A15
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NEWS PHOTO ARCHIVE

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TORONTO’S FESTIVAL
OF LIGHT, 1993
For more than 100 years, photographers and photo
editors working for The Globe and Mail have preserved
an extraordinary collection of news photography. Every
Monday, The Globe features one of these images. This
month, we’re celebrating the winter solstice.
al commemorates a “return of the light,” in ac-
knowledgment of the fact that, as of Dec. 21, the
days start to lengthen. Originally named the Festiv-
al of Light, the inaugural iteration was inspired by
Italy’s commedia dell’arte theatre style, which em-
phasizes improvisation, caricature and elaborate

T
oronto’s Kensington Market has long been
a community-driven epicentre for the
weird and wonderful, and at no time of
year, perhaps, is this more evident than on
the winter solstice. Since 1988, the neighbourhood
has hosted an annual solstice celebration and pa-
rade (this rollicking moment from the 1993 event
was captured by The Globe’s Fred Lum). The festiv-
masks – the latter of which have been worn by
performers and attendees since the festival’s in-
ception. Now simply called the Kensington Winter
Solstice Festival, the street party – which will take
place on Dec. 21 this year as per tradition – has not
departed from its roots: live music, circus-inspired
street performers and, of course, ornate masks.
REBECCA TUCKER

[ COLUMNISTS ]

SHEEMA LESLIE DAVID

KHAN BECK PARKINSON

OPINION OPINION OPINION

World Cup coverage is Eating more flavonols A half-point rate hike is

silent about how France found in many fruits, in the cards if the Bank
bans women from vegetables, tea and wine of Canada gets worried
playing soccer simply may slow the rate of about signals from
for wearing a hijab A11 memory loss A12 rising wages B4

Increasing presence of monarch butterflies

in Mexico inspires hopes of a comeback
BRENDAN O’BOYLE Sierra Chincua in 1986 was
ALBERTO FAJARDO brought into the protected Mon-
SIERRA CHINCUA, MEXICO arch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve,
which is now a UNESCO World
Heritage Site spanning some
bouring Mexico state, extended
across 18 hectares in the
mid-1990s. But by last winter the
area had fallen to just three hec-
tares.

F
rom a distance, they appear
like fall foliage: millions of
endangered monarch but-
terflies blanketing trees in a ka-
leidoscope of brown, orange and
black.
As the crisp mountain air
warms, they flutter above daz-
zled visitors who have come to
see an annual tradition that per-
sists despite the environmental
and human pressures threaten-
ing it.
Every year, migratory mon-
archs travel up to 3,000 kilo-
metres from the eastern United
States and Canada to spend the
winter among the forests of cen-
tral and western Mexico.
Winter weekends bring hun-
dreds of visitors to Sierra Chin-
cua, an idyllic monarch sanctu-
ary in the western state of Mi-
choacan, about three hours drive
from Mexico City.
56,000 hectares.
“Tourism helps conserve the
forest, it’s how we sustain our
families,” said Juan Vidal, one of
three dozen park rangers who
patrol the forest and work as
guides.
Today, the 54-year-old Mr. Vi-
dal says there are fewer mon-
archs than when he first came as
a child.
The migratory monarch pop-
ulation has fallen between 22 per
cent and 72 per cent over the
past decade, according to the In-
ternational Union for the Con-
servation of Nature, which de-
clared the species endangered in
July.
Scientists blame climate
change, pesticides and illegal log-
ging for the population decline.
The monarchs’ presence in
the states where they spend the
winter, Michoacan and neigh-
Last year’s migration, howev-
er, offered a glimmer of hope for
the monarch’s future. Their pres-
ence in Mexico was actually up
by more than a third compared
with 2020.
Luis Martinez, one of the rang-
ers at Sierra Chincua, expects
this year to show further im-
provement. “We have more but-
terflies this year, more got here
because the colony is bigger,” he
said.
As the monarchs begin to ar-
rive around Mexico’s Day of the
Dead holiday in early November,
some locals see the butterflies as
the returning souls of ancestors.
Visitor Lizbeth Cerrato said
the “unique experience” was like
“watching souls flying above.”
“It’s so many feelings woven
together.”
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Sharing Indigenous-led conservation at COP15

Indigenous leaders to ples show the benefits of Indige-
nous-led land planning.
tell conference that if “When Indigenous peoples are
Canada has any hope of holding the pen, the protection
reaching biodiversity rates in those land use plans tend
to be more than 50 per cent and
goals, it lies in working often two-thirds of the land-
with their people scapes,” she added.
Guardian programs are also
gaining momentum. In June, the
WENDY STUECK Kitasoo Xai’xais and Nuxalk First
ENVIRONMENT REPORTER Nations, located in B.C., an-
nounced a pilot project with BC
Parks to designate some Indige-

I
ndigenous leaders are hoping
COP15 will be an opportunity
to showcase how Indigenous-
led conservation can be at the
heart of a new global biodiversity
agreement.
Over the past few years, Indig-
enous-led conservation has
picked up momentum in Canada
and abroad, reflecting a growing
body of research that highlights
the connections between tradi-
tional Indigenous territories and
biodiversity.
Ahead of COP15, the interna-
tional conference kicking off in
Montreal next Wednesday, Cana-
da has set ambitious targets to
protect biodiversity, saying it will
conserve 25 per cent of land and
water by 2025 and 30 per cent of
each by 2030.
Protected areas in Canada sit at
about half of those levels. And if
the country has any hope of reac-
hing those goals, it lies in work-
ing with Indigenous peoples, says
Tyson Atleo, Natural Climate So-
lutions Program director with
Nature United, the Canadian af-
filiate of U.S.-based environmen-
tal group, the Nature Conservan-
cy.
“We cannot hit those targets
without Indigenous leadership in
conservation,” said Mr. Atleo,
who is based in B.C. and a mem-
ber of the Ahousaht Nation.
One oft-cited statistic, dating
back at least to a 2008 World
Bank report, says Indigenous
peoples’ traditional territories
encompass up to 22 per cent of
the world’s land surface, areas
that hold 80 per cent of the plan-
et’s biodiversity.
In 2018, a government-com-
missioned Indigenous Circle of
Tyson Atleo, Natural Climate Solutions Program director with Nature United and member of the Ahousaht
Nation, says Canada hitting its conservation targets will require Indigenous leadership.
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Experts set out a vision for Indig-
enous Protected and Conserved
Areas (IPCAs) in its final report,
defining them as “lands and wa-
ters where Indigenous govern-
ments have the primary role in
protecting and conserving eco-
systems through Indigenous
laws, governance and knowledge
systems.”
Often, IPCAs feature guardian
programs in which local Indige-
nous people are involved in mon-
itoring, research and protection
of the designated sites.
Three large-scale IPCAs have
been finalized since 2018, says a
November update from the In-
digenous Leadership Initiative
(ILI), a group that works with In-
digenous communities on land
use plans.
Those three sites, all located in
the Northwest Territories, cover
more than 50,000 square kilo-
metres.
Scores of other proposed IP-
CAs could protect an additional
500,000 square kilometres, the
group says.
The preamble to the draft text
of the new framework acknowl-
edges “the important roles and
contributions of Indigenous peo-
ple as custodians of biodiversity”
and says the new framework
must be implemented in accord-
ance with the United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of In-
digenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
Both British Columbia, in 2019,
and the federal government, in
2021, have passed legislation to
implement UNDRIP.
With the targets for 2025 and
2030 looming, IPCAs are seen as a
key part of future plans.
“That [conservation] target is
a really important tool for moti-
vating countries to partner with
Indigenous nations – but it’s also
a very important lever for us as
Indigenous communities to be
able to advance our own vision,
for our people and for our land
and the future of our communi-
ties,” Gillian Staveley, Director of
Land Stewardship and Culture
with the Dena Kayeh Institute,
said this week in a media briefing
by Canadian Indigenous leaders
ahead of COP15.
Dena Kayeh has proposed an
IPCA called Dene K’eh Kusan,
which would consist of 39,000
square kilometres of northern
B.C., and is seen as a way to pro-
tect a largely untouched territory
– creating economic opportuni-
ties through tourism, hunting
and guide-outfitting.
“So even though IPCAs are
seen as a really important conser-
vation strategy – protecting
healthy lands, waters, plants, ani-
mals – it also supports our cultur-
es and our way of life and our
knowledge systems and commu-
nity well-being,” Ms. Stavely said.
At COP15, the ILI is scheduled
to host the Indigenous Village, a
site meant to showcase Indige-
nous conservation initiatives and
provide a welcoming space to In-
digenous participants.
“The global community is
catching up to Indigenous ambi-
tions,” ILI director Valérie Cour-
tois said during the media brief-
ing, adding that Canadian exam-
nous guardians with the same le-
gal authorities as BC Parks rang-
ers.
Indigenous communities are
looking for ways to conserve tra-
ditional territories – along with
their accompanying biodiversity
– while providing for economic
benefits to support local resi-
dents, Mr. Atleo said.
“It won’t look the same every-
where. But there are some critical
elements that might be consis-
tent. And one of those is the need
to ensure that conservation ac-
tion is resulting in access to eco-
nomic opportunities, or econom-
ic outcomes, that benefit Indige-
nous and local communities – as
well as the Canadian public more
broadly,” he said.
He wants to see long-term fi-
nancing for conservation pro-
jects and increased focus on nat-
ural climate solutions – in gener-
al, conservation, management
and restoration activities that can
increase carbon capture or re-
duce emissions.
As an example, he cites the
Great Bear Forest Carbon Project,
through which nine First Nations
share revenue from carbon cred-
its from the Great Bear Rainfor-
est, a protected area on B.C.’s cen-
tral coast.
Such projects could be part
of a necessary shift in how hu-
mans engage with forests, oceans
and other landscapes, he main-
tains.
“I personally think natural cli-
mate solutions are an approach
that can re-orient people to rec-
ognizing and upholding the val-
ues that ecosystems provide to us
– beyond their efficient, harves-
table value.”

Most Canadians favoured invocation Veterans’ cases raise fresh

of Emergencies Act, new poll shows
MARIEKE WALSH OTTAWA
The federal government’s deci-
sion to invoke the Emergencies
Act to end last winter’s protracted
anti-government, anti-vaccine
mandate protests is largely sup-
ported by Canadians, according to
a new poll.
After six weeks of intense scru-
tiny at the inquiry into the invoca-
tion of the act, the government
appears to have emerged un-
scathed, according to a Nanos Re-
search poll for The Globe and
Mail.
But the poll also hints at some
political risk for Conservative
Leader Pierre Poilievre, who pub-
licly supported the protests.
Sixty-six per cent of respon-
dents either supported or some-
what supported the govern-
ment’s precedent-setting deci-
sion to invoke the Emergencies
Act in response to the convoy pro-
tests that gridlocked the capital
and jammed some border cross-
ings.
Thirty per cent opposed it or
somewhat opposed it, and 4 per
cent were unsure, according to
the hybrid telephone and online
random survey conducted be-
tween Nov. 27 and Nov. 29.
It looks like a “majority of Can-
adians are on board with what
was done,” Nanos Research foun-
der Nik Nanos said. The results
show that the high-stakes testi-
mony of Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau and his top ministers at
the inquiry didn’t turn into a po-
litical liability for his government.
However, the inquiry has re-
vealed a downside for the Official
Opposition. As the Public Order
Emergency Commission – as it is
officially called – dominated na-
tional news coverage in October
and November, the Nanos Re-
search ballot tracker shows that
overall support for the Conserva-
tives slipped and the lead they
held over the governing Liberals
evaporated.
“If there continues to be a focus
on the convoy and the inquiry, it
could be a potential risk for Pierre
Poilievre,” Mr. Nanos said.
The survey was conducted
soon after Mr. Trudeau testified
on Nov. 25. His appearance
capped off the public hearings,
which also included the release of
thousands of documents that re-
vealed behind-the-scenes feud-
Poll results show that the high-stakes testimony of Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau and his top ministers at the inquiry into the invocation of the
Emergencies Act didn’t turn into a political liability for his government.
SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
ing between different levels of
government and comments not
meant for public consumption.
Despite some of the controver-
sial revelations, the group that
came out looking the worst was
the protesters themselves. The
poll shows 46 per cent of respon-
dents believed the protesters left
the worse impression, followed
by 23 per cent who said the same
for the federal government.
Ten per cent of respondents
said the inquiry left them with a
negative impression of all in-
volved. Eight per cent said the On-
tario government came out look-
ing the worst. Four per cent were
left with that impression of the
city of Ottawa, and 3 per cent be-
lieved the police left the worst im-
pression. Four per cent were un-
sure.
The poll had 1,025 respondents.
The Globe does not report the
margin of error for online polls.
A separate Nanos poll – con-
ducted in the same time frame
with the same number of respon-
dents for CTV News – shows Cana-
dians are split on whether the
country is prepared for another
similar protest. Fifty per cent be-
lieve Canada is prepared or some-
what prepared, and 45 per cent be-
lieve it is not prepared or some-
what unprepared. Five per cent
were unsure.
When asked specifically about
police preparedness for a similar
protest, 28 per cent of respon-
dents said they had less confi-
dence in the ability of the police to
respond to a repeat protest, 25 per
cent said they have more confi-
dence, 42 per cent said their confi-
dence was about the same and 5
per cent said they were unsure.
One of the protest leaders,
James Bauder, who told the inqui-
ry on Nov. 3 that God directed him
to start a convoy in 2021, is trying
to organize another one for Febru-
ary, 2023. Last week, the Prime
Minister’s national security and
intelligence adviser, Jody Tho-
mas, told a parliamentary com-
mittee that the government is al-
ready planning for a reboot.
University of Ottawa associate
criminology professor Michael
Kempa said he believes police
have “learned the lessons” of
crowd control and he hopes intel-
ligence agencies will be “one step
ahead of those with bad inten-
tions who want to attach to any
form of violent, anti-authority, ex-
tremist protest.”
However, he also said that
whatever happens next February
is unpredictable because, while
many of the pandemic restric-
tions that motivated protesters
are gone, the people who do show
up to any protest will be more
committed.
Those protesters were “always
angrier with authority of all types
– medical, scientific and govern-
ment – than they ever were with
vaccine mandates in particular,”
he said.
With reports from
The Canadian Press
concerns about expanding
assisted dying law
LEE BERTHIAUME OTTAWA
Revelations that some Canadian veterans have been offered
medically assisted deaths while seeking help from the federal
government are adding to worries about Ottawa’s plans to
expand such procedures to include mental-health injuries
and illnesses.
Veterans’ organizations are instead calling on Ottawa to
increase access to mental-health services for former service
members, which includes addressing the long wait times that
many are forced to endure when applying for assistance.
“Mental-health injuries can be terminal only if they’re un-
treated, unsupported and under-resourced,” said Wounded
Warriors executive director Scott Maxwell, whose organiza-
tion runs mental-health support programs for veterans and
first responders.
While medical assistance in dying was approved in 2016
for Canadians suffering from physical injuries and illness, the
criteria for MAID is set to expand in March to include those
living with mental-health conditions.
While that plan has already elicited warnings from psychi-
atrists across the country, who say Canada is not ready for
such a move, Mr. Maxwell and others are also sounding the
alarm about the potential impact on ill and injured ex-sol-
diers.
Those concerns have crystallized in recent weeks after re-
ports that several former service members who reached out
to Veterans Affairs Canada for assistance over the past three
years were counselled on assisted dying.
Those include retired corporal and Canadian paralympian
Christine Gauthier, who told the House of Commons’ veter-
ans affairs committee last week that she was offered an assist-
ed death during her five-year fight for a wheelchair ramp in
her home.
The federal government has blamed a single Veterans Af-
fairs employee, saying the case manager was acting alone
and that her case has been referred to the RCMP. It also says
training and guidance has been provided to the rest of the
department’s employees.
The issue has nonetheless sparked fears about what will
happen if the criteria for MAID is expanded in March, partic-
ularly as many veterans with mental and physical injuries
continue to have to wait months – and even years – for feder-
al support. Those wait times have persisted for years despite
frustration, anger and warnings from the veterans’ commu-
nity as well as the veterans’ ombudsman, Canada’s Auditor-
General and others about the negative impact those wait
times are having on former service members.
“My fear is that we are offering a vehicle for people to end
their lives when there are treatment options available, but
those treatment options are more difficult to access than
medically assisted death,” Oliver Thorne of the Veterans
Transition Network recently testified before the Commons’
veterans affairs committee.
And despite the government’s assertions that a single Vet-
erans Affairs’ employee was responsible for proposing MAID
as an option, Royal Canadian Legion deputy director of veter-
ans’ services Carolyn Hughes said the reports have added to
long-standing anger and fears in the community.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday that the govern-
ment is looking at striking the right balance between provid-
ing access to assisted deaths and protecting vulnerable Cana-
dians, including veterans.
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Census data on postsecondary education
highlights room for improvement
Canada leads G7
countries in having
a highly educated
population but statistics
show areas where the
country still lacks
JOE FRIESEN
POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION
REPORTER
More than half of Canada’s work-
ing-age population has gradu-
ated from either university or col-
lege, the highest proportion in
the Group of Seven industrialized
countries, according to the latest
data from the 2021 census.
The share of postsecondary
graduates in the working-age
group – 25 to 64 – has now reac-
hed 57.5 per cent, extending Can-
ada’s lead in a category it has
topped since 2006. That figure is
hailed as a positive economic and
social indicator, as studies have
shown that higher levels of edu-
cation tend to be correlated with
higher incomes and better
health.
But a more complex picture
emerges in the other details re-
vealed in the census count: Men
continue to finish university at a
rate far lower than women, the
gap in Indigenous university
completion rates continues to
grow and Canada trails its peer
countries significantly in the
share of population that has
completed graduate studies.
Nearly 33 per cent of Cana-
dians of working age had a uni-
versity bachelor’s degree or high-
er in 2021. That marked a jump of
4.3 percentage points since the
2016 census. About half of that in-
crease was owing to immigration,
as about 60 per cent of new im-
migrants arrived with a universi-
ty degree.
Britain (41.3 per cent), the
United States (39.5 per cent) and
Canadian-made parts found in attack drones used in war by Russia
STEVEN CHASE
SENIOR PARLIAMENTARY
REPORTER
OTTAWA
An investigative project by a Kyiv
think tank has identified Cana-
dian-made parts in one type of at-
tack drone used by Russia in its
military assault on Ukraine.
Statewatch says it has found
antenna components from Otta-
wa-based Tallysman Wireless in
Iranian-made Shahed 136 drones
that form part of Russia’s arsenal
in its invasion of Ukraine. The in-
vestigation, led by Inna Pop-
ovych, a Ukraine investigative
journalist, was undertaken by a
Statewatch project called Trap Ag-
gressor.
The Shahed 136 drones, also
called kamikaze or suicide drones
because they are destroyed when
they deliver their explosive pay-
load, have been used against Uk-
rainian soldiers, civilians and in-
frastructure.
Reached in Ottawa, Tallys-
man’s president, Gyles Panther,
told The Globe and Mail that the
company has “become painfully
aware” that some of its compo-
nents are being “misused in so-
phisticated military guidance sys-
tems” in Russia’s war on Ukraine.
“It is sometimes assumed that
we are somehow complicit in this
usage. We absolutely are not,” Mr.
Panther said. “Tallysman is 100-
per-cent committed to support-
ing Ukraine in the face of Russian
aggression.”
He said the company does not
sell any of its products to Iran or
Russia and its distribution net-
work is prohibited from selling to
Head of U.S. intelligence sees brighter prospects for Ukrainian forces
JAMEY KEATEN
NOMAAN MERCHANT KYIV
The head of U.S. intelligence says
fighting in Russia’s war in Uk-
raine is running at a “reduced
tempo” and suggests Ukrainian
forces could have brighter pro-
spects in coming months.
Avril Haines alluded to past al-
legations by some that Russian
President Vladimir Putin’s advis-
ers could be shielding him from
bad news – for Russia – about war
developments, and said he “is
Canadian census data show men continue to finish university at a rate far lower than women, the gap in
Indigenous university completion rates continues to grow and Canada trails its peer countries significantly in
the share of population that has completed graduate studies. DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Japan (34.2 per cent) all have a
greater share of population with
a university bachelor’s degree.
Canada’s improvement was part-
ly owing to younger citizens
choosing university in greater
numbers. But it was also partly a
demographic affect, as younger
generations enter the 25-to-64
category, while older ones with
less formal education exit. Cana-
da’s performance on postsecond-
ary-education metrics also owes
a lot to the country’s college sec-
tor. A quarter of Canadians (24.6
per cent) have a college diploma
or certificate, usually from a two-
year program. That’s the highest
rate in the G7 and compares fa-
vourably with the U.S., where the
share of the population with an
equivalent credential is about 10
per cent.
Pamela Best, assistant director
at Statistics Canada, said one of
the key reasons the country
Kyiv residents look at parts of an unmanned Iranian-made Shahed 136 attack drone on Oct. 17. Gyles Panther,
president of Ottawa-based Tallysman Wireless, which supplied antenna components for the drones, said the
company is ‘now hypervigilant about what products we sell to whom.’ VLADYSLAV MUSIIENKO/REUTERS
countries, individuals or entities
that are the target of sanctions. It
also does not sell its goods to third
parties, which to Tallysman’s
knowledge supply products to
these countries, he said.
Mr. Panther said Tallysman is
co-operating with Canada Border
Services Agency and other gov-
ernment agencies and he said he
believes that the antenna parts in
question were likely diverted to
Iran through distributors using
“fake company fronts” to hide
their intention.
Tallysman is one of many West-
ern tech companies whose prod-
becoming more informed of the
challenges that the military faces
in Russia.”
“But it’s still not clear to us
that he has a full picture of at this
stage of just how challenged they
are,” Ms. Haines, the U.S. director
of national intelligence, said Sat-
urday at the Reagan National De-
fense Forum in Simi Valley, Calif.
She said her team was “seeing
a kind of a reduced tempo al-
ready of the conflict” and looking
ahead expects both sides will
look to refit, resupply, and recon-
stitute for a possible Ukrainian
scores so highly on this metric is
the CEGEP system in Quebec,
which educates a much larger
share of its student population
than other provincial college sys-
tems. Canada also had a lower
share of population with a gradu-
ate degree, at just 9.3 per cent,
compared with a range of 13 to 15
per cent elsewhere in the G7. A
little more than 1 per cent of Can-
adians have a doctorate, and 8.2
per cent a master’s degree.
Ken Coates, a professor in the
school of public policy at the Uni-
versity of Saskatchewan, said
Canada has historically not pro-
duced as many graduate degree
holders in the education field as
the U.S. in part owing to incen-
tives offered in the latter country.
He also said there has been a nar-
rower talent pipeline to graduate
school in the sciences, but that
that is starting to change.
There also continues to be a
ucts – in many cases relatively
simple electronic components –
have ended up in weapons manu-
factured by Russia and its allies.
The Statewatch Trap Aggressor
investigation into the Shahed 136
drones identified 30 Western-
made components from coun-
tries including Japan, Germany
and the United States. The probe
was conducted in partnership
with Ukraine’s Independent Anti-
Corruption Commission (NAKO).
While some of this Western
technology is subject to export
controls, much, like the Tallys-
man antenna components in
counteroffensive in the spring.
“But we actually have a fair
amount of skepticism as to
whether or not the Russians will
be in fact prepared to do that,”
Ms. Haines said. “And I think
more optimistically for the Uk-
rainians in that time frame.”
On Sunday, the British Minis-
try of Defence, in its latest intelli-
gence estimate, pointed to new
signs from an independent Rus-
sian media outlet that public
support in Russia for the military
campaign was “falling signifi-
cantly.” Meduza said it obtained a
O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L
significant gap between men and
women in educational attain-
ment. In the age group of 25 to 34,
nearly 40 per cent of Canadian-
born women have a bachelor’s
degree or higher, compared with
a little more than 25 per cent of
Canadian-born men. The trend
dates back more than 30 years
ago to the early 1990s, when
women first surpassed men in
degree attainment, according to
Statistics Canada.
The rate of growth in men’s
university education rates picked
up substantially in this census
period. It grew nearly as much in
the past five years as it had in the
decade from 2006 to 2016. But at
2.2 percentage points, it still
trailed the 3.3 percentage point
growth rate among women.
The data also show it’s becom-
ing more common for students
who’ve graduated university to
attend college after obtaining
question, are not.
That’s because simple compo-
nents are not normally deemed
sensitive equipment by Western
governments looking to stem the
flow of military goods to un-
friendly states.
Mr. Panther said the company
is “now hypervigilant about what
products we sell to whom” and, to
the extent possible, examine the
identities of its customers and the
end use they intend for Tallsyman
products.
The same type of antenna com-
ponents can be found in consum-
er satellite navigation devices for
recent confidential opinion sur-
vey conducted by the Federal
Protection Service, which is in
charge of guarding the Kremlin
and providing security to top
government officials.
The survey, commissioned by
the Kremlin, found that 55 per
cent of respondents backed
peace talks with Ukraine while 25
per cent wanted the war to go on.
The report didn’t mention the
margin of error.
Levada Center, Russia’s top in-
dependent pollster, found in a
similar poll carried out in No-
| M O N DAY , D EC E M B E R 5 , 2 0 2 2
their degree. Colleges offer short,
career-oriented programs that
may add vocational qualifica-
tions to a university credential. In
Ontario and B.C., close to a quar-
ter of college students already
had a bachelor’s degree in the
2020-21 school year.
“Society is privileging universi-
ty education over all kinds of
training and education. Many
university graduates go back to
get a college or polytechnic diplo-
ma to become employable. Many
should not have gone to universi-
ty in the first place,” Prof. Coates
said. “This is becoming a dom-
inant theme in Canadian postsec-
ondary education.”
The postuniversity college
route is even more common
among international students,
who pay lower tuition at college
(often about $16,000 in Ontario
compared with more than
$30,000 at university). More than
36 per cent of international stu-
dents at Canadian colleges have a
bachelor’s degree already. Having
Canadian education and work ex-
perience are significant advan-
tages for the growing share of in-
ternational students looking to
stay in the country as permanent
residents.
The census showed some
gains in Indigenous education. In
2021, nearly 13 per cent of Indige-
nous people of working age in
Canada had university degrees,
up from 10.9 per cent in 2016 and
7.7 per cent in 2006. The increase
is due in part to improvements in
high-school completion rates
among First Nations, Metis and
Inuit.
However, university comple-
tion rates among Indigenous
people are not growing as quickly
as among the non-Indigenous
population, so that gap continues
to widen, Ms. Best said. In the
2021 census, the number of Cana-
dian-born non-Indigenous de-
gree holders grew by 2.9 per cent,
compared with 1.9 per cent
among Indigenous people.
everything from vehicle fleet
management to survey equip-
ment, Mr. Panther said.
Kelsey Gallagher, a researcher
with Project Ploughshares, an
arms-control advocacy group
based in Waterloo, Ont., said it’s
much easier to track the interna-
tional movement of goods for
which an export permit is re-
quired. It would be excessively
unwieldy however to require
companies to obtain government
permits for all their electronic ex-
ports, he said.
So how can companies prevent
their technology from ending up
in the hands of dangerous states
such as Iran or Russia?
“It’s a difficult question,” Mr.
Gallagher said. He suggested en-
gines that can be used in military
drones should require an export
permit.
In some cases, however, Russia
and other states have proven
adept at skirting export controls.
In an August report, the Royal
United Services Institute (RUSI), a
British defence think tank, de-
tailed the extent to which Russia’s
military modernization program
relied on the extensive use of mi-
croelectronics manufactured in
at least nine Western countries.
It discovered at least 450 differ-
ent kinds of unique foreign-made
components in Russian military
systems, the majority of which
were manufactured by U.S. com-
panies. Of these, at least 80 differ-
ent kinds of components were
subject to export controls by the
U.S., “indicating that Russia’s mil-
itary-industrial complex has, in
recent decades, been able to suc-
cessfully evade these,” the report
said.
vember that 53 per cent of re-
spondents supported peace
talks, 41 per cent spoke in favour
of continuing the fight, and 6 per
cent were undecided. It said that
poll of 1,600 people had a margin
of error of no more than 3.4 per
cent.
In recent weeks, Russia’s mil-
itary focus has been on striking
Ukrainian infrastructure nation-
wide, pressing an offensive in the
Donetsk region city of Bakhmut
and shelling sites in Kherson.
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‘We need something done’
Dancing Death, second from left, seen at a rally in Edmonton
on Sunday, wants the government to implement the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission’s calls to action after four Indigenous
women were slain earlier this year by a serial killer in Winnipeg
CANADIAN RED CROSS TO HELP CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO AMID SURGE
The Canadian Red Cross says it’s
coming to help the Children’s
Hospital of Eastern Ontario amid
a surge of children and youth
with respiratory illnesses.
Red Cross spokesperson
Leianne Musselman confirmed
in an e-mail that the organiza-
tion will be providing small
teams to support CHEO hospital
staff.
She said there’s no firm start
date to the agreement, which
GIRL GUIDES ASKING MEMBERS TO VOTE ON NEW NAME FOR BROWNIES PROGRAM
TORONTO Girl Guides of Canada
is asking its members to vote on
two new name options for its
Brownies program – comets or
embers.
Last month the national
organization told members it
would be changing the name of
the program for girls aged 7 and
8 because the name has caused
harm to racialized Girl Guides.
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will allow CHEO staff to focus on
clinical tasks.
CHEO opened a second in-
tensive-care unit in November to
treat what it called an unprece-
dented number of critically ill
babies and children.
In Calgary, Alberta Health
Services said it’s discharging all
children from the Rotary Flames
House in Calgary that helps
dying children and their families
and is pausing admissions to the
Girl Guides says that some
Black Canadians, Indigenous
residents and people of colour
have chosen to skip this program
or delay joining the organization
because of the name, adding a
change can ensure more girls feel
like they belong in the program.
Members were invited to vote
for one of the two new name
contenders in an e-mail sent on
This holiday,
give the gifti
of Gable.
house owing to a surge in chil-
dren with the flu, RSV and
COVID-19.
Children’s hospitals in Calgary
and Edmonton have been at or
above 100-per-cent capacity
since last week, while some
routine surgeries and appoint-
ments at a children’s hospital in
St. John’s are being cancelled
next week owing to the surge in
illnesses and admissions.
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Tuesday. The e-mail says the
name comets was chosen be-
cause they inspire as they travel
through space, boldly blazing a
trail, and the name embers was
selected because they are small
and full of potential that can
ignite a powerful flame.
Girl Guides says members can
vote until Dec. 13.
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O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L | M O N DAY , D EC E M B E R 5 , 2 0 2 2
Smith to change
sovereignty act
after ‘confusion’
over powers
given to cabinet
Bill not intended to give executive members
the authority to change law without
legislature’s approval, Alberta Premier says
SALMAAN FAROOQUI
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Saturday she’ll change
language in her government’s proposed sovereignty act that
allows executive members to unilaterally change statutory
law, although the NDP opposition said it will not vote in
favour of the amendments because it believes nothing can
save the bill.
The Premier said Saturday that there was “confusion”
over wording in the Alberta Sovereignty within a United
Canada Act that made it possible for cabinet to change law
without getting approval from legislature first. She said that
kind of executive power was not intended.
“You never get things 100 per cent right all the time,” Ms.
Smith said, speaking on the Global News radio show, Your
Province, Your Premier.
“If there’s any changes to statutes, it does have to come
back to the legislature, so we’re working on making sure that
that gets clarified.”
The act, tabled as Bill 1, was a central part of Ms. Smith’s
platform when she ran for the United Conservative Party
leadership. It seeks to give the Alberta government more
autonomy in the face of federal laws that it believes are
overreaching, though critics of the bill have questioned its
constitutionality.
While Ms. Smith said the legislation was never meant to
give cabinet unilateral powers, Minister of Justice and At-
torney-General Tyler Shandro had confirmed during a news
conference last week that Bill 1 would allow cabinet to
amend laws through orders in council.
When asked if the bill would give cabinet members uni-
lateral power to change laws, he answered that “that is cor-
rect.”
NDP economic development and innovation critic Deron
Bilous said business groups such as the Canadian Chamber
of Commerce and the Canadian Association of Petroleum
Producers have all sounded the alarm over the economic
uncertainty that the bill would create, and said the Premier’s
decision to backtrack would only create more uncertainty.
“The absolute last thing we need right now is weeks of
backtracking and clarification, that just brings more uncer-
tainty,” Mr. Bilous said during a Sunday press conference,
adding that his party would vote down any changes and
instead focus on creating its own plan for next year’s elec-
tion.
“The only way to restore our reputation is to kill this bill.
Investors need to know that there aren’t two sets of govern-
ment with two different laws and two different ways of do-
ing business.”
During her radio interview, the
Premier characterized the
change as part of the standard While Ms. Smith said
procedure of amending bills as
they move through legislature. the legislation was
“It’s part of the process that never meant to give
you go through with bills, you in- cabinet unilateral
troduce them, you debate wheth- powers, Minister of
er there’s possible amendments
and then you pass them Justice and
through,” Ms. Smith said. Attorney-General
“If we caused some confusion Tyler Shandro had
with some awkward wording,
then let’s clean it up and then be
confirmed during a
able to talk about the bigger is- news conference
sues.” last week that Bill 1
Meanwhile, the federal gov- would allow cabinet
ernment said it would wait and
see what the bill looks like once it
to amend laws
is amended. through orders in
“I think there’s a lot of impre- council.
cision left to be sorted out,” In-
tergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc said on
CTV’s Question Period on Sunday.
Mr. LeBlanc said Ottawa wants to focus its relationship
with the Alberta government on tackling economic issues
facing Albertans, and that was more important than a legal
debate on the bill.
Eric Adams, a law professor with the University of Alber-
ta, said the province’s reversal represents a notable shift in
what was a headline policy for the Premier.
“It’s a major pivot, there’s no question about that,” Prof.
Adams said. “It raises questions of how well this signature
piece of legislature was understood at the outset, how care-
fully it was drafted and how much thought and good govern-
ance planning went into its architecture.”
Prof. Adams said it was surprising that there was a mecha-
nism to give such sweeping powers to the executive branch
in the first place, and that Saturday’s turnabout will shake
people’s confidence into the planning of the bill.
However, he said the fundamentals of the act will remain
the same, and only the mechanism of how its powers are
implemented is changing.
Prof. Adams added that the amendment will be a step in
the right direction, but constitutional challenges can still be
made around the bill.
“It’s a positive development for the democratic creden-
tials of the proposal … but I don’t think this change sweeps
away the likelihood that the act faces serious constitutional
challenges. It does reduce one of its major lines of expo-
sure.”
Bill 1, now in second reading, has also triggered concerns
over the provision that grants cabinet the power to order
provincially legislated or funded entities to reject federal
laws, if the executive deems Ottawa to be causing harm to
the interests of Albertans. Those entities include municipal-
ities, police forces, health regions, postsecondary institu-
tions and school boards.
During a Friday interview on CBC News Network, Calgary
Mayor Jyoti Gondek said the provision directing municipal-
ities to rebuff federal laws is “a dangerous scenario” for mu-
nicipalities that rely on funding from both the province and
Ottawa.
“If they direct us in a manner – let’s use an example – that
says you can’t accept any federal funding directly, what does
that do to our affordable housing strategy?” Ms. Gondek
said.
“No matter how you slice this, it’s going to be really tough
for municipalities to actually govern and serve their people.”
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quiry’s conclusions when it is de-
bated in parliament Tuesday.
The issue now moves to a
meeting of the ANC’s full nation-
al executive on Monday. If the
executive agrees, the party can
then try to deploy its parliamen-
tary majority to quash the inqui-
ry’s report. But even if Mr. Ra-
ma’s longstanding strategy of us-
support, another hurdle looms.
In the parliamentary vote, ANC
dissidents could join opposition
parties in pushing for impeach-
ment. Some have already said
they will do this.
Meanwhile, Mr. Ramaphosa
plans to ask South Africa’s high-
est court, the Constitutional
Court, to review and reject the
report of the parliamentary in-
quiry.
ANC leadership conference on
Dec. 16.
Many South Africans see the
scandal as a product of ANC fac-
tional feuding, dating back to an
earlier struggle that led to the
ousting of former president Ja-
cob Zuma in 2018.
A faction loosely affiliated
cash affair to tarnish Mr. Rama-
phosa and try to push him out.
This feuding, in turn, could dam-
age the ANC’s chances in the
next national election, in 2024.
The ANC is already in danger
of losing its parliamentary ma-
jority, with polls showing its sup-
port falling below 50 per cent.
One of Mr. Ramaphosa’s clos-
est friends, ANC veteran James
Motlatsi, alleged Friday that a
from his opponents.
Until now, his greatest politi-
cal strength was the perception
that he was fighting ANC corrup-
tion and cleaning out the crimi-
nals in his party.
But by going to the courts to
challenge the inquiry, he will
seem to be borrowing Mr. Zu-
ing legal tactics to delay account-
ability.
“His political and moral stand-
ing is gone,” political analyst
Sam Mkokeli said in a commen-
tary on Sunday.
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President behaves like a defence
attorney rather than our leader.
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Above: A mother holds her child inside their home in Arviat, Nunavut, in October. That month, 317 applicants were on the hamlet’s waiting list for public housing, up from 289 in March.
Nunavut:
Arviat’s
housing
crisis is far
from unique
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FROM A1
They also see it as a training ground for Inuit
tradespeople that could help Nunavut gradually re-
duce its reliance on construction workers who fly
in from the south.
“As much as it’s bricks and mortar and it’s put-
ting out a housing product,” David Kakuktinniq
said of the factory, “it’s also building a work force.”
Mr. Kakuktinniq is the president and chief exec-
utive of Sakku Investments Corp., the for-profit
arm of the Kivalliq Inuit Association, the land-
rights holder for Inuit in central Nunavut. Sakku is
partnering with RG Solution, a Quebec modular
Above: A modular home nears completion in Arviat. Across Nunavut, there are over 3,000 individuals and families
on the waiting list for public housing, in a territory that has just under 12,000 units in total.
O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L
housing maker, to build the $30-million, 42,000-
square-foot factory in Arviat.
Some 18,000 truckloads of gravel, hauled in
from a nearby quarry, have already been laid on
the marshy site, and a device called a thermosy-
phon has been installed to keep the ground frozen
and stable all year round.
Construction of the factory is slated to start in
the spring. If all goes as planned, the plant is ex-
pected to employ about 40 people – 15 of them
Inuit apprentices in trades such as carpentry and
plumbing – and produce 35 housing units a year
when it opens in 2025. That may not sound like
much in a territory where the government just an-
nounced a plan to build 3,000 new units by 2030,
but it works out to about a third of the units that
the Nunavut Housing Corporation (NHC) built
across the territory in each of the past three years.
As a show of support for the project, Arviat’s
municipal government bought two five-unit row-
houses, known in Nunavut as five-plexes, from RG
Solution’s Quebec plant this year.
They’ll serve as living quarters for hamlet staff,
freeing up public-housing units for others on the
waiting list, according to Steve England, Arviat’s
senior administrative officer.
The modules, complete with preinstalled interi-
or doors and kitchen cupboards, were shipped to
Arviat on a sealift in August. Wrapped in white
plastic and pulled by tractor-trailers, they looked
like “giant marshmallows” as they rolled through
the community, Mr. England said.
The two-and three-bedroom units are expected
to be move-in ready by December, with local as-
sembly done by a work force that is 90 per cent
Inuit.
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That’s a sea change from minimum Inuit labour
benchmarks in the range of 30 per cent for tenders
issued by the Nunavut Housing Corporation, al-
though the requirement varies depending on the
nature of the project and where it’s being built.
“Contractors typically come in from the south,
they set up here in the community and build. They
do have some requirements on Inuit hiring con-
tent embedded in the contracts, but it’s nowhere
near as high as we would like to see,” Mr. England
said. “One of the reasons the hamlet mayor and
council fell in love with the Sakku project is that
it’s going to reverse that trend.”
Another reason is the prospect of a housing factory
rising in a place where the need for housing
couldn’t be plainer. Arviat has one of the highest
birth rates in the country, and more than a third of
the population is younger than 14.
The housing supply hasn’t begun to keep pace.
As of March, there were 289 individuals or families
waiting for public housing in Arviat, according to
NHC, second only to Iqaluit, the capital. By Octo-
ber, Arviat tenant relations officer Homer Obszar-
ski counted 317 applicants on the list, excluding
those looking to transfer to bigger units.
Tanya Sewoee, 40, is among those desperate to
move.
She lives in a two-bedroom house with her hus-
band, 10 of her children and two grandchildren.
Her oldest daughter, Pauline, 22, shares one room
with 11-month-old Lisa, the baby Pauline adopted,
in the customary Inuit way, from a younger sister.
Ms. Sewoee’s oldest son and three of his brothers
share another room that is piled with mattresses
M O N DAY, D ECE M B E R 5 , 2 0 2 2 | T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L O
during the day. At night, they drag the extra mat-
tresses into the living room, next to a couch with a
missing cushion, for everyone else to sleep on.
“There’s 14 people living here. One emergency
door,” Ms. Sewoee said as she sat at a table sewing a
pair of mittens. Down the hall, a washing machine
chugged away next to a mound of clothes taller
than most of the children who darted in and out of
the house.
“We need to have more rooms so we can live in
peace.”
Pauline keeps baby Lisa in her arms because
there’s nowhere safe to set her down at home. The
young mother finds respite by taking part in an
early years program run by Ilitaqsiniq, the Nunavut
Literacy Society, which offers group gatherings and
weekly home visits by other Inuit women who sup-
port young mothers and help them keep their ba-
bies healthy. Pauline prefers coming to Ilitaqsiniq’s
bright and airy office for her weekly visits. “It’s nice
and quiet here for my baby to calm down a bit and
play with toys,” she said one day in October after
taking part in a cooking class. Pauline and the oth-
er mothers left with a recipe and bag of ingredients
for making shepherd’s pie.
Arviat’s overcrowded housing is a significant
contributor to health and social struggles in the
hamlet, including violence, addiction, suicide, re-
spiratory illness and tuberculosis.
Arviat’s main family doctor, Carl Le Roux, said
the housing crunch was one of the main reasons
the hamlet suffered the first large outbreak of CO-
VID-19 in the far north in November of 2020.
More than 300 people tested positive, two were
admitted to hospital and one died. As the case
count grew, outsiders accused Arviat residents of
Above: Participants make shepherd’s pie during a cooking class offered by Ilitaqsiniq, the Nunavut Literacy Society,
in Arviat. The group offers gatherings and weekly home visits in support of young mothers.
Above: Joe Savikataaq Jr. is the mayor of Arviat. He and other supporters of the modular housing factory hope it will be a step
toward building Arctic-worthy houses faster and cheaper than traditional methods.
breaking the rules, said Mr. Savikataaq Jr., the may-
or. But overcrowded housing made the rules im-
possible to follow.
“When you get someone with COVID, and they
have to isolate in a two-bedroom with 17 people,
how is that possible?”
Arviat’s housing crisis is far from unique in Nuna-
Below: These vut. There are just over 3,000 Nunavut individuals
large structures and families on the waiting list for public housing,
are helping to according to NHC, and there is an overall shortage
cool the ground of about 4,000 units of all kinds across a territory
where a that has just under 12,000 units now.
modular home The reasons for the shortage are straightforward
will be built enough. The population is surging in a place where
in Arviat. it’s difficult and expensive to build. Most construc-
tion materials must be shipped on annual sealifts
to communities that aren’t connected to the out-
side world by roads. Construction seasons are
short, with workers racing to close in buildings be-
fore the blizzards, -50 Celsius temperatures and
near-perpetual darkness of winter set in. It usually
takes 16 to 18 months, or two construction seasons,
to complete a single-storey five-plex, the most
common configuration for new social-housing
units.
COVID-19 made everything worse. Construction
ground to a halt during the worst of the pandemic,
then supply chain disruptions, rising fuel prices
and inflation prompted construction companies to
submit eye-watering bids that forced NHC to post-
pone a slew of housing projects. Public procure-
ment for the construction of a typical unit in a
five-plex ballooned to an average of $923,447 in
2021-22 from $379,780 five years earlier.
“We just can’t afford to build at $1-million a
unit,” said Eiryn Devereaux, the president and CEO
of NHC. “We have to try to figure out ways to build
more affordably.”
One way could be shipping prefabricated homes
to Nunavut from elsewhere. But that idea is contro-
versial. When, in 2019, the business arm of the Qi-
kiqtani Inuit Association built a hotel in Iqaluit
using block-style rooms imported from Shanghai,
Lorne Kusugak, the territory’s then-minister of
community and government services, warned
there would be an “uproar” if the government
bought modular homes from overseas.
“I assure you,” Mr. Kusugak told the legislative
assembly at the time, “if this government built
homes in China to bring to all the homeless people
in Nunavut, everybody would be opposed because
there are no Inuit building those houses.”
Mr. Kusugak is now Nunavut’s Minister of Fi-
NEWS | A9
nance and the minister in charge of NHC.
Given the political toxicity of importing build-
ings, Sakku isn’t the first to float building a mod-
ular home factory inside Nunavut. In a June, 2021,
report on construction costs commissioned by
NHC, the commercial real estate consultancy Col-
liers raised and then batted away the idea, declar-
ing local prefabrication too complex and costly for
a market as small (only about 40,000 people) and
remote as Nunavut.
Guillaume Guida, the vice-president of Sakku,
said his company and its Quebec partner have
crunched the numbers and believe they can pro-
duce five-plexes for a price that is competitive
with, or slightly cheaper, than the going rate for a
unit in the north. That remains to be seen, said Mr.
Devereaux of NHC, noting Sakku’s plans are pre-
liminary, and construction of the factory has yet to
begin.
In the end, the real advantage of a factory is
likely to be that it puts a roof over the head of
construction projects in the Arctic, eliminating
weather delays and turning seasonal construction
work into a year-round prospect in which multi-
year apprenticeships for local Inuit make more
sense.
“If we bring the factory to the north,” Mr. Guida
said, “then we can do training in the proper envi-
ronment, 12 months a year – a nine-to-five, stan-
dard job, where you don’t have to worry about
temperature.”
Now seems as good a moment as any to try. Last
month, Mr. Kusugak and Premier P.J. Akeeagok
travelled to Rankin Inlet, a regional hub north of
Arviat, to unveil Nunavut 3000, a plan to build
3,000 new housing units of different types by 2030.
The following week, Mr. Akeeagok and Aluki Ko-
tierk, the president of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., the
main Inuit organization for the territory, were in
Ottawa pitching the plan to Prime Minster Justin
Trudeau.
Back in Arviat, Mr. Savikataaq Jr. said he hopes
the two modular five-plexes that the hamlet has
already purchased will be a beacon for residents
suffering in overcrowded homes. The factory plan,
he said, should “give them hope that there’ll be
more houses here that are locally built, that they
could move into themselves and have a much bet-
ter, healthier lifestyle.”
The Globe and Mail’s health reporter Kelly Grant is
taking an in-depth look at health care in Nunavut and
the challenges its residents face accessing it. If you
have information to help inform The Globe’s reporting
on Nunavut, please e-mail kgrant@globeandmail.com.
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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

When dignity
only comes
in death
T
he federal government faces an agonizing choice
next March, when it will have to decide whether to
extend medically assisted death to people suffering
from mental illnesses, or listen to the growing number of
voices urging it to postpone this latest expansion of the coun-
try’s assisted-dying regime.
If and when Ottawa opens medical assistance in dying
(MAID) to the mentally ill next year, it will be one of only a
handful of countries to have done so.
Last week, the lead psychiatrists at Canada’s 17 medical
schools urged the government to hold off, in order to buy
time for a health care system that doesn’t appear to be pre-
pared to handle requests for medically assisted deaths from
people whose sole condition is a severe mental illness.
The biggest concern voiced by critics is that the law says a
person must have an irremediable condition to qualify for
MAID, but there is no consensus in the mental-health field
on what qualifies as irremediable.
There is research that suggests it is very difficult to predict
who will recover from a mental illness, and who won’t. One
study published in October in the journal Psychological Med-
icine found that doctors are right only half the time; it con-
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FARMED OUT
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Unprecedented weather: cli- What a testament to our system,
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ing: famines, wars, viruses, over- While it cannot fill the void left acres of Ontario’s Greenbelt
cerbated by abuse, financial stress, solitude, homelessness doses, human trafficking, mental in the lives of those who lost would feel like.
and despair. illness, abuse of all kinds, mass loved ones, I hope it can bring My wife and I worked a 110-acre
shootings, overrun emergency some measure of peace to them, farm for more than a decade. We
They and their advocates say they deserve to be able to end departments, lack of family phy- knowing that a suspect was final- had a herd of 25 to 30 beef cows
their lives in the same dignified manner as any person suf- sicians. ly arrested. and also reared the calves. The
Unprecedented environmen- Phil Jacques London, Ont. land was one kilometre deep, and
fering from a “grievous and irremediable illness,” as the tal change: extinction of flora, I suppose about 0.5 km wide.
MAID law prescribes, such as advanced cancer or a degener- fauna and rainforests, increased Doug Ford’s “big chunk” is, it
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the law that said a person’s natural death had to be “reason- What did I miss? In 2022, every home to Quebec in March, 2022. and wants to build a highway to
ably foreseeable.” aspect of our lives, and the world As a senior, it was simple to re- provide owners of single-unit
around us, has been unpreceden- ceive an enhanced influenza vac- dwellings with a drive into Toron-
That opened the door to assisted death for people with cine in Ontario. I tried for a to. The housing shortage would
ted.
mental illnesses, but when Ottawa amended the MAID law Susan Mackinnon Kesler month to find one in Montreal, all not be solved.
Saskatoon to no avail. What a waste of prime land
accordingly, it put off expanding the regime to include men-
Apart from Quebec and a few that could be devoted to food
tal illness for two years, in order to allow for more study. The Maritime provinces, the en- production and protecting rivers
MORE LIKE hanced vaccine is readily availa- that drain into Lake Ontario.
delay ends next March.
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Few argue against the principle of the MAID law. Thanks to Re No, Danielle Smith Hasn’t a senior living on my own, I feel
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Few also dispute the notion that patient autonomy ought on the dubious constitutionality more surprising given how easy it
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them paternalistically. yet to read comments on the lack necessary strain on the health gulls, pigeons and other wild
of originality in its title. system. Look at the early and se- birds “strike” and “hit” military
But beyond the question of whether psychiatrists can ac- In the 1970s, Quebec comedian vere spike in influenza in Austra- planes. Who knew?
curately determine whether a person’s mental illness is truly Yvon Deschamps explained the lia during the winter period from But then, I suppose, turtles and
province’s quest for independ- June to August. other wildlife often “hit” passing
irremediable lies another much more troubling one – one ence as follows: “All we want is an Hopefully by 2023, Quebec can vehicles, and large sea mammals
that was eloquently posed in a recent Globe and Mail exam- independent Quebec within a show more respect for seniors. sometimes “strike” ship propel-
strong and united Canada.” Gary Raich Westmount, Que. lers, too. All this would be com-
ination of the issue: Can a person freely choose to die if they Steve Iscoe Kingston ical, if it wasn’t so tragically indic-
don’t have an equal chance to live with dignity? ative of our prevailing view of
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comes: There is a shortage of supportive housing; treat-
Nov. 28): A letter-writer states Surely no one would consciously our collective survival.
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years; and many people can’t afford psychotherapy, which times reverse measures intro- obligations for employees during
duced by their predecessors,” as if company defaults and bankrupt-
isn’t covered by medicare and can be punishingly expensive. HOMEWARD BOUND
that’s a good thing. cy. But as the saying goes, be care-
The high cost of living isn’t helping, either. It is a feature of a first-past-the- ful what you wish for.
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The Toronto Star last month told the story of a man whose als happen. Flip-flopping should aspects of pensions for 35 years World Cup With Experience, But
chronic but not terminal illness was exacerbated by poverty, be considered wasteful. It does and have realized that one has to Few Lessons (Sports, Dec. 2):
not move the country forward. contemplate unintended conse- Many congratulations to John
childhood sexual abuse and mental-health issues. His gov- New ideas are often lacking be- quences. Twenty years ago, in a Herdman and the Canadian soc-
ernment income left him with less than $200 a month after cause it’s all about demonizing meeting regarding B.C. pension cer squad for their gutsy perform-
the other party. legislation, we were discussing ances at the World Cup.
he’d paid his rent, and he was no longer able to walk the two Minority governments made how best to protect employee They were all over Belgium in
flights into and out of his apartment. He qualified for MAID up of several parties (that people pensions. the first game and were unlucky
actually voted for) would be A wise policy director looked to lose by a goal scored against
and died in July. more stable and continue pro- at the group and said, “Remem- the run of play. Although they
It is all too easy to imagine that some people suffering jects that work, while modifying ber, you are punishing the good come home empty-handed, they
those that do not. With multiple guys.” can hold their heads high in the
from severe long-term mental illnesses, especially those with While we were focusing on knowledge that they did a great
parties vying for leadership, it
limited financial resources, will resort to MAID in part be- seems inevitable that unrepre- funding issues not unlike the cur- job and made Canadians proud.
sentative governments will al- rent debate, he was basically say- Dave Ashby Toronto
cause of their despair over a lack of adequate health care and
ways be chosen, and undoing the ing, “What about employers who
social services. policies of the last lot will occur. do not provide any pensions?
Canada should fix that. They operate in a legislation-free Letters to the Editor should be
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OPINION
Canada could be a biodiversity leader
The UN’s upcoming
COP15 in Montreal
is a chance to showcase
Indigenous-led
conservation efforts
ETHEL BLONDIN-ANDREW
VALÉRIE COURTOIS
OPINION
Ethel Blondin-Andrew is the first
Indigenous woman to serve as a
federal cabinet minister, and a senior
leader with the Indigenous
Leadership Initiative.
Valérie Courtois is the director
of the Indigenous Leadership
Initiative and a member of the Innu
community of Mashteuiatsh.
C
anada will step into the
global spotlight this month
when it welcomes the world
to the United Nations Biodiversity
Conference in Montreal. When in-
ternational delegates arrive, they
will see many examples of a pow-
erful solution for sustaining bio-
diversity across the country: In-
digenous-led conservation and
stewardship.
Soccer is the beautiful game, unless you wear a hijab in France
SHEEMA KHAN
OPINION
Author of Of Hockey and Hijab:
Reflections of a Canadian
Muslim Woman
T
hus far, the FIFA World Cup
has not disappointed. Elec-
trifying plays on the field,
compelling storylines from Lion-
el Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and
Robert Lewandowski, and the
festive, colourful fandom in the
stands. It’s called the beautiful
game for a reason. Soccer has a
simple, universal appeal – all you
need is a ball, a couple of team-
mates, and voilà, the dreams are
yours to make.
Except if you are a Muslim
woman in France who wears a hi-
jab. According to a decree by the
French Football Federation (FFF),
anyone playing, coaching or offi-
ciating on a French football pitch
is banned from wearing religious
symbols. For all the focus in
World Cup media coverage on
Qatar’s policies toward migrant
workers, women and the LGBTQ
community, hardly anyone has
made a peep about how a soccer
powerhouse – France – bars Mus-
lim women from participating in
the sport simply for wearing a hi-
jab.
France has a tortuous history
of harmonizing its growing Mus-
lim population and its official
policy of secularity, or laicité. Suf-
fice it to say that the hijab has
never been welcomed in the land
of liberté, égalité et fraternité. After
a 2004 ban on wearing “conspic-
uous religious symbols,” includ-
ing the hijab, in French public
schools came into effect, the ni-
qab was also banned in public
Let’s commit to cutting food insecurity in half
KIRSTIN BEARDSLEY
MICHAEL McCAIN
NICK SAUL
OPINION
Kirstin Beardsley is CEO of Food
Banks Canada.
Michael McCain is executive chair of
the board and CEO of Maple Leaf
Foods and the honorary chair of the
Maple Leaf Centre for Food Security.
Nick Saul is the CEO of Community
Food Centres Canada.
D
uring the pandemic, Cana-
dians were there for each
other. Now, with record in-
flation and economic uncertainty
rocking the globe, you might
think people would turn inward
to focus on themselves and their
own needs.
Remarkably, that hasn’t hap-
pened. Canadians continue to
stand up for one another.
In a recent national poll on so-
cial and economic issues facing
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Ministers, Indigenous peoples,
business leaders and others will
gather for once-in-a-decade nego-
tiations that will influence the
health of natural systems we de-
pend on – from intact forest land-
scapes (essential for carbon stor-
age) and drinking water to agri-
culture and clean air – for gener-
ations to come.
The trend lines in Canada are
not good: Rates of wildlife and
plant extinctions are rising rapid-
ly. But Indigenous nations are
leading the biggest, most ambi-
tious plans to protect lands and
waters across the country.
Over the past 20 years, Indige-
nous nations have been respon-
sible for identifying and advocat-
ing for many of the areas now offi-
cially designated as “protected”
lands and water in Canada. Doz-
ens of additional new Indigenous
Protected and Conserved Areas
(IPCAs) have been proposed, and
Indigenous guardianship pro-
grams have grown apace. Guardi-
ans – Indigenous experts who are
trained to monitor and manage
the land on behalf of their nations
– now oversee at least 120 protect-
ed lands and waterscapes across
Canada.
The federal government has
said repeatedly that these Indige-
nous-led initiatives are central to
Majid Siham, right, poses with a soccer ball during a February gathering in support of the women’s soccer
collective Les Hijabeuses in front of city hall in Lille, France. PASCAL ROSSIGNOL/REUTERS
spaces in 2010. Curiously, while
mask mandates were imple-
mented in France throughout
the pandemic, niqabs were still
subject to fines.
The FFF’s rule runs contrary to
official FIFA policy, which lifted
its own hijab ban in 2014. The
policy has had a painful impact
on many aspiring French Muslim
female soccer players, who have
faced a choice between the sport
they love and their faith. Some
have grown up in the same Paris
banlieues that produced Kylian
Mbappé, Paul Pogba and N’Golo
Kanté. During childhood, some
of these young female players
faced opposition from their own
conservative families, who
the country, we found that more
than two-thirds of people believe
now is the time to address serious
social issues. More than 80 per
cent believe the federal govern-
ment should do more to help peo-
ple living with poverty and hun-
ger. Seventy-five per cent feel that
establishing a basic minimum in-
come floor, which would provide
a social safety net for all Cana-
dians, would be very or some-
what desirable. And only 43 per
cent believe Canada is making
steady progress toward being a
fairer country.
As a nation we acted swiftly
and effectively to mitigate the
worst socio-economic effects of
COVID, but it’s clear our work is
far from done. Canada is advanc-
ing a poverty reduction strategy
and we’re making headway. Yet
rates of food insecurity continue
to climb – the latest reports show
a staggering 16 per cent or almost
six million people in Canada face
hunger. Indigenous and Black
people experience rates 3.5 times
the national average owing to sys-
temic racism and colonialism. An
its strategy for protecting 30 per
cent of the country’s lands and
waters by the year 2030 – a prom-
ise Canada made as a member of
the UN’s High Ambition Coalition
for Nature and People. With sig-
nificant long-term support, Indig-
enous-led conservation can help
Canada achieve this goal, and de-
liver many more benefits as well.
Indigenous peoples are offer-
ing a broader, deeper model of
conservation – one that is as good
for people as it is for the land. In-
digenous-led approaches to stew-
ardship reflect knowledge that is
often missing from Western socie-
ty. Instead of viewing land as a re-
source to be exploited, Indige-
nous peoples recognize that peo-
ple and the land are interdepend-
ent: If we take care of the land, the
land takes care of us. It’s a rela-
tionship.
Indigenous-led conservation is
about more than a simple desig-
nation. It supports cultural revi-
talization, as Indigenous knowl-
edge of the land is embedded in
our languages. It involves con-
necting youth and elders so that
insights about our lands and wa-
ters, such as patterns for caribou
migration and ice formation, are
shared. And by bringing people
onto the land, it recognizes that
healing and mental health are in-
deemed soccer too masculine. As
they thrived at sport-intensive
programs and club tryouts, the
families gave in – only to have
the FFF turn their daughters
away from the pitch because of
their hijabs.
Yet the FFF could not kill the
spirits of these remarkable
young women, or their love of
the game. In response to being
excluded by the FFF, Les Hija-
beuses, a collective of French fe-
male Muslim soccer players, was
formed in 2020 with the aim of
ensuring that all women can play
the sport they love. Co-president
Founé Diawara recalled feeling
angry and excluded when being
told to leave the pitch for wearing
estimated 50 per cent of people
living with a disability are food-
insecure.
Increases in the number of
people relying on food banks can
be seen as a canary in the coal
mine when it comes to forecast-
ing food-insecurity rates. New da-
ta showed that food bank visits
were up 35 per cent in March,
2022, from 2019 prepandemic lev-
els, with more than 1.5 million
people resorting to emergency
food relief in a single month. One-
third of those accessing food
banks were children. And, for the
first time, there was a significant
rise in people turning to emer-
gency help despite being employ-
ed.
By any definition these num-
bers represent a national crisis
that demands an urgent and sig-
nificant response. This also dem-
onstrates that the situation is on-
ly getting worse.
Governments often try to walk
a fine line between fiscal conser-
vancy and social spending. Yet
people who cannot afford to feed
themselves are both a humanitar-
terwoven with stewardship. In
fact, Indigenous stewardship has
been shown to deliver wide-rang-
ing community benefits, from job
creation to better outcomes for
public health. Many guardians say
their role has helped them recov-
er from addiction, restore pride in
their identity and become leaders
in their communities.
Not only have the societal ben-
efits been impressive, Indige-
nous-led conservation efforts
have also proven to be highly ef-
fective in protecting the environ-
ment. According to the UN, 80 per
cent of the world’s remaining bio-
diversity can be found on lands
managed and loved by Indige-
nous peoples. A University of Brit-
ish Columbia study looked at spe-
cies data from Canada, Australia
and Brazil and found that the
number of birds, mammals and
amphibians is highest on lands
managed by Indigenous commu-
nities.
Researchers have also found
that every dollar invested in
guardian programs delivers sig-
nificant advantages in the form of
social, economic and environ-
mental benefits for Indigenous
communities, including reduced
rates of incarceration and vio-
lence against women, as well as
improvements in population
her hijab at the age of 15: “I was
trapped between my passion [for
football] and something that is a
huge part of my identity. It’s like
they tried to tell me that I had to
choose between the two,” she
told The Guardian in 2021.
Les Hijabeuses have used their
strong social-media following to
rally against the FFF’s ban.
They’ve launched petitions, gath-
ered support from the broader
sports community (including
Nike), and organized soccer
matches outside the French Sen-
ate building as a form of protest.
The members and their allies
play soccer together, connect
with other French teams and
provide training sessions to en-
ian issue and an economic cost to
our country. How can you pursue
an education, hold down a job,
provide opportunities for your
children, if you cannot afford to
eat? The answer is you cannot.
This can be solved. Other af-
fluent countries – Sweden, Ger-
many, Japan – have rates of food
insecurity up to half of what we
experience in Canada. We know
that targeted social programs,
such as the Canada Child Benefit
and Old Age Security, make a
measurable impact on poverty
and food insecurity. We must pri-
oritize more of these kinds of in-
terventions. For example, we urge
the rapid implementation of a
dignified Canada Disability Bene-
fit, and also help for people 18 to
64, a group that experiences
among the highest food-insecuri-
ty rates in the country. A commit-
ment to such supports will both
lift people up and circulate mon-
ey back into our economy. We will
all benefit.
To guide action, we also call up-
on Canada to set a target to reduce
food insecurity by 50 per cent by
NEWS | A11
health and well-being. One study
of Coastal Guardian Watchmen
programs established by First Na-
tions in British Columbia showed
a rate of return on investment of
up to 20 to 1. It is not often that we
get a chance to accomplish so
much at once, from stemming
biodiversity loss to healing the ef-
fects of residential schools, from
generating sustainable economic
growth to creating opportunities
for youth. But building on these
results requires more compre-
hensive, integrated support. Now
is the time for Canada to expand
investments in Indigenous Pro-
tected and Conserved Areas, as
well as guardian programs, and
commit to innovative financing
tools in order to do so.
As the eyes of the world turn to
Montreal, Indigenous nations can
help Canada become a global
leader in the preservation and
reclamation of biodiversity. To-
gether, we can advance a model of
conservation that respects Indig-
enous knowledge, sustains biodi-
versity and nourishes communi-
ties. Indigenous peoples have a re-
sponsibility to care for the land
and water not just for our own
benefit, but for the good of every-
one. Supporting this stewardship
will create a better shared future
for all.
courage other young Muslim
women to get into the sport. It is
a refuge, providing a safe space
for Muslims to be who they are,
while playing the sport they love.
They have even lobbied the FFF
to overturn the ban, and are now
taking them to court. Earlier this
year, the French Senate tried, un-
successfully, to codify the FFF
ban into law, arguing that the hi-
jab was a means to spread radical
Islam to sports clubs. Senator
Stéphane Piednoir, a ban sup-
porter, told The New York Times
that he has yet to speak with a
hijab-clad athlete, comparing
such an encounter to a “firefight-
er” listening “to pyromaniacs.”
The ban is even more galling
given that France is the only Eu-
ropean country that excludes hi-
jabis from playing in most com-
petitive domestic sports, while
foreign players with hijabs will be
allowed to compete in the 2024
Paris Olympics. Why is France de-
nying Olympic opportunities for
its own hijab-clad athletes?
More importantly, why has the
rest of the world been silent on
this issue in recent weeks, espe-
cially during coverage of the
World Cup? International media
should be shining a spotlight on
the FFF’s exclusionary policies.
National soccer federations (in-
cluding Canada Soccer) should
be mounting a united stand
against the FFF’s overt discrimi-
nation through boycotts and oth-
er measures. FIFA should sanc-
tion the FFF for violating official
FIFA policy.
I have played soccer almost
my entire life. I am an accredited
soccer coach. But because I wear
a hijab, I can’t play, coach or offi-
ciate on a soccer pitch in France.
In Qatar, no problem. Let that
sink in.
2030. Establishing a target drives
focus, accountability and action.
It will require an integrated ap-
proach across governments, the
private sector and civil society.
Targets have already been set for
the reduction of poverty and
greenhouse gas emissions; food
insecurity is as serious an issue
and needs its own target and fo-
cused government action.
We’re not starting from zero –
but we must commit, without
equivocation, to building a stron-
ger, more equitable social safety
net, one that no Canadian can fall
through. One that ensures every-
one can access the very basics of
life.
The devastating effects of hun-
ger and poverty fuel our outrage
and the advocacy efforts of our or-
ganizations. We need other Cana-
dians to join us, putting their
words and values into action. And
more than anything, we need the
political will of our elected offi-
cials to set a target that will help
drive policies and action toward
ending food insecurity in Canada.
We can and must do better.
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LIFE & ARTS
Kristin Scott Thomas relishes ‘terrifying’ roles
Slow Horses actor says
tackling unpleasant
characters is worth it if
she gets to play women
‘who are negotiating
with their own power’
JOHANNA
SCHNELLER
BIGGER PICTURE
I
hope Kristin Scott Thomas
laughs rather than sighs when
scripts arrive and the charac-
ters earmarked for her are Ruth-
less Executive, Domineering
Mother, Murderous Widow, Up-
tight Sourpuss or Frosty Wife.
She nails them, of course – she
knows how to play terrifying –
but in person she’s so much
warmer, funnier and more curi-
ous.
She’s currently chomping
away on a delicious character,
Diana Taverner, in the excellent
AppleTV+ spy series Slow Horses,
whose second season arrives
Dec. 2. Slow Horses is the nick-
name for errant British MI5
agents who’ve landed in the
dumping ground of Slough
House, run by Jackson Lamb (Ga-
ry Oldman at his most desiccat-
ed). Taverner is Lamb’s disdain-
ful former colleague, now rival,
at MI5 headquarters, where she is
second desk – that is, No. 2 in
command. They’ve sized each
other up so thoroughly they
could make each other a suit.
She knows he’s much wilier than
he pretends to be; he knows that
she deserves to be No. 1.
Taverner could be simply a
Flinty Careerist, but Scott Tho-
mas gives her many more col-
ours. She’s disgusted yet amused
by Lamb; she’s genuinely smart-
er than anyone in any room; she
has a clammy/anxious layer un-
der her competence. “She’s
working quite hard to keep that
below the surface,” Scott Tho-
mas said in a recent video inter-
view.
She’s 62 now, preternaturally
chic. She was born in England
and has lived in London and Pa-
ris since she went to France as a
19-year-old au pair. She’s di-
vorced from the father of her
three adult children (François
Olivennes, the French fertility
specialist), and is currently dat-
ing John Micklethwait, a Brit and
the editor of Bloomberg news
agency.
“The thing about Diana is,
she’s No. 2, and she hasn’t got
that long to get to No. 1,” Scott
Thomas says. “The race is on.
And she’s now, I wouldn’t say
Filling up on flavonols may slow memory loss, study finds
LESLIE
BECK
OPINION
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
I
f you seldom eat kale, water-
cress or arugula, consider
making these leafy greens part
of your regular diet.
Thanks to their flavonol con-
tent – an antioxidant found in
certain plant foods – doing so
could help preserve your memo-
ry as you get older.
That’s according to recent re-
search from Rush University
Medical Center in Chicago.
These new findings add to
growing evidence that dietary fla-
vonols benefit brain health.
BREAKING DOWN FLAVONOIDS,
FLAVONOLS
Flavonols belong to one of the six
major subclasses of flavonoids, a
large family of more than 5,000
phytochemicals found in vegeta-
bles, fruit, tea, cocoa, herbs, red
wine, soybeans and pulses.
Four flavonol compounds –
quercetin, kaempferol, myricetin
and isorhamnetin – are found in
foods such as onions, kale, broc-
coli, parsley, apples, blueberries
and tea.
Like many flavonoids, flavo-
nols have strong antioxidant and
anti-inflammatory properties,
which can reduce cell damage
and dampen inflammation
throughout the body, including
Kristin Scott Thomas stars as Diana Taverner in the second season of the AppleTV+ spy series Slow Horses. The actor says being Taverner is ‘great
fun’ but ‘playing a character who has no compassion or empathy can be a bit wearing.’
clutching at straws, but she is
sailing very close to the wind. It
must be nerve-racking to be her.
I don’t think she sleeps very
well.” She punctuates that last
sentence with a murmured
laugh.
I especially love the quick,
pained eye rolls, the flashes of
distaste that wrinkle Taverner’s
brow when she has to be civil to
the smarmy twits who run
things, especially Peter Judd (Sa-
muel West), an ambitious con-
servative politician.
“She knows how to deal with
him, but the whole idea of it is
beneath her somehow,” Scott
Thomas says. “There’s a partic-
ularly good bit in the new season
when she gets into a lift and he
says, ‘Dressed to impress.’ It’s
like, ‘Ugh, stop it.’
“It’s great fun to play her,” she
adds. “But sometimes, after a day
of being her, I want to go home
and take a shower. She is very
unpleasant. Playing a character
who has no compassion or em-
pathy can be a bit wearing.” She
gives herself a shiver. “I want to
go off and be really kind to some-
one.”
It’s worth all that, though, to
play women “who are negotiat-
ing with their own power, and
declaring war on ageism,” Scott
Thomas says. “There’s still a
the brain.
Previous studies have linked a
high intake of flavonoids to slow-
er cognitive decline and a lower
risk of Alzheimer’s dementia. But
limited research has investigated
the link between specific sub-
classes of flavonoids, such as fla-
vonols, and cognitive function.
DO FLAVONOLS SLOW MEMORY
LOSS?
The latest research, published
online Nov. 22 in the journal Neu-
rology, examined the relation-
ship between dietary intake of to-
tal and individual flavonols and
cognitive decline in older adults.
The study included data from
961 community-living Chicago
residents who were enrolled in
the continuing Rush Memory Ag-
ing Project.
When the study began, partici-
great deal of resistance to the ol-
der woman still having her wits
about her. Whereas men become
more senior, women, somehow,
are taken less seriously the older
they get.” She gives Taverner
shades of “the Madeleine Al-
brights, the Dame So-and-Sos,
these amazing women who are
such beacons for the rest of us.”
Personally, Scott Thomas has
experienced “that famous thing
about women over 50 becoming
invisible. Not being listened to.
Being called ‘Dear’ in shops is tir-
ing.” (A less likely “Dear” I can-
not imagine.)
Professionally, her string of
Hollywood leading ladies (The
English Patient with Ralph
Fiennes, The Horse Whisperer
with Robert Redford, Random
Hearts with Harrison Ford) end-
ed, surprise surprise, when she
was in her 40s.
But she remains in demand:
as Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s role
model on Fleabag; as the diabol-
ical Mrs. Danvers in Netflix’s
2020 remake of the Hitchcock
classic Rebecca.
As well, she’s just directed her
first feature, My Mother’s Wed-
ding, which she co-wrote with
Micklethwait, and which she
calls “an extraordinary experi-
ence. I’ve been wanting to direct
something for a very long time.”
ISTOCK
pants were an average age of 81
and did not have dementia.
Over a period of seven years,
participants underwent annual
cognitive testing, which involved
a battery of 19 tests.
An overall global cognitive
score was determined for each
participant based on their per-
formance on the tests.
Participants also provided de-
tailed diet information and were
asked about lifestyle and other
factors related to cognitive status
yearly. Compared with people
with the lowest flavonol intake
(five milligrams a day), those
with the highest intake (15 milli-
grams a day) had a 32-per-cent
decrease in the rate of cognitive
decline. Fifteen milligrams of fla-
vonols is equivalent to about one
cup of leafy greens.
When the researchers looked
at specific flavonols, highest in-
O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L
H EA LT H & W E L L N E S S
She plays a twice-widowed wom-
an about to marry husband No. 3,
who has a reckoning with her
three daughters, played by Emily
Beecham, Scarlett Johansson and
Sienna Miller. It’s loosely based
on her own mother, who mar-
ried two British Royal Navy pi-
lots in a row and lost them both
to flying accidents. Miller plays
an actor, Johansson a Royal Navy
captain.
For the first week of the shoot,
Scott Thomas found herself “ve-
ry unsure, wondering if it was
okay to ask the crew to do this or
that,” she says. “I realized I’d be-
come so used to, as an actor, say-
ing, ‘Why don’t we try that,’ and
having a director reply, ‘Great
idea,’ and then not doing it. But
suddenly, I was in charge. I’d say,
‘I’d really like you to enter from
there,’ or, ‘Let’s move the frame
from there to here,’ and they’d
go, ‘Right, okay,’ and do it. It was
amazing.
“I always have doubts about
my own capacities,” she contin-
ues. “That hasn’t gone away for
me. I don’t have a secret to any-
thing. But I do have experience,
and I do have a bit more compas-
sion and oh, what else. Toler-
ance! An understanding of peo-
ple.”
What Taverner lacks in toler-
ance, she makes up for in her
takes of quercetin, kaempferol
and myricetin were each associ-
ated with slower memory loss.
These findings were unchanged
when the researchers accounted
for factors that could influence
the rate of memory decline in-
cluding age, education, participa-
tion in mentally engaging activ-
ities, physical activity, smoking
status, cardiovascular health and
other dietary components.
STRENGTHS, CAVEATS
One of the study’s strong points
is that it used a trained techni-
cian to objectively evaluate cog-
nitive performance. Previous re-
search investigating flavonoids
and cognition has relied on sub-
jective assessments of cognition.
As well, measurements of cogni-
tive function, diet and other risk
factors were done annually
throughout the study adding
support to the reliability of find-
ings.
A main limitation is that the
study was observational, not a
randomized controlled trial, so
the findings don’t prove that eat-
ing lots of flavonol-rich foods
slows cognitive decline over time.
The study also used self-re-
ported diet information, which
can be prone to error. Even so,
the findings are consistent with
other studies linking higher die-
tary intakes of flavonoids – and
flavonols – to improved cognitive
health and protection against
Alzheimer’s dementia.
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| OPINION | PUZZLES | W EAT H E R
killer wardrobe, an armour that
manages to be both feminine
and severe. In one scene, she
strides away from Oldman,
swinging a closed umbrella that’s
wrapped as tightly as she is.
“That’s an important part of Dia-
na that goes back to the source
novels and the screenplays –
she’s impeccably turned out,”
Scott Thomas says. “I find it in-
teresting, because in my own life
I’m fairly chaotic. Diana is very
aware of what her style projects –
what people will imagine about
her if she turns up wearing this
colour, that shape, this softness,
that hardness. She knows the
power of all of that. There’s never
a hair out of place. And she likes
to have lip balm. She likes to tell
these awful lies and be really vi-
cious with words, as she’s oiling
it up. That’s all part and parcel of
how she terrifies people.”
Do women have to be terrify-
ing to attain power? Is that our
only choice? “I don’t think power
automatically makes people
frightening,” she replies. “And if
someone finds another person
terrifying, it’s usually for their
own reasons. But Diana is defi-
nitely aware she’s terrifying. She
knows how to turn up the vol-
ume.”
Special to The Globe and Mail
FINDING FLAVONOLS
In the study, top food contrib-
utors of quercetin were tomatoes,
kale, apples and tea. Other good
sources include blueberries,
arugula, red onions, green onions
(scallions), watercress and black-
eyed peas.
Participants with the highest
quercetin intake consumed an
average of 10 milligrams each
day, an amount found in one cup
of blueberries, two cups of black
tea or one cup of green tea plus
one cup of raw kale. With respect
to kaempferol, top food sources
were kale, beans, tea, spinach and
broccoli. You’ll also find a decent
amount in watercress and black
and green tea.
High consumers of kaempfe-
rol got, on average, 3.7 milligrams
in their daily diet, an amount
that’s in one half-cup of water-
cress, one cup of raw spinach or
one cup of black tea. Good sourc-
es of myricetin include blueber-
ries, parsley and green tea.
Participants who consumed
the most got about one milligram
each day, which you’ll find in two
tablespoons of fresh parsley, one
half-cup of blueberries or one
half-cup of green tea.
Reach for whole foods rather
than supplements to boost your
flavonoid intake.
They’re also excellent sources
of vitamins, minerals and other
phytochemicals needed for
healthy brain aging.
Leslie Beck, a Toronto-based private
practice dietitian, is director of food
and nutrition at Medcan.
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FIRST PERSON Deborah Cox

hopes her
STRANGERS BECAME inclusion at
Walk of Fame
MY SUPPORT TEAM gala will inspire
Black artists
CHRISTIAN COLLINGTON
TORONTO

D
eborah Cox said her recog-
nition at this year’s Cana-
da’s Walk of Fame gala
event underscored the impor-
tance of representation, adding
she hoped it would help inspire
other Black musicians.
The Juno award-winning R&B
singer was among the group of
Canadians recognized at Satur-
day’s event for excellence in
their respected fields, which in-
clude humanitarianism, entre-
preneurship, sports, entertain-
ment, and philanthropy. They
will each receive stars in Toron-
to’s entertainment district.
“For me, growing up, it was re-
ally tough to find people that
looked like me on the radio and
on television,” the 48-year-old
singer-songwriter said on the red
carpet before she received her
ILLUSTRATION BY MARY KIRKPATRICK star on Saturday night.
“It’s a huge milestone, I
couldn’t have dreamt for my
With COVID-19 restrictions in place, I turned to nurses and social workers journey to end in a better way.”
Songwriters Jimmy Jam and
for comfort as I battled inflammatory breast cancer, Ishita Pande writes Terry Lewis said they were tou-
ched to present Cox with her star
in her hometown of Toronto.

T
he phone rang as I was on my way out of groups into kin. A Toronto chef running a session “We were excited about ac-
the door for my first COVID-19 vaccine. No on cancer and diet felt, for a moment, like a long- cepting the privilege of present-
one ever calls on the landline. I was brac- lost sister bearing soup and good advice. The fit- ing her star,” Jam said. “We’re in-
ing for bad news as I ran back in. It was my ness instructors for my online exercise group for spired to write songs for her, she
family doctor. She had called to finally give shape cancer patients saw me through physical transfor- delivers the songs in a beautiful
to that nagging feeling that I had carried around mations that I wouldn’t share with some of my way.”
for six weeks. The biopsy confirmed the findings of closest friends, as I turned off the video during our Eleven other influential
the mammography. I had inflammatory breast online chats. names were inducted into the
cancer. My friends from near and far held me up, of Walk of Fame at the gala, includ-
The cruelty of the diagnosis came wrapped in course. They brought me warm meals and treats to ing Indigo founder Heather Reis-
the family doctor’s kindness. She had called me at comfort me. They sent letters and gifts to cheer me man, comedy content creator
8.30 a.m. on a national holiday to reassure me she up. They walked with me and made plans for the Just for Laughs, and rock band
had already referred me to the cancer centre, that future. But the alchemy of cancer also makes care- The Tragically Hip.
she would be there for me, and that I should hope givers of complete strangers. The band was inducted Satur-
for the best even though the news was not good. I received pretty, handmade objects made by day in recognition of their hu-
At that moment my last shred of hope – maybe kind folk I would never meet. The receptionist at manitarian efforts.
it is not breast cancer, after all, as I had no lump – the cancer centre offered me the pick of the warm
was lost. Inflammatory breast cancer develops hats. I received knitted knockers – or “foobies” – to
when cancer cells block the lymph vessels in the fill out that space where my breast used to be. On This year’s inductee
skin, causing the breast to become swollen. the day of the mastectomy, the nurse brought me a
I realized now the lack of the lump had been no cheery-looking pillow to rest my arm, and a tiny Tatiana Maslany, whose
reason to feel reassured. Inflammatory breast can- handmade bag to hold surgical drains, both made work on She-Hulk:
cer is rare and extremely aggressive. It develops by a talented stranger. Attorney at Law and
more often in younger women and women of Afri- But, perversely, there were times when I felt like Orphan Black has
can ancestry. I missed random strangers with their petty cruel-
Being young – and in the world of ties that I had encountered before ushered her into
cancer, 44 was young – means you cancer. Like the woman at the café, esteemed company,
have a greater risk of reoccurrence. I I have never seen months before my diagnosis, who’d said she’s honoured to
had gone from being a geriatric mom noted my brown skin and decided be recognized at this
to an ingénue on Planet Cancer. my social worker’s she would not understand my accent.
All inflammatory breast cancers face, but we have Or like the couple that wondered point in her career. But
start as Stage 3 since they involve the chatted on the aloud why I was “loitering” in the it’s too early, the
skin, and breast conservation surgery phone for hours. public space outside their waterfront 37-year-old actor said, to
(lumpectomy) is not considered. condo.
I said goodbye to my breasts that Only she knows how I wondered if cancer had erased
think about her legacy.
day, long before I sat down with a sur- afraid I was in those the aspects of my identity that trig-
geon. I also planned the things I’d do many months when gered my strong responses to these “We’re happy to get noticed
with my toddler while I was still I took long walks to varied and often cruel words. for taking those chances and op-
healthy. Had I lost myself and become the portunities,” guitarist Paul Lan-
These dark thoughts held the tears fake my way to kind of person who must be forever glois said. “It’s a bit humbling,
at bay as I pulled into the COVID vac- health. Shared buoyant about the kindness of it’s not something we look to cel-
cine drive-through clinic and rolled anticipatory grief strangers? ebrate.”
down my window. The young volun- Would I never again suffer and pro- The gala also recognized the
teer, perhaps noting the sheer panic
turned strangers in test small indignities as I turned into 2021 inductees R&B singer Jully
on my face, patted me on the shoul- support groups into someone who was grateful to be Black, actor Graham Greene, and
der. You will be okay, she said with a kin. alive? Had this grasping for happiness entrepreneur and philanthropist
smile as she jabbed me on the upper eviscerated my right to be enraged? Ajay Virmani.
arm. See, it’s nothing, not even a mark. Her hand I was reassured that everything was back to nor- This year’s inductee Tatiana
rested lightly on my shoulder, the comforting mal during the week I prepared for my second Maslany, whose work on She-
touch of a stranger at a time of trauma. I thanked mastectomy. A friend hoping to visit me from India Hulk: Attorney at Law and Orphan
her for her kindness; she had said I would be okay. for the last steps in my long treatment had her visa Black has ushered her into es-
In the 15 months that followed, I would encoun- application rejected. Her request to visit Canada teemed company, said she’s hon-
ter and cherish many such gestures. I spent several was refused, the letter explained, because the im- oured to be recognized at this
hours in the cancer ward every two to three weeks. migration officer wasn’t convinced she would point in her career. But it’s too
With the pandemic restrictions, no family or leave at the end of her visit. early, the 37-year-old actor said,
friends could join me. Anger surged through my body at the outra- to think about her legacy.
Instead, the nurses became my support team: geous insinuation that my friend would abandon “It’s surreal to be recognized,”
small gestures and routine queries felt like warm her family and home to flee to Canada. I would she said. “I’m so young. It seems
hugs; gentle touches as they noted the changes to protest. Not because I want special treatment as a nuts to think about my legacy.”
the skin or the nails; probing inquiries into the less cancer patient, but because I have the right to be Maslany is currently working
visible side effects; smiles of recognition as they surrounded by more than the kindness of strang- on a TV series for AMC titled In-
bustled around between patients; compliments on ers. I would fight this till my friend got her visa to vitation to a Bonfire. She described
the scarves covering my bald head, and then on visit me, sometime in the next few years. the project as a “dark and sexy”
the grey fuzz that had replaced dark curls. And just like that, I knew I would be okay. piece set in the 1930s.
Other strangers became intimates, too. I have I was back. Outraged and ready for action. But Director Julien Christian Lutz,
never seen my social worker’s face, but we have maybe also a tiny bit grateful to that stranger known as Director X, said it came
chatted on the phone for hours. Only she knows who’d refused my friend’s visa for making me as unexpected praise to be recog-
how afraid I was in those many months when I whole again. nized with a star for his work be-
took long walks to fake my way to health. Shared hind the camera.
anticipatory grief turned strangers in support Ishita Pande lives in Kingston. “It’s an honour,” said the 47-
year-old filmmaker.
“It makes me feel hopeful that
our industry is going to recog-
First Person is a daily personal piece submitted by readers nize some of us that have always
been on the outskirts of the
Have a story to tell? Please see the guidelines on our website tgam.ca/essayguide, game,” he said.
and e-mail it to firstperson@globeandmail.com Posthumous honours went to
Canadian journalist Barbara
Frum, acclaimed for her inter-
views for CBC, as well as Lionel
TODAY’S SUDOKU SOLUTION TODAY’S KENKEN SOLUTION Conacher, a Canadian athlete
and politician.
Andre De Grasse, who present-
ed Conacher’s family with the in-
duction, said Conacher inspired
him to become a better athlete.
“He’s definitely motivated me
now to try to just keep going and
keep striving for greatness,” the
28-year-old Olympic medalist
said.
Canada’s Walk of Fame will air
on Dec. 17 at 7 p.m. on CTV.

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BRIDGE This deal accounted for nearly chances of making, but failed dummy with a spade and played
BY STEVE BECKER a third of the margin by which when Woolsey, despite West’s the queen of diamonds, ducked
MONDAY, DEC. 5, 2022 Brazil defeated the United pre-emptive bid, elected to play all around. The 10 of diamonds
States in the 1989 world team the clubs normally, cashing was led next, and when East
championship. the A-K. After that, he had to again followed low, Camacho
When Mike Lawrence and lose a club and a diamond for went into the tank. Should he
East dealer. Kit Woolsey of the U.S. held the down one. allow the 10 to ride in case East
North-South vulnerable. North-South hands, the bid- When Ricardo Janz and Car- started with the K-J-x-x? Or
ding went as shown. Woolsey’s los Camacho of Brazil held the should he put up the ace, playing
bidding implied a strong two- North-South hands, the bidding for a 3-3 break or for West to have
The bidding: suiter with better clubs than went: started with the J-x of diamonds?
diamonds. After Woolsey bid five Eventually, Camacho played
EAst South West North clubs, Lawrence judged that his the ace and was rewarded with
Pass 1 [C] 3 [H] 3 NT two aces and Q-10 of diamonds the fall of the jack. He then con-
Pass 4 [D] Pass 4 NT would provide just what his Here the U.S. West chose the ceded the nine to the king and
Pass 5 [C] Pass 6 [C] partner needed for slam, so he unfortunate lead of a club, solv- scored the rest of the tricks, giv-
Opening Lead – king of hearts. carried on to six. ing declarer’s problem in that ing Brazil a 16-IMP pickup on the
The slam had reasonable suit. Camacho then crossed to deal.

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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
26 in any order. There is only one solution to each puzzle.

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INSTRUCTIONS
1. Each row and each
CRYPTIC CLUES QUICK CLUES column must contain
ACROSS DOWN ACROSS the numbers 1 through
1 Lisbon’s river (5) 6 without repeating.
1 Stout novelist and 2 Didn’t refuse; that’s
comedian (5) normal (8) 8 Be slow in taking effect (4,4)
8 A golfer upset about 3 Barrels found around 9 Shine dazzlingly (5) 2. The numbers within
the heavily outlined
pro’s first game (8) ancient dumps (8) 10 Brief public statement (8)
boxes, called cages,
9 Climb and balance (5) 4 Unorthodox Easter saint (6) 11 Deep gorge (5) must combine using
12 Leguminous vegetable (3) the given operation (in
10 Meal done, ordered 5 In the article a publicist
16 Outskirts (6) any order) to produce
a drink (8) gives upfront coverage (5)
17 Baghdad’s river (6) the target numbers in
11 Game fellow (5) 6 Examination essay? (5) 18 Equality of score (3) the top-left corners.
12 Happy to be back 7 Looked, started to go back 23 Person’s strong point (5)
from Italy again (3) then went ahead (5) 24 Very soon (2,1,5) Freebies: Fill in
16 Heartless manager replaced 12 Animal found in 25 Journal (5) 3. single-box cages with
by a European (6) growing numbers (3) 26 Diminution (8) the numbers in the
17 Itches to change the 13 A great desire to 27 In a very great degree (2,3) top-left corner.
rules of conduct (6) make money (3)
18 A badly run vessel (3) 14 Partly burn a fuel that DOWN
23 Bird goes after note that draws well (8) 2 Mentally alert (3,5) ©2022 KENKEN Puzzle LLC. KENKEN is a registered trademark of Nextoy, LLC. Dist. by Andrews McMeel
is low and throaty (5) 15 They jeer at consumers (8) 3 Insurrection (8) www.kenken.com
24 There’s no end to 19 Sell about a litre (6) 4 Budapest’s river (6)
5 Spry (5) FRIDAY'S CRYPTIC
these pets (4,4) 20 Worker encountered
6 Communal fund of money (5) ACROSS: 1 Respect, 5 Rowan, 8 Enigmatic, 9 Tic, 10 Sash, 12 Converse, 14 Snappy,
25 Wet ring perhaps me coming up first (5) 15 Dreams, 17 Pole Star, 18 Skid, 21 Our, 22 Anthology, 24 Taste, 25 Suspend.
left to dry (5) 7 Paris’s river (5)
21 Breaks up bridges (5) DOWN: 1 Reeds, 2 Ski, 3 Elms, 4 Tattoo, 5 Recovery, 6 Watermark, 7 Nucleus,
12 Darling (3)
26 Impact he made in 22 Throw away a fight? (5) 11 Small arms, 13 Apostate, 14 Support, 16 Faiths, 19 Dryad, 20 Boss, 23 One.
13 Consumed (3)
strong terms (8)
14 Dishonour (8) FRIDAY'S QUICK
27 Stop being mean (5) 15 Australian state (8) ACROSS: 1 Camelot, 5 Lucid, 8 Gorbachev, 9 Arc, 10 Yarn, 12 Unbiased, 14 Mooted,
19 Overrun in large numbers (6) 15 Cussed, 17 Specific, 18 Aura, 21 Ace, 22 Ho Chi Minh, 24 Deter, 25 Shimmer.
20 Vertiginous (5) DOWN: 1 Cagey, 2 Mar, 3 Leak, 4 To hand, 5 Live it up, 6 Ceausescu, 7 Decided,
Solutions to today's Sudoku and Kenken can be found in the Life & Arts content 21 Extravagant (5) 11 Roosevelt, 13 Decipher, 14 Mustard, 16 Pisces, 19 Abhor, 20 Kiwi, 23 Ism.
area of the A section. Crossword solutions will be with tomorrow's puzzles. 22 Rome’s river (5)
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Kelly: Sister of Qatari ruler oversees annual art budget said to be around $1-billion
FROM A1
The World Cup is a trifle when
compared to their fixation for
contemporary art. To get to the
main media centre, one drives by
a massive series of Damien Hirst
sculptures. They graphically de-
tail the stages of development of
a fetus. Why? Because they’re out-
side a hospital.
In Canada, if people had
enough money to put a Damien
Hirst outside a hospital, they’d
use it to build another hospital.
At the media centre, which
usually houses conventions,
there is a hulking edition of
Louise Bourgeois’s Maman in the
lobby.
There’s one outside the Na-
tional Gallery in Ottawa, too. You
probably know it.
Here, they’ve tucked it be-
tween a McCafé and a souvenir
stand, where it serves as an
Instagram prop for rubes. When-
ever you are given instructions to
get to a news conference, they
will include something like “turn
right at the spider lobby.”
Qatar’s royal family spends
shocking amounts on art. Sheik-
ha al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin
Khalifa al-Thani, the ruler’s sister,
is the world’s most powerful
buyer. She oversees an annual art
budget said to be in the region of
US$1-billion.
The Serra is one of Qatar’s jew-
els – the spot for it was suggested
by the Emir – but seeing it re-
quires commitment. There is no
address. All that’s provided is a
GPS co-ordinate.
Because you are Canadian, you
assume it will be found at the end
of a lonely desert road. The end of
that road is only the beginning.
East-West/West-East comprises
four enormous steel plates, each
Richard Serra’s East-West/West-East, tucked away in the Qatari desert, comprises four enormous steel plates,
each more than 14 metres tall, sheltered on either side by low ridges. NATHAN DENETTE/THE CANADIAN PRESS
over 14 metres tall, sheltered on
either side by low ridges. You can
see two of the plates as you
approach from the west, which
fools you into thinking you are
nearly there. But that’s the point
at which you must decide how
badly you want to be close to
them. That’s the admission price.
Serra’s pieces are usually found
in practical places such as mu-
seums and airports.
This is absolutely impractical.
It takes us 40 minutes to traverse
four kilometres. Serra has sug-
gested that people might walk to
the piece, which strikes me as
bonkers. Right up until the car is
lurching over another hidden
boulder, at which point walking
seems like a good suggestion
wasted.
The effect of crawling fearfully
toward these enormous obelisks
across the desolation is to pro-
duce a sense of awe that is close to
religious. The sculpture in the
Brouq nature reserve spans a
kilometre.
There is something heavy and
mythic about their placement, as
though you have stumbled into
an alien landing site. Which I
guess you have. These things
don’t belong here and neither do
we. But here we both are.
Through an intermediary, I’ve
asked Qatar’s head of public art,
Abdulrahman Al-Ishaq, how best
to approach the piece.
“For the first visit, I recom-
mend approaching the artwork
by foot from the East at least 30
minutes before sunset on that
day,” Al-Ishaq writes.
Great idea. I’m sure the light is
stunning at that time. But then
we’d have to drive back in total
darkness and, well, die.
Once you have finally arrived,
there is the elation of having
survived. Then the awe hits you
again when you approach them.
How did they possibly do this?
I’m not much for the idea of
‘experiencing’ art. When I think
of the masterworks, what I am re-
membering is some German
tourist elbowing me out of the
way so that he can take a photo-
graph of The Starry Night from
two feet away. What I’m experi-
encing is annoyance.
But you experience the hell
out of this. You stand beside one
of the plates, which are turning
from grey to a deep umber over
time, and feel very small in a very
big world. It is a surprisingly com-
forting feeling. These will be here
long after I am gone, changing at
a pace measured geologically. I
saw them once. I touched them. I
was there.
While we’re taking our pic-
tures, a high-end Mercedes truck
comes bounding in from the oth-
er direction. It’s being piloted by
an Irish contractor who’s been
living in Qatar working on World
Cup stadiums. He’s brought his
girlfriend to see this.
“I can’t believe you came here
in a car,” he says.
He does us a solid and suggests
an easier way out than the one we
took in. We go back to the car and
take a group photo with Shakir.
He’s been staring up at the plates
for a while, taking photos of them
on his phone.
“What is this?” he says at one
point.
“Art.”
“Ah. Art,” says Shakir contem-
platively, and takes another long
look. “I am happy to see this.”
More World Cup B9

Iran: Morality police scarcely seen on the
streets since protests erupted, residents say
FROM A1
Iran’s Foreign Minister, Hossein
Amir Abdollahian, when asked
about the abolishment of the
morality police at a news confer-
ence in Belgrade, Serbia, where
he was on an official visit, did not
deny it, but said: “In Iran, every-
thing is moving forward well in
the framework of democracy and
freedom.”
For his part, Mr. Montazeri also
said Saturday that the judiciary
would still enforce restrictions on
“social behaviour.” Days earlier,
he said that authorities were re-
viewing the law requiring women
to cover their bodies in long,
loose clothing and their hair with
a head scarf or hijab, and would
issue a decision within 15 days.
But it was not clear whether au-
thorities were planning to relax
the law.
Mr. Montazeri’s comments ap-
peared to suggest the govern-
ment was making its first major
concession to the protest move-
ment ignited by the death of 22-
year-old Mahsa Amini in Septem-
ber in the custody of the morality
police. The unrest has become
one of the biggest challenges in
decades to Iran’s system of au-
thoritarian clerical rule.
But the government’s silence
after Mr. Montazeri’s remark left
analysts puzzled, with some sug-
gesting he had inadvertently
drawn attention to a decision the
regime wanted to keep quiet for
fear of being seen backing down,
and others concluding it reflected
internal debate at a moment of
crisis.
There have been many reports
from residents of Iran that the
morality police have scarcely
been seen on the streets since the
protests erupted nearly three
months ago, and women have in-
creasingly been appearing in
public with their hair uncovered.
But other security forces, in-
cluding the notorious Basij mili-
tiamen, have been beating and
arresting women who go out with
their hair uncovered, videos
show.
And for all the symbolism, the
announced abolition of the mor-
ality police would probably do lit-
tle to appease the ordinary Ira-
nians who have been flooding
the streets since Ms. Amini’s
death to demand sweeping
change.
On Sunday, Iranian women
and activists took to social media
to dismiss talk of disbanding the
force as a propaganda tactic by
the government to distract from
the larger demands of protesters
for an end to the Islamic Repub-
lic’s rule. The concession would
be too little, too late, many said.
Shadi Sadr, a prominent hu-
man-rights lawyer who has
fought for women’s rights in Iran
for decades, said on Twitter that
scrapping the morality police
Iranian activists have taken to social media to dismiss talk of disbanding
the morality police as a propaganda tactic to distract from the larger
demands of protesters for an end to the Islamic Republic’s rule.
MIDDLE EAST IMAGES/ASSOCIATED PRESS
would not be big news because
“hijab is still compulsory and en-
forced by other means such as ex-
pulsion from university or
school.”
The protest will not end, she
said, “until the regime is gone.”
A member of the Iranian par-
liament, Jalal Rashidi Koochi,
said that abolishing the morality
police would be “a praiseworthy
action but late.”
“I wish we had seen this action
before all these events took
place,” he added, “because we
can see how some policies and
behaviours damage the nation’s
stability and the public’s trust in
the government.”
Gissou Nia, a human-rights
lawyer who leads the board at the
U.S.-based Iran Human Rights
Documentation Center, said the
demonstrations had evolved
since the early days after Ms.
Amini was killed.
“The bottom line,” she said, “is
that the protests are now about
challenging the entirety of the
system, and the extreme gender
discriminatory laws that man-
date compulsory hijab and re-
strictions on women’s rights to
marriage, divorce, custody and
inheritance are all still in place.”
Abolishing the morality police
could have a major effect on the
state’s ability to control what
women wear. Their primary role
has been to enforce the laws re-
lated to Iran’s conservative dress
code, which was imposed after
the 1979 Islamic Revolution and
recently invigorated by the coun-
try’s new ultraconservative Presi-
dent.
The dress code for women be-
came an ideological pillar of the
ruling clerical establishment, and
is central to its identity.
Iranian women have been
challenging the dress code since
its inception, embracing colour-
ful robes, barely covering their
hair in loose wraps and, in some
cases, letting their head scarves
drop onto their shoulders. The
enforcement of the code has al-
ways been uneven and arbitrary,
ranging from warnings to fines
and arrests.
When Ms. Amini died after be-
ing arrested by the morality po-
lice on a Tehran street, country-
wide protests soon followed.
“Woman, life, freedom,” protes-
ters have chanted. Women have
torn off their hijabs, burning
them in bonfires, and have cut
their hair in acts of defiance. Uni-
versity students have chanted,
“Killings after killings, to hell
with morality police!”
The demonstrators, fed up
with political repression, censor-
ship, corruption and economic
mismanagement, have been tak-
ing direct aim at the most power-
ful man in Iran, Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, the supreme leader.
Before the unrest, women’s
rights activists had managed to
carve out some flexibility around
the hijab, defying the law by ex-
posing their hair in social media
videos or in the street. But last
year, after the election of a har-
dline president, Ebrahim Raisi,
the government cracked down.
In the months before the pro-
tests began, videos of the moral-
ity police dragging women into
vans bound for re-education cen-
tres – in one case, while the wom-
an’s mother begged them to stop
– stirred fresh outrage among Ira-
nians.
The crackdown by security
forces against the protest move-
ment has left hundreds dead, and
the government has threatened
harsh punishment for dissent, in-
cluding executions.
Rights groups say that at least
400 people have been killed since
the protests began, including 50
minors, and the United Nations
has said that about 14,000 people
have been arrested. The govern-
ment says at least 30 members of
the security forces have been
killed.
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
Hospitals: Current flu strain
a ‘really good match for the
vaccine’ so far, specialist says
FROM A1
This week, a small team from the Red Cross will shore up
staffing at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario
(CHEO), an overburdened Ottawa pediatric hospital, while
a Calgary children’s hospital will close respite beds for med-
ically complex but stable children so nurses can be rede-
ployed to care for the acutely ill. The only pediatric hospital
in Newfoundland and Labrador, meanwhile, will join the
growing ranks of children’s hospitals scaling back surgeries
to free up staff for children in respiratory distress.
The 2022-2023 flu season, “just came out of the gates
really intensely,” said Lynora Saxinger, an infectious-disease
physician at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. “It’s
creating a fair amount of havoc, honestly.”
She added that RSV, which continues to pose challenges
to pediatric hospitals, appears to have levelled off, while
COVID-19 is less of a factor in hospital admissions for chil-
dren than it is for the elderly. “It’s been pretty stable for
kids,” Dr. Saxinger said. “COVID is not a humongous player
compared to influenza.”
Influenza season normally begins in the fall and peaks in
January or February. COVID-19 and the measures used to
control it, including shutdowns, physical distancing and
masking, kept the flu at bay from March of 2020 until last
spring, when there was a small surge as restrictions eased.
Now the flu is back with a vengeance, particularly in
Alberta, where flu activity is already “widespread” across
the province, according to the Public Health Agency of Can-
ada’s most recent FluWatch report, which covers the week
of Nov. 20 to 26.
Alberta Children’s Hospital is responding to the strain by
temporarily closing respite beds at Rotary Flames House, an
affiliated hospice across the street from the Calgary hospi-
tal. The respite service provides a one-week break for fam-
ilies of children with complex medical conditions who re-
quire round-the-clock care.
The nurses and other health workers who care for those
children will be moved to the hospital to staff six new
short-stay beds for children in respiratory distress.
The palliative, end-of-life and grief services normally of-
fered at the hospice will continue to be offered inside the
hospital.
Suspending respite services until the flu and other virus-
es subside, “was a very difficult decision for us,” said Marga-
ret Fullerton, a registered nurse and the senior operating
officer at Alberta Children’s.
“We really are very empathetic with families because we
know that they count on this.”
In Ottawa, CHEO, which has already opened a second
pediatric ICU to deal with the extraordinary viral season,
has called in a small contingent from the Red Cross to
support its clinical teams, beginning this week, said Tammy
DiGiovanni, senior vice-president and chief nursing exec-
utive at CHEO.
“This will allow some of our redeployed staff to go back
to their regular roles and ensure Team CHEO can provide
the safe, world-class care that our patients deserve,” she
said in a statement.
So far this flu season, there have been 707 hospital ad-
missions related to pediatric influenza, 95 ICU admissions
and fewer than five deaths, according to IMPACT figures
included in the Public Health Agency’s FluWatch report. (As
a general rule, PHAC declines to release precise data if fewer
than five patients are involved, citing privacy concerns.)
The vast majority of cases in Canada are being caused by
H3N2, a strain of influenza A. Although it is too early to
properly judge the effectiveness of this season’s flu shot, Dr.
Papenburg said that sequencing of the strain’s genetic code
coupled with lab studies suggest it is a “really good match
for the vaccine.”
Unfortunately, he said, too few children have received flu
shots. He said families were likely caught off guard by the
abnormally early start to influenza season, while others
may not have been thinking about a virus that barely circu-
lated during the first two years of the pandemic.
Vaccination is “one thing that families can do to help
reduce the risk of having severe influenza infection now
that we’re seeing so much of it circulating,” Dr. Papenburg
said.
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Russia says it’s [ RESOURCES ]

ready to cut
oil production
if West sticks
to price cap
MATT STEVENS
IVAN NECHEPURENKO
MATTHEW MPOKE BIGG

Moscow insisted that it would not

sell oil that is subject to a price
limit agreed upon by the Group of
7 major industrialized nations,
even if it means cutting produc-
tion, adding to questions over
whether the plan, which goes into
effect Monday, will succeed in
slowing Russia’s war effort in Uk-
raine.
The G7 nations on Friday
agreed to cap the price of Russian
crude at $60 a barrel, putting into
place a complex, U.S.-backed plan
to limit what Russia, the world’s
second largest oil exporter, can
charge for its oil exports. Support-
ers of the plan say it is likely to
dent the Kremlin’s finances, while
still keeping enough Russian
crude on the market to avoid a
global oil price shock.
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said the price cap would have a
negative impact on the global
market and would contradict
World Trade Organization rules.
He said Russia was “working on
mechanisms” to undermine en-
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elaborating.
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only to countries that will work
with us on market conditions,
even if we would have to lower
production,” he said on Russian
state news network Rossiya-24.
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Forty-year amortizations among emergency tools

Forecasters
split on how
high BoC
will push
next rate hike
MARK RENDELL
The Bank of Canada is expected
to cap its tumultuous year with
another interest-rate increase
this week, although private-sec-
tor forecasters are split on how
big the bank will go as it appears
to be approaching a turning point
for monetary policy.
Central bank Governor Tiff
Macklem has been clear over the
past month that he’s not done
raising borrowing costs for Cana-
dians. But he has started arguing
that the bank needs to balance
the risk of doing too little to fight
inflation against the risk of doing
too much and crashing the econ-
omy.
Financial markets are betting
on a quarter-point rate hike on
Wednesday, which would bring
the bank’s benchmark interest
rate to 4 per cent for the first time
since early 2008. Bay Street econ-
omists are more divided, with
some backing the market view
and others arguing for another
half-point move, as in October.
“The announcement feels ex-
ceptionally uncertain, a fitting
end to a year that has been full of
surprises,” Andrew Kelvin, Toron-
to Dominion Bank’s chief Canada
strategist, wrote in a note to cli-
ents.
Most private-sector forecasters
believe that the Bank of Canada is
near the end of its historic rate-
hike campaign.
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catch eye of BoC’s Tiff Macklem B4
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mortgage lenders, insurers using to prevent defaults
ERICA ALINI gencies, such as job loss or divorce. But
with interest rates up 3.5 percentage points
so far this year and the Bank of Canada
Lenders and mortgage insurance provid-
ers are using emergency loan-modifica-
poised for more hikes, the industry is now
looking to assist borrowers who can’t man-
tion options that will allow some strug-
gling homeowners to extend their amor-
age growing mortgage payments.
Private mortgage insurer Sagen MI Can-
tization periods, or reduce or defer pay- ada Inc., for example, recently updated its
ments, as mortgage payments soar along guidance to lenders to say they can offer to
with interest rates. extend amortizations, without first seek-
The measures, meant to stave off de- ing the insurer’s approval, in cases where
faults and buy borrowers time to find solu- borrowers face “payment shock resulting
tions to their payment woes, are some- from rising interest rates.” The new amor-
times available to households experienc- tization periods can be as long as 40 years.
ing significant financial hardship. The move is meant to “provide lenders
During years of low interest rates and with tools to proactively assist insured bor-
cheap borrowing, that hardship typically rowers who are experiencing hardship in
stemmed from individual financial emer- this rising rate environment,” Jim Spitali,
Grocery costs to rise by up to 7% next year as disruptions
to supply chain, Russia’s war fuel increase, report says
ANN HUI Monetary Policy Report, the Bank of Can-
NATIONAL FOOD REPORTER ada said it expects the consumer price
index to fall to about 3 per cent by late
2023.
Food costs in Canada will continue to rise The average family of four, who paid
over the next year, with the average fam- more than $15,200 for food in 2022, will
ily of four expected to pay an additional pay more than $16,200 next year for the
$1,000 for groceries in 2023, according to same groceries, the report said.
an annual report on prices. The main drivers of that increase are
Canada’s Food Price Report says the the continuing effects of the pandemic,
cost of groceries will increase by 5 per supply-chain disruptions, the war in Uk-
cent to 7 per cent in 2023, compounding raine, high transportation and labour
the financial burden of a year of record- costs and climate change.
high food inflation that saw prices climb “We were hoping to have better news
10.3 per cent between November, 2021, for Canadians given the difficulties expe-
and September, 2022. rienced in 2022, but our models tell us a
By way of comparison, in its October different story,” said the report, published
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in an e-mail.
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.,
the country’s public provider of mortgage
default insurance, and Canada Guaranty
Mortgage Insurance Co., Canada’s other
major mortgage insurer, also offer emer-
gency loan modification measures, some-
times known as loan workouts, for borrow-
ers in dire straits.
The process for accessing a loan work-
out differs depending upon whether a
mortgage has default insurance – a type of
insurance that protects lenders if borrow-
ers don’t make their payments, and that is
required for loans with down payments of
less than 20 per cent.
MORTGAGES, B6
Monday by Dalhousie University, the Uni-
versity of British Columbia, the University
of Guelph and the University of Saskatch-
ewan.
One food category in particular is ex-
pected to see a higher-than-average in-
crease: vegetables. The report predicts a
price hike of as much as 8 per cent over
the next year.
“We’re still seeing significant issues on
the West Coast of the U.S., particularly
California – with droughts and with bacte-
rial contamination,” said Simon Somogyi,
a food business professor at the Universi-
ty of Guelph and one of the report’s au-
thors.
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OPEC and allies to leave oil production unchanged
Group not expected
to revise policy as EU,
G7 countries launch
embargo, price cap
on Russian crude
STANLEY REED
OPEC and its allies, including
Russia, said Sunday that they
would leave their quotas for oil
production unchanged. The
group, known as OPEC+, appears
to have decided during a telecon-
ference that there was no reason
to alter policy amid the many un-
certainties in the oil market.
On Monday, the European
Union will begin an embargo on
Russian oil, while the Group of
Seven industrialized countries
and their allies are imposing a
price cap of US$60 a barrel on
Russian crude.
The looming embargo and the
price cap were the main reasons
for the producers’ group to hold
its fire. What the outcome of
these initiatives will be for oil
markets is still to be determined,
but they could affect millions of
barrels a day of Russian oil. OPEC
may have decided that it was bet-
ter off keeping its collective head
down rather than risk being
blamed if, for instance, prices
jump in the coming days.
The Biden administration had
criticized the Saudis, the de facto
leaders of OPEC+, for orchestrat-
ing a production cut of two mil-
lion barrels a day, or about 2 per
cent of global oil production, at
the group’s last meeting in Octo-
ber. That announcement, the
first large production cut in two
years, was seen as a bid to bolster
oil prices.
In a news release after its meet-
ing Sunday, OPEC+ defended the
October production cut, saying it
was now recognized by market
participants to have been “neces-
sary and the right course of ac-
tion.”
Because oil is ordered several
weeks in advance, the production
trims announced in October only
began working through the mar-
ket in the past few weeks. In addi-
tion, releases from the strategic
stockpile of the United States are
winding down.
The Saudis, who are absorbing
the largest of the production
cuts, probably want to wait and
BoC: Ambiguous data on inflation, employment make rate hike hard to predict
FROM B1
The question is whether Mr.
Macklem and his team will deliv-
er a final large rate hike on
Wednesday, or proceed with
smaller moves this week and
again in January before pausing
in early 2023.
Markets expect the bench-
mark rate to reach 4.25 per cent
early next year and remain at that
level through the year.
The central bank has raised in-
terest rates six times since March
in an effort to tackle the highest
inflation in four decades. Higher
rates make it more expensive for
Canadians to borrow money and
service their existing debts, with
the goal of curbing demand for
goods and services and acting as a
brake on price increases.
After a headlong dash, the
bank is now in a more delicate
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see whether the output cuts and
the end of the reserve releases
offset weakening demand, espe-
cially in China, the world’s largest
oil importer, where COVID-19
lockdowns are hampering indus-
trial production and overall eco-
nomic activity.
While the full group is not
scheduled to meet again until
June, 2023, the news release said
that they were ready “to meet at
any time and take immediate ad-
ditional measures to address
market developments.”
Brent crude, the international
benchmark, was US$85.57 a bar-
rel on Friday, down from more
than US$110 in June, while West
Texas Intermediate crude was
about US$80 a barrel. Many anal-
ysts say that the Saudis are deter-
mined to seek a price of around
US$90 a barrel for Brent, and that
they will cut production, regard-
less of protests from the West, if
prices fall significantly from that
level.
Analysts say that the outlook
for the oil market in the coming
weeks is uncertain. On Monday
an embargo on tanker shipments
of Russian crude to ports in the
European Union will begin, to be
followed by a ban on Russian re-
phase of policy making. Moneta-
ry-policy changes take time to
work through the economy, often
up to six to eight quarters. The
bank’s rate increases are hitting
the housing market – where sales
volumes and prices have plunged
– but they’re only just starting to
affect broader consumer spend-
ing. This lag opens up the risk of
overtightening if the bank is not
careful.
“If we do too much, we could
slow the economy more than
needed. And we know that has
harmful consequences for peo-
ple’s ability to service their debts,
for their jobs and for their busi-
nesses,” Mr. Macklem told the
parliamentary finance commit-
tee two weeks ago in his last ap-
pearance before the rate decision.
The bank is already predicting
near-zero growth for the next
three quarters, putting the Cana-
Marie-Lucie Morin
to Board of Directors
Toronto Centre
Officer
fined products, such as diesel, on
Feb. 5.
Monday’s embargo will be cou-
pled with a prohibition on ship-
ping and insurance companies,
mostly based in Europe, from
handling Russian crude priced
above US$60 a barrel.
The price-cap initiative, which
has been led by the United States
and endorsed by the Group of
Seven countries, Australia and
the European Union, aims to re-
duce the revenues Moscow has to
finance its war in Ukraine, while
still encouraging the Kremlin to
sell oil to key customers outside
the European Union to avoid a
global oil shock.
Analysts and traders are skep-
tical about how well the price cap
will work because it may be diffi-
cult to administer and will main-
ly hit large customers for Russian
oil such as India and China,
which have not sided with the
West in the war with Ukraine. U.S.
officials have argued that they
are trying to avoid a sudden con-
traction of supply, and the result-
ing spike in gasoline and heating
oil prices, as the EU embargo
takes hold.
Russia has said it will not ac-
cept a price cap and has threat-
dian economy right on the edge
of recession.
The debate among analysts
about how big the central bank
will go this week is complicated
by ambiguous data.
Inflation is trending down. The
Consumer Price Index grew at an
annual rate of 6.9 per cent in Oc-
tober, down from a peak of 8.1 per
cent in June. Quarterly compari-
sons show inflation slowing even
more quickly. But inflation is also
broadening out, with a growing
number of goods and services
experiencing oversized price in-
creases.
Employment and GDP data,
published last week, likewise sent
a mixed signal. The rate of unem-
ployment fell slightly in Novem-
ber, while the Canadian economy
grew nearly twice as fast in the
third quarter as the Bank of Cana-
da was anticipating.
O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L | M O N DAY , D EC E M B E R 5 , 2 0 2 2
With their Group of ened to cut off supplies from
Seven-endorsed price cap countries that comply. Analysts
on Russian crude, U.S. say that Russia has been building
officials say they are a so-called “shadow fleet” of old
attempting to avoid a tankers to handle its oil and
sudden contraction in oil avoid the sanctions, but they are
supply, and a resulting skeptical that it can assemble a
spike in gasoline and large enough flotilla. If it can’t,
heating oil prices, as Russia may need to begin closing
the European Union down wells. But Moscow has
embargo takes hold. managed to keep production
GIANNI CIPRIANO/NYT much higher than many analysts
anticipated in the early days of
the war in Ukraine.
The coming weeks may see an
interplay between the growing
The Biden difficulties that Russia is likely to
have in selling its oil and the ef-
administration had fects of a slowing global econo-
criticized the Saudis, my. China will be a key factor.
the de facto leaders Lockdowns there are reducing
of OPEC+, for demand for imports. But wide-
spread protests against those re-
orchestrating a strictions have been followed by
production cut of some easing of the “zero-COVID”
two million barrels rules, offering some hope of a
gradual easing and a bounce back
a day, or about in consumption of fuel.
2 per cent of global At the moment the oil markets
oil production, are betting that these momen-
at the group’s last tous shifts can be handled
smoothly. But they may be
meeting in October. wrong.
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
The Bank of Canada working exactly as intended,”
will announce its latest Royce Mendes, head of macro
interest-rate decision strategy at Desjardins, wrote in a
on Wednesday. note to clients.
JUSTIN TANG/ Part of the uncertainty about
THE CANADIAN PRESS the coming rate decision is tied to
central-bank communication.
The Bank of Canada surprised
markets in October by announc-
ing a 50-basis-point hike rather
If we do too much, than a widely anticipated 75-ba-
sis-point move. Ahead of that de-
we could slow the cision, Mr. Macklem had focused
economy more heavily on the risks of doing too
than needed. little to fight inflation, but shifted
And we know to a more dovish narrative on the
rate-decision day.
that has harmful The bank’s messaging ahead of
consequences for this week’s decision has been
people’s ability to more balanced. Mr. Macklem and
service their debts, his colleagues have continued to
warn that the economy is over-
for their jobs and for heating and the labour market is
their businesses. too tight. But they’ve also started
focusing on how rate increases
TIFF MACKLEM are squeezing Canadians.
GOVERNOR,
BANK OF CANADA Senior deputy governor Car-
olyn Rogers used a speech last
That said, there are plenty of month to highlight the impact of
signs that key parts of the econo- higher rates on homeowners with
my are starting to sputter. variable-rate mortgages. Bank of
Residential-housing invest- Canada research suggests that
ment in Q3 was down 15.4 per cent around half of all variable-rate-
on an annualized basis. House- mortgage holders with fixed
hold spending declined 0.3 per monthly payments have already
cent in the quarter, the first drop hit a “trigger rate,” forcing their
since the second quarter of 2021, payments to rise. That proportion
with a notable decline in spend- is expected to increase to 65 per
ing on durable goods such as cars cent in the coming months.
and furniture. “The bottom line is that mort-
“For Canadians who own busi- gage costs for some Canadians
nesses or work in these sectors, have already increased, and they
this is awful news. But for the will likely increase for others in
Bank of Canada, this is a win. It time, making home ownership
means that its past rate hikes are more expensive,” Ms. Rogers said.
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TC Energy talks resiliency in the transition to low carbon

CEO says it’s critical plating. He said it builds on the
company’s competitive advan-
to balance fossil-fuel tage “in our engineering skills
projects with renewable and in our deep relationships
energy objectives with all stakeholders, with our
customers, Indigenous groups
and regulators.”
ANDREW WILLIS Hydrogen, for example, is
transported through TC Energy’s
existing natural gas network.

F
rançois Poirier walked into a
hotel ballroom last week
ready to talk about the fu-
ture of TC Energy Corp. But the
institutional investors gathered
there were far more interested in
what the chief executive of one of
North America’s largest energy
infrastructure companies had to
say about the present.
Calgary-based TC Energy had
drawn a capacity crowd of about
140 portfolio managers and anal-
ysts to Toronto’s King Edward
Hotel for its first in-person inves-
tor day since the start of the pan-
demic. Mr. Poirier – named CEO
in 2021 – and his team took the
audience through a 160-slide pre-
sentation detailing how a busi-
ness founded on oil and gas pipe-
lines will stay resilient and rele-
vant over the next three decades,
as it moves into a low-carbon
economy.
Investors, however, zoomed in
on TC Energy’s disclosure of “a
material increase in project
costs” on the Coastal GasLink
pipeline, a 670-kilometre link be-
tween B.C. natural gas fields and
an LNG terminal on the West
Coast. The news came just four
months after the company boost-
ed the estimated cost of the pro-
ject by 70 per cent, to $11.2-bil-
lion. In a report, analyst Robert
Kwan at RBC Capital Markets
said: “News of another material
cost increase for the Coastal Gas-
Link pipeline project caught the
investment community by sur-
prise.”
The problems plaguing the
pipeline – scheduled for comple-
tion by the end of 2023 – reflect
Shifting from oil and gas to the issues facing every construc-
lower-carbon infrastructure tion project these days. TC Ener-
mirrors the goals of TC gy is dealing with rising labour
Energy’s biggest clients, the costs, a shortage of skilled trades-
utilities that power the people and poor performance
economy, CEO François from contractors. The company
Poirier says. TC ENERGY promised to put a new price tag
on the pipeline early in the new
year – analysts project a $2-bil-
lion hike. Mr. Kwan said the delay
in announcing the extra costs re-
flects TC Energy’s continuing at-
tempt to recover a portion of the
bill from contractors and part-
ners.
As Mr. Poirier sees it, his job as
As Mr. Poirier sees CEO involves balancing the prior-
ities of current fossil fuel-focused
it, his job as CEO projects and a 30-year plan to be-
involves balancing come a low-carbon company. So
the priorities his investor presentation high-
of current fossil lighted delivering Coastal Gas-
Link, plus an aggressive expan-
fuel-focused projects sion of natural gas networks in
and a 30-year plan the U.S. and Mexico, where TC
to become Energy recently signed the first-
ever private-sector partnership
a low-carbon with state-owned utility Comi-
company. sion Federal de Electricidad.
At the same time, fund manag-
ers heard about how TC Energy
will become an “energy-agnostic
infrastructure company,” as Mr.
Poirier put it in an interview dur-
ing the investor session. By 2050,
the company will triple its renew-
able-energy facilities – to roughly
20 per cent of its portfolio – con-
tinue to invest in the Bruce Power
nuclear plant and back hydrogen
production hubs, along with car-
bon capture and storage busi-
nesses, while scaling back its ex-
posure to oil.
TC Energy plans to sell as
much as $5-billion in assets this
year to help fund its industry-
leading $34-billion in growth
plans. Mr. Poirier said there are
“no sacred cows” at a business
that traces its roots to 1951, when
predecessor Trans-Canada Pipe-
line linked Alberta gas fields to
customers in Eastern Canada.
In laying out his transforma-
tion strategy, Mr. Poirier stressed
that there is nothing revolution-
ary in what TC Energy is contem-
And the company is tapping ex-
ternal experience in the nascent
sector, striking a partnership last
year with Rochester, N.Y.-based
fuel-cell maker Hyzon Motors
Inc. to develop as many as 10 hy-
drogen production hubs across
North America to power heavy-
duty vehicles.
TC Energy is also striking part-
nerships to share the risks that
come with developing carbon-
capture technology, linking up
with Calgary-based Pembina
Pipeline Corp. in 2021 on the
planned Alberta Carbon Grid.
The province approved the con-
cept this year, and the two com-
panies expect to make a decision
on building the grid in the next
24 months. The facility would
store as much as 10 million
tonnes of CO2 annually under
fields north of Edmonton.
Shifting from oil and gas to
lower-carbon infrastructure mir-
rors the goals of TC Energy’s big-
gest clients, the utilities that
power the economy, Mr. Poirier
said. The former investment
banker, who joined the company
in 2014, said: “If we fall behind
our customers, we lose rele-
vance.”
After the hotel ballroom ses-
sion last week, analysts said cost
overruns at Coastal GasLink will
loom over TC Energy’s stock price
until the final price tag becomes
clear. Looking further down the
road, the company’s “ESG-frien-
dly growth” is expected to reso-
nate with investors, Mr. Kwan
said, adding: “We expect TC Ener-
gy to outperform other energy in-
frastructure companies.”

Defaults loom as low-income countries face an economic storm

ALAN RAPPEPORT
Developing countries are facing a
catastrophic debt crisis in the
coming months as rapid infla-
tion, slowing growth, rising inter-
est rates and a strengthening U.S.
dollar coalesce into a perfect
storm that could set off a wave of
messy defaults and inflict eco-
nomic pain on the world’s most
vulnerable people.
Poor countries owe, by some
calculations, as much as US$200-
billion to wealthy countries, mul-
tilateral development banks and
private creditors. Rising interest
rates have increased the value of
the dollar, making it harder for
foreign borrowers with debt de-
nominated in U.S. currency to re-
pay their loans.
Defaulting on a huge swath of
loans would send borrowing
costs for vulnerable countries
even higher and could spawn fi-
nancial crises when nearly 100
million people have already been
pushed into poverty this year by
the combined effects of the pan-
demic, inflation and Russia’s war
in Ukraine.
The danger poses another
headwind for a world economy
that has been sputtering toward a
recession. The leaders of the
world’s advanced economies
have been grappling privately in
recent weeks with how to avert fi-
nancial crises in emerging mar-
kets such as Zambia, Sri Lanka
and Ghana, but they have strug-
gled to develop a plan to acceler-
ate debt relief as they confront
their own economic woes.
As rich countries brace for a
global recession and try to cope
with high food and energy prices,
investment flows to the develop-
ing world have been abating and
big creditors, particularly China,
have been slow to restructure
loans.
Mass defaults in low-income
countries are unlikely to spur a
global financial crisis given the
relatively small size of their econ-
omies. But the potential is caus-
ing policy makers to rethink debt
sustainability in an era of rising
interest rates and increasingly
opaque loan transactions. In
part, that’s because defaults can
make it harder for countries such
as the United States to export
goods to indebted nations, fur-
ther slowing the world economy
and possibly leading to wide-
spread hunger and social unrest.
As Sri Lanka drew closer to its de-
fault this year, its central bank
was forced to arrange a barter
agreement to pay for Iranian oil
with tea leaves.
“Finding ways to reduce the
debt is important for these coun-
tries to get to the light at the end
of the tunnel,” David Malpass, the
World Bank president, said in an
interview at the summit for the
Group of 20 countries last month
in Bali, Indonesia. “This burden
on the developing countries is
heavy, and if it goes on, they con-
tinue to get worse, which then
has impacts on advanced econo-
mies in terms of increased migra-
tion flows and lost markets.”
The urgency follows lock-
downs to contain COVID-19 in
China and Russia’s war in Uk-
raine, which have stunted global
output and sent food and energy
prices soaring. The Federal Re-
serve has been rapidly raising in-
terest rates in the United States,
bolstering the strength of the dol-
lar and making it more expensive
for developing countries to im-
port necessities for populations
already struggling with rising
prices.
Economists and global finan-
cial institutions such as the World
Bank and the International Mon-
etary Fund have been raising
alarm about the gravity of the cri-
sis. The World Bank projected
this year that about a dozen
countries could face default in
the next year, and the IMF calcu-
lated that 60 per cent of low-in-
come developing countries were
in debt distress or at high risk of
it.
Since then, the finances of de-
veloping countries have contin-
ued to deteriorate. The Council
on Foreign Relations said this
past week that 12 countries now
had its highest default rating, up
from three 18 months ago.
Brad Setser, a senior fellow at
the council, estimates that
US$200-billion of sovereign debt
in emerging markets needs to be
restructured.
“It is certainly a systemic prob-
lem for the countries that are af-
fected,” Mr. Setser said. “Because
an unusually large number of
countries borrowed from the
market and borrowed from Chi-
na between 2012 and 2020,
there’s an unusually large num-
ber of countries that are in de-
fault or at risk of default.”
Restructuring debt can include
providing grace periods for re-
payment, lowering interest rates
and forgiving some of the princi-
pal amount that is owed. The
United States has traditionally
led broad debt-relief initiatives
such as the Brady Bond plan for
Latin America in the 1990s. How-
ever, the emergence of commer-
cial creditors that lend at high
rates and prolific loans from Chi-
na – which has been loath to take
losses – has complicated interna-
tional debt-relief efforts.
Fitch Ratings, the credit rating
firm, warned in a report last
month that “more defaults are
probable” in emerging markets
next year and lamented that the
so-called Common Framework
that the Group of 20 established
in 2020 to facilitate debt restruc-
turing “is not proving effective in
resolving crises quickly.”
Since the framework was es-
tablished, only Zambia, Chad and
Ethiopia have sought debt relief.
It has been a grinding process, in-
volving creditor committees, the
IMF and the World Bank, all of
which must negotiate and agree
upon how to restructure loans
that the countries owe. After two
years, Zambia is finally on the
verge of restructuring its debts to
China’s state banks, and Chad re-
ached an agreement last month
with private creditors, including
Glencore, to restructure its debt.
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OPINION & ANALYSIS
Labour outlook sure to catch Macklem’s eye
As interest-rate decision
looms this week, the
latest Statscan jobs
report will affect the
central bank’s choices
DAVID
PARKINSON
OPINION
L
ast Friday’s employment re-
port from Statistics Canada
may have looked like a
yawner to the casual observer,
but for Bank of Canada Governor
Tiff Macklem, the details were far
from ho-hum.
Sure, the 10,000-job blip in em-
ployment growth last month is
effectively a rounding error in
Statscan’s monthly labour force
survey. But the broader trends
emerging from the labour data
are pivotal to the central bank’s
charting of the future course of
interest rates. Mr. Macklem has
made it clear that he sees restor-
ing the labour market to balance
– bringing demand for workers
more in line with supply – as cen-
tral to the bank’s goal of returning
inflation to its 2-per-cent target.
As Mr. Macklem and his col-
leagues deliberate over Wednes-
day’s interest-rate decision –
widely seen as a choice between
another oversized, half-point
hike and a smaller, quarter-point
increase – some key details in the
employment data will demand
their attention.
Many of those numbers point
to a substantial slowing of the la-
bour market. But one notable fig-
ure continues to send warnings
about inflation pressures.
1. JOB GROWTH HAS
STALLED FOR MONTHS
In the past six months, employ-
ment has risen by a paltry 26,000
jobs, or just 0.1 per cent. It’s a pro-
found slowdown from the six
months prior to that, during
which the economy added more
than 340,000 jobs; in the six
months before that, it grew by
more than 700,000 jobs.
With a casual tweet, the Competition Bureau enters the conversation
VASS BEDNAR
JENNIFER QUAID
OPINION
Vass Bednar is the founder of Regs
to Riches and the executive director
of McMaster University’s master of
public policy in digital society
program. Jennifer Quaid is a law
professor at the University of
Ottawa. They are senior fellows at
the Centre for International
Governance Innovation.
A
simple, responsive tweet
from the Competition Bu-
reau last week, indicating
that it will be reviewing the pro-
posed transaction between the
Royal Bank of Canada and HSBC
Bank Canada, signals a brave new
voice for our economic regulator.
Sometimes, an informal 142-char-
acter tweet can be serious busi-
ness.
The Competition Act requires
that all bureau inquiries be done
in private. That doesn’t bar the bu-
reau from simply announcing a
review for a publicly known deal,
as in the current case. But there
has long been a predilection at the
bureau for being buttoned-up and
discreet during merger reviews or
market studies.
A casual tweet that challenges
the norm of restraint is much
more akin to that of the U.S. Feder-
al Trade Commission (FTC),
whose Twitter account has almost
100,000 followers. The FTC often
offers same-day social-media
comments on merger announce-
ments and other competition
matters in the news, whereas the
norm to date in Canada has been
to refrain from comment.
However, while caution is ap-
propriate – for example, where
the bureau’s statements might re-
veal confidential sources – this
does not condemn it to silence at
all costs. And as Canadians pay
more attention to competition
trends and issues, the bureau’s
tweet could be a sign it recognizes
that, as the face of competition
enforcement, it needs to be visible
and pro-active on matters in the
Bank of Canada Governor Consider that during the past
Tiff Macklem, seen here six months, Canada’s working-
in 2020, has made clear age population (defined by Stat-
he sees restoring the scan as 15-plus) increased by al-
labour market as key to most 260,000. The only thing that
returning to 2-per-cent has kept unemployment from
inflation. FRED LUM/ rising is a dip in the participation
THE GLOBE AND MAIL rate (the percentage of adults ei-
ther working or seeking work),
which has fallen to 64.8 per cent
from 65.3 per cent six months
ago.
As Tiff Macklem
and his colleagues 2. FEWER HOURS WORKED
deliberate over
Wednesday’s In the first year of the pandemic,
interest-rate decision the central bank and other eco-
nomic analysts turned to hours
– widely seen as a worked as a critical signal of how
choice between well (or poorly) the labour mar-
another oversized, ket was holding up. It proved to
be a more useful gauge than sim-
half-point hike ply counting jobs as it indicated
and a smaller, how much labour was actually
quarter-point being put to use.
increase – some Now, those hours-worked sta-
tistics indicate an economy that is
key details in the using significantly less labour,
employment data even if employment hasn’t
will demand slipped (yet).
their attention. Total hours worked by all
workers are down almost 7 per
cent from their peak in June. On
The Competition Bureau public domain.
weighed in on the The tweet is a reminder that
RBC-HSBC deal last week the bureau has a voice, as a law en-
with a tweet saying forcement agency, that is distinct
it would review the from the ministry and minister
proposed transaction. under which it sits.
DUANE COLE/ Perhaps we should have seen
THE GLOBE AND MAIL the tweet coming. Despite that
structural limitation, the bureau
has been provocative in subtle,
wonky ways, most recently
through their fascinating re-
sponse in February to the consul-
tation led by then-senator Ho-
As Canadians ward I. Wetston on Examining the
Canadian Competition Act in the
pay more attention Digital Era. It was a refreshingly
to competition blunt criticism of long-standing
trends and issues, legal and procedural obstacles
the bureau’s tweet that have hampered the bureau’s
enforcement efforts, and a blue-
could be a sign print for reform that consolidated
it recognizes that, its best policy ideas based on its
as the face of perspective as an enforcer.
In its conclusion, the bureau
competition
enforcement, DILBERT
it needs to be visible
and pro-active
on matters in
the public domain.
O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L
average, that works out to almost
two hours less a week for each
worker.
3. THE PRIVATE SECTOR
IS THE ONLY ONE HIRING
Private-sector employers have
added about 100,000 employees
in the past six months – a slow-
down, unquestionably, but hard-
ly a stalling. In the public sector,
though, employment has shrunk
by about 50,000 – or about 1.2 per
cent – over that same period.
Those numbers might tell the
Bank of Canada something about
how the country’s job vacancies
are evolving, after hitting record
highs this year.
It’s notable that the public sec-
tor has experienced relatively low
job vacancy rates even as econo-
my-wide vacancies have soared.
In the private sector, meanwhile,
moderate hiring has continued,
while record vacancy counts have
begun to decline.
This may be evidence of what
Mr. Macklem talked about in a
speech in Toronto last month –
the notion that, as the economy
slows over the next two or three
did not mince words: “Canada
cannot be complacent … inaction
will harm the economy in the long
term. Canada needs more compe-
tition now.” The message struck a
new confident tone that put the
world on notice about the bu-
reau’s commitment to serious re-
form, while also being honest
about the current limitations that
hinder its ability to take cases.
That public-facing artifact is es-
pecially significant because it
places the bureau’s ideas on the
record, and it essentially signals
their preferences for regulatory
reform in a way that manages to
be both formal and cheeky at the
same time.
And given that a separate pub-
lic consultation on the Future of
Competition in Canada launched
recently, it is notable that the bu-
reau has already declared what is
essentially their agenda for re-
form ahead of their colleagues
from the ministry. Instead of
keeping their cards completely
close to their chest, the bureau is
showing a few every now and
then while remaining committed
to dialogue and debate.
The bureau’s communications
approach has created confusion
in the past, such as when Cana-
dian firm Dye & Durham was fac-
ing regulatory scrutiny in Austra-
lia and Britain earlier this year; at
home, we still have no idea
whether the bureau is looking in-
to the matter. When the bureau
has broken with its norm of si-
lence, such as when they put a call
out to market participants in 2020
during a continuing investigation
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quarters, the glut of vacancies
may cushion job losses and un-
employment by providing open-
ings for people who may lose
their jobs. It’s a reasonable expla-
nation for why private-sector em-
ployment has held up, despite
signs that domestic demand is
slowing.
4. BUT WAGES KEEP RISING
Even if the Bank of Canada looks
at those employment trends and
decides that the labour market is,
indeed, slowing toward a health-
ier balance, the data also show
that wages continue to climb at a
decidedly inflationary pace.
The average hourly wage
climbed to $32.11 in November, up
5.63 per cent from a year earlier.
That pace was up slightly from
October (5.55 per cent) and
marked the sixth straight month
that year-over-year wage growth
exceeded 5 per cent. And while
the month-to-month pace of in-
creases has slowed, it’s still too
early to declare that wage growth
has peaked.
The Bank of Canada, then, has
to decide just how worried it is
about the inflationary signals
from wages amid evidence that
the labour market is, indeed,
slowing.
Wage growth was a latecomer
to the labour story as the market
tightened, and we can expect it to
trail as those pressures now head
in the other direction over the
coming months; paycheques
simply don’t adjust as quickly as
hiring when the labour landscape
shifts. And yet it will be hard for
the central bank to remain pa-
tient on wage growth as long as it
is still accelerating; it is, without
question, a major source of infla-
tionary pressure, especially if em-
ployers continue to pass those
costs on to customers.
How the bank weighs those
forces could well determine the
outcome of this week’s rate deci-
sion. If it is soothed by indications
that a fairly orderly easing of the
labour market is well under way,
then it may limit its rate increase
to a quarter of a percentage point.
If worries about wage pressures
prevail, another half-point hike is
in the cards.
into Amazon, they were criticized
by insiders for revealing that work
was under way – even though
such work is clearly aligned with
the priorities of regulators global-
ly.
Signals from the current Com-
missioner of Competition suggest
an emphasis on consumer choice
and prices has contoured the re-
view of the Rogers-Shaw merger,
which in another economic cli-
mate might have been a snooze
that sailed through on the effi-
ciency defence. Instead, public
scrutiny and frustration have kept
a spotlight on the case, making
space for this more muscular, ar-
ticulate bureau in the process.
As the bureau considers signif-
icant mergers in the banking and
telecommunications space – two
cornerstones of Canada’s most fa-
miliar oligopolies – we should
hope for more of what it has been
offering recently: restrained, neu-
tral and factual updates on re-
search and activity undertaken by
Canada’s competition authority
to keep people up-to-date on pol-
icy progress.
Thus far, it seems like the bu-
reau has interpreted its duty to
conduct investigations in private
somewhat broadly. It has implicit-
ly imposed a culture of secrecy
that obscures the actions, inter-
ests and activities required to pro-
tect and promote competition for
the benefit of Canadians at a time
when scrutiny should be expect-
ed. A simple tweet suggests a
change in tone – a casual flash of
boldness that citizens seem ready
to click on.
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Canadian companies seek windfall in U.S. water supply

Despite desert-like
conditions, large aquifer
lies underground
in Arizona valley

NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT

N
othing about Arizona’s
Harquahala Valley looks
like an oasis. Saguaro cac-
tuses, the icon of the state, dot its
scrubby expanses. Great billows
of dust follow vehicles that travel
its dirt roads. It averages 127 milli-
metres of rain a year, making it
among the driest places in the
U.S.
But as any water executive can
tell you, it’s what lies below the
Harquahala desert that counts:
an aquifer big enough to keep ev-
ery faucet and factory running in
Phoenix for more than six years.
It’s one of the reasons the Can-
adian companies that have in-
vested in Arizona water see po-
tential profit in a drought that has
grown so severe that the state
may soon see its allocation of Col-
orado River water reduced by a
quarter, and potentially even
more. Edmonton-headquartered
EPCOR is the largest private water
utility in the state. Liberty Utili-
ties, which is owned by Oakville,
Ont.-based Algonquin Power &
Utilities Corp., ranks second or
third, depending on the metric.
“Water scarcity, while it brings
challenges, also brings opportu-
nities. And it requires expertise
that we believe we can bring to
bear,” says Stuart Lee, EPCOR’s
chief executive.
Roughly 20 per cent of the util-
ity’s business is in the U.S. today.
Growth spending could bring
that to 30 per cent by 2028, Mr.
Lee says. “One of the reasons why
you’ve seen Canadian utilities
move into investing in the U.S. is
more opportunity.” When it
comes to water, “the demand is
there, and at some point it’s got to
be satisfied from some source.”
Part of that could include wa-
ter conveyancing – or, more sim-
ply, building water pipelines. EP-
COR is already doing this in Texas,
where it is operator and 5-per-
cent owner of the 228-kilometre
Vista Ridge Pipeline, a US$540-
million project that delivers one-
fifth of San Antonio’s water.
“We’re bringing that same ap-
proach to Arizona, where we’re
finding water resources outside
of city centres” – like the Harqua-
hala, says Joe Gysel, president of
EPCOR’s U.S. division, which pro-
vides water and wastewater ser-
vices to nearly 800,000 people in
Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
Other potential projects include
raising the Bartlett Dam on the
Verde River northeast of Phoe-
nix; building a desalination plant
on the Sea of Cortez in Mexico,
and piping water to Arizona; and
desalinating brackish water sup-
plies inside the state.
Studies are under way on each
option after Arizona this summer
earmarked US$1.2-billion for wa-
ter conservation and augmenta-
tion. Two-thirds of that amount
will go toward finding new water
supplies for the state, which has
historically relied on the Colora-
do River for more than a third of
its needs. But rapidly falling water
levels in the Colorado basin have
forced cutbacks. Arizona’s allot-
ment will be trimmed by 21 per
cent in 2022. Barring a very wet
year, further restrictions are like-
ly. Arizona could see a 50-per-
cent cut to water delivered by the
Central Arizona Project, a canal
that serves roughly four-fifths of
the state’s population, according
to Tom Buschatzke, director of
the Arizona Department of Water
Resources.
Lake Mead, a lynchpin of hy-
dration for 40 million people in
the U.S. Southwest, has edged to-
ward “dead pool,” the level at
which water can no longer flow
past the Hoover Dam.
“We’re going to have to either
get better hydrology – better run-
off – or we’re going to have to take
some pretty big reductions in our
water use throughout the Colora-
do River basin,” Mr. Buschatzke
says.
For years, utilities have sought
to convince homeowners to use
less water. The state of Arizona
boasts that it uses less water now
than six decades ago, despite a
sevenfold increase in population.
Liberty Utilities says customers
have achieved water savings by
installing water-sensing devices
on sprinkling systems, which
stop irrigation when it rains. One
homeowner association saved 3.8
million litres in eight months
with three of those devices, says
Sara Alloway, the company’s
manager of water efficiency.
“Outreach is a huge thing,” she
says. But, she adds, “we don’t
want to cause mass panic.”
Other states have made con-
servation mandatory. Nevada law
requires all “non-functional” turf
– grass in medians, parking lots
and the like – to be removed by
2026. Arizona has shied away
from such mandates. “One thing
we have found in Arizona is that
people want to be able to live the
lives they want to live here,” Ms.
Alloway says. “People want to
have some place for their dogs or
their kids to play, and to enter-
tain.”
Water scarcity, while it
brings challenges, also
brings opportunities.
And it requires expertise
that we believe we can
bring to bear.
STUART LEE
EPCOR CHIEF EXECUTIVE
That means lawns and pools,
which suck up roughly 60 per
cent of the water Liberty pumps
in Arizona. “Very little gets used
in the home,” says Matthew Gar-
lick, Liberty’s vice-president of
special projects. “It’s mostly in
front or in back.”
The time may have come for
change.
Mr. Buschatzke chairs the Ari-
zona Water Banking Authority,
which stores water for later use. In
September, he suggested to water
utilities that perhaps the bank
could refuse to release water to
them unless there’s a substantial
reduction in outdoor water use.
They “were not particularly en-
thused” at the idea, says Mr. Bus-
chatzke, who stopped watering
his own lawn this summer and
plans to have it ripped out soon.
It’s not his only controversial
water idea. He also wants to look
at how much people pay for wa-
ter. State law requires water rates
to be “fair and reasonable,” but it
has never defined what that
means. “The price of water in our
state is going to go up. There is no
question,” he says.
That’s a requirement if new
water is to be found.
The median water bill in Phoe-
nix today is about US$800 per
acre-foot of water, enough for a
year’s use at three single-family
homes. Recent studies have esti-
mated the cost of desalinating
brackish water at US$1,500 to
US$2,000 per acre foot; sourcing
water from the Sea of Cortez at
US$2,000 to US$2,200; and trans-
porting water from the Harqua-
hala at US$1,800 to US$2,000 per
acre-foot. (Even conservation
measures, such as rainwater cap-
ture systems, can cost up to
US$1,100 per acre foot; cloud
seeding was among the cheapest
solutions, at several hundred dol-
lars per acre foot.)
Cost is only one obstacle. Laws
need to be changed to allow
private companies to tap the
Harquahala, and water can’t be
Above: Employees at the EPCOR
aquifer recharge site near the Luke
Air Force Base in Arizona treat
wastewater, which is used to
replenish underground supplies.
PHOTOS BY NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE/
THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Left: A worker checks equipment
at the Liberty Utilities wastewater
treatment plant northeast of
Phoenix.
transported from Mexico without
an international treaty.
But Arizona, Mr. Buschatzke
believes, has already reached an
inflection point where its water
problems have grown so acute
that changes once considered dif-
ficult are becoming possible.
Still, opposition remains. Pull-
ing water from the Harquahala
turns that into a “sacrifice zone,”
says Sandy Bahr, director of the
Sierra Club’s Grand Canyon Chap-
ter. Local water users have op-
posed tapping their aquifer to
supply Phoenix. Ms. Bahr is
broadly suspicious of private
companies, EPCOR included.
“They’re basically going to do
what is best for their bottom line.
And that can, and certainly some-
times does, mean that people get
hurt in the process. And the land,
too.”
“We ought to be looking at
ways to live within our means,”
she says.
Some of that work is also hap-
pening. Just south of the Luke Air
Force Base to the northeast of
Phoenix, both EPCOR and Liberty
Utilities run treatment plants
barely a kilometre apart that
clean wastewater and use it to re-
charge an aquifer below.
The shoulder-to-shoulder op-
erations are an illustration of how
Canadian companies stand on
the front lines of the U.S. water
crisis here. The land in this area
has subsided by at least seven
metres since the late 1940s, large-
ly as a result of agricultural irriga-
tion. Today, far more care is taken
to preserve water resources. EP-
COR’s plant alone cost US$48-
million and returns 6.6 million
litres of water to the ground each
day.
Operations manager Rick Al-
varez marvels at the clarity of the
water that flows out of the treat-
ment plant, a trickling stream
that settles into the dirt and
drains down to the aquifer below.
“You have to respect water,” he
says, “instead of just misusing it.”

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Home inspections making a resurgence

As the market slows,
buyers use their power
to ensure houses
aren’t coming with
unexpected costs
SALMAAN FAROOQUI
Home inspections are making a
comeback as buyers take advan-
tage of a slow real estate market to
make sure their dream home isn’t
a disaster in disguise.
Jonathan Sheppard, a home in-
spector in B.C.’s Lower Mainland
and president of the Home In-
spectors Association BC, says the
practice spiked toward the begin-
ning of the pandemic as home
sales started to rise, but by the
time sales peaked during the pan-
demic, business was “dead” as
frantic buyers were forgoing all
conditions in an attempt to win
bidding wars.
Before the pandemic, 12 in-
spections a week would be a typ-
ical workload for Mr. Sheppard.
These days, he says business
comes in short spurts, but he
believes the tables have turned,
and buyers are using their power
to be sure of what they’re pur-
chasing. He’s averaging around
five inspections a week.
“If there’s an opportunity for
home inspections, people will
take it, because the consumer
wants it,” Mr. Sheppard said. He
pointed to recent legislation by
the B.C. government to introduce
a three-day cooling-off period for
home purchases in 2023, which is
meant in part to give buyers time
to organize a home inspection
even if it wasn’t included as a
clause.
Nasma Ali, founder of One
Group Toronto Real Estate, says
the vast majority of buyers she
works with are including
Peter Weeks, president of the Canadian Association of Home and Property Inspectors, says it’s important for
home buyers to be judicious when picking an inspector, especially in provinces like Ontario, where there isn’t a
provincial regulating body for the profession. JENNIFER GAUTHIER/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
inspection conditions to take
advantage of the slow market,
which has been sluggish in the
face of multiple interest-rate
hikes.
“Buyers have this mentality
that they’re doing you a favour by
giving you this offer, so they’re go-
ing to include every possible con-
dition,” Ms. Ali said. “It’s a buyer’s
market, there’s no doubt about
it.”
She says the trend is benefiting
buyers in the suburbs and exurbs
in particular, since listing agents
in larger markets like Toronto had
already started to produce their
own inspection reports upfront in
an attempt to promote a sense of
confidence during bidding wars
on older properties.
Ms. Ali says the practice of
seller-organized home inspec-
tions is now fading in Toronto,
especially because agents some-
times fronted that cost and are no
longer even sure if any given
home will sell.
Peter Weeks, president of the
Canadian Association of Home
and Property Inspectors (CAHPI),
says it’s a relief that homeowners
have more power to push for in-
spections since he’s seen a few
horror stories in the past couple
of years.
When the market was hot, it
was common for home inspectors
to be hired after a purchase, and
the results could be gut-wrench-
ing for new owners.
In one instance, Mr. Weeks in-
spected a row home in May, which
was built around 1910, for a home-
owner who had just purchased
the property.
When he started looking
around, he noticed signs of dam-
age on the back wall. While home
inspectors generally won’t do “de-
structive testing” – where they in-
trude into the guts of your home –
he told the woman that she could
poke into the wall with a screw-
driver to get a sense of the dam-
age. When she did, she found that
the tool could penetrate the wood
in the wall with just a little force.
The repair on that kind of dam-
age could cost anywhere from
$20,000 to $100,000, Mr. Weeks
said.
“It’s concerning. Getting an in-
spection is truly important, and in
terms of consumer confidence,
it’s the only thing people have,”
he said.
Mr. Weeks says it’s also impor-
tant for home buyers to be judi-
cious when picking an inspector,
especially in provinces like Onta-
rio, where there isn’t a provincial
regulating body for the profes-
sion. Consumers in such prov-
inces could opt for CAHPI-certi-
fied inspectors, who have to pass
a rigorous test.
Even in provinces such as B.C.
and Alberta where there are regu-
lating bodies, Mr. Sheppard says
consumers should read reviews
and be skeptical of inspectors of-
fering very low prices.
In the Metro Vancouver area,
Mr. Sheppard says to expect pric-
es in the $450-$500 range for a
condo, and from $500 to $700 for
most houses, with prices going
higher for especially large homes.
He added that home buyers
should consider an inspector be-
fore they pick a home, so that they
have time to do their due dili-
gence when researching and
aren’t in a rush to book the first
available inspector.
Some of the things Mr. Shep-
pard says inspectors will look for
include safety concerns around
shoddy build quality, signs of de-
terioration in kitchens and bath-
rooms, water damage, wear and
tear on a roof and windows, and
exterior issues such as damage to
the foundation. They’ll also look
at attics and crawl spaces, which
he says will almost always have is-
sues.
Mr. Sheppard says he’s never
done a home inspection without
finding at least one issue, and in
bad cases, the upfront costs for
the homeowner could extend
well into six-figure price tags.
“Some people are risking all
their life savings – and even their
parents’ life savings – just to buy a
house,” Mr. Sheppard said, adding
that people should be informed
when making the biggest finan-
cial decision of their lives.

Food Mortgages: Contact lender before missed payments, agent says

FROM B1
And though fresh produce from
other markets has already begun
to appear in Canadian stores
(most notably, lettuce from Ari-
zona), he said prices will likely
take some time to level off.
“We’re really still feeling the ef-
fects of limited supply and higher
prices throughout the West Coast
of the U.S., and I think we’ll con-
tinue to see that over the next
four months.”
In addition, another major fac-
tor could result in even higher
prices – beyond the report’s fore-
casted 7 per cent, said Sylvain
Charlebois, the director of the
Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dal-
housie University and another
one of the report’s authors.
“There’s a lot of things happen-
ing right now. But the currency,
I’d say, is the really critical piece,”
Prof. Charlebois said.
The Bank of Canada’s interest-
rate decisions in the coming
weeks and months – and the im-
pact of those decisions on the
Canadian dollar – will also affect
food imports.
More than 75 per cent of fresh
vegetables sold in Canada are im-
ported, with more than half of
those imports from the United
States. And 37 per cent of import-
ed fruit comes from the U.S.
“The first half [of 2023] is likely
going to be about the dollar, inter-
est rates, the start of a global eco-
nomic slowdown – an extension
of 2022,” Prof. Charlebois said.
But after that, he predicted
some relief for consumers.
“The second half, for families
on a tight budget, appears to be
more promising,” he said.
While prices won’t likely fall,
the report predicts, they’ll likely
begin to level off.
“We do see the light at the end
of the tunnel,” Prof. Charlebois
said. “We just don’t know how
long the tunnel is.”
Last year, the report predicted
food prices would climb as much
as 7 per cent over the course of
2022; instead, they rose at the fas-
test rate in decades – more than
10 per cent between November,
2021, and September, 2022.
That, according to this year’s
report, can be blamed in large
part on Russia’s invasion of Uk-
raine. The conflict set off a dom-
ino effect across the global supply
chain and led to higher prices for
everything from fuel and trans-
portation to animal feed and fer-
tilizer. As a result, the price of
food – everything from pasta to
bread to oils – skyrocketed
around the world.
“That just blew everything out
of the water,” Prof. Somogyi said.
“We just couldn’t have predicted
that.”
FROM B1
For insured mortgages, lenders must fol-
low guidelines and policies set by mort-
gage insurance providers.
For uninsured mortgages – those with
down payments of 20 per cent or more –
whether or not to resort to a loan workout
is largely up to the lender, said David La-
rock, a Toronto-based mortgage agent
with TMG The Mortgage Group.
Regardless of what type of mortgages
they have, homeowners approaching their
financial breaking points should contact
their lenders before they’ve missed pay-
ments, Mr. Larock said.
“Any borrower that is making their pay-
ments on time to date is going to get maxi-
mum flexibility,” he said.
Those who turn to their lenders only af-
ter late or missed payments will likely find
there are few options on offer, he warned.
Sagen’s guidance for lenders says they
may extend amortizations by up to 15
years, to a maximum of 40 years, for in-
sured borrowers facing a Gross Debt Ser-
vice ratio, or GDS, above 39 per cent. The
ratio reflects the share of a household’s
monthly income needed to cover its mort-
gage and other housing costs.
Stretching the amortization – the time
Oil: Ukrainian President believes price cap won’t deter Russia
FROM B1
The price cap is set to take effect the same
day as the European Union’s embargo on
Russian crude imports.
While it was unclear whether the Krem-
lin would follow through with the threat to
curb production – which would also harm
Russia’s economy – questions loomed over
whether the new price cap can be en-
forced. It relies on each party in the supply
chain of Russian oil to attest to the price of
shipments, and insurers and shippers have
warned that records could be falsified by
those seeking to keep Russian oil flowing.
Russia has repeatedly said it would ignore
the policy and refuse to sell oil under a
price cap.
On Saturday, President Volodymyr Ze-
lensky of Ukraine criticized the price limit
as inadequate to deter Russian aggression.
Speaking in a nightly address one day after
European Union diplomats reached the
agreement after prolonged negotiations,
he said the plan’s architects were “trying to
avoid hard decisions.”
The US$60-a-barrel threshold was a
compromise: One group of European mar-
itime nations had demanded the price cap
be placed at or above US$70 a barrel, to en-
sure that their business interests would
not be disrupted; another group of pro-Uk-
raine countries had demanded the cap be
set at or around US$30 a barrel to signif-
icantly slash Russia’s revenue. Eventually,
the negotiators decided on a price that is in
the neighbourhood of what major buyers
of Russian oil, such as China and India, cur-
rently pay.
Mr. Zelensky found the deal lacking.
“The logic is obvious: If the price limit
it takes to pay off a mortgage in full – re-
duces the amount of each mortgage pay-
ment. In its recent communication with
lenders, Sagen provided the example of a
homeowner who took out a $500,000 vari-
able-rate mortgage with fixed payments in
November, 2017, with a 2.4-per-cent inter-
est rate, a term of five years and 25-year
amortization.
At renewal in November of this year, if
the borrower’s monthly payment were re-
calculated based on a 5.5-per-cent rate,
their monthly payment would climb from
$2,218 to $3,096, an increase of nearly
$880.
Extending the amortization to 35 years,
up from the remaining 20 years on the
original amortization schedule, would
bring the new monthly payment down to
$2,417, making for a more manageable in-
crease of just less than $200 a month.
But Sagen noted that it doesn’t allow for
such emergency amortization extensions
beyond the point at which a reduced pay-
ment would bring a borrower’s GDS below
39 per cent.
Canada Guaranty said in an e-mailed
statement that it allows amortizations to
be extended to 40 years, to bring borrow-
ers’ ratios back to 39 per cent. And CMHC
said its lenders can also stretch amortiza-
A crude oil terminal is seen in August near the city of Nakhodka in Russia. It’s unclear
whether the Kremlin will follow up on threats to curb production. TATIANA MEEL/REUTERS
for Russian oil is [US]$60 instead of, for ex-
ample, [US]$30, which Poland and the Bal-
tic countries talked about, then the Rus-
sian budget will receive about [US]$100-
billion a year,” Mr. Zelensky said.
“This money will go not only to the war
and not only to Russia’s further sponsoring
of other terrorist regimes and organiza-
tions,” he continued. “This money will also
be used to further destabilize precisely
those countries that are now trying to
avoid big decisions.”
The United States had led the push for
an agreement along the lines of what was
ultimately negotiated. After the deal was
tions to 40 years in some circumstances.
Similar math could help fixed-rate bor-
rowers who are facing large payment in-
creases at renewal, or borrowers who have
variable-rate mortgages without fixed pay-
ments. In the latter scenario, payments in-
crease as interest rates rise.
Borrowers who have variable-rate mort-
gages with fixed payments also sometimes
face cost increases during the terms of
their mortgages that could be blunted by
longer amortizations.
In those types of loans, which make up
the majority of variable-rate mortgages in
Canada, the amount borrowers owe each
month usually remains the same, but
more of the money is applied to interest
charges when rates climb. The recent spike
in borrowing costs has pushed some of
these borrowers to the point where their
payments are barely enough to make a
dent in the principal, or no longer enough
to cover the interest owed. This typically
prompts lenders to demand bigger pay-
ments.
For uninsured mortgages, lenders typ-
ically don’t provide a publicly available set
of possible loan modification arrange-
ments, Mr. Larock said.
“It’s really between the lender and the
borrower to work it out,” he added.
announced, Treasury Secretary Janet Yel-
len praised the plan. It helped “achieve our
goal of restricting Putin’s primary source
of revenue for his illegal war in Ukraine
while simultaneously preserving the sta-
bility of global energy supplies,” she said,
referring to the Russian leader, Vladimir
Putin.
Western sanctions have so far failed to
weaken Moscow’s energy exports: Russia
is on track to earn more this year from oil
sales than in 2021, buoyed by a surge in the
global price after the war began.
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GLOBE INVESTOR
Capitalize on all-time highs in Champagne portfolio
NOrMAN rOtHErY
OPINION
PhD, CFA and founder
of StingyInvestor.com
T
he Canadian stock market
bounced off its October
lows and is tantalizingly
close to being in the black for the
year. So, instead of lumps of coal,
investors might dream of new
all-time highs while they sip
their bubbly this holiday season.
The possibility of new highs
prompted me to take a second
look at the Champagne portfolio.
It invests in the Canadian stock
market after it hits new all-time
highs and hides out in Canadian
bonds the rest of the time. I was
particularly interested to see
how it fared during this year’s
unusually bad market for bonds.
More concretely, the Cham-
pagne portfolio uses the S&P/
TSX Composite Total Return In-
dex as its proxy for Canadian
stocks and the S&P Canada Ag-
gregate Bond Total Return Index
for Canadian bonds. It checks to
see if the stock index hits a new
all-time high at the end of each
month. When the index does,
the portfolio moves entirely into
stocks for a month. Otherwise, it
invests everything in bonds.
Stocks have fared better than
bonds over the long term. The
stock index climbed at an
Be careful of ‘hot hands’ – in sports or in your portfolios
sAM sIVArAJAN
OPINION
Holds a doctorate in behavioural
finance and has led wealth
management teams at several of
Canada’s largest financial institutions
A
s any sports fan knows,
streaks and slumps are part
of the game.
Many believe that a team that
has won five games in a row is
more likely to win the sixth game
than lose it. Fans believe that a
basketball player who has been
missing free throws all game is
more likely to miss the next at-
tempt. Whether it is teams not
winning games (or champion-
ships) for years, or star players be-
ing either red hot or sporting
goose eggs on the scoresheet,
streaks and slumps are part of the
reality of sports. But it is also the
reality that faces every investor.
The belief that a basketball
player is more likely to sink the
next basket after a string of hits
than after a miss is called the “hot
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR THE WEEK AHEAD
MONDAY
China, Japan and euro zone
services and composite PMI
Canadian building permits
for October. Estimate is an
increase of 5.0 per cent month
over month.
U.S. factory orders for Octo-
ber. The Street is forecasting a
month-over-month increase of
0.7 per cent.
U.S. ISM services PMI for
November.


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average annual rate of 9.0 per
cent from the end of January,
1993, through the end of Novem-
ber, 2022. The bond index
climbed 5.1 per cent annually
over the same period. (The re-
turns herein are based on
month-end data from Bloom-
berg. They include dividend rein-
vestment, but do not include in-
flation, fund fees, taxes or trad-
ing frictions.)
The Champagne portfolio in-
vested in the stock index about
28 per cent of the time over the
period. It sat in bonds the other
amount of time. Despite being in
bonds for most of the time, the
portfolio gained an average of
7.6 per cent annually over the
period, which is a premium to
hand fallacy.” It is known as the
recency bias, a behavioural bias
that affects investors as well. This
bias means we place a higher val-
ue on recent events than on
events in the distant past. In an
experiment to analyze invest-
ment behaviour, subjects could
bet on a series of coin tosses based
on the opinion of an expert with a
track record, their own opinion or
choose a risk-free alternative (in
this case, a small nominal pay-
ment irrespective of the coin-toss
result – similar to a cash account
in real life). Subjects who relied
on the expert chose in line with
the hot hand fallacy – picking
those who were successful in the
recent past. Similarly, a study of
Swedish investors saving for re-
tirement found that about 30 per
cent displayed classic “return-
chasing” behaviour by choosing
to invest in the previous year’s
best performing fund.
Plenty of research supports the
view that investors form future
expectations based on recent ex-
perience. For example, individu-
als who had recent investment
gains increased the amount they
tuEsDAY
China foreign reserves and
trade surplus
Japan household spending
Germany factory orders
Canada’s merchandise trade
balance for October.
U.S. goods and services
trade balance for October.
Canadian Ivey PMI for
November.
Earnings include: AutoZone
Inc.; Evertz Technologies Ltd.;
Ferguson PLC.
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the returns from the bond index.
You can examine the gains of
the Champagne portfolio and in-
dexes in the above-left graph.
But I’m going to put the good-
return bubbly on hold for the
moment, because I’m fascinated
by downside risk. The above-
right graph shows how far the
portfolio fell in downturns as a
fraction of its prior peak, along
with similar data for the indexes.
The stock index generated the
worst downside by far. It fell by
more than 40 per cent from its
prior peak twice. The first time
was after the internet bubble
popped in 2000, and the second
was in the 2008-09 crash, based
on monthly data.
On the other hand, the worst
contributed to their retirement
savings. Similarly, investors’ prior
experience in investing in new
equity offerings was a key predic-
tor of similar behaviour in the fu-
ture.
What the research and actual
investor experience suggests is
that investors tend to buy stocks
that have recently gone up in val-
ue and avoid stocks that have re-
cently lost in value. That is ad-
mittedly a simplified, but broadly
accurate, summary of the effect of
recency bias on investor decision-
making.
However, the effect of these de-
cisions on long-term portfolio
performance can be significant.
Two recent studies suggest a few
implications that investors
should consider in their invest-
ment decisions.
The first study considered eq-
uity market returns in more than
70 countries over the past 200
years and found that securities
with high returns over the past
three to five years tend to under-
perform in the following years rel-
ative to securities with low re-
turns through the same period. In
WEDNEsDAY
Euro zone GDP
Germany industrial produc-
tion
U.S. productivity for Q3. The
Street expects an annualized
rate rise of 0.3 per cent with
unit labour costs increasing 3.2
per cent.
Bank of Canada policy
announcement.
U.S. consumer credit for
October.
Earnings include: Brown
Forman; Campbell Soup Co.;
Descartes Systems Group Inc.;
Dollarama Inc.; North West Co.
Inc.; Snowflake Inc.

 

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decline for the bond index came
at the end of October of this year,
when it fell 20 per cent from its
prior peak. The plummet was a
shock for many bond investors,
who expected better from their
bond portfolios.
The worst downturn for the
Champagne portfolio also oc-
curred this year. It fell 15 per cent
by the end of October, largely
owing to the bond market’s de-
cline. On the other hand, the
stock index fell 14 per cent from
its prior peak this year. Despite
its drubbing, the Champagne
portfolio still looks pretty good.
It offers strong upside potential
along with a history of much bet-
ter performance than the stock
index during most crashes.
other words, past high returns re-
verse over the long term to nega-
tive returns and vice versa. The re-
searchers found that the momen-
tum of past high returns was sus-
tained for about another 12
months but then subsequently
reversed and was fully erased in
the following two years. This
long-term reversal pattern was
observed across all time periods
and countries, but it should be
noted that the researchers found
that this effect can disappear for
periods lasting decades, some-
thing that they concluded applies
to our recent experience.
The second study looked at
U.S. stock market data from 1926
to 2016. Analyzing stocks with the
highest returns over the previous
month, the researchers found
they underperformed stocks with
the lowest returns by 1.2 per cent
in the subsequent month.
Taken together, these results
put added value to investment
companies’ warning that “past
performance is no guarantee of
future results.” Over the long term
there is a reversal pattern of equi-
ty market returns – sometimes, as
tHursDAY
Japan GDP, current account
balance and bank lending
U.S. initial jobless claims for
week of Dec. 3. Estimate is
230,000, up 5,000 from the
previous week.
Bank of Canada deputy
governor Sharon Kozicki deliv-
ers the Economic Progress
Report in Montreal.
U.S. quarterly services sur-
vey for Q3.
Also: Quebec’s fiscal update
Earnings include: Broad-
com Inc.; Chewy Inc.; Costco
Wholesale Corp.; Lululemon
Athletica Inc.
R E P O RT ON B U S I N ES S | B7
Cabadiab bobds
F01F F018
But investors thinking about
employing it should be aware
that the portfolio requires a good
deal of attention and mainte-
nance. After all, you have to
check in on it every month. It
also performed an average of
roughly two swaps each year
since January, 1993 – moving
from stocks to bonds or vice ver-
sa. The frequent swaps indicate
the approach is best used in suit-
able tax-sheltered accounts.
Buying the Canadian stock
market when it reaches new
highs has historically been a
good idea. Active index investors
might think about quaffing
some bubbly should Santa deliv-
er new highs for the stock mar-
ket this holiday season.
in recent years, it takes longer for
that reversal to take place.
What can investors do? A few
things. First, investing for the long
term is even more important in
the face of these patterns of re-
versal. Similarly, investing in a di-
versified portfolio is critical to en-
sure that the portfolio is insulated
from the negative impact of re-
versal. Finally, a disciplined proc-
ess of rebalancing the portfolio is
highly recommended. Rebalanc-
ing is the process of regularly,
usually annually, selling the
strongest-performing asset class-
es and buying the weakest-per-
forming asset classes to bring the
portfolio back in line with the
long-term investment plan. This
is counterintuitive and requires
investors to reduce their position
in winners and add to their posi-
tion in losers, pay taxes on gains
etc. But, if done as part of a disci-
plined long-term investment
strategy, and at the level of asset
class rather than individual secu-
rity, it can protect portfolios from
this reversal effect. After all,
streaks always end – whether in
sports or in portfolios.
FrIDAY
China CPI, PPI, aggregate
yuan financing, new loans and
money supply
Canadian capacity uti-
lization for Q3.
U.S. PPI for November.
Consensus is a increase of 0.2
per cent from October and up
7.2 per cent year over year.
U.S. wholesale trade for
October.
U.S. University of Michigan
Consumer Sentiment Index for
December (preliminary read-
ing).
Earnings include: Lauren-
tian Bank of Canada.


 

B8 | R E P O RT O N BU S I N ES S
If you’re going to tax it, then track it
Canadian companies
offering less information
on share buybacks
than U.S. counterparts
DAVID
MILSTEAD
OPINION
T
he Liberal government’s
proposed tax on stock buy-
backs is going to be expen-
sive for a number of Canadian
companies. Unfortunately, inves-
tors can’t be sure of which ones,
and by how much.
The reason – and I know this
will shock you – is that Canadian
disclosure requirements for com-
panies’ buyback activity have
lagged U.S. rules for nearly 20
years. And the Securities and Ex-
change Commission (SEC)
would like to expand what com-
panies there reveal, which
threatens to widen the informa-
tion gap with Canada.
To review, the government
said recently it plans to intro-
duce a 2-per-cent tax on share
buybacks starting in 2024. The
idea is ripped off from the United
States, which in August brought
in a 1-per-cent tax on stock buy-
backs, starting in 2023.
A lot of the discussion of the
proposal is black-and-white: The
Liberal government clearly sees
buybacks as a diversion of capital
from job-creating investment;
business groups have said the
buybacks are a legitimate capi-
tal-management technique that
benefits shareholders by boost-
Here’s when – and how – to jump back into stocks
GORDON PAPE
OPINION
I
f you’re waiting until the mar-
ket bottoms out to buy stocks,
you may wait a long time.
That’s not because I expect a
prolonged bear market, although
that is certainly possible. Rather
it’s because no one can identify a
bottom or peak except in hind-
sight. Anyone who claims they
can time the market on a consis-
tent basis is lying.
So, when is the best time to buy
stocks? Any time, as long as you
follow certain rules. The market is
cheaper now than it was last Janu-
ary. It’s more expensive than at
the end of September. I can’t tell
you where it will be in six months.
I can predict with some degree of
certainty that it will be higher in
five years.
With all this in mind, I’ve put
together a stock shopping list. Use
it to judge the appropriateness of
any security you may be consider-
ing.
SUITABILITY
Before you buy a single stock, you
must have a strategic plan. What
is your investment objective and
how much risk are you prepared
Wall Street weighs strategies for potential 2023 turbulence
DAVID RANDALL NEW YORK
Investors are eyeing everything
from the U.S. health care sector to
British stocks and gold as poten-
tial havens during a recession, as
worries grow that the U.S. Federal
Reserve’s interest-rate increases
will bring on an economic down-
turn next year.
Gloomy year-ahead forecasts
from Wall Street banks have piled
up in the past week, although a
strong November jobs report re-
leased on Friday undercut the
case for an imminent slowdown
in the U.S. economy.
JPMorgan, Citi and BlackRock
are among those who believe a re-
cession is likely in 2023. While a
downturn is not assured, strate-
MEETING DATES
DATA SUPPLIED BY ISSUING COMPANIES THROUGH THE SERVICE OF CDS CLEARING AND DEPOSITORY SERVICES INC.
* = CHANGE IN PREVIOUSLY REPORTED INFORMATION % = CANCELLED MEETING; @ = ADJOURNED MEETING; A = ANNUAL; S = SPECIAL; G = GENERAL; X = EXTRA; E = EXTRAORDINARY
RECORD MEETING TYPE
DATE DATE
Acreage Holdings, Inc. Dec 20 Jan 25 S
Advanced Proteome Therapeutics Dec 21 Jan 25 AGS
Alkaline Fuel Cell Power Corp. Dec 21 Jan 25 AG
Allied Copper Corp. Dec 21 Jan 31 AS
Alturas Minerals Corp. Dec 19 Jan 26 AGS
Asante Gold Corporation *Nov 03 Dec 21 AGS
Calian Group Ltd. Dec 19 Feb 15 AS
Canada Carbon Inc. Dec 16 Jan 24 AGS
Condor Gold PLC Dec 01 Dec 21 S
Cornerstone Capital Res. Inc. Nov 30 Jan 09 S
ing stock prices.
Here’s my take, in the middle
ground: Buybacks can be smart
or dumb. And sometimes, they
can be misleading.
Shareholders can buy into the
conventional wisdom on share
buybacks, believing a company is
enhancing its value by purchas-
ing its stock at a cheap price and
reducing the share count. (If you
hold on to your stock, you have a
bigger piece of a smaller pie.)
However, plenty of companies
have been found, in retrospect,
to buy aggressively when their
share price is high, not low, and
then cut back on purchases after
the share price drops. And com-
panies that issue boatloads of
options can do millions of dol-
lars of buybacks but never re-
duce their share counts, because
all the stock taken off the market
effectively gets reissued to em-
ployees at bargain prices when
they cash out their options.
The reason we can do this
analysis easily, at least in the
United States, is that the SEC, in
2003, mandated disclosures of
buyback activity. Companies
must include a table in their
quarterly filings disclosing the
number of shares repurchased,
the average price paid per share,
the total number of shares repur-
chased as part of publicly an-
nounced buyback programs, and
the number or value of shares
that may still be purchased un-
der their buyback programs.
Here’s an example from Open-
Text Corp., a Waterloo, Ont.-
headquartered company that’s
required to follow the SEC rule.
The regulator considers Open-
Text to be a U.S. company be-
to take to achieve it? There is no
point buying stocks that don’t fit
your plan. For example, if you’re
investing for income, non-divi-
dend stocks are not appropriate. If
you’re looking for growth, avoid
sectors such as utilities.
PROFITABILITY
After suitability, I rank this at the
top of my priority list when judg-
ing whether to buy a stock. After
subtracting expenses from reve-
nue, what’s the bottom line? If a
company is making money, I’m
interested in exploring it further.
If it’s not, I’m skeptical.
There are other measures that
some organizations focus on to
prove their viability. EBITDA, or
earnings before interest, taxes,
depreciation and amortization, is
one. Funds from operations (FFO)
is another. I don’t dispute that
these offer useful insights into a
company’s financial perform-
ance. But my strong preference is
to see it all proved on the net earn-
ings line.
AFFORDABILITY
A company may be profitable, but
is it fairly priced – in other words,
affordable? We’ve just seen the
shares of many profitable tech
gists point to the Fed’s hefty mon-
etary tightening, a steep slow-
down in the housing market and
the inverted Treasury yield curve
as reasons to expect that growth
will stall.
Recessions are usually bad
news for stocks, though some in-
vestors believe 2022’s sharp de-
cline in equities suggests a degree
of slowdown has already been
factored in. The S&P 500 has fall-
en as much as 25.2 per cent from
its all-time high this year, com-
pared with an average decline of
28 per cent the index has record-
ed in recessions since the Second
World War, according to data
from CFRA Research. The index is
down 14.6 per cent year-to-date.
Nevertheless, many on Wall
Street are increasing allocations
RECORD MEETING TYPE
DATE DATE
Dinamic IP Holdings Inc. Nov 25 Jan 05 AGS
Doseology Sciences Inc. Dec 09 Jan 12 AG
Evergreen Gaming Corporation Oct 21 Dec 08 S
Fintech Select Ltd. *Nov 21 Dec 21 AS
Goliath Resources Limited Dec 22 Feb 07 AGS
Hakken Capital Corp. Dec 07 Jan 04 AG
Harmony Acquisitions Corp. Dec 20 Jan 19 A
Hilo Mining Ltd. Dec 22 Feb 01 AGS
International Zeolite Corp. *Nov 21 Jan 19 AS
Jasper Commerce Inc. Dec 22 Jan 26 AG
Ottawa has signalled plans to introduce a 2-per-cent tax on stock
buybacks starting in 2024, but it still lags the U.S. in disclosure
requirements for companies. MARK BLINCH/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
cause more than half of its busi-
ness is in that country.
OpenText announced in No-
vember, 2020, and November,
2021, that it would do buyback
plans that could total US$700-
million. But the quarterly disclo-
sures show OpenText has so far
purchased less than half that
amount, US$296-million over
the past eight quarters.
OpenText has driven its share
count down – but perhaps not as
much as investors might have
thought by watching the head-
lines. And they spent an average
of just under US$47 a share –
compared with current trading
prices around US$30. (The com-
pany still has time to buy back
more shares.)
No such rule for explicit buy-
back disclosure exists from Cana-
da’s securities regulators, or in
the International Financial Re-
porting Standards that Canadian
companies slapped down be-
cause their price-to-earnings val-
uations got totally out of whack.
Look at Amazon.com Inc. It’s
making money, but investors
were paying too much for those
earnings. When momentum was
working in the company’s favour,
that didn’t matter much. But
Amazon shares are down almost
50 per cent in the past 12 months,
and the P/E ratio is still in nose-
bleed territory at about 84. Apple
Inc., by contrast, has a P/E under
25. It’s clear which has a better af-
fordability rating at the moment.
CASH FLOW
We see bulges in the market all the
time, where one or two sectors
gain dramatically more than the
broad range of stocks. Energy is
that sector right now. Tech was
during the pandemic. The trends
come and go. Try to look beyond
them and focus on what it means
to your net worth. Cash flow is one
measure, especially if you’re in-
come-oriented. How much mon-
ey do you receive in dividends
from a security and how sustain-
able are those dividends?
Some companies have a long
history of steadily raising their di-
vidend payouts. Utilities such as
Fortis Inc. and Canadian Utilities
Ltd. have been doing so for almost
to areas of the market that have a
reputation for outperforming
during uncertain economic
times.
“When investors see a reces-
sion coming, they want compa-
nies that can generate income re-
gardless of the business cycle,”
said Jack Ablin, chief investment
officer at Cresset Capital, who ex-
pects a mild recession in 2023, fol-
lowed by Fed easing.
In their 2023 outlook, strate-
gists at the BlackRock Investment
Institute recommended stocks in
the health care sector, an area
where demand is thought to be
less sensitive to economic fluctu-
ations.
The S&P 500 Health Care sector
is down around 1.7 per cent year-
to-date, handily beating the
RECORD MEETING TYPE
DATE DATE
Jemtec Inc. Dec 16 Jan 26 AG
Lexagene Holdings Inc. Dec 19 Feb 08 A
Longhorn Exploration Corp. Dec 19 Jan 26 AGS
Magna Mining Inc. %Nov 03 Dec 13 S
Maven Brands Inc. Dec 16 Jan 31 AGS
Midland Exploration Inc. Dec 21 Feb 09 AG
Morningstar Balanced Portfolio Dec 12 Jan 24 S
Morningstar Conservative Port Dec 12 Jan 24 S
Morningstar Growth Portfolio Dec 12 Jan 24 S
Morningstar Moderate Portfolio Dec 12 Jan 24 S
O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L
companies follow. There is, to be
certain, some information to be
found in the cash-flow state-
ments and changes in sharehol-
der’s equity, but nothing so clear-
ly demarcated as in the quarterly
and annual reports filed with the
SEC.
Canadian companies also file
repurchase information with the
Toronto Stock Exchange. The
TSX makes reports on the com-
panies’ share-count repurchases
available to investors upon re-
quest, for a fee.
Even though the SEC’s rules
are more robust than Canada’s,
the regulator is not satisfied with
their requirements. Earlier this
year, the SEC proposed that com-
panies file a new form, to be
called the “SR,” with daily re-
ports on buyback activity. Buy
back some shares on a Tuesday;
disclose it by the end of the day
Wednesday, please.
50 consecutive years. Banks,
when they’re not constrained by
government regulation, as during
COVID, have a good track record.
So do telecoms. Energy compa-
nies are more of a gamble; divi-
dends tend to be closely tied to
volatile oil prices. Dividend histo-
ry should be high on your check-
list when evaluating a company.
STABILITY
Most individual investors are vul-
nerable to their emotions. When
markets are rising, that’s usually
not an issue unless it leads to dan-
gerous moves such as leveraging.
In down markets, it’s another sto-
ry. Watching your bottom line
drop month after month can re-
sult in growing anxiety, which can
culminate in bad investing deci-
sions. If you’re at all prone to this
affliction, avoid high-beta stocks –
those with a history of larger price
swings than the broad market. Of
course, low-beta stocks can lose
value in a declining market. But
the damage, and the resulting
shock, will be less than if your
portfolio is crammed with shares
whose chart resembles the Alps.
BALANCE SHEET
Most people overlook the balance
broader index’s performance.
BlackRock said the firm also
prefers energy and financial
stocks, though it is underweight
developed markets as a whole.
“A recession is foretold; central
banks are on course to overtight-
en policy as they seek to tame in-
flation,” the firm’s strategists
wrote. “Equity valuations don’t
yet reflect the damage ahead, in
our view.”
JPMorgan’s analysts forecast a
“mild recession” and expect the
S&P 500 to test its 2022 lows in the
first quarter of next year. Above-
average valuations and Fed haw-
kishness make U.S. stocks unat-
tractive in comparison with other
developed markets, the bank
said, naming Britain as its top
pick.
RECORD MEETING TYPE
DATE DATE
Morningstar Strategic Cdn Eqty Dec 12 Jan 24 S
Ophir Gold Corp. Dec 19 Feb 02 AGS
Pancontinental Resources Corp. Dec 19 Feb 02 S
Pangea Natural Foods Inc. Dec 19 Feb 01 AG
Polar Resources Corporation Dec 23 Jan 31 AG
Pure Energy Minerals Ltd. Dec 22 Jan 26 AGS
Red Pine Exploration Inc. Dec 16 Jan 26 A
Republic Goldfields Inc. Dec 22 Feb 06 S
Snowy Owl Gold Corp. *Nov 15 Jan 13 AGS
Sonora Gold & Silver Corp Nov 25 Dec 30 AGS
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The SEC also proposed com-
panies enhance their quarterly
disclosures. A company would
have to discuss “the objective or
rationale for the share repur-
chases and the process or criteria
used to determine the repur-
chase amounts.” They’d also
have to discuss any policies and
procedures they have for pur-
chases and sales by its officers
and directors during a repur-
chase program.
“Share buybacks have become
a significant component of how
public issuers return capital to
shareholders,” SEC chair Gary
Gensler said in the December,
2021, news release announcing
the proposals. “I think we can
lessen the information asymme-
tries between [companies] and
investors through enhanced
timeliness and granularity of dis-
closures.”
For now, the SEC buyback dis-
closure enhancement is still in
the proposal stage, as the regu-
lator got a fair amount of push-
back on the regulatory burden of
filing daily repurchase reports.
But the SEC’s ambitious plan
serves to highlight how Canada
has an even greater “information
asymmetry” between companies
and investors. Our investing pub-
lic would benefit from greater
data on how much companies
are buying back, when and at
what cost. The analysis would
help us understand which corpo-
rate leaders are stewards of cap-
ital and which are squanderers of
it.
And if the Liberal government
proceeds with its plan, it’s only
reasonable to ask: If it’s worth
taxing, isn’t it worth tracking?
sheet when they’re researching a
company. The reason is simple:
Unless you took commerce in col-
lege, understanding them isn’t
easy. But if you do nothing else,
look at the long-term debt line.
How much does the company
owe?
Investopedia says the debt-to-
equity ratio is one of the most im-
portant corporate valuation met-
rics because it highlights a com-
pany’s dependence on borrowed
funds and its ability to meet its fi-
nancial obligations. The less de-
pendent a company is on debt,
the less the risk it would be forced
into bankruptcy.
Occasionally, you’ll come
across a company that is debt-
free. That’s not necessarily a good
thing, however, because it means
the firm is not leveraging its bor-
rowing power to expand the busi-
ness. But it certainly means less
risk.
That’s my list. Few stocks will
tick all the boxes – for example,
utilities and real estate invest-
ment trusts are likely to have high
D/E ratios because they are very
capital-intensive. That’s one rea-
son they are losing ground in a ris-
ing rate environment. If you un-
derstand the reason behind po-
tential problems, you’ll be better
equipped to deal with them and
make informed decisions if they
arise.
BoFA Global Research expects
U.S. equities to end broadly flat in
2023 but sees prices for gold rally-
ing up to 20 per cent, aided by a
falling dollar. Raw materials such
as gold are priced in dollars and
become more attractive to for-
eign buyers when the greenback
declines.
Citi, meanwhile, said recession
fears and weaker earnings growth
will hurt U.S. stocks in 2023 and
advised clients to “treat rallies in
U.S. equities as bear market ral-
lies.” By contrast, they are over-
weight China, expecting Chinese
stocks to receive a boost from
loosening COVID-19 restrictions
and government support for the
real estate sector.
REUTERS
RECORD MEETING TYPE
DATE DATE
Sparx Technology Inc. Nov 30 Jan 05 AG
Stelmine Canada Ltd. Dec 19 Jan 27 AG
Supernova Metals Corp. %Nov 02 Dec 30 AGS
Thunderbird EntertainmentGroup%Oct 28Dec 06 AGS
Trees Corporation *Dec 19 Jan 26 AS
Victory Mountain Ventures Ltd %Nov 24 Dec 29 AG
Victory Mountain Ventures Ltd Nov 24 Dec 29 AG
Visionstate Corp. Dec 23 Jan 27 AGS
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[ WORLD CUP ]

England striker Harry Kane stretches to reach a ball ahead of Senegal’s Kalidou Koulibaly during Sunday’s round-of-16 match in Al Khor, Qatar. Kane scored
just before halftime to give England a 2-0 lead on its way to a 3-0 victory that sets up a clash with France in the World Cup quarter-finals. JULIAN FINNEY/GETTY IMAGES

Kane finds scoring touch as England

fires on all cylinders against Senegal
The Three Lions’ offence
could go up to another
level with their top striker
rounding into form
to kick off knockout stage
JAMES ROBSON AL KHOR, QATAR
Like all great strikers, Harry Kane’s
timing was perfect.
The England captain got off the
mark Sunday, scoring his first goal at
this year’s World Cup in a 3-0 victory
over Senegal that set up a must-see
match against France in the quarter-fi-
nals.
“I was waiting patiently to try to
score and thankfully that was today,”
said Kane, who was the leading scorer
at the last World Cup. “I feel good and
hopefully this can start a good run for
me personally because I know that will
help the team as well.” Kane scored six goals at the 2018 It was Kane’s 52nd goal for England,
It certainly was a good time for Kane World Cup in Russia, each one helping moving him within one of Wayne Roo-
to end his dry spell in Qatar because England reach the semi-finals. But it ney’s national record. He also over-
Kylian Mbappé, the tournament’s has been harder this time around, with took Gary Lineker as his country’s
leading scorer with five goals, is wait- the captain having to wait until first- leading scorer in major tournaments
ing to face England on Saturday at Al half stoppage time against Senegal to with 11 goals.
Bayt Stadium. finally get one. “You could see the lift that gave him
With that in mind, En- When the moment in the second half,” Southgate said.
gland could do with its came, he never looked “For any striker, when you haven’t
most prolific striker at like missing. Head down, scored, it is there in the back of your
his sharpest. As a striker scoring he powered a shot past mind and you get that lift of confi-
“It is the biggest test Senegal goalkeeper dence when it comes.
that we can face,” En- goals is what you do Édouard Mendy to put “There is nobody I would rather
gland coach Gareth and it’s one of the England ahead 2-0. have in that moment bearing down on
Southgate said. “They best feelings you can Then, arms spread wide, goal, a really clinical finish.”
are world champions, have in football. the relief poured out as England’s great strength at this
they have an incredible he ran away in celebra- year’s World Cup has been the amount
depth of talent, out- HARRY KANE tion. of different goal threats it has, and an-
standing individual ENGLAND CAPTAIN “As a striker scoring other emerged on Sunday when Jor-
players, very difficult to goals is what you do and dan Henderson gave his team the lead.
play against and score goals against. It it’s one of the best feelings you can Bukayo Saka completed the scoring
is a fantastic challenge. have in football,” Kane said. “The ball with his third of the tournament.
“[Mbappé] is a world-class player, just sat up nicely and the connection Marcus Rashford, who has also
has already delivered in big moments was perfect. I had one just before that I scored three goals in Qatar, didn’t even
in this tournament and in previous should have done better with so it was make the starting lineup.
tournaments.” nice to see that one go in.” ENGLAND, B11

Neymar expected to start for Brazil against South Korea

JENNA FRYER DOHA, QATAR South Korean captain Son Heung-
min even began to cry.
South Korea is now trying to ad-

W
elcome back, Neymar, at just
the right time at the World
Cup.
Neymar seemed healthy in training
before Monday’s game against South
Korea in the round of 16. The forward
missed the final two matches of the
group stage after injuring his right an-
kle in the opening game win over Ser-
bia.
Brazil easily moved into the next
round without Neymar. No longer
bothered by his ankle, Neymar was
expected to start – and not come off
the bench as a precautionary measure
– if he plays against South Korea.
“I prefer to use my best player from
the start,” Brazil coach Tite said. “It’s
the coach who has to make that deci-
sion and take on that responsibility.”
In footage released by the Brazilian
soccer federation, he appeared to be
in good condition, doing drills with
the ball and taking shots on goal with-
out signs of his injury.
“Obviously we won’t say that it’s
better to face Brazil when Neymar is
playing, but I always prefer when the
best players are there,” South Korea
coach Paulo Bento said.
Bento hasn’t been pleased with the
three-day rest period between games
from the group stage to the knockout
round. Brazil advanced with a game
to spare and was able to rest the
Brazilian star Neymar was shown doing drills with the ball and taking shots
on goal without signs of injury on Sunday in footage released by
the Brazilian soccer federation. PEDRO NUNES/REUTERS
team’s stars in its final match, but
South Korea had to claw its way into
the knockout round with a win over
Portugal.
“It’s not fair,” Bento said. “I think
that it has to do with the new FIFA
reality, which is to create worse condi-
tions for the less-favoured teams and
probably better conditions for the
more-favoured ones.”
Even after the surprise win over
Portugal, South Korea had to wait for
over nine agonizing minutes of extra
time for a game across Qatar to end.
The outcome of Uruguay against Gha-
na determined if the South Korean’s
advanced into the round of 16.
When Uruguay failed to score the
goals it needed to best South Korea
for the final spot in Group H, the
South Korean players who had
formed a circle on the field to watch
the game on phones erupted into joy-
ous celebration.
vance past the round of 16 for the first
time since the Asian team’s historic
run as a co-host in 2002, when it reac-
hed the semi-finals and finished
fourth. South Korea was eliminated in
the group stage in 2014 and 2018.
South Korea advanced by beating
Portugal 2-1 with a dramatic stop-
page-time goal by Hwang Hee-chan,
who was a second-half substitute.
He’s expected to be in the starting li-
neup again against Brazil after mis-
sing the team’s first two games be-
cause of a hamstring injury.
“In the first match it was impossi-
ble for me to play and the pain got
worse. I did a little running, but I
thought I could play the second
match, but they held me out,” Hwang
said, adding that playing against Por-
tugal “was a little bit of a risk. But I
didn’t care what happened to me per-
sonally. I just wanted to contribute.”
It will be the first official meeting
between Brazil and South Korea, with
the South Americans winning six of
seven friendlies. South Korea was vic-
torious in 1999.
“We can’t think it’s going to be an
easy game like it was in that friendly,”
Brazil captain Thiago Silva said. “Now
it’s the World Cup and they’ve ad-
vanced in a very tough group. We
have a lot of respect for them.”
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Canada coach Herdman

sees more moves ahead
for his players after Qatar
NEIL DAVIDSON DOHA, QATAR

Canada coach John Herdman expects more of his World Cup

squad to attract overseas attention, with defender Alistair
Johnston the first to seal a new deal.
The 24-year-old’s move from CF Montreal’s to Scottish
powerhouse Glasgow Celtic was confirmed Saturday in a
transfer reportedly worth three million pounds ($4.98 mil-
lion).
“Coming in [to Qatar] our players, many of them, were
unheard of I think a lot of our players have built credibility,”
Herdman said after Canada exited the tournament after a
2-1 loss to Morocco. “As a collective group, they performed
well together, but there were certainly some strong individ-
ual performances through the tournament.”
Herdman started Johnston in all three games in Qatar
and regularly talked him up. His Celtic transfer had been
rumoured during the tournament.
Asked about other possible moves in the wake of the
World Cup, Herdman praised winger Tajon Buchanan, citing
Luis Suarez’s Uruguay was a 2-0 winner over Ghana in Friday’s Group H finale but was eliminated “a real breakout tournament for that young man.”
after South Korea’s late goal gave it a 2-1 win against Portugal. JOHN SIBLEY/REUTERS Buchanan, an elusive winger/wingback, has already
made it to Europe in joining Belgium’s Club Brugge in a
reported US$7-million transfer from the New England Revo-

Suarez showcased his

lution after the 2021 MLS season. A bigger club likely beck-
ons.
Herdman pointed to centre back Steven Vitoria, calling
him “an absolute rock for Canada.” The 35-year-old Vitoria,

cartoon-villain best as
who plays in Portugal for GD Chaves, started all three games
at the tournament albeit with a couple of missteps along the
way.
The Canadian coach also singled out “stalwarts” such as

Uruguay faced Ghana
Once one of the greats, beats them with malice. When he
puts on the baby blue of Uruguay,
the 35-year-old can no he is an unstoppable force for
longer skin opponents bad.
with pure speed. So he On Friday, he was up to all his
tricks – diving, whining, berating,
beats them with malice pushing, shoving. At one point,
he was very gently nicked by an
opponent, went down as if he’d
CATHAL been hit with an aluminum bat,
KELLY lay there moaning, waited until
the referee stood over him – head
OPINION still down, clearly dying – until
the referee made it clear no card
would be given. That’s when Sua-
DOHA, QATAR rez popped up like a gymnast – I
don’t think I saw his hands touch
worst. Every man has a heart.
How else would he be able to sob
so hard?”
Then someone put a micro-
phone in front of him.
Suarez began speaking in
Spanish about his “sadness and
disappointment.” Very human.
Very relatable.
Then he began to backslide in-
to complaining. Some “incredible
things” are being called in this
World Cup, Suarez said, but none
for Uruguay.
“After the match, I wanted to
give a hug to my children and my
wife, and people from FIFA came
Jonathan Osorio and Junior Hoilett. The 30-year-old Osorio,
out of contract with Toronto FC, has made no secret of his
desire to move to Europe. Hoilett, 32, plays for Reading in
England’s second-tier Championship.
“I’ve got a feeling we’ve got a chance now of pushing
more players to that Tier 1 level. And that’s a critical step for
Canada,” Herdman told The Canadian Press. “We keep push-
ing players into those environments where they’re getting
Champions League, Europa League experiences.”
Citing the “credibility we’ve built now on the internation-
al stage with our performances,” Herdman is also looking
forward to playing more Tier 1 teams such as Belgium and
Uruguay “rather than waiting to receive invites from teams
that might not be able to help us prepare at the levels we
need to.
“So there’s some big steps being taken. The players’ per-
formances and the team’s performances that will set us up
for a real solid [World Cup] in 2026,” Herdman said.
Canada is co-hosting the next World Cup, expanded from
32 teams to 48, along with the U.S. and Mexico.
The day after his World Cup ended, Herdman was back at
Canada’s training centre in Umm Salal Ali, helping his staff

T
here was something almost
sweet about watching Luis
Suarez weep on the bench
during Uruguay’s game on Friday.
Uruguay won, but lost. After a
late South Korean goal in a game
against Portugal being played si-
multaneously, Uruguay – despite
beating Ghana – was knocked out
of the World Cup.
For the last few minutes, Sua-
rez – the greatest cartoon villain
in World Cup history – began to
shed a tear. He’d spent 60 min-
utes causing havoc on the field,
and subsequently been subbed
off. He is old now. So crying was
his contribution to the team’s late
push.
He cried forever. He cried dur-
ing the game with his jersey
pulled up over his face. He cried
after the game with a T-shirt
pulled over his head like a hood.
He went out on the field for a
while, walking and crying while
teammates consoled him. Noth-
ing would stop him. This man is
remarkably hydrated.
He’s also a ridiculously unlike-
able player. Possibly a great
friend, husband and father. Lion-
el Messi seems to love him. But
Suarez can be truly despicable
when he’s at work.
He’s the guy who cheated Gha-
na out of its World Cup shot in
2010 – punching a ball off the goal
line – and then rode off on the
shoulders of his teammates. He’s
the guy who bit an Italian in 2014,
then tried to claim he was the in-
jured party because his teeth
hurt.
Suarez was once one of the
greats. But in the end, his temper
defined him.
He’s 35 now – ancient for a for-
ward. He can no longer skin op-
ponents with pure speed. So he
the ground – so that he could
scream bloody murder directly in
the ref’s face.
A real renaissance villain, this
one. Does it all.
The Uruguayan team has a rep-
utation for approaching the game
two-fistedly (as well as two-foot-
edly and many-tonguedly). At
their worst, the Uruguayans re-
mind you of the internet – con-
stant complaining, bad-faith ar-
guments, “literally crying” be-
cause things haven’t gone their
way. Whenever they get upset, a
mob forms and they chase you
around at work and try to get you
fired.
After Friday’s game ended, a
group of Uruguayan players pur-
sued the German referee off the
pitch. It seemed highly likely one
of them would pop him. What
were they arguing about? Who
knows? Everything, probably.
They seemed to think a late fall
by Edinson Cavani should have
been a penalty for Uruguay. What
it should have been was a yellow
card for diving, but try telling
them that.
The Uruguayan players would
have chased the ref down the tun-
nel, but a bunch of FIFA officials
got in their way – and the players
probably worried about losing
their wallets. Watching this sham-
bles made you wish Qatari autoc-
racy was less “soft power” and
had more of a “shields and ba-
tons” feel.
A Guardian headline nicely
captured the scene: “Uruguay
Leave the World Cup the Same
Way They Played In It: Graceless-
ly.”
But poor Suarez. So sad. So gut-
ted to fall short on behalf of his
country. You were beginning to
think: “Maybe he’s not really the
to tell me my children couldn’t
come down [to the pitch], even
though the other day there was a
player from France with his chil-
dren on the substitutes’ bench,”
he said, shrugging sadly. “You
wonder why always against Uru-
guay.”
That was close. He almost got
us. But in the end, Suarez couldn’t
keep it up. It had to become a dre-
ary whinge about how the whole
world is against him. If this is the
best he’s got – that his relatives
can’t gambol on the field with im-
punity – he needs better material.
That was probably it for Suarez
as a World Cup participant. He’s
just barely hanging on as a top-
level pro. Three-and-a-half years
is a long time.
If that’s the case, I’ll miss him.
He is all id. That’s not rare. It’s
unique. Even the biggest jerk
cares a little bit about what peo-
ple think of them. But not Suarez.
He will do whatever it takes, use
whatever dark arts he must, in or-
der to win. And if some people
take offence, then clearly they
want him dead and probably be-
long in jail for harassment.
There is something pure about
that malevolent drive. It is more
recognizably human than put-
ting on a great, showy, sobbing
spectacle. If nothing else, Suarez
was always true to himself,
whether the rest of us liked it or
not.
But however unlikely, I find it
difficult to believe he won’t be
back once more. Age cannot stop
this depth of animus. Expect to
see him chugging around the
fields of North America in 2026.
The opposing net may not
have much to fear from him by
that point, but no official any-
where will be safe.
pack up.
There will be no touring the local sites for Herdman. His
daughter has to get back to school in B.C., he explained.
“It would be nice to just be able to see this part of the
world but it’s back to life,” he said.
Canada’s next action is March, with CONCACAF Nations
League matches at No. 86 Curacao on March 23 and home to
No. 80 Honduras on March 28. Herdman will have to sit out
the Curacao game after getting red-carded in Honduras in
June.
The Canadians (1-1-0), who currently trail Honduras (2-
1-0) by three points in Group C of League A with a game in
hand, look to finish first in the group so as to qualify for the
Nation League finals with the three other group winners.
The 2023 Gold Cup, which kicks off next June, comes
next.
This was Herdman’s sixth World Cup, by his count – after
three Women’s World Cups (two with New Zealand and one
with Canada) and two Under-20 World Cups (New Zealand).
“There’s a lot of things you have to take on board,” he
said of playing on the world stage. “As I review, I know
there’s some things we did really well across this tourna-
ment to keep the brotherhood intact and to have the team
prepared to play.
“And then there’s other areas. You look at those little
moments and what you keep learning is the fine margins,
the real fine margins at this level.”
Those margins can make a difference, something Canada
was learning on the job in Qatar
Qatar marked Canada’s return to the men’s soccer show-
case after a 36-year absence. And while Canada lost all three
games – to No. 2 Belgium, No. 12 Croatia and No. 22 Morocco
– Herdman was proud of his team’s ability to hold its own
on the world stage.
“What surprised me was just how we were able to show
up at the games, how competitive we were,” he said. “There
was just a feeling of ‘We’re in every game.’ It was a nice
feeling. I’ve been to World Cups where you feel you’re not in
the game and you’re not going to get back into games. But I
felt like in this tournament, all three matches we were push-
ing for either a result or a performance we could be proud
of. I think that was the thing I took from it. We were right
there. We were right there.
“And then just the enjoyment. I mean the enjoyment of
being with your staff, experiencing every day where you’re
in a sort of high-performance machine and every little cog’s
turning. You just can’t beat those experiences. It was very
special. It’s been one for the memory book, that’s for sure.”
THE CANADIAN PRESS

Lookahead: Croatia standing in way of Japan’s first trip to quarter-finals

FROM B9
Japan and Croatia meet for the
first time in the knockout round
of the World Cup after the teams
squared off two previous times in
group play. Croatia won in 1998
and the teams finished with a
goalless draw eight years later.
This time, Japan won Group E
after come-from-behind 2-1 victo-
ries over Germany and Spain and
is in the knockout round for back-
to-back tournaments for the first
time in team history.
At stake for Japan is its first trip
to the quarter-finals in four tries.
“Japan is a team that doesn’t
quit,” Croatia coach Zlatko Dalic
said.
“They conceded goals at the be-
ginning of the match both against
Germany and Spain, but they
came back. They had a lot of faith
in themselves, and that is a great
virtue of the Japan national
team.”
Croatia, the runner-up in the
2018 World Cup, is making its
third appearance in the knockout
round. Croatia beat Romania in
1998 to advance to the semi-finals
and defeated Denmark 3-2 on pe-
nalties in 2018 en route to the final
game – a 4-2 loss to reigning World
Cup champion France.
It is the first time Croatia will
play an Asian team in a World Cup
knockout after eight previous
games against European teams.
“For us, it will be key that we are
also disciplined and patient,” Dal-
ic said. “We cannot make mistakes
because Japan has the quality to
punish those mistakes. We need
to be good at falling back if we lose
the ball.”
Croatia advanced despite two
goalless draws in group play –
equalling the number of scoreless
games it had in the 2006, 2014 and
2018 tournaments, a span of 13
games.
GIROUD ECLIPSES HENRY’S
FRENCH RECORD WITH 52ND GOAL
DOHA, QATAR The national team
scoring record now checked off
his list, Olivier Giroud turned his
attention to helping France win a
second consecutive World Cup.
Giroud broke Thierry Henry’s
French record with his 52nd goal
for his country on Sunday when
he scored the first in a 3-1 victory
over Poland that put the reigning
champions in the World Cup
quarter-finals. “I really wanted to
score this goal [against Poland]. I
was kind of relieved after this
goal,” Giroud said. “We can move
on and forget about this, because
so many people we’re talking
about this. Now it is done, that it is
a good thing. But most important
is to score more goals to help the
team to reach our target, which is
to go as far as we can.” The 36-year-
old Giroud had tied Henry’s re-
cord of 51 goals when he scored
twice in a 4-1 win over Australia in
France’s opening game in Qatar.
AHEAD OF LAST-16 GAME, BRAZIL
COACH RECALLS MEETING PELE
DOHA, QATAR Brazil coach Tite re-
called his emotional first meeting
with Pele, and sent the soccer
great well-wishes Sunday ahead
of Brazil’s game against South Ko-
rea at the World Cup. Tite said
Pele, who has been hospitalized
with a respiratory infection in
Brazil, was the only person who
ever made him nervous before
they were introduced. “I was shak-
ing, my hand was sweating, my
heart started beating faster,” Tite
said without revealing when the
meeting took place. “I was about
to have the opportunity to hug
Pele.” The 82-year-old Pele, who
had a colon tumour removed last
year, is undergoing treatment for
his infection and said he was feel-
ing “strong.” “Get well, Pele,” Tite
said. Brazilian fans showed their
support for the soccer great dur-
ing the national team’s 1-0 loss to
Cameroon on Friday, displaying
banners and flags with his image
at Lusail Stadium. Other tributes
were expected before and during
Monday’s match against South
Korea in the round of 16. Pele
helped Brazil win three World
Cup titles. The five-time cham-
pions are trying to win their first
World Cup title since 2002.
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M O N DAY , D ECE M B E R 5 , 2 0 2 2
Mbappé helps power France past Poland
Star forward’s dominant
two-goal performance
helps Les Bleus secure
spot in quarter-finals
against rival England
ANDREW DAMPF DOHA, QATAR
It all seems so straightforward –
laughable, perhaps – for Kylian
Mbappé when it comes to the
World Cup.
The France forward, who
scored four goals when he led his
country to the title four years ago
as a 19-year-old phenom, put on
yet another demonstration of
how devastating he can be on the
soccer field.
After it was over, Mbappé al-
most seemed to be chuckling as
Robert Lewandowski came over
to congratulate him.
Mbappé scored two goals Sun-
day and set up another for Olivier
Giroud to give France a 3-1 victory
over Poland and move the 2018
champions within three wins of
successfully defending their title.
He already has a tournament-
best five goals in Qatar as Les
Bleus have reached the quarter-
finals for the third straight World
Cup.
“The only objective for me is to
win the World Cup,” Mbappé
said. “The only thing I dream is
this. I came here to win this
World Cup. I didn’t come here to
win the Golden Ball or Golden
Boot. If I win it of course I’m go-
ing to be happy but that’s not
why I’m here. I’m here to win and
I’m here to help the French na-
tional team.”
Lewandowski, a two-time FIFA
player of the year, scored from
the penalty spot in second-half
stoppage time for Poland.
Mbappé scored his first goal in
the 74th minute when he was left
unmarked to blast in a long-
range shot after a counterattack.
He added another in stoppage
time when Poland goalkeeper
Wojciech Szczesny could only get
a weak glove on another power-
ful shot from the man in the No.
10 shirt.
“He can change a match in just
a moment and he’s always play-
ing with such joy and we all want
to share those smiles with him,”
France coach Didier Deschamps
said. “France needed a great Ky-
lian Mbappé tonight and they got
one.”
Having also provided two as-
sists, Mbappé has easily been the
most productive player in Qatar.
After his latest exploits, Mbap-
pé explained why he hadn’t ad-
dressed the media in Qatar be-
fore Sunday.
“I needed to focus on the tour-
nament and my soccer,” he said
through a translator, adding that
he had volunteered to pay a
French federation fine for his si-
lence. “When I want to concen-
trate on something that’s the way
I function. And that’s why I didn’t
want to come speak to you before
now.
“I’ve been preparing for this
England: Young Bellingham receiving rave reviews after composed, creative display
FROM B9
“The great thing for us is the goals
have been spread,” Southgate
said. “We’ve not been dependent
upon him [Kane]. It’s great that
we are showing another side to
our attacking play.”
Jude Bellingham is also one of
England’s goal scorers, but his
game is about so much more. He
proved that with a dominant mid-
field performance against Sene-
gal.
“Goodness me, Bellingham-
Jude is unbelievably good. He’s
the leader in this team. His par-
ents must be so proud. Love him,”
Lineker wrote on Twitter after the
19-year-old Borussia Dortmund
midfielder crossed for Henderson
to score the first goal in the 38th
minute.
Up to then, Senegal had been
creating the more dangerous
chances. But everything changed
once Bellingham seized control,
charging into the box to set up
Henderson before starting the
move that led to Kane’s goal.
“I’ve spoken really highly of
him,” Kane said. “He’s a fantastic
player, has everything with and
without the ball, presses really
well, getting around the pitch,
tackles. With the ball he can run,
take players on, play a through
ball. As you saw today he was real-
ly important with our goals.”
The match was played to the
beat of the Senegal fans’ drums,
which provided the soundtrack
from start to finish. England’s fans
struggled to be heard over the
| T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L O
France’s Kylian Mbappé, left, shoots to score his side’s third goal during Sunday’s round-of-16 match against Poland in Doha, Qatar.
Mbappé scored two goals and set up another for Olivier Giroud in France’s 3-1 win. RICARDO MAZALAN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LEWANDOWSKI LEAVES WORLD CUP STAGE FOR WHAT COULD BE THE LAST TIME
DOHA, QATAR Robert Lewan-
dowski cradled the neck of
Kylian Mbappé, whose face was
bowed as if to let the Poland
veteran kiss the top of his head.
It was a fatherly gesture from
the 34-year-old FIFA world
player of the year to the 23-
year-old France superstar who is
now on the fast track to winning
the next award.
Lewandowski smiled when
approaching Mbappé after the
final whistle Sunday, embracing
him with a warm hug even
though the young man’s two
goals had helped end his World
Cup in a 3-1 loss that sent
France to the quarter-finals.
Several minutes later, Lewan-
tournament throughout the sea-
son, physically and mentally,” he
added. “I wanted to be ready for
this tournament and I am.”
Mbappé celebrated his second
goal by waving his arms for the
crowd to cheer louder. Then he
hoisted himself up onto the
crossbar shortly after the final
whistle in front of France’s cele-
brating fans.
Mbappé already has nine ca-
reer World Cup goals and if he
stays healthy, he could probably
play in another three editions of
soccer’s biggest event – meaning
he might approach the tourna-
ment’s career scoring record held
by Germany striker Miroslav
England’s Jude Bellingham, right, goes into a challenge with Senegal’s Kalidou Koulibaly on Sunday.
Bellingham set up Jordan Henderson to get England’s goal scoring started in a 3-0 victory. HASSAN AMMAR/AP
noise – even when the result was
beyond doubt.
Bellingham became the young-
est England player to provide an
assist at a World Cup.
NETHERLANDS ELIMINATES
UNITED STATES IN ROUND OF 16
AL RAYYAN, QATAR Memphis
dowski lingered as the last
player left on the field, applaud-
ing Poland fans in the corner
and the team’s families and
friends in the main stand.
It sure looked like a slow walk
away from a last World Cup for
Lewandowski, who will be two
months short of his 38th birth-
day when the 2026 tournament
starts in North America.
“It’s tough to say now,” said
the father of two daughters who
last month left home to prepare
for the tournament in Qatar and
posted a photo on social media
hugging them with the message
“goodbyes are never easy.”
“Physically I’m not afraid
about this,” Lewandowski said
Klose, who scored 16 goals over
four World Cups.
“He hurt us today but I am
cheering for him because he is a
real star,” Poland coach Czeslaw
Michniewicz said through a
translator. “I’m talking about [Li-
onel] Messi, [Cristiano] Ronaldo,
Lewandowski. If someone is go-
ing to take over, I think Mbappé
will be the player to be the best
one [for] many years.”
No country has repeated as
World Cup champions in six dec-
ades – since Brazil achieved the
feat by claiming consecutive tro-
phies in 1958 and 1962. Italy is the
only other nation to have won
two straight, in 1934 and 1938.
Depay and Daley Blind scored in
the first half and Denzel Dumfries
added a late goal as the
Netherlands eliminated the
United States from the World Cup
with a 3-1 victory Saturday that
advanced the Dutch to the quar-
ter-finals. Second-half substitute
Haji Wright cut the U.S. deficit to
2-1 in the 76th minute when Chris-
tian Pulisic’s cross hit his trailing
about staying in top shape until
2026, “but you have so many
different things outside football
that decide that your happiness
is still there.”
Poland coach Czeslaw Mich-
niewicz acknowledged it could
be tough for his captain, who
does not get the same supply of
passes he enjoyed in a prolific
club career with Borussia Dort-
mund, Bayern Munich and now
Barcelona.
Staying on for a 2024 Europe-
an Championship in Germany,
where Lewandowski lived and
played for 12 years, seems
likely.
Another World Cup? Less so.
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While Lewandowski is a prolif-
ic scorer himself, he’s never come
close to winning a major title
with a Poland team that struggles
to get him the ball.
Mbappé, by contrast, is sup-
ported by a large array of talented
players – even though half a doz-
en top France players are out in-
jured.
The French team took the lead
when Mbappé threaded a pass to
Giroud and the AC Milan striker
quickly slotted the ball into the
far corner. It was Giroud’s 52nd
career international goal – break-
ing a tie with Thierry Henry on
France’s all-time scoring list.
After Mbappé leaped into Gi-
foot and popped over goalkeeper
Andries Noppert and into the net.
But Dumfries, who assisted on the
first two goals, scored on a volley
in the 81st. Runners-up in 1974,
1978 and 2010, the Oranje extend-
ed their unbeaten streak to 19
games and face Argentina or
Australia on Friday.
SOCCER B11
roud’s arms to celebrate, pump-
ing his fists, Giroud held up seven
fingers to the cameras – five on
one hand and two on the other
for “52.”
It’s all the more sweet for Gi-
roud because he wasn’t even sup-
posed to be a starter on this year’s
squad until Ballon d’Or winner
Karim Benzema was ruled out
because of injury. Giroud also
scored two goals in France’s
opening 4-1 win over Australia.
On a record-setting night for
France, goalkeeper Hugo Lloris
matched the national team mark
of 142 appearances held by Lilian
Thuram.
With two European teams
playing, there weren’t all that
many supporters of either coun-
try inside Al Thumama Stadium
except for small pockets of
France fans beating drums be-
hind one goal and red-and-white
clad spectators chanting “Polska”
behind the opposite goal. There
were also plenty of empty seats.
Play was paused briefly in the
first half when France defender
Jules Koundé was told by a match
official to remove two gold
chains he was wearing.
Deschamps was asked if Koun-
dé kept the chains on because
they displayed a rainbow symbol.
“I don’t know what was on his
necklace,” Deschamps said.
“Jules is superstitious and he
usually wears that necklace even
in training.”
France will next face either En-
gland in the quarter-finals on Sat-
urday at Al Bayt Stadium.
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MESSI SCORES, ARGENTINA
ADVANCES PAST AUSTRALIA
AL RAYYAN, QATAR Lionel Messi
marked his 1,000th professional
game with his first goal in the
knockout stage of a World Cup,
leading Argentina into the quar-
ter-finals with a 2-1 win over Aus-
tralia on Saturday. With a flourish
of his famous left foot in the 34th
minute, Messi put Argentina
ahead with his third goal at this
year’s tournament and ninth in
total at the World Cup – one more
than Diego Maradona. Julian Al-
varez pounced on a heavy touch
by Australia goalkeeper Mathew
Ryan to tap into an empty net for
the second goal as Argentina set
up a meeting with the Nether-
lands in the quarter-finals. Aus-
tralia scored a 77th-minute con-
solation goal when Craig Good-
win’s shot deflected into the net
off Argentina midfielder Enzo
Fernandez. For Australia, it was a
match too far at a World Cup in
which the team has exceeded ex-
pectations. Australia also lost in
the last 16 in 2006, to eventual
champion Italy. Maybe it’s an
omen for Argentina, which has
fully recovered from its shocking
loss to Saudi Arabia in its opening
group match and won three
straight games. As for Messi, he
now has 789 goals in a career that
might yet reach a crescendo on
Dec. 18 by winning soccer’s big-
gest trophy in his fifth and likely
last World Cup.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Brady says season’s goals still within reach for Bucs

Tampa Bay, averaging “You have a guy who knows
how to win. You have a guy who
just 18.2 points per wakes up in the morning and he
game, remains in the just believes he’s going to win,
race for a division crown right? So that’s our biggest oppo-
nent,” Jordan said.
“Whether they’re running the
FRED GOODALL TAMPA ball well, not running the ball
well, at the end of the day,” the
New Orleans star added the Bucs

T
om Brady only knows one
way the Tampa Bay Bucca-
neers can pull out of a sea-
son-long funk on offence and re-
alize their potential.
“Hope is not a strategy, so
you’ve got to go out there and
you’ve got to earn it,” the seven-
time Super Bowl champion said.
“You’ve got to do it.”
Brady entered Week 13 ranked
fourth in the NFL in passing, be-
hind Patrick Mahomes, Josh Al-
len and Joe Burrow, with 3,051
yards.
Still, the 45-year-old quarter-
back and a group of talented of-
fensive playmakers around him
have not performed anywhere
near the consistency of the past
two seasons when the Bucs were
one of the NFL’s highest-scoring
teams.
Tampa Bay (5-6) heads into
Monday night’s game against the
New Orleans Saints (4-8), an NFC
South rival that’s given Brady fits
since he moved from New En-
gland to Tampa Bay in 2020. The
Bucs are averaging just 18.2 points
per game – down from more than
30 the past two years.
Only five teams are scoring
fewer points per game than the
Bucs, who despite having a losing
record remain in a good position
to repeat as division champions.
They could host a home game in
the playoffs, where no player has
been as successful as Brady.
“We’ve got six games and
everything will be determined by
what we do going forward, and I
think that’s important for all of us
to realize,” the league’s
Tampa Bay quarterback career-passing leader said.
Tom Brady entered Week “Everyone, every team faces
13 ranked fourth in the different adversities and we’ve
NFL in passing, behind faced quite a few in different
Patrick Mahomes, Josh ways. … We’ve had some really
Allen and Joe Burrow, great wins, we’ve had some really
with 3,051 yards. tough losses,” Brady added. “No
NICK CAMMETT/ one likes the fact that we’re 5-6,
GETTY IMAGES believe me. We’re not celebrating
any of that. We have not played
the way we’re capable of playing. I
think the thing we can do about it
is this week we can try to go out
and play the way we’re capable of
playing.”
The last-place Saints trail the
Bucs by only 11⁄2 games in a tight
division race in which no team
has a winning record.
New Orleans has won four of
five regular-season meetings
between the teams since Brady
joined the Bucs, although Tampa
Bay did win a playoff matchup on
the way to capturing the
quarterback’s seventh Super
Bowl title.
“We’re going against a team
that’s a very good team, and
they’re not going to let us off the
hook,” Brady said. “They’re not
going to give us touchdowns and
give us easy runs and give us easy
throws. They’re going to chal-
lenge us. That’s what they always
do.”
New Orleans expects to catch
Brady and the Bucs at their best,
too.
Some of Tampa Bay’s prob-
lems on offence are linked to hav-
ing the NFL’s 32nd-ranked rush-
ing attack.
But Saints defensive end Cam-
eron Jordan, who has 17 sacks and
18 tackles for loss in 23 career
games against the Bucs, empha-
sized New Orleans understands
previous success against Brady
means nothing.
still have a big, strong running
back in Leonard Fournette and a
formidable collections of receiv-
ers led by Mike Evans, Chris God-
win and Julio Jones.
Brady pointed to turnovers as
the difference in the series.
The Bucs intercepted Jameis
Winston three times and had five
takeaways overall in a 20-10 victo-
ry at New Orleans in Week 2, a
game that was tied 3-3 entering
the fourth quarter.
The Saints have won four
straight in Tampa, including 38-3
in 2020 and 9-0 last year.
“We’re going to have to take
care of the ball, we’re going to
have to make the plays when
they’re there,” Brady said. “We’re
not winning scoring zero points.
We’re certainly not winning,
probably, scoring three points. So
we’re going to have to do a good
job and hit the ones that are
there.”
Jordan stressed if the Saints are
going to improve their plight,
they need to do whatever neces-
sary to win Monday night.
“I have no idea in terms of ana-
lytics … but to us, every game is of
the utmost importance. It’s dire
to win this game,” Jordan said.
“It doesn’t matter the oppo-
nent. Right now, we have to win
or we’re going to be sitting the
same place we were at the end of
last year – outside of the playoffs.
And that’s not where we want to
be,” Jordan added, “We have a
chance. We have to be able to cap-
italize upon that.”
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NHL NFL NBA PGA TOUR FIFA WORLD CUP

EASTERN CONFERENCE WESTERN CONFERENCE WEEK 13 EASTERN CONFERENCE HERO WORLD CHALLENGE ROUND OF 16
ATLANTIC DIVISION CENTRAL DIVISION W L Pct GB At Qatar
GP W L OL SL GF GA Pt GP W L OL SL GF GA Pt AMERICAN CONFERENCE Boston 19 5 .792 — All Times Eastern
Boston 23 20 3 0 0 93 49 40 Dallas 25 14 6 3 2 98 72 33 EAST Milwaukee 16 6 .727 2 Sunday
Toronto 26 15 5 6 0 79 66 36 Winnipeg 23 15 7 1 0 74 59 31 W L T Pct PF PA Cleveland 15 9 .625 4 At Nassau, Bahamas Sunday
Tampa Bay 24 15 8 0 1 84 75 31 Minnesota 24 13 9 1 1 78 74 28 Buffalo 9 3 0 .750 333 209 Atlanta 13 10 .565 5 /1
2 Yardage: 7,449; Par: 72 France 3, Poland 1
Detroit 24 12 7 3 2 77 76 29 Colorado 22 13 8 1 0 75 61 27 Miami 8 4 0 .667 299 289 Indiana 12 10 .545 6 FINAL ROUND England 3, Senegal 0
Florida 25 12 9 3 1 88 83 28 Nashville 23 12 9 1 1 63 70 26 N.Y. Jets 7 5 0 .583 252 223 Philadelphia 12 11 .522 6 /1
2 Viktor Hovland 69-70-64-69—272
Montreal 24 12 11 1 0 70 83 25 St Louis 24 11 13 0 0 69 90 22 New England 6 6 0 .500 249 226 Toronto 12 11 .522 6 /1
Scottie Scheffler 72-68-66-68—274
Buffalo 24 10 13 1 0 90 89 21 Arizona 22 7 11 2 2 59 78 18
2
Saturday
NORTH Brooklyn 13 12 .520 6 /1
2 Cameron Young 71-69-68-68—276 Netherlands 3, United States 1
Ottawa 24 10 13 1 0 75 78 21 Chicago 23 7 12 2 2 61 85 18 Miami 11 12 .478 7 /1
Xander Schauffele 72-68-69-68—277
Baltimore 8 4 0 .667 285 236 2
Argentina 2, Australia 1
METROPOLITAN DIVISION PACIFIC DIVISION Cincinnati 8 4 0 .667 312 255 Washington 11 13 .458 8 Justin Thomas 72-70-66-70—278
GP W L OL SL GF GA Pt GP W L OL SL GF GA Pt Cleveland 5 7 0 .417 290 300 New York 11 13 .458 8 Collin Morikawa 69-71-69-70—279 Monday
New Jersey 25 20 4 1 0 93 57 41 Vegas 26 18 7 1 0 90 68 37 Pittsburgh 5 7 0 .417 213 277 Chicago 9 14 .391 9 /1
Tony Finau 72-72-70-68—282
Carolina 25 14 6 5 0 74 69 33 Seattle 24 15 6 3 0 88 75 33
2
Japan vs. Croatia, 10 a.m.
SOUTH Charlotte 7 16 .304 11 /
1
2 Sungjae Im 74-71-70-68—283 Brazil vs. South Korea, 2 p.m.
NY Islanders 25 15 10 0 0 79 66 30 Los Angeles 27 13 10 4 0 92 97 30 Detroit 6 19 .240 13 /
1
Jon Rahm 73-71-68-71—283
Pittsburgh 25 13 8 4 0 89 78 30 Edmonton 25 14 11 0 0 87 90 28 Tennessee 7 5 0 .583 219 240 2

Indianapolis 4 7 1 .375 190 244 Orlando 5 19 .208 14 Tom Kim 69-72-74-69—284 Tuesday
NY Rangers 26 11 10 4 1 76 76 27 Calgary 24 11 10 2 1 73 74 25 Sepp Straka 69-74-70-71—284
Washington 26 10 12 2 2 71 83 24 Vancouver 25 10 12 2 1 84 95 23 Jacksonville 4 8 0 .333 258 272 WESTERN CONFERENCE Morocco vs. Spain, 10 a.m.
Houston 1 10 1 .125 188 287 Sam Burns 70-75-69-72—286 Portugal vs. Switzerland, 2 p.m.
Philadelphia 25 8 12 4 1 59 82 21 San Jose 27 8 15 1 3 79 97 20 W L Pct GB
Columbus 23 8 13 1 1 66 92 18 Anaheim 26 6 17 1 2 65 111 15 Matt Fitzpatrick 74-70-76-67—287
WEST Phoenix 16 7 .696 — Billy Horschel 73-70-72-72—287
Kansas City 9 3 0 .750 350 270 New Orleans 15 8 .652 1 QUARTERFINAL
Sunday Tampa Bay 4 Toronto 3 (OT) Jordan Spieth 76-72-72-69—289
L.A. Chargers 6 6 0 .500 272 309 Denver 14 9 .609 2
Winnipeg 5 Anaheim 2 Chicago 5 NY Rangers 2 Corey Conners 75-76-72-67—290
Las Vegas 5 7 0 .417 292 296 Memphis 14 9 .609 2 Friday, Dec. 9
Minnesota 6 Dallas 5 (SO) Florida 5 Seattle 1 Max Homa 71-78-71-72—292
Denver 3 9 0 .250 166 204 Sacramento 13 9 .591 2 /1

Detroit 4 Columbus 2 Calgary 5 Washington 2 2

Shane Lowry 74-77-71-71—293
Golden State 13 11 .542 3 /1 At Al Rayyan, Qatar (Education City)
San Jose at Buffalo Vancouver 3 Arizona 2 (OT) 2
Kevin Kisner 74-72-77-71—294
NATIONAL CONFERENCE L.A. Clippers 13 11 .542 3 /1
2
Tommy Fleetwood 71-76-72-76—295
Japan-Croatia winner vs. Brazil-South
Chicago at NY Islanders Carolina 4 Los Angeles 2 Korea winner, 10 p.m.
EAST Utah 14 12 .538 3 /1
2

W L T Pct PF PA Portland 12 11 .522 4

Saturday Monday Philadelphia 11 1 0 .917 338 226 Dallas 11 11 .500 4 /1
2
DP WORLD TOUR At Lusail, Qatar
Minnesota 5 Anaheim 4 (SO) All Times Eastern Dallas 8 3 0 .727 279 187 Netherlands vs. Argentina, 2 p.m.
Minnesota 11 12 .478 5 INVESTEC SOUTH AFRICAN
Vegas 4 Detroit 1 Colorado at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. N.Y. Giants 7 4 1 .625 245 252 L.A. Lakers 10 12 .455 5 /1
2
OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP
Pittsburgh 6 St. Louis 2 St. Louis at NY Rangers, 7 p.m. Washington 7 5 1 .577 253 256 Saturday, Dec. 10
Oklahoma City 10 13 .435 6
New Jersey 3 Philadelphia 2 Vegas at Boston, 7 p.m.
NORTH Houston 6 17 .261 10 Sunday
Ottawa 5 San Jose 2 Washington at Edmonton, 8:30 p.m. At Doha, Qatar (Al Thumama)
Minnesota 10 2 0 .833 289 279 San Antonio 6 18 .250 10 /
1
2
At Johannesburg, S. Africa
Edmonton 5 Montreal 3 Arizona at Calgary, 9 p.m. Morocco-Spain winner vs. Portugal-
Detroit 5 7 0 .417 315 324 Sunday Purse: $1.5 million
Boston 5 Colorado 1 Montreal at Vancouver, 10:30 p.m. Switzerland winner, 10 a.m.
Green Bay 5 8 0 .385 263 302 Yardage: 8,161; Par: 72
Chicago 3 10 0 .231 270 333 New Orleans 121, Denver 106
AHL OHL Phoenix 133, San Antonio 95 At Al Khor, Qatar
SOUTH FINAL ROUND
Boston 103, Brooklyn 92 England vs. France, 2 p.m.
Tampa Bay 5 6 0 .455 200 203 Thriston Lawrence, $231,397 64-67-67-74—272
Sunday Sunday Atlanta 5 8 0 .385 288 312 L.A. Lakers 130, Washington 119 Clement Sordet, $149,728 68-66-66-73—273
W-B/Scranton 7 Hershey 3 Ottawa 6 Peterborough 2 Memphis 122, Detroit 112
Springfield 3 Bridgeport 1 Flint 4 Kingston 2
Carolina 4 8 0 .333 230 266 Jens Fahrbring, $85,753 65-70-69-70—274 TELEVISION
New Orleans 4 8 0 .333 249 280 New York 92, Cleveland 81 Matthias Schmid, $68,058 66-73-69-69—277
Providence 3 Hartford 1 Oshawa 4 Hamilton 3 Sacramento 110, Chicago 101 MONDAY (ALL TIMES EASTERN)
WEST Daniel Brown, $45,054 71-70-69-68—278
Iowa 7 Chicago 0 Sudbury 13 Niagara 2 Indiana at Portland
San Francisco 8 4 0 .667 282 190 Dean Burmester, $45,054 70-71-66-71—278
Toronto 3 Belleville 1 Barrie 3 Sarnia 2 (OT) SOCCER
Seattle 7 5 0 .583 318 304 Chase Hanna, $45,054 69-73-69-67—278
San Jose 4 Tucson 3 (OT) Sault Ste. Marie 5 Owen Sound 3 Saturday
Arizona 4 8 0 .333 264 321 Marcel Siem, $45,054 69-68-70-71—278
Laval at Abbotsford London 5 Mississauga 4 FIFA World Cup
L.A. Rams 3 9 0 .250 201 280 Wu Ashun, $24,818 71-67-67-74—279
Bakersfield at Ontario Dallas 121, New York 100 Japan vs. Croatia, FOX, TSN 1, 3, 4, 5, 10
Byes: Arizona, Carolina Hennie Du Plessis, $24,818 70-72-67-70—279
Saturday Sacramento 123, L.A. Clippers 96 a.m.
Sunday Edoardo Molinari, $24,818 67-70-70-72—279
Tuesday Kitchener 5 Guelph 1 Milwaukee 105, Charlotte 96 Brazil vs. Korea Republic, CTV, TSN 1, 4,
Jaco Prinsloo, $24,818 70-71-68-70—279
All Times Eastern Erie 7 Mississauga 3 Toronto 121, Orlando 108 5, FOX, 1:45 p.m.
Baltimore 10, Denver 9 Jayden Schaper, $24,818 68-72-70-69—279
Colorado at Bakersfield, 1:30 p.m. North Bay 3 Peterborough 0 Oklahoma City 135, Minnesota 128
Cleveland 27, Houston 14 Charl Schwartzel, $24,818 68-74-69-68—279
Charlotte at Hershey, 7 p.m. Sarnia 6 Saginaw 3 Golden State 120, Houston 101 BASKETBALL
Detroit 40, Jacksonville 14 MJ Daffue, $17,440 71-64-73-72—280
Windsor 5 Barrie 2 Portland 116, Utah 111
Green Bay 28, Chicago 19 Scott Jamieson, $17,440 66-71-72-71—280
WHL Minnesota 27, N.Y. Jets 22 Tom McKibbin, $17,440 67-71-73-69—280 NBA G-League: Greensboro vs. Raptors
Philadelphia 35, Tennessee 10 Monday Wilco Nienaber, $17,440 67-69-70-74—280 905, NBA TV Canada, TSN 2, 11 a.m.
Sunday
QMJHL Pittsburgh 19, Atlanta 16 All Times Eastern Renato Paratore, $17,440 70-70-69-71—280 NBA: Boston vs. Toronto, TSN 4, 5, 7:30
Calgary 5 Moose Jaw 3 Washington 20, N.Y. Giants 20, OT Martin Simonsen, $17,440 73-68-65-74—280 p.m.
Sunday San Francisco 33, Miami 17 L.A. Clippers at Charlotte, 7 p.m. NBA: Indiana vs. Golden State, NBA TV
Regina 8 Edmonton 2 Richard Sterne, $17,440 69-71-74-66—280
Victoriaville 3 Acadie-Bathurst 2 (OT) Seattle 27, L.A. Rams 23 Milwaukee at Orlando, 7 p.m. Canada, 10 p.m.
Prince George at Vancouver Ockie Strydom, $17,440 70-63-75-72—280
Quebec 5 Val-d’Or 3 Cincinnati 27, Kansas City 24 Boston at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.
Kelowna at Everett Luke Brown, $13,748 67-72-72-70—281
Saint John 3 Blainville-Boisbriand 2 (OT) Las Vegas 27, L.A. Chargers 20 Oklahoma City at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. HOCKEY
Alejandro Gonzalez, $13,748 72-67-70-72—281
Drummondville 3 Gatineau 2 (SO) Indianapolis at Dallas Miami at Memphis, 8 p.m.
Monday James Du Preez, $13,748 70-68-70-73—281
Baie-Comeau 4 Chicoutimi 2 Philadelphia at Houston, 8 p.m. NHL: Arizona vs. Calgary, SN 1, 9 p.m.
No games scheduled Ross Fisher, $13,748 65-71-71-74—281
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Tuesday
Halifax 4 Baie-Comeau 0 Buffalo 24, New England 10 Adrian Otaegui, $13,748 70-66-71-74—281 NHL: Montreal vs. Vancouver, SN Pacific,
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Brandon at Saskatoon, 8 p.m. Victoriaville 3 Moncton 2 (SO)
Swift Current at Lethbridge, 9 p.m. Monday Jeong-Weon Ko, $11,298 69-66-75-72—282
Charlottetown 5 Cape Breton 1 All Times Eastern Detroit at Miami, 7:30 p.m. Zander Lombard, $11,298 69-71-71-71—282 FOOTBALL
Medicine Hat at Edmonton, 9 p.m. Sherbrooke 4 Shawinigan 3 (OT) L.A. Lakers at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m. David Ravetto, $11,298 71-69-70-72—282
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Prince George at Everett, 10:05 p.m. Jorge Campillo, $9,562 73-67-72-71—283 3, 8:15 p.m.

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M O N DAY , D ECE M B E R 5 , 2 0 2 2
Burrow, Bengals top Mahomes, KC again
Cincinnati quarterback
goes 25 for 31 for 286
yards in rematch of last
year’s AFC championship
MITCH STACY CINCINNATI
Joe Burrow threw two touch-
down passes and ran for another
score, Samaje Perine rushed for a
season-high 106 yards and the
Cincinnati Bengals beat Kansas
City 27-24 on Sunday in their first
meeting since the Bengals pre-
vailed in last season’s AFC cham-
pionship game.
Patrick Mahomes and KC lost
their chance to avenge two losses
to Burrow and Cincinnati last sea-
son. The Bengals beat Kansas City
last Jan. 2 to clinch the AFC North
title, then won four weeks later in
overtime – also by a 27-24 score –
to reach the Super Bowl for the
first time in 33 years.
In this matchup of elite quar-
terbacks, a defensive play in the
fourth quarter proved to be the
turning point.
With KC leading 24-20, Cincin-
nati linebacker Germaine Pratt
stripped Travis Kelce after a catch
and recovered the fumble.
Burrow, working from his own
47, then completed six of seven
passes for 53 yards, finishing the
drive with an eight-yard TD pass
to backup running back Chris
Evans that gave the Bengals the
lead with 8:54 left.
The subsequent KC drive was
snuffed out when Joseph Ossai
Around the NFL
In East Rutherford, N.J., Graham
Gano came up well short on a 58-
yard field goal attempt as time ex-
pired in overtime, leaving the
New York Giants and the Wash-
ington Commanders tied 20-20
Sunday in a deadlock between
NFC playoff contenders. Taylor
Heinicke threw two touchdown
passes for Washington and con-
verted a crucial fourth-down pass
during a tying 90-yard touch-
down drive late in the fourth
quarter. The Giants (7-4-1) ended
a two-game losing streak, while
the Commanders (7-5-1) are un-
beaten in four (3-0-1) and have
only one loss in their past eight
games.
In Baltimore, Tyler Huntley
capped a 91-yard drive with a two-
yard touchdown run with 28 sec-
onds remaining, and the Ravens
overcame Lamar Jackson’s injury
to beat the Denver Broncos 10-9.
Jackson left after the first quarter
with an injured knee, and the
Broncos mostly shut down Balti-
more after that. But on their final
possession, the Ravens drove 16
plays, aided by a couple big Den-
ver penalties. Huntley converted
on fourth-and-two from the Den-
ver 18 with a short run, then Ke-
nyan Drake caught a 13-yard pass.
Huntley scored on the next play
for the Ravens (8-4), who stayed
atop the AFC North.
In Minneapolis, Justin Jefferson’s
touchdown catch with 8:33 left
gave the Minnesota Vikings
enough of a lead to hang on de-
spite a relentless rally by New
York, beating the Jets 27-22. Cam-
ryn Bynum’s interception at the
one-yard line with 10 seconds left
finally sealed it for the Vikings
(10-2), who completed a four-
game sweep of the AFC East in
their typical nail-biting fashion.
Mike White, who was picked off
twice, was 31 of 57 for 369 yards in
his second start this season for
the Jets (7-5).
In Houston, Deshaun Watson
had a sloppy performance in his
first game in 700 days, but a punt
return for a touchdown by Dono-
van Peoples-Jones and two defen-
sive TDs were enough for the Cle-
veland Browns to beat the lowly
Texans 27-14. In the same stadium
where he played his previous
game, a rusty Watson threw for
131 yards with an interception in
his debut for the Browns (5-7)
against his former team in his re-
turn after serving an 11-game NFL
suspension for sexual-miscon-
duct allegations.
In Philadelphia, Jalen Hurts
strengthened his MVP bid by
throwing for 380 yards and three
touchdowns and running for
another score, and A.J Brown
caught two touchdown passes
against his former team as the Ea-
gles won 35-10 over the Tennessee
Titans. Hurts has led the Eagles to
an 11-1 start, their first time with
that record since 2004 and the
fourth time in franchise history.
The 1949 Eagles won the NFL
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sacked Mahomes, and Harrison
Butker missed a 55-yard field-goal
attempt wide right.
Burrow converted two third
downs on passes to Ja’Marr Chase
and Tee Higgins to allow the Ben-
gals to run out the clock.
championship. The 1980 and
2004 teams lost in the Super
Bowl. The speedy, sure-armed QB
set a career high with 29 total
touchdowns and had his third ca-
reer game with four total TDs. His
first half alone was a pretty good
game for most quarterbacks: 268
yards passing and two touch-
downs with a rushing score. The
Eagles’ defence was first-rate, too.
In Chicago, Aaron Rodgers led
three fourth-quarter scoring
drives, receiver Christian Watson
took an end-around 46 yards for a
touchdown in the closing min-
utes, and the Green Bay Packers
rallied to beat the Bears 28-19. The
Packers (5-8) looked like they
were on their way to another loss
after dropping seven of eight,
trailing 19-10 through three quar-
ters. But they made enough plays
down the stretch to come away
with their eighth straight win
over the Bears (3-10), who lost
their sixth straight.
In Detroit, Jamaal Williams ran
for his 14th touchdown this sea-
son and the Lions routed the Jack-
sonville Jaguars 40-14. The Lions
(5-7) scored on all five of their
drives in the first half to take a 17-
point lead, and then on their first
three possessions of the second
half to pull away. The Jaguars
(4-8) had a scare on the last play
of the second quarter when quar-
terback Trevor Lawrence was
sacked and grabbed his left knee,
but their defence made his return
moot. Lawrence was taken out in
the fourth quarter with his team
trailing by 26 points. He finished
17 of 31 for 179 yards with a touch-
down. Detroit’s Jared Goff com-
pleted 31 of 41 passes for 340 yards
and two touchdowns.
In Atlanta, Kenny Pickett tossed a
17-yard touchdown pass to Con-
nor Heyward, Matthew Wright
kicked four field goals and the
Pittsburgh Steelers held off the
Falcons 19-16. Coming off a Mon-
day night victory at Indianapolis,
the Steelers (5-7) won two
straight games for the first time
during what’s been a tough re-
building year. The Falcons fell to
5-8. Pickett has now thrown 128
passes without an interception
since his last pick against Phila-
delphia on Oct. 30. The Steelers
improved to 4-4 in the eight starts
he’s made since taking over the
No. 1 job.
In Santa Clara, Calif., rookie
Brock Purdy threw two touch-
down passes after replacing an
injured Jimmy Garoppolo and the
San Francisco 49ers used another
dominant defensive perform-
ance to beat the Miami Dolphins
33-17 for their fifth straight win.
The 49ers (8-4) allowed a 75-yard
touchdown pass to Trent Sher-
field on the opening play from
scrimmage but little else until the
fourth quarter against a high-
powered attack for Miami (8-4)
which had scored at least 30
points in four straight games. Jim-
mie Ward and Deommodore
Mahomes was 16 for 27 for 223
yards and a touchdown and ran
for another score.
Cincinnati led for the entire
the first half and took a 14-10 lead
into the locker room. Kansas City
then scored two third-quarter
Lenoir intercepted Tua Tagovai-
loa in the third quarter to lead to
two field goals. The Dolphins had
their five-game winning streak
snapped in coach Mike McDa-
niel’s first game against the 49ers
after spending the past five years
as an assistant in San Francisco.
In Inglewood, Calif., DK Metcalf
caught an eight-yard touchdown
pass from Geno Smith with 36
seconds to play, and the Seattle
Seahawks overcame an inspired
performance by Bobby Wagner
for a 27-23 victory over the spirall-
ing Los Angeles Rams. Smith
passed for a career-high 367 yards
and threw three TD passes for the
Seahawks (7-5), who barely
snapped their two-game skid
with 438 yards of offence against a
Rams defence missing Aaron Do-
nald. The Seahawks sent Super
Bowl defending champion Los
Angeles (3-9) to its sixth straight
defeat.
In Las Vegas, Derek Carr complet-
ed two long touchdown passes to
Davante Adams in the third quar-
ter to rally the Raiders to a 27-20
victory over the Los Angeles
Chargers. That connection on of-
fence backed an aggressive de-
fence that sacked Justin Herbert
five times as the Raiders (5-7)
won their third consecutive game
and split their season series with
the Chargers. The loss was a sig-
nificant setback for the Chargers
(6-6), who are just outside the
playoff picture. Los Angeles led
10-0 early in the second quarter
before the Raiders charged back
by outscoring the Chargers 27-3.
Carr completed a 31-yarder to
Adams early in the third quarter
to give Las Vegas the lead for good
at 17-13. Less than four minutes
later, the duo hooked up on a 45-
yard flea flicker for another score.
Adams finished with eight recep-
tions for 177 yards, surpassing
1,000 yards for the fourth time
since 2018. Carr completed 16 of
30 passes for 250 yards and the
two TDs to Adams. Josh Jacobs
rushed for 144 yards and a touch-
down, and the Raiders improved
to 5-1 this season when has 100 or
more yards.
380: Passing yards for Philadel-
phia quarterback Jalen Hurts on
29 completions of 39 attempts
and three touchdowns in the Ea-
gles’ win over the Titans.
177: Receiving yards for Las Vegas
wide receiver Davante Adams on
eight catches and two touch-
downs in the Raiders’ win over
the Chargers.
144: Rushing yards for Las Vegas
running back Josh Jacobs on 26
carries and one touchdown in the
Raiders’ win.
60: Length of a field goal – a fran-
chise record – at the end of the
first half by the Jets’ Greg Zuer-
lein, among five field goals he
kicked successfully.
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FOOTBALL B13
touchdowns – an eight-yard-run Burrow finished 25 for 31 for
by Isiah Pacheco and a three-yard 286 yards. Chase, in his return af-
scramble by Mahomes – while the ter missing four games with a hip
Bengals had to settle for a pair of injury, had seven receptions for
field goals. That gave KC a 24-20 97 yards.
lead that held until the turnover
and Cincinnati TD. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Watson gets win in
return from ban, declines
to express remorse
ROB MAADDI HOUSTON
Deshaun Watson signed autographs, posed for selfies, ig-
nored the boos and earned a sloppy win.
Again, he declined to express remorse for behaviour that
earned him an 11-game suspension.
Back in his old home to play his first game in 700 days,
Watson showed plenty of rust debuting with Cleveland, but
the Browns didn’t need him to do much in a 27-14 victory
over the Houston Texans on Sunday.
After signing jerseys for Texans and Browns fans and tak-
ing pictures with a few more before the game, Watson was
overwhelmed with boos once it started. He heard jeers be-
fore each snap in the first half and for much of the afternoon.
“They’re supposed to boo. I’m a Cleveland Brown now,”
Watson said.
Watson has been accused by more than two dozen wom-
en of sexual harassment and assault during massage ses-
sions. He has settled 23 civil lawsuits brought by the women,
while two others, including one filed in October, are pend-
ing.
Asked if he felt remorseful for his actions in his return to
Houston, Watson said his legal team told him not to address
questions about his suspension.
“Of course, it was a tough situation,” he said. “The suspen-
sion was tough but, at the same time, my main focus was just
to try to be 1-0 as a football player today.”
Watson had several supporters in the stands before the
game, while a group of the women who accused him of sex-
ual misconduct also planned to attend.
The few fans in their seats when Watson and the Browns
jogged onto the field about an hour before kickoff booed.
“It is what it is,” Watson said of the boos. “I can’t control
what the fans do. My job is to go out there and execute.”
He didn’t do that too well.
Watson finished 12-of-22 passing for 131 yards and one in-
terception. The three-time Pro Bowl quarterback posted the
worst passer rating of his NFL career at 53.4. The Browns (5-7)
got two defensive touchdowns and a special teams score to
beat the Texans (1-10-1).
Watson also was fined US$5-million and required to un-
dergo professional counselling and therapy.
Watson’s first completed pass on his third attempt led to a
turnover when Anthony Schwartz fumbled after a 12-yard
gain. Watson later drove the Browns to Houston’s 11 before
throwing a pick in the end zone.
“We don’t expect him to be Superman after he hasn’t
played in two years,” All-Pro defensive end Myles Garrett
said.
Watson sat out the 2021 season after demanding a trade
from Houston. After two grand juries in Texas declined to
indict him over allegations of sexual harassment and as-
sault, the Browns traded several draft picks to get Watson
and then signed him to a fully guaranteed US$235-million
contract.
The NFL wanted to suspend Watson for at least one season
but settled for 11 games after an independent arbiter initially
gave him a six-game ban.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF FIELD SET:
GEORGIA VS. OHIO STATE; MICHIGAN VS. TCU
The defending national champions, two Big Ten powers and
an upstart that wasn’t even expected to contend in its confer-
ence this season. Georgia, Michigan, TCU and Ohio State were
selected Sunday to play in the College Football Playoff, giving
the Big Ten multiple programs in the four-team field for the
first time. The top-ranked and reigning champion Bulldogs
and fourth-seeded Buckeyes will meet Dec. 31 at the Peach
Bowl in Atlanta. The second-seeded Wolverines and third-
ranked Horned Frogs, the lone first-timer in the final four, will
play at the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Ariz., the same day. The
national championship game is Jan. 9 at SoFi Stadium in
Inglewood, Calif., and it could be a rematch of rivals Ohio
State and Michigan in what will soon be Big Ten country as
the conference expands. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Marner sets Leafs points-streak record,
but Toronto loses in OT once again
MARK DIDTLER TAMPA
Mitch Marner broke the Toronto
points-streak record at 19 games,
scoring short-handed and power-
play goals in the Maple Leafs’ 4-3
overtime loss to the Tampa Bay
Lightning on Saturday night.
Alex Killorn scored from the
right circle 33 seconds into the ex-
tra period. Anthony Cirelli, who
made his season debut after
shoulder surgery, passed the
puck to Killorn for the winner.
Marner opened the scoring
from the low slot off a pass from
behind the net by David Kampf at
5:18 of the second. The right win-
ger broke the Maple Leafs record
set by Darryl Sittler in 1977-78 and
matched by Eddie Olczyk in 1989-
90. The NHL record is 51 games,
set by Wayne Gretzky (1983-84).
“It’s cool,” Marner said. “I grew
up in the city. I love being part of
this team nowadays. It’s special to
me. It’s special growing up to
watch this team play hockey. Now
to have my name on something
amazing, it’s hard to describe.”
Marner’s power-play goal tied
it at 3-3 with 8:05 left in the third.
Tampa Bay had taken a 3-2 lead
on power-play goals by Nikita Ku-
cherov and Ross Colton in the
opening 4:34 of the third. Kuche-
rov’s goal came after Marner was
sent off for tripping four seconds
into the period.
Toronto’s John Tavares had a
goal disallowed with 4:04 left in
the third after a review showed he
kicked the puck into the net.
Andrei Vasilevskiy made 36
saves, and Vladislav Namestni-
Mitch Marner celebrates his second goal against the Lightning during the
third period on Saturday in Tampa. MIKE CARLSON/GETTY IMAGES
FORMER OILERS SCOUT BARRY FRASER DEAD AT 82
Former Oilers head scout Barry
Fraser, whose shrewd draft picks
helped build a hockey dynasty
in Edmonton, has died, the team
announced Sunday. He was 82.
Fraser was one of the archi-
tects of the great Oiler teams of
the 1980s and ‘90s.
After being appointed the
team’s director of scouting in
1979, the Kirkland, Ont. native
was credited with drafting future
kov also scored for the Lightning.
Cirelli assisted on Namestni-
kov’s goal. He played 12:45.
“It felt great just to be out there
with the guys,” Cirelli said. “It’s
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Hall of Famers Mark Messier, Jari
Kurri, Glenn Anderson, Kevin
Lowe, Paul Coffey and Grant
Fuhr.
The franchise went on to win
five Stanley Cups in 1984, 1985,
1987, 1988 and 1990.
The Oilers revealed in a Twit-
ter post that Fraser died Sunday
in Edmonton. The cause of
death was not released.
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awesome. It’s been a while.”
Steven Stamkos extended his
points streak to 10 games with an
assist on Kucherov’s goal.
Stamkos has five career 10-
game points streaks. Only Martin
St. Louis (seven) and Kucherov
(six) have more in team history.
Toronto’s Matt Murray stop-
ped 29 shots, and William Nylan-
der had a goal.
The teams combined for 15 mi-
nor penalties. The Lightning went
two for six on the power play,
while Toronto converted one of
five chances.
“It was a weird game,” Tampa
Bay coach Jon Cooper said. “I
think both coaches and staffs will
look at it, and the only benefit
was we got the extra point.”
Just 22 seconds after a goal by
Tampa Bay’s Brayden Point was
overturned for offside after a vid-
eo review, Nylander made it 2-1
with 3:10 left in the second on his
eighth goal in the last 10 games.
Namestnikov tied it 1-1 on his
first goal in 24 games 2:22 after
Marner’s goal.
Stamkos was honoured pre-
game after becoming the first
Lightning player and 95th in the
NHL to reach 1,000 points Thurs-
day night at Philadelphia.
He received a Tiffany Crystal
from Don Van Massenhoven, who
represented the NHL, and an en-
graved gold stick from Tampa Bay
owner Jeff Vinik.
Stamkos set the Lightning re-
cord with an 18-game point streak
at Toronto on Mar. 11, 2009 and
said he remembers it “like it was
yesterday because my sticks got
stolen after the game at the To-
ronto airport.” The Lightning cap-
tain then went three straight
pointless games.
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winning time of 1 minute 20.75
seconds on the 2.5-kilometre
track in Banff National Park.
Austria’s Cornelia Huetter was
second just two hundredths of a
second back of Suter. Huetter
was third in Friday’s season-
opening downhill. She sat out
Saturday’s race because of con-
cussion symptoms stemming
from a crash last season. Ragn-
hild Mowinckel of Norway
placed third in 1:20.91. Italy’s
Sofia Goggia was fifth after win-
ning both downhills.
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NORWEGIAN SWEEPS BEAVER
CREEK WITH SUPER-G TITLE
BEAVER CREEK VILLAGE, COLO.
Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of
Norway continued his hot start
to the World Cup ski season with
a super-G title in Beaver Creek on
Sunday. Kilde’s winning time of 1
minute 10.73 seconds was just
in the 20-kilometre men’s race.
Paal Golberg of Norway placed
first with a time of 48 minutes
14.5 seconds. Countryman Sjur
Roethe finished less than one
second behind at 48:15.4 to take
silver, while Martin Loewstroem
Nyenget completed the Norwe-
gian sweep of the podium with a
time of 48:15.6. Stewart-Jones
finished 13th in the women’s
race. Krista Parmakoski of Fin-
land won the women’s race in a
time of 53:54.8. Finland’s Kerttu
Niskanen placed second and
Sweden’s Moa Ilar was third.
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MONTREAL FORCE FALLS TO
CONNECTICUT WHALE
SEPT-ILES, QUE. Kennedy March-
ment notched the winner late in
the third period as the Connecti-
cut Whale edged the Montreal
Force 3-2 on Sunday in Premier
Hockey Federation action.
Marchment, a native of Courtice,
Ont., scored the deciding goal
with 5:41 left in the final frame.
drugs, and support for Schilling
dropped after he made hateful
remarks toward Muslims, trans-
gender people and others.
McGriff, hit .284 with 493 homers
and 1,550 RBIs over 19 seasons
with six big-league teams, in-
cluding the Jays.
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ANUNOBY POURS IN 32 POINTS
AS RAPTORS BEAT MAGIC
O.G. Anunoby tied his season
high with 32 points and the
Toronto Raptors bounced back
from a pair of ugly losses with a
121-108 rout of the Orlando Magic
on Saturday. Pascal Siakam had
26 points and 10 assists as the
Raptors (12-11) sent the Magic –
the league’s worst team at 5-19 –
to their eighth consecutive loss.
Scottie Barnes had 17 points and
a season-high 14 rebounds, while
Fred VanVleet had 13 points and
seven assists. The Raptors play
host to the Boston Celtics on
Monday. THE CANADIAN PRESS

finished a shade behind in
3:47.511. Lamarche won Canada’s
first medal of the day, capturing
Have The bronze in the women’s 1,000 in
Globe and Mail 1:17.393. Korea’s Min-Sun Kim
won gold (1:16.066), and Kazakh-
delivered to stan’s Yekaterina Aydova earned
silver (1:16.191). Canada won a
your door total of 14 medals at the new
Centre de glace Intact Assurance
in Quebec City’s first internation-
al long-track speedskating com-
petition in 30 years.
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SWITZERLAND’S SUTER CLAIMS
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Alexis Pinturault of France was
third in 1:11.03. The Norwegian
also won Saturday’s downhill in
Colorado with Odermatt fin-
ishing second and Toronto’s
James Crawford placing third.
Crawford managed an 11th-place
finish in Sunday’s super-G.
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TWO CANADIANS CRACK TOP 15
AT CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING
LILLEHAMMER, NORWAY Canadian
cross-county skiers Antoine Cyr
and Katherine Stewart-Jones
both managed top-15 finishes in
their respective World Cup clas-
sic-ski mass start races on Sun-
day. The 24-year-old Cyr, of
Gatineau, Que., finished five
Alyssa Wohlfeiler, who assisted
on the winner, and Emma Kee-
nan also scored for the Whale.
Sarah Lefort and Kaity Howarth
replied for Montreal.
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BONDS, CLEMENS LEFT OUT OF
HALL AGAIN, MCGRIFF ELECTED
SAN DIEGO Barry Bonds, Roger
Clemens and Curt Schilling were
passed over by a Baseball Hall of
Fame committee that elected
former big-league slugger Fred
McGriff to Cooperstown on
Sunday. It was the first time that
Bonds, Clemens and Schilling
had faced a Hall committee since
their 10th and final appearances
on the Baseball Writers’ Associ-
ation of America ballot. Bonds
and Clemens have been accused
MCINTOSH CLOSES OUT U.S. OPEN
WITH THIRD MEDAL
GREENSBORO, N.C. Canada’s
Summer McIntosh earned her
third medal of the U.S. Open
swimming competition with a
silver in the women’s 200-metre
backstroke on Saturday. The
Toronto native set a personal
best with a time of 2 minutes 7.15
seconds, finishing behind world
champion Regan Smith of the
United States, who set a meet
record at 2:05.28. McIntosh, 16,
won the 400 individual medley
on Friday. She also earned silver
in the 400 freestyle on Thursday.
Josh Liendo of Markham, Ont.,
also picked up his third medal of
the competition on Saturday,
claiming silver in the men’s 100
freestyle. THE CANADIAN PRESS
M O N DAY , D ECE M B E R 5 , 2 0 2 2
CANADIAN MUSIC-INDUSTRY TITAN
CO-FOUNDED ATTIC RECORDS
With the motto ‘think global, act local’, his hugely successful indie label helped launch the careers of dozens
of homegrown artists, including Anvil, Lee Aaron, Maestro Fresh Wes, the Nylons, Teenage Head and Triumph
BRAD WHEELER
A
l Mair was in his early 20s
when he visited the New
York’s World Fair in 1964.
The exposition was officially ded-
icated to man’s achievement on a
shrinking globe in an expanding
universe. As a young man on the
fast track in the music business,
Mr. Mair later described the fair as
“phenomenal.” Not even the
skies were limits in the space age.
In 1967, the Torontonian went
to Montreal for the Universal and
International Exposition – Expo
67, as it was commonly known.
Judging it as even better than the
New York exhibition that had
wowed him not long before, Mr.
Mair had an epiphany. “It con-
vinced me that Canadians can do
anything that foreigners can,” he
said recently, “and they can do it
better.”
The Canadian music industry
at the time was dominated by for-
eign-owned record firms, and ra-
dio was dominated by British and
American acts. Mr. Mair himself
had worked in sales and promo-
tion with Capitol and London Re-
cords. But by 1967 he was with
Compo Company, Canada’s first
independent record company.
Four years later, the Canadian Ra-
dio-television and Telecommuni-
cations Commission (CRTC) im-
posed airplay regulations that,
among other things, opened the
door for more Canadian labels
that were owned and operated in-
dependent of the majors.
It was in that dawning era that
Mr. Mair co-founded Attic Re-
cords, which became one of the
largest and most successful indie
labels in Canadian history. From
1974 to 1999, Attic helped launch
the careers of dozens of home-
grown artists, including Anvil,
Lee Aaron, Maestro Fresh Wes,
the Nylons, Teenage Head and
Triumph. Mr. Mair’s motto for the
label was “think global, act local.”
Mr. Mair, a titan of the Cana-
dian music industry as a savvy
entrepreneur and an indefatiga-
ble figure in the establishment
and growth of independent re-
cord companies in this country,
died of cancer on Nov. 25 at To-
ronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital. He
was 82.
To friends and family, he was a
Facebook enthusiast who be-
lieved in Buddhism and Hawai-
ian shirts. Business associates re-
member an intuitive, aggressive
dealmaker and an advocate for
homegrown artists and labels.
“He was our leader,” said Holger
Petersen, founder of Edmonton-
based Stony Plain Records.
The grade-school record-store
clerk who made it to mogul status
was named to the Order of Cana-
da this summer. Among the
achievements that earned him
the honour was his role in estab-
lishing the Canadian Independ-
ent Music Association (CIMA), a
non-profit trade association char-
tered in 1975 to represent the in-
terests of the English-speaking
sector of the domestic industry.
When Mr. Mair wasn’t working
in a leadership role with a variety
of associations or getting Attic
Records off the ground, he looked
after Gordon Lightfoot’s business
affairs. From 1968 to 1976, he was
general manager of the star trou-
badour’s Early Morning Produc-
tions. His job description was
open-ended.
In 1969, an American record la-
bel released Early Lightfoot, a
compilation of tracks the then-
unknown singer had recorded
many years earlier. Because the
crooned country songs were now
out of fashion, Mr. Lightfoot or-
dered his business manager to
buy up all the albums and destroy
them. Mr. Mair complied, taking
an axe to the piles of vinyl in a
backyard. “Gordon borrowed the
axe from me and took a few
swings himself,” Mr. Mair told
The Globe and Mail shortly before
his death.
When Mr. Lightfoot’s friend
and business associate Bernie Fie-
dler owed Revenue Canada a sub-
stantial sum, the Sundown hit-
| T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L O
Al Mair chose the name Attic Records with co-founder Tom Williams because it was a place where unexpected
treasures might be found, and proved fitting for a company that made millions of dollars by discovering
under-the-radar Canadian music acts. BARRY RODEN
maker stepped in and offered to
loan Mr. Fiedler the money for
the back taxes. When Mr. Mair ad-
vised against the transaction, Mr.
Lightfoot waved off the concern.
“Write the cheque,” he said.
“What about the terms?” Mr.
Mair asked his boss. “No terms,”
Mr. Lightfoot replied. “Write the
cheque.” Mr. Mair then wondered
about the rate of interest. “No in-
terest,” Mr. Lightfoot insisted.
“Write the cheque.”
To Mr. Mair, a meticulous busi-
nessman who began his career as
a bookkeeper at Capitol Records,
the payment seemed reckless.
But he wrote the cheque.
“I never held that against Al,”
Mr. Fiedler told The Globe. “He
did a good job for Gordon.”
The first office of Attic Records
was in a house owned by Mr.
Lightfoot, but in the kitchen, not
the top floor. The name “Attic”
was chosen by Mr. Mair and co-
founder Tom Williams because it
was a place where unexpected
treasures might be found. Indeed,
the company made millions of
dollars by discovering under-the-
radar Canadian acts who sold
modestly but steadily. “As long as
you didn’t overspend in market-
ing, you could build a collection
of these and do very, very well,”
said Kevin Shea, who worked in
promotions at Attic.
According to Mr. Shea, his boss
was a “chess master,” whose
moves included finding interna-
tional artists who had no distri-
bution deals in Canada. Licensing
records by Jennifer Warnes and
Weird Al Yankovic, for example,
paid off well for Attic. “If you
picked up enough of these kinds
of projects, hits would emerge,”
Mr. Shea said.
The label’s eclecticism was re-
flected in a 25th-anniversary
compilation that included hard-
rock bombast (Triumph’s Magic
Power), Top 40 gold (Katrina &
The Waves’ Walking On Sunshine),
a country-crossover hit (the Rov-
ers’ Wasn’t That A Party?), pure
novelty (Weird Al’s Amish Paradi-
se) and a hip-hop blockbuster
(Maestro Fresh Wes’s Let Your
Backbone Slide).
“The secret of survival for any
record company is a steady flow
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Mr. Mair frequently looked for international artists who had no
distribution deals in Canada, and was able to license records for artists
such as Weird Al Yankovic as a result. COURTESY OF ATTIC RECORDS
of product,” Mr. Mair said this
summer on the podcast Toronto
Mike’d. “We took shots with what
we thought would be fun.”
The fun stopped in 1999 when
Attic was bought by a consortium
headed by political pollster and
Tragically Hip co-manager Allan
Gregg and merged into a compa-
ny that came to be called the
Song Corporation. Mr. Mair still
had a role with the Attic label
within the new company, but he
was soon pushed aside. “He
wasn’t included in the meetings
they had,” said Mr. Shea, who
documented Attic’s history in the
liner notes to the label’s 20th-an-
niversary box set.
Song Corp. filed for bankrupt-
cy in 2001. Master recordings
once owned by Attic were sold at
auction; warehoused product
was destroyed. Though Mr. Mair
made out well financially from
the sale of Attic, the subsequent
collapse of Song was a major
blow.
“It wasn’t how he wanted to
see it end,” Mr. Shea said.
Mr. Mair’s career in the music
business had begun in earnest
when he was hired by Capitol Re-
cords to keep track of royalty pay-
ments. He quickly moved into
sales and then over to promotion.
Although his bosses recognized
his talent, they weren’t quite sure
OBITUARIES
what to make of the high-energy
upstart who drove a red convert-
ible with a built-in record player.
Any buttoned-down brass who
recognized Mr. Mair as the future
would not have been wrong.
Alexander Mair was born in
Toronto on Sept. 29, 1940, the on-
ly son of Donald Mair and Flo-
rence Lillian May Mair (née Bro-
byn). His father worked at the
agricultural machinery manufac-
turer Massey Ferguson; his moth-
er ran a boarding house. At 10
years old he began buying 78 RPM
records using his lunch money.
The first record the hungry child
purchased was (How Much is
That) Doggy in the Window? by
Patti Page.
Listening to a Philco radio, he
discovered clear-channel stations
WUFO in Buffalo and WOWO in
Ft. Wayne, Ind. “Both stations
opened my ears to a lot of music
that wasn’t available in Canada,
at least on radio but possibly in
record stores, if you found the
right record store,” Mr. Mair told
Cashbox Magazine Canada.
He was soon working at a re-
cord store himself and made even
more money as DJ at local dances
during the earliest days of rock ’n’
roll. He skipped school to see
Blackboard Jungle, a 1955 film that
featured the groundbreaking
Rock Around the Clock by Bill Ha-
B15
ley & His Comets. “That just blew
me away,” he later recalled.
Post high school and after a
two-year stint at Capitol, he
worked at the Ontario branch of
London Records for a stingy boss
who was bizarrely reluctant to
give the label’s records away to
radio stations for airplay. In his
week-long tenure there, a frus-
trated Mr. Mair was fired and re-
hired twice and finally quit.
A stint at Compo Company
(which years later became Uni-
versal Music) was a much better
experience. There he worked
with Mr. Lightfoot – the begin-
ning of an eight-year association
that ended two years after Mr.
Mair co-founded Attic. “Gordon
could not handle the competi-
tion of one of his people promot-
ing other acts,” Mr. Mair told Ma-
clean’s magazine in an edgy 1978
profile of the singer.
To finance the Attic Records
startup, Mr. Mair mortgaged his
house and Mr. Williams (who pre-
viously ran promotions at War-
ner Music) sold properties he
owned. Further capital from in-
vestors raised $300,000 in total.
While Mr. Williams was the char-
ismatic public face of the new la-
bel, Mr. Mair, with a serious fa-
çade and the title of president
and chief executive officer, was
the brains of the operation and a
skilled, diligent networker on an
international level.
Attic artists earned gold, plati-
num and multiplatinum awards
from Holland, Japan, Canada and
the United States. In 1980, the la-
bel won the Canada Export
Award from the federal govern-
ment.
Mr. Mair was a firm boss with a
“curious” managerial style, ac-
cording to Mr. Shea. “He would
leave Post-it Notes on computer
monitors that read, ‘See me.’ We
would laugh, but we were terri-
fied. We didn’t know if we had
done something wrong or if we
were going to be congratulated.”
A receptionist remembers Mr.
Mair’s problematic handwriting.
“At first I couldn’t make out any
of it, not even one letter,” said Vel-
ma Barkwell, now a music super-
visor with East End Music Produc-
tions. “Then I started to move the
page around, tilt it to the right,
the left, upside down. I was deter-
mined to master this language.
Eventually, I figured out the let-
ters one by one, and after that it
was like being able to read code.”
Over the course of a decades-
long career, Mr. Mair played a
prominent role in a wide variety
of Canadian music-industry orga-
nizations, volunteering his con-
siderable expertise to the Society
of Composers, Authors and Music
Publishers of Canada (SOCAN);
the Foundation Assisting Cana-
dian Talent on Recordings (FAC-
TOR); and the National Aborigin-
al Music Association.
When Mr. Mair was inducted
into the Canadian Music Industry
Hall of Fame in 2014, he asked a
female label owner to perform
the induction speech. “He ob-
served that there were very few
women entrepreneurs in our in-
dustry, and that was something
he wanted to help change,” said
Shauna de Cartier, founder and
president of Six Shooter Records.
In retirement, Mr. Mair would
often meet former business asso-
ciates for lunch and ice cream at
the pub Shenanigans in midtown
Toronto. “At some point, they
took the chocolate sundae off the
menu,” said Steve Waxman, one-
time Attic vice-president of radio
promotion and publicity. “But he
kept ordering it and they kept
making it for him and his guests.”
Mr. Mair was presented his Or-
der of Canada medal in his hospi-
tal room days before he died by
Ontario Lieutenant-Governor Eli-
zabeth Dowdeswell, in recogni-
tion of his “visionary and endur-
ing contributions to the Canadian
music industry.”
He leaves his partner, Guiling
Han, and her daughter, Rachel;
his son, Sebastian Mair; daughter,
Jennifer Mair; sister, Lillian Ri-
chards; granddaughter, Sophie;
and former wife, Virginia Mair.
 

 
  

     









 


  

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